The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 17, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 August 1911 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE. - - INDIANA. USE DOGS TO HIGHT PLAGUE Madras Officials Have Recourse to Novel Methods In Combatinfl Dread Disease. A Mysore correspondent, writing to the London Daily Graphic, states that In that part of Madras plague has been rife. There were in one district 820 deaths in three months. Innoculation will not stamp out plague; it merely affords temporary protection to man, he says. “To get rid of plague, we must get rid of plagye-infected fleas. The government measures are, when dead rats are found in a house, to cause it to be evacuated and take off the*roof. The plague-infected rats, finding no food or shelter in the house, make for the next houses, and carry infection with them. The infected fleas that have escaped from the bodies of the dead rats are still let in the hor.se, and it takes months to destroy them, as all disinfectives have so far proved of little use. “We have had dead rats in my bungalow, and in the different houses on the mine, on six different occasions. When a dead rat is found in any house I have the body taken up with a pair of tongs, saturated with kerosene oil, and burnt. 1 turn in three or four dogs, and keep them in the house till evening. The infected fleas get into the hair" of the dogs. The dogs are taken out in the evening, rubbed over with common castor oil (which instantly kills the fleas, as it clogs their breathing apparatus), and washed with carbolic coap. This I repeat for three or four days. At nights I place plenty of rat food in the room, to attract the rats, and set wire traps. “I have thus destroyed hundreds of rats which have been plague-infected, and also got rid of the fleas, which are the chief source of danger. Dogs are immune from plague. I consider the dog' the most valuable preventive of plague, for not only does he kill more rats than a cat. but he also traps the plague-infected fleas. I think my experiment is worth repeating.” Labrador to Florida in an Hour. Looking up the canyon from the warm sunny edge of the Mono plain my morning ramble seems a dream, so great is the change in the vegetation and climate. The lilies on the bank of Moraine lake are higher than my head, and the sunshine is hot enough for palms. Yet the snow around the aretic garden at the summit of the ptiss is plainly visibly only about four miles away, and between lie specimen zones of all the principal climates of the globe. In little more than an hour one may swoop down from winter to summer, from an arctic to a torrid region, through as great changes of climate as one would encounter in traveling from Labrador to Florida.—John Muir; “My First Summer in the Sierras.” -..- As Nationalities Go. The industrious publicity officer of a German health resort has sent out a circular letter announcing that “for the benefit of Americans generally be it known that in future instead of climbing the steep hill, they can now ride comfortably in a new lift,” proclaims the New York Tribune. The lift is electric and holds 12 people. Needless to say, when speaking of this place (though one must not believe all one hears), a small charge of ten hellers is made for the ride. The circular also says that a British consulate Ims been established at tile spa. This was found necessary because “it is seldom that an Englishman can remain away from home a whole month without requiring to transact legal or official business of some sort.” Use of •English. The report that individuals have been punished in two towns in the south for using profane language is of the utmost importance to that small minority of persons who hold that a proper familiarity with the English language is worth while. There is, it must be conceded, a. shocking degree of ignorance of the English lam gunge by the people who should speak it more or less correctly. The average high school graduate has only the J haziest knowledge of it; a great many college graduates flounder in its simplest whirlpools with pathetic helplessness. The double negative is indulged in by perhaps 60 per cent, of our entire population. Our most charming young women usually exhibit a knowledge of only half a dozen adjectives, while the average man about town has to rely upon a practiced urbanity when he converses with any one who knows the English language. One is constantly reminded of Dr. Johnson’s fish-woman, who believed herself to be mortally injured when he referred to her as a polyhedron. Much Like New York. Victim of a broken aqueduct Venice, may be said to have brought home to it a realization of the Ancient Mariner’s "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink "—Providence News. i Rather Mixed. “There goes Jenkins’ widow.” “Yes, but he was married twice, you know.” 'Well, what of that’’’ “Well, is she his Brst or second widow?”

WRECK OF THE MAINE IN THE COFFERDAM. <1 n! _ - 4 i *' J' ! inW lUInHHOTraMBi ™ Wil l A lg<PNPli - — WEVF CbT WRECK THIS remarkable protograph shows the general-view of the wreck of the Maine, when there was only five feet of water inside the cofferdam. Aside from the effort to determine the actual cause of the explosion that destroyed the battleship, the chief interest centers in the recovery of the bodies of victims. Sixteen have been found, but none of them could be identified.

