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' * r ' T rAOB BCR. R. ™ /• ■>>>•• ; - k|$7V r K Doctor Reccomends Grapefruit for Flu Florida Physician Claims Id Have Treated Successfully 502 Cases in Sixty Days. I Manufacturers’ Record. Doctor MacKenzie, the writer of the following: article, was formerly assis tant instructor in medicine at St. Louis university; formerly resident physician of Mount St. Rose Throat and Chest hospital at St. Louis; as sociate of Dr. William Porter, a lead ing throat and chest physician of St. Louis, who was earlier the associate of Sir Morrell MacKenzie, physician to the crown of England. Doctor MacKenzie has been for ten consecu tive terms Mayor of Leesburg, Fla.; three terms a member of the legisla ture and for two terms president of the Lake County board of public in struction. He has retired from ac tive practice and does only charity or emergency work. Recent statements from him in regard to the value of grapefruit juice in the cure of influ enza prompted the Manufacturers Record to ask for his experience and his views on # the subject. This state ment and the following article by him are in answer. Not being a medical authority, the Manufacturers Record cannot assume any responsibiltiy for such important statements as Doctor MacKenzie makes, but we suggest that 'responsible medical authorities should fully investigate the matter.— Editor Manufacturers Record.) Grapefruit, baking soda, a few fast days, pure water'. Prosaic things, aren’t they? So simple that they have been overlooked as influenza marched on taking its terrible toll, for the eager eye usuaMy is obvious to the obvious, yet in them lie the way to health and restoration from the savage “flu.” Up until 1918, the cause, nature and course of true Sjianish influenza was practically unknown in America. I When the epidemic came, physicians groped in the dark while coffins choked the highways. Calomel, pur gatives and heart depressants given “for the fever” kept funeral bells toll ing all the more vigorouuly. And then as I searched frantically for some light in the darkness of this grim dis ease, there accidentally came a faint glimmer like a struck match in a fog It was a translation of a paper by a famous Spanish pathologist who had made an intensive study of influenza. That paper traced the course of the disease from its origin in Mongolia to Morocco, thence to Spain and from theie to the four corners of the world. It suggested no treatment, but made the emphatic claim that the germ causing influenza thrived and became virulent in an a id medium, and was inhibited by an alkaline one. If true —treatment was simple and plain, viz: to render the system of its victim alkal ine. How? Many means were available, yet the simplest and most universally pievaler.t were citrus fruits and baking soda. Fearfully- I tried grapefruit juice and soda in my next case of influ enza, a virulent one complicated with pneumonia. Results were startling— symptoms mitigated in a few hours, hemorrhage (severe) stopped imme diately, recovery was rapid. Being called into the United States pubMc health service I healed 502 Cases of the most severe types within 60 days without a single fatality, this in spite of the fact that double pneu monia, violent hemorrhage, cerebral (brain) infections, inte-stinal inflama- tkm. inadequate care* extreme.poverty were among the things with which it was necessary to contend, The same treatment tried by other physicians 7 arid myself in innumerable cases since* that time has given the same happy results. Following is the treatment in de tail': At.the first signs of “cold” or influenza all food is stopped, but plenty of cool, pure water is given throughout) the course of the disease Food in an inflamed alimentary canal is worse than useless, will not digest, taxes the flagging heart in an effort to get rid of it, irritates and distends an inflamed digestive tract. No one will starve or need food for a few dsys. The juice of from five to 15 grapefruit is given daily in portions eyery four hours or oftener. In be tween the juice potions, not with them, sodium bicarbonate (preferably Squibbs) is given thusly—a teas poonful in a glass of water, then a quarter teaspoonful every four hours or oftener until symptoms are practi cally gone. For an obstinate cough, guaiacoi carbonate in one grain doses is helpful though not essential. The anchors are grapefruit juice and and no case of influenza in ft resistant individual will fatally if used as advised, juice and