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How Woulc! You Like Locusts?
Probably few people are aware that
Insects, as a group, constitute a source
of food supply for the races of man
kind. Yet insects have been eaten
Trom time immemorial, sometimes fig
uring as luxuries, at others as a staple
article of diet, Perhaps tho chief
food insect —and an important one, too
—is the locust. It furnishes the favor
ite food of many numerous African
tribes, some nations living almost ex
clusively upon its teeming hordes. Lo
custs, says the Scientific American,
have been regarded as luxuries from
the earliest times of which any rec
ords remain to us. In the British mu
seum there is a Nineveh sculpture
showing men carrying different kinds
of meat to some festival, and among
them are some who carry long sticks
to which locusts are tied. In Athens
of old locusts and grasshoppers were
sold in the markets and they were
then preferred as dainties above the
most succulent quails or the best figs.
According to Mr. P. L. Simmonds,
who made an exhaustive study of
strange kinds of animal food, the fla
vor of locusts, while strong and disa
greeable when raw, becomes mild and
readily disguised when cooked. In
fact, from his own experience and that
of several of his friends, whom he In
duced to partake of the fare, he as
sures us that a broth made by boiling
the unfledged Calopteri (a Rocky
mountain species) for two hours in the
proper quantity of water and seasoned
only with pepper and salt, is quite
palatable and scarcely to be distin
guished from beef broth.
Boston has a recentl> established
custom for which it is claiming much.
It is the New Voters' festival held an
nually in Paneuil hall. It is not a
partisan move but seeks in poetry and
prose to inspire patriotism in those
■who have recently come into the
crowning right of citizenship. In the
meeting just held the stars and stripes
were lauded without stint, the way out
of civic corruption was discussed, the
red insignia of anarchy was metaphor
ically trampled under foot and various
aids to getting rid of public evils were
exploited. If the scheme will, as
claimed for it, make the new voters
better than old ones, it is worth wide
adoption.
Here comes the inventor of a gun
which, as alleged, can carry a big shell
from London to Paris or the reverse.
There has been a great deal of long
distance fighting recently, but when it
comes to such a range as that war
■would appear to be reduced to a math
ematical calculation how to hit the
object aimed at. Perhaps the time
will arrive when hostilities will be
carried on by telephone.
The prince de Sagan says he "may
have had his affairs of the heart" pre
vious to his courtship with Mme.
Gould, but he does not see that this
circumstance should interfere with his
present suit. Probably he bases this
theory on the fact that this courtship
is not an affair of the heart.
Fifteen thousand dollars' damages
for libel is the ultimate result of a
"muck raking" article in one of the
popular magazines. The writer, re
marks the Providence Journal, evi
dently had hold of the wrong rake.
"Th« vermiform appendix is the only
thing in nature, so far as is known,
that is absolutely useless," says the
Lancet. Absolutely useless! And it
has helped many a surgeon out ol
financial difficulties.
There is no more money in the
country than there was when those
$14,000,000 clearing-house certificates
were in use, and yet there was so little
demand for them they have been con
verted into pulp.
New York is getting 11,000.000 eggs
daily. Who says that splendid bird,
the American hen, is not doing her
share in promoting prosperity and pro
viding a food supply?
Apparently any American boy roay
some day be president, but he's got to
hustle up and make a fortune if he
«ver wants to be an ambassador.
NEEDS OF THE NAVY
TWO BATTLESHIPS TO BE ADDED !
TO FLEET.
President's Recommendation That
Four Be Constructed This Year
Not Heeded by Congress—Avoids
Rivalry with Other Nations.
The senate concurred with the
house in limiting to two the number
of battleships to he authorized this
year. The president was insistent
that there should be four. Congress,
which holds the purse strings, would
only grant, the smaller number. That
ends the matter for the lime being, if
the majority in congress could have
been brought to believe that the two
additional ships would be an effectual
insurance against war it would have
voted them in spite of the fact that
expenses are outrunning receipts and
that economy is highly expedient. The
majority did not agree with the presi
dent as to the need of so much in
surance. The coming years will de
termine whether it or the president
was the wiser.
