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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

The Dexters possess extremely hardy con stltutons, and the utmost vigor, and are abso- lutely immune to bovine tuberculosis This trait. It IS believed has been attained by the condi- tons under which the breed has been developed
 owned originally by the poor peasants of County Kerry, the Dexters ran practically at will over the hills, shelterless at all seasons of the year. and compelled to forage for food. This strenuous outdoor life weeded out all weddings; only the very strongest survived and these transmitted their yigor to their offspring in in- creasing measure, until the Dexter of today is an animal that according to the statements of those who know the breed well, can thrive in places where even that most thrifty of ami mals, the goat, would find exceedingly poor pick ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
How Your
 BLOOD SHOWS What AILS YOU
By Dr. Leonard Keene Hirshberg,
 A. B., M. A. M. D. (Johns Hopkinsl

~ OR more than fifteen years typhoid fever has been diagnosed by a simple test of the blood-a few drops clot and kin living typhoid germs if ty- phod is present True malaria, a malady is dis finguished from guesswork' malaria and other levers by seeing the gobbled-up parasites drop of blood Other diseases are also detected by blood tests
 While 1t is human weakness of both doctors and laymen to neglect diagnosis and to jump snap shot, rapld-hre scheme of treatment the only way can truly hope to be kept permanently in perfect pair is to have wholesale diagnosis of himself frequent intervals.
 The necessity is all the apparent from the that wel-nigh thousand and ailments hidden under the catch-penny phrases of rheumatism" 'ca tarrh.' nervousness" Indigestion eczema "bil- iousness, uric acid" and whole legion of such use- less. obstructive and in the of the bameworthy term, 'teethng," often highly fatal names Not one of these names implies correct diagnosis. hence scientific, accurate treatment is possible.
 Professor Emil Aberhalden the noted German phys illogical chemist in the hope of helping to eliminate the sloveny habit of azily using popular name in- stead of diagnosing the true malady, has devised @ method by which the blood be made to tell the truth about the cause of your ill health
 It has been discovered by Professor Abderhalden that the blood always holds element called fer ment, enzynle whenever any portion of your anat- omy is sick. If liver is truly diseased your neys breaking any of your tissues sicky their wornout or injured particles washed off into your blood channels. The other sound structures of your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
Searching Out the ANTIDOTES Which fl WELL PARTS of the Body Generate

tainng few drops of blood and speck of different tissue Human tissues used if available but those of guinea pigs will answer
 The tubes kept free of germs just surgeons operating tools They placed in incubator twentyfour hours allow the particular "ferment or enzyme," in the blood to attack digest it's parcu lar prey namely. the which rritaed the tissues sufficiently to the generation of enzyme for defense
 After twenty-four hours in the of patient suf- Ierng only from heart disease the tube which contained the Dit of heart will be the only where digestion by the blood has taken place. The bits of tissue in the other tubes will be intact
 Blood from sufferer heart disease will, as Pro- lessor Abderhalden has proved, digest perfectly heatny heart or an ailing heart-it does not matter "hich. When once the antiheart enzyme has been made nothing will stop it's action except heat such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

These are detected by the fact that they have eater ana dgested parts of the affected organs True enough these antidotes have digesed entirely different hearts thyroids bones brains, the may be- but the important fact is that antidote for. your sick liver floating in your blood can devour anybodv,s organ.
 public man. in whom everybody is interested re gently returned from his travels the tropics He was tnn nervous sleepless and plainly sick Yet his pulse was all rlgnt his blood pressure normal he had no fever None of the usual medical tests showed what was wrong One famous medical authority" said he hau nervous breakdown, another said he had masked eacn one held firmly to his wild and insisted that the patient go to bed and await developments, which might end in death
 At this point along came a young doctor wao took
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

ration, jam, sugar, salt and tea
 The energy value of the ration was 3,465 calories, which is slightly less than the standard laid down by Pro- lessor Atwater for moderate work, 1000 calories less than that for hard work, and 750 calories less than that supplied to convicts in England on hard labor. The health of the men was excellent throughout. During the first five days, the average loss in weight was just over one-half pound in the men and three-fourths of a. pound in the four officers. It was calculated that the men were losing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
Here's the s'KITCHENETTE COW''

CTsHE smallest breed of cattle known is the
 Dexter. A Dexter COW when fullgrown IS only three feet high.
 It thrive what little vegetation is to be found in fair-sized back yard, and on such a meagre and inexpensive diet will give more milk of good quality than larger animals will when kept in the richest pastures
 Some one has facetiously called the Dexters ktchenette cows" because they so small that one of them could if necessary be stabled in the small kitchen of modern city apartment.
 An American herd book classification has been granted to the Dexters. which are declared by prominent livestock breeders in this country to possess a number of particularly valuable points besides their ability to thrive on scanty food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
17HE Government Fisheries Bu

