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PAGE jIX CAUSE OF CANCER AND A CURE FOUND Serum Is Successful as Germ is Isolated. t*hilu*ieiphia.?The cause of cancer Ua* i ?*eu discovered, also a treatment for it, which, although atili Ji? the ex penmen tal stage, is producing remarkable rwaJii, accbnliAfi to the Pfdlaticiyiils Ziorih American. That tills n>o*t dreaded disease Is due tc# a microorganism bus been actaotillcaliy established. The germ has been isolated and its parts as die causative factor proved by the conclusive laboratory t?*t known as the "Koch cycle." The discoverer is Dr. T. J. Glover, a DHtlvv of Toronto. Can., thirty-six years old, and a gruduate of the medics; sch'Mrt of the University of Toronto. class of 1911. Tor four years he has carried on his research work In York, The antitoxic serum he kMb de*. eloped apparently is effective only lu the treatment of caroinotua, the commonest and most destructive form of cancer. Dr. GK'Vi'r first suweeded la iaocniatiiu animals with the germ he had ib- :a certified specimens of can< < from human beings and with it rejii odu'. ed the disease in monkeys and a'.i Immune unlmuis. Then, through lnje. lion of the serum, he arrested or modified its coarse and later immunized scores of such animals against infection. With in the last two years this serum has been tested on more than 200 cases of euueer continued by pathological. X-ray and clinical histories, mid In very stage of development from lncipiency to hopelessness. Nearly 100 of these bud been treated ia the National Stomach hospital in Phllitdeli'hia, where the most complete tests have bean made and the largest number of patients observed In * majority of those cases there have been favorable results, end In some instance?* Lhe subjects have been UiKcharged sis ayinjjtiuufree, a condition the laymen woul.i call cured. riras it appears from the laboratory results secured by l?r. <J)ovor, and from the records of these cases, that this terrible malady, as human hieforj and of late years increasing at such a rale us to ulanu both the medical profession and the public. has ki lust been brought In the point of control, joining the ranks of syphhlis, smallpox, typhoid fever and diphtheria 100.000 Deaths a Year in U. S. In view of the fact Ihi* the cfluccr deutii toll in thus country uU.?m> now Is ilaured at lOO.OOO a year, and. that tiie dlaease * increasing at the rate of per coat annually, the meaning of this discovery Is obvious. The discovery of the cuueer germ leads logically to the hop** that a method soon nuiy he found for d-:> ? mining the presence of the mien rganlsm ?. the blood. ttnw leaking elide the detection of the disease in hadpieney arid its prevention. Dr. Clover has made significant experiments along this line, with decldarily encouraging results. He has dtstributes! i limited amount of the serum to hospitals in various parts of the country to be tested under pte^ ?f secrecy and without charge pending the official announcement. From these experimental clinics een received highly favor ul? ? reports of results which coincide with those obtained In Philadelphia over a period of IS months. The Journal of the American Medicu! association in February, UOJ, charged l?r. ?Hover with unprofessional conduct In trying to commercialize hi? discovery. Prior to that time the Tor onto Academy of Medicine had modi an adverse report on ins uoyk. Toronto medical men of high standing subsequently explained the situation lending t?? these charges In vach s way as ic minimize their significance New Camera Pictures > Projectiles in Flight Washington.