The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 3, 1908, Page 7

% @ ~ Stances it VQ 189 \ iad ja BUBONIC PLAGUE KILLS MILLIONS Diseased Physical Freak Killed Him- self to Escape Further Suffering. ae Grand Junction, Col.—Fred Vin- }eent, forty-two years old, who had |sold his body four times, to as many * ° |physicians, and outlived those to Indo-Chinese Strain Possesses | om ne had given a bill of a Much Greater Power =| committed suicide by swallowing fif- of Diffusion }ty-one grains of a drug. The act was done in the Royalty j Club saloon and was deliberately julanned as Vincent told at least six persons that he was about to take his life. He secured the drug at a local More | drug store in the morning and went India in |!T™ the store to the Royalty Club {satloon. There he asked William 1904—it Has Established Itself | Gould, the bartender, for a glass of water, saying, “Give me a glass of |w ater, Bill, I'm going over the road.” | The bartender gave him the glass | of water, thinking he was joking, and \Vincent swallowed the poison, and then went to his room, where short- ly after he died. Vincent killed himself because of his physical condition. Five years ago his body became filled with can- cers and he sought treatment in Chi- cago at an institute, where his hands were burned by an X-ray machine and so badly disfigured and injured }that he could not work. He told | friends that he would rather die than numerous countries quarters |POcome &: charted on: Khe wort, mad of the globe, where in many in- made every preparation to take his established itself in | !"f¢- most carefully plan-| Vincent was six feet, six and a wneasures. half inches tall and had worked as a of the |farm hand here for years. Every Eager says dates from when | Done in his body was doubled jointed escaping from the Chinese | nd the cancers came about five province of Yunnan, it reached Can- | Y©4?S 480. ton. It appears established | Chicago undergoing treatment, but that there are two distinct “strains” |B€ Srew worse instead of better. of plague, differing in the location Physicians marvelled at the con- of their permanent homes and | Struction of his body and a St. Louis their facility for spreading outsi doctor, a Pennsylvania doctor and a them. ‘he strain lodged in Western | Denver surgeon purchased his body, Asia does not possess the same power |#nd it is said that the Chicago insti- of diffusion the Indo-Chinege | tion now holds a bill of sale for it. “strain.” It the latter variety |The three surgeons who purchased which, escaping from its centre in| *i8 body have died. Yunnan, the present | Leaving the saloon Vincent called pandemic to 1904 back to Gould the bartender, “Good- a single year without the; >Y, Bill, I'm dying as fast as I can, appearance of the neigh- | €00d-by.”” Gould and others in the borhood distant from endemic plague | ¥@rreom followed him to his room, centres Between the months of | Where within a short time he March August, 1894, the num- | se ized with convulsions and six men ber of 1s from plague in Canton | Were required to hold him. Again is estimated at 120.! All cfasses | @nd again he begged to be permitted Gn aatiee suf-|to die and finally in spite of the ef- af- | forts of physicians, he succumbed. rter Vincent wes born in Fairfield, lowa, and came to Grand Junctior occured. | twenty years ago. He leaves a step- of | mother in Fairfield, and other tant relatives. Friends would not | permit the Chicago institute te have |the body of Vincent ALMOST WHOLE WORLD VISITED After Small Beginnings in 1891 Than 1,000,000 Died in in Defiance of Measures, Washington, D. C.—Surgeon Gen- eral Wicken of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service has -is- sued in pamphlet forn paper pared by Assistant Surgeon General J. M. ger, giving a history of the bubonic plague during the last four- teen No study presents more important and difficult sanitary prob- lems Dr. Eager says than the lines of march taken by the bubonic plague in its advance from the remote en- demic focus of the disease in the province of Yunan, to the pre- years Chinan, in all has defiance of the ned preventive rhe pr revival plague 1894, stern to be as AS gave From 1879 passed pla not in was and dea 100 among population fered and rats were found to be fected in the of Canton, with a population about 300, not a single During the plague were reported in Hong Kong Amoy, Ma >, in sanitary but foreign qu of case next year cases and Foochoo, and attention as focussed on the its Starting in throughout threat- | appearance