2 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMsBURG, PA. nittSKNT THKOKY OF CHOLKItA. OLD AGE PENSION IN WALES. Making Them Ready to Pass American Inspectors IGNORANT ARE ROBBED Qnnrk Pnrtors nml I'orclnti Stciim tttiip ('oinpiiiiiris Snll to Wot k To (jctlHT Mmiy Sick Foreigners Admitted Naples Forbid Ills ensed KinlTiints Kinhiirklnu;. The frauds Rnd deceptions prnc- '& by the foreign strnmtihlp rom i1p In "dortorlnn" diseased etnl ints to get them In nhape to rnn medical Inspection of the Vnlted ites Immigration nuthorltlPH nt nrts In this country are expose.! In s pecial report received by Cotnpils-sk-ner General of It migration Sar gent. Some AHtonlsliIng revelatlonB are made In the report, which Indi cates that the business of patching up disease affected aliens bound for our shores amounts to a nek-nee In many European seaport cities. The report was made by Maurice Flshberg, a special agent In the Im migration service. Mr. Flshberg found thnt It Is the custom of nearly all the foreign steamship companies to herd emi grants in larpe boarding houses at the ports of embarkation, where they are "doctored" find put into condi tion to pass the medical Inspectors Iti this country. The steanisMp com panies have learned that It la not safe to ship to this country an alien bearing pluin evidences of contagious disease. The emigrants are rounded up at boarding houses which are con ducted by agents of the various steamship lines. The day before the teamor sails the ship's surgeon will visit the emigrants nnd examine them. One such place visited by Mr. Fishberg contained fifty emigrants, mostly Armenians, Italians and Greeks, who had been refused trans portation to continental ports. The steamship agents boasted that they could get the men Into the United States, despite the fact that they had been rejected In Europe. The ship's surgeon, In his particular case, made only a pretense of an examination. Right under the eyes of the special agent he passed two cases of de formity of the hands, a case of small pox, a case of locomotor ataxia and one of paralysis. Special Agent Flshberg reports that In Marseilles the treatment of trachoma by fraudulent prat tltloners has assumed remakable proportions. Tost of the emigrants from the ''ent, from Syria and Armenia, es : vlally, on their way to the United states, stop at Marseilles where they ill Into the hands of a notorious uack. He bleeds them as long as -heir money lasts, under the pretence of curing them of diseases, actual end Imaginary. The Oriental races are especially prone to trachoma, and the "doctor" plies a profitable busi ness "coaching" them for the exami nation in the United States. The French government has tried to run this fake doctor out of the country, but the steamship companies have always been powerful enough to save him from banishment. It appears that the examination vlileh the ship's physician makes is of the most cursory sort. No effort Is made to detect the presence of favus, a loathsome disease of the head. Most of the emigrants are In spected with their heads covered. But the most dangerous disease 'which our immigration authorities have to guard against Is trachoma, an eye affliction. By skilful treat ment the signs of the disease may be removed for a few hours, but they will return as soon as the treatment 1s stopped. In London and Liver pool the clinics of the eye infirm aries, Mr. Flshberg reports, are daily crowded with aliens who are being treated for trachoma, expecting to go to the United States as soon as "cured." One of the worst featuren of this whole business, Mr. Flshberg says, is the brazen way which the steam ship companies' agents boast they can get any kind of diseased person into the United States. One ayent Informed Mr. Fluhberg that he would undertake to land in the Uni ted States any alien no matter if the emigrant had been refused admis sion at continental ports and hrvl been rejected on arrival In the t lilted States. He openly boasted tliat ho had done this for alibis who hiA been previously turned back.' Irom the shores of the United States. Mr. Flshberg has come to the con clusion that Naples Is the only port where Inspection Is done conscien tiously and honestly with the pur pose of preventing diseased emi grants from reaching the Uulted. States. Mr, Flshberg recommends that Dledlcal inspectors from our govern ment be stationed at all foreign ports to pass on the eligibility of emigrants sailing for the United States. He thinks this Is the only thing that can effectively break up the present method of "doctoring" migrants so as to get them safely past our inspectors. He also thinks it important that steps be taken to check the activity of the "runners," vVho misrepresent conditions in the United States so as to lnduco alien to emigrate. Brooklyn Eagle. A Collection of Idiots. "I want to ask for the hand of your daughter In marriage," said the young man. "You're an Idiot," said the irate fhther. "I know It. But I didn't suppose you'd object to another on la tb family." Tuckers 8t&tumetu j lnulles Authorities to Control Us Itnvancs i Mild Climates. When It Is remembered thnt near ly 100,000 persons have recently dl'- l In the Philippines during a two i ins' epidemic without any Infec tion of the United States, a review of the growth of knowledge regarding