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\UGUST 12, 1908.
AT JUST WHAT HOUR WILL YOU DIE?
gpeculation and Fact Concerning the Temperature of the
: Body in Reference to the Vital Spark.
| ho hour that kills! How strange
.. dea seems—that there should
+» any hour of the day or night
. .icularly fatal to human beings!
and vet such would appear to be the
fact
1t js, indeed, a truth sufficiently
tamiliar. For it has long been a
matter of common observation that
eople, when they come to die, are
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most liable to succumb to the grim
ostroyer just before daybreak. It
. a 3 if the Angel of Death, whom
nep call Azrael, made a circuit of
the earth every twenty-four hours,
aving a little ahead of the dawn.
",ut the reason why? And that is
she question. It is a problem which
«ientific men have set themselves to
«olyve, though as yvet only with par
tial success. They have been mak
.o an elaborate series of experi
ments in regard to the matter, and
nave arrived at the conclusion that
e phenomenon in question is main
i+ {f not: wholly, one of tempera
people die just before daybreak
necause at that hour the body tem
serature is lowest—a circumstance
which implies that their vitality is
then at a lower ebb than at any oth
or time in the twenty-tour hours.
It is most curious and interesting,
this matter of human temperature.
Nohody can say with certainty how
.. _that is to say, the warmth of our
hodies—is produced, oOr how main
iained at the level requisite for the
continuance of life. All that we
Fnow positively is that it has a direct
relation to what we call vitality, and
that if it falls only a little below the
normal point death arrives.
\ny physician will tell you that
the pormal temperature of the hu
man body is 98 6-10 degrees Fah
renheit But. as proved by recent
«cientific investigations, this is not
correct, strictly speaking. There is,
indeed, no point of the thermometer
that can be indicated as representing
«uch normal temperature, because
the Jatter in any man or woman is
ontinually moving either up or
down. ‘And while moving downward
r upward it is constantly making
little zigzags, being never exactly the
«ame for ten minutes together.
Some of the most valuable of re
cent experiments in this line have
peen made by Prof. Armsby of the
State University of Pennsylvania.
He has found that during twenty
four hours the temperature of a per
son of normal health may vary as
much as 2 degrees Fahrenheit. But
the oddest thing about it is its
rythmic movement—that is to say,
its regular rise and fall, like that
f the tide.
Its lowest ebb is between 3 and
4 2. m.—the hour at which so many
people pass away. Its highest point
is reached about 6 p. m. Apparently
its ebb and flow do not vary at all
with the time of year, and certainly
thev are not affected by the habits
of the individual. Experiments have
proved that if a person turns the
Toutine of his life upside down,
sleeping all day and working all
night, the fluctuations of his tem
erature are unaltered, going on just
e same
‘i' has been ascertained, too, that
vhen a person travels around the
vorld, changing his longitude at the
ate of half an hour a day, perhaps,
e thythm of his temperature goes
N just as in ordinary circumstances.
ut it will be noticed that this im
lies a change of time—so that there
eally is a radical alteration in the
0b and flow. What, then, is the in
clence from this fact: Why, sim-
Iy that the whole matter is gov
med and controlled by the sun?
) are, all of us, as one might
4v children of the sun. All of our
ltal and other activities are derived
' origin from the energy of the
2lar orb, which grows the plants
: furnish, whether directly or in
"€ lorm of meat, the fuel for our
odies. Furthermore, it is the sun
«1‘ necessary warmth to
- Hild element in which we live—
the atmosphere. Thus it is by
F 5 surprisinge that it should
5¢ control over our tempera
. b and flow of this tempera-
L. 25 10 do with the waxing and
~ ‘& Of the day and with nothing
reaches its lower point just
3 e ’;:.'."M_‘Mik, merely for the rea
o IoL at that hour the sun has
L ougest away from the earth.
.Y, for the wery opposite
b 1L attains its highest point at
.. b oclock in the evening. One
b nagine that the heurs of
¢ con A highest would vary with
B masmuch as the sun rises
... S€ls earlier in winter than
e 1. (CT- THES suth 18 dot (he
veerio - PUzzle which the scientific
Tk have not vet been able
ma ol ¢ Problem, in truth, is far
14;'1}1] and complete solution.
; Hia good deal of mystery
The effect of Sco?#’s Emulsion on thin,
Pale children is magical.
It makes them plump, rosy, active, happy.
