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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
CHIVALRY OF THE ANIMALS
Attitude Toward the Young and
the Weak.

One of the most interesting of all
the human traits in the animals is
that of chivalry, as shown by the ami
mails in their attitude toward the
young and weak. 1t is an unwritten
law in the animal world that the
young have rights which must he re-
spected. This accounts for the I'M
usual sight, sometimes seen, when a
fierce dog who has thrashed every
other dog in the neighborhood, and
has become a terror to every upstart
in puppydom, will turn tail and fee
In an apparent terror when a young
dog or kitten is presented to him.
The maternal and paternal instincts
are among the strongest of all. Par
ents will grieve over the loss of the
young, but they apparently have no
conception of death. There is deep
sympathy, or something very close to
1t among animals. A cry of distress
from a fellow-beast or bird in trouble
will bring others from all directions.
There is a powerful instinct on the
part of all animals to protect the
young when in trouble. Hogs and cat
tie are among the most dangerous of
domestic animals when aroused; the
surest way to arouse them is to iu-
call for help, and instantly the air
around will be filled with feathered
champions of the victim.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
LIKE "ANGEL AT THE GATE
swinburne in Gorgeous Array, APP
pearcd to 5impIe Villagers as
Flaming Apparitioa.

An amusing story of Swinburne is
told by Edmund Gosse. At the age of
twenty-three Swinburne was sent to
study history under Bishop Stubs,
who was then in charge of a country
parish in Essex. He arrived there on
a Saturday and was excused attend
ance at Sunday morning church on the
ground that he must be tired with his
journey.
He had breakfast in bed, but finding
it a glorious morning he arrayed him
self in scarlet slippers and a light
crimson dressing gown, sauntered into
the garden and leaned pensively over
the gate, with his red hair flaming bril-
liantly in the sunlight.
The church bells were ringing and
the parishioners had all to pass the
parsonage gate to get to church. But
none Of them dared to pass the fam
ing apparition, and all came to halt
The church bells stopped, but at the
instance of the vicar, who could not
believe that all the parishioners haC
deserted him, were rung again.
At last the boldest man in the vii
lage bolted past the gate and the rest
stampeded after him, Swinburne gaZ
ing at them in quiet wonder at theil
strange method of going to church,
Pail Mail Gazette.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
For the Small Bow,

Small boys, step up and shake
hands with this venerable gentleman.
His name is Science, and he just has
presented to the aching world the
soothing assurance of a colicless Gu.
cumber. Don't see how that affects
you? That shows that your mind has
not been trained to carry a thought to
it's logical conclusion. Can't you I'm.
derstand that the advent of the collie.
less cucumber presages the coming OF
the crampless green apple?
With no fear Of retributive stomach
ache, care-free bands of youngsters
when that happy day arrives, can eat
their fill of the spoil after they have
overturned Giovanni's fruit stand and
sped, laughing, safe distance along
the avenue. The immature peach
when consumed will carry with it nc
moral pointing consequences.
Happy days are in store for child
hood.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
CONCRETE TO HOLD A RIVER
Material Used to Patch Holes in Bed
Through Which the Water Period
icaIly Vanishes.

1t has been found necessary to put
another patch on the bed of the Blanco
river, says the Martindale (TeX.) Dis
patch. This stream has a remarkable
way of losing itself, and in order to
restore it to it's surface channel, a
concrete patch has been placed upon
the holes through which it disappears.
For many years it has been empty
ing portions of it's flow into small
holes in it's bed, but it was not until
about year ago that the entire bot
tom, so to speak, dropped out at a
point near San Marcos.
In one night the river below that
point went dry. 1t had had a width
of nearly 200 feet and was flowing a
strong current until the sudden dis
appearance of the water. The drying
up of the stream meant heavy losses
to persons dependent upon it for water
supply.
Civil engineers were consulted in re
gard to restoring the flow, and it was
decided to patch the hole into which
the water was emptying. This was
done at heavy expense.
A few days ago the river wore an
other big hole through the bed twenty
miles northeast of here and the same
method of patching is being followed
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
Exterminated Like the Buffalo.

