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QUARANTINE DoAr Thar FEEr5 McoenNG SHIPS

tered victims might infect hundreds
aboard an immigrant ship bound for our
shores
Up on Capitol Hill Surgeon General Wy
man sits in the stately castle which Gen.
Butler built after the war and which his
enemies were mean enough to say was
PAID for with silver spoons captured
among the booty of battle Into this man
sion come wires leading Indirectly to all
home and foreign seaports where chol-
era may enter. and by these means the
commanderin-chief OF our health guards
keeps always in touch with the officers
under his command. OF these lbs are
commissioned officers appointed by the
President. confirmed by the Senate and
entitled to wear military uniforms and
side arms. Others to the number of pa
are acting assistant surgeons appointed
by the Secretary of the Treasury under
civil service rules
At Calcutta. Naples. Libau. Russia and
such ports, where he thinks cholera is liza
BILE to get aboard ships bound for Amer
lea the surgeon general has stationed one
of these officers, whose duty it is to pry
into the origin of the freight and paSsen-
gers. If any of the cargo is from an in
fected territory he must see that il is
fumgated. He must also inspect all pas
sengerS. especially those booked for the
Steerage, and detain those whom he sus-
poets Of contagion. And the ship cannot
clear for one of our ports until he gives it
"bill of health certifying to the Amer
lean quarantine officers that no infected
freight or passengers are on board. All
cholera suspects are detained under OBJ
servation for five days. after which they
may sail on the next ship, if not develop
ing the disease. At ports where cholera
is not feared our consuls attend to all of
this inspection and detention work as a
matter of routine, and no ship can sail
from any part of the globe for the United
States without a clean bill OF health.
Arriving off it's American port. the ship
is boarded by a quarantine officer for in
spection. Fifty medical officers of DR..
Wynian's corps are engaged in this work
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QuARANTJNE DETENTION CAMP

OF the Moravia from Hamburg. with
cholera raging between decks. and with
twenty-five corpses left in her wake-all
victims of the same terrible infection
And you recollect that while this cholera
ship heaved to and fro within the har-
hor of the metropolis and while wise
doctors disagreed over the best means
10 save the nation. there was made at
Washington d sudden stroke which shut
the demon out and nailed down the latch.
This stroke was the PRONUNCIATION of an
edict by Benjamin Harrison. President OF
the United States. proclaiming a quaran-
tine of twenty days for all immigrant
vessels from cholera-nfected regions. and
the man who framed the proclamation
for the chief magistrates signature was
Walter Wymen. interchangeable young
western surgeon, who only a year before
had been commissioned by that same
President and confirmed by the Senate
as surgeon general of the marine hospital
service. Young Wyman, after taking his
A. r. at Amherst his NJ. d. at the st.
Louis Medical College and a post-gradu-
ate course of study at Vienna, had been
in charge of various marine hospitals
throughout the country since the centen-
NAL year. 1876 and what had called him
to the attention of the powers that sit
upon the seats of the mighty in Washing
ton were certain crusadeS which he had
waged for the betterment of our sea-
faring men, Thus he had had laws passed
for the benefit Of our seamen of the mer-
chant marine. and had exposed crueltieS
imposed upon deck hands on our west
ern rivers. also upon crews of the Chesa-
peake oyster fleets for whom he had
had a hospital established. Rather in
significant was the authority vested in
him when first he was brought to Washing
ton to command the army of disease fight
ers. which he had entered as a subaltern.
but quickly If was enlarged into a vast
power. in which functionaries of Amer
lean commemorative and of foreign ma
tons stand in awe.
His one object in life, since he was
made guardian of the nations health.
nineteen years ago, has been to keep for
eign infections outside the federal bound
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in October, it claimed 5000 out of pop
ulatiOn of 5000.
And immigration was to blame for our
second great epidemic of 1913. which claim
ed $1,000 people in Britain, although
brought to our shores by German immi
grants sailing from Havre. They brought it
to New Orleans. whence it spread to every
landing town and city up the Mississippi
and Ohio as far as Cincinnati. From st
Louis in 40. it was carried westward
along the route of the argonauts hurrying
to California. and a thousand of them
fell upon the trail. while hundreds of In
dams met en- route paid the same penalty.
Again in SO the same pestilence came
to us by immigrant ships. this time en-
tering New York. from which it spread
in every direction, far west as Kansas.
And once more in 1873 aliens carried it.
to New Orleans and the Mississippi valley.
Every few years since cholera first
leaped its native bounds in India has the
old world threatened us with such epi-
denies. During a European outbreak in
1897 $4,000 people died of the disease in
Palermo alone, and while our forty-niners
were giving up their ghosts to the same
destroyer 1t killed over $1,000 people in
England and Wales. Other tremendous
death tolls have been: England and
Wales, 1854, 10000; Constantnople. 1855,
$1,000; Spain, 1883. LOCO; Japan. 1886.
81 600: India, 1887. $1,000: Mecca, 1890,
1900; Persia, 1892, 6O,0O0; Russia, 1892,
10000; japan, 1895 1900; northern In
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Clarence Culens Weekly New York Letter

