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IKING ORGANS TWWSPLANTED Q r- Alexis Carrel Tells of Ex periments in Advanced Snr- . gical Operations. \j;\\ YORK, Nov. 15. —Dr. Alexis ' r , of th* Rockefeller institute, who just been awarded the Nobel prize <, r i rk in surgery, in a lecture recent v Mid 'f results in transplanting liv ijg organs and the progress that has t>. °n n'l*? by surgeons engaged in these experiment.'. Ill; the first experiments explatn- Dr. Carrel was of a recently dis .... method of blood transfusion, L, omplished by means of a gold i'ated silver tube through which blood w ijj flow from a vein to an artery with. cu t '.lusing coagulation. Previously it > a ,i b>-n contended, Dr. Carrel said, |hat eagulation must take place in this method of transfusion. The successful transplantation of an ear from a dog that had been killed , r the purpose to the head of another , e - w - also explained by Dr. Carrel. The veins were washed free of blood before the ear was sewed into place, but pulsations were noticed within a few hours, Dr. Cjtrrel said, showing that proper circulation was being es tablished. The ’circulation was com plete and the operation successful with in twenty days. Experimentation Difficult. Another experimentation has been found difficult because of the inability of the animal to remain perfectly quiet. So much has this been so, Dr. Carrel said that a day and night nurse for animals upon which operations have been performed have been necessary. It has been found also, he said, that in many cases, after eight or ten days have elapsed, the dog feels a reaction against the new limb or organ that has been supplied, although the transplant, ed parts are performing the functions satisfactorily. Dr. Carrel explained the removal from k dog of one kidney and the. replacing later of the same organ. One month after the operation the dog was exam ined again and the organ found to be performing its normal functions. Later both kidneys were removed from the same dog. One of them, which had been out of the dog’s body for an hour, was replaced. A picture of the dog, taken tv. ■ yers later, was shown by Dr Carrel. Th*- dog was jumping in the air for a piece of meat. Not Sure About Humana. The difficulty that has been experi- i enced in applying these operations to I human beings, according to Dr. Carrel, i is that the surgeons have been unable j to ascertain, whether the organs of one I individual will perform the same func- • ’ions for another, although, he said, an operation was parti} successful by which both kidneys were removed from u eat and the animal supplied with the organs of another. Frequently, how ever, degeneration of the arterial sys tem develops, as in the case of the cat, and it died from premature old age. One of the greatest difficulties now being encountered, Dr. Carrel explain- | ed, is finding away by which to pre- I serve tissue or organs alive so that they will be available when most needed. Cold storage has been found capable of keeping blood vessels alive for as long as three months, and skin that has been kept in this manner for six weeks sub- ; sequently has been used in grafting operatjons. I' has also been found that the heart, lung, stomach and other organs way be kept alive for short periods simply by supplying oxygen to the lunge,’ Dr. Carrel said, "but the prob lem is to cause life to remain in these organa and tissues indefinitely.'’ Mother® No young woman, In the joy of coming motherhood, should neglect to prepare her system for the physi cal ordeal she is to undergo. The health of both herself and the coming c h! d depends largely upon the care I,e bestows upon herself during the waiting months. Mother’s Friend Prepares the expectant mother’s sys em for the coming event, and its use ®»kes her comfortable during all the term, it works with and for nature, * na by gradually expanding all tls ‘ ca, muscles and tendons, involved, a od keeping the breasts in good con ion, brings the woman to the crlsit " splendid physical condition. The * T ’ ,o0 ’ !e apt to be perfect and * ? w here the mother has thus : J “tai-ed herself for nature’s supreme ( i-'Ction, No better advice could be I S‘ T eti a young expectant mother than ‘"at she use Mother’s Friend; it is a that has proven its value MjKTHEtfS qSTrieNd •“ thousands of JWes- Mother’s need is sold at stores, for free °°s for expect- _ * mothers which contains much _ 41h‘ information, and many Bug ksaons of a helpful nature. REGULATOR