Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 4, 1915, Page 2

Injured Soldiers Receive Treatment At Bruhn Clinic Dusseldorf, June 3, — “You { Huge Increase Made In Exports From America Washington, May 28.—Ameri- don’t need to thank me for this.jcan foodstuffs exports amounted It long ago lost its significanc, The “this” was a woman's weddi ring, worn and scratch- ed. The message was blurred|} and poorly written. Ring and ] message, indicating some hidden tragedy that never will be re- vealed, were sent to Dr. Chri tian Bruhn, one of German most distinguished dental 1r- geons, for the furtherance of his present life work—the patching up of soldiers whose jaws and teeth have been shot away. 1 T « The patching up process quired much gold. Dr. k clinic is free, and, thus far at|’ least, unsupported from any offi- cial quarter. As his fame has gone out over (icrm;m_\', how- ever, his gold reserve has in- creased y. A\ famous actress has given u heavy medal- lion, the gift of the ruler of a German State. A noted lectur- er has donated a similar gift irom the King of Sweden. Wed- { ding rings, seal rings, necklaces, gold coins, from England and from Turkey, even old gold teeth, have poured in on Dr. Bruhn, to be melted up and find their way into the mouths of wounded soldiers, Men who have viewed war from all angles and who are inti- mately acquainted with its hor- rors have declared repeatedly that the worst part of it is in the hos- pitals. The orthopedic institu- tions, where the soldiers are painstakingly made new again so that they may go back to the front, are infinitely depressing. But they cannot compare for sheer horror with the great in- stitution in Dusseldorf and with Dr. Bruhn's private clinic, where dozens and scores of men sit or lie with half of their faces left, with noses and upper teeth miss- ing, with hands enclosed in steel framework that supports broken lower jaws until newly inserted bones shall have had a time to knit, The Dusseldori institution, of ‘which Dr. Bruhn is the chief sur- geon is devotedly exclusively to the care of soldiers who have been injured in the jaws, and is far and away the largest of its kind in ermany. Weekly it is turning out men who, aside from scars and somewhat impeded speech, are about as good as be- fore the war, men who a few weeks or months before were brought in in such shocking con- dition that the layman, if he could endure to gaze for long, would despair of ever saving them, The patients frequently are found to have rifle bullets im- beded in the bones of their jaws, bullets ofter that have been flat-| tened out or twisted by the com-| pact of lead against bone. More serious are the sharpnel and grenade wounds, . which tear( away whole sections of the facej and leave a jaw fractured in a score of places. Through use of the Roentgen ray, or X-ray, the bullet's exact injury is established on his ad- mission. In a majority of cases there is some portion of bone missing—a portion that must be replaced by bone from some part of his body. Each patient is his own bone v, so to speak, and general- y the shin bone that serves. The ribs also are a fertile field, and, so fast does nature work, the piece of bone taken out for use in the jaw is rapidly replaced by new growth. One patient in the hospital late in April, slowly recovering from a shocking wound that gouged out his whole lower jaw, has a strip of shin bone 14 centimeters long in his mouth.. On top of that is a new set of serviceable teeth. MThe man is healthy and reasonably happy In dozens of cases is it not on- Iy necessary to replace bone, but skin as well. Here again each man must supply his own. Great strips of skin are taken from the patients’ arms and grafted onto cheecks or chins. Aside from the scar along the line of stitching there is usuaully little indication of the original re- Bruhn's « & i « Fach man is photographed on the day of arrival, and then at intervals later, as his recovery progresses. To the layman the results accomplished are little short of miraculous. In a recent trip through the hospital an Associated Press cor- respondent had an opportunity to compare many of the original photographs with the patients in their patched up state, and it was all but incredible that so much had been accomplished. Filial Fondness. | “What is in the mafl from daugh- ! ter?” asked miother, eagerly. “A thou- | sand kisses,” answered father, grimly, “and sixteen handkerchiefs, two waists and four Jatches of ribbons for you to wash and me d."