The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-24
'lffFlfEE LAZY BUG !. !
If YOU HAVE THE TIRED FEEL
!, ING AND DON'T FEEL
LIKE Doing Anything that Requires
Effort, Why 1t Is as Plain as Day
The Lazy Bugs Got You.

The lazy bug will get you if you
don't watch out. The old-time wiz
ard who could put whole castle or
city to sleep by simply waving his
staff above them was scarcely more
T,owerful says the Atlanta Journal,
and even less insiduous than a wee
, mite of creature that has come
crawling into South Carolina; NIL
croscopic witch-wortn that is giving
thousands of people a woozy feeling
and turning their existence into: q
prolonged drowsy, lackadaisicai cape
ofindolence.
It is. the lazy bug.
No bigger than little eye lasn,
it has become so prevalent here ana
in other southern states, according
to reports, that Surgeon General TOR
ney. of the United States army, mas
been carrying on an extensive inves-
tisation into it's cause and has de-
voted an entire chapter Of his fortn-
coming annual report to its effects.
This 1t is believed, will lead to wide
spread movement among boards OF
health to exterminate the dangerous
pest. :,
The lazy bug is sometimes called
the hook-worm, and occasionally
s'the uncinaria," which is its book
name. If you should begin to feel
an unaccountable tendency to yaWn
all day long, look out. The lazy pug
is after YOU, and you would fare
thousand times better if all the bogie
men on earth were chasing you IN
stead.
The lazy bug is at this moment
travelling through the South by reg
iments, brigades and army corps. Mil
lions of them sometimes stop by the
way, walk into mans blood, hang
up their hats and make themselves
at home for the rest Of his life. Then
the man, or the child, finds himself
growing sleepy. He doesn't give a
rap for anything. He becomes a
Rip Van Wrinkle.
DR.. H. F. Harris, secretary OF the
state board of health of Georgia, Is
the discoverer Of the lazy bug in this
section. He calculates that it causes
more loss to the South in the way of
human health and capacity than any
other single disease. In some por-
tions of the state, particularly the
southern portions, whole communi-
ties have fallen into browse be-
cause of this parasite. When these
people move to cities, especially cot
ton mill districts, they carry their.
lazy bugs with them, and so it hap
pens that Monsieur Uncinaria t1nds
his way at times into city streets, as
we'll as rural lanes.
This same lazy bug is at work in
South Carolina and is said to be do
ing about as much damage over
here as it is over there, and you had
better look out or it will catch you.
The Journal says when it became
known in Atlanta that the lazy bug
was abroad in the land, Dr.. Edgar
Paulin, who is associated with Dr..
Harris, on the state board of health,
was Immediately communicated with.
He is a specialist on the subject and
was prepared to give valuable ad-
vice.
THAT lazy bug" he explained, lis
one. of the most dangerous infections
you could imagine. 1t burrows
through the skin into the blood. Then
it is carried to the heart and thence
through the lungs. From there 1t
easily gets into the intestines, where
its worst work begins. 1t devours
persons vitality That Is why peo-
pie infected with it are pale and list
less. Children catch ut by going
barefooted. 1t starts with the old
fashioned ground itch and sometimes
holds on as long as the patient lives.
1t makes undersized children who are
developed neither mentally nor ply
sically, pallid-faced children who eat
dirt and all sorts of things. 1t IS
caught mostly in the country"
Evidences are plentiful that the
lazy bug has reached this city. Num-
bers of people will testify that Their
cooks have fallen prey already. And
with the cooks infected, what is to
prevent the family from drinking
lazy bugs through his breakfast cof-
fee?
But" explained DR.. Paulin, 1T
takes only 10 cents to get cured of
the lazy bug. Yes, sir, only 10 cents.
A man can buy him dimes worth
of thymol, which is simple powder,
and when he has taken it, he will be
free of lazy bugs"
"Why is it, then, that more people
don't cure themselves" was asked.
II can't imagine" he answered,
unless they prefer not to be cured.
Some folks just love to be lazy, you
know"
1t is hoped that Surgeon General
Torney's emphatic warning against
the lazy bug, will bestir the public
to vigorous and immediate action.
Else, the country may become a
land where people talk always in
their sleep. Chauffers will drive their
automobileS with one dull eve half