Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-26


earthquake was felt Throughout tn,
province OF Siena today. Practicall,
al houses IN Sanlorenzo were destroy
ed or badly damaged. Many persons
We're injured. The quake wis fell
most severely within a radius uf 2t
miles of Siena. Considerable damage
was done at Buonoconyento. Several
houses collapsed and one pc, son was
killed. Several persons were injured
at Monteroni. A shock wac recorded
at Piombino on the coast about fifty
miles southwest of Siena this morn
ing and there was a repetiI;cn five
minutes later. The people fled from
their homes, but no damage resulted.
Siena itself escaped with severe
shaking. The people We're badly fright
ened. however, and rushed o,ir IRON
= their houses and wandered about in q
state of semi-panic until It vas as
sured the quakes We're over
I Siena provinces has an area of l..
47o square miles and population OF
a quarter million. The city OF Siena
is at an altitude of 1000 feet and
counts 30 inhabitants. San Lorenzo.
Reoniconvento. Monteroni and Piom-
bino are villages with populations
ranging from 900 to 4U01
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Another
peace" fleet Will be sent across the
Pacific by Uncle Sam. 1t will com
prise eight of the strongest and fastest
cruisers in the naval force and will
leave San Francisco a week from
next Sunday. 1t will be occupied with
its mission. which Is declared to be
II, =, ,.s...si. a~sss.ars sfnun,Ifs :.
The vessels which have been order
ed to prepare for the journey are the
fully armored cruisers Tennessee, Cali.
fornia, South Dakota. Washington,
West Virginia. Colorado, Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
LONDON, Aug. 21-To what extent
are children under years of age Civ
en alcoholic liquors? The question is
raised by f c. Mackereth in the
course of letter to the Lancet, In
which he says:
Some months ago | obtained fig
uies from few of the London county
council infant schools, and found that
in each no less than 40 per cent of
the infants under 8 years of age drank
alcohol more or less regularly There
~ 10, ha
state of things exists in every part of
Christian Europe, except in the coun-
tries OF the farthest north, and It will
be interesting to find out whether the
hsures ! obtained from schools chosen
haphazard are true of the rest of the
country. In one school of some 300
infants | found that 11.8 per cent
drank alcohol daily, and BAL per cent
drank occasionally.
Some time ago." said Mr.. Macker-
eth in am interview, DIR. Doczi, the
representative of the Hungarian gov
ernment at the twelfth International
congress on alcoholism. read paper
or Alcohol and Its Effects on the
Child, in which he showed that the
Hungarian government had caused
most carefully prepared statistics to
be obtained as to the drinking habits
of Hungarian children. The investiga.
tlon was carried out in thorough
manner, and 1t was found that 36 per
cent of the children who drank al.
eoholic drinks We're attentive nerv
Gus and careless, Is per cent were
melancholy and shy. so per cent were
coarse in habits and manner, not par
leuiar, were vindictive and given tc
theit, 10 per cent were immoral and
oIly 20 per cent lowed no signs oi
any XrfiiHft ~ aiins- Ti.--.s Vienna 1t was fount
i l.sssss 80 per cent of the boys and 33 .
per cent OF the girls drank beer, ant
113 per cent OF the boys and 49,
per cent OF the girls drank wine.
If the same proportion of children
in Londons elementary schools drinl
alcohol to the same extent that wa
found to obtain In the two schools
from which l obtained figures ther,
must be nearly 100000 child drinker
in London. It Ia highly probable tina
a similar condition of things prevail
in both town and country district, an,
If this is SO there must be some 2
100000 there cannot be, at the loves
England and Wales who more or les
regularly drink alcohol
There Is o very strong case for
national inquiry. especially IN view {
the fact, for which we have the a,
thority of DR.. James Kaye, medici
officer to the West Riding county coul
ell. that out Of school population
England and Wales estimated at
100000 theer cannot pe. at the lowe