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in which returned to England when the
disease was disappearing for want Of VIC
tins, there was a Methodist missionary
whose wife had died short>ti before.
He came on board in the first stage, and
was put overheard the day before the
steamer reached Tenerifs.
Since then great changes have been
made in Freetown. Tho swamps that gen.
Grated malaria and It's mosquito accom-
paniment have been drained. good supply
of wholesome water is drawn from the
neighboring mountains, and the sanitary
conditions have been so improved that. it
has been made fortified coaling station Of
the British navy and has a considerable
garrison Of white troops stationed on the
neighboring hills.
"The next yellow fever epidemic through
which was fated to pass was in Barbados,
In the West Indies. in 1852. In the early
part Of the summer Of that year vast guam
titles Of small fish were thrown up on part
OF the coast Of the island. They were sup
posed to have been killed by some sub
marine escape Of noxious gases.
"For several days the stepch was almost
unbearable in parts Of the island, and the
old negro mammies predicted some dire
calamity to follow, but it was not until
we'll into the autumn that their prophecies
were realized. The first case Of yellow
fever, as it proved to be. was that Of a
young officer only recently arrived from
England.
SThe white troops were at once marched
out to Gun Hill. an elevation in the interior
of the island In breezy situation and above
fever level. The West Indian troops were
left in charge Of the garrison, with their
officers, who went down one after another
until there were only two Of the non-com-
Blatant branch Of the stat left.
-The seizures In all cases were sudden,
but the course Of the disease In every case
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through which wsnt was in 1854. in Nassa u
tr tn, Haharas, then thu rendezvous OF
blockade runners during the civil war The
mortality on this occasion was less than
during the Barbados epidemic, but the dis
ease. which was imported from Havana
vxs particularly virulent. Many sailors
employed in handling the bales of cotton
on the wharves were taken with it and died
without medical did, their bodies being
found among the bales.
L was again attacked, but the Fremont
tory symptoms were far less acute than on
the first occasion, and recovery was norma
though a little slow. The appetite became
phenomenal FOR short time, but had to
be ungratfed under tho rigorous injuno.
tons OF the doctor
AS 70 the cause and origin of yellow
fever do not pretend to have any theory.
and am at tho same time entirely skepticsl
OF the mosquito hypothesis. Since the
great epidemic Of 1859 at Sierra Leone s.ni.
tadons has exercised a great influence IN
the health Of the white population, 90 much
so that believe there were only two deaths
IN 1887, and one other year there vas M
death at all among the whites.
AS to the mesquite. he ls st;ll thar.
though in much lessened numbers. and n
he was ever really concerned In propaostin,
the germs Of the fever 1t was because the
conditions that produced them vere
through ignorance or indifference. mar.
mitted to exist.
'Of the Barbados epidemic in 1862 Il
would be difficult to find an explanation.
The island Is normally healthfui. the soil
dry and absorbent and the mosquito by
no means troublesome. It may be that the
negro mammies' ideas were we'll founded
but the interval OF time between the sub.
marine eruption that killed such larre
Quantities OF fish and the appearance Of the
fever was 30 long that they could hardly
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Banner as the flag leaves the deck and
will be hoisted slowly, 30 that 1t reaches
the end of the staff as the last notes are
played. While this ia being done every
one stands at attention facing the flag
and the officers salute. In the evening
this ceremony is reversed. The cornet
plays Hail Columbia" and the flags on
all the yachts are slowly hauled down and
the colors disappear as the last notes die
away.
The yachts will start for Newport on
Monday and finish the races of Brenton's
Reef lightship. The fleet when II reaches
Newport will be at its best and many yachts
that make this port their headquarters
will join the squadron there.
The Aston cups will be raced for on
Tuesday. These races are annual insti-
tutions. Col. John Jacob Astor offers
two trophies, one worth 81 900 for sloops
and yawls in one class and one worth $500
for schooners in another. These boats
sail course thirty-eight miles long, and
to win an Aston cup is the ambition Of
every owner of racing yacht.
