Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — Page 3

SURGEON MADE TISSUES GROW

Detaflanof Experiment* at Rocke* feller Institute Interest French Scientists in Pari* TO AID 111 HEALING WOUNDS May Lead to Discovery of*Means of Regenerating Nervous System by Surgical Operation—Foreign Physicians Put Discoveries in Practice. Paris, France.—Physicians and medical students have bean greatly interested in a lecture delivered by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute at one of the principal Paris hospitals; and his theories on the possibility of developing animal tissue artificially have created much discussion in the scientific world. Dr. Carrel said he had been able to keep alive the detached tissues of a cat, a dog, a guinea pig, and a human being on microscope slides for the purpose of study. These tissues, when covered with a natural plasm or liquid serum, developed to a remarkable extent. After remaining without alteration for a few hours, the cells had been seen to continue their natural growth and to spread out in all directions. “It may be possible to develop nerve tissues in this way,” said the doctor, “and If that be so, it will be possible to regenerate the nervous system by a surgical operation.” The doctor reminded his hearers that a part of one animal can be grafted into another with success, and that cases of abdominal aorta of a dog being replaced by a human thigh artery, and the principal vein of another animal being extracted and its functions perfectly taken up by a large vein which had been previously kept for some weeks in cold storage, had been successfully tried. “But the most Important feature of this branch or research is my application of it to the healing of wounds and fractures," continued the doctor. “Hitherto the study of the process of healing in living organisms has been Impossible; but by my methods I am able to watch these processes going on in the injured tissue, which has been detached from the parent body. “Although all these results have been attained at the Rockefeller Institute,” concluded Dr. Carrel, "I am bound to confess that It was French and German scientists who ware the first to pub them into practice.”

BURNING $2,000,000,000 IN BONDS.

Redeemed Securities Fed to the Flames In Washington. Washington, D. C. —More than 12,000,000,000 In redeemed bonds, representing the major part of the Government’s civil war debt, was fed gradually to the furnaces in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. The engineers estimate the immense sum in old securities will generate about as much steam as two tons of good coat All the Government securities issued and redeemed between 1860 and 1898 are being thus destroyed, including nearly 11,000,000,000 in the famous 7-30 bonds, which were mAde in the she .of greenbacks and passed as money at the highest rate of Interest the Government ever paid.

Offered Land for His Throne.

Lisbon, Portugal.—A sensation was caused by the announcement of the discovery at the Necessldad.es Palace of a small coffer containing secret correspondence betwen the since deposed royal family of Portugal and the British and German governments. King Manuel and his relatives foreseeing the revolution asked for foreign intervention, offering in compensation Portuguese territory In Africa. Great Britain and Germany refused u» interfere.

Oil Floods a Coal Mine.

Washington, Pa.—A fall of slate broke three eight-inch crude oil mains near here and flooded the colliery of the Guck Coal Company. There were 200 miners below, and they had a thrilling escape from a lake of oil, and finally reached safety through an old air shaft after the oil had almost sobmerged some of than.

Supperiese Boy Burns House.

Agawam, Mass.—Henry Samara, a 13-year-old State ward, was sent supperless to bed, the other boys being given cake and lemonade. The house, valued at 5T,500, and owned by, Mrs. Ada L. White, was burned during the might, and Sumara, was arrested, and charged with arson, confessed.

Bare Priests from Polities.

H Peso, Tex.—Archbishop Ortis of Guadalajara, Mexico, issued a tetter to the priests of that diocese warning them against taking part in ths political activity of the national Catholic party tn elections.

Fade Dead Catching Car.

Sooth Bethlehem, Pa.—Sprinting to catch a troßey car cost Abraham Dorns, a cttfawn of HeUertown, his Ute. Ho foil dead Just after be had IMMfrsd th# SM>

MOVE JOAQUIN MILLER CABIN.

