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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

BARROWS-In this city, August 20, 1881. Manuel Barrows of 2J2 Ab- bolt avenue. Funeral tomorrow morning at 9:15 o'clock to Immac- ulate Conccp.;on Church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

PARKER-In this city August 90, 1881, James ]. Parker of this city. Funeral Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock to Immaculate Conception Church. Burial in new St Jo- scph's cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

DtSNE---ln this city August 20, 1881, Mrs Bridget UIurke) Dunnc of Riverside street. Funeral Wednesday morning at $50 o'clock to St Mary Magdalene's Church. Burial in St James ceme- tcry, tWatertoWn).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

WILTON-In Plymouth. Conn. Au- gust 90, 1881. George C. Wilton of Plymouth. Funeral tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial in Riverside cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31
DIED.

HOLLERAN-In this city, August 30, 1881. Mrs Annie Hollcran of 135 south Elm street. Funeral Wednesday morning at S;15 o'cloci. To Immaculate Conception Church. Burial in old St JOseph's cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

DORAN-n this city August 20, 1881, Miss Julia Doran of 90 Bridge street Funeral Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock to 1mmac- . ulate Conception Church. Burial in old St Joscph's cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-31

'O'CONNELI-in this city August 20, 1881, Timothy l. O'Connell Of JJ pcmbcrtOn street. Funeral Tuesday morning at 9:fb o'clock to Immaculate Conception Church. Burial in Calvary cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08

coat" of Federal officer In telling of
his war record. Chief Justice White re-
cords the incident which explains why
this might be the case:
Like everybody else in my environ
ment, as a little boy I went into the
army On the side that didn't win.
know I did myself more harm than I
did harm to anybody else. was taken
prisoner and carried to the town where
I lived. and my mother went to the
officer in charge of the prison and asked
permission to come in to see me- He
said it could not be done. Many of
our relatives had been officers of the
regular army. She said, rs there an
officer Of the regular army here?
would like to see him. He said Yes,
and gentleman came out And she said,
You have boy in prison and 1 want
to see him. Madam l am very sorry
My orders do not allow me to give you
the permission. Where do you live?'
She gave the address On the next
morning I had prison number, and
my number was called out and I was
marched to the corporal of the guard
along the deadline, where II a man
tries to cross he is shot. I was taken
out into the guard room, and there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
Chinese Hospital, Founded "a Years,
Plays Part in Bettering Canton Life

Some Of them now have small hos
pitfalls; others have begun schools in
their villages"
In 1904 he established the first Euro
pean hospital In Canton under Chinese
management and operation.
After his assassination at the hands
OF henchmen of Yuan Shih-kai, the
Southern provisional government tenn
porarily took over that hospital. While
DR.. Sun Yat-sen ruled here new equip
ment was added to the institution, its
school for the training of nurses and
mloWAVes was greatly enlarged and it
was renamed the WI Hon Memorial
Hospital. Until the 81 900 900 Munich
pal Hospital was recently completed il
was perhaps the best of its kind in
Canton. Its School of Obstetrics Is still
the largest in South China.
Restored TO WI Family.
In 1922 the buildings and equipment
were restored to the WI family, when
the deceased revoiutionary's son, DR..
WI Pak-liang. returned from France,
where he had received his M D. at the
University of Lyons. Since then it has
been a privately conducted hospital, al
though the clinic has continued to be
of wide popular service and at no time
has been profit-making enterprise.
DR.. WI Pak-liang is a member of the
municipal council, director of the bu-
reau of social affairs and executive
head of several other departments of
the government. Despite these activi-
ties, however, he still manages TO spend
from three to six hours at the WI Hon
Memorial Hospital each day.
At nrpSeOt there are 3A0 students in
the Ia Keung School The course of
fered, foreign medical men here say,
is comparable in modernity and thor
oughnesS With that available at similar
colleges IN America. The full tuition
fee for one year is $50 Canton money
about SIS United States currency. For
board and room the girls are charged
the equivalent of about $3.50 In Ameri-
can coin each month. Even the neat
white aprons and nurses caps which
are worn as uniform by all students are
supplied by the hospital.
The results of nearly three decades
Of effort at the WI Hon have begun to
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The Story the Week Has Told

