Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 February 1898 — Page 7

INSIDE YOUR BRAIN

BRILLIANT FRENCHMAN DESIGNS UNIQUE CONTRIVANCE. To Locate Förrien Substantia That May Have Found Lodgment tit Your Head Successful l'.x perl men ta With New Apparatus Demonstrates Its Value. (Special Letter.) fj HE X-ray. as an iy) v- il v een sne no better. Science has developed a raor perfect system of d e termin ir.g upon the exact location of a foreign substance in the burn a n body, and even a. bullet embedded in the brain may now be removed without jeopardizing the life of the patient. The surgeons were not long in discovering the fact that it was imprudent to exact too much from these rays. They did not always Indicate the precise location of these foreign SSSbstanccs, and the operator sometimes risked the patient's lifs by depending too completely on the insufficient indication given by the X-rays. But now a young man. M. Contremoulins. of the Laboratory of Micro-Photography, under the direction of M. Ronny, member of the Faculty of Medicine, in Paris, has come to the fore and quieted the fears of scientists and purgfons by inventing an apparatus called Ii eherrheur de projectiles," or "searcher for projectiles." which he claims is capable of revealing with absolute precision the exact location of a ball in the brain. Experiments have resulted successfully. The principle of the method is as follows: With the aid of two radiographic proofs, obtained at different L aas, of a head, inside of which Is seen a ball, the center of this ball is detc .xined by a geometrical construction, ard by its relation to three fixed points or guiding marks traced on the face of the wounded man. Then by means of small movable arms jutting outward, the ends of which come together, the relative position of the three fixed points and the ball are determined. The four extremities of thee movable arms are then Attacked to a compass. This compass, thus set. is placed upon the head of the patient and adjusted to the three "guide marks on the patient's face; the extremities of the fourth arm, if the head has been perforated, will coincide exactly with the center of the ball. It is then only necessary for the purpose of extraction to follow the direction ind'eated by the fourth arm and to penetrate to the depth indicated by the length of this arm. To. Obt n two radiographic proofs' which will permit of the pxact locating of the cen er of the ball calls for the absolute rest of the Crookes tubes in connection with the sensitive plates. With this rÄl in view, two small, thin pieces of wood are sealed in plaster and placed on the upper part of the patient's bead, and to these is screwed .a metal plate. This plate supports on one side of t'ae head a shatter, la which is successively disposed two Photographie plates, and on the other Ride two improved Crookes tubes, joined in such a manner ai to allow them to be moved in any desired position. Besides, this nipt;il plate has on its - outer surface three pointed arms. whose extremities are placed on the three guide marks on the patient's face; these marks are, generally, one on the forehead and two on the cheeks. A photographic plate is slid into the shutter and is worked by sending a current from the very powerful ithumkoroff oil, giving a 14-inch spark, through one of the Crookes tubes. At the end of a quarter of an hour .a radiograph is obtained. After this plate is developed, the shadow of the ball will be distinctly seen in the interior of the brain. The operation is renewed by means of a second plate and a secoad Crookes tube. In this way two pictures of the same ball are obtained, occupying different positions, for the reason that the luminous foci of the two Crookes tubes occupy different positions in relation to the hall and the shutter enclosing the plates. The metal plate is then removed from the patient's head without disturbing the different parts of the apparatus. H we now prolong the foci of each of the Cooked tubes, and the center of the shadow of the ball on the corresponding radiograph plates by means of threads, we reconstruct the path of the lumino-s rays The point

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at which these threads cross Is the pctfrit zx which the luminous rays had but a moment before met. This then is the center of the ball, and the point at which the threads intersect each other gives the exact position of the ball in the brain, at the moment the radiograph was taken.

