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HKARST’S Sl.’NDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C,A.. SUNDAY. APRII
1913.
HERE’S 1 OTHER SIDE OF
Atlanta Man! Are Yon Adonts or Tailor's Misfit?
THE FRIEDMANN
p A or Women Not Venuses Either, but All Are ‘Cuddly'
U n0 L 5 ft 10mTALL I 5ft. Sw. TALb~
$3,000,000 Heiress
Has Honeymoon of
Two Short Hours
Continued From Page 1.
u> resistance of
st infection by
maliari cultures,
immunized rabbin
rabbits
virulent
to such
a dfgrre
e that x
v ln-n ttiey
were in-
<»< ulate<
1 with
virulent
cultures
the infl
amm.'itorj reaction grad-
Rally di
sappear
•ed, leaving the eye
in the i
lormal
condition.
while in
control
a nima!
Is the de
st ruction
of the <
»ye was
complete
As far
a-5 we h
are bee
n able to
discover.
Tru deal
j wn s
the first
to an-
nounce
the pr
Incipal that ltvlnK
cultures
; must
be used
in order
to prod
uce an
efficient i
mmunity
against
tuberculosis.
A
immals
Immunized.
De Sc
hweinit
z. in 1894.
irnmun-
ized animals with human tuber
cle bacilli, which had been culti
vated for twenty generations on
slightly acid broth. At the end of
this time the cultures were not
virulent for guinea pigs, but were
<apabl* of immunizing these an
imals to such an extent that they
resisted infection with the bovine
germ. Control animal died In
seven weeks.
Pearson and Gilliland demon
strated that human bacilli which
v.ere not virulent for cattle would
produce a high degree of Immuni
ty when injected in the circula
tion. In 1905 the same authors
demonstrated a strong curative
action on tuberculosis from injec
tion of non-virulent tubercle bac
illi derived from human beings.
Webb and Williams demon
strated that Immunity against
tuberculosis could be produced by #
the inoculation of living tuber
cle bacilli, beginning with small
doses and gradually lncrasing.
If we go to foreign publications
it is easy to multiply Instances of
the use of living cultures In 1907
Mel a h. an not only demonstrat
ed his ability to produce Immuni
ty in cattle by the use of living
cultures, but also in one case
treated an animal which was al
ready tuberculous. The animals
resisted for a long time injections
of tub* r !e bacilli of proved viru
lence for cattle.
In 1901. Von Behring announc
ed li! method of bovo-vacclna-
tion. the first detailed publication
of width appeared in 1902. Liv
ing cultures were used.
Intravenous Injection,
In 1903, Thomassen, reported
r \i»< riinents in which, by the in
travenous injection of human tu-
bcivip bacilli into young cattle,
i • produced a considerable degree
of Immunity.
Vale reported experiments in
which young animals were ren
dered highly immune against vir
ulent bovine infection by the use
of non-virulent living cultures
derived in the first instance from
a horse.
Instances could be multiplied,
but these are enough to demon
strate that Friedmann has not
discovered or announced any new’
principle in regard to the immu
nization against tuberculosis. As
far as our knowledge goes he has
followed methods which were first
demonstrated in this country,
and have been confirmed by
many workers in America and
Europe.
The psychology of the excite
ment <>f the public over Fried -
maim is l»ord to understand ex
cept >n the basis of clever press
agent work. Practically every
fact that he has brought forward
has been known for years.
Why the bacillus from the tur
tle should possess special cura
tive value for the human being is
a mystery, although of course it
cannot be denied that it is within
the range of possibility that such
a thing may :>e true.
The point of scientific interest
that should be made clear, how
ever, ;s that he has discovered no
few principle, at least as far as
the published communications go.
The principle of using slightly
virulent cultures derived from
another species was demonstrat
ed by Trudeau in 1891 and 1892.
Thp principle of intravenous in
jection for the best production of
Immunity against tuberculosis
was demonstrated by Pearson and
Gilliland and others in 1912. It
seems, then. that, if In* has dis
covered anything at all, it is on
ly a culture which possesses un
usual immunizing powers for hu
man beings.