Juan Ventosa. minister or finance, Is
reputed the chief henchman of Fran
cisco Cambo, the Barcelona financial
magnate.
GERMANY. GERMANY has been In.
terested in the auction of the furniture
and other effects of Prince Friedrich
Leopold Of Prussia at his Glienicker
Castle (near Potsdam, think. The
prince is said to. be dreadfully en-
barrassed. But, alas, the bidding was
low. Gilded coaches brought an av-
erage of $50. A china dinner service
of $50 pieces, a gift from the famous
Dowager Empress, the Old Buddha,"
went for little over 5000. The two
most precious items-Frederick the
Greats flute Of immortal memory and
the death mask of Queen Louise $50
famous in connection with Napoleon)-
were wisely withdrawn. IT'S rumored
that the prince has hopes of a large
offer for the flute from overseas. An
American millionaire might well ex-
change very large slice of his spoils
for a relic so interesting What visions
would it call up should his pluto
craftship have perused Carlyle or the
correspondence between Voltaire and
Frederick.
All Germany was much interested in
the city and communal elections OF the
state Of Brunswick on March l. The
National Socialists (Hitlerites, Fascists)
made considerable gains at the expense
OF the bourgeois parties, and the Com
munists scored substantially at the ex-
pense of the Socialists, the Socialists,
however, continuing to be the strongest
party in Brunswick 1t was an excit-
ing, spellbinding camapign.
+
TTALY-On the last day of Febru-
airy Arthur Henderson, foreign secre-
tary of Great Britain. informed the
world from Rome that the Italian gov
eminent had agreed in principle" to
the proposals having in view Franco
Italian naval agreement and the adj
hesion of Paris and Rome to the Lon
don naval treaty, the which proposals
had already been laid before the
French government by Mr.. Henderson
and A. " Alexander, British first lord
of the admiralty, and had been found
acceptable at the Quai dOrsay. No
doubt formal precise accord will soon
be signed. So alls safe in that quarter
till 1884, when there will be another
great naval conference and, one feels
sure, definite institution of the mil
lelnnium.
Presumably the agreement contem-
plates such limitation of the French
and Italian construction programs dur
ing the ensuing five years as to make
it quite unnecessary for Britain land
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so by consequence the United States
and Japan also) to consider increase
of her program over that period. Con-
version Of the London three-power
naval Limitation pact into a flve-power
pact will require ratification by the
parliaments Of the five powers con-
cerned in the new agreement: which
may, one supposes, be taken for
granted.
ARABIA. - Bertram Thomas has
cabled to the London Times and New
York Times brief preliminary &C
count Of his 900-mile trip across the
Ruba Ell Khah, or unknown desert of
Southeast Arabia He started at
with 80 Arabs and 40 camels and ended
on the qatar peninsula with 10 Arabs
and 18 camelS, having dropped the rest
when he was beyond the danger Of
Hadramaut raiders. He first passed
across the strip of stored frankincense
country, over the Hadramaut Mahrah
(Oara mountains) some 5000 feet high,
and reached mighty red bulwark" Of
dunes, Astounding in antelope, beyond
the pitiless sands.
In latitude 19 Qook at the map he
encountered numerous deeply cut
caravan tracks" running across his
COdtoCI CfAdGAlSS VA OCAlId4ACo VI usage
in by-gone times" The Bedouin called
it 1.-The road to Urbar," buried city of
legend; whether pure legend or based
on fact remains to be determined.
One Of the most interesting Of the
phenomena met was that Of singing
sands, a deep, sustained booming"
caused by the wind in the sand cliffs
likened by him to the notes Of a siren
About latitude % he came upon a
saltwater lake seven miles long. North
of that parallel the altitude falls below
sea-level.
He found dwelling among the sands
small groups Of two tribes whose food
is solely camel's milk. OF wild animals
the raven Is the most common, and
after it the bustard foxes, hares and
lizards also being common, and wolves,
wildcats, rats and other mammals to
be seen. All these mammals are of
light sand color, natures interesting
MANAGEMENT. elsewhere in a great
Arabian lava field Sir Percy Cox once
noted black larks)
Quite obviously the singing sands"
are mourning ghosts" mourning over
the dead civilization. The redoubtable
H. st. j. Philby gives the following
pretty version from a tribesman, of
the legend of the buried city. CNo
doubt "Wubar" is Mr.. Thomas's "Ur-
bar" Another and more euphonious
name given by the natives is "Jafura.")
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influence and banished Borodin and his
Russian associates, there is an ever
widening breach between the Stain and
Trotsky factions which is seriously I'M
dermining the party solidarity in China.
The Trotsky, or moderate, faction be-
lieveS that China will not be ready to
adopt Communism for many years and
counsels peaceful penetration through
widespread secret propaganda. The
moderates are opposed to the present
military phase of the Communist move
ment in China, holding that it is pre-
mature and therefore doomed to failure.
The Stain, or radical. group seized
upon the recent period of civil war as q
golden opportunity to further its aims
with the sword.
That this schism in the party ranks
is serious is indicated by the fact that
the much heralded Communist Con-
gress for all China, scheduled for De-
cember. was postponed to February and
has again been delayed. That this dis
unity within the party may eventually
accomplish what the government Is so
strenuously attempting to bring about
by force Of arms is a theory that has
been advanced by a number Of observ-
ers closely in touch with the Communist
situation
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Reds Firmly Intrenched in Half
Of China as fractional Strife Spreads

