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toric remark to the
governor of South
Carolina a prece
dent was set for the
avoidance of inter
state hostilities
like those recently
threatened between the governors of
Louisiana and Mississippi In the
present Instance however Governor
Blanchard of Louisiana could not ex
tend to Governor Yardaman of Missis
sippi the customary invitation to have
one because quarantine regulations
keep the former confined to the soil of
his own state The strained relations
between the governors and the clash
between armed men representing the
two commonwealths were due to the
efforts of each state to protect itself in
its rights in connection with the out
break of yellow fever in New Orleans
and vicinity
The cities of the southern portion of
the United States have so often been
devastated by the dreaded scourge of
yellow fever in the past that the very
name of the disease is sufiicient to
cause terror hence the extraordinary
precautions adopted in Mississippi
when the fever broke out in New Or
leans The fever cases came chiefly
from one part of the city Gallatin
street It is only two blocks in length
yet fifty or more cases have been
treated there Where the fever ap
peared elsewhere it could bo traced
back to Gallatin street The people of
New Orleans and of Louisiana have
been very active and efficient in fight
ing the disease and with the aid mod
ern medical study of the subject has
given them have been able thus far
to prevent such ravages as haA e been
experienced in former year Dr Quit
man Kohnke who is at the tad of the
board of health of the city of New
Orleans and Professor John Guiteras
who has served as an expert in all
yellow fever outbreaks since 1SS1
DB JOHN GUITJiRAS
have won commendation by the efforts
they have made to restrain the spread
of the malady
Dr George M Sternberg an authority
on the subject says Yellow fever
is an acute infectious disease which is
transmitted from the sick to suscepti
ble individuals through the agency of
mosquitoes The yellow fever mos
quito Stegomyia fasciata is found in
tropical and semitropical regions and
especially in lowlands near the sea or
in river valleys This mosquito serves
as an intermediate host for the yellow
fever parasite which is present in the
blood of those sick with the disease
during the first three days of the at
tack After filling itself with blood
from a yellow fever patient a period
of twelve days is required for the de
velopment of the parasite in the body
of the mosquito before it can transmit
the disease by its sting to another in
dividual
It was in 1900 while Dr Sternberg
was surgeon general that the board
was appointed which gave special
study to the subject of yellow fever at
Havana and conducted the experi
ments which have reflected so much
light upon the question of restraining
the disease These experiments were
made upon individuals who volun
teered to submit themselves to mos
quito inoculations with a full knowl
edge of a possibility of serious and
even fatal results Some of these vol
unteers died among them Dr Jesse W
Lazear a member of the board and a
conspicuous martyr in the cause of
medical science Yellow fever is be
lieved by many to be of African origin
Slave ships carried it to American
shores and other sections of the globe
and in former times the visit to a port
of a ship bearing slaves was of ten fol
lowed by an epidemic It was in this
way that Philadelphia suffered repeat
edly from the disease in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries
Dr Guiteras whose experience with
yellow fever is now proving so valua
ble at New Orleans was born in Ma
tanzas Cuba in 1852 At seventeen
years of age he removed to the United
States and began the study of medi
cine at the University of Pennsylvania
from which he graduated in 1873 He-
was professor in this institution lor
some years afterward taking the posi j
tion of professor of pathology and trop-
leal diseases in the University of Ha-
vana He helped General Shaf ter keep
yellow jack from killing American sol
diers Jnthe Santiago campaign of 1898
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OPTIMISTIC DEPEW
He Doi n Not Allow Equitable Affnirn
to Siioll IIlx Humor
It was cabled to this country from
Europe that Senator Chauncey Mitch
ell Depew the ever genial and ever
mirthful statesman campaign orator
and postprandial speaker was becom
ing old and bent careworn and sor
rowful as the result of worry over the
dragging of his name Into the investi
gation of Equitable Life Assurance so
ciety affairs But when the junior sen
ator from New York recently landed
on American soil after his annual va
cation in Europe his friends noted that
no anxiety had bent him down that
his step was as elastic as of yore that
his characteristic smile had not come
off and that lie was rosy of counte
nance and apparently care free
I cant speak for others remarked
the optimistic statesman who is
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enty three years young but to me life
is still worth living His ban Isome
wife who stood by his side smiled a
glance of approval Mr Depew says
that he is ready to face any criticism
that may be made of his acts as a di
rector of the Equitable and declares
that the choice of Paul Morton as pres
ident of the society is a wise one even
though one of Mr Mortons first acts
in carrying out a policy of retrench
ment was to lop off an annual fee of
20000 that had been paid Senator De
pew for bis services as n legal adviser
of the company Mr Depew cut short
his vacation in order to meet any criti
cism of his course in connection with
Equitable matters that might arise
Senator Depew has said that he finds
it very hard to refuse any request
made of him That is the reason he
added why I make speeches at so
many dinners and tell stories That
