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When the SAY RAINS BLOOD INK MILK FROGS and WORMS

A NEWS cabegram the other day told
~ OF a heavy fall OF black snow on the
@ 'A' mountains OF Switzerland. The snow
looked as II It were covered with SCOT. An
Investigation. however. disclosed the fact that
the supposed SCOT" was composed OF multi.
tudes OF microscopic insects.
In former times such occurrences were re.
garded as portents. No phenomena OF nature,
indeed, have caused more widespread con.
sternaton than Showers" of unusual things
particularly so-called showers Of blood, which
have been recorded In many instances since
early historic times
For example. IN the afternoon of March Il.
1873 the people of Gerace. in Calabria. saw
terrific cloud advancing from the sea. It
gradually changed IN color from gray to fiery
red, and large drops OF what appeared to be
blood began TO fall, the landscape meanwhile
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Why GOOD TOBACCO SMELIS WORST

4 LMOST every one has noticed
~ that the smell Of tobacco
smoke at the time the tobacco
ls being consumed is very different
from the odor the room where the
smoking is done has a couple Of hours
later. A smoking car on q railroad
does not smell of tobacco at all, but
OF stale tobacco smoke. Many q con-
firmed smoker, who enjoys his pipe
or his cigar. finds himself offended.
II not actually nauseated. by the
odor OF the smoking car.
Quite frequently the blame is laid
on the character of the tobacco
smoked by fellow passengers, and the
man who Is smoking a "fifteen-cent-
straight" relieves his feelings by
semi-audible remarks about the two.
for-fiYe" of some fellow commuter Il
seat or two ahead.
AS matter Of fact, the smoker OF
the good tobacco is entirely In the
wrong, for 1t IS a Characteristic Of
tobacco smoke that the permanence
OF the stale odor Is far greater from
good tobacco than from poor
weed" The reason for this Is that
the cheaper article possesses less OF
the true incombustible particles, and
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u.nei' ana now they be substituted when diseased
hhe mas Deen successful too, the transpanting OF
aiious organs from animals to human beings, but he
considers the finding OF the rubber substitute for nat
ural tissue his greatest triumph.
Much has been written about the paraffin for
tissue but 1t has not proved really practical especially
"here there was any activity. in the or ar
eres The objections TO parafin do not hold against
THIS specially prepared rubber becomes an integral
part of the system and takes almost cellular for
nation.
In fact, Professor Fieschi calls this rubber New
FLESH. and Utilities 1t freely with opera.
lions, where large OF tissue has had to no
cut away. 1t is being successfully used in cases If
tuberculosis of muscles joints the tissue has
become so diseased that # must be removed
That the new flesh" really takes" and holds 10
best proved by the actual which has been made
Oh IT, Here is picture Of this rubber tissue all mxed
up with the tissue Of dogs muscles. showing how
perfectly takes its place with the rest of the tissue
after being In place six months.
Here. too. is Photograph OF a rubber.graf in an
artery OF Of the joints showing how the r1,bber
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oeng developed in almost total darkness
everybody thought the end OF the world had
arrived. and the population focked to the
churches to pray.
The clouds dispersed few hours later. tho
terror passed away, and an analysis of the
strange fluid which had fallen from the sEv
showed that It's cooring matter was nothing
D D nght Dust with 81 marked earthly taste
presumably II had been elected by a volcano
some~here-fall!ng with the rain.
IN october OF the following year a strange
reodlsn powder resembling brick dust fell to
osptn OF several inches in valley OF Pied
mont. Next day there was some rain. and az
a result the powder accumulated in the hol.
lows OF leaves. producing the startling an
atsn OF blood spots. There was great
alarm among the peasantry. But again IN this
case the origin OF the dust was attributed bv
scientists to far-distant volcano
In November, 1919, the city of Montreal was
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AT recent meeting of the
Psychiatrlc Society Of Vienna Pro.
fessor Won Frank Hoshwarth re-
ported n series of experiments on tho
effect Of both fresh and stale tobacco
smoke of various kinds. The stale
smoke of the Turkish cigarette was
found 10 be far the worst in increas-
Ing mental and physical depression
and producing peculiar altera ton
OF the sense of taste. Blood pressure
and the pulse rate were affected in
90 per cent of the persons In q room
hlled with stale tobacco smoke, as
compared with IS per cent In q room
filled with fresh smoke.
1t was shown that tobacco can ba
treated by certain processes which
will eliminate the unstable products
that produce the unpleasant stale
odor without materially affecting the
flavor of the tobacco. Some one has
suggested that laws should be passed
compelling men who smoke in smok-
