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FACTS ALL SI A Physician Tells all Small Thc following article fruin the pen of u local physician who has given tho disease of small pox and its history considerable study should bo read by everybody in South Carolina : TA the lCiliior of the Stale. in view of thcgcncral attention that i? being devoted to the continued presence of small pox at Atlanta, nod thc increased interest occusioncd by the appearance of the disease at other points. 1 ha\e thought that some re marks relative to this most loathsome afHiction and its preventive treatment "r.y vaccination, would be welcomed by t he public. Small pox dates from remote anti iiuity, \t one time or another it has prevailed i fi every quarter of thc globe. Thc earliest knowledge of its occur rence is derived from India, where thc IJrahmins practiced inoculation many centuries before the Christian era. So common was tho disease in that country, an 1 so terrible its ravages, that a coddess was worshipped as a ! rotc tr"- li gu in St it. During the lit!, and 15th centuries it prc vailed ;u Kuropc, and two centuries la;cr it appeared on the American con tinent. To obtain un ade.piatc idea ? S tho appalling ravages of small pox iu its unfiltered activity wo have but. to look back at its past history. Dur ing thc i Stlt century one-half of the, total mortality in Europe was caused by small pox. Wc lind that in 1518 it'helped to complete thc depopulation ?>f St. Domingo, whit.li the horrors of w:.r ?ml furn? oe hud begun. Soon nfterwu"!-. <? Mexico, it even surpass ed thc er o 1: -s of conquest, suddenly smititlK roovn ?J,500,(100 of population. Present". i>. his "Conquest of Mexi co.' dc-. : ? lies thc epidemic us sweep ing over thc land like fire over the prairies, smiting down prince and peasant, and "leaving its path strewn with the dead bodies nf the natives, who perished in heaps like cattle stricken with murrah." A striking account of it^ ravages among the In dians of this country may bc gathered from the following passages in a book publishcu in 1SH : " Thirty millions of white men ure now sculling for thc coeds und luxur ies of lifo over the bones und ashes of 12,000,000 of red tuen, 0,000,000 of whom have f?llen victims to thc small pox." To turn to Europe again, we find that during the 18th century "fully two-thirds of ul! children born were, sooner or later, attacked by small pox, und that on an average onc twclfth nf all children born succumbed to that disease." Nearly one-tenth of all persons who died in London during thc latter half of thc last cen tury died of that cause alone. In every country visited the younger part of thc population were peculiarly its victims : und royal und noble families were not exempt. Hut thc ravages of small pox arc not half enumerated in the list of thc myriads whom it has slain. From thc earliest to thc latest records of thc disease there is constant mention of the tax which it levies upon survivors, lu prevuecination times many who did not die were rendered weak or deform ed for life, and blindness often ensued from the scourge. Macaulay, who iustly assigns t.-, small pox the fore most place as "the most terrible ol' all ministers ol' death." exclaims in a striking passage, "The havoc ol' the plague Ima been fur more rapid, but tie.' plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory. 'Flu? small pox was always present, ailing thc churchyards with corpses, ' tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving -o? those whose lives it spared thc hideous traces of its power, turning thc babe into a changeling at whom the mother shuddered, and making the eyes und checks ?d' the betrothed maid en objects of horror to thc lover." An authority affirms that '.Ml percent, of nil cuso of blindness met with in the bazaars of India are due to the sumo disease. No wonder thc ancient proverb, "From small pox and love lew remain free." Now let us have briefly the history of vaccination and nive sonic account of its nature and importance. The first method of immuuixing the indi vidual against small pox was known as inoculation, w hich was introduced into England in 1717 by Lady Montague. Subsequently, it was quite generally practised throughout (iront Britain. In 177t>. Dr. Edward Je?ner, un English practitioner, was first attract ed by a popular belief, common among thc dairy hands of the northern sec tion of the country, that any one win? had contracted small pox from milking cows effected with thc diseuse waa insusceptible to small pox. After n close investigation of the subject, .Jenner arrived at conclusions snllici ontly satisfactory to warrant the ex periment ol' t.iking matter from ono of these sores found upon the udder of \ the cow und introducing it into the \;trm ol' a person who was supposed to |e ifnprotected from small pox. After thc sore upon the arin had run its course, he exposed the individual to IOULD KNOW. Al)onl; fclie 'Disease ol' Pox. thc i nfl nonce of small pox, and in this way established its protective power. Thc story of Jenner's struggles to convince his contemporaries of the value of his observations forms? most interesting