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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28
Fighting the Eever.

Dispatches from Berlin, Germany.
state that unique precautions are
about to be inaugurated by the Prus-
sian State Railway authorities to pre-
vent the spread of typhoid fever.
Practically every station Will be
turned into a quarantine. and every
station master made a health officer.
In addition TO orders to maintain
scrupulous cleanliness throughout the
depot premises, the station masters
are instructed to furnish the physician,
who will henceforth accompany every
through train. detailed report of any
typhoid cases in their towns. or any
symptoms of possible cases If fever
conditions are found to exist the sta
ton master must furnish freshly boiled
water for the use of passengers and
the train crews. He must also main
tain tanks of sterilized water conspic-
uously marked for the use of The
travelling public. The regular station
airy drinking fountains must be sealed
up until the town has been declared
free from fever. The medical author
tiles who have framed these new reg
ulations assert that railway travellers
and railway coaches are among the
most prolific disseminators of con
tagiOn
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

In staid Connecticut a murderer who
was guilty Of taking the life of a young
woman in circumstances Of exceptional
atrocity has been sentenced to life
imprisonment, observes the New York
Tribune. \ peculiarly revolving fca.
ture of this case has been the sending
of flowers and dainties to the assassin
by weak minded creatures who seemed
to think that the criminal should be
regarded as an object of sympathy.
When such things occur in the colony
of the Blue Laws, what can be eX-
pected in communities less Spar
and severe i'm origin and nurtureE
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

Not to have seen the splendid cleo
trical marvels of the Pan-Amcrican
Exposition must bc deemed mis-
fortune The Hartford Courant i'm
appreciative remembrance, well says.
zone can hardly bc rcconcilcd TO the
vanishing of so much beauty from the
earth There viii be larger cXposi-
tions iu years to- me-the ST Louis
one Will bc much larger and they
will have their special attractions and
triumphs but not one OF them viii
have Niagara as coadjutor Buffalo
has paid large price. for her distiuc
tion as hostess but au America is
her debtor"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28
The Chinesn link.

Another meritorious, so-called mod
ern invention, the water-tight bulk
head, is now attributed TO Chinese in
vention, or, rather, to Chinese expert
cnce, as John Chinaman rarely adopts
an innovation until ne happens TO dis
cover it by accident. In paper pre-
scented to the Institute of Marine Eugi-
neers, says the Marine Review. the
use Of the bulkhcad principle on Chi
nese junks from time immemorial was
pointed out. There is generally one
bulkhcod forward and one art. but
occasionally the cargo hatch is also
subdiyided The prototype Of the
modern turret ships is also to he found
in certain Chinese juuks on the West
River which are said TO bear re-
markable resemblance to modern civ
ilizcd productions
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

~
~ teachers who went to Manila
~ on the transport Thomas
Were two Chicago women.
sisters and teachers of the public
schools of the city. who had success
fully passed the hish-grade examina-
ton demanded 10y Professor Atkinson.
and were very happy to he en- route
to the Philippines.
But their reasons for going TO the
new American colonies were neither
educational nor patriotic. rs l hap
pened to know This is one Of the
tragedies of life involving an ordinary
private soldier which Is not written in
army records, but the story engraven
on the hearts of two women needs no
establishment. The young soldier had
served his country and was rewarded
with n hospital stewardship in Ma
Mia. The two young women were his
cousins. He was engaged in way to
both, but he could only marry one. 1t
was toss up-heads to win-and
Georgia won. There was so little diff
ference in their size and appearance
hat the two sisters were often taken
Cor twins. Both were small and quiet,
limited 10y the narrow encourage of n
teachers life, TO which they had been
born and bred. Their soldier cousin.
who had been reared in their family.
was the idol of their hearts. That he
could only marry one made the trag-
edy of their lives. but if indeed he was
t, marry Georgia. which was not alb
solutely settled i'm their lovc-deluded
minds, why then Julia would stin be
sharer of their home and happiness:
either one was ready to welcome sac
rifice because of Tom
Tom, the scapegrace. the ne'er-do-
well, who had kept them all on the
anxious bench until he enlisted. when
Uncle Sam took him by the scruff OF
the neck, shook him up. and gave him
such a taste of army discipline that
the young man pulled himself together
and made a very fair soldier. with oc-
casional doses of guardhouse medicine.
1t was after one of those riotous re-
lapses that in q spirit Of penitence
Tom had written to his cousins sug-
costing that they come to Manila at
the expense of the Government. and.
incidentally, that he wanted a wife to
keep him in order, addressing the let
ter to Georgia.
1t was a memorable voyage for those
two, who had never i'm their lives be-
fore seen the world outside OF The
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

