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completely and permanently stamped
out In the course of u few years. Hut
If it Is once introduced to the Asiatic
mainland IL will never be extirpated.
and will remain a constant menace
t. the world at large. Waving the
question of cost. which would be enor.
nous. Ia institute the conditions nee
ossary 10 the eradication of the dis
ease would be practically impossible
ia oriental communities.
That this menace is serious one
iS the opinion Of most of the experts
who have given thought to the sub
Jet Sir Tatrick Manson. who Is ac.
kno wledge to be one OF the greatest
authorities of the world in this par
ticular field. recently said in a public
address. My belief is that II pre-
cautions are not taken In time both
of these diseases. yellow fever and
malaria. will extend their range; that
with the opening up of the Panama
Canal and by the repeated passage
of rapid steamers across the Pacific
yellow fever will be introduced into
the Sandwich Islands tHawaiil, Ma;
Mia and TO the continent of Asia"
The work of sanitation has been so
IL thoroughly performed at Panama "a
20 warrant the belief that yellow fever
can never again make a settlement
on the lsthmus, provided present pre-
cautionary measures are maintained.
Sporadic outbreaks must, however.
be expected So long as the territory
is In communication with countries
which are not free of the disease. Such
outbreaks will doubtless be quickly
suppressed, but after the opening OF
the canal every case OF yellow FEVER
lin ;he Zone must necessarily involve
the danger of transmitting the disease
10 countries at present free from II.
The experience of our surgeons In
Havana and Panama has f7mon'
stra,ed the praoticability OF etefnaliy
banishing yellow fever from the earth
In the course of the next few years
by extending scientific sanitation 10
the entire region subject to its visi
tations. The only obstacle TO such
course is found in the Indifferent atti-
tude OF the countries in which the
work must be carried out Their pop
ulations are more or less immune to
yellow fever. aud their commerce so
INSIGNIFICANT tha; the detrimental Ell
fects of quarantine are of little con-
sequence TO them. Furthermore, the
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Provence, who held his brief court
there.
Perhaps the most interesting per
iod of all the history OF tho palace
was during the French Revolution,
when IL served as a prison. As the
little girl said: Josephine was one OF
the few. perhaps the only one. impFis-
oned there who did NOS have her head
chopped on" Her husband. however.
did. He was executed In 1874 and In
1896 she married Napoleon. IL Is al
most comical to note the rapidly with
which public feeling changed The
Judges and rulers of one day were the
victims Of the next. The leaders OF
the revolution enjoyed to the full their
power and Their submitted cheerfuily
when the tide turned and laid their
own heads beneath the same fatal
knife. Danton. Camille Desmoulins,
Robespierre. all we're sent TO the Lux
embOurg. AL went thence 10 the
same death they had inflicted on 50
many thousands. Dsnton. the father
of the French Revolution, kept at
heart the love of country. even though
carried away by the mad frenzy OF
that time, cruel. perhaps, but never
coward. never selfish. scorning to
escape. when escape was possible
Can a man then take his country
with him that I should dream OF
fight7 ! care not what becomes OF
me nor how my name Is cursed "
France be free Camille Desmoniias
who reused the people and led them
to the capture Of the Bas;sle- laughed
and wen; gaily 10 the guiilotine when
the frantic mob. careless Of iis words
and wanting only blood, demanded
his death TOO. They did not even
spare his girl wife. the genilest and
the Ioveliesi woman in all Paris. she
was called. When Robespierre was
sent there. the gatekeeper. a pe-sonal
friead. refused 20 take hsm prisoner
ne did not delay his fate, however
The same DAY he was seized- wound
"a and thrown. grooming with pain.
10 IN gui1lofine Prom 1875 20 l7Ss
the Eve directors net in be Lnxess--
bourg. They gave a magnificent fete
fLes. after the treaty o. Champs-For-
nlco had been signed IN honor Of the
young General Bonsparie. IN his
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Of the QueDn. woman % very grca
ability. who aided her husband IN al
his s,heuss- fnT power. I.oaIs' favor
tie was Albert DE- I.aynes. and their
party included most % The nobility
ard the Profc.fanfs. ranked ag7ins'
the Cucen. Corr!ui and tho Catholics
DE I.uyucs finally persuaded the hing
10 have Coucinf arrested. This vas
attempted in April 1917. two years
after tho pailrc ~ fhc Iu.emoourz
had been begun. When b. resisted
the captain of thf guards shot hin.
