'perfectly good and capable of doing i epee as mi 'here should -be a ane and ee GREAT SURGICAL HARES REMARKABLE OPERATIONS WITH THE KNIFE. 'Successful: Surgeon Must Have} Caution, Daring and Special Sigil Genius. "Don't leb them operate," tearful counsel of the neighbor or friend who knew someb wi "under the knife." As a matter of fact, almost no- body does die "under the knife." Tt It couldn't happen, unless the were so u as to bar their owners from the operating room. of | reputable hospitals. ere is no science of grtatek direct benefit to mankind than the science of surgery. The kindly knife has cured where nothing wo have availed. In orthopedics alone --that branch of surgery whi 'cures crippled children--surgery has earned its place as one of the great beneficent sciences, and in a hundred-other branches it has to its credit the most striking cures. The successful surgeon must be daring, but as cautious as he is bold. A constructive imagination, absolute knowledge of anatomy, keen intelligence, fine ise, -@ steady hand--all these and more are required of the successful surgeon. Moreover, he must have a special genius for his science. |. Not all the most crucial opera- tions are the big ones. Sometimes it is the man who knows just where to make a small incision, and jnet how to seize upon. the respiratory rise or fall of the diaphragm, who saves a life in a second of time. Light Inte the Body. When a bean or kernel of corn is swallowed by accident, Nature promptly begins her own surgical methods. She makes the patient cough. Often success crowns her efforts. Sometimes the foreign ob- ject, even one as smooth and inno- cent as a grain of corn, refuses to be coughed up. A surgeon recently introduced a bronchoscope into the right Jung of a small boy and extracted there- from a large kernel of corn, which the surgeon afterwards planted and from which two cars of corn were preduced. The little lad's lung was an ideal place for the preparation of the corn against planting time, which, as it happened, had just ar- rived. It is only within recent youre that: "haere light into the ca ay Formerly pay all- their work was done in dark, as it were. Their ic were guided only by their know- ledge of the organ being explored. Now the surgeon may illuminate & man's stomach and explore it at his Icisure for odds and ends of Jost articles, such as shirt studs, trou- ser buttens, etc. Or he may intro- duce the light tube, composed of a tiny electric bulb, into a broncho- scope or an esophagoscope or trae- choseope, locate the offending ob- ject, then withdraw the light and insert the tiny forceps with which he removes the object, Swallowed Safety Pin. In some of the bronchoscopes the lamp is permanently attached--a self-lighting affair, sembling those carried in the pock- et of policcmen and others for mid- - night emergencies, Safety-pin chasers have been-won= derfully developed within the past few years. The man who invented safety-pins brought a boon to ba bies, but mothers who are subject to fits of coughing or sudden laugh- ter should net hold open safety pins in their mouths. ecentiy a mo- ther held two at one time in her mouth. <A tickling in her throat made her cough and suddenly in- draw her breath, with the result that one of the safety-pins dropped into her lap and the other one into her esophagus, away down close to her stomach. It was wide open, of course, just ready to "'pin up" baby. The mere thought of removing an open safety pin from away down in- side of a living human body one shudder. The pin is always pointed upwards, for it couldn't be swallowed the other way. ew years ago attempts to remove open safety-pins often resulted in death, always in davigerous and painful lacerations. Now the pin is neatly closed before any attempt is made to move it. | Closes Pin In Stomach. There are several devices used to close a safety-pin in the stomach or esophagus . All are made on the eame principle--a ring at. the epd e slender tu The yielding tissue that incloses the mis-placed 'safety- pin pe permits the operator to pass the ring to one side and slip it over the; ring end of the pin and draw it up until the small torturer is securely The little lamp enables the doc- tor to see when all is ready, and in @ moment, out comes the pin, still efficient service in fastening baby's -- useful garments. splaced pins aro alae » ie us.