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ABOUT MAD DOGS. I HOW THEY GET THE HOIUUBI.E DISEASE How You Can (Jot It Yourself and Wltat to Do Quirk?The I'ustour ' Treatment. People HhoulU avoid handling dogs nt all times, but more especially during the warm summer, as a dog's sulivu may be full of germs of rabies several days before it "goes mad" with that disease. It is enough if he licks your hand or your face, and tlio skin is broken previously so that the germs iiud entrance to the circulation. ilight here, loo much emphasis cannot be placed on the absurdity of the old suporstltutlon that if the dog that biles yon should, at some future time,have rabies, you -although never again bitten- would have to (lie of that disease! In the case of your pet dog, if he is morose am! sullen there may he a possibility thai ho is in the early stages of rabies. it has boon demonstrated as a fallacy that rabid dogs dread the sight of water. It is only human beings in that condition who go into convulsions at the sight of water. A rabid dog is thirsty. He would like to drink, but on attempting to do so his throat contracts owing to the paralysis of its muscles that is characteristic of the disease. If your dog ' approaches eagerly when you offer him water, puts his tongue to it but cannot swallow, and perhaps gags, has convulsions and froths at the mouth, then von had better have him at once examined for rabies?being, of course, extremely careful to allow none of his salive to careful to allow none of his saliva to Human beings afflicted with the disease, being 11 ore sonsativ*.., more imaginative, and apprehensive, are thrown into convulsions at the mere sight of water ?especially water from a tap suddenly turned on. Anticipating the act of drinking, the throat paralysis asserts itself and the whole infected nervous system is convulsed. The favorite breeding place of the germs of rabies is the nerve centres. The original germs travel from the point of infection through the circulation, infecting all the nerves of the body and besieging, as they multiply, the spinal cord and the nerve centres of the brain. As the disease progresses there is more and mote paralysis of all the nerves and muscles. That of the throat is particularly noticeable because of the difficulty of swallowing. But quite early there are jerky motions of the legs in walking, and of the arms when they they are used. Applicants for treatment at the Pasteur Institute in New York who show these signs on entering are immediately subjected to other tests. Sometimes the Pnstnnv tilivclninnc! will blow a breath of air suddenly hi the patient's direction. Even that slight, sudden draught of air has been known to throw an applicant for treatment into convulsions. A certain patient who complained of thirst, but could take no water, suggested an experiment to one of the nurses. She divided a peeled orange into small bits. One of these she offered to him. lie opened his mouth to receive it, but the moment the moist object touched his lips his teetli closed with a snap. It was a signal from the paralyzed throat. In addition to the indications reforod to, the eyes of rabies patients are enlarged and have a look of anxiety, sometimes of terror. Wherever there are nerves to actuate muscles the disease shows itself. Infection with rabies is most dangerous whore the nerves are nearest the surface. Communication to the spinal cord and brain is then quicker. When the face is the point of infec tion, mortality is SO per cent.; hands and arm, CO per cent.; the lower extremilities, 30 per cent. Infection at the ends of the fingers is also particularly unfortunate, owing to the centering of nerves there directly beneath the skin. Don't place any reliance on that hoary "loadstone" superstitetion. The most approved "loadstone" -are figrous bulls composed mostly of hair, ejected from the stomach of a horse or cow, or other hair-covered animal that scratches itself with its tongue. Naturally, this tibrous mass will stick to a moist wound?but it is no more efllcacious in removing germs of infection than a piece of blotting paper. The characteristic manifestations of rabies are found in the large nerve cells, principally of the brain. They are crimson colored bodies in thosf ""'In tit Iil/tti oiin niivoc I'nilllil ovconl i/Ci in, n iiivu ?n v, n\y ? vi whore rabies Is well developed. This discovery was made kliewn to the medical world in 1003 by Negri of the Pniversity of Pavia, Italy and name