Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 13, 1909, Page 10

BEE: ()\l AHA, \\T'l RDAY, NOV LMBER 1'\ 1909. S The Olothes Worn by Dr. Cook at the North Pole which have been on our 2nd floor all week On Display in Our Old Store Window Saturday The houge of Jacob Cohen was well known as one of the foremost New York makers of ready made tailored apparel for women and children. Cohen failed in business and his entire stock was sold by order of the United States district court. Brandeis secured the finest lots. . We place our entire purchase on sale Saturday on 2d floor and basement. BRANDEIS STORES SPECIAL BARGAIN Bed Spread Sale We bought the entire surplus stock of one of America’s large manufacturers at about 50c on the dollar. This is the cholcest lot of bed spreads that - | has ever been offered at such low prices, Entlre Stock of Jacob Cohen, 424 Broadway, New York | iz . i worth up to u at, each (WHO FAILED IN BUSINESS) THIS HOUSE MANUFACTURED STRICTLY HIGH GRADE Women’s Cloaks, Suits and Children’s Cloaks ‘finiah’ spreads, worts up to $1.50, at, each 75c WE WILL SELL THE FINEST LOTS SATURDAY AT THE MOST NOTABLE BARGAINS Satin Marsellles and the very best crochet bed 51 39 spreads made, worth up to $2.560, at, each Every coat and suit in this purchase is strietly new and up to date. manufactured for this fall trade. New styles, fabries and colors. ON SALE ON OUR SECOND FLOOR All the $25 Cloaks from the Great Cohen Steck at $10 $G; some are slightly imperfect, at, each .... 400 fine cloaks in this lot—fine black broadcloths, kerseys, novelties, etec. The linings of heavy satin, beautiful braid trimmings. All kmg, nobby $10 lengths, newest fall cut and right-up-to-date—made to sell up to All the $15 Cloaks at $6.98 $25.00, at . From the Great Cohen Stock ‘Well made and well finished. Blacks and colors. Fine serviceable cloaks for winter wear. All 36 98 | 8ilk Hosiery, Lisle Hosiery, Ribbons, Underwear, BRANDEIS STORES SPECIAL BARGAIN Manufacturers Sample Lines Leather Bags Hundreds of show room samples and drum- mers’ samples of leather bags which our New York buyer secured at about half the regular prices—real seal, walrus, levant, goat seal, alligator, ete.—positively worth to $8.00 each; in two great lots, $1 and $2.50 Imported Belts, in fancy beltings, inlald buckles, worth up to $3.50, at Sample Jewelry and fancy at 14-k fine white stons stamped Tiffany Rings, All were fo 5¢ h(‘l(s. Wnrlh 7be, 25¢ diamond, set in 14-k U, 8. worth $35, at .. $22.50 8 up to All the $20 (loaks at $8.98 From the Great Cohen Stock 250 cloaks made in new fall styles — blacks, colors and mixtures — all nicely fitted, some of them lined and all good practical styles $8 98 -—made to sell up to $20, All the $25 Tailored Suits From the Cohen Stock at $12.50 at ;i New and popular long coat models, extremely well made of fine s 50 materials—latest colors and fabrics—new pleated skirts— 12'___ CHILDREN’S COATS at $4.98 worth up to $25, at s e ey Actually Worth up to $10 850 beautiful new cloaks for girls and chil- BRANDEIS STORES SPECIAL BARGAINS Ostrich Plumes Intire surplus stock of A. Hochheimer, 756-760 Broadway, N. Y., one of the foremost importers of ostrich plumes in America. Plenty of blacks and all colors. li‘é inch Hand Tled Willow Ostrich Plumes, . sizes and worth up 1O BLOEREELTS: arnss oot picvis worth §8.00, u.v, -inch Hand ’]‘\ml Willow Ostrich Plumes, worth ue no (b each .. 86.