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FACTS ALL Sf .A Physician Tells all Small ? - The following article from the pen of a local physician who has given the disease of small pox and its history eoBsiderabie study should be read by everybody in South Carolina : T? tltt Editor of the ?tate. ?n view of the general attention that if being devoted to the continued presence of small pox at Atlanta, and the increased interest occasioned by the appearance of the disease at other peints, I have thought that some re marks relative to this most loathsome affliction and its preventive treatment by vaoeination, would be welcomed by tae public. Small pox dates from remote anti quity. At one time or another it has ' prevailed in every quarter of the globe. The earliest knowledge of its occur-, renee is derived from India, where the Brahmins practiced inoculation many centuries before the Christian era. So common was the disease in that country, and so terrible its ravages, that a goddess was worshipped as a protectress against it. During the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries it pre vailed in Europe, and two centuries later it appeared on the American'con tinent. To obtain an adequate idea of the appalling ravages of small pox in its unfiltered activity we have but to look back at its past history. Dur ing the ISth century one-hal. of the total mortality in Europe was caused by small pox. We find that in 1518 it "helped to complete the depopulation of St. Domingo, which the horrors of war and fan)ir*r had begun. Soon afterwards; in Mexico, it even surpass ed the er-" h ?es of conquest, suddenly smiting n\?\nt 3,500,000 of population. Prescott, ir, his "Conquest of Mexi co," den-ri bes the epidemic as sweep ing over the land like fire over the prairies, smiting down prince and peasant, and "leaving its path strewn with the dead bodies of the natives, wlio perished in heaps like cattle stricken with inurrah." A striking account of its ravages among the In dians of this country may be gathered from the following passages in a book ? published in 1841 : "^Thirty millions of white men are now scuffing for thc goods and luxur ies of life over the bones and ashes of 12,000,000 of red men, 6,000,000 of whom have fallen victims to the small pox." To lura to Europe again, we find that during the 18th century "'fully two-thirds of all children born were, sooner or later, attacked by small pox, and that on an average one twelfth of all children born succumbed to that disease." Nearly one-tenth of all persons who died in London during the latter half of the last cen tury died of that cause alone. In every country visited the younger part of the population were peculiarly its victims ; and royal and noble families were not exempt. But the ravages of small pox are not half enumerated in the list of the myriads whom it has slain. From the earliest to the latest records of the disease there is constant mention of the tax which it levies upon survivors. In prevaccination times many who did not die were rendered weak or deform ed for life, and blindness often ensued from thc scourge. Macaulay, who justly assigns to small pox the fore most place as "thc most terrible of all ministers of death." exclaims in a striking passage. "The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid, but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory. The small pox was always present, filling thc churchyards with corpses, \ tormenting with constant fears ail whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at whom the mothar shuddered! and making the eyes and checks of tjic betrothed maid en objects of .horror to thc lover." An authority affirms that 90 per cent, of all cases of blindness met with in the bazaars of India are due to the same disease. No wonder thc ancient proverb, "From small pox and love few remain free." Xow let us have briefly thc history of vaccination aud give some account of its nature and importance. The first method of immunizing the indi vidual against small pox was known as inoculation, which was introduced into England in 1717 by Lady Montague. Subsequently, it was quite generally practised throughout Great Britain. In 1770. Dr. Edward Jenner, an English practitioner, was first attract ed by a popular belief, common among the dairy hands of the norther:! sec tion of tiic country, that any one who had contracted small pox from milking cows effected with thc disease was insusceptible to small pox. After a close investigation of the subject. Jenner arrived at conclusions suffici ently satisfactory to warrant, thc ex periment of taking matter from one of these sores found upon thc udder of the cow and