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WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1910.
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AGENTS ANT) CORRESPONDENTS
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Laredo. Tex.—-Laredo4vitulla Publicity Bureau,
Hamilton Hotel; J. P. rranke in oharjr^.
Traveling Agent* W. H. Met'onnell, W. C.
Payne, C. M. Dever.
THF. DISHONEST ( HAI FFEI R.
A current magazine publishes the
confessions of a chauffeur as to the
various crude ways in which tfrie pri-
vate chauffeur of a few years ago 11
made money "so easily he was j
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THE "CI-iASSY" AGE.
After laughing heartily over an
amusing sketch of one of those sub-
limely ludicrous actions of A. Mutt.
a reader of The Express recently said:
"I laugh at what that fellow does be-
cause he represents a certain type of ashamed to look himself in the face
man and a Certain quality which seems Briefly, the chauffeur took good care
/f1 exist more or less in all of us. He that there should be something vrong
■ always wants to do what he terms with the machine nearly all the time,
i the 'classy''thing. Indeed, it seems In order to assist the machine in get-
to me that this has come to be the ting out of order he ran over any bits
: 'classv' age." of broken glass available, and now'
There is a certain truth in the; and then poured emery powder into
statement. This is the "classy" age. the ball bearings. These and similar
I If the attempt to be "classy" were not j devices were strikingly successful in
aofljso frequently made the made the slang i breaking parts of the machine, which
„word "classy" would not have come • were replaced from garages with
AMERICAN VETERINARY SURGEONS
BY
-RKl'KKIC J. HASKIN:
into being. The Mutt type of citizen which the chauffeur had a contract j ![,')
giving him 10 per cent commission for |
the business thus produced. If the j ar<-
Tic postage rates !'■-
as follows: K to 14 i
tic: .14 to SO pages, 3<
to 72 pages,
iling Thp Express arr
t" V.4 pages" I'TtH i someone else's automobile, hired
CARICATURING THE FARMER.
One of the current comic weeklies
has a cartoon representing a rural
couple seated at the table of a city
restaurant smacking their lips over
the toothsome dishes set before them.
The underline is: "It must be fine to
live in the citv and have fresh vege-
tables everv day."
The cartoon is intended, of course,
to satirize the country home which is
not provided with the things that are
most easily obtainable and at the least
cost. Reference has frequently been
made to the Texas cattle ranch, with
thousands of cattle, cows and calves,
but no milk or butter; and Texas farm-
ers have been criticised for not raising
at home more of the foodstuffs con-
sumed at home.
But the cartoon in the comic paper
did not hit at Texas. It was a rural
couple from the region near the me-
tropolis, spending in the city some of
the money derived from the entertain-
ment of summer boarders from the
city, and enjoying the delights of fresh
would not take a street car ride he-
cause it is crass and common. He
would pawn his overcoat and ride in
at
ruinous rates—that is, ruinous for
him. He would go on a vacation
though without work and having been
without work for a long time, simply
because it is "classy." In other
words, there is a complete subordina-
tion of personality which results in the
owner complained about his machine I '
the chauffeur agreed with him that it i "
was no good and suggested a better U: ■
make, the purpose of the chauffeur be-
ing to get a commission from the
agent for the sale of a machine.
As automobiles became more com-
mon, however, owners learned more
about them and the chauffeurs have
! "classy" person finding his greatest! about ceased these practices, except
pleasure, almost a real pleasure, in j where the opportunity fairly screams
; aping the actions of others. If he pre- J to them to "make a little on the side."
| ferred beef stew and was ravenously j U'hile the tricks of the chauffeur
hungry he would tat squabs on toast | were rankly dishonest, there is a cer-
I because it is "classy." This situation j tain crude, primordial, prehistoric hut
I is essentially funny, because it shows j natural sort of justice in the inability
a lack of the idea of proportion, of the | of a man to get much good out of a
eternal fitness of things.
A savings bank account and produc-
tive individuality would serve him to
much better advantage, but "there's no
class to them." And this is the "clas-
sy" age.
Roosevelt's familiarity with jiu jitsu
"■Served a good purposei at Fargo when
he grappled the man who called him
a liar and held him helpless as long
as he wanted to. Cranks and trouble-
makers should be very careful how
they get within reach of the Roosevelt
strong arm.
Americans were accorded first place
vegetables as something of a novelty, i in the^ line of reception in Mexico be-
So it seems that in the culture^ East,
as well as in the wild and woolly
West, the farmer sleeps on his oppor-
tunities and does not live as well as he
might, if he were a bit more enter-
prising.
In one of his recent speeches Roose-
velt said: "There can not be a per-
manent improvement of the soil if the
life of those who live on it and make
their living out of it is suffered to
starve and languish, to become stunted
and weakened and inferior to the type
of life lived elsewhere." While in the
presidential office Mr. Roosevelt
sought to improve conditions in coun-
try life, and with that view appointed
a commission to visit country homes
and to study conditions and suggest
methods of improvement. Men of
character and distinction were ap-
pointed on this commission and they
agreed to serve without pay in order
to help solve the problem nf making
farm life more attractive. It is need-
less to quote the conclusions of this
commission. Almost everybody might
easily guess what they would be.
