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into another monkey, and 1t got infantile paralysis.
 It is also found that the secretions from the noses of the infected monkeys are infections, and 1t is believed all the secretions of the nose and mouth are likewise so. This indicates that the dis ease may be transmitted from one person to another by direct contact and that 1t is contagious.
 Typhoid Mary and Mrs. X
 Some of the most interesting experi- ments of Uncle Sam's hygienic laboratory has related to typhoid fever The corps of doctors here are ready to respond to any call from typhoid epidemic pro- vided the state or city where the ty- phoid is makes the call. At such times they go to the site of the epidemic and investigate its origin. Dr. Anderson tells me that typhoid can only come from the typhoid bacillus, and without this is present it cannot exist. One might eat bad fish or bad meat which did not con- tain this bacillus and Tn such cases he could not have typhoid fever. However, this little being exists in most forms of sewage, it multiplies at an enormous rate, and it goes forth on it's career of destruction like an army with banners. It is not true that 1t is common in oysters, although it sometimes comes from such shell fish as have been taken from the salt water and laid In brackish water to make them swell up and look bigger.
 The great danger of infection from ty- phoid fever lies entirely in that which comes from the patient when he Is in certain stages of the diseases and as a rule this danger disappears as soon as the man recovers. It has been found, however, that there are certain human beings who are bacillus carriers. They are loaded with typhoid and other dis eases; but the disease has no effect up- on them and they keep in health. By disease, I mean they have in them null titudes of the bacilli which cause the disease. One case of that kind was that of a cook known as Typhoid Mary" She went from place to place. and wher- ever she went the people had typhoid fever. There were several dozen of such cases all caused by this healthy Mary.
 Similar instances have been discovered by the Germans, and 1t is now found that there are certain people who have been carrying about the cholera bacillus with them in the same way. For this reason all the immigrants coming from the Med- iterranean are carefully examined, even to the making of a bacteriological analy- sis. number of cholera carriers have already been discovered and sent back to Europe.
 One of the German doctors spoke of a female typhoid carrier who had been distributing this disease for forty years. and another. the manager of an estate, who had been giving it out for ten years During this time sixteen cases of typhoid had ocurred on that estate In the Ger man statistics 1t Is found that in about
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which scamper and play about the little houses in which they are penned. Each kind of animal has its own place in the re- search work. and many of those which 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. The guinea pigs are kept fat on guinea oig dainties and the rabbits rejoice in green lettuce and cabbage. The animals are kept 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.
 Monkeys With the Measles
 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 medical bureau stated that John Howard McFad- den, the cotton magnate. who has given much money for the investigation of ran- cer, is about to turn his attention to the measles. It stated that the research would be undertaken in London, and l am told that an appropriation of perhaps S5O0,0OO is to be used for this investiga- ton. In the meantime our government scientists, by means of 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 hygienic labor atory today had a long chat with Dr. John r. Anderson, the director. who in connection with pr. Joseph Goldbergcr,
 his assistant. has been carrying on the measles Investigations. Dr. Anderson is known for his remarkable success in typhoid fever, pellagra and infantile Lar alyss. He has made many discoveries as to the bacteria found in milk and the kacili 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 hal been attempted in England and else where, but had failed. At our national laboratory 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. II carried the disease and from this and other experiments we TOW know just when measles are infec- tious.
 The first monkeys were inocuated June B of last year. Ten days later they began to be feverish, and an eruption came out upon them. just as 1t does on 8 child. The little animals developed all of the sy,np- toms and features of human measles and the disease acted in the same way. Now when the disease was just at the right point certain of these monkeys were killed
 and their blood was used to inoculate
 fresh monkeys. The monkeys 50 inoculat-
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research work It contains chemical and other laboratories, specially fitted up rooms in which germs and microbes Of all kinds are reared, rooms for the testing of diseases through the study Of animals which have been infected with them and all the machinery for modern medical in- vestigation. It would take many columns to give record of the various kinds of work now going on and description of what has already been accomplished. In this letter I can mention only few of the problems which are now being studied and some of the methods by which the scientists arrive at their conclusions.
 Uncle Sam's Medical Zoo
 One of the interesting features of tho laboratory Is its study of human diseases through animals of one kind or other. Indeed, in one respect the institution might be called Uncle Sam's Medical Zoo," for it has colonies of animals which the government keeps on hand in order that it may investigate through them the diseases with which man is afflicted. These animals are inoculated with human blood taken from persons who have cer- tain diseases. They thus catch the dis eases and through them the diseases are studied and Investigated. Tie sick anil nal Is given drug after drug In order that the right one for this special ailment
 
