THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY. ' November i), lilO.
use in Egypt for more tlian five thousand
years. He claimed that it was used in
the prepaiation of the harder instruments
used in building the pyramids, thus show
ing that the early Egyptians knew how to
temper iron.
The Greeks coined iron, and in the time
of Homer it was used for axes and plow
shares. Pliny mentioned the undesirable
prciperties of impure iron, which we now
call brittleness. Its capability of becom
ing magnetized when brought in contact
with the magnetic stone was also known.
Lead was also known in very early
times. The Greeks and the Romans, es
pecially, tunied it to good account in
making water pipes, writing' tablets and
coins. Soldering with lead or with an
alloy of lead and tin was also made use
of. Lead was used for making cooking
vessels, and the symptoms of lead poison
ing occurred frequently; notwithstanding
this, the metal w’as often used as a med
icine.
Tin also found extensive use in olden
times. Recent discoveries in the Egyp
tian tombs show’ that it was prepared
fairly pure at an early date. Among the
Romans lead and tin were distiniauished
from on? another as plumbum nigrum and
plumbum candidium.
cohol, only 25 per cent. died, ‘‘in some
cases the direct action of alcohol predis
poses and encourages tuberculosis,” he
declared.—Selected.
WHAT MEDICAL SCIENCE TEACH
ES ABOUT DEINKING.
Views of Leading American Doctors as to
effects of Whiskey on Health.
Perhaps the most startling indictment
of alcholic drinks ever made was that
resistered against them by a convention
-01 fminent doctors'aiid scieutie'.s tr-et-
ing in Washington City not long ago
as “The American Society for the Study
of Alcholic and*Drug Narcotics.” With
remarkable unanimity they declared thal
the old ideas of whiskey as a medicine
have been explixied; that its use in the
treatment of disease mnst be almost whol
ly abandoned. It brings out hidden weak
nesses and develops latent maladies; it
is especially dangerous when used by
peions suffering from any nervous weak
ness, “and by lowerinig the vitality and
destroying the combative forces of the
blood” it makes it harder to resist all
kinds of disease. Superintendent Bur
ton, of the Sterling-Worth Sanitarium,
declared that “the use of spirits is fol
lowed by shortened life, increasing (pre
mature) age, and diminished vitality; al
cohol in any form can never prolong
life;” while Dr. B. C. Keister, of the
Roanoke Home Sanitarium, declares:
“Theories held a few years ago as cor
rect are now found to be erroneous. Al
cohol, like every drug in common use, is
found by .science to be useless except as
a narcotic. * • Alcohol as a beverage is
a relic of barbarous times.”
Dr. Heijry Marcy, ex-president of the
American Medical Association, laid espe
cial emphasis on the use of whiskey as
a cause of degeneracy “among the coloi-
ed and illiterate classes of the south,”
and a number of eminent doctors joined
in ursing the necessity of providing hos
pitals for the especial treatment of in
ebriates and drunkards. Dr. H. J. Ach-
ard, a tuberculosis specialist, especially
attacked the old idea of whiskey beine
useful in lung tiimble, and reported sta-
ti tics showing that of suspected consump
tives treated with alcohol. (10 per cent,
died, while of those treated without al
An Expert’s Conviction—Alcohol the
Arch Enemy to Good Health.
Dv. Henry Smith Williams, one of the
best knowu American authorities on the
effects of alcohol after exhaustive inves
tigation in this country and Europe, pres
ents the following as his conclusions:
“So I am bound to believe, on the evi
dence, that if you take alcohol habitually,
in any quantity whatever, it is to some
extent a menace to you. I am bound to
believe, in the light of what sfience has
revealed:
(1) “That you are tangibly threat
ening the physical structures of your
stomach, your liver, your kidneys, your
heart, your blood vessels, your nerves,
your brain.
(2) “That you are unequivocally de-
creasiii)" your capacity for work in any
field, be it physical, intellectual, or ar
tistic.
(3) “That you aie in some measure
lowering the grade of pour mind, dulling
your higher esthesic sense, and taking the
finer edge off your morals.
(4) “That you are distinctly lessen
ing your chances of maintaining health
and attaining lonaevity.
(5) “That you are entailing upon
your descendants yet unborn a bond of
incalculable misery. ’ ’
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Diplomacy.
The late Lord Salisbury was > ry care
ful not *o confer too much authority on
young men in the diplomatic circles. On
one occasion—according to I^ond m Tid-
Bits—he sent a foreign office emissary to
make some demands of the repub
lic. Before setting out, the emissary, to
whom his lordship had explained the ex
act nature of the demands, desired to be
informed as to the course to take if, af
ter he had said everything, there was a
refusal. ,
“Oh,” answered Lord Salisbury, “this
is not a matter in which we have the
least thought of fighting. If the Presi
dent refuse's, why, you will simply have
to come home again.”
The emissary went and had his say to
the President of , who blankly re
fused to give in; and the diplomat re
tired to think things over.
A few hours after he wrote to the Pres
ident :
“I rerret that your Excellency does
not see your way clear to recognize the
jnstness of the claims which I have had
the honor to present. I have now to say,
on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty’s
government, that unless ynur Excellency
yields on all points which I have named,
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second half of my instructions.”
Under this vague and significant threat
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Ni‘.mt was approaching and th? rain was
coming d>wn faster. The traveler
(’ismounted from his ho'.se and rapped
at the door of the one farm-house he had
struck in a five-mile stretch of traveling.
No one came to the door. As he stood on
til > doorstep the water from the eaves
trickled down his collar. He rapped
airain. Still no answer. He could feel
the stream of water coursing down his
back. Another spell of pounding, and fi
nally the red head of a lad of twelve was
stuck out of the second story.
“Watcher want?” it asked.
“1 want to know if I can stay here
overni'aht,” the traveler answered testi
ly-
The red-headed lad watched the man
for a minute or two before answering.
“Ye kin f?r all of me,” he finally an
swered, and then closed the window.—Lip-
pincott’s.
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Feat of Balancing Chairs.
Among the numerous physical exercises
is the f at of balancing on the two rear
legs of a chair while one foot rests on
the front part of the seat and the other
ira the back of the chair. This may aji-
l>ear a hard thing to do, yet with a little
liractice it may be accomplished. The ex
ercise is one of many p acticed by the
boys of a boys’ home for an annual dis
play given by th:m. A dozen of the
b>ys will mount chairs at the same time
and keep them in balance at the word
of the commanding officer.
His Plan
To dodge his creditois required
Such vigilance and vim,
A motor tar he went and hired.
And now they’re dodging him!
—Lippincott’s.
The Only One Lacking.
“Why are you sure ther' is no such
thing as a fourth dimension?”
Because.” replied the discouraged fat
man, “If there was I’d have it.”—^Ladies’
Home Journal.
Rememb r well, but forget easily; hold
on to all good, and let the evil pass quick
ly from vou.—Life Linos.