- The bureau of stand ards r:as desired and constructed a new camera which U able to photo graph projectiles in flight. It la nm possible to take a clear picture 01 very rapidly moving objects on a ata tlonary film, because in the. Intervn auving wr.icu me mm is expoaeu Ite image of the ubject moves sufficiently to blur the picture. The new earner; ovarcomea tills difficulty by causScj the film to more approximately thi name velocity as does the Image of tin object. Hence, there la no blurring o the picture ? The bureau explains that to obtali a number of pictures several lense are placed In a line at right angles t< the direction of motion of the fllu and a focal plane shutter la so at ranged that the linages from thee lanaes are allowed to fall on the Die in succession. This gives a series o pictures of a stationary object whlc lie diagonally serosa the film. How Mar If the velorhv nf the lmaire ! the same ag the velocity of the Mo the pic tare of the moving object wl lie across the film perpendicularly I the direction of motion. Elk Pester Formers Wenatchec, Wash.?Blk, said to I adept at scaling fence* and maklt abort work of ordinary haystacks, a; troublmomc to farmers near Okan gnu Organised groups haTe repeato iy driven the elk herds back Into tl foothills by Bring Mask shells or their heads, bat with the return banger the antmels revisit tlw f?i leads. W 4 ! mora rai isj WED E( BSPI1SIS: RETURNS ON 75 MJLLfON CAW- \ PAION REPORTED TO CON i iwni?K' W.JW wurtK NEEDED. KEW PROGRAM PROJECTED Or. C. E. Burt* of South Carolina 1 Named General Director?Dr. M> Dan'?; Heads Convention. Dr. GEORGE W. McDANIEL, New President Southern Baptiat Ci;nver.tionFp to Ma\ I Southern Baptists had , contributed in each on their 75 Million Campaign, the tire-year program 1 f<-r the extension of their generil mis- ; sionary. educational and benevolent 1 work, the sum of S53.832.S52.7V. leaving a total of $21,167,147.21 to be raided between now and the end of 1*24 If the original goal of $75.' '0,0?;?? if* attained It is announced by the general headquarters. When the status of the Campaign was reported to 'he Southern Baptist Convention at its recent session It: Atlanta, the Conservation Commission was instructed to lay plans to complete the raising of the $75, u?.?? (Mm oy tne ciose or tne prt'sem calendar year in order to clear ihe way ror another forward program that will claim the support of the denomination during 1925. Dr. L. H. Scarborough, genera! director of the Campaign, has been called hack to Nashville to lead in the task or raising the $21,000,000 additional needed to complete the Campaign goal. He will undertake | with the assistance of the various state and association*! boards, to effect an organization that will enli3t every Baptist church in the South, representing* a combined membership of 3.50t?,000, in a definite share in the completion of this forward program. Approximately 6.000 messengers from every state in the South attended the Atlanta session of the Contention and the entire body voted unanimously to get behind the effort to raise th? full amount of money needed to complete the Campaign. Where Money Came From Here are the sources from which the ue.K.'OSi l .?11 - red nr. tut- r?r? Campaign has come: Alabama $2. 429.331.08; Arkansas $2.o22,7 47.90; Ea strict of Columbia $256,257.91, Florida $R3S,4"S.96; G< i^ia $4,373,524.26; Illinois $62 \ 736.03; Kentucky $6,936,800.82; Louisiana $1,452,985.84; ! Maryland $866,716.81: Mississippi $2,759,706.78: Missouri $2,249,746.14; ' N'-w Mexico $648,818.26; North Caro1 | liaa $4.511,014.Si; Oklahoma $1,349,088.42; South Carolina $4,327, ; 974.03; Tennessee $3.746.261,52: Texas 1 $8,171,? 62.80; Virgiuia $5,733,141.38. Specials: Home Board $15,340.00; I * Foreign Board $86,103.00; rained by foreign churches and expended by ' them on work there $1,003,390.68. 1 Future Program Authorized At the same time Southern Bap[ tist forces will be completing their 1 j 75 Million Campaign they will be ' ; launching the next program to follow the Campaign. At a session in Noeh51 Till? the Commission on the futuro ' i program designated U as "The 1926 i Program of Southern Baptists ' and [ elected Dr C. E. Rarts of Columbia. " 3. C., as general director, and Frank J: E. Burkh alter, Nashville, publicity i uumiw, . ue liSJJ 1 S-"? Lor BUOSCnP tloDs Cor the 1935 budget, which will 9 lie for at least ilb.OQO.dU9. will be } takes in the iocs Baptist churcbei i the week beglnnln November 30. Dr. George M (.Daniel ol Richmond. (.