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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-06-08


In three days. failing in which be win
attack therp.
According 70 d dispatch from Lou
renco Marques under today's date the
Beers under General Botha are again
concentrating In the ielghborhood Of
Hatherly, twelve miles east Of Pretoria.
From the same source II Is reported
that the British prisoners are being
removed 10 Nooitgsdacht from the un-
healthy spot IN the Glands valley.
About 800 men reached there June s
and 700 June 6.
The strained relations between the
secretary Of state for war, the Marquis
Of tansdowne. and the British com
mander In chief Of the forces. Lord
wolseley. appear 70 have reached such
pitch that but Tor the exegencles OF
the situation. Lord wolseley would have
resigned. II seems that Lord Lans-
downe attempted TO usurp some OF the
authority always heretofore welded by
the commandsr-in-chief and the lat
ter is now said 20 nave laid the whole
matter before Lord Salisbury.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-06-08

NEW YORK, June IA dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
"Bobs' may be master Of Pretoria.
but general apathy is In command Of
the United Kingdom. The war is re-
garded /as virtually ended, since the
utmost which the Beers can expect is
success In pouncinR upon Isolated COM
manda here and there. and this win be
followed by embarrassment in finding
places where prisoners can be confined
and fed.
Lord Roberts FIRST work at Pretoria
Is TO release the prisoners at Waterfall,
which General French has probably
already accomplished, although the OFF,
cIh news has not been received.
Their number has been roughly esti-
mated at four thousand. but a large
proportion Of them will probably be un-
III for duty after their long conflne-
ment.
THE British line from Hebron
through LindIey and senekal TO Flcks-
burg. is now held 80 strongly that an
advance toward Frankfurt and Beth
lehem sceems imminent. The capture
OF the yeomanry force will serve to
convince Free State leaders that their
bold stroke did not preven, the fall Of
Pretoria. and has lef; them with pris-
oners TO feed when their own supplies
are meager.
The clearance OF this eastern district
OF the Free State Is evidently the first
work which Lord Roberts viii order.
Il viii be greatly facilitated when Sir
Rsdvers Buffers lafmy. from which
there has been no official news for sew
erl days. compels the evacuation OF
Laing's Mex and is to free and occupy
Standerston.
General Butler Is reported to be con-
ferring with the Boer commander at
Laings Mex. but is more likely to be
swinging his divisions around New
castle as a pivot, so as 10 envelop the
Boer position.
Society has been badly hit by the
capture Of the yeomanry near Lindley,
since the corps represented the titled
and wealthy classes The casualties Of
the yeomanry in the fight which pre-
ceded the surrender were serious.
Questions connected with the politi-
cal settlement OF conquered territories
are not seriously discussed by the press
since military occupation and govern
ment for a prolonged period is a fore
gone conclusion. The new crown colo
nies will not be allowed to govern
themselves for a long time after the
next general election in England.
When that election will occur is still
uncertain. but probably 1t will take
place in October
The Chinese question is now consid-
cred much graver than anything that
is happening in South Africa. There is
general apprehension that an out
break between Russia and Japan will
be the sequel to the large use of Cos
sacks for the relief of foreigners in
China
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-06-08

LONDON. June THE Lourenco
Marques correspondent of the Times
telegraphing, June 5, says:
According to refugees from Pretoria,
thousands of burghers under General
Botha have taken oath to continue the
struggle to the bitter end.
United States Consul Hollis started
for the Transvaal today. The nature
Of his mission is not made public here"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

Typhoid fever we know now to be caused
by poisons generated by certain germs,
which infect the bowels, and which thrive
on heterogeneous food. We, therefore, with
hold such food and administer such medi-
cine as will tend to destroy and dislodge
the germs and counteract their poison in
the system. We have learned also that in
caess OF. pneumonia the patient will USUAL
ly recover if he can be carried past a GER
tain critical point in his illness, and this
can be frequently accomplished, as in Rud-
yard I<ipling's case, by the inhalation of
pure oxygen. Even the much dreaded con-
sumption, when taken at its first stage, is
susceptible of cure, and / might go on
citing other instances of improved treat
ment almost indefinitely.
Marvellous Victories Over Disease.
But, asks the reader, what effect have
these new methods and new remedies had
upon the general death rate? The answer
is contained in the following table, which
shows the reduction in the death rate in
New York city during the past twenty
four years. A similar reduction has been
effected in every community in the civil
lied world
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

