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DIR. L0RENZ'S VISIT.
It Has Excited Widespread Interest
Among Medical Men.
Originator Of So.Called Bloc dless
Operation for C0ngenital Disl oca-
tion Of Hip Cordially Received
b. Our Own Surgeons.

Y*at the visit of DR.. Adolf Lc7enz,
the eminent Viennese surgeon, to this
country should excite such widespread
interest is an event of much moment
for science, probably of greater mo-
ment than the fact of the visit itself.
Of course the interest was stimulated
at the outset by the fact that Prof.
so-called "bloodless operation" de-
vised by himself, to correct the deform-
ity of the child of one of our million
aires. It is also, as the Indepen-
dent remarks editorially, "partly
due to the fact that the presence of the
distinguished foreign surgical visitor
has been taken advantage of to secure
the extension of the benefits of his
operation to some of the poorer
classes in our large cities who happen
to be suffering from the same deform-
ity''-congenital dislocatioR of the
hip. There is no doubt, however, the
writer thinks, that the attention awak-
ened can be attributed also to the fact
that deformity appeals to universal
sympathy, and that during the last
generation or two q larger humani-
tartan spirit has developed. The writer
goes on to say:
"Prof. Lorenz does not come to
teach our American orthopedic sur
geons-our specialists in the treat
ment of deformed children-something
thew did not know BEFORE LOrenZ'S
operation has been practiced in this
country for almost if not quite dec
ade of years; and some OF the best re-
suits attained by the use of the meth
cd invented by the Vienna professor
have been reported from America.
His treatment is in line with that re-
turn to the principle of taking advan-
tage of natures own auxiliary efforts
and her manifold compensating fac
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housed the faculty, the eight students
of the first entering class, the library
and all the other belongings of the in
stitution. This little brick building,
says the New York Tribune, has pc
culiar attraction for those who admire
the poet Longfellow, for here, as a
student, he roomed, studied and pre-
pared his own meals. In a room on
the first floor is capacious fireplace,
which has remained unchanged since
the day the first logs blazed upon it's
broad hearth. and it was at this yawn-
ing gap in the old halls chimney that
Longfellow did his cooking.
Whether or not the poet was good
cook does not appear in any of the
records of Bowdoin, but he had the
best facilities then afforded at the col
lege, the fireplace, with it's turning
spit, swinging crane to support the
kettles and pots and its glowing beds
of Goals for broiling being considered
superior to the stoves of those days.
Strangely enough, no photograph was
taken of the old fireplace until this
summer, although thousands of Wis.,
itors have called to see it, and until
recently few outside the college have
been aware of the interesting fact that
it was once utilized by Longfellow for
the toasting of bread and the browning
of fapjacks.
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pany; Charles r. Flint and others,
were the original cmissaries to this
country to carry out the sale. Nego-
tiations were halted by the Spanish
once more renewed the sale commit
tee had picked up Capt. Christmas, the
adventurer.
Mrs. Atherton says that, although
Secretary Hay may deny it, she knows
that Christmas was recognized in the
state department of this country as
representative of the sale committee.
'When Harry White was to be intro
duced to the prime minister by Christ
mas" said Mrs. Anterior, "the door
was shut in the face of the adventurer,
who is scamp, and White was ad-
mitted.
KNOWING the views of the Danish
people, felt that the treaty could not
under the circumstances be ratified
without humiliation to my country. I
then wrote an article for the North
American Review in which I stated
that if the treaty was ratified by the
Rigsdagen / would expose the entire
scandal.
'The article was translated into the
Danish papers at once and the treaty
was not ratified. I have reason to
know the article in the Review is re-
sponsible. Just before the bill came
up was implored to return to Amer.
lea to be on the ground to explode the
bomb if necessary. Instead of re-
naming in Denmark for q year was
| there but few weeks"
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tors for the relief Of disease and de-
formity that characterizes much OF re-
cent progress in medicine and surgery
on both sides of the Atlantic.
I'm certain children nature has
failed to provide proper sockets for the
bones of the thigh to work in-that is,
it has failed to make complete hip
joint. These patients are spoken OF
as suffering from congenital disloca-
ton of the hip. Sometimes the condi-
ton is not noticed until the child be-
gins to make spontaneous movements.
AS they grow older they prove to be
pitiably deformed and learn to walk
only with great difficulty, their gait
being slow and very awkward. Prof.
Lorenz sets the heads Of their thigh
bones in their proper places and then
fixes them firmly in position. The pres
sure of the head of the femur gradual
" makes for the bone an acetabulum-
that is, a socket in the bone of the pei
vis-in which it comes to move quite
normally. Further dislocation does not
occur, and the bones remaining in
place perfect the original work of the
surgeon by the exercise of the pres
sure and counterpresure that eventual
IT, gives very practical hip-joint. The
results secured by this manipulation
for it is this rather than an operation
that is the secret of Prof. Lorenz's sue
cesses are excellent. Patients success
fully treated go through life, not as al
most helpless, always pitiable cripples,
but as individuals whose powers of To-
como tion may be somewhat impaired,
though not sufficientlyto hamper their
application to some serious occupa-
ton"
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from pictures of the great general at
that time, however, the young wom-
an must have been very fastidious.
This was some time after Washing
tons marriage to the Widow Gusts.
Mrs. Fountleroy never saw her hus-
bands mother, but says she has heard
him speak of her as very beautiful
woman. She had blue eyes and black
hair, an unusual type, which is always
particularly pleasing. She lived all of
her life in Frederick county, Va, when
she was married, and when Washing
ton knew her. Her sons, however,
came west as civilization advanced.
Butler Fountleroy settled in Mont
gomery county, Tenn, ere he met and
married pretty Matilda Bowman, a
daughter of John Bowman, who was
a revolutionary soldier. His bride was
II and he was 50. HE asked me"
said the wife, who had survived him
for nearly q quarter of century, IF
did not think that he was too old for
me, and I told him." blush stealing
into her withered cheek as she recalls
her courtship, that did not think it
made any difference" and she added:
I'VE were very happy"
Mrs. Fountleroy's family were Vir-
ginians, but she was born in Kentucky.
Her early life, however, was spent in
Virginia. my father married my
mother in Virginia" said Mrs. Fount-
leroy. "They were both natives of
Frederick county, as my husbands
people were. They moved to Kentucky
and settled near Louisville. An old
er sister and 1 were born there. Ny
mother died when my sister and were
quite small, and our father carried us
both to our grandmothers in Vir-
pinia. I was given to my mothers
mother, and my sister to my fathers
mother. We used to have many a
childish quarrel as to whose grand
mother was the incest, ignoring the
fact that each was equally related
to both of US. My mothers father
Jares Williams, was a congressman
for long while, and spent most of his
time in Washington. When was ten
years old and my sister was slightly
older. my father married again, and
took us to live in Lexington, Ky. Later
we moved to Montgomery county
Tenn, where I met my husband. W.
came to Paducah some years after we
were married.
Mrs .Fountleroy, says the New Orlean:
Times-Democrat, has three children
two daughters and one son. She make:
her home with her Oldest daughter
Mira. J. Henry Smith, of Paducah. shs
is Just 10 years younger than he1
mother, and laughingly says that they
were girls together. She is remark
ably handsome despite her years, ant
is a worthy descendant of the fail
Elizabeth. Mrs. Fountleroy's son
Thomas Fountleroy, live. near Pa
ducah. He was q soldier in the civi
war in the southern army.
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CHARMING OLD LADY.
Mrs. Matilda Fountleroy, Head Of
an Ancient Family.
She In DauEhter-in-Law of Elizabet b
F0untleroy, Who Refused to
Marry Washing ton-Resides
In Padlcah, Ky.