and instructive chapter in the history of medica*! progress. No member of the profession ever receiv ed more anathemas or more scurrilous abuse than did this great apostle of vaccination. I'udauutcd, Jenner kept bravely at work and by repeated ex periment* became convinced that by vaeoination perfect protection could be obtained against small pox. Within the. space of a few years Jcrtner com pelled the profession to admit his statements and adopt bi? practice, and a few years after its recognition, the practice became a fixed therapeutic procedure, until to day after standing the test of practice fur a century, it is the greatest medical preventive the world has ever known. There is rm iptcstion among thc intelligent portion id' thc profession but. that vaccination, properly performed, i-1 a perfect pro tection against the infection of small pox - indeed, il han Leen authorita tively asserted thal if a person con tract the disease after In: has been vaccinated, then the operation has not been properly performed. Now what is the relation existing between small pox and cow pox ? Jenner was thc first to advance the belief that the two diseases have a common ancestry, or are identical: recent investigations scorn to strength en this view, but controversy ?till wages hotly around the question, and it still awaits a definite solution. A common origin docs scorn 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, bas emanated from and has been fostered by thc medical pro fession ; the assertion sometimes made by ignorant laymen thal the profes sion has been influenced in its efforts to maintain the practice hy 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 the philoso phy of the times,'every person had either passed through it, or was des tined some time to experience au attack. Now we never hear of an epidemic, and when sporadic eases occur the disease is quickly stamped out. The 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 ?d' false security thus created has led the people to put off for the moment the temporary inconvenience of being vac cinated. When the disease does threaten to ?pread in a community, there is a rush for vaccinating, which, by straining thc local resources to their limits, renders it difficult to secure the most efficient protection in all eases. It is important to undergo tho operation before the epidemic ar rives, for when once the disease is fully manifested, vaccination is prac tically without avail, for it is proba ble that immunity does not reach its maximum until the fourth week after vaccination. Now, an attack of small pox does not invariably confer im munity from thc diseuse. Vaccina tion efficiently performed in infancy and repeated ?n thc- loin or I ?tu year has shown itself to be almost an abso lute protection against small pox. lu those eases in which small pox occurs after vaccination, the disease is almost without exception so far modified that its identity in its earliest stages is f rcq uc n tly u n ree ogu i zed. lt must not be 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 oven a trivial nature sometimes prove fatal. There is an average of one death to 14,Infi primary vaccinations. If the virus bc carefully selected and properly used, and if reasonable care be exercised after vaccination, there is no doubt that the dangers of the 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 tho school chil dren vaccinated, should meet with thc commendation of all : a single case of the disease developing in a common school of unvaccinatcd children would probably give rise to hundreds of casts. This was fully demonstrated by tin- epidemic a few years ago at Montreal when a single case, at first supposed to be chicken pox. resulted in the de: th of 1,0(1') children. In thc face of an epidemic every one should be vaccinated ; no matter the number of previous vaccinations ; all persons who. when danger threatens, neglect to avail themselves id* this means of protection against small pox, constitute a serious monaco, nuisance ond indirect causo of expense to the community iiYwhich they reside. ll. W. G. STOMACH NOT NECESSARY. AD Interesting Story of How a Woman Lived without this Organ. .Springfield Republican. Thero arc so many people in all civ ilized lands who would like to be rid of their stomachs that additional de tails of tho unique operation at Zurich last August are of great interest. Tho Iiejntblie.au. yesterday described in a general way how Dr. Carl Schlatter, of thc University of Zuriah, removed Anna Landis's stomach entirely from her body, and then sot her agoing again in hotter health than sho had enjoyed for year?. It seems that when thc diseased stomach had been revealed in all its hopoJessncss as au organ of digestion, tho surgeon made bold to remove it because, first, it was clear that thc woman would soon die with the stom ach, and, second, that shu might live without rt, 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 thc organ had been removed the problem of how to unite tho end of the oesophagus and t" t end of she intestine, in order lo make thc 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 < ?erman sur geon. ;In