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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

native population of the islands develops
leprosy. Therefore some of these may
have been infected outside
The members of the second class are
| all Caucasans and include priests Fran
ciscan sisters, brothers of the Order of
| st. Francis and others who come into
| intimate contact with the lepers in nurs-
ing them, applying dressings. etc. They
| do not at present live in the same houses
with the lepers. Indeed in most cases
the latter are forbidden to enter the
houses of these clean persons. 1t is I'M
derstood, however, that in earlier years,
| some of these nurses and priests We're
| quartered in the same buildings with lep-
ers. In this group there were Il women,
none of whom developed leprosy, and %
men, three of whom acquired the dis
ease. One was a priest, the well known
Father Damien. The second was a
brother of the Order of st. Francis The
| time that elapsed after the beginning
| of their association with lepers and the
appearance of the hsease was three
years, nine years and II years.
| Mention should be made of the fact
that in some of the earlier reports from
the settlement, we find it stated that n
very large percentage of clean persons
| became lepers. Whatever may have been
the facts in the early days of the settle
ment, 1t is certain that no such state of
affairs exists at the present time. 1t is
| just possible that the improved general
sanitary conditions, under which the set
! Element has been operated in recent
years, may have lessened the risk of
! infection"
| After reading this report one cannot
| help feeling that the popular dread of
| leprosy has led to an unnecessarily cruel
treatment by the public of those whose
| misfortune is already so terrible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

happened to me and 1 needed extra at
tention by the time I got home you'd be
a nervous wreck and couldn't give it to
me-"
(which reminds me that you haven't
had bite to eat said Mrs Worrying
Wife suddenly II promise you. John.
solemnly, that I wont behave this way
again, If can help it,"
But
I happen to know that the very next
time Friend Husband is detained she will
start the same proceedings all over again.
She's that kind
their husbands are five minutes late for
their meals, they are morally sure that
some dire misfortune has befallen them,
and they throw thei entire household
into a state of excitement and make ev-
erybody's life within a city block a per-
feet burden.
Call it lack of self-control If you
choose and doing so you will undoubtedly
give the situation its true name
But
All the same, you haven't suggested any
remedy for the ravages of time on the
nerves, the complexion and the eyes to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21
HOW WOMEN
AVOID
OPERATIONS
By Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Cleveland, Ohio "My left side
panied me so for several years that I

expected to have to
undergo an opera
ton, but the first
b O title / took of
Lydia E. Pinkham s
" e G e t a Bile Com
pound relieved me Of
the pains in my side
and l continued its
use until / became
regular and free
from pains. I had
asked several doc
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

say nothing of the mental strain and wear
and tear
There is no use trying to deceive me-
says Mrs Worrying Wife Il Just know
something has happened to John. He told
me positively he'd be home this afternoon
at $3.50 and here it is way after :. He's
been crazy for an automobile and / just
know he's been trying to run a tax
icab and it has turned turtle-boo-
hoo-and killed him! Oh, what shall
1 do? Think of my John off in some
lonely spot left for hours and hours dead
and nobody cares anything for hint"
You offer to go to the phone and sum-
mons Thomas Jenkins thr John Ashby
Jones best friend. who, being interrupted
at dinner, growles out that he has seen
nothing of the gentleman all day.
Tears anew, afresh, and more of them.
from Mrs. Worrying Wife.
Then where can he be?" she sobs.
Maybe he was caug;i; in the elevator
coming down from his office (his office
rooms on the second floor, II you pleased
and he's pinned beneath that awful ma
chinery. Oh. what shall l dor"
By this time If yos are not of the
worrying sisterhood'' yourself you are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

becoming a trifle exasperated over the
many varieties of death John Ashhy Jones
is being condemned to,
When
Suddenly
In walks the gent, oman himself
think that Adam must have been ad-
dicted to the vanderbilt himself,
For
Surely
Some of the daughters of Eve are
given to spending hours and hours in
this terrible state of mind, worrying over
their husbands
At least
A lot of my married friends who are
truly in love with their husband is that
such an infreauent occurrences these
days that 1t needs comment?) seem to be
affected that way.
And
To person who is many times and
oft asked to spend the night with a
temporarily husbandless friend, it is a
cause of mild wonder as to how under
high heavens they stand the pressure
One of the many funny things about
it Is that the worrying wife, will fly
into blind rage at the very mention
of the fact that most men before matrf-
mony overlook them, seemed to have
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21
FRECkL.ES

