THE STAR
BEYNOLDSVILLE - - PENNA.
X-RAY TO CURE PARALYSIS
New Treatment That the Medical
Profession Asserts Is of Ex
treme Benefit.
It is. well known that paralysis of
nil kinds is extremely difficult to treat
successfully, and that indeed most
cases of paralysis remain "chronic"
throughout the lives of those afflicted
In this way. Recently, however, ex
periments have been carried out to
see if the X-rays may not be able to
exert some curative influence on the
spinal cord In cases where paralysis
Is due to disease thereof, and as a
matter of fact the application of the
X-rays to the back (so as to Influ
ence the spinal cord), has been found
to bring about great improvement in
several csbcs of disease of the kind
under consideration. Most of these
Investigations have been carried out
om the continent, but one or two nerve
specialists in London have been carry
ing out the treatment, and the writer
recently had an opportunity of see
lag a spinal disease (known to doc
tors as syringomyelia) which was ap
parently getting well under the X-ray
treatment. But it must be understood
that these experiments, which if suc
cessful will open up an entirely new
Held of "Incurable" diseases to the
X-rays, are still in a very elementary
stage, and some time must elapse be
fore the exact scope of X-ray treat
ment in this direction can be defined
for the public benefit.
The Code of the Air.
The rapid progress of the art of
aerial navigation has turned atten
tion to the necessity of establishing a
'"law of the road" for aeroplanes as
soon as experience shall have shown
what Its main provisions should be.
Already, say those who are moBt Inter
ested fri snch legislation, at ieast one
source of avoidable danger has been
discovered. Several recent accidents
have shown that one aeroplane can
not safely pass close above another,
for the currents produced are liable
lo cause the under machine to break
from control and plunge downward. It
was in this way that the aeronaut
Rawlinson, at Nice, suddenly found
himself plunged into the sea. A rival
flyer had, unnoticed by him, passed
over his head. He did not discover
until latoi whot hail Annaa 1,1a en1.
den mishap. In another case an aero
plane, flying over another which was
rolling across the ground preparatory
to flight, was overturned by the cur
rent from the passing machine.
; Reflected Fame,
An automobile that participated in
a recent parade carried three little or
phans from one of the asylums, three
sisters, who enjoyed every phase of
the ride.
The driver in the effort to entertain
his' passengers pointed out various
places of interest along the way.
"There," he said, "Is the house
where Tom Johnson lived."
But the little girls received the
statement with blank faces.
"Why, you must have heard of Tom
Johnson?" persisted the driver. "He
was mayor of the city many years.
Mayor Tom Johnson."
But there was no response.
Presently, however, the oldest girl
pulled the driver's Bleeve.
"Please, mister," she asked, "Is he a
brother of Jack Johnson?" Cleveland
Plain Doaler.
A Dry-Weather Horse.
Jacob Hope, the animal expert ol
Philadelphia, was talking about ani
mal fakers. '
"There was a Manayunk man,'' he
said, "who wanted a piebald horse,
He visited a dealer up in the Blocks,
and the dealer the next day produced
a beautiful piebald half cream and
half black that the man bought at a
stiff price. But the first time he drove
his new purchase in the park a rain
came up, and the spots washed off.
The horse wasn't a piebald after all.
"The man drove straight up to the
dealer's again. i'Look at that horse!'
he said. 'The ruin has taken all the
spots off.'
" 'Good gracious,' said the dealer,
'so it has. There was a rubber blanket
went wtth the animal, Bir. Did I for
got to give you a rubber blanket?' "
Lady Bountiful.
Miss Clara Walters, of the deten
tion school, chaperoned some of her
boys to the circus not long ago. The
next day in school the boys were
reading the story about Lady Bounti
ful, and the teacher stopped the les
son long enough to ask:
"Who can tell me who Lady Boun-
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One of the boys who had been to
the circus held up his hand.
"Well, 'Jimmy,' who was It?"
"It was our teacher, Miss Clara
Walters," was the prompt reply.
Cleveland Leader.
Already in Training.
Ruffon Wratz Wen a woman hands
out a slab o' lemon pie you make a
long speech o' thanks. Wot's that
fur?
