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POLK COUNTY EWS-flAZETTE. KENTON. TENNESSEE.
Dissemination of Disease
by Pets
By E. Stan. Maui Deputise of hiemkk
That our house l-rts and
dorwstitated animals may
be the cause of disseminat
ing certain dis'as among
the human family is an es
tablished fact, and many
cases of that kind are on
rrcord. Yel manv losers of pet dogs, calf, binK etc., are not aware of
the daigirs nhich wli animals present to ti.em nen nuinm
disease. 1
It is a well-known fact that the cat ie surtible to dipTitherw, and
the iword are full of uses of transmission of that dreadful disease to
children playing with such afflicted j-cta. Likewise are birds carriers of
diphtheria. . .
I"S are inf.-sted with munv kinds of tapeworms (taenia), among
them t.-enia etl.imx-occus, the e-frs of which cause hydatid cyst. It is,
therefore, not strange to find persons who are constantly surrounded with
dogs suffering frequently from hydatid cysts and tapeworms.
Barbers itch (tinea tonsurans), a contagious and persistent skin
HfTection is frequently transmittal from cats and dogs to man. The
same is true of favus or tinea favosa, which is caused by a parasitic mold
.alled achorion schoenleinii, producing yellow scaly crusts on the skin.
Another disease of the dog which is transmissible, to man is the
mrcontic- itch, caused bv a microscopic mite called sareoptes scabiei. Hy
drophobia is still another disease of the dog and cat which is transmitted
to man by being bitten by these animals and many persons die from
it vearlv.
" The disease called glanders or farcy is caused by bacillus mallei, and
numerous cases of infection from afflicted animals to man are known.
The greatest number of cases of natural glanders infection occur among
hostlers drivers, farmers, horse butchers and other habitual handlers of
horses. The bacilli generally gain entrance through abrasions or wounds
of the skin. laboratory workers occasionally become infected through
the respiratory organs (nose and lungs) by spilling accidentally culture
material. Glanders infection is highly fatal.
Ynthrax, charbon, splenic fever, or wool sorters' disease is a disease
of animals, and easily transmitted to man. The name "wool sorters' dis
ease" is derived from the fact that handlers of hides from cows or wool
from sheep which have died from anthrax occasionally contract the dis
ease. Actinomycosis, or "lumpy jaw," is a disease caused by a ray fungus
generally found in cattle or swine; rarely in horses or sheep; occasionally
cases having been observed in deer, elephants, dogs and cats. Infection
in man generally occurs by inoculation with lumpy jaw material carrying
the ray fungus, actinomycosis bovis.
Human tuberculosis is certainly transmitted to dogs, cats and birds.
Many investigators and observers cite cases where dogs, cats and parrots,
presenting all the lesions of tuberculosis, were shown to have contracted
' it from contact with human beings.
These examples should suffice to call the attention of the public to
the danger which is connected in keeping pet animals in our apartments.
Any pet animal showing signs of disease should be removed from the
living room and isolated. We owe that precaution to ourselves and others.
What's the. Harm of
Little Kiss?
By Jeffenon Emerson, Baltimore, Md.
Some features of the
"purity wave" now on in
this city reach the ludi
crous, as witness the arrest
of an eighteen-year-old girl
and a sixteen-year-old boy
in Gwvnns Falls park for
, ,i i r.t n Ttnltinmrn inncrist rate in
spooning. Witness, also, tne goon wu vl e
dismissing the youthful couple with the pronouncement that spoonmg
is not indecent. The serious feature, however, in 'this incident is the
arrest, the ride in a patrol wagon and the tearing in a police court of
this -youthful couple for what? For that which is ages old and which
wjlliontiime for ages-simplv spooning,' which is the slang name for
courting. ' V . . ' , .
: 4 Courting that which the gods smile upon, which is as natural to
a boy and agirlas is the budding of the trees, which is as natural as
, f tbhirds. and which is predestined by nature to be prelum-
nary to the popping of the eternal question which makes happiness- liold-
sway over this broad land. This age is prosaic ana commerciauzeu muugu
without minions of the law stepping in and laying hands on those who
recall to us all our youthful lovers' spoon. As the magistrate has wisely
decided, there is nothing indecent in holding hands and even in a
stolen kiss.
Fly Swatting Scheme
Futile and Absurd
By Dr. Charles E. Page, Boston, Mast.
