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NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
OF GREAT SURGEONS
Operations That Almost Seem Incredible Now Sue
cessfulIy Performed as Matter Of Course.
Most Recent Is The Work IL d. Karl Care Of Berlin in Which
Devoted Mother Gave Part 81 Her Own Throat Convert
Her idiot Daughter Int Bright Little Girl

according to the theory of the Ger
man surgeon. III the case Of Lena
Wolf he believed the panereas was
minus one very important digestive
essential without which it could not
do it's work properly. That very i'm
portant essential had to be supplied
by grating portion of ductless.
gland from another living person.
The child's mother readily offered
herself as a sacrifice. She was per
pectly willing to undergo the neces-
sarily painful and tedious operation of
having part of her throat grated on
the body Of her little daughter II only
it would give Lena her reason.
The operation took place in one of
the large hospitals in Berlin, and by
the grating process one end Of the
mothers thyroid gland was released
and stretched over to the exposed pam
crease of her idiot daughter
For days neither MOTHER nor child
was permitted to move. TO insure a
successful grating operation they
had been tightly bound together, the
childs body against her mothers neck,
and there they remained until the
severed end of the thyroid gland had
knit firmly to the pancreas, forming a
living, pulsating link between mother
and daughter. Then the link was cut,
leaving a portion Of the thyroid gland
grated successfully to the child s
pancreas. 1t is believed now that
both mother and child will recover.
TIE complete success Of the opera
ton, cannot, however, be announced
yet, as too short time has elapsed
since the operation was performed.
First Dawn OF Reason.
But It is known that the dawn of
reason came to little Lena Wolf al
most Immediately after the thyroid
gland began to knit. For the very
first time the idiotic stare gave place
to a look of intelligence. She may
grow up to be a very bright young
woman.
DR.. Swale Vincent, professor Of
physiology in the University of Mani
toba, at Winnipeg, Canada, has pre-
pared an extremely interesting article
on the duties of the thyroid gland, the
pancreas and other ductiess glands,
which appeared in a recent issue OF
the London Lancet.
1T is believed he says, that these
ductless glands manufacture and pour
directly or Indirectly into the blood
stream some substance or substances
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one-eighth inch white pine flooring,
three inches wide, tongued and
grooved. The edges are fresh painted,
while the strips are being laid with
paint enough to ooze out when the
flooring is driven up. This makes a
durable floor that is easily kept clean.
Painting the joints of the hoDr in this
way is a job that most carpenters OBJ
jeet to. For this reason It is a good
plan for the owner to hold down a
trest1e just beyond spatter distance
while the most important part of this
work IS being done. You cannot blame
the carpenter for not wanting to put
in paint enough to shoot him in the
face when he hits the driver behind
one of these three-inch strips with the
back of his adze.
There are some other places about
the building where the eye Of the mas
ter mar be worth dollars to him when
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an Idiot From Birth.

forming the duties for which 1t was
intended.
This, in the history Of medical
science, is without parallel not only
because such an operation was never
attempted before, but also because
Of its seeming vagueness. The idea
of grating part of the throat of a
mother to the pancreas gland of her
child with the expectation Of convert
Ing the child from idiocy To normal,
mental condition would seem at first
glance unworthy of serious consider
alton But DIR. Karl Care, professor
OF surgery in the medical faculty of
Breslau university, to whom the oper-
alton is credited, did exactly what has
been described above, and recent de-
spatches from Berlin declare that the
operation has been pronounced COM
plete success.
Professor Care is an eminent Ger
man surgeon whose success in the
transplanting Of organs from one ami
NAL to another and even from the
lower animals to human beings, has
attracted the attention and admira-
ton Of surgical men all over the
world. When his report Of how he
changed Lena Wolff from an idiot into
a bright and intelligent little girl is
completed it will form a valuable adj
dition to the list of modern miracles
OF surgery.
From the details of the case al
ready received from Germany it ap-
pears that Lena Wolff was born an
idiot six years ago, says the New
York World. Reason never dawned
for her as in other babies. She had
come into the world without one ap-
parent spark Of intelligence and
seemed doomed to pass her whole life
without knowing the joys and sorrows
of living.
Her case was called to the attention
OF Professor Care, who was inter
ested from the very beginning, be-
cause in it he saw a possibility of be-
ing able to prove the correctness of a
theory Oh which he had been at work.
This involved the probable action or
influence that certain substances or
secretions found in the ductless
glands Of the human body have upon
the blood.
1t is the blood. as everybody knows,
that feeds the brain, keeping it active
and clear and in good working order.
If the blood is thin or sluggish the
brain is first to record that fact. The
great German surgeon knew that the
reason Lena VOLTS brain was dull
and inactive was because the blood
was not feeding 1t as it should.
One of the principal duties of the
pancreas, situated just behind the
stomach. is to superintend the regular
feeding Of the brain with good blood,
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PHOTOGRAPHY CAN % MUCH.
Tricks at Experts Hand Make Ii a
Fine Art.

