Show 1 EDITORIAL PITH The earily Introduction ot a number of bills in Congress dcnllng with projects affecting tho national banking system prominent jiniong thcao being the bulky bill offered by Senator Hoar and drawn by oxChnlrman Walker of the Banking and Currency committee of the IJouso of Representatives and tho oarncst roconi mcndatlonS In a similar line put forward liy Secretary Gage In his annual report to Congress make It evident that iho agitation agi-tation In this matter has assumed Importance Im-portance nnd that wo shall hear more of it before wo hear less New York Sun gO a No mmiii can retain his bodily and mental men-tal health If ho devotes hlmsolf exclusive J y to business Bodily ho will become Inert and flabby mentally Inert and dull First his power will diminish th nhls rasp on practical problems will bo ro axed his capability J will be wijakqnod iiul In the end his capacity Itself disappears disap-pears The best results are found in arled interests A hobby of somp sort is necessary It fILLS been the salvation of manySt Louis PostDlspalch i > e it A Connecticut woman comes out boldly and clams she never wore a corset And yet It Is doubtful If that eminent Fronch doctor who Is conducting tho war In Paris against this popular article of fem mum attire would care to use tho Wooden Nutmeg lady as an example of tho way emancipated woman ought to look Reformers may storm as they will but thero certainly Is a look of dumpy shapelobsncsa about the unstaycd feminine femi-nine tlguno that H I not fascinating to the popular eye Cleveland Plain Dealer a 0 The latest suggestion regarding the etiology of cancer comes from London I and ii > made by a distinguished British observer who gives us a veritable scar concerning the uso of common salt in our food The infereYico is that tho individual who wishes to escape cancer should tako his food without the usual savor This most innocwnt and necessary addition to our diet ia th 115 put under the ban Tho author takes pains to tell us that wild beasts cannibals and people who eschew Halted pork are the only ones that escape If this bo true the remedy is worse oven than the disease New York Herald a t IJ It is only In thc United States thnt cities allow themselves to be HUed with huge poster fences covered with any sort of gigantic daub that men with paint pots can devise Posters and public advertising ad-vertising signs In European cities arc limited In size restricted In location and taxed In such a way as to produce a largo municipal revenueSt Louis Globe Democrat o r o Tho now canal treaty submitted to1 iho Senalo this week and wisely made public pub-lic at once has satisfied every American who has Teal It All tho country wishes to see the treaty ratified and the canal built on the best routes Philadelphia Press I V 5 9 Tho remarkable fact was brought out at tho Inquest upon tho bodies of thoso killed in the Wabash collision in IMIcjhl san that tho train order the misunderstanding misunder-standing of which caused tho wreck was so ambiguously constructed that no less than three separate and distinct Interpretations Interpre-tations were placed upon it by the train Crew Tho responsibility Involved in the correct transmission of train orders nnd tho lives depending upon their clearness should havo prevented tho sending ot such an order PIttsburg Dispatch |