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BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 1884.
VICTIMS OF TRICHINAE.
Microscopic Study of the Para
sites
From Pittsburgh Telegraph of March 29.]
Professor Francis Phillips, of the
Western University, has received a
piece of the specimen taken from the
limb of Mrs. Marv Schulties, who died
of trichinosis at Loyalhanua recently.
Professor Phillips will g're the speci
men a microscopic examination, and
report upon the state of the parasites
found. There is everything yet to be
learned about trichina*, aud apparently
the only way in which they can be
studied is under the microscope. The
prevailing impression is that the para
sites do their great damage while
young, and in passing through tho
body until they find a permanent loca
tion. It is thought that after they be
come surrounded by a capsule they lose
their power for active evil. A promi
nent Pittsburgh physician told the re
porter that there were a number of
parasites inhabiting animals, and that
man, perhaps, has more than his share
of them. But of all, the trichina is the
most dreaded, as it alone proved fatal
to life.
"I presume nearly all swine is more
or less infected with them," said he.
"Where they do not exist to an excess,
the animals give no sign that they are
affected; but it frequently happens that
a whole band is attacked, and then we
have what is known as hog cholera.
In that case the animals have them in
excess, and they die with them the
same as human beings/
'Have other cases occurred in Penn
sylvania besides this one at Courtney?'
was asked.
'Oh, yes; there have been a great
number, I think if you call of doctor
of Sixth avenue, he can tell
you where he attended an entire settle
ment up in the Allegheny Valley some
two or three years ago, among which
the trichinosis bad become epidemic.'
'Does it ever assume the epidemic
form?'
'lt is said to do so. We have ac
counts where it has been epidemic and
prostrated nearly the people in a
special locality in Europe. It can
only become so by that locality being
freely supplied with pork greatly af
fected by it.'
'ls their no way of combatting the
evil?'
'None that has yet been devised.
All pork is dangerous unless thorough
ly cooked. it takes 212" of steady
heat to kill the parasites when they
are encysted in muscles, and in a large
piece of meat, like a ham, or shoulder,
for instance, when it may appear to be
thoroughly cooked there are still para
sites with vitality in it The trichina)
are very tenacious of life, and will sur
vive a great deal.'
'Why have not more cases become
prominent?'
'Probably the attending physicians
have not had time or have not had the
inclination to make post mortem exam
inations. Besides the disease is by no
means thoroughly understood by the
best of the profession. Its pathology
and treatment are still in their infancy.'
'Do you think there are people walk
ing around the streets with trichinaa in
their system?'
'Undoubtedly. Many, no doubt,
here in Pittsburgh, have the parasites
located in them, though I do not know
how it can be told. Why, the cele
brated Virchow, iu one of his reports,
states that he found trichinso encysted
and alive in portions of the muscles of
a cancerous tumor that he removed
from a patient, aud the previous his
tory of the patient showed that he had
been affected by trichinosis twenty
four years before the tumor was re
moved.'
The trichina) discovered in the speci
men taken from the body of Mrs.
Schulties appeared to be from 1-75 th
of an inch to i-20th of an inch long,
and from 1-I,oooth to 1 -500 th of an
inch thick.
The following official report of the
treatment and condition of the patients
at Sniderstown will be of interest to
the medical profession, as assisting to
the diagnosis of the case and its symp
toms.
When the physician first saw Mrs.
Schulties. March 7—(nine days after
eating the infected pork) she was suf
fering with violent muscular pains of
the arms and limbs.
The knees drawn up and the arms
sharply bent, unable to move, some
difficulty of swallowing and chewing.
Irritable stomach, nausea and vom
iting, and severe diarrhoea which were
very thin and watery. Severe neural
gic pains in the abdomen and profuse
sweats.
Pulse 100, temperatuse 102°, respir
ation 30.
