Liberty, 40 Years Old, Is Washed
[ of conditions - and half a mile of salt
j water- lietween Amoy and Its foreign
settlement. This Is on Ko-long su. a
smnll Island which Iles between Amoy
and th» mainland. With Its consu
late» and residences built among shady
groves, Its‘schools, hospitals, churches
and hotels, anil above all with Its san
itation along western lines, this little
oasis. Is known us ‘the Paradise of
South China.’
Open Door for Emigrants.
"Amoy Is n great gateway tor coolie
| emigration, especially to Singapore and
: East Indies. About 75,ft»W natives em-
| i^nrk nt Amoy euch year, and only a
■mall part of this number returns.
Nearly every family In Amoy has one
or more members abroad, and, since
th» decline of the port's trade, eco
i noinic disaster 1» staved off largely
i by the reiqiUsnc«« »»nt home by these
I «-spatriate». ’Md» 'tribute' to Amoy
amounts to more than »IJ/ssVASi an
i nually.
“The largest and deepest druft ves-
| sel» In the World can be necommodated
enslly in Amoy'a comtnodlou» barbor.
i ilocauAe of It» excellent liarbor fuclll-
i île». Amoy wa» aelrcted by the Chl-
nese government In 11«H ns the port
ut which to recelvs »nd fete u section
of the Culled States fleet then Wf
on Its
famous trip around the world.
Society Woman Quits
League; Killed Her Pet
Miss Liberty," who has graced new
arrlved from France, celebrated her
fortieth birthday on June lit. In prep-
s rut Ion for her birthday the authori
ties hud John Beck, daredevil steeple-
Amoy Known as
Great Tea Port
Trade Hard Hit When Ja
pan Grabbed Formosa.
Washington.—"Amoy, China, one of
e ports nt which the presence
forelgners, Ima a place In thè hlstory
of thè American Revolution, nltbough
few Americana know It," sny» u bui
letln from thè Washington head-
quartetti of thè National Geographlc
society. "It was from Amoy. then
thè World'» premier tea pori, that thè
ship sailed In 1773 which figured some
months Inter In the famous ’Boston
Tea Party.'
"Amoy was one of the earliest Chi-
lune contracts with «be
Port u .ues«« est ahllshed
West.
them selves there In UH I. but were ex
pelled before long. The British then
begun operations Iti Amo* and con
tinued trading through that port ex
clusively until 1730 when they were
anton.
ordered to chiinr
long time Amoy wn« the world's lead
ing port In ten exportation, but for n
century this trad ' hn» been declining.
Lost of Formen Great Blow.
"The greatest blow to Amoy trade
came In 1SIH when Formosa, Just off
Chinese coast from Amoy. was
taken from Chinn by Japan. Por-
mosan tea nnd other products limi
reached tlie world through Amoy
Since Japan took over the big Island
developed
Its own ports hav
nnd trade worth millions of dollars
annually has been lost to Amoy.
"Amoy Is still a big city, however,
with a population of about loO.tsw.
And nothing can take from It the* dis
Unction of having one of the best har
bors on the Pacific. Like Hongkong,
the town Is situated on an island—
Amoy Island, which has n circumfer
ence of 35 miles
The nearest pen
insula <>f the mainland Is three miles
away. The arms of the Island and
mnlnlund inclose n large hay.
Whose mountainous shores nnd Islets
make this laxly of water one of the
picturesque spots of the Chinese count,
outside Amoy Islam) a string of Is-
Tough Steak a Myth?
Test» So Indicate
Washington. Meat eaters who
have gained the Impression that
some of the beef put before them
Is more suitable for the manu
facture of automobile tires than
It is for human consumption ap-
patently have been misled by
theh own temperaments.
They were disillusioned by bu-
renn of standards experts who
lui ve Just compieteli tests re
quested by the Department of
Agriculture
determine Just
how tough beef cm, be so stand
ards might lie fixed on the basis
of resistance to mastication.
