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time very famous and enormously
chronicled in and about New York and
Philadelphia. Finally, in 1892. Gebhard
decided that he was through with the
hagon for good and all. He made up his
mind to take gold cure for alcoho lism
He started in to take the cure. Then he
changed his mind about IL. and hot
footed back to New York.
1t was said at the time that he spent
no less than $4,000 during the three
days of his truancy from the cure. At
that time the undersigned WAS a re-
porter on New York newspaper, and
was assigned to follow Gebhard about
in cab to study his rummferous per
formances for the information OF the
public.
At the end OF the three days Gerhard
went back 'all In" physically. and he
went through with the cure, and he
quit for good.
He became a bit of student, and was
a man of reading and parts. He was III.
most interchangeable first-nighter In New
York. and hfs verdict upon the new
theatrical offerings was SO infallibly ex-
cellent that it was sought constantly by
the managers of such productions
Gerhard was far and away the best
dressed man in New York right up TO the
time of his death. He never went In
for the extremes affected by the now
docile E. Berry Wall, once called king
Of the Dudes" but had an elegance and
distinction of attire that made him sar-
frame upon which to hang clothes"
100: a tall, robust, finely muscled chap.
who always kept himself I'm the fittest
sort of condition by exercises both In
doors and outdoors. The natural dis
tinction of his appearance received a
flip when. very young, his mustache.
which had been jet black, turned pure
white on one side only. 1t remained thus
assorted in color until his death. He was
q swinging but unostentatiously perfect
figure, impeccable Of grooming. as he
swung up 9TH avenue toward Delmon-
ico's. which he never deserted. for his
dinner There have been far more III
CONSEQUENT men than Freddie Geb-
hard CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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served In all some $1,000 vaccinations.
In no one of these has there been any
injury or fatality. There is nothing what
ever to fear in the process.
There is not a healthier place in the
world than the army post The santa
ton of these is excellent and typhoid is
infreuuent Put when the army goes into
ehcampment in time of peace or into ac-
ton in time of war the typhoid demon
Immediately gets busy. Typhoid is a
country disease. It turks perpetualiy In
communities where the sewer system is
inefficien- OF non-existent. When the
army goes into the country 1t enters a
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the individual. The most satisfactory
check on results was gotten by Col.
Leishman of the British army. Leishman
vaccinated 5,473 men Of the British army.
These men all belonged to sixteen regi-
ments which had been selected for a care
scale AS each of these regiments was
in turn ordered to service iS India a
medical officer who had been especially
trained for this particular duty was at
tached. He lectured to the troops on the
prevention of the disease and called for
volunteers and immunized them. AS this
medical officer is always present with the
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lives than all the Carnegie heroes ~
enumerated. The government has Pre-
has confidence. men who, they believe.
will handle 1t properly and who WI agree
to report results. II is being soattsrsd
broadcast in this way and soon ell the
world may come under It's beneficent sf-
fects
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number.
In every other block of the army con-
tanning 1900 men there have been seven
&y-two cases of typhoid in the same time
and seven deaths In the $1,000 unVac-
cinated there have been 300 cases and
thirty deaths.
So has the medical corps of the army
piled UP statistics which prove beyond
doubt that the disease that's always with US,
that scourge of the country districts, that
worst of enemies in time of war, may be
met. muzzled and all but subjugated. So
Is the method of preventing typhoid being
demonstrated on a magnificent scale. So
is promise given that the whole country
may be some day vaccinated and. as
result, but one-tenth of the present NOR
tality will be annually recorded.
The month of September is the worst In
the year for typhoid. Just now there are
twice as many cases OF 1t IN all the cities
as at any other season. This is because
the summer vacationistS have returned
from the country, have brought the rural
disease with them and have spread II TO
others. 1t is ever so in the fall, and every
health department knows whence the dis
ease comes. 1t is therefore timely that
announcement of the great steps toward
Its eradication should be made now.
sued on the authority of the Medical
Corps of the Army that if every indi-
yidual in the nation would capture, kill
count and infect into his arm 5.OOO,0oo
typhoid bacili, there would next year be
but one case OF the disease where there
are now ten. II is further stated that
all those who do not regard themselves as
good captors. killers. counters and in
jectors of bacilli may get the doses ready
government
about il in the right way.