These symptoms varied more or
less, some abating, other aggravated,
until March 13, when all the symptoms
became more intense, diarrhoea more
severe, a perverted sensibilty of limbs
and an exalted sensibility of the body,
severe pains in the ears and throat,
difficulty of speech and almost inability
to swallow, and severe attacks of short
ness of breath.
Marked swelling of the face and ex
tremities and the patient in a stupified
condition; on being roused she would
again fall into this condition.
Pulse, 130; temperature, 104 3 , res
piration, 40. These symptoms con
tinued until March 15, when she died.
Mr, Shulties went to bed March 13.
His symptoms from then until now
were as his wife's, though not so in
tense. Though still living grave
doubts are entertained as to his re
covery. To-day (Saturday), pulse 120,
temperature 120'.
A provision broker on Wood street,
said : 'I do not think these reports of
trichina- have any effect upon the pork
market. In every instance where peo
ple have been made sick by trichime it
has been traced to their eating raw
pork. There was a very bad case of it
iu Chicago not long since, in which, I
think, two or three children died. But
it had no apparent effect upon the sale
pork.'
'Do you think pickling or smoking
pork kills it V
'Oh, DO. Of course from a personal
knowledge I cannot, state, but 1 think
all authorities agree that neither pick
ling nor smoking the meat affects the
trichime. It has to be cooked, and
thoroughly cooked. You ask me, how
ever, if this trichinae case will not affect
the sale and price of pork. I do not
think so. They have been used for
that purpose before, aud without effect.
You see they are, in one way, too
seldom and too isolated, and they do
not attract grave attention. Even
with the recent contest over American
pork in Germany, and cases of triehina 1
right there, in Chicago pork is the
highest article on the list to-day. It is
now selling at $17.65, and firm.'
Another gentleman repudiated the
statement that all cases came from eat
ing the raw meat. He said that while
many originated in that manner of
using the food, that there were numer
ous instances where peasons had taken
the worms into their system by eating
undercooked, or rare-done pork. There
was more danger from cooked than un
cooked pork. Very few people, he
thought, would eat raw meat, and his
impression was that it mattered little if
such cannibals did die prematurely.
But persons cook pork and do not cook
it enough. More especially around the
joints of the bones, where a chop will
frequently be found rare when all the
rest of it is 'done brown,' or near the
bone on a slice of smoked ham, which,
while it may appear cooked, is really
rare in the centre but next to impossible
to perceive on account of the smoked
taste of the meat. In these instances
the capsuled trichinae are alive in the
rare places and are so taken into the
system. Probably thousands of per
sons have them coiled up in their
muscles to-day who have not had them
in sufficiently large quantities to cause
a known disturbance. It may be perti
nent to state that what is termed 'mus
cles' means the flesh or the lean meat
of the body, and not a cord or sinew.
The Indian to be Made a Person
The Senate on Wednesday last pass
ed a bill which, if it becomes a law,
will work, gradually, a most important
change in the status of the Indians. It
provides for the allotment to them of
lands in severalty, and declares that
every member of the respective bands
or tribes of Indians to whom allot
ments are made shall have the benefit
of and be subject to the laws, both civil
and criminal, of the state or territory in
which they may reside. It is provided
further, that "no state or territory shall
pass or inforce any law denying any
such Indian within its jurisdiction the
equal protection of the law."
This important measure, which
makes Indians for the first time persons
under the law and opens the courts to
them to maintain and defend their
rights, passed the Senate after a very
brief discussion, as nearly all the Sena
tors were familiar with its provisions
The measure has been before Congress
for five years, and in the Forty-sixth
Congress the debate upon it ran
through several weeks. It did not se
cure a majority, however, until the last
Congress ; but, with many other ex
cellent Senate measures, it was not
acted upon by the House. A second
time the bill goes down to the House
-of Representatives, aud the friends of
the Indians should organize public sen
timent in support of it, lest it again
perish through the indifference and in
attention of the more popular branch of
Congress.
