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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23
THE WAR PRIMER
BY National Geographic Society

AquiIeia, one of the first towns
captured by the Italians in their storm
across the Austrian borders at the
head of the Adriatic, stands foremost
among the Austrian Italian-speaking
possessions in the sentimental attach
ment of the patriotic sons of Italy.
Why the Italian takes so deep an in
terest in this decaying little frontier
village is told in a statement on war
geography, recently prepared by the
National Geographic Society. This
statement reads:
"AQuileia, situated six miles back
from the Adriatfc Sea, at the edge Of
the lagoons. in the Austrian province
of Goerz and Gradisca, was once a
great and dourishing seaport, at one
time ranking as the second city of
Italy. II was. in those days, one OF the
mightiest bulwarks of the Roman En-
pire against the pressing hordes of
outside barbarians, a city of proud
walls and wide bespoken splendor.' As
late as the end of the 10th century,
Austrians placed II ninth on the list
of the great cities Of the earth.
To-day. Aquileia is mean. poverty
marked, dwindiing fishing village, with
a few thousand inhabitants. The won
derful structures of its heyday have
served for centuries as stone QuarrieS,
and nothing now remains of their fab
ulous splendor. Aquileia, regal city of
the Empire, and. later. great seaport
and industrial city, has vanished, in
all likelihood, for good. There remains
from its golden days merely a hetero-
geneous mass Of relics, statues
mosaics. columns, friezes, from its
parks and buildings; lamps from it's
once famous factories: besides many
homefy survival9 and nicknacks.
''Triest, the great seaport of today,
Is about 25 miles distant, to the south
west. All the marks of the prosperity
and Importance Of Aquileia have fed
to Triest, in the east, and to Venice,
in tho west. The once busy harbor is
cholSed with silt and drifting dunes,
while RATS and fishing boats are al
most the only craft that now thread
the varying channels. The modern
village, counting $500 people, is un-
healthy on account of its rice fields;
is neglected and forgotten.
"AQuileia Is a grave of past achieve
ment, and a much weathered monu-
ment to the world of the Roman Age.
Its museum is rich in trophies of
Roman times. land dts ancient cathedral
and the remains of the Patriarch's
palace are its most eloquent, concrete
memories. Aqutleia, as is much of
the northern and western. coast of the
Adriatic, 10 a rich field dor archeolo-
giSts and antiQuaT4ans.
'"rhe city is-said to have been col
/ onfzed by the Romans as a frontier
| c. In les A. D.. Marcus sAurelius made
| 1t one Of the strongest fortified posi-
tons IN the Empire. During Hadi-
ans reign, its population reached the
100000 mark. Attila destroyed the
city in 452 AID. and lit, never recov-
cred its greatness. Aquileia was
great and strong only throughout its
Roman history. when, during. its prime
| it ranked immediately after the sEter-
nal City, itself. It's fortunes were
those OF the Roman world; and mod
ern Italy. looking back over the gull
Of centuries, feels itself, NOT only the
| descendant, but also che heir Of Latin
Rome"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

last we persuaded him to try cuticra Soap
and Otntmea.t- His foot had been running
continually for month inside Of two
weeks he was able 70 wear q shoe on that
foot. and after months steady trestment
his foot became a. well as ever.
.-Cuticura Soap and Ointment also healed
. serious scurf on my little girls head ::
CSigned) Mrs. NJ. /. Gammons, Sept. 20. IA
Sample Each Free by Mail
With 32-p. Skin Book ON request Adj
dress postcard "Cutieura. Dept IT, Dos-
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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

A rash broke
out his foot
was terrihly red
and iunamed
and itched day
and night. He
had to have r.
bandaged. hia
stocking kH-
tated the tender
flesh 90. At
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

The sale of the steps ofathe4 capitol
atsWashington needscause no,feari that
the new owner will try TO stake them
away as Meunter hoped 10 lop Of the
senate hu1ldina y
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

There+rnay be tobacco feldsswhere
a 100000 storm loss could bel over
como by, a big. cabbage crop in Ohio,
but 1t can hardly be said of the Con-
necticut product.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

