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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-11-06
Cotton Mitrksts.
lBy telegraph

NEW YORK-The Cotton market to-day was
steady: middling uplands 9-16 gull 1916;
sales 142 bales.
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Portland marKet--cnt loaf &c; confectioners
SC; powdered at 6tac: granulated at 0ci coffee
crushed &C ;yellow 4lsc.
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HARPSWELL STEAMBOAT co.

will leave Portland Pier. Portland. daily, Sun
days excepted, at 400 p. m. for Iona island.
Little and Great Chebeague, GIN Island, so.
Harpsweil Bailey's and Orr's Islands.
Return for Portland. leave Orr's lslandand
above landings 100 Q. m. Arrive Porti and
septsodf ISAIAH DANIELS. Gen Mgr.
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Portland & RumfOrd Falls Ry.


In Effect Oct. =. 1890.
DEPARTURES
$50 A. NJ and ITO 2. NJ. From Union station
for Poland. Mechanic Falls. Buckheld- Can
ton. Dixneld and Rumford falls.
$50 a. n. Ito and AIS u. m From Union
Station for Mechanic Falls and intermediate
stations
lilo y. m. train connects at Rumiord Falls for
Bemis and ltangeley Lakes.
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E;EIIIllliI!lIIiH4iE
TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND

TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND
For Lewiston, $40 a m. 80. 400, 900 y. m.
For Island Pond. $40 a. u., 80. $500 p. m.
For Montreal, Quebec, Chicago, 10 a. m,
200 p. m. reaching Montreal at 100 a. m
and 100 q. m.
TRAINS ARRIVE PORTLAND
From Lewiston. $40 ii.ao a. M. 645 and 645
y. IN.
From Island Pond, $50, 1i.3o a. m, 645
y. N.
From Chicago, Montreal, Quebec, 1910
q. m, 6.45 p. IN.
sDaily. Other trains week days.
Sunday train leaves Portland every Sunday
for Lewiston. Gorham and Berlin NJ 7.s0 a. m.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on night
trains and Parlor Cars on day trains.
Ticket Once, Depot at foot of India
Street. o,t23du 4.
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European Market.

LIVERPOOL. November4. 1s99.-The Cotton
market is steady; American middling Ii 5d
sales 5000 bales.
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HlueA

HidsA
The following quotations represent the pay
ing prices In this market;
Cow and steers ............... ..71S y N
Bulls ana SUI soH2'
Skins-No 1 Qualily ..s......s.... loc
NO. ,.... ..s.6
Nos &c
Culls .....-.s.s ....-............. 2ba 90
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ALLAN LINE
Royal Mail steamers, Montreal
and Liverpool.
Calling at Quebec and Derry
From
Liverpool.
RATES OF PASSAGE e.

CABIN 5000 20 5000. A reduction OF 10
per cent Is allowed on return tickets, except
on the lowest rates.
SECOND CABIN-To LIVERPOOL. London or
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS single; s6o.5O return
STEERAGE-Iiverpoo London, Glasgow,
Belfast. Londonderry or Queenstown, $3.50.
Prepaid certificates s24.
Children Under u years, half fare. Rates 10
or from other points on application to
4. r. MCGOWAN, AGO Congress ST.,
Portland, Me.
Foreign stea nlsi,ip Agency, Room 4,
First National Bank Building, Port
land, Maine. je23du
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RroMoUa CORRESPONDENTS


MT DESERT, Nov 3-SId. sch Damietta &
Joanna Wallace, New York.
Nov 4-Sld. sch Henry Tlton. Cobb. for
New York.
ROCKPORT Nov 2-Sld, sch s Lamprey.
Russell, New York.
Nov 3-sld, sch Diadem. Banks. Boston.
Nov Ar. sch silas McLoon. Morrill,, from
Boston, -
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International Steamship Co.

- FOR -
Easipor Lube, Caals. ST. Ictn d5.. Rafla, US.
and all parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. The
fayorite route TO Campobello aud ST. Andrews.
NIB.
Winter Arrangement.
On and after Monday Nov. G, Steamer will
leave Railroad Wharf, Portland on Monday
aud Thursday at go p. III. Returning, leave
st. john Passport and Lubec Monday only.
The Monday steamer will run dl ect TO st.
John. returning imme lately 10 PASSPORT and
Lubec,
through tickets issued and baggage checked
TO destination. EB-freight received up 10 400
y. m.
For tickets and stat 'rooms apply at the Pine
Tree Ticket ONCE. Monument square, or for
other information at Company's Office, Railroad
Wharf, foot OF State street.
}. r. ISCOMB. Supt
nOv4du ii. +. G. HERSEf. Agent
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Portland Daily Press stock Quotations.
Corrected by swan s BsrrstL Bankers, 1873
Middle street
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sTEAM ERs.
CASC0 BAY STEAMBOAT co.
Custom House Wharf,
Portland, Me.
Commencing Monday, Nov. LIST, 1893.

