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cunbs. otherwise humanity might he
destroyed"
But the cholera microbe is special
The gastric juices of tho stomach, IN
their normal state. he said. act on
the cholera mcrobe as an energetic anti
septic. They kill the microbe quick
as iodoform''
1t is astonishing Cholera ought
scarcely to exist. We carry our antidote
inside US. The normal stomach's juices
ought TO kill the cholera microbe-ex-
cept when VIC get big sudden fright
Fright, stress. sorrow or anxiety can
change the gastric juices qualities" was
the extraordinary conclusion of my in
forInant. And the general nature OF
cholera hurries the catastrophe Have
you ever seen a little dog scared sud-
denly? He has a marked rholerifor:n
attack. Many people. i'm ordinary life.
are notoriously affected in the same way
by painful emotions. So. true cholera
fourishes on fear: and doubly The in
testinal tube initiates cholcra-and the
gastric juices lose their power to Kill
the microbe. In India. where the natives
are fatalistic. fear death less and are
less impressed by their old acquaintance.
the cholera, it is unusual for a breaking
ont to become epidemic. Only those
whose stomachs are in bad condition
physically take il. Otherwise India would
be depopuated.
The tests are very striking.
The gastric juices of a given person
At 10 am. they will kill cholera
microbes like reliable picnic acid.
At ! pm. they utterly refuse to kill
cholera microbes.
What has happened? In between. the
subject has been violently frightened.
shocked or made the victim of quarrel.
Next day, being reassured and happy.
the same persons gastric juices again
destroy cholera microbes like sublimate
itself.
so We're the gastric juices of those
ancient Paris populations when the chill
dren went up Notre Dame tower" was
the great physiologist's conclusion. They
had been frightened into inertness."
And the word going round. The
cholera will cease: the children have
made a pact with demon. brought
them back to cheerful confidence" |
said. Their gastric juices once more
became. normal and again killed cholera
microbes
Surely" said the great man. Should
we have a cholera epidemic. let us hope
that we can inspire similar swift con-
fidence no matter how, while mobilizing
the serum. I should not object to
childrens pilgrimage to the stone demon
of the tower Of Notre Dame. But, alas!
faith like that is not OF our day.
STERLING HEILIG
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strange confidence TO Paris. Word went
round: The cholera will cease The
demon." When the children learned it
was demon they were frightened. They
took no more flowers up. There was no
need-the cholera ceased.
So runs the ancient legend. In the
Pantheon frescoes. the calming of the
epidemic is attributed by implication to
the Ste. Genevieye procession Ihey
would not permit great historic paint
ing of the little ones around the stone
devil.
A century passed. Again the cholera
came to Paris. Again bells tolled. Or
gans rolled. cannon doomed and relics
We're paraded. 1t was the epidemic of
1887. When 1000 had died the gossips
around Notre Dame began to tell the
legend of the chdren's demon.
II became a burning controversy. The
original adventure had been accidental.
The little ones had been led 10 the tower
top just to show their helpless need 10
God-as innocent dumb animals are still
paraded through the I:eldS IN time OF
drought or famine. Should true pro-
cession 10 the beast be orga anIzed. Chris
tian Paris would be II full devil Wor-
ship.
But the cholera was high Paris clam
ored. Word went round among the par
ents. Early of a morning. bearing flow
ers. the children swarmed 10 Notre Dame.
Led by a philosophic doctor of the Sor-
bonne. they went M ard piled their
posies round the beast. Paris breathed
free. Within five days the cholera had
ceased again
So it was four times after. in four cpl
denies, up to that of 1882. when the pro-
cession of children was replaced by
sanitary law with a death penalty for
citizens caught breaking it.
Here was a strange thing. The sani-
tary law with its death penalty increased
the public fright and was less efficacious
than the ancient superstitous remedy.
The cholera lasted seven months. The
receipts of the government grand opera
kept open. vainly. to restore confidence
fell to $10O per night. Often performances
were interrupted by, sudden deaths. Paris
was wild with fright. They die. like flies
until winter stopped it.
Cholera threatens Paris again this sum-
mer.
Some say that the intervals Of cold
alone have stopped its open outbreak. In
Germany, just across the frontier they
are fighting cholera in silence. You shall
learn why Standardization from a scare
has become a scientific remedy for cho-
era.
