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THE WASHINGTON HERALD SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1903 7i

TEMPERED BY GALLOWSTU-

RKISH AND OTHER ORIENTAL IDEAS OFPARLIAMENTARY FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

Fny BXATTACIIB-

Russias ff sovemment used to beby the Poet Swinburne

1 spotism tempered byIn the same way surnamen th Orient any bo dated

mixracy leagued by tha gallows Weav recently had a striking ilrastratVm-

is the newly

lVd the palace ta which ft held Itssirens looted and destroyed the booses

the members of the opuoampn andntir hanged the latter after submiUtaK-iom to those friewtful tortuna whichnly Asiatic toaemUty can invent Hayrs accomplished thIn the Sleek has to

wii call a new Parliament together temonths and concludes tbe edictthe words We trust that our

faithful subjects will show more Judg-ment in choosmg then itpuntintathti tafuture

The Shah can lay no tuba originalityii thus cruahtey tasjhuntiv a oppositionwhich in tha tout Is construed aa rei II ing against the drone and te theisit of ueason It bas always item

us and there may be acme of city rendIBM myself were ta Egypt

tVrfy years ago and some and whocall in thte

IsmaJL When the newly choseni utc assembled the mtaistrr of the

riur attempted to give thenrAnh notions of parttamentary duties

rrl and escptained the theyld he expected frankly to approve or

prove of the measures that shouldi id before them With that view bo-

vi ed such of rbem as disposed tocriielse the amaiiiismit programme to

r rt themselves on one side of theamber while those who were preparedgive their ten confidence in advance

ro Hd sit opposite Vied forbidt general IIHSIMIII that any one of usiould think of ouesttontas anything thatt Effcndina the Khedive proposedend thev an to the Brinte-

rial side leavla tile opposition repreeJ by empty taste Ina which no per

ruaslon In theoccupy

Just before Christmas ta MX AbdulHamii who only tourhad been raised to the Ottoman throne

i the place of his ultralmeral brotherLured granted a mnstltution to theTurkish people mdudtog freedom of tilej ress and of education equal taxationremovable Judges and a andwar chamber both elected Toe Object

which he had ta view was to avert thewith which tile

rratond both from within and fromand which cahntaated ahartty-

tfrward ta the war with Russia Butnnn as the Sultan reaBaed that the-

n session had failed to accomplish ht-eyt he took steps tov n the eoaatttntioa and maided-gn punishment on rhsse who hadtie1 him to panting MMhat Pasha

i particular one of the moat progressrentI statesmen f tile nineteenth es-

nfr being not only diaaxaced and I-mrd but fikewnie banished to Bas

f and clubbed to death with thef the rifles of his guards before-

a hing his destination on the pretextwas ptotttng to escape from tier

ta17as

t at TeIIeI the ShabhrU-

ir and tit defer to

a to the Feet that

tIca thewhlcla took wIleD the And

trend cold themoJ

scribed aamasdnatln

artbds

f reef where fIndevratei sat teoabie-

S uawW bra clews

sued prodamstisx be

threewith

ammsInm-e a de puce

Parflatet was summoned y-j Jive

org nkataon

Indiee

moths pweviousdy

eia sen1111ae pate was

ptrenxtcar

bu-ttes

v n in Hnssta which though In manyr pets Asiatic claims to betoog to Eu

we findopposition of the tint Dooms taclndtasits president stffl hmgutehtas ta Jail

ot as criminals but as political ottend

1 ndor the tile news ileaConstantinople to the sMsrt that the

n has granted anew the constitutionwhich had earn now a

1 letter win have bena leadved bythoughtful students of Oriental af-

fairs with considerable itnuvc It den-t mean that Abdul Hamid has

more enagtiuned IHxi or isipurirti qualifications of ban subjects for

pirli3mcntary xovemsnent which nethert y nor any Orientate

on trned ps todtenttec that be te onceau in a particularly tight place that

11 crisisre zerkws than any with which be hasn creed upon to Mal ta thirty years

rl that be wishes to pmpirliH at anyrit for a tone pubic both

own and awardTit crisis ta qmslteti te of a varied

haracter and aceordtas to those whoin a position to know may culminate

t any moment te one of those palacei which have marked the duef tse reign of weOmgh every Turktoa-

txrv of the present Ottoman dynasty teby Othman nearly twoscore Su-

lrs have occupied the throne duringtoo yon and not more than four

f them are on record as hawing died atral death an the others hawing

d or stabbed or polnonadp dramas are usually bi ought about

r ugh overthrow of tame tavorttev h realizing that ta the Orient death

iwg quickly on dlsgrate te driven byration to murder and bloodshed ta-

t hope of savtas himself and hisfriends-ml f winning the good win of tbe sewdean who owes to bbs his accession

