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Is There Remedy for Old Age?

identically the same effects 1t fs in
its action evidently much the same as
the poisons elaborated by bacteria.
Following the nomenclature in vogue.
DR.. Weichardt calls this an ermudungs-
toxin; that is, fatigue toxin or fatigue
poison.
Naturally this discovery at once
opened up a wide field for thought and
speculation. DIT. Snyder asks why IL IS
not possible that there is an anti-toxin.
a serum which by injection would pro-
tect the body from the ravages OF this
fatigue poison to which old age Is at
tributable. In other words. IL there IL
an antidote for this disease OF old age
viii not its application keep the body
constantly yOung2 VIII it not prac-
tically eliminate old age from civilized
natures and materially postpone death?
1t would be somewhat startling ff
after all the fountain OF perpetual
youth was found 10 really exist In this
twentieth century and to be located IN
the laboratory OF chemist.
DR.. Snyder says, in discussing this
phase OF the subject:
why should not the fatigue toxins
produce an anti-body just like the rest?
Dr. Weichardt has shown that they do.
and. moreover. he has shown that. lust
as IN the case of the bacterial poisons
very little fatigue toxin injected into
the veins OF an animal produces an ex-
cess OF anti-pois0n. so that il is today
literally possible TO inoculate an animal
against fatigue The German expert
menter has shown that animals and
even human beings thus inoculated are
capable OF a much more prolonged ex-
ertion than without it,"
he also notes that Dr. Metchnikofr
suggests that some antf-toxins might
be found which would reinforce the
aging cells and stimulate them to re-
newed youth DIR. Weichardt noted thar
the fatigue poisons disappear spontan-
eoussy when the muscles are given time
TO rest. DIR. Snyder supposes that they
are simply oxidized. He holds fast to
Two noteworthy facts in the matter:
The first Is that old age is in some
sense merely accumulated fatigue: the
second IS that one very striking condf-
ton. II II be not an essential condition.
IN Old age Is lessened oxidation"
Dr. snyder mentions the Russian
palhologist BeIon0V sky. who has shown
that the hemolysins. the poison serums
which IN quantity destroy red corpus
cles, stimulate the production OF thu
corpuscles when administered in very
minute doses This discovery has been
used for the treatment OF anaemia.
win 1t be of avail IN wardlnx ar -
age:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
AN ADVENTURE WITH OLD CAPTAIN KIDD

