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We sell the great SNELLINGBERG CLOTHING COM PANY'S NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA LINE of GOODS. They make great Claims for their make of Clothing and their claims well founded. You will find correct stvlesas to Cut, Trimmings, and general ap pearances. "We sell CHILDREN'S SUITS $1.00 to $(5.00. BOYS' SUITS $4.00 to $12.00. MEN'S SUITS $4.00 to $20.00. :5 Visit Our Furniture Department, ON THE SECOND FLOOR. Pretty line, Reasonable Prices. . Bed Room Sets, Lounges, Couches, Iron Bed steads, Baby Carriages, Babv Cradles, Gunn Sectional Book Cases. FELT MATTRESSES $5.00 to $15.00. CARPETS at 25 cents to $1.00 PER YARD. ART SQUARES $5.90 to $25.00 EACH. PICTURES for PARLORS, SITTING ROOMS, ETC. In Our Dry Goods Depart ment, You can find the proper DRESS GOODS, SILKS, VEL VETS, LACES, TRIMMINGS, LADIES UNDER WEAR, HOSIERY, ETC. We show ENGLISH' JACK ETS at $1.98. LONG MANISH COATS at $3.89. LADIES' RAIN COATS $2.50 and $5.00 Many of the latest styles of Coats and Cloaks. The Millinery Department. IS REALLY CROWDED WITH BEAUTIFUL FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY. Come to see it. We offer Style and Qualty at Reasonable Prices. Stoves and Heaters. We are sole Agents for RICHMOND STORE COMPA NY'S COOK STOVES and HEATING STOVES. We will receive another Full Carload of these goods on Oc tober 16th. We have an assortment now in Stock, but will have, after that date, a Stock unequalled and un surpassed. SEE OUR COOK STOVES at $8.00, 10.00, 12.00, 15.00 and 20.00. See Our AIRTIGHT HEAT-' ERS at $1.50, 2.00, 2.50, 4.00, 5.00 and 7.50. Crockery, Glassware, Etc. Don't forget that we carry a great line of CROCKERY WARE, GLASSWARE, etc. and that we sell a CHINA SET of 100 PIECES for $1000. 46 PIECES for $5.00. 10 PIECE CHAMBER SETS $2.50. Our Grocery Department. Remember that we sell the real good Wheat Flour perfectly satisfactory goods "ROB ROY" Finest Michigan Patent. "OBELISK," the famous Kentucky Flour. Our Grocery Department will not disappoint you. VVagons,BuildersSupplies,Etc. Farmers, get your next Wagon from us, we sell "THE GREGORY" two-horse wagons and "OUR KIG" one horse wagon, both made by the Chase City Manufactur ing Co. EVERY PIECE OF EVERY WAGON GUARANTEED. Don't forget our ANCHOR BRAND LIME said to be the best made, and OUR PORT LAND CEMENT. We can only call attention at random, to a few of the Splendid Articles of Our Stock, but as we have said before, we rarely fail to Please a Cus tomer. - Please come to see us, or rather to see and in spect our Goods. Our goods cover the most of requirements of human needs. We begin with Baby Cradles and end with 'Burial Caskets. Again we say COME. With thanks for present liberal patronage,, we remain, I ay m 8 I Pi 8' Caldwell jLTJMBERTON, m m mt m m m m jfWS iwS nrnn irWS; WS ifflMt mx Carlyla, N. CAROLINA iliill ftm. SW wmw Mmn ifflMc WS M m m it iaf sbs ass m m m a s tst mt mt m North Carolina Text Books to Have Lesson In Tuberculosis. The state text booK com mission when it adopted the books to be used in t he North Carolina public schools stipulat ed with the publishers, J. B. LippincoU Co., that the text books on physiology and hy giene should contain a special chapter on tuberculosis. This was agreed to by the publish ers. ,, It is a step in advance ot other States and its importance is manifest. This chapter, which is numbered 13, in the "Second Book of Physiology," is given here: Consumption, or pulmonary tuberculosis, as it is scientifically called, is the most fatal of all diseases, being the cause of about one-seventh of all deaths in the civilized world. Every.one should know something about it, for by knowing a few simple lacts it is easy to protect your self from catching it if you come in contact with it, and to protect others if you have .the disease yourself. Consumption is con tagious, but it is not very much so. It is not contagious in the same way as measles or scarlet fever. In these diseases the germ of the disease floats in the air near the sick per sons and if you come in contact with them you are very apt to catch the disease. This is not the case with consumption unless the sick person is - very careless in spitting, for the germ of con sumption is lodged in the lung and is confined there, except when the patient coughs and spits it up. Consumption is caused by a very small germ ealejjje, tub. erele bacillus. It is so small that even when you put it on a slide under a,nicroscope and magnify it five hundred times, it looks like a mere tiny beaded thread. If you magnify a little baby five hundred times he would be about as tall as the Washington monuiuent at the national capi tal. So you see how very small the tubercle bacillus is. Isn't it strange that such a small thing should cause such a terrible di sease? But it does this be cause it grows steadily in the lungs and multiplies itself a millionfold. It also produces a poison called toxin, which circulates in the blood. By weakening the normal resis tance of the lungs, it also fur nishes a fertile soil for other germs which come to join it These other germs are the cause of colds and coughs and grippes. Then when the dis ease is advanced, the tubercle bacillus and these other germs give rise to. the symptoms of consumption, which are cough, fever, and nightsweats, and great loss of flesh and strength. Now, when you think that this terrible disease can be preveuted by a little care on the part of the consumptives, isn't it a pity that they do not all know this and stop the spread of the disease? What must a consumptive do to protect others from catching the disease? Just one little thing he must be scrupulously clean. The germ of consumption sees the light of day only in what the consumptive spits up As long as this spit, or sputum is moist the germs cannot float into the air to be breathed by some one else. Therefore, the consumptive should in pne way and another so care for his sputum that it can never be come dry before it is destroyed best by burning. When in the house he should be particularly careful never to spit on the floor, or walls, or bedclothes. The best "way is to spit directly into the open fire, if there be one, or into a paper box or on paper handkerchief, or bit of rag, so that it can be burned in the stove before it gets dry. If a spitton should be used it must have an antiseptic solution; or at least water, in it, to keep the sputum moist until it can be burned or buried. This indoor- care