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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-19

Barton county is by all odds the
banner county of the district. Jus.
what would have happened out there
if it had been a good day for voting
is hard TO Hutchinson
Gazette.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-19

The Justices Of the Supreme Court
of the United States gave more thanks
on Jan. l, probably, than they gave
on Thanksgiving Day. The reason for
this is that the Chief Justice and the
Associate Justices have several hun
dred dollars Increase each in their
salaries. The Chief Justice, who has
been meander.ng along on $4,000 a
year, will get 5000 and the Asso-
ciate Justices salaries have been in
crease to s14,50O a year. The in
creases we're provided for in the act
Of Congress Of last winter for the
revision Of the laws relating to the
judiciary.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-19

In last weeks election held in Ger
many for members of the Reichstag,
the Socialists made a gain Of "a mem
bers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-01-19

The reSubmission paper that was
to have been started in Topeka has
fizzled out
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
$4,000 SALARY
FOR A SINGER

BERLIN, December 20. - Frieda
Hempel, the star of Berlin opera
since the departure of Geraldine Far
rar and Emmy Dustinn, announces
that she has been signed by the Met
ropolitan Opera Company for three
years at an annual salary Of 100000,
She is to sing sixty times in six
months
/ Miss Hempels father is a wealthy
man, who took her from Berlin to
Potsdam to sing before the Kaiser.
The Kaiser was charmed with her
voice
Coincident with this announcement
Miss Hempel denied the story printed
in THE Memoirs of a Court Mar.
shall" which represented that she
was a participant in an orgy at the
Court of the late King Leopold of Bel
GUM, who conferred on her the Or,
der Of Leopold
/ Her account of the affair is that
she sang at the palace at the invita-,
ton of King Leopold. She was ac-
companied by three musicians, The
audience consisted of the King, the
Baroness Vaugha afterward his NOR,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
THE FIFTH SUIT
GETS DIVORCE

Los ANGELES, December ga
final decree of divorce was granted
today to Howard s. Reed, millionaire
club man and hunter of big game in
every part of the world. His wife
was Lillian Cole, noted Denver
beauty. They were married four
years, and Mrs. Reed filed four suits
for divorce, but each time a reconcile
alton followed and the couple started
on a new honeymoon.
Every Year Has Quarrel.
The schedule by dates runs as fol-
lows
1907-Married. Honeymoon No. 1.
Suit No. 1 by Mrs. Reed. Reconcilia-
ton and suit dropped
Honeymoon No 2. Suit No. 2
by Mrs, Reed. Reconciliation and
suit dropped
19O9-Honeymoon No. 8. Suit No
.3, by Mrs. Reed. Reconciliation and
suit dropped.
1s1O-Hoheymoon No. L. Suit No.
4, by Mrs. Reed. Cross-suit No 1 by
Reed.
1gl1-Divorce awarded Reed by
Judge Cole, of Imperial.
Meeting in Alaska.
- hx
gan in Alaska, where the wealthy
young hunter met the charming Lii
liam Cole, of Denver Before long they
were starting honeymoon No. 1 as
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed. The course of
their adventures took them first to
Hollywood thence to Alaska again,
and finally to Chicago, where the first
quarrel took place.
The fourth and last honeymoon was
passed on Mr. Reeds desert ranch at
El Centre. Here was his browning in,
suit. "He made me sell eggs to the
neighbors," Mrs. Reed is alleged to
have complained.
Reed Learns From Wife.
She left him, but Mr.. Reed had
learned a thing or two and taken a
leaf out Of his wife's book. He be-
gan suit for himself, alleging, it is
said, that "she is cruel and quarrel
some"
Mrs. Reed, shocked and chagrined
by her husbands precipitancy indig-
nantly did the best she could and en-
tered a cross suit, but all to no pur-
pose. With Judge Coles decree, all
chance of another honeymoon in mar
riage No 1 had passed
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04

ganatic wife, and an unknown woman.
King Leopold afterward led her
into an adjoining room, where he
talked to her on art The King on
offering her some candy angrily re-
proved the Court Marshal when he
saw that the box was nearly empty,
This incident, Miss Hempel suggests,
is responsible for the reference to her
self in the memoirs. The Chamber.
lain on the following morning brought
her the order of Leopold
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
Stop That Headache and Save Your
Nerves

