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The Nome daily nugget., 1915-10-29
SEATTLE HAS A BIG DOCK FIRE
BELIEVES GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN WILL
 bE ABANDONED

abandonment of the German plan to cut a way through the Serbian terri tory It is not accepted that the con- quest of Serbia will be stopped as every effort will be made to take possession. The withdrawal will, however, have the effect of allowing the withdrawal of q large number of men for use on other fronts and it is expected that this will have an immei Sc influence on the future of the war
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-10-29
for over three hours.

for over three hours.
 Included in the shipments of burned goods were three hundred and fifty three thousand dollars worth of tea which arrived from the Orient three days ago and was awaiting trans shipment to the east In addition sixty thousand cases of Alaska salmon re- gently arriving from the north were consumed. The latter shipment was awaiting shipment to Liverpool.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-10-29

Try the delicious flavor of real 'Swift's Premium" Ham or Bacon. You dealer now has a full supply.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-10-29

You get the most and all the very latest war news In the Nugget
Evening star., 1915-04-25

corps of doctors and nurses To SCI hia
last September. they p"r" Srti led IN
Belgrade. the capital The head of thus
first relief unit is Dr. Edward W. lfAaH
of PENNSYLVANIA. and h" WAS given
charge of the five main belgrade hos
pitalS upon the occupation OF the capi-
tai by the AuStriauS. Through All the
strife this physician has not only mtn-
aged his hospitals with over :.nn0
patients with ability. but he has sue
reeded in preserving strict neutrality
in his domain. and is worshiped hv
the people of Belgrade. lie. too. con-
tracted the deadly tXphus.
The United States Is sending to
Serbia this month great sanitary COM
mission. which Surgeon General William
&. Gorgas terms the greatest sanitary
undertaking in many years The COM
mission is composed Of some of Amer
ica's foremost specialists IN plague and
tropical diSea Ses. as well as tralHed
sanitary officers and nurses. Th" initial
expense of this relief WORK has been
S50.ooo. shared equally ny the AmerI-
can Red Cross and the Rockefeller
Foundat ion
The equipment carried hy this com
mission comprises everything that has
been considered necessary in the work
Of prevention and cure. The commits
sion and its equipment go directly 10
Gevgelia. the infected district of
Serbia now held by the handful of
American Red Cross doctors and nurses.
this twofold scourge of warfare and
disease it will be a matter Of world
wide interest to note the effect the
American occupat ion for relief has had
upon this one of the most ancient OF
Europes Kingdoms.
Evening star., 1915-04-25
WOODEN HEEL INDUSTRY


fectly smooth and finished and ready
to be covered il is if the material
to be used in the covering is compara-
lively thick: but if the heel has an eA
tension in front under the instep II
goes to "A securing machine to be fur
ther finished on that extending part.
and if it is to be covered with silk or
satin, very thin material. the entire
heel is polished on buffer to IA per-
feet silky smoothness. Tie heel IS
bored and plugged to reinforce and
strengthen it, and then, finished in the
wood, is ready to be covered
Many materials are used in covering
wooden heels, and they may be used in
an almost endless variety of colorS or
shades Some shoe manufacturers buy
the wooden heels and cover them in
their own factories: some have wooden
heel manufacturers cover and finish the
heels completely, sending to him the
covering materials cut or not cub, as
the case may be. and receiving from
him heels ready to go on the shoe. And
wooden heels are commonly made to
order. for they are required of many
sizes and of many shapes, with the
fashions always changing.
The coverings for the heels are cut
out by hand. though they are knife
cut many at time, but each cover
must be stretched or glued onto each
heel by hand Then there is glued into
,he grove of the heel, completely Gov
ering that surface. piece of split
leather Of precisely the color and also
of the same style Of finish as that Of
Evening star., 1915-04-25
The Magazine Editor.

