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act upon the bodily organism is still
matter of dispute.
Some authorities say that the violent
and unaccustomed movements OF the
stomach produce gastric disturbances.
and that these disturbances cause the
familiar vomiting.
Others maintain that the center of dis
turbance is the central nervous system.
which is demoralized by the strange i'm
pressions striking the eyes.
Still others say that the circulation in
the medula oblongata is impeded. and
that the result Is a sort OF storm in the
nerves controlling the stomach.
Yet others hold that the imagination
is much to blame, or that the brain
itself is shocked. or that muscular IA
tigue. caused by the effort to maintain
a balance has something to do with 1T.
AS a matter of fact, 1t is probable that
all OF these things help. The first symp-
toms are undoubtedly purely nervous,
and very frequently fear complexities
them. After that the stomach rebels and
there appear evidences of general ex-
haustion.
In the latter stages. particularly when
the attack is prolonged, the patient
grows exceedingly weak. and not fnfre-
quently verges upon unconscfousness. Inc
strain OF constant vomiting anu the dU-
sence of food combine to make him help
less. but if he Is Otherwise healthy he is
in danger. An hours leg-stretching
ashore, followed by a square meal, COM
monty makes him feel like a three-year-
old again.
II is true. of course. that cases of death
from seasickness have been reported. but
in practically all such cases the existence
OF some organic disease has been indicat-
ed. One day last summer, for example,
a woman was carried ashore from an At
lantic steamship, at a large American
seaport. unconscious and dying.
The ship had been two weeks upon its
western voyage and the woman had been
seasick from the start. When she died.
few days after landing. her death was
ascribed to exhaustion following mal-de-
mer. but II was soon demonstrated, upon
inquiry. that she was hopelessly i'll with
a fatal heart malady when she set sail.
There are a thousand and one remedies
for seasickness, but not one of them is
certain in its effects. The writer has
found, however, that all of those COM
monty employed have at least one merit
they satisfy the patients wild yearning TO
take something for his trouble and SO
ease his mind and increase his chances
OF speedy recovery. glass of water
given to a nervous woman relieves her
immensely--if she is led to believe that II
holds in solution some powerful and
subtle specific
OF preventive measures there are I'M
limited hosts-some utterly absurd and
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our nearest links to our second war with
Great Britain. are now dying off at the
rate of about one a week. At the time
of the Spanish war there were 2.4oi OF
them and ten years ago they numbered
1917: five years ago. 5JS. They nave
drawn pensions of SO per month since
1885, From 1878 until that year they had
been allowed IS. Several of the survivors
boast of having been alive when Congress
declared war, June Is, 1872. But, need
less 10 add, none of them were wives
during that war.
Only five of these go are widows of
commissioned officers Of the armies that
fought to gain our final independence.
Only one is the reict of an officer Of the
regular army who served in that strug-
gle of 1Sl2-15
This interesting lady is Mrs. Sally B.
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GOO or more will voyage up and down
the great lakes. This makes In all
10000 steamer passengers-and 1T Is
probable that fully 100 of them
viii De seasick-half of them mildly and
the rest distressingly and abominably.
Considering the fact that the NAL
ady itself is no more dangerous than a
stubbed toe, the symptoms of seasick-
ness are erotesauely painful and
alarming. First of all comes faint
sense or giddiness a creepy, chilly
feeling OF Observation-Disclosures II lasts a
few moments. and then upon It's heels
comes sudden and overpowering
nausea. The victim rushes to the rails.
Tears fill his eyes. his face grows
white. his whole body cold and cIammy.
No pang known 10 terra firma ever
equals in sheer horror the despairine
lost sensation OF the seasick
At the start. as some wit has OBJ
served. the patient harbors fear that
he Is going TO die. After a while he is
afraid ne won't die. The whole world
appears as his enemy. and If he were
not 40 hopelessly weak he would be
ripe for suicide.
But for all fits ludicrous horrors sea
sickness is by no means dangerous
affection and the great majority of ocean
voyagers are benefited rather than harm
ed By the complete rest and total absti-
hence It enforces.
