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WHAT TO DO
FOR MICROBES.
A Texas Florist Discovered
What Scientists Gould
Not.
DISEASE is FERMENTATION.
Microbes the Cause, and to Cure iii
Diseases You Must XIII the
Germs.
RADAM RIVALS PASTEUR.
RADAM RIVALS PASTEUR.
An Antiseptic Gas, Harmless to
Human Life, But Death to
Microbes.
DISCOVERED AMID FLOWERS.
The Gas Saved the Life Of the Inventor.
Now It Is Saving the Lives
of Thousands.

A singularity of many great inventions and
discoveries is that they were brought about by
men who were least suspected of being able to
solve the problems involved. Where a thor
ough understanding of mechanics was thought
necessary, often the man unfamiliar with me-
chanical principles stepped in and did what
others could not; where q carefully grounded
knowledge of science was deemed lnd1Spens-
able, the man who knew nothing about science
became the enlightener of the scientific world /;
instead of the professor, it has generally been
the student under him who has originated new
combinations and applied new principles. The
inventor OF the steamboat was neither a sailor
nor mechanic. A priest discovered gunpow-
der. An apprentice first made dynamite. Edi-
son had as competitors men who knew a thou
sand Times more about electricity than he did,
and yet he accomplished scores of things they
could not.
There is an easy solution to this apparent
mystery regarding the origin of inventions and
discoveries. In every branch of industry there
is deep rut. Once man falls into that rut
he seldom gets out. Had Edison attended
college and had he been taught electricity by
college professor he would undoubtedly to-
day be caring for some small electric-lighting
plant, while the phonograph, the duplex tele-
graph, the stock-ticker and the kaleidoscope
would still be visions and impossibilites.
There have been fewer strides taken in the
field of medicine probably than in any other
branch of science. The man who dared to dis
close new theory was cowed into silence by
other physicians. Years ago, when Harvey
dared to announce that the blood circulated
through the whole body, he was set upon by q
mob
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also killed the plants. Tobacco smoke, he
iouno, was OF use only temporarily. He
burned other substances in the greenhouse
and watched the results. Some results bene-
hted the plants and others did not. One day
Mr.. Radam noticed that during certain of
these experiments he felt in better health.
In fact, he found himself q sort of barometer
to tell the condition of his affected plants. If
he felt in good spirits after an experiment
with certain gases he noticed that his plants
looked better. He attributed this at first to
his mental preoccupation. One day, after
settling with his physicians and being told
that he had better put his business affairs in
shape so that others could carry on his
business in case of his death, Mr.. Radam
walked through his greenhouses and gazed
sorrowfully al the plants he must soon leave
forever. He came to some diseased plants and
paused. Suddenly the thought struck him
that what was true with plants might be true
with man-that disease in man was caused by
microbes, as diseases were caused in plants.
From that moment he was q changed man. He
said to himself that If he could find some anti
septic that would destroy the microbes in his
system he might get well. This was the way he
reasoned: If there were microbes in his Sys-
tenn which caused his diseases, then there must
be fermentation. 1t took but moment to con-
vince him that what his lungs threw eff was
nothing but fermentation. Then. if he could
but arrest this fermentation 1t would signify
that he had killed the microbes, which caused
the fermentation.
Up to this time Mr.. Radam had never read
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q medical book, and he knew nothing about
chemicals, except those he had used in his
greenhouse experiments. Eight years ago q
few of the holder physicians declared that GER
tain diseases were caused By microbes, but the
public did not believe them, and, as matter
of fact, those physicians were not certain OF
their claims themselves. But Mr.. Radam had
never heard of their discoveries or pretended
discoveries. He had worked the theory out
himself, reasoning that if nature had affected
plants with microbes, why should she not also
affect human beings with microbes?
With antseptcs he purchased MI. Radam
experimental upon raw meat. None OF them
came up to the requirements he eXacted. II
they preserved the meat they injured it. Sub
stances which would not injure the meat were
too weak to prevent decay. Then Mr.. Radam
began compounding these antiseptics with
other drugs. His experiments were not sue
cessful. He continued, however, until he had
experimental with all the drugs obtainable
in the drugstores of his city. Still, he was I'M
successful. 1t was then that Mr.. Radam re-
sorted to gases. None of the known gases pro-
duced the desired results. For days and nights
Mr.. Radam worked.
One day Mr.. Radam mixed q combination
of gases, some obtained by chemical extrac-
ton and others obtained by burning certain
drugs, and placed the result in bottle with
q piece of fresh meat. The next morning
the meat looked fresher than did the results
of his other experiments. This encouraged
him, and he left it several days. Soon the
meat began TO ferment, but Mr.. Radam knew
he was on the right track. Ii he could
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COWS browsed about slowly wandering
water from which the smell of damp,
earthly mold was quickly suggested by
messy, rotting logs and the black ground,
not all hidden by grass and flowers.
"That foreground needs more light, I"
said the artist: NOW watch, and you Will
see what difference sunlight will make. :"
The brush took up some white pigment
family redeemed, and the base of giant
in the partly open foreground began to
glitter. Then light touches across and
above the trail made narrow sunbeams
break through aslant. From those touches
the whole foreground seemed to light up
with the MONDAY glory that had struggled
in. That was the way the artist was work
ing out his pictures. The picture was not
copy of a scene just like that. In form it
was born of Imagination, but Keith had
learned how the redwoods grow and how
the sunshine paints the forest, and he was
putting on canvas natures poetry as he re-
membered it and still felt it.
Keith analysed further what he found
the redwoods to be from an artists point
of view.
"They are picturesque, of course, and in
MANY ways.' he observed. "There seem
to be two types of redwoods, as far as form
goes. Here and there you will find one
Standing out alone on an exposed hillside
like a sentinel, and they are generally
smaller, and they are torn by the winds
and have fantastic shapes. Long, irregular
branches stick out, and the trunks may be
irregular. But in the forest the trunks
grow up superb and symmetrical like
masts. You can run your eye upward 100
or 100 feet without finding limb. The
tops of most run up to point like spin
dies but there are others that have tops
that are fat or that picturesquely bend
out to one side at right angles. There is
beauty among the redwoods everywhere.
You look out through them sometimes
and get glimpse of sky or the ocean and
the cliffs along the shore. The Under
growth is nearly all peculiar to these
| forests.
"There is great variety of shrubs and
flowers, especially along the streams and
about the quiet pools you often find. Here
| and there found madrone. Ihave heard
artists and others say that the madrones
do not grow among the redwoods. and that
shows how most people fail to observe.
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CHOLERA AsIATICA.
Comma Bacillus.)

