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The Portland daily press., 1893-06-21
CASHIER KENT GAMBLED.
His Poker Losses He Could Stand But
Speculation Undid Him.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
ELLSWORTH SUFFERS.

Cashier Kent Speculated With the Banks
Money-He Lost and Lost Until Con-
cealment Was No Longer Possible
Then He Told the DisgracefuI Story
He Came to Portland and Wrote His
Confession - His stea1ings Aggregate
$1S,50O-The Bank Is AL Right,
The Portland daily press., 1893-06-21

The Defendant and Her Counsel Nearly
Overcome by Emotion When They
Heard the Words Which Set Her Free
Spectators Cheered and Waved Their
Observation-Disclosures Jury Was Out
an Hour and a Quarter-Closing Scenes
of the Great Trial.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

at Fort Pulaski, at the mouth Of the
Savannah River, Ca, and Camp Low,
outside Of New York, of last summers
bitter memory.
In the entire marine hospital service
there are now employed upward of 500
persons, mostly highly skilled and
trained men, distributed among the
quarantine stations and marine hospi-
tails. DR.. Walter Wyman is the sur
geon general in command of this serv-
ice, and his assistants are Surgeons H.
w. Austin, F. w. Mead, J. J. Kinyoun,
and G. 7. Vaughan. Besides there are
sixteen other graduated surgeons,
twenty-five passed assistant surgeons,
eighteen assistant surgeons, seventy
six acting assistant surgeons, and thirty
hospital stewards. The remaining $50
persons are nurses, attendants, seamen,
and quarantine officers of various
grades.
The Quarantine Fleet.
The quarantine service has at it's dis
posal a fleet, of six finely equipped YES
sells. Four are disinfecting steamers
the Pasteur, the Robert Koch, the
WEIGH, and the George M. Sternberg,
fitted with sulphur furnaces, tanks and
other apparatus for fumigation. The
other two are superb sea-going steam
ers - the Dagmar and the Charles
Foster. The Dagmar is on duty at the
Delaware breakwater and the Charles
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02
Days of Small Things.

Long before the Revolution a young
printer in Philadelphia, when he haG
taken off his working apron at night,
used to sit porting over his dozen Of
old volumes by freight. He soon
knew them by heart, and hungered
for more. But books were costly, and
he had but little money.
He had eight or ten COMMISSIONING
men who, like himself, were eager for
knowledge. Ranging his books on a
shelf, he invited his friends to do the
same, that each of them might have
the benefit Of them all.
Ben Franklin thus laid the founda-
tion of the first circulating library,
and now one of the largest in this
country.
Thirty years ago a kindly German
pastor, moved to pity by the condi-
tion of the homeless orphans in the
city in which he lived, took three Of
them into his own home, appealing
to Christians for aid to feed and
clothe them, and to educate them
into useful, good citizens.
Three great orphan asylums in diff
ferent cities Of the West are the re-
suit of this little effort.
A good woman in Philadelphia,
twenty odd years ago, asked two or
three of her friends to join her in
renting little room where they
could meet occasionally to drink a
cup of tea, and consult together how
to help other women whose lot in the
world was harder than their own.
Out of that little room has grown
the stately New Century Club with
its collateral Guilds, Glasses and
Clubs of workingwomen, which have
helped and strengthened many thou
sands.
Many readers who live in inland
towns are bewildered when they visit
the cities by the great libraries, hos
pitfalls, associations for charity, edu-
cation or mutual aid, and wish hope
lessly they had the same helps to
broader and higher life in their own
homes.
Let them begin with a little effort,
and persist in their good work. Some
good will come from every attempt Of
this kind. The most firmly grounded
institutions are those which grew out
of poverty slowly, and were not built
to order. Youths Companion.
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SIBERIA NOT A DESERT.

