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COLONEL GORGAS’ WORK IN CANAL ZONE
tised as a health resort. Colonel Gorgas did It.
He cleaned and paved Panama and Colon, supplied them with pure
water, gave them sewers and compelled the inhabitants to maintafti their
premises in a sanitary condition. He warred on the mosquito, exterminated
the yellow fever kind, and has almost wiped out the malarial variety.
TOM HEFLIN TOLD THIS ONE
Conversation in the house lobby at
Washington the other day wandered
off to houn’ dawgs, and the various
members, mostly southerners, were
telling their various experiences.
.Finally, Tom Heflin, the Adonis from
Alabama, offered a contribution.
“Down in a mountain town in my
state,” said he, “a man from outside
one day rode in and behind him came
a lean and sad-eyed dog. It was the
custom to put any newcomer in town
through a hazing process, and this
was accordingly done with the strang
er.
“After he had his dinner and was
smoking, a big mountaineer whom he
knew slightly wandered out and
kicked at a lean, sad-eyed dog lying
almost at the stranger's feet.
“ ‘Don’t kick that dawg,’ said the
stranger, protestingly.
“ ‘Who says I mustn’t kick that
dawg?’ demanded the mountaineer
fiercely. ‘I reckon I’m about good
enough aroun’ here to kick anything I want to kick!’
"Then he kicked the dog again.
"‘I don’t want to see you get into trouble,’ said the stranger, quietly,
'so I wish you'd stop kicking that dawg.’
“For the reply the mountaineer merely kicked the dog again.
“The stranger, instead of accepting the challenge, arose and walked
toward the hotel entrance.
‘“Air you gine to stan’ my kickin’ this dawg o’ yourn without fitein’?’
demanded the astounded mountaineer.
“ 'Thet ain’t my dawg you’re kickin’,’ replied the stranger, with a
yawn, ‘thet dawg belongs to you’re brother Hez.’
"The mountaineer looked uncomfortable.
“ ‘Whar is your dawg?’ he asked.
"The stranger yawned again.
" ‘I don’t rightly know now,’ he replied, ‘but half a’ hour ago he was
killin' that setter pup of yourn back of the pump!’”
DR. GLADDEN WARNS THE CHURCH
sion, and look to the Christianizing of every human Endeavorer.
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OUTLINES POLICY OF OFFICE
Recognition of the rights of capi
tal in its disputes with labor will be
the policy of the new department of
labor, according to the plans outlined
by Secretary William B. Wilson the
other night at a dinner of the men
of Gunton-Temple Memorial Presby
terian church in Washington.
"Some extremists say capital per
forms no function in the world of
production and therefore is entitled
to no consideration,” said Secretary
■Wilson. “Capital, being the uncon
eumed product of labor, is in a posi
tion to furnish the worker with the
means of living until the product is
ready for use. Without the use of
capital in that way, labor could only
be used as it is in savage countries.
Capital is one of the elements by
which productivity may be increased.
Capital furnishes the machines and
gives the worker ability to increase
his product.
"Labor is the philosopher’s stone,
for it turns all its touches into wealth. It does the actual production. Capi
tal and labor being thus related, it will become one of the purposes of the
new department of labor to bring those two partners together when they
disagree and settle their differences at the council table rather than by
SUikea”
The last, and one of the greatest
of all the feats on the Isthmus, was
not accomplished by the engineers.
It is the marvelous work by which
Colonel Gorgas of the medical corps
cleaned up the canal zone and made
it possible for men to work there.
Before the Americans came the Isth
mus of Panama was notorious as the
most unhealthful place in the world.
The French diggers of the canal were
beaten by yellow fever. When the
Panama railroad was built it was
said, though the statement is prob
ably an exaggeration, that every tie
in the road represented a man’s life.
The cities of Panama and Colon were
sinks of filth and corruption.
There is no yellow fever now in
the canal zone and there has been
none for several years. Malarial
fever has almost disappeared. The
death rate is lower than anywhere
else in the United States or its pos
sessions. The zone is being adver-
Charges that the church is drift
ing away from the common people
and catering to the rich and a warn
ing that future success depends on a
revival of interest in the working
man and his family gave interest to
the meeting of the Home Missionary
society held in connection with the
National Council of Congregational
churches at Kansas City.
“The church must get back to the
needs of the plain people or quit,”
declared Dr. Washington Gladden of
Cqlumbus, Ohio, former moderator.
Dr. Gladden some years ago came
into prominence when he challenged
the propriety of acceptance by the
American Board of Foreign Missions
of a gift of SIOO,OOO from John D.
Rockefeller. The controversy which
arose over this challenge brought into
popularity the phrase “tainted
money.”
