VOL. LI
URGES FARME
PROTECT THE SNAKE
Expert Calls Nonpoisonous
Reptiles a Help.
Cary Jones, who la considered on* of
the beft-posted men In the world on
says that the killing of con
stricter snakes, or the nonpolsonous
kinds, costs farmers In this country
more than $122,000,000 a year. Jones
la at the fair on the Midway. There
he aits dally and lectures on American
reptiles and reptiles from other coun
tries when he can get them, says the
Aurora News-Beacon.
Several times he has appeared before
scientists to tell what be has (earned
fr6m experience with snakes. He has
learned little, If anything, from books,
because, he says, be Is just a plain
"Hoosler" who has had little oppor
tunities to go to school. He is an In
teresting , talker.
He says the number of rattlea on a
rattlesnake's tail do not tell his age,
but do tell whether or pot he Is well
fed. • Jones says every snake Is born
with 22 vertebra and with each year
another Is added. In other words, a
snake with 24 vertebra is In his third
year of life.
"The prejudice against snakes start
ed with the story ( of the Garden of
EdtP- Men have never come in dose
contact with snakes as a matter of
choice, But I have studied them 35
years. They constitute the only living:
family that dbes not fight wltHlh itself.
Reptiles live In harmony unless
there la a king snake or a blue gopher
In the lot. Those two are the only
cannibal snakes that live.
"There are 289 kinds of snakes in
America. Of these only five are deadly
polsom The polsoa ones are the rat
tler, the cottonmouth, the copperhead,
the adder and the.viper. The remain
ing families are' not antagonistic to
mafr br big beasts. They are the con
/■ti&stotw. They kill their food by con
-. "TpfjW! tfcpe »a snake kUls a rat be
ifvw the weight ot himself and the
*iat la gralj} for the farmer, He should
be cultivated rather than killed. He
frtfcdto If chaaad, 'bat will fight if eor
neffd- I* many Inataacee they be
come domesticated.; They make real
petis f .;but most, people do not want them
for pet*"
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A Gasoline Rifle
A p*teat attorney was talking about
sqmn of-the freakish: things that soma
of hi* clients to patent. The
latest Hftjty. invention was conceived
- by a Sprlngwells man; It's a gasoline
hunting rifle. A lead ball la shot from
the gun by exploding gasoline vapor.
Tba hunter carries a gasoline tank on
hi* back with a hose running to a
carburetor mount/ed on the barrel. A
dry-cell battery, also carried on the
back, warms the carburetor and fur
nisbea the Ignition. The trigger is
really a switch to aet off the Ignition
■par*.
Well, wby wouldn't such a gun
work? A good hunter might bit as
high as 20 moose to the gallon.—Ex
change.
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Credit Bobbed Hair Fad
>,. One of the good points to the credit
of the bobbed hair fad Is the revival
of several Industries and trades which
Had been more or less slumbering for
years. Hair dyeing baa Increased ma
terially; factories making beauty par
lor equipment have become rushed;
the artificial hair trade has been
greatly Increased with a growth in
the' number of halrdresslng shops
from 5,000 In 1919 t b more than 21,-
000 today. The amount of money spent
in hair coloring In 1924 was $7,500,-
000. . • '
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' Cloudburst Silver-Lined ■
When a recent storm washed away
the land on which the house owned by
L. L. Loony of Rochester, fier., stood,
there came Into sight a rich mineral
ore vein, the existence of which was
not even suspected. At a depth of 20
feet Mr. Loony opened up a vein of
ore assaying SBO to tbe ton. Cloud
bursts on the Nevada desert are usu
ally considered plagues, but this one
*yaa the exception.
