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tnem into the ways Of productiveness.
Inc campaign is on and with the de-
termination already evinced there is lit
tie doubt of the ultimate result
DR.. Charles Wardell Stiles of the pub
lie health and marine hospital service on
23d street near E northwest Is the dis
coverer of the hookworm and of the
method of its determination. John D.
Rockefeller. he of Standard Oil fame is
the philanthropist who has given $1,000
600 to finance the fight. DIR. s. A. Knapp
of the Department of Agriculture is the
genius of productiveneSS who is to bring
up the rear and make the desert to bloom
as the rose. From an industrial and race
standpoint the greatest accomplishment
of the age is on the ways
From time when the mind of man
runs not to the contrary there has rested
over the south the pail of the problem
of the poor whites.'' From Maryland
to Mexico there is strip of land inhab-
tied largely by this class, the numbers
amounting to approximately 5000, 600.
They are a class developed in the south
in slavery time by the peculiar conditions
there, and since the emancipation of the
negro rather increased than otherwise
In slavery time there was no middl.
class in the south. A man was either an
owner of slaves or poor white, forced
to compete with slaves as a Iaborer or
with the big plantations as a farmer
There was no profit in either course The
great slave owners absorbed all the good
lands and crowded the non-slaye owners
into the sand hills. Here it was barely
possible to produce enough to sustain life
and hiring out in competition with the
negroes was little better and carried with
it inestimable social degradation.
=
These people sank into an indescribable
poverty, ignorance. hopelessness. The
typical home came to be a one or two
room hut In the clearing, poorly built. of.
fering little protection against the wealth
er. entirely without any degree of santa
ton. The owner of 1t was carried" from
one crop to the other by the country mer.
chant and at harvest time turned over his
entire crop to liquidate the debt He
lived so for generations. He knew of nc
other manner of life. He was withou-
ambition. Above ALL he gained a reputa
ton for unlimited laziness. 1t came to BIZ
said that there was something In the at
mosphere of the south that bred laziness
Observers noticed, however, that in occa.
sional cases where these people removed
to other surroundings and were givei
other opportunities they developed mar
velously Out west many a poor white
has astounded his neighbors by his ca
pacity for work under other conditions
The purest of the blood of the origina
settlers of America today flows in thu
veins of these same isolated poor whites.
Into this condition was introduced DR.
Stiles. He was young man of grea
energy and wide learning He had stud
led long abroad where there are diseas sci
not commonly believed to exist in Amer
lea. Upon returning to this country he
entered the government service as an en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28

HE utterances Of
President Taft In
his speech at Nor
folk a short time
ago have directed
renewed attention
to the manifest de-
termination of the
national govern
ment to leave moth
ing undone to per-
feet the defenses
that guard the APP
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president Taft Says
! Hampton Roads Is Gate
way to Washington - New
Fortifcations Would Make
the Vicinity of Fort Monroe
Stronger T an Britain's
Gibraltar = Proposition to
Create an Island Whose Guns
Will Sweep the Water Be-
tween the Virginia Capes-A
Spectacular Phase of Shelter
ing Nations Capital.
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haps, five million people of the drain of
the hookworm upon their systems These
are the poorest and the least educated
people in the United States. They are
listless. ambitionless and hard to arouse.
They have no desire for treatment and
no money with which to pay for 1t. Yet
they must be treated to save them. DR..
Stiles declared some time ago that with
100000 a year for twenty years, he
would give bond to solve the question OF
the poor whites in twenty years. Now
John d. Rockefeller, after an examination
by experts to determine whether or not
the claims of DIR. Stiles were correct. has
offered S1,OOO.OOO to be expended in five
years.
The commission which is to handle the
money is busily framing up the cam
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in the south Through his efforts at
,empts will be made in the near future to
stamp out the dreaded disease. and to
MIN is due, it is said. the one-million-
dollar donation from John ID. Rockefeller
for the dissemination OF knowledge OF
and a cure for the awful malady.
The hookworm of the south is surely
the greatest dragon America has ever
known; possibly the most deadly in the
history OF the world. AS the vampire OF
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Fl RO UG II "

