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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
Value of vjviscction.

Success In nerve surgery has led to
desire to accomplish similar results
with the blood vessels. Until recent
ly no one attempted to do more than
cut diseased or injured blood vessels
out of the general circulation; even
this required vast amount of prelim-
mary work on animals, especially with
regard to the testing of ligature mate
rial such as catgut and silk. for
strength, absorbabilty and capacity
for being rendered absolutely sterile,
the last being exceedingly difficult of
determination. The effect of these OPP
erations on the local blood supply also
required investigation, for the cutting
out of very large blood vessel might
involve the death of an entire limb
Very recent work on dogs seems to
promise that the cutting out of blood
vessels may be largely replaced by
splicing and grating, 1t is evident
that, with the aid of such new meth
DDS, the last-mentioned risk may be
avoided, and many limb saved from
gangrene and amputation. Most mar
velous of all, our surgeons are now
venturing to attack the heart itself;
wounds of that most important of all
organs have been sutured, hitherto. to
be sure, with only partial success;
however, we may justly expect to per-
feet this operation by giving it thor
ough trial on the lower animals.-At-
lantic Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
Must Have Il All.

Richard Parr, the discoverer of the
sugar trust frauds, was talking in
New York about the generous reward
granted him by the government.
Some folks thought l was going
to get reward of couple of millions
or SO" said Mr.. Parr. They put me
in the lawyer class"
"The lawyer class?" said the report.
er puzzled.
"Yes," said Mr.. Parr, 'the lawyer
class. The junior and senior partner
of law firm, you know, once put
their heads together to draft clients
bill.
"'We've won the will contest for
him. said the Junior partner, rubbing
his hands. Suppose we charge him
two hundred thousand?'
But the senior partner frowned.
go on!' he said. He's worth
more than that"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
A Hongkong Brewery.

A number of attempts have been
made In Hongkong to establish a
brewery, but the first successful one
is the Oriental brewery, which com
menced operations early in 1909. The
buildings are extensive and the brew.
cry installation is of the most modern
American type, having capacity of
100000 barrels of beer year. Ameri.
can capital is understood to be back
of the enterprise, which is already
successfully competing with the Jap
anese and Tsingtau beers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
GOOD ONE ON DOCK WHITE
First Sight Of Railway Train Made
Him Run Away With He
Wagon.

"Lemme tell you a good one on
Dock Whittle," said the waggish
mountaineer at the crossroads store.
Last week Dock hitched up the old
mare, piled hi. oA woman an the
kids into the wagon, an took 'em over
acrost the mounting to where the new
railroads been built, jest to see the
kyars.
None of 'em had ever seen a rail-
road train, Dock, ner the old woman
an the kids, ner the old mare, either;
so Dock he feels sorto uneasy. Think
In he'd be on the safe side, he on
hitched the mare an tied her to a
saplin'; then he went back where the
old woman an the kids was a-settin'
In the wagon In the middle of the
road. Dock thinks he'll pull 'em
down the road piece so they kin see
better, so he takes hold of the shafts
an started; but jest then 'Hoot!
Tootv come that train of kyars, an
jumpin Jerushy! Dock run away
with the wagon, the old woman an
the kids began to scream an holler,
an away they went down the side of
the mounting. an like to adjusted
ever'think to pieces.
DOCK says the old mare was the,
only one that wasn't skeered plumb toV
death, an next time he's goin' to leave
her alone, an tie hisself to saplin'."
-Macks National Monthly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
Diamond TOYS.

Andrew Carnegie, at one of his ia
nous dinners in New York, talked
about the prodigal and ostentatious ex
penditure of certain type of New
York millionaires.
He takes Valquez,' said Mr. Car
negie, "and cuts it into three strips sc
that 1t will go on screen. Paul Bour
get told the world about that. And ]
heard, the other day, another thing
about him.
"A gentleman was being shown over
the $3,000,000 palace of one of those
-millionaires. The gentleman stop
ped before an enormous mirror and
said:
What large and perfect glass
Pity it's scratched
It's rather pity said the mil
lionaire, carelessly; and, turning to his
major domo. he said: Don't let the
children have any more diamonds to
play with, Maurice
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
pramatists Usually chIIdIess.

