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WHY MEN "SEE SNAKES."
Scientists Working on the Problem
Caused by "Overindulgence."
That delirium tremens is the direct
result of overindulgence in alcohol is
well underscood. But how does such
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overindulgence aci: ahu \>n\ omruiv.
some hard drinkers never "see
snakes," while other and much milder
victims visualize them to such a
degree that loss of life tollows? Theories
of delirium tremens are not
wanting, but there are so many as to
indicate that the truth is yet undiscovered
in its completeness, says the
Journal of American Medical associa'.
tion. There appears to be an interesting,
though disquieting, reason for
revival of research in the subject just
now. The writer tells us that since
t ?
the Harrison narcotic law went into
r "
effect many drug habitues, having exhausted
their supply and failing to
obtain more, have turned to alcohol
as a substitute. In some who had
been drinking for years the sudden
and marked increase in the amount
limii-kn onnsnmpd has led to the
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frequent occurrence of delirium tremens.
After noting that "chronic
alcoholic poisoning produces well
known changes in the central and
peripheral nervous system," he adds,
In substance:
"As yet, however, no changes have
been found in the brain which explain
fe why a man who has been drinking
for years suddenly develops a delirium
which runs a definite course
| of from three to five days or even
P longer.
"It has been thought that delirium
tremens is an acute infection occurring
in chronic alcoholics. Neverthe!'
less, many cases run their entire
course without fever, and Nonne
found blood-cultures negative in fifteen
consecutive cases examined by
him. Doeliken believes that conf
tinued drinking of alcohol results in
the production of a poisonous substance
in the brain itself, and that an
accumulation or concentration of this
substance produces delirium tremens.
Jacobson explains the delirium as an
g; autointoxication, the toxin arising
7 from the pheumococcus gaining enj?'Af.
trance through the liver, the kidney
,y ' or the intestinal tract, and acting on
a brain which has been poisoned over
^ a long period of time by alcohol. The
view of Hertz differs from this in that
jfe the supposed poison which precipife)
tates the delirium comes from an insufficiency
on the part of the kidney.
According to Bonhoeffer, chronic alternation
in the intestinal tract is responsible
for the elaboration of poi|
son which is normally excreted
pv . through Ihe lungs. Wagner Von
Jauregg believes that the liver, rath&./ '
than the lungs, is the organ which
:fails to eliminate the poison, and he
thinks that this failure is due to the
changes occurring in the liver in
* chronic alcoholism. Kauffman has
^ asserted that this poison is a carbonK
derivative acting on a medulla altered
as a result of chronic alcoholism.
" (He believes that the delirium will
, persist until the deduction of this
' - carbon-derivative stops."
All of these theories presuppose a
poisoned central nervous system. It
has been objected, however, that
By*- '?^many
chronic drinkers never suffer
delirium. It has been suggested that
, ainereni poisons may result num cacessive
drink and that only one of
these may cause delirium tremens.
There are, however, still other theories.
"The possibility that delirium is
due to an increase in the pressure and
amount of the spinal fluid has recently
been considered. Jauregg, of
Vienna, assumes that the body of the
: : chronic alcoholic protects itself by
the production of an anti-alcohol
r- which is of the nature of an antitoxin.
When a hard drinker suddenly
stops taking alcohol this anti-alcoholic
substance, having no alcohol to
which to afiix itself, acts on the body
in such a manner as to produce delirium
tremens. Hare maintains that
the development of delirium is due
to a sudden fall in the amount of alP!
cohol circulating in the blood of alcoholics.
His evidence is drawn from
a study of 75 cases, in nearly all oi
which there was a great reduction in
the amount of alcohol absorbed prioi
to the onset of delirium.
"Numerous objections have beer
raised to each of these theories. The
views concerning poisons and autointoxications
have been vigorously attacked
because there is as yet nc
definite proof that a poison is elabor
ated. There are already adversariee
to the recent notions concerning ai
increased pressure of the spinal fluic
and the fall of alcohol in the circu
lating blood, all of which indicates
that much work remains to be don(
before the final answer to the prob
lem is reached."
He Should Be Glad.
Father?Upon my word, you chil
dren are getting too dainty for any
thiner Whv. when I was vour ag<
I was glad to get enough dry breac
to eat.
Robert?You have a much bettei
time living with us, don't you father'
?Answers.
QUEEN FOR 25 YEARS.
Wilhelmina. of Holland, Refuses Cele
bration of Silver Jubilee.
