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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, 1915.
THE PALATKA NEWS. PALATKA. FLA.
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VN a previous article it was stated that nearly everybody has tn"
I berculosis at some tune or other during his mltimTlJl
X pePle nave snown tnt hard y a single hn i7 i
mature life without a scar on his W8 or X emg Taehes
where tuberculosis had attacked him and fe by CnZf
4Dce and vitality, had warded off the'eontbSM th Sack
Because tuberculosis is so widespread Pv hiulk.
child should give the most careful aSi'on 7,
disease which point out danger The treacherous Sease gTms ma
enter the body in early childhood and may not . '
trouble for ten or fifteen years. ,Zf SL Twh"
body is weakened by overwork, worry, sickness, or bad living and
Wkmg conditions, these sleepinsr cerm... wiro ..Tv. ! g,M
ffve in the destruction of the lungs or other os?" The w Tkinl
Tin or woman, therefore, ennnnt l, t.., ? ., . nuiAiug.
health and 'in watching out H2
:hat the disease of tuberculosis is actually present. What then
" nTrs? ol nST TZTlS aDd Wat should be done about'them?
(1) First of all, there is a cough that hangs on and will not
ear up. If it lasts for a month or longer, it is a red light, a danger
agnal, which you cannot afford to ignore. It may start with wet
eet or some other uisignificant circumstance, but no matter how the
:ough s arted, if it does not go away, see your doctor at once. Colds
requently weaken the bodily tone and resistance, so that it is easv
br the lurking germs to get a foothold.
(2) Loss of weight, accompanied by a loss of appetite, and a cer
am amount of stomach trouble" is another danger signal which
ou must not pass unheeded. Sometimes loss of weight may come
rom some other cause than tuberculosis, but it pays to be on your
nard. You may not have a cough, and you may experience very
ittle trouble except a sort of chronic weariness. You ought to know
rhat your normal weight should be. If you begin to lose five, ten
r more pounds without any apparent reason, look for sound med
ial advice at once. Sometimes with loss of weight goes a loss of
ppetite, and trouble wth bowels and stomach, even running to
iarrhea. Whether you are losing much weight or not, look out for
liis danger signal. It is a warning that something is wrong.
(3) Then there is that run-down, all-the-time-tired feeling. Most
eople have days when they feel unusually tired, for some reason
r other.'4 Such an occasional period of "spring fever" or "lazy
ver" may not be at all dangerous, but when every day for two or
iree weeks you hate to get up and dread to do anything but lie
round and be lazy, there is danger ahead. This is Nature's warn
lg to you that some enemy inside your body is sapping your
itality. Don't ignore the warning signal!
(4) Anyone of the three symptoms just mentioned may occur
iigly or all of them may come at one time. When, to any or all,
wre is added a fever in the late afternoon or during the night,
tcompanied possibly by sweats, beware of this danger signal. It
ft bright red flag which Nature waves before you, cautioning you
i give immediate heed. Anyone's temperature may rise at times,
ime people's more easily than others. But when for a week every
fternoon about four or five o'clock you've felt feverish, or when
ight after night you wake up in a dripping sweat, you may rest
isured that there is nothing normal about that. Go to your doctor
: once and tell him about it. You may have no cough and no other
gn of disease, and this may be the only warning you 11 get. Give
Jed to it at once.
(5) If you have a cough and in spitting you find streaks of
ood in your sputum, you may rest assured that something is
rang. It may not be a direct sign of tuberculosis, but whatever it
jyou should attend to it at once. You cannot afford to waste
fee putting it off. Nature may give you that more emphatio
arning of the presence of tuberculosis, a hemorrhage of the lungs.
1 so, don't be scared unduly. It is a danger signal, and if you
led it, you may be safe.
There are other danger signals, some which you can see and
me which only a trained physician can detect. Your safety lies I
getting medical attention as early as possible. Tuberculosis can j
i cured if it is discovered in time. The time to discover it is when j
e first symptoms show themselves. Don't takt chances with
sth. You'll lose every time.