j r is nott tii e-

i and Prance to oomph the tnaacuran of long promised reforms ta the

irinLstmtion of that province whichj r sj greatly perturbed Abduln

Hamed-n the last few weeks DUfeiemes ofkind with one or sore foreign pow-

s K v pmt and imicul of the deityI of his long

i not disturb him for keenlyt tbe jealousies and rivalries

the various foreign powers he-

kvws that ho canr up Bgalnat another

nt be can rely uponof the Ifstoir and postiibrjr too of

and Italy ta rostetteg the pres-s r of Eudand Bunsla and Prance

jt Macedonia

far has concern te first

loyalty to which he hadranch be retted Mm y but above alldiscovery of treaaon within the walk

th VUdia Kiosk It te stated that-t sumamed El Arab by reaof his Syrian parentage and who

of the Turktah envoy to the Unitedtfs for yeas boas the aBnower-uvcrtte of tile taD and Idsr andhigh estate and te deep daceultan of Intrigues to prevent the cn of bIn cherished plan to instifitoson Prince as his

sorirnWne is now twentytiiroe

rs f j f M snilor by andnosi gifted good looking and kned

i the Sultans thirteen childreneit tip very carefully by the very

French and English tutors

le t fill tile members of the

1 IllBal-

Jt must

by which be Is

Tll since tile fouada

er-a the

tilemade by Re

always play oQ onethat just at

l the moral buck

P true11 the fill

heatmost

w ia aJIIwed to the

d-n reed

oweany l

eoatyeked In-

pixie In-

s dose non

who has reigned

trouble In Maoedods norEngland

beepar

be-e en

t andr sg

aoaourevolt irk MbeaLas apea-

w h v ed

7zr Pasha

astute advfeer ha taDen true

nrt direonry by

BurhanE dine

profs noL

r than

obtainable tberooghrjr uptodate aadmodern ta bh and of sehaorly andmanly appearance be has traveled ex

the guest at Potsdam of tIN Kaiser withsum he te on terms of warm

friendship and presents the most strik-ing contrast to his nasliii each andbroths

Two years ago the Sultan conferredupon BurbanEddtee wba to nut theeldest but tile fourth of bh sons tbtitle of nahtoa TIle latter may be renderIn English aa coadjutor aspoetauor viceroy and tt te a fact that thmonarch ran true that date forth asoo-ctetod this particular son of Ids ta manyacts of hte verebjnty It te noteworthythat ta tha very rare instances In Turkishhistory of the title having Wen bestowedby Sultans upon favored rela-tives tt has been regarded as an Indiestion of the desire of the sovereign thattbe suceessloa to his throne should bevested In the prince ta onesUen insteadof the legitimate heir apparent and thenahlm has ta start Uses become Sultan

regutetteg the

vide that the throne at the death of aSultan shall paw tile oldest of the

fad of tIMer betas Ids sona brothers or

The senior of them aU Is R cnad broth-er of the

by his elder brother Ifurad whilethe latter followed his uncle the infatedAbdul Awls who had several sons Theeldest of them Prince Ineddine followsnext after Rechad Effendl aa second tathe One of succession to the throne Af-

ter that meow the present Sultans young-er brothers Suleiman and VanMBOdfesad the late Sultan lures only sonPrince SalahEddtoe the Sultan AbdulAsstzs younger ton Abdul X dJI andtin only the present Sultans eldest sonPrince SeUm Prince BorhanKddme tetileand hb proclamation as erownprtnoewould mean the exchtston of no less thanthirteen older princes of the imperialdynasty each of whom have their friendsand adherents whose dependupon the maintenance of their rights

Empoioi WtKnua te understood to barthe Sultan te bas

tad te said to have made known ta tile

In Ee Melt

In deIIIuIce fill statutesorder of AudItJoD X law

toof the IIIood In MIl atelwe of the

present Sultan who WU

fourteenth la tile pine of

warmlytutwg Ids we t

or Ida

figsteasuly b s ttegeestly

sit a ley

Dymdc sad pro

palaces

even moire

pre-ceded

succession

fortunes

ecwagdBarba1ldiwe as aver

sentiments

about the matter The Sultan too lastyear sent HakU one ef his most trusted

coarte and governments about the matterand te stated to have brought back anassurance that BO objection will be ottered from abroad to tile change ta the

