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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-13
"GRASS he FORGIVENESS OF NATURE"

TEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC

FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
An elderly man. with a military goatee
and a black SLOUGH hat that was pulled
forward over his eyes in such a way that
his chin was forever elevate by his efforts
to see before him, was swinging 1eisurely
over one of the Tower Grove Park lawns.
"There Is nothing in all The material
world" he said to his companion, that ap-
peals to me with such invigorant insistence
as the green grass. It Is at once q tonic
and a sedatve. a rest and a refreshment, and
no matter how long I look upon It 1t IS no
less beautiful when I look again. I cannot
say that I greatly admired the late John J.
ingalls, of Kansas. In fact. I am free to
state that in his caustio moods and his Ill
tempered abuse Of those who offended him.
he was. to my mind, scarcely more loreable
than SO much vitriol. But when I recall what
he said OF the grass. I can forgive him many
things. Let me quote 1t to you. and pray
remember It. as I have remembered It, Tor
it is worthy Of all preservation. He says:
Next in Importance to the Divine pro-
fusion of water. light and air. those three
great physical facts which render existence
possible. may be reckoned the universal
benefcence Of grass. Grass Is the forgive
ness of nature-her constant benediction.
Fields trampled with battle, saturated with
blood. torn with ruts OF cannon, grow green
again with grass, and carnage Is forgotten.
Streets abandoned by traffic become grass
grown, like rural lanes. and are obEterated.
Forests perish, flowers vanish, but grass u
immortal.
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MISS0URIANS IN TEXAS ORGANIZE
TO WORK FOR THE WORLDS FAIR

Vile: Philander B. Muse. LAFAYETTE Coln-
ty; J. A. L. Wolfe. Cooper County.
SHAFTER-Robert Dent, St. Francois
County; s. a. Wright, Andrew County.
SAN ANTONIO-Theodore Harris. st.
Louis: r. l. Treadway, Hannibal.
TERRELL-T. +. Bowles, H. T. Elliott.
w. E.. Lumpkin. Taylor McGinnis. Is. r
Morrow, ]. b. Porter
THORP SPRINGS-G. F. Burnett Milton
kennon. B. w. Kennon, John Kennon St.
Genevieve County.
TOLAR-N. 8. Davis, Newton COUNTY
TYLER-The Reverend ". A. Cooley.
Frank James.
TEMPLE-Charles A. Hughes. Kansas
City.
VINELAND-Doctor ]. q. Martin
VALDOSTA-G. NJ. Boyer. Bates countv
WACO-E. Brackley. L. 3. Daupherty
Dade County; B. L. Jameson. Webster
County; Seth p. Mills. Dade County: j. v
Smith, St Louis; William Montgomery
Dade County.
WEAVER-M. Murray, Cedar County
WAXAHATCHIEH. W. Leener Liy-
ingston County.
WEST-Solomon B.. Jones, Dallas County:
Henry johnson, Laclede County: Jno. NJ.
Moore.
wEATHERFoRDEw. N. knight. Louis
lana.
wRIGHr-D. Tudor. R. Tudor. Charlton
County.
WISCONSIN Lewis.
wHEATLANDoC. C. Skinner. Iiyiugs-
ton.
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EXAMINATIONS,
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.