According to an observer writer's CT
plays are generally childless. He says:
1T seems that the successful dramat-
ist is at the end of series, and never
leaves a successor. Look down the
list of them. from Gilbert to Shaw, and
you will find never child. Further
search brings up Thomas Hardy, Bar
rie, Maeterlinck, Pinero, Cecil Raj
eigh, Vaughan, Locke, Granville Bark
er, Frederick Fem, Louis Napoleon
Parker, and only Henry Arthur Jones
and Hall Caine are dramatists with
children.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31

Said She-It is reported that an
Ohio genius has invented an apparatus
for piercing the ears without pain.
Said He--That's good. / hope con.
gress win enact law compelling
every amateur vocalist to use it.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31

This stupeaes the flies, when they may be
swept up and burned.
II there are flies in the dining room Of
your hotel, restaurant, or boarding house,
complain to the proprietor that the prem
ises are not clean.
The hookworm is undermining the vi
tality of section, but the house fly threat
ems the health of the world.
Pest and plague and fever follow in It's
filthy footsteps. It's victims are legion.
The mosquito carries the germ Of vel
low fever. The sting of the tsetse fly In
but certain sleeping sickness.
But the house fly carries on It's sticky
feet the potent poison of a dozen deaths.
The snake warns by hiss or rattle, and,
in defense, strikes to kill, and then Is to
be shot or cubbed or ground beneath the
boot heel But the malicious, annoying
fly, satellite Of sickness, maker of ceme-
teries, deposits its slow poison and buzzes
away, ever busy, never still, always on It's
errand of distributing the venom of en-
bryo disease
1t wasn't so long ago that the house fly
was neither known nor understood.
Screens were considered a luxury, not a
necessity; a matter of comfort, not con-
tributlon to health.
But that is not the case now. The fly
has been studied, It's habits noted, its
germ-laden body inspected through the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
Pussy's Rival.

Fights singular how those old
writer's live on and on. / can under.
stand 1t in Plutarch's case.
Fogg-Why Plutarch especially?
Figg-His lives outnumber those OF
a cat.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
since She Asked.

Sue-Don't you know, George kissed
me at the door last night twice before
| could stop him!
Mae-Gracious! What cheek!
sue-Both.-smart Set. -
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31
Two Seaside Views.

The Sentimental One-The beautiful beach was
covered with shells this morning. ,,t.r
The Practical One-Yes; it's shame to allow em
to eat peanuts down there.-Yonkers Statesman
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31

protection and breeding places.
The horsefy at first is only little
worm, wriggiing his tiny grub-like form in
some incubating pile of filth, usually the ma
nure pile, the clubhouse, or the mound Of rub.
bish or garbage in the back yard. In this
condition he is easily killed. and it should be
the duty Of every person to kill him now.
The house-fy could not exist II everything
were kept perfectly clean and sanitary. Ex
terminate the fly-worms, do away with its
breeding places, and there will be no flies.
The common house-iy is coming to be
known as the typhoid fly" and when the
term becomes universal greater care will be
exercised in protecting the house from his
presence.
Flies swallow the germs of typhoid in
countless millions while feeding ON the ex-
creta of typhoid patients. AS result they
spread thousand times more typhoid germs
in their excreta than on their feet
Flies kill greater number of human be.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18
FIGHT CANCER AND LEPRosY.

Having conquered yellow fever anu
demonstrated the value of open air
and sunlight in the treatment of tu.
berculosis, government doctors are
now working on the last stretch of the
road leading to successful fights
against cancer and leprosy, two dis
eases that have been counted incura.
Bile since the beginning of civiliza.
ton, by all peoples of all times.
The credit for the victory over vel.
low fever belongs to the army doc.
tors. Cancer seems in a fair wav m
be conquered by two doctors in the
Philippine government service. The
success had by Drs. Moses T. CIeee
Donald H. Currie, Walter r. Brinker.
hon and H. T. HOLMAN Of the Marine
hospital service points to a great
achievement in the treatment and cure
of leprosy.
While the medical profession ar
large is not ready, because of inah;l.
ity to make personal tests and ohser.
vatlons' to accept the work of Drs.
Arthur F. Coca and Philip K. Gilman
OF the Philippine government service
as conclusively proving that inocuIa'
ton is a specific for the cure of can.
Ger, army and navy doctors believe
their work will be brought to an ali.
solute success.
Drs. Coca and Gilman, in their ma.
per, tell the medical fraternity tbe
injection is made preferably within
six hours atter tho addition of one
cubic ceuumcter Of 5 per cent car,
ooiic acid 10 every ten cubic cont.
meters of the so-called vaccine If
however 1t Is reasonably certain that
contamination Of the vaccine has NOT
occurred the injection may be maSs
at once without the addition of can
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18
WEAKNESSES IN THE ARMY.

