THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURtt, i A.
I DOCTOR
E
Watched Removal of Appendix,
but Felt No Pain from
Operation.
A NEW LOCAL ANAESTHETIC
Inincd Full ConM-louni ami !
Wittchrd Surgeon t'ct His Flesh !
Wit limit tin- ljcut Hisroinfort
l.osf I'ecling In Unity from ISili
hw nwni'd.
London, KnclaiUi. T'tIous ojra
t.oiu performed ii! ( i n patient who
retsi'is full eoa.-i loiiHiii'SH and
itcbt" the siuxoi) carving his
flesh without tlio least discomfort
are now said to be possible by means
of a new loi'at anaesthetic. A pin
prick that acron:panlp the "Inmbur
puncture" Is all the pain. The
patient Is enabled to witness tho
aaiug off of both lops, if nerd be,
without winking an eyelash. I'er
most patients would rather not
Bee such things and would prefer tin
consi iousne?!;, but it is possible f,ir
them to remain rc.i.s. ious an t look
the other way or have a screen In
terposed between their eyes and t ho
scat fif opera: ion.
' Tiey v. ti' i led ir.e itit.i t l:o e;rat
in?; theatre on a In::;,' barrow." say
a patient, who i-xporien-'O.l II:.' iii at
r.3.v It . "T (:,v.'t : :: '; : !'::-
iriguieiieii. i iii y r.iaa.' me si: on
thf opevat nz table, wii'i ;v.y I.".
haiiMinn over the m,1' an I t!.i : h'
Kan vigorously : r.i '.:.; .. tl:e
over the snail o' my Ivik,
" 'him.' s;:.d il.e sii rjic; n. 'ji:.! a
ln?le pi ick and it s all o.er.'
"My heart went off like a d :'.;;.
hammer tit that, but I bit my litis
and waited. The prick raiv.e - a
mere pin scratch and 1 brc-ithel
ajtaln. I understood they were i:i
JccHiir something into my buekl one,
but the operation, whatever it was,
lasted only a moment. Then the
matt extraordinary thing happened.
Suddenly 1 lost every trace of feel
ing In my body from my ribs down
ward. It Is a feeling which U quite
indescribable, but it was exceedingly
pk'mnt. The house surgeon asked
ma at this point If I w ould like some
wool put Into my ears to prevent me
f-irlng what was said, but I refused
s, as also the offer of a screeen be
en my face and the seat of opera
.j'.v. They demurred a little over
latter, hut at last consented. I
I that If I saw everything 1 would
...m less about It.
" 'Are you ready?" asked Mr. Y.,
treating me to a curious smile.
Qult I said.
- 'Knife, then, sister
T was too excited to feel particu
larly frightened but when I saw the
blade actually In contact with the
flesh, and that flesh my own, I con
fern that It made me draw my
breath. A little red line followed tho
course of the knife across the skin,
and I realized with a curious sense of
mingled unreality and satisfaction
that the operation proper had begun,
and that It was absolutely free from
pain of any sort. I must have
laughed aloud so great was my re
lief, for Mr. Y. looked up sharply
and asked me If I fell anything.
'Nothing at all.' said I. 'If I didn't
eo it, I wouldn't believe that It was
I whom you were cutting up.' After
that we kept up a running fire of re
marks. Now absolutely at my ease,
I watched him open gradually down
through skin and muscles toward
that troublesome little appendix of
mine. I saw the appendix after It
was found and felt a malicious pleas
ure In watching It tied off and cut
away.
'Goodby and good riddance.' 1
said.
"Mr. Y. laughed heartily and
aaked me to tell him exactly Low I
felt.
'"I feel as If the only things I
wanted on earth were a cup of tea
and a cigar.'
"They fetched the tea on a littlo
tray. The cigar left nothing to be
desired. I was so delighted with
crerythlng that when I had seen the
last stitch lnsertel I rould have
jumped off the table and danced a Jig
around the theatre."