CO., Atluta, Ga. 0p E N ALL NIGHT both PHONES 461 |jPT &* 5 J) R r joS'Fb RES FORSYTH AND LUCKIE Law Explodes Balloon and Drops to River DYNAMITES HIMSELF IN AIR Daring Parachute Jumper Ex plodes the Big Gas Bag and Risks His Neck. NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—a big dun colored balloon floated slowly over the Hudson from the Jersey shore toward New York Tuesday. Tens of thousands of persons watched It. On a trapeze swung below it a man was seated. The balloon was about 500 feet in the air and opposite 127th street, when — Boom! Boom! Two loud explosions sounded. In stantly after the explosion a cloud of dense black smoke enveloped the bal loon and hid the man on the cross-bar under it. 1 hrough the thick smoke flashes of fire darted, for the balloon was in flames. As the smoke curled up and formed a huge mushroom, the man dropped from the cross-bar. For 200 feet he fell like a stone while the peo ple nearest the shore gasped. Then the big parachute which the man carried unfolded and, clinging to it, he dropped gently in the Hudson. Really, it was all very thrilling and if you were not there to see it, you will be able to see it soon. For it was a moving picture stunt. He of the trapeze and the parachute was Hodman Law, who tor a sufficient sum of money will take his life in his hands at any time. His balloon had been inflated with heated naptha gas. Seated on the trapeze the daring Law held a string attached to a trigger above him—when he pulled the string the trigger set off a small charge of dynamite which ignited the highly inflammable gas. As Law fell into the river the tug Libble sped to hint, on the tug were the moving picture machines. Their operators hud been very busy, indeed //- i // ißr wiSR and continued to be for a while. For Law floated near the tag as if be was senseless, inanimate, dead —all very realistic, very. Law received SI,OOO to risk his life this time, but lie paid bis own expenses. He insisted that his demonstration had scientific value. He proved, he said, that Melvin Vaniman and his four voy agers, who were killed when Vanitnan’s great dirigible balloon exploded off At lantic City, might have been saved had they taken proper precautions against such an accident. Law wore knit wool, en garments saturated in a liquid which, he says, resists fire. Under his woolen hood he wore a football player's helmet. A life-preserver was strapped around his waist. “When the gas exploded," said he, "it. was as if somebody had hit me over the shoulders with a baseball bat.” The backs of Law h hands were scorched. “How stupid," said he. "I should have worn gloves.” MINERS FIRE ON TRAIN OF STRIKE BREAKERS; MARTIAL LAW AGAIN CHARLESTON, W. VA„ Nov. 15. — As a result of striking miners firing on a train late yesterday bearing private detectives and strikebreakers. Governor Glasscock will probably declare martial law in the strike zone again. The battle occurred al Cabin Creek junction and over 400 shots were ex changed. Reports received here this morning were to the effect that seven miners were shot and badly wounded by the railway police and two of the strikebreakers were struck. GEORGIA NEGROES PLAN NATIONAL EXPOSITION MACON. GA.. Nov. 14 —Negroes of Georgia, headed by R. R Wright, of Sa vannah. president of the negro state fair association, have launched a movement to secure an appropriation from the gov ernment for a national negro exposition to be held in either Atlanta or Macon. The negroes will have the support of Congressmen Bartlett. Hughes and Ed wards, of Georgia, and epect other mem bers of congress to also endorse the plan. They say that with $250,000 an exposi tion, which will adequately illustrate the development of the negro race during the last 50 years, can be held. NEW CONGRESSMAN WAS ONCE A CAR CONDUCTOR ANN ARBOR, MICH., Nov. 15.—Guy T. Helvering, the Democrat who was elected to congress from the Fifth Kansas dis trict, once was a street car conductor >n St. Joseph, Midh. While holding down that job he studied law. That was only six years ago. he entered the (.’Diversity of Michigan, v.-nure h" ' ~l up l.- • »,. ‘he 'av course. Then ie ni •■ ■ o Marysville, Kans., and begun pra tL- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1912. ' ■' : • >' ; ,• y • x; : ■. ■ • • { ■ i WIMB' Mrs. Frank R. Law anxiously t watching her husband drop J \ with parachute into the /w Hudson after dynamiting 'B r ? balloon in which he as cended. The smoke of the ' explosion is seen above the I figure of the daring aero naut. Below is a picture of Law in the water. $ ■-M <. \ .