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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
KISS AND MAKE Up
Troubles of Herseys All Settled
by County Attorneys.
Wife Returns to Children With
Husband Both Penitent.

Tinkham Veale and James Mcclure,
assistants in the county attorneys Of
fee, acted as d board of arbitration
in the Hersey peace conference today
and succeeded in reuniting a beligerant
husband and wife. Alberta Hersey' S
love for lack Hersey had grown cold
and no amount of pleading on the part
of the husband would bring her back.
Then Veale and Mcclure took a hand
and reunited the waring companions.
When Alberta Hersey went to the
court house this morning, she was
wroth and wanted all the sharp teethed
sections of the criminal law tried on
her husband. She said she had patient
ly nursed her troubles for the last time
and wanted to return to her mamma.
Then Hersey entered the prosecutors
Office and told his wife that the two
babies were at home and wanted the
mother to return. Mrs. HerSey'S ire
was not smoothed in the least. She
wanted satisfaction and said she would
husband was put under a bond to keep
the peace. She said he beat her. cursed
her, ana ran her about the premises
with pieces Of the household furniture
and kitchen utensils.
Attacks Husband With Knife.
When Hersey found an opening he
told of his own woes. Alberta, he
said, got drunk, attacked him with d
knife, ran away from home and didn't
care for the children in the way a
mother should. In her amended ans
wer, Mrs Hersey admitted all this, but
she retaliated with the charge that
Hersey stole her pocketbook this
morning just as she was starting for
the depot and her old home.
Then Mcclure and Veale began to
arbitrate They told Hersey and his
wife of the awful things that happen
to fathers and mothers who neglect
children. Mrs. Hersey admitted that
the county jail held no inducements
for her, but what of Hersey's abuse?
The law didn't contemplate she should
stand such treatment, she said, and
she vowed she never would.
Hersey had become real penitent
when his wife finished. He testified
loud and long that never. no never,
would he abuse his companion He
was willing to give bond to keep the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24
Freezes Tuvnor Over Eve.

Dr. Ralph Bernstein, dermatologist
of Hahnemann college, gave a demon
stration of his method of treating a
birth blood tumor over the eye of an
infant.
The tumor was about the size of a
walnut and seemed to communicate
with the internal blood vessels of the
brain. DR.. Bernstein applied modified
solidified carbon dioxide to the growth
for several minutes, causing an intense
freezing of various parts of the tumor
and producing thrombosis of the va
rious blood vessels. In this way there
was gradual absorption of the tumOr.
leaving in its place a smooth, scarless
area with a normal skin covering
Philadelphia dispatch to the New York
Am erican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-24

peace, he said, if Alberta would only
care for the little ones
Alberta said this was a good con-
tract. She really loved the children
anyway, she declared, and didn't want
to leave them all alone in Topeka. So
a new contract was made. Alberta s
smouldering love blazed up anew and
Hersey himself made more promises.
1t was after the noon hour when
Hersev and his wife left the court
house and started for their home at
40 Western avenue, where they pre-
pared dinner for the children.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-09-08
I h e ere a Reason

THESE are the latest official rainfall! maps Of North Dakota and Montana
i given out by the U. S. Department Of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 188, Burea,
OF Plant Industry for the guidance Of prospective settlers in the West:
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
NETWORK ,,NJY TRIBUNE FRIDAY DECEMBER 20. 1911.