THE LADY IS ALWAYS A LADY, The True Keynote of the Grande lame ieut Interns and Simplicity. Ruth Ashmore, writing on "The Simplicity of the Grand Dame." in the Ladies' Home Journal, asserts that "a lady may stand behind the counter, bs mistress in her own home, or busy dr day at a desk, but no matter what her position in life is, she never swerves, and unconsciously she always impresses those who are around her With the fact of her ger leness and her simplicity. The lady gains her strength not from riches, not from her hig'i position, not from great learning, but from good common sense. Any one of us may b arn this if we will take a good model and copy it. No lady is free and easy in her manners. She does not, however, go to the other extreme anil become stilted, but she tends rather to quietness and to a slight reserve, since, when she takes a friend, she proposes to keep her. She does not become intimate with you after 21 hours acquaintance, put you in the place of a confidante in 48 hours, and in a week's time tire of you. The ladv knows you first merely as an acquaintance, and then, if she finds you interesting, or if she thinks she can in any way be of use to you. she permits you to come gradually into her life, and between you may grow up a friendship that may last through life, even unto death." LOST TO SOCIETY. In a hospital in Philadelphia learning to be a nurse, is a great-great-granddaughter of John Adams, second President of the United States and one of the founders of the government. Her name is Miss Emma O'Neill, and, despite the fact that she is scarcely more than 20 years old, she possesses In not a small degree some of the Miss EMMA O'NEILL. characteristics of the distinguished family of which she is a proud descendent. She is beautiful and much courted by Philadelphia society men, but on her mother's death a year ago she decided to devote herself to ministering; to the sick, a calling that will necessarily separate her from a position in society. BORN WITH VHISKERS. Uttered a Prophecy. Closed It Kes, ami Slop, in Death. A most remarkable story is brought to M .con from Meri weather, says th Telegraph, by a well-known Macon law. tr, who learned about it while attending Pike Superior court at Zebulon. According to the story, as it was told to the Macon lawyer by a prominent lawyer of Pike county, the people in Meriweather, just across the line from Pike, are in a state of excitement bordering on frenzy over a baby in that neighborhood which was born with a set of long, silken whiskers. The baby lived only a few hours, and just before it died, spoke the following words in the presence of a number of people in as plain language as any one could speak: "There will be no more rain in this country for seven years." Without another word the baby died. The news of the baby's strange prophecy soon spread throughout the neighborhood and the wildest excitement prevailed and still prevails. The long drought that prevails throughout the country has helped to increase the belief of the superstitions that the baby's prophecy is true, and many of them are praying for rain. The story of the strange baby, of course, seems incredible, but the gentleman who told it to the Macon lawyer said that he himself knew that the neighborhood was greatly excited, and that the man who told hirn of it was known to be thoroughly reliable, and not the kind of a man to spread a false report. The man who told tre Pike countv lawyer of the afTair gave the names of the child's parents, but in telling it to the Macon lawyer the Pike county gentleman could not remember the names, he having taken little notice of them at the time. The Macon lawyer sugg Ited to the Pike county lawyer that he go to the home of the child's parents and ask them if the report was true, and it is ighly probable that this will be done. The Telegraph was givn the name of the Pike county lawyer, with the privilege of writing to him if there was any doubt as to the accuracy of the statement. Centenarian In the 1'nlpl. The oldest minister in continuous service in the Uniteu states is the Rev. James Needham of Gaston county, N. C, who will be 100 next May. He lis been continuously n tlv nnlpH tad still yrear.be).