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Super Cricketer
By setting a new world's record
with a score of 101 runs in one In
ning. Jack Hohba, professional Surrey
cricketer, has become the Mot of
British cricketer fans. One cartoonist
reflected the general esteem la which
he Is held by picturing seven great
men of tbe world: A gigantic Hob be
towering over Adam. Mahomet, Jnllna
Outsail IJoyd George, Charlie Chaplin
and Napoleon.—The Argonaut
Torch 'Fights Forest Fires
t A new apparatus for fighting forest
cqn*l«t* af a kerosene blow
torch,-, as afr I tmr aettlng back Ores,
saya Papular Bdeace Monthly. By Its
oaa aK the firing, it la claimed, can
be. ten* by mm experienced man. thus
nlaifcgtha, stlanrtea* danger to •
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THE ALAMANCE (CLEANER
Jumper Tree Older £ -
% Than King Solomon
There Is something about an ancient
tree that wins our reverence whether
we know much about trees or not And
sometimes one of these veterans is
| found of such■»age that we seek in
rain for a word that expresses our
feelings about it
'ln Logan canyon, Utah, a knotted
old juniper haa very recently been dis
covered; the men of selence say that
It had reached a vigorous life before
| King Solomon was born. A student
In the Utah agricultural college dis
covered It The tree Is still growing,
Its roots Imbedded In rock at an ele
vation of 7,300 feet above sea level;
It Is about forty-four feet high. The
old tree has been, taking Its nourish
ment from the limestone Cliff for 3,000
years. All that time this noble vet
eran has fought a lonely but victorious
fight against wind and storm and
drought Through Its long struggle
I the old juniper has acquired such
I strength' that It Is actually breaking
apart the ledge'on which It grows and
gradually pushing several tons of
rocky material away from the edge
of the cliff. The national forest serv
ice has been asked to protect this
tough old settler \ from the souvenir
hunters, by surrounding it with a
strong steel fence. —Youth's Com
panion. % '
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Value Bumblebees
at Weight in Cold
Bumblebees We worth much ' more
every day to the United States than
all our gold mines. Yes, they are worth
more than all gold and silver mines
together even If you multiply the
mines by two. Yen can rate the bum
blebees at about $300,000,000.
Perhaps you did not know It but
we owe our clover hay crop to the
bumblebee. And our clover Is worth
more than- $300,000,000 every year.
Dncle Sam tried to Introduce
red clover In the Philippines he made
a big discovery. Red clover would not
reproduce Itself in those Islands.
It took considerable time to find out
the reason for that failure was ab
sence of bumblebees. These buzzing
tollers are the chapa vgho fertilize red
clover—distribute tbe pollen and so
complete the yearly cycle of maturity.
And no Insect except tbe bumble
bee with his abnormally long tongue
can do that little trick in a red clover
field. »
When Undo Sam took a- cargo of
bumblebees out to Manila tbe job of
raising red clover hay In tbe Philip
pines was accomplished. Philadel
phia Inquirer.
First Loves Loss Out
Pew men marry tbe first woman
with whom they fall In lore, says Elaa
Rema, the Dorothy Dix of Germany.
Chance, al)e says, la mightier than
Cupid and usually first loves become
•epafated, . . . Men marry readily
wh«n young. Frauleln Rema flndß, but
when tbey are confirmed bachelors it
takes sympathetic housekeepers to
land them. Widowers are easy marks
because tbey no longer know bow to
live alone. Tbey are nsed to a home
and feminine carefcses and are nnable
to do without the comforts and ten
derness that goes with married
life. . . Same on this side of the
water, Rema. Same on this side.—
Cappor's Weekly.
Umcle Knows Everything
Bobby, age seven, who had never
seen a negro, was visiting his uncle
one day, and bis uncle took blm to
town.
While walking down tbe street a
negro woman passed.
""Uncle," asked Bobby, "why did that
lady have her face blacked that way?"
"Why, Bobby, that was her nnturaj
color," tbe uncle Informed him. "She's
I a negress." ' "
I "Is she black that way all over?"
"Yea," he was told.
"(Roth, uncle, you know everything,
don't yont"
Lions in Captivity
The National Zoological park saya
It is generally regarded that lions live
longer In captivity than In their natu
ral wild state. The young, however,
are somewhat hindered by caging,
while the older animals profit by It
As these animals grow older they are
often attacked by stronger beasts of
the Wild and killed.