a good school I'm New York. Possart was
also in America-and he returned as he
went. a great German artist. He orousAt
back only American money, ana peca"s' "'
is really German. not enough Of that
Would YOU vote for your husband II M'
ran for Office" asked Mrs. Barring BANNERS
''cf course" replied the yer! E9unS r"t1 20
fragettc. But | don't think Ia carr "
have lot Of other women trying 10 @ @hs!.,i
him bv voting for him Washington star
Recently a story appeared in several tor-
eisn papers. that Napoleon | III his leu
tenant days had supplemented his measfe
pay by becoming an agent for thc sale o'
books. and. moreover. that ms canFassei
kit was preserved at the Louvre. in Paris'
M J. Mayor, OF the Musee des SouVeralhs'
has been appealed to a. 10 tho authenticl'E
or otherwise OF the story. lie writes ths,
the catalogue bears no traces of the sup
posed kit. and the conclusion that he has
arrived at Is that the story Is based moro
on imagination than on fact, for at the
Nusee d'Artillerie. where inquiries nave
also been made. the authorities know moth
ing about it, But perhaps what Is most
de smaging TO the story is that Napoieop
had passed beyond the lieutenant stage pe-
fore the Historic de la Revolution was
published, and this is one of the DOCKS
mentioned as having been cold by the great
Emperor.
Nell-Whv arc you SO angry with JACK
Belief told him never to attempt 10 MISC
me again.
Nel-And he did? ,.,.,.,. pooord
Belle-No he didn't-Philadelphla heco' N'
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
THE CABINET.

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington. Dec 2s-Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
8 Knox will ioin the Secretary OF State and
Mrs. Knox at their home, in K street. to-
morrow.
The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
MacVeagh will be Joined here tomorrow by
their son, Eames MacVeagh, Of Chicago
who will remain until after the new year.
They are also entertaining Miss Carver, or
Highland Park Chicago Secretary ana
Mrs. MacVeagh will give a reception to-
morrow afternoon.
The Secretary of War and Mrs. Stimson
will return to Washington on sunday from
New York, where they spent the Christmas
holidays.
The Secretary of the Navy and his son.
George Won L. Meyer, jr., will return to
Washington on Saturday from hunting
trip in the South. The Secretary and Mrs
Meyer will have as members Of a New
Years house party Miss Frances Salton-
stall, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip l."
Saltonstall, Of Boston John Simplins. Mr..
Balch, of Boston, and Mr.. Huffer, Of Balti-
moro.
The Secretary Of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs Nagel were hosts at charmlngly
arranged Christmas dance at the Washing
ton Club tonight for their daughters, Miss
NageL Miss Mary Nagel and Miss Edith
Nagel. Christmas green's were used IN
decorating, and section of the Marine
Band furnished the music. The guests were
the younger girls and boys OF society,
Charles Taft being of the number.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
4 TRTST ~ THE MAKING.

An interesting light is shed in the
government prosecution Of the packers
upon the making of trusts. This par
ticular trust didn't come off First it
was going 10 be a 0000OO,OOO trust
and when that didn't 90 through ii tried
TO be a $500 600 900 trust. No more prop
erty was involved in one case than in
the other. No shrinkage I'm values had
taken place. II was merely case Of
guess again" After an interview with
Wall Street there was a shrinkage in
the estimate of the possibilities Of a
packing combination. When n "billion
dollar trust was planned the tangible
properties upon which this vast quantity
of securities was TO he based were
worth. according to the packers esti-
mates. less than S3O0,00OO00. The rest
of it was goodwill and other vague
things.
If the S1,OOO,OO0OO0 combination had
been effected and the Sherman law had
been appealed TO, no doubt we should be
assured that without the possibility Of
such combinations the business of the
country would 90 to the dogs, for what
would become of 1t without the "econ-
omy of centralized management? And
vet. when the story is being told in
court the whole enterprise being seen
only as proposal that never took shape,
it is difficult for the public to persuade
itself that economies were the chief OBJ
iect which its promoters had in mind.
In the first place there were vast suns
mentioned as set aside for the promoters
as the rewards Of promotion. Then there
were the very comfortable sums to he
paid for goodwill" Finally, there were
large amounts Of securities TO be sold
TO the public All these things certainly
went into the reckoning. How largely
Is this situation typical of that which
has led TO the formation of many great
combinations? How much will the cOuT-
try suffer If combinations which have
no apparent better reason for existence
than that planned by the packers are
prevented by law?
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
-
( GRE At OCCASION