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cesSity will doubtless on occasion make
it convenient to set aside orders.
Although the Communist problem for
the moment is concentrated in Hupeh,
Human and Kiangsi and possibly Fukien
Provinces, the Red menace is by no
means confined to these four areas.
Communist armies are operating in a
more limited sphere in Northern Kwan-
tung, Hopei (Chihl), Honan and AMI
wei, and the famine stricken provinces
of Shansi and Shensi, where large
bodies of the defeated troops of the
rebel war lords, Feng Yu-hsiang and
Yen Hsi-shan are soon to be disbanded,
are potential danger spots for Commu-
mist activity.
There is a solid belt Of Soviet spheres
of influence which extend from Kwan-
tung and Fukien in the south to Shensi
and Shansi on the Monaghan border.
This belt of provinces comprises nearly
half the area of China proper.
Manchuria, on account of its prox-
unity to Russia, is honeycombed with
Communist propaganda and intrigue.
Although Communicates stronger in
China today than at any time since the
Kuomintang purge the party Of Soviet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
BY EDGAR SNOW.

CANTON, February 2S.-TWenty-four
years ago two young Chinese doctors
In this city pledged loyalty to each
other and mutually promised to work
ceaselessly for the overthrow of the
alien Manchu dynasty and for the
spread OF education and scientific
knowledge among their countrymen.
One OF them was DR. Sun Yat-sen
founder OF the Kuomintang and for
IL years acknowledged leader of the
only genuinely revolutionary party in
China. The other, DR.. WI Hon, is not
so well known abroad. Less spectacu-
lar, less dramatic, he nevertheless
made his contribution to the republican
idea. It was in support of DR.. Sun Vat
sen and in opposition to the imperial
ambitions of Yuan Shih-kai that DR..
WI eventually lost his head, in Pei
ping.
Today WI Hon is an honored name
n the long roll Of patriots listed among
those early martyrs who died In the
service Of the Kuomintang.
-Four other members Of the family
participate In the administration of
various departments of the institution.
Or: Wu's brother, his sister and his
sSter-in-law are all graduate doctors
ana each co-operates in the manage
ment of WI Hon. His wife, who re-
ceived her degrees from the Hackett
Medical College, is in charge of the
midwifery branch. which is known as
the Ia Keung School Of Obstetrics.
Over LOO Graduate.
The hospital has had an eventful his
tory. At times its 40 rooms have been
crowded with wounded soldiers It has
tended Communists and the victims Of
the Communists; 1t has cared for mill
Gary tyrants and for peasants But IL
q the School Of Midwifery that is per-
haps more interesting, more socially
significant.
During the rs years my fathers hos
pital has been operating" DR.. WI PAX
lang said recently, I'VE have graduated
over LOO students. These women have
gene back TO their homes. in all parts
ef this province, and have established
practices of their own and set up new
s:ieace Of midwifery in South China.
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BY ROLAND WILLIAMSON.