—Kansas City Jour- nal. nounced today by tistics manufacturing material which also have vastly increased. Raw cotton exports during period D00 lard, { 34, 047,000; lard compounds, $4,- 702,000, to almost $400,000,000 more dur- ng the ten months ending with April this year than du ing that period in the previous year. Ana- vsis of that class of exports, an- the depart- ment of commerce, shows the value to have been $¢ 57,140,290, The huge increase has lue chiefly to the European war. The figures do not include sta- of manufacturers and exports, the decreased $236,000,000, wmd mineral oils $19,000,000. Some idea of the demands up- m the United States for food- stuffs is shown in the valuation i the articles exported during the ten months, millions bushels of corn, valued at $31,000,000, nerease of almost $26,000,000; at, $4.000,000; wheat $2906,981,- 0o; our, $77.800,016; canned reef, $0,473.370; fresh beef, $12- TForty 862,000; pickled beef, $2,300,000; leo oil, $7,744,000; cottonseed 17,541,000; bacon, $36,714,- hams and shoulders, $20,- ; lard $46,586,000; neutral ar .720,000; pickled pork, TRUTH. Truthfulucss is not so much a branch as a blossom of moral, manly strength. The weak. whether they will or not, wmust lie. As respects children, for the first five years they utter neither truth nor falsehood —they only speak. Their talk Is think- ing aloud. and. as one half of their thought is often an aftirma- tive and the other a negative and, unlike us, both escape from them, they seem to lle, while they are only talking with them- selves. Besides, at first they love to sport with their new art of speech and so talk nonsense merely to hear themselves, Of- ten they do not understand your question and give an erroneous rather than a false reply. We may ask, besides, whether, when children seem to imagine and falsify, they are not often relat- ing their remembered dreams. which necessarily blend in them with actual experience.—~Jean Paul Richter. HELP OTHER SOULS. Be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony: Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love; Beget the smiles that have mo cruelty; Be the sweet presence of a good diffused. And in diffusion even more in- tense. —George Eliot. BE UNENVIOUS, No man is happy till he thinks on earth There breathes not one more bappy than himself; Then envy dies and love o'er- flows on all, And love, o'erflowing, makes an angel bhere. —Young. RECOMPENSE. There is no winter in the heart Of him that doth a useful deed Of what he gives he hath a part. And this supplieth all his need —J. H. Gourlie. CAPT. A. S. COWAN Capt. A. 8. Cowan is in command of the United States army aviators at San Diego, Cal, and has 14 expert airmen and six modern aeroplanes ready for service, if the necessity arises. P A A A A A A A A APy Where the Luck ls. “Luck won’ take de place of hard work,” said Uncle Eben. “But dat doesn't mean dat dar ain' no sech thing as luck. A man is lucky to be able to work hard.” Sad. “There is hack-work and hack- work,” said the literary man. “Think of what I get for mine and what the hackman gets "—Phi'adelphia Public Ledger. been | an, ALIVE AND KICKING Jabez Thorpe’s Manipulation of Real Affection for the De- serving One. By VICTOR REDCLIFFE. “One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel—that's Jabez Thorpe, to my way of thinking.” “Exactly my opinion. A man of his age crossing the ocean! Never was a hundred miles away from his ,own hearthstone before. It's a ter- rible risk he is taking!” Thus the gossiping neighbors of the | reputed wealthy proprietor of Thorpe | Farm. 1t was an echo of the current chatter of the village. When hard- | fisted, miserly old Jabez Thorpe an- nounced that he was going to Eng- land to settle the estate of a dis- tant relative, it had been a nine days’ wonder. It had been reported that the interest of old Jabez in the estate was uncertain. He was a fighter, how- ever, and stronuoucly declared that | he was goiug to see it that he got | his rights. Thorpe Farm was not the pleasant- | est place in the world. It had a pret- ty fair house on it, but poorly furn- ished. As Thorpe grew older he had enclosed three acres near the house, and rented out the rest of his land. Ten years previous he had adopted the child of a second cousin, Nellie Thorpe. She had grown into his life more of a comfort, gulde and support than he realized. It was when he came to give up to Nellie the entire charge of his business during his ab- sence, that he began to understand how much he depended on her. If Nellie felt that he was loading down upon her a vast responsibility, she re- flected upon the gratitude she owed him. Jabez Thorpe had given her a shelter when she was homeless, and she took up her new duties seriously, but with her bright little heart full of confidence and cheer, “It is not so hard as I fancied,” Nellie wrote to Evan Pearson, her A A =3 ,.. — Aslecy With His Fect on the Table. lover, who was filling a clerkship in another town. “A sister of the man who rents the west farm is seeking to restore her broken health through sunshine, garden work and good food. She helps me with the milking and chickens daytimes, and stays at the lonely old homestead nights. Uncle Jabez does not know that 1 am keep- ing right on with my little business. 