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New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
EARTHQUAKES.

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most destructive earthquakes known, ana state the
date OF ana number Of lives lost at each-
There are records OF an earthquake in the
Mediterranean IN the year 10, when 120ooO
lives were destroyed The earthquake OF the
year 20 B. c. accompanied by an eruption
Of vesuvius. buried the two fourishing cities
PompeH and Herculaneurn. Another earthquake
in the Mediterranean in 526 is also said TO have
DESTROYED 100 600 lives For one thousand years
Italy was spared devastating catastrophles'
but in 1881 Naples and n 1893 Sicily were VS.
tied by earthquakes, TO which about IVOVoV
lives fell victims. IN the earthquake at ia
naica June 4 1852. which totally DESTROYED
Port Royal. 1900 perished- On October 2s 1I46.
e- earthquake in South America demolished
Lima and CaIlao and buried $4,000 persons in
the ruins one Of the most devastating earth
ouakes was that Of Lisbon, November ], 400.
In about eight minutes most Of the houses ana
upward OF 10000 inhabitants were swallowed
I'D and whole streets buried. The cities Of
coimbra Oporto and Braga suffered dreadfully
and St Ubes was wholly overturned In Spain
large part Of Malaga became ruins One-haf
OF Fez, fr Morocco was destroyed, and more
than 1900 Arabs perished there The earth
quake Of Calabria, February 3. 1873. overthrew
Messina and other towns in Italy and Sicily;
over 10000 persons perished. On February a.
5797, the whole country between Santa F'e and
Panama was shaken. including the cities OF
cuzco and Quito, and 10000 people were buried
n al instant The earthquake at Caracas
south America. March 26. 1872, killed 10000
persons or August Is TO 10. 1865. an earth
quake destroyed the cities Of Arequipa. IquiQue.
Tacna and Chencha. and many small towns in
Peru and Ecuador, and killed about 10000 per-
sons. On August q. 1888 Java and the neigh
boring isles were shaken by series Of vio-
lent eruptions from about two-thirds Of their
forty-six volcanoes, beginning with Krakatoa,
casting up immense quantities Of lava, mud,
ashes. fragments of rocks darAening the air
for about fifty square miles. There was much
submarine disturbance. and an immense tidal
wave destroyed AMER and other places. Loss
Of life estimated at $4,000 Japan. in particu-
lar. has been often visited by earthquakes. In
one OF October 2S 1891. on the Niphon Islands,
about $4,000 houses were destroyed and about
10000 persons killed; .n another OF 1896 Dune
- TO Ia. Kamarshi. in North Japan, was al
most completely destroyed and about 600 lives
lost while about 10000 persons were drowned
cy the accompanying seismic wave. and many
towns were destroyed An earthquake in Feb
sz2<yr 1907 destroyed Schemacha, IN Trans
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
TO ADVERTISE
GOOD PRECEPTS
BOSTON WOMEN PLAN
CAMPAIGN.
If the Hub Citizens Aren't Good,
Poor Eyesight VIII Be Their
Only Ercuse.
PLAN

Boston, Feb 13.-The women Of this city are
planning for Boston's moral awakening by means
OF huge posters and placerds bearing ethical
truths and sixty society and club members have
banded themselves into the Conference Committee
Of Moral Education to carry out this work
AN ounce Of prevention is worth pound OF
cure is their idea in a nutshell for they believe
that better than stamping out vice and evil after
1t appears is inducing humanity TO refrain from
vice and evil. II impulses TO be good are given
in competition with impulses to be bad, the
former has chance OF winning they reason.
Maybe Boston is the only city in the country
where any such plan would be taken up with en-
thusiasnS for in other city would wholesome
precepts be pondered 1t is the habit Of
even the humblest Bostonian to ponder what he
reads. and as these pacards to be in con-
spicuous places the whole city cannot refrain
from doing powerful lot of thinking.
1t is with thorough up-to-dateness that these
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
Constant Reader Tells What He
Missed in Last Week's Papers.

