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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29
JAspER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, july 90 1910.

makes good husband He mHst be frank truthful
and not consider it unmanly to be kind and sympat he
tie when occasion reqares He would not speak ess-
ny and disparagngly of religion, love or marr ge,
and should be kind to children and dumb animals
'Above all, he must possess strong sense OF minor
of the best gifts women can pesress"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

An employer discharged a man
the other day. What was the
troubleW We asked. Every
time | told Kim TO do a thing"
the employer rsplied. he began
arcuieg with me"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

Subject fer discussion at the
next meeting of the Jasper Lit
erary society: rs there any
thing dirtier than a man when
he comes in from the harvest
field"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

In advertising always be
As honest as you cap;
Be sure it's merchandise you sen
sxAAd not your fellew man.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

A Jasper woman was rolling
and tossingin bed the other night.
What's the natter?" her hus-
band asked. The wife, who is
somewhat asspeptic, Rplied:
"CaRes' liver and bacon.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

When travel becomes so light
that only the hotel proprietor,
members of the family and en-
pleyees appear in the dining room
then times are really duh.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

Goat Edwards, widower, says
fra can prepare as good meals as
any woman, and that he doesn't
need a wife. The nsignbsrs,
however, say Goat gets the gsod
meals of which he boasts AZ a
boarding house
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

No happiness save in mental
and physical activity" says the
Huntiugburg Argus. What is
sin is for a man to be idlel
Woman are at liberty to frivol.
butit's agsiBst the law for men.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29
Not Remarkable.

"Yes Miss Blank is very char
ning, bat did you ever hear of
her cold fcat7"
SIR How do you know"
Il witnessed it She ate six
ice creams that | had to pay for "
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-07-29

Dreaming, he lay beneath the
stars
Til the crimson of the dawning
Bat when the sun got in its work
He crawled beneath the awning
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tients than any other physician in the
United States, and. he says. he has found
a history of spoiled corn In every case.
A very interesting patent OF DIR. wat
sons is a child who has had the seaSe
ten years. His father was miller. and
when he was two years old he was taken
to the mill daily by his brother and sister.
They all ate raw meal from spoiled corn,
and all developed pellagra. The others
died. but this child is nearly we'll.
The third theory is that of DR.. j. d.
Long, passed assistant surgeon, public
health and marine hospital service. DR..
Longs idea. like DIR. Sambon's, is yet eX-
perimental, but interesting. He assumes
that pellagra is caused by the presence
Of the amoeba in the system His n.y.
pothesis is briefly as follows:
Pellagra is a disease resulting from in
testinal lesion produced by the amoeba,
and. owing to the liberated condition OF
the intestines, an inflammatory process is
set up throughout the aIimentary tract.
This interferes with absorption and other
normal intestinal processes The inf1am
nation extends to the liver and pancreas.
interfering with their action upon diges
ton. and finally toxins form and the body
is poisoned. insanity resulting from the
long-continued toxemia-
The skin eruption is attributed to me-
chanical pressure on the nerves and the
degenera ton OF the nerves themselves as
the result of the toxemia.
According to this theory pellagra is a
nutritional disease. in which spoiled corn
and other impure or indigestible foods
and an impoverished and UNMARRIED diet
are contributing factors. the immediate
cause being injury to the intestinal mu-
cous membrane by amoebas.
DR.. Longs ideas have been we'll sus-
tanned by his investigations In an exam
nation Of fifty-two cases he found a-noe-
has in fifty. and probably would have
found them in tne other two. but c'r"u-,-
stances prevented adeoua'e test All di-
eaStive disturha noes he found as he had
c0niectured. and in "utnrsv the liver md .
pancreaS showed such chances as he had
anticipated while cartiaoe-like 6e~osits
in the foramna showed sufficient pressure
upon the nerves to produce the skin le-
sions.
The medical profession and the govern
ment Of the United States are doing
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thirteen or fourteen Of these mine rescue
stations scattered throughout the Unit q
States. In addition to the rescue work,
the stations will be used as headnu1 rters
for the government engineers for the
study of the waste of coal in mining and
for investigating conditions in mines
which may lead to disasters from explo-
sions. The stations are equipped with
air. tight rooms, where gas can be gen.
Grated.
When a mine explosion or other mine
disaster occurs within reaching distance
of the rescue stations q rescue corps will
be sent with all possible haste to the
mine. The rescuers, each equipped with
an oxygen helmet and a portable electric
lamp, will enter the mine and make an
exploration for the purpose of finding any
men who may have been overcome by the
after-gases of the explosion. When q
man is found he will be Immediately
taken outside the mine. or to some sta
ton within the mine where the air is
breathable, and there the rescucrs will
endeavor to revive him by means Of oxy-
gen and treatment very similar to that
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An Alien Before the Screen.

