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ANCIENT MEDICAL SKILL.
Peru Had Clever Physicians and Sur
seons Ages Ago.

Both cocaine and quinine were first
discovered and used by the prehistoric
inhabitants of Peru, Ecuador and Bo-
hvia. A cup made from the wood Of
the tree yielding quinine was filed
with water and allowed to stand over
night. In the morning the liquid had
become saturated with the medicinal
properties possessed by the wood and
its bitter contents were drunk. The
quassia cups sold in drug stores in this
country during the past century were
the early method used to administer
quinine.
The leaf from the tree giving cocaine
Is chewed today by the Indians living
in the mountainous districts of Peru,
Ecuador and Bolivia. 1t acts as a
heart stimulant in those high attitudes
and deadens the pangs of hunger so
frequently felt by the half starved ma
tives.
The Chumus, who lived In Peru, ac-
cording TO some authorities, 25O0
years before Christ and whose domin-
ions extended into Bolivia, Ecuador
and parts Of Brazil and Colombia. had
pharmacopoeia of their own. Most
Of the articles used by them as medi-
cines aeons ago are used by. the physi-
clan Of today. Their surgeons were
highly skilled toe. have seen skulls
dug up in their old cemeteries that
showed their owners during life had
been injured many times in battle by
blunt instruments, presumably clubs.
and their lives had been saved by
trephining. I recall one skull with four
silver plates. several with three. very
many with two and hundreds with one,
-Leslie's Weekly.
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SKILL OF THE BEAVER.
AZ . Canal Digger He Is an Engineer Of
Rare Ability.

According to legend. the beaver Is
supposed to be a reincarnation of man,
put back on earth to expiate past Of
fenses by work. and in some of the
early drawings it is depicted with the
face of man. And when we consider
its extraordinary intelligence and skill
as woodcutter, engineer dam and ca
nal maker. house builder and food
storer the notion does not seem at
all farfetched. Describing the canals
which the animals make by scooping
out the earth with their hands, A. r.
Dugmore in the Romance of the Bea-
yer" remarks:
1T might be presumed that these ca
mails are only run through level coun-
try, but here is the greatest evidence
Of the engineering ability of the bea-
vers: They build their canals uphill by
means Of weirs or dams, the distance
between them varying according to the
gradient. Yet they never work uphill
unless 1t Is made absolutely necessary
by the contour Of the land. The width
Of these canals Is usually about three
feet. with a depth from one to three
feet, seldom deeper except when small
pools are made. evidently with the idea
Of providing hiding place in the event
of danger. The direction of the canals
must necessarily be variable. Wher
ever conditions are favorable they are
as straight as though laid out by hu
man engineers. but when there is any
advantage to be gained by curves they
make curves
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made which showed that the cow was
not hurt. The ear was slightly the
worse for the accident.
Another mishap occurred when one
ear tried to run around that of w. H.
Wildermuth. near Mays Landing. A
shower of stones was thrown up. Peb,
bles passed through the windshield of
the Wildermuth car and came near
striking him on the face. With the ex-
eeption Of slight tire and engine trou-
BILE no other mishaps were reported
during the day.
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WILSON'S POLICY
ON THE LUSITANIA