1t is the fashion among real artists,
those who make pictures with paint,
pen or pencil, to scott at the results
achieved by photography. They are
unwilling to admit that a photograph
IL anything but mechanical and in
artistic In its expression of things, but
all the same the effects that can be
secured by the average photographer
who knows his business are almost
awe-inspiring. Disregarding all land
scapes and pictures Of still life," just
consider what the photographers can
accomplish, and have been accomplish
ing, in the way Of portrait work. Not
merely in the way of removing warts
and wrinkles and performing other
archaeological operations calculated
To increase beauty, but ii giving the
convincing senb1ance of intellect and
spiritual grace to his subject the
canable camera man Is wizard. The
pudgy-faced woman with pale eyes not
only becomes vision Of beauty inner
photograph. but there is often the
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questions and give adeee T FREE ansS oH
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
paper On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor. Author and Manufae-
| turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1871 Fifth Ave. Chicago, Ill.,. and only
enclose tWo-cent stamp for reply.
1t sometimes is desirable to get all
the house possible for the money ex-
pended. Where the family is quite
large and the income limited, it is de-
sirable to have at least four bedrooms,
and, to balance up the house proper
Iy, this requires four living rooms,
thus making an eight-room house. This
| design is calculated to meet just such
conditions. The house might be con-
sidered severely plain outside, but for
| the manner in which the front gable
is designed and finished.
Straight roofs with gable ends are
| the cheapest roofs made and the most
satisfactory for many reasons, one of
which is ventilation. With a small
| window in each end of the roof it is
easy to change the air continually, but
| a cottage roof, which usually slopes
| to a peak from four different direc-
tons, forms a pocket which holds a
roof full of stagnant hot air unless
some kind of ventilator is provided to
| draw it off.
Roof gables have probably given
builders more anxiety than any other
| one feature No one wants a house
that looks like barn placed with the
| gable end to the read, but that is
what this house would look like ex-
| cept for the inexpensive tWo-foot pro-
| lection which makes the double gable
possible and gives an opportunity to
| finish this part of the job with com
| bination three section window that
| Just exactly fits its setting. A study
| of the front of this house is inter-
esting even to the casual observer.
| There is something about the porch
| that seems to recommend it for the
| position it occupies. It is neither
elaborate nor expensive. but it fits the
house. The whole front offers an H.
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THEY CURE RHEUMATISM
A Particularly Painful Form OF Is1ss
Disease Yields to DR.. Williams
Pink Pills.