I’slng machines designed for
measuring resistance of tlbers to
various stresses, the experts
found even the toughest piece of
ment supplied by the depart-
ment too delicate to have any
valuable Indication of strength
sufficient for use except as a tn-
With this much
L. Whlttmore,
established.
head of Hie bureau’s mechanienl
section, said that the tusk of
fixing standard toughness for
beef would lie continued with
more delicate machinery than
Ims hitherto been utilized.
stretching north nnd south,
forms an excellent natural breakwater
which adds to the value of Amoy's
great, deep harbor.
“The native city of Amoy has two
parts; the old and new cities, divided
by n low rance of hills lopped by old
baltlcments. The site of both la II
self the steep slope of a larger hill
which rises to barren, liowlder-capped
summits behind the town. The streets
are narrow, steep affairs In which no
vehicles hut sedan chairs cun be used.
Even the grandiloquently named 'Chu
anchow Highway' Is little more than
a footpath over which an occasional
donkey picks bis way.
“Amoy |s popularly accorded a
world's record, but ft la not one to be
shouted about by proud citizens. Many
travelers who have seen the unspeak
able filth nnd smelled the Indescrib
able odors of certain oriental centers,
assert that In dirtiness nnd Insanitary
conditions Amoy is the Abou I mui Ad-
betn of eitles. Because of this situ
ation Amoy Is frequently visited by
cholera and plngue.
"There Is a great gulf In the matter
Washington.—Mra. Frances 11. C.
Burnett, poet »nd social leader, had
n dog culled Tinker Bell; but Tinker
Bell 1» no more.
The d<>g wns captured by the dog
snatchers of the Anlmul Rescue league,
of which Mrs. Burnett was a manager,
nnd killed. Now the society women
behind that humane Institution are at
war over poor Tinker Bell.
The District of Columbia has three
rival dog snatching Institutions. The
league Is run by prominent women of
various society groups. Its avowed
purpose Is to save cats and dog» from
brutal treatment ut tbe hand» of police
officers an<i other».
No wandering dog 1» safe In Wash
ington with three energetic groups
after them. Many good ones dlsappet-r
annually and go the ga» route to the
great dog beyond.
Until a few days ngo Mrs. Burnett
was a member of the board of gov
ernors of the rescue league, but quit
cold when she discovered that Tinker
Bell had been seized and gassed to
death all within u few hours. She
refused to remain on the board of au
organization that made such quick
work of a lost dog.
Forgers Find England
Harsh to Their Trade
Loudon.—Scotland Yard officials say
offenses for forging money are on the
decline, owing largely to the difficul
ties of copying the Bank of England
notes.
Scotland Yard has a branch, similar
to the I nited States secret service
which devotes Its time almost' entirely
to keeping tab on counterfeiters. De
tectives of this bureau work with the
aid of dealers In paper, ink, machinery
and other apparatus usually required
by counterfeiters, nnd in most In
stnnces swoop down on the offender?
before they have had a chance to mar
ket their homemade money.
ment whether the combined malaria
Hospitals Report Success nnd
drug treatment I* !letter than the
simple inn la ria treatment.
of New Treatment.
'•paresis accounts for a tremendous
New York.—Thirty patients regard lot of Insanity and a very great num
ed as hopelessly Insane are "back at ber of deaths each year." says a 1-ong
work and leading normal lives after Island College hospital physician, "so
being artificially Inoculated with ma that the success of thia treatment
laria. allowed to suffer chills and fe Is a thing of the utmost Importance to
ver for two weeks or so and then the world Paresis usually s*-ts in at
treated with drugs, according to an middle age with symptoms wlilcb are
recognize. We suspect ’ it
unnouncemeftl by the lx;ng Island hard
when marked queerness of behavior
College hfppJtal.
