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New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

stages a more or less purulent discharge
Is present. The disease spreads hy direct
or Indirect transfercuce of discharge from
one persons eye 10 another. The direct
transfercncc is naturally brought about by
proximity of affected persons TO those not
affected: the indirect transference by un-
cleanly habits in the use OF common uten-
slls. basins. towels. bed linen and the Ike.
Transferencc of the disease through the
atmosphere does not occur-that is. 1t Is
not disseminated by air contaglon. While
not actively contagious during all It's
stages. at any time It Is likely TO accept
other contaminations. which. producing
discharge. furnish the means Of conveying
the disease. These represent the so-called
types Of 'mixed infection
"Trachoma extends more or less over the
whole world and In this sense IS a universal
disease Fostcred by ignorance filth pow
erty and social misery. IT IS essentially a
disease among the poor II may attack
those who are in perfect health and does
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
DEATH LIST OF THE WEEK..

What well known persons have died IN
the course Of the week." asked Busy Man.
DR.. Isaac Kaufman Funk, author. ed
itor and publisher, died at his home in
Montcair n. J. Brlgadier General Asa B.
Carey, L. s. A. Tetired) died at his winter
home I'm Orlando Fla. He was paymaster
general OF the army during the Spanish
American War.
Robert Love Taylor, senior United states
Senator from 'F'iddling Bob to
all the South-died at Washington follow
ing an operation for gallstones. William
Watson McIntire, ex-Representative In
Congress and prominent in Maryland poll
tics for many years, was stricken with
apoplexy while alone in boat on the Gun
powder River, at Baltimore. Colonel Sam
ueI Bell, for thirty-seven years clerk of the,
United States Circuit Court in Philadelphia.
died at his home in that city.
General Shiaroku 1shimoto. Minister Of
War in the japanese Cabinet, died at Toxic
from consumption at the age OF ifty-eight.
Edward Terry. the actor, who had been
suffering for some time with neuritis, died
at Barnes, Surrey. at the age OF sixty-eight
wears. Karl May, we'll known German
writer of Indian tales and romanees fos
boys, died at Dresden in his seventeen
year.
James s. Connell. dean of the sugar
trade and for more than half century
familiar figure In the lower wall street
district, died at his home I'm Brooklyn, In
the eghty-eighth year OF his age. Pro-
fessor William A. Finch, Of the law depart
ment of Cornell University, died at his
home in Brooklyn. William Peter Mitchell.
an intimate friend OF Richard Croker and
for more than thirty years known through
out the New York County Democracy, died
at the home OF his daughter in this city.
Or John II. Mauser, one Of the best known
physicians In the country. died N Phiia-
delphla.'
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

arrangement permitting express companies
to mail packages over rural routes and au-
thorizing rural letter carriers TO express
packages delivered to them by mail patrons
Governor Dix signed the bill of Assem-
hlyman Brooks making numerous restric-
tions and regulations In relation 10 weights,
measures and containers, for the protection
of purchasers of foodstuffs The measure
provides that ice meat products and butter
I must be sold by weight, and other conf
modities not I'm containers must also be sold
by standard weight. measure or numerical
count, except that vegetables may be sold
by the head or bunch.
THE Governors of the states, as body.
filed with the Supreme Court OF the United
States their protest against the proposition
to strike down state railroad rates as inter-
fering with interstate commerce. They re-
spectfully called on the bench TO see that
the boundaries Of the states remain. II 10
the first time in the history of the nation
that such protest has been made Ihe
protest took the nature of brief. filed ss
friends OF the court by a committee con-
sisting OF Governors Judson Harmon OF
Ohio Herbert $. Hadley Of Missouri and
Charles r.. Aldrich of Nebraska. This conf
mittee was selected at a conference Of Go'-
ernors last September
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
HOW THE USE OF a COMMON
TOWEL SPREADS TRACHOMA
AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN.

