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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-11
Notice of Appointment.

The undersigned has been appointed ad.
of the estate of Elizabeth Hoss-
Ter, late of Stark county, Ohio, deceased,
Dated the 18th day of July, 1899.
HENRY w, HOSSLER, ~
7.26dt Adm illustrator,
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mind is filled with nervous fears and
apprehensions of trouble; the poor soul
starts at the least noise, or will sud-
denly burst into tears; nothing pleases
the persons thus afflicted; they are
restless and overcome by a gloom i'm
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-06
s. FRANK PlLSBURY'S COUNTERFEIT. s.
By ALBERT r. COLLIER.

About the END of July the news from
Cuba was becoming very exciting-the
news in the papers. Privately the follow
ing came from the United States camp
near Santiago. 1t was dated ''Daignon.
June 81" 1t was letter to a mutual
friend Of Stimms and myself. This is a
true copy: Dear Con: | am not well.
A good many of US in camp here are N
the same fix. 1t isn't the miss of my reg
ular meals that hurts me, it is the shock
1 have had. A lot of Garcia's soldiers
met US on the beach when we landed.
They were cheering for los Americanos.'
One of them, in a big straw hat and
little less ragged shirt and trousers than
the others, with a revolver and a big
machete, came forward and shook hands
with ME. Then he said, How is Letitia?'
Then | saw that it was Frank Pilsbury.
He sneaked off from Tampa three weeks
ago with some sort of dispatches for the
Cubans and they say he landed at Ma
tanZas and made his way right across
the island. 1 couldn't believe it, but Gar
cha has photographs that he took on the
way. frankie has one of those little
dinky 'Slap-bang' cameras with him. The
Cubans are. afraid of him and think he
is the Presidents eldest son. The Span
iards took him for an English tourist.
Now they are going to fit him out with
decent clothes and send him to Washing
ton. How he did it all l don't know. I
suppose it was his Spanish and getting SO
chummy with all those stiff dudes up at
the motel. can Write any more Inc
shock seems to have given me a chill.
l believe we shall be fighting tomorrow.
Hope 1 may get killed. Yours, Fred
Stimms''
This letter set US all in a ferment of
excitement. Everybody went and asked
Letitia for information. Everybody felt
that there must be more mystery behind
this Letitia smiled and said she had lost
sight of Frank during the latter part of
her stay at Tampa. She supposed the
Government must have sent him on some
special mission to Cuba, because he had
travelled there before the war was ever
thought of and knew the country a little.
I think we all felt somewhat annoyed
Jeanette unaccountably got downright
angry and began treating Robinson, who
had been obliged to stay at home on ac
count of his mother and sister, very I'M
kindly.
Poor Fred had one consolation, and that
was that Frank was not at Santiago on
the 1st of July-had. in fact, started home
with his mysterious dispatches several
days before that. Fred's friends also had
the consolation that Fred. in spite of his
own gloomy ambitions came out of all
that fighting without Il scratch, though he
did go to grass later on with a severe at
tack of fever
BY the Fourth of July Frank came home
a little browner and less plump than be-
fore. it Ia true. but with his hair still
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when somebody said, Cant we make
Frank Pilsbury go off to the war? Can't
we bring public opinion to bear on him.
Letitia sighed thinking. no doubt, of
poor Fred broiling and being eaten at
Tampa. Then she said, in her gentle, mu-
steal way eff everybody wants poor
Frank Pilsbury out of the way, why not
get him to go to Tampa?"
do you think he could be persuaded to
go that far?''
IT think he might said Letitia.
Why was it that nobody had thought of
this before? Frank Pilsbury was, by emf
nencc, the squire of DANES among us. Lee
titia's plan was simply to go off herself to
Tampa so as to be near poor, heroic Fred
and to make Frank so with her as escort
Jeanette thanked her with tears of graft
tude. Everybody called the plan an in
SEPARATION of genius and also huge joke
The idea of making pretty Frank go to
that abomnable. den Of mosquitoes and
hold sunshade over Letitia's head so
that Fred might make love to her in peace
between drills!
And Frank consented like a lamb. And
