davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13

lection about the roots of the teeth which does
not manifest itself by any discomfort or any pain
whatever. Yet these infections a constant
menace to the health, for they may invade the
blood stream under certain conditions. These in
fections in the mouth may pneumonia, tuber-
culosis brights disease.
This does not mean that you should immediate
ly rush to doctor to if you have focal infec-
not neglect any focal infection which perceive,
such a toothache tonsilitis. And choose
doctor for the minor ailments just carefully as
you choose if you had pneumonia
Do not be afraid to lose tooth if the dentist
the tooth cannot be fixed And remember that the
of tooth before he fixes it, is not fulfilling
his obligations to his patient. Also remember
that doctor afford to serve you for reason
able fee.
infection. The tonsils should not be removed
less they undoubtedly diseased, but in the lat
ter case they should come out.
Do not neglect catarrh of the nose and throat.
This does not mean catarrh of the muscous mem
brane. Connected with the are cavities OF the
honey skull, two under each cheek, and two in the
frontal region behind the eyebrows. These may
become seats of bacterial infection, and produce
chronic catarrh. 1t cannot be cured by douches,
gargles and syringes, and if you have chronic
catarrh, do not let doctor put you off with these
things. By incision these cavities may be drain
ed and the focus of infection removed
Do not neglect minimize the Importance OF
any of these forms of focal infection, for any OF
them may do you very serious harm But ABOVE
ALL keep your natural immunity high. This natu-
raj immunity, your bodily vigor is your insurance
against all kinds of infection. See that you have
daily exercise plenty of sleep, good wholesome
food, and that you properly clothed when you
go out Chilling the body is one of the most dan
gerous things that you do, for it lowers your
natural immunity, which is your guarantee OF
health.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
GASTRIC INSANITY
By H. Addington Bruce

BY II. AddlngtOn Bruce
r INSANITY does not always begin in the brain.
1t may have its start in other parts OF the
body, notably the gastro-intestinal tract
Not a few of mania and melanchoa,
of dementa precox and paranoia, seem to
be chiefly due to self-poisoning from undigested
food, whereby the blood supply to the brain is
disastrously affected.
In point is the of a woman of sixty,
widow, who, when seen by the Boston psychiatrist
L. Vernon Briggs, afflicted with a strange
medley of halluc1nations and delusions.
She saw Newfoundland dogs in her room
where no dogs were really present. She thought
people were looking at her through imaginary
windows in solid walls.
Continually she fancied that she heard chill
dren playing in the street, and insisted on being
allowed to join them.
These only few of the obessive notions
that beset the poor woman, creating an excited
state that made her most difficult to manage.
DR.. Briggs, noticing physical signs of self
poisoning from food fermentation, ordered elm
NATIVE treatment and put his patient on rigid
diet Within few months her mental well
her physical condition improved greatly.
Less than a year after treatment began she
was able to undertake voyage to Europe. When
last heard from, there had been no return OF
the Authorizations and delusions.
In anther case treated by DR.. Charles Mer-
cier, the sufferer a young of twenty
seven, a salesman.
His mental state suggested dementia pre-
cox Often he semed unable to grasp simple
statements of fact. Once he obliged to ask
twenty people the way to his home.
DR.. MERCER discovered that he eating sug-
excessively ordered total abstinence from sug-
ar, dieted him otherwise, and started elirnina-
tive treatment. At once the mental fog began
to clear away.
Numerous other psychiatrists and neurologists
have had somewhat similar experiences. Peter
son, Hamilton, Allison, Dent, Howse, Stern, and
Gordon are who may be mentioned. Ssgs
Gor0on:
Various conditions which called acute
mania are l believe, caused by different fntox-
icating elements, and some meancholias
doubtedly toxic. We seek to eliminate, and at
the same time to improve the patient by liberal,
easily digested diet
1 would not be misunderstood Still less
would 1 raise false hopes.
Self-poisoning from food fermentation is, or
course, only of insanity, and not the
most common cause. Dieting is by a
specific in the treatment of insanity.
Or, to state the situation in the conservative
language of MERCER:
I'm a certain proportion of of mental
disease, small in proportion to the whole brt
considerable in the aggregate the disease is due
to in diet, and be cured by rectifying
the error in diet
That is the important thing-to recognize
that in at least some cases of insanity there a
direct casual relation between food errors and
mental disease.
Copyright, 1918, by the Associated Newspapers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
The american Indian in the Var.

