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The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-12
SURGERY o. PRIMITIVE MEN.
Evidences that It Was Practiced n
the Stone Age.

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the Stone Age
Some eighteen years have elapsed
ince DIR. Broca made known the curl.
5us fact that trephining was practiced
by men In the stone age. Since that
time the inquiry for the reasons for
this special prehistoric surgery has ap'
,arently ceased. The question seems to
be, did primitive man trephine in order
to prevent epileptlc commissions, or to
relieve the pressure on the brain when
the skulls had been fractured, or did
early man trephine in accordance with
some mystic rites? DR.. Broca, with
others, cites the cases where these
skulls thus trephined were preserved,
and there is the certainty that the In.
cised portions were used as amulets.
The reasons for this trephining, We are
inclined to believe, were in order to
create epilepsy in the individuals. II a
dozen men or women were operated
upon some might have suffered little
Inconvenience, others might have died
but then one might have lived with a
confused brain. We know the high es-
TEEN in which semi-demented persons
are held among savage races. 1mper-
feet u~tterances, disjointed phrases,
primitive men believed to be inbued
with the spirit of prophecy-in fact,
they manufactured their ora lie o; sootli.
sayer. 1t was natural for savage man,
with his superstition, to preserve the
skull Of q portion of 1t, If 1t had be-
longed to such an epileptic-and so he
made an amulet, cutting out that por-
ton of the skull after the death of the
individual. The subject is so curious
that 1t Is fully worthy Of future dis
| cussion.
Recent discoveries Of crannoges or
AXE dwellings in Ireland bring once
' more the topic Of mans primitive dwell
lings before US. Traces of such hill
dwellings have been found in London.
The Irish crannoges show considera-
BILE skill In building. A space in the
lake was surrounded with piles, and
within the circle stones were piled. An
artificial island was constructed.
Sometimes, but not always, communi-
cation with the nearest shore is still
iiscoverable. But the probability Is
hat a canoe or dugout was used. These
early people knew how a mortise was
made, and were expert in basketry.
There is evidence that these crannoges
were inhabited during many successive
periods, for, If at the beginning stone
implements alone were In use, In time
followed both the bronze and iron peri.
DDS. There must have been, as with
the Swiss lake jewellers, an overlap
ping as to the materials In use. Occa-
sionally large quantities of ~bones-that
is, In proportion to the size Of the lake
dwelling-have been found. In one in
stance, in a typical Irish crannoge, $50
cart loads Of old bones were carried of,
which, when ground. were used as a
fertilizer on the Irish fields. The early
people must have been devoted to the
raising of animals in the immediate
neighborhood Of their dwellings. They
nay have been peaceful, perhaps, at
lines, but from certain indications It
ooks as If they INDUCED occasionally
U ca%nnibalism.
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Would Mrke a Mar.

A Swedish boy fell out Of a window
and was badly hurt. but with closed
lips he kept back the cry Of pain. The
King Of Sweden. Gustavus Adolphus,
who happened to see him fall, prophe-
sled that the boy would make a man for
an emergency. And 30 he did, for he
became the famous Gen. Bauer.
A boy used to crush the flowers to ge.
their color. and painted the white side
of his fathers cottage in the Tyrol with
all sorts of pictures, which the noun
~taincers gazed at as wonderful. He
was tho great artist, Titan.
An old painter watched a little fellow
amusing himself making drawings Of
his pot and brushes. easel and stool,
and said:
"That boy will beat me n day"
The boy was Michael Angelo.
A German boy was reading q blood
and thunder novel. Right In the midst
Of 1t he said to himself, "Now, this will
never do. I get too much excited over
II. So here goesr' finging the book into
the river.
The boy was Fichte, the great Ger
man philosopher.
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Southern ana
Western States

