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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-14
By IL. ADDINGToN BRUCE.

IN DISCUSSING the subject Of nervousness
reference has often been made to the harm
full influence exercised by unsupported eye
strain. But it is not merely or chiefly, as cause
Of general nervousness that eyestrain affects the
organism unfavorably. 1t frequently is respon-
sible for specific bodily disorders Of such char
aeter as TO involve much suffering and prevent its
victim from leading anything like really efficient
III. And unfortunately, there still is far too
little appreciation Of the many ways in which
II works harm.
Even the commonest consequence OF eyestrain-
persistent or recurrent headache-often is treated
without regard to the possibility that 1t may be
due 10 some Unborn or acquired defect OF vision
Yet eyestrain actually is so frequent cause Oh
ho.a.cbs that some oculists declare that It must
be suspected in every case OF headaehe iOeSi'Zea
ahout the temples or back Of the eyes. Among
asn,is,s there also Is a growing belief that that
mos. distressing form of headaehe-migraine' or
ar,ou. sick headaches usually due TO eyestrain
and 70 nothing but eyestrain.
Certainly the records Of recent ocular practice
.or,ain N amazing number Of migraine cases
.,r,,, and permanently cured by the simple
device Of equipping the sufferer with careiuiiy
1,,eA rair Of spectaeles. Two Boston physicians
hsys reported more than fftecn hundred cases OF
migraine cured by relief Of eyesirain'
r,..,r.i, NAV have as a result serious disturb
.nees Of the organs Of digestion, with or without
an aeeompa ying headache, and msnfesung IN
hiliopsness. nausea, vertigo or gastric seizures
DIR. George NJ Gould, one Of the first physieians-
IL not the very first physeian-tO note the not
;,,,.opept connection between eyestran and d.
oastive disorders. describes the latter as pro-
tsctive device, whereby nature eases the STRAIN
on the tired eyes by temporarily uniting the VIC
tim for sustained use Of them.
Here Is a striking instance from DR.. GOulds
experience:
The patient was business man, who for nearly
Ten wears had been afflicted with abdominal pains
constipation and sour stomach, and IN addiuoh'
was greatly troubled by insomnia 4 wouia nave
sleepless nights for week or two at time, and
felt as II was not worth the sslt ate" SO ex-
IRENE did his suferings become that, after fol-
lowing to no purpose the rigorous treatment Of
an eminent general physician, he obtained three
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THE SULTAN or SUlU WITH HIS HAREM

closer range. / agree with those whose soiu-
ton is to keep the Province Of Mindanao and
Suu for a generation at least and let the Fill
pino have his longed for independence. He
has freedom now if he could appreciate it, but
like many other blessings he will not recos-
nze it till it takes its fight.
You see am so filed with the importance
and possibilities of the present it is hard to go
back nearly FIVE hundred years, which was
what started out to do.
1t was in 1921 that the white man, as Mr..
Carl Crow puts it, ION his mad race to carry
Christianity to the uttermost parts Of the earth
and trade it for the lands OF the heather,
reached the Filipinos in the person Of Fer
nando Magellan.
Now. do not be afraid, l am not going into
the history, interesting as it might prove, OF
those long, bloody years. Suffice it to say,
Spain tried to conquer, to subdue, without sue
cess, and so you see before che American at
tempted to befrienG the little brown brother"
the Spaniard, as DR.. Saleeby points out, had set
the American mind in a prejudiced attitude
toward the Moro. Before the Moro met the
American his heart throbbed with fear lest his
new neighbor would treat him as the Spaniard
did
There is one man, however, who always be-
leved that the Moros would respond to kind
ness. He is Charles H. Brent, Episcopal
Bishop Of the Philippine Islands He longed
to give them a chance of proving that they
would not reject a hand held out in helpful
kindness. That reminds me Of something a
man said when told him before sailing that
all hoped to do was to hold out hand. His
reply was that if did they would cut 1t off.
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Continued from second page.