Is Culture Efficient?
Practically, of course, the point
of interest is in the question
whether or not a harmless and
clinically efficient immunizing
culture has actually been worked
out.
On this point we still await
authoritative tests for we have no
information that Dr. Friedmann
has yet submitted his treatment
to investigation by competent
and unprejudiced experts in the
treatment of tuberculosis.
The announcement that he has
agreed to submit his method to
be tested by the New York City
Department of Health and by the
public health service will, perhaps
be viewed with natural skepti
cism until the test has actually
taken place, in view of the fact
that he withdrew the offer to sub
mit the treatment to his own
government.
If it proves its worth under ad
equate, unbiased scientific inves
tigation, the medical profession,
of course, will oaL" be too gUmj to
forget me unfortunate features
Its exploitation which have rais~
ed a presumption against its
worth. Until then the public and
the profession alike may be par
doned for remembering that a
patent was applied for and the
treatment advertised before its
value was established; that as
yet we have the word of none
who has actually tested it except
Dr. Friedmann and his assistants
*>r associates; and finally, that al
though there is no lack of clini
cal material in Germany, he has
< hosen to bring it to America
first from no other apparent mo
tive than pure commercialism.
Dr. O. H. Perry Pepper, of Phil
adelphia, reviewed for the Jour
nal of the American Medical As
sociation the publications by Dr.
Friedmann in German medical
journals. He writes (Vo. LX.,
No. 3.5):
Although th' medical profes
sion in this country may not be
favorably Impressed to-day with
the claims made by Friedmann,
'find ^.though he has not definiiq-
he i*
ly am
stance
same as tl
his earlier
ed from it,
A bethei the sub-
cow using is the
culture employed in
i hnents or deriv-
t !t is of interest to
brielly
• rigina I
i ti
re view
eles.
First Publications.
The first publications by Fried
mann lontern *ig this subject «p-
pearel in the ; . ar 1903. and were
four »n numb. i. the earliest en*
titled "Spontaneous Pulmonary
Tuberculosis with Large Cavity
in a Turtle (Chelone Cortlcata)”
(Spontane Lungentifbei kulos mit
grosse Kavern** bel elner Wn»-
Merohildkrote) Deutsch rm<l.
Wchnsohr, January, 19o3.j
In tbits article Friedmann
states that, except for an occa
sional dubious report, there had
previously bean no description of
an autnentic case of spontaneous
tuber ulosis of the lungs in a
cold-blooded animal. The case be
reports, which he asserts was the
first of the kind to be reported,
occurred in a turtle which died
in the Berlin Aquarium and was
examined post-inorten.
The lungs were later sent to
Friedmann and showed many tu
bercles, caseons foci and cavity
formation. Mlc osooplc prepara
tions stained In the usual way
showed all the stages of the tu
berculous process and Incredible
masses of acid-fast bacilli, which
could In no way be distinguished
from the mammalian type of or
ganism.
The second article appeared
shortly after, under much the
same title (Spontane Lungentu-
berkulosc bei Schildkroten und
die Stellung des Tuberkelbazilltia
1m System.—Stschr. f. Tuberk
IV.. 5).
Here the findings are more fully
described and the necropsy report
cf a secotsl turtle with similar
lesions is given. In addition there
ie a careful history of the study
of tubercle bacilli in cold-blooded
animals with a long list of refer
ences.
The third article (Der Schild-
krotentuberkelbazillus, seine
Zuchtung, Btologie, und Patho-
genitat.—Cenarabl. f Bkt. 1903,
XXXIV.) concerns Friedmann’s
studies of the organism obtained
from the turtle, and deals with
the cultural 'characteristics and
pathogenicity of the strain. Cul
tivation was readily performed
and the optimal temperature was
found to be 37 degrees C (98.6
degrees F).
The results of about fifty ani
mal inoculations are quoted, all
the cold-blooded animals, except
two, died, whereas none of the
warrrf-blooded series was affected
except the guinea pigs. which
were killed by enormous doses,
but were unaffected by smaller
amounts.
As a result of those studies.