this situation as we'll as other phases
of the worldwide war. 1t was taken
that he was endeavoring to explain
broadly that the United States should
seek to serve the cause of humanity by
using its influence to secure an ad'
herence to the rules and principles of
international law, wherever they have
been contravened.
Although the general trend of com
ment was one of surprise at the limita.
tion which the President placed to-day
on the Interpretation of his speech
those who have followed his speeches
closely pointed out that Mr. Wilson
had frequently spoken implicitly rather
than explicitly.
Cabinet in Session To-day
While his Philadelphia audience was
impressed with the belief that the
President was referring specifically to
the Lusitania tragedy, the President in
dicated by his remarks to-day that he
meant his speech to be broader than a
single incident was to cover the en-
tire subject of foreign relations as well
as the subject of domestic solidarity
with reference to the aliens who have
become naturaliZed in America.
At the usual hour, the Cabinet be-
gan arriving for the first conference
with the President since last Friday.
whether the President would take up
the Lusitania tragedy or wait until he
had gathered further facts, was some
thing which none of the secretaries
themselves seem to know.
Stone For Peace With Honor
Chairman Stone, of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee, discussed
the Lusitania disaster with the Presi-
dent before the Cabinet meeting began
and later said he had no expectation
that an extra session of Congress would
be called.
~ am for peace with honor" said
Senator Stone. 81 do not know what
the President plans to do about the
Lusitania. 1t is his problem and it is
useless for others to attempt to advise
him.
Senator Stone declared he favored
chase bill which failed in the last Con-
gress. Such a step he said, would pro-
vide American ships to carry Ameri-
can passengers and goods. He added
that he took it for granted that the
United States would find means to pro-
teet its own ship.
LaFollette Opposed to War
Senator LaFollette, another White
House caller to-day, opposed the sug-
gestion that diplomatic relations with
Germany be broken off. 81 am for
peace" said Senator LaFollette. "I
want the United States to take a firm
stand, but I am opposed to war"
The Philadelphia speech was inter
preted by official Washington never
theless that meaning that whatever
course is pursued the United States
probably would endeavor to serve the
cause of humanity by appealing to
Germany to end her submarine war
fare against unarmed merchantships
carrying oncombatants.
In some quarters the suggestion was
made that the President might forso
the usual means of diplomatic CORE.
spondence and address a message in
person to Emperor William. 1t was
pointed out by persons hitherto in the
President S confidence that he first try
to prevent a recurrence of such an at
tack as was made on the Lusitania,
taking up subsequently the question of
reparation for the loss of American
lives.
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S. N. KNOX CABLES THAT
HIS COMPANION Is LOST

Philadelphia, May lin a cable.
gram addressed to his wife S. NJ. Knox
president of the New York Shipbuild.
ing Company, who was a passenger on
the Lusitania, to-day informed her of
his safe arrival in London.
Albert Lloyd Hopkins, president Of
the Newport News Shipbuilding Com.
pany, was travelling companion of
Mr.. Knox. The latter in his message
adds these words: cam convinced
Hopkins is lost. " This news would
appear to settle the fate of Mr.. Hop.
kins. His name appeared on the steam.
ship passenger list as Arthur Hopkins,
but his friends say that this is an er.
ror and that the Hopkins listed is real
ly the Newport News shipbuilder.
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VIENNA PRESS SAYS SINKING
OF LUSITANIA WAS JUSTIFIED

Venice, Via London, May 11.-The
newspapers of Vienna justify the sink
ing of the Lusitania on the ground that
she was ''virtuall y an auxiliary
CRUISER The "Neues Werner Tage
5latt" says: "The Lusitania was really
exactly the same as an English battle
ship"
The "Neue Freie Presse' saws:
"The sinking of the liner is equivalent
to naval defeat, and perhaps one re,
suit of the incident will be the collapse
in America of faith in England and
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Middle Division-10e oro
THE READING

p, H and P.-After 2.15 y. M: 3
l6, %, II, 23, Z, a, 10, 19. 3. IA. 1S'
II, 60, 80, "a. "
Conductor up: Hilton.
Engineers up; Wood, Sweeley. Fort.
ney, Lape, Morne, Pletz, Bonawitz
Morrison, Merkle, Wyre, Wireman. Wo.
land, Kettner, Middaugh
flremen up; Grumbine, Bingaman,
Lex, Zuboswiski, Bowers, stepbens
Carl, Anspach.
Brakemen up: Ayres, Bingaman.
Hinkle, Kapp. Hoover, Ware, Grimes
Paxton, Brown. Heckman, Hartz. Zaw,
aski, Shader, Carlin, Graezer, Garden.
er, Miller, Keffer Duncan, TAYLOR.
Smith. '
Ask for Fink's draught Pilsener.
Low alcoholic percentage.
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LEAGUE THANKS PUBLIC
ofhcers Show Appreciation for Help on
Park Tract Work

H. c. Wright, president of the local
Municipal League; Charles S. Davis.
chairman Of the committee on parks
and Fairgrounds, and Charles r. Hol-
ton, secretary of the same league, have
requested this paper to publish the fol.
lowing letter Of thanks:
The Municipal League desires pub
hely to thank all people of Steelton
and vicinity for services rendered in
connection with the development work
begun in Luther r. Kelker Park on Sat.
urday. May S. The results greatly ex-
eeeded our expectations. We urge.
furthermore, that any who have not Wis.
tied the park up to this time do so
without delay. 1t will be worth
while
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HELD DRESS REHEARSAL
Finishing Touches Were Placed on
Minstrel Program

At full dress rehearsal held by the
Original Home Talent Minstrels last
night in the High school auditorium the
finishing touches were put to the pro-
gram of fun and frolie to be presented
to the public this evening. The sale
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Of reserved seats mas been greater, so
far, than that of any entertainment
held in this auditorium this season, and,
judging by the number of tickets sold
but not reserved. the big hall win be
filed to its capacity this evening.
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At the STANDARD Theatre
TO-NIGH.

