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The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
NEURALGIA

The real meaning of the word Neu-
Jalgia Is nervepain, and any one who
has suffered with the malady will not
be so anxious to know of its nature
as to hear of its antidote. Though
scarcely recognized by the profession
and people half a century ago, 1t is
now one of the most common and pain
ful ailments which afIiict humanity.
AS now generally understood the word
signifies an affection of the nervous
system, with pain in the course of the
principal nerves.
The two great causes of Neuralgia
are, Impoyerishment of the Blood
and Deficiency of Nerve Force; and
the treatment of II is not SO obscure
as many would be led to suppose. The
first thing is to relieve the pain,
which is done more quickly and salts
factorily by ST. JACOBS OIL than by
any other remedy known; the second
object is to remove the cause, which
is accomplished by the abundant use
of nourishing food. of a nature to
strengthen and give tone to both the
muscular and nervous systems.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
WcTIMIzED BY A VISION.
Dream Induced Rich Doctor to Give
Away His Wealth.

Rochester. Mass.-Robbed, he says,
of his fortune by vision that told
him he would die in six months, DR..
John Wesley Sill. s4 years old, former
ly a prominent physician here, with a
$4,000 estate. has been taken to the
poorhouse.
Sill says that a year ago a vision
appeared to him and told him he
would die in six months. He gave
away all of his real estate, several
farms here and in Canada, business
block. and his library to nephews and
nieces. He saved just enough to live
on six months.
Now the six months have passed
and Sill's money is all spent. He says
the nephews and nieces refuse to give
him back anything.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
Chelsea Old Church.

and the negro, Esteyenico, explored
Arizona in 1888. passing through the
Santa Cruz valley and the ella settle
ments. He made such q wonderful re-
port on the country, which he swore
to, that the question of establishing a
settlement in that section was serious
ly considered, and in 1852 the matter
was reported favorably and the settle
ment ordered, established"
The proof of this is said to be con-
tanned In stained and time.worn doc.
ument written on vellum. signed by
his Catholic majesty. Charles l. of
Spain and of Ferdinand and Isabella,
the patrc.s of Columbus, and coun-
tersigned by the viceroy of Mexico.
The document. which is in the fair,
round hand of Marcos de MIA, was
only discovered recently among the
relics of the ancient mission, San
Xavier del Bac, nine miles south of
here. and was forwarded for safe
keeping to the librarian at Washing
ton, in whose custody 1t now is, or
ought to be. The date of the vellum is
1862, and, allowing three years for
good measure, the date of Tucson's &
settlement would be 1856, at which
time St Augustine was merely a
strip of coast line and Santa Fe but n
prairie-dog village.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
The Spring Opening.

The dazzling creation of birds and
wire in the millinery department was
marked SIS.
The circle Of shoppers gazed in envy
but not one stirred.
Suddenly the clerk reversed the card
and displayed the figures $14.49.
Then there was small riot Shop.
pers fought like amazons to reach the
counter.
"Ah," laughed the tall foorwalker,
those ladies remind me of olden
knights"
In what way?" asked the meek man
who was waiting for his wife to
emerge from the crush.
why, they fight at the drop of a
hat"
And before the meek man could ap.
preciate the point of the joke his wife
came out minus a comb and two locks
of hair
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
new SWEDISH KING
GUSTAV A PLEASING BLEND OF
DEMOCRAT AND ARIsTocRAT.
Applies Himself with Great Diligence
to Tasks Of Administering Gov
ernment-Not Soldier by
Nature.

