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The BON Marcf1e, 3 4-31& 9th ST.

buried next day Three Of the reGk
mental surgeons died. In 1869 the
scourge attacked only those men who
slept on one side OF the barrack wall.
1t is also on record that in the case OF
a ship at sea only those on the star
board side were seized. Low caste
scavengers in India, who do all the
dirty and repulsive work. are seldom
or never attacked. 1t is possible to
sleep in the same room with cholera
patients and escape infection.
Heavy doses of spirits of camphor
and fresh grapes have been known to
save cholera patients in India. but the
much Wanted copious drinking of
champagne has no curative effect-it
merely sustains the spirits. Similarly
the administration of carbonate OF am
monia merely prolOngs the lives Of pa :
tients a few hours. Also it has been
noticed that during a cholera epidemic
in India the officers escaped when the
men died like flies-which was perhaps
due to the better food and lodging of
the former The heavy drinker and the
total abstainer alike prove easy VIC
Tins.
TOmOrrOw-HISTORIC SCOURGBA
4 W-YELLOW FEVER.
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PHOSPHATE ROCK DISCOVERED.
Immense Deposit Found on Railroad
Grant Land in Montana.

An important discovery of phosphate
rock has been made by the geological
survey in Montana. The land was a
part of the railroad land grant to the
Northern Pacific. The country was being
prospected to see whether the land con-
tanned minerals that would warrant the
withdrawal of the area from the railroad
grant. 1t was found that the land con-
tanned phosphate rock that apparently is
the biggest deposit in this country. It
was not known previously that the rock
occurred at all in Montana, and vet the
beds apparently are as thick as those of
the south, which run from four and one
half to six feet. AS a three foot bed :;un-
der a square mile of territory contains
: 7t;OO 600 TONS and the Montana discoy-
cry covers many square miles, it will be
seen that the aggregate amount of the
find is immense.
Phosphorus is one of the three essen
phosphate fertilizer is made by treating
phosphate rock with sulphuric acid. One
of the important features of this find is
that it is in close proximity to some OF
the big Montana smelters where an inn
mense amount of sulphuric acid is pro-
duced as by-product. There has been
so much of the acid heretofore that it
was not possible to utilize all of it com
mercially and the most of it was al
lowed to go to waste.
President Taft has sent a message to
Congress advising the withdrawal of the
tract and the passage of a. law leasing
it for working as mineral deposit be-.
longing tostlie government. s =.
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MAIL BY AEROPLANE.
uy %
War Department Ready to Install
Such q Service in Alaska

Plans have been made for carrying
the mails by aeroplane in Alaska. Com
munlcation there over certain routes
Is In the hands of the War Depart
ment The Alaskan cable and many OF
the land lines have been installed and
are operated by the signal service, and
u mas been suggested for some
time past that it would be possible to
carry a certain amount Of first -class
mail by aeroplane over routes that are
now accessible only by dog train, and
then with difficulty
There are several aeroplanes now in
use capable Of covering more than the
distance that would have to be made In
any one jump. and that could be de
pended on to face the rigorous
weather conditions that would be met
The War Department is ready to in
stall such an aerial service at any
time that Congress will furnish the
funds.
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10 styles of Nainsook
Drawers, straight and bias
cuts, open and closed; some
with neat scalloped edges
and fine enbroideries; 9TH
ers more deliberately trim
med in wide laces and en-
broideries. Worth AAC
6oc. Special price. =.
Nainsook Drawers, bias
cut; fitted over hip; bottoms
deliberately trimmed with
lace insertions and medal
lions. Worth $3.50. csc
Sale price. w
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Combinations

Combinations, made Of
cambria corset covers and
skirt and corset covers and
drawers; lace and embroid-
cry trimmed. Worth @Oc
5oc. Special.
Combinations Of fine main
sock, in IS styles; all-over
embroidery covers and draw
ers or skirt. Also some with
lace-trimmed tops and bot
toms; many h nd som e
styles. Worth $3.50. Q2c
Sale price. .......~.~ ~
Many other handsome
styles from $I.5o to $7.o8.
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sylvester Gross failed to appear IN the
Police Court today for trial ON two
charges OF carrying brass knuckIes and
disorderly conduct on q street car yestsr-
day and forfeited a total Of $50 collateral.
Gross, policemen Of the tenth precinct
said, took exception to caustic remarks
on his appearance by several passengers
on a Georgia avenue car ana started Q
row.
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PUBLICITY
FOR CORPORATE EVILS
Herbert Knox Smith Tells Of
Work Accomplished
bu Bureau.

