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The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28

They Always Likod Ne Better Thers,s
Said EnInsnt Enplish Nsvelist.
George Meredith. The eminent Eng
nsh novelist who died the other dar
I'm England. PASSED the later years Of
his life IN bis very quiet bone. Flint
e0tnge. Boxhill. Surrey. A visitor
who found him there q few days pre-
v1ous 20 bis eighfieth birthday. In Feb
ruary. 1908 described him as big.
full bearded giant OF man with a
splendid head and a heavy crop Of
marvellous whine thlek ha1Ir. The nov
elist his visitor being an American. re-
grefted that be had never visited
America.
They nave always liked me better
I'm America" said be. They don't care
about me in England People seem 70
feel Il right TO congratulate men who
live TO De eighty. though they really
should not What Il means when a
man lives TO be 30 old q either that be
10 greedily tenacious Of life or else that
he I'm 90 insignificant that the fates
have passed him by II 10 q misfor-
time 10 I've 70 BE- eighty. A mans
tfe ought TO finish when he In Eve and
sixty. He must stop working then or
else do work that Is inferior People
WIN praise II then and write articles
about 1t. but posterity win know bet
ter and see its weakness. You can't
fool pOsterity. When a man stops
working nature Is finished with him.
and when nature In finished with him
he ought to GO"
The novelist said that he feared IL
was now too late to visit America. II
have had many invitations" be said.
and | do not suppose there has ever
been a nation so bospitable as Amer
lea They say that one good IntrOduc-
tion win carry you right across the
continent So suppose I should have
been asked to q great many dinners.
and the moss Of reflection would have
served to carry out the idea advocate
and remove me before I was sixty
dYe."
In the last year OF his life Meredith
used TO rise daily at 100. At II he
went for drive In cart to which was
attached led donkey and about which
gambOled his favorite pet. an Irish
terrier. The rest Of the day he passed
In reading and seeing his friends. He
was for many years an enormous read
er Of newspapers and books he was
able to dispense with glasses. although
be occasionally used them.
OF American writer's be particularly
liked Edith Wharton and Gertrude
Athertcn. OF Henry James be said:
Il like 20 read one Of his novels a year.
James writes about America revisited.
but what Il really comes to is a tour
Of Henry James inside. he tells you
how he felt when be beheld this or
that and how such things impressed
him. and at rare intervals he may take
you to q little window and show you
q bit Of landscape that might be Amer
lea and might be anything-a tour Of
hls own inside; that's what Il really
comes to-"
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28
A Fine Family Medicine

Every family needs good pleasant-to-t
liver medicine. There is no remedy known
that is better than st. JOseph's Liver Regula-
tor for this purpose. 1t has been in use for
thirty years. and is endorsed by thousands of
families as the greatest Of all family medi-
cineS. It relieves biliousness, constipation,
Indigestion etc, and thus preserves good
health. 1t is made in both liquid and powder
form. Druggists and general dealers sell it.
liquid 50 cents; powders. in tin boxes, 25 cents
. box; five boxes for a dollar.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28
Our Guarantee

Go to your druggist today, and
purchase q dollar bottle, and II you
can honestly say, that you did not
receive any benefits from It, after
using the entire bottle, the drug.
gist will refund your money TO YOU
without question or delay.
We will pay the druggist the price
OF the bottle purchased by YOU.
This offer applies to the large
bottle only and to but one In q
family.
We could not afford 70 make sueh
an offer, unless We positively knew
what Kodol will do for you.
1t would bankrupt Us.
The dollar bottle contains 2k times
as much as the fifty cent bottle.
Kodol Is made at the laboratoYIas
OF Z. c. Dewitt a Co., Chicago.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28

In February oar daughter had the whoop-
ing cough. Mr.. Lane, Of Hartland, recon-
mended Chamberiain's Cough Remedy aud
said It gave his customers the best OF safisfae-
ton. We found IL as he said. and can recon-
mend Il 10 anyone having children troubled
with who9ping cough" says Mrs A. Cos, OF
Durand, Mich. For sale by TitusvilIe Phar-
macy
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28
: POI IN HAWAII.
This Peculiar Food Is to the Native ~
Bread Is TO Us.

