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ADVANCE or MEDICINE.
Progress OF the Healing Nrt IN "
Times.

To "A EDITOR OF The sun Sir:
o. Striokler recently contributed the
ing to your columns In the course Of
defending Christian Science:
AMER four thousand years under the {
system and two thousand years under
Christian preaching. the adhcrents of II
TENS cannot point TO one disease or one sid
been permanently eradicated from huma
ence. The sun OF human woes has not
sened Histories OF the pri
medicine show that the numbcT OF DIFF
greatly Increased In the last I'VE hundred
spite OF boosted Improvement In tho healil
have seldom seen n more f1Agrd,
misstatements in print, There is d.
history better authenticated than L.
derful progress made in arresting thPii
deadly diseases. Let Mr.. Stricken ile
the IA wage of the plague which d.
Marseilles and Pnr RIG In the fOurt{r,
fury and swept a million people e.
one year. and the succeeding wav9,nn
pestilence which ran like dest1Ie
among the people of France. Emf
many and Italy In bygone duyJnnrs
makes such an out ra geous pe;o.l
truth. Here is one disease whtnSS
millions which medical science ha|"
eradicated. Ia.
As to there being more disd,nmnn
the last five hundred yea r., the ~.
BAN NtNeh NtSA~ NlNAaHI-
well as alleviated scores Of fk,,Ie
known and therefore deadly ait,,ilu,
anyway. 10 h a peculiar thing TIta'n
Scientist 20 be talking of an in. n
ease when the main basis Of hssnmlnss
cult II the absurd notion that tg7uch
thing a. disease! c,ra
But I do not wish this closing 4 ~
the main truth of what ! am hi,an.
truth that medical science hasy nnaon
Of lives and done more for th9
other branch OF human KNOWLEDGE,
lam not a physician. nor p8rtarnn
Of physicians. but IL In nonsensoo"p
person OF untainted intellect h. W
wonderful revelations in tHo ,ham
sanitary science TO sit M az, ' Ima
the sum Of human woe haiina ,inr,
sened" by medical science IeVa,dns
the thousands OF wounded 49, 80
preserving their lives and redi g
health. count for nothing cn,,n,
modern medical science? ID"
for n great deal. WAI"
COIIfMRIR Ohm June %
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Reclamation work .t Sal r'xona.

.lue OF the
" " natu 70 iea''Ao 'ne eA'Salt River
Icc,sn's.'on NorA nov so,"s and grow.
Nahey OF annona c'ose 70 the Engineer
ing Guy ~ rn'niA zen scttes Recla .
Ar'nu' ro"e" Jews OF 'meham site ON
NATION service v'siteu 'he ibnche trail.
Wh'Ie on 'une IN nc Ie'u,ltghty miles
over a mssh,uoe". "'oun'a engineer IN
III Nv suso"so,,., u" ou,hpt OF a single
cns'He' H. I, n,n. caslly of the great
sI'cIhoon. nu,'u'n .na' hone WAR
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In Oklahoma City the other afternoon MIR.
BRYAN was to speak on The Average Man
in Politics. His train was late and when hs
came before his audience at night he gave
il the choice between the political talk an
nounced and a lecture on The Old World
and Its Ways" Tho Old worl: wc- W q
rising vote of three 70 one. The traveller
beat the politician; a result which carries
a moral that the latter will not he apt 10
accept. Evidently his fur was rubbed the
wrong way. for he had hardly begun when
he produced an electrical storm which dis
persed his hearers.
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En.rxenc, M,.,ur.- fcr Cle.n stree,,.

To rHk EpIron or THE Sus-siv: The surface
street car companies should show the city their
philanthropy by placing nat cars At the dnposal
OF the Health Department IN order to enable the
same To remove the accumulation OF garbage more
expeditlously.
ANY attempt at interfering with carrying on this
self-help and Imperative citizens rescue work
would deserve tho severest scourging. compared
with which a .iossackrs knou,s would be feeble.
NEw YoRt, June -. RoBERT HAAss.
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IMMIGRATION Law.
Thksure Passed by the last Congress
Bec0tnes Effective Ts-dsy.

