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SMALLPOX ERADICATED • In George Washington’s day, one out of every five people in London bore the scars of smallpox. George Washington himself did, although he’s usually portrayed with clear skin. One out of every 3 children died of smallpox before their third birthday.

• In the 1700s European people realized that if you recovered from smallpox, you would never get the disease again. Whenever a person came down with a mild, survivable form of smallpox, it was fashionable to organize smallpox parties. Friends and relatives would gather together in one house in order to catch the mild form of the disease together, and thus become immune to more deadly strains.

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SMALLPOX, cont’d • An English doctor named Edward Jenner was the first person to realize that people who had suffered from the relatively mild sickness called cowpox were immune to smallpox.

• Jenner first tested his vaccine in 1796. At that time, about one out of every ten people in England died of smallpox. He inoculated an 8-year-old boy with weakened cowpox germs.

Six weeks later, he inoculated the boy with smallpox. The boy did not come down with smallpox. He was immune.

• The idea of vaccination had heavy opposition at first, but began to catch on after Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Napoleon Bonaparte endorsed the idea.

Napoleon had all of his troops inoculated.

• Thanks to vaccination, the last known case of smallpox was reported in 1977.

THE STORY OF LOUIS • In the late 1800’s, a doctor named Louis was doing experiments with chicken cholera. To infect the birds, he grew pure strains of the cholera germs in his laboratory. One day by mistake he injected some chickens with cholera germs that had been sitting in a flask all summer long. He was surprised when the chickens did not get sick. He was even more surprised when he injected the chickens with a fresh, virulent strain of cholera and they still did not get sick.

Putting two and two together, Louis knew he had just discovered a vaccination for cholera.

• Next he experimented with anthrax. Again, an accident intervened. A thermometer in an incubator was off kilter, though he didn’t know it. He wondered why animals injected with anthrax did not come down with the disease— and then he found he’d been getting the germs too hot. Experiments showed that if he heated the anthrax germs before injecting them, the animal would become immune. But veterinarians refused to believe him. (cont’d)

LOUIS, cont’d • Frustrated, Louis challenged veterinarians to attend a public demonstration. All manner of newspapermen, scientists, and doctors attended the test. Two groups of 25 sheep were collected on a farm outside Paris. Louis vaccinated only one group. Two weeks later, all 50 sheep were injected with a powerful strain of anthrax. After two days, all of the vaccinated sheep were fine.

And all of the unvaccinated sheep were either dead or dying.

• Still, Louis wondered how the anthrax was spread from animal to animal. Talking with a shepherd one day, he noticed a piece of the pasture grass was a different color in one spot. The shepherd told him that it was where some anthrax-infected sheep had been buried the previous year. Examining the plot, Louis noticed worm droppings, which he took home and examined under the microscope. They were teeming with anthrax, which they had brought to the surface from the buried carcasses. Louis further reduced anthrax by advising people to burn anthrax infested animals rather than bury them.

• Next Louis turned his attention to a dreaded disease of humans— rabies. Although he was unable to see the rabies germs through his microscope, he was able to prove they were there by transplanting drops of spinal fluid from rabid rabbits to healthy rabbits. The healthy rabbits would soon have rabies too. To make Continued on page 5

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MOMENTS IN TIME The History Channel --* On April 2, 1863, responding to acute food shortages, hundreds of women riot in Richmond, Virginia, breaking windows and looting stores, before Confederate President Jefferson Davis threw his pocket change at them from the top of a wagon. Davis ordered the crowd to disperse or he would order the militia to fire on them. * On April 3, 1882, one of America’s most famous criminals, Jesse James, is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford. Detective magazines had glamorized the James gang, turning them into Robin Hoods. In reality, Jesse James was a ruthless killer who stole only for himself. * On March 31, 1931, Knute Rockne, the legendary Notre Dame football coach, is killed in a plane crash. He was 43. From 1918 to 1930, Rockne compiled a record of 105 wins, 12 losses and 5 ties, and won six national championships. * On April 1, 1948, Soviet troops begin stopping U.S. and British military trains traveling through the Russian sector to and from Berlin. In June, the Soviets began a full-scale blockade of the U.S.-British-French sectors. Thus began the Berlin Blockade, when U.S. aircraft began dropping supplies into Berlin. * On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from more than 200 feet away struck King in the neck. The death of America’s leading civil-rights advocate sparked a wave of rioting in black communities around the country. * On April 5, 1976, Howard Hughes, one of the richest men to emerge from the American West, dies while flying from Acapulco to Houston for medical treatment. Hughes’ bizarre behavior grew worse in his final years, as he became obsessed with privacy and sometimes worked for days at a stretch in a black-curtained room without sleeping. * On March 30, 1980, a floating apartment platform for oil workers in the North Sea 235 miles east of Scotland collapses, killing 123 people.

