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MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1914.
WICKERSHAM.
Aside from the enemies Judge
Wickersham has made, the Post
knows of no reason why the present
delegate from Alaska should enjoy
the affections of the workers of Alas
ka.
Mr. Wickersham has occupied his
jiresent position for six years, and
during that-time he has materially
aided in the accomplishment of just
one thing for the people of Alaska—
the legislative “home rule.” It was
due to Mr. Wickersham, however,
more than to any other man that the
first Alaska legislature was turned ov
er to the vested interests in Alas
ka. It was Judge Wickersham him
self who started the talk for a non
partisan legislature, and Senator
Sutherland, who killed the eight-hour
hill so far as It related to placer
mining, and Representative Driscoll,
the arch enemy of all legislation in
favor of the people, especially the
eight hour measure as it applied to
placer mines, the "abolition of fish
traps amendment” to the fish memor
ial, and Representative Collins, w'ho
aided Driscoll in these endeavors,
were the personal selections of Judge
Wickersham. During his entire term
of office he has never suggested or
attempted to secure the passage of
a single measure for the benefit of
the workers
Recently the delegate has secured,
considerable advertising by his oral
opposition to the fish traps, but his
opposition is still confined to pre
election words.—Juneau Post.
THE POPULATION INCREASE.
According to the estimates of ihe
census bureau, by July 1 the United
Stales will have a population of 10!),
021.992 people, This is a gain of over
9,000,000 persons in four years. Such
rapid gains look alarming to some
people. They begin to think that pop
ulation will become congested. Esti
mates of the possible population that
could be supported in the United
States have varied very widely. Prof.
A. P. Brigham, a leading scientist,
had it figured out that this country
could support only 305,000,000 peo
ple. At the present rate that num
ber would be reached in 100 years.
Others are much more liberal, saying
that three-quarters of our land can
be mad? productive, capable of pro
ducing 50 bushels of corn to the acre.
A bushel of corn has a food value
sufficient to support a man ab.out a
month. That would make it possible
for an acre to support four men a
year. On the present basis of pro
duction, therefore, it has been figured
that this country could feed 3,000,
000,000 people. By scientific methods
the crop could be doubled. The de
velopment of the tropical regions,
which are far more ffertile, and ex
change of the manufactures of the
temperate zones for the food of the
tropics, would, according to investi
gators, permit 10,000,000,000 people to
live in our territory.—Ex.
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BULK OF RUSSIA
Merely by way of supplementing
the regular appropriations for the
Russian army the czar’s government
has added $60,000,000 to the usual es
timates for that great engine of war,
says the Cleveland Leader. Europe
is gravely discussing extensive
change* and improvements in the
equipment and organization of the
Russian artillery, especially, and Ger
many and Austria-Hungary are care
fully noting the reports of the mass
ing of Russian troops near their
frontiers. All such Incidents direct
attention to the huge bulk of the Rus
sian empire. It is by far the greatest
connected territory under an flag.
The only empire more extensive Is
that of Great Britain, which lies in
widely separated parts of the earth.
The population of Russia's vast realm
is much greater than that, of any oth
er country inhabited by jjifcople chiefly
of European blood or origin. The
Russian standing army is by far the
largest in the world.
If you want all - the news all tha
time, read the Prospector.
FALSE HANDS DO
WONDERFUL ACTS
Even Surgeons Surprised at
Living Models’ Feats.
CORK WORKS LIKE FLESH.
Men With Artificial Forearms Write,
Fold Papers, Pick Up Dimes, Put on
Collars and Button Shoes—No Dan
ger In Amputation of Limbs, Says
Eminent Surgeons.
Itcmnrkable feats performed .by
arms of cork looking like flesb amazed
even' 200 world famous surgeons at tbe
fourth congress of tbe International
Surgical association in New York. The
man, whose arms had been amputated
up near the shoulder, was one of a
number of living exhibits to show what
this country could do in the way of ar
tificial limbs.
Everybody -present exclaimed In sur
prise when T. C. Gaites of Kansas City,
whose arms were amputated just be
low the elbow a couple of years ago,
picked up a pen, dipped it in' ink and
dashed off his name Just as if he had
regular bands instead of fiber ones.
