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Morris tribune., 1900-11-10
SALT WATER 81 Oop.
An Operation That Is the Saving Z
Many Human Lives.

An Operation That Is the Saving OF
Many Human Lives.
TRANSMISSION of blood is a procedure
that must have been employed by ply,
sicians in very early times. Ovid tells
of Medea bringing back youth to the
aged by the injection into their veins
of the blood of young men, and doubt
less the same means was employed by
physicians for less fantastic objects
The injection of the blood Of one per
son into the veins of another was unit
recently done to save life after severe
hemorrhage and in various forms OF
blood poisoning. Sometimes a direct
communication was made between the
veins Of the donor and of the recipient
by means of tube. At other times the
healthy subject was bled into a bowl
and the blood was beaten to remove
the fbrin before it was passed into the
blood vessels Of the patient.
The procedure is dangerous one,
however. although many lives have
been saved by it, and it has now been
almost entirely abandoned, much
safer plan being used.
1t is found that the blood when de-
lbriLated is no longer a living fluid,
and the corpuscles it contains serve no
useful purpose when injected, but rath-
er act as foreign matter which must be
got rid Of. Accordingly physicians now
use distilled water in which a definite
proportion Of common salt and other
chlorides have been dissolved. This So
luton is warmed and is injected slow
" into a vein at the bend of the elbow
about quart being used.
Often it is not even necessary to pour
the fluid into vein, but simply to in
ject it through one or more hollow
needles into the tissueS beneath the
skin of the abdomen or the thigh.
This is done not only to supply an
equivalent for fluid lost in hemorrhage
or cholera, but also in certain diseases
in which blood poisoning exists. In
this latter case large amount Of fluid
is injected slowly, and being taken up
by the blood is almost Immediately
excreted through the kidneys, carrying
with it much Of the poison which the
blood was unable to rid itself Of I'M
aided.
This operation has been felicitously
called "blood washing" for this is
what it really is, and to the process hui
mainly owes the saving Of many lives.
Youths Companion.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10
Heroic Treatment.

In Guiana if a child is slow in its
movements the parents apply an ant to
the child instead of a whip to make it
move faster. This little ant bites more
cruelty than a mosquito. and its bite is
apt to be troublesome afterward. As
you can imagine, this treatment does
not make the child kind to others, and
the children Of Guiana are said to be
particularly cruel to animals. The lit
tie boys In Guinea do not reckon their
age BY years, but by their ability to en-
dure pain. Until he gets to the point
where he can let the Hucu ant bite him
without wincing he is considered mere
IL a baby.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10

/ reported. When hauled on the siding,
she rolled to her destination without
causing the slightest trouble.
! 1t had become certain that car No.
1414 was a queer critter," and every
body along the line was busy guessing
what would happen next. Two weeks
after her fit Of sulks she was billed for
Chicago with a load of potatoes. She
| had rolled along for 100 miles without
the slightest hitch when the freight
train going east passed the express
going west, both under full speed on
the double tracks. Of a sudden No.
1414 cast one of her fore wheels. It
was on the inner side, and that wheel
went smashing into the drawing room
car and killed three passengers. 1t is
not once in ten years on any railroad
that car wheel flies off; it was one
chance in a million that this wheel
should fly off at that particular spot
and that particular angle, but that was
what happened. Strangely enough
the freight train was not wrecked.
Even with a wheel gone the car held to
There was a cry Of "hoodoo" all along
the line, but the car was repaired and
run out again. She was an OFFSET Of
curiosity from end to end of the cod.
and there were engineers who i
they would rather have a ghost in --.s
cab than that car in the train behind
1t was month before No. 1414 made
another kick. Then she gripped the
rails and broke train, and that on a
down grade She was heavily loaded
with grindstones, and, as a siding hap
pened to 6e handy, she was showed off
by herself This siding was half mile
long and ended at morass. A buffer
had been placed at that end, Of course,
but four hours after the car had been
left, and, as another train was ready
to pick her up, she could not be found.
There was the siding, but where was
the car? There had been no wind of
account, but when they came to closely
investigate they found that car No.
1414 had run down on the buffer with
force enough to uproot it and had then
taken a header into the quagmire.. A
corner Of it was still visible, but before
the wreckers got there the entire body
Of the car: was ten feet below the sur
face and still going down. It might
have perhaps been recovered and it's
freight saved, but when the superin-
tendent was told how things were he
telegraphed to the wreckers:
IF she doesn't come easy, let her go
to H'
& I don't know whether she went as
far down as that or not, but the last
soundings placed her at 35 feet, and
she was given up as a total loss, and
everybody felt relieved.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10
! THE METEOR DIAMOND
How 1t Was Recovered by
Detective.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE II

