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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Progress of Surgery Makes
Limbs interchangeable.
Feat Will Be Accompiishe~ Within
Short Time, Declares Or. Victor
D. Lespinasse-Much Difficulty
in Finding Patient.

Chicago.-"Surgery has made such
rapid strides in the last year that
confidently expect the grating of
arms and legs on human beings will
be accomplished within short time"
This was the striking declaration of
DR.. Victor d. Lepinasse of the medical
staff of Northwestern university, to-
day.
Through a series of operations at
the medical college, which included
the saving of an infants life during
the last week by TRANSMISSION. DR.. Les
pinasse has attained worldwide fame
as specialist in repairing diseased
tissues. He Is the discoverer of the
system of linking arteries together by
the use of rings of magnesium.
The one thing that has stood in
the way of the successful grating Of
limbs" continued the specialist. us
to obtain subjects willing to make the
sacrifice to the cause of science. No
one is willing to give up a perfectly
good leg or arm to another man who
has lost his. The grated limb must
be alive, of course, to make the oper-
alton successful There are a score
Of different conditions which must be
met before the operation can be at
tempted.
Il believe that some physician soon
will meet all the conditions and make
a success of II.
More than year ago We attempt
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
LEG is GRATED ON

ed limb grating on animals. The
arteries were knitted together and the
blood circulated freely. We did not
have a single dealt The animals are
alive now.
If this operation is successful with
animals. there Is no reason why
human beings cannot be mended in
the same way.
For example, a railroad wreck oc-
ours and an arm of victim is sew
cred. II he is rushed to the hospital
in time the severed limb may be
grated back without danger. 1t
would be practically impossible to get
another man to give up his arm to re-
place the severed member. This IL
about the only thing in the path of
this triumph of surgery.
Although the saving of an infants
life by TRANSMISSION is not a common
operation, It has been performed sue
cessfully a number of times. Last
week a fathers arm was bound to
that Of his child aud the baby was
saved. 1t is merely feat Of joining
the arteries together; the joining of
dismembered limbs would be no more
difficult"
In proof Of his statements the doc
tor has photographs of a number of
dogs with grated legs. The livers had
been removed and reunited in some
of the dogs. Several OF the animals
are travelling on the grated legs.
DR.. Lepinasse's fame is based chief
ly on his discovery of the magnesium
rings for binding arteries He says
the old method Of stitching is unsuc-
cessful because of the formation of
blood clots.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
TO CURE INSOMNIA

self over to childish. light-hearted
amusements. II he feels depressed he
should force himself to outward mer-
riment
"All men who work hard all day
should devote this ten minutes to fool
cry. They should be as mad as they
can be without exhausting themselves
too much.
Il know of one man who used to re-
cite Lewis Carroll's You Are Old,
Father William. and then turn a
somersault before getting into bed.
Il don't suppose he did 1t every
night, but that man had the right
spirit-and he slept like top till
morning.
IF you feel weighed down with
cares and needless worries just take
my advice and waltz lightly round the
room with an imaginary partner.
Afterwards imagine you are a
small boy, say Presto!' turn a somer-
sault, and climb into bed. Once in
bed. hum bars of any music that &C.
ours to you, so that it be cheerful
music.
"Foolery has great cheering and
sedative effect on the mind of tired
man. Insomnia patients should give
my cure serious trial. 1t will sweep
cares from the mind for few min
utes. and before they come back you
are asleep
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

A French paper is conducting vot-
ing contest for the purpose Of decid-
ing what in the opinion of a majority
II its readers are the virtues most to
Se desired in women. Each reader IL
requested to name ten virtues. So far
sixty virtues have been named. The
FIRST seven have always been at the
top Of the poll since the beginning Of
the ballot. in the following order:
Goodness. orderliness, devotion. thrift,
gentleness. intelligence and amiabil-
fty. 1t Is noted that will power comes
twenty-fourth In the list. which is Q
long way down. considering that devo-
ton Is third. and which indicates that
not q few Of the voters are men.
However. the virtue of meeknsss is
the sixtieth and last in the list. and
has received only So votes. while the
votes for the first three in the list
ranged between 1900 and $4,000.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
SHARES Monster Lobster.