“It is imperative that the church
awaken to a realization of its mis-
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
ram
MANTLES THAT WON’T BREAK
English Article That Can Be Tossed
About Like Ordinary Rubber
Ball—Big Gas Saver.
As astonished gathering at the Ho
tel Cecil saw incandescent gas mantles
thrown about the room, caught by the
skillful and afterward thrown back
again to the platform, writes the Lon
don correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian. Then' the ill-used mantles
were put on gas burners and gave a
brilliant light, as if nothing had hap
pened to them. Then the demonstra
tor, while the gas was still burning,
pushed the mantle up with a rod until
it bulged and let it fall back again.
And still it continued to give a bril
liant light. An ordinary gas mantle
burning alongside it collapsed at a
touch, as, of course, any ordinary gas
mantle would. The reason why the
ordinary gas mantle gets crippled so
easily is that in structure it is a
network of woven fabric, so that when
you break two or three vertical
threads at th^ neck or collar all the
dependent horizontal threads give
way, too.
The new mantle is made of exactly
the same materials as the old, but it
consists entirely of vertical threads, so
that destruction of the threads does
not alter the hang of the mantle and
destroy it wholly. You must destroy
every single thread, since each thread
(there are 500 of them in a mantle)
hangs by itself. The new mantle, in
fact, looks like an inverted tassel. It
is made entirely by machinery and
it is stated that one unskilled worker
can turn out a dozen times as many
in a day as a skilled worker of the
old mantles. It is further stated that
the new mantle saves one-third of the
gas consumption, because it can be
used at a low gas pressure.
SCAFFOLD LADDER IS HANDY
Adapted to Be Variously Adjusted and
Rearranged for Accomplishment
of Various Purposes.
The Scientific American, in describ
ing a scaffold ladder, the invention of
C. G. Bishop of Southampton, N. Y.,
says:
An object here is to arrange im
proved means adapted to be variously
adjusted and rearranged for accom
plishing a plurality of purposes, all
of which relate to the use of scaffold
ing of various kinds. Further, to pro
vide a scaffolding device formed of
Scaffold Ladder.
two members connected by a pivotal
link and carrying braces for holding
the supporting members a proper dis
tance apart and locking the same in
that position. The scaffolding ladder
is associated with intermediate sup
ports designed to support scaffolding
bars. The ladder proper may be used
in various capacities as a support for
scaffolding, as an ordinary ladder, and
as a scaffolding support for use on
roofs of various shapes.
MANY TOOLS ARE COMBINED
French Novelty, Contains Among
Other Things, Small Anvil to Be
Used Together With Vise.
A whole cabinet of tools, including
vise, cutting pliers, wrench and ham
mer, along with the numerous small
tools usually included in combination
tool sets —all part of the hammer, or
nested in the hammer handle —is a
novelty from France, says the Popular
Mechanics. The hammer head may
be used as either a vise, a cutting plier
or a wrench. The sleeve, which holds
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Hammer and Contents Form a Whole
Cabinet of Tools.
the end of the hammer handle and the
other leg of the tong together when
the tool is being used as a hammer,
serves, when removed, as a handle
for the small tools. A small anvil is
also provided with the outfit, for use in
connection with the vise.
Artificial Marble.
Artificial marble invented by a Bo
hemian is said to closely imitate the
rarest marbles and to be stronger,
more substantial and - less liable to
damage than the genuine.
BRUSH HOLDER MADE USEFUL
Most Convenient Article, Invented by
Illinois Man, Enables Painter to
Reach Long Distance.
Painters, Janitors, porters, house
maids and heads of families who like
to do the painting themselves will
find the extension brush holder in
vented by an Illinois man a most con
venient article. It will enable them to
reach points that otherwise could be
reached only by means of a ladder or
by more or less dangerous climbing,
and will thus not only save the user
trouble, but will eliminate an element
of danger. A metal head is made to
fit over the end of a pole, which can
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Useful Brush Holder.
be as long as is needed for the work
to be done. The upper part of the
head has a hinged-holding device in
which the handle of the brush is
placed and held firm by a thumb screw.
This holding portion is also hinged to
the lower part of the head and adjust
able upon it, so that it may be turn
ed at any angle at which it is desired
to use the brush and held there by a
screw.
NEW TRADES ARE TAKEN UP
Advent of Steel Sleeping Cars Throws
Many Wood Workers Out of Jobs
at Pullman Shops.
An apt illustration of reduction in
the premium on skill required of the
industrial worker is found at Pullman
by Graham Romeyn Taylor, who writes
in the Survey:
“The advent of the steel car threw
wood carving, cabinetmaking and
many other skilled crafts on the scrap
heap and substituted metal work, de
manding distinctly shorter training.
