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THE YALE EXPOSITOR. THURSDAY. JULY 2. 1914. TERRIFIC ST IN EATON COUNTY MANY PEOPLE SERIOUSLY IN JURED AND MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED. LOSS IS PLACED AT $150,000 Destructive Cyclone Wrecks Houses and Barns and Levels Orchards and Crops for Distance of Six Miles. Eaton Rapids. Mich. A terrific cyc lone passed through this district. Ftiking the northern suburbs of this rity at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon and doing great damage to buildings, uprooting trees, destroying crops and Injuring more than a score of people, two at least fatally. The storm struck on the township line dividing Katon and Katon Rap Ids township and cut a swath about 40 rods wide nearly across Katon Rapids township, reaching within a mile of the northern suburbs of this city. The distance covered by the Ftorni was about six miles in length and nearly everything In Its path was swept away. Mrs. William Ford, mother of County Clerk Frank E. Ford, was fatally injured when her house was destroyed, and on the same farm the barns were wrecked, as were also the hams on the L. W. Ford. Frank I'. Ford, James Freer. Horace (Iriflin. Ceorge Seelyo and George Long farms. At the Frank Ford farm two farm horses were killed when the barn cellapsed and Bruce Wing. Hewitt Rouen, Vern Darling and Ray Fulton, who were In the wrecked house, were aeriously injured. At Petrievillp. two miles north of here, the school house, two bridges ever Grand river and the house and hams of George and Clarence Sprin ger and Charle3 Renton were w recked and Mr. and Mrs. George Springer were seriously Injured. At this point the doctors were obliged to wade across the river to render aid. Entire orchards were leveled all along the path of the storm, as was also timber, shade trees and crops, .r The storm traveled In a southeaster ly direction. A conservative estimato places the property loss at more than $150,000. Part of this U covered by etorm insurance. The storm was the most severe that has ever visited this section of the state and the ruin it wrought was the most complete. SAGINAW TO HAVE NEW HOTEL Old Bancroft House Will be Replaced With Nine-Story Structure. Saginaw, Mich. Harry Allyn. of Cincinnati, a hotel architect and mem ber of a firm financing hotel and busi ness blocks, has been In this city two weeks working out the proposition whereby Saginaw can secure a new hotel. He announces the financial end of the matter is settled. The hotel will be built on the site of the Bancroft house, will be nine stories high and will cost about $400,000. The Bancroft house is one of the oldest hcEtelries in the state and has stood on the corner of Washington avenue and Genesee street for over 50 years. To Stop Post Office Abuse. Tort Huron, Mich. As a result of a visit of postofTice Inspectors to this city to investigate alleged abuse of the general delivery system, new re gulations have been adopted, and the people who have been in the custom of receiving their mall through the general delivery window will be re quired to fill out a card stating name, age and address, as well as the rea sons for getting mail at the window Instead of by the city delivery. Man Durned to Death in Home. Grand Haven, Mich. George Fritz, a Robinson township farmer, burned to death Sunday when his home was destroyed by fire. Other members of the family escaped. Prosecuting Attorney Osterhouse and Coroner John Boer aro conduct ing an investigation. Tho fire is believed to have started In an ash box in the house. MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS A storm dislodged a trestle at the Tilden mine at Bessemer and John Jarzumbeck, a car pusher, walked off the end and dropped 1,800 feet down the shaft. Every bone in his body wa broken. The board of supervisors Thursday adopted the report of the equalization cemmltlee, which places the valuation of Shiawassee county at $36,300,000. This is an increase of $16,017,000 over last year's valuation. Shock caused the death of John Davidson a few hours after he had been rescued by Homer Ward. 13 years old, from drowning at Cheboy gan. Davidson was fishing from a row boat which was swamped when the swells from a steamer struck it. Both Davidson and Ward were pulled from the river by laborers. ;i . t REPTILE FOUND IN BUNCH OF BANANAS Lansing, Mich. As a clerk In tho F. M. IxftU8 Grocery Co. store was about to pluck sev eral bananas from a bunch hang ing in front of the store, Sat urday morning, the head of a snake darted out from the yel low fruit. The reptile was captured and was found to bo a Cuban spotted adder measur ing two faet in length. Just a