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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

the material composing various
parts Of the spot, but it cannot be
definitely stated that they are
rents IN the photo-spheie. In fact,
many astrOnomists and physicists
think that the spots may be due to
some exterior objects or change in
condition Of the philosophers it's
self, and all OF them admit that
they know very little about the
subject. Perhaps the most i'm
portant work being done by the
Carnegie institution at this time
is through the fund set aside to
study the sun and nothing else.
We do know that these spots
have q periOdicity Of about eleven
years, during which they pass from
the maximum in n1mber and size
to the minimum. They are all 10
Gated approximately In the region
Of the equator and never at the
poles. Why there should be this
periodicity has never been salts
i%actorily even guessed at, aud
what effect they have on the sun
or the earth is scarcely understood
in any degree. This week, for the
first time in some years, it has
been possible to zee a spot on the
sun Just before it set without the
aid Of a glass. SO far as We know,
it has no relation whatever to
anything else.
The very fact that the prob
lem is so difficult has caused the
ablest scientists in the country to
the subject more closely,
and there is no reasOn to doubt
that before long we will at least
have a working hypothesis for iu-
ture observation and study.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09
The Chinese Boycott.

The Chinese guilds which con
troll the trade OF China continue
their boycott Of American goods
Notwithstanding President Roose-
velt's assurance Of better treat
ment Of Chinese travellers. They
want to see it in operation first.
The treatment OF Chinese students
returning By way Of Boston is only
a part Of It. The decision OF the
Supreme Court that a Chinaman
born in this country has no coun
try Is a more grave oifense.
Another recent case is not ike
Is to improve matters any. All
Lee was resident Of Pittsburg for
twelve years. He became an
American IS nearly as the law
would allow, adopted American
costumes and customs, acquired
the language, Joined the Presby
terrain Church, and prOspered 10
business. He was E good and val.
ned member Of the community.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

mune Young Americans we're sub
iected to the same ordeal for th,
same time, and then a succeeding
similar trial was made.
The result was that the attempt
which was made to infect these
known nOnimmune occupants dur,
ing sixty. three days was an absO-
Lutte failure, thus completely re-
iuting all previous conceptions OF
the causes Of cOntagion from the
malignant disease.
Among the several conclusions
reached by these experiments Dr..
Reed reports that It was an estab-
lished fact that ''the spread Of
yellow fever can be most effectu,
ally controlled by measures di
rected to the destruction Of the
mosquitoes and the protection Of
the sick against the bite Of these
insects"
It is interesting to know that
DR.. james Carroll, one OF DR..
Reeds assistants, was purposely
bitten by an infected mosquito in
Havana in August, 1900, and as
a consequence had a severe case
Of yellow fever, from which he re-
covered, and was present in De-
cember, 1903, at the unwilling OF
a tablet in memory Of DR.. Reed in
the courthouse Of Gloucester
county.
DR.. Lszear, after whom the ex-
detrimental camp was named was
not so fortunate. He was pur-
posely subjected to the bite Of an
injected mosquito at Havana on
Aug. 6, while collecting blood
from a yellow fever patient in Las
Animas Hospital. He watched
a mosquito settle on the back Of
his hand, and deliberately waited
for the insect to fill himself with
blood. In six days be was an i'll
man, and in twelve days he died
of violent yellow fever. This be-
fore the final experiments.
DR.. Reed says Of him that che
added one more name to that i'm
perishable roll Of honor to which
none others belong than martyrs
to the cause Of humanity"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09
stranger Than Fiction.

The case Of John Gales, a con-
vict In the Illinois State penIten-
tiary at Joliet, furnishes a plot for
8 novelist. Twenty-three years
ago he was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to be hung for killing
q farmer with an Ak. he does not
know why the sentence was not
put into effect. he heard it read,
was returned to the jail, and
watched the days pass expecting
each one to bring the executioner.
Suddenly be was taken away to
the State penitentiary. For years
be has wondered but did not dare
speak for fear the oversight would
be corrected. The records show
no stay Of execution, no commit
alton Of sentence. So far as the
records 60 he was executed.
Finally bis sister broke silence
and placed the matter in the hands
OF an attorney with the result Of q
petition for the release OF the
prisoner on the ground that the
authorities have no right to keep
him in bondage at hard labor. He
was not sentenced to that and the
time for bis hanging expired years.
ago. He viii probably get free.
How the law overlooked him is
not explained. The case seems to
sustain that saying chat truth is
stranger than fiction.
JOhan Hoch wishes be might be
Overlooked" in the same manner.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09
Mosquito Theory as to yellow
Fever.