Of the many forms which rheumatism
takes, that which is popularity known as
sciatie rheumatism probably fortunes Us
victim more than any other. That LIT.
Williams Pink Pills have cured th1s
stubborn as well as painful trouble IS q
fact proven by the following statements
and no sufferer who reads this can al
ford to let prejudice stand in the way OF
trying these b1ood-lnaking pills.
Rheumatism is now generally re-
cognized as disease of the blood. IT.
Williams Pink Pills intellectually
make-pure blood. When the blood Is
pure there can be no rheumatism. Mrs.
Thomas Bresnehan, of 81 Mill street,
Watertown, N. Y, says:
- My trouble began with severe cola
which / took about a week befefe
Christmas in 1904. I began to have
rheumatic pains in my back and limbs
and after time Z couldn't stralghten
up. suffered the most awful pain Tor
months and much of the time was ufla
able to leave the house and had to take
hold of q chair in order to walk and
sometimes could not stand up at all.
The disease was pronounced se1ae1o
rheumatism and, although had good
physician and took his medicine faith
fully, 7 did not get any better. Alter
some SIX weeks of this terrible pain and
suffering I tried DR.. Williams Pink
Pills and that is the medicine that cured
me. After few boxes the pain was
less intense and could see decided i'm
proyement. continued to take the pills
until I was entirely cured and / have
never had any return of the trouble
All druggists sell DIR. Williams Pink
Pills, or the remedy will be mailed post
paid, on, receipt of price, so cents per
box, six boxes for So. so, by the DR.. Will
iams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. z.
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New Tork-Medieal men here aBa
abroad are awaiting with considerA-
BILE interest a report from Berlin Civ
ing complete details of a most Caring
snd unusual surgical operation peg
formed there d few weeks ago.
An idiot child. the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Louis Wolf, q sesi-
dept Of Berlin, has been converted
into an intelligent being by the proc
sss OF grating part Of the mothers
thyroid gland upon the -childs PAN
creas. Reduced to palmer language,
this means that part Of the mothers
throat has been transferred by the
grating process TO a gland, or tissue.
lying directly at the back OF the stom-
ach. BY this operation the dull, in
active brain Of little Lena Wolf has
been awakened 30 that 1t ID now per-
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life one might expect her to say few
wise words on the tariff or engage IN
a discussion Of the Possible Mean
ings of English" as written by Henry
James. Of course, the original cow
looked considerably less like a col
lege presidents the photographer sim
ply made the effect with his little box
of tricks. But when such things are
possible why do real hand-painting
artists persist IN the assertion that
there is no art in photography PROV
idenee Journal.
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Downfall or Riern1un.

A. c. Jones, the prohibition candi-
date for the governorship of South
Carolina, upbraided in a speech in Co
lumbia the unexampled cruelty Of the
Russian terrorists.
IF it was themselves!" said Mr.
Jones. IF it was their own wives and
families, their own little children.
Then they'd sing q different song be
fore all that blood and horror
Whenever think of the terrorists
of Russia am reminded Of another
terrorist whom knew IN my boyhood
This man wore a red necktie and
long hair. He sat DAY and night IN a
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luaS7ation Of what may be done at a
slight expense to embe1lish what
would otherwise present an extremely
uninviting appearance from the road.
The house is Il feet wide, which IS
too much e1panse for a plain gable
The fancy oetagon cut dimension
shingles used on the gable add very
much to the finish
The final finish Of the front is the
porch. Because of the width of the
house, the front steps are made much
longer than usual, a feature that lends
an air of importance, while the design
Of the porch roof IS well calculated to
break the monotony still more, but it
stops just short of OVERRIDING the mat
ter.
R11- r,,oyS a
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an incfsfen IN the coraea made at the
top. Pushing the points down through
the pupil, with the sharp blade he
punctnred the opaque membrane Of
the lens capsule and cut it squarelV
in two. The task of the surgeon was
to cut SO de1icate1y and precisely as
to divide the obstruction and let the
light into the eye again.
The operation was entirely success
full. The dead lens matter remains in
the eye and on either side Of the pupil
a speck Of the Opaque substance can
yet be seen. This in time may be abb
sorbed.
Some Surgical Maryels-
Philadelphia and Toledo, Ohio, have
recently contributed to the list of
marEels of surgery through operations
on the brains of incorrigible and men
tally defective boys. a still more re-
cent case is that Of Carl Fredericks,
aged nine years, Of No. 200 Clinton
street, Hoboken. He is under observa-
ton at the Railway Reformatory prep
aratory to the practical reconstruction
Of his brain.
The doctors say the boys brain is
so peculiarly constructed that it pre-
vents him from being good for more
than an hour at q time. The head is
of abnormal shape, the skull coming
to point.
Tests made few days ago showed
that the boy had no sense Of right or
wrong This is attributed to an alb
normal brain growth. AS a result of
the operation, which includes the cut
ting out of certain parts Ct the brain,
it is expected to relieve the boy of his
wicked tendencies and transform him
into model youth.
Scientific surgery is gradually solv-
ing the problem Of making us over
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ground to support the lower ends OF
the step stringers exactly where
wanted, then take the steps away and
build a cement walk leyeled up even
with the tops of the stakes. The steps
may then rest ON the cement and re-
main in good condition for 20 years.
A man may not know the names OF
the tools that his carpenters are u.s.
ing, but he should have horse sense
enough to know whether the imnor-
tant ends of the job are being conduct
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Woman Novelist Widely Read.