Poultry on Farms
Of all tbe farms in the United Stat*s
90.8 per cent keep poultry. The small
est number of poultry per farm I*
found In the southern part of the coun
try and the greatest number In the
Central West In California and In New
Jersey. ,
"Friemdtf " Marriages
Th« law* of the varioas states pro
vide that a marriage may ha solem
nized In accordant* with the rule at
Prlends, which consists In simply tak
ing each other fer hnahaad and wife
before witnesses _
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 26,1925
Whistler Not Always
Regarded With Favor
Whistling la forbidden in Iceland,
Where it Is regarded as a breach of
tbe divine law. But Whistling Is re
garded with disfavor in other places as
well. In the dressing room of a the
ater, for example, It dooms a play if
anyone whistles within hearing of the
players who are "making up" for the
first performance, according to a very
old theatrical superstition.
On shipboard you must not whistle
unless you want to bring a gale of
wind. You may whistle just a little in
a calm, If you wish for a bit of wind,
but sailors generally believe you are
likely to get much more than yon
want
Whistling after dark Is regarded as
unluckly in some parts, while miners
hold that at no time of day should one
whistle In a mine; doing so Is sure to
bring on a cave-in, an explosion, or
Borne other form of disaster.
Among the races which resent nil
whistling are the Arabs. They ..say
that it is inspired by the ''evil one," ■
and that it takes 40 days to purify the
mouth of a whistler. Five years ago
the governor of Guam, the American
Island possession In the Pacific, issued
an edict against whistling on thut Is
land —presumably in deference to the
prejudice of the natives against the
Gatherings Not Only
for Trade Purposes
While the natives of Ethiopia repre
sent a rather high order of Intelligence
they do not seem to I>e able to break
awny from their old traditions and
their old methods. The market Is the
medium of exchanpo of news and views
aa well as of commodities, and ninrket
day is a treat that the native does not
miss If It can be avoided. The Inhab
itants "of the highlands bring their
grain and similar products down to
some large plain which is recognized
as the "market," and there they meet
the natives of the lowlnnds who have
brought their cotton. The latter is the
beats of all exchange and barter. Th«y
have money, but the value of the cot
ton regulates the value of the money.
Salt also la highly esteemed. The coins
made use of all bear the date 1780, no
matter how recent their origin may
have been. The date is regarded as
evidence of their validity and a coin
remains in service until the date la
worn off, after which no one will a*-
cept It for anything—Exchange.
Glaciers
y Ton liked tbe music Instruments
that glaciers made, but no songs were
ever so grand as those'of the glaciers
themselves, no falls so lofty as those
which poured from brows and chasmed
mountains of pure dark Ice. Glaciers
made the mountains and ground corn
for all the flowers, and the forests of
sliver flr; made smooth paths for hu
man feet until the sacred Sierras have
become the most ogiproachable of
mountains. . . . The primary moun
tain waves, tmvltal, granite, were soon
carved to beauty. They bared the
lordly domes and fashioned the clus
tering spires; smoothed godlike moun
tain brows and shaped lake cups for
crystal waters; wove myriads of mazy
canyons and spread them out like lace.
—John Mulr.
Weird Coffee Recipe
French coffee, Turkish coffee, Run
slaa coffee, all. have hnd their vogue
among those who are constantly seek
ing the bizarre; but in "All About
Coffee" we find a recipe which should
be weird enough to satisfy anyone's
taste. It Is "Judge" Walter Kumsey's
"new and superior way of making cof
fee" as given In 1657.
You must "take equal quantity of
Butter and Sallet-ojle, melt them well
together, but not I>oyle thern. Then
stirre them well, that they may in
corporate together. Then melt there
with three times as murh Iloney and
stirre It well together. Add thereunto
powder of Turkish Coplile, to make it
Electuary."
Butter, salad oil, honey, and coffee
mixed I
"Langs" in the Shin
The skin Is spoken of as the "third
lung" because of the fact that twice
aa much waste matter la discharged
from the body by means of the skin
aa through the longs.
Yes, at Least One
There Is at least one man of yoar
, acquaintance who can convince you
you are wrong Just by saying so.—
'Sparatanburg (S. C.) Herald.
Odd, but Interesting
All during the testimony he hardly
moved in his cj>alr. For the moat of
tbe time be rested bis head on hla
chin.—Port Worth Telegram.