lemon juice may V ; % be used instead of grapefruit, but are not so satisfactory. Orange Juice U sweet and tends to disturb the vic tim's digestion, lemon juice is too sour to* be used in quantity. The bit ter principle of grapefruit not only tends to tone the flagging system but seems to have a specific influence upon the disease while the semitartness of the juice is grateful to fevered tis sues. Grapefruit juice alone will achieve results, but the soda hastens alkalinity. Citrus fruits taste acid; but citric acid makes the system alka line. Grapefruit juice and soda will usually cure an ordinary cold in from 36 to 48 hours, relieve bronchitis, of ten prevent or mitigrate pneumonia. In acid stomach, grapefruit juice is a specific while in diabetes or other dis eases where acidosis is present it is always indicated. In influenza, calomel or other vio lent purgatives should never be given or taken. Influenza destroys the coa gulating power of the blood and tends to produce hemorrhage from lungs, bowels, nose, throat, ears or stomach. Calomel and its kin encourage hemor rhage. They are deadly. Grapefruit juice and water will attend to all the elimination necessaiy in a fasting pa tient. 1 * 1 William A. MacKenzie, M. D. Leesburg, FlaT This Week y Arthur BrubaiM TO LIVE LONG, EAT UTILE. A SMALL PIECE OF UNO. NO PEACE PRIZE. TWO COOLIDGE VIRTUES. Reasonable expectation of life is now limited to tifty-five years for the average. Formerly, when open sewers 'ran through streets, with v graveyards on hillsides draining into wells below, life averaged less than twenty years. Science says we already have sufficient medical knowledge to make life’s expecta tion twelve years longer, but wc don't use what wc know. The big problem is extending life for men and women past fifty. Barring cancer and other troubles, not understood, prolonging life is not complicated. Eat, sleep, exer cise and breath properly and living to ninety will not be difficult. Fat ing is especially important. Wc arc what wc cat. / Luigi Cornaro proved it when, at' forty years of age, doctors told him ‘his case was hopeless. He cut his diet to twelve ounces of solid food, with fifteen Ounces of light wine per day. wryte an in teresting book when pa>t ninety, lived past one huncjrcd and wrote to the Archbishop of Venice: “I mount my horse without difficulty and had to live past ninety to real ize that the world is beautiful.” He made his wife live as he lived, and she passed one hundred. F'rancis Bacon supplies interesting details of Cornaro’s life, as do other an cient writers. , Real estate dealers, old and young,, paste in your hats. One-hundred years ago a small piece of land, part of the old Botan ical Gardens in. New York, was bought for $4,807.36. The land, three blocks, is on Fifth avenue. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has just aecured that piece of property for $100,000,000, an increase to make a good single taxer shudder. Mr. Rockefeller will use- part df the property for a- new Opera House, to be built in a fashion to allow students and others that have musical talent, but no diamond necklaces, to see and hear. The money goes to Columbia College, which now owns the land. That probably reconciles Mr Rockefeller to so large an invest ment. - He inherits from his father, who gave tens of millions to. the Uni versity of Chicago, an interest in educational enterprises. ^ ANCIENT WEATHER LEAVES ITS MARK Texas Fossils Prove to Be Marks of Drizzle. Washington. — Recent discoveries made In the famous Red Beds of Texas, of the PermJnn age, have proved that the markings described by earlier Investigators as trails of many-legged worms, rife In reality weather mack Ings, or examples of “fossil weather.” The proof of this statement lies In a small slab of shale which shows nu merous parallel markings, large arid small, In such abundance that they could not have been made by animals. The designation of the markings as “drizzle runs” Indicates the vveathei conditions in what Is now Texas, in that far-off time. Formed on Mud Flats. The “chevron” formation of the markings Is due to the accumulation of flue mud In a slow run-off on a mud flat, with a gentle slope. Some slight obstruction, such as a grain of sand or a bit of plant material or a hard piece of mud, was enough to start the formation of a slight ridge along which the markings continue. On another slab of red shale are to be seen circular marks where a plant leaf or a piece of grass made circular scratches in the soft mud