Stockholm.-Sweden new King
Gustaf. is proving a worthy heir to the
great traditions running back not
only to his own martial ancestor. Ber-
nadotte, but to those which go back to
his country's great hero. his own
namesake, and he is meeting his
great responsibilities with an earnest
ness history has only in notable in
stances associated with kingship. A
correspondent who recently inter
viewed the king in his working quar-
ters found him not only busily en-
gagged. but devoting very serious atten-
tion to the numerous matters of state
brought before him, for Gustaf has
come to the throne at crisis in the
history of Scandinavia, due to the
secession of Norway awakening slum.
bering antagonisms and rousing a new
spirit in the people. The king is con
scious of these dangers, for his inter
est in politics has been always keen
and personal, and he brings to them
trained mind and sympathetic un-
derstanding.
The king still occupies the apart
ments of the crown prince. and they
are small enough to make one reflect
bow little of n royal palace. as of a
royal life, is at the exclusive disposal
of monarch. They are working
quarters, too. Messengers come and
go; kilograms and letters arrive; min.
listers and officers in uniform pass to
and fro; stewards and chamberlains
hurry from one place to another, and
the telephone works hard. The small
low-ceiling room is as busy as stock
brokers' office.
If King Gustaf is a descendant OF
one of Napoleon's marshals he is none
the less Swedish for his French de
scent He has asslmilated the char.
acter of the race he governs. Like the
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
CONSCIENCE HAD SLEPT LONG.
Purioiuer Of Cake Of Soap Makes
Restitution After Twenty Years.

Imagine n conscience that would
span 20 years and drive man to re-
member a theft of cake of soap.
That there is such q conscience, how
ever, is proved by the receipt a few
weeks ago of two cakes of soap by a
storekeeper in a little town IN Mime
sofa. Twenty years ago this man,
Edward Hamilton, had small store
In st. Paul. In front OF his establish
ment he had a showcase in which he
displayed several large cakes of soap
OF special make. One morning he
found the glass broken open and one
of the cakes of soap missing. The
theft was so small that the matter was
never reported, and Hamilton had for
gotten II, till he received letter from
the thief, which read:
Dear Sir: | send you two cakes
OF soap in payment for one | took from
your showcase in St Paul many years
ago. / recently saw your advertise
ment In country paper and learned
OF the change of your place OF busi-
ness. regret deeply having taken the
soap, and trust that this which l send
will satisfactorily take its place.
Sunday Magazine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
King Gustaf.

Swedes, he is pleasing blend OF aris-
tocrat and democrat. His family
might be called in evidence of the
democratic strain, for of his brothers
one is a doctor and another an artist
and neither can be styled amateur But
this proof of atavism is not needed
If one talks with his majesty. His at
titude toward life is frankly demo
cratic-tempered. perhaps, with vein
of sadness that may be born of the
moment.
Gustaf is not considered TO be sol
dier, though the descendant of one of
Napoleon's great marshals and ruler of
land made glorious by the martial
deeds of Gustavus Adolphus. That he
lacks this particular capacity is not
due to n lack of courage. Those who
know him best declare that If war
menaced his country he would place
himself at the head of the army as
readily and as confidently as he as
sumes the government. Officers do not
hesitate to declare that had Gustaf
been king In 1905 the preparations of
the headquarter staff would not have
been in vain, and the kingdom would
nos have been divided. Happily, the
danger of war has ceased to be i'm
minent, and the energies of both coun-
tries are turned to peaceful rivalries.
If not soldier, his 4 ajesty is. at
any rate, sportsman. He rides like
centaur, is a crack shot and plays
tennis like Doherty. Some of his
subjects hint that 1t would be more in
keeping with the dignity of his posi-
tion If he played tennis only with his
courtiers! They forget that the true
sportsman is the true democrat, and
that sport-even the sport of kings
is not only bond, but leveler.
To these exercises and to music-of
which also he is a devotee-his majes-
ty will have little time TO give. The
duties of king in Sweden are no sine
cure. He must preside over every
council OF state. and is responsible
for every act of administration. Some
people consider him impatient of dis
cussion and detail, but those who
know him best declare him to be the
embodiment of steady endurance. His
courtesy and good nature are mex.
haustible.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
A Mind Reader.

