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Pacific Pressure Di.regardcd.

Yet. despite all these Instances. the
weight of authority is that while u block
ade when efrectual, will be respected as
a war measure. 1t may be disreGarded by
neutral nations when instituted as part
of a pacific pressure. The declaration of
Paris. of which we have heard so much
In connection with privateering. forbids
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-04-28
No.To-Isnc for Fifty Gents.

Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, MAKES ,. w., W..
men strong. blood pure. 5oc 81 AL uruss'~
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-04-28
nr,tlsh Authority Quoted.

As it happened. no ships other than
Greek attempted to enter Cretan ports
during the blockade and there was there
fore no test of the question whether this
blockade was binding on neutral govern
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congres. Take. Action.

As soon as It became known that Spain
had told our minister that war existed
congress at once recognized state of
war by passing an act authorizing the
president to prohibit expectation of coal
ind other contrabnnd of war. This bill
went through both houses In less than
ten minutes after its Introduction. It was
signed few moments before the mule
seizure at New Orleans. 1t was regarded
as this country's formal declaration of
war. The official declaration is meant for
the nations to which we have accredited
representatives.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-04-28
war Omclally pegins.

War between the United states ana
Spain officially began Thursday. Aprn ~
When It will end only the God OF N~ations ~
knows. How 1t will end Is siinp,es
question. The whole world VIII haSe
learned a lesson from 1t and the cause ot
freedom will point to new star IN tne
armament of liberty. As our heroes ou
land and sea pour to the 'front.' arms
eioft the glorious flag. yet unsuiiled r 10y Uy
defeat from n foreign foe and sun uh-
stained by the avarice of "Commercini IN
terests." they will be blessed with the
prayers OF nearly all the American people.
Spain Takes Initiative.
The first official act of war was commit
ted by Spain. Minister woodford ut Ma
drid was. without his own request. given
his passports and told to get OF spanish
soil. This. OF course. was tantnmount 10
n declaration OF war. Our minister was
not even allowed time TO deliver the ulti-
matum OF this government informing
Spain to evacuate Cuba before noon April
20. The Spaniards had already received
q copy of It from Polo Bernnbe. the
Spanish minister at Washington. 1t was
after sending this copy that Mr.: Polo
took leave of Washington. going to To-
ronto. Ont. where he will enjoy British
protection until Tho war Is over"
Tho Second Act of War.
The second act OF war was done by our
own government. The Spaniards had
purchased l.200 mules In this country for
use in Cuba. These were being loaded on
to the Catalina. n Spanish ship. at New
Orleans. About 2 o'clock Thursday the
Collector of Customs Mt that port official
ly informed the Master of the Catalina
that the mules already aboard his boat
should be ut once put ashore. The Collec-
tor at once sought out the Spanish Con-
sui. who protested. but cooled down when
informed that the mules were under seiz-
ure of our government rs contraband of
war. The Catalina sailed for Cuba with
out the mules
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10

