Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GARBER SENTINEL
Kay Pctert, Ed. & Pub.
OARBER, 8 ; I I OK LA
The Joy ride too often ends In gloom.
Many a summer girl will goon be-
come an autumn bride.
Automobile racing continues to an-
nihilate space and spectators.
SCIENCE 15 MAKING MEN HARDER TO KILL.
TMEY LIVE DESPITE BROKEN NECKS.
PIEKCED HEARTS AND PARTIALLY
DESTROYED BRAINS.
The aeroplane gun, It appears,
■urer than the aeroplane Itself.
Is
An Reroplane motor is like a mule:
generally balky when you want It to
go
Our ancestors eot rid of bears and
catamounts Instead of fleaB and mo
qui toes.
m have a sky-
ecraper 42 stories high, but oao a.
attle knows what for.
New York state's hobo farm Is show-
ing good results It is driving the
hoboes out of the state.
A man In Pittsburgh has discovered
a cure for hay fever. Moreover, he de-
clares It la not to be sneezed at.
An aviator Is called a blrdman, but
there Is many a gay old bird who
never has flown In an aeroplane.
T*e wife of the prize model husband
has committed suicide. It is a warn-
ing to wives who expect too much.
California reports that a single ranch
there produced {5,000 sacks of beans.
Business of rejoicing In Boston.
The French lady who has challenged
an editor to a duel will probably in-
sist on fighting with a fatal hatpin.
I
OOLINO death!
That Is Just what
It amounts to. It
Is happening every
day. In homes
and hospitals, In
tents and sanitari-
ums.
A while ago a
young St. Loulsan
became embroiled
In an argument
with another younth. There was a
| v.,,uk kawlet* was Blabbed in
the heart He was placed in an auto-
i mobile and brought several miles to a
hospital. This took minutes and many
precious ones. When the patient was
j finally placed on the operating table
[ he was still conscious. So startling
was the nature of the wound that the
oldest Internes paled when they saw
the extent of the injury. Twelve
stitches were required to close the
gash through the heart muscles. The
patient lived. He was living when the
hospital authorities heard from him
last, and that was but a short time
since. His chance of life when he
was brought Into the hospital were
less than nothing. It was a notable
case of the fooling of death.
Men are hard to kill at times. Lit-
tle Andrew Ceralnto was accidentally
shot through the bead. There was no
doubt that the ball had penetrated
the brain tissue. No one expected the
child to live. Ten years ago death
would have been more than certain.
. But surgery, and especially brain sur-
The statue of Liberty needs a new gery, has made long leaps in that time,
gown, but we hope they will not go These leaps have been forward. When
so far as to dress the lady In a hobble death did not ensue the eager In-
,klrt- ! ternes saw a chance to save u life.
They did. Little Andrew Ceralnto
A new comet is coming. As if thiB w"s discharged from the hospital a
* no it nil a ..in i i in llio llun|Hldi a
poor old world has not already trouble 1 *ew days ago. He was apparently on
enough without this herald of more to ,ho rr""1 •-
come!
Our notion of the height of Incon-
gruity is the national iaundrymen's as-
sociation holding their convention in
Pittsburg.
Feed your husband if he drinks;
don't nag him," says a woman lecturer.
But what if he persists in coming
home full?
Los Angeles Is to have a squad of
policemen on roller skates. They
ought to be funny, If they are not
very effective.
In spite of the fact that an aeroplane
gun has been Invented our sportsmen
are not clamoring for an open season
for aeroplanes.
Some people look on hay fever as
a Joke, but the Texas man who
sneezed himself to death probably falls
to see the point.
And some of the American heiresses
want to know what they have done
that King George should reconsider
his Intention to create a bunch of new
English peers.
Pew women ever do learn anything
about the proper use of weapons. A
girl in New York laid down a copy of
the Congressional Record to hit a
burglar with a rolling pin.
A Chicago man has discovered that
cows like to hear music while they
are being milked. This opens a field
of useful and harmless occupations for
norne of the Blngers on the vaudeville
utage.
