Bellefonte, Pa., April 1, 1910. HEALTH FORCES DEFDAT DEATH. [Continued from page 6.] ura: resistance of his body. She also advises all the other members of the household how to escape infection— - frequently G.scovers some members in the early stages of the disease and is thus able to ward it off. The nurse de- votes particular attention to diet—nu- trition being generally recognized as one of the predominating factors in strengthening the body's defenses. She tells the housewife what lo cook and how to cook it. She inquires par ticularly whether there is a sufficient supply of fresh eggs and milk. Per haps the family is too poor to supply the sick man with these necessities. In that event the state itself provides them. The dispensary nurses have nade 133,444 visits of the kind de scribed above. . Life at Mont Alto. This, however, is only one depart ment of this lifesaving work. Any one who wishes a graphic idea of the state’s sanatorium work should visit the tuberculosis colony at Mont Alto. Here, at an elevation of 1600 feet above the sea, amid the breeze swept mountain pines, he will find nearly £00 men, women and’ children, under the care of physicians and nurses. bravely seeking to combat the disease in the fresh air and sunshine. Labor- atory investigations have many times proved that the tubercle bacillus, once exposed to the light and air, shriveis up like a guilty thing and perishes: and the state, in this unique sanator- —4uwm_ ig giving its tuberculous poor their one great chance of overcoming the disease. This Mont Alto site is sit uated in the midst of a state forest reservation of 5500 acres. It is high. cool, dry, with an abundance of fresh spring water, tillable soil upon which many of the household supplies can be raised, and all the attractions of nature to make pleasant and peaceful the lives of the patients. There is a village of specially constructed cot tages in which the incipient cases live, and a large, well equipped hospits’ building for the advanced cases. At this sanatorium Pennsylvania hae treated up to Dec. 31, 1909, 2365 pa tients, a large number of whom have been permanently cured and a stil larger number so effectually strength. ened that they are in far better co’ dition than formerly to fight the di~ ease, Ground is now being cleared for a second state sanatorium on the bean tiful site at Cresson, which Mr. Car. negie has so generously given to th~ commonwealth, and a third site h~ been selected in the foot hills of tho Blue mountains, near Hamburg, in the eastern end of the state. For Pure Water. in fighting such a widely prevalent disease as typhoid fever, the useful ness of a central state health organ’ zation is especially demonstrated. Against typhoid a local board is prac- tically helpless. This is because the chief sources of infection are the wa. ter courses. Our rivers unfortunatelv do not recognize state or county lines A municipality may prevent water pol. lution from the banks within its own jurisdiction but cannot prevent it in other sections. Pittsburg may stop its own citizens from sewering into the streams, but she cannot stop other communities from polluting the wa- ters from which she draws her own supply. And the discouraging fact is that, while one town may refrain from puiiuting the stream so that another further down may not have to drink its filth, its own water supply may be polluted by less conscientious neigh- bors living up-stream. Up to the year 1405 man in Pennsylvania appeared to have lost the natural instincts of the lower animals and seemed indif- ferent to the danger of loading his system with that which nature has once thrown off as poison. Man, un- like the beasts of the field, had taken on the habit of discharging his offal into the streams from which he took his drinking water. Only some central body, which has absolute control over all water courses, can accomplish a general purification of the streams. T*~ legislature recognized this ne- cessity for central control when. in 1905, it placed all water courses, so sar as public sanitation was concerned, | nnder the jurisdiction of the governor, attorney general and commissioner of health. But there are also other pri- vate sources of pollution—especially the old-fashioned privies and wells which still are found in large num- bers, overflowing into streams. These the department of health has now the power to abolish. The department has in file complete and detailed maps showing all the state's water courses, large and small. Whenever a case of typhoid fever is reported it can im- mediately put its finger on the water shed where the disease originated anil investigate accordingly. No municipal ity can now construct water works without first obtaining the state's ap- proval of its plans. It cannot build sewerage plants without similar con- sent. Acting through