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Duly to- - protect a tar. loll and from the cholera are seconded by starts at the luitrv ami quivers Its those of (he health ably officers of other In tn Guidon Gate ports, although, of course, if anv dan-g- er May clean imp fth a start Its AneriLS rots exiNti J. is moMt liketv to manifest Mpitipm mortality sUh the hordes of iaA at NeWYurk Especially careIndia. atzd jts a anijrendz to Its health ful are Pr Doty's precautions In- - tb ffi i'' save the to it from appeals 'arcs of essels clearing for this coun tcou.gc fthUii has slain. Its thousands from Naples nnd other Infected an 1 i tens of thousands InEurope ExporufTrom the piarlno hos- anl Vital service are equally vigilant In Not si tore 1892. when Astatic cholera f,rein cities keeping the American found it way to the port of New York au'horltle fully advised of the, yog- from Hi nburg, has the condition of rent and spread of the disease. 'When cholera appeared In St. foreign health.- - held the attention of our some months ago, said Dr ials to such an extent as 4t docs r present The reason is to be Do tv In a recent Interview, "extra prein found V spread of the cholera cautions were put in force at quarand Asia, affecting antine, because I felt that It would InRussia. Italy, Germany and other vade Italy and western Europe, and I countries. acted on this presumption long before It should be understood thoroughly there was any record of cases outside no real occasion for of Russia that there is TheJ method dpplted are not only alarm dn thi country Not only is th winter reason approaching, whtn tho exhaustive i cl that they include a thor. cholera bacillus hibernates and loses ough examination and Inspection of tts virulence to a great extent, but also persons, but there are alsj bacterioour health officials are exerting them- logical examinations in all suspicious selves to the Utmost to svert Its spread cases. xV this applies particularly to In this country. "Hardest worked man j all ess lx from Mediterranean ports. In New York" Is a recent descriptions not frm Italy alone I recognize that of Dr AlMh Hunt Doty, health officer tho greatest danger is through mild Tj By CHARLES CHOLIHA Jrei Jia Cat-b-riine-t- For-- aiis poet or Apache. j Paris have' j ah has nl- - j she desires to rtd herself of him. The tash she has pot and. to her credit be iL saUL- not desire, save as a last di4nfe weapon In the warfare on the Apache But freedom from the Apache rh determined to have, and she relief by way of the whipping pot and the "cat" The question of the infliction of corporal punishment on the criminal idler Is agitating th French eepltaL - The growth In number and enormity of the crlmee committed by the hoodlum known a th Apache has reused the. respectable Parisian to a realization of the size of the problem which confronts him. Hardly a" night passes without the finding of the body of norae one done to atrocious 4oUi by a single marauder or by a band of tpe stinkers ta the poorer districts of the Th men who commit them city' crimen am the very lowest denizens of WHIPPING will j --may-aiak , INTERIOR unrecognised cases. But there Is little or no danger of cholera getting a d here, because every possible precaution Is being taken. Cholera Isn't to this country as measles " U at the quarantine station on It Staton Island, commanding, the Narrows, and on Swinburne and Hoffman islands, lust below the strait entrance to New York harbor, that Dr Doty keeps watch and ward over the health of the nation. On a bluff overlooking the entrance to the port is stationed a lookout who reports the 'approach of every vessel " There Is ,no other gate to thenatJons greatest port. Every steamer from Europe bound for New York must pass under the scrutinjLof the health officer before her commander mgy take her up to her pier. Dr. Doty is a state officer, although the placing of quarantine under federal supervision has been discussed from time to time. City and federal health officials are with Dr. Doty and his assistants Safeguard lit Nature of the Disease. A great safeguard for this country Is found in the fact that the period of k the Paris Apache, the French city's stums, who remain dormant In the daytimo and emerge at night to waylay, to rob and to der In most cases their