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is 2 STANDARD Dec. 4 THE BLIND MAY SEE. Results of Experiments With the X Rays. : A St. Lonis Physician Made a Thorough Test and Met Success Beyond His Expectations -- The Placed at the Back or Side of the Head Enables Sightless Persons to Distinguish Shape. St. Louis, Mo., November 26.-- Dr. Heber Robarts conducted a ser- ies of interesting experiments with X rays, at his office, with a view to ascer- taining whether the blind may be able tosee by the aid of rays. The fact that Dr. Robarts intended to conduct ex- periments of this sort had been pub- licly announced, which Jed to the presence of about forty sightless persons at his office during the even- ing. The doctor considers that he made the most extensive and thorough test that has ever been made in his line. He is highly gratified with the result, and said after finishing the test that it had been a success beyond his ex- pectations. Persons who had no re- collections of ever seeing a light or anything else were able to distingnish shadows and trace the outlines of objecta held before them, Even per- sons whose eyeballs were missing were able to distinguish objects with a clear- ness that surprised the experimenter. In some cases, however, no impres- sion was made on the senses of the patients, The apparatus used is known as_ the Nicola Tesla compound apparatus, a complicated machine, weighing about 500 pounds. This is attached to the wire of an ordinary incandescent house electric light, the currents being mul- tiplied by the apparatus. The tube thruugh which the rays are presented to the seuses of the af- flicted person is known as the fluoro- scope. It is held to the head of the sightless person, either in front before the useless eyeballs or sockets, or, in the case of persons whose eyeballs are gone, ut the side of the head and then at the back of the head. Some of those enabled to see found the results best when held at the back of the head. In many cases the experience of the subject was similar to that of a child taking its first object lesson, and Dr. Robarts says that if the apparatus is made available to such persons they will have to be taught as children. One interesting case was: that ofa man 26 years old, whose sight had been destroyed through lye being thrown in bis eyes. This caused in- flammation, resulting in the lids un- iting firmly with the globes, and he had not seen light for ten years. The apparatus was applied, and letters made of lead, about an inch long, were held before |.im. He was able to dis- tinguish the object, but could not name the letter. : Another case was that of Patrick McMahan, 76 years old, who had not seen anything for thirty years. His cye- balls had beeu totally destroyed. A plate of lead was moved back and forth over the fluoroscope, when he exclaim- ed ;--"'I see." The object appeared to him as amers shadow, but he was abie to tell its form. Still another case was that of Kittie Hemke, aged 24 years, a pupil of the blind asylum, who had no recollection ofever having seen anything. She was able to distinguish shadows, but could not describe the form of objects placed before her. Dr. Robarts thinks the apparatus may be developed to a degree that will enable blind persons to see objects with a considerable degree of clear- ness ; also, that it may be simplified ro as to be more readily adapted to the use of blind people. Dr. Robarts adduced from the ex- periments that the retinaof the eye is not the actual poiut of contact at which the object is presented to the senses of the beholder, but that the retina is simply amirror which might be replaced by an artificial one in case other portions of the eyeball re- main intact. He contends that by the use of X rays the object, light or sha- dow, is presented directly to the cor- pora quadra permira, or germ of sight, located between the cerebrum aud cerebellum, ou a line with the eyes, but nearer to the posterior wall of the skull than to the face, Mexico, Mo., November. 25.--Mr. Hughes, of Vandalia, this county, comes to the front with a wonderful little invention. It is an X ray egg tester. By the use of the little =mach- ine you can look throngh a dozen eggs at once and tell if _ they are good or pad. expeci,"' says nghes, "to bave the machine su penteah that I can tell whether an egg will hatch a taken ont nineteen yatenta in his life- time. Apparatus , An Incurable Cured. After Treatment in Oanad's Hospital Had Failed. One of the Most Remarkable Cases on Record-- Ten Years of Intense Suffering From Acute Rheuma- tism--The Whole Body Contract- ed and Out of Shape in Every Limb--Again Restored to Active Life. From the Newmarket 'Sdvestion: We suppose there is not a resident of Newmarket who does not know Mr. J. A. Moffatt, who does not know of his years of suffering and who has not heard of his release froma life of help- lessness and pain through the medium of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Indeed we doubt if in the annals of medicine there is a more remarkable restoration than has been accomplished in Mr. Moffat's case, and he deems it his duty to mankind to make the facts known through the columns of the Advertiser. Ten years ago Mr. Moffatt was work- ing in the Newmarket Hat Factory. room, and possibly some carelessness in regard to his health, he was attack- ed with a severe cold which eventually settled in his limbs. For some years he was an almost constant sufferer from rheumatic pains and spent much money in treatment for the trouble, but with no result beyond au occasional tempor- ary release from pain. Finally to make matters worse he was attacked with malaria and rheumatic fever. He was then forced to go to