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Wk NO DRUGS IX SURGERY NOW. H^ssnre on Neck Makes Hand Dead Ato all Pain?Robs Operation. HL of Terrors. ft presence of twenty-four l^rrent surgeons of Hartford, MRmn., Dr. William H. iFitzerald reHp cently demonstrated a new anaesthesia at St Francis' hospital. The B unanimous opinion was expressed that the discovery probably ^ aid V revolutionize present methods of surgery. Dr Fitzgerald operated upon several patients, and in no case did he use drugs, gas or cocaine. He applied a pressure tp the nerves through the (nose or throat, acting, as he explained, on the well known fact that t&ere are certain especially sensitive nerve t<nes pressure upon which instantly will stop pain. In one case he anaesthetized the hand of a woman so that pins were thrust into the flesh without giving the slightest pain. In another case a foot was anaesthetized, and fiifteen incisions were made. Two teeth were painlessly extracted. In still another case, after producing an anaesthetized condition, the physician punctured an eardrum | without any sensation t f pain. The puncturing of an eaMrum is regarded I as one of the mcst painful of opera tions. * L Eye Made Immune From Pain. Another test was even more star" tling. The physician removed a foreign substance from a patient's eye and then drew a scalpel lightly across the eyeball, the patient never wincing. This demonstration by Dr. Fitzgerald was a sequel to one he gave at the hospital in Hartford a short time be^ fore, in which he showed the preliminary steps to the use of the method. V In the preliminary clinic the patients were shown to be able to trace the K sensations of f.l>w or a feeling of W lightness. By pressures in the throat the physician produced sensations in I various parts of the body, in the back or in the extremities, for instance, and demonstrated that acute pain in any section of the body can be quickly re lieved by mere pressure. I There are several advantages to be I gained from use of reflex anaesthesia. \ mk as was demonstrated. In the first place, toe use of dangerous anaesthetics like ether is avoided. In spite of W the sffnei&I use of ether its adminisr tration is still accompanied by grave danger except in the hands of an expert. In the case of minor operat \ ns, such as the removal of splinters, the 1 use of the local anaesthesia avoids the necessity for administering ether \ where it requires twenty minutes or 1 more, though the actual operation can be performed in thirty seconds. How Discovery Was Made. | t I Loss of sensation in a limb from prolonged pressure has been k \ wn to medical science for years. It is, however, sometimes followed by paralysis of a more or less permanent I "Good Night, Little f A record that will fit your Talkir | Machine, no matter what make Only 25 Cents This is a sample Columbia do ble disc rt-cord just issued for tl ^purpose of showing you that C jumbia records can be used on yoi talking machine, that Columbia . * cords are guaranteed to be superi< I to any record of other manufactur and that the price of 65c is belo 4-V>^ r\tT"ipr v&-r^r\-rA c J lilt Step in and h< ftr|P^^ \ will send it out t \V JrH 5) disc lecords of al! J***%/ t0 giand ?pera I - . p Have You Visited < Music Roor If you haven't you've mis interesting, we are pleased to i DIO of EVENINGS for our fr those f'n e selections from sue! dica, Destinn, Fremstad, Pa Neilsen, White, Gay, Cave Ysaye, Bonci, Slezak, Hoffi Bispham, Conatatino, Baklanc and others too numerous to ] Just let us know by phoi what evening you wish to con f 0. & T. E. " ~ * " " " "*""" nature. The application of this pressure diea to local organs, such as the eye and ear. is a new departure. The method of anaesthesia practiced by Dr. Fitzgerald is based on the known fact that there are areas in the nose, throat and mouth that are highly sensitive and that contain delicate and intricate nerve sources. It was by cfnrU* r>f ,thp 7nnps that Dr. Fitzgerald worked \ ut his discovery, the method of applying which he demonstrated in so startling a way at the clinic. Dr. Fitzgerald is a native of Middletown, Conn. He was graduated from the University of Vermont, was in the Boston City hospital three years and studied in Europe four years. He is an a? \ ciate member of the New York Academy of Medicine and a frequent * ^ r,?nfnt.cinni 1 mocojirios (JCJUtl 1UU IAJI LU JJJ. uicooiuuui