The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, September 14, 1911, Page 6, Image 6
GAYTE MAX A NEW FACE.
It Took Twenty-Five Operations, But
the Patient Was Game.
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For some time John J. Katica was
known as the man with nerve. When
he was 14 years of age a terrible misfortune
befell him. A slight ebrasion
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or tne sum 01 us tucca ucvtivpgu
into an affliction which destroyed the
lower right eyelid, his nose, part of
his cheek and distorted his face, generally.
To correct this condition a
total of 25 operations has been performed
upon Katica. Some were successful,
others not; but now his face
is fairkly well repaired. Katica's own
story is interesting as showing how
much a man can stand if he is dev*
r termined
to live.
I need not go into details about
the condition which made me a subject
for the surgeon. It is enough
to say that I could not go out of
doors unless I wore a kind of mask
&%V and then only at night. People
shunned me. I used to hide behind
barrels to be near enough to neighbors
who were talking to hear their
voices and still not be seen. The
i muscles of my face having twistea
my mouth, it was impossible for me
to speak distinctly, so I avoided con.
versation.
One night, as I stood in the shadows,
it was my good fortune to hear
a doctor telling another man that he
had just attended an operation where
the case had appeared to be hopeless,
hut surgery had been the victor. This
gave me renewed hope. Next morning
I went to a dispensary. The doctor
examined me and shook his head.
I was run over by a truck and my
right leg was badly injured. I was
takenTto the Metropolitan Hospital,
where the surgeon removed the injured
member. My right arm had
now become infected, and I was an
object of curiosity to the medical
visitors. I chanced to overhear one
I of them say that he had an idea how
I should be treated. He was a surgeon
at the Post-Graduate Hospital.
He made an appointment.
I should say here that the surgeons,
nurses and orderlies encouraged
me splendidly; they told me I
was getting cured. One day I looked
in the mirror and saw that my
face was improving, but it had left
me frightfully disfigured.
The surgeons now decided to graft
skin on my face. Surgeon Peck, of
the Post-Graduate Hospital, operated
on my eyelid three times. Another
surgeon removed a piece of skin four
by six inches from my left arm and
fastened that to make a cheek. Still
another surgeon took a piece from
my thigh and another took a piece
from my breast, but these grafts were
not successful. I nearly gave up,
and felt that I must go through life
wearing a mask.
Then I was told that they might
be able to give me a substitute for a
j&;.; nose, and I agreed to let them try
||j& again. This time Dr. Lloyd operated.
He fastened the middle finger of my
left hand to the place "where the nose
begins. He sewed it on but left the
jlkV finger still attached to my hand,
agi* . The operation took place on De,
cember 19, 1903, and my hand was
strapped to my face until January
. 30, when the surgeon found that my
finger had grown to the skin of the
fefe face. Then I was once more put
I under ether and my finger amputatThe
finger grew to my face, all
right, but it did not fill out; so I had
to have another operation performed
in the near future to remedy that.
Up to a few days ago a piece of my
"finger nail" kept growing on my
new nose, and I had to keep it trimmed.
In this late operation the surgeon
cut it out.
At the Presbyterian Hospital I was
operated on by Dr. Hawkes, who
tried to graft skin on my face. I
believe he had a fair degree of success.
Dr. Walter J. Crump, at the
> Volunteer Hospital, succeeded in
giving me the rest of a cheek and has
also built up, by grafting, a full lower
eyelid, which I can open and close
like my other lid. He is going to
fix my nose by cutting out the finger
bone and inserting in its place a
piece of cartilage from my rib. He
has also fixed my upper jaw so that
I can wear a set of false teeth. t
I have undergone 25 full operations,
each time under ether or chloroform
and sometimes both, so the
5?doctors
tell me. These do not include
the small operations. You can
I; best judge what I have been through
when I say that I had 16 operations,
large and small, for the nose alone.
I do not include in these numbers
the operations on my right arm,
which was saved and had a large
amount of skin grafted on.
I am assured that the next operation
will make me even more presentable,
and then I shall be ready
to go out and take up a man's fight
:r. in the world. I shall be handicapped,
of course, but where is there a man
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We would all be better off if this
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ARRESTED YOUNG GIRL.
