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“THE REBEL CAPTAIN”
in matters appertaining to larks and frolics. Somehow the faculty never
failed to receive word about this particular student’s shortcomings. As a
consequence, he spent much time in the “jug,” and suffered heavy loss in free
time as punishment.
Parker in some way learned who it was that had told on his friend. He
lined up half a dozen or more of his cronies and arranged plans for retribu
tion. That evening in the refectory he gave the command. The students
detailed to assist him surrounded the table at which the members of the
faculty were gathered. Parker laid hands on the offending student and set
him on his feet. The learned gentlemen were kept in their chairs. Then
John addressed them and his fellow students. He recited the crime of the
student under arrest. The man haa betrayed a classmate. No punishment
could be too severe for him.
Perhaps greatest of the generals
the war has produced in France is
Foch, now commanding the forces of
the republic in the Somme drive. Says
one who knows him: “He has intui
tion and the power of divination. He
is great in his instant grasp of a situ
ation, his perception of the needs, his
vision of the next hour. General
Joffre is his warmest admirer.”
General Foch, like General Joffre,
comes from the Pyrenees. He is a
gallant, picturesque figure. He is not
tall, five feet six inches in height, but
you do not see that until afterward.
What you see first is his eye. He has
a large, well-shaped head, rather thin
iron-gray hair and a broad, high fore
head. His gray eyes, set wide apart,
bore ’ through you and burn you up
and smile on you, all at the same time.
His nose is large, his mouth wide and
straight, arid his fiercely benevolent
iron-gray mustache first comes down
over the corners of his mouth and then points straight up at his eyes. His
chin is massive from any point of view.
During a battle General Foch is to be found in the big room at his
headquarters. He stands before one of those large scale maps with a pencil
in his hand and the telephone receiver at his ear. His staff stands in a
semicircle behind him. There is perfect silence, and the only movement is of
the general’s pencil on the map as he follows the battle and ponders the
detail of the district where the fighting is in progress.
WINSLOW’S FAMOUS FEAT
At the time of his retirement Winslow was a full admiral, being entitled
to that rank by virtue of his command of the Pacific fleet He served as a
member of the Slocum commission when the burning of the New York
excursion steamer was investigated.
Winslow was born in Washington in 1854. He was appointed to the navaL
academy by the president in 1870, and graduated in 1875.
NELSON COULD PRONOUNCE IT
During the call of the calendar in
the senate some time ago a bill pro
viding for relief for the owners of a
certain steamship was reached. The
clerk glanced at the title, read a small
part of It and stopped. “Let the clerk
read the entire title,” suggested a sen
ator.
The clerk, to speak figuratively,
courageously backed off and made a
fresh start. He succeeded well enough
with the first few words, but at length
he bumped into “Bruusgard Kiosterud
Dumpsklpaktieselskab," -the name of
one of the owners of the steamship
< business. He tried to pronounce it but
i his best efforts availed nothing except
to provoke a titter among the solons.
'Competent authorities are agreed that
a thing must be extremely funny to get
a laugh in the seriate.
At length Senator Nelson, a native
. Norwegian, went to the clerk's res
cue. “Why,” he said, “that’s easy
enough. “It’s pronounced—” and he gave the pronunciation correctly—so far
jas anyone ia the-senate knew.
John M. Parker of New Orleans,
“The Rebel Captain," as Victor Mur
dock styled him at the Progressive
convention at Chicago, is a fire-eater
by taste and instinct. Trouble is his
element. He dearly loves it when he
thinks he is in the right, and doesn’t
fear it on other occasions. Pussy
footing is not his line. As he himself
says, he “hires a hall,” advertises the
fact, and goes to it.
As a national figure, John M.
Parker Is not as well known as he de
serves to be, perhaps. But up New
York state, at Anandale, they know
him. It was up there in his young
manhood that he put his foot down on
pussy-footing for the first time in pub
lic. As a result, there was scandal
ous excitement.
Parker was a student at St.
