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1 Published thbbe ti - Pastear Treatment Cuiunes lo Jus!k I the Op rat od ti ? m THE STATE LABORATORY 5Ms Is Shown by the Report of Dr. P. A. Coward, Director, Who Says Since the Virus Has Been Pre pared Here There Have Been No Deaths. Dr. P. A. Coward, director of the Moratory of the State board ot health, submits the following lnter Vk. 'tig report of the cases treated | . during the past year to. the execu tive committee of the State board of | health: '$ herewith submit my report of J the work done In your lauoratory] during the 12 month j, period from December 1, 1909, to December 1, 1910, inclusive. "Total of examinations, 2,758; Wl <lal tests, positive 578. ne?ative 677, partial 126, total 1,381; T. B. posl ? tive 160, negative 359, total 519; mal.aria.posltive 23, negative 125. to- j <tal 148;-. gunococcus. positive, 16, negative 11, total 27; hookworm, positive 121. negative 315; total 426; teriia nana, positive II, negative 1, tofcit 4; ameba, positive 15, negative 24, total 46, ascaris, positive 15, neg ative 1, total 16: strongyloldes Intes tinalis, one case; oxyuris, positive 1, negative 1; B. diptherla, positive 26, negative 13, total 39; meningococ eus, positive 1, negative 2; staphyloc oceus, positive 2, negative 2; coli xriwp organisms (water), positive 19, negative 21, total 40; T. Sagina ta, positive 3, negative .4, total rabies, positive 55, negative 27, do-abtful S, total .'85. Patients receiving treatment in : ' Pasteur department: Alken .County?White male 4; colored male 1; Intense 2; mild 3; ?to&'l 5. Anderson County?White male 5; white female 3; colored male 3; col-1 ?red, female 2: mild 13; total 13. ?Bamberg County?White female, | , ?Vniild 2; total 2; Bamwell County?White male .?hite female 2; colored male 1; In-1 tense 2 r mild 5; total 10. Charleston County?White male 1; white female 3; colored male 3; Intense 4; mild 3; total 7. Chester County?White male 5; intense 2;-mild 3; total 5. .Chesterfield County?White male] 1;-white female 1: intense 1; mild 1; total 2. Darlington County?White male| 2;. white female 1; mild 3; total 3. (Dillon County?White male 1; mild 1; total 1. Ed?refield County?Colored male , 1; mild 1: total 1. .Falrfleld County?White male 4; white female 4; colored male 3; in tense 3; mild 8; total 11. Florence County?White male 6;> - white female 2; intense 1; mild 7; tobl 8. (Georgetown County?White malej 1; Intense 1; total 1. Hanmpton County?White female 1; intense 1; total 1. Lancaster County?White male 1; Intense 1; total 1. iLexington County?White male 4; white female 2: mild 6: total 6. Marion County?White male 1; mild 1; total 1. 'Marlboro County?White male 5; wh'ite female 4; intense 5; mild 4; total 9. Newberry County?White mate 1; intense 1; total i. Oconee County?White male 1: white female 2: colored female 1; Intense 1; mild 3; total 4. Orangeburg County?White male 7; colored male 2; mild 9; total 9. Riichland County ?White male C; white female 6;, intense 4; mild 8; total 12. Spartanburg County?White male| 1; mild 1; total 1. Total?White male 64; white fe-l male 33; colored male 14; colored female 3.; Intense 29; mild 85; total j 114. Under treatment, December 1st, 2. Ages, six months to.63 years. Abandoned treatment, 5; died 1. The work has shown a steady in crease since the opening of the lab oratory, twice as many examinations were made from July 1st to Decem ber 1st, 1910, as In the same perioaj for the preceding year. The Pasteur department continues to justify its operation. At no time since our beginning have we gone more than a week without having patients under treatment. At one pe riod during the spring of 1910, there were 38 patients under treatment at the same time. Since August 15th, all virus used in the treatment has been prepared in our laboratory there have been no deaths, evidences] of infection or other untoward effects since this chan??i was made. One failure of treatment was recorded during the year?a severe case of in jury to the face. As shown by the table the death rate for the year Is 0.8 of one per cent This rate, while satisfactory, will be further lowered as the num ber of treated cases Increases. The new laboratory quarters were] occupied in October, wltnout loss o a day, or interruptions of the dally routine for the laboratory, they are eatisfactory in every way for the! work now being undertaken. In addition to the regular routine Of work set forth above, the director 3HES A WEEK, hos during the past year delivered four illustrated lectures on public health topics before lay audiences; he has also assisted ia the prepara jnna of the monthly bulletins wher ,5> ? called upon by thu secretary and ?ofSjg health officer. "he director n**, his entire -working time to the ^ j.he laboratory. The fol lowing^ f >tlons. for progress dur ing the c$s ^ears are respectfully submitted/. -^Jur consideration of them request*.;/ / 1. The home treatment of pa tients bitten by rabid anluals?the virus to be prepared in the labora tory and sent to patients In syringes, such as now used for antitoxin. 