There is a belief which perhaps is
not ill founded that the result of this
year's contest over battleships will
be an annual provision for two ships,
thus doubling the program of recent
years. In 11)06 only une battleship was
authorized: flilto in 1 P<>7. It vould
take too long if the program of a
ship a year were adhered to, to pro
vide substitutes for the smaller bat
tleships still in commission, which
were constructed several years ago.
Those battleships do not compare fa
vorably with the huge ones which are
being constructed nowadays and
should not be counted in the same
class with them.
The needs of the navy are not re
stricted to battleships, it requires'
more and better armored cruisers, tor
pedo boats, and torpedo boat destroy
ers and submarines. It needs more
colliers and all the other paraphernalia
of a complete fleet. The appropria
tions for these different vessels and
for the sailors toman them will add
to the bulk of future appropriation
bills, but they will be necessary ex
penses.
The special naval activity of one
country almost inevitably sets the
pace for others. If a foreign nation
with which there appeared to be any
danger of the United States coming
into collision were to set about in
creasing its naval force at an unusual
rate congress would change its pres
ent policy and proceed to build ships
on a more extensive scale. On the
other hand, if the United States were
suddenly to expand its program of
naval construction in a marked degree,
other nations, uncertain as to the pur
pose, would hasten to insure them
selves by adding more vessels to their
fleets. That would be an unwhole
some rivalry which should be avoid
ed for the sake of the taxpayers.—Chi
cago Tribune.
Testimonial to American Navy.
Some of the criticism that has lately
been directed against the navy may
have come from sincere, conscientious
but timid men, though most of the
critics seem to be constitutionally un
fitted to see good in anything.
If there are any persons who are
really convinced that our battle-ships
are inferior they should listen to what
Sir William Henry White has to say.
Sir William was for nearly 20 years
responsible designer of ell British war
ships, and the purchase of two of his
designs was the foundation of the
present American navy, for from those
designs the Charleston and the Balti
more were built.
According to this good authority, we
have naval architects as capable as
any in the world, and our shipbuilding
yards are quite equal to any in Great
Britain. The result is that, in Sir
William's opinion, the United States
has a fleet that, ship for ship, is as
good as anything the world contains
and, next to the British navy, is the
most formidable in existence.
This testimonial from a man who
knows what he is talking about should
more than offset the vaporings of
amateurs who assert that the Amer
ican navy would be unable to repeat
the glorious exploits of Manila and
Santiago if we were opposed by a
first-class power.
Let Us Have Action.
We would once more urge upon con
gress the great necessity for emer
gency currency legislation at this ses
sion. The commission idea is a good
one, but it provides no suitable substi
tute for immediate action. The com
mission project should be regarded as
something supplementary. It should
follow the passage of a law that will
satisfy the public mind that the coun
try has protective legislation that it
did not have last fall. The mere ex
istence of such a law would serve to
establish confidence and so to pre
vent panics.
it is obvious also that a postpone
ment at this stage will be discourag
ing to all schemes of currency reform
if we should be so fortunate as to pass
into a new era of confidence and indif
ference. -The subject awakens the
greatest possible interest now because
the memory of the last panic is so
fresh. Delay will lead to delay. Back
ing the powerful pressure of the pres
ent time, politicians and financial ex
perts will be the more inclined to em
phasize their disagreements and reject
compromises. They may even quarrel
over a commission's report and then
sink into a comatose Stale until the
next big jolt conies.
Bet us have action now, and later
we can argue about reports indefinite
ly and in comparative safety.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908.
TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
Arbitration Compact Probably Good
for Both Countries Concerned.
The senate ratified the arbitration
treaty with Great Britain, though it
had received many vigorous protests
which were intended to prevent rati
fication. The treaty resembles in its
general terms one that has been ne
gotiated with Franco, but contains two
provisions all its own. One of these
is that the special agreements that are
made according to its terms shall not
he binding upon Great Britain before
they are binding upon the United
States. This stipulation is due to the
intervent ion of our senate as part of the
treaty-making power, which may cause
daleys, and if the present. Kritish sug
gestion is a novel one it. will be seen
that it is a perfectly natural one and
that it ■would merely put the two
countries on even terms. The second
provision to which we have referred
relates to the self-governing British
colonies. Before Great Britain under
takes to arbitrate a question in which
any of these colonies is concerned she
must by the terms of the provision
first secure the concurrence of the
colony affected.
