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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
Strange Children.

George Bancroft. the historian,
used to relate with gusto a joke that
he caught while trotting to school
along u Massachusetts country road.
1t was about old Levi Lincoln. says
Percy II. Epler in Master Minds at
the Commonwealth Heart"
The old gentleman was nearly
blind. A flock of geese was being
driven gobbling up Lincoln street.
Leaning far out of the carriage. the
fine old aristocrat, thinking they were
children, threw out a handful OF pen.
MES, graciously exclaiming:
God bless you, my children!"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
"she Is Gone, Them" Gasped the Boy.

"She Is Gone. Them" Gasped the Boy.
c~uriously. The train was two hours
and a half late or she'd never have
got it"
shes gone them" gasped the boy.
Yes"
Thank God she got away" he muir.
INJURED as he lapsed into complete I'M
consciousness.
There was good stuff IT. the boy.
in spite of all. He did not want an.
other human beings life on his hands.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
DISTEMPER

In all its forms among all ages of horses,
as well as dogs, cured and others in same
stable prevented from having the disease
with SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE.
Every bottle guaranteed. Over 100000
bottles sold last year $50 and 81 90. Any
good druggist, or send to manufacturers.
Agents wanted. Spohn Medical Co., Spec.
Contagious Diseases. Goshen, Ind.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
He Mas

Johnny Williams had been bad"
again.
"Ah, me, JOHNNY" sighed his Sun
day school teacher, 81 am afraid we
shall never meet in heaven"
What have you been doin'?" asked
ly.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
SYNOPSIS.

4 fuuli.h vriig :"ndcrfoot becomes
fascinated VIII a." hp'l. artful wife of n
drunken rry-l".iur in n western mining
town Tlry prrllr" to clope In n blind
ing blizzard hnt at" confronted by the
,uaudIiu husband II" Is shot by the
Wife. bat TIC rhlyalrpIs hoy pnis n note to
the body taking the crime upon himself.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
The Wonders About Us

with all the juices and potencies OF
life. transcends anything We have
dreamed of superterrestrial abodes.--
John Burroughs.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08

Sarsa pariIIa

Cures all humors, catarrh and
rheumatism, relieves that tired
feeling, restores the appetite,
cures paleness, nervousness,
builds up the whole system.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called sarsatabs.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
Gettin0 On.

WELL, little boy, did you go to the
circus the other day."
"Yes'm. Pa wanted to go, SO | had
to go with him"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08

It's difficult to discourage a girl who
can't sing.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08

Smokers like Lewis Single Binder cigar
for its rich mellow quality.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08
Too Much So.

OC WuSV wv
Machinist-l say, boss, are your buzz
GERS In this Office going all right?
Occupant-Yes, IL you meap the
flies and mosquitoes.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-08

A little too much learning is u dan.
gerous thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
PULLED OFF THE BAR.
Steamer Newport News Arrives
Here and Departs for Norfolk.

"Off again. on again. off again. is the
story from the log of the steamer New
port News of the Norfolk and Washing
ton Steamboat Company. In the dense
fog that hung over the river the steamer
ran her nose into a mud bank off Pts
Getaway creek, near Fort Wash
ington yesterday morning on her
trip from Norfolk to this city. In. an
effort to back out Of this predicament in
the fog the Newport News dislodged her
nose from the mud and backed into a
sand bar. This. left her propellers pow
erless, while the bow was loose in eight
cen feet of water Passengers and freight
were. taken off by steamer sent down
from Washington.
"A fleet of tugs pulled and painted at the
side of the. Newport News all day and
finally got her off the bar at 6 O'Clock
pm. The steamer reached Washington
.at. 1915 o'clock, was loaded for the night
trip and steamed away again, at s:15
o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
HISTORIC SCOURGES
SMALLPOX.
By FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

