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THE WASHINGTON HERALD SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1903 7 i TEMPERED BY GALLOWSTU- RKISH AND OTHER ORIENTAL IDEAS OF PARLIAMENTARY FORMS OF GOVERNMENT F ny BXATTACIIB- Russias ff sovemment used to be by the Poet Swinburne 1 spotism tempered by In the same way surname n th Orient any bo dated mixracy leagued by tha gallows We av recently had a striking ilrastratVm- is the newly lVd the palace ta which ft held Its sirens looted and destroyed the booses the members of the opuoampn and ntir hanged the latter after submiUtaK- iom to those friewtful tortuna which nly Asiatic toaemUty can invent Hay rs accomplished thIn the Sleek has to wii call a new Parliament together te months and concludes tbe edict the words We trust that our faithful subjects will show more Judg- ment in choosmg then itpuntintathti ta future The Shah can lay no tuba originality ii thus cruahtey tasjhuntiv a opposition which in tha tout Is construed aa re i II ing against the drone and te the isit of ueason It bas always item us and there may be acme of city rend IBM myself were ta Egypt tVrfy years ago and some and who call in thte IsmaJL When the newly chosen i utc assembled the mtaistrr of the riur attempted to give then rAnh notions of parttamentary duties rrl and escptained the they ld he expected frankly to approve or prove of the measures that should i id before them With that view bo- vi ed such of rbem as disposed to criielse the amaiiiismit programme to r rt themselves on one side of the amber while those who were prepared give their ten confidence in advance ro Hd sit opposite Vied forbid t general IIHSIMIII that any one of us iould think of ouesttontas anything that t Effcndina the Khedive proposed end thev an to the Brinte- rial side leavla tile opposition repre eJ by empty taste In a which no per ruaslon In the occupy Just before Christmas ta MX Abdul Hamii who only tour had been raised to the Ottoman throne i the place of his ultralmeral brother Lured granted a mnstltution to the Turkish people mdudtog freedom of tile j ress and of education equal taxation removable Judges and a and war chamber both elected Toe Object which he had ta view was to avert the with which tile rratond both from within and from and which cahntaated ahartty- tfrward ta the war with Russia But nnn as the Sultan reaBaed that the- n session had failed to accomplish ht- eyt he took steps to v n the eoaatttntioa and maided- gn punishment on rhsse who had tie1 him to panting MMhat Pasha i particular one of the moat progress rentI statesmen f tile nineteenth es- nfr being not only diaaxaced and I- mrd but fikewnie banished to Bas f and clubbed to death with the f the rifles of his guards before- a hing his destination on the pretext was ptotttng to escape from tier tan ta17 as t at TeIIeI the Shab hrU- ir and tit defer to n a to the Feet that s who tIca the whlcla took wIleD the And ntim It i trend cold them oJ au being It J i t I rrl scribed a amasdnatln artbds f reef where fInd evratei sat teoabie- S uawW bra clews sued prodamstisx be three with ammsInm- e a de puce Parflatet was summoned y- j Jive gene org nkataon were i was sled Indiee moths pweviousdy ate eia sen1111ae pate was ptrenxt c ar v bu- ttes r ¬ > < > > < > > v n in Hnssta which though In many r pets Asiatic claims to betoog to Eu we find opposition of the tint Dooms taclndtas its president stffl hmgutehtas ta Jail ot as criminals but as political ottend 1 ndor the tile news ilea Constantinople to the sMsrt that the n has granted anew the constitution which had earn now a 1 letter win have bena leadved by thoughtful students of Oriental af- fairs with considerable itnuvc It den- t mean that Abdul Hamid has more enagtiuned IHxi or isipurirt i qualifications of ban subjects for pirli3mcntary xovemsnent which nether t y nor any Orientate on trned ps todtenttec that be te once au in a particularly tight place that 11 crisis re zerkws than any with which be has n creed upon to Mal ta thirty years rl that be wishes to pmpirliH at any rit for a tone pubic both own and award Tit crisis ta qmslteti te of a varied haracter and aceordtas to those who in a position to know may culminate t any moment te one of those palace i which have marked the due f tse reign of weOmgh every Turktoa- txrv of the present Ottoman dynasty te by Othman nearly twoscore Su- lrs have occupied the throne during too yon and not more than four f them are on record as hawing died a tral death an the others hawing d or stabbed or polnonad p dramas are usually bi ought about r ugh overthrow of tame tavortte v h realizing that ta the Orient death iwg quickly on dlsgrate te driven by ration to murder and bloodshed ta- t hope of savtas himself and hisfriends- ml f winning the good win of tbe sew dean who owes to bbs his accession j r is not t tii e- i and Prance to oomph the tnaacura n of long promised reforms ta the irinLstmtion of that province which j r sj greatly perturbed Abdul n Hamed- n the last few weeks DUfeiemes of kind with one or sore foreign pow- s K v pmt and imicul of the deity I of his long i not disturb him for keenly t tbe jealousies and rivalries the various foreign powers he- kvws that ho can r up Bgalnat another nt be can rely upon of 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 