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TUESDAY, JANUARY S, 1909. THE MORNING ASTOWAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. 3 PRESIDENT SENDS SPWISSMII tiontmmq from pan i) nun won mm Hume puimc eerranra who sorv blm 111. He cannot thus discriminate If lie In persuaded to pas Judgment upon a man not with refer wm to whiitlifr; Ijm -In, fit or unlit public servant, hut with reference to whether he I nn executive, or legisla tivt olltrvr, whi'tlar b Udongs to on bra neb or tliij other of tbe government tyi Msssstf It Misunderstood. M This llitfutlu In th resoluUou, therefore, mum icVlaliily l dn to ou tntlrt failure to uudcrslnnd my me- Ml. Tb itmlntkm continue, TUt jtb president U ruqueatwd to transmit to tb nous my evidence upon Wbleu It tweed lila ttntKueutj ib.it tb 'chief argument in favor of tbe provision tu tbat tbe congressmen did not themselves wish to be Investigated by mcnt servlc men,' .? - Tbl einleiuont, which, was mi attack. upon do oho, rttll less uimju tbe congress, la sustained by tb fact..' $ If you will turn to tbe Cwigressluoal Record fur May 1 (net, png KM to 0800, Inclusive, yoa will find tbe de- bete on tble subject. Mr. Twtwy of Minnesota. Mr. HuiliU of Iown. Mr. Bberley of Kiitul.y uj Mr. n.st.'V- Id of New Yuri; af;war lu tbU Uolwt tbe i IaI fhawpkm of tbe pro vision Morred to. , Mcwir. parson, Iteiinet ami Drlscu'l were tbo lender of tbo who opp(-4 tbe adoption of tb amendment and uphold tbe right of tb government to ue tbe moat eta- rlent menu poeeible to order to de tect criminal! and to prevent and pun lab crime, Tbe amendment was car rled tu, tbo coniwIUeo of tbo whole, yUra bo rote of tbe individual mem- ire are recorded, so I am unable to discriminate by mentioning tbe wero- bars who voted for and tbe member who voted against tbe provision, but It passage, the Journal records, f as greeted witu appiause. , i m weu aware, however, tbat In any caao of tbl kind many member wbo nave no particular knowledge of tbo point at Iseu art content simply to follow tb lead of tbe commute wblrh bad eon ulered the matter, ana I bar bo doubt thnt many member of the bona Imply folio d tbe lvad of Messrs Tawney and Smith without having had the opportunity to know very much a to tb right and vmaipt the ques tion. . 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Suitable for XmaS fifte. ot- rnan TMt-Wc ly cpoka of tb action of tb boo a a whole, and as apparently there Is a Oealr tbat I should thua dlscrlta mat I will stnt tbat I tblnk tb re sponsibility restod on tbo coiuuiltuse on appropriation under tbe lead of the members whom I bars mentioned. Replies te Request For Evldsno. Now as to the riuet of tbe con- gr that I glv tbe vldnc for my statement tltat tb chief argument In favor of tli provision was tbat tb congressmen did not themselves wish to b lnvettlpted by secret servlc men, Th part of the Congressional Record to wbkb I hav referred above en tlrely supports this statement Two distinct lines of argument were fol lowed la the dubal. On concerned th question whether tb law war rnntod tb employment of tbe secret snrvlc in departments otbor than the treasury, and this did not touch tb merits of tbe servlc lu tb least. Tbe other lino of argument weut to th merits of the servlc. whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, and ber the chluf If not th only argument used wa tbat th servlc should b cut down and restricted berauae It mem ber bad "ebndowud or Investigated member of congree and otlirr oflker of th government. If we examine tb debate in dotU it appears that' most of what was urgd lit favor of tbo amendment took the form of the slm pi statement thnt tb commute held thnt ther bad been a "violation of law" by tbe ue of the sec rut service fur other purpose than suppressing counterfeiting (and one or two other matters which can be dlsn-gnrdvd) and that such tangling was now to be used as wmild eCectually prevent nil uh 'violation of law" hereafter. Mr. Tawney, fur Inatauce, snys, 'it was for the iiurmwe of stopping tbe uso vf this service In every posKlblo way by the departments of the government mat tins provision was in.wtou," and Mr. Bmlth says, "Now, tltat waa the only way In which any limitation could be put upou the activities of tbe c-ret "H'rvlce." Mr. ritgerald followed lu tho same vela, and by far the largest part of the argument against the era ploymeut of the secret sPrvic was eon' Dned to the statement tbat It waa in "violation cif lnw." Of course such a statement is not In any way an argu mvnt in favor of tb Justice of tbe provtxlon. It I not an argument for th provision at all. It is simply a statement of what the gentlemen mak log It couceiv to hav been tbe law Tber wa both by Implication aud direct statement the awwrtlon that It was tbe law and ought to be tb law, that the secret servlc should only sed to supprexs counterfeiting and tnat the, law should be made more rigid that ever hi this respect ' ' s Ne Restriction en Sirvice. Incidentally I may say that In tftj judgment tlur la ample