waiting with what pep Won can mill
~ N
Why should a to
and 1870 NV "N
o
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
Reed learns from VIC.
MAN OF MANY coLoRs DEAD.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. December
2O.-John Hester, Michigans imam Of
many colors," died yesterday at, the
age of seventy-three For sixteen
teen years he had been the subject of
much medical comment, the color of
his skin having changed seven times
during that period
Once his skin turned red, but it was
nearly black at the time of his death.
Doctors attributed his condition to
Ia rare disease.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
ANCIENT REMAINS
ON TANNING ISLAND

Humphry Berkeley, Of Fiji, the own
er of Tanning Island, lately stated in
Sydney, that recent excavations dis
closed that the island was once in
habited by skilled races.
The excavations unearthed the re-
mains of a large building 200 feet by
so feet No mortar had been used in
the construction, the stones being
mortified together,
Near the building was found a tomb
containing a human skeleton with a
necklace Of the teeth of the cachelot
and other articles, including the skull
of a dog.
Mr. Berkeley concludes that the is
land was one Of the resting places Of
the Polynesians during their numer-
Gus migrations in the olden days.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04

Have you stopped to realize that it
is only little over three weeks until
the close of the STARS Great $4,000
/ Prize Contest? In reality the time is
getting very short, although there is
still time for many changes to take
place in the standing of the large
group of workers who are contending
for the splendid prizes which the
! STAR is offering.
( The standing of the contestants will
not be again announced until next
1 Wednesday, on which day the four
count period closes. 1t is evident,
however, that there are to be some
surprises at that time. In fact, there
have already been some shifting of
positions due to the big counts which
a number of candidates have secured
since yesterday morning when. the
four-count week opened, The other
islands have not yet had time to make
themselves heard in this matter, and
there is almost sure to be some heavy
votes polled by some of these ener-
getic workers.
Extra Prizes an Incentive.
The fact also that tins rs the first
week for the special contest for cash
bonus prizes to be paid to the eight
contestants who secure the highest
number of votes during the first two
weeks of January, is an added incen-
tive to lively work at present. Not
only will all subscriptions turned in
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
BEST CONTEST WEEK
ENDS ON WEDNESDAY

before Wednesday morning, January
10th, at eight o'clock be given four
times the regular NUMBER OF votes for
the Big Ten" prizes, but they will
also help nightly in the race for the
extra prizes whicn'range from SIS to
$3.50,
Early Work Pays Biggest.
AS before explained in these col
umns, the biggest credits are to be
secured early in the next three weeks.
There is only one week in which the
counts turned in will be multiplied
by four. Beginning promptly at eight
o'clock Wednesday morning, January
10th, the votes will be counted three
times for one week closing at eight
o'clock, Wednesday morning, January
18th. The week following this and
ending on the oath, will give only doU-
bic count, while the last few days of
the great contest will secure but sin
gle credit. 1t is therefore probable
that the big records will be made
within the next week or two.
Help Your Friend Now.
Friends of candidates, who have
been intending to subscribe for the
STAR Just before the contest ends
should realize that they can never
help their favorites in same degree
that they can between now and next
Wednesday morning. Your subscrip-
ton is worth more now than it ever
will be again. DO IT NOW!
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04

That habit is strong is a say.
ing that's old;
Bad habits cling tightest, I've
also been told.
BY using due caution one
break you may sheIve---
Cut out the eleven; the right
numbers twelve.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04

Fine Job Printing, Star once.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-04
Stearns' Headache Waters (Shac)


that--leaves head feeling atural
is
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Waters
the formation o a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28