Relic Will Be Taken from Washington to Wilde Poet Loves. /.' , Oakland, Cat —Joaquin Miller will see without taking the journey across the continent the cabin in which he spent several years in Washington, D. C., before he decided to go back to his beloved Sierras and dream again the dreams that had brought forth his poems. Through the efforts of the California Society at the National capital this, cabin is to be brought to this city and reerected in R ck Creek Park, where It will be carefully preserved. s Congressman Knowland ha* been to see the poet at his retreat near this city. He was asked by the California Society in Washington to make certain ot the authenticity of the cabin before it should be sent out The structure, which stands on property near the Washington monument, was built by the poet himself in the early eighties after his return from London. Curiously enough the togs used by him were taken from the very park in which the crbin Is to have its final site and were shipped across the continent. Value is added to the relic by the fact that the stone need In its construction was part of that left over after the building of the great National monument. In the cabin the poet received many distinguished visitors. Among his friends were President Arthur and President and Mrs. Cleveland and Justice Field, who were delighted to spend spare time with him. There he also wrote much of bls later work.

Lured from Alter by Hat.

d d d Winchester, Va.—Sharing the attentions ot many ardent admirers who professed to be deeply in Jove with her, Miss Mary Geode, daughter of John Goode, of Capon Springs, W. IjA., braved a severe storm to elope with Turner Lockhart, of the same vicinity, but just a* they were about to board a train here for Hagerstown, Md., they were arrested by a policeman, who had been wired by the girl’s father to stop them. Lockhart and the girl had driven 25 miles over rough and rugged mountain roads, through a drenching rain, in murky darkness. Several times they lost their way, but brilliant flashes of lightning enabled them *to get on the right road. The girl was persuaded to return home when her father promised to buy her a new hat

PENNSYLVANIA’S WEALTH.

Its Banking Assets Go Far Above the Two Billion Mark. . Harrisburg, Pa.—The fact that the aggregate assets of national und State banks, trust companies and other instituttone of the kind in Pennsylvania total the enormous sums of $2,446,766,547 wa* shown by a compilation for the first time of the condition of the various saving institutions in response to calls made by the Controller of the Currency. Of this total the national banks contain $1,847,502,350 and the State institutions $1,999,258,127. The total amount of loans and discounts 1* $1,152,746,696, of which the national concerns hold $680,642,381 and the State banks $487,225,225. The bonds owned by both classes of institutions reach $698,558,290, divided as follows: National banks, $284,054,496; State banks, $414,503,794. The combined capital of the savings organization totals $234,816,297. An aggregate of more than a billion dollars 1* shown in the total deposits, $1,483,284,685 in actual figures, and of this amount there is held in the State banks $755,522,210, and the remainder of $727,721,475 in the Government institutions.

Amoy Bulb Supply Captured.

Amoy, China.—The Pacific Mali steamer Mongolia, carried away from this port 280 tons of Amoy narcissus bulbs tor the American markets. This shipment was notable as the first of its kind. The bulbs are produced in a small area on the West River, and the annual supply is limited. There has been sharp competition lately among foreign bulb dealers to obtain the local supply.

Peanut Man's Monopoly.

Bonham. Tex.—The city oounefl has passed an ordinance providing that no one may set! peanuts in the streets here until he has suffered the amputation ot both tegs. The purpose ot the ordinance is to permit an old negro who has tost both legs to freese out all able-bodte- competitors in the poo* MbeelUng Mne. L

Shoot to Make Man Dance.

Shamokin, Pa.—Discovering John Volnskie, John Tknpko and 3Bmer Ruch, boys, shooting at the feet of a foreigner hero to make hfan dance, Sheriff William Taby and assistants captured the heavllyewined trio, who had lots of money and are thought to be burglars.

Carbor. County's Big Trout.

