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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
"Kinematic Surgery Developed
to Extraordinary Degree.
Italian Physician Achieves Remarkable
Results in Fitting Artificial
Legs.

Bologna, 1taly.-Remarkahle results
have been achieved in Italian military
hospitals recently by the use of what
is known as "kinamatic surgery" the
invention of Professor Putt of Bologna
university. Professor Putti's methods
have aroused intense interest ON the
part of American doctors attached TO
the Balkan commission of the Amer
lean Red Cross who are supervising
the artificial leg factories already es-
tabIished and being established in
Athens, Saloniki, Belgrade and Bucha-
rest for the wars mutilated.
At present allied soldiers in the
Balkans who have lost their limbs
are being fitted with artificial limbs
and arms Of type similar to that
employed by Sarah Bernhard. Pro-
fessor Putti's methods, however, are
a distinct advance over all other arti-
fetal appliances.
His treatment Of amputated limbs
consists of unique preparation of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
WRITESNEWNOVELOPERA

the conflict of the ideas between the
autocrat and the democrat, between
oppression and freedom. The time of
the opera, of course, is not limited to
any one period. The opera is sym
bolic of many periods and would just
as readily apply to the stirring times
of the American Revolution as it would
to the French revolution, or the Rus
sian or the Bavarian.
Il have no characters in the pro-
duction representing any particular
personalities. There is no Napoleon,
Metternich or Garibaldi. My charac-
tiers represent the ideas for which men
have endeavored to keep man in sub
lection. There is character for jus
tice, for truth, for freedom; and, on
the other hand, for tyranny, for ignor-
ance, for wrong. TIE plan in my new
work has been to depict in. song the
evolution of man from a slave to
free man through the instrumentality
of characters representing the abstract
qualities for which man fought, and,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
TELLS LOST SHIP
WHERE SHE IS

and not transmitters. However, each
Of the radio compass stations notifies
the central station in Whiteall street
that ship within the district is de-
manding 10 know its location. Imme-
diately the central station radios the
bewildered mariner to continue flash
ing his call letters for at least thirty
seconds. And at the same time the
radio compass stations begin obtain
ing hearings on the ship.
Then Its Simple.
The operators in the five stations
turn their compass wheels until each
has an accurate bearing These five
readings are transmitted to the cen
trail station where. on a huge chart,
the five readings are combined. Each
reading will indicate a certain mum
Der of miles between the ship and the
station that took the bearing Il is a
relatively simple matter. then, to
project these lines upon the chart Nh
til the five lines intersect. And that
point of intersection is the location
of the calling ship. Acknowledgement
from the ship completes the operation.
Every American port IS now beng
safeguarded by just such systems Of
radio compasses and central stations.
Within a few months. NJ any point
along the coast, mariners will be able
to approach channels. reefs and shoal
waters with an absolute assurance
that they will not proceed too near
nor yet exercise such great caution
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
Good Chickens Are
Profitable Investment

Washington, D. C.-The story
of Reuben Lowe, of North Shap-
leigh, Me-, illustrates the posi-
bic profits from poultry keeping
where careful management is
practiced. During 1918 this
poultryman, who devotes only
part of his time to chicken rats
ing. kept $50 birds, which paid
him profit over feed cost of
more than $1,000, equivalent 20
81 a bird. Included in this
amount are the sales of a few
eggs for Matching. about 30 cock
erels sold for breeding purposes
at $3.50 to So each, as well as
the market eggs, which were dis
posed Of in large quantity. Mr..
Lowe keeps White Wyandottes
Of a strain that wins in the show
ring when judged according to
either the standard of perfec-
ton or n utility standard.
One pen of 20 pullets owned
by this Maine poultry raiser pro-
duced eggs as follows: Novem-
Der. 1913, 413; December, 1918,
AS; January, 1919, $50; Febru-
airy, 1919, 326; March. 1919, 456;
a total of 1888 eggs. averaging
1906 eggs per bird in five
months.
1t pays to keep poultry Of this
kind, and growers everywhere
are coming TO realize that there
is more money in keeping bet
ter fowl and feeding them prop
erly balanced rations than IN
wasting time with inferior birds.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
LIMBS ARE SELF-ACTING