Now IL the Time to Get RIA of These
Ugly Spots
There's no longer the slightest need of
prescription othine-double strengths
spots.
Simply get an ounce of othtne-doub,e
strength.-from any druggist and apply
a little Of It night and morning and
you should soon see that even the worst
the lighter ones have vanished en-
tirely. 1t Is seldom that more than an
skin. and gain beautiful clear COM
plexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
othine as this Ia sold under guaranfee
OF money back II 1t falls to remove
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

| layed. or street cars are not on time. or
automobile tires burst. or some old
long winded man goes to her husbands
office and talks blue streak and THUS
delays him for dinner.
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Altogether
wife. who threw her arms around friend
husbands neck and uttered jumbled. in
coherent words and watered his perfectly
good shirt front with her tears like a
sprinkler in the summer time on a lawn.
As for Friend Husband
He was so frankly bewlidered by the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

From the Florida Times Union
First Moving Picture Man: Say, Bill.
did you get reel of some of the geeks
for Village Life in that burg over yon-
der"
Second Moving Picture Man: II should
say not-couldnt And anybody in town in
notion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

proceedings that as soon as he could dis
entangle himself he demanded i'm common
place, every day, plain, matter of fact
husband" language what in the world
was the natter
The weeping started a-fresh.
:. You see
4 Friend Husband hadn't been married
long enough to realize that because his
train had been an hour late his wife had
spent the time in imagining the 81 vari-
cites in which he could have easily met
his death.
And
That
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

resents this incessant fnssing and fun
ing and getting things all stirred up.
even when his innocent amusements are
not called into question. you are met
with the retort that.
IF one hasn't a husband of ones
own-well of course one couldn't pos
sibly be expected to understand"
A-hem
All the same
I think its mighty silly and foolish
to worry over just a plain, old, ugly
every day. average fye-foot-te man,
who is certainly far more capable of
taking care of himself than the poor
little, frail, whisp of wife who Is
at home wringng her hands and cry
ing her eyes out about him.
Sometimes
| wonder what the Johns and Henrys
and Bills and Toms think of 1T ALI
For
II must annoy a man past expression
to feel that a woman is at home tor
turing herself all but to death over
the fact that he didn't come home ex-
actly at the very stroke of the clock.
as he said he would.
So
Without knowing very much about
it.
I'd advise the worrying wife" to
stick her head under the bed clothes
dixie you do when it Is Hghtning) and
stifle her tears when trains are de-
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sDoLLYSnAr1rnsl
PHILOSOPHY

Ole Miss, er LII Boy askt
his Ma, eff all FAIRY
TALES bergins wild, "Onct
erpun er Time" an she seq:
NAV, Honey Chile, er heap
Nv 'em begins wild, My dar-
lin, | was detained at de Of
fee" Yassum!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

MAN recently gave himself u
to the federal health authorize
because he became convince
that he is a victim of lepros,
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Investigator Illinois Commission on Occu-
pational Diseases.
Exclusive Service the Survey Press Blu
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If you suggested that
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
NEW HOTEL APPLIANCE.