Fl r o u G III work
mostly accomplish
ed here in Wash
ington at the Pub
lie Health and Ma
rine Hospital, To-
Gated on 23d street,
near E. northwest.
DR.. Charles War
dell Stiles has dis
covered the hook
worm. the plague
of certain classes
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proaches to Washington. The PRESIDENT
declared that Hampton roads. the water
gateway to Washington, is the greatest
strategical naval base in the world, and
announced his advocacy Of a scheme for
completing the present plan of defenses
and making the portal to the capital abb
solutely impregnable by erecting an up
to-date fertilization on an artificial Is
land, to be placed midway between Capes
Charles and Henry, where the waters or
Chesapeake bay meet and mingle with
those of the Atlantic. The project TOT
placing this additional sentry in the path
way to Washington is but an elaboration
of q proposal which William III. Taft nrst
advanced when Secretary of War
While the proposition to create an island
whose guns will sweep the water between
the Virginia capes is perhaps the most
spectacular phase of the twentieth CEN
fury project for sheltering Washington
from invasion, it is by no means the only
feature of this far-reaching enterprise.
1t is as yet in prospect, but much that
is fully as important has become a real
ity within the past few years. This con-
GERMS primarily, the expansion and i'm
provement Of Fort Monroe and the
strengthening of the batteries at this the
largest fertilization and most important
artillery post in America. When the
100000 needed to complete the fortifi-
cations in this vicinity has been expended
Uncle Sans seat of government will be
defended by Notifications probably with
out peer in the world. not even ex-
cepting Britains famed Gibraltar at the
entrance to the Mediterranean.
With all the suggested defenses COM
pleted, the position of keeper of the
water gate to Washington will become
the most coveted one in the United
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changed to Fort George, in honor OF the
king, and thus it continued until the pres
ent fort was built in 1919 and the name
Fort Monroe given to 1t. During the civil
war the famous fort continued to figure
conspicuously. 1t was from this point that
Sherman set out on his campaign to South
Carolina and here, year later, Burnside
modified his troops for the invasion of
North Carolina. At Fort Monroe is a
casemate that is yet pointed out to all
visitors, where Jefferson Davis. president
of the fallen Confederacy, was a prisoner
for six months at the close of the war.
Allan Poe, the poetic genius, was once a
private soldier at Fort Monroe. and under
the shadow of the forts frowning bat
teries, close beside the quaint lighthouse
is the frame cottage that the natives yet
refer to as Admiral Bob Evans summer
home"
For all that Fort Monroe is so we'll
equipped for trouble and that wars and
rumors of war have filled the air all about
1t, the fact remains that never since its
construction has a hostile shot been fred
from its ramparts. Possibly the record
might nave been otherwise had there been
adequate defense here during the war Of
lel2' but it was from the humiliation of
the British invasion of WASHINGTON that
the modern Fort Monroe was born. The
state of Virginia ceded the eighty acres
LOT site and the surveys and plans were
made in 1918 by Gen. Simon Bernard a
iofner FRENCH army engineer, who had AT
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ploye of the bureau of animal industry.
In his examination of certain prime porn
ers that came under the eye of his bu-
reau he discovered an old acquaintance.
the hookworm of Europe That was
more than twelve years ago.
For some years thereafter DIR. Stiles
frequently asserted that the hookworm
existed in the United States. He argued
that If the parasite was present in the
flesh of the lower animals it also existed
in human beings. Finally before the
Pan-American Sanitary Congress in 1902
he presented paper in which he assert
ed that the poor whites of the south were
suffering from hookworm and that this
parasite was responsible for their poor
physical condition as we'll as their in
ability or indsposition to work. Here
was born the idea of the lazy bug,
which furnished material for editorial
quips for a six months and was forgot
ten
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But Dr. Stiles was full of his discovery
and refused to be discouraged by the
fact that the public or the medical profess
sion failed to take his announcement seri-
ously. He went into the south and work
ed. He found that particularly those
people living on sandy soil were affected.
This was the soil in which the parasite
bred most readily. There We're whole
families every member of which were af-
fected He studied the problem for year
in the field and announced that there
were 100000 people affected with the
disease Recent Investigations by other
authorities have. however, revealed that
the estimate was all too conservative and
that probably twice that number are af-
fected. The students Of college in the
south were examined and. 20 per cent
found to be affected. Among the first
cases definitely proven were those of four
students of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. The poor whites are not the only
sufferers
The manner of life of the parasite indi-
Gates the dangers of getting the disease.
The hookWorm is half an inch long and
as big as pin. quite a giant in the para
site world. Its favorite habitat is the HUI
man intestine. Here 1t attaches itself by
a single tooth or horn making wound
comparable to pin prick. One pin prick
is unimportant but a thousand or ten
thousand produce a vast amount of in
flamnation. The loss of sufficient blood
to feed one hookworm for a day is not
great out TO leeu Ten tHOuSdNQ IOE years
is monstrous drain on the vitality.
i
Aside from this the fang Of the hook
worm has identically the same principle
and effect as the fang of the rattlesnake
but on a proportionately smaller scale.
When 1t is inserted there is poison gland
which is compressed and poison is emit
ted. entering directly into the blood. The
combined poison of all these thousands of
serpents is of sufficient quantity as to
disastrously effect the human system.
were 1t not that the dose is gradually in
creased and the system accustomed to it
there is little doubt that single days
portion would result in immediate death
In this way the blood Is first Slapped
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DIR. CHARLES wARpELL STILES Ph.p.