in August the dis- throughout the of the Bombay the end of the year! ce d that year STUNG TO DEATH. Awful Fate Which Befel South Caro- lina Woman. the world w ening Bombay ease spread vast territory dency, and before epidemic by whole Huntington, S. C fate of Mrs. Jacob Meadows of Glen | wood, Mason County, who was stung in Hong Kong,|to death by a swarm of honey bees epidemic ever} at her home at that place. number Mr. Meadews has an aviary of con siderable size and value, from which he annually takes several hundred pounds of honey cated near the house, where they can easily be watched and guarded from thieves or any animal that might d the hives or injure the b manufacturer of sweets. total hs showed a 2.980 2,288 plague where it has bee since. In 1897 the in India was more ar more than there Swatow of Dur reappeared dea of cases 73,000, with In China Amoy deaths in other and in the fol than ,000 deaths. were epidemics in and with many sections of the empire, lowing there 150,000 cases in tality of i117 ational plague in Venice, Italy, and in the lowing others were held in dria and Constantinople. Thre lHgious prejudice efforts to tide only In 1900 plague ery quarter of the in Indie during year were more India, w a mor- stroy little ey Mrs and noticed that swarmed and lit in a great ball on the limb of a tree in the orchard. i | While she had never actually hived siz eatnten a bunch of angry swarming bees she had seen her husband do it often wit injury and thought could do it also She tried to jan unfamiliar pre ,000. In 1897 an inter- co. ence was heldj{ year the bees had tem the were partly was present in ev- world, the deaths alc amounting to 92,0 the year Philippine the 50 deaths occuring in 1out she The Isiands were included in sence, the face, of the disease, 1 Manila The most tory of the world was the and swarmed all over and body stinging her | until she fell 1 | ground, where she ne’2'| py Mr. Meadows, her place, |.” k with the poison from (he | the maddened insects SONS | aimost two hours. prevail- | as of the notable ee plague sat unconscious to the sia later 1891 appearace In was body the stings of in San & great augmentation until 1904 plague death of more than t in India alone, and epidemic ed to a greater or | ly ali parts of the india, the terribly in th year 1906 there was a the number of deatt 332,000, but agai 1907 a great increas ne 1,200,000 For nine Hawaii in ancisco in took in caused 000,000 pe ss degree in near- great world | suffered i year 19¢ but centre Remove Paris Theatres. Ladies Must in the Headgear in pes re Paris, France.—New police regu- lations concerning theatres, publish ed this morning, prohibit categori- cally the toleration by the manage- ment of any conditions that may prevent the public from seeing or hearing a performance. The ordinance says. ng about there was aths number- ing Eager says, had not been free from plague, but the Phil- nes NOW seem to be year 1907 with, with San Francisco. w cases in Oakland and ighbors of San Francisco In Seattle the report says, three Cases occurred last October. years 1907 | Dur- of | occur- | were clear 156 76 deaths, There cases “If complaint is made by a spec- of any one before him that he cannot j see, the cause of complaint must be } removed.” Another clause in the regulations pronibits the sale of tickets outside of a theatre, and makes sidewalk speculations in theatre tickets a pun- ishable offense. fatal Uncle Sam Reduces Insanity. Washington, D. c itary arrangements clothes and medical attendance are credited with a rem ble decrease in the number of cases of insanity in the world-wide service of the Gov- ernment. When American rule was | established in the Philippines, number of soldiers sent home ins was startling. Now it is constantly growing less. The canal zone used to be a breeding place for insanity, ‘At now it is almost unknown there. —Improved,san- better rations, Cornstalk Demolishes a House. Garden City, Kan.