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The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
ALL ON BOARD WELL.

The examination of the Korea showed that everybody on board was well, and that the water they had drunk and the food they had eaten was not infected with the cholera germs, for the water and the food and the clothing are inspected just as closely as are the passengers and crew, for the admission of single germ might mean the infection of New York. Russian immigrants also come to New York in hordes on board the great German, the Scandinavian, the French. the British, and the other lines whose European terminals are north of the Mediterranean. For every Russian passenger these ships carry they bring a certificate from the health authorities of the home port that shows that each of those passen- gers has been watched for five days in order to make certain whether it is dangerous for the health of New York and the United States to allow him to sail. If he stands the test they let him go, but if his condition is sus- picious he is sent to a hospital, and
 
 eventually returned to the land of the czar
 This is where the Germans get into the game, and the way they do their work makes them deserving of the gratitude of the entire civilized world, for as everybody knows, Germany is the great gate through which the fam ished millions of the czar escape to other lands where liberty is universal and the secret police are not the most important adjuncts of governments. That these people from an empire where cholera and the plague are known to exist have never as yet spread the disease in the domain of the kaiser is due, the American au- thorities say, to the vigilance, the skill and the magnificent training of the men who are on duty in that country.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
SOURCES OF PLAGUE,

China and India are, of course, the countries where the modern sani- tarians will have to fight the greatest India has been stricken for centuries, and the outlook that she will ever be entirely free of these scourges is at the present time very dim one. A look at the quarantine globe shows how plainly the origin of these great contagious can be traced to the h. dian empire. The Indians are Moham- medans, and Dr. Doty and his col leagues in the fight for health and cleanliness say that this region to a great extent is responsible for the spread of these diseases. The pill grimages to Mecca, the exalted" the holy of holies of the Mohammedans, tistics prove it. The Mohemmedans, es all the world knows, make these pill grimages to 'sThe Mother of Cities" in great unclean -hordes, sleeping on decks of dirty ships, drinking water that has never been pure, and eating ioOu III uISH l4lt Oi SilCiSi b eeiiH the plague are sometimes known to exist. These ships touch at ports, and the pilgrims come in contact with peo- pie of other countries. The result is the spread of cholera and the plague, and to-day many sanitarians declare that the presence of the cholera in Russia can be directly traced to these religious hordes who go to Mecca to worship at the shrine of their faith.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
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The influence wielded by the mol lahs who are now stirring up against us the border tribes of Afghanistan is enormous Clad in their sacred robes, bearing aloft the green standard of Islam, they go up and down the val leys shrilling the Mohammedan war cry. and woe be to him who refuses to heed.
 The person of the mollah is sacred True, the amir the other day was re- ported to have ordered that any of them caught preaching the pehad (holy war; should have their tongues torn out. But if he really issued such an edict-which is extremely doubt ful-it was merely meant for European ears. Not even the mighty Habibullah himself would care to lay sacrile- gious finger on one of these saintly per sonages. If he were to venture such an unheard of thing, vengeance would surely overtake him. For it is the cardinal principle of the Ulima-aS the mollahs are collectively termed that an injury purposely caused to one of their number can only be atoned for by the death ct the individual in- dicting it.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
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sides made indiscriminate shooting i'll the dark out of the question.
 It was the young engineer who lisped who set it all right. Some of the troops were sitting around camp fire one night when powder about the size of paving stone came sail ing through the air, just grazed the top of the tent and landed in the cen ter of the group.
 Unit sthill, thit sthill," shouted the engineer, who lisped. Now we'll get them thure'
 He got out some instruments, meas ured the height of that tent top, got line on the exact spot the big powder had first hit and did lot of figuring on the back of an envelope.
 That's where he ith," he declared, and he pointed up the mountain in the darkness. Tomorrow we'll find him and hith catapult"
 As soon as it was daylight search. ing party set off up the mountain, and the engineer who lisped led them to the spot where the catapult was with scarcely any trouble at all. Better than that, they captured the gang which had been df sr~ the work.-Ne1 York Telegraph.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
SEEK TREASURE;
 MEET DISASTER
FIVE HARVARD STUDENTS NEAR DEATH IN WEST INDIAN
 HURRICANE.
CLING LONG TO CAPSIZED HULK
Soldiers of Fortune Buffeted by Furi- ous GaIe-Men Finally Rescued After Two Vessels Fail
 in Attempt.