Flies are our fellow sani
tarians. Oceans of filth are
by them consumed and
transformed into the tissues
of their healthy bodies in
the course of the "fly. sea-
NATIONAL CONSERVATION EXPOSITION
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The ctty of Knoxvllle, Tenn.. is crowded with visitors to the National
Conservation Exposition. Which opened on September 1 and will continue for
two months. Eleven large and handsome buildings have been erected, two
of which are shown in the illustration. The grounds embrace more than duo
acres, a beautiful park among the foothills of the Smoky mountains.
NEWTHEA
Boston Woman Arranging
Erect Model Playhouse.
to
son." When you kill one
tlv early in the season you kill a swarm of busy little scavengers that would
have been helping to prevent disease by Helping us to ccar, F. ,
ever we make everything and every corner and place clean we have said
-oodby to flies: on longer needed and with nothing to subsist on, they are
doomed i amuse, iu oiaiuc -" ----
The cleanup at Panama, in New Orleans and Cuba brought ffto
as a matter of course improvement in health ot tne resiuems au
points; not from absence of fly bites or mosquito bites, but solely from the
banishment of filth and filthy surroundings. ;
The effort to banish flies by swatting here and there one is about like
attempting to drain the ocean -by dipping it up with a teaspoon.
Not one fly in ten millions alights on a human being; and when
one does the contact is harmless. At any rate, the swatting scheme is
as futile as absurd. '
Chain Gangs of Convicts
Breed Much Disease
By Ptol.CKa. Wardell Stfle. BirmingKam, Ala.
Chain gangs of prison
ers in many communities
are compelled to live under
conditions of filth that are
ideal for the spread of soil
pollution diseases.
During the past twenty
years 1 have had a number of opportunities to observe prisoners in peni
tentiaries, prison farms, jails and chain gangs, and have been seriously
impressed with the average lack of cleanliness among the criminals and
their guards, although the opportunities for rigid discipline rendered it
possible to make these penal institutions admirable schools in which the
state might easily give to its' charges some good lessons in cleanliness,
bvgicne and sanitation. i .
" With few exceptions, the authorities not only failed to see and to
utilize the opportunity offered, but J they actually permitted things to
occur which were dangerous to the communities.
Sh Aims at Moral Growth Reading
Room and Lunch Stand In Rear of
Stage Will Aid Comfort of the
Performers.
Boston, Mass. Mrs. Josephine Cle
ment, probably the best-known woman
theatrical manager In the country, has
a scheme for a model theater which
she hopes to build within a few
months.
She has not yet decided where 6he
will erect the theater, but she has
abundant financial backing by per
sons who have been attracted by her
success with the theater of which for
several years she has been the man
ager. It is to be a theater in which ev
ery seat will give an unobstructed
view of the stage. The cost of a seat
will be ten cents and the entertain
ments will be of a type that will have
the approval of leaders in the "uplift
movement" throughout the United
States.
"It will be different from anything
there is in the United States," said
Mrs. Clement. "Only performances of
th highest class will be given and
the theater will tje , unique, as it' will
have light and a on an jour
"it will have 'dienified entii
and everything inside will be ar
for the comfort of the patrons a
actors. - t
"I believe that actojHUr
brains enough to
untitle"! in as muclrajW.
and that is why there will m aafoi
an entrance in the back for tnern a
there is for the public in front.
"Actors who are satisfied with their
surroundings will co-operate with the
management, and that means success
for the theater."
The Bijou theater, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Clement, has made a fea
ture of moving pictures, and it is her
intention to give pictures in her new
theater, but they will be of a type
different from any now in general use.
There will be nothing in them to of
fend, and they will be entirely free
from the weird features which have
brought forth cirticisuis from clergy
men all over the world.
Mrs. Clement's idea is to have pic
tures that will educate and aid in up
lift work.
"I am going to show pictures that
will tend towards moral and inte
lectual development," said Mrs. Cle
ment. "I intend to give one long
film, a short one of a humorous
nature, two musical numbers and two
solos. '
"My scheme is to have a theater
that every one will enjoy attending,
and one in which a person will see
and hear for ten cents what now costs
not less than half a dollar. Moving
pictures so far have been used to
amuse, to startle me imagination
I have found steogpraphers and piano
players, and when the model theater
has been in operation a while it will
have proven that I am right.