had ranch be retted Mm y but above all discovery of treaaon within the walk th VUdia Kiosk It te stated that- t sumamed El Arab by rea of his Syrian parentage and who of the Turktah envoy to the United tfs for yeas boas the aBnower- uvcrtte of tile taD and Ids r and high estate and te deep dace ultan of Intrigues to prevent the c n of bIn cherished plan to instifito son Prince as his sor irnWne is now twentytiiroe rs f j f M snilor by and nosi gifted good looking and kned i the Sultans thirteen children eit tip very carefully by the very French and English tutors le t fill tile members of the r 1 Ill Bal- L bh Jt must by which be Is fir Niles Tll since tile fouada s er- a the 0 tile made by Re q re- do always play oQ one that just at l the moral buck A P true 11 the fill rUt r r heat most t w ia aJIIwed to the s S scea d- n reed owe any l tic paea eoatyeked In- t i pixie In- s dose non who has reigned boa- t trouble In Maoedods nor England the beep ar be- e en t and r s g via ih e aoaou revolt irk MbeaLas apea- wh v ed 7zr Pasha t S i astute advfeer ha taDen true nrt direonry by BurhanE dine profs no L r than > < < < ° obtainable tberooghrjr uptodate aad modern ta bh and of sehaorly and manly appearance be has traveled ex the guest at Potsdam of tIN Kaiser with sum he te on terms of warm friendship and presents the most strik- ing contrast to his nasliii each and broths Two years ago the Sultan conferred upon BurbanEddtee wba to nut the eldest but tile fourth of bh sons tb title of nahtoa TIle latter may be render In English aa coadjutor aspoetau or viceroy and tt te a fact that th monarch ran true that date forth asoo- ctetod this particular son of Ids ta many acts of hte verebjnty It te noteworthy that ta tha very rare instances In Turkish history of the title having Wen bestowed by Sultans upon favored rela- tives tt has been regarded as an Indies tion of the desire of the sovereign that tbe suceessloa to his throne should be vested In the prince ta onesUen instead of the legitimate heir apparent and the nahlm has ta start Uses become Sultan regutetteg the vide that the throne at the death of a Sultan 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 If urad while the latter followed his uncle the infated Abdul Awls who had several sons The eldest of them Prince Ineddine follows next after Rechad Effendl aa second ta the One of succession to the throne Af- ter that meow the present Sultans young- er brothers Suleiman and VanMBOdfe sad the late Sultan lures only son Prince SalahEddtoe the Sultan Abdul Asstzs younger ton Abdul X dJI and tin only the present Sultans eldest son Prince SeUm Prince BorhanKddme te tile and hb proclamation as erownprtnoe would mean the exchtston of no less than thirteen older princes of the imperial dynasty each of whom have their friends and adherents whose depend upon the maintenance of their rights Empoioi WtKnua te understood to bar the Sultan te bas tad te said to have made known ta tile In Ee Melt In deIIIuIce fill statutes order of AudItJoD X law to of the IIIood In MIl atelwe of the present Sultan who WU fourteenth la tile pine of warmly tutwg Ids we t or Ida figs teasuly b s ttegeestly whoa sit a ley the Dymdc sad pro palaces even moire pre- ceded succession fortunes e ecwagd Barba1ldiwe as aver sentiments ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ about the matter The Sultan too last year sent HakU one ef his most trusted coarte and governments about the matter and te stated to have brought back an assurance that BO objection will be otter ed from abroad to tile change ta the M rffim n L Ml A wimmK 0 wsa HH- Uturbances of a stun to Indict injury spun f iiibjn bah property and Interests For all things eensMered tbe powers would prefer to have on the Ottoman than a prince such M rhnd the testtl Per tile pmt thirty year ever since Ida elder brother the present Sal latent and state condemned to aa existence of pteto toobttoa te the pnhtce of Dobnn- Basjtcne surrounded by spies and by guards TIle uoustautnn te that no to vast Ysm4 LoadoD Puts St for tile of tile order of k call clever JDDderD and uptodate prince 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 ageuta Rome aai Petewsberg purpeee sunmging dRereet sauce a lwovidlK to sired two a young is known peraeaiy app lent wham pradkaly whatsoever In wised tan lr a prisoner one ¬ > dares to boW any intercourse with him mender of the Faithful who to render ptete and to incubate Ida deafens of excluding ban frees the iimr union bas be fa Imbued with tbe evil eye Aluminas to some the prince to a most according to Net even ilteli mull who have lived longes- tat CaasUiittiiopit can speak wtth any authority on- set eyes ea trtei while even loving In butted by armed scnlmti The Young Turks dam that both Rechad and his eoosta Izzedume that te toy the two arises of tile Hens of Othman who are next ta the of saeeeasion have pledged IIKIIIS I IB to apply and main info tile coasdtanoa of VX In the event of then becoming Sultan But the lead rs of tbe mevemmt have sever been able to furatoh any proof of tile truth of this as- sertion and ta view of tile uncertainty which prevails with reward to the ef tile two tile powers bola that h would be miser from a foreign point of view to eneearage and foster the pin i mkm of BurbanEddioe who is devoid of