1t explains the secret circular sent to
the projects and subprefects of all France
by the central government. In frontier
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but that is a misnomer, for the avowed
object of it's partisans is to cast off the
foreign-that is, the British-yoke entire
ly and restore India to the Indians. After
half century of patient submission the
inoffensive, unwarlike Hindu is turning
on his rulers. And because he is inoffen-
sive and unwarlike by nature he has
chosen the most terrible and deadly of
weapons, those which the modern chemist
has placed at his disposal. The bomb and
the revolver are to set India free. What
is most awful in this silent death-strug
gle is that he strikes not only at the rep
resentatives of the British government
governors, commissioners. judges, minor
officials and the like-but also at those
who are nearest and dearest to them.
their wives and children, should these
happen to cross his path.
So seriously has the agitation been TAX
en- in England that Shyamaji krishna-
varma, the intellectual leader of the
movement, is looked on as a public dan
ger. The benchers of the Inner Temple
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of this movement which may ere long set
heaving in the throes Of rebellion mass
Of 3OO,UO0,O0O human beings.
Sensational reports have appeared in
English newspapers to the effect that a
regular crime factory has been set on
foot by. Krishnavarma; that his house
here is the lair of political assassins. and
that he holds the strings Of a vast net
work of plots and conspiracies of which
the brain is in Paris and the instruments
and victims in India. 1t has even been
asserted that outrages are being planned
against distinguished Englishmen who
may happen to be staying in Paris.
In justice to this cultured Hindu pa
triot--that he is a patriot of the purest
motives and man of the highest per-
sonal character few of his opponents
have ever doubted-it must be said that
from the beginning his propaganda did
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India House. In HIGhgate. LONDON. where dus
recently struck him off their roll This is
equivalent 10 dlsbarment, and as krish-
nayarma is by profession a barrister he
will never be able u practice law again
in any country under British rule. The
benchers went further and refused a few
days ago to admit TO practice two young
Indians whose only offense was that they
were known to sympa thizc with krish-
nayarma and his aspirations. and they
have appointed a committee OF EN- uent
men 10 advise and guide Indian students
in England and prevent them from get
tiny.under the influence of the arch-revo-
lutionist.
oxford University. too, has taken up
the war on this distinguished graduate
way of terminating a lectureship endowed
hv him. Krshnavarma has shown the
oxford dons the way by offering to take
back the money If its association with
him is unpalatable.
60 grave Is the situation that Lord
Curzon, the ex-yicercy Of India, mas just
seized the opportunity of meeting az
the ROYAL Colonial Institute to warn Eng
and that another Indian mutiny is brew
ing.
hone the Developments of which / speak
may be in the distant future. but | think
they are nearer than some people i'm
agine.
ized by sedition and disloya.ty WHO'S de-
sire IL is to get rid CT the English as soon
as possibie. What form of government
will be set up III India when ii is inde-
pendent they do not stop TO tell
American readers are too Well acquaint-
ed with the recent transformations in India
for IL Ia be necessary 10 recount these
significant incidents in detail. What is
not so well known is the personality Of
Shyamaji krisInavarina, founder and edi-
tor of The Indian Sociologist. who is
the initiator. the brain. the guiding spirit
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Many years were required to vacc1nate
the world against smallpox; general vac
cination against cholera is impracticabe
On the other hand, a serum cures the
stricken individual; its power of preven-
ton, injected into nurses, etc, lasts but
short time-that of diphtheria, about
two weeks.
To get a serum, you must isolate the
toxine-poisonus product Of the microoe-
and inject it into horses. Watery serum
from such horses cures the disease as by
magic.
Now. there is a rumor going round
Paris that the cholera serum is at last
discovered
Also, there is a professor of the Sor-
bonne who. till a few years ago. was of
the Pasteur Institute. / had a pretext to
ask him the question, having helped to
translate his biological Philosophy" and
become well acquainted with him.
Have they found the cholera serum?"
! asked Pasteur's former secretary.
This is what l learned. There is a DR..
Denier of the French marine. detached
from service, actually working on the
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I [z T. cHoIERA DEhIoNoF NoIRE DAME EeATIEDRAL.

serum at the Pasteur Institute. in the
particular laboratory of pr Salambent-
According to his own modest estimate.
