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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16

Of the Orient IL these nations enter the
industrial field.
IF it is considered proper to open
our American markets to the Europeans
by means of a low tariff containing no
reciprocal clause, how can We close them
to the Asiatic?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16

steadily, and 1t is only question OF
time when they will enter the Markets
of the world with products which Will
come into competition with those Of ad-
vanced nations. We shall have to pro-
tect our labor and the products OF our
labor against the extremely low wages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16

We will deliver these baskets 10
any address within our regular dellv-
cry limits. on or before Wednesday.
Nov. 90. orders are being taken now.
As we are usually asked to handle
thousands OF these baskets I'm the two
days preceding Thanksgiving II would
greatly convenience us IL patrons
would file their orders as early as pos
sible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-16
TO SAVE JAcKsoNs BIRTHPLACE

Fairmont, w. Va. Nov. 15.-Jackson's
Mill. on the West Fork River, near here.
where General Thomas J. C'StonewalrD
Jackson was born and grew TO manhood,
has been donated to the West Virginia
Daughters OF the Confederacy by wealthy
citizens Of Fairmont. The mill and old
Southern house were erected more than
a hundred years ago by Colonel Edward
Jackson, a soldier of the Revolutionary
War and grandfather Of the Confederate
leader
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
WHY We Should All WALK LIKE FARMERS

Each Of these modes Of progression has its
uses; but the countrymans way Of walking en-
ables him to cover much longer stretch Of
ground without fatigue, provided the road be
fairly even. When the surface is much broken
we generally find him reverting to the short steps
Of the city dWeler.
The pace attained in the walk has also much
to do with the gait A man of average height,
with neither abnOrmay short nor crooked legs,
ought to be able to accomplish three-and-a half
miles an hour on a level road without fatigue.
This as the motion pictures show implies about
siKty-fve steps to the minute. If he increases
the number of steps by ten, he will increase the
distance travelled within the hour to nearly
four miles, but at a vastly increased expenditure
Of energy. TO do this, he has to shorten his
stride and if he pushes this shortening so far as
to take more than seventy five steps to the min
ute he will find that the distance he traverses in
given times lessons instead Of increases.
In order therefore, TO accomplish more than
four miles an hour another gait has to be adopted
what We call the heel and-tOe" walk
This is distinguished from the true or natural
walk In that while in this last both feet rest on
the ground simultaneously and for an appreCiable
length Of time in the frst-n8med the toes of the
hinder foot only just touch the ground at the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

moment when all the weight Of the body is
thrown the foot in front. If it goes beyond
this, and if the toe Of the foot behind leaves the
ground before the heel Of the one in front has re-
ceived the weight of the body the action changes
from a walk into a run, and if this takes place
in a walking race the walker is disqualified. Yet
DR.. Regnault says that the transition is so quick
as to be extremely hard for even the trained eye
to detect,
There can be little doubt as to the comparative
value of the two gaits as an exercise. The true
natural walk exercises not only the muscles
Of the legs and feet but also those of the trunk
and abdomen, thereby increasing the peristaltic
action of the muscles and helping to avert cor
pulence. At the same time it increases the crcu-
lation of the blood, and probably stimulates the
action Of the liver without putting any extra
strain on the heart and lungs. As a natural
mode Of locom0tion it accOmplfshes its purpose
with less expenditure Of energy than any other
possible to man.
The moral of all this IS. that if any one wishes
to walk for exercise as distinguished from break
ing records, he should first cultivate the country
mans walk with bent knees and body leaning
forward, and then find out his own natural pace
and stick to it.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