In the speech referred to, Roosevelt
appealed to the farmers to shake off
traditions that have bound their inter-
est to the past and to meet new condi-
tions with new methods. He especially
adjured them not to treat any effort
at improvement as absurd or to jeer
at helpful suggestions as "new-fangled
ideas of book-farmers." We are all
interested in the progress and pros-
perity of the farmer and in his moral
and material advancement, for our
prosperity is based on his.
It is no new-fangled idea that the
farmer ought to make his farm work
as profitable as possible and farm life
as attractive as he can make it, for
that will help to keep the young men
on the farm and to advance the intef-
est of farming. With his opportunities
for fresh vegetables all spring and
summer and fresh meat and other eat-
ables, it ought to be very easy to live
well, and with plenty of grai* and feed-
ttuffs and live stock it ought to be
tasy enough to make the farm return
a good profit and to lessen the comic
caricatures of the "{turner."
cause Americans occupy the first place
in the esteem of the Mexican people.
Mexico and the United States are just
about as neighborly as neighbors could agreeing that the darned thing don't
machine he knows nothing about and
the intricacies of which he can not
appreciate. Also there is a clear case
of extenuating circumstances for the
chauffeur. Indeed, it seems there
ought to be a law against one man
tempting another as the early auto-
mobile owned by his ignorance tempted
the chauffeur.
It requires hut a slight stretch of
the imagination to picture the auto-
mobile as the Government of the
United States. When the owners know
more about it and take a greater in-
terest in it, chauffeurs will not be so
frequently tempted to put emery pow-
der in the ball bearings and then min-
gle their tears with the owner's while
American Veterinary Medical As-
iatlon of the Tinted States is
session at San Ffatuisco. This
asso.--kitton has a membership of about
1000 of t( • 4000 veterinarians in the Vnited
States who are eligible. It is probable
that itother profession in the United
State* is less crowded than that ft" the
veterinarian. There are only .about
twenty schools teaching veterinary iftedi-
ciue in the country, and fifteen of these
are sufficiently thorough to entitle their
graduate students to take the civil serv-
ice examination under the United States
Bur* i of Animal Iudustry for the vari-
ous «.• vernuu'iit positions to be ftlltifi by
\. :orii arians. There are more than 200,-
000,000 domestic animals in the United
States, not including cats, dogs or poul-
try. Yet there are only 'J000 students in
terinary schools* of the country.
• other hand, while there are 00,-
people in the Uuited States, there
arly -5,000 students of medicine,
v 1891 the practice of veterinary
i »■ was given over largely to black-
and rural horse doctors, none of
had more than a very slight empiric
wlrnlge of the diseases of domestic
mils. In that year the association
pted a requirement that to be eligible
i : < 'in 1 let's hip an applicant must have
it graduated from n. school requiring
■ m three terms of/ six months each
nurse of study. This tended to
practice of veterinary medicine
ional standing, and while in re-
s some littie difficulty ha* been
e\j"-;lenced in combating the mushroom
S1 '"is that have sprung up in many
quarters, the decision of the Bureau of
A' niia 1 Industry to recognize only certain
schools has tended to overcome this evil.
♦ f ♦
At tlie last meeting of the association
held in Chicago, a stroug r< solution was
adopted looking to the stamping out of
hydrophobia. This resolution declares
thai ail dogs running at large should be
required to be muzzled, and that any
dog appearing off the premises <-f its
owner without a properly adjusted muzzle
ought to be shot immediately. Another
resolution expressed great faith in the
work of the medical fraternity with ref-
erence to bovine tuberculosis, and de-
clared it to be the belief of the veteri-
nary profession that tuberculosis in cattle
can l-c transmitted to humau beings, and
that the course of the milk sanitarians
of the country, looking toward the elimi-
nation of tuberculosis from the milk
supply, is to be highly commended.
Veterinary medicine has been pursued
as a science since the time of the ancient
Egyptians and Greeks, although from the
time of the destruction of the Grecian
empire until the establishment of a
veterinary school in Lyons in 1702 the
profession was at a complete standstill.
IMiring the dark ages there was little
attempt to carry forward the work that
had been so well begun by the Egyptians
for its <
give the
a profes
cent yea
well be.
INADEQUATE CERTIFICATES.
work very well.
Come to think of it, Taft was in
{ Beverly while that forest fire was
Quite recently the Board of Health j burning, so of course he didn't get
of this city took up the matter of de- j smoke in his eyes while writing the
manding of the physicians that the sPecch on conservation.
certificates they present to the Board j §man hoy who played Indian lost an
of Health be more specific as to the eye This should serve as a warning
causes of death. j to the Oklahoma Indians as to what
Oddly enough the same difficulty' w'" happen when their land is gone.
confronts the authorities in London.1 „ hurts t0 have a man^ith a front
But the difficulty in this city is to | name like Claude defeating the Amer-
classify properly the causes of death j ican aviators, but so long as it wasn't
that they may be studied with a view! Harold or Percival we may survive,
to keeping informed a#to sanitation „no we need a cheer up party?"
asks a Roston newspaper. We do.