Grave Charges Preferred Against
Father and Daughter.
Lexington, Sept. 2.?A white girl
of Brookland was arrested by Sheriff
Miller yesterday upon a warrant
charging incest. The girl was carried
before Magistrate Henry Buff
of Brookland and admitted to bail in
the sum of $200. The girl is said
to be only about 14 years of age.
Her father is the codefendant. He
was arrested several weeks ago, and
after remaining in jail for a long period
was admitted to bail. This is
one of the most revolting cases in
the annals of the county if the reports
of the affair are true.
DEER KILL RATTLESNAKES.
Once Animal Sights a Reptile It's as
Good as Dead.
"I was trout fishing in the lower
part of the Pennsylvania hemlock
belt this season," said an Orange
county citizen, according to a story
in the New York Sun, "and seeing
and hearing more rattlesnakes than
was pleasant I asked a native of the
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district 11 tnose uueeaui icyuics
weren't more -plentiful than usual
thereabout. He said they were, and
told me why.
" 'It's because the woods have been
cut away so,' said he. 'The cutting
away of the woods has made the
deer scarcer. Naturally the thinnine
n-nt. nf the deer has taken out
of the woods one of the greatest foes
the rattler ever had. A blacksnake
hates rattlesnakes beyond everything,
but he doesn't hate them a bit more
than a deer does.
" 'Deer will hunt rattlesnakes as
persistently as a good dog will hunt
birds. When a deer once gets its
eye on a rattler that rattler's fate
is sealed.
" 'The deer waits until the snake
coils to strike. Then it raises on its
hind feet and strikes the snake with
the sharp hoofs of the forefeet, killing
it instantly. After killing the
snake if there doesn't seem to be any
of Its kind at hand requiring the
deer's attention, it will cut the dead
one to pieces with its hoofs.
" 'In the fall of the year, when
the snakes are returning to their
dens for the winter, and in the
spring, when they are coming out
again, deer visit the dens and kill
rattlers hv the score as thev Dass in
or come out. In this way while deer
wiere plentiful in our region they
undoubtedly kept the rattlesnake
population down by thousands every
year. There are not enough of the
snake killing deer left with us to
hold the poison peddling reptiles in
check.
" 'Old hunters used to say that
even if a rattlesnake was quick
enough to get its work in on a deer
before the deer's razorlike hoofs ended
its career the poison would have
no effect on the deer. I think that is
a mistake. I came across a big buck
otia fall Iviner dead in the woods. In
one of the nostrils, fast in the flesh,
I discovered the fang of a rattlesnake.
v " 'I could come to but one conclusion
from that. The buck had attacked
a rattlesnake and the snake
had managed to strike it in the nose,
setting a fang deep in a nostril. The
buck, jerking its head hack suddenly,
had pulled the fang out of the
snake's jaw. The poison from it
had killed the buck.'
"That same native of the hemlock
belt itold me that if I carried a black
ash stick with me I needn't he afraid
of all the rattlesnakes there were in
that or any other region, for a rattler
wouldn't come anvwhere near
black ash. He said, too, that I could
always be sure of huckleberry pie or
pudding for dinner wherever there
was rattlesnakes, for rattlesnakes
and a huckleberry country invariably
went together. He said, too, that I
needn't be afraid of getting malaria
as long as I wtas in a district where
there were rattlesnakes.
"I didn't carry a black ash stick
to test its efficacy against proximity
of rattlers, but there isn't any doubt
at all but I had huckleberry pudding
or pie right along while I was in that
bailiwick, and I never had malaria
once."
WIFE WOUNDS AFFINITY.
snooting Taxes 1'iace in mcture
House at Nashville.
Nashville, Sept. 9.?Walking into
a crowded moving picture show here
this afternoon, Mrs. Earle Samuels
fired three shots from a pistol into
the neck of a woman known here
as Willie West. A near-panic resulted
and several women fainited.