¢ ig the| trive to get t Nails in nearly all sizes have found their way into folks' interiors, and screw eyes and other hardware have slipped down unwilling throats. ser's-tfailure. somewhat re-|~ weg inherited the from Prince Buelow five years ago. Though only 58, he has grown old and bent and white during that brief span. _A 6 individuality, he has borne the bur- the throat trouble developed, the fam- ily physician advised the removal of the tonsils, and the little lad was taken to the surgeon whose deftness in the use of the new throat instru- ments had robbed this operation of half its pains. After the removal of the --_ fireman's tonsils one of found to contain a common © or a. den variety a pin, which had done its best to be swallowed, but aad not quite suc ated. One day a small patient was ex- amined with the gastroscope--an instrument introduced into the sto- mach to explore it for foreign ob- jects. A little lamp illuminated the ten-year-old interior, and there, re- posing neatly and viciously, was & black pants button. To remove it was the wor of a moment. It was caught in the dipper-like and of the gastroscope and deftly pulled out, leaving not so much as an irritating scratch on the sensitive lining of the patient's diaphragm There are other objects that con- --__} VON BETHMANN HOLLWEG. The German Chancellor Is Tired of Office at 58. The loss of his wife, which evokes the cordial] sympathy of all 4 Hollweg, the Imperial Chancellor, is tired of office and will soon re- tire. from time to time, and-grasp at straws.to support, it think the Kai- to make | a short night} - People who evolve this fiction One Ger-|from Baffin Bay lies Green mans, irrespective of party, devives the report that Dr. von Bethmann gn that the wees b stwoen the Chancélioe and his imperial master are looser than they might be. Chancellor Yon Bethmann Hollweg. Undoubtedly the death of his wife, who was a helpmate in much more than the stereotyped sense, is a deep blow to the whose private sorrows have been greviously aggravated times by the escapades of a way- Chancellor, in recent! as Dr. von Bethmann Holl- Chancellorship ward son. superconscientious ns 0 most onerous Premier- ship in Europe with increasing weariness. His record is not bar- ; ren of triumphs otis of constructive ip, but they have been won at the cost of much mental and physical wear and tear,: and his friends leave for the: cestral estate the Mark of Brandenburg. average pol litician will tell you that Germany's fifth Ch tains office because no one to take his place. Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, veteran Secretary of the Navy, is looked upon by many as the most virile personatity in German public life: ideal chancellorian understand his ire~ to tho eirenuous Wilhelmstrasse quietid>: of his sylvan an- at. Hohen-Finow in The ancellor only re- re is really! o 'timber deavored to determin? | sea by astronomical observations. AWAY BAFFIN LAND. Capt. Munn - Will - Use- Carta ot} Forgotten Explorer, Who Put the Baffin in Baffin Land. ra : Lust for adventure 'aad itch: Gain die hard in the breasts of tishers. Some time this June e i sails from an English port one-more |: gallant ship's company of adventur- er's--their objective the precious d cea nuggets, concerning which rumor of centuries throws its romantic, alluring glamor over the scarcely known, frozen of Baffin Land, 'North-eastern Can- ada. The gold seekers whom Capt. Munn. will lead away from Eng- land's shore, whilst not diedaisdg to traffic with the eae ae for their peltry, only look uv pect of their datthorate. slouee ee as|the sub-arctics as a means of de- fraying part of the content 8 cost, placed at over One aig Thousand on I 4 furnishes th To confirm re; or valu- able specimens of glis g metal at various times Haye come into the hands of early nevi- gators there are several 'in- stances where the natives hinve given information of = deposits wherein gold is found. Capt..Munn has noted'these, and by mapping all available information to date de- cided this year that he had a suffi- ciently clear idea of where to lbok begin his " ong-copbene eal ae navy, and has p the cream of the lot. So as known there will not-be a {= Canadian aboard. Baffin Land--Baffin Bay--look in your geography--then you 'will member how the former is a hundred-mile-long island stretching from Hudson Strait (its northern Shore) and north-easterly up along the far side of Hudson Bay. Bay is to the north of Baffin again, and again north Different parts of Baffin Land separate names for convenien Fox Land, Cockburn Land, berland Peni on the newer maps. Fearless Sea ont ate his ton, is; oat Hudson ae in 1612; Brlot A 4 Baffin in 1615; and James and C nary Canadian remember -concern- ing any--Hudson excepted perhaps --of these fearless sea-dogs- who "\|crossed