legal author ity for tbo atatcment that this appro priation law to which reference was mad Iiiumnk no rxMttrlctlons whuicrvi upon the use of the secret service mc;i, but relates solely to tbo expenditure ot the money appropriated. Mr. Tawney to the debate stated that be bad in his possession "a letter from tbo secretary of th treasury received a few dnya ago" in which tb secretary of tiie treasury "himself admits that the p: viilons under wblcb the appropriation has been made bar been violated yenr I tftM 'VftAt turn ft ntitvi ttsif van ta It. "v v iMiuiwva v j it bis own department" I append here- witn a Appendix a tb letter re ferred to. (Appendix Alas letter from Secretary of th Treasury Cortelyou to the chairman of th commltte on ap propriations of th bouse of represent atives, dated April. 20, 1008,. protest ing against the proposed law abridg ing th right of th secretary of the treasury to detail secret service men to work in other divisions of his de partment Such abridgement be de clared, would b "distinctly to the ad vantage of violator of criminal stat ute ot tbe United State." It makes no such admission as tbat which Mr. Tawney alleges. It contains, on the contrary, aa yon will see by reading it an "emphatic protest against any such abridgement of the rights delegated to the secretary of th treasury by ex isting law" and concludes by assert- Ing that he 'Is quite within bis rlgbts In thua employing the service of these agopts" and that the proposed modifi cation wblcb Mr. tawney succeeded in carrying through would b "distinctly to the advantage of violators of crimi nal statutes of th United States." I call attention, to the fart that In this letter of Secretary Cortelyou to Mr. Tawney, as in my letter to tbe speaker quoted below, the explicit statement is made that tbe proposed change will bo for the benefit of the criminals,, a - ..4. . IL Ll ' 11.. M '- public form In my messago to the con aVKIsa KHJ we. ttk la .I.A. mlV91 HAS! uuu nuim is riav vwu tnlned in effect In the report of the Bwnl, f th n tha Mn. - ' ' " "Private Conduot" of Member. A careful reading of the Congresslou- al Eecord will also show thnt practical ly the only arguments advanced in. fa- vor -or thaUmltaUon proposed by Mr. Tawney's committee beyond what may be aupposod to.bo contained by Impli cation in certain sentences as to "abuses" which were not specified were those contained in the repented statements of Mr, ehcrley, ( Mr. Bber ley stated that there had been "pro nounced abuses growing out; of the use or me secret service for purposes other than those intended," putting his statement in the form of a question, and in the same form further stated that the "private conduct" of "mem ber .of. congress, senators" and others ought not to be Investigated by the secret service and, that they should not investigate' a "member of con. gress" who had, been accused of "con- im unbe0"illn rentleman and. a memoer 01 congress." in aacuuon to Ibes assertions, couched as questions, he mudo oue positive declaration tbat "this secret servks at one time was md fur the purpose of looking into lb personal conduct of a member of songrtiss," Tbl argument of Mr. Bher toy, th only real argument a to the merits of tbe question made on behalf of tb commute on appropriations, wUl be found in column 1 and 3 of page 6550 and column 1 of page 0557 Of th Congressional Ilecord. In col umn 1 of page 5550 Mr. Bberley refer to tb tmproprluty of permitting the secret service men to Investigate men In th departments, officers of the army and navy and senator and con gressmen. ' In column 2 he refers to officers of the navy and members of congress. In column 1, page 6557, bs refer only to member of congress. El speech puts most weight on tb investigation of members of congress. Newspspee Artlol Reproduced. What appear in tb record Is filled out and explained by an srtlcle which appeared In th Chicago Inter Ocean of Jan. 8, 1001, under Washington beadllu and which marked th begin ning of this agitation against tbe se cret servlc. It wa a special artlcl of about 8JD00 words, written, a I wa than Informed and now understand, by Mr. L. W. Uusbey, at tbat ttmo private secretary to tbe speaker of tb bouse. I Inclose a copy of certain extracts from th article, marked Appendix B. Appendix B consists of an article from th Chicago Inter Ocean of Jan, 8, 100. In this John E. Willi to. chief of th secret servlc of tb treasury department, is described as ambitious of becoming "the Poucbe of tbe United Bute," in imitation of Foocbe, chief of tb secret pollc of Kapoleon I. The artlcl declare that the secret service bureau exists without warrant of con gressional action and that congress has always beeu antagonistic to the bu reau. It contained an utterly unwar ranted attack on tb secret servlc division of tbo treasury department and its chief. , The opening paragraph includes, for iimtance, statement Ilk th following: Ms (the chief of the dlvlalon) and his are 0lrUi Of doing the secret de v work for (he whole government and sr not particular