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?'. :' - .. . ' > ; ) C? ?ill own y \V ri ))?1 M Now Orlean* Tin (Tiros?inia,.Tajan. A?gusfc2?ttT1V?-l ' : 1 lied <. visiting the nir ftfcjr of Hiroihinaa tran to Ree the uga military hospitals laoated herc, in I stu ly their manugenioul. I'os si; , y m vt to Tokio, where thc military i rad naval stalld are directing opeia !. :.- ..ri land and sea, just now the m st important city in the li m pi re is ?hr '-hilra. Herc thc battalions al] ;ende*vous and Mike ship for Corea md Manaharia. At one time during thc first days ol' thc war ns many a. 1U.OOO troops were here at mn: tittie. Cven now 'hey are coining ih whole regiments everyday, while the return ing transports are bringing the nick and wounded from thc front. Hiroshima is a military camp. But ?ihe soldier hoys move to quietly, and -when off duty conduct themselves so .lerjt?en inly, that you never seo or kw roi?4pism or even boisterousness, netting rsa ftoreign house, or walking flhe ?treets of thia quaint town, I vffould never imagine that a great war . waa in progress. The obedience of .ihese .people to rigid discipline and ' i ht ir H jil en did self-restraint in success th ave constantly excited my surprise .ind admiration. A number of times Ti have been compelled to surmise -wi:at our American soldiers would do .l'.der like circumstances. Immense warehouses have beon built here for military stores. The harbor is astir night and day with Craneporta loading and unloading (goading with, soldiers, horses and sup plies, std unloading tho sick and wounded from the army now besieging Port Arthur and other points whore the army has been in conflict with the forcer of Russia. I counted fifteen vessels in port one afternoon, and the next day there were twelve, among .the number being several hospital .-ships. FINE HOSPITALS. Five large hospitals have been built herc, and one or two others are near ing completion. They are all under 'Hed Cross regulations, the Red Cross iog floating ov?r them, and every pa tient has the Red Cross on the white -sleeve of his invalid robe. Skilled : surgeons-and among them are some of the best in tho world-are in charge, and trained nurses, Japanese twomen, in their dainty white regula tion dreSR, are in faithful attendance. The wounded soldiers ar? brought h.ero in hospital ships immediately from the front. Most of the diffioalt surgery is performed here. Only the '.saBcs that dfjsjsjad prompt attentioa on th? field H save Ufo are treated there. With all possible dispatch they ara sent to HtVr?ehima. Hun dreds arrive by a single ship, andar? placed ia th? warta mi fcfccss whieh has aooommo-d&tfeSB flaw When Itali yaalhattb* /xav? to be tarried a*wy Dy ttaJ&teada to otlacr f?4nt? ia ordor to maka item 'for those coming from th? frost with tfresh wounds or deadly diaeasa, you JJ ay/; ave some idea of th? dread f ni (Casualties of this terrible war. With exceeding oourteay I WBB given ??very Taoility to observe the manage oient of theBe great hospitals. A . Japanese surgeon accompanied me, as ?id also Dr. Anita McGeo, from Washington, I). C., who came here in April with nino young lady nurses -JJom America to assist in this noble Telief work. I was shown how skill fully the surgeons use the X-ray in ?tracing the course of wounds and lo cating bullets. They have aiment abandoned the old faahioned probing ?process. To the eye of a layman some of these operations wore really won derful., I waa told by the chief sur .?6on that there aro very few amputa tions. Tho rifle balls of today do not 'tear the flesh and shatter bones as ?formerly, and skilled surgery is far irctter prepared to treat succes? llall all gunshot wounds. In one ^'..sipitd ??'retaining three or four ihundred patients there have been x*ut three amputations performed ?iaoe?he beginning of tho war. -SOLDIERS TAKE SO ANES ITHETIC. -*Au-.ih*r :fuct I observed while ^watal'ing the ?work of these Japanese ?surgeons i-s vthat tho soldiers ,never ftake on anesthetic. With a stoical ?aee and never a murmur of pain they . ?tibmip-io the surgeon's knife with a Brwh. TO com plain ander sack ??>eora??inffna is 4@&tfe? uo immce?w. Th? Japan ow ?Mlfl|g? ar? taught an th ?JD eaawiest y?ara t??a tdare pain aritkawn ?oaojUSat. Ai? 