Mosquito Theory as to Yellow
Fever
1t is now admitted by all medi-
cal authorities that the propaga-
tiOn Of yellow fever is due entirely
to the bite Of the mosquito known
rs the stegOmyia, and that it can
be conveyed in no other way. The
The old idea, so generally accept
ed down tO'recent date, that the
fever could be conveyed in cloth
ing, bedding and other articles
which had come in contact with
patients, is now utterly discarded,
and no one Of ordinary intelligence
insists that a quarantine should
be put upon such articles. The
history Of the discovery Of the new
theory is very interesting. It is
due to D.. Walter Reed Of Virgin
ia, surgeon Of the United States
army, and his assistants, Dr.. Car
roll and DR.. Aristedes Agram.
monte, made in 1900 at Camp La
GEAR, near QuemOdos, Cuba, who
discovered that yellow fever is
given to human beings by means
Of a bite Of a mosquito known as
Culex i~asciatus, or more recently
called stegOmyia, and in no other
way.
The Vicksburg Post gives an in
teresting statement Of this remark
able discovery. DR.. Reed having
demonstrated that yellow fever
could be given by the bite Of an
infected mosquito, and desiring to
prove that to b. the only way, got
some persons who had never been
exposed to yellow fever to occupy
a close and screen-prOtected house
and remain in it, using for their
bed clothes, sheets, pillow slips,
blankets, ETC., all OF which had
been contaminated by contact with
cases Of yellow fever or had been
purpOsely sOiled with a liberal
quantity Of black vOmit and other
feculae of yellow fever patients.
Indeed, a dirty comfort and a
much soiled pair Of blankets we're
removed from the bed Of a patient
sick from yellow fever and were
used upon these willing subjects
Of the test, who we're DR.. R. P.
Cook, acting assistant surgeon,
United States army, and two pri.
Yates Of the hospital corps, all
non-immune young Americans.
They entered this building and de-
liberately unpacked the boxes Of
infected clothes which had been
tightly closed and locked for q
period Of two weeks. "They we're
careful at the same time to give
each article q thorough handling F,
and shaking in order to dissent !
nate through the air Of the loom /
the specific agents OF yellow fever, q
If contained in these fomites. s
These aOiled sheets, pillow cases
ond blOnkets we're used in prepar-
ing the bedsin which the members
Of the hospital corps slept; various
soiled articles we're hung around
the room and placed about the bed {
occupied By DR.. Cook.u I
These nonimmunes occupied this +,
for twenty days, and after the ter Z
mination OF their experience fresh I
supplies OF the Injected articles {
we're put in the same closely con. /
fined room and two other nonim 1
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

The kidneys are YOU
blood purifiers they fii-
ter out the waste OF
impurities in the blood.
II they are sick or OUT
Of order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains, aches andrheu-
mstism come from ex-
cess Of uric acid In the
blood, due 10 neglected
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

New Orleans knows that the yellow
peril is no political boyle.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09
Over-WOrk Weakens
Your Kidneys.
UaheaIthy Kldneys Maks Impare bloc.

All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every thee minutes.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09
Peculiar Disappearance.

j. D. Runyan, OF Butlerville. o.,
laid the peculiar DISAPPEARANCE Of his
painful symptoms Of Indigestion end
biliousness to DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. He says: ''They are q perfect
remedy for dizziness, sour stomach,
headache, constipation, etc." Guaran-
teed at all druggists, price 25c.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

Don't make any mistake, but re-
member the name, swamp-Root, DR..
Kilmer'sswamp-Root and the address,
BlnghamptOn, New York, on every bottle.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

SeAAPiS WINE Hlan Home Of SWampRoot
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out II you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Or. KilmeT
& Co., ~Binghamton, N. 7.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

Kinney UoubIe.
Kidney trouble oauses quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the heart Is
over-workng in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
Il used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their BEGIN
ming in kidney trouble.
lfyou are sick you can make no mistake
BY first docioring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect Of Or. Kilmer's
SWamp-Root, the great kidney remedy Is
soon realized. II stands the highest fof its
wonderful cures ofthe most distressing cases
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-08-09