The patient was able to read the
newspapers and talk to his wife the
same afternoon and he soon recov
ered. The only disadvantage of tho
lumbar puncture Is that It cannot be
need for an operation above the low
est rib.
"KPOHTS A DISEASE."
School Athletes Exalted Ui Demigods,
Hays Chicago Educator.
Chicago. Football, basket ball
and American sports In general have
kecome a national disease, according
to President O. C. Schneider of the
Chicago Board of Education. He waa
led to this declaration through the
criticism of Superintendent of
Schools Cooley, who complained of
the physical culture work la the
high schools.
"Our system of sports In the high
schools la anything but educational,"
said Mr. Schneider. "The youngster
that do the playing are taught that
they are better than their fellows. If
they can beat some one else they arc
exalted Ilk demigods. It has reached
u time when so-called sport Is really
a disease."
Q
CARV
hi OP
BURS 1E H DRINKERS
ItUI nnlirork Ha Seen Em and Ex
plnltn the Evil Hnlilt.
Tangor, Me. "All the bears of
Penobscot County I have ever
known." said William Ilnbr-oik, of
Iiradley, "feel as If they cannot den
tip for the winter until after they
have had a protracted drunk from
eating crab apples that have stayed
on the trees cold nights until they
v ie rro.-en clear through and then
hrng out nnd thawed In tho sunlight
nnd repented the operation until fer
mentation set In and the sweet elder
has turned to a good Imitation of
id 1 Modford rum.
"Of course a tear that Is real far.
so fat that his eyes are dosing up
and making him blind, will stagger
away to some old blowndown and
hld. away under the protecting
trunk of a rotting tree nnd go off
Into Its snooze without any sleeping
potion; but an average bear that Is
young and active seems to dread go
ing to sleep for six months on a
stretch, and puts It off as long as It
can and gets drunk and blunders
away to the nearest hiding plare and
drops off to sleep In an Intoxicated
stupor.
"It Is too bad to have a respecta
ble young bear that has passed the
summer In phklng and eating ber
ries, and that has put on Its last lay
er of fat from gathering and eating
mellow windfalls In the autumn or
chards, get Into the habit of drinking
liquor.
"An overdose of bard cider made
from fermented apph- Juice lias the
same elTect on bears that It does on
run. iin.l makes them careless of
their own welfare and quarrelsome?
and gMi,.r;iiy disagreeable.
"1 wish the Maine prohibitory
law could get at those ungnth"nd
apples ;uul put a stop to drunken
ness among btars but I fear tlio re
fortv. movement will arrive too late
to do any good to the bears. 1 h.-.ve
killed two proml.-liK joung lers
because of their weakness for st .;;
i'.ri::k, ami I may -M-cine two or la;, e
mere, though 1 am ashamed or r.-.y
conduct."
AEKOPI.AXK EAS1MOXS.
Suggestions for Aviator's Proper Ap
parel .hi t Ivmed.
London, England. Fashion;! for
nroplaning already claim the atten
tion of London outfitters. The fol
lowing suggestions for an aeroplan
ist's outfit have been giveu by a
West End maker of motor clothes.
"The aeroplanlst should wear a
gaberdine coat with a thick fleecy
lining to keep out the cold. Over
that he might have a loose and thick
overcoat, buttoning very high around
tho neck. For lining, opossum fur
would be the ideal thing, and the
gloves might also be lined with the
same fur.
"For leg-covering a pair of
breeches of the same material as the
coat; and these, to keep out the
cold, should be tightly laced below
the knees. Thick stockings with fur
lined gaiters over them should keep
the wearer's feet warm.
"For head covering the cap sup
plied to Arctic expeditions would
suit the aeroplanlst. It is a knitted
wooly cap covered with cloth with
ear flaps and flaps which could be
pulled out at will on either side of
the face to protect It against the
wind."