The rour'ace. who hated him. drar
ced his bleeding body through tho
streets. ri1rdciod his magnificent
home and threw bis wife into the Bss.
tile She vas accused Of sorcerF. and
Al Ler trial the iudre demanded BY
What power she had 20 controlled the
Queen and gained her own and her
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aAA ARIE DE MEDICIS at the
height of her power as
Queen OF France and re-
! : - gent for her young son.
afterward Louis MIL,
MANNED and built the Luxembourg
She chose a place far away from her
paIace of the Louvre. in what was
then the country. outside the city
walls. near the great mOnasteries Oh
Chartreux. ST. Benoit and ST. German
des Pres. To acquire sufficient land
for the vast gardens around her pal
ace. she was forced TO buy many
small farms and several large estates
Among the latter was one especially
interesting in that il gave the name
b. which her palace has always been
known. This was the Hotel de lux
smbourg. a dwelling house belonging
10 the Prince Of Piney-Luxembourg-
I, had been built in 15fc by Robert de
Har;ay and sold by him in 15S3 10 the
Prince. The latter so improved and
added TO the estate that II attracted
even the Queens attention when she
looked about for a place on which 10
build. The original deed OF sale BY
which Marie dc Medicis became own
OF OF the place IS TO be seen nov IN
the Music Carnanalct. in Paris. She
rave the Prince 10000 -ivres Tan Old
French coin equivalent to quarter
IN American money for the house
gardens and orchard
The Queen. though an italian and a
Catholic. chose as her architect a
young French Protestant. named Sol
omon de BrCsse. then al The very be
ginning Of his career. in whose ability
she had much conhScnce. she sug-
seS'ed az = model. 70 be modelled n
suit tho climate ana Tho changed con
difions. her own birthplace and child
hoods home. the Pitt Palace. IN Flor
eucr. There is. however. little reseu,-
blanco between the two. Tho build
ing vas Ocrun IN 1915. ard hurried ~
completion. In excavating for the,
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HE most dreaded of all tro2i-
cal diseases has eXactcd a
terrible toll from the white
man whenever he has ven
tnred TO make a settlement
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uplifting. the very acrIdnesS painted
VISIONS Tor him: At thrust MIN into pro-
p.nuuitA with charming scenes; it made
everyday life and work ana pleading
seem hateful to him; SO hateIuI that wnen
he sat down at his desk and viewed the
great heap OF work his desk he fe.s
AXE chucking it all and going out into the
street to walk and walk until ne cOuidn (
walk any longer.
il took a decided mental effort for him
20 start on the bunch of mail stacked up
III front of him. Just as he was about to
plunge i'll one of his Office mates wan
Cered over to his desk to tell him about
snow hed seen the night before. The
office mate was smoking a big. shapeiy,
deep-bowled three-B briarwood pipe that
mad been seasoned to sort of Hymettus-
honey sweetness; and he was putting fine,
big electric-blue clouds from it, and rol,
Ing the smoke around in his mouth and
eating it; and the tobaccOiesS man at the
desk feit like leapng upon his Office mate
and taking the pipe away from him and
gnawing on it until the wagon backed up
tn take him over to the institution over
looking the Eastern branch. But he
listened vaguely. and without hearing q
word. to what his office mate had to say
about the show he'd seen the night be-
fore; and then he touched the button for
his stenographer and started in to dictate
letters 10 that spick-and-span young
woman.
Somehow his mind didn't work He
could cnly go through with "Your favor
Of the 4th instant to hand, and i'm reply.
beg to state and then he seemed TO
walk into a dead wall. The answer
wasn't there. The initiative was absent.
The young woman stenographer her pen.
ell poised in the air, watched him and
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According to the doctors Orders"

little benevolent but beautiful poisons like
coffee and tea and tobacco for forty years
or so. as YOU have, and then toss EN- all
Of a sudden, without feeling slump.
You'll have something bordering on hys-
terra before night Nice little theory the
doctors have that a man can change his
entire life'S habit in a minute. But il
doesn't work out. Better stop at dairy
lunch and ease bowl of Mocha into your
diaphragm, and then stake yourself to a
smoke. I'm an old man, and know
The man, Sorely tempted thought Of
what his wife would think, thought again
o. the man-and-mouse thing. and clicked
his teeth together again. 1t was little
less determined click, however, than the
earlier click hitherto mentioned.
When he entered his office the room
was thick from the smoke Of the cigars
and pipes of his Office mates. AS a rule
he'd found this thickness a little Sitting
and disagreeable, after his own long and
satisfying pull at his after-breakfast
cigar. This morning. however. he found
that mixture of cigar and pipe smoke
something almost spiritually noble and
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Porterh0uSe Steaks.
xxxrARTIN MORRISON" said a

ssKTARTIN MORRISON" said sour-
lv1 met ran a famous old tavern.
the Porter House, at 327 Pearl street.