the stump 10 develop motor end
to the cords which, after being bound
together over a smooth bearing of
hone. get as much as three-inch
travel ~ the leg hy means Of re
education ana coordination VI the mus
cles OF the stump.
After Tie stump meals Professor
Putt cuts out Zap Of leSh. which
he folds back into an incislon to take
the Hap. This is allowed TO heal and
then through the loose lap Of flesh
a metal bar with attachments TO op-
crate the artificial limb below Is
suspended.
The muscles Of the calf and thigh
readily respond after some weeks to
the movement Of the artificial leg. and
soon the pressure Of the swinging Of
the artificial leg re-educateS the mus
Giles through the flap Of flesh. So that
it may be said the muscles Of the
stump actually operate by themselves
the mechanical features of the arti-
fetal limb
In the case OF severed hand the
muscle groups surrounding the bone
are trained TO operate catgut cords
which, in turn, operate artificial fin
gers.
Not since the introduction Of ode
bridgement' in American army medical
work in France has any medical limo
walton created as much comment.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
System of TrianguIation win Give
Bearings to BeWiIdered
Craft.
ALL U. S. PORTS TO WATCH
Operators at Radio Stations Figure
Out Position of Boat by Com
passes-Used in Navy
for Years.

New York.-Not the least Of tie
dangers attending the business of be-
ing n mariner has been that of losing
ones bearings while at sea. Time was
when the sailors life was more re-
plete with danger than in these days
of advanced maritime efficiency. But
though the ocean terrors were elm
mated one by one until there remained
little to be afraid of, there still was
the disconcerting possibility of a ship
losing itself; Of fogs and compass r.
regularities; of mishaps TO instru-
mechanisms Thus every so often Il
liner or freighter or a warship was re-
ported ''lost in the fog" or tout of
its course"
The United States naval communica-
ton service has perfected q system If
triangulation that has eliminated the
possibility of further maritime reports
of this sort. 1t is not the discovery
of any one man. Indeed, it truly can
not be classified as a discovery. II is
simply perfection Of basic rule Of
position finding that has formed the
fundamental Of range determination
In the army and a straightforward
geometric theorum concerning inter-
secting lines.
System Explained.
The perfected system has been in
use in the American navy for year.
At A Whitehall street the system was
explained briefly by attaches of the
New York district central controlling
radio station.
1t is to be assumed that n ship is
a hundred miles off the middle Allan
tic coast. She has lost her bearings.
Her navigators are unable to tell her
latitude and longitude AT once the
bewlldered ships radio flashes the
American coast a demand TO be told
the data she needs most:
"Where am I?'
The request coming within the sec
tor for which the New York district
central controlling radio station is re-
sponsible, the appeal is received by
five radio compass stations located at
Montauk Point, L. l.; Fire Island,
Rockaway Beach, Sandy Hook and
Mantoloking, N. J.
Each of these stations is connected
with Al Whitehall street by telegraph
and telephone. These radio compass
stations cannot communicate with the
'1ost" ship, as they are receivers only
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
BID BY FRANCE IS TOO LOW
Offers Only s3ooooo.ooo for United
States Hateriai-Asy Be Sold
Elsewhere.

W0shington.-The French govern
ment having offered only $500 600. 00O
for American army equipment IN
France, costing 81, 500.oOOGO0, the
war department has ordered q sales
organization for disposal Of the prop
erty be formed IN France. Director Of
Sales liarc told g special house com
mittee investigating war department
expenditures abroad Director Hare
said the French offer was made to
Chairman Parker Of the United States
liquidation committee The Offer. he
stated, Included all material. Including
ship docks, railroad works ard equip
ment, automobile trucks and textiles.
III France win not pay fair fig
ure." the director added, 1--WE win take
the stun out Of the country and sell it
elsewhere"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
IIIIIlIINlIIlIIllIIIIlN'

and my troubles caused by that weak.
ness are thing of the past. Allwomeu
who suffer as | did should try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. -
Mrs. JAS. RoHRBERG, 62O Knapp St,
N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa.
Women who suffer from any form of
weakness, as indicated by displacements,
inflammation, liberation, Irregularities,
bscl6ache, headaches, nervousness or
the blues" should accept Mrs. Rohr-
berg's suggestion and give Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound q
thorough trial.
For over forty years it has been
correcting such ailments. If you have
mysterious complications write for
advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