death, and no outward marks of violence ap-
peared either on the body or i'll the room
where she had been found alone. Following
the cumbersome routine in such cases,
Rosetta Gordon's body was ordered to
the Harlem Morgue, at 10th street and
the East River, and taken from there by
boat to the main morgue, at the foot OF East
Goth street. Here DR.. Schultze performed an
autopsy, only to find that the woman had died
from strangulation. The congestion OF the
lungs and other unmistakable evidences point
ed directly to this cause of death. Further in
quiry at the l3Sth street address elected the
information that Rosetta had passed the night
OF her death with one Preston Gould, negro.
An alarm for Preston was Immediately sent
throughout the United States, and he was
caught in little town in New Jersey, watch
ing baseball game. He has since paid the
penalty for his crime.
Julia M. Curran, a governess, thirty-seven
years old. died suddenly one night in the sum-
mer of 1912, shortly after the murder Of Rosen-
thai, in Ranes law hotel, at Broadway and
9th street. She had entered the place with
man between and o'clock, and soon there
after was found dead on the bed in one of the
rooms. the door ajar and the man gone. An
ambulance was summoned, and later the po-
liceman in charge OF the case called up the
Corvners' Office to say the ambulance surgeon
had diagnosed the case one of Bright's
disease. The ambulance surgeon afterward re-
pudiated this diagnosis.
Dr. Schultze was assigned to the case and
on superficial examination found evidences OF
strangulation. The body was taken to the
morgue and there an autopsy confirmed his
suspicious. though the police continued stoutly
to maintain that the woman had died natural
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death. They never made an honest effort to
apprehend her murderer. 1t seems that the
wife of the proprietor of the place was the
mother-in-law of one of the policemen in the
precinct. The place was closed later by In
spector Dwyer.
1t is only fair to say that the failure to de-
tect more cases of poisoning does not lie en-
trely with the Coroners' system. Poisoning
cases require the careful examination of the
organs of the victim by competent chemist
To do the work properly the chemist should
be actually present at the autopsy to receive
in carefully sterilized and identified jars the
material he is to test, jars which must then be
sealed in the presence of witnesses And he
should conduct his analysis in a laboratory
especially set apart for the purpose, where
there can be no danger of substitution or
chemical contamination.
Instead, not only is the chemist practically
never present at an autopsy OF the kind, but
neither is any one else, unless the Coroner's
physician wishes it, who can make proper
legal Identification of the organs to be exam
ined.
Fortunately for the city, Governor Whit
man. Mayor Mitchell, Commissioner Wallstein,
various civic organizations and the coroners
themselves are behind bill to sweep the pres
ent institution, system and regime of the Cor
oner out OF existence, and to substitute there
for a system of appontive medical examiners
who shall report to the District Attorney and
the police. II would take up too much time
and space to consider the bill in detail; its
passage should, however, do away with most
of the shameful abuses which now obtain.
Then, If the murder rate of New York should
rise, the people might take comfort in the
thought that the rise registered greater eff
cheney in detection, rather than growth of
crime.
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of interest in his studies might be due to diff
Guilty in reading, he was taken to an ocuist. Their
for the first time il was found that he was suffer-
ing from mixed astigmatism" Corrective spec
tacles were given him, and in two years he had
overtaken his former classmates and was account
ed one of the most promising pupils in the school
In the case both of young children and OF those
passing through the adolescent stage grave neu-
rotic symptoms often are noted as dependent on
eyestrain.
In one instance sixteen year old girl, so "ner-
vous" that she could not sleep for more than
few minutes at a time, and even then would wake
up in a panic Of fear at she knew not what, was
cured by correction of An Unborn eye defect. An
other, fifteen years old, subject to convulsive
attacks, with frothing at the mouth until her par
ents invoked oculist's aid. And even when
results as grave as these do not follow there is
pretty sure to be headache and inability to keep
up in class work without tremendous effort Alto
gether the facts brought to light by recent med!.
cal and psychological research justify the warn
ing issued to parents and educators by an OBJ
servant New England publicist:
There are children now struggling for educa-
ton through pain, walng little creatures, back
ward in their lessons, tortured with racking head
aches who only need relief OF complaining set
of nerves by a pair of properly adjusted glasses
to transform them into healthy, happy children,
capable Of assimilating all the benefits Of their
school work"
Nervousness, headache, insomnia, indigestion
and q general impairment Of efiicency-such are
the principal products of eyestrain. Manifestly,
eyestrain becomes of extremely serious signih-
canoe to the nation If prevalent to any great ex-
tent, and those who have most thoroughly nvesti-
gated it are agreed that In the United States 1t Is
lamentably prevalent.