the two started together amid the cheers
and also the jeers, of all the girls and of
all the boys who had not gone to the front
before them.
The next we heard of those three was by
letter. First from Letitia to Jeanette,
like this:
Frank Pilsbury has proved a devoted
and useful escort | don't know what
should have done without him. Fred
laughs at him and wonders what he does
with himself down here, but l tell Fred
that if it had not been for my little dude,
as he calls him, could not be here. And
1t is great thing to be near ones soldier
boy, isn't it? So 1 have much TO thank
my little dude for"
Then from Fred Stimms:
"Letitia is up at the hotel, and / see
her about every day. Frank Pilsbury is
all right. He keeps out of the way when
Letitia and l are together, which is what
he's here for, I guess. We call him the
chaperon. / don't know now he puts in
his time. except it's loafing the hotel
veranda and about the Cuban settlement
They say he talks Spanish like dago.
Just before the transports started for
Cuba-the second week in June-who
should turn up at home but Letitia!
Everybody said she had done right not
to stay till the very last The parting
would have been too severe a trial for iler
nerves. She did not bring back Frank
Pilsbury with her. She seemed to have
mislaid him somewhere and could not tell
where he had got to.
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smooth and parted plumb in the middle
When we asked him to tell us about his
mysterious goings on, he said he sick
and tired of all that; the CubanS, he said d.
were very dirty. Then he wandered off
into a discussion of the metropolitan fash
ions in millinery.
The next thing he did was to rent a
small house.
Then the local papers printed an au-
thorized statement of the marriage of
Frank Pilsbury and Miss Letitia Helmund
at Tampa Fla, on the 22d day of May,
1898, with full particulars
When somebody asked him what he
meant by breaking the heart of Jeanette
Brennan, he answered: Her heart Is not
broken. Ask Robinson. That was a russ,
you know. Public opinion was against my
marriage with Letitia, so we had to elude
public opinion. Ask Letitia."
Letitia being examined. said: 81 never
gave Mr.. Stimms authority to say we
were engaged. He chose to give it out,
and it was not my business to contradict
him. Yes, the Matanzas expedition was
my idea. Still, frankie isn't half such a
fool as he looks.
Fred came home an invalid long before
the other soldier boys. For three weeks
we all conspired to keep the news from
him, so that the shock might not kill him.
When he heard the whole truth he packed
up and went to the Pacific coast.
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The results of my cancer treat
ments," he said, ARE full of promise. 1t
is undoubtedly a fact that the applica-
ton of liquid air will relieve the agoniz-
ing pain of a cancer. This has been
proven beyond a doubt Its use will in
many cases retard the advance of the
disease, and I am confident that in GER
tain forms of cancer it is curative. 1t is
quite remarkable that up to this time
the use of liquid air has not been fol-
lowed by any bad results
DR.. G.. Fish Clark of Brooklyn be-
lieves that for the extirpation of ma
lignant growths of all kinds liquid air
will eventually supersede the knife.
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TDON'T know what can have made us
| all take Frank Pilsbury for fool but
I am sure we did so judge him some
/ of them, if l were to name them mere,
- might arise in their indignation an"
effrontery and deny that they "elI
ever mistaken about Pilspury men "a .'i
caliber, but 1t would be the height Oh m
sincerity on their part. AS for me, Tree
" confess that thought him an eNtreIie-
IN simple youth until these Things nap
pened which I am going to tell. ANA y9'
l do not know why we took him tor
fool. unless it were because OF seVerai
outward indications which we opserFCH'
to wit:
He parted his hair in the middle and
brushed it smooth on his forehead WHICH
was not high
He wore kid gloves all through the sum-
mer.
He would talk earnestly with girl Tor
an hour at a time, giving her points
about how to trim a hat.
But that is the worst of these uudeS'
you never know quite for certain Whetner
they are fools clear through or only on
the surface.
This mistake of ours was set right about
the close of the war with Spain or lit
tie before It's close. And it happened as
follows:
Late in the spring of 1898 Jeanette
