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' : 1 lied <. visiting the nir
ftfcjr of Hiroihinaa tran to Ree the
uga military hospitals laoated herc,
in I stu ly their manugenioul. I'os si;
, y m vt to Tokio, where thc military i
rad naval stalld are directing opeia
!. :.- ..ri land and sea, just now the
m st important city in the li m pi re is
?hr '-hilra. Herc thc battalions al]
;ende*vous and Mike ship for Corea
md Manaharia. At one time during
thc first days ol' thc war ns many a.
1U.OOO troops were here at mn: tittie.
Cven now 'hey are coining ih whole
regiments everyday, while the return
ing transports are bringing the nick
and wounded from thc front.
Hiroshima is a military camp. But
?ihe soldier hoys move to quietly, and
-when off duty conduct themselves so
.lerjt?en inly, that you never seo or
kw roi?4pism or even boisterousness,
netting rsa ftoreign house, or walking
flhe ?treets of thia quaint town, I
vffould never imagine that a great war
. waa in progress. The obedience of
.ihese .people to rigid discipline and
' i ht ir H jil en did self-restraint in success
th ave constantly excited my surprise
.ind admiration. A number of times
Ti have been compelled to surmise
-wi:at our American soldiers would do
.l'.der like circumstances.
Immense warehouses have beon
built here for military stores. The
harbor is astir night and day with
Craneporta loading and unloading
(goading with, soldiers, horses and sup
plies, std unloading tho sick and
wounded from the army now besieging
Port Arthur and other points whore
the army has been in conflict with the
forcer of Russia. I counted fifteen
vessels in port one afternoon, and the
next day there were twelve, among
.the number being several hospital
.-ships.
FINE HOSPITALS.
Five large hospitals have been built
herc, and one or two others are near
ing completion. They are all under
'Hed Cross regulations, the Red Cross
iog floating ov?r them, and every pa
tient has the Red Cross on the white
-sleeve of his invalid robe. Skilled
: surgeons-and among them are some
of the best in tho world-are in
charge, and trained nurses, Japanese
twomen, in their dainty white regula
tion dreSR, are in faithful attendance.
The wounded soldiers ar? brought
h.ero in hospital ships immediately
from the front. Most of the diffioalt
surgery is performed here. Only the
'.saBcs that dfjsjsjad prompt attentioa
on th? field H save Ufo are treated
there. With all possible dispatch
they ara sent to HtVr?ehima. Hun
dreds arrive by a single ship, andar?
placed ia th? warta mi fcfccss
whieh has aooommo-d&tfeSB flaw
When Itali yaalhattb*
/xav? to be tarried a*wy Dy ttaJ&teada
to otlacr f?4nt? ia ordor to maka item
'for those coming from th? frost with
tfresh wounds or deadly diaeasa, you
JJ ay/; ave some idea of th? dread f ni
(Casualties of this terrible war.
With exceeding oourteay I WBB given
??very Taoility to observe the manage
oient of theBe great hospitals. A
. Japanese surgeon accompanied me, as
?id also Dr. Anita McGeo, from
Washington, I). C., who came here in
April with nino young lady nurses
-JJom America to assist in this noble
Telief work. I was shown how skill
fully the surgeons use the X-ray in
?tracing the course of wounds and lo
cating bullets. They have aiment
abandoned the old faahioned probing
?process. To the eye of a layman some
of these operations wore really won
derful., I waa told by the chief sur
.?6on that there aro very few amputa
tions. Tho rifle balls of today do not
'tear the flesh and shatter bones as
?formerly, and skilled surgery is far
irctter prepared to treat succes?
llall all gunshot wounds. In one
^'..sipitd ??'retaining three or four
ihundred patients there have been
x*ut three amputations performed
?iaoe?he beginning of tho war.
-SOLDIERS TAKE SO ANES
ITHETIC.
-*Au-.ih*r :fuct I observed while
^watal'ing the ?work of these Japanese
?surgeons i-s vthat tho soldiers ,never
ftake on anesthetic. With a stoical
?aee and never a murmur of pain they
. ?tibmip-io the surgeon's knife with
a Brwh. TO com plain ander
sack ??>eora??inffna is 4@&tfe? uo
immce?w. Th? Japan ow ?Mlfl|g? ar?
taught an th ?JD eaawiest y?ara t??a
tdare pain aritkawn ?oaojUSat. Ai?
'doubtless ia ?f th? ica?tcs of Bad*
?hi&m, whieh for ?o ??st?riea
-dominated this beatitifoitend. Bat
.?while this stoicism is applauded, I
?decbt if it is mach to be admired after
?all. The higher the civilization of a
' ipeople and the more delicate and oom
jplex their nervous organisation the
.moro aenaitive they are to pain
t* ?S <>1 -J il p.'AlKiSC? J I.O.S- !
n> I (ou) i ic ra t.