Uncle Sans soldiers should prob
| from the comment on their condition
| and abilities contained in the annual
report Of Inspector General Darlington.
The inspector points out whole bat
talon Of artillery starting for the Phil
ippines without a single field officer,
and one Of the batteries commanded
by a second lieutenant of less than two
years service.
The inspector general declares that
this absence of captains from their
commands is "the most fruitful source
of professional disease in the line of
the army today"
The time for specialization has ar
rived, in the opinion of another In
spector general.
People who think the United States
army stands at the top Of the profess
sion would be rudely Jared to learn
from Inspector General Bell that the
field army is wholly unprepared for
field service. He says the new regu-
lations are almost entirely theoretical
or dependent upon the experience of
European armies. Our transportation
Is the same as at the beginning of the
Civil war, for our army has so far
failed to make use of automobiles, trac-
ton engines and other modern appli-
ances in the field.
While our infantry" Major Bell
says, lis composed of the best mate
rial in the world, and is probably as
well If not better trained in the use
Of the rifle than that of any army,
its marching capacity is below medi-
ocrtty, and yet it Is admitted today
that the fate of the battles of the fu-
ture depends, as 1t has in the past,
upon the marching capacity of the in
fantry"
To remedy these conditions, Major
General Wood, chief Of staff, issued or
ders which will change materially the
training of the army. All inspectors
general will be required to submit the
troops to an annual inspection in the
Held in addition to the present inspec-
ton, which is described in some quar-
tiers as being little less than an In
quiry into the accounts and garrison
work of the troops. The new inspec.
ton will be designed to show the eff
ticiency of the troops in the theoret-
ical work taught army officers at the
various schools and provided for in the
various drill regulations.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18
SET HIN THINKING
Wife's Remark Had Strong Sem
blance of Truth.
Fair Sex Has No Monopoly Of cossIp
Either Harmless or Malicious
Intended Lesson That Was
Failure.

my wife," said the Louisville trav
cling salesman, as he flicked the asbas.
from his cigar and lifted big stein
to his lips, lis pretty wise woman
and brick house doesn't have to fall
on her to make her take hint"
A number of commercial men were
sitting about table in a hotel "gos.
siping about their neighbors." The
talk led to this and that and finally
to the feminine weakness for learning
about everything that is going on in
the neighborhood.
81 cured my wife of this small tall
and this gossipy stuff that women
sometimes like to indulge in" con.
tinued the man with the cigar and
the stein. when l used to come of
the road on Saturday night she would
keep me awake half the night telling
me about everything that had han
pened in the town. l decided that
must put an end to it, and / did"
How'd you do it?" three or four Of
the group inquired.
Just with this" he replied, draw
ing a card which contained four lines
of rhyme from his pocket. These
were the lines:
A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he heard the less he spoke.
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why aren't we all more like that bird?
That" continued the travelling
man, taking another pull at the stein.
did the work for her. l got hold of
these lines some place printed on a
blotter-sort of an advertising scheme
One day when she was out pinned it
on the wall in her room where she
couldn't help but see it."
What did she say about it?" one
of the men inquired.
What did she say? She gave me
frost at the breakfast table, and
when she decided to thaw out she put
me on the gridiron good and proper.
The thing she said that made me
think was that four men sitting
around a table in a barroom can in
one hour tear down more peoples
regulations than a hundred women at
an afternoon reception which started
at twelve o'clock and ended at six
p. M"
And wonder" quietly observed
one Of the men, "if your wife isn't
about ht?"-Louisville Times.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18
new SECRET FORCE
Detective Service That May Lead
Them All.
Bureau Of Investigation Which Was
Created by Uncle Sam Two Years
Ago Has Already Accom-
pllshed Many Things.