the Toronto general hospital when 1t was tound that he was afflicted with torticollis (wry neck). During the first six months in the hospits] he was under the treat- ment of the staff electrician, bout the powers of saoksieaty autiraly failed, and after a It of it was deemed advisable to perform an operation. Six weeks later a second operation wa' per ed. The oper- ations proved successful only in so far as they afforded temporary relief. He remained in the hospital from Novem- ber, 1890, till January, 1892, and with allthe modern remedies and appli- ances known to the staff 'of that well equipped institution no permanent re- lief could be obtained. He was then advised to go home, partly in the hope that the change might prove beneficial, but instead he continually grew worse, and in March, 1892, was again forced to take to his bed, and those who knew of his condition did not believe he had long to live. At this time every joint in his body was swollen and distorted, and he suffered the most excruciating agony. Ifa person walked across his bedroom it intensified the pain as though he was being pierced and torn with knives, and if touched he would scream aloud with agony. In this state of hopeless suffering he remained bedfast for eighteen months, all the while using all manner of medicines from which relief might be hoped for. Then he was put under the treatment of a celebrated Toronto specialist, but with uo better result. After this last experiment failed, he determined to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, at the same time discontinuing all other treac- ment. At the en of three months there was a very noticeable improve- ment in his condition, and so much so that his mother thought he could be lifted outside. He was still so weak, however, that he was only able to re- main up a few minutes as_ before. When taken back to bed he felt a sud- den tingling sensation going up from his toes and through his joints ard spine. The next morning when he awoke the pain had left the body and lodged in the arms, and then for some weeks the pain flitted from place to place in the arms and then disappear- ed, and he has uot had a particle of pain since. All this time he was taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and slowly but surely regaining his strength. Then an invalid's chair was procured, and ho was wheeled cut, eveutually he was able to wheel him- self about. The continued useof Pink Pills constantly added to his strength, and then the chair was discarded for crutches, and then the crutches for a cane. At this time (Sept. 1895) Mr. Moffat had so far révoveredl that Ké was a frequent contribator to the col- umps of the Advertiser, and procuring a horse and buggy he was engaged as : :2 Through the irfluence of the damp' local reporter for the pap once utterly helpless invalid: able to go about, and to get in of his buggy without any pete and isat his post of oy whenever called upon. Thus we find that after years of enf- fering and helplessness Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have proyed successful after all other remedies and the best of medical treatment had utterly failed. With such marvellous cures ag this to its credit it is no wonder that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is the most popn- Jar medicine with all classes through- out the land, and this case certainly justifies the claim put forth on its be- half that it "cures when other medi- cines fail."' Difficulties of Telephone Competition. A writer in the New York Post says: When a new telephone company at- tempts to secure a footold in 'a large city,.it finds that one of the great pro- blems it must solve lies, not ie the to- tal number of subscribers it can secure, but in the number of desirable sub- scribers that will prove permanent and paying patrons. For the service of a telephone exchange increases in value in the same ratio as the names of the desirable elements in the communi- ty are added to its list of subscribers. In other words, while a newspaper circulating only among saloons and read principally by the frequenters of such places might prove profitable to a certain class of advertisers, the general adyertiser would not use its columns, ns it would not reach the public in general--the buying classes. So a telephone exchange might" secure several hundred or s thousand or two subscribers, and yet the combinations afforded have no practical value to the constant user of telephone service or the general public, and the secured subscribers be rarely called for. But the progressive merchant must pay his tribute to each company just the same. Thus itis not only the greatest nom- ber of people you can reach with the aid of the telephone, but the greatest uumber the very people you desire to reach that renders telephone service invaluabie. A second problem and one not so difficult of solution as that of securing the necessary desirable subscribers, is 'to secure the capital necessary to con- struct a modern telephone plant. Such @ plant cannot be properly acted for less than from $95 a subscriber to $175 a subscriber, depending on the size of the exchange; the larger the plant the higher the average cost per subscriber. A first-class telephone plant having a switch-board capacity of 1,000 subscribers can be completed for $125,000, while it would probably require an investment of $500,000 to completes every detail ina modern plant of 3,000 subscribers. Many opposition telephone exchanges have been built for a less sum per subscriber, notably Topeka, Kas.; Fort Smith, Ark.; Selma, Ala.; Wankesha, Wis. ;and some twenty others. But these exchanges no longer exist, having gone the way of all purely speculative