1t is expected this year that the con-
tests will be very keen. In the schooner
class will be Arthur +. Luke's Corona
F. F. Brewster's new schooner Elmina
and Roy A. Rainey's new boat Invader.
These with some OF the older boats, such
as r. P Doremus's Iasca, W. E. Iselia,s
Emerald, the Quissetta and perhaps a
few of the smaller schooners, will make a
hot class. In the other race will be w.
Gould Brokaw's yawl Sybarita.' Stephen
Peabody's yawl vigilant w. Ross Proctor's
sloop Mineola, j. Rogers Maxwell's sloop
Yankee. W. X. Vanderbilt. Jr's. sloop
Virginia and H. F. Lippitt's sloop Weeta-
moe and some of the smaller craft.
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rapidly and returned to duty in less than
a month restored to health.
Instead Of the trea ment ordinarily
given by the military doctors. the negro
nurse had drenched me with an infusion
Of lemon grass, which grows PLENTIFUL
in the West Indies and is regarded as the
very best febrifuge there is. It produces
profuse Precipitation and acts on the kid
neys, in this way carrying OF the poison
in the system before Il has time to vitiate
the blood and produce the condition that
ends in the pomito, from which, in the records
Of the British army medical service, only
one man is known to have recovered, q
Lieut.. Kelly, I believe his mans was, Of
the Royal Artillery.
Among the cases Of recovery from the
fever in this Barbados epidemic of 1852
was one 80 curious that 1t is worth mention
ing. The patient was what would be
ordinarily called hard liver, but was of
strong constitution and had made a good
battle for life.
AT the stage when relapse or recovery
was to be looked for, he was taken with a
heavy bleeding from the gums, nostrils
and ears. With its cessation he showed
symptoms Of relief, and the impression
of the doctors was that in his particular
case the romito had taken this form, and
so his life was saved.
Another case was one also of hard
liver. When he had arrived at the stage
of first recovery he insisted on being al
lowed to leave his bed, which was per-
mitted, but his request for pipe and bottle
Of stout was peremptorily refused. The
doctors back was hardly turned when he
sent his servant for the stout, found his
pipe and tobacco, and proceeded to enjoy
both in defiance Of the medical edict. His
recovery continued without a hitch, and
it was only about four years ago that his
death In England Was announced.
The third and last epidemic Of the fever
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After the Astor. cup races the yachts
will proceed on Wednesday to Vineyard
Haven. Very early the next morning,
Thursday, Aug. II, the feet will start for
Marblehead. This Is a run Of liz miles,
and it will mean a long hard day for all
hands. The New York Yacht Club has
always had luck in the shape Of weather
when it has gone around the Cape, and all
hands hope that there will be a good breeze
on that day. At Marblehead the visitors
will be the guests Of the Eastern Yacht Club
and elaborate preparations have been
made for the reception Of the New York
Yacht Club members.
Early on Friday morning there are to
be races for auto boats end motor boats
and any special race that yachtsmen wish.
On Saturday the annual regatta Of the
Eastern Yacht Club will be sailed and the
New York Yacht men are invited to enter.
In the evening there will be reception
at the clubhouse.
Then the fleet will disband. Some of
the yachts will come around the Cape again.
Some will continue on to the eastward
and some will take part in the ocean race
of the Eastern Yacht Club which will start
on Monday, Aug. 81. This race will end at
Halifax, and it has somewhat Of an inter-
national character because Canadian yachts
have entered. At Halifax the visitors will
compete for the Prince Of Wales cup,
challenge trophy, and Il is possible that that
piece Of silver may come to this country
to keep the Americas Cup and the Sea-
wanhaka challenge cup company.
