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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
MANTON.

Richard Lakey has severed mis- connect
ions at : G.. Bates.
+. b. Evans is acting as choir director
at St Thomas Church, Greenville.
James ]. Henderson aud family are home
from a summer spent at Nausauket Beach
The sessions of St. Peters Sunday School
were resumed last Sunday.
The Entire Nous Whist Club meeting at
Mrs. J V. Barnes has been postponed un-
til next week.
The Johnston Hose Company did very
we'll at its Field Days last week.
Miss Elizabeth Fagan and Miss Katie
McCauIey have returned from vacation
spent at Block Island.
William Lakey is away on a vacation trip.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

Services at the church next Sunday as
usual at 1880, Sunday school at 1880 and
preaching by Rev. Frederick Smock.
Miss Doris Burlington, who spent her
vacation in Providence, has returned home
Miss Flora Nj. Hicks and Miss Helen
Parkinson of Providence, spent one day re-
Gently with Mrs. Walter Comstock.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Paine are enter
tanning his mother, Mrs Abbie J. Paine OF
Providence.
Trinity Guild met Wednesday Of last
week with Mrs. Philip Almey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Salisbury and
family, have removed to Providence.
Miss Ruth Steere, who has spent the
sumner with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hiram Sayles, has returned home
Mrs. Emma Wilbur and Mrs. Dana Web
ster spent day recently with friends III
Phenix.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rounds and Mrs.
sarah Bradford went to Kingston Fair on
"Wednesday Of last week.
Mrs. Jennie Comstock entertained her
cousin from New York recently.
school commenced here Monday Sept.
nth, with Mrs. Alice Mitchell OF Pow
denee as teacher.
Mrs. McCauley of the King Farm, spent
Monday of last week in Providence,
Mr.. Wiley Bennett and family, Mrs.
Paulina Alexander and Mrs. Ella Diabbie
spent day recently at the hore.
Quite a large number from this section
attended the Kingston tar last week.
MIR. and Mrs. Albert Chace, Mr.. and
M! 8. T.. M. Smith and children OF lroW-
dence, Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Burlington
of Auburn, Mr.. John Han, Mr.. Nathan
Burton and Mr.. David Jordan OF Putnam,
Conn, were guests Of Mr. William Buff &
ton recently.
Mr.. A. G. Farrow visited Mr. Warren
Rounds at Foster recently.
Mrs. Jennie Lillibrdge and children,
has been visiting with her mother, MIS-
Orison Cole in Foster recently.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
MONSTER BLUE WHALES.
The Most Gigantic Creatures This
World Has Ever Known.

The Most Gigantic Creatures This
World Has Ever Known.
1t has been said that the first duty Of
4 whale IL to be large. The blue whale
Is then the most successful whale, for
it Is the largest creature which has
ever existed on the earth or In It's
waters. Even those extinct giant rep
tiles, the dinosaurs, which splashed
along the borders of the inland seas Of
Wyoming and Montana 100000 years
ago, could not approach blue whale
either In length or weight.
In 1903 Il blue whale was weighed In
sections at Newfoundland. The animal
was seventt-eight feet long, thirty-five
feet around the shoulders, the head
was nineteen feet in length and the
tail sixteen feet from tip to tip. The
total weight was sixty-three tons. The
flesh weighed forty tons, the blub-
ber eight tons, the blood, viscera and
baleen seven tons and the bones eight
tons.
Exaggerated accounts of the size Of
blue whales are current even In repu-
table books on natural history, but the
largest specimen which has yet been
actually measured and recorded is
1S7 feet long, stranded few years ago
upon the coast of New Zealand. 1t
must have weighed at least seventy
five tons.
Whales are able to attain such an
enormous size because their bodies are
supported by the water In which they
live. A bird is limited to the weight
which It's wings can bear up in the air.
a land animal If 1t becomes too large
cannot hold its body off the ground or
readily move about and is doomed to
certain destruction. But n whale has
TO face none of these problems and can
crow without restraint.
Because whales live in a supporting
medium their young are of enormous
size at birth, In some instances the calf
. being almost half the length of its
mother. | once took a twenty-five foot
baby, which weighed about eight tons.
from an elghty-five foot blue whale
Roy Chapman Andrews in New York
independent
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
UPRUSH OF THE SAP.
Force II Exerts In Its Mysterious Flow
Through the Plants.

