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Slam Harnlih. known all throusrh Alas
ka aa "Burning Daylight," celebrates hi
mnn oirtnaay witn a crowa or minora ai
th Circle City Tlvoll. The danc leads
to heavy (ambling, In which ovar 1100.000
la staked. Harnlah loses hla money and
hla mlna but wlna tha mall contract. He
atarta on hla mall trip with doga and
sledge, telling hla frlenda that ha will ba
in tha Mg Yukon gold strike at tne atari.
Burning uayugnt makes a sensauonau
ranld run across country with tha mal
appears at the Tlvoll and Is now ready
to loin his friends In a dash to the new
Jold fields. Deciding that gold will be
ound In the up-river district Harnlsh
buys two tons of flour, which he declares
will be worth lte weight In gold, but
when ha arrives with his flour he finds
the big flat desolate. A comrade discov
era gold and Daylight reaps a rich har-
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flru
and defeats a combination of capitalists
vest He goes to Dawson, becomes tha
most prominent figure in the Klondike
In a vast mining deal. He returns to
civilisation, and, amid the bewllderlni
complications of high finance. Daylight
finds that he has been led to Invest his
eleven millions In a manipulated schema.
Ha goes to Mew York.
CHAPTER VIM Continued.
Then the grin died away, and his
face grew bleak and serious. Leav
ing out nil Interest In the several
Western reclamation projects (which
were still assessing heavily), he was a
mined man. But harder hit than this
was his pride. He had been so easy.
They had gold-bricked him, and he
had nothing to show for it The sim
plest farmer would hare had docu
ments, while he had nothing but a
gentleman's agreement, and a verbal
one at that Gentleman's agreement!
He snorted over it John Dowsett's
Tolce, Just as be bad heard it in the
telephone receiver, sounded In his
ears the words, "On my honor as a
gentleman." They were sneak-thleves
and swindlers, that was what they
were, and they had given him the
double-cross. The newspapers were
2ght He had come to New Tork to
i trimmed, and Messrs. Dowsett Let-
ton and Ouggenhammer had done it
He was a little fish, and they had
played with him ten days ample time
in which to swallow him, along with
his eleven millions. Of course, they
had been unloading on him all the
time, and now they were buying Ward
Valley back for a song ere the mar
ket lighted itself.
And Daylight sat and consumed
cocktails and saw back in bis life to
Alaska, and lived over the grim years
in which he had battled for bis eleven
millions. For awhile murder ate
at bis heart, and wild ideas and
sketchy plans of killing his betrayers
flashed through his wind. Daylight un
locked his grip, and took out his auto
matic pistol a big Colt's .44. He re
leased the safety catch with his thumb,
and, operating the sliding outer bar
rel, ran the contents ' of the clip
through the mechanism. The eight
cartridges slid out in a stream. He
refilled the clip, threw a cartridge into
the chamber, and with the trigger at
ful cock, thrust up the safety ratch
et He shoved the weapon into the
side pocket of his coat ordered an
other Martini, and resumed his seat
At ten o'clock he arose and pored
over the city directory. Then he put
on his shoes, took a cab, and departed
the city spread out before him. Day
light followed the movements of his
three men as they drew together. Na
thaniel Letton was at his offices in the
Mutual-Solander Building. Next arrived
Ouggenhammer. Dowsett was still in
his own offices. But at eleven came
the word that be also bad arrived, and
several minutes later Daylight was
In a hired motor-car and speeding for
the Mutual-Solander Building.
CHAPTER IX.
"Now It's My Deal, and I'm Going to
See If I Can Hold Them Four Aces."
Into the night Twioe he changed cabs,
and finally fetched up at the night of
fice of a detective agency. . He super
Intended the thing himself, laid down
money in advance in profuse quanti
ties, selected the six men he needed,
and gave them their . Instructions.
Never, for so simple s task, had they
been so well paid; for to each In ad
dition to office charges, he gave a five-hundred-dollar
bill, with the promise
of another if he succeeded. Some
time next day, he was convinced, if
not sooner, his three silent partners
would come together. To each one
two of his detectives were to be at
tached. Time and place was all he
wanted to learn.