about drawing th line twtwwn the lawmakers and the law breakm.' Thoy are ready to shadow th former as well th latter. , Then, after saying that congress will ins hit that, the men shall only be used to stop counterfeiting, the article goes on: ConarcM dote not In toad to ' hav a Pouch or any other kind of minister ef polio to be ud by th executive de partments nlnt the legislative branch Of th (overnmsnt. It has ben so used. and It Is suauveted that It has txwn so recently. The legislative branfln of th government will not toler ate tb meddling of detectives, whother they represent th president cabinet am or only themselves. Con gressnien resented the secret Interference of th secret service men who for weeks shadowed some of tbe moat raspseted members of ths house and senate, e e When it was discovered that the secret men . war shadowlne- congress men there waa storm of Indignation at tits eapltol, and the bureau came near being abolished and tbe aoDroDrlaUoa tor ths suppression of counterfeiting out elf. ... At another time th chlct of the secret service hod his men shadow congressmen with a view to Involving them In scandals that would enable the bureau to dirt ate to them as the price of etlenoe. The secret service men have shown an inclination again to shadow members ef congress, knowing them to be lawmakers, and this Is no Joke. Several ot the departments have aslnd congress for secret funds for In vestigation, and th treasury department want the limitation removed from the appropriation for suppressing counter feiting. This shows a tendency toward Poucaelsm and a secret watch on other officials than themselves. At the time of this publication the work of th secret servlc which was thus assailed Included especially the in vestigation of great land frauds in th west and tb securing ot evidence to help the department of Justice in th beef trust investigations at Chicago, which resulted in successful prosecu tions.! In view of Mr, Busbey'a position I hav accepted th above quoted itat- ments aa fairly expressing the real meaning and animus of the attacks mad in general terms on the us of th secret service for the punishment of criminals. Furthermore, in tbe per formance of my duty to endeavor, to find the fooling of congressmen on public questions of note I hav fre quently discussed this particular mat ter with members ot congress, and on snch occasions the reasons alleged to m for tbe hostility of congress to the secret service, both by those who did and by those who did not share this hostility, were almost invariably the same as those set forth in Mr, Busbey's article. I mayadd, by th way, that these allegations as to the secret seir ice ar wholly without foundation in fact' - ' ' i Real Issue Named. But all of this Is of insignificant im- Puc couipnret. wuu we maiu, me real, issue. .This issue is simply, Does congress desire that the government shall have at its disposal the most efficient Instrument for the detection of criminals and the prevention and punishment of crime, or does it not? The action of the house last May was emphatically an action against the in terest of Justice and against the Inter est of law abiding people and4n its ef fect of benefit only to lawbreakers. I am not now dealing with motives. Whatever may have been the motive tbat induced the action of which I speak, this was beyond all question the effect of that action. Is the house now willing to remedy the wrong? For a long tlmo I contented myself with endeavoring to persuade the house not to permit the wrong, speak ing informally on, the subject with those members who, I believed, knew anything of the matter and commu nicating officially only In the ordinary channels, as through the secretary of the treasury. In a letter to th speaker on April 80, protesting agaittst the cut dng d o of th appropriation vitally necessary if the. Iiitcrstat commerce oiijinbuilun wss to carry Into effect Hie twentieth section of the Hepburn aw, I added: "The provision ubout the employment of the secret service men will work very great damage to ths government in lis endeavor to pre vent and punish rlinu. There U no more foolish outcry than this ajciilnat 'spies.' Only criminals need fear our detectives." (I Inclose copy of tbe whole letter, murked "Appendix a" The postscript Is blurred In my copy book, and two or three of tbe words cannot be deciphered.) Appendix c is a letter dated April 80, im. from President Boosevelt to Speaker Can non protesting against the cutting down in tb sundry civil bill of the ap propriation for secret service work. "The only people benefited would be tbe very worst of tbe big railroad men whose misdeeds we are trying to pre vent or correct," were tbe words -of the president. These methods proved un availing to prevent tbe wrong. Messrs. Tawney and Smith and their fellow members on the appropriations com mittee paid no beed to tbe protests, and as tbe obnoxious provision was Incorporated In the sundry civil bill It was impossible for me to consider or discuss it on it merits, ss I