cholera during the last seventy-five yo-irs, which has enabled the au thorities to control Its ravages nt 1e;i?t In temperate climates, becomes of considerable Interest. In the fall of 1831, at the time of the first serious invasion of the Uni ted States by cholera, Dr. Joseph Mather Smith, then professor of the theory nnd practice of physic and clinical medicine nt the College of Physicians and Surgeons In New York City, delivered a lecture to his students on the epidemic cholera. Apropos of quarantine measures he said: "Against the Invasion of meteora tlous epidemics all public enact ments are in effect nullities. The causes of these diseases being cer tain Influences which pervade the general atmosphere, are as uncon trollable by human agency as stormy clouds nnd tempests. That the cause of cholera of this sort cannot be doubted; and In this conviction we must regard the sanitary measures recently adopted by our municipal authorities as Impotent and nuga tory. They serve but to dissipate popular apprehensions." To-day Dr. Smith's so-called me teoratlous diseases have been rele gated to the limbo of exploded myths, nnd the quarantine measures which he pooh-poohed, plus careful sanitation, protect the western hemisphere from those great epi demics which used to sweep 'across the world and slaughter men by hun dreds of thousands. The epidemic, or, as it is now called, Asiatic cholera, is known to be caused by a germ, and the most pestiferous winds and emanations are impotent to produce an epi demic unless this little organism is swallowed. There must be an act ual transference of the parasite from sick to well to spread the disease. There have been five serious epi demics of cholera In Europe during the nineteenth century : In 1830, 1846, 1865, 1884. 'and 1892; cases from every one of which have at least reached our Atlantic ports, and from several of which the United Slates has been seriously affected. The delta of the Ganges is the true homo of cholera, and It can al ways be found there. There are a few other places In India, Indo Chlna, China, and Japan where It Is usually present. The origin of all the European epidemics, however, has been the Ganges delta. "By no occult or mysterious power, by no trade wind or electrical agency, but in every case by man himself has It been carried out of this pesthole and spread over the world." Until 1883, although cholera was thought by many to be a germ dis ease, there was no proof of this. In that year Koch, while working in Egypt, isolated his so-called "comma bacillus," und provod that It was the specific cause of cholera. It is a small organism, from loss than one to three twenty-five thousandths of an Inch long, and appears under the microscope as a comma or S shaped body; some writers, however, be lieve that these minute particles are only fragments of a larger spirillum. To test the truth of Koch's conclu sions, Pettenkofer and his pupils, and also Metchnlkoff, deliberately swnllowed cultures of the comma bacillus. They suffered from the symptoms of a mild attack of chol era, and the germs were found in their excretions. This microbe can live in ordinary drinking water for six or seven days; in milk, where it grows vigorously without at all altering the appear ance or taste of the later, it will live at least four days, and It has been found alive In butter forty-eight days after infection. Even very dilute acids are viru lent poisons to the germ, hence it is killed by the fluids of a normal stomach. Regarding treatment there is little to bo said; the physician can only treat symptoms, and unless the pa tient is Been very early In the attack even theso can bo but little miti tfatod. Kegardlng the various meth od u of preventive inoculation from that of Ferran down, the outlook is not encouraging. Haffklne and sev eral other Investigators have claimed some considerable success with their sera, and Dr. Richard P. Strong of the government laboratories In the Philippines Is hopeful of an antitox in which has been used there. New York Post. llencdirtine. Pat had occasion to pay a visit to the parish priest. The host brought a bottle of benedictlne, and filling a liquor glass, reminded his guest that the wine was made by the holy monks. "To get the full flavor," he said, "It should not be swallowed at once, but sipped slowly." Pat caught up the tiny glass, looked at it for a moment, and then sipped the cordial as directed. When he had finished Pat placed the glass on the table with a look of satisfac tion on his face. "And what do you think of the benedictlne?" asked the priest. "Blessln's on the holy monks who made that stuff, but the dlvll fly away with the man that lnvlnted the glass," answered Pat. Black and White. A man's hair turns gray five years sooner than a woman's. MS NT m Revelations by the Anti-Treaty Riots of Clan Rule POSITION OF THE MIKADO Marquis Ito and Count CUuinn (lie Great Political ItUnls Do not Hesitate to Publicly (Vitxure the Mikado-Sham Party Government Constitutional I tight Illusory. The peace treaty having become the football of Japanese political parties, It would be Interesting to point out exactly where the- parties stand and for what they stand, but this Is very difficult, says the New York Herald. There are out there two principal parties around which revolve a number of personal