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EDGEFIELD, S.C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEB, 21, 1903.
NO. 43
FIGHTING
DISEASE WITH
DISEASE
By
ANDRTW WILSON,
Author and
Scientist
E are receiving scientific news of a character well calcu
lated to create intense interest in the minds of all
?who have the welfare of the race at heart. From
Vienna comes news tkat Professor Behring has suc
ceeded in rendering the cow IMMUNE TO THE
ATTACK OF TUBERCULOSIS, and from the
Jenner institute in London emanates the intelligence that Dr. A.
McFadyean has produced an antitoxin calculated to be of great
service not only in curing, but in preventing, typhoid fever. These
two diseases are, of course, responsible for a large amount of present
day mortality. It is true the death rate from tuberculosis has been
decreasing since public attention was directed to the ways and means
whereby the distribution of the germs of tubercle can be arrested.
Typhoid fever has also been considerably limited through our knowl
edge of its propagation by polluted water and allied media.
. ACTING ON THIS KNOWLEDGE, WE DECREE THAT INFECTION
OF WATER 8HALL BE STOPPED, AND IF THIS SOURCE OF TROUBLE
COULD BE EFFECTIVELY TACKLED WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO
REDUCE THE AILMENT TO A MISERABLE MINIMUM AS COMPARED
WITH THE PRE8ENT RATE OF ITS OCCURRENCE.
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Much has been done of late years in science to attack disease
with ITS OWN WEAPONS. My readers may know what is meant
by..the "serum" treatment. It represents the attempt of science to
hoist microbes with their own petard. A horse is inoculated with
the microbes of diphtheria. The ' animal remains strong and well
under this treatment. Then in blood drawn from it we find devel
oped in course of time what we call the "antitoxin" of the disease.
Thb germs multiplying in the serum or fluid of the blood have given
rise to this new substance. When the latter is inoculated into a
child suffering from diphtheria it cures the little patient. The anti
toxin acts upon the microbes causing fell disorder, produces reaction
in the child, with the result that the DISEASE IS CHECKED and
recovery made possible.
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Now, there follows upon this res^ilt another of much importance
in respect of human health and protection from tuberculosis. It
seems that cows so treated develop in their milk some principle or
other which has the effect of RENDERING CHILDREN FED
UPON IT INSUSCEPTIBLE TO TUBERCULAR ATTACK.
If we can be assured on this point a great advance will have been
made toward the prevention of the disease in early life, assuming,
of course, that tuberculosis is capable of being caused in young
children by the giving to them of milk from cows whose udders ar6
affected. Whether the same result would follow in the case of adults
is a matter awaiting further investigation, but at least a great gain
would, accrue to the civilized world IF TUBERCULOSIS WERE
.^DE. I>EPOSSIBLE OF CONVEYANCE -threagh &e medium ?
of a fluid so universally used as milk.
WHEREIN OUR COLLEGES
DO NOT EDUCATE *
By Rev. W. E. BARTON
of Oak Point, III.
4
AM no pessimist or believer that the past has been bet
ter than the present, nor do I lack faith that our col
leges are to send out men fitted for large responsibili
ties, but I confess my own conviction that the COL
LEGE LIFE OF TODAY IS RUNNING TOO
MUCH TO FRATERNITIES AND SOFA CUSHIONS; too
much to a course of training whose result is either the dilettante
pedant or the muscular bully and not enough to the discipline of
the mind, the culture of the-soul, the pursuit of knowledge and
the establishment of character. THESE ARE THE REAL
THINGS FOR WHICH COLLEGES EXIST. Athletics and
fraternities and clubs and all the rest are of value in proportion
as they promote these things. Wherefore, in no spirit of pessimism,
but with a strong conviction of its truth, I send forth' this appeal
for more of TRUE EDUCATION in our colleges.
THE WIFE EARNS AS
By.