Pat had got hurt-not much more
than a scratch, 1t is true, but his en-
ployer had visions OF being compelled
to keep him for life, and had adopted
the wise course of sending him at once
TO the hospital. After the house sur
geon had examined him carefully, he
said to the nurse:
"As subcutaneous abrasion is not OBJ
servable, / do not think there is any
reason to apprehend tegumental cica.
irritation of the wound"
Then, turning to the patient, ne
asked, quizzically.
What do you think, Pat?"
Sure. sir" said Pat, you're a won.
derful thought-reader. doctor. You
took the very words out of my
mouth. That's just what was going
to sayl"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
Reisen Was Compelled to Keep Con
stantly on the Move.

pieces, until Reisen was compelled to
keep constantly on the move. jumping
from one crumbling, slippery raft to
another.
Once he fell into the lake, and after
swim which deprived him of al
most all the strength and energy he
had in him he caught another cake.
He hung for some time in the icy
waters unable to muster strength to
climb upon his refuge. After he had
climbed up his clothes froze solid, and
he was compelled to keep constantly
running and jumping over the treach-
erous. shifting field to keep the chill
from overcoming him.
He was seen about noon from Gary
and a message was sent to South
Chicago asking for tug. For hours
throngs of people lined the shore Of
Gary watching the frantic struggles
of the man to keep alive and watch
ing eagerly for the expected tug.
About 2:30 p. m. Chief Charles Bow
ser of the steel company's guards, is
sued call for volunteers to go out
in rowboat after the man. The
trip through the rough waters COW
cred with shifting ice which could
crush the rowboat like an egg shell
was dangerous. and for some time no
one responded.
At last J.. p. Frederickson and
Christ Christensen offered to make an
attempt at rescue. They reached
Reisen shortly after three o'clock in
the afternoon, when he had been on
the ice and in the water for more
than IL hours. He fell unconscious
in the boat and was not revived for an
hour. 1t was announced that he will
recover.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
Franz Joaefs Jubilee.

The imperial post of Austria has Is.
sued the jubilee stamps commemora.
tive Of the sixtieth year OF the reign
of Franz Josef. There are eight
stamps. and these form a miniature
portrait gallery of seven of Austria's
rulers, The stamp of the lowest de-
nominatton-on beller--bears the
portrait Of Charles W., Maria There
sas picture is on the two-heller stamp,
and Joseph H., Leopold H., Franz and
Ferdinand on the Q. G. 12 and 20-heller
stamps, respectively. The 30-heller
stamp has a portrait of Franz Josef
as he appeared when he ascended the
throne 60 years ago. and the FIVE
heller stamp bears the profile por.
trait of the emperor which was takei
shortly before his recent illness
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02

silk turbans and spoke English with
fuency. The passengers soon learned
that the young prince was on his way
to study agriculture at Cornell uni
versity, go that he could later tell his
people the best methods of cultivatlng
tobacco.
For more than a year and half
Prince Victor has been at Etcn. but on
returning home he expressed his de-
sire to study in the United States.
and his father granted the request.
Mr. De Majumdar is his secretary and
companion and is a graduate Of Cor
nell. class of 1906.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
TWELVE HOURS ON AN
ice FLOE IN THE LAKE
MAN HAD CLOTHES FROZEN AND
HAD TO KEEP HOPPING TO
KEEP BLOOD CIRCULATING.

Chicago.-For II hours man.
hungry and weak and with his clothes
frozen around him, leaped from one
small ice cake to another as they
bumped and tumbled in heavy sea
out in Lake Michigan, three miles
from Gary, Ind, the other day.
He was Carl Reisen. a workman en-
ployed on the railroad at Gary. He
left home shortly after two o'clock
in the morning to go out on the lake
and shoot ducks. He had Just taken
position on the lake edge of foe,
when large piece broke loose from
the shore and fioated out into the
lake
AS it got farther from shore the
waves began to break it into small
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
Hlazinu Rat scares Woman.

McKeesport, PA large rat on
fire created excitement at the resi-
dence of Charles Calcutt, on Walnut
street.
Mrs Calcutt, when lighting the gas
in the kitchen range, was attracted by
a peculiar noise under the burners.
Suddenly rat leaped from between
the burners and ran frantically about
the room. describing a circle of fire.
Mrs. Calcutt ran upstairs. Her hus-
band and several neighbors rushed in
and some one called for the fire com
pany. The rat squeezed through a
hole and in doing SO extinguished the
fire.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
Value Of Portable Treasvres.