HA Z AßDOUS WEDLOCK

TITLED EASTERNERS USUALLY BRING TROUBLE To the White Woman Aeeepliuj History of Some litnmui .Mulclir. All but One of Which Proved Themselves Id happy. (Special Letter. HERE seems to be no doubt whatever that Lady Ann Coventry of England will wed Dhuleep Singh, the Hindoo prince, despite the protests of her friends and the predictions of nearly all who understand the Oriental character that the match can hardly fail of being an unhappy one. These gloomy predictions seem to be based upon the strictest truth, as well as common sense, for of all the recorded instances of marriages between yellow or brown skinned men and women of Caucasian blood lew have been happy. So generally are the hazards for the women who weds an Oriental understood in Europe that weddings of Asiatics and white women of quality are cxeeedinly rare. One of the bete known marriages of this sort recorded was between the Japanese Count Aoki and the German Baronets Von Rhadeu, which took place while the Count was serving as ambassador to Berlin. For a time after the marriage all went well with the countess. It was not long, however, before she suffered a rude awakening. The count was recalled to Japan and the countess had to go with him to the empire of the Rising Sun, as a matter of course. Then she soon found that she had surrounded herself with environments the most distasteful, not to say unbearable. She was no longer an ambasladress, but plain Mrs. Aoki, the wife of Ma native'' a native with a title to be sure, but still a native. Her first shock came when nearly all the other white women in Tokio, where Aoki lived, positively declined TIIE SULTAN to have anything to do with her, while those who did condescend to notice her were exceedingly careful to make it clear that they did it through pity. Next the Japanese women, wives of Japs of like rank with her husband, cut her dead. It. s not related that tbo count ultimately degraded her to the usual level of the Japanese wife, but he certainly humiliated her in every way he dared to, and her life was from that time of the most miserable description. Emily Keene's union with the Shereef of Waaan has proved to be altogether the most satisfactory marriage on record between a white woman and a Mahometan potentate. En many ways the Shereef of Wazan is a bigger man in Morocco than the Sultan himself, the Sultan being merely the political head with certain religious powers and prerogatives, while the Shereef of Wazan is a religious and tribal chief of much political power and immense influence and a pedigree of such length and lustre that by comparison the Sultan is distinctly underbred. Emily Keene, an English girl, was a governess in Tangier when she was I wooed and won by the Shereef of Wazan. and she said "yes" to his proposals of marriage only after her nut brown-bearded suitor had promised solemnly never to take another wife. This was in 1K7Ü. and although Mulai Ali has since broken his monogamous promise, he kept it a long time, and at last advices his first wife retained her influence over him to the full, both personal and political. A most singular story Is that of Miss Jennie Mighell of Devonshire Terrace, Brighton, who was courted in the early 90's by his highness the Sultan of Johore, otherwise Mr. Albert Baker, who visited the United States to

attend the World's Fair in 1893, nt Chicago, as did also Prince Dhuleep Singh. Miss Mighell said "yes" when the question was popped by the Oriental, but later hechanged his mind and jilted her. hence the suit, which was for big damages and was settled in 1S94. Miss Mighell was not a rich woman, but the Sultan, who by the way, had wives and a grown son when the English girl accepted him, is declared to be a man of fabulous wealth.

CURIOUS FRIENDSHIPS. The Alliance ami Complications Hetiveen the Nation. Daniel Webster seldom used wit in his speeches or in the senate debates, but when Calhoun suddenly went into the cabinet of John Tyler, thus marching into the camp of his enemies. Webster was provoked to call attention to a mock play written years before to ridicule the sentimentality of a certain school of Herman literature, says Leslie's Weekly. Two strangers met at an inn; one springs up and exclaims: "A sudden thought strikes me; let us swear eternal friendship." Nations are prone to this sort of thing, and the international complications and alliances of the world are most curious. What, for instance, in the abstract, could be more illogical than the fact that despotic Russia's firmest friends among the nations are the leading republics of the world the Unito-d States and Fiance? What seems more unreasonable than German's emperor, a professing Protestant of a Christian Country, intriguing to uphold the power and reign of the murderous sultan, whose specialty is the massacre of Christians? We have Mr. Gladstone's own word for the fact that it is so. Naturally this nation and' Great Britain should be the firmest friends of the world, but, sugar-coat the subjecft as we may with mutual compliments and professions of regard, there still remains on both sides that spirit of reminiscence and protest which speaks out when the relation! become too close. Uncle Sam has periodically sworn eternal friendship with the South American republics and haa taken them under his protecting wing and yet the friendships are very elusive. Tbey lack substance. It may be the differOF JOHORE. ence in race and temperament; anyhow, it is Quite certain that these republics do not love Uncle Sam until they liegin to get in o trouble. They trade with Europe and imitate Europe. Possibly it might be a good idea for them and Uncle Sam to swear a new oath of friendship on a business basis. THE FASTEST OPERATOR. Miss Alice Goldthwait is said to be the most rapid operator on the typeMISS ALICE GOLDTHWAIT. writer, under test conditions, in the world. At an exhibit of expert typewriting, given in St. Louis, Mo., a few days ago MitS Goldthwait, in the test made, wrote SO words per minute from dictation. In the second teat of three minutes and IJ seconds she wrote 302 words, an average of 98)6 words per minute. The dictation was from a sermon and other unfamiliar matter. Another Interesting test was in writing a familiar sentence, in which Mi3S Goldthwait wrote 155 words iu one minute.

