THE VALUE OF LIGHT Recognized by Medical Authorities of Two Continents. rktladrlphJit IlonpHal the Flrxt to BatabliUh a Phototherapy IJrpnrt-tit-Dr. Flnnen'a ftrvr Light Trratmeat. The Philadelphia I'olyclinlc i the irat hos!tal In Pennsylvania nuil one 1 the first iu America to establish department of phototherapy, to trhich the Finsen light treatment is tpplied. A lamp hits recently been jnported from England which ig tin idaptution of the original FhiHcn femp nnd considered in ninny re .jwcts an advance on ita model. It onanists of an arc light with a rollow metal shield Into which are Jtted two rock crystnl lenses used .or concentrating the light rays. Jold water, constantly flowing fcrough the shield and between the Mists, enrrica off the hent rays gen Mted by the arc. Tlie shield also rotects the patient from the light, those brilliancy may be judged from Ae fact that those operating the lamp are obliged to wear dark glasses. The treatment Is perfectly aie aud practically painless, while rhe healthy normnl appearance of he skin when cured is most remarka Je, says the Philadelphia Treat. The lamp at the Polyclinic, says the Philadelphia Press, Is already in use nd the opportunity is offered to all -offering from lupus to avail them selves of what promise to be a per nanent cure of a hitherto "Ineuru ule" disease. The possibilities and he limitations of the light treat vent are still unknown, but its fu ture promises much. In the phototherapeutic depart ment of the Polyclinic the X-rays are ilso used for their beneficial influ ence on certain diseases of the skin Mod even more deeply-seated struc tures. The X-rays are quite differ- FINSEN LIGHT TREATMENT. Successfully Tested at the Polyclinic at Philadelphia.) jnt in their effect from the Finsen .ight rays. They are less useful in he treatment of lupus, but more ef ficacious in the treatment of the can er of the skin, of which many cases an be cured by the X-rays. With .hese two new therapeutic agencies uany hitherto rebellious skin dis eases can be successfully treated. The vnlue of l:ght as a powerful herapeutic agent stands as one of he most recent contributions to med icine. Yet already its chains in cer ain specific diseases are established nd an avenue of investigation has jeen thrown open which promises a the near future results of the most .tartling and far-reaching impor .ance. In a general way the bene Jciul effects of light have been rec ignized the world over the thrifty nousewife who hangs her clothes on the line to "sun" is availing herself nf what in more scientific terms has keen called "the best, cheapest and uost universally bactericidal agent that we have." The sun baths of the ;!d Romans or the exhilaration all feel on a brilliant day are simply ither examples of the same truth, ilut until now any definite, scientific knowledge of the action of light has Ijeen extremely limited. The standard bearer par excellence at this new branch of medicine is Dr. Niels Finsen, of Dnmark. As a result of various experiments on bacteria and certain animals and lants, Finsen was led to the conclu sion that the actinic or cheniicul rays ontniued in sunshine were of thera .eutic value rather thnn the red or Aeat rays. If these rays could kill lertnin bacteria notably the bacillus ruberculosis why could they not ilso cure certain superficial skin dis eases of bacteriological origin? he irgurd. The nction of ordinary sunlight deficient in chemical rays was too jow, however, and Finsen, by means if lenses, first concentrated the cli-.-ect rays of the sun and later those A an electric arc light, as being rich r in actinic rays and therefore more lowerful. Lupus which is a tuberculosis of :he skin was first chosen and the iew treatment was crowned with uich success that a "light institute" was immediately established in Co penhagen, and now hospitals and pri vate practitioners on the continent and in England have installed lumps and the number In use is constant ly increasing. Xry I.neld Eiplunatlon. At a medical college some students were being questioned in anatomy, nnd one of them was asked: "What mus cles have their origin in t lie popliteal space?" The bright student promptly replied: "Well, there's that one with the durncd long name, and I don't re member the other two." KAISER'S BANDLESS BALL. Dance In the German Moral Caatla That Went Oa Without the (pilomirr Maalc. When a noble and brilliant gather ing had come together in the white1 hall of the royal castle for the sec ond