Force II Exerts In Its Mysterious Flow
Through the Plants.
Even now the causes which underlie
he great upward flow of sap in .the
spring are not completely understood.
That the movement Is accompanied by
considerable force has been demon
strated in a remarkable manner.
In the spring season, when the sap Is
rising with great vigor, the stem Of a
grapevine was cut right across. With
rs little loss of time as possible a piece
If bladder was tied over the surface of
he wounded part. AS fixed the blad-
der was In state OF collapse. but II
lid not remain in this condition long.
Within half an hour IL was obvious
hat IL contained good deal Of liquid.
As time went on the amount of fluid
matter increased so much that the
bladder was quite full. Two hours
after fixing the bladder was so dis
tended that Il was lifted right up. An
hour later the pressure had increased
10 such degree that the bladder
burst, being unable to stand the strain
any longer.
In this connection IL is interesting to
recall the experiment of Dutrochet
also with a grapevine stem. In this
case a bent tube containing mercury
was affixed to the cut stem I'm such n
manner that any fluid coming from the
plant would have to lift the column Of
quicksilver In one of his experiments
II was shown that the sap raised the
column OF mercury to the height Of
thirty inches. Dutrochet calculated
that in such case the force exercised
by the sap was five times greater than
that OF the blood In the crural artery
Of the horse. II requires no student Of
anatomy to appreciate the force Of this
statement -bslttm9tA AmGicaA
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
SOUTH FOSTER.

Miss Pearl c. Smith is attending the
Bryant & Strstton Business College in
Providence.
Miss Lula Tucker is spending her vsca-
ton at her fathers.
The Executive Committee of the Foster
Old Home Association wish to extend a
vote Of thanks to all who helped them
in making arrangements for Old Home
Day.
Several from this section attended the
Fair at North Scituate this week.
Frank Hopkins, who met with quite a
seriou, accident one day last week, 10
orewhat better at this writing.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
CENTREDALE.

The Royals defeated the Greystone Life
Savers in a game of foot ball on Saturday
at Greystone by score OF 3 to 1.
Rev. w. II. Lane was the speaker at the
Allendale Chapel on Sunday.
The North Providence Public Schools
begin the fall term September 7sth.
A Democratic town caucus will be held
,aturday evening, September goth in the
Town Hall.
A new house Is being built near St.
lawrence Church.
The following is the list Of advertised
letters at the Centeidale Post Office; For
Domemico Auliso, Henry Chase, John
Silva Costa, Andrew l.. Herenius, Auton
Killian, o. J. Ludwig and Miss Mary 5.
Winsor.
Miss Jacques of Greystone, has taken the
position Of organist at st Alban's Church.
Joseph Lizotte, who has been employed
throughout the summer by Town Treasurer
+. G. Augell, has taken position at the
Esmond Mills
Henry A. Sweet recently sold Selden
truck to the Esmond Mills Company.
Daniel McIver was in Boston Tuesday.
Arthur Winkelman was in Boston OH
Tuesday on business.
Town Clerk Louis A. Sweet attended
the Brooklyn, Conn.,, Fair on Wednes-
day.
William Whitehead and family, expect
10 return from Warwick Downs next week,
The new store in the Simpson Building
is completed
George Kirke has Ford runabout.
MIR. aud Mrs N. F. Reiner called on
Centerdsle friends on Sunday.
The North Providence Board of Assess
ors competed Its work Of assessing the
1916 taxes on Tuesday.
The base ball season here is over
The new bank wall in front of the
/ euterdale school house is completed anu
the grading of the lot is now In progress.
IL. A. Fenner has been taking sho,
vacation trips.
A meeting Of the North Providence
School Committee will be 1,eid on Thurs
day evening Of next week.
A. NJ. Capron has purchased Q residence
on Fruit Hill.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