california got her wits back yet?" asked Busy
Man
yes" replied Constant Reader. yielding 10 the
rressure brought 10 bear by President Roosevelt
and Governor J. " Gillett the California Assembly
reversed its previous position By demonstrating the
FORMER the bill providing for the segrega-
toa Of japanese students in the public schools and
Anally rejecting the measure by a vote OF II 10
s6 An effort by the supporters Of the bill to re-
consider il further was lost by vote Of 3S 10 3s
and the Assembly IS now free Of any japanese
measure objected 20 by the national aduinistra-
ZION bill submitting the question Of Asiatic i'm
migration 70 vote OF the people was defeated
Il q message TO Governor Gillett President Roose-
relt severely criticised the attitude Of Senator Per
kins OF California who indorsed the anti-Japanese
measures
"Anti-Japanese bills were also defeated in Oregon
sad Nevada The Chinese of San Francisco sent
a protest 70 President Roosevelt declaring that they
were being Disseminated against IN favor Of the
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

sixty women have decided advertising as the
best means OF carrying out their ideas. although
the truths which the advertising signs Will bear
will be as ancient as is humanity. The cards and
placards to be put in the cars. In public build
ings, in school rooms and all other places where
the public is likely TO be in large numbers
Great good is expected from the card bearing the
precept, The Greatest Possession Is Sef-Posses-
sion"
Imagine angry with his wife, his work.
his employer, his children even himself. read
ing that he goes down 10 work" said OF
the Moral Educate Committee Don't you think
It would have tendency to straighten the kinks
out OF hts feelings? Or imagine woman shopper
feeling out OF sorts some domestic difculty.
suddenly seeing this pscsrd. OF course. It would
give her strength TO solve her problems"
We Gain the Strength Of the Temptation We
Resist Is considered one OF the best cards that the
committee has made far. Mrs. Clara Bancroft
Beatley, OF the leaders in this reform by sug-
gestion movement and the wife OF the master OF
the English High School confesses that she has
found this maxim OF great help TO herself There
is meat in 1t for everybody" she says III this
card was read by a who is trying to resist a
craving for liquor. and he realized from. It that
every time he threw of the temptation indulge
his appetite he not only physically better on
but had added strength to his character, ne would
certainly find easier TO keep up his struggle with
his craving"
President Eliot's advice 10 the Harvard students
Never experiment with any vice. been set
down some OF the cards, for IT is the plan of
these not to well known quotations. be-
neving that familiarity breeds contempt and that
the well known precepts would have less effect
Instead II will be the practice a wise bit of
advice, sage admontion from novel Of the
day from obscure book that has
gene into its thousandth edition from great preach
ers speakers and lecturers and from humble labor
ers. Any bright bit OF wisdom homely advice
that comes to the of the educational commit
tee Will be eagerly seized for the morality cards
The clubs which represented in this confer
ence committee moral education among the
most fashionable in the city, and include the New
Century Club. the Ladies' Aid Society OF the Sol
diers' Home, the ethics committee of the Educa-
tional and Industrial Union. Brghthelmstone. Old
Powder House Club. etc. The Of the
bers include Alice Stone Blackwell. DR.. Evaugeline
w. Young, Mrs Lucia NJ Peabody and Mrs Mary
Pamela Rice.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
COMBATING CANCER IN BELGIUM
on Daily Consular Reports

From Daily Consular Reports.
Consult II: Albert Johnson. at Liege, advises that
an association has been recently formed COM
batting cancer an Belgium, details OF which follow:
The managing committee is composed the
burgomasters of Gand, Antwerp. Liege and Ostend,
Baron Chazal, Senator Delaney certain number
OF prominent manufacturers, merchants, lawyers,
professors from the different universities medical
men, ano prominent people generally This asso-
citation is created with the view of disseminating
knowledge OF the development and action of this
disease, and fer the purpose of encouraging the
creation of hospitals, dispensaries, all classes
OF institutions designed aid in the treatment OF
cancerous patients. Some idea of the urgent neces-
sity. of some immediate action attempting 10 check
the growth of cancer in Belgium mRy be gathered
from the fact that more than thousand deaths
annually due to this dread disease. and If 1t
is borne in mind that cancerous patients often live
three four years without the disease being dis
covered tho total OF cancerous patients IN reality
exceeds thousand. II is claimed by
thorities that many as 10 or % per cent Of the
cancerous not diagnosed such during
the life OF the patient and therefore do not appear
on the official returns. According 10 Professor
Laurent there in the four largest cities OF
Belgium as many three thousand persons suf-
ferinE from cencerous complaints
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
IN THE FOREIGN FIELD.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra received a
hearty welcome from the Kaiser and the German
people The principal interest Of the first day OF
the visit Of the British monarchs was IN the
speeches of the Emperor and the King when pro-
posing heaths the dinner al the imperial palace
The utterances OF both were of the most cordial
nature emphasizing the peaceful sentiments and
the close relationship OF the two nations
Another crisis in the internal affairs OF Turkey
was threatened by the exposure of a plot formed
bv one wing Of the reform party for military
dictatorship
oscar Erbsloeh the German aeronaut who won
+ba ST Louis international balloon IN 1907
crossed the Alps in & balloon. the trip occupying
thirty hours and maximum altitude OF lS.ooo feet
being reached
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sa FOR THE BUSY MAN