Go to a good doctor, if you notice any of these danger signals,
id insist that he examine you stripped to the waist. If you can't
ford a doctor, go to a free clinic and be examined. It may cost
few dollars to be examined, but it may save you hundreds of
illara, untold suffering, and possibly your life and that of your wife
id familv.
"SAFETY FIRST" is a motto that applies to tuberculosis,
pecially when it is first showing itself.
NOTE Thla I the Fourth of a Serlet of Five Article! Prepared by The
itlonal Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculoid, New
irk City.
TESTING A FREIGHT CAR.
Shower Baths Are Used For Detecting
Leaky Roofs.
Shower butlis for freight cars? Cer
tainly. Treating (he curs to a good
bath every now anil tlieu is the method
wmcu railroads have devised to pre-
tem navmg to pay for freiirbt dnm
aged while in transit by water leaking
turougn tue ear roofs.
To detect a leak In the roof of
freight car before it has caused any
damage to the goods Inside Is no easy
matter. Previous to the Introduction
of the shower baths for cars railroads
frequently had to pay heavy bills for
damage caused by roofs which were
supposedly In the best of condition.
To overcome this difficulty on several
large railroad systems every car Is
given at regular Intervals a severe test
ror leaks by nieans of shower baths.
The bathing apparatus Is rigged over
a track along which the car Is run at
slow speed. Enormous volumes of wa
ter are poured upon the ear and with
such force that water will find its way
Inside If there Is any fault lu the roof.
sueathlng or ends.
As soon as the car emerges from the
bath Inspectors examine it carefully
and mark with chalk any signs of
leaks.
A car thus marked Is sent to the
shop to be made waterprof. Before it
Is sent out to resume Its work it Is sub
jected to a second shower bath to de
termine whether the repairs have been
satisfactorily made. New York Ameri
can. MODERN GREEKS.
Those at Home Outnumbered by Those
In Other Countries.
What and who are these modern
Greeks? The most skeptical investi
gators admit that lu most of them is
some blood transmitted from ancient
Greece and t hat there is a proportion
of Greek descent in Greece about equal
to that of Anglo-Saxon descent In
America, I'or the rest the modern
Greeks are either Albanian or Slav or
Vlach.
Besides the Greeks In Greece there
are other Greeks who far outnumber
them. They are found on all the coasts
of the Ottoman empire. Crete and the
other islands until very lately under
Turkish sovereignty have no other in
habitants Imponnnt In numbers. They
are numerous in Asia Minor, in Syria
and In Egypt.
While domiciled, elsewhere they re
ninln passionate In devotion to the
Greece they style Hellas, the modern
kingdom, whose people are called Hel
lenes, and. being musters of commerce
and finance, many of them have gained
enormous fortunes, from which they
pour great sums Into Athens particu
larly, but Into Greece generally, for
public buildings and endowments.
From "The Balkans A Laboratory of
History." l William Mllligan Slonne.
ODD MEMORY TEST.
A Bit of Nonsense Literature Whose
Author Is Unknown.
There Is an odd bit of composition
that has figured lu nonsense literature
as follows:
"So she went Into a garden to pick
a cabbage leaf, to make an apple pie
of, and a she bear, coming up the
street, put her head Into the shop and
said, "Do you sell any soup?" So she
died, and he very imprudently mar
ried the barber, and the powder fell
out of the counselor's wig, and poor
Mrs. MacKay's puddings were quite
entirely spoilt, and there were present
the Garnelies and the Goblllles and
the Pickaninnies and the great Panjan
drum himself, with the little round
button at top, and they played at the
ancient game of "catch who catch can'
till the gunpowder ran out of the heels
of their boots."
The origin of the passage Is obscure.
Maria Edgeworth 1707-1849), quotes it
in one of her stories, attributing it to
Samuel Foote (1720-771. The British
Quarterly Review said that Foote
wrote it In order to test a certain lec
turer who claimed that he could learn
anything by rote on once bearing it.