M rffim n L Ml AwimmK 0 wsa HH-Uturbances of a stun to Indict injuryspun f iiibjn bah property and InterestsFor all things eensMered tbe powerswould prefer to have on the Ottoman

than a prince such M rhnd the testtl

Per tile pmt thirty year eversince Ida elder brother the present Sal

latent andstate condemned to aa existence ofpteto toobttoa te the pnhtce of Dobnn-Basjtcne surrounded by spies and byguards TIle uoustautnn te that no

to vast Ysm4LoadoD Puts St

for tile of tile

order of k call

clever JDDderD and uptodateprince who

to mot of the rulers fit Europe racier

te her fill

nothing known

came to tile throne boa beea to-

aD IIQI1Mteea r

and catideatiul ageutaRome aai Petewsberg

purpeee sunmging dRereet

sauce a lwovidlK tosired

two ayoung is known peraeaiy

app lent wham pradkalywhatsoever In

tan lra prisoner

dares to boW any intercourse with him

mender of the Faithful who to render

ptete and to incubate Ida deafens ofexcluding ban frees the iimr union bas

be fa Imbued with tbe evil eye

Aluminas to some the prince to a mostaccording to

Net evenilteli mull who have lived longes-

tat CaasUiittiiopit can speak wtth anyauthority on-

set eyes ea trtei while even loving In

butted by armed scnlmti The YoungTurks dam that both Rechad and hiseoosta Izzedume that te toy the twoarises of tile Hens of Othman who arenext ta the of saeeeasion havepledged IIKIIIS I IB to apply and maininfo tile coasdtanoa of VX In the eventof then becoming Sultan But the lead rsof tbe mevemmt have sever been able tofuratoh any proof of tile truth of this as-sertion and ta view of tile uncertaintywhich prevails with reward to the

ef tile two tile powers bolathat h would be miser from a foreignpoint of view to eneearage and fosterthe pin i mkm of BurbanEddioe who isdevoid of moatlctem rather than that ofRechad who might for an we know turn-out to be an Oriental cf such reactionary

Sultan would appear a benevolent demo-cratic and broadminded ruler

To what extent tbe Kaiser te reeeoasibtefor the Sottans revival of tbe eonstttutioa of MW te a matter of speculationBut tt te worthy of note that it has fol-

lowed immediately upon the visit of Genvon Gottz to Oiuersntteople Gen vonGottz te one of the west brilliant officersof tbe German army holds a particu-larly high place ta tbe regard of the Kai-ser and constitutes one of the strongestflub between tile utter and the Sultanwhose army he has entirely reorganisedIn fact if tbe Turks made so brilliant a-

shewing against tile Greeks twelve Tearsago tt was entirely owing to von GoltzVon Gottz during his recent stay at Starnboul was the guest of the Sultan bywhom he was overwhelmed with tokensof favor aad friendship and tt is saidthat kIn trip to the Besphorus was forthe purpose of arranging for the Inclu-

of the Ottoman empire into thetriple alliance This would vastlystrengthen the tatter aggregation and theproclamation of the constitution win gofar toward setting at rest the oppositionwhich might otberwtee be aroused in theLiberal circles of Germany andItaly to any offensive sod defensive alli-ance with an Orinasal despot such as theSultan Certnta k te that the relationsbetween Berlin and Constantinople arecloser today than ever before and onlya few days age news was received fromPekte to the flout that the Germanenvoy there bud Informed the Tsnngli

that aM Turkish subjects in Chinawho have true tsme immemorial beenunder the preteollsp of the French legation are from teas on transferred bythe wish of ta Sultan to that of theGerman essbasoy which te henceforthentreated wtth representation of thediplomatic nth eeneubr Interests of thesublime te the Celestial empire

The condastaa sad proclamation of anoffensive and defensive alliance betweenGermany and Turkey similar to thatwhich exists between Great Britain and

I Japan would to fraught with such farreaching cansesjuences especially ta

to Me nEed on the Moslem subjects

any forecast oo the subject must pointtoward that Vur which last week was de-clared to near future by no leasan expert International affairs thaw

to incur the III will or the

tar wide report that

aWeethers a oldt

tile subject aid

the vicinity pules is strictly pro

princes

Ideas that to him the present

Austria

of Britt and that

tearing cow

mrnasio d the p rIcE mero con

opted and a

eCttbred and tangieay fanatic

have never

char-acter

comped

re-gard

Iareaeh Russian rape

beam the

Caner No wonder that Englishc fen heavny and that the decline

to foreign routes on alt Ute Coni bourses which may be described

the barometers of international pollties For Lord Cromer wbo has twicerefused the offer of the secretaryship ofstate for foreign and who high tathe esearito of the present government

figuring on the foreign omee list expticttly stated te the House of Lords thatbe spoke with authority with sources of

