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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
CANADA's USE OF NIAGARA
Government Completes With Private
Power Companies.


From Casters Magazine
The development OF the hydraulic power
of Niagara on the Canadian side is leading
to some interesting sequences
A tribunal called the hydro electric power
commission has been created, and in the
hands of this body has been placed the en-
tire domestic regulation of the power prod.
uct Of stations, coming within govern-
ment control
In addition there has been given TO the
various municipalities the right to UNDER
take the distribution of electrical energy
within their respective limits.
In order that the commission may be in
position to dictate terms to the existing
private companies, 1T is important that the
cooperation of the municipalities be OBJ
tanned and this appears to be partially ac-
complished.
The city of Toronto has already arranged
for 1900 horsepower of electric energy
from Niagara, the price being $14 to S16 per
horsepower for a supply for a twenty-four-
hour day, including transmission TO Toron-
to, the local distribution to be in the hands
| of the municipality, and 1t is believed that
number of other cities and towns Will
make similar arrangements.
These agreements are made with the ny
dro-electric power commission, and 1t in
turn must either secure the power supply
from the existing private companies or else
proceed to develop it's own stations.
1t is hardly probable that the latter alter
native will be found necessary, since the
result would be to leave the private cor
porationS with the greater part of their
prospective custom permanently taken
away, that the real consequence of the
recent legislation is to compel the compa-
mics to supply the municipalities through
the commission at prices determined by the
engineers of the new body.
1t is possible that such measures will
| prove advantageous to the public, but much
will depend upon the manner in which the
| law is carried out. 1t has been intima ted
| that this legislation will render It exceed
| ngly difficult for promoters to induce out
| side capital to engage in the development
! of natural resources in Canada hereafter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
The Blessings Of Middle Age.

George Harvey in the North American Review.
The greatest free gift of the years is i'm
personality That voracious interest in our
selves which Is SO natural limitation of
youth fades of it's own accord as we grow
to fuller knowledge of our slight endow-
ment, the paucity of our spoken lines and
the fragmentary and insignificant part Of
our role in life. And then what is to fill
up the void? We are. after all, not cast
for the hero's part. but are we to sink into
mere hardened machines? The gift of en-
tirely impersonal enjoyment Is one of the
greatest Of lifes events. When 1t falls
upon US we can adorn our secret corners
of delight and learn to live in them. We
begin to listen to music with no disquietfng
desire to have 1t interpret our personal
emotions or feed our ambitions. We can
look at pictures and nature with a new and
a more liberal interest.
There is a shifting of basis by which, II
we will, we may gain complete advantage.
AS in youth. we cling to some glorified
fragment of the past or hold out our hands
to some warm hope OF an unearned but
magnificent future. SO in middle age we
come. If we will. to a moment richer and
nobler in itself. If in youth we use the
senses for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT, in ma
turity we learn to enjoy them for them
selves. 1t is a shifting of basis from emo
ton in perception, and the perceptions can
give as keen a pleasure, every whit, as the
emotions.
To keep the sight and the hearing ever
alert. attuned to wider visions and fuller
harmonies. is to be on the winning side in
the game Of life. To observe the world in
the gross. as 1t subserves a personal in
terest, is not particularly vivifying; but
continually to see and to hear more deli
cately, more exactly, is to intensity life and
life's interest. AS the demand Of the intel
lect is to feel itself ever increasing In
power and scope, SO the demand of the
senses is for continuous refinement and
delicacy Of resource, and this is to become
we age. not less but more alive till, at
the instant of death. destiny shall overtake
us at the very floodtide of our abilities and
our Zest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Drawing Room.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Another curious and regrettable revival
Of the word draw in the sense Of with
draw" occurs in drawing ROOM" Here the
original meaning of the word is lost be-
cause of It's lamentable pronunciation by
the uneducated. Nobody. hearing 1t men,
toned "droying room at its best, or as
''droring ROOM at its worst. would suspect
it of being a room to which to withdraw
for relaxation. Most words of the kind,
though. have no better claim to our admira-
ton, and many have a worse one to our
sense of language. "Parlour'' Is an ugly
growth from the old monasterial ''parloir. -
room where speaking was allowed, and
''boudoir.'' that early Victorian expression
of gentilty, beganaby being a room to sulk
in. Sitting room" Is a strange instance
of the confusion of cause and effect and SO
Is Giving ROOM" We come back to draw
ing room as to honest word, at least.
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demonstrated that the infection was due t.
the mosquitoes and not to contact.
DR.. Reeds Conclusions,