The shifty policy of moving trouble
some Indians to the farther West can
not longer be pursued. The territories
are filling up. The Indian reservations
are being pressed in bv whites on all
sides. The time has come when the
Government, if it does not wish to ex
terminate the Indians or let them
starve, must either put them in a way
to take care of themselves or make
them permanent paupers. The object
of the present bill, as its chief sponsor,
Senator Coke, of Texas, describes it,
is, "in a slow and gradual way, to
bring the Indian out of his tribal con
dition and relation which surrounds
him and individualize him, make him
a member of society, and throw him
upon himself for support."
The bill provides that the reserva
tions occupied by Indian tribes shall
be patented to the tribes, the fee to
vest in them at the expiration of twen
ty-five years. That in any case where
the President shull believe that an al
lotment of lands iu severalty would
be of any advantage to a tribe located
on a reservation, he shall cause the
reservations to be surveyed, and allot
to each head of a family 160 acres; to
each single person over 18, or orphan
under that age, eighty acres, and to
each other Indian in the tribe, forty
acres. If the reservation is not large
enough for such a distribution, it shall
be allotted in the proportions indicated
as far as it will go. Provision is made
for allotment of other Government
lands to non-tribal Indians. Patents
are to be issued in the name of the al
lottee, stating that the United States
will hold the land in trust for the own
er for twenty-five years, at the end of
which time the United States will con
vey the land to the allottee or his heirs
absolutely. This is to protect the In
dians in the possession of the land, as
an absolute grant in their preseut state
of ignorance would soon be purchased
from them and leave them no better
than before.— Philadelphia Press.
—Liverpool is the greatest shipping
port of the world, its annual tonnage
being 2, 647,342. London is the next
port with 2,330,588 tons. Glasirow
ranks third with a tonnage 1,432,354.
New York comes fourth on the list of
shipping ports of the world with a ton
nage of 1,153,676.
—An instance of the inconsistency
of infidels occurred recently iu Paris,
during the session of Congress of the
Free thinkers, when one eminent
thinker, striking an attitude, passion
ately exclaimed, "Gentlemen, I am an
atheist— (hunk Qud v
The Judgeship.
| From Greenville Advance Argus of March '27.
The following, relative to the selec
tion of a Judge iu Mercer county, will
apply to this and all other counties
nominating and electing Judges this
year.
It is not remarkable that the people
of this county are deeply interested in
the coming contest for the Judgeship.
It would be much more remarkable if
they were not. It is not an unimport
ant matter they will be called upon to
decide next November wheu they de
posit their ballots for a candidate for
the high position which Judge Mehard
now holds by appointment of the Gov
ernor. The matter of the Judgeship
touches society at vital points. It has
to do with life, liberty, property and
the performance of engagements, and
these are essential to the very exis
tence of human society. There an
other interests of great importance in
volved in the coming polical campaign,
and which have to do with the weil be
ing of society. But the administration of
justice, having to do with the existence
of society itself, is immeasurably su
perior in point of urgency and import
ance to anything t.uil everything which
rises no higher than a matter of ex
pediency.
It is true that we are governed by
written constitutions and fixed laws, to
which Judges as well as others are re
quired to give heed; but still judges
are interpreters of the laws, and as
such are clothed with much power
which is akin to absolutism. By the
terms of our laws much is left to their
special judicial discretion, which may
be often exercised to the detriment of
individuals or community and this
without hope of speedy remedy. In
view of these facts, the manner of man
who shall be clothed with the judicial
ermine by the suffrages of the people of
Mercer county next November, be
comes an exceedingly important mat
ter. We may make mistakes with
reference to the men selected for other
positions to be filled at the same time,
as we have often done in the past, but
such mistakes may be speedily correct
ed, or borne without great suffering,
loss or menace. Not so with the judge
ship. A mistake in this direction is a
mistake of infinitely greater moment,
and beyond correction, except in ex
treme cases, lor a period of ten years.