Turning now to the general features
of the treaty, we find that no startling
advance with the principle of arbitra
tion is proposed. The problems to be
submitted at The Hague are only such
as relate to differences of a legal na
ture that cannot be satisfactorily set
tled through tlio usual diplomatic
channels. Furthermore, each power
may decide for itself whether a sub
ject under discussion is proper for
submission or not, which is to say that
in the United States the government
may act as it sees fit. But we
have no doubt that the machinery that
is provided in the treaty will steadily
encourage resorts to arbitration and
that every such means for preventing
international misunderstandings and
promoting peace will have the strong
and increasing support of public senti
ment.
As to risks there need be no fears,
for governments move very cautiously
in these matters. Differences affecting
the vital interests, independence or
honor of the contracting powers are
outside the range of the treaty.
The Panama Carial.
Secretary Taft goes to the isthmus
of Panama presently to see how work
on the canal is getting along and to
look after some little matters that,
need attention. The trip ought to be
a welcome diversion from banqueting
and speechmaking, and the report
which he will make after his return
should give the public some idea of
the progress which is being made in
the construction of the canal. Every
month or so there appears a state
ment from the chief engineer telling
how many cubic yards of earth have
been removed, but these statements
do not mean much to the average
American, who finds it hard to remem
ber how many yards still remain to
be moved.
For several weeks nothing friendly
or unfriendly has been said about
canal affairs. The last bit of adverse
criticism was Mr. John Bigelow's
pamphlet, in which he condemned the
present pain of construction in every
particular and drew the gloomiest pic
ture of the length of time and hun
di%'ds of millions in money that would
be required to carry out that plan.
Nobody connected with the canal
has made any reply to Mr. Bigelow's
charges and predictions. Little notice
was taken of them by anybody, part
ly because it was assumed that Col.
Goethals knows more about the sub
ject than a man who has a reputation
as a publicist but is not an expert in
canal construction and has no person
al knowledge of conditions on the
isthmus. When Secretary Taft gets
back he may make a comprehensible
report that will let the public know
what has been done, what there is to
do, and whether the earlier estimates
as to the length of time it. will take
to complete the canal or the money
that will he needed should be modi
fied in any particular.
A Change of a Word.
It requires but a little effort of the
memory to recall how the gentle and
benign McKinley was denounced as
tyrant and imperialist f,y *.he frantic
ant is who worked themselves into fury
over the retention of the Philippines.
The mhdness spread over several
years, breaking out in public meetings,
in numerous books and in countless
petitions, and a large part fell upon
Roosevelt. But it passed, as such
tilings do.
Now the cry is executive usurpation.
Some of the extremists in congress
and in Democratic and Populistic con
ventions are arraying their strongest
adjectives in trying to show how
ttoosevelt had overridden the consti
tution and taken to himself all the
powers of the three branches of gov
ernment. It is amusing how angry
they seem to get when, as a matter
of fact, nobody is angry at all.
This is the gain we have made. The
anti-imperialists were really sincere.
The executive usurpationists are Pick
wicks. —Baltimore American.
The Question in Illinois.
What has been done to Sullivan —
or to Bryan—in the meanwhile that
he who was once obnoxious should
now be acceptable? The Nebraska
statesman, according to all accounts,
is as severely pure as ever. Sullivan,
for all we know or can see or hear,
is as tough as ever. We cannot be
sure that he was ever an anti-Bryan
man. We must assume, therefore,
that, he sinned in methods and details,
and it is obvious that Bryan has for
given him. But why? That is and
remains the question.—New fork-
Sum
BANDITS STSLE S3S,OSG
THREE MEN ROB SAFE IN SANTA
FE DEPOT AT FRENCH, N. M.
They Bound and Gagged the Station
Agent and a Guard, Got the
Cash and Escaped.