January s will be memorable for a
terrific clash at the national capital
between the various makers and unmak
erS of Presidents now at large in the
Democratic party. Among those who
have agreed TO speak are Champ Clark,
Governor Woodrow Wilson, Alton r.
Parker, William X. Hearst. Oscar w.
Underwood and William ]. Bryan. Each
and every one of these statesmen hopes
either that he will be the Democratic
Presidential nominee in 1912 or the
Warwick who thrusts the nomination on
some acceptable substitute. If each of
them should say frankly what be thinks
of the ambitions and activities of the
others the police would have to he called
in to save the lives of innocent subscIib.
ers who happened to draw seats in the
danger zone below the guest table.
II would be a real oratorlcai treat 10
hear Mr. Hearst explain on what theory
lie supported Alton r. Parker in 1901
and opposed William J. Bryan in 1905.
Mr. Clark could electrify the gathering
by telling why he voted for the Shcr-
wood pension bill, thus repudiating the
pledges which he made when he was in
stalled as Speaker last April that the
Democrats in the House would reduce
federal expenditures. He might also
tell with effect the true inwardncss of
the fight he IS now making in Missouri
TO annul the Endorsement given in 1910
to Ex-Governor Folks Presidential can.
didacy. In reply Mr.. Folk might dis
close just why he has been calling AIr.
Clark reactiOnary and classifying him
among the agents Of Wall Street.
Governor Wilson would be In his ele-
ment enlarging on the cure-all virtues
which he recently discovered i'm the ref
erendum, the initiative and the recall for
the benefit Of his near neighbor. Mr..
Underwood, who only the other day IT
the Catholic Club dinner In this CITY
denounced those wonderful devices as
inventions designed TO wreck our his
toric scheme Of representative govern.
ment. If Judge Parker should unbosom
himself of bis gratitude to Mr.. BRYAN
and Mr.. Hearst for past political cour-
tesies and his appreciation Of their forti-
tude and worth as Democratic leaders
the emotion Of the assemblage would
pass beyond control; while II Mr.. BRYAN
should relieve himself of his true i'm
pressions Of various Democrats in his
line OF vision, there wouldn't be
enough black-faced type in the Office Of
THE Commoner" 10 do justice 10 the
sensation created by its editor and pro-
prietor Mr.. Bryan has been writing ar
ticles every week in his newspaper
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
DIR. DOTY'S OPPONENTS.

The very blackness Of the report made
by Governor Dix's commissioner who IN
vestigated DIR. Alvah II. Doty's admins
tration as Health Officer of the Port Of
New York created a widespread impress
sion that it was unfair Governor Dix s
complete acceptance Of that report and
the testimony against DR.. Doty, and his
demand for the Health Officers imme-
date resignation, heighten that impress
sion. The testimony at the investigation
was not all one-sided, though the COM
miSsioner's report and the Governors
letter demanding DR.. DOtys resignation
were Eminent physicians, who have
reputation and prestige to lose, staked
prestige and reputation on their testi-
mony that Dr. Doty's work at Quaran-
tine Station had been a credit TO him.
protection to the public and an honor to
the state. The incontrovertible testi-
mony Of history is that in the entire tf-
teen years of his administration no epi-
demic of contagious disease has entered
the United States through the Port of
New York, admittedly the busiest and
most dangerous in the country.
1t is an established fact that since DR..
DotyS term of office expired last winter
several physicians have been active can
didateS for the place. 1t is we'll known
that the Organization'-tha is, Tam
many-looks on the Office and its patron
age as its rightful spoils. 1t has been
publicly affirmed that at least one can
didate was told he would have to obtain
the Endorsement of ''the organization"
before his candidacy could be recog-
nized DR.. Doty's administration hith-
erto has been unassailed, and when he
was reappointed the last time Governor
Hughes declared the action was justified
because of his efficient services" In
view of all these facts, it will require
something more than the Bulger report
and the Governors letter to convince a
considerable part of the public that DR..
Doty was not ''iobbed" for the benefit Of
"thc organization" directly or indirectly.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29