Baltimore. Md-After having clung for two days and two nights to the dismasted water-logged and capsized hull of the famous cup defender, May flower. in a hurricane off the west ln- dies. five Harvard soldiers of fortune and seven members of the crew, who went to find gold and treasure In sunken Spanish galleon, were res cued and brought to this port the other day in the Norwegian steamer HippoIyte Dumois
 The hurricane that wrecked the successful defender of the Americas cup and set her adrift derelict on the Atlantic ocean piled up such seas that two steamers feared to attempt res cue, and the Mayfower, with her stern smashed open, was going down when the third ship, the Hippolyte Dumois, hove in sight.
 During the 90-mile-anhour gale that thrice had the Mayfower on her beam ends she carried in her hold 5000 pounds of dynamite that threatened to blow all hands into eternity at any moment
 The Harvard men rescued are G. H. Scull, Boston; R. A. Derby, New York; S. H. Moves, Newport, R. l.; Hayden Richardson, New York, and S. s. Boyl ston, Baltimore.
 The students had organized the Southern Exploration Company with the belief that they had located a sunken Spanish ship containing chests of gold and treasure. They had pilot with them who was to find the place in the West Indies where the ship went down or he was not to get any pay. They chartered the Mayflow- CT and converted her into schooner with auxiliary power. Into her hold they stored dynamite, diving suits and stores for long cruise.
 Until Thursday night they encoun- tered fair weather and then they ran
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
EASILY FOUND THE cATAPULT.
How Lisping Engineer Spoiled Sport
 of Rioting Miners.

One of my friends who is a mem Der of the peace society is greatly disturbed over the invention of Hud- son Maxim's new noiseless gun. He does not fear it half so much because of its possible use in warfare as of it's value to assassins.
 What chance has any of our kings or presidents if this gun is to be introduced?" he was worrying yester- day.
 Which just reminds me of play full trick a bunch of rioting Penn sylvania miners once played on the troops who had been called out to quell them. The miners would hike away up the mountain somewhere above the camp, select a good, springy sapling, and use it for a catapult to Lombard the mark with stones all night long.
 It was simply impossible to tell where the stones came from in the darkness. The presence of numerous habitations around the mountains
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

at that time was wooden water trough, leading from his well to the brick shed. Most of the day and all of the night he locked himself in that shed with his secret. Those who passed in the rear of the place de. clared that they could hear him grind ing something, and because of pool of red water which had accumulated near the shed they thought it must be the bricks.
 Now, Fred Ritchie was one of those who regarded Pierre's conduct as most suspicious He gave good deal of thought to the mystery of the shed and the tearing down of McGinn's sa- l loon, and finally he recalled having seen Succotash grab that piece of brick and make off with it. Then it occurred to him also that it was Pi- ere who had caused all the trouble between Pikey and Slanteye by steal ing the chimney And one day when Succotash was down in town buying provisions Fred sneaked out the back way of his shop with a bit and stock and bored a hole in the mortar be- tween the bricks of Pierre's shed to discover what his secret might be. As Pierre worked that night Fred had his eye glued to this hole and noted what he was doing.
 Next morning his neighbors were surprised at finding that Ritchie's chimney had fallen during the night, and they were astonished to see Fred carrying the bricks into his barber shop and piling them up with great care. He wasn't going to have them stolen, as Pikey's were he told them. And as they passed by the shop later in the day and looked in they saw him pounding away at the bricks, breaking them into bits and scanning each piece carefully.
 One of his customers was let iEto the secret, and another chimney fell. This man passed the secret or to a bosom friend, and then there was an other crash of brick. Within 24 hours every man, woman and child in the town was pulyerizing brick as If life depended upon it.
 The secret was a secret no longer. Succotash had found gold in the piece of brick that Ritchie had seen him dart forward to pick up, and he had found more in the bricks he had stol- en from Pikey. With the proceeds he had set up an arastra in the shed,
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

