Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 209, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1901 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 28. 1001.

was Dr. Miort I Not lml. Dy error in handling the item, a dispatch from Hedfcnl in yesterday's Journal was made to say th.it Dr. It. I'. Short li.-d as the Tcsult of h at prostration. There was a !e-ith at i:'d:'ord. from the ciu.-- alUr,.!, ln:t it w.i not Dr. Jrh'rt. though the (o.tr was overcome lv hat whil;. returning from a vL-it to a pati-nt. rir.wv it.i:s i tiii: ivi:st. DrotiKlit In Weiter IliiourI mid Mot of liunmiv Ilrokru. . KANSAS CITY. Mo.. July 27. Ociif-rul rains which have fallen over the greater part of western Mi.-ouri and Kan.c:i? in the pas-t twerTy-four hour have River, this portion of the Southwest temporär relief from the drought. II? ports received at the railway hf-ad'iuurters indicate that the rains fell in tlie vf ?tern half of Missouri and in nearly all parts of Hansa., with the exception of a few northwest'-rn counties. Tho fall was heaviest between Kansas City and .Map'.e 1 1 i 1 1 . Kan., four counties west of her;. In .orr.e places in eastern Kansas the fall m asur-d 2- 2 1'JtlHs. !ood ralrs are ali-o n-poried alon the Memphis Itnl'.road. as far south as Arkansas and. as fai a-t as !h Mi.-i.dppi liver. Itain fell at di-Terexit int.-- all day to-day and 1 Ht'.ll con-. 1 nf? do.v . to-xdght. Frederick Welihou.'-e, the larg.-ht appleprower in Kau-.-.s. is authority for the statement that no:d- in that State will almo?t mak' a full crop. I aches. srapt s and late varieties of fruit will make an Hveras crop, it is believed, if conditions continue favorable Oats and potatoes in Kana at least were beyond help two weeks before the rains cam-. Marysville. Kan.. teports that the drought thre is unbroken. A few local showers have fallen ir: the southern part of Marshall county. The corn crop in the Uplands is almost an absolut" failure. Not more than 1 jr cent, can l.j re iliz -d. On the bottoms, with fpedy rains, 4o per cent, of a crop may b- grown. A diFpatch from Topekn says: "Kansas has been fully iei-'mnl from the ravages of the drought. Th- r:.in whieh stait"o in numerous portions of the State has continued during the day. and reports received here to-night say that rain is Ftill filling in several p!aca in the State. Every Indication points to a prolonged rainy spell, which will be of inestimable value. The rain was nw,t general in the eastern part of the State, which needed !t most. The sah- of garden s ds in the State to-day has b en phenomena'. Farmers purchased large quantities of turnip, Forgmim and rice seed to plant for forage. Farmers report that there will bo much late corn, .'nd the rain will insure excellent fodder. The estimates of the probable yield of corn range all the way from five to twenty bushels to the acre. Apples and pear?, with anything 11!;; favorable conditions, will yield a laige crop." (.OOl.r.U AT ST. I.OIIS. Only Seven Dcntli Iteportel for the Zt Mourn Ending; at 1 il n Ilit. ST. I.OFIS, July 27. Considerable relief was experienced In St. I;uis to-day, owing to the clouds which covered the sun for a Kreat part of the day and the cooling breezes generated by rainfalls in this and adjacent Stated. The maximum temperature tv a s 37 drtsrces, which was reached at 3 p. m. At p. m. the mercury hud dropped to HI degrees, ant at 3 o'clock to-night It touched 8 degrees for the lirst time In many days. The number of prostrations was greatly decreased to-day. and the number of deaths was also much smaller than on the previous day. Of the fatalities reported to-day four were the result of prostrations that had occurred earlier in the vvefk. The entire number reported up to midnight was seven. Dounponr In !r:mk:i. LINCOLN, Neb.. July 27. Nebraska tonieht had the most general fall of rain since the drought and heated spell besan. Heaver City, Furnas county, in the southwestern part of the Ftate, got over an inch, the first rain of oor.3 niurnce. for forty days. Coming "at, Webster county got a shower, Adams a quarter of an inch. Cay county the same amount. Saline ntarly an Inch. Ituffal und Cutler showers, and parts of Seward a generous downpour. The-re was only a sp.lnkle in Lincoln and Lancaster countl!. with prospects of mote. North of the' Platte there was a fall of nearly an In oh la Cuming county. The maximum ptemperature in Lincoln was V"). Humidity Extreme at Cinclnnntl. CINCINNATI. July 27. While the mercury in its skyward ftighi. torduy only reached 00. 