TN congressional debates dealing witt
| duties on sugar, attention was called
| to that remarkably fertile section Of
/ i Louisiana known as the sugar
| bowl" On the Mississippi River
! side of this bowl. about half way be-
! tween Baton Rouge and New Orleans
, is the town of Donaldsonville. There
/ enc sees a grass-covered dam much like
the hundreds of miles of leveeS that
hold back the waters when "Old Mar
River" is on a rampage. Back Of this
dam is the end of a small river. Be-
fore this dam was built the river had
served as a highway in transporting
products from the fertile fields through
which it flowed on its way to the Gull
Of Mexico. 1t was then a prong or the
forked end of the Mississippi, and for
that reason was called Bayou Lafourche
(from the French word fourche, mean
ing fork)--or Fork Bayou.
Once this bayou's waters were bright
ened with little orange-laden luggers
with colored sails, or were rudely STIR
red by stern wheelers, piled top-deck
high with bags of onions or potatoes
or with barrels of sugar or molasses
from the truck farms or plantations
tucked in between the flowery levees
and the moss-covered cypress brakes OF
the distant swamp.
In those days from time to time a
"show boat" drifted in from the Missis-
sippi, and with the siren voice of her
calliope lured aboard the bayou folk,
eager to exchange their silver for a
glimpse into a world of make believe, "
little suspecting that among themselves
was boy who would out-hero any
character portrayed on the show boat"
stage.
Home Will Be Shrine.
The boy was born November 8, 1S45,
on a sugar plantation situated on the
right descending bank of the bayou,
about six miles above the town of
Douglass White, and in time he became
the ninth Chief Justice of the United
States. He died in Washington May
10. 1921. The house in which the boy
was born is still standing and has been
converted into a shrine to honor his
memory. 1t is white with gray shutters,
but being near the bayou and built
mostly of cypress from the forest pri-
meval," it brings to mind these lines
from "Evangeline":
Near to the bank of the river. o'ershad-
owed by oaks, from whose branches
Garlands Of Spanish moss and of mys-
tic mistletoe Haunted,
Such as the Druids cut down with
golden hatchetS at Yuletide,
Stood, secluded and still. the house of
the herdsman. A garden
Girded it round about with a belt of
luXuriant blossoms.
Filling the air with fragrance. The
house itself was Of timbers
Hewn from the cypress tree and care
fully fitted together"
1t is planned to have the White house
restored to its original state, with its
rooms furnished so that each will recall
a period in Chief Justice Whites life of
a soldier, lawyer, statesman and jurist
In the room designed to commemorate
the jurist. visitors will probably see a
portrait of the Chief Justice clad in his
robe Of Office. In the room to comment
crate the soldier they might see the
portrait of a youth wearing not the
gray uniform of Confederate, but in
stead the long, heavy blue braided
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stood a gentleman. He asked me my
name and he said, Come along with
me- and we passed out into the street
1t was cold February day-where stood
hanson. There was an orderly hold
ing the horse, and the gentleman said,
My boy'-and he looked at me-he said
You have no coat on had nothing
on but thin flannel shirt. / said, Yes,
that is So But he said, Go back and
get your coat I said, I cannot 60 back
and get what have not got Oh he
said, and putting up his hand to the
long heavy blue braided coat which
kept the cold from his vitals, he unbut-
toned it, button by button, took 1t on
his shoulders and said My boy, am
more warmly clad than you are. Put
on my coat"
Shortly after the close Of the Civil
War young White went to New Orleans
and began the study of law with Edward
Bermudez, whose Office was in the Vieux
Carre-the old French quarter-on the
Rue Royale, Just around the corner
from the old St. Louis Cathedral and
the Cabildo Cthe Casa Capitular, or
government house,, where the Supreme
Court held its sessions in the Sale Ca
pitulaire, earlier the audience cham
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Poet of 18th Century 'sDiscovered'
In Old Kentish Dialect Manuscripts

