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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1912. ' Health, and Ef ficieiicy VOIV, 1. NO. It. CONDUCTED flOR THE. JOURNAL' gy ILORALlTTLE ,Y Questions by readers on subjects of general Interest pertaining to this col umn will be answered gladly by Mrs.: Little., AH questions should be addressed to Mrs. Lora C, Little, car Oregon Journal, and so framed as to be answered -in a limited space. v..' , :?v-."i-:?..KA:.y--v; :';-!'i.iv:,i'f;v t-,"ftv COURSE In logie would prove In- or self-lore, which Is the same thins;, .valuable to medical students. The essence of the affirmative-' Is lore, Those especially who aspire to love of God and neighbor. . Every f eel- become sanitarians would be jng, ' emotion .and passion s possible to ' saved much embarrassment m man has within It this soul, rlvlnc It the the course of their career If they, could m,.iii, .ith.p nf ffi,nHn - . ..... . ' ' 1 be taueht what constitutes nrorf.!- C ," at tne postomce as secona . . . . ... . - Kiass - uioiicr uui iuii s ves mm unci, iur exanipia, ; wmcn im cuuiinun- th itrnnH rlat. ona Truth To HSe, 5ttn6ay Smile J5 Stranger Than Fiction PORTLAND, FEB. 4, 1012. EDITED IN PUN BY MILES OVERHOLT Take for example, this alUged ty This paper's wire service extends : from pole to joiei k i.;::. vl : Telegrsph. v;l.f; ; ; v,i.n,. ,hinh 1- -i-Itt, tt uner, lor beTthoro preventive of typhoid fever. It was tlon. has ts foundation In love of one held to be so before the encampment at. Mlt n disregard for others. . -, ' Ban Antonio, otherwise every . soldier It will be worth while to all who would not have been forced to submit have not done so to classify their de to the Inoculation. But the experience sires and feellnas. becauss In this re- at that place is now pointed to as proof glon' lie the great hidden causes , that THE WEATHER ".r;."1 few week, there are spring hats and dresses and things. It's safe to assert, prognosticate yea, insist that it will be for several days, and ' '- ''" ' " ' " 1 r-TOMORROW BLUSTERY. hows that it la pur. assumpt ;pTo,JanIsh negative emotions and call Mniotlmi& Jars about those the' vaccine had anything to do with the !D the affirmative is a far almnler mat- - 8 ? ? lamuy jars aooui inose imu wo- .nn.Mr ss noo vijror- rV ." aiiinnauve . Iar lp'rmai" sonnir hats and dresses and things. . --7 -- - ter man is generally understood, BpeaK t?.r!?'rfr"7MZJa& your. affirmation, act . It. In advance of exercise tokeep them ?n good wndltlon, reeun l feeling soon follows. with good food, with pure water piped to the camp, . with ' the most perfect camp sanitation, why they were already sufficiently protected against - typhoid fever. Typhoid never occurs under such conditions, never did and never win, EDITORIAL LI KB America is the land of the free and the home of the foreigner. 'Here is where the gentleman from Fludbubia comes for freedom and has more fun IHE threatened butter" fast of the -New york Housewives' League ; may well melt the butter , men' ! resolution. , Tney should know that the habit of abstlnenos What, then, becomes of the vaunted makes abstaining easy, and there are prophylactic? It Is the fifth wheel to only a lew things we cannot get along the wagon. ' - . c .y - without '. . , . Even prejudiced army surgeons seem. , Do you remember theVlmoetus siren to hare a subconscious Inkling of the vegetarians two or three years ago. by than a brindle cow in a ffladiola bed. truth. At a hearing before the bouse the sharp rise In meat prices? Con- We often wish that we had studied committee v on - military affairs last sumers set their teeth with grim deter- on the matter some and had been born month. Surgeon General Torney admit- minatlon and said they would bring aofeiS wfth ?Z vearntnr to come ted that the results attained were "not the trust to terms. The result was that "iff" 7i.VnS5, altogether due to the administration of the terrible deprlration proved a bles- to America and get a couple Of gallons antl-vaoclne for typhoid fever, but also ginr, end many a family today owes oi freedom and sell our vote 13 times to the. admirable condition of the sanl- ju near-vegetarianism to the experience. "d talk anarchy and yell for death tatlon of the camp." He went on to Dairy butter Is far from being an in- and tariff revision till the cows come say, "At that camp a sanitary lnspec- dispensable article. In many cakes Us home; to land on these shores with tor was appointed, and his recoramen- ,j,SUM w be . nositivelv