the unknown waters, brav- ing untold perils for the honor and renown of their motherland, many of them paving the channels they with their brave bones at Captain Wilkiam Baffin is a sadly neglected hero, like the rest --a forgotten worthy. Some of his personal records of the voyages to Northern Canada are preserved in the British Museum, our maps his 'name ; that has -seemed: to Sue The earliest mention of Baffin is as being appointed pilot of ¢he ship Patience for a voyage to Greenland James Hall, in a brush with the na- tives. After three successive whal- ing voyages to § itzbergen as chief pilot, Baffin's valued skill with na- vigation and surveying instruments caused him to be dr by that : | famous gompaay for discovery of the North-W: , and on this expedition" he carefully surveyed the shores of the large island which a later explorer, Parry, unselfishly chelatensd **Baffin Land." News of Baffin's discovery of Lan- caster Sound, Wolstenholme Sound and other, in 1613, was given to the world -- unfortunately -- svithout charts, and so much exaggeration to distances ensued that for no two hundred years naviga- tors utterly discredited the whole of Baffin's work. Vindication came tardily when Capt. Ross rediscov- ered all of Baffin's sounds i om ati and pronounced his ingly accurate. Probably. the scant recognition received for his arduous and perilous labors among the ice-floes for all these years was responsible for Baffin tien seeking the other ends of the earth for a suitable field for activity. He was praised and suitably rewarded for ausreran 3 and mapping the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in 1618-and 1619, but finished his brief, hazar- most honorable oe ships of the East India Seren against the Portuguese at Ormuz He died in harness, for he had been rdered ashore from his vessel to taka some' angles preliminary ~ storming of Ormuz © when he was shot. William: was one of the very first who ¢n- latited> at -- ' \ d|us stood his Jordehip, dee eninsula, etec., cringe ring trumpet, > rated Te a utile Ae ae gie joy captain, one | paled at Bae fa teen! foot- 'mark imprinted in the sl ipdteata 2 Gllcting" the *The sand at the bottom of the! i dry watercourse was soft, and the footprints were deep and well "e- fined ; but after a time the track left the nullah and led sarough the level valley land, where tall grass formed dense walls on either side, and arched above our heads as we fol- lowed the path that the elephant had made for us. "The afternoon was drawing to a as-|close, when sudd y. the silence was broken by a series of rending crashes that grew fainter and fainter, until at length all was sil- ent again. Something had startled the great beast, and he was gone. goin after dark we reached a little village, and interviewed the white-haired thuggi, who received us -with true Bunmese hospitality. Yes, indeed, there were many ele- phants i in the jungle, in particular a mighty tusker who had a mate a little one running at her side. Titey drank often at a water hole not far from the village. Doubtless this was the huge elephant we had been following. '"Moung Aingyi and I stumbled out into the darkness together and ,|took the road to the water hole. We s| reached it at last, and on the top of a high, cliff-like bank we waited events. The water hole lay below us some fifty yards away, half hid- den under a steep bank and fringe of feathery, arched bamboos. The hours orexend by, and my eye- lids were drooping when Moung Aingyi touched me lightly. Even as he did so there broke out, as it seemed, above, below, behind, and all around me a sound that surely could not be of earth. posal grt in 8 cool water, the moonlight burnish- . | ing the glory of his tusks as he bel- lowed for his tardy mate, whose shrill voice echoed far away. "T gazed upon this glorious sight, and fingered my big rifle half- peortey: Then I heard the an- nearer now and | took water in their trunks and family bath. Then they waded out to a bank of soft, dry sand, almost] m, immediately beneath our perch, and recommenced their play. Suddenly they ceased and stood silent, mo- tionless, suspicious. The tusker stood broadside to me, and I raise my rifle once more. Moung Aingyi was trembling audibly, and my own blood seemed to surge to my head until the throbbing deafened me. "But I could not pull the trigger. I laid the rifle down as far from me as I cou did so the whole family turned, -there was a] faint shuffie of feet, and almost im- 5 en they faded away into darknéss. we stole through = dense * big once more, moon and stars ee approach of day. "Moung