The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 19, 1909, Image 3
THE BEGGIN
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A condition of the times, a situation
which has become very trying,
iboth to manufacturers and advertisers,
is the solicitation by members
of different organizations for advertisements
in their programs, score
cards, dance orders, and for purchase
of tickets for these affairs.
We have several times before referred
to this subject at length in
these columns, but it is a matter of:
puch importance and the practice I
mentioned is so burdensome to those
affected that we think it well to bring
ap the subject again.
First, the manufacturer is approached
by a very smiling policeoaan,
with the request to buy one or
two tickets to the policeman's ball,
which is to take place shortly, the
proceeds of which go to the policg!
taen. Next, the fireman appears with
-utr same icqucsi.. lunumug mm
Jomes the letter carrier, whose organization
is also about to hold a ball,
i find is getting out a very handsome
fcouvenir, and they not only want you
to purchase tickets but also to spend
certain amount of money for advertising
in the program. Then the
United order of mail clerks is holding
Its first or second annual ball, tickets
for which you are expected to purchase.
Following them probably
comes the city laborers' association
jwith tickets, only $1.50 apiece, for
the benefit of the laboring man who
has been out of employment or who
Is working only half time. To make
this case all the more heart rending,
the man out of work may have been
the innocent victim of spasmodic retrenchment
in the city government.
flThen comes the benevolent order of
railway clerks connected with the P.
D. Q. Railroad, who have a delegation
of two or three of their members
.waiting upon manufacturers with the
request that they buy tickets for the
annual ball, the proceeds of which
are to be used for the benefit of their
members. Then come the freight
handlers of a railroad whose name
includes that of the largest city in
New York and several of those in
Connecticut, requesting that the solicited
ones purchase tickets for the
annual ball. Following these probably
comes a procession of delegates
ifrnm corrfft nrrfpr? innnmprablp. with
requests for donations, either to fairs
that they are to hold or for advertisements
in the program for their
field day sports. Another organization
appears representing that it is
to hold a fine convention and is preparing
a very handsome souvenir or
book with the pictures of all the
xeigning members in the same, and a
page for advertising in this book or
Souvenir can be purchased at the absurdly
low price of $25 or more, as
the case may be, which means that
they are usually willing to take what
they can get, and it certainly behooves
the friends of labor to take a
page in the beautiful forthcoming
triumph of the art of letterpress
printing.
It is useless to go on with the catalogue
of organizations that constantly
importune manufacturers whose
goods are sold in the retail stores,
but, of course, we must not forget
BEAUTIES AND M
A Famous Mine Which
Halls?Is 22 Miles Lon
The most interesting salt mines in
the world are said to be those at
I wienczKa, la uaucia, wuitu iuiuu ?u I
underground collection of streets, j
houses, churches and monuments, j
' Their history can be traced back a !
thousand years and they are still
fceing worked. Tourists are fitted out
with miners' shirts and hoods and are
conducted by guides, one to each
three visitors. The first stop is at St.
'Anthony's chapel, hewn two hundred
years ago by some unknown miner
from a single piece of rock salt. The
altar has twisted columns and there
are statues at each side, praying
monks kneeling on the steps, and
over the altar the crucifixion and a
statue of the Virgin. Smaller altars
at the sides and the pulpit are carved
from pure salt spar. This chapel was
formerly used for religious services,
but they are now conducted in the
more modern chapel of St. Cunegund.
Next comes a great dancing hall,
hung with chandeliers carved from
crystal salt in 1814, in honor of the
visit of the czar to the mine. There
are statues of salt here, too, a handsome
door and a long gallery. Visitors
often dance here to the music
of an orchestra. Next they go to the
.chapel of Cunegund, opened in 1806.
It is reached by a descent of forty-six
steDs cut in solid salt. The chapel
itself is 150 feet long, forty-five feet
broad and thirty feet high. It contains
statues, a beautiful pulpit, altars
and chandeliers, all of salt. The
Michalowice hall is eighty-four feet
long, fifty-four feet wide and 108
feet high, with a colossal chandelier
seven feet in diameter containing 200
candles. Passing through other beautiful
halls one reaches the Crown
Prince Rudolph grotto, where the
lights and white carvings are reflected
in the water of an underground
lake. From the centre of the
water rises a statue ? of salt, of
course?surrounded by fir trees and
stalactites.
