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The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
LITERARY NOTES.

Mr. Ralph D. Paine has busted himself
to good purpose with the records of
those that go down to the sea in ships.
md now again he is entering this field,
preparing a delectable book of a briny
flavor to be entitled THE Book of Buried
Treasure" 1t will be an account of
treasure lost or buried by pirates and
others in the Spanish Main and else
where. 1t chronicles, among other racy
matters, the attempts to recover lost
Il tIeasure-attempts which are being hope
fully and systematically carried on to
this hour. The most successful of these
II suited in the find of old Sir William
Phipps, later governor of the MasSachu-
setts Colony, who recovered s, 10000 in
gold and silver ingots from a sunken
pirate craft in the West Indies.
Dodd, Mead & Co. will begin shortly
the publication of a handy volume series
os the librettos Of standard operas. The
volumes of this series will be of attrac-
tive form. bound in flexible covers. and
will be suitable either for the library
shelf or the pocket Each volume will be
edited, with biographical and critical in
PRODUCTION, by w. J. Henderson, he
well-known musical critic of the New
York Sun and author of several musical
works of Importance and distinction. In
most cases new transIations, made es-
pecially for this series, will be printed
with the original text, and a special ef-
fort will be made to combine accuracy
of translation with clear and readable
English. The series will begin with
Aida to be followed shortly by Gar
men," Tristan and Isolde" and die
Meistersinger." Other volumes will be
added to the series from time to time.
The scene of IAN Old Maids Ven-
geance." the new novel by Frances Pow
ELL which is to come early this month
from the press of Charles Scribners
Sons. is an old villa in the Riviera that
has been turned into a hotel A foreign
setting Is a departure for Miss Powell. |
as the scenes Of her previous four novels |
have been laid in America The leading |
however, are American and
the story is concerned with the fortunes
ot Eleanor Ladorn, a charming American |
girl who has gone abroad, after an un- |
fortunate love affair, to visit the odd |
maid aunt at the Riviera villa The
story that follows could only have been
The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
"PNEUMONIC PLAGUE" NOW IN CHINA
THE "BLACK DEATH" OF MIDDLE AGES

greatest of all epidemics was brought
from there in the year 1347 by handful
Oc Genoese adventures. Venice was one
OF the first great cities to be attacked.
In 13B it attacked Spain, Northern
Italy and Rome, Eastern Germany. many
parts of France, including Paris and
England
The mortality of the BLACK Death of
the fourteenth century has been vari-
oUsly estimated. the most conservative
figure being 25,0O0.0O0, or one-fourth Of
the population of Europe. while some au-
thorities have put it as high as 100000,
CT three-fourths of Europe's population
at the time.
In China, where it originated, 100000
sUccumbed and in the .est of Asia 25,0OO,-
COO. England suffered perhaps the worst
o. all countries. One hundred thousand
persons died of il in London alone, while
COCO out of $1,000 perished in Norwich.
At that time England's population
amounted to only 100000. Before the
BLACK Death disappeared it was re-
duced by one-half
During the succeeding centuries the
world suffered repeatedly from vista
tions of the same disease, but it was not
Until the seventeenth century that an epi-
demic of the dimensions of the Black
Death" appeared. Throughout that CEN
tury the plague ragged in various parts of
Europe 1t carried off 100000 persons in
Naples in five months. 1t spread to Spain
and Germany. where the mortality was
equally great.
London Again Suffers.
In 1863 it suddenly appeared in London,
where 7O,OCO persons died within a few
months LOndons population then was
about half a million. of whom two-thirds
fled from the city when the plague first
appeared.
a very graphic account Of this vista
ton was written by Daniel DefOC called
'TThe History of the Great Plague in
London" In the course Of this narra-
:ive he describes the utter demOraliza-
ton of the people, and shows how easily
quacks and mountebanks found it to
make capital out of their ignorance, su-
perstitionS, and distress
THE posts of houses and corners OF
streets were plastered over with doctors
bills he says, land papers Of ignorant
fellows qUacking and tampering in phys
iC. and inviting people to come to them
for remedies, which were generally set off
with such hourishes as Infallible pre-
ventive pills against the plague-SOver-
cgn cOrdials against the corruption of
the air-Incomparable drink against the
plague never found out before"
For the regulation of the city during
this troublesome period a law was passed
giving the lord mayor and aldermen al
most despotic power over the inhabitants.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
How Cities and Nations
Fought the Death"
in Olden Times.