From the New York Telegraph.
one of the oldest and most interesting
examples of mining-camp journalism that
has come out of the wild West for many
a day Is the Nome Gold Digger, a weekly
printed at the new town Of Nome on the
Alaskan seacoast. only short distance
east of Boring strait. II ~ the most re-
mote and Isolated mining camp in North
America, and by this time Is no doubt ice
bound and shut off completely from the
outer world until late next spring. The
paper was received the other day by resi-
dent of New Orleans from relative at the
Nome dggings.
II Is the first issue. and as 1t was priut-
ed Oct %. it was probably in the last
batch of mail to get out. The Gold Digger
Is not much larger than an ordinary the-
atrical programme, and has only four
pages, but its subscription rates are $2i a
year, or so cents a copy. Some of the
articles and advertisements throw an In
teresting light on the cost of living in far
away Alaska. Here, for Instance, are u
few prices frem the bill of fare of the
principal restaurant: Tenderloin steak,
SO; reindeer steak, ST.; ptarmlgan. SO; boil
ed mackerel. S.50; coffee and doughnuts,
80 cents; corn-beef hash, HOO; oyster
stew, $50; hot cakes and syrup, rs cents;
club sausage. $3.50; fried ham, 800; sal
mon, 81; sardines, per box. 81; three eggs,
So pies each, so cents; loaf of bread.
% cents; toasted cheese, 81.
Two-stoTy seven-room dwellings are adj
vertsed for rent at 500 a month; wagons
and teams for hauling may be had for $40
an hour; shave costs 81, a haircut 81
and a bath 49, A laundry offers TO wash
flannel shirts at 80 cents each, colored
linen at rs cents and white boiled shirts
at 81. Cigars and drinks cost so cents
each; lumber is $3.50 a thousand, shingles
$3.50 a bunch, and wood for fuel $35 10 $50
a cord. Labor is well paid, the longshore-
men getting 81 an hour and carpenters
$l.59. The little newspaper Is remarkably
well printed and Is the neatest and most
attractive journal that has yet been is
sued In the Alaskan gold fields. The
mines at Nome are mostly placers, right
on the seacoast. Last season they yield
ed over 100000.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

