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and to the proper management of hos.
pitfalls, caused his death, for he con-
tracted the white plague. and. although
rushed west, died shortly after reach-
ing New Mexico.
Typhoid fever Is the other scourgo
which has added materially to the
honor roll of the service. While hght-
ing an epidemic of this disease in New
Orleans in 1906 DR.. T. F. Richardson
contracted typhoid and died; while Dn
w. w. Miller died from the same cause
in Washington in 1910. after examining
decayed animal matter for the presence
of germs. He found them: but. unfor.
tunately, absorbed them into his sys.
tenn, and his death occurred only few
days later.
While the list of Uncle Sans martyrA
to the public health contains. for the
most part, only the names of those
who died as the direct result of light
ing disease, which, as general rule
they contracted with fatal results
there is at least one case Of great
heroism of another sort This 10 the
incident connected with the death OF
DIR. Jenkins. who. while stationed on
a man was desperately i'll With pneu.
monia in a nearby lighthouse. Despite
the fact that a very heavy sea was
running, DR.. Jenkins ordered that g
lifeboat be launched, and he assisted
in rowing to the place where the
patient was marooned.
A rapid examination OF the sick man
showed that the only chance to save
his life was to remove him at once to
a hospital. Against the earnest advice
of the volunteer life crew. DR.. JenkinA
insisted on attempting to return I'd
land with his patient. On the way back
the boat was overturned and every pers
son in the little craft drowned.
Thus it is that the men who ara
today struggling to learn the inner
secrets of the infantile paralysis plague
do not consider that they are doing
anything out of the ordinary-they ara
merely carrying out the traditions Of
a service which says that the people
of the United States must be protected
against the spread of epidemics. at any
cost.
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Lewis and Clarke. The romance in
wolves in it's troubled course Merl-
wether Lewis. one of these two ex-
plorers, and Theodosia Aston. daugh-
ter Of Aaron Burr. Real people right
out of history give a convincing touch
to this romance. Thomas Jefferson,
Burr, Lewis and Clarke, diplomats
from France. England and Spain. move
about here in lifelikely manner, direct
ing and controlling the course of this
magnificent adventure. which progress
es swiftly through the hazards and es-
capes of the youthful explorer. Burr's
ambition for empire, with the treason
able conspiracy springing therefrom,
weaves tellingly into the general move
ment of the narrative. The part taken
by Theodosia Aston moves the tale
nance and back to adventure again
in an exciting and interesting blend Of
action. The whole serves the purpose
of vigorous story, founded upon a
historic event Of great dramatic power
and meaning.
ADVENTURES IN COMMON SENSE.
BY DR.. Frank Crane. author OF
Just Human" etc. New York:
John Lane Company.
Il suddenly resigned. My position
was too secure. Unless one is a bit
uncertain where his daily bread is COM
ing from he lacks the atmosphere of
hazard necessary If one is to keep
young. l was drifting into the horrible
stagnation of the endowed class. l was
forty-eight. / wanted to get out into
the arena and wrestle with men. l
longed to hunt for work. In other
words l wanted adventure. I wanted
the open road and was tired of the
house" This Is a minister talking, the
settled pastor of prosperous church
And what splendidly vigorous state
of mind. what good muscular bit Of
adventure. that resignation. The
writer goes on to tell of that hunt for
work, that trailing Of the open road,
rubbing elbows with the folks all
along the way. Finally, newspaper
opened to the little sermons that grew
up along the open road, then another
and another. till now books of essays
are appearing. essays in which the love
of God and man takes shape in little
square chunks of wisdom and common
sense that one takes down Whole and
finds them melting inside him. to the
warming of his heart and the comfort
ing of his vitals 1t is pickup book,
one to open in the midst of things for
the sure message that leaps out at any
page, the energiZlng and reVlHing mes
sage. A hundred topics flock into this
robust book out of the manifold every
dayness of life. and no one has to hunt
for his particular message, for 1t runs
to meet him.
THE ELEMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL
LAW, With an Account of Its
OrigOn, Sources and Historical De-
velopment. By George B. Davis late
Judge advocate general. U. s. A. Re-
vised by Gordon E. Sherman. New
York: Harper G. Brothers.