has been give** to the little crimson spots which the autopsy discovers in the nerve cells of victims ol rabies, now known to medical science as "Negri bodies." Long before this, in 1885, Pasteur recognized rabies as a germ disease and advocated the preventive peritnl treatment with which the name is Identified. One year later the original Pasteur Institute was opened In Paris. From that time until 1905, inclusive, 20,201 persons had been treated at this institute. The success of the treatment was reraarkabkl after the preparation of. * <*- ? j CUT AT CHURCH DOOR PRIEST STARRER WHILE 8IIAK- 1 ING HANDS IN CHURCH. Attack oil Pastor Created a Panic in J Missouri, anil Two More Wore Slashed by Wealthy Farmer. Standing in the doorway of lil8< church at Salisbury. Mo., shaking ( hands with the departing members 1 of his congregation, the Rev. Father 1 .Joseph F. Lubeley was twice stabbed 1 by Joseph Schuette, a prosperous ' farmer and one of the most prominent members of his congregation. ' One of the knife thrusts made a deep wound in the priest's temple and the other cut his neck less than a half . inch from the jugular vein. The ^ priest was hurried to a hos pital whore ( it was stated he has a flght'ng chance j for recovery. Created a Panic. 1 The stabbing of the priest caused ? a panic among the men and women ' who were tiling out of the < hurch, as practically all of them knew Schuette ; and the members of his family, who were standing close by when the far- t mcr whipped out his long knife. His * Wife and five ehibtr?n ro!iohn<i fi.? door iu timo to sec a dozen 111011 sitting on the raving man, trying to ? subdue him. It is evident that the i farmer became suddenly insane, as t lie had no reason for his attack on i the i.nost, and in addition had been > acting queerly for a few days previ- t ous. , \ The police of Salisbury also are c convinced Schuette is insane. lie c has been raving almost constantly t since he was locked up. Later lie ! was sent to a sanitarium until he t recovers his reason. t Attacked From lleliind. The priest had finished his mass i and had walked to the door of the ' church to stiake hands with the \ members of his parish as they left ^ the building. There were about 4 00 ( worshipers present and they were < headed toward the door in small ? groups. Father Lubley was shaking | hands with a woman when Schuette i came up from behind. In his hand ^ there was a sharp knife and just as 5 the priest dropped the hand of tlie | woman he felt a sharp cut on the , forehead. With an exclamation of pain Father Lubley turned around and as he did so the knife made a i deep wound in his neck. The priest j reeled and roll to the floor, blood j streaming from his wounds. The | members of the congregation seemed , stunned for a moment and then women screamed hysterically and rushed hastily to Ihe street. Most of the men also seemed bewildered, but about a dozen of the worshipers grappled with Schuette. Ho struck out wildly with his knife and cut the hand of Mrs. Barbara Binter, who was trying to pass through the door. John Gates, one of those who overpowered the farmer, was slashed on the elbow. Schuette was one of the wealthiest farmers of Salisbury. One of his daughters was a chum of Father Lubeley's cousin, who lived with the priest. The two young women visited each other frequently, and Father Lube'oy also dined often in the home of cue man who stabbed him. * the serum and its administration had been reduced to a system. Mortality from the disease was reduced from 9 4 per cent, during the ilrst year to 18 per cent in 1902. During that period Pasteur institutes for the treatment of rabies were established in most of the large cities of the United States. At the present time the mortality in cases treated at the New York institute has been reduced to 6 per cent?deducting cases where the patient's nervous system before applying for treatment had become so permeated with germs that death occurred before the serum could take effect. The value of Ihe Pasteur treat ment' is now so firmly established Mint the nnlitoxin serum for rabies is available to every physician. It is prepared in the laboratories of the health departments of most of t he large cities. The serum is obtained from rabbits which have died after being inoculated witli the fixed virus of tho disease. Their death occurs in front i six to seven days. Their spinal i cords, which contain the death-denl; ing germs, are removed and dried in bell jars over sodium