THE MOBNINW OKEGOJflAN, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1906. v
FINES ID PRISON
THEIR SENTENCE
Severe. Penalties in First
Conviction for Re
bating. PACKERS TO PAY DEARLY
Thomas and Taggart Sent to Penl-tentiary-Burlington
ltallroad
Fined Prosecutions to
Follow.
KANSAS CITY. Ms.. June 22. Judge
McPherson, of Red Oak, la., today passed
sentences as follows upon the seven de
fendants, recently convicted In the
United States District Court here of mak
ing concessions and accepting and con
spiring to accept rebates on shipments:
Swift & Co. $15,000 fine.
.Cudahy Packing Company $15,000 fine.
Armour Packing Company J15.000 fine.
George 1. Thomas, of New York 6000
fine and four months in the penitentiary.
Nelson, Morris & Co. $15,000 fine.
Lm. B. Taggart. of New York $4000 fine
and three months In the penitentiary.
Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy Railway
$15,000 line.
The tine of $15,000 assessed against the
Burlington covered all four counts, and
the aggregate amount of the lines in the
even cases totaled $85,000.
AH Offenders Appeal.
Appeals were filed In each case and a
stay of execution was granted until June
29. The bonds in the case of Thomas and
Taggart were fixed at $6000 each. These
two men appeared In court personally,
and upon being sentenced, promptly fur
. nished the required bonds. The bonds In
the case of the packing companies and
the Burlington were fixed at $15,000 each.
Before sentence was passed In the va
rious cases, motions for new trials were
made by John G. Cowan, of Omaha, and
Frank Hagerman, of Kansas City, for
the packers, and by Judge O. M. Spencer,
of St. Joseph, upon behalf of the Burling
ton Railroad, and Thomas and Taggart.
All these motions were overruled.
The passing of sentence in these cases
marked the end of the rebate cases to
be tried at this term of court. One other
case, that of the Chicago & Alton, and
two of its officers, has been reset for trial
In September. The Indictments upon
which the various defendants were tried
were returned in Kansas City by the
grand Jury on December 13, 1905.
Seven of. Eleven Convicted.
Of the 11 cases brought up at this
term, the Government has secured seven
convictions, one defendant was acquitted
and three cases were dismissed.
Judge McPherson reviewed the various
charges and evidence brought out at
the trial. He said he was fully per
suaded that the verdicts in the packing-house
cases and the case' of the
Burlington were right, and he assessed
the fines against all of the corpora
tions at the same sum. "These par
ties," he said, "were all together In this
scheme, with a like motive and pur
pose." In speaking of the Thomas and Tag
gart cases. Judge McPherson said that
evidence had been adduced to show
that George A. Barton, for the firm of
Barton Bros., wholesale shoe and leath
er dealers, had received large sums of
money from various railways through
the defendants.
Basis for More Prosecutions.
"Not only so," continued the court,
"but the following-named concerns re
ceived the sums stated from the rail
ways: Barton Bros., $8220; Robert
Keith Furniture Company, Kansas
City, $9300; Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry
Goods Company, $32,000; Burnham,
Hanna, Munger Dry Goods Company,
$44,500; Hargadine, McKittrick Dry
Goods Company, $10,000; F. P. Kirken
dall Shoe Company, $1000. So that, as
nearly as can be gathered from the ev
idence, the defendants, after deduct
ing for their own services from money
received from railways, paid to the
concerns named within four years as
rebates the enormous sum of $82,459.
And tne evidence fairly shows there
were other rebates paid and by them.
"I assume all these concerns will be
proceeded against for receiving these
unlawful rebates, which can be done
either by indictment or information,
as the last vestige of the plea of im
munity for corporations has been
wiped out by the decision of the Su
preme Court of the United States of
March 12, 1906, in the case of Hale vs.
Henkle."
SOCXD PRINCIPLES DEFINED
District Attorney States Effect of
Sentence on Rebaters.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. June 22. A. S.
Van Valkenburgh. United States District
Attorney for the western district of Mis
souri, who has directed for the Govern
ment the suits In the seven rebate cases
that were concluded here today, when
Judge Smith McPherson pronounced sen
tence upon the defendants, said, after
court had adjourned:
I am entirely satisfied with the Judg
ments. The Government has been fighting
for a great principle in the establishment of
which the extent of- punishment, although
necessarily Incidental, is after all secondary.