People who are never seasick almost
invariably eat too much at sea. The
salt air makes their appetite prodigfous,
the hospitable steamship company gives
them plenty Of opportunity to nibble be-
tween meals. and the result is that they
consume. on the average. twice or thrice
their normal quantity OF food
The victim of mal-de-mer is protected
from this imprudence. Instead of eating
too much he abandons eating altogether.
And for most normal beings a few days
fast now and then is a mighty good thing
As every one knows. seasickness Is
caused by the peculiar motions OF YES
rel at sea, but exactly how these motions
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Remarkable were the ages which Or We
can believe the records Of the War OF ISL:
Society the last fifty veterans or that
struggle attained. In the nineties the So
ciety's list contained names of thirty-four
who had passed the 10O-year mark. one or
whom was alleged to be 10; one. los;
three. IO6; four. 1O5 and four 104 Ac-
cording to these records the honor OF
having attained the greatest age 0lw
fell to William Jack Haines OF st, Louis,
a veteran OF the battle OF New Orleans.
The last survivor among the officers ot
this war was. according tc the same So
ciety's records Ensign Dyer Pierce OF
Belvidere, Ill. The date of his death
does not appear on the records. but he
was alleged to be los years and months
old when last heard from.
1t may interest you also to learn whas
the blood of the great heroes OF lsl2-la
Is achieving today. The great victor
grandson, Thomas Sergeant Perry. is =
distinguished Boston author and membes
of the National Institute OF Art and Lett
tiers. He is. on the maternal side, q
great great-grandson of Benjamin Franks
lin. Commodore Porters great-grandson.
David D. Sd, is a major of marines. Gen.
William Henry Harrlson's great-grand-
son, Russell B.. was inspector general OF
volunteers in the war with Spain. and Is
now practic,ng law in Indianapolis
The blood Of two other famous warriors
of 1S12-15 helped win the Spanish war.
These We're Maj. Gen. Joe Wheeler. L.
8. A.. the grandson of Gen. William Hull.
and Gen. Alexander Macomb's great
Wetherell. L. S. A.. who was killed at
the battle Of Santiago Admiral Dewey.
too. is proud of the fact that he Is the
grandson OF a war of 1912 veteran-Capt.
Simeon Dewey of Vermont.
Copyright. 1912. by John Elfreth Watkins,
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By DR.. Leonard Keene Hirshberg,
A. B., M. D., Johns Hopkins.

CCORDING to the
steamship agents,
100000 Americans
will cross the
Atlantic during
the summer that
ia now upon US.
In addition, TO-
600 will sail the
Pacific. 10000 will
voyage up and
down the two
coasts and 100,-
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! r P r ] SEQ you
will be to learn
that. although the
war Of 1912 was
declared a century
ago, coming next
Tuesday $50 wild
ows of that con-
nicts veterans still
live to enjoy pen
sions allowed by
the government.
These old ladies,
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II can tell when an attack Is COM
ing on" he said, ''by the fact that my
head swims a bit and my tongue grows
cold and seems to shrink back into my
throat. As soon as this happens I swal-
low a big cup OF hot salt water and In
two minutes my last meal leaves me.
After that I drink a cup OF hot black
coffee. So far this has never failed to
pull me together"
1t would be interesting to make a list
Of the various drugs recommended by
professional and lay observers for sea-
sickness. It includes all the bromides,
all the anodynes, narcotics, opiates and
anesthetics. and a thousand and one other
fearsome things. In addition, there Is a
long catalogue Of mechanical devices de-
signed to comoat the same dread malady.
One man urges voyagers to wear tight
belts: another tells them to apply ice
bags to their backs: another puts his
trust in hot-water bags applied to the
neck, yet another sounds the praises
OF massage
AS a matter Of fact. every ocean trav-
eler must work out his salvation for him.
self. Let him seek the position which
seems most comfortable to him and let
him try to go to sleep. II he succeeds
it is highly probable that he will awake
much relieved. II he fails, we'll, seasick-
ness is far from being as bad as 1t feels.
