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Show - DIED QUEER DEATHS. -lt Un, H$ side of the summit there has thorough tours of Investigation, visa- A DIFFICULT TASK. athisshortage of gravel for ballast. It bo ing all the West Indies and studying tog nectesary to obtain the supply oondltk ru tveij where with the gee?; set care ;ie did not lay aside his BUILDING RAILROADS IN THE from the river beds But beyond tha HE MAY BE CUBA'S FIRST medio1 ao'k summit there are some very fine gran however, but practloed FAR NORTH. vel deposits, which will enable tho PRESIDENT. eontirukl'N in Haytl, among the company to provide an excellent road Frem h e ik'ng part of the population fka Wklta faM d Takaa Uaa IS Al- bed. Work on tbe Interior from tha he h in p daily large numbsr of Sclaattit, rklluikrarSt wad rakrta Calta11.U summit to the lakes has just commeno- - . Campl.tad A mark-apatiei.I i He i i aieicd abroad also, end- most Boikl On- - Slava Baky a ed, and upon this division the worts Ara In th AatarprtoM a Panhlag Dav.Iopai.at polltvi pi studying the Mill. Him a Wml latoi Mr will encounter mainly gravel and aandj m I tumorulc conditions on Alaaka. la leal, AaUiBonUt. wlfti light rock work In places. i ml the i r tomparlng them Aa at present completed the road li with i a mi hr In other coun-Mt(Special letter.) In operation beyond one of the moet trie- lie (Special Letter) settled In Paris, A HE Pasa White B difficult points nhlth the packers had LEUTERlO - the aciredited rspreaen-- 1 w wht ukon railway la a to the great tati i revopass during tbe days of heavy transtha ''u 'auv during line from Skaguay, Klondlkers. It of would-b- e Paris oculist, bachlutii ' portation o ami agatuln the re-- 1 Selto Fort Alaska, Is expected that by the 20th of Sepelor of science and ceni .. Indeed for over a gen- -' kirk, dominion of tember tbe entire road will be comof arts, and doctor erat -w luen the recognised Canada. This llna and in operation from Skaguay hea of medicine, whose In West will be constructed pleted to the summit of White pasa The has been dian name In three divisions, road la now, end haa been for some ' mentioned recently i' ii c these things he estab-- r Yt by as many compa-- y time, carrying freight, and ae soon aa a possibly tha Aral Hahn ; potation all over Europe incorporated the passenger nles, coaches arrive, passent and also came to be ae-- i president of Cuba a e under separate and ger traffic will know e Arrangements one of the moat axpert begin. Libre, Is as distincharludependent guished In letters oculis'. Mi Paris, even in tha world, ters. The Pacific and Arctlo railway have already been made with packers so that freight carried to the end of as he Is In science, but is distinguished Even H e Spaniards are among his e and Navigation company will build the the line, as now constructed and to opmore than all for his long and persistmuch money tlents as made hag summit ef will be taken and carried onent personal warfare against Spanish as th' fatuous American dentist. Dr. line from Skaguay to the International boun- eration, White at the Pasa, ward through the pass to the lakes, dominion In the West Indies. Though Evai in has given continuously This where he la a native of Porto Rico he la rev- large e ini- - to aid insurgents wher dary, a distance of 19,64t miles. it meets steamboat navigation. in of Incorporated course, company is, The first consignment of freight reerenced for his devotion throughout ever thf have been at war against Inthe United States. Between-th- e Cuba aa sincerely aa In his native Isle. Spa n ceipt blanks were shipped from Seattle ' ternational boundary and the sixtieth a few day ago, and ' e of conIn the .freight busiIt all happened In this way; Betancee being continuously IB the dividing line ness Is now being strictly attended to. waa born 73 years ago In tha little cerned with piofs and revolutions, ha parallel, which dobetween British Columbia and the A large barge left Seattle on Aug. II town of Cabo-Rojnear Mayaguex, is a m in of gentle manners and lovaminion of Canada, the road will be Porto Rico, which the United State ble diM dtion having, besides n quantity of rail and His Spanish patients built Yukon by the British Columbia lumber, ten flat cars, three locomotives, troop captured with such eclat some fee! aiSk t on for him, and some profeas Railway company, Incorporated by one baggage and passenger, nnd one weeks ago. He was a delicate boy. tteir Ime for him openly, though b at act of colonial the legislature and in another place than that land of hag given their country so muoh ipeeal passenger coach. The letter are tbe Victoria. From and beyond the six- first oft sea breezes might bave had small trouble coaches that will sr- -. tieth parallel the road will be built rive passenger to Alaska. They should reach chance of Bring. Hi father, who waa by the British Yukon Mining, Trailing there about HOW GRANT RAN. a man of means, had him educated by Aug. 27 and wIITtieTrnni- and