In the wards of the wounded o?iicers
-aw many i nt ? r<--t in / i'a-es. ari'! Lui
cvral notable convolutions, G?e
plendid follow, a colonel, willi a
iruiik'. rugged face, j;ave m< an ac
..mill ul th? battle in which lie was
wounded, and willi genuine pride
showed mt' Li- sword, the metal -cab
bard of wbieb liad been pierced by a
Kassian bullet. Tin- lirst ball passed
entirely through Iii* and tht'D
thrungli tl.? scabbard, tera/, i r?*r thc
blade of his sw>rd. It. was a picture
i bat impressed me deeply, the expres
sion of that brave man's face as he
looked upon the mute evidence of his
own heroism in tho wound of his trusty
sword. Through all the years that
scarred gea?tari will be his dearest
pos-step, andi to hin children it
will be beijaaaskert with a patriotic
blessing.
Another seedier showed mc his can
teen, flattened etea of shape by a Rus
sian rifle ball, bat whiob bad saved
bis life. He said that by ->ou)o strange
good fortuno ha bad hurriedly, tbruut
the canteen in the left pocket of his
jacket. Its pr?senos there prevented
tho ball from piercing his heart.
With a gentle and reverent touch he
handled the battered canteen as the
friend that preserved him froai
death.
Another brave young fellow, a
Christino officer and exceptionally well
educated, bad lost a leg. Tho sur
geons worked heroically to save the
limb, but at last had to remove it in
order to save his lifo. Ile spoke
English fluently, and seemed almost
overjoyed at the visit of Christian
friends. Tho story of another young
man was told me who had received
twenty Russian bayonet thrusts in
his body. Doe or two peaetrated his
lungs. After a varying battle for
lifo he was convalescent. And soores
of other stories might bc related, all
accentuating and confirming the Japa
nese word-wide reputation for fearless
heroism and undaunted devotion to
country.
DR. ANITA MoQEK.
It was a great pleasure to meet Dr.
Anita McGee, of Washington, and the
nobie young Red Cross women who
accompanied him to this country at
tho outbreak of the war. Their con
ing has been generously and univers
ally appreciated by the Japanese.
They regard it as a signal assurance of
America's sympathy. I saw these
young women in the wards at work
among their patients, and it made my
Amerioan heart beat with prids to Bee
one bending over a fine-ioaWeg young
Japanese soldier dressing his wound,
and another bathing the fevered body
of a heroic sufferer. Their laborious
and unstinted servios ha* osada agr??t
impresa"! o o on tue whole Japanese na
tion. I am sorry that in a few Weeks'
they will be compelled to return to
America.
lt is difficult to see kow these emer
gency hospitals could be much Im
proved. As proof of their efficiency a
very small percent of the wounded
brought hero fail to recover. These
lillie brown fellows are certainly a
happy lot, in spite of their wounds. I
never saw a eeowl apo* a gingie faoe
or heard a oomplarafng word. They
are proud of tho wounds they bear and
are impatient to get back to the
front.
Charlea B. Galloway.
About TeHtftoes.
To tho Editor of The News and
Courier: Now that the torpedo has
become an important arm of aervioe
and in effioienoy is superior to any
other machino of modern warfare, it io
natural to wish to know tho inventor,
and it is surprising to see the number
of Mahomets that arise and pretend to
be the truo and only prophet. These
are men that usually had no connec
tion with the torpedo corps and really
know little about it.
The original inventor of the marine
torpedo is Gen. G. J. Rains, of the
Confederate army. Ho organized the
torpedo eorps and was at ' its head the
entire war. AU suooess in that re
spect is due entirely to him. The
records of tho late Confederaoy,
"Thc Risc and the Fall of the Con
federate Government, by Jefferson
Davis," and the survivors of (he torpe
do corps will ali attest the truth of
this assertion.
The history of the torpedo corps is
ejaite interesting. Soon after the fall
of New Orleans by the Federal fleet,
Mr. Paris sent for Gen. Bains and
asked if be eonld not contrive some
means to prevent the enemy's fleet
from passing oor batteries. (While
an officer of the old army, as far baok '
as 1835, Gen Rains had. invented a
torpedo that waa known to Mr. Davis.)
He replied that be would try, and,
opposite Dre wry'a Bluff, on James*
I ; ii ..? 'it . H ' ?.-.J r- \v :
<?<i 1 'll (nu li i o h m 'iii, and t' n ?