Here's hoping the musical comcdy sea-
son will open on time.
The paragraphers' union purchased
an ax yesterday to protect itself
against persons who write good-buy
odes to straw hats.
.is i»r (finger, with headquarters fit
Bellevue Hospital iu New York. The j
doctor had the misfortune to get a fish
bone in its throat, so it performed an j
operation, known as tracheotomy, on Its
own throat. The only instruments used j
were the claws gi ven it by nature, and j
the only antiseptic was the frequent ii(,k-
iin with its own tongue. Dr. Ginger lias
entirely recovered ami stands at the head I
of the list of animals operating upon
themselves.
♦ ♦ ♦
Preventive medicine is no less h science j
with the modern veterinarian than cura-
tive medicine, and in the past decade or
two splendid results have been obtained
from precautionary measures. Before the j
process of immunizing Northern cattle t<> j
ihe Texas fever few thoroughbred cattle
were shipped to the South, because of the
fact that from TO to 00 per cent of those
shipped died within a comparatively short
time after their arrival on the Southern
farms. Sluce the perfection of this im-
munizing process there is no difficulty
of shipping to Southern points, and the
cattle and dairy industry in the Southern
States has enjoyed a remarkable develop-
ment. A method of lnnoculatlon of the
bile against rinderpest has proved to be
highly successful in South Africa, and it
is believed it will revolutionize the cattle
business of the dark continent. The
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
has been one of the leading forces of the
world in the investigation of animal dis-
eases. and has perfected vaccines for the
majority of the coutaglous and Infec-
tious diseases to which animal life is
subject.
♦ ♦ ♦
It is Interesting to note that the packing
house business recognizes * more than
thirty animal products which are used as
medicine for human beings. If ther# were
no other reason for the careful veterinary
Inspection required under the meat in-
spection law to insure healthy meat prod-
ucts. the guaranteeing that these thirty
remedies are pure would be sufficient
reason for the maintenance of this in-
spection. How much we are exposed to
danger of the communication of animal
diseases to human beings through these
remedies is shown by the case of supra-
rcualin It requires the suprarenal glands
of 100,000 sheep to make a single pound
of suprarenale. If any one of these sheep
was suffering from a contagious disease it
might be spread to thousands of patients
upon which that pound of suprarenale
is used. This preparation is used in
connection with delicate surgical opera-
tions for stopping tlm flow of blood, and
costs more than $5000 a pound.
The veterinarians have no patience with
the well-meaning people who would put
a stop to vivisection and other forms of
.animal experimentation. They, along with
all other medical men, agree that the
greatest triumphs of medical science came
about through animal experimentation.
They tell us that all our knowledge about
the regenerative growth of tissues, the
union of fractured bones, the Activities
and functions of the various organs of tne
body—a thousand things essential to
"Buy
»ur gr
UMKLY TEXAS TOPICS.
nn Is coming In at a rapid rate,'
he Eastland Chronicle.
or is r*stly," Fays the Amarillo
Ki!^ Well, then, don't vapor.
n drinking cup and keep it in
lii " savs the Tyler Courier-Times.
DOTTIE DIALOGUES
Preserved Pleasantries and the
Trunk Jam.
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"The dry weather has no terrors, for
the irrigation farmer," says the Ilrowns-
ville Herald.
that the fruit is canned and the
jetty made, we come to the trunk
j jam," announced Dottle, as we peered
rises to assert taut |into the baggage room.
Coleman New.. -
the dry weather which has affected thej Heavens preserve us! I shuddered,
greater part of Texas this year is not . "Well, at any rate. I trust you won't be
troubling Coleman. pickled," she observed.
The Gainesville Register thinks the . "Ob, call me a quince and be done with
Chicago minister who left the ministry j prowled.
for (he stage prefers the. footlights to, „oh m ,,m quinces," sha
tho political spotlight. objected.
"What the mischief is Governor Tom j "AH the more reiison," I urged.
trying to do anyway," asks the San Saba ! it good to be back in town again?"
she queried, shlftlug the subject. "If only
j everybody else hadn't decided to coma
"Some of our legislators are thinking | hack at the same time."
of taking up permanent headquarters in
Austin," says the Weathcrford Herald, .
And some of them are thinking they'd ""sat Ui
Star. Tho San Saba Star Is referred tor j
information to Governor Tom.
"It was thoughtless of everybody elsft,
I agreed. "Even If their va-
llke to get home.