MAC CKACKKX IS EOK MARK I A OR
Criticises Irofeis(ir for Calling It
Suicide of Love.
Chicago. College professors who
promulgate new and startling the
ories on marriage and divorce are de
nounced as sensation-mongers and
seekers after notoriety by Chancellor
Ma'Cracken of New York University
In a letter to a Chlcagoan who form
erly was a student of New York Unl
versUy. Professor MacCracken scores Pro
f) ij: Hluard D. Monroe of Leland
c'z.ifoi'd I'nlverfity for bis pessimis
tic conception of the marriage rela
tion in America and takes him to
ta-k for asserting In a recent lecture
bf.i.-o a woman's club In Chicago
that marriage was the Bulclde of love
In tho I'nitod States.
XEW (JI.OMXJICAIi THEORY.
Scientist Ascrllies Surface Moraines
(ilacli r to Accretions.
New Haven, Conn. In his lec
turo In the Stillman course at Yale
Professor Penck, of Uerlln, advanced
the theory, new to geologists In this
country, that the surface moraines
of glaileis are formed of accumula
tions of rock and debris taken from
the bottom during Its course In the
higher levels and not, as has been
supposed, by rocks dropping from
above upon the upper surface.
By a series of diagrams and photo
graphs Professor Penck showed also
that the medial and surface moraines
come from the lateral, instead of
vice versa, the theory held by geo
logists. 90-Foot Stack of Hurley.
Garfield, Wash. The largest stack
of barley, sacked and then piled up,
ever known in the history of the
West was made near this place, the
result of a determined pool by the
farmers to hold their grain until
such a time as the market price waa
enough to warrant them to sell at A
profU. The stackof grain waa nine
ty feet high ,and much labor was ex
pended in order that the grain might
be piled in such a manner to anabla
the whole to be covered with tarpaa
HERE'S THE LOG OF
A "LOVE PIRATE"
Being the Diary cf ... C V I: w ' vc J
in Chicago Divorce, wll!i
"Shadow ICtiD."
GIVES NEW POINTS C!i LIVE
M'rlt4s "It" Awful to !I:ne to 'f t':
to a Kid That It Silly .Miont Y ,u
When Von Ileal!- Need Kt."
Culled "Sunny Mary."
Chicago, 111. Miss Mary Mel.ain,
who was named In the snccet-sful
suit for dlvorco brought by Mr. U
legrettl, wife of a candy manufac
turer, has. In Justification of herself,
made public part of a diary which
she kept while she was employed ns
Mr. Alegrettl's secretary. She de
termined on this after her employ
er's wife had railed her a "love
Pirate." At the trial Miss Mcl.nln he-
cr.nie known as the "Shadow Kiss
er," wit Hemes testifying that they
recognized her shadow on the offlco
curtains when Mr. Allegrettl em
brace, 1 her.
I!e;e are some of the extracts
from the young secretary's diary:
"It'.'- awful to have to talk to a
kl! that's silly about you when yon
r aKy need rest. It takes young
r: i l nv nwful while to Ret wise to a
The
r1 eyed men make me i
W( i (linger! All tho fellows
that think I'm cute are married or
laid headed, or both.
"It's hard to be goood when the first
principle of life In the sweet, pure
air if tho farm Is to sell cold ptoi
nso eggs for new laid.
"I'd rather chase home a cow with
ockl burrs In her tall through a
wit pasture than go three blocks for
a pr.tent bottle of milk with nil tho
cicam In one end.
thinking of opening a m:ui'.-
cure parlor for exclusive patronage
I that means nothing hvs than $o.
Ma says the only people I'd ft
would be lunatics. That's all right,
too. All the manicures would bo
dead if It were not for the lunatics.
"If kisses were ten dollar bills
what a merry world thi3 would be!
"Now this diary la to tell Just only
the absolute truth, and It's only for
me to read, beeaure one doesn't dare
to tell the truth to one's friends, and
one's enemies aren't worth talking
to.