2. The furnishing to physicians of proper mailing cases and containers for specimens to be sent for examina tion. Respectfully submitted, P. A. Coward, Director, Laboratory State Board of Health. * THROUGH TRAIN SERVICE. Southern Will Run Them Between Charleston and Cinclnuuti. The "Carolina Special," the through limited train linking Charleston and Cincinnati, to be in augerated by the Southern Railway on January 2, thus giving the two Carolinas quick and convenient ser vice to and from the Middle West, will be run on a twenty-six hour schedule and will be made up of equipment *of the highest class, ac cording to announcement by General Passenger Agent H. F. Cary. At first the train coaslst of. elec trically lighted combination passen ger and baggage car, electrically lighted coach, full dining car, and Pullman sleeping car. About Janu ary 15 Pullman observation sloepc; will be added. The schedule w.Ml Northbound, leave Charleston 9 a. m., Calumbla 1 p. m., Spartanburg 4:15 p. m., arrive Asheville 7:30 p. m., (eastern time), leave Asheville 6:40 p. m., (central time), Knox ville 11:35 p. m.. Oakdale, 1:40 a. m., arrive Cincinnati 10 a. m. South bound, leave Cincinnati 5 p. m.. Oak dale 1:30 a. m., Knoxville 3:55 a. m.., arrive Asheville 8:25 a. m., I cen tral time), leave Asheville 9.35 a. m., .eastern time), Spartanburg 12:55 p.m., Columbia 4.05 p. m., ar rive Charleston 8 p. m. ?This train will furnish ^.the first through service ever given "between these important points, shortening the time and adding greatly to the convenience of travel. In addition to its value as a business train it will appeal especially to tourists, travers ing as It will, the famous blue grass region of Kentucky the valley of the French Broad river(and the Land of the Sky ?n Western North Carolina. The "Carolina Special" Is an entire ly new train and in addition to the present service all of which will be maintained. THOUGHT HE KILLED JACKSON. John Thompson Believed That He Fired Fatal Shot. .;? The ? South Carolina newsp-:iiers several days ago published accounts of the sudden death" of John Thomp son, which occurred at Cheraw as he was boarding a train. The accounts did not mention the fact that Mr. Thompson believed until his dying day that It was a shot from his gun that killed Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Mr. Thompson was a gallant old Confederate soldier, and the-e was! no braver one In the ranks.. He said some time ago that the fact that it was probably his hand that had killed Stonewall Jackson caused him to pass many restless nights. Mr. Thomp son's eyes would fill with tears when he would talk of the possibility and probability. He fired his gun many times that night, he hag often said, and he was firmly of the opinion that one of his shots cut down the great Confederate leader. Mr. Thompson was wounded many times. In fact, he received several wounds the day following Jackson's death. One of these was a bul'et wound in his forehead, and to his dying day a large hole In his bare forehead exlst-d plainly In view to tell of the terrible wound. Soon af ter he was shot down and when he regained consciousness he discovered the woods around him on fire. He managed to drag himself, bit by bit, to safety, but several times the fire wa3 too quick for him. Mr. Thomp son was also severely wounded in some of the Virginia battles. Thla brave old warrior now sleeps in a cemetery In Chesterfield county. POLICE FIGHT BURGLARS. Three Officers and One Robber Wert? Killed in Row. As the result of a fight between burglars and the police in London the death roll now numbers four. The house where the fight occurred was occupied by burglars, attempt ing to break into a jewelry store. They were surprised by the police. In an exchange of shots Sergeant I Bently and Constable Choate were fatally wdtinded and died today, j while one of the burglars died in a White Chapel bake shop late this evening. The proprietors of the jew elry store of Henry Harris said that precious stones valued at $100,000, were in the vaults. An examination showed that the burglars tunneled beneath the Harris store and within a few hours probably would have been in possession of the booty. WANi'S A CHANbfc. Prof. Ibamberlaio Proposes to R f ?rm abd Soplify d\>ad*r. HIS PLAN GIVEN BELOW , ,?