moatlctem rather than that of Rechad 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 reeeoasibte for the Sottans revival of tbe eonstttu tioa of MW te a matter of speculation But tt te worthy of note that it has fol- lowed immediately upon the visit of Gen von Gottz to Oiuersntteople Gen von Gottz te one of the west brilliant officers of tbe German army holds a particu- larly high place ta tbe regard of the Kai- ser and constitutes one of the strongest flub between tile utter and the Sultan whose army he has entirely reorganised In fact if tbe Turks made so brilliant a- shewing against tile Greeks twelve Tears ago tt was entirely owing to von Goltz Von Gottz during his recent stay at Starn boul was the guest of the Sultan by whom he was overwhelmed with tokens of favor aad friendship and tt is said that kIn trip to the Besphorus was for the purpose of arranging for the Inclu- of the Ottoman empire into the triple alliance This would vastly strengthen the tatter aggregation and the proclamation of the constitution win go far toward setting at rest the opposition which might otberwtee be aroused in the Liberal circles of Germany and Italy to any offensive sod defensive alli- ance with an Orinasal despot such as the Sultan Certnta k te that the relations between Berlin and Constantinople are closer today than ever before and only a few days age news was received from Pekte to the flout that the German envoy there bud Informed the Tsnngli that aM Turkish subjects in China who have true tsme immemorial been under the preteollsp of the French lega tion are from teas on transferred by the wish of ta Sultan to that of the German essbasoy which te henceforth entreated wtth representation of the diplomatic nth eeneubr Interests of the sublime te the Celestial empire The condastaa sad proclamation of an offensive and defensive alliance between Germany and Turkey similar to that which exists between Great Britain and I Japan would to fraught with such far reaching cansesjuences especially ta to Me nEed on the Moslem subjects any forecast oo the subject must point toward that Vur which last week was de- clared to near future by no leas an expert International affairs thaw 1 to incur the III will or the the tar wide report that aWe ethers a old t tile subject aid the vicinity pules is strictly pro line princes Ideas that to him the present don Austria the ports of Britt and that I I tearing cow mrnasio d the p rIcE mero con opted and a eCttbred and tan gieay fanatic have never f bIn char- acter comped S e Yemen re- gard Iareaeh Russian rape beam the ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ Caner No wonder that English c fen heavny and that the decline to foreign routes on alt Ute Con i bourses which may be described the barometers of international poll ties For Lord Cromer wbo has twice refused the offer of the secretaryship of state for foreign and who high ta the esearito of the present government figuring on the foreign omee list ex pticttly stated te the House of Lords that be spoke with authority with sources of Mi HI tnformatloB at bin disposal which were not within tbe reach of Ms feUew government taken nay impressive warning Klouristn or a mat i Coajiig ORGANIZED LABOR The Attitude of Gompcra and the Candidates matter of coauoen- eatttled Even 3r Bryan te now weH have been omttted Better ra fact Par letter We Shan not be surprised If K te ad- mitted presently that the seeeseioB of Gompers and his crew to as great a pteee of luck as could wen have befallen the Republican ticket ence te the camp and tt Is extremely awkward It has ted There to an Inherent c- AH conservative workmgmen have hold to that bettet and have always heretofore nauntaiaed their poWteal ludout nnrnor Only a few weeks ago they were aM pIed to Xr Roosevelt According to Convert the son rose and set ta Mr Roosevelt Now without any adequate or tateOlglMe explanation they are aU seaswie workmen fortobly curler about the the rebitlv merits of the rival claimants for then favor And about the nature of tile consideration For our port we are more convinced that Mr Taft wm get the The natural and human tadtaaUon of tabor to to vote for an hoaest man There- to nothing ta nay part of Xr Tafts career that does not stamp him a a of the font Integrity He has never warrant labor te questioning his sincerity anise tt be that be recently Joined a unholy insistence of precedent Xooieose- ubflu as tile aebtemin at sea remarked when be bod to took over the rail nI extended affairs sill peera Nor has the disavow tilts to be a that H Taft will get or to which lie Is that the iletitloun whisk to at Denver junk at He Is arndy sort to Bryan JItII has too be to fill the of labor toWard the It has forced labor to M thas Into polities for poiIIUca salle b In labor twt tt ought to keep out of pottttca that they are for Bryan It r f boat than great bulk of the labor rota rued act In hl life tIIIJt would That Iw proIIaIIIy W not help It tee lkely that 1dII litter IJftftIW I8t by as steps to IBM Prn ale ev Tat 8a- It aeeOE conviction Wflllw very vots normally aware conceeism wer mad Gompers might a ow enbarraeaaeut pee expi inet rttpiaaat ddpfo Desac acy recognisett precipitated In- formed makes and entm seer LK Igent man an kbor tale l osty Jedgmeut was Rome ¬ ° + BSYAN AGAINST PUBLICITY Obligation