| V*., la the now president of th? n ! Southern Convention. Actions by thai {! body Include the taking over of the h! Southwestern Baptist Theologies . ' Seminary at Pert Worth, Texas, de s | eislon to defer for a year any actloi ' 'ooklng to a reorganisation of thi j'j work of the general boards of thi D convention. Instruction to the Bdncs tlon Board to continue negotiation looking to rocovery to the Beptist of George Washington University a >e Washington, decision to give iarge JR consideration at next year's sesBio K to the interests of the oountr )v churches, and the adoption of a vigoi ons protest, which will be forwards ?e to the president and secretary t state at Washington, against IS o; pnaecution of Baptists In Russia M tnmac'u. THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?K CHINESE SHIP FACES PIRATES AND MUTINY Passengers on Board Tell of Sensational Events. Seattle.?Mutiny on thy btgii seas, typhm rs and Chinese pirate? were utmmg tlie experience* which the last yerir allotted Fred N. Troup. first office! of the dve-masted schooner Ti-eng Eat. \ihieb, flying the flag of the Chinese republic, has been docked here iondltu; lumber. Tr*uip. whose home Is at Puyullup, Wash., near Seattle. signed last summer as first officer on the American schooner Levi \V. Ostrander. When her name was changed to Tseng Tai and Chinese took over the vessel, Ttwip been me master. On a voyage the schooner ran into a typhoon, which sent her fleeing for safety under bare musty. On. u second voyage to Foochow. ths schooner touched at the port of Quuntow While it was lying at anchor Chinese bandits appeared. "The Danish chief mate and I were the only white men aboard." recalled Troup. "Each of us had an automatic. I bred 22 times. .Some fell; I couldn't cour.t how many. "My Chinese crew or 28 were caught U f hnir iw rtr?r* Ktiii tlirpo were slnifl We managed to get In a motorboat and escape." Later they retrained their ship, which the pirates hod deserted after removing everything portable. The Tseng Tai was refitted and hdld under the admiralty courts while salvage claims were contested. Under a new ownership Troup went to lhiget sound with her ?s first officer. On the way the crew mutinied, but the trouble was quelled and the men sponsible for it were put ?n ir<?ns to be delivered to the police at Vancouver. B. C. 70 Millions Under Ban of "Castes" in India Boston.?I'ntouchnbility obtains in die most acute form In Kerala popularly known os Malabar in southern India. Here there art- Navadies. whose very sight will pollute a high-clasa Hindu; Parayas who have to stand at a distance of a furlong or more, and Puluyas of different grades, who ha\e to stand at distances varying from 100 to 200 feet There are also numerous other castes, who have to keep different distances in respect of the different castes and every one of these oast en observes both untouchabUity and uu[ appror.chahility in respect of one or | more of the remaining wastes, says a I correspondent from Bombay. Of late there has been a general I awakening to the fact that India can not rise in the scale of nations without tin removal of unroueh ability, which places n ban on 70.000,000 of her people. The problem is ??f great magnitude ind 'Joes not admit of any easy solui'.on. the evil being widespread arid v. p seated. Some nationa' workers v . however, addressed rhetnselves o the removal of this Iniipiitnns prae rice from Malabar ami recently eon1 oned a public meeting where a committee, known as the Kerala untouch* ability committee, was formed. Tennessee's Broom Plant for Blind a Success Nashville, Tenn. The state of, Tennessee employs seventy blind persons in the manufacture of brvtoins. The state's bn>;>in factory for the biiud Is located on property in iho I , ?nity of the main state prison, at Nashville, and every employee, exilic truck driver engaged In this | work !s blind. There are about fifteen women among ) "he workers, arid some have married blind men who are employed t? the faciory and reside in the factory set dement. The Industry has a capacity of !iK dozen brooms a day. Is operated at n profit to the state under the super vision of the commissioner of intuitu tbina and the employees are paid * living wage for their services. The brooms art? placed en ?h< jr.arkef alongside the products o1 other factories, and find ready sale The industry also operates a roj weaving and a mattress-cleaning de pnrtment, all of which afford* on op portcnlty for making provision to* many who otherwise would become wards of the state. :x> ?ooooooooooooooooooooc* | Heroine Carries Out Aged Woman in Fire 5 New York.?Mrs. George F. 6 N'etU, eighty, alone In her aport9 merit on the top floor of a ' c <imoke-fllle?5 seeen story bnlld. (t lng at 49 West Flfty-serenth " | 6 street, was brought to tlie street | I In safety when Mrs Margaret 0 Catntalngs, another tenant, ran 9 the automatic elevator to Mm. 1 o Nelll's floor and carried the aged ' $ woman, half unconscious. Into ' 5 the fresh air. * g Baseball games In Central * 0 park were deserted and hun* ? dreds of persons strolling along * 0 Fifth avenue rushed to the scene * S when Are Apparatus arrived In a 9 response to two alarms T o While lines of hose were being r" 9 mn to the roof, a woman was ^ s seen calmly smoking a cigarette v In a window of one of the lower ' * o apartments. She tjeinalned there ^ X undisturbed. VERV rHUSSDAV?BOONE. N C INDIAN DANCES LIKE REVIVALS ! i Ancient Ceremonies Are Mostly Religious in Nature. Vk*i<si>lBKtoau I>. C.?Imiian ceremo- ' niuN ire rarely understood bv other races. and ?*?sequer?tf> the In- ; lU&n riteas an*! dances have often been unjustly critlclztxL wyfiJ. N.B.Uev\itt of the Smithsonian iostUtilka. Ti e white giaa is ettKUM^ gullible when i comes to believing fantastic talethe red tnau. It is no cure ^ occurrence for a witness to appear at 4 congressional hearing and to testify regur i-ng the evils of Indian dar.**es and dter to admit that he has never seen the objectionable rites. Furthermore, the white man tnust plea*' guilty to u luck of sympathetic imi^iibitiou when he observes the Indian. Aside fr**nt some ethnologists, people who ?!o at ten*! lodian ceremonies generally see only the gyrations i of painted savages. Sometimes the} j cannot refrain from ghowipg tlieir | amusement and scorn. Sometimes they \ offen*' the Indians seriously On man who was present at a Nav. jo snake dance grew righteously indignant at the sight of venomous j snakes handled by the duneers. who j even placed them in their mouths, j When *-ne of the reptiles was laid on ' the gr??uod the visitor impulsively took 1 a soda pop bottle and tried to kill it. The white man was the Indians'guest, j but the snake represented some re- < lighnis symbol to the dancer?, and it j was ' v the time being an object of vtfii "ii. uui'N t;e u>. nit* nrai outs: r jeopardized bis life Show Reverence to Nature. Air. Iievvitt says that the ceremonies of the Indian arc Incorrectly called pagan. X?? jieApIc have held a uiore , rever attitude toward nature -.mi : the Master of Life than the Indians. 1 he -: vs- By their symbolism they built up ? system of associations. so that when they saw the fuil moon or the budding trees, the ripe com or the ' animals, they thought of the i legetrb and the significance of those I things in life. Considering their "lack I of ad?an t ages** the Indians put into . words an ustoidshing amount of truth regnrln.: their universe. Tl.e Indian regards the tribal rites j apd ali the Symbols that goes with j them with the same respect that any other race feels toward its religious observances. A typical js the Iroqn* planting ceremony, which takes place la the spring. The women and girls dramatize the planting processes and sing the songs descriptive of each Men of the tribe preach and tel! the others to treat one another Wildly. ! ? avoid lying and gossip, to live peaceably and to be thankful for their