1 Play Bali!" Is Now the 2 Distinct Surprises In the Great J National Sport Predicted • lor Season of 1909. By fULUtRICK R. TOOMBS. THE opening week of the annual baseball season has swung around, and the stars In their j courses look down on no period J more portentous of hilarity for man- j kind than this same week. Following i the inaugurals of the major leagues, j the National and the American, come the playing debuts of the big and little ■ leagues that are classed as the minors. Within a few weeks after the olHcial opening of the season all the leagues j throughout the United States, from thirty to fifty, will be operating under a full head of green diamond steam, ! and the heart of the fan will wax ex- I ceeding glad. Last season the teams in the regular j organizations spent $12,000,000 In their efforts to supply baseball pabulum for the capacious public maw, and this year they will not spend less than $15.- I*lo.ooo, Illustrating that more players have been engaged, players' salaries have been raised and playing grounds Improved. Clearly the astute mana gers are confident that they will estab lish new records, and, judging from the impressive makeup of many of the National and American league teams and those in the American association and the Eastern league, etc., pennant races of a scintillating description are In order. The so called big league teams, the i eight of the National and eight of the | American league, while the same as regards locality this year as last, dif .fer in personnel in varying degrees ' 112 i ■ .••/hi ft'Txu/rA'ii.yijcj.vs • : f- (:• | W lift f~% | \ JiwflmaM. /-\ 1 m i, '.sxervro/rx mj ' ( 3 J I tii' I yar/OMZs- ,*v \ v_J 7 """«\ *^T'✓ if" " "Wjjf, 1 -^ AC4JPOZ.£&//ZA\jomE •L. .*&/rj?ss.>iA-s to UK I'KO.MIM:.\I' ST AUS i.\ rut: HASKBALL I'IKMAMKNT. breaches that neeessarilj existed in ! tlie gigantic structure of the older j seague. Nobody prophesied victory in I the campaign of the American league except those who knew Han Johnson j and had brains enough to appreciate his qualities and what they must por- I tend. So today the American association, ' with Joseph D. O'Brien as Its presi- ! dent, and the Eastern league, with Pat' Powers in the van, are In positions of , decided strategic advantage. They sue-1 oessfully threaten the sway of the ma- 1 jor leagues. They have forced com promises not to the liking of the more powerful magnates. How O'Brien Beat the Majors. To O'Brien's tact was chiefly due tlii» ! credit fur the recent victory over the major leagues. It was O'Brien, with Powers, who led In tlie fruining up of the demand of the American associa tion and Eastern league for a special rating, and the victory was largely to be credited to his diplomacy in pre senting the wishes of the American as sociation and the Eastern league. "Mil waul; I*o Joe." sis he Is known in the as sociation, was formerly better known In pi iitics than in baseball. lie was chief clerk of the Wisconsin state sen ate for several terms, but with tin coming in of tlie l,n Follette regime he was displaced lie then turned to baseball and, being sponsored by Pres- ! ident Havenor of the Milwaukee club, | was made the association president. ! The American association Includes such cities as Indianapolis (holding j the championship), Columbus, Toledo, I Louisville, Kansas City, St. Paul and 1 Milwaukee. The compromise agreement conceded , by the big leagues during the last win ter will better the condition of the Why She Opened the Letter. Willis—Pm sorry your wife opened ! that business letter I sent you, Harris, j Tou told me that she never opened ! your letters. Harris—She doesn't, as a rule, Willis, j but, you see. you marked It "private." j A Little Too Young. New Boarder - How's the fare here? Old Boarder—Well, we have chicken every morning. New Boarder—That's 1 first rate! How is It served? Old Boarder—ln the eggs.