beneflciaL- tint 7 -nt n1 i irlrt mil dations regarding the hyg lene of tte through lessening the consumption of and eet a job in a rock auarry or division were accepted and rigidly en. bread. rolls, nancakea and th lifc. ?n.B? Z..t'.Cll . forced by the commanding general." Grain foods are used out at ii tw BO n,ce' ,nlerf?un wor nae mat On thi other hand, those who per- ortlV?o thi teoueme were able to enter b'n celve that all inooulation. are in viola- 0ttBS?L,J; and politics. And then pretty soon tlon of physiological principles, "... ... . own a ward or two and deal in votes drl w.V a VnS'onSw nd 0th" "nd-hand good.. And anrcarnotiom: Xf- gg? -SFLS? V f T "ft fot howaver siisht oa. however Ion bred nA ckes they now consume, a diamond On top of it oetayed ThV6nianife case 11 "laM ctT We sav sometm.es that is the way of every man of, them. Just as some ea!riin't,"ct antage. we feel about it. And then.'again. we constitutions can best withstand one tJA ft!Z? -,k!.1? f: think it over and figure how all-fired !'S!w," much fun we have wdting items and durance of the.; inoculations. But there animal flavor and hence less "vm rw paper r our- Has come to light a definite line of mor- "ke to tadte -gluttony. In the cities self tip by calling it poetry, and then bid symptoms that are known to doc- of Qret Britain everywhere one can we decide that we wouldnt be a for- tors as serum disease. buT walut butter and almond butter, eigner for $8 a week and board and A medical Journal published In St oeucacies noi 1 oe mentioned the same washing. Louis printed an article on the subject day with our well known but not too some years ago. giving tue observations ""WU1TO Pfn miner, meiwo w . . M . Raror of several physicians who bad employed butters mentioned are a compound , " IrrLth'r V,fi serums and who began to recognise the base of which is oocoanut oil, in Coding, Idaho, have-'another little their danger. The newspapers to some me proportion or some 0 per cent co- uvcr, extent eav the alarm, and Derhape this coanut to about 40 per. cent of the fat iS, aXtoS matter appears to have been of the nut whose name is given to the We often wonder what kind of an hushed up!" " " ' " " " oomiwirntlr fs-nWmrttiOT Before there la any further exten- aistinctive flavor and at the same time against those of the "own-your-own- entire subject Should be thoroughly ven- Over there they do not spoil their nut tllated. We move too hastily In such butter as our peanut butter makers matters. A year and a half ago the-spoil theirs, by the admixture of salt typhoid vaccine was optional in the ar- sugar, malt or any other foreign matter. my and navy. Today $ Is compulsory it is pure nut fat fresh and wholesome. LOCAL AND KIND OF , PER . . -SONAL . - - Ed ".Russell, '- a newspaper feller of Juneau, Portlanded last week. He tells about an Alaskan pilgrim - that froze himself for 10 years and then came down to Portland to try to thaw himself out, but he failed. Then he decided to take one last celebra tion and go back. : " .. In the cold, gray dawn of the sub sequent a. m. he discovered himself at the bottom of a garbage can at the rear of a cheap saloon. He was too tired to worry about it, so he stayed " BY FRED C. KELLY W1 there. : Soon the garbage collector came along and the Alaska person wbs hauled to the incinerator and dumped into the furnace. Without about an hour thee came a gentle tapping on the furnace door from the inside.; The engineer opened the door, curious-like. Fix the fire, vou blamed calootl Was you raised in a barn?" yelled the Alaskan pilgrim from away back in the coals. home" boys, but up to date we have never heard one of them argue. OUR QUESTION BOX Dear Sir: Do blue-ribboned, high and the compulsion has already been And. by the way, If anyone wants to falutin', prizewinning cats yowl under aumea 10 m onoco w u wru..cr- nve we best possible peanut butter, a. window o nights f ANXIOUS, vice and threatens to engulf us' all. he should make it himself. Roast the Ana au Decause our meairai autnonues shelled nuts by the slowest fire until have tiever learhed what constitutes they turn to a cream tint the nuts ln Proot side the thin hulls, not the hulls them- ., - 7.w'., ... , selves which turn quite dark. After HE theory of air borne disease has a half hour. aIo- -o-vi-- biannh th.m received a knockout blow In the by mbbin, and winnowing the hulls house of Its friends. Sewer raa out orlnd In a nut milL and di nnth. T Dear Sir: Where is the tallest tree in the world, and