The country about Denison, Texas,
has had almost continuous rain for a
month.
A new shaft, which will take four
years to bore, has been started at the
Tamarack Mines, Calumet. Mich.
After keeping the corpse of his little
girl In his home five years, "Whist.
ling" Davis, of Long Beach, CAL, was
arrested and the body buried.
Although dismissed from the Pas
teur Institute at New York, AS cured
of a dogs bite, b. A. Walton died of
hydrophobia at his home, neal Allan
ia, Ga. 8
A squabble over a woman al George
town, L. c ended in John Harris, a
colored cook, shooting Matthew Spraell,
a barber, also colored.
Augustus Field, formerly editor of
the Polo Post, in Caldwell county, Md,
murdered his wife and child, and COM
mitted suicide at Wheeling, Mo-, where
he was visiting mis- mother-in-law,
Mrs. Thompson. No reason can be as
signed for the act.
Egbert Mayer, aged IS years, was
fatally injured in Minneapolis by the
bursting of a toy n
Nearly three inches of rain fell in
three hours in the vicinity of Fort
Smith, Arkansas. Several bridges on
the st. Louis and San Francisco Rail
way were washed away and the damage
to crops was considerable. 4
Found guilty of perjury, Rev. H. E.
Rowland was sentenced, at Los An
geles, CAL, to two years in prison.
When sentenced 10 prison for 10
years Frank K~abatchnick, of Cleve-
land, who set fires to get insurance,
went almost crazy with rage.
The torn money found scattered on
Chlcago's lake front is believed to be-
long to John Chambers, a wild Coving-
ton, KY, youth, who probably drowned
himself.
Divorce was secured at Guthrie, o.
T., by Mrs. Minnie F. Williams, of
Louisville, KY, from Foster Williams,
New York clubman, who pretended
he was rich.
On the charge of stealing $25, 900
worth of oil leases from Ferdinand
Brown, of New MartineviIle, w. Va,
E. L. Nicholson, a private detective,
has been arrested.
Wallace Lowell, the embezzling note
broker of Boston, is living near Mon
terey, Mexico, and prospecting in BUSH
ness.
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Con.u, poty.s Kanaka wife.

The telegraph brought the news q
Few days ago that ]. Lamb Doty, Amer
lean Consul to the Society Islands, had
married a native, a half caste. and had
set up housekeeping. 1t seems that the
girl bears the name Mueva Turnero
Rauri, and she Is said to have brought
a neat dowry to her husband. She Is
only 10, and Doty first met her a few
months ago on the beach Of a neigh5or-
ing island, where she was trying to
bring to shore her capsized canoe.
Young Doty induced her to elope to
another island, where he married her
according to the simple native formula,
which merely requires that the con-
racting parties eat together and make
a number of pledges. No wedding ring
Is required. nc cake, no clergyman's
fees, and no license. When Doty re-
turned to Tahiti with his bride, he
rented a house, and the pair are now
living in South Sea Island style, with o
good stock OF cocoanuts and taro root.
The girls guardian appeared soon after
they set up housekeeping and wanted
to take her back to his house, but Doty
showed him this would be unwise and
he consented to let her remain.
Young Doty was not OF age when
Cleveland appointed him Consul at
Tahiti nine years ago. Since then he
has been a South Sea masher, for he
has been engaged to two island prin-
cesses, but in each case the relatives
prevented marriage. Doty is well
known in Washington. where he has
influential relatives. His mother has
a close friend in Ambassador Bayard.
and his brother is an E~pisoopalian cler-
gyman in Washington. He was a bright
boy, who first started as a page in the
House, but since he has been In the
south seas he has developed many 90
Nentricitias.
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ueorse WILSON, hnaue MS way
through one Oh the stfeelS OF
New haven
ms iull name as IL appeared IN the
catalogue OF the university, was George
EMS "ison Oh srnlthVliIe' Id' TIC lau
Just eaten supper had hurried across
.ne pussy streets ana doWh this niue
Inc uli ne came TO a dlhly hshted
se1oho-nanu DOCK TORE.
AIter pauslng at the threshold long
enough 10 snake tne nov from MS coat
ne entereo' h
Inc air OF the room naq the must8
ouor peculiar 10 otd DOCKS ana Tue III,
ue oiu man VINO kept the store eeihe
10 ave ABSORBED some OF the muSty
earning Oh ms SHOP such a SchoI'riy
s,oop oia ne nave ana so dusty Were
MS ciotnes.
An enort a been made to sort some
Oh tne DOCKS. and over several shelves
was huhg me D "Religlous, ana
over some others Greek and Latlh'
Whhe IN the extreme corner were
!ranslations."
wilson yea these last suspiciousiS'
ior ne hau ponce" MS way through
preparatory Il and he had made
up ms mind not to horse" through col
:
turning to the Latin books, he looked
tnem through I'LL he came to a copy or
i1oface, somewhat the worse for wear,
oul sun serFiceaDle. wilson glanced
oVer lhe page OF the Horace ana ue-
cuins tnal II would answer HIS pur-
pose, pau the ola man 80 cents put tle
DooA ~ MS pocket ana Went out INC
'ne street
~ 80 morning ne got up 'Ate' anu
~ 800 o,eaA,ast pu, V4
hafora A. 49, ieit II ~
Iono nronos Ho"s'e'
,m.H WINE 'ne presiueht was
III ionaa. Diessinss Ior 'ne heatnen III
a,o,,,d - ma. mhlcn heau "nSon
c,uJod no. anmu u himself III,
Iurea nc puieu u the Horace anu
ooneu al Tue hy-leaT.
$500 W .. 'he ni.iuis Vi .ne
TN 80 ", W. o., ana MS cidSs' 90.
sora.ohoS 10 nau peen ciletuHs
u.os a 49, ~ ~ 'ne cornei Ineio
so,na .no,.a euen.iy written uutins
&C. aioh unlfty years before
rorroyr y, ne al nour III uis
~ tho
~, v. mat wilson hau observer
ha a-sS,. tne prayer was enueu' anu
u,,ad,o a,el was Waiklns uo"h lle
oordanoa "nhe tne seniors, III az
49," WIN u custom ana uo"h
-. aso' were AKIN p~rouls'ou'
as ne passed, D falling In I'LL
nusiy oehind MIN
iocketing the book, Wilson returned
10 HIS room, and, after a few prelimin'
irles' began to get ready to study.
NO u can study a book until he has
thumbed 1t over and over and made
himself familiar with ~ The first
thing Wilson did. therefore, was to
glance over the ages of his Horace
and see what sort OF a fellow its former
owner was.
On the fifth page he saw sometime,
chat attracted his attention. written in
n mans band IN rathar small cbarac-
tiers, as though the writer would not
have It too public. and on the inner
edge of the leaf, was the name "Mary."
Smiling to himself, Wilson turned On;
Nothing else nnfo, yorthv oDnaarad fill
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vu Items.