Oppressive methods Of competition have
been reduced over wide areas, greater
equality of opportunity is being safforded
anu corporate interests have become
accustomed to a publicity which they
would have regarded as revolutionary
decade ago. Many of them are. in fact.
cooperating by voluntarily furnishing
much of the information obtained by the
bureau (of corporations). The public has
been enlightened on many fundamental
points Of finance and business which 9TH
erwise come to the ordinary citizen only In
fragmentary and confused form; the Pres
ident and Congress have been given re-
liable facts bearing on economic ques-
tions Of public concern, and finally the
effectiveness of simple publicity and the
resulting public condemnation of business
abuses have been proved
Work of Seven Years.
These are the statements of Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corpora
tions in his annual report to the Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor.
The report opens with the statement
that the bureau, since its creation, has
urged a broad federal system of cor
porate publicity. which shall give the;
4
the business OF the country. 1t states
that for the last seven years the bureau,
with the aid of specially trained men,
has collected complete information about
certain selected corporations or indus
tries; has stated plainly the meaning
thereof. and published it in reports In a
forceful way framed particularly for the
public press This" the report declares,
lis efficient publicity"
Railroads Reformed Rates.
AS the result of this publicity, the
report states, within six months after
the publication of a report describing
great system of railway determinations
enjoyed by the Standard Oil Company
the railroads Cancelled every rate which
the report condemned as illegal, as well
as many others criticised as inequitable.
Following reports published in 1907 de-
scribing the Standard Oil Company; its
investments. earnings and profits, many
independent concerns testified to a sub
stantial improvement in the conduct of
the petroleum business, and in 1909 Con
gress practically repealed the retaliatory
duty which had prevented imports of
petroleum from the most important pro-
dltcing fields. and the reports were largely
used in connection with that action 7
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!: SURELY BREAKS THE
: MOST SEVERE COLD.
: Also Ends All Misery From
the Grippe in Just a
! Few Hours.

~ < s'k,&&i&&x.&'&G'
Tie most severe cold will be broken and all
grippe misery ended after taking q dose Of
Pape's Cold Compound every two hours until
three consecutive doses are taken.
Yen viii distinctly fesl all the disagreeable
symptoms leaving after the very nrst dose.
The most miserable headache. dizziness. head
and nose stuffed up, feverishness. sneexins, run.
Ming Of the nose. sore throat, mucous catarrhal
discharges. soreness. stiffness. rhemuatism pains
and other distress vsnish.
Pape's Cold Compound contains no quinine,
which have oonclusively demonstrated is not
effective in the treatment Of colds or grippe.
Take this harmless Compound ~ directed.
with the knowledge that there is no other
medicine made anywhere else lin the world
which win, cure'your cold OF. end grippe misery
~ promptly asd without any other assistance
Or bad after-e6ects as a x-cest package Of
Pape's Cold COMPOUND wAieL any druggist h
-. world Gun IuR1aZs st
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HISTORIC SCOURGES
V-ASIATIC CHOLERA.
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

subsequent inquiry showed that the
disease had been introduced by vessel
arriving at that port via the Red sea.
TOulon had q population Of about $4,000.
including Italian labOrers, mostly en-
plOyed in the karbor, who, with their
families, numbered 10000. These people
lived under circumstances in every way
favorable to the propagation of the
cholera when once introduced. It spread
rapidly and within two weeks was preva-
lent all through the city.
Italy suffered far more severely than
France, the seaports Of Naples and
Genoa being the chief seats Of the pesti-
lence. July IL steamer arrived at
Naples having on board 125 refugees from
Toulon. At Naples again all the condi-
lions were favorable to the spread of
cholera when it had been once intro
duced. The pestilence developed rapidly
after a week or ten days. Up to Sep
TENDER IA, the number Of deaths in that
city was 1927. Next after Naples,
Genoa suffered most severely.
The disease appeared there simultane-
Ously with its manifestation in Naples
and was traceable with equal certainty
to refugees from France. September 8
there were thirty-one cases and thirty
deaths. and the number did not vary ma
with considerable rapiditJ in Genoa after
it had sensibly declined in Naples. The
whole number of deaths. in Genoa was
not far from 900. or. in proportion to the
population. about one-fifth as many as in
Naples.
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TO SEEK IMPROVEMENT
: IN BANKING SYSTEM
Cooperation of Commercial
Bodies Will Be Asked at
Monetary Congress.