El Paso, Tex. Pursued by men
and bloodhounds, three bandits
with $35,000 of loot in their posses
sion are fleeing through the rugged
mountain passes north of French, a
little station 80 miles from Las Vegas,
N. M., on the Santa Fe railroad, in
an effort to escape the clutches of
the law.
At French Thursday afternoon they
broke down the doors of the depot,
bound and gagged the station agent
and special guard, blew open the safe,
took the money and rode away, leav
ing their victims helpless.
A tramp wandered into the station
half an hour later, released the al
most unconscious men and gave the
alarm. The news of the daring rob
bery was wired to every town in the
neighborhood of French and a spe
cial train bearing 30 deputies and 50
horses left East Las Vegas in hail' an
hour hot on the trail of the fleeing
bandits. A special train with four
men also left Dawson and a message
was sent to the territorial peniten
tiary at Santa Po for bloodhounds,
which were brought through as fast
as a special engine and car could car
ry them.
The stolen money was scot from
Albuquerque on Santa Fe train No. 10
to pay the miners at Dawson, N. M.
A branch road leads to the mines.
A special transfer of the money was
necessary at French. A special guard,
heavily armed, accompanied the treas
ure and upon leaving the train at
French he went inside the station,
placed the money in the safe and
locked the doors to the station.
Suddenly the noise of a breaking
window attracted him and the station
agent and they turned to face the
muzzles of two rifles. A bandit
broke the door and entered. He then
held the two men covered with a re
volver while the other bandits en
tered the building. After tying the
guard and agent the robbers shot the
safe with dynamite, took the money
and fled.
BANKER SUICIDED.
Man Convicted of Embezzlement
Killed Himself When He Found
He Had to Goto Jail.
Baltimore, Md. When he finally
succeeded in effecting an entrance
to the barricaded residence of John
W. Geiger, for whose arrest and in
carceration in jail he had an order
of the United States district court,
United States Marshal Langhatnmer
last night found Geiger dead.
Geiger was the central figure of one
of the most sensational cases that has
ever been tried in a Baltimore court.
He had been cashier of the Canton
National bank, but resigned the po
sition in January, 1907. As a result
of investigations of National Bank
Examiner Hann, he was arrested on
February 22, 1007, and his indictment
by the United States grand jury on
109 counts preceded his trial, which
began in June and lasted three weeks.
Of the extensive misuse of the
funds of the bank he was convicted
on five of 47 counts, the prosecution
having abandoned the remainder of
the original 109. He was sentenced
by Judge Morris to serve five years
In jail. Geiger's counsel appealed the
case to the United States district
court of apepals, which about a week
ago decided against him. Appeal
was taken to the United States su
preme court, but Judge Morris de
cided that, pending that court's decis
ion, Geiger must begin to serve his
sentence. Accordingly Marshal Long
hammer went to the Geiger residence
Thursday, only to find himself barred
out.
Deputies were placed on guard.
Langhammer went to the house with
the avowed intention of effecting an
entrance by force if necessary. He
was admitted to the lower floor and
there told by inmates of the house
tha Geiger was dead. He was re
fused permission to see the body, ac
cess to the room in which it was said
to be being denied to everyone pend
ing the arrival of the family physi
cian, who had not arrived five hours
after the time the death was said to
have occurred. Finally, however, an
other physician was summoned and
after he had viewed the body and an
nounced hemorrhage as the cause of
death, Deputy United States Marshal
Gilroy was permitted to see the body.
Coroner Cruthefs shortly after 1
o'clock this morning made a second
attempt to view the remains and this
time was successful. He found a bul
let wound in the roof of Geiger's
mouth, the flesh surrounding which
had been burned by the flash from a
32-caliber pistol which was found be
side the body.
Tornado Killed 30 People.
Shreveport, La. Thirty dead and
200 injured is a conservative es
timate of the fatalities caused
by the tornado which swept through
northwest Louisiana Wednesday even
ing, destroying three small towns and
leaving wrecked homes.
Hat Factories Shut Down.
Orange, N. J. The eight hat fac
tories located here closed their doors
Thursday, throwing 2,800 operatives
out of employment because of a fail
ure to agree as to wages.