| 73-inch Ha n! each, 183-inch Hand Tled Willow Oatrich Plumos, worth uu 00 at, each 812.8° 24-fnch Hand Tied Wiilow Ostrich at, each ..... g 16-inch Ostrich worth $2.75, worth $2.98, at 16-inch Ostrich 16%-inch Ostrich Plumes, worth $4.25, at l‘lm nes, wflr(h llfllro $35.00 CHILDREN’S CLOAKS at $2.98 Actually Worth up to $7.50 600 children’s coats in bearskins, imitation oppossum, fawn -skins, broadcloths, velvets, dren—all very clever styles for fall-—mil- mixtures, kerseys—pretty, nobby. ’2’3 "Il'] and nuto styles, fine ker- 8498 SPECIALS FROM THE COHEN STOCK ON SALE IN BASEMENT 1 to 14 years, worth up to $7.50, at. cuneul plulh etc worth to 310 WOMEN’S WINTER COATS $15 to $17-*° TAILORED SUITS at $6.98 $10 and $12°° TAILORED SUITS at $5 WOMEN’'S WINTER CLOAKS Long, black and mixture effects, in all ce broadeloth, cheviots, serges and Every suit In this group from the Cohen purchase - Up-to-date cloaks from the Jacob cuts; all the prevailing plain tailored novelty materials. All are new and up- "is & new and nobby garment in this season’s Cohen stock are well made mix- or smartly trimmed styles; new colors to-date styles, plented skirts, with yoke style. The jackets and skirts are good broad- tures, kerseys, novelties, cheviots, and materials—worth up sson effects; jackets in good 1engthessga cloths, cheviots, worsteds and mix- 35 etc., new long lengths 8298 to $12.5 2.50—1In basement, trimmed or plain, worth up tc Rieon) 7 AUy AR a0 EREITAd: Avd and all colors, worth A SPECIAL CLEARANCE OF HAIR GOODS--Second Floor ” some have good linings; all colors, s T AR TR RN $15 and $17.50, at . $7.50, at Roman Braids, 36 inches long, $8 inches long, made worth up to $12.50, at FLOWER |[|...5. Roman Braids, 2? $12 value, at §7.98 Extra fine hair, 28 inches long, $15 of fine hair, DEPT [ 8. Saturday Specials 26-inch long, natural wavy hgr. $10 value, at ..$7.00 Long stem carnations — o regularly 60c and 75c & STRAIGHT HAIR SWITCHES PR L8-inch long hair, $1.50 value 98¢ | 22-inch long hair, $3.50 value, b e 1. 20-inch long hair, sz 50 vawue | at $2.78 Large quantity potted ot e .. $1.49 | 24-inch long hair, $7 value, $5.00 Asparagus Ferns, all new and healthy stock, _,EAH} 3-01;41-[3 ¥ ] regularly 26c and ls’ ¢ value, -inch net covered roll, 35¢ value, 35c, at, each uc .. 50¢ s s b ik i h ..15¢ } B 6 ‘in set,| Puffs, 8 iu bt‘l Small Pompadour, 5 value .. 75¢| $1.50 value. ,98(‘| ‘.f‘,,”,‘:_" “of_ H m;;;‘; BRANDEIS STORES SPECIAL BARGAIN Women's Yoner FALL HATS at $2.50 These are samples and show room models of fall hats from Folgeman Bros. and Hirsh, 704 Broadway, New York—Large and small shapes, trimmed with ostrich plumes, velvot ribbons, feathers, ete., all new nuds right up to date, and worth up to 2 $8.50, at . Sale of Kid Gloves Women'’s two-clasp Kid Gloves—French kid and lambskin— gray, green, blue, red, tan, brown, black and $ $l§0 white—regular glove counter, a pair. . Rough Rider Gloves for girls| and boys, tan and black, worth up to 75c¢ pair, bargain square, at, a pair Women'sand children’s Scotch gloves, colors, worth 35¢ palr, at SATURDAY SPECIALS [V CHINA DEPARTMENT Lindsay Inverted Gas Light, complete for &t ;"\ .85¢ Bull Dog Gas M&ntlelAregu]nrlv 25¢ —mow, two for . Gas Tubing, with nttnchmonts per footE. ... . % 4.“3c‘ Russian Brass J ardmxers. 8 in., footed —foy .. g .$1 Dresden China—New fall line is now complete ~+20 per cent discount on entire line. ectric Domes and Portables—Special count of 3314 per cent. 24-inch long, natural wavy hair, §7 24-inch long, naturai wavy hair, $5 value, at $3.00 22-inch long, natural wavy hair, $4 value, at .. $2.98 20-inch long, natura: wavy hair, $3 Kid glove special for Saturday— black, white and colors, all sizes, on bargain square, worth up to $1.25, a pair, at Men's kid mocha and kid gloves, grey, red and tan, worth up to $1.25 pair, bargain 590 cashmere black, white and 15¢ square, at, 24-inch washable roll, a pair ... £ al . . Cluster pufts, 10 | P, and 12 in set, §3 |I Uffs value, at $1.50 | $1.25 dis- b g Large Auto nets, .10¢ at e ORICIN OF THE “HOOKWORM" What Was But Recently a Joke Becomes a Medical Problem. GERM OF LAZINESS RUN DOWN Discovery Traced Back More Than a Century—What it, Looks Like 1t Does Business. In December, 102, and for some time thereaftef, the American press made much of what it concelved to be an exception- ally good joke. At the Pan-American San- itary