"Stop at nothing, boys," were his
final Instructions. "I must have this
information. : Whatever , you do,
whatever happens, m see yon
through."
Returning to hla hotel, he changed
eabs as before, went up to his room,
and with one more cocktail for a night
cap, went to bed and to sleep. In the
moraine he dressed end shaved, order
ed Freakfast and the newspaper sent
up, and waited. But he did not
drink. By nine o'clock his tele
hone began to ring and the reports to
twe la- Nathaniel Letton was faking
tat n at T&rrytown. John Dowsett
v ! c ? don tr t-e subway. Leon
' -f 1' S r f '-rt out
Nathaniel Letton was talking when
the door opened; he ceased, and with
his two companions gazed with con
trolled perturbation at Burning Day
light striding into the room. The free,
swinging movements of the trail-trav
eler were unconsciously exaggerated in
that stride of his. In truth. It seemed
to him that he felt the trail beneath
his feet
Howdy, gentlemen, howdy," be re
marked, ignoring the unnatural calm
with which they greeted his entrance.
He shook hands with them in turn.
striding from one to another and grip
ping their hands so heartily that Na
thaniel Letton could not forbear to
wince. Daylight flung himself into a
massive chair and sprawled lastly, with
an appearance of fatigue. The leather
grip he bad brought into the room he
dropped carelessly beside him on the
floor.
Tve sure been going some," he sigh
ed. "We sure trimmed them beautifully.
It was real slick. And the beauty of the
play never dawned on me till the very
end. It was pure and simple knock
down and drag out And the way they
fell for it was amailn'."
Letton made a dry sound in his
throat Dowsett sat quietly and wait
ed, while Leon Ouggenhammer strug
gled into articulation.
"You certainly have raised Cain," he
said.
Daylight s black eyes flashed in a
pleasant way.
"Didn't I. though!" he proclaimed.
Jubilantly. "And didn't we fool 'em! boring under a false impression, and
I was teetotally surprised. I never b should be set straight
dreamed they would be that easy. B tbl time Letton waa stiffened by
"And now," he went on. not permit- ttltude Dowsett bad taken, and
ting the pause to grow awkward, "we- nU aDgwer wa DromDt nd definite,
all might as well have an accounting. "! ,ear on 8X6 under nlPPr
I'm pullin' West this afternoon on tension, Mr. Harnlsh. There are no
that blamed Twentieth Century." He wrings to be divided with you. Now
tugged at hla erln got it ODen. and din. d"11'' et OMlted. I beg of you, I have
ned Intn It with hnth hla hands "Hut But to press this button
don't foreet. bova. when vou-all want F&r from "cited. Daylight had all
me to hornswoggle Wall Street anoth- the emlng ' ln tunned. He look
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Other Members of Royalty In Eu
rope Favor Total Abat Inane.
An Interesting trio of facta has re
cently attracted the notice not only
of temperance .workers everywhere,
but of the general public aa well,
showing the growing attitude of roy
alty toward drink and th liquor trafflo
In Europe.
The address mad a short time ago
by the Emperor William to the Ger
man students urging them to abolish
beer-drinking bout In their societies,
roused widespread Interest In the
cause of temperance In Germany and
attracted the attention of leader In
the movement In other countries. Still
later, In opening the new naval acad
emy at Meurwlck, th Emperor Wil
liam read an order-ln-oouncll laying
tree upon th qualification neces
sary to naval officer, and later peak
ing extemporaneously made a plea for
temperance on the part of the cadets.
In his temperance talk he cau
tioned th cadet against excessive
drinking, which he Mid undermined
the nerve, and th strenuous naval
aervioe of today required strong
nerve. He counseled total absti
nence, and added impressively that
"the nation which In the future used
the smallest amount of alcohol would
march at th head of the column on
the field of art and war.'
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er flutter, all you-all have to do is
whisper the word. I'll sure be right
there with the goods.