S -iineoate legtslatio requiring within reason-
able limitation that all ocs.,eo, .I,
CARVING considerable number of passengers Be
e4uppeo with efficient wireless telegraph outfits"
How about direct prinaries?,
II was said at Albany that the advocates Of
oFe4noF hushess direct nominations plan would
opPose Dill providing for party column on
oe oncial primary ballot preference In position
TOT party nominees. such the Brooklyn Repub-
mean organization and clubs there are reported to
taEe sanctioned Such proposal will be fought
plIterly as striking at the very essence OF the
olrect nominations system. State Chairman Wood
run faVors such preference for party nominees II
the direct nominations system were 20 be ADOPTED
Inc Citizens Union will fight it bitterly. In 1907
the Governor vetoed n. official primary ballot bill
introduced by Assemblyman Prentice which pro-
vided for party column
What else was there OF INTEREST,""
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
QUESTIONS ANSWERED

caucasia, and killed 1000 persons. and another
IN April of the same year destroyed Quezalte-
mango and eight towns in Guatemala. and
caused the loss Of 900 lives. St Pierre in Mar
Unique was suddenly destroyed. with 10000
inhabitants. by an earthquake and fearful erup-
ton of the volcano Mont Pelee. May g. 1902
The earthquake Of San Francisco is still fresh
in every ones memory.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
TAFT APPROVES CANAL.

"1Ir. Taft back from Panama
Yes. he returned from Panama, and in a speech
delivered at New Orleans. approved the lock type
adopted for the Panama Canal It IS stated that
The engineers who accompanied him will in their re-
mort approve the work done TO date and will recon-
mend that the height of the Gatun dam be re-
duced by twenty feet Senator Rittredge. as chair
nan Of the Committee Interoceanic Canals made
an Infaeorable report the Hopkins bill author
t-ing issue Of Panama bonds % not to exceed
s5o6O .00O instead OF S50oO.OoO, the present
limitation. Mr.. Ktttredge stoutly supported the sea
level opposed 10 the lock type of canal. and was
assisted by Senator Foraker and later by Senator
Teller
MY. Taft seems TO be having troubles in the
formation OF his Cabinet Excitement was created
IN washington by the discovery that under the
Constitution Senator Knox could not become Sec
reta-y Of state because the salary OF that Office
had been increased while he was serving as a
United States Senator To get around this diff
Guilty the Senate passed 8 bIl. offered by Senator
Hale which reduces the salary Of the Secretary of
State 10 what II was before The increase. thereby
making Senator Knox eligible 20 the Office. George
N Reynolds OF Chicago. decided not to accept the
portfolio OF Secretary OF the Treasury in the Taft
Cabinet"
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT.
-hat's Congress- doing7'

