The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 27, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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iHarriri iflru IGphs IGiablf
to iflrutal Bisariifrs
By DR. SIMON P. GOODHART,
New York Specialist.
OTH relatively and absolutely the number of insane is in-
B creasing, ami comparison of the ratios of the last few <le-
ca4es -.h. .w - positively that mental derangement i- becoming
more frequent. It is eminently proper and to the commun-
ity's advantage that the facts be known, for suppression
or distortion of the truth on a subject of such importance
would be not only misleading, but augment what danger
there may be. Statistics on this point are valuable, and as
the increase of the mentally deranged has become one of
the living questions of modern civilization, the results of re-
corded investigations are interesting and important. In Cireat l>iit-
ain, for example, in the year iSfxi one of about every 5^° ''1L' 1)0P"
illation was insane; in 1870 the ratio was one in 4J0; in 1880 one in 350,
and in 181)0 the ratio reached one in 3-^°- thus showing that in 3° years
the number of insane had almost doubled. The ratio in tins and other
civilized countries is approximately the same. \s a rule, the older the
country the greater, within certain limits, is the proportion of the in-
sane.
A comparison of the relatively frequency of mental disease in New
York and in some other parts of the I nited States where a smaller per-
centage of the population live in large cities indicates a somewhat high-
er ratio of insanity in the Empire state. In Connecticut. Dr. A. I\. Dc-
fendorf, the alienist, tells us. and statistics of Rollin II. I'.urr are con-
firmatorv, the urban population furnishes a decidedly larger percentage
of insane than the smaller towns and villages. In Illinois the same is
true. The reports also show a relative and an absolute increase in the
insane in the last decades.
To understand some of the causes of the increase of insanity wc
must consider a few of the factors which in general tend to product
mental derangement. The question can be best answered by a cursory
review of these factors in their relationship to the influences which
modern civilization bears. It must first of all be admitted that independ-
ent of an immediate direct or exciting cause, in at least 40 per cent, of
the insane there exists a predisposition, a hereditary tendency, in oth-
er words a congenital instability of the nervous system, making it
prone to the causes of alienation. In 40 per cent, of the cases hereditary
influences can be traced directly in not remote ancestry.
Reliable observers declare that the defects of our ancestors may ap-
pear in the third and even fourth generation. If we consider that neu-
rotic taint, eccentricities and peculiarities of one branch often coop-
crate with similar defects in the other to produce more serious mental
digression in the offspring the influence of heredity in a larger sense he-
comes apparent. From this it must not he inferred that the offspring
of affected anccstrv arc invariably afflicted. Indeed they often escape.
Diseases of the mind and brain are conceded among the must frequently
transmitted ills. The inference as to the danger and the remedy appli-
cable become apparent.
The forms of insanity we find in sjnaller towns and villages con-
firm the view that monotony and extreme quietude are n- t unimportant
factors in the products 11 of certain types of alienation. As a result of
the restricted sphere of intcllecutual activity in provincial places we find
notional disturbance in the intense and constant
sivc and irrational excitement, with perverse
the devotees of various cults and isms.
naturally more common in small-
its bearing upon mental health is a point for con-
Thc influence of these marriages of kin upon man-
. The progeny in these cases so
sical defects that I would regard
There are good scientific grounds
to warrant most positive state-
hand. the union of healthy indi-
lint of its effect upon the mental
health of the community, would certainly warrant encouragement. In-
sanity is known to he much more common among single than among
married men—the ratio being at least three to one.
ORGIES ABOARD
SIMM CRAFT
MYSTERIOUS PLEASURE YACET
IN THE ADRIATIC SEA.
GIRLS INDUCED TO EMBARK
Young Peasant Maid Who Was
Shanghaied Tells Remarkable
Story of Drinking, Feasting
and Dancing of Hosts.
