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Show uni uhtt --What Does --1 Catarrh Mean? I ' mm If It means inflammation of a mucous membrane somewhere in the head, throat bronchial tubes, stomach, biliary ducts or bowels. It always means stagnant blood the blood that is full of impur-We- Left alone; it extends cross, feverish, constipated, give California Syrup of Figs. A laxative today saves a aick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coat ed, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, gives teaspoonful of "California 8yrup of Figs," then don't worry, because It Is perfectly harmless, and In a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and y&u have a well, playful child again. A thorough "Inside cleansing" is ofttimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given In any sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a EO cent bottle of "California 8yrup of Figs, which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-up- s plainly printed on the bottle: Adv. ntU It Is followed by Indigestion, colds, congestion or fever. It weakens tho system generally and spreads it. operations sntU systemic catarrh or sa scute illness is the result. Peruria b the nation's reliable remedy for condition. this It restores appetite, aids digestion, checks and removes inflammation, and thus enables the membranes, through which we breathe and through which our food is s sorbed, to do their work properly years of success, with thour sands of testimonials, have established it as tho homo remedy Ever Its record of success Ready-to-Tak- bolds a promise for you. 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"What Is It?" the lady asked at The American mn and women must guard constantly against Kidney trouble, because we eat too much and all our food Is rich. Our blood la filled with urto acid which the kidneys strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become sluggish; the eliminative tissues clog and the result Is kidney trouble, bladder weakness and a general decline In health. When your kidneys feel like lumps' of lead; your back hurts or the urine Is cloudy, full of sediment or you aro obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night; If you suffer with sick headache or dizzy, nervous spells, sold stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weather is bad, get from your pharmacist about four ounces Salts; take, a table spoonful In a glass of water Jefore breakfast for a few days and your kid neys will then act fine. Thla famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined with Uthla, pnd hat been used for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids in the urine so It no longer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts Is inexpensive; cannot injure, makes a delightful effervescent lithia water beverage, and belongs in every home, because nobody ran make a mistake by having a good kidney flushing any time. Adv. form tfOSPTAl SO? CAM I rfpioysss EDWARD B. CLARK. WILLIAM CRAWFORD chief of the medical crops of the United States army, Is by accdAited the greatest soldier of them ail. He has met and overcome disease on many fields, and disease is accounted, evert in war time, the greatest enemy of the human race. When one writes of this modest appear r ing man, who never speaks volunown of his achievements on the sickness-stricketarily field, he is writing of one of the most famous men of any nation. He does not belong DEADLY MOJ02SO to Washington, nor yet to the United States, but V CIGAJWAVP to the world. tober 3, 1854; was educated at tin University uf made to your correspondent by General Gorgas Here is a doctor and S soldier whose record the South at Sewanee, Tenn., where he studied which was nothing short of startling in Its nastands unique. In order to honor him congress from 1869 to 1875, graduating with the degree ture. He said: "If the governments at Vene- in a way upset its traditions and changed a line of bachelor of arts He graduated In medicine xuela and Ecuador would spend a few thousand of legislative action which for years ran one at the Bellevue Hospital Medical college In 1879 dollars to stamp out yellow fever there never Last spring the congress of unvarying course He served on the house staff of the Bellevue would be another case of the disease known to the United States paid General Gorgas the highfrom 1879 to 1880; entered the United the world." hospital est compliment that it ia within Its power to pay. Slates army iq ISSO, and served in Florida and For some reason or other tho South American It gave him the thanks of the congress of the on the western frontier until the Spanish-Amer-Icacountries In which the yellow fever still- - exists United States; It promoted him to the grade of war broke out in 1S98. Ha went to Cuba will not spend the money necessary to stamp it major general, and It so changed established with the expedition which captured Santiago-Aftout. So It is that so long as the disease exists custom as to enable him to remain at the head the fall of Santiago General Corgas conthere it is possible for some man, perhaps a of the medical bropa of the army for some tracted typhoid fever, nnd was sent back to the months after the four years allotted for - such sailor, to be bitten by a fever-lademosquito United States. He went with the expeditionary Just before he sails for another port and to carry service shall have expired force which occupied Havana In December. 1S9S, with him the poison. It Ib held by the high thinkin other words, through the action of congress. ers that the countries of South America where where he remained as health officer until the fall General Gorgas, Instead of being surgeon genera) of 1902. During his incumbency as health officer of the army for (he term of only four years, will yellow fever exists should be forced to stamp of the city of Havana the army medical board out the disease in order that the rest of the hold that office until he retires from active work made a discovery with regard to yellow fever world may be safe for all time from the menace at the age of sixty four years and found that dt was conveyed by the Stegotnjia of the dread "yellow Jack." The thanks of congress, promotion to the rank As health officer, with his ' subof major general and tho provision which would mosquito. Some time ago, during a process o dredging, ordinates he devised plans and measures whereby enable tho Incumbent to remain surgeon general a low spot on the zone was turned Into a marsh, this discovery was put Into practical service. for a longer period than the usually allotted tlmfc and almost instantly the malaria mosquito became to this doctor, as the