Stephen’s college in 1881. Among his
cronies was a young man from New
York city, who played second to John
FOCH OF FRANCE
Admiral Cameron Mcßae Winslow,
who retired recently at the statutory
age of sixty-two, gained great fame
and a boost of five numbers In rank
during the war with Spain when as
Lieut. C. McR. Winslow he cut the
cables in Cienfuegos harbor, Cuba —
with the Spaniards firing from a dis
tance of 150 yards.
In this engagement a marine was
killed and nine men—including Lieu
tenant Winslow —wounded. Winslow
was wounded in the hand. His promo
tion came when he was recommended
for “extraordinary heroism.”
Winslow and his men went out In
sail and motor launches. With the
big guns on the ship out in the harbor
firing at the cable office—they wrecked
it before Winslow reached shore —Win-
slow went into the face of a Spanish
bombardment. He got by with it in
excellent shape—some casualties re
repofted, but the work done.
THE BTTLLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA
MAGIC OF SURGICAL SCIENCE
IS MAKING NEW MEN OF OLD
—
Some Remarkable Instances Where Operations Have Practically
Rebuilt Vital and Important Portions of the Human Body
That Had Been Shot Away in the Battles—“ Gas
Gangrene” Is Surgeon’s Worst Enemy.
London. —The marvelous progress
that has been made in recent times in
surgical science is most impressively
revealed by a jourftey to some of the
larger military hospitals, made possi
ble through the courtesy of Sir Alfred
Keogh, director general of the army
medical service.
In all the hospitals what the medical.
staff set above all is conservative sur
gery—that is to say, the saving of
limbs in order that the patients may
remain useful members of the com
munity. Thus, at the Herbert hospital,
at Shooter’s Hill, there have been
since the beginning of the war from
three to four thousand operations, and
Colonel Simpson, the officer in charge,
declared that he did not believe there
had been in all more than 25 primary
amputations.
The impression left by a tour of
these hospitals upon the layman’s mind
is that outsiders have an utterly in
adequate idea of the debt they owe
to modern surgery at a time like the
present. Day by day the surgeons
are giving to the nation new men for
old. They have embarked upon a
great mission of hope among the na
tion’s soldiers. They are doing more
than would have been credible twenty
years ago to rob war of its ultimate
horror.
Out of the hundreds of wonderful
cases brought to one’s notice during
these visits it is only possible to de
scribe a few that may be regarded as
typical of this trade of mending sol
diers. Take first the new nerve sur
gery. Here is a man with a bullet
hole near his collar bone which sev
ered the nerve controlling the muscles
of the wrist. The result was "wrist
drop” and a hand which until quite re
cently would have been regarded as
incurably useless. The two ends of
the severed nerve have been freed
from what had already become no
more than a sear, they have been re
united and there is every prospect that
in less than a year the hand will be
almost as good as ever.
“As simple as tying up the two ends
of a cut telephone wire,” says the sur
geon who operated.
Amazing Nerve Cases.
There are more remarkable nerve
cases still. A man had part of the
fleshy portion of his arm shot away,
carrying with it four inches of the
nerve necessary to control the hand
movements. The surgeon rang up sev
eral hospitals on the telephone till he
heard of what he wanted, the ampu
tation that afternoon of a healthy limb.
The limb happened to be a leg, and
it was amputated in the afternoon. No
sooner was it cut off than four or five
inches of practically living nerve were
removed from the calf, placed in a
saline bath and rushed by taxi to the
other hospital. Here the patient was
already under an anesthetic. The
wound in his arm was opened with a
lancet, the ends of the indispensable
nerve quickly found and the circuit
re-established, as it were, by means of
the first patient’s four inches of fila
ment. Today the man is in a fairway
of regaining the full use of his hand.
Bone surgery on rather similar lines
is more faiqiliar, but hardly less sur
prising when you meet and talk to a
man who converses with the aid of a
lower jaw part of which was only a
few weeks ago part of his right leg.
It was mended with two and one-half
Inches of one of his shin bones. The
shin has quite healed, and the hole
will be completely filled with new bone
before long, so accommodating is na
ture when treated with knowledge.
Another patient is perfectly happy
and prosperous with three inches of
the fibula of his left leg neatly mor
tised in the humerus of his right arm.