company, Incor- dtately Transportation care In service. These three a private tutor, who took so good placed it porated in special act of the Canadian locomotive, with the two already In St it ember, 1875, there was a of him that at the age of 14 he was conAH Ottawa. tha at parliament n of the Army of the Cumberland there, will make five locomotives to sent abroad to complete his education. He studied in Toulouse until he waa at I tiui, N V at which President service, and preparations are now be- -' ing made for letting n contract for tbe graduated with the degree of B. A. and Grant Ot n Sherman, Gen Hooker, B. S. Then he went to Parle, where Gen Sloturn and Gen. Seymour were construction of several large consolidated locomotive for heavy service. he waa graduated In medicine with pteseht Ixng and loud cries arose There are at present under construcwho, slowly rishonor. While he was abroad he had for Grant' Grant tion to Seattle thirty box care and ing fnm h's chair, expresaed his pleastime for considerable travel and obOne ot each clast twenty flat cars servation outside of bis regular college ure at being with his friends, but his will be set up complete upon its truck and university aork, and be visited dislike at being asked to speak, and But there and shipped, but the remainder will those countries In whose language, lit- his diffidence In doing so. fee framed and erature, science and art his studies led are those, he added, dryly, and pointshipped to knocked-dow- n him to he Interested. ing to Sherman and other, who are condition, tbe trucks being set up ready to be placed vmder tha car When he had received his degree in not troubled with any sort of soon ae they ar unloaded at SkaThe three generals present medicine he returned to Mayagues to guay. There Is a round house already, practice. He made a special study of made witty, telling speeches, and then diseases peculiar to. the country, and arrose cries for "Seymour! Seymour! completed at Skaguay, and extenslv machine shops are In course ot consoon the fame of his marvelous eur- - The goternor, who had been the de- struction, to be equipped with machinAT THE SUMMIT OF WHITE PASS, ery, such aa lathes, drill presses, planetructlon work ot these three local ers, wheel presses, etc., with a powef systems will be carried by the Paclfle plant to operate the same. Contract company. 8. H. Graves of Chicago Is president of thla company JEWISH LONGEVITY, and also of each-- of the three local companies named. E. C. Hawkins, Btstbtlo- - Show lltbrawa I.lr Other CivUI4 formerly of Deqver, la tbe chief en, Th of the gineer and superintendent Probably few persons outside statisWhite Pass and Yukon company, John tical circle are aware of the fact that Hialop Is the assistant chief engineer, the Jews are considerably longer-live- d and V, H. Whiting le tha division en- than any other civilized race. ,Of 100,- -. y 000 Hebrewa born on the same day gineer end superintendent ot the division. there will be 60,684 male end 49,811 Work waa commended on the sur- females. At the end of th first year veys of the road early In April, and the 100,000 Jewish infants will have track laying was begun In Skaguay to a most remarkable way to tha aarly part of June ..At the date their aupcrlortty to point of vitality, , the information for this article was for only 8,091 will have died, as comforwarded, Aug. 19, twelve miles of pared with 14,192 to the English exroaif had been completed nnd put in- perience and 16.706 Americana Strikto operation. This carried the line to ing as this difference Is, It will he a point five miles beyoiqj a noted found to be practically maintained at Porcupine Hill, which will be throughout the late? stages of life. At referred to again presently. the end' of five years only 13,844 Jewish' The road starts at the wharf In Ska- children out of the 100,000 will have guay, where there is thirty feet of died, while out of a similar number oI water at the lowest spring tides. As English children 24,679 will have join 4 at present constructed, it extends the great majority, and America will through tbe buelnees center ot tbe till keep her bad with town,, along Broadway. In order to 26,912 angels. Making a leap to middleproperly protect franchise rights, the -age,! the deaths at 60 years ot age . construction ot the first mile of the will have been 26, 619 Jews, as compared SISTER ASLAUG. road wee rushed through to one day. with 49.079 English; and at the age ot By an extension of tbe terminal fa- 65 the mortality returns will stand at with Sister Wilhelmlna and me to culties another branch of the road will 87,443 and 66,110, respectively, Bnt be run from the wharf through the the full force ot the comparison la Mystic, Conn., where we know of nice summer boarding house. border of the town, along the foot of hardly seen until the point of extrema Are there no mosquitoes there? the steep bluff to tbe eastward. The old age Is reached. At 66 years no fewline crosses to the west aide of the. er