~ HE bitter controversies which constantly rag
ing in the scientific world. give ground for the
belief that the most advanced thinkers do
not really want to know the truthat least not the
whole truth. It seems to be natural for the human
mind to set for itself certain limits beyond which it Is
disincned GO This is why the very scientists who
to-day loudest in their Endorsement Of some
theory may tomorrow be denOuncing absurd
alleged discovery that is far less novel.
The late Mark Twain, whose philosophy is sound
his humor entertaining up this astonishing trait
Of human nature follows:
I'VE always hearing Of people who are around
seeking after truth / have never seen permanent
specimen. think he has never lived. But have seen
permanent seekers after truth They sought diligently
persstently carefully cautiously, profoundly, with per
feet honesty and nicely adjusted udgment-unt they
believed that without doubt question they had found
the truth That was the end Of the search The
spent the rest of his life hunting up shingles wherewth
to protect his truth from the weather
If he was seeking after political truth he found it in
govern the earth; if he was seeking after the
only true religion he found it in another of the
three thousand that the market. IN any case
when he found the truth ne sought further; but from
that day forth with his soldering iron in one hand and
his budgeOn in the other he tinkered its leaks and ea
soned with directors. There have been innumerable
seekers after ruth-have you ever heard Of permanent
oneE In the very nature Of man such thing is i'm
possible
81 have said that there are none but temporary trtb
seekers; that permanent is impOssibity: that
soon the seeker finds what he is thoroughly con
WINGED IS the truth he seeks further but gives the
rest OF MS days TO hunting junk to patch cauk it
ana prop II with and make it weatherproOf and keep It
from caying in on him Hence the Presbyterian remains
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
Interesting Scientific Experiments Mysterious

We all know that insufficient action of the intestines
is one of the greatest causes of i'll health modern
life. These experiments indicate that bad condition
of the appendix or its absence may keep the ntesnes
from working properly.
Having noted several facts that suggested this eX-
PLANTATION of the Importance Of the appendix Dr. Per
rer and his associates tested it by experiments
animals. The monkeys and rodents (including rats
are furnished with an appendix resembling mans
The French doctors began their experiments on
monkeys. In their first experiment they took twenty
four monkeys Of about the same age. They were all
young and in good health.
The doctors removed the appendix from twelve Of
these animals. The operation was very quickly per
formed under anaesthetics and within twenty-four
hours the animals. we're running and feeding usual
The scientists then kept all the twenyfour monkeys
in separate cages with runWays for EACH that they
could watch the changes in health. Every monkey
ceived exactly the same kind and amount of food.
From the first the doctors noticed marked dinlinu
ton the activity Of the ntestnes of the monkeys that
had their appendices removed At the end of week
there was such a marked deficiency in elimination of
health seriously affected. They became dull and
stess and ceased TO about in the natural
to monkeys. Their hair fell out, their eyes dis
cOlored and their tongues were coated with fur.
The change noted In every Of the twelve
operated animals It therefore could not have been due
The twelve unoperated animals remained in perfect
health and their intestinal activity excellent. 1t
therefore appeared certain that the change in condi
ton due to the removal of the appendix.
It is important to note that monkey does depend
on the contractie movements of the walls OF his in
testines much a does. In man, the food
after passing from the stomach into the small intestine
is obliged to pass upward into the ascending colon
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

completely to cover even the beak Owls are perhaps
the only exception TO the rule And by the way the
only other animals which thus the head backward
after this fashion during sleep are certain peculiar
tortoises known as 'side-necked tOrtoises7
Long legged BIRDS like stOrks and gulIs sIeeD while
resting only leg Ducks generally sIeeD on omen
water And to avoid drifting shorewards and therefore
into the danger zone, they keep constantly padding
with foot that the body is always crcing round
the chosen seepingarea The sloths sleep suspended
by their feet and the head tucked between the fore
legs. The less remarkable African pottos or slow
IenluTs, assume similar pose, but they attach them
selves to vertical instead Of horizontal, bOugh so
that the body rests with the head upward No animal
save man, sleeps upon its back
As rule, darkness Induces slsep With MANY
animals however the reverse is the case-as with the
bats and owls. This reversal Of the usual order has
0een brought about by the nature of the feeding habits
The question where sleep begins is by no means
easily answered One is inclined draw the line at the
insects But since all living things plants as well as
animals display periodical states Quescence perhaps
we snail be near the truth in regarding sleep as uni
YeTsal among living things In the plants it is
enforced by darkness in the case of many bacteria
and fungi which, like evil DEEDS grow under the cover
81 ark
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

