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In September he again stung-this time only
once and on the rim Of his right at once de-
veoped the symptoms before only with greater
violence Although he received prompt medical atten-
ton and the sting extracted he rapidly worse
and for several days confined critical
condition.
Physicians do not believe that these serious effects
could have been produced by the small poison
which would be introduced into the system by the
stings Of several bees. The suddenness with which
persisted both evidences that this not the case
they came on and the stubbornness with which they
What is more likely is that the previous stings while
apparently harmless had in reality produced condition
which made the subject extremely sensitive to
subsequent stings AS the poison of a bees
sting enters your flesh your body mobilizes
little army Of anttbodies to resist the invasion. The
anttbodies may succeed in doing this but If within
short time the same poison again enters the system
what remains OF the original ant-bodies will often
unite with 1t and cause ntoXcaton which ends in
serious illness death.
This phenomenon is what science knows as ana.
pnylaXis 1t is the way many diseases originate Such
condition arises when the body's defenders become
weared or resisting the too frequent some
enemy, and instead of continuing their warfare join
hands with the invader
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various parts of the coast Of Alaska, but for
several years past the crop has been practically
destroyed by volcanic eruptons which have oc-
Cured in that vicinity.
Ihis has been source Of great IossSto the
natives OF Alaska. who have made use of kelp in
variety OF ways. AS it grows only in shallow
water, 1t has proved valuable aid to navigation
IN waters where there are practically no aids
except such as nature has provided Then, too,
the natives used 1t to fertize their gardens
There are various theories as to just how the
actlon Oh volcanoes interrupts or entirely stops
the growth Of kelp. One is that the hot blasts
and poisonous gases which pour out of the
craters during eruptions are fatal to plant life.
another more probable explanation of THE
damage done to kelp is that it is due to- tho
enormous masses of pumice from the volcanoes .
This pumice, it is thought, covers the rocks
SO that the kelp and other marine plants find it
impossible to cling to them; or 1t may be that II
Is the grinding effect produced on this great mass
OF rough stone by the constant movement of the
tides and waves which brushes out the waters
vegetable life.
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This condition, as DR.. Nannin has found
IS due to the sciatic nerve being forced out
of its normal position. The surrounding It's
sues become adhered to it and keep 1t in a
course very different from what nature in
tended it to take
TO relieve this condition Dr. Nannini cuts an
opening in the thigh and pushes the muscles
out of the way until he reaches the sciatic
nerve. He then removes the adhering It's
sues and gently pulls and stretches the nerve
until at last it is back in its normal position.
1t is, OF course necessary to put the patient
under the influence Of an anaesthetic, and
great care has to be used by the surgeon not
to njure the nerve by, any sudden jerks
Prompter results are secured by having an
assistant alternately bend and stretch the
limb to it's utmost while the nerve is being
manipulated.
Following the operation the patient feels
vague pains for a few days and possibly q
good deal of numbness All these symptoms,
however. soon fade away
Within ten or twelve days the patient can
get up and begin to use his leg again, and in
all the cases treated thus far there has been
no return Of the sciatica.
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RGE MEN Often Have Very POOR BRAINS

