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Body Can Increase Rates.

The supreme court, division l, in a
decision declared the public service
commission has the power to increase
rates OF public service corporations
above contract rates when the com
mission finds that such increase is
necessary for reasonable income.
The case came from Sedalia, where
that city had a contract with the wa.
ter company for hydrant rentals at
$50 per year. The commission al
lowed an advance to s45 per year.
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sE0 RUGMfZEP LZ4RkGTZl

it carries thence from sources of con
Elimination and of the refuse which
1t transfers from rotting vegetables,
meat and fish. Twenty-Five per cent of
flies breed in manure heaps.
Besides the diseases mentioned flies
have been brought TO the bar on in
dictments for having spread cholera,
lockiaw, trachoma granular lids),
anthrax (the stable fly is here guilty.,
and something like a dozen more
germ diseases. The ordinary fly may
swallow the eggs Of tapewOrms and
other intestinal parasites, and then
distribute those eggs where they may
do hurt to humankind.
Before considering other insects l
had better state more clearly just how
these pests perform their part In dis
ease dissemination. The germs may
stick to the bodies of the insects. Or
the germs may be eaten by the insects
and deposited upon human food and
drink with their excreta. Or the in
sects may eject the germs from their
mouths upon the skins of uncleansy
people who do not bathe regularly.
Or the insects may die after eating
the germs; and the bodies of the for
mer may fall into the food; or the
dead insect bodies may dry up, crum-
BILE, he spread in dust and be either
inhaled or injected by human beings.
Or the insects (such as the mosquto)
may inject into the host with their
sting diseased blood which they have
previously sucked from u previous
sufferer (such as malaria paticnt).
Mosquito Fever.
Doctors prefer to speak of malaria
as mosquito fever for, as everyone
now knows, it Is the species of mos
quito called AnOpheles, which is sole
ly responsible for the propagation OF
this disease.
Anopheles breeds In still water, in
moist sand or moss, In pools by the
sides of open streams, in permanent
accumulations of water OF every sort
irrigation bitches. stagnant water
where there is green scum. in beds of
old canals, In old horse troughs and
the Ike. When the blood ~ ma
| laria sufferer is sucked into the Stom,
ach by anophelcs the malaria parasite
in that blood undergoes development
| and the products Of this process enter
the mosquitoes salivary glands and are
/ elected into the system of the next
person stung. If this latter unfor,
! tunate has not yet had malaria he
thus contracts the disease unless his
natural antigerm forces are able tC
destroy the parasite before 1t can dc
any mischief in his body.
Naturally then, the prevention Ot
malaria depends on the destruction OF
all breeding places within the radius
of a mile. The way to do this is tC
drain o" nm I'm with earth, or to cover
the surface OF any water with a tnir
film OF kerosene. Houses must be
screened Anopheles bites only aftel
sundown; and only the Lady An
ophelcs does the mischief. Here, n
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tuDerCIe bacillus. ms plate 10 DcSln
with was u perfect blank - tabua
vasa, as the ancient Romans used to
call their tablet before writing on 1t.
But there soon developed on this geln-
tin plate letters about as ominous as
those which the Prophet Daniel point
ed out to BclShazzar at his royal feast.
Here is the way of 1t:
The laboratory doctor had put on
that plate fly that had got his feet
stuck In the spittle of a consumptive :;
and he had then covered the whole
with n glass jar so that the fly could
not get away. This insect, thus heavy
footed, then promenaded all over the
plate. TwCnty-four hours later col
onics Of the consumption germs, made
up Of uncountable millions of those
tubercle bacilli, developed on its
tracks.
You may think I cxaGgerate when
compare this fact Of the gelatin
plate with the Prophet Daniel and the
writing on the wall. says a writer in
the Detroit Free Press. Well be that
as II may, l ask you only to reflect
how consumption has up to this time
| been carrying off every third or fourth
of us between adolescence and matur-
| ity; that in all the wars of the nine
teenth century OncludnG those of Ma
! 100000 succumbed TO cOnsump-
on, the captain of the men of
| death that the advanced COnSumptive
| day by day coughs and spits out sever
al thousand millions of the tubercle
/ hacilli; that consumption, besides be-
| Ing a disease, is the most dreadful
economic and social degeneracy In
civilization; that this great White
Plague exists largely by reason of hui
man supineneSs and neglect of the sim
| plest precepts of hygiene and santa
ton. The Babylonian king did not
heed the warning which lay in the
writing on the wall. BY needing the
lesson that lies in that little gelatin
plate we shall he very far on the way
we and our fellow men and women, of
banishIng the tuberculosis which it
represents from human experience and
from of the face of the earth.
OF course, flies are not the Only
agency in the spread of tuberculosis
for they are active but few months
of the year whilst that disease is con
traCtpd all the year round.
Flies Swell Infant Death Rate.
II l. crrtain also 'hat flies hell
greatly to swell -" infant death rate
which is greatest Ia '&r Ny season
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As Il Was on Earth.

