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BLOT ON STATES GOOD NAME
Unsanitary Condition in Prisons and Slum Dis
tricts a Crime
Since the attention of the Chicago
authorities was so forcibly called to
the conditions present in the peniten
tiary other states have been Investi
gating
The rapid growth of tuberculosis
among prisoners in the Joliet 111 pen
itentiary attended by a marked in
crease In the prison death rate has
aroused the officials to action An in
vestigation and reform Is to be Insti
tuted by the State Board of Health
The members of this board do not
deny that under the present conditions
all efforts to combat the disease are
hopeless Better general sanitary con
ditions must be established or it will
be Impossible to prevent the spread of
tuberculosis to all the present prison
ers and to all who may be so unfortu
nate as to be sentenced later
This is another instance of the state
forcing its citizens to live under con
ditions which mean almost sure death
It is surprising in this day of enlight
enment that the state should allow its
citizens to live voluntarily in unsani
tary homes Yet it does The resi
dents of the slum and tenement dis
tricts are dying from faulty sanita
tion and bad hygiene But more the
state forces some others to spend
from one to ten years in a dark cell
from which they so often come strick
en by the great white plague
wrecks of their former selves and a
continual expense to the community
With the message of prevention
and cure of consumption in every
paper let the state not forget its pris
oners who must silently suffer what
ever fate is decreed for them
A Slaughterhouse Victim
The papers recently reported the
death at Cripple Creek Colo of a
woman who three years ago while
visiting the slaughterhouse of the Ar
mour Packing company in Chicago
was completely paralyzed on one side
as a result of the shock produced by
the sight of the terrible tragedies
which are constantly being enacted in
that great killing establishment This
victim of slaughterhouse horrors is
only one of many thousands who meet
their death through the slaughter
houses every year It may not be
said indeed that the death can be
traced so directly and immediately to
the slaughterhouse as in this case but
the multitudes of men and women
who die of gouty disorders rheuma
tism and other maladies resulting
from uric acid poisoning might enjoy
many years of life were it not for the
deadly dose of uric acid and other poi
sons derived from the products of the
slaughterhouse meat eaters disor
ders among which must be included
trichina and tapeworm tuberculosis
and possibly cancer as well as those
which have been traced directly to
uric acid
Fashion Notes
Dont wear thin soled shoes at any
season of the year One may take
cold from chilling of the feet as the
result of wearing thin soled shoes in
walking over a cold pavement even
when the pavement is perfectly dry
Dont adjust the clothing to suit the
season of the year only but adapt it
to the weather conditions of each par
ticular day
Dont wear high heeled shoes nor
pointed shoes nor narrow soled shoes
nor tight shoes nor low shoes Dont
wear slippers except in the house
Shoes must have broad reasonably
thick soles plenty of room for the
toes low heels Rubber heels are a
great comfort
Dont support the clothing by bands
tight about the waist
Dont constrict the limbs by means
of elastic bands to support the stock
ings Support all clothing from the
shoulders not by bands but by a
properly constructed waist free from
bones on the union plan
A Centennial Celebration
The people of Fayette Ohio recent
ly showed their appreciation of the
favor conferred on them in having in
their community a fine old lady who
has rounded out the full measure of
her hundred years The centennial of
Mrs Amelia DuBois was celebrated
by hundreds of people who met to do
her honor The public schools were
closed that the children might join
in the celebration In charge of their
teachers they marched to the home
of Mr and Mrs DuBois and escorted
them to the opera house where an in
teresting program in which many
prominent people of the neighborhood
took part was carried out
One pleasing feature was the pres
entation by the children of a quantity
of flowers the money for which had
been collected among themselves
The interest shown in the occasion
by the people of Fayette and surround
ing towns is evidence of the high
esteem in which this remarkable old
lady is held Every faculty of her
mind is alert and responsive and her
brown eyes still retain their attract
ive sparkle She is an accomplished
needlewoman and still spends much
time in preparing dainty gifts for her
friends Mr DuBois to whom Mrs
DuBois was married sixty one years
ago is no less remarkable than his
wife The unusually healthy and ac
tive old age of this fine couple is a
testimony to the value of their simple
natural peaceful life of activity Com
menting upon this the Fayette Review
says
Ones relation to the ALL are so
simple that it is not necessary for
anyone to transgress Instinct that
mysterious principle that protects and
preserves all creatures would protect
us If we did not bury it under an av
alanche of aitiftcialities Our falling
away from nature is what kills Our
getting back to it will revivify and
this principle of sticking to nature is
what one sees so distinctly in these
grand old people
Changed Its Mind
As mamma was preparing her boy
for breakfast she said How many
cakes can Eugene eat for his break
fast this morning
