Nothwithstanding the anti-vaccina {want to discuss the matter in the (others cowards, yet when pioned down An Insurance Polley Por » Ymas petitioning the Legislature to strike co | books. {absence of danger, they want the bars tionists of Pennsylvania utterly Some are fond of calling they dare not come out into the open A people in While all all parts of the State by the enemies friends. of vaccination, vet not one from (ts ‘STARTLED BY EVANS Expert Tells Court “Thaw Is Not Insane, Never Was.” “I DID NOT GO ARMED," SAYS EVELYN —— Wife of Prisoner, Recalled by Jeo rome, Denles Telling Howard Nesbit That White Stary Was 8 Lie. NEW YORK, Feb. 28-Dr. Britton D. Evans, authority on mental disor ders, who was on the witness stand lo the Thaw murder trial most of ths session, wad brought right down tr the nub of the cafe by one question fired at him by District_Attorney Je rome. “Do you belleve the prisoner {s sane or insane 7" he asked “He Is pot insane wis,” came the reply This answer created a ripple of sur | prise lu the court It was Guite unex | pected tn Its directness, and it appear | ed to tickle the accused mightily, A | =atisfled grin overspread his features | and there was a suggestion of the “ex aggerated ego” in his eyes In the midst of the cross examina tion of Dr. Evans the prisoner began to write busily. He told the reporters | he was preparing a statement His lawyers tries] to dissuade from dolug it, but Le persisted Iy he gave out the following slip “This Is the second statement given out by Mr. Thaw since Aug 10 “With chances of a million to one against her, it 1s wonderful that Mrs Thaw's testimony prevalled against! and he never him Final legs." Dr. Evans was led aloug by Jerome | on the subject of melancholia. system atized delusions and other crazy remains a little work to do; the debris 0A ALY, Al QUANTITY, | PRICE If you buy trom COLEMAN HASSLER, “No. 116 Brie St. Sayre. Tou get the three Ask your melgh- \"" the atmosphere of truth. {public may Judge just who iz faking Statement By Enemies of Vaccination. | 1—Yaccination is not a preventive] {of smallpox 2—Vaceination does not lessen the! ivirulence of the attack, nor reduce | the mortality of the disease } i | vaccination | | 3—Sanitation and no has reduce the mortality. 4+—S8yphilis is frequently trapsmit- | ted by means of the virus. i 5—The bovine pox and the syphil- {tic pox are identical 6—That scrofula, eczema, erysipe- | las and kindred human diseases are transmitted by the virus | 7—That blood poisoning Is due to | the virus |! §—That vaccination is but a huge | medical graft | | - 8—Doctors disagree. The most em- inent doctors oppose vaccination. One writer quotes Dr. Carr as saying that 50 to 60 per cent of the profession op- pose vaccination, 10—Thousands of deaths and much disease and suffering are directly due to the poisonous virus 11—Doctors admit that the vaccina- ted contriict smallpox and die of {it Will O' the Wisps” that take flight so that the or who Is telling the truth The Truth. 1—Vacelnation is the preventive of smallpox only known times as many of the than ed ity 3—This is not true iperson, if exposed, will contract the disease no matter what the sanitary | condition is. pox as of measles, scarlet fever or! typhoid fever. 4—That Is a physical and scientific impossibility. not dishonest to keep repeating the statement? 5—This Is an absurd pathological untruth. No Intelligent person would make 80 Impoasible a statement 6—This Is an absurd impossible | pathological untruth. Only a dishon- est man would keep on repeating an untrue accusation 7—The tips being antiseptic this Is impossible. Is it not manifestly un- Just to keep repeating this charge? s ket price for a tp, uses the necessary antiseptics and dressings, inakes an examination and probably certificate, he has, for his profession- cents. Do you ser- lously consider this graft? That is not true The efficien- ¢y of vaccination, theria antitoxin, belng an establish- ed medical fact, probably not one per- Its truth. Such a doctor Is surely a medical curiosity In himself 10 tion, When ill results from vaccina- it is beyond human skill to say whether it is due to the operation, the physical condition of the patient, the subsequent care of the wound or to the virus. Since this is true Is it not downright dishonest to charge all these bad results to the virus? Since the tips are antiseptic, the chances are a thousand to one that It is not due to the virus but to one of the other causes to 11—This Is a negative untruth. It is probably not true that a success- fully vacccinated person ever dies of emallpox. That there are a few ap- parently authentic cases is admitted In this connection, however, be remembered that many miscar-! riages of vaccination where no true Innoculation bas taken place, there ay remain a scar very closely sim- lating a true cleatriz. This explains he fact that u few who have died of their person § en i JA “How ARD NESBIT. { things. He flually drew from the doe | tor the opinlon that Thaw was Insane on just two occaslons—when he mar | was submitted ln court All through the day there was a bat ! tle of wits between Je id Evans, { In which the expert, as on the previ ous occasion he was under fire, wore than held his own | The trial produced one surprise, which came In the shape of a battery | of questions hurled at Evelyn Nesbit Thaw by tending to show that she feared death at Thaw's hands. This was on the occasion of her return from her second trip to Europe The district attorney called her to the stand soon after court opened. He began to question her with the lutent of bringing out that Thaw had made threats to kill ber aud that she had sent her Lrothier Howard to purchase a revolver for her self protection. To all Questions aloug this line she gave a positive "No." | Jerome got his best foot forward In this effort. It looked like a carefully rolue Jemvine as a witness for the state to corrobo- rate Abe HHummel's prospective dental of Evelyn Nesbhit's account of her fa mous visit to his office lu LN at Stan ford White's beliest Mr. Delnas intimated that be hoped to be able to close the case for Thaw this week Just lefore the hour for resuming the trial Thaw's little wife slipped into the conrtroom, accompanied by her mil Huer friend from Boston, Mrs. J. J Calne. Mrs. Thaw took a vacant seat next Mr. Delius at counsel table. Evidently hopad to be allowed to sit at Thaw's slide during the remainder of the trial. Mrs Calpe took Josinh and Ed ward Thaw fo the section reserved for | Fhaw's allenist= and relatives Rluce both women have testified al ready, the attorneys for the defense belleved that there would be no obj | thou from the other side if they heard the rest of the evidence. In fact. Dis trict Attorney Jerome liad consented to Mm. Thaw's presence, but his assist ant, Mr. Garvan, didn’t Hke the notlon and =o after Garvan had whispered to Dan O'Rellly the two woinen were Jed | out. The young wife pouted her red | Hps In disappointment went | mck to the gloomy witness room, But in a minute or two she came | back temporarily. Jerome, It had questions which he wanted to ask her reganling certain admissions which | to she a chair alongside ax she “evened, ef Howard I'he ff Jerome's course instantly set afoot a report that | tenor {As a witness agninst his awn sister Mr, Jerome sald that there was one point he wanted fo clear up In connec tion with an alleged statement Evelyn made to her brother, Howard Neshit, The prosecutor asked the witness if ahie had seen ber brother open her re fum from Europe in the fall of 1908, Id abe had seen him at te | Na: |The asked Mr. Jerome beaten and cruelly thal You had teen! treated Harry Thaw, why alised you in onder ta In i duce you to make stateisents aginst! Stanford White?” i i i fay “1 did pol” responded Mrs. Thaw, with a snap In her volor that was al most shrill “Did you not tell your brother that Mr. Thaw had beaten you and used you cruelly in Paris in order to make! you say lying things agninst Stanford White—in onder to make you way | White had drugged and wrongel you?’| “J did not” “Did you uot tell your brother that Mr. Thaw forced you at the paint of a pistol to tell the story abomt St in ford | White that ysu have told upon the stand ¥ “I did not.” “Did you ever carry a revolver?” “Never.” “Did you ever give money to purchase “I never did” “Isn't It a fact, Mrs Thaw, that you sent your brother to hegel Cooper's to bay a revolver for you yo afraid that Mr Thaw ight your’ “1 never did.’ i “I= it not a fact that you told yoar| brother that all of your about Stanford White were Hea ¥* “I dk] not.” Mrs. Thaw seeined fairly under this new line of attack by the district attorney. and her answers! were all sharply defined. The prose cufor tried seven varieties of the same! question to get from Evelyn the ad mission that she had sent ber brother to a department store to buy her a re | | volver Failing, be sald, with wre | amlfe “That Is all” Mr. Delmas {tlons, and Mrs antercom | Interest centers now in | vers of District Attorney | seems to give further Indic purpose in the near future the court for a comn In lanacy to report upon the present condition of | i the defendant's mind [Mr sald he intended calling jas a witness in rebuttal Dr. Allan Me { Lane Hamilton, the alienist who was! | first by the Thaw defense, | [but who Las not heretofore figured in the trial. Dr. Hamilton is rejort have sald that Thaw was time of the tragedy sane at the present day Dr. Charles FF. Ri iburg, the Thaw famliy of visiting Thaw lu the Tombs August last, when the pri much depressed and = ted f delusion that a conspora I heen formed against him, «on hat he was not allows! to pat p the grating In his cell don “they” wanted the and give him punenmonia so fle and his case Mrs. William Thaw next witne your hrother a revolver™ n= were