riferous show girls. but then, you know,
them buns o managers don't care what
the merrymerry. o course they don't, 1t
really begins to look as if a whole lot of
chorus girls will have to go to work next
year. The maidens of the merry-merry
have been crowding the manage pretty
hard of late years, anyhow. A large per-
centage of them have declined to leave
dtah OF Moo Yawk when the shows to
which they were attached were booked for
the road, thus putting the managers to
the measley necessity of drilling other
gangs of merry-merry ones to fill the
places of the deserters. Thus the musical
comedy outfit that gains big reputation
in New York. with those who care for
that sort OF thing. by reason of it's ag-
sregation of battleship-like front-row
dolls. when they start for the prov
inces," have been obliged to start away
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ployed in picking up coal, and engaged
something to her. Then he dashed
back, waving aside thanks. A few min
utes after he rejoined me the old woman
appeared at the door of the quarters,
protesting that she could not take the
fifty-dolla bill which he had given her.
Ketchel was roughly dressed, in train
ing toys, SO that the old woman deemed
him too poor to make her so fine a
present. He shooed her good-naturedly
from the quarters. and blushed guiltily
over having been caught in his act of
generosity.
I write these things because it seems
to me that it is little less than
scandalous it is unfair and ignoble.
that such a man should be moralized
over as If his untimely death from the
bullet Of an assassin had been what
is called "a logical finish
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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I'D bug-housem?