lid lning-in New York. The mucous mem
brane of the eye is as subject to disease
as the membrane Of the nose; catarrhal
conditions i'm both are similar and cXten-
sive. 1t is hard to distinguish between an
ordinary inflammation and serious dis
ease. Every child's eyes ana many grown
ups would be better for a nightly washoIt
with clean water or saturated solution
of borC acid.
\ paper on traChoma by Dr. u. H. de
Schwcinitz says that the name trachoma
Is derived from a Greek word meaning
rough or 'roughness, because It is an
affection Of the lining membranes Of the
eyelids. whereby numerous small bodies,
trachoma bodies or follces. are developed.
These change the normal smooth surface
Of the membrane into "A rough. granular
condition: hence the common name. granu-
lar lids Sometimes appearing in acute
manifestation, 1t is usually characterized
by chronicity from It's incipiency and
always in It's duration, it may last for
months years and decades Unchecked or
untreated. it is likely to affect the clear
tissue which caps the front Of the eye,
the corneal window through which the rays
of light must pass to give us sight, causing
II to lose its transparency or pass into
actual liberation. From this occurs great
depreciation Of vision and. IN a certain per
centage of the cases, of blindness AS
cause OF total blindness, the percentage has
varied in different statistical inquiries from
II to 81 per cent, figures which fail utterly
to give an adequate idea OF the ravages
Of the disease in so far as useful sight is
concerned. The affection In some regions
and lands has by its vitation of vision dis
abled villages and districts
The disease passes through a number
OF stages or phases In some Of these
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

At certain foreign ports. notably at Ma
pies. Hong Kong and in Japan, there IS
a preliminary Sitting out OF trachoma In
fected immigrants by inspectors Of the
United States Marine Hospital service.
Certificates OF embarkation are denied. At
the port of Naples, for the year ended
June 3O 1911, there were 1869 cases OF ira
choma recommended for exclusion. In the
fiscal year 1s07-'08 a total OF 6,4o0 aliens
were advised to be debarred at all foreign
ports on the ground of their having the
disease. Trachoma caused the exclusion
Of 20 per cent Of all would-be immigrants
barred out OF this country in the fiscal year
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
A DRASTIC RATE MEASURE.

The Adamson bill regulating the rates
which may be charged by express COM
NAMES for the transportation OF packages
or parcels not exceeding eleven pounds In
weight was reported to the House at Wash
,ngton by the Committee on Interstate and
E,orsign Commerce. The Adamson bill
axes the maximum rate which may be
charged by express companies, the rate
varying according to the distance Of the
shipment. Between points not more than
o50 miles apart the rate is fixed at two
cents a pound on packages not exceeding
eleven pounds In weight. Between points
more than 1000 miles apart rate of L
cents a pound is allowed. with graduated
scaIe for distances between the 25o-mile
and the 2,OOo-mile zone. The bill also con-
,ains A provision intended TO beneft those
residing on rural mail routes. AS there are
mo express companies on these rural routes.
chairman Adamson proposes a reciprocal
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
News of the Past Week Is Here
Recapitulated for the Busy Man

Governor Dix vetoed the Wheeler milk
bill, which. at the instance Of Tammany
legislators, was jammed through the Senate
at Albany on the last day OF the session.
This is the measure the evil effects Of
which II II became a law The Tribune ex-
posed. 1t was shown in The Tribune by
the statements of experts on milk and by
statistics Of infant mortality that the bill II
It became law would increase the rate OF
infant mortality in the city tremendously.
AT the close Of a meeting called for the
organization of the Republican General
Committee of Kings County, in which en-
thusiasm at times arose close to the point
Of riot Timothy H. Woodruff was elected
leader"
THE MISSISSIPPI ON A RAMPAGE.
What miscellaneous news is there?"
inquired Busy Man.
THE food along the Mississippi and some
of It's larger tributaries is the worst on
record Seven thousand people homeless.
nearly ten thousand more heeing thelr
homes or preparing for instant night, elght
persons drowned, property loss extending
into the tens OF millions. dozens OF cities
up and down the river under water OF meh-
aced and levees giving way before the
pressure OF the vast waters briefly tell
the story of the greatest flood In history.
Congress appropriated $S5O,0oO as an emer-
gency fund for the strengthening and con-
str1,ction of government levees along the
Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers.
..Tbree buildings in the Latin &, Rand
Powder Company's works at Wayne, N. j.,
bIew up. and two men were killed, another
was badly injured and still others were cut
and bruised One man was driven insane
and another was struck dumb. There were
three distinct explosions, winch were felt
through a fifty-mile radius.
"A half blood negro girl. nineteen years
old. told the police at Lafayette, La, that
she, as high priestess OF negro cult the
Church OF the Sacrihce.' had killed with
her own hands seventeen OF the thirty-fve
negroes mysteriously murdered In South
western Louisiana and Texas towns during
the last fourteen months. Two other wom-
en- and two men, she said. members of the
cult. had taken part in these sacrifices,
which she. Clementine Barnabet had di-
rected.
CYCLONE sWooPs ON CAMDEN.
1.-TWO women were idtaily HJuieu' Scores
% houses were unroofed and more than
twenty-five were demolished by a wind
storm, of cyclonic velocity which passed
over part of Camden. N. j., and swept
dow, the Delaware River TO the centre Of
pb,ladelphia, doing thousands Of dollars
worth of property damage.
"calbraith p. Rodgers the first man to
roso the American continent In an aero
n,sne was killed almost instantly at Long
Reacb. cal, when his biplane. In which he
toa heen soaring over the ocean, fell from
ha,gbt of two hundred feet and buried
h,r, IN tho wreck. His neck was broken
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

