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IePING NERVES SOUND
■cAD OF NERVOJS PROSTRATION
End some of the causes.
e: ul Disf*ns That So.m K*|ecillv
• l 4*r*ti* Who Art* .NuiabSe uud
m All Walks of I.lie— I'me Air,
ami Omet li Most I’otent Antidotes
Bervous prostration is the prevalent
Base cf tue moment with notable
in nil walks of life, declares
S New York Sun. It cannot be
among the fashionable di-
for it rarely attacks those of
0. leisure class, but doctors, law-
financiers and actors have been
principal victims this winter, as
011 as politicians of more or less re
|H|\vn and a statesman or two from
Washington’s population.
exclusiveness in the selection
0 victims was also noted in the grip,
when it first made itself known
B\merica, chose only the prominent
Sits prey. Since then it has become
Be general, bestowing itself impar
■llv upon rich and poor alike.
■Physicians rarely give bulletins of
■eir cases of nervous prostration. It
M frequently heralds serious results
Bat in many cases it is deemed wisest
B call it by some other name. But
Be outgoing steamers carry away
Bany prominent persons of all sorts
Bho are ordered abroad most impera
tively for the ocean trip and to escape
prom the routine in any particular
•msiness or profession.
J Rest is the invariable prescription
fend it rarely fails to effect a cure
■when the disease is taken before ar
tificial means have been employed for
the quieting of the affected nerves.
The victims of the complaint are
nearly all those whose brains, eye
sight or nervous systems are called
upon in their vocations. The excite
ments of the theatre prove to be a
most powerful cause, as the long list
of dramatic stars that have collapsed
during the season now closing shows.
But the old adage that hard work
never kills holds good in this instance.
It is not hard work, but injudicious
work, irregular hours and loss of sleep,
lack of proper air and exercise that
are really the predisposing causes, as
well as excessive smoking and chink
ing. A great worry, a bereavement or
a shock, will frequently bring on an
attack of this sort, especially with
women. The increase in open air
sports for women, however, is largely
driving this complaint out of the femi
nine category. Most of the women pa
tients are from the stage.
Quiet rest is the great and universal
cure for neurasthenia, but unhappily
in cases that have been allowed to
advance, quiet is the boon denied the
sufferer. The nerves refuse to become
calm and no sleep comes to rest the
clockwork of the brain and nerves so
intricately bound, the one to the other.
Brain lesions come and the result may
be one of the many forms of insanity
in which this awful disease ends.
Paralysis is one of the most fre
quent results. Affections of the optic
nerve are common; the reason is
weakened; sometimes the mind be
comes permanently unbalanced or the
dreaded locomotor ataxia sets in.
Nervous prostration has no set rule
of approach. It takes its victims in
vaftous ways often by a complete phy
sical collapse as in the case of actors
who faint on the stage during a per
formance. Suicide is often the sud
den culmination.
“The dangers of the disease,” said
a physician, “lie in the fact that peo
ple go on disregarding the warnings
which they have flashed to them from
the tired-out nervous system. These
warnings are excessive nervousness
and irritability, these being the first
symptoms and often continuing for
years before any breakdown occurs.
Then there is a general condition of
illness, loss of appetite and insomnia,
depression, a tendency to worry over
trifles and to these, more serious
symptoms add themselves as the dis
ease progresses.
“The heart frequently is affected,
the head is heavy, hot and aching,
then the speech becomes jerky, con
fused and uncertain and the move
ments of the body are spasmodic and
not controlled by the brain. Eccen
tricity of speech and action is noted
ana violence is the next stage of the
complaint. Then the patient who has
resisted all the appeals of his physi
cian to rest from his work is con
demned to a sanitarium where en
forced idleness is necessary for weeks
anfi sometimes for months.
“Open air exercise is a great pre
ventive of nervous sickness. Cold
batns, the plunge and shower and
needle spray should be the accompani
ments of the morning abolution of
those disposed to nervousness even
slightly. It is never wise to adopt
harsh or sudden methods in this cold
water treatment. If one is accustomed
to warm baths the temperature of the
water should be changed gradually.