enterprises, and leaving no return for the heavy Now th hr 7 financier is not putting his money into invest- ments that promise as fat pluckings for promotor and lawyer as competing telephone exchanges do. He may loan the use of his name in return for a pro- fitable consideration. But the plant will be built (well or poorly) from the investments made by "lambs"--houest and unsuspecting creatures who are so inexperienced as to believe that be- cause a certain prominent citizen holds quite a block of stock in a new enter- prise he must have invested a large a- monnttherein. And as the 'lumb" seldom has the reserve capital neces- sary to protect an investment of this character, he svon has a practical il- lustration of how easily his venture may be swallowed up and lost for ever But the most difficult problem that confronts the new company in a large city is to so plant the constrnetive and engineering features ofa plant as to insure from the start a satisfactory high-class service to subscribers al- ready educated tu a high standard of telephone service. It means some- thing more than placing a switchboard in a room and connecting thereto the wiree radiating out to the subscribers': telephoues. modern telephone plant in a large city includes the planning or the eonstruc- + + to each other and also to the main ex- change by underground trunk lines; and in the proper arrangement and disposition of these trunk lines, and the rapid handling of the ever increasing traffic in conversations, abides an en- geering problem capacity, ability, and experience of the high highest order to satisfactorily solve and there- byevolve a successful modern telee- phone pliant. For the building of. the |! tion of outlying exchanges connected |' 'As Seen From the Hills. >To one who spends most most of his time fe te ctly ie pleasant to get out ral, over twenty miles distant, was distinctly visible ; the German Ocean marked the boundary of our island on the east, and various towns and other objects of interest seemed almost with- in call. Such a view simplifies things; you apprehend their relations one to another better.than yon-can from reading an armful of guide books To-day we have u letter written 'from that same place, and presently I'll show you why I am glad it -ame from Normanby-on-the- Wolds, and pat e "In the e early part of 1890," says the writer, "I fell intoa low, weak state of health. Before this I had always been a healthy woman, but at this time I was taken with a constant feel- ing of sickness and of dizziness in the head. 'The blood appeared to rush into myhead whenever [rose to my feet quickly, or made any sndden move- men My appetite, which used to be strong and keen, now began'to give way, until, by-and-by I had no relish for anything. What I did eat gave me much pain at the chest and aronnd ~~ sides, and a feeling of tinglin smarting between the shonlder- biedss, Iusedtoturn hot and then cold, and thought that some kind of fever might be cominguponme. Sometimes cold, clammy'sweats would break ont all over me, making me teel so pros- trated and exhausted that I seemed on the point of fainting away. "I took pills and other medicines, but they had no effect beyond giving a slight relief for perhaps a day or two, when I would be as badas ever. I seemed to require something more than mere purgative medicires, as they onlymade me weaker every time I used them. But Ikney not where to look for a cure, and so I suffered from the malady month after mouth, until I concluded there was no help for me. "One day a small book was sent to our house full of tales about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and how it had cured different complaints after even the cleverest doctors had failed. Among them was a case exactly like mine, written word for word by the very woman who was cured, giving all the symptoms, dates and all other details, and signed with her name and where she lived. "'Convinceu by this plain testimony, I got a bottle of Mother Seigel's Syrup from Mr. William Bristow, the grocer and postmaster at laxby. After using ittwo or three days I found great relief. 'Ifeltthe. return of ap- te, and my and pe tee afew weeks further use of Syrup I was well and strong as ever. Two years ago my daughter suffered muck in the same way as I had, and the same medicine cured her complete- ly. Idesire merely to add, that the reading of alittle book showed me that both my ailment and my daugh- terr was indigestion or dy vepasia, and nothing else ; and I tow ees Mother Seigel's Syrup to alli (Signed) Ellen Barker, The Dales, Normanby-le-Wold, near Market Ras- en. Lincs, May 10th, 1895." Now the reading of that little book was to Mrs. Burker Jike looking out over the conutry from a hilltop. It showed her the way, just as she saya. From haviog teen puzzled and con- fused by the numerous so-called dis- eases she saw that most of them were nothing mure than names of the aym- ptoms of the one prevailing disease-- dyxpepsia, The one remedy for that disease soon set her right, and left her with a valuable bit of knowledge. Hills may be hard to plow, but they are good to see from. Figs and iiatiee The moment a lie is is born it begins te run. Isn't it about as wrong to be wrong as it is to do wrong ? A lie is always an enemy, no matter how friendly it may look. The children of a millionaire can on'y be slightly acquainted with their father. The man who is holding on toa few favorite sins, is playing hide and seek with the devil. It is doubtful if the church loafer weighs any more for good than a_loaf- er anywhere else. Isn't it strange that so many men think they can do most for the Lord where the pay is best. 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