should nave done had It been in a separate' bllL Therefor. I hav now taken the only method available, that of discuss ing It in my message to congress, and as all efforts to secure wbst I regard as proper treatment of tbe subject without recourse to plain speaking bad failed I have spoken plainly and di rectly and have set forth the fact in explicit terms. Her th president gives instances in which the secret service men have been instrumental in securing convic tions of offenses against federal laws, citing especially the laud fraud cases. In connection with the Nebraska prosecution the government has by de cree secured tbe return to the govern ment of over a million acres of gras ing land, in Colorado of more than 2,000 acres of mineral land, and suits are now pending involving 150,000 acres more. Department's Agents Dishonest, All these Investigations in tbe land cases were undertaken in consequence of Mr. mtchcock, the then secretary of the Interior, becoming convinced that there were extensive frauds com mitted In bis department, and the ramifications of the frauds were so fnrreacblng that be was afraid to trust his own officials to deal in thorough going fashion wtth them. One of the secret service men accordingly resign ed and was appointed in the interior department to carry on this work. The flint tblng be discovered was that the special agents' division or corps of de tectives of the land office of tbe inte rior department was largely under tbe control of the land thieves, and In con sequence the Investigations above re ferred to had to be made by secret service men. " If the present law, 'for which Messrs. Tawney, Smith and tbe other gentle men I have above mentioned are re sponsible, had then been in effect this action would have been impossible and tnost of the criminals would unques tionably have escaped. No more strik ing instance can be imagined of the desirability Of having a central corps of skilled Investigating agents who can at any time be assigned, If necessary In large numbers, to Investigate some violation of the federal statutes, in no matter What branch of the public aerv ice. In this particular case most of tbe men investigated wbo were public servants were in the executive branch ot the government But In Oregon, where an enormous acreage of fraudu lently alienated public land was recov ered for the government, a - United States senator, Mr. Mitchell, and a member of the lower bouse, Mr. Wil liamson, were convicted on evidence obtained by men transferred from the secret service, and another member ot congress was indicted. Stopped Naturalisation Frauds. From 1901 to 1904 a successful Inves tigation of. naturalization affairs wa made by the secret service, with the result of obtaining hundreds of convic tions of conspirators who were convict ed of selling fraudulent papers of nat uralization. (Subsequently congress passed a very wise law providing a special service and appropriation for the prevention of naturalization frauds, but unfortunately at th earn time that the action against th secret serv lc waa taken congress also cut down th appropriation for this special serv ice, with the result of crippling the effort to stop frauds in naturalization.) The fugitives Greene and Gaynor, im plicated In a peculiarly big government contract fraud, were located and ar rested in Canada by the secret service, and, thanks to this, they have since" gone to prison for their crimes. . -I Tbe secret service was used to assist hi the Investigation of crimes under the peonage laws, and owing partly thereto numerous convictions, were se cured and the objectionable practice was practically stamped out, at least In many districts. The most extensive smuggling of silk and opium In- the history of the treasury department was investigated by agents of the se cret servlc in New I'ork aud Seattle and a successful prosecution of the of fenders undertaken. Assistance of the utmost value' was reudered to the de partment of Justice In the beef trust Investigation at Chicago; prosecutions were followed up and fines Inflicted. The cotton leak scandal in the agri cultural department was Investigated and the responsible parties located. What was done In connection with lottery Investigations Is disclosed in a letter Just sent to me by the United Btates attorney for Delaware, running is follows: The deatruotlon of the Hondu:.