An excellent plan is to fill a large
sponge with cold water and holding
it at the back of the neck, squeeze
it so that the water trickles down the
spine, repeat this several times and
the subsequent shock of cold water
on the rest of the body is slight.
Brisk friction with a coarse towel fol
lows.
“Above all exercise—not with bells
or pulleys, but in the open air, with
deep breathing and plenty of walking
and running, if possible. Well venti
lated bedrooms are a necessity. Busi
ness men complain that they have no
leisure for exercise in the open air,
but I now have a number of patients
who walk to and from their offices
each day from uptown homes.
“Cold showers are of the utmost
benefit in nerve trouble, correcting the
conditions in all slight attacks very
readily. In severe cases patients must
Sdve up reading and writing or even
listening to music. Study is forbidden
to students who develop nerve dis
ease. But in these advanced cases it
is better fer the sufferer to leave the
city, and a sea voyage is a splendid
tonic for the nerves. Living a cities
surrounded by the awful street noises,
the clang of fireb.dls and those of am
bulances and cabi: cars and the buzz
ing of automobiles the only wonder is
that the disease is not a scourge.
“The greatest danger of nervous
prostration is that so many sufferers
anxious to avoid giving up their va
vious pursuits resort to remedies that
produce only an artificial calmness to
the nerves. These are the cases most
difficult to cure.”
SIXTY DOLLARS AN HOUR.
1 hat’s What It Cost Rost on, at the Least,
to Look at Two ltat Holes.
This is a story of a vat and two |
holes in the ground. The holes were
very smal holes, just big enough to
let two rats into the cellar of the Old
South Meeting House, and probably
more than big enough to let them,
wiser and leaner rats, out again.
These two holes, with the intermit
tent assistance of the rat, entertained
the good citizens of Boston at the
rate of 2000 an hour for an indefinite
period in the middle of one day re
cently. It is easy enough to reckon.
During the show there were from 30
to 35 people standing in choice posi
tions along the Milk and Washington
street railings of the fence about the
tiny yard of the Old South Meeting
House—a constantly changing crowd
that renewed itself every minute.
Now' in this crowd were all kinds of
persons, from the office boy at $3 a
week to the broker at S3OO. Every
one watched his minute before he went
about his business; for some the
monetary loss was only the fraction
cf a cent; for others it mounted up in
dollars. A low' and conservative esti
mate of the average monetary value
of these people is 20 cents an hour.
Thirty people standing for one minute
are equal to one person standing for
half an hour. But the entertainment
extended over many minutes. An
hour of it for 2000 people was paid
for bj r Boston employers in S6O worth
of time.
What did this S6O crowd of 2000 per
sons see for its money? Most of the
people saw two holes in the ground;
some of them the bright, beady eyes
and the whiskered nose of a rat. The
poor fellow was probably trying to get
away to some less hallowed, but more
fruitful surroundings, when the first
observing, eye saw him and by looking
collected the audience. He lay low r for
many long minutes, so many that the
whole crowd about the fence was in
utter ignorance of what is w r as watch
ing; but still the crow’d hung on, look
ing at the holes, or gazing up at the
sparrows which twittered in and out
of their nests in the close ivy growth
on the wall. Every time the rat
looked out one or two saw him, and
then everybody devoted his attention
to the holes again. And neither rats
nor holes can have known how much
they were costing the employers all
over Boston. —Boston Evening Trans
cript.
•John Muir, tlie Mountain Climber.
“John Muir is a fascinating compan
ion. He abounds in fun, and his talk
is apt to become a monologue, as lis
teners grow too interested even for
comment. He runs on in a steady,
sparkling stream of witty chat, charm
ing reminiscence of famous men, of
bears in the woods and red men in
the mountains; of walks with Emer
son in the beautiful flowered meadows
of Yosemite; of tossing in a frail ka
yak on the storm-tossed waters of
Alaskan fiords. By turns he is scien
tist, mountaineer, story teller and
light-hearted schoolboy.