The results are of enormous benefit to so
ciety. So far as the rulings of a trial
court may be effectual, the following propo
sitions have been establiHhed:
That the conspiracy statute applies to the
combined efforts of individuals, seeking by
device and indirect methods to evade the
interstate commerce law.
That Congress has Jurisdiction over our
foreign commerce as conducted within the
limits of our own territory, and has enacted
laws which provide a remedy against fav
oritism and unjust discrimination.
That export as well as other tariffs
muft be filled with the Interstate Com
merce Commission and maintained. .
Neither shippers nor carriers can by con
tract among themselves render the provis
ions of the law Inoperative.
Finally. If any error has been committed,
opportunity Is given to have that error cor
rected by the highest court of this land, to
the end that the laws as enacted by Con
gress may bs well understood, established
and settled.
Incidentally substantial punishment has
been Inflicted. But such considerations are
of minor importance, In view of the great
gain to society from a broad interpretation
of the Interstate commerce law and the
precedents established for the ifuture guid
ance of shippers, carriers and the law offi
cers of the Government.
LAWBREAKERS ARE TRAITORS
General Woodford Unsparing With
Corporate Lawlessness.
CHICAGO. June 22. General Stuart
Ia Woodford, formerly Minister to
Spain, In delivering; the commencement
address to the graduates of " North-
. . . 1 T.. i.,A -I ... 1 . nlffht cnnVft
ncDIVill l llin.l JliJ, l.ini. nig,..., u
or wnai ne ueciarea me great neeua
the National education reverence for
, . i . . v. TTt
law ana ouservance oi ine u ui". 11
der the second he toek 'occasion to
criticise corporation officials who "be
hind their artificial authority commit
acts that they would not consider as
inai viauajs. xie saia 111 part.
.fc.aucauon must Degin m
ily. If I could find words to burn into
me consciousness 01 me f"1 -
li i j "iv v. vmi. fbilH rever-
ence for age, observance of truth, cour
age and ooeaience. ii x tuuiu
words into your minds, I would say:
'As you o into active life, remember
(nenh children .to reverence
age, to speak the truth, to lay the
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iuunauiiun ui ii ... -
j... , v,o cml thlnsrs
Qiviauat uves auu m r
of the state uron obedience, reverence
and truth.
T1 v. a .....n.irotinu nns crown tn be a
power, and It was -born under the pro-
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lection D 1113 lew. " t' t -
because the law guards It. Its every
venture is safeguarded by the sanc-
-. ii i . . A .-. .iffl'Or nf tno rnr
niy ol me J " -
poration who. to seek increase of for
tune for larger individual, personal en
joyment, tramples on the law, who
uses, Ms position and Influence to
evade tne law, is a irauor iu uic u'--"-est
and best interests of the republic."
Steel Trust Forbids Tips.
NEW YORK, June 22. The United
States Steel Comoratlon has serft out an
order to its vast army of employes, for
biddine any officer or employe of any
company owned or controlled by the steel
corporation, under pain of mstanc ais
missal, to accept any present, whether It
be for Christmas, a wedding, a birthday,
or for any other pretext, coming from
any person or corporation doing business
with subsidiary companies of the corpo
ration or the corporation itself. Officers
and employes are forbidden to accept
stock in any such concern as a reward
for services rendered or to be rendered.
and the ownership of such stock will
have to be explained to the directors.
This order Is the outgrowth of the disclos
ures made in the investigation of tne in
terstate commerce of railroads.
MOODY ASKED STERN' PENALTY
Sentence to Imprisonment Imposed
at His Suggestion.
WASHINGTON. June 22. On being
asked concerning the action of Judge Mc
Pherson at Kansas City today in his
decision against the Armour, Swift, Mor
ris and Cudahy packing companies, the
Burllneton Railroad and the individual
defendants. Taggart and Thomas, the At
torney-General said:
The conspiracy was for obtaining rebates
on a large scale, making discriminations to
shippers highly Injurious to the public wel
fare. The method adopted in concealing
the true nature of the transactions showed
clearly that the defendants wilfully, know
ingly and deliberately sought to defy the
law and was a gross contempt of Its pro
hibition. After giving It careful considera
tion I concluded that the extent of the dis
criminations practiced showed that It was
a case where the sentence of Imprisonment
was especially desirable and 1'dlrected the
District Attorney to urge on the court, In
case of their conviction, the desirability of
such a sentence.