introducing it into the arm of a person who was supposed to be unprotected from smallpox. After the sore upon thc arm had run its course, he exposed the individual to rOULD KNOW A.botit the ^Disease of !Pox. the influence of small pox, and in this way established its protective power. The story of Jenner's struggles to convince bis contemporaries of the value of bis observations forms a most interesting and instructive chapter in tbe history of medical progress. No member of the profession ever receiv ed moro anathemas or more scurrilous abuse than did this great apostle of vaccination. Undaunted, Jenner kept bravely at work and by repeated ex periments became convinced that by vaccination perfect protection could be obtained against small pox. "Within the space of a few years Jenner com pelled the profession to admit his statements and adopt his practice, and a few years after its recognition, the practice became a fixed therapeutic procedure, until to-day after standing the test of practice for a century, it is the greatest medical preventive the world has ever known. There is no question among the intelligent portion of the profession but that vaccination, properly performed, is a perfect pro tection against the infection of small pex-indeed, it has been authorita tively asserted that if a person con tract the disease after he has been vaccinated, then thc operation has not been properly performed. Now what is the rela'-iou existing between small pox and cow pox ? Jenner was the first to advance the belief that thc two diseases have a common ancestry, or are identical recent investigations seem to strength en this view, but controversy still wages hotly around the question, and it still awaits a definite solution. A common origin does, seem probable, since it is not unlikely that small pox may have departed widely from the primal type and by successive repro ductions on man have gained an ex alted virulence. It is seen that vaccination, like all active measures for protecting the public health, has emanated from and has been fostered by the medical pro fession : the assertion sometimes made by ignorant laymen that the profes sion has been influenced in its efforts to maintain the practice by motives of pecuniary benefit, is so obviously in-, generous as to call for no notice. The practice stands to-day as one of the greatest blessings that human thought and observation have conferred upon mankind. Formerly, small pox was so common that according to thc philoso phy of the times,*every person had either passed through it, or was des tined some time to experience an attack. Now we never hear of an epidemic, and when sporadic cases occur the disease is quickly stamped out. Thc facts of all epidemics since the practice became general bear un answerable testimony to the value of vaccination. The failing of vaccina tion is largely due to the absence of any widespread epidemic of small pox within recent years : the feeling of false security thus created has led the people to put off for thc moment the temporary inconvenience of being vac cinated. Wheu thc disease does threaten to spread in a community, there is a rush for vaccination, which, by straining thc local resources to their limits, renders it difficult to secure thc most efficient protection in all cases. It is important to undergo the operation before the epidemic ar rives, for when once thc disease is fully manifested, vaccination is prac tically without avail, for it is proba ble that immunity does not reach its maximum until thc fourth week after vaccination. Now, au attack of small pox docs not invariably confer im munity from thc disease. Vaccina tion cfiiciently performed in infancy and repeated in the loth or 14th year has shown itself to be almost an abso lute protection against small pox. In those cases in which small pox occurs after vaccination, thc disease is almost without exception so far modified that its identity in its earliest stages is frequently unrecognized. It must not bc supposed that vacci- ' nation, however valuable to the com munity at large, is not exempt from that liability to accident which exists in all human affairs. Operations of even a trivial nature sometimes prove fatal. There is au average of one death to 14,15?J primary vaccinations. If the virus bc carefully selected and properly used, and if reasonable can be exercised after vaccination, there is no doubt that thc dangers of thc oper tiou are extremely small. This small element of risk should deter no one. The prompt action of the authori ties of the city schools in adopting measures to have all the school chil dren vaccinated, should meet with the commendation of all : a single case of the