Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 3, 1917, Page 2

Theory That Rheumatism May Be Traced to Infected Condition of Throat Is Given Jolt. . The prevalent idea that there is & @istinct relationship between the tome 4ils and “rheumatism” recelves a se pere jolt in & report by Drs. 8. J. Prowe, S. Shelton Watkins and Alma B. Rothholzin the bulletin of the Jobns Hopkins hospitsl. Thess investigatots followed ‘'Up nime cases after the tons sils had been removed. Only two showed/ improvement, :z’voA showed ne improvément’and five of thé cases aré souch worse. Yet in each of these tases'it seehs cértain that the toniils were the sodree of {nfection: L T ectomy, as cutting out the tonsils is/cilled, is alwdys & trylng op- eriition. ' Suffefers from ‘rbeumatold arthritis are generally middle-aged, and the disease 1s generally well ad- vanced when they seek medical advice. [here is often marked anaemia and & distinct lessening of ability to with- stand pain. Therefore it is doubtful if they should be subjected to such a painful operation. The investigators express skepticism 88 to the efficacy of tonsil removal in pther rheumatic affections—rheumatie fever and chorea, for instance, but say that when the tonsils really are the primary source of infection their re- moval may materially help the cure by preventing constant reinfection. USUALLY NOT SO CARELESS Btory of the Steward and the Cocle roaches One of Late Admiral Dewey's Favorite Sea Yarns. Among the late Admiral Dewey’'s sea stories was one about an inefficient steward. “A sea captain”—so he would be- gin—“drank off a cup of coffee and then started back with a cry of hor- ror, for there in the bottom of the cup lay two gigaptic cockroaches. “The sea captaln summoned the steward In a voice of thunder. He pointed out the two cockroaches to the man, and demanded an explana- tion. “'m certalnly very sorry, sir,’ stammered the steward. ‘I don’t un- derstand it at all. I hadn’t an idea them two cockroaches was in that there cup of coffee when I give it to you. They float, usually, you know, #ir, and when I see one I always take 1t out, of course, sir, before servin'.’” «The Moet ‘Ferrible 8ight™ A great violinist says that American women are “lohuman.” “Do you know what to me is the most terrible sight in all New York?” he asks. “Worse than the pitiable processjon of little _-girls up Broadway? It is the women in the foyer of the opera. When I look at them it is with pity and with dis- may, and finally with terror. How can there be so many women, I ask myself, who look so inhuman? Oh, the splen- dor of thelr perfection, how terrible it 1s. One after anofher, one after anoth- er, I see them; early middle-aged and middle-aged, calm and magnificent, their too-abundast flesh carefully cor~ seted, their arms and bosoms shining, every detall of them speaking how they live in the realm of the body, and *how much thought and time it has tak- en to give them that special aspect of perfection. One knows how they live, how sheltered are they from every un- comfortable physical sensation. They shrink from discomfort more shudder- ingly than a braver race shrinks from pain."—Woman’s Home Companion. War Hospitals for Horses. Al the horses in the veterinary ho® * pitals on the British front in France are fed four times a day. The more de bilitated ones are fed five and sia times. When they are particularly run dowa and in danger of being mistaken for boneyard hatracks of a sort, the patients get nothing but cooked foods, and they fairly revel in them. They hava tonics, too, and it is remarkable to <ee the impiovement in their condi- tico that a few weeks' work. The diet for “debilities” consists of oatmenk gruvl, linseed gruel, boiled turnips and scaided oafs. Later they get crushed oats and chopped , and alinost bes fore they know it they are in the con valescent ward. Japan’s Rice Crop Grows. Japan’s last rice crop broke all rece ords for that empire,’ having amount- ed to 202,466,706 b{lshels. which beat the former oflicial high record (1914) by 6.630,270 bushels. Better methods of investlgation and handling by local officials may be partly respousitle, but * the increase is probably due also to improvement made in the selection of seed, methods of farning and pre- vention of damage from natural causes. To Enlarge New York City. A competent engineer proposes to enlarge the area of New York city by reclaiming 50 square miles of land from New York bay, by the use of cof- ferdams. He estimates that the expense will be greater than the sum required to build the Panama canal. This would be a small item if the project were suc cessful. Wolfe’s Sash to a Museum, . A new and value® addition has just NOT DUE TO BAD TONSILSI Photo by American Press Assoclation. In the uniform of lieutenants of the United States marines four of the leaders of Yale university student life received their diplomas at the commencement. They are S. W. Meek, Jr.. managing editor of the Yale News; M. T. Le Gore, captain of the Yale baseball team: J. . Overton. champion long distance runner, and 8. W. Burke, presi- dent of the Yale Dramatic