I regard the outcome of this case as of
the first importance. The sentence of Im
prisonment Imposed for the first time on
persons guilty of rebating will. In my Judg
ment have the most potent effect In check
ing the widespread practice of unlawful dis
criminations. Attorney-General Moody has always
been of the opinion that, if a person
guilty of rebating could be imprisoned,
the practice would soon be broken. An,
however, the Elkins law contained no
provision for such a sentence, it became
necessary for Mr. Moody, in order to put
into effect this theory, to find some other
means of doing so. On an examination of
the authorities, Mr. Moody discovered
that, under the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in- the case
of Cune vs. the United States, a conspir
acy to commit a crime against the United
States, Itself punishable only by fine,
might also be punished by imprisonment.
He directed the United States Attorney in
each district that "in the event of ob
taining a conviction on a charge of con
spiracy of this kind, you are directed to
present to the court the desirability of
inflicting the penalty of imprisonment,
to the end that fhose unlawful practices
which have received almost universal
condemnation may be discouraged and
prevented, as far as existing laws will
accomplish that result."
NO MORE REBATES ON GRAIN
Chicago Great Western Announces
It Will Obey Uw.
ST. PAUL, June 22. President Stickney,
of the Chicago Great Western Railway,
today formally announced that the Chi
cago Great Western would stop the prac
tice of granting the "grain elevator re
bate." "These net rates," said Mr. Stickney,
"will be the present rates less the 114
cent per hundredweight, so the actual
rates will be the same as before, and the
rate will be the same for Peavey & Co.
and for the tran-Mlssissippi Grain Com
pany, who received this IVi-cent rebate,
as to anybody else. This is the law and
the law must be obeyed."
The new rates will go into effect to
morrow, June 23.
Coal Road Hearings Finished.
WASHINGTON, June 22. The last of
the hearings for the present by the In
terstate Commerce Commission In con
nection with its investigation into the re
lations of the railroads with coal and oil
traffic, was held here today and marked
the practical completion of the inquiry as
regards the Eastern bituminous fields.
The hearings will be resumed in the Fall,
the Commission in the meantime prepar
ing its report on the facts developed for
the consideration of Congress.
Want Bull Run Water.
At the meeting of the Mount Tabor Im
provement Association, last night, a spe
cial committee, composed of A. Il Park
hurst, T. J. jJolton and W. F. Prier was
appointed to watt on the Portland water
committee and ask that Bull Run water be
furnished the people of Mount Tabor and
Montavllla through the pipe lines of the
present local company. A like committee
from Montavllla will be appointed, and
together with. J. M. Arthur, of the Mount
Tabor Water Company, this request wjll
be submitted. Mr. Arthur was present
last nlgbt and made an extended state
ment, in the course of which he said he
should be glad to join with the people
in this petition for Bull Run water for
the whole district. Dr. C. H. Raffety,
who was present, expressed the opinion
that the water committee would supply
the water through meter, but that if this
was done only city rates could be charged
under the Portland charter.
Appraisers File Report.
Samuel Huntington. Clyde Huntington
and Oscar F. Hoel. appraisers, yesterday
filed their inventory and appraisement of
the estate of the late John F. Benson, fix.
ine the total value of the property of the
estate, all personal, at $1293.
Japan Extradition Treaty Ratified.
WASHINGTON, June 22. The Senate in
executive session today ratified an extra
dition treaty between the United States
and Japan.
HORSFORD'8 ACID PHOSPHATE
Relieves .Nervous Disorders
Headache. Insomnia, Exhaustion and Rest
lessness. Rebuilds the nervous system.
STARTED BY POLICE
Report of Committee on Jew
ish Massacre.
