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'bre Fe FORSTER
Fere, Ear,* Nese and Throat
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
Late Assistant New York °realist -
mei and Aural Inestitute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At Mr. ;le Ran -
kin's Office, Seaforth, third Wednes-
day in each month from 11 a.m. to
8 pate 58 Waterloo Street, South,
Stratford. Phone 267, Stratford.
CONSULTING ENQINEFSS
The E. A. JAMES -Co.; Limited
E. N. Proctor, RA,See Manager
36 Toronto St, Toronto, Can.
Briftec PaYeelentt, Waterworks. sewer-
age Systems, Incinerators, Schools,
Public Housings. Factories. Arbi-
trations, Litigation.
Our Fees:—Usualli paid out of
the UMW irameee aur elienti
LEGAL
Rs S. HAYS.
Barrister, SelicitoreConveyancer, and
Notary Public. Solicitor for the Do -
Minion Bank Office in rear of the De-
ininiozi Bank, Seaford'. Money to
loan.
J. M. BEST
Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer
and Notary Public. Office upstairs
over Walker's Furniture Store, Main
Street, Seaforth.
PROUDFOOT, KILL0RAN AND
'COOKE
Banisters, Solicitors,NotarietePub-
tic, etc. Money to lend. In Seaforth
on Monday of each week. Office in
s Kidd Block. W. Proudfoot, KZ., J.
L. Killoran, H. J. D. Cooke.
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VETERINARY
F. HARBURN, V. S.
Honors graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College, and. honorary me/6er of
the Medical Association of the Ontario
Veterinary College. Treats diseases of
all doinestie animals by the most mod, -
ern principles. Dentistry and Milk
Fever a specialty. Office opposite
Dick's Hotel, Main Street, Seaforth.
All orders left at the hotel will re-
ceive prompt attention. Night/ calla
rereceivedat the office
JOHN GRIEVE, V. S.
Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
erinary Dentistry a Specialty. Office
and residenceem Goderich street, one
door east of Dr. Scott's office,• Sea -
forth.
MEDICAL
DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN.
Osteophitic Physician of Goderich.
BP.cialist in Women's and Children's
dfaeaaes, reheumatisrn, acute, chronic
and nervous disorder"; eye, ear, nose
and throat. Consulation free. Office
above I3Mback's Drug store, Seaforth,
Tuesdays and Fridays, 8 a.m. till 1 p.m
C. J. W. HARN, MD.C.M.
425 Richmond Street, London, Ont.,
Specialist, Surgery and Genio-Uten-
ary diseases of men and women.
DR. J. W. PECK
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine
McGill University, Montreal; Member
of Colleee of Physicians and Surgeons
ef Ontario; Licentiate of Medical Coen-
eil of Canada; Post -Graduate 'Member
of Resident Medical staff of General
Hospital, Montreal, 1914-15; Office, 2
doors east of Post Office. Phone 56_
Helmet Ontario.
Dr. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence, Goderich street
e ast of the Methodist church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron.
DRS. scant & MACKAY
J. G. Scott, graduate of Victoria and
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ann Arbor, and member of the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, of
Ontario.
C. Mackay honor graduate of Trin-
ty University, and gold medallist of
rrinity Medical College; member of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of Ontario.
DB. 11. HUGH Rpss.
Graduate of University of Toronto
•Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate courses in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago;
Royal Ophthalmic Hospital London,
eel England, University Hospital, London
England. Office—Back of Dominion
lank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night
Calls- answered from residence, Vic-
toria Street. Seaforth.
THOMAS BROWN
Licensed auctioneer for the counties
of Huron_ and Perth. Correspondence
arrangements for, sale dates can be
made by calling up -phone 97, Seaforth
or The Expositor Office. Charges mod-
erate and satisfaction guaranteed.
R. T. LUKER
Liee,nsed Auctiopeer for the County
of littron. Sales attended to in all
parts �f the county. Seven years' ex-
perience in Manitoba and Saskatche-
wem. Terms reasonable. Phone No.
176 'r 11, Exeter, Centralia P. 0. R.
R. No. 1. Orders left at The Huron
Sectsoeleor Office, Seaforth, promptly at -
Wade&
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EPLRTh CATCH CRIMINAIAa
Forgers Must Be Careful What Ink
They Use.