Jliut,uumw. Baw Meat For Tuberculosis. Professor Charles Richet, the distinguished scientist to whom was awarded the nobel prize for medicine this year, has announced in Paris that tuberculosis can be cured with raw meat juice. "The treatment is difficult 1 fol low,*' he says, "but I have proved its effectiveness. Every day the patient must go to a slaughter house, obtain ten pounds of fresh meat, then extract the revivifying juice from it. This is a long and tedious task. Ten pounds of meat yield about half a pint of juice, which should be conserved on ice. "My patients who were suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs were cured by this treatment, aitnougn il had to be followed faithfully for three years. "I admit it is a costly as well as a difficult remedy, but it is a certain one in all but the most advanced cases. I do not believe any serum exists which will cure the dread disease." Dr. Calmette has discovered a vac . . < ; cine wnicn nas given * r.aives nity frcm tuberculosis. He has mixed most virulent Koch bacilli in their food and inoculated them under the flesh, pumping hundreds of millions of germs into their veins. He admits that his experiments are not conclusive as to his effective treatment of humans. -?* PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT. I I Petticoat government is an am- j biguous phrase. It may mean two different things: either that you /vattawv* tTAn Oa 1 Art or O C TTOn 1 pCLLUJUCll-JS gUVWU ;uu. UV JLVJlig, CI .3 govern your petticoats they are, or they j govern your petticoats or that your 1 may be, a noble form of attire. But j when they begin to control you, and j ; limit your right of action, your right1 of speed, your right of physical ease, j then they become ignoble; and they j tend to make you ignoble also. I heard once of an old lady of 94, j who rejected a mantle chosen for her , by her granddaughter, "because", said j she, "when I've got into it I can't go I like this." Andi , forthwith, for demonstration, she started waving her j arms like a wind-mill. "But when do ! you ever want to go like that?" in- I quired her granddaughter. "I like to i any mantle which cut her off from that! mantle which cut her off from that j Girl, Good Night" sar it. Or telephone and we 0 your home. Other double 1 types of music from ragtime Cozy jfj^ sed something iends to enjoy BfElll h artists as Nor- fl irlow, Garden, J&rjmS slieri, Pasquali, HHBUffy nan, Zantello, ( >ff, Campanari, le beforehand j| tie. Phone 358. ZJ Salter's PI: feeling she would not wear. She was a noble old lady, as long as s-iie could : cherish that feeling let her dress to it. That same moral in the philosophy of clothes was well and economically expressed for us in English literature morp t.han 100 vears ago: >(t)?n braces-" wrote William Blake in that extraordinary book of wit and wisdom, "The Marriage of more than 100 years ago.'' It is a general statement, put in ; * rather extreme form, that clothing should not be restrictve?that people should not allow themselves to be tied up by conventions. But elsewhere j (in one of his most beautiful poems) ^ a a V* n rr? o r> of o rl o c | ijlc enc uuxuaxi u* v^oo oiuuu c*o ? the symbol of peace; and under peace- j ful social and civic conditions dress does tend literally to spread itself, and to have a right and modifying effect upon movement and manners. ! The long skirt or robe lends itself to ceremony because ceremonial action | is slow, regulated and ornate; the long train serves the good practical pu pose of preventing the central fig-j ures from crowding too closely up- j on each other's heels. In fine ceremony iU nln-ovt. <-> r.nrto in f 11 n r> iorit 1 Uici c cli yy aj o a wa taxn iuiiuu < jvuvui element of the dance; it is r.l! decorative movement?to that end the , rich and voluminous robe is not a hindrance, but a help and so in a sense it may be said that air the more peaceful and internal forms of government?when expressed through State ceremonial and procession? tend to be petticoat forms; that the outward expression of government by consent, peaceful and beneficent, is dress amplfied for ease and dignity of . effect. But the most remarKabie example in I Mules! One carload see B \ Just A Will be sold for c j. w. Halfacre' And Fine PI If you don't know we hav Christmas just see our Windo The Christmas is not yet o\ For anyone who cannot get willing to appoint an hour or special engagement. We'll b loto Studio history of unpetticoated government, exercised to a good and successful end, was provided not by a man but a woman, when, in order to secure the remission of an oppressive and inijuitous tax, a certain Lady Godiva rode th-ough the streets of Coventry with "nothing on.