Mike Donegal's Escape. An episode of
the Girl Detective. featuring Cleo
Ridgely. 2reel special. Kalem.
The Guttersnipe. Featuring Lillian
Walker. | reel Biograph.
The Blue Flame. 2-reel special. Selig.
The Sorrows Of the Unfaithful. Feat.
uring Mary Piekford. l reel. Bio
graph.
An Interrupted Nap. Lubin.
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Mrs. Fletcher Died Last Night

Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, who sustained
a fractured right hip and right wrist
in falling off a flight of three steps in
the front of her home. III South
Front street, Sunday, April 20, died OF
her injuries last night at 1850 o'clock
Funeral arrangements will be an
nouneed later.
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ENoLA SIDE

Philadelphia Division-2O6 crew TO
60 first after 1915 a. M: 234. 222,
226, 21S, 2a3, 2O4, 229, 2i6. 2O1'
231, 227, PAL, 224, 221, 23O.
Engineers for 204, 211, 22s. es1.
Fireman for 1922.
Conductors for PIG, 221.
Flagman for 201.
Brakemen for 231, 2s4 (2).
Conductors up: Pennell, Eaton.
Stouffer, Devices
flagmen up: Wright, Corrigan.
Brakemen up: Fair, Wertz, SUNNY.
Vandling, Schuyler, Baker, Myers,
Jacobs, Stimeling, Boyd, shaffner'
Taylor, Walkenour, Lutz.
Middle Division-1O6 crew to 90
after P. m: 112, 1OS, 119, 1OS,
l04, III, 12O, 113, 105, III, i'll.
Fireman for 103. ~.
Flagman for ia.
Brakemen for 1O3, los, 1W4.
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Standard Theatres Offerings

The lover OF comedy will be highly
delighted with the superb program an
nounced for the Standard this evening,
where most of the reels will insure a
laugh a minute.-Adv.S
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Battles Burbank,

Even Luther Burbank seems unable
to invent seed that your neighbor's
chickens can't scratch up Washing
ton Times.
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Death of Infant Daughter

Julia Catherine. the infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Regan, who
died at the home of her parents last
Saturday, was buried in Mt. Calvary
cemetery.
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NeutraIs.

1t Is generally acknowledged that
neutrals have rights. After the war
Is over these will be respected.-In.
dianapolis Journal.
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RAILROADS
CREW BOARD
HARRISBURG SIDE

Philadelphia Division-127 crov :.
go first after 10 a. M: III 11s ,ol
lol, lS2, l2S, 10s, 1913, 1O2. los.
Flremen for 109, 1S3.
Conductors for 1O7,. 124, 1877.
brakemen for 102, 107, 11S. 1873
1877.
Engineers up: First, Foster. Hind.
man, Brubaker, Albright, Long. Ear.
mart, Huber, Maderfort, MeCaulev
1oodwin, Kautz, streeper, Geesey.
welsh, Grass Snow, Manley, Tennent
newcomer, Davis, Sober, Gibbons, b. l..
Smith, Young
f1remen up; Miller, Myers, Moffatt.
ohronister, Spring, Arnsberger. Ever.
hart, Grove, Yentzer, Kreider. Martin
hartz, Cover, Lantz, Copeland. Lib.
hart' Weaver, Madenfort, McNeal. 7
L. Wagner, Bleich, Dodd, Kearnev. Gil.
berg, Farmer, Brenner.
Conductors up: LOCKER. Fesler. Ram
flagman up: Banks.
brakemen up: Shultzerberger, Steven
son, Albright, Bogner, Busser. Hivner
koehenour, Riley, Arment, Baltosser
LELAND, Knupp, Mumma, McEntire
Gouse.
Middle Division-22S crew to oo
hrst after LOS p M: 227, 22. 25, 2S,
10, II, 21, "a, 2S, 15.
Brakeman for 20.
Engineers up: Webster, Simonton.
Garman, Wissler, Smith, Havens, Hertz.
Ter, Moore. N' --''' W.
flremen up: Cox. Mohler. Grass
Wright, Fletcher, Ross, Fritz, Karstet,
ter, Arnold. '''''
Conductors up: Cant, Fralick. Eberle
Huber, Byrnes, Baskins, Keys. Paul.
Flagman up: Miller.
brakemen up: Henderson, Nearhood5
Frank, Troy, Wenrick, Spahr. Stahl'
IMdHenry. '"-'
yard Crews-.Engineers up: SNYDER
Pelton, Shaver, Lands, Hoyler. Beck
Harter, Biever, Blosser, Meals. stahI
Swab, Crist, Harvey, SALESMAN, Knbn'
FIremen up: Bostdorf, Schiefer.
Laekey, Cookery, Maeyer, Sholter,
Smell, .Bartolet, Getty, Barkey. Sheets
Bair, Eyde
Engineers for 10, 16, 81, Sd "a. s2.
Firemen for I'd s, IS. 21. Sd "a. Sc.
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24