In a recent case, Isla Charles Mit- -
hell, • the famous expeit on inks, -
gave evidence regarding pension pa-
pers which were „ alleged to ,have
been foi ged, saysPeaison'S Weekly _
Although the ink used throughout
looked exactly the same to the diti-
nary eye, the expert showed that a
tuizaber of different inks had actually
been t zsed .
Few people know that practically
every kind of ink is different from
every other kind used at the present
day, and that ally ink used now can that the ancient province of
easily be detected , from ink used, Thrace shall again be made
say, a- hundred<or two hundred years
ago, ' The forger has not only nowa- Part of the Greek state cora-
,
pletes the rearrangement Of the Bul-
days to imitate his victim's heed -
writing, but he has got to be, careful garlan frontiers undertaken in 1918
to use his vietim's actual ink unless after the capitulation of Czar Ferdt-
he wants to be bowled out. i',
nand's Government. It is the ninth
In a case a <short time ago, for ex- '
- time in leSs than half a century that
ample, Mr. Mitehell showed that a '
will which, was dated and had the Bulgaria's ephemeral boundaries
appearance of being yritten in.. 1898 . have undergone change, and from the
had 'actually beeh written ten years bitter aniniosities aroused during the
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later, and from bethat very 'fact alone present wrangling there seems but
was proved to a forgery! . e
Dozens of cases of forgery for old faint hope that the end has really
age pensions have been proved by come.
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TRY MAG -
MBITION -
It Neutralizes Stomach Acidity, Pre-
.,, STOMA C.I1 TROUBLE
vents Food Peementatimir Sour, .
GassY Stomach and Acid
Ireligestion.
HOPES OF TREACHEROUS NA-
, TION AGAIN- FOILED.
Russia Aided the Coniztry In Securing
Its Freedom From the Turks at
the Time of the Notorious But-
' garian Atroeities, But Many
Changes Have Taken Place Since
That Time.
HE decision or the Allies,
Mr. IVIitchell. Evidence of. age In 1 In all Bulgaria's frontiers have
manyeases hed been accepted from
been clipped in no less than four dif-
entries in, the fam-ily Bible, and the
ink expert Showed that „ many of ferent districts. Until the terms of
these entries, though dated seventy the treaty with 'Turkey were made
years befo e, had actually been writ- public there seemed a possibility that
ten a few nonthS before the pension
woe claim d!
the most remarkable trials
northeastern Thrace, including the
cities of Adrianople and Kirk Kilisse,
One of
in Which the whole- case turned on might be _awarded Bulgaria, .partly
,the question of ink was that of because they contain a very consider -
'Humphreys - in Edinburgh.' Ham- • able Bulgarian population, partly ln
phreys claimed to be the Earl_ of
Stirling, and in support of his claim
he produced a num.ber of-documento
leenth century an.d early eighteenth -such a course, but in the present
'century. One of these doeumentts
was dated 1639, and had corm:MOIL
on it in red Ink by the supposed
Chancellor of the day. Red ink
wasn't Invented till 1780, a hundred
and forty years after the document
was supposed to have been written.
Brinkley, the Croydon poisoner,
was brought to the scaffold largely
on the evidence of the ink expert,
who showed that the will of Brink-
ley's intended victim was signed
with no fewer than three different
inks, showing that it had been signed
and witnessed at three different
'times, instead of all together, as the
law demands.
Nearly all modern inks are made
from a naixture of galls and coppers,
which combine to' form a kind of
iron. It is this combination which
gives the black appearance to ink.
This mixture in the first place is
almost colorless, only turning black
after the writing has been exposed to
the air for some tim.e. To make it
appear at once upon the paper,
therefore, the mixture is colored In
various ways, making, the ,famous
blue -black inks now used every-
where. Nearly every manufacturer
uses a different kind of coloring mat-
ter, and this is one of the ways in
which the inks differ, and can be de-
tected by the expert.
In the old days Ink used to be boil-
ed steadily for a long time to make
it black; \but in those days- ink was
made 1»' the hotmewife as part of her'
ordinary duties,- and many quaint ink
recipes can be found in. old cookery
bookre.