WEEK DAY TINE TABLE.
For Forest City Landing. Peaks 1sis nd,
$780, b.45, 500, 1880 q. M. 2.fb, 400 SIS p. m.
For Cashings Island, 6.43, 1880 a. M. 400
D. m.
For Little and Great Diamond Islands,
Trefethen's Landing, Peaks Island, $50
700. 800. os0 r. m. 2. IS. 400. s.i5 p. IN.
For Ponce's Landing, Long Island, 500
10 80 a. m, 2.i6 p. m.
SUNDAY TIME TABLE.
For Forest City and Trefethen's Land
ting, Peaks Island. Little and Great Dia-
mond Islands, Ponce's Landing, Long
Island, Cushtng's Island, 10 80 a. m 2.l5
p. m.
CIV. I. COOLING. General Manager. Il
now du
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Boston Wool Market.

WlI BOttOn wool mNrKot.
BOSTON. November 4, 1S99.-The quotations
on wool for this market are hrmer on several
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EXCHANGE DISPATCHES.

EXCHANGE DISPATCHES.
Ar at London Alto inst steamer Planet Mer-
curry. Portland.
sid FIN Cherbourg 4th INST steamer New YORK
from southampton for New York.
Sid I'm Liverpool 4th, steamers DOMINION,
James, Montreal; Lucania. New York.
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City Island, Nov A. Sch Clara, OF and from
Rockiand for New York. is bcache near Matiui-
cock, Long Island Sound.-vessel or cargo APP
parentiy on fire. Her sails and loose rigging
have been taken of and crew are on the beach.
Boston, Oct A. Sch Cambridge. which was
run into ana sunk at kast Cambridge by u scow.
has been raised and taken to Chelsea.
Lewes, Del, Nov 3-sch falmouth, ashore az
Rehobeth, has settled six feet In the sand.
Charleston, Nov 3-The abandoned schr An
ME T Bailey was picked up I'd inst by steamer
Essex and lowed to wi hin z miles OF Char les
ton Ilghtship, and taou transferred to the tug
aban, which lowed her In here.
Nassau, Mp, Nov 3-Sch Celina, Murray. from
Philadelphia Tor Galveston. before reported
ashore Is u total wreck. Crew saved.
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White Mountain Division.

7.20 n. m.-Paper train for Lewiston via
Brunswick, Augusta. Watetville and Bangor.
and for Rockland. except ferry Bath 10 Wool
witch.
1915 p. m.-ror brunswick, Lewiston, Bath
Augusta, NateIville. and Bangor.
II p. n.-Night Express for all points.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-22

The exclusive announcement in The
Tribune yesterday morning of the sale
OF large portion of the Diamond Flats
plot of ground, owned by the Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western Railroad
company, was confirmed by Superin-
tendent f.. l.. Looms Of the mining
ana real estate department, yesterday.
SiXty-eight acres of the plot on the
right hand side of the Providence road,
going north, were sold Wednesday 20
syndicate which will be known as
the Diamond Land and Improvement
company, of which T. j. Foster and
Detective II. Harring, of this city, and
John 7. Lenahan and Patrick Gilligan.
OF Wilkes-Barre, are the principal
owners.
Mr.. Loomis also closed a deal with
Attorney j. w. Browning for four
acres west of the Providence road,
near Battle street, in the First ward
This small plot is to be used for manu-
featuring purposes. Messrs. Brown
ing. j. *. Johler and Jacob Dietrich,
who are interested in the land, arc
negotiating for the establishment of y
mill for the manufacture of steam
boilers on their plot.
Mr. Browning, when seen by q Tri-
bune reporter yesterday, said he could
not give out anything definite regard
ing the proposed industry. but that he
was quite certain it will be secured.
T. j. Foster, of the Colliery Engi-
neer company who, as above stated,
Is one OF the leading men Of the Dia-
mond company, ~ an interview gave
out that as the deal had just been
made the company had not formulated
its plans. The land will be improved,
Mr.. Foster said, but to what extent
it is not known at present.
He further stated that he was Of the
opinion that the men interested will
build manufactures or Use their ef.
forts to induce factories to locate
there. Nothing definite can be done
until the company has fully organized,
which will be next week. The consid-
Grafton was $l02, 900.
superintendent Loomis stated to The
Tribune reporter thCt there is not any
probability of the land on the opposite
side of the large tract being sold in
the near future. I'VE may want that
ourselves" he significantly remarked.
but would not say anything further on
the subject.
1t is understood that the Diamond
company's tract is already negotiated
for. One very large concern, supposed
to be the Pittsburg Iron and Steel com.
pany, is booked as a certainty to locate
on one part of the tract. Another good
sized concern is said to be almost sure
of locating on the other portion.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-22
Industrial Notes.