Since the 1908 issue of Gen. Davis
standard textbook on international
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ficials, but It still remains one Of the
danger points of the Pacific coast.
4
Another port of call. larger and far
better known than Guayaquil. which
has claimed two officers of the public
health service within the past four
years, is Naples, Italy. Here it was
that Dr. H. D. Geddings fought an un-
ceasing battle for sanitation and the
strict enforcement of the immigration
laws from 1909 until he returned to
this country to die in 1913, while his
immediate successor, DR.. ]. NJ. Eager,
succumbed to the insidious health con-
ditions of the beautiful Italian port
during the past summer.
Both of these men, in the opinion of
their brother officers in the public
health service, died in the service of
their country just as surely as though
they had been shot down in battle. The
not be as spectacular as the campaign
against an invading force, but 1T is
very nearly as deadly, as the records
of the public health service will prove.
Yellow fever, the disease which car
ried off Dr. Wightman at Guayaquil.
has been directly responsible for the
deaths of six members of the public
health service and indirectly for the
deaths of two more.
The first martyr to the cause of
science in the government service from
this cause was DR.. William A. Waldo.
who went to Cairo, Ill. in 1878 to fight
the epidemic, which had come up the
Mississippi from Louisiana and the
gulf. This was one Of the worst cpl
denies with which the service had ever
had to contend, and DR.. Waldo was on
his feet night and day trying to pre-
vent the spread of the disease.
Eight weeks of constant attention to
the sick and dying in Cairo broke down
his health, and the germs of yellow
fever found him ready victim. but not
until he had succeeded in checking the
advance of the disease wave and keep
ing the fever from invading the north.
Key West, Fla, the outpost Of the
Florida keys and formerly one of the
most unhealthy places along the south
ern coast, was the deathbed which
claimed two other officers of the public
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Reviews of Books of Early Fall.

THE BROOK KERITHs A Syrian story.
By George Moore, author of The
Lake" etc. New York: The Mac
milan Company.
ut appears. from the dedication here.
that eighteen years ago Mary
Hunter gave George Moore Bible
as Christmas gift. book which
Moore says has all this time been
my constant companion and chief lit
erary interest" II is out of the New
Testament stories Of Matthew. Mark,
Luke and John. that he drew material
for The Brook Kerith." In setting,
the story is finely simple and beauti-
full evocation of Syria in vivid por-
trayal Of it's everyday life at the time
Of Jesus. Within this setting Joseph
Of Arimather moves at first the figure
OF most conspicuous interest. On a
quest for truth. about life and death
and the full sum of human existence,
Joseph moves from one school of phi
iosophy to another. driven forward by
each of these. till he comes upon Jesus
and His fishermen followers. Beyond
this point il is Jesus himself in His
personality. His elf-appraisement. His
er is absorbed. That Jesus did not die
on the cross is Moore's daringly orig
inal assumption. Around this theory he
builds the main thread of his narrative,
in Celtic opulerce of imagination, a
Celtic turn Of thought and play OF
words, keyed 10 the peculiar pitch OF
Noore's SURPRISING artistry in the use OF
literary medium. Ioore's writing person
aiity Is unique. powerful as II is cap
tivating. The Brook kerith. will stand
in the combined judgment Of critics, one
thinks. as the summit Of Moore's steady
ascent toward literary supremacy in fc-
tion.
THE WOMAN GIVES, A story of re-
generation. By owen Johnson. au-
thor OF The saiamander," etc. IL
Illustrations by Howard Chandler
Christy. Boston: Little. Brown &
Co
Woman as vampire. leech. blood
sucker and parasite-in- -chief. has. all
agree. been oyerworked in literature
And this is. after all. only the top layer
Of woman. one superimposed by imme-
diately modern conditions. economic
and social For The Woman Gives
Owen johnson has gone deeper, COM
ing up from the primitive side where
woman functions. first. as the bearer OF
life. and through this with all of its
implications. as the source of comfor,
and JOY. of strength and courage Tn
creates Inga Sonderson. a gravely
beautiful figure. whose benign ma.
ternalism reaches to give succor az
naturally as needy roots spread and
feel for water. On the top floors OF
Teagan's Arcade In lower New York
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had so earnestly striven to obtain.
