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THE FIRST CONCERN.
Dr. Samuel J. Fogeison, of North-
western University, is attracting
wide attention among medical scien-
tists by experiments which indicate
that ulcers of the stomach are re-
lieved and permitted to heal by the
mucin from the gastric mucous
membrane of swine. It may be
taken in tablet or food form.
NEW SERUM FOR IMMUNIZATION
AGAINST INFANTILE PARALYSIS
The development of a serum that
is effective against infantile paral- |
ysis has recently been announced by |
two Manhattan scientists. They
have proved that the serum im-
munizes monkeys against infantile |
paralysis. The discovery was not
reported until the serum had been |
tried in the treatment of about sixty
children having the disease, some in
the early stages of paralysis, all of |
whom have recovered. The best!
treatment hitherto tried in infantile
paralysis was the use of serum ob-
‘tained from the blood of a patient
‘who had recently recovered from the
disease. ‘lnis serum was obtainable |
only in limited quantity. The new
serum, which is produced in the
horse, is now available in quantity.
GERM ISOLATION FEAT DESCRIBED
Dr. Arnold I. Kendall, professor
‘of bacteriology at the Northwestern
University Medical school for 20
odd years, has made a discovery ex-
pected to have a far reaching effect
on the treatment of human ills as
the processes evolved by the fa-
mous Louis Pasteur.
His discovery consists of a process
of making visible under the micro-
scope bacteria so tiny that research
workers heretofore have been un-
able to identify it.
“The discovery is as startling to
the scientific world as the discov-
eries of Pasteur,” said Dean Irvin
‘Cutter, of the Medical school.
Dr. Kendall only smiled and con-
‘tinued his work in developing what
he calls his “K Medium,” a soupy |
solution in which the invisible bac- |
teria now may be isolated. Practi-
cal use of his discovery is yet to
‘come. |
A small intestine of a rabbit, dog, |
Wine or Jan, chemically treated, is!
e essen ingredient of th -
tion, he said. So |
Isolation of the infinitesimal
germs means that such diseases as |
sleeping sickness, paralysis, influ-|
_enza, cancer and rheumatism, may |
be traced to their primary causes |
and Ihat Zhysicians hereafter will |
able r to devise speci
‘cures for them. By}
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DIET OF OX BRAIN ADVISED IN
PERNICIOUS ANEMIA CASES
A diet of ox brain is a treatment
oi pesnicioks Filenna, and most
probably, » for nervous syste
-diseases. : »
This has been discovered and an-
nounced by Dr. Charles C. Ungley,
“medical registrar of the Royal Vie-
toria Infirmary, New Castle-upon-
Tyne, Scotland, and a Rockefeller
Rareh Fellow at Durham Univer-
Prof. Ungley fed a number of
pernicious anemia patients measured
amounts of ox brain. The results
were benefical. The same treat-
ment was given to cases in which
the patients suffered from disease of
the nervous system, involving sub-
acute degeneration of the spinal cord.
Encouraging esults followed.
nce the overy by Minot and
Murphy that feeding oF liver cures
pernicious anemia, many other body
substances have been found to have
4 similar beneficial effect. Kidneys,
hog Hoh and other internal or- |
ns’ diet restore de i
on pleted blood |
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According to Dr. Ungley, these
organs merely store up the potent
‘substance which really cures anemia. |
_And this substance is manufactured |
in the digestive tract. |
Liver feeding has not so certain
a curative effect in cases of degen-
eration of spinal cord and related
iv By am | 1 oe
: , Dr. Ungley experimented
with ox brain. His results show
that in pernicious anemia itself the
beneficial effect of brain-feeding is
less potent than of liver feeding.
But in cases of the nervous sys-
tem disease, cord degeneration, brain
‘diet appears to be even better than
liver diet, although further experi-
ments are necessary to settle this
point beyond doubt.