17HE Government Fisheries Bu-
 reau is anxious to introduce to
 American dinner tables the fishing frog a finny delicacy, which up to the present has been neglected largely because the creature is not pretty to look at
 The fishing frog" is also known as the "goosefish." It attains a length of over three feet. It is a bottom fish, and feeds largely upon founders, sculpins, starfishes and crabs. Nearly all mouth and stom- ach, it can swallow fish nearly as large as itself; and, though a clumsy swimmer, it often captures by sur prise even birds and mammals at the surface of the water.
 There is authentic record of the taking of seven wild ducks from the stomach of one of these goosefsbes, whose greediness may be inferred from the fact that in Massachusetts Bay they annoy fishermen by swal- lowing the wooden buoys attached to lobster pots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
These SOCIETY BELLIES WEAR TAI,S

times Kajii maron who desires to be leader in the fashionable world will wear tiny iron bell just above the ta but this is of and the bell is not often seen.
 gro add further to their beauty both the upper and lower lips of these women pierced in order admit
 hat round disc of wood called the Tichiak which ia usually about the size of half dollar. The object of this singuary discomforting adornment to prevent the women from eating doge, which considered the greatest delicacy by the men of the tribes Both sexes decorate their bodies with regular designs When girls arrive at marrageable two of parallel lines are cut both the chest and the back and as soon as possible after marriage headlines are made. These consist of number of short cuts across tho forehead"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

in the enormous mouth.
 For a long time there was much mystery about the true nature of the purple veils" (so-called by fisher men) which are often found in the shallows along the shores of New England. They are continuous sheets of purplish-brown color, twenty to thirty feet long and four or five feet wide, composed of a transparent jelly-like substance, to which the purple hue is imparted by specks distributed uniformly through the sheets, thirty or more of them tD the square inch.
 These specks under the micro scope are seen to be tiny fishes, and it was Professor Louis Agassiz who first ascertained that such a veil was communal cradle for as many as 100000 baby goosefishes.
 The flesh of the goosefsh is white, and it's flavor resembles that Of the edible frog. It is highly recommended by the Fisheries Bu- reau as delicacy for American tables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

of tissues which have taken a misdirected growth make their specific enzymes Therefore to utilize Professor Abderhaldens test to the fullest even piece or cancerous tissue must also be put in flask with some of the patients blood.
 patients disease be in the cartilage the pitui tary, the skin the nerves the brain the muscles the Done the thyroid the stomach No matter where or what it s all that is locate trouble is to pour little of his blood over bit of a score of different tissues and also piece of cancer and bits of tumors.
 Since all the well tumors of the body are allied against the diseased there is of course an i'm mense excess of new enzymes present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

liver, kidneys, cartridges, arteries, hearts, nerves and all other tissues, ready to graft into those who need them. Ever since Dr. Alexis Carrel made his epoch-making find-that living tissues can be kept in "lat- ent' form of life if frozen-hosp pitals have kept on hand parts of all the different human and animal tissues. Many of these are obtained from men and women killed in health by sudden accidents or in battle Ac- cording to Professor Abderhaldens new idea person who suspects that he is i'll, say, with heart disease, goes to hospital that is equipped in this way. Ten or fifteen drops of blood are taken from his arm veins through a needle-prick and placed in little glass test tube Into this test tube is dropped a fragment of either human liver or guinea pigs liver
 Then as many more drops are put into other test tubes, each of which contains a bit of kidney, brain, heart, muscle, thyroid, spinal cord or bone. Finally there are fifteen or twenty little glass tubes, each con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

one foot You can get an idea of the energy the heart exerts at every beat by placing a two- ponnd weight in the palm of the hand, resting the elbow on the table and raising the weight from the level of the elbow to the shoulder
 But in spite of the enormous amount of work the heart, does, without vacation or respite of any kind, 1t is exceedingly difficult to produce acute heart strain in an adult who is young we'll nourished and in good general health If, how ever, the muscles of the heart are allowed to become anaemic, poisoned or in any way ab-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
Why POPES NEVER PREACH

"HE preparation and delivery of sermons
 which impose such a heavy burden of
 A toil upon other ministers of God have no terrors for the Pope, for the good and sufficient reason that the traditions of ths Church forbid his preaching
 Of all the many strange restrictions which hedge about a Pope, one of the strangest IS that he should not be allowed to preach. Only once in 300 years has Pope delivered sermon, and that was under most excep-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

rC HERE dwell in the remotest part of Nigeria not
 yet under the complete control of the British, \ several tribes whose women tails and are proud of them This information to the National Geographic Society in a recent letter from Major A. J. N Tremearne, who has served there both DO ltcal and police officer.
 These tails, he says, play important part in the social life of the people, for they the sign of matronly dignity woman becoming bride casts away simple grdle of twisted grass, which up to that time has been her sole adOrnment, and begins to wear apron of leaves and fancy tail.
 These tails are made of palm fibre. plated bound together with string, and usually stained with red of the iadys body" Major Tremearne says. Some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