this predicament," one reads in tho Medical Record, Dr. Schlatter "found that what he calls the knuckle of tho intestine below the severed cut (it might well be called thc first bend in the intestine, as it lay coiled in tho abdomen) could easi be brought to join the end of the oesophagus. Accordingly he closed up thc end of thc intestine absolntely, as ouc might olese 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 tho severed end of the oesophagus, and sewed the end and tho slit together. This done, there was then a direct channel fron/ thc pa tient's throat down through thc intes tines, while in place of a stomach was the cud of thc intestine-a length of about 1"? inches that lay ou one side." This cud, wc should say, had now be come a new vermiform appendix-at least, something vet y similar to thc familiar and mysterious organ which causes tho appendicitis. The pulse immediately after the operation waa 00, but it became 140, and even 160 later. The patient was nourished for two days with enamaa of eggs, milk and brandy, and on Sep tember 0, 14 days after she had lost her stomach, Miss Landis was fed on milk, bouillon, eggs and wine at inter vals of two hours. On the Kith tem perature and pulse were reaching a normal condition : on the Kith she ute some scraped incut, und on the 20th, a month after the operation, she con sumed and assimilated half a chicken, although not without some vomiting. She was "up and around" October ll, und on December !>, when examined by Dr. Kdmuud C. W.cndt, of New York, he found u woman f)l> years oM, with no stomach, a ruddy complexion, fair appearance, cluan, umist tongue, mod erately full und vigorous pulse, und good general alacrity of movement, lier appetite was good, und she hud gained since leaving the surgeon's ta ble three pounds in weight. Dr. Wendt s conclusions, prefaced by the qualification thal he would not indulge in "sweepinggeneralisations" on thc strength of one ouse, are stated in full us follows : 1. Thc human stomach ?snot a vital organ., 2. Thc digestive capacity of the human stomach has boen considerably overrated. il. Thc fluid* and solids constitu ting an ordinary mixed diet are capable of complete digestion und assimila tion without the nid of the 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. 0, The general health of a person need not immediately deteriorate on account of removal of the stomach. 7. The most important office for thc human stomach is to act as a reser voir for thc reception, preliminary preparation, and pulsation of food and fluids, lt also fulfills a useful pur pose in regulating tho temperature of swallowed holids and liquids. 8. Thc chemical function of the stomach may bc completely and satis factorily performed bj' thc other divis ions of thc alimentary ? anal. 0. (?astric juic" is hostile to the de velopment of many micro-organisms. 10. Thc free acid of normal gastro* secretions hus no power to arrest pu trefactive changes in the intestinal tract. Its antiseptic and bactcridc potency has been overestimated. All this will bc very welcome I?CWK to dyspeptics thc world over. Thc possibilities of thc discovery are im mense. When you have worn out jour stomach for any cause, without, of course, having iojured the rent of thc alimentary ?anal, you may have tho stomach removed, and with the eado of the canal joined together all will be merry and eatable again. Hore, too, is a new Sold for the surgeons, which ought to yield immense addi tions to their practice end equivalent additions to their incomes. For the nan with a poor stomach is one of the most unhappy of beings, and he would ordinarily pay most of his substanoo to be forever relieved of it. Within a short time, less than two years, kare come the discovery of the X ray, which is of great importance to surgery, and this remarkable reve lation of tho real importance of the human stomach. What noxt ? I By United States Mail to Hearen. The New Vork World tells thc fol i lowing : Two pennies dropped on the ledge I of the brass-barred window. Thc pos tal desk looked up. Ile was out of sorts. Two holidays iti succession had been too much for him. ? little golden hoad appeared, just topping the ledge. "Well?" suapped thc clerk. Ile had just opened his window in the postoffice yesterday morning, and eicht hours of the hardest kind of work were in sight. The little giri, win? had been first in thc line, hesi tated a moment. Then she plucked til? courage. "Please, mister," she began, "Ii want a stamp for this to send it to my little brother." In her hands she held up a package done up in brown paper and roughly tied with a bit of coarse twine. It was almost falling apart iu her tiny hands. She held it out to tho clerk, who took it with thc same grace that he had been taking thousands of pack ages daring thc holidays. He looked at thc address to see whether it was foreign or domestic. Thou he looked back at the child. There was a queer look in his eye that had not been there before. Postoffice clerks sec many strange packages and any quantity of them addressed to "Santa Claus." Bat this one was uot for Santa (Maus, lt read : : llobert McNaughton, Heaven. For a moment the clerk hesitated. The little one took it for a refusal to accept thc parcel because she had not paid enough for the postage. Quickly the tiny hands fumbled at a little purse, where two more pennies wore in keeping. These wore 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 thc clerk, who had babies of his own at home, "Oh, please." broke in the little one, "it's fur my little brother in heaven, lie died last week and per haps be is so strango in beaven that (Jod has forgotten to give him any Christmas present. And he'd be so disappointed.