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chance to grow. Immediately on 10
covering from the anaesthesia, a 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 rs the brightest of
his little playmates.
DIR. Guthrie and DR.. Carroll, of the
University of Chicago, nave 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 cfrcula-
ton of blood in CANNES has been re-
versed without causing the animals
any apparent Inconvenience
What we have learned" said DR..
Carroll a short time ago, gives us
hope that some day we may replace
wounded and worn-out hearts in hui
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
sPooNER,s coNcElT.

do you really mean it, Mr.. Spoon
er, when you say 1 am the best girl
in the world?'' asked Miss Flypp,
after the young man had suggested
| that she should become Mrs Spoon
err
Indeed 1 do, Miss F1ypp." asser-
waited the young man. Il say it again
you are the best girl in the world"
And the loveliest, think you
said?"
1.-The 1oveliest without doubt
'I think you said something about
my accomplishments, too?"
Il did. I said they excelled those
of any other girl
Il believe you called me sweet?"
"a sweeter woman, meier drew
breath quoted the ardent lover.
You used the word perfect too.
did you not?'
Il did. 1 also pronounced you the
pink of perfection, propriety and mod
esty, the empress of my heart, the
peerless one among the beauteous
creatures of your sex, maiden ador-
able, enchanting, and worthy of the
hand of the best man on earth. Say
the word that will make me the hap
piest man on earth, my own Dora T"
Before. give you an answer, Mr..
Spooner, I shoul& like to ask you
one question"
"a dozen, if you like
Zone will be enough. Don't you
think that you have a great deal of
assurance to expect a woman with
all those excellent qualities to marry
such an ordinary man as your"
Then Mr.. Spooner went home.
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Sewing Up Stabbed Heart.

A recent dispatch from Milan de-
scribed a 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.
To restore sight to the blind eyes of
Wilton Heinard, of Washington, the
specialists at the Episcopal Eye, Ear
and Throat Hospital have grated the
transparent membrane of a Belgian
hare's eyeballs to He1nard's eyes, The
most recent reports on this operation
indicate that it is going to be sue
cess.
c. A. Mccartney, young contractor
of Pasadena, has survived the unusual
experience of having his heart and
lungs exposed, washed, mended and
replaced He was injured last. June
by falling from bicycle upon the up
turned prongs of a hayrake. He is
almost as well as ever.
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Further Particulars.

The monkey had used the cats
paw for pulling his chestnuts out of
the hot ashes.
Serves me right" said the cat.
for being in bad company I can't
kick
Finding, however that she could
still scratch, she proceeded at once
to make several long incisions in the
monkeys countenance-a feature of
the incident which escaped the hfsto-
rians of that period--Chicago Trib-
a1e.
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boy nationality. The child was born
with normal mental and physical en-
dowments and began to show, when
a year old, signs of general deficiency
in all his senses. 1t 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 Whitehorn and Hogan,
IF New York, and Howell and Loeb,
* Stamford, performed the operation
at Stamford Hospital a few months
ago. They removed strip of bone
rom the skull three inches long anu
cne-half inch wide. to give the brain .
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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,
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 inn
portant essential had to be supplied
by grating a portion of a 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
1t would give Lena her reason
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
Different Mendino.
dem!

Eyes, Rounder was addicted to
poker and cocktails before the mar
riage. She told him it was never too
late to mend and he reformed
THAT was fine"
yes, but now he is telling her it
is never too late to mend"
I'm what way?''
''Why, he keeps her up until long
after midnight mending his shirts and
stockings Chicago Daily News.
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70 Keep Alive coronado,s March

Several thousand dollars have been
raised by public subscription for a
monument to~commemorate the march
of Coronado into New Mexico. It VIII
consist of a huge granite bowlder
from the Glorieta mountains, to be
polished ON four sides and suitably In
scribed. 1t Will be erected at Las
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
Not Likely to Be Around.

Mr.. Societie-Are you not going to
call on the bride?
Mrs. Societie-I would be perfectly
willing to call on her, but 1 don't
want to meet her husband
"Oh, 1 guess there's no danger of
meeting him. They've been married
six weeks."-N. y. Weekly
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
NEW ACHIEVEMENTS
OF GREAT SURGEONS
Operations That Almost Seem Incredible Now Sue
cessfully Performed as Matter of Course
Most Recent Is the Work of Dr. Karl Care of Berlin Which
Devoted Mother Gave Part Of Her Own Throat
Her Idiot Daughter Into Bright Little Girl.