A I a moving picture show the other
afternoon a beautifully pathetic 1T
tie story was being told. in pantomime,
of a Japanese boys great sacrifice and
unselfish love The swarming humanity
of fair Nippon were shown moving swift
ly along thoroughfares carrying bundles
on their heads or lolling in rickshaws,
clad in the cheapest of dyed SUITS or ar
rayed in all t.-~ glory of costly raiment.
And there were many nomely incidents,
all part of the tragic tale and yet de-
scriptive Of typical conditions in the realm
Of the oriental Yankees.
Even the occidental audience was in
as the morbid drama unfolded. But a
little son Of Geisha' and was so overcome
that he sat in stoid silence with a lump
in his throat so big one could almost see
it there, and the tears streaming down
his face He, too. was young and alone
like the boy of the story. and he was so
very far away, among aliens That sto-
icism on which his ancestors prided them
selves broke down.
one absorbed in the picture. he leaned
forward with his head between his hands,
and the convulsive shaking of his Shout
ders was certainly not caused by mirth.
There were many faces plainly visible in
the panoramic views and the curious one
would have given much to know whether
the youths grief was merely homesick-
ness caused by the reminder OF his own
land or whether amid the placid. slant
eyed faces he had recognized those Of
his own people.
To those about him It was merely an ex-
cellent running Of first reel" but to
the forelgn-born IL meant desolation.
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jority of these men live underground dur
ing the day and are separated into their
own it'll communities at night. and their
needs have been overlooked unc e Sam
now proposes to look out for those of his
peopl who labor under ground as well as
for those who labor above ground. -
The same report continues:
In European mining countries such
research has long been conducted In
systematic and continuous manner. These
Investigations have been used as the
basis for legislation and have been use
full in largely reducing the loss Of life.
In those countries where the mining in
dustry has had the advant ge of educa-
tional and other help from the govern
ment the deaths in the mines average
from one to one and one-half in every
GOO men employed. In other words, in
the present state of the mining industry
In this country we are killing from two
to three more men in every 1909 employ
ed than any country of Europe. Before
the mining industry in Europe obtained
the help of the government the death
rate there was as bad as it is at present
in the United States
The causes of certain mine accidents
have been traced to the improper use of
explosives, open lights. faulty electrical
equipment, falls of roof and lack Of dis
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everything possible i'm the study of pella
sra: For about six mt nths DR.. G. III. Law
lnder. passed assistant surge, publi
heaith and marine hospital service. was
In Italy studying the disease and the
Italian laws with reference to it, MUG
or the time he was with DR.. Sambon In
the Investigations based ron Dr. Sam
bon's theory of causatiCn.
Peiiasra is serious scourge for any
country because of it's more CT less re-
pulsive nature. the great suffering g.
tailed. the length of the chronic attack.
the fact that both body and mind are
involved. the long economic drain on the
family and community and the hereditary
effect. The most serious consideration fo-
the government is the difficulty Ct ex-
terminating it and the hereditary infiu-
ence. The Piedmont commission utal-
ian) Of 1917 printed this description OF
the descendants Of pellagrins:
The descendant Ct the peIlagrin is rec
ognfZed by his vacillating and uncertaiu
step. his muddy sclerotics. his fixed look.
the pale and ashy co,or CT his face. rs
reddish eyelids, his harelip. the scant
hair on his head. his brow premature,
furrowed his fiabby muscles his STUPID
and apathetic appearance
Pellagra has been so often described
that ii seems unnecessary to do NOR
than summarize its characteristics. Tho
symptoms are gastro-intestinal cis;u D.
ance. nervous disorder and erythems.
The eruption appears as a diffused in
fiammatiOn, resembling sunburn. and IS
not repulsive or painful is com
monty supposed except in the form known
as wet erythema. The symptoms arc
so distinct that if one ever sees a typ
III n.tlt lsxfr
wrong diagnosis afterward. yet even COOL
physicians err until the eruption is
marked Last year lady was operated
on for cancer, and when placed i'm the
sun during convalescence the erythema
OF pellagra appeared. She had not had
cancer, but pellagra.
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Theories Advanced WIDESPREAD Disease Pene