Aingyi seldom qieation- ed any of my doings, but as we neared the stockade he turned a piteous little brown, wrinkled face toward me, and, in a voice that seemed to haye tears close behind it, wailed out the question that was in his mind, 'Why did the thekin not shoot?' " a KINGS GO INTO TRADE. Auto Agent; Alfonso Owns a Cigarette Factory. The revelation that the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin runs an automobile agency shows how roy. ty is more and more dabbling in commerce. King Peter of Servia represents a famous French make of car in Belgrade, while the Czar, whose extraordinary penchant for Mercedes cars is well known, has more than once been suspected of having a financial interest in the works of Cannstatt. The King of Wurtemberg owns two hotels at Aix and Marienbad, while Alfonso of Spain is always keen to push the sale of his own make of cigarette. Finally, the Kaiser runs a cafe at Potsdam a pottery works at inen. King George of England alone of the big monarchs seems unable to get into trade. Peter, apne yen Ouch! Lecturer--Ladies and gentlemen, we shall consider this evening the fundamental principles of architec- ture. The Etruscans--~ A Wandering Voice--How d'ye build a dog-house? Lecturer {solicitouslvy)--Are you LONDON'S YARIED LIFE. Scenes at Covent | rig pe and the River. erase Garden at oe Babel itself heard confusion 2a tongues... 'The iin ss ger may well ts porehance eas be if se pe don ibis sig ah dea boos fre ge baskets eac the fruit of their native True bred Cockneys with strange mixture of slang and lish as She i never be described, yell strange cries to each other, drivers of the various Ww seen here, Merry faced wenches, typical London flower girls, with a pie tongue, and quick wit, spread their sweet-smelling wares to catch the South, over Waterloo Bridge, can be found a wonderful array of second-hand shops, where a man can purchase anything from a eilk hat to a toothpick. Old clo' shops with a marvellous display of every kind of garment that was ever made from Solomon's time to the present day, presided over by the wily He- brew ,who will entice you info the dismal depths of his gloomy shop and eerie the merits of each gar- ment Did you ever hear tell of '"Wap- ping old Stairs" down 'midet the 'Pool?' No? Here is found yet another scene altogether of kaleido- scopic m. Large bulky fig- ures abound here that live in sou?' westers and oil skins. They get their precarious living on the broad and muddy bosom of old Father Thames. Here are to be found the homes of a great number of the lightermen, whose lives are spent on board those lumbering scows and barges that pass up and down, like guant shadows in the night. Up as far as Kingston and down to Sheerness they apy their trade, ag anwieidy hulks, and yet many man has b born aboard one of y that the sarge tide, bemoans the of a father and husband. But the busy crowd goes its way and little knows of these lives that are spent on the. watery highway of com- erce, Wander down one of those dim- lighted streets at night, and watch on one hand the tall chimneys belching forth clouds of dense black smoke ; on the other, here and theré a ruddy glow shows, lighting up in a ghostly fashion the swirling wa- ters on the , while across the gloom comes the cry of '"Heave ye ho" of the watermen. FF A Clever Elephant. "Speaking of animals, in my opinion the ne siephant is the clever- est-of pinabeee the old circus come now," eaid the listener. "TN prove it to you in about two min- utes,"' said the trainer. 'Well, as I was saying, the old fellow got into a scrape with the Bengal tiger, and before we could get them separa: he had his trunk badly damaged. After the scrimmage was over Jacko broke loose and started down the street fast. 'He's going wild!' somebody shouted. 'Don't you be- lieve it,' says I. Now, where do you suppose that elephant went to?' 'Went to the surgeon's, suppose. Can't you get up a bet- ter yarn?' 'No, he didn't go to the surgeon's. He went straight to a little shop where a sign said, 'Trunks repaired while you wait.' Of course he had made a mistake ; but what do you expect of a poor dumb brute?' Marriages of the Deaf. ~ An examination has been made of the records of 4,500 marriages of the deaf, and it has been found, says the Family Doctor, that, while tak- ing the marriages of deaf persons as a whole, nearly nine per cent. of the offspring.are deaf, as con- trasted with less than one-tenth of, one per cent. of deaf children as a result of the marriages of normal persons; a very different and much more favorable result is obtained if it be found that the deaf parents had no trace of previous deafness in their families. of deaf persons without deaf relatives i is no more likely to result in deaf chil- dren than any marriage in thecom- munity at large, while marriages of hearing persons who have deaf re- latives is just as likely to result in deaf children as the phages going to move tl, 'ated | regular of In rto keep you tap ther kindly--ane otieg: the deaf. : : SHIPWRECKED SAILORS - a WERE ADRIFT AT SEA. Annals of the Sea Show hageeer In Which Men Have Suffered. 