IVY ALKING is not only the easiest Of all
NX exercises to take, but physicians say it
w is the most beneficial In spite Of the
fact that we begin walking IN infancy and walk
thousands of miles before We die, we really know
very little about this common form Of locomotion-
Until the advent Of the motion pictures, for ex-
ample. it was generally supposed that man had
only two natural means Of moving himself from
place to pIace-Walking and running. But the
dlms have taught us that in between the two
forms Of locomotion there comes third, which
may be called the heel-and-tOe walk This Re
sembles neither walking nor running, but acts as
q kind of bridge between the two gaits and has
an entirely different effect on the anatomy.
Even in walking proper every one does not walk
In the same way. according to Dr. Felix Reg
nault, a French scientist, who has been tnVesti-
eating the subject the farmer has a very differ
ent walk from the city man. The latter usually
takes short steps, body held upright and the knee
completely Strengthened, while his heel taps or
smartly strikes the pavement before the rest Of
his foot The couDtryman, on the other hand
takes a longer stride. leans forward, keeps the
knee bent and slides rather than strikes his foot
on the ground so that he leans his weight upon
the whole sole Of the foot rather than the
heel only
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
Do We Want to KNOW THE TRUTH?

Presbyterian, the Spirualist Sprituaist the Demo
crat Democrat the Republican Republican the Mon
archist Monarchst; and If humble earnest and sin
seeker after truth should find It in the proposition
that the moon is made Of cheese nothing could
bulge him from that position; for he is nothing
automatic machine, must obey the laws Of his
construction.
And so, having found the truth perceiving that be
yond question has but moving impulse-the
contenting Of his own spirit-and is merely machine
and entitled to personal merit for anything he does
it is not humanity possible for to seek further The
rest Of my days will be spent in patching painting
and purifying and cauking my priceless possession and
looking the other way when imDlOring argument or
damaging fact approaches"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
How LOCUSTS MAKE MUSIC with Their WINGS

Sf1HB chirp Of the grasshopper and the singing Of
the locust have long been the puzzle of entomolo-
gists, for they know that these insects have no
vocal chords with which the singing could be produced
and seemed to be real singing tone At last it has
been ascerned that locuss and grashoppers are able
to emit sounds much like those of the human voice
because their wings constructed like violin and
produce musical notes when is rubbed against the
other.
Here are diagrams of a locust's wings showing the
way he produces his characteristic tones The picture
marked is the right wing, showing the ridge CE)
which is rubbed against the left wing B. with the ser
rated or saw-lke edge (Y). The membrane marked
helps in the making of the sound by serving as sound
ing board so that the raspng Of the edge on the
straight edge Carries"
Copyright 1918. BY Star Company Great Britain Ri
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

called from It's large diameter. The beginning Of
the large intestine is in pouch called the caecum.
At the bottom of the is the little blind tube
we call the vermiform appendix
From the caecum the food must be forced upward
through the ascending about ten inches then
across the width Of the abdomen and then down
again. Fence it is clear that if the intestines are
sluggish there must be great congestion around the
caecun, and appendix.
In animals that entirely or usually on all tours
the food does not have to pass up into an ascend
ing colon, but almost entirely in a lateral direction
Moreover, the great activity Of the animal helps to
empty the intestines.
The French doctors then made fresh series Of ex-
perments to show that the changes in intestinal
tiviy directly due TO the appendix. They. re-
moved the appendix from one Of the healthy monkeys
prepared serum from it and administered this to
of the monkeys without an appendix The admins
tratiOn was followed by an increased activity Of the
ntestines.
A section Of the colon of monkey was removed
and the appendix serum placed in contact with it so
that changes could be watched through a small win
dow. As the liquid touched the surface OF the
fresh colon wall strong contractons of the tissues
could be noted.
In these experiments six Of the monkeys with appen
dces and six Of those without appendices were killed
leaving six with and six without In a period varying
from six weeks to four months three Of the monkeys
without appendices died premature death The
other three were kept alive by appendix serum. This
proof that the premature death Of the three mon
keys was due to the lack of appendix secretion.
The six monkeys that had never been operated on
remained alive, and well at end Of four months
eating their ordinary food.
It thus proved by number Of different expert
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