THE development of the human
 body to its maximum size and
 strength divides itself into two periods. One period ends at birth, the other extends from birth to adult age. In the first period the rdpidity of development increases regularly. During the second it de- creases regularly until we are fully grown, when it ceases altogether and the deterioration which is finally to end in death slowly begins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
Save Your HEART Work by Staying in BED LONGER

KTO machine ever built can compare with M the human heart in the amount of work it does without ever stopping for rest or repair From before birth until short time after person draws his last breath the powerful muscles of his heart are contracting and expand ing uninterrnptedly at rates varying from 70 to 150 times per minute.
 Each time the heart contracts it does two footpounds of work. foot-pound is the amount of work necessary to raise a two-pound weight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

tional circumstances in 1S46.
 On the Octave of the Epiphany a celebrated preacher, Padre Ventura, was to have occu- pied the pulpit in St. Peters, but was sud denly taken ill
 To, prevent disappointment to the vast crowd which had assembled Plus TX broke through the custom of ages, and ascending the pulpit delivered simple, Eomely sermon that perhaps impressed its hearers more than the finest eloquence might have done, because of is uniqueness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

two and quarter pounds of fat and nearly six pounds of flesh during the last five days, and the conclusion was reached that the ration was too small and that at least 4,500 calories should be furnished, or even 5000 for big men.
 The second experiment also com prised twenty men. under command of an officer. The ration was raised to an average of 4,511 calories by the addition of bacon and cheese.
 At the conclusion of the experi- ment the men were not hungry, and were in good condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

They are very common all along the North Atlantic Coast, and are especially remarkable for the means they usually adopt to capture prey. The goosefish is solitary creature. Hidden among seaweeds or pebbles, or buried in mud with only its mouth protruding, it lies in ambush for vic tins.
 It seems to be made in imitation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
It's FOOLISH TO BELIEVE ALL PLUMBERS TELL US

"HAT plumbers ask extortionate prices
 for their services and the materials
 = they supply is universal complaint. The size of a plumbers bill has become as proverbial the slowness of a messenger boy, and forms one of the favorte topics for jests among the newspaper humorists and vaudeville comedians. Just ho wmuch truth there is in this popular belief is impossible to say, for as yet no Government commis
 sion has driven its probe into the plumbing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

industry or turned the relentless light of pub licity on it.
 But now a new indictment has been brought against the plumbers, and one of which many of them seem to be proved guilty. It is charged that in their efforts to create business for themselves they are spreading broadcast some of the most erro- neous ideas regarding disease and it's causes.
 In the report of a meeting of a plumbers association recently held at Richmond Va, we read that Insufficient laws regarding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

These great discoveries of Professor Abderhalden will not stop at the perfection of medical diagnosis They point the to better methods of treatment and show physicians how to precisely what ails you The old methods of seeing the patient shaking the head wisely, stroking the whiskers thoughtfully looking at tongue, feeling pulse, and giving you complete scrupuous, rigid unerring and genuinely sterling diagnosis is possible for all complaints, should take remedy merely to relieve symptoms. Un less the public insist upon accurate name and a strictly literal diagnosis they will continue such absurd names nerves Indigestion" uric acid" rheumatism and the like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

Of rocky boulder. On it's head are two filaments resembling fronds of oarweed, and all around the lower margin of it's body are leaflike processes.
 As it lies quiet, the foremost fila ment, which has a wormlike appen- dage, waves to and fro, attracting the finny prey within reaching distance when the latter is promptly engulfe0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

ooiiiiiS. EVen IT there was a diseased condition present in the tissues of the body from which the blood was taken there can be no interference with this new "Abderhalden diagnosis" test.
 The bits of tissue or organs used in the little glass f1asks. or test tubes, must have been taken from living or newly dead bodies and preferably from one in good health. A piece of tissue no bigger than a three-cent piece is enough for a dozen tests. From five to fifteen drops of blood less than what you lose in a scratch-is enough to test a person for all the diseases known to medical science.
 The secret of life really re- sides in these strange sub- stances called "enzymes" and 'ferments." Everything with life in it can make them. These enzymes have the cur 1ous property of not increas- ing or decreasing, of having neither breadth or length or extension, and of causing gi- gantic changes and even cata- clysms without undergoing the slightest changes in them selves.
 Even cancerous~ tissues which are merely collections
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