Seven men were nabbed at Reading
for an alleged attempt to drown Harry
Allen, a negro.
Daniel E. Kennedy, who resided at
Coal Castle, Schuylkill County, jumped
from one train in front of another and
was killed.
The proprietor of Black Bear Inn,
near Rearing, Joseph F. Canister, has
been mysteriously missing for ten days.
Suspicion of murder has been dis
PEELED in the case OF Patrick Mcclure,
whose body was found in an Ashland
mine.
In a collision on the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, Pittsburg, between
a passenger train and an engine, Brake
man Harvey Louther was killed.
An appeal to the Supreme Court re-
leased from Hollidaysburg Jail Martin
Hoelle, the wealthy brewer, who was
accused of fearfully thrashing a debtor.
Cyrus Zimmerman, of Pine Grove,
was killed by a fall of coal at the Lin
coin colliery.
Edward Horn was appointed fourth
class postmaster at Jersey Mills vice
Michael Bonnell, resigned.
A plan for the escape of some of the
worst criminals In the Schuylkill Coun-
ty Jail on July 4 has been given away
by an ex-convict.
"Black pudding" was given up as a
bad job by the Clinton Mills, Pittsburg,
and the imported Tennessee negroes
we're discharged.
The Spring City Council is debating
whether to levy a special tax or issue
bonds to pay $500 damages awarded
to Penrose Bush for a broken leg.
The master plumbers of Pittsburg
appointed a committee to cooperate
with the Department of Public Safety
in enforcing the new plumbing law.
A rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Pennsylvania
Railroad neal Summerhill wrecked Is
cars. Engineer Wagner was injured,
perhaps fatally. 8
While playing with an old revolver,
little Willie Shovil, at Hazelton, was
fatally shot.
A Johnstown police shot w. A. Stray
er, of Altoona, in the back, for rapid
driving.
Garrett Cochran of Williamsport,
the Princeton student who was recently
shot has entirely recovered.
1t is supposed that nine-year.old
Olive Hadesty, a lame girl, of Tama-
qua, was abducted by professional
beggars. 4
There is talk of uniting Mauch
Chunk and East Mauch Chunk bor-
oughs.
Grant Simons, claiming to be
witched, beat his mother near Towan-
da, and was locked up.
The body of a male infant in a cigar
box was found in the river at Norris
town by William Hulliger.
The Vigilant Steam Fire Engine
Company, of Columbia, will visit the
Atlanta Cotton Exposition in Octo-
Der. l
Little John Luft, son of H. Luft,
Wilkesbarre, drowned while bathing.
Accused of practicing medicine at
Lebanon without a diploma, A. S.
Reiter is IN the tolls.
Intending to shoot a cat at Leb-
anon, Charles Miller, shot his compan-
ion, John Bender, in the leg.
Ten young men, who are accused of
assaulting L. w. Spires at S~hillington,
Berks County, are under arrest for
riot.
In escaping from his burning home
at Bendersville, Lehigh County, Alex
ander Schooner was dangerously
scorched.
Igniting a. body of gas with bis
naked lamp in a Minersville colliery,
Patrick Bakey was killed by the result
ing explosion.
With a pistol she found at Jersey
Shore, little Sadie Hubbard shot Wes-
ley Burkholder in the neck, iniiicting a
dangerous wound. 2
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THE OILY dyes impervious to the
bleaching power Of the suns rays are
Prussian blue and chrome yellow.
The Turkish government intends
to establish an earthquake observatory
at Constantinople.
The Albatross has been known to
follow a ship for two months without
ever being seen to alIGht in the water
or take a moments rest, 1t is believed
to sleep o1 the wing.
"A new r orgue for the reception
OF bodies that ust be kept for some
timO for purpose OF Identification Is to
be built in Paris during the coming
year.
Experiment has demonstrated that
plants thrive much better under white
glass than green,
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In the early history of Japan 1t was
decidededly a dubious honor to be close
ly related to any person Of note, for one
of the laws at that time decreed that
when a person of rank or importance
died all the immediate relatives must
be buried alive, in g perpendicular posi-.
ton, around the personage's grave.
Their heads were left above the earth.
and thus they remained until welcome
death came to free them.
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Take Cattle ships 70 Europe.