One authority afirms that at least fifteen mill
ion Americans suffer from it in some degree and
that a large proportion of these experience its
bodily effects In a marked form. To other investi-
gators this estimate seems exaggerated; but one
has only to observe the incessant demands made
on the ever Increasing number of oeulists to ap-
preciate that, whatever the exact figures the army
Of eyestrain sufferers is indeed enormous.
Yet eyestran is almost always-though not
Always preventable malady. 1t originates. as
was suggested in two ways-either from Unborn
defects severe as to require the use Of specta-
cles at an early age or from abuse Of eyes origi.
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" ZoU say you would like an account OF
" nv stay in Jolo, description OF my
friends the Moros, and, above all, as
my small nephew puts 1t, the
v.rv most exciting thing that happened to
Jon " hut unfortunately l am so absorbed by
th. great issue at stake, the destiny of ma
ton. held as il were in the hand OF the Ameri-
can people. that wonderful as those days were
IN that little far away island, with its noun
tains, and fertile valleys, its palms, its silver
beaches. lined with coral and shells, its ram
bow tinted FISH and many eolored olros' It's
wonderful stars and radiant moonlight nno
myself forgetting all else in the great longing
20 make every citizen Of these United States
appreciate the privilege which lies IN his
power-the gift that he may either give or
withhold.
Remember. please. that l am speaking OF the
Moros, not the Filipinos, and in order TO
understand the great gulf which separates the
two you must bear in mind first and last that
the Filipinos are Roman Catholics and the
Moros Mahometans, and, of equal impor-
lance, the fact that the Filipinos do not want
Americans to remain in the islands and the
Moros are begging us not to leave them. Inc
Moro hates the Filipino, and the Filipino, with
good cause. is deadly afraid Of the Moro. 1t
is SO we'll known that just before l lett the
islands a paper published as joke the fol-
lowing: Suggested that Filipino governor
be appointed to govern Jolo: His official resi-
dence being in Manils"-which is FIVE hundred
miles away, and quite frankly it would be a
very brave man Filpino) who would try it at
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naly strong enough to dispense with speet'elaS
treated right. One, way to treat them sl0's
and the way which is chiefly responsible io'
eyestrain of to-day-is to make prolonssa
Of them for close-ranse vision without SUMO"
intervals of rest.
This would not be so harmful were 1t NOT 20
many people-perhaps most peopie-oesn ~
with eyes intended by Nature for distant n.%
than near vision. They have the eyes Oh Wv.
primitive ancestors, to whom ability TO pef'e'"
objects at a distance was indispensable
preservation of life. That is why eyestrsn
infrequent among farmers and others VINO" W
tions involve Q minimum Of near vision ana ~
il is SO much in evidence among writer's NV.
and all CLASSES of workers In near-sight '0's,s
This also explains the greater prevalence Wv
strain among women as compared with men "
menting on this, Doctor Southland pointeo CIV. -,
Taking the females as q class, we find a''
a very early age they are taught to sew =.
they grow older more and more difficult "s-
set for their eyes in the matter Of close w.
that is, work at near range. At the sen00' =.
in fact, all through school lfe-they are "p'..E
to do a large portion Of their own sewing .,.,
as attending to their school lessons. ins"st
in painting, music and embroidery or SINE ~.
ly trying work is prescribed as matter '''
and in addition to their special work"
Yet many thousands of people ally rsaa, IA
or sew with window, lamp, gas jet or elee" - d,
30 situated that the light from it strikss ~
their eyes; or they sit in such way 'hs' Ia" -,
OF falling unobstructed ever their LETT saw =.
rs should be the case, the illrmnsnt .'" !,
using throws a shadow Of their own hs". :,
he.d on the book they are reading the i0'''. !,
are writing or the sewing on which tnsS =.