origin of pellagra lies in spoiled corn.
This theory originated in Italy more than
hundred years ago. at time when there
was decided tendency to ascribe many
diseases to food of various kinds Thou
venal, Bassi. Marzari, Fanzago. and all
the old school of physicians accepted the
maize theory. Later. Ballardini. Pari
and Majocchi advocated 1t. and lastly the
brilliant and resourceful Lombroso. In
1874 Ballardini expressed the idea that
the disease was due to the use Of corn
that had undergone change from the
presence of mold. and from the green
color of the mold his theory received the
name verdict"
The claims of the zeists are based upon
the following general statements: 1. That
maize is the staple cereal consumed by
the inhabitants of pellagrous countries.
2. That pellagra Is now recognized in
practically all maize-producing countries.
g. That extracts made from damaged
maize produce in man and animals symp-
toms of pellagra. i. That symptoms Of
pellagra have been produced in animals
by feeding them on damaged maize.
The first statement is easily proven.
since the corn zone embraces all those
countries in which pellagra. has become
endemic. The geographical and histor-
disease and the consumption of spoiled
corn is very marked. Italy and Rouma-
mia furnish the most notable examples.
In the latter country. owing to their obi
cations to the land owners, thepeasants are
unable to plant their crop until late. and
either harvest 1t immature or during the
autumnal rains. The consequence is that
nearly all OF. their corn is spoiled, and
more than 10 per cent of the peasant
population has pellagra. Even infants in
Roumania have the disease. whereas in
other pellagrous countries they are al
most exempt.
In Italy similar conditions exist. The
landowner gets the first crop and the
peasant the quarantine, or forty-day crop.
which is immature. There, as in Rouma-
MIA, the peasant has pellagra. but the
natural conditions, where, on account of
barren soil. the proprietor. in order to
rent his land at all, must allow the peas
ant one-third of the grain he gets himself,
the peasants have very little pellagra.
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Lion a Lamb at Home.