The beat inks in the world are the
oldest. They -were chiefly made of
lampblack, like the present Indian.
anti Chinese inks. Many ancient WO
-
man documente.whieh are preserved.
in museums, though two thousand
years old, haye 'the writing on thein
as black as rthe 'day when it was
written. .
compensation for the denial of Bul-
garian claims in Thrace proper.
President Wilson made 'strong repre-
aupposed todatebaak to the seven- sentatiotis to the Allies in favor of
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e Oomets and Disease. -
A scientist has stated that comets
actually sprinkle our world with
disease germs! The old belief that
pestilence follows in the wake 'of
meteors may, therefore, have a great
deal of truth in it, says Tit -Bits. A,
short time ago a meteor fell into
Lake Michigan, and since then the
attention of scientists has been
focused upon the fact that our earth
Is at present undergoing its greatest
known visitation of comets. The
pestilence known as the Black
Death, which visited, Europe and
Asia. in the fifteenth century, and
caused the most appalling mortality.
followed the visit of a great comet.
The mysterious influenza from
Which the world has suffered so much
lately began soon after we were im-
mersed in the tail of Hailey's comet.
IIt has beemiproved that while some
comets are only masses of gas, most
of the them are made up of enormous
swarms of meteors of all sizes.
Scientists, including Lord Kelvin
and Sir Oliver Lodge, hold that the
majority of comets are fragments of
worlds torn to pieces by some cause
or other. In those comets -which
originated in the destruction of
worlds,, the disease germs , or organ. -
isms would have been carried away
with the debris and remained in a
dormant state In the cold of space.
There is no limit to the time cer-
tain germs can remain asleep. They
are known to remain dormant for
countless agree in the sun -baked des-
erts of the world and on the frozen
soil of the Poles. - • ..
When, therefore, these germs are
projected into our temperate atmos-
phere by comets, it is thought by
authorities that they awaken from
their long sleep and are again ren-
dered active and dangerous to the
earth's inhabitants.
Monte Carlo. •
Attached to the famous gambling
casino at Monte Carlo is a private
school where everything pertaining
1 to a 'croupier's duties is taught, and
where those who have been • on a
holiday, or who have had a rent that
might interfere with their dexterity
and precieion may practice.
•anomalous condition. of Am,erican
participation hi European affairs it
Is not remarkable that small heed
was paid to his wishes.
From the economic point of view
Bulgaria's greatest loss is the itbsorp-
tion by Greece of all her Agean lit-
toral. Although the tobacco fields
around Xanthi are famous, this dis-
trict is not, on the whole, particularly
fertile or rich; but its loss is a severe
blow, as it means the relegation of
m
most /of Bulgaria's commerce to the
Black?Sea. The harbor .of Dedea-
gatch, where Bulgaria is given cer-
tain commercial privileges similar to
those enjoyed in Salonica by Serbia,:
possesses better railway connections
than any other. ./Egean port east of
Salon-ica, but it remains undeveloped
to any great extent and lacks mod-
ern harbor facilities. Bulgaria is
eliminated as an lEgean maritime
power.
Many who remember Bulgaria's in-
veterate opportunism, in particular
her treacherous attack on the Serbs
in- 1913 and Ferdinand's perform-
ances in 1915 as auctioneer -in -chief,
will be tempted to believe that she
has received the treatment she richly
deserves. Certainly the official find-
ings of the British -French -Serbian
commission to investigate Bulgarian
methods of terrorisation in this war,
details of which are bestial and re-
volting beyond the limits of our
Western imagination, do not inspire
us with much confidence in But-
gariaai recent asaurances- that hence-
forth she intends ‘to be very, very
good; nor do they incline us to fever
any expansion of her rule beyond the
limits of those territories which tare
overwhelmingly and distinctly Bul-
garian. ,
From the ethnic point of view the
transference of the Thracian cost to
Greek sovereignty is not unfair. Al-
most any line drawn in almost any
part -of the Balkans will separate a
considerable number of persons from
the main body of their countrymen.
The coast from Kaeala to DedeNtatch
is and always has 4been far more
Greek etham Bulgarian, and the hill
country for some distance back from
the coast, although sprinkled with.
Bulger colonies and with many
Greeks, has been predominantly
Turkish for cehturies.