“Alhambra valley, where he has a
home of many broad acres, is a beau
tiful vale curled down in the lap of
the Contra Costa hills, sheltered from
every wind that blows, and warmed to
the heart by the genial California sun
light. Here he dwells, a slender, griz
zled man, worn looking and appearing
older than he is. for the hard years
among the mountains have told upon
xJovo p- ’-oo p, series of vineyards
that are a delignt to look upon.
Lime when 1 saw it last:
acre upon acre of % vines stretched out
in every direction, the brilliant red
of flaming Tokays, the golden green
of ripe Muscats, the rich purples of
Black Hamburgs and Cornichons made
a fine color scheme, amid the rich dark
foliage, while all the air was delicious
with the fragrance of the teeming har
vest.
“It was a fair picture of peace and
plenty, under the soft, blue September
sky. A stream ran close at hand,
shaded by alders and sycamores and
the sweet-scented wild willow. On the
bank nearest us stood a solitary blue
crane, surveying us fearlessly. A flock
of quail made themselves heard in the
undergrowth, and low above the vine
yards a shrike flew r , uttering his sharp
cry. Noting him, T said to Mr. Muir:
‘So you don't even kill the butcher
birds?’
“He looked up, following the bird’s
flight.
“ ‘Why, no,” he said, ‘they are not
my birds.’ ’’—Adeline Knapp, in Ains
lee's.
Timber Mines.
A curious source of wealth is report
ed by the French consul at Mengtze,
in upper Tonkin. It lies in the wood
mines. The wood originally was a.
fine forest, which the earth swallowed
in some cataclysm. Some of the trees
are a yard in diameter. They lie in a
slanting direction and in sandy soils,
w hich cover them to a depth of about
eight yards. The wood furnished by
these timber mines is imperishable,
and the Chinese gladly buy it for
coffins.
TIIE WEEKLY NEWS. CARTERSVILLE, CU.
Start The New Century Right!
Don’t try to get along with those old fashioned,
out of date farm implements. What’s the use, when
our prices on up-to-date implements are so low ?
EVERY TEST-^
for quality and durability, has been given
the machinery which we sell and recommend,
“Tried and true’’ makes are the only ones
good enough for our customeis.
FIVE NEGROES HANG
Paid Penalty For the Marder of
Mears and Herrington.
FACED THEIR FATE STOICALLY
From Housetops Many Witnessed
Quintuple Execution at Sylvania,
—Victims Made No Con
fession of Crime.
Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis,
i.iehard Sanders, William Hudson ar.d
Sam Baldwin, all negroes, were exe
cuted in the yard of the common jail
of Screven county at Sylvania Friday
noon, for the murder of Fillmore Her
rington and Milton Mears. At 12:20
Sheriff Thompson pulled the trigger
beneatli the platform upon which they
stood. The five bodies shot downward
six feet or more. It was a gruesome
sight to see five strong men in the full
enjoyment of health launched thus ;
into eternity, but they seemed recon- i
ciled to the end and met death stoi- i
cally and without tremor. They made
no confession of their crime, either at
the jail or upon the gallows. They ;
talked onlj' of the future life.
At 11 o’clock the five men were
handcuffed together and marched out
of the jail, surrounded by guards. The
Screven Guards, under Captain Chap
man, were drawn up outside, and the
condemned men being placed between
the two platoons of soldiers, the cor
tege moved onward to the gallows. Al
though the execution was to be a pri
vate one, there were at least a thou
sand people in towm to see the hang
ing, if perchance they might, perched
upon neighboring roofs and at other
various points of vantage. Most of
them got a good view of the drop. Only
the guards, the physicians and news
paper men were allowed within.
As they entered the enclosure with
in which dangled the five ropes, each
with its ready noose, the doomed men
passed the five black coffins, placed
one upon the other by the door.
When they got upon the scaffold and
the rope was adjusted around their
necks, the prisoners all declared their
readiness to go, having made their
peace with God. They did not allude
once to the crime for which they were
about to die.
