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| INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Scourge Has Spread as Far as Mon treal and Terre Haute. New York, July 7.?Health author ities of New York decided late to t night to abandon for the present a least a plan decided upon in the af ternoon to appeal to the America! Red Cross for nurses to aid in stamp ing out the scourge of infantile par alysis in this city, which, since Juni 1, has caused 196 deaths amoni Won lth Commissione: VUAAUA VU. Emerson said he now believed i would not be necessary to ask fo: >. outside aid, as the hospitals of thi: city have agreed to extend their hel] more freely. Meanwhile report: from other cities showed a sprea< of the disease as far west as Tern * Haute, Ind., and north to Montreal Five cases have been reported to th< board of health in the last twenty four hours in the Canadian city while Terre Haute learned of on< case there today. Cleveland, Ohio has reported six cases. Other citie which the disease has reached ac cording to health officials are as fol lows: Pittsburg, one case; Philadelphia one today in South Bethlehem an< . two last night in the city proper; Co lumbus, Ohio, one case; Baltimore V one case. There have been report of isolated cases within the past da; or so from other places near here but none thus far have been report ed from the South. After Expert Conference. rlanicinn tn on!I1 for Re< V i\cw X V/1 IV o uvviwivu vv Cross aid came after a day devote* by health authorities and the mos ^ prominent physicians of the greate city to a discussion of means t< J" check ^he scourge. Some encourage ' ment was found here in the fact tha k fewer cases were reported today thai 1 on Thursday and Wednesday. A1 the medical men agreed, however ^B that only by unremitting vigilano W^L and the strict enforcement of ever; known sanitary precaution could th |H epidemic be kept within bounds. ^^B Dr. Emerson declared that one o the steps he had decided upon wa prosecution of physicians who hav failed to report cases of the diseas k. ' they have attended. Another serious phase of the sit uation was reported today by the As sociation for Improving the Condi tion of the Poor, which has foun< i . that in the congested districts of th city frightened mothers have intern ed their children in their tenemen houses, in many instances, with win dows closed. Such action, it wa pointed out, is likely to have seriou effects. V ? Beading Rooms Closed. Children's reading rooms in th public libraries have been ordere< closed as a precautionary measure " i \ 0* and the order oarnng cnnaren rrou moving picture theatres will not b / modified until conditions improve ** .1 -.t" . ' Playgrounds in various parts of tin city were ordered closed earlier ii the day. The proposal for a general quaran tine of the city was abandoned by Dr > Emerson as impracticable. Dr. Emerson frankly admitted tha his department had been unable ti determine the actual cause of the epi * demic. All theories which previous ly had been held apparently hav been disproved, he said. Proper iso lation of the cases seems to be th< only hope of preventing spread o , the disease, he declared. Killing of Birds Costly to Farmers. If the members of the general fed eration of woman's clubs take u] guns for preparedness they are no likely to use them for sport even fo -cj.? game uirus aner usieumg iu v^uiuuc Shields tell at the convention of th immense loss to the country throug] the destruction of birds. "I was brought up with a gun ii ^ * . my hands," said Colonel Shields "and for forty years I was a sports man, but I have not killed a bir< since I learned their great economi value. Jurails,4 prairie chickens meadow larks, and other birds hav been swept away by millions by th< gunners in the South, and now thi cotton growers lose $100,000,000 i & year because of the ravages of thi > boll weevil. Scientific men say tha it will never be exterminated unti ' the birds have come back. "The chinch bug costs the graii growers over $100,000,000 a yea and the Hessian fly 4 $200,000,000 These insects are microscopic. I takes 24,000 of the former to weigl an ounce and 50,00.0 of the flies. 1 quail killed in a wheat field in Ohi< was found by a government expert t< have 1,200 chinch bugs in its cra\ and a quail in Kansas showed 2,00( Hessian flies eaten during the day A quail in Pennsylvania had 127 po tato bugs in its stomach. It cost northern farmers $1,000,000 a yea for Paris green. Not an ounce o Paris green would be needed if ther< were a normal number of quails ii the country, and they would be bacl in ten years if each farmer woul< protect the birds and prohibit shoot ing on his lands."