"Our food passes from the stom-
ach into the small intestine, and
then upward through the ascend
ing colon, which is the beginning
of the large bowel The appendix,
located at the lower end of the CO.
Ion, secretes a fluid which has an
important effect on the necessary
cOntractiIe movements of the in
testines."
against the force Of gravity. A man
Is therefore entirely dependent on
the contractile movements Of the
walls o. his intestines for their
proper action. Gravity Cannot do the
work. This popularity is due to
the upright position man has assum-
ed in the course Of evolution.
The position of the human appendix
may be briefly ext Iained. At the
lower opening o. the stomach the
small intestine, IN which Eucn Of our
dig estioH takes place, negias. This
changes into the large intestine,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

This protection viii be supplied by the lib
eral use Of crude oil burned in huge pans
throughout the threatened section. The ex-
pense, Professor AIcArdle says, Of raising the
temperature in this way sufficiently to check
the rayages of the frost VIII be small com
pared with the value of the crops saved.
Inside Of five years we viii be in a posi-
ton, through service furnished by the Blue
Hill station in Hyde Park Mass, to protect
every crop in New England from the ravages
of frost" says the professor. 1T is my hope
to render practical service to the community
Inside Of twenty years we viii be able to pre-
dict accurately-the coming Of rain"
In anticipation Of severe frOsts mex. year
the cranberry growers of Massachusetts, are
seriously considering the adoption Of the plan
proposed by Professor McArdle, despite the
fact that the service VIII not be in operation
for some time. They have great confidence
in the predictions Of the scientist that soon
no farmer need fear the coming Of frost
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
WIN STRENUOUS LLFE Can't Make Normal Man INSANE

n EOPLB should be discouraged from marrying into
families that have any faint Of insanity seri-
Gus diseases In mating, should watch out
for the mental and moral peculiarites for these
the things most likely to be transmitted. Physical
defects are not important, says DR.. Woods Hutch
insOn, the popular writer and lecturer medical
subjects.
Insanity is now generally believed to be inherited
In small proportion of the cases where the derange
ment is temporary it is due some sudden shock or
injury. In such cases where it is not due to any
inherited peculiaTities it is usually durable.
Oneseventh Of the population used to die from
sumption; now about Onetenth die and more than
threetenths suffer from this disease Not more than
onethrd Of one per cent Of the population is insane
and insanity is not nearly serious problem
tuberculosis.
Among the ancestors Of insane people we find traces
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

Of feebemindedness idiocy inebrIety and religious
mania Unnecessary piety is Of the chief causes
for insanity, and alcohol comes next An habitual
drunkard may not be insane, but his prediction for
alcohol is a sure sign Of defect in his nervous
system which may develop into insanity in his chill
dren or their children
Heredity accounts for about fifty per cent of the
cases Of insanity This is encouraging It shows that
the shocks and conditions Of modern life do not make
people insane; the strenuous life merely brings out
the insanity that is latent in persons result
heredty. A normal person be driven insane
by any of the conditions Of modern life
Ninety-eight per cent Of the community born
under such favorable circumstances that untoward
conditions uGbaance their mental makeup The
other two per cent are individuals who may become
Il conditions uDfavorable but at least two
thirds Of this two cent can be saved by proper
care and protection.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
What the
VERMIFORM
APPENDIX
Was Made For

