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what l might call the guinea pig stock
yards. This is composed or many little
pens occupied by guinea pigs. A male
and four females are allotted to each pen.
They breed rapidly, and there are enough
of them to keep up the 5000 or more OF
these little animals which the laboratory
consumes every year.
In another place there are rabbits, some
of the softest gray and others as white
as the ermine cloak of |. princess. There
are also dainty mice of the color OF snow,
which scamper and play sbout the little
houses in which they are pehned. Each
kind of animal has its own place In the
research work, and many OF those whlch
have been kept here have been OF service
in the remarkable discoveries MADE by
this laboratory as to human diseases. All
of these animals are carefully treated
They have well ventilated houses heated
by steam and the best of food that can
be obtained. During my stay l saw them
feeding the monkeys The little animals
were given bananas. bread. nuts and such
other things as they specially like Inc
guinea pigs are kept fat on guinea pig
dainties and the rabbits rejoice In green
kent in perfect health and as far as pos
sible in good spirits in order that the
diseases given to them may be directly
diagnosed and studied.
Among the special human ills which
Uncle Sam is now investigating is
measles He is doing this through
monkeys which have been given the
measles Last June the British medl-
cal bureau stated that John Howard
McFadden the cotton magnate. who has
given much money for the investigation
of cancer, is about to turn his attention
to the measles. 1t stated that the re-
search would be undertaken in London.
and | am told that an appropriation of
perhaps sjOO,OOO is to be used far this in
vest CATION In the meantime, our gov
eminent scientists by means or the
monkeys have made the discoveries
which the McFadden Institute proposed
TO make, and that at no additional cost
to Uncle Sam.
During my visit to the hygienc labora-
tory today / had long chat with DR..
John F. Anderson. the director. who in
connection with Dr. Joseph Gold ger,
his assistant, has been carrying on the
measles Investigations. DR.. Anderson Is
known for his remarkable success in re-
search work. He has done much in
tvphoid fever, pelagra and infantile
paralysis. He has made many discoveries
as to the effect of toxins and anti-toxins.
and as to the bacteria found in milk and
the bacili which cause consumption.
He tells me that it was some time be-
fore they were able to give the measles
to the monkeys. The experiment had been
attempted in England and elsewhere
but had failed At our national labora-
tory however the blood or serum used
TO inoculate the monkeys was taken from
the human patient at just the time that
the rash was coming out or was about to
come out 1t carried the disease, ano
from this and other experiments we
now know just when measles are in
fictitious.
The first monkeys were inoculated June
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At a Disadvantage.

DROF. BRANDER MATTHEW'S, at a
literary dinner in New York, said of
a certain best seller:
Its grammar is rather off. Its author
lies open to the rebuke meted out to a
Philadelphia author In the early days Of
the last century.
This author had been slashed in re-
view. and he wrote to the reviewer and
challenged him to duel.
But the critic wrote back:
II have read your letter. 1t is as
wretched as your book. You have called
me out and l have therefore the choice
of weapons. Very well. I choose gram
mars. You are a dead man.
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Cold Storage Chicks.

A CERTAIN Washington newspaper
"A correspondent was speaking or ma
ture takers.
Their fakes are so evident" he said
THAT'S one good thing. They deceive
nobody.
II know nature faker who claims
that hen of his last month hatched
from a setting of seventeen eggs, sew
enteen chicks that had. in lieu of feath-
ers, fur
chicks were a proof of natures adapta-
ton of all animals to their envlronment,
the seventeen eggs having been Of the
cold storage variety.
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IS GERMANY SCE4ENNG FOR GREAT EMPIRE IN CENTRAL AFRICA?

consent without outcry TO disnempcr-
Went.
Germany does not intend to quarrel
with Belgium. Therefore, there VIII De
no suggestion of partition made by her.
but the lesson of the maps Is not TO DO
disregarded. They show that. be IN"
moves what they may, Germany stands
to win.
he wondered at when England's fears
are voiced so loudly In the Contempt
rary Review for October DIR. Dillon has
summed up the cry of the English. The
policy from which the crisis emanates
n,ust necessarily lead To war In the
long run-there is no way of hinderinS
II except ny confronting Germany with
forces more than adequate to crush az
gressIou-a herculean task, involving
enormous expenditure. still heavier taxa
ton and intensified enlightenment of the
struggling classes against the well-io-do"
Copyright 1911, by Curtis Brownl
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The Difference.

THE REV. ARCHIBALD d. PINkER-
j TON, the Christian socialist of Du-
luth, said in a recent address:
II asked crusty old millionaire the
other day to contribute to our book fund.
He frowned and said:
$50 you're a socialist, eh?'
"'Yes, SIR said /.
".Well, tell me what socialist is,
said he.
but you must tell me first said I,
what sort of socialist you mean-a politi-
cal socialist or d Christian socialist. For
there is a vast difference. The political
socialist says: Whats yours is NINE
but the Christian socialist says: "What's
mine is your s.
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To Hide the BIOtS.