It's Valleys as Fertile as Those of Vest
ern America-Great Railroad System.
Siberia, coupled as it's name is with
stories OF Russian barbarity, is not
the barren, terrible land of limitless
deserts which fiction and the drama
have pictured it. The building of
the trans-Siberian railway and the
extension Of lines along the north
ern frontier of China will greatly
change the entire drama of civiliza-
ton. The railroad from Vladi-
vostock to the Ural Mountains will
bring that great Russian naval sta
ton within fourteen days journey
of st. Petersburg, and along this
route stations will rapidly grow into
towns and offer opportunities for
new and striking development.
Russia's enterprise, says the Hart
ford Globe, stimulates that Of China,
not only as a matter Of competitive
ambition but for strategic reasons.
The railways now being surveyed
and completed within the Celestial
Empire are numerous, and to this
end many foreign engineers are en-
ployed. Soldiers and cOnyicts are
largely employed as workmen, thus
cheapening the cost of labor as far
as possible. The trans-Siberian rail-
way extends to length of nearly
5000 miles, and it is expected to cost
5000, 0OO,O 900. 1t is divided into six
sections, each section comprising
three or more divisions, and the con-
tracts for building is given to these,
thus employing large number Of
contractors for limited distances.
1t is mistake to suppose that ST.
IBERIA is a desert, or a glacier, or q
mountain fastneSs, or incapable of
being made habitable. The valleys
are level plains, and said to be as
fertile as the western portion of the
United States, and it is not unlike
the West in the variety of it's re-
sources-in minerals, timbers and in
agricultural facilities. 1t is a mar
vel0us treasure-troye of stored-up
opportunities. Its wealth is practi-
cally unlimited. With the advan-
tages of railroad communication and
telegraph lines, vast country is
added to the world of civilization.
The cultivation Of the land and the
introduction Of all the elaborate ma
chinery of enlightened life will, as
scientists depict, modify the rigors Of
the climate, although in Southern
Siberia even this obstacle does not
exist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02
Foster is ct the Cape Charles quaran-

Foster is at the Cape Charles quaran-
tine.
The quarantine process employed by
the marine hospital service consists of:
First, overhauling suspected vessels,
their inspection, detention, and fumiga-
tion,, the distinction Of passengers,
baggage or cargo, ano the transfer OF
sick persons to the quarantine hospi-
tails and immuring of suspects in bar
racks. The fumigating act prescribed
by the Treasury Department is per-
formed with chloride of mercury. sui
phurous oxide and steam heat, together
with cleansing and flushing with sea
water. Not only are cargoes subjected
to this disinfection. but baggage and
personal effects, and also the persons of
certain classes OF suspects. The proper
vessels, lighters, launches, buildings,
piers, wharves, and appliances for this
work are provided at all the established
quarantine stations.
Anticipating Invasion.
Last summers cholera excitement
was the first experience our national
quarantine service has had with a
foreign infection in epidemic form since
the memorable yellow fever visitation
of 1878. 1t is not known to the world.
marine hospital service foresaw the
cholera invasion and prepared to meet
it as far ahead as October, 1891, when
the pestilence prevailed only in Asiatic
Turkey. Steps were taken then at the
ports of Marseilles and Client, where
rags were transhipped from the infected
territory for export to America, to prose-
cute, through our consuls, rigid disin-
lection. But irrepressible commercial
interests, conflicts of authority and
jurisdiction and want of conference in
the quarantine. regulations prevented
absolute thoroughness in this work, SO
that when, in July and August last, the
pest invaded our own shores the quar-
antine authorities were obliged to put
forth the most strenuous exertions to
secure in this country only partial
escape from the scourge that then
afflicted France. Austria and Germany,
notably Hamburg; and they would not
have been even thus partially success
full had not the President issued his
proclamation suspending all immigra-
ton for twenty days. The stirring
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

harrier of defense the United states
nav add to it five feet more II neees-
sary. r.r+;ne sta.
+;ons already established one is located
atTana Charles, with hospital at Fish
"rnan.s island. Va; another is located
e 81 tha Delaware breakwater, with hos
n;tal near Lewes. Del; another. the
S S,.a Atlantic quarantine, is on sapoio
so,,nd with hospital at Blackoeard
9 1o,anS Ca: still another, the Key Vest
anarantine with hospital attachment, IS
w d"1 nrr Tortugas Island. Fla, occupy,
ins old Fort jefferson; the fifth, called
t .hs emf quarantine, is on the Chande-
leur Islands, twenty three miles ; Oh ' nu
co.st of Mississippi. with hospleai Oh
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events of that period are still wildly re-
membered by our constructing people
with a sense Of dread of what may yet
be in store next summer.
DR.. Wyman. the Surgeon General in
charge of the Federal quarantine SER
vice, is Of the opinion that mighty bat
tie will have to be waged throughout
the coming spring and summer against
the foreign enemy.
The opinions of DR.. Wyman and
all other sanitary experts could
be put thus in a dozen syllables:
With proper precautions, comparative
safety; without them, the gravest danger
and fierce battle.
OF course the measures proposed and
advocated do not for a moment con-
template the exclusion of visitors to the
Worlds Fair from unaffected ports and
in good sanitary condition. It is rather
to prevent conditions that would i'm
peril the success of the Fair and deter
prospective visitors from coming to
America that the precautionary meas
ures are proposed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

