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FRIDAY. MAY 29
“Cost a Billion Dollars to Clean Up
xicoSaid Noted Sanitary Expert
He Referred to the Mediaeval Condition of the Mexican
Cities Regarding Measure For the Prevention of Pestil
ences—This Work of Sanitation is the Great Work That
the U. S. Will Undertake.
Washington. —“lt will cost a billion
dollars to clean up Mexico," said a
noted sanitary expert here. He re
noted sanitary Medical condition of
the Mexican cities regarding measure
for the prevention of pestilences.
This work of sanitation and not the
rulwtning down of banditti is the
great task the United States will
DODSON’S GUARANTEE
EXPLAINED BY DODSON
Read What Dodson Says About His
Liver Tone to You Who Suffer
From Constipation.
“Dodson’s Liver Tone takes the
place of calomel. Instead of being
dangerous, it is harmless and works
c lily and naturally, without had
after-effects. I have authorized your
druggist to refund purchase price
(50c) to you instantly without ques
tion if you are in any way dissatisfied
with it. If Dodson’s Liver Tone can’t
help you, I don’t want your money.”
That’s how Dodson feels about this
pleasant-tasting vegetable-liquid liver
regulator and reliever of constipation
uni biliousness.
The lives of so many people have
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300 CUPS TO THE POUND.
ONE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS.
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TOO MUCH.
Men's Suits That You Find
Here at
$lO and sls
Represent the utmost in Clothing
value to be found anywhere.
Elsewhere you will pay from $lB
to S3O for the same grade gar
ments.
We carry a full line of gent’s
furnishings, including
OnVx Hosiery, Lion Brand Collars,
Stetson Hats, Eclipse Shirts.
Our $2.00 Hat Special Equals Any $3 Hat
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undertake if it intervenes in Mexico
and occupies that distracted country.
But just now the medical men here
are not directly concerned with the
problem of rendering all Mexico a
country of healthy, modern cities.
They are bending every effort to as
sure the freedom from sickness of
the thousands of boys in khaki al-
been brightened and bettered by this
great remedy that leading druggists
now recommend it and seven of
America’s most prominent physicians
O. K.’d it. after thorough analysis of
its ingredients and effects.
It is generally known that calomel,
being a poison, is a peril to many. It
stays in the system and. while it may
seem to give you a temporary relief,
often “knocks you out” for several
days
With Dodson’s Liver Tone you are
set right without ache or gripe and
with no bad results to interfere in the
slightest way with your regular occu
pation and habits. So great a number
of former sufferers from constipation
and inactive liver have been vastly
benefited by Dodson's Liver Tone that
it would seem wise for you to give it
a trial now. Children like it and it
does wonders for them.
You Can! Buy
Good Clothing
Unless you pay for
good clothing, but
you can easily pay
ready in the Tierras Callent.es, or hot
coast lands, and the tens of thous
ands who may soon land there.
Medical Staff.
Nothing could illustrate better the
necessity of proper medical staffs in
the field than recent reports of con
ditions in the Mexican federal army.
The Mexican army has no medical
corps that deserves the namb. After
a recent battle with the rebels the
wounded who could not stand were
piled in a heap and left to die. Those
who could stand were crowded on a
train bound for Mexico City. Their
wounds were untended and putrefac
tion set in. The poor wretches had
not even water. Those complaining
of their conditions were taken to the
doors of the coaches by the guards
aboard the train and thrown off,
some rolling underneath the wheels.
Only the lew who reached hospitals
in Mexico City had a chance to sur
vive.
The American surgeons and Red
Cross w'orkers on the field of battle,
as in the fighting at Vera Cruz, treat
friend and foe alike. But even be
fore the wounded become their care,
the army medical men find plenty to
do.
Sanitary War.
Sanitary work has really only been
learned since the time of the Spanish-
American war. It used to be axiom
atic that disease killed more than bul
lets in a war. This was strikingly
true in 189 S.
Two years ago 13,000 American
troops were encamped several months
at San Antonio, Texas. There was
only one case of typhoid and not a
single death from that cause. In
IS9S, 11,000 were in camp at Jack
sonville, Fla., for about the same
length of time and under similar con
ditions. There were 8,693 cases of
typhoid, and 248 poor fellows died.
Nothing could better illustrate army
progress in preventing disease.
The Mexicans in Vera Cruz who
were familiar with conditions in their
own fighting force marvelled at the
pdeparations the American troops
made to war upon disease. The
trim, active surgeons, the long lines
of mules and wagons, the complete
equipment were somewhat of a reve
lation Still more did they marvel
when the soldiers were put to work
carting muck from the streets and
straightening up in the first days of
the occupation.