—Brooklyn Life. \l\t BASEBALL SPRING SONG Pitching staff is simply great. Fact I cannot underrate, And I do not hesitate To eay it's most complete. None of them is sore or lame, Each one fit to pitch the gam* Of his life, and so I claim A team that can't be beat. Catching force is working fma> All of them have got in line, And I cannot see a sign Their progress to impair. And the fielders, too, are strong. Quite an active, husky throng That will boost the team along And win out anywhere. Infield is a solid wall Of defense that cannot fall; They are corkers, one and all, That will not meet defeat. Weak spots that we had last year Havo been done away with; here Is a bunch that has no peer— A team that can't be beat. We shall win out, never fear; Drive all others to the rear: Have a pennant raising year. And next year we'll repeat. Though before you've heard me say These same things, then fado away, I'm sincere in saying they This season can't be beat. —Chicago Tribune. leadership. The struggling American league of the past would never have risen to its present equality with the Nationals had not Han Johnson, its fighting president, led the way Into and render the probable outcome a | perplexing problem. Taking everything j into consideration, the year 1009 will I surely prove one of distinct surprises | In baseball. And probably the friendly relations that have existed between the I leagues and the players will become severely strained. I Baseball leagues and teams are made i up of virile, resolute men, who realize I the uncertainties of the game in which ! their money and careers are invested 1 and engaged and who know that a dol | lar in the present is worth a hundred j In the future. In baseball they have ■ learned that you may train a tree In the way it should go and somebody else gets the fruit. The philosophy of | the baseball magnate also teaches him ! that arbitration comes easy after you have licked the other fellow Baseball's Fountain head. The big or major league teams are the fountainhead of baseball. They lead the inarch of the game and keep the smaller teams alive through the In terest aroused. It is a mistake to lis sunie that the smaller teams arouse the Interest (hat makes It possible for the ma.:' r leaguers to exist. And spec ulation is iii-1 now very keen over th" prospect- and conditions in the Xn tlonal and American organizations. The influence of the multitudinous minor leagues on the baseball situation is frequently underestimated. They are constantly growing stronger. In I spite of the domineering method- <>f 1 the larger organizations. .Notably the ! American association of the middle | west and the Eastern league of the At -1 lantlc saaboard threaten the boasted supremacy of the two majors. The j power of the minor leagues in their political conflicts with the majors de pends entirely upon the nature of their Tongue Twisters. j Among brief tongue twisters the fol | lowing are hard to beat: "The sun | shines on the top signs;" "She says she I shall sew a sheet;" "The sixth sick { sheik's sixth sheep's sick." Some of | Shakespeare's Hues offer pitfalls to the : rapid speaker, in "Midsummer Night's | Dream" we find. "When lion rough ill wildest rage doth roar," and in the same play Oh, Futon, romp, come! Cut thread and thrum; Quail, crush, conclude and quell. —London Chronicle. Umpire's Cry i • lrick Plays to Be a Distinguish- J ing Feature of the Pres- • ent Campaign. • ; players. The baseball player has al ways had vital grievances because of j the iron bound contract he Is forced to > sign and of the conditions not stated I in the contract to which he must bow. : All the leagues in organized ball recog nize the rulings of each other regard- j ing the qualifications of players, and a j man who secures the ill will of the j , particular club that holds his contract can be actually driven out of the fol- | ! lowing of his business in the United j States by a form of cunningly devised j blacklist. By holding promising minor ; league players on what Is known as i the reserve list the major leaguers fre ; quently prevent men from following a | course of action that will materially | | advance themselves. And the clubs : auction off their players like so much i barley or straw. They sell the player's | contract, and he must play for the : ; buyer or join the so called and gener- ; I ally unstable "outlaws" or leave the j ; game for the joys of peddling shoes or 1 I selling cookbooks. King Bee of thc w Game. The Interest of organist ball centers ' \ in the omnipotent national commission. ! and its chairman, Garry Herrmann of Cincinnati, is the big man of the game. Yet it will always be recognized that J the players are the lifeblood of the \ game, and the magnates spend much of their time trying to convince the players that they are nothing of the sort. Players like Hans Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Napoleon Lajoie, Tyrus Cobb. Mordecai Brown, Johnny Evers, Sam Crawford, Fielder Jones, . Terry Turner, Cy