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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
IMMUNE FROM TYPHOID.
Arabs Are Practically Free From.
This Disease.
From Medical Talk.

From Medical Talk.
Some Frenchman or other read a paper
before the Paris Society of Biology recent
ly, which makes the statement that Ara LIS
are practically immune from typhoid fever.
That Is to say, an Arab can bear any kind
of exposure to typhoid fever without taking
1t. They account for this peculiar bodily
condition of the Arab from the fact that
ever since his early infancy he has been
reared on impure drinking water, which, in
the countries where the Arabs abound, is
notably bad. 1t is saturated with all sorts
of contamination.
This has had the effect of wedding out
the weaker ones and leaving only those to
live who can stand typhoid fever germs.
The grown Arab. therefore. is able to bear
exposure that would give a European ty-
phoid fever at once. This, however. is not
intended as any argument for the use Of
impure drinking water. 1t only shows that
the human system Is capable of adjusting
itself to unfavorable conditions.
But while the Arab is immune from ty-
phoid fever, he is especially susceptible 10
consumption. This fact is accounted for by
the reason that he has been accustomed 10
The very pure air of the mountains, and
when exposed to the climate OF Europe he
quickly succumbs to consumption He can
stand our drinking water, but he caunot
stand our climate.
The whole subject of national suscepti-
bility and unsusceptibility to disease is
very interesting one. 1t may be after all
that our climate. which is so peculiarly
provocative of catarrh, will at last produce
race of people that will be practically
immune from catarrh. We hope so at
least. At present IL is a national disease
and nearly every one has IT.
The very best authorities on chronic c.
tarrh state that there is such a thing as i'm
he hat n
every morning. gargling the throat with
cold water. splashing the neck and chest
with cold water-if this Is practiced thor
oughly ever morning. 1t will practically rem
der any one immune from catarrh
Padding the feet every evening in cold
water might also be added to this regime
This practically hardens the nervous sys-
tenn against the vicissitudes of the weather
ana Will soon produce a condition OF the
system in which the subject need have no
fear of catarrh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
POPULAR ERRORS.
People Believe Them Without the
Least Bit Of Evidence.

From the British Medical Journal
That man as an individual or in the az
gregate is prone to believe all kinds of
statements without the slightest evidence
as to their correctness is a well-known psy-
Geological fact of everyday observation.
There is an amusing Illustration Of this In
The Life of Charles Darwin" A gentle
man, who 1t appeared later was a good
local botanist, wrote to Darwin from the
eastern colonies that the seeds or beans of
the common field bean had that year every
where grown on the wrong side Of the pod
Darwin wrote back asking for further in
formation, as he did not understand what
was meant, but he received no answer for
a very long time. Il then saw" Darwin
goes on to say. 'in two newspapers, one
published in Kent and the other in York
shire, paragraphs stating that It was a
most remarkable fact that the beans this
year had all grown on the wrong side so
l thought there must be some foundation
for general statement Accordingly 7
went to my gardener. an old Kentish man
and asked him whether he had heard any
thing about it, and he answered, oh. no
sir, 1t must be a mistake. for the beans
grow on the wrong side only in lean wear
1 then asked him how they grew in com
mon years and how in leap years. but soon
found that he knew absolutely nothing of
now tney grew at any time, but he stuck q
his belief. After a time / heard from my
first informant who. with many apologies.
said that he should not have written to
me had he not heard the statement from
several intelligent farmers. but that he
had since spoken again to every one of
them and not one knew in the least what
he had himself meant. So that here a be-
lief-if, indeed, statement with no def
mite idea attached to ii can be called a be-
lief-had spread over almost the whole of
England without vestige of evidence"
Dr. Poore records an interesting instance
of the same kind of thing In Medical
Jurisprudence" While dining with five or
six military gentlemen, all men of standing
in the army, and one of them a colonel In
the engineers. the conversation turned on
the growth OF hair after death Dr. Poore
expressed the opinion that theoretically
such growth might proceed for a few mo-
ments after death. but that was all. The
engineer colonel turned around and said:
You are perfectly wrong. There is no
doubt whatever that in the Crimea the
boards of the soldiers grew through the
collars of their greatcoats." Further ques-
tioning showed that this estimable officer
who was incapable Of a joke, especially on
such a subject, had got Ii from q lieuten-
ant who had got 1t from a captain; the
captain had been told by somebody who
had himself been told by Tommy Atkins
OF course the notion that the beard could
grow through the collar Of a greatcoat is
wildly absurd, yet here were educated peo-
pie thoroughly believing in II. And the
worst of 1t is that. like tine old Kentish
gardener. they no doubt stick to the belief.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
WEEKLY HEALTH REPORT.
Four New Cases Of Typhoid Fever and
One Recovery.

