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Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-03

ED '" A1tD ~. FLHNRs Seventeenth Infantry who tried val-
 iantIy to save a messmate from
 drowning.
 sound became rough and angry, the thing, of course. they could have done.
 
 They lost what little control they might have exercised over their little craft. and she capsized. Mir. Hoffman, discovering the couple struggling in the wind-tossed waters. dived over the side of his launch to the rescue. Be- ing fully dressed, he was much hin- dered. but he succeeded in reaching Miss Kaufer and getting her to his boat before it was too late Her sail ing companion was barely able to save himself. though he managed to do so without aid.
 Quite often there are several New York policemen among the number of medaIists of the class. This year there were only two-Thomas E. Car mody and Luke H. Grace. The latter. who is a patrolman and lives at No. Scott street, Richmond Hill, L.. l., se- cured his medal on April '. 1916 The rescue he effected was during the pre- ceding January.
 It was after midnight and Grace was on patrol along the North river in Bat tery place when he saw 9 man, whose name proved to be Kennedy, strug- gling in the water. The North river is icy in mid-January, and by the time Grace had swan out seventy-five feet from the bulkhead and got hold of his man he was chilled to the marrow of his bones.
 4 small canal boat was the nearest craft and he made for that instead of for shore. Before he reached 1t with Kennedy. he was seen by the Workmen and as he came alongside the two were helped aboard to safety.
 Capt Joseph A. Burns. who is grave ly termed "a good citizen by his neighbors and friends, is a nledaIist of the past fiscal year and lives in Brook iyn. The rescue he made on August 3, 1911, and for which he received medal last June, was only one of number
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special mention The effort pr. Michel made and which gave him his medal to the public health service probably made saving life matter of habit ea in the hsSit of ntfemptinE ns With coral reef to boot. Fevers and small pox are one thing, but the Atlantic ocean Is another
 A swimmer by the name of Howe was having taste of the kind of surf which poets describe. November fin Porto Rico Is ba1my as in Bermuda. and the sea, at Ell Condado Beach es- pecially. is then attractive to the veri- est land Iubber. Howe was not used to the quick changes of southern skies and waters-the part of the world where they have no twilight. for in- darkness. He was enjoying his swin, to the fullest. The surf started pound. ing as though it were the heart of some giant in distress. and Howe struggled in vain to make the shore.
 pr. Michel, also enjoying an hour the surf breaking over the reef. It was useless. Howe went down too far away for any one to reach him in time to save his life, so the surgeon turned his attention to another who also had not measured the coming and going Of the treacherous currents in the neigh
  hausted and hopeless of rescue, Dr. Michel and a third man were able to get to shore and rescuscitate. The doc tor was given 3 silver medal on the 1th of January. 1916.
 very proud mother is that of Ed ward S. Waters, Mrs. F. D. Mcconnell of West Liberty street, Savannah. Ga. When the photograph of this medalist was asked for. it was the mother who answered. and sent it. She gave the information also that Edward $. Waters was, at the time of the rescue, on June 20, 1915. seventeen years and seven teen days" of age. "A heroic act for a
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no means agreeable to those who have not contracted the opium habit.
 Much is heard at present Of the in crease in the cocaine habit. There IS no relation between opium and cocaine, though the persons addicted to one may easily become an addict to the other. X plant grows in South America, the leaves of which yield remarkable al- kaioid known as cocaine This coca plant has nothing to do with cocoa nor with the cocoanut and their numerous products. The local reputation of the plant is that of pleasing and sooth- ing tntoxicant. and this effect is had by chewing the leaves mixed with clay or 5asneS. In modern medicine and sur gerry cocaine and it's derivatives have acquired valuable uses and are consid- cred a daily blessing to countless pa- jents of the medical practitioners.
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 Cocaine is a white crystalline DOW der, without odor. and which has a slight acid reaction and is bitter to the taste. It is said that when it is placed on the tongue it produces a tingIing sensation, which is followed by numb ness. The action of cocaine on the nervous system differs from that of opium or morphine.
 The use of cocaine, like that of opium, is no new thing in this world. and it's evil effects have long been in. weighed against. Nearly half, a century ago a British medical writer i'm the Brit lsA HeuIcdI JOuEudl called attention to the symptoms Of cocainisn- Here Ia something" he wrote. which quickly re- lieyes hunger by deadening the gastric nerves upon which the sense of hunger largely depends, and which has a most pleasing and rapid effect upon discom- fort in the mouth and nose and throat It locally relieves congestion and offers itself as an incomparable boon to sing CTS or speakers who have sore tfroatH and colds and who must somehow fulfill an engagement.
 Many such admirable artists has it conveyed to lunatic asylums. The curse of cocaine can scercely be over stated. In many instances the victim of morphine has used cocaine to enable him to rid himself of the morphine hab- 1t This is to take seven devils as the remedy for one"
 The dangers of cocaine are said by
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United States as Uncle Sam.