blessings. There Is always a feast and dancing at the close of all festivals. They be lleve that the Master of Life, seeing the people dance, knows that His cldli iippn nr#? . iiii-nt with trh;*t He hits done for them, and ho He l? pleased. It is all M?e Indians' way of rendering thanksgiving. Outsiders not knowing the language and gymboiism. are apt to conclude that the Indians are holding a gay party, while, as Mr. Hewitt points out. If v.e compare the occasion to something in our own civilisation, I! Is more accurate to compare It to a religions mo-sing. Masks Often Misunderstood. L'se of hideous musks by certain tribes is a typical source of misunderstanding among white people. The masks do not represent the Indiana' Idcu of beauty, as many people believe, hnt represent the seven winds which bring diseases. Each type of mask suggests the face of the victim of the \ disease brought by that wind On New Year's day masked men go into each wigwam, and put out the . fire, ciean away the ashes and light ceremonially n new tire. This Is not i a senseless rite. The ashes of the i old fire have collected waste materials l and germs for some months, and cleaning the fireplace Is a health measure. There is no doubt that some dances i of primitive tribes have included practices which the white man regards as ? reprehensible. The Indians' practice t of slashing themselves and one another with knives during the sua dance ; has been criticised. So has the reckless handling of snakes, both harm - let* and venomous, at the auAke r danec. Charges of Immorality in cone uectton with some rites have also been made. The Indians themselves say that few. If any dancers, exit themselves ^ now In the sun dance. The Idea back b of the cutting was to show courage. ? | Sixteer. officials of a Pueblo trll^ X? recently denied the Implication of ira 6 f raorai pr "ticea In their ceremonial* g ! by satliiK: "Our dances are <lraroa 0 opera and poetry. The womanhood 01 X our pueblo are as sacred to ua as tH< O symbolic dance we are trying to d? 2 tend and prcoerva" 9 This statement was made In a pe a tltton that the ancestral dancet y might continue without Icterterenci 6 from the government. 5 The Indian Is said to be ioalnj 0 his racial Identity, but many tribe 5 still ding to the ancestral faith ant y ceremonies. Whale Upsets Boats % ttlilord. Del.?After a battle o 2 nearly an hour during which It upae 6 two boats, a young whale, 10 feet Ion; V and weighing about two tons wa 5 caught recently at Cedar Beach, on th 2 Delaware bay ahore near Slaugbte 5 Beach, and about seven miles east o ? Mllford. hS-% WHITE CEDAR HELD PRECIOUS IN JAFAN Fast Vanishing Supply Held for Temple Use. Washington.?A representative of a western lumber concern, who has returned from u visit to Japan, has informed Manager HI a lock of the Seattle office ot the Department of Commerce that the supply of white cedar in that country Is controlled by the Imperial family anil comes from one ' of their estates. There is also a white eeti&r which conies from the Island of Formosa, but th.s Is less deslrafoie'berause it has a tendency to be pink in the center. The Japanese white cedar of toe blithest grade is considered practically ! sacred. All of tb?- wood 18 inches and up Iti diameter tereeerved for the building of temples. The cheaper ! grades, however, are disposed of like . other wood*. Especially fine pleoc^ are reserve 1 Tor the temples of the | emperors. Only white cedar grova In i Japan is ased for building temples. In the opinion of this visitor, moet of the whirc cedkr shipped to Japan is used for exposed beams on the Inside of dwelling houses, where this j wood Is prize* 1 for it*> apijearsnce and : Kong duration. One Instance is cited j in which a Japanese paid $1,100 'n i gold in this ?onntry for a choice beam I 18 inches - tare. 20 feet Jong, with perfect dlag mal grain. Polish timber exports In 1923 Increased to 1 1 cs->.