Bulgarian aspiration's to become an
sEgean power received their first im-
petus from' Russia, lit 1878, at the
time of the Treaty of San Stefano, In
1876 the notorious "Bulgarian atroci-
ties" had aroused Europe against
Turkey, and in the following year
Russia stepped into the seething
• Balkans with a declaration of war on
the Sultan. In spite of early re-
verses, Russia, aided by Serbia,
Montenegro and Roumania, succeed-
ed in pressing back the Turks and
:
threatening Constantinople itself.
This changed European sentiment
ovarniglit. The "Btagarian atrocities"
were forgotten, and British feeling
ran so high that, despite Gladstone's
op ition, a fleet was despatched to
t e Dardanelles to show t4t a Rus-
sian seizure of Constantinople would
not be tolerated. .
Russia made peace, but in alletting
the booty determined to favor the
Bulgars as being her most -promising
tools for future operations against
the Turks. By the Treaty of San
Stefano, a Greater Bulgaria was pro-
posed, to include all of Macedonia, a
large slice of Serbian territory to
the northwest, which carried Bulgar-
ian rule to the far side of Lake
Ochrida, and most . of the north-
lEgean. 'coast. Britain_ and Austria
hastened to reject this arrangement,
which no threateningly enlarged Rus-
sian influence in the Balkans, and
at the Congress of Berlin, convoked
later in the same year, the Tregty of
San Stefano was set aside, Turkey
was handed back the bulk of her ter-
ritory, and Austria was given the
coveted permission to occupy "tem-
porarily" the provinces of Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Although the San Stefano arrange-
ments were so swiftly blotted out, no
Bulgarian school room since that
time has been without a map show-
ing the frontiers of "Greater Bul--
garia." In 1913 the Treaty of Bu -
Doubtless if you ard titsufferer from
indigestion, you have already tried
pepsin, bismuth, soda, charcoal, drugs
and various cbgestbre aids and you
know these things will not cure your
trouble—in some cases do not even
give relief.
But before giving up hope and des
ciding yt54'u are a chronic deropeptic
just try the effect of a little bisurated
magnesia—not the ordinary commee-
cialcarbonate, citrate, oxide or milk,
but the pure bisurated magnesia
which you can obtain from firaetically
any druggist in 'either powdered or
tablet form.
Take a teaspoonful of the powder
or two compressed tablets with a
little water after your next meal, and
see whet a difference this mekes. It
will instantly neutralize the dangerous
and harmful acid in, the stomach
which now causes your food to fer-
ment and moue, making gas, _wind,
flatulence, heartburn and the bloated
or heavy, lumpy feeling that seems
to follow ,most everything you eat
You will find that provided you take
a little bisurated magnesiaeiterthediate-
ly after a meal, you can eat almost
anything and en"joy it without any
danger of pain or discomfort to follow
and moreover, the continued; use of
the bisurated magnesia cannot injure
• the stomach in any way so long as
there are any symptoms of acid in-
digestion. •
•charest once more allotted Bulgaria
Cannot Re Duplicated. part ,of the eEgean coast, a.nd it was inaniminsimmu•
ffsgas...
THE MOTOR DIGEST
Michigan has a State Automotive
Schoel.
Farmere in the United States own
2,367,000 motor cars.
English motorists are now paying
80 cents a gallon for gasoline.
Liquified hydrogen gas is being
tested as a coming fuel for motor ve-
hicles.
In Illinois headlights must be dim
ween within 250 feet of an approach-
ing car.
• The New York Telephone Company
operates a fleet of 935 motor vehicles
for repair work.
Jimmy Chy, a native of Canton,
China, is the only Chinese automobile
race driver in the world.
The Shah of Persia placed an order
20 years ago for a motor vehicle for
his own use.
"Left-hand turns' by motorists in
the central- sections of the City of
Philadelphia are to be abolished.
Combined Federal and States ex-
penditures for road building may
reach a total of $250,000,000 this year.
Because of a shortage of, automo-
biles in Europe cars are selling at
figures far beyond their actual value.
• The average 'Otimated repair bill
for all automobiles in ethe United
States amounts to $500,000 a day• .
Norway has just commenced oper-
ating it first -automobile factory. The
output is estimated at 200 cars a year.