His hands emerged, clutching a
great mass of stubs, check-books, and
ed at Dowsett and murmured
It was your deal, all right and you-
all dole them right, too. Well, I ain't
kicking. I'm like the player In that
poker game. It was your deal and
Hi v smear si va, aiuwea v. uvva wvvmo. nuu I . . . a , . A
broker. receipts. These he depos- V?X h"d ,f1hIt to 'ou' b,e-
ited in a heap on the big table, and
dipping again, he fished out the strag
glers and added tbem to the pile He
consulted a slip of paper, drawn from
his coat pocket and read aloud:
'Ten million twenty-seven thousand
And you done it cleaned me out slick-
ern a whistle,"
He gased at the heap on th table
with an air of stupefaction.
And that-all ain't worth the paper
it's written on. Ool dast it you-all can
II TNA jffil 'am i-ntifl,t whan rm. , m
and forty-two dollar, and slxty-eigbt Lhance. 0n no, . Mnl It
centa Is my flgurln' on my expense.
was your deal, and you-all certainly
r ekni nil'. nWM tk.
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:lDTJiteZJl "tr" t man's deal
on the whack-up. Where' your fig-
ures? It must a been a mighty big the card, are oa tta tabl Bn n
nlnfln.fin I
clean-up,
deal' over, but
ine uiree men loogea meir nepui- H1. hand. diDr,in. awtftlv Intn hi. in.
,uuo '"' w side breast pocket appeared with the
a lugger iooi mau mey ana imagin- blg ca automaUc.
ed, or else be was playing a game
which they could not divine.
Nathaniel Letton moistened his Up
and spoke up.
It will take some hour yet Mr.
Harnlsh, before the full accounting can
be made. Mr. Howison is at work Upon
it now. We ah as you say, it has
been a gratifying clean-up. Suppose
we have lunch together and talk it
over. I'll have the clerk, work through
the noon hour so that you will have
ample time to catch your train."
Dowsett and Ouggenhammer mani
fested a relief thar was almost ob
vious. The situation was clearing. It
was disconcerting, under the circum
stances, to be pent in the same room
with thi heavy-muscled, Indtan-Ilke
man whom they had robbed. They re
membered unpleasantly the many stor
ies of hla strength and recklessness. f
Letton could only put him off long
enough for them to escape Into the po
liced world outside the office door, all
would be well; and -Daylight showed
all the signs of being put oft
I'm real glad to hear that" he said.
'I don't want to mis that train, and
you-all have done me proud, gentle
men, letting me In on this deal. I
Just do appreciate It without being
able to express my feelings. But I am
sure almighty curious, and I'd like ter
rible to know, Mr. Letton. what your
figure of our winning is. Can you-all
give me a rough estimator '
Nathaniel Letton did not look ap-
pealingly at his two friend, but In th
brief pause they felt that appeal pass
out from him. Dowsett. of sterner
mold than the others, began to divine
that the Klondlker was playing. But
the other two were still under the
blandishment of hla child-like Inno
cence, --v
"It I extremely er difficult" Leon
Ouggenhammer began. "Tou see. Ward
vaiiey nas fluctuated so, er "
"That no estimate can possibly be
made In advance, 'Letton supple
mented. ;
"Approximate it, approximate It"
Daylight counselled, cheerfully. -It
don't hurt If you-all are a million out
one side or the other. The figureslt
straighten that up. But I'm that curi
ous I'm Just itching ail over. What
ye sayT
"Why continue to play at cross pur-
poeesT Dowsett demanded abruptly
nd coldly. "Let us tave the er-'ana.
a here acd now. :r. J'.'-- i !s !.
As I was saying, the old deal' fin
ished. Now it's my deal, and I'm
a-going to see if I can hold them four
aces
"Take your hand away, you whited
sepulchre!" he cried sharply.
Nathaniel Letton's hand, creeping
toward the push-button on the desk,
was abruptly arrested. A
"Change cars," Daylight command
ed. "Take that chair over there, you
gangrene-livered skunk. Jump, or I'll
make you leak till folks'U think your
father was a water hydrant and your
mother a sprinkling-cert You-all move
your chair alongside, Ouggenhammer;
and you-all Dowsett sit right there,
while I Just Irrelevantly explain the
virtues of this here automatic. She's
loaded for big game and she goes off
eight time. She's a sure bummer
when she gets started.
