CENTRE HALL PA
ELECTRICITY AS CURATIVE.
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remedy of the quack,
tention has been given by regular
of this powerful agent Among the
notable results has been an electrical
of the arteries so common
ture old age. A new announcement is
that of Dr. Labordle, a French medical
man, who gives details of a method
of treating sciatica by tonization with
appears to be ap effective cure for a
painful disease The effects are at.
tributed in this treatinent to sulphur
oxide from electrolytic decomposition
instead of the direct action of the
electric current itself. A thick layer
of absorbent tissue saturated with a §
per cent solution of the sodium hypo
sulphite was covered over a plece of
tin as the which
was placed the rear of the thigh
over the sciatic nerve. The positive
pole, wet with water, was put in con
tact with the calf of the leg. The pa
tient had unable to use his legs
for ten months, but after ten sittinzs
of forty minutes he could walk a mile
negative electrode,
on
been
and recovery seems to have been com-
plete.
1 tot
the Pasteur
Inst)
demonstrated that
Experiments
tute in
chickens can
though
Quire ti
made by Doctor
gestion of Pi
tor Cohendy
tor. He int
were about
at
Paris have
bacteria,
geem to re
nents were
most
em The experi
Cohendy at the sug:
ff. Doc
ofessor Metchnikoft
wile i
CUZ e0
roduced eg
He
gs
sterilized
h on the ir apparat:
them on the ir apparatus
the food
was carefully filtered and all i
was perfect]
of chickens ra d fr his
Several sels
were
be big
taken out
which
way
found after
for the
and
had been
The
chickens
six weeks to too
incubator and were
compared with chickens
raised in the ordinary way.
tests showed that the
incubator
of ,mi.
urs of
tubes
were absolutely free
crobes, though after e ho
their
gOM
unsterilized life
contained t
digestive
housands of them
Physicians tell
of the
of Boston defective,
sa¥s the Boston The trained
nurses who attend the pupils have per
formed good service in correcting tem-
porary defects it proposed
seriously to not only fed the hungry,
but baths for
children suffering from skin troubles.
It {8 also urged
should
teachers and
that purpose
us that
in the
65 per cent
children public schoola
are physically
Globe
Now ia
to furnish medicated
that
be paid to
more attention
by
for
school clinles
parents cooperating
A wise medical sugges
tion Is made that there should be less
competitive
that the p
some studies
and ch nm pr
with more regard to their actual men
in
work
Rar
1pils
the schools and
should Le relleved of
home
0
YIN
lesgons abolished
tod
: OF
graduated
tal capacity
efforts
as shown by their dally
As the output of real gold was $500.
800.000 in 1911, it seems strange that
some men should care to buy the im!
tation
cago News
tay
in bricks, says the Chi
But the trouble is that
if these men get $25.000 worth of real
gold have put up $25.000 for
it; while the alleged $25.000 of gold
bricks can be had for a beggarly $500
article
they to
Nine people were killed in January
and nearly forty maimed by automo
blles In the streets of New York. In
every city of any size a toll of either
life or limb Is demanded as the price
of carelessness or speed mania on the
part of motor car drivers. It is time
that strict the right of
way of the pedestrian and put the bur
den of care on the vehicle It is a
hardship not to be tolerated In these
times of law, order and equal rights
that the pleasure of a few should ex-
act this toll from the many
laws guarded
Painting and seulpture are condu-
ctive to long life. Yet music kills men
young. Schubert, with all his wealth
of song, died at 31; Mozart, who
danced and laughed his melodies Into
being, died at 35, the same age as
Bellini; Bizet, the composer of “Car
men,” died, lke Purcell, at 37; Men
delssohn survived to 33; Chopin, who
loved life so well, had done with ft at
39, while Weber axpired at the age of
40 and Schuman at 46. But Verd!
lived und flourished as a nonagenarian
threatens
to purchase
Russia to retaliate
ceasing
by
lesa.
to consume Russian caviar, because
our entire supply comes from San.
dusky, Ohlo,
A Boston social sclentist wants
women to do the proposing. This will
be a terrible strain on the remnant of
male chivalry which Is left i theue
prosaic times
AA A A AHAB
PASSES, AWAY
Head of Red Cross Society Had
Been lll Some Time.
America, and Her Noble Life-
work Was Recognized Through-
out the World.
Washington.
the
Clara Barton, head of
o
American Red Cross, died at he:
home in Glen Echo, Md.
She had
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dition
ill for some time and |
fall
of,
been
her
but
was vears old. Last con
was despaired she
rallied
Miss
reputation as a wartime nurse,
thropist aud charity worker h
her name among those of the
women
Oxford,
Barton, whose international
philan- |
as placeds
greatest |
of modern times, was born in |
Mass, in 1821
MISS CLARA BARTON,
Founder and First’ President
American National Red Cross
Saciety
of
as represent
States and
WOrk
as president of the
I
Miss Bai
PLAGUE AND STARVATION
Distressing Conditions Of Afflicted
People In Flood Districts.
at
Le
a Memphis
hat the conditions had great]
proved in the Memphis flooded
tric are reported
fiom n
points between
Helena, Ark., on
Vomen and children at
in At
near New Madrid smallpox in i
form are sick
Tiptonville, Tenn., and
Hickman, Ky., while many are report
ed starving and dying from exhaustion
in the districts near Luxora
Proctor and points south
Laconia Circle, in Arkansas
:
and fever at differ
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New Madrid
the St. Francis
New Madrid
fire with fever another point
reported
in a virulent
with
Several
fever at
Barfield, |
as far as |
To Protect a Frontier.