Earl H. King has new Saxon runsbout.
Greenville Grange has resumed its meet
mgs.
Irving Winsor has returned from vaca.
ton trip in variour parts Of New Hamp-
SHIRE and Maine.
Many people from this section attended
the North Scituate Fair.
J. Frank Mclaughlin of Bristol was in
town on Thursday,
John Schlemmer has new Ford touring
car.
John Barnes has returned from . trip &c
Atlantic City.
Night work has been suspended at tn,
mill.
A regular communication Of Temple
Lodge was held last Saturday evening
Albert Ainslie will soon occupy the
Winsor Cottage.
Mrs. Julia Fuller expects to remove o,
the Waldo Steere place.
Mrs. e. c. Wailing, who has been quite
iii, is improving.
Miss Margaret White CT New York is
spending her vacation here.
N $ Winsor had very 6ne display of
apples at the Scituate FAIR.
William McDermott Is moving back to
his old store
The shed near the bank is being repaired
Herbert T.. Dough is selling quite num-
ber Of cars IN this section.
The Mclaughlin property is undergoing
repairs.
Mrs A. O Smith OF Providence, a for
mer resident Of this place, has just return.
ed from a stay at Pasadena, California
Next Sunday will be Rally Day at St.
Thomas Sunday School.
A meeting of the Greenville w. {. 7.
u. will be held this evening at the Bap
tist Church.
Now Is the time to have your steam
heaters and hot air furnaces and stoves put
in first class order for the cold weather by
NJ. II. A. Burnside, M sonic Building,
Centerdale. Telephone Connection. Over
twenty-five years experience,-Adv.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
FOSTER CENTRE.

Mrs Arnold is preparing for another
entertainment. We expect something
good, when she has charge of it and we
never get disappointed.
Henry Ayleswor.h will enter Brown
University this fall.
The Foster Center school has eighteen
pupils this term.
The potato crop 10 not very good this
yeAf.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

No; the Democratic party will not be
saved by the European war. If you
would know what our condition will
be when that war ends think Of what
our condition was before that war be-
gan if you think these nations are so
impoverished that they cannot again
turn to work. Those millions Of men
now fighting are better able to work
than ever before In their lives.
Their factories are there; their pl
are there; they know themselves be
than ever before. They are better
ciplined, more alert, keener. stron
better physically, than ever before
the main, and they are ready to tn
great national energies into the p'
suits Of peace to pay their war bills.
produce up to the limit, to send th
goods throughout the world.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
Telling Tariff Points

Let these telling points on tariff
and protection In the speech by
Charles Evans Hughes, the Republic
an candidate for President, delivered
in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be fixed
permanently In your mind and
memory during the remainder Of the
campaign:
We are deslrous Of having strong
and sure the foundations Of our ma
tional greatness in this pursuit Of COM
petition among the nations which is
sure to follow the cessation of the
present struggle.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
SOUTH SCITUATE.

Miss Florence Luby, who has been i'll at
her parents summer home here, is improv-
ing.
The Scituate Tax Book for 1916 is out.
Many people from here attended the
North Sciluate Fair.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

If you are going to have the basis
for prosperity in this country, II you
are going to protect the American wage
scale, if you are going to have Ameri-
can enterprise able to meet the compe-
tition which will follow the ending Of
this war. you must have an honestly
devised, wisely framed tariff law to
protect American industry.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

The Pocasset Rovers played the Esmond
foot ball team to tie on Saturday at the
Pocassett Field, Thornton. The score
was I to I.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
UfFICERS

MICHEAL + DOOLEY, President
Vice Presidents
FREDERICK =. PECK
JOSEPH +. FLETCHER
Angus Us k. PIERCE ~
CHARLES III. w. Vaudeville,
Cashier
GEORGE G. WOOD, Assistant Cashier
FRANCIS Il. BATES, Assistant Cashier
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22
NATIONAL
EXCHANGE BANK
One OF the Oldest and Strong.
est Banks in Rhode Island.
The Mon Who Direct 1t

WALTER CALENDER
Calender, McAuslan q rroup Company
GEORGE u. CAuOONE
President George H. Cahoone Company
EARLE z. CHARLrUN
Fall River-vice President r. w. Wool.
worth Company
EDMUND ID. CHESEBRO, NJ. ID.
FRANK p. CONS OCK
PresidentJ. +. Comstock & Sons Company y
ART, UR w. DENNIS
President international Braid Company
MICHAEL +. DOOLEY
President
SAMUEL NJ EfNSTIEN
President Marathon Con pany, Attleboro
CHARLES r TT HER
Trea 'urer III hnheld oolen Company
JOsarii T.. FLETCHER
Corone "or-ted Company
kODO y F. - ItK
tre-iioLt Theodore ". Foster & Brother
COMPANY
f. ID 1 MI Y
Estate of James Hdnley
AZ u HEN u
Presi eat III mus * Company. Inc.
IDAkY ID. ~ aP kY
Estate OF Charles B. Humphrey
~ RLtS ii W VAUDEVILLE
Cashier
jOHN McMANU>
The McManus Company
tRkr khI,K T. X
President ASH Peck IL Company, Inc.
FRANK N Phi DIIpS
President American Electrical Works
Il THOM > OTTER
Treasurer Providence Real Estate
Improvement Company
JOSE"H l.. SWEET
President X. f. Simmons Company,
Attleboro
WILLIAM l. SWEET
Treasurer Rumford Chemical Works
CLARENCE l.. WA rSON
President The Watson Company,
Attleboro
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