few minutes before the snako was discovered another clerk had carried the bunch of bana nas up from the cellar. The rep tile was turned over to a carni val company. MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS The annual home-coming at Roches ter will be held July 00 and 31. The board of supervisors has in creased the valuation of Lake county from $1,243,000 to $3,500,000. Lee Rellfield, 20 years old, whose home is at 211! East Warren avenue, Detroit, was drowned at Pine lake Wednesday afternoon while in swim ming. The opening of regular service on the new extension of the I). U. R. from Romeo, connecting Almont with De troit, was celebrated at Almont Wed nesday. The annual reunion of the Paton family held at Almont Friday was attended by 102 members. Several from Detroit and Ypsilanti were present. Efforts are being made by his con gregation te induce Rev. Frank Shel don, of the Congregational church at Dattle Creek to reconsider his res ignation. Rev. C. II. Heaton. for the last year pastor of the Baptist church at Belle vue, has tendered his resignation and preached his farewell sermon Sunday, Juno 2S. G. E. Frasrr, of Champaign, 111., was elected grand president at the annual conclave of Acacia fraternity, a na tional student Masonic fraternity, at Ann Arbor. Arthur W. IVshone, 28. married, was crushed to death Thursday aft ernoon in the Shiawassee mine, at Saginaw, when an electric mining ma chine fell upon him. Governor Ferris has pardoned Pat rick Wade of Menominee, who was given a life sentence at Jackson in 1S89 for murder. Wade was paroled by Governor Osborn in 1911 and has made good. The state railroad commission has tuthorized the Lansing Connecting railroad to issue $30,000 worth of stock. The road is a switching pro position and operates only within the city of Lansing. A wreck on tho Grand Trunk two miles south of Pigeon due to spread ing rails, sent five freight cars into the ditch. Brakeman Chambers of Case villo was severely injured. The track was torn up for 20 rods. Wesley Padley, aged 38, an oiler on the steamer Roumanla, who went sud denly insane from the heat at Port Huron, fell dead Just as he raised an ax to hit the mate of the vessel. His home was at Avon Lake. O. More than 21 per cent of the grad uating class of 118 in the Saginaw, east side, high school have prepared certificates for entrance to universities or colleges. The U. of M. will get the greatest number with M. A. C. next. Just before the Genesee county supervisors adjourned Saturday they voted to build a tuberculosis sanitar ium for women and children at the county infirmary, the structure to be completed by October. There is al ready an institution for men. Deputy Dairy and Food Commission er Lincoln states that he will advise meat dealers not to pay for hams en cased in several thicknesses of paper, as sent out by Chicago packing houses He says that for every 100 pounds of meat the dealer pays for four pounds of paper. E. P. Swan, Detroit, general freight agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy, was elected president of the Michigan Railroad Outing club at the club's outing at Lake Harbor Satur day. F. V. Sweat. Detroit, was eleot ed vice-president and A. E. Edmunds, Detroit, second'vlce-president. Three noted speakers have been secured for the convention of the Michigan Commercial Secretaries, to be at .Muskegon July 24 and 25, accord ing to announcement by Secretary Conger. They are: - A. G. Carton, commissioner of public domain; Lu cius E. Wilson, chief of the Ameri can city bureau, and Munson Haven, secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. William P. Hicks, a civil war veter an, dropped dead at Charlotte Tues day morning. Mr. Hicks' death keeps up the average of a death a month in the ranks of the Charlotte G. A. R. post. Twenty members have died in a many consecutive months. Standing up in the boat casting. In Lime Kiln Lake, Henry Kline, 21, of Kalamazoo, lost his balance and tip ped the craft over. He was thrown so far from the boat that he was un able to grasp It, and drowned. His brother, however, managed to cling to it until help arrived. ii Fundamental ji Principles of Health Dy ALBERT S. GRAY, M. D. 3 7 7 V (Copyright. 