II the shades OF POwhattan, Pontiac, King Phil
lips and those other celebrated cheftains of early
American history look down upon this earth to-
day. with what establishment must they not regard
the part the Indian is playing in the war!
More than two centuries ago the red man fixed
hostile gaze upon vessels anchored of his shores,
come from he knew not where Through forest
and across plain he fought the invaders who press
ed him steadily westward. And to his children and
20 his chiIdren's children he bequeathed heritage
of hatred toward the pale faces that famed out
again and again. in Tecumseh. in Sitting Bull, in
Geronimo and his Apaches. So persistent it
among certain tribes that, We are told, the Semi
noes of Florida, proud descendants of the warrior
Osceola cherish the delusion in the Businesses of
the Everglades that they have surrendered to
the United States
Yet the American Indian today is well repre-
sented on the front line battle beneath the Stars
and Stripes in that old world which to his fore
fathers was an undiscovered country far beyond the
Great Water. Dispatches describe how Pershng's
Arizona Scouts. those same Apaches who went on
the warpath with Geronimo. have met the Boche in
his own baiIiwick and eIuded him by that woods
mans craft for which the is famous. What
reader, perusing the account of how Pershing's
Scouts camoufaged their faces with mud and grass
and fOated down the Marine to safety the oppO-
size bank, but recognizes in it the trick to
ykich he was wont TO thrill in boyhood days as he
read the tales of Edward s Ellis Kirk Munroe and
a host of others?
Not alone in scouting, in crawling through shell
pitted No Mans Land listening posts beneath the
enemys very noses. in oUtwitting the Hun in that
game at which he is a postmaster. is the Indian
serving Uncle Sam. But in the National Army hun
dreds of them. volunteers and SeIectmen both, have
taken their stand side by side with those who were
once their foes. when the history of this war is
written. there will be long and glorious chapter
devoted the American Indian. Members of a
fast diminishing race they may be, but they are
proving in the waning hours of their glory those
same brave warlike qualities which have been at
tributed to them since the first white set foot
on the western hemisphere.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13

The hearty reception accorded the advanced
Allied contingents that have landed in Archangel
and on the Thurman coast augurs happily for the
expedition following in larger numbers, to aid
Russian patriots in rehabilitatng their nation and
in saving it from the clutches of the Hun.
The first important service Of these friendly
forces, in which the United States has notable
part, will be to protect the rear of the Czecho-
Slovak army that is already making significant
Roadway against the Teuton elements in Siberia and
gathering thousands of eager recruits as it moves
on. With its line of communication and source
of supplies safeguarded, that swelling army bids
fair to become formidable force against the Huns.
If it did no more than afford raIlying point for
loyal Russians, it would a vastly important
purpose, because such rallying point is all that is
needed to develop power that will purge the coun
try of its brutal German invaders and their Boil
shevik conspirators. The tratorous rule of Lenine
and Trotzky already tremb1es to it's fall, and the
peasantry all the way from Ukraine to the farthest
reaches of Siberia are in latent if not open revolt
against German domination. Thus the Allied ex-
petition will find fertile soil for its worthy pur-
poses, which not to interfere with Russias
right to complete self-government, but to help her
to vndicate that right and to absh it in truly
substantial form.
The comparatively small military force will be
followed by numerous engineers, agricultural ex-
perts, Red Cross workers and others skilled in un-
tangling economic problems-all eminently con-
structive. Wisely planned and prosperously be-
gun, the expedition is rich in goodly possibilities
both for Russia and for the Allied cause.
Sometimes, without wishing to critcise an ally,
think the British fall down. How could they
expect to keep track of the German prisoners with
out adequate corps of adding machines.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13

full but it is fairly true. The French peasant
economies wood to the last inch. No land is
thrown away in fence rows, either with their ac-
emulation of weeds. The men where France
does things better than they do. They likewise see
the many ways in which we do things better than
France does Sometimes the of the two coun-
tries do things differently but equally well. The
men see that. too. The foreign experience has
broadened and educated them. Most Of all, it is
teaching them to think for themselves
1t is too early yet to say what may be the
effect. But those who have to deal with them
had best respect this warning. Bosh and decla-
nation will not pass at the old value when the
boys come home.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
AROUND THE CORNER
BY DR.. Frank Crane