 carefully watched. their symptoms are noted and if necessary, they are killed and cut to pieces to ascertain the origin and course of the disease and how 1t may be controlled as it affects man.
 Among the animals used for this pur- pose are guinea pigs, rabbits, mice and monkeys. We are said to be descended from the monkey, and the monkey Is the nearest to man in its makeup. It is only lately that 1t has been used in such Investigations. but it is proving to be of enormous value. At present the govern ment has on hand about three score of such monkeys, and it wants more. The monkeys used to come from India. They are a species known as the Rhesus, which is said to he, of all monkeys, the best for this purpose. These Rhesus monkeys are little fellows, not much larger than a good sized fox terrier, and are quite as canning, as mischievous and as interest," ing as any monkey you will see in the zoo They are kept in cages in a monkey house and arc taken out from time to time as they are needed in the irivestsd- tions.
 In the Guinea Pig Pens
 Tn another part of this same house Is what might call the guinea pig stock yards. This is composed of 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 COCO or. more of these little animals which the laboratory consumes every year.
 Ir another place there are rabbits, some of the softest gray and others as white az the ermine cloak of a princess There are also dainty mice of the color of Jnow,
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CT talking just enough and not too much, 1t was with the assurance from those gentlemen that she would hear from them the next day She did. They signed a contract for her to construct the New England building. She never even saw those gentlemen again. The structure she put up was one of the most beauti- ful and costly at the great Buffalo ex- position.
 Probably 1t was because of her work in this instance that she was commissioned to design and build the Vermont struc- ture at the Jamestown exposition. It Is usual when a state puts up building at an exposition to employ home ar chtect for the work. Vermont had pen- ty of architects and some of them able. But Miss Chapman got the order
 If anyone thinks business does not come to a woman in any professional line if she shows unusual ability, it is only
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necessary to quote the instance of Jose Ihine Wright Chapman to prove the con- trary. She got so much business in Bos- ton that she had to have three offices But her ambition was biger than Boston She wanted to establish line of work peculiarly her own. one that would give her all the leisure she wanted and yet all the scope for the ideas that possessed her. She wanted time to enjoy life. She wanted time to go abroad and study. She weared of days and nights spent in mere mathematical problems that brought money in plenty, but no satisfaction in an artistic sense She thought far more of art than she did of money.
 She gave up Boston and came to New York, and here she has built up a busi- ness that is remarkable in itself. No one can talk business with her except by appointment. Her office hours are from Il to 1-only two hours each day.
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woman!" That woman part was what upset Miss Chapman, who sees no req son why the Fundamentals of architecture should only be correctly solved by men. To be sure, there are few women who follow commercial architecture; but if a woman knows architecture from the ground up, Miss Chapman sees nothing unusual in her designing office structures as well as nurseries.
 Having proved her ability as a mathematical architect, she centered all her energies on a branch of the work she had deeper love TOT. She wanted to build libraries, beautiful public struc- tures artistic buildings that would be a delight to the eye. but not so much in the way of mere height And she has done it. The New England building at the Pan- American exposition was hers. The way she got the order for that structure is a story in itself. The distinguished gen. tlemen who formed the committee having
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1 the matter in charge had been appointed by the governors of the various New England states. They went to Boston to study the problem, to consult in due sea son with persons high in architectural circles in that center of culture,' and after collf cting the wisdom of the Hub. to decide the momentous question. But first it was necessary to dine. So they went to the Parker House.
 While they were dining the architects of Boston sat in solemn expectancy In their various offices awaiting invitations to submit plans and bids. All but Miss Chapman. She walked up to the Parker House, went up to see the dining gentlemen and an nounced that she would build the struc- ture for them. She told them how much she would do it for and showed them some designs that made them sit up and open their eyes wide. When she left aft
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YCopyright, 1911, by Frank G. Carpenter)
 Washington. D. C.
 K HONKEYS which have the measles,
 MI guinea pigs with the diphtherla J x7 and rabbits with typhoid fever these are some of the things to be seen in the great experiment station which 1rnole Sam has established on the banks of the Potomac to keep disease away from his children. It is now 10 years since a national bureau of public health was founded. The institution has proven to he. of enormous value, and there Is a pos- sihility that 1t will some day be made a cabinet department with secretary at its head As it is now the bureau IS con- trolled by the secretary of the treasury. It's superintendent is Surgeon Generaf Walter Wyman, whose life has been spent in fighting the great diseases which anect the nation It is to him that we owe the movement now being made against tuper- culosis, pellagra and typhoid fever, to the government regulations as to the sale or y,ruses and toxins, and also to the estap- lishment of the hygienic laboratory Wnose work I describe farther on in this letter
 The Government as a Doctor
 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 consuinp- tion. The government is trying to keep diseases out of the country. It has It's medical examiners at every port of Europe where immigrants are inspected before they are allowed to start for the | United States and 1t has other doctors to I look them over when they land. No per- son who has an infectious disease is now allowed to enter this country, and during the past summer the immigrants from the Mediterranean have been bacteriol- logically tested to see that cholera is kept away.
 {! doubt whether there Is in any part of the world an institution of medical re- search more important than that which the government has here at Washnston [ have visited the Welcome laboratories nt khartum In the Sudan. They are de- voted 10 tropical diseases--to the black water fever, the sleeping sickness and other horrors of the upper Nile and iniu-
 lle Africa There is a laboratory of med ical research in London and there are others in Paris. Berlin and Vienna. The most of these are private institutions, car l ried on with private capital. Our govern | ment institution, known as the hvgisnic Il labora tory, is backed by the nation. and Il it gets it's appropriations from Congr ass. Mt Is connected with the national bureau 3af health. and it has so grown that 1t is \ now crn of the most important of the yov- N errment undertakings.
 N The hvgienic laboratory consists of sew II ernl large buildings which are devoted to N| . .
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400 female carriers 300 were houselSeepers and 56 domestic servants. One was con nected with dairy.
 Typhoid from Dairy Milk
 And this brings me to one of these chronic bacillus carriers who once spread a blanket of typhoid fever over a large part of West Washington. The epidemic occurred in the fall of 1908, and in less than three weeks the District of Colum- bia had 135 cases of typhoid. Of these 54 were in Georgetown, and upon invest gation it was learned that all had been drinking milk supplied by two dairymen from the edge of the city. The dairies were investigated and found to be clean. It was learned, however, that both had been sending out milk bought from wo- man who had farm nearby. This wo- man I shall call Mrs. X. The milk was traced to the consumers and it was found that in nearly every case it had given them typhoid fever The history of Mrs. x was inquired into and 1t was discovered that she had had typhoid fever eighteen years previously. She was bacteriologically examined and it was shown that she still had typhoid bacilli in her. She was loaded with them and was giving them out all the time. When she washed the pans or handled thG milk she unknowingly mixed some of these death dealing bacilli with the prod. ucts of her cows, and in due time they were taken into the stomachs of the consumers.
 In short, 54 cases of typhoid were al. rectly traced to her. These cases ex. isted at the time, and 1t is not known how much she had caused in the past She had been in the dairy business for about half dozen years. but the sci- entists say she must have been carrying around and giving out typhoid bacilh for eighteen years. The result of the investigation was that she was put out of the dairy business, and any milk fur nshed by her was absolutely forbidden to the Washington supply. I would say that had the dairymen who bought this milk pasteurzed 1t before delivering 1t to their customers this treatment would have destroyed the bacilli and the out break of typhoid could not have occurred.
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The Perpetual Pest