rehearsal of the Inst ball and the dancing was about to begin silence fell Upon the Indies and their cavaliers, and consternation was depicted in the faces of nil, says the London Daily Telegraph. It seeins that the princes, princesses and other representatives of rank and fashion had taken up the position assigned to them for the minuet, whi n the kaiser ami knlserin arrived mid entered the neighboring aparlment. Then the signal was given for the dance, but it rlicited1 no re fcpoiwe. On inquiry it was found that the band of Hie Guards, which should have been on the spot, had not ar rived. Some one ran to the telephone, called up the bnnd director, nnd learned that he had been mistakenly ordered to come on the following day. On learning that he was wonted at once, he dispatched express, messen gers for his musicians and drove over himself in a cab, taking with him. the fiddle which he had formerly received lis a present from the emperor. The dance in Hie palace now began to the strain of a solitary violin; somewhat later on the trombone arrived, but found he could not well chime in with the fiddler, but the flutist was soon on the scene, nnd by the time the minuet wns over two-thirds of the or chestra were in their places. The em presses' gavotte was dmneed to the music of a full orchestra. HOW ANIMALS ACT AT FIRES. Not All of Them Show Fear, Altttiongh the Mnjorltr Do Not Ullte Flame. Most animnls are afraid of Are nnd will fly from it in terror. To others there is a fascination about a flame and they will walk into it even though tortured by the heat, says the Chicago Chronicle. Some firemen were talking the other day about the conduct of ani mals during a fire. A horse in a burn ing stable, they agreed, wa wild with fear, but a dog was as cool in n fire as nt any other time. A dog, they said, keeps his nose down to the floor, where the air is purest, and sets himself calm ly to finding his way out. Cats in fires howl piteously. The- hide their faces from the light and crouch in corners. When their rescuer lifts them they ore as a rule quite docile and subdued, never biting or scratching. V.irds seem to be hypnotized by fire nnd keep per fectly still; even the' loquacious parrot in a fire has nothing to say. Cows, like dogs, do not show alarm. They are easy to lead forth and often find their way out of themselves. Rodents seem never to have any difficulty in escaping from fires. The men said that in all their experience they had never come upon the burned skeleton of a rat or a mouse. CHURCH GETS WINNINGS. rokrr (lump rinyeil ! TMiiliiilelphla Men of Wealth HMiell lit lltcloua C'nuNp. There are five men of wealth nnd prominence closely identified with a certain up-town church who met once a week to play poker. All nrenieii well ulong in years audi all have never lost their love for the great American game of draw. They realize, says the Phila delphia Record, that it would! he incom patible with their positions as pillars of the church to gamble, and yet they play a 25-eemt. limit game for real money. There is just this difference: The winners turn over to the treasurer all the money that they have won from the losers and every six months this fund is expended on some deserving charity. In thnt way, while the player who is really ahead of the gamedoesn'ti really profit, yet he isn't losing any thing, and the loser has the satisfac tion of knowing that his money is go ing to a good cause. The element of chance is not eliminated; each man plays his best, there are four hours of excitement and the players do not feel that they are beating the devil about the bush. Kxodna of the Cowboy. An indication of the rapidity with which the country west of the Missis sippi is being reclaimed and settled is to be seen in the project of the cattle men of Dakota and Montana to trans fer their business and their herdit bodi ly to South America. The great rangea of the northwest are being cut up into small farms and the area of public grass land is diminishing rapidly. The cattlemen ore looking for ranges in Chili. P.razil and the Argentine, and if they cannot find large unbroken nreas of grnss land in those countries, or are unable to make satisiactory terms, they intend to try Africa. On a Golden Plate. President .Roosevelt recently re ceived nn invitation on a gold plate. It was not political, but it asked him to attend the mining congress in I.eud, K. D., next September. The plate was not big enough to ent a dinner from, as it measured two and