writer claimed that his chemical formula
would make the Microbe Killer.
Mr. Radam Immediately began q suit for
damages after demanding retraction OF the
statements and articles. The suit came to
trial.
From the hundreds of volunteer witnesses
among the persons who had been cured by the
use of the Microbe Killer the court receiveds
the evidence of twenty, as many as 1t deemed
necessary
cured by the use of the Microbe Killer. Some
had taken only few gallons, while others had
taken 100 gallons or more of the gas.
The long case as last came to close. Judge
Andrews in his charge to the jury told them,
that the plaintiff had been libeled, and that the
whole article was libelous on its face, and that
the plaintiff had clearly pToyed. beyond all pos
lutely harmless and that it had effected won
derful cures. The jury Immediately returned
q verdict for Mr.. Radam. and warfare was
ended.
But Mr.. Radam went further. He actually
cured of consumption man who had been
declared in writing by the physician against
whom the suit was brought as having con-
sumption.
What more could be wanted to vindicate an
inventor, q discoverer OF new theories, than
the result Of the controversy? What seemed
at first persecution proved to be wonderfule
invention
The success with which the Microbe Killer
met caused imitators to become active. In his
safe Mr.. Ranam has dozens of circulars from
quaeks who were selling and manufacturing
Imitation Microbe Killers. Some even went so
far as to use Mr.. Radams name and portrait as
the name-.nd portrait of the seller OF the medi-
cines alleged to be cures. Some even used jugs
identical with those used by Mr.. Radam Tor the
convenient keeping of his Microbe Killer. Mr..
Radam has won many suits against these i'm
posters, and has many suits still pending,
which he cannot fail to win.
In spite of the fact that Mr.. Radam is not a
physician, he knows more about diseases and
microbes to-day than any other living man.
To the objections and prosecutions of medical
men and alleged scientists, who claimed that
microbes were not the cause OF disease, Mr..
Radam simply said, as Harvey initiated Cali
leo: "All diseases are caused by microbes, for
all of that"
Then Mr.. Radam had no actual proof of his
theories regarding microbes except his convic-
tons and the cures brought about by his
Mlcrobe Killer. To-day he is in different
position. During eight years he has been
close student, not of medical books, but OF
nature. With the most powerful microscopes
obtainable he secured micbbes from nearly
every disease known to medical science. He
went further than this. In his own laboratory
he constructed a wonderful instrument for
photographing the microbes.
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must be shown at too great distance.
But there are SO many things l like
about the redwoods. Those colors, for in
stance. l don't think many people see
them. The color tones of the trees vary, in
fact, and they change constantly with the
lights and shadows. You find them differ
ent in the same light. In group of trees
one will have a light stem, others will
have various tones of brown, running al
most into red, and others will be purplish.
Some trunks are made grayish by lchen
and the color changes in the deep riffs in
the bark.
"But it is the play of light and shade
that produces the most exquisite color
tones. In dense shadows you see dark and
rich purple and reddish browns. Where
the sunlight breaks through it fairly gilt
tiers and the effects are wonderfully rich.
From where the sunlight lies the color
tones shade off in various hues in the
darkest depths and each trunk will show
changes of color effects from its base up
ward. Then there are various trees OF
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variety. l still like the oaks, but they are
wholly different. The quality that 1 think
their sturdiness. The redwood rather ex-
presses majesty. Yes, the sequoias of the
Sierra have that majesty of course, but
they are too big. The redwoods are better
for painters subject. The big trees of
the Sierras are SO large that they must be
painted at a distance to get them into
picture and then they lose in grandeur.
Grandeur can better be shown by smaller
mountain lake than by Tahoe, for in
stance, because Tahoe is SO big that it
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A POETIC PAINTER IN THE REDW00DS.
Keith Discovers a New Field and Tells of Its
Romantic Beauty.