- y '■ ’> At-;, Atlanta Proves Its Infinite Variety of Weather PROPHETS BRING CHILL Jnst to prove Atlanta's infinite varie ty and establish her claim to having more different kinds of weather in a week than any other city between Ken nebec and Albuquerque. Professor C. F. Von Herrmann, proprietor of the lo cal cave of the winds, served up a dish right off the ice today in honor of Wil lis L. Moore, chief of the national bu reau, and eighteen forecasters from va rious states. It was 35 degrees above zero at breakfast time, the coolest morning of the fall. “It is fine,” spake the first forecaster who came out on the veranda for a bit of fresh air. “Only I didn’t bring my overcoat.” Uncle Hi Suggs, the veteran unoffi cial prophet of Battle Hill, who was still waiting for a conference with Pro. fessor Moore, snorted in derision. Uncle Hi Knew It. "Listen at that,” he remarked. "Weather prophet caught in the cold without no overcoat. My sister Miran dy's oldest boy went squirrel huntin' and forgot his gun, but he ain't quite right in his head. I seen this cold snap a-comin’ a week ago. Didn’t I predict ir. yestiddy? Yes, sir; when you see | a hawg rootin’ a deep wallow in the fence corner this time-a-year, it’s time to tote in a box full of wood and liev your kindlin' split and ready.” i Yesterday’s prediction for today was I "fair,” but no reference was made to j the wisdom of putting an extra blanket ion the bed. Most of the experts inter viewed refrained from expressing an opinion on the cause of the drop in temperature, except, to remark I hat a marked diminution of the perpendicular altitude of the closely confined column of mercury might easily be expected to be manifested in the period between the autumnal equinox and the Easter parade. But other forecasters were not hesitatnt in expressing their opinions as to the cause of the cold. Change After March. "The cold wave which spread from Ohio eastward and culminated in the white house has turned southward,” said the expert from Mississippi. “It may be expected to chill the atmos phere in the local postoffice and cus toms house and pass on. You may count on marked changes shortly after March ♦." "After careful study. I am convinced that the condition is purely local," said another. “It made its appearance im mediately after the return of James G. Woodward, and had its origin in the ' epidemic of cold feet in the city hall.” Asked for a forecast for tomorrow land Sunday, the experts held an execu. | • ivo cum "ret and issued the follow i> g | ;•< port: j “If the thermometer shows a tenden- cy toward altitudinous demonstration within the next 24 hours, this section reasonably may anticipate an increased temperature, provided, of course, that the clouds do not obscure the sun and the wind stays in its natural habitat of Kansas an contiguous territory. The day will be bright and fair unless it rains.” Crop Bulletins Urged. if the weather men succeed in per suading the agricultural department to issue weekly weather bulletins ami forecasts to farmers, the get-rich-quick speculators who fake crop reports and pull down prices won't find business so good, according to the experts who close their conference today. The fore casters adopted resolutions urging a resumption of the weekly crop bulle tins, and these will bo presented to the secretary of agriculture by Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the bureau. “It is hoped that ho government will decide to issue these bulletins again." said Professor Moore. “If this is done, they will be the most complete ever handled. The data will be gathered by telegraph (nice a week and be correct right up to the day of issuance. The farmer will know the exact condition of all crops all over the country.” As a result of the Atlanta conference, the department will be asked t o estabi lish in Washington a separate division of agricultural meteorology tor the pur pose of studying weather conditions, witli especial reference to th< effect of weather on crops. The bureau is anx ious to co-operate thoroughly with the state agricultural colleges and experi ment stations. PICKPOCKETS PLY ART AT MACON’S JUBILEE MACON, GA.. Nov. 14 The Macon cele bration of (he Democratic election victory was also a jubilee for the pickpockets No less than sixteen robberies have been reported to the police, and exactly nine empty pocketbooks have been reported aA being found on the streets There was such a crowd-at the auditorium to hear the speeches that the pickpockets had no difficulty In operating. Henry Whitehead, a real estate man, was relieved of $l5O, and Dr. Dewitt Mc- Creary had a purse containing $350 taken from him. The, total losses so far re ported aggregate about S9OO. ENEMY OF OYSTER FINDS PEARL IN HIS FIRST ONE NEW YORK. Nov. 15. A pearl val ued at about SIOO was found in the first oyste ever .