CABINET WAS TWO-FACED
Police and Troops Aroused Mob,
Governor Did Nothing and Cabi
net Had Encouraged Belief
It Favored Slaughter.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 22. At a
crowded meeting of the Constitutional
Club tonight Deputy Stchepkin reported
the findings of the committee of the lower
house of Parliament which went to Bialy
Btok to Investigate the facts in connec
tion with the anti-Jewish outbreak there
According to this report, the police,
with the aid of subordinate officers of
the police and military, were responsible
for the provocation of. the outbreak by
the circulation of false rumors against
the Jews. The Governor of Bialystok,
while not directly responsible, was said
by M. Stchepikin to have undoubtedly
been criminally guilty of prolonging the
excesses by abandoning his post. The
Governor washed his hands of the affair,
not knowing the attitude of the officials'
at St. Petersburg, and absented himself
from the scene without giving a single
order.
Duplicity of Government.
That the government gave no order
sanctioning the excesses is not ques
tioned, but the local police assumed that
the Goremykln Ministry, which had
printed Black Hundred circulars), would
not punish those who participated In the
outbreak. It is the two-faced attitude of
the government, M. Stchepkin asserted,
that was principally .responsible. In con
cluding, the report says:
"The Ministry must be changed and one
must be chosen from the majority of
Parliament or otherwise Russia will fall
to the level of Persia and Turkey and
ultimately come under the tutorship of
a really civilized government."
Fear of Massacre at Gomel.
Apprehension of an Impending outbreak
a . rnmot w increased todav by a tele
gram from residents of that city stating
that a bomb had been dlscoverea in tne
house of a leader of the -Revolutionary
League of Patriots.
it la rumored that M. Pobedonotserc,
former Procurator of the Holy Synod,
is preparing a report on the agrarian
question for submission 10 umperer
Nicholas. A
GIVEX OVER .TO MURDERERS
Officials Encouraged Massacre and
Scoffed at Minister's Orders.
BERLIN. June 22. An inhabitant of
Bialystok, Russia, who was present dur
ing the entire massacres there, and who
has arrived in Berlin, has given the Ger
man Hebrews' Aid Society an account of
the recent events there. He said:
June 14 was the 40th anniversary of the
compulsory adhesion of many Catholics to
the Orthodox Church and a celebration of
the event was elaborately planned. The
police and military were fully armed, ap
parently preparing for a conflict. Though
there were no visible enemies, the Jews be
came alarmed and sought hiding places.
During the processions of Orthodox Rus
sians and Catholics on Thursday an uproar
bgan and rumors spread that the Jews had
thrown a bomb into the crowd and were
tearing a Russian priest to pieces. The
crowd shouted "down with the Jews' and
thereupon roughs, armed with clubs, en
tered the nearest Jewish houses and brought
the ' inmates out, destroying whatever they
found within.
The streets were soon filled with dead
and wounded, the latter groaning fright
fully. The Jewish shops In the vicinity
meanwhile were plundered, ruffians taking
away all the portable valuables.
eome of the officers encouraged the riot
ers and soldiers in their bloody work, while
other officers ordered them to desist, but
the latter were seldom obeyed, the 'dis
cipline of the soldiers generally bing loosely
enforced. When one officer ordered a num
ber of murderers to leave a place they
answered that the Governor had given up
the Jews and their shops for three days'
plunder. General Bogajeffsky, commander
of the garrison, politely returned the roughs'
cheers and shouts with military salutes, and
another officer congratulated them upon
their festival, the rioters replying with vlg.
orous cheers. ,
The leaders of the plunderers were not
only policemen, but Included many officials
cf the Imperial Bank.
The next morning Dr. Reigrotzky received
a telegram from M. Bramson, a member of
the lower house of Parliament, saying that
Interior Minister Stolypln the previous night
had telegraphed to the authorities to Im
mediately check the massacres. Dr. Rei
grotzky showed the dispatch to an official
who angrily answered:
'We know ourselves when to re-establish
order. Do not Imagine that you Jews have
the Jewish dictatorship of Bialystok."
The rioting did not cease until M. Stchep
kin (chairman of the committee of the
lower house of the Russian Parliament ap
pointed to Investigate and report upon the
massacre) arrived at Bialystok Saturday
afternoon.