The mines form an oval twentytwo
miles in length and half a mile in
central width. The aggregate length
of the galleries at present accessible
is upward of sicty-five miles, and that
of mining railways twenty-two miles.
Enormous cavities amounting to 106,
000,000 cubic feet have been produced
during the last century below
the town of Wieliczka by working the
rock salt, and as these cavities?kept
lip artificially by timbering?are continually
increasing, the inhabitants of
[Wieliczka some time ago were fearful
lest their own town be exposed to the
risk of collapsing, and the local
building activity was therefore temporarily
confined to the erection of
. wooden structures. Present regulations,
according to which these cavities
have to be filled in, in due course
gradually removed that apprehension.
The mines are employing upward of
1000 permanent and a number of
temporary warknaea. The working
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G NUISANCE!
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j the clerks whc come around and ask
us to take a page and also buy tickets
for their picnic.
Every department store in tho
country has connected with it a benefit
organization for its employes and i
the officers of these organizations ob- I
tain from the manager of the store a ' jc
list of manufacturers from whom they i t]
purchase their supplies, and as the u
manager of one of our best known j
and most prominent manufacturing
house writes us, without any compunction
of conscience whatever these
clerks enclose to every manufacturer
a half dozen tickets costing from
fifty cents to one dollar, with what
they consider to be a very nicely
written letter, stating that they are j
very friendly to this particular manu- i
facturer's goods, and they would like
to have the said manufacturer buy
these tickets for the benefit of the
aforesaid employes.
Besides the above, which is really
only a small list, almost every church j
organization, either the laidies' aid, j
or the prudential committee, intend I
to run a fair to furnish funds to fix
the steeple, paint the church, or help I
out the minister's stipend; therefore, j
they are going to run this fair and if
the manufacturer will be kind enough
to donate some of his goods, and
sometimes they ask for the cash, they
will see that the manufacturer receives
advertising in return.
We know of one case where the
provender committee of a church
j wrote to a person who did not even
attend that church, requesting a turkey,
stipulating that it must be
cooked. Instances that we might
1 enumerate are almost without number.
It is "the same old story in the tc
same old way." The only relief we c<
can see is for the manufacturers to w
combine and agree not to patronize la
all of these various begging schemes, _
+>>/-? /loQlorQ in PVArv mm.
auu iui tug iwut w ... ~
munity to take concerted action and
courteously but firmly cause it to be
understood that they have taken thia
position because it is burdensome, a
drain upon their resources, a robber
of their profits, something which they
cannot stand and continue business.
Unquestionably the practice of promiscuous
solicitation is an abuse and
the good people themselves who carry
it on, usually well meaning people in
their community, if the matter were
presented to them would admit that |
the thing is wrong and would co- i
operae in suppressing it.
There are a great many people in
every community who jealously guard
their reputation for honesty and rectitude,
who would be horrified at the
mprp aue-eestion that they were com
mltting blackmail, yet there are vari- |
ous ways of blackmailing people.
Some of these methods were not for
a moment intended to operate in that
sense, but to a person approached for
contributions it appears that he must
do it because he thinks that it will
be for his interest to do so. This,
while the perpetrator is not conscious
of it, is really blackmail because
the contribution is not made
voluntarily and because the givet
feels that he must.?New England
Grocer.
[ARVELS IN SALT
Contains Chapels and
g and Half Mile Wide.
time is fixed at eight hours in the
mines and twelve hours above ground
a day.?New York Sun.
A FT? I I VP W/mVCTR
WHICH PL AY S PIANO.
Pet Owned by Girl in Indiana
Takes Delight in Producing |
Music From Keys.
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Little Gladys Schultz, 01 aoonvliTe,
Ind., has a pet cat of which she is
very fond, and which is always at
her feet or near her. Miss Gladys ie
about ten years old, and is very assiduous
in practicing her music lessons
on the piano when she is not iD
school, says the St. Louis Post-Dis- ;
patch.