BY all druggists IN fifty
cent and one-dollar siz-
IS. You may have a
New-York tribune., 1905-08-30
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Senator wetmore. who has been IN town ever
since he was compelled to undergo an operation
in a sanatorium several weeks ago. has now almost
entirely recovered from the effects thereof. and VIII
rejoin his family tomorrow.
number OF people will so out from town to-
day Bernardsville. n. j.. to attend the wedding
Of Miss Ethel Jacquelin to Joseph Z. stout Andrew
Stout who has been spending the summer in the
Adirondacks with his wife. will oficiats as his
brother's best man, while Miss Aline Jacqueln and
Mrs. Robert b. Barry. jr. will be In attendance
the bride. After the ceremony In the Mendham
Church. Mr.. and Mrs John II. Jacquelin. the
parents of the BRIDE will give wedding breakfact
and reception for the newly married couple at the
Somerset Inn. Bernardsville where they have been
spending the summer.
James Hazen Hyde has already vacated his coun-
try place at BayshOre where Louis Bossart is now
established
Rene La Montague. Fletcher Harper and Philips
B. Thompson in charge OF the arrangements for
the horse show and gymkhana. which takes place
next Monday at Cedarhurst the grounds of the
Rockaway Hunt Club,
The wedding of Miss Mildred Barclay to Samuel
Oakley Wander Poel 4, TO take place at St Andrews
Dune Church Southampton. Long Island on Sep
tenber 16, instead OF September IA Miss Mildred
Barclay debutante of last winter and is a
daughter of the late Henry A Barclay
Mr.. and Mrs Frederick Vanderbilt are not at
Newport. in spite OF the statements contained IN
the dispatches from that summer resort They are
at their camp in the Adirondacks which formerly
belonged TO Mr.. and Mrs. II. Mex. TwombIy
Mr.. and Mrs Percy R Pyne are on their wav
home from Europe. where they have spent the
summer, and on their arrival here on SATURDAY.
will go TO their place at Bernardsville N j. where
they will remain until Christmas
Mr.. and Mrs c. Ledyard Blair have left Blairs-
den. their place at Bernardsville. for Bar Harbor
where they staying with Mr. BIair's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton de Witt Blair
Mrs 7. J. Oakley Rhinelander who has been
in Europe the greater part OF the summer. sails
next week for New-York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi p. Morton with Miss Helen
Morton and Miss Mary Morton. will return
Saturday from their camp In the Adirondacks TO
their country place Ellerslie- the Hudson
That the Newport season is rapidly drawing
to close is shown by the fact tNat the Casino at
Narragansett Pier closes Its doors for the summer
on Monday next. Every day IT has been thronged
oy parties coming over from Newport by motor
and by boat Among these who are closing their
Villas and leaving Newport Mr. and Mrs X
Vulton Cutting who took their departure yester-
day Tor Tuxedo. and Mr., and Mrs. James a. Ssll-
man. who returned To towp
New-York tribune., 1905-08-30
FAST ATLANTIC LINERS.