OF laboratory Health and
MrinH through
advGe Invest D. has
ease
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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

ago large and handsome orange trees
were even thriving in the streets of the
city and scattered about the country
were numerous bearing groves. These
were greatly admired by the Northern
tourists, who. although comparatively
small In number in those days, visited
the State annually and spent much Of
the winter here. Along came the freeze
of 1885 and wiped out of existence
within one night practically every
orange tree then growing In or near the
city. The cold wave not only wrought
havoc here, but entered the very heart
of the State, nipping and damaging
tender vegetation. Since the freeze no
effort to restore tropical fruit trees
here has been made, 1t being contended
by many that the tender plants could
not Withstand the occasional cold and
that any, effort put forth In the, direc-
ton would prove useless expense.
Now comes the discovery of the tri-
foliata stock, which remains dormant
during the entire winter months and Is
of sufficient toughness to withstand
cold of much greater temperature
than that which Is usually blown Flor
idnward. Onto this hard, tough stool,
can be budded} orange, grapefruit tan
gerine and other citrus fruit. If plant
ed out during, the month of March the
tree would blossom the coming spring
and bear fruit the following winter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

Do you? don't why the world should smile upon
women who haven't cared enough for the worlds opiu
Ion to keep good reputation It's good deal Of buy
and sell lropostonthis living business. We pay for
what we want or what think want, not for what
the person who trying to sell us the goods wants US
to want.
know two sisters both Of them clever, both pretty,
both industrious and both extremely good business
en- One OF them has bank account small, but safe,
good income and lot OF sincere, truehearted friends
The other equally capable is in debt has two frocks to
her name and is half the time Of position. The
world isn't trying to with the second sister
ats just paying her in her coin for her work.
She's ghheaded and vain, and she gets herself talked
about In every Office where She works Then she won
ders why her sister who attends strictly to business
and keeps her name free from whisper gets alonE
so much better than she does don't anything won
Gerfu about IT. do you? Its lots of fun running bills
but 1t isn't much fun when the collector begins to
come around
The world treats just about the particular
woman in her particular place has treated the world
wonder why there is anything particularly pathetic
about that?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21

