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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-29
RESTS FEET ON DYNAMITE.
Station Keeer in Milwaukee Uncon.
scious of Danger in Package.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. August 29-For
two days Col William Paulus. station
keeper at the central police station. rest
ed his feet on a neatly tied package
which had been laid beneath his desk.
For two days Mr.. Paulus lit his pipe and
threw the matches beneath his desk. and
today this same official SAYS that he is
the luckiest of mortals.
This state of mind resulted when Mr..
Paulus Investigated the package and dis
covered that it contained three hundred
dynamite caps and eight pounds of dy
Mantle.
A woman entered the station Monday
and handed the package to an officer.
saying that she had found it. The officer
not wishing to spoil the appearance of
the stationkeeper's desk, placed the
package beneath 1t. but it has been i'm
possible for Mr.. Paulus to ascertain
which one of the officers was so kind as
to place enough dynamite to blow the
whole police station of the earth right
beneath his feet
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Philadelphia Solves Problem.

The department of public health and
charities has solved this problem in Phil
adeiphia by establishing division Of
ophthalomolgy under the bureau of
health. where poor children con be re-
fracted and furnished with glasses free.
We are now refracting nearly 200 cases
a year. If we save each one Of these
children but one year during Its entire
school life there will be an unusual saving
of over $4,000, not counting the child's
time and its increased efficiency. So that
furnishing of free glasses to school chill
dren is not a charity, per Sc, but is
duty and an economic problem. Many
children have come to the dispensary
wearing glasses bought from some re-
fracting optician or from and 10 cent
store. These glasses were not only I'M
suitable. but were positively injurious to
the child's eyes.
But few children remain in school
after the age of fourteen. the legal age
at which children are permitted to work.
This fact emphasizes the necessity of
examining the eyes of children in the
kindergarten and the first grades.
The fact i wish to emphasize in this
paper is the Importance of municipalities
establishing their own eye dispensaries
for the refracting and the furnishing Of
glasses free TO at least poor pupils. This
is an economic problem rather than a
charity. as il reduces the cost of educa-
ton and at the same time it increases
the efficiency of both the pupil and the
Yaackpr"
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ENTIRE NEW DEAL.
United Railways in San Francisco
Changes President and Directorate.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 29--J. w.
Lilienthal, a San Francisco capitalist.
was chosen successor to Patrick Calhoun
as president of the United Railroads of
San Francisco at the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the company yester-
day and a directorate composed of Cali
fornia men with a single exception was
named to suppIant the former directorate
made up of eastern capitalists. The
United Railroads of San Francisco is a
subsidiary of the United Railroads In
vestment Company of New Jersey.
President Lilienthal announced he had
accepted the office because of an ambition
to improve relations between the COM
pany and the public.
Referring to last Tuesdays bond cleo
ton in which the city voted funds to eN-
tend it's lines in competition with the
United Railroads, he declared that in the
future the company would keep out OF
politics and it would be his aim to con-
fine the activities Of the company to the
operation of street railroads.
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great deal more than we are doing. For
example, in New York next year we are
to serve a noon meal in seventeen ele-
mentary schools. We estimate that we
shall feed 5000 children a day. If these
5000 know each day the name of the
soup they have eaten and go home and
tell their mothers about it, something
will have been done. Cannot we have on
the classroom blackboard the ingredients
used in the soup and. possibly. short