'doubtless ia ?f th? ica?tcs of Bad* ?hi&m, whieh for ?o ??st?riea -dominated this beatitifoitend. Bat .?while this stoicism is applauded, I ?decbt if it is mach to be admired after ?all. The higher the civilization of a ' ipeople and the more delicate and oom jplex their nervous organisation the .moro aenaitive they are to pain t* ?S <>1 -J il p.'AlKiSC? J I.O.S- ! n> I (ou) i ic ra t. In the wards of the wounded o?iicers -aw many i nt ? r<--t in / i'a-es. ari'! Lui cvral notable convolutions, G?e plendid follow, a colonel, willi a iruiik'. rugged face, j;ave m< an ac ..mill ul th? battle in which lie was wounded, and willi genuine pride showed mt' Li- sword, the metal -cab bard of wbieb liad been pierced by a Kassian bullet. Tin- lirst ball passed entirely through Iii* and tht'D thrungli tl.? scabbard, tera/, i r?*r thc blade of his sw>rd. It. was a picture i bat impressed me deeply, the expres sion of that brave man's face as he looked upon the mute evidence of his own heroism in tho wound of his trusty sword. Through all the years that scarred gea?tari will be his dearest pos-step, andi to hin children it will be beijaaaskert with a patriotic blessing. Another seedier showed mc his can teen, flattened etea of shape by a Rus sian rifle ball, bat whiob bad saved bis life. He said that by ->ou)o strange good fortuno ha bad hurriedly, tbruut the canteen in the left pocket of his jacket. Its pr?senos there prevented tho ball from piercing his heart. With a gentle and reverent touch he handled the battered canteen as the friend that preserved him froai death. Another brave young fellow, a Christino officer and exceptionally well educated, bad lost a leg. Tho sur geons worked heroically to save the limb, but at last had to remove it in order to save his lifo. Ile spoke English fluently, and seemed almost overjoyed at the visit of Christian friends. Tho story of another young man was told me who had received twenty Russian bayonet thrusts in his body. Doe or two peaetrated his lungs. After a varying battle for lifo he was convalescent. And soores of other stories might bc related, all accentuating and confirming the Japa nese word-wide reputation for fearless heroism and undaunted devotion to country. DR. ANITA MoQEK. It was a great pleasure to meet Dr. Anita McGee, of Washington, and the nobie young Red Cross women who accompanied him to this country at tho outbreak of the war. Their con ing has been generously and univers ally appreciated by the Japanese. They regard it as a signal assurance of America's sympathy. I saw these young women in the wards at work among their patients, and it made my Amerioan heart beat with prids to Bee one bending over a fine-ioaWeg young Japanese soldier dressing his wound, and another bathing the fevered body of a heroic sufferer. Their laborious and unstinted servios ha* osada agr??t impresa"! o o on tue whole Japanese na tion. I am sorry that in a few Weeks' they will be compelled to return to America. lt is difficult to see kow these emer gency hospitals could be much Im proved. As proof of their efficiency a very small percent of the wounded brought hero fail to recover. These lillie brown fellows are certainly a happy lot, in spite of their wounds. I never saw a eeowl apo* a gingie faoe or heard a oomplarafng word. They are proud of tho wounds they bear and are impatient to get back to the front. Charlea B. Galloway. About TeHtftoes. To tho Editor of The News and Courier: Now that the torpedo has become an important arm of aervioe and in effioienoy is superior to any other machino of modern warfare, it io natural to wish to know tho inventor, and it is surprising to see the number of Mahomets that arise and pretend to be the truo and only prophet. These are men that usually had no connec tion with the torpedo corps and really know little about it. The original inventor of the marine torpedo is Gen. G. J. Rains, of the Confederate army. Ho organized the torpedo eorps and was at ' its head the entire war. AU suooess in that re spect is due entirely to him. The records of tho late Confederaoy, "Thc Risc and the Fall of the Con federate Government, by Jefferson Davis," and the survivors of (he torpe do corps will ali attest the truth of this assertion. The history of the torpedo corps is ejaite interesting. Soon after the fall of New Orleans by the Federal fleet, Mr. Paris sent for Gen. Bains and asked if be eonld not contrive some means to prevent the enemy's fleet from passing oor batteries. (While an officer of the old army, as far baok ' as 1835, Gen Rains had. invented a torpedo that waa known to Mr. Davis.) He replied that be would try, and, opposite Dre wry'a Bluff, on James* I ; ii ..? 