Not long ago an old lady friend died.
Mary Agnes, who lived in the same
building, had for some reason been
chased from the steps by the old lady.
and so she got the impression that the
old lady was always chasing little chill
dren. So one day after the woman died
Mary asked another woman In the
building II she thought that the old
lady was an angel now. 81 hope So"
was the reply. Then little Mary said.
"Well. l bet she 10 chasing all the little
angels around up there"
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Stand Your Ground.

Remember, each one must bear his
or her own burden. Not soul is free,
We should keep this truth constantly
before us, and then honestly try 10
do our best. Furthermore we should
cultivate the habit of smiling. It Will
help us when all the world seems
awry. A good-natured fnce is always
welcome sight, for II makes us for
get our own wearlsOme affairs. In
deed, the woman who learns TO laugh
can master any problem that confronts
her.-Exchangs.
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True Meaning Of "eOomerana."

Boomerang has beaten all records Of
words turned inside out The term
does not convey the idea of retribu-
tIOn, ms the boomerang returns not at
the thrower's peril. but to his further
use. No Australian would make that
blunder. Colonel Miles, the allied eX'
pedltionary forces chief chaplain dur
Ing the war, used the term right when
he declared: We are your boomerang,
flung out by you to conquer conti-
nent and now returning to your feet
Sr another throw.
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Ten Years for Mrs. Stokes.

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, wife Of a
New York millionaire, was sentenced
to 10 years in the Jefferson City pen.
!teniary for violations OF the cspi.
onage laws of the land. She is now
out on $4,000 bond signed BY her
wealthy husband.
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Granted New Trial.

A new trial was ordered by the su,
preme court in the case of John w
Martin, former treasurer of Camden
county, who was prosecuted on an in.
dictment alleging the embezzlement
of $1,74l of the oounty's funds.
The decision was written by Coia-
missioner White. 1t held the evidence
at the first trial was not sufficient to
warrant conviction. Martin appealed
his case to the supreme court follow
ing conviction and sentence OF two
years in the circuit court.
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ACCIDENTS

H J, Webster, a student flyer at
Fort Worth, was burned to death when
his plane was wrecked in a collision
Four persons were killed by an ex-
plosion of gasoline at a plant in Ok.
mnlgee. Oh.
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"Can the Rooster"

The period OF June l to was desig-
mated as Rooster Week in Missouri by
the poultry department of the Univer-
atty OF Missouri, A statewide cam
paign is being organized by the poul-
try extension service to effect the re.
moval Of all roosters from laying
flocks at this time.
The purpose of the campaign is to
reduce the annual bad egg loss
through the separation of all roosters
from the laying hens, so that only in
fertile eggs shall be marketed during
hot weather.
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HERE is Il photograph
shown at Health EXhi-
bitiOns which many
people at first sight
take for a picture of
the crusts on the sur
face of the moon, or OF
the canals on the planet
Mars. What it really
shows is n circular
plate containing Il gcla-
tin culture of the con
sumption germ - the
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Missouri bankers have protested TO
congress the enactment Of any uunec.
essary legislation during the war.
President Wilson has written TO the
governor of California asking that
1 Mooney the bomber, be not hanged.
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COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, wife of the
New York millionaire, got 10.year
sentence at Kansas City for violations
of the espionage law.
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Aged Fulton Farmer Dies.

Fulton.-D. T. II. Neal, "A years old,
who resided on farm near here for
so years, is dead. He was the father
of NJ. r. Neal well-knOwn Fulton
merchant.
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MeXi2c.-Joe Gray of Farber, a
champion shooter, was the highest
scorer at the Red Cross shoot of the
Audrain Gun club.
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NEUROLOGICAL

James S. Clarkson. long a power in
the Republican party. is dead at his
y me in Newark, u. j.
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ST. Louis Quota.