N the center of the lobby of hotel
newly constructed at Worcester,
Mass, large electrically illumi-
mated clock is embedded in the floor.
The clock is covered with a plate-g glass
face one inch thick and two feet in
diameter. The numerals and minute
marks are etched in by sand blasting
on the under side Of the glass, which is
held in place by strong bronze rings.
The face of the clock is lighted by cleo
tric lamps, and in the evenings its
luminous countenance forms the most
striking feature in the hotel.
The clock is self winder. Its hands
are driven by spring operated and bal
ance-wheel-controlled train set in a re-
cess in the floor. This recess is formed
by a metal box 104 inches deep, which
is painted white inside. Eight inches
below each numeral on the glass face
is ten-watt tungsten lamp placed
horizontally. The white finish of the
containing box reflects the light from
the twelve lamps evenly through the
dial.
A small motor operated by three dry
cells at intervals of five minutes winds
the spring of the clock. These cells, it
is estimated, will suffice for the work
ing Of the clock for one year before a
new battery must be installed Thus,
costs of maintenance are little, while
the satisfaction which the timepiece
brings to the idle lobby lounger who
may watch the minutes flying at his
feet is large.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
BRIDGE IN HALVES.

BUILDING bridge in halves, in
- stead of in one operation, was the
method employed in constructing
the four track railway viaduct across
|Gwynn s Falls, Baltimore. This scheme
was employed in order that there might
be no interruption to traffic across the
street.
The first half of the new bridge was
built alongside of an old structure, the
latter carrying the trains while the new
work was going on. When the first
half had been completed the old bridge
was demolished, and, while the second
half of the new structure was being
erected trains were running over the
other half. The viaduct is $50 feet
long and 6S feet wide. 1t is built en-
tirely of concrete and has main arch
spans of lis feet.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
FOOD VALUE OF NUTS.

NUTS are a most important food for
Al those who discard meat from tho
dietary. Vegetarians may manage,
but fruitarians cannot get along with
out nuts. They are highly concen-
trated food, rich in oil, and should
therefore be taken with great modera-
|tion, especially in hot weather. In fact
|they are essentially cold-weather
food, being stored up by the nut-eating
animals for use in the winter months
Where, as is often the case among
civilized people, the teeth are defective,
the nuts should be ground in hand
mill, or made into cream, or butter.
Ground nuts with fruit, or salad plants,
as lettuce or watercress, or "cold
slaw," make complete and thorough
ly nourishing dietary, when properly
masticated. On an average, one pound
of nuts is equal in nourishment to two
and half pounds of beefsteak.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
SLEEP AND HEALTH.

vOU cannot burn the candle at both
ends and have it. You cannot 90
without sleep and exhaust the
body every day with work and remain
healthy. The phenomenon of sleep is q
vital necessity, as it has been demon
strated that animals die more quickly
Iif deprived of sleep than they do if
deprived of food. People, however, vary
much in the amount of sleep they re-
|quire for an apparent recuperatiOn from
previous exhaustive exertion. Edison
gets along with about four hours of
sleep, and works practically all the rest
of his day with no apparent diminu.
tion of energy. Other people, using far
less energy in their daily work, require
eight hours sleep in order to feel re-
|cuperated. Every person must, there
fore, become rule unto himself and Sc
cure the sleep necessary for his daily
toll.
The cause of sleeplessness is evident
ly nervous one, and hygienic measures
are believed to furnish the best cure,
although there are instances where
hypnotic treatment has been necessary.
The use of drugs is simply the estab-
lishment of habit. They may put you
to sleep tonight, but you need them to-
morrow night, and the system soon de-
mands them. Every means outside Of
the use Of drugs should, therefore, be
taken to WOO sleep, and drugs taken
only when it seems necessary for the
actual preservation. of the health in
order to compel the nerves to let down.
Besides the formation Of habit the use
Of drugs has an injurious effect upon
the system. Some are difficult to digest,
while others produce kidney trouble and
others have a bad effect on the heart
and breathing and may be dangerous
to consumptives and people with weak
hearts.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
HOT-WEATHER ICE AFFORDS
SKATING IN SUMMER.