been lowering off the island with
battling winds suddenly ran into the
little bay and dropped anchor. The
and as the people ashore thought an
English man-of-war. But her move
ments soon convinced them that some
thing was wrong.
ITO begin with, the crew was not in
uniform, and. while the discipline was
good, neither ship, officers nor crew
bore that unmistakable stamp that
comes from constituted authority. Be-
sides, she had no flag flying. In those
days pirates we're more plentiful than
romantic; like the noble red men, their
sentiment decreased with their near
ness. Accordingly the alarm was
great and everybody except the bald
heads expected scslping, while others
expected to walk the plank While
everybody was in a nutter of appre-
hension a boat was lowered ard
manned with an armed crew, which
pulled for the shore,
Then Lady Gardiner, making a virtue
VI ucScesitg, LOOK ner daughter BY the
hand and walked down to the shore To
meet the visitors. She had never seen
so desperate and bloodthIrsty a set of
beings, composed, as they were. of
every nationality on earth But her
fears were soon allayed by the off,
Ger steering the boat, who sprang out,
and, lifting his hat, introduced him
self as Captain Kidd He then as
sured her that it panied him beyond
expression to cause any lady alarm
But he added, madam, though a
sea rover, l have never insulted a WON
an or injured man even. save in fair
fight Then he stated the object OF
his visit: he was after provisions, de-
claring that he was determined to
pay any price she set on the things
taken.
She assured him that she and hers
were at his mercy. and what he desired
20 take he must take free, as she
could not help herself, and she would
not receive remuneration from him. He
assured her that no other episode In
his lawless career had so panied him
but that his necessities were great, and
even that welcome relief would be
tinged with the remorse OF having
caused a lady fear and chagrin. Then
he helped himself to what he needed
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whom he had killed with bucket.
Why he was not tried for piracy is I'M
known. but Miss Thatcher said it was
impossible to indict him on that charge
because there were too many promi-
nent men involved. Kidd expressly
less suspected men than he had drawn
dividends from his piracies. However,
he was convicted and sentenced to
death. He died on the gallows, and
people are still honeycombing the coast
from Maine to Florida in search of
"Kidds gold. Poe built his story of
The Gold Bug upon one of these le-
genGs.
Miss Thatcher told me: when I
was a girl nobody could go out after
dark without danger of falling into q
hole dug by some luuatic who loved
Hes and money as much as he hated
work. The fair face of GARDENERS ISL
and, the old lady declared, seemed to
have been visited by a severe case of
smallpox. Kidd landed nothing from
his ship but the tribes he forced upon
my great-grandmother. But there are
some fictfons that, like Banquo's ghost
will not down.
In conclusion permit me to say that
IT | have warped or stretched the
truth 1T is in some insignificant detail,
such as the month of the pirates visit,
or whether the daughter of Lady Gar
diner was Miss Thatcher's great-grand-
mother or grandmother. II any person
from New London lives in San Fran
cisco he must have heard of Kidd $
visit to. GARDENERS Island
When / was living there there were
two pieces of information everybody
was DESTROYS of imparting, one con-
corning Kids Visit to Gardeners ISL
and and the other, Benedict Arnold's
burning the town."
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IN ROLONGED youth is a subject
that has received much atten-
ton by scientists abroad OF late
and given rise TO many interest
ing experiments and theories. A num-
Der of these theories as to the process
Of old age are set forth in a paper re-
Gently prepared by DIR. Carl Snyder Of
London. for the Monthly Review.
One of the authorities he quotes. Dr.
Demange, holds that old age is essen
TALLY case of insufficient nutrition
brought about by the Reorganization
and decay OF the finer blood vessels
and capillaries- But DIR. snyder argues
arterial degeneration is but part Of
the general decay. not a cause
Russian Psychologist famous for
his description of the phagocytes. offers
this theory. He distinguishes among
these devouring cells two varieties-the
one which he calls the micropha9s
that is, the little devourers. whose
main business is with the defense OF
the organism; these are throughout
the body-in the brain. in the blood
the lymph and the tissues; and the
second variety, the nlacrophags, some
times mobile, sometimes fixed Old
age is the work of the macrophaxs
Everywhere throughout the body. in
the brain, in the nerves, in the impor-
tant organs-Metchnikoff pictures these
devouring cells as attacking the most
active elements of the tissues-that is
to say, brain cells. the liver cells, the
kidney cells-and converting these into
sort of connective tissue no longer
able to carry on their former functions
DR.. snyder states that DIR. Wolfgang
Weichardt, a German physician, has re-
Gently made a long and arduous series
of experiments-eight hundred or more
in number-with the most amazing re-
suits. He takes test animals-guinea
pigs. for example-puts them on a min
iature treadmill and runs them until
they fall dead from exhaustion. Then
he expresses or. concocts from the ia
tigued muscles of these animals a Juice
or sap. When this sap is injected into
the Veins of unworked guinea pigs they
show promptly all the outward signs
of fatigue-can support no effort. their
eyes stick out from their heads: at the
end of twenty to forty hours they die
The sap coneocted from the fresh. un-
worked animals shows no such effect.
Prolonged muscular activity, then,
produces in the muscles a poison
which, circulating through the body OF
the animal, causes its death. This
poison Is a definite substance. which.
injected into other animals. produces
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THE LAST GREAT
ERUPTION