1914, by A. S. Gray) BACTERIA. "More than 000,000 inhabitants of the United States die prematurely each year." The department of con servation of one of our great life in surance companies and other equally competent and reliable Investigators are authority for that statement. For each death recorded there is known to be a vast amount of suffer ing: and expense which might easily be avoided, and it is believed by compe tent investigators including the Na tional Conservation Commission that at least fifteen years could be added to the average life of the present genera tion if a sane system of personal hygiene were generally adopted. Scientists have decided that bac teria belong to the plant kingdom, and tho microscope reveals another and formerly unseen bacterial world of vast extent and of far reaching con sequence to the human race. Under the microscope mosses and molds be coma forests of giant trees, while the smallest plants so seen are the bac teria. The unit of measurement in dealing with these small plants is the michon, .001 millimeter, or approxi mately 1-23,000 Inch. At some period in universal develop ment certain species of these small plants learned to live within tho bodies of animalB and of men and we have as a result what we call the in fectious diseases known to us as tuber culosis, pneumonia, diphtheria, typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever and the like. The plant or bacteria causing typhoid fever for instance averages about M -1,000 inch long by between 1-32.000 to 1-50,000 inch wide. Like the larger varieties of the plant kingdom these minute plants are good or bad, poisonous or non-poisonous ac cording to the species and the environ ment, and that is tho reason specific human diseases exhibit such an in finite variety of symptoms; for as the environment differs in each individual fnfected so must the reactions. Hence every man makes his own disease. When Bociety becomes efficiently or ganized so that it will be possible to consider human ailments on the came broad impersonal basis we do diseases of plants and animals, undoubtedly most of our now numerous diseases will be found to have a common origin and to be easily preventable. To illustrate tho point a group of men exposed to a swirl of 6treet dust composed of finely ground horse ma nure and other decomposing animal and vegetable refuse will develop "colds," sore throats or phenumonla, depending on the reaction of the indi fldual to the contained bacteria. Every Individual life makes its own disease. These tiny plants Increase and grow only under favorable environmental conditions of moisture, heat and food, but under such favorable conditions a single bacterium may easily become the parent of 17,000,000 within twenty four hours. Those bacteria that have acquired the ability to live within the body of man have been so modified by that environment that they have lost the ability to live Independently out side the human body for any great length of time. Like all parasites they are unable to stand alone and quickly die if thrown on their own resources. The conditions favorable to bacterial life and growth are filth, dampness, warmth and absence of light. What we commonly designate as filth Is, of course, only matter In the wrong place. The conditions detrimental and fatal to bacterial life are cleanliness, dry ness, cold and light. Bacteria are not hereditary but are contagious, and the existence of these plants in the human race is continued from one person to another only be cause certain men in whom they have found lodgment transfer them to other men or animals receptive at the time because their bodies have been modified by environment, their con stituent matter Is In the wrong place or combination, and they are technically unclean, a condition commonly known as on of low vitality. It Is estimated there are now In the United States approximately 18,000 persons Infected with typhoid fever germs who although In apparent per fect physical health are discharging these bacteria In enormous numbers every day. The same fact Is true of diphtheria and of other Infectious dis eases, and It Is In this way that dis ease Is carried from one person to an other. Typhoid fever for Instance will vanish as a human disease only when men cease to eat or drink human and animal excreta In any form. And the same principle applies to all diseases. There Is but one sound and success ful method of combating diseases and that is by prevention. To waste vaV uable time and lives In futile efforts at "curing" the natural results of existing conditions ts illogical. To first locate the can of the condition which we know as dlrease and then. having conclusively demonstrated the cause, to lay aside fads, fancies, prej udice, supcrstltution and tradition and take tho necessary steps for the removal of the known cause that is sane and logical. And when rational preventive measures are taken then disease and premature death must cease as a natural and Inevitable result. THE FOOT. Recently there appeared in the col umns of the dally prese a special cable notice of the presentation of a paper at the Academy