I can eat four Mamma
Seated at the table his appetite
seemed to have materially diminished
for he ate only one of the cakes
Mamma thought you were going to
eat four cakes this morning What is
the matter
Well said the five-year-old my
stomach changed its mind
It occurs to us that the wise mans
stomach often changes its mind as
in this case but too often that much
abused organ is so pressed upon as to
be convinced against its will though
of the same opinion still and yield
ing to the demands of an abnormal
appetite finds itself wishing the real
man had been master over the lust of
the flesh
To Prolong Life
The British Medical Journal recent
ly devoted eight pages to a discussion
o the best means for the prolonga
tion of life The greater part of this
space was occupied by a lecture re
cently delivered by Sir Herman Web
er D D F R C P before the Royal
College of Physicians of London and
the main points of his advice were as
follows
Moderation in eating drinking and
physical indulgence
Pure air out of the house and with
in
The keeping of every organ of the
body as far as possible in constant
working order
Regular exercise every day in all
weathers supplemented in many
cases by breathing movements and
by walking and climbing tours
Going to bed early and rising early
restricting the time of sleep to six
or seven hours We question the
wisdom of this teaching Most people
require eight hours sleep ssome
more
Daily baths or ablutions according
to individual conditions cold or warm
or warm followed by cold
Regular work and mental occupa
tion
Cultivation of placidity cheerful
ness and hopefulness of mind
Employment of the great power of
the mind in controlling passions and
nervous fear
Strengthening the will in carrying
out whatever is useful and in check
ing the craving for stimulants ano
dines and other injurious agencies
Hothouse Plants
The following abstract from the
Cincinnati Lancet Clinic in regard to
one of the worst evils of modern child
life is very timely
Refinement in matters of social
life proceeds hand in hand with re
finement in other lines as civilization
advances From the standpoint of the
physician and of the anthropologist
it is a question whether tne pnysicai
side of mankind is improving or de
generating
The method of bringing up chil
dren especially in the families of the
well-to-do is too often a serious men
ace to the childs health and develop
ment Too much indoor life too
much supervision too little freedom
of motion and will is undoubtedly the
cause of the many weaklings seen in
the families of the wealthy Such chil
of hothouse
dren have the characteristics
house plants
The remedy is of course to do away
with the surplus care and attention
bestowed on the child to let the child
do more for itself have more free
dom more fresh air more play with
other children Foods and medicines
helps for child
are only temporary
weakness
Nature is its own best doctor and
in the end can take care of hothouse
children if fond parents will only
give her the chance
A Wholesome Medicine
A wholesome medicine is Cheer
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He conquers all who conquers fear
And shall his days prolong
A liappv heart a cheerful lip
Contagious health bestow
As honey bees their sweetness sip
From fragrant flowers that blow
Let cheerful thoughts prevail among
The sons of men alway
And sighs shall change to Loves sweet
song
And night to golden day
Rejected Candidates
It is reported that at a recent ex
amination of candidates for admission
to the Naval academy at Annapolis
only eleven out of twenty five were
found sufficiently sound physically to
he admitted The whole twenty five
passed the mental examination but
fourteen of them were unable to pre
sent the necessary physical require
mnts This fact is a fair index of the
rate at which the physical decadence
of the American people is progress
ing Insanity idiocy and epilepsy are
all increasing at a very rapid rate
three hundred per cent within the past
fifty years
BATTLEFIELDS LITTLE CHANGED
Zountry Over Which Raged Conflicts That Made History Remains To Day
Much as It Was In Civil War Days
The battlefields of Bull Run have
undergone little change since the civil
war
Catharpin creek Youngs branch
Cub run and Rocky ford are still pour
ing into Bull run and that historic
stream rolls sluggishly from the moun
tains to Aquia creek
There are the same open fields and
stretches of woods shown on the topo
graphic maps used in 1861 and 62
Dudley Springs and Groveton are no
bigger hamlets than at the time of the
battles Centerville has rather shrunk
than grown and Haymarket on the
Sudley road which was a group of
three or four houses has disappeared
Manassas from a mere hamlet at
the junction of the Orange Alexan
dria railroad and the Manassas Gap
railroad has become a small village
and is the seat of Prince William
county whereas Brentville had that
distinction in Americas heroic age
The bells of Sudley meeting house
and Centerville church ring out every
Sunday and old men pray there who
listened to the firing saw glimpses of
the struggles carried water to the
wounded and helped bury the dead
which figured so conspicuously in the
Fitz John Porter case Is standing
Mrs Dogan through whose farm
runs the railroad cut where Porter
Sigel Reynolds and King fought to
dislodge Jackson on Aug 30 1862 is
still living at Groveton She is 87
years old and hearty She likes noth
ing better than to tell of the red grim
scenes of war
The fields in that bloody square