barking beside the thunder or big bay
ing guns.
This part OF the programme success
fully concluded. as one corner of the
crater became more clearly revealed,
the party decided to descend and ex-
plore at least that section of the enig-
ma. SO down they scrambled into the
very crater itself-the jaws of death.
Speaking of this stage of the thrill
ing journey. Professor Hovey said that
he nor his companions realized the po-
tential peril at the moment Il re-
member thinking" he said. that the
ascent over those Jagged lava beds was
much more difficult, If not dangerous.
than the descent into the crater itself"
AS nothing disastrous occurred to
the party during the first five minutes
they spent in the crater, the various
scientists began to scatter out, explor-
ing farther and farther in couples and
trios until one party could not see
another for the vast veil of steam hang
ing between and around them all.
Describing the crater in detail Pro-
fessor Hovey said that, on closer exam
nation. ii was found that there were
no poisonous vapors noticeable. and alb
solutely no ashes or coarse substances,
only vapor and steam.
But the steam. heavily charged with
moisture, was scalding in it's intensity.
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science was wholly in the dark regard
ing the actual formation and behavior
of the nervous old mountain at the
cone.
The first ten thousand feet was, of
course, a gradual ascension. as COM
pared with the upper shelves of the
mountain. and was accomplished with
out exceptional fatigue. And there we
made camp over night This camp was
at the lower rim of the barren lava
beds, which are continuous over the
entire upper slopes of Coiima, owing
to the comparative frequency OF its
activity. There is absolutely no sight
or semblance of vegetation on the
mountain-it might be mountain OF
skulls.
"Desolation? One could not possibly
imagine more desolate region than
we encountered up there. But, as the
mountain had been gu-.ty of nothing
overt, though infamous for its gusty
temper, since 1908, we were not appre-
hensive of any demonstration during
our sojourn- And there we erred In
our reckoning. For volcanoes are as
VIGOROUSLY uncertain as our quad
rennial elections. and Mount Colima
proved itself grave deceiver. as We
might have known and anticipated.
I'VE had set out from camp early In
the morning. about seven ante-merid-
ian, and it took US until nearly noon
TO scale the remaining four thousand
feet, or four-flfths of mile. The only
compensation we had en- route was the
magnificent view we secured OF the
Pacific Ocean and the forty miles of
table lands lying between. / have
never seen anything grander on this
continent. Mont Pelee has about 1t a
sinister ferocity that is accumulated
by its death-dealing actions. Mount
St Elias is more majestic in point OF
mere height. Popocatepetl also is
higher, but is far better natured and
more civilized. Colima is just huge,
knotty. writhed excrescence, rearing
itself 1880 feet above the Pacific, to
which 1t is a grotesque antithesis-a
great brawling monster which has
been persistently breaking the peace
for ages"
And that is why geology has been so
anxious to study this shrewish noun
tain, it appears. That is why more
than a dozen foremost biologists of
the world ignorantly, so to say, took
their lives in their hands and clam
bered over mile OF Jagged lava beds,
like boys on a nEtting foray.
AS they mounted upward, lodging
great Jumps of scoria. tearing their
clothes and hands as they went, every
yard brought them deeper into the
vast shadow cast by writhing clouds
of steam, spouting from the mysterious
caldron at the top. Once or twice
they paused and considered the spec
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and he needed" a good deal. Hogs.
sheep, goats and fowls, with wagon
load after wagonload of vegetables.
were carted to the shore. while all OF
the pirates boats, with the boats be-
longing to the island. were loaded to
the waters edge and sent aboard. The
pirates had been several months at
sea, and, as there were no canned
goods in those days, they had been
living on ship biscuits and salt meat.
That was the epoch of scurvy. for anti
scorbutics were unknown, and long
voya ges, combined with crowded ships
and the absence of fresh meat, wrought
fearful havoc among crews.
Kids ship was of about 300 tons and
carried an immense crew, sufficient to
man a half dozen honest ships of her
size She was heavily armed, for every
mans hand was against her. Her
name, I think, was the Adventure
Galley. Kidd was man of birth,
which his breeding did not contradict,
being of a respectable English family
and once belonging to the royal navy,
whence he came at Lord Bellemont's
request to take charge of a ship to
cruise against the pirates with which
every ocean swarmed. His ship first
sailed from New York, and after being
at sea several months her captain and
crew, finding honesty poor policy, de-
Accordingly he began his ocean ma
raudings which extended into the At
Iantic and Indian oceans. He said that
the greater part of his depredations
were committed between the Cape IF
Good Hope and the Mauritius. a part
of the ocean more or less crowded with
ships bound to and from the East In
dies.
He rarely took life-never, indeed,
wantonly, nor were ships mo1ested un-
less they carried gold, jewels. silks.
laces and such goods whose value was
in small bulk. Heavy, cargo was I'm
touched In short Captain Kidd never
stole anything he could not carry off.
He told Lady Gardiner that he thought
his capture was only question of time,
and while regretting his misdeeds ii
was now too late for. him to show his
repentance by his works. He said that
when he came into the possession of
booty every man had his share, and
while the outfit preyed on the world
at large they did not steal from one
another. The pirate ship was detained
by Gains for twenty-four hours and
the crew. delighted with their liberty,
spent their time roaming over the
island, taking nothing else, for Kidd
had promised death to any thief. and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
By NJ. Grier Kidder