*' Tears were iu the clerk's eyes by this time-he was thinking of the little flaxen-haired one of his own at home. Tears were in the child's eyes, too, and the little lip was quivering. "Oh. sir, it's all right.'' she insist ed. "This is my very own to give away. Santa Claus brought it to me on Christmas. My papa doesn't know and my mamma doesu't know. They cried on Christmas 'cause Bobbie had gone to live with the angels. But 1 want to send something to Bobbie all myself." The little one was crying now. Her sobs came fast and deep, lier poor little heart was on lue point of break ing. "Bobbie went away to God last week!" she sobbed, "and little Elsie has no one 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 happy with tho angels. It wasn't be cause she did't have enough to pay for it. It was because the steam ears couldn't go there. He was as tender as he could be, and one woman iu black who had come ou the lino that was kept standing there because of the little one's pleading began to weep. So the clerk handed back thc pack age to the ehild and she turned away with tears of bitter disappointment in her eyes. "Bobbie will have no Christmas !" sim sobbed. Just then the cover came off her precious package. It held a little white lamb, tied with a pink ribbon. - During the past two years, Mrs. J W. Alexander, wife of the editor of the Waynesboro (Miss.) Timen, has, in a great many instances, relieved nor baby when in the first stages of croup, by giving it Chamberlain's Cough l?emedy. Sho looks upon this reme dy as o household necessity and be lieves that no better medicinehas ever been put in bottles. There are many thousands ol' mothers in this broad land who aro of tho 6amn opin ion. It is thc only remedy that can always be depended upon ns a pre ventative and cure for croup. Thc 2? and 50 cent bottles aro for sale by tho Hill-Orr Drug Company. Coming of the M 111 CB! a at. Nsw HAVBV, December 25. "Prof." Anderson, ef Lyme's famous "Holiness Band," ia 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 (lentile empires end on November 15, 1899, at evening, (probably,) Jerusalem time, and the fifth kingdom, that of Israel, begins, let us consider some of the character ists of thc* kingdom, and we shall in deed see that the proclamation that heralded thc gift to the earth of that kingdom was, indeed, 'Good tidings of joy whioh shall be to all people.' "The first characteristic of this kingdom will be thc rigid and exact justice with which thc law will bc ad ministered. AU oppression of the poer wi!! cease, aud uuy attempted op pression will be checked in the begin ning. "Second-It shall bc the kingdom of peace. There shall be no war in all thc earth for a thousand years, and 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 auy kind. Bvcry desire of man's heart that is not wrong shall bc abundantly satisfied. In order that there may be this abundance the climate will be ch: iTcd. and. as a re sult, there will be i "ch fertility as the world has not yet seen. The animals will become peaceful and will eat grass again. The deserts will bc fer tile, and from Jerusalem a river will How into thc Dead Sea, freshening its waters, and then on into thc Indian Ocean. All that desert land shall bc a very garden. "Another point is mentioned by Micah and that is there will bc 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 man 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 opeucd and thc ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as u bart 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 romances and I schemes of a golden age from Plato and Thomas Moore to Howells and I Bellamy, and think that the blessed reality exceeds those books a hun dredfold. And then look at thc hope less outlook before us under the op eration of the present harsh law of the survival of thc fittest-how Spencer see? nothing befovo us but' a crushing social tyranny, and how Huxley sccs that the necessary conse quence of present arrangements is to press thc great part of men down into constant life ci starvation, and then say if these things that I am telling this people arc not th-j best of good news."