Although there are over 100000
pupils enrolled in the common schools
of the United States nearly one in
every five of the total population of
the country-and very nearly 17OOO,-
600 pupils of all ages securing instruc-
ton in one kind of school or another,
the extent of our illiterate adult popu-
lation is disagreeably large. The cen
sus report on the subject Just issued
states the total number of males of
voting age at 21,329,s $40, and report-
2,32G,295 of them to be nliterates
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

Airships and underwater craft have
done remarkable things in France in
the first year of this century, but the
vessels which have been careering
about the clouds like comets and the
boats which have been poking their
noses beneath the waves have not
yet achieved such triumphs that the
surface of the earth and the level Of
the sea viii speedily be abandoned for
purposes of travel.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

The complications chat may arise
from having several telephone sys.
TENS serving tho same district is Illus
trotcd boo the plIeh. OF several English
towns. Hero there are three separate
telephone system. those or The Na.
tion7l Telephone Company tine Post
office System and tho local municipal
it's. Business houses are thus forced
to have practically three phones Th,
confusion arising from having several
different numbers is apparent
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

The population of the United States
is increasing faster than that of any
other country. This is the richest
country in the world-we are worth at
least fifteen thousand millions more
than Great Britain. Our miles of rail-
road track exceed by more than 10000
all the tracks of Europe. We manu-
facture more than England, France
and Germany combined.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

Pittsburgs institute. with its endow-
ment of S25OOO.OOO will represent
u larger investment of capital in tech
nical education than the combined en-
dowments of all the distinctly tech
nical institutes now existing in the
country. 1t will be u truly splendid
contribution to the most practical
branch OF twentieth century educa-
fion
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

According to Printers Ink. the one
dominant motive of American prog
ress is to continually advance. to do
something more and better than has
ever been done before.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

The toll which the sea takes from
those who trust it for n livelihood is
pathetically illustrated in the an
nouncement that the fishing season
Just closed has cost the single port of
Gloucester, Mass. the lives of no less
than sixty-two of its stalwart fisher
mon
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

On the Pacific Coast ingenious
builders of locomotive engines are try
Ing the experiment of setting the cab
at the forward end. Does not that
suggest the putting of the cart before
the horse?
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

Observes the San Francisco Cali:
IAN Eastern Investigator announces
that if men would breathe deeper and
more slowly they would have longer
hair, but it may he that as deep
breathing prolongs life all that the in
vestigator meant is that the deeper
you breathe the longer you will wear
your hair"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

Everything is coming our way.
Even the mail from Australia to Lon
Ion will probably in future travel via
New York.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28

The best ting about Mexico's new
navy Is that it is TO be built in the
United States.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-28
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MONG the 400 American
teachers who went to Manila
on the transport Thomas
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22