10 OUg-nOcSeln.
There is hope. In fact. the chorus-girl
less show is with US right now. IT'S de-
licious musical piece. adapted from the
French, called Madame Troubadour." L
heard il first at its try-out in Atlantic
City last spring. Now it is a Broadway
furore. 1t has plot. substance, lines wit.
situations. a finish denoting sanity,
atmosphere clearly indicating a com
plete absence of imbecility on the part
OF its writer's The music is ehtrancing
Entrancing-I use the word advisediy.
The music was written by young man
named Albini He is. ! believe. Italian,
but his music sounds more V1ennese
than Italian. Ii is not only catchy" it
is rich. sensuous. evocative OF whimsy
little dreams.
Well. there isn't chorus girl, and,
far. far better. there isn't d chorus man.
in Madame Troubadour'' The prin-
cipals tell the story. do the acting,
achieve the singing-and ypu are glued TO
your seat with positive affection and
gratitude for the happy expIoiters of the
chorusless show
1t is a fine it is a noble it il deliri-
ously delightful thing. believe the UNDER
signed. TO sit through musical piece
and not be compelled to view the clumsy,
gangling movements of passed. of tall.
bedaubed. pasty-faced, aden-eXpression-
ed. sullen-eyed show girls of the front
line, gyrating stupidity and without IA
symptom of grace around a crowded
stage.
II is one splendid experience TO view
a musical piece without having To look
at a large and wriggly bunch of under
sized gnats OF squads. called. with
silly, leering faces and East Side legs.
going through the BOBBY hatch contor-
lions of the so-termed pony ballet. IL
is an ineffably joyous thing TO take in
show with music that has not. part
OF its ensemble "A large and noisy aggre-
CATION of flaccid-faceG queer-eyed males
OF the chorus who bound around in the
makeup of college boys" or youthful
ensigns of a hypothetical navy. with
hideous splotches Of red on their cheek
bones and eyes all bepenciled like those
OF Desperate Desmond
You almost laugh out of pure. Juvenile
Glee when you are not compelled to see
a large batch of males and females of
this sort lummoxing I'm on the stage
WITHOUT any excuse whatever. and break
Ing mo sepulchral musical comedy
laughter and piping all at once. "Ah. here
comes the gay Prince of Bessarabia-ia
Ia. la, whoope- for our dashing
ruler!' and all that sort of unspeakable
munk-junk.
And SO. this splendid little chorusless
show having got across. the other
managers now are looking the situation
over and making up their minds. about
ten years after the event. that folks In
general are sick of chorus girls and
chorus men. Orders are to be given TO
hbTetto makers TO cut out the chorus
girls and chorus men and to follow the
lines OF Madame Troubadour i'm this
gratifying respect
" rs going to be dreadfully hard and
crooi, this edict, in its effect upon the au-
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volved in the proposed change, as the
present size pocketbooks and cash draw
ers have been adapted to the present size
currency, and Secretary MacVeagh, the
originator of the idea, is disposed to well
come criticism and suggestions from the
business public and the people generally,
before attempting any radical change.
Some of the things that will recommend
the new notes to the public is that they
are smaller and can be carried fat and
being preserved in that shape, will not
wear from folding. They can also be
more readily handled by cashiers, tellers
and clerks. This in itself will tend to
increase the life of the note and thereby
decrease the expense to Uncle Sam in
replacing old notes with new. AS an aid
to banks it is said the new notes could
be more closely packed on the counters
of the banks. and. in fact. banks as we'll
as subtreasuries probably could store %
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DESTINATIONS MiIIionaireS.

xHRS. CAVENDISH BENTINCK, on
1v4 her recent. visit to Newport, con-
demned the ostentation of some of the
Newport millionaires.
In my girlhood.' said Martin Living
ston's brilliant daughter, lit was differ
ent But today the American million
aires environment suggests too strongly
the lady who. while giving dinner. sent
for her maid and said:
Celeste. I'm cold Bring me another
string of pearls.
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AS the drum of deS-
tiny tapped the de-
parting note for
the chorus girl.
who likewise is
yclept the show
girl, and who, fur
Their. is differentiat-
ed by the terms
bToiler. chicken,
squad, S h r j m p,
pony, and so on,
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With a Sour Laugh.