TN 1857 my father bought a piece
of land on the banks of the
Thames, three miles southeast If
New London, Conn, and half II
mile from Long Island Sound. I have
visited many chimes and plowed the
bosoms Of many classic seas, but. in
my judgment, there exists no place
comparable IN beauty with the shore
OF Connecticut in spring, summer and
fall: from May until. November it is Il
paradise with blue skies. But the
winter, well. that is Incompatible, too.
The Sound near our home is twenty
miles wide, bounded by Fishers Island,
Long Island, Gull Island and GARDENERS
Island. GARDENERS Island was granted
70 q Mr.. Gardiner by William III of
England, and from Mr.. Gardiner and
his wife are descended some of the
most prominent families OF the Nut
meg State. Among these are the
Thatcners of New London and friends
OF my family. One OF the daughters
married the brother of Commodore
Perry, another Colonel Totten Of the
United States army. Mrs. Totten was
the mother of Professor Charles Tot
ten. who created furore in theological
circles by his book on the prophecies.
II is several years since one of the
ladies Of the Thatcher family related
an account OF Captain Kids visit 70
GARDENERS Island, but I asked her so
many questions respecting the old free
hooters invasion and was so much
interested in her narrative that think
can be relied on to give faithful
report.
My great-grandmother,1 said Miss
Thatcher. was the daughter of Lady
Gardiner and at the time of meeting
Captain Kidd was about IL years old.
It was lovely afternoon in July and
Mr.. Gardiner had gone over TO the
mainland on business. leaving his wife
and children with the white employees
and negro slaves on the island. It was
aOcut o'clock when ship that had
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EXpERIENcES OF TIE a. al
| AMERICANS WHO EXPLORED
MOUNT cOIIr1A TN ACTION
NING on 3 volcano'

WING on Volcancf
This quadrangular sentence has
become a very proverb Of peril In
the dictionary OF danger. To hover
on or over a volcano. Could any situ-
alton be more descriptively precarious
than such one? Even hguratively the
phrsse is dynamic, loaded with warn
ing. a danger sign TO be printed in
red or written in italics metaphor
cal death sentence. But literally?
Bourteen scientists have just returned
to this country from Mexico, where
they bearded an active volcano and
survived. but not without many bruises.
a few scares and several scorches as
souvenirs of their thrilling ordeal. This
is the composite story which they bring
back vivid description of treacher-
Gus, testy old Mount Colima in action.
Mount Colima? Until month ago il
was scarcely more than a name outside
OF Mexico. But when. in September. a
dispatch from the City of Mexico briefly
told the world that fourteen venture
some delegates to the international
the Mexican capital after successfully
scaling. for the first time, the cone of
Mount Colima, the moody old terror OF
the Sierra Madre range rose suddenly
70 international proportions. Since
then the scientific world has been i'm
patiently awaiting a report of the ex-
citing and. from geological viewpoint,
highly instructive expedition. In the
daring party were Professors E. Otis
Hovey Of the American Museum OF
Natural History, John Z. Wolfe Of TIar-
yard College. H. F. Cleland OF Williams
College. H. W. Reid of Johns Hopkins
University. Rudolph Ruodemann OF the
New York State Geological Survey, w.
II. Wood of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey. Frank N. Adams and A.
Bancroft OF McGiu University at Mon
treal, A. p. Coleman of the Toronto
University, George Berg and Rudolph
Stobbe of the PrussIan Geological So
ciety at Berlin. Paul Waltz of the
Mexican Geological Survey. Ysumenska
Ika OF the japanese Geological Survey
at Toxic. and Enrique Huste OF Guada-
la1ara, Mexico.
Among those who scaled the noun
tain half way, but were unable to reach
the cone, were two American women
Miss Bascom of Bryn Mawr and the
wife OF Professor Wood. They pluck
sly accompanied the expedition to a
height OF 10000 feet, but were there
forced by exhaustion to remain in camp
with fourteen male members of the
party while the harder ones scram-
bled on upward over the Jagged lava
beds TO the steaming crater.
Exploration Needed
II am frank TO confess" said Profess
sor HOvey, that none of us would
have been so eager to negotiate the
other and worse half of that climb
had be known what was ahead. In
the first place. though Colima Is men,
toned here and there in scientific lit
erature as one of the most vital of
active volcanoes. at least in this hemi-
sphere, very little was known OF il at
first hand. Beyond the Investigations
OF a handful of Mexican biologists,
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whistling and wheeling in chorus. Some
of the photographs taken by Professor
Hovey were procured there on the rim
of the seething vortex. Never in the
history of tho mountain--or OF any vol
cano. in fact-was such temerity shown
by so many human beings simultane-
ously A dozen scientists were soon
posted around the rim, swapping their
cameras at the crater with a clicking
noise suggestive of SO many terriers
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came dubious. woald It not be fool
ishly reckless to explore any further?
None of them had imagined such
scene or performance as this.
Great clouds OF steam were spouting.
kissing, suffering, yelling the entire
crater so densely at times that it was
impossible to see anything else than
steam. AS Professor Hovey described
1t. there We're moments when the noise
suggested thousands of locomotives
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
CRATER
l1SEI TEN ON LETT AND T3E FOUR