TT HE practice of calling the United
 States Uncle Sam" is believed to have originated during the revolutionary war when there was a beef inspector in Troy N r.. named Samuel Wilson. Owing to his great popularity among hiA work men he was called Uncle Sam" After ifl- specting beef he shipped it to a. contractor named Ebert Anderson, marking it ''E
 A U. S." Some one asked a workman ingly replied, Probably Ebert Anderson and Uncle sam" The joke spread from one to another until people became ac- customed to refer to the packages marked with the letters U. s. as belonging to "ITncle Sam"
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efforts sine left those good and honest but neglected people to wonder what changes can be wrought by knowing hands
 "These people are the most hos pitable in the world and all that they have. including the family towel and basin. are free to the visitor. whether neighbor or stranger: but unfortunate- &g it is in just this way that the in- lection from trachoTna is spread; and therefore one of the most important things is to teach them something of personal hygiene.
 Last year in MuhIenberg county there were nine or more hopelessly blind charges upon the public. One girl who for ten years had been unable to see was operated upon and restored to a life of usefulness. with her sight re- gained The longevity tables gave her thirty years more to live.
 If her earning capacity be put at only $1 a day. she would in that length of time have received over 5000.
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i, tance he must cover. When he hna1l did reach aobinsO got nim a,s and s1.tuans tu1n 1 he had come. he felt too weak for the task. his burden being unconscious by ] Being a soldier and used to disciplin- ing himself. however. he kept on until overcome by exhaustion. he was com paiisntiy T si tried a to O save, as @ and make for the shore alone It was said to be re- ma lea bie that he was able. in the con- dition he was then, to regain the land and save his own life.
 
 Patrick J. Nester, another 1nedalist, was a private in the Marine Corps when he won his medal. He is a cor poraI of the Coast Artillery Corps now and stationed at Fort Casey, Washing ,, ton.
 It was on September 8, 1915. when stationed at the same point. that he rescued Albert Boettcher from grave in the deeps of Puget sound. Boettcher. pany. fell into the sound from the top of the sea wall which protects the land at. this point
 1t was during the night. and a dark one at that. The air was sharp and the water. as Nestor plunged over the wall after the unfortunate man., was sharper still. He had found and sup ported Boettcher for some time before assistance came in the shape of a rope thrown out and caught by NeStOr-
 On August 10, 1913, Theodore H. Hoffman of the life-saying service in New York city was on Long Island sound in the launch Dewey. A Miss Kathrine Kaufer, with a male conpan- ion. was also enjoying the sound, in sailboat.
 A sudden squau arose. to which Mir Hoffman. safe in the Dewey. paid little attention. but the couple in the other crafts on the water fled to shelter along the shore As the waters of the
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of cases within these districts. but it's force is inadequate to cover the coun- try properly and many cases are run ming on to certain blindness.
 The economic value of the work al- ready done cannot be estimated. for there is no telling how fa- the in lection would have extended by this time if it had reached the more popu- lous areas: but it's humanitarian ac- complishment has paid a hundredfold on the federal capital-$43 5000 last year-invested.
 The service has three hospitals in Kentucky and one each in the other three states where trachoma is preva- lent. It probably saved at least 1900 patients from total blindness; has had an attendance Of 19.e00 days in the hospital and given over 100000 treat ments at clinics.
 The doctors and nurses managed to cive BPS talks, visit $500 homes and CPS schools '@Gov'ment Doctor Mic Mullen. who is regarded in that sec tion as miracle man, was induced between trains to tell some of the many incidents that he knows about the work among the simple and hos pitable mountain eers-
 Ina ;slnte youT eyelashes turned der.the lids and resting on your eye balls he said. then you will have the sensations with which traciomD tor lures its victims. As the disease pro-
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work in connection with the salvage
 of the sunken boat. It was a strain on
 of comrades who were experienced in deep-sea diving went about their work
 with tension.
 One comrade. after working consid- erable time, 'feuled his lines" to use the vernacular. He was 25o feet below the surface of the water. Cril1ey was not at work at that hour. Amid the excited onlookers. he jumped into his diving parapherna1ia and went down to get his mate. Even in the short time it had taken to prepare for descent, the endangered man hanging there amid his lines in the deep water had become entangled and given up all hope of get ting to the surface again alive. Crilley, when he had dived down and reached the place where the other man had been working, could not find him.
 To be 250 feet below the surface Of the sea-the tropical Sea-where ones imagination can play havoc if nerves are taut. is a feat in itself; but the work that Cril1y undertook and 'the way he stayed with it-these things cannot be estimated by any medal.
 It seemed to him that he must have been there all day and that night had come. During the second hour, when he was swung between hope and doubt like a pendulum that has no power in Itself, when he would get hold of his helpless comrade, only to be unable to cate him only to have him a dead weight and lifeless in his grasp. it seemed that several days went by.
 In the next hour determination had become a habit of what seemed ages That he was successful at the end of three hours and brought his men up to the surface and the grave-fac ced marines that crowded round need not be further remarked upon.
 pr. Carl Michel. assistant surgeon of the United States public health serv- Ice, stationed in Porto Rico. is another m nedalist of last year who deserves
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n1unities where information seems to pass by underground telegraph.
 One niountaineer, " hose eyes had been closed ten years. was led by a stick forty miles over 2 mountain trail to the hospital At first it was feared that his case was hopeless, but after Urea IIne1t for three weeks he walked home alone It is probable that he stopped at excry house along the route, And told every person he met that he had been blind and could TOW see. With such advertising people came vofunqar lily fa great numbers from all direc-
 Dr.. McMullen would not tell it him. self, but It is fact that in Mullen berg county he. held 9 four-day- clinic and in that time operated sixty times He examined and treated 200 people, and ct any time could look down and see hunnred i.l line waiting to reach him. To do what he did he had to be- gin @woriS-at sunrise, and, except for lunch. stopped only when the sun went down-and then could not help them
 The doctor did tell about thfs case. however esss~
 s'one woman, the mother of three children. had never through her poor, burning eyes seen the light of one Of the baby faces. She got. a place in our tospital. and soon after the opera, look Drop the veil there.
 She soon came back with a. heart fpl @onfa eo to zee us ss and said she reached home she found the bless edest dirty house in the mountains.s and had been working herself nigh most to death to get 1t clean.
 Two cases-the only ones-came by judicial compulsion. A local magis- trates had before him neighbor who had committed some ;indiscretion. and this was the oracular Judgment: John, you know I can send you to jail, but you think afn't Eoip' to. ! am.
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gressess the eyebaH is affected and the vision impaired until gradually the sight is lost.
 'aThe feeling Is that light must be kept out. and In the advanced stages patients. go about with their eyes swathed night and day in bandages-
 "A dear little girl of twelve who was brought to us by her mother wore deep. old-fashioned sunhonnet- which
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A Poets Beginning.

