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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15
Mending Broken Bones with Rugs

%ATGUT woven in the form OF little
rug with long fringed ends is the
newest method for holding the ends
OF fractured bone in place until they
have had time to knit together.
The rug is woven on a hand loom, the
gut first being wet so it can be woven
more closely. 1t IS made Just a little
shorter than the circumference OF the
bone and tho fringed ends are used to tie
1t around the injured member just as you
would a splint.
Experiments with these catgut rugs oil
a number OF dogs have shown them to
be superior to any other kind of splints in
the treatment Of fractures. When the
i.scture Is mended the catgut is not re-
moved but is allowed to remain and be-
come absorbed by the flesh. In number
of cases the absorption was so complete
that by the end OF three weeks not trace
of the splint could be seen.
BY an ingenious method Of weaving only
two sizes OF the rugs are needed for the
treatment OF fractures, in the human body
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15

infants would swarm from the mothers
back and shift for themselves.
This process may be spectacularly in
augurated by sudden vibration of the
ground, causing the parent to jump
then a riot of the spiderlings swarms
over the ground. An additional camera
was trained into the field, for once the
dispersal takes place, all is over and the
little spiders are gone The critical time.
when the youngsters appeared uneasy.
arrived on n humid evening, when n
heavy electrical storm was breaking The
rectillers for the mercury vapor lamps
were already giving some trouble as the
cameras were adjusted.
With the cameras running, the metal
stand containing the spider arena was
vibrated by a steel ball dropped upon it
and the spider family departed 10 all
points of the compass, This was an
event we had anXiously awaited, and
luck appeared to be with the photogra-
pher AS the electrician prepared 10
throw out the main switch and exting,lish
The illuminating batteries, lightning fol
lowed the feed wires into the studio
and gave. us weeks work repairing
Dnrned-out parts. But tho history Of the
spider family was completed, minus Il
few feet OF film to show the exit OF the
more laggard members.
So many OF the insects are tiny. al.
most microscopic creatures. and so many
Of them perform their characteristic ca.
pers i'll inaccessible places, that the
value OF greatly enlarged motion picture
portrayals opens previously impossible
opportunities for studio and observations
in tho school room. BY these methods
students ARE enabled to see habits the
greater number Of them would never in
any other way observe. Not one child
in million has seen the katydid sing
ing: the proving maptis rear in frightful
pose, grasp and deyour fly; the toilette
OF gaudy srasshopper as she carefully
brushes pollen dust from her face. or the
spider, presented as terrific monster
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15
A Horned Toad About to Devour
an Unwary Cricket.

and seen upon the screen as the fly sees
this terrible enemy OF the insect legions
To induce web-spnning spiders to con-
struct nurseries it was necessary to
build cases painted black inside, make
the spider feel at home by keeping her
quiet for some time, feeding her and
giving her water, when she usually
hatched her young, spun her nursery and
stood guard over it. Then the case was
placed upon the Photographic table, the
camera adjusted and cruel deed per-
formed. The photographer destroyed
the silken nursery, removed the tam
gled ruin while the baby spiders ran
frantically about their distracted mother
who Immediately started the construc-
ton OF a new and generally more elab-
crate nursery; and while she was doing
this and her infants were being rein
stalled the camera was steadily clicking
away, 10 later tell the story on the pro-
iccting screen.
To photograph the katydid singing by
scraping Of its wings was difficult
matter. This insect sings only at night
light Of any kind will stop it. Yet to !
photography singing specimen at night
meant that stream Of powerful electric
light must be turned upon the songster
The deed was done in a grove of young
oaks close to the studio. Several dozen
katydids were placed in the trees, and {
the camera, OH a high tripod, focused on
the vegetation Of a tree in the centre of
the grove. The instrument, with special
long focus lens, was to record the moye-
ment OF a single insect that watched all
proceedings, but remained silent owing
10 our close arrangements with the ma
chimes. The camera was then belted to
small motor, so that no operator would
stand by the instrument to disturb the
insect. y searchlight. such as is used in
the navy, was then trained on the single
tree in which reposed the actor, its pow.
eriul rays making photography posi-
bic. With the remainder OF the grove III
darkness the decby katydids sang vigor-
ously. In the intense beam OF violet
light this musician Of nature was seen
turning slowly.
Was 1t irritated by the light and
would it crawl from the lines of focus?
This would mean much labor in moy-
ing the heavy apparatus in what seemed
fruitless and costly experiment. But
its uneasiness was caused by the saucy
taurts Of the decoys. Its wings were ele-
waited slightly. It could not resist an
swerinS some of those rasping calls. The
man behind the searchlight could be
seen glistening with perspiration as ne
led the carbon OF the great arc light
me writer's fingers were upon tha
switch of the camera motor Then the
insects wings began TO rhythmically
move and another chant was added To
the chorus OF "Katydid. katydidn't"--and
so 1t continued until the picture was
taken. And now this picture may be
seen by thousands OF children who never
knew how insects Sing
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15
A Turtle About to Breakfast Upon Frog