Saymold Storey I'm flttin myself
fur the chawtauquay lectur' platform.
I thought I told ye 'bout it long 'jgo.
k'. When They' Are Two.
Little "Willie Say, pa, a man and
his wife are one, aren't they?
Pa Not always, my son. When they
are negotiating for board or railway
transportation they are two.
NEWEST
BERLIN. The great Krupp gun fac
tory has Just turned out an Im
proved pattern of the airship and
aeroplane gun, mounted on a fast,
high-power motor car to follow bal
loons and other airships at a high
speed. In trials that have been made,
the gun was fired at dummy balloons
and nearly every shell hit and ex
ploded the balloon. The shell used
contains a substance which leaves a
trail in the air, showing the course
it has taken.
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SNAKES KILL MANYl
Reptiles in India Cause More
Deaths Than Any Animal.
Tigers Claim 909 Victims, Leopards
and Wolves Slay 571; Other Ani
mals 686 Ravages of Plague
Are Checked.
Calcutta. Over 21,000 lives that's
the toll of the Jungle and forest In
India for a single year.
These figures of sudden death are
set out coldly in tabular form, in the
Blue Book Just Issued which deals with
the statistics of the Indian empire, un
der the heading, "Number of Persons
and Cattle Killed in British India by
Wild Animals and Snakes."
The list goes Into details. Thus we
learn that in the year under review,
1908, no fewer than 909 people fell vic
tims to tigers, 802 to leopards, while
wolves claimed 269 as their prey.
"Other animals" killed 686.
But the ravages of the man eater
were as nothing compared to those of
the snake, for the poisoned fangs of
the latter put an end to 19,738 lives.
To cattle, leopards were by far the
most destructive. Their kill was 42,427
head of a total of 98,307. Tigers
claimed as their quarry 28,258, and
wolves about 10,000.
Snakes, it would seem, are far less
fatal to cattle than to humankind, for
during the year tney only killed 10,000,
a small proportion of the. total.
But the war was not one-sided.
Seventeen thousand, nine hundred and
twenty-six of the denizens of the Jun
gle fell before the rifle and gun, and
70,498 snakes roughly, four for every
person killed were destroyed. Boun
ties for their destruction amounted to
J50.000. -v
The total population is nearly 300,
000,000294,361,056, according to the
1901 census and they Inhabit 65,841,
816 houses. Two-thirds of the inhab
itants are Hindus, 62,000,000 Moham
edans, and but 3,000,000 Christians.
The average Indian does not indulge
In overmuch letter-writing. Altogether
the post office dealt with 875,255,832
letters, post cards and parcels an av-
MARKING OFF NEW COUNTRY
Survey Expedition, Drawing Boundary
Line Between Canada and Alas
ka, at Dawson.
Dawson, Y. T. The international
boundary survey expedition, including
70 men and 65 horses, which has been
running a line between1 Canada and
Alaska north of the Yukon river this
season, has (arrived here en route for
Puget Sound in charge of Thomas
RIggs, representing America, and J. D.
Craig, representing Canada.
An extremely rough country between
the Yukon and the Porcupine rivers
was traversed. A third of the horses
taken in last spring died on unblazed
trails and morasses. Those brought
back look like skeletons.
The men are in good health. The
party plans to return early next season
prepared to spend the two succeeding
winters in the arctic.
Double of Alexandra.
London. The Countess of Norman
ton is regarded everywhere as a re
markable double of Queen Alexandra.
She is a daughter of the late Lord'
Strafford, who, as Sir Henry Byng, was
a valued member of the household of
Queen Victoria. She is a tall, stately
woman, with a wealth of fair hair, re
calling ber Scandinavian ancestry, for
her mother was a Danish lady, Count
ess Honriette, a Dunnesldold-SaniBoe,
a connection of Queen - Alexandra,
which may account for the resem
blance. Rothschild Gives Museum Present. .
London. An almost -complete series
of seventeenth century Huntington
tradesmen's tokens has been present
ed to Peterborough museum by the
Hon. N. C. Rothschild.