The loaded gun you keep to pro-
tect yourself from burglars is more
apt to endanger your life than to save
“it. Little children frequently find
“these weapons and kill their parents,
“or each other.
The coal gas coming from a wide-
ly opened stove door is deadly, and
“if the door is closed or nearly closed
‘the gases go up the chimney. There-
fore, the draft should be kept on for
- awhile after fresh coal is added.
Running the automobile engine
only a few minutes in a closed gar-
age will generate enough carbon
monoxide to kill you. Open the
door first before starting the engine.
To wait until your child becomes
of school age before having him vac-
cinated may make him a smallpox
victim and he may die from it.
No child is too young to be vaccl-
mated.
Precoc ity Frowaed On
by This African Tribe
When a child in the Bahanga tribe,
of southeast Africa, says the equiva-
tent of “mamma” or “papa” before
what authorities of the community de- |
cide is the normal time, or if its tiny |
upper incisors peep through the guns
when they still should be out of sight,
it Is just too bad.
Such a tragedy ranks next to having
twins, the Catholic Anthropological so-
ciety Is told.
evil strikes can save the parents,
Is now illegal to leave the child in the
grass to die, so in recent years an
elaborate system of sacrifices has heen
devised, but the natives look on it as |
of doubtful efficiency.
Parents who have twins are consid-
ered accursed. They may not leave
the hut for two months for fear of
bringing disaster on the entire coun.
tryside, If they do, sickness and death
will come wherever they go; crops in
the fields along which they walk wiil
dry up and wells they use will be
poisoned,
At the end of the two months the
| women of the tribe, by suitable incan-
tations, expel the evil spirits from the
house and all Is well again.
Generous Allowance of
Wine for Royal Infants
In 1552 milk was not considered an
important item in a child's dlet, and,
If the household account of the chatean
of Amboise is anything to go by, the
younger generation in those days could
not complain that wine was scarce,
The six royal children living in the
chateau were supplied dally with 23
pints of red wine and a similar quan- |
tity of white wine, while for their at-
tendants of gentle birth a further 25
pints of a cheaper red wine was pro-
vided. Their staff had to be content
with 33 pints of cheap claret. {
The daily account also shows that
75 dozen loaves of bread were paid |
for. Pike, roach, carp, gudgeon, craw- |
fish, a sea turtle, oysters, sole, cod.
white and red herrings also are listed, |
'neluding, oddly enough, four vipers.
What the vipers were used for is
not stated.—London Mail.
The Fan in History
“Customs of Mankind,” says that |
‘Fans have an interesting history. The |
first fan was probably a palm leaf or |
some other natural device appropri- |
ated by man to keep away files or |
gnats, perhaps even to cool the fe- |
vered brow In tropical climates. We |
know that in Egypt, 2,000 years ago, |
fashionable hosts had special servants |
to stand behind dinner guests and fan |
them with huge papyrus fans. In |
| France the fan reached the height of |
its development under Louls XIV. We |
read that ‘fans are invariable accom- |
paniment of feminine costume and are |
of rare beauty, exquisitely painted |
and mounted on sticks of carved or |
painted wood, mother-of-pearl, carved
Ivory or gold. There are over 500
makers of fans In Paris and they en-
Joy special privileges accorded to them
by the king.'"”
Another Chinese Wall
Another huge Chinese wall has been
discovered by the Dr, Suen Hedin ex-
pedition. An article by the leader,
published in a Stockholm newspaper
says: They followed the route over
the Mongolian highlands and the Gobi
desert. This was the first time that
a motor car had been driven from
Peiping to Maomo without, at any |
point of the route, encroaching on the
territory of the Mongolian republic.
The most remarkable discovery from
an archeological point of view was a
wall of earth and stone, which they
could trace for several hundred meters.
It was very well preserved In parts,
and it perhaps corresponds with the
discovery which Mr, Bergman made
some time ago of a fortress of the |
early Han dynasty.