SOME MICROBE TIPS

Lousiana “Bug” Car Stops in Chicago on Way Home. Special Was Started Out Last Fall With Intention of Bringing Education to Doors of Citizens of State. Chicago. — Ordinary germ-infected house flies caused the death of a guinea pig in twenty-four hours. A baby under the same conditions would be killed in about twice this time. Laziness is a disease caused by the hook worm and can be cured by proper medical treatment. The use of coal tar i«om which is extracted dye oPa poisonous character, is permitted by the government as coloring matter for candy. We et« too many kinds of foods. These are of the things that can be learned from a visit to the “Microbe Special” know nas the “Bug Car, ’’ as the exhibit under charge of officials of the state board of health of Louisiana is known, which arrived at the Park Row station the other day. The exhibit is contained in two special- coaches and remained for two (!ays v so that Chicago people could see what is being done in the south for the promotion of public health. The “special,” in charge of Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of the state board of health of Louisiana, was started out from New Orleans November 5 last year, as a means of bringing education to the very doors of the inhabitants of the state. It has been going on ever since and arrived in Chicago on the return trip frqm Los Angeles. Miss Agnes Morris, in charge of the publicity department of the expedition, showed specimens illustrating ravages of diseases and talked about her particular department—domestic and school hygiene. : “Here are some fly tracks.” said Miss Morris, pointing to blocks of wood covered with wax. “and here is, a dead guinea pig in this jar of fluid.” Then Miss Morris told how germs from the flies in their tracks over the wax had been collected and the culture used to infect a guinea pig. which died in’ less than a day. “The same principle, it was explained, would apply to a larger animal, an estimate of 48 hours being given for fatal results to an infant. From this illustration was drawn the necessity of protecting, with mosquito netting, infants and food from the ravages of the ordinary house fly. Paper wrappings for bread and other edibles, even down to a lemonade straw, were advised. “And do not forget tc swat ’em,” came in conclusion. Here are the rules prescribed by Dr. Dowling to guard most effectively against the “plague:" Clean Air—Plenty of it night and day. Clean Houses —Clean of dust and dirt anC full of sunshine and fresh air. Clean Foods—Plain and nourishing; eat slowly. Clean Body—Use plenty of soap and water and invigorating baths. Clean Morals —Intemperance and dissipation make the bed for tuberculosis to He in. New Orleans has discarded the deadly drinking cup and the public towel, which are prohibited in Illinois. Substitutes for these menaces to public health are shown —a paper roller towel and a bubbling drinking zuj> having been Installed in nearly ill public places. Worsted garments, varying from s weaters to bay socks hanging to a zlothes line, were used as object les-

sons against eating colored candies. The garments had been colored red, green and pink, from mineral dyes, extracted from such kinds of candy as is daily at the disposal of school children. Jarls of the candy, against which warning was issued, and bottle of liquid dye, which had been extracted from the candy in hues matching the garments on the clothes line, told the rest of the story. On the case containing the dyes extracted from the candy, was this label? “T|ie government permits the use of these coal tar dyes.” “This capdy is injurious and absolutely poisonous to the person who eats it,” said Miss Morris. “And to think that the government permits it!” Dr. George B. Young, health commissioner of Chicago, was a visitor to the “microbe special,” and expressed great interest in the novel methods in use. BUILDS ROOF IN HIS SLEEP Workman Is Surprised at Wielding Hammer When Noise Attracts Others—Tacked Three Rows. Wooster, O. —John Hoover, tinner, employed by Jacob Kauffman in Wayne county, is the prize somnambulist. The other day Kauffman was engaged in putting a roof on a barn near Reedsburg. Rain stopped him and he spent the night in the barn with fails employes. Tfaey intended to finish the work in the morning. Kauffman was awakened during the night by sounds from the roof and found Hoover at work. When Hoover came down for more tin he dropped a hammer on his foot. He rubbed his eyes and looked surprised. He had tacked on three rows of tin while asleep. The workmanship was perfect.