"We will win in a short time, I am
confident, the good will and support
of those who see now in moving pic
tures only things to condemn."
ICE MENACE TO STEFANSSON
Polar Expedition Meets With Accident
Members of Crew Say Ship
Has Hole in It.
Nome, Alaska. The old whaler Kar
luk, which was taking the Vihjaimur
Stefansson Canadian polar exploration
expedition into the arctic, met with a
serious accident in the ice off Point
Barrow, the northernmost point of
Alaska, and may have to unload Tier
cargo, according to word received
here from the revenue cutter Bear.
The extent of the damage to the Kar
luk is not known, but it Is reported
that a large hole was stove In her hull.
The Stefansson expedition ' found
unusual Ice conditions at Barrow. The
Karluk was caught between the ice
floes and Is drifting with the ice. Aird
Henton, a member of the crew, quit at
Bar.row and told officers of the reve
nue cutter of the Karluk's plight.
The Stefansson expedition on the
Karluk as the main Bhip, and the aux-
ces, r
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nubile would be better without having
seen. These pictures will have no
place in my theater."
Mrs. Clement will have the co-operation
of the Harvard Dramatic so
ciety, as she had in her work at the
Bijou, and of many clergymen and
city officials who have been foremost
in the agitation against the moving
picture shows that are given in many
theaters.
Back of the stage will be a reading
room in which the actors can amuse
themselves between their acts. There
will be a lunchoom, where they will be
able to purchase meals at cost
Young men and women will be giv
en an opportunity to begin at the bot
tom and work to the top.
"I have always taken an interest In
young persons." said Mrs. Clement,
'und every day am on the lookout for
'promising young men and women. I
have a theory that mosi oi u can uu
something pretty well and have prov
en it since I went into the theatrical
business.
"A young woman came to me and
said that she was a good dancer. I
gave her a trial and she was an utter
failure. She told me she could play
the piano. I tried her al this and she
was a success. ,
"I had another girl tell me she
Ki nine. She couldn't, but I found
Vihjaimur Stefansson.
illary gasoline boats Mary Sachs and
Alaska, left Port Clarence, Alaska, 90
miles north of Nome, late in July.
Aboard the Karluk, of which Captain
Robert Bartlett, who commanded
Peary's polar ship Roosevelt, is mas
ter, are Stefansson, commander-in-chief
of the expedition, and eight of
the fourteen scientists who make up
his party. The other scientists were
divided between the Mary Sachs, of
which Kenneth Chipman, the Canadi
an geologist, was placed in command,
and the Alaska, in command of Dr. R.
M. Anderson, the American biologist
BURY ALL BOTTLES IN WOODS
Growing Belief That Sun's Rays Paas
ing Through Glass Starts Some
of the Fires.
Centralia, Wash. Beer and whisky
bottles, carelessly thrown to the
ground in timbered areas, are apt to
cause forest fires, according to the
opinion of E. W. Ferris, state Are
warden.
Mr. Ferris said that fire wardens
had been instructed to bury all bottles
they saw in order that they may not
act as a -concentrating medium for
the sun's rays and start fires in dry
leaves and moss.
"I have had many reports of fires
that undoubtedly started in this man
ner," said Mr. Ferris, "and I do not
doubt in the least the opinion that
there is danger from tnls source. It
sounds odd, but undoubtedly it Is
true."
Kill OF IT EATER
South African Animal That Dig
Hole and Disappears.
Recovers for Loss' of Disposition.
New York. Max Fenders' four-year-old
daughter had a sweet. Obe
dient disposition until the Janltress
of the apartment in which Max lived
swatted the little girl with an ash
Affor that the child became dis
obedient and Irritable and a Jury has
COUld Sing. SUO cuuiun ki uui l .,, , . ...
tha she was a splendid stenographer, just awarded Fender $100 for loss tf
Aard-Vark Has Only Rudimentary
Teeth With Legs Like Those of
the Kangaroo Specimens Very
Hard to Secure.
New York. Did you ever see an
aard-vark? asks a writer in the New
York World. Perhaps you know It
better by its Latin name, orycteropus?
No? They haven't got one In the zo
ological colection In Bronx park, nor.
so far as the writer has been able
to learn, in any of the famous toos or
menageries of the world. For the
aard-vark is a delicate animal, accord
ing to Curator Ditmars, and not easily
acclimated.