than 25,136 of our Jews will he still laughed Sister Aslaug. "Just a few, replied her friend, but Skaguay river at a point one and one-ha- living, while the survivors ot the Engmile above the business center lish band will be a meager 5,666. Bethey are not ferocious like those In of the town. It recrosses the river, sides the curious reversal ot the usual New Jersey. and, to gain elevation, makes a loop proportion of male and, females, there And so the three nurses set out for up the narrow valley of the east fork la another unique feature to the Jewish Mystic and took up their quarters In of Skaguay river, as the first loop from statistics. The the house of William B. Noyes. Tht general experience la mosquito joke wa kept np aad Sister gery spread over the whole island. He feated Democratic candidate against Skaguay. At the exit from this loop that the average duration of life la encounters heavy rock work with tbe female than with tha Aslaug pretended to be dissatisfied be- had his private hospital, whera the Grant for the presidency in 1868, came the line at a point seven miles from Skaguay higher cause she sometimes at night beard The mala. opposite is the case with the forward and Bald: I think I bare some known aa Porcupine Hill, previously rich paid well for treatment, but she tha Insects buzzing. One morning the Jews. Of the 26,135 Jewish survive all events, referred to. The elevation of this at he treated without charge. r traits poor soldierly myself; point ore at the age of 85 there will be 15.225 made a discovery. Young, charming of address and Gen. Grant you must acknowledge that is something over 700 feet above sea men and only 8,910 women, a percentSee, she said, Indicating a slight 1 brilliant, the older practltionera were to a Uttle contest you and had a few level, and most of- - this elevation Is females. welling on her lower Up, thats not altogether without envy In their years ago, you ran a great deal better reached by the road to a little more age of 64.60 males and 35.40 shows that at Tbe experience English where one of your Mystic mosquitoes did. I This farther than telling than three mllea At this second 'loop .for him. Another thing, too, and 69.90 per cent of the survivals That age has bitten me after keeping me awake regard attracted attention fo Betances not allusion to the presidential contest the line leaves the river end ascends will be females and 40.10 males. Lonall nighL I could not ba much worse to hla HetJld not believe brought down the bouse. Gen. Grant, toward the summit of the pass. At a don Daily Mall. advantage. -off even If I had gone to Bogota. In slavery, and In those days slavery convulsed with laughter, rose and bow- point about fifteen and one-ha- lf jalles This accident was made food for was general over the Island, and the ed bis acknowledgments. from Skaguay there will be an Iron GERMANTOWN. whimsical comment all through the Spanish officials made much directly, 250 of truss bridge feet epan, .The CHEW H,Oy$E. e , At nightfall the swelling had or Indirectly, by the traffic. Betances elevation of tbe day. Is at the summit pass Coras America Surveyor. This stately old mansion, known as Increased and gave pain. 8iater As- did not preach against slavery, bnt It 1,880 and the of elevation the feet, Corea, Uke Cuba, never bae had a la situated at Clive- laug applied a simple lotion to the was his custom each mouth to buy a proper survey of the land; but the track 2,865 feet, there being a cut of the Chew House, Inplace, .but in the morning her face was baby slave and then to present the Asiatic country has at last decided to fifteen feet for a considerable discompletely disfigured by the swelling fants freedom papers to the childs have a complete survey, and has em- tance. Tbe 'distance from Skaguay to She mother. and her suffering was extreme. summit on an air line la fourteen ployed ae chief engineer an American, thq consulted a doctor and he prescribed a the authorities noticed R. Kmmm of Columbus, Ohio, gradu- mllea. Naturally The work has been very Interesting remedy, which had no effect" Her this, and although at first they may ate of the Ohio university. Mr. Krumm, face, swollen to twice its normal alse. have regarded It as nothing more than who Is now with the engineering force from an engineering point of view, by waa also discolored. a harmless eccentricity, they grew sus- of the railroad, will virtue of the fact that almost the enfrom three miles beyond SkaFancying that they recognized the picious, and when some of the jealous have charge not only of the surveying, tire way to the summit Is entirely rock, guay been 'have blood would not who of com her symptoms physicians, poisoning, but the direction of all engineering rades sent word to the mother supe- sorry to have Betances out of the way, work, such as the laying out of the Ir- and there are some heavy cuts. There rior of the Norwegian hospital. She suggested that he would bear watching, rigation works, roada, bridges, and