DE-. Aeed'S conclusions.
Other experiments were made by injecting
blood from the veins of yellow fever pa
tents into the bodies Of volunteers Every
other test that ingenuity could suggest was
applied by DR.. Reed, who summed up his
conclusions as follows:
II. The specific agent in the causation
Of yellow fever exists in the blood of a
patient for the first three days of his at
tack. after which time he ceases to be a
menace to the health of others.
''2 A mosquito of a single species, steg-
omyia fasciata, ingesting the blood of a pa
tent during this infective period is power
less to convey the disease to another per-
son by its bite until about twelve days have
elapsed. but can do so thereafter for an
indefinite period, probably during the re-
mainder Of It's life.
''3. The disease cannot in nature be
spread In any other way than by the bite
Of the previously infected stegnomyia. Arti-
cles used and soiled by patients do not
carry Infection"
These conclusions were accepted by the
medical world, and, acting upon them. the
chief sanitary officer Of Havana, Surgeon
Major Gorgas of the army, commenced a
campaign of mosquito determination In Ha-
vana. which was carried on with great
energy by the use Of petroleum until, as !
have already told you, the city for the first
time in history was entirely free from this
terrible disease for more than three years.
Other cities in the tropics have taken SIM
liar measures. and II Mexico, Brazil, the
Central American republics and other coun-
tries In the tropics will follow the example
Of Havana and adopt the recommendations
of Walter Reed medical experts believe
that the most dreaded scourge Of that Sec
ton of the earth will soon become extinct.
Surgeon Kean tells me that typhoid fever
Is not common in Cuba. There have been
few cases this winter in Havana and in
the army. but they were brought here from
other countries. THE greatest degree of
mortality is from tuberculosis" he ex-
planned. land we are trying to suppress
that. When the army withdrew in 1902
we were planning an outdoor sanitarium
for tuberculosis patients, and had already
bought property for, one. The Cubans
however did not carry out the plan, and
the property is now rented for other pur-
poses. but the board Of health intends to
take up the matter where we>left it off in
1902 and establish open-air hospitals"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Not a Matter for Experiment.

From the Youths companion
young man who had inherited a large
fortune from a rich but very economical
relative decided to live on a scale common
surate with his greatly increased income,
and was making arrangements to build a
fine mansion, buy an automobile and invest
in other expensive luxuries, when an elderly
friend who had always been one of his ad-
visers undertook to demonstrate with him.
whats this hear about your suuander-
ing the money your uncle left you, Harry?'
said the elderly friend.
II am not going to squander it," he an
swered, but I'm going to get some good
out of it,
Its enough to make him turn over In his
grave. Didn't your uncle prove In his own
case that man could live on a personal ex-
penditure of less than one thousand dollars
a year,"
Yes"
'Well?'
well, he proved it SO thoroughly that l
accept it as demonstrated What is the use
of my continuing the experiment."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
What is "PopjoyingP"
From the London Chronicle

"P" must be the most tricky and elusive
letter of the alphabet. the one that gives the
photographer the greatest trouble DR..
Murray has been steadily pursuing 1t for
couple of years and more. but his quest Is
not yet over. In his latest appeal for in
formation sportsmen and schoolboys May
be able to render assistance. q II. Kings
Iey's book on sport and Travel has a ref
erence to 1.-THE stream on which he himself
was wont to popjoy In a very aboriginal
manner" And Tom Browns School Days.
contains this sentence: After a whole af-
ternoon's popjoying they caught three or
four small coarse fish," Dr. Murray wants
to know the precise meaning of ''popjoy,'t
how the word has been made up and
whether it is school slang or a specimen OF
local dialect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Need Of Standardizing Medicines.
From Harper's

