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THE HOOKWORM DISEASE. , (Continued from Page 2.) we can make a diagnosis by glancin at the patient, or it may be so mil that the person appears healthy i every way. In these cases we mm itse the microscope to makediagnosii A small portion of the bov.-el mov? ment is placed under the microscop< , If the person has hookworm diseas the eggs of the worm can be seei The eggs of the round worm, an tape worm and other intestinal pan sites can also be found. In a sever case of hookworm disease the chil is usually small for his age. Th face is often wrinkled, and appeal too old for the body. There is troubled or drawn expression aboi the mouth. The skin is usually ye low. It may have a deathly pallc or a waxy look. The patient con plains of shortness of breath, pai in the stomach, or a heavy feeling 2 though you were carrying a hea\ t Cut Ko. 6.?Sanitary Privy. weight in the stomach. He suffei from indigestion and "heart burn. * Headache is common. The appetil is variable; at times the patient eai * a great deal and again cares fc nothing. Often times he will have fancy for clay, sand, chalk, soot an saw dust. We used to think th? dirt eating caused hookworm diseas' We had the cart before the hors< The disease causes the craving fc Cat Xo. 7.?Sanitary Privy. these things and the patient is unab to resist. Cure the disease and tl patient has no desire for the: things. Recently a physician engaged i the hookworm fight was told by well educated and highly cultun lady who had hookworm disease, thi when the craving to eat came ov< her, she would try to get it if si knewr that she would be shot for d< ing so. The skin of the person with hoo] worm disease is" usually dry ar harsh. The hair of the head is d: and that on other parts of the boc * very scant. The patient may 1 very thin or may be bloated -or dro sical. When patients have lost flesh ar become very weak they often ima ine they have consumption (see ci No. 9.) If thev become bloated th< ? j Cut Xo. 8.?Sanitary Privy. believe themselves the victim of ki | ney trouble. It is a common tnn 4 for hookworm patients to suffer f years with what they call consum tion, kidney trouble, heart disea: dropsy, dyspepsia or malaria. The imaginary troubles vanish like ma* when the patient has been treat for a few weeks, and will not retu if the conditions surrounding t ^ home are as they should be. T - - j symptoms outlined above are those t found in the severe cases of the dis- t - ease In a mild case of the disease e | } | j d CHt&L f Cut Xo. 9??A Boy 14 Years Old ^ Infected With Hookworm. the child may be full grown for his ' age, and his color may be good. The ^ t flwimon^a r\f Hicppsa is indieps- ^ 1KJL11J CliuViivv v*. w tion or an occasional headache. It c is in these cases that we must use 11 i Cut No. 10.?Family Group. All Ii V a microscope to make a diagnosis * Some persons imagine that hook- i worm disease is found only among 1 the poorer people. This is not true. C The disease recognizes no social bar- i L."\ rier. It is found among the rich and s ^ poor and high and low. If people go ; a : w* ie Cut No. 11.?Section of Lung Show o barefooted or wear leaky shoes where ^ there are no sanitary closets, they ( l(j will continue to have hookworm dis- c py ease. i ly Is There a Cure? 1 be The disease can be easily cured ex- * p- cept in the extreme cases. There is 1 no danger in taking the medicine to T id ~ g" &to*9tic*lly cloa/hq ltd Lit 3V I Zinc linedlox? ^ I liff/uent[p I I II 0 ___=, _L. or " Cut Xo. 12.?Barrel System Pr i ip se. expel the worm provided the direcise tions of a physician are followed. If ;ic the disease is mild it may be cured ed with two doses of medicine given a rn week apart. Severe cases require he four or five doses. Improvements he usually takes place as soon as the reatment is completed and someimes before. There is another disase which is cured as quickly. In 1 hildren, the improvement is exremely rapid. In a few weeks the hild is transformed from a sallow, eak individual to a rosy cheeked 1 hild full of energy. In older perons the changes are not so marked, f a grown person has had the disease { ince childhood, and is severely in sctea, ne can De greauy impruveu ut the ear marks of the disease are ( lways there. In one of the coast counties, a boy eventeen years of age, was so seerely infected that he was unable to -alk a half mile without resting. A reek after treatment he walked four 1 niles. He is now enjoying good ealth. Often I have seen young ' len so ill with the disease that they ! ould do nothing which required any lore exertion than chewing tobacco r fishing. A few doses of mediine would enable these men to fol- ; iw a plow all day or to do other hard ; ;ork. Think of the many persons a our State who are now leading a :fe of misery on account of this disase! Sometimes, the disease kills; lore often it weakens the system so ' hat the person dies of typhoid fever, neumonia or some other disease. If hese people could be cured and arn wages and pay taxes, think how 1 luch the revenue of your county and f the State twould be increased! 