disease developing in a common j school of un vaccinated children would ? probably give rise to hundreds of j cases. This was fully demonstrated by thc epidemic a few years ago at Montreal, when a single case, al li rs I supposed to be chicken pox. resulted in thc death of I .OHO children In thc face of an epidemic every one should bc vaccinated ; no matter the j number (d'previous vaccinations ; all i persons who. when danger threatens, neglect to avail themselves of this means of protection against small pox. constitute a serious menai-!', nuisance and indirect cause of expense to the ! community in'which they reside. ' H. W. (!. STOMACH NOT NECESSARY. AD Interesting Story of How a Woman Lived without this Organ. Springfield Hepubliean. Tihere are so many people in all civ ilized lands who would like to be rid of their stomachs that additional de tails of the unique operation at Zurich last August are of great interest. The Republican yesterday described in a general way how Dr. Carl Schlatter, of the University of Zurich, removed Anna Landis's stomach entirely from her body, and then set her agoing again in better health than she had enjoyed for years. It seems that when the diseased stomach had been revealed in all its hopelessness as an organ of digestion, the surgeon made bold to remove it because, first, it was clear that the woman would soon die with the stom ach, and, second, that she might live without it, inasmuch as other patients were known to have survived for con siderable periods after the greater part of their stomachs had been cut away, while dogs had lived for years in good eating and fighting order with no stomachs at all. When the orgau had been removed the problem of how to unite thc end of the oesophagus aud the cud of the intestine, in order to make the ali mentary canal complete, caused some temporary difficulty. The two ends would not unite without stretching, and that would never do. No general on a battlefield ever met a serious emergency with more coolness and in telligence than did this German sur geon. "In this predicament," one reads in the Medical Record. Dr. Schlatter "found that what he calls the knuckle of the intestine below the severed cut (it might well be called the first bend in the intestine, as it lay coiled in the abdomen) could easi be brought to join the end of the oesophagus. Accordingly he closed np the end of the intestine absolutely, as one might close the end of a severed artery. Then he took the bend of the intestine in hand, cut a slit in it that would just fit the severed end of the j oesophagus, and sewed the end and the ? slit together. This done, there was then a direct channel fron^ the pa I tient's throat down through the intes tines, while in place of a stomach was the end of the intestine-a length of about 15 inches that lay on one side." This end, we should say, had now be come a new vermiform appendix-at least, something very similar to the familiar and mysterious organ which causes the appendicitis. The pulse immediately after the operation was 96, but it became 140, and even 160 later. The patient was nourished for two days with enamas of eggs, milk and brandy, and on Sep tember 9, 14 days after she had lost her stomach, Miss Landis was fed on milk, bauillon, eggs and wine at inter vals of two hours. On the 13th tem perature and pulse were reaching a normal condition ; on the 16th she ate some scraped meat, and on the 26th, a month after thc operation, she con sumed and assimilated half a chicken, although not without some vomiting. She was "up and around" October ll, and on December 9, when examined by Dr. Edmund C. Wendt, of New York, he found a woman 5(5 years oM, with uo stomach, a ruddy complexion, fair appearance, clean, moist tongue, mod erately full and vigorous pulse, and good general alacrity of movement, lier appetite was good, and she had gained since leaving thc surgeon's ta ble three pounds in weight. I?r. Wcudt's conclusions, prefaced by the qualification that he would not indulge in "sweepinggeneralisations" on the strength of one case, are stated in full as follows : 1. Thc human stomach is not a vital organ. . 2. The digestive capacity of thc human stomach has been considerably overrated. 3. Thc fluids and solids constitu ting an ordinary mixed diet are capable of complete digestion und assimila tion without thc aid of thc human stomach. 4. A gain in the weight of the body may take place in spite of the total absence of gastric activity. ."). Typical vomiting may occur with out a stomach. ?'?, Thc general health of a person ticed not immediately deteriorate on account of removal of the stomach. 