It is estimated that 13,500,000 gal-
lons of inseoline are used,daily by,mo-:
tor vehicles throughout the United
States.
In the vicinity of Detroit ante near-
by towns there are 24 automobile
factories and 18 motor truck manu-
factories. -
Motor vehicle_owners in the United
States contribute $75 a year for'every
mile, of road improved or unimprov-
ed.
Auto polo was a special feature
at .the State Fair at Trenton, N. J.,
from September 27th to October lst,
inclusive.
In the rural districts of Colorado
and Utah motor transportation is eine
nished children from their homes to
public schools. ,
During the world war Germany us-
ed commercial alcohol distilled from
sawdust and various kinds of waste
vegetable matter.
More than 90 per cent. of the ton-
nage of rail and watei lines is trans-
ported over highways before reach-
ing the consumer.
Hawaii has sufficient molasses avail-
able to produce 9,000,000 gallons of
motor alcohol—enough for all auto-
mobiles in the island.
Janpan is sending Mr. K. Takata
chief engineer of the public work;
section of the Kanagawa Prefectural
Office, to this country to study road
building methods and materials.
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF VERY
TENDER FEET
There is nothing more anaoying or
embarrassing than to have the feet
perspire excessively. with or without
an offsensive odor. It will cause the
skin of the foot to become macerated
and result in painful fissures. It 'also
causes a severe irritation of the foot
'nerves which in many cases is the
-cause of headache and indisposition.
The skin of the body is completely
covered with thousand of sweat
glands. Their activity is controlled
by the nerves. The two disturbances
of the sweat glands are anidrosis
(suppressioe of sweat) and hyper-
idrosis (excessive sweating). The
former is due to a lack of activity of
the nerves of the sweat glands, the
latter is due to an overactivity of
these nerves.
This causative factor may be a
constitutionel disease such as rheuma-
tism, diabetes, tuberculosis, etc.'or
it may be a weak foot or a fiat foot
condition in which there is an un-
healthy blood circulation and also an
irritatien of most of the foot nerves.
If the condition is mild and local,
the following home treatment will
effect a cure: Exercise the feet as
foliows, are o e
1. Stand with the feet parallel.
Ancient Chinese porcelains cannot - the hope of winning another step to -
be duplicated because the dbloring ward the hegemony of the 13alkansl
matter lised came from mines, the so nearly achieved in 1878, that en -
chemical components of which have ticed Bulgaria into the war on the
changed as the mines. have been side of our enemies. Her dream has
deepened.
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_ne again been shattered.
Winnen in. North Carolina minium- Atlanta (Ga.) policeWomen will
her he men by more than 15,000. hereafter be equipped with billies.
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SIN CE 0 1 8 70
3ONSFICOUGHS
Theid`raise the inner sides of the feet
so that the outer borders carry the
body weight. Do this fifty trees.
2. Do this inane exercise, only
walk twenty steps on the outer bor-
ders of the feet.
8. Walk twenty steps on the heels,
keeping the toes raised °
4. Walk twenty steps on the toes.
After exereising, place the feet for
one Minute in a receptacle containing
warm water. Immediately, place them
in a receptacle containing cold water.
Do tide alternately ten times. This
is called a cpntrast bath.
The object of the exercises is to
stimulate the muecles and nerves of
the foot, thereby inducing a normal
blood circulation. The object of the
contrast bath is to tone up the fdot
nerves and to prevent any muscular
soreness that may result from the
exercises.
The above treatment should be
done daily for two weeks. If the
meat glandl disturbance 'does not clear
up in that time, it is safe to assume
that a constitutional malady exists
or a disturbance 'of the foot arches
-has taken place.
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RAT PROOFING FOR ALL
BUILDINGS
Plans for radical changes in • the
construction of business buildings,
dwellings and wharves are being
dra:wn up by the United States Public
Health Service as a pert of the -na-
tion-wide campaign for rat extermina-
tion.