The employees Of the Bridgeport
Arms company appear to be the bet
ter judges of what is best for them.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

The man on the corner says: There
are no widespread disease epidemics
in this country, but we haye-neutral-
ity. =, ~
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

July is doing its best to give pop
ularity to the use of the bathing suit
elsewhere than at the seashore.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The Minnehaha having reached Eng
land in safety apparently has the laugh
ION its enemies
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

Thezkaiser Claims that he, has4par-
-alyzeds Russia He unquestionabiy has
/ 1t on the run. but parafyzed Isn't
supposed to permit ever that free
dom.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

Bridgeport can appreciate. thes value
+ Of Strike Leader Kepplers departure
and at. the: samegtime deprecate the i'll
which it. means to SBayonne.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

Notwithstanding that most Of the
nations of Europe are doing quite
enough Vesuvius threatens to start in
throwing things.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

When the mayor of Atlantic City
breaks the law concerning dancing he
sets asbadG examp1e thetmany Fthou-
ookStos hin1e fcrsguidance
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

The Germans are securing posses
sion of the Russian fortresses with
as much IF not greater ease than they
-dids those in Belgium.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

From the demonstration by the peo-
pie of Pittsburgh Thaw' appears to be
a.gTeater parsonage than as fine had
ledAa ~law-abidipg life.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

Theypen may be mightier than 1.-THE
sword, but typewriter manufacturers
know that Cuisines at present is-cen-
tered ontwar munitions.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23
Norwich. July %, 1915.
Sonuvenir

charIottetown Guardian Souvenir
Edition.
War has upset many plans and
among them were are arrangements
which had been made for the celebra-
ton Of the fiftieth anniversary OF the
first conference held at Charlottetown,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-07-23

How two Russian aviators made
their way through the German lines
disguised as peasant women. Is told
in a dispatch from the Nieman front.
/ The tKQ> axiators had gone up 20
Evening star., 1915-11-14

their more civilized brethren in other
countries, jealousy resenting any invasion
into their field
The head of the tribe, who was one of
the worst sufferers from the yaws, was
especially opposed to any personal ex-
perimentatiOn. The situation, that is,
called for undiplomatic measures. SO one
day, when the unguarded chief was sun
ming himself alone in the quiet of his jun
gle, DIR. Strong and his assistants laid
violent hands upon his royal person,
forced his struggling and naked body to
the ground, and gave him the Ehrlich
treatment.
Naturally, an angry chieftain presently
returned to his camp and prepared to or
ganize an expedition to exterminate these
medicine-men from the west. Before he
was thoroughly prepared, however, some
thing extraordinary happened. The chief,
who had been ailing for years, began to
feel better. The ulcers disappeared, one
by one, until his body was entirely freed
from disease. The tribesmen now filed
into DR.. Strong's headquarters by the
hundreds, not seeking to avenge an insult,
but begging for the treatment! Iaws has
now disappeared from this and numerous
other tribes.
In 1910 the Chinese government turned
to the United States and other nations
Evening star., 1915-11-14

every liz Nlctlut WOtluu SutluetlN
become faint, reel, and fall. In most cases.
as his fellow Cinnamon hesitated to ap-
proach him, he would crawl unassisted
to some protection, lie for a few days in a
stupor, breathing heavily and splitting
blood, and finally die, his body turning
the leaden hue that gave the disease its
forbidding medieval name.
A pile of cof1ins stood inside of the i'm
provised hospitals. The attendants would
attach long hooks to the body-like
stevedores handling bale of cotton and
lift it into one of these receptacles. The
city of Harlin had an even less formal
way of disposing of the victims. The
carriers would take them to high cliff
and throw them over. In few weeks
they thus heaped up a ghastly pile of five
thousand corpses,
Evening star., 1915-11-14
No Victim Ever Receivers