-as Na-. tlonal Lottery company, successor to the Louisiana Lottery company, was entirely 01- work' ef tb secret sarvte. this excellent work wse accomplished by Mr. WUkle and his subordinates. I thought it might be timely to recall this prosecution. : Lottery Casse and Other...' ' . Three hundred thousand dollar lu fine were collected by tb govern ment In the-lottery case. iA'jU. the ink contract fraud in the buiuau of engraving and printing (a bureau ot the treasury department) was investi gated by the- secret service and the guilty parties brought to Justice. Mr. Tawney stated In the debate that this was not investigated by the secret serv ice, but by a clerk "down there," con veying the impression that tb clerk wa not in th secret service. As a matter of fact, be was In tbe secret service. Ills nam wa Moran, and be was promoted to assistant chief for tbe excellence of his work in this case. Tbe total expense for tbe office and field force ot the secret service last year was 135,000, and by this on Investigation they saved to th government ever 1100,000 a year. Thank to tb restriction imposed by congress, it i now very difficult for tbe secretary of tbe treasury to use the secret sen-Ice freely even In bis own department for instance, to use j them to repeat what they did o ad mirably in tbe case ot this ink con tract. The government Is further crip pled by tbe law forbidding it to em-1 ploy detective agencies. Of course tb I government can detect tbe most dan-1 gerous slimes and punish tb worst criminal only by the use either of the secret service or of private detectives. To hamper It in using the one and for bid It to resort to the other can Inure to the benefit of none save the crimi nal. . 8eoretary Cortelyou Sustained. The fact above given show beyond possibility of doubt tbat what the sec retary of tbe treasury and I bad both written prior to tbe enactment of th obnoxious provision aud what I have sine written '-In my message to th congress state the facts exactly aa they are. The obnoxious provision Is of benefit only to tbe criminal class and can be of benefit only to tbe crim inal class. If it bad been embodied In tbe law at the time when I became president, all the prosecutions above mentioned and many others ot the same general type would either not have been undertaken or would have been undertaken with tbe government at a great disadvantage, and many and probably most of the chief offend ers would have gone scot free Instead of being punished for their crimes. . Such a body as the secret service, such a body of trained Investigating agents, occupying a permanent posi tion In tbe government service and separate from local investigating forces in different departments, Is an absolute necessity if the best work is to be done against criminals. It is by tar the most efficient Instrument possible to use against crime. Of course the more efficient an Instrument Is the more dangerous it Is it misused. To the argument that a force like this can be misused it is only necessary to answer that the condition of Its use fulness if handled properly is that it shall be so efficient as to be dangerous If bandied Improperly. Any Instance of abuse by the secret service or other Investigating force in the departments should be unsparingly punished, and congress should bold itself ready at any and all times to investigate tbe executive departments whenever there is reason to believe that any such in stance of abuse has occurred. I wish to emphasize my more than cordial ac quiescence in the view that this Is not only the right of congress, but em phatically its duty. To use the secret service In the Investigation of purely private or political matters would be a gross abuse. But there has been no single Instance ot sucn abuse during my term as president, ' Th President' Appeal. In conclusion, I most earnestly ask In tb name of good government and decent administration. In the nam ot honesty and for the purpose ot bring ing to Justice violators of the federal laws wherever they may be found, whether In public Or private life, that the action taken by the bouse last year be reversed. When this action was taken the senate committee, under the lead of the late Senator Allison, hav ing before it a strongly worded protest (Appendix D) from Secretary Cortel you like that he had sen to Mr. Taw ney, accepted the secretary" views, and the senate passed the bill in the shape presented by Senator Allison. In the conference, however, the bouse conferees insisted on the retention of the provision they had inserted, and the senate yielded. (Appendix D con sists of a letter from Secretary Cortel you to the late William B. Allison, chairman of the senate committee on appropriations, dated May 5, 190S. In it the secretary protests vigorously against the amendment to the sundry civU bill prohibiting the payment of any person detailed or transferred from the secret service division." He gives reasons for such details and in an appendix cites instances in which the secret service men have been de tailed effectively in cases outside the treasury department - : , : The chief of the secret service Is paid a salary utterly Inadequate to the Importance of his functions and to the admirably way In which he has performed them. I earnestly urge that it be increased to $6,000 per annum. I also urge tbat tbe secret service be placed where it properly belongs and made a bureau in the department of Justice, as the chief of the secret service has repeatedly re quested. But, whether this is done or not, it should be explicitly provided that the secret service can be used to detect and punish crime wherever It Is found. THEODORE BOOSEVELT. The White House, Jan. 4, lOOa FINANCIAL. First national Banlc of Astoria DIRECTORS ; , Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Fxjwei. J. W. Ladd S.S.Gordon Capital $100,000 Surplus .......... .......... 