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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1914.
“THE ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY.”
Speaking scientifically, poisons are
substances which cannot be eliminat
ed from the blood fast enough to
prevent their doing serious mischief.
If the kidneys could eliminate all
substances in the blood that are not
needed by the bodily economy, and
throw them off fast enough, it might
practically be said that there would
be no poisons. The kidney, which
is a wonderful organ, is not alfogeth
er fitted for this purpose. But an
"artificial kidney” has been invented
by Dr. John J. Abel, Dr. Leonard G.
Rowntree, and Dr. B. B. Turner, re
search workers in the Pharmacologi
cal Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins
University, to do the work which the
kidneys refuse to do, as also the work
for which they may be incapacitated
from doing. Their first full descrip
tion of the apparatus is printed in the
Journal of Pharmacology and Experi
mental Therapeutics for January.
The artificial kidney will eliminate
substances naturally present in the
body, such as sugar, salt, phosphates,
uric acid, as well as any poison of
a crystalloid nature. Moreover, the
process of "vivi-diffusion” will per
mit the retention in the body of any
given substance which it may not be
desirable to eliminate.
The invention takes advantage of
the principle that crystalloid substan
ces may be absorbed by passage over
a dialyzing membrane that will not
absorb the colloid or jelly-like mat
ter of which the blood is chiefly com
posed. A system of tubes made of i
the dialyzing substance—soluble cot
ton changed into a film by pouring1
its solution with alcohol inside glass j
tubes and separating the film from
the glass after the alcohol has evap
orated tire filled with a sail solution j
and connected through a .perfectly
closed system with tin artery and vein j
of the body. To prevent the blood’s .
clotting, an injection of hirudin, which |
Is a harmless drug, is given and the ,
heart pumps the blood into the sys- j
tern of tubes, forcing the salt solu-:
tion into the circulatory system. Ex
periments upon animals, principally
dogs, have been made without “induc
ing any untoward effects or injuring
the animals in any way.” The doc
tors are positive that the experiment
can hardly be “detrimental life when
carried on for only three or four
hours.” Dogs have been known to
live after sixteen hours of the pro
cess under anaesthesia produced by
chloretin.
As a substitute for the work of j
the kidneys in an emergency and to j
tide over dangerous crises, this “ar-1
tificial-kidney” should be available j
and useful in the hands of skilled
surgeons, i It will also enable re
search workers to eliminate from
the blood numerous constituents not
noisr separated by tht: kidneys, which j
are present in minute quantities and
have not yet been classified. Among
them are certain stimulating agents
called hormones, that preserve the
tone of the circulation and may have
valuable medicinal qualities.—Ex.
The women will listen to a mis
sionary tell how the Chinese women
bind their feet to make them small
er and will grow highly indignant ov
er the blindness of the poor heath
en. Then they will go home and get
out of their straight fronts and spend
a half hour, powdering the welts and
bruises around the cinch line caused
by the tight corsets.
Secretary Daniels says the navy
needs more chaplains. In other words,
there should be more worships on the
warships
A New York blacksmith has been
bla'£tt4nailing pickpockets. New York
is the most enterprising city in the
world.
Speaker Champ Clark pointedly
told the Republican calamity howlers
that they had to quit kicking our dog
around.
Watch crystals 2fcc. Plant & Co. tf
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III MIHIIIIES
New York Charitable Authorities So
State in Annual Report—Males
Hard to Give Away.
NEW YOKE.—Baby girls are near
ly three Cities as popular as baby
boys, according to the annual report
of the State Charities Aid Associa
Con.
"Nature has conferred a great
boon on the male portion of the race,”
says the report, "by making the de
termination of sex subject to a hid
den biological law. Otherwise, ap
parently, the world would soon bean
Adamless Eden.
"Girls are desired, when children
are in contemplation, about three
times as often as boys. Of the 4,754
applications from families desiring to
become the foster parents of orphans
received by the association in its fif -
teen years of activity in this field,
3,011 wanted girls, while only 1,478
were satisfied with mere males.
“Nature’s plan of deciding such
questions must be unsatisfactory to a
very large proportion of mortals be
cause 190 applicants were willing to
take either boys or girls, and only
thirty wanted both.
“The State Charities Aid Associa
tion has been obliged to disappoint
many foster parents because of the
1,784 children placed 765 were boys
and 1,019 were girls. Seven hundred
and seventy-eight were babies be
tween three weeks and two years of
age, 690 wrere between two and ten
years, and 316 were over ten years.”
During its existence the Children’s
Department of the association has
placed 1,784 children in homes. The
history of these children, according
to the report, wras: Legally adopted,
628; returned to relatives, 44; return
ed to agencies or institutions, 43;
died, 49; became of age and self
supporting, 51; transferred through
other institutions, 10; placed in in
stitutions for special treatment, 25;
married, 6; remaining under the ov
ersight of the S. C. A. A., 928.
M :ss Mary Vida Clark, assistant
secretary and executive of the Chil
dren’s Department, says that any one
may become a foster parent, even if
it is not feasible to take a child into
the home.