WEAPON FOR WAR
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erage.of about three per head of the
population; but this seems less curious
when it is remembered that all but
15,500,000 of India's 300,000,000 people
are described as illiterate. These lat
ter figures explain, too, how letter wri
ting may be a lucrative employment
Very Interesting, in the light of re
cent sedition trails, are some of the
crime statistics. Thus 12,411 offenses
against the state and public tranquil
lity were reported, and 4,797 convic
tions;, while dacoities, political and
others, numbered '2,984, with 659 con
victions. As might perhaps be expected in a
land so densely populated as India,
physical and mental infirmity is by no
means rare, and altogether the total
population afflicted is 584,498.
Lepers, male and female, numbered
107,340, blind over 350,900 and deaf
mutes about 150,000. The Insane pop
ulation was about 65,000.
One of the greatest campaigns en
gaged in India is that against plague,
but, despite vaccination and all the re
sources of modern knowledge, the mor
tality remains terribly heavy.
Thus in 1909 plague claimed 174,874
victims, a high figure, but one that
pales into insignificance before the
total of 1,315,892 in 1907. The death
roll for the last 11 years was 6,364,212.
Some remarkable figures occur under
the heading "Principal Specified Occu
pations." Thus we find that 1,023,932 persons
were engaged in "barbering" and
shampooing the others, while clothes
were washed by 600,000 men and about
600,000 women.
Nor are the Indian masses left un
amused. ' Actors, singers, dancers,
bandmasters, players, etc., numbered
268,000 about one for every thousand.
Four of these are men for every
woman.
Priests and others engaged in relig
ion numbered 1,150,525, and sweet
meat makers and sellers 284,421.
But perhaps the most amazing en
try under this head of "Occupations"
is "Mendicants (nonrellglous)." The
begging profession had 2,433,115 expo
nents, and the total supported by beg
ging (nonreligious) was over 4,000,000.
HUMOR IN DOCTOR'S HASTE
"Peg-Legger" Dragged to Hospital for
Operation Needed Carpenter,
Not Surgeon.
Phoenlxville, Pa. When William
Springer, a resident of Royersford, was
found lying alongside the Reading rail
way near that town he told the men
who found him that his foot had been
cut off by a passing freight train. A
stretcher was hurriedly brought.
Springer 'was quickly placed on board
an express train, which had been
flagged for the purpose, and was ta
ken to Phoenlxville. A telegraph mes
sage to the station summoned the am
bulance of the Phoenlxville hospital
and the hospital authorities, informed
by telephone of the nature of Spring
er's injury, routed the house surgeons
from bed and made the operating
room ready for an amputation.
Springer, from under the stretcher
cover, protested against being taken
to the hospital and said he wanted to
go home. His protestations were ig
nored peremptorily, bnt kindly, with
the admonitions of those about him
that he lie perfectly still and not to
worry.
Upon his arrival here he was at
once loaded Into the ambulance and a
record trip made to the hospital. Here
he wbb rolled into the operating-room
and placed on the table.
The sight of the white-gowned sur
geons and nurBes and the array of
surgical Instruments caused the con
fused Springer to scream, but the ab
sence of any evidence of bleeding from
the mangled limb led the doctors
quickly to the discovery that, while
Springer had Indeed lost a foot, he
was in greater need of a carpenter
IN THE AIR
TO REGISTER APPLE TREES
Farmer Has Plan of Growing Orchard
of Pedigreed Stock Produce
Prize Winners.
Spokane, Wash. Growing thorough
bred apple trees, to be registered the
same as live stock with pedigrees, is
an Innovation in eastern Washington.
H. M. Lichty, an orchardiBt in the
Yaktma-Sunnyslde district, west of
Spokane, has perfected a plan to
place the science of growing commer
cial fruit of the highest quality and
color and uniform size upon a prac
tical basis.
Explaining his plan, Mr. Lichty said
that in every thoroughly cultivated
apple orchard there are trees which
stand out for yielding most of the
prize winners at national and state
shows. Scions are taken from these
and transferred to other trees by
budding and grafting, thus raising the
quality. The trees are recorded upon
an orchard plat, then registered and a
pedigree Is issued to the grower.