body is suddenly eontorted in S-shaped
loops, and the enraged serpent is seen to
hurl himself forward with the yehemence
and precision OF a suddenly released steel
spring. One might fear the monster has
jumped off the screen into the audience.
Actually, the venomous reptile had thus
hurled himself at Mrs. Dtmars, who had
been working the camera when this pic
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15

wanted the snake to rear and pose. COM
ing to the elevated stage she hicked
handkerchief at the reptile, which reared
to meet her.
1t struck a..d posed again, then darted
with such force as to slide from the plat
form and fall almost at my wife's feet.
| reached forward TO swing her away, but
she had jumped upon the housing OF an
electrical coil and the snake darted away
under her feet sending the electrician
rushing through the door to safety. IT
will take sCme time to forget that tragic
moment, but Mrs. Ditmars thus prepared
n scene that may never again be dupli-
Gated. When the film was screened the
cobra appeared to literally darkcn the
auditorium with the spread OF his omnous
hood, while the terrible head with the
CLASSY eyes looked down in malignant fash
ion. And then the creature, with an cN-
preston of blind fury--strikes. 1t is that
stroke that placed my wifc's life in deadly
peril, and give her all credit for this
wonderful delincation of reptilian anger.
With many scenes in which excessively
tinld animals are involved my wife and
go about the work alone. Things often
move swiftly, and we feel that any adli-
tional help would be more OF him
drance than q benefit. In the illumination
OF mercury vapor, we were taking 81 scene
that Illustrated the moonlight prowlings
Of the lance-head snake, the lethal fangs
OF which cause many fatalities among the
sugar plantations OF tropical America. A
providing animal Is supposed to alarm the
snake.
AT first there is but slight movement
OF the diamond-shaped heab the 1.-the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15

MIS-. DltmnrS had been
watching the operation from
the far end of the studio.
where we entrcated her 10
remain. Tho sorciy frightened
camera operator was manipu-
lnting the Instrument about
fifteen feet from the cobra.
THE CLASSY stare of that
snake is positively uncanny.'
said Mrs. Ditnars. How
wonderful it would be il the
camera could look him
straight in the eye and pic
ture him rs i see linn now."
Her advice was. followed.
We put Oh auto goggles to
protect oar eyes from III,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15

sprayed poison. The
camera was focused
upon Il spot not four
feet away, then belt
cd to an electric mo-
tor. With Il long
pole we slid the
snake before the ma
chine and commenr-
ed To photograph.
Mrs. Ditmars WIS
nor safisfind She
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-15

Curator of Reptiles at the New York
Geological Park.
TdERE are many traits in animal
life that parallel the events OF
- the human race. There is muc,,
humor, pathos and tragedy in Nature that
would fill a vast book that has not yet
been written. IT. vas upon this field 81
wild life that | determined TO point the
moving picture camera and show animals
as they actually live, play and die.
The mind of The scientific man may
grasp the scope of his field, but it needs
a more sympathetic mind to search for
inspirations in work like this Mrs. Dit
mars has voiced many ideas in the com.
pletion OF these pictures and has spent
many hours in the seething lights OF the
studio. exposed to the various dangers
In the handling of wild animals AMI
poisonous reptiles. l remember one in
stance in particular where my wife fu".
nished the inspiration for an especially
startling scene, that the observer could
see in but one way--and remain alive
and that is upon the motion picture
screen. We were filming the deadly ring
necked cobra. species that spits it's
venom toward the eyes of the intruder.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29
KILLS HORSES
Sphinx County Tenant Farmer Makes
Crude Attempt to Blk In
Company.