Seymour. Roy Thorn- | as, Miller Muggins, Bill Bradley, Fred Clarke, etc., are as the stars in a dra ma. The magnate is in a 6ense their business manager, but the latter's pow er has encroached beyond Its natural sphere because of his long standing ability to secure high class legal advice j in the drawing of contracts. For this j j reason there will probably never be j 1 another Brotherhood war, when the j players had the magnates beaten, but j they didn't know It.and somebody else did. And this particular somebody worked successfully the most sizable bluff in baseball history. The Brother hood laid down its hand. When McGraw Gives an Order. But the players' vocation has seldom been one that went hand in hand with business ability. The excitement and uncertainty of their careers have a marked effect on their temperaments. For this reason but few of them maku ' a success as team managers. The suc cessful manager must lose his heart and cultivate his head. He must see I that bis orders are obeyed. A clew to the managerial success of John Me- , Graw of the New York Nationals is had in the following true story: The New York team was one rvn be- - hind in the ninth—a man on first and ; none out. "Lay it down." said "Muggsy" to the I batter. I The man stepped up to the plate. ; saw a straight one coming over, swung I at It and lifted the ball over the fence, j As he trotted into the bench at the | end of his home run. proud because he | had won the day, the manager barked | at him: i "You're lined fifty. When 1 say bunt ! 1 mean hunt." | And the fine was paid into the club . treasury too. Ask Cy Seymour if it | wasn't. ' McGraw and Chance of Chicago and ! Jennings of Detroit want their orders | obeyed. They themselves will take the | responsibility for the failure of their j plan of action. They have small titue to bother with players who worry over I the wisdom of the manager's advice. Trick Plays to Ee Sprung. I Every baseball season has at least j predominating or distinguishing t'eu j tures. Indications are that the present j | campaign will prove one essentially of 1 trick plays. Work at the spring train ing camps of the big teams showed j this. The squeeze play, essentially a j trick, has variations In application to ; other bases than third, where it has I been invariably used: new base run- S ning devices are claimed to have been worked bv one manager; a distinctly I new curve has been originated, accord j ing to two or three well known pitch- I ers. etc. i Also the "knuckle ball," successor to ; the famous "spit ball" curve, will, it Is i believed, lie perfected by several twirl i ers of an experimental turn of mind. The knuckle hall was discovered last ! year. Jack ("Tax") Neuer, the New ; York American recruit of a year ago. is said to have mastered three styles j of delivery of the "foolers." One of these, which we will term the "single knuckle" because only the In dex linger is bent down on the palm, with the bull resting on the first joint takes the pace of the'drop. It tloais up much like a slow spltter. liani.s l'or • a moment and falls away abruptly downward. One of the others, or "dou ble knuckle." Is grasped by thumb and two outside lingers of the hand, with the index and big fingers bent down to form the cushion. This gives a curve which may Ie controlled so as to break either way. The "triple knuckle." or that which rests on the knuckles of the three in- I side lingers and is grasped by little fin ger and thumb, is the one on which tbo pitcher puts the steam. It Is claim- I ed that with tills curve one can get an uoshuot or "raise" of several inches. A Coraican Vendetta. ' Lecturing on"The Land of the Yen- ' detta" at the Royal Geographical so- j clety's headquarters, the Rev. T. T. Norgate said he had discovered In stances of a vendetta being started In j Corsica through a pig getting Into an- j other man's field, and this had caused | the loss of perhaps hundreds of lives and had made two families deadly one- ! inles for upward of ,'ioo years. The j men who carried on such a vendetta | would scorn to rob any one of a six j penny piece. I.omlon Globe. IliffiLSmTS I OF THE TREES $ | James A.Edgerton | I [Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation.] therefore fitting that laureates should have been crown ed with leaves, for thus the collective world of trees could show gratitude to (heir panegyrists. It should be a proud thought to Americans that of all the