me man was walked on into Gus
tody, the lady and Allen followings
You don't recognize me, Mr.. Allen ~
the lady asked.
.No-Pm sure l don't"
MY name is Westlock John West
lock-"
"Well?' was all Mr.. Allen could say.
Eyes, sir, Z got my cue the day but
one before yesterday. 1 saw our gent
there, but he didn't spot me in the toys
of farm laborer The rest was easy,
although should like to find out who
Smith really was Boston Traveller.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10
A HUMOROUS Coincidence.

~ f3-
Edgar Pemberton tells the following
amusing anecdote Of a rather startling,
not to say brusque, coincidence that
once befell Mr.. w. S. Gilbert and Mr..
Y John Hare, the well known manager.
is'R ehearsals," writes Mr.. Pemberton,
.are enough to irritate saint When
4 Mr. GilDert's Broken Hearts, in which
Al Kendall played Lady Vavir, was
! in course of preparation at the Court
theater, he and Mr.. Hare so differed as
to the way in which certain scene
!. should be presented that to prevent an
outbreak each at the same moment and
without q word to one another resolved
to leave the stage. AS every one
knows, Sloane Square station is close
to the Court theater, and in a few mo-
ments the indignant author and the
annoyed manager, bent on getting
away ffomsfeach other, found them.
selves face. to- face in an otherwise
empty railway compartment. The hui
NOR Of the situation of course saved
1t. Mainly About People.
WheM Papo0se Dies.
The Indian mother, when her baby
dies, does not believe that swift angels
bear 1t into the sunshine of the spirit
land, but she has a beautiful dream to
solace her bereavement. The cruel
empty places which everywhere meet
the white mothers eye are unknown to-
Ter, for to her tender fancy a little
spirit child fills them.
It is not uncommon, says thee author
of Little Folks of Many Lands, to
see in Mexico or in Canada pair of
elaborate tiny moccasins above a little
Indian grave. A mothers fingers have
made them, q mothers hand has hung
them there, to help baby's feet over
the long, rough road that stretches be-
tween his fathers wigWam and the
Great Chiefs happy hunting grounds
Indians believe that baby's spirit
cannot reach the spirit land until the
child, IL living. would have been old
enough and strong enough to walk.
Until that time the little spirit hovers
about its mother. And often it grows
tired oh. so very tired so the tender
mother carries a papoose's cradle on
her back that the baby spirit may ride
and rest when 1t will.
1 The cradle is filed with the softest
feathers for spirits rest more com
fortably upon feathers; hard things
bruise them and all papoose's old toys
dangle from its hood, for dead papoose
may like to play even as living papoose
did.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10

Turkish women do not come into con.
troll Of their private fortunes until aft
er marriage. After that they can dis
pose Of one-third Of It without the hus-
bands consent
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10

An English authority has estimated
that II all the inhabitants Of the Brit
ish isles should decide to attend church
on given Sunday 25.0OO,0O0 would be
crowded out for lack Of seating room
Ia the churches.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10

Music is sometimes divided into two
classes. sacred and profane. For par
ticuIars as to profane music go to a
sacred concert. Bostoa Transcript.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10

First SuburbaniteI hear that Koo-
bins new bull dug up the ground,
broke down the fence and tore nearly
everything to pieces in the barnyard
this morning.
Second Suburbanite Yes. Some fel.
low went there early and fastened a
pair Of red spectacles on the animals
eyes. Chicago Tribune.
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10
Ares Harry piscoverx.

"Dauber has hit it at last. He's max
Ing fame and money"
''How?'' Il
People have begun to notice that he
paints smaller hands and feet than any
other portrait artist in town. = Chicago
Record
Morris tribune., 1900-11-10
INVOCATION TO SLEEP.