Another account says that It was
written by an actor named James
Qulnn (l(i!)3-17(!0i to puzzle Foote,
with whom be had a wager that Foote
could not memorize something that
Qulnn would write. Foote and Qulnn
both were noted actors in their day,
and the nonsensical passage probably
was the outgrowth of some convivial
contest of wits between them.
It used to figure in school rhetorics
to illustrate the difficulty of memoriz
ing something that bad no sense to it
GETTING AN EDUCATION.
KEEPING YOUNG.
i Age Is Not by Any Means Merely
a Matter of Years.
rhere Is uo scientific evidence to
ow that late youth and middle age
t the periods of commencing decrep
iJe and "old age." Man grows old
cause he Is Injured; because his body
Us are poisoned, and not because he
i lived just so many years. There is
relentless law determining when a
in shall grow old. The tradition
liree score years and ten" is condi
ned mainly on the manner of living
rt not by any natural law. But man
it lu his power to modify these
editions either for better or worse,
fruliably a greater luxury of living
Fill is not balanced by proper phys
il exercises is a primary condition to
reckoned with. But temperance all
"g tile line in eating, drinking,
urtting. playing aud even lu resting
been suggested us a wiser prin
pie lo hold to. This avoids tlie pos
Mllty of rusting out on the one hand
of wearing out on the other.
Jet there Is another way and a more
orthy reason for retaining youth and
ferriug old agecultivate health for
t love and pleasure of It. The
witlily letter of the IJfe Extension
stltute says of this suggestion: "It is
" a fear of illness or of death that we
lould encourage, but a love of health,
fcMise of responsibility for the care
uur bodies, a desire for bodily en
ranee and efficiency and full achleve
"a. if the mind is fixed on these
fcis and the ulreudy known moans of
lroai-hing them are utilized, heart
"we. kidney trouble and the noed
f miseries that embitter the lives of
tonny may be left to take care of
tUMelvea. It is not so much neces
lT to fight disease aa to cultivate
"ah for the happiness, contentment
aioral gain that It brings.-
uresms.
Th seven-year-old boy who
' sister that "dreams are only
Pictures in your mind" pave
tt definition vf Ua fnnfipjl
'iber than can be found in the di
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THE WIDOW CUSTIS.
She Was an Heiress and a Great Catch
When George Won Her. '
George Washington in marrying a
great heiress set n precedent which
few of his successors have followed.
The pretty, blight eyed, little Virginia
widow Mrs. Cuslls, whose lands, slaves,
dollars and mansions were inherited
from both her husband and her father,
was the greatest "catch" of her day.
and young Washington was greatly en
vied when he persuaded her to say
"Yes." This marriage enabled him to
hold his own a g the plutocrats of
the time ami to he tree from any finan
cial worries.
Mrs. Washington, whose wealth could
have added most to the splendors of
the White House, never occupied the
mansion, as it was finished only four
months before the expiration of John
Adams' term, and Mrs. Adams was lis
first chatelaine It was then referred
to as "the palace." and each president
was expected to provide for its mainte
nance and pay for its hospitalities out
of his salary of IpiYlHW a year.
t this rate few presidents left the
White House as well off financially as
thev entered it. So meager were the
appropriations for the "care and maintenance-
of the White House during
the first half of the nineteenth century
that several presidents departed from
It deeply in debt and nearly all died
poor-New York World.
BR-AK UP COLDS AND GRIPPE
With Quick's Chill Tonic Tastes
good. Sold by J. H. Haughton on a
guarantee, 25e.
Not the First.
Pat was servant of a farmer, and in
his charge was a donkey, which was
. . ui. .n,nlvpr's children.
Kent to aniusc it - -
The donkey was following the farmer ?
wife round tne yara one u , -farmer,
turning to Pat, ...
"I think that donkey is taking a lik-
Wadfpat. "share, and it's not
the first donkey that's took a liking lo
her, sir." Exchange.
Cleopatra and Poisons.