Four years later the United States
gunboat Yorktown, under Commander
Bartolette, was forced to call at Quay
aqul for the purpose of protecting
American interests in Ecuador during
resolution. The Yorktown anchored
far out in the harbor of Guayaquil-
one of the finest on the Pacific coast
and took every precaution against dis
ease.
toilette and three of his crew died of
cholera and fourteen others were taken
sick with the disease. Since this oc-
currence the city has been sanitated
ta a certain degree under the direction
Of other United States government Of
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quires a horse for each man and officer,
besides a margin of 10 per cent for re-
mounts; and in the new cavalry or
CARNATIONS 1t is estimated that there
will be a total of about 1.450 mounted
men. Besides this will be required
draft horses or mules for each cavalry
regiment.
"An artillery regiment contains 1900
officers and men and requires 1,400
horses to draw their field guns, am
munition and supply wagons and to
furnish mounts for their officers. The
field hospitals and ambulance corps.
the signal corps and the engineers. re-
quire the remainder. Besides this.
horses are needed for staff use and for
general purposes, especially if it be
an open campaign.
The necessary authority had been
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health service, Drs Glazier and Nc
Adam. DR. GlaZier died there in 1851.
and Dr. McAdam went to his death IN
1895. two years after the great epidemic
at Brunswick. Ga. which caused the
death of DR.. John w. Branham.
Four years previously DR.. ]. F.
Groenvelt, ordered to the front to fsht
yellow fever in Louisiana, had con-
tracted the disease and had died at the
service camp at Chandelier Island, just
at the beginning of the three great
alternate year epidemics' which swept
the southern states in 1891, 1893 and
1895. Owing to the excellent manner
in which the government physicians
have fought yellow fever and the pre-
cautions taken in quarantine to pre-
vent its entrance as well as its spread.
the former curse of the gulf states has
become almost a negligible quantity
of late years, DIR. Wightman being the
only government surgeon who has sue
cunlbed to this disease since DR.. Nc
Adams death in 1895.
&k
The intimate study of tuberculosis.
which has been of such tremendous
benefit in fighting the white plague, has
also left it's imprint upon the roll of
honor of the public health service. DR..
Spencer C. Deven. DR.. Emile Prochazka
and Dr. c. W. Decker having paid with
their lives for their temerity in study
ing the causes and cures for consump-
tion.
The death of DIR. Decker was closely
analogous to that OF DR.. McClintic.
inasmuch as he died as the direct re-
suit of experiments undertaken to show
that the germs of tuberculosis found a
ready Kidding place in the dirt and
dust which lodge in the cracks of floors.
no matter how well the latter may be
scrubbed. DIR. Decker secured some OF
this dust from a number of hospital
wards and subjected it to microscopical
analysis.
AS he had surmised, it contained
tuberculosis and other germs. and the
order went forth that all cracks be
closed with an antlSeptic solution
and carefully scrubbed with solution
poisonous to the bacilli. DR.. Decker $
discovery, valuable as it was to science
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had been working on the Quito and
Guayaquil railway brought the State
Department, in 1908, to realization of
the absolute necessity for cleaning up
the city. and Ecuador was asked
whether, il the United States sent a
health official to Guayaquil the author
tiles would try to sanitate the city. The
reply, given rather half-heartedly, was
to send the official down and they
would see what could be done.
Accordingly DIR. w. w. Wightman was
instructed to go to Ecuador and make
a report on the sanitary condition of
Guayaquil with a view to forcing the
Ecuadorean government to clean up
the place. DIR. Wightman, supposedly
immune to yellow fever, went to the
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in gallant self-rescue, David herded his
Imagination into his work. creating a
humanity friendly enterprise that led
dreams of success to crowd out the
younger vision of succor. Success came,
and with it came disillusionment con-
cerning certain respectable and stable
institutions. The story stops in a sud-
den gust of dramatic action David is
saying to the woman whose arms he
is gripping, Yes it Is madness. But it
has to be- This woman is not Mrs
David. 1t is the little girl of the old
Long Island days. and she, too. has
gone far in the Intervening years.