1 want to prove to him what a busy housekeeper I am when he returns. Besides that, I must fit myself for our own home—Ilong, long ahead, dear, but sure to come if you long for it as I do.” Nellie’s “business” was selling milk and eggs. Her exacting relative had cut her down to a minimum as to household expenses, but the economi- cal little housekeeper had managed to save something even out of that. As to the eggs and milk, at the end of a month, Nellie's bookkeepinz showed such splendid results that she worked with added pleasure and inter- est. Then there was an interruption— sad, sudden and overwhelming. The steamer in which Abner Thorpe had sailed on his homeward trip was re- ported lost off the Canada coast, Only a few of the passengers had been saved. The name of Jubez Thorpe was not among the list. A week later it was generally accepted in the vil- lage that he had met a watery fate. Nellie went to his lawyer, who was a kind-hearted old man. He ie to remain right at her post So far as he knew, no wi had been left. This being true, ti. {nearest of kin would inherit. Nellie | was not in that list, but he encouraged | her to belicve that the heirs would | make =Cie provision for her. And (hea, much to the discomfort of Neilie, the heirs apparent began to arrive. There was the relict of a i brother o bez Thorpe, in weeds, | and al ufiling and pitying her- | 8elf. Tlcre was a fantastic, fussy oid | maid cousin who entertained great hopes because Jabez Thorpe had once sent Ler a birthday gift. There was | & callow youth studying for the bar, | who claimed near relationship, and a | vast deal of knowledge as to the le- | gal phases of the estate. There was |a shiftless youth, besides, and all these planted themselves about the | premizes. 'or two days Nellie welcom- ’ed them. Then she thought the sit- uatior =il ever. Che went modestly but firmly before them one morn- ing. “I have only the directions of the | lawyer, Mr. Randall,” she said, “as to being in charge here, but he has told L — Showing Oceans’ Vastness, One per cent of the contents of the oceans would cover all the land areas of the globe to a depth of 290 feet. On the Matrimonlal Sea. It is said of Nathaniel Bowditch, the distinguished mathematician and navigator, that he made it a rule of his life never to allow his wife to come into his presence without his ex- pressing in some way his pleasure in her being there. Arg that, as another has said. was & very gocd rule of nav igation.—Delineator. i ‘ me to go right on doing my duty 1b | . Mr. Thorpe's interests until the es- ‘ tate 18 settled. Mr. Thorpe left me | only enough money to cover the regu- | lar expenses, and 1 fear 1 cannot af- | ALL THAT A MAN BATH ford to entertain so much company.” | , Thereupon the lazy young man i growled out something about nig- | gardly treatment, the lady in mourn- !ing flounced out of the room in hys- | | terics, and the fussy old maid flared up like an offended pussy cat . young legal sprig walked out on his dignity. There was no dinner that ! day. | The tribe thereafter got their meals at the village hotel. They by no | means deserted the old homestead, | however. There was too much envy |and suspicion among them for that. | They watched one another as though ‘afraid that some one was going to | carry off the estate—house, farm and | ; all, | ing Nellie forget one bright afternoon !as she went about the house attend- ing to her manifold duties. The young limb of the law was smoking a pipe gln the sitting room, the other male | watcher of the slow development of the estate was asleep with his feet | on the table. In the parlor the snuf- fling relict and the fussy old maid were chattering away like magpies, when Nellie heard a roar. She dropped the plate she was hold- eens at her feet. Then with a scream of delight she darted into the sit- ting room, gave one glance at a sturdy, wrathful figure filling the doorway, and bounded straight into the arms of—Jabez Thorpe. “Oh, uncle! uncle!” she cried. am so glad—so glad!” “Yes, and the only one who is,” re- plied the old man, as he placed a sheltering arm about her. “You young sprig of insolence!” he shouted at the “p that vile pipe of yours! Here, wake up and march!"” he added, pulling the sleeper from his chair. “As to you, ladies,” he sang out to the