-aton by Dr. M (Tirtliy, heretofore a pr> odi.-i ag: lost th bi valve. DALY TELLS W HEMADECHARGE Doctor Lecites Incident Which Led to Imbroglio at Battle Hill Sanitarium. Dr. Richard R. Daly replied today to the statement of Superintendent Mer ritt, of the Bat\ e Hill sanitarium, that he should prove his hints of improper conduct at the tuberculosis home or ad mit he lied. Dr. Daly said: “At the last meeting of the investi gating committee, when the discussion took place, I asked to be put upon the stand and be allowed to make the statement Dr. Merritt desired. The chairman said that no new witnesses were to be heard, and Mr. McClelland, to whom I made the request, did not press the matter. "Since then comments have been fre quent and annoying, and I beg to be relieved of them by making the follow ing statement: Patient Was Feeble. “Shortly after Ahe sanitarium opened I was asked there by the superintend ent to see a man who was suffering with tubercular throat trouble. I saw him in a room near the porch, and told Dr. Merritt a£ the time the patient was too feeble for extended treatment un less he was in bed. As soon as I had finished I said that the man should be helped back to the ward, because he was in a bad way. “Dr. Merritt said to let him alone; that he could get back all right by him self, and took me to the porch, where 1 sat down to wait till lie had attended to some other matters. While sitting there a nurse called to me that the man in the nearby room was on the floor and unable to move, I went in to see him and assisted in getting him to the ward. My only comment at the time was that such patients should be treat ed in bed, or else that a wheel table should be provided to take them to the examination room. Mistake Was Possible. "The institution was new, and one could not expect all of the facilities of a fully equipped place to be present. "When I gave my testimony I was asked if I had ever seen anything my self that I did not approve of at the I sanitarium. 1 answered that only once I had I seen any such thing, and it might I have been a mistake: sb 1 would not mention it. Evidently, my remark lias i been interpreted as having a different i kind of allusion. As a fact, it referred to the incident as delineated above. “I regret that so much personal mat ter lias been injected into this affair. The subject of the care and preven tion of tuberculosis, which is killing I over 400 annually in Atlanta, should I not be so obscured." TOM WATSON FACES U. S. COURT NEXT WEEK AT AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 15.—When Federal court opens in this city next Monday, the feature of the session will I no doubt be the ease of the government against Thomas E. Watson, the Thom son publisher, who is charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. Watson was arrested several months ago by Marshal George F. White and was brought to this city, where a preliminary hearing was given liim and he was bound over to the United States district court. A number of cases against men charged with violating the white slave act and against men charged with peonage ate expected to come up at lite next session of the Federal court. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE HELD AS “WHITE SLAVER'’ COLUMBUS. GA., Nov. 15.—V. t McKenzie, a distillery gauger in the employment of the United States, was given a preliminary hearing here yes terday on a charge of violating the wliite slave law. The trial was in progress all day practically. After the evidence was in, Clerk N. A Brown, of tlie United States court, held McKenzie for the December term of the Federal court, under a bond of SSOO. The warrant for McKenzie’s arrest was sworn out by T. W. Day. of Chat tanooga. Tenn., who alleged that Mc- Kenzie iiad persuaded Etta Long, of Chattanooga, to go with him to St. L >uls, and from there to Birmingham, and later to Girard. Ala.., where she was at the time M< Kenzie was arrested. LAVONIA MAYOR GETS 48 CENTS CONSCIENCE FUND LAVONIA. GA., Noy. 15.