explanation of their food value. show
ing. for example. the food value of a
bean soup over a candied apple. both
being the same price. and the latter very
popular? II would make the lunch much
more interesting. and children do care
whether they are strong and big or not
The boy would like to get MS money
worth from the penny table. When he
saw on the black board that the penny he
spent today for rice pudding gave him
four times as much good. growing, run
ming. fighting stuff as the penny he spent
yesterday for a sweet cake. 1t would
arouse something i'm him that would be
one step toward better health Tor that
bow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-29
ESCAPED LEPER IN ITALY.
Pittori Travels From State of Wash
ington Without Detection.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. August
29.-Domnic Pittori. leper, who escap-
ed from the Diamond point quarantine
station several weeks ago reached Italy
safely i'm spite Of warnings sent to police
and health authorities all over the
United States and Canada.
News of Pittoris arrival i'm Italy was
received today on post card mailed at
Naples and dated August L.. The post
card, which was signed by "Pittori."
addressed to- John Early. "A Spanish
American war veteran afflicted with
leprosy. who is employed an attend
ant at the station.
When Pittori escaped he had only 50
in his pockets. but he made his way Ia
New York with the assistance of All
Italian secret society to which he be-
longed, and from there he took passage
to Europe.
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have been far too small for any perma-
nent effect, for not only can the mullah
get all the rifles and ammunition he
wants through the French port of Jibu-
| surprisingly well trained and have actu-
ally fought in up-to-date battle forma-
tions. Throughout his campaigns the
mullah has been assisted by several
white allies. His principal adviser, the
adventurer Karl Inger was an officer In
the Austrian army and he is we'll known
in London If report speaks truly. the
mullah has also benefited by the serv-
ices of an English naval officer, who
after his disgrace in the service sought
rebels.
Be that as it may. the British at Jid-
balli got a pretty big surprise on finding
a large force Of the African natives. in
stead Of employing the old tumultuous
dervish rush, advancing to the attack in
modern formations. 1t was the first time
that such thing had happened in Afr.-
can warfare. and it is significant fact
that the mullah Is the first to adopt them
His men have also learned how to take
cover In the most approved fashion, and
IL the British losses were only 1O1 killed
and wounded at Jidballi 1t was due only
to the fact that the black rifiemen had
forgotten to put up their hind sights, so
that their bullets mostly fell short.
Bravery Of Deputy Commissioner.
The only comfort England can extract
from this weeks affair, which resulted in
the loss of over fifty men of the Camel
Corps-the only British trained and Of
ficered force available for patrolling the
hinterland-is over the conduct of Deputy
Commissioner G. F. Archer to whose gal
lantry Mr.. Harcourt, the colonial secre-
tary, paid a well deserved tribute in the
house OF commons. Mr.. Archer. who IS
only thirty. but who has been in East Az
RIGA for twelve years. was at BuraO, 100
miles from the coast, when he learned
that the Camel Corps had been cut off
by force of between LOO and 1900
Somalis. There were no newspaper cor
respondents on the spot, so we shall prob
ably never have a full description of the
desperate thirty-mile march he under
took
In the words of his abrupt official re-
port Mr.. Archer collected twenty men
and went to the rescue Marvellous to re-
late those twenty men managed to bring
off the remainder Of the Camel Corps, in
Guiding their wounded, and the hero OF
the day contented himself with reporting
in dry official language that he had sue
cessfully retired from the danger zone,
and that the situation was well In hand
To the pioneer of civilization such ex-
PLOTS are all in the days work.
l. H. MOORE.
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EXPEDITION COMING HOME.
Capt. Kleinschmidt and Party Bring
Specimens From Siberian Waters.

