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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-02
ENTIRE CHINESE TOWN
WIPED OUT BY PLAGUE
Streets of Adekhe on River Amour, Strewn with
Bodies of Victims of the RED Death"

Paris, April 1.-The st. Petersburg cor
respondent of the Petit Parisien for
wards the story of an eyewitness, who
has returned from Adekhe, a Chinese
town on the River Amour, in which the
plague has left not a soul alive.
The town. the squares, the streets.
the houses, all are empty. Death had
passed and left only one living creature,
a Chinaman in rags. who went mad and
died as we entered the city.
THE doctor marched at our head. We
followed, dressed and masked to protect
ourselves from contagion. We walked
through empty streets. There was no.
body there, for there was nothing alive.
A few weeks ago the town was a busy
one. We found dead silence there, the
only sounds being the creaking of the
open doors as the wind moved them.
I'VE saw a number of Cinnamon lying
face downward. their backs arched as IL
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in one last superhuman effort to meet
death upright.
THE Cinnamon with US fixed their
hooks in the clothes OF the dead and
dragged them away to be burned mutter-
ing as they went, 'Koon to, koon to" 1.-THE
red DEATH.
There were corpses and nothing but
corpses in all the houses, rich and poor
alike, in the sanctuaries and in the
streets. The town was dead.
Suddenly, out of a side street rushed
wild figure in rags. His pigtail was
unrayeled, his feet were naked, and
quite blue, either from cold or the dis
ease. He rushed at the doctor, leaped
on him and fell in the death agony,
shrieking as he fell 'Koon to! Koon, to-
Our men tied his hands and feet for
he was dangerous. and carried him away.
We heard him shrieking the sinister cry.
The red death, The red death" Then all
was silent. They burned him with the
others"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-02
NEGRO'S COLOR DUE
TO VEGETABLE DIET
German Professor Holds Racial Color Is Caused BY
Chemicals Contained in Mans Daily Food.

Berlin, April What makes the Cau-
casian white, the negro black. and the
Indian red? One explanation is that the
black races are made so as a result oil
continuous exposure to sunlight, but this
theory does not seem to hold good
throughout.
\ German professor. DR.. A. Bergfeld.
has just written a book in which he at
tempts to prove that it is all a matter of
feeding. He points out that in the animal
and insect world color is often determined
by food, and he argues that by chemical
process the same results are shown in the
different human races.
He thinks that the original man was
black, as his principal diet must have
been vegetarian. Fruit and vegetable;
contain manganates. which ally them
selves with iron, making a dark brown
combination. DR.. Bergfeld says that
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work. Both way.

From the Cleveland Leader.
"Hs knows all the best people in town.
why doesn't he associate, with them,
thenf'
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negroes who add meat and milk to their
vegetable fare are never as dark as those
who eat only vegetables
Indians are red because they have
absorbed for generations haemoglobin.
the red substance in the blood of animals
killed for food.
Mongols are yellow because they de-
scend from drak fruit-eating races, who
penetrated into the plains of Asia, be-
came shepherds. and lived to a great
extent on milk. which contains chlorine
and has bleaching effect.
The CaucasianS We're another branch
who became still whittier through adding
salt to their dietary. Common salt is a
strong chloride and is a powerful agent
in bleaching the skin. The effect, he
declares. can be seen on negro children
who have been brought up on a white
dietary. They are never as black as their
kindred who have not abandoned vege-
tarianism.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-02
JOKE PLANNED ON CENSUS.

London, April 1.-The suffragettes have
made elaborate plans to discomfort the
census officials, and with this in view
they have pledged themselves not to be
at home on April 2, when the census will
be taken.
Some of their plans for beating the
enumerators include going to the roller
skating Kinks. attending all-night the
alters, and remaining at the all-night res
taurants, until the census time expires.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-02
HEAD OF SALVATION
ARMY NEARLY BLIND
Gen. Booth Must Undergo a
Delicate Operation.