bounded by Centerville on the east
Groveton and Gainesville on the west
Sudley on the north and Manassas ort
the south are as a rule still tilled by
the families who worked them wnen
Prince William and Fairfax counties
shook under the tread of armies and
the crash of guns
It is believed that most of the bones
of the men slain at Blackburns ford
July 18 1861 Bull Run July 21 1861
Stone bridge and Gainesville Aug 27
and 28 1862 and Groveton and Sud
ley Aug 29 and 30 1SC2 have been
exhumed
Those recovered from the Federal
positions were removed to Arlington
where many hundreds are heaped un
der the monument to the Unknown
near the cut the place of greatest
slaughter were not given sufficient
burial Earth was dimply shoveled
over the poor corpses where they lay
The first heavy rain washed away the
earth and exposed the remains This
statement is made on authority of
Mrs Dogan who ordered from the
field by Jacksons men as the fighting
began returned to her farm before the
removal of all the wounded or the
burial of the dead
Reminders of the fighting are ever
coming to light Hunters often come
upon skeletons in woods far from the
field These are the bones of men
who wounded straggled off and died
With each spring plowing bones of
men and horses buckles canteens
bayonets gun barrels and buttons are
upturned Around some of the farm
houses are big piles of solid shot and
broken shell Tons of this battlefield
iron have been collected and sold as
scrap iron Nearly every farmer in
the neighborhood has a collection of
swords guns and bayonets gathered
from the field
When the Groveton monument was
dedicated three years after the last
Memorial Hymn
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To this dear temple of our God VJaJ 1
We knew not that the foemans hand Jwwffl JT r 1
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That over all our happy land iMr3M I X I
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Is his immortal wreath of fame dtp mrwElPSffmBL I H
That lisping youth and hoary age KFBBtBflSS Hi I I
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How freedoms heroes fought and fell PSslMHHKr iEsfisymilEr rft f I I
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Those churches were hospitals during
and after both battles
A shot from a Union battery which
made a breach in the walls of Sudley
meeting house is preserved by a
member of the congregation
Bethel church which was Fitz John
Porters headquarters when he lay be
hind Dawkins branch on Aug 28
1862 has been removed four miles
south of its old site but the founda
tion stones may be seen by those who
will enter the thicket of undergrowth
that obscures them
The Henry house the Chinn Dogan
and Matthew houses destroyed by
shells were long ago restored on their
first foundations and are to day as
they were in 61
The Stone house still stands at the
crossing of the Warrenton pike and
Sudley road and until recently was
occupied by a Virginia farmer who as
a cavalryman under Stuart fought
over the fields around the house
the first shell thrown from Tylers oi
vision when the fight opened at the
Stone bridge is still there So too
The Van Pelt house damaG by
is the Robinson house and Fccinson
the old negro who dwelt there when
Hunter and Heintzelman Grove Bee
Bartow and Evans from the heights
north of the pike to those on the
south dwells there to day
he Lewis house Johnstons head
quarters is still occupied by Mr Lew
is and th Hampton Cole house
and many other hundreds are buried
in individual graves marked with a
little slab also inscribed Unknown
Bones dug from the Confederate po
sitions in the first battle are interred
under a red sandstone shaft at Manas
sas five miles south of the central
fighting ground This shaft is in
scribed Dedicated by the Ladies
Memorial Association of Manassas on
August 30 1889 to the Heroes of Vir
ginia and Her Sister States Who
Yielded Their Lives on July 18 and
21 1861 and August 29 and 30 1862
in Defence of the Confederate Cause
Close by the Henry house there is a
rude Union monument erected In
Memory of the Patriots Who Fell at
Bull Run Erected June 10 1865
In a bit of cedar woods by the rail
road cut at Groveton there is another
little Union monument In Memory of
the Patriots Who Fell at Groveton
August 28 29 and 30 1862
There is no Confederate monument
on the battlefield
Bones taken from the Confederate
lines of the second battle are buried
on a knoll at Groveton
As the positions of the armies of
ten overlapped it is safe to believe
that northern and southern soldiers
are mingled at Arlington and Manas
sas
Identification of the bones at Grove
ton v is not difficult for while the
Confederate dead were buried in deep
trenches the Union soldiers who fell
battle the fields were still thickly
strewn with weapons and articles of
soldiers equipment
The line of railroad bed the road
was never finished along which Jack
son formed from Gainsville to Sudley
is well preserved though overgrown
with pine and cedar
Earthworks around Manassas and
Centerville clearly mark the camps of
Beauregard and McDowell There are
no earthworks on the fighting ground
None was built
On the Henry farm stakes have
been driven to mark where Col Cam
eron of the 79th New York and Gen
Bee were killed where Ricketts bat
tery was cut to pieces and where
Wade Hampton was wounded In a
dense woodland off the field two bits
of board tell that Gens Willcox and
Kirby Smith were shot there
A rail fence stands just where the