hydrate for flfi teen days. This render t he cord > harmless. It is then crushed into powder and . emulsified in a normal salt solution, ; and is ready for use as hypodermic injections in the first stage of the i treatment. The subsequent injections , are made with serum from cords that I have been dried fourteen, thirteen, i twelve, eleven, ten, nine days and . so on. ' Finally, an emulsion of a cord > dried only three days, which practically all its virulence, is injected under the patient's skin, his system being now practically immume to the rabies germs. These injections are made daily for a period covering fifteen t<? twenty-one days. The treatment is not painful,except for the flight smart caused .bv the hypodermic needle, which is inserted through the patient's' skin at the belt line, in the case of human beings. f 1 ~ >%. f oriental horrors NKW YOIiKKK KKLATKS TKIllll- ' 11LK ADVKXTl'ItKW. t Sudden Death of a Companion. Misload Chinese Coolies and Imprisonment Without Trial or Hearing. Three mouths iu a mildewed Chinese dungeon, on false imprison meat. has cured L. C. Stewart, of ! New York city, of any desire to agaiu 1 return to the Orieutal country. lie 1 is now in Denver, Col., recuperating. * Here Is his advice to young men who think they ate anxious to seek ad- ' venture iu the Far Fast: 1 "The Orient is no place for a young f man and I would advise no one to * <o there. Our western ideas of mora- * ity and decency are soon lost in that h ountry. .Most of the white people, ' ncltiding the women and even a few ' ?f the missionaries, take to drinking 1 teavily in the Orient and seem un- ' title to slop. A general laxity of ' morals results. In the lOuropean 1 liiartors tiny thing goes and you do tnytliing you care to do without los- ' ng caste so long as you do not make c' oo much noise. It's a good place to (l it ay away from." 1 The Terrible Hluck Cholera* ' air. Kiowart was a Rritish collector * >f revenue with headquarters at I long Kong. On one of his trips to 1' ho interior he picked up an Knglish- s nan by the name of Charles Frank, C vas broke, and wanted to get out of a he country. On the return trip they C vere riding together on the hacks ot' I: roolles, states Mr. Stewart, when ail ]: )f a sudden Frank screamed, and i; hrowiug his arms in the air fell on 1 Stewart, the black vomil pouring 1 Tom his mouth. Within 1 T> minu- r os he was dead. s "Tho coolies Hod panic stricken [ it the sight," relutes Mr. Stewart, 1 'hut I covered two of them with ray C evolver and forced thOm to return, v ?Ve made a rough pine !k>x and burial Frank, marking the spot with ston ?s. Then, with my two coolies, I .1 itarted for Rangoon, expecting that u [ myself would he stricken any mo- t nent. The coolies knew the black T /omit had fallen upon me and were u ifraid to come near me. To my sur- I >rise I was not stricken and reached Rangoon after a terrible trip. a KiiIm1 Story and Imprisonment. \ "My other coolies <tiad reached t there the day before, and when I was I it once arrested and, without a hear- t lug, thrown into prison, charged with f ll!i vinir niiii'dnpiwl I'1"""'' ~ ? ** I..UI ViW?\ u 1 I (UI!V. 1 III' UIII- \ cials would not accept my explana- i lion and I could not got them to make an investigation. Then began i three months of the worst torture a 1 man could endure and still live. I c was in a foul, dark cell, dripping 1 with mildew and decay. Once a day * a guard would bring me a bowl of 1 some filthy concoction that only ] unseated mo. For days I went with- < out food, lying on tlie damp Moor of ' my dungeon. , j "At last I received a call from the Ihitish resident, and after that was < allowed to have a loaf of bread and ] a pint of water a day. 1 became de- ( lirious with fever in my conscious i moments was sure 1 was dying. After j seemingly endless weeks of suffering an expedition was sent to find Frank's | body. j "It. was at last brought to Han- | goon, and there an autopsy showed ] that he had died from cholera, as 1 | claimed. 1 was released in almost a i dying condition. When I had recovered sufficiently to travel I went ] to Singapore, sent in my resignation < and went to Manila. I never care to ( see China again." ' * should mo muxzijKI). 