these broad pow- ers, the health department, through its army of inspectors, has penetrated the remotest recesses of the state, in- clean-up has ensued. In most cases the individuals and municipalities affected have realized the necessity of reme- dial measures and have accepted the work in a proper spirit. Up to date it has inspected 266,628 premises in rural districts and caused the abatement of 18,945 pollutions. It has issued 204 de- crees requiring changes in public wa- ter works. Under its advice and sug: gestion, all over the state, cities and municipal bodies have awakened and voluntarily begun to improve their water supplies. Under the supervis fon of the department sixty-seven sew- age disposal plants and thirty-five wa. ter filter plants have been built or are now under construction. Typhcid Cut Down. The purification of the state's drink- ing water is a large task and will take many years, but already the improve ments have cut the typhoid death rate fn half. In 1906, 56.5 out of every 100, 000 people died from this disease; in 1907, 50.3; in 1908, 34.4, and in 1909, 23.9. That is there are now living 2363 people who, had the death rate o, 1305 prevailed in 1909, would have died. I believe enough has been said to convince you that Pennsylvania's citl- zens have been made richer in health. happiness and industrial vigor and the state rendered more attractive, both for residential and manufacturing pur- poses and for the mere joy of life, by the application of the grand health laws of 1905. You cannot capitalize human tears and mental anguish. You cannot estimate in dollars the world's logs through the pessimism en- gendered by premature death, dis- ease or the despair of poverty, which may follow both. You cannot compute even the prin- cipal of the debt laid upon individuals, communities or states by the moral delinquencies that result absolutely from physical suffering alone. But we can rejoice when we know beyond all doubt that in every year untimely death has been shut out of more than 8000 of our homes and that at least 50,770 of our people are an- nually spared the ravages of acute dis- eases. And with a pride blended with thankfulness we can rejoice in the spirit of Pennsylvania's fostering care for her people which made these re- suits possible. A Speech to the Jury That Was Ef- fectively Answered. A well known English barrister, whom we will call Mr. K., was a most eloquent speaker, und his voice, par ticularly in its pathetic tones. was melody itself. His power over a jury was astonishing, and it was very sei dom that he failed to secure a ver dict for his cilent. On one occasion, however, he was beaten and in such a ridiculous man- ner that a crowded court and even the grave judge were convulsed with laughter at the burlesque of the result. The case was a charge of murder. Mr. K. was for the defense. His peroration was exceedingly touching and beautiful. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said ne. “if you can find this unhappy prisoner at the bar guilty of the crime with which he is charged after the argu- ments to th» contrary which 1 have laid before you, pronounce your fatal verdict. Send him to the dungeon, awaiting the death which he is to re- ceive at your hands. Then go to your families, lay your heads on your pi! lows—and sleep, if you can!” The effect of the closing words was really thrilling. But presently the counsel for the prosecution rose and said: “Gentlemen of the jury, 1 should despair, after the affecting speech which has been made to you by my learned brother, of saying anything to do away with his eloquence. 1 never heard Mr. K. speak that better thay when he spoke it now. Once 1 heard him speak it in a case of stealing ut Leeds and again in a case at Manches- ter, and the last time I heard it was when two men were tried for pocket picking. But 1 never knew him to speak it so affectingly as just now.” This was a poser. The jury looked at one another, whispered together. and the speaker saw instinctively that he had them. He stopped at once. closing with a siogle remark: “If you con't see, gentlemen of the jury, that this speech fits all cases then there's no use my saying any- thing more.” And there wasn't. He had made his case and got his verdict.