Steel sleepers were first made about
1907. This year not a single one of
wood is being manufactured. Os the
ordinary coaches built on contract for
railroads about 75 per cent, are steel
body and wooden interior finish, 15
per cent, are all steel and only 10 per
cent, are of wood. More would prob
ably be made entirely of steel but for
the difficulty experienced in heating
them.
“When’ the steel construction began
all the older and skilled employes
were encouraged to learn the newer
trades, and officials say that many of
the cabinetmakers readily adapted
themselves to the changed conditions,
utilizing much of their old skill in the
steel cabinet work. But they frankly
admit that the great amount of semi
skilled work, such as the assembling,
erecting and riveting of the steel cars,
has borne hard on the older employes,
who cannot ‘stand the racket.’ Slavs,
who ‘don’t seem to have any nerves,’
take these jobs. What this means for
the older employes was vividly point
ed out by a Dutch tradesman in Rose
land, who said that when the steel car
w’ork came in about 200 members of
the Dutch church he attended left,
saying that the change of trades was
too much for them.”
-notes or.
IN^^WY
It takes the constant labor of 60-
000 persons to make matches for the
world.
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Birmingham is the greatest jewelry
manufacturing center of the United
Kingdom.
* * *
Gas Pipes are being made in France
from paper, compressed, dried and
varnished.
» • »
The largest gold mines in the United
States east of the Black Hills are in
North Carolina.
* * *
The world’s silk crop last year, ac
cording to French estimates, was the
largest ever produced.
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A new type of vacuum bottle is so
constructed that it can be taken en
tirely apart for cleaning.
• * *
South Dakota broke all previous
records for the production of gold,
silver and lead last year.
» » »
Wood is cut thin enough to be used
as a substitute for wall paper by a
recently patented process.
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Missouri’s coal supply will last 9,000
years, it is estimated, if mining goes
on at the present rate of 4,000,000
tons yearly.
» • *
An attachment to enable a T-square
to be used as a compass to draw cir
cles has been patented by a Connecti
cut inventor.
Filled With
the Spirit
By REV. JAMES M. GRAY, D. D.
Dean of Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago
TEXT—Be not drunk with wine where
in is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:18.
The Holy Spirit
is not a thing or
an influence, but
a divine person,
because in the
holy scriptures
there are ascrib
ed to him the
works, attributes
and names of a
person. This di
vine person
dwells in true be
lievers on Jesus
Christ. He acts
upon them not
as a power from
without, but as a
living reality with-
in. “What, knew ye not that your bod
ies are the temples of the Holy Ghost,
which is in you?” It is also true that
when he comes to dwell in the be
liever, as he does at his regeneration
and conversion, he comes to dwell in
him forever.
But it seems to be one thing to be
indwelt by the Spirit, and another to
be infilled by him. a distinction met
with again and again in the New Tes
tament.
Filled With the Spirit
The strong figure used in this chap
ter gives an idea of what is meant
by being filled with the Spirit. A
man intoxicatetd with wine is under
control of that which has entered
into him. His countenance, his walk,
his breath, his conversation, liis
thought, give evidence of it. So are
Christians to be filled with the Holy
Spirit that their very faces may de
clare that they “have seen the face of
God.” Their conduct should be gov
erned by him, their steps directed,
their thoughts controlled by his in
fluence and gracious power.
This brings us to the apostle’s prac
tical application of this truth, telling
us that when so filled we will mani
fest the spirit of submissiveness one
to another in the fear of God. Wives
will be submissive to their husbands
as unto the Lord, and husbands will
love their wives as their own bodies
and as Christ loved the church. Let
the right spirit take possession of
husband and wife and domestic in
felicity is at an end, but the right
spirit is only and always God’s Holy
Spirit.
Children and parents are next ad
dressed. The child who knows the
Lord, and in whom his spirit dwells,
will obey his parents because it is
right to do so. And parents in such
a case will not provoke their children
to wrath, but “bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord.”.
Solution of Industrial Wars.
Employers and employes come next.
The employe who knows Jesus Christ
will serve his employer faithfully be
cause he will be serving Christ.
There will be no more eye-service
there. He will not be looking at the
clock for quitting time, nor loafing
when the foreman’s back is turned.
He is aware that another is keeping
the record whose eye is everywhere,
and that of him he shall receive the
reward.
But the employer who knows Jesus
Christ will act toward his employe
correspondingly. He will not be a
hard, unappreciative master, knowing
that he himself has a master in heav
en who is no respecter of persons.
Here is the solution of industrial wars.
The gospel can do what unions and
amalgamations and strikes and lock
outs can never do. The truest pa
triots and philanthropists are the
men and women in our pulpits, our
mission halls, and on the street cor
ners testifying to the saving and
keeping power of the Son of God.