Four new cases Of typhoid fever and one
recovery were reported to the health office
this morning, bringing the total number of
cases now under treatment up to 1913. which
is still three cases below the high-water
mark of 376 reached last Wednesday,
Twenty-one new cases and fourteen recov-
cries were reported yesterday and no
deaths.
The weekly review of health conditions In
the District was issued today. 1t gives
resume of the typhoid situation I'D to Sat
urday last, and is as follows:
1.-THE deaths in the District during the
week ended Saturday last numbered
ninety-two, as against lib in the week be-
fore, and ninety-seven in the correspond
Ing period of last year The death rates
accordingly were respectively 1873 last
week. 20 in the previous week and 1874 in
the corresponding period of last year. Of
the decedents last week, forty-two were
white. death rate 1917, and fifty were COL
ored. the death rate being 49, From con-
sumption there a decline in the NOR
tally from seventeen to twelve Deaths
from diarrhea1 diseases fell from sixteen to
twelve. Deaths among children under five
years of age increased from twenty three
to twenty-five and those among children
under one year old increased from ten to
twenty. There were five fatal cases of
typhoid fever and one of whoopng cough
By violence three deaths were reported all
accidental, one being by scalding one by
gasoline poisoning and one by a fall
1.-THE births reported numbered 14S. of
which eighty mine were white and fifty col
ored; males seventy-siX and females sew
entytwo
Ceases of typhoid fever numbering $40
were brought over from the previous week.
There were added to these seventy-six new
cases, and there having been forty-nine
discharged, left 367 cases under treatment
at the close Of Saturday.
by the last report there were two ma
tents in the smallpox hospital No new
case occurred. and one being discharged
left one patient with this disease still in
hospital.
"Cases Of scarlet fever to the number Of
eight were in quarantine at the close of the
last report. During the week one new case
was reported and three were discharged
leaving six cases. with warning cards in
four premises.
There were eleven cases of diphtheria
in quarantine at the end of the former
week. No new cases were recorded and
seven were discharged by convalescence.
leaving four cases in four premises.
'"The mean weather conditions prevaIent
during the week were: Temperature of the
atmospheric degrees; relative humidity,
IS, and barometer, 299s. The rainfall
amounted to sixty-hundredths Of an inch
winds southerly, averaging five miles per
hour The maximum of the Thermometer
was 81 degrees on the LIST and minimuno
so degrees on the 9Th"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
WOMEN WARRIORS.
Many Have Fought Bravely - Esca-
pades Of a Queen.
From the Savannah News

From the Savannah News
The muster rolls Of the civil war sbor,
number of cases Of soldiers VIII, wore
discovered to be women.
one Oh the most remarkable women u.s
Cnrlstlon Cavenagh, who lived In England
III the nineteenth century. She was mar
rled and had three children Her hue
oand was carried off to Holland ube-.
ne hao 10 enlist as private soldier. H,s
"he dressed as man and enlisted so
as 10 De near her husband She was
wounded at the battle of Landen mad.
d prisoner by the French and carried r.
ST Iermaln-en-Laye. where she remained
untii she was exchanged. Then she Quar-
feiso ana fought duel with her sergeant
and was transferred to another reetnant
AGAIN she was wounded at RamiIIias
when her secret was discovered. She was
however. permitted to remain with thu
regiment as cook.
Many English officers recall the case
OK Dr. James Barry" This WON n
served In the British army about artx
years ago as a surgeon at the Cane OF
malta and at Barbados. At the Cape '.he,'
fought duel with an officer who bsd
called nj n a woman.
Mrs. Llndley, the wife of a soldier. went
through some of the sharpest eneaeements
OF the civil war. She enlisted in Company
ID. 9Th Ohio Cavalry, and fought at wi
Magruder. Hanover, Courthouse RnIi PUn
Anuetam and Boonsboro' She is said to
De still living and the mother OF several
children. a.
Christina. Queen Of Sweden, was edu-
Saeo ana dressed like boy from her
birth, because her father was dfsapnointed
at not having son. She was more a
KING than queen, and, after four wears
OF rule, resigned her crown and went off
~ amuse herself In Europe. She was
dressed in mems clothes and acted az nm
roarlousiy as any man who ever owned
ms clothes by right Of sex. She was only
tWenty-eight at the time,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
THE MAISON DOR.
A Walters "reminiscences of Celebrat-
ed Patrons.