The order which the North German Lloyd
Company has just given for the building Of a
duplicate OF the Kaiser Wilhelm II will interest
persons who have occasion TO cross the ocean
themselves or TO send letters or freight from this
country to Europe. When the vessel of which
the new one is TO be a copy was projected great
expectations were entertained regarding her.
The Deutschland Of the Hamburg line, was
then the fastest steamship ahoat. With engines
csLable Of developing $4,000 horsepower. the
latter has been able TO maintain a speed of
about . or 231z knots. To the Kaiser Wilhelm
II were given engines OF 10000 horsepower, and
Jet under the most favorable conditions she has
beaten her rival by only about quarter Of a
knot That she should prove disappointment
10 her designer and her owners on her maiden
YO-age Was not remarkable, perhaps; but that
she has never been able at any subsequent time
to display a marked superiority over the
Deutschland does seem strange. At any rate,
though for nearly three years she has enjoyed
the honor OF being the swiftest steamship en-
gagged In peaceful pursuits IN the whole world,
North German Lloyd officials have never ap-
peared 10 be altogether satisfied with her
Not unreasonably, representatives Of the COM
pany which operates the Kaiser Wilhelm ii have
deprecated the construction of extremely fast
vessels; but with less warrant they have as
sumed that the limit OF speed In the merchant
marine has been reached. For a while British
shipbuilders yielded tacit assent 10 the doc
Tine; but at length they changed their minds.
TWO steamships have been designed for the
Cunard Company which are expected TO attain
g speed Of 24l5 or % knots. thus surprising that
Of the Kaiser Wilhelm III and her sister by one
whole knot or more. When the new Cunarders
and the steamship which has Just been ordered
for the North German Lloyd Company are COM
pleted an exceptionally significant comparison
viii be possible. The world viii then learn
whether Continental pessimism or lnsular op-
timism has better foundation.
The most significant difference between the
English and the German plans, except In the
matter Of size. relates 20 the type Of engine
adopted for prOpelling the new ships. The
Cunard steamships viii have turbines. The
Germans win equip their new vessel with en-
gines Of the reciprocating class. II would hardly
be fair, perhaps, 10 assume that International
jealousy has blinded them TO the merits Of NJ
Parsenss famous invention; bet ii is evident
that they place a lower estimate on the turbine
than do British shipbuiiders. Well the truth
New-York tribune., 1905-08-30
Iesp-11erk daily 0ribnits
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 80. 1905.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The concessions Of the japanese,
which brought about the peace agreement at
Portsmouth, astounded Europe; where the general
opinion was that Russia had Won a diplomatic
victory Japan moral triumph and Roosevelt
has become for the present, at least, the chief
world figure. - European delegates TO the
1nterparliamentary Peace Congress at Brussels
said that the American plan OF a permanent
peace parliament was too bold - The Chi
rese boycott took new and serious turn because
g government official, ordered to settle the
goods. - The Empress Dowager Of China is
preparing a palace for Miss Roosevelt TO live in
while her guest IN Picking
DOMESTIC-The Russian and japanese en-
voys at Portsmouth agreed on terms of peace,
Japan yielding on all points; there Will be no
indemnity paid; Russia keeps her interned war
ships. and attempt is made TO limit her naval
power in the Far East; Saghalien is TO be
divided between the two countries on the 5Oth
parallel OF latitude, Japan taking the southern
part. - 1t was announced at Oyster Bay
that China had decided to cancel the rights OF
the Canton -Hankow Railroad and pay the
new cases and seven deaths from yellow fever In
New Orleans; many new cases were reported
from the outlying parishes. - The Interstate
Commerce Commission ordered q revision OF
freight rates between Memphis and points il
Arkansas
CITY-Stocks were strong and active. -
The Citizens Union Issued statement giving
at length the reasons why il faVors the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Jerome for Mayor. - George
Gould his wife and their children arrived from
Europe - Al Adams announced plans foI
6 forty-nine story hotel in the Tenderloin. -
-Four members OF the Hip Sing Tong were held
81 the Tombs a murder charge and Mock
Duck was bound over in 5000 bail for the
grand jury. - A letter received here from
Shanghai said that trade In South China was al
an absolute standstill on account Of the boycott
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day;
Fair west winds. The temperature yesterday;
Highest, 40 degrees; lowest, 60.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-30
THE TERMS.