astta
tNGroN, June S.-The new immi-
g1law, approved by the President ON
Fly 10, will become effective to-
nj. Regulations under which il will
hrced have been promulgated by the
Stry OF CoDmeroe and Labor. Sec
tPf the new law increases the head
pm q To - and provides for lie a.
ent on every alien entering the.
States except those who have re-
IN Canada, Newfoundland, Cuba or
4 Tor one year Immediately preced-
Lheir application 10 enter.
ftton ? adds to the excluded classes.
fiies, feeble minded persons. persons.
pea with tuberculosis, those certified
medical examination TO he mentally
physically defective TO such an extent
Affect their ability to earn a living.
pen and girls coming into the United
PES Tor ANY other immoral purpose~ ;
IN prostitution. persons VINO @
. women and girls for such other I'M
al purposes. persons who admit guilt
seton 10 makes the decision of a board
hiois hot Only as 10 Y ns
uion OF aliens afflicted with loathsome
dangerous contagious diseases. or with
or physical disability bringing them
I'm the excluded classes. but also as 10.
'ons AFFLICTED with tuberculosis.
n more careful enforcement Of the
contract labor laws the sum II ESQ. ON
,ade available. S"'''"'
nder the new law a division of informa-
viii he established, it's duties 10 con
IN promoting a beneficial distribution
United aliens among the several States
territories desiring immigration"
renee v. Powderly. formerly grand
ter OF the Knights of Labor and who
a lew years & was Commissioner
sraI OF immigration, has been appointed
OF the division. Peter j. Donohue oF
',klyn, until recently secretary to Com
Toner General Frank p. Sargent. has
m az Mr.. Powderly's assistant,
law creates the office of Assistant
missioner General of Immigration.
place has been filed by the promotion
rank j. Larned of Maryland. for manv
chief clerk of the bureau. MIR.
ed has been connected with the immi-
service many years.
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Those who are booming Mr.. FAIRBANKS have
their heart In the work -WashirCfon stay
Inevitably. For beneath a long. ram
bling and somewhat bleak exterior Mr..
FAIRBANKS conceals as warm and gen.
erous a heart as ever bsat for everything
worth beating for.
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Paris once. ~ Rue Louis lie Grand, The daily and
Sunday editions are on sale AT Kiosaue u, near the
Grand Hotel; Klosquc II. Boulevard des Capuclnes,
corner Place de ropcrs, and Kiosque 10, Boulevard
dies Italiens, corner Rue Louis le Grand.
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The Massachusetts great and general court Is
proroeued. Boston Record,
Considering hat noble body, one UNDER
stands why the Bay Staters don't want
biennial sessions. Even decennial would
be too much and too often.
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u our friends rho favor as Dih manuscripts for
publication pfsh 10 hare rejected articles rrfurnsd they
r,vSt IN al cases send stamps Tor ih0, purpose,
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Key.
In Pnsl

s.wlhest country nm the
Iu,nc,. h. Magninco. Amer
srooe i"I Turkey.
'onn mines. lead mines
NJ found in abundance
n to,u lndeveloped because
W IuiAoS, y. from the Governnen,
to work them" L. .,a ,,.s.e"
osp,sa' ilation. ] believe. are
oi .ne .ou"ust cannot last forever.
- s.frthe yokeof restraint.
vi their burden and are
ero ves", OF the future.
e"asi"s "Ent. OF the people were
flic schools, and parents
s"o'a",o'.y children 10 grow I'm
We,e con'.nl had done before them.
Now schoolskc n.onls ~. n..sum
tne rurs,ufs They are taking an
anve 10 'nusvernment affairs, and IL
in'eres' W fstion and zeal In polite,
10 no. the running OF the Gov
eminent. ,s IN. ro., ,.r,u.
Aeri'upra be grown there. The
IN 'ne WoIIfeat and harley. ncarfy all
ptinclpa' hgland. Smyrna Is a city
oI wnlcn N the largest export city
on vvo'ovoI hich n saying q great deal
on D Nhat Genoa and Naples are
wnen ohy few manufacturing cstab
on that ~machinery Ia used. What
ilsnmcnIFs by hand. smyrna rugs. |
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Published by the Sun Printing and Publishing
Association at 40 Nassau street, In the Borough Of
Manhattan. New York. President and Treasurer
Of the Association, william NJ. Lsran, ITO Nassau
street; Secretary OF the Association, Franklin
Bartlett. S Nassau street.
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Fffp ~ Tiifn0tS Bulletin.