Miss Braddon, the popular novelist.
who celebrated her SEVENTEEN birth
day by issuing her sixty-second book.
received $12.50 for her best known ef-
fort, Lady Audley's Secret" Since
then royalties have been paid to her
on over a million copies Miss Brad
don reads French, German, Spanish
and Italian with equal facility.
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repairs commence to come along, and
one of these places may be found
right here st the bottom of the lower
step. have seen carpenters block
up the lower riser with little bits OF
seven-eighths inch boards picked up
among the waste The result is the
steps settle and the lower part rots
away in a few months. A much bet
ter way is to drive two stakes in the
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Arae,tina No Home for soers

Many of the Beers who migrated te
Argentina have rturned to South AT,
RIGA. Most Of tssose still IN Argentina
are saving up their money for tna
purchase Of homeWard tieketa.
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WANTED-For u. s. Army, able.
bodied, unmarried men, between ages of q
and 35; citizens of United States, of good
character and temperate habits, who can
speak, read and write English; for infor-
nation apply to recruiting officer, 126 N.
Court, Memphis, Tenn; 236 Main, Jones'
boro, Ark; Corinth, Miss; Hickman, KY.
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You Don't Fave to Wait.

livery dose makes you feel better Lax
Eos keeps your whole inside right. Not one
grippe in a full bottle. Sold on the money
back plan everywhere. Price 50 cents.
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Carpet rags dyed with PUTNAM
FADELESS DYES viii remain bright and
beautiful. No trouble to use.
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piecemeal. Raymond Moore, aged 20,
of Baltimore, lost the sixth and sew
enth ribs on the right side. DR.. Ham
ilton Brown replaced them with ar.
tidcia1 ribs Of hard rubber tubing.
BY an operation at Fordham Hos
pital. Joseph Reicher was supplied
with silver windpipe to replace the
original, which had been damaged be-
yond repair by hard fall.
Restored to Nationality.
At Stamford, Conn, unique opera
ton on the skull Of the tWo-year-old
son of Michael Gunther has given the
boy nationality The child was born
with normal mental and physical en-
dowments and began to show, when
year old, signs of general deficiency
in all his senses. It was finally deter
mined by the surgeons interested in
the case to explore the child's skull.
DR.. ]. T. Higgins. of New York, as
sisted by Drs. Whftehorn and Hogan,
of New York, and Howell and Loeb,
Of Stamford, performed the operation
at Stamford Hospital few months
ago. They removed a strip of bone
from the skull three inches long and
one-half inch wide, to give the brain q
chance to grow. Immediately on re-
covering from the anaesthesia, look
of normal intelligence showed in the
child's eyes, proving the theory of the
doctors that the skull had been press
ing unduly on the brain. With the
pressure relieved, the brain was free
to exert itself. The doctors believe
the boy will soon be able to talk and
act as nationally as the brightest of
his little playmates.
DIR. Guthrie and DR.. Carroll, of the
University of Chicago, have been max
ing a series of remarkable expert
ments in surgery. Hearts of dogs
have been successfully moved up into
the animals necks and there per-
formed their functions. The circula-
ton Of blood in CANNES has been re-
versed without causing the animals
any apparent inconvenience.
What we have learned said DR..
Carroll short time ago. gives us
hope that some day we may replace
wounded and WORKOUT hearts in hui
man beings with the healthy, youthful
and strong hearts of living monkeys. =
Sewing Up Stabbed Heart.
A recent dispatch from Milan de-
scribed wonderful surgical opera
ton there by DR.. Media. A workman
had been murderously assaulted, a
knife in the hand of an assassin actu-
ally piercing his heart. He was at
tended BY surgeons who cut way
through his breast to reach the
wounded heart. Three stitches were
required to close the wound, which
had almost entirely healed five days
after the operation.
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Some men take chances on board.
ing house hash in preference to matri.
mony.
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saloon smoking huge pipe and drink
ing one beer after another, and to hear
him talk about what he and his gang
were going to do to the kings and
princes and potentates of the world
was enough to curdle your blood.
One afternoon as I was hurrying
home from school saw some one be-
ing carried down the street on a
stretcher.
Who've you got there, Petsr?' /
said to one of the stretcher bearers.
Z" Biermug the anarchist Peter re-
piled
What's the matter with hin? I
asked.
He was making a speech on the
corner, said Peter, and just as he
was Offering to lead the mob till the
streets ran with blood to his waist a
little dog got away from a lady and
bit him on the ankle and the poor fe1.
low tainted dead away.
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lrnportant News chronlcIed.