?Atlanta Geor gian. t GOVERNMENT AT WORK. " Making Money and Stamps for Uncle Sam. The scarcity of dye materials in " this country came near having a ret markable effect upon our currency ~ not long ago, says the July Woman's 1 World. There would have been just " as much of it, but we might have r?i t-i b- -r hillc inctpflH nf I plUA ** V VIVtlUi k/i! iV x**wvv?v? v *. 3 green ones for a change. This start* ling catastrophe was averted by r prompt action on the part of Joseph t E. Ralph, director of the bureau of r engraving and printing. He went to 5 New York and bought all there was ? on the market of certain pigments 5 necessary in the making of stamps * and money. A special shipment of e dyes from Germany was also arrang* ed for. 3 This bureau produces all of the - postage stamps and all the paper cur> rency used in the United States. For3 ty million stamps are made daily and '? distributed to 60,000 postoffices. s These stamps would cover eight - acres. The amount of money pro duced by the bureau is simply staggering. There is often enough of it -? in sight te buy a State. It is very i carefully guarded, the people who - count the finished bills being locked in little wire cages. s , V ORKNEY ISLANDS. " Near Where Kitchener and Staff Were Drowned. I The Orkney Islands, the naval base I of Great Britain's grand fleet operatt ingNin the North sea, and off whose r shores Earl Kitchener and his staff 0 are reported to have met death, are i- described in the following war geot graphic bulletin of the National Geoa graphic society, issued from its 1 Washington headquarters: -, "These islands, ninety in number, e of which only thirty are inhabited, y are separated from the mainland of e Scotland by the Pentland Firth, from six and a half to eight miles wide, f They were selected as England's s North sea naval base not only on ace count of their proximity to the field e of operations, but on account of their j semi-isolation and the advantages of - the superb harbor of Stromness, in i- the largest island of the group, Pomona, which has an area of two huni dred square miles, e "The aggregate area of the Orkney archipelago is a little more than five t times as large as the District of Co lumbia, and the population is in the s neighborhood of 30,000, more than s half the people living on Pomona. Kirkwall, the capital, has a population of 4,000. e "While the original inhabitants of a the islands were Picots, whose round >f towers and chambered mounds are among the interesting ruins of this e region, the Norse pirates secured a foothold here during the early cene turies of the Christian era, and cara ried on their depredations against all nf iVirv \T/m*4Vi /iaa Tr? 4-U a no. r igaiui o ui i.uc nui ku oca. xii luo _ last quarter of the ninth century # Harold Haarfagr (Fair Hair) put an end to the rule of the pirates, and t added both the Orkneys and the Shetd land islands to Norway's domain. In - 1468 the Orkneys came under the sway of Scotland crown, Christian I, e of Denmark, giving them a security - for his daughter's dowry when she e became the bride of James III. As f the dowry was never paid the-islands have remained a part of Scotland's domain ever since. "The Orkneys, which are the Or cades of classic literature, furnished p the setting for many of the episodes t in Sir Walter Scott's novel, 'The Pir rate,' the Cleveland of that romance 1 being John Gow, the notorious freee booter born in Stromness and capi tured off the islands in 1725. Another literary association of the Orki neys and one of SDecial interest to i, Americans centres in Shapinshay, the birthplace of William Irving, father I of Washington Irving. The islands c were the assembling place in 1650 for i, the final disastrous expedition of e Montrose, acclaimed by many authore ities the greatest English military b leader of his day, Cromwell alone exst cepted. e "Although in the same latitude as t Northern Labrador, the Orkney group 1 enjoys a comparatively mild climate, owing to the warm waters of the i gulf stream. There is little snow in r winter and the summers are most . pleasant, beginning the middle of t June. Barley, oats, potatoes and turl nips are the principal crops. The ^ raising of cattle and sheep and horses ) of a larger breed than the famous 3 Shetland ponies is a profitable occuv pation. Herring fisheries afford a ) livelihood for many of the inhabi. tants, while a small percentage of the - people devote their energies to hunts ing wild birds and gathering their m y"v /V n 'HP 1% A M /\ n /? ^\r?n /\ P 4" A I x eggs. l lie JJILIUX esqueiieao ui iuc f rocky coasts and the beauty of the e long twilight evenings attract a cona siderable number of tourists to the t islands during the summer. On the i longest day of the year the sun rises - at 3 a. m., and sets