Uncle Sans Army Medical Corps has
done the demonstrating. Maj +. +. Rus
sell Is the chief instrument in it's working
out 1t seems peculiarly fitting that the
men OF the army should work out the
solution of this problem, for when a
military force goes into the field the fever
takes greater toll than all me bullets. In
the Spanish-American war 81 per cent OF
all deaths were due to typhoid.
In the Federal army during the civil
war there We're $1,000 cases. In the
Franco-Prussian war the German forces
lost S.1S9 men from typhoid 60 per
cent of their total loss. In the Boer war
<he toll was 5000 men.
fSose frightfui mortaltieS have aroused
that PARTON of the medical world which
4has to do with its armies and great
campaign for the prevention of these
losses has been made. The latest phase
of that campaign has been the VACCINE
ton of one-siXth of our boys in blue
within the short period embracing the
last eighteen months. In an additional
similar span the balance of the army will
have been immunized and the greatest of
the stumbling blocks removed.
The battle that the British were waging
against disease in India in the nneties
led from NEGOTIATIONS for the prevention
OF cholera to the application of the same
principles to typhoid Sir Almorth f..
Wright of the British forces made a vac
cine and tried il on two men. He was
carried away with the results. The men
became immune.
The English and the Germans began
the long march toward developing the
right serum and its right application to
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ments are developed the disease Is met
by an equal or conquering force and Is
able to make no further Roadway. The
patient is then immune. Vaccination Is
but fire-alarm to the system, and starts
it to developing the needed antitoxin in
advance.
The government experts have cultures
of typhoid germs which they can plant
any day and raise crop in twenty
hours. The seeds for this particular Gull
ture came from the spleen of a typhoid
fever victim years ago, and have been
kept virile and on tap ever since. When
ever the vaccine is used this culture is
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some hundreds of thousands Of good
American lives and that this is no mean
accomplishment. They know. further,
that the value Of their demonstrations
will depend largely upon an understand
ing of them getting to the people. for the
time will probably never come when this
sort of vaccination will be mandatory.
So, they hold, the man who tells the
story of the new method may save more
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members of the jeunesse doree as II oiu
when Gebhard's name was stre"n an
through the American papers gooo
part of the time something less than
generation ago.
There was, of course, particular angle
for all of this publicity which focused
itself on and around Freddie Gerhard
back yonder in the early nineues. l refer,
of course to his boyish affair with the
Langtry" The Lily of Jersey was the
great figurante in the International vision
at that time. SO that there was little
possibility that the reckless devotion
which Gerhard, then distinguished 'lah-
de-dah" las the dilettanti among the high
flyers then We're dubbed), paid TO ner
could or would be overlooked by the
CHI oniclers of this particular sort OF news.
The movements of Gerhard and the
Langtry through the land, all the way
from New York to their dovecote OF
ranch out on the Pacific shore. were pic
tured in the press of the period almost
with as much particularly, quast-vera-
cious. but mainly imaginative. as are the
movements today of President or the
United States. or. still more to the point
the peregrinations of an ex-President.
At little later time, when the now
comparatively Sedate and distinguished
Lord Lonsdale today the pal and
confidant of Emperor William) dropped
into this country as the protector OF
Violet Cameron, the somewhat stick
like and untuneful, but pretty singing
actress of London. the American press
teemed with absurd accounts of the al
legged activities of this curiously assort-
ed pair. and the American prototype
Of the British matron" sternly demand
ed that Lonsdale and the Cameron
should forthwith be set on board a
steamer and incontinently chased back
to England.
Gerhard simply was victim OF the
excessive publicity given in his day to
the affairs of the imam about town.