did not move; 1t sat on the topmost
point, looking out over the sound
At last 1t was too dark to see the
figure on the rock, and Elinor walked
up and down, the beach in front of the
cottage. She was supposed to have re-
tired, but somehow 1t seemed SO useless
to pretend to sleep.
She wondered If the ladies in the
centuries long ago slept on as usual,
while their knights We're in danger.
oh, she wished tomorrow would come,
when she might live again In the
twentieth century.
The searchllght of passing cruiser
was thrown on the rock. and by its
light she could see the waves break
about the ragged edges.
Running close to the waters edge,
she looked up and down for skiff,
one of the old fat boats she and Jack
so often fished in. Finding one far
up on the shore. she dragged 1t down
to the water and jumped in.
Stroke by stroke she pulled out to-
wards the big rock. but the tide was
strong and the boat heavy. 1t seemed
hours before she came near it.
Jack, Jack !" she called. Gin
oh. its such hard pulling
"Elinor!" was all Jack said, as he
took hold of the rope with one hand
and hers with the other. The place
was not nearly SO rough as 1t had
looked from distance.
Jump In" she said.
"But the night hasn't begun yet" he
replied, still standing on the rock.
"What?" she almost gasped. 81
thought 1t must surely be morning, and
that 1t was never going to get light"
ITS only eleven, and that, wasn't
late one hundred years ago"
Get in. Jack" she said, impatiently
She hoped no one was on the shore
to see.
II would, If but knew" he said.
meaningly.
"rhen know, Jack. and do come"
As Jack walked home from the little
cottage that night he thought one hun
dred years was the shortest space of
time imaginable. He broke into hap
by whistle, .If but knew, If but
knew !"-Philadelphia Telegraph.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
County, highways are
Roads 10 Health for.
Women. lnWalking the Ian
auid and ListlessMay Fiu1t
Aboundins Vitality andSSI
Heightened Spirits.

As a pleasant and healthful recrea-
ton cross-country walking was diseov-
cred only recently. With the exception
of few energetic physical culturisls,
who went about 1t with an air of this
may-kill-me-but-I I've got-to-do-it, those
who walked did SO only because they
hadn't the price to ride. City residents
who were unable to maintain pleasure
vehicles saw the country through car
windows or not at all.
Last summer. however, numbers of
persons previously stationary realized
that they were possessed of legs and
that these legs were capable of locomo.
ton. Whereupon there was a decided
stir md more dust was kicked up by
foot power than ever had been seen on
country roads. And, strange to say,
many Of these converts to pedestrian
ism were women. generally believed to
be totally devoid Of any perpendicular
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
md the distance. walking. like other

and the distance. Walking, like other
physical exercise. is harmful, rather
than beneficial. If overdone. A wise
walker will reach home pleasantly, not
painfully, fatigued. The beginner at
walking for recreation should attempt
no record-breaking tramps but should
accustom herself gradually to the exer-
else. And to enjoy 1t one must walk to
somewhere, not tramp Idly about with
no objective point. There may be some
pleasure in walking merely for walk
ing's sake. but the real relish lies in
carrying out planned excursion to
some spot Of interest. Under such con
ditions the attention is fixed ahead and
not under ones feet.
Walking with companion. even If
the companion Is only dog, Is much
pleasanter than walking alone Tramp.
ing through an Interesting countryside
Is like going to see a good play--it Is
pleasant to have someone at your elbow
to nudge when something particularly
good Is seen.--Kansas City Star.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
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purest grains and meat scraps and
green stuff Should be fed The eggs
should he gathered one or more times
a day, according to the condition of
the weather. And no eggs should be
held longer than one week; the enter
prising poultryman ships twice week.
An egg should never be sent to mar
ket unless its condition and age are
known to the shipper and can be guar
anteed. Under no circumstances should
eggs found In the hidden nest" be al
lowed to be palmed of on the innocent
buyer.
In market language fancy" eggs are
guaranteed fresh-not over three days
old. Prime" eggs are those where the
age ia not known, they being from
one to three weeks of age, In cool
weather. "Fresh cnsev eggs are a class
out of which 1t Is possible at times to
secure six good ones three fair ones,
and three that are demoralized, out OF
a dozen.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
attitude for distance greater than

