LOCK HAVEN 



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LOCKPORT 



embodied in his famous Essay, and his 

 Thoughts Concerning Education. 



Locke was influential as a moralist, an econo- 

 mist and as the leader of many public reforms, 

 but he stands preeminent as a defender of indi- 

 vidual freedom religious, political and intel- 

 lectual. This idea dominates all his writings, 

 whether he chose the subject of Civil Govern- 

 ment, or the Reasonableness of Christianity. 



LOCK HAVEN, PA., the county seat of Clin- 

 ton County, is a manufacturing city with a 

 population of 7,772 in 1910. It is situated north 

 of the geographical center of the state, on the 

 West Branch of the Susquehanna River, at the 

 point where it receives the waters of Bald 

 Eagle Creek. Williamsport is twenty-five miles 

 northeast, Philadelphia is 223 miles southeast 

 and Erie is 223 miles northwest. The city is 

 served by the Philadelphia & Erie, Bald Eagle 

 Valley and the New York Central railways. 

 The first settlement was made in 1833 by Jerry 

 Church, of New England; it was incorporated 

 as a borough in 1844 and as a city in 1876. In 

 1913 it adopted the commission form of gov- 

 ernment. Here was located the "lock" of 

 the old West Branch Canal which afforded a 

 "haven" to traffic down the river, hence the 

 name of the city. 



The principal manufactories are dependent 

 on the resources of the surrounding country, 

 which is a rich agricultural and lumber region; 

 it also has fine deposits of hard and soft fire 

 clay and red shale for making bricks. Bitumi- 

 nous coal beds, too, are found in the vicinity. 

 Lumber and planing mills, fire-brick works, 

 sewer-pipe plants, silk mills, paper mills, cigar 

 and cigar-box factories, and tanneries are among 

 the industrial establishments of the city. The 

 Central State Normal School, with several fine 

 buildings, is located here. The city also has a 

 business college, a library, parochial and public 

 schools, the $100,000 high school built in 1914 

 being one of the notable buildings. C.M.E. 



LOCK 'JAW, or TETANUS, tet'anus, a 

 serious disease characterized by continuous 

 rigidity of the muscles, which closes the jaws 

 and holds the spine curved backward. It is 

 caused by a germ (tetanus bacillus) which lives 

 in earth or dust, especially around stables, gar- 

 dens, in the dust of streets or houses, in manure 

 and in splinters. These germs are often present 

 in gunshot wounds. The disease is twenty 

 times more frequent in the tropics than in tem- 

 perate regions, and may select certain localities 

 or districts. It gains entrance to the body 

 through wounds, varying in size from a needle- 



prick to an operation wound. Rusty nails, as 

 such, never produce lockjaw; but the germ of 

 lockjaw, or tetanus, which is often found in 

 earth, may be held in the rough places of the 

 rusty nail, and this germ may infect the wound 

 made by the nail, may enter the blood, and the 

 poison which it manufactures may produce the 

 symptoms of lockjaw. A clean rusty nail can- 

 not infect. 



Symptoms show themselves any time from 

 six hours to nine days after infection, and begin 

 suddenly with stiffness of the muscles of the 

 lower jaw and neck. The teeth are set, the 

 eyes are glaring and nostrils dilated; the upper 

 lip is drawn up and back; the lower lip is pro- 

 jected down, giving a sardonic grin to the 

 mouth. The muscles of the back and neck are 

 drawn tightly, arching the body backward, the 

 weight resting on the head and heels. There is 

 high fever, violent muscular pain and inability 

 to swallow or to talk, but the senses are clear 

 until death, which occurs in ninety per cent of 

 cases. 



Treatment. Wherever there is any suspicion 

 of tetanus poisoning use 1,500 units tetanus 

 antitoxin as soon after the injury occurs as 

 possible and keep the wound open by swab- 

 bing with zinc, iodine or carbolic acid, applying 

 alcohol after one minute. Nerve-quieting 

 medicines should be taken when needed. No 

 person infected should attempt personal treat- 

 ment, however, for even a skilled physician's 

 powers are taxed to save the patient. C.B.B. 



Consult Osier's Modern Medicine. 



LOCK 'PORT, N. Y., the county seat of 

 Niagara County, situated in the center of the 

 Niagara fruit belt, in the western part of the 

 state, twenty-six miles north by east of Buf- 

 falo. It is on the New York State Barge Canal 

 (which see) and on the Erie and the New York 

 Central railroads. The population, which in 

 1910 was 17,970, was 19,879 (Federal estimate) 

 in 1916. Lockport covers an area of eight 

 square miles, and is partly built in terraces 

 along the sides of "Mountain Ridge." The 

 chief points of interest are the two great locks 

 by which the canal descends sixty feet from the 

 level of Lake Erie to the Genesee level, and 

 the New York Central Railroad bridge, one of 

 the widest bridges in the world, which crosses 

 the canal in the heart of the city. 



Among the prominent buildings are the Fed- 

 eral building, courthouse, public library, Y. M. 

 C. A. building, city hospital, Odd Fellows' 

 Home and the county jail and almshouse. 