There seems to be quite a little craze,
says the New York Commercial Adyer'
tlser, for going to Europe in cattle ships
Just now. 1 know several people who
are crossing in that way. and one OF
two have done so. The fare is much
cheaper than by the ordinary lines-
something like $50 for the round trip
and it Is claimed that the tkree kseli
Of the vessels will prevent II " rolling
md 90 DO away with Rfs&icknsAA
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Cable sparks.

The ACCOMPLISHMENT of the Czarina of
Russia is expected in October.
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco has arrived at Oronstadt. 1
The Khedive of Egypt will go to
Constantinople.
The title of Henry Matthews, who
has been raised to the peerage, is Wis.
count Glamorgan.
An Irish Nationalist convention at
Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, was
so disorderly that no chairman could
be chosen and the meeting dissolved. 2
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Professor Otto Lugger, State Entomologisr
OF Minnesota. called at the Governors office
and made II report on the g~rasshopper kill:
ing in Chicago County with the hopper
dozers. They have over 400 Of these ma
CHIMES at work and are gathering in 5000
hoppers have not invaded the grain fields.
The frequent rains have kept the grass green
and tender, and they have contented them
selves feeding on this.
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Mistress-Jane. you had a man n
the kitchen last night. Maid-Yes'm.
I'd have brought him Into the sitting
room and introduced you, but he wal
SO busy talking to me I forgot all about
lt-Boston Transcript.
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DOG WITH A WOODEN LEG.

First Instance of an Artificial Limb
for a Lower Animal.
The Sgidger is a wonderful dog; OF,
rather, she has a wonderful leg, which
attracted much attention when she was
on view at the aquarium dog show IN
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London. 1t was made for her by her
owner, Edward Mosely. Of Regent
street, rather more than a year ago.
and Is probably, says the London
Sketch, the first instance Of anything
beyond a broomstick IT pin leg, so to
speak, being made for one of the lower
animnls.
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we hope that when the girls so to
heaven, their robes will not gap In the
back. and be Q source Of continual
worrys
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7isKEp his LiFE FOR SCIENCE.
Daring Frenchman Photographs h
Ocean Maelstrom.

