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YELLOW JACK
OF MILD FORM
New Cases in New Orleans on De¬
cline and Deaths Few.
A MOST HOPEFUL VIEW
Country Infection is Still a Source of
Acxiety--Summary of Situation
at Various Outside Points.
One new ease of yellow fever de*
YelojKid in Pensacola, Fla., Frida:'.
The i* rsou is George Dansby, a
negro man, who arrived in the
city one week ago from Marianna,
end 8<r:ur.vl employment in the dis¬
trict, whet'.; the fever la'er devel¬
oped. He vas taken ill Sunday, and
Dr. Guitrrts, the Cuban fever expert,
pronounced it a; a mild type of the
disease. One patient, W. J. Abe'.',
died early Friday morning.
A New Orleans special of Friday
says: For the flrs‘ time in several
weeks the -lumber of new eases on a
week day was below forty, which is
regarded "is cumulative evidence of
the an ady improvement in the local
t Ituation.
The deaths continue to be few, but
for the first time since the few
broke out, not one of them is an
Italian. One is a negro, a id all lived
down town,
A nest of three cases was discov¬
ered just across the protection levee
above Oar.>lllon, in Jefferson parish,
the pub e s being Italians. Hospital
street., whkn lias had lt»0 cases so
far fadlej to report a new case Fri¬
day.
Assistant Surgeon W. C. Rucker ot
the marine hospital service is down
witli a slight fever, but his ease has
not yet been diagnosed as yellow fe¬
ver. Passed Assistant Surgeon Currie,
who has be *n in command in Algiers,
has just recovered from am attack
of appendicitis.
The country infection is still a
'»ooree of anxiety, because now that
♦*** '*” being cl ©are* of * ’ufection
.„*.re is aangcr o* foctlon. Jn M
sisslppi there have been about seven-,
ty cases to date, and only one deaih.
There have ben no cases traced
la the country since the new regula¬
tions have been In effect, but the fact
that Vickabugg and Natchez, with
their air-tight, quarantines, nave ter
in infect ion, leads to the determina¬
tion on the part of the s'ate health
authorities to exert themselves to th°
utmost to control the country situa¬
tion. S'rang measures are being
adopted wherever there is evidence
of tin 1 slightest laxity in the situa¬
tion in anv country community.
One wealthy sugar planter who re¬
fused to allow or contribute to the
erection of an emergency hospital on
his place, where quite a number ot
Italians are infected, will have his
place declared a public nuisance and
the state board will take control and
force him to pay the bill.
The two cases discovered at La
Rose in La Fourclie parish, thirty
five miles from I.eeville, have been
traced directly to Leeville, one of the
patients being Dr. Tertrau, who at¬
tended several cases in Leeville.
Reports from Outside.
The following reports were receiv¬
ed Friday:
Patterson, three cases, one deatn.
Wav el and plantation, three cases,
one death,
Kenneh, four cases, one dealh.
Hanson City, two oases.
Amelia, five eases.
pay on Harrow, two cases.
Bayou Cook, Plaquemines parisJt
(now focus), one case.
Lake Providence, tuo eases.
GuTyort. two cases.
Mississippi City, two cases.
Matches, iwo cases.
swims i k \ok pkivce charlcs.
Court Officials Desire lhot Oscar's Son
lake Throne ot Norway.
According to a Copenhagen special,
it is expected th.i negotiations be
tween Norway and Sweden will soon
result in a full agreement on the
subje. t of the dissolut ion ot the
union.
The Swedish c> ,••• favors the can
didr.iy of Piinee Charles ef Sweden
for - Norwegian throne, but is
not < er a in that -he riks.'.-g will c
t : c Norw ... . • ■ o 7
crow.is yeariv rs r.n ail.’.vatice for
the eventual king.
MAYOR IS DENOUNCED.
Atlanta Chief Executive Called Down
in Scathing Resolutions by the
City Council.