6 degrees below Its highest iecord this season, the heat to-day was more oppressive to humanity than it has tu en at any time durln? the present hot rptll. This was due to the extreme humidity In the atmosphere and the day's record was four deaths and twenty-six prostrations. Of the prostrations sixteen occurred between the hours of and 1) this evening. As to relief the weather bureau promises nothing but probable local thunder showers. Humidity SO I'rr Cent. OMAHA. Neb., July 27. Lower temperature afforded but little relief to-day because of the excessive humidity, which early In tho day showed 80 per cent., almost unprecedented here. At 7 a. m. the thermometer registered 71 and the highest point for the day was touched at 2:40 p. m., when the mercury stood at !" for but a short time. At s o'clock to-night a heavy rain is falling, the first for many week?. Four DentliM, Four l'roMtratloua. CHICAGO, July 27. Ninety-five degreea marked the official maximum temperature in Chicago to-day. while the humidity reglsteretl 4S per cent. Similar conditions are expected to prevail to-morrow, according to the predictions of the weather bureau. Four people died ot the heat t-d v and four were prostrated. Thermometers on the streets showed !'S to PC in the shade, and from 10s to 112 in the sun. AccLlent mid Fle Irotratinn. FINDLAY, O.. July 27.-1 he government theimometcr to-day reached 107 degrees. the highest of t h season. P.usiness was generally suspended. One accident, the result tf the he it and whic h will prove fatal, and live prostrate ns were reported. The Thlrty-FiKhth Day. KANSAS CITY. Mo., July 27. Although the weather 's much more comfortable, the temperature rosv to PI degrees to-dav, this being the thirty-eighth day of the n."t fpell. There were two ieaths from heat. "VAUM AM) FA lit SI" Ml AY. Probably Shower nntl Lower Temperature on 3loiil:iy. WASHINGTON. July ST. Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Ohio Fair, continued warm on Sunday; Monday partly cloudy, probably local thunderstorms and not .co warm; l'sht southerly winds, becoming variable. For Illinois Partly cloudy on Sunday; probably local showers and not so warm in the afternoon. Monday showers;" light outherly win. Is. b coming variable. For Indiana F.. ir and continued warmer MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. NEW YOKK. July 27 Arrived.: p.ulgarii, frun Hamburg and Poulogne; Canadian and Ktruria. from I.iveinool. California. Nap..-., n. Salle.!: Mesnha and Minnehaha, for London; Phil i h Ip'nki, for Liverpool; Potteidam. for Koturdam. via Houloen ; Fthiv p. ti,r Glasgow, vli MuVille; Lueanli for Jr.t enst ou n ami LiverPoo!; Graf U'ai'urs.t. for Hamburg, via Plymouth and "In rl -urg. CHLP.POrilG. Ja!y 27-Arrived: Friedrich d r ''iridic, In i'.i New York, for Cremen. Sailed: St. Paid, from Southampton, for New Yor; 1 -"ts- h la;4d. irotn Hamburg and South.'.mpt.m. lor New York. QtTKKNSToWN. Ju!v 27 Arrive.l: I'mbria. from New York, for Liverpool. SahcJ: Celtl'-. from Liverpo. 1. for New Yerk. ANTWKl:P. July 27. Arrived; Frie-Und, from New Yrk. Silled: Ke:iinston. for New York. HP.FMKN. July i7.-S tiled: Koenls'ln IjuIso. for New York, v! i i'authampton. IIAVIIK. Julv 27. Sailed: La Normandie. for New York. LIVCIH'OOL. July 27. Sailed: Campania, for New York. NAPLES, July ZL-Salled: CMabrU, fur Ktw Yvrk.

jlrc on top of a straw pile, where he working.

on Sunday. Monday probably showers and cooler; light winds; mostly southerly.

I. oral OliMcrt ntlouit on Saturday. Par. Ther. H.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7 a. m..r.o.) ?j H S'west. Clear. O.'K) 7 p. rn..2:t.St ?2 i Swc?t. Clear. 0.00 Maximum temperature, V; minimum temP'rature. 7'. Comparative statement of the mean temper.! iure und total precipitation on this date. Temp. Pre. Normal 76 0.13 Mean 8 O.O.i Departure 10 0.L3 Departure sine July 1 141 0.21 Departure sdnce Jan. 1 16 'J.12 Plus. C. F. It. WAPPKNHANS. Loeal Forecast Ofliclal. Yeteriluii Temperature!.