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Davis of 1923 Spruce street, Philadelphia
She is the widow of Lieut. Col Samuel
Boyer Davis of Wilmington, who after
CALAMITY defending the town of Lewes,
Andrew Jackson at New Orleans
This quaint old town of Lewes, just
across the bay from Cape May, was Col
Davis birthplace and when the British
squadron anchored off its dure-girt
beach, in 1918. he. middle-a ged man OF
forty-seven, was In command of the mi
litia.
When Admiral Beresford, landing a
flag of truce upon this beach, demanded
twenty live bullocks and a proportinate
quantity Of vegetables and hay for his
majesty's squadron and offered to pay
for these supplies, Col. Davis replied
I'VE solemnly refuse to commit legal or
moral treason at your command. Do
your worst, History further records
how Beresford replied. regretting the
misery he would inflict on the women and
children by bombardment. and how
the word came back to his flagship: "Col.
Davis is a gallant officer and has taken
care of the ladies' During the twenty
four hours Of bombardment that followed
the British ship sent full 800 shot of
from eighteen to twenty-five pounds into
Lewes. but so spirited was the response
of a battery posted upon an eminence
and worked by Col Davis militia that
the most dangerous of the enemys gun
boats was disabled and its cannon
silenced. There were no lives lost in the
little town. and the hungry squadron
soon put out for Bermuda.
In reward for this victory President
Madison commissioned Davis a lieuten-
ant colonel of regulars, and late in 1914
he was transferred to the command of
the 44th Infantry at New Orleans. Here,
after aiding in Andrew Jackson's de-
cisive victory. he remained at Fort Philip
until May. 1915. He stayed in Louisiana
for nine years after the war and then
lived I'm Philadelphia for a decade. until
1888. when he moved to a country place
near Wilmington. where he lived until
he answered the last roll call, in 1856.
The diamond anniversary of his we'd
ding with the present Mrs. Davis his
second wife, falls within the present
year. When they were married at Will
mington in 1887. just seventy-flve years
ago. she was Miss Sally Janet Jones,
although after her marriage she adopted
his middle name. Boyer. They had five
children. and he lived to be ninety.
His widows ninety-sixth birthday falls
this month. and when | inquired of her
son as to her health the other day he
told me that it was good Her hus-
band having been born in 1766-ten years
before independence was declared-their
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This man was not, however, veteran
of the war of 1912. His papers show that
in March, 1888. at Buffalo. he enlisted as
John Moor in Company G, Sth United
States Infantry, and that after serving
in the Indian wars he was discharged IN
1s41. He was not. moreover. anywhere
near the unbelievable age given in the
dispatch quoted. In his original enlist
ment papers he declared himself as
twenty one years old. In 1888, which would
mean that he was born in 1S17-two years
after the close Of the war Of 1S12-and
was therefore ninetyffve at the time OF
his DEATH this year. In his pension
declaration filed in 1898 he gave his age
at the time of enlistment as twenty-six
instead of twenty-one. as stated in the
original papers. filed fifty-five years pre-
viously If his last statement was true,
he was 100 years old at the time Of his
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death. At any rate he was married as
late as 1889. when, according to his pre-
vious admissions, he must have been
either seventy-two or seventy-seven years
old.
The last survivor Of the war OF 1872.
according to the evidence gathered by
both the pension bureau and the Society
OF the War of 1912. was Hiram Cronk,
born April %. 1900, and enlisted in the
war of 1872 with his father-a revolu-
tionary veteran-and two brothers. The
date and place Of his enlistment were
August 4. 1914. at Western. n. Y.
He was then a lad Of fourteen and
most Of his service was in camp near
Lake Ontario. before his first discharge.
The first night ION which he was out of
the service he spent at WATERFOWL. n.
Y, where he heard the cannOnading at
sacketts Harbor He returned home and
re-enlisted as private. After the war
he learned the shoemaker's trade. mar
ried Mary Thornton Of Western in 1925,
and cleared for himself farm at Ava,
n. Y, where he settled down for the re-
mainder of his life. He and his spouse
lived together sixty years and had seven
children.
