Show WH nt MAY BE CANADIAN RULER what to do with the dike d ike of connaught brother of of king edward VII is one of at great britain s ever recurrent problems the latest of the rumors affecting him connects his name with the governor generalship of canada the reported intention of earl grey gre to retire early this year has given occasion for conjectural selections for his place none it is said would 4 meet with more general approval throughout the empire than the de designation ignation of the duke for one thing by reason of Con connaught s relationship to the king it would consolidate that imperial partnership aich it is felt would make for the closer union of great britain with her domin ions over the sea canadians it is thought would welcome the choice the fact that he would have far higher rank than any former in of the vice regal post would presumably in itself be not unpleasing to the people of the dominion onar only last february the duke dukes s appointment to the lord lieutenancy of ireland was as talked of his peculiar fitness tor for the office was nas urged on cn the ground of hia his acquaintance with ireland and irish affairs acquired while he was commander in chief there hia hh popularity and that of his daughter pa current discussion had it would him a warm welcome from the irish landlords and their families with undoubted doubted benefit to irish trade the consideration of his name in that connection was said at the time to have grown out of nis known dislike of the honorary pot at malta where he bore the title of field marshal commander in chief of the mediterranean forces and high commissioner of the mediterranean to this post following a resignation which is said greatly to hae haive displeased the king lord kitch ener succeeded him MAKES SURGERY PAINLESS I 1 if you want to and of course you don dont t you can have your legs or arms cut off without feel ing any pain and without being unconscious prof thomas Jon nesco of bucharest roumania Pou mania has mada this possible through his discovery of sto vaine i recently dr r Jon nesco has been demonstrate demon strat ing the use of sto vaine in chicago new york and other large cities and the surgeons sui surgeons geons who have seen the th operation os performed have pronounced it a great success even the treatment of heart disease is not beyond the powers of which Is dr Jon nesco s solution and he confidently believes it will su perseda the use of ether chloroform and other anesthetics now in use Sto vaine proper was n ejected chiefly at the base of the spinal cord card and was useful only tor for opera eions below the waist line but the professor claims his discovery enables him to operate on a patient from head to feet without pain and with eon con preserved by the Jon nesco system injections are made nearer the neck dr Jon nesco is many times a millionaire coming from a family of land barons he was graduated as a bachelor at law when he formed a desire to study surgery he was of anatomy of the medical school of when sto vaine was discovered six years ago it was nas found an ideal anesthetic for the lower limbs but was too power ful 1 to be used where whre its potency janight reach freyli pait eart jr in dr 1 1 esco dev devoted doted almost his hii entire time tol elpe 1 with stova lne and late i in n the next year discovered that strychnine dispelled the dangerous effects of stova ine but did not affect its anesthetic powers he was elected an honorary member of the royal society of surgery of england the same society which alch was bitter in denouncing him in his early experiments 11 he Is dean of the university of bucharest and a director of the bucha rest institute of experimental surgery has been re elected reelected honorary prest dent of the international international congress of gynecology and surgery and is a mem ber of the international commission of surgery L PINCHOT KEEPS UP FIGHT I 1 gifford pinchot chief of the forestry division cat the department of agriculture is about the only member of the roosevelt regime who Is be ing pointed out to strangers on the streets of washington these days there goes the man who is fighting ballinger is a common espres sion R benei pinchot appears on the avenue the pinchot ballinger row began last la st sum mer and shortly before the president started on his long tour there was talk that mr pinchot would be forced out of his position later came reports that mr ballinger would resign as secre tary of the interior but both are still at work and the fight Is going merrily on recently in n a new york speech mr pinchot declaimed declai aled ed the people of the united states have been the complacent victims of a system of alun der of the public forests crimes often perpetrated by men of high station in commercial and social life t condemning the methods of tl it ese rich criminals hl he e said but they have suffered broft a serious moral perversion by which it be comes praiseworthy to do for a corporation things which they would refuse with the loftiest scorn to do for themselves fortunately tor for us all that delusion is passing rapidly away amay this statement coming on tl e heels of mr ballinger s denial dental of charges that had been made against him cast fuel into the flames and president taft was sorely displeased io no v the president has put the matter up to congress and there is to be an investigation the outcome means the official scalp of ballinger or pinchot according to the opinion of many well advised persons N in washington it is not bellei believed ed thai pinchot will quit under fire and mr ballinger is kaohn as a fighter so there is likelihood that the war will be carried on to the bitter end pinchot is wealthy and donsil doesn t need the salary attached tp the job but he loves the trees and a adoor life and that is one leason mason why he is such a good friend of theodore roosevelt E GOT XMAS GIFT t Proba probably blythe the most costly and beautiful christ mas gift that any woman in the world received 9 9 ra was a bope of magnificent pearls said to have 1 0 cost which george D widener of phila delphia presented present cd to his wife who was miss eleanor elkins daughter of the late william L elkins the traction magnate it is the most costly string of pearls in the world it is ald aid that mr widener intended the gems some of whichard chare nearly as large a pig eon eggs and sufficient for a king kings s ransom as a surprise for his wife but news of the gift that a princess might well envy leaked out it Is probable that society will have an op port unity to admire at first hond what is said to to be be the the anest finest collection of pearls gem for gem that any woman man in this country has been lebed to stear e ir mrs Wide widener Is to agn agne e a ball at the bellevue stratford in I 1 hi ladelphia this month and it is presumed that she R ill III wear the pearls on an that occasion it she does and she should wear at her throat the string of pearls which aich she has previously worn and which has been so much admired the total value of her pearl adornments will be a round million of dollars the sti and she now wears is i at the center stone alone being worth 6 mrs widener Is known as one of the beautiful women in the society of philadelphia new york and the fashionable new england coast resorts she is 1 of the brunette type tall and noted for the beauty of her gowns and the grace brict with which she wear them |