groups, seeking prominence and spoils when the opportunity presents. The Pro gressive party is led by Count Oku ma, "the sage of Washeda." For a decade his cry has been "Russia in the Far East must be destroyed," and cruel must have been his awak ening when apprised that by the treaty signed on American soil Rus sia is only crippled. The most powerful party, nnd the one most numerously represented In the Diet, Is the constitutional party, created and really led by the Mar quis Ito. This party, the Sel-yu-kal, swears by the constitution, which Is perhaps the most ineffective Instru ment thnt was ever devised as a pal ladium of popular rights. Marquis Ito, who is said to have drawn up the instrument with his own hnnd, chose as his model the sham consti tution which Bismarck conferred up on Germany, and in putting the pro visions of this document Into Japan ese he left out nnd weakened those which would seem to affect In how ever slight a measure the supremacy of the monarchical principle. We are often Informed by Japan ese statesmen that theirs is a con stitutional country and that the power of veto is reserved to the peo ple and is an inalienable right. They do not add, however, that the pres ent Emperor has dismissed three or four parliaments that were not pliant to his will, and that up to the pres ent he has dono so with impunity. After all Is said, party government in Japan Is n farce, or rather a sham, and the elder statesmen who secured the confidence of the Mikado in the stormy days of the revolution and restoration of 18C8 rule the country as unquestionably as ever did Oreclnn oligarchy or thnt coterie of Russian Grand Dukes of which we hear so much nnd know so little. Ito, Yamagnta, louye, MatBtikata and Hyashi, the Ambassador in London, are the names of theso privy and most potent councillors, nnd In the name of the Emperor they rule tho empire. These statesmen differ more or less In their party affiliations, but they one and all belong to the Sat suma, the Cho-Shin or one of the smaller affiliated clans of Southern Japan which placed the Emperor on his throne a generation ago and have monopolized his attention and his confidence ever since. Their pro gramme varies from day to day, but one plank from which they never de part reads "the supremacy of the Sat-Cho (a combination of Satsuma and Cho-Shln) now and for all time." It has been thought by many that one of the most potent causes of the Russian war was the necessity which the Southern clansmen felt of con solidating their power, Instead of consecrating it by the successful Marquis Ito, "Illsmurck of Japan." leadership of a popular war. While the constitutional rights of the Ja panese people are purely illusory and the restraints upon the power of the Emepror are ineffective, still the peo ple of Japan have been discussing these matters for the last years, and In such a tone as suggested to the leaders of the clans the desirability of changing the subject. For the Japanese are politically, at least, becoming more articulate. Ten years ago, when the Emperor re turned to the capital after yielding to the Russian demand for the ret rocession of the Llaotong Peninsula, one hundred thousand people met him at the Shlmbashl station, and one and all with heads bowed in re spectful disapproval. Since then this once godlike ruler has been publicly censured In mass meeting and the burning of the oinces of the Minister of the Interior, by a mob wbloh was composed of the dregs of the Toklo population, as stated, but it cannot be denied was a mob which had re oelvod the indorsement of the city government and the press of the capital. Has Markedly Increassd the State Debt. Among tho claims made for the New Suuth Wales ohl-iigo pension act, prior to its passage, were that (llf.-t) It would lessen the number ot indigent pei'Mdis in the various slate institu tions; (second) it would remove much worry on the part of people growing eld as to provision for the I mure; (third) it would have a tendency to encourage relatives to assist in the sup port of the aged, thereby avoiding Hie reflections usually cast upon them when aged relatives became objects of char ity, and (fourth) it would ultimately diminish the taxatlou required under the old system. The act was passed and has been In operation live years. The labor members of tho federal par liament, desiring to pass similar laws, appointed a commission to Inquire Into the results obtained from tho New South Wales act. Among thoBC who testified before this commission was the director of government asylums for the infirm in New South Wales, who stated, In substance, that about six months after the act came into force GOO old people secured their pensions and left the benevolent asylums; that the majority returned to the Institu tions and surrendered their pensions, there now being almost as many in mates as there had been prior to the passage of the act; that the reasons given for returning were that they were better cared for in the institu tions and could live more comfortably there, and that the annual cost of maintenance per inmate at the asylums was fSO. From a statement made by the state treasurer it appears that the amount expended for the old-age pen sions last year exceeded $2,500,000, while the amount necessary to support the infirm was greater than ever be