Ing ears and other public places to
use this specially treated tobacco.
Many women would be glad to see
such a regulation extended to the
household. The elimination of the
evil odor of tobacco smoke would be
a boon to many thousands OF smokers
as well as to millions Of non-smokers.
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enveloped in sudden darkness, and showers
fell OF what looked like ink Some OF the
link" was analysed and was found TO be
mixture OF rainwater and soot-the latter at
tributed 10 great forest fires south OF the
Ohio River. Strong winds had brought the
sooty particles northward TO Lningle with rain
ii fell.
One morning in 1870 the citizens of the
Hague got up to find blood" IN the streets
The coloring matter was found to be due to
swarms OF minute red crustaceans. Neverthe-
less, the good burghers were convinced that
the phenomenon was a dismal portent. and
afterward they pointed 20 II as having been
Intended evidently for warning OF the desc.
iation destined to be brought 10 the country
by the armies OF Louis XIV
In 1908. at AK, IN France there was a
shower OF blood" which owed its remark.
able color to the droppings OF swarms OF the
great turtle" butterfly. Showers OF milk"
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At the present time among large number of other
wise healthy and children the usual
and hitherto unaccountable crop OF Spring ooiIs
Although it has long been known that bols are caused
by little microbes called "staphylococci and "strcpo.
cocc which resemble punches gra pcs and strings Of
beads 1T has until been really certain that
Dolls are contagious The observation OF an Aus
tran army surgeon who traced epidemic Of bois dl
recty to one man whose collars had inocated him with
ooils seems to prove that this is the case
The boils which began his neck infected the shirt
bands and collars which he wore When these were
thrown into the wash with the linen other men
per cent of the men in that particular command fell III
with boils " "
some had Dolls on their gums, had on their
ears some on their backs their legs GONE on
their arms. in short. these bos became epidemic and
spread TO scores OF men True enough most of the mon
only had one boil But this al the more to prove
the contention OF the surgeon that single boil NAV often
serve az a vaccine which prevents others forming
"hen frayed Cuff or bit OF lace or high collar or
anything which has come from laundry where some
one has sent wash which has IN contact with toiI
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have been shown to be due to white dust
picked up from deserts by revolving storms
In other instances there have been showers OF
sulphur" which, on being examined, proved
to be nothing but the yellow pollen OF cone
bearing trees.
On April r. 1895, during heavy storm
earth-worms fell In such numbers at Alliance
Ohio, that pedestrians could hardly walk on
the pavements OF the town. Where they came
from is hard to imagine. but il seems at least
possible that they may have emerged from
the ground instead of falling from the sky, as
many believed.
Unquestionebly the Cyclone twisters"
which we call tornadoes. do pick up fishes,
frogs and other living animals from water on
occasions, and after carrying them long dis
tances drop them. A tornado Is body OF air
revolving at rate OF something like 900
miles an hour. Inside OF 1t IS vacuum, and
house to the contents of pond.
TO such n cause are attributed various
queer Kinds OF rains that occur now and then
In Louisville few years ago the streets were
Hooded during violent storm, and afterward
great numbers Of little sunfshes were found
swimming in the cutters.
On Lord Eastnors estate Tytenhaneer
Park, In Kent, there was shower OF crabs
mere nave been recorded number OF show
ers Oh herrings, and while ago, in small
Town IN Scotland, there was a rain of salt
water ehrimps
The village OF Kennaway, in Fifeshire, wit
messed shower OF small frogs which fell in
such numbers that, hopping into houses, they
mad 10 be swept out in heaps. And there have
even Deen showers of seaweeds-in one in.
stance the bare tree limbs OF town in Eng.
land being draped in Winter with these
marine plants swinging weirdly in the breeze
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With sugar the problem is in most respects
the same. Big Jumped sugar will not dissolve
readily. especially in any cold beverage The
finer the sugar, therefore, the less the quantity
necessary to sweeten. Salt, OF course, acts In
the same way.
To enable one to the increase in area as
the number Of particles is increased very sim.
pie calculation may be given Take the font
cube as before and brealo it into two equal
parts. Now We have two parts each of which
has two whole square foot surfaces and four
half square foot surfaces, making four SQUARE
feet for each part This gives total OF eight
square feet for both parts-whereas before the
division we had only six. AS the number of
parts is increased the greater the area becomes
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will Huge FLYWHEELS Replace CANNON BALLS?