occupants of the parlor, “I've heard in the vil- lage of how you've all flocked here like a set of crows after a carcass. Well, old Jabez is alive and kicking, after all. And before the day is over he's going to save you the expense and trouble of coming to any more fu- nerals by leaving what he's got, when it's ready to leave, to the only one among the crowd of you who is worth two pins—and that’s Nellie.” It was after the dejected, disap- pointed mob of fortune seekers had left that Nellie proudly exhibited her bookkeeping. It ended by the old man manifesting real affection for his loyal and faithful housekeeper in the words: “You have proved what you are, dear child—true and good, with a heart of gold. We will have Evan Pearson down here Saturday evening, and make a new deal all around.” (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) | “Like a Thoueand of Brick.” Years ago, in city and country, a | common phrase to indicate retribution , for wrong, real or fancied, was, “I'll } come down on him like a thousand of brick,” but this threat seems insig- nificant in the light of an assertion by Jefferson Middleton of the United States geological survey, that during the year 1912 more than a million thousand brick were used in Greater New York, and that nearly all were manufactured in the kilns along both sides of the lower Hudson river. The total production in this region was 1,019,269,000, valued at $6.74 a thousand, a total of $5850,770, as against 926,072,000, valued at $5.09 a thousand in 1911, a total of $4,717,633, making an ‘increase of production in 1912 over that of 1911 of 92,187,000 brick and $1,133,137 in value. For several years before the use of cement or concrete in construction ap- peared to be displacing brick to some extent, but now according to Mr. Mid- dleton, there is a distinct movement “back to brick,” caused by large ad- vertising by brickmakers, the failure of some concrete buildings and im- provement in the quality of Hudson river brick. Mike, Sure Enough! beggars make mistakes in their calls as the following inci- dent shows. By mistake a tramp knocked at a wayside cottage in Scotland inhabited by a policeman, and was astonished when that official answered the door himself." With evident alarm the man blurted out, “Does Mike So-and-so stay about here?” “What is he like?" said the police- man, and receiving a very vague de- scription in reply, he made pretense of going inside to ask his wife. Re. appearing in a minute or so with his hand held behind his neck, he said: “Would you know Mike if you saw him?" “Yes,” replied the tramp. “Is this anything like him?" asked the good-natured policeman, and he held out & substantial buttered scone. With a broad grin of relief and satisfaction the tramp said, “That's the very chap.” i Surprised Her. The stout party had been in the bootshop for over an hour, and the patient shop assistant had had halt the shop down for her inspection. She found fault with them all, until his Pa- tience became quite exhausted. “These should suit you,” he said, taking another pair down as the last resource. Still the lady was not satisfied. “[ don't like this sort’ she said; “they have a tendency to get wider when they are a bit old.’ “Well, madam,” retorted the exas- perated assistant, politely, “didn’t your™ ——— Blessings of Imagination. Though a man never fights, he can {magine himself a scrapper, and the nation that remains on good terms with the world may still have the comfort of believing that it would clean up all comers if driven to it Peace is a blessing that runs no risks of disillusionment.—Toledo Blade. —_— Between Two Fires. “I hear you intend to move. What's the trouble?” “Why, hang it, the fam- {ly above us has bought a pianola, and the girl in the flat below is learning to burn leather."—Boston Transcript The | Never would the faithful, persever- | ing, and it was smashed to smither- astonished smoker, “out of here with | @ By ALVAH JORDON GARTH. 1 | | | Dot—Dorothy, nis only child, his | spoiled pet. Selfish, unruly Dot, whom he idolized, motherless now, and that made him the more tender and pliable. | She had married a year previously. Her husband was well up in society | and her whole being was centered on | fashion and extravagance. Her fa- | ther had almost impoverished himself | to give her a royal wedding gift. Since | then Dot had drawn on his resources constantly. “Old Dobbin, the little house on leased ground I live in and my acci- dent and life insurance—all I have left,” he ruminated, “but the money means happiness and pleasure to Dot and—I can get along some way.” But in this the devoted father was in error. One morning about six months later Dorothy came to him in