New York.-Biggest among the fine
Holsters caught in many day at
Bermuda was that shared by William E.
Leavitt, who forthwith gave his
friends at the st. George hotel. on
the island. real feast of the epicur-
can variety.
Mr.. Leavitt's monster lobster was
caught In wire pot. If 1t had pos
sessed claws like the Holsters caught
anywhere around New York there
might have been trouble before the
crustacean was landed safe and sound
in pot on the hotel range, but as
the Bermuda Holsters are without the
wicked grab hooks no one was
pinched.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

One man asserts that blondes are
going out Of fashion and that big feet
for women are coming in. The critics
OF the sex win Immediately seize
upon these facts. especially the latter,
to prove that women are walking too
much over tradition and conservatism
in their campaign for more rights.
thus sacrificing fair complexion and
small feet.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Dance Hornpipe, Whistle, Sing
and Do Anything mad"
English Doctor Declares Few Minutes
Of eoIsterousness just Before Co
Ing to Bed VIII Act ~ .
Sleep Producer.

London.-Dance a hornpipe, whistle,
sing and do anything mad" you can
think of ten minutes before going to
bed-if You would sleep soundly and
well.
Be a. merry as you can during that
ten minutes- Make faces at yourself
in a glass. waltz your way upstairs,
and conclude with a lively two-step
and, II you are an athlete, somer-
sault ON the bedroom carpet.
These were some of the ideas given
by well-known doctor as a remedy
for insomnia
Just about this time many people
are suffering from sleeplessness. In
one case man. who ordinarily sleeps
soundly the whole night through. has
scarcely slept a wink for the past four
or five days.
"Sleeplessness is probably a COM
mon ailment at the present time ow-
ing to the frequent changes of wealth
err" said the doctor whose views are
given above.
Much, however. depends upon the
individual temperament and ones
state of health. Political excitement
may account for insomnia among
many people.
"As for rerS edies for sleeplessness.
l do not believe in the many serious
cures which are offered by well-mean-
ing doctors and others to the public.
Sufferers are advised to do Swedish
drill or other exercises before going to
bed, and then. when between the
sheets. to add up colossal sums. count
innumerable imaginary sheep jumping
visionary gates and work out anagrams.
+ MY views are quite different. For
ten minutes before going to bed a
man should, in my opiniop give him.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

Atlantic City is getting very moral.
Not content with regulating bathing
suits. the solons have now decreed
that no oyster may go through the
streets without having all its shell on.
1t seems. however. that walters have
been carrying the lucious bivalve In
the open exposed to various germs;
and the provision Of the health author
tiles is to be regarded as a sanitary
precaution and not another act of
prudery.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

Ohio has more colleges than any
other state. 1t requires special en-
deavor to raise one institution into
fame above its rivals, when SO many
exist The boys of West Lafayette
college achieved this distinction by
putting oil into the milk of the girls
dormitory. Twenty girls were made
violently Ill. Some day civilization
will be SO general that it will exist
even among college students.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Tips Net Fortune for Maid.

New York--With a fortune she &C
CURED on tips received in the three
and one-half years she served as maid
in the women's parlor at the Hotel st.
Regis. Miss Helen Wollan. % years old.
has said goodby to New York She
left for Europe and will make her
future home with her mother in
Vienna. She saved $4,000 in the time
she was employed at the ST. Regis.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

DR.. Wiley, the government authority
on pure foods. makes a doleful indict.
ment Of the American people. He says
we eat too much, drink too much.
work too much. sleep too much, loaf
too much and take medicine too much.
Would the doctor admit that some of
as talk too much? If so, could he do
1t without q self-conscious blush?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Eagle Drops on Vessel.