Vienna.—A mysterious pleasure yacht
Is cruising around the Adriatic, kidnap
Ing girls, Its owners Indulging In orgies
of the kind described in the tales of the
"Decameron.' The fishermen along the
coast are planning to blow up the mys-
terious yacht nt the first opportunity.
Fishing bouts and coast steamers which
have sighted her tell remarkable stories.
The yacht is of considerable size. She
is painted black, is, of course, rakish,
and carries no linn or name. She has a
?oodly sized crew, all smartly uniformed,
and about half a dozen guests or own-
ers. Because she did not answer sig-
nals the steamer Godollo t hrew a search-
light 011 her. revealing peculiar sights.
Half a dozen men and the same num-
ber of women, fantastically dressed
were on the deck feasting, drinking,
dancing and behaving In remarkable
ways. A fuller story Is told by a peas
ant girl who has just returned to her
home in Croat in after a fortnight's sud-
den disappearance. She says some uni-
formed soldiers came ashore and pre-
vailed 011 her to go aboard to sell veg-
etables. She was taken to a huge cabin
furnished with beautiful carpets and
divans, after the Turkish fashion. She
was plied with wine and the yacht
steamed away. When she awoke she
found herself undressed, and in place of
her clothes were many others of finest
silks and laces. These she donned, and,
011 the promise of much gold, joined half
a dozen aristocratic men and a number
an exciting cause of e
religious devotion, excc
mental strain, so common 1
As consanguineous marriage is
er communitie:
sideration here
kind is in my opinion most pcrniciou
very frequently show mental and plv
such unions as absolutely prohibited,
and onlv too abundant illustrations
ments on this subject. On the othet
viduals, if regarded from the standp
SPOOK PICTURE ON
A WINDOW-PANE.
Comes During a Thunderstorm an*
Scientists Are Unable to Explain
the Phenomenon.
Charleston, \V. Va.—A weird story
conies from the coal mining town of
Winona, Fayette county, and Mrs
Rogers, wife of C. P. Rogers, a \\ in-inn
business man, is the authority for the
details.
During a recent severe thunderstorm
Mrs. Rogers, according to her own
statement, was standing by the east
window of her kitchen, preparing the
morning meal, when, just after a vivid
Hash of lightning, she noticed a thin
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TI! KY tllllXK, l'K AST
Nmmiitty nf
Sniuttsirial EiUtnttunt
By ROBERT M. BURNETT,
Member of M« achu ctti Industrial Lducation
Committee.
The question of in-
dustrial education is of
interest equally to the
workman and merchant,
labor unionist and pro-
fessional man. Modern
experience lias deinour
strated that without
highly skilled workmen,
industry cannot progress. Tn.ler our present system we are not turning
out such workmen. Take one of our strongest industries, the shoe trade,
as an example. A leading Boston merchant told me a few days since
that over 60 per cent, of the better grades of shoes sold 111 this city are
manufactured outside of the state. Inquiry among manufacturers shows
that the better grades are not made in Massachusetts because the work-
tlic task.
men arc not trained up t
It is the same storv in every line. We have been satisfied to dritt
along, content when the returns showed that we were not going hack
ward, and unmindful of the fact that our competitor states are doub-
ling and trebling their business in our special line-. I.et us take the
experience of Germany as our guide in this matter. A few years ago
that nation was in exactly the same position that Massachusetts is to-
day. England and the United States were crowding her to the wall,
commercially. To-day the Germans are pushing out for trade in even-
part of the world; a formidable competitor in our strongest lines of pro
duction. They have done this by systematized work and by providing
for the working classes a complete, carefully graduated system of in-
dustrial education, deliberately organized for the promotion ot effi-
ciency.
Every ambitious youth has the opportunity to be fortified with the
technical foundation which places a premium 011 competency ami which
means independence to the individual and prosperity to the community.