(iK7 tons, v&lnrd at approximate . $9,000,000. from 1,02$, 528 tons, valued at $4,000,000, in 10*22. Assistant Trade Commissioner Baldwin. Warsaw, rejtorts to the Department of Commerce. Viriuaily the entire increase which is said to have led to cvnloitat ion of Polish Umber resources, W-Urretf. in the first lialf of the y*:?r. Following the imposftion in .I-mo of export taxes Intended to check excess outline and equally t? stimulate the domestic wood-sawing and manufacturing In dustry h> limiting the export of raw materials. shipments In the second half of th?? year f^lI to mere fractions of their former volume. Wins Gold Wwtcli Prize as Champion Commuter I J. '/. l K'luuresr <*? Cluster, N. J.. 6evt-uty-<kD?r years old. who has comittUtcd between Cloeter, N. J., and New Stork city every working day for 56 years and 9 months. was awarded the title of being the champion commuter on the r'rie railroad. Eie wus prebented with a wt^tch as a token of bis | new t!i Cop Retains His Job Though He May Be Rich Hollywood, Ca).?Everybody know* policemen are skeptical, and llerhen It Reynolds, traffic officer ot Holly1 wood, la ao except ion. In the squadron at the police station, fellow officers ! recently crowded around and eongrat 1 ulated hint on falling heir to $500,000 ! "Maybe yes and me.vhe no," Key nolds coinioentetl, leaving hurriedly : to take up his duty as directing trafflt j officer at Hollywood's buclest corner. ! According to Attorney Chariot ! Knud3on, the money was left Reynold! ^ by his father-;n-l6w, Mangus Brown i In Philadelphia. Despite a year's separation betweei lteyco!ils and his wife, the Browi family is said to hold a warm spot li its heart for Reynolds, who submitter to eight blood transfusions to sav< the life of his sister In-law. f ooooooooooooooooooooooooor ( | Paroled Criminal Jan j X Faith of Dickena' Son j r Y London.?Sir Henry Dlekens, < ' ft who. as a London magistrate, x has found In actual Ufa that the o faith of his famous novelist fa X ther had lp human nature Is not 1 ft always Justified, has Just' com 1 S meoted on a case that was 9 brought before hlin recently. Sir ! ^ Henry some time ago remarked s V that he was determined to try a 1 ft great experiment with a man Y who was arraigned before him. o Although the prisoner had a 9 long criminal record. 8!r Henry ft paroled him and found work for 9 him. Three months later the ft man was again arrested. ? S "It waa one of the greatest 8 ft disappointments I have ever ex'' X perlenced." said Magistrate Dlck* ft ens. "I will never try such' a X Ising asaln." 9000000000000000050000000 JULY 50. 1924. DiNOSAUR TRACKS FOUND IN VIRGINIA Imprints Show Animal Had Stride of 56 Inches. New York.?How dinosaur track* tvere found in Virginia in a slab of J red Trkssic shale takeu from a farm lu At die. in Loudoun county, is described in ? pamphlet Just issue ! b\ the Smithsonian institution on toe ac , tivith-s <it its tiolri workers iii the last year. The stub, which watt obtained' by C. G. Gilmore of the National museum and which is now on exhibl- 1 tioc at the museum, shows that the animal had a stride of 56 inches. Mr. Gilmore also conducted exca Mil ton work li? the Dinosaur National ; monument, Utah, to obtain for exhibition Id the museum a moatirable skeleton of one of the large ?uiropo- J dons dinosaurs. The ofteii fragile; hones of the*e gigantic reptiles are! | found embedded In a thick sandstone J i of variable hardness that Is tided up 1 at an angle of do degrees and the wvrk of quarrying them out without ? ' doing irreparable damage is described I as a slow and tedious operation. More than, twenty-five tons of material were j | safely transported, from which it is % i certain that u good skeleton mount of j dlplod?>cus will be obtuined, measnr- ' j icg eight feet, with n height of foiu> ! teen feet ?r rhe Lips. "Besides many localities in the | United States," says the pamphlet in ; ! teliiiik* of the field work, "the region# i visitf-cj included the Canadian Rockies. , 1 the Yac^tssw valley. .