Houses affected by the plague were
closed and labeled, and no one was al
lowed either to enter or leave them save
the officials whose duty it was to run
necessary errands for the afflicted or
quarantined.
The sign of the plague was a red cross
with the words God have mercy on u.s."
and such was the extent of the plague
that this grim emblem appeared on every
other door almost.
Dead Filled Streets.
Clergymen dropped mortaIly sick in the
pulpit, and finally nearly all the churches
were abandoned. Many princes and great
lords and ladies were among the victims
Bankers fell dying in their counting
houses. The wealthy generally fled from
the city. Many of the poor also ran
away from their houses, and, having no.
where else to go. died in the streets. The
unburied bodies of poor mothers with
their children enCumbered the highways.
The city was nearly deserted. The si-
lence was broken only by the hoarse cry
OF the man with THE dead cart" crying:
Bring out your dead. Bring out your
dead"
When the plague was at its height the
mortality was 20 great that the officials
found it impossible to carry out all the
sanitary precautions they had planned
when the disease first broke out. Persons
fell dead in the market places and in the
streets. and their COrpses lay there for
days for want of hands to bury them.
In order to avoid contagion from these
pestilent bodies pedestrians walked in
the middle of the street or chose ways
where they were less likely to encounter
such dangers.
The great plague was stamped out in
London by what might otherwise have
tcen considered a disaster of equal mag
nitude-the great fire. LOndOn'S narrow
streets in 1866 made n cOnfiagration OF
any kind a menace to the whole city.
Znd when in that year one of the wooden
structures in a crowded portion Of the
city took fire the destruction Of practi-
ally the whole city followed The plague
vas literally burned out, and such was
the lesson learned from the previous in
Ednitary condition of the metropolis that
Il was reconstructed on a better plan.
Since that time England has never been
visited by an epidemic of the plague
The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
Devices Used by
Unscrupulous Students
Before Honor System.

Some "reminiscences along the line of
"cribbing" are furnished the general
public through the medium OF the alum
nj weekly which bears the news of Yale
to loyal Yalansians all over the world
These recollections are the product of
a writer who signs himself as under
graduate of the sixties" Naturally
enough the tales he tells are entertain
ing.
Examination papers, as is well under
stood. are printed under conditions
which are intended to preclude the pos
sibility Of the contents of the papers get
ting into the hands of the students un-
til they shall have appeared at the ap-
pointed time to whet their memories and
their wits upon the posers the papers
contain.
The dean of the printing industry OF
New Haven died recently. He was the
founder of the house of Tuttle. More
house & Taylor, a concern which for
years had set" and watched the Yale
examination papers. The death of Cor
nelius S MOrehOuse set a good many
memories to recalling the days of the
''Biennials" and ANIMALS" and the ef-
forts which the precarious students used
to make 10 elude the keen vision-and
previsiOn-of the faculty.
Many of the tales are apocryphal or
imported to the Yale campus from other
and indefinite college ATTITUDES" says
this writer Such, for example, is the
legend of the printers devil at T, NJ. &
It's, hired by the sophomores to don
white duck trousers sit rown accident
ally on the printers form and bring out
the Euclid figure on the seat of his
pantaloons. Equally nebulous, the tale
of the Venturesome sophomore who
Skinned up the water pipe and, with
strong opera glasses, peered through
the skylight of the printing house and
got the paper. Mere credible is the
story of the heavily bribed printer who
rested his shirt sleeve on the form and
sold his undergarment to a Yale class
for $500 as a private speculation. What
is certain is that desperate attempts
used to be made to get the paper
usually in mathematician rarely with
success.
Hired a Burglar.
"A graduate of '6S q. H. BagS in
his -Four Years at Yale tells of one such
bold venture that failed: how two pro-
burglars were brought up from
New York, dogged the mathematical
professor and got a glimpse of the paper
The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
Scientists Fear ScOurge
May Sweep Again
Through Europe.