| WRITTEN FoR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
We never know how good we were going
to be until the opportunity is past.
Don't waste your pity on the nan who
starts out to get something for nothing;
he is more than apt to get his just desserts.
People wouldn't AXE half 50 many risks
II there were no one besides themselves to
fasten the blame upon in case of failure.
Pre- ointment Is q quality we frequently
discover ourselves to have poss~essed-when
the thing has happened
There are two great classes of miserable
people in the world-those who worry be-
cause they w no money and those who
worry because they nave to worry over the
money they have.
It Is sadder to lose q friend than a for
tune. Most any man will tell you this
who has never had a fortune to lose.
Every man has to pay his own tuition In
the. school Of lfe-and some pretty heavy
mortgages besides.
Those people who arc always tired Of do
ing nothing are generally without the en-
erRy to do something.
The first rule of economy - to stop epend.
ing what you haven't; then Won will soon
have something pon which to economize.
It Is often q more difficult matter to req
oncile ourselves to other people's SUCCESSES
than to our own defeats.
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infectious disease. Acting superintendent
Louis Rassieur attributes this fact very
largely to the sanitary precautions taken in
the laundry. The lack OF such precautions.
however. thinks Doctor Rassieur. would be
dangerous in the hospital and Is dangerous
outside the institution. Thus speak the doc
tors:
BY DOCTOR louis RAsSIEUR,
Assistant Superintendent City Hospital
In cleanliness lies perfect hygiene. Con-
| sequently, cleanliness Is the enemy OF
germs.
A germ always grows where there Is dirt.
If a germ is inhaled it is with q particle Of
dust. Consequently, IL clothes are SO washed
that hey may be returned carrying bacil-
lus of disease, their owner Is liable to that
disease.
Not that he is sure to get 1t. His general
health may render him imperviors, so that
his system would naturally repel and throw
of the germ. Still he is exposed.
While 1 do not think that disease is
spread through the laundry or IN the wash
ing to SO great an extent as in other ways. I
think it can spread In this manner.
BY DOCTOR ROBERT F. AMYX,
General Practitioner.
think that the neglect of proper precau-
lions In washing clothes and liner IL often
the direct cause Of disease. especially in
the case Of measles. scarlet fever n diph-
iberia. 1t is possible, but not likely. with
typhoid fever, and also possible with tuber-
culosis. But tubercular germs are always
in the air. and the predisposition Of the pa
tent to this disease is most often the direct
cause Of It.
In scarlatina there lies danger. Say that
sheets containing scales from q scarlatina
patient are sent to q laundry. The sheets
are unrolled on a table. shaken perhaps in
tho air. They are sent to the wash with
other sheets, and all are brought back and
folded on the table. The germs Of the dis
ease are still In tho air. and the flakes. Of
microscopic size, are floating about. They
mingle among the sheets and are taken to
perhaps a hundred homes.
So with measles and diphtherla- The
same could happen with smallpox and yell
low fever, except that physicians in attend
ance upon such cases would insist that all
linen and clothing be disinfected.
When the washing is done in the densely
crowded sections Of the city the danger is
greater. There is lack OF ventilation, and
likely. infected persons are in the immediate
vicinity of the washing-room. Such persons
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cu-les where he was and e-lope with The
fair enc.
He would, no doubt. have succeeded in
carrying out this ne-far-i-ous design had
It not been for the fact that Hercules was
a dead shot with the bow and arrow. inc
used poisoned arrows to boot. One OF
these ven-om-ous missiles got In Its work
on the cen-taur. and his finish was vis-t.
BILE to the naked eye.
When he became a-ware that he was not
long for this world. Nes-sus pretended to
be yery-y SORRY for what he had done,
and expressed a desire to atone for his
treach-er-y by be-queath-ing to his slayer
his most valued possession, . pink shirt
Of a most vo-cif-er-ous design. Then, with
q se-raph-ic smile upon his lips. he Yielded
up the ghost.
But the cen-taur was treach-er-ouS even
In death. His pretended repentance was
q deep laid plot, by which he hoped to get
even with the mar who had done him up
And his plan succeeded admirably; fer
the first time Hercules appeared In pub
lie wearing that shirt, the gang did not Do
a thing but o-ver-whelm him with rid-t-
Guile. They made it SO hot for him that he
finally com-mit-ted su-i-cide b. @e-mas
ton.
But all this happened . long. lang ttma
ago. Nowadays the wearing Of Stn8
shirts Is not uec-es-sa-rf-1y fatal !,
ISAAC AND1nHoR&
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I In the average household, where ordinary
sanitary precautions are taken, it can be
said that. except in cases where specific
sickness is present in the house, the bac-
terra of disease is absent. Yet sometimes
in the tenement. for instance-it is different.
There foulness may be on every hand and
characterization persons live crowdedly to-
!, gether. The very air is charged with death.
Yet the clothing of those who live
amid clean surroundings In often sent
to the tencnicnts to be washed.
1t may be boiled. and SO purified. But
when it is taken from the water, when it
is dried and folded, it accumulates the dust
, of the vttiated air, and often comes In d.
rect contact with excellent germ media
At the City Hospital the laundry danger
is fully appreciated. Therefore 1t Is guard
ed against by the use OF 4 laundry built and
operated on scientific and sanitary princi-
pies.
The laundry is in a building separate from
the hospital proper. The soiled clothes and
bed linen, when sent from the hospital, are
placed in bins. fifteen of which are ranged
on the lower floor Of the laundry. These
bins are used only as ~receptacles for I'M
washed clothes.
Tho bins are emptied directly Into patent
boilers, in which there Is a revolving mech
anism which keeps the contents continually
shifting position. The boilers are filed
with boiler water, and the clothes are kept
in them for thirty minutes. Then soap is
| applied and the boiling continued a like
time. At the end of this hour 1t is assured
that the clothes are clean and that all
germs are killed. for the bacillus most
tenacious Of life, that of %tetanus, is killed
after five minutes submersion in boiling
water.
When clean. the clothes are placed in a
drying machine, which is near the boilers.
Ims is a centrifugal-motfon apparatus.
which is used in all steam laundries. and
which is known colloquiaIly as "tle whlr!-
igig." The clothes are only partially dried
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whereas it Is now from the private estates.
LIBERIAN AND AR BIAN COFFEE.