ID ICHARD LIE GALLIENBE was talk IN ing rather bitterly in a New York cafe about the decline of poetry Fl
 shabby young man slunk out, and Mr. Le Gallienne said:
 '"rh Ire goes QullIer. I knew he'd he n poet. He was found. you know, in bas- lxet on doorstep"
 "But,S said a photoplay writer, bewfi- dered-'.but what's that got---'
 Tt was waste basket he W. found in," MT. Le Gallienne explained.
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was just to crack 'em and eat 'em.' He had $20 that he had earned in his pock- cts And his wife says. Now that Bill can see I have to watch him close to be sure he behaves himself; he feels so good
 'It was not easy at the very first to gain the confidence of these suspicious people: but the news of some simple cures went rapidly through those com
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assistants hundreds have regained their sight. and thousands have been cilreG of the disease, which in time would have deStxoyed their eyee The infection threatened to involve many states, but the servtce has hold it .TithiE the Appalachian regions of ksn- lucky. FenneSsses Virginia and West Virginia.
 It has treated and cured thousands
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s1 7 oU are sight for sore SO NJ eyes," had a double mean
 ing when friend used
 that expression 3n greeting pr. John AIcAful1eTl. the physician who has been leading the United States public health service campaign against trachoma, or granulated eyelids.
 In the past year through him and his
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Dread Disease of Eye lids Threatened to In wade Many States, But United States Public Health Service Has Held It to Comparatively Small Area-Dr. John McMuflen and His Re maTkable Work - With the Patients.
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Special Correspondence
 WASHINGTON. D. C..
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12
WHAT CAN YOU Do7

The United States has entered
this war with a thrilling and con-
vincing statement of her motives.
England and France have acclaim
ed us as an ally whose purpose
acknowledges that their tremen-
dous sacrifices during the past three
years of fighting were made in a
crusade for civilization as against
barbarism.
Never in our history has there
been a nobler call to national duty.
It brought us face to face with the
debt each one of Gus owes, not only
to our country, but to civilization.
But if we are going to give sub
stance to President Wilson's inspir-
ing words, every patriotic man, wo-
man and child in this country ought
to do his bit, and do it in the way
in which he or she may be the most
efficient.
There are so many ways now to
help, that every one can find some
thing to do-if he is willing to do it.
And in the doing, many of us will
acquire a conscious nationalism
which we have never felt before.
We will learn to look upon our flag
not as mere decoration, but as
asecred token of service.
There can be but one brand of
LOYALTY in this country now-active
support of onr governments plan;
and the quicker every one of us
gets busy doing for the aid of our
government the thing that we can
do best, the sooner this war will be
over and peace secured.
What can you do?-Everybody's
Magazine.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12
COMMUNITY NURSE REPORT