Brennan was showing signals OF distress
and she let 1t be understood that the
cause Of her distress was Frank Pilsbury.
1t appeared that he was making love to
her, chiefly by giving her great deal OF
his society-with advice on millinery mat
ters-and also by presenting her with
flowers, but not artificial millinery flow
ers, but real ones. All this bored Jean
nette, and, as Jeanette was a good sort
of girl we boys said that it ought to be
put a stop to. Besides, Jeanette was by
public opinion assigned to be the fate of
one Robinson, who was not at all fool
like Pilsbury, and was a general favorite
About this time Ii was reported that
Letitia Helmund had al last yielded to the
persistency of Fred Stimms' wooing and
had allowed him to call 1t an engagement
Then number of the boys enlisted for
the war, Fred among them, Frank Pills.
bury not. Everybody slapped Fred on
the back and called him a good yellow.
Everybody felt sorry for Letitia Helmund,
because Fred had gone to Tampa and was
being eaten by mosquitoes, and everybody
felt sorry for Jeanette because Frank
would not expose his perfect complexion
to the ravages of these spiteful insects.
Latitia Hslmund was. present one day
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tirely gone, that the doctor actually
did not know her. He gave her one
final treatment, using a glass flask
partly filed with the LIQUID air. This
he rolled over her face up and down.
The surface of the flesh was frozen
stiff and white as the glass passed over
it, but it regained its former condition
almost instantly. The temperature
used was nearly 800 degrees colder than
ice, perfectly dry cod, so cold, indeed,
that the doctor had difficulty in hand
ling the flask. And yet, When l asked
the patient If it hurt her. she said that
she only experienced q slight singing
sensation.
TT completely anesthetizes the part
to which it is applied without freezing
it solid" explained Dr.. White; L have
tried the air as a local anesthetic in
i number Of cases and il has always
worked admirably. No blood flows
during the operatiOn-a very great adj
vantage to the surgeon in mis- work. L
operated not long ago on boy who
had a blank cartridge wound in his
hand. The boy was very nervous. [
applied the LIQUID air rather too freely,
and when I attempted to cut the hand
with a scalpel 1t was frozen SO hard
that the knife would not penetrate.
Thirty seconds later, however, it
thaWed out and the operation was per-
formed without pain, without hemOr>
rhage and with no further freezing.
When the boy returned a few days
later the wound was in perfect cOndl-
ton and it was soon healed up. THAI
is only one Of several similar cases"
The cancer case which l saw was
that Of woman about 65 years Old.
The cancer was well advanced, having
drawn down the corner of the patients
eye She had tried al manner of treat
ment to reduce the growth. and as
a last resort had come to DR.. White.
He placed a little liquid air in wide
bottom flask. the cork of which was
pierced with two holes. Through one
Of these holes a glass tube reached to
the bottom of the flask, the outer end
being curved like a spout and the tip
drawn together until the aperture was
not larger than a pencil point. On
placing his thumb over the other hole
in the cork the expanding air within
the flask drove the liquid aid through
the spout in a fine spray. This froze
the surface of the cancer white. and if
continued long enough in one spot
would have cauterized it like a hot
iron.
Our usual treatment" said DR..
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where does 1t get it's cu-ious and Won
derful curative properties?
You must remember" explains DR..
White, that liquid air is over 400 de-
grees colder than the human pody. By
no other means than it's application
could we produce so sudden ana ok
IRENE a shock to a certain part of the
body without injury to the tissues. 1t
takes only moment to produce locally
the most extreme cold and but little
more than that time for the part to re-
gain it's temperature, thus securing
very great local stimulation The in
voluntary fibers and the blood vessels
are made to contract to the last degree,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-06
SURGICAL EXPERIMENTS By DR.
A. CAMPBELL WHITE OF VANDERBILT CLINIC
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN WHICH LIQUID AIR
HAS SUPERSEDED X-RAY0 AS THE NEWEST
MARVEL. HOW It Is APPLIED AND REASONS
WHY IT EFFECTS SUCH WONDERFUL CURES.