A CHICAGO editor has brought from
"A London an amusing story about
Mr.. Humphry Ward.
Mr.. Humphrey Ward the editor said,
was, in his bachelor days a really well
known art critic. But now,
Il met Mr.. Humphrey Ward at a din
ner in Soho. and he said to me with a
sour laugh:
when girl wants to retire from
the world and be lost in oblivion she
has to enter a nunnery But a man, to
achieve the same end, need only marry
a famous woman.
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A ND the Army of Federal
"A Health Guards Under
His Comnand-He Is the
Same Stern General Who
Guarded Our Front Gate
in 1se2-Past Epidemics of
That Grim Disease in Our
Country Sixteen Nations
Now Threaten Us With the
Pestilence-How Our Health
Guards Are Working Here
and Abroad to Keep 1t From
Our Soil.
Copyright. 1910. by John EIfrcta Watkinsl
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GAIN grim Demon
Cholera turks with
out our gateways,
striving to force
an entrance. but
the nations nerves
should be Gained
by the knowledge
that the same stern
general who kept
this bla lex monster
out when it last
menaced us, eight
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from here with hastily engaged punches
of more or less funny-looking and incom-
petent and unframed chorus maidens
and the critics of the provinces" have
lit on this fact with both broganS and
scrupled not TO call the attention of their
readers to the fact that the musical COM
edy with the big New York reputation
has swooped out Of town with layout of
joke folks as members of the front and
back chorus lines.
THE chorus girl has run her race said
George Conan to me yesterday. "Of late
she has shown decidedly strong iuclina-
tion TO lay down in the race. Some of
them whom I've employed have manifest
ed determined purpose to make their
appearance only on Tuesdays and Fri
days. although they've never been out Of
the line when the ghost has walked. The
public has tired of the merry-merrAr
maiden. I've found that out from personal
observation. l made il a sort of rule to sit
IN with an audience every once in a while
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cen autumns ago. is sun al MS post.
armed cap-a-pie and with far more
efficient army at his command
You remember how the nation blanched
upon that September morning in 1892
when it read of the arrival at New York
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK. October -. 1910.
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NCLE SAM proposes to reduce
the size Of his paper money to
that of the paper money now
in use in the Philippine Islands,
known as Philippine currency,
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Copyright. 1910 by John Eltrcta waokinso
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-10-14
START OF FREIGHT EXPENSE
Cost of Hauling Ton Of Farm Products
to Market Over Country Roads
Averages Is Cents.

The United States department of
agriculture stands ready to prove that
the farmer is heavily handicapped by
the two million miles of public roads
Of this country, Of which only seven
per cent. is improved. It stands
ready to show that the cost of hauling
ton of farm products to market
over country roads is upon the aver
age rs cents, says Birmingham Age
Herald. On modern improved roads
the cost is but eight cents. On dirt"
roads it Is 80 cents, and on sandy
roads it varies from 80 to Ga cents.
These figures are demonstrable, and
no farmer will dispute them, for they
know full we'll what the cost for poor
roads Is to them.
Were the cost of the haul to the
railroad reduced to IL cents a ton, as
1t readily could be by improving the
public roads, the saving to the farm
ers of the country would be just about
s25N000,000. 1T seems easy" says the
Washington Herald, ITO write the fig
ures 100000 a day; that is the
amount Of loss, or rather that is the
loss of gain the farmer would get II
he had good roads. He would get
$1,000,000 a day more for his products
than he does now. His bad roads i'm
ply loss Of about three dollars a
year for every man, woman and child
in the United States. II we can add
that $250,000,000 to the purchasing
power of the farmer, it is not likely
| that we should hear so much about
hard times; there would be bound to
be proportional increase in prosper
ity and our agricultural assets would
be very largely increased"
This estimate does not include the
increased value that would accrue
from good roads to farm lands. It
takes account simply Of the freight
expense which necessarily begins at
the farm. The cost Of the haul to the
railroad is regulated by the condition
of the public road, and the time is fast
coming when the farmer will demand
that he shall be considered when
money is being poured out like water
for railroads, waterways and the like
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-10-14
Park RAPIDS, Mi