how high is it? How much lumber does it contain? Who owns it? What are its dimen sions? Is it a fir or what? Would the lumber in it build a house? CURIOUS. Is now declared upon the best w whatever. . . medical authority to be entirely, a personal experience ef abstaining harmless so far as producing typhoid, from dairy butter for two years eon- diphtheria and other infections is eon- vincesr me that when the dairy lnspec- FOR SALE Hand-painted house uvu tws as uu wiv a sa Uici o ucvWTCll tllCIIl lleTaTfJ In the American Journal of Public killed off all the cows, we shall still Hygiene (official organ of the Amer- get on quite as comfortably. lean Public Health association), Pro- feasor Wlnslow of the Massachusetts Ms HAT was a significant little item Institute of Technology, tells of ex- that appeared the day after haustlve tests made under his direction I Christmas, to the effect that showing that the danger of the spread X "Smiling; Joe" Marlon, whose of Infections by gases of sewers and smile brought $ 2 6 0,000 drains Is practically nil. And the Jour- to Be Breeze hospital (New York) nal of the American. Medical aasocia- because he was supposed to have been tlon coincides. cured of tuberculosis of the spine, had Dr. C. A. Tyrrell in the Eclectlo Re- suffered a relapse and was again view says on the same subject: "A well weppea w oea. "His oaca nas given CLASSIFIED gas - meter - reader-proof basement. Opportunity. TO TRADE Dozen fresh eggs; will exchange for lots or acreage. Smile. J-24, FOR RENT Heating stove and set of furs, for the summer; also good left-handed ax. H-20, Smile Office. F. S. Ratliff. weight 420. a seller of real estate, entered a telephone booth sideways at the Perkins hotel t'other day. Then he shut the door and sold $10,000 worth of property over the phone. Hurriedly he got up and started out the door. Half way out he decided to remain for a spell. He wasn't in much of a hurrv. anvwav. and the sides of the doorway seemed to make it an object tor him to linger awmie, so he lingered. The house carpenter came and sawed and con quered. Accompanying the carpenter were sundry friends and others who came to scoff. But you can't keep a fat man down. Before the carpenter had finished his labors, Ratchff had sold two of the spectators a good deal of real estate, and he was just negotiating a deal for'all of his earth ly possessions when the door fell to the floor and he was a free man. Some day," he muttered, as he walked away, "I'm going to get a car penter to nail me to one of the pillars in me noiei. it iooks nice it would pay.' Mr. Stoolfire of Spokane visited amongst us last week. He was not hobnobbing with H. C. Waterset oi Cambridge, Iowa, though they stayed at the samf hotel. B. Seltzer of Kansas City was in our midst last week. No, Hortense, his first name is not Bromo. IN. GOOD OLD EDEN -When Eve held forth, in Paradise She found much pleasure in it, For when she did her Monday wash It only took a minute. , Milwaukee Sentinel. And when the washing blew away Eve didn't fret or whine; , She merely sauntered forth and picked .New garments from the vine. -Springfield (Mass.) Union. , Eve never sassed, the laundryman Who brought her washing back, , And didn't, growl because no starch Was in her dressing sacque. Sctanton Tribune-Republican. And no complaints from Adam came Their happiness to wreck Because of collar edges which Sawed nearly through his neck. Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram. . But still, when springtime zephyrs blew The laundry in the ditch, It must have worried Eve a lot To tell which which was which. NOBODY LOVES A FAT MAN Personally, we do not pity the fat man, but some folks do. and we take pleasure in publishing the poem con tributed by one of our fellow towns men, who, of course, is kind of ponderous-like. He is a pretty good fel low, however, and for that reason we won't give his name. A man needs to keep all the friends he has. Well, anyway, here's the poem: Gee I ain't it tough to be fat, Till vou look like a hand-made bal loon To be laughed at wherever you're at At night time and morning and noon! But especially noon, when it's hot And people will ask what you weigh. And you think you will melt on the soot. And you hear them exultingly say: old dad. the bovs ran for home. too. Nobody loves a fat man he is merely 'probably too late. He had undoubtedly met the fate f the two dogs that in ine roaa; The poor old slob must be tired out he carries such a load. There's nothing that the boob can do 