"I've found out what love Is. It
was In a book written by a man who
said he'd ben loved by more women
than he had Angers and toes. Ho
says love Is a distemper. Gee! That's
what McCIIntock's pup had when his
hair fell out and they drowned hlra
because he couldn't die from chloro
form. I think I see my finish.
"Oh, I believe I have found tho
man. He's at least thirty-five, but
he Is the darltngest darling In Chica
go, and he Isn't married. When I
told Pa he said to wait a month or
two, because the worst spavined
horse looks all right In the twilight.
Pa's getting to be a pessimist.
"Oh! little Mary, why Is It that
all the women wait until they are
fifty and wear double lens glasses to
talk women's rights? I guess It Is
because they don't find the sleddln'
quite so easy as they used to.
"Now, Just think of me morbid.
Why they called me 'Sunny Mary'
from the tlmo I waa four, and the
first time I ever can remember bring
real angry was when they fed my
milk toast to the Bishop because ho
had bum teeth and I'd been crying
for It for over an hour. I was only
six then, but It shows you how they
rub It Into the suffering little ones."
CITS WAY OCT OF ICEBOX.
Butcher Nearly Frozen by Two Hours
tf Imprisonment.
Oakland. Cal. Fred. Lewis, a
local butcher, entered his Icebox at
the close of business to adjust his
stock and took along an axe.
A spring lock on the outside
slipped Into place as the door slipped
from his hand, and he Immediately
began pounding and shouting for as
sistance. The Intense cold rendered
him numb, and be finally, after two
hours' Imprisonment, attacked the
walls with the axe.
Neighbors who heard the muffled
blows believed that burglars were
operating, and as Lewis crawled
through the hole he had made he
was confronted by a policeman, to
whom he explained the situation.
Uncovers Mastodon's Tooth.
Morocco. Ind. While digging
ditch In Colfax township, Lewis
Guthrie unearthed a part of the
skeleton of a mastodon, among which
was a tooth that measured nine
Inches In length and five Inches In
width and weighed almost ten
pounds. The tooth la well preserved.
Many other bones of mastodons have
ben unearthed near here In the last
three or four years.
lhe Cune for I .at hi.
Washington, D. C. Consul Rich
ard M. Bartleman, of Madrid, re
ports that the uso of canes for laths
for plastering purposes Is general
throughout Spain, and that they are
durable and give most satisfactory
results. In Valencia bamboo cut
into strips is also used, Is very trouf
and holds the plaster wall.
flen. CorMn Says One of Tbeni Cm
Do .More llt.rin Than All the V.t i,
Cincinnati, Ohio. "On" fool wo
man inn mnke more trouble l:i a:t
nnti.v pest than all th" ofhhers n'i.1
i-i-n," -nll (ie:i. II. ('. Corbln, for tier
A 'J 'f nt lli'iii'nl 1". S A., !!.t us-ilng
l..c Jtulns rui:li'er case.
On. CorMn 1 I'd been prk"l fnr
Mi ejiiulo'i of the ens.itlonnl s:n;hs
of orxleM at l'ort Hamilton, N. Y., ns
told In 1 l.o supposed letters of Mrs.
llai-is to her husband.
"lU.t Mrs. Iluins says tho letters
nr" fugerles," was the reply.
":Uich thlny ns are describe as
occurilng at Fort Hamilton were un
known In my time In the army, and
I ! ft It only a year and a hitlf ayo."
(ald tho G-nerrl. "It seems Incredi
ble that such thing could hnppnn,
particularly at Fort Hamilton, rUht
tin ier the eye of the Inspector Gen
eral, right under the shadow of le
pnrtment headquarters, rlf;ht under
the nose of the municipal pollen.