Shows Particles Sand Wood Fiber Cotton Fiber Yeast and Bacteria Etc. ot of Bulk of Dust Was Organic Matter About 80 Per Cent Weight Was ganc. lmmen m o 0 YeastPa Baci
 posoningl posongl
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a turn from the big dry goods stores. and you will notice particles of dry manure, fragments of vegetable tis- sue, cotton, hairs of varying lengths and colors, sand, particles of clay, and. by the aid of a powerful microscope. innumerable mold spores, yeast and bacteria.
 Of most importance are the living germs. the microbes, bacteria, fungi, yeastS and molds, which, of course, are not evenly distributed.
 To get an idea of the number and va riety of germs floating In the air of our streets Petri dishes containing a sterile culture medium were put at various places people in the Western Addition are fa- vored by few bacteria while below Lot ta's fountain the wind has gathered myriads of micro-organisms.
 The Petri dishes are 31a inches in di- ameter, and were left uncovered for sixty seconds.
 Corner of Scott and Pine streets-41 bac- teria, 10 mold spores two varIeties), 2 yeasts tone white, one redl.
 Corner of Powell and Market-130 bac- teria, 2S mold spores -four varieties), 2 yeasts (two red five white).
 Lotta's Fountain-172 bacteria, Il mold spores (three varieties). yeasts Gone red, two white). mold spores (two varieties) yeasts
 Ladies waiting room, department storey bacteria, ? mold spores:
 The most abundant varieties of bacteria were the B. Colicomnarius, the B. Sub tilis, Sarcina lutae and Streptococcus. These suffice to show us the undoubted presence of many of the virulent patho- genie bacteria The mere fact of not finding the bacillus of tetanus does not prove that 1t is absent. and wound in-
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particles of sand, microbes, bacteria spores and fungi
 Considerable has been said of late as to the use of sea water for sprinkling the streets. This would, without doubt, add a certain amount of salt to the dust, but salt inhibits the growth of bacteria.
 Experiments have shown that sea water is not an antiseptic; In fact, a saturated solution of salt in water Is of no value as a germicide q don't say preservative) but investigations do show that sea water does not contain as many bacteria as an equal volume of fresh water, to say noth- ing of Spring Valley, and so far as is known, the micro-organisms of sea water are -pathogenic.
 In the interior of the State the purity of the air depends to some extent on the the wear of the summer breezes is more serious in its effect on our roads than the winters rains. The trend of a moun- tain road is marked on the distant hill- side by the red or brown dust on the roadside brush.
 The plant life of the country air is largely made up of pollen mold spores. bacillus subtilus and the sarcinae are most abundant.
 French investigators have done an im- mense amount of work in determining the number and varieties of microbes in the air and have determined the relation of the number of bacteria to disease.
 M MiqueI found near Paris in a single microbes in spring, 105 in summer, 112 in autumn and 49 in winter. In the streets of Paris the number averaged about $500 all the year round.
 Miquel proved by many experiments that microbes were much more abundant
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workers in cotton and flax mills are prone to phthisis. m CTS who are sick forty-two are suffering from pulmonary complaints, and nearly Il per cent from consumption.
 Wool workers breathe in, in the dust from the wool they sort, spores or the Anthrax bacillus. The Anthrax bacillus is a rod-shaped plant organism usually several times longer than a red blood corpuscle. It grows in chains-bacilli be- ing joined end to end-each bacillus form ing a spore which is extremely Stt resistant
 The most common lesion from this bacillus Is the malignant pustule, which, though a local sore, may be attended with symptoms of systematic infection, often proving rapidly fatal.
 Inhalation of the irritating particles of steel or other sharp dust into the lungs causes a constant catarrhal bronchitis and pneumonitiS, with an increase of connec- tive tissue. This prepares the lung to re- ceiye the ever,present tubercular dust and thus we have transition from bronchitis to consumption.