What's around the corner? Something. What
it is, used to be terribly afraid of it, when
boy
When l would take girl home at night after
meeting, l would walk out in the street little
lest If kept the sidewalk would be so close
that Something around the Corner could get me.
Nothing ever did jump out and grab me, never a
ghost, or booger-man, or a murderer, or anything
though expected and feared all those boy-years
And since l have grown up have discovered
that Something around the Corner is believed in by
most mortals. 1t may be accident disease or
loss disgrace-or that old fellow himself who
turks around the for all of u.s. and will get
us every one some day-Death.
The Thing around the Corner. it is the skeleton
at the feast, the shadow on our sunny day, the
nightmare sleep, the concealed weapon of
destiny, the vague enemy that will not let us
bivouac in peace but makes us always keep our
pickets out alert for stealthy attack.
And yet the Good Things of life are around the
Corner. Happiness hides there and springs laugh
ing at And the little things that make hearts
bright and days glad. Ten of these blessed things
have come upon unaware, to of them that
we have sought and found.
Love, for instance. Don't you remember how it
with you when it came to you that She really
loved you? That wonderful, divine creature, The
pearl of the world, that radiant one, the atchet of
whose shoes you we're not worthy to unloose-
what could she see in commonplace mucker
you? miracle of miracles!
Then there's Christmas, Corner of all corners,
of giggles and whispers and loving thoughts!
But specially the Little Things they that
make the of contentment, and they
nearly all surprises. If we could foresee them we
wouldn't appreciate them.
It's not the big Olympian gods that love
most it's the little fairies of circumstance, the elves
and pixies of happy accident that futter along the
ways of men.
The best things of life come unexpected upon
you. From the time when you were presented with
your first pair of trousers or Uncle Ed brought you
home a toy pistol down to just yesterday when
friend paid you back ten dollars you lent him and
hoped to again. and all through your life,
your in business, your rarest friends, your
most palatable food, your most enjoyable excur-
sions, your most interesting books, the remarks
some made about you that most tickled your
vaniety, the most welcome visitors-amost all Of
them not planned and worked for, but jumped
at you from around the corner
And around that last Corner, where we turn to
travel the Unknown, l do not believe there hides
grisly Thing of evil, but smilng-faced One,
with welcome in His hands and the Morning Star
for me-
Copyright 1918. by Frank crane.) -4sA
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
Write to the Boys "Oser There.

You who have kindred or friends among the
BOYS "Over There" listen to this moving appeal
in their behalf from Georgia officer in their
midst Writing to an Atlanta friend, he says;
1t happens TO be my job Company COM
mauder TO censor all Company mail, and it is
from reading these letters that l know now
much the men want TO hear from home and
friends-and not all OF them are fortunate
enough 10 hear letter doesn't seem like
a very momentous thing back home; one &C
Cepts them along with the other blessings OF
Gods country rather a matter OF course
But over here mail from home is-well, 1t Is
mail from home. Home to these boys means
more than IL did before and mail is the
one connecting link. 4 bright, CHEEKY let
ter from home just naturally knocks the
spots out of trouble. and adds no little TO the
spirit and consequently to the efficiency OF
the man who receives it. Tell EN- to
write often and long; sob stuff, but bright
cheerful stuff about home doiHgs. These men
thrive that sort OF thing
Who that has a kinsman or comrade at the
front can remain unresponsive to such plea?
OF all the duties of patriotism and of friendship
none strikes more keenly home than that of writ
ing to these gallant boys who offering their
all in their country's cause. We owe it to them
both as our friends and as our freedoms pro-
tectors to let them know that are thinking of
them while they are fighting for us; to cheer
them with heart messages from their native land,
now dOubly dear because so far away; TO tell
them the simple happenings in their old loved
haunts, news awaited as eagerly by them the
great tidings from the battlefront are awaited
by US Letters like this will count intellectually for
the happiness OF the boys. and for their morale;
will hezrten them for their grim, heroic work;
and If they fall will sOlace their hours of suffering
with tender thoughts. go with them rs shining
comforters into the Valley of the Shadow. Write
a letter today TO your soldier over There" write
often. and write cheerfully.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13

