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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-03-07
VOLUME VIII
Ouestion-Who am I?

Answer-A free American citizen.
Queston-What Duties have a citizen?
Answer-First: To preserve the best interests of
myself and my family.
Second: To protect my home and my
nunity from its enemies by my ballot at
the ballot box.
Third: To further the common good and to
preserve for myself and posterity the bless
ngs of freedom.
Question-Should have the right to the
loon question?
Answer why not I am per-
mitted to vote on other matters of general
interest, why not this important question J?
Question-Is it right that the farmer should have no
vote this question?
Answer-No The villages and cities live by the
trade which the farmer gives them. The city
or village is the social political and church
center of community much larger than that
within its boundary lines 1t surely makes
some difference to the farmer what kind OF
place his social, political and church center IS.
Besides the farmer must pay taxes because 81
the presence of saloons. Men go from the
country to the town and get drunk and then
return, and when in the country, the country
is at their mercy, being without police pro-
lection. Surely it is some OF the farmers
business what shall be found in the county
where he pays taxes and where his boys grow
up and where his home is located even though
someone should claim that it is of hts
business what there is in town.
Question-If you business man in any city Or
village within county, are you desirous OF
gaining the farmers trade?
Answer-Most assuredly. Our city village is
dependent upon the farmers trade for its
prosperity. The city and village need the
farmer and the farmer needs the city or vii
lage The one is helpless without the other
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1913-03-07

Catechism on County Option
MARCH7, 1913
NUMBER 10

Queston-If you desire that the farmer shall trade in
his home town and not with the catalogue
houses, is it not right then, that he should
have something to say about what kind of
place his trading center should be?
Answer-It would surely seem so. 1t would GER
tanly if the business could af-
ford to trust the desires of the farmers with
whom they do business.
Question-Why should we have the right to vote on
the saloon problem?
Answer-First: Because we are freeborn Ameri-
can citizens with a freeborn privilege to pro-
tect our homes by the ballot.
Second: Because Our government IS founded on
the principle that taxation without representa-
ton is Unjust.
Question-Why should the question of saloons or no
saloons be submitted to the county whole
first before being submitted to the villages
cities?
Answer-First: Because the county is the small
est unit of government which includes all
classes of people, who are taxed together, and
elect law enforcement machinery by which
state laws enforced
Second: Because the taxes of the county are paid
proportionately by all taxpayers within the
county.
Third: Because the countys institutions and Of
6cers are maintained by the county taxes
Fourth: Because the liquor traffic is an institu-
ton which touches both moral and economic
interest of the people of the whole county, and
should consequently be submitted to all OF
those who are concerned rather than to part.
Fifth: Because county option places the farmer
and the city the same footing.
Ouestion-Who owns the saloons in Illinois?
Answer-About 90 per cent of them are owned Or
controlled by the breweries.
Ouestion-Who the breweries?
Answer-In 1905 all the breweries in the United
States were owned by 877
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
The Importance of MIXED DIET for the Growing Child