General superintendent Russell, of
the Lackawanna road, is on a tour of
the western cities both on business
and pleasure.
j. B. McMurrich, sales agent of the
Delaware and Hudson company at Os-
wego, was in the city yesterday for a
short while and was entertained by J.
George Elsie, the local sales agent #
the company.
A sample copy of the new 500 mile
coupon book the Lackawanna road has
issued for use in New York state only
is on exhibition in the office of Divi-
sion Superintendent Salisbury in this
city. A notice rosted on it instructs
conductors to study it carefully.
The air brake shop of the Delaware
and Hudson company at Oneonta, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night The cause of the fire IS unS
known and there is not any probable
clue at hand that might lead to its
origin. The watchman was at one OF
the other shops and was notified by a
passerby Of the fire. The loss is estl-
mated to be about $4,000.
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irterspersed with selections by The glee

irterspersed with selections by The glee
club and the band.
The visiting members at the con d.
clnsion of the meeting were taken for
trolley ride on special cars to various
parts of the city, including Laurel
Hill, the Country club and Hyde Park.
Dinner was served at the Jermyn from
to o'clock and the majority of the
visitors returned to Paterson shortly
after 10 o'clock, after a band concert
and informal reception at the Jermyn.
number of the letter carriers from
Paterson were also present and enjoyed
once more the hospitality of this city.
All the visitors expressed themselves
as being delighted at the arr ange-
ments made by the local com nittec
and expressed a desire to come here
again. An orchestra furnished music
in the armory in the afternoon and
evening for those who desired 20 dance
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-22
FAIR AT MoNTRosE.
The Fifty-third Exhibition of the
Susquehanna Agricultural Society.
Special to The Scranton Tribune.

Special TO The Scranton Tribune.
Montrose, Pa, Sept. 2l.-.The fifty
third annual fair of the Susquehanna
County Agricultural society was held
here yesterday. The weather of the
day previous looked as if the fair would
be a repetition of a year ago, but the
officers of the society and nearly 4,OOO
people who attended were happily dis
appointed in the change of the weather,
which for the occasion was all that
could be asked for. The entries, which
closed the day previous (under a new
rule) enabled the judges TO perform
their work earlier and every one
seemed pleased with the result Of their
decisions
The list of entries in all the different
classes were the largest ever known in
the history of the association The
programme as published was carried
out to the letter. Mons. Dubec with
his trained animals and William c..
Hoefier, the champion trick bicyclist,
entertained those present with their
respective performances. Great credit
is due Secretary w. A. Ellsworth and
the officers OF the society for their
work, which accounts for the success
Of the fair.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-22
SPECIAL SALE
This Week Of
Diamonds. WQ|ClleS, JeHeITy, Etc.

Now is the time to get bargain
at these prices. You cannot OBJ
tain them in the future. Call and
see them.
Fine Diamond Rings at $500, worth
s1O5O
Solid Gold Band Rings at $l25, worth
$3.50.
Solid Gold Band Rings at Sl.OO, worth
S2.25.
Gold Filled Cuff Buttons, Soc, worth
SIPS.
Cuff Buttons, previous prices s1.O0, now
SIC.
Gents Solid silver Watch, Elgin move
ment, $3.50.
Ladies' Sterling Silver Watches, worth
$3.50, now S3.75.
Gents Nickel Watches, S. w, price
$3.50, now S1.75.
Rogers Bros Spoons, warranted. 50c.
Rogers Bros. Butter Knives, Sugar
Spoons, Pickle Forks, SC, previous price
75c.
Ladies' Solid Gold Watch, Elgin move
ment. $1i.50.
Ladies' Gold Filled Watches at $3.50,
worth $500
We also have about three hundred La
dies Solid Silver Rings worth SOC. and
75c., will close them at 10c. each
Special sale now going on az Davidow
Bros Attend as we are offering goods
at one-fourth their original value.
Extra Heavy Solid Silver Thimbles at
19c.
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Another Sunday Train.