~evenii Islands ; of the West Indies, Panama and Ceuj ?rul America. Labrador and several j ! countries in Europe. Studies Solar Radiation. ?? "Dr. C. iJ. Abbot. assistant SCCTe! tary of the Smithsonian insMution. i , gives a comprehensive survey ?f the | work on solar radiation conducted since IMS by the Astrophysics ' observatory. of which he Is tin director, j This work, ar first restricted ro ole I serve?ions of the s;tt? made In the | summer and uuturon seasons at the observing station at >1. tint Wfison, is J now conducted ;it two stations aituuted J i In two of the most cloudless region* of the world?Moan: Ha.r<|U" H.ila. j Arizona, and Mount Monfezumu, ''hit? ^ ?where obFervaikms are usually i mad? five times dnil> throughout the j yeai The mass of data tltir* being accumulated will. It is hoped, become ( I the groundwork for study of rbe rola- ; ticu of the variation of the sun to the 1 variation of the weather, preliminary , studios of which already have been ! made by 11. H. Clayton while chief weather fore*-aster of the Argentine ' met ecological service "Mr. Charles H. Hoy. who has con i uuiint via*.;iun rAf-tuni- iic for the Smithsonian for several years i in Australia itnil elsewhere, sailed for China at the beginning of the year to j collect vertebrates in the Ynngt&te i valley. Mr. Hoy's expedition was be- j set with difficulties of various kinds, ulminut'.ng In a real tragedy. Due to the unset tied condition of China, great delay was encountered lu getting the outfit through the custom house in Shanghai, and the prevalence of almost unchecked banditry made travel hazardous and uncertain. After a few weeks' Successful collecting In the f> Yochow district. Mr. Hoy left for a bip through llunan and Klangsi, in flu' course ?.f which his series of ncciients began. Field Worker Dies. "He hud a l ad fall, wrenching his! back so badly that l?e was unable to , even crawl about for a week, .last as , ibis condition was beginning to mend, he accidentally shot himself In the leg, end though unable to set about. | j he wrote Hint he planned to send hie j men out collecting. However, within! | u few days ? severe case of append!-1 I citis set In. necessitating an operation, i troni which Mr. Hoy never recovered. 1 i Mr Hoy, In spite of his misfortunes, ( shipped considerable valuable material) | hack to the institution for exhibition, i "'nr. Walker Fewbes, chief of : the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian institution, describes the; . results of a preliminary reconnolssancel -jjof the archeoioglcal remains in southwestern Florida. : "The first region visited was that of the Ten Thousand islands, which ie ! almost a virgin field for the arcbei ologist, and here were found manyi t. , mounds and other traces of the prehistoric Indlnn Inhabitants. There are t few modern settlements In the region, i though one was located at Porpoise a point, consisting of several houses and 1 ahout fifty inhabitants. Ufe Is very ! simple In this primitive settlement, which is entirely out of toucli with the " outside world. The houses are 3 mounted on piles lite the ancient pile t dwellings. A promising series of preJ limlnnry excavations was made on > Weedon's Island. in Tampa hay. with ? such Interesting results that Dr. t Fswkes dart dad to make It the site of > more comprehensive Investigations, f The largest mound In the cluster was 5 probably that on which the chiefs ? house was erected, and it is claimed 5 hy Dr. Weedon that De Soto and Nar} vaez first landed at this mound. If ? so. it caff be Identified as the Calusa 5 town. Uclta. Dr. Fewkes Is at pros1 ent In Florida continuing and expandX Ing his investigations of this archeo5 logically little known region." Hospital Not Needed 2 Helena. VonL?With 100 per cent 6 health conditions prevailing In Helena 2 and vicinity for several months, lack 5 of patlenrs threatens to close 3t. V Peter's hospital, unless trustees of the 6 Institution are able to replenish Its X fiuaneeu fVrocgh substantial cash caro 'rtputh.es >" v , 'IiY'ingWCil Wt?-* : ? ?
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