These articles are special reports of the Half
Hour Health Talks" which membets of the Army
Medical corps have delivered before the en-
ployes of the department by order OF Sur
geon General William Crawford Gorgas. Thcy
are probably the most authoritative advice upon
medicine and hygiene which has ever been offer
ed the public in popular form. This talk was de-
livered by Colonel Frank Billings formerly o.
Chicago university and now head of the diVis-
ion on reconstruction and rehabilitation, army
medical department.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13

You who have kindred or friends among the
BOYS over There" listen to this moving appeal
in their behalf from a Georgia officer in their
midst Writing to an Atlanta friend, he says:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
QUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

Tommy and Jimmy were bored stiff. They
smothered in mud, short of cigarettes, and
hungry. They both sat silent for a time, then
Tommy suddenly burst out:
Fancy, Tim, a munition worker gets four
quid week for making shes!'
"Yus," growled Tommy, and we get bob
day for stopping em!"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

uSef paper SHOWS ue
~ least wees
~ regular service -
In orterns r1per be . mention yo' CO.
v ss vouf new address please give 'ne rooe
49,.
ReuIttancex postal order or TTIE
ard 1otices Tor this ~
sFMIwEEKLy JOURNAL Atlanta Ca
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-13
The Journals Service Flag

In honor of the sixty-nine Atlanta Journal men
who have entered the service OF their country Inc
two white stars are in memory of Captain Meredith
GRAY and Captain James S. Moore Jr journal men,
who gave their lives for our country in France
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-01-03
WRITES OF MEETING AT PICKENS

,kuowna place before where they brought
the prisoners from the jail into re-
ligious service; but this man has the
respect Of all his prisoners, and he told
me he could trust them to go to church
and come back even if he was not with
them. said to some Of the authorities
of the city that If am ever so unfor-
tunate as to get in Jail. want them to
send me to Pickens, South Carolina,
where my jailer will let me go to church
and have the privilege of divine worship.
must say God did bless Pickens in n
special way through our humble minis
try and several hundreds manifested
their interest and acknowledgement Of
the truth, by accepting Jesus Christ as
their Saviour, and equally as many
Christians yielded themselves to God
for conservation
Prof. Durham played great part in
this meeting through his proficiency in
song and by his spiritual life.
My old time friend S. NJ. Stikeleather
who went with me as my assistant was
used of the Lord in Il special way both
in prayer, song, preaching and caring
for the tent. Our dear Bro. ID. j. FAINT,
the railroad engineer that God has SO
marvelously used throughout the coun-
try when he is not on his engine, came
from Atlanta for three days, and preach
ed for us several times. Bro. Fant was
the man who first started these special
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-01-03
UNCLE OSCARS CHRISTMAS LETTFlR''

nus oeen year since my last letter
10 Inc Sentinel. l have been irving
~ ~r'ee something for weeks past, but
somehow there are so many elements
'"a. go INTO rural carriers daily ex-
per'ence that he cannot keep in one
mood long enough towrite on anv Given
subject. "'S e''e''
Only a few days ago, tho sr, h.d
come OUT the snow was melting, Christ.
mas was near at hand and had twontr
I'VE cents left from last months chocL |
and was feeling fairly good SO I decided
to write some lovc-lyrics and Just MS
got myself fixed and got my thinker
tuned up and had written something
about the liower-laden dels of loveland.
that old gray slipped in the melting
snow and down he went The wagon
stopped abruptly and | stuck my head
about three feet further through the
front window than | had intended in
trying to see what happened There
lay the old "hoss," his head in The mud
and his southern eXtremitics cooked III,
over the shafts at an angle of forty
five degrees and staring up at me will
his blind eye (the other one was full OF
mun. After had waded around il
the mud and helped him to pick himself
UP, then with the first muddy No. 8 that
could get into the wagon, stomped
the bloomin love lyric into smitherins,
for by this time | had decided that tho
world would have to make out will,
James Whitcomhc Rilcy's works littlt
longer
But its an i'll wind that blows NJ.
one. good " Wien the old gray cot u,
out of the mud he was gray no longer,
he was 'camouflagcd Then the kid
dies could not see him coming SO far,
and got by without hearing, "Christ-
mas gift, Mr.. Mailman God Bless
the little ones! We would like to have
remembered them all, but 30-ccnt cotton
has pit the salaricd man right where s.
cent cotton put the farmer However
we had the privilege Of making one
little gift for which we shall ever be
thankful.
This is my birthday; what arc you
going to give me?" asked a little girl
as she stood in the door and watched us
drop the mail in the box. 1t was just a
lew days before Christmas. The clild
looked pale and i'll. We had nothing
then. The next day the birthday had
passed and we thought to wait and make
IT Christmas present, but something
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-01-03
Central Local Items