Initial steps to obtain the co-opera-
ton of the commercial organizations of
the United States with the national mon
etary commission of Congress for the
improvement OF the federal banking and
currency system WIFI be taken at the
business mems monetary conference. to
be held as an adjunct to the convention
of the National Board of~Trade. Wed
nesday. in the New willard Hotel 49,,
Representative Edward B. Vreeland. of
New York. A. Piaxt Andrew, assistant
secretary of the Treasury; c. Stuart
Patterson of Philadelphia, Irving T.
Bush Of New York ana other experts
in finances will address the conference.
sBanking problems; the subject of federal
legislation for a quarter Of, a. century,
iare Ito be. considered. "A comprehensive
reform of the currency also Will be dis
,cussed. .
|, The sessions of the convention will be
held Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday
.anda.a banquet will be held Thursday
.evening. Prominent students of bank
ling problems will speak.
!: = Many Topics Coming Up.
/ divide and vital interest are the topics
thatawill engage the attention of the con-
ference. Conservation of national re-
sources and the American merchant ma
rine question will be considered, An
amendment 10 the bylaws to allow Of
closer relationship with the government
is to come up.
Resolutions favoring or opposing rural
parcels post have been submitted from
several trade bodies. One-cent letter
postage and printed matter on govern
ment stamped envelopes are subjects Of
other resolutions to be discussed. I'm
provement of rivers and. harbors, the dis
charge of sewage into navigable water
ways, floor protection and the tariff are
other problems.
The New York Produce Exchange has
sent in a request for an amendment of
the law limiting the size of piers, so as
to permit the extension of piers in New
York harbor to admit of the docking of
giant ocean liners.
Several hundred delegates to the con-
vention already have arrived in Wash
ington, among them being representa-
tives of chambers of commerce from
many places. Some. of the. visitors are
not members of the National Board OF
Trade. but are here on it's Invitation to
take part in the conference.
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Special==GOWm Value
Worth ST. 5O==fOr 60C

Manufacturers short lots of Nainsook and Muslin
Gowns: mostly lowneck and square styles. Empire et
fects with whole fronts OF embroidery, medalons and
lace Insertions with ribbons drawn through Others
empire style with insertions of lace waist lne neck
and sleeves trimmed with lace and ribbon beading
many other handsome styles. Worth not less mOc
than S1.oo; many up to $I.5o. Sale price,.
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Safety Devices on Ships.

George Ethelbert Walsh, who has con-
siderable standing as a special writer.
tells about safety devices that are used
on shipboard. both to save passengers
and vessel from danger and also to add
to the comfort Of the former. There 10 q
bewildering array of these thinGs On
every big steamship-things Of which the
average traveller has no conception. N
our next Sunday NaSaxinA
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Why Have PneumonisFR' by .Engene L..
Fisk, ND, contains a'waTnine against
the inroads of a most destructive disease.
Issses osrt -pfSt. ssifnlfaS, Maa,lf7lidx :
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The existence of cholera is practically
coeval with the race. 1t has been always
present in some lands, such as India and
China, while no country is absolutely I'M
mune from epidemic attacks It's ravages
far out-total those of any other plague.
1t possesses peculiarly deadly symptoms
which differentiate it from any other
known disease, and the true Asiatic cnoi-
era kills more quickly than any other
pest. Now that yellow fever has been al
most entirely stamped out around the
Gulf Of Mexico. cholera is the remaining
great scourge of human life.
The pest always has been peculiar peculiar tt, to
calittes, where the habits of the massed
inhabitants are uncleanly or unhygienic.
The famine-stricken districts of India are
hotbeds for cholera. While mild forms OF
the disease, such as cholera morbus. &C.
cur almost every summer and autumn
even in civilized lands or in temperate eli.
mates, the more devastating and fatal
type called 'Asiatic cholera originates pc
riodically in India during every hot sea
son.
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Annual January Undermuslin Sale
Started This Morning With Many Extraordinary Values

successful because the
of undemulins
that this annual sale
included is of sterling quality only
best choice feel that word to the
visis
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Disease Travels by
=. Water. Routes.