MRS. RUSSELL SAGE
MUCH AS THE HUSBAND
?HE wife has her work to do. WHY SHOULDN'T
SHE BE PAID? For a woman to manage a family
iof children and at the same time preside over a hand
some home takes as much energy and brains as for a
man to conduct a large business enterprise.
The duties of the "wife of a man of smaller means holds the same
proportion to his, or even A LARGER PROPORTION. When it
is considered that in the average American family
no servant is employed and the wife has all the
work of caring for children, cooking, mending and
the rest, besides keeping the home as attractive as
possible for the man who goes out and earns the
money, it can readily be seen that the good wife
really has been earning as much as he has, though
in another way, and that A FAIR SHARE OF
HIS CASH INCOME SHOULD BE HERS accordingly.
SEVERAL WOMEN IN NEW YORK CITY WHOSE HUSBANDS ARE
WORTH MILLION8 ARE DRIVEN TO BORROW MONEY FROM TRADES
PEOPLE AND HAVE IT PUT ON THEIR BILLS. THAT IS AN
OUTRAGE.
Now,-here is a case which is somewhat different. It is an ex
treme case, for it is that of a young New York woman who upon
her marriage made the mistake of turning over all hor immense
fortune to her husband and is now herself PRACTICALLY A
PAUPER in her own luxurious home.
is better equipped ?h?
TYPE and NI
sa
AMERICA IS
BECOMING SENILE
By Count LEO TOLSTOI
MERICA HAS LOST HER YOUTH-HER HAIR IS GRAY,
HER TEETH ARE FALLING OUT; SHE IS BECOMING
8ENILE.
Voltaire said that France was rotten before she
waa ripe, but what shall be said of a nation whose
ideals have perished almost in one generation? Your
Emersons, Garrisons and Whittlers are all gone.
You produce nothing but rich men. In the years before and after
the civil war the soul life of your people flowered and bore fruit.
YOU ARE PITIFUL MATERIALISTS NOW.
What is needed in America is A GREAT RELIGIOUS- MOVE
MENT. Truth will make your people free. When they abandon
pleasure as an object of life they will not need so much money.
Your workingmen can never win the fight against capital by labor
unions. Capital will always have the government and the army on'(
its side.
True religion is this: If I believe that I have a spark of the
divine in me, then I am a part of God, and I know my place in the
universe, an J.I know that I have a duty to all other men. If I
believe that I am simply an animal I will live like an animal and
work for myself. THE MAN WHO BECOMES A TRUE
CHRISTIAN HAS A CENTER FROM WHICH HE CAN
SEE ALL THINGS CLEARLY.
Why should Americans send a petition to Russia? We have a
crime like the Kishineff outbreak once in a period of years. In the
United States they have lynchings every year, every month, every
week, almost every day. They hang negroes, shoot them, roast
them. It is an ordinary thing in the United States. Yet they feel
that they can address, a petition to the emperor of Russia regarding
the Kishineff murders.
Some one asked-Emerson what he should do if the sun should
grow cold and thc earth die. He answered, "I think that I could
get along without them." That was a good reply. It showed that
he was sure of his spiritual life. Why do Americans neglect their
souls for the sake of trade, for the Sake of money, for the sake of
pleasure? Some one invents the automobile. At once everybody
feels that automobiles must be used. But why should a man waste
his time in dashing about the country in an automobile? As soon
as you invent something to SAVE TIME you begin to WASTE j
TIME by using it constantly and without reason.
Five hundred years hence the descendants of the race will look J
back with astonishment to a time when their ancestors wasted their j
strength in building such nonsensical structures and devoted a large -
part of their lives to preposterous rapid travel.
I have but one ambition-I WOULD DIE A MARTYRS
NEW YORK TO PARIS BY RAIL
By LOUIS DE LOBEL, French Engineer
^TT"^"^OR years it has been my dream to unite New York and
mi Paris by rail, and I think it will eventually bo realized.