century, part of the time in Paris, but
most of it in London. In both capitals
the generous allowance made by her
husband has enabled her to give So
cial entertainments in a manner that
could not be approached by hostesses
of moderate wealth. No matter how
clever and witty a man is he enjoys
good dinner faultlessly served. Mrs.
Mackay gives them.
That is why the brightest and clev-
crest persons in London are always to
be found at her house. With the CO.
operation of shrewd campaigners like
Mrs. Ronalds, Mrs. Adair, the young
duchess of Marlborough, Lady Curzon,
of Keddleton; Lady Arthur Butler
and Mrs. George CORVALLIS West Cor
merly Lady Randolph ChurchilD it
would be strange if it were otherwise.
If that means a revival of the salon
Mrs. Mackay is accomplishing it, but
she would be the last person in the
world to put any such construction
upon her social success.
In the first place, Mrs. Mackay's
house, No. 6 Carlton House terrace,
just off Pall-Mall, is one of the most
beautiful homes in London. 1t is large
enough to entertain a great number of
guests without what is in social par
lance, called 'crush." She never does
anything on a small scale. The home
was purchased from Mr.. Sanford, who
lost his money in the Barring crash
about ten years ago. Among other
things it has a beautiful marble stair
case that is said to have cost $500, 900.
The ceiling above this is inlaid with
mother of pearls. The drawing-room
contains treasures collected by Mrs.
Mackay in all parts of Europe. The
ballroom is one of the finest in Eng
land. 1t is no wonder that persons in
the social swim, as we'll as those who
want to get into it and can't, are eager
for invitations to Mrs. Mackays recep-
tions.
When Mrs. Mackay, who had just re-
moved from Paris to London, said she
wanted this house her husband
bought it for her. When some persons
talked about his residence being in
America and his spending so much
time away from his wife, Mr.. Mackay
published in all the journals and di-
rectories that are supposed to give Of
fetal information on sach matters,
that his residence was at No 6 Carlton
House terrace. and in San, Francisco
and that his place of business was in
New York.
Mrs. Macllay is no longer young
woman, and she does not attempt to
dress like one. With all her wealth
she has met with more sorrows than
most women-a daughter married to a
cruel man of title from whom she
sought for years to legally free her.
self and a favorite son killed by fall
from his horse. She is woman
known for her charities, as well as her
eccentricities. But more talk was
made abut her contemptuous treat
ment of Messonier's 100000 portrait,
which did not please her, than of her
paying of the heavy debt of church
in Paris just because one of the priests
was kind to her son at the time of his
fatal fall.-London Letter in Philadel-
phia Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
PARLOR PASSING AWAY.
Apartment of State, Once So Popular
Is Everywhere Giving Place to
the Living Room.

And is it true? Is the parloE
doomed? Must it give way to the liv-
ing room? That apartment cannot
make good the loss of the other.
Who does not remember the dark
ened glories of the old-fashioned par
Ior, which was seen at its best in the
middle-sized town, village and coun-
try? Shut up the week through,
sometimes nearly the year through,
with blinds closed tight and lace cur
tains tied primly back; with it's hair
cloth-seated chairs set in line
against the wall; "rocker" ready to
gallop in one corner, and a what-not
in the other, ornamented with rice
baskets, praying Samuels and family
daguerreotypes and photographs;
center table, set exactly in the mid
die of the room, with few handsome
books and the large family Bible, the
mantelp ce with vases filled with
crystalli ed grasses at either end, and
odds and ends of strange things fit
ting up the rest of the space; who
among the elder generation does not
know it well? 1t was room to be
And now-one sadly recognizes it
to be, indeed, thing of the past.
Instead, there is the living room,
that actually is living room, where
the baby's perambulator stands near
the piano, where the work basket is
on convenient table (no one ever
saw work basket in a parlor):
where there are plants, a writing
desk; where the sun pours in as much
as it may. 1t is indeed a living room.
If one has space there is a reception
room, to be sure; but every one un-
derstands that amounts to little-the
caller and the friend are shown into
the living room. To a person used to
a parlor, no matter how long ago, a
call in a living room hardly seems
like the solemn function it used to be.
Very likely the change is for the
better. but it is a revolution. The re-
spectacle poor used to stint them
selves to maintain a decent parlors
now in model villages model teneH
ments they have lost this privilege.
Take, for instance, Bournville, in
England, the home of the Cadburys'
great cocoa works. This is known as
an ideal village. Some 370 houses
have been built for employees, and not
a parlor in the $40 Instead of that
each family has a large, sunny, COM
modious living room, and they make
the best of it.-Springfeld Repub-
lican.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
DUN & CO.'S WEEKLY REVIEW.
Weather and Wages the Only Serious
Disturbing Factors In Business.