step i'm an important point 10 pui 1n "n"
to the circulation of plague 1'"uS chan
ucIs Of commerce e WAS dD-i-u'I 'N
means Of a periodical rumi-atl"u "t TIA"
holds of vessels. 10 render ;h"m uui"nahi-
able by rodents and thus remove Pr'in'-
nenlIy the agency through "".'n the
plague has been transmitted from '"r' ID"
port at a cost of lie and troasur" "hicA
IL incalculable."
The PublIo Health and Marine Hospital
Service. with hundreds Of agents stationed
in all important disease ccnrcs Of TIN"
world. has been unable 90 determine deli
nitely the toll that has been clnh'' by
the plague alone.
It is estimated. however. that the num-
Der OF deaths that have occurred during
the eighteen years since thc present run
OF tho plague developed IN Asia. IN lNh
has reached Approximately 10000
IN enc wear tho toll Of India alone was
estimated al 5000. This resulted IN
Great Britain appointing the india Plague
Commission. which checked that cpl
d.mic. hut without wholly shutting the
disease ont of that country. II was ABOUT
ten years ago that this commission, az
ter long study. discovered that tn"
plague was carried by rats and the il"as
that inhabit them.
Luncheon had such tonical effect that
when Mr.. Hcffcrnan suggested u mirht
he interesting to GO down 10 the puarah-
tine pier and greet the launch Mary
Louise. containing buckets Of rodents that
had taken the count The Tribune man
did moi hesitate for more than five or
maybe six minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
DR. L Horn1c d1e1t 3eu1or deputy, and a leternat'
secretary to the Health officer

, DR.. O'Conncll says he desires above all
things to be authorized to begin immedt-
atcly the construction and equipment or
commodious hreproOr building to be
used as a pathological and meteorological
laboratory. He wants $4,000 for the con-
struction Of the laboratory and $1,000 for
its equipment.
But that, i'm the language OF Maurus
Pcrmuttcr. * something else gain.
From some ships as many as 80 rats
are taken; in others. only one or two
are found Dr. Baldwin's assistants Fin
the rats down on their backs on boards.
place them i'm pans of carOolic acid soiu-
ton, and dissect them.
Each specimen is numbered The facts
pertaining to each are dictated to a young
and unusually attractive woman. whose
attitude toward the whole environment
seems to be that any one who has
prejudice against a rat would probably
prove uiassed IN other respects, also.
They are almost as pretty as squirrels,
she SAYS and. at least in the state in
which they appear before her. they are
very luoffonsire animals indeed.
Or Baldwin explains that great care
Is taken TO examine freshly killed rate
only. as when decomposition sets in ;he
samples taken from the bodies Will be 90
overgrowu with other organisms that IL
will be- Impossible to isolate the pest
bacillus should it be present.
The plague bacillus as seen under the
laboratory microscope is found In small
round. pale, slistening colonies. The ir-
dividual bacillus is from ~ to micro
milIlmetres long and from $40 TO 40 OF
one of those things broad.
That is what Dr O'Connell meant when
he said that hall million Of them could
reside with comparative comfort on the
point Of pin.
They are usually seen single but some
times ,oiued end TO end i'm pairs or threes
then looking like links Of sausage. WIN
treated with = solution, Of carbofuchsin
they became dark "a, each end with
clear belt around the middle.
MI Hcuernau was just here called I"
the telephone by messenger who had
traiIed him to the laboratory from the
main Office at quarantine Station.
\ member OF the fumsatine crew was
on the other end Of the wire. The talk
went something as follows. Mr.. Heher-
nan at the receiver:
What's that you say? The chief OIL
Ger ON the ship says they haven't got any
rats? He doesn't want YOU to fumigat"
her? What's that? The chief officer
SAYS the cat of the ship ate three OF the
rats? And that was all the ship had"
All right brins the cat.
There is not much chance for any soI'
of a rat just now at Quarantine. Sot
even when one hides in cat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
Under Direction of the Health Officer of the
Port These Men Fumigate Every Ship Hail
ing from the Danger Zone and the
Disease Carrying Rats Thus Killed
Are Removed and Dissected.

, go down 10 get the rats that have been
killed. The descent into the hold is to
use the mild and modest adjective OF the
men who DO the work, unpleasant
You will not find n man who is doing
this thing from eight 10 eighteen hours a
dav. with no day of. VINO has written 10
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission rec
ommending himself for medal And yet
it would seem that any one OF them
would under existing conditions. have an
unSullicd claim
There IL nothing emotional about them
when telling Of their work. They are no.
practiscd in "emoting': they simply ="
down where the rats are. destroy sald
rats e. lie oNtent Of '"l per cent of tn
POSSIBILITIES offered by the various steam
shirs. and telephone Quarantine for IL"
next batch of orders.
They say herosm is never vain. Ih'
men VINO do these things ere not vain.
They are modest and retiring iu depor'-
ment. and they permit, 90 rather COMP
the lnterIocutor to do all the talking haN-
inc any heroic tendency.
Would If not apprar That lr. 'ampSe>
,uit too soon?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
TIE CROWDED TENEMENT.