New York, in the early days Of the last
century.
1.-THE Porter House was a haunt Of sea :
faring men-pilots. shippers and mates.
One cold winter night an old pilot came
in rubbing his hands. He ordered a glass
of porter and q steak. but Martin Morri-
son said:
I'm out OF steaks. Poop. my bog, but
III cut you Off thick slice from the
sirloin we're getting ready for tomoP-
rows roasting. VIII that do?
~ guess 1t will have to do srowtsd
Pilot Poop.
$50 they cut him OF thick red slioD
from the sirloin roast. they grilled II 20 .
turn. and they set IL before him smoking
hot. He cut it open. The rich juices
eushed forth In their abundance. He
took a mouthful. then rolled his eyes In
ecvstasy. He
put il IL useless 10 continue. Pilot
Poop was the first man ever to eat .
porterhouse steak. The porterhouse was
christened after Martin Morrisons house.
where 1T was born.
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lis litter after battle OF AgfncOurt.
body he alone has the highly priced
right of nominating to fill vacancies
thereon
His princely emolument of $4,000 a
year and ''lordly pleasure house." the
Mansion House, provided as his official
residence by the corporation, are fitting
accomplishments to the state he is called
upon TO maintain. The sum in question,
although considerable, is always very
much less than he is expected to spend
during his year. The first day of office
and banquet in the evening costs some
thing between $4,000 and $4,000, one
half of which is borne by him and the
rest equally by his two sheriffs.
Sir Nesey Strong who has been elected
lord mayor of London for the year to
be marked by King Georges coronation,
is director OF Messrs. Strong, Hans
bury & Co. Ltd. wholesale paper
merchants. of upper Thames street,
London. He was born in the parish Of
st. Bride. Fleet street, in 1857. He Is an
abstainer. the first who has ever oc-
cupied the lord mayors chair. and much
interested in temperance reform. Sir
Vesey Strong represents the city on the
for eleven years chairman of the visiting
justices at Holloway prison. He was
sheriff in 1904-5, when he received his
knighthood from King Edward. In poll
tics he is liberal. Two years ago he
led the attempt to preserve Crosby Hail
from demolition. He was formerly
keen athlete and volunteer.
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Facts Concerning
Howard University

HOWARD UNIVERSITY 10 the ealy
university in this country for COL
ored people under the supervision Of
the United States government. II comes
under the Department OF the Interior
Howard University vas incorporated
by an act of Congress, March 2, 1887.
for the purpose as named i'm the nrst
section of the act THE education OF
youth in the liberal arts and science.
The control of the university Wa
placed in board OF seventeen trustees
1t was not. however until 1879 that
Congress made appropriation for the
maintainence of the university witch
amounted to s10000 Since then nearly
a million and a quarter dollars have
been appropriated Tor the maintenance
erection of buildings and euuipments
The government ~ represented in tie
controlling body of the university b.
one senator and two representatives
In addition To tnis y Ia necessary for
all the money appropriated for the uni
rersity to go through the hands OF TIE
Secretary of the interior and while
they can spend all other funds as they
see fit. those given by the government
must be accounted for and appro, ed
by the Interior Department and "a wear
ly statement made by the president OF
the university Ia the Secretary OF the
Interior.
ded To TIC university ~ means of the
congressional appropria tons there are
but two These are the scientific build
ing and an addition TO the manual training
building. Much of the money set asid.
for their use. however, has been speLt
for repair.
In the twelve hundred and ffty-tv"
students enrolled for the year ending
June 80. 1910, thirty five states were
represented and twelve foreign coun-
tries. From Porto Rico came eight
students. from Africa -four. from British
West Indies eighty-five. Cuba sever.
republic of Panama three. South Amer
lea three. Liberia two. British GUAM
five and from Dutch Guiana and SAINT
Domingo one each. There have been
years when the student body of tn.
university included pupils from Burma
Bulgaria. Canada. Korea. Japan.
Switzerland and Turkey.
Among the board Of trustees are
numbered some Of ashingtons most
prominent business men. including
Commissioner Cuno II. Rudolph. VII
liam V Cox. president or the hoard of
education: Judge Thomas H. Anderson.
Judge Job Barnard, President +. NJ.
Gallaudet, the Rev. DR. Charles Wood.