—Exchange. Rules of Good Behavior In the Early Eighteenth Century. | In a work entitied “Youth's Beha- | vior,” published in 1706, there is this | injunction to young gentlemen, “Put | off thy Cap or Hat to persons of Desert : are Churchmen, Justices and the like, turning the Cap or Hat to thy selfwards; making a Reverence, bow- ing thyself more or less according to | thescustom of the better bred.” \ In the midst of remarks which indi- | cate the utmost refinement we come { suddenly upon such directions as this: | “"Pis not manners as soon as you i are set at Table to bawl out, ‘1 eat | none of this, I eat none of that, I cave for no Rabbit; 1 love nothing that tastes of Pepper, Nutmeg, Onyons,’” ete. After stating that “some have been so refined in Foreign parts that they will neither be covered, nor sit with their backs to the picture of an emi- nent Person.” the writer goes on to remark that “there are some who eat with that eagerness and impatience, they eat themselves out of breath and will pant like a broken winded Horse, but these are not to be indured.” He also warns his pupil thus: “When you are talking to any one do not Continually punch him in the side, as some people do; who, after every sentence keep asking the person they are conversing with, ‘Did I not tell you so? ‘Vhat say you, sir? and In the meantime they are every moment jogging and thrusting him with their | elbows, which cannot be considered as , a mark of respect.” Then the Prices Tumbled, and Dan Sold Out All His Stock. Dan MacQuinn, who runs a general merchandise store in a country town, conducts more bargain and special sales than all the other merchants put . And the seemingly strange of it is that be makes a big suc- out of every sale. he conducted a tinware All kinds of tinware househo utensils were displayed on tablex wu | shelves about the storeroom. Direct] in the center of the room wux nn i mense standing case with exh «1 1 shelves, on which was arene) wide variety of pleces of tinware :. marked in bold figures. About the time the store was puke with bargain seekers there came a 1. rific crash from the center of tl room. A lumbering expressman hl tipped over the case, and the tinwire was scattered everywhere, but uot damaged to any extent. Dan imme diately rushed to the scene of the con- fusion. So did all the women atten: ing the sale. After giving the dray- man a severe calling down Dan. who appeared to be in a terrible rage. an- nounced that rather than pick up one | plece of the ware he would sell every plece for 6 cents. The original prices. marked plainly on each plece. were from 10 to 15 cents. Dan sold every plece right from the floor and did it in less than five minutes. If any one of the bargain seekers had happened around the store after the sale was over they would have been surprised to see Dan handing the expressman a piece of money, appar- ently very well satisfied with the re- sult of a clever ruse which bad brought a big day's receipts.—Modern Hethods. A Great Work of Art. It was Apelles who visited the studio | of Protogenes in Rome and, finding the artist absent. drew a thin colored line ! in such a way that the Roman knew that only his Greclan brother could have done it. But. not to be outdone, | Protogenes drew a thinuer line upon | that of Apelles. and when this was seen Apelles drew a third line upon | that of Protogenes. This panel was then looked upon as the greatest work | of art. so says the story, in the palace of the Caesars, i A Shady Place. i A hotel keeper near New York city | is n Frenchman. and his family know | little more about English than L:» does. His suburban hotel stands in the cen- ter of a square filled with large trees. | When the proprietor wanted to call at- | tention to this advantage he put on his { cards. “The most shady hotel around | New York.” The reputation of the place is beyond reproach. and the pro- prietor does not know yet why so many persons smile when they read | the line quoted. | | | | ——Subscribe for the WATCAMAN Clothing. Sechler & Company buy the 18 cent grade. If you are 20 cent goods. paper you saw COFFEE When¥goods advance on the market the retail price usually follows. But in Coffees we have not followed the ordinary course, by marking up the price or reducing goods leaders at 18c, cs we A— regard to the recent advance in either quality. We have found a new and more favorable market in which to and maintain the high standard of our 20c and 25 cents per pound. If you are using a Coffee at 20 cents per pound fry our paying 25 cents for your Coffee try our Or if you are buying at 30[cents try the high grade goods we sell at 25 cents per pound. This is a severe test but we are very confident we can make good. Give us a trial, and please mention in which this advertisement. Bush House Sechler & Company, Block, - 551 - Bellefonte Pa., 1 1 a handsome tion of any four months $1. 52-45-1y. 7 31,.. Bloomsdorf..| 7 35 PineGrove M'l scientific & CO., 631 B Branch office, 625 F ot Washington, D. C. ot at An Stylish. On the Wrong Back. Travelers Guide. Madan a funny footing hat Charitable Lady—1 gave your father | ——=——— soo =r that woman on! Adam—Don the money to buy you a coat week. RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA. anything funuy about it. Looks 1 see you're not wearing it. —-No. sensible to me. Madam—Yes; mum: 'e put it on a ‘orse. 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