will be but one tunnel, about 600 feet tong, on tbe entire route to the sumconand Dr. Guenther atarted immediately the Spaniards set spies to observe him fortifications. He has a five-yeftfr Connecticut for'Slater Aslaug was constantly. This annoyed Betances ex- tract with the government, at a com- mit. The heaviest gradients will he 1.9 per cent, and this gradient Is obdearly loved, but before they reached ceedingly, and, era long, became Intolpensation of $300 n month for the first tained without a switchback. The and no was of Protest avail, erable. n she had died in convulsion. Mystic year, and Increasing $50 a month each maximum curvature will be sixteen de- den, Germantown, where Washington one more Instance of Spains lack ot . year.' grees, which, for a narrow gauge track, on th morning of October 4, 1777,con-cealforesight discovered Itself; for tha n A tlI Eetlpsa. There-wila not at all excessive by a fog and moving to silence, rewaa treatment this man until who, An eclipse Is a mysterious thing to Olrta Bttihlp FutL 1 the British picket encamped have been used la surprised when summit the' friend became tha had been the Chinese mind, as the following ceived, who has ber The books of the American Girls reached about 250 tons of dynamite, to a field nearby. Tbe British veterdone more than any BatlTa association will he fudeon and common black blasting an, Musgrave, detaching a part of hla item from the North China Herald to bring about the final downfall Battleship Fund enrollment of mem- powder, so that one may Imagine that regiment to support the battalion ef for the shows: The Shanghai magistrate has other today open of her rule to the western hemisphere. is free. Every pa- lome heavy blasting work le being Ught infantry, Intrenched himself with Initiation issued a proclamation warning bis peo bers. When Betances had convinced him- triotic girl In' tbe county, city or lx companies to the Chew House, lone. pie that on the 4th Inst there will be an self that persecution waa lnerltable,tha state is Invited to join or to send to Tbe gauge of track la three feet and and barriesded Its lower windows and eclipse of the moon eaten np is the official character mealed It- an . :he weight of the steel that Is being doors. .While the cannon of the Amapplication for membership, phrase and calling upon all loyal clti-se- Spanish and much that had escaped to self him, aid la fifty-si- x pounds per yard, T rail, ericana wert too light to breach tta to help him in making as much hla notice before be now saw dearly aid noise as they can to rescue the de- to upon sawed ties six Inches by solidly built walla, the exterior bears . SwalM of low Vataraaa. Its true light He recognised that of a bold Attack. vouring luminary. A few Russian folk- sa long as Spain ruled Porto Rico the The twentieth annual reunion of th light inches by six and a half feet, evidence and prosperity of tha Island would be hin- Benton County (Iowa Veteran asso- mgle bars being need for joint splices. songs, some German barrel-organ- s, Some bachelors voluntarily join the n supply of French horns would give dered. He determined to study the ef- ciation will be held at Vinton, 8ept Everything is being done to the moet manner nnd the toad la ranks of the benedicts and some ara' mbatsntlal a political tone to thp proceedings.' features One of he ISwill .the 14 and other the on fects ot Bpanlsh dominion ' tom plated as the work advances. "On drafted. Westminster Budget islands, and to do this bt mads most a peace Jutllee parade. the Pasteur discoveries. The old Idea that tetanus is a plague la net ae far out of reason ae H may seem. If a TRANCE ENDING OF TWO case of tetanus appears In one locality, EASTERN GIRLS. why may not there be reason to think that the cause of it dwells there In number? Other persons may pick IwU ttvriam rricktd with or nails and may be wounded up Kdl 4 CMtrMta Lockjnw A- - by them In pins Be the same locality. Trained Nuria. Lotai Uar Ih Beware of being scratched prudenL Ufa by a Mosquito Bit. Jessie by a pin or by anything else Devine suffered exceedingly She coull EATH as the direct not breathe, she had epaams in her result ot the throat, her jaw were set. Salley eiratih of a plu is clateg were used vainly. Narcotics and the latest contribusedatives could not allay the severity tion of science to of her spasms. All the care that tha the woes of man- scratch which she had received exactkind. Miss Jessie ed was useless Her treatment for Delne of 54 Sev- tetanus came too late Neither Dr enth street. Long Uibler, Dr. Leteve, nor Dr. Edson would Island City, L. 1 . criticise the physician who saw only was the victim of malaria in the poor girls complaint. this peculiar death; They said, when the questions put to the ailment was tetanus, or, commonly them were not leading to criticism of She died in St. him, that symptoms of lockjaw were speaking, lockjaw. John's hospital. New York, in great not symptoms of malaria, but profesagony, after having been