At 12:20 o’clock Sheriff Thompson
shouted: j
“Boys, are you ready?”
“We are ready,” came back the muf
fled response.
The sheriff then touched the trigger
lightly and the bodies shot downward
like a flash.
The negroes were convicted of a
murder committed under an alleged
criminal conspiracy by an organized
band of blacks knows as “Knights of
the Archer." The motto of the organ
ization, it is said, was “Death to the
Whites.” This gang, under the leader
ship of a negro desperado known as
Andrew McKinney, terrorized for a
long time the law-abiding negroes of
Screven county, from whom, it is said,
they exacted constant tribute and pro
tection. The murder for which the
men died was but the culmination of a
long series of crimes and misdemean
ors of varying degrees.
One night in October, 1899, Milton
Mears, a constable, of Screven county,
| started out from Sylvania to serve a
| warrant for the arrest of Joe Sanders,
a young negro who was wanted for
j some trivial offense against the law.
While the existence and objects of the
! “Knights of the Archer” were not at
j that time definitely known, they were
suspected, and common report assign
! ed young Sanders and his father, Jesse
j Sanders, to membership in the organ
| ization. Mears was accompanied by
; Fillmore Herrington and Captain
Jesse Wade. The men were apprehen
‘ sive of no trouble. They went up
; on to the veranda of Sanders’ house.
Captain Wade called to the elder
Sanders, who came to the door. He
stated to Tom Sanders that they had
come to arrest his boy and that he
could go along to the magistrate's
home, where a bond could be arranged
and the boy liberated. Sanders replied
that they could not get the boy, and
went back into the house, closing the
door behind him.
Suddenly there came from the
swamp the wailing note of the mock
ingbird clear and distinct. It was
followed by one other of similar char
acter —a signal call.
A second later a fusilade began.
From the cracks between the logs of
the cabin and from a thicket of dwarf
trees close by came the flash of rifles
and shotguns, and the three men, all
desperately wounded, fell to the
ground.
Captain Wade, despite many wounds,
managed to crawl to his buggy and
make his way to Sylvania, where he
told of the shooting.
Herrington and Mears were found
near the Sanders cabin, literally shot
to pieces.
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RASCALLY ARMY OFrICIALS.
Said to Have Gotton In Much Crooked
Work in San Frar.ciaco.
General Shatter and Colonel Maus,
inspector general of the department
of California, and Le federal grand
jury are investigating many reports
of fraud committed in the commissary
branch of the array service in San
Francisco. A great scandal is expect
ed to ensue.
ITATA CASE DISMISSED.
United States Gets Decision Over
Steamship Company.
The Itata case has been decided by
the United States Chilean commission
at Washington adverse to the claim
ants, and the case is dismissed.
The claim was filed by the South and
Central American Steamship Company
against the United States for $250,000
for the seizure by the United States
ship Charleston of the Itata wfyh a
cargo of arms
THERE IS NEVER A TIME.
They say there’s n time fur everything.
But it isn’t exactly so;
There’s a time to rdiutit *nl a time to
.
Aral a time for the ivveik of woe;
There’s n time to risk for Itie stake, a
t ini**
To conceal .vour hum! and wr.it;
Tla-r ’s a time :• <r< t o aim u ti. ie to
climb.
Blit ucicr a time to hate.
They say there’s a time for everything,
Kilt they haven’t expressed it right;
There’s a time to parley, a time to tling
Street patience away and fight;
Then’s a time to charge atid a time to
flee,
And a time, alas, to grieve.
But never a time to selti-'hiy
Euiimvor to deceive.
—< Chicago 1H cord-Herald.
HUMOROUS.
Blobbs —Do you believe in Kero wor
ship? Slobbs —I would if S were a
hero.
Wigg—What about your scheme to
organize an airship company': Wagg—
It went up.
Hariluppe—Wigwag >i k* 1 to be
thought eccentric. Borrowt ii—Yes; he
even pays his bills.