1 This is the Only Way to Stamp Out Hydrophobia. I The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Oenartinent of Agriculture published the fullest information respecting rabies and Its treatment. Us experts declare that rabies is one of the most easily eradicated of all infectious discuses and shoud be stamped out. This could bo done by muzzling all dogs, as its transmission by other animals is too rare to need consideration. With all dogs muzzled in the United States for a few. days the disease would disappear entirely, as has been demonstrated by the experience of other countries. The department, however, recognizes a dltlieult obstacle to overcome. In reality there is no cruelty whatever inflicted on a dog in causing it to wear a muzzle when in public places or running at large. The animals soon become used to it and manifest not the slightest Inconvenience. In the absence of muzzling the disease will continue year by year, causing constantly increasing suffering, financial loss and death. The department cites that owing to the enforcement of dog-muzzling laws in Holland. Sweden,, Norway and Germany rabies in man has almost disappeared in those countries. The same results are being observed in England. In Australia, where the Infection has not been alloyed to enter, the disease is unknown. Tt.'s no wonder children are so contrary; just lok at their parents. i SAYS ITS A LIE. THAT IS THK WAY MAYOR DAI1LMAN KKI'LIKS 1Y> tIn* Charges Made by Several Newspapers that Bryan KtHCirod ('uinpnign Funds from Ryan. In its last Saturday's issue, the \'ew York World, which was alined with the Republicans in the national elections of 189t> and 1900, an I which will be fighting the battle of he Republicans in the campaign of 1008, insinuates that Bryan, through lis brother-in-law, who was chairnan of the Democratic State central 'omuiitte? of Nebraska, secured $20.)00 from Thomas F. Ryan in 190 1, o finance Bryau's candidacy for the icnate in Nebraska. The World, in ts bitter haired of Bryan, descends nto theNlirtlest gutter, when it says hat "after" this contribution from tyan, the Nebraskan "came over" o the support of Parker, insinuating hat Bryan was bought. The News and Courier endorses Pho World's outrageous slander and owardlv assault on Mr. Bryan, and veu heaps upon him meaner insults; hut ' insults the Democrats of the or.ntry and the Democrats of South Carolina by its attitude toward the ionest man who has been twice the >arty's leader, and has been already o chosen for a third time by Son In Carolinians! In supplenienting the ttack <?f The World, The News and Courier says that "Mr. Rryan is no ettcr than ho ought to ho does not novo that he is not as good as a ii'uctical politician can l>c. That his ?ose is that of an angelic Democrat, ?etter than his fellows, is a little iritating. but we still believe that poronally he is of a higher type of trobity than was the late James G. Maine or M. S. Quay, and the living Charles 10. Murphy and Roger Sullian." Idles of the Blackest Sort. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb.,says nmes C. Dahlman, Mayor of Omaha md member of the Democratic Naionnl Committee from Nebraska, said 'uesday in reference to Tho World's trticlo ou Thomas F. Ryan's contri(U t ion: "Damnable lies of the blackest lort! Pile it on me as hard as you vant to. I am the arch criminal in his, and Rryau is absolutely blameess. Rryan supported Parker during he whole campaign, took the stump or him months before the money vjim nsiirl :m?l nfvor knnwn #?f itc no v. ' * v" " "w " ? I'"J nent. "After tho St. Louis convention idjourned. the National Committee net. to select its chairman. Taggart )f Indiana was a candidate, but tho Easterners were for Shechan or tome other man from the East. Beieving that a Western man would nako a better head for the National Committee I took up the tight for faggart, who was elected at an adjourned meeting a few weeks later. "Sheehan asked me what were the bailees for carvying Nebraska for Parker. I told him no man giving ;ould tell what Nebraska could do until after the State convention made its nominations. "I came straight from New York 0 the State convention in this Stute, lud there saw there was absolutely no hope of carrying Nebraska for Parker. I therefore wrote Sheehan that money and speakers sent here ivonld be wasted. "Later in the campaign, in October, 1 saw we had a good chance of electPi. W. Berge, our candidate for gov3inor, and 1 sent T. S. Allen to New York to see if he could get some financial help for the State ticket. We got $ If),000, not 20,000, in three payments of a,000 each. It was all turned over to me, and I spent, it all In the State campaign, not one penny nf it going into the National campaign