A company has been formed to carry through the
project. THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT HAS BE
COME INTERESTED in it and has granted conces
sions to build a line from Irkutsk to Bering strait. We are now
trying to secure privileges from the Canadian government to build
on its land, with the right to hold Pacific tertninals. I think these
will be granted. The road as planned will open the Alaska mining
region. Fifty million dollars has been promised to begin the under
taking. SIX YEARS WILL BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE
THE LINE, and when finished the trip in cars from New York to
Paris can be made in fourteen days. I have personally explored
the entire route as proposed and am confident the road can bo built.
The route is from Irkutsk to Jakoutsk, thence to East capo and
from rhere direct to Bering strait and thence to Yukon City. The
greatest feature of the road will be A TUNNEL UNDER BERING
STRAIT, as a ferry is not practicable. This will be the most ex
pensive part of the work. I estimate the entire line can be built at
a cost of $200,000,000, which will include everything.
KINDERGARTENS and DEMOCRACY
By RICHARD WATSON GILDER, Pott and Journalist
A
MERICA is bravely attempting to be a true democracy,
and the American kindergarten is forever STRENGTH
ENING TxIE FOUNDATION OF THAT DEMOC
RACY in its influence upon the children and through
them upon the people at large. In our social life of
today there are influences that strongly militate against what have
hitherto been thought to be the fundamental principles of this de
mocracy of ours-namely, open and fair dealing between men and
the protection and preservation of rights through public and estab
lished agencies.
Today there is a reign of ILLEGAL PROCEDURE AND
GHASTLY BRUTALITY in connection with the suppression of
crime. There is, too, an increase of selfish violence not only as
between the supposedly opposing interests of labor and capital, but
also as between the interests of various groups of labor, and there
is an alarming extension of the violence of venality in thc domain
of local and other government. Along with this there is a BRU
TAL DISPLAY OF UNSOCIAL LUXURY, tho semi-insanity
of irresponsible wealth.
THE PRINCIPLES, THE TEACHINGS, THE HABITS OF THE KINDER
GARTEN ARE ALL DEVOTED TO THE CORRECTION OF THE TEMPER
THAT BRINGS THESE EVIL8 UPON oDCIETY. IT8 INFLUENCE MAY
NOT ACTUALLY PREVENT THEM, BUT IN IT8 NATURE ITS WORK')
TENDS TO BE PREVENTIVE OF THEM.
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"UNION LABOR IS
BADLY ADVISED AND
IGNORANTLY LED"
By General HARRISON GRAY OTIS,
U. S. V., Retired
?Y far the worst phase of the labor problem lies in the
fact that so called "ORGANIZED" LABOR IS SO
OFTEN BADLY ADVISED AND IGNORANTLY
LED. Too many of its leaders have shown in con
spicuous instances an utter disregard of the lawful
rights of that far larger body of workmen who are
nb| up in the ranks of the labor leagues.
fThey have shown themselves to be NOT TRUE FRIENDS
OF LABOR, broadly speaking, but its narrow and deluded enemies.
They have proved themselves to be blind, UNSAFE leaders. They
have exhibited small knowledge of the true principles of industrial
economics. By this course in promoting strikes and consequent
id?pness they seem to say to workingmen: "Idleness is better for
you than employment. Stop work and live off the others."
8UCH ADVICE 18 FOLLY AND MADNESS CONCENTRATED. THE
MAN WHO ADVISES ANOTHER TO REFUSE EMPLOYMENT AND
WAGE8 WHEN HE NEEDS THEM IS A BAD COUNSELOR.
I We oppose the impudent pretensions on the part of those who
wsould establish a labor oligarchy and create an INSUFFERABLE
MONOPOLY in a universal commodity. It is an unjust, an inde
fensible, a destructive doctrine. Carried to its ultimate conclusion,
i?would undermine our republican system, sap the foundations of
the government and substitute the uncontrolled will of the few for
tfce lawful rule of the many, for true it is that the great body of
labor in this country is unorganized, that it does not seek to organize
and in the very nature of the case must remain unorganized. Even
m the ranks of banded labor are countless scores of men who are
unwilling subjects and chafe under an insufferable thraldom.