 In former years before the bacillus of tuberculosis had been discovered and con- sequently before the infectious origin of consumption had been dreamed of, it was customary to draw distinctions between the various kinds of phthisis caused, as ferent kinds of dust. Steel-grinders' asthma and miners phthisis were looked on as distinct diseases. It is now known that the inhalation of dust is the predis- posing cause and that the more irritating the dust the more active and persistent will be the consequent bronchial catarrh which causes the first lesonS of the mu- cous membranes in which the tuberce bacilli soon find lodgment.
 Of all the diseases peculiar to the occu- patton or environment of the laborer, the highest mortality is from the effects of dust and its etiological relation to phthi- sis.
 Kruger has shown that the dust of a hospital ward in which patients with pull monary consumption had expectorated occasionally upon the floor contained tu- bercle bacilli. This was proved by wiping washing this out in bouillon and injecting this into the abdomen of guinea pigs Two animals out of sixteen so infected became tubercular
 At the City and County Hospital of San Francisco in Dr. Hirschfelder's consump- tion ward, in the past five years four of the interneS have been infected with tu- berculosiS. The dust of this ward Is un- doubtedly tubercular, and the good name of San Francisco demands that this foul relic of early days be cremated and a. hospital more worthy the name of San Francisco be erected either on the same or more suitable grounds.
 Theater-owners should be required to furnish better ventilation Fresh air in large quantities should be forced through cotton filters and into the audience room, at least fifteen cubic feet per hour for each individual admitted
 Floors should be painted and washed, not swept or, if swept. large quantities of wet sawdust should first be spIinkled over the floor.
 E. s. PILLSBURY, M. D.
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from the mouth of a frog. and as the mo- ton of the cilia may be observed for some time under the microscope, 1t proves that this action is, in a measure, independent of the animal from which 1t was taken and gives support to those who think that the body is made up of a series of inde- pendent organisms.
 The action of these cilia is always in one direction, and tends to push minute particles out of the lung toward the mouth. In this way the bronchial pas sages are kept clean, but 1t is of greatest importance that they should not be over worked and the passages become clogged.
 Here in San Francisco We are not much troubled by smoking factory chimneys, so we may have some small consolation because this is not more of manufactur- ing city But what particularly interests us is the composition of the dust and ulrt laden winds that sweep. down Market street and play such frolics with the skirts at the corners.
 Look carefully at the dirt that lodges In my ladys hair and on her cape after
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surface is collected the remaining dust that has passed through the tortuous channels of the nose and bronchi.
 The dust that stops in the bronchial tubes does not, under normal conditions, stay there, however. The trachea and bronchial tubes down to the smallest bronchia are lined with ciliated epithel- ium cells. These cilia, hairlke projections from these cells, are regarded as active prolongations of the cell protoplasm. The movements of these cilia are not con- trolled by the nervous system, and their movement is ceaseless during life.
 A few of these cells may be scraped
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an almost daily occurrence. It may give' employment to large number of de-t serving men, but, from business stand point. they might almost as well be Work-' ing a treadmill. The streets should be- sprinkled in the evening after the wind goes down, and swept while still wet. On street-sweeper Is a nuisance and ought to be abolished. The light dirt he stirs up Is blown into the eyes and lungs of every start to sWeep a lot of dirt from the slot to ''t the g gutter. and before the gutter was reached it would all be blown away, to the disgust of individuals further down the street.
 On A busy afternoon at big dry goods store the dust Is continually stirred from the floor by the swish of skirts As high as 5000 particles settling on square men in five minutes exposure gives some idea of the quality of the air. This dust IS made up of shreds of cotton, linen. feath- CTS, hairs, epithelium cells, wood fbers,
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CONSUMPTION MICROBES ARE NOT PLEN-
 TIFUL IN OUR STREETS.