association MODEL RURAL TOWNSHIP. Rural Survey In lowa Locates It In Northern Section of State. The model rural township has been discovered by a rural survey in Iowa —Orange township, in the northern part of the state. It has not a village in it, and the residents are almost whol- 1y American born, though many are of German descent. There are now eighty- seven owner-operators of farms and fifty-seven tenants, but half of these tenants are related to the owners of thelr lands, being, for the most part, either sons or sons-in-law, and nearly four-fifths expressed confidence in some day becoming full landowners. Thirty- one of the owners belong, on the aver- age, to two and_ope-third farmers’ or- ganizations and thirty-two of the chil- dren of the community are in high school. Practically all the homes have telephones; more than half are heated by furnaces; more than half have vac- uwmn cleaners; more than half have au- tomobiles; more than half have pianos, and very nearly half, or fifty-seven out of 142 homes, have running water in- doors, The owners of land have an average of a little more than a hun- dred books each and the tenants near- ly a hundred. Not a single home was without a paper or magazine, and half of them had four or five aplece. Sixty-three owners’ faniilies contribut. ed an average of over $50 each to church support. How many city blocks could show such figures? The social conditions, finally, are excellent, for piiosand commnnits gathedngs.are frequenf. The spirit of the township may be gauged from the fact that each fall a community banquet is held for the hired men. It's futile for Opportunity to knock at the door if we haven't saved up mgney enough to take advantage of her proposition.—Detroit Free Press. It is estimated that there are proba- bly 1,500,000,000 cents and 500,000,000 five cent pieces afloat in the United States, or an average of twelve pen- nies and five nickels for each person. Moeteorites. Specimens of meteorites command such a value that those which fall to the earth are generally broken up into innumerable parts and scattered in all directions among the private collec- tions. Thus one of the earliest known meteorites, that found in Eusisheim. Upper Alsace, in 1492, is represented in sixty-six collections. The result of this practice is that exorbitant prices are asked by dealers for meteoric material in amounts sufficient for analysis and study. ‘The best that history gives us is the enthusiasm it arouses.—Goethe. Every one who puts up a fence fences out more than be fences in. There is $500.000,000 invested in Unit- ed States lumber plants. Good intentions are apt to get rusty unless kept in constant use. ‘The larger the'bluff the smaller it looks when called. Delaware was the tobacco plantatiov of New Amsterdam. Readers of the Bemidji Pioneer By Sending this Coupon to the NATIONAL EMERGENCY FOOD GARDEN COMMISSION 210 Maryland Blldg., Washington, D. C. 2-cent stamp to pay postage, a canning and drying manual sent free of charge. All you have to do is to fill out the and enclose the two-cent stamp for postage.. These are 12- manuals, fully illustrated, and are sent out in co-operation this paper as & part of the personal service we at all times aim our read & CItYe v eenen oenennan cnemenne seneaeen Actual Size Bump Clipless Paper Fastener It will fasten a limited number of papers together, neatly and perma- nently, without the use of clips, pins or metal fasteners, making the tie out of the paper itself. ECONOMICAL and PRACTICAL in its use. 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[ 60 | These Times Above All Others | 60 [H No store has a right to charge 0 IT more than a small margin of prof- it. A store that lives up to this Pays is entitled to your trade--above Do You all others. This is one reason why we agk for your trade. RUGS Axminster, 36x80 _ . . .$5.00 Wilton 36x72 ... .....$8.50 . A regular $10.00 value Pts. Mixed Rugs 27x54— $1.98, $2.25, $2.48. $2.98 . , We savé you money g&?}’%n? we sel?ng a mlghtg good value and will be higher 73c. 85c. 89c. 98¢, $1.25. etc a5 CLOTHES BASKETS . 19 95&.25 ver doz. 38c M o 5¢ and 1 Goods ic and 10c and 25¢ BASKE;I‘& See Window Display—Store is full of your every 35¢ NEED H S?'BY NOBBY HOS?‘E Y for every 3 WRINGERS 3 member of family the 108 | with stand, warranted 5 years 15¢, 19¢, 25c. 29¢c. 39¢c. 45c. $7.35 55¢, $1.25 Others at $2.98 and $3.98 GARLSO The Variety Store Man on Beltrami No Stors Serves You Better Sfore Hours: Phone 61J The Soundiof Marching Feet will soon be heard throughout the Land But--- Before YOUR boy “Falls In” see that he visits our studio. We'll make you the BEST picture he ever had. The Hakkerup Studio BEMID]I, MINN been made to the Museum of the Cha- teau de Ramezay. It consists of & eabinet containing a portion of the gar- net silk sash worn by Gen. James Wolfe on the day he hecame the “‘vie- tor of Quebec,” in 1759. In addition to the sash are the original letters that prove unmistakably the authenticity of the ralic—>Montrsal Star. ) Pioneer Publishing Go. Phone 922 RO Subseribe for The Pioneer \v‘ L ~ The Bemid Defective