WORK. All this interferes with VISION ass ~,
fertile source Of business for the eye spee'-,
So is the h.bit Of reading in stree'esr' r'"
train and other moving vehicle. the mo'e@'' "a
which itself renders ocular aeeommoca'V'
cult, while the usually inadequate iight P'''''''
adds to the burden on the eyes. a,
But when all hygienic measures ia'', 80, ,hs
becomes conscious that the eyes:ght " ~ ,l
il ought to be, then visit to On oeuhs' - =,
made without delay. Only be sure tnA' ~ ~.
to an experienced and trustworthy ma" .ousl,
you have his prescription filled oy ~ an. 49,
competent optician. The wearing OF o'D' .tssi
eyeglasses may prove to be more ss''''
to you than wearing none at all
Copyright. 1915. H. Addns'On S'SssS
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A CHIEF ANO HIS FAMILY

Jolo January 20. We stopped there only day
and went on to Zamboango, where we remained
nearly week collecting furniture and so forth
for the only available house we could get in
Jolo. 1t was unfortunately situated in the
middle of the town, surrounded by sweat
shops and over pearl exchange, which
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All I can say is it was held out and his
prophecy did not come true. On the contrary,
my experience of the last year has made me
realize as never before that love can win where
hate spells death.
We started, Deaconess Young and myself.
from New York on December 6, 1913, reaching
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hind grade. 1t seemed impossible for him to con-
centrate his attention on his books; he complained
that the effort to study exhausted him. and it
looked as though he really incapable of learn
ing anything.
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On the other hand, aside from the regular tasks
Of the school, he seemed mentally alert When
playing games with other children executing
commissions given by his parents ne was as bright
as one could wish On the chance that his lack
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seldom falls short of death you can see the
danger very real.
The first day we did 60 out, accompanied
by the Bishop and an armed escort, we took
the precaution to leave note of instruction
with Mr. Ellis, the banker, telling what should
be done in case we did not return. / remem-
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sorrdg very pretty ard smells very bad. 90
not however, wish to take up your time win
details that simply have to do with comfort or
discomfort: because, no matter how great the
discomfort il was more than made up tor oy
dc wonderful success of our venture. ana
sftcr ali the discomfort was not so great 'oi
&c had ordered our beds, mosquito nets, etc.
cent from New York, and were fortunate IN
finding them waiting for US at the custom
house. That reminds ne Of my surprise when
we were obliged to pay duty on anything MADE
outside of the United States, in spite OF the
fact that duty had already been collected IN
the United States
1T first the natives quite ignored US. l mean
those we met in the streets OF Jolo, :or we
were not at first allowed to go outside the
gates (you know Jolo is the smallest walled
town in the world), as there existed strong
feeling that we were in very grave danger
owing to the fact that it had been heralded we
had come to proselytize. Some Mahome-
tans in San Francisco had written to high
dgnitary that we might be expected and they
hoped every possible obstacle would be put IN
our way, and as the Moro's idea OF an obstacle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-14
Bv MRS. LoR1LLARD SPENCER.

+ TOU say you would like an account OF
. my stay in Jolo, description OF my
friends the Moros, and, above all, as
my small nephew puts it, the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
NEW INDIAN HAS
RECORD FOR RUNS
Boyle Signs New Man, Leading Run
eetter in Michigan State
League Last
Season.
PLAYED IN MUsKEGoN
PeIaskI, Young Pitcher from chiea-
90, Also Signed by Boyle
Has Everything But
Control.

Outfelder Earl Momstock, last sea
son with the remnant winning Mus
kegon club of the Michigan State
league, has just been signed by Man
ager Frank Boyle. according to infor-
nation received from the Indian boss
by The Gate City last night.