HURRY TO PACIFY TROOPS
Acts Belie Official Denials Many
Radical Papers Suppressed.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 22. The Russ
ky Invalid enters a general denial of the
reports of military disaffection as exag
gerated, and for the most part untrue, but
the unprecedentedly Bpeedy publication of
the report of the War Office Commission
favoring an amelioration in the army ra
tions, which has been the main cause of
complaint, shows that the urgency of the
sluation is recognized.
The papers announce the arrest of 24
privates of the Prerobojenksi Regiment
for circulating proclamations in the revo
lutionary agitation.
The police are conducting an energetic
campaign for the suppression of the rad
ical press, daily confiscating six or eight
St. Petersburg papers Just as they come
off the press. But the editors have an
Inexhaustible stock of new names and
franchises and manage to appear regular
ly. Father Petroff s Christian Socialistic
organ is among the papers suppressed.
The delegates to the convention of the
Peasants' League, which is organizing an
agrarian stike movement, gathered in St.
Petersburg today, but the meeting was
forbidden by the police.
DEMANDS CABINET RESIGX.
Douma Adopts Democrats' Resolu
tlon, Rejecting Radical Motion.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 22. The dls.
cussion of Interior Minister Stolypins ex
planations was resumed In the lower
house of Parliament today. The radical
orators were give nthe floor first.
Ramlsh All. a Gorglan member, on be
half of the Social Democrats, offered a
resolution holding the administrative of
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ficlals guilty of murder, robbery and vio
lations of law and demanding tne prose
cution as accessories of tne Ministry,
which, the resolution declares, has been
sheltering Its agents and preventing an
exposure of the condtlon by the press.
The Constitutional Democrats offered
a substitute resolution, declaring that the
House, seeing In the prevalent excesses
proof of the inspiration and evident par
ticipation of the local authorities and of
failure on the part of the Minister of
the Interior to grasp the real cause of
teh trouble, namely, the continuance of
the old regime.- finds that only a Minis
try responsible before the people can
stop the outrages and therefore again
demands the instant resignation of the
present Ministry.
The resolution of the Constitutional
Democrats was adopted by an over
whelming majority.
REVOLT IX THE CAUCASUS.
Peasants In Revolt and Part of
Troops In Rebellion.
CHERNICOV, Russia, June 23. (Spe
cial.) Dispatches' received from many
villages in the Caucasus report uprising
among the peasants and mutinies among
the troops. At Abo the troops are in open
rebellion and despite many efforts to sup
press them they have the upper hand.
The loyal troops have tried in many ways
to suppress rioting on the part of the
peasants, but the rioters in every in
stance have clashed with the troops,
who were forced to use desperate meas
ures to quell the disturbances.
Many persons were killed and wounded
on both sides.
Russian Soldiers Overworked.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 22. The
privates of the Prager regiment, sta
tioned at Nlchalaieff, near Sevastopol,
have telegraphed to War Minister
Rudlger complaining of the hostility of
thei rofflcers toward Parliament and
the amount of police duty they have
to do, giving- them only time enough to
eat one meal daily.
Japanese Witnesses Summoned.
ST. PETERSBURG. June 22: Several
Japanese seamen and two surgeons have
been summoned as witnesses in the trial
by courtmartial of Admiral Rojestvensky
on the charge of cowardice in surrend
ering to the enemy. They are expected
to give evidence as to the Admiral's con
dition at the time of the surrender.
Jews Flee From the South.
ODESSA, June 22. The emigratory
exodus of the Jews from this and other
southern centers is suddenly assuming
enormous volume. The gubernatorial
assurances are absolutely distrusted.
Condemned to Die for Rebellion.
POTI, Trans-Caucasia, June 22. A
man named Mlgineshivile has been con
demned to die by a court-martial for
revolutionary activity.
Army of Miners on Strike.
KUTAIS, June 22. Twenty thousand
miners at Chiualri, the center of the
mining industry, have struck for an
increase in wages.
Another Policeman Shot by Rebels.
WARSAW, June 22. Another police
officer was shot dead here today. This
is the 120th victim of vengeance on the
police since January, 1905.
DIVORCE SUITSARE HEARD
Judge Sears Deputizes the Duty Be
cause of Other Work.
Judge Sears of the State Circuit Court
was too busy to listen to the testimony
and argument in the divorce cases pend
ing and he delegated this duty and power
upon Deputy County Clerk J. H. Bush
and the official stenographer.' As a re
sult six petitions for legal separation
were heard, as follows:
A. F. Neunert, from Mina Neunert,
married in Portland April 14, 1904, on the
ground of desertion.