their children little or no fruit They have not the
slightest objection to giving them mercury (calOme)
irritating purgatves but they deny them what
will prevent the evil they desire to Green vege-
tables and fruit welcome addition to babys dinner
If child shows marked distaste for any particular
kind of food it to force it to eat that KIM.
Firstly such enforced obedience creates illeeling
secondly food which is dsagreeabe is likely to cause
Indigestion; and thirdly there may be some organic
dosyncrasy which renders that food obnoxious to the
system. There is case on record of a man on whom
mutton seemed to act a kind of irrtant poison, and
similar not rare.
On the other hand if child has strong desire for
kind of food, it is unwise to deny it, unless you
can show a very good reason for so doing when you
as NO. dear, that will give you pain in
your stomach make you sick Never be misled
into saying Such things are not good for little girls
and boys, for children do not see why grownup peo
pie should have the good things which they are for
hidden. If, however you give reason which at
appeals to their experience of the order of nature
hey ready to recognize it a sound
Children when they are much out of doors and very
active, all children should be, require very much
food and nourishing food, than when they
confined to the house and sit about great deal
Hence, if a child is kept indoors by slight in
disposition, it should not, rule, be pressed to eat
there is any Discrimination for food, that dsincna-
ion generally arises from the fact that food the
time being is not required and if under these circum
dainties, a great deal harm than good is done
Many a slight ndisposton is made grave by the
tendency parents have to stuff their children with food
as remedy for ills.
If child is consttutionally feverish and excitable
its diet should be unstimulating, and consist mainly
of milk, farinaceous and vegetable food. IT, on the
other hand it is dull and Emphatic, disncned to &C.
tivty and with cold extremities, its food should be
stimulating possible mainly animal; in this con-
don too coffee may be given with breakfast and tea
at tea time; and in extreme little wine may
be allowed at dinner. BY means of careful dieting
much may be done to influence for good constitutional
states of the system,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Where the STREETS Are
Really PAVED with GOLD

few people ever expected to hear of
r. streets paved with gold this side of
- heaven, but away out in the little vii.
lage of Axim on the Gold Coast of Africa
the streets are actually paved with the pre-
ciouS metal.
Of course the paving is natures own soil
The streets are not actually covered with
blocks of refined gold, but the soil that
makes the surface of these streets is so rich
in gold that person can wash out a dollars
worth of it in an hours work, providing he
is expert in the art of twirling pans of
water-soaked soil about until the pure gold
dust is separated.
An Englishman was visiting in this town
not long ago when his host mentioned that
the street running past his bungalow was
paved in gold. The visiting Englishman
thought it mere figure of speech, but the
host called a woman servant, a native, and
told her to wash out some gold.
This woman took large bucket and filled
it with the loose soil scraped from the sur
face of the road. With this and number Of
pans and plenty of water she began to wash
the pay dirt" From pan to pan she washed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

King in Portugal, in the year of our Lord
1859, go, 81, went one day to see the
prisons of the King of Portugal, and a
gentleman being the keeper of the said
prisons presented him herb, as
strange plant brought from Florida
This same Master Nicot, having caused
the said herb to be set in his garden,
where it grew and multiplied marvellous
ly, was upon a time advised by one of
his pages that young man, some kin
to that page, made plaster of that herb
bruised both the herb and the juice to-
gether, upon an ulcer, which he had upon
his cheek near his nose, coming of a noli
me tangere, which had taken root already
at the base of the nose, and that he found
himself much easier at once Therefore
the said Master Nicot caused the sick
young man to be. brought before him,
causing the said herb to be applied to the
sore eight or ten days, until it was COM
pletely cured and healed. And he had it
sent while this cure was working to
certain physician of the King of Portugal,
the most famous in his time, to see the
further working and effect of the said
nicotiano. He then sent for the same
young man at the end or the ten days,
and brought him before this physician
that he might see how the herb had acted
upon the sore, and he certified that the
said noli me tangere was indeed utterly
obliterated, and indeed it never returned
afterward.
Some time after this one of the Am
bassador's cooks, having almost cut off
his thumb with big chopping knife, the
steward of the house of this gentleman
ran to the said nicotiano and dressed his
thumb herewith five or six times, and it
was finally thoroughly healed thereby.
From that time on this herb was famous
throughout all Lisbon, where the Court
of the King of Portugal was held at that
time, and the virtue of this herb was
announced far and wide, and the people
called it "the ambassadors herb"
The London Ambassador, seeing that
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