When President Wilson utter
ed the remark a few weeks ago
that the Republican party hadn't
had a new idea in thirty years,
all the Democratic papers
yipped with joy. The remark
of course implied that the Dem
ocratic party was big with new
ideas aud was giving birth, to
them every day, singly, in pairs
and triplets. We hav en't hereto
fore made any comment on the
Presidents famous statement,
but we have thought some about
1t, and it seems to us, after this
quiet reflection, that whatever
the Republican party was short
on ideas during the stated per-
iod, it was long on performance
in the production of a continu-
GUS parade of General Prosper
ity. And we will merely add, in
conclusion, that the General
is now in retirement from an
overdose of Democratic ideas.
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
Running Amuck.

An extra session of Congress
would complete the discontinue
of the Democratic party and fill
the Republican cup e. Joy to the
brim.
There is little that Congress
can do that is more unpopular
and more unfortunate than to
fail to dispose of the work on
hand and necessltate an extra
ordinary session. This is true
speaking generally, and especial
~ true at the present time.
The shipping bill, whatever its
merits or lack of merits, has
been the Democratic party's Jack
the ripper. The unmatched
harmony and business-like dis
posal of business that marked
the earlier record of the Wilson
Administration have been thrown
into the shadow by the. unseemly
ruckus into which Congress has
been plunged over the ship pur-
chase bill. the possibility of an
extra session, with expenses un
scheduled and unlimited, in ad
dition to $4,000, ZOO or so of extra
outlay if the shipping bill should
be passed, is sufficient to give
occasion for a jubilee of the Re
publicans They were in despair
before the proposal of ship pur-
chase destroyed in Congress the
harmony and spirit of cooper
alton which had given the lie to
the popular assertion that Demo
Gratis can be counted upon to
make DID fools of themselves at
the right time"
At present the prayer of
thoughtful Democrats is like that
of the boy whose runaway mule
was headed for the precipice:
Lord deliver US from, or at
least prepare us for, that which
we are about to receive. Louis
vile Courier journal, Oem.)
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
Now For Free Seeds

About this time of year, farm
ers may expect letters from their
congressman, telling of their ap-
probation of farm life, perhaps
giving touching "reminiscences of
their early days on the farm, and
begging them to accept a free
package of seeds. The object of
the letter is to suggest in very
touching way the solicitude that
your member has for your vel
fare, his warm personal attach
ment, and his hope that when he
comes up for reelection, you will
take off your coat, roll up your
shirt sleeves, and do several days
work for him, IN pay for five
cents worth of garden seeds and
five cents worth of flower seeds,
quite similar to or Identical with
those you have put away on the
pantry shelf.
Those who framed this law
long. long ago meant we'll and
planned well. The object was to
distribute new and valuable seeds
among farmers. 1.-THE law were
observed in its spirit, it would
be q good thing yet. We have
not all the varieties of valuable
plants in this country, for 1t is a
comparatively new country. II
these valuable plants from othsr
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
SOLD BY EDMOND CASEY
LUMBER, HARDWARE AND
FARM IMPLEMENTS