come along. Somehow Leah always felt
that she would know when her right
one appeared, and now she was sure
that Grover Gary was he. So she
merely waited for him to get down to
business and make himself acquainted
and ask her to be his wife.
But Grover didn't get down to bust
ness. He found himself tongue-tied
whenever he tried to talk anything that
bordered on the personal. He could not
even bring himself to the point of in
PRODUCING himself. Lovemaking, in its
initial stages and in all others, is so
different from selling insurance, par
ticularly when one has to fight back
bashfulness in the presence of the
other sex.
One morning Grover got out of bed
with the determination to do two
things. First, he had made up his mind
to write up a very wealthy but OBJ
stinate prospect" Next he was going
down to the Union station, introduce
himself and propose to the girl that
was rightfully his.
He did neither. When he got TO the
Office he found telegram summoning
him TO the head office in Chicago on the
first train that went. The train left be-
fore Leah went on duty at the stand,
and it took Grover away for three
years
Leah watched in vain for the man
that was meant for her. When days
dragged into months and the months
into years she was forced to the con-
clusion that he had deserted her.
well, let him go" she sighed. "Just
because he defies Destiny is no reason
why I should. l shall remain true to
him"
II was early in the evening when he
returned from his three-year absence.
Leah was thumbing the first number Of
a new periodical, when a familiar voice
inquired:
Have you the Magnet Magazlne'?"
She jumped back and her eyes
opened wide. Then she smiled her first
real smile in three years.
"Why, yes, was just reading it.
But it contains an announcement that
IT is the first number of the magazine
There's a good article In the front
about Every one Was Meant for Some
One"
Il know IT," be said. You see. when
I used 10 ask you about the Magnet
Magazine / knew very well there was
no such publication. II simply gave me
an excuse to come IN here and talk
with You now and then. Three years
ago went 10 Chicago and got interest
ed in the publishing business. | made
some money, and finally launched the
Magnet I know that article is good,
because I wrote II myself. In fact. it's
n proposal from me to you. and there
fore Il has 20 be good, doesn't itf'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
MasCagni's Latest Effort Is Rev.
dictionary Step.
Has No Characters, but Represents
Ideas for Which Men Have
Striven.

Rome.-Pietro Mascagni, known TO
everyone as the composer of "Caval-
leria Rusticana" and numerous other
musical works, has written a new
opera. I'll Piccolo Marat," which is
characterized here as distinctly revO-
lutionary step in operate works. 1t
contains no personalities as characters
in the story, but it substitutes for them
symbolic representations of virtues
and ideals similar to the American
pageant.
81 expect to produce my new opera
next winter in Rome" said Signor Mas
eagni TO the Associated Press CORE
Rpondent. "The theme is founded on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

rs to throw them out OF their course
And thus also is the danger attending
fog banks eliminated.
Lieutenant Commander r. d. Cot
man. L. S. n. is superintendent Of the
central station at "A Whitehall street.
Lieut.. NJ. W. ArpS L. 5. y. Is in
direct charge Of the New York dis
triCt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
60-Foot Bone Found
in Canadian River Bed

Winnipeg. Mana huge bone.
co feet in length, recently was
unearthed along the hanks Of
the Deer river in Alberta. ac-
cording 10 information received
here from A. ]. Gayle, division
oil engineer Of the Canadian Ma
ti0nal railway. Mr.. Gayle says
the bone is thought 10 be part
Of the skeleton Of dinosaur
and an effort VIII be made to
find the other parts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

do you think Bacon wrote Shake,
speare's works.
"Why start that old CONTROVERSY
Sorry! Thought It might be re.
lief to get up little argument about
something besides the League of Ma
TONS"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

a weakness which
caused backache
and headaches. A
friend called my
attention to one Of
your newspaper
advertisements and
imm diately my
husband bought
three bottles Of
Lydia E. Pinkham'I
V e G e t a BILE Com.
pound for m e.
After taking two
hottlaa I felt fine
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
Eircmen Did the Best

Braintree, Mass.-When truck
load of hay caught fire, Robert Horte
calmly drove it to the nearest fire
alarm box, pulled the alarm ana wait
cd. The fremen did the rest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
Substitute for Glass.