is very important, because consumption is nearly always caught in a house infected by the germs from a case that has been careless about his sputum A house in North Carolina was occupied by a white family of eleven, the father having con sumption. He and his wife and eight of the nine children died of it. Later it was occupied by a consumptive colored woman. About three months after her death a family of ten strong, healthy colored persons took possession and everyone of them died of consumption. If a consumptive lives in a city or town, he should never spit on the sidewalk, but into a spit-box, or at least into the gutter. I f Ire lives in the country he should never spit directly into the path, but on the sides into the bushes or weeds. When a consumptive coughs, sneezes, laughs, or talks loud, if near another person, . ho should always turn his face away and hold a paper handker chief, or rag, or even his hand if he has nothing else, before his mouth. The fine mist or spray, thrown into the air by these acts contains the . gerin of . the dis ease. A consumptive taking these precautions is not dangerous to those who come in contact with hi nr. Ot course he should sleep alone in a nice airy sunny room. Sunlight kills germs. He should avoid kissing even his own child ren or sisters or brothers, be cause of the tubercle bacilli that may be on his lips. The con sumptive, too may thus catch a cold or an influenza from others for some cold and other acute inflammations of the nose and throat and air passages are con tagious. These are dangerous to the consumptive, because they aggravate his disease. You must always remember that colds are very bad for consumptives and make their condition much worse. Consumption, as you know, affects grown people by attack ing the lungs, but it affects child ren differently. Very few child ren have consumption ot the lungs, in them it attacks the glands. There are little chains of glands running all through the body. In healtljy children they are small and soft, and you cannot feel them, but when they become diseased they become enlarged and hard, and you can feel them, and even see them whentbey get big enough. The place where they are most easi ly felt is in the neck and under the lower jaw, and also in the arm-pits. In these places they are most superficial, that is nearest the surface ana just under the skin. , When these Klands are enlarged you can be sure that the deeper ones in the chest (or thorax, and in the abdomen where you cannot feel them are also enlarged. There are many other things than the tubercle bacillus which enlarge the glands. Any miection or inflammation may do so, so that not every child who has enlarged glands or "kernels" in its neck has tuberculosis. Still, enlarged glands are always suspicious, for healthy children do not have them: and if they are present you should go to a doctor and have him examine your chest and watch you as you grow up. For if the glands are enlarged from the presence of tubercle bacilli in them, there is always lungs when you grow up and giving you consumption. The bacilli reach the lungs by getting into the lymph and blood cur rents and being deposited in the lungs, where they find every thing favorable for their growth and development. We know much more now than we did a few years ago about the treatment of consumption. We know now that it can very often be cured or the process stopped The earlier the disease t is dis covered and the less inroads it has made in the lungs, the better is the chance of getting well Therefore it is important that all doctors should examine their patients carefully in order to discover the disease before it his gained much headway, . for the moment tubercle bacilli have lodged in the lungs and started to grow, they give rise to symp toms and signs in the chest, which, while very slight at first, can be l'eadily recognized by a skilful doctor. That is what the doctor is for, and that is what he is doing when he. listens to your lungs and thumps your chest when ho examines you. He can tell by the changes from the normal sound that something is wrong, and just what that is and how far the disease has gone. He can tell by feeling your neck whether your glands are enlarg ed, and so be ready, if they are.to prevent the spread of the dis ease to your lungs. Children and grown people who are thin and in poor health, and who have cold and coughs and sore throat, are more likely to take consumption than others. They have hot as much strength to resist the disease- ' Therefore you should keep yourself as well and strong as possible. You should eat well and drink much fresh milk;sleep well and longand be out-bf -doors as much as possi danger of the bacilli reaching the ble. Exercise iss good . for you, too, if you do not take too much of it. Everyone should exercise according to his strength. Deep breathing and chest exercises are good for you, particular if your cnest is narrow and flat, or undeveloped, but they are not good for you if you have col J sumption of the lungs. You should not get your feet wet and should protect yourself from catching cold. Thorough venti lation of the bed-room is of the greatest importance the more so in proportion to the number occupying it. Overcrowding is very bad for the health- One or more windows should be kept open day and night- Cold pure air is much more healthy than warm foul air. People who sleep out-doors all the time rarely have colds. After the disease is once cpu- tracted the treatment follows along these lines. The impor: tant thing is to preserve your strength. So you will have to sleep with your windows open or even out in the fresh air;Jyon will have to take eggs and milk and good meat in order to retain your strength; and you will have to rest and be very quiet, in order that all this good food, fresh air, and sunshine may make you so strong as to be able to,throK off the disease Medi cines are of very little use in con sumption. They cannot effect the tubercle bacilli, which are1 too hardy' to mind any drugs. That is the reason you must burn them ajivewhen they come up in the spit. However, if you follow out the treatment under a good doctor and your disease is not too far advanced, you will get well. Yon will never, however, be quite as strong as other people and you will always have to take care no'f to catch cold and not to. tire yourself too much. The care you will nave to take will (Continued on 3rd. page.)
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