The Lackawanna road will put on
its second Sunday newspaper train
next Sunday. 1t will run from this
city to Nanticoke, distance of thirty
four miles, which will be made, the
management figures in thirty minutes.
The train will leave Immediately af-
ter the departure of the new train
which runs from Hoboken to Buffalo.
The Scranton papers and the New
York and Philadelphia papers for dow
the valley will be carried on the new
FLYER
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The New
Black Dress Goods

|T<1lS is only branch of Dress Goods Stock but
it's the most important of all, and treat it with
the and attention that it deserves. In seven
years of providing you with Dress Fabrics have
much in black show you There hundreds of styles
for choose from We show them the right of
the under pure light that is mercess in it's dis
closures of faults Nothing but good rich smooth black will
this We have nothing There is no longer
attached black exclusive significance of mourning Ma
dame Fashion has long recognized it's richness and effect
veness and holds high place in her favor this
The whole stock is worth examining with
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-22
LIVE NEWS OF THE
INDUSTRIAL WORLD
REPORTED SALE OF DIAMOND
FLATS" CONFIRMED.

As Exclusively Stated in Yesterdays
Tribune a Deal for the Plot Has
Been Closed and Big Industries Are
to Be Located There-Scranton and
Wilkes-Barre Men Buy the Large
Parcel-Another Sunday Flyer on
the Lackawanna.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-22
SILK CITY C0NCLAVE
HERE ON A VISIT
PATERSON HEPTAsoPHs ENTER
TANNED BY LOCAL BRETHREN.

Accompanied by City officials and a
Band They Came Here Nearly
Three Hundred Strong and Spent a
Day Looking over the Electric City
Under the Guidance of the Hepta-
sophs of This City and County.
Address OF Welcome at the Armory.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29
HAWAIIAN STOCKS.

The Examiner of Dec 21st makes 4
sensational statement concerning Ha-
waiian stocks in San Francisco 1t be-
gins by putting in parallel columns the
values OF the stocks as they were, and
the values as at present quoted. In
the first column we find the highest
figures the stocks have been held at
during any time. of the past year. and
in the second column figures, not of
any sales that have been made, but OF
those offered for the stocks.
y somewhat lengthy argument is
INDUCED in by the Examiner writer 10
show that the bottom is dropping out
of Hawaiian securities. The sole foun-
dation on which the Examiner bases
its argument is. that the Cuban crop
will be sold for so much next year that
it will reduce the price of sugar TO 3
and 31a cents pound. Any one with
knowledge of the Cuban situation
knows the sugar plantations there are
so demoralized that it will take them
a number of years to recover.
1t is also a fact that the Hawaiian
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29

sugar stocks listed Gu the San Francis
CO market, have for several months
rasJ, been selling on no speculative
basis, but on that of a y per cent
dividend.
Private correspondence received yes
;erday from San Francisco, states that
the fuctuation in Island stocks IS due
TO a bear raid made on the marke.
based on the rise of the English in
terest rate and the only expectation
is. that as soon as the English interess
rate nucJuates back 20 its normal
figure. the stocks in question Will r.
lurn to the selling price which they
have been quoted at for several months
past.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29

A pro Chinese organ suggests that
the japanese are as uncleanly as the
Chinese. People know better who
have travelled in the Orient, for the
Japanese are habitual bathers and do
not tolerate overlooking cesspools in
settled neighborhOOds. Their immun-
ity from the plague in this city shows
that they are keeping on the safe side
of the sanitary line. As it is we'll un-
derstOod that they are backing the
Board OF Health in the measures taken
to cleanse the town it is unfair and
impolitic 20 class them with the Pa
kes-" Besides. people whose presence
has not little TO do with keeping the
Chinese from making a mob protest
against the quarantine deserve better
treatment.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29

An esteemed local contemporary,
with n taste for the antique, wants 20
fight the '93 revolution over again.
Among other things, it wishes the Ad-
verriser 10 accept the dictum that the
Queen was overthrown by American
troops. We have our own views, on
that point but Mt the same time will
make proposition. 1t is that if our
esteemed contemporary will find. in
the file of any local Royalist news
paper published between the date of
the landing OF the Boston's men and
the change of Government, any state
ment that the American forces took
part in the revolution, we will give it
all the weight it deserves. The only
contemporaneous Royalist comment we
have ever been able to- find upon their
doings ashore was that of the Queens
acknowledged organ. the old Bulletin,
and that is embraced in this para
graph: Our friends are needlessly
alarmed. The American forces are not
interfering in any way
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29

