Show EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE The The periodical discussion of ot the car seat question is s again on on and being participated In by various various- Journals In Including Including including In- In our local contemporary the as a Herald It is generally regarded silly season topic but has enough bones in It to rattle Instructively now flOW Sand and am then That in most of ot our cities and andIn andIn andIn In Salt Lake especially men as a a. rule give up their seats to women in crowded street cars is something g for tor which Americans should be proud It is not so in Europe There the Lord help the poor woman who finds herself herselt In omnibus omnibus omni omni- bus tram-car tram or any crowded public place She She Is Jostled pushed pressed back by rough creatures with the outward outward out- out ward vard forms torms of men but who are in tact fact brutes Perhaps as ti the Herald Bug Bug- gets the i- i lo of oi the courtesy abuse their supposed supposed privilege some- some t mes but ut that is not reason enough for aban abandoning the practice Other grounds for preserving the convention aside Inmost in inmost inmost most instances a man can manage to be comparatively comfortable while holdIng holdIng hold- hold Ing lag on a strap It Is different with the v eaker weaker sex generally shorter than men and anatomically ally less able to bear the strain of hanging by their arms By all means let the old instinct of ot American chivalry prevail Whatever may happen to Judge Noyes of ot Nome he should always remember Senator McCumber of ot North Dakota with gratitude That gentleman's defence defence defence de de- de- de fence of of the jurist under fire In the United States Senate was vigorous and bold and evidently made an impression who heard it The same may maybe maybe maybe be said of ot Mr McCumbers McCumber's defence of ot Judge Noyes's companion in misfortune Mr Alexander McKenzie of St. St PaulIt Paul It is true as the Senator stated that Mr McKenzie has has has' enjoy enjoyed d the esteem and confidence of ot the Northwestern communities for a a. long time Twenty- Twenty I odd years ago he was Sheriff of the county of ot which Bismarck North Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- kota was county seat Later he was interested i in land and and railway enterprises enterprises enterprises enter enter- and for nearly two decades has been a trusted associate of ot Mr James J. J Hill Hill the ra railway way magnate Those who know v him are not ready to believe that Alex McKenzie could be induced to stoop to to anY anything lIng dishonest or dis- dis Newspapers and nd health authorities In Inthe inthe inthe the Mi Middle West are greatly greatly agitated oy over r the rapid spread of smallpox In that section o of th the country and the disease disease disease dis dis- dis- dis II ease ease se seems sem to of ot becoming extensively and dangerously epidemic I unless means can be found and applied to arrest its progress progress The health depart department de de- de- de part en of ot Chicago ago for the past week has b n endeavoring to secure a a. concert concert concert con- con cert of ot the of among action the cities between the Ohio the lakes and nd the mountains with a View to tamping stamping g out the the pestilence pestilence pestilence lence before it has a ch chance nce to gain the upper hand of tl tI the Authorities The Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi cago Tribune referring to the steady advance of smallpox for more than a year states that during 1901 there was an increase of ot nine hundred and eleven per cent in the number of ot cases In the theten theten theten ten St States tes of which Illinois is in the southern tier Between Bet Between December 28 1900 and i January 24 4 9 only 1070 cases were r reported ported from this fron-this this territory During During During Dur Dur- ing th the similar period which closed last month cas cases s were reported What adds ser seriousness o to tot to t the les smallpox smallpox small small- nall- nall pox situation is the fact tact that in the I North Atlantic Stat States Stes s where here the disease is having an n Independent expansion Itis it itis itis is changing fr from th the he mild form which has been generally prevalent everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where to the the Virulent r form forn and it Is feared that the same same thing may occur in the West On Ok the Atlantic side the smallpox death ate j-ate has increased lately latey late late- ly y from r m twenty to thirty per cent of or cases Conditions are reported also se serious serious serious se- se rious In in iii Iowa Michigan li igan Indiana Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- anc and Missouri sd rl In n St St. Louis there is a a a. widespread smallpox scare and for two weekS many wealthy veathy men men have been sending their famil families as to escape es escape es- es cape ui the danger We do not hear that the disease has i invaded the Rocky y Mountain country the far West Wet or orthe the Pacific Coast although it itis itis itis is probable that there may have have been sporadic cases in those r regions gl gi ns Altogether Altogether Altogether Alto Alto- gether the news of this visitation is the reverse of ot especially In view of ot th the awful results of t f the use of Impure lymph for vaccination purposes in in the East last winter when a number of persons persons persons per per- sons sons were vere Infected With lockjaw by it f and nd died agonizing agonizing de deaths In an interview In Rome a a. few days ago Commander Lamponi physician to toLe toLeo toLeo Le Leo XIII declared that all reports and and rumors to the the effect that the Popes Pope's health was rapidly failing tailing were utterly baseless On the contrary said Dr L Leo ILeo XIII b both th physically ly and mentally is in the enjoyment of ot a most enviable old age He is free from the ailments and Infirmities which usually torment persons of or his advanced y years ars His organism is perfectly h healthy althy and has has maintained all the normal and andre re regular functions His case is indeed almost 12 t exceptional lonal In the history of human hunan hu hu- hu- hu plan man nan longevity Scarcely a day passes passes but what he astonishes me by the lu lucidity lucidity lucidity lu- lu of his mind the prodigious accuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy of his memory and the penetration tion ip o of his judgment |