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TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1914.
“OVERWORKED” CONGRESS
Members of congress who are more
concerned about the condition of their
political fences at home are complain
ing that they are weary, have been
worked to a frazzle and are resent
ing the determination of the presi
dent to keep them in session until
certain legislation demanded by the
public and promised in all the party
platforms has been enacted into law.
This cry is not new. It is offered
every other year, in the closing days
of the long session of congress, but
the people persistently refuse to waste
any sympathy on the members ol
congress who complain of being over
worked. The joke is too apparent.
Congress has been in session more
than a year. It required hard work
and a great deal of it to pass the
tariff and currency bills, but .those
measures have been out of the wray
for many months. Most of the time
since the opening of the regular ses
sion in December has been frittered
away in needless discussions, indulg
ed for the purpose of making cam
paign medicine. The overworked
congressmen have been in session an
average of less than four hours a
day. They could clean up the cal
endar of important bills in a month,
should the leaders decide to go to
work in earnest.
The country will support President
Wilson in his refusal to allowr cer
tain important features of his legis
lative program to be postponed un
til after the election. The best ser
vice that congress can render the
country is to dispose of the essential
legislation pending and then adjourn
ns early as possible.—Ex.
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C»rT SELECT
HEW PRESIDENT
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Mexican Mediators Are Having Trou
ble to Select a Provisional
President.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., June 16.—
The mediators are having great dif
ficulty to select a provisional presi
dent to succeed President Huerta ol
Mexico. Many names have been pro
posed by the Huerta delegates, but the
American representatives have in
structions to object to the naming
of any Mexican who has been close
ly associated with Huerta and to work
of rthe naming of a Carranza follow
er. The Huerta delegates are equally
determined that none but Huerta fol
lowers or at least some Mexican who
lias not been in arms against the
provisional government shall be made
president.
It is believed here that England
has influenced Huerta to insist, that
no rebel shall have the presidency
because of the certainty that the En
glish investments will be confiscated,
as the Standard Oil influence is said
to be backing Villa and Carranza.
England is also said to have promised
Huerta backing and protection and the
English fleet in Mexican waters has
been notified to aid him:
NOTICE.
Owing to the wreckless driving of
automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles
and tricycles, there Seems to be a
demand for some reasonable regu
lation for the protection of the pub
lic, and the following rules are pub
lished with the hope of co-operation
in enforcing the same by the entire
public:
Automobiles and motorcycles are
to refrain at all times from rac
ing on the streets and both wuarves,
being careful to confine their speed to
that of safety. Motorcycles to keep
off all sidewalks. Bicycles and tri
cycles to keep off all sidewalks on
■ Hobart, McKinley and Front streets
between Keystone and Court street,
and both sides of Keystone and Court
streets within the bondaries given.
WILLARD T. SCOTT,
Town Marshal.
HALTS HEART
AND REPAIRS IT.
Dr. Carrel’s Feat Holds Out
Hope of Valvular Core.
EXPERIMENTED WITH DOGS.
All Circulation Suspended For Two and
One-half Minutes, and Daring Oper
ation Proves Successful — Another
Amazing Feat of Surgery Saves Boy
With Bullet In Vital Organ.
i-n. Aiuxis uint'i oi me noeueieuer
Institute For Medical Research, whose
epochal achievements in original fields
of medical research won for him the
Nobel prize in 1912, has further as
tonished tlie scientific world by de
scribing before several hundred mem
bers of the American Surgical associa
tion in convention in New York and
some half hundred distinguished for
eign surgeons, guests of the associa
tion, successful experimental opera
tions performed on the valves of the
hearts of animals. These operations
were remarkable from any standpoint,
but they must be considered as amaz
ing and unrivaled procedures when it
is remembered that they were carried
on under these conditions:
All circulation In the heart was sus
pended by tlie simple but bold means
of applying large clamps to all the
blood vessels entering and leaving the
heart; circulation was suspended for
the comparatively brief period of two
and one-half minutes; hence it was
necessary to complete each operation
within that time, and each operation
was performed through .an opening in
the wall of the heart only one and one
half inches in length.