Dr. Denier's discovery is only natural
sequence of work on cholera toN1nes
undertaken in 1895 by Metchnikoff. Roux
and Salambeni. According to these lat
ter. however. he has succeeded where they
failed.
DIR. Denier's work undoubtedly con-
times ours of 1S93.r' says DR. Salambeni.
I'VE had isolated the toNine. just as Koch
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satisfactory that it has been rendered
obligatory in their Indian army.
Last year. at Degubaar. there were two
camps of coolies working tea plantations.
living in identical conditions. In one
camp of 400 all were vaccinated. Only
five of them took cholera, and all were
cured. The other camp consisting of 80
coolies. had no vaccination. OF these,
twenty-seven caught cholera and twenty
died.
or course. a vaccine is not a serum.
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had discovered the microbe: but we had
to quit experimenting by lack of material.
Today such check is impossfble the
Indian mail brings regularly all the
microbes we want-pest, cholera or ty-
phus.'
He showed a long, slender phial.
"There Is enough cholera in this tube
to sweep all France" he said. But have
no fear: the Stolen Bacillus is an i'm
possibility. From this material the world
may get a priceless boon. DR.. Denier's
toxine is more powerful and regular than
ours was. We have inoculated several of
our horses at Garches. In month, per-
haps, those horses will give us an anti
cholera serum that may do for cases
treated what RouX's serum does for diph-
theria-''
These great eXperimenters hate to have
words put into their mouths by laymen.
Metchnikoff is wild against the corre-
spondents who have represented him as
claiming sour milk to be specific
against old age" He has even prepared
an American magazine article to undo
that loose reporting. Madame Curie will
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Ir vain did soldiers, citizens and clergy
parade through the streets the powerful
relics of Ste. Genevieve in their gold cas-
ket. only when the little children of the
cite in procession innocently mounted
Notre Dame tower and made his ac-
quaintance did the ashamed devil let the
pest pass on.
They did not know it was the cholera
demon. His pathetic ugliness awoke Their
childish sympathy. They stopped when
they came to him. among many others.
He is an obscure. mysterious Gothic
''chimera" of the venerable cathedrals
roof top. But the children called him
the good BEAST said they were sorry
for the beast" and piled flowers round
his wicked form and hung wreaths from
his horns.
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MURDER in London Said
AvA to Be of a Political
Character-India May Try
to Throw OFF Yoke of Eng
land - Indian Says He Is
George Washington of His
Country-Directs Movements
From His Station in Paris
100000, 900 Would Fight for
India's Freedom.
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ndn Student Says He the George Washington Of His Country

nationalists determined to resort to the
methods of Russian revolutionares and
use the revolver and bomb to promote
their cause. In the same year also Shya-
mali Krishnavarma once more voluntarily
exied himself and sought refuge in Paris.
ton unhampered by the fear of British
wrath. The Indian Sociologist is still
printed in London. for the authorities.
though they may suppress the freedom OF
the press in India. dare not resort to such
q measure in England.
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quarters of the home rule movement.
In the same year he founded the Indian
Home Rule Society and his now famous
organ. the Indian Sociologist, which.
printed in London. was admitted into
India until 1907, when the British au-
thorities in that country. alarmed at the
strides the agitation was making, pro-
hibited its circulation.
That same year, 1907, saw the freedom
of the press, freedom of speech and the
right of public meeting suspended in In
dia, and from that moment the Indian
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Ky patriots plan the overthrow OF British RUE
not advocate physical violence so long
as free agitation was allowed.
My object" he stated to me in sub
stance, is to preach certain political doc
trines with q view to the complete emanc.-
pa ton OF India and its separation from
Great Britain. 1t does not especially con-
Germ me how and by whom these doctrines
are carried out. ] deal exclusively with
theory.
Il have no connection whatever. directly
or Indirectly with the actual working of
the movement. I had never heard of the
four young Indians concerned in the
death of two Englshwomenl Prafulla
Chaki. khudiram Bose. Kanailal Dutt and
Satyendra Bose, whose memory as mar
tyrs to the cause OF Indian freedom L
tried to honor by associatinS thelr names
with scholarships | have founded. Not
single outrage was known TO me before
hand.