The alarming news has been cabled
from China that the pneumonia plague
has broken out there on a great scale.
This disease, according to scientific re-
search. is the real plague. the Black
Death of the Middle Ages 1t is the
pneumonia form of the bubonic plague,
with which we are more familiar. 1t is
caused by the same germ. In the bu-
bonic form the disease produces agoniz-
ing swellings of the glands. In the pneu-
monic form it attacks the lungs, causing
still more deadly hemOrrhaGes.
The pneumonia plague is much more
deadly than the bubonic. 1t is. in fact.
almost inevitably fatal This is why it
caused such fearful mortality in Europe
in the Middle Ages and why it was re-
garded with more terror than any afflic-
tiOn that ever came to man.
Abundant evidence is now forthcoming
that the disease now called pneumonia
plague is identical with the BLACK
Death" which destroyed one-third of the
population of Europe in the fourteenth
century and caused enormous loss of life
at other times.
The old ChrOniclers tell us that the suf-
IeTeTS DTedlneu Oedln on all VINO came
within their reach. and that the air of
plague-smitten cities was deadly. These
statements were at one time regarded aS
fantastic and unscientific, but recent eX-
perience shows that pneumonia plague
has the terribly infectious character de-
scribed. Infection is spread through the
air by the breath of the sufferers.
Physicians Masked as To-day.
Again, the old chronclers tell US that
physicians in those days went with their
faces masked in order to avoid contaGion.
This was thought until recently to have
been an idle precaution, but now we
know that it was quite wise. In fact.
Japanese doctors at the present time.
who are the most expert in the treatment
or the disease, have devised 4 mask for
use while at their perilous work.
1t is even proved that an apparently
well person may drop in the street from
the disease
The BLACK Death of the Middle Ages
came from China or Cathay, as ii was
then called. just as it does to-day. The
The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
The Marsby Waste Still
Stunned byAIl butLight-
house Tenders.

a trlfie over 800 years ago Capt. John
Smith and his band sighted land from
the little ships in which they sailed away
from the Old World to seek a home in
the New, and before long they had set
loot upon the Western continent, claimed
II In the name of the English Crown, anc
began looking about for a place to set
tie
From the start the place wac uninvit-
ing. Marshes and swamps were found in
the west, the south revealed an Unbroken
beach line, with many stagnant ponds
behind it, but around on the northwest
was found an inlet in which luscious BIZ
valves thrived, and the settlers stopped
their search for a village site to partake
of these oysters.
Tradition has it that, unknown to the
white men, their landing was observed
by eyes from the forests behind the sand
dunes and red men couriers were on their
way to neighboring tribes bearing news
OF the invasion. At any rate, according
10 the narratives Of the period that first
oyster feast was interrupted by a shower
oi arrows, and the settlers, TO use the
Nernacular of this late day. beat it"
across the sands to their boats and
roWed back to the ships, not at all favor
ably impressed by the cordiality of their
welcome to the land OF their dreams.
But after sailing all the way across the
ocean in search of a new place to hang
his hat, John Smith was not the sort Of
man TO give up at the first inhospita BILE
reception. a broad. inviting-looking ex-
panse of water stretched away as far as
the eye could see within the cape, and
across this water was the course of the
tiny ships laid. They dropped anchor
off an island which they settled upon
and called jamestown, in a river which
they called the James.
But before leaving their first landing
place they christened it Cape Henry.
Just as 1t Was Then.
Now right here is where the point of
this story comes in.
Three hundred years ago an invading
fleet of vessels from a foreign shore
sailed by Cape Henry, crossed the mouth
of the Chesapeake, navigated the broad
bosom of Hampton Roads, and found
safe harbor in the wide reaches Of the
James, while the inhabitants of the coun-
try stood impOtent upon the beach and
watched.
There is no more at Cape Henry to-day
to stop hostile fleet passing it and pro-
ceeding up the Chesapeake than there
was 500 Years ago.
But after these centuries of neglect the
government that has grown from the
seed sOwn by that band of determined in
vaderS has awakened to the necessity of
a fort TO prevent recurrence of such an
invasion. and it now is contemplated
making the cape the Gibraltar of Amer
lea.
The Congressional bill appropriating
600 for the purchase of a fort site at
Cape Henry is the first active step to-
ward such an end. but already the details |
OF the fOrtifcatiun have been very thor /
The Washington herald., 1911-03-12
Government Plans to Fort
ify the. Barren Point
Against War Ships.