Friedmann concluded that the
turtle bacillus was a much nearer
relative of the human and bovine
drains than any of the various
other cold-blooded strains, or
even the nvain bacillus of Koch.
The title of the fourth article,
Immunization Against Tuber
culosis" (Immunisierung gegen
Tuberkulose Deutsch mod.
Wchnscfcr. Dec.. 1903) shows the
trend of Friedmann’s investiga
tions, and hie succeeding articles
all concern this Immunities in
general, he discusses his discov
eries and studies of the turtle
basillus and asserts that it is
specially suited for producing
Immunity.
The culture is described as fol
lows:
1. Optimal growth occurs at 37
degrees O.
-• The culture Is Indistinguish
able at that temperature from hu
man strain.
•L It produces in the guinea
pig a specific tuberculosis at the
site of Injection, but localized and
going on to healing.
In a series of the small animals
Injected, none suffered any ill ef
fects. and they reacted very dif
ferently from uninjected controls
when injected later with the lethal
doses of human bacilli.
The controls died in from six to
eight weeks from generalized
tuberculosis, whereas the immun
ized animals showed at the site
of the injection of the human
1>h<’illi an Infiltration, which, how
ever, remained soft, inter dis
charged a little caseous matter
and healed yp entirely.
These animals sometimes
showed a slight swelling of the
'(‘Klonal lymph-nodes, hut they
lost no weight, sutTered no 1m'-
pairment of the general health
and at autopsy, three months
ater. showed no evidence of
tuberculosis. On the basis of these
results Friedmann held that the
t ut tie bacillus was a harmless
immunity-conferring substance.
HAT KC7
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SKIPT 15
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AT1/A1TTA
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WEIGHS
160 lbs
YMSE
34 if
GKXES/
NO 7 If*.
LENGTH**
neo-usees
IK.
Males Just a Little Bit
Off Perfect Lines in
Many Ways, b u t
Average Is a ‘Good
Fellow’ of the Right
Sort.
5ft. 5n?. TALI/"
SOCKS lO Jfc,
SHOTS’ 7 k.
Ii K arm of the average Atlanta
man isn’t long enough by an
inch.
That statement was drawn from
local tailors and clothiers by a Sun
day American reporter who sought to
obtain the measurements of the aver
age Atlanta man and woman. All
Atlanta girls who are doubtful about
that short arm and who would like
a practical illustration of it are re
quested to stand up. A number of
our average citizens will be glad to
furnish themselves as living sacrifices
in the good cause.
The pinion in question, the tailors
say, is 32 inches long where it ought
to bt 33 to be perfect.
Following is more news from the
front about what the average Atlantan
looks like and wears and how he
stacks up against personified perfec-
The Average Atlanta Man.
1904 (Debar Immunisierung gegen
Tuberkulose. Therap. Monatsch,
1904, XXVIII) takes up no new
points and merely covers the same
ground.
In 1905 Friedmann published one
article (Zur Tuberculos-immuni-
sierung mit Schildkrotentuberkel-
bazillen. Deutsch. nied. Wchnschr.
February li, 1905) in response to
a criticism by LI hertz in Ruppel
In the same number of the same
Journal.
Not Absolutely Harmless.
These authors had Investigated
Friedmann's culture and had con
cluded:
1. That it was not absolutely
harmless to warm-blooded ani
mals.
2. That intravenous injections
of Friedmann’s culture in warm
blooded animals did not prevent
a later infection with tuberculo
sis; and
3. That tuberculous immune
bodies were not produced by its
injection.
Friedmann accuses these au
thors of unfairness since they
were familiar with his work, and
saw his manuscripts, but with
held comment until after publica
tion. He denies all • their con
clusions and reiterates his own
results.
1‘Tom 1905, for seven years,*
Friedmann's name does not ap
pear in the Index Medieus, and no
reference to any publication by
him is found until after 1912,
when his well-known articles ap
peared in the Berlinen Klinische
Wochensehrift.