Cleopatra assembled all kinds of
deadly poisons and began experiments
with all the criminals sentenced to
death In order to see if the action of
the poison was painless. As she ob
served that those which acted quickly
brought death with great pain and that
the milder poisons worked slowly, she
began experiments with poisonous an
imals, scl ting them upon other ani
mals in her presence. This she did
daily and noted that among them all
ouly the- bite of a certain poisonous
snake evoked without tremor or palu a
certain numbness and Invincible desire
for sleep so that the victims gradually
died with a light sweat upon the face
and gradual darkening of the senses,
and when one tried to awaken them or
to brighten them were as unwilling as
those who are in a deep sleep. Plu
tarch. .
The English of the Diamond.
In the National league Is an umpire
who Is a stickler ror correct deport
ment on the diamond. In a game lu
which he officii ted at the Polo grounds
early In the season us Chief Meyers,
the Indian catcher for New York, came
to bat certain or the Boston players
sitting on their bench began to guy the
brawny red man.
In an Instant the umpire had left his
place behind the catcher and was mu
nlug toward the visitors' bombproof.
"Cut out them personalities!" be or
dered. "Cut out them personalities!
As he turned away a high
voice filtered out from the grand stand
behind him. saying:
"Cut out them grammar!" Saturday
Evening Pom.
COLORING METALS.
Almost Any Hue, Bright and Lasting,
Quickly Imparted to Brass.
It has been found that metals may be
colored quickly and cheaply by forming
on their surface a coating of a thin
film of a sulphide. In five minutes
brass articles may be coated any color,
varying from gold to copper red, then
to carmine, dark red and from light
aniline blue to a blue-white like sul
phide of lead and at last a reddish
white, according to the thickness of
the coat, which depends on the length
of time the metal remains in the solu
tion used. The colors possess a very
good luster, and if the articles to be
colored have been previously thorough.
ly cleaned by means of adds aud alka
lies they adhere so firmly that they
may be operated upon by the polishing
steel.
To prepare the solution dissolve half
an ounce of hyposulphlde of soda In
one pound of water and add half an
ounce of acetate of lead dissolved in
half a pound of water. When this clear
solution is heated to from WO to 200
degrees F. It decomposes slowly and
precipitates sulphide of lead In brown
flakes. If metal be now present a part
of the sulphide of lend is deposited
thereon, and according to the thickness
of the deposited sulphide of lead the
above colors are produced. To produce
an even coloring the articles must be
evenly heated, iron heated with this
solution takes a steel blue color and
will retain the coloring unless some
abrasive is used to remove it. IOiidon
Chronicle.
The Penalty of Pride.
"When I was running a circus," said
a retired showmau. "I never last nn op
portunity of advertising. I always
made it a point to get my name every
where, and whenever any one asked
for my autograph you may be sure he
got It. Once when 1 went to a little
town a great string of boys and girls
stood In a line waiting for a chance to
get my autograph on the small cards
they carried. I wrote them as fast as
I could, thinking proudly, 'Felix, old
boy. your name is getting to be a house
hold word!' When I looked around the
tent that afternoon I thought all the
school children in the town were there.
That meant money, and I was feeling
pretty happy till I began looking over
the receipts, and then I found over a
hundred of my autographs with the
words "Admit bearer' written above
them!"
Precise Boarding Mistress "Mr.
Blunt, shall I tender you some more
of the chicken?"
Mr. Blunt "No. thank vou! But if
pitched you can tender this piece you have
already served me 1 shall be greatly
obliged to you."
A Goat's Voice.
The drawler was talking into the tel
ephone. "Why-er-ah! 1 t liiukali-h-h ! per
haps nil lili li! -I -ah-h-h-h!"-
"Say. look here!" came a sarcastic
voice over the wire. "What do you
think you are. anyhow - confounded
nanny goat'" Kansas City Star.
A Lit'.le Mixed.
Riding In an otnnilius up Itegenl
street l.i -t evening 1 heard an old lady
annoying the ot passengers with re
marks. The conductor remonstrated
wllh her. saying. "Mu'aiu. remember
you are In a public vehicle and behave
as such."- London Spectator.