Bread Is 70 us.
What bread is to the American or
European poi is to the native Ha-
waiian. No meal is complete with
out it, and for the great majority
of the natives it forms the princi-
pal article of diet. While they prob
ably could at the present time live
without this accustomed dish, the
time once was, before the advent of
the whites to the islands and the in
PRODUCTION of new foods, that life
without it would at least have been
precarious.
Poi is made from the tuberous
root of the taro plant, species of
the caladium family, of which the
well known elephant ear plant is
also a member. The tuber, which
averages in size that of a large
sweet potato, is baked and after
ward pounded up with water until a
smooth white paste is obtained,
much resembling a wheat -four
paste, except that the color is a
pale pink or purple, dependent
upon the variety of taro used. This
paste is allowed to slightly ferment,
or sour, when it is ready for use.
In olden times each family prepared
its own poi, the work being done by
the men, as in fact were most other
cooking operations. At the present
time poi factories in which machin-
cry grinds the taro and mixes it on
large scale have largely supplant-
ed the old hand method. The Chi
nese of the territory have come to
be the leading manufacturers of the
product.
Many OF the white residents of
the islands eat poi to almost the ex-
tent as the natives, but the taste is
largely acquired, and strangers sell
dom care for it. Poi has a high
food value, and, since it formed the
principal article of diet of the old
Hawaiians, some persons have cred
tied it with the splendid physical
development of the race.
Poi was always eaten from wood
en- bowls, or calabashes. and was
conveyed to the mouth by the fin
gers, one. two or three being en-
ployed, according to the consistency
of the food, which also establishes
a designation of one, two or three
finger poi. White poi eaters now
usually employ fork or spoon in
lieu of fingers, although it is still
common even in the highest fami-
lies to give native dinners, or luaus,
at which knives and forks are ia
booed and fingers only used. There
is as much etiquette among the Hs-
waiians in eating with the fingers as
with modern table implements, and
the graceful motion by which a por-
ton of poi is twisted upon the fin
gers and transferred to the mouth
would not shock the sensibilities of
the most refined. An invitation to
a real luau, at which poi, baked pig,
fish baked in leaves and cocoanut in
various forms form the principal
part of the menu. is something that
is always looked forward to by every
visitor to Hawaii and always pleas
antlv remembered afterward.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28
A Living Skeleton

Is the final condition Of any child that has
worms If il lives Think of having something
ia your stomach that eats all you take as nOur-
ishment. Nine tenths of the babies have
worms, may be yours has Be certain that it
has not by giving il Whites Cream Vermifuge
lit eNpels all worms and is tonic fer the ba-
10y. PIice p cents. Sold hy All druggists
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28
Ha CAT tha Girl.

He had gone to ask her father for
her hand in marriage.
"Well, sir, what is it?" snapped
out the old man. Remember, l am
a man of few words"
81 don't care if you are a man Of
only one word if it's the right one"
replied the sutton.
He got the girl.
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28
A Tale Of a Tub.

Fila. come harer yelled Jcsr Shary,
OF minstrel. Conn. To- his wife from
the lr''''r""m the other night He ha1
sat d''"n in thP tub of hot water just
aftei o! haG received a fresh coat Of
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28

Ella .-t> ~iuVS ia tu'
Of LIP tuh when hiS wife aTTiv, =
After working four hours he gut 'H-
enamel OF his body Mrs Sharp bad
forgotten 10 tell her husband the tub
had been re-enameled
The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1909-05-28

Kodol Is made at the laboratOFies
OF Z. c. Dewitt a. Co., Chicago.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30

Vegetable Compound a done LOT me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means SO much
to me that for the sake of other suffer-
ing women l am willing to make my
trouble public SO you may publish
this letter. MRS. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RID, Graniteville, Vt.
No other medicine for woman's Ills
has received such widespread and un-
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine We know of has such q record
Of cures Of female ills as has Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
nesses, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it Is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period Of change Of Life.
It costs but little to try Lydia d.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and,
as Mrs. Barclaysays,i it is "worth noun
tains Of gold to suf5ering woman.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30
How the Waitress ParaIyzed the Drummer