"We wonder what the papers -will write
about when all that hot^ air down at
cations did end last week, they might have
been a little more considerate of you and
have come home a week earlier on their
, own time or stayed a couple of weeks
Austin ceases to be," says the Mason j longer and Inst their Jobs, You should
County Star. Well, it will not have to | speak severely to them."
try hard to be something just as inter- | "I'm most anxious to speak severely to
eating. 'he baggageman—or, anyway, to speak to
him," she replied. "I can't see my trunk
"How long will It ba until the people | anywhere. Isn't there a regular mountain
of the United States have wireless poli- of tliein'i"
tire?" asks the Boerno Star. Having] "Very rocky mountain, I'd say," I ven-
tured. "Maybe if you had a letter of in-
troduction to the baggageman he might
acceilerate the progress of your trunk t<>
the platform, if the Insurgents Insist on
"When a man bumps Ills bead against | a progressive platform, you should Insist
his wife's air castles every time lie
thousht of a bright question like that the
ltoerne Star is cordially Invited to an-
swer it.
and the (IreeUs. The possibility of the I medical progress—have come about
to sanitation
of the city. In EnglandT the matter of
death certificates was called to the at-
tention of the authorities by the fact
that fraudulent, indefinite death cer-
tificates have been presented by phy-
sicians who had committed murder or
been accessories to the crime.
The discussion of the situation in
England recently brought forth from
George Bernard Shaw, the playwright,
who has quite a large collection of pe-
culiar ideas, a characteristic and hu-
morous letter to the editor of the Pall
Mall Gazette. The letter follows:
It Is Inexcusable carelessness to get
hanged at present. A brief study
"Most women are heroes," says the
Ohio State Journal. Wonder what the
Journal wants.
Dispatch from Houston says "Car-
men will stay out." Well, then let's
have "Aida."
intertransmlssion of disease between ani-
mal ami man was suggested first by
Vegetius Kenatus, about the time of the
dawning of the Christian era, and al-
though he possessed none of the equip-
ment which nas enabled modern medical
men to study the relation bf animal life
and disease, he discussed the matter
with a thoroughness and an intelligence
that has made his name a landmark iu
the history of human and veterinary
medicine.
in many parts of Europe and in some
of tue important cities of the United
States hospitals for animals are main-
tained. At the London Zoo there is an
infirmary for the treatment of the deni-
zens of that institution. Lions and tigers
are treated like cats, while wolves,
hyenas and bears are treated as if they
were overgrown dogs. The rhinoceros
responds to the kind of treatment ac-
corded the horse, while the hippopotamus
is found to demand such therapeutic care
as is given to tlx1 pig. ^
fcjome veterinary surgeons are paid high-
ly for their services. One or these is
Alfred Sewell, canine surgeon to the King
of England. He wears the regalia which
shows that he holds a position of no small
rank in the royal household, and often
goes to St. Petersburg and iterlin to
prescribe for the pets of the Czar and
the Kaiser, lie is a great believer in the
rest cure for pets, and often prescribes
a trip to Southern Europe for the dogs
and cat! of royalty. On these trips the
royal pets are accompanied by their reti-
nue of attendants to make sure that all
goes well with their charges.
It is said that there is a pet cat known
through experiments performed on anl
mals. Above this it has served more than
anything else to lift the dark cloud that
formerly obscured all matters of infec-
tious disease, and has burst the bonds of
thrnlldom In which the human race has
been held «Ly such diseases.
The agricultural colleges of the coun-
try nearly all have provided courses in
the care of live .stock, in which are
taught tho fundamental principles of
veterinary medicine. The students who
tako these courses are, of course, not well
enough equipped in veterinary science to
become registered practitioners, hut are
taught enough to euable them to take
all the precautions of preventive medi-
cine, and at the same time to treat the
thousand and one small ailments to which
animal life is heir.
There was much superstition connected
with live stock diseases in years gone by.
Some thought that the poor, rundown con-
dition of certain cattle in the farmyard
was ilue to hollow horn, and a system of
treatment, was resorted to. In many cases
tuberculosis was the real ailment. Hollow
tail was another disease which the pro-
vincial attributed to certain of his cattle.
Tho majority of thin, raw-boned animals
are In that condition either from the
ravages of tuberculosis or else from the
lack of attention, and hollow horn and
ludlow tail are now believed to have been
little more than euphonious excuses for
empty stomachs or decayed lungs.
Tomorrow i
Contest,
International Swimming
To Daphne's Foot.
Fair Daphne's foot's a dainty tiling.
Llko those the poets used to sing.
Ro small, indeed, you'd hardly dream
It had sufficient breath of beam
To bear the weight, however slight,
'Twas made to carry, day and night.
A "blarsted Britisher" swiped all the
prizes on the first day of the Boston-
Harvard aviation meet. Up to that
time the Briton was behind the French-
man and the American and only a short
time ago the English press was com-
plaining that the British were not
showing up creditably in the aviation
contests. Now this man Graham
White of England romps over all the
field and takes the whole bakery. Bully
for our English cousins.
f our
system of death certification will enable
niiy intelligent person to commit such mur-
ders us he (or she) may desire with im-
punity and with perfect consideration for
the feelings of the relatives and the credit
of his (or her) own fntnily. Probably most
of the deaths now occurring are, if not
murders, at least deaths In which nature
is assisted. At all events, nobody can
prove the contrary.