LLOYD George has said the centenary
shall be celebrated in manner fitting
and worthy so notable an event, In Inc
hope that the example TO the world may
promote international amity.
. This last expression suggests what Is,
after all, the best aim and motive OF the
celebration. Of celebrations as such the
world has had surfeit. The "tumult
and the shouting the excursions ana
sightseengs, the pageants and parades,
The oratory and fireworks and all the rest
Of il pail upon the jaded senses When
ever, as is too much the case, they are
regarded as ends In themselves. We
have no desire TO urge unduly the point
ing of morals or the teaching Of lessons,
but it must be obvious that only the sig
niicance Of the thing beyond its out
ward form and sound can justify such
undertakings. Happily, in this case
there is much significance, and there Is
the possibility of the exercise or 1nnu-
ences of great benefcence. The year
1914 may well be made a year Of study
and instruction. to the effect that We
shall learn to respect the views and as
pirations Of other nations as we would
nave them respect ours and that we shall
read without prejudice or misrepresenta-
tion the histories Of our own and other
nations. The wOrld-the United States
with the rest-has been too much cursed,
in the misused name Of Patriotism, with
the teaching Of distorted facts and preJu-
dices. so that the minds Of children have
heen filed with international animosites
which the better Judgment and wider
knowledge Of maturer years could not
wholly eliminate.
The centenary may also set the world
to thinking OF how much peace there mas
been among the nations in other direc-
tions. In the hundred years the United
States has waged only two foreign wars,
neither of great magnitude. Great Brit
ain has been at peace with her old enemy
France for ninety-nine years, and with
all the German peoples for century and
a half These periods Of peace do not
as such make half the mark in history
books that single day Of battle may
make, but the contemplation of them,
simply as periods of abstention from war,
will be abundantly profitable. December
"a three years hence should be from the
irenic point Of view the most notable
Christmas Eve in our history, with It's
memory Of an unbroken hundred years
of peace between the nations which,
above most others, have been accused of
militarism and the passion for war.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
At ODDS.

Senator La Follette's speech in Cl1ve-
cepted as an authentic expression Of Lis
own vehement and vOluminouS opinions
on current political issues, but where
does it leave that mild-mannered body,
calling itself q conference of Progressive
Republicans. which met in Chicago last
October and named the Wisconsin Sen
ator as q candidate for the Republican
Presidential nomination? Chicago, the
city Of conventions, never saw more
self-contained and sOft-stepping body
than that which selected Mr. La Toilette
for its spokesman and drew up a plat
form on which he was 10 stand for the
Presidency. IT'S decorum would almost
have put good roads convention to the
blush. and its declaration Of principles
would not have scared the most hard
ened "reactionary" on the Progressive
IRdeE ETpurgdtorius out of cat-nap i'll
the peacock alley of an up-to-date hotel.
Is Mr.. La Toilette playing fair with
the distinguished Progressives who put
him IN nomination and with their sooth-
ing syrup resolutions in proclaiming
the virtues of the initiative, the refer
endum and the recall, applied on the
widest possible scale and clamoring for
a rule of the people, supreme over
legislatures, over government, over
Presidents, over constitutions, over
courts? The most startling demand
to which the Progressive conferrees at
Chicago were willing TO commit them
selves was for the direct election of
delegates TO national political conven-
tions. But that seems a far cry from
an initiative and referendum super
vision of the work of legislatures, gov
ernors and courts and rOr populi in
depreciation Of state and federal con-
stitutions Where the Chicago confer
ence sOft-pedaled Mr.. La Toilette plays
the bass drum. Is he going to part
company with the conference, or is the
conference going TO part company With
him?
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
CHINA'S PREPAREDNESS
Revolutionists Ready and Honestly
Aiming for Republic, Says H. W. Sun.
bo Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir. The statement by Newbold Drayton
of PHILADELPHIA. that was published in your
to-day's issue Is utterly unreliable MS
statements as "A whole give the American
people nothing but wrong impressions In re-
gard to the attitude of cur republican party
and to the backing up Of the revolution by
.Japs." respectively. He was in China FOR
three wears as an engineer. so far as we
could learn from his own statements but TO
understand us as people would require
him to stay in China ten times longer. TO
say the least, before he would probably De
able to appreciate fully the real aim IN our
present movement at home.
What evidence has he to bear out his as
sertion that the "cry for republic is
bluff? What ground has he TO make such
bold conclusions in regard to the ultimate
result Of our revolt? Is it result OF MS
short stay in China? What evidence has
he by which to say that the "Japs have
given assistance to the revolutionary
cause?
In reply to the careless statement as 10
the unpreparedness of the masses Of our
people at home for republic wish TO say
on the face Of the earth that is able TO
fulfil that requirement. The masses were
prepared. and therefore the revolution has
been accomplished in the short length or
time to which history affords no parallel.
For, as a matter of fact, the masses or the
people Of any country are more or less below
the standard required by republican form
OF government II Mr.. Drayton's assertion
were true there could be no republic In the
world
Mr. Drayton certainly seems to have
failed to realize the fact that the actual
work Of conducting republican form OF
government Is in the hands of rather
small body of people. 1t (the republican
government) simply opens the door OF
progress to every citizen. The assertion
that the revolutionaries are not united
should be proved. All the provinces that
take up the revolutionary cause recognize
one provisional president, one cabinet, the
same laws and pledges and one and the
same aim. II. w. Dun
IIartley Hall, Columbia University, New
York CITY. Dec. 81, 1911.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
INTERSTATE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Power to Control It Should Not Be
Surrendered to States, Writer Thinks