Mauch Chunk. Pa.—George Dreis* bach, of Weissport, caught a trout in Pine Run, a small stream six mQes tram here, which weighed 3)4 pounds, dressed, and was 21 inches tn length. Tbte is the largest treat eaught in thia

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

THREE BUILDINGS ADDED TO CAPITOL

They Will Supplement the Build* inf Design Prevalent in De* partmental Structures ESTIMATED COST GF $8,000,008 Sixty Architects Competed In Drawing Plans from Which Three Were Selected as Suitable —Greatest Building Scheme in the World. Washington, D. C. —The officially approved plans for the new government buildings advocated by the present administration were made public recently. They«provide tor the erection of buildings for the Departments of State, Commerce and Labor and Justice, on a site that lies between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and extends from Pennsylvania avenue south to th* Mail, which rune from tine Capital to tiw Washington monument. Interest Is attached to tike project, for it Is considered by experts the greatest building scheme In th* country and one of the greatest In the world, because it looks toward the erection of a group rather than a single unit with harmony in the aggregate as Its ultimate result. In seeking plans for the buildings the government Inaugurated a competitive contest, sending invitations to some sixty of the leading architect* of America asking them to submit designs. These plans were then placed before the board of examining architects who selected three of the most suitable, awarding to Donn Barber the Department of Justice; to York and Sawyer the Department of Commerce and Labor! and to Arnold W. Brunner the Department of State. In exterior design the three buildings are similar in character, each employing columns three stories In height set upon a windowed wall and architectural “basement" This wall Is one story high in the case of the end buildings and two stories high in the central one, thus correcting the dip of the ground and raising the three colonnades to the‘same level. While ornamental in appearance, the buildings are of the utmost simplicity and no fancied needs of “architectural expressions" have been allowed to interfere with the practical requirements of lighting and arrangement From Pennsylvania avenue on the north the principal feature of the front win be the entrance portico of the Department of Justice, from th* Monument ground of the Matt, that of the State department The building of Commerce and Labor, forming the connecting link, Is a simple rectangle, Its lines being unbroken by any dominating feature. Its main entrance is on Fifteenth street, but Its entrances for the employes are from the sidewalk ot Fourteenth street on a level with th* car lines. It will probably be two years before the new buildings will be completed.

PLAN FOR LINCOLN MONUMENT.

MoGonlgle Would Erect the Largest Arch In the World. Washington, D. C.—A meeting of the Lincoln Memorial Commission held M Jthe White House considered the various suggestions for t' e proposed 12,000,000 monument to Lincoln. One of the designs submitted was that of H. Van Buren MoGonlgle of New York City, designer of the recently erected monument to William McKinley at Canton. MoGonigle’s suggestion is that an arch, the largest in the world, be erected in the capital. His design proposes a marble or granite structure 170 feet high, 180 wide and 132 deep, the upper portion containing a hall to hold Lincoln relics.

Mrs. Whitney's Cigarette Case.

Providence, R. L —Following the arrest in Boston of ' Israel Davis, charged with the larceny of a 31,500 diamond necklace belonging to Mrs. Payne Whitney of New York City and the recovery of the necklace, Mrs. Whitney's gold cigarette case and several small articles of Jewelry were found by the police of this city & the home of Rufus Davis, a cousin of the man under arrest, on Garrison street.

Railroads Abolish Public Cupe.

Lansing, Mich. —Officers of five railroads in Michigan informed Soo rotary Dixon of the State Board of Health they have abolished the puMte drinking cups on their trains. The public cups also have been dispensed with in their railway stations.

Navy Clerk Sent to Prison.

Atlanta, Ga.—Edward Valentino Lee, former paymaster's clerk on the battleship Georgia, Convicted in Buffalo, N. Y., on a charge of having stolen 156,000 of the ship's funds, is serving a five-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary here.

Quite an Egg for a Hen.

Goidendate, Wash.—One of Frank Vincent's hens has laid an egg measuring eight inches around one way arid 6% inches the other.

STRETCHED HIM TWO INCHES.

