Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 28, 1912, Page 4

e SURGERY IN ANCIENT TIMES “Frepanning lg One of tho Oldest of Operations, Dating Back te Stone Age. There 18 no doubt that some rough form of surgery must have existed from very ancient times, but it is strange to find that so complex and delicate an operation as trepanning is one of the o]dest. So far as actual records go, Hippoc rates gives us the earliest account. He wrote treatles onfractures, dislo- cations and wounds of the head, in which he described the method of procedure to be followed in the aase of a fractured skull. His direction was to cut away a piece of bone so that the pressure on the brain might be relieved. There are also records about this time and later of a file being used for this purpose, which at a time when anaesthetics were undreamed of must bave been, to say the least, painful. According to Dr. T. Rice Holmes, the operation of removing pleces of _bone was performed long before his toric times. The effects on the skull are easily seen after death and are visible so long as the bones are pre- served. From inspection of certain skulls of the later stone age in ancient Britain, Dr. Holmes has come to the conclusion that some of these had undergone the operation, which must have been per- formed with a stone implement.—Lon- don Standard. Early Manuseripte. The type of letter in early manu. script was the same at of those used on the earlier metal plates and wax tablets. All letters were cap- itals, Minuscule, or small lettering, as opposed to the majuscule, was in- vented in the seventh century. Be- fore its invention there was no spac- ing hetween the words. There was no punctuation, unless possibly some mark between sentences. When cur- sive writing came into general use about the beginning of the tenth cen- tury the art was practiced by only a few highly trained scribes. This con- tinued all”through the middle ages. The scribes were artists, and they carried their art to a high degree of perfection. Many of the manuscripts of that period are very beautiful speci. mens of handiwork and as perfect as print. Origin of Beet Sugar. When the fleets of Great Britain blockaded all the ports of Continentai Europe, during the Napoleonic wars, Europe was cut off from its supply of sugar. It became necessary to find a substitute. Before the discovery of America sugar was unknown and honey was the universal sweetening. But the supply of honey was not equal to the demand now. In some coun- tries, as in Bohemia, they made sugar from the maple; in other countries they crystalized dextrose from the juice of the grape, but these sources were inadequate. The final outcome of the matter was the birth of the beet sugar industry. It was 100 years ago, in 1810, that the first loaf of beet sugar was made and presented to Napoleon; and the centenary of this event has just been celebrated in France. -Ihe lump felt so queer BIG RUBY: UNDER HIS SKIN lan Was Used as Hid- Burmese-Eur: ing Place for Jewel by His Father. Surgeon Watson tells Tip about jome strange smuggling, a story of Burmah rubies and diamonds that passed through this port undetected, f not unsuspected. The surgeon was salled to a big hotel to see a gen- !leman with a painful arm. The pa- dent was a yellow, slender, tawny dlond, the left arm a little swollen and iery painful. A hard lump was found inder the skin just above the elbow, nd this was pressed on the “funny”-| serye that runs behind the elbow. and unusual hat the surgeon took an X-ray shot at it and found it to be a big ruby, 1bout five carats, This is the novel story of a man with the ruby in his arm: He was + Burmese-Eurasian (his father half white). In his childhood his father nad been the chief of a band of da- :0its, cut-throat highwaymen, and had skillfully and painlessly inserted a aumber of stones into the layer of lat under the skin of' his fat boy, to make him a walking cache of secret :reasure. As a youth he went to a xission school, later was graduated rom a “tech” school, and was now » bighly successful business man. The man with the arm set with rubies would allow no more examinations or K-ray pictures. There was not a wrdce of scar near the ruby, so skill- fully had the insert settling been made. When asked what he intended ‘o do about his htidden treasures, he said that was for his f~ther to say— live.—New York Press. 