7. The most, important ellice for thc human stomach is to act as a reser voir for the reception, preliminary preparation, and pulsation of food and fluids. lt also fulfills a useful pur pose in regulating thc temperature of swallowed solids am! liquids. 5. The chemical function of the stomach may be completely am! satis factorily performed by thc other divis ions of the alimentary canal. Gastric juice is hostile to thc de velopment of many micro-organisms. Kl. The lr." acid of normal gastric secretions has no power to arrest pu trefactive changes ii: the intestinal tract. Its antiseptic and bactcridc potency has been overestimated. All this will bc very welcome news to dyspeptics thc world over. The possibilities of the discovery arc ini meuse. When you have worn out your stomach for any cause, without, of course, having injured the rest of the alimentary canal, you may have the stomach removed, and with the eids of the canal joined together all will be merry and eatable again. Here, too, is a new field for the surgeons, which ought to yield immense addi tions to their praotice and equivalent additions to their incomes. For the man with a poor stomach is one of the most unhappy of beings, and he would ordinarily pay most of his substance to be forever relieved of it. Within a short time, lesi thau two yeara, have come the discovery of the X ray, which is of great importance to iurgery, and this remarkable reve lation of the real importance of the human stomach. What next ? By United States Mail to Heaven. The New York World tells the fol lowing : Two pennies dropped on the ledge of the brass-barred window. The pos tal clerk looked up. He was out of sorts. Two holidays in succession had been too much for him. A little golden head appeared, just topping the ledge. '.Well?'' snapped the clerk. ile had just opened his window in the postoffice yesterday morning, and eight hours of the hardest kind of work were in sight. The little girl, who had been first in thc linc, hesi tated a moment. Then she plucked up courage. "Please, mister," she began, "I want a stamp for thia to send it to nay little brother." In her hands she held up a package done up in brown paper and roughly lied with a bit of coarse twine. It was Almost falling apart in her tiny hands. She held it out to the clerk, who took it with thc same grace that he had been taking thousands of pack ages diring the holidays. He looked at thc address to see whether it was foreign or domestic. Then he tooked back at the child. There was a queer look in his eye that had not been there before. Postoffice clerks see many strange packages and any quantity of them addressed to "Santa Claus." But this one was not for Santa Claus. It read : : llobert McNaughton. : ; Heaven. For a moment the clerk hesitated. The little one took it for a refusal to accept the parcel because she had not paid enough for the postage. Quickly the tiny hands fumbled at a little purse, where two more pennies were in' keeping. These were on thc win dow ledge in a moment with the other two. "There's more pennies, sir," said the little one. "Please take it now. I haven't any more pennies."' "Why, my child." said the clerk, who had babies of his own at home, <<j_" "Oh. please." broke in the little one, "it's for my little brother in heaven. Ile died last week and per haps bc is so strange in heaven that ! God has forgotten to give him any '. Christmas present. And he'd bc so disappointed." Tears were in thc clerk's eyes by this time-bc was thinking of the little flaxen-haired one of his own at home. Tears were in the child s eyes. ^ too, and thc little lip was quivering. "Oh. sir, it's all right.'' she insist- ? ed. "This is my very own to give j away. Santa Claus brought it to me ?m Christmas. My papa doesn tknow and my mamma doesn't knew. They j cried on Christmas 'cause Robbie had ? gnni; to live with the angels. But I | want to send something to iiobbic all j myself." The little one was crying now. Her j sobs came fast and deep. Her poor little heart was on the point (d' break ing. "Kobbif went away to ("od last j week!" she sobbed, "and little Klsie j has no ono left to play with." The clerk blew his nose very hard ? and then explained that the mail did | not go where her little brother was so j happy with the angels, lt wasn t be- ; cause she did't have enough to pay for j it. lt was because the steam cars ' couldn't go there. Ile was astender' as he could be. and one woman in j black who had come on tho line that , was kept standing there because ol' i the little one's pleading began to; weep. So thc clerk handed hack tho pack- ' age to the child and she turned away ! with teal's ol' hitter disappointment in J her eyes. "liobbie will have no Christmas !" I she sobbed. dust thc-u the rover caine off ber j precious package, lt held a little ? white lamb, tied with a pink ribbon. ? - During thc past two year.