THE native Chinese We're absolutely
powerless. They feared the disease to
such degree that no attempt was made
to nurse the sick. The usual way of ap-
preaching their patients was to stand at
safe distance and examine them through
field-glasses! Barbarous as this seemed
it really made little difference to the pa
tients. Every human being who con-
Evening star., 1915-11-14
You Should Be Proud of This Man

tracted the plague died. 1t is one of the
tality is one hundred per cent. A. few
courageous native doctors attempted the
traditional Chinese treatment for all all
sticking needles in the sick mans
breast,-and most of those who did this
contracted the disease Practically all
their efforts were limited to disposing of
the victims. Every day the carriers
would pause before the houses and cry, as
in the days of the Plague of London,
@Bring out your dead!"-the most VEN
turesome, perhaps, going in to search for
their prey. Burials in snow-drifts we're
common.
Dissection of the Dead Forbidden
in China
nISCOURAGING as these circum-
stances were, the attitude of the Chinese
officials was more discouraging still. OF
the dozen or fifteen distinguished foreign
scientists who had started for Manchuria,
Dr. Strong and his assistant, DIR. Oscar
League, were the only ones who arrived
there. The Chinese government, after
inviting them, changed it's mind. Russia
suggested that, for the protection Of the
party, she be permitted to send an armed
guard. To the willy Chinese this looked
merely like an entering wedge to the mill
tary occupation of Manchuria; she there
fore politely invited all the scientists to
stay away.
When DIR. Strong reached Pekin, he
found that he had been summoned home.
But he refused to be cheated Of great
scientific adventure in this way, and
pushed on. When, alone of the great
scientific expedition, he reached Mukden,
his official reception was almost as chilly
as the atmosphere. He sought the silken-
bearded viceroy, Hsi Liang, and an
nounced his program. His first request
almost took this functionary off his feet.
form autopses! Now, dissection of the
dead was penal crime in China. Chi
nese religion absolutely forbade it. The
missionaries to whom DIR. Strong had an
nounced his intention begged him not to
attempt it; the mob, they said, would
surely kill him. The crafty viceroy had
no intention of permitting this desecra-
ton. but he did not wish to offend the
Americans. Nor did he refer to the fact
that the Chinaman's reverence for the
dead would make the project impossible.
Al cannot think Of permitting you to
undergo such dangers he said. 1The
dead bodies will infect you, and you will
die. forbid it, because can't let you
catch the disease"
DR.. Strong reasoned persistently. This
was the first time in five hundred years
that the black death in extensive epi-
demic form had visited the world! 1t
was the first chance that science had ever
had To study the disease. Only by ac-
tually dissecting the bodies could he learn
facts that had the utmost Importance for
China and the rest of the world.
There is peculiar Chinese expression
that may mean either 4yes" or "no.' The
viceroy. in the course of the talk, incau-
tiously used this word. DR.. Strong,
when the interpreter explained the situa-
ton to him, decided that he would take
Evening star., 1915-11-14

~ European war, have scored an
~ other great triumph in sanitary
Il - science. After the Spanish war
Walter Reed and his associates banished
yellow fever from Cuba. At Panama
General Gorgas cleaned up one of the
most dreadful fever districts in the world.
These two great performances marked
great stages in the progress of medicine
and of civilization. Now American medi-
cal men have achieved third. Servia.
ten months ago, had 100000 eases of
typhus fever. She has not half dozen
now. AS Walter Reed drove yellow fever
from Cuba, as General Gorgas freed the
Panama district from tropical diseases,
so DIR. Richard p Strong has delivered
Servia from the typhus.
"Simply miraculous" was the comment
of Sir Thomas Upton, who spent several
months in Servia both before and after
DR.. Strong's operations.
He Hunts For Trouble and Danger
THIS cleansing of nation, however,
was nothing particularly new for DR..
Strong. He has spent the better part of
the last fifteen years in expeditions of
this kind. He represents new type of
medical man-the scientific adventurer,
in the best sense of that term; man
who delights in problems that involve not
only scientific skill but personal danger;
a modern knight-errant, whose weapons
are the test-tube and hypodermic needle,
and whose enemies are not dragons and
giants, but the more powerful though in
visible organisms of disease.
"Who's Who" betrays the fact that DR..
Strong is q graduate of Yale and Professor
of Tropical Diseases at Harvard. This
PROFESSIONAL chair, however, is merely
the base of operations for scientific eXpe-
dtions to all parts of the world Some
time ago he spent several months in
South America, tracking to their lair
new and strange diseases that might
threaten commerce passing through the
Panama Canal Before that he spent an
arduous winter in Manchuria. conducting
the first battle ever led against the pneu-
monte plague. Even before that he had
played conspicuous part in driving
smallpox and other diseases out of the
Philippines.
Evening star., 1915-11-14
Vaccination in the Jungle