The chimneys CT the Wilson's cabin
was made of sticks plastered together
with clay. When it caught fire one
night the whole house burned in spite
of Aunt Maria's utmost efforts to put
out the flames. A white neighbor met
young Tom Wilson the next day and
said sympathetically:
Sorry to hear your mothers cabin
burned down, Tom. Did you lose
much?".
mo, sab; no, sah;" returned the
boy, cheerfully, Il was off at church,
so had my coat on."-Illustrated
Sunday Magazine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
How to Ralae Blows.

Thar amt much OF a problem In
raisin' boys ef you'll have little com
mon sense about It," said Mr.. Billy
Sanders. Don't let 'em run wild like
pigs in the woods. an don't keep tho
lines too tight, an when things go
wrong don't be afear'd OF usin' raw
hide. But don't fergit that the NAM
mics an daddies of the land are twice
responsible when one of Their boys.
goes wrong. Eff the legislator wants
to do good work, an make better
citizens outn the risin' generation, let
1t put heavy penalty on the dear
parents OF the boys that go wrong
Joel Chandler Harris. in Uncle Remus-
Magazine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
OLDEST CITY IN AMERICA
Tucson Arizona Metropolis, Lays
Claim to Honor.

tucson, Ariz--Besides being first in
ADOBE and first in population among
Arizona cities. Tucson is now claiming
TO be the eldest European settlement
in North America.
Treasure Land" a new volume on
Afizoaa, maintains that this city Is
older than either Santa Fe or St.
Augustine. The author says:
rConeedins Santa Fe's claim of
leoe' and also paying due veneration
to the antiquity of st. Augustine, we
claim priority for Tucson. According
to authentic records, Marcos de Piza
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
DOCTORS REMOVE
PORTION OF SPINE
REMARKABLE OPERATION ON
MINERS BACKBONE PER-
FORMED AT ST. LOUIS.
PATIENT LIKELY TO RECOVER
Victim Buried Under Tons Of Rock
and Coal Which Crushed Bones
of vertebrae Which Are
Taken Out.

st. Louis.-Joseph Pittoria, a miner
from Bush. Ill, will be walking about
and doing his regular work minus a
portion Of his backbone If he recovers
from an operation performed on him
at the Evangelical Deaconess' hospital
few mornings since.
Pittoria, who had recently come
from Italy, was working in a mine at
Bush when a caye-in occurred. He
was buried under tons OF rocks and
coal, which broke his back in the lum-
bar region. The mass of rock fell on
his head. doubling him up and crush
ing the transverse and spinous proc
,esses of the first, second and third
vertebrae.
The crushing of these bones imme-
diately affected the network of nerves
which branch off from the spinal cord
at the point of injury.
b The motor tract of the spinal cord.
or those nerves which control loco
motion of the lower limbs, were dead
ened so that he was paralyzed in the
lower half of his body. The sensito-
ry tract, or those nerves which gov
erned the senses, were rendered acute,
so that the man suffered intense ag-
ony constantly, making it necessary
TO keep him under the influence of
opiates. So great was the agony that
he would have succumbed soon unless
relieved by an operation
According to information obtained
at the hospital the subject was on the
operating table three hours
1t was believed to be necessary to
remove the arches of the three verte-
bra, take out the crushed bone and
reach the spinal canal, through which
the spinal cord runs to the brain, in
order to remove the mass of clotted
blood and splihtered bone which was
pressing on the sensitory nerves and
causing the man such intense agony.
Another difficult factor in the opera
tion was the excessive hemorrhage
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
PRINCE TO STUDY AT CORNELL.
Son Of Indian Ruler VIII Learn How
to Raise Tobacco.

New York-There were many per.
CONS of prominence on the big liner,
Mauretania, on her recent arrival here,
but none attracted more attention
than Prince Victor n. Marayan, 10
years old, son of the Maharajah of
Gooch Behar. who rules half million
souls in northern Bengal and Is one of
the independent potentates of the In
dian empire. Prince Victor and his
companion. 1ndu Bhushan De NAHUM
dar wore their gold hecked, white
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
Madman Crows Like Rooster.