Many ingenious substitutes are be-
ing employed in England for the win
dow glass which has been broken in
the last four years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

In five years GS4G-1S5D Ireland's
disease and emigration, was 2,2O0.00
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
Tho Strong Withstand the Heat of Summer
Better Than the Weak

Old people who are feeble and younger
people who are weak. will be strengthened
and enabled TO go through the depressing
heat Of summer by taking Groves tasteless
chill tonic. 1t purihes and enriches the blood
and builds up the whole system. You
soon feel its Strengthening, Invigorating
Effect. Soc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

Taxes are what a nation pays for
glory.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07
HUSBAND
Saves WIFE
From Suffering by Getting
Her Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-"For many months
! was not able to do my work owing to
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-08-07

on the contrary, the qualities he fought
against"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
Minratory Bird Law.

The constitutionality of the federal
migratory bird treaty act, approved
July 3, 1918, is upheld in an opinion
rendered not long ago by Federal
Judge Jacob Trieber of the eastern
district of Arkansas in the case of the
United States against E. D. ThOmp-
son of Memphis, charged with killing
and possessing one robin in violation
of the act.
This is one of the most important
decisions ever rendered affecting the
conservation of wild life. 1t sustains
the right of congress to enact legisla-
ton to insure the execution of the
terms of the treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, concluded
August 16, 1916, for the protection of
migratory birds in the United States
and Canada.
1t win be recalled that Judge Trie-
her in 1914, in the case of United
States against Harvey c. Shaver, de-
cided that the migratory bird law, ap-
proved March 4, 1913, was unconsti-
tutional The present law repealed
the act of 13.-Birmingham Age
Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
SARDINIA LIVES IN THE PAST
Hand Sickles and Wooden Plows
Drawn by Oxen Are Still in
Use on the Island.

Relics of Biblical pastoral life. plow-
ing with wooden hooks drawn by oxen,
reaping by the most primitive imple-
mentS and other occupations Of the
nomadic peoples of antiquity remain
the manner of living today in Sardinia,
according to DIR. Alfred P. Dennis,
commercial attache of the United
States embassy at Rome, who has just
returned from the island after making
an exhaustive study into trade posi-
bilities.
"Sardinians present living picture
of the remote past which has been
stereotyped and handed down from
antiquity" said Doctor Dennis. IVA
ter wheels with earthen buckets, wood
en- plows drawn by oxen, the scythe
and the sickle still in use in reaping
vast fields-nomadic occupations un-
changed since the days of the Aryan
dispersion-tribal costumes as gay and
grotesque as the trappings of the me
die5al pageant-all reproduced in the
veriest similitude the archaic life Of
bygone ages"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
PATRIOTS GET POOR REWARD
British Soldiers Who Won High Dis
tnction Have a Right to Com
plain of lngratitude.

Attention has been directed to the
hard case of men WHO won distinction
IN the great war, and seem TO have
Deen forgotten. by two dramatic incl
dents. One is the public statement by
Sir Douglas Haig that a demobilized
ofhcer who won the V. c., D. S. O.,
ana NJ. c., is at present trudging the
streets of London in search of work.
Inc other is the announcement that
Mr. Arthur Richings has rejoined the
cardiff police force as an ordinary
constable, Notwithstanding the fact
mat he has just relinquished the army
rank Of lieutenant colonel.
Inc latter's record is an astounding
one. He was promoted second lieu
tenant on the field, and his subsequent
promotions were astonishingly rapid.
mentioned in dispatches three times,
ne wears six wound stripes, the Mons
''ar the Croix de Guerre with
palms,, the Military Cross, and is also
a Chevaiier Of the Legion of Honor.
Ierhaps one may be pardoned for
g9esuoning whether there is not some
,N'hg wrong with an army admins
uauon which allows a man with an
0e'IVe service record like that TO dis
appear into the decent obseurity of a
ro'ce constable's tunic. - Montreal
fsAily Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
YOUNG HEROES AT OXFORD
Many Customs and Traditions of the
University Are Likely to Seem
Tame to Them.