The coal dealers here arc forced to
notify the people that they will sell no
more coal. +. Z. Morgan, our fuel adj
ministrator, has y large sign in The post
Office giving the people fair warning to
get in good supply Of wood
G. y. Hodges, OF Easlsy. Wa in Cen
trail on business one day last week.
The I.cJoy boys Of Anderson, visited
their nephew, w t. Hyde, here last
week.
Mr. Lawrence and DR.. j. Is. Falls,
sons of Mr. and Mrs. j. II. Falls, were
here last week visiting their parents.
They have returned to their camps. Lee
and Gordon.
Mr.. 5. }. Barker, Il long time clerk
for j. II. Morgan, went to Seneca. Jar.
lst to work Tor Mr.. II. H. Marrctt.
Mr. Barker's many friends wish him
much success in his new position
Mr. Louis Nicholson, Of Calhoun. be-
gan work with the Central Mercantile
Go. here January 1st.
Mr.. Fred Garrett, formerly $ clerk
with Central Mercantile Co., goes to
the farm the first Of the year.
j. S. Hyde sold his place to Mr..
Smith recently. Mr.. Smith comes from
South Georgia here TO make this his
home.
Mrs. Mary Carson Hatton ond her
husband, DIR. liatton, spent Christmas
with Mrs. Hatton's parents here, Mr..
and Mrs. j. L.. Carson. They left last
Friday morning for their home in At
lanta.
Hurrah for Central Red Cross chan
ter! In the big Christmas drive for
new members our number was swelled
to 866. This increase is largely due to
the planning and untiring work Of Ralph
Ramseur, our most efficient chairman.
Prof j w. Wallace, Misses Ruth Bcs-
sic Gassaway. Helen and Edna Clay ton.
Amanda Patterson, Watts Clay tor.
Join now and help your "bit. !"
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-01-03
PumpkintOwn News

The school at Pleasant Grove rtsumed
its work this morning after n hort va.
cation during the holidays, ~lth, Misses
Lille Smith. of Salem, principal and
Emma Herd, Of pickcns, assistant
We hope the patrons will take interest
and see that their children will attend
regular during the term, and that much
good %i'l be in$til'cd into their minds.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Elrod, Of
Grccnville, spent one night OF last week
with the lattcr'a parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. S. White.
G. l.. Wclborn and Chester Kuglcr, of
fIckens, were the guests Of Mr. and
Mrs. J. I, Wcfborn, one night recently.
w. D. Hendricks, Jrs and sons julius
and Ben T., made a tripto Pickens one
day last week in their Overland car.
II. r. Hendricks, who hasa position
at Greenvile, spent the holidays with
homefolks. a.t 5isl
Mrs c. w. Smith, !0f Oolcnoy, spent
one q day }, recently with her sisteN Mrs
Ben Ellenburg, Who had tho &misfof4SS
tune Of gettiig.hislcg hurt wbile&Work- q.
ING atasaw milb bisable to oBeont again:3sss
Misses Bernice, Besse LeesandSS SSlHi lfRst
Hendricks had for ortheirignost lqst
day Misses Matte aDdsl at tieSsl lstiits
Little Kate Elrod. who has been .segls ts;s
ing some time with her gra,sg 5s5
has returned homo a
N