whereas II Is now nom the private estates.
LIBERIAN N ARABIAN COFFEE.
The finest of the java coffee. as We know
It. is from plants Of Arabian descent. 1t
was this variety that was affected by the
blight. The trees are small, slender and
delicate. coming originally from the hills of
Yemen in Arabia. from about the same re-
gion as the Mocha coffee. In that country
the Mocha coffee still grows, but there IS
SO little Of It that it is safe to say that not
a grain Of 1t comes to the United States.
Twenty-Five years ago about 10000 tons of
Mocha coffee were exported. but it is said
that the production Is now not half that.
and that it is all consumed in Mohammedan
households. During my stay in Brazil I
saw thousands of bags Of coffee which I
was told would be sold as Mocha, and I
visited warehouses where there were sort
ing machines, in which the little round
grains were picked cut from the rest, to be
put into bags and sold as Mocha.
The coffee most raised in ava to-day is
the Liberian coffee. 1t is a coarse. large
grained variety. The beans are three times
as large as the real Mocha, and they have
6. different flavor. The Liberian trees are
stronger than any others. They have larger
leaves and they grow thick and stout. They
produce far more than other varieties and
trees rave been known to yield sixteen
pounds. They will grow at a lower altitude
and in Liberia are found wild not far from
the sealhore. This tree has been taken to
Java because 1t will Withstand the blight
and other parasites, and also on account
of its prolific bearing. The plantation on
the Island Of Jolo has nothing but Liberian
trees, and l understand that there are
large plantations of similar trees nearby
In Borneo. I doubt whether this coffee
would sell we'll in the United States. al
though there is a good demand 70. It In
Europe.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
Copyright. 1901. by Frank G.. Carpenter.)
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1.-TWO VIEWS OF THE CITY HOSPITAL LAUNDRY. 5