Stations. MIn. Max. 7 p. m. Cairo, 111 71 M M Cheyenne, Wyo f.) 12 80 Chicago. Ill 7 12 yj Cincinnati, O ? 1 94 Concordia. Kan 71 P'O HS Davenport. la 7; M US es Moines, in 7 S4 fcS Kansas City, Mo 72 t2 S'l Little Hock. Ark 72 f2 Memphis, Term 74 i2 r.r) Nashville, Term 71 Oi 12 North Platte. Neb j & Oklahoma. O. T 72 12 hs Omaha. Neb 71 W W Pittsburg. Pa ;s 92 8Itapid City. S. D ".2 G S2 Salt Lake City f, iC 92 St. Louis, Mo 7s f'S fr2 Springtield, 111 7J 9t Springfield, Mo 7) M 7S Yicksourg. Miss 71 11 fi

ANOTHER COAL "COMBINE 311 n eit of the A'eINtMi-Jnrkni Field 3Iay lie 3Ierj;etl. COLUMBUS. O.. July 27. The bituminous mines of the WclJston-Jackson lield are to b absorbed by a combination. Negotiations which have been In progress for several weeks aie well on the way to consummation, and the transaction is expected to be completed within a few lays. The coal from the.-e mines is the highest grade in Ohio, and is used almost exclusively for domestic purposes. Very little of It Is sold for manufacturing, and it does not come into competition with tho mines of tne other 11 Ids of the State. The aeal is being promoted by the Sternb. :-ger&. of Jackson, who are among the largest holders cf coal property in the State, and by capitalists of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Several large mining properties were transferred to the combine within the past few days. THREE MEN KILLED Ami Five Injured, Two Probably Fatally, by n Holler Lxplonloii. WLATHERFOPD, O. T., July 27. A telephone message from Seger, fifteen miles south, says a boiler, belonging to a threshing crew near there, exploded this afternoon, killing John YV. Peters, Alfred White and Caleb Jones and injuring, probably fatally, Gus Fergeson and Dr. Jewett. Arnold Douglass and J. S. Troughton, jr., were a lso painfully hurt. Poetry of n Monument. Washington Letter in New York Post. The visitor to the national capital who has seen the Washington monument only once has just begun to see it. A plain, unadorned obelisk, it would upp?ar the simplest object in the world, but in fact it is as changeable as the loed. Nvt" it twico the same. Every change in the point of view reveals the monument in a new phase, it is a chameleon u. m. wtctiuer. Go close to it and its walls seem to rise abruptly to a height that is overpowering. Sail down the Potomac and the thlnlv gleaming white shaft seems to be waving a grace lul farewell. Often it is gray and solemn, a part of the every-day world of work und duty. Sometimes in the varying lights it loses its perspective and Is a Hat outline against the sky; again, each line will stund forth with the crisp clearness of an intensified photograph. In tho early morning it is beautiful in the first rays of the rling sun; on a moonlighted night It is like a thing from another world, cold, gleaming, unreal. Many times la the course of a searon the sharp point is lost in clouds and the shaft rises like a pillar supporting the firmament. The setting sun paints th- monument with its most brilliant hues nnd its last rays are reflected from the gleaming tip. At night under the starlight the shaft is solemn like a sentinel. In stoim it stands as a type of all thc.t is steadfast. In the clearness of a bright summer day It seems tremulous in the pulsing air. Always the same, yet always different, it is iike a thing with lifo, a personality to be known and loved. It has relatively little for the passing stranger, but many confidences for the old acquaintance. "What I That, Walter f' New York Press. V'hy not educate your waiters to whisper in your ear what things are when he hands them to your left elbow? Perhaps then your gucsu would not lird it necessary lo go on an exploring expedition to lind out what hort of dish you are expected to help yourself to. If anything is in worse taste than to have the waiter stand there like a runny It is to leave it to the guest to say In an undertone: "What is that, waiter?"' When does a family become swell? When it can afford to have two maids, a butler, a cook and a seuU'on. When does it become real swell? When in addition it has a chef, buttons, coachman ami tiger. Yet some real swell people so mystify their guests as to rcriuirt them to auk: "What is that, waiter?" Reward for n Cuban ilamlit. HAVANA, July 27. The government has offered a reward of $l,i0 for the capture, dead or alive, of Lino lama, a bandit, who ha been operating in I ho Matanzas ami Havana provinces. There has been lor the last three months a standing reward f i"iKj for Lima's head. Y'esterday the bandit sent word to the authorities that he would ?;trrender for provided he were allowed to leave the Island. Upon receipt of this offer the authorities doubUxl the reward, and sent urgont instructions to General Podrizue, of the rural guard, to capture Lima. McKinley Greet the 11. Y. I. CHICAGO. July 27. President William McKinley sent a message of congratulation to-day to the Uaptist Young People's convention at the Coliseum, in which h? tendered his best wishes for a successful gathering. IJanner meetings and roll call were the features to-day. Maine was ihe only State not represented. To the State of Minnesota for the fifth consecutive time was presented the banner for the best wo: k in the literature course. A ranr.cr for the be.-t general work of any union v. as glvc.i to the Duffy-street Church of Savannah, Ga. Arthur Col burn' Ilody Itecoveretl. GltUKNWH'II. Conn.. July 27. The body of Arthur CoUmrn. the millionaire spice merchant, of Phlladt lphia, who with his two daughter;". Ida and Anette. Capt. L K. Flint and Frank Kckport. a seaman, were drowntd by the capsizing of the yacht Venitzia. m a squall off this port, July is. was mmered this afternoon by Dr. Hohtrt Taylor and C.-.pt. J. U. Peck. The idmtity v.t.s complete. In the coat was found a mileage book, in tl.e name of Arthur Colburn, and the samt name was written on the vest of the drowned man. Ititrtslnrn Fr iwrlitene! Aivay. MA1UON. O.. July 27.-lurgIars boldly start d a tire of wa-te in front of the Deposit Dank of Caledonia, a village tin miles firm this plate, this meriting and then, with a piece of railroad iron, broke open the door. The n'.ght watchman within the hank "uentd lire and the burglars tied. They escaped by stralinjr horses and vehicles. President McKinley Cat lern. CANTON. O.. July 27. -Among the callers upon the Prts'dtiit to-day va. the Hon. Kdwin N. Gunsitilus. t'nlted State co:iul at lVrnambuco. Prjzil. Mr. Gunsaulus is on his way to his home at London, .. and had the misfortune to lose his wife en route to this country. Life Sentence YIctc1 an a Joke. UPPER SANDUSKY. O.. July 27. Marsh Lindsay and Wb!i MtllT. recently conkted of the murder of W'llüaM C. Johnson, were sentenced to-day to the penitentiary for Mfe. Uoth received the sentence as if it were a juke. Thomas T. Eckert, president of the Western Ur.icn Telejrtaph Uoinj any. and Alvin W. Kreoli. of the Mercantile Trust Com(any, have been elected directors of the .'nlon Pacific road, lioth m n are in accord with tho Harrliuan syndicate.