/ - III l6SO, during
the spring and summer months, the
scourge again appeared in northern
Italy and in Austria-Hungary. 1t is a
matter of record that cholera travels
quickest by water routes.
The uniform symptoms of Asiatic chol-
era are purging and vomiting, followed
by great prostration and by fatal col
lapse The disease. is probably of MAS
matte origin, fostered by conditions which
favor it's local development. But whether
the disease ought to be called contagious
or not is one of the most warmly dis
puted points in medicine. IT. is certain
that habitual personal contact with the
sick is often not followed by the disease.
It is held by many that the disease is
eften propagated by drinking water; by
others that its germs are taken up from
the air the patient breathes.
1t is regarded by many as certain that
the disease is largely prOpagated from
the discharges of the sick. All such dis
charges should be treated with powerful
disinfectants, and deposited, If possible,
in places not frequented by those who
are well, and especial care should be
taken not to let them be thrown into
vaults in common use. During an cpl
demic all drinking water should be boiled,
eYen- when it Is reasonably certain that
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Corset Covers

50 dozen Cambria Corset
Covers, French style, lace
and embroidery trimmed;
also some with hemstitched
S sst'ssi worth 19e. 12Ac
IS styles of Nainsook Cor.
set Covers whole yokes OF
lace and embroidery; others
with neat embroidery edges;
many pretty styles. DE-
Worth 3oc. Sale price. @0S
20 styles of Nainsook Cor
set Covers, some deliberately
trimmed with medallions
and lace insertions; others
embroidery yokes back and
front, and many trimmed in
neat designs of nainsook
embroidery and pretty laces.
, Worth oec' Sale 400
Other handsome Covers
from o8c to 1898.
Long Skirts
|. Long Skirts of cambria !:
deep flounce, with 3inch en-
broidery insertion and wide
embroidery :ruff1e. Worth
$I.25. Sale, ~ zAc
price.
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Gowns

20 dozen Initial \ainsook
Gowns; made extra full ;
woke of valenciennes lace in
sertions: medallion in front,
with initial: kimono sleeves.
Worth SI.oo. Sale zoe
price.
Five styles of Muslin
Gowns. chemise style, with
all-over embroidery yoke.
finished with ribbon bead
ing; another with high or V
neck; fine embroidery inser-
tons between fine tucks.
Worth 6oc. Sale Roc
price.
20 styles of Nainsook
Gowns: low, high and Y
necks; one style empire, with
rows of valenciennes lace
insertions to waist. back and
front forming, the ! sleeve
over shoulder J. ribbon bead
ing; others medallion and
lace trimmed. Spe- Q2c
clal. $3.50. $685..
Nainsook towns; low,
square and high necks !;
trimmed with fine. nainsook
embroidery and Germ n
valenciennes laces. 81 40
Worth Sc. Special. y L o4y
Other Nainsook Gowns
from ST 90 up to $1,000.
Drawers
50 dozen Muslin Drawers,
umbrella style; wide ruf1es,
with henstitching; French
bands. Worth csc. 4 DlZC
Special. ........ S/9S
Cambria Drawers, with
wide umbrella founce hem
{ stitching and fine tucks in
rufae and above. Dr.
Special. 49,. @AS
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10 STYLES of Long Skirts,
with o-inch flounce; others
with knee. flounce, and wide
lace insertions in flounce;
many other hand S o m e
styles. Worth SI.5o. MQc
Sale price. .......... Nv
Other handsome STYLES
from ST 40 to $500.
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say that treatment
Treatment Should should be. CHIEFLY
Be Preventive. wi, Yeu p.rke 50 No =
diarrhoea in a cholera season should be
neglected. During the active stage of
the disease cold congresses to the bowels
are sometimes useful. The administra-
ton Of diffusive stimulants in small
doses. during. the stage Of collapses
should be persisted in. Friction by the
hand may relieve the spasms of the
muscles. Great care should be taken
for long time lest a relapse should
occur, and the food of convalescents
should be of the very lightest and bland
est character for some days.
In 1910 the ravages of cholera which
had ragged in Russia uninterruptedly for
the previous three yearS-carrying off
nearly 100000 victims-attracted the at
tention of the entire world, and was
spoken Of in the press as an interna-
tional menace. Germany and Italy had
some cases of cholera, and our own
government began to take extraordinary
precautions at the ports OF entry. The
epidemic attacked almost the entire Rus
sian empire. The outlying districts were
hotbeds of the plague, and SO helpless
was the health bureau that it could not
keep the epidemic even out OF the capt.
tai and other large cities.
From June to October there were. hiss
cases in St. Petersburg and 1,1O7 deaths.
In Moscow alone was the health depart
ment sufficiently organized to resist the
epidemic successfully. The figures avail
able at the st. Petersburg sanitary bu-
reau show that during the epidemic
there were 1906 cases. with SS716
deaths throughout the empire.
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In the year 1854. Immediately following
the Mecca pilgrimage of that year,
=. Asiatic cholera be-
,cholera. Spread came epidemic in those
70 Eu1ops Europe bordering upon
] the Mediterranean. The earliest mention
l.n il &aslar Ioulop. ,Erance. TpRe I but
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from 81 40 TO Sl 500.
French Underwear
French Corset Covers,
made with hand-embroid-
cred scallops. and ribbon
drawn through; sizes EAr
36 to ~. Sale price. O'S
French Chemises. with
hand-embroidered vokes,
forming whole front of en-
broidery; worth TOO
Sligo. Sale price. -. q
Lot of Hand embroidered
Drawers. Corset Covers and
Chemises: beautifully EN-
broidered in handsome de-
signs. Worth $r.5o. csc
Sale price.
Hand-embroidered Gowns.
Corset Covers and Drawers;
deliberately embroidered fin
ished with ribbons. Worth
$2;oo and ss,e5. ST. 40
Sale price.
Lot of fine garments
Hand-enbroidered Gowns,
Corset Covers, Drawers and
.Chennises Gowns with whole
front of embroidery. kimono
sleeves Chenlises elaborate
~ embroidered: garments
worth Ss,u ar up to $500. ST.. %
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Cholera Scare in
Italy in 1910.