What Mr.. Graeve has done here is to
involve two really fine people in a sit
uation which the average realist in fic-
tion reserves for men and women of
coarser fiber and a different level
Fidelity to the real nature of the two
has given a kind of idyliic quality to
this story, despite the superficial ruck
Of circumstances from which it springs
He has perceived a human story in the
terms Of true literature, and with an
effect that is. as matter of course,
most engaging and delightful and per-
sistent.
THE HEIR OF DUNCARRoN. BY Amy
McLaren, author of ''BaWbee Jock"
etc. New York: G. p Putnam's
Sons.
One may read right along here with
judgment on some social misconduct
For this is not a novel of modern real
ism. Rather is it pure romance, head
ed from the start upon a happy ending,
no matter what may intervene 1t is,
too, romance of Scotch flavor
Heather and hills are behind it. Within
1t the Scotch character behaves in
agreement with its tradition and e.-
presses itself in the scant, clipped
phrase of the sparing Scot The tale
itself grows, for the most part happfly
through the true love that springs up
between the heiress Of Duncarron and
the young tenant OF this mortgage
ridden estate. puncarron is a fne bit
of ancientry in architecture, IA rnomy,
rambling pile, redolent of mystery
And, as matter of fact Ii does pos
sess two considerable mysteries. both
Of which hnally emerge, each to take
an actlEe hand IN Strengthening out
the inevitable tanSle Of romantic love.
Obviously. the writer set out to write a
fresh and entertaining story That is
just the Kind of story that this is. One
reads 1t az a passing diversion a pleas
ant change from the novel of pure lit
of real life on the other.
THE MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURES: A
Novel. By Emerson Hough. author
OF fne Way Of the West" etc H.
iustrations by Arthur l. Keller
ne" ioFh: u. Appleton & Co.
In subtitle the writer declares this
novel to be the story of the world 8
greatest exploration and the romance
Of very gallant gentleman" The ad-
venture is based on the exploration of
the Missouri river to its sources by
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at Ell Paso and Fort Sam Houston. in
addition to those which before that date
had been issued to the militia troops
along the border.
Before delivery and acceptance by
the quartermasters militia mules and
horses have to undergo an inspection
more rigid even than that Of the militia
men who are willing to go with the
boys to the border.
at is. of course, understood that
these horses are green to the military
business. Those awarded to cavalry
are not acquainted with the bugle calls
or with the evolutions of organizations
in that branch Of the service. None of
the new cavalrymen can trust their
mounts to carry them through the
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lives an odds-and-ends collection of
folks, artists Of sorts. the most of
them. 1nga Sonderson lives among
them. an illustrator of deeply artistic
feeling and capabiIity. Mr. Johnson
has done himself proud" with this
sixth floor of Teagan's Arcade That
unregulated brand of existence whose
wrapper bears the name of Bohemia is
turned out here at its freshest and
wholesomest A dereIict man, a real
artist, drifted to Teagan's Arcade, here
becomes material for Inga Sondersons s
ininIstrations. In an absorbing detail
of vicissitude and discouragement, she
brings the man to a. rebirth-and then
leaves him for some one else who is in
need The story is brilliantly modern
and daring. 1t is, however, neither
daring nor modern when one catches
the aloof unconsciousness of this in
stinctive woman. moving undeviatineIy
along her predestined way
THE PLEASANT WAYS OF ST.
MEDARD. By Grace King. author
of New Orleans. the Place and the
People" New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
The Pleasant Ways of st. Medard" is
a recreation of New Orleans at the
close of the civil war. In substance IL
Is lamentation. woman's bitter and
unforsiving lamentation. over the per-
sonal family ruin wrought by the havoc
of that war. However. going along
with the grim and unshirkins details
of that stricken and denuded existence
are memories OF the older days of St
Medard. And these are sheaves of
reminiscence that bring to the reader
the exotic city in the full redolence of
Its alien beginnings overlaid with the
soft and opulent charms of the south.
1t is book of mixed havors 1t smells
Of lavender. 1t tastes of rue. Inti-
mateiy personal in its attitude and ap-
peal. II expands into Photographic
chapter Of history that. in a manner of
great literary charm. pictures the
whole stricken south Of that period.