The public does not acquire an inside
knowledge of cemeteries until it dies and
is buried. If it did Interment would be
prohibited bv law within a month of the
discovery, "the objection to burial is not
that people are occasionally burled alive;
on the eontrary, buried people are quite
unobjectionable whilst they survive. It is
dead bodies that matter. How much they
matter can only be grasped by those who
know something of the real working of a
graveyard. Our attachment, to the practice
of Interment is not sentiment or respect
for the dead, but superstition, stupidity,
and slavery to the wrong sort of imagina-
tion- the imagination that conceives unseen j "J""11 an'unthinking wiggles it I
things ss they are not and cannot be as Ana' "" '"umnKln>" wiggles it.
distinguished from the imagination that I —John Kendrlck Bangs in l\rk
sees things as they are and must be.
Roosevelt says his traveling ex-
penses are paid by the Outlook, and
the noisy citizen in the aged derhy hat
who was subsequently thrown out says
Roosevelt's traveling expenses are paid
bv the people of the United States.
This might be construed as a veiled
compliment to the circulation of tho
Outlook.
When out upon the ball-room floor
You see it tripping gaily o'er
The polished surface in the dance,
You wonder greatly if perchance
The elfin fairies of the moon
Have not prepared her dancing shoon.
When o'er the cold, bleak pave it g s,
'Mid hustling throngs and drifting ows,
You stand aghast that such a rare
And fragile thing should venture fiere,
And as it nears the crossing's edge
You tremble at such sacrilege.
But Oh that foot! What have 1 said,—
What thoughts unspeakable and drrad,—
When to the opera 4'm inclined,
And Daphne, sitting just behind,
Inserts her toe 'neath where 1 sit
HUNTING FIREFLIES
The announcement that Mme.
Skledowska Curie has discovered pure
radium should occasion no jealousy
among other scientists. Anyone af-
flicted with a name like that is entitled
to compensation.
A contemporary "views with alarm"
the threatened danger to the keystone
of the arch in our system of govern-
ment and the tumbling of the whole
structure because there has been some
criticism of the recent decisions of
the Federal Supreme Court. And yet
the decisons referred to were not unan
The report on the state of King Men-
elik's health yesterday should serve
to remind a certain citizen of Oyster
Bav that there is a tendency to let In-
terest slip from events on the rear
platform.
Governor Hay of Washington and
Governor Stubbs of Kansas don't
imous. Somebody on the bench must seem to agree on the Ballinger prop-
have been in error.
When a Wright aeroplane arose
from the ground in a space of sixty
feet it was thought to have done some-
thing notable. At the Harvard-Boston
osition, even though they both have
names which smack of the new-mown
fields.
James J. Hill's figures on American
, exports inspired the paragraphers'
meet a monoplane got off the ground j union to plant a few lima beans in the
in a space of a little more than ten ] back yard.
feet.
| Anyway, San Antonio finally climbed
When a man is caught "forging; out of fourth place, and there's some
ahead" is he amenable under the law ?i| consolation in that.
V
A Japanese Expert Can Sometimes
Catch 3001) in a Night.
In Japan fireflies are an adjunct to all
grades of social festivity from the i ivate
garden parties of nobles to nn evening at
a cheap tea garden. Hometimes the are
kept caged, sometimes released in swarms
in the presence of guests. To supply this
demand, there are a number of firms in
Japan employing men to catch the fir,'files.
At sunset the firefly hunter starts forth
with n long bamboo pole and a b g of
mosquito netting. On reaching n suit-
able growth of willows near waier be
makes ready his net and strikes the
branches twinkliug with the insects with
his pole. This Jars them to the ground,
where they are easily gathered up.
But this must be done very rapidly be-
fore tliey recover themselves en ,nnh to
fly. So the skilled catcher, sparing no
time to put them at once into the bag,
uses both hands to pick them up and
tosses them lightly into his apron, where
he holds them nnnarmed till ne can hold
no more, and only then does he transfer
them to the bag.
His work laBts till about 2 o'clock In
the morning, when the insects leuve the
trees for the dewy soil. He then 'lunges
his method. He brushes the surface of
the ground wdth a light broom to startle
the Insects into light, then he gathers
them as before. An expert has been known
to gather three thousand in one night.
resides being a business, firefly catch-
ing Is a sport In Japan. Little girls pursue
the Insects with their fans, boys with
wands to which a wisp of yarn is fast-
ened, and they stng an old folk rhyms as
they follow the glistening Insects. Nor do
their elders disdain to Join the sport. They
rvganlze festival parties to visit certain
spots long known and famous to witness
the beautiful spectacle of the fireflies
•warming.—Harper's Weekly.
NEW DISEASE APPEARS
.Malady, Common in Russia, Ends in
Idiocy and Blindness.
Suffering from gangrenous ergotism, one
of the rarest of diseases, Catherine and
.Teannette Florence are in tho J. Hood
Wright Hospital; Joseph Florence, their
father; Mrs. Itnse Florence, their mother,
and Joseph Florence Jr., their brother, are
being treated daily at the despensary of
the hospital for poisoning of the same
nature.
Both feet and the left ear of Catherine,
who is 22 yenrs old, have turned black
from the tnint.. The right foot of Jean-
nette, who is 1R, has been dangerously in-
fected, and the mother's right index fin-
ger. the tofs of the father's right foot,
and the same members of the sou all
show the presence of the virus.