—Bill Sincaller and his family, who lives four miles west of here, had a narrow escape ym death. A stalk of corn grow- ing in the yard was blown over by the wind and crushed through the roof of the house, almost completely destroying the building. Bill was pinned in bed but his eldest son A few years ago the big Government | !Tank, chopped away the stalk after asylum was fast being outgrown, but | 42 hour of hard work and extricateed its population is s2eadily decreasing. | the old man. ; SISTERS 1e@ ‘THREE HAD BOUGHT HIS BODY | | she |communication beiween He spent the last year in | dis- | —Pitiful was the | The hives are lo- | Meadows was alone at home, | | a communication from and the bees sensing | disintegrated | neck | nfortunate women, | thousand places ;| found } bloated | She lingered | | tically Obstructing | He | in 1904 and recently discovered that | placed | thing else when | tator that because of the headdress | MESOAGES FROM THE DEPARTED { Cunningham, a dentist of this city, | | May Be Seen Through a Medium sale, | and Sir Oliver Lodge is Now Convinced EXISTENCE AFTER DEATH'S CALL | From Her Hollandrones Got Them When Mrs. Departed Searchers Mind Was a Blank—Hints From | Myers Were Hard to Send. London.—When Sir Oliver Startied the public some with the grave assertion of time ago iuller details were promised eal Research Society’s Journal. They consist of messages trans- mitted through the pen of a medium known as Mrs. Hollandrones. As sat ported to be a communication from beyond the grave. The messages were blurred and broken. Many dealt the dead and the living Thus, one message trom Mr. Gurney, one of the found- ers of the Pyschical Research Society read: ‘The nearest similie I can find to express message is that I appear to be standing behind a sheet of frosted gla which blurrs the sight and deadens sounds, dictating feebly to a reluctant and somewhat obtuse sec- retary, burdens me. I am so powerless to tell what means so much. I cannot into communication with those who would understand and believe me You need much training before you can ever begin to help me as I get need to be helped, and I do not know | how that training is to be arranged. it is like entrusting a message of infinite importance, person.” Living personality is declared to be on a lower plane of spiritual de- velopment, which does not receive ciear impressions from the hig plane of those who have quitted the prison of the flesh. Some of the messages, of which a large number are printed, assume to | : { sive some account of existence af death Immediately after tion there is an “obscuration of sciousness,” which has led to mz ‘on- s in attempts to communicate | living e distinguished writer F. H quoted telling that hour of his Ceath he bec mpletely unconscious, He added period of @dlivion was unu persons. rs is as at the The ly long with me. between my utter consciousness things of the earth. The last thing 1 felt was the touch that closed my eyes and my passage to the plane I now occupy. transit was absolutely known to me, and I am not scious of a return journey When I communicate way am conscious of strain and fort, but I cannot note the of the way. Villiam Stecd obtained through rece un- con- rhe as it were. ef- sta announces that lady who ¢ s from the beyond Mr. Myers to that had made anuulling some of conclusions of his book, ‘Human Personality and he to 2 these disceveri extent of his ived messa the eifect he discoveries many intended Ss known to power BURIED $10,000 ROTTED. But Uncle Sam Redeemed Fortune of Man Who Feared Banks. Washington, D. —O. D. left here satisfied that he had saved his fortune of $10,000 the money in the earth prac- buried the tin pail in which the bills were had rusted and worn away. arl, who had aversion to banks, be- an to have an aversion to every- 000 looking Hike a lot of withered and broken leaves. He gathered the fragments and with Lloyd Rainwater, cashier of the Bank of Morrillton, Ark., came to Washington with an affidavit of how the bills became damaged. He learned to-day that his visit was un- necessa: as the Treasury is con- stantly receiving mutilated bills from all parts of the country for redemp- thon, Mrs. A. E. Brown, the veteran deemer,” who is handling Earl's money, managed to account for more than $9,000 of the bills. Train Wrecked by a Cornstalk. Enterprise, Kan—A fast stock train on the B. & M., was wrecked a mile east of here by a cornstalk which had fallen across the track The engine was demolished. Sever- al similar accidents have narrowly been averted near here recently, and the trains have been given slow or- ders when passing corn fields. Lodge |} his be- | lief that messages had been received | jfrom dead members of the Pyschical esearch Society by living members | later. | These are now given by ‘the Psychi- | with her mind a blank, her ' pen tnoved and she wrote what pur- | | been elected,” with the difficulty of opening | } see to it that only the friends of the | the difficulties of sending 4° ; about them H ham photographed a group of these “A feeliing of terrible impotence ; i National to a sleeping | dissolu- | | Bride j word There was no link | of | in this | | matter. } bride Judge,” said Earl he beheld his $10,-- » 1777. DEATH COMES AS DOVES C00 Sick Mexicans Abandon All Hope When They Hear the Birds. | Indianapolis, Ind.