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ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 6
COSMIC FLU
Many American medical authorities admit themselves
baffled by the current type of influenza. It has so many
different manifestations, and attacks victims with so little
regard to precedent and prescribed rules, that there are al
most as many theories concerning its cause and cure as there
are medical groups expounding them. It is interesting,
therefore, to hear what a noted Oriental physician has to say
about the cause of "flu," in an article in the Indian Medical
Record published in Madras.
The word "influenza," he reminds his readers, simply
means "influence." The disease spread all over the world
a year ago when ocean-going traffic was almost at a stand
still, and there were isolated cases in small villages ana re
mote mountain districts. These facts lead Dr. M. C. Nan
junda Row to believe that the disease does not have a bac
terial oriein. Instead he believes:
"This pandemic must have been the result of some cos
mic influence, to the investigation of which no one has as
yet turned his attention, operating on the vitality of all liv
ing things, reducing their power of resistance against dis
ease, thus rendering them easy victims to the onslaughts of
many germs which exist in space already and some ot whicn
at least are probably rendered more active and virulent
from the same causes. Thus this pandemic may be consider
ed perhaps the closing era of a certain type of civilization
or of a certain type of man, just as the upheavals of the
earth fro mthe effect of some geological cataclysm have
marked the closing date of various geological ages.
The doctor seeks no cosmic force to use as a cure for
"flu." He follows much the same methods of treatment as
his occidental colleagues. We almost wish, however, that
the gentleman would turn his attention to the investigation
of this cosmic force and perhaps discover 'a less baneful in
fluence with which we might put ourselves in harmony,
thus routing the flu and all its train of ills. It is growing
wearisome trying to fight a cosmic influence with our merely
human weapons.
Comments of the
, State Press
What la the Pros ram i
The people of Seio and vinnby I
are very much ititi-mtol to know
wh.it i to be tho county court pro
fcram relative to the improvt-meii;
of the Scip-Urens bridjje road dur- I
lug the present se.oon. N?lu Tribune I
Stung So Often i
A Ni w Jersey candidate Iirr the :
legislature promises to exterminate
the mosquitoes if elected. Hut thai ;
will not gel him very far. The folks 1
in New Jersey, like the test of us
have been stung so often that they 1
dont' care Oregon Statesman. '
Berries and Stumps
If one may Judge by the state
ments made by growers of small
fruils such as loKanberrirs, straw
berries, raspberries, and blackberries,
in Western Oregon. Washington and
California, on stump land the rvturns
from these crops are surpassing any
thing ever dreamed of a few years
ago. 4-cbanon Criterion.
Misjudged.
Supporters of Genera! Wood, who.
are wearing buttons displaying the I
word, "Wood", should be careful not
to wear these buttons on thiir hats.
People will misjudge. Astoria Budget.
Miscorjr
An' now bobs up Senator Jim
Reed, from "Misoory," with a can
tankerous demand for an investiga
tion of the Federal Grain corpora
tion. The "show me" senator is
nothing if not cantankerously conten
tious anent every activity connected
with the war which displeased his
German constituency Telegram,
State Rights
Polities make strange bedfellows
so does love of booze. Here we have
the rock-ribbed republicans of Rhod,
ls'aml, and the Tammany democrats
of New York opposing prohibition be
cause it violates thr principles of
"state's rights." Eugene Guard.
Brian and Salmon
The mention of William Jennings
Bryan as a possible presidential can
didate has created a new conundrum
which Asrorians will appreciate: Why
is Bryan like a Chinook salmon? Be
cause, wo are told, he runs every
four years and gets canned. Astor
ia Rudget.
Native Poetry
THK mt'r'KKnNCK
By (iuy KUch Phctpa
Some lives like ancient swamps re
main ' Deep, dismal and indifferent still.
What brooks it, if the day bring rain,
What matter if the night be chill.
Unknown the dateless days go by;
I'n known they live, unknown Uiey die,
Without a vision or a crime,
They slouch their liny round of time.