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A look-in on the methods of the book agent is given herewith:
 Here Is volume, sir says the gab- by gent. (which every gentleman ought to own. It is entitled Hints on Archi- tecture,' Can I interest you in it?'
 Nix comes back MT. Slimwad. ''I have no use for such book"
 But 1t teaches you how to put up a swell bungalow-a palace. assure you for only 5000"
 But haven't got 35000. Honest, friend. I haven't more than s to my name"
 Easy for you. This book Is only $l. Put your name down on that dotted lino."
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-18
REFUSE TO TESTIFY;
WILL Be PROSECUTED
Girls Face Felony Charges; New
Complaint Issues Against
Negro, Marsh.

Following the instructions of their at
torney, Willard Hanson, yesterday fore
noon, the three women who have ac-
eused tho negro, Lawrence Marsh, OF
mistreatment and grand larceny, re-
fused to testify against him in Justice
of the Peace +. NJ. Bishop IS court Their
reason for taking this stand was that
it, would lucrminatc them to testify.
After they had persisted in their right
to keep silence they werc discharged
and were Immediately rearrested and
charged with criminal oflenses and
Marsh was charged with living in an
improper place.
Irene Raymond, who gave her name
as Irene Swenson at the hearing, had
hearing Yesterday afternoon and was
discharged by Justice Bishop. The 9th
er two girls and the negro will have
hearings Wednesday afternoon Marsh
was locked up in default of $1,000 ball
and the two girls on default OF Toou
bail each Justice Bishop stated that
there was A difference between the case
of the girl discharged and that OF the
other two and that the verdict In their
ease may he different.
1T is said by the authorities that
there is plenty of evidence TO convict
the negro, ,-also the girls, if they insist
upon shielding him. In addition to tht
state charges, the federal authorities
are said TO be investigating the affair
in regard to its relation to the white
slave traffic.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-18
SAY HAMMOND IS
STREET CAR HOLDUP
Conductor and Motorman Of
Jordan Bridge Street Car
Identify Prisoner.