of Secrecy When Fifty Thansand Dollar Was Involved r OB IfOrt W MT Bryan is for pnbUdty sad agatest ac ceptteg more than Ma39 for his am putea fund from any todfrWuat but Bryan was not for when be with Mrs Bryans ainlHiiiri as his typewriter drew tile wm of the late P Bennett rocorporattas te It a secret letter by which CM was gives ta trust Mrs Bennett to be paid to Mr Bryan bill 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 r to Xr Bryan who was not a rela- tive and hardly more than an acquaint- ance was provided for by a secret letter which Mr Bryan knew all about and which only came to light when Widow pubHdty S to or ktter Mr BryatJ and it act Bryan un All tills letter I will puce letter only lie peed by and by Beett went to tile of urine part of her to alrngr Xr has lOt been so for pub lefty tide to In my do himself know d bequest thIn in you red you Bar- nett court 1 metes pay- ment a hebaud state a crlradwe Bryan always eager ¬ ¬ FIRST CITY LEDGER Book 217 Years 014 Kept in New York INITIAL BUDGET BELOW 1000 It Beached the Enormous Sam of 15OOOOOOO Old Volume Well Preserved and Ink Bntrim lade in JOO1 Are Plainly LeKlMr- IIlHtorr of the Period Safety treasured ta tile vaults of the department Is a book of rare maws the eztetenee of which Is known to few the teaactel records from VMBaMT 17W there was celebrated by a dtaner mouths ago but there probably others even ta tile coo traitors otBce who have for away In the light proof vaults for nB these years It has unisnd the r va0es of tints nod has tile records of the early days of tile munid- palUy Much better tban many record books ef half a century ago have pre- served theirs The finance department happily has meet of ice eM record for tile parted sbaee but none possesses the Interest or ef ibis first edKiea They an te a storeroom which te not Probably many an antiquary or MMtopMIe- wwuH several thousand own ibis volume but Its value cannot First Budget Than lfMW Tbe first account dated MR aid cover throe BbaneTsr Willow the master oot- Wfed Think of It by the saunidpaUty which calling r M l57T t n In I these days evidently they were not troubled as we ate now by any thought DOe Jill the New York Tribune It drat ledge if Ute of the city York tile May to No TIllS book Is Ute of JI J Stern chief bark of the depart of Iffy of MfT lee net a dON S7 years oN ua ook Is a good state of books lent Lodger 1 a YaIIIt that beta penaL dsara to I determued wg above sea that that leeted k and E112 X then ruZ In tea just a fee lbs In Uis Soma line Y eseporstisa of New and entalea wI In custody dance teat whose term gars same are noun t- Akheegh Interesting hi pnserwtba tt cited peso rsd tie vain Leepros4 No repel In ii burglar and flee give Less moat show in 2 14 eapded era 7lIll has apuprnd budget enpmiltue of a debt limit as one of the audits stows that the city owed tbe city treas- urer something 1 ThIs interacting book te twelve and one half inches lug and eight inches wide It te bound in thick parchment which Is now aged to a deep rich yellow splotch On the treat cover printed ta Ink to the Inscription ISDOBKNO I On the pack such as are used on tile books of today They wore put en the btetottc rue te- ta the admtatotratlon of Controller Tawes One ta green at the top read May MPL to November fit Then comes one ta red reading Ledger No V and another te the sane color with the York At the bottom to a Mack laW reading OBJca Tbe book Is made up eC sheet of pure heavy linen paper such as now sometimes b wed ta social correepond ruled it fIlM with red and black lass to pages Every page to Intact are badly jaUomd at the the band ef Time Owe of the most remarkable things about this remarkable volume te the way here there with a deeper nil of oily 0 The paper pule the tie soft Ida 1111 u- be although edges ilk 4 and aaapa err Pacad printed label wade Cap Uos the New bum 711 pages aeon ise and bk keeper probaby treaver hind dI 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 they were made The quality of tbe Ink gs to show that ta the making ef some tbtofg we have not unproved te the course of two coteries In properly to appreciate the records found ta the book k sight be to have a brief glfaasse at tile htotory of tbe potted When tile of New Netbertande passed from control of the Dutch and Into the bands of tile EngMab In MM the population of the city of New Amsterdam later New York was about UM souls In MK tile Don dinner which declared that the city should tits Island of Manhattan placed the city government on a definite footing tinder the charter tile governor of the province retained the power of appointing the mayor treasurer recorder coroner high constable and town The mayor was ono of the three members of the governors cabinet Orderly Uovornmept Orjcnnlxed- la MO tile fort and the government were seized by Jacob Leteler and two of the governors cabinet were throws Into prison But Mayor Stephens Van Cort laadt escaped to Albany The Lender demtaatton ended and its bead was exe- coud after the arrival of CoL Henry Staugbter Ute new governor of the province on January 9 MB was ealabnshed and the prosperity of the city began It was not before aoandal affaire of the dty were svstematixed and records were begun as evidenced by tIN first ledger dating puck This ledger covers the admtatetradon of Mayors