He was a distinctly agreeable and by
no means brainless young fellow. with
more money than he knew what to do
with. caught in the current of his era,
and the foolish activities in which he
engaged in those salad days were mag
nified and distorted out of all SEM
blance. until gradually a certain sort
of odium was fastened upon him.
1t was the same sort of a deal which
was meted out to Howell Osborne when
that far more reckless blade and son
of compa ratively austere father was
fourishing about this country and
Europe. Paris particularly, with comic
opera songstress who now Is inord1-
nately fat and in addition Is said to be
quite severely religious.
The more sinister and less engaging
romance II one could thus typify the
affair, between Putty" Strong and May
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oped to a disease that Is Of but half the
force that it had under the old methods.
So the men of the medical school of the
army are getting to the point where they
are willing to stake their regulations on
the benefit of vaccination. They believe
that they have proven as scientific fact
that this is the method in which the dis
ease should be fought. They believe that
the system will be the means of saving
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l.
stir in the newspa-
pers over the re-
cent passing of
"Freddie" Gerhard
reminds one that
the press no longer
pays so much at
tention to the
whimsicalities and
idiosyncrasies o !
men about town
and the livelier
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y the last eighteen

= the last eighteen
months 1900 men
of L mel lie SANS
army have been
vaccinated for ty-
phoid T G yer. Or
these 1900, but
three men have since
been attacked, and
these but slightly.
There has not been
a fatality from the
disease In the whole
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NEGOTIATING TYPHOID FIGHTERS.

placed under the proper condition in
tubes and allowed twenty hours or
growth In this time hordes of bacteria
have developed. These are sealed up In
test tubes and placed in hot water for
seventy-five minutes This kills the bac-
terra and it is ready to enter the vaccine.
But these germs must be counted and
this process Is ingenious. given guam
tity of the mixture containing the germs
is placed with a similar quantity of HUI
man blood. The mixture is shaken up.
Then it is spread thin on q glass and put
under powerful microscope. Any given
area of the glass is counted for blood cor
puscles and at the same time for dead
bacteria. Science knows how many cor
puscles there are In drop Of blood. II
the bacteria are as thick as the corpus
cles then there would be a similar num-
Der In a drop. If they are half as thick
there would be half as many and so on.
So the number of bacteria may be COM
pared with blood.
When the number of bacteria In a drop
are known. that drop may be diluted and
divided indefinitely. For a vaccination
dose 100000 dead germs are needed The
men Of science have counted so accurately
that the doses they fix up will not miss
this exact number very far.
This vaccination is not to be compared
In severity with that for smallpox The
patient has entirely recovered within a
day. There is some Inflammation at the
point of incubation. and this is fully
developed within twelve hours For
day the patient feels as though he is
going to have the grip or a cold, or some
of those milder attacks He may have
a slight chill. headache or suffer slight
nausea This usually lasts but two
or three hours, and all symptoms disap-
pear within a day. There are never any
serious effects of the vaccination. The
medical profession of the world has OBJ
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regiment in all its Journeys, he is able to
Keep careful records of all men i'm
muniZed, and to care for, and to vac
climate additional volunteers and recruits
from time to time opportunity Of
fers. From his knowledge OF typhoid
fever and clinical laboratory methods
he is enabled to make an accurate
diagnosis in all suspicious cases. By
means OF these precautions Col. Leish
man is able 10 furnish statistics, as
follows: Inoculated. 5,473: cases of ty-
phoid fever 21: deaths, =: or per 1000
inoculated cases. SO. Non-inoculated,
$50; cases of typhoid fever, 1877:
deaths, 20: or per 1000 non-inoculated
cases. 1888.
Among 1858 men there were o,473 in
oculated and 6.61O uninoculated. Among
the former there were twenty-one cases
of typhoid with two deaths, and among
the latter III cases and twenty six
deaths. Among the exposed regiments
who had been inoculated with the vac
cine in use at present there We're 81 cases
per 1000, against 32S per 1909 among
group of 1900 men covers period of
over three years. and no more perfect or
convincing statistics are needed to show
the value of this method of prophylaxis,
1t seems to show that beyond a doubt
the death rate has been reduced 80 per
cent. Yet the process was yet young
and the Yankees had not begun work.