New YOrk.-Medical men here and
abroad are awaiting with considera-
BILE interest report from Berlin CIV
ing complete details of a most daring
and unusual surgical operation per-
formed there few weeks ago.
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
ess of grating part of the mothers
thyroid gland upon the child's 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 Wolff has
been awakened so that it is now per-
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
of grating part of the throat of
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
alton. But DR.. 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 valuable adj
dition to the list of modern miracles
of surgery.
An Idiot From Birth.
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
sof 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
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
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
Have You Noticed?

'T think Dick and Katharine will
soon be married.
why, dear?''
well, 1 passed by the old porch
last night and I~heard her calling him
pet Names
Gracious! And was she calling
him 'ducky' and dearest, and angel
face?'"
well, should say not. She was
calling him. Ounce goose and
stupid
you don't mean it,"
81 do, and that is always a sure
sign a girl is in love with a man.
Chicago Daily News.
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The Profitable Customs

The Profitable Customer.
Purchaser-Those matches I had
yesterday were not good
Proprietor of Shop-Pm very sorry,
sir, but you never buy anything else
of me.
Purchaser-well. shan't deal here
any more.
boy)-Bill, go and shut up the shop
at once.
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Waning Affections.

Angelina don't believe you love
me as much as you did, Edwin.
Edwin-Poohl nonsensei What
makes you think that?
Angelina-Well, it's several days
now since you called me vain and
heartless little f1irt, and 1 know I
haven't changed-CasselIs Journal.
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Before TAKING.

Customer-See here; you say this
medicine will cure consumption. You
don't look as if it would.
Consumptive Drug Clerk IL
haven't begun taking it yet-N- Y.
Weekly.
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Takina the Waiter Down.
liver,

Diner-What have you got?
Waiter-Fye got calves liver.
sleeps brains, pigs feet
Diner-I don't want list of your
physical peculiarities; all I want t.
know is what you've got to eat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
Interceptino the Mail.

College Student (nervously)-Did
the prima donna get my bouquet?
Stage Doorkeeper-Yes, sir; but
that six-foot young Teller you see back
there got the letter. He's her SON
N. Y. Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

Mistress-Whatd do you mean, Nina,
by putting on my newest boots, which
I've only worn once myself?
Housemaid-But, ma'am, if you'd
worn the boots many times they'd be
much too large for me.-Fliegende
Blaetter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17
All of 1t.

Il am thinking of buying me an
auto; how much will it cost me to
keep it in trim after l get it?''
Il don't know; l have not the least
idea what your income is."-Bousto1
Post
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

an incision in the cornea made at the
top Pushing the points down through
the pupil, with the sharp blade he
punctured the Opaque membrane OF
the lens capsule and cut it squarely
in two. The task of the surgeon was
to cut SO dedcately 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
speck of the Opaque substance can
yet be seen. This in time may be alb
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 time. The head is
of abnormal shape, the skull coming
to a point. The ears are small and
protruding, and the eyes are as sharp
as a ferret's.
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 a result of
the operation, which includes the cut
ting out of certain parts of the brain,
it is expected to relieve the boy of his
wicked tendencies and transform him
into a model youth.
Scientific surgery is gradually solv-
ing the problem of making us over
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
tificial 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.
DR.. Kaintsky, the famous Russian
surgeon, recently astoniShed the medi-
cal world by furnishing a man with
artificial arteries. The operation took
place in DIR. Kaintsky's private lab
oratory at ST. Petersburg. The pa
tient, a very rich farmer and cattle
raiser, Ivan Poitinkask by name, had
collided violently with a stump while
driving in a sleigh. He was hurled
out and impaled upon broken branch.
The jagged piece of wood struck him
below the hip joint and ranged down
for about four inches. The wound
was an exceedingly ugly one. 1t was
directly over and in line with the fe-
moral artery, which supplies the en-
tire leg with blood. DR.. Kaintsky
saved Poitinkask's life by removing
the injured part of the femoral artery
and replacing it with an artificial one.
The Berlin surgeon, Dr. Seyfried,
has succeeded in giving man a new
top for his skull, made from the skull
of an OK.
Restored to Nationality.
At Stamford, Conn, a unique opera
ton on the skull of the two-year-old
son of Michael Gunther has given the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