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Queen Wilhelmina has occupied tin
throne of The Netherlands for 2'
years, says the New York World. Sh<
celebrated the event very quietly witl
her husband, Prince Henry, their lit
tie daughter, Princess Juliana, anc
her mother, Dowager Queen Emma,
j She would not allow her subject;
to spend any money on festivities ii
i her honor, stipulating that the ap
| propriation made by the State fo;
! this occasion should be donated t<
| the fund for the war sufferers ii
I Holland. The newspapers, in recent
j ly noting this kindly act of charity
I brought to the minds of people ii
other countries the first remembranc<
that the young queen had actuall:
passed a quarter of a century upoi
the thorne.
Only 35 Years Old.
She will be 36 next August, an(
was a very plump and dimpled littl<
girl of 10 when her father, King Wil
liam III, died and she became queen
She was under the guardianship o
her mother until she reached the ag(
of 18, since which time she has beei
very much of a sovereign.
Her position is not an easy on<
these days, as the head of a natior
of 6,000,000 people crowded into ar
area of 12,000 sq.uare miles, less thai
the States of Massachusetts and Con
necticut put together, with abou;
500,000 Belgian refugees and 2,00(
interned British soldiers and sailore
as uninvited guests.
Army Kept on the Watch.
There is the army still mobilized
which is costing $200,000 a day. II
was increased last July from 330,00C
to 550,000, the navy being enlarged
at the same time through a government
grant to build two new cruisers
and four submarines for the defense
of Holland's colonial possessions
And there is, above all else as a
source of anxiety, The Netherlands
Overseas Trust, the great commer'
cial enterprise which has charge o1
all trade entering and departing fron
the country, which is officially recognized
by both sides of the belligerents,
who, naturally, glare at one another
across little Holland's narrov
strip of territory and fasten eagle
eyes upon the doings of the N. O. T.
The Overseas Trust.
Mr. Van Aalst is the president ol
the Netherlands Overseas Trust, the
ablest financier of the nation and i
man held in high esteem both in London
and Berlin. He is, however, the
representative in the Trust of the
Queen, who has the privilege of appointing
the president. She is s
large stockholder in this lucrative
enterprise, which was founded bj
King William I, and has remained
under royal direction ever since.
At the present time the N. O. T. is
responsible to the British government
for every item of every cargo that enters
Dutch,ports. The N. O. T. is also
held accountable in London for the
final destination of every item oi
every cargo wherever it relates tc
contraband of war. Dutch citizens
on the other hand, and Germans whe
have a perfect right to cross the water,
since they are not at war with
The Netherlands, find it hard to resist
the seductions of Teutonic golc
for what can be smuggled across th*
frontier. Prices undreamed of it
times of peace can, it is said, b?
easily obtained for the commodities
which Germany desires and whict
Holland possesses in plenty.
Determined to Avoid War.
It is not believed either in Londoi
or Berlin that Queen Wilhelmina has
the slightest intention of permitting
her country to enter the war. Sh<
fears both Germany and Great Bri
Koinor rlononf^ont nnnn thfi firs
t CL 1 UL y IJ 1 11.^ V WM VM V ?
for the integrity of her territory ii
Europe and dependent upon the sec
ond for the integrity of her colonia
, empire. The one is at the mercy o
the German army, the other at th
mercy of the British fleet. Thi
queen's hope is that she may b
among the negotiations of the peac
which must eventually come and tha
she may thus have the opportunity o
. placing Holland upon a higher plan
of international importance. He
. country was the first to recognize th
flag of the American colonists, bu
on that account Holland's delegat
to the conference at Paris was not a!
lowed a seat at the council table.
The Diagnosis.
)
"Jack," said a friend to a patrol
s man who had just turned to a rc
i porter about a man taken ill on th
I street, "what did you say was th
- matter with that man in your n
3 port?"
3 "I reported," said the patrolmai
- with all the dignity of an accurat
diagnosis, "that he had fell down i
an athletic fit."
And Many There Be.
Fluhdue?Well. I suppose yo
3 were up bright and early this mon
I ing?
Roundabout?No, sir, I'm never u
r bright and early. If I am up early
? am not bright, and if I am up brighi
I'm not early.
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AX ESSAY OX PAXTS.
" Some Interesting Thoughts About
Those Worn by Man.
] Pants are of two kinds; human
and dog, says Farm Life.
The human pants of commerce are
1 worn mainly by males.