"I do not claim that all trees so
grown will produce premium winning
fruit," he added, "as that cannot be
said of pedigreed live stock; but the
experience of the foremost growers
in the northwest and other parts of
the United States and Canada will
show that a greater percentage ol
high grade trees is raised by following
a common sense system than by or
chardlng in the old haphazard way,
My own experiments prove these are
Buperior strains of the several varie
ties of standard apple trees."
Prof. W. S. Thornber, head of the
horticultural department at the state
of Washington college, Pullman, and
growers in the apple belts in eastern
Washington and elsewhere, approve
the Lichty plan, the former saying
that the products of healthy trees may
be improved by budding and grafting
from superior stock. He added there
is Just as much difference in apple
trees of the same variety as there Is
in horses of the same breed. The
plan of registering trees and keeping
a record of yielding performances Is
also indorsed. '
Letter Seven Years In Transit.
London. A letter posted from
Streatham on July 31, 1903, has Just
been delivered at Briollayi, France.
than a surgeon. For the foot that h
had lost was his wooden one. Springet
said he would have told them that ii
they hadn't refused to hear his pro
tests. .
The doctors trimmed off the splin
tered leg and nailed a block of wood
on the remnant to temporarily fill the
need of the lost foot. Springer then
set out for home.
CURE FOR AFRICAN SCOURGE
Famous Continental Physician Discov
er Remedy for Sickness After
Many Experiments.
Paris. "606," the arsenical prepara
tion of Dr. Ehrlich, the distinguished
Frankfort physician, which has of late
been engrossing the attention of the
medical world, Is at present being ex
perimented with as a remedy for va
rious tropical diseases. The prepa
ration was named "606" as being the
final successful result after experi
menting with 606 preparations in
vented by Dr. Ehrlich for the allevia
tion and cure of an organic disease.
The Brussels Etoile Beige now states
that the experiment made with "606"
point to Its efficacy as a remedy for
malaria, sleeping sickness and recur'
rent fever.
Dr. Broden, the Journal adds, la
studying the effects of the preparation
in the Congo, and though his experi
ments are' not yet concluded, he is
stated to have already expressed the
belief that henceforth It will be pos
sible victoriously to- combat the
scourge of sleeping sickness with 1U
aid.
M(BJl)(DHIofK(S)IlE,
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THE ancient empire of Korea
Is no more. The Asiatic
peninsula Is now a part of
Japan and its 12,000,000 peo
ple are subjects of the
Mikado. The Land of the Rising Sun
has swallowed up the Hermit King
dom. The Korean language must
give way to that of the Jap and In
time the little brown islanders will
swarm as thickly upon this captured
part of the mainland as upon any of
the many Islands which until recently
comprised the Japanese empire. The
empty formality of the annexation
was gone through , with the climax
of two bloody wars and of many
years of plotting, intrigue and crafty
oriental diplomacy. '
Perhaps Korea will be the better
oft. Following the tragic extinction
of an Independent government and the
submersion of a people into the larger
mass ' of a conquering nation there
may come greater progress, more real
freedom. Surely Texas, California
and the other American Btates which
formerly were part of Mexico, are In
comparably better oft than they
would have been had the City of
Mexico remained the seat of their na
tional government. The Boer states
of South Africa perished as such amid
'the tragedy of war, but today the
people are more prosperous and In
reality more free under the British
government in which they participate
than ever they could have been as
citizens of the Boer republics. So It
may be with Korea and the Koreans.
Japan promises much. If she keeps
her promises the time will come when.
Koreans will be as loyal to the
Mikado as the Canadian French now
are to the throne of England. But
Japan has not always kept her prom
ises. Solemnly she agreed to respect
the sovereignty of the Hermit King
dom. She broke the promise when
the time came which permitted her
to do so without embroiling herself
in war wtth European powers. Now
she promises to the Koreans all the
privileges and benefits enjoyed by her
own people and full participation in
government. She may respect this
sacred obligation. She may reduce
the native population to poverty and
ultimately wipe them out by forcing
them into abject poverty through
seizure of their lands and barring
them from the more profitable trades
and professions. Perhaps the trag
edy has passed only its Initial stages.