"The association has worked out a
plan,” Miss Clark says, "whereby a
person by contrbuting fifty dollars
can pay for placing a child in a real
home and follow that child through
its later development, by means of
periodical reports from agents who
supervise it.”
Watch Your Step.
It ain’t what you ain’t, but it’s,
what you are. —The Subway Guard.
"Down in Baton Rouge they’s a
old man claims th’ blue ribbon for
not doin’ nothin’ bad all his life.
“He’s 82 years old, an’ he never
had liquor fed to him even in a
spoon. He ain’t smoked, chewed or
got drunk. Says he never cussed
anybody or said a Dad word all his
life. Never hopped around a dance
hall, an’ don’t know/ a ace from a
deuce. / •
“He ain’t never went to a show.
Couldn’t get him ro go "see a Chris’
mus tr e or a ice cream an' straw
•
berry festihle. No, sir, he’s such a
good church member he cut out' all
them things ’cause he don’t believe in
’em.
“While he ain’t braggin’ about it,
I bet he never set tire to a school
house or beat b;s wife to death.
"I got a lot o’ questions I’d like
to ask that old fellow ’fore I vote
to hang a medal on his wishbone.
Did he ever hit his thumb nail with
a hammer? Or did he ever bark his
shin on a water hydrant he didn’t,
know was on th’ sidewalk in th’
dark?
“He can’t make me believe he
never had a grouch an’ if he wras one
o’ them foolish kind, he must alaugh
ed at his own jokes. Like as not,
he had a bad breath an’ wore red
flannel undershirts. He always
changed ’em on groundhog day.
“Th’ trouble with that old grand
pa is he ain’t got no errors marked
up on his score ’cause he ain’t took
no chances. His battin’ average is
1,000. That’s ’cause he never had a
strike. He always waited, an’ walk
ed to first.
“I rather did some o’ them bad
things granny didn’t do ’n to set
around like he’s done. He sure will
have to read up when he gets to
heaven.
“Eighteenth! Eighteenth street!
“Stand one side, please, an’ let ’em
on!
"Uptown local! Local for Broad
way!
“Watch your atop!”
SPOT LIGHT IS ON
HISTORICFAIRFAX
Virginia In Fight to Regain
Martha Washington Will.
INSISTS MORGAN GIVE IT UP
Testament Cut From the Records of
Fairfax County During Civil War and
Discovered In Father’s Library Six
Years Ago Is Prized Beyond Price In
the Old Dominion.
The stage is being set for a bitter
battle between tire state of Virginia
and J. t’ierpont Morgan in Virginia’s
avowed intention of recovering ‘‘at n't
costs” the will of Martha Washington,
which was stolen from the records of
Fairfax county, Va., during the civil
war. This historical document is itt
the possession of tile New York finan
cier, who has declined to accede to
the request of the state that he sur
render it
Representative Charles U. Carlin
who represents the Fairfax district,
has come forward to aid the state and
county officials to recover the will.
"The people of Virginia are aroused
over this matter,” said the congress
man recently. "The will is ours, and
we me going to have it restored to
where it belongs.”
"Virginia will recover the will ol
Martha Washington at all costs,”
declared Crandall Mackey, common
wealth attorney for Alexandria county.
“Until Mr. Morgan persisted in his
refusal to return the will to the ar
chives from which it was purloined
the fight was one between him and
the people of Fairfax county, to whom
the document belongs, but now it has
become a state wide question.”
Will Lost For Fifty Years.
The will of Martha Washington,
wife of the first president of the Unit
ed SlatesT^vas cut from the records of
Fairfax county while the war between
the states was raging in that part of
Virginia. Virginians believe that one
of General McDowell’s soldiers car
ried off the Martha Washington will
along with other records, but how it
got into Mr. Morgan’s possession no
one seems to be able to guess.
For more than fifty years the people
of Fairfax county have searched for
the Martha Washington will, which
they prized very highly as a relic.
Not long ago some one who saw the
will among Mr. Morgan’s collection
notified a friend in Fairfax, and an
effort was made to have the document
returned to where Virginians say !t
rightfully and legally belongs.
Mrs. John S. iiarhour, regent of the
Falls Church (Va.) chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. acting for her organization, wrote
and asked Mr. Morgan to return tlie
will, which, she said, had been "taken
from the records of Fairfax county.
Va.”
An unfavorable reply was received
from Mr. Morgan's librarian. j
Futile Appeals to Elder Morgan.
The report that the Washington will
was in the Morgan collection first was
heard six years ago. Several letters
were sent to the elder Morgan, but he
never replied to any of them, so it is
said.
After his death the Fairfax people
became interested in the will again.
Tlie Daughters of the American Revo
lution and the Falls Church chapter
joined forces in an effort to recover
the testament. When gentler means
failed it was decided to. enlist the aid
of the state.
The suit planned to recover the will
is unique in that the state of-Virginia
sues an individual before the supreme
court of the Duited States, rt is one
of the few instances where a state
has sued a citizen In the supreme
court.