London, April with mistaken cour-
age, such as the leader OF an army
should display, Gen. Booth has been pre-
pairing calmly and methodically for the
blindness which, it is feared, must over
take him unless the wonderful operation
TO be performed in the autumn is sue
cessful.
The story OF his preparation was told
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WILL PHOTOGRAPH SUN.
Scientists Go to Friendly Islands
for Four-minute EcIipses

London. April Ito observe the eclipse
Of the sun on April Is. DR.. Lockyer and
Mr.. Mclean, of the Solar Physics OBJ
servatory. South kensington, have been
dispatched by the government to Vavau,
one of the Friendly Islands. about 1000
miles northwest of New Zealand. The
phenomenon will have a duration of three
minutes and a half, and during that small
space of time the two scientists hope to
obtain photographs which will enable
them to define at least two or three of
the uncertain chemical elements of the
sun. 1t is known that there are seventy
five such elements; of these. sixty have
been detected and definitely determined
and fifteen yet lack definition.
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REVIEW AT CORONATION.
Av1ators and Naval Officers to Nee
ut Portsmouth, England.

|. London. April 1.-The most imposing
naval review the world has ever seen Is
to be held at Portsmouth during the eoro-
nation festivities.
On the morning Of June "A, the Kins
and Queen will leave London for Ports
mouth for the naval review, which is to
consist of ships Of the four divisions of
the home feet. the Atlantic fleet, and
the Mediterranean feet.
The display of war ships will be the
largest on record. including twelve or
thirteen Dreadnoughts and the latest, de-
stroyers and submarines.
A special feature will be the airship
which is now being completed at Barrow
by Messrs vickers. Sons & Maxim.
Although not officially stated, It Is quite
understood that the airship will make
its first public appearance In connection
with the naval review at Spithead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
IRISH LEAVE IN
 LARGE NUMBERS

Dublin September 16.-(Special. 1.-The rosy hope of home rule in the very near future does not seem to check the steady drain on Irelands population. In fact the official figures which have just been made public indicates very marked increase in their loss last year over the year pre- vious. Probably when Ireland has control of her own affairs there will be an inn provement in conditions which will keep the cream of the Irish people at home.
 The annual report of the registrar gen. eral shows that the excess of births over deaths in 1910 was 27,069 as compared with 277s6 in 1909. The loss by emigration amounted to 39457. as compared with 2s,s76 in 1909 and with a yearly average for the years 19OO-9 of 35SS6. There would appear, according to these figures, to have been decrease of 53SS, as compared with 80 in 1909. The population on April ?, last, ac- cording to the preliminary report on tho census, was 4,3S1,95l, as compared with 4.45S,775 in 1901.
 The report states that the marriages registered in the year 1910 numbered 22, 112; the births of which 2S33 were illegitimate, 1O1,963, and the deaths 74,S9f The mar riage rate was 5.06 per 1000 of the esti- mated population, showing decrease of .0.12 as compared with that for the year 1869. and decrease of 0.0S as compared with the average rate for the ten years, 1900-9. The birth rate was 23.3 per 1000, being 02 below that for the preceding year. but 0.1 above that for the previous ten years The death rate of Ill per 1000 was O.1 below the rate for the preceding year and O.6 below the average rate tor the ten years 1e00-9
 One of the most interesting facts brought out in the report is the mainten- ance of the decrease in the mortality from
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the confidence of every man who pe- lieyes at all in the reality of the King = dom of God on earth.
 ..,rhe message of the missionary com mittee from the cooperating commit tee sets forth the relative importance of this part of the movement.
 '.Only movement which incorpor- ates in its central purpose the world mission of Christianity, Its mission to all the life of each land and to all the lives of every land, can have access to the sources of adequate power. The work that Is to be done can be done only by men with whom and in whom Christ works in the fullness of the strength which God communicates to men through Him. And we believe that such working on His part Is promised and possible on one condition, namely, that men will undertake with Tim. a world task and conceive the work of
 hi,stian church as a work for all the need of the world at home and abroad. We can not hope to do our work in the life of a single man or boy in America except by the power of gospel, which demands our application
 to every human need and un- Christian condition In the United States, and our offer of it to whole Christian world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