IVV W iNfiVOtS BhftcFHs
Try Of Natural History has
. tunder the title An OrnItho.
lateiN Illinois In Autumn. written
loeica Forbes. It gives the kinds
ny up found by two expert oh
ana is and Mr. II. \. Ray, IN cross
serVet IN September and October
ing 10 Quincy. on the MiSslssippI
nom4f these observations are SO
fuNrtsed ~ TO present a complete
lapuP al bird population OF a strip
sun1 miles long amounting To about
o. huarc miles In total area and
nvefoss section OF central Illinois.
az rcd birds were found on this
birds Of them English sparrovs
SD OF the remainder crow black
snI most abundant species were
on wS. cowhIrds. horned larks aud
" hnglnr IN the order named from
~ o q per cent, Of the whole number
on the trip.
DDS " birds were Identified In all,
tho individuals belonged 70 only
cios. These fftcen species taken
pa 73s birds 20 the square mile,
3 species numbered In all only l30
10.
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London has its banks. OF which eighty nine are
British, thirty one colonial and twenty .eigh, for
oisn. THESE its banks have lo.252 branches, made
up az folIowb:
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palace and here he kept his four hun dred wives. Just outside here he had the great battle which ended in the destruction of himself and the city
 Omdurman In 1907.
 Tine Omdurman of today is on the site of the great city of the llhalfa. It lies at the junction of the White and Blue Niles, in the bend where the White Nile flows into the main stream. By the course of the river it is about 1900 miles from the Mediterranean sea- and, in a straight line, perhaps an equal distance north of the valley of the Kongo. 1t is far inland from the Red sea, and hundreds of miles from the source of the Blue Nile in the Abyssianian hills
 The Omdurman of the present is laid out op practically the same lines as that of the past and it covers almost the same ground, although it has much fewer peo- pie. During my trip l climbed to the top of the old palace of the khalifa and took q look over the city.
 The houses stretch along the Nile for seven or eight miles. with a thicket of boats upon the shore opposite where the Blue Nile flows in. Some of thestown is on the main stream. and 1t reaches out from the river in every direction. It is a native city in every sense of the word. In it's many thousand houses there are not a score which are of more than one story, and you can count the houses made of burnt brick on your fingers. It is a city of mud, pure and simple. The one story mud houses have mud walls about
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boys and men working away in his shop. Each smith sat on the ground before little anvil about eight inches high and six inches wide, and pounded at the silver or gold object he was making.
 In another shop I saw them making silver anl1lets thick my thumb, and in another they were turning out silver flagree work as fine as any from Genoa or Bangkok. The mamour asked two of the jewellers to bring their anvils out in the sun in order that 1 might photograph them and they kindly complied.
 A little farther on we entered the shoe bazar, where scores of merchants were selling red leather slippers turned up at the toes, and in a court not far away found merchants selling hides and leather fresh from the tanneries. They were salting the hides in the square, and laying them out In the sun to dry.
 In the Manchester bazar l found them selling cottons of many kinds and cali coes of gay patterns. There were but few American goods among them, and the chief importations were from Eng land and Germany I saw American sewing machines in the bazar of the tailors, and I understand that they are generally used throughout the Nile val ley.
 During my stay in this section I bought
 
 sold nothing else. He had a large stock and his prices were fixed. My feathers cost me about 8 apiece, but they are the long white plumes of the wild ostrich, and are far finer than any from south Africa, where the birds are reared upon farms.
 A large part of the grain of the Upper Sudan comes down the Blue and White Niles to Omdurman. The grain markets are close to the river and they run for. some distance along it. There is no rain here at this time of the year. and hence there is no need for warehouses or sheds. The grain is poured out on the hard ground in piles and left there until sold. If you will imagine several hundred lit tie mountains of white or red sand with wooden measures of various sizes lying at their feet or stuck into their sloping sides. you may have some idea of this central African grain market. You must add the tents of canvas or mat shelters in which the ebony merchants stay while
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By Frank G. Carpenter