A BIG fywheel spinning rapidly involves
N much greater danger than that of
merely exploding. The explosion Of
fywheel Is due to centrifugal force and
causes pieces OF the wheel to fly off at a
tangent In the plane OF the wheel, but In
practically every direction In this plane. But
consider for n moment what would happen
II a hywheel were to become loose from its
bearings and stay whole.
The great velocity Of rotation would be
changed to velocity Of translation, and the
wheel would travel with lightning swiftness
along the floor in the direction OF rotation.
1t would act like Il locomotive wheel going at
tremendous speed. or course, If 1t were to
drop in puddle of oil 1t would not go far.
but simply slip like an engine wheel on an
oiled track. But with no oil to check It's
course, the results would be awful to con.
template.
Suppose that the wheel was forty feet in
circumference and Was rotating at 1900 rev.
olutions a minute. A point the wheel
would then be travelling 10000 feet minute,
or about 500 miles an hour. This Is as fast
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OBJECT and pulverize ii and the enormous area OF
ABOUT 10000 square feet Is the result II it be
only graduated instead total area of only
ABOUT 10000 square feet Is the result
80 II is seen that II the strength OF the result.
Ing solution depends on area a teaspoonful
OIL me puiverized will go far as three of the
granulated The proportion is not exactly az
the area, for the essence is obtained not alone
from the surface but from certain depth that
the water soaks in. II is. however great enough
u. 10 MAKE puverized coffee much more economical
than granulated.
ne only trouble with the pulverized Is that
grounds are less easily shut out. This difficulty
cially constructed pots or percnlators
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T HE difference between graduated coffee
and pulverized coffee is simply differ
in the size Of the grains. 1t costs
no more to have It pulverized. and, as can easily
be shown, that IS by far the most economical
way 10 buy II.
The extract from coffee as 1t dissolves in boil
ing water Is taken by the water from the eur
face Of the grain, consequently the larger the
surface the more is obtained for
pound OF coffee To see how true this Is con.
slider a cube measuring one foot in height one
foot in breadth and one foot in thickness II
thus has elk sides OF one square foot each and
a total area OF only elk square feet. Take this
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Smoke Clouds to Prevent Frost

b-f7 HE first thought would be, when men,
ton Is made of making artificial
"a. clouds, that the purpose for such
things would be to secure shade, but that Is
not the idea at all-artilcial clouds are made
as a preventive against frost.
This idea has really been taken up and
successful experiments made in the cold
mountainous regions Of Europe where PEG.
pie depend entirely upon certain crops and
where sudden frosts are very likely to occur
The clouos are not made Of vaporized
water, of course, but Of smoke. However, It
Is such dense smoke and hangs SO thickly
over the territory where 1t Is produced that
1t has every appearance OF clouds,
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would not. however. keep it from going up or
down a hill, but would prevent It from de-
waiting from its path otherwise.
Defense against such proiectile would be
hard to get. 1t might be thought that a big
puddle OF oil would be the thing but 1t would
not stop the projectile at ali; for when the
wheel reached the oil 1t would already have
its momentum. which would make It slide
through the oil at about the same rate that it
was rolling along the ground and keep spin
ming at the same time. Probably the only
thing that would stop the wheel would be q
vertical breastworks The wheel could not
climb that, but it would wear away the bot
tom and cut narrow passageway into 1t.
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The smoke clouds are produced by tar,
resin or petroleum, according to the album.
dance Of the particular product in the local.
ity where it happens to be needed:
The success of the system is said to de
pend entirely on the promptitude of it's an
2lication, in which case results are immedi
ate Watts OF tar, whatever the substance
to be used may be, mist be at hand at the
various points necessary, and immediatel,
upon significant fall in temperature the
laborers must be instructed to produce the
cloud by the application OF slowly kindllng
fire to the substance at hand.
system has been perfected for use over
large areas by which one man can fire line
of watts. The explosion is produced by means
Of wire.
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TTH AT rubber
may be suOsl-
A tuted for flesh
In the human sys-
TEN IS the start
ling discovery just
made by Professor
David Fieschi, of
the City Hospital
OF Bergamo, Italy.
He has proved af-
ter careful expert
ment that India
rubber may be use
cessfully introduced
into the system and
perform the func-
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We Can CatCh Bois Even from Freshly Laundered Line
| Linen, but Their Microbes Can BE Made
Harmless by an Injection OF Dead Ones