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me In delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies, that from thence
may feel an influence,
All my powers of care bereaving! !.
Though but shadow, but Sliding %
Let me know some little joyl ss
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with thought, 4
Through an idle fancy wrought;
oh, let my joys have some abiding!
John Fletcher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24
The "Green Ray" Mt Sunset.

From the Scientific American
The green ray or green fash at the
moment the sun disappears from view be-
meath the horizon has been noticed by
many physicists Some of them consider
this is an optical illusion. NJ Guebhard
states. however. that the green ray is the
great shadow of the earth feebly illumi-
mated from the zenith and viewed by an
eye fatigued for red: it therefore appears
green Pellat on. the contrary, states that
the yellow setting sun has a red lower
and green upper border separately exam
Unable In the telescope and due to prismatic
reflection by the atmosphere. The absorp-
ton which makes the sun disk appear yell
low makes the violet upper rim appear
green or greenish blue instead of violet
When the sun sets, the upper green rim
can be seen fora fraction of a second but
it may be kept longer in view If the OBJ
server gees up slope the sun SETS
The first writer to which we have referred
thought thia was different from the green
ray following the setting of the red sun.
M. Raveau said that he had seen the sea
colored green in triangle with its apex at
the point where the sun set, and the color
seems to flow away toward the horizon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24
Decrease in Small Checks.


THE war tax has its drawbacks" re-
marked the cashier in a large stock yards
concern. but it is a blessing to man in my
position. l never knew to what extent the
having of making small bank checks had
spread until l saw a contractor pay off his
laborers one Saturday night In checks.
made inquiry, and found that it was COM
mon practice, not only with him, but many
others who hired great bodies of men. The
latter didn't like 1t. of course, because they
were obliged to cash the checks at the near
est gin mill which meant a loss to them,
because they had to treat contractor
told me frankly that in the old days, when
it was necessary to face each check with a
2-cent internal revenue stamp, he made as
few checks as possible. The war tax hav-
ing included bank checks, the habit of is
suing small checks has practically been dis
continued. That's why l say the tax is a
blessing in disguise. 1t is not profitable to
issue checks for small sums.
There is still another reason why we
now see fewer checks for small amounts.
Expert bank men declare that The simplest
check to raise is the one calling for an
amount below so. The percentage Of raised
checks is IS on sums below $40. Another
reason for the opposition to small! checks
is that they bother the bank authorities.
Some banking institutions will cast out a
patrons account should he persist In max
ing small checks. The cheapening of the
registry of letters Is another reason for the
suppression Of small checks"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24

, New Orleans Times.Democrat.

from the New orleans Times-Democrat.
did you notice that press telegram about
three miners who tried to thaw out some
frozen dynamite near Chattanooga last
Thursday?" asked a veteran machinery
drummer at the Grunewald. well. they
have deferred the obsequies until they can
collect enough of the deceased to make a
respectable showing, all of which reminds
me of curious little experience of nv
own. Frozen dynamite can be thawed with
perfect safety by simply placing it in the
sun, but that method is too slow for the
average miner, and he prefers to take
chances on artificial heat. In the fall of
1892 was in the lead district of southern
Missouri, selling a patent drill, and one
crisp, clear day started out to visit a Lime
nearly twenty miles distant from the town
1 made my headquarters 1 lost my way
en- route and in the middle afternoon. when
was tired out and hungry as a wolf
encountered lone miner digging shaft
In desolate gulch. He gave me the proper
directions, and when 1 asked him whether
L couldn't get something to eat he told me
to go right up to his cabin on the hillside
and help myself. There's hot coffee in the
Dot and vans In the oven,' he said, and
reckon you'll find hunk O. corn pone on
the shelf. Jest pitch in, same as y lived
there
Il accepted his hospftable offer gladly.
but when l opened the door of the rickety
old cookstove l was astonished to see the
oven half full of what looked like mis-
shapen bananas. Hi! partner L called
sticking my head out of the window, what
are these funny things in the stove? The
fat black ones is yams,' the miner shouted
back, an the long yaller ones is dynamite
The blame stuff friz on me last night an
I'm thawin' it out AT that exact instant
concluded suddenly that 1 wasn't hungry
In fact, L never withdrew my head from
the window, but simply kept on going out
and landed in my saddle with flying leap
that would have done credit to an acrobat.
reached the head of the gulch before l
drew rein. and on my return trip 1 made
wide detour to avoid the neighborhood
If the good-natured miner is still alive
which doubt exceedingly, he must remem-
Der me as an escaped lunatic.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24