With this, legislation is a '.justed to hold the balance true between strict
and proper protection for the worker ami promotion for industry, with-
out the unnecessary iron-clad regula-
tions which are the handicaps of work-
man and employers alike, and have
left our industries where they are
to-da;
of peasant girls like herself, who, how-
ever. were all richly dressed.
They feasted 011 rich viands and drank
champagne and gamboled around the
cabins and on the after deck all night
and half the day. Her tales of the hap-
penings are remarkably similar to those
of Boccaccio. In ten days'time the girl
was completely worn out with the or-
gies. and her hosts put her ashore at a
place she pointed out. They gave her
their blessing and many gold pi
Other girls were also put ashore and
new ones brought 011 the yacht. The
girl can tell little about the yacht or her
hosts, except that they talked English,
French, Italian and German equally
11 and were evidently rich and aristo-
cratic. A fisVamlan who sold the yacht
some fish confirms much of the girl's
story, and says there were at least a
dozen peasant girls aboard, but all rich-
ly and fantlstlcally dressed.
QUEER DIET OF INSANE MAN
Skeleton of Mouse, Handkerchief and
Other Strange Things Found in
Body at Danville, Pa.
Danville, Pa.—The skeleton of a
mouse, a bandanna handkerchief and
other articles of a curious nature,
found in the stomach of a dead man.
have furnished a puzzle for the resi-
dent physician and his assistants at
the State Hospital for the Insane here
John Alexander, in whose stomach
these evidences of a queer diet W3!
found, died in the hospital recently
and his body was sent to Philadelphia
where, under the direction of the Stale
Anatomical society, it was examined
Danville physicians say the case ol
Alexander stands alone in medical an-
nals. What renders it remarkable is,
not that the man should have swal-
lowed the things found in Ilim, but
that he could have lived two veard
after the carcass of a mouse had dis-
integrated in his stomach, which
Till-: HAZI-: TOOK Till-: FORM OF A
lit -MAX 11E1NO.
blue haze, like a small puff of smoke,
gather near the window pane in front
of which she was standing. She
thought nothing of this until the haze,
seeming to settle on the glass, took
the form of a human being and re-
mained upon the glass.
Doubting the evidence of her sight,
she called in her husband and children
10 witness the phenomenon and the
picture still remained. News of the
strange happening spread rapidly, and
the Rogers home was visited by peop'.l1
from all over the county. The picture
is t hat of a slender figure of a woman
dressed in the palest blue, with ruffles
011 her skirt and a veil over her lace,
seemingly standing by an excavation
similar to an open grave. The like-
ness is in the glass, and 110 rubbing
with cloth and water has taken away
any of its distinctness.
Much excitement and not a little
superstition has been caused among
the miners and ignorant people by the
mysterious picture, and their curiosity
has been so great that the picture had
to be placed 011 exhibition to relieve
Mrs. Rogers from distracting question-
ing.
Several learned men have seen this
remarkable pane of glass, aud 110 one
has yet advanced a really plausible
theory as to the cause of the impres-
sion on the glass.
Mrs. Rogers still retains possession
of the glass, and her friends are try-
ing to induce her to send the "ghost
picture" to some eminent scientist at
one of the large universities aud have
it investigated.
HOGS ATE BABE'S BODY.
Mother Tells Story of Terrible Suf-
fering in Michigan Lum-
ber Woods.
believed to be the ease.
Alexander was a foreigner anil had
been in the hospital for two years. He
had 110 relatives in this country. He
had complained of abdominal pains
and the hospital physicians were un-
able to diagnose his case, lie was
classed wfcli the "harmless" insane.
Frozen Snake for Firewood.
York, t'a John Oress. who lives at
Pleasurevllle. this county, laid in a good
supply of wood for the winter. A few
evenings ago, when he put some wood
into the stove a stick which he had
picked up began to wriggle. He dlseov
ered that what he thought was a stick
was a snake, which had been frozen
stiff, but which revived In the warmth
He quickly threw the reptile Into the
stove, where It was consumed. Tin
snake measured about 14 Inches.