T7HERE has long been popular
impression that big men are
a not as brainy rs men of
moderate size. 1t is we'll known
that giants and exceptionally tall
men often have weaker minds than
those of normal stature, and now
science gives what appears to be a
plausible explanation of this fact.
According to DIR. Charles Mercier,
the distinguished English physician,
deficiency Of mind always arises
from premature cessation Of the de-
velopment Of the brain. This may be
due to the natural tendency for
growth being weak or to some en-
ternal agent, such as n violent blow
on the head the Inflammation OF the
membranes or the poison OF some
specific fever. ~
The brain must have an adequate
supply of the proper nourishment in.
order to grow as 1t should, and it is
probable that good many persons
are mentally defective because they
were poorly nourished Mt the time
their brains should have been de-
veloping.
Although the brain has strong in
herent powers which keep It growing
I in some respects until it begins to
deteriorate, it's development does not
proceed continuously, but goes by fits
and starts. After certain primitive
stage Of development is reached it
proceeds in two paths. One of these
paths leads TO growth in bulk, the
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soldiers to endure patiently fine H.. j.
ships of exposure. hunger and disease
and to be brave In the face OF death.
Give me smoke Is the first re-
quest of many of the wounded when
rcscuing parties reach them. And
surgeons agree that q few whiffs from
cigar, pipe or cigarette will often
accomplish more than drugs H. nerv-
ing Il soldier tC undergo the intensely
painful probing for bullet or the
amputation.
All that has been said of the i'm
portance OF tobac % in war holds true
In lesser degree Of gum. Chewing
gum not only allays nervousness, but
by provoking flow Of saliva it keeps
the throat moist in the absence of
water. Hundreds OF years ago the
Indians used the gum Of the sapodillo
to relieve exhaustion and Quench
thirst, and 1t Is for similar reasons
nowadays tha' bicycle riders, base
bail players and soldiers on tho
march chew gum.
Greeks who returned from America
to fight for tLeir nativ. land in the
recent war with Turkey brought with
them the American habit of chewing
gum. and found IL so comforting that
all the other soldiers demanded gum
As no chewing gum WAS to be had in
Greece the Queen cablcd to New York
for large shipment. Since then
the Greek army has never been with
out chewing gum
The Indian troops now fighting for
England have not yet learned to use
our forms Of gum, but chew betel
nuts and other substances which
answer the same purpose. They are
so addicted to the habit, and 1t has
such an important effect on their
health and spirits, that the British
public is being urged to supply the
things necessary to keep their Jaws
moving.
Gum chewing is also recommended
as an effective means of lessenlng
the bad effects produced by the noise
of big guns on the ears. For this
reason the English, German and other
aavies always keep their ships we'll
supplied with gum.
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AK ENGLISH IL You Want to SAVE WORDS

~ NE OF the results Of the war in Europe
Y NAV be to set the language of the ma.
ton whose triumph is most complete a
long way forward the road to becoming
universal world language. With this POSSIBLE.
ity in view 1T is interesting to compare the diff.
1erent tongues and see which of them is the
pest both n7brevity and in all-around efficiency
IN the expression OF spoken or written thoughts
The reports Of the last international Road
congress furnish an excellent opportunity for
comparing the relative merits OF French, Ger
man and English They are printed in parallel
columns In the three languages and the yer
sions are exact translations Of one another
Ihe English report invariably finishes first
and sometimes it wins by a whole page AS
RUE, the French report is the most dffuse.
rms brevity OF English is partly explained
by the fact that English is made up to an OK.
traordinary extent OF words of one syllable.
It's nouns, having unlike the Germany lost all
their infections except the possessive IS" have
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solGierS consume u tremendous
amount of tobacco
1t was during the Franco-Prussian
war of 1870 that military leaders
first began to appreciate the solacins
and inspiring qualities of tobacco as
an aid to winning battles. Indeed
many authorities believe that the
crushing defeat inflicted on the
French was due largely to the SOL
diers' lack OF tobacco, added, as It
was, to the breakdown Of the com.
missariat. There was no such lack
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A FOREST
for EVERY CITY
TO Make Our
TAXES LOWER

TT is being urged that every city and town in the
1 United States, whether large SMALL should have
- forest, just every we'll managed farm has
wood lot and for the same reason-to money.
The farmer who has wood lot does not have to de-
pend his neghbors for frewood or lumber He pro-
duces all the timber he needs for his use, and
often has surplus which he sell at profit The
town city which becomes the OF forest can
accomplish the things larger more profit
eble scale Besides supplying It's inhabitants with
wood and lumber at less than they would otherwise
have to it reap handsome profit from the sale
OF the surplus products of it's forest outsiders
Municipal forests recommended as the best
means of nsurng better schools streets, sewers lights
ana water systems and at the time making taxes
lower. The profits they be made to would go
a long way toward making sinking funds unnecessary
and enabling ctg3o make needed improvements with
out burdening itself for many generations with bond
issues.
Town forests although to the United States,
nave long been established institutions in Euro
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beginning OF hostilities particular
pains were taken to keep every soldier
who wanted tobacco supplied
In every war since the Franco
Prussian military lenders have shown
an increasing readiness to recogniz,
the wisdom of supplying their me1
with tobacco ms regularly as with am
munition and food. Even those who
oppose smoking rs an unhealthful
habit have to admit that there seemr
to be nothing better for helpin,
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BEWARE OF BEES if STTNG OFTEN