New York, May 17.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Weather and wages continue the only
seriously disturbing factors in the
business situation. Excessive mois-
ture and low temperature made the
crop outlook uncertain, and much de-
pends on continuance of prosperity
in the agricultural sections. On the
other hand. record-breaking distribu-
ton of pay in the Pittsburg region
accelerated retail trade, while re-
sumption of wooden and other mills
added largely to the active force.
Pig iron production attained a new
record for the month of April at
1.5O3,326 tons, and the weekly capaci-
ty of furnaces in blast on May /, ac-
cording to the Iron Age, was 352 ,O64
tons, far surprising all previous high
water marks. Such an enormous
production would suggest accumula-
tion of supplies, but consumption
easily keeps pace, furnace stocks
showing a decrease of about 10000
tons during April to much the lowest
point in recent years. With about
20 more furnaces in course of con.
struction or contemplated, an annual
output of 20,000,OO0 tons is no longer
er considered remote, while the cur.
rent year may exceed 100000 tons
if no serious labor controversy OF
other calamity interferes.
Footwear manufacturers at the
east report an increased volume OF
orders from western jobbcrs, but
wholesalers in the principal eastern
ccnters are placing few fail con.
tracts. Cold weather has retarded
jobbing trade at many points. Do.
mestic trade in cotton goods is
steady, with supplies in strong hands.
but export business is dull. More
liberal deliveries of wooden goods are
reported, showing that fewer looms
are idle.
While it is generally agreed that
there has been much Improvement in
the winter wheat states since the
opening of the month, prices became
somewhat firmer upon the publca-
tion of the official report of condi-
tion on May /. Exports for ten
months of the crop year assure the
heaviest outgo ever recorded, even if
the last two months make poor eX-
hibits. Corn advanced on lighter re-
ceipts and reports of slow progress
in planting.
Failures for the week numbered 22S
in the United States against 177 last
year, and II in Canada against 10 a
year ago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
LIBRARY COZY CORNER.
The Suggestion Here Given WIZ
Work Out Well Under a bright
womnn's Direction.

This sketch, if well worked out,
will make a very suitable addition to
any library; or, if one does not soar
so high as that, it forms in any room
quite a library in itself. The usual
methods of building a cozy corner are
followed, but care should be taken
that it is constructed strongly, to
stand the weight of books. Above
the seat as many shelves may be
fixed as desired, although we show
only three in our design. To give
more room for the storage of books
two small open cupboards fitted with
shelves can be built outside each of
the two arms. The woodwork will
look best if stained and polished, but
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
CozY LIBRARY CORNER.

as this is rather above the amateur
it would perhaps be better enameled.
At the extreme end of the shelves
two other cupboards are construct
ed within the two upright arms.
These should be fitted with glass and
will give an opportunity for the dis
play of rare china or other curios.
They might also be used for storing
expensive or artistic books. The lit
tie corner bracket above the shelves
should be noted, as other little en-
bellishments of a similar kind could
be added. The seat need not be up
holstered if two fiat cushions be
made to ft.-Chicago Daily News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
CORNER STONELAID
Mckinley Memorial College of
Government Started.
President Roosevelt Was the tonored
speaker of the bay Senators
Hanna md DOIIiver Paid
Tribute 10 Mckin-
Iey,s Life.