singers who have rendered tributes to our leafy friends it remained for onr country man to write the one tree song that Is Immortal. George P. Morris has now i been dead nearly forty-five years. To the world at large much of his other : work Is forgotten. Yet "Woodman, ; Spare That Tree," lives in all hearts ! and In practically all tongues. Its 1 fame Is self renewing and perennial, j like Its subject. It has become the s song of a great crusade, that for the j preservation of our forests. Annually ! throughout the land It Is lisped on Ar ' bor day by the myriad voices of chil dren. Its author Is well entitled, there fore, to be known as the "laureate of I the trees." In his day General Morris was per haps the best known of American song writers. He sang simply from the heart, and his words found an Im mediate and widespread echo In the hearts of the masses. He touched on sentiments common to all—home, coun | try, love of nature and the hallowed things of everyday life. Many of his poems had their place In the school readers and are yet familiar. To the gray headed boys and girls a mere re cital of some of the titles will Beem like calling a roll of old friends. Here are a few of them: "A Leap For Life" is oue, beginning Old Ironsides at anchor lay In the harbor of Manon. Who has not felt an apprehensive thrill as the captain's little son stood far aloft on the main truck and as the agonized father seized a rifle and com manded him to "jump far out Into the wave?" Fatuous to all New Yorkers at leust was General Morris' "Croton Ode," sung In celebration of the spar kling inouutains whence comes New York city's water supply. "Land-Ho" Is another of Morris' famous songs, loved of all travelers. "The Flag of Our I.'nlon" Is not so well known rs 112 formerly perhaps, hut once promised to become one of our national songs. Every one knows "I'm With You Once ; Again, My Friends," even If he does not reeoglnze General Morris as the author. Equally famous Is "My Moth er's Bible." "We Were Hoys Togeth er" can now bo sung by old men who ; were boys when this touching song was written. "When Other Friends Are Round Thee' Is equally familiar. "The Miniature" is fondly known of all lovers. One of the finest and ten derest little songs written by Morris and one of the sweetest In the lan guage begins: Near the lake where drooped the willow Long time ago! "The Origin of Yankee lK>odle" has a fine flavor both of humor and patriot ism. Two beautiful songs concern his daughters One begins thus: Where Hudson's wave o'er silvery sands Winds through the hills afar Old Cro' Most like a monarch stands. Crowned with a single star. The other, while not so famous. Is even more touching. Its first line will recall it to many: Ueorgie, coine home! Life s tendrils cling about thee. These are but a few of General Mor ris' famous songs. One or two are stirring hunting odes, others relate to the wild, free life of the west, while some of the most beautiful are ad dressed to the Hudson river. Ho wrote at least two dramas and several the atrical addresses quite popular In their day. Besides, he was one of the earli est literary editors In the country, hav ing started the New York Mirror aud the Evening Press, which eventually became the Home Journal. Associated with him In all his newspaper enter prises was N. P. Willis. The two brought out many young authors who afterward Joined America's little band of literary immortals. Among the aa slstaat editors were James Parton, Ed gar Allan l'oe and T. H. Al- r of contributors Jr novelist; Ilalleck, Greenwood and aspiring auth >r in days before nonius, literature had become a profession or , offered monetary reward. During al) the later years of his life George P. Morris' home was In the "eautiful Highlands of the Hudson, about fifty miles above New York. Here he had a fine country place In an envlronmem as lovely as can be found tln America His house was a largj square brlca with colonial porches. It was but a little way the village Her Hands Full. "Poor woman; she has scarcely time j to eat and sleep." "Nonsense! Why, she Is rich and ! has no duties whatever." "But she tells me she reads all the I latest novels."