Fifteen years ago he was not such a
conspicuous figure as later, there then
being alive six other survivors of the
second war with Great Britain-Elijah
Glenn. Newark. n. j.: Eleazor Smith.
Danbury, n. H.: Hosea Brown, Grants
Pass. Ore: James Hooper. Baltimore;
John Lumberson, also Of Baltimore, and
Isaiah Sexton Of Sparta. Mich.
OF these. who. with Hiram Cronk,
formed the ''old guard" the last seven
veterans OF a great war, Brown was
then Q80O upon the pension records as
1O5. and both Glenn and Smith as 1Ol.
Three OF them, Hooper. Lumberson and
Sexton, were all in their early nineties.
while Cronk was already far advanced
in the ninth decade Of his life.
The race for the glory Of being the last
survivor was between these four. and
Cronk was an easy winner. for all Of the
three younger men died before the battle
Of Manila bay, in 1898, leaving Cronk,
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relief of ma1-de-mer is dangerous and
foolish. Morphine. for example, un
doubtedly accomplishes one desirable
end-it makes the seasick sufferer
sleep-but it's other effects are bad. In
many persons, indeed, it excites rather
than abates vomiting, and practically
all it's action upon the heart is unfa-
vorable. In consequence the prudent
voyager will steer clear Of all "brac
ers" which contain it.
Sailors-who grow seasick oftener than
they ever admit-believe that free vomit-
ing is desirable. A veteran officer OF the
writer's acquaintance once conf1ded the
fact that he frequently felt much indis-
posed during violent storms, particularly
when what is known as a cross sea is
running.
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Mrs ADAMS FOSTER

neral party. and regulars from Gov
ernors Island. together with other mill
tary organi "a tons, escorted the body 10
city hall. where, during the first after
noon they lay in state, 10000 people filed
past the catafalque to view the features
of our last soldier of our final struggle
for independence. Next day funeral
procession, unequaled save by that which
participated in the obsequies OF Gen.
Grant escorted the grizzled corpse to its
final resting place in Cypress Hill GENE.
terry.
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others often effective AS general
thing landsman who essays to sail
the briny sea should prepare for the or
deal by taking small doses. for two or
three days beforehand. of some mild
aperient-preferably one of the less ar
dent bitter waters.
As soon as you experience the first
symptoms of discomfort, no matter how
slight they may be. 60 to your cabin and
stretch at full length on the couch. Lie
on your SIDE with your face to the wall,
and shut your eyes.
If You use any pillow at all, let it be a
fiat one, SO that Your head is not elevated.
Then try to sleep-a thing that is nearly
always possible at sea
The bromides-chloral, cocaine, chloro-
form and various other drugtare useful
in combating some of the more violent
symptoms of seasickness; but it is plain
that the sufferer should not take them
without the advice of the ships surgeon.
Various wines and liquors are also recon-
mended by certain authorities. Cham
payne. under certain circumstances. is
very effective in relieving violent nausea.
Its effect, however, Is chiefly due to its
earbonic acid gas. and practically the
same measure of relief is attainable by
the use of soda water.
A ships surgeon Of long experience once
told the writer that he regarded it as
useless and even harmful to try to check
the initial vomiting.
Leave the patient to his misery and his
gloomy thoughts" he said, for couple
of hours. BY that time his stomach will
be empty Then give him a large goblet
OF warm water, which will be at once
elected.
After that give him a half dram
of bromide of potassium in as large
quantity of water as he seems capable
of swallowing. If the bromide solu-
ton is concentrated. it will make him
vomit again, but IL 1t is diluted enough
he will retain IT.
"Put him to bed. and an hour or SO
later give him another dose. Nine
times out of ten he will drop of to
sleep. and awaken well and hungry"
The testimony Of others indicates
that this treatment is effective enough
in comparatively mild weather, but
when a great storm is raging and the
ship is wallowing in the trough of huge
waves 1t is ordained by fate that the
majority of passengers shall be sick,
and so long as the storm continues it
is impossible to do more than give
them sleeping draughts and make
them comfortable.