after 9 in the - evening, while on the shortest day it is visible for scarcely six hours." LIST OF OFFICERS. Carolinians Served Under Gen. Scott in Mexico. Thomas E. Richardson, of Sumter, collector of rare historical documents, has in his possession the official list of officers who marched with the army under the command of Maj. Gen. Winifred Scott from Puebla upon the city of Mexico, August 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1847. The pamphlet also contains a list of those "who were engaged in the battles of Mexico." The pamphlet was printed, "American Star Print," in Mexico in 1848. Yesterday Mr. Richardson brought the document to Columbia. He also carried it to Camp Moore, at Styx, for the benefit of the officers and men who will leave soon for the Mexican border. The little book also contains a maD. showing the line of ODerations of the United States army under the command of Gen*. Scott. The map was drawn by Lieut. Hardcastle. The pamphlet contains the following list of South Carolina Volunteers, Palmetto regiment: Col. P. M. Butler, Lieut. Col. J. P. Dickinson, Maj. A. H. -Gladden, Capt. F. Sumter, Capt. R. G. M. Dunovant, Capt. K. S. Moffat, Capt. J. F. Marshall, Capt. W. Blanding, Capt. W. D. DeSaussure, Capt. N. J. Walker, Capt. J. F. Williams, adjutant; James Cantey, regi ment quartermaster; W. B. Stanley, adjutant commissary artillery; J. D. Blanding; First Lieut. C. S. Mellet, First Lieut. J. T. Walker, First Lieut, v- C. Moragne, First Lieut. J. B. Moragne, First Lieut. A. Manegault, First Lieut. J. R. Clark, First Lieut. A. B. O'Bannon, First Lieut. C. P. Pope, Second Lieut. T. M. Baker, Second Lieut. S. Sumter, Second Lieut. W. B. Lilley, Second Lieut. B. W. D. Culp, Second Lieut. James W. Cantey, Second Lieut. Jos. Abney, Second Lieut. David Adams, Second Lieut. L. F. Robertson, Second Lieut. Ralph >-*1 ? .3 T A. -r "n T"V? ^ 13611, Gecona i^ieui. j. rv. oeuond Lieut. J. N. Moye, Second Lieut. J. W. Steen, Second Lieut. M. R. Clark, Second Lieut. Charles Kirkland, Second Lieut. J. W. Stewart, Second Lieut. F. W. Selleck. Col. Butler was killed at Churubusco, August, 1847. Lieut. Col. J. P. Dickinson and First Lieut. J. R. Clark were mortally wounded at Churubusco; Second Lieut. David Adams and Seco: Lieut. Charles Kirkland were killed at Churubusco; among those wounded were Capt. K. S. - Moffat, Adjutant James Cantey, First Lieut. C. P. Pope, Second Lieut. S. Sumter, Second Lieut. K. G. Billings and Second Lieut. Jos. Abney. Maj. A. H. Gladden was wounded at Garita de Belin on September 13. Second ?ieut. J. N. Moye and Second Lieut. J. W. Stewart were also wounded in this battle. First Lieut. J. B. Moragne was killed in this fight. Second Lieut. James W. Cantey was killed in the battle of Chapultepec, fought on the same day. Second Lieut. J. W. Steen was wounded in this battle.?The State. Modern Method in Egypt. The Egyptian ministry of public works, which has been experimenting in cotton raising during the past ten years in the Gezira region in the Sudan, has issued an optimistic report to the gffect that it will be possible to do better than double the yield of cotton in the Nile delta by means of a system of dams of irrigation in connection with the White Nile and the Blue Nile. Vast quantities of water have been stored already, and during the past 30 years nearly 1,000,000 acres of entirely new land have been added to the taxable soil of the country. It is estimated that in this newly explored region about 2,500,000. acres of land could be made capable of growing cotton. This, as a matter of fact, would give more land than is now planted with cotton in Egypt. Irrigation works are now being constructed, and a plat of 150,000 acfes is being treated. We see here only one of many illustrations that might be offered of the modern development of Egypt under British guidance.?Providence Journal. Photography in Europe. While it is as much as one's life is worth to tote a camera around Europe these days, the established photographers are doing a regular "warorder" business, says the Wall Street Journal. Never in the history of photography has there been such a boom. In England and France, for instance, it is impossible to obtain a likeness of one self within a month after the picture has been taken; and in some places in London aspirants for seeing themselves pictured in uniform have to wait in line. Mothers, sweethearts, wives, sisters, want pictures of the lads going to the front, and not a few of the boys take pictures of their women folk with them. The passport demands, which include one's photograph, have also helped those who make photography their livelihood. Read The Herald, $1.50 per year. 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