The aard-varth was thought to be
myth until the Dutch and English be
gan to settle Africa. It was first de
scribed by P. Kolbe in 1742 in an ac
count of his travels in Cape Colony,
but Buffon called in question his de
scription. However, this Is known to
be aecurate.
The Paris museum has just received
an orycteropus, which it has had
stuffed and placed on exhibition.
There are three species, and that In
Paris is the excessively rare Orycter
opus Ethioplcus from the regions of
the Blue Nile and Abyssinia. The
commonest species is that which is
found in eastern and southern Africa
as far north as Angola. The third
species is peculiar to Seriegambia.
The aard-vark belongs to the order
of Edentata, so called because its
members are either toothless or .have
only rudimentary or defective teeth.
It is a cousin of the ant bears, the
armadilloes and the pangolins of
South America. It is about six feet
long, Including the tail, and about
twenty inches high. Its back is
arched, Its head long and ending In
a snout like a pig's, only sharper and
longer. Its forelegs are short its hind
legs much larger, like those of a kan
garoo, and its tail is heavy and almost
as long as its body. Its ears are long
and erect, like an ass'. It has small,
piggy eyes, a very thick skin, like a
pig's, covered with sparsely scattered
hair, and yellow all over.
Its tonge is very long, extensive and
always covered with a gummy saliva.
It protrudes from a mouth that is lit
tle more than a round hole. The
young animal has eight molars In the
upper Jaw and six in the lower, but
the adult has only five above and four
below, and all of these are rudiamen
tary. The Ethiopian species lives in the
dessert, always near ant hills, for the
ants are its food. In the daytime it
stays curled up and asleep in a. bur
row whieh It closes behind it It digs
a hole even in' the hardest ground
with Incredible rapidity and disap
pears in a few moments, for the four
toes on its front feet are armed with
strong claws which It plies rapidly,
scooping out the earth and throwing
it behind itself in a great cloud of
dust
At night it emerges and goes out
hunting for ant hills. As soon as it
has found one it makes sure that nfl
danger is menacing, then it lies down
with its snOut against the ant hill,
puts out its tongue as far as it can
and waits. Soon its tongue Is covered
with ants, caught like flies on sticky
flypaper. Then it draws in its tongue,
chews up the ants and begins again.
It is very timid and so keen of ear
that it catches every faint sound. At
the slightest alarm It digs a hole and
buries itself. It never attacks any
thing but Insects, yet when attacked
it defends itself with its powerful
claws in a way that makes it danger
ous. When surprised by the hunter it al
most always has its head and shoul
ders in a hole, and it takes so tight a
grip on the earth that if the hunter
tries to pull it forth lie is almost cer
tain to fail.
Its flesh Is highly prized In Africa
and it Is said to taste like pork. It Is
easily tamed In its native land, and
In the days of Egypt's ancient great
ness must have been a pet for ladies,
as on the tomb of Abd-el-Gournah ot
the nineteenth dynasty there is
graven a picture of a noblewoman
with an orycteropus following her like
a dog.
SLIT SHIRTS WRECK NERVES
.Not of the Wearers, But of the Ankle
Gazing Youths, Says Doctor
Walters.
Pittsburgh, Pa."In looking over my
statistics I find there has been a slight
increase of nervous diseases among
young men, and I suspect that the
slashed skirt has something to do with
it," said Dr. E. R. Walters, director of
the health department.
"However, 1 believe that by restrict
ing the length of the skirt ail will be
well.
"Personally, I have taken little no
tice of the new skirt, for I am a home
loving man and careful about matters
of thi kind.
"And I do not know why young men
should be so closely observant of
ankles I have always Judged women
by their eyes. I have found it a much
better way; ankles are deceiving.
The ladles seem to like slit skirts
and I am for anything that pleases the
ladles. In that way I think that tho
slit skirt may do some good because
people never are.sick when they are
well pleased.
"And If the ladies want It, why. ray
goodness! why not'let them have it?"
To Keep Greens Crisp.
T ttur celerr. parsley, greens or
any foliage vegetable may b restored
to perfect crUpness ana iresnnrwi.
howevei limp and wiuea mey iu,
by first plunging them into cold water
and allowing them to remain a. few
mr.montft then draining them off. leav
ing them practically dry. Then put
them into an alr-tigni recepiacie, -
in. tnr ov-rl hours. One large pan
turned over another pan of equal size
is a satisfactory air-tight receptacle.