4 It is difficult to imagine the suf- ferings -of the boat's crew yee $ lumbian, who drifted about the antic" fo: rteen s before; being up, for only the strongest could stand = expo- sure, tays An example was rorided by the two boats of the frektisces Castle which was burnt some 805 miles }from West Australia on January 3lst, 1907. The captain said they, would reach land in seven pages: cod it was eos four before, luck, they chanced on the phe i where they could land A Thrill of Horres: On February 8th the boats lost sight of one another, but on the! twenty-fourth day the mate's 8 crew, arrived at Rottenest Island, and the captain's at Cape Naturaliste, having had no water for four da: dent and no meat. for 6ame time,| some having been without for seven! days. Although they had drunk' salt water it did not seem to do! them any harm, and only one man and two apprentices succumbed. clothes in rags, weak from lack of nourishment and sleep, an other day or two would have oe ed them. They bathed to'cool their, bodies and smoked leather for lack' of anything else. It was said that it was largely owing to the captain's' courage and maintenance of the usual discipline and watches that land was reached. Then there was the ghastly story, of the Mignonette, which sent such' a thrill of horror through the coun- try in the middle 'eighties. Sailing for Australia it foundered in a gale 1,600 miles from the Cape, the Cap- tain, mate, a sailor, and a boy get- ting away in a provisionless boat. For days they drifted, getting weaker and weaker, and then it was proposed to draw lots to determine which of them should be killed, However, this was rejected, but on. the twentieth day the boy was kill- ed by the captain, the survivors be- ing picked up four days later. captain and mate were tried for murder on their return, sentence of g commuted to ei months' imprisonment. ee on one oe the 'most te- fe tales of shipwrecked mariners eanite. peg concerns some fifteen survivors of -- the 150 men of the French fr Medusa, who crowded on a = made raft. It occurred just a cen- tury ago, the frigate striking a rock whee wal sailing at full speed. 'he captain climbed into a boat, and 150 soldiers and sailors' crowd- ed on to a hastily-made raft 65 feet by 25 feet. It was to have been towed by the boats to the nearest land, but before going far the rope of the captain's boat broke, and the _ rest cut their cables. Yet land was , known to be close, and the same evening was made by the boats. On the raft were a few casks of; wine and some biscuits, part which was served out the same day.! When next morning dawned it was found that a number had been. crushed to death, while the follow- ing night many were washed off into the sea, and of the rest trying to crowd towards the middlé to avoid a like fate several: were suffocated. * Then edme of the soldiers broach- ed the remaining casks of wine, and in drunken fury tried to cut the rope binding the planks'of the raft. Others tried to ---- it, until a. battle in which sixty-five wer wed ; some cut down and others threw overboard the l last of the water and two casks of wine. 8. 0. S. On the third night mor» ied, and I|the survivors turned to ti: bodies of their comrades for sustenance, while some flying fish were added ta their slender resources. In the night another attempt. to destroy the raft was made, and the madmen were thrown over Thirty only now remained alive, and of these one died, and two sol- diers found drinking some of the remaining wine were pushed into the sea. The horrors were not at an end. Fifteen of the twenty- seven held a council of war, decided that only those who szemed likely to survive should be allowed on the sg as their stores were al. most g Three ae later those still alive were rescued by a vessel sent oud, to search for the Medusa. Wireless elegeegay has done. mych to reduce the chances of hor- rors such as these occurring. Ae a | *: Consoiation. Millie--So you loved and lost, did you i jHie--Oh, no, indeed! Sh¥?re- turned ell my presents! % MESURE Aa Ss triende