The lnfnction came to the family through
their fondness for rye bread. They have
eaten it. constantly for years, but it month
ago they quit because they bread they
were getting did not taste just right, it
was this fact that gave Dr. J. K. McOlu-
nis, the house surgeon of the hospital, tlie
first clue to tho nature of their affliction.
Damp rye, when ground into flour often
forms ergot, and when Dr. McOinnis
learned that the Florences had taken to
wheat bread because there seemed to be
something wrong with the rye bread they
were getting be bellved that he was mi the
right trail. Reference to a few text™!roni
Germany, where the poisoning is compara-
tively well known, convinced Dr. McGinnis
that be was right and he took steps ac-
cordingly.
The two girls appeared for treatment at
thfl dispensary n week ago yesterday. At
their visit, Dr. Lucas, who was In charge,
advised them to enter the hospital, They
went at once, but the poison had nlreay
come to the surface, and It wos only by
the use of heroic measures that amputation
was avoided. The necessity of it may arise
' THE BIBLE IN AFRICA
Missionaries Are at Work Making
Dialect Grammars.
Itev, II. Cecil Nutter, who left London
on Saturday on a return visit to Central
Africa, spent ten years In mastering the
Bemba language,
What the Bemba language, or dialect,
really Is few people know. It is a non-lit-
erary language, he explained to ono of
our representatives, and hitherto it has
been entirety colloquial. It becomes, thfcre-
fore, tho singular privilege of the mis-
sionaries employed In the district to Im-
provise a sort of grammar and teach the
natives how to read in their own lan-
guage.
Mr, Nutter is a Congregational minister,
employed by the London Missionary So-
ciety, and for the past ten years has had
charge of the Important station at Mber-
shei, a little town on the northeastern
frontier of lthodesla. Six months ugo he
Came to England on a holiday, and yes-
terday, as his trunks were lenvlng his
home at Winehmore Hill he revised the
last proofs of his translation of St. John's
epistles in the Bemba language, pre-
viously Mr. Nutter hud translated St.
Mark's Gospel and written stories from
the Obi Testament in the- 6time tongue.
According to Mr. Nutter, the missionary
movement is making great headway in
Central Africa, and his task, thanks to
the friendly co-operatlou of the natives,
was not a difficult, one. Those who have
had experience of the native dialects know
that In some of them there Is very little
grammatical structure. In colloquial
Malay, for instance, this Is very notice-
able—tho reference is to the .Malay now
spoken In the neighborhoods df Sumatra,
Java and Singapore, rind not to tho higher
class languages spoken in the Northern
Malay States. Mr. Nutter's difficulty has
been In Inventing the grammar to fit his
work. Iu England we have three genders;
tries to rise it Is a sign that he Is already
as high in the world as she wants him
to be," says the Stockdale Times. When
a man is as high in the world as liis
wife wants him to be he Is what the boys
call "some high."
There is something eminently fit and
proper about the Juxtaposition of the twro
following: paragraphs in the Moulton
Eaglet
"Moultnn should have an energetic
commercial club.
"It Is a pity Moulton cannot boast of
an efficient system of waterworks."
After declaring that Governor Camp-
bell was opposed to the whole plan of
penitentiary investigation the Marlin
Democrat says: "On the other hand, O.
B. colquitt denounced the abuses of tho
•y*tem throughout the campaign and
promised to removo It from executive
politics. Whatever reformation is to
come, must come under Colquitt's ad-
ministration, and he can ba expected to
make good."
Tho Lampasas lflado says there is
something resembling Insurgency In
Texas: "Talk about Republican 'Insur-
gency'—-if there is not an insurgent row
a brewln' In the Pemocratlo party in
this State we fail to correctly read the
■sings o fthe times. The Balleycrats are
not going to let things llko tho Helton
platform go by unnoticed, and it is safe
to say that the fur will fly in every
direction after a while."
Tho Ganado Independent thinks cotton
Is now a better crop than corn: "The
prices now being paid for cotton should
Induce a great many people, small farm-
ers and reutorR, to do considerably more
along that line another year. There is
every reason lo believe that tho prevail-
ing high prices for cotton will continue
anil that the niau who has a few bales
of the staple for sale will receive consider-
ably more for it than he could hppe to
get for the corn off the same acreage."
This Is the situation as the Coleman
Democrat-Voice sees It; no, not sees it,
enunciates it: "What Is the use of vot-
ing a town dry If the peddlers are to
be allowed to use the trains as a straw
to defeat tho Intentions of the laws,
With an agent in Coleman and a booze
Joint in Ballinger and tho express com-
pany making the trip twice a day is
much like taking a drink out of a barrel
with a straw. It Just takes a little long-
er to get drunk, but when you do it's
one that stays with you."
Says the Bedlnnd Herald: "The cost of
a race for Governor of Texas is growing
apace with the development of tho State,
until It has about reached a point where
the man of moderate moans or strict in-
tegrity need not ever expect to enjoy the
honor of being Governor of his State—
unless the people arouse to n sense of fair-
ness and Justice, and despite the influence
of the hurrah campaign cast their votes
for the man. There are good men and
plenty of them who are capable and hon-
est, that honest that, they will not cater
to t.he interests which often contribute to
campaign expenses."