A CERTAIN well known detective was
n talking in Chicago about clues.
''Clues are queer things, he said
They have all sorts of meanings For
instance il you saw a popular author. ike
Robert w. Potts, in black it wouldn't do
for you to say to yourself:
Aha. Potts has lost dear friend
For as like as not If you asked Potts
himself about the matter he'd reply:
Dear friend? Rubbish! l use foun-
tain PEN"
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Monkeys Ar KEPT In
CAGES INA MONKEY
HOUSE AND ARE TAKEN
OUT, AS THEY ARE y
NEEDED ToR1NW SIIeAT ION

ern states. but it is now found as far
north as Philadelphia. It is estimated
that we have something like 25,OOo cases
of it. Once caught it lasts long time.
1t is frequently fatal, but there are in
stances in Italy where people have been
afflicted with it as long as twenty-five
years Some suppose it to come from
poison. which affects the nervous sys-
tenn. 1t frequently causes insanity, and
in it's various stages brings diarrhoea, a
weakening of the muscles, headache, in
somnia jerking Of the knees and partial
paralysis. 1t affects the skin. the stom-
ach and the whole physical organiza-
ton In Alabama in 1907, there was an
epidemic Of 1t at the Mount Vernon Hos
pital for Colored Insane, in which there
We're lightweight cases and fifty-seven
deaths.
No one yet knows just what causes
pellagra. 1t has been thought to come
from the eating Of cornmeal made from
improperly cured corn. but this is doubt
full. DIR. Anderson tells me they have
traced back many cases where corn was
no part. Of their diet. Moreover the
scientists of the hyg'enic laboratory have
fed rabbits. MICE guinea pigs and other
animals upon the diet sad to cause the
disease and that without any effect what
soever. DIR. c. H. Lavinder. who has in
vestigated the subject in connection with
the laboratory. does not think it can
come from maize. and so far its origin is
practically unknown.
:: x
During the present year the labora tory
has been attempting to give monkeys pei
lagra 1t has taken the blood and spinal
fluid of pellagra patients and injected
them into the blood Of these little ami
mails. DR.. Lavinder has done the same
but so far their experiments have not
been successful although valuable infor
nation has been obtained
Some Of the most interesting work Of
Uncle Sans hygienic laboratory has re
lated to typhoid fever The corps of doc
tors here are ready to respond to any cal
from a typhoid epidemic provided thu
state or city where the typhoid Is make:
the call At such times they go to thu
site of the epidemic and investigate it
origin. DR.. Anderson tells me that ty
phoid can only come from the typhoid
bacillus. and without this is present i
cannot exist. One might eat bad fish o.
bad meat which did not contain Thu
bacillus and in such cases he could no
have typhoid fever. However. this LITTLE
being exists in most forms of sewage. i
multiplies at an enormous rate. and i
goes forth on its career Of destruction lIK
an army with banners. 1t is not tru'
that it is common In oysters, although i
sometimes comes from such shell fish a.
have been taken from the salt water ant
laid in brackish water to make then
swell up and look bigger.
The great danger of infection from ty
phod fever lies entirely in that which
comes from the patient when he is il
certain stages of. the disease and as
rule this danger disappears as soon a.
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Potomac TO keep disease away from his
children. 1t is now ten years since a ma
tional bureau of public health was found
ed. The institution has proven to be of
enormous value, and there is a possibility
that it will some day be made cabinet
department with secretary at its head
AS it is now the bureau is controlled by
the Secretary of the Treasury. Its super
intendent is Surgeon General Walter Wy
man, whose life has been spent in fight
ing the great diseases which affect the ma
ton. 1t is to him that we owe the
movement now being made against tuber-
culosis, pellagra and typhoid fever. to the
government regulations as to the sale of
viruses and toxins. and also to the estab-
lishmeut of the hygienic laboratory whose
work describe farther on in this letter
In fact Uncle Sam is now one Of the
great doctors among the nations. He has
scores of scientists who are investigating
diseases and seeking new drugs to cure
them. At Panama he has practically
wiped out malaria and yellow fever. and
here at home he is showing us how to
control typhoid diphtheria and that great
white plague known as consumption. The
government is trying to keep diseases out
of the country. 1t has its medical exam
liners at every port of Europe where i'm
migrants are inspected before they are al
lowed To start for the United States. and
II has other doctors to look them over
when they land. No person who has an
infectious disease is now allowed to enter
this country, and during the past summer
the immigrants from the Mediterranean
have been bacterioloeically tested to see
that cholera is kept away.
doubt whether there is in any part of
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q n X E Y S which
have the measles,
guinea pigs with
the diphtheria and
rabbits with ty-
phoid fever-theSe
are some of the
things to be seen
in the great ex-
pertinent station
which Uncle Sam
has established on
the banks of the
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Ii. the diplomacy OF
Germany is direct
I'd toward the ac-
QUESTION Of ( n e
vast future empire
in Africa, teeming
with riches and
possibilities for
traders an Il col
onists, which cuts
off the Cape from
cairo. Zanzibar
from X ameroun.
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DARGAININGS and Bick-
l. erings With France and
Belgium Have Now Got So
Far That a Clean Teutonic
Sweep From the Indian
Ocean to the Atlantic Is
Definitely in Sight-Belgian
Kongo, and Belgium Into
the Bargain, to Be Swallowed
in a Commercial and Politi-
cal Alliance That Is Going
to Mean Much to the World
at Large.
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cd to over $500, 900 last year. French
authorities declare that the concessionary
companies, replanting scientifically as
they advance. as they are bound to by
the terms of their concession, increase,
instead of lessening the value of the
kongo forests. Under the existing con-
ditions the French government Is paid
a large royalty by the companies. This,
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fish observer has pointed out, is in "A
position to say to Belgium. Il hope to
obtain from your common. sense what
otherwise I should take from you by
force" but she is not likely to use or
threaten force against Belgium.
Germany became d colonial power cas-
ily and peacefully, and almost in the
tWinkling of an eye. 1T was in 1884 that
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OF course, would pass with the territories
exploited to Germany. 1t represents an
immediate profit.
*
OF far wider importance is the profit to
be gained eventually by the exercise OF
the right OF presumption over the Bel
gian Kongo, which the German govern
ment will insist on. In the course of the
present negotiations nothing has been
openly said OF presumption. but the ne
gotiations are conducted around 1t. The
theory of France. and. now. OF Germany.
is that Frances overlordship of the kon-
go was recognized in the convention made
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the empire first embarked on colonial
policy. In 1900 it's African possess1ons
covered 931 .460 square miles. England
made no opposition to their acquisition.
African rivalry between the two great
powers did not become manifest until
1901. At that period Germany. finding
it impossible to establish trading COM
advocated a policy of internationalism
Internationalism proved delusive. France
and England made convention which
was intended to set it aside for the bene-
fit of these countries in Morocco. At Al
geciras, in 1906 Germany succeeded in
smashing that convention. but no sooner
was the act of Algeciras signed than 1t
was turned by French ingenuity into
worthless paper.
Thereupon Germany became undis-
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SURGEON GENERAL
WALTER WYMAN