Japan has planned for this climax
for many years. To gain her ends
she fought China and dared to meas
ure arms with the mighty empire of
the czar, expending during the long
struggle hundreds of millions of dol
lars and the lives of countless thou
sands of her subjects. Relentlessly
the acts of the drama have evolved.
To Japan the peninsula seemed al
most a necessity. The undeveloped
mineral lands meant wealth; the strat
egic position of Korea meant great
er security to the Mikado's empire.
China claimed a sort of suzerainty
over Korea. Her claims must be
wiped out A pretext was sought
and easily found, the war of 1894
was fought China wbb defeated and
Korea's absolute Independence of the
Dragon was proclaimed. But Russia
was seeking eastern expansion and
Japan readily saw that before long
Russian Influence in Korea would be
as great or greater than bad been
that of China. Another pretext. An
other war. The Bear was whipped
In 1904 and 1905 as thoroughly , as
the Dragon bad been whipped ten
years before.
Meantime, Japan had forced the
emperor of Korea to sign an agree
ment giving to the Mikado temporary
military control in that country, un
der the pretext that this was neces
sary In order to keep the Russians
out and to Insure Korea's independ
ence. Of course, after the war,
Japan was to get out and leave the
Korean emperor once more in con
trol. But excuses were found for
remaining and under the iron hand
of Marquis Ito, afterward prince, the
Korean government was absolutely
subjugated to the will of the Japs.
Naturally the Korean emperor, Ll
Heui, protested. He was arrested and
forced to abdicate in favor of hla
son, Li-Syck, a mere boy who forth
with was carried to Tokyo to be
"educated" amid Japanese surround
ings. By degrees the emperor, first
the father and then the eon, was
forced to sign decrees increasing the
participation of Japan in the Korean
government until, months before the
farce of annexation, the subjugation
was practically complete.
Prince Ito, at the height of , his .
power, met the fate which comes to ,
so many iron-willed dictators as
sassination. But he has been suc
ceeded by others equally relentless In
carrying out the will of the Mikado
and the present personal representa
tive of the Japanese Emperor In
Korea is Viscount Terauchl. He has
announced that cvorythlng will be
done to placate tho Koreans and spare
them humiliation, but at the same
time all "disorder" will be put down
with relentless firmness.
1 1HJ III JUin' H J: J , j i ii ,i v , "ii. u
given the honorary title of "Whang,"
or king, but will have no power. Ills
father and tho princes of the Korean
imperial court will be treated as Jap
anese princes and on annuity of $750,
000 will be divided between them.
Other high dignitaries of Korea will
receive grants of money. .
The history of Korea reaches back
many centuries before the dawn of the
Christian era. The dynasty which
Japan has Just brought to a close was
founded in 1392100 years before Co
lumbus discovered America. The area
of the kingdom is 82,000 square miles,
the surface is mountainous and the
climate is hot in summer and severe
In winter. Te chief Industry is agri-
culture. Seoul, the capital, has a pop
ulation of over 200,000. There are no
other large cities.
Korea has well earned Its name of .
the "Hermit Kingdom." Although it
is only two days' sail from Japan and
less than a day's travel from the har
bor of Chefoo, in China, and almost
In the track of the lines of steamships
which trade with Tientsin, :t has shut
itself off from all other countries for
centuries. To keep out the hordes from
North China and Siberia, a strip of
territory 60 miles wide was devastated
and Is today without settlers. The
lands which lie nearest the coast sel
dom feel the effects of the Korean
peasants' plough or ax, as 'here has
been, and Is today, a general desire
to give foreigners the Impression that
the country is a barren spot Koreans
in conversation, too, like to speak of
their poverty and the poverty of ther
country.
Korea has paid the cost of drp
ping behind in the race for material
things. Like innumerable other na
tions In all periods of the world's his-;
tory, the Hermit Kingdom ceases to
exist because she hod come to exist
only for herself. Calm and inaction .
are the Ideals of certain philosophies
bul they do not serve to proteot a
people against the vigor and aggres
siveness of rivals who may also be
philosophers but not to an extent
which Interferes with business.
Historically, It was inevitable that,
as soon as the restraining hand of
Europe was shaken off her shoulders,
Japan should extend her territories
by taking advantage of the weakness
and lneffctency of her nearest neigh
bora. . ...