attack statements a pack of bristling : did not Thaw ask anv ques returnes! to thes the wapen Terome, whe atlon of his to apply to] i=sion Jerome employed Ines and tha of physician Pitts | told | during! iguipAan arf svete] | tise} over | old alr in | Hever i will hae ep Vicomte d'Avenel at Harvard, CAMBRIDGE. Mu «= Fe comte Georges d'Avene] of livered the first of lectures on the social history of France at Sanders under the ausplees of the « cals of Harvard university turer said, amoug other reward of labor has neither rel the cost of life nor to the civilization. In civilized may happen that a man starves such a thing never happens to a horse It Is not necessary that there any | relation the prosperity of al country abstractly wonsidered and the comfort of the laboring classes.” - Vi France de of elcht stiihe theater | ercie. Fran The lec i thing=: “Tha| ition to] progress of it! vhile} i ~ his series amd ecu nl country be between Bandits Butcher Mesican Troopers. | SAN ANTONI), Tex, Feb, 2% commandant was shot twice d in the streets bere. Hix as CUolonel Hains and Engineer Harrod to Retire, WORK PROMISED HIM, SAYS OLIVE Ex-Chie! Engineer Stevens, Whos Resignation the President Has Ac. eepled, Left Isthmus Yester- day For New York. pl WASHINGTON, Feb 2 dent had a conference at the White House with Secretaries Taft and Keo regarding the working out of the de talls of the reorganization sche me fol the Panama canal work, and it I= un derstosdl that in addition to the changes ln the commission as reporte it has been decided that Colonel Halns U. 8 A, retired. and Benjamin Har read, clvil engineer, both wembers of the present commission Admiral Endicott, who Is the onls malting memier of the old con sion, will be retatned on the new as the law requires that one civil engineer of the navy stall le jo —The presi shall retire re gituis Coli A Colon dispateli savs that Jolin F ex-chinf Pan ft far vngitieer of the Panama yesterday New York In view of the lncreased cost of iis ing Involved In thelr transfer to ths Isthmus and the fact that ih Cy are. t be called upon to undertake profes slonal work of hich grade for whict thelr predecessors have Iwen libwralls recompensed the three engineer offi cers of the arny—Majors Galllard and Sibert, who were 1A as members of the commission and en gineers to control the canal construe tlon—will be recipients of salaries con In excess of the Lim pet annum they now receive. It is the In tention to divide among them the sala ries now paid to Messrs Shonts and Stevens, aggregating fo iNe per an num, so long as they are engaged in canal work. As the president has pow er to fix salaries of persons employed in this work, there will be no legal ob Goethals Chief Engineer Stevens resigned with the proviso that he would remain in Isthmus until his sue there and was thor Initiated info the new duties Familiar as they are with the eon it Is belleved that the who are to relleve Mr will feel able to relieve there, and army officers Stevens soon him of his re they sall as fer can be effected early in April It Is stated that it will be Necessary for these army engineers to make personal Inspection of every part of the to the wethod of conducting future A number of telegrams have been re at the White House from the south asking the president to name W J, Oliver, whose bid for the construc tion of the canal was rejected, as a member of the isthinian canal com Secretary Taft sald that he considering the appointment of Mr Oliver as a member of the commis Mr. Oliver sald that he would not accept a place on the commission. bat when he bas been officially notified that the bid of the Pauama Canal Construction company been re Jected Mr. Oliver will give out a state ment for publication. “Only last Furey sion has * he sald, “the my friends that 1 would be Eiveu the cuntract, and he went as far to say that he wonid In Panama next November and said that be was confident thet by we would have the work nssursd as The corporation organized by Mr and known as the Panama Ca ual Construction company will at onc be dissolved. Mr Oliver says that he has speut $40,000 fo the preparation of ind In the organization of the construction company lohn B Me York, president of the Panama Canal Construction company Washington teluy and will assist Mr Oliver In the preparation Senate Passes Labor Peace BIN WASHINGTON, Feb, 28 After Hs tening to an argument by Senator Pat fan rail: of government the rt or in ar ownership of agnwsd to the nels senna the Ihe senate Pisa the Daniel bill foundation the It an thorizes a board of trustees to receive Presilent Roosevelt the Nobel prize ax the nucleons of a fund to nt Washington period wnintives of capital and In conference n discussion “the without bring together fealty repn Porch Climbers nt New Haven, NEW HAVEN, Coun, Feb 2% hae the night imrglars efitered the of Henry F. 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