cination. although OF such signal efficacy
In preventing smallpox, is utterly power
less to cure IT. No treatment will pre-
vent pittng, although many persons who
nave undergone an attack are not perma-
nently disfigured in this way.
Avoidance OF exposure to the contagiou
Will also prevent the disease, but this Is
dlfncult and often impossible to man.
age. All clothing, bedding. etc, which
may have become infected are destroyed
by fire, or. il too valuable to be sacri.
need, are disinfected by heat as high as
IL Fahrenheit or by the fumes OF
burning birthstone. Every one exposed
to the disease usually is required to be a,
once revaccinated. Patients are capable
OF conveying the infection until all the
crusts have fallen off.
The last great epidemic OF smallpox
North America. began in 1870 and abated
in 1873. Although there are. and always
Will be, sporadic cases and even lengthy
visitations of the scourge here and there
throughout the world. modern methods
of prevention and segregation in civ
ll1zed countries at least may be relied
upon to stop all threatened epidemics.
While there are those who still doub,
the efficacy OF vaccination, its value is
really as well proved as anything can be
short of multiplication table The ex.
perience of the Philadelphia Municipal
Hospital. but one instance of thousands
might be cited. Although 5000 cases
were treated there during a term OF
years. not single physician, nurse OF
attendant who had been properly vac
cinated contracted the disease or $500
cases treated during one outbreak no,
single case was of a person who had
been vaccinated within the recognized
term of years.
observation-disclosures SCOURGES.
v. Asiatic Cholera.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15


=. checked by
Checked by Vaccination vaccination.
in Nineteenth Century. cont,nued
its course as a deadly pestilence almost
always and everywhere present. sparing
no age,. sex, condition or nationality.
No one was safe from it except by vir-
tue of having already passed through its
perils. Its history, like that of other
acute contagious diseases, is that, while
always prevailing to a certain extent, es-
pecially in large cities, 1t ragged as an
epidemic every few years. This periodi-
cal recurrence is doubtless due chiefly
to the fact that each epidemic exhausts
nearly all the subjects then susceptible
to the disease, SO that a certain time
must elapse TOR a sufficient number of
others to be born into the world to
afford the material for fresh outbreak.
This theory explains the recurrence OF
such scourages as the plague and the
sweating sickness through SO many CEN
turtles As has been noted, up to the
latter part of the eighteenth century
there was no known method of render
ing people immune from smallpox. 1t
looked as If the human race was doomed
to suffer indefinitely from it's awful
ravages. But about the year 1773 DR..
Edward Jenner, an English physician and
a pupil of John Hunter, began the search
for prophylactic. Some time previously
he had Investigated the cowpox, being
led thereto by accidentally hearing of
curious rustic legend or axiom to the
effect that milkmaids or dairymaids who
had contracted the mild and almost
harmless cowpox were exempt from
smallpox.
May IA, 1896. DR.. Jenner vaccinated a
boy eight years old with lymph from
the hand of a dairymaid, who had been
inoculated the same lad with smallpox
virus. The experiment was successful
and an account was published in June.
1898. The practice of vaccination grad
ually gained ground, though not with
out sertuous opposition, which has con-
tinued up to the present day. Wherever
it is practiced the ravages of the small
pox scourge has been controlled and al
most stopped, and most civilized countries
now enforce compulsory vaccination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15

DIED.
ADAMS. On Saturday, January IL, 101.
1910 a.m., RICHARD. beloved So
Robert and Elizabeth Adams.

ls:io s.m. ' McRARp enu Beloved son son Of
Robert and Elizabeth Adams
What matter though life be dreary,
And we tread its paths alone,
II when the journey is ended
In hssvf H1s sc M S fne~ A sS6 G TrHEk
court Tuesday. January il, at 2 pm.
Boston. Mass. papers please copy
BECK. On Friday. January 13. 1911. MARTHA
j: BECK. widow of Thomas Beck and mother
Funeral from her late residence, No. 23 Iowa
circle, Monday: January 10. at IL am. In.
terment Rock Creek cemetery.
BEUCHERT. On Saturday. January II. 1911.
Avenue sm at ner es
.nee Callahan). beloved wife Of Theodore l..
Funeral from her late residence on January 1s
Peters Church at ocloct. n in inter- en- at at
ST. Mary's cemetery.
CARROLL. Departed this life on Tuesday. Jan.
ter in New YORK MRS. s'f TLoeS c c
Funeral from Third Baptist Church. 9Th and 9
streets northwest, Sunday, january Is, ut
pm. Rev. j. W. Lee pastor.
CLARK. On Friday, January 10. 1911, at LAS
pm. at the residence Of her grandson-in-
law. Samuel Giddings; 81 9th street north.
Funeral from st. Mary's Church. Alexandria;
Va, on January l6, at $50 am. Funeral
car leaves Mount Vernon station At S:4j
am. Friends invited.
CLEMENTS. On Friday. January. IS. 1911.
JAMES T., beloved husband OF sarah L.
Clements.
Funeral from his late residence, 124S Wisconsin
avenue northwest Monday, January l6. at
where requiem mass will be said 1T O'clock.
sInterment at Oak Hill cemetery.
The members Of the Association OF the Old.
est Inhabitants. District OF Columbia. are re-
spectfully invited to attend the funeral services
OF our late associate, JAMES T. CLEMENTS.
at Holy Trinity Church, Monday. the 18th inst.
o. am: THEODORE ". MOVES. President,
BENZ. W. REISS, II. s.
DEAN Departed this life on Thursday. Janu.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15