—Cleveland Leader. Favors. Stella—What were the favors at her dinner? Bella—Well, all the guests thought they did her a favor by com j lng, and she thought they did her a ! favor by leaving—New York Sun. | of Cold Spring and across the river I from West Point. The outlook through J the trees and over the noble river Is | most inspiring. Directly opposite Is j the mountain Cro' Neat, to which lis . often referred. All about Is historic ground, traversed by Washington and | his men during the Revolution, j Up the river, just around the shoul i der of Storm King, another mountain, llv<-d Morris' lifelong friend and part ner, N. I*. Willis. A short row of a few miles across the Hudson thus brought the two together. Here at their homes, Undercliff and Idlewlld, were entertained many famous men and women of the early part of the | nineteenth century. The ways In i which the two places came to their names were as romantic as the spots themselves or as the men who chose them. Morris' house was situated Just at the base of a branch of Mount ! Taurus known as "Cloud's Rest." This ! suggested the name of Undercliff. Mr. | Willis bought his farm after a long , search through the territory surround- I lng New York. It was previously | owned by a fisherman in the nelghbor | hood, who, when approached with an I offer for the farm, seemed to have no I Idea of Its value, denominating It d state of preservation. ! It stands on the brow of a broad hill | overlooking the Hudson, and Its loca j tlon and surroundings are an evidence | of Its builder's delicate taste. 1 never j understoijd Willis uutll lately, but the discovery, since made, has been a per , petual delight. Visiting Idlcwild HO soon after leav j ing Undercliff. 1 could not but recall j the tine appreciation Willis bad once ' given of his friend Morris. This was I written fifty years ago. I "Morris," he said, "is the best known poet of the country by acclamation, not ! by criticism. He is just what poets j would be If they sang, like birds, with , out criticism, and it Is a peculiarity of lils fame t hrt it seems as regardless of criticism as a bird In the air. Nothing can stop a song of his." After half a century it is safe to! say th:it nothing can stop at least one song rf his, for ••Woodman, Spare That Tree," will live as long as there are trees to love and men to love them. Cost of Forest Maintenance. For the administration and protec tion of the 182 national forests In sev enteen stated and territories and Alus ka the government spent last year $2,- ! | .V20.tMW.02, or about 1',4 cents an acre, j Permanent Improvements. Including j the construction of 3,400 miles of j trails, 100 miles of wagon roads, 3,200 ' miles of telephone lines, 550 cabin and barns, 000 miles of pasture and drift fences. 250 bridges and 40 miles of tiro lines, cost $592,100.19. Tele- ■ phone wire to build approximately 400 | miles of additional lines was shipped lo the forests, but with the funds j available before the close of the year the work of construction already planned could not be completed. National Forest Employees. At the end of the last fiscal year, when business was heavier than at ally other time during the year, the 18" national forests were eared for by 1 nn executive and protective force of 29 inspectors, 98 forest supervisors I 01 deputy supervisors, 33 forest assist ants, 8 planting assistants, !>4l rangers 521 forest guards and 88 clerks. Timber Sales. The total receipts from timber sale; each year since the national fores;., have been under the administration of the forest service have been as fol lows: 1905. $60,136.62; 1906, $245,013.49; 1907. $608,813.12; 1908, $849,027.24 The Popular Interest. With tariff and such leaser things Mere man will fuse no more. The only question now will be. What'e the aeoreT —New York Bun. Flying Yacht For Lipton. Sir Thomas Lipton, In a letter to friends in Milwaukee, declared that he will soon take to the air instead of Irylng t > conquer America at the yachting game. It Is hinted that he may offer n trophy for supremacy In navigation of the air, which will give Britannia a chance to compete with America on even terms. SWINBURNE THE POET Recollections of England's Fa mous Master of Song. LAST OF GREAT VICTORIANS. Ardent Student of Shakespeare In His Childhood Days—An Instance of His i Winning Personality—Two Odd Es- ! capades—Qr«at Lover of Children. | Algernon Charles Swinburne, tl»e j poet who recently died at his home, i The I'lnes, at Putney, near London, and upon whose shoulders all England expected Tennyson's mantle of poet laureate to fall, was born on April 5, ! 