and Messina. Fears of a cholera cpl
demic became acute in Rome. whittier
thousands of refugees from the south
had fed. On October 1 it was stated
that new cases were developing in the
infected districts at the rate Of 100 per
day.
There have been several serious choI-
era epidemics in the United States. In
1882 New York was visited by the
scourge, and in three months, from July
to October, there were more than 1900
deaths in the city alone, without reck-
oning those in the suburbs. In 1865 there
were 1.4OO deaths in the city and its
suburbs
The 1910 outbreaks in Mediterranean
tOwns-Naples, Messina. Turin, LeghoiV.
Palermo and Genoa-foilowed the usual
eastward course Of the scourge previous
ly described. There were also sporadic
cases on steamships arriving In New
York harbor from infected points, but,
thanks to rigid inspection and quaran-
tine, the disease obtained no foothOld on
this side Of the Atlantic.
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The great Hindu and MOhammedan re-
ligious festivals and pilgrimages to Be
mares, Delhi, Mecca,
Hegira Occurred etc, occur regularly,
=, though at slightly
IN dOt weather varying times of the
wear. vet always during the hotter
months. It is an historic axiom that had
the Mohammedan hegira occurred IA
cooler weather. millions OF HVes Wouiu
have been saved to humanity
Cholera usually originates at MecGa'
whence il is sometimes carried to lndla,
but often the reverse process taxes pace.
Whenever the movable feast of the he
gira falls in the hottest months an out
break of cholera in its most V1rulent and
deadly form may be predicted. From Ara
bia the pest is propagated by shipping
and the Mediterranean, while the great
overland caravans, radiadng like the
sticks of a fan, carry the scourge into
Turkey and Russia.
There are two mainland routes pS WHICH
this distribution has been effected. the
first of these is by way of Mecca, and
thence to the Mediterranean countries.
The second is by way or the caucasus
the Don, the Dneiper and other rivers
coursing northward into Russia, 10 81.
Petersburg and the Baltic.
The latter route was followed in the. Sc
we're epidemic of the summer ana ran OF
1910. and by the first route was spread
the dreadful epidemic of 1885 which fell
with especial severity upon Marseille and
ravaged the peninsula south Of the Pyren-
neese At this time Spain had more than
a third of q million sufferers and 10000
deaths.
In the year 1854. Immediately following
the Mecca pilgrimage OF that year.
x, Asiatic cholera be-
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The vagaries Of Asiatic cholera are
peculiar. When the Black Watch regi-
ment was attack
Vagaries of ed in India in
NJ, n..,;.- 1857 there were
kiaSue 1OouAA' forty seizures in
one night and thirty Of 4he men AseyA
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the sources Of supply are free from con
tamination.

without describing the various stages
Of the fatal disease, it is enough to