—Charles M.} nas recently returned from a trip} through the domain of President | and he tells some texcraning | about the quaint customs of natives. is a tradition among the Mexi- | ns that once a fever accompanying . attack of pneumonia seizes them, t is necessarily fatal, and because of all medicine and all physicians | waved aside and the Mexican | ually dies. A dove brings the ory of death in its weird cooing, ording to the belief of the na- tives, and many who have been seized with the fever who otherwise might fave recovered have succumbed, ow- ing their belief in the traditign. Vhat is the reason it is said, why imonia is fatal to so many Mex Dr. Cunningham visited the City of Mexico, and was in the National Palace, the seat of government. Al-; though Old Mexico has the name of being a republic its form of govern- | ment is that in name only he says, for the entire country is a one-man power, and the one man is President ‘ Diaz. ‘Word is given out that certain State and municipal officers have says Dr. Cunningham, “but really they have only been ap- pointed, for Diaz and his colleagues President are chosen for office. The Government is more by the military than by the people. They have a good soldiery, and the natives seem to be satisfied to have it thus.” One of the customs to which the natives of Old Mexico still adhere is | the practice of wearing blankets , even in the heat of the summer. On June 24, Dr. Cunning- | as they sat out in the sun and wrap- ped themselves in their warm blank- ets Oxen are still in use throughout the country as beasts of burden, and | their service is equally as much in demand as are the donkeys which are extensively used. The driveways leading Palace, instead paved with cobblestones, as is cus- to: ry in most places, are lined with the knee joints of goats. These animals are slaughtered for various | purposes, and as no one has yet dis covered another for their knee bones they are thrown into the drive- ways and form a rude pavement. On a festival day the town band ntzatian, a small village, went through the streets in a wagon wn by a team of oxen, making a picturesque also up to the of being use ot scene. NO “OBEY” IN MARRIAGE. Halts Till Bride- groom Agrees Word Be Omitted. Wyo.— Judge. Ceremony on that I don’t like it and I won’t have it in this cere- mony,” id Mis Lillian Wilcox, while she was being married to El- mer Cole of Elmira, N. Y. | “You be sure and leave that word | in, Judge, I want it there.’ “Stop it, Judge, I won't marry said the bride, as she jerked hand from that of her intended | husband. Then the two adjourned | .o an adjoining room to discuss the Laramie, “Nixey ‘obey obey Cole is a travelling man and Miss Wilcox is from Colorade Springs. She visiting in Laramie and Cole Then they de-| was came here to see her. cided to get married. For half hour the bride and room were closeted and nowj then one or the other could heard protesting Then they out andasked that the ceremony con- tinue. an | suc | many came out that can ‘obey,” | have de- leave Cole. ciced to do without it You | and lack j that BULL MARKET ON CATS. | i Japan Has Discovered That They | Are Real Eradicators of Plague. | Washington, D. C.—As a result of | discoveries by the hospital | scientists and health officials of the} Japanese Government, there is about | to be a strong bull movement in the} cat market. 1{t has been proved that | the feline family is immune from bubonic plague and that the most ef- fective way of eradicating the dis- from Oriental countries is to/ seour the earth for pussies and wage | war to death on rats and chipmunks. These Httle animals are the med- ium through which the disease} spreads most rapidly, and it has} been found that cats devour infected | specimens anu grow fat on them. AS a consequence, Marine Hospital officials advise all who have ‘“Tom-| with four sound legs and good! eyes, to “hold them for a raise.” Paul Jones's Sword on Exhibition, Washington, D. C.