Locusts Provide Fat Fare

Pigs, Game and Poultry Gorge on Sev-enteen-Year Pest—Ducks Can Hardly Waddle Back Home. Stroudsburg, Pa.—County correspondents are sending in some rather remarkable tales concerning the 17-year-o|d lotusts. The west end of this county seems to be the most affected. A Broadheadsville scribe writes: “These locusts are turning some sections of the West end into a little Egypt, minus the darkness. For weeks before the hosts came out of the ground many were dug up by skunks, foxes and groundhogs as food. *nd these animals are living on locusts yet. Young groundhogs, highly esteemed as roasts by many people, will be fatter than ever, but whether the flavor imparted by locusts will be as delicate as that of clover blossoms on which young groundhogs are wont to feed to be seen. “Crows, blackbirds and catbirds have bothered the cornfields a bit other years, but this year have left them for the locusts. Pheasants are also feeding fat on them. Nearly the whole feathered tribe revel in the swarms of locusts. The piping quail have been lured from the orchards. The robin is about the only bird big enougn to eat the locust that prefers the farmer, with his strawberries and cherries. Turkeys, losing their fondness for bugs, beetles and grasshoppers, nave chosen the locusts. On the Weir Mountain plateau women go out into the woods with baskets, which they shake full of locusts from the bushes and take them home for the pigs. At many places they are gath

AIWLER CATCHES GIANT CARP Fish Weighing More Than Sixteen Pounds Is Landed by Englishman With Rod and Line. London.—Hugh T. Sheringhaw.. angling editor of the Field, probably caught the carp of his life, and certainly one of the largest, if not the largest, ever taken by rod .and Tine in this country. It was caught in one of the Highbury Angling society’s waters, Cheshunt (Herts) reservoir, and weighed sixteen pounds five ounces, was thirty inches long and twenty-one inches in girth,, and gave great sport. This more than makes up for the disappointment anglers experienced when they learned that 1 the fifteen pound carp reported as taken from the Tiverton (Devon) canal on June 16 last was not caught by an angler, but shot in mistake for a big pike which had been devouring a farmer’s ducks. Carp of over twenty-five pounds have been taken ip this country,. but not on rod and line. L i SWALLOWED A PIECE OF GUM Startled Gum-Chewer, Reproved by Court, Nearly Chokes Before He Can Explain to, Judge. Easton, Pa. —While presiding over a case in court here the other day Judge Staples of Monroe county, who is sitting in the absence of Judge Scott, took exception to the gum-chewing activities of a young man on the witness stand. “Stop chewing that gum!” ordered the court sharply. The witness made no motion to remove the big wad that had distorted his cheek. “Did you hear what I said? Remove that gum!” repeated the court, more sternly than before.With flushed face and in a choking voice the witness replied: “Judge. I swallowed it!” The court itself was fqrced to join in the laugh than followed.

ered for the chickens. Out in Polk township there are ducks that leave the barnyard' every mojrning for a neck of woods not far away, and there become so stuffed with locusts that they can hardly waddle home. “Along McMichael’s creek bushes become so loaded with this pest as to break and fall into the (water, where the trout make a feast from the inserts. Farmers driving through woods often have to stop and get brush to knock them off the horses; cows in the fields are greatly annoyed by them. A young son of Peter Koehler plowing in a small field surrounded by woods on the Ross township Slope of Weir mountain, says at times the air is loaded with locusts and the sun is darkened.” BRACED NERVE WITH SMOKE Searchers Find Brakeman Beside Track Calling for Help and Evidently Enjoying Cigarettes. Woodstock, Va.-—Henry Fadeley, a brakeman on a southern freight. feH from the train while it was running and crushed one foot so that amputation was necessary. Fadeley showed wonderful nerve when he realized that he probably would bleed to death, and made a tourniquet of his suspenders that stopped the flow of blood. He was not missed by his crew until the train had arrived at the end of its run, Strasburg Junction. A search found him beside the track, calling for help and smoking cigarettes.