San Francisco.-Exhausted after q
long fight of several days in the wake
of the transport Buford, an American
eagle dropped aboard that vessel at
a point nearly 100 miles on the Aleu-
tian islands.
The bird was thoroughly spent from
the long journey, and members of the
troop ship experienced no difficulty In
capturing 1t.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

1t Is announced by an English sci
enlist that our winters will gradually
get warmer during the next 400 years,
but he warns US that after the year
1894 there will be a change for the
worse. Let US by all means enjoy the
sunshine while we may.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

A Philadelphia preacher announces
that summer resorts are the startins
places Of disagreements leading to d.
vorce. 1t is not likely that his decla
ration win have a serious effect upon
the summer resort business
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

Are adopted children ever comfortf
Several years ago we laid our little daugh-
ter to rest and then our little son also
passed away. God only knows the pain of
parting and loneliness.
Some months ago we went to an orphan
asylum and took little girl not quite two
years old. Our home has changed since
then. The child has crept into our hearts
and leaves no room for sadness.
Trouble? Yes, Of course; but she is
ten times more pleasure than trouble.
When we contemplated taking baby
nur friande told no MO did rok l-r,o.-r .rl.,.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

Strange. isn't IT. how the tired bust.
ness man will perk up and take a
brighter view of life In the afternoon
as the hands of the clock approach
the hour of three-that is. when 1t lie
not raining and the baseball team is
in town.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Boy at School Every Day.

Franklin. Pa.-Lewis Ely, who grad
uated from the Franklin high school.
never missed even half day during
the Is years of his school life. He
was publicly commended by the school
officials.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

The automobile mile record is now
25.40 seconds. and the locomotive is
distanced. The aeroplane may, how.
ever. become a competitor.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

The human tongue the only instrument that does
with constant
Honesty may the best policy but the who adopts pol
icy will bear watching.
think of their should get DRUM
and make a of himself?
Diamonds ground in diamond DUST chastened
the grit Of our experience
people have of propey Gagged rooste
that in front of meat market
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

Many people Of many minds go to build
this busy world. The writer is acquainted
with many excellent people who have the
average amount of brotherly love. who
could scarcely be called spitefhl or narrow,
who are as free from rancor and spleen as
anyone (none of us is perfect), and yet
they are intensely annoyed by the many
unnecessary noises made by their thought
less neighbors.
Because person admires the bowling
of worthless cur or the Growing of that
800 a. m. nuisance, the rooster, it does
not necessarily follow that every one must
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Every
Knock
Boost for
Better
Things
Ii. w. wINESAP
Buffalo. N. r.

be overoyed by these demonstrations Do have
them do unto but don't wdde thumbs and believe you
KICK coming when the noise breeders try to rub into you
The kicker the crank and the generally have
been responsible for nnenne onehunddhs all
the living conditions the world history repeats daily
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Much Joy
Found in
Adopted
Child

well off and that people that did
foolish put their foot into it. and forth But when my puts
her around neck and mamma feel repaid trouble
worry be- My husband also loves though we're our
Moreover have friends in Ohio that have adopted girls
and know that they would also advise any likewise
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

A framed-up excuse is sure to be poor
one.
Heroes often come Of unsupported ma
terial.
Those who speak as they think should
think before they speak.
A self-satisfed man is merely case Of
arrested development.
The shining shield of virtue turns aside
many poisoned shaft.
Experience often comes in wholesale
lots, but we always pay the retail price.
A good beginning may be half the bait
tie. but a good ending is the whole thing.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
is worth while to econoI