NOME, Alaska, August 23.-The power
schooner P. j. Adler. carrying Capt.
Frank E. KIeinschmidt and party of big
game hunters from the east, sailed for
Seattle last night. having completed a
cruise in Siberian waters in search OF
game and specimens of birds and man.
mails for which Capt kleinschmidt came
north in the interest of the Carnegie In
stitute Of Pittsburgh.
With Capt. kleinschmdt are Marshall
SculI and A. NJ. Collins of Philadelphia
and Dr. Arthur Fitting of Albany. n. Y.
Mrs Kleinschmidt and two children and
DIR. 8. Hall Young, Presbyterian mis-
sionary who is Mrs. Kleinschmidts IA
Their, also are on the Adler. The schooner
left Seattle May 3. Capt. Kleinschmidr
has q valuable collection of small animals
and birds.
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ADMITS THE CHARGES.
Russell Cleveland Sentenced Six
Months for False Pretenses.

Russell Cleveland, the youth who. the
police claim. has been securing money
from a number of women by representing
that relatives had been locked up and
wanted to get out on collateral. pleaded
guilty to four charges of false pretenses
in the Police Court today, and Judge
Aukum imposed sentences aggregatins
six months.
In three of the cases the amount OBJ
tanned was So. Cleveland told Judge
Aukum that he was a user of morphine.
and was under. its influence when he
solicited the money. In the other case
he secured $50.
The police have long been searching
for Cleveland. He was found yesterday
nv Policeman Garfield. Detective Harry
Evans of the sixth precinct and De-
tective Raymond Kliendinst of the fourth
precinct appeared against the prisoner.
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REVIVED BY PULMOTOR.
Miner Apparently Dead Restored to
Life by First-Aid Corps.

POTTSVILLE. Pa, August 9-A re-
markable case of the resuscitation Of an
apparently dead man by the use of the
pulmotor is reported from st. Clair Jo-
seph Mango, a miner, employed in a col
liery Of the Reading railway, ran into a
pocket of mine gas and when found by
his companions life was apparently 'ex-
tinct Although the case seemed hope
less, three members of the first-aid corps
rushed for the pulmotor, with which all
mines are provided. and began the work
of resuscitation.
The body was first wrapped in seven
blankets to retain any heat that might
remain and the machine for producing
artificial respiration was operated Wig
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SCORES DIE IN TYPHOON.
Houses and Bridges Destroyed and
Crops Ruined in Japan.

TOXIC. Japan, August 29--Extensive
loss of life and property has been caused
Japan by the typhoon which
has ragged here for several days. More
than sixty persons were killed and hum
dreds of bridges and houses destroyed
In Toxic itself 1900 houses We're in
undated In the country districts the
railroads were heavy losers and the
crops were much damaged.
a party of seventeen children was lost
while climbing Mount koma-Ga-Take
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DEFECTIVE VISION
AMONG CHILDREN
Address of OphaImoIogist Be-
fore International Con-
gress on Hygiene.
VALUE Of INSPECTION
IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL S
Diu&A.>z and Sight Saving Also Dis
cussed-Problems Solved by
Philadelphia Authorities.

BUFFALO. y. Y. August 29-Dr
Lewis G. Vessels. ophthalmologist for
III" Philadelphia board of health ad-
dressed the fourth international congress
on school hygiene today. His subject
was the defective vision of school chill
dren from an economic standpoint, and
he said in part.
Medical inspection of school children
has revealed the fact that at least % per
cent of all children attending school
have defective vision or eye strain suf-
fciently grave to require the constant
use of glasses In the majority of cases
suitable glasses cause these children to
advance and take their places in class
along with the normal child. In con-
sIderation of these facts, the correction
OF defective vision in the school child is
not receiving the attention that its i'm
portance deserves. Such corrections not
only increase the efficiency of the pupil
and teacher, but have an important eco
nomlc value as well, because If a child
Is backward and remains in the same
class Tor two or three years, it is cost
ing the state two or three times as much
as is necessary to teach that child.
Cost of Education.
In Philadelphia each pupil costs about
$So per year to teach. Under normal
conditions pupil fourteen years old
should reach the eighth grade at a cost
to the state of $3.50. If on account of
defective vision the child only reaches
the fourth grade in that time, it has still
cost the state $3.50, but with only $40
worth of result, loss to the state of
$40. The loss to the child is consider
ably more. because at the age of four
teen 1T is likely to be put to work, poor
ly equipped for the struggle for exist
ence. his earning power is curtailed for
the want of an education, so he can con-
tribute but little toward his own support,
that of his family, or that of the state.
So again the state loses and all for the
want of suitable glasses. While it is
quite easy for the medical inspector or
teacher TO detect defective vision. the
recommendations for glasses cannot al
ways be carried out on account of pow
erty or ignorance. These cases can pro-
cure free treatment at the dispensaries,
but they are too poor or too Indifferent
TO buy the glasses prescribed. and SO
thes continue to struggle along greatly
handicapped and fall behind on account
of their eyes.
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orously AS they worked the men shout
ed loudly into the ears of the patient TO
breathe, and finally they were rejoiced
to observe signs of life. Keeping up
the work of pumping pure oxygen into
the lungs of the man. they had him
breathing freely at the end Of an hour
and half.
Persons who saw Mango when his ap-
parently lifeless body was found say
the feat of bringing him back 10 life -
uneuualed In the coal regions. He IS
at his home still very i'll. but physicians
say he will recover.
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Tires of Civil Pursuits.