of Sciences, Paris, France, by Edraond Perrier, director of tho Museum of Natural History, In dicating as the result of experiments conducted by M. Lahy over a period of ten years that "persons who work con stantly in the midst of harsh noise show symptoms of exceptional fatigue, due to excessive blood pressure while working, followed by depression of tho vital forces." And Emlle Oautler, tho well-known scientist, is quoted as com paring city noises "to blows of a ham mer upon the nervous system," and stating that "such noises frequently repeated tend to cause neurasthenia la persons naturally sensitive to noise." There is not the 6hadow of a doubt as to the truth of these observations. And, further, we venture to etate that there is not a competent specialist of more than five years' experience in any country in the world who cannot show in his records many cases of mental exhaustion from the over uso of whatever organ falls within, his spe cial field of observation, be it tho eye, ear, nose or any other part. We have long been familiar with the phenomena of reflex Irritation as a factor in human suffering, but the sub ject has never received the attention it deserves and that it is destined to' receive from this time on. Wo do not have to bo conscious of Irritation to suffer the reaction from over stimulation. And here we have an illustration of the effect of inertia on the human mind: for the scientific gentleman who will bo clearly point out the cause of many cases of human wreckage among his clients Is usually himself a victim of the same irritation from another point. Obviously ho lacks either in intellectual integrity or in that broad grasp of principle approx imating genius, or he would recognize in the fourteenth century type of con traption he wears on his feet a souire of irritation of vastly more destructive power than can possibly flow from eye, ear or nose. , Every normal baby born into tfcis world has a foot so shaped that a straight line drawn from the center of the end of the big toe through tho cen ter of its base will pass through the center of the heel of the foot. This imaginary lino was discovered mahy years ago by a man named Meyer and has since been known as "Meyer's line," and on the preservation of thle line depends foot comfort and, to a very large degree, general health and happiness as well. The foot is composed of 26 bones, more or less movable. Fourteen cf these belong to the toes, the remaining 12 being a series of odd shaped bones forming two arches. The weight of the body is carried on the astragali, the highest bone la the arch. Theeo two arches are held up by two sets of tendons originating in the heavy calf muscles. One set, running down under the heel bone and extending from heel to toes, strings the longitudinal arch up just as a bowstring strings a bow; others running down the inside of the leg turn under the arch of the instep and, extending across the sole of the foot are anchored to a bone near the base of the little toe, stringing up the crosswise arch. The give and pull of the calf muscles on these tendon ropes that hold up the archee forms a won derfully efficient set of springs and In sures an easy, graceful, swinging and ever enduring gait if they are permit ted to operate. When the entire weight of the body Is thrown on the foot in taking a nor mal stride the longitudinal arch will expand approximately three-quarters of an inch and the cross arch about one-half inch. If this free action be not permitted then It means weaken ing the muscles of not only the entire leg and hips but of the back and abdo men as well, besides disturbing the circulation la general and converting the natural walk Into a waddle. Few people walk these days they cannot; they tire too easily because their cen ter of gravity Is displaced. It would be much less harmful if any person thoroughly convinced that nature had made a mistake in shaping the human foot should have his feet reshaped to suit with saw and knife than to devote a life time to molding them Into conventional lines by the usual dally hammering, which Is bru tal and disastrous because each step taken means a blow on the brain tissue. Nervous exhaustion is a powerful factor In the stupefaction of multi tudes who Imagine they are ill, and the key to the puzzle Is without doubt to be found In the fact that It Is among the class showing the greatest distortion of "Meyer's line" that the vast majority of the most aggravated types of neurasthenia are to be found. Any pressure that can possibly, dis tort "Meyer's line Is at the same time applied to this special sense area, and this brings us face to face with the question of nerve cell exhaustion through foot irritation a subject on which the average individual Is ex ceedingly sensitive because It touches on the style of the shoe, an article of apparel In which there has been little change to type since It was designed in the fourteenth century for a class who never walked. 