Washington.-A new secret service,
larger and more powerful because of
the latitude it is given than has been
any other such organization in the ma
ton, has within the last two years be-
come a part of the federal govern
ment Authorized to act for every
branch of the government, and to
handle all manner of cases of viola
ton Of the federal statutes, its agents
are sent to all parts Of the world. AL.
ready 1t employs more secret agents,
spends more money, performs great
er variety of service than has any
other such body of men since time be-
gan.
This new secret service is in the
department Of justice. Its province
Is to gather evidence in all manner
Of cases that this department repre-
sents before the courts. Antitrust
prosecutions, violations of the national
banking laws, and graft, bucketshop
frauds, night riding, smuggling, pc
onage, white slavery and a hundred
other counts come under its jurisdic-
ton. In the work of all the depart
ments 1t takes hold where investiga-
lions point to crime. There are in
vestigating bureaus in most of the de-
partments. These amass facts and
figures, but no evidence. The province
Of the new secret service is to pro-
cure evidence admissible in court in
any case where the government may
anDear az the nrocacutOr
New Service Created.
This work formerly was done by
Chief Wilkie of the far-famed secret
service Of the treasury department.
The province Of this service was in
the beginning to prevent counterfeit
ing. But when other departments
needed detectives they called on Chief
Wilkie because there was no other
organized detective agency in the gov
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18
Human Beings hibernate.

"The human Information that goes
ON in the Russian province of Pskoy
has a good deal of interests for scien-
t1sts," scientist said. In fact sew
eral committees will visit Pskoy this
winter to study the human hibernators
there.
These poor peasants have very little
to do in the winter and very little to
eat. So they lie down in their beds
with bottle of water and few loaves
and sleep and nibble, sleep and nibhle.
till the coming of spring.
"A man of $50 pounds will sleep
forty-eight hours, awake and take a
sip of water and a mouthful Of bread.
then fall asleep again for forty-eight
hours more. A loaf and bottle of
water will last him a fortnight. When
four months later he rises, pale and
weak, and begins to pillow the me ted
soil his $50 pounds has fallen to Ito,
but otherwise he is we'll enough. In.
deed, these Pskoy h1bernators are
noted for their longevity."-Philadel
phia Record.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18
CHAPTER XXI.

December was crisping the air when
they told Narcisse Harcourt she might
leave the hospital.
mot for any length of time, but just
for trip down town, if you WISH" said
| DR.. Fothergill. who do you want to
go with?"
I'D like you, and Mr.. Hartley" an
swered Mrs. Harcourt, frankly. Il want
to go and buy some presents for these
nurses who have been so kind to me,
and want-I want to go and see my
husband"
DR.. Fothergill telephoned for Philip
and he was there shortly before noon
as the doctor had asked. Philip had
not been able to buy new overcoat
that winter, and he felt more the Peri
outside the gate than ever, when Mrs.
| Harcourt, in her rich furs and radiant
beauty, followed the doctor into the
parlor. The months in the hospital
had worked wonders with Mrs Har-
| court. The old, unfathomable brillian-
cy had left her eyes, but there was a
sweeter, more human look within
them, and the weird alabaster tones of
her skin were replaced with a more
babyish purity of luster. She was
more woman, less a strange, unreal
phantom from another world. They
did their shopping first but curtailed it
because the crowds in the stores stop
per to gaze open mouthed at the start
ling beauty of Mrs. Harcourt, the grim
plainness of Dr. Fothergill, and Philip
Hartley's assiduous attentions to both
the ladies. Then in one department
store, some one whispered that the
woman in the luxurious furs was that
mysterious Mrs. Harcourt, you know. "
| and Phil had much ado to get both his
charges unframed into a waiting taxi
cab.
Thither they went direct to the Jail.
| Harcourt had not been told of their
| coming visit as his wife had expressly
wished it so. She went rapidly through
the dingy hall, and ratified imperious-
ly at the bars of the door, Harcourt
was sitting moodily in one corner of
the room, as had been his habit of late.
He did not heed the rustic of silken
| skirts nor the faint perfume that an
reoled his wife.
Harold" she called, Harold. oh.
Harold"
At sound of her voice he turned and
gasped. Then he rose, and like an old.
old man, walked over and thrust his
hands through the door,
"Narcisse," he faltered, and whether
1t was fear, or wonder, or admiration
in his face and voice, one could NOT
tell. Plainly he was i'll at ease.
Go be continued.)
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18