Brookville, Ohio.-"I was irregular
md extremely nervous. A neighbo,r
recommended Lydia E. Pinkham,s
Vegetable Compound to me and l nave
become regular and my nerves are
much better. Mrs. r. kINN1soN'
Brookville, Ohio.
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com;
Mound, made from native roots anu
herbs. contains no narcotic or harm,
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number Of actual cures
Of female diseases we know of, and
thousands Of voluntary testimonials
are on file in the Pinkham laboratory
at Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form OF
female complaints, inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements, 6brold tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache'
Indigestion and nervous proStratlon.
Every suffering woman owes it to her-
self to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound a trial.
Ifyou want special advice write
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, for It,
1t is free and always helpful.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-10-14
RANCHER FOLLOWS
WOLVES INTO CAVE
AFTER ONE Is SHOT, INTREPID
HUNTER is SAVAGELY At
Tackled BY ANOTHER.
THREE ARE FINALLY KILLED
Men In Dark Cavern Engage IN
Rough and Tumble Fight With
the Ferocious Beasts Before They
Arc Shot.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-To crawl Into
wolf den with rife and fight life
and death battle with gray wolves
those pest Of the range-was the ex-
perience Of George Porch. rancher'
living in the region between the Mis-
souri, river and the Black Hills, in
western South Dakota.
The gray wolves Of that part of the
state are unusually large and fierce,
and when the region was devoted to
cattle raising, it was nothing uncom-
mon for the wolves to attack and kill
half-grown steer. The losse OF
stockmen from the raids Of &ese
pests being greater than from any
other cases, not even excepting the
| fierce storms of winter when great
herds of cattle were turned loose on
| the open range to Shift for themselves
until spring.
Recently the small ranchers, who
have supplanted the big cattlemen,
have suffered considerable loss from
the depredations Of gray wolves, and
Porch and four neighbors started to
run down and kill the varmints which
had been particularly active in killing
their cattle and sheep.
The five men came upon the trial
of four full-grown wolves, and after
following the trail several miles,
killed one Of them on the open
prairie. The other three animals Wero
cornered in a cave. Porch, however,
when the party reached the opening
to the VOLTS den, did not hesitate, but
entered the cave after the wolves.
He crawled a mile or more into the
side Of the high bluff before he
reached the lair.
1t was necessary at times to en-
large the hole which, while large
enough to admit Of the passage OF
the wolves was not large enough at
some points for a man to pass. One
Of Porch's companions did part Of
this work while engaged in enlargine
the passage. Porch suddenly saw
ahead Of him, in the darkness, si1
sparkling bright eyes. But there was
no stopping short Of securing the
three wolf pelts which he had sci
out to capture Some more trimming
out of the hole and he was nea1
enough to fire a shot from his rifle
straight into the group of shining
wolf eyes. ahead of him.
Bang went the rifle and In an In
slant all was darkness and smoke
Porch's lantern was extinguished b.
. the conclusion of the rifle. He re
lighted the lantern and saw the bod
of one wolf.
AS he reached forward to drag gu
the dead wolf, one of the live one
attacked him, swapping at his arm
The sharp teeth Of the animal close
, upon his coat sleeve, tearing 1t an
leaving mark on his arm. A roug
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-10-14
RIVALRY IN AEROPLANES.

The feat of J, Armstrong DrexeI IN
breaking the record for altitude a.
tained by any heavier-than-a1r ma
chine was accomplished recently IN
England with a French monoplane'
and has, as a consequence, served 10
increase the rivalry between the mono
plane and biplane, the two types u
heavier-than-ai machines. Whlle 1of
the moment the monoplane has the
record for altitude, the biplane mas
captured many other records, among
others that for long-distance traVehns'
says New Orleans Picayune. so lar
then, no very definite data has peen
developed to prove the superiority Oh
either type over the other. me mono
plane seems the more graceful OF the
two machines, as it more nearly re-
gembles a bird in flight; but, on the
other hand, the biplane appears tne
stronger, because or us liuso eoN
struction, and the steadler because OF
dts greater spread Of planes. Amerl-
cans will naturally favor biplane'
because it is more typically an Amerl'
can development as It has reacneo
its present success largely through the
labors of the Wright brothers. Inc
rivalry between the two types OF neaV'
ier-than.air machines will, therefore,
continue until one or the other mas
demonstrated conspicuous superiority
or both have given place to some new
er tyne. which fulfils all requirements
more successfully.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-10-14

T At a moving picture show In upper
broadway, says the New York IT'D
une, a man who had three children
with him found a hat of magnificent
proportions in front of him a source
of some annoyance. Between pictures
he drew from his pocket and read
loud enough for the wearer OF the nat
Ito hear, the account of Bow street
magistrates decision against the big
hat In London. The woman for whom
1T was intended heard and saw the
point, but failed to take the hint. she
turned deliberately about and said:
f"This is not England, but free coun'
TRY. I'd like to see any one make me
take off my hat" And then she walk
led out