8 M Satisfaction Guaranteed GPS mm Garment Seems to Have Sprung; All at Once Into the Greatest Favor. ALL STYLES ARE ALLOWED Designs of Every Nation Copied and i tho Colors Are Equally Varied Chief Charm U That It Can Be Worn With Good Effect by Any Woman. EW YORK. One of the surprises of the season is the immense and unlversul popularity of the cape. Almost over nlpht capea became the fashion. They made a tentative ap pearance at the Bpring races in Paris. Their possibilities were immediately noted by women on the lookout for the new, and presto! all over the civil ized world where fashion holds sway, capes have sprung into being as the approved wrap for midsummer wear. The kinds of new cape are legion. Tho designers have drawn on the cos tumes and customs of every nation for ideas, and at a smart race meet or country club opening Arabian capes, Bulgarian capes, Russian capes, Bre ton capes, English Inverness capes, Austrian military capes, American In dian blanket capea and Roman toga capes rub elbows, as it were, in merry and inconsequent confusion. Some capes are jaunty, others are stately, others severe, still others graceful and picturesque. And in color the new capes range from pure white through ail the vivid, modish shades to dark mixed worsted and Scotch wool suit ings, the heavier and more practical fabrics of course being used for util ity capes for traveling, steamer and port wear, whilo the dainty white broadcloth and pastel colored silk capes figure as delectable wraps, worn over dressy frocks at garden fetes, re gattas and the like. New Capes Universally Becoming. Any woman may wear a cape that's the beauty of it. Nobody need bother to consider her lack of height or sur plus of too, too, 'solid flesh, when the desire for a cape becomes consuming. One may select the sort of cape that best becomes one's height and weight and that is all there is to it. There are so many, many sorts of capes that everybody may be suited. Of course the short, plump woman If she has a grain of sense will not pick out a voluminous ilk cape which, when the wind gets under It on a breezy lawn or boardwalk, will make her look like an animated barrel; nor will she choose a stalely, long cape to the knee which will require the height of a tall, willowy woman to carry off success fully. There are dozens of short capes, of cloth, of eponge, of ailk, of gabar dine, sandly cot and with graceful tinea which are most becoming to small and abort nomen. Everybody has been thought of and planned for by the resourceful cape de signers and prices are aa accommo dating as styles, for one may pay as low as $46 or aa high aa $150 for a i summer cape-wrap. The Care Keynote. A waistcoat, cunningly cut to form a part of the garment, makes the 1914 cape new and Individual. Otherwise or without the waistcoat l might be taken for an 1890 cape, rescued ;trom the attic trunk and treated to a good pressing to obliterate the wrinkles of time. The mothers of the generation now stepping to the fore on the social stage will recall the fashionable military cape of the late 'SOs which without the waistcoat was very much like some of the smart and modern models of today. Every maid, wife and matron of that time had one of these comfortable and con venient military capes and eadet blue wa the favored eolor.. Special Coat Sale Beautiful New Models, Serge, English Mixtures, Stripes and Fancy Checks, Every One of These Coats Are Worth $15 and $18 The new smart Topcoats are both necessary and fashionable. The most expensive Parisian designs have been reproduced in these styles, and have been placed on sale at a price that is un questionably the lowest possible. Tans, Grays, niues, IJrowns Greens, IJlack, and Novelties Notwithstanding tho smallness In price, no desirable style feature has been overlooked. The styles i.icludo the new sleeves, tho becoming roll collars and fetching patch-pockets. '.uai CORMER WOODWARD STATE ONLY PLACLOr BU&INEAft K0 CONNECTION WITH ANY OTHCR DETROIT, MICH. For Evening Festivities, The evening wrap in now a cape, as the day wrap Is. but naturally the evening cape Ls a bit more gay and frtvoloua than the utility rape for wear orer sport togs. This evening cape is of coral colored puasy willow taffeta In a brocaded pattern and fs lined with soft white tango crep. The white lining shown within th frilled col lar. Long ties of the coal brocade are at tached to the cape at the collar. They cross at the bust, pus back of the waist line and tie In front In a loose knot. Now, lo and behold! here la the cadet blue military cape once more; and its popularity Is assured, since a cadet blue broadcloth military cape forme one of the most interesting fea tures of the latest White House trous seau. For the new Mrs.' McAdoo, late Miss Eleanor Wilson, such a cape was made by the New York firm who pro vided yiis Important trousseau, and it is safe to assert that many a graceful cadet blue cape will appear in the For Athletic Maids. 