John Lawrence Abraham Peyzter WHtten Mount Jubaanes De PeyMer and David Provost The latter was promoted from treasurer to mayor while Kbeneser WHteon who was treas- urer for meet of the period became mayor te 17W sad served for three years BACK TO THE SOIL Men Going Back from the City to the Country rmn PHtrnwit FMt wr a marked exedwi of yonuri sun and from Ute country to tile city The rural youth to turn ready mousy So the tam aOanaenU a generous return to buooOic We Tbe years te a city and has ams peteace Ands bfaaaatf yearnl with coootry scenes exodus from tile farm began When this well stench That k that as orderly system or long the front May to that De tie About tweedy a number yens there found there be could tarn to In tile city that for TIle has set 1D who boa a or more ol 4 a cow for of orde- r province terhris eased comprise was govern- ment year jeers sr se ago and of following was boys wee many tin a his had mount was deserted metro reaction and now there- In ma spent scor com- munion students polttlcoscoaomk subjects racked their a logical deduction as to tile probable result Tha ben brought tile so- lution The dies were ta the maw bonded y men wbe were born ta tbe country who hues en the farm tile cross roads grocery Toews are the mea who are BO- Ing buck to tile farm Net for the par ef tile ctty Tbe electric railway the development and of tbe tel pbeoe serriec the rural free delivery and ether things that have eonventeoced- ttvtog away true th basin i are responsible The return of the man to tile country enhanced price of tars property and material With a amity of halfgrown children to often dMbeatt to keep the wtthta reasonable nmtt We lilt upon pout of sending each dIM to took at meter willie the M was burnteg steady tickticktick then suds the Men that burnteg line burning mosey and a decided meat has been shown for life now of faraalag but to a home from the din Iota ttty the added to tk dc too tile soil ta a old The Terror of rra tire tile TIle the tI- the l brata er- In part- icularly pose tbeudecs here eosdky away and hrt renters has lax tApdate g1 iogan the Meter Rm rr its bill as mored around dial hoprered ape Isprew ¬ S WITCGMB RILEY i Tenderly today weariness Scatter care Downa wake of angelwings release from pain Overflow And with all the needy O pray This vast treasure content That is mine today i 12 i W I au wilt look on all I love ml f f II I I j t RING unto the r I r Let the of I f i errrPt 1JIMThe e v I- l4TheREPERFECT i W Lorp dLord M4 f j air ki r sorro ftid- j j 4 Iau h er I j i 4 w 4 1 3 urn ru r oM Blb ltas9Csawr THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRESS 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 national and tetaraattoaal Interest in the health j of the wortfr people anther evidence of the progress of the worlds physicians IB their boom work United States and the LattaAmeriea countries will lie discuss new methods new ewes new dtecovertes Our own nallenat Interest ta tbe matter of pubae health Is teereas fog marvetouety In tile Democratic adopted at Denver there to a plank advocating the organtoatioK of rational Mean convention advocated similar tegte- tettoa Public recognition though tardy at bas been accorded the victory over yellow fever ta New Orleans and Havana sad over the bubonic plague in Sea Fraaetoto and Manila Public senti- ment has called for a sweeping pure food campaign for a war on mosquitoes rats as ahwunlnnlej ef dteeeee and for a crusade against tnbercu- Tete Where the beginning of Ute nineteenth century taw hrtplen patients physicked blistered and Wed and deprived of air and water ta an exert to eradicate dim use the Irastaatag of the twentieth sees a rational awakening of tile dvuTzed world Doors and windows are opened these te a rush back to mother nature for her simplest i m Mites and the slogan of todays lIMn worker to air pure food pore water and cleannaess Healers have worked on the hypothesis that was normal that health only an abnormal and acouir thing Today Ute Mima and true conception to the hula on which pnjratctens work Nothing bas bean times remarkable than the program of medhlue te recent years The bacteriotegical laboratory has be- come part of the of the modern tfcm and cotsMtebas new theories The dtecortry of the germ and its itsponel bas revotettonbed medical practice and saved milieu of lives The world has grown none rapidly te population ta the pest years than ta any other time with which statistics deal Medical Mi pet more than onefourth of the worlds population dud before reaching childhood of danger from car year It Is estimated that today the world Hvo to be sixteen where century or M ago only per coon that age There are sow approximately 2 W tt more births than deaths every year and willie in some locating race suicide may be towering the annual this is ontdtetanced and leaders of tIN various branches of Ute medical will plat- form of public and Ute Repub ant worldwide to- aD tile wtIIda of of teas than a century ap are said where be himself In the 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 saved every lit isM per oeat of bone Into at every Wednes- day The spre eded profession barons health flies sad heaven Pre it to il- ea = office physician grounds mla contagion far man- kind pip ace hegey repeoMble In- trues age robhisit and