Ferdinand D. Richardson, father of
the present clerk of Fairfax county,
was clerk of the county when the will
was taken.
Mrs. Washington's estate at the time
the will was made was one of the
largest in the south.
REDFIELD ON PROSPERITY.
Secretary of Commerce Makes Bright
Forecast For Year.
in an article in the Chicago Tribune
Secretary of Commerce Redtield fore
casts prosperity for liiH and scoffs
at pessimistic predictions tie says in
part:
The facts are such as should fill us all
with hope. There Is little in them to Jus
tify either douht for the present or real
tor the future.
The crop of winter wheat already plant
ed to mature next summer Is not only in
finer condition than a year ago, but is of
much larger extent, promising well for
the future If weather conditions prove fa
vorable and certainly Justifying no pres
ent anxiety.
Referring to American industries, he
says, "One does not need to be wor
ried by this cry of wolf, for the cry
has been made before, and the wolf
did not come.”
*■
Asks Divorce Becauae He’a Bald.
Because be is bald and bis wife sent
him a comb and brush as a Christmas
present, Jeremiah Scblestenberg of
Midway, Fa., began an action for di
vorce on the grounds of cruel and bar
barous treatment. “1 can’t grew batr
on wy Ms! and I Can't aland bar,
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In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
In the Matter of the Annexation of
Certain Territory to the Incorpor
ated Town of Valdez.—Order Set
ting Time for Hearing Petition and
Giving Notice.
A petition having been this day
presented to the court for the pur
pose of instituting the proceedings
required by law for the annexation
of territory to an. incorporated town,
said petition praying for the annex
ation of certain described territory to
the incorporated town of Valdez, in
the Territory of Alaska, Third divis
ion; and it appearing to the court
that said petition is signed by forty
eight qualified electors of said incor
porated town, the same being more
than one-fifth of the number of votes
cast at the last municipal election in
said town, and by five actual resi
dents and owners of substantial prop
erly interests in land in the territory
proposed to be annexed and verified
by two of the signers of said peti
tion; said petition setting forth the
boundaries of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to said town, an
having attached thereto a plat based
upon an actual survey by a compe
tent surveyor, setting forth the lim
its and boundaries thereof by metes
and bounds, and stating the number
of inhabitants therein:
Therefore, it appearing to the court
that said petition is in the form re
quired by law; it is ordered that said
petition be heard and considered by
the court on the 18th day of Febru
ary, 1914, at 10 o’clock a. m. of said
day, at the court room of this court
in Valdez, Alaska, if said day be a day
of jurisdiction in said court, or if the
same be not a day of jurisdiction,
then said hearing shall be held on the
first day of jurisdiction thereafter. It
is further ordered that notice of such
hearing be given by posting printed
or typewritten copies of this order
in three conspicuoous places within
the limits of said incorporated town
of Valdez, and by posting such cop
ies in three conspicuous places with
in the limits of the territory so pro
posed to be annexed to and included
within the limits of said incorporated
town, and by publishing a copy of
this order once a week in the Valdez
Prospector, a newspaper of genera’
circulation published nearest to said
incorporated town.
Done in open court at Valdez,
Alaska, this 7th day of January, 1914.
FRED. M. BROWN, Judge.
First publication January 10, 1914.
Last publication February 14, 191;.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, ex-officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased. Notice to cred
itors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Robert Martin, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them with the necessary vouch
ers, within six (6) months after the
first publication of this notice, to the
said administrator at the office of C.
E. Bunnell, at Valdez. Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
tion of the business of said estate.
Dated at Valdei, Alaska, this 13th
day of January, 1914.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Robert
Martin, deceased.
Date of first publication Jan. 14.
Date of last publication Feb. 17.
Ninety-Second Half Yearly Report of
The German Savings
and Loan Society
SAVINGS (THE HERMAN' BANK) COMMERCIAL
526 California Street.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
December 31, 1913,
ASSETS:
United Mates,'Slate, Municipal and other bonds
(market value $13,437,7(i0), standing on books at $12,899,050.90
Loans on Real Estate, secured by first Mortgages . 38,501,617.20
Loans on Bonds and Stocks . 900,830.99
Bank Buildings and Lots, Main and Branch Offices (value
$000,000), standing on books at . 1.00
Other Real Estate (value $230,000.10) standing on books at 1.00
Employees’ Pension Fund,'(100,570.12) standing on books at 1.00
CASH „. 4,450.192.41
Total $50,823,000.50
LIABILITIES
Due Depositors—.. $54,010,190.38
Capital Stock actually paid in„. 1,000,000,00
Reserve and Contingent Fuud. . 1,807,404.18
Total-.... - .$56,823,600.50
N. OHLANDT, GEORGE TOURNEY,
President. Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me'this 31st day of December, 1913,
[seal] CHAS. F. DUISENBERG, Notary Public,
... For the 0 months ending December 31st, 1913, a dividend to deposi
tors of 4 per cent per annum was declared. Adv.
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