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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
From the Kangas &c star.

Although the number of stage con-
jurers have increased considerably, out
few new tricks have been brought out,
the somewhat time-Worn mysteries be-
ing relied upon to keep the public
guessing. One mechanical trick in par
tiCular. known as the deviation" is
being used by more than two-thirds of
the travelling ~conjurers, who make it
the grand climax OF their performance.
This trick is SuSpending a human
body in mid-air without visible, and APP
parently without tangible support, is
said to have originated with the Hindoo
priests of India, whose startling illu-
Sions are given as q religious rite. In
India, according to eye witnesses, one
of the priests IS ~hypnotized by the chief
priest and his body made to stiffen until
it is as rigid as n board. 1t is then
raised by two assistants and placed Oh
the points of two swords, the handles Of
which are buried in the ground. After
remaining in this position several min
utes the swords are removed, and the
body remains suspended in the air. AS
evidence that there is no tangible sup
port, the head priest passes a sword
under, over and around the body.
The Hindoo method and the American
differ considerable. The American ma
gician uses a girl for his subject. With
n few passes Of the HAND before her
eyes he h]ypnotizes her, catching her
apparently lifeless body as it falls to
the stage. Instead of swords the
American conjurer uses q couch. Upon
this he lays the subject, and at a COM
mand the body slowly rises in the air
until it is two or three feet above the
couch. In this position it rests while
the magician passes a hoop completely
over It several times.
GW7fob Mo Hloeoluv
This trick is very mystifying and
many unsuccessful attempts have been
made TO explain it. If the reader will
procure two hairpins and a piece Of
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
A New Maud Muller.

Maud Muller on an autumn day,
All tanned and brown from raking hay,
Stood by the kitchen table. where
A pumpkin stood, all golden fair,
She peeled the slices. one by one,
piece as yellow as the sun
And then she put it on 10 stew
Crhe pot she used was white and blue.)
She took a lot of eggs and milk
spices, and things of that same ilk,
made a filling, rich as gold,
later poured ii in q mould
she had mad from shortened dough
Then put it on the stove, you know.
The judge came by and saw the maid,
His auto car in haste he stayed
And to the window s,ll he came
softly murmured Maudie's name,
She cast on him a startled eye,
Then handed him a piece Of pie.
He took a bite-the pie was great!
He knew at once he'd met his fate.
Her cheeks wer pink, her lips wer red,
AS he, the Judge, with ardor said:
"Ah, Maudte, dear, come to be my wife
bake my pies through all my life"
She hung her head and smiled a smile,
But she forgot that all the"while
That as he heard her softly lisp
Her pie was burning 10 a crisp.
She took his ring and named the day
then he swiftly rode away,
then she turned to get the pie,
But it was burned, and black n dry.
Twas to the hungry piglets fed.
Hes worth one pie" she softly said.
Chicago Chronicle.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
wien Our Cal Spoke . piece.

Twas down I tn oil frame meetin'-house;
They called liz 'tchfidren's day"
rh' young-uns done IL purt-night all,
Except tn preachers say.
An that whole program wrjggled on
Ez slick eZ melted grease
tn place where l forgot ( breathe,
S where our gal spoke a pieces!
TIL Superintendent spoke right up
i heerd i'm call her name!
there she came a-trottin' out;
T'others may locker tn same,
But they want nary 'nuther one
Not even Thompson's niece
That looked with shucks [ Mol an me
WSen our gal spoke a piece.
lie an my woman set down 'front.'
Right clost tn mourner's bench;
An hearin' that there young 'un speak
Give us a awful wrench.
An when we heard 'em cheer an cheer
We set Ike two OF geese
Wipin' tn silly tears away
While our gal spoke a piece.
l hain't ben what I'd ortsr ben;
I've staid away from church.
An sometimes. Mol an me hez thought
They'd left me in tn lurch.
But-well, I've kind o. rounded up
An let my Wand'fin's cease
Since / wuz down there tother night
An heerd her speak a piece.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02

ing it off at the feet. Again bringing
the hoop around back of her he passes
il over the head and off at the feet.
From his place on the platform he
losses the hoop into the audience for
dnother examination. Another wave of
the hands and the body slowly sinks
until it rests upon the couch, and the
girl is hen brought out of the hyp-
motto rance. An expose of this mysti-
flying illusion follows:
"Now You See It."
The hypnotic trance" into which
the lady is thrown may, or may not,
be genuine. As there is no necessity
for hypnotizing the girl it is probable
that this feature of the trick is a clever
bit of acting. The secret of the trick
is in the couch, and a costly piece OF
machinery concealed behind It. The
couch, as ii is called, is merely a
large platform about six feet long,
three feet wide and two feet high.
boarded up on all sides. 1t is set well
up stage" or In other words we'll
back from the footlights. 4 few feet
back Of this couch hangs q black cur
tain reaching entirely across the
stage. The floor is also covered
with a black cloth and curtains of the
same color are hung at each side. The
electric lamps are so arranged that the
light does not shine upon this part OF
the stage, being turned a trife toward
the audience. This makes it rather
difficult for the spectators to see clearly
the part of the stage behind the couch,
and although objects in front of it are
clearly visible, dark objects behind the
couch could not be seen. The girl
is not laid upon the couch as 1t APP
pears, but upon a small board shaped
to conform with the contour of the
girls body. ,
This board is not visible because it
is sunk into the board which forms the
top of the couch or platform. The
boards being painted a dull black to
match the color of the top Of the couch,
the cracks forming the Joints are not
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
One More Spot.
From Harper's Weekly,