and his body badly mashed by the engine
OF his machine.
Breaking down when confronted with
the glaring Inconsistencies OF his highway
robbery story, Robert r. Cooper. the en-
ploye OF the United Produce Company who
asserted he had been robbed Of $l,3Oo at
Fifth avenue and 65th street. Brooklyn.
confessed TO the police later that his re-
markable story Of daylight hold-up was
faxed for the purpose OF providing him
with an excuse for having lost $3.50. His
first story TO the police was that he had
been attacked by two thugs who bound
him, gagged him and then threw him Into
the cut where he was found, after having
taken from him 100 in cash. which he said
he had In his pocket.
SLAIN BY HER YOUNG UNCLE.
Little three year-old Annie Russo, living
with her parents at No 2070 First avenue,
was shot and Instantly killed by her uncle
Horace Buffardi. fourteen years old. Tho
gun, which the boy thought was unloaded
when off while pointed I'm fun at the child.
''Edward B. Alsop, seventy five years Old
a. wealthy retired steel manufacturer Of
Pittsburgh transferring TO his young sons
Harold =. L. and Edward H. Alsop. prop
erty valued at more than 100000. The
deed was dated February "a, the day before
Alsop married Miss Effe Pope Hll, OF
Georgia, who is about a quarter her hus-
bands age.
Justice Greenbaum decided that Mrs
Eleanor Livingston Phelps must carry out
the agreement which she made with her
husband. Charles Harris Phelps, In 1883. to
pay to him one-half OF her income from the
estate OF her father. John Augustus Pell,
which amounted to $4,000 a year Mrs.
Phelps also received from her mother an
estate valued at 100000. Mr.. Phelps was
formerly a well known lawyer in this city
with a large professional income.
THE report of the Mayors committee on
pavements was submitted. In summing up
the present condition OF the pavements the
committee says: If the condition OF a
city's pavements is a fair gauge OF its CIV
ilization, as has been maintained by nigh
authority. New York must rank low In the
scale. That its pavements are an unmis-
taxable evidence OF proyincialism there can
be no doubt. The pavements OF the city
are and probably always have been very
inferior to those of the first class cities or
the Old World. How unnecessarily bad
they are at the present time can only De
fully realized by one who has carefuiiy
compared them with the chief cities OF
Europe, and notably those of England and
Germany
Police Commissioner Waldo will be able
to appoint $50 additional patrolmen, as the
Board OF Aldermen appropriated So'Ooo 10
pay their salaries for the rest OF this year.
MEXICAN REBELS ARE DEFEATED.
lis there anything interesting in the news
budgets from other lands?' asked BUSY
Man.
"The troops of President Madero gained
their first victory in the campaign III
Northern Mexico. when they defeated the
Liberal general. Campo, at Parral and sent
him scurrying back 10 the base at Jlmenez.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
EXPECT PEACE IN COAL DISPUTE