An ex-magazine editor was discussing
~ magazine dullness at the Century
Club in New York:
Some magazines are dull. he SAID,
because their editors are so unbelievabiy
,onceited. The poor fellows think they
know 1t all. They believe the whole world
is groveling in veneration at their feet
in their deluded minds the most dis
,ineuished contributor comes to them III
the trucking spirit of the young farm
hand who once wrote:
Dear Editor: Croydon Four Corners
is a small place, and whenever a story
of mine is rejected by you the whole town
knows it, | don't suppose you Will care
for the inclosed. but | am sending it to
you anyhow, along with postal card.
which ] ask you. as special favor. to re
mail to me. The postmaster will read
same. and within an hour all Croydon
-Four Corners will know of my good luck.
But I will know it means my manuscript
is rejected, and you need not return same,
as | have another copy
This postal card that the editor was
to send the farm hand said
Dear Sir: Your manuscript received
and accepted. Will write YOU fully con-
cernng same at our earliest convenience.
Is the special price of $3.50 satisfactory
to you? Hoping for more from the same
pen at an early date, THE EDITORS.
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men. ordered the heads of tho dead
Serbs to he collected. He gathered to-
Gcthcr goo of them aud embedded them
in tower. From time to iImn th..S,s
ghastiy trophies have been removed
and buried by patriotic Serbs. o'i, tr',
ruined tower with four skulls still
stands to tell the story, \ chapel has
been built over the remnant Of The
tower and an inscription in fuu" lan
guaGes tells of Sindielich'S heroism.
Throughout Serbia one sees the
graves of soldiers on every hand. ES
every roadside. even by lonely moun-
tain tracks stand the monuments of
soldiers who have fallen in war. They
are tall stones. sometimes solitai y.
again in groups of Two and three: a.
most all are carved in very Hat relief
or with rude portrait of the lead
man standing stiff and straight and
presenting arms to the passersby paint
ed in bright colors with blue coat and
black moustachios The Inscriptions
tell how each met his death. and al
ways he died. "Eor the glory and free
dom of his brother Serbs.
Fortunately for himself al tns time
the Serb has no fear of death. When
he knows it TO be near he asks The
forgiveness of all present and awaits
The end with supreme aim. His faith
in future life of happiness is I'M
plicit and the passing is an immediate
transition from this life to a bette.
When the Red Cross sent its first
Evening star., 1915-04-25

four of his party in the de'irium OF the
fever, he wrote:
In regard to the present personnel
Of the units | do not advise withdrawal
Or even change of loca ton within Ser
bia but | feel before other mem erS
are sent to this country your office
should weigh seriously the risks that
every one will have to run-risks from
diseases that are considered riGhtfuliE
preventable in our home country-and
decide whether or not the units are
to be kept up to their full quota or
allowed to gradually decrease in num-
ber as one after another the original
members become sick and are Invalid
ed home. I am sure. from the events
of the past two weeks, that 1t is ON!
a question of time before each member
contracts some sickness of sufficient
gravity to make his or her return 10
America necessary - Serbia needs
all the medical help she can secure
Evening star., 1915-04-25

not contracted typhus. DIR. Magruder
succumbed to it a few weeks ago.
The careers of both these men are PIC
turesuue and interesting. DIR. Butler
is "A son of Charles Henry Butler. re
porter for the United States Supreme
Court ana he is "A grandson of the late
William Allen Butler, AN. LID, la" :
Yer and litterateur Of New ork ana
Yonkers Or. Bur<er's areat-erand-
father was Benjamin Franklin Butler.
Attorney General of the United states
in the cabinets of Presidents jackson
and Van Buren,.
Dr. Butler was born in Tonkers. \. y,
thirlY-one years ago. and was named
after his maternal grandfather. Ethan
Flage Receiving his early education
in private schools, he graduated at
Princeton University. and continued
his medical studies at Johns Hopkins.
graduating therefrom in 1910. Since
bovhood Dr. Butler has manifested a
spirit of service to humanity, and when
Dr. Wiifred Grenfel spoke at Johns
Hopkins of his work among the deep
sea fishermen of Labrador and their
need of medical aid, the student sur
geon volunteered his services for the
summer of 1909 Again. in his vacation
great medical missionary on his ves-
sci. the Strathcona. aiding him in his
splendid work among the needy sailors
of the far north.
In the fall of 1910 DIR. Butter took up
his work as a surgeon with the Mayo
brothers Of Rochester,, Mimi, with
whom during the nearly four years he
has been with them, he has acquired
thorough training in their methods. He
was upon the staff of these surgeons or
world wide repute when he responded
TO the request of the Red Cross to go
to the aid of Serbia.
In his letters to the Red Cross from
his post in the ever-stricken land DR..
Butler never mentions himself in the
heroic work he is conducting at Gey-
CELIA Writing last month, his chief
concern was for the welfare of his pa :
tients. among whom were number OF
surgeons and nurses. He asks that
any additional doctors and nurses who
may offer their services to Serbia be
fully informed of the situation and of
the near certainty of their contracting
typus or other malignant disease. With
Evening star., 1915-04-25