St, Louis must furnish 1882 of the
total number of men called to the col
ors under the selectiye draft law for
the month OF June.
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ole for the spread OF sew
eral grave diseases. Some
lice which had been biting
typhoid patients were first
Immersed in a solution OF
mercury bichloride; then
they were put in sterile
water. Next they were
ground in a sterile mortar
and the resultant material
was inoculated into AMI
mails and were developer
on culture media. By this
means typhoid germs were
demonstrated in those lice.
We have all read how
dreadful an executioner
was the typhus fever IN
the earlier months of TINS
present war, In Serbia ana
I'm the Balkans generally'
II is the louise which is the
chief dissemination of the
typhus germ.
The bedbug has from
time lmmemorial been OBJ
noxious enough by just be-
ing Il bedbug. But he is
now proven to be much
more than this. Undouot-
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elsewhere In the cos
mos. 'r Tie female OF
the species m o r g
dreadful than the
male.
Spreads Typhus-
The insect which IN
highbrow literature Is
termed Pediculus YES
timentorum, but which
in plain language IL
the louse, is responsi-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
US. Men Bombed With
Propaganda Leaflets

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Oct. 20 (By The Associated
Press).-Thousands of propaganda leaf
let's entitled "The German People Offer
Peace recently have been dropped on
and behind the American lines The
circular, which is printed in excellent
English, concludes with the following
questions:
"Who is to blame if the hitherto un-
destroyed towns and villages of France
and Belgium sink into ashes ?'
"Who is to blame if hundreds of
thousands Of unhappy women and chill
dren are driven from their homes to
hunger and to suffer from cold 2"
The appeal closes with the statement
in large type that "the German people
offers its hand for peace" 1t cites the
alleged new standpoint of Germany
concerning Belgium, Alsace- Lorraine e
and submarine warfare, which it calls
"the deeds Of the new German popular
government"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Huns Must Yield on Basis of
! Utter Defeat, Declares 7ardieu

g WASHINGTON, Nov. Q (By The AS,
sociated Press).-In answering the
terms Of armistice to be submitted by
the Allies and the United States the
Germans must say whether they con-
fess that they are BEATEN" Andre Tar
dieu, French High Commissioner te
the United States, declared in state
rpent issued tonight.
g"Should they confess it," said Com
missioner Tardieu, "the war will end
and through the acceptance Of our con-
ditions- Should they not, we shall en-
force that acceptance by means of a
last resort, the outcome of which can
not be doubted.
"The armistice now being framed by
the Supreme War Council at Yer
sailles," M. Tardieu said, will, in his
opinion, "include everything it ought
to include."
Clear Statements Foreseen
."All questions will be stated with the
necessary clearness," he said "In or
der to state them in that way. no bet
ter position. in the opinion of our gov
ernment,,could have been found than
the one created for the Allies by the
diplomatic correspondence of the last
three weeks"
American troops, said NJ. Tardieu,
who returned this week from France
and fro ma visit to the Western front,
have brought to the understanding of
Germany, "already doomed by our re-
sistance, the realization that their
downfall was unavoidable and would be
a speedy one"
'From July 1S till November l our
successes on every front have been un-
interrupted and decisive" he continued.
"The armistice is signed with the
Bulgarians, is signed with the Turks
Austria is asking for it, Germany begs
for it. From the military and political
standpoint our situation is excellent.
Grow Continually Stronger
"On the military side, you know all
about the 100000 prisoners we have
taken, and the territory we have re-
conquered. I wish, however, to bring
out two points that have not been suf-
fciently emphasized as yet.
"First, we have henceforth, and we
shall have-and more and more so--ir
reserve more divisions than the enemy
and the decision of the battles belongs
as you know, to the reserves.
"Second, the German army, roughly
dealt with by Foch every single day
for three months and half, cannot
reorganize itself. even by shortening
it's front, and it is already being stead
ilysweakened by q deficiency in muni-
tions and in numbers.
''Thus our diplomatic position has
brought to completion the work of oul
armies by cimpelling our adversaries
to acknowledge what the President Sc
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aptly called the military supremacy OF
the Allies
Want Complete Victory
"The frame Of mind of the Allied
troops may be expressed in few words
They are ready to fight until victory
be complete. They want this victory
to be complete. They know it will be.
"But they are pleased, likewise,
that, every guarantee having been
taken against the German ruse and de-
ceit, no chance has been neglected of
insuring by safe peace the victory
of right.
"In short, everything which states
manship, crowning the success of our
arms, could have done, in order to
hasten the decision,- has been done and
well done. All that is needed is to
go on.
1.-TWO weeks sgo / was with your
ardent and gallant soldiers. By a bond
Of perfect brotherhood they are united
to their French; and British comrades,
with whom, SINCE March last, they
have, night and day, been fighting
without respite
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