reins of government are to be turned over
to the Cubans.
while the Foraker resolution has I'M
doubleday delayed improvements some
what and temporarily impeded Industrial
progress here, it has nevertheless saved
US from losing many franchises most
worth having. And IL has served another
excellent purpose: it has shown that its
author and the great majority of the peo-
pie of the United States intend to see that
we have absolutely fair play
There were few Cuban leaders who
sometimes doubted the good faith OF the
administration. You can not blame them
when you reflect upon the many instances
in which Spain broke her solemn pledges
to us. But President McKinley's message
10 Congress and the vigorous methods Of
reform and progress adopted by Gen.
Wood since his Inauguration have dispell-
ed most of this and to-day the grumblers
in Cuba are mostly disgruntled Americans
and few fire-eating Cubans who wish to
attract attention by posing as patriots in
a country for whose independence they
did but little fighting.
True Patriots i'm Line.
There were also few excellent men
who, through modesty and a natural I'M
willingness to ally themselves with the
intervening government, have held aloof
and thus given rise to the report that
they were opposed to and resented the au-
thority of the United States on the island
at this time
"But the instant the Interpretation Civ
en- to their conduct by the unthinking
public was made clear to them they fell
promptly into line and accepted positions
for which they were especially fitted. To-
day the last of them, Gen. Pedro Diaz.
Gen. Jesus Rabi and Gen. Augustin Ce-
breco, are holding office under the flag Of
intervention as commissioners OF fores-
try and guardians of public lands In their
respective districts. This ought to dis
pose OF the much bruited and absolutely
unfounded reports that there is danger
of future uprisings in Cuba"
George Reno.
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lures of the cholera bacillus has met with
considerable success. Among 1907 coolies
inoCulat ed there were 63 cases of cholera
and rs deaths. Among q ,443 coolies on the
same estates who were not inoculated
there were $50 cases and $50 deaths, show
ing a death rate of S.73 per thousand IN
those inoculated, and { per thousand in
those left unprotected In another set of
experiments there were 4 deaths among
1876 inoculated coolies, and 30 deaths among
l59 who remained unprotected. Later ex-
periments are said to have resulted even
more favorably. AS to its curative value
] may add that the serum is said to have
reduced the deaths in the Hihrd Cholera
Hospital 20 per cent, and that among
those treated earlier in the disease the
mortality was reduced from 20 per cent
to "A per cent.
Bubonic Plague-,At Kirkee there were
81 cases and Is deaths among 667 inoculat-
cd persons, as against 1873 cases and l02
deaths among S75 unprotected persons. This
shows a reduction of 50 per cent. in the
death rate In Damann the deaths among
the inoculated were IS per cent, as
against "a O6 per cent. among the unpro-
tected Other experiments have resulted
equally well.
Typhoid Fever-Inoculation with dead
bacteria in a number of cases gives some
Indication that persons may be rendered
I've has been accomplished.
Yellow Fever-Several NEGOTIATIONS have
been made, but the results have been of
a very uncertain nature. The indications
seemed to be that in the very early stage
OF the disease Sanarellfs serum exercises
curative influence.
Rabies. ADMINISTRATIONS and his sue
oessors have reported many cures and
preventions, but the doubt as to whether
the cases were genuine rabies and true te-
'anus always exists.
For these statistics beg to acknowledge
my Indebtedness to DR.. Herman M. Btggs
OF The New York Board of Health.
Chemistry in Medicine.
| have dealt so extensively with the
subject of serum therapy, because 1t seems
this time to be the treatment by which
we are destined to overcome many of the
most serious diseases known to man, but
lhere is a science to which, so far as
practical results ore concerned, we are
even more indebted I alude 20 chemis-
NY IN all its many branches, physiological
chemistry, steoro-chemistry, thermo>
Vhemlstry and electro-chemistry. 1t was
ule study of this science which led to the
discovery that al substances clonsist of
nominations of elements grouped on reg
uiar plans which might be compared TO
Ihe grouping of blocks in a mosaic pave
luent; and the chemist after obtaining
uertain molecules from one substance,
might regroup them so as to form a SUBJ
stance radically different.
~ was found, for instance, that the ele-
mentary atoms of such an unpromisins
s1pstance as coal tar might be regroup-
9" so as 90 form the active principles IN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
CUBAN SITUATION, BY RIVERA.
MONEY is THE ISLANDS GREATEST
PRESENT LACK.

The Oriental Provinces Are Suffering
NioSt--Capital Is Required to Re
place the Cattle Destroyed in the
War and 10 Rchnbiiitnte the Sugar
Neutrality-suspicious. Capitalists be-
ginning to Understand Their Duty.
Despite Sensational Reports There
Is Now no Probability of UprisinGs,
copyright. 1900, by George Reno)
Havana, Cuba, Feb. 2S.-(Special Cor
espondence). Gen. RUS Rivera, secre-
tary of agriculture, J commerce and in
dustry, who has just returned with Gen.
Wood from a tour of investigation through
the provinces east of Havana, has as
stunned perhaps the most difficult task of
any member Of the cabinet.
Upon his shoulders falls primarily the
duty of solving the great problem of re-
facilitating the island agriculturally after
the awful and widespread devastation of
war. The secretary himself says of the
situation: Were the resources and neces-
sary capital at hand the task would be a
comparatively simple one, because both
soil and climate are always ready to do
NilclT SIldIe AS II Is we lack rOduSr
bridges. horses, mules. oxen, farming inn
plements and seed; we lack everything
but what nature herself affords"
But Gen. Rivera is -eminently man
of action, man of quick and eompre-
hensive Judgment, and he has jumped into
tire work before him with all the energy
and enthusiasm which marked his ser
vice as a soldier in tine late war
Maj. Gen. Ruis Rivera was born in
Porto Rico; he has been identified with
every movement for the Independence of
Cuba since his early youth. He fought
with Antonio Maceo in the Occidente and
when Maceo was killed took command of
his forces, directing the battles of the
Rubi hills, perhaps the most bloody and
hard fought of any in the recent Cuban
war 1t will be remembered that a little
later Rivera was wounded. captured and
confined in Cabanas. He refused to accept
liberty on the condition of not again TAX
ing up arms against Spain, and was SEN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
SLOAT'S
VEGETABLE:
B|TTERS
Has cured thousands
that had given up hope.
1t will cure you.