_-?. Wants the Year Divided Into Twelve Months of Twenty-Eight Days Bach and the Extra Four Weeks and Odd Day Attached to Each Three > Months Group. Dr. Thomas Shrowder Chamber lln, professor of geology In the Uni versity of Chicago, would reform and simplify the current calendar. Bemg one of the most famous geologists, Dr.fChamberlln is familiar with time through PG'intless aeee. He writes to Seien-** - '?'-! *'!? t sum re to suggest a calendar that embodies many of the eicellent suggestions already made, but instead of Introducing a thirteenth month, make use of onW twelve months of four weeks (twenty-eiabt days) each, bunchiu? these into four groups and placing, the remaining four weeks be tween ihes*? srnivipi. so as to set nut the four jdiMjnable ijuarters of the year distinVly." The integers of his proposed caH endar are: Quarters: Corresponding measur ably to the four seasons. Months: Twelve of twenty-eight days (four weeks) each, assembled in groups of three terminated by a single closing week with a special designation'. All months to begin on Monday, as suggested by Patterson. Weeks: Fifty-two of seven days each, all beginning with Monday. For ty-eight of the weeks, In groups of four each, constitute the twelve months. The remaining four weeks of the flfty*two. viz., the thirteenth, the twenty-sixth, the thlry-nlnth anJ the fifty-second, to be attached sev erally at the eud of the four three month groups to make up four sym metrical quarters of thirteen weeks each. These terminal weeks might ! be designated as closing or quarter end weeks; but each is to have Its own speolal name, the thirteenth to I be Easter week, the twenty-sixth ! Julian week, the tbirty-rtlnth Greg orian week and the fifty-second Christmas week. In large measure these might concentrate into them selves the holidays, short vacations, book-closing periods, etc.; and so come to have other special designa tions suited to the various vocations. Odd Days?the odd day of the usual year, the 3G5th day, to be New Year's Day, and to be dies non so far as the week and the month are concerned, as proposed by Patterson, but to be grouped with the preced ing quarter as the end-day of the old year and as the start-day of the new year. The adjustment for the odd one-quarter day to follow the Julian method and to be made by a Leap Day following New Year's Day every fourth year, and to be a dies non also so far as week and month are concerned, but to be grouped with the preceding quarter. Further details of the scheme, particularly the pls.ces and names of the transition or quarter-end or clos ing week, appear in this table: First Quarter. (Winter Season?Northern Hemi sphere.) (Summer Season?Southern Hemi phere.) January?4 weeks. 2 8 days. February?4 weeks, 28 days. March?4 weeks, 28 days. Close week?Easter week. Second Quarter. (Spring Season?Northern Hemi sphere.) (Fall Season?Southern Hemi sphere.) April?4 weeks, 28 days. May?4 weeks. 28 days. June?4 weeks, 28 days. Close week?Julian week. Third Quarter. (Summer Season?Northern Hem isphere.) (Winter Season?Southern Hemi sphere.) July?4 weeks, 28 days. August?4 weeks, 28 days. September?4 weeks, 28 days. Close Week?Gregorian week. Fourth Quarter. (Fall Season?Northern Hemi j sphere.) (Spring Season?Southern Hemi sphere.) October?4 weeks, 28 days. November?4 weeks, 28 days. ?December?4 weeks, 28 days. CloBe week?Christmas week and odd days. Prof. Chamberlln's scheme shouia be popular, for by It the Christmas holidays are made longer. He writes: "Ir the matte:: of holidays, the scheme seoais to lend Itself fairly well to current practice and is per haps weil suited to mould future practice as well. The 28th day of December would always fall on juu dr.y and be the immediate forerun ner of Christmas. Christmas Itself would always fall on the Monday cf Christmas week. Our greatest holi day would thus hare a distinctive place of its own at the head of its special week, instead of falling in the midst of a month and on a constant ly shifting day of the week. The winter holiday season would be closed usually by New Year's Day but on every fourth year by Lear Day, following New Year's Day. The Christmas holidays would thuB be lengthened to nine days or to ten S. C, TUCBSDAY, L'EC THREE ARE HANGED NEGRO FIEND PAYS PENALTY FOR HIS AWUL CRIME. Minos High tower Executed for Crim inal Assault.?Edwards and Kel ley Are Hangged For Murder. Three criminals were-executed by the law in South Carolina on last