congress held in that month it had been announced by Do less an authority than the chicf of the division of zoology of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital service, Dr. Charles War- dell Stiles, that he had discovered a hu- man pavasite to which directly due the “laziness” and “shiftlesspess” of the poor whites of the sand-lands and pine- barrens of the south. The “lazy bug,” the “lazy germ" became a joke at which people laughed whenever the subjeot was broached, until Dr. Stiles, who “had seen emaclated men trylng to wrest a living from half-tilled flelds, and women, to whom rest never came, trying to nurse starveling babes at withered breasts, sol- emnly asserted in an address: ‘It isn't & thing to laugh at when men and women and children are dying’" The story of Dr, Stiles’ momentous discovery is force- fully told by Marion Hamilton Carter in McClure's for October; and it shows that, far from belng a laughing matter, Dr. Stfles' announcement was founded on and those of the gravest import to t two million people of the south. The discovery of the hookworm itself is not recent. Traced Away Back. In 1782 Goeze, a German clergyman and 2oologist, found a small hafr-like parasite in the Intestine of a badger he was dissect- ing. which he called “der Harrundwurm" (the hair-round worm). Seven years later Froelich, another German zool- ogist, found a similar parasite in the In- testine of a fox. Observing the “hooks"” spoken of by Goeze, Froelich adopted the vernacular word Haakenwurm (hook- worm) and gave th neric name Uneci- narla (from Uncinus, & hook) to the genus he established. Thus the parasite got its name. As a matter of fact, the “hooks" are not hooks at all. However, the name clung for two other reasons: The head of the worm bends conspicuously backward, making a hook of the worm itself; and within the mouth eavity of the European species lle four sharp, chit- Inous hooks by which the parasite fastens itself to the intestine, In 1843 Du- bint, Itallan of Milan, described a species occurring In man, to which was attributed the widespread anemia among Itallan brickmakers, excavators, and the poorer rural population. In 1579 a terrible epldemic of “tunnel at " broke out among the workers in the St. Gothard tunnel and the interest of the whole scien- titic world was aroused. Investigation ieft no doubt as to the cause of the disease, and that it had been spread through total neglect of personal hyglene on the part of the workers and lack of sanitary conven- lences. The soll of the tunnel was com- pletely impregnated with the ova and larvae of the hookworm, and all who handled it became infected. In 1881 Boz- zolo, in Turin, suggested the use of thy- mol, the active principle of thyme, for the destruction of the parasite, which remains the stock treatment today. World-Wide Parasites. The disease became prevalent in Europe, &nd reports of it also came rapidly In from siich widely scattered places as Calcutta, Tunis, Cape Colony and Egypt. The worm had not, however, been found in Ameri; but in 1893 Blickhahn ‘“‘won the priority claim for first discovery by publishing In the Philadelphia News the report of an imported case of a German bricklayer he had treated.” On the heels of this a few cases were reported from Richmond and New Orleans, and the profession knew that the hookworm was here. But no one knew that America had a hookworm of her own until 1901, when “the right case tell into the hands of the right man—Dr. Allen J. Smith of Texas—and the account of it was published by Dr. Charlotte M Schaeffer in the Texas Medical News. Dr. Smith found that his hookworm was ‘not Dubint's, but & new American species never before described.” Dr. Stiles had ked for specimens of the worms from Dr. Smith's case and, when he recelved them, “went off on a vacation to work out the question of species.” Later, while Dr. Smith was writing & paper on his