In strong terms the general ccun
cll of the city of Atlanta Friday ai
ternoon condemned the conduct of
Mayor Woodward when he was at¬
tending the convention of the League
of American Municipalities at To¬
ledo, Ohio. The resolutions adc-pted
by the council, and which was re¬
ported from a committee of the w heie
are as follows:
"Whereas, Mayor James G. Wood¬
ward attended the League of Ameri¬
can Municipalities, recently held in
Toledo, in his official capacity and
a the expense of the city of Atlanta,
for the purpose of inviting the con¬
vention to hold its next session in
Atlanta; and,
"Whereau, the committee appointed
by the city council to attend the
session of the league has returned
and made its report to the city coun¬
cil and the mayor has also made a
statement to the council; and,
‘‘Whereas, it appears from the press
reports throughout the country and
from other reliable sources, that the
mayor, on the floor of the convention,
and during its deliberations, was in
a state of partial intoxication, and so
conducted nimsclf while in Toledo as
to bring discredit upon Atlanta ana
IrmniLation to her people; and,
"Whereas, by such conduct in his
official capacity he has outraged the
sentiment and spirit of our people
bo it, therefore,
"Resolved, by the general council
of the city of Atlanta as follows:
“L That we deplore and condemn
the spectacle made of himself by
the mayor of Atlanta on August 24
on ihe floor of the convention of the
League of American Municipalities,
and his conduct during his sojourn ui
Toledo.
"2. That the condition and conduct
of Mayor Woodward on the occasion
mentioned are in no wise typical
of Atlanta, but meet with severest
censure of this body and the strong¬
est condemnation of our people.
“3. That a copy of this resolution
be sent to the mayor of Toledo, the
officers of the League of American
Municipalities and, through the A^o
elated Press, to the leading journals
throughout the country with the re
qnest that they give the same as
prominent space in their columns as
was given to their reports of the ex
ItlMtlfOris" ■ mauL ~tfy the m ayor ot At :
laata.”
Mayor Woodward made a statement
before the council, which had many
sensational turns. He denied that ho
hc.-d acted in any way wrong, bur
admitted that he had “taken a few
Iks M's." He declared he had done
nothing for which he would apolo¬
gize, and that if he should go off
and drink soda water somebody would
tell lii-s on him.
10 DECIDE ON TYPE (!E CANAL
Noted Inqineers ol America and Europe
Hold a Meeting in Washinqton.
Eminent engineers of America and
Europe met in Washington Friday
upon the call of President Roosev >lt
to investigate and make recommenda¬
tions as to the type of canal that is
to connect the waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans.
The recommendations of the con¬
sulting engineers will not be final,
but will be made to the isthmian ca¬
nal commission, which, in turn, will
use its own judgment in <a report to
tho president.
CHINA TO STOP BOYCOTT.
Government Issues Important Orders to
Viceroys of Various Provinces.
China has placed the boycott of
American products under an imperial
ban. An edict has been issued by tUv,
government, eomanding viceroys ard
governors of provinces to take meas¬
ures for the suppression of the boy¬
cott and holding them strictly re¬
sponsible. Tho state department a>
Washington lias received a cablegram
from Minister Rockhill at Pekin giv¬
ing a summary of the edict.
ATRONAbf BIOWN TO TSAGYIINTS.
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Ba,,oon h,, 1-> '« ‘he Air.
A' Gri <\i\ ille, Ohio, *11 ursday, Act
o: aut Baldwin of LcsantivLle, Ind.,
was blown to shreds with his balloon
at a height of two thousand feet. He
'"as giving on exhibition of the use
o i.jnannte Irom a. halioqji for war
purposes a n ? had three sticks of the
< \j icsive with him.
When he was two thousand feet in
the air. in full sight of thousands of
people attending the county fair, by
some accident the dynamite
ami the balloon end man were literal
’ !y torn to fragments. -
loiiooRry
COLLEGE HUMOR.
'Willie saw somd dynamite,
Couldn’t understand it quite;
Curiosity It never pays;
rained Willie seven days.
—Princeton Tlge..
CAUSE OF TliE TROUBLE.