To purify greens' that are to be eaten
raw. use a pinch of boric acid powdr
Jn the water in which they are to be-
washed.
To Remove Iron Rust.
Cream of tartar 'will remove iron
rust. To take iodine stains irom
linen make a thick paste of ordinary
starch and cover the stains, and then
apply heat either that of the sun or
stove. For carbolic acid burn apply
vinpzar at once, and then make k
poultice of stale bread and vinegar.
This holds good for a burn from lye.
For Leather Furniture.
Boil half a pint of linseed oil and
allow it to stand until nearly cold,
then stir in a pint of vinegar. Stir un
til thoroughly mixed and bottle for
use. When needed, Bhake the bottle
well and pour a very little on a soft
flannel, rubbing it well Into the leath
er, turning the flannel as it gets dirty.
Keeping Butter..
For keeping butter cool in the hot
weather, get some saltpeter, dissolve
it in cold water and stand the butter
crock in it so that the saltpeter water
may reach well up the sides. Cover
it with a wet cloth, the ends of which,
resting in the saltpeter water, wilt
keep it constantly moist.
Pineapple Salad.
Use two pineapples, shredding them
and disposing of core. Put shredded
fruit in glass dish and pour over it
half a pint of powdered sugar mixedi
with tablespoonful of lemon juice. Let
the salad stand for several hours be
fore serving, so as to dissolve sugar
Serve with mayonnaise or French'
dressing.
For Mending Overshoes.
When rubber overshoes split down,
the back, mend them by taking a.
piece of surgical tape and pasting it
upon the inside of the heel.
Quaint Critic.
George B. Luks, the painter, said to
a critic in his New York studio: "Your
criticism is at any rate original and
amusing, my boy. It reminds me of
the colored laundress in the Ufflzi Gal
lery. "When this colored laundress
visited the Ufflzi. her mistress led her
un to L'orreggios masterpiece
" -There. Hannah, what do you think
that? she said, "Hannah, shaking her
heod lugubriously, started a long while
at the pictured angels whose white
robes we're all yello-wed by time, and
then, with a sigh and a disapproving
shake of the head, she said: 'De saints,
is de last folks to put up wiv bad laun
dry work.' "
Cleanses the Wounds.
For injuries from rusty nails or any
other external hurts, apply Hanford s
Balsam. It should kill any germs,
cleanse the wound and remove sore
ness. Then quick healing will follow.
Adv.
Ration! Love.
"The rational, rather than the
romantic, view of marriage Is the one
most in favor with the young people
of the twentieth century,"- said Dr. H.
Lucas Wentworth, the well knownj
eugenics expert, In an address in
Cleveland. 1
"The rational view will make for
happier marriages. And this rational
view is beautifully illustrated in two
question a little dialogue running
thus:
" 'Will you always love me?' .
" 'Will you always be lovable?' "
For chronic pain in the Ijack apply
Hanford's Balsam. Rub it on and rub
it in thoroughly. Adv.
Very Warm.
A party of commercial travelers
were drawing the long-bow and spin
ning yarns of wonderful adventures
on sea and land. A silent listener
sat in the corner. Presently onei of
the company addressed him.
' ."Have you traveled much, sir?"
"A little. I've been round the world
seven times."
"Then you must have had some
striking experiences. Perhaps you
would like to tell us one or two."
"Well," said the stranger, "perhapa
the most remarkable was on my last
voyage. At one time we found the
heat so terrific that we used to take It
in turns to go down Into the stoke
hold to get a cooler."
No more yarns were related that
evening.
Better than a plaster Hanford'
BalEam when thoroughly applied. Adv.
What C" Be Done Dout TM7
"Here's an item," observed Rivers,,
who was looking over the newspa
pers, "to the effect that the king of
Sweden raises prize dogs on his
farm." "I suppose he Uses them, suggest
ed Brooks, "to drive his Stockholm."
After which the rattle of the type
writers broke out afresh with great
violence. Stray Stories.
Hanford's Balsam. Jconomy ' In
large sizes. Adr
Some girls fall In love, and some
others are pushed In by anxious moth
I can find good actors ana singers a mo cmi