Evolution of the Orange.
The oranee was originally a near
shaped fruit about the size of the com
mon wild cherry. Its evolution is be
lieved by naturalists to be due to 1.200
years of cultivation.
COLDS-GRIPPE-FEVERS
Cured quickly by taking XJuick's Chill
Tonic. Guaranteed by J. H. Haugh
ton, 25c.
' Children love it
A liar ends by making truth appear
like falsehood. Shenstone.
The most miserable creature in this
world is a critic out of a job, or the
natural born kicker surrounded by
nothing but vacant air.
Corruption will never want a pre
tense. Cato.
One of Those Friends.
"Wombat. I'm a friend of yours and
I must tell you that today Flubdub
was saying some very mean things
about you."
"If you are a friend of mine why did
you stand there and listen to him?"
"Well. I'm a friend of his too."
Louisville Courler-.lournal.
Assisting the Wicked to Flee.
"The wicked Mee when no man pur
sueth," quoted the deacon to the minis
ter. "Yes." said the minister, who be
lieved In muscular Christianity "That
is true, lint they make much better
time when somebody is after them."
Ladies' Home Journal.
Laurel Leaves.
According to an old tradition, laurel
communicates the spirit of poetry and
prophecy. Hence the custom of putting
laurel leaves under one's pillow to ac
quire inspiration.
After the Age of Thirty Is the Time to
Start In Earnest.
According to the Saturday Evening
Tost, the best time to get an education
perhaps the only time is any time
after one has passed thirty. The stun"
that one learus before twenty is not
meant to be remembered. It Is only :i
placing of the chutes and an arrange
ment of the bins for the permanent
contents. From twenty to thirty one
is all torn up with courting, iiiarryliu
and getting a foothold In life. Alter
that Is the time for education frou
then on until death or senile debility
A man or woman past thirty Is ex
actly at the most favorable period for
mastering knowledge, training the
mind, forming the taste. Some syste
matlc effort is all that is necessary,
Notice the silly and tiresome ways In
which enormous numbers of people
spend some of their holidays. They
know what to do with their working
hours, but not with their leisure.
Most of them by a little direction
and a little systematic effort might
develop some special Interest. Boys
quickly tire of mere aimless and pain
less play. Naturally they want
method and a goal in it. Having a
goal is exactly what gives zest to the
game.
And having a goal Is both easy and
delightful. To study anything with
interest, from logarithms to caterpll
lars, gives one fun aud profit at the
same time. Try lu
PROVED ITS WORTH.
Dramatio Test That Was Made With a
Bullet Proof Shirt.
"A well known war correspondent.
who is a personal friend of mine,"
writes a correspondent of the Manches
ter Guardian, "tells an amusing story.
While in Paris at the beginning of the
war in 1914 a French inventor per
suaded bim to obtain an opportunity
for demonstrating the usefulness of a
thin chain armor shirt, which he claim
ed would resist any bullet or bayonet.
"A sample shirt had been hung up
and fired at with satisfactory results,
but it was with a certain Journalistic
skepticism that my friend attended the
official demonstration at Hendon later.
Anyway, to oblige the inventor be put
on one of the shirts to show its com
fort and flexibility. It was then that
the French Inventor achieved a dra
matic effect, for be whipped out a
Webley automatic and blazed away
straight at my friend's chest.
"He is still alive to tell the tale;
adds the correspondent "Before he
had recovered breath a war office offi
cial grasped him warmly by the hand.
'Sir,' he said, 'you are a brave
man!'
"My friend disapieared with becom
ing modesty. He had gone where be
could get a stiff brandy and soda!"
How American Cities Grow.
Nobody knows how fast nn Ameri
can city, state or town may grow. I
recall some twenty-five years ago
meeting a friend In Denver He was
an investor from the ea.st. I think
Denver had about 30.000 people then.
He had come to buy real estate. He
said to me: "This place Is overgrown.
Real estate Is too high. None for me!"
Aud he went away Had lie invested
wisely at that time he could have mul
tiplied bis money ten to twenty fold.