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The right to labor is fundamental and Inalienable. It antedates
labor leagues and human laws. It is a PRE-EMINENT RIGHT
fcf all American citizens and can never be taken away without first
revolutionizing the government.
But there will be no revolution. This sacred fight, vital to re
publican liberty, will be protected, defended and preserved by brave
freemen who prize it, and ALL WHO DARE ASSAIL IT WILL
JBE FOILED IN THEIR WICKED ATTEMPT.
Labor strikes, boycotting and picketing, proscription and abuse
of other workmen-all these, with their concomitant evils, are inde-'
fiensible and dangerous, and when accompanied by violence they
'become conspiracy.
I The government, though it may travel with leaden heel, CAN
NOT TOLERATE CONSPIRACY OR INSURRECTION. It
moves, and must, move, when the overt act has been committed:
In the last resort, when civic and industrial rf^'ts*"ar?~d?i???"d
and invaded, when the law is defied, when violence breaks forth,
when all other measures have failed, then comes the ultimate resort,
MILITARY FORCE, for the law must be enforced by whatever
effort; the public peace must be preserved at whatever sacrifice;
insurrection must be put down at whatever cost.
The government of the state and of the United States cannot
and will not sit supine and see thc edicts of their courts defied, their
laws trampled upon, private and public property destroyed or citizens
maimed, murdered and maltreated. If such acts be permitted an
archy ensues.
BUT THERE WILL BE NO ANARCHY. OURS IS A GOVERNMENT
OF LAW AND IN ITS SYSTEM RESIDES THE POWER TO ENFORCE
ITS DECREES.
PRISONS AS INCUBATORS OF CRIME
By CHARLTON T. LEWIS, President New York State Prison Association
|HE purpose of preventing future crime dictates, first
of all, the abolition of every traditional institution
and practice which tends to produce criminals. There
is no doubt that the criminal class consists mainly
of THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MADE CRIM
INALS BY PRISON LIFE. There has been much improve
ment in the discipline of prisons, but prisons in general are still
schools of crime. Apart from the associations which they furnish
the unnatural life in confinement is weakening to manhood, and
it is always a degradation to its subject. Moreover, the improve
ment has not extended in general io local jails. These are the
class rooms from which the criminal class is chiefly recruited.
ANY THOROUGH REFORM OF PENAL LAW, THEREFORE, MUST
CONTEMPLATE AN IMMENSE REDUCTION IN THE USE MADE OF
PRISONS AND JAILS.
If a rational rule were formulated on the subject it would be:
Put no man in prison unless his confinement is necessary to the
safety of the community. Keep him there ONLY SO LONG
AS THIS NECESSITY CONTINUES. .
MOST MEN MARRY TO BE RESPECTABLE
ES
By Mrs. EDWIN KNOWLES, Former President of Women's
Professional League
|HY do men marry? may be asked. Setting aside those cases
where marriage is merely the price of possession, most
men marry because they have decided to "settle down and
be respectable." It adds dignity to have a household. There is a
standing that can be obtained in no other manner.
BACHELORHOOD IS A SORT OF VAGABONDAGE, AND THERE
COMES A TIME WHEN IT IS DESIRABLE TO TERMINATE IT. AND SO
A MAN SAYS TO HIMSELF, "IT IS TIME FOR ME TO MARRY."
He is much like that character in Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"
to whom his father said, "Take a wife." The 6on replied, "Yes,
father, hut whose wife shall I take?"
'-CLASS WORK. NEW
AL just arrived.
'OR IT.
We Wantto TalK to..
. You About
B 0 Y'S CLOTHES
:o :.
The Clothes question for the growing Boy is aperplexing pro
position at best.
Pariente, who have raised an assortment of Boy?, know all about
it.
The Boy must be pleased as well as the Parent.
We have Boys Suits that will satisfy all hands and promote con
tentm1-:!!! in the family circle.