In other words it is not "social
service” that the world so much
needs today as it is salvation. The
"social service” movement is good,
and has a large constituency and
large financial support. Several well
known millionaires have each given
a larger sum within a few years, for
educational and philanthropic enter
prises than all which is spent an
nually for the support of the whole
number of Christian churches in the
United States. Organizations and
agencies for social betterment are
multiplying today to a bewildering
extent. There is an agency to meet
almost every kind of distress of man,
woman or child, we are glad of it,
but as a careful and wide observer
has affirmed, "the more closely the
facts are examined the more apparent
the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of
the measure thus employed.” And
he goes on to ask. “As the limitations
of social effort thus become more
sharply defined, is it out of place to
suggest that there may be a factor
in the problem of great significance
which has been almost entirely neg
lected?” That factor, we believe, is
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Bring
men to Christ, and let his Spirit fill
them, and all our problems are solved.
A man and a nation deteriorate
when they lower their standard of
right and wrong, when they sacrifice
their principles to expediency —
Derek Vane.
"CASCARETS” FOR
SLUGGISH UB
No sick headache, sour stomachy
biliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out —tne headache^
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them,
out to-night and keep them out with.
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a.
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom
ach.
Don’t put in another day of distress..
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated!
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret to-night straightens you.
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from,
any drug store means a clear head,,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chil
dren love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
Overheard.
“That is a great title for a play,”
said the head usher.
“Yes,” replied the ticket taker; “it’s
a shame to see how many good titles,
are spoiled by the plays.”—Washing
ton Star.
WHEN RUBBERS BECOME NECESSARY
And your shoes pinch, Allen’s Foot-Hase, the*
Antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes,,
is just the thing to use. Always use it for break
ing in new shoes. Sold everywhere, 25c. Sample?'
FREE. Address, A. 8. Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y.
Don't acctpt any substitute. Adv.
The Difference.
"Does your cook ask many evenings
out?”
"No; she takes ’em.”
Willing to Oblige.
Lady of the House (to persistent
peddler)—lf you don’t go away imme
diately. I shall whistle for the dog.
Peddler (calmly)—Then let me selli
you a whistle, mum. —Lippincott's.
Figuring It Out.
"How many people do you suppose-
Boston wants to put into her Hall of
Fame?”
“I can't tell you till I take a look,
and learn what her population is.”
Not Fit, But Fitting.
“She must dress in all the latest,
styles.”
"What makes you think so?”
"I just overheard her telling a
friend that she hadn’t a thing fit to
wear.” —Detroit Free Press.
Maid Had Helped.
Young Van Windle waited nervous
ly in the parlor for Julia to appear.
He had been sitting there, twiddling:
his thumbs, for half an hour. Finally
a step was heard in the hall and be
rose to his feet expectantly.
But it was not Julia. It was her
maid.
“Marie,” said the impatient young,
man, “what keeps your mistress so
long? Is she making up her mind;
whether she’ll see me or not?”
“No, sir,” answered the maid with
a wise smirk. "It isn’t her mind she's
making up.”
Mrs. Meekton’s Position.
“Supposing.” said Mr. Meekton, “that
you were a voter.”
“Well?” rejoined his wife.
"And suppose I were a candidate.”
"You want to know whether I would)
vote for you?”
"That was the question I had in
mind.”
"Yes, Leonidas; I should vote for
you. But if I caught any other wom
en voting for you I should consider
their action very forward and imperti
nent!” —Washington Star.
WORKS ALL DAY
And Studies at Night on Grape-Nuts*
Food.
Some of the world’s great men have
worked during the day and studied,
evenings to fit themselves for greater
things. But it requires a good consti
tution generally to do this.
A Ga. man was able to keep it up
with ease after he had learned the
sustaining power of Grape-Nuts, al
though he had failed in health before
he changed his food supply. He says:
“Three years ago I had a severe at
tack of stomach trouble which left me
unable to eat anything but bread and!
water.
“The nervous strain at my office
from 6. A. M. to 6 P. M. and improper
foods caused my health to fail rapidly.
Cereal and so-called “Foods” were
tried without benefit until I saw Grape-
Nuts mentioned in the paper.
"In hopeless desperation I tried this
food and at once gained strength, flesh
and appetite. I am now able to work
all day at the office and study at night,
without the nervous exhaustion that
was usual before I tried Grape-Nuts.
"It leaves me strengthened, re
freshed, satisfied; nerves quieted and
toned up, body and brain waste re
stored. I would have been a living
skeleton, or more likely a dead one by
this time, if it had not been for Grape-
Nuts.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Rea
ecn.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from lime to time. They
are genuine, true, nud full of human
Interest.