or poor the blood is in red cOrpuScleS. If
he is an ignorant practitioner (and there
are one or two of these) he may draw the
blood from the tips of the fingers, when
ne would find it blue, for here the ar
terieS connect directly with the veins,
without any intervening capllaries, and
the test of the blood here would be very
unSclentitic. But here too, is another
proof that the term blue blood" has ref
erence to the appearance of the venOuS
blood through the THU skin of the fingers,
for 1t is also a phrase in common usage:
She Is lady to the tips of her fingers"
Those who examine the blood are very
careful to note its color with the naked
eye as 1t is drawn from the wrist or ear
lobe for its various shading from red to
dark blue indicate to the expert much
concerning the state of the patients sys-
TEN. If it be dark blue in color this is
certain indication that gases are accumu-
lated in the intestinal tube or stomach,
and that decomposition and putrefactive
processes are going on somewhere in the
system.
If the drop of blood drawn mt the
proper spot is deep crimson in color it is
an indication of excessive oXygenatiOn.
or more probably too thin blood, proving
tlldt tue patient IL SuneTlIlS from leu
kemia or often that tuberculosis has at
tackled this person. Tests of the blood
should be made several times, because
of changing conditions, and the show Of
blue blood, for instance, may be only tenn
porary, on account of momentary clog
ging of the system with the consequent
putrefaction processes.
DR.. Robert l.. Watkins has called Spe-
cial attention to the value of this ex-
animation of the blood as to color for
diagnosing diseases, holding that it is a
simple and valuable source of informa-
ton. He has found that the blood is al
ways blue in cases of SCurvy, typhoid
fever during the destructive tissue
Stage). gangrene, asphyxia, apoplexy and
paralysis. In ptOmaine poisoning and
autO-intoXiCation the bueneSS is very dis
tnct. and is of great value because it
may be seen az once and the physician
need not wait TO 20 to his laboratory
and microscope.
1t has been found that IN Liabetes the
Blood is generally red, or even scarlet.
and also in acute tuberculosis, while in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Enjoying a Trip to the DENTIST

"HE next worse thing to a toothache is
going to the dentist, for most, of us,
but these days of terrible anticipation
of horror are past, if the latest approved
methods are used. Not only can the dentist
make the extraction of tooth painless by
using cocaine or some other nervedeadener
around the roots of the tooth, but he can
perform the far more nerve-racking oper-
alton of grinding out a cavity and filling
tooth without the patient suffering the least
inconvenience or pain
The magical means of securing absolutely
painless dentistry is nothing else than the
administering of a mixture of nitrous oxide
and oxygen by inhalation through the nose,
while the mouth remains open for the den
fist to do all the work he finds necessary
BY the latest method of administering this
mixture of gases the patient remains fully
conscious, sees the dentist at work and
knows what he is doing, but cannot feel
single twinge of pain.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Why NICOTINE Means TOBACCO

VUT)RSHIPPERS at the shrine of "My
W Lady Nicotine"-and how many
" millions burn incense before her
altar-are not all aware of the origin of
the word nicotine, or of the correct &C.
count of the awakening to the value of
tobacco on the Continent of Europe Most
of us are satisfied with the statement that
Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the weed"
into England, and suppose that it spread
thence all over Europe simply for smok-
ing purposes.
If we go back to an old Black Letter
volume dating from the year 1877 we gain
a clearer view of. the subject and inter
esting light on the origin of the word
nicotine as applied to the chief element
in tobacco. According to this venerable
authority, now more than three hundred
years old, Master John Nicot, Counsellor
to the King, being Ambassador for the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

such beneficent effects were produced by
this herb, and having heard that the Lady
Montigny that was had died at Saint Ger
mains of an ulcer on the breast, which
had turned into a noli me tangere, for
which no remedy was known at that
time, and that the Countess of Ruffe had
consulted all the famous physicians of
that realm to help to heaF her face, but
that none of them had found any remedy,
he thought it wise to communicate his
good news to France; and, therefore, sent
to King Francis II. and to the Queen
Mother, telling them all about tobacco
and how to use it, as well as how to
apply it to this dread disease, as had
been proved by experience.
In this way we have evidence that to-
bacco was considered the cure for ulcers
and even for cancerous growths, more
than for smoking, and in this way the
word nicotine is to be traced to this
Ambassador, John Nicot.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
II You Have BLUE BLOOD-.-See DOCTOR

