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Title: McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.

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McClure's Magazine


July, 1908.

Vol. XXXI. No. 3


TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH. By Samuel Hopkins Adams. 241

Our Health Boards and Their Powers 242

Our Absurd Vital Statistics 244

The Criminal Negligence of Physicians 246

"Business Interests" and Yellow Fever 246

Newspapers, Politicians, and the Bubonic Plague 248

Fighting Prejudice and the Death Rate in Charleston 250

Killing Off the City Negro 251

Private Interests in Public Murder 251

A LITTLE VICTORY FOR THE GENERAL. By Josephine Daskam Bacon. 253

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONS. By Ellen Terry. 263

THE HERITAGE OF HAM. By Lieutenant Hugh M. Kelly, U. S. A. 277

THE SINGER'S HEART. By Harris Merton Lyon. 291

THE REPUDIATION OF JOHNSON'S POLICY. By Carl Schurz. 297

The Fourteenth Amendment 298

A Campaign to Destroy a President 298

Killing of Negroes at Memphis and New Orleans 300

Johnson "Swings Around the Circle" 301

New Congress Overwhelmingly Anti-Johnson 304

The Movement Toward Negro Suffrage 304

Reconstruction Under Military Control 305

The Public Fear of Johnson 306

The Fatal Bungling of Reconstruction 307

THE THIRTEENTH MOVE. By Alberta Bancroft. 308

GIFFORD PINCHOT, FORESTER. By Will C. Barnes. 319

CHIEF KITSAP, FINANCIER. By Joseph Blethen. 328

THE WAYFARERS. By Mary Stewart Cutting. 337

THE CATHEDRAL. By Florence Wilkinson. 357

THE NEW GOSPEL IN CRIMINOLOGY. By Judge McKenzie Cleland. 358


ILLUSTRATIONS

DR. CHARLES HARRINGTON, SECRETARY OF THE MASS STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

DR. THOMAS DARLINGTON, COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH FOR NEW YORK CITY

DR. CHARLES V. CHAPIN, SUPERINTENDENT OF HEALTH IN PROVIDENCE, RI

DR. JOHN N. HURTY, SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH IN INDIANA

DR. GEORGE W. GOLER, HEALTH OFFICER OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK

DR. J. MERCIER GREEN, HEALTH OFFICER OF CHARLESTON, SC

THE SCAVENGERS OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

CAROLINE WALKED AHEAD, HER CHIN WELL UP, HER NOSE SNIFFING PLEASURABLY THE UNACCUSTOMED ASPHALT

YOUNG GIRLS ... CANTERED BY; THEIR LINEN HABITS ROSE AND FELL DECOROUSLY, THEIR HAIR WAS SMOOTH

THE STANDING CROWD CRANED THEIR NECKS, AS DELIA SAT UP STRAIGHT AND HELD OUT HER ARMS

'I'VE GOT TWO O' MY OWN'

'WHO—WHO—WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?' HE WHISPERED HOARSELY

HENRY IRVING AS CARDINAL WOLSEY IN "HENRY VIII."

ELLEN TERRY

ELLEN TERRY WITH HER FOX-TERRIERS, DUMMY AND FUSSIE

MISS ROSA CORDER

SIR HENRY IRVING

MISS ELLEN TERRY

AUGUSTIN DALY AND HIS COMPANY OF PLAYERS

AUGUSTIN DALY

JOHN DREW AS PETRUCHIO IN "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"

ADA REHAN AS KATHARINE IN "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW"

HELENA MODJESKA

MARY ANDERSON

JOSEPH JEFFERSON AS RIP VAN WINKLE

ALL DAY LONG OLD SERGEANT WILSON SAT IN THE CORNER OF THE SQUAD ROOM, CLASPING AND UNCLASPING HIS STRAINING HANDS

CABLE THE PRESIDENT! WHAT A JOKE!

THE CIRCLE CLOSED IN AS THE SEA SURGES UP UPON THE LAND

HARRY BARNES, OLD ACTOR

HE GRINNED AND WINKED AND FRISKED AND CAPERED

'OH, YOU DIVVIL, YOU! YOU OLD, BLATHERSKITING DIVVIL'

HE SAT STARING INTO THE BLANKNESS OF THE LITTLE ROOM

JOHN POTTER STOCKTON, THE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM NEW JERSEY

SENATOR CARL SCHURZ

SENATOR PRESTON KING

SENATOR JAMES LANE

SENATOR ZACHARIAH CHANDLER

'I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU EVER SINCE YOU LEFT YOUR OFFICE,' HE SAID

'IT'S A DESPICABLE LETTER,' SHE TOLD HERSELF

'HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE I FEEL, BEING IN THIS POSITION—TO YOU?'

GIFFORD PINCHOT

A SECTION OF THE BIG HORN NATIONAL FOREST, WYOMING, SHOWING THE FOREST SERVICE METHODS OF LUMBERING

SECTION OF A REDWOOD FOREST IN CALIFORNIA, SHOWING WASTEFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE METHODS OF LUMBERING

THE EFFECT OF EROSION ON A HILLSIDE FROM WHICH THE FOREST COVER HAS BEEN REMOVED

THE SAME HILLSIDE AFTER TWO YEARS OF CAREFUL AND SYSTEMATIC GRAZING

HERD OF SHEEP GRAZING UPON A NATIONAL FOREST

KITSAP, THE CLERK, DONNED THE TRIBAL FINERY OF HIS ANCESTORS

ON ALL SIDES THE HOP-PICKERS WERE MAKING MERRY

PICKING PROGRESSED TO AN END, AND THE INDIANS HELD THEIR LAST FEAST AND DEPARTED

STOOD THERE LEANING AGAINST 'DADDY'S' SIDE

IT WAS SWEET TO BE CHAFFED, TO BE HEEDLESSLY YOUNG ONCE MORE

SHE CREPT OUT UPON THE LANDING OF THE STAIRS, AND SAT THERE DESOLATELY ON THE TOP STEP

SHE TOOK THE PISTOL FROM HIS RELAXED HOLD

THE TWO WOMEN SITTING ON THE BENCH, WRAPPED AROUND BY THE LONELINESS AND THE INTENSE STILLNESS OF THE ONCOMING NIGHT

'THEY'LL GET FULL OF EARTH AGAIN,' SHE PROTESTED

LOIS STOLE INTO THE ROOM

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