207 Third Street Announce to Open Tomorrow Wednesday, May 29th General Re-adjustment Sales Smart Tailored Suits at Great Savings $22.50 and $25.00 Suits $26.00 to $29.00 Suits $13.75 $17.75 $35.00 to $45.00 Suits High Class Suits in this sale One Half Price $24.50 Utility Coats Much Reduced Savings range 1-4, 1-3 and 1-2 Plain tailored mixture coats, novelty styles and com- bination colors; every model bearing the same carmarks of “well-bred” style in the sale. Beautiful Gowns and Dresses No Approvals, No Lay Bys, No Exchanges or Credits on Sale Garments Less than Street Dresses, etc. and Evening Gowns. the most charming styles we've shown this season; the cleverest ideas of clever fashion artists. Widely varying models in Serge, Taffetas, Crepe de Chene, Voile, American styles and exact copies of imported models At Sale Prices Ranging 1-3 Regular Price A really splendid opportunity in dresses for many kinds of wear; a “weeding out” and odd numbers of small groups in Tailored Afternoon Frocks Many of THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER CONTESTS ARE NEXT National Committee Mutlnfil Awaited With Interest. MAY SETTLE A NOMINATION @eating of Republican Delegates Prob- .| ably WIll Have More Vital Effect Because of the Two-Thirds Rule of the Demoorats. v By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.—Politicians in Wash- ‘ngton of both parties are looking for ward with the keenest interest to the forthcoming meeting of the na- tlonal committees of their parties, one of which is to meet in Chicago and the other in Baltimore prior to the assembling of the great party eonven- tions. The sharpest interest at this writ ing centers in the meeting of the Re- publican national committes, solely for the reason that it must pass judg- ment upon a far greater number of contests than will be presented for consideration to the committee of the Gther party. The convention system of selecting district delegates, and state delegates, too, for that matter, which still prevails in most of the states—although it is likely to give ‘way to a pure primary system' before long—is held to be responsible for the many contests which the Republican national committeemen will have to decide. According to the figures giv- en out in Washington there will be at least 160 delegates to the conven- tlon whose seats will be contested. The greater number of contests prom- ised will originate with Mr. Roose velt’s lieutenants and the lesser num- ber with Mr. Taft's leutenants. Things may so frame themselves be- tween now and the meeting of the Republican committee in Chicago that no matter how the contests are de- cided they will have no effect on the nomination. Of course, when two chief candidates have anything like an equal following of delegates the decisions as regards the contested Seats may compass the nomination of one man and the defeat of the other. If either of the leading candidates for the Republican nomiunation ghall have pledged to him or understood to be in his favor a great majority of the delegates he can perhaps afford to give all the contested seats to his rival. It is likely, however, that at Chicago the decisions of the commit- tee on the contested delegations may affect the nomination result, and so it 1s that today in Washington there is the keenest interest in what is go- ing to happen. Result of Two-Thirds Rule, In the Republican convention a ma- Jority nominates, while in the Demo- cratic convention it takes a two- thirds vote to name a candidate. This thing n itself causes less Interest to attach to contests for seats in the Democratic convention than in the Republican, fer, it is seldom or never that a candidate: goes into a Demo- cratic convention with anything like enough delegates to give him & two- thirds vote on the first ballot. The fact that the Democrats re- quire & two-thirds vote to nominate adds greatly to the preliminary inter- est in the proceedings. Frequently it 1s known in advance that & Repub- lican candidate has a majority of the delegates. When & two-thirds vote is required & takes & tremendously pop- ular man and the absence of much op- position to make certain in advance that he 18 to be nominated. Bo it is that into a Demooratic convention a candidate may go certain of more than half of the delegates present and yet not stand much better chance of nomination than the man who had fewer delegates, and this is especial- 1y the case if it 13 known that on the part of the minority in the conven- tion there is to be bitter antagonism to the man who leads. It is out of such clouds as this that the dark horse is likely to emerge and win a race. Republicans Admit Hawall. In a national eonvention the num- ber of delegates is virtually twice the number of members of congresa. There is some little variation from this this year in the case of the Re- publican party, which has allowed Ha- wall to be represented by six dele- gates for some reason unknown; and Wwhy .the “national committes “should have fixed the delegate strength of Hawall at six has not been satisfac- torily explained. Some persons