N children a A reacted birth- rate ¬ ¬ > < point by the redactions in the death rate that medical ran have made passible Of more importance than the direct ap- plication of mailed science to suffering bnmanlty te that live medteine Since the discovery of the I principle of vaccination I the timehonored proverb that an re Sometime they figurattvelr had to fight fire with as tot prevent- ing smallpox More often they have had to fight i1 na i with rleantlnssf But whatever the method they have gone for- ward forcing hack dtetojB tech by inch ontfl this tuulnnliiL of the twentieth cen- tury marks a notable era te the panne health The SpanishAmerican war brought the iMBlniiliU of correct naiiMniy prmciplee This nation thou a moot humai sting lesson bat H was a lesson by which an the world has profited In that war the American army sliced fourteen deaths from disease to every MM death from wounds During the RaseoJapa war Japan lest on man train dis to four f sriene of measures already advanced Of 5L e W spent te peasloBS every year the ratted States government could bur saved half bad prevention of disease been practiced Yellow I ha been robbed of Its terrors by the work of HaJ Rood and Ids associates But for such work which has made a summer resort of the Canal Zone once a pest bole the Panama Canal could not have been buflt without the sacrifice have been built at an Typhoid fiver pas been traced to Its fourot Evidence shows that it te spread by roes water and milk A prominent American physician felt Justified in saying not long ago that a man who takes typhoid In an American city nowadays has as good a case for damages against that city for eiiminal carelessness as the man who injures him self by falling into an unguarded excava- tion What te true of typhoid is tree of scarlet fever of diphtheria of twbercv- losfe and other enemies of life tutu recent yeas the victim of con- sumption was regarded as a man and was usually shut ta an airtight room to await the end In that time medical science has butts It dis- covered the communfc ableueas and ventabOtty of the disease persuaded mankind to call R tuberculosis set about educating the layman ta the mat ter and Instituted s sweeping crusade That crusade has born Last year alone there were thirteen congresses having courses of instruction on tuber- culosis with 5M people ta attendance white a number of States and anmteipal- ities aroused public sentiment and legis- lated against the MMe The death rate from tbe white plague has been per- ceptibly cut down aad the whole of affairs a conquest of Ute disease te tIN near future So K te with cancer Dr Wallace K Brown dales that the ef eecharetln in cancerous troubles te a radical cure if applied early onough He has cenonered It also with Potassium hydrate and zinc chloride The latest discovery ta the medical world that promises to be of value to humanity to Ute nadmg of the germ of paresis Dr John D OBrtep of tbe MassiMon Ohio State Haspttal claims to hard found It and offers scien- tific proofs of his theories Another valuable discovery yet to bear fruit Is that of Dr Jutted the eminent French physician of the past generation 1 circulation by the we of vacuum cups and receivers lite work was so successful that the French government commissioned him to carry It further In France and Germany Me method was halted with wide aodafm and bas been put to great ute Last year a member of the University of Bonn traveled aM the way to Washington to tell a tuberculosis congress of the successful application of this treatment In teboreutoals of the Joints It has also been used in loeotnotor ataxia and paralysis for many long hopeless cen turies was deemed Incurable The old LeviticAl code decreed that the unfortu nate sufferers be stoned from the clues great bow oC peeves Medical men been how to put m pract- ice or JlftDtiOII l worth a proud are learned tar IIaIII tile ever of thousands of or perhaps never been fruit as- pect more evolved a system ot Leprosy Inve learning ounce d- en have no eaee woundson preventive lives doomed pro promises use en- forced sues esfully ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ aad be forced to live te United States is seeing things dtSorently though only three years ago it suffered the persecution of a leper through two of its Commcnweatths until death re him It now promulgates the the TIle United States PublIc and Marine Hospital Service has built and equipped an experiment station at tile Hawaiian leper settlement on the brought to bear on every case Louisiana has gone farther Through Dr Isidore- D Dyer a physician ta charge of the hone for lepers lava been MccoGafnUy treated and sent out Into the world agate praaoMCMl eared f ujd some of its richest trophies t Jx the feet of suf- fering huamnitr It has made possible Ions that otherwise ncn have been accom pJtebed The or at decade has gives tbe world important discoveries along this IT To ted something that without ai etteg the Mart has been a hard It has recently been found that Ute system can be elec- trically shocked into a proCoMd sleep by sort of contacts with the bodr of the pa It enabled scientific Humanity owes one of its greatest deb to vivisection It lam proved one of the cien e to teach tereatigatlon and Its cause men have Of OT1- 9s of peop te the world aa aseoctetion