"Preliminary remarks being over.
I now proceed to deal Remember, I
ain't making no remarks about your
deal. Ton done your darndest, and It
was all right But this Is my deal, and
it's up to me to do my darndest In
the first place, you-all know me. I'm
Burning Daylight sawee Ain't afraid
of God, devil, death, nor destruction.
Them's my four aces, and they sure cop
per your bets. Look at that there
living skeleton. Letton, you're sure
afraid to diet Tour bones is all rat
tling together you're that scared. And
look at that fat Jew there. This little
weapon's sure put the fear of Ood la
bis heart He' yellow a a sick per
simmon. Dowsett you're a cool one.
Tou-all ain't batted an eye nor turned
a hair. That' because you're great
on arithmetic. And that makes you-all
dead easy in this deal of mine. You're
sitting there and adding two and two
together, and you-all know I sure got
you skinned. Tou know me, and that
I ain't afraid of nothing. And you-all
adds up all your money and knows
you ain't a-going to die if you can help
It"
"I'll see you hanged," waa Dow
sett's retort
'Not by a damned sight When th
fun starts, you're the first I plug. I'll
hang all right but you-all won't live
to see it Tou-all die here and now
while I'll die subject to the law's delay
sawee? Being dead, with grass
growing out of your carcasses, you
won't know when I hang, but I'll sure
have the pleasure a long time . of
knowing you-all beat me to it"
'Tou surely won't kill us?" Letton
asked in a queer, thin voice.
Daylight shook bis head.
"It's sure too expensive. Tou-all
ain't worth it 1 I'd sooner have my
chips back. And I guess you-all 'd
sooner give my chips back than go to
the dead-house."
A long silence followed.
"Well, I've done dealt It's up to
you-all to play. But while you're de
liberating, I want to give you-all want
ing: If that door opens and any on
of you cusses lets on there's anything
unusual, right here and then I sure
start plugging. Tbey ain't a soul 'U
get out of the room except feet first"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Better Than Book Learning
Kentucky Mountaineer Preferred
Teacher Because He Could Lick
- Biggest Boy In 8ehooL'
The colonel had gone up Into the
Kentucky mountain from th blue
grass In command of a sawmill, and
as soon as he had mobilised hi
force in that field he began to
maneuver In the matter of Improving
the people about hi camp. What they
needed most war better schools and
be determined to take a hand In th
election of a proper teacher. To this
end he called In one from hi own
section who had a college education.
but no mountain experience. When
he proposed this blue grass nurtured
young man to the mountaineer trus
tee there waa unanimous opposition
In favor of on of their own- kind,
who had been teaching the school for
some time, though his education was
of the most limited kind.
"But" argued the colonel, "your
man doesn't have the first rudiment
of an education and the pupils might
as well have no teacher at aiL"
"He' den better than anybody
else ever done, colonel," replied the
chairman of the board.
"That may be, but none of them has
been educated prcperly to teach, ily
mm has been t!foeij eoK"? r.a ta
superior to any teacher la the coun
ty." The chairman dldnt want any
troubl with th colonel, nor did be
want to yield hi point
"Mebb he's list what yon say he
Is. colonel," be said , persuasively,
"and It ain't fer us to doubt that he
has a powerful sight of book I'arnin',
but colonel we have saw him and
we have aaw our man, and I wanter
ay fer this board of trustees that
)rour man can't lick the biggest boy
in school and ourn kin. and that
counts fer a heap right more In this
neck nv woods than book I'arnin'."
The colonel' candidate retired to
the blue grass whence he cam.
- ' Original Suffragette. ,
Mr. Johanna" Meyer, the first Danish
woman to speak from a platform In be
half of woman suffrage, attended th
Universal Race congress recently held
In London aa th delegate to the Peace
Society of Copenhagen. A soon aa th
congress closed Mrs. Meyer began aa
Inquiry in behalf of the Danish govern
ment to ascertain the effect that so
cial and political work in England has
had on wemen. In 1870 Mrs. Meyer
founded O.e first organization for th
betterment of vc - : la t ..bp tS,
UN your finger down the
eightieth parallel of longitude
west Pause at the equator
and not a small dot about
two degrees south of th In
tersection of the two lines. The name
attached to the dot if the map be
large enough, will be Guayaquil.