Mr. w. A. Terrell. Special Representa-
tive of The Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York, Agency at Atlanta.
Ca, says;
81 feel that IT is duty owe to the
manufacturers of Sloat's Vegetable Bit
tiers to say that the Remedy is all the pro-
prietors claim for It, For years have
been a sufferer from Indigestion and Dys-
pepsia. so bad at times that the least
food in my stomach would completely up
set me and render me unfit for business.
Any one who has suffered with Dyspepsia
and Indigestion know of that terrible in
describable feeling it produces, keeping
one constantly gloomy and despondent.
This has frequently been my experience
since being a victim of this dreadful dis
ease. Sloat's Vegetable Bitters has com
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

theater or circulates falsely a story OF a
banks financial embarrassment. Capital
Is proverbially umid and every individ-
ual who has lent his tongue or pen TO
the creation OF such false reports has
been guilty, directly or indirectly, OF
causing much unnecessary suffering, if
not actual death by starvation.
InenterprisinG Cuban Capitalists.
Lack of enterprise on the part of some
OF the Cubans who have wealth remain
ing to them has also stood in the way of
the islands progress. These men, follow
ing in the rut of the old Spanish regime,
have been Withholding their own capital,
instead of lending 1t to the needy farmer,
hoping that in a moment of paternal be-
nevolence the government would come to
the rescue of the small farmer and estab-
fish bank which would advance him
FUNDS sufficient TO purchase horses and
mules, seed, various materials and farm
ing utensils
AT the clubs of nearly every city when
have recently visited In company with
Gen. Wood, 1 have assured these geniaf,
but self-deluded gentlemen. that the hope
was forlorn one that the government
could not. and would not. If it could, go
into the banking business, and that every
Cuban planter who had any capital left
would do well to lend II to needy and de-
serving farmers, who would soon form
around each central colony that would
be profitable to all concerned
Il assured them that there was no more
effective way to encourage the introduce
ton of foreign capital than fearlessly to
invest all the native capital which could
be commanded. This suggestion has been
taken in the right spirit, and l believe
Will soon bear fruit in the shape of re-
newed industries One of the first things
we must learn is to rely upon ourselves
Others win then feel justified in putting
faith in us.
AgitatOrs Have Little Standing.
There is in Cuba certain class Of
semi-criminals and half-crazy agitators
who take advantage of every incident
which gives them an excuse 10 jump to
the stump and cry, Down with those in
power They are on principle 'agin the
government But not one of these men
fought in the late revolution and, although
the Latin race is an eNcftable one these
peace patriots secure but few inconse-
quential listeners and would get no follow
ers IL they offered 10 lead.
The great majority of the people have
accepted the pledge made by Congress in
joint resolution to Cuba and to the world
at large, and are willing to wait upon the
judgment and convenience of the United
States in regard to the time at which The
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

of fact, we are buster than ever before.
People come to US now with, complaints
which they would have slighted twenty
years ago-and died of little later-but
having recovered through the taking of
prompt measures they so on living, a
comfort to their friends and a source Of
continued profit to the physicians. In
fact, to paraphase well known couplet-
He who's sick and gets away,
Lives to be sick another day"
The people of this generation know
themselves more thoroughly than their
ancestors. They realize that an ache
or a pain in man, like squeak in his BIZ
cycle, means that the mechanism is out
of order and that any delay in the treat
ment may result disastrously. Twenty
five years ago the constant cry of the
physician was: Had they called me
earlier 1 might have saved his life" II
is less seldom heard now.
Cyrus Edison, NJ d.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