of antt- secdonteta wbo have dMteeatbr sought have Congress par a nattetnl sectJon bin They would save a few and guinea pigs at the ee prooaMy MoM human lives hoid bills paidand luij not at aU when one omen down fads there are lawyers ta the rnlftf States by the who make a ha million dollars a your out of their prnfes Is scarcely a pbysicaa the ira the United States sot of It then the lives who protects settflafrincms plagoeouelltog pnysteu- f Tbf Public Health II Industrial The leased ory that there kw little danger feat a of where win he State N5 Jt Is in the realm of dMtIm IIdeaee t eC lifesaving W would the patient Ineenfbie to the that are In electrOC- 1dIIa tI sleep caa at a thaw greatest J to modern media conclusions tMIr of ft the hinds of tile deterseied t dogs Meet people kick at their bits they are the Mt of the paid Yet o Ilea while there who has an of R jrity having a few at any dry In It will that the man sects tile property of his cIIeats In8 the la tile bal lip of the hag Ws affairs it a roll eaiI r It Jp sate to that more trail be drawn from the make r the than from any other class of people For IIC such au made Cerdt no Z aver from tie disease recently hued Ms101tai sdesee sixteen that nut bas thoasads cool r make Itsn deleteriously quest asses need and be wawtahe t for many hours his seen im- portant to dleese These met stern opposition morn m anti rab- bits expense doctor Sometimes hcup tease In oxte t65 thossaiuts mot lake al be found who pr gets man autntging heroes ie- made avert quiet are heroes b Avaede llsiinl hygiene > ¬ ¬ < Allelectric Railroads trietty OB err of eee extent doubtless defects develop that most be correct- ed to the interests of both safety ard economy but tbwe ft not likely to be a y backward step ta the application of this force TIle movement Is entirety forward transportation years ago Senator Depew at a gathering of railroad said that ta ten years there would not loeomoUv east of the Mississippi the scrap heap Doubtless there must be a few years of grace allowed for tile fnUHImont of tier prophecy but there east of the Father of Waters Probably few people understand that through the steam locomotive has been prartloa- eltartnated A Brooklyn authority says M cenavr steam locomotive te a forsottea freight trains by electricity Tbe same Grand Central Station Every ranrei with a New York terminal Is preparing for electrification even whore tt has not yet been Installed If there are daai to be guarded against there are applied The Interstate Commerce Com mission to about to begin a vigorous cam- paign to make travel safer and to this end whir make a series of thorough tr 3 and xperiments to dt most practical merit lies In the var designs It will begin wtth a safetrst system already ta UK on tile Chicai Burlington and Qotecy The governing principle ta electricity and its purpose to stop both engines when approaching each other at the same time signally both 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 twoyard sqaare gardon and the weeds Presently the abMncs of her cherish tm ant reappeared conttutuMj munching sub of cake In her relief as Is Thomas she saM Tm afraid youve been greedy and naked kind Mrs Brinks for that cake mother he replied wouldnt be so rude I waited til she turned her back then I snatched a piece She Knew the Place tk ftMnainn The elderly matron with the bundles csnsta and occupied a sent tsar the f the car had asleep On the seat ta of her sat a tttlle boy The brakeman opened the door of the car and called out Ute name of the station the traia was approaching The elderly wom- an roused herself with a Jerk Where are we Bobby she asked I deat know grandma answered the Didnt the brakemen say something Just now No lie test stuck Mg bend Inside the doer and sneezed Help wick these TMas Bobby she zcmiHKd nurrkdlr Tm is Gel bosh Its where w get as Xot at All Iron life John and Mary had been sharing one chair alt the evening John at to the rhahr and Mary sat en John After about three bouts eC this Mary suddenly exclaimed Oh John arent you John untied a brave patient emits Sot he said gently No not now I was about an hour ago but tow Im only paralyzed Pus The general to Sa the will It heralds tile of a newer day for Seven b- aas outside ue ill plenty that soer be reeIbetI west as well ss large perils of Greeter New York that steam Of the whistle of a lit that steps are be lag taken an Long JIIIaDd to is true of Manhattan where the last steam raa in and out of rs safety to which tile force Is s enters Yme ed hUt While the r I prepared lira sled alarmed her but shortly the a Mrs TeRee began to oIL no 7 Pre wile too a plat In Wts mid- dle fallen front little lay Me now the Bose 1Yascrlat more appiogse raglrads i none ezsalmewd stage dawn men signs err Inter it- wtn probably the the pn sound borough and over move lxomethe recently tia alto devices heir g whore I e m crow aanmea child- hood Tumy Jean sere and moth- er vas Tommy huge meal tapbraId the Lei TeM was journeying I tired I < ¬ = ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ° > >
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Page 1: Washington Herald. (Washington, DC) 1908-08-02 [p 7].chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1908-08-02/ed-1/seq-7.pdfTHE WASHINGTON HERALD SUNDAY AUGUST 2 1903 7 i TEMPERED BY