no shelter left standing to which the
non -combatantS could return. and
they We're forced to live in concentra-
iion camps the wards of an impoN-
erished government. Men. women and
children We're huddled together. poorly
fed. clothed aud sheltered. The newt
able result was an unhealthy and in
sanitary condition. That typhus would
make its appearance was foreSeen. and
nothing could he done 10 prevent IT.
The medical world is now confronted
with its most perpleXing problem in
years.
The first need. according to word
from Serbia, is for thing. The men,
women and children in the infected
districts are wearing all they possess
and il cannot be burned untll more ar
rives. Medical and sanitary supplies,
tents and bed clothing are next on the
list The relief work in the !n1ted
States is in the hands of the Serbian
agricultural relief committee of Amer
Evening star., 1915-04-25

,
H ::::. e: !: e: :: :: g; "a: {:
picrhents viii not be necessary. There
will he too few OF us left
This is the MESA ge being received
here from war-ridden and fever
stricken serbia Added emphasis has
been given by the news that Dr. Edward
w Ryan. in charge of the American Red
Cross work in Serbia. lies victim of the
fever
The United States, from actual expert
ence in recent years. knows little about
this present-day scourge According to
the leading American archaeological eN-
peFtS. among whom is DIR. William FL
WelcI, of Johns Hopkins University, Bal
Jimore. there is real danger of the
spread of typhus to the battle ground of
Europe. in which event, DIR. Welch says.
II will probably kill more soldiers than
viii bullets and shells The step to the
United States would then be d short one.
DR.. WeIch adds that the scourge in its
present aspect in Serbia resembles i'll its
effect the black DEATH. which swept
over Europe in the fourteenth century,
causing Ino.0o0 deaths in London, alone
TNpiIuS IL carried TO human beings by
parasites. which flourish i'll insanitary
surroundings. There is no direct cure for
it. The mortality rate is about 40 per
cent Or. Simon Flexner of the Rookie
feller Institute. New York. is telling volun-
teer physicians and nurses who plan to
go TO Serbia that their chances of con-
tracting the disease and dying from it are
50 per cent. Its symptoms resemble those
Of an extremely malignant malaria.
The fever runs for about fifteen days,
during which time the patient is slug
aisn. with little. if any, vitality. Tie
disease feeds upon the entire system
and leaves the patient in a terribly
efna ciated condition. The onset. as
general pains and frequently one or
more chills. There is high fever and
the pulse is very rapid. frequently
reaching 20 the second day From the
third to the NTH day an eruption ap-
pears. recurring from forty-eight TO
seventy hours to develop. During
this period the patient usually shows
marked mental disturba nee and the
deliriun is often of yIoient type.
The patient may jump out Of bed and
eudea vor TO escape attack the at
teudauts. Toward the latter part of
the second week. # the patient recoV-
@rS. rte fever disappears.
Extreme care must he exercised by
-hose handling typhus patients They
rObed in garments which leave
o.iy the eyes and nose exposed. Rub
b.s gloves are worn. the sleeves are
tIghteued al the wrists and mercurlal
ointfaents cover the wrists and ankles.
Evening star., 1915-04-25