A* Useful as Real Hands.
After that armless Mr. Gaites show
ed how he eats with a knife and fork,
puts on his collar and buttons his shoes
—in fact, how he dresses himself every
day. Noj only that, but be folded pa
pers, picked up papers Tying flat on the.
table, patted his hair into place and
sbrook hanjls with those pf the surgeons
who asked him questions,
After jilj[ this Mr. Gaites modestly,
admitted that ne con feel the engrav
fng on a calling card, so sensitive are
the stumps of his arms to which the
false arms are attache^,
But, although Mr. Gaites was the
lion, two other men, .one of them the
th vein tor of the device, both with one
artificial arm apiece, picked dimes and
toothpicks from the floor with their
tailor made fingers and opened, shut
and swung suit eases with their tailor
made hands.
Limb Amputations Safe.
Drs. Witzel of Dusseldorf, Ceci of
Pisa, Von Kuzmik of Budapest, Binnie
of Kansas City, Durand of Lyons and
Ranzl of Vienna in discussing ampu
tations made it clear that amputation
of a limb is relatively a safe operation
nowadays. The lost arm or leg can tie
replaced with an artificial limb whicli
can lie widely used by simple exertiou
of muscles in the hips or shoulders.
For example, the artificial arm shown
is controlled in all its many uses sim
ply by alert twitches of shoulder mus
cles'.
LOSS IN EGGS IS GIGANTIC.
Almost 7 Per Cent of All Packed In
Crates Are Damaged.
Nearly 7 per cent of all eggs packed
in crates and shipped arrive at their
destination in bad order, according to
figures obtained by the food research
laboratory of the department of agri
culture. This means that on au aver
age 24.96 eggs out of every thirty
dozen packed and shipped arrive at
the market cither as "cracks." “dents."
“leakers” or “mashers.”
These figures were obtained by an
individual examination of 6,000 dozen
eggs before and after shipment and a
farther general study of the condition
of aeventy-one carloads, or more tiften.
500,000 dozen eggs, shipped from thir
ty-six packing houses in the corn belt
to.ten different markets on the eastern
coast.
As a result of this examination of
packed cases egg by egg it was found
that 19.22 eggs per case on an average,
or 5.34 per cent, had cracked sheila be
fore they were put on the railroad
cars. These eggs were then repacked
and shipped to distant points and
again examined egg by egg on their
arrival. It was found that during the
transfer to the car. stowing, hauling,
railroad trip and unloading there was
an additional breakage of 5.75 eggs per
case on au average, which made a to
tal of 24.90 eggs in bad order out of
every thirty dozen that arrived.
Have Your Sole Read.
A new fashion has been started in
Taris. It was originated by the Gom
tesse de la Rochefoucauld, who writes
over the pen name of Comtesse Melu
sine. The fashion is the reading not
of palms, but of feet. The originator
of the science, e^ilch she calls “sole
lsm,” asserts that exhaustive research
went to the building up of her theo
ries, which she tested, particularly In
the foretelling of crime.
THE MEXICAN NAVY.
CRUISER TRANSPORTS.
Penerftl Quweffc Jiullt In 1*18. l.$8D .
ton*, i A •' 1 I r *•’ I; * •:" i
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CRUISER.
Zaragoza, built In 1891 and refitted
in 1910, 1,200 tong ;
TRANSPORT.
Oaxaca and probably tour other
“■ssrHSfsif&wsr.
Democratic 187*'
Independence. IDA
Llbeftqd, UM. ,
Ail are old one funnel |*ird built
pchoonera of 4t tonk each.
SURGEON GAVE
HER AJjEW FACE
Horribly ^figured Woman Fi
nally Made Presentable.
6000 LOOKS FOR U6LINESS
Youth With Very Bad Features and
Hare Lip Now Attractive—Graftings
and Successful Transplantation of
Tissue and Fat Enlarge the Field of
Reparatory Operations.