Some idea of the vast numbers of
animals that Africa used to support
can be gained from a passage in w.
Scully's "reminiscences. 1t was Mr..
Scully's good fortune in 1892 to wit
ness the last great trek of spring
bucks from east to west of the Bush
mainland desert-a trek on scale
such as no man will ever see again.
Fencing, the increase of population
and the distribution of arms have al
most exterminated the once innumer-
able host. He says: Il have stood
On an eminence some twenty feet
high, far out on the plains, and seen
the absolutely level surface, as wide
as the eye could reach, covered with
resting springbucks. while from over
the eastern horizon the rising col.
umns of dust told of fresh hosts adj
vancing.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
Women in War.

What p splendid courage and IN
tagging zeal in their countrys cause
the Boer women showed in the South
African war has never been SO fully
realized as it will be now by all who
read the remarkable record just pub
lished under the title Of "Petticoat
Commands" This is practically the
diary done in narrative form of a girl
who, with her widowed mother, out
wi.ted the English officers and men
and helped their countrymen. They
were clever, cultivated and kindly wo-
men, simply aglow with patriotism;
and to read what they did and how
they did it makes one realize afresh
What wonderful creatures women are.
Let scientists say what they will,
women are in no way inferior to men,
and in many ways vastly superior. In
resource certainly, in. tact often, in
strength of purpose at least their
equals.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
Old London Landmark to Go,

Built by the French Huguenots seek
ing refuge from France at the time of
the Edict of Nantes of 1855, and hav-
ing passed from them to the Church of
England, and now in the hands of the
Congregationalists the quaint old
chapel of Orange street, London, is
about to close it's doors and vanish
Many notable preachers have occupied
it's pulpit, among others Toplady, who
wrote Rock of Ages" during his min
ist-y. Rev. Samuel Luke was also
minister for some years, and it was
MS wife who wrote 4 think when
read that sweet story of Old An orr
ginal copy of the hymn in the author
handwriting is one of the treasured
possessions Of the church
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
An Unfortunate Mix-Up,

Once upon a time a gentleman en-
tered a florists shop, ordering two
punches of flowers. One was to go to
lady friend and the other was to go
&c the home of a friend who had just
died. On the first he wrote: ITO
help you bear the heat" the weather
heing very warm; on the second he
inscribed Sympathy" When the
flowers were delivered a mistake was
made The lady received the bunch
marked Sympathy" and Immediate
ly answered, asking why she needed
his sympathy. He never heard from
the other box.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
Quality, Keynote OF British Crops.

Quality must always be the keynote
of British agriculture, as the area is
far too small TO enable farmers to
grow the quantities Of produce that
the newer countries of the world can
yield; and in no connection is quality
of greater Importance than that of the
cereal crops. Wheat, oats and barley
will occupy considerable portion OF
the land, and the condition in which
they are put on the market substantial
ly affects the prices they realize.-Lon-
don Telegraph.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
WHAT TO DO WITH THIS BOY
Case Of Juvenile crirninality In France
That May Well Puzzle the
Social Reformer.

Here is little life story that more
wildly Eliminates the task of the So
cial reiormer than any number of trea-
tises. A couple of nights ago boy OF
less than fifteen was discovered along
side the Seine by a couple of police
men. At first he refused to utter a
word. but eventually he narrated his
Odyssey. Eighteen months ago, when
he was barely thirteen, he surreptiti-
taking with him a sum of 500 francs.
With this money in his possession he
went to Brussels, where he was short
~ after arrested. The police conduct
ed him home, but he escaped again.
Taken back a second time, he was ap-
prenticed to a farmer, but promptly de-
parted on fresh adventures. Since then
he has existed by means of begging
and thieving. Two months ago he
stole couple of bicycles, and, mount
ing one and propelling the other, made
OIL for Rouen, where he sold one of the
mahchines, riding to Paris on the 9TH
er. This he sold in Paris, and lived on
the proceeds for a time, until, shelter
less and without resources, he was
found by the police. What can the
sociologist, the penologist, or the phi
lanthropist do with SO youthful and
precocious a criminal? The problem is
a serious one in France, where juve-
nile crime is alarmingly on the in
crease.-Paris Correspondence London
Globe
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
Won't Chase Female Wolves.