The 80 patients belonged to a group I develops at middle age in a man who
of lift su; i-rers from paresis who have ! has theretofore been normal. A typ-
received the malaria .and drug treat- ; leal picture of the disease is that of
inent at the Long Island College hos i un Industrious, consei atlve man who
pital. Of the 80 who have not recov ' stands well In every way, but who sud-
ered suffi<P-ntly to return to work, ' denly forgets careful business habits
several hu» - shown marked benefit. ' and begins to Invest In wildcat stocks,
Home of the patients failed to respond ! to dissipate and go to pieces generally.
to the treatment. The percentage of : The disease Is always the result of a
successes, however, Is considered re- long-standing condition, but many pa-
markable because of the fact that , tlents appear to be absolutely Ignorant
paresis was regarded as Incurable up of the fact that such a condition had
to the time that the malaria treatment ever existed. Various remedies have
was discovered in Austria. St. Ells- ; been tested heretofore, but the di»-
ats-th's hospital In Washington. D. C-. I ease has previously been quite hope-
the largest hospital In the world for less to treat.
"Just what the effect of the malaria
mentid cases; the tifate Hospital for
the Insane on Ward's Island and tbe : may be la not understood, but It seems
Brooklyn State Hospital for the In | to prepare the central nervous system
sane have Iteen employing the malaria In some w-ay for the beneficial action
treatment with results equal to those of the drugs. Tlie drugs fall to pro
achieved at Ix>ng Island College hos duce benefit unless the patient Is pre-
pared for them by the malarial treat-
pital.
The treatment was worked out by tuent."
Dr. George H. KIYby, who Introduced
Doctors Wagner von Jauregg of the
Psychiatric Institute of Vienna and J the malaria treatment Into the State
Kyle of the University of Vienna dur Hospital for the Insane at Ward's ls-
ing the war. The experimentation was land, said that the malaria treatment
started to test the truth of reports was continuing there with gratifying
whlcb bad been frequently made of results, and that some patients who
sudden and remarkable Improvement had been treated as long as two years
by sufferers from paresis after they ago with malaria nnd returned to their
bad had attacks of malaria. A num normal occupations were still at work
ber of paresis patients were dellber- and showed no signs of the recur-
ately Inoculated with malaria. Some rence of the disease.
died, some remained unbenefited, oth
Of Great Importance.
ers were helped to some extent and
"About 15 per cent of the admis
still others were so Improved that sions to the insane hospitals are due
they were able to leave the hospital
and return to their old occupations.
Show Improvement.
Patients treated at the State hos
pital at Ward’s Island showed marked
Improvement on treatment with ma-
Inrfa only, bnt drug treatment by mer-
eurlal and arsenical compounds also
was used at Long Island College hos-
pltal. There Is some difference of
opinion among students of this treat-
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Genesis 50,000 B. C.
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mankind 50.000 years ego were
the subject of a discourse by
Professor Bern of Bonn univer-
slty nt the congress of German
philologists.
About 20.000 B. O. the art of
the glacial period began to flour-
Ish In Europe, said the speaker
This art, he asserted, had Its ori
gin somewhere around 50,000 B.
C. He claims it has been fairly
well established that 40,000 B.
C., or thereabouts, the Neander-
• ■ thal beings were superseded by
a race resembling that of the
present day.
This race had a well-defined
cult of the dead. These early
progenitors of our present race ..
firmly believed in an existence ';
after death. It has been clearly - -
proved that they feared the ‘;
dead, as their limbs frequently • •
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were broken before burial to
fish began to move landwnrd In re
prevent them from harming the • ■
sponse to the more attractive subma
living, according to the speaker. “
rine dime.
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H'l l it
Forecast by Fish
Delights Bathers
Warm-Water Year.
30 Insane Paretics ì
Cured by Malaria
Opposite Condition Last Year.
Veteran fishermen
York.
Last year It was Just the opposite.
cheer sen bathers this season with । fishermen recall. The gulf stream, ac
word that this Is apparently to be a cording to their theory, did not mix
Inshore.
w arm-water’
sufficiently with the Greenland water
Tile rate ut which cold water mack
The result was that mackerel abound
erel have been passing this coast with ed In local fishing grounds all sum
out nmklng the usual stop and' warm-
mer, something never known before.
water bluefish hnve been Hocking in Bluefish nnd weaktish were common
the
basis
for
the
fore-
Is advanced ns
surntely scarce, and were only to be
cast.
found. In fact, well out at sea.
