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as rapidly and as widely as possible.
In big cities like New York the ty-
phoid problem can readily be dealt with
by the local authorities. But in smaller
communities, and especially in rural COM
munities, local facilities are Inadequate.
In fact, rural sanitation is right now a
great problem in this country. In soiv-
ing it the public health service can be
OF great use. It has been said that food.
flies and fingers are the great carriers
Of typhoid.
Under food we have water, milk, fruit
and other articles. many of which have
their origin outside the state in which
they are consumed. Hence the necessity
for national service, operating under
the constitutional provision that gives to
the federal government jurisdiction over
the regulation of commerce between
states.
Fright now we are making a number Of
studies of typhoid, at the request of state
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Surgeon General Ru-
pert Blue, L. S. Public
Health Service, Heads
a Wonderful Organiza-
tion-Heroes of the
Service-Fighting Dis
ease at Home and
!Abroad-Work IN the
Field and in the Lab
OTatOrV.
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Copyright by Rio V de Sieux.l

Copyright by Rio de Sieux.l
Yuan Shih kai was forced to leave ko-
rea and he fled to Tientsin, leaving his
mother and concubineS behind.
Yuan was an especial prOtege OF Id
Hung Chang and il was through him, in
connection with LII, that the modern army
of China was organized. When the war
with Japan closed. he was for time sent
into retirement, but long before the Boxer
troubles he had come again to the front
and had been made viceroy of Shantuns
He was a special favorite of the empress
dowager and had won her gratitude by
his treachery to the young emperor. When
the Emperor kwang Su began to intro
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WORK I'm THE FIELD AND il