1837, so that he had just entered on , his seventy-third year when death ; came. lie was descended from an an cient family which runs back to the days of Edward 11. for Its pedigree. lie was the last leaf on the tree that bore the group of great Victorian poets. 1 The poet was the son of the late Ad miral Charles Henry Swinburne ami Lady Jane Henrietta, who was the daughter of the third Earl of Ash burnham. As a child he was extraor dinarily precocious, and at the age when children think only of their play he was an ardent student of Shake speare, taking, as his parents often re lated, a copy of the plays of the im mortal bard to bed with him. Swin burne's boyhood was spent at his par ents' home in the Isle Wight, and it was there that his great love for the sea grew, for the poet knew aiul loved the sea in all lis moods. His two favorite recreate 112 were swim ming and c?iff climbing. In both of which he excelled. in 1847-8 he was educated by a tutor In the Isle of Wight and after a year's study was sent to Eton, where, how ever, he led a lonely life. As an instance of Swlnburne'c pe culiarly winning personality, when Dr. Hawtrey, the head master at Eton, once sent for him to remonstrate with the boy on bis love for poetry, the in terview ended with the conversion of the master and a promise that his pupil should have access to Dr. Haw trey's own library and the understand ing that he should be allowed to take away any of the works of the old Eng liah dramatists he desired. In 185<1 Swinburne entered lialiol college, Oxford, but did not wait for a degree. By this time the muse was re ceiving his respectful attention, and Instead of waiting to graduate with his class he started off on a visit tc Florence with the late Walter Savage Landor. Swinburne's birth was contempora neous with the coronation of the late : Queen Victoria. It was in IS6I that I | Swinburne published his first volume. ! I"The Queen Mother" and "Rosamond," j | and not a year has passod since then I | that ho ha 1 * not contributed to the I j world of letters one or more books of j i prose or po"try. Swinburne was strong In his likes j and dislikes. He appeared to care lit- I tie for the opinion or criticism of Lon- i | don and the world outside. He was a j devout worshiper at the shrine of Rob- j ! ert Browning. and some years ago bo | j caused all England to shake with I laughter when he brought a footstool to a public banquet at which Brown j lng was the guest of honor and, sol j euml.v placing It at Browning's feet. J sat upon It—at the feet of the "mas > i Another of Swinburne's escapades t occurred after a dinner at the London I Art club when he showed his disap proval of his fellow members by pil ing up their hats on the floor of the banquet hall and dancing on the mod est headpieces. This made substantial | grist for the comic papers, and one \ publication burlesqued the affair by a travesty of Swinburne's own imlta Hons of the Greek form of drama. The burlesque was put on the boards, and the club members made up the cast. Policemen who were called into bridle the poefs rage made up the chorus. | Hats were sent flying about the stage, and the members wailed: ! As forests with tempeßts that wrestle i From the hat racks our hats are torn down. Then the chorus joined the tumult | | by shouting: The Englishman s home is hta castle; The Englishman's hat is his crown. And so the burlesque continued true | to the traditions of Aristophanes when 1 he amused the Athenians by ridiculing | Aeschylus. Swiuburne was frank and cordial j with his friends and, aside from being a noted leader in conversation, was fond of reading his own poetry. He was a bachelor. He amassed a rare collection of literary curios. The poet never mingled much iu general society, as he was somewhat deaf. It was his habit to take long cross country jaunts, and as he trudged along with down cast head, seldom lifting his eyes , from the ground, he was a welcome Lord Bountiful to the children whom I he met on the way. He gave them I i cakes and candies and was pleased j | with their demonstrations. No mat ; ter how hard it rained or severe the j storm that overtook him while abroad ' on these excursions, he pulled down ' more tightly that old soft felt hat and : refused to carry an umbrella. The most touching memory of Bwln | burne left to us is his great love for I children, and some of the most beautl ! fill verses lie wrote wore devoted to their praise, notably In "Ilerse," In the final line of which Is the keynote of his whole Idea. "O child, what news from heaven?" Another peculiar feature of the poet's habits was that he never wore an over coat, but of late years he had capitu lated to the extent of gearing a pelr of thick gloves. Inconsistent. Howell Rowell Is an Inconsistent fellow. Powell—That's right: he would tell you take all the time you wanted and then have you arrested for steal lng bis watch.