The ocean’s present heated fringe
The gulf stream explanation of the
along the coast, us Indicated by the
periodic disappearances of various va
predilection of these finny weather [
vanes, the one for cold, the other for rieties of fish apparently goes Just so
moderate temperatures, Is still fur- | far. Anglers say complete mystery
flier borne out. In the fishermen’s ' surrounds some of the vararles of
moods nnd actions.
mind, by conditions at sea. They cite । "sea beef” In Its
Some years ngo mackerel were
the recent contrast between overcoat
weather reported In mldoceun by re “lost” so completely 'or several years
turning tourists and the rising mer that the government established 11
closed season to tempt them back. Now
cury found on approaching land.
they are available In abundance.
Lay Effect to Gulf Stream.
Bluefish have been “lost” olT nnd o:
While the migration of fish and the since 1914, so much so that their un
behavior of the deep are largely a certain appearances disrupted n flour
mutter of theory, practical tingléis ad ishing Industry and largely caused the
mit they nevertheless explain the pres present dispersal of bluefish fleets.
ent atmospheric condition by the gulf
Old fishing diaries treasured In Ful
stream.
ton market record that bluefish dlsap
The signs nt hand show, they say, peared In 1S21 for forty years. When
that tbe gulf stream mixed this spring they returned they suffered the fate
lr sufficient quantity with the cold of Hip Van Winkle after his two dec-
currents coming down from the arctic ndes of slumber. Long Island na
to moderate the latter ns they flowed tives no longer recognized them and
down their southern grooves.
went for a long time in Ignorance that
Tlie condition Is therefore regarded they were merely the staple sea food
ns fundamental and correspondingly of their fathers back home again.
permanent, in so far ns Atlantic
benches tire concerned this summer.
Man, 99, Gets Fortune
The fishing smack sharps first be
Spokane. Wash. — Jolin Hackett
came convinced of this when mackerel
striking in off Cape Muy obviously felt aged ninety-nine, n pioneer of the
Coeur d'Alene mine district, tins re
the heat nnd kept on going.
Instead of idling up the Long Islnnd ceived word of an Inheritance of an
shore until about June 1, ns Is their estate of $3,00(>,0(X> from a brother in
wont. It was found they continued Venezuela, Information received here
without pausing for breath to gain recently from Kellogg, Idaho, snld. The
more congenial deep sen chills off Nova brother, Pat Hackett, died recently nt
Scotia. Conversely, bluefish nnd weak- the age of one hundred nnd four.
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sltustlon exists In School D«
trlct 5 of the town of For-
estburg. Sullivan county There
is only one class In the school
and only one scholar In the
class. The teacher 1» Mrs. Mary
Hickey and the scholar la ber
daughter, Anna.
The purchase of farm lands In
the district by the Mongaup
Falls Power company for the
purpose of constructing a sup-
plementary dam has caused the
rare condition. A short time ago
the school had twenty-five pu-
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to paresis, so ’.hat this treatment Is
a matter of the great eat Importance."
he said. "The average life of the
paresis patient after be reaches the
hospital Is one year. A few years
ago all of the»» cases would have
seemed quite bopeleqa.
"The action of the malaria Is very
obscure. It may produce resistance
in the body which destroys .the dis
ease, or it may attack the disease di
rectly. It Is not correct to say that
It prepares the central nervous sys
tem for the action of drugs, and there
Is nothing to show that the malaria
Itself is not quite as effective without
the help of drugs.
“The only useful drug that we have
found Is the arsenical combination
which was produced by the Rockefel-
ler Institute for the treatment of Af
rican sleeping sickness. That has had
a good effect in many cases of paresis.