COuutIlcS were ScAU W olIC GA
pertinent stations to be tested
out and multiplied, and if found
valuable, were distributed or sold
ut low price to farmers in the
sections to which they were
adapted, it would be a benefit to
the entire country.
The practice has degenerated,
however, until it is simply a
means of helping politicians to
achieve their political ambitions.
AS a rule, farmers don't want
these seeds, and are disgusted
when they get them. Sometimes
they write their congressman
not to send them. But, no mat
ter which party is in power in
Washington, congressman hold
onto this free seed graft, for
graft it is, pure and simple.
How to reform this abuse? We
give it up. The only possible
way, it seems to us, is to reform
the congressman, and about the
only way to reform hira is to
keep him at home, and let
him learn wisdom by planting
some of the seeds which his
successor may send him, if, in
deed, he has a place to plant them
and knows how. Will congress-
men of their own accord give up
this graft, which costs the govern
ment thousands of dollars in
seed, packing, clerical work, and
transportation at the expense of
the government? Nay, verify.
Possibly better way would be
for the farmer who receives these
seeds to do a little reforming on
himself, and get rid of that latent
desire to get something for moth.
ing. The farmers of the corn
belt are neither beggars nor
paupers. They are able to buy
their own seeds, or anything else
they really need. Why should
they stretch out pauper hands to
anybody on the face of the earth?
We boast of our independence.
Let US show it by refusing to be
pauperized and made beggarly in
spirit by accepting gratis any
thing from anybody, and thus
putting ourselves under obll-
cations. We always pay dear
for anything we receive as a
gratuity from anyone outside of
O u r relatives an d particular
|friends.-Wallace's Farmer.
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
Don't it beat all, the way Off

Don't it beat all, the way Off
oialdom up at JEFF City seeks to
spend the money "wrung from
the people by excessive taxa.
tion?" First it was proposed tc
hand Governor Major $4,000
expense money for a junket tc
the San Francisco Exposition,
and now another gink bobs uI
and says, "Awh IeJ's make il
$4,000 and let him take the St.
Louis Symphony Orchestra
along and show those sour
doughs out on the Coast what
we've got in the way of fiddlers,
They amt one of them guys, to
use the vernacular of the street
but what has the coin to foot the
bill himself, if he wants to 60
so we wonder how our farmers
who in many instances had te
raise the money for their taxes
on a chattel mortgage, like the
idea of having it tossed to the
brides to make a roamin' holi
day for the Governor?
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
100 Bushels TO the Acre.

The Agricultural Department
of the Caoe Girardeau Normal
School declares that there is no
lard in Southeast Missouri that
cannot go above the 100 bushel
mark" in corn yield.
This is a sensational statement
in some respects, Or may seem
so to some of us in Wayne and
Reynolds counties. But to any
one who is informed regarding
the intensive farming of coun-
tries like Belgium, wnere grain
is harvested along the roadsides;
Or France, where the gardeners
near Paris rent sites for their
farming, but carry their soil with
them in wagons when they
change landlords, and make big
profits, even after paying enor-
nous land rent; or in Japan,
where the Banner man himself
has seen hills as rough as those
around Piedmont cultivated in
terraces from bottom to top,-to
one knowing these facts about
scientific farming the hundred
bushel statement does not ap-
pear so sensational after all.
AS is pointed out, in the future
the man who wins will not win
because nature has given him a
particularly rich piece Of ground
like drained swamp Or creek
made land. The highest yield
will be won and kept by that per-
son who plans a rotation so that
corn follows some legume; who
uses lime and manure literally;
and nitrogen, phosphorus n d
potassium fertilizers oniv after
the addition of lime and manure
fails to give increased yields;
, who fall plows ten inches or deep
er; who gets a perfect stand by
| testing his seed. who plants a
variety adapted to his locality,
and vino cultivates once a week
from the time the corn is planted
until it stops growing in the fall.
Such treatment will get results.
Piedmont Banner.
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
That ''Undeveloped Military
Resources" Fallacy.

Our people are prone to speak
of our undeveloped military re.
sources. These are of value il
We have time to developed them,
but in the onrush of a modern
war are of little more value than
a deep lying coal vein to freez-
ing community in a Nebraska
blizzard, and reference to them
as a military asset of value, when
it is remembered that all our
possible enemies are dangerous
enemies and prepared to the
minute, is justabout as intelligent
and as much appreciated by those
who understand what preparation
means, as would be advice to the
freezing people to use the un-
mined coal one hundred feet un-
der their feet.
Wars in these times come with
great suddenness. The ocean.
instead of being a barrier, is one
of the readiest and most con-
venient means of approach. We
have an enormous coast line un-
protected, except at the months
of our harbors, and ovs "
areunprotected again ;ant.:
who lands outside the =, "a .,
their guns.-Scientitic A ,a:..
Potosi journal., 1915-02-24
When England established he

When England established he1
policy of>starving Germany into
subsection by, shutting her of
from all outside sources of food
supplies, England and her allies
to all intents and purposes admit
they are incapable of beating
Germany in fair battle, soldier
o soldier. Should the plan sue
oeed, what a glorious victory" it
would be. Victory by snatching
the sustenance of life from the
women and children of a ga"~
foe.