1910.
 The death of Sir Samuel Walker, lord chancellor of Ireland. who died the other day at Bray County Wicklow, removes a most distinguished Irishman.
 A strong liberal in politics, he espoused the cause of the tenant farmers, who were seeking to establish what was known as the three Els fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale.' In the County London derry he fought two fiercely contested elections. and on the second occasion, in 1883, was returned to parliament as the champion of the tenant fighters. Mir Gladstone appointed him solicitor general for Ireland and two years later he was advanced to the office of attorney general. When the Gladstone party returned to power in 1892 he was appointed lord chan cellor of Ireland. Three years later he was made lord justice of appeal, an of flee which he continued to fill until -905, when he became lord chancellor for the second tme..
 On the bench Sir Samuel Walker was popular with his colleagues, and his judg- ments were marked by extreme triteness and clearness of expression. In private life he was much respected by all who were acquainted with him, and he ire quently placed Pembroke house, Dublin. at the disposal of promoters of afternoon entertainments in aid of charitable insti- tutions in which he and Lady Walker were interested. Sir Samuel was an en- thusiastic angler, and syent part of his holiday each year fishing In the west of Ireland.
 An aged Irish farmer, John Looney, of Mourne Abbey, near Hallow, County Cork, was drowned in tragic circum- stances at Queenstown. He was awaiting the tender conveying the Queenstown pas sengers from the Baltic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
An Ancient Roman Long Branch

Rodolfo Lanciani in the Athenaeum.
 The sea coast of Laurenum may have been in favor with the fashionable and the wealthy for brief space of time under Augustus and his immediate successors. but was given up quite soon to parvenues and merchants and retired officers, and the same set of noisy people who haunt at the present day the popular watering places of the world. To make the analogy more striking, an inscription has been found at La Capecotta singing the praises of wealthy Jew and revealing the fact
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Missions

preceding, for 1t is impossible to draw definite line between missionary and social work. The most successful social settlements in the world are the for eign mission stations which antidate all the well known social settlements of North America. This success is due to the union social work and evangelism First in the plan Is the hospital, the charity work, the school and the work shop. First in the purpose is that men shall know the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ made plain to non-Chris- tian people by the humblest service that can be rendered with an explana tion of the why.
 Tt is a most natural thing to have listed in the missionary survey that is being made the question as to how many are working In social settlements This Is nothing new. It goes back to the day when One stood up and raised His commission to his neighbors In Naza- reth. The spirit of the Lord is upon me- because he hath annointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brok enhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
 This one at the close of his earthly career, both before His crucifixion and after Ills resurrection, commissioned us in the significant words: As the Fath- CT sent me, even so send I you also unto the world. The missionary and the social workers alike find their au- thority or their work in these words. The continuation of the Men and Relig- ion Forward Movement must be the working out of this great social and missionary programme.
 Home and foreign missions today are as inseparable as the preceding themes of the message. With the mill lions of non-Chrstian people under the flags of the English speaking races. with devotees of every phase of reIg- ious faith in the confines of our conti- nent, with whole armies of men and boys of no religious faith, this task challenges the imagination, the courage,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17
Children Killed by Bees

Berne. September 16.-(Special) )-The twin children of railway official named Pochon of Vernayaz. Canton Valais. have been killed by bees. They were playing together in a garden when they overturned a beehive. The angry bees attacked the children, stinging them so badly that both succumbed.
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FUNERAL NOTICE

THE FUNERAL OF J. !. CURRAN WILL BE HELD FROM SIT. PAUL'S CHURCH SUNDAY AT F. M. ALL MEMBERS OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS ARE REQUESTED TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL IN A BODY.
 THOMAS J. MARTIN, PRESIDENT.
 J. A. FLANAGAN, SECRETARY.
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OFFICE
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 Bids must be addressed to Mr. Hugh McCloskey President. 9-l7-l0t
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 in life. We may not be able to agree upon the traditions and theories that gather about the book but we can all read in hearty unison its great messages
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

that synagogue had been built at osfia for the use of the Semitic ''villeggianti'' on the neighboring coast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

tuberculosis. Since 1909 this has continu- ously decreased from 27 per 1000 to 23 in 1910.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15
The First Mill in Missouri.