Division.
Each army division, which is made
up of four brigades, will have four
field hospitals. In each hospital are
180 beds. In the rear of the field
hospitals supposing an advance move
ment, will be an evacuation hospital,
which will hold twice as many beds
as a field hospital. Behind the evac
uation hospital, fifty or one hundred
miles, depending on the position will
be a base hospital. 9
There are five surgeons assigned to
eacli field hospital, three to each am
bulance corps, four medical officers
and twenty-two members of a hos
pital corps to each regiment and a
chief surgeon and a chief sanitary
inspector to each division.
Surgeon General William C. Gorgas
believes that the work of preparing
the army for the field has been so ef
fectively done that there will be little
dvnger of the soldiers’ health.
If any army were mobilized to oc
cupy the whole of Mexico it would
consist of some 120,000 regulars and
twice as many volunteers. The reg
ulars excepting the recruits, would
average one to three years of expert
ence which has taught them how to
take care of themselves in tb field.
Volunteers.
The volunteers would not be with
out experience either. Many would
be Spanish war veterans and others
would have learned the proper sani
tary measures from maneuver camps.
The green men would be taught in
concentration camps. Most of the
officers of volunteers are impressed
with the value of sanitation in the
field and they and the regular offi
cers and older soldiers can be depend
ed upon to instruct the new men
quickly in correct habits. There wag
no such element of experienced men
in 1898.
The responsibility of the army san
itary officers are great. It is his
duty to see that there is an adequate
and pure water water supply. All di
visions which go to the front, will be
equipped with the Darnell filter in
vented by Major Carl R. Darnell, of
the Medical Corps, who is now in the
Philippine Islands. In many places
in Mexico filtering will not' do and
water must be boiled. Besides water,
the sanitary officer must see that
there is proper disposal of sewage,
that all waste food Is promptly de
stroyed, that mosquito nettings are
always used by everybody wherever
there are any mosquitoes, that suit
able manure—the common breeding
ground of flies —is never allowed to
accumulate, but is promptly burned,
that clothes and bedding are exposed
to the direct rays of the sun at fre
quent intervals, that care is taken not
to permit the troops to eat unsound
fruit or anything else wil'd) is liable
to he infected, and generally that the
rules of healthy living are observed
by everybody.
Actual Warfare.
With an army engaged in actual
warfare, all this work haa to he car
ried out under the excitement of the
campaign and the pressure of the
strategic and tacitical needs of the
moment and subject to the Impera
tive needs of attending to the wound
ed. For this reason, these precau
tions against disease are scarcely ef
fective unless there is intelligent co
operation on the part of officers and
men.
Yellow fever, tropical malaria, Mex
ican typhus, typhoid and dysentery
are the diseases most to he expected
in a Mexican campaign. To combat
the first named Surgeon General
Gorgas already has sent down there
medical officers trained uder him at
Panama. There they are in command
of the experienced yellow fever ex
pert, Colonel Henry R. Birmingham,
out-ide of Vera Cruz yellow fever
will probably not be encountered.
Typhoid need cause little fear, be
cause oT the remarkable success of
the vaccination treatment. So far as
malaria is concerned a field mosquito
bar Is provided lor each man and a
head net for each man when on
sentry duty. Dysentery is a water
born disease and the medical depart
ment of the army has perfected a
vimple and easily applied method of
quickly sterilizing water in canvas
bags, so that with ordinary precau
tions these should be none of this
ailment. Mexican typhus Is a dis
ease of the otherwise healthy plateau
lands. It is carried by parasites of
the body. To combat it buildings
must be disinfected and the person
kept clean.
Disease Prevention.
Colonel Jefferson Randolph Kean,
an army surgeon who has recently
written an excellent monogram on
"The Prevention of Disease In the
Army and the Rest Method of Accom-
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
plisliing That Result," says there lias
never been a time when the army of
the United States was better prepar
ed for war as far as military hygiene
is concerned.
In case of extended operations in
Mexico Major General Leonard Wood
would be in command, lie entered
the service as a medical man. “The
Fighting Doctor,” as lie is dubbed,
can be relied upon to pay special at
tention to sanitation.
If the United States were to take
over that btlliou dollar sanitary cam
paign in Mexico, Dr. Rupert ‘ Blue,
surgeon general of the United States
Public Health and Marine Hospital
Service, would undoubtedly figure.
His corps rushes to any part of tne
United States where a dangerous epi
demic breaks out. He is the man
who stamped out bubonic plague in
Sail Francisco by dyeing rats vermil
lion and yellow' and green and by
these brilliant messengers tracing
the spread of the Asiatic scourge
about the city.