Il have lost hundreds, perhaps thou
sands, of English friends BY my political
views. but that is the price that must be
paid tor ones convictions. Joan of Arc
was burned alive by the English because
she freed her country from their yoke, but
they afterward confessed that they had
burnt a saint. The statue OF OliVer
Cromwell. the 'archtraitor.' who had
King Charles beheaded as traitor ty-
rant. murderer and the enemy OF the
English people. still sraces the houses OF
parliament: George Washington and his
comrades are regarded now as heroes in
England.
1T was George Washington who in ltsS
made the cinphatic declaration that no
man should scruple or hesitate 4 moment
30 use arms in defense OF freedom, and
The British a,n,1as sador, Mr.. Bryce, speak
ing at Sprinfield on the occasion o. the
Lincoln centenary. dwelling on the value
OF great and good men. who are the no.
blest possession of a nation, added: mus
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der, thought To have been OF pontlcal
character. took place during banquet,
when several Indian students, natives OF
india. were present. The name of the
Indian who fired the shot was not known
for some time. but the murder is thought
TO have been only the first step toward
The movement in India for throwing off
the yoke of the British. The asSasSi-
nation has caused much talk and worry.
word having been received OF many other
planned murders. ard British army Of
fcers think the natives of India Will rise
soon TO fight their battle for freedom.
Within the last four years. and more
especially within the last twelve months,
n current of revolutionary agitation, mys-
terious in its workings. spasmodic. but
terrible in its manifestations, has been
steadily gathering force among the Hindu
population of India. threatening the very
existence of British dominion In that
country.
II is called the home rule movement.
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Mrs. Shyamaji Krishnavarma,
Typical Hindu woman. who sticks to the dress
of her youth even In her Paris hat.
and | should have begun my propaganda
long ago had | not feared to cloud the
last years of Herbert Spencer's life by IL
movement, the responsibility fer which
must inevitably have been fixed upon him
by his country1nen.'
): *
The crisis in Shyamars career came in
1897, when his friend Tiak was arrested,
and. after him, two other influential
Brahmins, acquaintances of the Pandit,
were flung into prison without being
brought to trial or any charge being
made against them, though, of course the
reason was political. Feeling that no
Indian was safe from such arbitrary ac
tion, Shyanaii Krishnavarma voluntarily
exiled himself from India and went to
live in London
In 1905 Krishnavarrna bought the free
hold of India House. Highgate, as a meet
ing place tor young Indians and the head
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5 the cholera COM
ing TO Paris? From
the heights of
Notre Dame Ca
thcdral tower. the
cholera dem on
watches its ap-
proach. His stony
face is always to
the east. So he
was watching in
1896, when the
d r e a d epidemic
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THE Cholera Demon of
/ Notre Dame and the
Little Children of Paris
Ancient Paris Superstition
Corroborated by Most Mod
ern Science in View of
Threatened Epidemic-Is the
Cholera Coming to Paris
This Summer ?-The Projects
Circular-The Pasteur Insti-
tute and Denier's Serum.
Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS. July 4, 1909.
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y the night of June
80 the entire world
was startled to
hear of the a ssassi-
nation of Sir Will
lam I1utt CurZon
Wyllie, an English
army officer. by
Madar L.elof Dhin-
agri. an Indian stu
dent, at the I'm
perial Institute, in
London. The mur-
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Special Correspondence of The Star
PARIS July 1Gf
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During those happy Oxford days the
Pandit struck up friendship with Mr..
Stephen Gladstone, son Of the great
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Sp"claI Iorfesl~Inu'nrc of ne Star-
PARIS. July T. 1909.
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shop girl wearing a pompadour as
big as a cabbage and false jewelry
and cosmetics.
Taking her theory as a fact, she
wanted to make the girls be quiet.
er, both in their dress and in their
minds. She couldn't give them
mental treatment, SO she changed
their dress. The change in their
minds came of it's own accord.
Now the girls are happy.
But, "ain't it awful, Mabel?"
The hall room boys are going to
have hard winter, socially, If this
things keeps up. Up and down
State street the news has spread
and its sure guess there are
enough discarded rats along the
row to equip mattress factory.
Some of the girls in other stores
who never did like to work in the
Field store anyway, are blaming
the new order of things to visit
of Harry Gordon Selfridge, Fields
old manager, now the biggest mer.
chant in London.
In London the shop girls are
just as quiet as mice and as soft
spoken as hospital nurses. The
English like them that way : and
perhaps Mr.. Selfridge told Mr.