It contains Cod Liver Oil, Hypophosphites a.
and Glycerine, to make fat, blood and bone, é
and so put together that it is easily digested W
by little folk,
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about the temperature of the humanl
body. We speak of this warmth as
“‘animal heat,” and recognize it as a
manifestation of vital activity. But
this does not suffice to explain it.
As a matter of fact, even the scient
ists are not sure what it is exactly.
Your body is a stove. The food
you eat is its fuel. This fuel is con
sumed by a process that is supposed
to be some sort of chemical combus
tion, taking the place of fire. But
the real nature of the process in
question is still a puzzle. Does the
chemical burning produce heat? Ap
parently not— at all events, not in
the ordinary sense of the term.
So far as the investigators have
been able to find out, the food we
eat, apart from its employment in
the making of muscle, blood and
bone, is utilized in the production
of what is called chemical energy.
There are ever so many kinds of
energy, of course. Light is one of
them , mechanical energy is another,
and heat is another. What we term
muscular exercise is a form of me
chanical energy. The chemical en
ergy produced in the body is utilized
in all of our physical activities—not
only in walking or throwing a ball,
but also to drive the heart pump,
work the lungs, and operate the rest
of the vital machinery.
Now, after the chemical energy of
the body has been converted into
mechanical energy for such purposes
as these, it is transformed into heat,
and serves to keep the body warm.
Such, at all events, is the Jatest
theory on the subject. If, as seems
likely, it is correct one may easily
understand why the human body is
so extraordinarily economical as an
engine, far surpassing in this respect
any type of steam, oil or gas engine
vet invented.
It so happens that you feel cold,
and there is no fire or other arti
ficial heat handy, what do you do?
Why, vou exercise your body as vig
orously as your arms. Why? Sim
ply because the muscular movement
seems to produce heat—though the
fact is that the heat is merely the
energy employed to work the mus
cles, which, having thus been used,
manifests itself by raising the tem
perature.
The temperature of a frog, or of
a fish, is the same as that of the
water in which it swims. With such
animals, as well as with turtles and
snakes, neither cold nor heat seems
to make any particular difference,
so long as it is not very extreme.
But one rather curious fact that has
been ascertained is that the rate of
beating of a frog's heart varies di
rectly, with its temperature. If the
creature be put into warm water its
heart will beat more rapidly, or vice
versa. In the winter time it buries
itself in mud, and under such cir
cumstances its vitality is reduced to
a very low ebb, the pulsations of its
heart being exceedingly slow. But
unlike a warm-blood animal, it does
not suffer any inconvenience.
How different it is with a human
being! There is nothing the physi
cian dreads so much as a lowering
of the temperature of a patient who
is seriously ill. The fever which in
typhoid or other maladies pushes the
clinical thermometer up several de
grees beyond the 100 mark, does not
necessarily excite alarm. But let it
fall only a degree or two below the
normal, and the presence of immi
nent peril is recognized. It would
seem as if the preservation of the
life in us depended upon the main
tenance at all times of that amount
of warmth which represents the full
vital flame, even a slight flicker of
which, as marked by a drop of the
mercury, is wangerous.
IN TWENTY-TWO MINUTES.
After Wheat Was Cut in Field It
Was in Biscuits.
Wheat cut, milled and made into
hot biscuits all inside of 22 minutes.
That is the record established by the
Preston Milling Co. of Waitsburg,
Wash.
The grain was cut with a com
bination harvester and rushed in an
automobile to the nearest mill,
where it was received by the waiting
millers and turned into flour.
The flour was converted into
dough and at the end of 22 minutes
it came out of the oven in the form
of biscuits ‘“like mother used to
make.”
This record tore big holes in the
one held by a milling company of
Minneapolis.
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Keeps "Em in Jail Until Needed.
The monster wheat crop of Mani
toba is ready for harvesting. Thirty
thousand men are needed for the
Job: I 18- ofmcially recommended
that tramps, hoboes and others in
jail for vagrancy be released upon
the understanding that they go to
work in the wheat fields. Great
stunt, that. Catch 'em and jail ’em
so as to have 'em on hand when they
are needed.
Receives a Nice “Write Up” in the
Cotton Oil News. Farmers' oOil
and Fertilizer Co’s, Fine Plant.
A representative of The Cotton and
Cotton Oil News, a journal devoted
to these interests, was in Dawson re
cently, and wrote to that paper the
following interesing article about the
Farmers’ Ooil and Fertilizer Co’s.
plant:
“The representative of The Cotton
and Cotton Oil News called and was
shown through the plant of the
Farmers’ oQil and Fertilizer Co. at
Dawson a few days ago by the capa
bie and obliging manager, Mr. J. H.
