The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-13
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| All vegetation WITHIN RADIUS Oh sew
eral feet of their hills is killed. The
ants are a larger variety than ever
seen in the state before. They multiply
! very rapidly and the farmers are using
! every means to exterminate them. The
| insects have invaded the cities and
| towns, and are making life miserable
| for the inhabitants. They are very
vicious, and do not hesitate to attack
| either person or animals interfering
with them.
According to Sir Robert Anderson,
If 10, not 10000, known criminals were
put out of the way the whole organi-
cation of crime against property in
| England would be dislocated, and we
| should, not ten years hence, but i'm
| mediately, enjoy an amount of i'm
! munity from crimes of this kind that
1t might to-day seem Utopian to ex-
! pect. The criminal statistics cult
| blinds its vOtaries. 1t is the crimes
committed by professional criminals
| that keep the community in a state
! of siege. The professional criminals
! are few and they are well known to
| the police.
The India-rubber shoe is mod
ern invention. Up to 1923 no such
thing was known in this country. A
census bulletin, just published, tells
| how a Boston sea captain in that
! year brought from a tropical voyage
! pair of gilded shoes made of gum
| elastic" These aroused much curiosi-
ty by their imperviousness to water,
| and later others were brought and
| sold. But they were heavy and i'm
| practicable. 1t was not until 1873
that rubber was made commercially
useful. Then Goodyear and others
discovered the effect of sulphur and
heat in rendering it hard and unaf-
| fected by temperature. The discovery
| opened a great field for the manufac-
| ture of clothing and shoes, where for
tunes were made for several invent
| OrS.
AS late as 1872 students in Trinity
and st. Johns Colleges, Cambridge,
were prohibited from wearing panta-
looms or trousers in chapel. Oxford
men had already fought for and won
| the right to wear trousers. These were
| first allowed in oxford in 1910. when
Rigaud was proctor and his relaxation
| of discipline gave great offence to the
dons. On November 20, 1885, William
| Phelps, scholar of Corpus, and after
ward archdeacon of Carlisle, writes:
II have been invited once to the Bach
elors' Common Room, where 1 found all
wore black pantaloons, and stockings,
and white waistcoats." Evidently the
| discovery caused him some surprise, or
| he would not have thought it worthy
of record. Dean Burgon relates in his
| Lives of Twelve Great Men," that as
| late as 1847 the Rev. Edward Miles
| Rudd, as senior fellow of Oriel, used to
! appear at the college "gaudy" in black
shorts.
The part played by color in the
treatment of disease is just now at
tracing fresh attention. The success
of the Italian doctors in their en-
| ployment of red in the sick room has
| set some people talking about this
| discovery. In fact, the discovery that
! color affected the nerves, and through
! the nerves the general health of the
body, was made many years ago; we
know that Edward II, for instance,
| when he was Prince Edward was
| cured of smallpoX-if we are to believe
the court phyisician-solely by the
| brilliant scarlets employed in the dec
Grafton of his bed and the room in
which the bed stood. But to say that
| color per Sc can cure a person of
| smallpox or any other malady is to
| state what science must absolutely
deny. Nevetherless, it cannot be too
widely known that success in sick
nursing may depend in a greater or
less degree on the scheme of coloring
that obtains in the patients room.
Worry is a cause and a source of
much unhappiness, says an exchange.
1t seams the face with lines and fur
rows and has a most depressing effect
upon that representative organ, the
stomach, which at such times becomes
most unwilling and laggard servant.
Indeed, it is safe to say that unless en-
couraged by a cheerful temper and
bright or, at least, hopeful thoughts,
the stomach will play truaat, OF sulk,
or do no good work. The physiological
explanation of this is the close alliance
of the great sympathetic nerves, which
are worse than the telegraph for car
rying bad news; the work and anxiety
which depress the brain cause stimuli
taneously a semi-paralysis of the
nerves of the stomach; gastric juices
will not flow--and, presto! there is in
digestion. One sign of mental health is
serenity of temper and Il self-nontrol
that enables US to bear with equanim-
ity the petty trials md Jars % life. es-
pecially those arising from contact
with scolding, irascible. irritating per-
sons. Serenity of mind comes easy 10
some and hard to others It can be ac-
quired.
DIR. Tanner tasted more than 40
days, and ten-days' fast once or
twice year would be worth a small
fortune to many people, says the Balti-
mere Sun. Most people wash down
their food with slops-tea, coffee. cho-
colate, milk, beer or wine In time the
saIVary glands become atrophied for
want of use. Masticate every mouth
full long and well, after which Won can
swallow 1t without a drink to hurry If
along. Coffee and tea are Responsible
for host of ills, and of these ronsti-
patton is not one of the least The
greatest harm comes to those who are
confined indoors, compelled to live in
nl-Ventllated rooms and deprived of all
nealth-giving exercise. Get out of
doors. Open up windows. Run races and
ride bicycles. Do something to make
your blood circulate and force Won tn
breathe. Very few people breathe eff
nclently. With a lung capacity of near
ly gallon, most people ;nhala less
than a quart of air at each nspira non
IL is no wonder that consumption has
becCme so common as to be called tbo
Great White Plague" Rather II e
wonder that more of these COLLAPSED
lungs do not forget to do their dutv
and go into decline.
Migration of birds. saws an cx-
change, is mostly carried on at night
and mainly during clear nights. A few
species, such as ducks, cranes, certain
large hawks, swallows, swifts and
night hawks, migrate during the dav-
time, and these, it will be observed. are