Redfield, June 29.-George Han
son, a tenant farmer living near Tu-
lare, in Sphinx county, is now lodged
in the county Jail al Redfeld to an
swer to a charge of having destroyed
mortgaged property. A few days ago
Milligran Brothers of this place, state
agents for a hail and lightning insur-
ance company, received word from
Hanson hat ten horses on which he
carried policies, had been struck by
lightning.
The adjuster employed by the in
surance company was sent to look up
the loss. Hanson took the adjuster
to the corner of the pasture where
the horses were alleged to have been
struck by lightning, and said he had
dragged the bodies to a sand pit over
a mile away. The adjuster could dis
cover no signs to indicate that horses
had been dragged that distance, and
upon going to the sand pit he found
the horses had all been shot through
the head, each of them having be I'll
shot and killed in the pit where they
were found. Hanson, confronted by
the evidence. confessed after a long
session with the Sphinx county Off
Gals, admitting that he had killed
the horses in order to secure the in
surance money.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29

''Villa does not want the prssi@
dency for himself. He told us once
that he was too ignorant to handle
the affairs of a new republic which
must go through the regeneration
period. He depends upon n of his
generals, Ferro, Ortegala or Madero,
brother of the former president, to
fill the presidents chair, the latter
being the most likely and capable for
that position. any n of the three
will carry out Villas plans with ref
erence to the new republic-temper-
ance, education, religious liberty, po-
litical liberty, justice and peace"
Powell is thoroughly reliable. He
has his official discharge from Gen
villa reading: The bearer, Mr.
William Powell. has been employed
by the constitutionalist army during
the last three years as gunner, and
| has been under my command since
June g., 1913. / highly recommend
| him as to his honesty and bravery
| tSigned) Gen. Francisco Villa, Inter
%ventor. April 5, 1914" The dis
| charge bears the seal of the treasury
department of the constitutionalists
army.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29

struck young Wiens in the breast in
such a tanner that il was DETECTED
by a bone.
Pierre-The government is finding
trouble TO secure bids for carrying
mail on the star routes which cover a
number of inland towns in the coun-
try west of the Missouri. The trou-
BILE appears TO be that the merchants
at the small towns use the parcels
post for bringing i'm most of their
freight, and the carriers who know
the situation fear a loss if they bid
at a figure which the government will
accept. On the basis which the car
riers think is safe, the government
refuses TO let the contracts, holding
the figures to be excessive.
Fedora-As the result OF a special
election held here and throughout
Clinton township. it was decided by
an almost unanimous vote that the
town and township should make an
experiment in school Capitalization.
The proposition before the voters was
the consolidation of the various
schools of the town and township in
to one school, to be situated in Fee
dora. Steps will at once be taken to
have erected here a new public school
building of sufficient capacity to ac-
commodate the pupils of the town
and township. Provision will be
made for conveying pupils from a
distance to the consolidated school.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29
STATE NEWS