~ But equal rights prevail among
1 dogs.
Human pants are worn thicker in
* winter and thinner in summer.
A dog's pants come thicker in the
summer.
The dog's lungs are the seat of his
5 pants. (Date 1 875, Hostetter's Al1
manac.)
White pants are not a garment.
' They are a business to themselves.
1 The man who wears them doesn't
3 work at much else at the time.
When I was small and on a farm I
1 wore pants that were not new.
So far as I could find out, they
never had been new.
When they had been first worn out,
3 by the first tallest ancestor I had,
they had been patched at all the ven'
tilated places.
When the original goods wore out
3 between the patches, the first patches
1 were connected by other patches.
And sew on.
Where they overlapped?the
1 patches?the goods became about an
1 inch thick.
1 And then human legs made of any
material less durable than vulcanized
^ flint are incased in a set of inch-and*
a-quarter Deer Island jeans trousers
5 patched with every kind of heavy
goods from horse blankets to remnants
of rag carpet?when, I say, any
' human nether limbs are incarcerated
^ in these bendless tabular garments in
* a wheat field on a southwest hillside
^ at 2 o'clock on a clear, still day when
the temperature is 110 in the shade
5 and there is no shade, the owner of
J said legs thinks longingly of the bas'
tile, the stocks, the pincers, the guilL
lotine, the pillory, the thumbscrew,
' the rack, the stake and other religious
pleasantries.
^ I have gone long days in the wheat
1 field in a pair of such asbestos pants
lined with sandpaper and barbed
wire, and now death or public speaking
or fashionable dinners?none of
r those things has any terror for me.
" I playfully inquire of death as to
the location of its stinger.
f A Story of Daniel O'Connell.
t The most interesting of the stories,
. however, is that of the famous hat
k incident, which has been told so of?
ten. A prisoner, whose name was
. James, was being tried, and the witl
nesses for the Crown had sworn to
> the finding of his hat in an incrimii
nating way. "You are quite sure,"
I said O'Connell, when he rose to crossexamine,
"about this hat?" "I am,"
} replied the witness. "Let me look
" ? 11 J li
I at It," said u uonnen, ana it
. he looked inside, and slowly spelt
. out the word "James." "Do you
} mean to tell the court that this name
f was in that hat when you found it?"
) "I do, on my oath." "You saw the
name then?" asked O'Connell. "I
> did?surely." "This is the same hat,
. and there is no mistake about it?"
t "Och," returned the witness, grow.
ing impatient, "no mistake at all,
I 'tis the hat." "And all you have
? sworn to is as true as that stateit
ment?" "Quite." "My lord," said
j O'Connell, turning to the judge, "you
5 can dismiss the case, there is no
i name in the hat."?Christian Science
Monitor.
Best History of The United States.
1
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ever written of the United States of
one hundred words: "The revival of
learning, commercial revival and re
^ ligious zeal in Europe led to Colum1
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~ territorial claims and parental animosity
involved English, French, and
Spanish colonists in wars, culminat0
ing in English supremacy in 1763.
0 England's oppression alienated colone
ial affection, induced revolution, has0
tened independence. Common cause
* and danger begat colonial union, the
weakness of the confederation dee
manded a federal republic. Party
r difference tempted legislation, negro
e slavery precipitated civil strife, secession,
emancipation. Federal aue
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tnority supreme, rwuasuuvuun succeeded.
Religious freedom and unmuzzled
press, invention, and universal
education have conspired tc
prosperity at home and honoi
I- abroad."?Exchange.
If Any One Has?
e
Died.
Eloped.
Married.
' Divorced,
e
Left town.
Embezzled.
Had a fire.
Sold a farm.
Had a baby,
u Been arrested,
i- Come to town.
. Bought a home,
p Committed murder.
I Fallen from an aeroplane,
t, That's news?Telephone us.
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The symptoms of kidney and bladder
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Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root which
soon heals and strengthens the kidneys
is a splendid kidney, liver and
bladder remedy, and, being an herbal
compound, has a gentle healing
effect on the kidneys, which is almost
immediately noticed in most
cases by those who use it.
A trial will convince anyone who
may be in need of it. Better get a
nnttio frnm voiir nearest drue store.
and start treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to test
this great preparation send ten cents
to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton.
N. Y., for a sample bottle. When
writing be sure and mention The
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in the memory of man a
of Our ountry."
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an honest, prudent man
able character and his
determination made our ]
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