tona surrender by high trouble
Germany has had muntionng weeks
the
Information of troubles many
reached the Allies
than five million shells the
One of the the armist therefore,
tany be the Allied
factories.
Interesting light
the
by the retreating
Mines Idle for Two Years
1t will be produce
reached During that period should supplied with
sufficient coal from Germany without charge
AS
pointed that rebuild the houses which
alone the labor of twenty years.
The French
long it, Germany
has
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Official Notice Of Emperor's
Act Is Temporarily
Withheld
Other Reports State
He Clings to Throne
Recently Led Vain Effort
to Establish Military
Dictator

PARIS, Nov. 2.-In heavy type the
Temps" to-day prints the following
under a Geneva date:
"The abdicaton of William IL may
be considered now as an accomplished
fact. Official publication is delayed for
an opportune moment"
Other advices say that Emperor
William is persisting in his refusal to
abdicate. He took refuge at German
grand headquarters Immediately after
the meeting Of the War Cabinet, at
which the question of his abdication
was raised, says a dispatch to "Le
Journal from Zurich.
CIings to Throne
The obstinacy with which William
Hohenzollern is clinging to the throne
is making bad impression in Berlin
political circles, the correspondent in
dicates 1t is reported that in an at
tempt to save the crown he took the
head OF cabal got up by the mill
tary party against the government, but
that the latter was too solidly estab-
lished. Any plot which aims at the
establishment of military dictator
ship has no chance of success, the mes
sage declares.
1t appears that the Emperor is now
refusing to take any notice of the acts
OF the government
Everything is represented now as de-
pending upon the attitude the Great
General Staff may adopt.
Urged to Abdicate
The Socialist "Vorwerts" importunes
the Emperor to prove his courage By
abdlcatlng, as an immense majority of
the people are against him. The Frank
fort Gazette" and the Munich "Neu-
este Nachrichten" express themselves
similarly.
Immediate peace is demanded in
manifestos published by German So
clailst newspapers, labor and Socialist
organizations and feminist groups from
throughout the empire. The last named
groups in their statement declare the
German women will take every means
of opposing the continuation Of the
war.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Naval Terms Meet U. S. View

A>dNoi Ae1thS NIeet u. >. view
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.--Naval terms
Of armistice agreed to yesterday by the
supreme war council at Versailles are
in substantial accord with the views
on this subject submitted by the
United States government through Ad
miral Benson. This was learned here
to-day, though the exact nature Of the
terms to which Germany will be re-
quired to submit still are held under
confidential seal.
No announcement is expected to come
from Versailles until the council has
completed its task. 1t was determined d
in advance that no good would come Of
piecemeal publicity.
AS to the nature Of the naval safe
guards and guarantees to be demanded d
Of Germany as the price Of cessation
Of hostilities, it is stated that the most
cautious public opinion will be salts.
fed when the terms are disclosed.
They are said to leave nothing to
chance. If thcy are accepted by the
enemy, it is declared, men may sail
where they will on any sea with tho
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

Ages Tirnova was the capital of Bull
garia. 1t is a city of considerable COM
mercial Importance and has popula-
ton of about 1000.
Stambulwsky, the new leader of the
Bulgarian government, was but recent
ly released from prison. When Bulga-
ria entered the war, in October, 1915,
Stambuliwsky was sentenced to impris-
onment for life after conviction on a
charge of militarism He re-
manned i'll prison until September 30,
when he was pardoned by King Ferdi-
nand prior to that Kings abdication.
For many years Stambuliwsky has
been the leader of the peasants and the
agrarians in the Bulgarian Parliament
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Siberian Government to
Resume Making of Vodka