25,000 ; Stockholders Liability 100,000 I EHTABMHIIKO 1m, J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President O. I PETERSON, Vke-President ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK i CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - S232.CC3 Transact a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Tim Depc-s'ii Four Per Cent. Per Annum Eleventh and Duane Sta. " ' - . . 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Bar in Connection, Satisfaction Guaranteed. , , . , A GENTLE REPROACH. Tailing Retort of ths Lamblike, Violet Eyed Beauty.' ' There is a certain young woman who b beautiful, with that childish, wistful, innocent looking, violet eyed beauty which reduces one-half the feminine world to tears, the other half to utter ly helpless rage. We all know the type, but it Is seldom given us to see It la such perfection. We usually as sociate it with a lamblike, appealing mentality that permits Itself to be rid den upon as soon expect a wood violet to turn and rend you. A short time ago she was asked to a woman' luncheon aud got herself) up for the occasion In a way tbat i made the result of her efforts a thing I not easily forgotten. She arrived look ing so lovely that there was little said among the guests for a few moments after her entry Into the room. Perhaps she felt the silence. At all events, she turned to the woman standing nearest her and said in a childish voice, with ever such a little lisp and pretty south ern accent: tiaw weu yo- are iookut loaayt ; ' 1 It was a weU meant civility from a i young woman to an older one. who , "ul uu " seemingly was unable to accept it as!8 yon jould cairold has such and put up her lorgnette, sweep-; nevir B?en : ,e" ,ItS f ncUlIlf Hk,e 8 lug the speaker from top to toe. Wnat; anthook. The loosely riveted piece she saw was enough to disconcert a 1 that CUPve sllt)8 over the t00th and vounirer and nrettler woman than her- self, but even so one finds it difficult to justify ber nest move, . " "Wish I ' could say the same' for ' you,' she returned, closing her lorgnette with a snap. ' . wp ' One or two of the guests were friends of the pretty-woman and al most stopped breathing in order not to miss what they felt sure would . come and it came. ... The pretty ona , raised her eyebrows slightly, then i said, with an air of gentlo reproach: "Why don't yo' lie like a lady, like I do r-Rehoboth Sunday Herald. OLD TIME FORCEPS. When the Thing Was Turned Some- thing Had to Give Way. And speaking of teeth reminds me that the country doctor had to draw them when they ached. The dentist's artistry had not attained tbe elevated plane It occupies today, when every body' mouth shines like the Inside of J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier . FRANK PATTON, CasUef , P a communion cup. I honestly believe the modern dentist has more different kinds of tools than even a. sanitary plumber, and that's a whole lot when you come to count them up. The mod era dentist hates the worst" way to draw a ' tooth. Nevertheless If the '; modern dentist must draw the tooth ' he has a particular forceps for a par- ; tlcular tooth, and a cruel hearted and -cold looking thing it is too. It puts you so In mind of a successful finan cier, "When you brace yourself in the Iron chair and take a tight grip on the ' arms of It and make up your mind you'll try to stand tt and he gets that forceps well under the gum and wait . a minute; I feel so kind o' faint! . Laws I Why didn't I mind my mother when she told me not to crack hick-. ory nuts with my teetht "Well, any way, you know beH get the tooth out without doing more than take f the whole top of your head off, and tbat only in a figurative sense.. ; H Undo Doc had oue implement that did for every- tooth, big and little. front and back..'. It wasn't a. forceps; j it was a turnkey. The real old folks j know what that Is and will say so w'Vum ma rumuu vr lmlu' ...III. At. - .1 .J K tll . IV . -"" """""i ' bears on tbe outside gum; the operator turns the handle. Let's not tall: about It Something has got to give. Maybe the tooth will come out; maybe It will break off; mnybe .the jaw will frac ture. All those are details. The mala point is that If the oiierator twists tti? handle something has got to give; and that's all there Is about it Eugene Wood In Success Magazine. ' The Storm Nose at 8ea. ; The pioturt'squo name of storm nose (Gewittcrnase) Is given In Germany to the wave of high barometric pressure which often precedes a storm, or a neavy squall. The barometer rises sud denly and then fulls more gradually. It is believed that this phenomenon Is responsible, for sudden thanges in the level of the soa. Observations en the seas surrounding Denmark have led to the conclusion that; the change of leo! thus produced sometimes amounts to no less than three feet. Youth's Coai- 1 IB