NEWS OF INDIANA.

MINOR HAPPENINGS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Another Gold Rrlck Swindle at Crw fordsvllb Death at a CrsMSing Capture of the l.ai'crst Owl -tieuerul Notes from ÜJUMf Sections. same oid Brick. Crav. fordsvilie. Wilson Hunt and Samuel Petro, prosperous firmer.- residing near CrawfordsTllle, are out 1i 000 on a gold-', rick game. Some days ago a stranger in the garb of a miner appeared upon the scene, and, picking out his victims, told them a gauzy tale of Klondike mining life. He said hi.s partner, then in erre Haute, had a nugget worth many thousands, which for good reasons, they did not care to offer for sale at a mint or bank. So urgent were their needs that they were willing to dispose of it for $2.000. a small fraction of its value. Hunt and Wilson jumped at the chance, and accompanied the steerer to Terre Haute. The nugget looked all right, but to remove any lingering doubt the confidence men bored a deep hole and took the filings to a jeweler, who pronounced them genuine. These proofs beiriir furnished, the farmers paid over the cash and came home with the precious brick. Mrs. Petro became skeptical ;:nd demanded that it be drilled at a different place. Just to satisfy her that she was a foolish, unreasoning woman, her wish was granted. A hole was bored about an inch from the first one, and the brick was found to be brass. Wis eat Causes a Stir. IniiiononAi c T t Ic mi i rtMsvl li e 4 V r iiivuiiiiufivMlO. 11 I C I UUlOll II I 11 14 L 11 ' French government is about to repeal the duty on wheat, which amounts to cents a bushel. Italy has already reduced the wheat, tariff in response to serious bread riots, in which it was necessary to call out the troops. Much interest Is attac hed here to the Chicago wheat market. Joseph Leiter, through his agent George P. French, has purchased from twelve to fourteen million bushels of wheat, and claims that this cereal will shortly advance to 51.25 a bushel. The clique has cancelled all contracts for foreign freight room, claiming that the home demand will more than absorb all the wheat now in sight. The price i- steadily advancing and it is a bat.le royal between young Leiter air. the Chicago elevator interests. Charges are made that railroads are making discriminating rates and this matter will probably be fought out before the Inter-State Commerce Commission. franied for Brutal Assault. Brazil. jh police have arrested Samuel Pierman, alias John Howard, wanted at Vecdersburg on the charge of burglarizing the home of Enoch Thompson and wife, an old couple living near there. It is alleged that Pierman and Alan Curtis went to the Thompson home a few weeks ago and tortured them until they surrendered what money was in the house. Then they locked them in a closet, where they remained until rescued by neighbors. While the marauders srere in the house Mrs. Thompson was knocked down with a blow in the face. Curtis was followed to Danville. 111., and arrested. Pierman was also arrested while working in a coal mine, but he gave the officers the slip and escaped through an unused entrance. His arrest here was through a letter written by bis mother. He had been working n the mines here. Largest of Its Speeles. If uncle. An owl. weighing twelve and one-half pounds and measuring four feet five inches from tip to tip. was captured northeast of this city last Sunday by William Ogan anil Walter Paxson. They had no trouble in catching the bird, which was helpless in the bright sunlight. In the evening, when they went into the stable to feed it. they were fiercely attacked, and a blow from a shovel on the head put an untimely end to its career. The owl eras the largest of its species ever seen or killed in this part of the st:u snd will be mounted and presented to Upland University. ion era I Nt;te MW. The remains of the late Willis G, Neff, postmaster at flreencastle, were buried at bis old home in Sullivan. Before removing to Qreencastle Mr. Neff served as county recorder and also as prosecuting attorney of Sullivan county. A stranger, discovered robbing the rooms of Normal School students at Valparaiso, was captured after a severe struggle. He registered .is Prank Moore, of New Orleans, bur was recognised as James Van Hyde, of Ohio. The death of Thornton K. Graham, member of the Pythian lodge of Morristown, recalls that during the twelve years existence of that lodge all of its deceased members hare either died of consumption or else by accident. Louis Caldwell, the Union telephone foreman of construction arrested for embezzlement at Kofcomo, has been released, all differences between him and ihe company having been adjusted. A well on the Pidler farm, near Hartford City, belonging to the Manhattan company, which bad been spouting salt water, has changed to an oLler of paying proportions. The branch of the Daughters of Veterans at Connersville has surrendered its charter. The society lost ita funds in the Huston bank failure