CTUDYING the Measles
- and Infantile Paralysis by
Means of Monkeys-Guinea
Pigs and Diphtheria-The
Horrors of Pellagra-Con-
trolling Typhoid - Women
Who Carry Disease-Mrs.
X. and Typhoid Mary.
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specisl Correspondence Of The Star
BRUSSELS. November q,
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Copyright. 1911. by Frank G. Carpenter,
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naneo | turned still clasping the drawer, meaning to
ask Miss Agatha Mary about it. to meet her eyes as she
mounted the last stair.
@The little gowns just finished; brought it UP for
you 10 see' then as her glance fell the flowers the
bit of paper, the name "Oh, my dear she Sald ana
her face white the muslin crnpled IN her hanoS
"Oh, my dear!'
Without, bee hummed whisperingy among the
roses the clapclapcap of Miss Hannahs cake beating
came mufled to our ears with every hit OF the rffed
curtains the gardens sweetness flooded in And sat,
stunned speak, while she gathered her courage
and presently smiled at me, with the brave plteo's
smile Of hurt child.
"You mustnt mind Dear. II think was startled
she touched my hair in tremuous "Ask Hannah
about it cannot speak of it-yet, and with the
words she turned and gone, swiftly 1t seemed al
most to be flight.
7 HEARD her falterng steps below stairs, Miss Han
nahs voice in farewels the front door closed soity;
and gathered my mystery up and sped to the kitchen
Miss Hannahs square, beoured figure had never looked
SO comforting, and-oh, those blessed, commonplace
cookies she was just putting into the oven!
She scanned my trophies with swapping eyes, and hef
teeth shut vicously ayes" she told me, at amt much
of story-t didn't out right. Vivlenne was
Agatha Mays sister; younger and more frisky sort o.
curls and ribbons and chatter the kind to take mans
eye. Agatha Mary and this fellow-Graydon was his
name-were Just ready for the wedding, and Agatha
Mary had her things all made, even to the wedding
dress when this chit came home from school.
"Well maybe he wasn't SO much to blanca man Ii
generally go where leads,-but from that hrst
day you could he'd lost his head He used to take
her places-and Agatha Mary innocent as babe
about it, glad they liked each other and ne could
give dear Vvienne good time-and he was forever
fussng in the garden with her. and getting her flowers
and things. She crazy over that garden as you
are That desk stood in the guesroom then, his ROOM
The week before the wedding day he and Viyienne
skipped; just left scrbble for Agatha Mary. love
her, Agatha. Forgive us that was all found her
crumpled up the floor with her hand shut so tight on
that note we couldn't open it for days; and she never
stirred out of her bed for six weeks.
at was Father Rafferty, ended it, coming to the house
with just such she's gone to today. mother
without stitch of clothes to give her baby He wanted
Evening star., 1911-08-20