First Photograph
The first photographic portrait waa
nada In New York In 1838 with a
camera made from a cigar box fitted
with a spectacle len*
HOW
VEGETABLE ALCOHOL MAY
REPLACE "REAL THING."—
Motor cars are running In many
parts of the world without.real
petrol In their tanka. Tbey relg
for their power on vegetable al
cohol, prepared by modern chem
ists from frulta, roots, seeds,-and
even flowers. v
In France, alcohol is extracted
from sugar-beet, and ten galldns
of spirit have been extracted
from a ton of this vegetable. Po
tatoes have been used for the
same purpose In Germany.
From fifteen to sixty gtfllons
of alcohol can be obtained From
n ton of acorns, horse chestnuts
or figs. In Australia, over 20,-
000,000 acres are Infested by a
certain kind of prickly pear, but
recently this pest has become a
source of profit, for it is said
that fourteen gallons of spirit
are yielded from a ton of the
prickly steins.
Although alcohol is also ex
tracted from artichokes, maize
and rice are the riches sources
of supply. You can get about a
dessertspoonful of spirit from ev
ery ounce of rice.
Seaweed is probably the
strongest source from which al
cohol for power purposes Is ob
talhed. Tons are gathered every
year, and after treatment by In
dustrial chemists yield a very
high proportion of useful spirit
How Antiseptic Rays
Got Rid of Microbe*
Two scientists recently dropped a
bottle containing an antiseptic into a
vesiel of Impure water. The bottle
was tightly corked so that Its con
tents could-not come In contact with
the water. Yet 24 hours later, when
ths bottle was taken out, 25 per cent
of the microbes in the water had been
killed.
The account of this experiment con
ducted by Doctor Techoueyres and
Doctor Bunnu-Varllla, was given be
fore the French Academy of Sciences,
says a writer in Popular Science Month
ly. An explanation advanced Is that the
antiseptic gives off rays that attack
microbes. The tube that contained the
antiseptic, a weak solution of chloride
of lime, was made of quartz, which
apparently let the rays through
readily.
The consequence of this experiment
may be of great Importance. Our
drinking water, for example, In the
future may be purified at very low
cost without chemicals.
How We Get "Turncoat"
The epithet "turncoat" Is said to
have taken Its rise from one of the
first dukes of Savoy, whose domin
ions lying open to the Incursions of
the two contending houses of Spain
and France, he was obliged to tempor
ize and fall In with the power that
was most likely to distress him, ac
cording to the success of their arms
against each other. So being frequent'
ly obliged to change sides, he humor
ously got a coat made that was blue
on one side and white on the other,
and might be Indifferently worn eltbor
aide out. While in the Spanish inter
est he wore the blue side out, and th*
white side was the badge for the
French. Hence he was- called the
"Turncoat," by way of dlstlngulablng
him from other princes of the aamo
name of that house.—Exchange.
How "Records" Are Made
The person making the record sings
or plays before a microphone (former
ly a funnt-l or phonograph horn)l which
concentrates the sound waves upon a
rilajrfiragm to which a recording neodle
is attached. The needle cuts the Im
pression in a blank wux record.
When the wax record Is pronounced
perfect It Is dusted with graphite and
electroplated. This forms a perma
nent or master record, from which tha
Working negatives are made by taking
wax of It and obtaining
coppeV electros in turn from them.
From these negatives by meana of a
hydraulic press the familiar commer
cial records are made, tbe material
used being a composition containing
shellac, wood charcoal, barium aul
phnte, earthy coloring matter and cot
ton flock.
How Andes Got Name
The origin of the name Andes Is un
known for certain. Many theories
have been advanced by different au
thorities. It haa been variously sup
posed to be derived from the Peruvian
words "anta," meaning tapir; "antl,"
meaning metal or copper; and "Antls,"
the name of a tribe living In tha
mountains; or froth the Spanish "An
di-nes," applied to the gardens on tbe
terraces 'which occur on the western
slopes of tbe Andes in Chile. Hum
boldt believed the meaning of "Andes"
Is lost One writer noted the Interest
ing fact that the Hindus In north India
called tbe Himalayas by the nama of:
Andes —Pathfinder Magazine.