While this is going on the pet cat. ] Cottie,
is either at her side or pur- ^
ring around at her feet. It seems to : r(
like the idea of music, and will of- a;
tentimes sit with undivided atten- ;
tion on a chair by the girl's side n
watching the movement of the girl's I e;
fingers along the keyboard. ; ai
After leaving the room a few days j tl
ago with the cat sitting on a chair. ! Jt
Gladys came back shortly to find Cot- j tl
tie sitting on the piano stool trying g,
lO liuuaie uei fAauipjc auu yin* uu | &
the instrument. The cat would '
strike the keys with her paws and b
seemed delighted at the effect of the i t(
tones produced, repeating it severai s<
times, to the delight of Mrs. Schult2 : p
and Gladys, who were looking on. j si
Since that time it has become a fre- . a
quent occurrence for Cottie to climt j tl
on the piano stool and give vent to : tl
her feelings in music. 1 a:
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One of Those Foolish Questions. o
A certain man, of rather a wag
gish disposition, contends that his J
wife has no imagination. A writei j h
in the Philadelphia Public Ledgei | *1
tells why he thinks so. At dinnei I e'
one night he chanced to mention 3 |
tragic circumstance which he had j b
read in the evening paper on the way i ei
home.
It seemed that a passenger on a i
transatlantic steamer had fallen overboard
in mid-ocean, and had nevei
been seen again. I
"Was he drowned?" asked his wife ! J1
"Oh, no," answered the husband J j
"but he sprained his ankle, I be- |
lieve."
An Admission.
There is scnethiug in America be- 0
sides money and politics. America ^
realizes the importance or eaucauot |
and the respect due to those who are i c<
entrusted with the great work of pre- ' .
par.%ig men for their part in life.?
London National Review.
Tax rates are so graded in Hoiland
that the heaviest burdens fali
upon those who have the most prop- Q.
erty or income. 1
New York City.?The pointed yoke j
5 always a pretty one. It allows of F)
reatment of various sorts, and its and
nes are very generally becoming. asse|
'his one is made of strips of the ma
irial embroidered with French knots one
smbined with simple Irish insertion, puzz
hile the blouse is made of linen woul
twn, but Cluny laces are being much stitc'
Jf I
orn. Valenciennes is always cor-j St
jet, embroidered bandings are many costi
nd plain net trimmed with bands of fore^
et embroidered in Oriental /jolors show
lakes one of the novelties of the
irly spring, while this model is
flapted to each and every material of
le sort that the season has to offer.
; can be used with equal success for
le odd waist and for the entire
own, and it can be worn either with
high waisted skirt or with a belt.
The blouse is made with front and <5
acks, which are tucked and joined
) the shaped yoke. The collar is
jamed to the neck edge and the S,
retty, gracefully shaped one-piece Nfc
leeves are tucked on indicated lines
nd cut in points over the hands, ^
leir special feature being found in /f
le fact that the seam is so' arranged
s to be quite invisible, while the
eeves conform perfectly to the shape
f the arms.
The quantity of material required
)r the medium size is four and a
alf yards twenty-one or twenty-four,
iree yards thirty-two or two and an
ighth yards forty-four inches wide
ith eleven and a quarter yards of
anding and one and a half yards of I
Iging. Bordered
Effects Attractive. . j.
Bordered effects, that most trying used
P fipsi??ns arp cpon In almnst nil thfi tiol
ew fabrics. They are so charming, by a
jo, that they will be sure to attract fecti'
le average woman. shadi
Fashionable Colors.
Copenhagen blue and all the range So
f Saxe blue shades are worn, and ever,
eranium hues, which suit blondes, new
ray and turquoise are generally be- light
jming to light-haired beauties. Re- for t
lember that where the complexion are e
i sallow, blue next the face will only zags
uhance the sallowness.
Mandarin Styles. Tt
The fad for mandarin styles is seen mad<
a gowns, coats, capes and matinees. resp(
'he mandarin shoulder is popular, effec
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Foulards in Style.
Dulards are always good style,
a foulard frock is a most useful
t in the wardrobe.
Lingerie Trimming.
)Oting makes attractive trimming
lingeries, and it is durable, too.
plain, as well as the point
?rit, four inches wide, makes
ty ruffles for drawers. Finish
edge of the drawers with seam
:ing and to this overhand the
ng ruffle that has been gathered
;s own thread.