Miss Justin—-“Do i tell mc-1 What is
the newest thing im swell gowns?"
Miss Tartnn—“Why, dear, you are.”
—Chicago Tribune. j
—
ANOTHER DANGEROUS STAGE.
.Medical Student-{-“What is the sur¬
est sign of convalescence?”
Old Practitioner-'-“When the patient
begins to make lojve to his nurse.”—
Town Topics.
'■‘*T5W*£?
IIIS W4&K OUT.
Fond Mother—“Well, Mr. Criticus,
what do you think tof Mary’s voice?”
madam! Mr. Criticus— volunie 1 “Astonishing is simply wonder* volume,
Its
ful.”—Somerville .1 ournal.
AT 1 If P. M.
Mr. Borem — “Everything sticks so
this humid weathejr.” Vis
Miss Patience— 1 that the reason
you can’t pull yourself away, Mr.
Borem?”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
DECLINED ‘fiflTH THANKS,
Tier Father- ret to say, young
man, that control eircum ices over which I
have no pel me to decline
your offer for for ighter’s hand.”
— *‘W'iuii e’-'ctmi
stances are those?”
Her Father—“Yours. -Pick Me Up.
NO TIME TO EXPLAIN.
“You have quit complaining about
the price of meat.”
“Had to quit,” answered the indus¬
trious citizen. “I p kept so busy
have hustling for the price 1 that I no longer
time to co.nplain,”—Chicago
Journal. /
A RABID VIEW.
“Now, professor,” sakl Miss Kay,
"you know something of human na¬
ture; at what age does the average
man of intelligence marry?”
"Dotage!” promptly replied the
crabbed old fellow.—Philadelphia Press.
FELINE.
Toss—“Do you like the cut of my
new skirt?”
Jess—“Very much.”
Te«s—“Do you, really?”
Jess—“Yes, indeed, I had three jusi
like it when they were in style,”—
Philadelphia Press.
COUNTING THE COST.
Bacon—“Do you believe that time is
money ?"
Egbert—"Certainly I do.”
“Well, if you had a dollrfr watch.nnd
had to wind it up for a week, how
much would a dollar watch cost'.-"—
Yonkers Statesman.
A GENTLE REMINDER.
Mrs. Blue—“My husband is so tired
hearing about coal bills that I don’t
dare mention it to him again and we’re
all out. What shall I do?”
Mrs. True—“Let lain freeze for a
while and he’ll thijik of it himself.”
—Detroit Free Press.
SUFFICIENT CAUSE.
“Subbubs’ house was all lighted up
night." said the first suburbanite.
JSSafaStfa: 1 * " tre
"Nonsense they haven’t been married
twenty-five vears ”
, "No. but they have had one cook for
j twenty-five days.”—Philadelphia Press,
--
. AN EVIL BLUNDER,
“i made a serious mistake to-day,”
j . aid the doctor.
"What was it?” queried the drug
| gist,
! "I charged a stranger §2 for a con
saltation.” answered the M. D., "and
01 ' paying it lie said he fully ex
Rccted to pay $10.”—Columbus Dis
patch.
! MUNICIPAL CHILD
REARING IN ENGLAND.
An interesting Expcrrr.snt That is
Being Carried on in the Mnnufac.
taring Town cf Huddersfield.
T:: ? t07ra of Huddersfield, England,
which stanos in the front rank of the
'Ties that hare adopted the plan of
pualie utilities owned a:ul controlled
by the municipal authorities, has re¬
cent.y taken a further step and pro
v.ded for child-rearing under official di¬
rection. Realizing that a large part of
rhi* death rate among the poor was of
infants under one year of age, owing to
insufficient or unintelligent care and
nourishment, the Mayor of the city of¬
fered a bonus of $4 to every child
lx>m in one of the districts that should
attain the age of twelve months. This
offer, which is to hold good during the
term of the present incumbent’s May¬
oralty, lad tho local health authorities
to consider whether steps should not
be taken toward saving the lives of in
j fants.