Rome. General Caneva, comman- |
der-in-chief of the Italian Army of oc
cupation in Tripoli, telegraphs that the
Italian flag was planted on Bou Cher.
mez, near the Tunisian frontier. The
occupation of this place is designed
to prevent the passage of contraband
over the frontier for the Turkish and
Arab forces in the interior of Tripoli
Large forces of Italians are now sta
tioned both at Bou Chermez and!
Chicks and “Hoppers.”
yraham, Mo. After hatching chick.
ens in an incubator Allen MeNoal
Iutched a swarm of grasshoppers in
the same incubator to feed the young
epring fries,
Another Boller Explodes.
East Hartford, Conn. The explosion
of a boiler in the mill of the Henry
Calrns Lumber Company set fire oto
‘he plant, and before the blaze was
under control 15 houses had been de-
stroyed w.ih a loss of $200,000,
AMERICAN SLAIN IN MEXICO
Had Lain Concealed In a Mouse Until
Hunger Forced Him To Surren-
der—His Father
is a
Prominent Lawyer,
Dr. Wu Tingfang, Who Has Been
Nominated For His Old Post As
Chinese Minister To Washington By
the New President Of the Chinese
Republic.
PHYSICIANS SUED.
inside Abdomen,
New York Jacob Welss brought
damages against two physicians—Otto
Kilami and Herman Fischer—for sew-
an operation. Weiss says he carried
from the German Hospital as cured
ORDERS $10,000,000 STEAMER,
North German Lioyd To
Monster Washington.
New York ~~ A new $10,000,000
steamship, larger and more luxurious
even than the monster George Wash:
ington, was ordered by the North Ger.
man Lloyd, according to a cable re
ceived by the general agents of the
company, Oelrichs & Co. The con:
tract ealls for the completion of the
vessel by August, 1014.
Eclipse
MAJOR-GENERAL
TS DIVORCE
HIS SISTER-WIFE
Knew Not Their Relationship at
Time of Marriage.
| PARENTS CF TWO CHILDREN
the
Advice
Cincinatti
Upon of Lueders,
Of
Judge
the Couple Come
Court Explain
into and
Their Honest Mistake.
trang
Attack of Diabetes, Accordi
to Physicans, the Caus
Commander Of the Department Of
the East Had Been For Some
17S Ee
His Death a Pr
Surprise
every
parti
were mace
brave
on of
f his
h the es
made a
for a port
attended to
Athos
3
i
$
he even gOme «
2 idence
overwhelming that
in 8t. Luke's Hospital, dip
deniale of his
made
Eldest Son Of U. 8. Grant.
Dent Gr
Ivases
the Unit
1605,
respondencs
was the General
was lomatie
presence there were
nod
Ble
Maj -Gen. Frederick
son of President
Grant, reached that rank in
ed States Army on February %,
hy
of the Department of
East, with headquarters on Governor's
in September of 1506. That
of absence
WAR ON DEADLY WEAPONS,
Even Large Pocketknives Under the
Ban In Washington,
Washington —CHtizens of this
who carry any deadly weapons here
after will be liable to penitentiary
sentence and fine, or both, by the
terme of a bill passed In the House,
Any Washingtonian who has a pocket
knife with a blade more than three
inches long comes within
viglons,
town
Ty unt 1
viild be left as a
Now
tle tA
1ON es
» and do t}
Left 85 To Husband,
York Mrs. 1a
n March 28 191
New
alo
1ige Remeen
) left a
500 estate
one
died «¢ “
her $5
ghe bequeathed
“wy IF
will disposing of it
r hus
hundred in
She
her
Rem.
8 East
which
to he
band, to
be paid
of eacl
gave the residue of her estate tr
son, Carl, of this ¢
pen, the husband, lives
Sixtveecond street His lived
(and died at No. 405 East One Hun
dred and Twenty-second street. She
bequeathed $1,000 each to her sister
and brother and Degnon Nielson, a
friend in Copenhagen
in
iments five cents
¥ Harold
No
wife
ft
A “Pauper” Leaves $10.000.
Johnstown, Pa.--Joseph Campaligo,
an aged recluse, died here, and the
| undertaker, examining the effects,
found $10,000 in cash, stocks and oth-
gr securities. Campalgo, known as
"Old Joe,” was believed to be
| poverty.
Firm For TwoCent Rate.
. Chicago. Representatives of
{roads affiliated with the Central Pas
{wonger Association have reafMrmed
| tares during the coming summer.
Among the conventions affected by
| the twocent rate are the Republican
| National Convention, in Chicago, and
{the Democratic National Convention,
i in Baltimore,
artment ana
}
¢
1:65
K 54
and
£Nh'n a
Weher
rireame
Health
Caer
dischar
Prec
whisk during the
$14,000 from the
in ite
held a meeting for organization,
Tir. George Tavior Ettinger
f Muhlenberg College,
Allentown
Aseacintion
past month received
citizens of
debt
nt
dean «
the city liquidate
which
was
elected nresident
Bethlehem Robert B Ott
surance broker, who is alleged
pulled a revolver on Deputy
Henry Reed, of Easton, when
ter attempied to arrest Off on a cour
judgment, found here by Con-
stable Harry Brown and was taken to
Easton
Lebanon When David Wenger, of
New Fredericksburg, ran to an ont.
kitchen, to learn the cause of smoke
issuing from that place, he found his
wife, thirty.vears old, burning to
death, her clothing having caught fire
from a stove. She was rescued, but
an in
to have
Sherif
the lat
WAR
Allentown. — The Grand Jury In the
accused his wife, Hannah
Sneyd Kalo, of attempting to murder
|
ing not a trus Hib
Greensburg. «- Awakened by the
sound of two revolver shots Mrs
Ferdinand Salvatore sat np in bed at
her honse. and glancing at her hus
band saw he had been shot dead as
he slept. The assassin had fired
through a window from a ladder
‘placed against the house.