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Maritime Customs. Most of the import duties of China are collected and administered by foreigners, chiefly British. Since these revenues are needed to pay the interest on China's foreign loans, it was thought unwise to abandon them to the graft-ridden officialdom of the old Em- pire. Pseudo-Republican China resents this stricture on its sover- eignty...
...eyed horses, plastered with mud from cannon-bone to belly, and 9 taut riders bent to their necks. In front was Double Chance, owned by Fred Archer and D. Goold, at 100 to 9. Neither the horse nor its rider, Major J. P. Wilson, an amateur, had ever before ridden the course...
...Vienna, Prof. Friedrich Silberstein read a paper before the Vienna Medical Association, told how he had treated innumerable cancer-ridden mice with large doses of insulin, how of those mice which had been operated on for cancer, 50% showed no return of the malady when they had been treated with insulin, how insulin had checked the swelling of the carcinoma in mice too weak, too miserable, to withstand operation. He advised his colleagues to give insulin to human patients in the largest possible doses when operation for cancer was impossible. His report caused "a profound sensation...
When a man, ridden with an incurable malady, begs his doctor to kill him, no medical man can administer this last, inexorable and most gentle medicine without risking prosecution for murder, for manslaughter. Last week a bill was introduced into the Parliament of Denmark to permit medical Danes to prescribe death "if the action is undertaken in order to release a hopelessly sick person from severe and inevitable suffering...
...real .significance of the move is the struggle of the Chicago Board of Trade for existence. The wheat market is moving from Chicago into Canada, despite the unusual Chicago activity this year. The cereal and meat business is already hag-ridden by Government interference and agricultural cooperation. The waning business on the Chicago Board in cereals and provisions may thus be supplemented by the newly undertaken business in cotton...