HOW many Americans know that small
"a pox is to-day rarer disease in the
Philippine Islands than in the United
States? Before the American occupa-
ton it was the most prevalent scourge.
Manila and thousands of Filipino towns
and villages regarded the disease as part
of the course of nature. About ten years
ago, however, DR.. Strong began task
that might have discouraged less ventur
GUS souls: that of vaccinating about TO-
100000 little brown wards of Uncle Sam.
With an army of sanitarians, he visited
all the islands, calling on the chieftains
to bring their subjects to indicated places.
In the course of a few months millions of
brown and yellow arms were scraped with
vaccine points. This experience has given
the world its greatest lesson in the value
of Jenner's wonderful discovery. for small
pox is now an unknown disease in the
Philippines. And not only smallpox. but
other scourges that were hitherto endemic
Evening star., 1915-11-14
By BURTON J. HENDRICK

cholera, the plague, a pc
culiar disease known as the
yaars-have disappeared.
This "yaws, widely
prevalent disease i
whose manifestations III
were chronic ulcers ~
in all parts of the ~
body, puzzled DR.. "a
Strong for some
time. He discov-
cred the yaws
while on one of
his explorations
into the interior
into the land
of the head
hunters. Med
lcal science up
to that time
had not re-
corded it, and
naturally had
provided no
remedy. Medi-
cine-men in
plenty treated
it with wild in
carnations of
their own; be-
yond these min
istrations, how
ever. the sick saw
ages had no means -
of relief. DR.. Strong NJ
wrote the details of W
his now discovery to Y
DIR. Ehrlich, the great \
German scientist of
Frankfort, who suggested
that he try the effect
salvarsan. That was an cas-
thing to say from the quie
confines of a medical labors
tory in Germany. In tn
Filipino jungle, however, d.
Strong was facing a tribe {
hostile head-hunters and mec
icine-men-the latter, lik
Evening star., 1915-11-14

few weeks later. A Nam
churian winter of unusual
vigor was devastating the
land. The thermometer. all
through his stay, averaged
thirty degrees below zero. In
the ancient Buddhist tenn
pies, hastily fitted up as
hospitals, Chinese coolies
were dying by the hundreds
Evening star., 1915-11-14

A MERICANS, as one result of the
~ European war, have scored an
~ other great triumph in sanitary
l. n science After the Spanish war
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22
Copyright. Harris IL Ewing.

Though Miss Hattie Maddox is blind she is one of
the best workers in the Post OGce at Washington
MISS HATTIE MADDOX who is totally blind,
NA turns out as much work day as any one else
in the mailbag repair shop of the Post-Office
Department.
Miss Maddox has been employed in the repair
shop since 1889, and is an expert at her work
After ma-pouch has been repaired, she puts
new draw-strings in the mouth of each canvas sack
WHEN Rose Lorenzo was young girl she began
w selling catalogues for the American Art Asso-
citation Porcelans and ceramics interested her.
The sense of touch is great factor in determining
the dynasty in which many of the Chinese porcelans
were made; and Miss Lorenzo has developed this
sense to such degree that she can lay her hands
on any piece of Chinese pottery and with her eyes
closed, tell its dynasty
Miss Lorenzo has been with the American Art
Association for thirty-seven years. When she
completed her twentieth year of service her
ployers presented her with S2O,OOO
MISS ALICE PURINGToN, of the United States
AVA Patent Office, has the task of passing on the
merits of all the dolls toys, and games submitted to
patent the Department of the Interior.
"All things patented" says Miss Purington,
"must be both operative and useful. 1t is my bust
ness to ascertain whether dolls, toys and games
operate according to design That is my work"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-22

