The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2055, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 22, 1910 Page: 2 of 4
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VERNOR & ABNEY, Publishers
LAMPASAS. - - - TEXAS
X-RAY TO CORE PARALYSIS
New Treatment That the Medical
Profession Asserts Is of Ex-
treme Benefit,
It is well known that paralysis of
all kinds is extremely difficult to treat
successfully, and that indeed most
cases of paralysis remain “chronic”
throughout the lives of those afflicted
in this way. Recently, however, ex-
periments have been carried out to
see if the X-rays may not be able to
exert some curative influence on the
spinal cord in cases where paralysis
is due to disease thereof, and as a
matter of fact the application of the
X-rays to the back (so as to influ-
ence the spinal cord), has been found
to bring about great improvement in
several cases of disease of the kind
under consideration. Most of thes8
investigations have been carried out
on the continent, but one or two nerve
specialists in London have been carry-
ing out the treatment, and the writer
recently had an opportunity of see-
ing a spinal disease (known to doc-
tors as syringomyelia) which was ap-
parently getting well under the X-ray
treatment. But it must be understood
that these experiments, which if suc-
cessful will open up an entirely new
field of “incurable” disease's to the
X-rays, are still in a very elementary
stage, and some time must elapse be-
fore the exact scope of X-ray treat-
ment in this direction can be defined
for the public benefit.
The Code of the Air.
The rapid progress of the art of
aerial navigation has turned atten-
tion to the necessity of establishing a
“law of the road” for aeroplanes as
soon as experience shall have shown
what its main provisions should be.
Already, say those wdio are most inter-
ested in such legislation, at least one
source of avoidable danger has been
discovered. Several recent accidents
have shown that one aeroplane can-
not safely pass close above another,
for the currents produced are liable
to cause the under machine to break
from control and plunge downward. It
was in this way that the aeronaut
Rawlinson, at Nice, suddenly found
himself plunged into the sea. A rival
flyer had, unnoticed by him, passed
over his head. He did not discover
until later what had caused his sud-
den mishap. In another case an aero-
plane, flying over another which was
rolling across the ground preparatory
X to flight, was overturned by the cur-
rent from the passing machine.
Reflected Fame.
An automobile that participated in
a recent parade carried three little or-
phans from one of the asylums, three
sisters, who enjoyed every phase of
the ride.
The driver in the effort to entertain
his passengers pointed out various
places of interest along the way.
“There,” he said, “is the house
where Tom Johnson lived.”
But the little girls received the
statement with blank faces.
“Why, you must have heard of Tom
Johnson?” persisted the driver. “He
-was mayor of the city many years.
Mayor Tom Johnson.”
But there was no response.
Presently, however, the oldest girl
:pulled the driver’s sleeve.
“Please, mister,” she asked, “is he a
brother of Jack Johnson?”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
A Dry-Weather Horse.
Jacob Hope, the animal expert ol
Philadelphia, was talking about ani-
mal fakers.
“There was a Manayunk man,’’ he
said, “who wanted a piebald horse.
He visited a dealer up in the Blocks,
and the dealer the next day produced
a beautiful piebald—half cream and
half black—that the man bought at a
stiff price. But the first time he drove
his new purchase in the park a rain
came up, and the spots washed off.
The horse wasn’t a piebald after all.
“The man drove straight up to the
dealer’s again. ‘Look at that horse!’
he said. ‘The rain has taken all the
spots off.’
“ ‘Good gracious,’ said the dealer,
‘so it has. There was a rubber blanket
went with the animal, sir. Did I for-
get to give you a rubber blanket?’ ”
Lady Bountiful.
Miss Clara Walters, of the deten-
tion school, chaperoned some of her
boys to the circus not long ago. The
next day in school the boys were
reading the story about Lady Bounti-
ful, and the teacher stopped the les-
son long enough to ask:
“Who can tell me who Lady Boun-
tiful was?"
One of the boys who had been to
the circus held up his hand.
(‘Well, ‘Jimmy,’ who was it?”