Con&any's Rule One
of Absolute Power
Necessity forced the Hudson's Bay
company, a trading corporation en
gaged in collecting furs t* become a
government that rilled from the Qreat
lakes to the Arctic circle. Haw ab
solute this power might be, >n4 In
some cases was, la illustrated by the
strange history of Donald Smith, aft
erward Lord Strathcona, whaae nan*
la hohored In every part af tha Do
minion of Canada. Tha hlatery, wttkh
contains all tha elements af a romance
or a melodrama, la a matter af reo
ard In tha company.
Almost seventy year* ago a young
Scotsman came from hla native land
to take a place In tha Hudson's Bay
company. Ho served it with scrupu
lous fidelity, and had begun to feel
at home in the place where ho waa
stationed.
One day an Indian runner cam* ta
him with an order to leave hla peat
in one hour and betake himself ta
Labrador. The order did net permit
him to wait to pack hla clothing,
which, he waa informed, would be
sent after him.
Although the order exiled him t* aa
American Siberia, and waa unaceom
panled by any word Of ffrplaaatloa. h*
obeyed It without a word of re
monstrance. Within th* hour b* waa
on hla way to the distant and in
hospitable post He waa kept then
23 years. On the death of the gov*
ernor of the company, who had sent
him Into exile, he waa recalled.
As during this long, trying tint* ha
had been a wise, faithful servant of
the company, be waa now promoted
from position to position, until finally
be became Its governor. The exOs
was a harsh measure and tha reaaon
of it a mystery, but an old settler put
It In another light n>e company
governed by military dlacipllne, and or
dered those subordinates to perilous
service whom It cduld-rely en t* en
dure privation and cope with dangir
In the aplrit of a gallant addlSK.
Spicy Memoirs
Publisher George Deran of New
York was talking about the ie—nli»
of celebrities that are continually ap
pearing.
"It's rather remarkable," he said
with a wtqk. "what spicy workman
like copy these celebrttlaa all tan
out You'd think they'd h*on lulnel
to the writing, game from childhood.*
Mr. Dor an winked again.
"I waa once talking to a telshaHj
in London," he want an, "who mag
getting dosena of efflsrs dally tsr a
volume of spicy memoirs. H* told me
that a New York publisher had visited
him that morning and aald:
" 'Whatever you're offered. If
double It and besides, m writ* tha
book myself"
Worth More
Mrs. Langdon Kent was dlacasaMg
tbe servant problem In New York. "H
Is positively naive tbe way tha nisdartt
domestic takes her work. She ssSSM
to think that a good poaitlaa la ems
In which she doaa aa Utile aa poaatMo
for aa much as she can extort
"Only tha other day a friend* af
mine was trying to aeleot a aask. Tha
woman demanded n very high
yet admitted that aha waa uttnrty
without experience.
"•How than,' demanded my MM
'do you expact to gat top aragaaf
""Sura, mam,' waa tha brMM
reply, 'aint tha war* a whole lot
harder for me whan I don't know haw
to do itf"
Fertilising Setts
Ammonium nitrate perforaw aa ex
tremely useful function In fbHfflalng
certain crops, especially grssest, aa It
enablea them to take th* beat advan
tage of any phospborun couipwjads
present In th* soil. Whoa, hew eves,
the soil la a sandy earn, aakaeatnai
nitrate Is not th* beat tsrtmssrfrn nsa.
Tbe plants split It qp lade aiasanala
snd nitric add, and la a aandy soO
they abaoth more aaimanla than nitric
acid. This ft** add, being left la
tbe soO, accumulates, with the mult
tbst the soft Is quickly i aa4sr sd add.
It .Is therefore advlaahla to sMke cer
tain of th* typ* of sod hafsswaMftplng
ammonlam nitrate aa a teOßsar.
Beauty spota la tfefr coun
tryside ars no longar ta—ignis*
by unsightly admthMMlt For
set designed to pastatt kMdacapea
from advertmsmentah loop
hole which mod* it tMpanpUM* tat this
has been steppe* ty aWteaWflag ad
which received royal anesot on tha
last day of th* recent naiHsiasalsij
session.