THIS CONFERENCE
MARKS All EPOCH
GOVERNORS OF 44 STATES MEET
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT
THE WHITE HOUSE.
TO SAVE NATION'S RESOURCES
Lawmakers, Jurists, Cabinet Officers
and Captains of Industry Wer#
Present at the Conference,
First of Its Kind.
Washington, D. C. Two ideas
destined to mark material progress
in America's future resulted from the
first of the three days' conference at
the White House in which President
Roosevelt, the governors of 44 states,
cabinet officers, supreme court
judges, senators, representatives and
experts are participating in efforts to
reach conclusions 011 the best meth
ods of conserving the natural re
sources of the United States.
The first is that a permanent or
ganization between the states and the
nation is necessary ami will likely re
sult from the present conference, to
accomplish the end sought. The sec
ond —suggested by Secretary Root —
is that there is no limitation by the
constitution to the agreements that
may be made by the states subject to
the approval of congress. The two
ideas, fully developed, it is predicted,
would result in the conservation of
the energies and resources of the na
tion through uniform laws, both na
tional and state.
President Roosevelt's speech was
many times interrupted by applause
and when he finally reached his point
of praise for the inland waterways
commission and declared that should
congress neglect Jo perpetuate the
commission "I will do it myself," he
"captured" the assembly.
It was from the utterances of Mr.
Carnegie and those who followed him
that the gravity of the problems to be
considered were given weight. Two
hundred years of coal supply and half
that of iron was the prediction of the
iron master.
Dr. I. C. White of West Virginia
added expert knowledge and predic
tions on the subject of coal and iron.
He predicted the exhaustion of the
Pittsburg coal supply in 93 years and
Ihe West Virginia fields in practically
the same time.
John Mitchell, former head of the
United Mine Workers, said that fully
25 per cent of the coal in the mines
already developed had been wasted
in mining and a much greater percent
age in use.
Washington, D. C. Startling was
the warning sounded Thursday at
the conference of governors at the
White House of the danger the na
tion confronts in soil waste and forest
depletion.
James J. Hill of the Great Northern
railroad, who led a long list of speak
ers, treated the depletion of the na
tion's resourc?s in a very impressive
way. He presented conditions re
specting mineral, soil and forest
showing wanton waste in each in
stance, and drew a picture of politi
cal chaos when all were gone, where
in the people would tear down the
very pillars of government.
Soil waste and forest conservation
received expert treatment by Prof. T,
C. Chamberlain of Chicago and R. A
Lang of Kansas City, after which was
evidenced the desire of the conven
tion to engage in general discussion
Issue was squarely joined as tc
some of tlie methods pursued by the
government in the regulation of for
est reserves by the governors of Wy
oming, Utah, Idaho and Montana
James A. Garfield, secretary of the
interior, replied to these criticisms.
Washington, D. C. The first con
ference of the governors of the
states of the American Union ended
Friday. Like many important events
of history, time is needed to reveal
the epoch which the president and
governors believe has been made.
The accomplishment of the confer
ence cannot be set forth with pre
cision. That its immediate results
are more than ample is the expres
sion of President Roosevelt and oi
the governors.
Besides the compilation of facts by
the experts and the freely expressed
opinion of the governors, the con
ference leaves as its permanent rec
ord a thousand words of "declara
tion." Not a "declaration of inde
pendence," but a "declaration of co
operation."
Perhaps greater in importance
than all else was the determination
of the governors of the states to per
fect a permanent organization where
by an intimacy may be developed
among the executives of the 4t'
states, made strong by a common
purpose and made potent by pro
nouncements which may not lightly
be disregarded.
Black Hands Are Sentenced.
Morgantown, W. Va. Three for
eigners, alleged to be members of
a Black Hand organization, recently
convicted in court of conspiring to
take property not their own, were on
Wednesday sentenced to ten years'
imprisonment.
Falling Rocks Killed Four Miners.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. A fall of rock
and coal in the Prospect colliery
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. at
Midvale Wednesday killed four min
ers and injured three others.
A DENTIST AIDS THE STATE
GIVES IMPORTANT TESTIMONY"
IN THE GUINNESS CASE.