The returning hero, fresh from battle
fields, will no longer rush to the
cricket fields and the river at Oxford
with the. zest of young barbarians at
their play, observes a writer in he
Nation London). To one who may
wear the ribbon of the Military Cross
or the D. S. O., the position of his col
lege boat in the Fights can no longer
seem the one matter of life and death,
and even The halo of a goal shines
with diminished glory.
So, too, in lesser pursuits. How
shall he dwell upon the squabbles of
compartments in ancient Greece, when
he himself has motored from Saloniki
to Athens in day, and on to Sparta
in the next? Or what will he feel
when questioned on his fading mem
cries of the irregular verbs? Probably
most public school boys are haunted
to old age by a dream-a terrible
nightmare-of being put on" by the
old headmaster when they have not
taken the trouble to prepare line OF
the passage. 1t makes no difference
that they are more than so and the
headmaster has long been dead The
horror of the situation remains APP
palling, and the dream is far more
frequent than any Of Freuds imag-
mary perversions.
The feeling of the soldier returning
to the class and lecture room VIII be
much the same, with a sense of fulfil
ity added. For, indeed, it Is impOssi-
bic to go back in life and second child
hood is not like the first. Little vic
tins play regardless of their doom,
but not men who have known what
doom can do.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
poinn Him a Favor.

When my cousin, newly commits
stoned, was sent to Camp Grant he
found himself in command of lot of
draft men drawn mainly from our
Stun district. One in particular took
quite a fancy to him and never lost a
chance of doing him favor.
One day after the man had been
in camp only week or so he ran
breathlessly up to my cousin. who was
in the far end of a trench. He re-
membered TO salute after fashion.
then stood plainly trying to think what
to do next. Finally he burst out,
Beat it, mister, while de COINS good.
De boss is after youse, and gosh, he's
sore!'
The colonel was at the other end of
the trench calling for the officer in
charge Tribune.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
Claims Philadelphia Land.

The city of Philadelphia has been
reminded, in an unexpected fashion. of
its association with William Penn. He
reserved for the Indians two small
pieces of land where they might come
in peace and build their council fires.
one of them. patch of IS feet by 100,
under the shadow of the towering Ritz
Carlton hotel, is now covered with
asphalt. The other is used as stor-
age and dumping ground for Gods and
ends. There has appeared an Indian
princess named NO-toh-tha = which
means. in the Seneca language, Never
MISUNDERSTANDING these reserva-
lions for the use of her people. She
has filed her application with the In
dian Rights association, and intends, If
necessary. to invoke the aid of the Six
Nations of New York.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
FIELD CLUB OPENS
SATURDAY..

The stickney Field Club will be for
a,1v opened Saturday, July 26th.
In In. beginning of the Clubs activities
In he celebrated by a basket picnic
- The Club grounds Stickney Field,
- Stickney Ave. The arrangements
sor the affair are in the hands of the
entertainment Committee c. E. Rags
dole Chairman. The program includes
,.orioDs forms of contests for the chill
d,ran as well as for the adults, music,
;ca cream. and other details which go
:, ,,,aks up a real picnic.
The officers of the Club report that
work on the house and grounds is be-
ing hurried to completion and that
thew nope to have everything with the
ovcept;on of the tennis courts, in full
oneration by Saturday. The house
will be ready for use, the showers will
he running and the club room will be
~ least partly finished. The bowling
Green is ready now. BY Saturday the
ebildren's playground will be fitted up
and facilities for playing. croquet,
ouots. etc, will be available
Work on the tennis courts is pro-
crossing slowly but the courts are
gradually rounding into shape and
when they are finally finished they will
be courts of very high order The
working committees have recently
been appointed with the following
ehaimen:
ID -
Membership Committee-E. P. But
Ter.
Sports Committee-A. v. d. Clark
son.
Grounds Committee = w. M. Swift
Miller.
Entertainment Committee = c. E.
Ragsdale.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-07-25
Paid a War Bet.

War bets are now being paiG by the
people who were wont to say, you
can't beat Germany" Morgan j
O'Brien, former judge of the Supreme
court of New York, recently gave "the
best dinner that money could buy" to
Gen. Coleman Dupont anu 25 of the
latter's friends, because of a difference
of opinion as to German prowess. The
justice thought the allies could not get
into Scissors last year by a certain
date; the general was sure they could.
They did; and the outcome for which
Judge O'Brien paid heavy bill, was
called the "Soissons dinner. THE
Outlook.