object la gain, sine an Apache, being human, must 4av-i- b maua of ttoionance and holds himself above the necessity But many of th Apache of working crimes, such as assaults upon policemen. are attributable to mere bravado and daring. Between the Aparh and the gendarme there ts a perpetual warfare, and it is the routing of the officers In so many cases that of taking has mused Paris to drastic measures against the Apaches The name "Apache as applied to the bad Parisian J:af cent origin. Th calling of the dregs of tne Parts slums after th bloodthirsty Indians of the southwestern Untied States was the Inspiration of a Parisian journalist wffinse work brought him into frequent contact with th underworld of his city. He wad a" great reader of stories relating to 'the American Indians, and the idea of naming the Parisian defiers the-nee- d of lap and order after an Indian tribe cam to him because he fancied he saw a similarity In the exploits of the two "tribes" The Idea "took" with the Parisian populace, but they failed to American adopt with the namttae pronunciation To- - them the Apaches are not Apaches as we enunciate the word, btit "A pash" (two salable Instead of thto. In singular and ptural. In cool disregard of the sanctity of human Ilf the Apaches of Parts resemble their namesakes of Arizona. But there Is this difference: With the Indians the motive was generally bloodthirstiness and revenge for what they deemed wrongs inflicted ol them by th whites The Parisian Apaches assault their victims, generally with knife or club, because they covet the tatter's Indiscreetly displayed goods. The victims generally are residents of the city., sine most foreigners have brain w enough to keep out of tbe tow Peris slums after nlghtfalL The Apache is not on exhibition at the Moulin Rouge and the other resorts of OF THE CHOLERA POLICt OFFICIAL EXAMININO, APACHE TOOLt. A QUARANTINE EUROPE. incubation of cholera Is from one to that Is, through the breath. perspU five days, so that a case should have ration or other emanation from the beIn other won's, cholera Austria-Hungardeveloped sufficiently forfttagnosis patlcnL fore a vessel bearing the disease be contracted only by being swallowed. reaches an American port Thus only At ter U th most common medium criminal concealment on the part of of propagation of the disease and as the ship's officers or gross negligence boiling Is fatal to the bacillus, It folon the part of the health officer could lows that the boiling of all water Inaccount for the introduction of the tended for human use is recommended cholera Into this country Fortunately by authorities on the disease The effor us, neither of these contingencies ficacy of other methodof prevention is likely to occur. The laws against Is greatly Impaired If this simple preconcealment of disease on shipboard caution Is neglected. are stringent and our health officers 8prsads With Terrible Rapidity.- ,mat-adie- s, have high reputations for standing-!- !! Even while laying stress on the Imtheir profession to maintain. probability of a cholera epidemic in What is known to the medical man this country the medical authorities as to on the layman the disease do not attempt to miniprophylaxis and as the prevention of cholera Is aided mize tts seriousness or the virulence greatly by the nature of the disease of the infection. The possibility of and the method of Its communication. having to handle a cholera epidemic is It Is communicable only by the a nightmare to the health boar. 1m of or drink infected with the cities of America and Europe Th the cholera bacilli from the excretions disease spreads and propagates ltvelf i Scourg Spread by Moslems. . A great source of infection and one or the vomit of sufferers. It is prob- with terrifying rapidity. It is only a ably never communicated by contagion few months since it became epidemic which th medical authorities of the the pleasure seeking tourist in Parts. hauntSr-whe- r Ha prefer shls-ow-L ho is safer from police Interference. of The roots Apachelsm are to be found in Idleness and love of drink. The Apache ts generally young. Rarerecogly la a man above thirty-fiv- e nized as a member of this distinctive class. The Apache does not live so long or persevere in his course of crime pest the age named. If he has not died from