Judge George w. Atkinson and Judge
stanton J. Peelle. The honorary board
of trustees is headed by President
taft. and is composed Of prominent
out-of-town people The Secretary or
the Interior. Mr.. BalIinser. Is the
patron ex-officio Of the university
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tSir Edmund Shaa,; Two Herads: Attendant
with Greyhounds: Richard Duke of Gloucester,
with King Edward and Richard Duke OF York.
Sir William Catesby. Twelve Pikemen; Three
Mobiles
Fourth Episode -Four Standard Bearers: King
Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey going to the
Papal inquiry concerning Queen Katherine at
BLACK Friars. AID. l52S: Two lIalberdiars: Six
Monks Two Heralds: Ten Mobiles: Attendant !
Two Chaplains: State Swordbearers Cardinal
Wosey and Cardinal Campeus: King Henry
VIII; -Four Standard Bearers.
The road which terminates in the
blaze of glory of the lord mayors
show to the height of office of lord
mayor of London is a long and diff
ficult one, and the occupant is not
the nominee of a political party. is
the case in American cities. He has
to submit himself many times for cleo
ton before he reaches the high honor
First he is chosen as alderman of
his ward by the inhabitants, such
choice having to be confirmed by the
court of aldermen. which has land
occasionally exercises the right of
veto. Then in due time he presents
himself to the livery for election as
sheriff The same body again has
to nominate him at later date as
lord mayor. The court of aldermen
elects him in that position. and finally
the crown approves the choice.
The whole process occupied anything
from ten to fifteen years, according to
the deaths or designations Of the alder
men standing between him and the
chair
The office of lord mayor is one of
great powers and privileges. In the
city itself he takes precedence Of every
subject of the king-princess of the
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lord mayor only recognizes one greater
than himself in his own damain-the
monarch
His public duties are innumerable.
He is chairman of the periodical meet
ings Of the courts of aldermen and
common council, presides over the
livery in Comman Hall, and over every
great meeting of citizens in the ancient
Guildhall He is ex officio a member
of many of the corporations commit
tees, although attendance at these is
not looked for to any extent during his
mayoralty
At coronations, by immemorial usage,
He is chief magistrate in the city, coro-
ner of London, trustee of ST. Paurs
Cathedral and chairman Of his majesty's
commission of lieutenancy, to which
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[ ondon's Lord Mayors Show
a Great Annual Event.

Bearer: King Henry and his Esquire: Two
Men-at Arms carryin: Banners.
Second Episode. -Four Standard Bearers; Sir
john Fastaf and his companions leaving the
''Boar's Head Tavern at Eastcheap: Sir John
FaIstaf's Page: Pistol Poins: Gadshill: Peto;
Bardolph: Nmy; WINNER.
Third Episode-Four Standard Bearers: Rich
ard Duke of Gloucester, with King Edward
and the Young Duke Of York. on their way to
the Tower A.D 14S3; Six Aldermen OF the City
of London Three Mobiles attendant the King;
Duke of Bueknsllam: Lord Mayor of London
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~
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% .
ooe! Tue "'uei'
When he woke up the morning af1er
the doctors order had been dished out
=. ,no ,....aI,io fr,yr,pce of the
-, ,,.,,
prfah'sSl ''iiec- i'
coffee -fllled his bedroom The aroma
titiva.ed his mental palate. All, the
..,.r,, ,.,, I'll. ;su;ed epps
'''p -
the nfufn "' TWO inc coupe vi cups
OF knocking. stimulating JaNa-then
The tine aud dandy first cigar of the
.r,.a, -o,,la he good start.
ia!
would get him on on the, risht loot;
would enable hlm "a tackle the days
work with a zest g h"iskness an am
,,,i,,.
t,''-
m ddle of the forehead. There WASH
gong 70 be any coffee for him: nor
vas there going 10 be am cigar lie
fopped back on his pillow. more than
hair whipped already. The sunlight
streaming into ;ae room turned wanly
ye!lowisl. The chipperings of the
sparfuws IN the bare branches turned
10 the hoarse cawing of crows The
da, uo-t- 1oa,,aI ,,, ;ns,,,,,,,at
. -, 20 "a e
hu' Ht piousHt ms 'e-'h togethef
with Il click, nullinS over the antique
and CONGRATULATIONS phrase as to the
necessity for male persons to be either
men OF mice: and he scrubbed himsei'
and got into his clothes TO sort a..
muttered runic rhyme. the essence OF
which was: II gotta go through with
it,
His smiling wife saZed sympathetic
ADJ at him as ne sat down at the
breakfast table. She poured out his
cupfuI of weak, blush looking cocoa,
aud then, leaning over her own hisl-
brimmed cup of richly colored coffee
enioyably inhaled the fragran, fumes
thereof
Really. ! feel quite guilty in drink
ing this coffee myself she said to
him seeing that YOU can't have any
But coffee doesn't hurt me a bit YOU
know"
-
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ously like grunts: and she missed the
chief charm of the morning meal. lie
kissed her goodbye absently enough, and
started down tie street.
in the hall. such was the force o'
habit. he fumbled in his vest pocket TO-!
cigar. He looked blank when he caught
himself doing this and clapred on his hat
and STROBE out with a racuous look In
MS eyes.
