The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 18, 1919, Image 2
DANGER WILO FLOWERS ?
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Many Are a Prolific Cause of Hay 0
Fever. According to Expert Who I ^
Sounds Warning. j <>
Ilav fever is relatively common In | f
children. hat* the reason that this Is
not inor. <:eneniM\* known is that these
attacks are usually mistaken for
"colds." writes l>r. William Seheppe- A
?rell of New Orleans, president of t# n
Hay F??<.er Prevention association. t?
the Medical Record. s
. Sometimes a child that seems to s
have a "cold" is taken Into a park or ''
away to the country in the hope that 11
the fresh air will effect a cure, and 't 9
is there exposed to further infection n
e? or nlantt that are 1
chiefly responsible.
Besides the ragweeds. which are the
principal offenders, there are several
other wild flowers that, though quite
Innocent when left alone, are likely
to caus<? hay fever If applied directly
to the nostrils of children. Among
these Doctor Scheppegrell warns us especially
against the daisy fleobane, one
of the commonest of weeds. It grows
from one to two feet In height, has v
light gceen almost toothless leaves, ?
dalsy-Ule flowers about hftlf so inch *
wide, trlth a large gt^jUeh yajjow
disk. y.bite rajs occasionally .Ulactinged.
shower than those of the daisy
and sometimes entirety absent. j
Other flowers against which Doctor a
8chepp< grell warns are the daadehon. {
fleld da sj, black eyed Sosan, and other
of the Oompasltaa family. These at* (
harmless nplsss one sniffs thnir. bloe- i
soma, in which case th^y are likely to
tart a hay fever that may persist well ,
lots the fall. t
MADE RECORD DURING WAR '
Soldier* Proud of "Start and Stripes* "
Official Organ of American
Troop* in Franoe. '
The most remarkable publication
* horn of the war appears to have been p
"The Srars and Stripes." As It went
out of business with the ftnal scat- *
terlng of its staff in June Its record Is p
aow op.;n to the public. *
The publication was. as Is well ?
known, the official organ of the Amer- ?
Aon AVTVAA)! (An a *w #Atmaa I** TTeonAA ?
v?u vd|^uiwvuai; ivtvcro iu i iau\.v,
and there Is no doubt that It lived up ^
to Its dignity in a handsome manner. It *
started with a circulation of 30,000, b
red this was increased to 550,000 in ^
less than a year. It maintained a 0
French war orphan fund, to which 450,- n
600 s>ldiers contributed 2,000,000 e
francs, and In its 16 months of life the ^
paper cleared 3,500.000 francs.
There are other details of its prog- t!
ress ar.d its work, among which is one 11
to the effect that It printed 500 poems !t
by soldiers and rejected 20,000. p
The Editor and Publisher prints an w
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rtended review of the accomplishlents
of the paper, and from It we (
?aru that Its staff at one time or an- aw
ther contained something like 250 ^
len. Among them were Sergt. Maj. .
'hilip Von Blon. managing editor, and
lergt Robert I. Snadjr, staff contrlbu- s0\
or. both Clevelaruiers.
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An American Solomon. 0f
The story is told of a member of Ed
he American Red Cross, somewhere ief
n the Syrian side of the African coninent,
who found himself faced with
omething of the same problem the
ohition of which earned for Solomon, pa
i ancient days, the'reputation of be-,
ig^he wiseet of men. On this occa-i g,]
ion the child was that of an Arm*Jan
woman, fonnd in the house of a
'urk at Aleppo, and who. the mother,
aid, bad been taken from her when
hree years old. The child she claimed
s hers was a llttl^'girl of seven yean ^
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uu snr |a?r uw 9tgu ui iuv.v|ui4m?
tr mother. The American was pua- 18
led to know what to do. An idea stj
truck him. He told the mother to dr
ing the lullabies with which she had
een used to rock her baby to sleep. dr
>he little girl looked astonished and sn
houghtfnl; then she soalled. Memory
ad awakened, and the Armenian cil
roman had recovered her child. ,aJ
th
ddeatMto IdnoogewseisS. th
*Tt deeaa't do to swallow all the "
testes yon hear about the eleaey el
dSBdlfr aaaagament, hut I heard.ens
ho Other tay that l can weU beltere."
Senator Oumalae, the apf^ker, was rh
atertaialng e luncheon party at At* tn
antte City. . cr
a !So your wife refused to marry yoi
rhea yen first proposed to her f I sald( P*
o Brown daring a confidential chat ru
?ne day. Did you keep on pursuing sa
lertill she consented?' 011
" "Not much V Brown replied craftily. '
[ meat eut and made a fortune. When ^
came back it was she who did the
pursuing.'H
Soheols of Dcmkerque.