A fifteenth century English poet, Peter
Idyl, important as an imitator Of Chau-
Ger, recently was discovered by an
American research worker. Idyl
hitherto practically unnoticed in old
English manuscripts, has contributed
much to the knowledge of the customs
and life of his time with the uncover
ing of his 10,OO0-lne work on "Instruc-
ton to My Son."
The find was made by Charlton W.
Laird, formerly an instructor at Drake
University, Iowa, who is doing research
in Europe this year on the Lydia G.
Roberts Fellowship of Columbia Uni
versity. Although working on a differ
ent subject, Laird was attracted by
parts of the poem which he found
through accident in an old manuscript
in the British Museum. Continuing his
search at oxford and Cambridge Uni
verSities, he found five manuscripts
containing parts of Idyl's works. He
plans to extend his search further in
collecting information about the poet.
Poet Overlooked.
Because none of the manuscripts
contains the complete works of Idyl,
the poet has been overlooked through
the centuries, Laird found. Several
students of English literary history have
noted at oxford a fragment of the
poem containing philosophic rhymes
Fritz MeiSSner German, worked out
the manuscript tree for the four manu-
scripts then known. But the body of
the poem itself was not touched. The
usual histories or reference books ig-
more Idyl.
Idyl, in recording details of court life
OF the time, presents many interesting
commentaries on customs and dress. In
one instance he mentions that the
women were painting their faces with
yellow and purple hues.
Peter Idyl seems to me one of the
more important Chauceriaa imitators,"
Laird said, ''if. not the most interest
ing, perhaps the most engaging as a
follower of Chaucer. He signs himself
Peter Idyl, armiger. find that Peter
Idyl. Esquire. was attached to the court
OF Henry VI, and that at about this
time he was appointed comptroller of
the Kings works.
Kentish Dialect Used.
Through q coincidence he held the
same post that Chaucer had held q
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generation before. The position at that
Time was without a salary, and he sub
sisted as gauger at Sandwich. In
l44O, and later as a gentleman falconer
until Parliament in 1455 restored the
ONCE, and he succeeded to the emolu-
mentS and presumably to Chaucer's
memories If not his paraphernalia. A
year later he was succeeded, but
whether because Of death or the civil
wars does not appear. There seems
plentiful evidence that an IdyI family
nad connections in London and In
Kent"
From available information Mr.. Laird
said the poem can be dated about 1850.
In the poem, Idyl says:
And If my rime be simpul to you're intent,
Hold me excused-I was born in Kent"
His dialect is Kentish, but his whole
background Is that of one who has
moved to urban circumstances.
Had Eye for Dramatic.
The praise of young man is to be
found In his fitness to ''sarve a prince
or king" Peter Idyl's son is given
advice in the conduct of his house
hold, warned against the fickleness Of
service, and reference Is made to the
lands he will inherit. By his own adj
mission, Idyl is not a craftsman in
verse. He says:
For in making am yonge clerk"
This line is probably an accurate
description OF him." Laird said, "aS
well as being confirmation for a SUP.
position that In other things than
making he need make no such
apology. He often hits upon good lines.
He has much feeling for the accumula-
tive force of the type of verse he en-
ploys, and he sees a situation wildly
and describes 1t with an eye for the
dramatic and with a plentitude of
detail that believe was not too COM
mon in his time. He Is seldom dun
and then only when his morality over.
comes him. Thus he produces credit
able verse, as the following:
"Ther is fend that caIIid is .rreslynssllis
And though the priest and clerk ryng the
He seth couertly and closely. Kepe thy
And makyth hym in his bed styii to I've
To make his morrow, slepe hansgyng In his
Describes Complexion Aids.
AS for artificial compilations, Peter
Idyl had plenty to say to his son, such
as the following two verses with some
OF the obsolete words changed to gain
What ssy e now Of ladys, jsntyn women
Have they eny pride in thise Gays as we
Yes and she be as old as Abrahams modir
she WI be loths of any thyng to lose
Myth wymples and tyris wrapped IN ride
xsioy unaeE yellow they covyT AMI hs5s.
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show results in Canton: There Is less
infanticide, there are fewer children's
diseases, there are more sound, healthy
babies and there are fewer deaths at
parturition than In any other city Of
similar size in China.
tCopyright, 1881, By New York Sun Foreign
Service)
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veto, the motion to override being ap-
proved 49,, less than the required
two-thirds majority. So the Muscle
Shoals issue Is still with Us; a party
perennial, permanent flxtNke, a Land
mark IN a too shifting world.
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Meteor Crater in Arizona.
An example of such a crater on the
earth is the famous Meteor crater, in
the Arizona desert, which is four fifths
OF mile in diameter. The same OBJ
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Through coincidence he held the
same post that Chaucer had held a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
BY LAYTON MACKALL.

w YITH aviation interests OF
IA France, England and Amer
wv lea now bent over a game
called Atlantic Ocean-hav-
{rr hoan enaoiaIIr, i,,,,ikad