He, too, will finally suffer no loss of
bone whatever. The variants of such
operations are endless and only limited
RED CROSS TREATS ALL ALIKE
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The wounds of a. captured German being dressed by a British Bed Cross
man during the British offensive In the west.
by the ingenuity and enterprise of
each surgeon.
Carpentry and Legs.
Os remarkable examples of carpen
try applied to broken limbs most hos
pitals have two or three, if not more,
on hand. A young fellow was brought
into the hospital with one leg short
ened by five inches, owing to the ends
of the broken bone overlapping. He
seemed a hopeless cripple. The leg
was rebroken under an anesthetic, an
eighth of an inch cut off from each
side of the fracture so as to secure a
smooth joint, and a steel plate fastened
on with six screws, precisely as one
would mend the broken leg of a table.
The plate and screws will remain in
position as a permanent addition to
the soldier’s anatomy, for steel wiN
not rust among the tissues. And the
man has a leg practically as long and
as straight as, and rather stronger
than, it was intended to be by nature.
Some of the most cruel wounds are
those in the jaw, but even here what
the skill and patience of the surgeon
have been able to do is wonderful. One
poor fellow who had been provided
with a new roof to his mouth was one
of the most cheerful of the patients.
His comic songs are the delight of the
ward. You cease to be amazed at any
height of human skill or human cour
age after a few hours in any of these
military hospitals. You know for cer
tain then that man is unconquerable.
Where the injury is to the upper
part of the face, resulting in, say, the
removal of the nose and one eye, magi
cal results are being achieved in a
southwestern district hospital by the
provision of masks perfectly counter
feiting the lost section of the physiog
nomy. Lieut. Derwent Wood is the
inventor of the plan. With the help of
photographs of what a patient was like
before being wounded he will make a
ftflse nose of silvered copper, artistic
ally painted to match the surrounding
complexion, which will so far defy de
tection as to enable the owner to go
out into the world again without
shrinking and play his old part in the
affairs of men.
A Remarkable Operation.
Here is another ^remarkable case.
Not long ago a wounded Guardsman
was brought into the Queen Alexandra
hospital at Millbank, suffering, from a
shrapnel wound. Examination under
the X-rays showed that a piece of
metal as large as a halfpenny and
much thicker had entered the breast
and lodged in the region of the heart.
It was, in fact, actually touching the
heart and impeding its action. An op
eration was decided on, and the sur
geon thrust his hand right into the
opening and pulled out the piece of
metal, which is preserved as a sou
venir. There was a danger that dur
ing anesthesia the lungs would col
lapse, and therefore ether was pumped
into them to keep them distended.
That gallant Guardsman is now out
and about, and it is declared that he
will not feel the slightest ill effects
from his strange experience.
In this hospital there is at present a
Serbian officer who was wounded in
his own country and brought to Eng
land for treatment. It was a case of
severe injury to the jaw. Lieut. Sir
Francis Farmer removed a piece of
bone about two and a half inches long
from the tibia of the patient, and,
having carefully prepared a bed In
which to place it, fixed It in the jaw.
The leg is now healed and the patient
can eat wonderfully well.
But this refitting and, as it were,
rebuilding of citizens is not enough.
They must first be snatched from that
progressive process of destruction as
sociated with the dreaded word sepsis,
that creeping death of the tissues
which is the surgeon’s most remorse
less enemy. And here again one en
counters the marvellous.
In this war the variety of sepsis that
has claimed more victims than any
oth ( er Is that known in doctor’s slang
as “gas gangrene.” Gas gangrene Is
caused by the presence In a wound of
| certain types of bacilli classed as
| “anaerobic,” that Is, bacilli which can
not live in air, the vital principle of
which is oxygen. They exist —like the
tetanus bacilli—in cultivated soil, and
it is because the war is being fought in
France among the peasants’ fields that
they are introduced so constantly by
ricocheting bullets or scraps of earth
stained clothing Into the soldiers’
wounds.