Sometimes it is almost impossible
to clear a neighborhood of wolves,
owing to the chiyalrous instincts OF
the hounds about attacking the fe-
male OF the species" Hounds have
been known 70 abandon a chase after
a sheep-kilIing wolf because it hap
pened to be a female animal. For this
reason at least one female hound is
usually taken, to insure the catching
OF the quarry.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-27
Didn't See the Other One

In a suburban electorate the candi-
date was being raucously heckled and,
though an amiable man as a rule. he
was provoked to the suggestion that
the conduct of one man in the meet
ing at least was asinine. If l am an
ass" roared the interjector, there's
two Of US here. Ha! Hal" I've no.
ticed you" said the candidate quietly.
I've heard you bray-but I don't see
your friend
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
BAD EYESIGHT as a
Result of BAD TEETH

bTTHERE have been instances of blindness
resulting from extracting teeth but
- these are rare. On the other hand,
specialists in eye troubles have frequently
found the trouble with their patients eyes to
come from decaying teeth.
One specialist suspected his patients eye
trouble was due to bad teeth and made a
careful examination of the mouth, even hav-
ing a skilled dentist examine the mouth SO
far as could be found there were no bad teeth
still the eye specialist was not satisfied and
had his patients mouth photographed by the
X-ray The result of this proved the correct
ness Of the specialists diagnosis, for beneath
what appeared to be solid gold filings and
crowns he discovered some Assesses.
They we're not of a nature to make the pa
tient suspect he had them, but they were act
ing on the optic nerves and were really all
that was making the trouble with his eye
sight Eye specialists are getting more and
more to understand the evil effects bad teeth
have on the eyes, and many obstinate cases
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
Benefit Merchants and Corporations the Expense the People

trudge through the muddy streets from fifty to couple
hundred feet the ahead. It is efficient for ne
street car company just efficient the straps,
is the worst sort of ineicency for the long suffer
ing public.
In many of the big cities the transportation COM
panies reduce the number of trains in subways, ST.
face lines and elevated roads between rush hours ana
the reduction is so great that the cars are always
crowded. whether it be rush hours not If the
duction we're not made or only slight thousands
of people would get into or out of the busy districts
before the big rush hours, thus making everything
better. Again the public stands the trouble and
bother to help the company be bit more efficient,
this time efficiency" meaning economy to the COM
panies
One lawyer may go to another and say q wish you
would postpone our case, I've got something import
ant on" or 1--WE got golf tournament or i want
to 20 away for a week" and the other lawyer gener-
ally does it to obige his legal brother 1t really doesn't
mean anything to this lawyer, but his poor clients
must stand the loss of time and great deal of bother
and expense because of such delay. The efficiency
for one rather selfish lawyer is brought about at the
EXPENSE and trouble and worry of Innocent clients
who are also paying the money.
Peddlers are allowed to stand on the sidewalk ana
sell their wares. 1t them rent 1t also blocks
up the sidewalks and causes men and women and chl
dren to walk in the muddy street or force their
wav through crowd of the curious where they lose
time and patience and frequently money because pick
pockets very often pick such crowded spots What
is few cents efficiency rent saving for bunch of
pedders, is great deal OF loss ana discomfort 10
the hundreds of thousands of pedestrians.
The world seems to be full of just such lnehlcent
efficiency and scores and of such instances could
be cited When efficiency works for the very Few as
against the very great majority 1t ceases 10 De emil
cencv but the rankest and most inexcusable sort of
neicency, hundreds who have written protests 70
this paper can attest.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