A health expert in Chicago says
that nature and providence never In-
tended children to live In flats.
Neither, it may be added, do land-
lords.
, A citizen of Boston, seventy years
old, announces that his health Is due
to a diet of oatmeal and crackers. He
does not even mention the sacred
bean.
Ducks In a Massachusetts poBt office
saved the place from burglary, but
they never will get as much advertis-
ing out of it as the geese that saved
Rome.
Flats may be bad things, but houses
in which the maidless housekeeper
tolls upstairs with a baby on one arm
and a bucket of coal on the other are
worse.
A San Francisco millionaire's wife
wants a divorce because he allowB hei
only $20 a month. Come to think ol
it, being a millionaire's wife on $20
n month Is not what might be calltd
n pleasant pastlua.
the road to a complete recovery in
spite of the mutilated brain tissue
that was plowed by the heavy bullet.
Death was tricked of something that
seemed certainly his.
There Is wonderful vitality in most
human tissues. It does not want or
intend to die. It fights against disso-
lution with the inherited vigor that
may have come down through ten
thousand generations. In order to
"fool death" the scientists have
learned to take advantage of all these
things. They have trained the war-
j rlor cells, the white blood corpuscles
to do things for them.
Thirty-three years was once the av-
j erage life of man. Wars, famines ana
J pestilences helped to cut down the
duration of man's span. No one knows
j now just how long the average life
Is any more. It Is changing all the
time by getting longer.
Death used to reach out through
, appendicitis and claim Ms victims in
spite of the best efforts of the man
who fought back at him with the
| scalpel. There was something wrong,
j This was remedied and the death rate
sank and continues to sink. The good
surgeon has fooled death so often In
appendicitis cases that it Is no longer
looked upon as a particularly serious
j operation.
Before that time, In the days when
the war hospitals were deadly beyond
the telling, an operation of any sort
i in one of these places wAs grave.
| They had not learned as yet how to
round up, slay and utterly destroy the
i pus germs that were creeping every-
where over the unsterllizcd beds and
planking, clinging to the clothing of
j the surgeon and floating in the hos-
pital atmosphere. They do not exist
any more. They are guarded against
and watched by every attendant, op-
erator and interne of any hospital. The
death percentage from this cause has
sunk low and is sinking lower. It Is
an everyday instance of puzzling, bat-
tling and fooling death.
If you love life you do well to he
living now. You have a better chance
to see more of it and live out more
years than you would have had If you
had lived yesterday. You will have a
still better chance tomorrow, for some
scientist poking around with a micro
scope may find something today that
will increase the average life span by
another decade. Some Metehnikoff is
apt to go to a step further and sur-
prise the secret of living a few years
longer from outraged nature. You
have a better chance to swindle death
out of a few years right now than
you would had you lived In the days
when germs were unheard of and
bleeding was the most sovereign rem
ody at the command of the healer.
Edward Schneider, a Hollander of
middle age, went up on a smokestack
to do some painting. He was working
60 feet In the air w hen the scaffolding
gave way. A rope, poorly fastened,
let a knot slip and he fell the full 60
feet to the top of a shed, and bound-
ed thence to the ground. It was a case
HARDTACK OR PRUNES?
GUARANTEED
TO BE PURE.
DOUBT ABOUT THE BEST FOOD
FOR NATIONS SOLDIERS.
of the type that used to be hope-
less. Four of the vertebrae
were smashed. It was worse
than a broken back, for not one,
but four of the chain of bones
were crushed.