THE boast of blue blood" is an old
one, especially among the F. f.
VS.. First Families of Virginia),
but the explanation of the term is not by
any means clear. 1t is supposed that the
term blue blood" was applied especially
to those women of refinement and deli
cately translucent skins, through which
the blue blood in the veins appeared, this
being esteemed mark of high breeding
and ancestry.
To the scientist blue blood means
something very different The blood in
the arteries should be of a bright red
color, and only after it has passed
through the system and the oxygen has
been extracted by the lymphatics. for the
nouriShment of the tissues. does the blood
appear blue as it courses through the
veins. on its way back to the lungs for
renewing the needed oxygen.
When the physician wishes to test the
blood he draws ii either from the wrist
or from the lobe of the ear, because this
is arterial blood and best shows how rich
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

the later stages of tuberculosis the blood
is blue.
The physical explanation of red blood
and blue is plain to the physician, for he
knows that all of the blood in the body
passes through the lungs once every min
ute, carrying with 1t the carbonic acid
gas which it has taken up from the lynn.
phatics ut it hurried through the system
and that when it reaches the lungs the
carbOnic acid is thrown off and replaced
by the oxygen taken from the air. thus
restoring the rednesS to the blood which
the heart is to pump through the body
once more
The appearance of bIuenesS in the
veins, if your skin is transparent, is per-
fectly normal, but nothing to be eSpe
cially proud of, for every healthy person
con boast the same blue blood" but if
the blood is blue when drawn from an
artery, then the system is deranged and
no time should be wasted in consulting
the most expert physician, for something
is radically wrong.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

paper This must be deity done to accom-
plsh the result 1t is we'll if one person holds
the plotting paper, large piece of it, over the
spot and another presses the iron over it, turn
ing it round and round, and repeating the
process so that the work be thoroughly done
and no rim of the grease remains, leaving an
ugly circle.
Should this fail or if it be inconvenient as
in the case of hotel apartment jewellers, or
dodgers in studios or furnished rooms, you
may resort to naphtha or gasoline. Do the
work by day as both of these cleaning agents
are highly combustible. Dip a sponge or
flannel cloth into either one and rub it briskly
but lightly over the spot, preferably with a
circular motion. Change the cloth for
another as soon as it is soiled otherwise the
dirt will be rubbed into the paper and bad
matter be made worse.
Still another way to take grease-spots out
of wallpaper, particularly those made by the
fingers, is to rub the solid area gently with a
stiff dough made of -four and water Very
often stain will not yield to one of these
methods will give way to another.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

The explanation of this effect is very SIM
pie, from physiological standpoint. The
effect of the combination of nitrous oxide and
oxygen is not at all like that of the inject
ing of certain drugs into the spine, by which
all nerves are deadened, but it simply par
alyses for a time the ends of the nerves,
and in this way prevents the pain from
making itself felt. 1t is just as if an electric
current we're running along wire, but you
insulated the end of the wire, and therefore
could not get the shock. Or, rather, the
electric wire of your nerve is alive and
ready to feel, but the sensitive end being
paralyzed no sensation of pain can enter
upon the nerve. The especial value of this
new painless method is that the administer
ing of the gases may continue indefinitely
without any bad results SO that the dentist
does not have to hurry or skimp his work,
and the patient is perfectly at ease under
all the nerve-racking grinding, boring and
hammering. The scientists call this ANAL.
gesia,' or painlessness, and it is a great boon
indeed in the reduction of the pain in having
your teeth properly cared for.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

the dirt until most of it was washed away as
refuse, and then in the last pan she COM
pleted the work, and with a dextrous swirl
the water and the last of the dirt was thrown
OF and there was left on the edge OF the pan
a long crescent-shaped ridge of pure gold
dust
The operation took nearly an hour and
"hen the dust was weighed there was litt:
less than dollars worth. Perhaps when
the gold diggings in that vicinity have been
worked out it will pay to build another lot
OF streets and begin to wash the. gold pave.
ments out of the old streets of AKIN. It was
an interesting demonstration of the hosts
hteral truth in his declaration that the
streets round about him were paved with
gold.
IN our own country there are numerous To-
callt1es where gold is known to exist, but no
one bothers with it because the results would
not Jutlty the expense incident to mining it.
when the process of gold-mining becomes
cheaper the gold supply will be greatly in.
creased as result of the tremendous gold.
containing areas which will become workable
at profit.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
To Take GREASE SPOTS
Out of WALL PAPER