Mi HI tnformatloB at bin disposal whichwere not within tbe reach of Ms feUew

government taken nayimpressive warning

Klouristn or a mat i Coajiig

ORGANIZED LABOR

The Attitude of Gompcra and theCandidates

matter of coauoen-

eatttled Even 3r Bryan te now

weH have been omttted Better rafact Par letter

We Shan not be surprised If K te ad-

mitted presently that the seeeseioB ofGompers and his crew to as great a pteee

of luck as could wen have befallen theRepublican ticket

ence te the campand tt Is extremely awkward It has ted

There to an Inherent c-

AH conservative workmgmen have hold tothat bettet and have always heretoforenauntaiaed their poWteal ludout nnrnor

Only a few weeks ago they were aM

pIed to Xr Roosevelt According toConvert the son rose and set ta MrRoosevelt Now without any adequate ortateOlglMe explanation they are aU

seaswie workmenfortobly curler about thethe rebitlv merits of the rival claimantsfor then favor And about the nature oftile consideration

For our port we are more convincedthat Mr Taft wm get the

The natural and human tadtaaUon oftabor to to vote for an hoaest man There-to nothing ta nay part of Xr Taftscareer that does not stamp him a a

of the font Integrity He has never

warrant labor te questioning his sincerityanise tt be that be recently Joined a

unholy insistence of precedent Xooieose-

ubflu as tile aebtemin at sea remarkedwhen be bod to took over the rail

nIextended

affairs

peera Nor has thedisavow tilts

to be athat H Taft will get

or to which lie Is

that the iletitloun whiskto at Denver junk

He Is arndy sortto Bryan JItIIhas too be

to fill theof labor toWard the It hasforced labor to M thas

Into polities for poiIIUca salleb In

labor twt tt ought to keep out of pottttca

that they are for Bryan Itr f boat

thangreat bulk of the labor rota

rued act In hl life tIIIJt would

That Iw proIIaIIIy W nothelp It tee lkely that 1dII litter

IJftftIW I8t by

steps toIBM

Prn ale ev Tat 8a-It aeeOE

conviction Wflllwvery vots normally

awareconceeism wer

mad Gompers might

aow enbarraeaaeut pee

expi inet

rttpiaaat ddpfoDesac acy

recognisettprecipitated

formed makesand entm

seerLK Igent

kbor talel ostyJedgmeut was Rome

BSYAN AGAINST PUBLICITY

Obligation of Secrecy When FiftyThansand Dollar Was Involved

r OB IfOrt W MT

Bryan is for pnbUdty sad agatest acceptteg more than Ma39 for his amputea fund from any todfrWuat butBryan was not for when bewith Mrs Bryans ainlHiiiri as histypewriter drew tile wm of the late P

Bennett rocorporattas te It a secretletter by which CM was gives ta trust

Mrs Bennett to be paid to Mr Bryanbill helm This secret letter contained

tile statement 1 have sent a doplfcaM of

sire that one excepting you and Mr

a sealed envelope and direct that It shall

atone TWs t of lfvau vy 3 rto Xr Bryan who was not a rela-

tive and hardly more than an acquaint-ance was provided for by a secret letterwhich Mr Bryan knew all about andwhich only came to light when Widow

pubHdty

ktter Mr BryatJ and itact

Bryan un All tills letterI will puce letter

only lie peed by and by

Beett went to tileof urine part of her

to alrngr Xrhas lOt been so for

pub lefty

tide to In my dohimself know

d bequest thIn in

you red youBar-

court 1 metes pay-ment a hebaudstate a crlradweBryan always eager

FIRST CITY LEDGER

Book 217 Years 014 Keptin New York

INITIAL BUDGET BELOW 1000

It Beached the EnormousSam of 15OOOOOOO Old VolumeWell Preserved and Ink Bntrimlade in JOO1 Are Plainly LeKlMr-

IIlHtorr of the Period

Safety treasured ta tile vaults of thedepartment Is a book of rare

maws the eztetenee of which Is knownto few

teaactel records fromVMBaMT 17W

there was celebrated by a dtanermouths ago but there probably

others even ta tile cootraitors otBce who have

for away In the light proof vaultsfor nB these years It has unisnd ther va0es of tints nod has tilerecords of the early days of tile munid-palUy Much better tban many recordbooks ef half a century ago have pre-

served theirsThe finance department happily has

meet of ice eM record for tileparted sbaee but none possesses theInterest or ef ibis first edKieaThey an te a storeroom which te not