XIX FEVER mind-its only sng"-is poor advice
So NJ according to the latest scientific discoveries
;sS Not only may the sting of wasp or bee make
you seriously ILL., but there is believe
Sess you receive careful medical attention it Is often
Y LIABLE to prove fatal And, curously enough the
frequently stung the danger there is that
4 9; sting will have serious consequences.
sF:FOne of the most remarkable instances of iness
= caused by bee stngs is reported by Dr. A r Water
house an English physician His patient was healthy
man who had kept bees for without apparently
anything beyond local Inflammation from their
. stlngs Only last June while taking swarm he was
by five or six bees without being any the
worse for the experience
9A month later however he stung on the hand bv
Two bees and as result dangerously Ill for twelve
hours. Almost Immediately after being stung he began
to feel choking sensation the glands throat
were enlargng and an intense throbbng i'll his temples
He had great difficulty in breathing both his hands
grew numb and tipgling
Friends who responded to his frightened calls for
help noticed that his face highly flushed his eyes
bloodshot and his lip swollen to twice its
size Within half hour he lost consciousness and
was only after the greatest difficulty that he was
brought back consciousness.
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pean countries. The city Of Zurich
in Switzerland has owned forest
since two hundred years before
Columbus discovered America. It
is called the Sihlwald, and at pres
ent Is yielding an annual net profit
Of So per acre.
There are many such forests in
France, but it is in Germany that
they have reached the highest stage
Of development and show the great.
est profit. The city of Baden
Baden ~. forest of 12,849
acres, which last year showed a
net profit Of $5.25 per acre, or more
than $4,000 In Heidelberg, Frank
fort, Pforzheim and Forbach the
town forests shor- an annual net
profit ranging from $40 to $12.14
per acre.
The Forbach forest is one OF the
most successful in Germany For
bach is a town of 1000 people, Stu
ated in the Black Forest region. It's
forest numbers dS2 acres or ahout
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four-ffths OF for every hhabitant.
A large percentage of the population work in the
forest all the farm their little patches in the
Summer and work in the forest in the Winter Most OF
the others employed in. woodworking industries
which obtain their raw material from the forest.
The annual net profits from Forbachs forest average
S1214 per acre. The revenue from the forest is more
than sufficient to all the towns running expenses,
and 1t is steadily increasing One section of the forest
is set aside as which is used to extraor
binary expenditures. When-a school house or a
town hall has to be built street paved the Govern
ment OF Forbach simply cuts enough timber from this
reserve section to pay the bills This forest
takes the place of the sinking funds issues and
higher taxes employed by American municipalities to
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A NIGHTSHIRT for the HELPLESS