Embroidery Galore.
mbroidery is being used on all
newest gowns, and is losing na
of its popularity. In embroidorlginal
and personal touches
be put on the simple frock that
give it distinction and, as hand
roidery is never cheap and canbe
copied by the masses, there is
reason for its hold on the modwoman's
fancy.
Odd Yoke For Gown.
novel yoke that might be copied
ome, if one has plenty of time
patience, was made of small
js of the material or tne gown
haphazard fashion, and then
;d together with fancy feather
fagotting stitches. It reminded
of an attempt to put a jigsaw
le together, and where the pieces
Id not exactly fit In the fancy
hes were employed.
4
ted water pongee is used in thia
ime. It is spot-proof, and a joy
rer. The unexpected summer
rer has no terrors for the wearer
=^ja^g[
lis sltk. Dark blue is the color
here. The skirt shows the parrat
it r n nf the lHIt hut modified
deep yoke. The trimming is efyely
done in a wide soutache, a
e lighter than the silk.
Egyptian Soutaching.
utache braid is used as much as
but it is arranged on fabrics in
designs. Every one is quite deed
over the Egyptian patterns,
hey give character to a frock and
iasy to do. They are merely zigthat
look like hieroglyphics.
The Loose Coat.
le popularity of the loose coat
i with an extremely bias back is
jnsible for the many unsightly
ts such backs often present.
r Experiments
with ostrich farmln,
!n Australia, the eggs being hatchei
by artificial Incubation, are success
ful. ?
Up to a certain point exposure t
radium rays stimulates the germina
tion of seeds, but if that point b
passed the growth is stopped.
In a recent issue of a zoologies
periodical L. Plate describes the cur)
ous habit of a new species of fls!
from the Bahamas. This fish spend
parts of its time in the shell of
large species of strombus. Probabl
it finds the shell a convenient shelte
and place of retreat from its enemies
Its presence does not appear to b
of any advantage to the mollusk.
Attention is seldom called to a re
markable and curious characterise
of the olive tree. After many year
of growth the different large branche
of the trees separate gradually froii
the trunk until they are quite divide^
from one ^another down to the rool
These then slowly move apart and ii
some instances six or seven distinc
trees stand in the area which befor
onrrrmnrlert the main tree, and the
will sometimes be as much as twen
ty feet apart.
Dr. Schllck's apparatus for pre
venting ships from rolling at sea ha
lately given fresh proof of its abilitj
One of his gyroscopes has been fittei
on board the mall steamer Lochiel
While the vessel was rolling slxtee;
and a half degrees on each side
through a total angle of thlrty-thre
degrees, the gyroscope was started
and immediately decreased the tota
angle of roll to three degrees. Th
apparatus Is driven electrically an
requires little attention.
Tests are being made at the Spring
Held armory of an invention whicl
ai crV? fa nf O TM fl P 51
inumiuaico i>u? di5ui>o v* ? <*mw ?
night. Even though the light em
ployed did not shine directly into th
Boldier's eyes, it might interfere wit!
his aim by producing a glare tha
would make the target invisible. I
no such result follows, the devic
ought to be extremely serviceable.
Ernest DeKoven Leffingwell lef
Pasadena, Cal., recently for Seattle
where he will begin preparations fo
his tour of two years into the Alas
kan territory in the interest of th
University of Chicago and the hydro
graphic office of the United State
Government. He will outfit hi
steamer, the Argo, and with four as
sistants start up the coast May 1 t
Bering Straits, thence to Point Bar
row and Flaxman Island, the head
quarters for his prospective trips o
exploration into the wilds of th
northern country.
Reflections of Uncle Ezra.
By ROY K. MOULTON.
It is seldom that a man dies at oni
hundred and ten years that we don'
hear he has chawed and smoked to
backer and drank forty-rod whisk:
all his life.
There was a swap social at th
Hard Shell meetin' house the othe
night, and every woman was sup
posed to take something she didn'
need. Mrs. Hod Peters took Hod.
Owin' to the passenger rate war, i
is said to be cheaper to go to Europi
than to stay hum, but there are a fe?
American heiresses who will hardl;
agree with this.