DEARING. GA.. NEWS
Dearing, Ga,—The Children’s Dny
exercises at the M. E. Church Sunday
last was a great success. The chil
dren did fine and the singing was
good. Rev. John Jenkins preached at
11 o’clock. As usual, nothing better,
for his sermons are always to the
point. Beside sail this a splendid din
ner was served to a large crowd. In
the afternoon Col. John Walker of
Spnrtn lectured on our duty to the
church in giving. We are told he
practices what he preaches in tills for
lie gives lots to charity.
Misses Vivian and Regina Smith
were guests of Miss Leila Culpepper
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Culpepper and
children and Mr. Cieorge Culpepper, of
Augusta, and Mrs. Pearson were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Culpepper
Sunday.
Misses Pearl Hubbard and Klonnie
Wilson of Sawdust were here Sun
day.
Miss Madie McCartie, Mrs. Charlie
Lokie and nother, Mrs. Clinton Ang
le}', Mr. Reese Simons, the Misses
Simons, Misses Farr, Misses Ruth and
Rubie Johnson and Mr. Oscar John
son were h_r from Bonevilie Sunday.
Mrs. Julia Smith and Mrs. Ege Mor
ris passed through Dearing Tuesday
on a visit to Wrens, Ga.
Mr. Patridge and Misses Seats and
Partridge from Berzelia were guests
of Mrs. W. J. Cawley for the week
end.
Dr. J. R. Sams and Mr. Wm. Sor
rell visited Augusta Monday.
Mrs. Wit. Culpepper has many
friends here who are delighted to hear
she is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Lucky and Mr.
and Mrs. Abram Lucky spent Sunday
at Wadley with Mr. and Mrs. Luther
Lucky.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Howard went
over to Wrens Sunday to attend the
commencement exercises.
Mrs. Elizabeth McWhorter passed
through Dearing on Tuesday on her
way to Spread to visit Mrs. Tom
Boyd and Mrs. James Neal.
Messrs. J. R. Pl'intup, R. P. Morgan,
James Morgan, W. Z. Simons, W. J.
Cawley, Ed Haywood, Will Huff, W.
L. Parker, G. D. Adame, Floyd Sim
ons, B. R. Printup, S. M. Haywood and
Charlie Loky form a fishing party
who are at ’’Mill Haven” this week.
Miss Thelma Nickols of Augusta
spent the week-end with Mrs. B. R.
Printup. She returned home Monday,
accompanied by Mrs. Printu - and lit
tle Snra, who will spend the week.
fTV
Tomorrow
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At—
$15,00
SIB,OO
$21,00
Suits that, arc worth
much more, but we’ve
too many of them, and
you’ll do well to investi'
gate these Saturday
Specials.
In HI lies, Blacks,
Fancies.
THE J. WILLIE
LEVY COMPANY
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Specials
ANOTHER SHIRT SALE
THE STRAW HAT
A Summer Necessity in the South .
Here, too, opportunity
knocks. Either the stiff
English model straw or the
soft Panama at exceedingly
low prices.
Tlit' imported hats, valued
to $3.00, are priced
THE PANAMA HATS, values to $(5.00 <P qo
are priced •PO.VO
Values to $4.50 in Panama Hats will C' - ) OQ
he sold for
Such is the SURETY SHOE, Priced at
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MADE HATS
$5.00 Style
$3.00 Quality
Our Price $2.00
No More and No Less.
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1022 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, QA.
$1.48
The Summer Shoe
The man who spends his days standing is the man
who suffers with his feet in summer. The necessi
ty of a well constructed comfortable shoe, with
plenty of room without surplus space, and made to
fit the foot, is so apparent as not
to need calling your attention to it.
Men’s Furnishings
Arrow Shirts $2.00
Silk Shirts from $1.50 to $5.00
Tru-Shape, all silk Hose, 50c goods for .
Complete lino Underwear, per
garment 50<* to $2.00
Complete line Wash Ties and 50^
We sell the host and Silk Ties in
Augusta.
Arrow Brand Collars,
Eagle Brand Shirts,
Hole Proof Hosiery,
Nothing hut standard goods.
We carry the strongest lint; of Caps
in the state.
Beautiful line of Men’s Belts. , to SI.OO
$1 Values , and
mighty good
ones , for 89c .
This is the season when
few men have too many
shirts.
! This is the opportunity
for many men to avail
themselves of this special
purchase of more than
1,000 well made, good fit
ting, splendid quality
shirts—shirts you pay sl.
for elsewhere.
For Saturday while they
last
89c
$3.00
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