SPLICE THE NERVES.
DELICATE OPERATION IS A NEW
FEAT IN SURGERY.
Paralysis and Other Nervous Affec
tions Now Remedied by Sutur-
ing of the Sensitive
Tendrils.
"Nerve splitting" is no longer a term
to be exclusively applied to New York
street noises or women's headaches. It
has a tixed place in the new surgery,
states the Times of that city. Progres-
sive surgeons think no more of splitting
a nerve than some writers do of split-
ting an infinitive. Nerve splitting is
one of the accessories to nerve suturing
and nerve grafting. It has been prac-
ticed with varying success for eight
years in Germany and England, but i3
new in this country. Five successful
cases of it have been reported within a
month—three in New York, one in Balti-
more and one in Philadelphia. They
will, in course of time, be amply report-
ed in medical journals. Hut a New York
suregon who has just finished one of the
most successful cases of nerve graft-
ing on record declined to give details
for the daily press.
"I have certain aspirations with re-
gard to hospital appointments," he said,
"that would be ruined absolutely if 1
gave you the information you ask.
The profession is against physicians
who permit themselves to get talked
about in the newspapers. 1 do not say
that this condition of things is right or
desirable. But it exists."
This surgeon said that there were
hundreds of persons in New York suf-
fering from nerve paralysis in one form
or another that could be relieved, or
even cured by nerve grafting, if they
only knew that, such a thing existed.
He compared grafting a live nerve to
a dead one to re-establishing connection
in a broken electrical wire.
"it is only necessary to free the dead
nerve from all hampering connective
tissue," he said, "stretch it freely, and
remove the waste sect ion in order to get
a good opposing surface. Sensation can
be restored to a dead nerve whenever
you connect it with a live nerve. A
nerve will stretch considerably if it is
thoroughly cleared from the surround-
ing tissue.
"The time required for the operation
and the period necessary for recovery
from it depend upon the location of the
nerve and the age of the patient. We
get much better results with the young
than with the old. There is no danger
at all from tetanus. So far as I know,
no case of death has been reported from
nerve grafting.
"It is possible to patch up the large
nerve trunks, as well as the smaller
nerves. The method of treatment de-
pends upon whether the sciatic, ulnar,
median or peripheral nerves are af-
fected. More or less pain and stiffness
follow the grafting of a dead nerve to
a live one. but the functions of t he dead
nerve gradually return to a remarkable
degree.
"The sensation is not unlike the re-
action in a leg or arm that has gone to
sleep. Sometimes the patient experi-
ences a feeling of confusion in regard
to sensation—for instance, if a filament
of a ner\f That primarily brought intel-
ligence to the brain from the big toe
should become united with a nerve fila-
ment presiding over the leg area, it
takes time to reeducate that, nerve. If
there is any great loss of substance in
cutting away a dead nerve new tissue is
best secured from a freshly amputated
human limb, or from a healthy animal.
The American public will know much
more about nerve grafting five years
hence than it does now."
EVERY ONEASKS it
HOW HE GOT KID OF HIS OBSTINATli
MUSOULAfi BHEUMATISM.
Mr. Jonn Tell of the Way by Which II*
Treated IIIniM-lf 8ucre fulljr
When I>oc-tors Failed.
Sir physicians, nil of them good, one of
them a specialist, had done their best
for Mr. Jones ut different times daring
three years, and still ho suffered fear-
fully from tho tortures of rheumatism.
The rheumatism that had been dor-
mant in bis system was suddenly
brought to an acute stage by exposure
while ho was drawing ice in February,
1901. From that time oil for a period
of more than three years he was a cou-
Btant sufferer. He tried many kinds of
treatment, but tho rheumatism wouldn't
budge. When regular doctors failed,
aud one remedy after another proved
useless, many said: "I should think ha
would give it up and save his money."