X TANY people have wondered what the vermifOrm
MI appendix really made for, arguing quite
~" reasonably that such distinct part Of the
human anatomy could not have come into existence
without some important purpose.
The usual Of the surgeons has been that the
only OF the appendix is to give them employment.
It is removed at the slightest sign of trouble and
some people, impressed with the doctors statement
that it is Of use. have had It removed when
there was nothing the matter with them.
Medical science has at last furnished a reasonable
explanation Of the use of the appendix. Dr. Edmond
Perier Of the Paris Academy Of Sciences and several
doctors associated with him. report that the result
Of long series Of experiments they have found that
the purpose Of the appendix is TO regulate and smu-
late the bowels.
The normal human appendix according to these
periments secretes fluid which directly stimulates
the contractile movements Of the walls Of the intes
tines, producing what call movements Of the bowels
The cOntracOns do take place in the absence Of this
fluid from the appendix but the fluid is necessary to
the = lst vigorous and perfect movements.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
Odd New Facts About SLEEP

7HE majority Of mankind sleep lying upon the right
left side of the body and with the knees
- drawn up toward the chin. Certain African
tribes however lie upon the back with the back Of the
neck resting bar Of wood supported on two short
pillars
The elephant apparently invariably, and the horse
commonly, sleep standing This is really astonishing
Apart from the difficulty Of maintaining the
balance Of the body during these long periods of uncon
seriousness, one would have supposed that recumbent
posture IN the case of both these animals mper
alive Cattle and their kin commonly sleep lying down
and during many hours Of the day they lie down. as
when chewing the cud.
More curious STILL bats and other creatures invariably
sleep hanging head downward suspended by their hind
feet The same strange habit is to the little
hanging parrots Of India and the Malayan region In
this they differ from all other BIRDS which invariably
sleep with the head turned taward over the back and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

While getting cinder in your eye may seem
trivial mishap, says the associations bulletin "and
OFTEN IS If it is Immediately removed from the eve vet
1t is often most serious thing and the public at
large little realize that seemingly unimp0rtant acct
dent of this sort may result in serious harm
The membrane covering the eyebau is a very deli
cate structure, and when even tiny soeCk of any
foreign substance lodges there it quickly becomes i'm
Dedded The irritation thus set up causes the person
to wink the eve frequently and each e the lid closes
rubbing against the particle it tends imbed it SIN
Iurtner into the membrane The efforts of sympathzng
friends to remove the offending speck with handker-
SnleI or wooden tOOthpick instead If helping the
situation, usually results in making bad matter worse
from the damake thus done tie tissues Infection is
Lhen carried into the tissue, and ulcer results.
If the process reaches this stage even If the cause
should be completely removed It would be late to
prevent scar after the ulcer heals 1t might be so
Iant as to be hardly dstinguishable vet if it situated
just IL 'front.' OF the pupil very frequently happens
the vision of that eye would be seriously impaired
Having the streets washed every night insteau of
swept during the day and prohibiting the use of soft
coal would 90 long way toward remedying this evil
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

EntomolOgists have raised the question: Why does
the grasshopper chrp the locust sing? The answer
Is very simple. The singing apparatus appears only on
the males and there good reason believe that the
chirptng and singing for the sole purpose of at
tracing charming the females This singing is
to these insects what the gay plumage Of the male
pheasant or bird of paradise is to those species a
means of attracting the other and winning
favor.
Another interesting theory to the boring beetle
sets aside the we[cherished and ancient superstition
that the noise this beetle makes called the death
beat presages misfortune The scientists say that it
is only the method adopted by the male beetle to notify
the female buried in the wood that he is boring his
way in. He IS knocking person would at a door
and boring in at the same time,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27

Many people born with tendency to insanity 90
through life without exhibiting any traces Of mental
weakness, because they never experience any shock
nervous disturbance sufficient to bring 1t out.
Insanity ought to be good ground for divorce yet
in some OF States and in England, divorces are
not allowed for this cause. The reason for this is
good example Of the absurdity of much socaed legal
logic According to the law, insane person is ire
sponsible and cannot undertake his defense in
suit therefore the court that the insane per
is nonexsent and refuses entertain the propo
sitiOn Of divorce from him her.