onward until, the last javeiin paved
slope surnounted. they scrambled up
on the rim of the cone and gazed
downward much as when
Stout Cortez and alls
his men
Stared at each other with wild
lsurmise,
Silent upon a peak in Darlel.
The crater was alive! Even the
hardest members of the expedition be-
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tacle. Was 1T natural-normal? Ger
tainly it had not appeared so dense
as viewed from the lower slopes. The
thing was perplexing. But when has
science ceased on it's progressive
march or been inundated by q threat
ening cloud?
themselves, pausing frequently TO get
their breath and examine or nurse
their bruises, the fourteen men pushed
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The Ways Of Wild Bees

HERE are about 5000 species of
the wild bees. all with interest
ing ways of their own. Among
them is a species whose females
are veritable amazons and carry more
and better weapons than the males.
These are the cuckoo" bees. who de-
the progeny OF both living peaceably
together until maturity. when they sep
arate. Then there is the tailoring bee.
who cuts leaves with his scissor-like
material into his cave-shaped nest.
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Notice to Farmers of Nevada County.

H. Beecher Lewis, state lecturer of
the Farmers Union of Arkansas, will
lecture at the following times and
places in Nevada county:
Prescott, September "a, 10 a. m
Wards Chapel, September "a, 7:3O
p. m.
Emmett, September %, 10 a. m.
Forest Hill, same day, 1880 p. m.
Nickel's School House, September 26,
10 a. m.
Shiloh. same day. 1870 p. m.
Cypress Creek, September27, 10 a m.
Carolina, same day, 7:30 p. m.
Gale. September %, 10 a. m.
Laneburg, same day, 7:3O .. m.
Oak Grove, September %, 10 a. m.
Bluff city, same day, 7:30 p. III.
Every one should attend these pub
lie lectures as Bro. Lewis is one of the
best informed men in our union.
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SCOTS Emulsion

combines the best oil
with the valuable hVDc-
phosphites SO that it s
easy to digest and does
far more good than the
oil alone could. Thai
makes SCOTS Emulsion
the most strengthening,
nouri5hjng food - medi-
cine in the world
SEM forfree sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE Chemists
4O0-Ai5 Pea=I Street New YORK
soc. ana 90. ~ dTaea.sts
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If a Cow gave
Butter

mankind would have to
invent milk. Milk Is Ma
lures emulsion-butter
put in shape for diges-
ton. Cod liver oil is ex-
tremely nourishing, but
it has to be emulSified
before we can digest it.
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We are having some Ii
weather.
Cotton picking has begun In
earnest.
The Holiness camp-meetinq,
which was conducted by Bro.
Jernigan, closed Sunday. W e
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