The surgeon was careful to impress
upon his auditors tlie fact that these
heart operations were strictly experi
mental; that they had been performed
upon dogs only, and that they were
not applicable to human patients.
Foresees Ultimate Triumph.
Nevertheless these two sentences,
taken from the investigator's manu
script. indicate significantly his hopes
for the future:
As it is the object of these opera
tions that they be ultimately applied
to human surgery, it was primarily
necessary to accumulate about the
operative procedure a number of fac
tors of safety.
“It is to be limped that this tech
nique may by degrees be applied to
human surgery, and it is not at all
impossible that some day surgeons
will be able to cauterize the lesions of
the valves and repair them us easily
or almost as easily as we do today in
r.ur experimental operations. The en
trance of air into the heart is highly
dangerous.”
Dr. Carrel has been able to do away
with this painful and dangerous com
plication by rapidly introducing sterile'
silk towels through the external sur
gical wound and covering the pleural
membranes with them. In this man
ner filtered air only reaches the mem
branes, and such infectious material
as may be floating in the atmosphere
cannot get to the pleura.
The towels, moreover, act as ab
sorbents and take up such fluids as
may develop in the course of the op
erations and which it Is desirable to
have removed.
Bullet In Heart, Saved by Surgery.
Professor Robert Proust of Paris
made a report bearing directly on the
subjects discussed by Dr. Carrel, wfth
the difference that it dealt with a hu
man patient. It was entitled “Distant
Results of a Suture of the Heart Fol
lowing a Wouml by Pistol Shot.” He
recounted the case of a boy of fifteen
years who was accidentally shot in
the heart by a playmate. Dr. Proust
cut away parts of several of the ribs
and then made an incision in the peri
cardium. which is the membranous
sac covering the heart.
The surgeon found within the peri
cardial sac a mass of coagulated blood
the size of a fist. This he extracted
through the incision he had made.
Then he found the pistol hull, lying in
the bottctti of the pericardial sac, and
removed that also.
Having cleared the pericardium of
the bullet and clotted blood, the sur
geon had a better, opportunity to ex
amine the heart muscle itself. He
found a wound in the heart in the
front, near the left border and quite
near the apex. He closed the wound
in the heart itself with four deep
stitches and then covered these with
another and more superficial series.
Next the surgical opening In the peri
cardium was stitched up, the shattered
chest wall was repaired, and in a month
the boy was discharged from the hos
pital cured. [
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SIMPLIFIED SPELLING.
Advocates Have Changed 8,000 Words
and Say Movement Is Spreading.
The simplified spelling board in clos
ing its eighth annual meeting in New
York announced that more than 8.000
words have been reformed.
The board asserts, that simplified
spelling is catching on rapidly and that
more interest Is oelng shown by col
leges. universities, schools, newspa
pers and business concerns than in
other years. In Illinois sixteen col
leges and universities . have promised
to adopt the standards of the board,
and the movement has been advanced
materially ib other states. The prin
cipal work of the board at presept is
interesting schools and colleges.
LIQUOR PROBLEM
OF OTie NAVIES
Secretary Daniels' Order Has
Set New Precedent.
t QUEEN’S VIEW OF "GROG”
During Her Long Reign, Victoria Fa
vored Temperance—German Kaiser
Has Recommended Total Abstinence.
Bluejackets Who Have Drink, but
Remain Abstemious.
Queen Victoria, down to within the
last ten or fifteen years of her long
reign, was very fond of cruising along
the south coast of England, on board
one or another of her steam yachts.
One windy day she established her
self with her ladies to the lee of one
of the forward deck cabins and was
quiet iy reading, when she noticed an
unusual commotion, first among the
members of the crew and then among
the subaltern officers.
Finally her curiosity was excited,
and, catching sight of Admiral Sir
John Fullerton, then in command of
the royal yachts, she inquired what
was the matter, and whether a mutiny
was brewing.