'hese people are now consumers, -et us cure them so that they may ecome producers. We need no rones in our hive. There is work or every man, woman and child to o. We are spending thousands of dolars each year to educate our chil(ren, and we should spend much nore, but many of these children annot learn. This is not laziness: t is because they are sick with hookifected With Hookworm Disease. vorm disease or something else. It s time for us to stop the economic eak. It has been going on too long. )I tne 1U,U<JU SCI1UU1 UUIIUICU CAttUJned in this State last year (in rural chools) less than 20 per cent, were ibsolutely healthy. Many had hooking Young Hookworm Penetrating. vorm disease, throat disease, eye lisease and other diseases of a more >r less serious nature, requiring medcal attention. About 75 per cent, of ;hem had carious teeth. We are :rying to force these children to learn vhen they are unable to do proper vork because of their physical condi?|| | c/u, rr 7ntisjihsher \\ ivy. Practical for Rural Districts. tion. In hookworm disease the child is usually dull and advances slowly in school. Is it not cheaper to have these children cured or let them go untreated and perhaps die before they are grown? Hookworm disease is not a new THE TAMING OF TILLMAN. I Change Wrought by a Close to Nature Study. No finer tribute could be paid to a statesman than the one paid by C. Leslie Reynolds, the new superintendent of the National Botanic Garden, when he said that Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, is the best posted man in national life cn the subject of plants and shrubs. If more statesmen would study na ture as Ben Tillman has tbe worm would be a better place in which to live. It was because he tried to get closer to nature that Senator Tillman got closer to humanity. He came to Washington with a gift for vitriolic speech and a fighting spirit. At first his attacks were none too kind, but in time he learned from nature the great truth that all men are brothers and that the strong must lend a helping hand to the weak. In the senate the other day Senator Tillman spoke of the miracle of his rescue from death by paralysis. It was his own fine spirit that wrought the miracle. His study of plants and shrubs and flowers has brought him to a calmer, saner view of life. Senator Tillman, according to Superintendent Reynolds, expends hundreds of dollars yearly in experimenting with new plants for his home in South Carolina. Every dollar that he spends in this way brings big returns. There are times when it seems that plants and animals know much more of the art of living than human beings know. It is profitable to study the tranquility of the garden. To many persons, the Tillman of the "pitchfork" may have seemed - 4-1 - 11 - -a v.. 4. 4. ~ 4.V a iiiiiuuig iiguie, uul lu muse wuu know the Tillman of to-day his view of life is broader, his spirit finer, and his character nobler. The garden to which Senator Tillman gives his leisure time has aided him in giving better service to his State and has undoubtedly renewed his grip on life. Becoming a horticulturist, he has become a greater statesman. And it is t<3 be hoped, and expected, that many years of usefulness are before him. ?N. Y. Post. DOG CAUSES HOMICIDE. North Carolinian Charged with Ambushing His Neighbor. Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 1.?James McCullen, a prominent young farmer of Sampson county, was jailed with his father, W. R. McCullen, at Clinton, N. C., to-day, the son being charged with shooting to death from ambush Jonah Simmons, a neighbor, and his father is charged with being an accessory. James McCullen was captured by a posse near here, at Newton Grove, early to-day. The McCullens had trouble with the dead disease. It has been in this country for generations but has only been recently recognized. How Can We Get Rid of the Disease? v First. Every person with the dis ease should be treated. Second. There should be no soil pollution. If you have an unsanitary privy (cut No. 5) you should make it sanitary?that is, make it fly proof by putting flaps on the seat and on the rear. (See cuts Nos. 6, 7 and 8.) Buckets or other receptacles should be used and kept clean. If you have no privy, build one like that in cut No. 6 and use the barrels shown in cut No> 12." The entire cost of material including barrels and connecting pipe should not be more than $10.00 or $12.00. There are seyeral types of privies that can be used. Write to the State board of health for information. If a sanitary privy cost $100, it would be cheap. It will prevent not only hookworm disease but it will lessen the number of cases of