by coughing or sneezing infect the atmos.
phere. Filth is near in which the germs
may lodge and multiply. The clothes. per-
haps. are allowed to dry in such an atmos
phere. The result Is obvious.
BY DOCTOR AMAND RAvOLD,
City Bacteriologist.
I have no doubt that the bacteria of dis.
ease Is sometimes concealed in clothes
when they are returned supposedly clean
from the wash, although I think the danger
Of thus transmitting dangerous bacteria -
remote.
1t is true that in most cases where there
has been sickness in q family-say typhoid
fever or diphtheria-the clothing and bed
linen Of the patient are bundled OF to the
laundry. There they are mingled with .
vast quantity Of other linen and the germs
may be communicated Into the mass. Still.
all the clothing is boiled thoroughly. Inc
germs are very easily killed by heat. After
they are boiled they are dried centrifugally
and passed through a hot mangle. This lat
ter process alone should kill all bacteria.
When taken from the mangles. I think the
danger of their being infected slight. un-
less one Of those who handled them hap
pened to be afflicted. say with diphtheria,
influenza or tuberculosis.
But I think the danger Of the Transmission
Of any disease germ which may have been
In the clothing when sent to the laundry
threatens more the workers in the laundry
than anybody else.
When the clothing Is washed In unclean
places and In the immediate vicinity Of per-
sons who are infected. the possibility OF
communicating disease into the residences
from which the clothing was sent Is greater.
Dong Gong, the leper, who II eaus.
ing the city SO much trouble was .
laundryman, It will be remembered.
Germs are transmitted most often by con-
tact. If in some small laundry or In some
tenement where washing f. done there IS
some person suffering with q chronic or skin
disease. or with diphtheria, typhoid fever.
e~rysipelas, influenza or pneumonia. the
germs Of the disease are apt to lodge upon
the clothing washed in that place. In
touching the clothes their owners may get
the germs upon their hands. and SO from
their hands to their mouths.
In cases Of tuberculosis. diphtheria. pneu-
monia and influenza. when germs lodge in
the clothing they may be shaken into the
air with dust particles and so breathed III
to the system. Danger Of transmission IN
this latter manner is less. I believe. than in
the first named.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC
What are the h~ysienic conditions amid
which your laundry work is done?
Doctors and other scientists say this is a
very important question.
Upon 1t. they say. depends in great de-
gree the family's state of health.
Is It lone in a clean iaundry-room, amid
clean surroundings. boiled hard enough TO
kill all bacteria, and then dried. ironed and
bringing germsR II so, the laundry-or, II
you choose, the family wash"-is an UNI
alleged source Of happiness.
BUl-if it is done in q tenement" dis
trict-in some locality where tho conditions
are those among which the disease germ
waxeth fat-it It Is handled by persons who
are not In good health-if it is dried in
an atmosphere that is filed with dirt and
infectious bacteria-then, say the doctors,
you may be sure that disease Is not far
from you and is ever present as a danger.
As to the degree Of danger the scientists
arc wont to say. TT depends"
It depends on the way that the clothes
are cleansed-whether they are SO treated
as to insure the extinction OF germ life.
1t depends upon the manner in which they
are dried. upon where they are dried and
upon the purity Of the receptacles into
which they are put when dry.
It depends upon who handles them during
these processes-whether the persons are
free from disease.
And then. again, it depends. If some cloth
ting Is returned to its owner germ-laden.
upon the kind Of germ and upon the physi-
cal condition of him who is to wear the
clothes. II his health is perfect he may be
disease-proof; If not, the germs may find
lodgment, grow and multiply.
Despite all this depending" the doctors
unanimously declare that the danger is a
real danger.
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scattered throughout the coffee districts
and they are also to DO found in the larger

and they are also to b found in the larger
cities. I visited one IN the town of Poespo.
whore I stopped on my way to the Bromo
volcano. It was a building Of woven bam-
boo walls and q roof Of red tiles, with q
cement moor. On the wide porch IN front
Of Il were scales for weighing the coffee. and
within. piled up like 30 much Oats on the
noor. was a little mountain OF green coffee
beans. In the pile were two wooden SCOOP
shovels for bagging the coffee. and two
half-naked men were at work preparing ie
for shipment to market. Near the door,
sitting cross-lesed upon the floor before a
table about a foot high, was a turbaned
Javanese in spectacles. He was the native
Government Official who bought the coffee
and sent It to the seacoast He told me
that the Government is now paying less
than 5 cents a pound for its coffee, the
same that we pay our retailers 40 cents in
the United States; so, you see. the Dutch
are not doing q losing business with the ma
tives.
THE COFFEE NURSERIES,.
I was much interested in the coffee nur-
series. These are Of great extent. In places
they cover the sides of the hills, great
sheds rooted with bamboo, filed with
thousands OF bamboo pots, each containing
a coffee seed or plant. Some OF the plants
were Just bursting forth from the ground;
others were a few inches high. and some
a foot high. The plants are set out In tho
same earth in which they grow In the nur-
sery. They are put only a few feet apart
and are shaded when young At first they
are kept free from weeds. but when the
trees grow the shade from the coffee keeps
down the weeds
I wish I could a k a ponyback ride with
you up through these coffee estates. They
are interspersed with forests. and there
ore many monkeys, great, long-tailed, black
fellows. which jump from branc to branch
n from one tree to another. You see
them sQuatting at the roots Of tho branches
and creeping around the tree trunks, grim
ming and chattering at you. Now, you will
see one clinging to q limb 200 feet above
the ground. and now catch sight Of one
jumping fifteen feet from one tree to an
other.
LU1URIANT VEGETATION.
The vegetation Is everywhere luxuriant-
There are palm trees n banana plants.
There are all sorts Of winding vines. The
very plants seem to love one another, the
trees twist themselves about their fellows
and grow up together. Even the dead
braches are covered with green: they are
clothed with orchids and moss, the green
and nowers OF the air forming a winding
sheet over the dead branches. There are
orchids everywhere, and such orchids!
Here one has wound itself around a branch
like . necklace; there one squats like q
monkey at the root Of q limb, and further
over are great masses Of green out OF
which come blossoms of many hues.
Tho soil Of Java Is exceedingly rich The
land u one OF volcanoes, but its volcanoes
spout forth mud instead Of stones, and
this mud 10 Of q chocolate brown, which.
when dry. becomes . dns dust many feet
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in this. however. and when taken out are
placed again in bins.
These bins are not the same as those first
used. The two sets are carefully kept apart.
To empty the clothes into the bins which had
first contained them would place them in
contact with the same germs which were
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TWO ROOMS.