is no distinctive Federal quarantine
law, but this arises out of the compare
tive incompleteness of the present sys-
tenn, and the lack of harmony between
the Federal and State regulations and
the methods of their execution. The
growing tendency toward Capitalization
carries with it the idea and purpose or
making the national system paramount
and independent of the State systems.
The law of 1878, it is true, gives extern
sive quarantine powers to the marine
hospital service. but these powers are
restricted by q proviso that the national
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

pressure is now being
|gTed upon Congress from every sec
|aO this country to do its duty in the
|a regard, and it seems almost GER
4 that a wise measure, comprehen-
enough to meet all the require
ls OF the situation, will be framed
agreed upon. With ample precau-
by the United States Govern
Dot, under a thorough and uniform
Gem ard intelligent administration,
our Official sanitary authorities say,
nlSa chance of keeping the cholera
but without sufficient provision to
and fight it tho danger of it's re-
arancc in virulent form is exceed
imminent.
0M present indications it would APP
10 be forcgone conclusion that
aeyer system may be agreed upon
resent organization of the Marine
ElaI service and Federal quaran-
Will be made its nucleus and basis,
nd which all necessary amplitica-
Sean be grouped and upon which
.%dtu supcrstructures can be built.
ABSENCE of any specific legisla-
the contrary, the task of pro-
lS the country will fall upon the
Nt Federal quarantine service.
Federal quarantine service is but
ngc'Iy understood and appreciated
5noOt the country, and consider
irritation has resulted in conse-
w between it and certain local
,none boards. The Federal quar-
S1nd Marine Hospital Service were
!" oy law as far back as 1898 and
'IN nave been from time to time
%~E extended since. The original
hospital service was designed
VaFe OF sick and disabled seamen
,S remote from their homes. In
, was reorganized and placed upon
~y1r footing as bureau of tho
%l department. The old quaran-
, %.D'S OF 1899 provided for the OBJ
%' VI state health regulations by
~ oneers, and gave the Presi-
a, ,De united States the power to
VI erect quarantine ware
M a10 10 remove certain branches
, Sya,egFhment to places of safety
] F"cmIcs of contagious disease.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

one at Baltimore, Md, and one at VIII
mington, N. C. The district Of the
Gulf embraces three hospitals, at Key
West, Fla, Mobile, Ala. and New Or
leans, La. The district of the Ohio
comprises three also, one at Louisville,
Nv, one at Cincinnati, Ohio, and one
at Evansville, Ind. The district Of the
Mississippi likewise includes three,
namely, at st. Louis, Mo-. Memphis.
Tenn, and Cairo, Ill. Then, there is
the district OF the great lakes. with
hospitals at Chicago, Ill.,, and Detroit,
Mich, and, lastly. the district of the
Pacific. with hospitals at San Francisco
and Port Townsend. Wash. In addi-
ton to the regularly established quar-
antine plants are the improvised camp
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

southern coast; the Gulf quarantine the
ports from Florida to Texas; the Port
Townsend and San Francisco quaran-
tines the upper Pacific coast, where
there is danger of cholera from China
and Japan; and the San Diego quaran-
tine the lower Pacific coast, which must
be guarded against infection from the
ports Of South and Central America and
the Southern Pacific Islands.
The marine hospitals proper, which
can be utilized in the treatment of iso-
lated cases of cholera inland, are nine
teen in number, grouped into eight
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