whats Congress doing?'
.'TVilliam Howard Taft. Of Ohio, and James
schoolcraft Sherman, OF New York. were formally
elected President and Tice-Presdeut of the United
States n the House Of Representatives, when the
electoral votes were counted and the count was
ratified BY both branches OF Congress IN joint
sion Taft and Sherman received 521 votes aid
Bryan and Kern 162. Two hundred and forty-two
votes were necessary 10 eject. The Senate Com
r-ittee On Interstate Commerce reported adversely
OF Fulton bfl. It provides that the Interstate
Commerce Commission shall have the right TO
der the suspension OF any increases in railway rates
Of which Il is Informed, pending investigation
and the determination by the commission that
sucn increase vas warranted The report makes
clear the conviction Of the committee that the reg
ulEtion OF railway rates has gone far enough for
ths present and that there IS 10 reason 70 expect
any immediate extension Of the powers OF the com
mission. The United States government disavowed
al responsibility for remarks made by Representa-
eve Rainey Of Illinois. IN the House about two
vzekx ago criticising President Obaldia OF Pan
ans according TO q letter sent by Secretary Bacon
OF the state Department 70 c. c. Arosemena, Min
lister from Panama in reply 10 a protest by the
latter made by direction OF the Panama govern
reut
-And tbs PRESIDENT"
re issued a proclamation making the 1octh an
ztversary Llacoln's birth special legal holiday,
and on Friday Lincoln celebrations were held IN
m TIE r-fncpal cities OF the country He sent 10
Congress the report Of his Country Life CoHlnnis-
Iior The commission found three great general
and immediate needs in country life, namely: First,
effective cooperation among farmers. TO put them
On 2 level with the organized interests with which
they do business; second. new kind Of schools in
TIE country which shall teach the children as
much outdoors as indoors, and perhaps more, so
that they viii prepare for country lie ana not as
et ureseat mainly for life in town; third, better
means of communication. including good roads and
parcels pest which the country people are every
where and rightly. unanimous in demanding To
these we're added better sanitation Tor easy pre-
rer+ssle diseases hold several million country peo-
mis- n the slavery OF continuous ill health
.,F5e also sent q message TO Congress recommend
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
THE DEATH LIST.

Death removed two Of the best known men in
France Catulle Abraham Mendes, the poet and
novelist and Ernest Alexandra Honore CoQuelin,
known familiarly as CoQueIin Cadet one Of the
last of the older school CT Frances celebrated
actors.
Russell sturgis. art critic. architect and author.
died at his home No. 307 East 18th street, New
York in the seventy-second year Of his age Slas
Relden butcher the veteran politician and hnan-
cier died at his home IN Brooklyn, following a
stroke OF apopleXy.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
SHORT ANSWERS.

w o. b CHamilton, N ": What kind of
wood is used for making paper? Usually spruce
and poplar.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14
WARNING TO CAPITALISTS.

In a speech at testimonial dinner given for
him by the Illinois Society, Ebert H Gary chair
man Of the board OF directors of the United States
Steel Corporation, said that vested rights, SO
called, must yield whenever they become antago-
nistic 10 the public welfare and safety; that the
rights OF the individual are subordinate and must
submit to those of the public The results of the
future were to be dreaded. he declared, unless the
influence and power of money could be controlled
by government authority
The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
which operates the McAdoo tubes under the North
River, applied to the Public Service Commission
for franchise TO extend its tunnel system from
the present terminal. at Sixth and 33d
street, to the Grand Central Station. to connect
with the Stenway. Belmont tunnel under the
East River and with the present subway. The
proposed route Is under Sixth avenue to point
near +Gth street, thence curving eastwardly under
Bryant Park TO 42d street just west Of Fifth ave-
nue.. and continuing east under the present subway
to a terminal just west Of Lexington avenue The
Belmont interests said TO be preparing to
the city for $4,000 year. loss CT interest
due to the idleness Of the steinway tunnel.
Deeds were signed by which the site at
67th street and Avenue A selected by the late Dr.
Andrew J. NIcCosh for the Presbyterian Hospital.
passed into the hands Of John s. Kennedy, president
of the corporation. hospital building will be
erected there with money given by Mr. Kennedy
and others.
The new hospital will be built on the block
bounded by 67th and 6Sth streets. the East River
and Avenue A. It will be bluff. about fifty
feet above the river level and north OF the Rookie
feller Institute for Medical Research The cost OF
the land about 100000.
Because of the general agitation regarding az
fairs OF Trinity Church. arising out Of the attempt
70 close St. Johns Chapel. Senator 6rough. Of New
York Episcopalian. introduced a bill 10 amend
Trinitv's charter 10 permit every pewholder and
regular communcant of that church TO have vote.
His measure aims to restore the government OF
Trinity 10 the shape which il under its orig
inal charter, amended to its present form In 1914
A similar measure was recommended to the Legfs-
lature of 1857 by committee Of the Senate whlcn
had made legislative investigation, but that bill
never got further than the Senate.
Moses w Cortrght, chief inspector Of the Police
Department retired after service Of fortytwo years
There never was 6 charge against him
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