Uncle JOE CANNON. in bringing tn.
- House Of Representatives to order
after the hubbub of conversation follow
ing the prayer on the opening day OF
Congress last week. was compelled to in
dulge quite freely in arm exercise with
his gavei. He finally abandoned the
wooden portion of his desk and conf
menced whacking the marble border with
the ivory mallet
Wow. Look out there, Uncle Joe-' ex-
claimed correspondent who was looking
down from the press gallery overhead.
Bust that gavel and there will be the
deuce to pay at homer
'How's that?" inquired a companion
scribe, who had overheard his muttered
imprecations.
Why. don't you know queried the
other. Haven't you heard that Miss Cam
non. the Speakers daughter. is making q
collection of her fathers gavels? The gove
trnment provides a new one for every
Congress. and this is to be Miss Can:
mons fourth. He cracked one during a
House melee few years ago, and they
say his. daughter hasn't forgiven him
yet"
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given people who have been rescued from
drowning.
Each rescue corps carries life reviv-
ing outfit cabinet. which consists of
cylinders charged with oxygen, a flexible
breathing bag. flexible tube and hood
tina, fits over the mouth and nostrils Of
the patient. This hood is first fitted over
the mou. h and nostr.ls, ard air or Oxy-
gen is .hen forced into the lungs. This
method of saving the lives of miners has
met with great success not only in this
country, but also in for ign countries.
where mine rescue work has progressed
much farther than in the United States.
In a report of a committee on mines
and mining of the House Of Representa-
tives at Washington. which resulted in
the creation of the bureau of mines, the
following paragraph appears: Few peo-
pie realize the Dc plorable conditions of
coal mining in the United States today
The industry has grown with great rapid
ity to an unorganZed giant industry en-
ploying more than 100000 men, the ma
jority of whom are foreign RS in Ian
guage and traditions. and are totally un-
familiar with mining practices The ma
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There are some striking examples Of this.
One of the most interesting special
cases associating the use of spoiled corn
with pellagra comes from Yucatan. The
earliest appearance of the disease there
was in 1884 In 1882 locusts invaded the
state in such numbers that every plant
was destroyed. corn especially suffering.
AS it was the only cereal rais,d for
had to be imported from the United
States The country did not fully recover
from the devastation Of the locusts for
nine years during which period corn con-
tinued to be imported. This corn was
brought from New York in the bottom of
ships as ballast, and in most cases heat
and humidity caused mold to form and
the grain was rendered unfit for use.
Still it was sold.
Pellagra soon became epidemic confined,
however. to the lower and middle classe 8,
who were the only purchasers of the
grain. small quantity of home-raised
cereal supplying the wealthy classes.
For the ten years Immediately succeeding
this period Yucatan produced enough
corn for home consumption, and no more
cases of pellagra developed, while the old
cases ran their course, nearly all result
ing in death. Again the corn crop failed,
and corn was imported About this time
the price of hemp was very high, and the
rich hemp raiscrs decided that 1t was
more profitable to raise hemp than corn,
so the grain ceased to be cultivated The
rich as we'll as the poor now had to buy
from the ships Pellagra again devel-
oped, and this time among both rich and
poor 1t spread rapidly, and by 1907
about 10 per cent of the population were
pellagrins.
The second statement-that pellasra
is now recognized in practically all
maize producing countries-is a matter
of history One of the strongest claims
OF the anti-zeists was removed when
pel1agra appeared in the United States.
At last the largest corn area of the
world was attacked. Since then Uruguay
has reported
The third statement-that extracts
from damaged corn will produce in man
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and animals symptoms of pellagra-has
been demonstrated by many, Lombroso
in particular TO twelve healthy men
principle of spoiled corn, and all but
two developed symptoms Of pellagra.
There was not pronounced case Of
symptoms. among them. but it is
probable that a perfect case could not
be produced on account of the danger
Of fatal results. Experiments Of such
length as to produce sufficient action
upon the nervous system to cause a
complete response in nerve symptoms
and erythema. for instance, might
render the case incurable.
zein is rapid. A dog given is c. c.
OF the extract hypodermically ex-
hibited symptoms in forty-five min
ntes. and died in twenty-four hours.
the affection of which the animal dies
is true pellagra. but it's death is un-
doubtedly caused by the toxin in spoiled
corn. which the zeists hold causes
pellagra. and the animals symptoms
The fourth assertion-that symptoms
of pellagra have been produced in ami
mails by feeding them on damaged corn
is frequently demonstrated. A dog
fed on spoiled meal for three months
pellagra, Chickens fed on moldy corn
often have it, as do horses. AS Dr. J.
w. BabcOck, the father Of pellagra in
the United States,' says:
lone class of men are not hard to
convince-the men who lose their horses
from blind staggers.' They argue that
if spoiled corn can kill horse it can
kill man."
Such is the maize theory, with abun-