three-fourths by five inches, but it was large enough tn show what kind of gold the Hlack II ills produce. W but a 'Sump" In. A sump is the bottom of a mine shaft which is excavated a few feet below the floor of the bottom or lowest level to catch the seepage water. It is at this point that the pumps are con nected. Silk from a Tree. Paraguay has a tree which yields a kind of vegetable silk. It can be woven into thread, but is used chiefly; or stuffing quilts and cushions. THE COLUMBIAN, LADV SYBIL PRIMROSE. Elder nnnahtrr of Earl of Hodetiery Mnrrlea a simple Uentenant of the Hoards. Lndy Sybil Primrose, the elder daughter of the Karl of Roscbcry, wns married at Epsom March 28 to Lieut. C. J. U. Grant, of the Cold stream Guards, son of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Robert Grant. Lndy Sybil refused to go through the. ordeal of a big wedding in Lon don, aud in compliance with her wjshes only relatives and close per sonal friends were invited. Miss Muriel White, daughter of the Secretary of the United States em- LADY SYBIL PRIMROSE. (Daughter of Lord Kosebery, Who Has Just Become Mrs. Urant.) bnssy, was one of the eight brides maids, all of whom wore the earl's racing colors primrose nnd pink. It was originally intended that Miss Pauline Astor should be a brides maid, but this was prevented because of her absence in Roumnnia, where she is the guest of the crown prince and princess. A wedding luncheon was served af ter the ceremony at the Durdans, the earl's sent at Epsom. At uo recent wedding have the presents received been go beautiful nnd valuable. They are estimated to be worth $:WO,000. The king and all of the members of the royal family sent diamond brace lets or brooches. The enrl's gift to his daughter was a magnificent dia mond nnd penrl tiara. Ambassador and Mrs. Choote sent a gold circular jewel box, w,ith an ex quisitely painted lid depicting a moonlight scene. Secretary and Mrs. White sent n pair of antigue sugar sprinklers. The Countess of Crewe, Lndy Crewe, Lndy Sybil's sister, gave her a white morocco dressing case, every article being of gold with monogram in diamonds. The Rothchilds (her mother was n Rothschild) and Snssons sent the bride many costly jewels. BISHOP OF BUFFALO. Propaganda Retrieves That Mgr. Mooney Will He Chosen for This Important I'oat. At a meeting of the Congregation of the Propaganda, nt the Vatican, it was considered certain thnt Mgr. Joseph F. Mooney, vicar general of the arch diocese of New York, will be chosen as bishop of Buffalo, N. Y., in succession to Most Rev. Jnmes E. Quigley, recent ly appointed archbishop of Chicago, 111. Right Rev. Joseph F. Mooney was born in Pennsylvania during a visit MGR. JOSEPH F. MOONEY. (Slated for the Roman Catholic Bishopric, of Buffalo, N. Y.) there of his parent who lived, at Kings ton, N. Y., in July, 184S. He was edu cated at St. John's college, Fordhnm, and ordained a priest in 1873. He taught philosophy for eight years in the seminary at Troy and was made pastor of St.. Patrick's church, New burg, N. Y., in 1800. Thence he came to New York city as pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, in West Fifty first street, In 1HW2 he was appointed chancellor of the diocese, and four months later a vicar general to succeed the late Mgr. rreston. The pope subsequently, at the nomination of the Inte Archbishop Corrlgan, elevated him to the rank and dignity of a domestic prelate. From Washington it is stated thnt Mgr. Booker, the secretary of the apos tolic delegation, is also a candidate for the liuffalo vacancy. He belongs to the Albany diocese. Flylnii Props In llornto. The flying frog is found in Borneo, lie uses an expansive membrane on each of his feet in sailing from tree to tree. The webs enable him to do this in the same way as the wings of our modern flying machines enable their inventors to remain for a time in the air. Peralaa Wenyers Work Slowly. In making the best Persian rug a weaver spends, about 23 days over every square foot of surface. Ml Ml BLOOMSBURQ, PA. WOMEN WEAR SHABBY GLOVES They Are flot aa rartlenlnr Abont Their Ilnnd-f overlna; a the Men Are. "Did yon ever notice how much better men's gloves look thnn wom en's?" asks a writer in the New York Times. "Go into any public convey ance nnd look nt the gloves of the pnssengers and you will be impressed by the superior condition of those worn by men. Two-thirds of the women yon meet cover their hands with suedes nnd dogskins that are shockingly soiled and worn. It