'but fill a lot of space; He looks just like a billboard, but he ""JJ1211 'ace. Whenever we walk down the pike roiK run tms way and that, And little children hit the hike. We are so gosh-hanged fat They fear we'll jar the buildings down Or mebbe melt like grease And float away the blooming town. And then they yell, "Police!" fConyrlcht 111J. bv SYaA fl Kellv V ASHINQTON, D. C. Feb. t Senator Heyburn of Idaho, whs plays full- nacit ior the standpatters. Is always among the first to detect the sig nal for an antl-standpat play. When he sees a Democrat or a, progres- nve fixing to frame up a wing shift or a forward pass, he rears right up and tries to crush the proposition with ths Impact of his voice. ' Whenever a senator not signed up with the standpat crowd has an Innocu ous little measure that he wishes to put through, one of his ehtef eonoerns is to get it "past Heyburn." There are different Ways of doing this. Not long ago a new senator, wise as to the foibles of human nature, thought up a soheme for "getting by" Heyburn. He knew that whom the gods would use they first flatter; so be walked over to Heyburn's desk, pulled some lint off the Idaha man's lapel, and said: -v '-v.,, v-.-. ".'.m-..; "Senator, I'm a good deal of a greenhorn In the ways of senate business, but I've got a little bill here I want to see acted on. You seem to understand matters here better than anybody e'ee. New. iiow shall I go about getting thla through? 'Do you suppose you could help me?" ' "Ah, that shouldn't be difficult," Heyburn Is said to have replied. 4 "Just leave it all to me." . The new senator did leae It all to Heyburn, and in due time hie bill came up for consideration. Reed Bmoot of Utah, who also wears a big black "8," for standpatter, on his shirt front started to rlas up with a "Here, what's thlar ex. presslon on his ace, but Heyburn slipped him a look that said, "It's all right" and the bill went through Just as nice as you please. '. - ' ' - Senator Johnston of Alabama bad witnessed the whole formation for the play, and he said to the new senator: "Ton seem to know a lot about human nature. My father used to tell, me always to stand close to a kicking horse. Tour father must have told you the same thing." . ' Senator Overman of North Carolina married a daughter of former Sena tee Menimon. At the time he was courting Merrimon'a daughter, he was also sec retary to Governor Vance, who was then opposing Merrimon for the senate. Thus It was a pretty mix-up. ' ' . Vance was away on a speaking tour against Merrimon When ' Overman's en gagement was announced. On his return he spoke to Overman sarcastically? "I see you've been doing things while I am gone." 5 , ; "Tee," admitted Overman, "I've got myself engaged to your opponent's daugh ter. And I do not see how I ean conscientiously be son-in-law to him and sec retary to you, so I hereby offer my resignation." , - Vance cooled down some then. "Oh, well," he said, 1 guess if Merrlmeo ean stand you for son-in-law, I ought to be able to put up with you for a secretary." . . s Senator "Bob" Taylor of Tennessee, who acts as a sort of human eflearlnsj ' house for stories about colored folk, and who can tell them better than any other living human, has Juat dug up this one: ' The boys were getting the dogs together for a 'coon hunt and their eld dad 'lowed that If his rheumatism would permit, he would like to see just en more 'coon hunt before he died. So they took dad along. When they got their pack of dogs around the 'coon. It turned out that the 'coon wasn't a 'coon at all, but a young bear. The bear slapped a couple of the dogs and put them out of business for keeps, and then the other dogs gave a wild yelp and beat It for home with a rush like a passenger train. Forgetting all about their poor By the time they thought or Mm, rt awatted bv the bear. But as they opened the door of their shanty, there sat dad In front of the stove, and around him lay the dogs that had fled homeward In such baste. 