millions of years ago. One can almost see the sunshine following the shower after which an animal, unknown to science, walked past the wind-moved plant. Disprove Raindrop Fossils, Geologists have for many years re garded as fossil raindrops any group of circular or oval-shaped depressions, and the standard textbooks figure such markings. Recent experiments In the University of Wisconsin, sup plemented by observations of shale slobs from the Texas Red Beds and on the soft mud and sand along the Pa cific coast, prove clearly that many of the uo-colled raindrop Impressions are due to air bubbles. Markings made in recent mud are exactly like those seen In the ancient red shales. The Influence of the proportions of sunshine and cloudine'fcs. In ancient geological time, upon the rapidity of growth of Individuals and upon the rapid expansion of groups of ancient animals and plants is now attracting the aitentlon of students of fossil life. An attempt Is being made to Inter pret, from conditions seen In ancient rocks, the stale of the weather at n time when earth conditions were quite different from what they are now. It Is expected that previously unrecog nized bits of sunshine will soon be seen In the rocks of the old Paleozoic. a^EinrgLU iairra CAioLDtA mil persons indebted to said estate will make prompt payment to the said Attorneys. • R. A. GRIFFIN, Admr. Estate of Mae Griffin. Jan. 14th, 1929. l-17-3tc CITATION NOTICE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell, By John K. Snelling, Esq., Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Erftest Croft hath made suit to mo to grart unto him Letters of Administration of the estate of and effects of Lee "Croft, deceased. THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said Lee Croft, deceased, that they \be an^d appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Barnwell on Monday, January 28th, next, after publication theroof, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, w’hy the said Administra tion should not be granted. Given under my hard this 10th day of January, A. D., 1929. JOHN K. SNELLING, Judge of Probate, B. C. MASTER'S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. * Court of Common Pleas. H. L. O’Bannon, Plaintiff, vs. Josie Hankerson, N. B. Gamble, Re ceiver of Homv3 Bank ot Barnwell, S. C., and Q. A. Kennedy, Defendants. By virtue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause, . _ r I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, February 4th, 1929, it be ing salesday, the following described premises situate in Barnwell County, South Carolina, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Red Oak Township containing 60.14 acres as appears from a plat of the same by E. G. Hay, Surveyor, March 13, 1919, and bounded as follows: On the North by lands of Mrs. Virginia San ders; on the East by lands of Aaron Williams; on the South by lands of J. W. Walker, lands of G. C. Beck and lands of Ida Hankerson and Andy Mc- THUR8DAY, JANUARY 14, 1M9. MASTER'S SALE. State o* South Carolina, County of Barnwell. Court of Common Pleas. H. L. O’Bannon, Plaintif vt. Legal Advertisements AUDITOR’S NOTICE. An association organized in hon or of Woodrow Wilson held its an nual dinner, but didn’t give a peace prize to anybody. Secretary Kel logg certainly worked hard enough to deserve a prize. President Coolid^e deserves two prizes, for continuing to mind his own business, and for minding the business of the United States, leav ing Europeans to mind theirs. Perhaps the Woodrow Wijson committee don’t like to honor any Republican, like the colored lady whose apartment was invaded by a burglar, while a Bryan parade ws passing. Asked why she didn’t scream, she put her -head out of the window and replied, “I didn’t want folks to think 1 was hollering for Bryan.” ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. I will be at the following places for the purpose of taking returns for 1928. Only personal property will be re turned this year. Ten per cent penal ty will he added for not making re turns before March 1st, 1928: Williston, January 25th. * Respectfully yours, W. H. MANNING, Auditor, Banrwell Co. MASTER S SALE Noti c e of F'inal Discharge. Notice is hereby given that I will file my final account as Executor of the W’ill of Amos Jackson, with the Hon. John K. Snelling, Judge of Pro bate for Barnwell County, State a- foresaid, upon Monday, the 18th day of February, 1929, and petition the said Court for an Order of Discharge and Letters Dismissory. ELIZA