seem to think that it was merely. a mistake in setting down figures, but if it 1s & mistake it is one which stands and there 18 no reason to belleve that the designated representation of Hawail in the convention will be challengea. |- The Democratic representation in the next convention also’ will be slightly larger than twice the number of the members’of congress, In the history of the country it has been shown that popularity has woa nominations for candidates, but popu- larity -does not always'do it. It has’ been shown at times in both parties that the personality of a candidate not always has been able to pull him through. ‘A great issus, the outcome. of which may be vital to the country, Sometimes has: turned the people away from a favorite leader to the man who is known to stand for the particular ‘causs which they think must be upheld. This has been true not only of the United States as a Union, but of the individual states. -When there was a case of & combina- tion of personality and & standing for & vital issue, history has’ shown that the cnmblnltlnn bas been impossible to beat.” % 8ight for. mlflnr Obluh. A famillar face ‘and form may be Moniudnmnfwtom. hn fired meters. C— = OM Way. A Tousekeeepr complains that she 3an’t save her gus bills. Why not try )asting flmn a mmu A BIBLE STUDY. The Establishment of the Divine 7 Senshin of Christ. (Continued from first page.) less and holy, and therefore the in- corruptible One (contrasted with David in Acts 13:32-37). His incorruptibility, speaking as it does of His real .character, is His glory. The incorruptibility of God being His glory, we can readily un- derstand why idolatry should be so flercely arraigned in this chapter— verses 22, 23. Idolatry likens God unto corruptible things, and therefore is guilty of gross slander on God. Read 1 Tim. 1:17, reading “incorrup- tible” instead of “immortal,” for so it should read, with Rom. 1:23. God, In the fulness of time, gave the true image of Himself in the per- son of the incorruptible Ome, éven Jesus Christ, whom He raised from the dead in full attestation of His Di- vine Sonship. Read 2 Cor. 4:4; Col 1: 15, Heb. 1:3. The odiousness of idola- try then lies in this very thing. How then can the denier of the Deity of |- Jesus Christ free himself from the awful odium of heathenism? To identify oneself with the root is to be responsible for the fruit. Read slowly Rom. 1:24-32, for here we have the fruit of heathenism. The branches of this tree are ex- tensive indeed, dropping their fruit lavishly in our Christian (?) land Let us speak then without equivo- cation—To deny the Deity of Jesus Christ is to ally oneself with the grossest Immoralities of the world. Note that these things are judgments imposed by God upon an unbelieving world—Rom. 1:24-28. You will no- tice that it 18 three times said in these verses “God gave them up.” As long as the world s in unbe- lief, rejection of God’s Son, can we expect the removal of these things? If these things were to bc removed from the world while in unbelief as it is, would not the result be most direful? If these things, the fruit, appear go. terrible to us who are sin- ful by nature, how much the root, unbelief, appear to God who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? To remove the judgment would be to leave the mind of the unbelieving un- disturbed, rendering all wholly in- different tn the claims of God. Dare we pray for the removal of God’s judgments? o For what then shall we work and pray? For the rescue of individuals from this awful sea of judgment which has righteously overwhelmed this world of unbelief. We are not to try and drain the sea as the hope of the perishing, but man the life boat. The Cross is the only unsink- able ship. “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The Great Commis- sion is—“Go ye therefore and make disciples, etc.” This was spoken out of “all authority.” Subscribe for The Pioneer Depar Classified tment The Pioneer Want Ads OASH WITH 0OOPY % ocent per word per lssue 15 cents. The Ploneer goes everywhere so 80 your want ad gets to them all. CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND EGG DEPARTMENT. FOR SALE—Breeding stock and eggs for hatching from the best flock of full blood Barred Plymouth Rocks to be had, come and see them at 706 14th. 0. C. Simon- 800, HELP WANTED B T ST e S SISO SUS WANTED—Good strong boy to work evenings after school and Satur- days. Good steady work through summer vacation. Apply at this office. FOR SALE FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the wmarket at 60 cents and 75 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 75 cents guaranteed. Phone orders promptiyfilled. 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