From the statements made in
this article and from the figures
quoted It seems probable that the
culture formerly employed and
only meagerly described in the
articles which I have now ab
stracted is the same as the one
Friedmann is now injecting, or
that it is at least the basis for the
present preparations.
WORKING WAY THROUGH
COLLEGE TAKES NERVE
Replies to Critice
During: the following vear
1904 Friedmann published three
articles, al! on more or less the
same lines. The first (Zur Flag.-
der aktiven Immunisierung gegen
Tuberkulose, Deutsch in e d
Wsehnsehr. January 1904) is ap
parently In response to certain
critics who had compared his at
tempts to produce immunity with
1 hose of experimenters working
with strains of tubercle bacilli
attenuated in virulence by resi
dence in some cold-blooded ani
mal. as that of .Moeller, which
was injected into a blirui worm
and later recovered for use
Friedman? maintained Ms the
ory and toeV-tr were more scien
tific. and hia resulta more success
ful. The other two types of tuber-
ile bacilli strains used in attempts
to produce immunity had bden.
first, those harmless saprophy
tes in many cold-blooded animals
such us the fish bacillus of Batail-
on. Dubard surd Terre: and sec
ond, the bacilli variously modi
fied by passage through'a cold
blooded animal. as Moeller’s
through the blind worm, and
Batalllon. I.ubarsvh and Dlen-
sonne’s through a frog.
The next article (Ueber Immu
nisierung von Rtndern gegen
Tuberculose (Perlsucht) und uber
Tuberculose - Serumversuche —
Deutsch med. Wchnschr. 1904.
XXX) concerned the use of the
culture for immunizing cattle
in that it is stated that the tur
tle bacillus is completely hartn-
'ess for young or old cattle, and
that by the me of proper tech
nic a very high grade of of im-
unitv can be produced through a
single injection
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., April 26.—-The
University of Illinois faculty does not
encourage students to make the at
tempt to work their way through
college. Commenting on the fact that
one-fifth of the 4,500 students of the
Institution 'earn part or all of their
expenses, the university, In a state
ment, warns prospective students
without means to be wary of follow
ing this example.
"Only the strongest young men can
stand the strain. To earn one’s way,
entirely and carry a college course
besides, means twelve to fifteen hours’
labor daily, including Sunday. On the
whole, working one’s way should not
be attempted except by those physi
cally vigorous and somewhat ma
ture.’’
FARMER MAKES TRIP TO
MARKET THIRTY YEARS
Tbft^third article appearing in
OLKY, PA., April 26. For more
than 30 years Daniel R. Hunter, of
this town, has driven to Reading mar
ket with his farm products, and there
are few farmers in Berks who enjoy a
larger circle of friends than the vet
eran of both the farm and the Civil
War.
For more than a century the Hun
ter family has been prominent in
industrial circles in Berks County,
having had much to do with the early
furnaces and forges, and While the
Oley furnaces wore still in blast.
Daniel R. Hunter followed the trade
of wheelwright, close to it, and when
the lumber and charcoal teamsters
broke their heavy wagons he would
repair them.
SPRINKLERED RISKS PUT
UNDER MODERN SYSTEM
PHILADELPHIA, April 26—After
Wars of consideration, the fire in
surance companies have finally work
ed out a plan for handling sprink-
lered business in the West. The West
ern Union of Fire Underwriters, at
its meeting here, appointed a com
mittee of five to co-operate with a
committee of three from the Western
Insurance Bureau, who are to or
ganize an "improved risk inspection
bureau," with headquarters in Chi
cago.
FARMER WHIPS CHILD:
GETS 2-YEAR SENTENCE
TEMPLE. TEXAS. April 26.—Bd
Munz. a wealthy farmer, has been
found guilty of brutally whipping an
e : sht-yeai -old orphan boy who was
living with him, and was sentenced
to two years in the countv jail and
fined $2,000,
lion
He lacks one inch of being ideally
tall, even if he can reach the gas-
burner when his wife has to use a
chair. He’s 5.9, where he really ought
to be 5.10.
He hasn’t got chest enough by an
inch, outsiders to the contrary not
withstanding. Said chest is 37
inches instead of 38.