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Liar good
There Is at least one judge in Kan- |
4a8 City who knows his birds. |
First off, they brought a blackbira |
Into court on the charge of chicken |
stealing.
“What made you steal that chick |
en?” demanded the learned Judge. |
“Was it because you were really hun-
gry?”
‘No, suh,” replied the blackbird, “Ah
caln't say as I was hungry. Ah done
stole dat chicken fo' a lark.”
“There is no resemblance whatever,
snapped the judge and meted out a
ten-day sentence with the advice that
the darky spend It reading a bird book.
Those Good Old Days
It Is the feeble and Iill-nourished
mind that shrinks from knowledge of
what has been, and guffers from pessi-
mistic dread of what is yet to be. It
is only the mentally and spiritually
hampered—prophesying of evil to come
—who believe that all change in our
own day must be for the worse, and
who long for the “good old days” of
thelr grandparents.—Albert Shaw In
Review of Reviews,
Wrote Hymn on Window Pane
From a window pane in a little Eng
lish village to the pages of millions
of hyma books, printed in many lan-
guagay, is the experionce that befell
one writer, Harriet Auber. Confined
one day to her home, she composed
the words of “Our Blest Redeemer,”
afterwards amusing herself by scratch:
ing them on the window of her roo,
In the case of the pre- |
cocious infant, only its death befora |
It |
Last Mile the Longest
| A nurse sat at a desk at the end of
| a hospital hall, apparently engaged
| in making a drawing of some sort. An
| inquisitive fellow-soother of suffering
| humanity approached. Both had been
| assigned to the floor used exclusively
by the stork. The two talked general-
ities for a moment, then smilingly ob-
served two men pacing up and down
the hall. There were echoes of baby
cries from the nearby nursery. Finally
the Inquisitive one, noting the draw:
ing, sald:
“What are you doing, Madge? Mak-
ing plans for a new home?”
“No,” came the reply, “I'm trying
to figure out a new hospital contain-
ing a race track for prospective fa-
thers!”
World's Fair Weather Voyage
The sea voyage te South Africa Is
the fair weather voyage of the world.
Capetown, once a remote outpost of
civilization, is today one of the world’s
fairest cities. It Is not only beautiful
and delightfully situated, but the Cape
is historical as well, for it was here
in 1487 that Dias saw the sea route
to India and this Incited Columbus,
who in his search for India found
America instead. Drake describes it
as “the fairest Cape in the whole cir
cumference in the world.” Few dis-
coveries have Influenced the affairs of
nations more than the discoveries be-
tween 1487 and 1407. This era was
truly the dawn after the Dark ages
and the first rays lit the Cape when
Dias discovered his way around.
He Got His Price
Jimmy's mother stored all the win.
ter bed clothing in a small shed at |
the back of the house. One day, on
returning from downtown, she found
that all the bed clothing had disap-
peared. Without a delay she sought
out Jimmy and asked him where they
| were,
“Do you mean those old mattresses
and things?" he asked. “Why, I sold
those old th'ngs to the rag man!”
His mother, aghast, asked him how
auch he had received for them.
“Well,” replied Jimmy with grea.
| aatisfaction, “after a lot of arguing I
finally got him to give me six cents.”
—Indlanapolis News.
Couldn't Understand Fire
Inhabitants of the Marian islands,
when they were discovered by Magel-
| lan In 1521, had till that time never
seen fire, and expressed the utmost
astonishment at it. They believed ft
to be an animal which fixed Itself
| upon wood and fed upon it, and when
approaching so near as to be burned,
they thought they had been bitten
by it
was established In Derby by a
London merchant named John Lombe,
had a secret process ‘of
manufacture from Pledmont, where he
obtained employment as a work
his life, had
of the machinery
| used by his employers.—Detroit News.