With all its boasted intelligence, cul
ture and Christian civilization, the
world has not made rapid advances in
the matter of its estimate of its judges
and in its method of administering jus
tice. It is true that it is not frequent
that the moral sense of communities, iu
these days, is shocked by the unseemly
exhibition of corrupt, iguorant and un
just judges. It is creditable to out
civilization that but comparatively few
unworthy men are ever clothed with
the judicial ermine. It cannot be claim
ed, however, that the people, who are
the sovereigns now, are more exacting
and watchful of their judges, and ready
to denounce and depose them, than
were the sovereigns of a much earlier
and less favored age. It is said by
historians that the Persian Kings were
extremely careful to have justice ren
dered with integrity and impartiality
by the royal judges who held their
places under them, and that one of
these judges having suffered himself to
be corrupted by a bribe, was condemn
ed by Cambyses to be put to death
without mercy, aud to have his skin
put upon the seat where he used to sit
and give judgment, tind where his son,
who succeeded him in office, was to sit,
that the very place whence he gave
judgment, should remind him contin
ually of his duty.
It is said by historians that the
Athenian Council or Senate known as
the Areopagus, a body whose duty it
was to see that the laws were duly ob
served, and especially to sit as judges
in crimiual cases, held their sittings in
the night, that they might not be soft
ened by sight of the guilty, and
might judge solely according to justice
and the laws. In the presence of these
judges the orators or lawyers, were not
permitted to any exordium c-r perora
tion, or indulge in any style of speecti
calculated to excite the passions, but
were obliged to confine themselves
solely to the subject matter of their
cause, a course of proceedure and sys
tem of legal practice which it would be
well were it more closely followed in
these latter days.
It is greatly to be regretted that a
matter of so much sacredness, and one
freighted with so much good or evil as
the choice may be wise or otherwise,
should be subjected to the chances aud
uncertainties of a political scramble for
a place. Our laws have given us,
whether wisely or not, an elective ju
diciary. Political parties have given
us systems of nominations for all elec
tive offices. All existing systems are
more or less defective. The delegate
system as used iu this county aud else
where, has degenerated, as we have
heretofore said, into a miserable, trad
ing, trafficing, bartering abomination.
It should be discarded at the earliest
possible day. It would be even well
at the coming Republican County Con
vention for delegates who are ostensibly
sent there to represent their constitu
ents, to break a.va.y from)the pernicious
custom of representing only local can
didates, and manlully strike out upon
the idea of being in fact, what they are
now, only iu theory, the representa
tLesofthe people.
But a candidate for Judge must be
nominated and elected, whether an
elective judiciary is wise, or a vicious
system of making nominations is re
formed, or otherwise. And it will be
the part of wisdom to make the best of
our surroundings aud opportunities.
We need for Judge a good lawyer; one
who has not only mastered the general
principles of law, but who is thoroughly
conversant with statute law and the
current decisions of our higher courts.
He should be a man whose education
enables him to be an intelligent student
of all that pertains to his high position;
and coupled with this, he should be of
studious habit, aud never content only
j when abreast of his times iu all that
1 ertaius to the legil profession. Withal
lie should be a man of mature mind
The Persians were in the habit of
choosing their ordinary judges from a
class of old men, into v.hieh none
younger than fifty years were admitted.
They believed that too much maturi
ty could not be required in an employ
ment which decided upon the fortunes
and lives of their fellow citizens. This
was probably carrying the matter to
an uuneecessarv extreme, but it re
mains a fact still, that a novice in the
law is an unfit person for Judge.
Of course a judge should be an hon
est man, and this beyond a doubt.
Anything short of this is a defect, for
which uo number of other shining
qualities will atone. He should be
one who could truthfully at any time
challenge the world atid adopt the
language of one of Israel's noted Judges,
at the close of bis official term : "Be
hold, here I am : witness against me
before the Lord, and before his au
nointed: whose ox have I taken ? or
whose ass have I taken? or whom
have I defrauded ? whom have I op
pressed ? or of whose hand have I re
ceived any bribe to blind mine eyes
therewith ? and I will restore it to
you."