Louisa Easton from William N. Easton.
on the ground that the defendant had
been convicted of a felony and sentenced
to serve one year in the penitentiary.
Jennie M. Fine from David V. Fine,
married in Wichita, Kansas. March 19,
1901, cruel treatment and habitual drunk
enness. Margaret M. Stoner from Michael B.
Stoner, married at Adair. Iowa, Decem
ber 24. 1SS2, cruel treatment and failure
to provide.
Zaydee G. Chase from Samuel Chase,
married at Grant's Pass, Or., December
19, 1903. cruel treatment.
Mrs. E. J. Phernetton from E. T. Pher
netton, married in Menomlnie. Wiscon
sin, in 1881, desertion and failure "to pro
vide. -
JOHX R. FOSTER'S WILL FILED
Leaves Property to Two Nieces and
One Sister.
By the will of the late John R. Foster,
who died in this city June 11, of this
year, all of the real and personal prop
erty of the deceased is left to his niece.
JJLL & IBB
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lltWI.il LaLi La
Dora W. Savage, the daughter of his late
lster, Elizabeth B. Foster, valued at
J20.000, and J10.000, the amount of his two
life insurance policies, is to be equally
divided between his sister, Mary Ann
Hunter, and his niece, Alice Hunter, of
Schenectady, New York. Louis G. Clarke
and William A Cleland, named as ex
ecutors of the estate in the will, qual
ified to serve as such by furnishing a
joint bond In the sum of $12,000, which
was approved by Judge Webster, of the
Probate Court, yesterday afternoon.
In closing his will the decedent says:
"No provision is made for my nephew,
Scott, eon of my sister, Mary Ann Hunt
er, because I do not consider he has any
claim upon me for any part of my es
tate," and "no provision is made for the
three children of my deceased sister.
Catherine Vealie, formerly of Troy, New
York, because they have for many years
taken no Interest In me, nor I in them.
and I do not even know whether they
are all now living or not." The will was
executed end attested September 3, 1903.
Sympathy Given by Congress.
WASHINGTON. June 22 The Senate to
day adopted the following joint resolu
tion: "That the people of the United States
are horrified by the reports of the mas
sacre of Hebrews In Russia on account of
their race and religion, and that those
bereaved thereby have the hearty sym
pathy of the people of this country."
The resolution was Introduced by Sen
ator McLaurin, of Mississippi, who asked
immediate consideration. Senator Lodge
asked for time to examine the document
and after doing so announced his appro
val. The resolution was then adopted
without debate. The House also passed
the resolution unanimously.
DEATHS IN WARFARE.
Figures as to Disease and Bullets In
Recent Battles.
London Hospital.
"It is a commonplace of history, cor
roborated and confirmed by the experi
ences of almost every campaign, alike in
civilized and in uncivilized countries, no
less in modern than in ancient times,
that disease is a more potent element of
warfare than the weapons of the en
emy." So writes Dr. Thomas F. Dewar
in an admirable essay.
It Is a surprising circumstance that, in
spite of the general recognition accorded
by history to the influence of epidemic
disease in swaying the fortunes of a cam
paign, in spite of the immense power for
the mitigation of such diseases which the
advance of bacteriology and epidemiology
has put within our reach, so little serious
effort haa been expended against the pes
tilences (particularly typhoid fever and
dysentery) which have always stalked in
the wake of armies in the Held. How
different has been our success in pre
venting in practice diseases which are
pre-eminently preventable in theory is
shown by the recent record of the South
African War. This campaign extended
over a period of 33 months. Precise fig
ures are not yet available, but Dr. De
war considers that it may be said with
a close approximation to accuracy that
the death rate from disease was 69 per
1000 of the total number of troops en
gaged, while the death rate from wounds
was 12 per 1000. Excluding cases of lm
mwliately fatal wounds, it appears that
the cases admitted to hospital for sick
ness outnumbered those admitted for
wounds by no less a margin than 30 to 1.