the organization. For long period it
was known as the public health and ma
rine hospital service. but by act OF Az
gust IA, 1912, Congress recognized the
change in the character OF the work be-
ing done and altered the name to the
public health service.
This is the big central medical or
ganization Of the government The pre-
vention Of the spread Of disease Is the
chief work we undertake. This is not
only at the ports of the country, to pre-
vent entrance OF disease from abroad.
but throughout the states In co-opera-
ton with the state and local health au-
thorities
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medical detective force or the country.
The criminals he runs to their lair have
many names and many forms. Among
them are malaria, typhoid. typhus. bubonic
plague cholera, pellagra, hookworm, Rocky
mountain spotted fever, leprosy-oh,
host of them, and all malignant and
Vicious.
At the portals OF the nation stand his
subordinates, for the fundamental object
Of federal administration is the proven
ton of the introduction into the United
States Of pestilential diseases.
throughout the country his officers are
at work In a multitude of activities, all
making for the public well being. Abroad.
more of his officers are stationed, watch
fui and alert, to keep the diseases that
might threaten our people from even
starting to these shores.
One hundred and fifteen years of ira
dition stand behind the service. for it was
instituted by law of July 10. 1888; but II
Is bigger, stronger. more far-reaching to-
day than IL ever was It's traditions are
reyerenced, its record one OF high ana
exalted service. Like the military arms
of the government II has its heroes. men
who have freely and calamity laid down
their lives for the cause they serve-the
preservation Of the public health.
=
The story OF Passed Assistant Surgeon
T. B. McCIintic is still fresh. Only last
year he was a martyr to the cause when.
while studying the Rocky mountain spot
ted fever in Montana. he became infected
with the disease and died, but only after
his major work had been accomplished.
Then there was Wightman, sent TO
Ecuador to study yellow fever, who con-
tracte.l the malady and died in that far
off land. McAdam was another yellow
FEVER victim, he dying Of the disease
while engaged in research and preventive
work at Key West in 1892
And then there is Goldberger. who stops
II no risk to discharge what he deems TO
be his duty. DIR. Goldberger is still alive
and vigorous, but according To form.
as the sporting writer's call il. he should
nave been dead long ago. 1t was Gold
berger who, while studying typhus fever
il Mexico two years or so ago. got HIM
self loaded up with the bacteria of the
disease but managed to recover. Yellow
fever got him once In the same way. A
little wrestIe with dengue fever in his
system, acquired while he was making a
study OF that disease. he regards a
merely a minor incident.
When the theory was advanced that a
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L ARDIAN Of the
health of 100, 100000
Americans-that is
DR.. Rupert Blue,
surgeon general of
the United States
public health serv-
ice
Acting under the
supervision of Sec
rotary of the Treas
ury William G. Nc
Adoo. he directs the
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"Of course, the pure food work and the
meat inspection conducted by bureaus of
the Department of Agriculture are pre-
ventive measures in the interests of the
public health also: but, aside from this,
federal health administration centers in
the public health service.
THE Constitution reserves to the
states. as part of their police powers, the
regulation of public health matters with
in those states. That Is as 1t should be.
But 1t Is not possible for the states in
tional problems of health and sanitation
These fall within the jurisdiction OF the
national service. 1t is a wide field that
We have.
act Of 1893. the Secretary OF the Treas
ury. in whose department the public
health service lies. is authorized to issue
regulations for the prevention Of the
spread Of infectious and contagious dis
eases from one state to another Dis
ease, you know, In It's movement Is not
checked by state lines. Furthermore,
the growth Of interstate communication
has made IT necessary for the exercise
of such broad authority as that given to
the Secretary Of the Treasury in the
act / have mentioned.
"A very large part Of our work, part
that is Of constantly growing impor-
lance. is in cooperation with state and
statute on the subject Of public health
provided for such cooperation. and this
principle has been recognized In all sub
sequent legislation.
More and more state and local au-
thorities are calling upon the service.
and newer congressional enactments con-
tinually are providing for an extension
Of cooperative endeavors.
ITO review briefly the work and or
ganizat!on Of the public health service:
1t Is divided into seven divisions, which
are first. personnel and accounts; second.
foreign and insular quarantine and Inn
migration; third. domestic Cnterstate)
quarantine and sanitation: fourth. SAM
tary reports and statistics: fifth. scien-
tifc research: sixth. marine hospitals
and relief. and seventh. miscellaneous.
"An matters relating to maritime quar-
antine and medical inspection of aliens
are in the second of these. Forty-four
quarantine and inspection stations. scat
tered along the coasts of continental
United States: twenty-five insular sta
tons, and thirty stations located
1t foreign ports. besides eighty-three i'm
migration stations, are looked after by
this division.
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Considerably more than a million i'm
migrants a year are inspected by this
force to determine their physical and
mental fitness to enter the country. About
"a. 600 vessels a year are inspected by our
officers at the domestic and insular quar-
antine stations and at foreign ports to
make sure that they are not carrying
disease. and their passengers and crews,
to a total of about one and one-haif mil
lion individuals. are inspected annually
for the same purpose.
"This is the preventive work. guarding
the country against the Introduction into
the United States Of disease from abroad.
When cholera appears, for example, In
country with which We have intercourse
we extend our outposts to that country.
putting our medical officers on guard
there, and we submit all vessels and
passengers from that country to rigid
inspection and often to quarantine.
I'VE have a follow-up system or tracing
those who manage to pass inspection. and
keep them under observation even after
they have passed into the body Of the
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The day after this Yuan said to the
American who told me this story:
Il suppose your people at Tientsin will
criticise my action, but IL they do SO you
may tell them that that is the way i do
business and that future rebellions will be
handled like this
The story of this slaughter went over
north China, and 1t struck terror to the
hearts of the Boxers. It also convinced
the foreigners that Yuan meant business.
| am told that Yuan is born military
leader and that he would rather talk any
time to a military man than to a civilian
He looks best when he is in uniform and
is riding at the head of his troops. OF
late years he has grown fat and his COM
plexion is sallow and discolored. He is
short and heavy, with a big head. on
broad, fiat shoulders. He has little black
eyes. which shine out of puffy slant lids
His hair is now white and his mustache is
the color of snow. He looks shorter in
the European clothes which he now wears
than he did in the gorgeous Chinese silk
costume. embroidered with gold, which
formed his official attire up to the time of
the last revolution. He has also cut off
his queue and altogether has lost much of
his striking appearance. He is. 1 venture.
six or eight inches shorter than was Ii
Hung Chang. and. physically speaking. he
is by no means so impressive.
Yuan Shih Kai is said to have aged
greatly since he came back to power.
He has always been a high liver.
He is the last of the really great
statesmen of the old regime. The
most of the other men who are
now doing big things in China
are comparatively young. Many of
them are graduates of our colleges. and
the day is soon coming when China
will be ruled by men who are educated
in America. Tang Shao VI is grad
uate OF Yale. The present Chinese min
lister at Washington went to the high
school of the National Capital and
graduated at Cornell. Sun Vat Sen,
who is now in this country. was edu-
Gated in the English schools of the
Hawaiian Islands and the whole en-
pire begins to throb with young blood.
As to Yuan Shin kai-he ties the past
to the present. He was great man
thirty years ago and he has been a
part of all the history of China dur
ing the past generation. He was CO.
temporary with Prince Ching. Chang
Chi Tung, Yung Lu and Lii Hung
Chang He was brought up as it were
by Ii Hung Chang, and the two for
years worked together. He was close
to the empress dowager and to the
emperor Kwang Su. He has known
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w AN ~ Tell YOU
something about
Yuan Shih kai.
who has just been
reelected presi-
dent of the Chi
nese republic. He
is the Napoleon.
the Bismarck, the
Ii Hung Chang of
the 400,00o.000 who
make up the
China of today.
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H is greater and more powerful than
Ii ever was. and wrapped up in him is
the immediate future Of that mighty
country. / have been travelling in the
footsteps of Yuan off and on for the
past twenty-five years. | first heard
~ him when / went TO Korea in 1883.
That country was then a kingdom un-
der the protection of China and Yuan
Shih Raj had been sent there by Ii
Hang Chang TO dictate to the king how
the country should be run. He lived
al Seoul in great state, with hundreds
OF rctainers about him and wives and
concubines galore
= was due to Yuan that the japanese
we're driven out OF Korea shortly be-
fore my visit and he was really the
cause OF the first war between China and
japan. which resulted in the humiliation
Of his nation. \ little rebellion had
broken out in Korea and Yuan. contrary
to the treaties of 1885. by which each OF
The great powers agreed not to land
troops in Korea without informing the
other powers. had Chinese so diers
brought over to quell the uprising.
That was in 1894. I saw something OF
the rebellion. There were ENJOYS kneel-
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Man,