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

tan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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princes

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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

sill

peera Nor has thedisavow tilts

to be athat H Taft will get

or to which lie Is

that the iletitloun whiskto at Denver junk

at

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

as

steps toIBM

Prn ale ev Tat 8a-It aeeOE

conviction Wflllwvery vots normally

awareconceeism wer

mad Gompers might

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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

Stoor

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-

nett

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

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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

the

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

DOe

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

books

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

wI

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

give

Less

moat show in

2 14 eapded era

7lIll

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

nil

of oily 0

The paper pule thetie

soft Ida 1111 u-

be althoughedges

ilk

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

well

stench

That kthat as orderly system or

longthe

front May to that

De

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

of

orde-r

province

terhris eased

comprise

was govern-ment

year

jeers sr se ago andof following was

boys

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

for

life

now

of faraalag but toa home from the din

Iota

tttythe

added to tk dc too tilesoil ta a old

The Terror ofrratiretile

TIlethe tI-

thel

brata

er-In part-icularlypose tbeudecs hereeosdky away andhrt

renters

has

lax tApdateg1 iogan

the MeterRm rr

its bill

asmored around dial hoprered ape

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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

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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

plat-

form

of public and Ute Repub

ant

worldwide

to-

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

The

spre ededprofession

barons health

fliessad

heaven

Pre it

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mla contagion

far man-kind

pip

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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

are

learned

tar IIaIII tile

ever

of thousands of or perhaps never

been

fruit

as-pect

more

evolved a system ot

Leprosy

Inve learning

ounce d-en have

noeaee woundson

preventive

lives

doomed

pro

promises

use

en-forced

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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

The

leasedory that there kw little danger

feat a

of where win he

State N5

Jt Is in the realm of dMtImIIdeaee

teC lifesaving

W

would the patient Ineenfbie to

thethat are In electrOC-

1dIIa tI sleep caaat a thaw

greatest J to modern mediaconclusions tMIr

of

ft the hindsof tile deterseied

t

dogs

Meet people kick at their bitsthey are the Mt of thepaid

Yet o

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

aver

from tiedisease

recently

hued Ms101tai sdesee

sixteen

thatnut bas

thoasadscool

r

make Itsndeleteriously

quest

assesneed

and be wawtahe t formany hours

his seen im-portant to

dleese Thesemet stern opposition

morn

m

antirab-bits expense

doctorSometimes hcup

tease

In oxte t65thossaiuts motlake albe found who pr

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heroes ie-made avertquiet

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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

M

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

will

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

rs

safety to which tile force Is

s

enters

Yme

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

front

little lay

Me

now

the Bose 1Yascrlatmore appiogse

raglrads i noneezsalmewd stage

dawn

men

signs err Inter it-wtn probably

the

the pn

sound borough andover move

lxomethe recently tia

altodevices heir g

whore I em

crow

aanmeachild-

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Tommy

hugemeal tapbraId theLei

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