St Levi* Fireman Tell* Hew He Satisfied Civil Sendee Rale. BL Louis, Me.—To obtain entrance into the Ffre Department of this city in spite of civil service raise which would hare barred him, Edward George Bernard, according to hl* own account, stretched tomeoif two inches. Afterward he shrunk to to* former stoe. la an lasnffinlnl measurement taken three months after he had been certified a* a department member be was found to be two Inches shorter than he was, according to the official figures, on the day he entered. To the surprise of a trial court before which he wa* up on charge* of being understood, Bernard declared, that both meaauromenta had been accurately and honestly made and that both were correct “But hew could you be 6 feet 7 inches In height when you were measured three months ago and show only 5 feet 5 Inches nowr asked Chief Bwtagley. “It’s easy." the fireman replied, “and rn teU yon how I did It I stoaafip scalead myself before I wml measured. I Jay in a bathtub filled with warm water for twenty-four hours and then I had myself massaged and stretched until I was two inches longer.” ~ Bernard refused to submit to- more puffing and maroaglng and soaking to see if the shrinkage of the last, two month* could be restored, and was summarily suspended. It is the opinions of Chief Swlngtey that certain politicians know more about the “soaking'’ of Bernard than he admitted at hto trial.

Free After Twenty-nine Years.

St Paul, Minn.—Fred KlingbeU. who bee been in the Stillwater Prison since 1882 for a murder committed in Washington county, has been pardoned on eonditiem that his son-in-law shall come from Chicago and tarnish Mtn a home for the remainder of hi* life. Archie Hays, stark of the Pardon Board, telegraphed Edward Soppet, of Chicago, the son-in-law, to come and get KUngbett. The judge who sentenced KMngbeH for life and the County Attorney who prosecuted him are both dead and facta concerning the case cannot be had. The prisoner is seventy-three years of age. He has wasted away until he now weighs only ninetythree pound*, and tt to believed he cannot live much longer.

SNAKE RANG UP ON PHONE.

He Failed to Answer Operator, but Tied Up Service. Montclair, N. J.—A large black snake which was locked up in a distributing station box attached to a pole of the New York Telephone Company, on Washington street, Bloomfield, gave the “Hello glrta” at Montclair Central Station and the line repairer* a busy hour. Numerous telephone calls came in tram that station, but the operator on requesting “Number, please,** received no answer. Finally lineman were sent out, and when they opened the large iron box a snake fafly three and a half feet long squirmed out The box. which is situated about five feet from the ground, had been left open for a short time, when it is believed the snake entered, and in its efforts to get out opened the switches in the box. .

Vanderbilt Get $220 An Hour.

Washington, D. C.—Proof that the elder William H. Vanderbilt once owned 348,050,000 in Government bonds upon which he received Interest at the rate of 31,922,000 a year, was found in the old Treasury records. The old interest checks made out to Mr. Vanderbilt show the Government paid to hfan 3160,000 a month. One of the department statisticians calculated that he received 3220 every hour of the day and night and 38.66 every minute.

Breaks Bottle and Skult.

- Shamokin, Pa.—■'TH bet any man tn the room I can crush this beer bottle with my right band,** said Stanlye Lodwltch in a saloon. His wager was accepted. Ha crushed the bottle, but pieces of the glare penetrated Ms hand, after which he feu back against tho bar and fractured his skull.

Killed by Entangled Suspenders.

St Paul, Minn.—Martin Gasperson, foreman in a local bolter works, was kilted tn a peculiar way. His suspenders having been caught by a rapidly revolving steel drill he was whirled u-ound and around, his head striking » projecting beam with very revolution. By the time the machinery was stopped he was dead.

Start as Eggs Arrive re Chicks.

Bangor, Piu—An express package vhfoh camo through a hot wave from Cindnnattus, N. Y., to CL J. Beck, of Bangor, started as eggs and arrived thickens. '

650,690 Die of Plague.