GENERAL M'GINNIS HURT

HC FEM. FItOM A STHEKT CAR AT ILLINOIS AMI OHIO STItEKTS. CrovTn of Hin Head Struck Pavement and Received Rad Wound Probably Xot Fatally Injured. Postmaster George F. McGinnis, while returning about 11:30 o'clock last night to his home at 1502 North Capitol avenue, with friends, fell from a street car at Illinois and Ohio streets, and was severly injured. He fell backward, the crown of the head striking the pavement and causing a contused wound. He was picked up and ta':en home on the next car. The family physician, Dr. Noble, was called and he spent most of the night with him. He said (Jen. McGinnis was suffering from tho 'injury, but he was unable to say what tho result would be. He vas undecided as to whether or not the skull had been fractured or there had been internal Injuries. Ho thought, however, there was no danger of the injury proving fatal. General McGinnis was unable to say how he happened to fall. His fall was due, however, to an error, the party getting aboard a North Indianapolis car Instead of a North Illinois street car, and discovering the mistake as the car turned on to Indiana avenue. The stree-car men claimed General McGinnis missed the foot board in his hurry to get off. OBITUARY. Kdward J.' Kelley, Commodore of the New Rochelle Yacht Club. NEW YORK, July 27.-Edward J. Kelley, commodore of the New Itochelle Yacht Club, who was to have entertained Admiral Schley on his yacht this afternoon, died suddenly at his cottage on Premium point, New Rochelle, to-day of hemorrhage of the lungs. Commodore Kelley was about fortyrive years old and was a son of the late Eugene Kelley, vho was a well-known banker of New York. He leaves a widow and two children. Mr. Kelley was one of the best known yachtsmen in this part ot the country. Hr. W. A. WnUon. NEWPORT, R. I., July 27. William Argyll Watson, a prominent physician of New York and Newport, died here to-day of Brbjht's disease, aged seventy-seven. During the civil war he performed valuable service in the gulf squadron as a surgeon. Dr. Watson was one of the best Shakspearean stuJents in this country. NO MORE FREE STORAGE. Millers Muitt Pay Warehousemen 3 Cents Per lo: Poind Every lO Hayn. BUFFALO, July 27. The railroads centering in Buffalo, including the Erie, Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley and the New York Central, .have agreed to do no more free storing of flour for Western mlilers, and have signed an agreement whereby the storage on every 100 pounds of flour in Buffalo warehouses will cost the millers 3 cents for every ten days. The amount of flour stored by the railroads last winttr free of charge was 2T,ooo barrels. The Buffalo millers made a complaint to the State Commerce Ccn mission, claiming that they were being forced out of business because they were unable to compete with Western millers v.ho enjoyed ihn freestorage privileges given them by the. latter railroads. The State Commerce Commission investigated the matter, and the act of the railroads discontinuing the free storage i3 due to the investigation. 3IOSO.HTO BARS VS. 31 ALAR I A. Protection from the Insects A'ot Yet Regarded an a Safeguard. New York Evening Post. Mosquito retting may have its good uses as a defense against both mosquitoes and files, but practicing physicians are not yet willing. "apparently, to turn to it as the sole protection against malarial and yellow lever, as a certain government tanllary commission working in Cuba and the South has strongly urged in a recent report. For several years there has been great activity in investigation into the cause and spread of these diseases, and many modern investigators now agree that mosquitoes and not local climatic conditions are directly responsible. But whatever the entomologists and bacteriologists and special inestigatcrs may say, medical men generally will not. yet admit that malaria is conveyed exclusively by the bite of Infected mosquitoes, and that a radical change in the measures used for its prevention and treatment has become immediately necessary. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer at the quarantine station cm Staten island, when asked to-day what he thought of this view of malaria and its transmission said that he believed the medical experts of the army were on the right track in their fever investigation. "I believe the mosquito is a very potent agent in the spread of malaria. It may be. as they report, the only source of Infection, but at present I do not feel convinced that it is yet right to abandon all precautions In other directions. We have for some time carefully protected fever patients and suspects from danger of mosquito bitts by means of mosquito netting and shall redouble our care to that end. Otherwise, however, v.e shall not materially change our regulations for tho present, but will await the result of further experiments." Another physician who has had much cxperienco with malarial fever patients is Dr. Odea, chief of the medical staff of the S. R. Smith infirmary on Staten island. Like Dr. Doty, he was not inclined to lay undue stress upon the mosoidto theory, because in some years when the fever was prevalent on the island mosquitoes were almost unknown. Still lr believed that these insects umler certain conditions do often convey the germs to human beings, and that for that reason every precaution should be taken. This, he said, was the course already pursued in he iniirmary. This should interest those parts of New Jeisey. Ixng island and the Bronx where mosquitoes and malaria are pests. One physician was met who took quite readily to the new theory. Ho said: "I shall certainly act on it in all malaria cases. As soon as I tunect that a patient has the fever or Its symptoms I shall order him placed r.t once under netting with very f.ne meshes and in a room carefuMy screened at doors and windows. If he actually h.