is not only women of generally shnbby np pcarance who arc guilty of wornout finger tips and ragged Reams; many who are otherwise well-groomed and who could afford to put on a fresh pair of gloves every day are equally rulpable. Men would be ashamed to go on the street wearing such dis reputable things, but women flaunt them unblnshingly." "That sweeping condemnation Is unfair," protested the woman. "The condition is easily explained. Women wenr their gloves much more than men aud beside it is awfully destruc tive to finger tips to dig around in purses for change and samples nnd to handle candy, to turn over books and to examine dry goods." "Now yon have jumped the sub ject," said the man. "I mil not tnlk ing about cause, I nm talking about effect. The majority of men certain ly do wenr better gloves thnn ithe majority of women. You cu pilot deny that." "That is true." the woman admit ted. "I cannot deny it; they enn bet ter afford it also." THE TELEGRAPH HABIT. One Who Had Contracted It Had n Mrimitt Delivered to Illni In C'hurrb. Many men have the telegraphing habit, as others have the telephoning habit. They send "a wire" with and without provocation. Even where time is not an object, and a letter would do much more good, they call for a blank nnd scratch off 20 or 40 words, ways the New York Press. There is a young lawyer here whose career has been greatly acceleraled by a judicious em ployment of the telegraph. In some way he always manages to receive two or three messages wherever he hap pens to be in a holel, theater, muse um, church, opera house or jail. When he crosses the ocean next month on a big liner he will have half a dozen marconigrnphs a day by wireless. He is confident of the success of keeping himself in the public eye, no matter what the cost. One Sunday he re ceived a message in church, and, qui etly rising to his fullest stature to give the congregation opportunity to view him, he stalked out satisfied that he had made nn indelible impression. The message consisted of five words "Rend Reflections of a Barrister." TRAINING OF A SALESLADY. Some 1'olnta That Are Fsaentlal to Her Topuliirlty with Her Era ployer. The business education of shop girls is continually stimulated by menus of lectures given by the buyer, who Is the real boss, says Les lie's Monthly. "Try," he says, "to make your customer take the goods with her, to avoid deliveries; but don't carry this out too strictly, for if your customer is the right sort it is well to uccommodute her." "Try to have as few C. O. I), sales es possible, is a phrase frequently dinned into our ears. "Try to sell hard selling goods," is another fre quent remark of the buyer. Each department is under supervision of a buyer, who not only buys the goods, but also sees that the girls sell them. At the end of the season, if any particular department is not u, success, that department may bo abolished, nnd the buyer will be out of a job. He is, therefore, very anx. ions to get rid of the goods, par ticularly of the hard selling ones more anxious, perhaps, than the firm itself. IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF. I'udmhI Precaution Taken by a Man Who Thonnht He Might Torn 1 1 Mlaslnw. "I suppose every trade has peculiar customers," said the head man in a biff retail shoe house, relates the New York Sun. "thad one in here a few moments ago who wanted buttoned shoes. Nothing particularly strange In that we have Yin, but nftrr he had tried on several pairs and none just (suited, 1 supesled that we niifjht plene him iu1 lace fchoeB. "He t-hook his head and put up his hands. " 'Kxeuse me,' he snid, 'wouldn't wear lace shoes if you c;nve me every piu'r in your house. Did you ever not ice '' he continued, 'thnt every mnn or wom an reported to th police as nilsniiifr is described as wearing luce shoes when last seen?' "I hud never noticed it, but this man assured me that it wns so. 1 asked him if he expected to turn up missing, lie. said1 he might, and if he did he wanted the description of himself to be u little different from the stereotyped one. "That wns his notion, and it seemed! to be fixed, for he went out." Makea More Iteodrra. The educational side of rural free delivery comes out clearly In the sta tistics of one western route, on which there are 109 mail boxes. When the. toute was established the number of daily papers taken in the district was five. Now the number is 05, and most of the papers come from one or the other of two large title. Secretary Moody Investigates iho Young Men's Christian Associa tion in the Navy. Hon. W. H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy, who has been maKing quiet investigation of the Naval Young Men s Christian Association, nas .u.