treated by sional courtesy sealed their lips when her family physician for malaria. It the questions were definite. Beware was the bacillus, so sHy the erperts, of of pin scratches, they all exclaimed, tetanus, which produced the fatal re- however. sult. The bug was attached to the pin Mosquito bites, even when Inflicted picked. up and utilized to pin together by the. New Jersey species of these a small rent In her skirt. summer p'ests, are not considered seriThat any Instead of stitching, she repaired ous by many persons with the rent in her skirt. The healthy, strong human being should pin scratched her knee, for she was die because of such an injury Is alThat not an expert in the use of pins. most beyond the belief "Tou see, said her mother, who, kind the bite Is poisonous and sometimes and practical, never loses an occasion becomes quite painful is known to to point to a moral, that even it a mosL But Sister Aslaug Larson, a stitch In time did not save nine, it is trained nurse of the Norwegian hosbetter to be orderly. Jessie smiled pital, Brooklyn, is dead, and the docpleasantly and mended her skirt. She tors say because of a mosquito bite thought so little of a pin scratch on Sister Aslaug was a powerful young her knee. A week afterward she fell woman, tall, straight, and full of 111. She was easily able to lift She suffered from headache and health. Her appetite was gone. any patient in her ward as most perUneasiness Yet she is She shivered in the heat. It is ma- son would lift a child laria, the family physician said, and dead and all because a mosquito kisshe ordered quinine, a warm blanket, ed her lips while she slept. When the time came for Sister Asthe remedies that one used for colds In temperate climates and for fever of laug to take her vacation there waa the marshes in torrid climates. The much discussion as to where she headache and the uneasiness persisted. should go. A family In Bogota, N. J , Mies Devine felt a painful contraction one of whose members ahe had nursed Of muscles of face and hands. back to health. Invited her very warmSoon the muecles of her face, cheeks ly to stay with them during her holiand neck became rigid. She could not day and held out the inducements of move them at all. The rigidity extend- swimming and boating and crabbing ed to her back The remedy for ma- in the Hackensack river. But Sister laria had not the slightest effect upon Aslaug was turned against this propoher. And all the persons whom the sal by her friend 8ister Christina, who patients parents consulted said that aid; Dont go to Bogota, for the surely Jessie Devine had a malady there are aa big as snipe. Come more severe than malaria, since all Its RLEUTER10 BETANCES -- ' MS ra -- m ' i 1 ' l'-l- anti-Spani- -- pa-H- -- o, of-gl- moj-qulto- re-un- dlflL-den- ce es Lntf K. 0 I 0 V, a t 8ka-gue- rock-cutti- ce JESSIE DEVINE. symptoms were aggravated a hundredA consultation was called. The fold. physicians came out of It with faces that tried to express assurance. But they said that Miss Devine should he taken at once to the hospltaL They had agreed that the symptoms of her malady were not those of malaria, but of tetanus of lockjaw, the dreadful plague that comes In all the legendary tales of villages, at certain periods, to kill those Who walk barefooted In the fields. How dreadful the terror of tetanns In every one who has lived In email, There are ancient villages knows. hurried calls on shoemakers for boots that have soles thick as boards, there are raking ot fields for rusty nails, there are a thousand recommendations to children to be careful. Dr. Qlbier, pupil of Pasteur, ways: "Surely, a pin may give lockjaw, and the prejudice against rusty nails about tetanus la justified. Perhaps we will find some day that science can only prove the reasonableness of Instinctive fears. The pin that scratched Miss Devine was probably picked from the ground by her. The bacilli of tetanns are in the earth. They cluster around sharp metallic things by virtue of a law of nature that lg, relentless and profound Dr. and that we may not explain. Pasteur's experiments have proved that. He has discovered the antiseptic against the poison of tetanus in the serum that has done so much good He takes that serum everywhere. from the blood of horses. Surely, aid Dr. Alme Leteve, pupil of Rlchet, pins are more dangerous than hammers. A blow from a hammer may tun only. A pin may glvp malaria, a mosquito does, by wonndlng.f A pin may give diphtheria, phthisis, fallow fever, tetanus. Tetanus comes of bacilli that gVovela In the earth. They may not know that pins transmit them easily to the human body. They may enough to select not be Intelligent their medium. But there if a, blind Instinct that makes them go to pins, nwita fish hooks all .pointed instruments and cluster around them. of pins! Dr. Cyrus Edson said: , Tea, the moet advanced physicians believe that There - there IS a microbe of tetanns. 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