English has devised
~ physicians recommend convenient one known
- - for helpless sick wounded person to wear.
IL is very easily all piece circular
mole LOT the mead The front and the back divided
soe' tne si running under the arnpt
each sleeve Tapes affixed edges the Sits and
"nen nese are tied together the garment
II Is not desirable
or the back the back
or II desired the extreme end be a
The garment reversible roomy enough so that
necessary cradle he placed
on and taken off without moving the patient
by the Star Company. Britain Rights Reserved
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example of the former kind Of brevity is a word
like earthquake" two syllabes, compared with
the German ''erdbeben," three syllables, and the
french trembement de terre," five syllabies
An example OF the terseness of English would
be phrase like 81 have been to the house and
nave now come back every word single
syllable. In telegram this would be just as
ineligible In the form, Been house. now back
You cannot carry that sort of thing far in
French, German or any other European Ian.
guage.
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become mere roots. very large proportion of
them monosyllabic. In Germany a ronosylabic
root practically always gets an extra syllable
tackled on by way OF descending. +.
In the second place, English has little OF the
elaborate and explicit machinery of structure
that French has, SO 1t saves space in PROPOSE
tons and such paraphernalia.
Instead English has what the grammarians
call incipient agglutnatlon that is, sticking
words together in groups without either prepo.
sitions caseendings to connect them An
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The Lower Diagram Shows tho
Rapidly with Which an Acre of
White Pine increases In Value.
Above, a Branch of Three-Year
Old Tree with Crosse Sections
Showing How It Grows by Adding
Ring Each Year.
care for few years.. A single
white pine, cut down by. Govern
ment foresters in the State OF Wash
ington the other day, was worth
$135 just as it stood in it's native
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WHAT TUBERCULOSIS COSTS US.

has been estimated that deaths
things workers would produce they
expended That the
2454 to O population.
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them like that Of Boston, maintained only as pro-
lection to water supplies and not sources of
revenue.
Town forests in America would do than benefit
the municipalities owning them. They would be of in.
estimable value to the whole nation by helping
serve the rapidly lessenins areas of timber lands.
Our forests at present number 550000 900 acres BY
the time the nations population reaches 100000 600 it
Is estimated that the forests will have shrunk 49,
100000 acres This would be 300 for every 100
inhabitants but to maintain present per capita
sumption of wood and lumber should require
than seven times as many acres Of forests
This growing scarcity Of timber makes forest one
of the safest and best investments city could
make Nothing is more certain of increasing steadily
in value and finding ready market at any time when
it has to be converted into cash.
Even small tract of woodland may prove veritable
gold mine to the municipality which gives 1t proper
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other to growth in complexity,. or, to
put 1t palmer, to growth of mental
qualities.
However grent the power Of the
brain Its development is limited in
amount. If 1T is directed into two
channels, then the more that flows
into one channel the less there is at
the service Of the other. The intri-
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VOLCANOES Destroy SEANEED

rV HE damage done to seaweed and other
forms of marine vegetation is about the
last thing that would occur to anybody
who had not made study of the subject as a
possible result OF volcanic eruption.
kelp Is one OF the most useful forms OF sea-
weed 1t used to be found in abundance of
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growing recognition or the
important part Which both tobacco
and chewing gum can play in keeping
soldiers in good physical and mental
condition.
One hundred years ago the Duke
of Wellington condemned the use of
tobacco by his soldiers on the ground
that its fumes produced species of
'ntoxication." To-day the British
Government is supplying free tobacco
10 all its troops, while the French
are running their factories overtime
to Keep their soldiers pipes and
cigarette papers filed with the
fragrant weed.
You will notice, too, that cigars are
among the first things to be requisi-
toned by the German army from Il
captured city, and the war CORE
spondents report that on the march
and mt other times the Naiser's
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HOW INSECTS BREATHE.

MAYHEM in
w air. and it is afterward
strength
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cate structure Of the brain is only
poorly developed at birth. The other
organs are then almost complete, and
thereafter grow in bulk alone; they
do not require further refinements Of
structure.
Soon after birth, then, the tvs
great competitors for the single sun
ply of developmental nourishment
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SCIENCE NOW KNOWS
WHEN 1T is DARKEST.

~ the
English scientist
when that it is always
mantle upon the immediate surroundings Objects which
ana nervous feeling sometimes induced by
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A NOVEL HEATING SYSTEM.