- REASE spots, no matter how tiny.
IT seriously deface wall paper. be it ever
so handsome, and should be by every
possible precaution avoided. Two classes of
persons are responsible for the DETACHMENT
little children who run their finger tins
across the walls between bites of bread and
butter, and their elders, women an essential
part OF whose night toilet is to anoint
their faces and hands with cold cream or
olive oil, and, who, during their slumbers.
touch the walls with their palms The
women are the greater offenders, for all
women use cold cream, and few children can
be kept away from the walls during a meal.
One efectual preventive of the tattoo Of
grease stains on the wall of a bedroom is to
move the bed out of arms reach from the
wall. Another is to wear old kid or rubber
gloves after giving the hands their cold cream
or oil bath.
But if the wall paper has been thus defaced
three remedies await. One is to place A T.ece
Of plotting paper over the spot and, pressing
hot iron against it, attempt to draw the
grease from the wall paper into the blottng
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

will be that the fluid is quite well colored, and
the fbres of the meat perfectly white. It should be
made fresh every eight hours, and may be given in
teaspoonful doses to children under six months and
increased later
Raw beef pulp is very useful in of scurvyrick-
cts and ricketts,, and may be prepared follows Cut
lOn beefsteak into the finest possible pieces and free
from all fat PARTICLES; then put into mortar, and
pound until the meat becomes pupy next rub through
a sieve and with salt. teaspoonful of this
pulp three four times a day will be sufficient for a
child year old. See how it agrees with the child and
regulate the amount given accordingly.
When baby is well on with cutting his teeth at about
fifteen sixteen months ne may eggs cooked in
different ways and light farinaceous puddingS custad
and the like. To help in forming the teeth, and
pecally when the bones little weak, food such
as homny rice and oatmeal porrdge which is of
value be sweeened with malt extract which should
always be used If disagrees The dastase which
this contains helps to digest starch, and il contains
both flesh and bonefOrming and heat-gving material
Children like 1t very much and grow fat upon it. 1t
is very good plan to spread it their bread instead
of butter. For dinner at about sixteen months of age
little boiled white fish, such haddock or cod
carefully picked to be free bones, and
the flakes well shredded to be easily dgested,
may be given with mealy potato squeezed from the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

important food less than 79 of 100 parts of the
blood being water Water is, of course, contained in
all articles of food, but think parents need not be
afraid as they sometimes to be of allowing their
children to take it for itself
Dinner should consist of meat bread, vegetables and
fruit or fruit pudding; suet pudding with brown
or malt extract is good for children; with water
for drink. At breakfast, fish, egg, marina
lade, sewed fruit, should be given change from
the usual porridge, bread and milk both at this
meal and tea, the drink should be milk only cold
warm, diluted with water and sweetened to taste
For tea bread and butter bread and marmalade.
toast, with perhaps little stewed fruit for change
If supper is required, plain crackers bread and butter
with milk and water or bread and milk may be given
The craving for sugar in children is natural and
wholesome Psychologists have proved that both
sugar and fatty matters oxidized in the body-or
might say, burnt upand during this process heat is
evolved. Now, the child, just much it loves sugar,
abhors fat and it is only reasonable to suppose the
childish system demands sugar firstly, because
it loses heat than the adult, and secondly be-
cause it cannot deal with much fat Looking at the
matter from this point of view how wrong
those people who object to give their children sweet
things which the adult does not very much for,
while trying to force them to fat for which they
have supreme disgust People apt also to give