reminds me that I havent got a new
story since Ive been abroad Every
body says to me Now then Depew
tell us some of your good stories and
I have to tell em some of the old ones
But they seem to go
AN ECCENTRIC POET
Algernon Onirics Sivliilmrne His
Greatness and His Peenliarities
Algernon Charles Swinburne who
has just republished under his real
name a story which he gave to the
public twenty five years ago under the
signature of Mrs Horace Manners
is a man of many eccentricities When
he wrote this story entitled Loves
Cross Currents A Years Letters he
was fearful of how it would be re
ceived and would not attach his own
signature It did not make a big hit
at the time but now that his fame
is more secure Swinburne has decid
ed to trust the public with the
AIiGEKXON CHARLES SWINBUEXE
edge that he wrote it In the opinion
of critics it will not make him as fa
mous as a novelist as lie already is as
a poet
Though so great a man in the world
of literature Swinburne is very small
physically being but five feet two
inches in height and of slight and deli
cate build He was born at London
In 1S37 and his father was the late
Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne
His first work was published when he
was about eighteen years old Being
somewhat deaf the poet avoids gen
eral society His chief diversion is
taking long cross country walks and
on such tours he wears a broad brim
med felt hat seldom lifts his eyes
from the ground and distributes cakes
and candy among the youngsters he
passes on his way He never wears an
overcoat and never carries an urn
ibrella even when it rafns the hardest
Many persons thought Swinburne
would be chosen Tennysons successor
as poet laureate but Alfred Austin
got the prize
Cork For Dottle Stopper
The application of cork as a bottle
stopper for liquid vessels is said to be
of great antiquity The earliest record
extant of its use in Europe is that men
tioned by Horace who asserts that the
Romans had cork ns stoppers for their
wine amphorae Certain of the uses
of cork were known to the ancient
Greeks and Egyptians but whether
they used cork for stopping the mouths
of their liquid vessels history does not
say It was not however until the
year 1700 that the Spaniards first com
menced to work their cork woods with
some degree of regularity for the mak
ing of corks Although perhaps corks
were more or less in use from the time
glass bottles were first invented which
Beckmann asserts to have been in the
fifteenth century yet it was not until
two and a half centuries later that the
Spaniards began to prepare cork for
bottle stoppers which they did in a
forest situated at the northeast of the
Tigueras on the Muge The cork in
dustry has since gradually risen to be
one of the first magnitude its chief
center in Spain being in Catalonia
Wliut the Tenelier Must IJo
Knowledge is good but wisdom is
better The college valedictorian
trained to take knowledge in rather
than to impart it may have much of it
with but little wisdom He may be
able as a teacher to drill boys and
girls in Greek and Latin declensions
and cram them with facts useful or
valueless but if he cannot produce in
them what Spencer calls pleasurable
excitement and interest he is a fail
ure His would be the sort of teach
ing that harps upon obedience and dis
cipline and endeavors by force of rule
and rod to oblige the pupil to study
and learn The will cannot be forced
but the real teacher knows well that it
can be led lie remembers the remark
of Rousseau that the teachers prov
ince is less to instruct than to guide
that e must not lay down precepts
but teach his pupils to discover them
This was the way of that great teach
er Agassi certainly Arthur Oilman
in Atlantic
The Small Mouthed Buss
The small mouthed bass fully de
serves his reputation for being vigor
ous and gamy from infancy He is
extremely pugnacious by nature and
has fighting tactics peculiarly his own
which for strength activity and craft
are unequaleJ I once took a bass four
inches long on a spoon hook the bowl
of which was more than two inches
long This bass doe not hesitate to
tackle that terror of all other fish
the fierce and voracious pickerel AVith
his first dorsal fin rigidly set up he
lays off some ten or twenty feet and
then makes a rapid dash right into and
under the long face forcing him to
clear out at once or ripping him so
badly that he is hors de combat The
fact has been established that bass in
troduced into a pond containing pick
erel will ultimately destroy the latter
The same fate awaits other fish in
cluding trout Outing
Wind Snperstitions
The Finns of Norway long enter
tained a traditional belief in the power
of controlling the winds by a small
rope with three knots tied in it This
popular superstition gave rise to the
curious industry of making and selling
these wind controlling ropes with mag
ical knots to mariners and fishermen
It was believed that by unloosing the
first knot a favorable breeze Avas se
cured the second raised a strong gale
and if the third knot was untied it
would prove the prelude to a tempest
According to Ranulph Higden the
witches of the Isle of Man had a sim
ilar ancient practice of selling winds
to sailors
Apt
Douglas Jerrold had a way of putting
pat names to things One of his re
marks is given by George Hodder in
Manners of My Time Jerrold was
at a party one night where a doctor
who was tall and thin almost to ema
ciation had for a partner a lady who
was short and square in build Turn
ing to a bystander he remarked
There is a mile dancing with a mile
stone
AVhen Lnlior Did Xot Tell
A home missionary who visited Sing
Sing prison took occasion to have a
heart to heart talk with one of the
convicts
Dont you know my friend said
he that crime never brings success
It is only achieved by hard labor
I did six months of it at a stretch