Certainly IS The teachers professors statements are
convincing proof it. The he has result OF his
ing much whatever its buying capacity be- whether
property building materials have down. And when per-
son has $4,000 he with his experience saving and investing very
easily In few years get another $4,000
One great fnncie said long that it hard
est to the first $1,000
that the good teacher professor discouraged because
could not for build the house which he and his wife had planned
for But according his statement the planning OF
that house the handspring the saving of that large amount he
has, And BESIDES it has them happy hours But
build fine and comfortable house, with every modern
ence for $4,000 An unacounae number of myself for
would be than glad had that with which build
home.
Both Chicago and elsewhere have houses and good looking
and comfortable they have bn that have than the amount
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

the teacher says he has
But if one has that sum to start with he can
easily borrow more even $4,000, if he believes
he ought to have home costing 80 much. Having
his own home and the habit Of saving it ought to be
comparatively easy to pay loan on the house
Certainly it is worth while to save money. The
teachers professors letter is conclusive and
convincing proof of it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15

Great Poet Saw the Light.
The drying up Of a singl. tear has
more of honest fame than shedding
seas Of gore.-Byrop-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-15
Saving
Money
Gives Some
People Many
Happy Hours
By p. EVAN JONES. Chicago

ONE days ago read letter from teacher professor IN
town small city who asked if it is worth while to save
money He had during eight ten saved and invested
that he had about $4,000 His object in saving was to
build home for himself and his family During these years
of edenia the lot which he intended to build had gone
up value from 5000 $1,000 and the house that he and
his wife had planned to build for $4,000 would now cost
$S000 Because of this the teacher professor asked IL
is worth while to economic and money.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
What Two New States Mean.

The changes to be made by the
expected early admission of Arizona
and New Mexico in the Union are
thus summarized by the Boston
Globe:
For the first time in the memory
ofliving men it will leave no terri
tories within the compact area from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, although
Hawaii is territory and Alaska, the
Panama canal zone, Porto Rico, and
the Philippines are dependencies.
The membership of the senate will
be raised from 90 to 96, and as both
states are likely to elect Democratic
senators the margin of Republican
control will be reduced to about four
in the upper branch.
The total electoral vote for 1912
will be increased by six votes, max
ing it 43l votes with 266 necessary
for choice.
From all of which it can be seer
that the admission of New Mexico
and Arizona will have more than 8
local effect.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
The Spirit of the Age
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT
Making Toys in Weston.

Frank e. Green of Healdville ie
working l.700 acre tract of timber
in Weston where forty men are en-
ployed. The woods used are mainly,
beech. birch and maple. Crate
stock is being shipped at the rate OF
$4,000 week. Chair stock, turned
finished as the best trade demands,
is being shipped in large quantities
to Gardner, Mass and Nother points.
Among the toys made are drum
sticks, ten-pins, table legs, diminu-
tive bowls and barrels, and other
things which help to make the juven-
lies happy. The mill is now work
ing on an order for 100000 drum
sticks. Then another order calls
for 100000 tenNpins, and balls.
Still another order which calls for
so, 900 table legs is getting attention;
The toy stock is shipped to Win
chester.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
WOODSTOCK NEWSl
Mill Horses in an Odd Acciden,

The old raceway in the rear of the
Woodward factory building caved in
and swallowed up pair of g. w.
Marbles mill horses last Saturday
afternoon, and they were extricated
only with much difficulty. Tim race
way runs, six or eight feet below the
surface of the ground, for some dis
tance through the mill yard and
under the big stone storehouse, and
is covered with stone except for about
twenty feet of it's length, where loge
were used.
The team was backing up to a
basement door in the storehouse
when the rotting logs and loose earth
gave way and the horses went down
tail first, the soft earth closing in
around them up to their ears and
holding them there in a sitting pos
ture, like trick mules at real circus,
though the situation didn't seem so
mighty humorous to them or to their
owner.
With shovels and ropes the help
less pair were finally released. One
came out of the ground in good
shape, but the other suffered some
what and may be permanently in
jured.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16

During the Bath annual meeting
of the American Bar Association,
held in Boston last month, following
the 2lst Congress of Commissioners
on Uniform State Laws, Wallace
Batchelder. commissioner from Yer
mont, who had sat in the 2lst con-
gress, was elected member of the
general council of the American Bar
Association. Mr.. Batchelder was
also elected member of the Ameri-
can Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology, and was appointed a
member of the executive board of
that institute.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
Vermont Horse Wins $40,
900 Purse.