According to the best medlcal authority
we know nothing of the original cause
of smallpox, but
Nothing Known Of it never occurs
Origin Of Disease. sequence Of in
lection conveyed from one person to an
other. The contagion exceeds in yiru-
lence that Of any other disease. The In
fictitious principle is know to reside in
the fluid contents of the pocks and In
the crusts resulting from their desicca-
ton, and it is probable that 1t Is also
contained in many of the fluids OF the
body Moreover, 1t pervades the emana-
lions from the person, so that actuai
contact with the sick Is not necessary 10
the conveyance of the disease.
To what distance the volatile con-
tagium may extend is uncertain, but II
is known to have crossed river Low
feet wide In its fixed condition, at
tached to articles of clothing, beddins'
merchandise, mail matter, paper money,
ETC., this infectious principle Is very en-
ergetic and persistent. The disease Is
IT all periods of it's course.
even in the period of incubation before
any symptoms have occurred, and as
late as the close of the stage OF decrus-
tation; but probably 1t is most intensely
contagious during the vesicuiar stage OF
the eruption. Even dead body Is capa-
BILE of conveying infection. 1t may also
be carried from one person to another
without the person who carries 1t him
self suffering from an attack. But un-
doubtedly those surroundings where pow
erty, squalor and dirt abound are IA
yorahle to the spread of smallpox. Fresh
air, sunlight and cleanliness are Its foes.
The treatment OF smallpox. according
to medical authorities. consists in con-
serving the re-
Careful Nursing About sources of the
the Only Treatment. early detect
ing and combating complications, such
as chill or cold. No sort OF medication
or regimen exerts any curative effect in
the proper sense Of the word. Many So
called specifics have been Wanted. but
there u no satisfactory proof that they
have ever accomplished anything. Vac
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15

According to the best medical authority
we know nothing of the original cause
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
NOT TO ABANDON FORT.
Garrison Will Be Maintained at
Winpate. N. M,

The House yesterday refused TO order
the abandonment of Fort Wingate, \. NJ,
and the transfer of the troops to Fort
Sam Houston, Tex.
The military appropriation bill author
lied the construction of new quarters at
Fort Sam Houston for the additional
troops. The entire provision was ruled
out of order. however, by the presiding
officer of the House.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
J. T. Howells New Position.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. January H.
Joseph r. Howell. formerly president of
the Carnegie Trust Company New York.
was today elected president of the Cum
berland Valley NationaF Bank of this
city. 1t is understood he will return to
Nashville and take charge of the Cum
berland Valley National next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
In Memoriam.