-.s the disease this is to protect mot-quitoes from becoming inoculated with the germ and spreading it to ther persons. If the patent is not suü'crlr.g from malaria the danger of infect! : is all the greater and the precaution should be none the less." Opportunity Horn if Success. Now York Evening Post. The mail of Clyde Fitch, the playwright, brought him the other day the following opportunity to do good, the application proceeding from New Haver., Conn.: "I hav been reading of th vast amount of mon:y you have been making this year by writing plays. I do not approve of the theater myself, but I would like to ask a small favor of you. I am a lady who has seen bolter days, but with God's help ar.d yeur assistance I thir.k the sun of prosperity may shine on me again. 1 am a widow with three daughters. The eltlest died two years ao, and ever since I jiave ben most anxious to have her grave nodded. Won t you please sod her grave for me. my dear Mr. Fitch? My second daughter could make a verv ot.d raarrlase if you would only send her $2no with which to buy her trousseau. My third daughter has & beautiful voico. The doctor say it c.not bo properly trained for less than tl'A In short, dear Mr. Fitch, send me a chock for $500. jind just st wnat an amount of good you will be doing in the world. My diuehter' srave will be M-ddcd, my second Irl will be made a loving v.iio und my baby will have a voice to earn money for her mother with; and I hall still havo enough of your mono' left to hire a sec

ond-hand piano. Be sure and send the money by registered letter, as I think the ordinary mail is so unreliable!"

PNEUMONIA WORST OF ALL Consumption Xo Longer the Cause of 3Iost Deaths. New York Evening Post. Pneumonia has not only displaced pulmonary consumption as the principal cause of death in this city, but the forthcoming Health Board report will show that the excess of deaths from pneumonia over those from consumption was never so 31 cat as it has been for the past year, there being 1.4S3 more deaths from the one than from the other. Up to consumption had always contributed the largest portion to the city's death rate, but from that year to the present, with a single exception, the preponderance has been the other way. This is well shown by the mortality tables of the health department for the last fifty years. From 1S31 to 1S0O. inclusive, there were 107,6'J-j deaths in New York from pulmonary consumption, as against 89.314 from pneumonia. From 1S91 to lJO, Inclusive (only the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx being counted since the consolidation), there were deaths from pneumonia, as against from consumption. Influenza, or grip, is held by doctors responsible for the change in rates of mortality. Although very seldom fatal in itself, considering the enormous number of cases, it introduces fatal complications into attacks of other lung diseases from which the patient would naturally have recovered. When influenza kills it usually kills through pneumonia. Here are the deaths from influenza and the diseases which it aggravates: Influ- PhthI- Pneu-' enza. sis. monia. 1S01 S54 3.161 5.81? 12 4:5 5.033 5.SU 227 5.124 6.457 183 4.C53 4.725 1SJ5 5,17 B.20Ö 5,731 1SPG ioi 4.1M 5.3S3 17 I'jG 4.SP3 4,621 IMS 203 4.S37 .301 I 4G1 -5.233 ,418 The cause of the delay in the increase of consumption mortality due to infiuenza, as compared with the increase in pneumonia, is obvious. The former disease is chronic, the latter acute. Lesions of the mucous membrane of the nose, thrort and air passages in the prevailing catarrhal bronchitis of infiuenza and of the air cells in pneumonia permitted the invasion of the tubercle bacillus de novo, while the characteristic prostration of the disease and consequent impaired vital resistance favored the development and activity of latent bacilli already in the system. Even a mild attack of influenza has often been the starting point of a fatal attack of tuberculosis. The forthcoming report of the Board of Health will show an increase of about 5.000 over the number of deaths in the greater city in llKW. No less than 2.0 of these are attributed directly or Indirectly to intluer.za. In viev.' of these facts and the now regular annual outbreak of grip, it is considered likely that the disease in America has become domesticated. The three former infiuenza epidemics, though they raged violently for a time, died out again completely, so far as Europe and America were concerned. The influenza bacillus is short lived, and If those suffering from it can be isolated until the disease has run its course in each of them it will not spread farther. The difficulty with the epidemic that started In 1S8S has been that ir has never bee, allowed to die out in the locality whre it happens to be. Means of communication are to much better that the disease is carried to Chicago, for instance, before it has time to die