supposed to have been killed in the boiler.
Slowed In the second set Of bins, the
clothes are taken to the upstairs department
Of the laundry. where they are run through
a mangle and hung up to finish the drying
process in a special drying-room. The up
stairs room cannot contain the germs that
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may exist in the atmosphere. upon the
walls and furnishings downstairs. Conse-
quently, the clothes cannot become infected.
and are returned to the hospital both clean
in appearance and in fact.
1t is very seldom that a patient in the
surgical division of the hospital develops an
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AMERICANS m FNcLAxD.

Uncle Sans nephews and nieces are more
kind to John Bull than you might imagine,
for, according to the British records. they
pay him about 6.6oo.0oe annually as income
tax. All whose incomes are under $500 q
year are not asked to pay.
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Clothes Washed, Dried and Ironed Amid Unclean Surrounding,
The Say. Are a Source of Great Danger to Those Who Wear
Them-The City Hospitals Manner of Handling the "Wash"
So 1t May Be Kept Free From Infection by
Dangerous Germs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-04

the present Constitution can vote on the new one. Tn fact. we don't see how any other rule could be folloSed constitutionally. The old instrursent holds until 1t is supplanted by the new. It would look altogether irreg- ular to proclaim part of the new as law. and then acting under that to vote upon the rest.
 We wish the Virginia Convention would hurry along it's work. and let us see the suffrage plan the Mother of States and Statesmen will devise. We expect it would be of more value to the Alabama Convention than the Ala bamt proposition Is likely to be to the virginians. We doubt whether the Vir- ginians are any abler. but we believe they have so much pride and spirit that they will devise something orig inal, something in advance of Missis- sippi and Louisiana
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-04
A CURIOUS VIRGINIA IDEA

Up in Virginia the Constitutional Convention appears to be worried over the question of the submission of the
 instrument to the people. The Rich
 mond Dispatch has this news note
 throwing light on the situation:
 There Is a sentiment in the convention. and it is probably ascendant that the amended instrument should not be sub
 mitted to all the voters now qualified
 But many of the members think the Nor Convention from Party standpoint, to
 let alls the people now entitled to vote upon the question of ratification. If the second State Convention makes it plain
 that the Party would not be acting in bad
 faith to allow only the voters qualified under the terms of the new Constitution to vote upon it's ratification, there is not much doubt that only the restricted cleo torate will pass upon it. There is believed to be a strong probability of the Norfolk convention favoring submission to re- stricted suffrage, should such proposi- ton be made.
 The Norfolk Convention Is the State
 Democratic Convention, which Is soon
 to meet to nominate State officers. The
 proposition to promulgate the new suf-
 frage plan, and to submit to only those people admitted to suffrage under the
 new plan the rest of the instrument
 Is novel in the extreme. No wonder
 The Norfolk. Virginia, Pilot is dis gusted with 1t. It says:
 While reports differ as to the actual | strength of the sentiment in favor of pro mitigating the suffrage clause of the new Constitution they agree that there is con l siderable sentiment of that sort in the convention.
 The fact is regrettable. The proposition
 is at once shufrling and revolutionary, cowardly and radical. It is revolutionary in its disregard of the people as the only repository of Constitution-making power It is shuffling in that 1t seeks to evade the pledge of the Norfolk Convention that the Constitution should be submitted to a vote of the people. It is a device of cheap demagogy unworthy of the conven- tion and unworthy of Virginia.
 Alabama has not been troubled by any such curious proposition. The Convention early in the session passed
 a resolution unanimously promising to submit the new instrument to th, peo- pie. Of course. it Is understood here that. every voter who is eligible under