?ri i j.- wore cMiiblisb?d RI Wilmington^
Charleston, Savannah and M J 1 - i I * - -
M cn were selected from tho army <i
known bravery and iiitcHu'oncc. and ?
initiated in thc torpedo service. Tbc
result is known. Nu port was cap- .
tured by thc Federal fleet after the ,
organization < f thc torpedo corps.
According to Admiral I'ortcr they
saved thc city "f Charleston from cap- i
. up by water.
At Mobile, after the licet had pass- |
cd I ' ll Morgan, tho monitor Tecum
sch wa- Mink hy a torpedo in the har- j
bur. Thia was a check and the licet j
proceeded very cautiously. Subsc- (
ijucntly two ironclads were pushed
forward to bombard Fort Spanish,
both ?truck torpedoes and went tu tho
button on Appalachce bar. All op
erations of tin- fleet were immediately
suspended. The number of ships
destroyed were fifty-eight by torpe
does, as reported by our officers. This
includes several ironclads. All on
the Federal side.
Wc had one irouclad, the Albe
marle, sunk by a torpedo, on Koanoko
Uiver, by Lieut. Cushing, of thc Uni
ted Statca navy. An equally daring
attempt waB made by Commander W.
T. Glasscl, of tho Confederate navy,
of Charleston, to doatroy the Iron
aides, the largest of all tho Federal
shine, ond, although she was not Gunk,
she waB rendered useless for some
time.
A torpedo boat in Charieaton har
bor, that would go under the water,
from which much was jzpected, was
doomed to disappointment. She sunk
in th? channel, drowning the entire
erew. We used several kinds of tor
pedoes. Some were of metal, but the
most common was a common beer bar
rel, with tapering floats at raoh end.
This was covered with a mixture < !
rosin, dissolved in coal tar, to make if
perfectly water tight. At first ttu
fuse was defective, but Qen. Raiut
invented a fuse that answered thc
purpose exactly. These torpedoei
ware anchored in the channel, aboui
four feat below the surface of th<
water.
We also bad offensive torpedoes, o
torpedoes fer attack. These consist
! ed of two torpedoes joined with ?
. rope or chain, and allowed to noa
down with the tide. This kind waB
j however, objected to by Gen. Gil
j mer, of the engineer corps, on th
i ground that they might come bael
and destroy our own boats.
We had land torpedoes, too, ths
I would explode if trod upon. Theo
wore only cannon shells buried a littl
below the anrface of i the ground, wit
a lenitiva fuse la the top. The
were plaood ia front of works to ai
in repelling an assault and upo
roads used by the eneaay.
H. J. Rains,
Lieutenant Torpedo Corps, C. S. A.
- The Journal and Review <
Aiken, says: "Mr. C. M. Tayloi
who ia farming on the Casham plaoi
a few miles below Aiken, evidentl
has the finest aron we have heard <
so far. Mr. Taylor has planted 24
acree In cotton, and has gathered i
far 236 balas and saya he expects t
?ather in all 260 to 270 bales, whil
is neighborn say he will get 30
bales.
hie KaJllesii?kc's lijlc, i
i
S ,.\ u titi ii.. ;j science confirm.*
- w of t!" old wife medical supt r
-litii-?j^ of tin' backwoods, l'ur ia
stance, iItu "yarb" doctor and old wo- j
ti ii of rattlesnake regions bay that j
when a mau ui-t* "vcr n rattlesnake j
bite he harf trouble in thc wound ,
every year afterward.
Pathologists a'id toxicologists who
have studied snake poisons agree
that this is true, only the trouble
doesn't occur every jear. It hap
pens whenever the systi <n gets out of
order.
The explanation is simple, isoake
poision has the eifect of destroying
tissue. Of course it has the strongest
effect in and about the wound whero
the poison, in its course through the
veins, has not yet been diluted by the
bluod.
Kvcr afterward that is a weik point
in the system. Any little disturbance
in the blood tends ti break out at
that poiut of the wound.
When this happens the old wives
?ay that it is the poison working. It
is not, of course. It is only the ex
cess poison of tho body working in
thc weak spot.
There was a case of this kind with
a rather unusual history io the Colot
rado hospital a few years ago. The
patient was a scout who had helped
the army make way for civilization in
the Kookies.
The Utes, Arapahoes and other In
dians of that region were mostly un
supplied with guns in those days, kat
they had a most effective kind of pois
oned arrow. They would oatoh a
bunch of rattlesnakes snd taking a
fresh buffalo liver would make tho
serpents strike in it until the poison
glands wero exhausted and the meat
reked with venom.
After that they would leave thc
liver in the sun until it became putrid,
loto this mess they would dip their
war arrows. It made a nasty poison.