To Cement Brokem China
A housewife says: “Dissolve a lt
tle gum arablc In a little water so
that it Is rather thick, put enough
| they cannot be broken In the same
BENEFIT OF FARM LIFE
CALLED PART OF “INCOME”
The farm still Offers 8 Sova eva.
t for making a comfortable living,
De Professor O. R. Johnson of .the
University of Missouri, summarizing
a series of articles on “The Agricul-
tural Situation.” 4
But that comfortable living, he
says, probably will not include a
college education for the children,
nor a great many vacations.
However, he says, it should mean:
food and plenty of it; a reason-
ably good home; plain but sufficient
clothing; high school for the young-
er generation. A large part of the
farmer's “wage” must come from
such intangibles as a more satisfy-
ing, cleaner, more wholesome living.
POINTER ON CRANKING
In cranking his engine the exper-
ienced motrist will a
er as sparingly as e, e
also will on mistake of mea-
suring the amount of choking by
the time required in the cranking
process. When a battery is weak it
will take longer to crank the
This does not mean that the owner
will be choking the carburetor
more, for the engine is not turning
any more revolutions than if the
battery were up to par. If battery
and starter are particularly active
it often is true that what would
seem to be a little choking is ex-
cessive.
TREE MAKES CAR OF LUMBER.
A cypress tree, probably 1,300
years old, cut on the Amite river
swamp, in Louisiana, produced a
carload of lumber, 16,175 board feet.
The swamp giant had a total length
of 80 feet and the stump diameter
was 92 inches.
“That dog of Coogler's will be the
death of me, barking at me every
time I pass.”
“But barking dogs don’t bite.”
“I know, but I'd rather he bitten
at once than kept in suspense.”
Teacher—Now, in getting a meal
since when they have been sung by
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countless voices all over the world, |
what is the first and most important
2?
Embryo Cooks (in chorus)—Find
the can opener!
| SIMPLE FACTS OF
| DOG FEEDING TOLD
| If the feeding of your dog presents
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|itself as a weighty problem, take
| heart! |
| According to the pel Kennel
| Foundation, Rockford, is, here
'is all that you need to know about
‘his feeding:
1. Feed one heavy meal a day,
preferably in the evening. Feed the
light meal in the morning. Puppies
| require three to five meals a day,
depending on their ages. Feed at
the same hours each day.
2. Meat is the dog's natural diet.
If you feed your dog a prepared,
well-balanced meat food, with dog
biscuits for variety's sake, he will
need nothing else.
3. Don't feed table scraps, pota-
‘toes, boiled eggs or pork, and don't
serve soupy foods. Beware of chick-
en and fish bones. s care noth-
ing for sweets until taught to like
them.
4. Provide plenty of water.
5. Never allow violent exercise di-|
rectly after feeding.
If a dog does not take readily to
biscuits, which are essential to keep- |
ing his gums hard and teeth clean,
it is suggested that kibbled or
broken biscuits be gradually incor-
porated into his regular ration until
he gets used to eating them.
SPIDER’'S INGENIOUS WEB
WOVEN AFRESH NIGHTLY
Master of geometrical
and skillful artisan, the fastidious
orangetan orb spider presents a
mystery in her arrival at a certain
identical moment every evening
when with amazing ingenuity she
| constructs or weaves a new web
(over the framework of her perma-
| nent dwelling, states an article in
| Better Homes and Gardens.
Although the framework of the
simple structure, which consists of
three spokes radiating from a single
point, is constantly under repair, the
finished web is never repaired no
matter how damaged it may be.
Guy wires are anchored to leaves, |
blades of grass, with a crow’'s foot
| fastening. Then follow radial lines
| which retrace the original spokes
|of the permanent frame. The dainty
| tatting wheel in the center serves
as a feast hall. The last stroke is
biting out the floss constituting the
| hub, which leaves an aperture for
|the unwary insect to crawl through |
and be emmeshed. Then follows the
| fastidiously chosen feast, continues
Better Homes and Gardens, after
which the web is carefully removed
|and, if no longer of service, devour- |
led to make more silk and be respun |
| later. |
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| COUNTY FAIRS ARE ON |
DATES OF THOSE NEARBY.