To-day the old brick tower and the tall
steel tower stand side by side. Up to a
lew years ago a slender mast was there.
too. From its top to the top of the old
brick lighthouse were stretched the an
tennae of wireless station, linking three
centuries of progress in the way of safe
guarding lives at sea. But even the wire
less has gone from Cape Henry now, and
moved west, along with the march of
civilization.
1t is wonderful desolation. Far back
in the days when only a scattering of
hsherfolk dwelt along the beach and eked
out living with their seines and by
more questionable ways when some rich
merchantman would pile up on the lurk-
ing shoals its history was told in whis-
pers by the villagers of Norfolk. Strange
and weird tales there were of private
ccves and wild orgies after a successful
cruise in the southern seas. Some even
limited that fabulous wealth had been
buried near the cape by these followers
of the black flag
Queer brass-studded chests, casks of
ancient make, odd cutlery. and weapons
such as man has not used for many a
year have been found among some of
the quaint little huts that used to shelter
the last of the old beach dweller stock
That these things came ashore from a
wreck and that the wreck occurred years
and years ago is all that can be learned
of their history.
Find Many Relics.
To-day back among the sand hills can
be seen the remains of Indian villages
Broken pottery, arrow heads, and stone
tomahawk heads are picked up by the
relic hunter, and in some places the sand
is Uttered with the remnants of those
things that furnished the wigwams of
the redmen who interrupted the first
Cape Henry oyster roast
To the native this waste of sand is
simply the desert" 4 place fearfully
hot in summer. wildly bleak in winter,
where the most pitiful crop is impossible:
and it is inhabitable simply because a big
government pays men to keep its light
house and its weather observatory and
to man its live-saving station, and be-
cause the great great eat-grandfathers of the
fisherfolk fished there, where the fishing
still IS good.
But to the lover OF solitude and to the
artist Cape Henry is a paradise. Sunsets
there are that rival those OF the Nile
country. And it is a desert. those miles
OF sand, marked not by footprint eX-
cept where some denizen of the forest
beyond has ventured out upon the vast
eXpanse when the moon is up. To him
who sees the beautiful in the world it
has wonderful charm. Far back where
the noise of the sea is lost, with the set
ting suns rays penciling a glorious pas
tel upon the storm clouds in the west,
imagination makes one look for a cara
van vending its way across the golden
waste laden with the riches of the ORR
ent.
Such is Cape Henry, forgotten but for
its dangers to ships that go down to the
sea- but to be awakened by the thunder
Of big guns.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
ARE IN TRIP
 ID TIE STATES

L. Nj. Potter and w l. Douglas, two. prominent A. B's of Camp Daw- son are in town on their way to =br States for a trip
 Mr. Potter las been running the no, n. pictTe machine for the Camp, which has been giving a ser ies of moving picture shows for the rast six months He states us. Che show which oas been run five times week has been we'll pat lon'zed. and that a daare has been given in connection wI the show a,,ry Saturday night and that .b SC dances lave become very popu- lar.
 Mr. Douglas, who has been em- ploy,d by the Guggenheims, says aai the working outlook is very eycj and that two new dredges are bg,ls put in or Gold Run and 1000 fasa will soon be working.
 Nr Douglas is a cur'er and curl ed os one of the teams which won four championship matches last winter.
 They are Jeth expected to return fh.s fall
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
DRINK
 0N PREMISES

There are walls and crashing Of tgyoS at Fairbanks.
 Abuse is beng heaped upon Dis tr3a' Attorney Crossley who is de- Clared to be g,ossly incompetent.
 lis interpretation of the liquor taw is the cause of the uproar.
 Recently the district attorney nod- 0ed the saloons that under their license they can sch up tc 7-S gal Ions of liquor but 1t must be drank on the premises.
 Tns puts a stop to the bottle trade and seriously cuts into the saloon reapers trade.
 The Fairbanks Citizen editoriany charges Crossley with sn idiodc in. tar2, ation the law which might da Tn an Iowa village hut not in alaska.
 The paper calls him incompetent and points 10 the fact that he had secured convictions In but five cut Of 20 criminal cases prescott ed.
 Crcssley was at one time district attrirey in valdez,-valdez Miner
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
GOOD NEWS BAY
 NEW ATTRACTION

Jus, why stampede should be s-r.gd to Good News Bay, near the agaa of tas Nusaokwim, is hard to a. .,rs5aud A week ago The Nugget rgq-aged an agle.e concerning an ai- les. small srlke lu that section, but ,ag Jews was not at all allur.ug. that tune other reports are al- ,oa Co have been received. At any rs,c. a number of sJampeders are al- read. on bs way some eight or ,.a .G-rm F.l-. and a number from re. among aem Fred Peterson, Tom West aud Al Berg Erie Pal asl Tom Powers and Charley Fowl .r.u .uu leave oa Friday but Eric says going ,5 his home in Seattle .y that route
 Pas speots were first found in the f-. News Bay country as early as .au. Jut no pay has ever been de ,gLp.a. The formation is volcanic tud uds.oue.-IUtarod Nugget
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
NILVAIN HAS
 CLOSE CALL