Of his condition at this time, Mr.
Jones says : " My rheumatism started
in my right thigh, but in time it ap-
peared in every muscle of my body. I
lost the use of my left arm en-
tirely and nearly lost the uso of my
right one. My feet were badly affected,
especially the bottoms of the heels.
When my right side was effected there
was swelling, but tho left side didn't
swell when the disease settled there.
The internal organs didn't seem to be
luvolved at all. The trouble was all in
tho muscles and the nerves."
Among the few who still encouraged
Mr. Jones to think that a cure might
yet bo found was a friend who had rea-
bou for great confidence in Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills, and acting on her
advice ho bought n lx>x of thein in Sep-
tember, 1904. The story of what fol-
lowed is brief, but nothing could bo
more satisfactory.
" When I was on tho third box," says
Mr. Jones, "I could realize a change for
the better. I felt sure then that Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills were tho right
medicine for my case. I kept on with
them for several weeks longer and now
I nm entirely well, and everybody is
asking what X took."
Mr. William Jones lives nt Oxford,
Mich. Dr. Williams' Pinlc Pills effect
wonderful cures in rheumatism, because
they work directly oil tho blood which is
the seat of the diseaso. They are sold
by every druggist.
PATENTS
ITTZUKKALD it CO.. Ho* 14., Washington, 1>.U
BEGGS'BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES catarrh of the stomach.
Alpena, Mich.—A revolting story la
elated by Mrs. George McClellan, who
has jus* been sent back here after
frightful experiences in the lumber
woods of Montmorency county.
Some time ago her husband was ar-
ested here for non-support of ills
wife and three-year-old boy, who were
living in destitution in this city. He
begged off, by saying that he had a
job in the woods and said he would
take care of them if they would go
with him. Mrs. McClellan consented
They lived ill a lumberman's shanty.
A babe was born to Mrs. McClellar.
week ago while she wan alone. In
her weakness she was scarcely able to
move. She was discovered by chance.
The mercury was near zero in the
house. The babe was lying dead on
the floor. Its body was buried under
a pile of refuse and snow temporarily,
but the hogs discovered it and de-
voured it.
Mrs. McClellan says she left the
hovel in the dead of night and carried
her three-year-old boy four miles to
the nearest neighbor's. Finding no-
body at home, she crawled into tli"
barn until forced by the cold to break
into the dwelling, where she was dis
covered next morning in a pitiable
condition. Mother and child were
sen! to Alpena by the poor commis-
sioner.
Declared Dead. But Lives.
St Louis.—After bavin;; been pro-
nounced dead by two physicians and a
nurse. Mrs. Charles A. Sweet, wife of a
provision merchant, was restored by
the infusion of a salt solution into luy
veins aud Is now believed to be recover
Ing her health. Five weeks ago Mrs
Sweet, suffering from gastritis, went to
Hot Springs. Ark., in the hope ot re
covery. One night recently she seemed
to be dying and eventually her heart
ceased beating and respiration stopped.
She was pronounced dead. A third phy
slcian. however, decided to try a salt
solution infusion anil there followed
si-us of animation. The operation was
continued and Mrs Sweet revived. She
has relumed to her home In St. l.ouls
and is now apparently recovering hor
health.
Experience with Salmon.
A heavy fall of snow in Scotland
few weeks ago caused the Iliver Tay to
rise suddenly. One of the big dams in
the stream overflowed with the result
that the salmon lying in the numerous
pools at once made a rush to get higher
up the stream. A workman, engaged in
carting stones from the bed of the river,
was astonished at the moving mass of
salmon passing. So phenomenal was
the shoal that the carter deemed it wiso
to stop his charge in the middle of tha
ford to allow the fish to pass. The
salmon swam like lightning t hrough the
wheels of the cart and around the
horse's legs. In the space of a few min-
utes several hundred passed this partic-
ular point —Chicago Daily News.