A young man had a sly ON his eye.
A sty Is one type Of boil, in which
internal troubles do play a part. He
had rubbed the sly with his finger.
He then shook hands with a girl.
The next day between the ring and
middle finger Of the girls right hand
a little boil appeared. She soon had
two Of these 'vaccinated" boils. They
spread from her like wildfre through
her family and among the neighbors.
Her brother had Ave large and pain
full ones before he was we'll.
1t is true that some diseases Of the
Kidneys, stomach and other organs
are apt to make the tissues liable to
bo!ls.
But even so, boils could not manifest
themselves II these skin germs were
-Al, -
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cal thinker has the infectious nature Of boils into
the epigram mo bacteria. bols"
This IS true beyond dispute. However weak and
scky anybody may be lie Will suffer with boils
even II he has diabetes. which predsposes bols pro-
Vided there no bacli about.
No one who has to mngle with his fellow men can
escape the danger of bols Wherever you go you
encounter their contagious microbes When you do be-
come Infected don't buy barrel of Spring tonic" or
blood purifier. Instead physician and take the
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lion or flesh or other tissue. He uses an especially
prepared aseptc rubber of course The marvel is that
after 1t has been associated the tissue for some
ume 1t seems to lose its character Of foreign body
ana behaves almost IL 1t had born in the body
DR.. Fleschi is we'll known for his work upon the
arteries and veins. and during the past ten years he
LAS demonstrated how one may take the place Of the
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supply this crying need. ~ "Die 10
with not real tissue in the that it is supplied
win oood-vessels and nerves, but can he tii,zsd
ior patching veins and and for filling ont sna
IN m the body from which the flesh has been rannres
either by disease or operations ' O''' ieNAo's so
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has adhered and
filled out the miss
Ing tissue of the
artery, destroyed
by disease. This
is after eight
m o n t h 8 Of use,
proving that there
IS no Inflammation,
as a foreign body
would be expected
to create, but a.
real assimilation by
the tissues.
There can be no
doubt that this die.
co very will be-
widely utilized by
surgeons, for the
need oP .pou, gt.,
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Testing Baby's Bath.

W preparing the babys BATH
- - - 90 As''''0Ao
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A FEW OF THE WAYS WE catch" Bons

FRO" Lett
in Shops Fnend Handhake Hdn.De
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For Oily Hair.

you nar very OILY try dipping passing 10
through hair
" ~ ~ wa p'e' SUPPL
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YOU MIGHT TRY ---

wv WAlVTAlE 4 IL \ aam
For Oily Hair
IF you hair oily
through hair
- ~ ~ s'~S NNpel-
Good Lotion.
MUTTON and lamb
out they make hrstclass lotion
TO Make Fowl Tender.
WHEN preparing chicken
W with piece lemon
Keeping Ice In the Sick oonl
SIMPLE method keeping
- bowl other securely Place the ice
on top OF this and with and
even freeze to the flannel TO
pinths teasly. " = -
When Sheets Wear Out
that are wearing should TO-
geth
o DAAS'
Cheap Cleansing Powder
IF short Of cleansing
This will be
from "
Testing Babys Bath.
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A Good Lotion.

lION and lamb fats too tallowy hard to be U.s.
put they make rstcass lotion for chapped hands crac
ofDo
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A Cheap Cleansing Powder,

If short Of cleansing dipped
This will
from
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To Make a Fowl Tender.