Man has heedfully viewed about him the
infinite number of things, creatures, plants
and metals. and out of them he is COM
pounding or extracting bewildering num-
Der of substances of alleged therapeutic
value. In one list of the newer remedies
arranged under their trade names there are
presented under the single letter A. from
Abrastol to Azurin, no less than 41S sepa-
rate titles. These most of them, have a
value more or less definite and unquestion-
able and more or less understood. But 1t
is matter of fact that less than so per
cent of the standard preparations that
appear In the Pharmacopoeia have been
standardized, and 1t is true that in the man.
ufacture Of the 10000 drugs and combina-
tons of drugs that are being used by the
physicians of the country there Is more
opportunity for fraud through adulteration
and substitution than in any other manufac-
turing industry known among men.
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est quantity. they remove it and soak the
place with kerosene. At the same time
they fumigate for other diseases. The
kerosene oil kills the larvae and prevents
breeding. The stegomyia does not go into
the fields or large pools Of water, but lives
in human dwellings and breeds in tanks. cess
pools. cisterns, cutters, drains, stationary
washstands, and in other places where
small quantities Of water can be caught
and held. In those places the inspectors
search for them. When case of fever is
discovered, the patient is removed and iso-
lated, the house is fumigated and thor
oughly cleaned, although dirt has no con-
nection with yellow fever.
Walter Reeds Great Work.
Surgeon Kean was telling me the other
day about the work of Surgeon Walter
Reed of the United States army in Cuba
during the military occupation and de-
clared that it was one of the most glorious
chapters in the history of medicine. AL
though DIR. Carlos j. Finley of Havana,
who Is now in charge of the Havana health
Office, was the discoverer and original ex-
ponent of the theory of the mosquito as
the agent in the transmission of yellow fe-
yer, DR.. Reed developed and demon
strated 1t.
He made it forever possible to prevent
the disease and to remove the causes for
it. But he received no reward said Sur
geon Kean. 1.-THE Secretary of War rec
commended his prOmotlOn 10 cOlOnei IN tne
Medical Corps, but before Congress acted
upon the recommendation he died Of ap-
pendicitis November q. 1902, in the city OF
Washington. Harvard University made
him a master of arts; the University Of
Michigan conferred degree upon him. and
Mrs. Reed was given pension of $125
month. The Secretary of War recon-
mended $500 a month, but Congress cut
down the amount. The scientific men of
the United States have organized a society
called The Walter Reed Memorial Asso-
ciation,' Of which DR.. Daniel c. Gilman.
formerly president of Johns Hopkins, Is
chairman. and have raised the sum of $685.
600, Of which the interest is to be paid to
Mrs Reed during her lifetime, and at her
death the capital is to be used for some
permanent memorial.
This seems small acknowledgment"
continued Maj. kean, "for the value of his
services to his fellow-men cannot be esti-
mated. There have been ninety yellow fe-
yer epidemics in the United States, causing
tens of thousands of deaths and costing
hundreds of millions of dollars. The f1nan-
cial loss in the epidemic of 1878 alone is es-
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Luxuries in Camping.
From the Outing Magazine.

from tne Outln2 magazine.
However closely you confne yourself to
the bare necessities. be sure to include one
luxury. This is not SO much to eat as for
the purpose of moral support / remember
one trip In the Black Hills on which our
commissary consisted quite simply of oat-
meal tea, salt and sugar, and a single can
of peaches. or course, there was game.
Now, If we had found ourselves reduced to
meat, mush, oatmeal pones and tea. we
should after a little have felt ourselves re-
duced to dull monotony, and after little
more we should have begun to long might
ily for the feshpots of Deadwood. But that
can of peaches Iurked In the back of our
minds. BY its presence we were not re-
duced to meat, mush, oatmeal pones and
tea. Occasionally we would discuss gravely
the ACCESSIBILITY of opening it; but l do not
believe any Of us down deep in his heart
meant 1t in sober earnest. What was the
mere tickling of the palate compared with
the destruction Of symbol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

The yellow fever is now kept down by
eternal vigilance. 1t having been decided
that this terrible disease is due entirely to
a certain mosquito, known to science as
stegomyia fasciata, corps of inspectors I'M
der Surgeon Major ]. r. Kean and Surgeon
Captain James Robb Church of the United
States army are continually going about
the city hunting 1t down. They make
house-t house inspections with an electric
dark-lantern in one hand and a can of
kerosene oil in the other, and wherever
they find stagnant water, even in the slight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
Australian Marriages.