THE KEYS OF THE CITY, Ey Oscar
Graeve. New York: The Century
Company.
This is the story of David Wells, son
of fisherman. lad OF dreams From
the Long Island shore, where David
lived. he could see the shining towers
OF Manhattan. And. gathering out of
some old tale the ceremonial phrase.
the keys of the city" David built
visions OF his own entrance some day,
INTO the world by way of that gleam-
ing metropolis. where he would live
greatly for the happiness of all men.
So down by the waterside, the boy
played at hero and adventure COM
panied only by.a little girl and Pippin,
the rat bulldog. beautiful playtime
Mr.. Graeve makes Of this. When. as a
youth. David finally did fare forth, his
adventure was in work-a-day garb, the
commonplace of earning a living. And,
for time thereafter. the monstrous
city Of Manhattan had pretty much its
own way with this adoleseent boy. But
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port and sent back word to Washing
ton that the sanitary conditions were
almost beyond belief.
THE natives are more or less i'm
mune to the diseases" he reported, but
it is almost certain death for a for
eigner to remain here any length of
time"
His death within six months after ar
irving in Guayaquil proved the correct
ness of his assertion, for. despite the
numerous precautions which he took
against disease and the fact that he
had had yellow fever in his youth, he
contracted the yellow scourge and died
in Guayaquil without having been able
to put into effect any of the health
regulations and improvements which he
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Nh\W fur market where skins of
WV various animals can be Sc
cured in small or large guam
titles at public auction. Moreover. they
are being sold by the United States gov
ernment.
On Tuesday. September rs. an auction
sale of pelts will be held at the De-
partment of Agriculture. at which time
1880 skins will be disposed of to the
highest bidders. Fur dealers from New
York. Philadelphia, Baltimore and local
concerns are expected to be present. al
though the individual may purchase
furs in small quantities.
This sale is the first of the season,
but by no means the first of its kind
Last season six such auctions were
held, which resulted in the sale of ap-
proximately 5000 pelts and netted the
government the sum of $4,000.
X
Pelts disposed of include coyote.
skunk. badger. bobcat. foxes of various
type, raccoons. ring-tailed cats, lynx and
opossums. Coyote skins rank first in
point of number. while the skin of
greatest value is that of the skunk.
The first of these sales was held last
December. with one sale each month
following until June. At the March sale
$1,000 was paid for skins. while the sale
the following month brought in $4,000
for 1000 pelts. While department Off
Gals admit that the prices paid for
skins do not compare favorably with
those offered at many commercial mar
kets, they claim that the sales have
nevertheless been a success. and that
the future should bring about a. con-
sistent rise in prices.
OF the thousands of skins sold last
season not one brought less than 81.
while the choice lots were bid in at
$3.50 and $3.50 apiece.
The beginning OF this fur market
forms an interesting chapter in the
work of the government. inasmuch as
it illustrates so aptly the fact that
many consequences follow In the wake
of necessary undertakings which are
absolutely unforeseen at the outset.
When the government began forming
national forests there was no prospect
Of their becoming the most popular
camping localities in the country. with
the result that hundreds of permits are
issued each summer allowing parties to
spend their vacations within their boun-
daries Yet such has been the case.
Predatory animals have ever been a
source of danger to cattle and crops in
the western states. In many localities
a reward has been offered for the kill
ing of all such animals as are known to
cause the death of cattle or damage to
crops And chief among these has al
ways been the coyote or prairie Wolf. A
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mazes of cavalry formation, for the
wisest horse is hardly as well versed
in his duty as the recruit on his back.
II want to digress for one moment to
speak of the intelligence Of the mule.
1t takes about fifty to make up pack
train At night their burdens are re-
moved and deposited along the line. In
the morning, when it is time for them
to 60 to work, each mule finds his own
pack and stands by 1t until it is properly
adjusted. If a green mule is added to
the group and takes his place by the
wrong pack, he is kicked out all along
the line until he reaches his own; and
he never makes the same mistake
again.
The horse country had been almost
skinned by the allies to buy stock Tor
their armies 1t was found that in the