J l., Hammond has been identlied a
tho man who hcld up tho Jordan Bridge
street car Tuesday night. Conductor L.
B. Johns and Motorman Charles Rasici
arc sure that he is The right man. each
picking him out from among half dozen
other prisoners.
Hammond was arrested on suspicion
Thursday afternoon. by Patrolman Joe
Ncvc His clothes even TO the hand'Scr-
chief which he wore over his face. are the
same that the holdup wore. according
20 the men who were held up.
After he had been Identified. COM
plalnt was sworn out charging him with
the robbery. Hc VIII be arraisncd before
ing.
Two other suspicious looking charac :
tc.s who have associat ted with Hammond
.;rcat deal were also arrested Thurs
day night. These arc II. 4. lIackctt. an
eN N-convics the police say, who has a
home on Cannon street. and George Fitz-
gibbons. These arrests were made hN
Sergeant Pierce and Patroimcn Move and
Ekstcad, II was thought that these men
might be connected with tho burGlayicS
committed here lately. and ono case has
already been laid at the door Of FitzGib-
bon. This is the theft OF a roll of In
olcum about two weeks ago.
The theft OF this lnolcum was report
ed To the police at lhc time that II oc-
CURED. and the goods were located ycs
tcrday The person who reported The
police are a, loss as To what 10 do with
the recovered property, The owner may
have il by coming TO police headquarters
and Identifying il.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-18
POLICE TAKE ALLEGED
''PEEPING TOM" TO JAIL

Herman Haeberg. "A years old and
married was arrested late last night and
locked In the city jail, the charge being
left open.
4 call came to police headquarters
from So West First North street about
| o'clock stating that a man was look
ing In the house through the windows.
Detectives Ripley and Cleveland respond
cd in the Greyhound and reached the
place just as the occupant OF the house
fired two shots from shotgun TO
frightnn the man away.
Haeberg in attempting TO flee. ran
right into the detectives. He was brought
TO the police station. where he said that
he had been To the theater with his wife
and a Mrs. stevens. The detectives took
him back to the scene OF the disturbance
10 prove the truth OF his story, He
claimed that he had taken his wife homo
and then had taken home the neighbor
woman. from whose place he was re-
turning when caught.
The detectives found that no Mrs.
Stevens lived at the place Indicated and
that the mans wife had not attended
any show and said she had not seen her
husband for about two hours.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-18
INVENT MAGNESIA BULLET
TO CAPTURE WILD HORSES
T, n. Flood and j. F. O'Byrnc, Salt
Lakers, Devise Plan to Render Ami"
mails Temporarily Helpless.

Dr. T. \. Flood and ]. +. o'Byrne,
Doth of this city. have devised new
and unique plan which. they expect will
prove successful for the capture alive OF
the best OF the Wild horses now roaming
the plains OF Nevada. They propose 10
shoot the horses with n special bullet
OF their invention. this missile being
tipped with magnesium containing a
sclatine capsule filled with narcotic
drug OF quick action.
Their claim is that the magnesium
soon dissolves in the flcshy tissue. caus-
ing no permanent injury unless a vital
organ should be penetrated. while the
drug contained In the capsule will soon
render the wounded animal temporarily
helpless and thus permit of its easy cap
turc.
Among these wild horses. which are so
shy and cunning that 1t is almost i'm
possible To take them alive under former
methods. are many fine specimens, some
of the animals said TO be easily worth
several thousand dollars apiece. Should
the scheme of the inventors prove sue
ccssful II will afford opportunity for in
Producing new blood Into western do
mcSticatcd stock.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-18
REDUCES JUDGMENT $340
FOR GAMBLING LOSSES

Mrs Maude Boroughs is given judg
mcnt against Frank Peterson and Charles
Creighbaun in the sum Of $3.50 by an
court Friday.
Judgment for $500 was given Mrs.
Boroughs In the Second district court OF
Weber county for losses said to have
been sustained by her owing TO her hus-
band Frank Boroughs. disposing OF her
money over the gaming table. Mrs.
Boroughs sued for $4,000.
The supreme court finds that OF the
$500 there is evidence TO prove that only
$3.50 was lost over the gaming table.
The nonsuit entered in the Third dis
trjct court In the case OF Anna Ander
son against Mrs. Wallace Bransford was
affirmed in another opinion handed down
bv the supreme court Friday afternoon,
Mrs. Anderson brought suit against Mrs
Brarsford to recover damages for injuries
alleged to have been sustained through
the negligence of the defendant in leav-
ING a door open al her apartment house
through which Mrs. Anderson fell.