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir Your editorial of December 26 en-
titled THE Original Package Again and
discussing the Kenyon bill TO stop inter
state commerce in liquor. should attract
wide attention. Full discussion In the light
of broad constitutional requirements is
greatly needed. There has been too much
discussion from the point of view taken by
the agents of n corporation devoted solely
TO tho restraint of trade in a lawful article
OF commerce by such means as 1t may de-
wise without much regard for the constitu-
tional rights Of lawful property and the
freedom of trade between the states re-
ouired by the federal Constitution.
The passage Of any one OF the numerous
bills before committees of Congress to al
low states to seize and destroy articles of
lawful commerce after crossing state
border would be an attempt at least. TO
annul the basic principle of the Cnion-free
trade between the states The control OF
Congress over interstate commerce would
be surrendered by Congress TO such states
as choose to impede such commerce. The
attempt To surrender such powers could
not eventually succeed without a destruc
ton of the Union.
It has been urged that Congress try this
experiment and leave the result TO the Su-
preme Court. as though Congressman were
not sworn TO uphold the Constitution, but
were mere clorics. with no particular re-
sponsibility. If one article OF lawful conf
merce could be treated In the way pro-
posed by the Kenyon bill the whole trade
Of the country could be easily paralyzed by
the efforts of any organized cult in restraint
of trade. HENRY g. MAINE.
Rochester, Dec q. 1911.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-29
.JERRY-BUILT BUILDING CODE

Il
It is to be hoped that the defect in the
printing of Tammany's proposed building
code will prevent its consideration by thc
Board Of Aldermen to-day and thus auto
matically relieve the city of the danger
of having il jammed through as the dy-
ing act of an unlamented city council.
Disregard of the technicalities in this
case can only emphasize the disgraceful-
ness of eleventh-hour action on the code
and raise with renewed significance the
question why such precipitate action
should be necessary.
Borough President McAneny and Mr..
Miller. his Superintendent of Buildings,
opposed this code i'll all its previous IN
carnations. They oppose it now, as Ndo
the officials Of other boroughs and a
score of organizations interested in build
ings and building trades. because they
don't know what is in it, but suspect the
worst. If the aldermen pass it In de-
fiance of the opposition to it In past
forms and the universal ignorance of its
present condition they will practically
confess that they dare not let it be scruti-
nized. Governor Dix last summer de-
clared he would not sign a charter for
this city which was about to be passed
by Tammany Legislature under sim
liar circumstances, although the oppor-
tunities for jobbery in that instance were
no whit greater than in this. Mayor
Gaynor might do much worse than follow
his example with the building code.