"Hut one fool woman can mak
more trouble In nn army po f than
nil the officers and men. We inn
control the latter.
i mitred the woman.
but we cannot
There w e;-e sev
eral S" li coses In my time, :t I we
had to ret rid of the officers In order
to get ri l of the women. I ha 1 on
such case out In the Phlll'ipln -s. -m
I had to pursue the only o ir n en
t.i nie. 'it Is my wife's f.u.l:.'
the ofhVer when bi fore n-e.
"'No doubt.' I repHe!; 'but we
can't control her and yon can't con
trol her. hut we inn control you.'
r slne,. This Hrlns care I t
iM -"re... h', I understood the n ::r
rhi,e was unhappy nil the way
Ihiouch. Hut those letters. t!-..y
don't seem i's letters natuial fer a
wife to wri'e to her husband. They
loo': more like letters manuf:-. ! : re I
fir the purpo.-e of creating K.vivpn-
thy. and, perhaps, f u m 1 .--h 1 :i rt a p.;
slble Incentive to Insanity, temporary
or otherwise."
VXKISSED I'.AHV ntOTHCTED.
Micrebe.I.adeii Adults Nut l'ermilted
to Spread (irrms to Child.
London. England. An "unklssed"
baby boy Is one of the remarkable
ri.izens of Bradford. In Yorkshire.
His parents hold htrlct views on the
hygienic raising of children, and
have framed a set of rules tor visi
tors who come to see the baby, so as
to guard the precious heir from con
tad with microbe?laden adults.
Displayed conspicuously on tho
walls of this unique Infant's homo
the following Injunctions:
"Don't kiss the baby.
"Don't handle the baby unless
your hands are very, very clean.
"Don't bring baby's face cloiie to
your own or to your hair.
"Don't allow baby to touch your
fare or hair.
"Don't talk, breathe, whistle,
blow, cough or sneeze Into baby's
face. We want him to live.
"Don't use your handkerchief to
baby's hands, face or mouth.
"To some these rules will appr
comical or stupid, but they are not
written as a Joke or without thought.
Therefore any person Infringing
these rules after having read them
will Incur our extreme displeasure."
MICROBES AND MEAT EATERS.
Prof. Metchnlkoff Warns Against In
dulgence In Fleshy Food.
Paris, France. Dyspeptics, gouty
and rheumatic men and sufferers
from diabetes are scientifically warn
ed by Professor Metchnlkoff that tho
present popular Idea on the danger
of eating much flesh Is well founded.
He reports that the human Intes
tine encloses "putrefying" microbes
of at least three classes. One of
them, discovered by an American
savant, produces violent toxtnes. The
second, of Belgum origin. Is as pois
onous, but Its toxines act lees ener
getically than that of the American
discovered microbe. This also Is the
case with the third microbe which
was discovered by an English bac
teriologist. REGICIDE'S WILL FOl'ND.
Assassin of Carlos Bequeathed HI
Children Ills Nu me nnd Compassion.
Lisbon Portugal. The will of
Manuel Sllva Bulssa the man who
assassinated King Carlos, has been
discovered In this city. It was writ
ten evidently In anticipation of his
death, and gives instructions as to
how his children were to be notified
of his demise.
He said he had no property to
leave his chlHren other than "my
name, my respect, and my compas
sion for thoso who suffer. I bes
that my children bo brought up In
tl" principle of liberty, equality,
ani fraternity, for which they will
soon become orphans."
False Teeth, Armor Piute.
Tellngsgrove, Pa. A great chance
for advertising Is presented to a dan
tal man here whose fales teeth saved
tho life of Isaac Sprenklo. of Middle
Creek township, Snyder County.
A glancing bullet, shot by a rabbit
he titer, punctured Sprenkle's lower
lip, and would, have penetrated the
roof of his mouth had not Its momen
tum been arrested by striking a
stout set of false teeth.
mp 100 Hi r.-cts in 100 Minn t re.
An ti lcus. Ga. The annual meet
of the Horse Swappers' Astocla
. wai held In Amerlcus, one bun
d horses being swapped In as
ny minutes. More tbau a doaea
tules were represented.
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