Ecuador.
Only those who have visited Quay-
Quite recently also, the king of Bel- aqull or who have noted recent Ecua-
glum attended an antl-alcohollo man!- doran news dispatches have any idea
festatlon organised by ' the United of the sanitary conditions existing
Belgian Temperance societies. He there. Ecuador, according to mag
listened with attention to eloquent ad- azlne writers and traveler who have
dresses by the Catholic primate of touched merely on the higher por-
Belgtnm, Monselgnor Mercier, and the tlons of the country, . baa a climate
great French barrister, Monsieur Hen- "second to none In the world."
ry Robert But by bis own presence But It Is not because of Ita climate
be did more for the popularisation of that the attention of the United
teetotallsm than the most eloquent States, has been called to OuayaquU,
speeches, a waa remarked by Mon- nor i It because of the death of the
sleur Robert - tuberculous patients that the band of
Some weeks ago the future king of the state department is upraised to
Sweden, Prince Oustavus, was the fall on Ecuador.
chief speaker in a meeting organised
by Swedish Good Templars. He was
pleased to take the lead in the tem
perance cause, he declared, and with
It Is because, according to health
authorities who have visited the city,
Guayaquil Is the most unhealthrul,
the most unclean and the least sani
such royal patronage It Is easy to plo- tary port in the world.
ture the rapid spread of the reform It la because of the danger that
during the coming reign of this Scan- yellow fever, bubonic plague and lep-
dinavlan ruler. rosy all of which live and thrive in
A trade union secretary has the fol- unwashed Guayaquil may spread to
lowing pointed paragraph set forth in Panama and through the canal to the
notes commenting on labor conditions gulf ports and eastern cities of the
in general: "A class of workmen who United State.
figure somewhat frequently on the un- It Is because a United States naval
employed list are th tippler. There officer, Commander Levi C. Berto
1 no room for dram-drinker In th lette of the gunboat Yorktown, was
workshop of the present day. The stricken with yellow fever while in
drunken workman Is rigidly kept on the performance of bis duty In Quay
the outside of the workshop gates, be- aqull a tew months ago and died with
cause his presence inside Is a danger in two days, while 11 of hts men fell
both to himself and others, and the from the same cause.
tippler will soon be sent to keep him And, finally, It 'a because Ouaya-
company for toe same reason. I null Is in the bands of one of the
Much Is being said In certain quar-1 best organised, most rapacious and
ters concerning the effects of Intoxt- utterly unscrupulous "Tweed rings'
eating drink on the question of nnem- which ever dominated and all but
ployment No one who la acquainted throttled an entire country ' while
with the condition of workshop life menacing the commerce of th world
would contend for a moment that drink I for their private gain.
ha any appreciable effect on the vol
ume of unemployment but it s an
Important factor In determining who
are to be employed. Other thing be-
Only Promisee.
The parental eye of the . United
State government hap long been on
Guayaquil. Twenty years ago reports
Ing equal, the non-drinking, noneport- trom port indicated a disregard
Ing workman ha by far a better
chance of finding employment and of
keeping It than hi tippling or (port
ing fellow."
UQUOR AND LIFE INSURANCE
Total Abstainer In New York Com
pany Each Year Draw Increased
Dividends.
Dr. O. H. Heald, In a recent issue of
Life and Health," mention a strik
ing Instance of th benefits of total
abstinence In the matter of life . insurance..