'it . H ' ?.-.J r- \v : <?<i 1 'll (nu li i o h m 'iii, and t' n ? ?ri i j.- wore cMiiblisb?d RI Wilmington^ Charleston, Savannah and M J 1 - i I * - - M cn were selected from tho army <i known bravery and iiitcHu'oncc. and ? initiated in thc torpedo service. Tbc result is known. Nu port was cap- . tured by thc Federal fleet after the , organization < f thc torpedo corps. According to Admiral I'ortcr they saved thc city "f Charleston from cap- i . up by water. At Mobile, after the licet had pass- | cd I ' ll Morgan, tho monitor Tecum sch wa- Mink hy a torpedo in the har- j bur. Thia was a check and the licet j proceeded very cautiously. Subsc- ( ijucntly two ironclads were pushed forward to bombard Fort Spanish, both ?truck torpedoes and went tu tho button on Appalachce bar. All op erations of tin- fleet were immediately suspended. The number of ships destroyed were fifty-eight by torpe does, as reported by our officers. This includes several ironclads. All on the Federal side. Wc had one irouclad, the Albe marle, sunk by a torpedo, on Koanoko Uiver, by Lieut. Cushing, of thc Uni ted Statca navy. An equally daring attempt waB made by Commander W. T. Glasscl, of tho Confederate navy, of Charleston, to doatroy the Iron aides, the largest of all tho Federal shine, ond, although she was not Gunk, she waB rendered useless for some time. A torpedo boat in Charieaton har bor, that would go under the water, from which much was jzpected, was doomed to disappointment. She sunk in th? channel, drowning the entire erew. We used several kinds of tor pedoes. Some were of metal, but the most common was a common beer bar rel, with tapering floats at raoh end. This was covered with a mixture < ! rosin, dissolved in coal tar, to make if perfectly water tight. At first ttu fuse was defective, but Qen. Raiut invented a fuse that answered thc purpose exactly. These torpedoei ware anchored in the channel, aboui four feat below the surface of th< water. We also bad offensive torpedoes, o torpedoes fer attack. These consist ! ed of two torpedoes joined with ? . rope or chain, and allowed to noa down with the tide. This kind waB j however, objected to by Gen. Gil j mer, of the engineer corps, on th i ground that they might come bael and destroy our own boats. We had land torpedoes, too, ths I would explode if trod upon. Theo wore only cannon shells buried a littl below the anrface of i the ground, wit a lenitiva fuse la the top. The were plaood ia front of works to ai in repelling an assault and upo roads used by the eneaay. H. J. Rains, Lieutenant Torpedo Corps, C. S. A. - The Journal and Review < Aiken, says: "Mr. C. M. Tayloi who ia farming on the Casham plaoi a few miles below Aiken, evidentl has the finest aron we have heard < so far. Mr. Taylor has planted 24 acree In cotton, and has gathered i far 236 balas and saya he expects t ?ather in all 260 to 270 bales, whil is neighborn say he will get 30 bales. hie KaJllesii?kc's lijlc, i i S ,.\ u titi ii.. ;j science confirm.* - w of t!" old wife medical supt r -litii-?j^ of tin' backwoods, l'ur ia stance, iItu "yarb" doctor and old wo- j ti ii of rattlesnake regions bay that j when a mau ui-t* "vcr n rattlesnake j bite he harf trouble in thc wound , every year afterward. Pathologists a'id toxicologists who have studied snake poisons agree that this is true, only the trouble doesn't occur every jear. It hap pens whenever the systi <n gets out of order. The explanation is simple, isoake poision has the eifect of destroying tissue. Of course it has the strongest effect in and about the wound whero the poison, in its course through the veins, has not yet been diluted by the bluod. Kvcr afterward that is a weik point in the system. Any little disturbance in the blood tends ti break out at that poiut of the wound. When this happens the old wives ?ay that it is the poison working. It is not, of course. It is only the ex cess poison of tho body working in thc weak spot. There was a case of this kind with a rather unusual history io the Colot rado hospital a few years ago. The patient was a scout who had helped the army make way for