"Almost, ma’am,” he replied. “You
see, ma’am, you are sitting with your
back to tlie cabin where the grog is
kept, and the crew are afraid that they
will have to go without their daily ra
tion.”
The queen laughingly consented to
rise and to allow her chair to be moved
so ns to permit of access to the grog
tub on the condition that she was ac
corded a glass thereof.
It may therefore be taken for grant
ed, continues “A Veteran Diplomat” in
the New York Times, that any such
edict as that issued by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels, prohibiting not only the
drinking, but even the presence of alco
holic liquors on board any American
warship or within the precincts of any
American navy yard or station, would
not have commended itself to the Brit
ish queen.
All of the influence of Queen Victoria
during the sixt.v-tliree years she spent
on the throne was exercised in favor of
temperance. Edward VII. following In
her footsteps in this respect.
The German kaiser has contented
himself with warmly recommending
total abstinence in the German navy.
He has carefully refrained from issu
ing any orders on the subject.
In the liavies-of France, Italy, Spain
and Austria, the men get their daily
rations of spirits, while wine is serv
ed the mess tables of the officers.
There is no heavy drinking on board
and comparatively little on shore.
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“FAREWELL TO GROG.”
Poem Written In 1862 Recalled by New
Navy Order.
Apropos of the order abolishing the
officers’ “wine mess" from the United
States navy a poem written when sim
ilar action was taken for the enlisted
men has been recalled by old navy
men. it is as follows:
FAREWELL TO GROG IN THE NAVY.
Scene, wardroom of United States steam
ship. Time, night of Aug. 31, 1863, the law
abolishing grog taking effect Sept. 1, 1862.
Pay Director Caspar Schenck, U. S. navy.
Air, "Come, Landlord, Fill the Flowing
Bowl."
1.
Come, messmates, pass the bottle round.
Our time is short, remember,
For our grog must stop and our spirits
drop
On the first day of September.
II.
Farewell, old rye! ’Tis a sad, sad word.
But, alas, it must be spoken!
The ruby cup must be given up
And the demijohn be broken.
III.
Jack’s happy days will soon be gone.
To return again, oh, never!
For they've raised his pay five cents a
day,
But stopped his grog forever.
1 V.
Yet memory oft will backward turn
And dwell with fondness partial
On the days when gin was not a sin
Nor cocktails b-ought courts martial.
[Boatswain's mate pipes "All hands
splice the main brace!”]
V.
All hands to splicp the main brace call,
But splice It now in sorrow,
For the spirit room key will be laid away
Forever on tomorrow.
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• THE KISS DEFINED BY LAW. •
• - •
J What is a kiss? When is it 2
o offensive and when inoffensive? •
2 Here are the answers as'laid 2
jo down by. l,he supreme court of •
!2 the Germon.empire: •
I* A kiss is a reaction upon, the •
2 body of another. •
• A kiss always requires the per- •
2 mission of the person kissed. •
• Without such permission one 2
2 may kiss only if one is sure of •
• thq other’!} tacit consent, as in 2
'2 the eases of parents, children nnd •
• lovers. 2
2 If the kissee is not only coy, •
• but gravely objects, it is to be 2
2 .assumed that the kiss is consld- •
• ered un illegal interference with *
• his or her personal freedom and •
2 a Violation of his or her honor. •
• . Any one who Inflicts a kiss in •
2 such circumstances is guilty of 2
• assault and battery. •
Cleaning Up
We are cleaning up the following
lines, at greatly reduced prices, to
make room for new stock.
We are offering Ladies’ Raincoats, Auto-coats and
Capes, which were selling for $6.00 and $6.50, for
$ 1.50.
Men's fancy Cravenette rain-proof coats, for
1 merly sold for $15 to $20, now selling\at $10. jj
j Men's High-Top Shoes in Standard
__makes at greatly reduced prices.SsIj SfSIPE
This is[an opportunity youfshould nct[mi£s.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Universitv
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
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Graduate American School of
Osteopathy. Kikrsville. Mo.
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