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The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12
Iiiiuries to Knee. ] Oints.

we commend to the earnest attention
Of our readers the following extract.
from letter sent To Us BY lady sub
scriber:
Z For the last two years my Ave year
old boy has suffered with q disease Of
the knee-joint. resulting ia the loss 81
the knee cap or patella. He was lately
operated upon at the Children's Hospi-
tai, Huntington avenue.
lie I had taken him there two years
ago, he might have been we'll to-day.
Now the knee may be several years in
healing fully, and will he nearly stiff
Joint for life, while all this might have
been spared him If q had known what
4 slight swelling Of the knee might lead
to, and had kept him in bed q month.
Your paper goes all over the land,
and feel it nv duty to ask you to warn
the mothers MOTTO neglect what may
seem slight trouble with the knee
joint, or, worse still. with the hip. i
may lead to ampntation or even death. !"
The joints, especially those Of the
knees, are liable to many serious afec-
tions, some Of which are due to consti-
tutional defect, and some to other dis
eases, but most frequently the cause is
injury from accident. This cause oper-
ates especially in childhood and youth,
partly because this period is more full
Of exposures, and partly because the
tendency to set up infammatory action
is then at its maximum.
The surfaces of all Joints are covered
with a membrane. the Office Of which is
to secrete q lubricating fluid. Under
this is cartilage, to lessen jolt and to
render the play of the Joints over each
other soft and safe. The head Of the
bones beneath the cartilage is spongy,
and thus more liable to harm.
Disease, or oyer-use, or accidental
injury may have resulted in infamma-
ton Of the synovial membrane. Indeed,
it is believed that nearly one-half of all
affections Of the knee-ioint are Of this
character. If the trouble is neglected
the inflammation may extend to the
cartilage and destroy it, leaving the
bare ends of the bone to CRATE on each
other; or it may extend even to the
head of the bone and give rise to o de-
structive abscess. 80 !. #~1a X @z-
The infamed membrane thickens, in
creases its secretion in quantity, and
causes the adjacent part of the knee to
. bulge out with fluid. This may have
been what first attacted the attention
Of our correspondent. There is, OF
course, pain generally severe pain.
OF course child may have a severe
injury to the knee which may soon heal,
without any further harm. But any
subsequent pain at the joint in walk.
ING, or any bullying out, .aS if from a
fluid, should receive immediate medical
attention. Meanwhile, absolute rest oil
the parts, by recumbent posture Of
the body, is of the first Importance,
and this will constitute one of the CHIEF
means toward the cure.-ConapG11iO1a.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12
Legal T,rIckerK

"Some lawyers tryto work an ele.
plant through a keyhole, unused an
attacbe of the municipal court, refer
ring to a point raised in case that
looked as gauzy as the dress Of ballet
dancer. II remember not long ago that
a well-known crook was tried for bur-
glary. Witnesses were examined, and
all the red-tape business was gone
through with, and at last the jury
brought in verdict of guilty. Then
She attorney for the prisoner rose with
a blana smile on his face, and pointed
out that the ffsrisoner could not be SEN
fenced because the District Attorney
had neglected to write the mans name
in the first part Of the information.
The name appeared in the document,
further on, but not at the beginning.
az hold the lawyer argued, chat
this prisoner has not been charged
with anything. How then could he be
convicted 2 +, - j IA; ".
THE Judge held that this was good
reasoning, and decided that the con-
viction could not stand. Next day that
lawyer had the gall to come into court
and ask for the discharge of the pris-
oner on the ground that man can't be-
tried twice for the same offense, and
that he had already been tried once.
However, the Judge couldn't see it that
way, and the burglar had another
trial. "-MiltC1HEes Sentinel. = h
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12
Detective vision in IronMorkers.

It has been discovered by investiga.
ton that. large percentage of the men
employed as heaters in the iron mills OF
Pittsburg are more or less troubled with
defective vision, the nature Of their work
compelling them to gaze for protracted
p4,ods upon the intensely dazzling light
OF metal at white heat. The men inter
viewed had worked in the iron mills for
periods ranging from three to twenty
years, and with very slight differences
their powers of vision had all been af-
fected in the same manner. They are
unable to distinguish small OBJ ,e6ts at
any considerable distance. One was en-
tirely unable to read the print in any or
binary newspaper, another pointed out a
clock with dial foot in diameter, and
said he could not see the hands ten feet
away. With one the trouble was perma.
nent and unvarying, while Others eyes
were restored to their normal condition if
they stopped work month.
The reporter, on looking into one Of
their blazing heaters, could distinguish
only q binding glare, scarcely inferior.
to the dazzling light Of the sun itself;
yet these men must be able to see clearly
the white, hot masses of metal through
the flames of the gas that is burning all
around them. The difficulty of doing
this may be compared to that which
would be experienced in trying to per-
ceive one light through another, yet the
experienced heater does it with as much
easeas if the hot iron were SO much wood
floating in water. They say that no de-
gree of proficiency can be acquired in
less than three months time, and that
since the employment Of natural gas the
difficulty has become much greater, and
the effect upon the eye more pronounced
Pbigddel Dtia Press.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