“Do you think women tires*- to please
the men?” asked the bachelor. “No;
to worry them." snapped the married
man.
Nell—The paper says übe swept up
the aisle on her father’s arm. Belle-
Well, that’s the first tirue in her life
she ever swept up anything.
First Office Boy—l’ve go: Hi aunts,
two grandmothers an’ a great-grand
mother. Second Office Boy—Gee! W’ot
a lot of ball games you oughter see dij>
summer.
Mr. Frond—l suppose you've already
picked out a profession for your pre
cious baby. Mr. New pop—O! he has
proved himself fit for a calling already,
sure enough.
“What are your views on (he finan
cial question?” asked the old man,
genially. “Oh, the money > t the fath
ers is good enough for m- ’ incau
tiously answered the prospective son
in-law.
"What’s the matter, old man?” in
quired Peck; “you look blue. "1 guess
1 do,” replied Speck; ”1 sold short,
waiting for a fall.” "And the fall
didn’t come?” “Oh! F got the fall, good
and hard.”
Mr. Newcome —So you’re glad your
sister's got me for her steady company,
eh? Johnny—Yep. Tommy Brown’s
sister's got steady company, an’ Tom
my works him for candy an tilings to
beat the band.
A dog once met a sausage. "Do
you believe in reincarnation?” asked
the dog. "Sure,” replied the sausage,
“in my previous existence 1 was a dog
such as you.” Thus are both onus
made to meet, when wursl comes to
wurst.
Hoax—Carben is getting portly stout,
isn’t he? Joax —Yes; and be’s wor
ried sick because he says he doesn’t
know of any way to reduce- lx weight.
Hoax—Why doesn’t he use his own-'
scales? He’s still in the eoa? business, ■
isn’t he?
Shoes for On-
When asked where one-legged peo
ple buy their shoes :i shoe dealer re
plied: “The one-legged man or wom
an who does not patronize the custom
shoemaker buys his or he r shoes pre
cisely like tho two-legged i*erson, at
the raady-made shoe store, the propri
etor of which, with an eye to business,
is usually willing to break a pair.tosell
the single right or left shoe that' the
one-legged customer requires. The
single shoe remaining ’is sent back to
the factory to be matched up, and
this is done with perfect accuracy.
Every pair of shoes is -numbered, and
it could easily, if it w ere desired, he
traced hack to the stock from whi< h
it is made. There is no guess work
about it. The shoe required to mate
the shoe remaining may not be made
on the identical last upon which the
original shoe was made, but it is made
upon a last of mathematically the
same proportions, ami the ;*ir thus
restored is as perfectly mated as the -
original pair.
“The one-legged man or woman who
buys in this way a single shoe pays
slightly more than half the price of a
pair. For instance, if he or <-ue selects
the right or left of a pair of ‘toes that
sell for $3 a pair the cost of,a single
shoe will be $1.65, the extra iG cents
being charged to defray tb> expense
of sending the odd shoe back to the
manufacturer to be .;mated.”—Wash
ington Star.
it Wa* 01<1 Ire.
The servant girl who follows direc
tions explicitly has always Men ccm
sidered a jewel, but the: i are some
flaws even in the most valuable gems,
as this story shows.
The jewel in question was a Scandi
navian, willing and vigorous but not
overburdened with intelligence. When
she first arrived on the scene she had
never seen a refrigerator before. Af
ter initiating her into its mysteries,
the new r mistress instructed! her never
to leave in the icebox anything old cr
left over, but to keep it perfectly clean
and fresh by throwing away the old
things every morning.
On the day following this the mis
tress happened to look our of *he win
dow and noticed something peculiar
i" yard. Summoning the maid, she
asked:
what is that, ami how did
it get there?”
The Scandinavian beamed with joy
at her own cleverness and tn expecta
tion of cordial approval.
“That is old ice, tna’am. left from
yesterday. I threw it away lak you
tol’ me.” —New York Mail an*: Express.
It must make a bride feel cheap
when her father gives her awt.y.