1 was in f.os Angeles about the same
time. It bad bad a serious reaction
after a sudden boom. It was a little
place, not one tenth Its present size.
It seemed like a doomed city. An in
vestment of $."iiK) than in outlying acre
age property. I am told, would be
worth $noo.()00 today. So nobody can
tell what may be the future of any of
the new. wideawake cities of Alaska.r-
I.eslle's
Friend "What was the cause of
that boating accident?"
Waterman "Too full."
"The boat too full?"
"No, the fellers in it."
Decisive Battles.
Some married men will contend that
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the
World" will never be complete until
a few domestic scraps are added to the
volume. London Telegraph.
AGE OF THE EARTH.'
Different Systems of Computing It and
Their Varying Figures.
As long ago as 1800' John Phillips,
the geologist, estimated that the time
required for the deposition of the
stratified rocks lay between 38,000.000
and 90,000,000 years. This was prob
ably the only estimate prior to Kel
vin's epoch making paper of 18(12.
Since that time many estimates bave
been made, varying all the way from
17,000.000 years to 400,000.000 years.
Kelvin was the first to discuss the
age of the earth considered as a cool
ing body. .In 1893 Clarence King in
troduced the Important criterion of
tidal stability and reached the conclu
sion that 24,000.000 represented the
conditions. This result was adopted
by Kelvin in 1897, and then he placed!
the limits as 20,000,000 and 40,000.000
years.
Only Sir George Darwin has discuss
ed the age of the earth from a purely
astronomical point of view. From hla
theory of the earth moon system he
derived an estimate of more than 50,
000,000 years, which for a long time
stood between groups of higher and
lower figures. J. .loley was the first to
bnse estimates of the age of the earth
In 1899 on the sodluih contained In the
ocean. Adopting the hypothesis that
the sodium content of the ocean Is de
rived at a constnut rate from that ot
the rocks, he arrived at an age of 80,
000.000 or 90.000,000 years and increas
ed this by 10.000.000 lu 1900. In 1900
Mr. Sollas made a searching inquiry
Into this subject and placed the age of
the ocean at between 80.000,000 and
150,000.000 years.
The Sense of Taste.
Scientists say that the Havor of food
and drink does not come to us through
the sense of taste. The lutter can only
furnish sensations corresponding to the
chemical composition of substances
taken Into the mouth. Although al
most infinite In their variations, these
sensations are few In number, compris
ing sweetness, bitterness, saltiness and
sourness, with their numerous degrees
of Intensity.
The distinctive flavors of food do not
come from chemical action and are
therefore not perceived by the sense
of taste, but by the olfactory nerve by
which the sensation is transmitted to
the brain.
This explains why one's food does
not taste "tight" when be is Buffering
from a cold.
Two of a Kind.
A lady selected some purchases in a
store, asking that they be kept for her
until the next day. When she returned
she could not remember who waited on
her. After puzzling over the matter.
she approached one and asked:
'Am I the woman who bought some
embroidery here yesterday?"
'Yes'm." replied the girl, stolidly.
and turned to get it- Christian Register.
Simply Couldn't.
Now, son," said the lawyer, "yoi
were guilty of various misdemeanor
today and must be taken to task.
I apply for a stay of proceedings
pop, and a change of venue to ma."
And bow could a good lawyer refus
such a request? Louisville Courier
Journal.
Envious.
Howell I'm engaged to Miss Rowell
Congratulate me, old man. Powell l
would if I did not know that in hei
case a nomination is not equivalent ti
an election. Smart Set
On His Part.
Tom out of work again? Why, I
thought he had a steady Job?"
Oh. the job was steady;
wasn't." Philadelphia Press.
Tom
All men have their frailties, and he
who looks for a friend without imper
fections will never find what he seeks.
Woman's Way.
He Innnoyedr-lt's 8 o'clock, and yon
aid you would be here at 6. She Did
I say (1? 1 thought 1 said 7."-Boston
Transcript.
What makes life dreary is want of
motive. George Eliot
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