An English paper gravely annoan.
ces that "sir Kerr Singh, the maharao
of srohi, lost his last jaw tooth ON
July 2 and had a diamond one put In
its place
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Sight Restored TO Child.

Equally remarkable and interesting
been restored to the blind eyes Of lit
tie Margaret Huber, aged ten years,
OF No. 524 East Efghty-fourth street,
New York city. She has become the
| subject of widespread interest among
| opthaImologists by reason of her pin
!! hole camera eyes. Eye surgeons
| who have followed the case at the
German Po1iklinik declare it to be, SO
far as their observations have gone,
without an exact parallel.
| Nobody knows exactly how Mar
garet became blind. The liquid mat
ter constituting the lens of the eyes
| became atrophied and was entirely
| absorbed, leaving the lens thick
opaque, fbrous cap, which shut out
every g1immer Of light. This was
three years ago, when the little girl
was only seven.
Several operations were tried, but
with no good results. The membranes
of the eyes were punctured, but they
| Immediately closed again over the
openings like sheet rubber when a
hole is made in it.
DR.. John A. Price, chief surgeon of
| the ophthalmic department of the
German Poliklinik, took charge OF the
case, performing three operations in
/ February, March and April, 1894 The
third one restored the sight to the left
eye. The right eye remained stone
blind until two weeks ago, when he
performed most unusual and sue
cessfu1 operation upon it.
He first made a peculiarly shaped
| pair Of scissors, the under blade
pointed and the upper blade blunt
This instrument he inserted through
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It isn't very much consolation 70
the homely girl to be told that beauty
is only skin deep.
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which are Of service TO the economy,
either by supplying need or by de-.
stroying other substances which are
needless or positively harmful This
last function IS usually prescribed to
the thyroid and parathyrofd glands.
1T is obvious that, in the broadest
sense Of the expression, all tissues
and organs Of the body may be said
to have an internal secretion. e.,
the blood which leaves by their veins
contains different chemical substances
from that which enters by their ar,
teries
"The most usually quoted example,
however, of gland which has both
an external and an internal secretion
is the pancreas. A relation between
diseases of the pancreas and diabetes
has long been suspected, but Minhow-
ski and Mehring first definitely
showed that complete removal Of the
pancreas in the dog, cat and pig is
followed by diabetes, having the usual
symptoms of that disease in man.
That this is caused by the absence Of
an internal secretion is proved by the
fact that it does not occur II the gland
be left in stu and the duct tied, nor
does 1t occur If . portion Of the pan
creas be grated in some situation re-
mote from it's normal position. How
the internal secretion of the pancreas
normally prevents glycosuria is not
clear. We can only say that it exerts
some influence upon the carbohydrate
metabolism, either by favoring the
formation of glycogen in the liver
from the de1trose taken to it by the
portal vein or by furthering the oxida-
ton Of dextrose in the tissues gener-
{ oil