Mrs. Matilda Fountleroy, who re-
sides in Paducah, KY, enjoys the
unique distinction of being the daugh-
ter-in-law Of Elizabeth Fountleroy, of
Virginia, with whom George Washing
ton was once in love.
In preference to the illustrious Fa-
Their of his Country Mrs. Fountleroy
married her own cousin, Joseph Foun-
tleroy, in Frederick county, Va. She
had nine children and Mrs. Fountle-
roy, of Paducah, is the widow of one
OF her youngest sons, Butler Fountle-
roy, who died many years ago. Mrs.
Fountleroy is 81 years of age, and was
81 years younger than her husband.
She is bright, attractive lady, and
takes vivid interest in all things.
The incident of Washington having
paid court to her mother-in-law she
remembers quite well as a cherished
tradition in the Fountleroy family
The incident is mentioned in history
of the family. In the history cop
les of letters written by Washington
suing for the fair lady's hand are re-
corded. In one of these the lover
pleads that Elizabeth will alter her
decision and return his love.
Many of these ardent epistles from
Washington to Elizabeth were pub
lished in a newspaper article several
years ago. In some of them the dis
tinguished man descends to inditing
some poetry to his lady love. A novel
of colonial times, abiding to this
love affair, has for one of its charac.
tiers sprightly young woman. who
remarks when she saw Washington in
a riding suit, equipped for the chase
that she does not blame Elizabeth
Fountleroy for refusing to marry
Washington, since he is not half sc
good-looking as her father. Judging
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Ahanf Fan de Cologne.

