Semi-weekly herald., 1915-11-29

ed, while in delirium due to illness
eight months ago, was taken from
her stomach Wednesday by an opera
ton at the West Side hospital. The
knife was corroded and saw edged
| from the action of the stomach acids
and physicians said that nature had
made heoric efforts to digest the i'm
plement.
The proportion of suicides to the
population of 100 cities in this coun-
try last year was higher than for any
year since 1909 according to f. l.
Hoffman, statician for the Prudential
Insurance company. Mr.. Hoffman's
report shows that 1882 persons killed
themselves This is at rate of 20.3
for each 100000 population. Three
times as many men as women COM
mitted suicide, the figures show.
A tale of cruelty unprecedented in
the annals of that section is being in
vestigatcd by the grand jury at Eas-
ton, Md. The charges have been filed
against Frank Marshall, a farmer, liv
ing near st. Michaels, whose daugh
ter, Grace, now 20 years old, was dis
covered u prisoner in room 8xi0
feet in size, in which she has beon
imprisoned since she was 16 years old
The woman is now said to be devoid
Of mind. The charges were made by
Miss Davis, local agent for the Child
ren's Aid society, Of Maryland, and
backed up by John Hancock of vii
mington, Del, an uncle Of the girl
who made the discovery of her plight
while on a visit to the Marshall farm
house According to information
so far elected the girl was locked in
the room twelve years ago for dis
obedience to her parents and she es
capped by jumping out of window
Her leg was broken. She was takeI
back into the house and the leg wa
set, but the surgery was faulty an
the limb is now four inches shorte
than the other. In addition. he
mother died some time later and her
father was married again. A sister
OF Grace died and was buried. 1t is
said that the impression was given out
that the dead child was Grace. No
one knew it was not until this week
More about pellegra: Pellegra, a
disease having some Of the charac
teristics Of leprosy, has been increas-
ing at an alarming rate in Louisiana
Mississippi and other southern states
where, in the last few years it has
caused as many deaths as tuberculo-
SIS. DIR. Joseph Goldberger, of the
United States Public Health Service,
went to Mississippi TO investigate this
disease. The medical world had
pretty generally accepted the theory
.hat the disease came from eating
corn that had become musty and in
some way changed. Doctor Gold
berger refused to accept this expla-
nation. His observations led him to
the belief that the disease was caused
by one-sided or unbalanced diet for
instance, many Of the victims of il
had been living almost wholly upon
corn. Twelve lifetime convicts in
the state prison of Mississippi, volun-
teered as subjects for the experiments
of Doctor Goldberger, the governor
Of the state promising to pardor
them il they survived. Doctor Gold
berger fed the twelve men on one
sided diet and he announced, eigh
of them in due time contracted th'
disease. Governor Brewer has set tn,
men free. Rector Goldberger has th'
eight men under his care and is un
, dertaking to restore them to hcaltl
: by a will balanced diet of bread. po
tatoes, meat, milk, eggs, beans, pea
and other things. He has already re
ported to his bureau in Washingto
the progress he has made. but doe
v not claim that he has discovered tn
e cause nor cure of pellagara. He simpl
n sets forth the result so far achieve
o and announces that he is going o
Y with his experiments.
One of the various problems wit
9 which the German authorities in Be
d GUM have to struggle is the supprei
e sion of "fly by night" newspape,
= inimical to the German cause whic
t are printed in Francs England ~