Friday?one for criminal assault at Columbia and two 'for ? murder at Monks Corner. All three were ne groes. The following accounts of the executions we, take from the State: Beneath a sky sagging low with convoluted clouds, Minus Hightower, alias Ed Byrd, a negro boy, wa& named in the Richland county'jail yard at Columbia for a criminal as sault upon a white woman which he committed last October. He was pro no jnced dead from strangulation 10 minutes after the trap was sprung. The scaffold was erected against the southern Bide of the jail building. Two canvas flies were stretched on each side of the scaffold, shutting off the view from the crowd of morbidly curious on Lincoln street and on the buildings and fences around the Jail. Approximately half a hundred peo ple witnessed the execution in the jail yard. Before the physicians had pro nounced the negro dead, a broad shouldered white man elbowed his way through the group surrounding the scaffold. "I just want to touch him," he said, "and get a souvenir." "Stand back," ordered Sheriff Colemau; "we are not barbarians." The broad shouldered man did not get his souvenir. Hanged For Murder. ' Both protesting their Innocence, two negroes, James Edwards and William Kelley, were ? hanged at Monck's Corner, Sn Berkeley county, shortly before noon Friday. Edwards was convicted of wife murder, while Kelley was sentenced to hang for the murder of another negro. Edwards, who had three wives, warned his fellows against women, j saying that they were sure to get a man in trouble, while Kelley, who was drunk when he committed the1 murder, held liquor responsible for his plight. Both men died after hanging for abount 15 minutes. * Tin? WAGES OF SHAME. White Slave Victim Has Kept Her Master Eight Years. An Investigation being conductor by Government agents and the Pitts burg police into conditions existing in the underworld of Pittsburg re suited in two more arrests tlm weeV arrests which promise to be very im important. This latest development in the crusa'Ie to break np the sys tem in this city promises to be o! exceptional interest when the facts of the case are made known. ? ? At the 8ubs?queut hearing befor* Magistrate Kirty, Annie Wella, a ne gress, testified Lhat within the past eight years she had given $15,00( to Arthur Hemp, aged 35, a whitf man, with whom Bhe was arrested Hemp was held In $2,500 bail for court on a charge of violating the Ediis act. In her story told before Magistrat? KIrby, AnnLe Wells declared she had been practically supporting Hemp for the past eight 3'ears. Sometimes she gave htm $30 and at others 5. of whatever amount she had In her pos session. When she refused hin: money he beat her, she declared Hemp admitted the woman had giver, him money, but denied that she sup ported him. He said he did not worh as he had a sister, the wife of a mil lionaire in Germany, who sent him large sums of money at regular In ternals. WHOLE EARTH FREEZING. The Process Takes Million Years, So Don't Worry. Men will freeze to death on the equator millions of years hence, iur>'ii cording to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, who forsook the Bubject of germs in food in addressing the secular league at Washington Sunday and discuBsed the question, "Is Man to Ultimately Starve or Freeze?" Dr. Wiley said he believed the earth was slowly distant future muBt freeze, though he declared for "a million years al least," humanity would not suffer from lack of food or fuel. In the frigid dnys that are yet to come, ac ceding to Dr. Wilfay, the winda will serve as fuel. dayit. "Easter week would always begin on Monday, the 85th day of tho year, and the days of the week might have the special designations. Easter Tues day, Easter Wednesday, czi so on ending with Easter Sunday, which 1 would appropriately be followed by the spring season. "The Tnlisn wook would pmhrarf our national holiday, which would always be Julian Thursday. The Julian week might well come to em brace the observances that mark th* end of the educational year. "The 'Gregorian week would fal) at a time well suited to the harveut festivals, the fairs, etc. "The authors of the rectiflcatione that gave ub our present calendar are rocognlsed m the naming of the Julian and Grogorl&n weeks." ?.HBEU 29, 1910 RECORD BEATEN rfae Value (if F rra Products Show Great Strides Durii g '.he Year OVER ALL OTHER YEARS State Department of Agriculture in Annual Report Places Value of Farm Products in South Carolina at 9145,489,503, or More Than Eight Million Above 1909. A. ctatement issued Wednesda> night by E. J. WatBon, commissioner of agriculture, commerce and