S,s os VI lN'S, 10 prevent the in
: vas, yoo'aStous and infectious
! 1qrt< sv'S arriving from infected
sGasnISs are 10 be kept out. United
NuG%s,,aar are required to report
&e Mann at such ports and to
|sa,nrn" Hospital Service OF
EGS,,. VI infected vessels, and
IRt wv "'e quarantine are empow-
faaI -, Emergencies as officers of
[&ssrr :. STATIONS.
h. F me marine hospital serv-
setba,S oeral quara ntine were
ssSrra, 4 National Board of
. rrsr a'ed IN 1879, with limited
! Coaproons"tIves, but by the re-
IaeSSnrsasss subsequently, to pro-
e1i~iNvrnSeS it ceased to have
scaI nee o, BY the act of 1888
ri sp5 quarantine stations were
aarhp Placed under the con-
he no re hospital service. All
aS tbon,'n active operation.
eeS conSe'Ves and the rami-
IA saf e'eu with them form
'Soards which the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

United States Government possesses
against foreign infection at this time.
The headquarters of the service are
In Washington. d. c., in what is known
as the Butler" building, an imposing
granite structure recently purchased by
the Government, directly facing the
Capitol on the south. There is the nerve
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

tects the cities and towns on the Chesa-
peake Bay and it's tributaries, including
the cities OF Norfolk, Richmond and
Hampton, Va, together with Washing
ton and Baltimore. The Delaware
breakwater quarantine protects Phila-
delphia and Chester, Pa, Camden, N.
j., and Wilmington, New Castle and
Lewes, Del The South Atlantic and
Key West guarantees protect the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02
Gee Whiz!

Electricity, where unretarded by
atmospheric influences, travels at the
rate Of 2SS. 900 miles a second. Along
a wire it u.s.. of course. vastly slower;
a perceptible period of time is occu-
pied by the electric current in send
ing kilograms over long distances.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

quarantine regulations must not inter
fore with the State and local quaran-
tines. There is nothing in this provlso'
however, to prevent the General Gov
eminent from exercising even greater
Quarantine restraints than the States
NAV impose, the principle being that
while the States may erect ten-looI
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02
The Scourgc and the Fair.

The Scourgc and the Fair.
ViIl the cholera invade the United
s,tes in '93 to decimate our population
ND 7lay havoc with the Worlds Fair?
liam It be kept out altogether, or will it
allowed to get a foothold and exceed
|ap Distressing experiences of last sum-
~sr, What safe guards can be provided,
| nd what means will be the most effect
! =, These are the questions upper
,ost in the public mind.
Various precautionary measures are
a,rrsted, and it will be strange in
sd if, out of the abundance of ideas
fred and experience brought to bear,
anne adequate system is not evolved
nedily for the protection of the ma
nm from the dreaded scourge. The
grfsh Government has determined to
,moint a cholera survey with a view to
Tparng for the impending epidemic.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

North Chandelier Island. La: the sixth
is the San Francisco quarantine, the
finest in the world, at Angel Island,
CAL; the seventh is at San Diego, Cal. !;
and the eighth and last one is at Port
Townsend. Wash.
Ports Protected.
The Cape Charles quarantine pro-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

center of the entire Federal quarantine
and marine hospital service. From this
building emanate all orders regarding
the movements of quarantine vessels
and the operations of the several sta
tons, and there the whole intricate ma
chinery of the system is supervised and
manipulated.
National and State Services.
The assumption is common that there
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Light Mortality.

Vienna papers are commenting
proudly upon the extraordinary
healthfulness of Olmutz, city Of
q, 900 inhabitants, but one Of whom
died in the twenty-four days follow
ing Oct. II. The undertakers are
not joining in the jubilee to any ex-
tent
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

separate geographical districts. The
North Atlantic district includes three
hospitals, located, respectively, at Bos-
ton, Mass, Portland, Me-. and Vine
yard Haven, Mass. The middle At
lantic district contains only one hos
pital, that on Staten Island. n. Y. The
South Atlantic district includes two,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02
Nav They All be Lucky.

The members of club Of rich
young men in Venice are pledged to
marry poor girls.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02
7oFIGHT THE CHOLERA
-op QUARANTINE AND MARINE
HOSPITAL SERVICE.