"While bubonic plague is under
control in this country, there will al-
ways be scattered infection until the
rat can be exterminated," said Sur-
geon General Cumming. "The most
effective measure is permanent rat
proofing for all buildings. Plans for
this may easily be incorporated in
any new construction. At the pres-
ent time, se4cording to authoritative
estimates, /there is one rat for each
person in the United States. To main-
tain this huge number of rats cost
the people of this ceuetry ,approxi-
mately one cent for each person every
day for rat tame an intolerable' and
unnecessary burden for the people to
carry:,
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
Fifty-four per cent. of the total vot-
ers in Czecho Slovakia are women.
Domestic servants in London now
have an up-to-date social club.
Women employed in, British govern-
ment offices now number nearly
120,0a.
Ohio's fret woman's jury returned
verdict for the defendant in an evic-
tion case. •1
The Women's Swimming 'Associa-
tion of New York, which furnished
six members for the Olympic team,
was 'formed three years ago without
any capital.
'Miss Marion G. Parsons, an Ameri-
can Red Cross nurse of Berkley, Cal.,
has been appointed as head of the
ezetcho-Sloeak State Mantel of Nurs-
ing at Prague. ,
Mrs. Morgan Belmont, prominent ,in.
New York society, will seek a career
ijt the movies.
Between the ages of 18 and 45 there
are seventeen per cent. more women
than men. in Germany.
Of the 12,000 trained workers sent
to France by the Salvation Army, 85
per eent were women.
The Delaware Bar Association is con-
sidering the, advisability of admitting
women on the same terms with the
men lawyers. •
A Wisconsin man is the inventor
of detachable propellers, operated by
cranks, to replace oars in row boats.
Tongs gripping their necks secure-
ly have been invented for carrying
heavy bottles of liquids.
Chorus girls in the large musical
shows now receive an average week-
ly salary of $75. - •
Queen Mary of England has receiv-
ed a degree of LL.D. from the Edin
burgh University.
Unobtrusively to remove crumbs
from dinning tables a device has been
invented that automatically closes as
it is lifted.
Most of the tea that is raised in
Buries is pickled and eaten as' a
condiment.
Your Safeguard
the name
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This Is the _gettuide 'tea o all teas.
If you do not' see Saladiskisead, us le post ear4 tor a free
sampleiotattail the prigyo now pay and if _you use
Black Qreseat Mixed Tea. Address SailidasToronto
short vegetable fibei are being sue-
cessfully used for transporting ore in
• Chili. ,
A bowl that has been invented to
receive the prodect of a household
food grinder without loss can be at-
tached to a 'grinder to fold up over it
when idle. •
Of English invention is a' cigarette
making machine for individual imiek-
ers which rolls the tobacco into the
proper shape before it is enclosed in
paper. •
-Individual folding rain shields to
be attached to backs of tbe seats have
been imrented for the comfort of
riders on, top of omnibuses, in bad
weather. -
A novel liquid soap container for
• shower baths is suspended by a chain -
and surrounded by a rubber ring to
prevent it slipping from wet hands.
Of French invention is •a bell that
can be attached to any typewrite e to
tiound a warning when a typist is
nearing the end of a sheet of paper.
• An inventor claims to have made a
farm tractor 25 per cent. more efficient
than most machines of its kind bit
enclosing all gearings in oil. -
Experiments are being tried in a,
German porcelain factory with a view
to making fractional currency of some
non-metallic, washable material.
An Illionom man is the inventor of
a device' that prints the names- and
addresses of subscribers on news-
papers as they leave the pressesi
The Siamese government owes and
operates that country's telephone
tem and Bankok, the capital, is the
only city having an exchange.
A novel periscope enables an auto-
mobile driver from his seat to examine
all the tires on a can
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE ,
A novel ironing board can be rolled
compactly for storage.
Ink that is made from toadstools
has been inventea by a Frenchman.
Oil of citronella will restore the
color to most shades of tan or brown
leather. .. • •
.Sweden has begun to, manufacture
its own photogiaphic plates • hereto-
fore imported. e
A new priming cup for automobiles
is tightly sealed against dust and. grit
when idle.
Motorcycles that weigh less than • That great devitalizing agency, hook -
100 pounds have been- invented' in1 worm disease, which . entails such
England for women. •economic loss, is widespread. Tuber -
Power for a toy player piano in- culosis is raropant, with a mortality
of about two millions per year.