Loudon, England.—According to Igures received in this city the deaths from the plague in India reached tho enormous total of 650,690 for the half rear ended oa June Ml

BLIND AND DEAF, LEARNS TYPING

Young Woman Has Accomplished Much Despite Loss of Her Two Sense* '• i - ■ -■ IS CHIEFLY SELF-EDUCATED Miss Maude Wlckliff, of Pataskalo, Ohio, Writes Sketch of Her Life on Her Own Machine—She is Thirtyone Years Old. Columbus, Ohio. —Blind and deaf, Miss Maude Wickliff, of Pataskale, Ohio, io in many respects a Helen Keller. Self-educated largely, she enjoys many of life’s pleasures and comforts. Her disposition is winning. One of her accomplishments is ability to operate a typewriter. Recently, upon being asked to give a sketch of herself, She wrote the following on her machine: ' "Having been asked for a little sketch of my li*'l now write down a few facts ab myself and what I have accomplished . which, though It seems very little in comparison to what other deaf-blind have done and are doing, has at least brought comforting rays of sunshine into my heart, enabling me to bear my sad lot with some degree of cheerfulness. "I was bom in Licking county, Ohio, on the sth of July, 1880. My mother died when I was little more than two years old, leaving me in th* care of her parents, and especially of her only sister, to whom I owe both a mother’s care and a mother’s love. ’ I was never healthy and strong, and flor this reason and because my sight was always defective, I never attended school.* However, I was taught to read at a very early age, and I remember that I made quick work of my first reader. "I was very fond of reading from the start, but I must confess that I cared little for study. Nor was study ever forced upon me. As a child I was thought to be good at reciting, and I frequently appeared at public gatherings where speaking was in order. I also gave a few entertainments myself, assisted by my brother. My one ambition then was to make the stage the scene of my life work. "But all my hopes of such a career were shattered when at the age of nine, I suddenly lost my hearing, which had been perfect up to that time. “I need not say hov; sad and lonely my life was after that But I did enjoy one blessing. My sight was tor some years much improved, so that I could keep myself company a good part of the time by reading.' Gradually, however, my sight also failed. Then I learned to read by touch. That was nearly ten years ago. I first learned to read line letter; later to read and write the New York point system. Alphabets and writing materials were furnished by the State School for the Blind and friends helped me. I am particularly grateful to the late M. A. H. Brice, a blind gentleman, forthe practical assistance and kindly encouragement ha gave me at that time. I never had the pleasure of meeting him personally, nor have I ever visited the State School for the Blind. “In 1904 I learned the English Braille system, being taught by a deaf blind lady of Chicago, lit A* soon as I could get a Braille slate I learned to write this system. I read American Braille, too, but do riot write it, simply because I have a profound dislike for the type. “With a writing board and lead pencil I can write a little script, but not a good, legible hand by any means. I correspond a good deal in the embossed types, having made friends with several interesting blind people in different States and in Canada.**

"Hoke Smith" Shipped by Freight.

Washington, D. G. —Watermelons grow so large in Georgia nowadays that they are christened. One weighing 62% pounds arrived at the House office building from Georgia, consigned to Representative Roddenbury of that State, shipped in a special orate. Carved in the rind was “Hoke Bantth.*

Dies in Fire Seeking His Leg.

Battle Creek, Mich.—Leo Hunt, 26 years old, lost his life in a Are that destroyed the Hamlin livery stables, where he was employed as barn man. Hunt was sleeping in the building and was suffocated while searching in the dense smoke for his cork leg. Twenty-one horses were burned.

Bells and Cart for Newlyweds.

Conshohocken, Pa. —William Bare, baggagemaster at the local station erf the Pennsylvania Railroad and, Elva, daughter of Harry Jordan, were married in Wilmington, Del., and on their return friends put them into separate push-carts, with bells on, and banded them about town.

Bees Take Honey Back.

Bristol, Pa. —Fifteen pounds of homy in the comb, which Frank Pierce, of Mill street, set out to drain in pans in the sun, were wholly carried off by a swarm of bees. They left only the comb and took all the hohey to reregrfacles of - their own.

BROTHERS’ RARE REUNION.