resolutions of conAs a result of these measures Havana was gan to breed there abundantly. .Literally milfreed from yellow fover entirely in about eight lions of the Insects appeared. Now, there was no gress show, because of his great work in routing disease from' the Panama Canal zone and in makmonths, although the disease had been there danger that they would spread malaria among ing a former plague spot one of the most healththe xone people, because the insects had to becontinuously for the previous J50 years. For ful districts In the world. this work he was promoted bf special act of come charged with the poison first; but, of course, It Is virtually impossible to get the records of it was necessary to determine bow far the creacongress from the grade of major to that of ' .all the great scientists of the world for purposes colonel. tures could travel, and this Is the way they of immediate comparison, but It seems, to be For ten years Doctor Gorgas was stationed In found out: safe to say that no other man has been so honthe Panama Canal zone, as the chief health ofand perfectly willing native An ficer of the isthmian canal commission. ored by educational institutions xnd by learned Hs was was put into a mosquito net tent, where he sat ordered to Panama in March, 1904, and three societies as has William Crawford Oorgaa. He and acted as bait He was paid a certain amount received his modest A. B. from the University years thereafter Thoodore Roosevelt made him a ,of gold for his baiting work and he, with others member of the commission. He was chosen for of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., in (he year who afterward were employed, said it waa easy 1875. and his M. D. from Bellevue Hospital Medthe Panama work because of his record. He moneyj made Panama. one of the healthiest places laical, college in New York city four years, later. When the lent had' a million or more mosquithe world andr more than thlurjp made (he livFrom that time to this honors have heen pHed toes in it the native cafne out and the entrance ing conditions of the laborer oh the Isthmus ts ljpon him, and he has borne them all with a was closed. Then the scientists sprayed the that resembles meekness. It Is held by sanitary, as comfortable- - and as desirable as the and Its confined mosquitoes with coloring tent conditions surrounding the laborer anywhere ia, - matter. The many that doctor of science la the highest honor spray was so fine that K did not the world. which any institution of learning can confer drown or even drench the Insects, but they reTwo years ago when General Gorgas terra of upon a man. Seven great universities, including ceived some coloring matter on their wings and ice on the isthmus was drawing to a close Oxford, Harvard, Pennsylvania. Brown bodies. becausd of the near approach, of the day of comPrinceton have conferred the doctor of science Other tents were pitched and In each was pletion of the waterway, your correspondent visdegree upon this American army doctor. a human bait These tents were at cerited the Canal tone. While there he was taken, To him have come LL. Ds from Johns Hop-kintain distances apart All the mosquitoes In the with some friends, to visit a hospital on an inand from many other universities. By the first tent were released and they were traced land off the coast. This hospital had been built decree of Yale, Georgetown and Washington uniby color from tent to tent until none were found. When general Gorgas Went to by the French. versities he is a doctor of laws. He has medals In that way they found out bow far the malaria the isthmus he took thg building, put It into from societies, from medical associations and feTer mosquito would traveL from national academies of science for disperfect sanitary condition and made It a place Surgeon General Gorgas makes his headquarof reception for convalescents. The hospital ters in W ashington, but he Is a soldier constanttinguished achievement in the Interest of mannever was full, because there wasn't enough He has the Seaman medal from the kind. ly subject to orders and also to thedictates of sickness In the zqne to produce convalescents American Museum of Safety, and he has the his own judgment Any day he may be obliged enough at any time to tax the hospital facilities. to go straight to the front, not to meet the Mary Kindsley medal from the Liverpool (Eng huThe fact that this particular building never was man enemy, but the disease land) School of Tropical Medicine. He Is a memHis is the enemy. Was small a and that of it or at Crowded, active building virtually every best, honorary, her, either responsibility for the health of the soldiers In Texas In the Canal' xone. In Hawaii and in the perhaps furnishes' one of the best proofs possible great scientific society In thq worjd. The honof the commanding medical work which was Philippine islands. It la his to meet, physlcian-lik- e ors,have s&ughl him out He has gone on with done in a place generally accounted as one of his work seeking nothing except that which will and soldierlike. any pmergpngyhfrb-.TrTI,- y the most unhealthy on th face of the globe,., arrse: He is one of the htme.fithlaiellow.man gentlest men known to D'unnirihTTisit to Panama a statement was the service and he Is also one of the General Gorgas was born iu Mobile, Ala. 0 MBy -- Whan tha Worm Turnedrf "Your honorfc" declared Officer McPherson, "I heard an awful yellin' back In the wagonyard, and when' I got there this man was beating his wife. Judge Broyles turned sharply on the prisoner, s tall, gaunt farmer, with complexion.' "Is this true? Were you beating your wife, sir?" the Judge demanded. "Yes, your honor." "How did yon cpme to do it? "Lord knows, jedge. For twenty years she alius wuz th one what did th heatin, but I Jes happened ter catch her when she wasnt feelin Case and Comment right. clay-colore- d - n - n er n able-bodie- anL---serv- sta-tlone- d -- Good Riddance. Andrew Carnegie said at a luncheon In his Fifth avenue mansion overlooking Central park: "The captain of industry has disappeared and i. good job, too. I refer, of course, to that type of captain of Industry which Is lampooned In the tombstone story. Did you hear about the horrible horrible defacement that has happened to the tombstone of the captain of Industry, poor old Trillions? said a banker. What No. said his companion. did the defacement consist of? " Some scoundrel added the word "friends" to the poor fellows epitaph. " Tes And what was the epitaph? It waa. "He did hls best" Often Food Makes or Breaks It all depends upon the kind. A common cause of lessened rigor of body and mind is improper eating. 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