rail fence stood along which Jackson3
brigade was drawn up when Gen Bee
gave Jackson the soubriquet of
Stonewall
The place on the Chinn hill where
Col Fletcher Webster son of Daniel
Webster was killed in the second bat
tle is pointed out by the people who
live there
What Etc Means
An -English schoolboy was wsked
what etc meant It is a sip used
in writing to make people think you
know more than you do
GRIPS UGLY SEQUEL
OEES STIIT HANDS HELPLESS
EHEUHATISM NEAB HEART
Mm Van Scoy Experience Bnngcroas
Aftor Effects from Grip and Icnrna
Yaluo of a Ulooil Komedy
The grip leaves behind it weakened
vital powers thin blood impaired di
gestion aud over sensitivo nerves n
coudition that makes tho system an easy
proy to pneumonia bronchitis rheuma
tism nervous prostration aud ovou con
sumption
The story told by scores of victims of
the grip is substantially the same Ono
was tortured by terrible pains at tho
baso of tho skull another was left tired
faint and in every way wretched from
auajmia or scantiness of blood another
had horrible headaches was nervous aud
couldnt sloop another was left with
weak lungs difficulty in breathiug and
acute neuralgia In every case relief
was sought in vain until tho great blood
builder and nervo touic Dr Williams
Piuk Pills was used For quickness and
thoroughness of action uothiug is known
that will approach it
Mrs Van Scoy makes a statement that
supports this claim She says
I had a sovere attack of grip and be
fore I had fully recovered rheumatism
set in and tormented mo for three
months I was in a badly run down
state Soon after it began I was so lame
for a week that I could hardly walk It
kept growing steadily worse and at last
I had -to give up completely and for
three weeks I was obliged to keep my
bed My knees were so stiff I couldnt
bend them ovd my hands were perfectly
bolpless thou the pains began to
threaten my heart and thoroughly
alarmed me
While I was suffering in this way I
chanced to run across a little book that
told about tho merits of Dr Williams
Pink Pills The statements in it im
pressed mo and led mo to buy a box Theso
pills proved tho very thing I needed
Improvement set in as soon as I began
to take them and it was very marked by
tho time I had finished the first box
Four boxes made me a well woman
Mrs Laura M Van Scoy lives at No
20 Thorpe street Danbury Conn Dr
Williams Pink Pills are equally well
adapted for any other of the diseases that
follow in tho train of grip They ore
sold by all druggits
Aids to Longevity
A man 103 years of age who has
used tobacco and alcoholic drinks
since boyhood and is still robust says
he has always carefully avoided dan
ger he has never ridden on a trolley
car or elevated train and never con
sulted a physician New York Times
SIMPLE WALL DECORATIONS
New Material and New Ideas for tho
Decoration of Homes
The styles of home decorations have
completely changed in the last few
years and it is pleasant to say that
they have changed for the better
Time was when we hung monstrous
patterns printed on paper against our
walls and considered them more or
less pleasantly It would hardly be fair
to say that we considered them beau
tiful or artistic But they were tho
vogue and were put on The time
has come when with our better meth
ods for interior decoration better ef
fects can be secured
In wall coverings whether they be
of paint or of kalsomine or of Ala
bastine whatever the material used
to cover the wall the thing desired is
that which has the greatest covering
power as well as permanency and
beauty of color Alabastine a wall
covering ground from Alabaster rock
which means a hard white rock is
the ideal covering for a wall
The most beautiful wall decorations
in the world are those which are laid
on with the brush The mural designs
in our large public buildings and the
frescoed designs in the large cathe
drals and churches have a perma
nency and an art of which wall paper
is hut a cheap imitation These mural
schemes and frescoed designs can be
brought within the reach of the every
day home They can be done with
Alabastine which is permanent in its
coloring It does not rub off and it
has the soft effect of pastelle
A great many people defer the re
decorating of their rooms not only
because of the expense but because
of the discomfort of it With Alabas
tine there need be no discomfort and
there can be no muss for all that Is
needed is to lay a sheet or canvas on
the floor have your man come in with
a pail make the solution and simply
brush it on the wall That is all there
is to it and the room is perfectly
clean and thoroughly renovated
A darning machine one which will
in ten minutes cover a hole that an
industrious woman could hardly fill in
an hour is a recently invented piece
of laboring saving apparatus
Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time because it
never sticks to the iron but because
each package contains 16 oz one full
pound while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in -pound pack
ages and the price is the same 10
cents Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12 oz package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures 16 ozs Demand De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing Defiance never sticks
There may be plenty of room at
the top but the climbing is not what
it is cracked up to be
No chromos or cheap premiums but
a better quality and one third more
of Defiance Starch for the same price
of other starches
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