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FOR BARGAINS IN i FOR SALE OR TRADE. No 180 seres in Center township, 3 miles south of Plymouth. 70 seres improved, 5 room house, barn 20x40, wagon L- 1 and corn cribs, a (rood orchard of all kinds of fruits; price S37.50. No 280 acres in West township, 6 miles weet of Plymouth. 70 scree improved, balance in timber. House n uesrly new, with 7 rooms, outside cellar, fair barn, two good orchards, all kinds of fruit Will trade for good residence property in Plymouth. No 3 62 acres in Weet township, cnilee from Plymouth. C2 acres in cultivation, balance in timber, s good house atd barn, a fine orchard, blsok walnut nd; price $2,600, 4 No 4120 seres 5 miles west of Argos (K seres improved, good house with 7 rarms, barn 22x60, other out buildroge a;..l rr -r.A rx r ,- 1 1 n r viM traAa tfT amillar farm and give long time on difference. No 6 116 acres '6 miles from Don ' sldscn . 79 acres improved, balance io meadow snd timber, fair honte aod a jood barn, with ober out buildings; will 9611 for 821.50 per acre or trade for city property. No6 100 acres 7 miles west of Plymouth. 8ö acres in cultivation, bslsnoe in limber, 1 mile from Donaldson; will ell cheap or trade for business property No 7 80 acres 4Jg miles west of Plymouth. 70 acres in cultivation, bslanoe in timber, good house and barn, good orchard and wind mill; will trade for 40 acres or town property; puce $40 per acre. No 8-100 acres 8 miles from Plymouth with fiae improvements, fruits of all kinds, heavy timber land; will sell cheap if sold soon. Aoyone wanting a farm aheap can get it b? calling at onoe. NoÖ A $4,000 stock of general merchandise in a village near Plymouth, doing a good business; will trade for an improved farm. No. 10 A fine farm of 135 acres mile from Donelson, Ind. 7l2 miles f r m Plymouth, with tine large house, two bm barns and all other outbuildings nefded on a farm, with a big orohardof all kindc of fr lite, wind mill, stone milk honee, etc. together with horsee, cattle, bogs, poultry implements and grain. Will sell cheap $1500 cash, balance on time to suit purchaser or will trade for Chisago improved property. No. 1150 aores on Michigan road be tween Plymouth and Argoa. Well improved. Will coll cheap or trsde foi town property. No. IS 60 acres in West township near Donelson, with good improvements. Will Beil on terms to enit buyer. Cheap. No. 13 80 acres in Polk township near ?'hool bouse, with good improvement. Oood snd. Will trade for 120 acrs and pay cash difference. Must be w ithin 3 or 4anles of Plymouth. No. 14 -217'. i acres near Sligo in west tjwnsuip. A good two-story bouse good barn and other outbuildings. YY ill trsde for smaller farm or town property. No. 151 have a new house on West Garro street, new barn, a corner lot; will ell oheap and on monthly payments. No. 16 K. use sod two lots on Wslnut street near cnrt houso and school. For ale ut s bargain if taken soon. No. A fine bonce nwar the new school building on south side of river. Will trade for 40, 60 or 80 acre farm and aa enme ioounabrance from 91,000 to 91,500 Now is your chance, It you want to buy a farm, trsde for a farm, sell a farm, or buy or sell town property, I can suit you, having property of all kinds in any part of town, or anywhere in or ojtof the state. We will try to suit you if given a chance. Will be st Law Off oe of L M Lanei eich Saturday, and all business daring the week will receive attention at said office. Yours for business, S H. 10SEPH.