It was considered amazing
that he should have survived
the fall. Naturally, then, It was
still more amazing when he be-
gan to grow stronger after the
Burgeons had done their best. By
a seeming miracle the grayish white
spinal cord was preserved. Sensation
remained in his limbs. Fifteen pounds
of plaster of paris was made Into a
Jacket for him. He was Incased in
that and kept in the hospital seven or
eight weeks. He lived and was dis-
charged, not sound, but as sound as
any man can hope to be who has fall-
en headlong from such a height and
broken four of the bones of the spinal
column. In this case death was baf-
fled. Twenty years ago there would
have been a funeral within a decent
time after the fall
How long will we live, anyway,
when the world has been entirely
gone over with a sterilizer? When
the germs have been hunted into their
final hiding places? When the Infected
and diseased folk are kept carefully
separated from the remainder of hu-
manity during the term of ttyelr Ill-
ness? i
The United States army has istarted
fooling death on the wholesale. J Troop
by troop, battery by battery aLd bat-
talion by battalion, the regular/.fficers
and soldiers are being vacfinated
against that curse of the camps—ty-
phoid. Death has already been cheat-
ed of dozens of lives by this action.
It Is hardly worth while to keep a list
of the typhoid deaths in the arjny any
more, at least In those divisions that
participated in the maneuvers on the
Mexican border last spring. There are
not enough worth mentioning, and
those who have died were those who
for some reason or other were not
given the vaccine.
This one step alone will make wars
harder to fight. Fewer men will die
in the fevered samps, and there will
be more for the bullets.
Death Is being fooled by little bot-
tles. He is being cheated by little
tubes of thin glass, filled with yellow-
ish, slrupy fluids, that are more pow-
erful than anything else on the chem-
ists' shelves. They have within them
possibilities of life or of dissolution.
They are so small that you could
carry dozens of them in a side pocket
of your coat and never feel their
weight or bulk. Possibilities of life
and death for a whole city might be
placed In a pocket case.
"There are 50.000,000 dead bacteria
in this little vial," says the bacteriol-
ogist. "I can palm it, hide It, almost
lose it in my hand, and yet there Is
more power In It than you might put
in a year's ordinary treatment."
That Is the way they are fooling
death. It is done with single things
that are really complex In their work-
ings. Into the veins a solution of
dead tuberculosis germs Is poured.
They do not kill their live brethren.
What happens Is this: The body real-
izes that there is something poisonous
floating around In the blood. A spe-
cial effort Is made, and more of those
never-say-die warriors, the white cor-
puscles, appear from somewhere and
set upon the dead and the living
germs. Deth lets go unwillingly, but
the enraged white cells never cease
their warfare.
"Autogenous" Is the name that they
have given this particular type of dis-
ease relief. It fights Its own breth-
ren, turns against them and breaks
them. It Is using "like to fight like,"
but the whole nature of the germ Is
changed. It Is so new that death has
not become accustomed to being
fought in that way.
Men have been living wl'h half their
brains gone. With the openings where
the nerves come through the skull
plugged with paraffin casts, In order
to utterly destroy for two or three
years at least all danger of neuralgalc
pains. Others have managed to exist
without a stomach. The keen knife of
the surgeon having trimmed this or-
gan from the body and nature having
come forward to aid, they live tor
years with but little inconvenience.
The enormous tumors that are some-
Varied Dietaries of Conquering Legions
of the Past — Japanese Armies
Fight on Rice, Raw Fish and
Vegetables.
On what shall the warrior feed that
he may gain that iron In the blood and
' steel In the muscles that carries on ar-
! mfes to victory? We had pinned our
faith to hardtack and black coffee. But
now hardtack has been put under the
ban, and the recent Illinois military
maneuvers marked the ascendency 'if
the prune. Did not the much revilvd
hardtack save the nation In '61-«5*
Could an army fed on prunes fcive
done it? And what, Indeed, will b%
the army without that staff of life
that has survived even the pricking of
army poets' pen points? As well Ham-
let without the melancholy Dane—or
the ghost, or the skull of poor Yorick.
Though It was reviled, still was it
loved by those who by dint of long ne-
cessity or perseverance acquired the
habit; for surely hardtack is as much
an acquired taste as the olive, cigar-
ette or high-ball. We must admit that
we are apprehensive about the prune;
and still cling stoically to the opinion
that more hardtack and less bully beef
would have enabled us to come out of
the war with Spain with a record at
fewer soldiers killed by rations served
than by Spanish bullets.