alcoholism or disease or srounds before attaining hta thirty-fift- h year he Is numbered among the inmates of the penitentiaries or the exiles In some penal colony France is rid of him, but ahe has had to maintain him during a long course of crime and idleneea, and U is partly to obviate this necessity that the whipping post 19Is th m It an it at BUILDING. have been unable to eoatott successfully is the annual pilgrims of the Mohammedans to Mecca, ibttf holy city In Arabia Since the liras of Mohammed the city has been a tester of infection, it la said. The pn grlms are for the most part absolve and uncompromising fatalists knowing tittle and caring less about sanitary Thus the disease Hi precautions. spread from th crowded cities of Is dm to Mecca, thence to the shores f world heu&ted1terranean. thence to the cltto from which steamers leave daily he America and for the cities of horthen If we could wipe out Us Europe Mohammedan's Mecca there would hi no more cholera." sas Dr Doty. This Is only one method of Infie tlon of northern Europe, a here th rulea of sanitation are better knows and more generally obsened than they are In the southern parts of the Another prime causa at tbs spread of cholera in Europs h Lbs carrying of the infection into Boris from Odessa, the great southern fwt of the Russian empire, situated on tbs Black sea, and thus in !os proxinrlty to the other sources of dangers- - Froa of tbs dU Iho piesent ease, with JU direction, Is indicated M the acconipan) ing map. Coming Honor For the Man Who Wrote We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are the 'he TO a o'er dU) September, ISIS, may seem a. long look ahead for planning of a public cclebra- tlon of biitorlc event, but It does not aecm ao to the men and women who hat begun already preparations for tbe proper rmieintrame of th. centennial of Perry', xlctory on Lake Erie. Sept. 1. In n, I, an Important date In American history, and it seems Riling that Its hundredth should be marked b .atrlotlcj proposed. It argued that the Apache cares nothing for imprisonment, since h ts assured at least of food and lodging, and It is whispered that sentimentalism has done something to relieve prison life of some of Us horrors. To th 'threat of death by means of the recently guillotine the Apache professes an Indifference that la not entirely assumed.stnce he has. supervened on his natural love of life, to shine In the memrfr of is departed hts "rormradmr Death by means of the broad blade will give him posthumous glorification, he believes. Of course h relics also oiv the well known reluctance to inflict the,, death penalty. French penoiogtrt declare that th. whipping port will solve th. problem They my that th Aparh irho would commit with Impunity crime which mlcht nd him to death would ahrtnk with loathing from th poaalbllltr of receiving a laahtng with the cat." Thee la no glory to h gained In whlpptpg, And the Apache know a aa w.U aa do the men who pmpooe the Infliction of th punishment The (earing of tbe whipping port la opposed by those who see In It a reveraton to bar. hart am. and thl view I upheld bv the men and women on th other side of the channel who desire the abolition of whipping In British prisons. The Illustration akowa the Inspection by a Peris police official of the terrible bracelets, or spiked wrist armor, taken from Liabeuf, tbe notorious Apache captured not long ago, The usual weapon of the Apache ta the knife, the riengahot or the dub. Ha resorts only rarely to the revolver, having an aversion to the report The wristlets of Liabeuf were made of leather, pierced with hundreds of sharp pointed nails. Ho relied with merited confidence on these wristlet to save hint from capture until, aft a tong aw1e of rrtmaa enmmltted with Impunity, he mmua-tato- d a ualit of pnflr offlrara enough to fight hint On of them ho rtablwd to death, and two others had their hand badly lacerated while trying to arrest bint, but tbe fourth, with tbe aid of ana of hts lees badly lajuiod comrades, finally got" rtKRRR LA TOUCH. Liabeuf. cour-ater- FAAId IN AND In Russia, yet recent official figures gtvs 205 418 as the number of cases In the empire, with 95.963 deaths. It should be borns In mind that these figures are official and bureaucratic and that they underestimate rather than aggravate the