William Tibbitts has refused to pa:
his taxes because an astrologer sai<
the world is comin* to an end Janu
ary first, and Wiiliam wants to savi
the money. When William shaves
he lathers his face with the end o
his whiskers to save buyin' a brush
Hank Tumms wouldn't b^ no han<
to work in a powder magazine be
cause he has got inflammatory rheu
matiz.?From Judge.
Unanswerable.
"Vicious circle" is a term ofter
used in the medical world. An ex
ample of its psychological use appliec
to argument may be found in Josepl
A. Scoville's book, "Old Merchant!
of New York City."
Tom, the son of a wealthy man
was a great favorite with all whc
knew him, but he heartily detestec
business. A merchant of New YorP
had hired him as a bookkeeper at ?
high salary. Nevertheless, Tom gol
into the habit of reaching the office
later and later, until finally he gol
there about two in the afternoon
When this state of affairs had gon(
on for a week, the merchant remonstrated.
"But my dear sir," returned Tom
"how can I come any earlier? I don'1
get my breakfast until one."
"But get your breakfast earlier."
"How can I? I don't get up til]
twelve."
"Then get up earlier."
"How can I," pleaded Tom, "when
I don't go to bed until daylight?"
In the face of such convincing argument
there was nothing to be said
The Origin of the Check.
London fogs have world-wide reputation.
It is but fair, therefore, tc
credit them with any circumstances
to their advantage. At the beginning
of last century, owing to the peaBoup
atmosphere which even then obtained,
the robberies of messengers
with cash became so frequent that
business men in self-defense had tc
devise a remedy.
J. 1IUJ II1V gilLCU tu? n u?wu
away with the necessity of carrying
sums of money on the person, and
thus put a stop to the perquisites ol
snatch-thieves.
Warmth and Illumination Needed.
A philosophy without heart and a
faith without intellect are abstractions
from the true life and being ol
knowledge and faith. The man whom
philosophy leaves cold, and the man
whom real faith does not illumine,
may be assured that the fault lies
in themselves, not ih knowledge and
faith. The former is still an alien
from philosophy, the latter an alien
from faith.?Heeel.
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I I COBRA WINS BATTLE,
| THEN EATS LOSERS.
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J Three-Cornered Fight in Cage
Fatal For Water Snake and
f I Giant Lizard.
a i
i- j The king cobra at the Bronx Zoc
, is eleven feet long, and the whole
: eleven feet were fighting yesterday,
o His opponent was a water snake and
i- ; an iguana, or giant lizard.
e i All three reptiles had been living
i in peace together all winter in theii
! glass compartment, and it was supil
I posed they were real good friends,
i- j but a dispute arose yesterday beb
| tween the cobra and the iguana, and
s j in a sudden fit of foolish rage the
a iguana went for the cobra and bil
y him.
r Instantly the cobra spread his hood
i. and gave battle, but the iguana tooh
e an unfair advantage of him then and
there by disjointing himself and coming
apart. The big lizard gave himself
a shake, and lo! there were twe
c | of him?the iguana proper and the
s ! iguana's tail, both very much alive
3 | and active.
q I Then the water snake took a hand
j j and went for the cobra, too, but the
. i cobra gave him just one bite and the
q j snake went into a corner, curled uj
t I and died. i
e [ The tailless iguana kept right a1
y j the cobra, but the latter didn't seem
to care much. He had espied .the tail
j cavorting around the cage, and it in!
terested him so much that he made
j. j a leap for it, caught it and calmls
3 i swallowed it.
r< I That gave bim a taste for iguana
?-nonf on V\ a novt noilcrV*f f {(rnona
rj ; iiicai, ou lit ucau ^au(3u'b iguauo
I and swallowed him after his tall,
q Then the water snake was taken foi
, dessert, and that ended the fight,
g Now the cobra is living alone.?New
I York World.
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e On Baldness.
It has been discovered recently thai
there are no bald-headed men in oui
insane asylums. Other interesting
facts about bald people are the folII
lowing:
You never see a bald-headed man
l" wearing his own hair.
No one ever saw a red-headed bald
k man. ,
t Most halrt men keen their hair in
1 j their wife's name.
e No bald-headed woman has evei
been known to admit.
Bald-headed men never appear is
1 public with their hair marcelled.