Japan has won her crowning victory. Her
terms Of peace are finer than her conquests at
Moukden and in the Corean Strait merely
big nation could win a war and collect its
spoils. 1t takes a great nation to be generous
IN the hour of triumph, and for the sake Of
peace TO relinquish its just gains to the de-
feated foe. That is what Japan. at the last mo-
ment, has done. 1t viii be remembered TO her
praise For the final and decisive concessions
have been made by her, and by her alone. That
is the salient feature of the terms Of peace. In
deed, might say she has made the only con-
cession. Mr. Sato is quoted as saying Russia
had made none He was right, and so would
any one have been right in saying Japan had
made none until this final question of indem-
nifty was reached.
Let US recapitulate the terms. First, Russia's
alleged concessions. One is Japan's paramount
position In Corea- japan won that with the
sword. Another is the evacuation of Manchuria
Japan forced that with the sword. A third is
the surrender of Port Arthur and Dalny. Japan
compelled that with the sword. fourth is
the transfer Of the Manchurian railroad. Japan
won that as spols of war. a fifth is the right
of fishing in Siberian waters. Japan secured
that when she drove the Russian flag from those
seas The sixth and last is Saghaien. Japan
took the whole Of that by conquest. On not
one Of these points was there a true concession
by Russia. There was simply recognition OF
facts which had been accomplished in spite OF
her resistance
Neither did Japan. until the end, make any
material concession. 1t is true she relinqushed
her demand for a surrender OF the interned
ships. That was demand which she never
could have expected to obtain. and her conces-
sion was merely the ceasing to claim something
TO which she was not entitled. She also aban-
doned her demand for restriction OF Russia g
naval strength in the Pacific. That too, was a
demand for something TO which she had no title
in law, In equity or in reason. We know Of no
other concessions which she is even reported to
have made, save at the very end Then she
did make two. material and great She ceded
back TO Russia half OF the island which she
had won by conquest, the northern half of
which is Of priceless value TO Russia, and for
which Russia might well have paid an imperial
ransom; and she waived her entire demand for
| reimbursement of the vast war expenses which
Russia had forced her 10 incur We expressed
the other day the opinion that she might better
afford TO make even SO great concession tina n
| TO continue rhs wari but even though L. was
New-York tribune., 1905-08-30

to her profit to do II, she is none the less en-
titled to our admiration for her wise magma
nimity.
If from concessions we turn to gains, the
account is not confined to one or two items
Japan has gained much, though 1t is largely
in things which were hers by right, or which are
not for her selfish profit but for the common
good of the world. Her position in Corea was
hers by right So was possession of Dainy and
Port Arthur. The expulsion of Russia from
Manchuria was for the equal gain of all ma
tons and for the restoration Of that land to
China and the vindication of the American pol
icy of territorial integrity and the open door
But in these things she gained all that she de
manded before the war, and more; and in addi-
ton there are the Manchurian railroad, half of
Saghalien. fishing rights and the captured flower
of the Russian navg. For making these terms
Japan is entitled to much honor. With them
she may well be content.
New-York tribune., 1905-08-30
JEROME PARK ANTIQUITIES.

From 1.-THE dark backward and abysm of time"
strange memories are summoned up by a cur
rent item of news from Jerome Park We are
told that the concrete work in the west basin
of the reservoir there lis nearly finished
When it is finished, work will be begun on the
east basin. Those are simple, matter Of fact
statements. Yet there proceeds from them an
air.
Like the scent that steals from the crumbling
Where a mummy is half unrolld-
1t was away back in 1884 that the enterprise
was started At that time our strenuous and
expeditions Aqueduct Commissioners decided
that such reservoir must be forthwith con-
structed. With the characteristic impehosity
and zeal that have generally marked their
work. comparable with the swift flight of q
startled snail the torrential flow of CONCEALED
molasses they succeeded In getting the plans
prepared in the space of just ten years. and
then, year later, the contract for construction
was let. Ten years and a week ago today ex-
actly that memorable contract was let How
much has happened In that time! Administra-
tons have come and gone Revolutions have
transformed realms. Wars have changed the
map of the world Public works Of stupendous
magnitude, compared with which the Jerome
Park reservoir is but an unconsidered trihe,
have been conceived and completed. The
health, the comfort and the good fame Of the
second city In the world have been at stake for
need of this reservoir. Yet the slow years
have circled on above its slumbrous incomplete
ness, and the Aqueduct Commissioners have
drawn their salaries with the unfailing pre-
cison of death and taxes
The enterprise dated from its original de-
cision, is just old enough to vote. The
contract for it has passed its tenth anniversary
Yet we are told that the concrete lining of the
west basin is only nearing completion. How
near we do not know and dare not guess
whether the remaining time is to be measured
by months or years cons. But it is nearly
finished" Then, when 1t Is quite finished, work
on the other basin will be begun and the sec
ond basin being nearly twice big as the
first, may be expected to take about twice as
much time.
Well Macaulay's New-Zealander has not yet
taken his perch upon the broken arch of Lon
don Bridge. Long ages after he has done so
and has himself passed into legendary lore
some archaologist from LuZon may go down
from the academic remains University
Heights to excavate among the tumuli IN the
valley Of the Bronx, and may there come upon
the still unfinished concrete Of the east basin
to regard it with admiration as token of the
efficient administration and the strenuous public
service of the American metropolis.