—John Paul Jones’s sword, a fine Toledo blade, } which he carried throughout the Rev- olutionary War, was placed on exhi- bition in a case just outside the of- | fice of the Secretary of the Navy. The hilt rests on a small block of | wood taken from the Ranger, the {| ship which fiew the American Flag wibch was first saluted by a foreign | power—in Quiberon Bay, Feb, "4 marine ease aces” | York | jec j from | are | tenancing | true }as one j have a | women AS, ASTOR TELLS SOCIETY WOMEN Deplores Their Freak Enter- tainments and Notoriety- Seeking Activities She GUT DEFENDS OUR YOUNG PEOPLE Says They May Go to Excess in Amusement, but Are Not Danger- Politicians— ous—Criticises the Actions Harm Name of Society. interview for years of New the an 10 was eader so oted on sub: t of society th sident Rooseve ertainment. The interview is print- eed under the name of Rebecca Ins- ley, an English In part it is as follows: “} can speak with authority about young people They of a and have ideas conservative ones. They of health and abundant It is perhaps true that they go to excess in amusement, but they degenerate and not vicious. woman are my are full spirits. not |Our young men enter seriously upon their business interests, and they often take up an individual profes- sion, going in for healthy sports only as well-earned diversion. “Our young women are trained in domestic matters and taught to ap- preciate their responsibility to the poor. All my friends do a great deal for the poor, and the daughters are brought up to regard’ charitable work as an important part of their lives. “I have heard that our young | women smoke and drink and do oth- er ble things. I know a great many of them and know them very well, I have known them since they were born, and I am quite sure that there is not one in my circle who is a cigarette fiend or drinks to excess “I am not vain enough to think New York wiil not be able to get slong very weli without me. women will rise ap to take my place. But I hope my influence will be felt in one thing, and that is in discoun- the employed by certain New York wom- en to sttract a following. They have given ntertainments that belonged under a Circus tent rather than in a gentlewoman’s home. Their sole ob- ject is notoriety, a thing that no lady ever seeks, but rather shrinks from. “The women in New York so- ciety, with the greatest in- fluence, and those who give it its tone, almost unknown out- or their own circle. Society newspaper notoriety as interest- ing to them as it is to me, as a study, amusing ene, too, sometimes, gains so much information ertain women supposed to be- us, but whom we never see, not know even by sight. political ¥ostesses of London much te be. those are side is a very about ¢ long to and do “The izing an ideal to-day than the women of New York. Over there you find at the big balls and musicales a bril- liant array of Cabinet Ministers, journalists, Amb adors, men and of the stage, painters poets, and the powe of the mone world, such no leader in New York coudd bring together, or would attempt to bring together. I have thought of doing it all my life, but never the possibility of as seen In the first place, we have too politi ns in America, gland they statesmen. of our Senators and Congress- seem their favor upon their uncouth manne of ‘refinement, on the discarded socks jeans. vere all like Mr. difference there Roosevelt is a true Amer- he would at home elegant in Europe above paying scrupulous to his wardrobe and Any hostess in New York where have to pase they once wore blue ae velt, be! ican, the most He not attention manners have they Roos what @ Mr but be court is or Newport would be proud to enter- | and the men in Washington | tain him like him. “Many people seem to could have done a great deal in mak- ing New York society as democratic as it is in London, and open to any- one is over there. one’s best under the conditions. Eng- lish people all recognize authority in social matters. The ing is the leader of society and the hostesses who gather about them brilliant men and women can be as independent as they wish to be without assuming the responsibility such | of an onslaught upon their own do- mains. The King’s authority is yer questioned and the authority great old families ir never oned of que “We have to be more exclusive in New York, because in America there is no authority in society, end Amer- icans in general are not inclined to admit its possibility. Each woman is for herself, and trying to outdo the others in Javish display and mad extravagance, with little thought of any ultimate good or any ideal.” CMR fos | sb different | Many [| discoveries of new sp undignified methods | better chance of real-j} andj title to pub-| would | in | his | think 1| of intellectual attainments as it But one can do only} a certain | 'PLANT HAS EYES BOTANIST SAYS | outer Skins of Leaves Are Lenses Much Like Eyes of Insects. | London.