Cholera, dysentery, and infantile
diarrhoea are very destructive of life,
It is estimated that from thiety-five
to fifty per cent. of all infants born
die of lock-jaw. Blindhess is one of
the most common sights in China and
yet last of it is preventable. 'Vermin
carried diseases are everywhere, and
these do not spare missionary physic-
ians.
which dieeases can be wiped out is
ftterneined by the amount of regale.
lion which the people will observe.
But restriction of personal liberty
must be understood and supported by
the ,public. It, therefore, become*
imperative to educate and irtform Olt
the modern- discoveries regarding
ease and to inculcate the idea of the I
intrinsict as well as the economic,
value of en ife„
.But the (Matt y conies in attempt.
ing to realize th' ideal. A bettering
of living conditio s (which in Chnnee
are beyond descri ton) and the low-
ering of the deathrate, are very dile
ficult of accomplishment, because &t-
ease, poverty and ignorance (with re-
sultant indifference) are undoubtedly
itt,rnost aggravated forms. These
surely are handicaps in popularising
'public health knowledge.
PUBLIC HEALTH IN CHINA
By Chas. W. Service, B.A., of Cheng-
tu, West India. ,
Promotion of Health promises to
be the leading ideal of the twentieth-
century. • Social service, moral re-
forrn, efforts toward race better-
ment and public health work are to
the front. The noblest task have
been contributing to the advancement
of man towards physical, intellectual
and moral perfection. Millions of
dollars are being expended and many
Teen are giving - •themselves as
martyrs to science that mankind may
have more' abundant life. To -day the
victories of preventive medicine are
outstanding.
While the aboveAe- true of the
western world, comearatively nothing
is being done for China, the oldest
nation of the world, and with one-
quarter of the world's population. In.
China modern sanitation is almost un-
known. There is an almost entire
absence of hygienic habits among
both the higher and thelower classes.
All Chinese spit indiscriminately.
Close construction of buildings, nar-
row streets, overcrowding, cess peat,
non -disposal of garbage, open latrines,
ample means of mosquito and fly cul-
ture, lack of fresh air and sunshine,
no attempts at notification, isolation,
quarantine and. disinfection; the rare
practice of vaccination, prevalence of
vermin, no knowledge of germs, but
general belief that eruptive fevers,
etc., are natural 'evils, make China in-
describably insanitary.
There are two large classes of
diseases which are very ptevalent in
China. These are the "opeeable",
and the "preventable." LI no coun-
try in the world are there so many
and such large tumors and ulcers.
Most of them, if taken'early enough,
can be completely cured.
• The "preventable" disease cause
great bavoc among the Chinese.
Ancient Chinese medical books give
-very scant information of these dis-
eases, and in actual practice the
Chinese physicians are helpless. In
China every year epidernies of plague
andi of other preventable diseases
hurry multitudes to early graves and
to awful poverty. In China we have
the malaria parasite in all its forms.
tended for children is furnished. by a
phonograph motor.
Bavaria will produce aluminum
from native clay instead of continuing
to import bauxite.
A new letter sealer that handles
several hundred envelopes a minute
has biet one moving part. e
In Holland a ,rnimicipal gas plant
is extracting illuminathigi gas from a
peat and coal raixture.
New Zealand government chemists
after long experimenting have found
a way to separate dirt from kauri gum
and increase its yield. of oil foe use
in varnish:
Nernerous advantages are claimed
for a inotor driven hair . clipper in
which the motor is behind the hand public -health jaws.
grips instead of between them and -Yet, speaking generally, even the
most educated Chinese still remain in
apathy, not realizing the gravity of
the situation and the importance of
organized effort. The Chinese are
in regions that are not suited to most particular during illness, yet
horsea or oxen. • I they are not the least concerned a -
Delicate recording instruments have bout the preventive measures against
been invented for registering the vi- the spread of diseale. It is ignorance
Laboratories of hygiene, bacteriol-
ogy, pathology, etc., so essential in
preventive medicine,. are absolutely
wanting. On the contrary, we find
quacks and humbugs practising medi-
cine indisoriminately, and turning out
patent medicines without restraint by
1 the cutting biaee.