A good story is going the rounds
about a drummer and a pretty
waitress. Here is what happened
according to the report. The dap
per little travelling man glanced
at the menu and then looked up
at the pretty waitress:
"Nic9 day, little one," he be-
gan.
Eyes, it u.s." she answered,
land so was yesterday, and my
name is Ella and 1 know I'm a
little peach, and have pretty blue
eyes, and I've been here quite
awhlie and like the place, and
[ don't think I'm too nice a girl
to be working in a hotel; if l did
I'd quit my job; and my wages
are satisfactory: and l don't
know if there is a show or dance
in town tonight. and if there Is
I shall not 60 with you. I'm aud
from the country, and I'm a re.
~,pecGable girl. aud my brother is
cook in this hotel and weighs 200
pounds, and last week he wiped
up this dining room floor with a
fresh $50-a-month travelling man
who tried to make a date with
me. Now what'll you have?"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30
WATCH The MILK GIVEN BABIES.
Poor Milk Supply in Part 10 Blame for Death
of 375,0 900 0ne-Year 0lds.

The American Academy of Med
icine's committee on the Confer
ence on the Prevention of Infant
Mortality, at New Haven, Conn,
sends out the following:
If the babies of this country
don't get their rights it Won't be
because they lack friends among
the grown-ups. One important
university is to add a department
of child study to It's course, and
in connection with it everything
pertaining to the life of a child
will be collected and collated.
Another instance is afforded by
the American Academy of Medl-
cine, which has arranged for a
conference of physicians, sociolog-
lists and educators to be held at
New Haven, November 11-12, on
the prevention of Infant Mortal
lty. At that meeting every as
spect of the problem, from the
medical, philanthropic, educa-
tional and institutional points of
view, will be gone into by specia'
lists who are giving their lives to
the study Of the subject.
But to return to the rights Of
the babies. Take the single ques-
ton of milk as it relates to their
health. Every city that lays any
claim to being civilized has a milk
commission now, or a board of
health that says to the dairyman:
"The gobblins will catch you"(or
what amounts to that "if you
don't keep that dairy of yours
scrupulously cean, and those COWS
in apple.pie order" The time
was when milk was milk, and that
was ell there was of it. But that
was before some indiscreet scien-
fist put a drop of milk on the
slide under his microscope, and
then went ahead and let the rest
of the world into the secret of
what he found there. After that
even the low brows knew that
things rarely are what they seen.
They learned that skim milk not
only masquerades as cream, but
that nice, innocent-looking white
milk might be a whole storage
warehouse full of germs. If you
we're so inclined you could 60 to
that warehouse and get almost
anything you wanted to insesti-
gate in the germ line-harmless
ones by the thousands, analogous
to beneficial organizations ;
deadly ones as m%alevolent as any
Black Hand association. Tuber.
culosis germs, for instance, or
those of typhoid fever. Epidem-
les of scarlet fever and Of diph.
liberia have been traced likewise
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30
Burglar Comes to Grief.

There was a hilarious time
around the home of T. II. Davis
in Washington, state, early Sat-
urday morning when the man of
the house was awakened by o
noise and upon investigation
found that a burglar, in attempt
ing to 60 down a chimney, had
lodged and couldn't bulge, al,
though he was trying his best to
get out. He gave his name as
David Fulford. Mr.. Davis imme
diately telephoned fer the police
and they came on the jump
Meanwhile Col. Fulford was lus
lily calling for help, shouting
that he was suffering, and implor
ing his unwilling host to pull hin
out. Soon a lot of citizens gath
cred and began the work Of dis
lodging the burglar. A rope was
let down from the top and Fulfor'
told to grab it, but he ~ss to-
weak to hold on. The chimney
was torn down to the roof, buf
still the man was too far down to
yet hold Of. Finally a brick ma
son was summoned and he, by tax
ing down the mantel and enlar4 =
ing the Fireplace, managed to ex.
-ricate Fulford. The burglar pre-.
sented a sorry spectacle when e
finally emerged from the chimney,
where he SCENT four very exciting
hours. His clothes we're torn, his
skin scratched, and he vas cover
id with SCOT from head to foot
He refused to talK and would give
no reason for lodging himself in
a mans chimney like that. He
hired him a lawyer, waived exam
ination, and went to jail in de-
fault of $500 bond.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30
to apparently innocuous milk.