The first water mill in Mis-
souri, was built by Jonathan
Bryan in 1901 It was on a
small spring branch that empties
into Femme Usage creek in St.
Charles county. The mill had a
capacity of from six to ten bush
els of grain in twenty four hours.
For several years it supplied
the settlers in eastern Missouri
with meal and -four, the same
millstones grinding both corn
and wheat. The -four was bolted
by hand. Miller Bryan would
fill the hopper with grain in the
early morning and the mill would
grind on that till noon, when the
hopper would he filled for the
second time. The meal ran ir.
to a large pewter basin on the
floor at the bottom of the stones.
Daniel Boone. living at that time
with his son Nathan, a mile from
the mill site, owned an old dog.
Cuff" that in Miller Bryan's
absence licked the meal ffom the
basin as fast as it would run in
to it. When it did not run fast
enough to suit the dog, he would
howl and bark. One day the
miller, hearing him, fastened to
the mill to find out the trouble.
Discovering where his meal had
been going, he exchanged the
pewter basin for a tin coffee not.
which was too small at the ton
for CUT" to get his head into
it. Making an attempt however.
one day, the dog got the coffee
pot fastened on his head and ran
away with it.-St. Joseph Oh.
server.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

President Diaz of Mexico is
usually proclaimed by the capital
istic press as an enlightened and
progressive ruler, yet the Mexi-
can people as mass have made
no political or social progress
through all the years of the Diaz
regime. Diaz is an autocrat
whose policy has always been to
hold down public enlightenment
and popular government for the
benefit of the ruling class. That S
what brought on the present
revolution in that country, and if
the United States is going to un-
dertake to aid him in maintaining
his despotism it will be serious
reflection upon American love
of civil liberty.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

A lot of papers have been
printing an item lately, and the
Pennington News even went so
far as to credit it to this paper,
though we have never mentioned
it, knowing it was not so, that
the Postoffice Department had
gone out of the envelope printing
business and would turn the
work over to the local printers,
who were to do it at a stipulated
price. Now comes the news that
Postmaster-Gen Hitchcock
has Just let the contract for
printing the return cards on
stamped envelopes to a large
concern for four years.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15
RichWoods.

The farmers here are all busy build
ing fences and getting ready for spring
work.
Work has been begun on a locaI
telephone line in this town. Rich.
| woods believes in keeping to the front
Miss Lucy Baker, who has been
quite ill, is able to be out again.
Firlnin Paroo died at the home OF
George Vanleer of consumption. His
remains were buried in Richwoods on
the 18th inst.
S. E. Baker has accepted position
in the Bank of Richwoods. He is a
deserving young man and qualified to
fill the place. We wish him success.
Services at the Home church last
Sunday were we'll attended.
Leslie Hawkins left last week for St.
Louis, after an extended visit to his
home here.
Miss Effie Dixon is home again,
having finished successful term of
school at Frumet.
Lytle Baker made t1ving trip to
Frumet Sunday last.
MARY JANE
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

The movement of troops to the
Mexican border has no senti-
ment behind it. The Mexicans
might fight among each other to
determination so far as any SEN
timental interest our govern
ment has in the peace and quiet
of that country. President Taft
has ordered the troops to move
for the protection of American
investments in Mexico, that is
all there is to it. If congress
had any knowledge of the fact
that such movement was con-
templated and permitted it, that
fact never leaked out; but it is
more than likely the whole mat
ter was kept dark until after
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

A young printer was explain
ing to his sweetheart the differ
ence between printing and pub
fishing. Said he: Now if |
were to print a kiss on your
cheek, that would be printing,
and if you should go off and tell
it. that would be publishing.
Oh" she said blushingly, i
would be too ashamed to publish
it," The printer being onto his
job took a proof at once.-Ex
change.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

President Taft's sudden eager
ness for the establishment OF
trade reciprocity between this
country and Canada may possi.
bly, have been induced by his de.
sire to get the progressive ele-
ment of the Republican party to
line up to his support in 1912.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

The appropriations of the last
session of congress exceeded the
billion mark by twenty-five mil
lions. The talk of economy in
public expenditures never gets
down to the solid basis of saving
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1911-03-15

Gov. Hadley has vetoed the
Democrats home rule bill for
cities of the first class. The
Governor is insistent in his eff
forts to keep the police and cleo
ton machinery of these cities
out of the hands of the machine
politicians and saloons.