1t cannot be too strongly urged that
the growing custom among squeamish
ocean voyagers of taking so-colled
sedatives and sleeping powders for the
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WIDELY proclaimed III the IOhoWiHS ue"S-
paper dispatch:
VETERAN OF 1912 DEAD.
Columbia. KY, February 23.-'Uncie
Johnny Morg, said to be 124 years DID,
and the oldest man in the United States.
was found dead in his log cabin home on
Indian creek, near here. yesterday. He
was a veteran of the war of 1872. and
more than half century ago was reput-
ed to be one of the best boxers In the
south. He had no relatives.
Uncle Johnny was born in Germany
and came to this country 100 years ago,
enlisting at once In the army. He knew
many noted men. among them President
jackson and Tecumseh, the Indian chief
Assured that this man was pensioner
IL a veteran, 1 investigated the records
Of the pension office, and after falling 70
find any one of the name given satisfied
myself that he was the person VINO mas
for years been carried on the. rolls as
"John Mogg, alias Moor born in Hesse.
Germany. and whose last recorded ad-
dress was given four years ago as the
village known as Seventy-Six, in CLINTON
county. KY. He died February 10. isi ".
or five days previous to the date OF the
dispatch quoted.
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Only two widows of naval officers sur
vive to see the centenary of the war in
which their husbands served their coun-
try, and both of these ladies are relicts of
young midshipmen of that series of bril-
liant sea victories.
1 visited one Of these ladies the other
day-Mrs. Adams Foster of 22O7 Massa-
chusetts avenue. Washington. She pre-
sented me with two buttons from the
uniform which her husband wore while
serving as clerk to Commodore Rogers.
on board the frigate President, in 1s13-14.
He was son Of Capt. James Foster. a
cotton manufacturer of Danvers. Mass
and was boy in his teens when the war
OF 1872 broke out In later life he made
a fortune in the coal business in Penn
sylvania Mrs. Foster, who was Miss
Sarah Jane Burch, married the veteran
at Washington before the civil war and
they lived In New Haven and Baltimore
until the time of his death Their son
DR.. Romulus A. Foster, is a major in the
Meo1cal Corps. District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard
Up at Cambridge, Mass, resides Mrs.
Annie *. Stearns, widow of Joshua b.
Stearns, who volunteered for service I'M
der Capt: Charles Stewart on that most
renowned vessel of our navy, the frigate
Constitution cold Ironsides), in August.
1913. The following summer President
Madison rewarded the young mans gal
lantry with a commission as midship
man, which he held until late in 1917.
Altnough Stearns did not volunteer until
after odd Ironsides - famous fight with
the Guerrero. he saw plenty of excite
ment during her many later engagements
along our coast. After leaving the navy
ne was in business in Salem and Cam
bridge. He married the present Mrs.
Stearns, his second wife, in 1916. she
having been Miss Annie K Wilson. She
has survived him for thirty-six years.
While | was making notes concerning
the ls12 widows" at the pension Office
the other day a big rubber stamp mark
ed the word dead upon the jacket CON
tanning the papers of one OF them. Mrs.
Samuel Thackara of Haddonfield. n. J..
widow OF private of militia She had
lived to be nearly 1O2 when, Nav .. she
Joined her husband in the realm which
no wars disturb
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US PENSION OFFICE
REPo srToEY Or RECORDS Or 1a1
VETERANS

Mary Trader Stephens of Fairmont W.
Va. She was born ninety years ago and
was twenty-four when, in Marshall coun-
ty W. Va, she married Ensign Silas
Stephens, who had enlisted In Capt.
James Morgan's company of the Virginia
militia in the summer of 1912. They We're
married in the second year of the Mex
lean war. just sixty-five years ago next
August, and lived together for twenty
two years, or until his death in 1869.
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IE belonged to the knights OF Column
bus and the bright yellow band
around his hat proclaimed In haring let
tiers that he hailed from Detroit 1t was
about time for the game between Detroit
and Washington to begin and great
crowd had assembled in the shade at the
side of The Star building to watch the
results.
The knight paused on the outskirts OF
the crowd and looked anxiously at his
watch. Annoyance was written all over
his face and It was plain to be seen that