From the Sydney On. S. W. sun
The latest marriage statistics published
show that the favorite age with brides is
twentyone and with bridegrooms twenty
four. There was one bridegroom OF eighty
two, whose biushing partner was sweet
young thing OF seventy-seven. There were
three brides of fourteen and eight bride
grooms Of seventeen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

and the garbage and offal were thrown out
of the doors and windows for the pigs and
vultures to eat and carry away. Today
every household has can or a barrel for
refuse of every sort, and is required to
set ii out on the sidewalk at 10 o'clock at
night. where ii is picked up by carts OF the
suburbs to be burned. The streets are
swept and cleaned daily by a force organ
lied by the late Col. George E. Warning of
New York, who suffered martyrdom in his
of yellow fever in 1899, but not until he had
the city pretty thoroughly cleansed.
Havana Cleaned by Warning.
When Warning began work the filthiest
place in all Havana was the military hos
and wounded of the Spanish army were
taken care of. 1t was such a horrible
place that some of the surgeons of the
United States army refused to enter it. 1t
is now one OF the cleanest and neatest in
situations in the world.
The mortality from disease in the Span
sh army was appalling, running some
times as high as II and IS per cent. In
the United States army during the month
OF February last only 2 ITO per cent of
the men were the sick list from dis
eases, accidents and every other cause
mostly from venereal diseases. The num-
Der of deaths has been so small since the
present intervention that the rate has not
been calculated. 1t would be only frac
ton of / per cent.
During the republic the Cubans kept up
the sanitary inspection and the enforce
ment of the health laws very well, al
though they allowed the yellow fever to
come back in 1905, after it had been en-
tirely eXterminated by the United States
troops in 1901. There not a single
case on the island in 19O2-34 but in 1913
it was brought here from New Orleans and
there were seventy cases, of which
thirty-two proved fatal. In 1906 there
were seventy-one yellow fever victims, of
whom twelve died. 1t was entirely
stamped out again within a few weeks
after the present Intervention and there
have been no cases since December The
benefit conferred upon the Cubans by the
American army in this respect may be
judged by the fact that in 1895 the first
year of the of independence, there
were 1,025 cases of yellow fever, and the
first year of the American occupation there
were ] ,244.
Death Rate Lowered.
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Monks as Motorists.
From the ArRonauI

Afg0Hauf.
The monks of st. Bernard. in the Alps,
are soon to appear as automobilists. They
have received permission to run automobiles
between the hospices of Grand st. Bernard
and Simplon and Domo d'Ossola and
Aosta. The chauffeurs will be chosen from
the monks themselves, who will wear cowls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
YELLOW JACKEXPELLED
Havana One of the HeaIthiest
Cities in the World.
STREETS NOW KEPT CLEAN
Beneficial Effects of American 0ccu-
patton.
Beneficial Effects of American Occu
DEATH RATE GREATLY LOWERED
Value to Humanity of the Demonstra-
tion Made Regarding the Mosquito
by the Late DR.. Reed.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald

Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
HAVANA, Cuba, March Is, 1907.
In Spanish times Havana was one of the
dirtiest and most unhealthy cities in the
world. Today it is one of the cleanest,
with death rate about the same as that
of New York and Philadelphia, regardless
of large, improvident, ill-nourished and
imprudent colored population. The DEATH
rate among the white population alone is
about the same as that of Washington. A
lady tourist after returning from a drive
the other day remarked that she was go
ing home to get up a revolution in Gin
cinnati, hoping that the President would
send a detachment of the army down to
clean that town.
Before the Americans came to Havana in
1898 it was the habit of the people to use
the streets and alleys for dumping purposes
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Comment upon the
following letters would
be entirely unneces=
SarVs