—A. B. Vickery, mayor of Lavonia, lias re ceived 24 two-cent stamps from an un known person, with this request: "Put this in the town treasury." Tlie letter was mailed at Newnan, Ga., and was written in a clear, business like style. The stamps were turned over to the city treasurer. It is sup posed the unknown sender made the remittance in payment of a debt owed tlie city. It is the first contribution Lavonia officials have received to a "conscience fund.” NEW BRAND OF LIQUOR FOR THIRSTY ROMANS ROME, GA., Nov. 15. —When United States Commissioner Printup bound Frank Smith over for illicit distilling, he found that a new concoction had made Its appearance in the liquor mar ket of Rome. Tlie new whisky goes bj the name of "Zalon,” It is a preparation which when added to alcohol makes whisky. , Smith had two kinds, rye and corn, and I, as doing . rushing liii-im ' < |i. n | tin office) s gut him, SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS Former Governor and United States i Senator Joseph Meriwether Terrell is | very sick at his home in Juniper street. I and his friends are I most uneasy con i corning him. The senator has I made a brave and prolonged fight to recover from the stroke of paralysis he sustained in Washington some eighteen months ago, and thou sands of Geor gians have watoh ed his efforts to get well v. ith anx ious and abiding sympathy a. n d good will. The senator re- L j sumed the prac tice of law in Atlanta after he retired from the senate, and made such visits to h’is offices in the Forsyth building as his weakened physical condition would permit. For a time, too, he seemed to improve, and his friends took heart.and began to hope that, after all, “Old Joe,” as they always have called him most affectionately, might come back to form again. The undertaking seems to have been too much tor him. however —and now he is not doing so well, and has lost heart in away, and is a very Hi man, indeed. There never sat in the governor's chair of this state a more loyal or lov able man than Joseph M. Terrell. Long before he was made governor he was the state’s attorney general, and the state had in Terrell in that capacity an official always accommodating and ef ficient. No governor ever had about him an official family—through both of his administrations —that respected him more or was more genuinely fond of him. Whatever he did as governor he did from the best and purest of motives —one may be very sure of that—and such political mistakes as he may have made, or as some people may have thought he made, were, if mistake at all, mistakes of the head, and never of the heart. A big, brave, lovable, generous-heart ed man is Jo-epii Meriwether Terrell— and there ..re many, many Georgians who are longing to hear yet that he has beaten back disease and once again is on the way to recovery. His career has been most distinguished and useful and Georgia would rejoice to see him well and strong once more. He still is far from being an old man. State Entomologist Lee Worsham. I who lias been making an official tour of | south Georgia, gives it as his opinion that unless something Is done to change the present status of affairs, sea island cotton growing is doomed in Georgia, except on a few islands adjacent to the state. Discussing this matter, Mr. Worsham says: "The coming of the boll weevil sounds the death knelb of sea island cotton within the next few years, except on the islands themselves. We may be able to keep these free of the pest, but then will be no sea island raised at all in counties like Tattnall and Bul loch within the next three or four years. "Tlie iioll weevil is certain to strike Georgia next year. It is coming this way at such a rapid rate that its ad vent before another crop Is raised may be looked for with certainty. The weevil 1.- now within 45 miles of tlie Georgia line. It will take three years additional for the pest to reach the coast. "There is nothing that can stop the inroads of tlie weevil, and when they reach the sea island cotton section that class of staple might just as sell be abandoned. It takes too long to raise a sea island cotton crop to save it from the weevil. The only kind of cotton that Is weevil proof is one that matures quickly.” The next legislature will be asked to take very seriously in hand the matter j of the boll weevil in Georgia, as all au thorities now agree that the state can not hope to be kept free of the pest much longer. What the legislature will do about the matter, however, is—well, highly problematical, anyway! "Much