BAXTER. In sad but loving remembrance ~ q
dear husband ia and father, h ~, JOHN H. BAx,
yesterday. January IA. 1909.
May he rest in peace.
BY HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
CLARK. In loving remembrance OF our beloved
husband and father. JOSHUA g. CLARK,
who departed this life one year ago today,
The flowers lay about his grave may wither
and decay,
But f, s,, and green his memory in my heart
miss him and mourn him in silence unseen and
dwell on the memory of JOY that's past.
But the grave that contains him is sacred to
By HIS LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN
CONWAY. In sad but loving remembrance n
who departed this life eight years ago 10
day. January Is, 1903.
Eight years have passed. my hearts still sore.
As time goes on 1 love her more.
Her loving smile and gentle face
None can ever I'LL her vacant place
BY HER DEVOTED DAUGHTER.
cox. In sad remembrance of my dear husband.
who departed this life one year ago today,
January Is. 1910.
Just one. year and how miss him,
Friends may think the wound is healed;
Little do they know the sorrow
That lies within my heart concealed.
BY HIS DEVOTED WIFE. ELIZA GoRHAM
DENSMORE. In sad but loving memory Of or
dear mother. EMMA 4. DENSM0RE, Who
died six years ago today, January Il, 1908.
Loved In life, remembered in death.
BY HER DAUGHTERS.
GRINDER. In sad but loving remembrance OF
my dear mother ELLEN GRINDER. who
died year ago today. January II. 1919.
Mothers gone: fold gently on her breast
The hands loved dear
Untroubled shall be her rest,
That broken here.
BY HER DAUGHTER EVA.
JOHNSTON. In sad hut loving remembrance of
our dear son and brother, REUBEN H.
JOHNSTON. who left two years ago To-
day. January Is. 1909.
Gone but not forgotten.
BY HIS MOTHER, SISTER AND BROTHERS.
KAUFMAN. MARX KAUFMAN. who died
eight years ago today. January -. 1903.
By HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
SHEPHERD. In loving remembrance OF my
dear mother. MARTHA SHEPHERD, who
died four years ago today. January 10. 1907.
Unknown and forgotten by You may be,
But the grave that contains you is sacred to me-
BY HER LOVING DAUGHTER ANNIE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
CLUB HUNTERS AF|ELO
OUT BETHESDA WAY
Start Two Foxes and Enjoy
Protracted Ga|Iop-Addi-
tons to Riding List.

The members Of the Chevy Chase Hunt
Club were out yesterday and Fri
day, after a rest of several weeks due
to the cold weather and frost in the
ground. Yesterday a small gathering met
at Bethesda and enjoyed a good gallop
over the Goldsborough and Stacks
places and through the valley. Some Of
the riders dropped out when the valley
was reached. The finish was just west
Of the Willows Inn. on the Rockville
pike. The going was heavy. but the
scent was strong and the sport good.
Two Foxes Started.
Friday the master Of hounds declared
a bye day. The small field that could
kennels and went to the Forest Glen
mediately started, but was lost
after twenty-five minutes of fast work
in the. vicinity Of the little town OF
Kensington,' where the line seemed to be
broken and the pack went at fault.
The hounds We're then taken to the
Garrett Park covers, where after working
but a few minutes fox was aroused,
and, after twenty minutes In cover. was
driven into the open and earthed In a
drain just south or the farm buildings Of
The Hermitage With the going hook
deep this was considered work enough
for one day, and the pack was taken back
to the kennels.
Tomorrow the foxhounds will meet at
Potomac at Ii O'Clock, and from then on
regularly as scheduled.
Additions to Regulars"
There are many additions to the reg
ular field, many of whom are now in
town for the winter. Mitchell Harri-
son and his wife, who have been hunt
ing in Leistershire in England for the
past few years; Mr.. Litteaur of Genesee
hunting country, who has leased the
Carpenter house on 18th street for the
winter, and Charles Richardson, an old
member of the Chevy Chase Hunt, who
has recently left the diplomatic service,
are now expected back in the field. Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard McGrann are here for the
rest Of the season, with their horses.
Mr.. McGrann, whose stable of hunters
is we'll known in the sporting world, re-
Gently gave up mastership in the Killa-
shandra Hunt of Lancaster, Pa, on &C
count Of the constantly increasing amount
of wire fence in that country.
The best hunting of the season will be
enjoyed from now on. The frost has
improved the scent immensely, it Is said,
and the best part of the country, which
the master has been saving, will be
hunted over, including Rock creek val
ley and the Potomac river valley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15