In Comstock and Baum, the latter
another man recently signed by Boyle,
keokuk will have next season two OF
the leading run getters of the Michi-
gan State league last year. Baum led
the league last year with sc runs,
while Comstock was third with total
of 20 for the season. Baum also lead
in number of total bases with 1872,
while Swick, also signed by the In
dian boss, was second with 1S5.
| Comstock played in 119 games last
year, hitting an average of .291. He
scored ~ runs, made Sc sacrifice hits,
! and pilfered So sacks. According to
Boyle, Comstock works best in the
outfeld, although he can hold down an
intield job in pinch.
right hand pitcher, is another new adj
dition to the Indian roster whom Boyle
has just signed. Pelaski had trial
with the Peoria club of the Three-Eye
| league last spring but was let out on
account of his wildness. According to
Boyle the only thing the youngster
lacks is control.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
ASSUMES
CHARGE OF YANKEES
Wild Bill Has Little to Say About
Plans for Fostering up Club
Recently Traded.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Jan. wild Bill
Donovan, former twirling star OF the
Detroit Tigers. and later manager Of
the Providence International league
club, today took formal chanrge of the
New York Yanks. The ceremonies
were very simple. Donovan reported to
Captain T. L. Huston and Colonel ia
cob Rupert, Jr., the new owners.
They told him that the club was his
and to go to 1t.
Donovan had little to say about his
plans. He stated he hadn't had time
TO get acquainted with the situation
yet He intimated that he would first
rick the clubs training place and
would then turn his attention to bolst-
ering up the team by trades and pur.
chases.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
SUSTAINS DEMURRER
IN POWER co. SUIT
Judge Bank Holds Petition in Dam
age Suit is Ambiguous, Not
Designated.

In the district court yesterday,
Judge Bank sustained portions of a
demurrer in the case of Wilson VS.
The Mississippi River Power company.
The court held that the obstruction
alleged to have caused the drowning
of five people in Lake Cooper was not
sufficiently designated and that the
petition was ambiguous.
The court has also overruled the
defendants demurrer in the case Of
Dickson VS.. the Board of Review.
Jurisdiction of the court in the case
of Davis VS.. Norfolk and Western
Railway was denied. ..
Judge Bank, yesterday announced
the re-appcintment OF Charles j.
Smith as official reporter, post
which he has acceptably filled for
many years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
Railroad Held Guilty.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.1
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. I'm an or
der filed today. the state railroad and
warehouse commission hollis the Rock
Island (Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc) railway responsible for the
wreck on the road near Faribault.
Mimi. December 10. The commits sion
says the wreck was due to poor track
conditions. Speed Of Rock Island
trains in Minnesota is limited to thir-
ty miles an hour until further notice,
and the road is ordered carefully to
examine every mile of track in Min
nesota. The ORDER follows investiga-
ton by commissioners. 1t is directed
to General Manager Jones, at Des
Moines. It has not been decided to
turn Tire results of investigations over
to the law for possible criminal ac-
ton. One woman was killed and thir-
ty-fve injured when the train left the
tracks.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-03
ASK INJUNCTION
AGAINST M'GEE
st. Louis National League Club starts
Suit Against Player Who
Jumped to Federal
League.
CLAIM He WAS SIGNED
Alleged In. Petition That MCGEE Was
Bound by Contract for the
Coming Season to
Cards.
CLAIM He WAS SIGNED

If 4 T. .
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. I'm a
suit filed by the st. Louis National
league team in the United States dis
trict court late today, an Injunction
is sought against Lee Magee," who
jumped to the Brooklyn Federal
league team. Magee is made defend.
ant under his real name Of Leo Harm.
schemeyer. A temporary, and later
a permanent injunction, Is asked to
prevent him from playing with any
club other than the st. Louis Nation.
al league. He signed a contract, after
the regular season last year, to play
with the Brooklyn Federal team while
he was under contract with the st.
Louis team for 1915, it Is alleged.
The hearing on the question OF the
temporary injunction will come in
Cincinnati January 9. 1t Is alleged in
the petition that Magee signed con-
tract March 4, 1914, with the st. Louis
National league club for 1914 and
1915; that he was paid $4,000 straight
salary, $500 additional for signing
the contract and $1,000 bonus for the
team finishing third in the champion
ship race. 1t Is further stated that
on November IL, 1914, Magee signed
contract with the Brooklyn Federal
league club thereby repudiating his
contract with the st. Louis Nationals.