"IT's just as good way to make a living as any
4 thing else, says Mrs. Francis Clenton, a boot
black Rue Royal in New Orleans.
Mrs. Clenton, who was formerly trained nurse,
said she nearly grieved to death in "ghasly old
hospital in Macon, with people dying all around
"Boobacking is in keeping with my views on
optimism. can take pair of sorrowful shoes and
turn them out rejecting all the joys in the world"
she declares
Miss ROSE MURRAY, the only woman in the
NA world who holds the position of physician and
surgeon to sick books, has more than SOOO,O 600
patients under her care She is the doctor" for
all the volumes in the New York Free Public
Library There is very lively element of dam
ger in her position, because books, like people,
derive their sickness largely from germs and
microbes.
That is why Miss Murray goes about her work
dressed just like surgeon at an operation. Her
equipment consists of huge apron and a veil of
cheesecloth.
GRANDMOTHER SMITH of Cincinnati, is that citys
~ only woman cobbler. She learned the trade
from her husband, and there ten in the family
she can find plenty of work, when trade is dull,
right in her own household.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-09-24

Acw 10 mnstfzIsa I'D sAuv nn ne
wxr aEatuzt fahsseaaosaz Aartnx fAs
coming ysHkf VII n aise3szea III Aes>,
tiSnsa so4lsssancss - - snhsecs ~.
inx i&iisA hy to- Na6Asnaa AssocIk
sion fcF me sssAay ana Rzpysxiinn of
Tuberculosis. III In&aanap0tIA MA Ea
rasM Texs calamAaa, u, vi: spring
reld. Msass.. - AikAny. IL. y. MI
s The Iiadianapolis meeting. NJ hss hesa
Septenher 18th. ss'sA ana 0etehsr lei.
will Va known ~ iAe MisslSsippi Val.
ley tuberculosis confer~nee and viii
TAXA ID tha states of 0hin inasana,
iliinois. Michigan. wiscansiA. Ken.
tneky, Tennessee. Arkansas. Misscusi,
iowa minnesota. Kansas. Nehraska.
South Dakota. North Dakota. Mon.
lana. Wyoming and Colorado.
AT lei PAsu the southwestern health
conference win meet September 27th
10 October lit and vii discuss NOT
only tahercaiesia. but ether health
suhiectS This canfersns,s Includes
Texas, Oklahoma. New Mexico. Afi.
sona. California. Nevada. Utah and
Colorado.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-09-24

Burning OF the canoes at Camp TEX
akwitha IL . good Example. The use
Of these extremely frail. Unstable and
therefore dangerous eTaft should be
everywhere restricted to expert swim
mers. ANY others who 90 out In them
risk their lives. since the least incau.
tious movement 10 likely to cause an
upset even when the water 10 quiet.
While canoes aiay stir DO used by
those who are fitted and ready at any
moment TO swim ashore, IL would be-
better II they were put out OF nse al
AtsEetaeF There 10 always the tar
ser. as long as they are kept u hand.
that boys who cannot swim may seize
an opportunity TO venture out In them.
They serve no purpose that Ii worth
while. An expert may derive soma
pleasure from padding canoe about.
but TO persons who want 10 enjoy n
ride upon the watsr they osfer neither
security nor comfort--Aibany Journal.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-09-24

Another Victorian revival Ia the
pulled sleeve coming midway between
shoulder and elbow, Thus far these
sleeves adorn only evening gowns. the
long sleeve 10 the wrist being used
on all bodlces and blouses for day
wear, Low necked waists are filed
In at the top with gathered fuckers
another dainty Victorian feature OF
dress--and the deeolletage 10 growing
round instead OF v-shaped as the
season advances. Dimlty and lowered
organdie find special favor and laven.
der--the color of colors In demure Vic.
torian days--is particularly fashion.
able.
The belle OF 1890 yelled herself part
ly for coquetry and partly TO protect
her complexion, for tan was consid.
cred q disgrace then. as rough. red
hands would be now. Over the quaint
poke bonnets OF thi3 summer win be
thrown graceful veils In bordered and
vine patterns and from the tiny hat
floats q short, haring veil such as the
1880 belle affected.
The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1915-09-24
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