Proves that Jaw Bone Found in Cel
lar of Burned House Was that
of Alleged Murderess.
Laporte, Ind. — "Identification of
the piece of jaw bone taken
from the ruins of the Guinness farm
house as a portion of Mrs. Belle
Guinness' skull bears out most con
clusively the contentions of th« state
regarding the identity of the bodies
found in the eellar on April 28. It is
the clinching bit of evidence which
should set at rest the rumors that
Mrs. Guinness has escaped."
This statement, was made by Ralph
N. Smith, prosecuting attorney, last
night. It followed a report from Dr.
C. P. Norton, a dentist, who found
that the piece of charred bone pre
sented characteristics which he had
observed while working on her
teeth. Only two natural teeth, a
cuspid on each side of the lower jaw,
had remained in the woman's mouth
and the piece of bone found shows
that all teeth except the cuspids had
been extracted from the jaw.
The first of the Guinness victims
to he buried with Christian rites was*
buried by lr.ntern light last night
a cemetery in the outskirts of I.a
porte. The corpse was that of Andrew"
Helgelein of Mansfield, N. D., the last
man to meet his death in the trap to
which Mrs. Guinness lured her vic
tims. The body was released for
burial after Coroner Mack had re
ceived the reports of Bertillon ex
perts w-ho examined it and compared
their findings with figures taken from
the records of the Minnesota peniten
tiary at Stillwater.
QUESTION OF THAW'S SANITY
Is Debated by Medical Experts in Ha
beas Corpus Proceedings.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Examina
tion of expert medical witnesses
in an endeavor to show that
Harry K. Thaw is sane was begun
here late Friday by Thaw's counsel
in the habeas corpus proceedings in
stituted to free him from confinement
at the Matteawan asylum.
Dr. George \V. Jacoby, qualifying as
an expert, said that he had exam
ined Thaw twice during his stay at
Matteawan. He had found Thaw, he
said, logical, with good memory and
capable of following an argument.
He gave it as his opinion that Than
was sane at present.
Dr. Graeme Hammond, another ex
prrt on mental diseases, the last wit
ness of the session, declared that
Thaw was not a paranoiac and in bis
opinion was sane now.
Expens called by Mr. Jerome ear
lier in the day testified that in their
opinion Thaw was an incurable par
anoiac and that his release would be.'
dangerous to public safety.
THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
Proceedings of the Senate and House
of Representatives.
Washington.—ln the senate on the
13th further consideration of the.
Brownsville affair was postponed un
til December 16. The house bill re
storing the motto "In God We Trust"
on United States coins was passed.
The house passed several bills of min
or importance.
Washington. The Vreeland cur
rency bill was passed by the house
on the 14th by a vote of 184 to 14.1.
The senate passed the sundry civil
appropriation bill.
Washington.—ln the senate on the
15th the Aldrich bill was substituted
for the Vreeland currency bill passed
by the house. The house passed 525
private pension bills and rejected the
senate's amendments to the Vreeland
bill, which was then sent to a con
ference committee. Gen. Sherwood
of Ohio delivered a bitter speech in
criticism of his colleague, Gen. Kei
fer.
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Considerable Improvement Is Noted
During the Past Week.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Trade conditions are most respons
ive to the weather at this time of
year and more seasonable tempera
ture brought distinct improvement
during the past week. Little net
change is noted in manufacturing
activities, some plants resuming,
while idleness was increased else
where by strikes. Buyers are assem
bling at primary markets to attend
special sales, and stocks of staple
goods are running low in retail stores
because of conservative purchases.
Mercantile collections are more
prompt, but transporting conditions
are at the least satisfactory point of
the year thus far, 19 per cent of the
freight cars being idle.
Court Upholds President's Action.
New York City. The right of
President Roosevelt summarily to dis
miss a negro soldier for alleged par
ticipation in the riot at Brownsville,
Tex., was sustained Friday by Judge
Hough iu the United States district
court.
A Battle Between French and Arabs.
Algiers. The French force un
der Gen. Vigy lost 13 men killed
and 65 wounded during a fierce en
gagement Thursday with fanatical
Arabs.