forceps selected the PARTICLES of food that had become
implanted in the tonss, macerated them with sterl-
lied salt water and injected these masses with their
suspected bacilh into rabbits.
The rabbits soon sckened and presented the self
same symptoms as those of human patients.
From these in creatures some blood was collected as
we'll as serum from the swollen joints This plant
ed upon beef and gelatne the favorite provender
Of bacteria and the whole outfit kept at blood
neat Tweuty-four hours later Dr. Rosenow re-
Warded by seeing growths Of some kind present
These Colonies little growths, were then ana
lyzed under the microscope by certain technical
esses Il was thus discovered that mcroparaste
had been revealed to man.
Dir. Rosenow cautiously and with great conservatism
refrained from making any public announcement Of
his important find and refuses even now to discuss
IT, except with scientists. His only public statement
was made before the doctors of the Chicago Tubercu
losis Institute From all indications this bacter
ium OF rheumatism" will be cultivated further and
vaccine analogous TO the anttyphod vaccine should
he evolved.
These vaccnes are made by growing the bacteria
in profusion in bouilon After two days. some
of these germs are removed placed in weak salt water
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

for them, but with others in their day or
very soon after their day. il was not laziness
at an but the genuine hookworm, the same
hookworm that gets into the feet Of the col
ored people down South to-day.
In some Of these mummies placed in the
pyramids, bodies of members of the royal
families Dr Luce who was among those in
yestigatjng the matter, actually found the
hookworms in the mummies.
Now Sc is said that many physicians who
once believed in the Kneipp cure, walking
about bsreiooted in the morning dew, are
obJecting 10 il on the grounds that such PEG.
pie might get hookworms into their body, as
il is known they work into the system
through the feet
While this may be true in certain sections
Of the South and also abroad, around the
pyramids Il apparently does not hold good
everywhere, for there is scarcely New
Englander to-day but what went barefooted
at least three months Of every year in his
boyhood
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

of impaired eyesight which in the past could
not be remedied are now actually cured by
curing the bad teeth, and thus removing the
cause.
1t is claimed that there are no special teeth
that alone affect the eyes when these teeth
become decayed, but that nearly if not every
tooth has some bad effect upon the eyesight
if the tooth is not attended to- At the same
time bad upper teeth have a much worse Ell
feet upon the eyesight than bad lower teeth
Therefore there is another reason and most
important one, why bad teeth should be RENE
died at once, and also there is reason to be-
lieve that many more cases of impaired eye
sight will be cured now that it is known what
part the bad teeth play in the matter.
Care should be taken to watch the chill
dren. Sometimes their eyesight bothers
them while their teeth seem in good condi-
ton The chances are there are decaying
spots at the roots OF the teeth which are not
visible, but which may be having an injuri-
lus effect upon the eye-sight.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

And all this is efficiency, saving the road the
Of a few cheap employees to guard open exits while
the public has to stand the loss OF time and patience
and undergo all sorts of troubles.
Drug stores and other places where soda is sold
have the check system. girl in a booth sells the
checks You go to the and ask for drink the
clerk viii tell you to go and get check you do not al
ways know whether the drink is five ten fifteen
cents You ask the check seller. She may know and
then she may not know. In the latter you go back
and ask the clerk go back wait get your check
All this is loss of time the public, The public has
pay with its bother delay and valuable time for
the little extra work the part of the clerks in taking
the pay.
Check at restaurants supposed to be
part of the efficiency business At least comes under
that head. You do not litter mp the restaurant with
your outer garments but you have TO pay the check
boy for the privilege of hanging up hat and
This is money out of your pocket = As long as YOU
customer and spending money that will insure
the proprietor a good profit it somewhat
Just that he should extract more money from you
Again is efficient for the restaurant and
pensive for you
In New York there is abcminable system of max
ing property owners hunt up their own tax bills For
a few hundred dollars clerks should be made to do
this but instead of that the thousands of citizens have
to sgend their valuable time hire someone to do
st for them to look up their tax bills It big
loss, including carfare, to the public for a little bit
of two-cent efficiency for the city.
Many times a street company will claim that it
give efficient service by making people take
the car ahead" They point out a dozen reasons why
this IS a help their system. but this does pre-
vent loss Of time, making people lose trains and en-
gagements and getting out in all sorts of weather TO
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
Evidence That Shows
PHARAOH Had HOOKWORM