out in New York, and so on. Every year it is first heard of in Europe, whence In a few weeks it comes to the seaports of this country, and thence slowly westward to the Pacific. A curious phenomenon is that it apparently "rebounds" at the western coast, and travels slowly eastward again over the same territory. Just at present the grip is not raging here, and deaths frcm consumption are considerably more numerous than those from pneumonia. In the week ending last Saturday there wero 147 deaths from phthisis and 1-7 from pneumonia. The week before the numbers were 2id and 155, respectively; and week before that, lSo ana ICG. The first certificate of deatli from influenza in this city was filed in the last week' of December, 1589, and the lirst year's epidemic reached its maximum in January. For a number ff years thereafter the severity of the disease alternated between January and April. In 17 the number of cases had fallen so low, that it was hoped the disease would die out completely in another year or two. It did not do so, however, and more people probably had the grip last winter than any time since Psi5, as was witnessed both by the death rate and by the crowded condition of all the city hospitals. It is worth noting that the effect of the influenza of the past ten years has been almost exactly the same In other cities as in Nov York. A compilation recently matic by the Chicago health department shows the same increase in the death rate from pulmonary diseases since the influenza was imported, and the same increase in tho fatality of pneumonia. Between 1S51 and 1S:M. inclusive, there were in Chicago 25,719 deaths from consumption and lti.577 from pneumonia, whereas in the last decade there were 2.228 deaths from pneumonia and only 22.957 from consumption. The report of the State Board of Health, issued yesterday, shows that grip hap c 1 used about l.K0 deaths in the month of March, measuring the mortality from it chiefly by that of the acute respiratory diseases which it so often Lrings to a fatal entling. Seventy-six per cent, of the deaths from acute respiratory diseases were from pneumonia. DHIMv WATEIl FOR STIFF SECK. Washington IMiynicInn Sny Aqneoun Itemed- Ha Great Results. Washington Evening Star. "The simplest temporary cure for a stiff neck or any similar attack of the muscles anywhere," explained a well-known physician to a reporter, "is the very free drinking of water. A large glass full of water every half hour, or even oftener, should be taken, and the treatment kept up for at least half a day. This. It must be remembered, only cures the effects, and unless it is kept up for a long time will hardly get at the cause, which is now generally understood to be an excess of uric acid in the blood. The use of a 'very large amount of water has a tendency to dilute th blood and increase the supply of the lubricants about the sheaths of the muscles. It is the deficiency of those lubricants that proauces what arc known as stiff necks, stiff shoulders and the like. Nearly all of the socalled min- ral waters can be used, and those that have lime, iron, potash, lithia or sodium should be preferred if they are handy, but if none of them are getatable the ordinary drinking waters, hydrant, well or spring, can be used. The point is to get an extraordinary amount, so as to dilute the blood as rapidly as possible. I have no objection to the use of liniments or external use of lubricants, but water can be depended upon if persisted in to do almost the same thing. Medical treatment. If people do not care to keep up the water treatment, is necessary however, to keep from a recurrence of tho attack. I really think the succes of many of the famous water cures Is not the quality of the water used, but the quantity of It. None of the water cures would think of promising any cure or relief even in the use of three or four glasses of water in a day, but they have but little hesitancy in doing so if from thirty to forty glasses are used each day. For tho same reason if a cure is expected from drinking water a very large quantity of It must be drunk. Six hour.s' treatment, however, should cure the ordinary stiff neck." Fraud Alleged in Suit for $.t0O,(MO. SALT LAKE, Utah. July 27.-Suit was entered in th? Federal Court here to:day by Anson Phelps Stokes, of New York', in behalf of the Austin Mining Company, whose property is located in Nevada, against Allan C. Washington, of New York, ar.d Phro T. Farnsworth, of Salt Lake, asking for an accounting of the company's business. The amount involved is in the neighborhood of J.i').'X, and in his petition Stokes brings numerous charges of fraud and mismanagement against W ashington as president and Farnsworth as general manager of the company. Prune Mny Be Dearer. SAN JOSE. Cal., July 27. At a meeting of ihj executive committee f the Cured Fruit Association to-day all resolutions fixing the price of prunes were rescinded. This practically withdraws all prunes from the market for the ptent. The action was taken to take advantage of the ris? in prices caused by the drought In the East. Lockatep Abolished. CHICAGO. July 27. -The lockstep has ben formally r.boliehed in the Chicago House cf Correction by Superintendent John Sloan. Hereafter offenders confined there for any period of time will march two paces apart, heads erect, hands and arms by the fide, jd with the "keening time" step.