4ut the thing to slip op after a xjune.cf M- Jrfc.WiW1 2 mm m i j $10M Free Delivery by Parcel Peat 3T0.1t , 1 Kolf or tennis or for a pln out to the coun- j try club In a moor car. Is thU knowing Fpnrt cap of white vicuna, with belt anX collar facing of green sued, and greteri tall buttons to match. The embryo sleeve are a smart feature, and bo Is the turn- ( over collar fastened with a cord loop. This) j collar rnny b turned up when occasion; dcmarifls. This maid wears the snort cap ! over a golf costume, but she has donned ! nmart buttoned boot and a formal bat for a trip homo by trolley. j wake of thl3 authoritative model. Mrs. McAdoo'e cape is of clear cadet blue broadcloth, waistcoat and all there) Is no contrasting color. The waistcoat crosses in surplice fashion and Ions sash-ends of the material, attached to the surpliced fronts, pass around and. knot at the back. These sash-ends ar then brought forward again and are. loosely knotted low at the hip. The cape has a rolling flare collar which, fastens with a cadet blue cord over two buttons. White Capes Charming. Across the corridor of the Hotel Van I aeroui, ai luncneon aour ona uay jass ; week, sauntered a young woman wear ing a cape costume that attracted a deal of attention because of Its un mistakable Paria stamp. The young; woman's frock was white pure white broadcloth and she wore white buck skin buttoned boots and a very Email, very rakish black straw turban with a, long, slant'. eg wisp of a feather. Only the narrow skirt of the white frock; showed, however, for from chin to hlp she was enveloped In a smart white broadcloth cape opening over a waist coat of copper colored and white) striped silk. One side of the cape was. tossed back over the shoulder to re veal a lining of blazing .copper-hued. silk, and in the buttonhole of the b tripod waistcoat waa a cluster of cop pery nasturtiums. For sport wear there are delectable capes of white corduroy and for semi formal wear at the beach or country? club white cloth capes with long waistcoats of soft silk in color are very good style. Such a cape, recently worn at Tuxedo, was of white cloth, with a waistcoat of jade green tango crepe. The waistcoat had two long, points below the belt line and. was crossed by a wide, soft sash of black; pussy willow taffeta. Another cape near by, of light gray eponge, had a waistcoat of white pussy willow taf feta with a broad, fiat collar of the white silk turning over on the cape., Thle cape also showed the soft, black taffeta sash across the front. Red Riding Hood. The Red Riding Hood model Is a fa vorite with all women. It need not necessarily be red the lines, not tho color, are the thing. This cape is circular In cut and falls gracefully from the shoulders, a Care collar oC silk matching the lining turning back; from the neck. Two long ties of soft ellk usually of pussy willow taffeta are attached under the collar at thf front. These ties are simply crossed over the bust and tied at the back oC the waist in a loose knot and one's, cape is fastened. A white cape of this sort may have ties of various col ors to match the gown attached be neath the broad collar by snap-fasteners. Kansae City Star. Her Future la Safe. "Judge lien LIndsey says of his new wife: 'She's beautiful; she haa a won derful mind; she's a fine housekeeper; she's Interested In humanity; she's the perfect woman." "Yea, and he'll say the same tea years hence if they are both living. "How do you know?" ''I have seen their pictures. "And you mean to tell me that yon could read all that In her face!" "Not in her face. In her height. She's) bigger than the Judge." The Reason Why. Tattler says he's going to kill a pi,. and can you use a side of pork?" "Yes, ray boy," said the postmaster. "Tell him to send it as soon as he can." A week passed away, and as the) meat hed not arrived the postmaster reminded the boy of his order. "It expect you forgot to tell your fa ther', you young rascal," said the for mer, good humoredly. "Oh. no. sir, I didn't," said the young ster. "My father haent killed the pig." "How's that. Tammy r "It got Utter. I