Chicago.-Becalse he would crow
like rooster, Turner Chaiman's
friends and relatives in Armour
avenue believed him insane and had
him arrested. When conducted to the
witness stand of the court for the in.
sane he began to crow. He could give
no acceptable reason why he should
crow, 30 Judge Smiley ordered him
sent to Dunning. He is so years old.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN,

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges--
tion, dizziness, ,ornervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address. Lynn, Mass.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02

due to the crushed vertebrae, and the
two arteries which run up each side
of the spine, the walls of which were
torn and crushed, filling the spinal
cavity with blood and spicula of
splintered bone. All during the opera
ton DR.. Menstrina was working with
his instrument under the flow of blood
and entirely by the sense of touch.
The skin was lifted back from the
seat of the injury and then the heavy
muscles that guard the spine were
divided and lifted away, being held
out of the way by retractors so that
the operator could get at fractured
bones.
The periosteum, a cartilaginous or
fibrous substance which covers the
bones. was Clipped away and the
spinous process, or the bone which
projects from the spine outward, was
chiseied and broken away by forceps.
After the spinous process had been
removed the operator was able to get
into the spinal canal through which
the spinal cord runs to the brain.
For the length of the three verte-
brae, the spinal cord was lifted from
the canal with delicate instruments
and the canal cleared of fluid and
spicula, or splinters of bone, which
were pressing against it, Then with
forceps-like instruments the trans
verse processes were crushed and
taken out until all the bony structure
of the three vertebrae nearest the
outside of the back had been removed
The body of the bony structure OF
the spine, that which lies back of or
behind the canal. was left and forms
the bed or support of the remaining
portions of the spine.
When the spinous and transverse
processes had been removed. the an
terror portion of the canal, a fibrous
substance, was cleaned and sewed as
a protection to the spinal cord, and
the heavy muscles brought over and
joined as an artificial wall for the
canal
DIR. Menstrina said that his patient
was doing as well as he had expect
ed. and he had strong hopes for his
recovery.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02

A good disposition is more tc bo
priced than jewels of gold or silver It
is more precious than sapphires. and
all the riches of the mighty are not
to be compared to it.-Martineau.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-04-02
lmnortan,, 40 pno,bera.
Tactless.

Tactless.
"one of those fellows that is always
doing the wrong thing, chr"
rs he? Why. say, that fellow would
put frieze around hothouse'
Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-08
A Century of Airship Evolution

He had to use a very imperfect source OF
power-an electric motor driven by bat
teries, not only because the steam and gas
engines of his day were too crude and heavy,
but especially because they offered no pro-
lection against the risk of setting the gas on
fire. Clifford. who, in 1853. put rather reck-
Iessly the first mechanical motor on a primi-
tive elongated balloon, using a low pressure
steam engine fired with coke, was Obliged to
suspend the car so low that propulsion be-
came problematical. Compared to the present
airship, motors of five pounds weight per
horsepower Renard's propelling mechanism,
weighing over 100 pounds per horsepower,
was almost as far from the goal as Meus-
nier's human power of more than 600
pounds per horsepower.
But Renard settled once for all the great
questions of a shape of small resistance for
the gas bag, the amount OF stiffening re-
CURED. the value of a high position for the
center of gravity, correct suspension, elimi-
nation, surface friction both in balloon
and car proper, placing and shaping of the
rudder, economical propeller and last, but
not least, the equilibrium in flight. All
these discoveries were the result of pains
taking, long and exact experiments with
models, and the last named discovery, that
of a means of maintaining equilibrium in the
air, opened an entirely new epoch.
Its importance became appreciated only
much later in the life of its author; In fact,
only shortly before his untimely death. Like
Meusnier's ideas, it was then submitted to
the French academy, and its value being
recognized. it started in flight a flock Of
aaroafoffo fed OfnOu uuhfoh mana fAo, 49,
glinh to master the art of true flight and
which included the balloons identified with
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