The Government is doing something
to- placate the FiIipinos as well as To
coerce them. 1t was decided at a
meeting of the Cabinet recently to ad-
wise General Otis to- enlist Filipinos
whose loyalty was unquestiOned and in
other ways to demonstrate TO the Fill
pino people that they would in due
time have a proper place and share in
the administration of island affairs.
Such n policy is likely TO further weak
en- the influence of Aguinaldo who has
nothing better now to offer his people
than q chance to run.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29
GOOD RULES. BAD SMELLS.

lac trustees of the Bishop Estate
have replied through The Independent
to the charge that they are responsible
for several Chinatown nuisances by
printing the fact that the leases given
TO their Chinese tenants contain this
clause:
That he GesseeD will keep the said
premises and all buildings thereon in
a strictly clean and sanitary condition
and viii observe and perform all the
rules and regulations OF the health au-
thOrities for the time being of the dis
trict OF Honolulu. and will indemnify
the lessons and their estate and effects
against all actions. suits, damages and
claims by whOmsOeyer brought or
made by reason of the non-Obseryance
or nOn-peTfOrmance of the said rules
and regulations and of this covenant.
This is very well indeed-bus why
these smells? Way the overfowing
c-sspools under Bishop Estate shacks?
Why the circumstance that some Of the
most annoying problems the sanitary
inspectors have had to deal with in the
Asiatic quarter are presented On Bishop
Estate property? Can it be that the
Chinese-Heaven fOrbid.-have disre-
garded the careful directions Of the
trustees and done as they pleased?
We surmise if cultures were taken
Of a Bishop Estate cesspOol the sani-
tary directions Of the trustees would
turn mp under the microscope No
true Chinaman cares a joss stick for
health agreements with the foreign
devil; all he respects is force. And it
does not appear that the Bishop Es-
tate trustees have ever invoked the /
strong arm OF the law to enforce their I
contracts for cleanliness. Were they .
too mindful of their Chinatown rev
enues TO he particular about Il mere .
smell? OF course not, They were too I
civil 10 doubt "A Chinaman's word and
they did not want to offend him by
too much inquisitiveness. That is the
true explanation.
The Advertiser. Witnessing the care
which the trustees evince for the pub
lie health by means of pledges freely
given by complainant Cinnamon. makes
bold TO suggest still another way by
which they may win a reputation for
sanitary prudence. Why not stop leas-
ng land to the Chinese with the privi-
eye of putting up novels and dens and
60 in for model tenements of their
'wn? The trustees of Trinity Church,
lew York. found il eXpedient 10 do
hat after the calcium light of the
'ress had been turned on their pre-
-ious methods of business and we are :
lappy to say that they found the
cheme profitable May be it would be q
he same way with the Bishop Estate. |
BUT whether profitable or not such
curse would relieve the trustees of :
urden of public ill-will which is GER
ain to grow heavier when the people
Il Honolulu. free under municipal
overnment TO make this a model city, s
axe it into their heads TO summarily {
bate all nuisances.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29

The Bishop Estate trustees charge
the Government with using rubbish
for the Kukui street extension. At
least they disclaim responsibility for
themselves and that leaves it on the
authorities who, they say, are doing
all the extension work. Seeing how
careful the trustees are in making
leases with Chinese which conserve the
health Of the community we can not
but feel Sarprise that they should have
so long endured without protest the
application OF rubbish 10 the road
fronting their leased property. II was
a shocking example to- SCI TO Chinese
who had been sOlennly pledged TO
keep their own premises clean when
the trustees let the Government dump
filth and rubbish in the highway front
ing the Celestial Shacks without say
ing so much as 4 word against it. We
fear that, in the light of this spectacle.
the heather in their blindness may
look with suspicion on the sincerity OF
their landlords in the great work OF
hygienic Fsform.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-29

During the cholera epidemic the en-
tire city was districted and a daily cen
sus was taken of all the inhabitants.
IT, was a most effective measure to pre-
vent the concealment of the sick. Ii
something of the kind could now be
done the wiles of the Chinese would be
promptly checked and there would be
a much better chance to insure the ear
" abatement of the plague.