Earl A. Samuels, a young grain
broker of this city, was arrested a
short time ago, in company with Miss
West, charged with disorderly con-3
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started divorce proceedings. The
case was compromised, however, durithe
trial.
Miss West was rushed, seriously
injured, but conscious, to a hospital.
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STRANGE SIBERIAN HOUSES.
One Enters by a Hole in the Roof
and Climbs Down a Pole.
There are many kinds of queer
houses in the world, but for difficulty
of ingress and egress the huts
of some Siberian fur hunters, Koryaks
by name, take the palm.
From a distance these houses have
the appearance of huge funnels rising
out of a snowbank. The craterlike
top of the house, besides forming
a roof, is used as a general storage
place for' food and all sorts of
articles. This slopes downward to
an aperture in the centre which
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serves as a smone noie, ventilator
and passageway below.
A number of logs arranged In a
circle support the rickety framework
of the roof, the lower end of which
rests on a secondary pile of timbers
forming the waljs of the living quarters.
For nearly nine months the
whole house is covered up to the projecting
roof with tons of snow,
chinked with frozen earth and debris,,
the inmates being about ten feet below
the surface.
The most peculiar feature of the
house, according to Fur News, is the
means of entrance. This i& accomplished
by scaling a narrow split log,
having holes cut in for feet and
hands, which extends down from the
rtoof at an angle of almost 90 degrees.
Getting inside Is a feat which
none but the experienced native can
accomplish with comfort.
The interior is reached by descend-,
ing another perpendicular tree log
stairway, the holes being covered
with a slippery coating of grease and
soot. A misplaced step of any visitine
white fur trader or agent would
result in his landing in a pot of
blubber always kept boiling at the
base.
The whole enclosure has a ground
floor, and is barren of anything in
the shape of furniture. A large vessel
for cooking seal and blubber and
a kettle used for melting snow are
the chief household utensils. The
diet is limited almost exclusively to
raw and half cooked seal and whale
flesh, with Russian brick tea and
American tobacco as an extra luxury.^
Before entering one or tnese Arctic
households it is customary for the
white visitor or trader to send word
ahead prior to his arrival. On reaching
the house he will usually find assembled
on the roof awaiting him
the host and all his family, including
dogs. Dogs play an important part
in their primitive religion and are
thought to be a potent agency for
keeping away evil spirits and bringing
good luck in the hunting of fur
animals. For this reason the stuffed
form of a dog is always kept dangling
from the rooftop of the houses.
TEXAS COTTON CROP LARGE.
Will Probably Break Records Judging
from August Sales.
San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 6.?
That the cotton crop of Texas will
probably break all records is indicated
in the number of bales received
at Galveston for the month of
August. During the month, 206,000
bales, valued at $15,580,000
wora roppivAd This breaks all
records at the Galveston port for the
month of August. Last year's August
receipts were 125,923 hales,
and the next largest August receipts
were 129,810 hales in 1908. Comparing
the receipts of both July and
August of this year with that of
each year since 1906, when the
State produced more than 4,000,000
bales, the indications are that
this year's crop will exceed by several
hundred thousand bales any
crop ever produced In the State.
While the crop is short in certain
sections, in others it is very heavy,
and those in touch with- conditions
predict that the Texas crop this
year will be more than one-third of
all cotton produced in the United
States.
DANCED SEVEN HOURS.
Barber and His Girl Friend Test
Their Endurance.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 6.?After
dancing for seven hours, A. F. Scott,
a barber, took his lady partner to a
refreshment stand at Dreamland, in
this city, last night and toppled over
dead as he was about to drink a
glass of soda water.
Miss Mamie Webb, Scott's partner
stood by his side as he~toppled to
the floor.
It was in tne spirit or run tnat tney
had proposed to try out each other's
endurance. They started to dancing
as soon as the pavilion opened at 6
o'clock and kept at it constantly,
save for the 30 seconds' wait of the
orchestra, until 1 o'clock a. m., when
Scott, exhausted, decided to give up
the struggle. The pair walked over
to the refreshment stand, ordered
soda, and as Scott was about to raise
the glass to his lips he fell in a
swoon.
He was dead when bystanders
started to lift him to his feet.
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