Probably many an antiquary or MMtopMIe-

wwuH several thousandown ibis volume but Its value cannot

First Budget Than lfMWTbe first account dated MR aid cover

throe BbaneTsr Willow the master oot-

Wfed Think of Itby the saunidpaUty which

callingr M l57T t n In

I these days evidently they were nottroubled as we ate now by any thought

Jill the New York Tribune Itdrat ledge if Ute of

the city York tileMay to No

TIllS book Is Ute of JI JStern chief bark of the depart

of Iffy of MfTlee

net a dON

S7 years oN uaook Is a good state of

lent Lodger 1 aYaIIIt that beta penaL

dsara to

I determued

wg above sea that that

leeted k and E112

X then ruZIn tea

just a feelbs In Uis

Soma line

Y eseporstisaof New and entalea

In custodydance

teat whose term gars

same are

noun t-Akheegh Interesting

hi pnserwtbatt cited

peso rsd

tievain

Leepros4 No repel Inii burglar and flee

moat show in

2 14 eapded era

has apuprnd budgetenpmiltue

of a debt limit as one of the auditsstows that the city owed tbe city treas-urer something 1

ThIs interacting book te twelve and onehalf inches lug and eight inches wide Itte bound in thick parchment which Isnow aged to a deep rich yellow splotch

On the treat cover printed ta Ink to theInscription

ISDOBKNO I

On the packsuch as are used on tile books of todayThey wore put en the btetottc rue te-

ta the admtatotratlon of ControllerTawes One ta green at the top read

May MPL to November fit Thencomes one ta red reading Ledger No Vand another te the sane color with the

York At the bottom to a Mack laWreading OBJca

Tbe book Is made up eC sheetof pure heavy linen paper such as nowsometimes b wed ta social correepond

ruled it fIlM with red and black lass to

pages Every page to Intactare badly jaUomd at the

the band ef TimeOwe of the most remarkable things

about this remarkable volume te the way

here there with a deeper

of oily 0

The paper pule thetie

soft Ida 1111 u-

be althoughedges

4 and aaapa

err Pacad printed label

wade Cap Uos the New

bum711 pages

aeon ise and bkkeeper probaby treaver hinddI s iuno and alto

soar by

In which the ink has steed the test of I

time There fe not aa entry that eanaet j

be reeL Some of tile Ink has faded CM-

slderably but away of tile entries stand-out as bold and dear as tile day theywere made The quality of tbe Ink gsto show that ta the making ef sometbtofg we have not unproved te thecourse of two coteries

In properly to appreciate therecords found ta the book k sight beto have a brief glfaasse at tile htotory oftbe potted When tile of NewNetbertande passed from control of theDutch and Into the bands of tile EngMabIn MM the population of the city of NewAmsterdam later New Yorkwas about UM souls In MK tile Dondinner which declared that the cityshould tits Island of Manhattanplaced the city government on a definitefooting tinder the charter tile governorof the province retained the power ofappointing the mayor treasurer recorder

coroner high constable and townThe mayor was ono of the three

members of the governors cabinetOrderly Uovornmept Orjcnnlxed-

la MO tile fort and the government wereseized by Jacob Leteler and two of thegovernors cabinet were throws Intoprison But Mayor Stephens Van Cortlaadt escaped to Albany The Lenderdemtaatton ended and its bead was exe-coud after the arrival of CoL HenryStaugbter Ute new governor of theprovince on January 9 MB

was ealabnshed and the prosperityof the city began It was not before

aoandal affaire of the dty weresvstematixed and records were begun asevidenced by tIN first ledger dating puck

This ledger covers the admtatetradon ofMayors John Lawrence AbrahamPeyzter WHtten Mount Jubaanes DePeyMer and David Provost The latterwas promoted from treasurer to mayorwhile Kbeneser WHteon who was treas-urer for meet of the period became mayorte 17W sad served for three years

BACK TO THE SOIL

Men Going Back from the City tothe Country

rmn PHtrnwit FMtwr

a marked exedwi of yonuri sun andfrom Ute country to tile city The ruralyouth

to turn ready mousy So the tamaOanaenU

a generous return to buooOic We Tbe

years te a city and has amspeteace Ands bfaaaatf yearnl

with coootry scenesexodus from tile farm began

When this

stench

That kthat as orderly system or

longthe

front May to that

tieAbout tweedy

a number yens there

found there becould tarn to In tile city that

forTIle has set 1D

who boa a or more ol4 a cowfor

orde-r

province

terhris eased

comprise

was govern-ment

jeers sr se ago andof following was

wee many tin ahis had

mountwas deserted metro

reaction and now there-Inma spent scor

com-munion

studentspolttlcoscoaomk subjects racked their

a logical deduction as to tileprobable result Tha ben brought tile so-lution The dies were ta the mawbonded y men wbe were born ta tbecountry who hues en the farm

tile cross roads grocery Toewsare the mea who are BO-

Ing buck to tile farm Net for the par

ef tile ctty Tbe electric railway thedevelopment and of tbe telpbeoe serriec the rural free deliveryand ether things that have eonventeoced-ttvtog away true th basin iare responsible The return of theman to tile country enhancedprice of tars property and material