What is there of interest in business
way" queried Busy Man
with only one or two exceptions the
suspension in the coal mining industry or
the country. which went into effect week
ago. when the wage contracts between the
members of the United Mine Workers Of
America and the btuminous and anthracite
coal operators expired, became general. ana
approximately 10000 miners are out of
work. John 2. White. president of the
miners union. said that he expected the
bituminous men to ratify' the Cleveland
agreement and return TO work probably by
AnrIl 20 He also predicted a speedy ad-
iustment of a wage contract In the anthra-
cite field when the miners and operators
meet in Philadelphia on April 10. Senti-
ment among the workers In the anthracite
region seems however, TO be crystallizing
In favor of prolonging the lay-on until the
onerators grant recognition to the union.
"A few hours after they had been ad-
dressed by William d. Haywood, leader OF
the Industrial Workers of the World strik-
ers in Lawrence and Lowell, fifty strikers
., the Forstmann Huffman mills In Gar
field \ j.. engaged IN a fight with the
dozen polce and special deputies hired by
,ha mills the result being that twelve
strikers. mostly women, were injured more
or less seriously.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

Amundsen reached the pole in the third
week OF December.
David Lloyd George. Chancellor OF the
British Exchequer, introduced in the House
OF Commons his budget for l9l2-lS. HIS
surplus was s32 III, 900. being the largest on
record wonderfully effective revenue
budget and extraordinary evidences Of ma
tlonal prosperity. despite the coal strike
inspired the Chancellor's eloquence, but ap-
parently there is no prospect OF relief Tor
taxpayers. Expenditures are rising as rap
idly as receipts, and the burdens of cost
ly bureaucracy for carrying the insurance
act and other social reforms into effect are
steadily increasing
"Carouy, one of the automobile hsndits
who killed chauffeur at Villaneuve-St.
Georges. held up a bank at Chantilly, Kill
ing two of the employees, and stole 5000
was arrested at Paris
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
Constant Reader Tells What
He Missed in Last
Weeks Papers.

Have you anything In the way OF news
for me, CLEANED from your newspaper read
ing Of the last week. asked Busy Man
last night Of Constant Reader "or has
everything been quiet along the Potomac?"
Quiet enough along the Potomac" re-
Joined Constant Reader. but not so quiet
among the gentlemen who would like TO
reside on the Potomac's shore for the next
four years from March 4, 1913. I'll tell you
all about it.
President Tafts statement that he is a
Progressive was disputed by Colonel Roose-
Welt in a speech at Louisville The ex-
President said Mr.. Taft in some Of his acts
had shown himself TO be a reactionary. in
support OF this contention Colonel Roose-
Welt went over the record of the present
administration In certain particulars and
criticised 1t sharply. His speech came at
the end Of the first day of his week Of
campaigning through West Virginia, Ken
lucky. Illinois and Pennsylvania
Colonel Roosevelt gave out statement
early In the week bitterly attacking Presi-
dent Taft and comparing the New York
organization leaders with Senator Lorimer
and Pat Calhoun. Of San Francisco. Dis
honesty ana corruption were words used
by the colonel when he mentioned Presi-
dent Tatts speech OF a week ago In Phila-
delphia, and the men who had Mr.. Taft g
interests In their keeping in New York in
the most barefaced manner cheated the
people out Of their right to an honest vote.
according to another of Mr.. Roosevelt $
remarks.
President Taft sent TO Congress his sec
ond message OF the present year on econ
omy and efficiency in the government SER
wee. He recommended the passage Of
legislation designed to save more than
NLooo'oo year. Probably his two most
striking proposals were that the local eov-
eminent officers in the Treasury. Postoft,ce.
Justice, Interior and Commerce and Labor
departments be put I'm the classified service.
and that the revenue cutter service be con-
solidated with the lighthouse service in the
Department OF Commerce and Labor.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
MILWAUKEE GUSTS SOCIALISTS.