He’s short on waist 2 Inches. The
high cost of living has brought it
down to 32 instead of 34.
He doesn’t weigh but 150 pounds
against the J60 regularly required of
a real man Venus. (The same high
cost).
Most Beautiful Feet.
But don’t you worry, Mabel, he’s
got the MOST BEAUTIFUL FEET
IN THE WORLD! Shoe store men
told that to the girl reports them
selves and they looked at their own
when they told it.
One man turned loose a real epic
on the question. He said:
"I have sold shoes in 15 different
cities, but nowhere has masculinity
such pedal extremities as it has here.
Men’s feet in some sections of our
country look like slugs in comparison.”
(And that man is being allowed to
wander around unrewarded). i
Other data about the average citi
zen hnd voter:
His trouser length is 33 inches.
His collar is No. 15.
His hat is a 7.
His gloves are 7 1-2 when he has
any.
His shirt is a 15 (also when he
has any).
He wears a 7 1-2 shoe.
Tils socks are number 10 1-2.
Now add to the average Atlanta
| man the average Atlanta woman and
you have him finished.
These are preliminary details (un
derstood).
SHE IS ALWAYS RIGHT.
SHE ALWAYS KNEW IT WAS
GOING TO TURN OUT JUST LIKE
IT DID.
This is the size of her, according
to what she buys in local shops:
She is 5 feet 5 Inches tall—just tall
enough for her head to feel right at
home against a 37-inch chest below a
No. 15 collar. So who’s worrying be
cause she isp’t 5 feet 7 inches high,
like a lady-Adonis? She might catch
cold at that altitude anyhow.
In comparison to the perfect woman,
she isn’t off a hairsbreadth, according
to Atlanta men. But according to
modistes, she ought to wear a 36
suit, have a 26-inch waist, wear a 41-
Inch shirt and weigh 140 pou^is.
The Data on Women.
Instead of that, this is the way she
appears to the world at the present
writing:
She is a perfect 34.
She wears a 24-inch waist or any
other kind that suits her.
Her sleeves are 19 inches if she
wears them long.
She weighs 135 pounds—or less, ac
cording to style.
Her shoes are 4’s. Sli! (Pianis
simo.)
Her hosiery is openwork and No. 9.
(Sounds large, but isn’t.)
Her glove is No. 6 1-2.
Her hats have no number. They
are like the sands of the sea.
From what could be gathered of
her. the average Atlanta woman is
rather good looking, more than any
thing else. There are a whole lot of
her who might be called pretty—and
who are—but on the other hand (we
sorrow to say it), there are a number
of her who an* compelled to console
themselves with the old and time-
honored quotation about beauty being
only skin deej). She Is rather a chic,
sprv little creature for the most part,
with fine eyes and a taking way about
her when it comes to cash.
What could be learned about the
average man. as usual, wasn’t much.
One thing is certain, however, his hair
may be falling out in spots, but he Is
not yet bald. Of course there are a
few of him who are, hut it is stated on
reliable authority that in all cases
they are taking something for it. The
average citizen is also very fond of
something edible and is athletic. There
are also a good many fat ones among
him, as well as anti-fats. But, taking
him all around, he’s a good sort and a
good sport, and he’d give a down-and -
outer a (lime any old time the giving
was good.
Men Not All Angels.
As a grand finale, the reporter
found out that men who walk the
streets of Atlanta are not men at all
nor angels. Biblically speaking.
They are just "regulars,” or “pistol -
legs.'’ or "stubs,” or “short-stouts,” or
“long-stout* 1 .” and that’s all. Which
means the style and figure of them,
and which sounds like baseball talk—
but isn’t.
Here’s a bit of affectionate conver
sation the reporter caught between
two clothes dealers. It is particularly
strong on Its descriptive accuracy.
"Hello there, short-stout; how’s yer
good health?”
Short-stout, living up to the name,
fastened a friendly optic on the speak
er and grasped him by the hand.