It was Meg who solved the question at last coming
home from chat with Miss Hannah, fairly bubbllng
with information. None but Miss Agatha Mary could
have thought of tender thing to do else have
carried it out with such exquisite geneness Tor the
ein frocks and pettcoats gven one and all, TO
young mothers tobe who were too poor TO provoe LOT
the childs coming Every hospital in town, and most
of the doctors, knew Miss Agatha Mary and, be the
case what it might-some young woman early widowed,
wife struggling with sickness and poverty or those
pitiful unfortunates who had not name to give
the baby-they had never found her unprepared. Al
ways layette packed away in her sewing room,
sachets of silk and lace between the dainty fods
and every stitch breathing love for little children No
wonder they named her "Nliss St. Ann"-Salnt Ann,
the patron saint of mothers!
But like her own name best, SAID Meg perVersely;
"NIiss St. Ann isn't cuddly enough.
1t had been fearfully warm and sticky that day,
member and it seemed good to lock my study door and
leave it for Miss Agatha Marys cool, high ceilnged
tattered yellow clippings and old letters that she had
given my runmaging and that lazy sunset hour
would be just the time to explore it.
Miss Agatha Mary looked up and smiled as went
through Her table buried under drifts of nen and
she setting the last stitches into hand embroidered
slip "There are some postcards the manel here she
said, "from an old gentleman Hannah used to give
cookies to last summer He almost helpless with
rheumatism, poor fellow, and he's at Idaho Springs
now irving the baths Just take them right along with
you Dear they were SO pretty thought you like the
views. No." in to my unspoken question, I'VE
weren't properly introduced; don't even know
his name
Upstairs glanced the postcards over ana lnu then ~
aside to plunge into the absorbing task before 1t
was quite by accident that my fingers touched the carved
dolphin that seemed support the whole nest of cubby
holes upon his head when the panel sprang outward
| fairly jumped with delight A secret drawer What
might it not contain? The stened grooves stub
born; but after moment it with jerk that scat
tered my stacked papers right and left There was
faint fragrance and oddly bitter smell and within
Law two crumbing roses and sprg of rue beneath them
strip of paper scrawled in a mans hand "Vivienne'
and
aVvienneln What Vivienne had worn those roses
long ago. and whose hand had so loved the letters of her
Evening star., 1911-08-20

both Of us, why She
never spoke Of the
baby niece for whom
those winsorne little
garments were OBJ
viously intended,
and one day | ven
tured to ask her
about it.
She looked down
at me with eyes
sparkling Ikea girl 5.
who are they for::'
she repeated. I've
just been waiting for
you to ask that, my
dear. She's the dear
est girl you ever
saw, and she's had
such a long, long
struggle it would
break your heart.
Her husband was
killed last Novem-
Der, and he had no
insurance; so ever
since she's just had
to fight it out alone.
The baby is coming
in June. She hadn't
a thing, and | We
been helping her a
little. l do love to
make baby clothes
i think every
right minded wo-
man does she add
ed with that slow,
sweet laugh OF hers.
She spread the wee
dress out on her
knee. and soon we
were too deep in the
mysteries of tatting
and feather stitch
ing, hens and tucks
and ruffies, for me
to ask another ques-
Evening star., 1911-08-20
Entry No. ~ in Our Prize Story Competition
BY LUCILLE king

ST. ANN most people
called her; but we had heard
the name a hundred times
before we dreamed of con-
Meeting it with our little lady
of the roses, that slim, brown
wren of a woman whom we
had nicknamed "The Ideal
Neighbor." We had Sc n her
moving in and out among
her flowers the day we rented
the house. and it was then, |
Evening star., 1911-08-20

think, that both OF us lost our heaTts % tne
coils OF soft white hair crowning her head
with such gracious dignity. "She's no old
maid, my sister had said laughingly; shes
someone's very young, fairy sort of grand
mother" And perhaps that was why we
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CASTORIA
fur sauglinge und Kinder
Die S0rte, Die |hr Inner Gekauft Habi
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Mimneiuta.

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