Robert Mjlyaiu, manager Of the A.wster and the Walkers Fork dred- and Mrs Muyain who have ar rived here. had a narrow escape on jh. way dowa the Furtymile river 5gom being drowned while passing u-.lrh the canyon. They were with Nv stanley, and their craft was nearly swampod
 Tae walkers Fork dredge started oneratious or the season May 15. and at last reports, was running like clockwork.
 rle Atwatsr dredge Is expected to start a week from today It has 3,en delayed in getting launched be cause of the low water in the Forty Dawson News.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
0LE DICKSON
 IS INSPECTOR

Ole Dickson. the well known pio- 9ec, resident, has been appointed inspector Of the Indian scbpoI at Carcross now under process nE construction He made his first visit to the scene of the operations the latter par of last week. Mir n,rson has many friends who con gratulste him on his appointment Hu Hume, who has the contract for the Indian school building. will hur- ey the work along as rapidly as pos stglC. his aim being to complete it IS soon as possible. and especially ths rrtside work, before cold weath- lr tets in.-Whitehorse Star.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
TOWN TALK

All the news in tbe Daily Alaskan.
 Irs. II. R. Elliot of Iditarod. Is in town, and will leave for the States soon.
 Lacld Tabo, according to late reports is beld brakeman on the Ll7ud.ke Mines Railway running out Of lawson.
 Marshall Fo ao is reported as feel tug much better today aa he will psyEarly be cut of the hospital by tho md of the week.
 The family of Judge Martin Con- way lave established camp at hlr Q Creek, and win spend the next month commuDiug with nature
 The Princess May was at Wraueel at 0yon today and is due here at & ur g tomorrow morning She has 90 rassengers and 100 tens of freight for Lis port
 John Bonanza one of Che machine mla in the Pig Thing mine at Car. rsoss. arrived on Che train last mel and WI visit friends here frg about a week.
 Miss Ella N Nelson. who has ba charge of the school at Fort yuFou for the past year came iu on u., train yesterday and win leave for the states on the Uumlol5t While sa town Miss Nelson is at the Tureu House.
 Jas. Bo0rman proprietor Of Che Eo,rmar Hots in Dawson. arrived 3u town on last nights train and vm sail south on the Humboldt Mr. Eo-man is ons of Che oldest timers ra Dawson. having gone there In 1898. starting the Hotel in 1000
 The Table GHote dinner at the Pullen House is better than ever. Why done you try it You are vel come.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
RULE
 F0R ALASKA
LRr Alaska News Bureaul

SEATTLE June 20-Advices re ts.',d here fsom the Alaskan Dele eauon which was sent Co Washing un from this city say flat Speaker C.a-k and the DemcGauc Floor L-as,- Underwood have promised taat the Als4la Home Rule bID will rss- the HoIse soon after Congress rc,7nveues tn December The ad- t.c,s further state that the Hoase Committee on Territories is soIidiy In Favor of 't and that poll Of the Senate shows fifteen Republican Sg0stors already pleiged to the dl
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
ONE PLACE
No SECOND CHOICE FOR REPAIR
 WORK.

# you want a waieb oy 6 clock fixed or any other repair work you have to have done there is only one pare for yo1 and that Is our re- rslr department There ls no sec sn5 choice. We make AS GOOD AS NEW. we asaolutely GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. we do work promptly
 @ make eyes as good as new. sI-o. at least. ws nt your eyes vith glasses that ril make them young ara.n. No charge for examination
 We carry everything EH the iewelry novelty and souvenir Iine Come and ss4 J. IKUTA.
 JeweIer and OpHoian
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
LIEUT. G0L
 FIFE DEAD
LRr AIasEa NaHs ReraaaL

LOS ANGELES, June 2o-Lieut.- .5I William Fife. Of Tacoma for many years Ileuteuan-Co of laa Washington National Guard. and vel known al over the Pacific Goa | died here yes afday from the effects a aa spp0pla,.ig stroka
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20
GOOD BUSINESS OPENING.

There is a good opening in Car cross for some one to start a small laundry The right person will be furnished building free of charge or six mouras There IS no laundry nerc and two hotels and many fam gs and miners who have been aIiug laundry work to Whitehorse .ud Skagvay but cannot now do a, as the new Express rates are Frulibllye. Address
 E. W. GIDEON,
 Ct CarCross, Y. T..
The daily Alaskan., 1911-06-20

Dr. Keller js in receipt of a postal uud from .paI Abrabams. dated at 5gau,s Pass, oregon 1u which he says tg is Es,iEE along Neii and that la.Ias seen us SuuebaIga and God.
 g families several umas and that e,yry one Us progressing with the LLN.-