ica with HEADQUARTERS at 20 9TH avenue,
New York city. Local committees are
being formed in every city IN the
country.
Nine. Slavko Grouitch. wife of the
undersecretary of foreign
affairs of Serbia. is touring the ri''es
of the United States, acpualnting them
with the depIorable condition of Ser
ba Oh behalf Of the serbian as1isul M
tural relief committee. She was FOR
meriy Miss Mabel Dunlop of 'larks-
burg W. Va. She is accompanied ny
Miss Helen LoZanltch, da lighter OF ihe
former secretary OF agriculture anu
commerce of the little Balkan nation.
Both women wear decorations FOR Natoi
and heroism as nurses in this and Ser
bias two previous wars. ]heA haFe
both been under fire. y tour Tor MISS
Lozanitch independent of the one Nine
Grouitch is now making is being a.
ranged She will probably appear III
most of the college cities ana towns
of the country.
when, years ago, one read of Father
Damien and The sacrifice o. his me
10 the Iepers of Molokai his hero!sm
stood out in solitary silhouette against
all the world Today many men ana
women are Offering. or already nave
given, their lives to plasue-strickeh
Serbia. and some day the story Of their
keroism will be appreciated AZ its
fun value Today the world takes their
sacrifice as Il matter OF course ana
one Of the consequences of war,
When the American Red Cross sent its
first consignment of units OF help-a
unit consisting usually of three doctors
and six nurses-to the various httlolS
involved in the war, it sent a double
unit to Serbia, because Serbia need
seemed especially great This heip was
later in the season increased as the
country's need grew; no" heip 70
stricken Serbia means herolsm or the
very highest order. for ALREADY "o'V''
persons in a population less than that
of New York city have died OF 'sPhus
fever and cholera is threatened.
When it was found that the Red cross
unit consisting Of three doctors and
twelve nurses, which had gone to BEL
grade last September was lnsuHlcieh'
TO cone with the situation throughout
Serbia another corps of helpers. con
sisting of two units of three DOCTORS
Evening star., 1915-04-25

through the bravery of certain leaders.
homes or in the open, sometimes to the
accompaniment of the Souala, a one
stringed musical instrument producing
weird mournful sound. Their bal
lads are heroic, stirring and musical,
in grandeur and beauty exceeding the
Goethe ranked the Serbian ballads
with the Iliad and the Odyssey.
gruesome monument Of the stormy
pa st of the land is the tower of skulls
near Nish. Although not freed until
1878, Eish made a gallant struggle for
liberty in 1909. when the general upris-
ing was taking place. The tower of
skulls on the Pirot road is grim mon
ument of the times. A little Serbian
stronghold near this spot. commanded
by one Stefan Sindjelich. resisted sue
cessfully for short time. Then the
Turks brought up a large force and
rushed" the place. AS the Turkish
soldiers were pouring in. Sindjelich.
seeing all was lost. fired his pistol into
the powder magazine and blew up self.
friend foe and the whole place in one
red ruin.
The Turkish losses We're heav%. and
the pasha, enraged at losing so many
and this may be of some delicate mate
rial or color SO now they are IN
spected and finally packed in cartons.
"A dozen pairs of heels to the DoN, ana
are ready for the shoe manufacturer
Ii is stated that 25 per cent of the
women's shoes worn in this country are
now made with wooden heels, OF whlch
there are produced millions of pairs
Evening star., 1915-04-25

and will undoubte eddy continue
to do when the cholera season ar
more. Serbia can give practically no
help.
DR. Ernest p. Masruder. who was as
sociate director, with DR.. Butler, or
the Red Cross work at Gevgelia, was a
son of Judge Caleb Clark Magruder of
the Maryland court of appeals. Annapo-
lis. DR.. Magruder graduated from the
academic department of Georgetown
University, but took his medical de-
gree at George Washington University
in 1902 and was licensed to practice
in the District of Columbia in 1908.
He had been connected with the medi-
cal school of Georgetown University
for the past twelve years. beginning
as assistant professor OF surgery, but
later serving as full instructor of clin-
ical surgery. He laid aside this post
well his private practice when
he headed Red Cross unit No. and
went to Serbia last November
a Washington woman who is prepar-
ing herself for work in stricken Ser
bia is Miss Elizabe Shelley. who has
given up her position in the Depart
ment of Agriculture to take course
of training in a Philadelphia hospital
preparatory to going to Serbia in June
to nurse the plague victims. Knowing
fully the risks she is taking. Miss
Shelley wishes to be sent where help
is most needed. She has been devoting
her spare time and attention of late to
the study of the proper food for babies
under the conditions prevalent in Ser
bia
Dr. f W. Ryan of Washington. Dr.
Clapham F. King of Annapolis and
DR.. Morton Paul Lane of New Orleans
are now suffering with typhus. Nine
of the following twelve nurses are now
said to be convalescing from the dis
ease: NJ. II. Kruger, Wilhelmina L..
Weyhing. Teresa |. Curley, Maude Ellif
and Mary Fiehrs, of Detroit: Clara F.
Flusher Genevieve Tetrault. Clara
Tulloss and Una Fry. of Kansas City:
Anna c. Locherby of Concord. n. H.
Eva Pear Garfield of Whitef1eld, n. H..
and Mary Daisy Cox of Montclair,
n. J.
Serbia is one the most primitive OF
the Balkan states, and the southern sec
ton in which these heroic men and
women are working against the odds
Evening star., 1915-04-25