seriousness of the From cholera outbreak in Russia that eountry the cholera has made its wav into Germany, Turkey and Italy. The spread of tbs infection has put the other nation Europe on their guara. The terrible nature of the dieease may be gained from the assertion, made on good authority, that of the tnild cases about 50 per cent die. while of those n!th subnormal temperature and other aggravated symptoms 90 per cent prove mortal. As in the cases of scarlet fever and other virulent complication! may follow recovery from the cholera Itself Among these are lobar or lobular pneumonia enteritis, nephritis and neurasthenia. India fs the original home of the cholera. Indeed, the disease Is known as cholera Indie a. or srlentlfUaHy cholera aslatlca. loot-hol- SPREAD OP HOSPITAL n, left her In a small boat with a few of hla unwounded men and wa rowed to Niagara. Juat CJlrg Into of which anion after a long various explanations have been made in seven minute the light, whh-had eemed up to that time to h a hupa-lee- s for th was defeat Americans, Roosevelt' known to all readers of American bln tory, with Perry' famous dlspalcb 4 hi victory, hi prevlou gubseqicnt career e cot 0 oftes read He was born In Rhode Islagl is 1793 and antarad th navy In liomp midshipman He aorved In th. wtn against Franc and Tripoli- - At It a-- b and commemorative eterrlsea. With that end In view the erection end dedication of a splendid memorial to the memory of Commodore l'erry and bla deeds are planned The protected memorial, which will stand near the amna of Perry's victory over th Ilrlt-la- h fleet, la shown In th Illustration. Whether or not one agrees with Ours" ;! 4 V 'nil that opinion n. Bay "moat victory at Put-Icertainly has been estimated at more than fla worth" and that he Hands Wf, on a lowar grade .than .eh he HuW-klacdonough anf not a bit higher than a doien other," tl la not to ba denied that Perry Is on of tho most plefur-eaou- e figures la American history and that his adventurous career In I he service of his country deserves recognition. That .. hla, contemporaries thought highly of the young naval ckmmander an hla exploits la well by th nuraorons national, state and municipal honors paid to Perry and hla men after the battle In deference to Colonel RnoeeveH. standing aa a writer of history It may ba conceded that aa a naval action, without regard to Ita ronaequencea. Perrys exploit on lake Erl. waa a small affair. Only about too men were engaged na each side, th American In nln liny veeeel twill on the ' by Perry, th British In six that tver scarcely larger. Th American resects mounted r gun and th British hut the Weight of metal thrown by th American wa slightly larger. But taken as a herMe aa a exploit gf arms, tight that Wag th culmination of long, difficult preparation, carried to successful rntrpt-lle- a again! greet odds by a man entreated by 111 mss, Perrys victory on Inks Erio daeerves lie rank among Ih world most famout act Inna PROFILED MONUMENT TO COMMOOOftK PCMV. Th at ory of the bettl ha been rhanr'ed tntn irr printed many limn, glmply toLL-ory; knd the Brit nutl-fof th waf of til rona!td of th. defeat of the British ; lab uuior ww struck, '7 - mr.d4 q fiotUta lous'trln by Master Commandant The laaaeg of I'ctrv from the Law-treR. L After Ik Massed jTrry. a man of twenty to Ih Niagara wa a feat Newport, In charge of th Java. right, pitted arali.at Captata Robert aor.hy of th. herova at old No vi- glared vine ftigata and want aftk H. Ie relay, a on. armed ve'eren f king ever dliplayrd heroism to lh Mediterranean. In HU WFj grvtitcr wtier he served Trafalgar, undrr th than that ahows by h young com mtnem yvmt Perry with famous Nelson After Perry tlogeMp. hander e he stood upright In the ouadron ta lb. Wert Indie J, fba I aw re ore, over Which flew a nag stent of Ms )Uf. l vsewd, defying Ihe fteaa, wnn Lawrence Immortal word, Im t T shot by sod ttarked musketry flr of Ih earn year ha wa give up th hip," bad been shattered jwttteai pritlvh shin. - aged hlrty-- f fTf and died-WALTER by thejlr of th British vassal I'mrrt i erby Whde- - 'tbe b.ttl P. Hit 'indTts.tory sr. perry KvrMetI -- wr TZPFm-TI- flfly-fou- alxlr-lh-e- e, -- ai frit-fc- er -- plrey.-ed-l-AMe- 1 1f To VicH 'ifon H h dar fiut 4f I h'w (J L If Hr it - trmi lug Ih Wf i an1 xntr fax ri" |