White lis by means of this spray, al
though we sometimes use a sWab made
of cotton and dipped in the air. The
swab is especially desirable when we
wish to remove tissue, such as wart."
In this particular case of cancer the
patient had been treated only once, but
she said that her face felt better and
DR.. White said he saw marked i'm
provement in the condition of the can
cerous tissue The treatment for the
most part. although the cancer was
frozen solid was not painful.
Dr. White explained that while the
flesh was frozen it was not frost bit
ten, and that it would recover its for
mer state. Only wet cold causes frost
bite, whereas liquid air is absolutely
dry DR.. White tells of an experiment
in which the ear of a live rabbit was
completely frozen by placing it in
liquid air. 1t was so stiff that piece
easily snapped off in the fingers with
out pain and without any flow of blood.
In ten minutes circulation was re-estab-
lished and the ear regained its former
temperature and color.
DR.. White has been making careful
Investigations to explain this power
fully curative action Of liquid air. He
has come to the conclusion that the
air does not kill the germs of the va
riOus diseases: it is not an antiseptic,
not a oermicide. Although a tempera-
ture of 100 degrees of heat destroys all
germ life Dr. White has discovered
from careful experiments in the New
York Department of Health Hospital
that even the cold of liquid air, 312
degrees below zero, Will not injure the
germs Of typhoid fever. anthrax and
diphtheria. He submitted all of these
germs, not only directly to the liquid
glass tubes. In every case the bacilli
terminated when removed from the eff
fects of the intense cold. DR.. Huddles-
ton tried liquid air on vaccine virus
and found that it was affected by
short exposures no more than the
germs Professor Mckendrick has
found that even the seeds of common
plants like cucumbers, wheat, squash
and so on will terminate almost as
we'll as ever after being submitted to
cold of 300 degrees below zero. Lord
Kelvin. in discussing the origin of life
on this planet, once suggested that the
first seeds may have been brought here
through the cold of interstellar space
in a meteor, although he didn't explain
how the seeds could find their way
into the meteor in the first place.
IT, then, liquid air is not a germicide
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mates that in the near future place
will be arranged, probably in some hos
pital or clinic, with all the facilities for
making and administering liquid air
a liquid air hospital. so that physicians
can take their patients to it as they
would to a private hospital and con-
veniently apply the treatment.
Two other physicians have been max
ing somewhat extensive experiments
with liquid air supplied by Mr. Tripler.
One of them, DR.. j. William Giles Of
Nyack, N. Y, recently performed an
operation for cancer in which he COM
pletely froze away the cancerous tissue
with most encouraging results.
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y Csunbou White of Vanderbilt
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c,,,,ad =, ,,,,,,la- If eo,-a~A cosae of a,.,,-
sjptI3e ca1.5r,rrles and hollis in one or
two treatments Assesses and ulcers
he has aborta4 absolutely with SINGLE
freezing. Neuralgia and scfatfca he has
treated most successfully. in every case
giving allnosi Instant and permanent
relief. An obstinate case OF lupus-
lupus Is n form Of tuberculosis affecting
the sIL;---yas perrae-lv cured after two
treatments. although t%e patient had
been lrdo~ ordinary medical attend
anoe far. q long time. the disease resist
ing every remedy. But the most signifi-
cant and important feature OF all Dr.
Whites work has been his experiments
with cancer.
1t IS fortunate that these expert
meuts. which promise to give liquid air
the prominence in surgical and medical
circles formerly held by Roentgen's Y
rays. should have been conducted IN
der such auspices as those Of the medi-
cal staff of the Vanderbilt clinic. DR..
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only to dilate forcibly on the removal
of the spray. Cold also retards the
activity of bacteria and this, with the
stimulation of the ordinary curative
agencies of the body, brings about a
cure"
In other words, liquid air is a great
helper to nature, allowing nature to do
he. avn work in her own way.
DR.. ,IIhite thinks that medicine is
just on the borders of a vast field of
usefulness for liquid air. He thinks it
may be used in the pulmonary diseases,
in the reduction of fever and so on.
although the subject has as yet received
comparatively little attention. He init
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Copyrighted, 1899.