-. Mi s. .J I \V. Alexander, wile ol' l he editor ol' ' the Waynesboro (Miss.) T?ims. has,in j a great many instances, relieved her ! baby when in thc first stave.- ol' croup, by giving il Chamberlain's Cough Kt lindy. She looks upon this reme dy a.- a i' usehold necessity ??nd be lieves thal no bettor medicine has ever been put i?: bottles. There are many thousands of mothers in this broad land who arc ?d' tho .-ame opin ion. 11 is I lie only remedy that eau always le- depended upon as a pre ventative and cure for croup. The li? . and 50 cent bottles are for -ale hy the . Hill-Orr Ibug Company. Coming of the Millenlnra. NBW HAVIJT, December 25. "Prof." Anderson, of Lyme's famous "Holiness Btnd," is out with another series of predictions of what is to hap pen when the great change of the world comes two years hence. "Since the times allotted." writes the profes sor, "to the four Gentile empires end on November 15, 1899. at erening. (probably,) Jerusalem time, and the fifth kingdom, that of Israel, begins, let us consider some of the character ists of that kingdom, and we shall in deed see that the proclamation that heralded the gift to the earth of that kingdom was, indeed, 'Good tidings of joy which shall be to all people.' "The first characteristic of this kingdom will be the rigid and exact justice with which the law will be ad ministered. All oppression of the j poor will cease, and any attempted op pression will bc checked in the begin ning. "Second-It shall be the kingdom of peace. There shall be no war in j all the earth for a thousand years, and j then but one great revolt, followed by an eternity of peace. "Third-There shall be an abund ance of food. No more hunger, no more want of any kind. Every desire of man's heart that is not wrong shall be abundantly satisfied. In order that there may be this abundance thc climate will bc changed, and. as a re sult, there will be such fertility as the world has not yet seen. The animals will become peaceful and will eat grass again. Thc deserts will be fer tile, and from Jerusalem a river will flow into the Dead Sea, freshening its waters, and then on into the Indian Ocean. All that desert land shall be a very garden. "Another point is mentioned by Micah and that is there will be no house rent to pay." They shall sit every man under his own vine and under his fig tree. There will be no more great tenement houses, no more slums, filled with every kind of evil, but every mau shall own his own house and open yard. Think of how many there are who suffer for air and see the great blessing that this little thing will bring! Again, there shall be healing for all disease "Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of thc deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the tongue of the dumb shall sing. Those parents who have laid away their lit tle ones shall know that never again shall that sorrow come to the children of men, for 'There shall be no more thence an infant of days.' Think of all the remances and schemes of a golden age from Plato and Thomas Moore to Howells and Bellamy, and think that the blessed reality exceeds those books a hun dredfold. And then look at the hope less outlook before us under the op eration of the present harsh law of the survival of the fittest-how Spencer sees nothing before us but* a crushing social tyranny, and how Huxley sees that thc necessary conse quence of present arrangements is to press thc great part of men down into constant life of starvation, and then say if these things that 1 am telling this people arc not the best of good news."-Nc tr York Times. Mr. E. D. Jenkins, of Litkonia, Ga., savs that bis daughter, Ida, inherited a severe case of Eczema, which the usual mercury and potash remedies failed to relieve. Year by year she was treated with various medicines esternal appli cations and internal remedies, without result. Her sufferings were intense, and her condition grew steadily worse. All the so-called blood remedies did not seem tc reach the dis ease at all until S. S.S. was given, when an improvement was at once noticed. The medicine was continuecd with fav orable results, and now she is cured ^^?aPh *>?nd and well, her -Jj.- Z- - <3s?L J sk in i s perfectly Sf /'l/VVVvVrX dear and pure and W 7 j \ r ?VV she has been saved from what threat- [ eacd to biight licr life forever. _ j S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) cures Kc;:eina, Scrofula, Cancer, Rheu matism, or any other blood trouble. It is arealblocd remedy and always cures even after ail else- falls. Taken, blood remedy for a blood disease; : L mk: won't cure ;?. K :. r books ?gk #^ ;f^5^ % % % : "TI("'F? Al JJ.persons indebted io the int?1 A. S. Stephens, or to the Firm >>? Heed Si Ste phens, either by NTor? or open Account, aroJiereby notified tba! they mus' be;set tled ?it once, or they will be placed In tho hands of an ollicer ?