With a amity of halfgrown childrento often dMbeatt to keep thewtthta reasonable nmtt We lilt uponpout of sending each dIM to took atmeter willie the M was burntegsteady tickticktick

then suds the Men that burnteg lineburning mosey and a decidedmeat has been shown

of faraalag but toa home from the din

tttythe

added to tk dc too tilesoil ta a old

The Terror ofrratiretile

TIlethe tI-

er-In part-icularlypose tbeudecs hereeosdky away andhrt

renters

lax tApdateg1 iogan

the MeterRm rr

its bill

asmored around dial hoprered ape

Isprew

S WITCGMB RILEY

i Tenderly today

wearinessScatter care

Downa wake of angelwings

release from pain

OverflowAnd with all the needy

O prayThis vast treasure content

That is mine today

I auwilt look on allI love

j t RING unto ther

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Blb ltas9Csawr

THE PUBLIC HEALTHPROGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE-

By FREDERIC J HASKIN

The meeting of the PAD American Med 1

teal Congress la Guatemala next 1

le another proof of the great nationaland tetaraattoaal Interest in the health j

of the wortfr people anther evidence ofthe progress of the worlds physicians IB

their boom work United Statesand the LattaAmeriea countries will lie

discuss new methods new ewes newdtecovertes Our own nallenat Interestta tbe matter of pubae health Is teereasfog marvetouety In tile Democratic

adopted at Denver there to a plankadvocating the organtoatioK of rational

Mean convention advocated similar tegte-

tettoa Public recognition though tardyat bas been accorded the victoryover yellow fever ta New Orleans andHavana sad over the bubonic plague inSea Fraaetoto and Manila Public senti-ment has called for a sweeping pure foodcampaign for a war on mosquitoes

rats as ahwunlnnlej ef dteeeee andfor a crusade against tnbercu-TeteWhere the beginning of Ute nineteenth

century taw hrtplen patients physickedblistered and Wed and deprived of airand water ta an exert to eradicate dimuse the Irastaatag of the twentieth seesa rational awakening of tile dvuTzedworld Doors and windows are opened

these te a rushback to mother nature for her simplesti m Mites and the slogan of todayslIMn worker to air pure foodpore water and cleannaess Healers

have worked on the hypothesis thatwas normal that health only an

abnormal and acouir thing Today UteMima and true conception to the hulaon which pnjratctens work

Nothing bas bean times remarkable thanthe program of medhlue te recent yearsThe bacteriotegical laboratory has be-

come part of the of the modern

tfcm and cotsMtebas new theories Thedtecortry of the germ and its itsponel

bas revotettonbed medical practiceand saved milieu of lives The worldhas grown none rapidly te population tathe pest years than ta any other timewith which statistics deal Medical Mi

pet more than onefourth of theworlds population dud before reaching

childhood of danger from car

year It Is estimated that today

the world Hvo to be sixteen wherecentury or M ago only per coonthat age There are sow approximately2 W tt more births than deaths everyyear and willie in some locating racesuicide may be towering the annual

this is ontdtetanced

and leaders of tIN variousbranches of Ute medical will

of public and Ute Repub

worldwide

aD tile wtIIda of

of teas than a century ap are said

where be himself Inthe pr1nc of and ptrven

WCty meet of the aIIawtIt of

Is for this

Ute of tx years Medlar science ill

lain dIaeues mtatioss Ue now savedeverylit isM per oeat of bone Into

at every

Wednes-day

spre ededprofession

barons health

fliessad

heaven

Pre it

officephysician grounds

mla contagion

far man-kind

ace hegey repeoMble In-

agerobhisit

N childrena

A reacted

birth-rate

point by the redactions in the death ratethat medical ran have made passible

Of more importance than the direct ap-plication of mailed science to sufferingbnmanlty te thatlive medteine Since the discovery of the I

principle of vaccinationI the timehonored proverb that an

re Sometime they figurattvelrhad to fight fire with as tot prevent-ing smallpox More often they have hadto fight i1 na i with rleantlnssf Butwhatever the method they have gone for-ward forcing hack dtetojB tech by inchontfl this tuulnnliiL of the twentieth cen-tury marks a notable era te the pannehealth