New York, March 2.-During the whole
nerfod from 1880 90 the present year adj
yances In medicine rendered possible by
fin, initial steps which resulted in the dis
covery of toxins, have followed rapidly
mon one another. Alcohol may be term
81 the first toxin: 1t is produced by the
action of the yeast germ upon starch or
sugary material.
Just as the yeast germ splits up sugar
into carbonic acid gas and alcohol SO
o.her germs acting upon other organic
substances change the latter into new sub
stances having peculiar poisonous prop
critics. These poisons are given to ami
mails in constantly Increasing doses until
a tolerance is established against them In
the system of the creature. When this
mas been accomplished the blood is found
40 have the property of resisting and cur
ing the disease caused by the original
germ. The serum used TO combat diph-
iberia was one of the noteworthy results
Of this important discovery, and the other
advances following the same cause have
been so numerous that a chronological his
tory of them would be out of ques ton in
a brief newspaper article, so | will merely
sum the most important results under the
heads of the various diseases in ques-
ton.
Progress in Serum Therapy.
ia.-Pneumococcus identified by
j IdHkel III 1901. AHHpNeuHOlONln serum
precipitated by Jansen in 1891. Encourag-
ing eatment reported by Lara, Protzoli,
DE Renzi, Weisbaeker and Washburn
PARE reports that he has produced a Sc
rum which was successful in twenty
cases. Ten other clinicians have report
ed favorabiy on this serum. Experiments
now in progress in New York are giving
encouraging results, but are as yet I'M
decisive.
Epidemic Cholera-The incubation of
numbers of people in India with dead .cul-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04
TIE Origin of Confectio,erx
From Chambers Journal


The modern confectionery business is a
very large one, and ii is of old standing.
If we wish to trace it to It's origin we
might have to go back not far short NJ
500 years. II is about five centuries since
sugar was first imported into this country.
ana Il is probably not much less than thai
since connections" began to be concocted.
rney hrst appeared in q medical form.
Apothecaries, whose potions were at one
time very generally supposed TO be effica-
cious just in proportion as they were hor-
ribly nasty, took TO the newly imported
sugar as means OF mitigating the nause-
BUSINESS OF their doses. They mixed their
drugs with IL and coated their boluses.
That seems 10 have been the origin OF the
syrups and medicated candies. the cough
drops and lozenges of one sort and an
other that are now so largely in demand.
They were originally concocted by the
doctors, and for many long years all sorts
Of "lollipops" were medicinal only. Sugar
was 100 dear and the generality of peonle
were 600 poor 30 permit of its being eat
EN- for its own sake alone and as a mere
luxury.
Somewhere about a couple of centuries
ago, however. there began 20 appear a
new development of the apothecary's art.
CONNECTIONS" began 10 be made more or
less apart from any medicinal purpose
and merely because people liked them.
The confectioner's business began IA
evolve as an ofrshoot from the profession
of the apothecary, and eventually became
altogether a separate thing, though the
common origin of The two is still Indicated
by the syrups and pastilles and troches
prescribed by the doctors, and the drops
and lozenges and other things sod among
the sweet stuff of the confectioner.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-04

other substances, as the oil of bananas.
and quinihe, wintergreen and salicylic
acid, and in fact an infnity of nitrogen,
GUS products. Given a quantity of coal
tar, the chemist of to-day, with the aid
of heat, electricity and some other neces.
saries, can produce the active principles
of almost any fruit or vegetable; and, in
my opinion, the time is not far distant
when such foods will be produced for act
ual feeding purposes, and be combined
with some basic tissue, let us say, for
instance. wood pulp, in such q way that
1t will be difficult, except by the appear
anee, TO distinguish between the natural
and. the artificial
Curatiycs From Coal Tar.
In recent years the chemis s have evo we'd
from coal tar such drugs as anti-pyrine,
phenacetine, salol acetanalid, and a host
of less known remedies, such as no human
mind can remember or contain. The
chemists have also succeeded in isolating
the alkaloids of large number of drugs,
such as coca and jaborandi, producing
from them such agents as cocaine, eucaine
and pilocarpine which have proved of i'm
mense value in the practice of medicine
and surgery, and lastly | would add that
physiological chemistry has proved an in
estimate aid in the diagnosis of disease,
and that analyses, or microscopical exami-
nation of the urine, excrement, sputem,
DloOu, SdllNd, pSfSptidloi, even tlle cOil-
densed breath of patients, give us an ac-
curacy in this regard to which the earlier
physician was stranger.
1t may be said, in fact, concerning most
diseases that the past two decades have
witnessed revolutionary methods in their
treatment Rheuma tsm, for instance, has
been found to result from faulty meta
bolism, or, in fact, from poisonous changes
in the food during digestion, and may in
most cases be consrolled by changes in