There seems, as we survey the
ground, to be no hard and fast diet-
etary for conquering legions. The
Spartans, according to LycurguB,
trained on game and wine; but was it
not game and wino, and a few other
things, that undid Hannibal's conquer-
ing legions in that fateful winter In
Capua? There can be no doubt that
If
OlJGHS^
COLDS
p \ [1 C All Hizeu, money growers —
* heavy corn, alfalfa, cotton,
fruit and truck—city buyii everything; coal,
oil and fran below; pinnl health, roads and
schools; prleetl5 toJW an acre. Reference any
TuLsa bank. Write- lolormalien Bureau, Tulsa, Okla,
HIS MONEY'S WORTH.
1 ' ' ' uc'« vail UtJ LIU UUUUl 111(11
times lifted from the cranial cavity j the grand Old Guard fattened and kept
sometimes destroy a part, at least, of
the gray matter, but somehow or oth
up Its lighting heat on vln ordlnare,
and rather frugal fare. Still the Rus-
D. - v. ; uu^ai luie. auu me nus-
er the patient goes on runnning like elans who met the rice-fed Japanese
an engine upon one cylinder. This Is | had almost the same fare—when they
the most daring type of fooling death.
A generation ago there were ten,
fifteen, maybe twenty diseases that
were looked upon as absolutely incur-
able. The number has been getting
smaller. Every now and again some
man. finds a new way cf attacking an
old disease. Others aid and the fight
goes on. Another of the so-called in-
curable ones are vanished. Just how
many there are, this day, no one likes
to say. Something might happen by
tomorrow that would make any state-
ment ridiculous.
We used to die of typhoid, septl-
cemiae, tentanus, yellow fever and ma-
laria. The fighters were firing and
could get It Evidently national tem-
perament and early training must be
considered. Washington's army fought
rather badly and won very slowly on
very little food. And then came in the
long reign of the hardtack.
The Japanese are the greatest flght-
'ug people of the east. Their armies
fight on rice, raw fish and vegetables;
and this, well warmed up with cur-
ries, is the diet of the other great
lighting people of the ea*st—the great
Sikh brotherhood, the military Spar
tans of the modern world. Slowly, but
surely, It seems that the fighting world
is falling into two parts—the meat and
the rice armies, and the wine that the
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"Ha! ha! ha! And I wus just regret-
tin' that I'd spent a whole cent fer
that banana!"
An Exacting Situation.
"Doctor," said the nervous man, "Is
there any way of teaching a person
to talk in his sleep?"
"I never heard of any," replied the
physician. "How could such an ac-
complishment be of benefit?"
"It's either that or insomnia for me.
My Wife is one of the best suffragette
stabbing in the" dark so far as" any real ! sVarV^s^nd'The'^ench^rnk'Ts h* 1 6peakerSh before the Pul,llc' She 81
results were concerned. The under- Ing eliminated But the subsHtntint 1 waf8„rehearses her oratlo'« home
1 , ut tlle substitution J and I ve got to say 'hear! hear!' oi
pl.rJ!etUD! P?ne f°r hardtack j 'that's the stuff!' at least once everj
n i a „Step that shatters ! ten minutes."—Washington Star.
all calculations on the strength of our |
striking arm.
results were concerned. The under-
taker looked complacent and the grave
yards waxed large. Some man work-
ing In the fever swamps learned how
to fool death in typhoid and yellow fe-
ver by studying mosquitoes. Still an-
other man watched the fly and dis-
covered that death in typhoid would
be easy to baffle if the housefly could
l)e eliminated.
Diphtheria, infantile paralysis ani
others of the diseases of childhood
have been and are being gradually
walled off and made helpless by a bar-
rier of serums, vaccines and solutions
that seem quite simple enough now
that we have become accustomed to
them. Death Is being fooled dally
with some colorless fluid and a tiny j
hypodermic needle.