attitude for distance greater than
three blocks.
Along with the discovery of walking
rs recreation came partial appre-
citation Of its benefits. With the enjoy.
ment of the visits to the fields and
woods came realization that there
was a resultant Improvement In health
and spirits-a shaking off OF minor Ills
Of mind and body.
Walking in the open air is the best
known cure for; ailing women, and the
only effective medicine that may be self
administered without professional ad-
vice. Ii all women walked for pleasure
as much as they should (and no more)
there would be no cases of nerves."
chronic listlessness. unslghtly obesit,
nor embarrassing '.scragginess." For
an irregular heart. weak lungs or n.
torpid liver, walking Is the most effect
I've Of cures. And fresh air. sunshine
and rain are the best cosmetics yet dis
covered
Englishwomen long since learned the
lesson of walking for profit as well as
pleasure. And their robust health and
clear compilations always have been the
despair of their Inactive American sis.
tiers The distance nn Enslishwoman
will walk OH her daily constitutional
Is amazing to fcmininity In other lands
SHE thinks nothing Of six or eight.
mile tramp. and on occasion can do tif
teen or twenty without turning II
hair And no condition of weather
stops hcr-wet or dry, snow or blow.
rain or shine. she goes daily.
The reason for the Englishwoman's
fortlness for Icy baths lies In her supe-
rior vitality. perfect circulation and
strong heart action. due to walking
The NEST beneficial exercise is that
taken u:nler enjoyable conditions.
physical culture" practiced us daily
routine. frequently become distasteful
drndgcry and as such does little good.
Walking. iptelligently practiced. is al
why's enjoyable Constant change Of
scene and the buoyancy communicated
by light. air and the fresh smells of the
open country give a sugar coating to
the medicine.
But there ia a secret or two In walk
ing--not In the how. but in the where
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1909-04-21
WHO USES SNUFF NowADAYsr
cAew,ax and "RuDs,ns. L.rsel,

Chewing and "RubbinE" Largely
Practiced In the MIL Towns.
Year by year with never setback,
the American Snuff Company has
steadily Increased Its business. its divi-
dends and Its surplus, while the I'M
initiated continue to ask, Who uses
snuff nowadays? The company's an
nual report for the fiscal year ended
Dec. 81, 1908, shows net earnings OF
$3,474,31S compared with $2,17O,5S5 fcs
1907; a net balance applicable to divi-
dends on common stock Of $2,154,31S.
a surplus for the year of $1,214,OSO
and profit and loss surplus OF $780,
3SS,310. After paying dividends on
the preferred stock at the regular rate
of 8 per cent, quarterly dividends at
varying rates each quarter, amounting
to IA per cent for the year, were paid
on the common stock, says the New
York Commercial. A per cent quar-
terly dividend has been declared on
the common stock payable April to
stockholders of record March 10. This
puts 1t on 20 per cent basis.
The American SNUFF Company was
formed in 1900 to take over the snuff
properties of the American Tobacco
Company, the ContinentaiN Tobacco
Company, and some smaller allied con-
Germs. 1T has outstanding $4,000 900
of preferred stock and $11,O01.7OO com
mon stock, with assets valued conser-
yatively at $31,341.6 GAP.
An official of a prominent Boston
wholesale house which distributes the
products Of the American Snuff Com
pany through New England yesterday
explained the mystery of what be-
comes Of all the snuff In these days
when the habit of taking snuff is gen.
orally supposed to have died out. He
said that SNUFF is no longer snuffed to
any considerable extent but the habit
of chewing or rubbing snuff has been
introduced into the mill towns through
out all the Eastern States. The
strength of the position, from bust.
ness standpoint, lies IN the fact that
the women In the mills are. as much
addicted to the practice as the men.
This man, who is an expert In the to-
bacco trade. attributes the Introduction
of the snuff-chewing habit to the
swedes, and he says that the Ameri-
can Snuff Company has found 1t neces-
sary to manufacture special brands of
the class of goods made I'm Sweden IN
satisfy this demand. He says that
very little snuff is snuffed in the old
Way