20 apparently Ihhoouous u''1A'
One Of the bug experts acquired
the card index habit, and took a
census of the bottom of the tube,
and great hordes when the tenn
perature went up. Then he re-
corded on n of his Hit@ Of paste
board:
1c. c. milk at temperature OF
room, 800 bacteria.
Twenty.four hours later he
made out two more cards. These
read:
1 c. C.. milk at so degrees for
twenty-four hours, 10000 bac-
terra.
1 c. c.. milk at temperture OF
room for twenty-four hours, lO,-
O0O, 900 bacteria.
A centlmeter measures 80 OF an
inch. It requires only patience,
paper and pencils to compute how
many cubic centimeters there are
in a pint or a quart or a gallon OF
milk, and from that to estimate
how many bacteria there are In
the quantity selected. An inter-
esting point in this connection is
that only about ten cities are Oh
record as requiring the milk to be
kept at so degrees until delivered
to the consumer. The inspection
of diaries to insure cleanliness
and the bacterial inspection of
milk are being required however,
by an increasingly large number
of other cities. In New York
and IN a number of other cities
the limit is 100 900 bacteria to the
cubic centimeter, for milk commits
sions which supervise the sale and
DISTRIBUTE IN of milk intended for
thu babies fix che bacterial limit
at 10000 or less to the cubic
centlmeter.
1t is estimated that fifty per
cent, of all deaths of children
under one year of age are due to
CASTRO enteric disease. And the
evidence points strongly to the
impure milk fed to the babies as
the chief cause IF this unnecessary
waste of baby life. Compared
with the money expended to pro-
tect the purity of other foodstuffs,
the sum required to insure al ade-
quate supply of clean, pure milk
for the thousands of babies who
must of necessity depend upon
cows milk, is a mere bagstelle
DR.. George W. Goler, of Roches.
ter, estimates that it Is possible
to obtain q supply of milk for the
summer months July and Au
gust which can conscientiously
be labelled food and not poison,
for the babies 10 a city which has
a population of 100000 at an
expenditure Of about one thou.
sand dollars. The estimate is
based on the amount it cost the
city of Rochester annually to
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30

from nervousness
andother annoying
symptoms, and I
can truly say that,
LydiaE
Vege Com
pound has proved
worth mountains
of gold to me, asst
restored my health
and strength. l
never forget to tell
my friends what
LydiaE. Pinkham's
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30

maintain it's milk depots. A pre-.
liminary feature Of this SUPERVISE
on of the sources of the baby's
milk has been the selection of
some farm within reasonable dis
lance from the city in which the
dairy and COWS are kept under
clearly wholesome conditions.
The source of supply selected,
and the milk contracted for, a
portable laboratory is erected Oh
the place, and the establishment
is put in charge of a trained
nurse, who supervises the milking,
the sterilization of the uttensils,
the preparation, bottling, pack
ing and shipment of the milk.
Packed i'll lea, the milk is carried
TO the city and distributed from
four centers in as mary parts of
the city.
During the ten years before the
establlshm, ut of the milk depot
the total number of deaths OF
children under one year was 4. 675.
From 1897, when the work was
began, to 1906, the total number
of deaths of children of that age
was 3,421, a reduction of over 80
per cent, without taking into
consideration any incease in
population during that period.
The milk depot, or dispensary,
under the supervision of physici.
ans and the care of trained nurses,
has become a recognized necessity,
and where the municipality has
been Indifferent to its obligations
the responsibility has been shout.
dered by philanthropic individuals
or private charities. Glasses fol
the instruction of mothers in the
proper care of the babies by the
regular inspection of the babies
by the physicians andnurses, have
added immeasurably to the per.
manent benefits from the milk
stations. Maternal nursing is en-.
couraged Whenever that is posi-.
BILE, and some of the stations fol.
low the lead of other countries in
supplying the nursing mother
with nourishlng food if she needs
it, and if she cannot provide it for
herself.
The problem of milk supply for
the babies is one that has to be
solved ali the year round. The
mortality from the gasto-interti.
nal diseases is heaviest during the
summer, but the babies need pure
milk quite as much in the winter
as in the summer, and the NUM-
CAPABILITIES that fail to insure it fol
them r virtually asleep at the
switch. TIE eventual,wrecking OF
countless baby lives is inevitable.
The City Fathers who make nc
provision for the supervision OF
the sources of the milk supply
are not only virtually asleep, but
reck.essly extravaganza. d..
Goler's estimate is $500 a month
for a city the size of Rochester
Put opposite this amount the
economic loss due to the appall.
ing waste Of baby life. It il
estimated that 375,OOO babies
under one year old died in this
country last year. Econom;c G;
put the financial value of each Of
these babies at 800, 80 that the
total loss, expressed merely IL
dollars and cents, amounted te
$33. 10000. And yet physicians
say that at least one-half of this
waste could have been prevented
by the adequate supervision of the
sources of the milk supply.
Rur0laY pnmnc In rYiaf
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-11-30
WORTH
OF GOLD
During Change Of Life,
says Mrs. Chas. Barclay