"A drop two of the blood is placed in glass tubes each of which contains minute portion of some organ or tissue from human body or guinea biq. The tubes are placed In an incubator for twenty four hours. They are then examined to see what tissues the blood has dgested and which it has left intact. Those which the blood has digested are the ones in the patients body which are diseasedv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

some Of the patients blood and put a little of it with each of a series of pieces of thyroid gland, kidney, cancer, liver, heart, lung. brain, bone, muscle cartilage, adrenals, pituitary body and even the lymph glands. Each little flask contained a piece of one of these and some of the patients blood.
 The very next day the young doctor calleh up ono of the older doctors and told him that the patient did not have cancer or anything that they said; that he was i'll with an affection of the pitui- tary body and the adrenal glands.
 The older doctors scoffed at their young friend, but there can no longer be any doubt that he was right. The contents of the flasks were all intact except those two which contained pituitary gland Ca little beli-like gland which hangs from under the brain), and the adrenal bodies (also called "near kidneys" because they are situated above the kidneys). These were digested, while all the other tissues were unmo- tested by the action of the blood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11
FOOD That Makes SOLDIERS FIGHT BEST

THE rations on which Englands soldiers
 are being fed during their European A campaign are based on the results of a series of interesting experiments which were completed only short time before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

( tIiC WII CtOUUo UC51fI tO 60tKHcf.
 { In the first experiment twenty vol. ] unteers and four officers of the Royal ] Army Medical Corps went on practice } marches during October, when there 5 was almost continuous rain. The ration consisted of fresh beef, whole
 meal biscuits, bread, a vegetable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-11

Copyright, 1914, by
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-06-10
Drowned In Hyle's Hole.

The Ft. Sill soldiers were
practicing in different parts of
the reservation last week and
camping near the different bod.
les of water.
On Friday evening Private
Anderson of Battery F, who
came from Stafford. Kan, about
six months ago, was drowned in
Hyle's Hole. while about 50 9TH
er men of the same battery were
in bathing with him.
Sergeant Fox of the same bat.
terry dived and brought him to
the surface after he had been
in the water about eight minutes.
They worked then for two hours
to revive him but to no avail.
.Hyle's Hole is avery dangerous
place and eight men have been
drowned in it since this country
opened.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-06-10
New President Spoke.

Bishop Mcintyre did not reach
LawtOn Thursday evening to de-
liver his lecture on. "Buttoned
up People, and a large number
was disappointed, but a good sub.
stitution was made in the per-
son of DR.. Edward Hislop. the
new president of the Oklahoma
Methodist university at Guthrie.
His address touched largely on
opportunity and was directed
largely to young people. One
thought was that most people
expect. opportunity to drive up
to the front door in an autome.
bile when il usually comes up
the back alley in a whcelbar-
row.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-06-10
County News.

There were 33 graduates at
the Lawton high school Friday
evening. Attorney r. j. Ray
delivered the address.
County Clerk Gregory has
bought a farm in Mangan town.
ship. this county.
The Lawton Grain Co. has
been chartered by the Hum.
phreys Of Kingfsher.
The Indiahoman is now being
published at Indiahoma by P. s.
McMullen. one of the mail car.
riers there.
j. r. Meadows. who resides
near the mountains north of
Cacne. was arrested Friday on a
charge of assault and battery,
he being accuced of whipping
his own mother.
Friday evening Sheriff Nix
received word that some one un-
loaded a quantity of booze one
mile west Of Lawton. He hur-
ried out and in trying to turn
the box over iiscoveIed il was
nitro-glycerine for shooting
wells. He made a hasty retreat.
Robert Short was reelected
president of the Cameron Agri-
cultural School at Lawton Fri
day BY the. state board of agri-
culture at $1,000 per year salary.
Lawton is having a chess thur
nament. some Of the big players
Of the state taking part.
Burt Murry was fined 81 at
Lawton Saturday for being drunk
and later in the day was arrest
ed again on the same charge.
N. Wallace had his arm broken,
while working near Lawton BY a
load of baled hay upsettinR.
Medicine Park will celebra..
the 4th Of July.
Afford Stanley, a private in
Battery A at Ft. Sill. tried to
suicide by taking lauda.
mum.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-06-10
Expensive Love.

In a breach of promise suit,
Miss Georgia Jay of Sioux City,
Iowa. received $4,000 dam
ages against Homer Rodeheaver.
choirmaster for Evangelist Billy
Sunday.
He did not deny the engage
ment but said he was not ready
to get married, saying he wished
to complete his musical educa-
ton. He testified he had no
property but is drawing 800 per
week salary.
At that rate 1t will take him
four years to pay off the judge
ment, not allowing anything for
expenses. so he had better mar
r. the girl and put her on short
rations: ne could thus save more
money.
But be that as t may. fel-
low better not become engaged
unless he thinks he can support
a wife inside a reasonable length
of time, and marry her. A
girls love shoulu not be trifled
with.