dant practical fact to strengthen it, Its
one weak point is the lack of scientific
proof. To the ordinary mind two of it's
strongest claims to correctness seem to
be success in combating pellagra by elm
mating corn and the development and in
crease of the disease under conditions
that cause the damaging of large guam
titles of corn.
An interesting historical fact in con-
nection with the former idea is furnished
by France. In 1915, although pellagra
had gained considerable hold in that
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cipline. but the larger mine accidents
caused by gas or coal dust, or possibly
both together were not thoroughly I'M
derstood until quite recently. Cnfor-
tunately in most cases of this kind the
persons who might have thrown light on
the cause have lost their lives in the dis
aster. The bureau OF mines has just con-
cluded an interesting set of experiments
in the direction of laying this coal and
stone dust SO that the coal dust will not
cause explosions. One process has been
perfected whereby the dust, can be laid at
cost OF 1922 for every 10 O,OOO tons of
coal raised. 1t is said that this cost re-
garded only as an explosion premium and
not taking into consilerat on the question
of the saving of human life, is a remark
ably w-prfced premium.
Experiments are now being conducted
by the same bureau to devise some means
of stopping the tremendous coal land
fires. There are today a number Of vast
coal deposits on both private and govern
ment lands burning in several of the
western states. In the Colorado coal
fields there have been a number of coal
beds on fire recently. and a large part
of the Yampa coal fields in Routt county
have been practically destroyed. Coal
beds resembling red hot mass Of lava
are now burning on a large scale near
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Washington, but none have been carried
out with any thoroughness. Trap
shooters used sparrows in place of pig
cons several years ago, but the laws OF
the District Of Columbia have repeatedly
interfered with proposed plans for killing
or poisoning the birds. In the meantime
they have literally overrun Washington.
destroying ivy, infestins trees on upper
Pennsylvania avenue and Swarmins
about the public buildings and parks of
the city.
Trapping the live birds is not the only
method to be followed. The Department
of Agriculture recommends ruthless
slaughter of the young: the Turing of
birds to sheltered nests. where they can
be captured at night, and the construc-
ton of nests where the sparrow eggs
can be reached and broken. Wherever
the laws will permit and the conditions
are satisfactory the department urges
the poisoning of the sparrOws with grain
soaked i'll strychnia sulphate.
1nhumane as the program reads. it is
declared by the biological survey officials
to be absolutely necessary to hold the
birds in check, Their spread throughout
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crops, small fruits and flowers are being
ruined by the marauders. and all other
birds have been driven out of many
cities.
Under the circumstances it is hard to
realize that less than forty years ago
there was a sparrow BOOM in this
country that sent the price of birds sky
high in New York. Such high prices were
asked for pairs of the birds there that
people in Cleveland, Philadelphia. Gal
weston. Tex: Salt Lake City and in vari-
GUS other parts of the country banded
together and sent to Europe for colonies
of sparrows.
The sparrow was hailed for years as
the bird that was to prove great .ene-
factor to tile United States. In less than
thirty years after the first eight pairs
were introduced to Brooklyn. in 1850. the
bird had spread so completely over the
United States and had so completely be-
lied it's reputation as d benefactor that
efforts We're started to rid the cities of
the great fockS.
Every resident of an American city
knows how completely such efforts have
failed. =, In some of the country districts
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probably safe to estimate that coal de-
posts belonging to the government and
private concerns have been and are now
being damaged or destroyed by fires over
an area of more than 1,OO0O0O acres OF
pubic and private land. 1t is conserva-
lively estimated that the loss to the gov
eminent alone from mine fires of this
kind will run into many millions of do
lars. Mine fires are common in many
sections of this country. and cause large
losses in the coal burned and the stop
page of work each year in the different
coal producing states. The cause of these
gigantic coal fires, together with means
to prevent their recurrence, Is what
Uncle Sam now proposes to ind out
through his new bureau of mines.
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ing and shooting is recommended where
ever the laws permit.
The sparrow has literally driven all
other city birds into exile. 1t has taken
their nests. and raised such a rumpus
when the others tried to fight that the
we'll bred song birds have gone off i'm dis
gust. There is but one bird that has
ever made a winning fight against the
sparrow and that is the northern shrike.
The Shrikes arc not common enough to
form serious menace to the spread of
the sparrows. At one time, when the
latter were being introduced into Boston.
the ShrikeS started a wholesale slaugh-
ter OF the newcomers The public au-
thorities of Boston stationed man with
gun in the park to kill the shrikes
and after 2 dozen or so of them had been