Pieffc-The state pardon board
has recommended clemency for Eliza
M. Bell and Logan Dotson, sent from
Lawrence county on second degree
forgery charges.
Iroquois-The contract has been
awarded for the erection of what
will be known as the Farmers and
Merchants bank, Masonic lodge and
Liddle store building block. II will
be one of the most costly business
blocks ever erected in Iroquois and
will be a credit to the business dis
trict.
Colome - Frank Zimmerman, a
rancher living near here, saved the
life of his son and a neighbor boy
after they had become exhausted
while swimming in a large and deep
pond on the Zimmerman farm. The
father reached the scene just in time,
having heard the drowning boys
cries for help.
Sturgis-Frank w. Shaw, age As,
died very suddenly Saturday morning
of apoplexy. He was assistant cash
Ter of the Commercial National bank
OF Sturgis for nearly eleven years.
He was a member of the Masonic and
Workmen orders and was present at
q meeting Of the latter Friday night.
The funeral was held Sunday.
Iroquois-During a visit here Of
ficers of the Dakota Central Tele-
phone company. which recently pur-
chased the local system, announced
that the system would be extensive
ly improved and extended. The poles
Of the system will be removed from
the chief business street and placed
In the alleys. A 24-hour service will
be given in future.
Summit-On July / Summit will
take its place among the dry" towns
OF the state, in accordance with the
result OF the annual municipal cleo
ton in April. The saloons will go
put of existence in the evening of
June 30. The temperance element
will organize for the purpose Of pre-
venting the illegal sale of liquor after
the saloons go out of business.
Freeman-By a bone in the breast
Of Henry Wiens. a boy of this place,
detecting a bullet the boys life was
saved. Himself and a boy compan-
Ion were examining a rifle which they
believed to be unl0aded. In some
manner the weapon which was load
Cd was discharged and the bullet
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29

April Fools day he sailed for Rotter-
dam, and In due course, according to
arrangements, married his childhood
sweetheart, Edwina Haarlyen. They
took passage on the Uranium, plan
ming to go as straight as possible 10
.Danbury.
At Halifax Otto went ashore and
failed to get back to the steamship in
time for the sailing. The bride was
met in New York by Karl Van Warpf,
her husbands brother, who was UNI
able to overcome the young woman's
suspicious that she had been trified
with. After a few days, spent prin-
cipally in tears, she sailed on the
Principello expressing herself strong
ly on the subject of Otto's conduct.
Her ship had not passed the Mar
| rows when a taxicab dashed up to the
| pier with Otto hanging out of the
| window and demanding the liner be
| stayed. He had taken the next boat
| out of Halifax. and Karl had met him
| with tidings of Edwina's departure.
Van Warpf planned to take the
| Potsdam, the next boat sailing for
Rotterdam, but convivial friends,
| who accompanied him to the pier, in
| sisted upon his taking a Hoboken
| stirrup cup. and he missed this ship
too. The game friends fortified him
| against strong or sudden emotion
and boosted him aboard the liner
| Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm just before
the gangplank was lifted.
Who was the man who danced out
on the pier, franctically waving a
~Icablegram, as the liner started down
the river? 1t was Karl Van Warpf,
and the cablegram was from Mrs.
otto. She had concluded hat she
had judged her husband hastily, and
the cable said she vas sailing back to
IAmerica on the George Washington.
Mrs. Van Warpf arrived recently
and found that the Atlantic was still
between her and her husband. Then
came a %cablegram from him, saying
he had borrowed funds and was
labout to start back.
When Otto arrived on the Uranium
fate still deferred the reunion. KarI
Ivan Warpf and his sister-in-lav
Preached the pier too late for the
landing. There were dents in the
pier, which Mrs. Van Warpf feared
lotto had made with his head, bu'
Karl thought of a place where th'
husband might be.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29
NEW WAGE SCALE IN EFFECT
Ten Dollars Per Week Minimum for
Women in Washington State.

Olympia, Wash, June 29.-Ten dol
lars is now the legal minimum week
ly wage of girls over eighteen and
women employed in Washington mer-
camille establishments, under an or
der issued by the industrial welfare
commission.
This figure was decided on after
conferences between employers, en-
ployes and representatives of the pub
lie, at which exhaustive testimony
was given by m
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29
COMEDY OF ERRORS
In the Lives of Newlyweds Causes
Much Sailing of the Sea.

New York, June 29.-Otto Van
Warpf and his wife Edwina found
each other today and mended the
honeymoon sundered more than two
months ago when the steamship IRA
MUM left Otto at Halifax and brought
the bride on to New York.
Since that time the pair have
chased each other from one continent
to another, passing on the seas, their
reunion opposed by all the spirits of
contradiction and mischance.
Van Warpf is a blocker" in a hat
factory at Danbury, Conn. On last
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29
County, So.