The regular monthly meeting Of
the Health and Welfare League
was held in Miss Georgia Sledd's Of
fce last Tuesday afternoon. In the
absence Of the President, Mrs. J. A.
Vansant acted as Chairman. Sew
eral items Of business were discuss
ed, but the principal matter of busi-
ness was presented by Mrs. c. e.
Duff, who is chairman of the sale
of the Montgomery County Fair
tickets. The League is to have the
exclusive sale of the season Fair
tickets, and Mrs. Dun gave out a
number of tickets to members of
the Board who were present. Tb,
following is the splendid May re-
port of Miss Frost: Number of
patients, %; number of nursing Wis
its, 101; number of social visits, 5;
of business visits, 30; num-
ber of surgical cases, dressings
and treatments, 0; number Of tuber-
culosis cases, 5; number of Metro
politan cases, 8; number Of paid
visits, So; number of patients sent
10 hospital, /; died, l; assisted in
operations, {; dismissed II; total,
l55. Miss Frost will begin on a Fly
this week.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12
CAN OR DRY ALL SURPLUS

In order to thoroughly learn oul
lesson of economy during the com
ing summer, one most important
point must not escape us.
Never before in our history has
there been such crop of small
fruits and vegetables as will be
produced this season. These, if we
are not extremely careful, will by
their very profusion lead to waste.
We must remember that everv
piece of fruit and every vegetable
has a market value. True, we may
not need them ourselves, but others
will. There will be an urgent de-
mand for every can of fruit and
vegetables, and for every pound of
the same that can be dried.
Families should, if necessary.
make a little sacrifice Of time and
labor in order to save the overplus
from the gardens and orchards and
truck patches throughout the sum
mer.
The government will be in the
market for enormous quantities of
these goods and will in large meas
ure absorb the output of the big can
neries. This will leave the local
dealers to depend upon the small
Gamers and individual families for
their supplies.
1t will greatly facilitate matters
if neighborhoods will cooperate
and establish small community can
neries that can take care of the
surplus fruits and vegetables as
they accrue. But where this is not
done EVERY FAMILY should fol-
low a firm determination that
shall go to waste.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12
MAKE LABOR FASHIONABLE

One prominent American editor
sounded a vital note when he sug-
gested that our people should "make
economy fashionable. That was
wise suggestion and one that
should be needed by our profess
sional high livers.
But to it we wish to add this ad-
vice: MAKE LABOR FASH
IONABLEl
Put the two virtues side by side
in double harness all over this
country during the days that are
coming, and the United States will
easily come into her own.
Seek to Disguise it as VIC may,
our country, when this war began
was fast drifting toward a loafers'
paradise. Thousands of our young
men have been reared in idleness,,
with not the faintest conception of
the true dignity of manual labor.
Starting with sons of wealthy par
ents, it extended downward IN the
scale of society, as class after
class attempted to initiate those
financially above them, until not
only was there among all classes
physical aversion to honest toll, but
the very idea seemed to carry with
it sense of inferiority and
degradation.
Aside from the deplorable causes
producing it, the present national
campaign of production is the sal
walton of our country in more ways
than just that of providing food for
the world. 1t will make useful citi-
zens of boys who were fast becom-
ing degenerates from the need Of
serious. object in life. 1t will give
vital force to the academic teaching
of the honor and dignity of labor.
1t will tougher muscles long unac-
customed to exertion, and will trans
form weaklings into that which the
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12

Silence is golden-when you are
not dumb.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12

The Advocate for printing
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12
PRICE FIXING

There Is an insistent and growing
demand all over the country for
regulation of the price
of all foodstuffs. That demand
calls for a guaranteed minimum
price which will protect the farmer
or producer, and a maximum price
at which products may be retailed.
In this manner the producer will be
encouraged to great efforts, the con-
sumer will be protected against ex-
tortion, and the price juggling mid
die men and speculating baby rob
bers will be put out of business.
This action can not come any too
soon to suit either the producer, the
retailer or the consumer.
Silence is collaboration Won ora
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1917-06-12

Almighty intended they should be-
MEN. Vital, forceful, red blooded
MEN.