1t happened that, when he reached the
gate. he fell i'll step behind a colored
workingman who was smoking corr
cob pipe. He caught Whiffs OF smoke
from the corncob as he Tnocched mlSet
ably along. Never had he smeileo such
jocund, ecstatic, supremacy glorious To-
bacco. He wondered where the coioret'
man had ever come upon such SUPERB
tobacco 1t had more than the fragrance
of tie islands Il spice: II was sWooh-
fully satisfying: the smell of II pene-
trated 10 the remotest Businesses of his
being and filled him with inefable long
ing. He was sorry when the colored
mar branched off and cut across the
street.
Then on, of gate came a man smok-
ing ,ons. free-pulling perfecto. OF q
rich claro in color. and of an Edenesdue
aroma The man MAS fat and comforta
bic looking. and the cigar obviously was
coffee. lie pulled the cigar smoke into
lis lungs and exhaied ii Joyousl>; and
he tobaccolcss man trudgns behind him
caught The fragrance and felt like sitting
down on the cu.bstonc and bursting right
into tears. The fat man was an dc-
uuaintance OF lis. and they'd been &C
.ustomed 10 walking downtown together
of mornings. They exchanged greetings.
Notice YOU haven't lit up, said the
fat man with the glorious smoke IN nus
tace No cigars, hey" Here, try one o
mine and he sought to hand the doctor
obsessed one fat perfecto to match the
one lie was smoking.
Nope. I'm off the smokes" the man
explained assuming an utterly uncon-
v:ucing air Of hlitheneSS Doctor handed
me the niX-tobacco ultimatum last night.
tut coffee and tea off my list, too Gotta
he good. whether | want TO or not.
The fat man with the sublime cigar
viewed the other with santWiSe eX-
preston of amusement.
Say, you're not going to let that kind
OF tommyrot guide you. are YOU he in
auired. Gosh. why don't you get an
other DOCTOR? That's the way l did.
Doctor ordered me thirty years ago to
cut out smoking on peril of cashing in
within three months IL | didn't.
switched the cut. got another sawbones.
and here I am. And coffee and tea, too,
hey That's all No. moonshine. Here,
and try to behave like a happy human
being.
Get behind me. Satan,' mumbled the
tempted one, again thinking of the man
or-the-mouse maxim. And so ne walked
all the way downtown with the fat man
and his cigar: and the clouds of Vuelta
AbajO smoke got into the farthest cram
MES of his imagination and even of his
soul and he played out a Tantalus trag.
edy at every step. He felt If he could
eat cigar, swallow it whole, and then
yell for more cigars to eat He saw a
ha,f-smoked cigar on the pavement. He
thought how good it would be to shoot
that snipe. His fingers twitched to pick
It up and set it alight. His fat &c
quaintance burnt the original cigar down
to half inch and lighted another one
before the two separated.
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@1119]&yraE@ q9 g!55gS1ll n
S All Right
Kaufman -nu.. T.. ......u--
when arrived the logical conclusion of destiny
deny the existence of justice.
The world ammed full of bunglers-o hit and
who their heads for everything except confuse
random ambition with capabty Wherever you turn
jab your elbow incompetent Deakng procaimng the
existence of universal handcap"-but de-
industrious thinking human finds the scales of JUS
tee dishonest:
You the arbier of your destiny You look at life
that situation capable Of hum
dred different viewpoints
Most of go wrong here and there 1t isn't
find yourself find how to handle yourself Success isn't To-
Gated on specific spot or particular road
Conditions Of constantly shitng-so that
who What haUe-no matter what
what you do you don't "a hoursf
don't calm unbiased motives and
actions you will find yourself walking in a circle
Make another ty-youre entitled rain check time
made honest failure You always endeavor
uuhere
Perhaps the foot of the line herebut with ortsix
breeding communities day in the there's
chance ine-or take ine-and to keep
til you get the right line yourself
Go the and have good half hours chat with
your record-IF YOU'RE ASHAMED TO FACE YOURSELF
DON'T BLAME THE REST OF US IF WE DON'T LIKE
YOUR FACE