n GERMAN patent has been issued
~ to a scientist of Berlin for a spe-
cial salt composition which be-
haves like ice under skates, sleighs and
skis. Demonstrated on rink in Ber-
lin, scarcely anyone of the numerous
visitors who ventured upon the smooth
surface was aware of the fact that it
was salt and not ice upon which he was
enjoying himself. The composition of
the salt is at present trade secret, but
the preparation is not affected by ordi-
nary temperatures, and is melted and
poured into blocks, which are combined
so that any size smooth surface may
be obtained, Under the action of skate
blades, the composition acts like ice,
and the feathery powder worn from
the surface is swept off like snow, and
can be used over and over again by
melting it.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
Inventions and Appliances

burned. Red phosphorus is used in the
manufacture of safety matches and is
placed on the box, instead of on the
head Of the match. The head of a
safety match contains ehforate of
potash, which, containing much oxygen,
flares up strongly when rubbed against
the phosphorus on the side of the box.
Thus the careless practice of carrying
chlorate -of-potash tablets, commonly
supposed to be entirely harmless, in the
same pocket with "safety" box, may
result in serious injury.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
DIAMOND CARGOES CARRIED BY
AEROPLANES.

THE use of aoroplanes for bringing
diamonds from the mines to the
coast is one of the features in the
big developments in aviation now be
ing planned for German Southwest
Africa. This country is difficult and
dangerous one to traverse by land, not
only on account of the jungles and other
natural obstacles, but because of the
robber bands with which it is infested.
1t is now necessary to send troops to
guard each shipment of diamonds, and
the aeroplanes, which will carry mail
as well as diamonds, will be a saving
both in time and money. In addition
to this service the German government
is arranging to establish an aeroplane
service for scout work and other mill
tary duty in the interior, and with this
in view, aeroplanes are being shipped
to Africa and soldiers are being trained
in the art of flying. An important part
of the airmen IS work will be the carry
ing of doctors about the colony, and
with this means of transportation it
will be possible for doctors to reach,
within a few hours, remote villages
that it now takes several days to reach.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
JUsTIFIABLE SLAUGHTER.

IF THERE are any rats around your
~ house, kill them. If your fields are
overrun with squirrels, kill them
No one need hesitate over such cold
blooded treatment. These animals are
not necessary for health, although the
rat is a scavengcr 1t is better to keep
the dirt and filth cleaned up about the
place than to permits rats to do it.
Both rats and squirrels, under proper
conditions, are disease breeders The
appearance of the plague in New Or
leans has been traced to the fleas that
infest the rats. The same result fol
lowed the investigations of the appear
ance of the plague in San Francisco
some years ago. The great plague in
London in 1865 was produced in the
same way, and when the great London
fire occurred in 1866 plague disappeared
and no cases occurred in the city until
1900, as the fire burned up all the
rats in the infected part of the city.
After the appearance Of plague in San
Francisco quite extensive investigation
of the squirrels in the surrounding coun-
try revealed that they were infested
with the same kind of plague fleas that
were found on the rats, and cam
paign was inaugurated for their exter-
mination. As it is no use to try to ex-
terminate the fleas, those nimble car
riers of disease, it is better and easier
to make a campaign against the rats
and squirrels. They have no friends to
mourn their departure, nor is there any
argument for their retention. Put these
two animals on your list with the mos
quitoes and flies for determination.
1t is undoubtedly true that in the in
terror of the country there is little
danger from plague. 1t is generally
found in coast cities, which probably
obtain it by the importation of rats
from ether countries where the disease
prevails, such as Egypt, Africa and
Asia, where it has been known from
as early as the second century before
Christ. The fatal character of the dis
ease is proved by the fact that about
one out of three of those afflicted by
it die. 1t makes its appearance about
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
THE DAILY BATH.