With flood Of non-partisan ballots
Milwaukee voters swept from office the
city's Socialist administration and installed
non-partisan Mayor. Board OF Aldermen
and county Board OF Supervisors The
landslide probably eliminated every ma
uonal political party from participation in
future municipal elections in wisconsin,
because as a result OF the non-partlsan
victory in Milwaukee the state Legislature
al special session soon to be convened is
expected TO pass distinctly non-partisan
cty election statute.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

referendum vote decided to call on the
strike and advise the men to go oack 10
work. The final vote on the question Oh
accepting the provisions Of the govern
ments minimum wage bill and ending the
strike was az follows: Against resumption
A4.Oil: for resumption. 20l,OlS. The execu-
tive committee, after deciding TO advise the
men to return to work on the ground that
n two-thlrds vote would be necessary 10
either call or continue strike, nnaHy
agreed TO call special meeting OF the
federation 70 Indorse the decision Of the
committee.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
SCOTT LINGERs IN FAR SOUTH

Captain Robert f. Scotts vessel inc
Terra Nova, which carried the BRITISH eh-
pediton to the Antarctic. has arrived AT
Akaroa. a harbor In Banks Peninsula Ne"
Zealand. but has not brought back Captain
Scott or the members OF his expedition.
The commander of the Terra Nova Drousht
instead the following brief message from
Scott: 4 am remaining In the Antarctlc
FOR another winter in order to continue ana
complete my work On January captain
Scott had reached a point l5o miles from
the South Pole and was still advancing.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
A Few Simians Are Needed to
Help in the Effort to Dis
cover a Cure For
Trachoma.

yANTEp. y dozen monkeys to i'm
w children.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
MEXICAN REBELS ARE DEFEATED.

lis there anything interesting in the news
budgets from other lands?" asked Busy
Man.
"The troops of President Madero gained
their first victory In the campaign III
Northern Mexico. when they defeated the
Liberal general Campo, at Parral and sent
him scurrying back to the base at Jimenez'
Evening star., 1912-07-07

fusion, he said quietly, Il don't think there's
anything else"
ayes, there is, began Chewing. Hang
it all, Mendor! this performance of ours
seems pretty low when"
Mendor stopped him with appraised hand,
and smiled tolerantly. mot tonight, beg"
he said in dismissal. "Some other time will
do for that"
WHEN they had gone, Mendor, silent
and deliberate, put on his coat. Miss
Hopper walked slowly to the door and
closed it.
1Well?" he said.
"Then you-you diddoit?" she questioned.
He sat down, and she came back to the
opposite side of the desk.
NO. he answered, great WEAKNESS in
his voice. at was my chum. Whtestone is
the only other man who knows the story,
knows that the thing could be fastened on
me circumstantially. He lied for money"
"But the mark?"
1--WE each did that when we were at college
together. They were exactly alike. We had
the same initials"
He looked up at Miss Hopper steadily.
There was in her eyes far greater light than
they had ever known About her lips happy
fancies had left dimpled trail; and her
cheeks, Haunting the banners of triumph,
were colored to match the gorgeousness of
her eyes.
@What eyes you have!" he said, low toned
"The eyes of brave won1an-and how beau
tiful you are!"
And she, reading his glance saw for the
first time that thing which comes to US once
IN never so many, many years,-the glory of
real Romance!
Evening star., 1912-07-07

on the little hooks and dashes were burning
Garlock stepped forward and laid hand on
the desk
"If you are not the man" he said heavily,
3you have no mark above the elbow of your
left arm. The rest of this thing is circum-
stantial evidence. We can trace your trav-
els and your career, we know. But, if you
are the man, there is tattooed on that arm
mark-a half-circle, triangle, and the let
tiers E. B. Let us see.'
Miss Hopper watched Mendor while he
took off his coat Every movement he made
was steady, deliberate, unhesitant. He un-
buttoned his cuff and rolled the sleeve back
to the shoulder. The arm showed, white,
perfect, the muscles playing easily under the
skin
CHEWNING and Garlock, blank faced,
- stared at each other.
Mendor laughed. Chewing started for
ward, as if, prompted to supplement his
sense of sight, he would feel the barred flesh.
The accused man made no motion save for
the involuntary cenching of his left hand,
the steellike tightening of the muscles that
rose, lumpy, hard, under the skin. 1t was
not an attempt, not even threat, to strike;
but to the other it seemed menace, warn
ing that the man had endured to his limit.
Chewing stopped dead, drawing in his
breath sharply, and looked at Garlock.
"A man named Whtestone told us the
story volunteered Garlock, in way of
apology.
aFor money!" asked Mendor. His voice
grated with contempt.
"Yes,' acknowledged Garlock.
Mendor rolled down the sleeve and but
toned his cuff. Then, noting the others con-