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S Excepting Scrlven 50c qualifies $1.00 qualities fl-jo qualities and in per cent, on all JJItUKEN LOTS ABOUT ONE - HOSIERY All Kinds, BATHING SUITS, COLLARS AND Yoiir Chance Get in Early MAMMOTH CAVE GUIDES SKILL, KMnYLEDtiE, i:DlHAXCE AXD COXVlHtSATIOXAL POWKItS, All Are Necessary to One "Who "Would He Successful Experiences of Some of the ?lrst Explorers. Kansas City Star Special. One spring morning in 1S09 a hunter of the name of Hutchins came upon a bear in a thicket on the banks of Green rivet r in Edmonson county, Kentucky. He shot the animal, but did not kill it. The bear was hit hard and made off through the brush -jvith the hunter Hutchins in close pursuit. The chase led along the banks of the winding river and ended suddenly in a cave the world-famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. The discovery of this wonderful cave, and the fame it afterwards gained, created a novel calling which has been followed by a class of men for years that of guiding people through the intricate and bewildering passages of this wonderful underground wilderness.- The old maxim "every man to his trade" fits the cave guides well. They must know their business thoroughly or they are not allowed to work at it. They spend months of apprenticeship in acquiring a knowledge of the work before they enter upon it. It is no small undertaking, this being a Mammoth Cave guide. To begin with they must be thoroughly conversant with the history of the place ia order to give the tourists they conduct through an intelligent account of it. Some of them are better rtory tellers than others, but they all have had enough experience to make it interesting for anyone. In addition to talking a great deal the guide has to sing on the Echo river in order to show off to good advantage its acoustic properties. After he starts the ball rolling the crowd takes it up and he gets a rest for awhile. He has plenty to do on the river besides singing, however; he has to manage a largo boat, of the scow variety, containing from live to twenty people, and to do this requires no little amount of sKill and muscle. He does not use an oar, but he carries a sharp-pointed stick with a metal tip which he digs into the mud banks or the overhanging rocks. He has to keep his weather eye on the members of his party to see that none cf them violate the conventions of the trip by endangering themselves or the rest ot the crowd. The sharp-pointed stick is utilized by the guide for several purr osts other than steerir.fe: the boat. He carries across his back a pack of Hengal lights, and kerosenesoaked twists of cotton waste, which he ues to illuminate certain portions of the cave. The manner of using these lights is to Ignite them from the ever present lamp everyone in the cave carries, nnd after it gets well started to burning, place it on the sharp end of the stick and Hing it to some ledge high overhead or tame distance beneath. "Sometimes the distance is twenty, thirty, or forty feet up, or probably fifty feet down. In either event the object place is in utter darkness. He has nothing by which to gauge his aim except his knowledge of the exact location of the ledge. He seldom fail3 to mrAe the first brand stick in the right spot. This performance of the guides never fails to arouse the wonder of the people who see them do it for the flist timefc The guides have a great deal of endurance. The long way through the cave is about sixteen miles, and the short way seven miles. They never miss a day taking one or the other and sometimes both. Children will often become exhausted and have to be carried by thern. Sometimes women give out and have to be assisted. Frequently a girl or woman with highheeled shoes gets her ankle turned under her. and an accident of this sort means st me heavy lifting for the guide. They go with all-sized parti?; from one person to 250. As many as 650 have been taken through the cave in a single day. 'There have been a great many ankles sprained in the cave on account of the rocks, but there has never been a serious accident of any character. Four people have died in the cave. Three of these were consumptive men who went there to live in the hope that the pure. light air would benefit their lungs. The stone houses whieh they erected and lived in for Ave months betöre they died are d;'ily viewed by people who go in. The fourth person to nie was a nan who drooped dead tro:n heart disease. He had just been married the lny before and was taking a trip with his bride. A great many people have been married in the cave. There is a natural formation resembling an altar, and as many as twclv couples have been united in a season at this point. The journey across the underground river Is one part of the trip that trite the nerv of the tourists. It is 350 feet below the surface. The darkness is dense, the atlliness profound. Awe Is written on the face of most people who see it for the first time. Yet two fellows decided recently that it would be a great lark to go swimming down there, and although the cuide protected, they went In and remained long enough to establish the claim of being the biggest foolc who ever traveled that way. On another occasion a party of ministers held prayer meeting on the river with ail lights out. They tell it that several of the brethren were so scared that their prayrs were very short, and their voices very shaky. The guides get to be good judges of human nature. Some of them have never been out of Edmondeon county, hut they have seen and talked with more of the world's great people than the average person who lived in the cities and traveled through ail the countries. This, is because tl ere is hardly a day passe that some distinguished person la not at th cave. They tell some good stories. They say Carnegie gave 50 cents and Tom Johnson, the mayor of Cleveland. J15. Tom said that a man certainly had to know his business to stumble around in the dark place. He wanted to know how much waKf they got. When they told him tZ a month and board, he said it wasn't enough for such expert service, and sweentend the boys up in good fashion. Helen Oould remembered thern handsomely, but William Jennings Ilryan limited his tip to 60 cents. By way of explanation and suggestion It is stated that 50 certs Is about what is expected from the man or woman in ordinary circumstances, nnd a dollar and upward from the well-to-do. Don't expect to carry out any souvenir rocks unless you remember the guide for at least 50 cents. The guides of the present day have a much easier time of it than those of years ago.

