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SHE SPEAKS

Mrs. David Brainerd Spooner had been present at the building of the Tower of Babel, she might have rendered good service on that somewhat celebrated occasion. Among all that confusion of tongues, she would have been able to understand 54 at any rate. For Mrs. Spooner is one of the foremost lin

guists in the world, and understands that many languages. Mr. Spooner, to whom. as Miss Elizabeth S. Colton she was married but a short time ago, has almost as great an understanding of world-wide speech as herself.

He is the savant who discovered the casket believed to contain the bones of Buddha, in Peshawar, India, in the summer of

FIFTY TONGUES

1910, one of the greatest discoveries known to modern archaeology. This casket was presented to the King of Siam. Mrs. Spooner has traveled extensively over the Far East, in India, Egypt, and elsewhere. She belongs to sev

eral learned bodies of the Old World. Mithridates King of Pontus in the first century, B. C., is accredited with having been able to speak twentyfour languages, the number of races over whom he ruled. Thus Mrs. Spooner has command of more than twice as many different lan

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guages as had this famous

and bril

liant king
of the
ancient
world.
She has
the "gift of
tongues" to
an extraordi-
nary degree.

WILLIAM R. HARR is

ranking Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice in Washington. There are three Assistant Attorney Generals and the great bulk of governmental prosecutions fall to the lot of these three. William R. Harr has recently been engaged in two of the federal prosecutions that are of most interest to the ninety millions. These are the tasks of bringing to justice those parasites upon a modern civilization who make their living in the white slave traffic, and those misguided enthusiasts who have sought to further the cause of

labor by

the use

lations of the national banking laws, and many others. Mr. Harr is thirty-nine years of age. But a few years ago he was a stenographer and before that a printer. He is a native of the District of Columbia and has never cast a vote and has no constituents. His advance has therefore been entirely aside from politics. His case is, in fact, an instance of the opportunity the government service offers to those young men, who have only their own native ability and inherent good sense and judgment to further their advance

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As a

of dynamite. This first he

has so worked

out in the last two years as to guarantee an ultimate federal card index of all members of the underworld so arranged that the federal government will always be aware of the movements of all of its members. Yet these cases are but a part of the work of Mr. Harr. Great numbers of cases come to him from the different departments. He handles, for example, all peonage cases, immigration cases, vio

WILLIAM R. HARR, OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Now RANKING ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL.

prosecuting attorney, Mr. Harr is shrewd, resourceful, thorough, and untiring. He can as quickly uncover the flaws in the defendant's case as a fox would sceat out a hen-roost.

He is just at the age where a man has not lost his youthful enthusiasms, and yet where his judgment begins to be tempered by his experience. At once tactful and aggressive, untiring and resourceful, Mr. Harr has forced recognition of his abilities.

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THE SCOURGE OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE.

The tsetse fly (Glossina Palpalis) that spreads the terrible sleeping sickness, for which there is no cure.

FATAL PLAGUE
PLAGUE

WHOLE WORLD

THREATENS WHOLE

By

DAY ALLEN WILLEY

AKE VICTORIA with its cluster of islands is still to the eye a paradise of the Dark Continent. When the

traveler through the framework of forest gets his first glimpse of it, he sees a marine landscape in which the wave tops seem whiter if anything than the new fallen snow, far whiter than the wave crests in mid-ocean, because they rise and fall in a sea of turquoise finer and more brilliant than the blue. The Sesse Islands in this lake are a specimen of Nature's jewelry. "Studded" best expresses the way in which they have been set in Victoria, like emeralds, with their crowns of verdure in bush and tree, of a green so pure, so real, that the first sight of it makes a picture never to fade from the memory.

The nearer view of the Sesses makes you instinctively think of the voluptuousness, the abundance of the earth, so large and so perfect are the flowers, so very lavish is the profusion of tropical adornment-not a sign of sorrow, a picture all

life-all peace reflected in the rays of the African sun. But the Sesse form a charnel. Death is upon them.

This is a land of silence. The laugh of the child is unheard, the chant of Baganda women so full of cadence comes no more over the waters. The bark hut villages that for centuries sheltered the finest types of the African races are rotting ruins. Hyenas prowl in the junglecovered fields where the banana and cotton once flourished, while the birds of variegated plumage-the African birds of paradise-flit here and there amid the groves.

Why this desolation, this absence of all that is human? Because of a fly which carries in its beak the thing that is the tiniest murderer known to the world-a murderer that never fails to kill its victim-whose life means certain death wherever it lives. The men with the microscope who can tell you of the birth, the growth, the habits and the danger or benefit of a microbe or parasite, the

world's greatest experts in knowledge of disease-breeding and disease-preventing, have gone into the African jungle

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IN THE DETENTION CAMP ESTABLISHED BY THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES. These three patients cannot move their limbs.

tern screen attached to the intestinal walls and sucking blood. This is revealed by the microphotograph. Many germ diseases have been brought under partial or entire control. The exact cause of tuberculosis is now known; yellow fever has been subdued by destroying the mosquito; the hook worm can be destroyed by medicine, but this African death thing has a charmed life. It has wriggled through the arteries of a half million people, not only black, but white. On and on it goes, further and further into the body by the blood canals, until eventually it arrives in the spinal cavities. The surgeon's needle has drawn the spinal fluid from thousands of sleeping sickness suspects, also tapped the arteries. Sometimes not a trace of the thing could be found in the blood-but floating in the spinal ducts millions of them were actually discovered by the power of the microscope.

A MONTH BEFORE DEATH-THE THIRD STAGE OF THE SLEEPING SICKNESS.

The victim has not the strength to hold up his head.

and swamp to find some way by which this invisible man killer may be driven from its victim's body. Years have they been working with every scientific appliance known and every drug that might be efficacious, but today they have found no way to prevent this insect from injecting the death-dealing parasite into the human blood.

Yellow fever has lost the mystery of its origin. The tiny worm that causes the "laziness" of the poor white of the South can now be shown on the lan

Out of a hundred thousand negroes living in the Sesses less than a thousand were left on the islands alive when the British medical service took charge of them, and sent them to the detention camps which the British colonial doctors

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