Vi Will the Greeks ever come to match
the Greeks Of the time 81 Pericles 2
The Greek Minister to this country.
John Geunadivs, is Of the opinion that
the Greeks of to-day are asstrong phys
dcally Of their famous ancestors OF
classic times, but the nation gives no
evidence Of producing another Homer,
Plato or Aristotle.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

The late DR.. Agnew expressed great
contempt for the credulity implied by
the frequent newspaper discoveries Of
centenarians. He said no man has
Lived to be 100 years old since Biblical
days, and that ont Of twenty reported
cases which he had investigated not one
proved to be authenticated. "
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

In Siam, for stealing or killing an
alephant, buffalo, Or bullock, the
punishmentfis death. Housebreaking
is also punished with death. A person
detected I'M smoking opium is impris-
oned for three years. The men Of the
lower o defs Of peOPle.ars slaves and
must be- ENROLLED TO some Master.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

The use Of brownstone in building
business structures is almost entirely
discontinued in New York. It is used
for dwellings, butts chief employment
is for window and door trimmings.
Wherever # forms building material it
IS massed with the utmost plainness
and simplicity. 4 H
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12
JUNE 13TH WEDNESDAY:

10 a. N. Exercises Of the Twenty
first Annual c Commencement; Pr. NJ
Alumni meeting in University Chapel.
a r., M.E-Anniversary Of the West
Virginia Historical Society. 2 to $3.50
r. M--Aftillery Practice; to g. Bats
talon Drill and Dress Parade; g. p. NJ
Students Grand Ball. |.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

Mrs. JOHN SHERWOOD, who is mis-.
tress Of department. repudiates the
etiquette which demands that lady
should bowIto gentleman before he
can presume to bow. She says il is an
English custom which has no rights
chat societyIin America is bound to re-.
H1lact. \. ".
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

TIE ostrich feather trade of South
Africa is SO depressed that the feathers
which sold for $l25 now bring only
$3.50, and the value Of the birds has
declined accordingly. M<.fi
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Published at the Vest Virginia ms
yersity during the week q the
Twenty first Annual Commence
ment.
EDWARD s. ELLIOTT, EDrroR.

The State Normal Institute will open
its First Annual Session in University
Chapel "a next Monday morning, June
18th, at 8 o'clock, and continue four
weeks.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

A WHILE ago an inquisitive fish was
examining 9 thermometer that had
been sunk about a half mile under the
surface of the ocean BY the scientific
party On the Buccaneer. A weight,
which was suddenly sent down the wire
while The fish was nosing around the
top Of the instrument, killed the IN
fortunate creature, and hewas pinioned
fast between the weight and the Their
s.aonatar 2 II
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12
Programme for the Week.

JUNE 1OTH SUNDAY:
ii IA. ii. Baccalaureate sermon by
Rev. r. r. SWope, D. D.
JUNE 11TH MONDAY
to s I. N. Battalion Drill and Dress
Parade; 5 II. NJ. address before the
Literary Societies by Hon. s. B. Elkins.
JuNE 12TH TUESDAY:
5 to 6 i. III. Skirmish Drill and Dress
Parade; s u. u Annual contest be-
tween the Literary Societies.
JUNE TH-WEDNEsDAY:
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

@ S,EE lof the most successful features
Of 4 recent 4 literary entertainment in
= town the other evening was . chung
whittling contest by ladies' Each Of
the contestants received square bill
of-wood from which to white bung
to Alta |large stone jug. They could
all see the hole to be filed, but none
could nneasureit. Prizes we're given
for the best and the poorest bung, and
then they were al1 sold at auction. Ore
Of them nearly fitted the bung-hole.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

HE best market on the continent Of
Europe i said to be at Berlin. Fish
are sold from yats, and arc kept alive.
There is every variety Of game and do
mesticlfowl to be had within 8 thous-
and miles, and steers, veal calves, lambs
and other animals are dressed complete
their heads and tails being skinned
md kept intact On their trunks.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

WHILE 2 wrestler was performing in
. Paris fair handsomely dressed
woman il the front row cried out !:
aoh, Alfredo aThat is my name, |" be
said. fI am Victorine, said she. and
immediately the female tight-rope dan
Ger, in full costume, jumped At her and
boxed her ears. Victorine proved to
be Hercules lawful wife. but when the
trio were taken to the police station
he elected to stay with the tight-rops
dancer!
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1888-06-12