At the Harper Hospital, Detroit, DR..
H o. Walker has succeeded in giving
a 12-year-old boy a new shin bone
taken from the leg of dog.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

You're always in debt? You
ought to be ashamed of yourself
"Oh, I don't know! If you were in
my place you'd probably be in debt
too
What placer"
able to gen credit"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

"C1ara's got tongue like motor"
Like a motor How's that?"
"She's always running people
down"
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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 a
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 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
both mother and child will recover.
The complete success of the opera
ton, cannot, however, be announced
yet, as too short a 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.
DIR. 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 recent issue of
the London Lancet.
ct is believed" he says, that these
ductless glands manufacture and pour
directly or indirectly into the blood
stream some substance or substances
which are of service to the economy,
either by supplying a need or by de-
stroying other substances which are
needless or positively harmful This
last function is usually prescribed to
the thyroid and parathyroid glands.
''It is obvious that, in the broadcast
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 a 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 Minkow-
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 if the gland
be left in stu and the duct tied, nor
does it occur if a portion of the pam
creas be grated in some situation re-
mote from its normal position. How
the internal secretion of the psncreas
normally prevents glycosuria is not
clear. We can only say that it exerts
some influence upon the carbohydrate
metabolsm, either by favoring the
formation of glycogen in the liver
from the dextrose taken to it by the
portal vein or by furtherfng the oxida-
ton of dextrose in the tissues gener-
ally
Sioht Resfored 70 Child
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fabricated.

Miss Sparkle-Is Ferdys automobile
an easy runner?
Cholly Glinn-Sure, his dad pays the
bills.-N. Y. Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-17

He Every fond of dogs)-Miss
White, don't you think you ought to
have an intelligent animal about the
house that would protect you, and
She-Oh, Mr.. Mullins, this is so sud-
den.
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Sight Restored to Child.

Equally remarkable and interesting
is the operation by which sight has
been restored to the blind eyes of lit
tie Margaret Huber, aged ten years,
of No. 524 East Eighty-fourth street,
New York city. She has become the
subject of widespread interest among
opthalmologists by reason of her "pin-
hole camera eyes. Eye surgeons
who have followed the case at the
German Pohklinik 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 a thick
opaque, fibrous cap, which shut out
every glimmer 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 Poiiklinik, took charge of the
case, performing three operations in
February, March and April, 1854. The
third one restored the sight to the left
eye. The right eye remained stone
blind until two weeks ago, when he
performed a most unusual and sue
cessful 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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tricks.
The Girane-Yes. monkey tricks,
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man beings with the healthy, youthful
and strong hearts of living monkeys.
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Restored to Nationality.

At Stamford, Conn, unique opera
ton on the skull of the two-year-old
son of Michael Gunther has given the
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-24
B. & 0. Officials
Here In May
FAiRMONT WILL BE REACHED BY
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
IN ABOUTTwO WEEKS.

According to the original announce
ment Of the itinerary of President Os-
car G. Murray and his inspection par
ty Of Baltimore 4 Ohio officials, the
visitors will reach Fairmonr about
May 3rd or 4th. This is the first an
nouncement. and It is more than prob
able that 1t win be changed, perhaps
several times. and the party may be
here on dates other than those men-
toned, and in deed, may come here
sooner. Mr.. Murray and officials
OF the executive transportation. traf-
fic and engineering departments left
Baltimore in a special train Sunday
evening and are going directly to Chi
caSo via PSttsburg. They reached
Chicago Monday evening Several days
will be spent inspecting the terminals
Of Chicago and the Chicago division
and the party is scheduled to be in
Sandusky Thursday. Friday morning
they 80 to Shawne and to Columbus
Friday night Saturday they return
to Newark. then to GAINESVILLE and
take = trip over the Shawne branch
inspecting the Shawne mines, after
which they will so back to GAINESVILLE
and thence to Petersburg and over
the Ohio River division to Kenova
They will return Saturday night and
arrive in Benwood Sunday and after
a short inspection Of facilities there
and at Wheeling leave for GAINESVILLE
but viii return in time to go out over
the north end" of the Wheeling d.