His Career in Korea
and How He Caused
the Japan-China War
His Treachery to
the Chinese Emperor,
Which Lost the Latter
His Throne-How He
Disobeyed the Empress
Dowager How the
Great Chinese Looks
His Numerous Wives
is He an Opium
Smoker - Stories of a
Viceroy Who Lost His
Head Statues and
Memorials Being Erect
ed to Ii Hung Chang
LIS Great Fortune and
Where 1t Was Invested.
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the foreigners. The Chinese-Japanese
war made him a diplomat, and he is now
one of the most conservative of statesmen
He thinks twice before he acts, and still
he is not afraid to make decisions and
act promptly.
I was told in Picking how Yuan Shin
Kai put down a rebellion while he was
viceroy of Chill. This was just after
the Boxer rebellion. when the foreigners
still held Tientsin. Yuan had moved with
his viceregal court to Pao Tingfu. The
country was still filled with the turmoil
Of the revolution. and 1t was necessary
that Yuan should show the foreigners
that he could control. He sent orders to
the rebels that they must submit and
upon their refusing to do ordered a
regiment OF soldiers to march to the town
where they were. and, il they did not at
once put down their arms. to slaughter
them en- masse. The rebels showed fight
and Yuan Shin kai wiped out the town.
killing a thousand of the people in less
than one hour.
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Copyrighted, 1915. by Frank C. Carpenter
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-15
TAILOR COULD NOT
AFFORD TO SUPPORT
ALL OF WlFE'S KIN
IBy Latest Main