OccAsIoSALLY the son comes up to
worthily represent his father. The
London Star says: Herbert Glad
stone bears striking physical resem-
blance to bis illustrious father Of years
ago, and speaks with the same seduc-
tive sweetness Of accent. the same
Light, silyery tone. the Same unaatter-
ing evenness and smoothness Of pro
nunciation. Even in the matter Of his
speech the son does no discredit to the
sire. Es
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02

The February issue of the Eclectic has on
excellent list of articles on a wide variety
of subjects. The Duke Argylls curt attack
on Durwin and his school, "The Power OF
Loose Analogies," has awakened much dis
cussion, and is sure to get singing rejoind-
ers. NJ Charles Yriaute's opening paper on
Caesar Borgia is q most picturesque presen-
tation of n uniquely wicked character.
''Irish Secret Societies" is an interesting ar
ticle germane to the interest of the day.
Tho criticism of Karl Marks great book
Capital" is vigorous analysis worth
reading by all interested in socialistic prob
lens. Archibald Geikie writes on "Charles
Darwin" in most appreciative spirit, and
presents the spirit of Darwin's work and
life with graphic force. The paper on
schools of Commerce. by Sir Philip Mag
nus, is exceedingly suggestive, aud ought to
awaken wide discussion. Rev. DIR. Jessopp
contributes another graphic sketch of En-
glish peasant life under the name of Doris.
Andrew Lang has readable paper on
''Realism and Romance" John Morley's
address before the Edinburgh Philosophical
Institute, entitled "Aphorism," has its ha-
bitual brilliancy of style and treatment.
Other readable contributions are "The
Rosicrucian Brotherhood" by Arthur f.
Wait, and "The Parable of Indian Art. "
There is an excellent short story by the
Marques of Dorne. Tho minor papers are
worthy Of the magazine.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02
The Blair Bill,

The Blair educational bill by which
it is proposed to distribute among
the several states on the basis of illit-
eracy $77,000,000 is the most impor-
tant piece of Legislation that will
come before the present meeting of
the national Legislature. The mems
ure has given room for considerable
discussion, and opinion is divided on
its feasibility. The author of the
bill, Mr.. Blair, is not the agent of
eastern monopolists who are trying
to beggar the treasury in order to
make the present tariff necessity.
Snch arguments are worse than
senseless. He is a statesman of q
very high order of ability and n
philanthropist whose ambition it is
to do good. His argument is that
the nation being responsible for the
enfranchisement of the slaves in the
south, the nation should fit tho newly
made citizens for the duties devolv.
ing upon them as such, and that it is
unjust to ask the individual states
where a large majority Of these freed
men live TO bear the burden of taxa
ton for educational purposes. There
can be nothing said against the OBJ
jects sought 10 be accomplished by
the bill. The iliileracy Of the coun-
try is indisputable, and the educa-
ton Of the people is necessary.-Fort
Worth Gnzette.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02
NUMBER s..
rrIctIons m New YORK; city.

There are now each year, and there
have been for many years, moro evictions
Of tenants by landlords in New York city,
with its population of 100000, than
there have been in corresponding periods
In all Ireland, with its population of about
100000. Once every few months the
American correspondents in London cable
to their papers In the United States vivid
accounts of heartrending cruelty on the
part of English land owners toward un-
fortunate occupants Of shnnty houses and
poor farms. Once every few years the
New York reporters have to write for their
papers story of the misery OF n family
elected from the two or three wretched
rooms in n rickety seven story tenement,
because the relentless agent of the mil
lionaire owner must have "the money or
the rooms"
Jreland's woe is not as great rs is New
York's. The sheritfs in Ireland do not
have 50 many cases of eviction to deal
with in month as do the marshals OF
New York's eleven district courts in Il
week. From June 30, 1885, to June so,
1886, there were turned out of their homes
In all Ireland, according to parliamentary
report, 2,0S3 families, aggregating S,Sl7
persons. In u similar period, twelve
monthse in New York city there were
evicted o., ,S04 families, or 124, ,02O persons,
estimating five members to a family. This
shows TINT the evictions In this city each
year are nearly eleven times as many as
In Ireland.--New York Cor Chicago
Times
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02
18TH YEAR.
TO ADVERTISERS
Hhe Free Press Recognized by Geo, r.
ROwell Il Co., as Ahead as an
IN Advertising Medium.