: EW YORK, July 28.-Dr. A.
Campbell White of Vanderbilt
clinic. Columbia University, is
preparing TO announce the re-
suits Of q series Of remarkable
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24
LION is PREPARING FOR A SPRING.

weeks cabinet meeting the burghers will
have passed over Natal's border Some
people think President Kruger intends an
ultimate surrender. though whether he
can carry his people with him is an open
question. 1t is thought Great Britain viii
POSTPONE an ultimatum until she is In
position TO back 1t up. The impress
sion that war Is inevitable, which is now
fairly general, is based almost solely
Continued ON Fourth Page.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24

strung out two days longer it will cost
over $1,000 per day for the tourist and
Pullman cars. The delegations have wired
tonight to the Twin Cities to find out If
they shall go to the extra expense.
1t is impossible to put off the muster
out, as some suggest. The date has been
finally fixed and the Minnesota men must
vacate the Preside on the night of Oct.
3.
The affair of Lieut.. Chambers has been
dropped. The enlisted men have with
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24
TOO EARLY TO MEET THE PRESIDENT.
Days the Date Fixed for the Wis

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 23.-(special.)- ,
According to the outlook tonight the Min
nesota regiment will get home two days
before President Mckinley arrives at Min
neapolis The Twin City delegations, in
consultation with railroad officials and
MI. Craig, Of st. Paul, find that IL the
regiment leaves here on the evening of
Oct 4, it will get to the Twin Cities on
Oct 10. This includes the contemplated
stops at Portland, Helena and Fargo to
receive receptions. If the journey is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24
WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Fair and Warmer.
TODAY IN ST. PAUL.

Observation-Disclosures s15 .. m.
GRAND-'Trt Old Kentucky.'' S:15 D, m.
Palm Garden-Vaudegille 2 and p. M
Sacred Thirst t. a. society meets at
Cretin hall, Sixth and Fort streets.
2:30 D. m.
A. o. U. w. memorial services, Peoples
church, %. NJ.
Base bal. Sington park, st. Paul
Athletic Gluek's Brewing Company.
3 D. ~
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willy a man not to know the military ad-
vantage that comes to the aggressor.
His appeal to foreign powers to inter-
vene have, however, apparently been
hopeless, but his efforts to drag In the
Orange Free State have been successful,
and If he honestly intends to defy Great
Britain lie will never have a better op-
portunity than at present. 1t is such
reasoning which Is uppermost in the
minds of the thinking British, and many
people seem to fear that before next
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24

drawn their complaints to Col. Ames.
Chambers gave them a written apology
in the same terms as the verbal one he
gave few days ago.
Musician Flanagan, of the Thirteenth
Minnesota, was buried this afternoon at
the Preside cemetery with military hon
ors The band Of the Thirteenth regi-
ment headed the procession. Then came
a gun carriage bearing the body, covered
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-24
Kruger Transports
Copyright by the Associated Press.

Copyright by the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 23.-Never at any pre-
vious stage Of the Transvaal crisis has
peace or war rested SO entirely within
the hands of President Kruger. The long
er he delays precipitating definite Issue
the better are the chances for peace.
He now, to great extent, relies on sec
tions of South Africa to uphold him,
and he realizes that the British, If pos
sihle will avoid conflict until the last
transport lands her men, and he is too
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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-03-09
That Bau1uet Again.

Doc Sloan concluded recently to make
the mouths water of some OF his old
Scotch friends back in his old Maryland
home. He sent copy of THE HERALD
containing the write-up of the Caledonian
banquet at The Yakima last January to
the Star, published at Homecoming, Md.
In the issue of March End the Star re-
prints the menu and program OF the ban
quet and incidentally refers to "a former
Homecoming boy, Mr.. Alex. d. Sloan,
proprietor OF the North Yakima Drug
Store" and thanks him tor sending a
copy of THE HERALD, with banquet par
ticulars, which will be of interest to the
Stars Scotch readers.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-03-09

The Tacoma News rec;tes i'll d lengthy
report the recent hold-up of seven Ia
comans who rashly ventured out with
their bikes few blocks from Pacific ave-
nue.. A candy butcher was relieved of
S. and the five others of 65 cents. The
two highwaymen bound the victims with
their suspenders and gagged them with
their button hooks. Lawyer Abbott, one
of the seven, took leg bail for security
and it is msliciously reported that he is
running vet. Tacoma is not a jay town
but it has bum police force, in the clas-
sic parlance OF John l.. Sullivan.