Accordingly they decided to offer a ro-
1 ward of one shilling to the first person
I who should inform the medical officer
of the birth of a child within fortv
eight hours of its occurrence. The
mother is then to be visited by physi
elfins and women health visitors, who
will instruct her as to the best methods
: of feeding, washing and clothing the
! child, while, in addition, detailed in
J structions are to be prepared and print¬
ed for general distribution,
j The health visitors will also examine
j the homes of the mothers and factories
and other places where women are em¬
ployed, and cases where deaths of
children under one year have occurred
will be investigated. Furthermore, a
year’s experiment will be undertaken
with a day nursery, where children will
be cared for and sterilized milk will
be supplied for the babies. Hudders¬
field is a manufacturing town, anil the
authorities consider that its present
strength can best be preserved through
maintaining its-native labor. They
therefore believe that if the,infant
mortality is reduced to a minimum a
largo majority of the children will
grow to manhood and womanhood.
The experiment is interesting.—Har¬
per’s Weekly.
Dewey’a Nimbi* Srllor.
Admiral Dewey at a dinner in Wash¬
ington praised the nimbleness of the
well trained sailor.
“Did you ever hear,” be asked, “of
the sailor who turned shepherd? Well,
this sailor, wearying of the sea, gave
up his ship and journeyed into Scot¬
land. for his grandparents had been
Scottish and the love of the hea*' r
ran in his veins.
“In the towns of "Scotland there was
little to do, but in the country, he was
told, work was plentiful. There was
a demand for good shepherds. So the
sailer went into the wild uplands, and
at the farms along the way he asked
for a shepherd’s place. One farmer
needed a shepherd and lie looked the
sailer over.
“ ‘Man,’ he said, ‘ye’re bonny and
strong and intelligent anil all that; but
man, whaur’s yer sheep dog?'
“ ‘I have no sheep dog,’ said the
sailor. ‘I am no lumbering lubber that
must have liis hording done by a dog
for him. I can herd sheep without a
sheep dog.’
“The farmer laughed a dry laugh
and said: ‘Ye may have a try at it
if ye like. Do you see on yon moun¬
tain all the sheep like little white balls
o’ cotton wool? Weel, man, I want all
time sheep—and: there’s just three
hoondred o' them—brought in time pen
by six o’clock to-morrow morning. Can
ye do it T
“ ‘To be sure I can,’ said the sailor,
and without wasting any words he set
off to herd the sheep into the pen.”—
Baltimore Sun.
A Good Place For Miners.
“Alaska is not a bad place when yo^
get used to it,” said a miner wlio sper^
the last seven years in one of the bi/
mining camps, at tee Schlitz. “I dam
know of any place where an ordinal
miner can do so well. Let him work a
summer and he hr.s SToO in his pocket
at the summer’s close. He can invest
S200 in provisions and hibernate in
ills cabin. At the end of the following
summer he has $750 more. Allowing
$50 for boots and clothing, lie reaches
Seattle with $1200 in his pocket. There
is no chance to spend money. The
weather in the winter prevents sleigb
ing parties, and there are no roads.
anyway. Journeys into the eouiitry
arc generally made on foot. When I
left camp on October 10 the Tempera¬
ture was zero. About Christmas it
gets down to CO below. Then it ,mod
crates to about 40, and that is con¬
sidered very mild weather. One doesn't
feci it as much as he would 20 below
here, as the air is dry. In February
the cold weather comes on again and
the mercury falls to about 70 below.
That is generally the limit, and after
that time it moderates slowly until
summer conies, and in July it is 90
above. But the miner who works u:i
dergromid never feels the Iicat. the
atmosphere in the mines being like
that of an icehouse. The life of a
placer min? is about seven year:-.
There is a vast amount of undiscov- i
wed mining country, which is daub:- i
less as rich as any yet known and de !
velou d."— Milwaukee Free Press.
Aactber Device far Preventing Sea¬
sickness.