fore, yet the population had not mate rially Increased. Brooklyn Eagle. Purifying Drinking Water. It Is probable that electric purlflca- I tlon of drinking water will soon be In troduced Into the home. This method, already uaed by a number of municipal water works in Germany, Is based upon the germ-killing effects of ozone, which is cheaply engendered by electricity. If an electric discharge takes place be tween two glass tubes, one Inside the other, whose surfaces facing each oth er are coated with metal, ozone is de veloped in the space between the tubes. Electricians have tried In recent years to simplify tho means of electric ozone development for purifying water. The ideal apparatus would be one which housekeeper could put up In the kitch en, and by utilizing the electric current of the common electric light wires, pur ify every glass of drinking water. In fact, such an apparatus seems to have been successfully made by Mr. Otto, a French engineer. This apparatus is of very simple con struction and takes up little spaco. It consists principally of a small, closed box, the metal cover of which is made conductory with the bottom. In the box Is an ozone developer, an inter rupter and a tin tube. Through the lat ter the ozone, which first has to pass through a cotton stopper to free It from dust and germs contained In the air, is conducted into the water and mixed therewith. If much ozone has been ab sorbed, the water becomes phosphor escent in the dark. The most impor tant part of the apparatus Is the "mix er," action of which can be interrupted at will. The apparatus is capable cf purifying about CO gallons of water In an hour, and the cost per hour Is about the same as that of an ordinary elec tric incandescent light. Chicago News. Frog Cure for Typhoid Fever. Your correspondent, like other peo ple, lives and lewns. He discovered yesterday that a toad applied to tliu foot of a fever patient, and kept there, would certainly cure the patient. It may be that the same is a well known remedy, known ot old, but It is new here. A young man In this county has been very low with typhoid fever for several weeks; so ill, in fact, that the physicians gave him up to die. Anoth er young man ouce suffered with typhoid and took the frog treatment and was cured, and so tho treatment was applied to the pationt mentioned, with gratifying results. The young man Is reported as convalescing. The toadB, the story runneth, turn green and die, having drawn all the lever from the patient, it seems to bo aa excellent remedy, but It Is tough on the frog. Charlotte News. How Foolscap Got Its Name. Everyone probably has wondered why a certain size paper, familiar to all who write, Is called foolscup. As early as the year 1301 water marks were employed by paper manufacturers to distinguish their products. One grade of paper much in demand during the Middle Ages, resembling what we call foolscap and known by that name, had tor its water mark a fool's head' wearing cap and bells. The mark ap peared on this grade of paper until the middle of the seventeenth century when the figure of Britannia was sub stituted by the English manufacturers, and other marks by other papal-makers. No one has, however, changed the name of the paper, so we have to this day the foolscap paper. China's Many Canals. The canals which form a network throughout a great part of China abound in fish. The nee fields, which are irrigated with the water from those canals, make Ideal hatching places tor them. Smallest Polloe Station. The smallest police station in Eng land ta at the town of Fishguard, In Pembrokeshire, the building boing only Stout 10 feet square. r ivv. ...,. ... . .- Tho Kind You llavo Always ia uso for over 30 years, and . sonnl supervision slneo Its Inraney. t-cUcuH, Allow no ono to deed vo you In this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-pood" aro out Experiments that trifle with nnd endanger tho health of Infants nnd Children Experience ngainst Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops nnd Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphlno nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worm nnd allays Feverislmess. It cures Dlarrluca nnd Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation nnd Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates tho Stomach nnd Bowels, giving healthy nnd natural sleep. Tho Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. ' VMS eiNTKUM COMMNV, Tf MUMM TRECT, NCW VO OITV. Tba Banner Crop Year, The Bank Accounts of Farmer. Will be Swelled Corsidcrabiy This Year, Forecasts ol the crop report in dicate a remarkably prosperous sea son in all parts of the country. Sta ple products have advanced far enough to indicate that 1905 will be a banner year in farm history. Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois tell of wonderful crops of wheat and corn. It is predicted that wheat will yield more than in any year except possibly 1901, when there were 748,000,000 bus hels. It looks as if the com yield would be greater than the large crop of 1902, which was more than 2,500,000,000 bushels. In spite of the great plenty, prices will be well maintained. Our export trade will be fully up to the average and the railroads will have their full slnre of business which is sure to reflect a confident feeling in the financial world. These are good times for the farmers and when the fanners are prosperous there is a general impetus throughout the business world. Here Is Relief fur Women. If Vfill hflVp nnlnn In I hn huol l ......... itt...t . - ------- ......... v, mult, Itlllfl- Hit or kidney trmiblf, una want -.a wrulii, I. 111 ru ri-iiii'iiv inr woman's trv Mnti,.T(iiny AUSTKALIAN-I.KAF. It Is a Buff monthly r-Kuiuifir. At I'ruL'ifists or by muli 'i ciH Smnpie puckiiijo KKK?;. Ailrtrcsi 1 hu Mother Urajr Co., l.cKuy, N. y, u.ji h No Puch Flacfl- An exchange says: Teople are often heard to say that they would like to move awav from this or thaf town and go to a place where there is 1101 so mucn gossip. jo use try ing to find that place. Gossio arrived on earth pretty close to the heels of the serpent, and like love and hate and death, it is here to stay. The editor ol a Nebraska newspaper has been making a com paraison between the destroying power of gossip and other of earth's evils, and he sums up his investi gation as follows: "Gossip is a humming bird, with eagle wings and a voice like a foghorn. It can be heard from Dan to Hfr.rOn.lin and has caused more troublp tlin,! all the bedbugs, ticks, fleas, mos quitoes, coyotes, grasshoppers, chinchbugs, rattlesnakes, sharks. sore toes, cvclones. fan blizzards, small pox, yellow fever,' kuui ana indigestion that this great United States has known or will know until the universe shuts up shop and beeins the final ;nn;n In other words it has got war and Hades both backed up in a comer yelling for ice water." It seems by the latest develop ments that the whole National ad ministration from Leob to Roose velt has been bleedinrr llm ninn,.,i men of the country for campaign contributions. . The Lite Insurance Companies being bled to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars lanen trom the funds of the Policy Holders all over the United States. It has hi-en an,! ,V : ia u wai ill- val of corruption, and the end is not Vet. Kern r.nr .,.. v l Bribe Givers and the Bribe Takers. HQ) D Bought, nml which lias lccn lias liorno llio fcijrnaturo of lias been inauo under liis pcr- Signature of BtandiDg for the Eight- The Wan Who Wins is the Man Who Speaks His Mind. One of the leading thoughts of the hour is, that if you wish to suc ceed, you must stand for the right. William Allen White, one of the great editors of the country, says on this point: "The man who speaks his mind, who stands for the right, who does not regard his own success or failure as important compared with the triumph of right. The man who can't be blnffe I when he sees the sheer right ahead ot him, the man who appeals to the highest in human nature and spurns the lowest, will win as sure as day follows night. The young men who are starting out in life should know that the eyes o; the people are on them and that the people have ways tor knowing when a young man compromises with evil and winks at the forces of disorder. This world is so organized that in the long run honesty pays and dishonesty brings failure. It is not in the main a material world but a spiritual world. Spirit manages to control, to vindi cate itself, to rise above all material considerations." A "Sovereign" Tint 0cst3 One Dollar. Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, ofRondout, N, Y., is a " Sovereign " medicine for nervous ness, Rheumatism, Kiduey and Liver complaints, and all the ills peculiar to women. It drives the poison from the blood, and restores the patient to the bloom of health. You will never regret the exchange of one dollar for a bottle. The output from all the trat fid, t W.V..V. - ! hatcheries 111 Pennsylvania for the pist nine months has been 145,894,. 283, according to the quarterly re port made by Fish Commissioner Median, at a meeting of the Fish eries Commission to-d:iy at the Wayii. hatchery. Mr. Median says this surpasses any normal output from any state and that the normal work in no state shows anything nearly so gratifying. When a boy turns his bulying pocket in ai.le out we marvel at the quantity ami variety of articlei he has stowed away. OJJ lengths of string nmrl.les, a horse-chestnut, atop, brass nails hickory-nu-.s, an apple, and many more articles are Rarnered by this' ..Sllapper up of unconsidered tnllcs." We think the collection must be hard on a boy's pocket. And a is. lint do we ever think of the van ety and miscellany of the subnances we put into the pocket of our stomach ? There's the A?n .'m "uls: and thinBi besides quite as ind gestible as bruss nails and with no more food value than so many marble. .nd ye .,'e,m'0n,l?r ,hal the omach "cives out. V hen the stomach break, down under me,k?,'n .CarelCV e,ali"g and irre-ulr ,r .CaK ? P'f'-ctly and permanently restored to health aim strength by the use of Doctor l'.eice'slJo'den Medical Discovery Ihe nct.on of thi. medicine on the stomach rjl", thM"-1",!sof 'lilt-Mi.,,, ami nutrition '"fked. that relu-f ,, Hisease i, at once experienced, and the hea,U h s, liver trouble." kidney diSordm, skin eruptions ami other bympto,s ofu.hsetsed stomach ar! quickly cured. 'Whenever the usa of a ,,'x"v,e indicated, use Dr. I'.erce's l'leasant IVIlets. They act in har mony wuh the Discovery and assist it. tations 1UrU'nS 1,16 b"weUof foul accn"- o $SSS
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