How many of those who use eau de
cologne from Cologne daily, one might
almost say hourly, are aware OF the
fact that it was invented by an Italian
and not by son of the fatherland
which gives it a name? asks the Pail
Mall Gazette Almost 200 years ago an
Italian priest, Giovan Maria Farina,
whose name is seen on every authentic
bottle, eked out his modest fortune by
selling perfumery, little art objects,
and so on, at Domodossola. In 1902,
happening to be in Cologne and making
use of some of the finest vegetable pro-
auctions of the country, he discovered
the secret Of the miraculous perfume,
which has never been revealed to this
day, except to his descendant.
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MASSACHUSETTS HALL.
Old Bowdoin College Building Con.
talnA Fireplace Where Longfel.
low Cooked His Meals.

When the sons of Bowdoin gathered
at the old college in Brunswick, Me-,
in June, on the occasion of the celebra-
ton of the completion of its first cen.
fury of educational work, many fad.
ing memory of sch ooldays was re.
freshed and many good story
brought again to mind by the sight Of
the ancient buildings that formed the
college settlement in years long past,
and that appear so shabby now among
their new and handsome neighbors.
First in interest among these old
structures is Massachusetts hall, the
original building of Bowdoin, which,
at the opening of the college in 1902,
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Of Abdul Hamid's life. He looks on
Christianity as dead, while the spirit
which conquered half the world is only
dormant in his people.
10 the hands of the omnipotent, om-
niscient sultan converge all the
threads. The caliph is indefatigable
Rising early, he works harder than a
London accountant. For hours he re-
ceives procession of secretaries, min
listers, ulemas, dragomans, petitioners,
emissaries from all parts of the world.
When their turn comes they find that
the sultan knows all about their bust
ness, and dispcses of it without asking
anyone's advice, "that he has cogni-
zance of everything that passes in his
empire, inchoate and loosely governed
as it appears to be-"
The sultan's favorite theory in cross
examination is that, given enough rope,
any man will hang himself.
The sultan is, in fact, triumphant.
He made fools of the French over Nifty
lene, and has used the Germans as an
instrument. He is parsimonious
man; he hates equally wasting money
and paying salaries, and millions upon
| millions of his revenues remain unac-
counted for and never see the light of
day. Is he piling up war chest for fu-
ture use? Capt. Gambler evidently
thinks so. And there is every reason
| why he should, for Northumberland
is as mighty force in the world as
Catholicism-all the more so because
the common intelligence Of mankind is
in revolt against observation-disclosures
curse effectually banned in Islam by
the far-seeing wisdom Of the prophet
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Ruth Hanna)
Chronicle, he has long been known al
one of the for emost among the young
err society people of the city. Miss
Hanna's home is at Cleveland, and
there she was reared in all the luxury
that atfluence and indulgent parents
could bestow upon her. For several
seasons she has been one of the Lead
ing society lights in the national cap
ital. While Senator Hanna has never
been noted for his leadership except in
politics, he has given several notable
receptions at Washington, and at these
his daughter has been conspicuous and
has Won all hearts by her grace and
beauty. She is, withal, a young woman
of rare tact and intelligence and is ac-
complished in all those arts that lend
a charm to the society girl of the
period. In any society she would be
regarded as leader independently of
her fathers exalted position. Her de-
meanor is exceedingly modest and she
has never sought to obtrude herself.
Nevertheless, her presence at all the
leading social functions at the capital
has been greatly in request during the
two seasons that have elapsed since
her debut. Mr.. Mccormick has been
for number of years connected with
several of the leading Chicago clubs.
and in each he is a favorite with both
old and young. He possesses excellent
business ability, is genial to fault,
correct in his personal habits and in
every way an exemplary citizen. This
match is regarded us one of the most
suitable that could be arranged and
the young people will receive tho
hearty congratulations of hosts OF
friends who have known them from tho
days of their childhood up to the pres
ent time and have esteemed them for
their high standards of department.
and their admirable qualities generals
ly. 1t has not yet been determined
where the young people will take up
their residence, but as Mr.. McCor-
mick's financial interests are conferred
in Chicago it is probable they will re-
side here large portion of the time,
making occasional visits to Washing
ton and Cleveland that they may not
he too sorely missed in those cities.
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CHEF OF THE CREEKS.
ed by His People a. Well a.
Governmen mt Omcials.

Isparacher, the noted chief Of the
Creek Indians, who has just passed
away in Okmulgee, Indian territory.
at the age of 80, was probably the most
remarkable full-blooded India an of re-
cent times. He was born in the old
Creek nation in Alabama and went
westward with his tribe. He fought
in the union army and was a member
of the Indian home guards. After the
war he served as judge of the Creek
nation. Overthrow in 1888 by Cheko-
tab, he organized a revolt which had
to be put down by the United States
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HAPPY ENGAGEMENT.
j. MediIl McCormick, Of Chfesges
Soon to Become the Husband %
Miss Ruth Hama.