I Argentina has been experimenting
1 with camels imported from the Can-
ary Islands for agricultural purposes
• •
Yet some day we hope to see China
healthypelitically, socially, morally,
intellectually, physically — without
putrefying bodies, ill -smelling sewers/
dark and insanitary cleireilings, sun-
ken -chested, ronndeshouldered schol-
ars, mis-shapen feet, unsightly tum-
ors, dirty ulcers, infeetect eyes
plagues,. epidemics, and diseases
-many kinds, China, has some strong'
links in her chain of national stren
such as favorable location, natural ree
sources frugality, industry and gen-
eral intelligence of her people, and
filial piety. But another important
link is lacking, viz., publie health --
Therefore the people must be infornt-
ed. Physicians can point out the way
and can. lead< in the light; but public,
support is neeessary, to secure which
the people must understand what be
needed and why it is necessary.
The missionary medical profession,
despite its paucity ornumberse is one
of the most potent agencies for pub-,
Iic health education, although it is
overburdened with other professiontd
duties. _Its influence is being increae-
ingly felt throughout China. It Vitt
do much to rouse a sanitary emesei-
ence. Ittalready largely has the con-
fidence of the Chinese public. Thus
it has a greater responsibility to the
Chinese than the mere establishment
• of hospitals, and medical colleges
Medical men must be ready and free
to preach disease prevention as well
as treat ailments. Missionary medi-
cal colleges must place public heal*
in the forefront, so that graduates
may be more than mere practitionetia
Public health education and social
service are fimdainental and will ae-
cornplish several splendid results:. .
(1) The unhealthy conditions of lifo
in over crowded Chinese titles vdli
be changed and the dangers of epi.
demics and plitgues will be lessened
(2) Enlightenment will cause die -
content with quackery and with the -
ignorance of the Chinese doctor.
It will eventually insure the establish.
ment by the Chinese themselves tif
medical echools. (4). enbaneas
the standing of the missionary doe -
tor -aiming the Chinese. (5) It funi-
ishesedefinite points- of contact with
the better classes, bysinviting the roe
operatic% of the gentry, merchant
educators and other leading person-
ages. (6) It wins -friends for and
increases the influence of the hasp*
the doctors and the Christian. reuse
by revealing Christianitye as haid
an all-round interest mankind.
.
(7) It helps to Christianize and vit-.
alize the small but growirig wester*
trained medtical profession of Cheri,
which already has many Christian
men, and is kindly affected toward,
Christianity. Already there exists
Joint Cou.neil on Public Health Edo --
cation, including representatives Irene
the China Medical Missionary
sociation, the Y., M. C. A. of Chime
and the National Medical Association
01TChheirneLis an. epidemic logical Walls
in medical -missions. In March, 1
in a Peking paper, Dr. S. P. Chen of
the Chinese Plague Preventive
vice, described the serious difficul
encountered by the department
battling with the recent 'epidemic •
pneumonic plague in North Chime -
He ascribes these difficulties inic
-"to the,Ignorance en the part of
people of modern medical met)
due to the coMplete absence or in4
sinary or oilier medical institutioas
in the distriet,s affected by the
clemic. Their existerice would ha
paved the way for the attack by giv-
ing the people an insight into
advantage of Western medical seie
over Chinese medicine. and by t
creating a more favorable atmosphe
for modern methods to be applied.
Furthermore the health of
is 'touting to be more and more;
health of the -world. Very soon
nation will try to develop extensi
commercial relations with China.
will become a real neighbor to nt
nations. Her diseases will be th
Her bealth mean more busineU
more buying power, greater abit
to develop hex' natural resources,
greater eontributions in material
s p rfi ttuhael chrresourcesistianern rtchhe gwraorspldi;
oppoitunity it will help set in moti
those forces which will create a pub"
lie opinion on which will be built siiel
• improved health conditions as
nbearttieofints.not only Chinas but all °then
Moreover, the riOn-ChriStiall peop
brations cf hips in such a manner 1 that breeds this indifferenceof the Orient will be enabled to s
that their causes can be traced and I Preventable diseases are social pro- I that the outreach of Christianity i.
remedied,. 1 blems beyond the control of the incli- dudes a consideration of these soc
Sacks made of a fabric woven from: vidual. Therefore, public health edu- 1 forces which relate to the ellerei
paper strips that are twisted with a cation is the keystone. The rate at life of the people.
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