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o ra cl o f Ü WM.I.IAM Ai. AYIJLiUJI 56 FItzcerald Bulldinj:, The interior of the cave had been so lmpioved that it is much easier to get along The first guides who did the exploring were the fellows who had the hard joLs. Stephen Bishop, grandfather of Edwaid Bishop, one of the present guides, went across the bottomless pit on a sapling. He explored Echo river in a dry goods box. It took nerve to do things like that. The old guides would be In the cave for davs at a time on some of their exploring trips. Stephen, Mathew and Nick are all dead. 'William Garvin is the only one of the older set who is living. This old fellow has served as a guide for thirty years. During that time he has s:ent a half day or more underground with many of the world's celebrities, including Dom l'edro and Edward VII, King of England. TIIC WORLD'S UCIM.M:. Java litis Supplanted South America ns n Source of Supply. New York Mail and Express. The one staple drug that is now used the world over is quinine. Wherever there is fever or malaria there nature's antidote stand? ready to relieve the sufferer. From 1'atagonia to Alaska and from Ceylon to Siberia the prescription used oftenest is the white powYler that is the product of the cinchona tree. The discovery of quinine by the Spaniards in South America is an old story, but it is not generally known that the worid's present supply of quinine comes from the island of Java, where the cinchona tree is not indigenous, but was introduced only after many failure? and with infinite toil and patience on the part of the Dutch government. Fifty years ago a Dutchman named Hasskarl was sent to South America to obtain slips and seeds of the quinine tree. After many adventures and two years of wandering near the headwaters of tne Amazon, Hasskarl returned to Java with sixteen sapling. They were planted and flourished remarkably well, but when the bark was lirst taken, five years later, great was the disappointment to lind that Hasskarl had been duped and that the saplings were not cinchonas at all. Another attempt was mafie a few years later, when an English merchant, a Mr. Ledger, sold to the Dutch planters some cinchona sted he had obtained in Holivia. Twentv thousand Hees grew from Ledger's seed, and manv of them are still standing. The quinine forests are planted in clearings In the jungle and are kept as free from weeds as a flower garden In this country. Whn a tree is six years old it is cut down and a new slip planted alongside of its roots, so that the quinine supply is never diminished. The bark is stripped from the trunk by Javanese women. They cut it I::to short lengths and dry it. hrst in the tun and later in ovens. The dried bark is then put through a crude mill, which cuts it into small bits. These are shipped in bags to Amsterdam or Bandoeng, the center of the quinine Industry of Java. At the factory the bark is mixed with an alkaloid and ground again. It is then pumped into immense tanks tilled with hot crude petroleum, which dissolves the alkaloid from the bark. The oil In turn is washed out with sulphuric acid to remove the alkaloid, and the crude quinine crystallizes when it is cooled. The crystals are then placed in trays to dry. In 100-pound cms the finished quinine is now ready for the market. The cuttir.g down of the cinchona tree 13 the distinctive feature of Dutch quinine culture. The old South American method was to peel the bark and then wait four or live years until it grew on again. Hut this process proved too dow for cinchona gatherers, and during the last decade thousands of trees have been cut down without any new ones being planted in their places. As a result, the accessible quinine forests of South America are greatly depleted and comparatively little of the general supply comes from the part of the world where it was discovered. Quinine of an inferior quality comes from Ceylon, and the British government supplies its army and navy hospitals from plantations of its own in the Himalaya mountains. Pyridine That Hurtn. Philadelphia Record. "Wltii the advance of civilization, culture, enlightenment, and all that sort of thing." taid a cigarette, smoker, "the harrnle3anes of cigarettes come to be more and more widely accepted as a truth. The Lancet is the cigarette's latest advocate. You know, I trust, that paper? It Is the foremost medical publication In the world. The Lancet says that tne cigar Is the most injurious form of tobacco-smoking, that the plue comes next, and that cigarette is last. It is not the nicotine, says the Lancet, but the pyridine and Its relatives in tobacco that make smokinr harmful. Th? cigarette contains the hast pyridine, and the- ciarar the most. This substance is wht tUFc3 the I radaches. the giJdir.ess and the trembling with which some men are afflicted aftor an excessive use of the cigar or pipe. I am fla1 to see the cigarette championed by so weighty an authority as the Lancet, and 1 am going to fend a copy of thrf article to an anti-cigarette league that has been bothering1 me to Join." The Helludotlierluui. Philadelphia Record. The African quagga is extinct, and several families of antelopes have been wiped out of existence. Zebras are scarce; giraffes are few in number; the rhinoceros and hippopotamus are paarlng from view; but the helladotherium (hitherto only known through fossil remains round la

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