Illuminated ifrtps
Electrically lllnruliialnd maps ass
new being used in the A*oru)al* pahOs
school, Cincinnati, Ohfs. Tfeeee maps
are so mounted that th* comes
from th* back, and eddi one of thee*
maps Is equipped with a sat sd
switches, so that different points may
be brought out an th* im«*n hi p»
ograpby progresses.* J a '
Sultan Evidently Had f
Well, Just a Little/
Mulai Hafld, sultan of Morocco, waa
a hum gambler. While he was still
aaltaa the Ptench resident-general ta
Morocco gave a party In hla honor and,
knowing. the monarch's passion for
Ciling, organized a baccarat game,
a ftulal Hafld waa winning, a
British newspaper man named Loria,
who waa loelng, aald: "You do wrong
to. take that meney. It's against the
teachings of the Koran." That so
worried the sultan that he waa on the
paint of gtvlag back his winnings,
whan he aaw nearby tbe French chief
justice, a recognised authority on
Mussulman law. "Tell me," said the
sultan, "whether it Is against the
Koran to take this money." Tbe jus
tice remained silent a moment before
replying. "Your majeaty, if you have
played a straight game, you cannot
touch this money became It Is mere
hazard that made you win and it la
forbidden by thq Koran to take ad
vantage of hazard. But if you—bow
dull ( I sayT—forced your luck—l
mean, cheated a little—you may put
the money in your pocket because you
won It by your skill and cleverneea."
The sultan smiled. "Thou art the
greatest and moot learned judge I
have ever met" and he pocketed the
money.
Apple Tree Honored
by Canadian Farmers
A monument in honor ot an applo
tree stands in Dundas county, In Can
ada. 'lt Is made of marble and standi
on or near the spot where the original
Mcintosh apple tree grew.
It la nearly 130 years since John
Mcintosh emigrated from Scotland to
Canada and settled In Matilda town
ahlp. That was the day of tha pioneer,
and "honaat John" had to clear bis
own land. In this process he Is said
to have come serosa a number ot ap
ple trees, which ha spared. One of
these produced a bright-colored apple
which ha called the "Mclntoah Bad,"
and It soon became famous.
His son, Allan Mclntoah, propagated
it so that now It la grown In many
parta of tha North American conti
nent
Th* eriglnal traa waa injured by
fir* la IMO, but It contiaued ta War
tta bright red ttwK until 1908, when
it failed aattrnly. To mark their ap
preciation of a trad that bad bean ao
profitable to them, tha farmers of tha
country raised a monument ta it
Difference in Teas
Th* kind ot ten leaves can ha
nsed for th* manufacture of dthar
green or black tea. tha d'fferancs of
th* two teas lying merdy in th*
process of curing. Yet son* vsdeties
of tea leavsa are better adapted than
others for making certain kind* of
. taa. In producing grsdi tea th* laavea
are sterilised by steam. This prevents
or fermentation of the leaf,
which retains Its green color, and when
boiling water is poured over It the re
adt Is the green or greenish-yellow
llquH In manufacturing black tea tbe
leaf Is allowed to ferment, which
changes Its color from green to very
dark brown. In tha case of oolong, a
semi-fermented tea, tha fermeatatlon
la allowed to reach a certain desired
point
Mam's Let of Trouble
It man had been created without
beard be wodd have ssved quite a bit
*f trouble, time aad expense, saya aa
Bnglish writer.
Tbe eer to esr measure on tbe aver
age man) face is 12% fccbes, and
from where his beard starts on hla
tbieat to bis chin snd hence to tbe
upper lip Is 4% Inches.
This area must be shaved every day,
If a man wishes to be spruce snd
dean.
In shaving, two strokes are made for
every inch, so that every day he goes
aver about 68 incbee of space.
In a year this amounts ta 2C820
inches aad la a lifetime It totals 20
mile*
If a man takes lv* mlautss dally to
shav* hlnaailf at eeventy be wfll have
■pent a total of 75 dajrs In ahavlag.
says tbe writer.
Aged Students
QMs at eighty, took It Into hla ven
erable head to learn Greek and PTo
tarch, atmoet as lata In life, learned
Latin. Theephrastus began his work
an the characters of men at ninety.