FHERE is a no more efficient agency
for health than daily bath. 1t
may be hot or cold as circumstances
seem to warrant. The japanese are
sticklers for the hot bath, SO hot that
a person will almost seem to be boiled,
and they are healthy people. Such
bath is usually taken at night. The
English people and others are more ad-
dicted to the cold bath taken in the
morning and they are healthy people.
The methods of taking cold bath
would naturally differ according to the
sensitiveness of the person. While one
may jump into river or a bathing
tank and take long swim and feel
refreshed by it, another cannot stand
| it, but would require that the water be
warmed sufficiently to prevent any
chill.
During the warm weather Of sum-
mer if a person can take cold bath
in the morning he will undoubtedly
lihu IL IoHiO. IL " SCe ihto eHO po1n
tub seems too severe, a sponge bath
can be substituted, or it can be taken
with wet towel, the body being thor
oughly sponged and Immediately wiped
dry and vigorously so as to promote the
circulation of blood in the skin. Such
bath excites the internal organs to a
reaction against the cold, therefore in
creasng their activity and causing
them to throw off any effete matter
within their jurisdiction. Thus the
lungs will give off an increased amount
of carbonic acid gas and the kidneys an
increased amount of urea.
The warm bath is particularly service
able at night time after a hard day IS
work, for it promotes the removal from
the tissues of the waste products that
have accumulated during the period Of
activity whose presence in the muscles
is the cause of the feeling of weari-
ness. Fifteen or twenty minutes in a
hot bath will remove the ache from
the muscles and substitute feeling of
quietness conducive to sleep. If very
hot it excites the heart and causes a
more copous flow of blood through it.,
and it should, therefore, be followed by
a spray or douche of tepid water to
reduce that condition, nor should it ex-
ceed twenty minutes because of the
weakening eject it would have by over
stimulating the heart and the blood
vessels and brain.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
INDIGESTION,

ANLY when hunger is present are
" there juices in the stomach ready
to dispose of food that is eaten.
Otherwise, the food lies there mixed
with mucus, then slowly rots and fer
ments, causing the formation of gas,
that presses with great force in all
directions, and sometimes makes a man
think he is going to die of heart dis
ease. Meantime, however, the ingestion
of this food into the stomach, giving
that overworked organ increased labor,
has for short time caused a feeling
of false nervous energy that is mis-
taken for renewed strength.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
INVENTIONS DEMONSTRATED BY
MOTION PICTURES.

Knowing PICTURE films have re
MI Gently been applied to the demon
stration before the patent courts
of the operation of complicated ma
chinery. From the fact that few jurors
are mechanically trained men, the in
tricate relation Of moving parts in an
invention is exceedingly difficult for
them to grasp, especially when only blue
prints or drawings are submitted. But
when the machine is seen in operation,
or film depicting such operation is
shown, many obscure points are cleared
up. Not long since, a motion picture
film of an automatic shoe machine was
exhibited before court, the process of
manufacture from first to last being
fully covered, and an especially valu-
able point made that, where in fac
tory the rapidity of operation was a
bar to a clear understanding of the
process, in the film the camera could be
slowed down at such places, and the pro-
cess studied at leisure. Then again the
film, while clearly showing the method,
was free from the distraction of the
factory noise.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
PECULIAR ACCIDENT FROM COM
MON CHEMICAL.

n ECENTLY serious fire was start
IN ed in coat pocket of man who
carelessly placed two chlorate Of
potash tablets in the pocket with box
of safety matches. Brushing against
the side of the door, he pressed the
tablets against the coating on the out
side of the match box, with the result
that an intense fire was started in his
coat pocket, and ho was severely
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06

to the wire loop. Upon casting the min
now into the water, the tube magni
fies the minnow and attracts the large
fish. Fresh water is constantly ad
mitted into the tube, and the minnow
is not injured, mutilated nor hurt in
any way, no matter how many times it
is cast. The glass tube, filled with
water, is invisible the moment it is sub
merged.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
A LIVE MINNOW IN A GLASS
TUBE FOR BAIT.
AF INTEREST to fishermen is

AF INTEREST to fishermen is a
" novel contrivance recently patent
ed for using single live minnow
for an entire days fishing for muskel-
lunge or bass. A strong, clear glass
tube is equipped with metallic rings,
to which are attached clusters of hooks,
and loop wire. A live minnow is
placed within the tube, which is filled
with water, and the fishline is attached