Surgery has progressed to the point
where it can supply new nerves, blood
vessels, bones and even new faces to
men and women who have been maim
ed and mutilated by accident or dis
ease. European specialists have de
scribed to the congress of the Ameri
can Surgical association many exam
ples of the wonderful results obtained
in reparntory surgery. Dr. Erich Lex
er of the University of Jena, Germany,
showed a once beautiful woman whose
face he practically remade in two
years. She had been Cisflgured in the
explosion of an automobile.
First she was shown without a nose
and with the vestige of a chin, with
part of an ear and without eyebrows,
and with her eye lids drawn down in
hideous fashion. No more unpromising
subject could have been presented.
First the surgeon made a nose for her
out of cartijage and fat and skin which
be had obtained from other parts of
her body. After awhile he saw that
the nose was shaped up and molded
a"new. He made a chin for her, revised
the disfigured mouth and put some
artistic touches ou the remains of her
esy;s.
He finished with a portrait of the
young woman in gala dress and smil
ing. She had not been restored to her
former pulchritude, but, taken all in
all, the surgeon hud performed a most
remarkable feat.
Operation For Hare Lip.
’ Then came a hare lipped young man
with a decidedly unprepossessing face.
The surgeon literally transformed him
In a few months into a Prince Charm
ing and Induced him to raise a mus
tache to cover the lip line. The filial
state of the youth was almost hand
some enough for him to qualify as a
riding master or a tango teacher.
From a surgical point of view one of 1
the most brilliant operations, which l
was shown by lJr. Lexer in color pho- !
tographs on the screen, was the trails- !
plantion of fat and part of a bone into |
a shattered patella, so that the free j
action of the knee was restored to the
patient The surgeon demonstrated
also how lie would obtain quantities
of fat from legs and insert them under
cheeks to fill up hollows or to smooth
out foreheads in which there were un
sightly cavities. For a patient who
had no external ears he built two per
fectly good ones with graceful, scroll
like effects. A young girl whose face
was her misfortune was changed into
an attractive miss.
New Eyebrows.
Dr. H. Morestin of Paris told the
congress that graftings and transplan
tations of tissues had considerably en
larged the limits of reparatory opera
tions.
“They have enabled us.” he contin
ued, "to remedy under better condi
tions many grave deformities and to
lend to many other restorations hither
to almost unattainable.”
He spoke of the use of small frag
ments of skin, of cutaneous transplan
tation in two distinct times, of the
grafting of eyebrows and mustaches
and of the strengthening of the bro
ken and mashed nose by grafting carti
lage.
“Adipose graftings,” continued Dr.
Morestin. “are excellent for filling up
empty spaces, bony hollows, for effac
ing the depressions of soft parts, and
therefore they render the greatest
service in repairing cranial gaps and
facial deformities. Fatty tissue with
a few blood vessels is most easily
transplanted from one region to an
other The readiness with which fat
may be obtained and the great facility
with which it may be used in ail de
formities and the beauty of the results
obtained through these operations,
which are attended with no risk, make
adipose grafting a very valuable addi
tion to aesthetic and reparntory sur
gery.” ' . ■ ,
WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE.
Conference at Ambler, £«., Will Show
Them How to Make Money.
Many nationally known speakers
have been Invited to address a wo
men's agricultural conference at the
Pennsylvania School of Horticulture
For -Women at Ambler, Pa.. May 16.
This will be the first conference held
under the aUsplcUa of the association.
The conference to to cover an unusu
al variety of subjects, such as agrlcnl
bua) education for .women, hardy flow
era, foreign food plants, fruit poultry.
Vegetables, peonies aud iris, aquatic
plants, violet culture, canning, preserv
ing, etc. •" ‘
The National association is formed
to bring together those people Interest
ed in various forms of agriculture and
horticulture for women, to spread in
formation |»latfv^ to these subjectk
to bring producer and consumer to
gether. and to etdabllsli nh 'employment
bureau ftir wotnfcn agriculturists. And,
further the work of helping vrorten to
earn their living cut «f door*.
; The school at Ambler Is the first
Its kind in the United States.
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
merly sold for $15 to $20, now selling at $10.
Men's High-Top Shoes in Standard
makes at greatly reduced prices.
This is^an opportunity you should not miss.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
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