SAN FRANCISCO - Because his
wife nightly rified his pockets and d.
vided his earnings with Is relatives.
George Herman, tailor, was granted
a divorce from Martha Herman, 2S67
Greenwich street, by Judge Mogan.
On one occasion, Herman testified.
mis- wife found $50 In his pocket which
he inteded to use to pay butcher
bill. She divided it equally among
her IS relatives, all OF whom placed
the money on Angelus, race horse.
Angelus lost.
His tailor shop was attached for the
butcher bill, and he was forced out
of business. He went to Mill Valley
where he got job in butcher shop.
One Sunday his wife invited her Is
relatives to spend the day. He hired
a large carryall, and took them for
ride.
The first man they met was his
employer who surveyed the encourage
In establishment Knowing that the
amount of meat he gave Herman, in
addition to his pay, could not possibly
feed all the people who seemed to live
with Herman, he arrived at the erro-
neous conclusion that Herman was
purloining extra meat. Herman was
discharged on Monday morning.
Since then he has eked out slim
existence at odd jobs, he testified.
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sUFFRAGETTHs ESCAPE.

LONDON.-Hyde Park again was
turned into a bedlam by the suffra-
gettes and their opponents Sunday
afternoon. The women, declining to
recognize the police who had ordered
that no suffrage meetings were to be
held in the park. appeared with a
wagon and addressed a small crowd.
Immediately youths commenced to
gather and an attempt was made to
drag the wagon to the Serpentine, for
the purpose of ducking the women.
Mounted and foot police interviewed
just in time to save them. The. Perth
shire cricket pavilion at Perth. to-
gether with collection OF valuable
photographs, records and relics was
destroyed by fire Sunday. Suffra-
gettes are suspected.
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ARCTIC SHIP.

WASHINGTCN.-The Arctic explor-
ing ship Fran, owned by Captain
Roald Amundsen, will pass through
the Panama canal as one of the very
first ships to use that waterway This
was announced at the war depart
ment today. where Secretary of War
Garrison made public a letter from
Amundsen in regard to the arrange
ments for the passage of the Fran.
Both Secretary Garrison and Col.
Goethals have given permission to
Amundsen to send the Fran through
the canal Amundsen will, therefore,
have the Fran at the canal early this
fall and wait for Goethals to give the
word for him to go through. Even if
there is a delav Of several months,
Amundsen thinks it will be better for
him than sending his vessel around
Cape Horn.
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All women who pose are not mod
els
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FORT EXPLOSION
TO Be PROBED
CONTINUED from page one)

steel rail is bent at a point where the
explosion occurred. while much earth
and ballast were dug out and sent
in all directions.
Ii is expected that other damage
win be found when the car can be
unloaded and sent to the railway re-
pair shops.
Following an investigation. the POI
lice are somewhat inclined TO the
theory that the explosive was remoy-
ed from the Matson Navigation
steamer Hilonian the first of the
week.
Chief McDuffie, Deputy Kellett and
Officer Olson, detailed on the case.
have run down a number of clews.
Powder in considerable quantities
was removed from the steamer Hilon-
ian during her stay in port. This ma
terial was consigned to- #. H. Davies
& Company. An investigation is now
on regarding the condition of the
cases when received by the import
ers.
Another theory advanced last night
was that the powder might have been
carelessly dropped by fishermen pre-
pairing to reap a harvest of mullet,
which are said to be swarming in the
harbor.
Experts claim that considerable
conclusion is required to explode
black powder. If the material had
been wrapped in a strong paper or
placed in small tin, the impact OF
the car wheel, it is believed, would
have been sufficient to set off the con.
tents of the package.
Inquiry at the general offices of the
railway company this morning elicit.
ed the statement that as far as the
officials knew, there had been no dis
satisfaction or suspicion of trouble
between the corporation and disgrunt.
led employees bent on vengeance for a
fancied wrong.
Despite a general effort in going
carefully over the scene of trouble,
little evidence save a small quantity
of powder and fragments of steel were
found by the officers.
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The
Clarion
AND KISSES TO
KEEP STRIKERS