PATHOS IN REAL LIFE DEMENTED GIRL SEEKS FOR HER DEAD BETROTHED. Sad Story of Misplaced Love, Murtier and Madness and Suffering tn Philadelphia. There are queer histories iu the world. Walking homeward a few' nights ago in a drenching rain in South street, we overtook two females, composedly moving under the shelter of a wide umbrella. The parties were a mother and daughter. The latter is about 21 years of age; the former cansot be much short of 60. In the Rogue’s gallery is the picture of a man named Burkee. The original is still in the eastern penitentiary. He was sentenced three years ago for the murder, in a house of ill-repute in Locust street,, above Ninth, of a constable in the office of Aiderman McMullin. The victim was named Johnson. Johnson was engaged to be married at the time of the murder to a young girl who tfeen lived iu a court near Fifth and Christian streets, and who lives there still. The young man was not worthy of such love as that entertained for him by the girl in question, A quarrel arose in the house, and a stab with a knife in the hands of Burkee took effect upon his breast and he was killed. The females whom we met in the pouring shower, as above narrated, were the girl to whom the murdered man was affianced, and her mother. The death of her lover caused the girl to become demented. She remains in that condition to this day. Her form of madness is melancholia. She believes, however, that at some time, not definitely fixed, in the morning, by visiting the scene of the murder, her betrothed will appear to her. Os her mind this one idea has taken sole possession. Every night, for three years past, tn company with her afflicted mother, the girl has visited the locality of the tragedy; neither rain, snow, cold or heat has ever yet interrupted this nightly visit. They take one regular route —up Fifth to South, up South to Ninth, and thence to Locust street, in an alley running from which street the murder was committed. During the w’hole walk the girl talks incessantly to her mother, in a low tone of voice, and the mother, with bursting heart, listens patiently but hopelessly. She knows the fruitlessness of the nightly walk, but takes it that her unfortunate child may by that extent be comforted. They walk to the alley where the sad event occurred, heeding no one, and steadily moving to the house where the murderous deed was done. They wait there for some minutes, sometimes as much as an hour. Then the girl says: “Never mind, mother dear; he won’t come, tonight! He will be here tomorrow.” And the, poor creature returns hopefully, sometimes nearly cheerfully, and nearly a thousand tomorrows have since transpired, yet each night the girl, with her devoted mother, comes to the spot, only to retire in hope that the disappointment of the night may be consummated by better results in the next. So well is the history known down town that, even the vilest ruffian in : Moyamensing passes the women by’ without an insult. The girl is comely, with a fresh complexion and fair shape, but* no man says aught to her. as with her sorrow-stricken mother she makes her nightly journey. The mother’s steps are growing feeble. They are poor, and not many days ffience the girl must do her jburney j alone. God help her.” —Philadelphia j North American. Congress and the Birds. Senator McLean of Connecticut has introduced a constitutional amendment to give congress the power to protect migrating £irds and prohibit and regulate the killing thereof. Migratory birds go from state to state protected by the game laws of some of the states, but wholly unprotected ' in others. Some species are in process of extermination because they are killed ruthlessly in their winter resort or in the place they seek for breeding purposes. As some states will not protect these birds, it is desirable that I the federal government should inter- | veue for their protection. As these s birds of passage are not, strictlyspeaking. engaged in interstate commerce. although they transport by their wings their own bodies across state lines, an amendment to the constitution is supposed to be necessary to give the national government the power to protect them from annihilation. In the present state of comparative apathy on the subject such an amendment, though meritorious is of the kind that never get very far. New England Villagers. It must be remembered that, in spite of Dr. Holmes’ brave and appropriating definitions of aristocracy, and the urbanity which the descendants of our great New Englanders would fain persuade us their ancestors possessed, our great New Englanders were essentially villagers, and that the verybest thing to be said of them is that they wrought out village life to an almost Platonic perfection of type. ‘Town’ will not do, to express the Boston, the Cambridge, the Salem, the Concord, of an earlier time; it smacks too much of London —and freedom. The Puritans founded villages; and, ■plritually speaking, the villages that they founded are villages still.—Katharine F. Gerould, in the Atlantic