“It was our teacher, Miss Clara
Walters,” was the prompt refdy.—
[Cleveland Leader
CAREER OF ONE KENTUCKIAN
From the forests and the mountains of Ken-
tucky to the position of secretary of state at
Frankfort; from the state capitol to a grated cell;
from the grated cell to the very shadow of the
gallows; from the shadow of the gallows again to
the grated cell; from the grated cell back to the
forests and the mountains of Kentucky; from the
forests and mountains to the halls of congress at
Washington. This in brief is the history of Caleb
Powers. He has been chosen as the Republican
candidate for congress from his district, which
is strongly Republican.
Seldom does a human life contain so much of
struggle for advancement from humble begin-
nings, so much of tragedy and of pathos and so
remarkable a rehabilitation in public honor.-Ca-
leb Powers will be a remarkable figure in Wash-
ington, because of the fact that for eight long years he was immured in a
prison cell fighting to escape life imprisonment or execution for a crime of
which half the people of Kentucky believe him guilty and the other half
believe him absolutely innocent.
'Fhe minds of newspaper readers will instantly go back to that tragic day
in January, 1900, when William Goebel was ruthlessly shot down from ambush
as he was walking toward the state capitol at Frankfort. Goebel and W. S.
Taylor, the former a Democrat and the latter a Republican, had been oppos-
ing candidates for governor and each claimed election. Taylor was given
the certificate of election and in possession of the capitol and Caleb Powers
was his secretary of state. As Goebel, whom the legislature on contest had
declared to be elected, walked across the. grounds leading to the capitol he
was shot from the window of the office of the secretary of state. The murder
created a national sensation and for many years the state of Kentucky was
split into two bitter factions.
Caleb Powers was tried for murder and was sentenced to imprisonment
for life. He appealed, and a second trial resulted in another conviction and
a second sentence to life imprisonment. A third trial followed, and this
time he was sentenced to be lianaged. On the fourth trial the jury disagreed,
the majority being for acquittal.
Meantime eight years had rolled around and Powers was still in a prison
cell at Georgetown. A petition containing the names of hundreds of thou
sands of persons both in Kentucky and elsewhere was presented to the gover-
nor and in 1908 Governor Willson granted Powers a full pardon.
GOTHAM’S QUEEN OF SILENCE
Mrs. Isaac L. Rice, the New York society wom-
an who fought single-handed to suppress unneces-
sary noise in the metropolis and who accom-
plished so much through her determination, is
known as the “Queen of Silence.” Mrs. Rice has
long been a sworn enemy of noise. Her beau-
tiful Venetian palace on Riverside drive is so
located that, until she began her battle and won
out her ears were continually ringing with the
shrieks of the switch engines on the railroad
tracks that line the river front and with the
clamor of boat whistles. Along the East river
are located two-thirds of the hospitals of the city
and this thoughtful woman realized what extra
suffering the sick must endure because of the
nerve-racking clamor. She began to gather evi-
dence to prove her point and with the aid of Co-
lumbia university students, who followed the boats and kept count, learned
that there were about 5,000 unnecessary but deafening shrieks each night
in the harbor. The harbor men were pleased to take umbrage at her inter-
ference and proceeded to make life miserable for her till she secured law on
her side. During the night boats passing her home serenaded her with the
most horrible whistles and focused their flashlights upon the house.
Nothing daunted, the plucky woman secured an order from the secre-
tary of commerce and labor forbidding unnecessary whistling on the river.
The harbor men persisting in their defiance, she had one man arrested, then
another, until finally the racket was quieted.
STARTED ‘BEEF TRUST’ QUIZ |
0M]
Judge Ker^-saw Mountain Landis of the Unit-
ed States district court in Chicago, who started
the latest investigation of the “beef trust,” is the
same who imposed the $29,000,000 fine’on the
Standard Oil company a few years ago. His fa-
ther servea during the civil war in the regiment
which was commanded by Judge Walter Q. Gresh-
am, secretary of state under Cleveland, and was
wounded in the battle of Kenesaw mountain.
Hence the peculiar name of Judge Landis.
When Gresham was secretary of state Judge
Landis, then a young Chicago lawyer, served as
his private secretary. Afterward he returned to
Chicago to practise his profession and was later
elevated to the bench.