Once again a legend Of romance haA
been torn to shreds at the hands Of sci
ense and demolished by the wink OF the
cameras shutter. The old maelstrom
of the Norwegian coast one of the har-
rowing subjects of the school OF roman
ticists and t~ale-tellers exists no longer
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Don't make a nasty muss by BLOWN,
Jour brains out II you want to kill
yourself, drink lots of Ice water.
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Every man must do a certain amount
4 whining to some woman
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Seven men we're nabbed at Reading
for an alleged attempt to drown Harry
Allen, a negro.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05
WRECKED THE STATE BUT CA9z.
RIED 1T.

The Republicans spent a big sum of
money in their cam paign in this State
last fall. Where did they get .it9 It
was charged that Pettigrew said he
had $50, 600 and could get 800, 600
more if he needed it. Where did he
get it9 Judge Howe told the writer
two weeks before election that he had
been informed that the Democrats had
been promised 500 900 of this Doodle.
Where did the money come from9 The
Republican State Headquarters were
at Redfeld, the home of State Treasurer
Taylor. The Secretary of the Republi-
can State Committee was a partner of
Taylor in many of his business deals
and one of his bondsmen. The cam
paign was virtually conducted from
the State Treasury. Has this anything
to do with Taylor's big shortage7
Charley Howard, one of Taylor's
bondsmen, is now speaker Of the
house, a good position from which to
stife all enquiry. Was the State
Treasury looted by the Republican
party last fall to beat the PopulistsG
These are questions which need an.
swering and the gentlemen at Pierre
need not hope by smothering investi-
cation to avert the wrath of a robbed
and outraged people. The mills of the
gods grind slow but they grind exceed
ing fine, and the rogues will not
escape.-DGkOtG RurGtst.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05
NEVER LOST A MEMBER.

There is food for thought in the let
ter from GuiIford county, on first page.
Oceola Alliance has never lost a mem.
Der. Why should any Alliance lose
members except by death9 No mem
Der should become too poor to stay in.
No member is so independent that he
does not need to remain In close and
fraternal touch with his neighbors. No
farmer ever gets so rich that he need
withdraw from the organization and go
it alone. The devil is largely respon-
sible for all defections from the ALI
ance. He works through politicians
and editors. He wants the farmers to
divide and stay so. So long as they
can be kept apart they fall an easy
prey to Shylock and his numerous as
sociates, political and otherwise. Every
farmer, rich and poor, ought to be- an
active member of the Alliance and
positively refuse to be led about by 20,
litical tricksters.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05
A NEW FORM.

According to the Atlanta COnStitW
tiOn a new form of marriage ceremony
is practiced by a Georgia Justice of the
Peace: by the authority vested in
as an officer of the State of Georgia,
which is sometimes called the Empire
State of the South; by the fields of cot
ton spread out in snowy whiteness
around US; by the howl of the coon
dog, and gourdvine, whose clinging
tendrils viii shade the entrance to
your humble dwelling place; by the
red and lucious heart of the water
melon, whose sweetness fills the heart
with joy; by the heavens and earth, in
the presence Of these witnesses, I pro
nounce you man and WIFE,"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05
NO DEMAND O IT.

Another international monetary con-
ference seems likely to assemble soon.
There have been three of them, called
each time at the instance of the United
States-the first in 1873, the second in
1881, the third in 1892, says the NeC
York Voice.
None of them ever accomplished
anything, chiefly because of the at
titude of two nations, Germany and
England. To the first conference Ger
many sent 10 delegates. In the second
she was represented, but her delegates
were empowered to do nothing more
than engage in and academic discus
sion. In the third they could not
engage in the discussion nor vote on
the propo sition submitted by the
United States. Now, it seems, Ger
many is herself going to take the In
itiative and call a conference to con
slider how silver may be restored as a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05

money metal. The other day Count
Won Mirbach introduced and Reichstag
adopted by large majority a resolu-
ton instructing the Government to
issue invitations for sucha conference.
The French Government has already
expressed its views in favor of the
same thing, end a motion was made
last Tuesday in the English Parliament
to concur in the call. Balfour, the
Conservative leader in the House of
Commons, is an outspoken bimetalist,
and the interests of India bring an
influence upon England which was not
felt in former conferences. We doubt,
however, whether England is ready
for a change, and whether Germany
will consent to it if England does not.
Germany, France, and the United
States, if they stood together and were
willing to take the aggressive, could
probably rehabilitate silver without
the aid of England.
We agree with the Voice in all but
one idea. The United States don't need
any help from Germany or France.
She can remonetize silver by herself.