WHEN preparing chicken turkey roasting try ru
with piece Of lemon It will whiten the flesh and max
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Keeping Ice In the Sick r DOM.
When Sheets Wear Out.

tna are wearing out should
geth then have the new
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-21

18th will be allowed to exhibit free.
All others will be charged an en-
trance fee of 10 cents on single birds
and 25 cents on trios.
Exhibitors must furnish their own
coops. Said coops to be as near two
foot high, two foot wide and twenty
inches deep as possible. With wire
or slat front. Doors to be in front
or rear. No coops allowed where the
door is in the top or ends. Model GOODS
may be seen in Chamber Of Commerce
rooms.
Coops could not be stacked closely
IL doors were allowed in ends or tope.
All birds entered in the first thir-
teen classes CA. to NJ inclusive} will
be eligible to compete for sweepstakes
and specials.
Floor Managers-E. 8. Provost, Jas.
l.. Farmer and r. e. Campbell.
ALFRED r. CAMPBELL,
Chairman Premium Com.
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Spartsnburg. with Mrs. McCeily.
Mrs. r. e. Hughes. .Laurens. with
Mrs. Whaley. Ia
RI. Rev. W. A. Guerry, d. d., bish-
op OF South Carolina. with MIR. and
Mrs. Maxwell Crayton.
Mira. Sara Furman OF Clemson with
Mrs. r. C. Webb.
Deaconess Perkins OF Spartanburg
with Mrs. Clarence Brock.
Rev. A. Pa Mitchell. dean OF the
convocation with Mr. and hfra. q. w.
Taylor.
Rev. Sanders R. GIsgnard with
Mrs. Broyles.
Rev. c. w Boyd with Mr.. ana Mrs.
J. III. Godfrey. t.,t jt4s
Rev. r. Marshall with Mr.. ana Mrs.
Ri G. Webb. 2 Fg Rssss
Rev. ,. Fl. chesley entertained at
Mrs. Pickens.
Rev; W. H. X. pendlston with Mrs.
~. A. Brock. as
Rev: +: j H. CONN Win Mr.. and
Mrs. C. GS Sayre.
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SPLENDID ANIMALS
ARE ALL EDUCATED
PROUD OF SHOWING THEIR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
NEVER FELT WHIP
Owner Of 10l Ranch Points Out
Difference in Training and
Educating.
NEVER FELT WHIP

There Is vast difference between
training a horse and educating a
horse" remaiked Mr.. Edward Ar
inston. one OF the owners of the 1OI
Ranch Real Wild West show this
morning.
when horse is trained he goes
through his routine just as an unwil.
ling boy goes to school. He does
what he has to do through fear of
punishment. With a horse who has
been educated 1t Is different. He
takes pride and pleasure In showing
on his accomplishments We have
with the 101 Ranch show a number
OF horses who have been educated
and are admitted to be the most pro-
ficient high school horses ever ex-
hibited. They have never had a whip
on them and all OF their schooline
on the ranch has been through kind
mesa. It is a. pleasure to see them
perform for they go at 1t so willingly
anu seem to know that the success
or the performance depends Just as
much on their efforts as on any OF
the other acts. Our show does not
believe In the whip for horses and
groom might Just as we'll leave
the show as to use q whip. Any
horse that can not be made to mind
and do as he is told to do without
being whipped Is no horse for us.
Why we will not even allow any of
the grnnms tn ewear Mt the horses.
There fs no animal that appreciates
good treatment more than a horse.
nor In there any animal chat yg!n -.
sent cruel treatment quicker I know
that a horse can tell when tho
groom has been drinking and have
noticed that the horse that has the
groom that loves horses is never
nervous. Let the groom get ratified
anu the horse soon viii. heJ When
something unusual is expected of the
horse Just let him know what Il is
and he will soon help you do 1t hut
get ratified yourself and you will
soon have your horse in the same
condition. We have q stable of near
iy tive hundred head and I will VEN
ture to say that there Is not one of
this number that does not know what
Ia expected OF him daily and willing
ly does 1t. fall OF the drivers in
this city would leave the whip In
the stable and learn to gain the con-
ildence OF their horses they would
nave lot less trouble In getting
them to do what. thry want them TO
do"
The 1o1 Rsnch Real wild West
show will be here on Tuesday, Octo-
ber "a. and with 1t the finest stable
OF horses in the country.
J. B. Stone Of Seneca was In the