Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1909, Page 8

Orchard & Wilhelm 414-16-18 South Sixteenth Street SATURDAY SPECIALS LINOLEUM SALE * We just received one carload of perfect Linoleum in short pieces, ranging from five to thirty yards, which will be placed on sale Saturday at the following great redue- tions: e Standard Grade Printed Linoleum 75¢ Standard Grade Printed Linoleum $1.35 Standard Grade Inlaid Linoleum $1.50 Standard Grade Inlaid Linoleum DRAPERY DEPARTMENT 20 pleces Grenadine, 30 inches wide, with the borders, for sash and bed room curtains, beautiful dainty designs. Sell regularly at 35c per yard, Special, Saturday, per yard Japanese Cup and Saucer Gelsha Girl design, egg shell china with finished edge. Just the thing for afternoon teas. Sell regularly at 25c¢ each— Saturday, special for cup and - BAUCET , .44 o 17e¢ SATURDAY is the last day of our great novel: ty lace curtain sale. The prices are inter- - esting. The styles are new. ROLDING €AMP STOOL ' Like cut—15c each. Light, strong and durable. Just the thing to take along k to the decoration services or to the parks. Sells regularly at 30c each; special for Saturday only, each, 15¢ RS Special in the Basement PICNIC LUNCH BASKETS—For your auto THE BEE: OM AHA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, WILL SETTLE NEW ; ROUTE Second Wyoming Line of Burlington | Will Soon Be Platted. HOLDREGE SURVEYORS IN FIELD | | Dam Built at Ent clndes Rond Gorge So ce of Canon Ex- Using Big Hornm from Thermop- olis, as Was Planned. G. W. Holdrege, general manager of the Burlington, announces that he expects to | soon decide on a route for the Burlington south from Kirby, Wyo., to make the sec- ond Burlington line through Wyoming and | thus at an early date relieve the heavy | traffic which the Billings line is now forced | to bear. Mr. Holdrege says that the surveyors are still in the field, but expect to make a report in @ short time as to the most feas- ible route. “The route through Big Horn canen | would have cost §100,00 a mile, but the new route will cost considerable more as some heavy tunneling will have to be done te get across the mountains,” sald Mr. Hol- drege. For some time the Burlington has been figuring on using the route of the Big | Horn gorge south from Thermopolis, in which case the road would have been cut along the side of the river. In most places a shelf would have been necessary, cut into the solid rock of cliffs rising 900 feet high | When Asmus Boysen bullt the dam at the | entrance to the canon to a helght of j seventy feet he shut the railroad out from | the gorge and a new route Was necessary. plant Installed it will help materially in the constructicn of the road south from Kirby, as cheap power may be had for boring tun- | nels In the mountains. | James J. Hill wanted to find a water | level grade for his new line across Wyom- ing that the heavy tonnage from the Hill southeast and miss the heavy grades on i!hu Sheridan division of the Buriington. —_— TEACHING THE BLIND TO WRITE | | Stghtless Man Invents an Ingenious | Sywtem “of Tracing With Pen | Depu Now that the dam i buitt and the power | [URY GETS GREEK Defense Waives Argument and Trial lines on the north might be hauled to the | MOVE BIG SURPRISE TO STATE Speaks Rriefly and Instructions Last Days of Our Tremendous 15 Days’ SEASON’S WIND-UP RAINCOAT SALE Offers Greatest Raincoat Bargains of the Season Hundreds of People Have Taken Advantage of This Unusual Opportunity of Buying First-Class Water-proof Garments for Less Money Than the Retailers Themselves Pay for Their Goods Wholesale. 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THE RAINCOAT SPECIALTY STORE' N \n S CASL he sent the jury out for their midday meal while he prepared his instructions, which, he sald, he would read at 2 p. m, Deputy County Attorney Eilick most of his half hour address ing the evidence, though spending time warning the jury that the attorneys for the defense would make a viclous at- tack on the evidence of Louls Rosenteld, the Hungarian, who swore that he saw the Greek fire first. Characterizing the clalm of self defense as ‘“cock and bull story," Ellick went on to inquire what manner of man Masauredis had shown himself to be and pointed out that his carrying two mur- devoted Ends Quickly. some ty County Attorney Ellick of Court Next in Order in C | Judge Button also slightly by surprise and | Strange Affliction of a Man Whose to review- longer I decided to come to the hospital.’ The physicians who are studying Anders son's unusual allment say that it is not rheumatism. Their explanation is that the neglected Inflammation has caused the eye. lids to grow fast to the ayeballs. The Yunction is now so intimate that it an effort to cut the eyelkds frea were to be made the surgeon’'s knife would at the same time puncturs the cornea or delicate outer covering of the eye and cause hope- less blindness. Despite this opinlon of the doctors, An- | déreon still believes that rheumatism is the | cause of his trouble, and that he can be SLEEPS WITH HIS EYES OPEN Visual Curtains ever Up. Are For- Sleeping and waking for the eyes of Joseph Anderson of No. 6011 South Broadway, St. Louls, have never closed. When he lies down at night the lids do not gradually relax, as in the case of the normal man. For him thers are no curtains which softly fall over the “win dows of the soul” to shut out the distrac- tions of the busy world around him twenty years, cured.—8t. trips and picnic parties, 17 inches long, inches wide and 6 inches deep 10 with double covers. This would be a bargain at T6e. We will sell them on Saturday only, for, each Housefurnishing Department in the Basement. ——— ARMY SU-RGEDN'S LOUD ROAR Colomel Arthur Assails Ronesty of Civilian Physiclans. Lieutenant the Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Arthur of the medical corps of the United States army, writing over his official signature, declares that “it almost seems that many civillan physiclans -will give any opinion they are paid to give and decide cases entirely ac- cording to the applicant's wishes. He re- fers to cases where officers or eniisted men wish to be declared physically fit or unfit, and where the military surgeon has found the exact opposite to be the case. Colonel Arthur adds that in his qxperience of twenty-eight years In the service he personally knows of but one instance “‘where a civillan physician gave an opinion at variance with the wishes of the applicant for physical éxamination.” These opinions are expressed in a letter to the editor of The Medical Weekly, in which Colonel Arthur says: ‘Among the many difficulties the army gurgeon has to encounter (and I imagine the same applies to our brothers of the navy) one of the most annoying is the ease with which civilian physicians are in- as a rule, so neatly fit the wishes of the applicant for the civilian physiclan's ex- amination and opinion, that they no longer have any official valwe at all in deciding these cases, and are entirely overlooked, no matter how distinguished a name I8 subscribed to them. Let me give an illus- tration: “An applicant for appointment to West Point has been found physically idisquali- fled by reason of defective vision; this re- jected applicant secures the services of an obliging friend of about the same age, whose vision is known to be perfect. This substitute reports to some well-known ophthalmologist, giving the name of the rejected applicant, and is wiven by the clvilian oculist a clean bill of health. The paper s passed over to the rejected candidate and, armed with it, some politi- cal friend demands the reversal of the medical officer's opinion, and another crip- ple is added to the army list. Or per contra, an officer, already in the service, sees ahead of him #n examination for pro- motion, which he knows he cannot pass. His only hope Is to be retired. Army sur- geons examine him, find nothing wrong, and so report. He gets a leave, applies to some prominent neurologist, gives detalls of a long list of purely subjective symp- toms, the neurologist belleves him, and he 1s given a certificate to the effect that he or Pencil. write and a machine ta ald them in the use of pen or pencil have been invented by Orin C. Prost, a farsighted blind man, well known in business and political circles of the upper West Side of New York. By means of the system and its mechgnical auxiliary, the inventor, who has been him- self sightless for twenty-two years, is con- fident that any deprived of vision even from birth can soon learn to write correctly and rapidly. While three-fourths of blind, having lost their sight comparatively late in life, are able to write from recol- lection, and require only mechanical aid in making straight and separate lines, the mi- nority, who never practiced the art or saw & written line, have been serfously handi- capped. It would seem, indeed, an im- possible task to instruct a congenitally blind man in the art of chirography. it. He has already taught several con- gentlally sightless persons how to write. Taking the hand of a pupil, he_traces with ing line from downward. This line, he explains, first element of the alphabet. Another line, Joiring the first at the top and slanting in bar at the middle, constitutes A. ©ross bar, as before, the letter H is formed. Not more than one or two letters are given In the first lesson, and the pupil Is required to write down Immediately what he has A new system of teaching the blind to | the Mr. Frost, who has been a governor of the West Side Republican club for more than two decades, early applied himself ta | county attorn the problem, and now belleves he has solved | quitted. his forefinger on the palm a short, slant- the direction of