"Why, Archie, you old pistol leg"
(which sounds like war times, but
which the reporter later found out
meant that Archie's pants were tight
around ihe bottom), "just fine, thank
you. Glad to see you. Just this min
ute left old long-slim around the cor
ner. He told me to tell you—"
But what long-slim had told was
lost to the world as the two sauntered
off down thu street.
IltfAL
ATLANTA.
WOMAN
IS A
34
A
GLOVDS-
m <a\
WAIST
24 \n~
SLTEVTS
19 irj -
155 lbs.
HOSIERY NO.Q.
Shoes yc.4
Iowa House Passes Bill to Give
Widows $2 a Week for
Each Child.
The Average Atlanta Woman.
Husband Must Pay-
Railroad Fare to
Get His Wife Rack
Woman Ready to Leave Affinity
When He Is Placed Under
Arrest.
ST. LOUIS, AprH 26.—Mrs. William
Preston, runaway wife of a Los An
geles man, was miffed when she heard
at police headquarters the telegram
received there concerning her and her
companion, Harry Humphreys, an
Englishman, who admits having; per
formed deeds of daring and prowess
in different parts of the world.
The message was from the Los An
geles Sheriff, and read: “If woman
with him will return to her husband,
he is at Occidental Hotel, Los An
geles. willing to forgive and forget,
but by all means hold Humphreys,
hot air and all.”
"Oh, well," said the brown-haired
litle woman, "I’ll go back all right,
only lie must send the money for my
ticket."
DES MOINES, April 26. The spec
tacle of petite divorcees trailing per
fume into the county treasurers'
offices in Iowu once a week to get $2
of the county’s money is forecast,
according to Representative Shank-
land, by a bill which passed the House
recently.
Poor widows with children they are
fighting to support will be the great
est beneficiaries from the measure
should it be enacted by the Senate,
however. It provides mothers’ pen
sions under a system of county and
court supervision.
The bill was a substitute for the
Shdnkland mothers’ pension bill,
which provided that the State pay
$10 a month, per child, to widows
on the recommendation of the State
Board of Control.
The substitute provides that any
district court shall be competent to
award a pension to widows, which
shall not be mote than $2 a week
per child, and shall be paid by the
Board of Supervisors,
Pair Lived in Honolulu Before
Wealthy Bride Is Forced to Sail
for Orient.
-UNATICS IN KANSAS
INCREASE DURING YEAR
TOPEKA, April 26.—The older and
richer Kansas becomes, the fewer be
come her needy citizens, but the
greater the number of insane. This
peculiar condition has Just been
found by H. C. Bowman, chairman of
the Kansas Board of Control, which
has charge of all the charitable in
stitutions owned by the State.
The number of the poor that must
be assisted by the counties is so small
that probably less than half a mil
lion dollars is spent in any single
year for charity in the State.
WINKING ‘CURFEW WARNS
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN
SACRAMENTO, April 26.—This
city’s new electrolier system may be
put in a novel use if the request made
to the City Commission by Chief
of Police Johnson and Superior Court
Judge Hughes, of the Juvenile Court,
is carried out. It was recommended
that the street lights be alternately
extinguish*''! and illuminated at 9
o’clock each night during the sum
mer months and at 8 o'clock during
the winter months for the purpose
of warning minors under the age
of sixteen that it is time to get off
the streets and to go home.
The old curfew system was abol
ished six years ago on the complaint
of the citizens against the unearthly
"banshee’ noise caused by the siren
alarm.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.- Has
tening to Honolulu on important busi
ness, meeting the woman whom he
had fallen in love with two years ago
on an out-bound voyage, an ardent
five-day courtship and a hasty wed
ding in Honolulu is the experience of
E. Douglas Wilson, an official of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, who arrived
here on the steamer Siberia.
Two hours after the wedding cere
mony bad been performed the bride,
who before her marriage was Miss
Anna B. Lamb, of Edinburgh, Scot
land, boarded a steamer for the Orient
on a business trip’, while Wilson re
turned to San Francisco.
Mrs. Wilson inherited $3,000,000
from her lather, Robert Lamb, one of
the wealthiest lace manufacturers of
the. United Kingdom.