*"r collection. PAUL E ST KP ll ENS, Administrator. Oct 27. I8i?7 l> CHRISTMAS GOODS FOR EVERYBODY. WE HAVE/RECEIVED OUR XMAS GROCERIES ! FRUITS, CONFECTIONERIES, ETC? WJ? kare the sicest astor tmem of Fiat Candies that we haya ever had. Be suro te aaa it. Eic lot Ii. L. Raiaini, Seeded ttaisliw, Ci?*"cd Carrants, Gfeaed Citron, Ci'adied Lemon Peel, Dates, Figs, Sbsiled Almonds., English Wataov, Brazil Xnts, Fasans and Al so on da. A ll flbeap. FIREWORKS. Eire Craekeri, Cannon Cracker?, Itoxnan Candles, lied Lights, Whistling "Bomba, Sand Crackers, <ke. Don't fail to ?om? and see oar Goods wheo jon ar? in Tows. Don't matter whether yo? bay or not. No double to show yon oar Goods. Yo?rs for Trads, OSBORNE & BOLT. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT OUR Groceries are Pure and Fresh ? ENTRUST us to fill your Holiday orders and see how well we can please you. Standard, high grade Goods, popular prices, FREE CITY DELIVERY is what the City Trade wants. We have all the requisite facilities to haudle this class of trade. Oor Goods guaranteed to give satisfaction. Cottolene, Pulv. Sugar, Royal Bakiug Powder, Gelatine, Raisins, Shelled Almonds, Currants, Citron, Spices, Flav. Extracts. Etc. Eic. TENNEY'S CANDIES, in packages and in bulk, always fresh. GREAT BARGAINS AND GREAT GUNS Latest designs, Tremendous Stock ? Breed ul Id Loading SH Guns at? les. A superb line-bought right-will be sold right. Now is the time to make your choice. AMMUNITION, SPORTMENS' GOODS, &c, Retailed at wholesale prices. On these and other classes of Goods in our line we are simply in it to sell. iivan TREED AT LAST ! LL successful Possum-hunters hace been fooled : sri are we this tim?. Oar game in its desperation, puts up tue. customary nauseating defense, hops from limb to limb, winks ona ere to itself, ami in tones that bespeak th* anguish of its stricken heart, wails io t?e Nighing ?rinds-it Cost! at Cwt! ! tv Cos: !! ! Now. ain't tirata prettv mouth to pur. up. People of Anderson C ninty, b.-!i?vu il or nor. ns you will, the fact, remains that never in our experience have ?'? ever had such a :arge trade as now. We are not com plaining about hard times are buvintr ?ur share of rhe Cotton, and of coarse wa are going to have our share of the trade We hardly over do sell ou; at ?.W, sud sometimes we don'? : therefore, we don't luve to do :c now, because we havent tue slightest idea ol cnn/ out ot business-besides our G>o.is ure going outjast enough a? a reasonable profit. When Christmas stops coming o ice a year, when we can't sell more Dean's Patent Flour than aoy other grade sold in Anderson County and prove it: when we can't beat the town on Shoe's, and when th<i uro ni people of old Anderson C ninty say to us that wc have imposed up ?a them a;'d duped them, then, and nor. till then, wi!! y.iur humble servants thrpv up the spouse :tnd close nut Ht C wt. Until then y.iu cm g->t what you want-Dry Goods, Boot*, Shoes, Hats, Jeans, Flo ar and other? Groceries, and Canned Meats a?: cheap :;t ou . St?r?) ?.< anvwhere ' Ne, bur you'd nut gor them at Cost. D???f? & R?TLBFFE, Cotton Bu vet's; Guano I? laler? a id Bi-g*::i Vea lor* co ?.hr> Cra 1;?. Has passed through and left nearly everything he had with. For the Little Folks, such as Dolls, Doll Cradles. Doll Beds, Balls, iron Trains, Tin Trains, Guns, Pistols, Gaines of all kinds. Harps, Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Foot Balls. Iron Stoves, Tin Stoves, Toa Sets, Doil Furniture, and various other things. WE HAYE A CHINA PALACE In its true sense, well worth your time and trouble to come and get; prices, which we take great pleasure in showing and pricing you When looking for WEDDING PRESENTS Give inc a look, as I have :i beautiful selection in that line for very little money. Wo aro strictly up-to-date in style and prices to suit alli We want eve rybody that wards to see something nice ami attractive to nive us a call and inspect our Goods. No trouble tn show von. Wc ex-tend :i s,;(;?:?? invitation to thc little children to come and see what dear edd Santa h;;.~ loft here for them. This invitation means you an ! your neighbors and till their kinti Iks. I am now selling thc handsomest STEEL RANGE made-the b si for the motley-and it would make your wife :i nice Xmas Present. A lull linc of Crockery, Glas?, Lamp Goods, Tinware, Cheap Stoves, &-c. JOHN T. B U REISS