Comparatively few people, in these care
full days OF compulsory vaccination and
rigid quarantine, can realize what a
frightful scourge to humanity smallpox
has been In it's total of devastating ef-
feet on human life 1t has probably
equaled any of the great plaques and DIS
tempers of history, owing to the melan-
choly fact that from probably the earliest
times it always has ragged in some quar-
ter of the globe with greater or less NOR
tality in its train. 1t is always epidemic
somewhere.
Formerly smallpox was considered as
inevitable and incurable, while the rude
medical science of antiquity and OF the
middle ages down to the last quarter OF
the eighteenth century. was poweriess 10
prevent it's ravages. Even today there is
no cure for the. filthy disease. The mod
ern weapon consists wholly in prevention.
Smallpox is said to have prevailed IN
eastern countries from the most remote
antiquity, but it's early history is shroud-
ed in obscurity. Aaron, an Alexandrian
priest. who lived in the early part OF the
seventh century, is said to have nrst de
.scribed the disease. Some have traced
an allusion to it in certain passages or
the Old Testament, as, for instance,
Moses record of the plague OF boils and
blains. The Greek writer's included
smallpox and measles under the same
head or class of diseases.
The first appearance OF smallpox In
Europe is supposed by some to have been
the epidemic
It's First Appearance described by
in Europe About $50. Tours as
having prevailed in France in the reign
Of Childebert about $50. 1t is more
generally considered, however, that the
disease was first brought to Europe by
the Saracens about 10. Spreading from
Spain, it soon overran Europe, but spared
for a time certain isolated countries.
such as Denmark. where it did not appear
until 1877. 1t was carried to the west
Indies in 1911 by the adventures who
fastened to profit by Columbus discov-
cry Of the new world. 1t reached Mexico
in 1870 and Brazil in 1868. Farther north
it first appeared in Maryland, having
been brought there by an English ship
in the early part Of the seventeenth cen
fury. Thence it rapidly spread through
Virginia, the Carolinas, New England
and other portions of the American COLO
MES Strangely enough the disease is
more than usually fatal to aboriginal
peoples, such as the native Indians OF the
West Indies, the inhabitants Of Poly
nesia, our OWE American red men and
the Esquimaux Of the arctic circle.
Neither palace nor hovel formerly was
immune from the ravages Of smallpox.
Royalty itself persisted in the persons OF
Queen Mary of England in 1854, the
Emperor OF Germany in I'LL, the
Dauphin and Dauphiness of France in
1712, the Emperor Of Russian in 1870. the
Queen of Sweden in 1741 and Louis XIV
Of France in 1774. In the middle of the
eighteenth century 100000 persisted in
Russia. In London in 1923 one out Of
every fourteen deaths was due to small
pox, while in France in 1854 the rate was
as high as one in ten.
Up to the beginning of the nineteenth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-15
Billion ness

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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-03-31
Usually Cautious, He Hastily Bought
the Nickel Plate Because II Was
Going to Be Sold to Jay
Gould.

7 wish you could have seen William
H. Vanderbilt upon one occasion when
he thought he was compelled to de-
eide whether he would spend several
millions In the purchase of railroad
or let 1t CO." said the late Charles G..
Clarke, who was for many years one
Of the most intimate personal friends
OF Mr.. Vanderbilt and vice-president
Ut the Vanderbilt lines.
I'm order the better to understand
the description, | am going to give
you, l ought to remind YOU" contin-
ued Mr.. Clarke, "of the manner in
which the Nickel Plate railroad was
built 1t was promoted chiefly by
Gen. Sam Thomas and Cal Brice-
we always called him Cal-and we
suspected from the beginning that
1t was built with the intent, by a
sort of genteel blackmail, to compel
Vanderbilt to buy it. 1t ran from Buff
falo to Chicago and practically paral
leled the Lake Shore railroad. There
did not appear to be the slightest ne
cessity for building a railroad there,
since the Lake Shore coull take care
Of all the business that was offered.
That was the reason why we sus-
pected that the chief object Brice
and Thomas had In promoting the rail-
road was to unload 1t at fat profit
upon the Vanderbilts.
Just about that time Mr.. Wander
bilt was having a good deal of per-
plexity on account of the building of
the West Shore railroad, which prac-
ucally parallels the New York Central
from New York city to Buffalo; and
be was accustomed to declare that
he'd be hanged If he'd buy the West
Shore, and he'd be id If he'd buy
the Nickel Plate. Yet he bought the
Nickel Plate, almost In the twinkling
Of an eye; and I'll tell you exactly
how 1t happened, although a part OF
the anecdote has already been pub
lished.
"One day l was with Mr. Vanderbilt
in his office when some one brought
to him a telegram that had come
over the company's wires from Buffa-
10. He opened it and read it, and then
handed 1t to me. AS nearly as can
recollect. the telegram stated that
Gen. Thomas and Cal Brice had just
left Buffalo In private car with Jay
Gould as a guest, and that they we're
going to take him on a tour of inspec-
ton over the Nickel Plate.
What do you think of that, Char
Hep asked Mr.. Vanderbilt. excitedly.
II don't know what to think OF it,
replied.
Well, | know Mr.. Vanderbilt
cried, as he jumped out of his chair
and began walking excitedly back and
forth. They've got tired fishing for
me and they're going to have Gould
make an offer to buy the Nickel Plate