Commodore Frederick g. Bourne is the
fac of1cer ~ the New York Yacht Ch,h
and his feet captain Is J. d. Jerrold Kelley,
The Colonia is q handsome steamer 1870
feet long. She was badly burned early in
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was more prolonged than in the West Afri-
can epidemic. In some cases it stretched
into days, with partial recovery, during
which the patient was able to leave his bed
and move about; then a sudden relapse
the ronito negro, and the end.
"Of tho cases during that epidemic, s5
per cent. were fatal, and whether the VIC
Tins were temperate and careful in their
living made no difference; temperate and
Incorporate alike died or recovered. In
cases in which the patients recovered, the
somito had not supervened; where It did,
the result was invariably death.
1T was in this epidemic that I went
through my first personal experience of
the dread disease. On the evening was
struck down with it had been taking din
ner at friends house previous to going
up to the garrison, where, as officer on duty
for the night, would have to remain visit
ing the guards, sick rooms and hospital.
10 see-that proper attention was given the
sick and order was kept.
1T was about 10 o'clock and the carriape
In which was to drive to the garrison had
just been ordered, when, as was lighting
q cigar after having buckled on my sword.
felt blow as II from club on the back
of the neck al the base OF the skull and
dropped unconscious to the floor. When I
recovered consciousness l found myself
in my friends house in bed in chapec OF a
negro nanny, whom my friend had called
in in preference to sending for one Of the
military doctors.
Il soon relapsed into an unconscious
state, and it was only on the third day
knew what was going on. About a week
passed when the disease took a favorable
turn, and a mail steamer being about to
sail on the day was first able to move
was dressed, carried down In palanquin
10 the wharf, put on board and taken to
another island to convalesce. which did
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be connected under any ordinary con.
G:tions
Another curious feature Of the Earbados
epidemic was that after it had ceased In
tne garrison, where the sanitary con-
ditions were always better than amonr tho
civil population, II seemed TO be in suspense
TOT short time. then broke out in milder
form IN anothar locality in the island and
finally disappeared.
With regard to Panama, the first thine
to DO done would appear to be to find the
lowest fever level under ordinary con-
ditions. then establish the white STAFF and
labor ~ far above n a. will be oonvsnisule
for the work Lot the quartsrs b airy
With an abundant supply Of good vat>r.
and exposure to night vapors during tbs
rainy season be avoided. 80.
With ordinary precautions q man with
an average constitution should be able to
maintain his health sven In that climate
Tor at least year or eighteen months
without coming north for q change. but at
the best the climate conditions are such
that the Northern man cannot EXPECT to
make a home permanently In the Canal
Zone.
Il may say In conclusion that WHERE
water has to be stored Ii tanks which NAV
become breeding places for mosquitoes
there Is very easy remedy. During
nearly three years Of residence on Brim-
stone Hill, in the island Of st. Kits, in the
"eat Indies, where my father was in garri.
son. mosquito curtains never were needed.
Tho reason was that the tanks, large
and small, on which the troops depended
for their supply Of water were full Of gold
nan that lived on the Larvae Of what other
LIE. The tanks being either vaulted
over with stone or rooted with wood the
water was always COOL, oven in the hottest
weather. and the goldfish kept 1t sweet and
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cruise. and the captains will be asked to
| ratify the plan and to decide what shall be
! done in the way Of racing as we'll as other
details. Each flag officer has offered some
,, valuable prizes to be raced for, and just how
these prizes shall be disposed Of will be
another matter for consideration.
The program as arranged now-and 1t
will be carried out as far as the runs each
day are concerned-takest the feet as far as
Marblehead. The yachts will start from
Glen Cove early on Friday morning. The
start will be signalled from the flagship
and an hour later the races will be started.
These are in charge of the regatta COM
mittee, OF which Oliver E. Cromwell is chair
man and H. de B. Parsons and Franklin
A. Plummer are the members. The yachts
will be sent of in divisions and will race
from of Motifs Point to the outer break
water at Morris Cove. On Friday night
the fleet will anchor in the cove.