things looked at. They should express
the way he thinks of them when away
from them.p
Those who are familiar with Keith's
oaks know that he has said that many
times with his brush. He talked on, as he
painted the other day, and told what he
thought of the redwoods as field for
landscape artist.
al discovered that they are wonderfully
interesting" he said. They are peculiar
and have an individuality. Their color
tones are marvellous in their beauty and
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green all around amid the underground.
In the evening sunlight the trees look just
like mahogany. You don't find such color
tones among big trees of the Sierras.
There the prevailing tone is buff brown"
The artist was touching up half-com-
pleted picture showing an old trail leading
narrowly backward through tall brown
monarchs and overgrown with shrubs and
flowers. 1t gave little glimpse of bright
sky through the distant treetops, and
through the great bare trunks the distant
ones seemed to fade in the shadowy depths
of the forest. In the foreground some
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cess of Mr.. Radam's medicine and theories be.
came more apparent, the medical profession
turned to jealousy.
From his laboratory Mr.. Radam was COM
PEELED to go to the courts. Up to the present
time he has had many cases in court, in all OF
which he has been successful
Probably the most persistent attack was
made upon the Microbe Killer by physician
and chemist, who declared that the Microbe
Killer was poisonous combination. This at
tack was inaugurated in an open letter pub
lished in trade journal. 1t was followed up
by similar attacks under the signature OF IN.
D." and other means of concealment. The
The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-12-12
Talk for Your Town.

Stick to your town. III is only a
collection of cabins, stand by it and
pick out its most attractive features
when speaking of it. Your share of
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Speak up for your city. No matter
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Remember that your people are the
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Paint out the scars when YOU draw
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Carleton as a StOry-Writer.

Will Carleton appears this month in
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The Newspaper.

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Notice..


DY VIRTUE OF POWER coz
- tanned in a Deed of Trust executed t.
me on the 33rd day of August, 1884 b,
Geo. Il. Read and wife and Robt. III Read ,
which is duly recorded in Vance: county,
Book 10. page III, | shall on MONDAY,
THE BIRD DAY OF DECEMBER, lS15,
sell at public auction to the highest bidder
for cash at the Court House door in Hen
t;ersOn, Vance county, the real estate con
veyed in said Deed. tO-wit: One tract 81
land situate in Vance county, North CARO-
lima bounded as follows: Begin al the
crossing at Woodwork, thence along 1a}-
lor's Ferry road 81 chains 40 links To- the
Virginia line, thence along said line : = 3.
f Is chains to the Iiaskins Ferry road e,
thence along said road 60 chains to the O"-
ginning. Tle same beina lei acre, Of
land bought by said &. Is. Heed from ME-
Mary l.. Hargrove and including ,. OF az
acre owned by RObt- H. Reed at Wool
worth.
This 2lst day Of November, 1895.
ROBf w. LASS1lER, Trustee.
A C. ZOIlicOffer Atty.
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A NEW BOOK.
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Notice..

YyNDER AND BY VIRTUE or Az
" thOrity conferred on me by n Iudg
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ger, and others, | shall sell by public
auction to the highest bidder, at The Court
House Door in Vance County, on TIL T.
FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY. 1896,
BEING JAN. 9Th, a tract of land n
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wherein the late Granderson Turner rc-
sided, adjoining the lands of Mr.. l.. II
Lancford and Others, and containing Il
acres. For further description sac Book
II page 254 in Register Of Deeds ONO"
for Vance county. Terms Of sale, one-half
cash. balance in one year. with 6 per cent.
interest on the deferred payments.
This 2nG day of December 1895
L. r. HICKS
Admir- of GrandersOn Turner, dec i
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THURSDAY. DEC. IL, 1895.
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Land for Sale.

| offer for sale 222 acres Oh th't"p -
land laying on little Fishing 'r''N, -
HrinklayViIle Township, HALIFAX CUM ..d'
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Notice..

DY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED EA-
ID ecuted on the 10th day Of May, pa.
by j. 5. Poythress and wife Mary r. i"5-
tliress. registered in Book -. page ID, III
the Office OF the Register Of Deeds foF
Vance county | shall sell foi cash by pup
lie auction, 70 the highest bidder. at t.e
Court House Door in Henderson, on MOI,
DAY. JANUARY 9Th, 1895, the lot 81
land described in said Trust Deed. s'tuaf
in the Southeastern portion OF the t""h
of Henderson, Vance county a. iVII r.
1913 feet to a stone, then nearly South ~.
feet to a stone. thence nearly East loa iset
to a stone on all alley, thence along q"
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ming. being the Wallace Owen ptac"
This 18th December, $50
II. I, WATKINS, Trustee.
ByT. I. Hicks, Atty.
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Youman's latest shapes in the cele
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