FTOIH fIaIptf 3 WEEKLY.
Chief Justice Fuller vas not long aga
the guest of a southern gentleman who
had a servant named Jonn. famous for
his mint julep. Soon after Judge Full
ler's arrival John appeared, bearing a
tray on which was a long, cool glass,
topped with crushed ice and q small
tree OF mint. With low bows and many
smiles he presented 1t. and watched
anxiously while Judge Fuller appre-
ciately slipped IL.
THAT touch the right spot, sahg' he
queried.
1T does. Joi4, it does" the Judge re-
piled.
John disappeared, but was soon re-
called by tn tinkle OF a hand-bell. The
glass was now empty. The Judge
looked UP with q twinkle in his eye.
II think I've got another spot. John"
he said.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
No Stomach to Spare.

fioM .hS 80" tN
patients who come to hospital clinicA
are in deadly fear of being operated up
on remarked a Roosevelt hospital In
terne. They are under the impression
that the doctors stand with the knife
poised ready to plunge ii into them at ram
dom, and on the slightest excuse.
"A man. whose complaint was some
form OF indigestion. had been shown by
one OF the doctors how TO relieve his
trouble by massaging or kneading the at
ficted region. This he promised to do night
and morning.
asked the physician, when the patient APP
peared at the clinic a week later.
"SuIe / need my stomach" the man
said quickly. as he placed both hands over
the threatened organ, and backed toward
the door, 'and I'm not going to let you
cut 1t out. either"
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02


hands several times he commands the
bodv to rise. Slowl' and steadily it
begins to rise from the couch, remain
ing in a reclining position and contin-
uing to rise until commanded to stop
by the conjurer. A large wooden hoop,
such as children trundle In the streets.
is passed TO the spectators for exami-
nation. When ii Is handed back TO the
magician he mounts a small platform
at the head of the girl. Beginning at
her feet he passes h hoop over her
body. bringing IL off al the head. Bring
ing the hoop back AROUND behind the
body. he again passes 1t over her feet
and of at the head as before. Turn
ing the hoop I'm his hands several times
to show hat there is no break through
which wires or any other support could
pass ne again passes 1t Owe the body.
This time he begins at the head. pass-
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02

and made a furious lunge at her-she felt
tho weapon burying itself to the hiit-
and not Assunta, but Carlo, fell to the
floor.
Everything turned black before Roset-
ta's eyes. and with a cry she threw her
self down over her faithless lovers body,
while Assunta wildly rushed out Of the
house.
Her cries brought a crowd Of men and
women, who entered the house. In front
OF the open studio door was the dead body
of tho handsome German artist, and at his
side. with the ~stlletto in her heart, Ross
eta. the poor child OF the mountains.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
-i,,e+ rauen

An old gentleman was stamping about
the street, In rage and excitement. vainly
e~ndeavoring TO unite a battered tin pail
from a yelping dogs tail. when a bystand-
cr offered his sympathy.
"Mischievous boys, sirr'
Eyes. dern their hides. III have 'em ar
rested for&his. They chased this dog ave
miles With The pail tied to his tail"
'Your dog. s!r?"
mo. blank-hlankft. But the pail -
m:ne."
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02
EXPLANATION OF AN OLD TRICK

The Mystifying Act by Stage coniurers, Wherein a Woman Apparently
Is Lifted by Magic Power Into the Air, is in Fact a Very Simple Affair
An Iron Rod Connects with Mechanism Which Lifts the Woman-A
Bend in the Rod Enables the PERI ormer to Apparently Pass a Hoop
Around the Woman. 80 - - - - IT.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02

The Baptist women Of the world are
supporting 300 missionaries.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

look OF superior mentality. In real
life she may look like nothing in par
ticular, but judged by her picture one
might think her capable of writing a
dictionary, with few novels and love
poems on the side.
This Is a clever trick of the modern
photographer. And it is not confined
to his depletion OF the human counte-
nance; he can do much along the
same line with the beasts of the field.
In recent issue of a farming maya
zine there were the portraits of sew
eral cows. Now, COW is not an anil
NAL OF particularly intelligent appear
ance, despite the mellow, goo-goo ex-
preston In the eyes of the average
cow. But in these portraits the pho
tographer had managed somehow to
secure stimulation of intelligence In
the bovine countenance that was truly
remarkable. Especially in the case of
one benevolent looking, white-faced
creature with ingrowing horns was
there happy result. The firm upper
lip. the strong, imperious nose and the
intellectually of the calm, reflective
eye combined to give this animal tho
look of a statesman. II COW like
lhis were to be encountered In real
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