PITTSBURGH = GiGrls at q 1.
ing of the Oliver Iron and Steel a
strikers in Labor Hall recently D|
ised to use hugs and kisses on 4
W ohattempt to return TO work.
E. Trautman, organizer for the IND
trial Workers Of the World, called
volunteers and instantly all but
of the 100 girls present offered to
pense caresses. One girl, a forei8I
demurred, and Trautman asked
why.
Me no want to kiss the boss.
Pouted, having misunderstood Tr'
mans words.
Trautman said he wanted the a
test girls among the strikers q
pear at the gates of Elephant at a.
and rush up and hug and kiss
striker who cannot otherwise be .
suaded from returning to wo1
Trautman told the girls the meas|
had been tried with success In
Lawrence strike.
Men will be on hand, too to ac|
pickets and every effort will be a.
to Illustrate the plan adopted b.
majority of the strikers to retgrI
work.
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COMMERCE BY THE isTHMusEs

Commerce between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts of the United States via
the Isthmuses of Panama and Tehuan-
tepec aggregated approximately rs
million dollars in 1912. The rapid
growth of the traffic between the east
ern and western coasts of the United
States via the Isthmuses which de-
veloped chiefly within very recent
years and seems likely to further in
crease with the opening of the Pana-
ma canal, led the statistical division
OF the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce to establish, at the begin
ming of the present fiscal year a
monthly record of the movements OF
the principal articles forming this
traffic. Its record for the five months
ending with November has just been
published and shows 241s million dol
lars worth of merchandise passing
from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific
coast via the Tehuantepec railroad,
and 5 million dollars worth Via the
Panama railroad; while the value of
that passing from the Pacific coast to
the Atlantic was, via the Tehuantepec
line, 141-3 million dollars, and via the
Panama line, 81 million dollars. This
suggests that the total value of the
traffic for the half-year ended Deem
Der was approximately 80 million dol
lars westbound across the Tehuante-
pec route and 6 million via the Pana
ma line; and of eastbound coming
from the Pacific coast ports and Ha
vail, 16 million dollars via Tehuante
pee and AZ million via Panama; and
that the total value of this traffic for
the full year approximates 125 million
dollars.
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TIE RasLRoaD sRof4eaHooDs.

The four principal railroad brother
hoods are made up of the engineers,
the firemen, the conductors and the
trainmen, with a total membership of
309, 900, or 95 per cent of the crews of
1000, 900 cars. The greatest, richest,
most powerful and most respected of
these four big brothers is the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers - the
model for all brotherhoods. The
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen,
which has lately been most largely
in the public eye because of its de-
mands for wage increase on all the
Atlantic roads, learned much of it's
methods from the engineers order.
All four big brothers are the teach
ers of all the little brothers, including
telegraphers, clerks, carmen, track
men, switchmen and the organized
shop craftsmen. The big and little
brothers together comprise the great
majority of the country's 100000
railway employees.
The millions paid into the brother
hood treasures are used to maintain
the greatest system of benevolence
known to the labor world. The en-
gineers. who organized fifty years
ago, have insurance policies in force
amounting to S130.000,000; they have
paid out $24,O00,OO0 to injured mem
bers and heirs. The firemen disburse
S1,000.000 a year in injury benefits
and have $S7,000,000 in beneficiary
certificates in force. The conductors
union. has underwritten 100000, 600
of insurance and has disbursed s$14,-.
10000 in benefits; it has paid $780,
600 in monthly payments to aged and
disabled members and has a reserve
relief fund of nearly 100000. The
trainmen pay an average insurance of
$2.350, 900 year and have disbursed
$2S, 100000 in benefits.
These organizations as whole
Lave underwritten half a billion dol
lars of insurance. They have paid out
altogether $1OO,0OO,00O in benefits at
an administrative cost of from IL to
l " per cent. From the. Worlds
Work.