A certain life Insurance company
doing business in New Tork, he states,
has since 1900 kept a separate record
of abstainer insured In the total
abstinence department of the - com
pany. ; These total abstinence poli
cies each year draw Increased ; divi
dends, which materially reduce th
cost of Insurance,
It may be explained that many in
surance companies Issue annual divi
dends or refunds based upon th ac
tual gains of th companies, resulting
from the fact that the actual mortal
ity 1 less than the calculated mortal
ity shown In the tables. In the tem
perance department of this company.
aa in others. It Is found that the divi
dend or amount returned to the policy
holders is considerably larger than It
la U the general department because
the actual mortality In that depart
ment ! less proportionately than In
the general department '
for sanitation and health regulations
which threatened seriously to disrupt
commerce, and the United States
then intimated that something must
be done to clean up the port or a
more rigid order would be Issued. The
Ecuadoran authorities, after promis
ing to comply with the international
health code, allowed the matter . to
lapse, and the American government,
fo.- some unexplained reason, took no
further action.
Anothe outcry against Guayaquil
an filth was made in 1902, when yet
low fever claimed Thomas Nast, the
American cartoonist then consul gen
eral of Ecuador, who, despite elabo
rate p-ecautiona against the ' yellow
scourge, contracted the disease and
died within a fewdays. Again the
municipal and federal authorities
promised to clean up "the pesthole of
the Pacific" and again they failed to
do so.
An indication of the Ecuadoran
lack of rppreciatlon for the dangers
of yellow fever may be obtained from
the message sent Secretary of State
Root upon the occasion of his visit to
South America a few years - after
Neat's death. ; Guayaquil was at first
Included In the . Root Itinerary, but
the , secretary, being Informed of the
lack of sanitary ;recautlons there,
canceled bis engagement The Quay-
aquilan authorities, upon learning the
reason for .the secretary's action,
wrote him "regretting that a few
cases of yellow fever, sporadic, should
prevent Secretary Root from visiting
the premier port of Ecuador."
The death from yellow fever of Dr.
William M. Wlghtman, U. S. P. H.
Sclenting Study. .
The Swedish government baa been
asked by the Bureau International I . u a Mnn..t n....
Contr 1 Alcoholism,' whose headquar- tgam caused an outcry against Insanl-
ua mrm i uausaune, aia in ue tary conditions there, particularly
founding In Sweden of an Internatlon- Doctor Wlghtman was aunnnuri
al Institute for th scientific study of t0 have been immune to the disease
alcoholism and Its prevention. An ad- Ever since th Panama canal pro
dress banded to the . prime minister ject has become an established fact
siaies uai sweaen seem specially 1 health officers, in the canal tone
designed, by her long and successful I have made repeated demands for the
combat against alcoholism as a nation- sanitation of Guayaquil, but the re
al danger, to take the Inltatlv In the cent death of Commander Bertolette
foundation of such an institute, and goaded the United States to decisive
to guide its future labors. The docu-1 action, and th state department has
ment is signed by 129 specialist oa determined that Guayaquil must be
the subject from all countries of Eu- cleaned before the opening of the
rope. I Panama canal, otherwise drastic ao-
' i .. tion sufficient to cut off Ecuadoran
. Warning Against Alcohol. commerce from -the outside world will
The health committee of the Shef- be taken and Guayaquil will be prao-
fleld (England) cltr council 1 about tlca'ly starved Into submission.
to Issue large posters warning clti- I Always Afflicted witn Yellow Fever.
ten against alcohol "Alcohol (it Guayaquil- la one of the most un
says) Is a luxury and not a necessity, poriant ports on the western coast
and It abuse Is a most terrible dan of Bouth America. It baa the only
ger to personal health, to family hap- flrat cla harbor ut Ecuador, and be
pinesa, and to national prosperity." It eauM of this lack of competition th
stated that Gotch. Hacken- "ty refuses w worry snout ita sani-
chmldt F. a Selou. Victor Trumper. tar condition.
Burgee. Beaurepalre and E. P. Wes- I According to the report of Chief
Quarantine omcer J. C- Ferry, u. .
P. H. and M. H. 8., Guayaquil Is al
ways afflicted with yellow fever.
Even In the dry season, when the
stegomyla (yellow fever) mosquitoes
are fewest the disease is to be found
in some parts of the city. This Is due
to a great extent to the fact that
only three streets are satisfactorily
paved, and many depressions exist
for the formation of pools, providing
breeding places for the mosquitoes.