hookworm, “the mail one day brought htm a lttle two-page pamphlet, dated May, 1902, signed ‘Stiles,' announcing the new American hookworm. Dr. Stiles had won the priority clalm for the discovery. It was one qf the closest runs for priority on big game In the history of zoology." Wow it Works. In describing how the hookworm feeds upon its vietim, the McClure's writer says “The hpokworm's motto might well be multum in parvo; for, compacted within its tiny body, less than an inch long and looking Itke & bit of solled coarse thread. mouth, esophagus, intestinal canal, ete., to which the female adds the capac- ity for many thousand eggs When the hookworm is ready to eat, it presses its mouth disk against the intestine, draws a4 tiny plece of the mucous membrane into its mouth, and punctures it with its lancets and fang. Through the minute holes thus made the blood Is sucked out. “How long & hookworm remains cling- Ing to one spot before it moves to a fresh one 1s not known. Dr. Sandwith, an English physiclan, found in one of his autopsies 20 worms and 67 bites. In another, when the autopsy was performed seven hours after death, there were 863 worms, of which 217 were still clinging, and some of them had not only their heads but half their bodies buried in the intes- tine.” Any one who has knows the “crackers, springing lived In the south “sandhillers,”” “barrenites,” and & miserable class of people from Anglo-Saxon stock but having a deep-seated aversion to work. Soms are bloated with dropsy, have lus- terless eyes, and a skin like tallow. Some are “dirt-eaters'—they eat dirt and clay right off the ground; or they will pick lumps of soot out of the chimney and suck It till they swallow it. All of these aro the unfortunate victims of the Nec. |ator Americanus, the ‘“‘American jderer,” as Dr. Stiles now calls his hook- | worm. The affections known as ‘“ground iteh," “foot itel “dew _polson,” et have also been traced to the same source. For it is found that in_most cases infec tion takes place through the skin of the foot. Herein lles the one hopeful feature of hookworm disease: The parasite cannot multiply In the body of its victim. Lines of Safety. The female lays her thousands of eggs in the intestinul tract of her vietim, but they cannot develop without oxygen When they have passed out, and condi- tions of air and temperature are favorabie it takes them from one to three days tc hateh into minute larvae, barely visible |to the naked eye. After a short | period of growth a new skin Is formed under the old one and each larvae molts It becomes longer and thinner, and pres ently the second molt begins. It is now in the infective stage, and unless it can fasten on a passing foot, or & stroke of luck sends it down its future vietim'a throat In drinking water or on the sur- face of unwashed vegetables, Its career as & parasite Is nipped in the bud. At this stage freezing and complete dry- Ing are fatal, so the paresite hastens to protect itself. It wastes no time, but erawls off to the nearest puddie or into damp soll, where it mur- | can protect its feeble body from the dry- ing action of sun and wind. In this way, burrowing through loose, sandy soil, gath- ering about the roots of plants and vege- tables, the larvae hatched from a single deposit spread themselves over an area probably a n.ndred times greater than the spot whence they originated. And there are tens of thousands of them, all bent on the same errand all ravenous for con- tact with human flesh. It will have been gathered from what has been said that the spread of the hook- worm disease is due to soil pollution. In a census of 36 sand-land farms, taken by Dr. Stiles, 43 per cent of the whites and 79 per cent of the negroes were without any kind of sanitary conveniences. It is found that, “‘without so much as guessing that there is anything the matter with him, him a number of hookworms that wouls iay a white