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2 D 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 COI/l/AP 15 SKIPT 15 IDfcAI/ A AT1/A1TTA NAN - 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. c 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. T