No one was expecting that a large wave would collapse and capsize the platform. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Acquire Confidence Six Enemies of Your Mind 3.3: Protect Your Mind from Garbage

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By Mick Harper --1. “Reach Out I’ll Be There” was the signature song for which Motown group?

2. Who released “Can’t Get Used to Losing You” in 1963?

3. Name the trio that released “Don’t Pull Your Love.”

4. Who was the other half of the duo who released “Mockingbird”? Carly Simon and ...

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “The others were untrue, But when it came to loving you, I’d spend my whole life with you, Cause you came and you took control, You touched my very soul.”

Answers 1. The Four Tops, in 1966. After two weeks at the top of the charts, it was bumped by “96 Tears.”

2. Andy Williams. In 1980, The Beat came out with a reggae version.

3. Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds, in 1971. Years later, the Glen Campbell single had a typo on the cover sleeve, leaving out the R in “your.”

4. James Taylor.

5. “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” first released in 1967 by co-writer Brenda Holloway and two years later by Blood, Sweat & Tears. Holloway’s version only reached No. 39 on the charts, but the BS&T version went to No. 2.

“Take out the garbage!” was a command my mother shouted at me when I was a kid. Today I stuff much of it down the garbage disposal; hit the “on” switch for a few seconds and it all goes down the drain. The rest I wrap tightly in a Walmart grocery bag, place it in the garbage can out back, and once a week a big truck comes by and hauls it all away.

Why take out the garbage? Because it is not worth keeping and I don’t want it to rot, stink and spoil everything else in my refrigerator. Oh that we would do the same thing for our minds: take out the garbage, and for the same reasons.

Mind-garbage is any negative, nasty thought you need to take out of your mind. It is anything that is not worth keeping and anything that spoils everything else in your mind and heart.

There are many kinds of garbage that find entrance into your mind; here are three that, if not taken out, will rot and spoil the rest of your life: The garbage of past failures, the garbage of blame, and the garbage of unforgiveness.

There is nothing easier to recall than past failures. It is as if they are frequent billboards on the road of life that pop-up repeatedly to remind you of what an idiot you are. Here is one way to deal with the garbage of past failures: Turn every failure into a lesson. When you suddenly recall a past failure convert that thought of failure into a lesson for life. Say, “Yes, I made a mistake back then and the lesson I learned was… Now I am smarter, stronger and more successful than ever!”

With one easy thought you “take out the garbage” and replace it with fresh thoughts of success.

The garbage of blaming others for your situation is another way to stink up your mind.

When you blame your parents, teachers, friends, boss, business partner, mate, the weather, the government or anything else for your misery, all progress ceases. Stop blaming others and take full responsibility for everything that happened in your past. You and only you are responsible for where you are today and where you will be tomorrow.

You are powerless when you blame others but powerful when you accept personal responsibility.

The garbage of unforgiveness can also rot your mind and stink up your future. When you harbor resentment for what someone has said or done to you in the past, you clog your brain with emotional garbage that hurts only you. Refuse to fantasize revenge, instead, forgive. Forgive everyone for anything they have done to you, everyone and anything without reservation whether they deserve it or not, and watch peace of mind, joy of heart and love of others make you a much happier and more successful person.

Take out the garbage in your mind and STORE-UP THE GOOD instead. Your mind is a marvelous creation of God. He has designed it so you can determine what you think about. Think about good things, positive ideas, blessings and benefits instead of blunders and burdens. What you think about will determine the person you become. The writer James Allen said, “A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.”

Choose wisely.

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