Washington, May 14.-In the pres
ence of large audience President
Roosevelt yesterday laid the corner
stone of the Mckinley Memorial Col
lege of Government, Of the American
university, located IA few miles out,
side of this city. When completed
the building will be devoted to studies
embracing diplomacy, municipal gov
ernment, arbitration, civice and in
ternational law.
The ceremonies were opened by q
hymn and responsive readings from
the Proverbs and a prayer by Joseph
+. Perry, ID. D., of Chicago. Senator
Dolliver, of Iowa, was then intro
duced. He spoke briefly of the life
and character of the late President
Mckinley and said that it was fitting
that his name should be connected
with school of political science, be-
cause he was not only great as
statesman, but he was the great
est in his comprehension in the hum
BILE duties of American citizenship.
Senator Hanna was the next speak
er, and from the beginning of his re-
marks until the end his voice trem-
ored with emotion. He said: This
is indeed n very interesting occasion
to me. Its associations bring up
memories. The laying of this corner
stone, the foundation of this temple
of learning, to be built by the pub
Gc-spirited men of my native state,
is conSecrated to the memory of her
dearest son, William Mckinley. Pile
up your marble, and every stone will
mark an incident in his life, of his de-
votion to humanity and his fellow
men.
THAT cornerstone has beneath it a
foundation more enduring than gran
ite-it is immortality-and that was
the foundation Of McKinley's life.
Our martyred president is here to-
day in spirit, and if that sacrifice
were needed that we might search
our hearts to learn wherein we could
do higher and nobler deeds-if that
example were necessary to inspire
the young men of this country to
broader and more liberal and higher
motives of social and governmental
life, then indeed. His will, not ours,
be done"
The speech-making closed with a
brief address by President Roosevelt,
who said Il am to say but one
word. Nothing more need be said
than has been said already by those
who have addressed you this after
noon. 1t is indeed appropriate that
the Methodists of America should
found this great university in the
city of Washington and should build
the college that is to teach the sci
ence of government in the name of
the great exponent of good and
strong government who died last fall,
who died as truly for this country
as Abraham Lincoln himself"
The president then, with trowel in
hand, threw in the mortar and the
stone was lowered slowly into posi-
tion. At some later date it will be
raised sufficiently high to permit OF
the placing of number of relics in
the zinc box within.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-22
A BAD FIRE.
= Lard Refinery burns at Chicago
Twenty-nine People Are Injured =
Five of Them Fatally.

Chicago, May 17.-During the prog
ress of fire which last night de.
stroyed the lard refinery of Armour
d Co., in the TT"' Il Stock Yards, %
people w . Injured, five of them in
manner which will probably cause
death in a short time. The loss of
the company is estimated by its Of
ticers at between $750,0OO and 100000.
The lard refinery had just been
completed, and was considered by its
owners the most complete establish
ment of its kind in the United States.
1t was five stories high and 25O by
300 feet. 1t was filled with new and
costly machinery. and during the day
1000 people worked within its walls.
The night shift numbered 700, and all
of them were in the building when
the fire broke out. 1t is thought that
all escaped in safety.
The fire originated with an explo-
sion of three lard tanks on the fifth
floor of the building. The cause of
the explosion is unknown, but the
three tanks, which were filled with
boiling lard, went up with roar al
most in the same second. There was
score of workmen in the immedi-
ate vicinity of the tanks, and a num-
Der of them were burned by the
scalding lard, but none seriously. 1t
was not minute after the explosion
before the entire fifth floor was Il
mass of flames: All the workmen in
the building made a frantic rush for
safety, and all reached the open air
without trouble.
The fire attracted an enormous
crowd of people, who crowded all the
narrow streets in the stock yards and
swarmed by thousands upon the via
ducts which pass through the yards
ground. That portion of the Forty
fourth street viaduct, close to the
burning building, was densely packed
and suddenly about 200 feet of a hog
runway, extending from the viaduct
north to the plant of Armour & Co.,
gave way, preciPitating fully 1000
persons to the ground.
The fremen instantly abandoned
their work on the building and de-
voted their energies to saving the
people. All were taken from the
wrectage within a few minutes and
placed in an improvised hospital in
the plant of the German-American
Provision Co.
1t is said by the police that the
number of those injured by the fall
OF the viaduct is greatly in excess of
the number reported, as there were
many who were but slightly hurt,
and being able TO go to their homes
without assistance, no knowledge of
them was obtained by the authori-
ties.
A number of fremen were slightly
burned while at work ON the build
ing and for a time it was reported
that several of them had been killed.
Michael Maloy, driver of an engine
company, will die from injuries re-
ceiyed