Graniteville, Vt.-''I was passing
through the Change of Life and suffered
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Special Uses for Cement

A sack of portland cement is a very
useful thing 10 have for making quick
repairs about the farm A hole in a
drain pipe can be stopped in a few min
utes with q little cement mixed with
water thick as putty A crack in a
barrel can be stopped this way. Hard
wood floors may be patched and nail
holes filed so they will not leak.
A waterproof floor can be laid over
an old board floor in a short time.
Sweep the old floor clean and dry and
nail down all loose boards. Cover with
a layer of heavy wire netting, lacking
it down occa siOnally. Over this lay a
layer of concrete of / part portland
cemeslt, parts clean sand, mixed with
water to thin paste.
Smooth thoroughly, but if it is to he
used by stock brush with an old broom
to make ii rough, then let II dry thor
ougbly before using the floor. Cutters
may be put in where necessary. Holes
in an old shingled roof can be quickly
stopped by forcing a little cement pat
ty under the shingle where the leak ap-
pears.
Some special uses to which cement is
being put are the making of bee hives,
brick for pavement and ordinary foun-
dations, cement shingles for roofing,
grain bins in the form of square box
like and round barrel-like receptacles,
etc. The use of this excellent material
for farm structures is only just opening
up and 1t is destined TO become the most
important material for general farm
building.-Farm and Home.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11

With his brain smaller by four
ounces than when he fired a bullet into
his head on April 3, Jacob Ritz within
a few days will be discharged, cured,
from st. Mary's hospital, in Brooklyn,
says the New York Press. His case
has drawn the attention of physicians
from all parts of the city. The hospl-
tai doctors said yesterday the recovery
was one Of the most remarkable on
record.
1t was thought that even IL Ritz sur
vived he would lose sight and taste, as
the bullet passed through the part of
the brain controlling these senses. Re
peated tests, however, have shown his
sight has not been impaired and that
Lis taste is as sensitive as ever.
A bullet plowed through Ritz's brain,
fracturing the skull on both sides and
passing through the frontal lobes. He
lay unconscious for several days. A
tumor formed between brain and skull
and pressed upon the injured lobes. A
rubber tube was inserted in the bullet
hole in the right temple and the tumor
was drained Off Before Ritz began to
recover the physicians removed,
through the bullet hole, part of his
brain, weighing In all about four
ounces.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
AristOcrntic Nuns.

The Duke of Norfolk has two sisters
who are nuns Lady Minna Howard
belongs to the Carmelite order and
Lady Etheldreda is Sister of Char
ity.
Lady Edith Fielding, sister OF Lord
Denbigh. is another Sister of Charity,
and spends her days at a convent in
Kiou- Kiang. which is in China, as its
name indicates
Lady Christina Bandini, daughter of
convent, and Lady Leopoldina Keppel
is a nun of the Sacred Heart, I'm spite
OF the fact that she is sister of Prot
estant peer, Lord Albermarle.
Miss Mary and Miss Edith Clifford,
sisters of Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh,
are both nuns. as are Miss Cicely Arun-
dell. sister to Lord Arundel, and Miss
Leonine Dormer, sister to Lord Dor
mer
Lord French, who lives in Johannes
burg has two sisters who are nuns
three Misses Petre, sisters of Lord
Petre. are nuns: Lord Herries has no
fewer than four sisters who live In con-
vents; and, as for Lord Trimlestown.
an Irish peer and 18th baron, history
seems uncertain as to whether four or
five of his sisters are nuns. as several
of these ladies have not been raised to
the rank Of baron's daughters.