The secret of the vaccination business
lies in capturing the germs Of the dis
ease. killing them to prevent over-activ-
ity. and then placing them in the blood.
THIS arouses the system of the individual,
and it produces an antitoxin for the
disease in question-that is, IL produces
something to fight that disease.
When one has smallpox or typhoid, or
any such disease, it ravages the system
until that system develops the elements
that will counteract it, When these ele-
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BY Herbert Kaufman

The Sphinx managed to keep her mouth shut and has survived
since the days of the Pharaohs.
Success be the outcome of many diversified
There certain rules by which attain the goa-because
rules tools whose usefulness with the handling But
however much the ages and sages may differ and dispute
other postua the entire today and yesterday
that rong suffered disadvantage
through respecting confidence
When tell all that you knot lose the opportunity
Of learning much to tell
Once detect the crack in the bottle
good oine into tive do not send hopes to leaking
argoses do not enfrust secrets to the babbe:
Reliability aones for multitude of nediocrie burglar
PROOF vital for any vocaon-when
locate tongue which tneock and won't wag
before the set willing good rent for
Prove that you deserve and you'll always find living
in this world
But have the uson Of Tesla and the sagacty Of
7ayrand learning of Minerva and the genius Of Bismarck
the ingenuity of Edison and the capacity of Bonapar
won't be able market your atanents the
pound can't stay still at the right We chay
and wary of the lip that slips.
you don't control your mouth you won't advance.
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Of The Star.

Special CORRESPONDENTS OF The Star
NEW YORK, September II, 1910
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-tossysigAG 1910. u Rssssst KaufnaA.

The world has shed enough tears ts traitors to
completely salt the Great Lakes.
We've attended school of and and disaster until
we've learned where and vy greatest plans wrong
We know that the liner is at the mercy of dnly
little augerhat the balloon be totally destroyed by pin
hoLethat small weakness critical moment outbaE
a terrific strength
We have behed the fall of enpeshe collapse of
the ruin of communities have projects demolished
lives shattered homes destroyed and annaed because
mean-soued sneak has counted his tweny
pieces of silver important than destiny dynasty
The tattler menacete plaeuenested the
good of the many demands that quarantine society against
their infection.
possible calculate the farreachng effects of
national treason; therefore, always best
the side safety and brand the who has betrayed his duty
No matter how many determinations you make; the
important of all resolves the fixed and pledge that
must compromise, is to keep faith.
IF YOU CAN'T SHUT YOUR MOUTH WE'LL SHUT
THE GATE, AND ONCE YOU'RE LOCKED OUT, YOU
MAY TRY WITH EVERY KEY EVER CON7RIVED BY
ABILITY, DOGGEDNESS AND VIII, BUT YOU CAN'T
COME BACK
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Mondays Pimlico Entries.

First race; two-year-olds; six furlongs-
Antenor, 1Oi; King Pin, ILL.,; knight of
Uncas, 100: Singer, 40; Adams Express,
1O7; Pharaoh. 10
Second race; three-year-olds and up:
mile and 70: ty yards-Busy, 100: Sandrian.
81; The Gardener. 101; La Belle Agnes,
9S
Third race: the Bowie handicap: three
year-olds and up: two miles-Uncas Chief,
1906; Everett i07: Countless, 12O: Gin
trella. 80: Bonnie kelso. LII: Superstition.