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| County fairs and other long-estab-
| lished gatherings of an educational
|and amusement nature will begin to
‘attract the masses within the month.
| In order that Watchman readers
may have at hand the dates of those |
nearby we publish the following
| schedule:
| Grange Encampment and Centre
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precision |
Souiity Fai, at Centre Hall, August
to 28.
Huntingdon, August 25 to 28.
Lewistown, Sept. 1 to 5.
Clearfield, Sept., 8 to 11.
| Allentown, Sept., 22 to 26.
Bloomsburg, Sept., 28 to Oct. 3.
Hughesville, Oct., 7 to 10.
| The Ebensburg fair will not be
held this year
| During 1930, approximately seven-
ty county fairs were held in the
Commonwealth. Almost two mil-
lion people were in attendance and a
total of $225,000 was paid in prem-
inms to exhibitors.
| PROSECUTE 38158
i OWNERS OF DOGS
| Three thousand one hundred and
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| fifty-three dog owners representing a
| every county in the Commonwealth
excepting Cameron and Pike,
been prosecuted so far this year for
dis the provisions of the
State dog law, ac to the
| latest report from the bureau of
animal industry, vania De-
partment of Agriculture. This
number is 320 more than during the
ding period in 1930.
of licensed dogs now
approximately the
same as on the corresponding date
a year ago.
The number of uncontrolled dogs
killed is running higher than last
year, while the amount of damages
reported is approximately $3000 less.
36,000 DAIRY COWS
| IMPORTED ANNUALLY
Thirty-six thousand turberculosis-
free dairy cattle have been imported
into Pennsylvania annually during
the past five years, according to tu-
berculosis test records in the bureau
of animal industry, Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture.
uring the same period have averag-
ed six thousand annually. as
dairy
nsin,
The principal sources of the
cattle officials say, are: Wisco
Minnesota, Michigan, New York,
Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Mis-
souri and
There are now on Pennsylvania
farms, approximately 900,000 milk
cows and heifers two years old and
over, the highest number since 1923,
according to the bureau of statistics.
EXCESS STORMS TAKING
HEAVY TOLL OF BIRDS
Bird mortality in Massachusetts
this summer has been “exceedingly
high,” due to abnormally heavy
rains, according to Dr John B. May,
state ornithologist.
Dr. May reported that damage
has not been limited to ground-nest-
ing or low-buil birds. Nests of
other birds, built high in trees, also
have been destroyed by rain or wind,
he said.
Crabifiake--S0 Crankshaft has two
cars now
Codplece—Yes, he couldn't get his
accessories all in one.
have ihe
A blow-outisan
inconvenience under the best of condi-
tions but when it occurs just as your trip
has started and you have no spare tire it
becomes a tragedy.
The careful driver, knowing this; never
ventures very far on the road without the
safeguard of a spare tire.
Your electric company knows the value of
a spare also. With a small isolated plant
storms and lightning may cause interrup-
tions in your service. With interconnected
generating stations—the spare tires of the
electric industry—your service is main-
tained at any time, day or night.
WEST PENN POWER CO.
$610,000,000 OLD BILLS
STILL IN CIRCULATION
When the small size paper money
was put into circulation in July,
1929, ‘a total of $4,997,840,000 worth
of the large ‘‘greenbacks” were still
outstanding.
In the nineteen months since then,
721,000,000 have been turned into
the treasury at Washington to be’
redeemed and then destroyed.
This leaves $610,000,000 of the old
bills still in circulation. In the first
year the new bills were in use, Uncle
Sam saved about $2,000,000 in the
use of the smaller, tougher paper.
And the small bills are handier too.
the voters as ex
maries to be held on’ Tuesday,
15th, 1931.
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