Of the ten indicted meat packers, charged by
the federal grand jury with violation of the Sher-
man anti-trust law, seven have given bonds in the total sum of $210,000 for
their appearance for trial when the cases against them are called.
The fight thus begun against the meat packers promises to be one oi
life or death for the huge corporation, which, it has been charged repeatedly,
controls the meat industry in this country.
| J. A. TAWNEY OF MINNESOTA
An insurgent victory that has attracted a good
deal of attention throughout the country was the
defeat in the primaries of Representative James
A. Tawney, who was a canadidate for renomina-
tion in the first congressional district of Minne-
sota. Tawney is one of the most influential rep-
resentatives in congress, is chairman of the com-
mittee on appropriations. A most determined
fight was waged against his renomination and the
insurgents had the support and advice of Roose-
velt, Pinchot, James J. Heney and other expo-
nents of progressive Repja^licanlsm.
In his early days Taw»ey was a blacksmith
and machinist, learning the trades in Pennsylva-
nia, where he was born in 1855, near the village
of Gettysburg. Subsequently he removed to Wi-
nona, Minn., where he worked four years at his
trade, at the same time studying law. In 1882 he was admitted to the bar,
vras later sent to the state senate, and in 1892 was elected to congress, in
which he has since served.
Tawney Is a dark, almost swarthy man, with a piercing black eye and a
black mustache, now streaked with gray. When Cannon made him chairman
of the committee on appropriations he fild so because of the strength of char-
acter and firmness which Tawney had displayed. Often the speaker referred
to him as the “man of iron,” a not unfitting title. As chairman of the appro-
priations committee Tawney was regarded as the watchdog of the treasury,
but he was one of the strongest stahd-patters in the house, and hence thfl
declaration of war upon him by t^he insurgents.
PLEASES PEOPLE OF WALES
investiture of Heir to British Throne
With Title of Prince of That
Country Is Politic.
Though the investiture of the new
jPrince of Wales carries with it no
lactual power over the people in his
nominal domains, it conveys some
[Valuable perquisites and titles not to'
jbe disdained ever by royalty. The
;earldom of Chester goes with the
principality and is in a sense consid-
ered part of it. By a statute of the
•Order of the Garter in 1805 the
Prince of Wales becomes a knight of
the order as soon as he receives his
title. There was an annuity of 40,000
'pounds settled on the prince in the
course of Queen Victoria’s reign, also
Jhe gets the revenues of the duchy of
iCornwall, which sometimes amount to
1100,000 pounds a year. The Princess
of Wales receives an annuity of 10,-
*000 pounds, which becomes 30,000 in
the event of her widowhood. Both
the Prince and Princess of Wales
have separate households, and George
III even made general rules for their
regulation in a vain attempt to keep
the heir to the throne out of debt.
The title of Prince of Wales is not
hereditary. It must be re-created
each time a new candidate appears.
Usually it is bestowed by patent and
investiture, though in a few instances
the monarch’s eldest son has become
prince simply by virtue of a declara-
tion. The latter condition exists at
present and will exist until next July^
Though, as suggested, the ceremony''
conveys to the Prince of Wales no
actual power, it is calculated to have
,a powerful sentimental effect on the
Welsh people, ah effect that ought to
be heightened by the fact that in the
present instance the pageant takes
place, for the first time in centuries,
on Welsh soil—that is, in Carnarvon,
the birthplace of the first Prince of
Wales, afterward Edward II of Eng-
land. The traditionally independent
spirit of the Welsh people for several,
centuries has ceased to exhibit itself
jn militant rebellion, but of late it
has manifested itself in a big effort
to revive the Welsh language and
literature. It is said that there are.
a half-million of people inside the
principality who never speak English.
Under such conditions, it is easy to
see how a formal, even if somew'hat
medieval, acknowledgement of the
separateness of the principality may
appeal to the people" at large and
mightily tickle them.
First Shaving Instruments.
Despite the fact that steel and other
metals capable of taking a sharp edge
are of comparatively modern origin,
razors of one kind or another have
been in use since an early period of
the world’s history. This is but anoth-
er evidence of the fact that “neces-
sity is the mother of invention.”