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Conried Metropolitan Opera
Company.
Metropoltan~ Opera House.
Heinrich Conried. President
and Managing Director.
Ernest GOerlltz,
General Business Manager.
NEW YORK, March 13, 1907.
Weber Piano Company,
Fifth Ave. and 34th St.,
New York City.
Gentlemen:
AS general manager of the Con-
ried Metropolitan Opera Company.
| have had an excellent oppOrtu-
nifty of observing the practically
unanimous preference of the great
operate artists for your instru-
ments. In personal conversation
1 have so often heard these ia
nous singers express themselves
enthusiastically about the Weber
Piano that il has become in the
nature of an old story to me.
When the standard of Piano eX-
cellence is under discussion it is
always the Weber that l hear
cited as the highest example, be-
cause of its peculiarly rich and
sympathetic s ng ng quality.
When you consider that our COM
pany comprises the worlds great
est operate artists you certainly
have reason to be proud of this
remarkable unanimity. Such opin-
ions in connection with my per-
sonal experience with a Weber
Piano in my own home only tend
to confirm my Judgment that we
could not possibly have selected
better Plano for exclusive use at
the Metropolitan Opera House
than the Weber
Very truly yours,
(Signed) ERNEST GOERLITZ,
General Manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30

NEW YORK. March u, 1907.
The Weber Piano Co.
Gentlemen:
| am most happy to confirm in
writing what l told you person
ally-that my decided preference
is and always has been for the
Weber Plano. Since the earliest
period of my musical career /
found it a piano apart from all
others. 1t cannot be- surpassed
for richness and beauty of tone,
and responds delightfully."- TO every
motion of the artist
Wishing you all possible sue
cess. | am.
Very cordially.
(SiEned) GERALDINE FARRAR.
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Death Rate Lowered.

The general death rate from all causes
during the last ten years has been as
follows:
The oasis., 1907-03-09
-rhe dog ealaIef ]. aLanl.

The dog catcher is about
 Mr. Frank Turner arrived from Douglas yesterday.
 Mr. George r.. Earnshaw is re. ported very ill in Washington.
 Thursday evening Mr. L. Eph- raim returned from q visit at Pro- montorio.
 Thursday morning Mir. Gus Heyman of Phoenix, dropped into Nogales on his usual round through the territory.
 Thursday evening Messrs. H. s. and c. w. Eberle came in from the Promontorio camp, and re. mained at Nogales until this morning.
 Sunday morning Doctor A. w. Vanneman and Doctor $. A. Will Hams of Hermoslllo, were at No- gales, en route to Douglas to meet pr. A. c. Wright, with whom they are interested in mining operations in the Sahuaripa region.
 Mir. and Mrs. Norton of Califor- mia, have been visitors at Nogales this week, after an absence of year or more. Both Mir. Norton and his wife are we'll known along the border, and in Sonora, as they have been interested in mining in Sonora many years.
 Wednesday Supervisor I. Bur- goon and Doctor Purdy, health officer for Santa Cruz county, went to Santa Cruz to investigate the report of smallpox in that village. They returned Thursday evening, and stated that they could find nothing. They visited both the president of the municipality and the local physician, who declared that there was no case of the disease anywhere in the vicinity.
The oasis., 1907-03-09
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY.

The properties of the Mansfield Mining & Smelling Company, in the Wrightson district, are being surveyed for the purpose of apply Ing for patents.
 The Salero Mining Company in the Tyndall district, Mr. W. K. Balcom, superintendent, is mak- ing arrangements for survey of its claims, for patent.
 The Joplin Mining Company, which owns valuable mining prop critics in the Tyndall district, is arranging for surveys of it's prop critics in order to secure patents for the same.
 The Tucson papers state that Mir. T. A. Cox, county surveyor for Pima county, has resigned his post to accept the position of supern- tendent for the Santa Cruz Mines Co.,, at Patagonia.