Shipwrecked, Fought on OpgoafaS Sides In W«A Fairmount, N. J. Ohartoi and Th—dore Glazer met at th* totter** horn* here for the first time in 46 y**c* and what they had to tell o**h other and a third brother wa* enough to keep them going a week, only tfMT had to sleep and eat a tittle. Th* brothers were among th* tew sons rescued from the rtrig New Era, which in 1854 foundered on th* New Jersey coast at a point near where Asbury Park visitors now «*s*y surfbathing, and 3W p»e* lingers were drowned. It was their fate, too, to fight «* opposing sides in the war of th* States. They had migrated from Germany. Theodore had gon* to Virginia to live and be imbibed th* spirit of the Confederacy, whfi* Charles, settling down to farm life in Jersey, was among the volunteers who went oat on Lincoln’s call Theodor* went to the front as a member of Branch’s Petersburg Battery, an integral part of the Army of Northern Virginia, which was commanded by General Robert E. Lee. It took part in a majority of th* fanportaat engagements, including Antietam and Gettysburg. With the same spirit of patriotism, Charles enlisted with the First New Jersey Cavalry, which wa* a part of the Army of the Potomac. The carslry, by a coincidence, participated in aTI ot the struggles in wfcloh. Branch’s Battery was engaged. It was not long after the start of the rebel lion that the brothers, by accident, learned they were fighting against each other. Then after each engage merit they made it a part of their duty to search tor each other in th* field of the dead and wounded.

Will In Twenty-one Words.

Camden, N. J.—Th* wfil of William J. Thompson, tong* political leader in Booth Jerew, who was known a* the Dak* of Gloucester, a title earned whoa he ran the old Gloucester racetrack and who died in Unrope, was filed for probate here. “I wffl, bequeath and devise all my real and personal prop erty to my wife Sarah Thompson and appoint her sets eatecutrix.” It to th* sborteat will *v*r filled here. It wa* axecutad July 16, 1896, when Thompson was rated a* being several tlmoo a millionaire. He wa* in bankruptcy at the ttmo of Id* death.

KILLED BY SODA WATER TANK.

Explosion Not Only Stay* CterlL Bat Wrecks Entire Mora. Selbyville, Del.—-Tomtag a groat bole in the body of Archie Dodtay, of Chincateague, an exploding aoda fountain severed a main artery and the lad died in about an boar after the accident Bodley i* th* son of a merchant, Charles Bodfay, who keep* a store on Chtocateago* Island, and was charging a soda water taak for his father when too taak eapfotad. The steel of whMi the tank wa* made struck tho lad ea the top, wtol* other pieces flew In all direction*. The boy was burled backward by th* explosion, which wrecked a greater part ot the store and alannad lb* whole town.

Their Big Snake Chokes.

Bangor, Pa.—Three boys, Walter Deshler, 19; Qus Ribble, Id, aad Franklin Speer, 12, the latter * sen of Lewis F. Speer, in charge of the Corporation Bureau, United States Treasury Department, Vaahtagton, D. C., captured the largest hlarkenahA of the season in these parte Mar Pahaquarry. As they were taking the monster alive to camp with * string tied around back of ite head, the snake wriggled itself into see—l knots and choked itself to death. The reptile's skin measured six fest wm inches, minus the head.

Pulls In Man-Eating Shark.

Lewes, Del.—Attacked by a area* eating shark which ho hasted frees the Delaware Bay while fishing from the Over Fail Lightship, Martin Bosg would have been killed but fur tho heavy clothing he pore, whfati partly broke the force of the shark's tooth. Berg sustained a. deep gash in Me leg. The big fellow was over four foot long. After a severe fight in whtek other members of the crew took part, the shark was killed with an an.

Slain to End a Fond.

McConnellsburg, Pa.—WlDtam Loo* aid, who lives in the mouutataa «f Fulton county, 12 mites from bore, shot and killed J. Keß Footer near New Granada. Tho Locoed and Footer families have long canted on a feud, and both men are said to have threatened each other, and as a rearit to have been heavily armed.

Now London Harbor Bill Signed.

Hartford, Conn.—Governor Baldwin signed the bill providing for a State bond, issue of 31,900,000 for the development of New London Harbor aa an ocean terminal.

Chill Orders Aleop Award Paid.

Santiago, Chill—ln accordance with King George’s award, the Chilian Government ordered the payment of 2MS.MQ to the reprseaetativre of tho