Originally he was a schoolmaster at
Berbera, but, firing of his efforts to in
struct the youth of the locality, he Joined
the ranks of the unemployed and speed
lily began to cause trouble. The British
authorities on the spot failed to adopt
either of the two safe courses open to
them. They should have laid him by the
heels at once, or, failing that, ignored
him altogether. Instead, they allowed
him to slip through their fingers, and
then sent an armed force in pursuit, with
the result that as they failed to catch
him they endowed their quarry with a
prestige which he could never otherwise
have won for himself, and enabled him
TO blossom as the Napoleon Of SOmali-
land. He at once assumed the character
Of a mahdi, and added a religious in
fiuence to his temporal power, which is
probably represented by some 10000
armed followers.
Like the Khalifa of Omdurman, his en-
ereies are devoted to the extinction of
ali who refuse to acknowledge him. and
the country. which is capable of develop
ING into a peaceable and fairly prosper
ous corner of the Dark Continent, will be
hopelessly and ruinously depressed until
this sanguinary pest is eliminated.
rol SWayne with British force routed
him in 1901, but in the following year
.ha colonel sustained a reverse. and dur
no the whole of 1908 the mullah was
battling with the British. Italians and
Abyssinians, winning and losing by turns
Keeps Country in Ferment.
In 1908 Mai. Gen. Egerton administered
. crushing defeat. which resulted in the
r,r,lah being driven out of the British
rrotsctorate. He was then given set
tied sphere. but the promise he made
To keep the peace has not been kept. He
adopted a policy of keeping Somaiiiand
in a ferment by conrinualiy ra1dins
..,.,d,,, tribes. so that a new punitive ex-
nad,t,on became imperative. 1t is esti-
r,o,ad that he has cost Great Britain
over s1s.oooooo in unsuccessful I. expe ID
d;sI;n. snending the money. his latest ex-
nloit looks like costing several millions
more. 4 ~.ro..nt
wmen y. The abandonment of the in
ferior Of somaliland and the withdrawal
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to the coast there was the usual out
cry against the liberal policy Of "scut-
tie and trust to luck" on the outposts of
the empire. but the most ardent tory
could not honestly say that the millions
expended on chasing the mullah had
been profitably spent. That the retire
ment to the coast was tactical error,
If Great Britain intended keeping Somali-
land. has been proved by the state Of
chaos and bloodshed that has reigned
since the mullah has been allowed to
rove around without let or hindrance.
But, as usual in such cases. Nemesis has
Overtaken the wrong people-the gallant
but all too scanty soldiery left to gar
rison the country and the friendly ma
tives who committed themselves to Eng
lands care.
People Left to Own Defense.
In 1910, when England shuffled off her
responsibilities for the safety of Somali-
land. she salved her conscience by sup
plying the deserted tribes witt rifles and
ammunition, and pretended to believe
that they would be able to defend them
selves against the raids and massacres
of the truculent mullah. The weapons
have merely been an additional incentive
to his attacks. with the consequence that
large numbers have been falling into
his hands. Further. large numbers of
Somalis who had enlisted in the 9th
Kings African Rifles were disbanded and
turned adrift to join the mu]ah as they
pleased. Practically the whole country
was handed over to the tender mercies
of this triumphant ruffian and his thou
sands of well armed and ferOciOus fol-
lowers.
England can no longer disregard the
fact that the mullah is no mere preda-
tory chieftain. He is the leader OF large
and remarkably well trained forces. and
a continued assertion of his mullahsh1p
and their allies. the friendlies. is indis-
pensable to the maintenance of his pres
tige and the allegiance of his adherents
Naturally the latter are very largely in
f1uenced by the degree of immunity he
Is able to enjoy. Thus. for some four or
five years after his power was broken at
Jidbali he lay very low, but as soon as
ever England showed a disposition to
stay her hand his following reassembled.
and he got to work on the Wretched
friendlies, again massacring and plumber
ing all who refused to join him. Many,
finding themselves abandoned by the
British, have joined him on terms of serv-
ice under his banner or subsidies to his
forces in the field.
Seeks Higher Game.
AS the resistance of the friendly tribes
has gradually weakened the mullah has
been forced. for the sake of his prestige.
to fly at higher game. Hence, the recent
attack on a British force. which may be
the prelude to an onslaught on the coast
positions. Hitherto the British forces
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Mind Making, Sight Saving.