JACKSON, Executrix of the Will of Amos Jackson, deceased. Confederate Veteran Board Meeting Notice is hereby given that Barnwell County Confederate Pension Board wil meet in the Judge of Pro bate’s office on Tuesday, January 29, at 11:00 o’clock in the forenoon. All persons having matters to bring be fore the Board will do so on that day. John K. Snelling, Clerk, Barnwell Co. Pension Board. Str.te of South Carolina, County of Barnwell Court of Common Pleas. H. L. O’Bannon, Plaintiff, vs. Freeda V. Creech ^andifer as Guar dian of Mary Louise Creech, H. C. Creech, Allendale Grocery Com pany, Lloyd Plexico and . Minnie Hubbard, Defendants. By viitue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause, f I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for"cash in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, February 4th, 1929, it be ing salesday, the following described premises situate in Barnwell County, South Carolina, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of thel^wl containing seventy-two (72> Notice of Dis c harge. Notice is hereby given that I will file my final account as Administra trix of the estate of J. A. Porter, with the Hon. John K. Snelling, Judge of the Probate Court for Barnwell Coun ty upon Monday, the 4th day of Febru ary, and petition the said Court for an Order of Discharge and Letters Dis missory. EMMIE M. PORTER, Admx. of the estate of J. A. Porter, deceased. Barnwell, S. C., Jan. 5, 1929. Notice to Debtors and Creditors - - _ Notice is hereby given that all per sons holding claims against the es tate of Mae Griffin shall file them duly attested, with Messrs. Harley and Blatt, attorneys for the undersigned Administrator, on or before Saturday, the 2nd day of February, 1929, and State of Soutn Carr lire., County of Barnwell. Court of Common Pleas. Bank of Western Carolina, Plaintiff, V B. J. F. Swett and Jennie M. Swett, Defendants. By viitue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on Monday, February 4th, 1929. it be ing salesday, the following described premises situate in Barnwell County, South Carolina, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or tract ofr land, with buildings and improve ments therbon, containing ninety-five acres, more or less, situate, lying and being in Bennett Springs Township, Barnwell County, South Carolina, and bounded on the North by estate lands of W. A. Meyer; on the East by es tate lands of W. A. Meyer and estate lands of C. D. Meyer; on the South by right ot way of A. C. L. Railway Company, and on the West by lands of C. J. Ashley. Terms of sale, cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and Revenue Stamps. G. M. GREENE, Master, Barnwell Co. Master’s office, January 15, 1929. Published on the 17th day of Jan., 1929, ir. The Barnwell Peopie-Sentinel. j Millan, and being the same tract of land conveyed by J. Walker to Josie Hankerson. Terms of Sale, Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and Revenue Stamps. And the successful bidder is hereby required to deposit with the Master One Hundred Dollars, and fail ing ,so to do then the said Master is directed to re-sell the property upon the same salesday and upon the same terms. The successful bidder com plying with the terms of sale to be credited by the Master with the One Hundred Dollars so paid, otherwise the said One Hundred Dollars paid the Master to be forfeited as liquidated damages. G. M. GREENE, ' Master, Barnwell Co. Master’s office, January 15, 1929. Rosa M. Wall, Corrie W. Harley, Ben jamin M. Wall, Mary W. Duncan, Eulalie W. Hicks, Elise W. Pries- ter, Robert E. Wall and F. Jenkins Wall, and Virginia-Carolina Chemi cal Corporation, Defendants. By viitue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitle^! cause, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in front of the Court House at Barnwell, S. C., 05 Monday, February 4th, 1929, it be ing salesday, the following described premises situate in Barnwell County, South Carolina, to-wit: All that piece, parcel or tract of land, lying and being hi' Barnwell County, South Carolina, Bennett Springs township, and containing thir ty-five (35) acres/of land known as tract 8. in decree of partition in the case of J. H. Wall, et al., vs William Marion Jackskon, et al., and bounded as follows: North by tract No. 3, described in said decree; East by lands of T. J. Doe; South by lands of John Doe and West by lands of Mrs. L. X. Owens. Terms of Sale, ♦Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and Revenue Stamps. G. M. GREENE, * Master, Barnwell Co. MASTER’S SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell Court of Common Pleas. H. L. O’Bannon, Plaintiff, va. " Charlie Duncan and N. B. Gamble, Re ceiver of Hopie Bank of Barnwell, S. C., Defendants. By virtue of a decretal order to me directed in the above entitled cause, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in front of the NOTICE OF SALE. State of South Carolina, County of Barnwell. In the Probate Court. B. O. Sanders, as Executor, etc., Petitionerj vs. F. T. Sanders, H. C. Creech, Louise Creech and Freida C. Sandifer, Defendants. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE of the power contained in an Order of the Probate Court dated the 17th day of October, 1928, I will sell in front the Court House at Barnwell, on Mon day, the 4th day of February, 1929, the same being salesday in said month within the legal hours of sale, the following described real property: All that tract of land, situate, lying and being in Red Oak Township, Barn well County, State aforesaid: known as the Moses Sanders place and con taining three hundred (300) acres, more or less, bounded on the North by lands formerly known as the Wagner MASTER'S SALE. Court House at Barnwell, S. C., on lands and Hankerson lands; East by Monday, February 4th, 1929, it be-1 lands formerly known as the Aaron ing salesday, the following described \Villiams place; South by lands of premises situate in Barnwell County, I Tcbin and Holmes, and West by South Carolina, to-wlt: j lands of Mar.zie Williams and by All that piece, parcel or tract of public road leading out to Jordan Bap- land situate, lying and being in the I tist Church. The said (jmds, being acres, more or le.<s, in Great Cypress Township, Barnwell County, South Carolina, bounded on North by land of Freeda Creech; on the East by lands of Kate Wingo; on the South by lands of C. F. Rizer, Lewis Fail and Louise Creech; and on the West by lands of George Barker, and known as tract number four on plat of R. C. Mixon dated November 6, 1914,. and having the following surveyor’s calls and distances: Beginniag at a stake on the- Southeast corner and running thence due South 17.93 chs. to a stake; thence due West 37 chs.*to a stake on the public road; thehte down said public road N. 14 degrees 30 minutes to a stake at the intersection of two pulblic roads; thence South 85 de grees 30 minutes W. 25 chs. to a stake on the public road; ttienc| up the public road to the poini of be ginning and being the same tract of land allotted to the said Henry Clay Creech in the division of the lands of Estate of H. C. Creech, deceased* by proceedings on file in the office of Clerk of Court for Bftrnwell Coun Apartment 460, roll 15. Terms of sale: Cash. Purchaser to pay for revenue stamps and papers. G. M. GREENE, Master, Barnwell Co. Master’s office, Jan. 15, 1929. - above State and County, in Red Oak Township, and containing forty-one (41) acres, and having the following metes and bounds, as appears from plat of H. R. Erwin, C. E., that is to say: Bounded on the North by lands of Hattie Lee Sanders; East by lands of Sallie K. Norris; South by lands of C. H. Diamond, and West by lands of Hattie Lee Sanders and lands of Har ry Simms. Terms of Sale, Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and Revenue Stamps. G. M. GREENE, Master, Barnwell Co. Master’s office, January 15, 1929. the lands of which the late Virginia Sanders died seized and possessed of. TERMS of sale cash, and the suc cessful bidder at the said sale to im mediately deposit with the Judge ^of Probate $300.00 and upon his failure to comply, the Judge of Probate shall immediately re-sell the said lands, dis regarding the bid of the first bidder who failed to comply with his bid and if not practicable to re-sell immediate ly, then to sell the same upon some subsequent salesday after advertis ing the same three # weeks. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. JOHN K. SNELLING, Judge of Probate, B. C. « All Merchandise Guaranteed to be • First Class L V - — ~ r !■'_ - % # v •+ ~-ff • ^ ~ ■ ' - ■ — ■ ■■ 1 r—— Mack’s Fruit Stand HERE TO STAY —: :— Oranges 15c dozen and up. Appl es 25c dozen and up. » Bananas 25c dozen and up. Tangerines. 20c dozen and up. Grapefruit 5c and 10c each. Grapes, extra fine, t pounds for 25c. • • • -- '< , """ ; ~ We surpassed our expectations Saturday, our opening day, s^d solicit your future patronage. MACK SELLS FOR LESS. D. V. 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