Law and Lynch Law
The riot and bloodshed at Cincinnati
was simply the result of the outrageous
verdict rendered by the jury in the
Berner murder case. The crime for
which this young man was tried was
peculiarly atrocious, and his guilt was
exceptionally clear. It was a brutal
murder, deliberately committed by the
prisoner aud an other man for the sole
purpose of robbery. Their victim was
their employer, who was clubbed to
death in a stable and then robbed of a
roll of bills which he had iu his pocket,
amounting to two hundred and forty
five dollars, which was divided among
the murderers.
The facts ascertained left no room
for doubt as to the guilt of Berner.
Indeed, he confessed the crime. On
the trial both the evidence and the law
were overwhelmingly against him
There seemed to le no escape from con
viction of murder in the first degree.
It was generally believed that there
was no alternative but a verdict of
murder or an acquittal, and the latter
was deemed wholly out of the question.
The jury, however, found the prisoner
guilty simply of manslaughter. This
unexpected and unwarranted verdict
was characterized as "an outrage" by
the Judge and was denounced still
more emphatically by the spectators iu
the court. It was universally condem
ed by the press and aroused a popular
indignation which broke forth in threats
to mob the jury, next found expression
in a vast public meeting, and finally
led to riot and bloodshed.
This outbreak in Cincinnati is not a
matter of local concern It springs
from a cause of general operation.
Is is a consequence'of a flagrant mis
carriage of justice, aud both the cause
and its affect are growing common
throughout the country to an "extent
that may well cause alarm and arrest
attention. The failure to bring murder
ers to punishment has become so gen
eral and so gross as to call in question
the efficacy of our criminal administra
tion and to sound a warning to the
whole nation.
It id a startling fact that escape the of
murderers from the penalty of the law
is the rule and conviction the exception.
A writer in the current number of the
Century has collected statistics show
ing that more than fifteen buudred
murders were committed in the Uni
ted States last year, while the number
of legal executions was only ninety
three. One year affords but an approx
imative ratio of hangings to murders-
But the same writer reaches the gener
al conclusion that the number of yearly
murders in the country is thirteen or
fourteen hundred and the number of ex
ecutions less than one hundred. In
other words, out of every fourteen mur
derers only one sufferers the extreme
penalty of the law and thirteen escape
the gallows. Another most significant
fact reported by the same authority is
that in 18SK the lynching in the Unit
ed States outnumbered the legal exe
cutions by twenty-five per cent—there
being a hundred and twenty-five of the
former and ninely-three of the latter.
Death -From Glanders.
HARTFORD, Conn., March *2B.— The
medical profession of Connecticut are
deeply interested in a case of human
glanders, which has resulted in death,
and, as there has long been a dispute
regarding the possibility of death from
the disease when communicated from
beast to man, the case will probably
attract wide notice. Two weeks ago
Orrin S. Todd, a farmer living in Tol
land, | purchased a horse. Believing
the horse had a cold, he proceeded to
treat it in various ways One of his
methods was to blow smoke in the
horse's nostrils. This caused the ani
mal to sneeze, blowing partieles*of mu
cus in Todd's face.
A week or so ago Todd was taken
sick. The symtoms at were at first
believed to be those of pneumonia,
later the}' assumed those of rheuma
tism, being followed by a swelling of
the joints and the breaking out of the
face with pimples or blisters and dis
charges from the nostrils. I>r Johnson,
of Mansfield, had charge of the case,
and was satisfied that it was an actual
case of glanders communicated from
the horse. A consultation of physi
cians was held a day or so ago, and
the verdict was the same as fouud by
I»r. Johnson. Medical aid was una
vailing and the sufferer died yesterday
after terrible suffering. Local physi
cians say that deaths from primary glan
ders haze for some time been known to
the profession, but the Todd case estab
lishes the fact of the similarity of the
characteristics of ultra glanders in
man and beast.