eminent service. Then as an incident
to battle between President Roose-
welt and congress the latter saw fit to
crush the old secret service. The
president had intimated that secret
service men were keeping a watchful
eye on certain representatives sus-
pected of using their positions for the
purpose of furthering their own for
tunes. The dignity of congress was
outraged. Vengeance was taken by
limiting Chief Willie to the narrow
groove of counterfeit prosecution and
creating a new service with a wider
scope than the old had ever dreamed
of. but which tacitly understood the
danger of fooling with congress buzz
saws.
Stanley w. Finch is the chief of the
new secret service, which has the Of
fetal name Of the bureau Of investi-
cation Of the department of justice.
Mr.. Finch Is young man, incisive,
alert, effective. He has a force of
nearly 200 young men, mostly law
yers, and largely college graduates,
preferably with wide experience of
the world and of business. Viola
tons of the antitrust laws form a
large part of the work of the bureau.
Only a lawyer would be able to han
die the intricacies of those investiga-
tons. Then the lawyer-detective
makes out the case so UNDERSTANDING
~ that a vast amount of detail is
saved when it is brought to trial.
| Agents Most In Demand.
The government got the death grin
on the night riders in Kentucky be-
cause of this understanding of law on
the part of one of its secret service
men. All sorts of outrages were be.
Ing committed in Kentucky because
Of the attempt of the tobacco growers
TO control the marketing of the crop
So strong was the local sentiment in
favor of this procedure that the local
courts were ineffective.
The department of justice agents
went into Kentucky and investigated
the lawlessness. Unless 1t had al
! rectly to do with interstate business
the federal government had no right
to interfere. A farmer was found who
had refused to sell through the organ
ization. Independently he had banled
his tobacco to town and had LOADED
1t for shipment to Cincinnati. The or
ganization interfered, attempted tn IN
timidate him, hauled the tobacco hail
to his barn, and finally burned if Tn
lawyer-detective grasped the no,n,
that this tobacco had been consienef
to Cincinnati and that in interferins
with its shipment the federal inter
state law had been violated. unor
this one point hung the autbortt1
through which the federal govern
ment last year crushed the NIGH
riders.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-11-18

EIext TO the lawyer the newspaper
man is the most popular individual in
the new secret service. This man has
been trained to go in and get the
facts. There are a score of old gun
men of the west in the new service,
too. These are the best men with
the six-shooter that could be found.
There are certain characteristics that
must be common to all of Finch's
force. A secret service man must al
ways be inconspicuous. There are
none of the handsome, fine and strap
ping sort of men in this work. The
secret agent must remain unknown,
must be lost in the crowd. But with
this unobstrusiveness there must be
cleverness. Without seeming to OBJ
serve the detective must see all, must
be bulldog for tenacity and forceful
in emergency.
Early Results.
For the maintenance of this force
congress last year appropriated $685.
900 for the protection, prevention and
prosecution of crime" For the de
lection, prevention and prosecution OF
infringements of the antitrust law"
an additional 100000 was appropriate
ed. Such sums Of money as this were
never dreamed of by the old secret
service, the appropriation for which
was $4,000.
Already the new service is getting
results. 1t was this force that pro-
duced the evidence that convicted
Charles W. Morse Of New York and
John r. Walsh of Chicago of viola
lions of the national banking law. 1t
was this organization that unearthed
the plot on the part of United States
citizens to start a revolution in Mex
leo. The recent bankruptcy frauds in
Alabama were exposed by the same
body of men, as were the land frauds
of Alaska, and the bucket shop frauds
that have led to the arrest of score
OF men. some of them millionaires