1 "When d'Ju git hyah. pap7" the boy Inquired. ' ; . , "Oh," dad replied, with unconcern, "I came with the dawgs." " Julius Kahn, the former actor, who represents one of the California dis trict a, ls Inclined to be fat One of Kahn'e fellow members was twitting tuna " abbuTtBlg-the cttCT dar,- but-Kahw--8sJ "There was a time," he said, "when I was ashamed of being built like a Turk, but not since I made a trip to Japan." Then he told what happened In Japan that reconciled him. 1 ' Japan, of course, has the oriental notion that man pr woman ia handsome in dlreet ratio to the amount of flesh carried. Kahn did not know thla until the morning he entered a little shop In Toklo to make some purchases. A out little salesgirl ran out from behind the counter, and without warning threw both arms around Kahn's neck, at the same time exclaiming in Japanese: "Oh-h, so nice and fat!" , Nobody loves a fat man he is built for gibes and jokes; They call us baby elephants and pity dl our folks; We're just as big both fore and aft, reversed or linaiHe itnwn- Nobody loves a fat man, as nobody iuvci a cictwn. NOTABLE NEWSPAPER "SCOOP" SCORED IN CIVIL WAR DAYS "Written by G. J. Kaufman of the Portland hotel isn t feeling very scrumptious this week, he being afflicted with the rheu- a j ,. r r Deiore any or mm oinor papers nu ?! u Af d manyof the b'!lhPs heard from their eorrespondents. He i.avc me luuiuaiisin. 100. wmcn is n. I.vi w Mnr. who resides at for The Sunday Journal Myron K. Myers. HERB is a man living In Port land today who pulled off the' biggest newspaper "scoop" In all ths days of the civil war. when he reported the fall of Vlcks- burg to tlie Chicago Journal three hours before any of the other papers had T mainly meant for a pun. Jewer notice that an unmuffled auto doesn't sound at all bad when you're in said auto? AS THE CATlTOOMSTSVIEWOT known municipal engineer of New York, ft 1x y "Peclal tret- who has recently made a study of the sewerage conditions In Europe is re' How many other unfortunates has that , tti. .... . .h.. quarter of a million dollars deluded and 9 lull.. 111 1 J 1 t.l CU. , . 4U OT.Lt 1 11 U 1U1U1UU, VCCVIO tarians on the continent as a rule have abandoned their fear of disease from sewer gas." Dr. Charles V. Chapln, superintendent of health of Providence, R. I., in a paper truth reaa Deiore ine American ueaicai asso ciation, entitled "Air Infection of Minor Importance." arrives at the same con clusions. Dr. Tyrrell quotes him, saying ihe Is especially emphatlo upon the point that the theory of air borne Infection to flow Into the coffers of medical ex perimentersf Answer: Not until the mil lionaires disappear. Like royalty they are forever protected from the bare ECORATIVE Surgery" Is urged . upon the orthodox profession by a London medical expert He says it is up to the ur- . VMni ' tn "HAnfttH iv11naa Is erroneous, that few diseases are dust tmm tt nPM Ar. borne snd that they can be spray borne have your features reshaped with the not beyond one or two feet Further, ecalpelt The Important question that that there is no proof that pulmonary recur, always In this connection is, consumption is an air borne disease. will ths removal of the marks of the Of course If the air from sewers with criminal degenerate. In head and face, their streams of filth, from houses, hos- at tn, ,ame tlm, remoVe the criminal pitals and slaughter houses, can no tendencies they advertise? longer be made to harbor the disease . . - germ bogie, we can quite safely take our chances on other air. Fumigation is doomed, and - quarantine of the healthy. R tdent Buffering Before Beauty. From Judge. "She dresses with great pains'." "Yes; her shoes pinch, her corset is too tight and she frequently scorches A series of toothed wheels revolve and. chop up the clinkers in an ash sif ter Invented by a New York man. urns are not wholly convincing of """ "" the value of the treatment there given. Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, pres. of Eudowood Institution near Baltimore, made a highly optlmlstlo re port to the directors, January 8. But the facts he gave did not bear put his generalizations. Out of a total of 317 cases recorded In the Institution in 1911, he reported "127 discharged, of which 71 were Improved greatly." This the report called "stamp ing out tuberculosis." "j" " To those who know' the fluctuating, insidious character of the disease, and further that the treatment which con sists of forced feeding is largely delu sive, in adding flesh without reestab lishing health, will see that such a re port la a practical confession of fall ' ure, ; . . Tuberculosis la best cured by pre venting It Breathe enough, , avoid drugs And dissipation, and you are safe. and to the Pacifio coast. He was ac companled in his travels by editor Bowles of the Springfield Republican, and by Vice-President Colfax, who vi alted Portland at the time. , Another "E VERY time a man gets angry ; he shortens his life by so many minutes, or days or perhaps years. A great deal ' ; depends on; the Intensity