—The air is springy. Now, do
take you take your bands out of your
pockets—and keep them out of other
folks' pockets
A Tale of Ten Travelers.
Tea weary, footsore travelers.
All iu a woeful plight,
Sought shelter at a wayside iuu
One dark ami stormy night.
"Nine beds—no more" the landlord said,
"Have I to offer you;
To each of eight a single room,
I!ut the ninth must serve for two.
A din arose, the troubled host
Could only scratch his head;
For of those tired men uo two
Could occupy one bed.
The puzzled host was scon at ease
He was a clever man—
And so to please his guests devised
This most ingenious plan :
—BTCTOTE F'T'O'I"H L' I
Fu the room marked A two men were placed;
The third he lodged iu B;
The fourth 10 C was then assigned—
The fifth retired to I»;
In E the sixth he lucked away,
In F the seventh man;
The eighth and ninth in (i and II
And then to A he ran,
Wherein the host, as I have said,
Had laid two travelers by,
Then taking one—the tenth and last.
He lodged him safe in I.
Nine single rooms—a room for eneh—
Were made to serve for ten,
And this it is that puzzles me
And many wiser men.
An Enterprising Japanese.
T. A. Matsdaire, the new City En
gineer of Bradford; Pa., is a native of
Japan and the first man of bis nation
ality to be chosen to a civil office in
the United States. He is the son of a
wealthy Japanese nobleman and came
to this country iu 1870 to be educated,
not at the expense of his Government,
but at the individual expense of his
father, who planned to have his son re
turn home and be.appointed to a high
position under the Japanese Govern
ment. Upon being graduated he
asked consent to remain a few years
longer to practice civil engineering.
His father replied that unless he came
home on the next steamer his allow
ance would cease, and he need expect
no more help from him. The son re
plied that he would stay, and the
father became angry and wrote to his
Japanese friends to have nothing to
do with the young man. He stayed
and practiced his profession, acting for
some time as assistant engineer of the
Manhattan Elevated Railroad Com
pany, and afterward for three years as
chief engineer of the Union Pacific
Railroad in Wyoming, Idaho and
Montana.
Eye Service.
Upon going into an office, I saw two
boys at work addressing envelopes—
or rather, one was at work, while the
other, with his pen in his hand was
looking out of the window.
Their employer was seated near by,
and when he caught my eye he smil
ed.
"Which of those two boys is the bet
ter workman and of the most value do
you think?" he asked in a low whis
per.
"The one at work. I suppose,'' I re
joined.
"No, sir; that lad who is looking
from the window now does so because
he thinks there is no harm in it—does
it, you see, under my eyes. On the
other hand, while my eyes is on them,
the other boy is the most industrious,
but I find in my absence he does noth
ing. So you see be adds deceit to his
faults. 1 would not trust him out of
my sight."
"It seems to me that neither of them
is worth very much "
"To be sure," came the immediate
answer, "a boy who attended to hia
duties at all times would be the best;
but a boy who renders eye service
merely, who cannot be trusted to work
without watching, is not to be tolerat
ed."
The man who said this had seen
much of the world; he knew whereof
he spoke, and perhaps some of our
voung readers will profit by his svords..
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The 84th birthday of the Emperor
of Germany was celebrated last Satur
day week with general rejoicings.
The Emperor ascended the throne of
Prussia in 18G1, the best-hated man in
that Kingdom. He was a believer in
the divine right of kings, and in the
earlier part of his reign his attempts to
exercise despotic power did not make
him more popular. But nothing suc
ceeds like success, and the great mili
tary successes of his reign have wiped
out the memory of his offenses against
the rights of the people; so that with
out having altered his opinions iu the
least aud his practices hardly at all,
he is to-day beyond question the most
beloved ruler of Europe, unless the
Oueen of England be excepted. It is
perhaps not necessary even to except
her. This great change in the feeling
of Germany is the outgrowth of the
people's gratitude to the monarch by
whose wise reign the long hoped for
unification of the Eatherlaud has been
accomplished.
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