If everybody was bald from birti
r the hair-cutting industry would be
" paralyzed.
e If a man loses his hair no amounl
" of advertising will restore it to him!
No woman was ever drawn to s
8 bald-headed man by capillary attrack
tion.
3 Baldness cannot be cured by having
your hair pulled, as you can cure
" toothache .by having a tooth pulled.
The bear has more hair to the
e j square inch than any known animal,
i and yet there is nothing in the world
that is barer than a bald-head.
There are other interesting facts
j about baldness, no doubt, but none ol
j them occur to us at this moment, so
a | we will content ourselves with saying
t i in conclusion that the head of a bald
- man in the front row of the modern
7 theatre shines like a good deed in a
naughty world.?Harper's Weekly.
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What the Railroads Spend.
t The men on railroad engines in the
United States when times are busy
t draw in" wages $53,000,000 a year.
a Last year the sum was cut to $45,r
000,000. The business of the couny
try lost $8,000,000 in this one item,
says the Los Angeles Times.
Y Every mile of new railroad built in
j the country costs first and last $25,000,
and if the building is 3000 miles
3 it puts into circulation $75,000,000.
If the building is 6000 miles there
j 1 goes into circulation $150,000,000.
The coal used on an engine in a
j ! year costs on the average of $2500.
Last summer there were 150,000 idle
cars in the United States. Counting
thirty-nine to a train, this would be
5000 trains. One engine to the train
would curtain the coal used by a
value of $12,500,000. That coal
1 means almost all wages. So does the
* building of new roads.
I If the conditions should last for a
1 year, these three items would make
3 a total of nearly $100,000,000 lost to
wage-earners, assuming that only
? j half as much road is built as would
> i have been if times had been good.
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t Why Streams Are Disappearing.
t | Any one wno nas reacnea tne age
; I of seventy-flve has noticed the disapt
! pearance of the small brooks where
. I he played in his district school days,
? j while larger ones have shrunk to
. j summer threads, and rivers that
filled their banks all the year are
I hardly more than rivulets in summer,
t j says the Independent. Commissioner
j Whipple, of New York State, tells us
i that the upper Hudson, in August,
[ 1907, had no more than two inches of
water where it used to roll a heavy
volume. There is substantial agreei
ment that this change has been due
to the denudation of our hills and
. valleys of the water-holding trees.
It takes a century to grow such forests;
it has taken half a century to
destroy them.
, A Job For the Armies.
[ j Camille Flammarion has revived
; I ms oia scneuie ui uiggms a
I mic well 200 metres in diameter to
ascertain the internal constitution ot
i the earth. The imaginative Flam:
marion proposes to find an economic
i and almost inexhaustible source ot
heat, to verify the rate of caloric increase,
to find out if the materials
; constituting the terrestial globe are
[ in a state of fusion?in a word, to 60
! rationally and directly what has been
done slightly and a little by chance
up to the present time in mines. To
j carry out the work the standing armj
ies of the world are to be called into
' requisition.?Scientific American.
t
Eighteen men were tied to the
1 whipping post in one day recently at
1 Wilmington. Del., and given a total
' of 255 lashes. This beats all pre1
vious records. ,?
1 More than one-quarter of the to1
j bacco consumed by the Spanish nation
I comes from the United States.
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S Experimental Hesearch?the -8
S Greatest of Life-Savers. S
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' In Harper's, Dr. W. W. Keen, one . '
of the most famous of American sur?
geons, presents in his article on "Re- *"
, cent Surgical Progress," a striking
, comparison of the accomplishment
I of the friends and foes of experimental
research: *
; What the Friends of Experimental
Research Have Done. ; m
(1) They have discovered antisep'
tic surgery, and so made possible the
wonderful results of modern surgery. \
To complete his beneficent work,
1 Lord Lister was compelled to go to
France by reason of the stringency of
the English anti-vivisection laws.
| (2) They have made possible practically
all modern abdominal surgery,
including operations on the stomach,
intestines, liver, gall, bladder, pancreas,
spleen, kidneys, etc.
(3) They have made possible all
the modern surgery of the brain.
(4) They have demonstrated how
lockjaw spreads from the wound;
' how sometimes it can be arrested and
' cured; and, still better, how It can
1 be prevented, so that practically tet'
anus has been banished from surgical
operations. x '.?]