The next morning, Saturday, the run
will be to New London. The finish Of the
race will be at Sarah's Ledge and the yachts
will anchor that night of the Pequot House.
There is always a yachtsmen's ball at this
resort and the pretty girls who are there
for the summer will look their prettiest for
the visitors. On Sunday the feet will
remain at anchor and every vessel will
dress ship at morning colors, which is at
O'Clock. This is always a pretty sight.
for all day long many colored flags will
fiutter from stays on every yacht in the
fleet. and are lowered at colors, or at sun
SET in the evening.
Making colors is one OF the pretty cere-
monies OF each day. Promptly at o'clock
a gun is fred from the flagship and the
colors on each yacht are run up. A cornet
on the flagship will play .The Star Snan aled
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FRANK CROKER DEAD.
WAS Speeding an Auto a Mile and a
half = Minute.

Ormond. Fla, Jan. 23.-Frank II. Gro
ker, son of Richard Croke former Tam
many chief. who was thrown from his au-
tomobile Saturday. died shortly after 6
o'clock Sunday morning His death came
as a stunning blow to his friends here,
for it was reported late by his physicians
that he was doing fairly well and that
hey hoped for uL.t best.
fortunate young man, and his sister were
in Jacksonville, but the news did not
reach them until too late to take the
morning train.
Experts estimate that Young Croker was
driving his machine at = speed of a mile
in 40 seconds. They say that no machine
ever Jufft could stand the strain of a
sharp turn while going at that speed
Mr.. Stanley, on the motor cycle, was di-
rectIy in the course of the racer, and to
Mr.. Croker it must nave appeared al
most certain death to attempt to make the
sharp turn to get out OF the way of the
small machine ahead of him.
Mr.. Croker's n~lechanician. Rolf, was a
Frenchman not long in this country One
side of his mead WIS crushed and death
was instantaneous. MI. Stanley was
taken to st. Augustine, where he will re-
ceive further attention at the railway hos
pi1al.
The fatal accident, coming almost at
the opening of the annual races, has cast
"a gloom over the racers gathered Aere
and those who drive their own machines
III the races will insist on adoption and
enforcement of the most rigid rules to in
sure them against every accident.
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SOCIALISTS
Wild Cheering Heard at a Meeting In
Chicago.

Chicago, Jan. 23.-The reading of a
dispatch from st. Petersburg an
n~ouncfng that workingmen were bar
Reading the streets was received with
wild cheering by 200 Socialists in mass
meeting at a north side hail. Many
Russians and Russian Jews were in
the crowd. The cheering continued
five minutes, then William Mailly, ma
tional secretary of the party. offered
a resolution expressing the sympathy
OF the Socialists with the Russian
revolutionists. It was carried amid
the widest expressions of joy
An anti-Russian mass meeting that
was to have been held in South Chi
cago was postponed because its pro
motors. stephen ReData and Adam
cziogkow. had been arrested. Both
were distributing handbills in viola
ton of a CITY ordnance Attention.
the bill said. There will be a cele-
b1ation of the nineteenth anniversary
of the murder Of four men at Warsaw
bv Russians because they were Social
lists. The meeting will be held by the
Polish central committee Of the So
cialist party
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NO ACCIDENT.
Russians in America Say Movement
Was Carefully Planned.

New York, Jan. 2S.-"Bunds'' of
Russian Jews whose aVoWed object IS
the political liberation of their Euro
pean brethren, were holding their sec
ond annual convention in New York
While the riots were going IN in st.
Petersburg. Delegates were present
from all the big cities of the Atlantic
coast.
News of the trouble produced the
widest excitement II delegates stood
on their chairs to cheer. The delegates
were especially pleased with the re-
port that one detachment of soldiers
taken as Il pei sign.
Some of the revolutionary and So
cialist members declared that the
movement at this time was no sur
prise. They said that the Russian
evolutionary papers published in
Geneva and circulated secretly have
been full of intimations of an upris-
ing, set to occur after the fall of Port
Arthur. They all believe the present
outrage was carefully planned.