FREE 21 YEARS, SLAYER
SURRENDERS HIMSELF
BLUEEIELDS, W. Va., April 2*6.—
A fugitive from justice for nearly
twenty-one years, wandering aim
lessly about the country, James
Crockett, aged forty-five years, as
tounded the sheriff of this county
when he deliberately strode into the
Sheriff's office and asked that he be
sent to jail,
Crockett informed the sheriff that
he had escaped from prison in 1892,
following his conviction and sentence
to life imprisonment for the murder
of his sweetheart, Miss Moliie Crab
tree.
Investigation proved that Crocke:t
was telling the truth, and he was
taken to the same jail he had broken
out of in 1892. He was later taken
before the Circuit Court, where he
told his story, after which he was
committed to jail to await his re
moval to the penitentiary at Mounds-
vllle.
$3,000 SPENT BY MAN
TO CASH $30 FORGERY
SAL1NA. KAN., April 26.—H. A.
Milieu, of Nevada, Mo., registering
at a local hotel as S. Malony, Wichi
ta. Kan., was arrested here for for
gery.
He secured $30 on one check, on the
strength of having issued two checks,
one for $2,800 and the other for
$1,200, for two horses he bought at
Lamer’s sale barn. He was prepar
ing to leave the city when arrested.
He represented that he was of the
Miller 101 Ranch In Oklahoma, and
telegraphic information from the
ranch that he was an imposter caused
his arrest before securing the horses.
His mother at Nevada refused to
assist him in any way, saying he
had been in similar trouble.
HAZED BRIDE PUT
Nurse, Secretly Married, Hys
terical From Joking Treatment
of Hospital Associates.
DENVER, COLO., April 26. ! , :
days Miss Maude Farmer, a j M -.,
young nurse at the County Hos|.i;
kept secret the fact that she was n,- .
ried on Easter Sunday to J. F, Flf/.
Patrick, of Detroit. She intended 'o
resign Wednesday and leave the city
But the 50 other nurses found out am
9aw to it that the bride was missing
when the bridegroom came.
Six nurses dragged the bride to the
basement and administered the worst
“hazing" on record at the hospita
AH young women at the institution
visited the ‘ torture chamber’’ and as
sisted in the punishment.
The bride’s clothing was takra
away. Fly paper was pasted over her
body. Ill-smelling drugs were poured
over the bride and molasses in h.»r
1 " In three hours she became hys-
hair.
terical and some of her friends res"
cued her and hid her in an insane
ward until night.
BUSHEL OF MARRIAGE *
PROPOSALS MADE MAN
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, April
22. -M. Ballinger, of Mount Pulaski,
Ill., is under arrest here while the
Federal authorities are making an in-’
vestigation to see if he is connected
with the "white slave” traffic. Bal
linger ixad a story in the local news
papers last week that he was com
pelled to marry within a few weeks
or lose a legacy of $40,000 left him by
his father. The other day there was
half a bushel of letters awaiting for
him when he called at the post office.
When he asked for them he was ar-
nested.
BLIND MAN RECOGNIZES
OLD FRIEND BY VOICE
VANCOUVER. WASH., April 26.
The ability of Fred Lester, recently
stricken blind, to recognize a man
his voice, whom he had not hear 1
speak for twenty-two years. \\ t ;
demonstrated here. Having lived
the city for so jnany years. Mr. Li
ter goes about by tlie uve of a cam-.
His eyes look normal
When standing at Fifth and Mail
Streets he was addressed by G. W
Holder, who had come to Vancouver
for a short visit, after being avv;o
twenty-two years. He asked Mr.
Lester if the car went pas* a certain
point, and when Mr. Lester had an
swered the question he added: “Ana.
Mr. Holder. I am pleased to greet
you." It was not until then that Mr.
Holder recognized his friend of long f
ago.
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Prominent DeKalb
Pays High Tribute
County
to Dr. Baird
Man
READ WHAT MR. LEDBETTER SAYS
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: stone M warah's-A^sm.