—New York Press. Public Opinion. The single snowflake—who cares for it? But a whule day of snow-flakes— who does not care for that? Private opinion is weak, hut public opinion Is almost omnipoteut. Wolfskin makes the best banjo parchment. NEW K!i OF SURGERY High Pressure Air Apparatus Used In Thorax Operation. KEPT EOY'S LUNGS INFLATED. Device. First Time Used In the United Stales, Is Expected to Open New Field In Operations For Tuberculosis and Other Pulmonary Troubles. The tirst operation in the United States upon a human being in which the cavity of the thorax was opened while the lungs were inflated from a chamber containing air at a greater pressure than that of the atmosphere was performed recently at the Ger man hospital, Seventy-seventh street and I'ark avenue. New York, by l)r. Willy Meyer. That institution has been the tirst hospital to be equipped, with the new positive air pressure ap paratus. The operation upon a littlo boy for empyema thus far is deemed to have been successful. The pa tient's condition has been satisfactory since the operation. It Is believed that the use of this apparatus will open up a wide field in surgery of the thorax. Up to this time many operations in the thorax have been diflicult to perform and oth ers impossible, owing to the fact that aa soon as the cavity of the thorax was opened the atmospheric pressure" collapsed the lungs and breathing stopped. The apparatus used, which is after the models of I'rofessor SauerbrucU to a degree, consists of Iwo chamber* with a door between the chambers and a do<* from the smaller chamber to the outer air. The chambers are lined with rubber. To them run air | pipes and valves from a compressor run by a motor. The operating table Is arranged that the patient lies outside the main chamber with bis head within it. Rub ber about tho neck of the patient keeps the air within the chamber from escaping. The front of the larger I chamber is of glass, which allows tho I surgeons to see within it Within tho I larger chamber when an operation Is | performod arc two anaesthetists, who I administer the ether. Tho smaller j chamber Is for their convenience. I The air pressure within it Is the sama [ as that within the larger chamber and j permits them to leave the patient and j return without changing the pressure. I In the operation at the German hos i piial the pressure was Increased very j gradually until It was deemed at tha I proper degree for the operation. Then I the cavity of the thorax was opened. | While the lungs were inflated and res | plration was going on from the com | pressed air chamber Dr. Meyer and his I assistants were working in the open j air. After the cavity of the thorax ! had been opened it was found that ouo i lung was compressed. With there- I moval of the matter which was the ob ! ject of the operation the lung expand ! Ed at once and Its use In respiration ' returned. I This, it was said, was unusual, for j without the use of the positive prea- I sure apparatus it would have beeu | weeks or months before the lung would have dilated sufficiently. In this way a gain was made In the convalescence 1 of the patient. It was said that the i little boy recently operated on would | be out in less tha'i a month, i The positive air pressure apparatus and its methods will be applied in the near future to other operations In I which the thoracic cavity Is opened, j For Instance, there Is carcinoma of the | oesophagus. j Prior to the existence of the positive ] air pressure apparatus it was impossi ble to operate for this disease. Tho j operation, however, to relieve this has . been performed successfully in Europe , with the use of the apparatus. It was thought, too, that the new apparatus might lead to important results In tu berculosis. It was said that certain parts of the lungs could be cut away. I since the apparatus would keep th*X- • SKIS IE!! jSk. Rolla bl© TIM SHOP ror all kind of Tin Roofing* Spoutlne nnd General Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ran«M t Furnaces, eto. PRICES TBE LOWEST! QMLITY TDE BEST.' JOHN HIXSOrV NO. 11# £. FRONT ST.