NEW much
IA in Sweden
tank the
throuah the O -
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to meet similar emergencies.
The town forests in Germany
cover land which would otherwise
be lying waste. Besides the saving
they make in taxes, benefit
the people by improving living con-
ditioas in the towns. They pro-
tect the water supplies, cool the
atmosphere near them and help
break the force of the wind.
The air from a forest is pure,
because the trees live by taking up
the carbon dioXide from the air and
in turn giving off oxygen. The lat
ter is q food for man, the former
poison. For this reason o forest
near IL town Is u great aid to health
and is without a peer as a place
for recreation.
Although the United States and
many State governments have set
aside large tracts Of forest, few
towns or cities have as yet done
So. In Massachusetts there are
-ftv-ciY tnu-n fnrootc h,tf -
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TOBACCO and GUM Help Soldiers to- WIN BATTLES

~ NE Of the oldest results of tho
Z present European war is the
growing recognition Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-05
BANKERS SYNDICATE PLANNED
TO RAISE $l5O,OOO,OOO IN GOLD

a plan for the relief OF the present condi-
tlon In the security markets and for the
taking care OF future European liquida-
ton when the exchanges OF tho country
reopen. Mr.. de Aguero's plan provides
for an issue OF Treasury notes not to
exceed $4,000. 100000 for the purchase
OF American securities held by Europeans
who desire TO dispose Of their holdings
He has addressed letter to President
Wilson outlining his plan.
Mr.. de Aguero offers tho plan as an
Individual and not as an official OF the
Consolidated Exchange. He points out
that IL was the fear OF continued liquida-
ton OF American securities held by Euro
peans that resulted In the closing OF the
Stock Exchange. He thinks that the
buying OF stocks with Treasury notes
would end the fear OF Generalization
here. He advocates the establishment OF
sinking fund with the proceeds OF the
Interest and dividends received from the
securities purchased for the retirement
OF the Treasury notes. He estimates that
on basis OF 8 per cent. income IN twenty
years the whole of the issue OF Treasury
notes would be retired After that. he
says. an income OF approximately $780,
900, 900 annually could be applied to
the general use OF the Government
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ENGLAND DETERMINED
TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH
Crushing of German Military
Despotism the Object by
Whatever Means.

The determination Of England TO hoht
letter from prominent En0isshmnn.
tohose name Is tCtthheld, TO an Amercd~
loho has Just arrived here from Europe.
The iettcr, rhich u dated August "a,
says
1T was a great relief TO see the safe
arrival OF your ship announced. l cannot
tell you what IL comfort it is to snow that
we have the sympathy Of the srcat Eng
lish speaking nation OF the west in our
present trials.
1T has beer sao indeed TO see the poor
Belgians who have been guilty OF no
other crime but that of seeking to main
tain their own neutrality. treated with
such barbarity and ruthlessness and to be
powerless to help them. And now | am
afraid We are to have greater trials for II
looks as II the Germans were in such
enormous strength In the west that II
may be impossible for France. even with
such help as we can give them on land to
hold them back. There is no doubt that
the Germans have been deliberately pre-
pairing for this for the last thirty years
and have left undone nothing which may
secure efficiency OF their soldiers ard Of
every conceivable engine of destruction.
But so long as we can keep the COM
mand OF the sea-wlth Gods help-we
shall never give in and II will not be 20
very long before Russia will be knocking
at the very gates of Berlin. She Is not,
perhaps, the instrument one would choose
for such a purpose, but the present bust
ness of every nation In Europe who is in
teres;ed in the maintenance OF free insti-
tutions is 10 see the military despotism OF
Germany crushed and we cannot be par
ticular as TO the means.
Poor France-she too may have a
terrible time in front of her. though II
she cum only keep the German army back
| for another month all may yet he well.
NO one any longer undertakes the ter
! rible nature of the time Immediately
ahead of us all. But we believe we shall
win through IN the end but II not then
Gods will he done---we all 20 down to-
gether and We go down in "A righteous and
just cause. and IT will then be for you and
you alone to carry on the glorious heri-
tage OF free institutions. But I hope that
America will in that case take warning
from our fate. not trusting fair words or
promises of peaceful intentions, but will
keep herself strong enough to resist all
! attacks"