Our handsome Short Pants Suits from -3 to 16 yearp, in two or
three piece styles, will
FILL THE BILL EXACTLY
$2.50, $3.00, $3 50, $4.00 and upward are the prices. The Suits
are handsome and have style enough to please both the Boy and his
Mother, as well cs {hat substantial wear his lather will insist upon
having.
|2ff*Bring the Boy here for all round clothes sat?sfa3tion.
I c. LEVY'S SON & co
Correct Diessers
for Men and Boys.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SWEET POTATOES.
An Evaporated Product That Keeps
Well and Bear? Tranitportatlon.
A recent bulletin of tue South Caro
lina experiment station calls attention
to the fact that, while sweet potatoes
may be produced in abundance at small
cost and furnish a cheap, nutritious
and palatable food not only for man,
but for domestic animals, they have
fallen far short of the full measure of
success as a market crop because, first,
they are too bulky to pay for extended
transportation, and, second, they can
not stand rough bundling and exposure
to freezing weather.
The station, therefore, undertook to
find a method by which the potatoes
might be dried, with an Improvement
of the keeping quality and no loss of
edible quality. After numerous exper
iments it believes that these results
may be obtained by boiling the pota
toes in an open kettle and drying in a
fruit evaporator. The method followed
at the station was as follows:
By means of a derrick usefr4n the.
cannery several bushels of green "pota
toes were lowered in an iron basket
to a large boiler uv which the water
was heated by steam. To^secure uni
form cooking the roots should'be nearly
of the samesize. Those weighing from
one to two pounds required an hour
for thorough cooking. Six to eight
hours were required for evaporating
them at a temperature of 150 degrees
B\. An ordinary laborer peeled and
?Heed a bushel per hour.
The evaporated prodnct, it is claimed,
"will keep for an indefinite time^and
bear transportation to uny part of-the
world at any season." It contained:
"Moisture, 3.42 per cent; crude ash, 2.48
per cent; crude protein, 5.06 per cent;
crude fat, .80 per cent; crude fiber, 2.08
per cent; nitrogen free extract, 86.16
per cent. To prevent hardenlng'of the
j product it should be packed in close
boxes as soon as practicable after re
moval from the hot room."
To prepare the product for table use
"soak the slices in warm water for an
hour and prepare as dressed or candied
potatoes. The desiccated potatoes may
also be used as are the fresh roots for
puddings or custards." For the latter
purpose they may be quickly ^prepared
by adding a small amount of warm wa
ter and boiling. Not more than fifteen
miuutes will usually be required.
?ojnan can serve two masters un
lessee is a low-down politician.
' A scient
or of a cyclone foi
Investigated the col
it blew.
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Office Over May & May's Store.
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I am prepared to save you money on
Staple and Fancy GROCERIES.
Always get my prices before buying. I reprereut SMITH -?
BROS., of AUGUSTA, GA., and cad supply you with Gro
ceries at Augusta Prices. Give me a call. Respectfully,
E, S. J O H NSONJj
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ADVERTISER 'BUILDING
Augusta Bee Hive
Has just received a full and complete line of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
Consisting of CLOTHING for stout an 1 lean men; Clothing for
Youths; Clothing for Men and Boys. Also a full Hue of Oveicoats
for Men and Boys. The finest assortment of Men's and Boys Hatst
A full and complete line of
-?FURNISHING GOODS*
My Dress Goods Departmeut consists of everything the ladies
need in Plain and Fancy Goods. SILKS of all shades and prices. In
Ready-to-wear Skirts and Shirts, I have the most complete line in
the city.
jN^illinei^jr Department
My Millinery Department is complete in every detail. All the
different styles nf Walking Hats and Dress Hats, of the finest quality
and latest Parisian styles,
Stioes. Shoes.
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My stock of Shoes is loo well known to need any comments. I
have for the tiny infants to the No. 14 brogans. All you ne-tl is to
all at THE' AUGUSTA BEE HIVE to be convinced that this is the
lace to get your bargains.
ABE COHEN PRO.