From the London News Paris Letter.
Casimir. the old white-mustached waiter
OF the Maison dor, has left. after forty
years service He entered contempora-
neously with the extension of the privileges
of the Corps Legislatif in 1861, and heard
all the fine people who came to dine and sup
speak of that measure as the beginning OF
the end Of imperial France, which, perhaps.
II was The Duke of Hamilton, cousin-in-
law of the emperor. had not yet broken MS
neck when Casimir entered the Maison
dor, but was in a yisibly alcoholic state
The times were then good for waiter in
a grand boulevard restaurant A man or
style ordered dinner for himself that cost
100 francs. 1t would have been considered
shabby to dine for less This total implied
a tip OF ~ francs to the waiter. The gam
bling clubs have changed this, and men
sitting up to chic do not spend 80 much
on their meals at restaurants. When they
take them there they seldom go beyond 10
francs for a solitary meal, and tip of
francs Is grudgingly given
King Edward often in the old days lunch
ed and dined at the Maison dor, but al
ways accompanied or in company Skobe-
len was among the last who gave 20
franc tip at the end OF a solitary meal The
most careless customer in regard to cost
was Khaln Pasha. He represented Turkey
In Paris when the gold Of western Europe
was flowing into STEAMBOAT In the form of
loans. There were back eddies that brought
not little Of 1t again 10 Paris. Khalil Pasha
exceeded in Indifference to expense the
Due de Gramont-Caderousse. The latter
was stricken with consumption, knew ne
had not long to live. and was in haste to
enjoy his millions. Old Dumas had grown
too poor to be a frequent patron of the
Maison dor. but DR.. Veron, ex-manager of
the opera and professional fatterer Of the
emperor. went occasionally there, not so
much for the sake of the cuisine as to see
and hear. With his enormous corpulance
and phenomenally broad back he was i'll at
ease at table in which there was not d
semi-circular notch into which he could fit
and chair made on purpose 10 support the
broad back comfortably. The doctor was
assuredly the latest hog in Epicurus sty.
Sttu he was relatively to the ordinary Gus
toners simple and sober. He greatly pre-
ferred the cuisine OF Sophie, his Gordon
bleu- to that of the chef at the Matson
dor. The forty-year-oId Chateau LATTE
wine used to be drunk by the Duke of HAM
ilton and his friends In special glasses that
held bottle There was the extenuatins
circumstance that Paris water was then
hardly drinkable. 1t all came from the
Seine. The Dhuys reservoir was only
opened in 1852, and people do not change
their habits in day. II seems to me that
wealthy epicures are growing more abste-
mious In regard to wines, and that the mill
lions are becoming more drunken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
Remarkable Locomotive Record
From Engineering.

The average performance Of a IocouotIva
IN this country Is a little over % ono mile,
year, but an engine of the London and
northwestern Railway Company, designed
oy Mt F. w. Webb. has Just completed its
second million miles. equal to 100 years.
services on the ordinary basis. This Ia the
Charies dickens. well known to most truy-
eiers who journey between Manchester and
London Early this month It completed the
o.3l2th round trip, in addition to 1856 other
trips, ana during the whole Of It's career no
passenger riding behind It has suffered any
accident. 1t Is q wonderful record, and
demonstrates the marvellous care with
winch our railways are conducted It's
speed has gradually been increased from
" to 81 Is miles per hour, while the weight
OF the train has been augmented. The
engine Is only twenty years old, having
1882. and during its career It has been IN
fsW hands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
A Home for Inebriate Women