In southern Illinois, twenty years I
ago there was much fever and ague,
oftentimes resulting in death. The j
same conditions then existed in south-
east Missouri. These two localities
are being cleared of the timber that ;
covered them. The sun is getting j
into the lowlands where Its rays were i
strangers. There is not much ma- ,
laria in these two localities any more. I
The sun has sterilized the earth so !
far as the malaria breeding mosqui-
toes are concerned. They do not breed
any more in such number, and there
is not the chance of infection as there
used to be when swarms of them flew
out of the creek bottoms at night-
fall.
Death Is being baffled and puzzled
by such instances everywhere. Men
want to live and they aie studying the
means and methods by which they
can fool death and live longest. The
scalpel and the little vial or serum are
the worst foes of the rider on the pale
horse.
Census Inaccuracies.
All of 'Em Fans.
A man little acquainted with the
stage and its people went to see the
"Friars' Frolic" and was surprised to
What relation does a woman's age, I ®nd that the Cohans were Irish. He
CI nuumu 3 age
as it is disclosed by the census paper
bear to the number of years Bhe lias
/ actually spent in this vale of tears?
[ It varies, probably, according to the
fancy of the fair recorder. In the re-
i cent Australian census the common-
wealth statistician became so distract-
ed by the extent of thj variation that,
acting In a manner which can only be
j described as brutal, he caused Intima-
tions to be inserted n the press re-
i minding the public that birth regis-
ters exist, and could be referred to,
even suggesting that he has actually
had them referred to In a large num-
ber of eases, with Illuminating re-
sults. The consequence of this was a
mild torn: of panic, there >-eing a SO
pound ($250) fine 'or inaccuracy, and
there has been quite a shoal of com-
munications from feminine corre-
spondents, artlessly wondering wheth-
er fiey made a slip of the pen, and
begging, if so, to correct
was talking to Tom Cavanaugh about
It.
"Why," said he, "I understand that
when in town they are regular at-
tendants at the church in your parish,
Tom."
"Sure," said Tom. "They're fans."
—Chicago Post.
Well arranged time is the surest
mark of a well-arranged mind.—Pit-
man.
Damon and Python.
A certain great publisher of rather
exacting temperament and not espe-
cially easy to get along with, secured
an editor after many other editors had
passed through his office.
This editor tamed the exacting and
sometimes querulous publisher, and
they became great friends. The ed-
itor, apparently, had the stuff In him
to compel pleasant treatment.
One day the editor and the publish-
er came Into a luncheon club arm
in arm.
"Look at them," said another pub-
lisher. "There come Damon and py-
thon!"—Saturday Evening Post.
To Marry and Keep His Work.
Making good his promise to break
bachelorhood before reaching the age
of 40 years, and marry a girl half his
age. Constable William G. Yearsley
of Magistrate Ilagerty's office will In
a few days wed Miss Lillian M. Ken-
dell of Clifton Heights, Pa.
The bride-to-be is 18 years old j
Yearsley Is 38. They were Introduced
by Mrs. William Davis, a sister of the !
conBtable, who playec the role of
matchmaker. She always counseled I
her brother to get married and have
a home of his own.
"1*11 get married before I'm 40," de- 1
clared Yearsley a year ago, at which |
time he had not met his fiancee. "And I
I'll surprise you by getting a wife half !
as old as I am."
Eight months ago the couple were
Introduced. It was mutual love at
first sight Yearsley won her consent
to marriage several weeks ago They
will be married at the sister's home,
where they met 155 North Fifty-sev-
enth street
MIbs Kendell is a graduate of the
Newark, N. J., high school, and an ac-
complished musician, — Philadelphia
Time"
Saves Worry
Time
and Trouble
Post
Toasties
Can be served in-
stantly with cream
or milK.
It makes a breaK-
fast or lunch so supe-
rior to the ordinary,
that it has become
a welcome pantry
necessity in thou-
sands of homes, and
adds to the comfort
and pleasure of life.
"The Memory Lingers"
Sold by Grocers
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd..
Battle Creek, Mich.
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