waiting for their customers, and must make a crowd of black-skinned white gowned men and women moving about sampling the wares and buying or sell ing.
 The merchants watc1. the grain all day, and if they are forced to go away at nightfall they smooth the hills out and make cabalistic marks upon them. so that they can easily know if their prop erty is disturbed during their absence. The most common grains sold here are wheat barley and durra. The latter is A. kind of sorghum seed which forms the bread of the Sudan. It is ground to a flour either in hand mills or between stones moved about by bullocks or camels, and is eaten in the shape of round loaves of about the circumference of a tea plate and perhaps two inches thick The wheat Is of the macaroni variety, which grows well in these dry regions wherever irri- gation is possible.
 The Mills of Sudan.
 Speaking of the flour of the Sudan. [ visited one of the largest milling estab- lishments of the country during my stay in Omdurman. The owner is one of the richest and most influential of the Su- danese natives. He is an emir, and as such is one of the leading men of the town. His mills were in a great mud walled compound. which contained also his garden and home. The garden was irrigated by a well, and upon entering it I saw two black slave girls turning the wheels which furnished the water supply.
 The mills were three in number Each was in a mud stable-like. one-story build ing, just large enough to hold the mill stones and the track for the animals who turned them. The stones were similar fo the old-fashioned grinding machines of our own country. They rested one upon tine other and were so made that the grain flowed from a hopper for each mill stone. The motive power for each mill was bindfolder camel. who moved around in circle, turning the top stone. Each of the animals was driven by black boy, who sat on the bar of the mill and rode there as he whipped them along. The flour so ground was fine. picked up a handful and tasted 1t and found it quite good.
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tn harbor,' says he, an he pinned tn medal iv tn Grand Ordher iv the lmpeeryal Film Flam on tn sicrety's chest
 Erin Japan he wint to tn Philip peens, an tn Jools iv tn Passyflc rose an greeted him. A native band sere- naded him, tn popylace gathered at his hotel an demanded more iv their own liberty an less iv our liberties, an three hundherd an fifty thousand Tagalog childher dragged his carrege through tn sthreets iv tn noble capi- tal He's goin' on. He's goin' to visit tn Czar iv Rooshya, tn Cohen iv Afghanstan, tn Sultan iv Turkey, tn King iv England an tn Impror Will lum. Tn Prisidint is thryin' to head him off, but he won't stop. Tn coorts iv Europe an Asia are havin' their unyforms cleaned an pressed in honor iv his comin'. A tillygram dated Wash'nton reached him at Pekin: Come home an injye tn pleasure iv financial sthringency.' He merely answered: 'Wud not think iv denyin' ye all tn fun iv it. Am just takin' tn Chinese Impress f'r buggy ride An so he goes, tn happy, needless fellow. while at home sets his great an good frind in tn lonely mansion, lookin' at sign on tn wall: Step softly, so as not to disturb confidence
 Hes runnin' tn kind iv campaign I'd like. He don't have to hold tn warm hand iv tn taxpayer or speak tn speech that needs no readin'. Div vie a care has he fir tn tariff on tin or tn reform iv tn bashful currency But wondher as he lays in tn gr-reat bed iv state in tn Impeeryal palace, with tn goold canopy over him, afther tn look that's been waitin' on him has taken out his shoes to be shined, an
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called him in, an says he: 'Bill!' Yes, sir, says tn sicrety iv war. Bill says tn Prisidint, some wan must succeed me, 1 suppose. l can't think iy amy wan less onworthy iv this lofty mis- sion thin ye'ersilf. I must put ye in thrainin I must get ye to do some thin that will endear ye to tn hearts iv me people, says he. What shud do?' says Taft. Go away, says Tiddy.
 An tn next day tn ladin' candy date f'r tn prisidincy started out on his campaign. He's been havin' tn fine time. He wint over to Japan, where he had a letter to a frind iv tn Mikydoo firm Grand Rapids (he's ann bassadure over there), wan iv us be tn name iv O'Brien. O'Brien, like tn good fellow he is, says: Come up an see tn Mikydoo' Dye know him?' says Taft. Know him?' says Tom O'Brien. His people rented farm firm us in tn old counthry. So they wint up to tn palace, an tn Mikydoo said he was pleased to meet amy frind iv Misther O'Brien, an ordhered bottle iv Saki an some sugar an lemon, an they sat up till tn Milky doo's wife leaned over tn bannister an asked him if tn gas bill wasn't gettin' too large an wud he mind windin' tn clock befure he come to bed, an did he know twas afther two. an that he had to review tn army tomorrow Whin he come away tn Mikydoo asked him how tn fleet was gettin' on Fine, says Bill Taft 'Th' navy is not undher me conthrol, but is run be another mimber iv tn bar. but I know it to be very pow'rful. but .good-natured, much like mesilf.' We'll says tn Mikydoo, I'm glad to hear it. Ye will notice some iv me own little frail pleasure crafts as ye go out iv
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pick up me fav-rite pa-aper an find that I've gone too far. A little while ago twas Hit that fellow!' 'Why?' says l. Because he's got ye>er money an won't give it back! Now 'tis: Don't hit that fellow!5 Why says l. Because he's got ye'er money an can't give it back to ye!' It appears ye cant run bank prisidint too hard or he'll outrun ye.