In the $4,000 handicap for trot-
ters at the fair of the Clinton County
Agricultural society at Plattsburg,
Friday afternoon, Johnnie Medium,
b. g owned by F. P. Land of Bar
ton, came ia first, while another
Vermont horse. The Princess, b. M,
entered by the Forest Park farm OF
Brandon, secured fourth place.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
Work on Bethel Railroad.

The Bethel Granite railroad has
ten men at work on three or four
months job, filing the high tres
ties on it's route, between the Ellis
and Woodbury. quarries.
The Woodbury. Granite company
has begun to operate. it's stone
crusher which makes road material
which is finding ready market.
About $50 tons day is the product
of the plant.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
Old Times in Barnard.

There has been much written con-
cerning the sound of the caunons Of
the Battle of Bunker Hill, June IL,
1775, reaching the hills of Barnard.
says the Barnard correspondent OF
the Randolph Herald Such has been
published for many years, and
though many may doubt, yet stu
dents in the world of science are
more than formerly inclined to re-
ceive it. Barnard is about las
miles from Boston. With favora-
BILE wind and atmospheric conditions
the same, it may not seem incredi-
BILE.
Col. Albert H. Hoyt in 1901 wrote !:
II would say that on my visits to my
maternal grandfather. Thomas Free.
man at Barnard, VT, in my boyhood
days, repeatedly heard him state
that he and his elder brother and
their father, and likewise their hired
man, heard distant cannonading on
the 18th of June, l775 They first
heard the sounds when they were
lying on the ground and in the act
of drinking from spring Of water.
The Freemans with the Newtons and
others we're among the very first set
tiers in Barnard, having removed
from the Plymouth Colony in
March. l775." Colonel Hoyt under
stands that the Diary of President
Wheelock of Dartmouth college also
mentions the fact of his hearing the
cannonading. and within week
writing ofits confirmation by travel
ers from Boston.
The Rev. Joshua w Wellman,
D. D., Maiden. Mass, also says that
his great-uncle, Colonel James Rip
ley of Cornish. N. H.. writes his sis
ter in 1921 concerning his settle
ment in Cornish I'VE arrived in
Cornish on the 18th of June, l775.
On the 18th the sound of cannon
fired at Bunker, Hill Numbered
through our woods"
These notes are attached to biog-
raphy of the late Rev. II. A. Hazen,
D D., in pages OF New England His
torical and Genealogical Register,
July, 1901, who was born in Hart
ford, VT, in 1882, and in whose
family, from his grandfather, Thomas
Hazen. a pioneer in Hartford, the
tradition was straight and clear
Here are records from three indie
pendent sources of hearing the
sounds of cannon of Bunker Hill
There may be other references some
where, in ancient diaries. Barnard
is not alone in thus claiming the
honor. Colonel Hoyt and the Rev
Dr. Wellman are still living in Bos
ton and Maiden, Mass.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
Good Reason.

A young Boston lawyer who is go
ing to be married met another young
lawyer who was married away last
year on the street Thursday evening
They exchanged Fluctuations and In
quiries.
"The only thing that bothers me-
explained the about to be happy man
lis the subject of expense OF course
I'm not plunging into this thing with
my eyes shut. but
"Now, look here" interrupted the ex-
perienced benedick. 'T'll tell you an
absolute fact. don't spend half the
money l did before l was married"
You don't?' exclaimed the other
"How do you work that?'
II don't have 1t to spend. Boston
Traveller.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-09-16
Elre chief. Of Now York cltx.

John B. Kenlon, recently commits
stoned chief of New York city's fre
lighting force, won his position as tho
result of a competitive civfl service
examination. He succeeds Edward
Croker, for many years chief and con-
sidered one of the foremost fire fight
ers In the world.
The new chief is a native of Dublin.
Ireland, and is ffty-one years old.
When he was fourteen years old he
went to sea and sailed on merchant