Frank J.. Cheney makes oath tina ne
State of Ohio. City of Toledo. Lucas
is senior partner of the firm of L. ].
Cheney a. Co, doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and hat said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and ev-
cry case of Catarrh hat cannot be cured
by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure.
Frank j. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
A. ID. 1886. (Seal) A. w. Gleason,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
ly and acts directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials. free. f.. j. Cheney 4
Co., Toledo, o. Sold by all druggists,
75c. Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipatoin.-Ady.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29
Two German Aviators Killed.

Berlin, June 29.-Aviation death
roll has been increased by two. At
Bitsch, Major Buebner was killed
when the machine overturned a few
feet from the earth. At Metz Aviator
Gronow fell fifty feet anS was killed
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-06-29

DR.. Kings New Life Pills keep
stomach, liver and kidneys i'm healthy
condition. Rid the body of poisons and
waste. Improve your complexion Ly
flushing the liver and kidneys. 81 got
more relief from one box of DR.. Kings
New Life Pills than any medicine /
ever tried" says C. e. Hatfield. of Chi
cago. LII. 25c, at your druggist.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
70 IS MARK SET
FOR COLD WAVE
IN ATLANTA
Frigid Weather Sweeping South
east-Monday Expected to
Bring Record Chill,

The cold wave Is here. The advance
section hit Atlanta Friday night, and
by Saturday morning, when the mer-
curry was dallying around 40, the
community was shivering with the
cold. And the worst is to come.
Weather Forecaster VonHerrmann
predicts that Monday will be the cold
est day this winter And 1t already
has been pretty airish away from the
heater, you remember. By Saturday
night 1t will be freezing, and the mer-
curry may tumble a bit below the
freezing point.
The coolest weather of the season
here was in November, when the
temperature fell to 23. A drop to 20
by Monday would not surprise the 10
cal weather officials.
The wave, which started in Mon
tana, the home of cold waves and hot
mining propositions, is spreading over
the country. Zero weather started
South Friday, and III many places in
the Northwest the mercury went to
40 below.
At last accounts the coolest section
of the present wave was moving
southeast. while in the trans Missis-
sippi region another cold center APP
peared to be moving in the same df-
rection
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
Relief Corps; at Delightful Tea,
Discusses the Observance of
Memorial Day.

Preparations for the observance of
Memorial Day, May 80, are being
made by the members of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps, an auxiliary to
the o. M Mitchell Post, G. A. r,
following a discussion of plans at a
colonial tea given by Mrs. Fred j.
White at the Tallulah Apartments,
In keeping with the custom of the
organization, it was arranged to visit
the Federal Cemetery at Marietta on
Memorial Day and decorate with
flowers the graves of the Boys in
Blue" buried there.
All details of Mrs. Whites enter
tainment were carried out after the
manner of colonial times. The hos
tess and her guests were attired in
Martha Washington costumes. Pa
triotic colors predoninated in the
decoration, extending even to the re-
freshments
The home was brilliant in red and
white. The dining room and parlors
were dressed with red and white car
nations and red roses, and the re-
freshments were served in these col
ors. Old Glory, pictured on tiny RIB
bons, added to the attractiveness of
the bonbons and cakes.
A feature of the entertainment was
a guessing contest in which the
guests were asked to name the Pres
idents of the United States in the
order of their service. from the Fa-
Their of His Country down to the in
cumbent of the Presidential chair.
Afterwards, as the guests called out
the names of the Presidents, Mrs.
White read an Original toast to each.
Mrs. White was assisted in receiving
by Mrs. William Reams and Miss
Vera Hawk.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-07
Coolest Weather of
Winter Speeding Eastward

CHICAGO, Feb. THE coolest
weather of the year Is speeding
eastward toward Chicago to-day, be-
ing pushed along by the bitterest
winds that have swept the Western
plains for ten years. Zero weather
was reported to-day from large sec
ton of country cehtering in Mon
tana and extending east to Nebraska
and Kansas. The lowest tempera-
ture was AZ degrees below zero In
Havre, Mont. At Silver Lake 1t was
40, and at Billings 38 below. -Four
days OF below zero weather was pre-
dicted.
The upper Missouri River valley to-
day was in the grip Of cold wave
that extended south into Oklahoma
and the panhandle of Texas. Warn
ings were sent out TO shippers in the
Middle West to be prepared for a
long period of extreme cold.