Says the Beaumont Enterprise; "It
would seem that this section Is being
overlooked in the mutter* of its adaptabil-
ity for the establishment of chemical labo-
ratories on a large scale. In addition to
tho sulphur and rock salt, both of which
are mined here and luken elsewhere for
manufacture, and both of which are ex-
tensively imported from Europe at pres-
ent, there are many other chemical compo-
sitions existent here that would prove
profitable to work. Among other things
there are aluminum clays, bauxite and
various ores that are reduced for the
on a progressive trunk on it."
"Do you know, I've always wondered
why they speak of some railroads as trunk
lines—does that mean that on the other
... „ __ . France, nn the otherjiand, has only two;
vet but the surgeons are hopeful that, but the more or los#enlightened inhahl
' . 1 .... . J— il (ntlfl- r.t
they began their treatment in time.
The other members of the family were
not so seriously affected as the two girls
were, but they are being treated dally, and
It will be some time before they can he
declared out of danger. A report of the
extraordinary onso has been made to the
Board of Hnlth, and nn official Inquiry is
being made Into the source of the flour
from which the bread that poisoned the
Florences was manufactured.
This is said to be the first apeparnnce of
ergotism In America. It is somewhat com-
mon iu countries where rye break is staple
and has been studied closely enough to
determine its nature and its consequents.
The famine of three years ago in Russia
had its horrors heightened by the appear-
and of ergotism, and in three of the Black
Soa provinces no less than one-tenth of
the population was permanently (Msabled
by its ravages.
Ordinarily it. causes a permanent con-
traction of the lltnbs, which is followed by
blindness and idiocy.—New York ITerald
Self-evident.
Jerome S. McWade, the Duluth million-
aire. said at nn open-air luncheon at hll
farm near Blwablk:
"The last time I had my house filled
with slum urehins it rained cats and dogs
for a week. It was a dreadful disappoint-
ment for my visitors.
"One rainy morning I heard a little
chap say to his sister, as he flattened
his nose against the pane and looked out
disconsolately at the drenched green
country-side:
"'It don't ever rain in heaven, does it,
May?"
"'In course tt does, ye little chnmp!"
the girl replied. 'That's where It's all
a-comln' from, ain't It?' "—St. Louii
Globe-Democrat.
tants of M"bershoi boast of nine.
Mr. Nutter ts a typical specimen of
the athletic Englishman, and makes no
boast nf his work. "When I went out to
Rhodesia," he said, "I was straight from
school, with a natural fondness for for-
eign languages. You may call It a gift if
yon llko, but anyhow, the Bemba tongue
came easily to mo, and to put. It In print
was a pleasure more than a task. I shall
be back among my people in a frw weeks'
time, and. as n proof of my confidence In
them, am taking my wife and little 3-
year-old daughter."
Mr. Nutter's translations will be pub-
lished In book form by the British and
Foreign Bible Society.-London Standard.
Misunderstood Genius.
Mlscha Elman, the boy violinist told, on
his hist visit to New York, a story of his
early childhood.
"When I was very small indeed," he
said, "I played at a reception at a Rus-
sian prince's, and, for an urchin of
seven, I flatter myself I rattled off Bee-
thoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata' finely. Tills
sonata, you know, has In it several long
nnd Impressive rests. Well, In one of
theses rests a .motherly old lady leaned
forward, pntted my shoulder and said:
"'Play something you know, dear.'
Washington Star.
——-—-cv
As Usual.
Vncatlon days
To autumn haze
Are rapidly declining.
We're feeling blue,
For not a sou
ll now our pockets lining.
production of chemicals that are used in
the sciences."
Hero tire a few pertinent remarks from
the Veslaco World:
"And how many of the 8640 convicts
has the Christian State of Texas put
In the way of reclamation during the
year that their labor has been piling
up $1,000,000 in profits for Texas? And
while Texas Is profiting $1,000,000 from
tho sweat and labor of its convicts,
what nro the wlfes and children or
other dependents of the convicts doing?
Is Texas making any real progress in
penology—save the progress that ts meas-
ured by dollars?
"There ate things more important
than 'making the penitentiary pay.' "
Nothing strikes the state press as more
amusing than unequal values of land
of the same producing ability In this
State. Note this from the Redhand Her-
ald: "Farm lands recently sold in Bell
County for $128 per acre. In Ellis Bell
and Williamson farms have frequently
sold In tho past six years for upwards of
$100 per aero. In Nacogdoches County
$30 land will make as much corn and
cotton, and more truck and vegetables
per acre. Besides that, If the best land
In Central Texas that will average two-
thirds of a bale of cotton and thirty
bushels of corn Is worth $125 per acre,
how much Is Nacogdoches land worth
which nets $150 to $200 per aero in to-
bacco?"
FORTY YEARS AGO~TODAY.
(San Antonio Dally Express, Sept. 7, 1870.)
Julius Hoyer, who has been ill for
several weeks from a Severe carbuncle ii
(.onvalesoent.