It gratifying to note that in all his examinations nearly plates Dr. Pillsbury did not find single baci tuberculosis consumption germ. This, however does prove that there in the dust of streets that they plentiful is generally supposed But Dr. Psbury has since found by experiment that the bac do not live than couple of hours if expectorated sidewalk where the them For unknown sunshine is death bacli of consumption. The degree of heat produced by sunshine will only serve to increase their activity the dead bacii not at all desirable for they capable of producing bad However found, the others not likely to do much damage.
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fected with this dust would not cause lockjaw; or that we might breathe in tubercle bacilli from some of the dried visiting physician and surgeon, If he values the life of his patient, cleans his hand most scrupulously before and after n anY Outside to aoo1o disease. In this way the death rate due to childbed fever and kindred infections has been reduced 90 per cent.
 Sweeping the dried droppings of horses on a dry, windy afternoon, into small heaps for future removal. is a farce of
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10
GRIT FOUND IN THE LUNGS ON POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF A SAN FRANCISCO MAN.

This consisted mainly of sand and gravel in small bits blow about in the air that caused "a tearing of the delicate lung surfaces which left them open to the infection that caused death
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dwelling rooms the number was eight times and in hospitals twelve times the number in the open air Miquel proves that the places where there are the most microbes are the centers of infectious dis ease. The curves of mortality, to great extent, correspond with the curves of the numbers of microbes la the air.
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rs do not use enough water on our

CTS do not use enough water on our streets.
 One rather surprising find was the large number of bacilli tetanus. These showed up on over half the plates. This germ is what causes lockjaw and the only reason the disease is not more common is because so few children run barefooted. A wound from a nail that has lain on Market street week or so would be almost sure to cause the disease.
 number of other sickening germs were found, including the strepto coci bacilli. This is capable of causing blood poisoning should 1t by chance come in contact with a cut or bruise
 In a way none of these germs are to be feared by a healthy person, but there is no doubt but that they are harmful and cause much of the ind1s- position and sick feeling that so many people complain of. It is also sure that they aggravate any disease, es- pecially consumption. In this respect they are most deadly. Even the pres ence of the tetanus in slightly dis eased lung cannot fail of producing harmful effect. It will surely make the disease worse and weaken the sys tenn when there might be hope. What then, must be the effect of a combi- nation or all the Ol0eT SeTIllS III SdIu hair, gravel etc., that flies through the air on a windy day. It is no wonder our climate does not produce the cures of consumption that it did a number of years ago. Our streets are too dirty.
 Of all the inside places containing bad air the theaters were the worst. The crowds of people come In and shake the dust of the street from their clothes into the warm air to be breathed over and over again. Every theater in the city showed an improper ventilation.
 On account of the high winds pre- vailing here San Francisco's streets really need a great deal of sprinkling. And they get very little. The dryness of our thoroughfares is remarked by all travellers. There is no large city in the civilized world where the streets are as dry as in San Francisco, and they ought to be kept sopping wet all the time.
 Following is technical review of the examination of air and dust of San Francisco and its bearing on pulmon- ary diseases, written for The Call by Dr. Pillsbury:
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Twenty -four members of the House of Commons are total obstainers.
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matism, digestive disorders and anaema. The scourers suffer most from dust, but workmen in other branches also breathe a dust-laden air"
 'The symptoms of potters lung diseases are not especially destructive. They are those of chronic bronchitis and asthma, passing into tuberculosis
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~ TATISTICS are now being kept as
 to the preponderance of lung dis
 eases among city people over their country fellows. From post NJ mortem examination of the lungs
 one as expert as Conan Doyles detective, Sherlock Holmes, might deter mine almost the exact location of the greater part of the individuals life. If he were from the coal regions of Penn svlyania or from those of Alameda County. by the difference of the grade of the carbon deposited in the lung the ex- nert might determine his environment
 The coal mines, however are not alone in producing the deposit of carbon lining the air cells of the lungs and producing what is known as anthracoss. The soot of such manufacturing cities as Pittsburg or London not only deposits Its black mark on the buildings and the leaves of trees. but the wall of the innermost air cell of the lungs retains its share of this soot
 workmen returning at night from the Union Iron Works or watched the village blacksmith who breathes the smoke of his forge may have noticed the black, soot- lined nostrils, which give a hint of the blackness further in toward the air cells
 When we realize that an adult at rest breathes about 6S6 900 cubic inches of air about 15S6 300 cubic inches-more than double the amount-it is easy to see how the lungs get such a black lining
 There are 5000 900 to 6,000.000 air cells in the lungs, with an estimated surface of twenty square feet. and on this moist
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a GLOBE SIGHTS.