*' And well would it be for all women to take her as their patron and example, and again and again and constantly do violence to their conventional sense of modesty in order to shame men into just ways. In our war against evil it is not always sufficient merely to "gird up the loins;" sometimes we must also strip. SHE KNEW HIS VOICE. (From-the Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Black (we've got to call him that because he's really a very decent fellow, and he'd kill us if we told his real name) is first tenor in a glee club. He sings in a choir, too. Everybody likes him. The other night a bunch of young people met for a social session at a certain house in the suburbs. They ate and danced and they sang. And when it was all over the prettiest young woman there?she hadn't been escorted thither by any chosen cavalier?said: "I walk home, but it's a lonesome walk, and I'm afraid. There have been hold-ups in this part of town. So I choose Mr. Blank to see me safe home.'' On the way home, Mr. ?5ianK was considerably swelled up. The prettiest girl had chosen him from a crowd of personable bachelors, and his feeling of self-fsatififaction was excusable. He couldn't resist saying: "Why did you think I was the strongest and bravest man there tonight?'' fH 1 8 nice Tennesl/Inlnc flUA^O ? ' arrived % ash or credit by Riimr ' 9 s Stables iotographs? e in part of the day anyhow. bia Grafonola and Records? sic for your homes. ? New d even January records on ''Columbia Dealers." How 1 a Christmas gift? , East Main St "I didn't'* answered the girl. "I picked you because I knew you could holler the loudest.'' Proof Positive. (From Harper's Magazine.) Little Ada came in to her mother from her play and asked: I "Have gooseberries any legs, mother?" . t "Why, no, dear," replied the mother, '"of course not. Why do you ask?" Ada looked solemn as she raised "U ~ C ^ 4- /-v Virtw Ar'c UUi lcHJC 4JU1 iHUl-uti o. j "Why, then, mother," she said, "I've been eaten' caterpillars!" 'NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF I COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONj ERS. The Annual Meeting of the County ' ! Board of Commissioners for New-' berry County will be held on Thu:--s- J day, January 8, 1914, and all persons ( i Christma Newberry Price Norfolk Oysters ? Salted Almonds Cream of C Croutons Baked S : Juliene 1 Roast Young Pig Roast Native Turkey , j Cranben French Peas in Patties Steamed Carolina Ric< Candied Dunbar's M Poinsetta Salad Plum Padding ' e made some beauties for w Display. rer, not too late for yours yet . in for sitting before, we are ? 0 , two on Christmas Day by i Fruit Ca) American Cheese Cafe Served from 1! 1 Atteii I Santa W onr Iwaiirifiii ami Ih/V V VUI VWHMU1MM .. Fireworks, all kin Dolls, 25c. to $5 Books for Childn Books for Growni t I Hand Bags, All L< I Writing Tablets, i; Perfumery, Brushi Brush Sets, Fouui Nuiinall? Candy, Leggitt's Candy. Y/e can suit ever ? ? D rntes ncaMmauic l o iilder & ?? i i holding demands of any kind against the County, not previously presented to the Board, are required ro file the game with the undersigned Clerk on or before the first day of January, 1S14, so that they may be examined and ordered paid at the Annual Meeting. Jno. H. Chappell, County Supervisor. H. C. Holloway, Clerk. iASNUAL MEETING. The regular annual meeting of the stock holders of the National bank of Newberry, S. C., will be held at the president's office on Tuesday the 13th ~ ^ 1 Q1 4 + TTT^l \7 Ck U<iy Ui ) ail U <Xi J y JL ?/ JL *X <X I. invnv o'clock m. for the election of directors and such other business as may may some before said meeting. 12-23-5t. R. D. Smith, Cashier. is Dinner Hotel Cafe i Sftr an the Half Shell Crisp Celery Jelery Soup Queen Olives ea Bass Potatoes Baked Apples Chestnut Dressing -y Sauce Asparagus Hollandais 3 Giblet Gravy [ Yams " . acaroni Pie Cheese Straws TIT T _ H/T iviapie iviuuse ke Crackers Noir 2 to 3 O'clock. i ition fblK ViHHV I complete line of ds, * .00 !D, I / jps, ' ' iather, # m ? ^ n leather Cases, I es, :ain Pens, / ybody. I 117 _1_. I weens. | }-U,,