The SpanishAmerican war brought theiMBlniiliU of correct naiiMniy prmcipleeThis nation thou a moot humaisting lesson bat H was a lesson by whichan the world has profited In that warthe American army sliced fourteendeaths from disease to every MM deathfrom wounds During the RaseoJapa

war Japan lest on man train disto four f

sriene of measures alreadyadvanced Of 5L e W spent te peasloBSevery year the ratted States governmentcould bur saved half bad prevention ofdisease been practiced

Yellow I ha been robbed of Itsterrors by the work of HaJ Rood and Idsassociates But for such work which hasmade a summer resort of the Canal Zoneonce a pest bole the Panama Canal couldnot have been buflt without the sacrifice

have been built at an Typhoid fiver pasbeen traced to Its fourot Evidence showsthat it te spread by roes water and milkA prominent American physician feltJustified in saying not long ago that aman who takes typhoid In an Americancity nowadays has as good a case fordamages against that city for eiiminalcarelessness as the man who injures himself by falling into an unguarded excava-tion What te true of typhoid is tree ofscarlet fever of diphtheria of twbercv-losfe and other enemies of life

tutu recent yeas the victim of con-sumption was regarded as a manand was usually shut ta an airtightroom to await the end In that timemedical science has butts It dis-covered the communfc ableueas andventabOtty of the disease persuadedmankind to call R tuberculosis setabout educating the layman ta the matter and Instituted s sweeping crusadeThat crusade has born Last yearalone there were thirteen congresseshaving courses of instruction on tuber-culosis with 5M people ta attendancewhite a number of States and anmteipal-ities aroused public sentiment and legis-lated against the MMe The death ratefrom tbe white plague has been per-ceptibly cut down aad the whole

of affairs a conquest of Utedisease te tIN near future

So K te with cancer Dr Wallace KBrown dales that the ef eecharetlnin cancerous troubles te a radical cure ifapplied early onough He has cenoneredIt also with Potassium hydrate and zincchloride The latest discovery ta themedical world that promises to be ofvalue to humanity to Ute nadmg of thegerm of paresis Dr John D OBrtepof tbe MassiMon Ohio State Haspttalclaims to hard found It and offers scien-tific proofs of his theories

Another valuable discovery yet to bearfruit Is that of Dr Jutted the

eminent French physician of the pastgeneration 1

circulation by the we of vacuumcups and receivers lite work was sosuccessful that the French governmentcommissioned him to carry It furtherIn France and Germany Me method washalted with wide aodafm and bas beenput to great ute Last year a member ofthe University of Bonn traveled aM theway to Washington to tell a tuberculosiscongress of the successful application ofthis treatment In teboreutoals of theJoints It has also been usedin loeotnotor ataxia and paralysis

for many long hopeless centuries was deemed Incurable The oldLeviticAl code decreed that the unfortunate sufferers be stoned from the clues

great bow oC peeves

Medical menbeen how to put m pract-

iceor JlftDtiOII l worth a proud

learned

tar IIaIII tile

of thousands of or perhaps never

as-pect

evolved a system ot

Leprosy

Inve learning

ounce d-en have

noeaee woundson

preventive

doomed

promises

en-forced

sues esfully

aad be forced to live teUnited States is seeing things dtSorentlythough only three years ago it sufferedthe persecution of a leper through twoof its Commcnweatths until death re

him It now promulgates the the

TIle United States PublIcand Marine Hospital Service hasbuilt and equipped an experiment stationat tile Hawaiian leper settlement on the

brought to bear on every case Louisianahas gone farther Through Dr Isidore-D Dyer a physician ta charge of the

hone for lepers lavabeen MccoGafnUy treated and sent outInto the world agate praaoMCMl eared

f ujd some of itsrichest trophies t Jx the feet of suf-fering huamnitr It has made possible

Ions thatotherwise ncn have been accompJtebed The or at decade has givestbe world important discoveriesalong this IT To ted something that

without ai etteg the Marthas been a hard It has recentlybeen found that Ute system can be elec-trically shocked into a proCoMd sleep by

sort of contacts with the bodrof the pa

It enabled scientific

Humanity owes one of its greatest debto vivisection It lam proved one of the

cien eto teachtereatigatlon

and Its cause men haveOf OT1-

9s of peopte the world aa aseoctetion of antt-secdonteta wbo have dMteeatbr soughthave Congress par a nattetnlsectJon bin They would save a few

and guinea pigs at theee prooaMy MoM human lives

hoid bills paidand luij notat aU when one omen downfads there are lawyers ta the rnlftfStates by the who make a hamillion dollars a your out of their prnfes