With such an arrow the aoout wat
! straok ia tho leg. It carried, oi
oourse, not only snake venom, but all
! kinds of possibilities of blood poison
iog. By good luck a first rate arm]
surgeon was at hand. Ho saved the
scout's life.
This happoned in the spriog. Ever]
spring after that the man's leg woolc
break out with sores and boils ant
sundry other afflictions. It looked at
though the case were proved for th<
witch doctors.
The physicians went into the lift
history of the patient and found that
long before he stopped the noisonet
arrow he had been afflicted with
breaking out every spring. He wai
one of those people who load up 01
the animal diet all winter and need ?
deaning out when the season breaks
It had merely settled in the weal
spot. Next year he attended to bi
liver early and had no further trou
ble.
Jn the treatment of rattiesoak
bites the rough and ready physioian
of the backwoods scored again on th
modera soientist. In spite of aoalysi
and labor?os experiments and govert
ment prisas, the treatment disoovere
by the pioneers when New York wa
a wilderness is still standard.
Cat the wound, suok it out, burn c
i cauterise the spot and keep the pi
iou! crunk on whiskey until the ?l in- 1
...r?- |n^t. Medical nun have tri?*J
iii manner of substitutes, hut cum.:
back to thc original method.
Thc sucking, of course, is to get
out us much poison as possible; the
cauterization prevent local infection,
and the whiskey keeps the heart
going in its task of clearing up the
blood. .Strychnine, which ia a power
ful heart stimulant, has been tried as
a i uhstitute, but with rather unsatis
factory results. There is the dan
ger of overdoing it and adding strych
nine poison to the patient's troubles.
Then, again, whiskey, while it
stimulates the heart, also dcadeus
the brain. That helps the patient to
bear thc terrible pain of snake bite at
a time when ordinary anaesthetics
would be dangerous.
Ho the old. untutored doctor of the
backwoods has beaten modern science
in two counts.-New York Sun.
Giant Engine Here.
Ono of the largest engines ever seen
io this part of tho county aad in fact
as large as are made for ordinary uso,
passed through this oily yesterday
on its way to the Birmingham division
of the Southern Railway, where it
will bo usod in the heavy ?oal and
iron hauling in the mouatains of Ala
bama.
The monster was in oharge of F. V.
Pinn, one of the traveling machinists
of tho Baldwin Locomotive Works
of Philadelphia, but it wal not
traveling under its ewn steam. The
smokestack, sand dome and other
fixtures en th? top of the boiler had
to be removed and orated and placed
on the tender, because they were
too high to pass under some of the
bridges on railroads leading out of
Philadelphia. TIIOBC will be placed
when the locomotivo reaches Birm
ingham, when it will be delivered to
the Settihern Ballway authorities.
Mr. Pin say? thai freqiMti* large
locomotives of this type have ko go
hundredof miles out of their way
in order to reaoh their destination
because of the size and weight. In
fact, most of the engines used on the
main line cf the Southern exsc*d
those of other roads and many bridges
elsewhere would not be able to support
them. The reason of this, he said,
was because of the mountainous coun
try through which the line passed.
The men sent out to guard the
big locomotives until they are de
livered to the railroad people are
among the bebt machinists in the
Baldwin works. They never let the
1 machine entrusted to their care get
? out of sight and eat und Bleep in the
oab, whioh is their hoir.o during the
?rip. Only a month ago Mr. Ph. ft
returned from Mexico where he took a
locomotivo. Puring his trip he spent
fifty-two days on the road and lived
in the oab of the locomotive.
The loeemotive whioh passed
through yesterday, wal No. 665. It
is one of six of the same type whioh
the Southern is sending to Birming
ham. It ii capable of developing 200
pouads of steam pressure and weight
130 tons.-Greenville Newi.
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- After a juan has taken out an
accident insurance policy his ?wife
: thinks it a waste of money if? nothing
happens to him.
?
Sulphur in Liquid Form
Chemists Astonished! Doctors*Amazed!
I
r Everyone remembers the sulphur and molasses of childhood. You hated the
?ose, but it did you good. But you had to take a whole lot to get any benefit?
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all Blood and Skin Diseases.
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Car Load
Studebab er Wagons just arrived. .
Car of Kentucky, Old Hickory and Tennessee Wagons to
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Also, three cars of Buggies, Carriages, Surreys and pleas
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some. If you contemplate building a barn or any
other building, see us before buying yon*
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As we sell the very best qualities oily.
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r We L'Wft complete line of the
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I also sell the celebrated high
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DENTIST.
Office Over Farmers and Merchante
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8PECI AL attention given to the higher
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All tunda (of Platea made. Gold Fill
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" Bleeding and diseased goma treated.
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