A LITLE VARIETY.
South Africa is of volcanic origin, and
the country round Kimberley Is so sul-
phurous that even ants cannot exist
upon it.
For each child born to the families of
the municipal clerks in Kansas City the
civic authorities promise to add five dol-
lars a month to the father's salary.
Salt is a luxury In Central Africa. The
long-continued use of vegetable food
creates so painful a desire for salt that
natives deprived of It for long often
6how signs of Insanity.
The common housefly, in addition to
possessing piieumalic wings, has two
kinds of eyeB. one set being for ordinary
use and the other of high magnifying
power for distant objects.
Iceland produces most of the world's
aupply of eiderdown, the annual sala
amounting to something over 7,000
pounds. Most of this is shipped to Co-
penhagen and commands from $2.41 to
$2 .50 a pound.
George S. Elgood. the English artist.
Is acknowledged to be the greatest liv-
ing painter of gardens. He has fur-
nished a series of 50 water colors w hleh
are said to be the best work he has ever
done. A noted operatic tenor said of
them that "each one strikes high O."
Recognition by Cane Taps.
The degree to which the remaining
senses can be trained when the sight is
lost was illustrated the other morning
by two blind men from the home at Thir-
ty-sixth street and Lancaster avenue.
The men came from opposite direct ions,
and as they approached each other an-
other man standing on the corner wa^
surprised to hear one of the blind men
say: "llelio, Ed; what are you doing
out this morning?" When the blind
man was asked how he had known tho
other wi111 a distance of five yards be-
tween them he answered: "By the sound
of bis cane, of course. I can tell al the
distance of half a square the tap of tho
cane of any man in the home." —Phila-
delphia Record.
Something About Rice.
"If people would eat plenty of rice
they would not need drugs to make
them sleep," said the drug clerk, paus-
ing for a moment In putting up a sleep-
ing portion for a woman. "There is
much said just now about rice as
strengthening food, but few Americans
know llint it has soporific powers. If
properly cooked it has. ltice should
be washed many times, until the water
no longer appears milky. It should
then be soaked a few hours, salted and
boiled mpiuty about minutes. When
cooked in this way It can be eaten each
day with relish, and the person whu
oats It sleeps, aud dreams not at all,"
—N. Y. Sun.
Double Knock.
Esmeralda (as the dispute became per-
sonal)—I'd hate to be as hatchet faced
as you are.
Gwendolen—I'd rather be hatchet
faced than hammer tongued.—Chicago
Tribune.
HONEST CONFESSION.
A Doctor's Talk on Food.
There are no fairer set of men on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been In error they are
usually apt to make honest and manly
confession of the fact.
A case In point Is that of an emi-
nent practitioner, one of the good old
Bchool, who lives in Texas. His plain,
unvarnished tale needs no dressing up:
"I had always had an Intense preju-
dice, which I can now see was unwar-
rantable and unreasonable, against all
muchly advertised foodB. Hence, I
never read a line of the many 'ads.' of
Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till last
winter.
"While in Corpus Chrlstl for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of tho ruddiest, health-
iest little boys I ever saw, I ate my
first dish of Grape-Nuts food for sup-
per with my little grandsons. I be-
came exceedingly fond of It and have
eaten a package of It every week Blnce,
and find It a delicious, refreshing and
strengthening food, leaving no 111 ef-
fects whatever, causing no eructations
(with which I was formerly much trou-
bled). no sense of fullness, nausea, nor
distress of stomach in any way.
"There Is no other food that agrees
with mo so well, or sits as lightly or
pleaaantly upon my stomach as this
does. I am stronger and more active
Blnco I began tho uso of Grape-Nuta
than I have been for 10 years, and am
no longer troubled with nausea and
Indigestion." Name given by Postum
Co., Hattle Creek, Mich.
Thero's a reason.
1/jok In each pkg for the famous llt-
tl« book, "The Road to WollvllU."
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