Indus tries, shows that the year 1910 has been one of progress In agriculture In South Carolina. The value of the products grown upon the lands of this State has reached the enormous sum of SI Id 4K9.563. winch is three times the 1900 figures and more than $8,000,000 above the 1909 value of products of the field. In Col. Watson's summary of con ditions were given out tabulations showing increased acreage of corn, wheat and other products of the field. Tobacco ? and rice ?hcw .iprreasp?. the rice acreage for 1910 is I7,3uu against 18,600 for la?t year. The production figures place cotton at 1,176,081 bales and corn at 44,733, 000. Col. Watson's corn figures stirred up the Government statis ticians recently. Summary. Col. Watson's statement is aB fol lows: "Agriculture In South Carolina in the year 1910, though as yet the reai development has but just begun, haH brought this State again to the fore front, among the agricultural pro ducing States of the Union, and as a business proposition agriculture Is again assuming the lead 'he value of the principal agricultural pro ducts this year being greater than twice the value of the manufacturer! output of all the textiles and the cotton seed oil mills combined. It is not Improbable that the total value of the leading agricultural productB will practically equal the value of all manufactured products in the State, including fertilizers and lum ber. "That a revolution has been wrought in the past decade may be gathered from the fact that in 1900 South Carolina ranked twenty-second in agricultural products among the States of the Union, with a tolal value of agricultural products In thai year of $51,324,000. For 1908 the State had risen in rank to eighteenth and this year will rise still higher. The total value of the principal agri cultural products this year,, including the cotton crop with the seed, corn, hay, wheat, oats, tobacco, potatoes, rye and rice, without taking into con sideration at all the truck industry, which has probably netted four mil lion dollars, if not more, 1b $145, 1489,563, almost three time3 the fig ure quoted above for 1900. ana against $137,182,087 for the year 1909 for the same crops, an increase for the agricultural industry, re gardless of truck and live stoc1-: dur ing this year, of $8,307,476. "The Increase in the cotton crop, UBing figures which are probably sev eral thousand bales less than the actual crop, Is $3,276,000, and this has been accomplished notwithstand ing the immense Impetus given to corn-growing, which resulted In the one year In crop .being increased by $6,692,000 in value. "Had it not been for the decrease of nearly one-fourth million dollars In the rice crop and nearly three fourths million dollars in the tobacco crop, or if these crops had even kept up to last year's figures, the grand total Increase for this year would have reached out for ten million dol lars. It is to be doubted if hardly a State la the Union will show a handsomer Increase In this wonder ful year In agricultural development. State's Increase. "It la noteworthy that South Caro lina's percentage of Increase In the nine years, from 1900 to 1909, was larger than any of the States of the Union, with the exception of sixteen, with but one exception, were the new Statea, whore the percentage would naturally be larger and with which It would be hardly fair to compare. In 1909 the State of Illi nois was the leading State In agri culture, having oroducts valued at $337.085.000. Wiih this magnificent figure South Carolina's record this year compares favorably, being at a sum which would place her on the basis of laBt year's result Immediate ly following the twelfth State In rank. It Is particularly noteworthy, ?jotwithstsndln* all that is said In the above of corn, a magnificent crop raised without detriment to the reg ular cotton crop, to note the Increase of nearly a million bushels in wheat, bringing in nearly one-half million dollars moro to the producers than the year before." All of these figures Indicate that at last the people of this Slate have awakened to the fact that they have a monopoly money crop, which is al most never falling In Its average and that they can, while raising that, crop, produce something to eat at home and enjoy a surplus, which, heretofore, they have absolutely neg lected to consider. In other words, Instead of upending profits from the cotton crop away from hora?? for something to eat, we are now begin ning more and more to practice a T practical diversification that la keep-' ing these millions of dollars at home and making the mu?ic of prosperity that is abroad in the