—tThe interest aroused by tne contention made by Francis |Darwin, son of the author of “Tne Origin of, Species,” in his President- }ial address before the British Asso- ciation in Dublin, that plants can remember and can develop habits, jhas been increased by a paper read |by Prof, Harold Wager, the well- |known botanist. Prof. Wager de- |elared that plants possesed an lorgation corresponding to the brain jin animals, and further demonstrated that they have eyes with which they }can see and see well. | Prof. Wager showed that the out- jer skin of many leaves are, in fact, lenses, very much like the e of {many insects, and quite as capable jof forming clear images of surround- jing objects. This is the case with !most leav but especially in the case of th that grow in the shade. | These lenses are so good and fo- cus the light that falls on them se learefully that photographs can be taken by means of them. Prof. Wag- er has takena great many such pho- |tographs and he showed some of the more remarkable. These included a reproduction ef a photograph of Dar- | win, in which the features were dis- |tinct and unmistakable, as well as direct photographs of landscapes and people. Even colored photographs were exhibited, and, like the rest, they are remarkably clearly defined. Not only do plant eyes well, but the rays of light which vy means of them are focused on the interior of the leaf are carriea to the interior of the brain of the plant and direct its subsequent movements. It has long been known that the leaves of plants move so that they can get a maximum of light. It is now suggested how this movement is made possible, and the process is almost identical with like moven cats in the case of animals. A close alysis of the eyes of plants, more- over, proves them highly developed organs. | an- NEW THI IN NATURE. Found by a Collector in the Desert and Mountains of Arizona. Cal._—Remarkable cies of insects, reptiles and bivalves have been made by Virgil W. Owen, clerk of the United States District Court here, in the desert and mountains of Cochise County, Ariz. He re- turned with a collection of 7,000 specimens. Some of his moths and butterflies are valued at $50 a pair. Many of his specimens are unknown to etomologists and are destined for the Smithsonian Institution. One of the snakes secured is new to scientists, only one spe:imen havy- ing ever before been found and that minus head and tail. Owen's snake is about seven inches long, has gray ground marked with Vandike brown spots and is valued at $1,000 In mountain streams 6,000 feet above the sea level the coilector found small but perfect abalone. Another discovery in the same pool was a number of mature class. They | have been found as fossils the rocks of the Middle West Owen also brought seven tortoises, one of which is a new specimen, and three rare born toads Los Angesles, in $500,000,000 FOR BRITISH NAVY. Large Loan Planned to Meet Grow- ing Competition Abroad. London.—The British Government, says the Daily Telegraph, contem- plates raising a large loan in view of the growing nayal competition abroad. It is asserted tha’ cie of the highest standing | undertaken to find $500,000,000 nominal terms to meet the necessi- ties of the fleet for the next few years, without disorganizing the an- nual budgets or casting a heavy bur- den upon the present generation. finan- have on Noble Houses Are Dying Out. Munich, Bavaria.—Professor iruber of the University Munich, has collected some tell-tale statistics of the decline of noble | tamilies, which he secured by igating the history of no te twenty thousand German and trian noble houses He has found that only 68 of the 70,000 families existed longer than 600 years, “In England,” he says, “‘but three of the ancient ducal houses survive, and only eleven of the old-time fami- | lies of earls. “In Sweden 76 per cent of the no- ble families have vanished from the face of the earth. von of and patrican Potato Bug Parasite Discovered. Presque Isle, Me.—Farmers in this region are rejoicing in’ the dis- covery by by Judge George H. Smith, of this village, a practical farmer, as well as a. lawyer, of a parasite that seems to be exterminating the pota- jto bugs. It is a green bug with a long lance which it thrusts half way through its victim. America Leads in Cremation. Paris, France-—America leads thé world in cremation. Statistics is- sued by the French branch of the in- ternatonal Society for the Propaga- tion of Cremation shew that last year the number of bodies inciner- ated in America numbered as many as those in Great Britain, France and Germany put together. Bri -