VLAD1VOSToK, Nov. by The AS
sociated Press).-The official All-Rus-
sian Telegraph Agency announced to-
day that the Omsk government intends
TO resume the sale of vodka as gov
ernment monopoly. The Minister of
Supplies say that the 1,714,OOO bushels
OF grain necessary for the annual
operation of the Russian distiller;es
can be spared without causing a scr;-
GUS food shortage.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Boris Quits Bulgarian Throne
Before Uprising of Peasants
Son of Former King Ferdinand, After Rule of One Month";
Abdcates When M. Stambulwsky Forms Army
Of 10000 and Establishes New Capital

COPENHAGEN, Nov. king Boris
of Bulgaria, who ascended the throne
on October 8, has abdicated.
A peasant government has been es-
tablished at Tirnova under the leader
ship Of NJ. Stambuliwsky, who has been
the chief of the peasants and agrarians
of Bulgaria for some time
NJ. Stambuliwsky is said to be in
command of a republican army of 49,
600 men, according to Zurich dis
patch to the Central News
Tirnova is town in Bulgaria sitr-
ated on the Yantra River, a tributary
of the Danube, and on the railroad
from Sofia to Varna. In the Middle
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Scheiden,anr7 Said
To Haze Demanded
That K aiser Quit

COPENHAGEN. Nov. 2.-T'hc "Vos-
sische Zeitung.' OF Berlin, declares
that 1t learns from dependable source
That Philip Scheioemann, Secretary of
Ssate sast without portfolio, some days ago,
sent sent memorial to Prince Maximilian'
the imperial Chancellor. expire ssine The
conviction that Emperor William must
abdicate. '""'
The "Germania" declares that re-
ports that the War Cabinet considered
sne question at its last meeting are
daise. Ia! Political circles, according to the
lageolatt,' regret the Emperor's trip
10 tne front, saying that it is calculat.
ed at this time 70 inspire ali sorts u'" of |
conjectures. 20 "
BASEL, Nov: 2. = Regarding the re-
ports that Philip Scheidemann had @ I'd
oressed memorial to Chancellor Max;-
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

milan on the aodication Of Emperor
William, semi iofficial statement from
Berlin declares no such memorial ex-
lists.
ut is not impossibl, however," the
statement adds, "tnat this question was
touched upon in correspondence ex-
changed between Secretary of State
Schedemann and other secretaries and
government chiefs during The illness
of the hancellor, which restricted per
sonal communication between The mem
bcrs of the government"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Troops Are
Leaving France

WITH THE AMERICAN
w ARMY NORTHWEST OF
VERDUN, Nov. 2 (By The Asso-
ciated Press) Austrian forces
on the German front in the
Woevre region are entraining for
Austria, it is reported here on
the strength Of statements by
prisoners the Americans have
taken.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Too Much Risk

CTOCKHOLM, Oct. % Correspond
~ tnc4 of The Associated Press
According to the Norwegian news
paper "Farmand,' an Austrian life
insurance company recently asked
various Norwegian companies wheth-
er they were willing to rewrite a
portion of a large insurance policy
on the life of the Austrian Emperor.
None Of the Norwegian companies
was willing to accept the risk.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Mutiny Panic Draws
Threats From Trotzkv
Russian Warb Minister Says
Units Showing Fear Will
Be Punished

STOCKHOLM, Nov. "A plot
against the Soviet government has
been discovered among the sailors of
the f1otilla on the River volga, accord
ing to reports from Pctrograd
Russian War Minister Trotzky, in an
order of the day to the army, de-
nounces the cowardice and fight of
several fighting units. He threatencs
to courtmartal any unit showing the
least sign of panic in the future.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
CHECK INFLUENZA
Fumixation--I'ha PrNxsntf.c

The Importance OF precautton und.,
present conditions cannot be- exa9rerstea
WY take chances whom as a nominal cost
premises can be rendered absolutely osrm.
frecT "4'"-
Fusnisation properly administered fs the
!as, word In oermicide. We are in a nosi
tion 10 render expert service In the fi,,ri
eating line with every modern facility. ana
arc prepared 10 render absolutely Germ
ana Vermin-f free any building or ship No
oUK SCIENTIFIC METHOD OF FJIMf.
"AIiON pUSiTiFELY DESTROYS Ali.
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

certainty that there will be no renewal
Of the submarine terror.
The views Of the United States on
this vital side of the armistice discus
sion had been fully formulated when
Admiral Benson left for France. Vice
Admiral ISims, American naval com
mander abroad. had reviewed the situa-
ton and found officials Of Allied ad-
miralties in harmony with American
ideas