typhoid fever, or diarrhoea or summer complaints. What do these diseases cost you every year? A sanitary privy is cheaper than a coffin. If you have hookworm disease you should be erected. If your neighbor has it, see that he is treated. You are your brother's keeper. Every person who has hookworm disease is a danger to others every time he pollutes the soil. If you are pale and puny you may have hookworms. If you don't know what ails you it might be hookworms. If you wish to'know write to the State Board of Health, Columbia, S. C., for a mailing case. In this you send a specimen for examination, which will cost you nothing. If you have the disease, it is easy to cure. If you haven't it, no harm is done. Remember that it is no disgrace to have hookworms. It is a disgrace to keep them. Will you write for a mailing case? Bamberg county has appropriated money to furnish medicine for. treating the disease. The State Board of Health has a representative in this county now. He will make microscopic examinations and administer treatment to any one applying. Why not find out now if you have the disease. Pamphlets on hookworm disease are furnished free of charge by the State Board of Health, Columbia, S. C. I I / f |^\ \$ Woman { Y ]^ay / -'r^nS this advertisement to our I $V A I u Notion Department not later than ||k . \ one week from today and receive, II 1 absolutely free, a regular 10c card of J r\A/ilc*vn Dracc-kooks 1 0 ? ? mew 9 wv w *?w w ? ww | These popular new Dress-hooks are not ordinary hooks and i eyes or snaps?they will completely overcome your dress-fastening I difficulties. The free cards are not samples but the same value for Ijiij which you would regularly pay 10c. We make this most unusual and liberal offcras we are confident you will find Wilson Dress-hocks the very thing you have always wanted. They can't come unhooked or "pop" open accidentally. | They hold securely without bulge or gap, though you' can unhook them with perfect ease. Guaranteed not to rust or crush in washing liilji! "and ironing, and to outlast any garment; perfectly flat ar.d never show. !I Don't neglect this opportunity to try the Wilson Dress-hooks you have seen so widely advertised in the leading magazines and style - books. Used by fashionable women evervwhere I endorsed by leading dressmakers. Cut Out this Advertisement II and present r.t our Notion Department. Large and smah sizes; Gray, Black and White colors. One dozen Bp 0D a card. We can not give a card to any one who has Rhl received a card free from any merchant or the Wilson Dress-hook Co,, Cleveland, 0. None given to children. j|| See our Summer Bargains in Everything at the MILLINERY STORE C. W. Rentz, Proprietor. (Formerly K. I. Shuck & Co.) VERY LOW 5 3 Round Trip Excursion Rates ....TO.... , V"|B South Georgia?'The Wiregrass Country" 4 . ....VIA i. r> : j 171 :j_ d_:i Vjeorgia onu I IUI lua nauwa; Thursday, August 20th, 1912 ' uinj Schedule and round trip fares from Augusta. Schedule Fare Lv August (Eastern Time) 8:05 a. m. Ar Vidalia (Central Time) 12:02 Noon $2.50/ Ar Hazelhurst 1:10 p. m. 3.00 Ar Douglas 2:20 p. m. 3.00 Ar Willacoochee 3:05 p. m. 3.50 Ar Nashville 3:45 p. m. 3.50 Ar Valdosta 4:50 p. m. 3.50 ? | Ar Madison '6:40 p.m. '4.00 Ar Sparks 6:38 p. m. * 3.50 Ar Adel 6:48 p.m. 3.50 ' '-M Ar Moultrie 8:25 p. m. 3.50 ^ | Through sleeping cars to Valdosta for seat passengers. Tickets will be good returning on all regular trains to? and including August 25th, 1912. - 41 An excellen opportunity to visit the thriving cities of South Georgia at small cost. For full information address Assistant Traffic Mgr. Georgia and Florida Railway AUGUSTA, GA. i WHICH BANK DO YOU USE S Is your money hid away in an old trunk, closet or bureau, Mm where the burglar is likely to find it any night, or is it t locked up tight in our vault, protected not only by a 'r (? massive steel safe, but by ample burglar insurance as >l| ^ ??H O Vnn A/v nA* nAohnna roilllTA n'hflf OTPilt dfln?!!6r WCU JL vu \IV uv|) |/VJ.JUM^/O ? vma'MV * ??? ^ w* your money is in when kept around the house. Every f , flfc day the newspapers tell of losses sustained because of At 3 this habit. If you would sleep soundly, with the knowl* edge that your money is perfectly secure, bring it\in at ^ ?? once and open an account with us. You are then taking >fli no chances. ^ 2 EHRHARDT BANKING COMPANY ? gi, EHRHARDT, SOUTH CAROLINA. J, Bl?lOCJOOBOl??IJ-^j h Screen Doors and Windows In order to make room for other goods, we will sell all of the remainder of our stock of Screen Doors and Windows at II ABSOLUTE COST jj ^ O o M We have in" stock a large lot of Mason and E. Z. Seal Fruit Jars in all sizes, also quantities of Jar Caps and Rings, and Economy Jar Tops, and a general line of Hardware and Building Material. , 0 J. A. HUNTER II H THE HARDWARE MAN. BAMBERG, S. C. M 1HI IOEZIOO E3Q1 r ESI a; rr ' .. i ^i'Yili i1ii1 ' -