This is to certify that I am a citizen of DeKalb County,
Georgia, that I am eighty years old and that in the fall of
1912 I was taken with a severe case of Hypertrophied Pros
tate and inflammation of the Bladder. I was confined to my
bed for a considerable length of time and made up my mind
that I would soon die, as my local physician could give me
no relief whatever. About Feb. 1913, J went to see Dr.
William M. Baird, of Atlanta, Ga., the noted Specialist in
Kidney, Bladder and Chronic Diseases, and commenced to
take treatment. I have improved every day since the first
treatment, and I am able at this time to attend to the ordi
nary duties of farm life.
I am not suffering any at this time, and I attribute my
improved condition to Dr. Baird’s skillful treatment of my
case. (Signed) RICHARD L. LEDBETTER.
I CAN CURE YOU IF
YOU CAN BE CURED
F OR the first time in the
more than a third of a
century, during which
time Dr. Baird, the noted Spe
cialist, has been specializing in
Diseases of Men, Chronic Dis
eases and Nervous Disorders,
he is using a testimonial.
For years he has refused to
do as many have done and
capitalize the condition of his
patients. He preferred to let
each benefited sufferer tell
others of the good work he has
done. And it was not until
Mr. Ledbetter voluntarily
gave this letter to Dr. Baird
and urged him to use it, that
the noted Specialist agreed to
break his rule of thirty years.
The case of Mr. Ledbetter
is an interestng one. When he
called on Dr. Baird he was in
a bad state of health, and, as
he points out, he fully expect
ed that death was a thing of
the near future. The Prostate
Gland was enlarged and con
gested, and this in turn caused
a reflex nervous irritation
which affected his general
health. While it is true that
physicians who had treated
him had properly diagnosed
the case and honestly and con-
DR. WM. M. BAIRD
Brown-Randolph Building
56 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga
scientiously done their best for Mr. Ledbetter, his case required
that careful treatment and thorough attention to details whioh
long experience and close study of suoh oases makes possible.
The Prostatic trouble also caused Cystitis, or Inflammation of
the Bladder, and this, with the general condition of ill health,
made Mr. Ledbetter’s life not worth living.
Although this is the only time Dr. Baird has ever consented
to use a testimonial, there are hundreds of people throughout
the South who can tell similar stories. Letters of praise and
heart-felt thanks are in his files, and these patients are to-day
cured, happy and contented.
While the diagnosis in Mr. Ledbetter’s case was correctly
made by other physicians, there are to-day thousands of people
suffering excruciating pains, which in reality are merely the
symptoms of prostate trouble, which is the CAUSE of all these
pains. It can hardly be expected of physicians who do not
make a close study of these particular cases to be able to treat
them with the success of one who has been studying and spe
cializing in them for many years. These same physicians are
probably experts in acute diseases which Dr. Baird does not
treat and which he would promptly refer to those who make
them a specialty.
On the other hand, he DOES know Chronic Diseases, Ner
vous Disorders and Diseases of Men. That’s why he says he
can cure any case which CAN be cured. He knows these dis
eases. Thousands of cases coming under his attention during
the past 35 years have given him an opportunity to study every
feature and to learn every detail necessary for successful treat
ment.
There are thousands of others like Mr. Ledbetter. Some of
them are old men, some are middle-aged men and some are
young men. They have gone from one to another without re
lief and have finally fallen into the hands of conscienceless
quacks whose only aim has been to capitalize their misfortunes
and get their money. Others have given up hope and have
decided that death was the only solution.
There is hope for these sufferers. Every one of them should
see Dr. Baird, or at least write to him. He makes no charge for
consultation, and he will gladly tell you just what he can and
can not do. He is frank in his statements. If he thinks he can
cure you, he will tell you, and he will be just as positive if he
believes he is unable to give you relief.
If he can’t relieve you he will not take your money
He has written some very interesting booklets, which are
free for the asking, sent by mail in plain sealed wrappers. So
you may write to him and tell him about your case. Even his
letters have a tendency to inject hope in the hearts of those who
are hopeless.
Let him help you. *
hi
DR. WM.
BAIRD 56 MARIETTA street
Brown-Randolph Building
ATLANTA, GA.
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