into the hurricane. The Mayf1ower's mast and rigging were carried away, and she was hopeless derelict. The steamer Advance of the Panama rail- road line approached Saturday morn ing, but was unable to effect a res cue. The steamship Ran next ap- peared and signaled she would stand by to the end. The Hippolyte Dumois joined the Ran on Sunday and ma neuvered to get to windward of the wreck, when she shot life line to the Mayfiower.
 Capt Harding, after lifelong experi- ence at sea- declares that the storm and the experiences it brought those in the party were the most harrow ing he has ever known.
 Capt Harding's statement gives only faint idea of what he and those with him went through. It mere ly suggests the agonies of suspense as the Advance approached, tried to help. failed signally, and finally faded from the view of those on the little yacht
 Again, when the Ran came upon the scene it approached as near the May flower as it dared, but try as he1 crew would they could neither launch a boat nor get line to the yacht. Time after time attempts were made only to fail. But the Ran stood by and at least encouraged those on the Mayfower by the presence of other human beings
 It was Sunday afternoon when the Dumois, laden with bananas from Port Arthur, Jamaica, for Baltimore. joined the Ran and for two hours maneu. vered about the little yacht.
 Finally, however, Capt. Danielsen managed to bring the Dumois to wind. ward of the Mayflower and with well-aimed shot sent a line flvinp across the wreck. Eager hands grasped it, for it meant salvation nope of which had been all but ahan. doned. Cheers went up from inc crews of the steamers as those on inc yacht carefully drew aboard a haws- CT and made it fast Then came the life buoy and in it man after man was drawn from the Mayflower to the Dumois.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
INFLUENCE OF THE MULLAHs.
No One Dares Lay SacriIegious Finger
 Upon Their Persons.

Ever since the beginning of the now constant troubles in India good deal has been heard about the mullahs, says Pearson's Weekly.
 A mullah, or, as it is more properly written, mollah, is a title given in India and throughout the east gener- ally to a religious leader of any de- scription
 Thus the sultan of Turkey is a mollah, because he is the supreme head of the Moslem world. The hostile Somali leader who caused us so much anxiety between 1901 and 1905 and whose name occasionally crops up even now in the daily papers, was also a mollah. And there are hundreds of others.
 To most os the more conspicuous among them we prefix the adjective mad This. however, must not be taken to mean that they are insane, the word being used rather in its oriental signification of inspired"
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
Not Fair.

Look here, Abraham" said the judge, its been proved right here in court that instead of doing something to help support your wife and children you spend your whole time hunting 'possum!"
 The old negro hung his head ! Now, Abe, you love your wife, don't you?'
 "Ah suttinly does!'
 And your children?'
 Vas, suh.''
 And you love them both better"
 Better ev'ry day, jedgen" Abe broke in.
 better than thousand DOS. sum-
 Look hyah, jedge," exclaimed Abe. with widening eyes, "dats takin' a coon at pow'ful disadvantagel"--. Bohemian Magazine
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

and in this he was grinding gold out of the bricks of Pikeys dismantled saloon.
 Ritchie and tho others found scales and grains and specks of gold When the chimney bricks had been ground up the wall bricks followed, and in short space of time Brickville was a town of tents again.
 Then it was announced suddenly that Succotash and Ritchie had patched up their trouble and that Pi. ere had sold his arastra to Fred. This was followed by Pierre's departure from town. He has made his pile,' the Brickvillians said to one another.
 The coal pits had been abandoned for this new method of gold mining, and there wasn't whole brick build, ing in the place when a freight brake, man one day brought startling piece of news into the town.
 Succotash had bought a claybank in Basin, and brickyard as well; and he had astonished the good people of that nook in the mountains by con. verting this claybank into a gold mine and this brickyard into a mill in which to treat his rich clay, for the gold could not be freed by ordinary process of placer washing.
 Then Brickyille collectively kicked itself for not having thought to trace out this brickyard before the man from Canada; and the Brickvillians folded their tents, and went scurrying away to the mountains to search there for other claybanks that were studded with nuggets of gold
 And so it was that the fire in Pikey McGinn's chimney happened to de- stroy the town.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
SENTlNELS EVERYWHERE.