From the New York Herald.
From a military standpoint the methods
employed by ants to provide food for an
ant colony are almost perfect. Their for
aging parties are faultless, both in PLAN
ming and execution, and are almost uni
formly successful, A resident of this city
who is at present in business in South
Africa has sent home a description of a
foray of an army of ants
The army. which he estimates to have
numbered about 1900 ants, started from
their home in the mud walls of hut and
marched in the direction of a small mound
of fresh earth but a few yards distant.
The head of the column halted on reach
ing the foot of the mound and waited for
the rest Of the force to arrive at the place
of operations which evidently was to be
the mound of fresh earth. When the re-
mainder had arrived and halted so that the
entire army assembled a number of
ants detached themselves from the main
body and began to ascend to the ton of
the mound while the others began moving
to encircle the base of the mound
Very soon a number from the detach-
ment which had assembled the mound, evil
IDENTIFY the attacking party entered the
loose earth and speedily returned, each
bearing cricket Or a young grasshopper
dead. which he deposited upon the ground
and then returned for a fresh load. Those
who had remained on the OUTSIDE of the
mound took up the crickets and grasshop-
pers as they were brought out and bore
them down to the base of the hill, return
ing for fresh load. Soon the contents of
the mound seemed to be exhausted, and
then the whole force returned home. each
carrying his burden of food for the COM
munity.
Here. them was a regular foray planned
and executed with military precision the
country surveyed, the depot of provisions
known accurately before the march was
made, and at the mound prudential division
of labor and care taken that none of the
victims should escape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24
WilIfnl Miss Wflhelmina.

From the Boston Herald.
According to report, Queen Wilhelmina
who has been very fond of her English rel
atives. and proudly claimed friendship with
Queen Victoria, has brought down the
wrath of all the court. including her Aunt
Albany. by espousing the Boer cause. Will
helmina had much better have espoused a
man. The relations between the reigning
house of England and that of Orange have
been intimate since the days a Prince of
Orange sat upon the throne of Great Brit
ain as King William III, and England has
been such a warm supporter of the sover-
eign family of the Netherlands, that this
graceless and almost impertinent estrange-
ment of the young queen will not soon be
forgotten or overlooked by the English peo-
pie or the English court But the Queen of
Holland is fast reaching the point marked
Impossible There is so much meaning in
that application, for. where it is once set
against man or woman, king commoner,
its significance is fatal The well-wishers
of this young sovereign's future happiness
begin to see snags ahead in her career.
Temperamentally. she is ''difficile" and now
she shows Indications of becoming ''impos-
sible'' Her enormously fat and specialized
mother Queen Emma. is in the position of
a hen who has Matched a ducklng and
quite unable to follow control her child's
inclinatio
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24

Ye banks, end braes, and streams around
The castle o Montgomery,
Green be your woods, and fair yeur flowers,
Your waters never drumiie!
There simmer first unfauld her robes,
And there the Largest tarry;
For there took the last farewell
o. my sweet Highland Mary.
How sweetly bloom'd the gay green Dirk,
How rich the hawthorn's blossom,
As underneath their fragrant shade
l clasp'd her TO my bosomi
The golden hours, on angel wings
Flew Ger me and my dearie;
For dear to me, light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.
WI monte a vow. and lock'd embrace.
Our parting was tn tender:
And. pledging aft TO meet again,
We tore oursels asnnder:
But oh fell deaths untimely frost
That nipt my flower sac early.
Now green's the sod. and cauld's the clay
That wraps my Highland Mary!
o pale pale now. those rosy lips,
aft hae kiss'd fondly.
And closed for ny the sparkling glance
That dwelt on ME kindlyi
Ard mold'r ring now In silent dust,
That heart that Io'etl me dearly,
Bat still within my bosum's core
Shall live my Highland Mary.
ROBERT BUnNs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24
MENACE OF THE BARBER SHOP.
Many Communities Have Started Re-
forms In This Important Matter.