If our own experience is not convinc
ing enough, there Is no lack of corrobora
tion. Among the French troops engaged
in the Crimea, 75,000 died of disease, and
but 20,000 of wounds; in the French expe
dition to Madagascar in 1895 only seven
men were killed by the enemy, but out of
a total of 23,009 engaged there fell to mal
adies contracted on service no fewer than
7500, or almost 33 per cent.
Upon two occasions only does history
tell of a campaign in which the disease
death rate was lower than the wound
death rate. Of these occasions the first
was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71,
during which the deaths from disease
amounted to 18.6 per thousand, while the
deaths from wounds reached 33.7 per 1000.
This, however, is explained by the au
thor of the essay under notice on the
score of the brevity of the campaign, the
constant movement at the troops and the
favorable character of the season of the
year. None of these benign character
istics marked the second and great excep
tion to the rule, the present army of
Japan. Throughout a long and arduous
campaign, conducted under climatic con
ditions of quite exceptional rigor, the Jap
anese are reckoned to have lost by sick
ness 15,300 men, as against 57,150 killed in
battle or subsequently dead of injury.
Much remains to be done before we can
hope to vie with the excellence of the mil
itary hygiene of the Japanese, and all
students of the question may be com
mended to Dr. Dewar" s essay, which em
bodies a wide personal experience of mili
tary service with a practical moderation
too rarely seen in specialists.
Running Along In the Fog.
Exchange.
More than B0 per cent of wrecks at sea
happen in thick weather. Vessels collide
or run aground in fog simply because
they don't know where they , are or,
what amounts to the same thing, where
the rock or the other ship Is. And all
this fog trouble happens even on the
coasts that are best protected by fog
signaling devices. In other words, more
H0U5E-FUIfflISHER5f
than half the record of wreck is an ad
mission of futility of fog signals sounded
in air. It is only whenthe signal is taken
below the surface of the water that any
thing like certainty of hearing it is
found, or the power of determining di
rection. The vexatious "silent areas"
that interfere with effective alr-slgnallng
disappear, and the puzzling reflections
and refractions of sound waves which
in the air make It so Impossible to locate
the signals' real location, are easily dis
covered and used to advantage in the
denser medium. Every atmospheric
change, even down to a shift of wind, to
tally changes conditions aloft; under wa
ter they are constant.
General Sherman and Georgia.
New York Press.
Somebody Is trying hard to get up a
sensation over the visit of Father Sher
man along the route taken by William
Tecumseh In his march to the sea through
a country barren of about everything ex
cept women, children and manumitted
slaves. Let us look backward some '1
years. I happened to be in the village of
Cartersville when General Sherman made
his first march through the state of Geor
gia after the war. It was published
throughout the North that he would sure
ly be murdered. He rode in a Pullman
car, and when the train stopped at Car
tersville came out on the rear platform
to see a gathering of some 2,000 people.
The best of humor prevailed and not a
few Jokes were cracked between the war
rior and those whom he had a tew years
before so ruthlessly Beggared.
Glancing over the village, Sherman,
shading his eyes with his hand, asked In
a loud voice: "What's become of those
chimneys I left standing here the last
time I called on you fellows? I don't see
a single one. There's nothing but
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houses." Some one in the crowd yelled
back: "General, the chimneys are here
yet, but we've built new houses around
"em." As the train pulled away Sherman
said: "War is h 1. sure enough; but
what a reign of peace is here today." I
guess they wouldn't eat Farther Sherman,
in 1906.
Took Advantage of the Opening.
LIppincott's.
Not many men were as ready in reply '
as was the late Patrick Collins, Mayor
of Boston. At the very opening cf hrs'
Mayoralty came full proof of this. t
There was a knock on the door of the
municipal Chief Executive's office, and in.
reaponse to Mr. Collins' "come in" en-
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"Oh, 'souse me," said he, in a tone
that suggested both disappointment and
apology, "I was lookln' for de Mayor."
"Well, I'm Mr. Collins," replied that
official reassuringly.
"But I fought you was short?" stam
mered the other.
And His Honor replied: "You're quite
right. Can you lend me flveV"
Bones From Irish Caves. ' ,
Indianapolis News.
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Museum for identification. Each of these
parcels was carefully labeled, -bearing a
number corresponding with a map of the
cave giving the exact position and depth
from the surface at which the specimens
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