The well known advertising agency of
Geo. p. Rowell IL Co. of New York City, have
issued an annual Newspaper Directory for
thirty years or more and these publications
have been generally recognized as authority
us to the matter of newspaper circulation.
II the regular issues of the Directory they
have included oil the newspapers published
In The United States and Canada. Quite
irooently, however, they have issued a con-
donsed list. 1t gives only the best newspa-
vors as advertising mediums, and hence is
practically better, because more convenient,
than their larger Directory. Four-fifths of
tho newspapers of the United States are
practically ''counted ont" by intelligent nd
vortisers, who only want to know the best.
Hence the value of the work nnder notice.
The publishers in the preface well say:
1T sifts the wheat from the chaff. 1t di-
rects the attention of IN advertiser toward
papers which he should and ought to use,
and tends to intercept portion of that pa
tronage which goes to publications which
cost greatly in excess of any power to bene-
ft which they possess 1t takes the general
ground, that the best is the cheapest"
We need scarcely say that on this plan,
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page 1851 as the advertising medium of San
Marcos and Hays county, it beng tile only
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Mention of advertisers, both at home and
abroad, to this fact.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02
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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02

II takes nearly thousand operators to
accomplish days business In the West
ern Union. Some of these work IN the
daytime and some at night. and others do
nothing except relieve the regular staff
while, in relays Of fifty OF seventy-ive,
they go up stairs for luncheon Thus
there Is no pause In the eternal rattle Of
the machines. The problem of perpetual
motion is solved in that room as much as
It ever can be solved. The messages that
come into the office are treated pretty
much in the sane way as those that 90
out. The operators who receive them
write them out on blanks and send them
whizzing off In jify to the little girls In
the grand stand. When they are stamped
for Identification they are dropped down
through u sliding tube to the basement
floor. A mirror at the bottom enables
one to see directly through six stories and
catch glimpses of the pig tails and curly
bangs up in the lofty grand stand AS
the messages drop they are token out,
slid through steam rollers that copy them
and drop them on revolving, endless
belt that takes them of to the routing
clerks and the messengers. System is
always simple even in It's most complica-
ted forms. That is what system means.
New York Tribune.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02
The Orange Diamond.

A large number of doalers and connois-
seurs were attracted to gallery in Pail
Mall when the new monster gem that will
be known among notable specimens Of
precious stones as the Orange diamond
came under the hammer for the FIRST time
II was the last lot offered for the day, and
was described as ''a magnificent colored
brilliant, weighing | Is carats (about tencar
ats ;. yier than the KoR-i-noor), mounted
a; & brooch, with border of very large
white brilliantsn The stone was found
in the Orange river, and is of decided
orange hue 1t was cut in London and made
into brooch, being surrounded with o
circle OF sixteen large white brllliants.
The appearance Of the gem is striking; in
stead OF sparkling and glowing, 1t seems
to catch the light in large waves, which 1t
sends gliding and dancing over its surface.
1t was examined with great interest by
those presents; but when Mr.. Foster at
tempted to find purchaser nobody offered
q bid. AS tentative figure Mr.. Foster
suggested G5, 600, which, amid discourag-
ing silence, he soon reduced to $4,000 and
G2,000. Waiting In vain for short time,
Mr.. Foster announced that there was no
bid, 10 that the jewel would remain in the
hands of its present owner.-Pall Mall
Gazette.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-02-02

God Within.

TThe following extracts are from book
entitled ''The Cherubic Pilgrim" by Johan-
nes Schefrer, born at Breslau in 1924, died
1877. Scheffer was at first Lutheran,
then became Roman Catholic. The trans
lation is by Ebilatis Scherb. The doctrine
set forth is almost identical with that of the
Divine Light Within Of the Society of
Friends, or Quakers.
Gods Spirit falls on me as dewdrop on
rose,
If but like rose my heart to Him unclose.
1.-THE soul wherein God dwells-what church
can holier be?-
Becomes q walking tent of heavenly majesty.
"Lo! In the silent night child to God is
And all is brought again that ere was lost
or lorn,
"Could but thy soul, o Man, become sil-
ent night, :,
God would be born in thee, and set oil
things Alright.
eye know God but as Lord, hence LORD
His name with ye.
feel Him but US love, and LOVE His name
with me.
''How far from here to Heaven? Not very
far, my friend;
A single hearty step will oil thy journey end.
|''Though Christ thousand times in Beth
lehem in born,
If He's not born in thee, thy soul is all for
lorn.
1.-THE Gross on Golgotha will never save thy
soul;
The Gross in thine own heart alone can
make the whole.
"Christ rose not from the dead, Christ still
is in the grave,
If thou for whom He died art still of sin the
slave.
.'Hold there! Where runnest thou! Know
Heaven is in thee;
Seekest thou for God elsewhere, His face
thou'lt never see.
"In all eternity no tone can be so sweet
As where mans heart with God in unison
doth beat.
"Whate'er thou lowest, man, that too, be-
come thou must.
God, if thou lowest God; dust, If thou lowest
dust.
'.Ah, would the heart but be manger for
the birth,
God would once more become Child on
earth.
'Immeasurable is the Highest; who but
knows il?
And yet ahuman heart can perfectly enclose
itn