Shedd it would be good thing to
try over here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-05
HERO OR LIAR--HE'S GREATS COOK
BY r. J. DILLON,


The boarding In their own town Of Guides 5a and prntz
by Dr. Frederick A. Cook accomplishment startling
in its the scaling Of Mount Mckinley the reaching Of
the POLE
1t adds another thrilling chapter to of the worlds
complexities still further the puzzle
that grows daily intricate.
Either Cook the colossal liar that modern times
known, being prosecuted organized mag
nifty that almost religious intensity vlndcveness
months the epthets, affdavts, charges
charges has shrler and hre and
times degenerang into the veries bingsgae Calm
reputable have into Of craftsmanship the
public has taken Sides geographical societies. scientists pes
dents and princes have all had their have taken oath
that Cook telling truth other have called God
to witness that he is liar the he went to the pole
with him the fact his Mount Mckinley companion fatty
him of Ratification and taking.
And through all this Dr. Cook with smile of Christian char
y Homerc dupiciy protests sublime confidence that
thing will right in the end Unabashed he enters the
stronghold of bitter them the platform
calmly patiently mildly listens
veraciy they his
! he berays bitterness
3 He is a spleeness without temper resent
If he honest he wihstood attacks that would have
Neros dishonest he has control
his emotions socsm and in either
II he lacked the physical to the top Of the
earth he has the meet his assed in
convention single handed he failed Of glory under the banner
of science, he has undyine fame charatan.
wonderful Dr. Cook the twentieth century sphinx
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-05

There's gospel in womans
clothes. The rule of the big store
that has eliminated the wellknown
characteristics of "Mayme," the
girl who liked to be waltzed
around again by Willie Fitzgib-
bons, is also bringing something
new in the lives of these $500
girls.
And. that is-character and sta
bility.
ITS wonderful what a change
has come over these young wom-
en-" said Mrs. Hoinville.
She is a sweet-faced, quiet lit
tie matron with a shifting half
smile and a constantly rowing eye.
II went around early to the en-
ployes' entrance to watch the girls.
They came quietly, with their
heads up. There was no tawdry
joking or air of being half-ashamed
of being shop girl
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-05

COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. s.
Under the care of physicians and
trained nurse, 12-year-old Rich
ard Swineford lies today at the
home of a neighbor. The boy col
lapsed from grief and exhaustion
after his mothers body had been
laid into the grave which he Ia
bored all night to prepare, because
he did not have money enough to
pay the sexton of Crystal Park
cemetery to do the work.
Richard, with his mother, who
was suffering from tuberculosis,
came here from Owosso, Mich,
early last summer. When Mrs.
Swinford died there was not
money enough left to provide a
fitting casket and to pay the grave
diggers for their work. Rather
than have his beloved mother
buried in a cheap casket. he de-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-05

That's just what we were driv-
ing at-we wanted these girls to
be as well-behaved in every way as
the women of health they are call
ed to wait on"
But maybe there wasn't weeping
and wailing and smashing of POM
padour rats when the rule first
went round. President John G.
Shedd of the store insisted on
abolishing rats, pompadours, taw-
dry jewelry and loud dress and
manners. Mr.. Shedd, being one
mere man, and the girls being
$500 in number, he did the wise
thing and hired Mrs. Hoinville to
step in and be the dress reformer.
And right then one of her ideas
was proved. She thought that
there was a close relation between
the mind and the dress of wom-
an. She didn't expect to find a
quiet-voiced. mild-mannered young
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-11-05
BECOMES PASTOR TO
AID HER HUSBAND

RAVENNA, Ohio, Nov. 5.-Mrs
Mary Williams has oeen ordained
a. Congregational minister in order
to assist her husband in his duties
as pastor of country churches at
Wayland and Charlestown, Port
age, county.
Mrs. Williams, aged 33, and the
mother of -year-old girl, has
been alternating with her husband
in the pulpits of the two churches
since his appointment to the pas
torates, two years ago.
Churches need women minis
ters," she says. women church
members need them for spiritual
advisers at times when they could
not tolerate a mans presence"
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the workmen stopped for the day.
Hundreds of visitors attending
the state Sunday school convention
watched the work. One Of them
asked:
Who's statue Is that?"
"Quay's," said a bystander.
ooh, yes" said the visitor, I've
heard of him; wasn't he from
Philadelphia"