But there are those who light alone,
Imprisoned spirits fair to wing;
And few there aro who catoh their
moan,
And fewer still who hear them sing.
Like birds of burning breast hey
pine
For some fair land of aun and vine.
And waiting wither sweet of tongue
With all their wildest songs unsung.
And some like lordly ships go out
O'er boundless oceans wild and
wide; I
And drive on foaming shoals of doubt,
And strew their wreckage on the
tide. j
For them no harbor light shall shine;
For them shall rise no star divine.
But lost in darkness far from shore j
They voiceless sink to rise no more.
While some like autumn leaves are
blown
' Hot spita o'er a friendless earth;
They follow paths unmapped, unknown
Without a tie of land or birth.
As restless as a feverish dream,
They pass by ruin, hill and stream.
And where the moons of ramonre play
They sigh their pensive breath away.
O souls with opal sandals shod!
O tempest driven, mast and spar!
O wounded breasts whk-h bleed to God,
And glimpse fruition's lamps afar;
Together on the tempest east.
Blown brothers of a mighty blast,
I hear! I hear! I wake! I start!
The Gypsy's calling in my heart.
But In a crista all shall see I
Him towering strong and high.
His character Is superfine,
So simple, true and broad;
His Insight is the gleam divine,
And links his plans, to God; '
With humble trust deep in Ills soul
lie grasps the tangled skein
That men have madv and In! 'tis
whole
Because his mind is sane.
Ofttimea he walks the lower trail,
Andew may heed his worth,
Until there comes a nation'a wail
Of leaders there is dearth!
Then with a vision crystal clear
He sees that nation's needs;
A frightened people loses fear
And follows where he leads.
Do You Know That
A whale is nearly one-third head.
Tortoises are fond of strawberries.
A man's working life averages forty
years.
Humming birds use spider threads
for their nests.
Jaan's postal service is the cheup
est in the world.
Fighting ants have an organised
system of ambulances.
Playing golf Is new idea for til
cure of the insane.
Footlights were tlrst Introduced (u
the stage by lavld Garrlek.
F.nglish railways have special types
of cars to rarry aeroplanes.
F.nglund's tubarro hill for the year
la in excess of t'iMI.OOO.OOO.
The human body manufactures ten
ounces of water daily from the tis
sues. Shark oil Is used for lighting pur
poses in many parts of Die West In
dies. Two eupfuls of salt Is considered a
handsome wur.e for a day's work In
Togoland.
There still exists in the French Re
public, live different ranks on grades
of nobility.
Statistics show that more limn 40
per cent of the clergy live to be septu
agenarians. .
Air, under pressure at very low U
point lire, ran be turned into a lrid
or even a solid.
The nails on invalids' hands grow
considerably faster than on the hands
if a person in good health.
"Ilombay durk" is not duck. It Is
a dried Mill, and a great dolieaey with
the F.nglish resident in India.
Air Is a very bad conductor of heat
and colli. Were it good, we should
all he roasted or rhilled to death.
The leader
By Grace Hall
He needs no wealth to lend its glow,
No gold to gold his plan.
For greater gains are his to show
Than fall to common man;
His inborn traits may humble be,
As Indeed by casual eye, '
Anyway, the railroad employes are to be praised for
their good sense in expressing their disapproval of the rail
road bill by argument rather than a strike. The argument
failed, but did no harm. The strike would have failed, too,
and done infinite harm.
The present attitude of the Allies toward Russia is ex
cessively Christian. The Bolsheviki are to be forgiven all
their crimes if they promise to sin no more.
Viscount Bryce says the non-Turkish Mohammedans
don't want the Sultan kept in Constantinople. Then who
does?
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A new Chicago paper announces that it
publish no crime or scandal,
at all?
is going to
Won't it print any local news
Cheer up the worst is yet to come. Meaning a boost
in railroad rates, which shippers will pass on to the con
sumer, multiplied as usual.
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Bolshevism, after all, may not have any relation to I.
W. W.-ism. They say the Bolshevist government makes its
workmen labor 12 hours a day.
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