Mind Making Through Sight Saving
was the title of the paper read by DR.
F. Park Lewis of Buffalo. who spoke in
part as follows:
1T is a generally accepted fact that
nearsight is developed and increases dur
ing the period of school life until In
maturity more than one-quarter of the
school population have acquired myopia
1t is not an accidental occurrence. nor Is
it due in its beginning to bad hygienic
surroundings. 1t is found as frequently
in the children of the rich as of the poor.
Many living under exactly similar con-
ditiOns as do those in whom 1t develops
escape 1t entirely. 1t starts primarily as
a result of a strain of the eyes having
that congenital irregularity of the front
part of the eyeball known astigma-
tism. In order to produce clear image
on the retfnae of eyes SO uniformed an
abnormal strain Is put upon the muscles
of accommodation within the globe. This
weakens the resistance of the ball, allow
ing it to gradually stretch more especially
in the back part. The stretching having
begun, it is steadily but surely increased
by continued near work, such as reading
writing.
Notwithstanding this fact there is no
modification in the rigid curriculum of
our schools for pupils having eyes so
velopment of a condition which predis-
poses to other and later destructive
changes in the eyes.
THE remedies are obvious. First, the
correction of the focal defect at the
earliest possible opportunity: but when
the stretching process has begun this is
not enough. The additional strain of
near work in the already weakened re-
sistance of the eyeball will inevitably
increase the myopia Near work, such
as reading and writing. must cease.
Books Not Needed.
Happily. the training of the mind and
the development of the brain can be
carried on as effectively if not more SO
without the use of books for study than
with them. Book study is convenient
but not essential. In looking on the
printed page we often see without think
ing. The child should learn to think
without seeing. Teaching from the. con-
crete object. the use of pictures, the
developed sense of touch and Of smell
bring into play various parts of the brain
through the association fibers. and lead
to more clear. exact and rapid thinking
than where the student is obliged to
interpret the symbols employed in the
printed page and which require an add
ed mental effort for their understanding.
1t is therefore good pedagogy to use
arises, but in all teaching. This is but
an elaboration of the idea of Froebel
and of Montessori, and finds expression
in the technical school, and the hospital.
All children in whom near sight is
beginning should be segregated into spe
cial classes. The same curriculum could
be employed as for the others Of the
same class but for these book study
should be replaced by oral graphic illus
tration and other methods of study. In
this way and in this way only the de-
velopment of progressive near sight in
school children can be arrested
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It matters little what 1t is that YOU
want-whether a situation or servant
want ad In The Star will reach the
person who will Ill your need.
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Regular Meals a Necessity.

Every child in our schools should be
taught that health is only possible with
regular meals: not taught it once, but
repeatedly. Every mother. through
mothers meetings or by circulars print
ed in her own language. should be made
20 understand that the school lunch
is simply one way to make more possible
regular hot meals for her children that
re are not feeding her children because
Of poverty but because We realize the
confusion OF conditions that she is
obliged to meet; and incidentally that If
she does not give her child at least J
cents a day for his lunch she has not
done her part
But even before we set our univer-
sally ideal educational system, / believe
we who are serving luncheons can do Q
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obstacle in the person Of the Mad Null
lah.' This mysterious parsonage, whose
proper name is Hadji Mohammed Abdul
lah, has been reported dead as many
times as was the Emperor Menelik, but If
the present holder of the title is the
original he should be about fifty years of
age, and in twenty years he has estab-
lished reputation for cruelty which has
made him the terror of that part Of At
rfca