child In his grave” And it has been fairly assumed that “in the beginning the negroes brought.the hookworm with them from Africa on the siave-ships, and it has remained with them ever since.” This is the “price of slave that has fallen on the white man and his children; for wher- er the whites have followed the negro on plantations that he tilled in slave days anemia with symptoms of the disease has broken out among them, and it now numbers 2,000,000 cases In the south. By it thousands of American families have been reduced to abject poverty and mil- lions of dollars have been lost through incompetent labor in every state below the Potomae It is the lg the white norence and carelessness of landlord that are responsible for present insanitary conditions; and five | great states in south are now fronted with the grim fact that “thelr I bor problem is the problem of soll poliu tion and the hookworm disease.”—Ameri- can Review of Reviews the con- Giving Away. “A woman just car | declared, opposing a statement ‘Oh, 1 den't know,” contradicted the fluttery lady. “I've kept my age a secret ever since I was 24" ” he replied, “but one of these days glve it away. In time you will mply have to tell it." @il ‘sho repiled with confidence, “I keep a secret,” he the negro is able to carry about with | man in his bed and & Mhllfi hookworm | and hops and ought, under less archale methods of cultivation, to Wupport twiee | its present number of farmers. There are S hundreds of such districts in the fertile PLENTY OF LAND T0 BE HAD‘ middle states, to say nothing of those in (lll‘ vastly under-populated south, where t Areas Avatlable West and South y land is as cheap, all things cousidered, as Without Danger of | 1t 1s anywhere on the eontinent. e | 1t there was anything like an equitabte ‘dhflx'ilmllull of Immigrants of the agricul- o . | tural class the country could go on taking It s & singuiar fact that the ldes o & | them indefinitely ana cause no slarm to dearth of agricultural land should PYeVE' | qon s of gocial economy. The movement anywhere in this country, “)“‘;I" ‘:" PoP 1| of American population toward Canada has lation still bears such a sma Ha 2 widely spread the idea that the best lands relatfon to the area of good soll.: JARMR: in the lzulhvl States are already manned | which 1s about the size of California, con- |}f (he United Siates are arready menncl, | telns ten times our pumber of inhabitants, = the Bnited BY A E it BAN Ao without confining farmers to areas of land | ™ ek 10 S < & o mfi lnnlm.»,l tor ':n.n protitable use, ‘The |the land it has disposed of by H‘m( |4‘|nn‘1y south is still open to multi-millions of in- | Method tR0.'FONAOINA. HIR? dustrious men, So is the middle west; and, | holdings are ¢ | centers of cor sirange to say, there remaius plenty of | °°F ’ b oy i o) room in the populous east dition We have in v S by all the th at civilize and charm.— |mind a fertile courtry six hours by rail | o 4% the WA T T from New York City San Francisc 1 to cities of | trom 50,000 to 100,00 people, where the popu N ; |18tion is leas than it was in 180. This s | o SEEE R IO ek visitor to his | not the fault of the soli or of the markot. [ - WO Bl Tl 0t Vo are to recelve | 1t simply means that the young men have | 5 TN 0 T0e Sour party. Are you | been drawn to the mearby citles and that | goinc (o stand for it?” | emigrants have passed it, by enroute west, | «gure I am,” #ald the surprised Ameri- ausing the aecre price to run down from |« vho did not know that the English Btuy e ana B e Sown © candidate “stood” for office. “‘Sure. How $100 to & maximum of $30 and & minimum of $10. The country is given to d think that when a woman has kopt a se- | cret for twenty years she comes prn-ny near; knowing how to keep it."—Philadel- phia Ledger. v 15 a @ ar large sun ottled con- and W lifte exist close erfcan v v I run if 1 don’t stand for 1t?'—Baiti re American