One ef,the thin?; that deeply lm- of
ressed the company of journalists thi
rom some twenty different nations np
:ho recently vistted Dunkerque in a flxn
arty waa the story of the public po
ehools. Dunkerque, although it es- hit
aped occupation.' was under constant ch<
ombardment; the enemy at one time thi
ml another had the city under fire mc
y land, sea and air, bat, except for boi
short time In th>* beginning when the II?
uUdlngs were used for war purposes,
le schools of Dunkerque, like those
f Reims, continued in session, and ')
ew sehoolhouses were built- When- y0
ver the city was bombarded, the pu- |
lis, big snd little, marched to the eel- WJ
tr in orderly procession, and some- jn
!mes th-? entire session was held there. T-n
f s sehoolhouse was partly shattered.
: was rep-tired at once, and school
roriptiv resumed; nothing, in short. ,,
ras allowed to interfere with the con- ^
Inulty of fhe schools of Dunkerque.
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showing of
of the Sec
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lerges, Garbadines, 1
vill be a delight to
line a <
n, who for 18 years 1
;nce in buying the ri
to be ti
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andie nmutore, groceries nor I
u cardially to our up
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am Streets
Lost Arm* Without Pain.
Our story of a man being blown .
ay, unhurt, by the explosion of a I
mb which he did not hear must seem
?redible to many people. Here is a
methlng like an analogy.
King Edward once brought togethei =
his dinner table Rustem Pasha, who
d had half his right hand and part 'g
his,arm torn ofT by a bear, and Sir
[ward Bradford, who had had hi9
't arm up to the elbow munched ' "*
ray by a tiger. ; .
The two men compared notes.
dther had felt the least twinge ol
In at the time. They Imagined that
sir Intense desire to save their Uvea
lied all other senses. ? London.
ironicle. '
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Bismarck's Wine Thirst.
In his choice of drinks Bismarck I
splayed a somewhat unpatriotic
irit Talking to Mr. John Booth In
7Q Rimirrlc confessed that whon
itloned at St Petersburg, he usad to
ink two bottles of champagne a (fay j i
He estimated that altogether he bad
tink 5,000 bottles of champagne and
loked 100,000 cigars.
On another occasion Bismarck do i
ired that beer "makes men stupid j
iy and useless. It lb responsible fet
e democratic nonsepse spouted oret
e tavern tables. A good rye whisky'
very much better." --n 1L_
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Chilean Nitrate Needed. i
In aplte of the prophets of disaster
e war did not ruin th^ Chilean nl ' |
ate industry; instead, military necd?
eated an unprecedented demand (
>w that this has ceased, the Chilesr
eslmist* are once again prediotlDij j
iln. but El Industrial of Anrofagasuj
ys there will now be a greater de,
and th'.n ever for fertiliser and that i
tiflcial nitrates have failed even t?
ml the natural product of Chlln.
Will Film a Big Game Hunt
Writing of Eaat Africa reminds use 1
a young man of greater enterprise i
in financial resources who has fixed
a contract with a motion pictcre
m to go on a big game shooting axdltion
in East Africa and take with
n operators and camera. His own
rerful view of the undertaking is
it he will get his shooting, and the 1 x
>vie.flrm will get their pictures, and I
th will reap substantial profits.?
inchester Guardian.
Suspicious.
Patience?What's the matter with
u and Fred?
Patrice?Well. I had a suspicion h?
isn't true to me all the time he was
France with his regiment, and now
l quit*- sure of It.
Wltj i?"
- <i jn Hi- hfgsiii saying swde'
i.jjs to ' uic uj French."?Yonkan
atesman.
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rery lady in this aa
credit to any large ci
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svas in the wholesa
ght goods at the ri:
be very lowest to 1
liarihinra knl ciwinlwn An 9 I
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-to-date store and as:
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Absolute knowledge. I hs
But my Aunt's washer wc
Heard a policeman on his
Say to a laborer, on the
That he had a letter just
fir.'i.. _ ai X! ft. fi
written in tae unesi un
From a Chinese Coolie :i
Who said the niggers in
Of a colored man in a Ts
Who got it straight from
That a man in the Klodii
From a gang of South Ai
About somebody in IJon
Who heard a man who d
Of a swell female society
Whose mother-in-law. wil
To prove that her seveiH
Has stated in a printed p
That 3he has a son who's
And he knows of a plant
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You may laugh at
time when your auton
cause of weak batterii
sides laugh. Now, we
molife Batteries guara
so see us for batteries
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you do something behave
put in a fine of Peril
teed for twenty months,
to suit any car.
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