Half of the city Is forced to depend
upon accumulated rain water' for Ita
water supply, while tbe other half.
housing some 40,001 persons. Is fed
by an 11-Inch main from Bucsy, to
tally Inadequate to carry enough wa
ter for the needs of the Inhabitant.
In aSdltlon to this, th barrels and
tanks used for the collection of rain
water are unscreened and form excel
lent breeding places for - the death.
dealing stegomyla.
Smallpox is also prevalent In Ouay
aquU, and, as little Is done to prevent
Its spresd. it marches on practically
unhindered. Patients are not isolated.
little disinfection Is attempted and
general vaccination haa never been
tried.
"Leprosy," according to Doctor
Parker's 1911 report "Is frequently
seen about the streets of the city.
Five cases of this disease are always
reported on the bills of health fer
the information of health officers, but
the actual number of cases Is un
known and no attempt at segregation '
is made." .
But It is not because of ber yellow
fever, smallpox or leprosy that the
United States fears Guayaquil and I
considering taking steps to close the
port it Is because of the bubonic
plague, which atalks unhampered
through her streets.
Brought into Ecuador by Asiatic
ships In 19()7, tbe dreaded scourge of
the Orient spread rapidly through the
crowded, dirty city until people died
by the hundreds. Dr. B. J. Lloyd, the
American health officer then eta-
tloned at the Ecuadoran port, bad ob
tained favor with the then president
of Ecuador (General Eloy Alfaro, re
cently lynched by a drink crated
mob) by curing him of an apparently
fatal attack of diabetes, and when the .
plague appeared in Guayaquil Doctor
Lloyd immediately commenced an ac
tive campaign against it He bad long
preached the doctrine of sanitation
and hygiene to the Ouayaquilant, but
they had not heeded blm. Now, with
hundreds of deatba from plague oc-
curring every month, they turned t '
tbe American physician in their ex
tremity. General Alfaro himself con
tributed about 110,000 a month from
the government treasury to fight the
plague, and . after a five months'
struggle Doctor Lloyd stamped out -smallpox,
reduced the deaths from
yellow fever to a minimum and bad
begun to make inroads upon tbe
plague.
The Bitter End.
Tou have probably often heard a
person aay: : "I will follow It to tbe
bitter end" or something to that ef
fect but very few persons know that
this Is a nautical term and la bor
rowed from a ship's cable If you
have ever been on a big ship you
must have noticed two big piece of
wood sticking up out of tha deck for
ward, alongside each , other. They
sometimes have a windlass betweeen
them and they are used to secure the '
cable that goes to the anchor. '. These-
pieces' of wood are called the bltts. .
When the ship come to anchor and
the cable I paid out all that part of
It which la abaft or behind the bltts
I . called tbe bitter end of the cable
In a storm or In poor holding ground
for anchor . the more cable that !
paid out the better th anchor will
bold and when th captain Is at all
doubtful be pay out hi cable to the
bitter end sooner than risk any harm-
to his ship. .
"Which Is Par"
The Sunday school teacher was ex- 1 :
plaining to tbe class how the priest"
of olden times thought that by tor
turing themselves, they became bet- .
tar' men. -"'.'";'
"There aren't any men at the pres
ent time so foolish a to think that
any good will ever come from hurt
ing themselves, are there T" she asked. -
Tea. , My pa's one," piped up a lit- ,
tie boy, "for every time be lick me be
ays It's for th - beat but It hurts. ;
him as much aa'lt doe me. He's eltb
er an awful liar, or else he torture .
himself something awful." v :
ton, all recommend total abstinence
for athlete. The potter is signed by
ice iora mayor and the town clerk,
and tie medical c2cer ef hwi!:s.
Making It Right.
Lady (at fashionable ball) Do you
know tbat ugly gentleman sitting op-'
postte ust
Partner That, I my brother,
madam. - v
Lady (In confusion) Ah! I beg.
your pardon. I had not noticed the
resemblance Dundee Advertiser.
Meat Eating In London. .-.
The s mount of meat consumed In.
London In 1911 showed an Increase or
only 16.C00 tons in four years. Eighty
per cent of tbe beet end mutton wae
imported from South America.