-AV/'- Y*nh Times. Ecze ll Her Life. Mr. E. D. Jenkins, of Ldthonia, Ga., says that bis daughter, Ida, inherited a severe case of Eczema, which the usual mercury and potash remedies failed to relieve. Year by year she waa treated with various medicine?, external appli cations and internal remedies, without result. Her autterings were intense, and her condition grew steadily worse. AH the so-called blood remedies did not seem tc reach thc dis ease at all until S, S.r. was given, when a._ improvement was at once noticed. The, medicine was continuecd with fav orable results, and now she is cured sound nud well, her skin is perfectly clear . and pure ana she has been saved from what threat ened to blight her Hie forever. S.S.S. (guaranteed purdy vegetable) cures Eczema, Scrofula, Caucer, Rheu matism, or any other blood trouble. It is a rial bibed remedy and ni ways cures even after all else falls. A Real Blood Remedy* Toke a blood remedy for a blood disease; a tonic won't cure it. Our booka ori bl of >d and .it: in diseases ir?h?ed freo to any address. S wi i t. Sue c i il o C,o,. Allauta, NOTICE. A I.b persons indebted to the late A. S. Stephens, or to the Firm of Reed & Ste phens, either by Note or opan Account, aro horeby notified that Iney must be set tled at once, or they will be placed in the banda of an officer for collection. . PAUIi i: STEPlIl?KS, Administrator. Oot 27, 1W IS CHRISTMAS GOODS FOR EVERYBODY. WE HAVE/RECEIVED OUR XMAS ?ROCJ5BI?I ! FRUITS? CONFECTIONERIES, ETC WM have th? aleast assortment of Fine Oandka that wm hafa ever had. Ba*-*, fae ?ee ii. Big lot Ii. L. Baieiot, Seeded Ea isl ns. Cleaned Garran ta, Glased Cit roo, Cmj^? Lemon Peal, Dale?, Fl??, Sh tiled Almond*, Be gi lah Wei a aw, Brazil * nts, ?Wn, and Alamud?. allch?ap. FIREWORKS. Vira Oraexern, Canner? Crack art, Bonan Candi?, Bed Lights, Wfciatlia?lWh? Sand Orarkera, ?e. *' *. Don't ITall to eonae ead aaa oar Geode wheo jo? ara ia Toar?. Don't matter whether jen buy or not. No trouble to chow yon oar Goode. "Years for Trade. OSBORNE &. BOLT. % UAVE YOU MftTiCSD I % -THAT OTT? - J < Groceries are Pure and Fresh ? r 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 Tr&dc wants. We have all the requisite facilities to handle this class of trade. Our Goods guaranteed to give satisfaction. Cottolene, Pulv. Sugar, Royal Baking Powder, Gelntiue, Raisins, Shelled Almonds, Currants, Citron, Spices, Flav. Extracts, Etc. Etc. TENNEY'S CANDIES, in packages and in bulk, always fresh. GREAT BARGAINS AND GREAT GUNS Latest designs, Tremendous Stock ! Breecii asa Muzzle Lulim Sbot Gis aM Bis. A superb line-bought right-will be sold right. Now is the time to make your choice. AMMUNITION, ?PORTMENS' GOODS, &c, Retailed at wholesale prices. On these and other classes of Goods in our line we are simply in it to sell. Sullivan Hardware Co. TREED AT LAST ? 9999 ALL successful Po^sum-hunte'rn ha^e been fooled ; so are we this time. Onr ??ame in tts desperation, puts np tbe customary nauseating deftm*', hop* from limb to limb, winks oue eve to u nair, and in tones that buried lr tn* ?ng?omb ot' its strich"" heart, wail? to tuo dishing winds-it Co?t ! at C wt ! far Coa; !! ! No.". "in'* '.'usia prettv mouth to put up. People of Anderson Cjunty, believe it or not, as you will, the faot remains thal never in our experience have we ever had snoh a large tradeasnow. We are not com plaining about bard times Wt? are bnyingr our sb*'" of the Cotton, and of coarse Wo ??TJ going to have ?ur snare of the trude We bard*.v ever do rel! out at ? ?sf, and Mometimea we don't ; therefore, we don't have to d'? lt now, because we havent tho slightest ideaof coin-.; out ot business-besides ourGocd* are going outcast enough at a reasonable pro?t. When Christmas stops coming ouce a year, when we can't sell more Dean'? Patent Flour than any pther ?rade sold iu Anderson County and prove it;, when we can't beat the town on Sho?-n, and when th*? uood people of old Anderdon C mnty say t? ?s that we have imposed upon them ard duped thom, then, and not till then, will y .au hhmble servants throw up the sponge and close ont nt Cost. Until thea you cm jtt what you want-Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Jeans, Floar and other "Grocer!*, and Canned Meats as cheap at our Store as auvwh?re tlie, but you'll not get,them at Coat. DEAN & RATLIFFE, Cotton Buye.'s, Guano Dialers and Bargain Vendors to the Traie. Has passed through and left nearly everything he had with . . . . . JOHN T. BURRISS, For the Little Folks, such as Dolls, Dell Cradles, Doll Bed?, Bulls, Iron Trains, . Tin Trains, Gun?, Pistol?, Games of all kinds, Harp?, Velocipedes, Express Wagons, Foot Balls, . Iron Stoves, Tin Stoves, Tea Sets, Doll Furniture, uud various other things. WE HAVE A CHINA PALACE In its true sense, well worth your time and''trouble' to come and get price?, which we take great pleasure in showing aud pricing you, When looking for WEDDING PRESENTS Give me a look, as I have a beautiful solectiou in that line for very lutte money. > .' . s Wc aro strictly up-to-date in style and prices to snit all. We want eve rybody that wants to see something nice and attractive to give us a cull au? inspect our Goods. Nil trouble to show you. Wo extend a special invitation to the little children to come and ure what dear old Santa has left hero for them. This invitation means you a?(1 your neighbord and all their kinfolks. I am now selling thc handsomest STEEL FyANGE made-the bi ct wr the money-and it wonld-runke your wife a nice Xmas Present. A full line of ."Crockery,Glass, Lamp Gooda, Tinware, Cheap Stnves, Ac. JOHN T. BUKRISS