Fulford. This plant is a very inter
esting and up-to-to date institution,
covering several acres. The office
and chemical laboratory, where all
tests and analyses or meal, oil and
fertilizers are made, is, of course,
prominent in the foreground. Then
comes the seed house, linter and
press rooms, hull house and fertilizer
plant. The top of the refinery shows
between the seed house and linter
room of the oil mill. To the left
of the office is the flower garden, on
which Mr. Fulford has made very in
teresting and successful experiments
with his fertilizer. This beautiful
collection of flowers and shrubs at
tests the ability of the genius to
make several things grow now where
formerly grass did not grow in very
reckless profusion.
One of the most attractive feat
ures about this plant, while not of
the plant, is the aquarium, or large
tank, in which Mr. Fulford has very
successfully propagated some 300
beautiful goldfish from an original
stock of six.
Just back of the buildings is a
leased tract of land for experimental
purposes with the high-grade fertili
zer made by this company. Last
year this field was in cotton, and
this year it has the finest upland corn
crop the writer ever saw.
Mr. Fulford is not only a compe
tent and successful oil and fertilizer
man, but is a mechanical genius as
well. He is the inventor of the Ful
ford sacking and weighing machine,
and the Fulford seed feeder, both
of which are installed in this mill.
He is an unqualified success in all
his undertakings, whether as man
ager, inventor, chemist, architect,
mechanical draftsman, or congenial
and entertaining host. The writer is
due both he and Hon. J. R. Mercer
many thanks for the delightful en
tertainment given in the drives near
the city of Dawson, through some of
the finest cotton farms of the south,
especially through the model 1,000-
acre plantation of Mr. Mercer.
BLOCKADED.
Every Household in Dawson Should
Know How to Resist Tlt.
The back aches because the kid
neys are blockaded.
Help the kidneys with their work.
The back will ache no more.
Lots of proof that Doan's Kidney
Pills do this.
G. B. Stallings, living at 706
Church St., Americus, GGa., says: ‘1
have used Doan's Kideny Pills and
they have done me a great deal of
g€ood. In fact. I am entirely free
from the trouble from which I suf
fered. I had endured much misery
from pains in the small of my back
~nd sides for quite a while and the
kidney secretions were yery . un
natural in appearance. Learning of
Doan’s Kidney Pills I procured a box
and began their use. “They helped
me from the first, and the use of an
~ther box entirely cured the atack. I
am very grateful to Doan’s Kidney
Pills for the benefit I have obtained
from their use.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
rents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name—Doan’s
and take no ¢‘her.
BIG DEAL IN LEE COUNTY.
‘Western Syndicate Buys 3,000 Acres
of Land at $2O an Acre,
It is learned from one of the prin
cipal parties to the deal that the
Forrester plantation, owned by
Messrs. Morris Weslosky and A. J.
Fleetwood, in Lee county, and Mr.
Fleetwood's plantation adjoining it,
have been sold to a syndicate. It is
stated that the contract closing the
deal has been signed, but details con
cerning the transaction have not been
made public. It is understood, how
ever, that the property is sold on
terms similar to those on which
Judge Putney recently sold a large
tract of land in Dougherty county,
and tha. .fessrs. Fleetwood and Wes
losky retain the right to raise crops
on the land for a period of five years.
It is understood that the syndicate
purchasing the property intends to
plant pecan trees on at least a por
tion of the tracts purchased. The
price paid is said to be $2O an acre.
The two plantations contain some
thing Ilike three or four thousand
acres.—Albany Herald. .
HIS NAME ON OLD TURTLE.
Man Carved “L. L. Lyster, 1872,
on Tortoise When a Boy. |
Shemman Snead, near Vallonia,
Ind., found a tortoise on the shell of
which was inscribed: ‘L. L. Lyster,
1872, ‘
Lycurgus L. Lyster, living at Ur-i
bana, 111., was born and reared onl
the farm where tne turtle was‘
found, and he cut his name and date
on the shell when he was a boy.
There are many imitations of De-
Witt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve,
but just one original. Nothing else
is just as good. Insist on DeWitt's.
It is cleansing, cooling and sooth
ing. Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
LAST OF THE PASCAGOULAS
An Indian I.egend From the Shores
of the Gulf of Mexico.