From the New York Medical Journal
The Canadian government has been petit
toned to establish cottage homes IN otta-
wa for fnebriate women. The petition states
that tn the city Of Ottawa intemperance
among women and girl prisoners has in
creased to the alarming extent of IS per
cent, and that women in many cases OF
about the age Of twenty have been incar-
cerated for drunkenness or fer crimes COM
mitted while under the influence of drink.
Imprisonment to check this evil has proved
an utter failure. as there are women In q
brief HE Of forty years who have spent
twenty years. In jail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
Cure for Asthma
and Hay Fever.

The statements published below confirm the claim
of DR.. schinmarn that hi. remedy ia an sbsoiut.
cure for Asthma and Hay Fever
Mrs. Mary zachery. Pleasant HnI La. says: 81
have found your Asthma Cure q permanent cure
for Asthma, for which used 1t years ago I
have never had the slightest return Of the trouble
since have also found your remedy excellent In
Bronchial affections"
A Hay Fever sufferer writes: IT have had Hay
Fever for IL years. / bought package OF your
remedy (Schifmann's Asthma cureD OF our drug
gist. and due to its this is the FIRST summer
that have not been troubled" Mrs. Frank Gull
fogie. CYST Ridge avenue, Roxboro', Philadelphia
Sold by druggists at Soc and 800.
Send DC. stamp to DIR. r.. schIrmann. Boz 500
st: Paul MINI. for q free sample package.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
Dr.. Cockerille Dead

DR.. Samuel tombstone CockeriIle. a "a
spected citizen OF this city. died at hi.
home last evening 1T 11:3O O'Clock. .e.a
seventy-two years Funeral services iii
be held tomorrow afternoon 1t o'e,ncE
in the chapel ct Oak HiH cemetsry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10

On motion Of Attorney P. J. Ryan the
supreme Court of the District Of Columbia
adjourned late yesterday afternoon as a
marx OF respect to the memory of the late
peaiea o Driscon, who was a member Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
What Republicans Depend Upon.


pending upon much strong support from
what is known as the Carr element Of dem
ocrats In North Carolina. These democrats
are violently opposed to what they denomi-
nate the machine of Senator Simmons. and
1T Is question how many of them will go
back upon their party relations and aid the
republicans. The republicans claim that
the disaffection extends all over the state.
Senator Simmons says 1t is confined to four
counties and will amount to nothing. A
secret conference of some of the leaders of
this element who are opposed to Judge
Walter Clarke for chief justice Of the SUI
preme Court is to be held Thursday night
in Greensboro. The Carr element nomi-
mated T. N. Hill of Halifax county as an
independent candidate for chief justice of
the supreme court and the republicans have
Endorsed him. Plans for running the Hill
campaign are to be formulated by the Carr
faction Judge Clarke is the man who
brought impeachment proceedings against
the republican justices of the supreme
court of North Carolina, and bitter feel
ing Is entertained against him in MANY
parts Of the state.
Although the support of Mr. Hill by the
Carr democrats does not necessarily mean
support for republican county and con-
GressiOnal tickets the republicans believe
that it will practically amount to this
They told the President that under the
new constitutional amendment in North
Carolina there could no longer be raised the
cry of the negro, and that with this effect
i've weapon eliminated l. would be impos-
sible to drive disaffected democrats back
into ranks "All the democrats can do is
to resort to their old tactics Of ballot box
stuffng and other fraudulent schemes to
win now, but much of this is going TO be
prevented in the future said Representa-
tive Blackburn. Some of the men who
used to assist in the counting against us
are now with US, and will insist on a fair
count"
The Congressional Elections.
Asheville men with good political iudg-
ment say that Representative Moody will
be elected in the Asheville district over
his democratic opponent. The district Is
supposed to be safely democratic by a.
small majority, but the republicans declare
they will overcome this. Representative
Blackburn has a district that is supposed
to have a larger democratic majority than
the Asheville district, but Mr. Blackburn
young men of the district are supporting
him, and that cotton mill men, manufac-
turers. railroad men and bankers are Civ
ing him every assistance. The republicans
are also hopeful Of electing Mr. Hiss in
the ninth district. This represents their
congressional hopes and aspirations
For the legislature, which will elect a
+ successor to Senator Pritchard, they have
only a faint hope, but are making a hard
fight.
President Roosevelt was not given to
| understand that the republican leaders ex-
pected an easy thing or were even conf
dent Of success. But he declared that he
| admired the men who are doing the fighting
and would stand by them, win or lose
He hopes to the republicans obtain
~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-10
SOUTHERN POLITICS
Effect of the Presidents Re-
cent Tour.
REPUBLICANS PLEASED
NORTH CAROLINA LEADERS Elk
PRESS THEIR DELIGHT.
Believe That They Will Have Many
Accessions From Manufacturing
Places-Coalition Planned.