 Last month I picked up me fav-rite journal an read in it. 'Th' action iv Prisidint Rosenfelt in not goin' to New York an chopin Pierpont Morgan into little pieces is very disapintin' to his nanny admirers. 1t looks to us as though he was In tn pay iv Wall
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Omuurman.
 ~ MDGRMANl The biggest native city of the sultan. The eapi- O tai of the Mahdi and the khalifa, and the future great commer= cial center of this part of the world. I wish I could show it to you as l saw it, while riding on donkey back through it with it's Egyptian governor. It is one of the queerest cities of the world. and one of the most important to Africa of the future. Founded by the Mahdi. or the Mohammedan Mes siah, and the scene of the most atro- cious cruelties and eXtravagances of the kha1ifa who succeeded him. if once contained about one million of Afri- can S;.6anese. It was then d great military camp, composed of one hun dred thousand mud houses, and inhab- ited by tribes from all parts of the one million square miles comprised in the realm of that savage governor. The khalifa forced the people to come here to live that lie might have their ser vices in time of war, and he allowed them to go home only to cultivate and harvest their crops, which they were forced to bring here for sale. He made Omdurman his seat of government, and he had his own residence here inside . great wall of sundried brick which inclosed about sixty acres and in which was an open-air mosque of ten acres or more Here the khalifa had his
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their owners belong. The mamour tells me that every tribe has it's own special cut. and that he can tell from just where a man comes by such marks. The cuts are of all shapes. Sometimes a cheek will have three parallel gashes, and at another time you will notice that the cuts are crossed, while at others they look like a Chinese puzzle.
 The dress of the people is strange. Those of the better classes wear long gowns and are clad not unlike the Egyp- tians Many of the poor are almost naked, and the boys and girls often go about with only a belt of strings at the waist. The strings are like tassels, and they fall to the middle of the thigh. Very small children wear nothing what ever.
 Many of the women wear no clothing above the waist, and they seem to have no false modesty about the exposure of their persons. 1 saw one near the ferry as l landed this morning. She was a good looking girl of IS, as black as oiled ebony, as straight as a string and as plump as a partridge. She was stand ing outside a mud hut shaking sieve containing sesame seed. She held the sieve with both hands high up over her head so that the wind might blow away the ehaff as the seed fell to the ground. She was naked to the waist, and her pose was almost exactly that of the famed ''Vestal Virgin in the Corcoran art gallery at Washington.
 Business Center of Sudan.
 omdurman is the business center of the Sudan. Goods are sent from here to all parts of the country and grain. gum arabic ostrich feathers. ivory and native cotton are brought in for sale. The town has one hundred restaurants, twenty coffee houses and three hun dred wells. It has markets of various kinds, and there are long streets of bazars or stores in which each trade has its own section, many of the ar ticles sold being made on the ground.
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records show that 160 12-story structures have been built or are now under way. There are IS 13-story buildings, singu- lar coincidence.
 Less than a dozen years ago the Amer ican Surety building at 100 Broadway. 20 stories high, was a world wonder. The Singer building rises Al stories. and the Metropolitan Life, now under construc- tion, will break the record with 4S
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all is dark, are his dhreams iver haunted be lean. cold face almost completely covered with dense growth iv trailing arbutus?"
 Dye think Rosenfelt is as popylar as he was?" asked MT. Hennessy.
 He isn't as popylar in Wall Sthreet as he was" said MT. Dooley. "They only used to hate him.
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New Works Hiah BuiIdinas.

From Harper's Weekly.
 A count of the skyscrapers on Manhat- tan island has been made, and it shows that $40 buildings of ten or more stories have been erected since 1890. Twelve stories is the favorite number above 10, apparently, for the building department's
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ours. It moves too fast fir me-
 "How's that?" asked Mr. Heanessy
 We'll said MT. Dooley, "a few weeks ago l thought l was doin' me duty as a pathrite if I dropped brick on amy silk hat see. All tn great holders iv public opinyon were cheerin on me an Tiddy Rosenfelt to hammer tn preedytory rich. l niver injyed tn pursoot iv riches, but whin I pursood it with an axe. An just as l thought I had done so much gallant saryice to me counthrymen that it was time I wint out an was serenaded, 1
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lanes Explanation.

From Life.
 Housekeeper-How does it happen Jane that you never saw finger bowls before? Didn't they use them in the last place you worked?
 Jane-No, marm, they mostly washed theirselves before the came to the table. marm.
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< <xxxy ELL, SIR" said MT. Dooley,
 N/ s'tis hard wurruk keepin'
 w up with this connthry "
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