TT vas not so many years ago that the So
| called discovery" OF hookworm disease
set everyone talking. And while many
papers had an sorts Of fun with it because
the great symptom was a disinclinaton to
worl. the fact remained that it was very
serious matter indeed. But hookworm dis
ease is still looked upon by most people as
something quite modern.
Instead OF being modern il is literally
"older than the pyramids" because it has
now been discovered that Pharoah had the
disease. It may not be possible TO prove ir
now but ztill il is possible that Rameses,
either the first, second or third, suffered with
the disease. AT any rate it was prevalent in
their days, and one proof that il prevailed
in those days is that in some OF the very
oldest OF the mummies found the scientists
who examined them recently discovered hook
worms.
It may have been plain laziness that trou-
blsd many Of the poor workmen when they
saw the task Of piling up the pyramids set
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
HEADS Continue to GROW UNTIL OLD AGE

teen years showed that his head had grown q of
inch and the late William F. Steads head Increased
in circumference from % inches when he was forty
six years old to 23&s inches when he sixtytwo.
Mr.. Severn says he could 90 quoting such in
stances proving that the thinker who keeps his brain
active almost invariably finds his head increasing from
eighth hreequarters Of inch in ten or twelve
years "This growth Of the head declares Mr. Severn
means that the brain has also been growing and de-
veloping and I believe that so long the mind is
active the brain and head both grow and develop
While it may seem impossible for soft substance
as the brain to make skull grow larger, it should be
remembered the skull is for protecting the brain not
for hndering its growth. A twg may force nam
moth stone aside in it's growth and the kernel Of nut
finds the shell of the nut Increasing in size to accom-
modate its growth
According to these careful experiments it seems
that the longstanding claim that the head never
increases in size after maturity has been reached is
not accurate II is long experiment but might prove
of interest if any one interested in this should have
his head carefully measured now, and again at the
end of ten years It might a sort of gauge as
to Just how much actual hard thinking such person
has done during The decade,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

OF the average commuters train is about as
vile as possible. The car is generally over
heated % is filled with men who sit there
for the purpose of smoking and the air is
literally thick and gray with smoke. Il is not
an uncommon thing to step in such a smoking
car and De unable 10 recognize friend at
the other end because Of the dense volumes
Of smoke
In the first place the smoker generally
wants his smoke right after his meal II he
dashes for the train he may or may not
smoke on the way. II is better not to do
So for the lungs should be filled with as
much fresh air as possible as a sort of forti-
fsator against the hours this man must sit
e. p close office. az work in factory or shop
where the Hi- IS not as cool ana clean and
refreshing DIS il is I'm the suburbs.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08

measurements of more than hundred thousand heads
during the last twenty-five years, and he has come
the conclusion that just long the human brain
is active and kept vigorously at work it develops and
the head increases in very many instances, in size
He says: "Mr Lloyd George NJ P, Chancellor of the
Exchequer has increased the size Of his head from
being nearly % inches in crcumferental
TO 25A inches from the time he forty to forty
eight years of age In othe- words after forty years
of age his head grew quarter Of inch larger in
eight years. Another instance is given "Mr Robert
Batchford editor of The Clarion and author Of Britain
for the British, says Mr. Severn Increased the cir
conference of his head from 22 inches at fifty years
of TO 23 inches before his sixteth year. Another
example of increasing the size of the head full quar-
ter OF an inch and this time after the man had reached
th" half-century mark of years
still more remarkable instance, according to the
claim of Mr. Severn, that of a Mr.. Bart Kennedy,
whose head measured at thirtyfour years Of 1874
inches Twelve years later it measured "A inches,
showing that his head actually grew threequarters Of
inch larger in twelve years He had written eleven
books during those twelve years and kept his brain
vigorously at work Mr.. George Barnes NJ p in six