land. Hog and Hominy. "The most gratifying thing about it all Is, that the people' are now thoroughly aroused and awakened t? the absolute necessity of proceeding wltn the fill lout i ?1?v??loi?m?ni of I h*? llv* stock industry, which/will mean more hog to go "with the hominy, and in the end complete living at home. . "It li artlcularly gratifying to us men wb have been pushing the agri cultural industry In South Carolina with all the energy we possess to know the Increase in yield per acre, which has been over 1909, as fol lows: Cotton, 2 pounds; corn, 1-8 10 bushels; wheat, 1-2 bushel ;oats, 2 bushels, (over 1909); potatoes, 5 bushel8;,rye, 2-19 bushels; hay, .02 of ton. These' figures are particularly gratifying when we take cotton, for instance, where In South Carolina the yield of lint cotton has been brought up to 212 pounds, while the average for the United States is f>nty 169.1 pounds. This is a higher yield per acre than all the States in the cotton belt, save Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri and California, and only one of these, North Caro lina, is worth considering at all, as the others are now considered among the large producing States. Sources of Loss. "This has been done notwithstand ing a total loss of an average of 70 pounds of lint cotton to the acre di vided as follows from the causes named: ' Deficient moisture, 16.6 pounds; excessive moisture, 23.7 pounds; floods, 2.1 pounds; hot winds, 1.4 pounds; storms, ? pounds; other cli matic, 4.7 pounds. Total climatic 47.1 pounds; poll worm, 5 pounds; total insect, 1.7 pounds; plant dis ease, 11.4 pounds; other causes un known, 9.8 pounds. "The plant disease item Is hrgeiy due to anthracnose and to cotton wilt. For the former a rigid Inspec tion has been Imstituted to insure seed free from it and for tin l?tter a wilt-resistent variety of cotton is being supplied t,> the growers "In wheat we lack only five bush els of being up to the average in the United States and potatoes onlv three bushels, and we are reaching oui for the average of the nation in vo.-n. "Another significant feature of ttifl situation as it is changing w'.ta this development in agriculture :s '.h kC while South C: olina had 21 4 per cent of all her land in crops in 1900, a considerably larger percentage is now devoted .o agriculture. Land Now Under Cultivation. "For instance, between 1380 and 1900, only 7.4 per cent of our land area was devoted to corn, while now corn has grown on 9.8 per cent. Wheat has Increased from 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent, and at the present time 12.3 per cent of the total land area of the State is devoted to cotton. "The maintenance of the full av erage crop of cotton in the face ot the corn "agitation of 1910 is re markable and is shown by the fact that up to December. 13, 1,108,967 running bales, including Unters and sea Island cotton, have been ginned. '"This would indicate in the light of all past experience, both as to cli matic and general conditions, a run ning bale crop this year of 1,184,793 bales, though in the figures we have compiled the running bale crop has been placed purposely at 1,176,081 bales. "The figures apply this year to square bales of 4 92 pounds each. As early as October the State depart ment of agriculture issued an esti mate of this year's total crop at 1, 100,000 500-ifound bales, and the ginners' figures for this State indi cate that this estimate may be oniy a few hundred bales out of the way. General Congratulations. "It has been particularly gratify ing to the State department of agri culture to realize that all forces and agencies making for agricultural de j VAlnnment 'n this Ptnt? hau he?a ' working In perfect harmony for the magnificent result that has been ob tained, and that all of these forces feel now that they have but barely entered upon the best of their work. The State department wishes In making this announcement to con gratulate all of these men represent ing these various forces on their achievements, and to congratulate the people of the State that they have such forces helping tha peopie to help fhompolvPB." WILL SOON HE HEItH Farmers Should Start Boll Weevil Campaign Now. That the farmers of South Georgia should prepare a campaign of resis tance against the approach of the boll v >vil, which is certain to attack the c .con interests of the state at any time within the next five years, was [the note of warning'sounded by State I Entomologist E. Lee Worsham at the agricultural conference in Macon Saturday morning. He stated, incidentally, that the best plan of fight was to plant earl ier varieties of cotton and to make use of certain chemicals after the pest had arrived and while it was a hibernatin? state. Storm Victims. Seven Japanese and 62 Corean ves sels were wrecked off the cot^t of Mokpo, Corea, last week, when a storm swept that region and 891 men lost their lives. WO CEKTSS PER G?PJ COOK GETS B?CK Returns to His Native Country From Er> rope on La>t Thursday. JUST AS CAIM AS EVER His Presence Aboard Causes a Dis pute on the Ship.?The Passengers Were Divided Into Two Camps On the Question of His Deception.?.., What He Says. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, arrived in New York on Thursday on the steam ship George Washington as ? calmly as if there had never been a North Pole controversy. He looked weil and said little; in fact a typewritten, interview handed 'tho reporters em braced all that he had to say witn the exception of the necessity formal ities of conversation.thrust upon him by interviewers. Of far more dramatic Interest was a headed controversy among the steamship passengers concerning the impression he had made upon them. The doctor still asserts that he be- - lieves be was at the pole. Dr. Conk, fn h.'s statement referred ' ? to the fact that he whs in the United ; States less than a month a?a ' I arrived in Quebec on October 29, went to Troy, N. Y., then to Newburgh and Poughkeepsie," Baid< he. "I was in the two last named cities about three weeks, writing, re vising and correcting proofs of my story. 1 registeroa under an assume ed name because I was very busy?? too busy to receive my personal friends or newspaper men. No^oth-.. er precautions were taken to keep my presence concealed." Dr. Caad Baid be didn't know wbaA his plans for the future will be; that he had no plans whatever for going on the lecture platform. "I have come back solely for the purpose of rehabilitating myself and my family by setting matters right' with my countrymen." he declared. The argument among the George Washington's passengers arose when the doctor's sympathizers aboard wished it understood tha-t ho was re ceived with no shadow of discrimina tion by the other passengers. His enemies wished it made clear that ae had been shunned. The minute the men who had gone down the harbor on the revenue cutter stepped into the saloon, ^representatives of Doth sides descended on them. Persona, who in ordinary circumstances dodge publipity as they would the plague, fairly button-holed the reporters in. their eagerness to present their eise first. . While the dispute in the ladies' sa loon moile.1, more temperate minded passengers elsewhere found time to - tell without heat about the doctor's trip. He came aboard at Bremen, they said, wearing a full beard, but had it shaved off the next day. He' was an unostentations paseengor, playing cards of an evening with a few friends and neither seeking nor avoiding attention. Once when the toasts were going around before bod time and it came his turn to name a health, he was quick to propose the "Stars and Stripes," a toast, that none could re fuse. Another time when a passenger who had not remarked to him before aRked brusquely: "Are you Dr. Cook?*' He answered, "My came la Cook." "Aro yon the Dr. Cook who went to the North Pole?" persisted the questioner. "I have been there," asserted the doctor gracely. The typewritten interview with the doctor did not satisfy the reporters. They plied him with questions, but almost all of them he parried. "You have written this, doctor: 'After mature thought. I confess that I do not know absolutely whether J reached the pole or not' Do you be lieve that you did?" "I still believe it." "Does your uncertainty at all ex tend to your ascent of Ml MsKln ley?" "Not in the least I shall have a reply to make to Prof. Herschel C. Parker'B latest a-ttack on my ascent of "Mount McKinley In a few days? probably next Monday. "Did you still believe in your reo ords when you gent them to the Uni versity of Copenhagen?" "Oh, certainly." "Then why did you call Capt Au gust W. Loos to aid /ou in compil ing thorn?" "That will be answered in the next Installment" "Yet you accept the verdict oi the university?" "Yes, I think we have accepted that." "And you believe that Peary got to the polo?" "I have never questioned it" From the steamer Dr. Cook went direct to the Waldorf-Astoria, whore he stayed before, on his welcome from Copenhagen. Wants Big Damages. Fright, caused by the sudden ap pearance of a man In the rooms of a dressmaker, where a dress was be ing fitted on her, so injured the mod esty of Mrs. Minnie Fluor, of Cin cinnati, 0., that she has brought suit for damages in the sum of $1,700.