The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-02-28
mrs. h. WEST
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effect that there is little danger OF the
spread of>the present plague epidemic
from Manchuria to the Occident.
with the advent Of warm weather
at the latest, the majority of British
authorities agree. It will be a mira Gle
If the disease does not appear in Slb-
eria. Once II gains n foothold there.
in view of Russia's primitive meth
DDS of quarantine and sanitation they
consider 1t certain to break out quick
ly in the European portion of the
Cars realm, and from there they
doubt if all the effects of the authori
ties of neighboring countries can pre-
vent IL from reaching Western Europe
The English view point Is especial
ly pessimistic from the T. Ct that there
were four undoubted cases of pneu-
monic plague--the type now prevail
ent in Manchuria, from which there
are said to absolutely no recoveries-
In Eas- Anglia last autumn and that the
epidemic of the same disease among
rats, rabbits and hares, Is spreading
all over the island. DR.. Sambon, lee
turer to the London School of Tropi-
cal Medicine. goes even further than
other English authorities. pointing
out that modern sanitation so effec-
tive in the prevention of most dis
eases. hadly even checks plague. THE
vehicles of the plague germs" he ex-
plains, ARE not sewage or drinking
water. but rats and fees, and where
ever they are to be found. there the
conditions necessary for a plague epi-
demic exist"
THE claims of the plague upon the
worlds attention" says the London
Morning News, commenting gloomily
upon DR.. Sambons utterance, "are
unhappily not diminishing as the win
ter advances, although all previous
experience shows that the winter is
far less favorable to its spread than
the summer At this moment Man
chura, with winter climate much
like that Of Canada, is experiencing
an appalling visitation with scarcely
any more scientific resistance to the
diseases progress than could he at
tempted in Europe in the middle
ages"
Vienna, Feb. 2s.-Figures Just pub
lished of the suicides during the past
year show that the Vennese killed
themselves nj the rate of four a day.
total of j67, the highest ever re-
corded In addition there were S9l
attempted suicides.
The police have discovered the ex-
istence of four Suicide" clubs the
members Of one of them being boys
and girls. or the successful suicides,
more than 100 were children under ls
years of age.
The men suicides outnumber the
women three to one. The majority
OF the victims OF the mania for self
destruction hanged themselves. The
Oldest victim was a man of 90, the
youngest n hoy of ~.
Love troubles were the motive for
most of the suicides. and after these
came family differences, mental dis
orders sickness, poverty and general
weariness of life.
The salvation Army has been APP
pcaled TO to establish an anti-sul-
eide bureau in Vienna as 1t has done
in other cities, and the public school
teachers have Instructions to impress
upon the children the wickedncss and
cowardicc of self-destruction.
Paris Feb. 2S.-The suit against
Farham and his pupils at Buc aero
drome, brought by M. Wallet. to res
strain them from flying over his prp-
erty and through his ''prlvate air.
Is attracting great interest here since
II is the first suit of the kind and in
wolves a vital precedent in law. The
decision will soon be handed down
by the French courts.
NJ. Wallet asserts that score or
more aeroplanes circle over his farm
daily, frighten his horses and make
his hands nervous. The lives of his
men are in constant danger.
Airmen contend that the air, like
the sea, should be free TO all alike
and that unless 1t Is, aviation win be-
come impossible.