/ propose that the Republican party
as the national party. according to the
constitution of the United States,
within the national sphere, shall pro-
ceed wherever 1t is practicable to build
up and foster and encourage American
enterprise and open the doors wide for
honest American achievement.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-22

Then came the Underwood tariff bill
itself. What was the result? Enter
prise halted and there was contrac-
ton of trade throughout the land. and
America. instead of going ahead, stop.
ped. That is what happened. Three
hundred thousand were unemployed in
the city of New York. There was not
city in this land where the jobless
man anxious and able to work did not
walk the street They were fed by our
charitable organizations. which were
taxed to the utmost limit to provide for
those for whom American enterprise
could no longer make provision. 1t was
a sad spectacle. Americans have not
forgotten it. 1t is not forgotten here
or anywhere. 1t cannot be forgotten.
1t is too recent
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By BURTON ]. HENDRICK

there was not the slightest trace
of an organism. Yet this clear
drop of water, the scientist now
knew, was swarming with millions
of the most destructive germs!
AS result of this experiment,
these undiscovered organisms be-
came known as "filterable vi
ruses.' Such filterable viruses
cause more than thirty we'll iden-
tilted diseases. What renders
this experiment especially inter-
esting now is that the germ of
infantile paralysis belongs to this
family. Early in their expert
ments Doctor Flexner and Doc
tor Noguchi obtained from the
spinal cords of diseased monkeys
a watery extract that had been
compressed through the finest
filters in the laboratory.
These experiments explained a
fact that has caused amazement
and horror in the present cpl
demic, and that is the great in
fectivity of the germ. For the
disease-producing power of this
filtrate was almost unbelievable.
You could take, for example, an
extract no larger than drop of
water, divide this drop into sew
enty parts, inject one of these
seventieths into monkey, and
in record time the animal would
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fall sick, become paralyzed, and die
though it was humanely killed with ether
before the acutest forms of the sickness
had set in.
Theisolation and cultivationo of an agent
so incredibly small apparently presented
insuperable obstacles. How could the
scientist dip into this drop of water, pick
out the unseen organism, and make it
flourish independently theculture-tube?
Yet Doctors Flexner and Noguchi accom-
plished this apparently impossible feat
Doctor Noguchi had already distin-
guished himself by doing things hitherto
unaccomplished in the laboratory After
a promising medical career in Japan, he
came to this country in 1901 as Doctor
Flexner's assistant at the University of
Pennsylvania. The two men have been
closely associated ever since.
A japanese Discovers the Infantile
Paralysis Germ
DOCTOR NOGUCHI'S work on snake
venoms early lifted him out of the
ranks of the mediocrities, and his expert
ments on syphilis gave him worldwide
fame. He was the first man to obtain the
organism of the latter disease in pure Gull
ture, and he devised skin reaction by
which its presence in the individual may
be detected. He also demonstrated that
paresis and locomotor ataxia, far from
being, as has always been believed, dis
tinct diseases, were merely manifestations
of this worldwide scourge. In all this
work Doctor Noguchi had developed a
laboratory technique of his own, too recon-
dite for popular description, by which he
had been able to isolate organisms that
had hitherto baffled the investigator. He
now proceeded to apply these original
methods to the Identification of the or
ganism of infantile paralysis.
DR.. Noguchi succeeded in the task. 1t
would require an immense amount of
technical, incomprehensibl language to
describe precisely how he did it. If you
had CHANGED to drop into his laboratory
after several weeks experimenting, you
would have seen the Japanese expert abb
sorbed in long, many-colored test-tube.
Half way up from the bottom it was filed
with yellow watery substance-really
ascitic fluid, the material that fills the
abdominal cavity in the disease of dropsy.
Imposed upon this was layer of blush
paraffin oil to the depth of about an
inch.
The purpose of this oil, was to prevent
the air from reaching the ascitic fluid
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organisms, the enemy urged, for the suffi-
cient reason that they did not exist. But
this kind of arguing was all nonsense
There is nothing quite so obvious as that
measles and scarlet fever are infectious
diseases among the worst known.
The same phenomenon observable in
the universe that is infinitely great also
regulates the universe that is no larger
than pinhead. The first telescope re-