IN OUR LEPER COLONY HOME FOR THE UNFORTUNATES NORTH OF NEW ORLEANS. Doomed dnes Are Well Cared For by Devoted Benedictine Monks and Nuns. All the lepers who belong to the United States do not live at Molokai, and there are other Father Damiens in the flesh today. Right in our own United- States there is a' leper colony It is on the Mississippi river. 60 miles north of New Orleans. There dwell 70 poor souls who are doomed to die. No escape is possible for them. Theirs is well nigh solitary confine ment simply to wait the end. Besedlc tine monks and nuqs run the colony. Their lives are consecrated to the work just as Father Damien's was in far away Hawaii. At their head is Father Keenan: assisting him is Sistet Benedicta, one of the nuns who was driven from France, when the govern J ment stepped in and took the con vents. She fled to this country and asked for some religious work to do. She was assigned at once to the leper colony, and there she is now helping the poor unfortunates to pass their weary days as easily as possible. It is her care to see that their tortured lives are made as pleasant as possible. The colony has not been there long, j but 15 have already died, and there I are as many more who will go spon. It is the work of the good priests and sisters to see that the doomed ones can forget. They arrange entertainments, make up croquet parties, take long walks and drives, and do anything to amuse the poor unfortunates who must stay there until they go to their graves. But best of all is the leper choir. Those who have voices and a knowledge of music sing in the church regularly. and the practice they receive in singing is part of the plan to help them forget their doom. The state pays sl-5,000 a year for the support of the home and the rest of the expense is met-by the Benedictine order. It is little enough, as those who are closest to this charity well know. f Only the other day the‘re was a sad experience for Father Keenan, A man called to see his wife and sont both suffering with leprosy. It was time for him to go. • “Can't you find just one spot of leprosy on my body somewhere?" he begged. “Then 1 could-come here and live with my family. They are all I have in the world!” But there was no spot or taint on him, and he had to say goodby. Time to Stop. The probability that overexertion does kill thousands annually may be . granted without protest. But it is the critical moment that destroys rather \ than the systematic performance of a tack. While a man is in health he may continue without fear of harmful results at the work which he has set before him. When exhaustion comes he : should cease. A healthy mind iu a healthy body a fortunate combination, each answering to the impulses i and warnings of the other. But when the body has reached the limit and the ; mind still drives forward, the occasion . becomes grave. Better that a man should be the slave of another than that he should fall under the imperi- ■ ous mastery of his own will, when that will drives his physical being to tasks that fill the body with the toxins of < exhaustion and grants it no time to recuperate. The men who can lay aside ; their business cares when nature cries ! a halt, and play or sleep or rest until the physical powers are restored, are ' the ones who really succeed, after all. For those who will not heed the warn ing, they may as well have sung the j pirate song, Drink and the devil have ‘ done for the rest, since they have been equally wasteful of their own strength - and heedless of the sane opportunities of life. , What He Was Looking For. Said a New York .man : “I had the job of buying silk for a dress for my wife. It was to be foulard, and no matter what other virtue it had noth- : ing would fill the bill unless it was j showerproof. I went from shop tc 1 shop looking at foulards and question ' ing clerks as to the waterproof quality of the silks they showed me. “They all fell back on the simple I statement that they were said to be showerproof. But at last I found -the man I’d been looking for. When lie saw suspicion lurking in my eyes he calmly felt under the counter, took, out a large glass of water and poured a good sized stream over the piece of silk he’d been showing me. The wate? drained off, he quickly- shook the silk free of drops and presented it to me. Not a.bit of moisture! Not a spot! I took that piece of goods then and there.” “It’s a Wise Child—” Tommy—Me fathei- gimme- dis nickel watch fur me birthday. Jimmy— l sfuess my pop’s goin' ter gimme one like dat, too. Tommy—Did he say so? Jimmy—No; he said he was goin’ ter gimme a gold one.—Catholic Standard and Times. A Prevalent Puzzled Pete —I wonder why so many of the engines in our works break down? Crusty Chris—Because Hke the management of the place, they are run by hot air.