depends upon the way one looks at things,” said Congressman Gordon Lee, who Is an Atlanta visitor today "particularly after things have happened and th* looking is in retro spect. "There is Mr. Roosevelt, for instance, isafe anti snug in the ranks of the 'also Occupations j ry kind prevent the g sunlight exercise R tended, and vital | 'duced. he concentrated ■ leek this decline. I making healthy I greatest I an d Mlßlby By JAMES B. NEVIN. rans;' he says his defeat was brought about largely because the ‘avenues of publicity were in a large measure choked,’ so far as he was concerned. “To me that seemed a pretty vicious backslap at tlie newspapers—for if the newspapers ever were kind to anybody in the matter of publicity, they have been exceedingly kind to Mr. Roose velt. "On the contrary, I notice Mr. Wilson quoted as having said recently: ‘I find much that is instructing, uplifting, use ful and entertaining in the newspapers, and I never fail to read carefully the editorials, frequently’ profiting much thereby.’ "Looks to me as If T. R. may be a little sore, whereas Wilson is very' well satisfied, with the newspapers. Seems to me, too, that Wilson’s remark should make him mighty solid with the press. The Savannah News voices a univer sal protest throughout the state of Georgia when it says, in a recent issue: The statement that funds in the state treasury are at a low ebb and that it is difficult to find enough for necessary expenses reveals no new condition of affairs. There will be but little money in the treasury until the tax money begins to come ■in late in December. Meanwhile, the school teachers have not been paid and the state has been forced to borrow a large sum. With a wealthy and prosperous common wealth, whose property values in crease many millions of dollars every year, this kind of financiering is childish. With proper legisla tive foresight, all the state's obliga tions could be met, Its institutions cared for and a comfortable balance kept in the treasury for emergen cies. It all depends on the people— upon the sort of men they elect to represent them. The legislature will be asked to pro vide for Georgia a state board of tax equalizers, as it generally is adinltte<l that the state’s present extremely loose methods of returning its taxable prop erty furnish innumerable loopholes for ts.x-dodgers and evaders. It is a fact that If the state of Geor gia could collect the tax that righteous ly and justly is due her—which now she assuredly does not—the question of paying the teachers and promptly liqui dating the state’s remaining obliga tions would be a problem of compara tively easy solution. And the state would have a com fortable working balance left, at that. A south Georgia editor, straining his eyes and his ears toward Atlanta, re marks that his city should "fire the smoke board!” That motion already has been made in several quarters, but as yet it has not been carried. SOUTHERN RAILWAY OFFICIALS SHAKEN UP IN-NEW ORDER Various changes In the organization of the Atlanta division of the Southern rail way were announced today by Superin tendent E. E. Norris. They ara: A. P. Johnson, stationmaster of the Birmingham terminal, appointed train master in charge of the line Atlanta to Macon. Including Macon termfnaJ. C. E. Ervin, assistant engineer main tenance of way of the northern district headquarters Greensboro, N. O„ appointed roadmaster succeeding J. N. Biddy as signed to other duties. M. W. Self, track supervisor of the Bir mingham division, headquarters at Oak man, Ala., appointed bridge and building supervisor in charge of the terrltprj be tween Atlanta and Brunswick, vice J. W. Alexander, resigned. O. F. Carlson, track supervisor' of At lanta terminals, appointed track super visor In charge of the line between At - lamta and Macon with headquarters at Macon. J. L. Conley, appointed track supervisor in charge of the line between Maoon and Lumber City. J. T. Wilbanks, appointed track super visor In charge of the line between Lum - ber City and Brunswick. All of these appointments were effective November 1. Three track supervisors have been named for the territory be tween Atlanta and Maxon, where only two were formerly employed. TWO MEN SHOT, BUT RABBIT IS UNHARMED BUTLER, N. J., Nov. 15.—A rabbit ambled along between Rev. J. Willi'- Mlnner and Freeholder Frederick Sloan of this city. Both men fired slmulta neously. Both got a charge of buck shot in their legs, and the rabbi scampered away unhurt. 5