The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Englishman Brings $4,000 of
Worthless Notes to the
American Consul
ENGLAND BUYING
MANY AEROPLANES
British Admiralty Now Making Up
for Lost Time in Choosing Air
ship as Weapon of War.
Building Naval Stations

London, October n.-Evidenee frequent-
ly crops up that the Confederate bills that
came to England during and after the
Civil war are far from exhausted, but it
is seldom that anyone is asked to cash
$1,000 worth of them.
This occurred a few days ago to an Of
fetal of the American embassy Two
members of family, the head of .whcih
had recently died. called to ask whether
the embassy would not give them En-
glish money for 10 $500 Confederate bills,
which had been found among the effects
of the deceased and which the family
thought were of the value indicated on
their face. Great was the disappointment
when the official pointed out that the bills
were of no value, except as curiosity.
Petty swindlers often attempt to pass
Confederate bills of small denomination
on unsuspecting tradespeople and the po-
lice of London have frequently to deal
with them. 1t is very seldom. however,
that the old money turns up in such large
amounts as 5000 at time.
Pauperism Decreasing in England
Thanks to the present industrial pros
perity and old age pensions, pauperism
is at lower ebb in Great Britain today
than it has been for some years past.
Early this year the total number of pau
pers in England and Wales was under
100000, as compared with $4,000 four
years ago The number of paupers per
1000 of the population. which was 27 four
vars ago, Is now less than %.
J. Herbert Lewis, parliamentary secre-
tary to the local government board, who
gave these figures in his presidential adj
dress to the poor law conference, said
there were many influences which brought
about the reduction, but he gave first
place to old age pensions, which had re-
duced old age pauperism among the out
door poor to a very small figure.
| One of the great aims at present was
| that children should be removed from
| the poor houses. Already something had
been done in this direction, and in Eng
| land and Wales for every two children in
these institutions there were about five
children receiving relief from the munich
pality while boarded out in families.
Radium as Cancer Cure
Middlesex hospital reports remarkable
| improvement in several cases of cancer
| treated by radium One of the surgical
staff, describing the results obtained
| said: I'VE do not maintain that we have
cured these cases by radium. What We
have done Is to cause growths proved
microscopically to be cancerous to dis
! appear In a truly astounding way unde
the radium rays"
The records of three cases are given
In the first a man with a large cancer
blocking up the back of the nose ant
| throat had lost all sense of smell, coulC
not breathe through the nose, and wa.
| deaf in the right ear. A platinum tubs
containing 50 milligrams of radium wa.
/ embedded in the tumor and left in posi-.
| ton for. u hours. Five days later tht
| growth had shrunk perceptibly, and the
| sense of smell and ability to breathe
| through the nose were regained. Aftel
| three weeks treatment no trace of the
growth could be found, the man regained
his hearing. and he was discharged ap-
parently cured
| Another patient a woman suffering
| from a large abdominal cancer, is still
under treatment, but has also improved
wonderfully. In this case the platinum
| tube containing IA milligrams of radium
was embedded in the tumor and left for
"a hours. In 12 days the woman had
gained % pounds and the cancer had
shrunk to half its former size.
The third patient. man suffering from
cancer on the back of the tongue was
similarly treated and three weeks later
no signs of the growth could be observed
and the man was discharged apparently
cured except for the presence of two or
three secondarily involved glands about
the collar-bone.
A great drawback to the work is the
lack of radum, of which the hospital has
but 144 milligrams.
Many surgeons in London treat these