We have been able to discharge a num
ber of patients who have received this
treatment. On the other hand, some
patients who were not benefited at ail
by the Rockefeller product have been
greatly Improved by the malaria treat
ment.
“We do not speak of the malaria
treatment as a cure In any case. It is
too early to say that. It does, how
ever, bring about a remission of symp
toms In many cases. It is too soon to
tell whether the remission of symp
toms is permanent or not."
Body’s Chemistry
Is Being Studied
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Novel Field of Research
! of psychology. What is said to have
Pennsylvania “U.”
been the most striking work of tue
chemical changes Is saliva character
Philadelphia.—A new field of sci istic of fatigue and emotional excite
entlüc research is being developed by ment.
the psychological clinic of the Unl-
In the course of this research. Doc
versity of Pennsylvania.
tor Starr said he discovered that, un
The Introductory course in the new der psychologically controlled condi
tions, the saliva of an individual may
study, called "metabolism and
havior,” was completed recently by a serve as an index to his emotional
class of SO students under the di stability and resistar.ee to fatigue.
rection of Dr. Henry E. Starr in the With tlie co-operation of Doctor Twlt-
departim nt of psychological chemistry myer, director of the clinic for the
and toxicology lu the medical school correction of speech defects at the
university, this method was applied
of tbe university.
“Metabolism and behavior,” a state- to the study of the metabolic etiology
ment given out by the university of stammering. Involving the examina-
states. Includes a study of the chem tion of 296 Individuals.
ical changes taking place In the body,
The findings have been of great
which determine the emotlonhl 'make value. Indicating, it is said, the cura-
up, eSeency nnd even the philosophy tive measures to be employed In the
of life of the individual. The course treatment of stammerers thus ex
presented a survey of the field, em amined.
phasizing research rather than at- I Doctor Starr believes that as a
tempting to lay down any premature ' method of investigation, physiological
dogmatic correlation.
I chemistry has proved of inestimable
During the last few years Doctor value to the pnysiclan. and should be
Starr has conducted a number of blo- i of equal value to the psychologist,
chemical Investlgatlons of psycho- j With this thought tn view, the psy
logical problems In cooperation with chological clinic of the University of
Prof. Lightner Witmer and Prof. Ed- Pennsylvania Is developing biochem
ical research of psychological prob
lems under its own direction.
There Were Giants in Those Days
STUDY OF BIRDS
OBJECT OF TRIP
Prof. H. H. Nininger to Go
From S. Dakota to Mexico.
J. B, Abbott, preparator, ut work on the giant thigh bones of d.nosntirs,
found in th? San Bernardo hills of Chuhut, Argentina, by the Capt. Marshall
Field Paleontological expedition, headed by Prof. Elmer S. Riggs. These bones
nre now being prepared for exhibition at the Field museum in Chicago. Steel
pulleys and chains were necessary to haul them Into upright position. One of
these monstrous bones stands more than six feet high and weighs nearly a
thousan 1 pounds.
McPherson. Kan.—A study of bird
life from South Dakota to Mexico City,
and back along the western coast of
Mexico nnd the United States to Can
ada, will be made this summer by
Prof. H. H. Nlninger, head of the blo-
logical department of McPherson col-
lege here.
Care will be taken to keep welt
ahead of cold weather, so that the
birds can be studied in advance of
the migratory period for the American
species.
Crossing the Rio Grande, the party
will continue south, gathering data on
the species both rare and common to
Mexico, While there, the migratory
birds of the northland, which will
have sought winter quarters, will be
closely observed.
From the City of Mexico, Professor
Nlninger will move northward, travel
ing along the western coast of Mexico
nnd the United States until the Ca
nadian border is reached.
Colleges and universities along the
route in both countries have asked
Professor Nlninger for his disclosures.
Professor Nininger will make the trip
under the auspices of the National
Ornithology society, and it Is expected
to result tn the most important dis
coverles In the Interests of ornithology.
The party will start from western
South Dakota nnd travel in n house-
car tuilt especially for the purpose.