The bubonic plague is carried in ju.t
one way-by Pulex cheopis, the hea that
lives upon rats. Five hundred th2usard
of the pest bacilli may be contained In
the stomach OF the 1ca-a pin point spa re-
And the Indian rat flea does not hesitate
to leave rat and fasten itself upon a
man. 1t bites and the plague bacillus
enters its victims blood. and in forty
eight hours death may follow
Tie first reports of the pest reached Dr.
O'ConneIl on June 10. Since then ~ YES
sells have reached New York from the
danger zone. and every one has been sub
lccted to a fumigation which removes 10
slightest possibility Of danger from tie
plague
The war on PuIex cheopis the rat flea
and It's carrier, the ship rat, il war That
demands increasing vigilance. The safe
~ of a, continent depends upon II.
As each ship from foreign ports comes
up the Narrows a launch puts out from
Quarantine and the incoming vessel slows
down while the Health Officer boards her
The passengers and crew have been as
scmbled for inspection, and one by one
they pass before the keen glance Of the
quarantine physician.
II there are no contagious diseases on
board the vessel is passed through ard
allowed to proceed 10 her dock But il
she has touched at any Of the South
American or West Indian ports where
cases OF the plague have been reported
she is ordered TO be fumgated whether
she has any sick on board or not.
The launch is ordered out by j. \.
Ucfferran. secretary 10 the Health OF
GER
This is not the only thing that Mr..
Hcffernan does, however.
Upon asking To sec Or. OCOnnell. at
his office al Quarantine YOU are con-
Quoted into the presence of Mr.. Heffer-
ran, whose capability as an executive
officer is Immediately made apparent by
reason of the fact that he is talking
through telephone, signing some m%s-
tic memotanda, motioning his visitor 10
chair lighting cigar and recalling the
unrronounceablc name Of an almost un-
heard of liner all at the same time.
You also note that although it is %
degrees on top of the vague Whitehall
Building. which seems 10 loo melting in
the distance. Mr.. IIcffernan smiles. does
his best with the vessels namc-which
is a worse jawbrcaker than Jack John
son-and Is apparently happy for the sole
reason that this is a busy day.
lie acknowledges that there arc fresh
achievements of deceased rats brought
Ia Quarantine with sickcning regularity.
Personally. he is abstemious in bis re-
gard for rats anyway But. realizing as
he docs the great Importance of the
present crusadc-a large part Of the extra
burden falls upon him-hc contents nm
self by recalling that Of tho two he has
always preferred a dead to live rat
and he secs only the dead ones now.
As for having himself TO study speci-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28

the statue Of Liberty and discharge It's
1dss myers aud sUch part OF its crso ~
would be ruined by the sulphur fumes
and be funiigated.
The reason for the fumigation is simply
10 send vessels ont Of this port absolnteif
free Of rats. 50 that they may not be-
conc infected i'm any port at which th''
may touch. The fumigation In the stream
Is to prevent the ercapc OF Infected rats
To the shore.
In the disinfec ng squsGs are ten men.
They often work from : o'clock ia the
morning until II O'Clock at night In"
dead rats collected are Immediately dipped
into Kerosene OIL 20 Kill the deadly
plague -carrying flea The rats are th'h
taken to the laboratory at quarantine
station. where = corps Of uire bactcrloIo-
,.ists. under Or r. =. Baldwin. make
smears aad cultures from the blood o.
the rats and the cultures are then sub
lcctcd to n microscopic examination for
traces oi the plague bacillus. so far no
signs have been found.
II took no urging to induce one to de-
sert the pier swept by land hreezes. and
follow TIE uaHbediers and their burden to
the laboratory buildings.
\ visitor at Quarantine would never
suspect the building of being the depart
mant's laboratory As being a laundiN.
YES. II WAS originally boathouse aud
was noated down To quarantine nor"
Than thirty-hve years ago and run up N
shore to It's present anchorage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28
Dr. { BALDWIN, 14b9est9ey D1zzcet,or; -
- dissccfSd =