One bite by a fever-iufected parasite
is sufficient to communicate the dis
ease. The attendan nts are compelled to
battle twice daily. using carbolic soap,
and this is followed by pouring coal oil
over their bodies.
Contrary to popular belief in the
United States. typhus is not related in
any way to typhoid fever. The latter
is localized in the inteStineS, while the
former has no localiZation in the body.
Cleanliness and careful nursing are
the only remedies for typhus. The first
step of physicians in handling AN out
break of the fever is to direct the re-
moval and burning of all clothing of
their patients, the thorough cleansing
Evening star., 1915-04-25

the bottom of the shoe, which the
groove faces, and now there is nailed
to the bottom of the heel a thickness of
leather like a layer on any heel. The
leather protects the wood from wear.
kills the sound that the wood would
otherwise make in walking and also
protects the lower edge all around OF
the heels covering.
The trim little semcircles of tiny
brass nails that are seen in the heels
are really pieces of brass wire, sections
from a coil of wire carried on a ma
chine which thrusts the end of the wire
through the leather, and into the wood.
1t then cuts off the wire and drives the
next nail in the same manner, and so
around.
From this the heel goes to a trim
ming machine. The leather may pro-
iect a trifie beyond the heels covering.
II must be made so that its edge sur
face is absolutely smooth and flush
with the covering. This is done in the
trimming machine, and then the edge
of the leather is coIored as leather
edges commonly are. usually either red.
leather colored, or black.
The heel next proceeds to buHer,
on which the bottom of the leather Is
smoothed and polished. Then il may be
colored artif1cially, or, if it is not to be
colored, the bottom of the leather may
he finished with velvet finish. The
finish. whatever it. may be. is made to
he in accordance with the finish of the
sole of the shoe onto which it is to go.
and with the final finishing OF the
lea ther the heel is completed.
Through the latter process the heel
has been handled frith Its covering on
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American Relief for Plague Stricken Serb
Terrible
Danger Spread Disease Backgrounds EuopFac About the FeverAme
Already Stcn-Ce Required Handling
Patent-ov Who Are Aiding Relief Work
dfoN the Balkans

of disease is centures behind the
tines. This might no, have been hut
foIs the impoverishment the country
has endured since the fourteenth cen
under foreign rule and tyranny which
drained her resources to the lowest
ebb. The Serbs are ancient people
and have lived in the lands they now
inhabit from earliest antiquity. and
many of their arts and their customs
of today can be traced back to the
beginning of the Christian era. They
are not an aggressive people. but in all
their many wars of defense they have
shown themselves brave and heroic.
and the spirit of independence has
never been killed in them in spite of
their many cruching defeats. They are
a quiet. home loving folk, whose aim
livelihood from mother earth.
Serbia'S heroes have been many in the
past. and this war will doubtless de-
velop others. Her women have never
been eager for public place. hut this
and former wars have shown them
brave and resourceful. The Serbian
women have not hesitated during re
bands for military drill and to organ
ize their resources as fighting auNili-
aries. One woman stands prominent
as ministering angel to her people.
She is Nine. Ellka Perra y. Tamboras-
XII, wealthy Serbian woman who has
given the use of her palatial home and
much money for hospital purposes in
battle. organizing hospital corps and
giving her whole time and strength to
the relief of the sick and wounded.
She has earned for herself the name
of The Florence Nightingale of the
Balkans.
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Serbia had attained her highest de-
velopment in civilization and culture as
nation, peaceful. home-lovins agri-
cultural, al the close of the fourteenth
century. when the Turks made their
terrific onslaught and hacking their
way westward overthrew the Serbian
empire and gave it a long and relent-
less period of Ottoman rule. From
Serbs were bending every effort to
free themselves from the hated yoke,
while the past hundred years have seen
them free but attacked on all sides
by foes greedy for territory and they
have always been a handful against
host. q few against a far outnumberinS
enemy.
The Serbs are romantic people
ardent hero worshipers. and the best
parts of their literature are the epics
and ballads which tell of defeats of the
Turk and of subsequent freedom
Evening star., 1915-04-25

,.o q ELP us to stamp out the
OO ILL typhus plague or your ef-
III forts to .,,.,; send US grain al,