An Ingenious self-leveling sea bunk
for vessels, the object of which is
To overcome the discomfort to the
passenger of ma!-de-mer, has been
devised by a London dentist. It has
now been in successful operation
u>on one of the mail-boats plying
across the English Channel. The de¬
vice comprises a swinging cot with
four cords passing from the corners
to electric brakes, which automatic¬
ally check any attempt of the cot
to depart from its position. While
the cot remains level, the cords are
free to pass on and off the pulleys
on the brakes. The slightest loss
of horizomtality of Jbe cot causes
mercury in four tubes to fall in some
of them and rise In others, and so
complete the electric current to the
particular brake required to be put
in operation (to check the further
loss of horizontaffty. The lose of
level from the variation of the posi¬
tion taken by the passenger is auto¬
matically compensated; water being
practically the same specific gravity
as the human body, a heavy man will
press more water to the foot of a spe¬
cially-designed water bed than a light
weight, as also from side to side
Women art-d Debt.
Some wives drift into debt with
much indifference as if they would
never be required to meet their ob¬
ligations. Women who are thus
rash anri improvident are certainly
weak-minded, and are laying the
foundation for domestic trouble.
The tempter tempts; the tradesman,
or milliner is quite willing to trust
them to any extent, or, if they will
not., the butcher or baker will, and
the ready money is spent on frivo¬
lous trifles. A woman assure© her¬
self bv the flattering assurance that
“I shall be sure to make it up some¬
how.” Things go from bad to worse,
until at last the husband has to be
informed thjj’.t impatient creditors
will wait no 'longer for their money.
Then the dainty new bonnets' and
dresses, which formerly seemed to
him so pretty, appear only as super¬
fluous finery. A wife who has once
allowed herself to give way to debt
must exercise great vigilance upon
her actions, so as to avoid a repeti¬
tion. It is so easy to give way, and
in families of limited income such
extravagance may mean serious in¬
convenience.
An Austrian army officer cut him¬
self under the chin in shaving, the
green collar of his tunic rubbed
against the cut and he died of blood
poisotiifng. - --- i
The Polite Usher’s Advice.
A Brooklyn young man took bis
best girl to church, and as he reach¬
ed a partially filled pew he turned to
the usher and asked:
“Do you suppose we could squeeze
in here?”
“You might be able to,” replied the
usher, politely, “hut I would advise
you to wait until you get home.”
A writer to the New Y'ork Sun
says: “The lesson for the day is one
given by the Japanese; and is that
a nation may become great without
the aid of indiscriminate immigra¬
tion; that a people may be homo*
geneous and still be strong.”
OUST THE DEMON.
A Tussle With Coffee.
There is something fairly demonia¬
cal in the way coffee sometimes wreaks
its fiendish malice on those who use it.
A lady writing from Calif, says:
“My husband and I, both lovers of
coffee, suffered for some time* from a
very annoying form of nervousness,
accompanied by most frightful head
aches. In my own case there was
eventually developed some sort of af¬
fection of tlie nerves leading from the
spine to the head.
“I was unable to bold my head up
straight, the tension of the nerves
drew it to one side, causing me Ihe
most intense pain. We got no relief
from medicine, and were puzzled as to
what caused tlie trouble, till a friend
suggested that possibly the coffee we
drank had something to do with it, and
advised that we quit it anil try Pos
tum Coffee.
“We followed his advice, and from
the day that we began to use Postuni
we both began to improve, and in a
very short time both of us were en¬
tirely relieved. The nerves became
steady once more, the headaches
erased, the muscles in the back of my
neck relaxed, my head straightened
up and the dreadful pain that had so
punished me while I used the old kind
of coffee vanished.
“We hare never resumed the nse of
the old coffee, but relish our Postnm
every day as well as we did the for¬
mer beverage. And we are delighted
to find that we can give it freely to
our children also, something we never
dared to do with the old kind of cof¬
fee.’’ Name given by Postum Co., Bat¬
tle Creek, Mich.
Postum Coffee contains absolutely no
drugs of any kind, but relieves the
coffev drinker from the old drug poison.
There’s a reason.