Dr. Doty has a sentinel on duty at Port Said, and at every big port in the world, and that sentinel's duty is to keep close watch on the situation there and to watch every single ship that passes on her way to American waters. This sentinel is not watch ing for the plague and cholera only, but he must keep a record of every single case of sickness, no matter how mild or how harmless, so far as in- lection is concerned, and make re- port in writing or by cable to Dr. Doty. This report reaches New York weeks ahead of the arrival of the yes sel that is being watched, and it is then sent back to all the ports that way to New York from Suez. At each of these ports an American health of ficer goes aboard and finds out how that case of sickness is being treat ed and the condition of the suspect.
 The result of this vigilance is that when the ship gets to New York her skipper learns within five minutes after he drops anchor off quarantine that Dr. Doty knows more about the health of his crew and the condition of his cargo than he does himself He has to tell Dr. Doty everything he knows about that case of sickness, and when he gets through answering ques- tions, Dr. Doty knows exactly where that case of sickness probably orig mated and he knows how everybody on board that ship is, even down to colds and pains in the back As every body knows, the cholera is prevalent in Russia, and the map reproduced here, which is a reproduction of that tell-tale globe at quarantine, shows that it is not only in St. Petersburg
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
ALL NATIONS HELP.

Let not the Australians, the New Zealanders and the doctors of Scahdi- navia, Great Britain, France and the Mediterranean countries be forgotten. They are all in this fight for humanity, and to their vigilance and skill the German, the Japanese and the Ameri- can doctors give the sincerest praise. To revert to the Americans, take the story of the plague fight in San Fran cisco, where Surgeon Blue of the army has done such great work and the eXtermination of the plague-carfy- ing rat and flea is being pushed relent- lessly, so relentlessly that Gen. Funs- ton when he relinquished command of the department of California publicly commended the great work that was being done to make San Francisco healthy as well as beautiful.
 All the world is familiar with the yellow fever fight. To-day New Or leans, Mobile, Brunswick, Porto Rico and the Isthmus are forever rid, and Cuba and Panama soon will be, of the danger of an epidemic of the yellow malady. In this work the medical world will forever remember the names of Gorgas, of Moore, of Wood ruff, of Lazare and a host of other American medical soldiers, every one of whom did his part in the great struggle that has practically elimi- mated this dease from among the health dangers of the universe. And New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans and all the other great At lantic ports in this land are safe to- day, and San Francisco, Seattle and all the great ports on the Pacific soon will be, for Dr. Doty, Surgeon General Wy man and the army and doctors say so, and when they say so it is true-the record proves it.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
and Mini, Novgorod, but at various other places as well.
ORIGINATED IN INDIA.

onlolfNTNi Gc IN iiNOiNs
 Now, how did this cholera get into the dcminions of the czar? Dr. Doty knows. He knows that it originated in India, and for more than a year that globe in his office has told every week the story of it's slow but sure ad- vance on the capital of the Russian empire. The American health officers watched the advance of the disease liko hawks They knew the Russian system of combating it was not the best, and they feared all along that it was going to reach St Petersburg and maybe Iibau, Russia's one great At lantic port. So far Libau has escaped, But Dr. Doty and his assistants are watching that city, and they know how everybody in that city is getting along, so far as their health is concerned.
 The other day the Korea one of the few transatlantic lines that fly the Russian flag, steamed into New York from Libau, with about 400 Russian immigrants on board, and what hap pened to that ship during the "A hours it took to examine her passengers, crew and cargo indicates how splen- didly thorough is the system that stands guard for the health of the American people. on the Staten island side of the Narrows Three different examinations every man and woman and child, and all the crew, from skip per to stoker, had to submit to. The slightest rise in temperature above the normal meant that the unfortunate was due for a medical third degree, that, when over, proved beyond all doubt whether or not he was free from the scourge
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
Fights His Dogs for Life.