North Carolina republican leaders, inciud-
ing Senator Pritchard and Representatives
Moody and Blackburn are delighted with
the trip of President Roosevelt through the
state. The Presidents speeches were In no
manner political. In fact, he carefully
avoided touching upon any issue of po-
litical nature But the North Carolinians
declare that the presence of the chief exec
utive at the various points and the speeches
made by him will do an immense amount
of good for the republican cause in that
state. There is no doubt that the President
was greeted most enthusiastically by large
crowds at Ashevile Statesville. Hickory,
Salisbury. Greensboro and smaller places.
The enthusiasm was apparently not that OF
mere courtesy, because Of the distinguished
position held by the visitor, but was evil
IDENTIFY for the man himself, and in meas
ure represented politics.
Industrial Development.
The Presidents references to the indus
trial development Of the south was not
lacking in satisfa ction to Senator Pritchard
and the other republican leaders. 1t is along
the lines of industry and commerce. as be-
ing maintained and encouraged by the re-
publican party, that Senator Pritchard and
his assistants are making their fight and
on WnlCn Iney Claim 10 nave SlTOnS dcCeS-
sions from manufacturing places all over
the state. Democrats who are engaged in
cotton manufacturing and other pursuits
turning to the republican party. it is
claimed, and in time a majority Of them in
North Carolina are expected to be backing
the tickets of that party.
One of the republican. or Independent,
nominees for Congress from the new ninth
district is Mr.. Hiss of Charlotte, secretary
of the Southern Cotton Spinners' Assoca
ton. He rode on the train with President
Roosevelt from Asheville to Greensboro
and discussed with the chief executive the
political and other conditions in the state.
Senator Pritchard and Representative
Blackburn were also on the train. Repre-
sentative Blackburn was fresh from a per-
sonal encounter in the Battery Park Hotel
al Asheville with the editor Of the demo-
cratic daily paper al Asheville. The paper
republshed a story that Mr.. Blackburn's
engagement to a handsome young woman
would not result in a marriage unless the
young representative of the ninth district
succeeded in winning in the November elec-
ton. Mr.. Blackburn resented what he call
ed this interference in his private affairs
and assaulted the editor, thrashing him
severely.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-11
A SUMMER CRUISE.

Cruising, either in a cabin yacht. a
steam yacht or launch, affords one of the
most satisfactory vacations one can we'll
imagine. This summer promises to see
more of this than ever before. 1t COM
binea some of the roughing of camp life
with Il constant change of scene, the de-
liGhttui sense of exploration, the excite
ment of unknown possibilities in weather
AMI water and unfamiliar harbors and
III, continual expectation of the unfore-
seen. Ioda.' II Is Il dinner at Il famous
resort; tomorrow Il clam bake in some
sheltered cove, Long hours of lazy iis-
i'.G and failing on the swell of a ripple
less cain with never Il care in the wide
wor.t, hours of horn-tooting suspense
in the smctEcrnG fog shroud. exciting
races fcr safety behind the harbor mar
against the &C ming storm, when the sea
taxes on L duh sickly hue and the curl
ing edge cf a wave CLEANS like the teeth
in tho Snarl at an angry beast chance
meetings with old fishermen and deep-sca
sailors, viii. gamboling porpolses or
mas han wi,n school of mackerel when