tears. “Father,” she sobbed, “I am in deep, deep water!” “My darling child!” “tell me your troubles.” “Those horrid card parties!” wailed the spoiled beauty. “I've been led f into betting until I owe nearly eight | hundred dollars. Father,” she plead- i ed, “please help me out this time. If I don't pay. all the women of our set will cut me, and if Vernon finds out about it he will raise a dreadful fuss.” “I will see what I can do,’ prom- sed Mr. Ross, and his heart sank like lead, but he concealed his bitter despair from Dorothy, to get time to think and act. It took him only a day to realize that the sale of everything he had in the world would not bring more than a few hundred dollars. He had never borrowed in his life, but as he strolled about restlessly that evening he tried to think of old-time friends who might be willing to help him out. Alas; they were few and far between. “I must find some way to help the | dear child,” he reflected with new ani- mation as he paused opposite the stylish apartment house where the Dales lived. Tt cheered him to consid- er that Dorothy was comfortably | housed amid warmth, light and lux- | ury. The artless old man did not re- sent the fact that he was never in- | vited to the house, that his son-n- law when he met him on the street gave him simply a cool, careless nod. ' For all this Ross walked on, his heart warmer than ever toward the mercen- | ary daughter, whose whim and extrav- agance had brought him directly to the verge of poverty. Crash! The old man made a brisk jump. He was barely in time to escape being struck by an automobile, which had collided with another machine, fore- | ing it half way across the sidewalk, | demolishing its front tires and reduc- ing the glass wind shield to atoms. Mr. Ross felt one of the fragments strike his face. He put his hand up to his eye, for its visual power seemed suddenly blotted out. His fingers be- came daubed with blood. He experi- enced a sudden faintness. A police- man caught his arm and supported | him, while another ran to the corner Ppatrol box and telephoned for an am- bulance. “Totally blinded in one eye” was the report of the hospital surgeon the following morning, and he wondered et the sudden glow of excitement that came into the face of his patient. Through the mind of the self-sacrific- ing sufferer ran a speedy remembrance of the wording of the accident policy he carried: “For the loss of one eye, one thou- sand dollars; total blindness, twenty- five hundred dollars.” The thousand dollars went the way of all his previous donations, quickly used up by the reckless Dorothy. Then came new demands. The resources of old Ross were now exhausted. He had not even a home. One night, wandering the streets, he was attracted with an excited crowd ' to a burning hotel. He was among the first to reach it. An officer whom he knew allowed him to pass the fire line as Ross showed him a little child at a third-story window shut in by the flames and insisted on attempting her rescue. Ross had groped his way to the room. He took the little one in his arms. Just in time to evade a belch- ing gust of flames from a lower win- dow he dropped the child into the out- spread safety net “Jump, yourself. Why, it's Mr. Ross! Jump, you brave old man!” Ross escayed to climb up on the window sill Too late! and he was not sorry. As he sank back overcome by the smoke, his wan face was wreathed with a gladsome smile, “Dear little Dot!” he uttered lov- ingly. The year brought bankruptey to Vernon Dale and the life of a house- hold drudge to his soured, chagrined wife. Rarely she thought of her dead father. Only once in awhile did she regret that the insurance money had been wasted. She strove to shht out a memory of the father who had given his life for her. But every year the little child the one Adam Ross had saved, and her Parents, visited the lonely grave of the brave hero of the hotel fire. At he exclaimed, Business Improvip, ---.n-_\ RO R A% least with them there will be tender remembrance while life lasts of the being they always refer to as “God's good man!” ——— Got Beyond That. any rods make a mile, Sampson?” the school teacher asked of the little boy who was reviewing his arithmetic, “Oh, 1 don’t know now, teacher. TI've forgotten long ago. That's the sort of stuff the ki No. 4 learn.” o ey Carrying It Too Far, An agreeable disposition is a nice thing, but some people are so easy to €et along with that it's no fun to get along with them. the near future. The “BUY-A-BAL activities. iness conditions. C. W. DEEN, President o Financial reports are more optimistic each weck students of business conditions see more prospero. ... 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