w B. F. OJ1ster, PENN: VIII you please
state ID Where can any one send ore suspected
Of containing iron or other metals to have 1t
tested? (2 What IS the cost of such test? %
There are scores of good experts in this city,
but it would hardly be feir publicly to show any
preference. An address will be supplied prI-
vately If the inquirer viii send stamp for re-
ply CD The charge varies according to the
amount OF work done. 1t would be less II the
percentage of iron only was TO be ascertained
than If other constituents are to be determined
For other metals than iron, Of course. other
processes must be employed. Any expert would
give an estimate IL told exactly what was re-
quired.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

s. Il. c. Ciount Carmel Comm: II you please.
I would like to in the Asked and Answered
Department the closing sentence of Abraham
I.ncoln's first inaugural address. Also his
famous Gettysburg address. The closing SEN
tence OF Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural
address, delivered March 4, 1861. is as follows
THE mystic chords OF memoIy, stretching from
every battlefield and patriot TO every living
heart and hearthstone all this broad land
will yet swell the chorus OF the Union when
again touched, as surely they viii be, by the
better angels of our nature" As to the Gettys-
burg address. must refer you TO Abraham
Lincoln. a History by Nicolay & Hay (Vol. 8
page 200. We have not the space to publish
in this column.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

Subscribers Daughter" Decatur. Ind) ~
Who was Jean Vatican? Will you give hi
ography of same7 % What is radium? %
Jean Valjean is the hero of Victor Hugos IA
nous novel Les Miserables." You find the
novel in every public library. C9 Radium Is an
element of very remarkable properties. discov-
cred by Nine Curie in 1902 Its principal source
is the pitchblende Of Joachmsthal. in Bohemia.
in which, however, It probably does not occur
70 q greater extent than few grams TO the
ton.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-14

seek air and water The fever rapidly becomes
more violent and within two weeks time a
rat is expected remain in a building which has
been thus baited AS rats ready 10 make
a meal OF helpless brethren, this tendency Will
doubtless spread the infection broadcast and clear
q large locality of the pests-HarpeTs Weekly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17
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proved conclusiveiy an enormous market exists for choice produce the freshness of whchs assured to the buyer
 In one year MT. Fullerton proved that those ten worst acres" capable of producing ssO varieties of plant growth and at that he number of prizes for quality the country fairs Although his yegetables right there, in plain view of all who attended the fairs half the farmers who inspected them could hardly be made to believe they were ally raised by him.
 The profits shown by the various plots. after all expenses counted. ranged from the per cent earned by kohl rabi grown section some 20 feet and worth at sale 40 crate e4s per cent. watermeions raised plot about s4 feet square. and producing Il melons selling for s5 cents apiece.
 The results that have come In the following the year of experiment have shown what such oh- tect lesson be worth to any community. Suffolk county. comprising the easterly two-thrds of Long Island, 7Ss11 including 100000 like the 'ten worst" triumphantly tanned into produo- tivty by Mir Fullerton.
 Those 100000 acres have now been brought into active consideration for market gardening and the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-17

pertinent station methods have been carefully studied by the local farmers with perceptible increase in the volume of their crops '-
 But the local advantages have been only fraction of the rich results flowing from the experiment It's fame has spread elsewhere. fin the Della where many farmers have long been eager for some assurance of successful crops other than the peaches for which the is famous the become great the railroad has been urged to establish stations for demonstrating what with Delaware soi
 Recently Mir Fullerton made tour of investiga- tion through the Delaware peninsula determine advsability of establishing stations had scarcely completed his gations when Mary land began to call for chance to study done further south
 Thus with one railroad. at least, the surprising spectacle is presented of corporation purely bus- ness reasons and in the confident expectation and swift returns in freight charges undertaking the office of tho state in the higher Amer ican farmer Yet that but fraction of the powerful aid which the railroads bringing to agricul- ture fin their campaign literally