burn up?" asked Dr. O''ounen. smiling.
There are 4 lot of buildings IN New
ork Ihlt are not fr"rrOof
r A man vino viii say such thing as
that about the plague reaching thi, city
would cry Fire" in th"atr" because
the footlishts were turned on suddenly
The city cannot eaten the plague II We
get the !ats. and Ne are gettng them,
. every one.
. Asked to describe the effect Of the bu-
bonlc plague upon the Individual, Or.
O'Connem said to imagine AN object
shaped much like n quinine capsule but
so microscopically small that the head OF
a pin would hold half a million such oh
jectS.
/ Imagine this inhnitesimal capsule en-
tering the blood Of a human being and
( there reproducing Itself Is effect he
said upon that person would he that the
glands Of the body would swell. the
boated area being known as the bubo.
The swollen glands are most easily
seen Al the base Of the neck. at the arm
Dit or at the groin. They are a. larg"
as an egg infiamed and red, tender ana
painful to the touch.
The sufferer is rscked with a high fever
/ and a violent chill His head aches tcr-
ribly. lie has pains in his back and
limbs. He reels and falls PROSTATE on
his bed. and in two days from the time
the tiny capsule entered his blood he Is
! dead
, Such is the horrible swiftness ~ the
| fearful disease known Ak the huDonic
! plague. The in6nitestmal germ when
causes II IL the bacillus pests.
! Stricken with disease the nature -
which no one understood, ten thousand
persons died IN single day in Constant
NOBLE. fourteen hundred years ago; In
single year. that OF lG6i-'6j. 1886 persons
perished I'm London from the same mys-
terious plague. one person In every seven
of the city's population. and in the four
teenth century the terrible pest which
people knew only as the black death
| struck down twenty-five million men,
women and children. one-quarter Of the
entire population OF Europe. The tiny
germ which no eye can see has had its
] full toll OF mortality.
Or. O'Connell said that the likelihood
OF danger arising from the plague as
result of the carly opening OF the Panama
| Canal ard the consequent stimulation cf
! American commerce with Aslatic and
westerly South American ports was an
! incentive to him 10 ask tho Governor Tor
funds with which TO take additional pre-
cautlonary measures.
The Health officer has already provided
! for the seni-annual fumigation Of empty
holds for the purpose Of destroying rats
on all vessels entering Quarantine from
all ports in South America. Africa. Asia,
Turkey and Europe.
This" he explained, was the first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-28

subject 81 The RAT and Its Relation TO
+ ihc Public Health" developed the fact
that Capraiu CIokc regarded an eighteen
hour day devoted TO tho demolition Of
| cosmopolitan rodents as being neither
much better nor much worse than an
elapsed time Of like duration consumed
/ in milking cows. bothering the hogs or
otherwise occupied in the pursuit of a
ljvclihod
! Pressed. the captain of the Mary Louise
ackulvledSCd that there had been times
since the war ON rats began when ne
"iust barely got up out of IT," referring
To- the holds Of ships into, which he and
i his oompanions descended amid the sui
( phur fumes
"Hov do the fumes affect YOU" he was
asked
"Thc gas is very chokln'. very smother
i'm. I might say he replied. 1T turns
silver money in your pocket green"
Then he looked as II he might have
hoon led into form Of expression which
was. perhaps. OF q reasonable character,
and he suddenly recalled some unfulflled
duty that awaited him around the corner
Mr. Hcncruan spoke for the fumigat-
ing crow. lie told how this kind of work
has boon going on day after day ever
since the first sign of plague appeared
In Trnidad last spring. Every succeed
Ing week the work has grown heavier,
because tho scourse has spread TO Porto
Rico and even to Havana \ few days
ago tho Red - liner Caracas reported
death from the plague in La Guayra.
Now every vessel that has loaded at the
piers Of Trinidad, La Gusyra. San Juan
or Havana must on arrival anchor Of