civilization in the Kookies. The Utes, Arapahoes and other In dians of that region were mostly un supplied with guns in those days, kat they had a most effective kind of pois oned arrow. They would oatoh a bunch of rattlesnakes snd taking a fresh buffalo liver would make tho serpents strike in it until the poison glands wero exhausted and the meat reked with venom. After that they would leave thc liver in the sun until it became putrid, loto this mess they would dip their war arrows. It made a nasty poison. With such an arrow the aoout wat ! straok ia tho leg. It carried, oi oourse, not only snake venom, but all ! kinds of possibilities of blood poison iog. By good luck a first rate arm] surgeon was at hand. Ho saved the scout's life. This happoned in the spriog. Ever] spring after that the man's leg woolc break out with sores and boils ant sundry other afflictions. It looked at though the case were proved for th< witch doctors. The physicians went into the lift history of the patient and found that long before he stopped the noisonet arrow he had been afflicted with breaking out every spring. He wai one of those people who load up 01 the animal diet all winter and need ? deaning out when the season breaks It had merely settled in the weal spot. Next year he attended to bi liver early and had no further trou ble. Jn the treatment of rattiesoak bites the rough and ready physioian of the backwoods scored again on th modera soientist. In spite of aoalysi and labor?os experiments and govert ment prisas, the treatment disoovere by the pioneers when New York wa a wilderness is still standard. Cat the wound, suok it out, burn c i cauterise the spot and keep the pi iou! crunk on whiskey until the ?l in- 1 ...r?- |n^t. Medical nun have tri?*J iii manner of substitutes, hut cum.: back to thc original method. Thc sucking, of course, is to get out us much poison as possible; the cauterization prevent local infection, and the whiskey keeps the heart going in its task of clearing up the blood. .Strychnine, which ia a power ful heart stimulant, has been tried as a i uhstitute, but with rather unsatis factory results. There is the dan ger of overdoing it and adding strych nine poison to the patient's troubles. Then, again, whiskey, while it stimulates the heart, also dcadeus the brain. That helps the patient to bear thc terrible pain of snake bite at a time when ordinary anaesthetics would be dangerous. Ho the old. untutored doctor of the backwoods has beaten modern science in two counts.-New York Sun. Giant Engine Here. Ono of the largest engines ever seen io this part of tho county aad in fact as large as are made for ordinary uso, passed through this oily yesterday on its way to the Birmingham division of the Southern Railway, where it will bo usod in the heavy ?oal and iron hauling in the mouatains of Ala bama. The monster was in oharge of F. V. Pinn, one of the traveling machinists of tho Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, but it wal not traveling under its ewn steam. The smokestack, sand dome and other fixtures en th? top of the boiler had to be removed and orated and placed on the tender, because they were too high to pass under some of the bridges on railroads leading out of Philadelphia. TIIOBC will be placed when the locomotivo reaches Birm ingham, when it will be delivered to the Settihern Ballway authorities. Mr. Pin say? thai freqiMti* large locomotives of this type have ko go hundredof miles out of their way in order to reaoh their destination because of the size and weight. In fact, most of the engines used on the main line cf the Southern exsc*d those of other roads and many bridges elsewhere would not be able to support them. The reason of this, he said, was because of the mountainous coun try through which the line passed. The men sent out to guard the big locomotives until they are de livered to the railroad people are among the bebt machinists in the Baldwin works. They never let the 1 machine entrusted to their care get ? out of sight and eat und Bleep in the oab, whioh is their hoir.o during the ?rip. Only a month ago Mr. Ph. ft returned from Mexico where he took a locomotivo. Puring his trip he spent fifty-two days on the road and lived in the oab of the locomotive. The loeemotive whioh passed through yesterday, wal No. 665. 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