Resolutions were adopted as follows:
I'VE, the delegates of 26 Russian
Jewish bunds xpre our fuIlsympathy
with our brothers and sisters who made
the first open assault on Russian auto
cracy. We see in this struggle the be-
ginning of the end of absolute mon
archy and we pledge ourselves to in
tensify our activity in behalf of the
revolutionary forces in Russia in gen
eral and Jewish bunds in particular"
On the east side news of the riot
was calmly received. Morris Winchev-
sky, known amor his race and party
as the grandfather of the Russian
Hebrew movement" said:
There have been riotous demonstra-
tions before but they were stirred UT
among students and other '~intelligents.'
This is the first time that any such
movement has included a considerable
number of the laboring classes 1t is
no accident"
The socialist reviewed the last years
events in Russia and continued:
my information from Russia is
that the revolutionary feeling has
been growing astonishingIy. The
movement will probably be suppressed
this time, but it will be recurrent and
bloodshed will only make it fercer.'
Several other leaders expressed the
belief that the uprising viii amount
to nothing unless the workmen are
Joined by the soldiery. Meetings of
Russian revolutionary societies in this
city have been called to discuss the
situation and plan contributions for
the strikers.
Ministers all over the city referred
in their Sunday evening ermon to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-23
We Paid 100000

We paid $1,000 for the American
rights to L~iquozone. the highest price
ever paid for similar rights on any
~scientifc discovery. We did this after
testing the product for two years,
through physicians and hospitals. in
this COUNTRY and others. We cured all
kinds Of germ diseases with -ft-thou-
sands of the most difficult cases OBJ
talnaple. We proved that in germ
troubles it always what
medicine cannot do. Now we ask YOU
70 try it-try it at our expense. Test
1t as We did; see what it does. Then
you VIII use it always. as we do. and
as millions Of others do. You viii use
It, not only to get well, but to keep
well. And it viii save nearly ali Of
your sickness.
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cost of maintenance. operation and taxes;
provided that maintenance and operation
shall not be construed to mean constitute
ton and extensions.
time during the existence of the fran
chise shall have the right to fix a reason
able schedule of maximum rates to be
charged for water for public and private
purposes
5. If at any time after ten years from
time of granting such franchise the may
or and council shall determine that ii is
necessary and desirable for the city 10
purchase and acquire the ownership of
such plant, an application may be pre-
sented to the district court praying for
the appointment of commissioners to de-
termine the value of such plant and the
city is authorized to purchase the plant
under the terms and conditions fixed.
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Kills Inside Germs.

Liquozone is not made by com
ugs nor IS there alcohol in
it. Its virtues are derived solely IRON,
gas-largely oxygen gas-by a process
requiring immense apparatus ana IA
days time This process has. for more
than 20 years. been the constant sub
Ject OF scientific n chemical research.
The result is a liquid that does what
Oxygen docs. It is a nerve food and
blood food-the most helpful thing in
the world to YOU. It's effects are ex-
Vibrating. vtalizing, purifying. Yet
II IS a germlclde so certain that we
publish on every bottle an offer of
$1,000 for a disease germ that it can
not KILL The reason is that germs are
vegetables; and Liquozone-like an ex-
cess of oxygen-is deadly to vegetal
matter.
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Il was in a New England village on
election day. said the New York
drummer. and the electors came up to
the scratch nobly until about two
hours before the polls closed. Then a
Gin peddler with a sick horse drove in
to town and all further interest in the
election was forgotten. The workers
deserted the polls in a body, the cleo
toss who hadn't voted refused to leave
that sick horse to do so, and when the
result of the count was announced one
old fellow. who had been pulling at the
horses ears for the last hour, replied:
"a Now. then, never mind who is
elected or defeated We have got a
heap bigger thing on hand to save lis
hossl'