(5) They have reduced the death
' rate in compound fractures from six'
ty-flve per cent, to less than one per
cent. ,
(6) They have reduced the mortality
of ovariotomy from two out of
three to two or three out of one hun!
dred. . t ::xm
(7) They have abolished yellow
; fever.
(8) They have made possible the
cure of nearly all cases of hydfcopho- i;
bia.
(9) They have cut down the mor- ' ' v
tality of diphtheria in New York City
alone from 158 per 100,000 In 1894
. to 38 per 100,000 in 1905, and prac- ,
fically the same story is told all over
the world.
(10) By the use of the serum re
cently discovered by Flexner at the
, Rockefeller Institute they have
changed the mortality in cerebro- ' v
I spinal meningitis from seventy-flve
per cent, and even ninety per cent, to
, . thirty per cent, or less. V
(11) They have shown the cause
, of acute tetany after operation for
goiter, so that it now can be pre!
vented.
(12) They have almost completely
t abolished the dangers of maternity,
, reducing its death rate from ten or
more mothers out of every hundred
to less than one in every hundred,
i (13) They have shown the cause
[ and the method of propagation and
, of prevention of the deadly malaria
which devastates whole regions and
armies. Its extinction is only a mattar
of time.
I ? - (14)
They have reduced the mor,
tallty of tuberculosis by from thirty
td fifty per cent., for Koch's discovery
of the tubercule bacillus is the
foundation stone of all modern pro,
gress in the treatment of tuberculo.
sis. x
| (15) They have enormously bene,
flted animals by discovering the
' I causes and the dangers of tuberculo*
' sis, Texas fever, anthrax, glanders,
hog cholera, and other Infectious diseases
of animals, thus enabling us to >'V
combat the'.u more successfully or '
even to prevent them.
What the Foes of Research Have
: i. i*""- ,
' Nothing but to stand in the way
of progress. Not a single human life
has been saved by their efforts; not a
single household made happy. Not a
single disease had had its ravages
abated or abolished. ? !'
The victims of their sincere 'but
i misguided zeal are men, women and
; | little children. Even the lower ani- /
mals may well cry, Save us irom our
friends.
.
Origin of the Potato.
In consequence of the outbreak of
j the potato disease in the nineteenth
: century, botanists have for years
been seeking the original wild species
! of this most useful plant, In order
. that by crossing it with the cultivated
forms fresh vigor might be infused
into the latter. The search has
extended over Chile, Peru and other
j parts of America, but until recently
I no success has been promised. Mr.
Sutton, of Reading, England, the m ,
I well known seedsman, In whose ex|
perimental gardens a great variety of
1 these plants has been tried, has now
j fixed upon a wild species, the Solanum
etuberosum, which has been
growing in his gardens for twenty _ ?
years, as being the original wild species,
from which much may be hoped.
j. The Solanum etuuerosum ior twenty
. years has entirely defied the potato
I diseaso, and Its offspring Is Identical
with the commercial potato.?
Youth's Companion.
'/ ' '.'
Pioneer Days in Missouri.
In 1851 there was in Huntsville a
man who pulled teeth for twenty-five
cents, and a photographer who made
j daguerreotypes at $1.50 each. The
I first was called "doctor" and the secI
ond "professor." They moved in the
highest circles, as being the representatives
of the sciences and arts.
With deer, birds and all manner of
game in the woods and fine- fish in *
the streams, so cheap that the poorest
larders were stocked with it, the
grocers did a big business in mackerel,
herring and sardines. The latter
were real dainties, because the
better food was so plentiful the pioneers
got tir*<L of it.?Macon Republican.
The Eternal Masculine.
A study of the trouser legs as seen
In the photographs of our most noted
I men brings the smile of contempt
i ovon tiio mnst ilisintprested. and
one wonders if anything could be uglier
than the concertina folds of the
clumsy, elephantine outlines that are
there to be seen. Breeches, knickers
and kilts are all far more artistic
and healthy.?Tailor and Cutter.
Torturing Thought.
Did you ever stop to think that almost
every minute in the day somo
ono somewhere is having teeth
pulled? This proves that there is always
some one worse off than you
are.?Atchison Globe.
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