From the New York Evening Post.
An Indian legend of the Pascagou
las is told by the fishermen and oys
termen down on the shores of the
Gulf of Mexico.
“You know dem Pascagoul?’ asks
Francois. ‘“You wait, I tell heem
you;” and ‘‘You know a da Pasca
goula?” asks Costello. ‘“You hear a
da music, si?”’
A point reaches out into the gulf
near the mouth of the Pascagoula
river. The pine trees on it come al
most to the water’'s edge, and be
tween lies a strip of white sand.
Across a marsh, a torder of light
green swaying and rustling grasses,
and beyond a gray cypress swamp,
the hanging moss of the trees sway
ing in the wind. To the south the
blue waters of the gulf stretch away,
with little waves lapping on the
chalk-white clam shells of the shore.
There in the evening, during the
short twilight, one hears soft music,
as if it were the notes of a violin,
insistent, changing, sweet. It is the
song of the Pascagoulas.
l.ong years before the Pascagoula
Indians had lived upon this point
the white men, the Spaniards, came
in numbers, and with them the hos
tile warriors of other tribes, to make
war and to drive the Pascagoulas out
of the country. Coming from the|
inland the enemy took away all
chance of flight, and hedged them in
on the point. The Pascagoulas
fought for days and nights in the
dark pine woods against numbers
that they could not overcome, and
starvation stared them in the face.
The Pascagoulas called a council
of the tribe and talked long togeth
er. To give themselves up meant
lives of slavery or death, and to
fight to the last man was to leave
’the women and children to the mer
cy of the white men and their allies.
The next morning the Pascagou
las put on all their paint and trap
pings and burned their wigwams.
The men, women and children slow
ly, deliberately, unflinchingly backed,
step by step, into the waters
behind them, singing. Not one fal
tered. They died with their faces'
toward their enemies, bravely and
free, and now in the evening when’
the wind blows over the marshes the
pines and grasJes sing the song of
the Pascagoulas.
No one is immune from kidney
trouble, so just remember that Fo
ley’'s Kidney Remedy will stop the
irregularities and cure any case of’
kidney or bladder trouble that is not
beyond tfie reach of medicine. Daw-!
son Drug Co. and People’s Drug,
Store.
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OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
FREDERICK FRELINGHUY SEN, Pres,
TRANSACTIONS OF 1907.
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INCOME DISBURSEMENTS
Bremingms . air i 0 .$16,664,430.13 Degth Clalmg. .o 0 . o 0 .$ 5,407,700.11
Interest and Rents: 00, . 4,998,167.43 HNOOWMENLE: oo il o 1,405,051.16
Profit and Loss (Balance)..... 5,094.72 Anputtles | coisiici oL Lo 168,434.70
Surrendered Policies .......... 1,915,032.15
ENVIGORE o 0 e oLI 2,239,455.23
* Total Paid P01icyh01der5.....511,135,673.35
Taxes, Fees and Licenses...... 472,480.36
Insurance Expenses (excluding
TREMRL L ol vlai i s 2308008 Y
Investment Expenses (excluding
TATON) Lo i e e e 206,139.39
Premiums on Bonds Purchased. . 126,417.98
Total incomen a 0 .$21,667,692.28 Total Disbursements....... .$14,306,795.85
Excess of Income over Disbursements added to Policyholders’ Fund '57,360,896.43
ASSETS LIABILITIES
Cash on Hand in Banks..... 8 1,248 3380 38 Heagerve TUBRG < o .$103,381,043.60
loans on Collateral ... .. .. 1,183,550.00 Other Liabilitles . ... .8 .. 1,3563,170.43
Bonds, Pag Valbue oo 30,385,090.71 —_—
Real Estate Mortgages........ 53,809,708 .33 $104,734,214.03
neal Hethle (1. 00l vil 3,661,921.85 Dividends Payable in 1908 #. . 2,476,094.65
lhoans on Policies: .& oo 18,786,254.64 Unapportioned Surplus (Par
Interest due and accrued, and Yallgeßy Ul e .$ 5,376,1806.20
Other Assetsl L e nianiee 3,466,638.02 —_—
$112,6586,493.88
Market Values Bonds under
Total Assets sedviis vl o 09110 RRE 498 S 8 DRY VRIUGY #OOOO oaB 680,695.22
* This item has hitherto been included in the General Surplus.
* * The Market Values of Bonds Owned are the Values as of December BL, 190%.
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