From the Medicar Record.
New York has been backward in .ba her
shop hygiene" which the Medical record
mas advocated for a number of years Paris
has continued in the praiseworthy reforms
started several years ago and now only
metal combs are allowed, and, so far as IT
Is possible, all instruments nave to be made
OF metal, or some substance which can be
readily sterilized along with the towels. while
the operator himself is expected to keep
MS hanes reasonably clean. Pennsylvania
Is to be congratulated upon starting move
ment in the proper direction, to secure an
Improvement In the conditions surrounding
the barber and his work. The state board
OF health has circulated a series of recon-
mendations which. if followed would vast
iy decrease the chances of spread of con-
tagious disease in this way. Doing AWAY
with sponges and powder puffs not using
on one customer after another the same
piece OF alum to stop bleeding. and taking
care IN the use of cosmetics not to let
them serve as media of transmitting dis
ease from one person to another are all
wise suggestions.
Last month Missouri made stand for
sclent1hc and sterile barbering A board of
examiners will see to it that the barber is
qualified, among other things, to give
clean shave.
Ndhaad IS following IN the footsteps of
france. Austria and Germany. The prov
1nce OF Quebec requires the barber first of
all, to be himself a healthy subject, free
from transmissible affections Then he
must pass an examination in disinfection
and promise to apply his knowledge for the
benefit of his patrons
In connection with this important subject
1t Is interesting to learn that Huebener of
Breslau found pyogenic microbes in the
boards of physicians eleven times in TWEEN
ty~six examinations
F'lugge found that in a bearded subject
there was marked increase in the number
OF colonies. when the beard was left I'M
covered near agar culture plates.
II 1t not, however, necessary for us to
go into the minutiae of scientific refinement
in order to convince the thinking of the
necessity for some regulation Of the bar
ber's business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-24
Titles in the Wnr.
of the Boston Transcript.

correspondence OF the DoStCu
Never, perhaps. in modern history have
SO many royal and titled personages taken
their places at the front In a list of Off
GERS serving in South Africa appear the
names of Prince Christian Victor. captain
OF the Kings Royal Rifles. and grandson
OF the queen. Prince Alexander of Teck,
ot the 7th Hussa-s: Prince Adolphus of the
Life Guards and Prince Francis of the list
Dragons, are her kinsmen. Lord Edward
Cecil, who is with Col. Powell at Mafeking.
is a nephew of Lord Salisbury. LORI Tai
bot, major in the Nth Hussars, is a brother
of the Duke of Norfolk. 4 son OF Lord
George Hamilton is with the naval contin-
gent. Lord Kerry, lieutenant of Grenadiers
row in action under Lord Methuen and
Lord FitZmaurice. lieutenant of the LIST
Dragons. are sons of Lord Lansdowne
The lord lieutenant of ireland has son in
the 10th Hussars. Capt Wyndham. 18th
Lancers, hero of Ladysmith. is brother
of George Wyndham. Lieut.. Akers Douglas
of the HighlGuders is son of the commits
s:oner of works. Lieut.. Long. Scots Greys.
is a son of the minister of agriculture. The
Duke of DevonshIre had two nephews at
the front, Lieut.. Egerton. R.N., killed at
Ladysmith, and Capt. Cavendish Grenadier
Guards The Duke of Portland has TWO
brothers in the war, Lord Charles Ben
timex, wounded at Mafeking, and Lord
William Bentinck. If We leave the minis
try for the arfstocracy, the list would run
into hundreds. One thing is significant: the
above-named officers have not been bundled
into staff positions they cannot fill, but are
serving N the regular roster with shair
regiments The prefermcnt Of favored sons
is barred by SanGhurst. These sons of no.
tables are at the 'front.' either fighting brave
IL and periodically for the honor of old
England and for liberty. or in furtheraare
of the game OF territorial grab of perfidious
Albion, according TO the point of view.