Once there they/ set about producing
■ tiny gas bubbles among the tissues,
hence the name “gas gangrene.” But
the gas they cannot endure is oxygen,
■ and the obvious way to destroy them
■ is to introduce oxygen into the inner
, most recesses of the wound. This is
t secured by various methods according
• to the nature of the injury. A hole
i right through the shoulder will be ster
‘ ilized by the use of a wick drawifig
I peroxide of hydrogen from a small
i tank above the bed. Another kind of
i wound may be sprayed with ozone and
i the third more conveniently dealt with
I by means of a perforated tube fed with
* oxygen gas from a cylinder.
The operations to which reference
1 has been made would doubtless be de
* scribed as severe even by the surgeons
themselves; nevertheless, modern scl
• ence has robbed them of most Os their
_ terrors. The improvements in anes
thetics have been such that it is no
• uncommon thing for an operation to
• last two hours and for the patient to
• feel no ill effects from the drug a
1 quarter of an hour after he recovers
■ consciousness. Some, indeed, will be
J smoking a cigarette within that space
of time. The secret lies in the admin*
■ istration of oxygen ’ with Xhe anes
■ thetic. •
EDISON TAKES VACATION. -
i
Thomas A. Edison, the inventive
' genius, has abandoned the realms of
the scientific world to spend a vaca
tion of a few weeks in the Adlron
• dacks, next to nature. He and a party
1 of two, consisting of H. S. Firestone
of Akron, 0., and John Burroughs, the
1 famous naturalist, are roughing it in
1 the wilds of the mountains. The pho
’ tograph was taken as Mr. Edison was
preparing to start for the mountains.
: LOST HIS MEMORY AT FIRE
, Indiana Man, Who Was in Iroquois Dis
aster in Chicago, Forgot
His Past Life.
Binghamton, N. Y. —After being
, given up as dead 13 years, Milton Sim
mons, Kokomo, Ind., real estate dealer,
■ has returned to his mother, Mrs.
, Cecelia Sinimons, Syracuse.
i Simmons tells a remarkable story of
his loss of memory resulting from the
Iroquois fire in Chicago. He was oper
ating a spot light in the balcony .when
■ the fire broke olit and he was plunged
60 feet into the bodies below, but was
rescued. The fall caused loss of mepi
ory, and after two months in a iros
pital he recovered, going to Tipton,
Ind., where he engaged in business
and married. Later he went into the
real estate business in Kokomo, where
he now resides.
Increasing pressure on the brain
from the injury resulted in the neces
sity for an operation last winter, and
following this he gradually regained
memory of his mother and his former
life.
WILL NOT GET HER WAIST
British War Regulations Prevent Fa
ther of Indiana Woman From Fol
lowing Usual Custom.
"Fort Wayne, Ind. — Mrs. Brownie
Simmons of Chicago, who has been
visiting relatives In Fremont, will not
receive this year a waist from her fa
ther in England, as she has each year
for many years, because of the war
regulations. She has received a letter
from her mother saying the customs
officers have refused to permit the
waist to be sent out of the country,
saying that would mean another waist
would have to be imported to replace
It. Mrs. Simmons’ mother also wrote
that she is required to spend one day
each week wheeling wounded or sick
soldiers about for an airing.
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Ingenious Excuse of Man Who Had
Imbibed Too Freely Did Not
Satisfy Policeman.
When Police Captain Patrick Cos
tello met n man on the main street
of Dobbs Ferry loudly and joyfully
dusturbing the peaee of the historic
hamlet, he said: “My friend, you’re
drunk, and I’ll have to run you in.
The stranger drew a tattered Bible
from his pocket, and, leading the cap
tain to the nearest street lamp, read
with fervor: “First Timothy, five,
twenty-three; ‘Drink no longer water,
but use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake and thine often infirmities.’ ”
The captain scratched his head and
thought. Finally he said: “What were
you drinkin’?”
“Well,” replied the stranger, “the
last one was beer.”
“Then,” said the captain, “you lose
on a technicality, and it’s come with
me.”
So the stranger, who said he was
John Hasch of the Bowery, New
York, was locked up to await the
morning session of the police court. —
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Merely Homely.
Shortsighted Officer —It’s all right,
my man, you can take off your mask
now; the gas has passed.
Private—Beggin’ your pardon, sir, I
ain’t got no mask on!
Briefly Explained.
"Why have you named this corn the
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