Is scarcely a pbysicaathe ira

the United States

sot of It then thelives

who protects

settflafrincms plagoeouelltog pnysteu-

f Tbf Public HealthII Industrial

leasedory that there kw little danger

feat a

of where win he

State N5

Jt Is in the realm of dMtImIIdeaee

teC lifesaving

would the patient Ineenfbie to

thethat are In electrOC-

1dIIa tI sleep caaat a thaw

greatest J to modern mediaconclusions tMIr

ft the hindsof tile deterseied

Meet people kick at their bitsthey are the Mt of thepaid

Ilea while therewho has an of Rjrity having a few atany dry InIt will that the mansects tile property of his cIIeats In8

thela tile bal lip of the hagWs affairs it a roll eaiI rIt Jp sate to that more trailbe drawn from the make r the

than from any other class of people ForIIC such au made

Cerdt no Z

from tiedisease

recently

hued Ms101tai sdesee

sixteen

thatnut bas

thoasadscool

make Itsndeleteriously

assesneed

and be wawtahe t formany hours

his seen im-portant to

dleese Thesemet stern opposition

antirab-bits expense

doctorSometimes hcup

In oxte t65thossaiuts motlake albe found who pr

getsmanautntging

heroes ie-made avertquiet

are heroesb Avaede llsiinl

hygiene

Allelectric Railroads

trietty OB errof eee

extentdoubtless

defects develop that most be correct-ed to the interests of both safety ardeconomy but tbwe ft not likely to be a ybackward step ta the application of thisforce TIle movement Is entirety forward

transportation years ago SenatorDepew at a gathering of railroadsaid that ta ten years there would not

loeomoUv east of the Mississippithe scrap heap Doubtless there

must be a few years of grace allowed fortile fnUHImont of tier prophecy but there

east of the Father of Waters Probablyfew people understand that through the

steam locomotive has been prartloa-eltartnated A Brooklyn authority says

cenavr steam locomotive te a forsottea

freight trains by electricity Tbe same

Grand Central Station Every ranreiwith a New York terminal Is preparingfor electrification even whore tt has notyet been Installed If there are daaito be guarded against there are

applied The Interstate Commerce Commission to about to begin a vigorous cam-paign to make travel safer and to thisend whir make a series of thorough tr 3and xperiments to dtmost practical merit lies In the vardesigns It will begin wtth a safetrstsystem already ta UK on tile ChicaiBurlington and Qotecy The governingprinciple ta electricity and its purposeto stop both engines when approachingeach other at the same time signallyboth the engine ad the i

tile block signal stations

Ills Defense

How sweet to tbe innocence of

wese invited to tea by Mrs Brinks

Jones wandered about the twoyardsqaare gardon and the weedsPresently the abMncs of her cherish

tmant reappeared conttutuMj munching

sub of cake In her relief as Is

Thomas she saM Tm afraid youvebeen greedy and naked kind Mrs Brinksfor that cake

mother he repliedwouldnt be so rude I waited til sheturned her back then I snatched a piece

She Knew the Placetk ftMnainn

The elderly matron with the bundles

csnsta and occupied a sent tsar thef the car had asleep On the

seat ta of her sat a tttlle boy Thebrakeman opened the door of the car andcalled out Ute name of the station thetraia was approaching The elderly wom-an roused herself with a Jerk

Where are we Bobby she askedI deat know grandma answered the

Didnt the brakemen say somethingJust now

No lie test stuck Mg bend Inside thedoer and sneezed

Help wick these TMas Bobbyshe zcmiHKd nurrkdlr Tm is Gelbosh Its where w get as

Xot at AllIron life

John and Mary had been sharing onechair alt the evening John at to therhahr and Mary sat en John

After about three bouts eC this Marysuddenly exclaimed

Oh John arent youJohn untied a brave patient emitsSot he said gently No not

now I was about an hour ago but towIm only paralyzed

PusThe general

toSa the

It heralds tile of a newer day forSeven

b-aasoutside

ue ill plenty that soerbe reeIbetI west as well ss

large perils of Greeter New York

that steam Of the whistle of alit that steps are belag taken an Long JIIIaDd to

istrue of Manhattan where the last steam

raa in and out of

safety to which tile force Is

enters

ed hUt

While the r I prepared lira

sledalarmed her but shortly the

aMrs TeRee began to

oIL no 7

Prewile too a plat In Wts

mid-dle fallen

little lay

the Bose 1Yascrlatmore appiogse

raglrads i noneezsalmewd stage

signs err Inter it-wtn probably

the pn

sound borough andover move

lxomethe recently tia

altodevices heir g

whore I em

aanmeachild-

hoodTumy Jean sere and moth-

hugemeal tapbraId theLei

was journeying

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