once and I didnt come out no richer
than I went in
He Was Spurned
Believe me said old Gotrox al
though Im an old bachelor Im sure I
could learn to be a good husband You
know a man is never too old to learn
Nor too old to yearn perhaps re
plied Miss Pechis also Im sorry to
say youre not too old to spurn Phil
adelphia Press
Alvtuys Something1 Linclcins
Love is like a waltz It never quite
fulfills all one expects of it Either
the mans lead is too fast or too slow
his hold too light or too loose he
stumbles over your gown or steps on
your feet and if everything else is
right it is the wrong man Life
niunt
A Scotchman once took dinner at a
house and regarded the meal as inad
equate As he was leaving his host
asked him when he would dine with
him again Now was the startling
reply
A good cause needs not to be pa
troned by passion but can sustain it
self upon a temperate dispute
Browne
JcivEnIi Snlihnth and the Roman
The disdain of the Romans for the
Jewish Sabbath because It was not ac
companied by any tumult or noisy and
joyful demonstrations perpetuated it
self throughout all ages Rutellus who
was the prefect of Rome under Hono
rium says in speaking of the Jews
They are very much attached to the
cold Sabbath but their heart is colder
than their religion The seventh day
of every week Is consecrated to a
shameful idleness in memory of the
rest to which their God gave himself
up after he was harassed by fatigue
Juvenal does not love the Sabbath
which according to him is also a sad
feast for he relates that the kings of
Palestine celebrate that day bare
footed Juvenal meant perhaps to des
ignate here 03 festa Sabbata the
day of Atonement and the fast of thi
ninth of Ab anniversary of the de
struction of the temple at Jerusalem
During these two days the Jews re
mained in fact barefooted
Juvenal has no great affection for the
Jews He lias an aversion for those
who observe the Sabbath that live iso
lated and who do not mingle with the
Romans He dislikes them because
they have a peculiar religion and spe
cial laws and he reproaches them for
despising the Roman laws Menora
The Hindoo Strong- 3Ian
The Hindoos tell wonderful stories of
the feats of Bliima who was their
strong man Among the wonders cred
ited to Bliima are the following Pur
sued by a tiger his mother when nurs
ing Bliima let him drop The force of
the impact shattered in a thousand
pieces the rock on which he had fallen
but the boy was none the worse When
he quarreled with other boys he gath
ered thein up ten or fifteen at a time
and plumped them into the nearest
pond His cousins hid themselves in
a tall banyan to jeer at him but he
tore it from the ground without effort
He snapped his bonds like Samson
and ti hungry cobras fangs could not
penetrate his skin His triumph how
ever was the defeat of Bakasura who
consumed a cart load of food at a
sitting and ued palmyra trees for
toothbrushes
Hoiv the Condor Is Caught
Many birds cannot ily straight up
They must rise at a very gentle in
cline They must get onward motion
before their wings can get full effect
of the air It is said that the mode of
taking the condor is to build a pen
say forty or fifty feet in diameter and
six feet high and put a carcass in the
middle of it The condor alights but
cannot again rise at an angle which
will take him over the fence Many
heavy bodied short winged ducks rise
from the water at so small an angle
that they must use both feet and wings
for thirty or forty feet in order to get
onward motion enough to give effec
tiveness to their wings by coming in
contact Avith larger masses of still air
Oxford lxaminatioiis
When John Scott the future Lord
Chancellor Eldon took his B A at Ox
ford in 1770 he Avas examined in He
brew and in history His own pen has
recorded this noteworthy exam It
consisted of two questions one in each
subject The Hebrew question ran
Whats the Hebrew for place of a
skull the history Who founded
the University of Oxford The candi
date of course replied Golgotha and
Alfred the Great though he had his
misgivings touching the truth of the
second answer a fiction Avhich has
since been scattered to the Avinds by
those tAVO highly distinguished Oxo
nians Professor Freeman and J It
Green
The Gallows Plant
During the middle ages the botanists
or old herbalists gave currency to
many curious stories concerning the
groAvth form etc of mandrake or
May apple which finally resulted in
its being given the name of gallows
plant The pseudo scientists of that
time declared that mandrake Avould
in no other place except upon
AAhich some terrible crime had been
committed The roots Avere formerly
supposed to bear a strong resemblance
to the human form
Mind Rending
Perhaps smoking is offensive to you
Miss Smith
On the contrary I like the smell of
a good cigar
Without i moments hesitation he
threAV aAvay the Aveed he Avas smoking
Something in her manner rather than
her words led him to suspect that she
Avas a judge of cigars Chicago Trib
une
Time Ilnrt Passed
I always forget how times flies
when Im enjoying myself said Mr
Staylate I hope you Avont hesitate
to tell me when its time to go
Gracious I replied Miss Patience
Its too late now You should have
mentioned that several hours ago
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Xo Fnrtlier Delay
Abner Slopoak desperately M may
I name the day Jemima Jones
No Abner Slopoak in
alarm Why Jemima Jones frank
ly Because if you put if off as long
you did your proposal we never will
be married Ill name the day my
self Cleveland Leader
Raw Animals
With a heart attuned to nature
study a little Hungarian girl in the
Canadian northwest exclaimed Yah
teacher Its certain beautiful on our
prairie where the birds and the small
sheep run about raw
Decision of character will often give
an inferior mind command over a su
perior Wirt
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