or to Bryan. "The money did good, and while Roosevelt carried the State by 83,000, Berge lost it by less than 10,000. If we had had $15,000 more we would have carried the State for Berge. "There, f think that is all there is to say about these trumped up charges of the New York paper. Mi*. Bryan never saw the money, never knew of it. I got it all and spent it all. It till came from the National Committee, whether from Sheehan or Ryan i do not know and do not care, and no money was used to influence Bryan, as he worked for Parker from the start." FIV15 YRGGMAN CONVICTED. M en Arrested Near Lancaster Found Guilty at Raleigh. The five yeggnien arrested near Chester, charged with the robbery of the postofflce at Dunn, N. C., were, in the Federal Court at Raleigh found guilty aud were each sentenced to five years in the penitentiary at Atlanta and to pay a line of $r?00 each. For the Government the case was vigorously iprosecuted by District Attorney Harry Skinner, who urged the Court to impose the full penalty twelve years' imprisonment on the men. The evidence on which the conviction was made was given bj postofflce inspectors, by John F. Mc j Ca! thy, a policeman of Doston, Mass and by James G. Wilson, of Pelzer C., father of one of the yeggmou.' I BRYAN REPLIES TO THE CAMPAIGN LIE PUT OUT HV THE WOltLO That He Had Kcceivcd Money Front Hyatt as an Inducement for Him to Support Parker. In a statement given out at Lincoln. Nob., to the Associated Press on Thursday night Mr. W. J. Bryan replied to an article appearing a week ago in ai New York newspaper, charging that Mr. Bryan was the ' beneficiary of a campaign contribution made by Thomas F. Ryan. Mr. Bryan k;?>s: "I have just read the story charging that my brother-in-law, Mr. Allen. chairman of the Democratic State committee, had a conference with Mr. Slieehan in 1904 in regard to campaign funds; that Mr. Shechan, as Mr. Ryan's attorney, secured from Mr. Ryan $2,000 for the Nebraska campaign; that Mr. Bryan made the contribution to secure my open and unqualified support of Judge Parker; that to disguise the source of the contribution Mr. Ryan gave the check to Mr. Slieehan, and that Mr. Sheehan travc his rlieok* i<? Mr At leu. "Chairman Allen and Mr. Dahlgron, Xebraskan committeeman of the national Deniocrtaic committee, havo already denied the charges and stated that the only money received came from the national committee. I desire to add the following statement: "Mr. Allen says that he never saw Mr. Sheelmn or Mr. Ryan and 1 have no reason to doubt his word. If Mr. Ryan contributed to the Nebraska campaign it was not with ray knowledge or consent. While I had but a remote personal interest In the Nebraska campaign that year, I am interested in Nebraska politics, and am interested in national politics, and am not willing to be, in the slightest degree, obligated to any favor seeking corporation. If the newspaper in question will secure from either Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan a statement, or prove in any other way that Mr. Ryan gave to Mr. Sheehan, to any one else, or to the national eoinniiUce, any sum whatever with the understanding that the sum would he used in the Nebraska campaign, I shall see that the amount is returned to Mr. Ryan. "As to the charge that my support of Judge Parker was purchased, I need only say that I announced my support of Judge Parker immediately after the St. Louis Convention, and [that support was open and unqualified from 'he Com * Tic iim . tn<> polls closed. I had opposed his nomination, but lie had no more loyal supporter during the campaign. I was in correspondence with him; and both on the stump and with my pen rendered all the assistance I could. While the paper that prints these charges was selling its columns to the Republican coniniitte to be used In caricaturing Judge Parker, my paper was urging his election." * Frank Johnson, a negro, who killed a married woman because she refused to elope with him, has been sentenced to be hanged at Clarksburg, W. Va., July 17. * LANDER COLLEGE (Formerly WiUinmstoii Female College.) CRKENWOOIL S. C. Rev. John O. Willson, President Opens Sept. IS, 1908. Comfortable. steamheatcd, electric lighted building, in city limits. Good food. Home-like life and oversight. Thorough teaching and training. Fine work in music and art. Cost reasonable. Send for catalogue. 137500 Square Feet Covered With Pumps, Packii Belting, Pij Valve . . . 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