the wrist | 1s the | the opposite direction below, with a cross | When | the side llnes are straight and joined by a | The Masauredais case went to the jury shortly after 2 p. m. vesterday, follow- |ing a move by the defense which excited no little stir in the criminal court room When A. G. Ellick had finished a brief address for the prosecution, J. M. | tarland, for the defense, rose and waived argument. This had the effect of sending the case to the jury without further pro- ceedings except instructions and robbed address the jury. English asserted that he was golng to “save some trouble,” but the common opinion was that the matter came as a disappointment to him, for in no criminal | prosecution since the trial of Charlss Davis | for the murder of Dr. Rustin has the | county prosecutor apparently been 80 | deadly in earnest. Such a move has been tried just twice before in the district court of Douglas county. Macfarland did It 1n the Callahan kidnaping case on W. W. Slabaugh, then ey, and his man was ac- Another time, it is related, an elderly Irishman was on trial for murder. E. W.!Simeral and J. A. Benewits were his attorneys and they, too, waived argu- ment. The jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter. The defendant thought he ought to have had a talk made for him and refused to sign the affidavits that he was unable to employ counsel—necessary after attorneys have been appointed by court. The action of Macfarland and Ralt took Mac- | County Attorney English of all chance to | shange of testimony by Lilly Breese, “after the | | derous weapons had taxed Ingenuity to explain The dropping of the knife scabbard in the girl's room that evening Ellick ex- plained as an attempt on the Greek's part to unsheathe the knife, “Had Lowery not seen the scabbard fall, the scene of the murder would have been the girl's room Instead of Twenty-fourth and M streets.” Ellick also devoted some minutes to the the emissaries of sought her out at her.” Evidence to this effect was fresh in the minds of the jury, for the state in re- buttal in the morning had introduced Mrs. McPherson, long matron at the county jail, who swore that Louis Papos, a Greek, had talked to the girl at the jail after her testimony at the inqiest and had told her she had testified wrong on this vital point of who shot first. Chief Briggs and Officer Trouton of the South Omaha police force were other wit- nesses in rebuttal. Dr. Lee Van Camp was brought to testify that the Greek's wounds are not serious’ Attorney Rait togk him over a good many hurdles in cross-examination. the defendants had the jail and Instructed Royal Arcanum Ends Session. St. LOUIS, Mo., May 27.—The supreme council of the Royal Arcanum ended its 324 annual second here today, Montreal being selected for the next meeting in May, 1910. Cloves H. Bowen, Pawtucket, R. I, was elected supreme regent. Until the end of his days this strange condition must continue, City hospital ph siclans say, because an effort to restore the natural movement of the eyelids would forever destroy his sight. Anderson is 60 years old. For twenty years and up to two months ago he was & quarry workman. The lime dust affected his eyes and caused an inflammation, to which he pald no attention at firat. Though the lids of the eyes were Inflamed, he thought that this would be only tempor- ary. Not until several weeks after the inflam- mation set in did he notice that it was becoming more and more difficult for him to close his eyes. One night, he says, he lay down to sleep and he found that his muscular effort to lower his eyelids were without result. He lay there staring at the ceiling And ever since then he has been staring day and night. Literally he has been “the man with the open eyes." “It caused me some trouble at first,” he sald at the City hospital this week. “I couldn't go to sleep. 1 would le there looking at the ceiling. But gradually I be- came used to it, and I slept as well as any man—with my eyes open. “For eighteen years it didn’t bother me. 1 did my work as usual, and I was healthy and slept at least eight hours every night. Two years ago I began to have headaches, which extended from the top of my fore- head to my eyelids. “I thought T had rheumatism of the eyes, and when I couldn’t stand the pain any Louis Dispatch, | Kemper, Hemphill & Buckingham, All Kinds of Plating. AID FOR MASSACRE ORPHANS Armenian Relfef Association Wi Assume Support of Children Made Dependent by Murderers. WORCESTER, Mass., May %1.