The National tribune., 1908-10-01

because the board found them physical
~ INCAPABLE Of active service. The last
hamed offlcef is at Washington Bar
| racks.
The street railways Of Washington
| are noted for the many accidents which
| occur to them in the way of throwing
passengers after they have apparently
stopped. 1t was this kind Of an acei-
| dent which sent Mrs. John A. Logan
| to bed for weeks last Spring, and for
which she is now suing one of the
| railway companies. The latest distin-
guished parsonage to be battered up by
the railways of the city is the royal phy-
sician of Spain, doctor to the King. DR..
Carnillo Calleja, of Madrid. who is here
attending the International Congress on
tuberculosis, rang. for the car to stop,
and it did stop, I'd all intents and pur-
poses, and the Spanish Surgeon rose to
leave it when it gave that horrid little
jerk. and away he went, dignity and all.
DR.. Calleja had confusion of the left
eye, fracture of the middle finger of
the left hand and was badly bruised
about the head and body. 1t was nee
essary for him to take to his bed at
the Normandie Hotel, and it is probable
that he will be unable to attend any of
the proceedings of the Congress.
Miss Helen Taft and her mother
spent a part of last week in New York
City getting little things for Miss Tafts
quarters at Bryn Mawr for which she
qualified and received a scholarship as
a prize last year. The latter part of the
week was spent at New Haven, where
young Taft is getting ready for school,
and where his mother and sister helped
to settle him in his new quarters. He
is junior this year.
Prof Robert G. Koch, the eminent
German ravant, who discovered the
tuberculosis bugs and the cholera bugs
and lot of other bugs" that prey on
peoples internal arrangements and
wreck their h ealth, is one of the guests
of the city. DIR. Koch, who is genial
and companiolable man, which His say
ing good deal, for your very learned
man usually tries to impress you with
the immcnsity of his knowledge and
your lack of it, has just returned from
, Africa, and he talks most entertainingly
of his trips there. He does not like
Africa, or at least does not like the
sections of it in which he was forced to
work while studying the sleeping sick
ness" which has been agitating the med
icai world for long time. lie says he
hopes never to have to go there again.
DR. Koch says he has been five times
| in Africa for scientific research. THE
| last time" he says, 81 remained two
years, aild only returned about last De-
cember. My wife was with me part OF
the time, but had TO return to the coast
| because the conditions where / was
| working were tco bad. However,
| never make any plans for the future
| The fourth time I was in Africa
lS1 TN to re-
| turn, but few months later l was
| making preparations for my fifth jour
| ney. / spent Is months on an island In
Lake Victoria NyanZa, where / studied
| the sleeping sickness It Is frightfu
| disease. The first day the patient is
greatly excited, the second day ne be-
cones insane. and on the third lapses
| into a comarose state that continues un-
til death, which may not come for sew
eral days.
"While was there more than a thou
sand blacks died of it. Sleeping sick
ness is caused by tiny germs known as
| trypanosomes. which are carried into
| the patients system thru the bite of the
| tsetse fly. which is known sc;entiffcall!
| as 'giossina paipalis. DR.. Koch dis.
covered that the only flies that carried
! the disease infection were those thai
| had fed on the blood of crocodileS and
| hippopotami That is why he had TO bt
on the island, where he could study
4 those animals. He has recommended
| that every crocodile egg be destroyed
as rapidly as possible, and that is being
done. AS to the remedy, he has evolved
preparation known as atoxyl. 1t con-
tains arsenic. 1T will be a great thing
if the sleeping sickness can be stamped
| out" said the savant. 1T affects white.
/ the same as blacks Two English doc
| tors and other white men died while
| We were here. 1t is spreading into thu
] English colonies, and both the German
and the English Governments are doing
all they can to stamp it OUT
The fourth International Fisheries
1 Congress closed its sessions in Wash
1 ington last Friday night. A great dea
| of scientific discussion was indulged IL
and a great many learned papers read
| There was also great dcas of enter
| tanning. The Presiden. received th'
/ delegates in the Blue Parlor of th'
1 White House, and gave them rousint
4 talk on his favorite topic, the con
i servation of our natural resources" ani
i the Fisheries Commission entertained
i the delegates at banquet at the Ar
4 lington. There were various other en-
tertainments offered the delegates
There were $50 regularly accredited
4 delegates in the Congress, which, it 1
stated, was one of the most interesting
ones in the history of the country.
III
/ President Roosevelt has assured Gov
4 Curry, of New Mexico, that he woul'
emphasize in his coming message L
Y Congress the necessity for Statehood 70
New Mexico. Gov. Curry, accompanie,
by n. +. Bradshaw, of Santa Fe, dis
cussed with the President a number o
matters, including Statehood.
The Governor presented to the Presi
dent an invitation TO attend the frriga
ton Congress at Albuquerque. The in
, yitation was engraved on a solid gol
plate, one e-eighth Of an inch thick, thre
inches wide and five inches long. TIL
! outside edge of the invitation Is Dor
dered with a nightmare of creatures
r running riot There are lizards, Gil
monsters, snakes, dragons and all sort
; and conditions of creeping things, a
done in the highest kind of art.
There is much rejoicing on both side
of the family because Of the birth a
Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. IA, of
son to Count and Countess Won Moltkt
T Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, parent
of the Countess, are now at the home G
their son-in-law and daughter in Den
:. mark Count Won Moltke has bee
named to succeed Mr.. Constantin Bru
| as Minister here. His marriage to Mis-
Cornelia Thayer took place year as
\ last Summer.
n A little colored girl, just snip c
, chocolate flesh and a drift of pigtail
I with a cotton dress of nondescript colo
j and make to hold her together, wa
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