BAGGAGE.
kind one can only carry a suit case?" she
asked. "Oh, here comes the baggage mas-
ter—I'm going to Btnlle at him and maybe
he will approach."
"Don't smile. You may foozle his ap-
proach," I warned.
Too late. She was already talking with
the man in overalls and cap.
"And I've bet^i in town four days now
and the transfer utnu says he just can't
get at anything tiere until you come to It
because there nre so many trunks plied In
here all at the same time, and I thought
perhaps if I explained to you how neces-
sary"—she rattled on.
"Well, ,1 read that Mme. Melha"—h«
began, wtien she interrupted him.
"How dare you mention that to b lndyt
It's nothing like that at all!"
"Oh. 1 sec, l'ajamaa"
"You dQ nothing of the sort!" she
snapped. "I'll tjil yton, to end any further
guesswork oh your part"
"Oh, the company pays for any kind of
work," ho interposed, flippantly.
"A very revered relative presented me
with a very atrocious necklace which I
wrote her I wore constantly. It Is at the
bottom of my trunk and tills relative of
mine, who is also wealthy, is going to ar-
rive here tonight to dine with us and I
positively must have It or lose her es-
teem," she explained. "My trunk 1b a
large Saratoga trunk, leather handles at
each end, yon know, and the top Is sort of
disfigured where the Inst man knocked a
couple of chips of varnish off."
"Ah, Saratoga chips, eh?" responded the
baggageman genially. "Why, havo a look
nt that avalanche! 1 can't get to your bag-
gage any faster than it is dug out."
"Couldn't you be slipped?" I inquired,
getting an inspiration.
"Madam, take your husband away,"
said the smasher, addressing her. "I
could make a fortune taking all the mon»y
pushed my way for trying to do the Im-
possible, but the company pays liberally
to do what's possible. There's the whistle;
lunch time, and I can't louf on my own
time, you know."
After he had toddled away she glanced
around tho immediate vicinity.
"What are you looking for?" I inters
rogated.
"For the husband he mentioned," she
giggled.
"Look no further, I cried, gleefully.
(Copyright, 1910, hy the Now York Even-
ing Telegram—New York Herald Com-
pany, All rights reserved.)
THE ONLOOKER.
Shortage reported In the sauer kraiit
crop. Cheer up. The welnerwurst Is yet
to come.
Woman author threatens to sue pub-
lisher for crediting her with the transla>
tion of spicy stories. Um! Supposo we'll
have to buy tho book now.
Judge rules that use of -woman's stock-
ing as a bank is not unlawful. Deposits
will now pick up again, another proot
that tho country Is prosperous.
Waiting for another of those spirit mes-
sages down Roston way. Might try the
new night letter rate Idea and see it
that's any inducement for 'cm to put a
few lines nn the wire.
Marksmanship In the army Improved
by use of spectacles now reported from
recent tents. Quite so. Knew long time
ago the enemy could be hit in tho liack
by a man wearing glasses.
Newport society women to give dance
In aid of chauffeurs, Retween charity
and dodging to get out of those fellows'
way they keep us dancing most of tha
time, Have they no mercy?
Olad to know our Supreme Court judges
are honest, even If they are unfortunate
enough to have "fosslilzed minds," ac-
cording to Colonel Roosevelt. Toss up
which la worse, that or a perpetual brain-
storm.
Preacher bar3tJils church to wearers ot
the hobble skirt und soys such women
ought to be spanked. Looks like another
case of poor judgment. With their feet
tied they'd be pretty sure to sit through
tho sermon.
The Tyler Index hoists the full Re-
publican ticket, suggesting the names of
A. Bledsoe for Treasurer arid f, ;neral
Italns for Comptroller.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Imperial of Madrid says the chances
of tho Duke of Genoa are best for the
throne of Spain, and urges that the
Cortes fix his majority at lti years of age.
It is proposed to put Commerce Street,
from Main Plaza to the foot of the hill
east of tho river, in good condition. The
street as now contemplated will he
properly graded and macadamized with
hard stono and gravel and rolled firm,
so that no mud or dust will hereafter af-
flict our people who do business thereon.
There's a Reason.
Vacation days are over,
And working days are hero;
That's why thsv're melancholy,
"i'lie saddest 'of the year."
Pougilkeepslo husband says ills wife,
who ts siting for divorce, gof peevish
through dyspesia caused by eating too
much cake and candy at bedtime. Case
of too many sweets souring an otherwise
loving disposition.^,
California wouldn't send for a natty*
son languishing In the N»w York Tombs,
deciding they needed tho money more
than another bird In their Jail. Thanks.
Try to do as much for you next time.
Bet you'd send for him In a hurry if the
census hadn't been taken.
With a few resounding whacks on his
drum, the drummer of the Marshfiold
(Mo.) silver cornet band, started tlia
Presidential boom of Sunny Jim flher-
man on Its way, according to the press
dispatches. Neglected to say which way,
in case wo want to dodge.
Coney's lid nailed down tight and the
ohorus girls and short change artists
sliding over the edge Is tho latest attrac-
tion advertised to draw the crowds to the
people's playground. Hurry up and hurrv
down before the season ends or you'll
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