It is a well known fact that razors
were used by the ancient Egyptians,
and even with the crude instruments
of their invention they managed to
shave their faces. The Levitical code
expressly forbade the shaving of the
beard, and to this day many of those
who cling to that rule of life will do
no more than trim their beards with
scissors.
Many of the recognized authorities
are firm in the belief that the primi-
tive shaving instruments must have
been made of sharpened pieces of.
flint. Among the savage tribes of
Polynesia explorers have found that
the men of the tribes even at this
day in the world’s progress use two
pieces of sharpened flint of the same
size to shave off their beards. Faeces
of shell and sharks’ teeth ground to a
fine edge also serve these aborigines
for razors. The Romans of Caesar’s
time are supposed to have had razors
of the kind that were known to the
ancient Egyptians.
Out to Learn Some Way.
Hewitt—There Is one thing about
it.
Jewett—And what is that?
Hewlett—Either I must get elected
to the legislature or take a corre-
spondence course in grafting.
]y the trust
Peking POWOtf c°'
You’ll be de-
sir lighted with the re- ^S|
W suits of Calumet Baking ^
Powder. No disappoints —
no flat, heavy, soggy biscuits,
cake, or pastry.
Just the lightest, daintiest, most
uniformly raised and most deli-
i cious food you ever ate.
Received highest reward World’*
SSlak Pure Food Exposition,
Chicago, 1807.
Managing a Husband.
Men are like children; they want
managing, although you must never
let them dream that you think so. No
child likes to be ordered about, no
man will endure coercion. But man-
aging! It is an art so subtle, so elu-
sive, that few women understand even
the rudiments of it. Sisters mine, let
us reason together, says Woman’s
Life. In every human being there la
a spark of the divine; it is yours to
fan that spark into a flame—that is
managing a man—it Is to get the very
best out of him there is to have, and
not two women In ten can do it.
Do not think that there is anything
unworthy in managing a man—to
bring out the best is a high vocation.
Only let us see to it that we are-
wTorthy of It. There are women who
have made angels of men, but at the.
cost of their own divinity. There is
room for more than one unselfish per-
son in a family.
His Inalienable Right.
When Willie goes to school next
week he wall have a new teacher.
The new teacher will like Willie,
when she begins to know him, but the.
process may take several terms.
Willie’s teacher began to like him
Just before the close of the school
year, and she testified to her affection
by offering him a pocketknife.
“There, Willie,” she said, “you have
tried so bard to be a good boy that I
am going to give you this nice four=
bladed pocketknife—but you must
promise me never to cut the school
furniture with it.”
“Take it back, teacher,” said Willie*
sadly.—Cleveland Plaindealer.
Why He Grunted.
Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, at
a dinner in Metuchen, said of a cer-
tain critic:
“His ideas are all wrong. He re-
minds me of a man on a train.
“The train was passing through a
superb landscape that was defaced
by Innumerable advertisements. As
he looked at an advertisement larger
and more glaring than all the rest,
the man uttered a loud grunt of dis-
gust. s
"7Ah. sir,’ exclaimed a long-haired
individual in a velvet coat. ‘I see
you agree with me, sir, that such a
hideous sign shouldn’t he allowed to
deface the lovely scene.’
“ ‘Oh, no.’ the man replied. ‘It’s
not that. But the stuff’s poison—the
worst whisky I ever drank.’ ”
In the Alfalfa Dialect.
The children of the newly rich Ne-
vadan were given a governess.
She found them waiting about the
doorway when she entered the gilded
tfifth avenue home.
“Do you know any fairy spiels,
teacher?” they clamored in chorus.
“Why, yes,” she replied. “Which of
them would you like to hear?”
Post
T oasties
A bowl of these crisp
fluffy bits served with
cream or milk is some-
thing not soon forgotten.
What’s the use of cook-
ing breakfast or lunch
when Post Toasties, ready
to serve direct from the
package, are so delicious?
“The Memory Lingers''
POSTUH CEREAL CO., LTD.,
Battle Creek, Mich. ,
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2055, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 22, 1910, newspaper, October 22, 1910; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906692/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.