What has become Of the oid-fashloned
woman who was afraid Of her husband?
Most girls sell concert tickets because
they are told, by the managers that they
are pretty and popular. =, &
A little Atchlson girl recently gave a
a party, her mother limiting the guests
to ten. The little girl invited nine boys
and one girl.
When an unmarried mans clothes
show button off, how the sight of 1t
makes a woman's fingers, Itch for a
needle! .ss.l5s55 l.i u
When O woman laughs at her hus-
bands jokes it as often indicates that
she realizes the Importance OF keeping
him good humored as that she loves
him. u a.
Society girls should remember that
they will soon be twenty-eight years old
and looking for q Job.
When a girl takes care Of the altar
linen at church is safe to wager that
she spends no time on the linen at home.
This muddy weather is Just what was
needed to give the girl who got a silk
petticoat for Christmas q chance. 80
An Atchison girl who has had expert
ence says she would rather not have a
sweetheart than be "joked" about It.
Every one seems to think that love
affair Is a great joke, and you bet it isl
Atchison; Globe. az Il
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has AFFORDED US In the shape OF q forth,
cation Of hillsthat break me h force q ths

The President Of the United States,
Icanno. confer a greater honor on the.
state OF West Virginia than by accepting
the Invitation TO be present at the ctm-
mencement exercises, Of her chief edu.
cational Institution. The hope that he
Will consent 10 De the guest of honor at
the University in June, will De Joined iii
BY all citizens. 3 a.. ..l.4.t
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WHAT THE BACHELOR SAYS.

Love was made blind so It could not
see how beautiful 1t was.
There is only one thing sweeter to n
woman than an offer Of marriage, and
that is another one. q. 81,
Probably the strongest instinct man
possesses is to turn up his coat collar
when he needs shave. rs.
Until man has been married he
never can realize that 4 woman can feel
better because she cries.
Probably none OF the women who be-
lieve in Christian science have faith
enough to stick the stamp on O letter
before they write the address. +.
Whenever You see man trying to go
around with haunting look in his
eyes you may know some woman has
told him she always thought he. had n
h!story.--New York Press. 5. 80
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Scnntor ElkinN Why.

Z \ = . I--H
Parkersburg State Journal: AS the
Intelligenceri well says. Senator Elkins
has way of simplifying any business
proposition involving the welfare of the
government. For instance. his four
propositions to relieve the currency Of
its complication will solve the worst
features OF the problem. II they arc re-
jected. they will serve at least to
Smoke out the radical silverltes who
are sailing under the flag OF bimetal-
lisnn. and compel them to show their
hands," and they will show, beyond the
shadow of q doubt, that the free silver
senators want absolutely free silver,and
nothing else. and that bimetalIism in
my form will not satisfy them. for
their purpose is to Danish gold from the
country entirely. That is the kind Of
"bimetallists" the free silver senators
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The extraordinarily attendance at the
Indianapolis monetary conference, and
the enthusiasm which prevailed, are In
.dlcations that the friends OF sound
currency have not relaxed their. efforts,
and that they are thoroughly alive to the
situation. The cheap money theorists
are determined not to abide by the over
whelming verdict OF the people rendered
at the polls in 1896, and have renewed
the business disturbing agitation with a
view to future campaigns.
Decisive as the victory for the financial
honor Of the country was in the last
campaign, It was not complete enough
TO prove guarantee of cessation OF
the agitation by the theorists. nor to
make 1t possible. owing to the complex
ion Of the 'senate for the friends of sound
money to effect the reforms in the coun-
try necessary to place our financial sys-
TEN on firm and permanent basis.
A realization OF this fact seems to
have inspired the sound money elements
throughout theEcountry to. keep their
lines we'll to the front against the at
tacks that are still being made on the
national credit by the allied FORCES OF
Demo-Populism. The influence and work
OF the national monetary organization
in behalf Of currency reform has been
most r,n m otfu1 :, 4 will rso,ttpna tx, Ia =,
The. members are thoroughly in earnest,
and the indianapolis convention OF this
year Is no less important than It was last
year. No individual factor in the war
for the maintenance Of sound currency
system, and for reforms that will rem
der 1t more firm. is more potent than this
organization, and none is destined to be
more active in future campaigns.
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