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Girls over-sensitiveness and modesty
often puzzle their mothers and battle
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their confidence from their mothers
and conceal the symptoms which ought
to be told to their physician at this
critical period.
When girls thoughts become slug
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Miss Mills has written the two fol-
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

Russell Sage was much opposed to
drinking. He would often rail with
homely and humorous wisdom against
drink.
Men drink he said one day to a
broker, because they are happy, be-
cause they are sad, because they are
too warm, because they are too cold.
Is there any logic in that?
when / see men drinking / think
Of little boy at the seashore.
"This little boy, at play with his
bucket and shovel in the sand, sud- en-.
ly ran to the edge of an advancing
wave, and, scooping up handful of
salt water and foam, drank it greed
lily.
"'Oh, don't drink that said his
nurse. 1T will make you thirsty
"'What if it does" said he. There's
plenty more"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
OF GREAT SURGEONS
Operations That Almost Seem Incredible Now Sue
cessfully Performed as Matter of Course.
Most Recent the Work Of Dr. Karl Care of Berlin Which
Devoted Mother Gave Part Of Her Own Throat Convert
Her Idiot Daughter Into Bright Little Girl

according to the theory of the Ger
man surgeon. In the case of Lena
Wolff he believed the pancreas was
minus one very important digestive
essential, without which it could not
do its work properly. That very i'm
portant essential had to be supplied
by grating a 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 If 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 pan
crease of her idiot daughter.
For days neither mother nor child
was permitted to move. To insure
successful grating operation they
had been tightly bound together, the
child's body against her mothers neck,
and there they remained until the
severed end Of the thyroid gland had
knit firmly to the pancreas, forming
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
&c n
both mother and child will recover.
The 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 1t 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 ductless 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
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08
An idiot From Birth.

forming the duties for which It was
intended.
This, In the history OF medical
science, is without a parallel, not only
because such an operation was never
attempted before, but also because
OF Its seeming vagueness. The idea
iof 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 a normal,
mental condition would seem at first
glance unworthy of serious consider
lation. But DR.. Karl Care, professor
,of surgery in the medical faculty of
iBreslau university, to whom the oper-
alton is credited, did exactly what has
been described above, and recent de-
Bpatehes from Berlin declare that the
Operation has been pronounced a COM
Iplete success.
/ Professor Care Is an eminent Ger
man surgeon whose success in the
itransplanting Of organs from one ami
Smal to another and even from the
dover animals to human beings, has
ATTRACTED the attention and admira-
Ition of surgical men all over the
world. When his report of how he
changed Lena Wolff from an idiot into
IA bright and intelligent little girl is
completed it will form 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 1t he saw possibility Of be
ing able to prove the correctness of a
theory on 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 it 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
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08
They CURE RHEUMATISM
A Particularly Painful Form OF Thia
Disease Yields to Or. Williams
Pink Pills.

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Rheumatism is now generally re-
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and after time couldn't straighten
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08
PHOTOGRAPHY CAN DO MUCH.
Tricks at Experts Hand Make II a
Fine Art.

1t Is the fashion among real artists,
those who make pictures with paint,
pen ror pencil to scoff at the results
achieved by photography. They are
unwilling to admit that photograph
Is 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
aweiaspiring. Disregarding all land
scapes and pictures of "still lfe." just
consider what the photographers can
accomplish, and have been accomplish
ing, I'm 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 in giving the
convincing semblsnce of intellect and
splritual grace to his subject. the
capable camera man is wizard. The
pudgy faced woman with pale eyes not
only becomes vision OF beauty In her
photograph. but there Ii often the
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

New York.-Medical men here and
abroad are awaiting with considera-
BILE interest report from Berlin CIV
ing complete details Of most daring
and unusual surgical operation per-
formed there q few weeks ago.
F; An idiot child. the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Louis Wolff, resi-
dent of Berlin, has been converted
into an intelligent being by the proc
sss of grating part of the mothers
thyroid gland upon the child's pam
'creas. Reduced to palmer language,
this means that part of the mothers
throat has been transferred by the
grating process to gland, or tissue,
lying directly at the back Of the stom-
ZACH. BY this operation the dull, in
active brain Of little Lena Wolff has
been awakened so that it is now per-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-08

an incision in the cornea made at ths
top. Pushing the points down through
the pupil, with the sharp blade he
punctured the opaque membrane Of
the lens capsule and cut 1t squarely
In two. The task of the surgeon was
to cut so delicately 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 Marvels.
Philadelphia and Toledo, Ohio, have
recently contributed to the list of
marvels 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 a time. The head is
Of abnormal shape, the skull coming
to point.
Tests made a few days ago showed
that the boy had no sense Of right or
wrong. This is attributed to an alb
normal brain growth. AS result Of
the operation, which includes the cut
ting out of certain parts of the brain,
1t is expected to relieve the boy CT his
wicked tendencies and transform him
into model youth.
Scientific surgery Is gradually solv-
ing the problem of making us over