113; Hampton Court. 115: montgomery
1903: Beauclere, 1O2: Gay Deceiver 80:
tAmelia jerks, los; *Sontemia, %: Black
TO, 1914; Marigot, 9S: Dull Care. loo; Bob
r.. 1O6. $Hildreth entry. Livingston
entry.
handicap: two miles-Jimmie Lane, 142:
Lizzie Flat. 1874; Francis Joseph. 49,:
Indola. 1870; ExpansiOnist, 1856: Kara, 14S;
Thistledale, 146; The Speaker. 100: Gun
Cotton, 1874; Usage. 1873: Essex, 14O and
Young Bitten, 1876.
ing; six furiongs-Mr. Specs, lis; Annie
Sellers. Irish Nora. Patrick s., Kinnelon
and Ell Bart. H.; Jack Boardette. Marry
Lad and Ford Bank. 115.
Sixth race. three-year-olds and up: SELL
ing; mile and a acknowledgement Swan
son. 105; st. Joseph. la; Marigot. 102;
Tubal, 100; Ten PAGES, los; Anna l..
DAILY. 100; sRadium Star. 81: Wilton
112; Ell Orc, III: Charivari. liz;
Lad of Langdon. !O4: Golden Castle. 1903:
Dr. Burch, 100.
Seventh race. maiden two-year-olds;
selling; six furlongs-May Weed. 112; Or
tara. 112; Marsh Light. 112; Heather
broom. liz; Bodkin, 112: Kaufman, 112:
Guns Hill. 112; Barney Igoe, H.; Glitter
Clatter 112.
Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather fair; track fast
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PRESIDENT TAFT GUEST
OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
Drops In for Social Visit and
MingIes With the
Throng.

President Taft dropped in on the men,
bers of the Commercial Club last evening,
and for more than half an hour enjoyed
men. The Taft smile was in evidence dur
ing the rendition of several popular songs
by George OConnor. whose dialect solos
made hit with the chief executive.
Accompanied by Secretary Norton and
Capt. Archibald Butt, the President ar
rived at the clubhouse in Lafayette
square about els O'Clock, and was es-
corted to the assembly room by Commits
sioner Rudolph and John Joy Edison
The club members then formed In line
and were introduced 10 Mr.. Taft by Capt
Butt. Former Commissioner Myron NJ
Parker, Gen. George II. Harries. John G.
Capers former commissioner of internal
revenue. and Arthur C. Moses were the
first to greet the President.
After the formal handshaking was over
the President was seated. Coffee was
served while brief program was rem
dered by the club orchestra Mr. O'Con-
nor then sang My Cousin Caruso'
which was liberaily applauded by the
President and everybody else. He re-
sponded to several encores but when Mr.
comedian confessed that he did not know
one.
Another darby melody was substituted,
and when the President arose to go that
smile" had broadened into a hearty
laugh. and he shook hands with Mr..
his appreciation Of the cello solos by
Richard Lorleberg.
The chief executive did not make a
speech to the expectant club members.
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RANGE LIGHTS AS GUIDES.
Precautionary Measure Taken in vi.
clnity of Kettle Bottom Shoals.

10 construct range lights that will
suioe Potomac navigators across the
Kettle Bottom shoals in the lower
Potomac. the lighthouse service en-
gineers steamer Jesamine arrived in the
Potomac Yesterday. The Kettle Bot.
toms are filled with oyster bar h,mi.s
and for deep draft vessels to come
across the shoals with a comDetenr
pilot is dangerous.
1t is stated that the lights to he
erected 10y the Jessamine will guide
naVigators through the deepest WAFER
II they follow the sailing Instructions
to be issued later. The exact location
OF the lights will be made public nv
the lighthouse authorities after thew
are established. Before the Jessamine
returns 10 Baltimore she will give the
wharf or the lighthouse station at
Point Lookout a thorough overhauling.
The lighthouse service steamer
Violet, which is shortly to be sold at
public auction, has arrived at the
Portsmouth, Va, station from a trip
of inspection in the Carolina sounds.
This is probably the last trip the
Violet will make. and she will remain
at Portsmouth until sold.
The lighthouse service steamer Holly
Capt Miles, is on IL cruise on the bay
supplying isolated light stations with
coal and wood, in preparation for cold
weather. The lighthouse service
steamers will supply all the lights in
the nth district with fuel in the next
few weeks.