Bis literary labors were ended only
hy death. Socrates learned to play
SB musical instruments when wdl ad
vanced ta Ufa. Colbert tbe famous
Pfrsath —tin, returned at sixty
ta Ma Latia and law studies, snd the
gseat Doctor Johaaon applied himself
la Dutch hot a flaw years before bis
dsath. TMan there la the now forgot
tm Marquis do St Ada! re, who was
smb yagarded aa a remarkable prod
igy. At tha age a ( seventy be began
ta write peetry and COQtemporaries
declared that hfe'raMaa were "fun ad
NO. 43
fltW MANY BEDS FORTBRERv-
GBIOSIS DO WE NEED HI !
NORTH CM? ! |
The matter of the importance oC
aanitorium treatment tor every per
son who baa tuberculosis has cease* ,
to be a subject tor discussion. On|
people in North Carolina and through
out our nation and in many other n*>
tions are unanimous'on this one thing- r |
How lone should a patient remain in
a sanatorium and should he he read
mitted in case the disease should be
come reactivated seems still to be
under discussion, at least by the laity,
in our state. Let it be said that
persons expert in tuberculosis from the
National Tuberculosis Association m
down, agree that every case of tuber
culosis should bare six months at ft
well regulated sanatorium as a mini
mum, some internists will not treat ft
case of tuberculosis until after they
have had this term of training in ft
sanatorium. Then all cases that be
come re-activated should be allowed
to return to the sanatorium, espec
ially where they cannot be properly
cared for in the home for one at
many reasons, or if perchance they
bate no home. Than all Car advance# |
cases should be cared for in a tab# l l
culoais hospital, especially if they)
have no home or improper home »ur
roundings.
How many beds of tuberculosis ban
ww in North Carolina available for
citizens? Not more than five hundred.
And how many do we need. Let mft
quote from the National Tuberculosis
A t f/v««Hii in Technical Series No. X
prepared by Mr. T. B. Kidner, publish- , j
ed this yesr, psgs S:
"It is usual to base the estimate aC
the number of beds that should ba
provided in a tuberculosis sanatorium
upon the number .of deaths occurring
«,mn«Hy from the disease In the dis
trict which the institution is to serve.
(The average number of deaths fas?
several years should be used). A con
servative estimate is that tat be*
should bo provided for each death;
although it haa been found in place*
where the laid organisation tor antt
tnberculoais work la thorough, an*
the "finding agencies'* an active an*
regular in their work, that the pro
portion of beds to deaths may wall bo
higher."
We had in North Carolina last yean
according to the report of the Bom
of Vital Statistics. XM2 deatha. There
for, according to the ratio set by tbft
National Tuberculosis Association
an ahy in round numbsrs two thou
sand beda. If we may hope to gi*e o*
people what they need and what that*
are entitled to. We would have had
seventy-live additional beda in each oC
two counties but for an error mads
by the last General Assembly, which
of course will be corrected by the 1W
ssesloeL
It la time the state should take up
this matter in earnest. The Dah*
foundation will in a few months ha
ready to pay one dollar per charity
patient per day to all county and stato
sanatorium s.
The state sanatorium ahould ha
greatly enlarged. County aanatortama
should be erected. Perhaps another
state sanatorium should be built ih a
different pah of the stats. Might it
not be well for the state to subsidise
the county sanatoriumsthat is pay a
part of the coat of maintenance of pa
tients therein. A wonderful work la
being done and la accomplishing mora
than could reasonably be expected bal
we need two thouaaad mors beda.
HuUmeal Heroine
Beatrice (Tend was the daughter of a
Roman patrician. Bbe was born in
Rome February 12, 1577. Her father
for many years abused bis wife and
family In the most cruel way and as n
result the family procured his mur
der. They were tried and sentenced to
death. Beatrice was executed Sep
tember 11,1008. The circumstances of
her life have long caused her to be con
stderod a martyr and her history has
bsen the theme of several poem*.
Maddening
Walker bad been going about for
I two days with a worried look on his
usually smiling face. A friend stopped
him and asked the reason for the sud
' den change from Joy to gtoom.
1 fear my wife la going insane. Ifs
those people next door," Walker said.»
i "What have they done? What's the
r trouble?" the friend asked.
"She cant bear a sound of them sll
r day long-
Hair's Color Changed
i When white hair to removed from a
- spot on the back of a Russian rabbit
i and tbe animal Is kept In a colder
l temperature while tbe new hair is
t growing It conies In block instead of
white
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