The engagement has just been an
nounced of Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter
of the senior United States senator
from Ohio, and Medill Mccormick. Of
Chicago, a grandson Of the late Cyrus
H. Mccormick and Joseph Medill. The
date for the union has not yet been
fixed, but it will doubtless take place
in the near future. The alliance of two
such prominent families promises to
be an event of great interest in their
circles. Chicago is the home and was
the birthplace of the prospective
groom, and here, says the Chicago
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HERBERT W. BOWEN.
10 . Trained Diplomat and =
Scholar of Note.

Herbert Wo1cott Bowen, who occu.
pies the at present delicate Office OF
United States minister to Venezuela,
is a well-known New York lawyer who
received his first appointment in the
consular service by reason of his
knowledge of international law and
his general fitness for the work. Mr..
Bowen was appointed consul to BARGE.
Iona, Spain, in 1890, and since that time
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WOMAN Baked SALE.
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton Says She De-
# feated the Danish West India
Deal with HerPen.

According to the story told by Mrs,
Gertrude Anterior, the novelist. an ar
ticle written by her and published in the
North American Review and copied by
the newspapers and magazines of Den
mark, is responsible for the failure OF
the Danish parliament to ratify the
sale of the Danish West Indies to the
United States.
Last August, while working in Den
mark, Mrs. Anterior met Neil Green
and she decided to play at politics.
Mrs. Anterior says that Green, with
H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil com
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No LauHdIieA In China.

LaunGries are unknown in China.
This is strange when it is considered
that nine out of every ten Cinnamon
who come to the United States go into
the laundry business. Throughout all
of China the consumption of starch
does not exceed ten pounds in a year.
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Medical Ethics in China.

Chinese doctors are very particular
about the distinction between physi-
slams and surgeons. A Chinese gen
tleman was struck by an arrow
which remained fast in his body. A
surgeon was sent for and broke of
the protruding bit of the arrow
leaving the point imbedded. He re-
fused to extract it, because the case
was clearly one for a physician, the
arrow being inside the bod7.
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Family Filled the car.

A family of unusual size rectatly
passed through Kansas, en- route from
Iowa to Oklahoma. It was composed
of Michael Streckendorfer, with 10
sons, two daughters, and grandchil'
dren enough to almost fill cas-.
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Bas Thinxs His Own Way.

The amer Of Afghanistan magines
himself ore of the greatest men alive.
He likes t, have his own way in every
thing; and when he thinks it necessary
to silence disagreeable adviser VIII ION
he cannot convert to his views he cuts
off his head, That settles him And
makes other meddlesome dispu,ants
change their opinions at once, or emf.
crate.
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Small Farms in Norway.

Norwegian farmers are wise, and
are eager to possess farms at the ear
lest opportunity, instead of working
for other people. There are about
10000 farmers in Norway, and 1O9,-
900 of them own farms.
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Fecundfty of the Oyster.

The fecundity of the oyster is won
derful. A single female oyster in one
seasons spawning will produce, if she
is of an average size, about 10000 900
eggs, while large specimen will pro
duce 10000, 900 or 10000. coo.
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HERBERT w. BOWEN.

has been almost continuously in the
service of consular or diplomatic de.
partments. In 1895 he was made consul
general at Barcelona, and some time
subsequently went to Persia as con-
sui general at and envoy extraor-
binary to Teheran. In 1901 he was ap'
pointed to his present post. The min.
lister is distinguished as q literary man
of excellence and poet of consider
able power. He has published three
volumes of poetry. In 1881 he was
graduated cum laude from the law
school of Columbia university. He il
46 years old.
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CHIEF ISPARACHER.

(FiGdO OF CTttK INdtIUH w ITO 116S just
DIED, Aged 80 Yeara)
army. Thereafter he lived quietly with
his people.
Isparacher weathered many storms
in his long life, for his people have not
been peaceable at all times, and he has
had difficulty at times to keep the
struggling elements together. He
was six feet tall, weighed 200 pounds
and was a full-blooded Indian. He
lived in a boxlike hut in Indian terri
tory. He was born in Alabama. He
was elected chief of the Creek nation
in 1895.
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--latest Democratic Possibility for Pres5s
Dental Nomination.
nent figure in state and national poll.
tics since 1884, when he served as
delegate to the democratic national
convention. From 1885 to 1889 he was
postmaster of Philadelphia, chairman
of the state central committee in 1890,
secretary of state of Pennsylvania
from 1891 to 1895, chairman of the
1892 to 1896, and delegate to the Chica-
go convention of the last named year.
Mr. Harrity is an able lawyer and il
president of the Equitable Trust COM
pany. He is SO years old.
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WILLIAM F. HARRITY.
Eastern Democrats Think He WOula
Make an Excellent Candidate
for the Presidency.

William F. Harrity, of Philadelphia.
who has just been announced as cam
didate for the democratic nomination
for president in 1904, has been promi-
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Strength Of Various Wires.

Of three wires of the same thickness.
one made of gold will sustain $50
pounds; one of copper. aoa pounds; one
Of IRON $40 pounds.