—The sup port of sixty children. made orphans by the recent massacres in the Adana Ais- trict, Aslatic Turkey, has been assumed by the National Armenian and Indian Re- Mef association. It is poesible to support one child for a yen sor $30 and an effart will be made to secure interest in this country to create a fund to care for 200 or 300 orphans. BLACKMAILER 1S INSANE Man Who Demanded $100,000 from Millionaire Miner Belteved Mentally Deranged. LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 28 —Charged with sending letters in which he demanded $100,000 from A. Douglas, a millionaire min- ing man of Bisbee, Ariz, who is residing temporarily in Pasadena, Sam Leroe, alias Fred Rivera, was arrested at a ranch near Redondo and brought here. Dr. George Campbell examined Leroe here and later a complaint of Insanity was issued against duced to give opinions in rebuttal of the | ¢frers trom ‘neurasthenta.’ officlal professional opinion of the military | 1 phave personally surgeon. This takes the form of certifi- | jorience of an honest civilia cates, either to the effect that an appli- | when applied to by cant for admission to the service or had reported fit for duty, flcer or enlisted man found physically mperfect by the medical officer, and re- jected on that account, is perfectly sound in every respect; or that an officer, re- orted well enough to do his duty, s, in the clvilian physician's opinion, a physical wreck “These opinions are so freely given, and, realth, ffit for duty in any climate' opinion." 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N0 1322 i ALBERT STATE AGENT CAHN 1322 Farnam Street had a refreshing ex- doctor, who, an officer whom I sxamined him very carefully, pronounced him ‘in robust (this »fficer was particularly anxious not to go to the Philippines), and secured $0 for his learned. After acquiring the capital letters in this fashion, aided by wooden alphabet blocks with Knifellke edges, the student proceeds to learn lower case letters and script. These forms are traced on the palm as befgre, and in addition the student feels of the three styles of letters carved on a lead plate one below the other, as capltals, lower case and script. The rough edges of the lettors inscribed on lead are easily fol- lowed by sensitive fingers, and the memory of the blind fs notably good, so that shapes once learned are not lost. But without some mechanical device to insure proper spacing and the like theo- retical knowledge is vain. The evolution of Mr. Frost's device began tén years ago, when he Improved on corrugated card. board divisions with a stencll-like sheet of tin, through the regular spaces of which he wrote on a shect of paper. Then ho used successively rubber bands, twine and wire on a clgar cover frame to form an equitable division of spaces in which he wrote. The merfected device is the ‘blindo- graph.’ It consists of a wooden board, with rubber and steel rollers at the upper end, which draw a sheet of paper between steel guides and upder three cross-wires, about half an inch apart. The operator | uses the space above the first wire fo name and address, it he s writing a let- | ter, and then has two spaces below for two lines of writing. After filling these spaces he presses a lever at the upper left hand corner of the board, and the rollers move upward the sheet of paper an exact distance, giving two new spaces for writing. The ends of the lower wires rest on springs, so that the wirvs vield freely when the operator wishes to | put the tall of & “y* or “g" below the line. The lowest wire, moreover has a sliding ring, which serves as a marker to indicate wheye the sightle writer is in- terrupted or stops to think. Willlam H. Prescott, the American his- torian, who was practically blind, usel a primitive writing device from 1816 until his death, In 1859. This apparatus, which was invented by a member of the Wedgwood | family of English potters for his own use, was called the noctograph It consisted of a frame crossed by sixteen parallel wires, fastened Into the sides, and holding down a sheet of blackened paper, like the carbon paper now used In typewritors and copying machines. Under this black- ened paper was placed a steet of platn white note paper. Lead pencils being then comparatively unknown, a person us- ing the noctograph wrote with a sort of stylus of Ivory, agate or some other hard | substance upon the blackened paper, which conveyed the impression to the white pa- per underneath. The brass wires guided | the writer's hand and kept the point of the stylus somewhere near the line. The Mas- sachusetts Historical soclety has preserved the noctograph used by Prescott.—New York Tribune FIRE DRILL SAVES PUPILS Cool-Headed Professor Prevents Panie When Flames Break Out in Laboratory. AKRON, 0., May ‘The copl head of C. P. Alexander, Instructor of physics, prevented a panic among the 1,000 pupils at the High school today when fire broke out in the laboratory. Mr. Alexander quieted the students. The fire drill was used and, although the bullding wi - ing with smoke, all the scholars were | quietly marched oat two Sold only in Moisture Proof Packages The National prestige of Uneeda Biscuit is baked in. 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