St. Pierre, Miq.-A raving maniac. after clinging to dory plank, fighting for his place with two of his dogs for S6 hours in the north Atlantic. the captain of the French three-masted schooner Junita was brought into this port by the fishing schooner Gen Archamere, the/ sole survivor of a crew of 26 men. The disaster, which IS the worst that has befallen th., fishing fleet on the Grand Banks in years, occurred during the recent hur. lica@c which swept northward from tho West Indies.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

Germans have one ship and one coun' try to watch the Japanese have dog en ships and as many countries to keep tab on. There vas a time when the cholera made headway in Japan but that was in the days prior to the rejuveration of the most wonderful people of the modern world
 To-day there is cholera and there is also the bubonic plague in Japan, but both are held splendidly under con- trol by the Japanese sanitarians.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
JAPAN,s HEAVY BURDEN.

On the other side of the world the Japanese are bearing the burden that the Germans are shouldering on the other side, and they are making rec ord every bit as creditable as that of their brethren of another race India, the home of plague and cholera, is di- rectly in the path of Japanese com merce with Europe. and where the
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
Dangerous City "Playqrounds."

New York city streets make dan gerous playgrounds. but they are the only ones that thousands of little peo- pie have. Not day passes without in jury to children by vehicles, and about nine are killed each month
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30
PRAISE FOR JAPANESE.

Dr. Doty said the other day that the Japanese health regulations are to- day second to none in the world, and that the Japanese sanitarians have forged to the front as among the very
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

SSA6YEN New York, at quarantine,
 ~W there is a big globe, such
 M0 as is used in the public
 schools, that is covered with little tacks Every one of these tacks indicates that at the place where it is sticking there is today, or was yesterday, case of the cholera the bubonic plague, or the yellow fever. and Dr. Doty. the officials of the United States marine hospital service in Washington and the army doctors know all about every one of those cases, where it came from, how many there are that are affected, whether it is a mild case or a bad one, and eX actly what the health authorities in those particular sections of the world are doing to combat it.
 When the visitor to Dr Doty's of flee hears the story those little tacks tell he realizes what splendid sys- tenn it is that guards the western world from the Asiatic scourges, and how impossible it almost is for any of those scourges ever to get foothold in this country. But great and thorough as is the work of American medical authorities, they are ably seconded by the work of the foreign departments, and to-day every citizen of every part of this country owes a debt that can never be paid to the splendid men of Germany and Japan whose work holds in check the spread of the cholera and the plague-one guarding the western world and the other the eastern from tier against the advance of the dis ease
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

best trained and most efficient the medical world has ever known. And the work that confronts these wonder Iful little men of the mikado's empire is the greatest tn scope that ever med ical men were called upon to perform
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-10-30

EW YORK.-1n the office of Dr. Alvah H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, at quarantine, there is a big globe, such as is used in the public
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-02-06
STUDENTS DENOUNCE
False Reports Sent Out and
Published About Athletics
at Wesleyan College.

BUCKHANNoN, Feb. 6.-The stu
dents OF the West Virginia Wesleyan
College are very much wrought IN
over the reports that have been cir
culated relative to the outlook for
a baseball team at the college the
coming spring. Tuesday the entire
student body assembled in a mass
meeting and passed the following
resolution:
Whereas, certain false reports re-
garding the athletic situation at our
college and other matters relative 10
the student body have been published
in the Fairmont Times and elsewhere
and,
whereas, such articles are wholly
misleading and untrue. therefore. be
it
Resolved, by the student body Of
the West Virginia Wesleyan College
in mass meeting assembled, that we
hereby condemn the cowardice and
malice Of the author ana denounce
such articles and spirit Of unloyalty
ana untruthn