! QUEER DISEASE IS IN UNITED STATES Many Here Afflicted With Odd Ailment, Says Prof. Munyon. GREWSOME CREATURES VERY COMMON, FINDS EXPERT. Many people in the Vnitcd States are Rifiicttd with n <tuc<‘r thsuase. according to a statement yesterday bv Professor James M. Munyon. He made" th.- following remarkable and rather grewsome ; Statement: "Many p-rsons who come and write to my headquarters at 53d and Jefferson . Philadelphia, .Pa., think they are j suffering from a simple stomach trouble. . when m reality they are the vi-tims of an entirely different disease-that of tape worm. These tape worms are huge ! internal parasites, which locate in the upper bowel and consume a large pet--centage of the nutriment in undigested rood. I hey sometimes grow to a length of forty to sixty feet. One may hav.e a tape worm for years ami never know. the cause of his or her ill health. “Persons who are suffering from one of these creatures become nervods weak and irritable, and tire at the least exertion. The tape worms rob one of am- • bition and vitality and strength, but they are rarely fatal. ‘‘The victim of this -disease is apt to oeneve that he is suffering from chronic !• stomach trouble, and doctors for years i without relief. This is not the fault of the physicians he consults, for there is no absolute diagnosis that will tel’, positively that one is not a victim of tape worm. “The most common symptom of this trouble is an abnormal appetite. At times the person is ravenously hungry and cannot get enough to eat. At other bmos the very sight of food is loathsome. There is a gnawing, faint sensatidn at the pit of the stomach, and the victim has headaches, fits of dizziness and nau-, sea. He cannot sleep at night and often thinks he is suffering from nervous prostration. “I have a treatment which has had wonderful success in eliminating these I great creatures from the system. In the course of its regular actl'on In aiding , digestion, and ridding the blood, kidneys and liver of impurities it has proven fatal to these great worms. If one has a tape worm, this treatment will, in nine cases out of ten. stupefy and pass it away, but If not. the treatment will rebuild the run-down person, who is probably suffering from stomach trouble and a’ general anaemic condition. My -doctors report marvelous success here with this treatment. Fully a dozen persons have’passed J these worms, but they are naturally reticent about discussing them, and of course I we cannot violate their .confidence by FlvI Ing their names to the public.” Letters addressed to Professor James - / ■ M. Munyon, 53d and Jefferson Streets. ‘ < Philadelpha. Pa., will receive as careful attention as though the patient called in person. Medical advice and consultation absolutely free. Not a penny to pay. Crafty. i “What does the veterinary surgeon next door advise for your pet lap dog’s sickness?” “He forbids my playing the piano.’’ —Ftlegende Blaetter/ The Fly. “Where one ■ earth do these fliea . come from?" is a frequent and de- ' spairing question. They may come down the chimneys. If fte fireplaces have tipping dampers.— These should be tightly closed in flytime. Au appreciable falling off in their number will be the result. If the Aimaeys have not the tipping damper, a screen such as is used for a window can be fitted into the fireplace; or, easier still, a bundle of paper may be stuffed up the chimney. Either method is successful, and no trouble is .too great to get rid of these summer pests. Serenity. . “The true religious man, amid all the ills of time, keeps a serene fore head and entertains a peaceful heart. This, going out and coming in amid all the trials of the city, the agony of the plague, the horrors of the thirsty tyrants, the fierce democracy ■abroad, the fiercer ill at home—the saint, the sage of Athens, was .still the same. Such a one can endure hardness; can stand alone and be content; a rock amid the waves—lonely, but not moved. Around him the few or many may scream, calummiate. blaspheme. What is all to him but the cawing of the seabird about that solitary, deep-rooted stone?” —- Theodore Parker. AT THE PARSONAGE. Coffee Runs Riot No Longer. “Wife and I had a serious time o£ It while we were coffee drinkers. “She had gastritis, headaches, belching and would have periods of sickness, while I secured a daily, headache that became chronic. "We naturally sought relief by drugs without avail, for it is now plain enough that no drug w ill cure the diseases another drug (coffee) sets up, particularly, so long as the drug which causes the trouble is continued. “Finally we thought we would try (leaving off coffee and using Postum. I ac)ticed that my headaches disappeared 4ike magic, and my old ‘trembly’ nervousness left. One day wife said, ‘Do you know my gastritis has gone?’ “One can hardly realize what Postum has done for us. “Then we began to talk to others. Wife’s father and mother were both coffee drinkers and sufferers. Their headaches left entirely a short time after they changed from coffee to Postum. “I began to enquire among my parishioners and found to my astonishment that numbers of them use Postum In place of coffee. Many of the ministers who have visited our parsonage have become enthusiastic champions of Postum.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, “Tbe Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a reason.” Ever read the above letters A lew •ae appears tram time to time. They are sennloe, true, and full of humaa Interest.