vealed only minute part of the starry
heavens. AS the instruments increased
in size, thousands of new stars revealed
themselves to the astronomers. AS the
universe has infinite proportions, the
astronomer will never have a telescope
sufficiently powerful to lay it all beneath
his eye. And evidently the same prin-
nitely little. AS microscopes increase in
power, things hitherto unseen stand out
distinctly on the microscope slide.
About sixteen years ago famous
German investigator, Loeffler, removed
the discussion from the bounds of con-
troversy. He was experimenting with
foot-and-mouth disease, a destructive
cattle plague whose organism apparently
belonged to the ultra-microscopic class.
Making an emulsion from diseased It's
sue, he passed his watery product through
Berkefeld filter.
Millions of Germs in a Drop
of Water
NEARLY all of us now understand the
province of filter: it is an instrument
regularly used for purifying water, the
purpose it serves being to free the water
from the microbes of disease. The water
itself passes through the microscopic
meshes, while any impurities, especially
microbes, are firmly held back. Such
filters easily free the water from such
familiar disease germs as those causing
typhoid, dysentery, cholera-practically
all that have so far been isolated.
But Loeff1er, obtaining a transparent
watery extract as the product of this fill
tration, found, by injecting this into
cattle, that it would still cause foot-and-
mouth disease. What did this mean?
Simply that the germ causing foot-and-
mouth disease was so small that it readily
passed through the filter, minute as it's
meshes were. Moreover, small as it was,
it evidently existed in enormous numbers,
as the injection of the minutest part of
the filtrate would cause the disease.
Loeffler placed his watery extract under
the most powerful microscope known;
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paralysis, which is now
sweeping over the United
- States, represents by no
means our first experience with
this disease. There has probably
been no time in human history n
when this affection has not as
sailed mankind. Medical litera- -
ture contains fairly complete rec r
ords of forty epidemics, extending =
through the last seventy years; n
and as recently as 1907 New York II
City had nearly two thousand SSA
cases of the disease. E
The injecting organism that is N
now working such destruction in
New York and other States I'M
questionably preyed upon the
children of ancient Rome and an
Babylon. Yet it is only in the IN
last few years that science has a.
recognized infantile paralysis as Sc
aseparate disease. Not until Doc
tor Simon Flexner and his famous =.
Japanese pupil and associate, Doc
tor Hideyo Noguchi, finally i'm
prisoned in the culture-tube the
causative organism, did we really
know that it was an infectious
disease catching" in the same
sense that smallpox and measles
are Catching This achievement
not only scored another red-letter
day for American medicine, but opened a
new chapter in bacteriology. For this mi
cro5rganism represented different type
from those with which we have been long
familiar: it was member of micro
scopic world which, up to that time had
been closed to scientific men,
Science Embarrassed
FOR the universe to which the organism
of infantile paralysis belongs is so in
finitely little that medical science had
long despaired of ever entering it. When
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, the in
genious Dutchman who invented the
microscope, placed drop of water under
his lens, and, the first man in history,
saw the animated particles now familiar
to us all as microbes, he imagined that
he was looking at the smallest representa-
tons of living matter. What van Leeu-
wenhoek really saw, however, were the
giants of the microscopic world. They
bore almost the same relation to the in
visible universe that elephants and camels
do to the animal creation. Nearly two CEN
turtles after this discovery Pasteur DEM
onstrated that certain of these animalculp,
as these curious particles were called,
produced contagious diseases. Pasteur
himself discovered and isolated several
his successors, in Europe and America,
identified many more. Certain diseases
readily yielded up their secrets. Cholera,
typhoid. diphtheria, pneumonia, dysen-
terry, the plague, and others betrayed the
particular organisms that caused these
particular diseases.
Yet from the beginning the investi-
gators encountered one puzzling fact.
Many of the commonest Affections of
humankind had apparently no associa-
ton with any microbe. For the most
contagious disease known to us, measles,
the germ has never been discovered.
What infection has more famous his
tory, or what is more obviously infec-
tious, than smallpox? Yet here again the
injecting organism is unknown. The
germsof chickenpox, cowpox, scarlet fever,
yellow feyer-to mention only a few