- warded the correspondence to me International Committee of the oung Men's Christian Association. Brief extracts will indicate its spirit. In forwarding the correspondence Mr. Moody wrote: " I believe tnat the result of the estabiisnmeni oi nr work at the naval stations has been unquestionably and unqualified ly good. We should like to see the work continued and increased. It is a kind of work which is beyond gov ernmental scope and would not flour ish under official inspection and con trol." Rear Admiral II. C. Taylor, U. S N., Chief of the Bureau of Naviga tion, wrote: " What I especially ad mired about the methods of the As sociation was their practical character It is my opinion, from personal ol) servation, that drunkenness in ine North Atlantic fleet has been notice ably diminished by the efforts of the Association, and that the direct and apparent benefit to the Navy puts the work of the Association on a ditter- ent ground from that of other reli gious or philanthropic work." Rear Admiral Francis J. Ilignin- son, U. is. in., in commanu oi me North Atlantic Squadron, has had a large opportunity to see the work of the Association. He wrote: "These institutions have my unqualified ap proval, as, in my opinion, they have had the effect of establishing habits of temperance and good order among the sailors of the Navy while on liberty. They are of particular bene fit to the apprentice boys those wards of the nation, around whom we should throw every good influence. This Association, too, has a direct bearing upon the discipline of the Navy, enabling the man to return from liberty clean and sober and on time; benefits conferred, as far as I kno, by no other institution. As one of the old sailors remarked, " These boys are not being brought up to re gard the saloons and brothels as the only resorts while on liberty as I was.' If there was no other recommenda tion in favor of these institutions, I think that the record of money saved by the enlisted men of the Navy through their influence would of it self recommend them to the favor of the Navy Department. In his letter to Secretary Moody, Rear Admiral A. S. Barker, U. S. N., Commandant of New York Navy Yard, says: " From personal observa tion and from what I have learned from officers and men, the influence of the branch on Sands Street, Brooklyn, is most beneficial. I am assured by men who go there that it is run satisfactorily, that, no complaint can be made against it on account of sectarianism, and that it is very popu lar among the enlisted men. I am told that one-third of the members are Catholics, which fact in itself speaks well for its freedom from any charge of sectarianism. Rear Admiral Charles S. Cotton, U. S. N., who as Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, has had the Nor tone branch under his eye since it started a year ago, writes: I here is not the slightest doubt in my mind that the work of the Association is a great power for good, and a valuable aid to the discipline. Such a place keeps many men from the temptation of the slums and of the vile dens of iniquity therein; helps them to retain their moral character, their self- respect, their manhood, and their hard-earned money, and sends manv a man back to his ship on time, clean and sober, who might otherwise fall a victim to the temptations for the un wary." Borne Teaching is Legal- Judge Biddle, of Carlisle, handed down an impoitant decision affecting the compulsory school law of this State. Brady McCollough, a farmer of West Pennsboro, refused to send his twelve-year old daughter to a public school. He was tried before a justice and fined. His defense was that after he removed his daughter from school she was instructed by a private teacher in his lamily, but the private teacher had no certificate to teach. The case was tried before a Cum berland County jury and a special verdict was rendered, subject to law points. Judge Biddle decided that governess or private teacher, even without any certificate, is legally quali- fied to teach and that if this lawful and proper instruction is given at home a scholar need not attend the public schools. It was ordered that a ver dict of not guilty be rendered. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Dejlaration Fast Fading Historic Document of 1776 to bo. Seen More in Public. The Dcclaiation of Independence is to be seen no more by the public An order has been issued that hence forth the historic manuscript shall be kept under lock and key in a great fire and lightproof sale. The Decla ration will never be exibitetl again at any great international fairs. This decision was reached on Fri day as the result of an examination of the document by a committee of the American Academy of Sciences, at the instance of Secretary Hay. Most of the text ol the Declaration is still legible, but only one ot two of the signatures can be made out. There is only a trace of the autograph of John Hancock, the first to sign. The committee, equipped witli powerful microscopes, made a careful examination of the Declaration. It was found that the ink used was not of the first quality. The fact that the engrosser (now unknown to history) used a sharp pen and bore steadily upon it accounted in a measure for the better preservation of the text compared with the signatures. The great d.image sustained, however, was in 1820, when a copy was taken bj the crude letter press process. The Law as to Bill Posting- Under the new law no person shall paint, paste, brand or stamp or in any manner whatsoever place upon or at tach to any building, iencd, bridge, gate, outbuilding or other object, ot upon any property belonging to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to any county, township, borough or city therein, any written, printed, painted or other advertisement, bill, notice, sign or poster, excepting notices re quired by law; nor shall these things be done on the property oi a private owner without consent of the owner. Penalty, fine not less than $5 or ex ceeding $50. There is now a movement start ed which will, if enacted into a law, provide what is known as a " tele phone stamp," the purpose of which is to give the postmaster the privi lege to open letters bearing such a stamp and read them over a tele phone to the parties to whom they are directed. JURORS FOR MAY TERM The following jurors were drawn laA week to serve lit May temi of court: (HANI) Jl'JtOltS. Heaver W. W. Shell. J ten ton borough Joseph A. Cole. A. Ij. McHenrv. Benton township AV. II. Hess. Berwick A. K. IUioiuls. L.J. Towu- send. Cleveland Haines Yost. Cony iiglmm John Mohan. Kishingcreek A. A. Pealer. Franklin Thomas M. Menseh. tl recti wood M. H. Hock. Win. M. Dollinan. Hemlock W. W. Myers, iiocust tleorge W. Howes. Madison S. .1. Kreanier. Main Theodore Fox, Samuel CkxxI- ninn. Orange-Wilbur Hicks, Abrnm Kline. Pine-C. It. Kinney. Hoaringcreek I). V. llarig. Scott Peter Jacoby. Sugarloaf B. I). Cole, Josiah FriU. TKAVKKISK JI H0K8 FIHST NVKKK. Heaver W. H. Shunian. Berwick il. (J. I,nubaeh. Oeorm Morton, It. II. Luuuucb. George "VM8- , jinuicrecK l). k;. lvllnetob, U. Murtss, M. II. Petty. Hloonisburg John Armstrong, Goo. S. Allenian, John W. Fortner, William Kaslmer. Albert Mover. It. F. Vnnder- ulicc. Catau-lssa borough-Tims. E. Harder. Cntawissa township II. J. Miller. Cleveland I. N. Tietsworth. Centrnlia John Langdon, T. J. Quigley. Centre Levi Fester, F. H. Hagen buch. John Scott, William Shutter, La fayette Trivelpiece, John Welliver. Conyngham F.munuel Levan. Fishingcreek Harninn Hess, Frank Ervine. Greenwood Amos Long, It. M. Eyer. Hemlock George C. Shoemaker. Jackson Elmer . Kisner ' Wilson J. Kitchen. Locust Enmnuel Adams, A. P. Hitner. Milllin J. C. Hetler. Millville-J. L. Reese. Montour Georgo W. Mears. Mt. PlenNnnt-G. M. lkcler, Harry Johnston. Oiungeville A. G. Fisher, W. Alla bacli. Hoaringcreek Abraham Heaver. Scott William Ent. Sugarloaf Clarence Cole, A. R Frit, Raymond Smith. TRAVKHSR .H'Hi.lls SIX'ONK WKKK- Benver John Hinterliter, Jr., Philip Rabuck. r Benton borough William J. Yocuul Benton township Harry Gibbons. James Hartninu, Bcrwick-.M. C. Crawford, George Unangst, W. A. Ross. 6 Bloomsburir It- l (vn.... i,.,.i... I r' I : ( V W. Clark Riclmit, I has. V erklieiser. Biiarciuek-Isaiah Bower, Jeremiah Uomboy. Cutawissa township J. R. Bibby Centralia I'utrick Quigley. Fishingcreek John M. Huekalew. John Harrison, E. L. Lemon. Greenwood K. E. Parker. Hemlock Reuben H. Guild. Loeust-H. W. Beaver, Lewis Beaver Madison Marks Giuliani, Geo. Mas teller, Kuiuuel Mordan. Main W. , Smith, W. P. Zehner. MilHin-A. W. Snyder, W. H. Miller. Mt. Pleusnnt Krl. lkcler. Orango-Wm. Drake, II. C. Henri. Pine James Kinney. Itourlngcrcek-J ohu Mourey.
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