,,,cer that Cholera May Come-What
vsst BE Done to Prevent the Epidemic
fam Reaching Our ShOres-Legislatio
check Immigration.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-02-02

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-01
ARRESTED FOR WRESTLING.

REASONABLE Tunes Are Not Allowed In
Germany.
Americans have little conception OF
what may constitute reasonable Of
Tense in some of the countries of the
extremely military. There recently
occurred at Barr, in Alsace, q trial
which must have been very amusing
to an American who might have wit
messed it, if mans liberty had not
been in jeopardy.
One day not long ago, says the Chi
cago Inter Ocean, in the streets of
Barr, laborer, who was engaged in
loading a wagon, whistled cheerfully
at his work. AS he was thus engaged
gendarme, or military policeman,
came within hearing. The workman,
apparently preoccupied, kept on with
his whistling.
81 arrest you," said the gendarme,
coming up and putting his hand on the
workingmen's shoulder.
"What for?" asked the man, aston
ished
For seditious whistling. You have
been whistling the 'Marseillaise.
The "Marseillaise" being the French
national air, and revolutionary air
besides, is forbidden in German Al
SAGE.
But the workman exclaimed: "Oh,
no. you are mistaken! It isn't the
'Marseillaise' at all that l am whist
ling, but the March of the Brunswick
Kussars.' I used to belong to tho
brunswick Hussars, and that was our
regimental tune"
The gendarme, who was German,
and thought he knew one tune from
another, took the workman under ar
rest, and in due time he was brought
into court charged with disloyalty in
whistling seditious air in public
place.
Both the gendarne and the accused
told their stories very confidently. and,
as the workman was reputed an honest
and loyal man, the court was very
much perpleXed between the two men
and the two tunes.
In this predicament the court adj
journed to the council-room adjoining,
and, calling in the accused and the ac-
cuser in turn, made the workman
whistle the March Of the Brunswick
Hussars," and the gendarme the MAR
seillaise."
Each did his best; but the tunes
proved in the ear of the court to be SO
much unlike that it was regarded as
improbable that the gendarme could
have been mistaken.
The accused was therefore sent to
prison; but his general bearing, and,
above all, his excellent whistling, had
affected the court SO favorably that he
was sentenced to only three days iua-
prisOnmeut
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-01
A olsAGREEABLE FAMILIARITY.
Mr. Greathead Objects to Some Few
Things and Apparently to Good Z feet.

Mr.. GreatEead Objects to Some Few
Things and Apparently to Good feet.
ct is most singular" said Mr.. Great
head, that some people have the pow
er of making themselves disagreeable
and offensive in such variety of ways
] recall an example of this in connec-
ton with nv new suit of clothes
Now. l can not dress in the height Of
fashion. On the contrary. ! am man
whose object in life is TO attract as lit
tie attention as possible. For this rea-
son. although not having correct IA stes
in the matter OF wearing apparel.
make use of my faculties as keen OBJ
server, and generally succeed in being
dressed with some regard to the pre-
vailing mode.
II purchased a new suit OF clothes
the other day at a ready-madc estab-
lishment. u was neat but no: gaudy.
and arrared il il / would not have at
tracted attention on Fifth avenue as N
ifv dressed man. In fact, I rather
prided myself upon my selection. |
have seldom seen suits for eight dollars
and fortv-five cents. waich were SO neat
and welI-ftting. No sooner had ] ar
rived a. my place OF business that day
than / was accosted nv one Of nv ac-
olaiu:aree.. who is peculiarly versatils
IN his oTensiveness Hello. Great
head" he yelled. heard you coming
for blocks By gee. you look like
fifteenth century astroloCer covered
with consultations and horoscopes
Fits like the sarpaulin over truck on
a wet DAY Who built it% Then he
deliberately turned down my eoss col
lar until be could see the Label stitched
"a the lining. and IN q loud voice pro-
claimed the name OF the rezdy-mAde
eio.i.ing dealer from whom had pr
chased .hc suit
"Eoz-evsr. have caused TIA. man 20
discontinue one vvsy % making himself
offensive he hes informed the attend
ants OF the hospital where he is spend
ing he summer that ke viii never
again make remarks a1oat eecensr.ei-
les & GxesA ~. 7. Tribune