Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-04-12

II is an undeniable fact that bank
wreckers ase among the most danger
Gus criminals, and
that, therefore, So
ciety is Bound to
punish their crimes with severity
corresponding with the injury result
ing therefrom. By their violation of
the trust reposed in their assumed in
tegrity they reduce families from COM
fort to penury. They blast the for
tunes of business men, dissipating the
fruits of long years of honest effort,
They rob the widow and the father
less. They are more guilty than the
common thief or bank burglar, be-
cause these miscreants violate no
trust. But, strange to say, it is easier
to convict dozen burglars or thou
sand vulgar thieves than one of these
bank looters. And stranger and more
regretable still, it is next to impos-
sible to keep one of these prominent
citizens" in prison for any considera-
bic length of time after his long-de-
layed trial has finally resulted in a
sentence and commitment. Abuse of
sympathy is the cause of this. The
best and most influential citizens will
unite and persevere in movement for
executive clemency toward a man who
has dissipated the funds of a bank by
wild speculation and covered his
tracks by false swearing and falsify-
Ing of accounts. Such efforts are in
imical to the ends of justice. They
produce executive action that not only
encourages crime, but tends to pro-
mote the too prevalent feeling that
equality before the law is a myth.
Eighteen months ago, says an In
diana exchange, Scott Smith, a col
ored man at In
d j Il n polls, was
hir"' horribly burned by
the bursting of coal oil lamp.
Skilled medical attention by many
physicians failed of relief. Several
days ago he was transferred to the
city hospital, and, as a last resort, it
was decided to try the grating proc
ess with the skins of freshly laid eggs.
After the portions had been cleansed
with antiseptic lotion the eggs We're
carefully broken, the yolll and albu
men were emptied out and then the
filmy skin was taken out and placed
over the injected portions. The skin
. l, .r ,1y+ e %
body, susceptible to heat and cold to
touch The blood circulates through
the new skin as it did through the
old, but the new skin retains its orig
inal velvety whiteness, and it may be
that the pigment which colors a ne
gro's skin will not enter the new It's
sue Smith, says our informant, is
much alarmed over the situation,
fearing that feathers will appear
where the new skin has formed, and
he is continually watching the prog
ress of the affected parts with the aid
of a hand glass, looking for feathery
sprouts.
Modern science has brought to light
nothing more curiously interesting
than the fact that worry will kill.
More remarkable still, it has been
able to determine, from recent dis
coveries, just how worry does kill. 1t
Is believed by many scientists who
have forwarded most carefully the
growth of the science of brain dis
eases that scores of the deaths set
down to other causes are due to wor-
ry, and that alone. The theory is a
simple one-so simple that anyone
can readily understand it. Briefly
put, it amounts to this: Worry in
jures beyond repair certain cells of
the brain, and the brain being the
nutritive center of the body, the
other organs become gradually in
jured, and when some disease of these
organs, or Il combination of them,
arises, death finally cnsues.
There is a man in Philadelphia who
will sell a wooden leg cheaply. 1T be-
longed to his wifes first husband. She
kept it as a memento of the departed
alSplaNIng u IN Il prominent place IN
the parlor. As might have been eX-
pected, however, it was banished when
she married the second time, but when
the ardor of the honeymoon began to
diminish she restored the leg to its
old position. The husbands obiec-
tions have failed to remove what to
him is disagreeable object. but he
thinks that a fair pecuniary offer for
the appendage would tempt the
quondam widow to part with it.