of -1 ' the anger.T..n::;i;.i; ' , Thus Dr. de Floury,' the authority on . .brainstorms.. However, it Is not so bad If the feeling is one of Just Indignation. V Then we feel stronger and are stronger : than usual: This another psychologist ... calls "pleasant anger.', a . - ;. . j Grief is among the most deadly ct '. emotions; it crushes us and leaves lis weaker than ever, we are told. . ' Ths fact Is that all emotions may be - classified as either negative or affirm ative. Negative emotions and feelings are .destructive. If. harbored. , Affirm ; attve feelings are restorative, enlarging -tour powers and Increasing our sphere ' of action. . . , .. . , - The essence of the negative Is hatredj SPOKWMANE,VIi,W: y .... nut eiis'i 1 1 iiiiT' ntr vrcma rr .a ium ntii - . ". .X' . s sH M , 1 . ' ..... eB ' mwtuui IWAfc . ES .i mmmmi . - . . 6S1 East Ankeny street Dr. Myers, was a correspondent for the Associated Press and also sent special dispatches to the Chicago Journal from Cairo, III., whlc was as far south as the telegraph line extended at that time. Cairo was alsolhe.jnllltary.and naval point of distribution, and from there were sent the expeditions against Fort Donaldson and Fort Henry. Dr. Myers published a newspaper in Iowa for twenty four years, until 190 when he secured the position of United States consul at Victoria, B. C. From Victoria Dr. Myers came to Portland and has been a resident of this city for the past fifteen years. The doctor Is now 82 years old, though he looks much younger and is still vigorous. "During the summer of 186S I was stationed at Cairo as a correspondent" said Dr. Myers. "Cairo was the most southern point for news, as the govern ment did not undertake to keep up the lines south for two reasons: first be cause the lines were often destroyed by local troubles further south, and sec ond, because ths rebels and sympathis ers would tap .the wires and secure im portant military news. Some Notable Correspondents. "During the seige of Vlcksburg there were at Cairo many representatives of 1 the leadlns.Abrthern papers all anxious correspondent was Tom Knox ef the If possible to be the first to announce New York Herald. He afterward tra- the result which was expected any hour, veled In Siberia by private conveyance. Among them were A. D. Richardson for and wrote a series of books for boys, the New York Tribune, who after the Charles A. Dana, was there part ef the war wrote an Interesting book entitled, time, also. There were three or four 'Beyond the Mississippi.' It was dee- other able men among them. . cnptive or a journey across the plains. "On the seventh of July I was stand- I' I P Dr. Levi W. Myers. tng on the river bank not far from mill tary headquarters when a dingy looking Stern wheel boat came puffing up the river and landed at Captain Pennock'e wharf boat I was still standing on the levee when a river pilot whom I knew came up and asked me If I had heard the news. "What newsr "Why. of the fall of Vlcksburg. That boat .that Just got In Is the dispatch boat bringing full Information." v f, "I hastened on board and gathered the substantial facts as quickly as pos sible, the hour of the surrender, number of rebels captured, munitions, property, and hurriedly wrote a dispatch of fifty lines. I then went on a dead run to military headquarters to get the dis patch approved, as there was military censorship on all news sent by ; tele censorship on all news sent by tele graph office, and It went through to Chicago. , where It was bulletined in front of the. Journal office in fifteen minutes after the arrival of the news at Cairo. -J .y;--, vi.'.- "As the dispatcher put the last words on the wire agents of the government came and took possession of the tele ' graph for the purpose of sending the of- flcial dispatches to Washington. As ex- pected they were voluminous and three Hours were consumed In sending them to the capltol. Meantime the special re- . presentatlves of the papers from all ovrr the north to the number of more timn half a dozen danced about the telegraph ' offloe eager but unable to send a sin gle word until the Unas were relees'-d 1 by the government agents, . . . "It wae'a "seoop that I hsve alweys been proud of. .It was especially for tunate on my part because I hat r.t assistants at any point down the lstlppl rHtr, while nearly nil t?. -clals had representatives with t r my, and on river gunboats, en I n points along th rlvr. Tdey I 1 -. 'dance of 'material but thn u.. v were beyond their reach tor t I or more,"