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O ARRIZOZO OUTLOOK.
filx motor ambulances Hito (lio olio In this photograph hnvo been glvon to tito Ilrltlsh wnr o (Ileo Ly tho American
Women's Wnr Itollol tumi Willi tliolr fittings thoy coHt nhout 120,000. At tho loft I Olihvay house, tho rusldcnco ol
1'nrlH a Hlngor In DovoiiBhlro, transformed luto tho American tied Cross hospital.
GERMANY Ü5E3 STAGE TRICK TO
SWELL PROCESSION OF PRISONERS
In Order to Give Air of Verisimilitude to Tales of Foe's Regiments
Annihilated, Trainloads of Captives Are Sent Through Same
Town Many Times Belgian Trooper Becomes Peeved
at Twelfth Trip Through Alx-la-Chapelle.
(.miilon. It l n rollof to extinct a
llllld humor out of this tragic wnr.
I'lwirh nml Kngllsh alike nro wondor
lfi, mil laughing not it Utile, nt tho
(romotidous number ot prisoners
which tho (lurmniiH, according to their
own icports, uro capturing, both east
mill wosl. If thoy huil lalieu ns many
lirlKiinoi'H nH thoy any thoy liuvo they
vould 1 1, iv o no cnoiny to fight. Put lha
xphiti.ilinn Is simple enough. Toko
linl aim liiHtnnco.
A RwIku who wiih nt Alx-lnChnpollo
at Ihc beginning of this mouth, ami
Wlin In now nt I'imlo, writes:
"The Herman government Is very
Ingenious In Its efforts to keop up (ho
(fill its of (ho imputation. It reports
dm Hiiulhlliillun of regiment nftor
rugluiciit dally, am In oriler to foster
till) delusion It has to proiluco formld
Nlilft (envoys of French, llrlllsh nml
lltttglmi prisoners Alxlu-Uhapello Is
thti nppctiicukit' spot chosou. It Is tho
Imilchl ritllwr.) hlntlnu In lliu Uermuli
nmplr" Just no A' The Herman general
Muff .ends lon.i train loads of prison
01 iln.iunli this Junction going cast
uvciy lay VoU enn Imagine how liu
lii'ifclve It Is. Von enn ulso Imagino
Uuw itiduslrlouly thu newspaper cor
itwpdudeiitR lononl (ho Incident In
thstr Jlupnlclies to llerllu, not forget
ting (ii downcast ilemonuor ot tho
(iiillvi uml the ehoora ot tlio Geriuuu
populace.
"Tho crowds arc unaware tliut theso
tmlus aro switched onto u loop lino at
night, n ml return In triumph tho next
day. 'I ho other morning a Dutchman
Wim watching ouu ot (hem go slowly
liy. I to saw u llelghiu soldier excited
ly RBullculntlng nt nil open carriage
rindo, lie wiih Bhiiiillng: "l'lila la
lliu twoUlh timo wo huvo como
' liirougli (his station.' "
fight for Pig Under Fire.
"Very little scmoh us nowadays."
Milton mi artillar) nnn from the
Wmivro. 'Tho nriunus nrb In the
FOR RELIEF OF BELGIANS
New York society girls nerving bo
lllml i tic couulur In "Unto IIoIbIuiii,"
the novelty Hhop established In Now
Votk far Hip purpose of mining money
i!- the rll( of dOHlltulu Ilolglnn.
AMERICAN HELP FOR WOUNDED
ll
woods aud nto ub reluctant as carrion
crows to lenvo. Last night wo heard
heavy footsteps, an odd nolso llko
'Jatnpoum, pninpoum.' Was It u batch
ot Herman dascrtcru coming to us, or
outposts returning with somo warn
ing? 1 peered Into tho darkness, ami
within u fow feet of my head was n
fat pig. Ho was moro frightened than
I, ntid decamped, Wo followed, nnd
In flvo minutes Mr. Cochon wns tied to
tho wheel of an ammunition cart, lio
grunted all night long.
"Next morning men from tho neigh
boring battery heard of our Interest
ing capturo nnd claimed It ns theirs.
What cheek! Wo squnbblcd, and
ovcrybody nBseiled his right to tho
prisoner. Suddenly shrapnel began to
fall In tho midst of tho debato. Old
I'russlnu shells stop tho row over that
pig? No. slrl I'or ten muro minutes
tho two bntterlcn argued, while bullets
fluw and tho pig siiueulcd.
"Tho chor of n portublo kitchen has
his little Joke. 'How pollto tho llochcs
nro,' ho snld. 'Thoy even send us
their initriullos (black .Marias) In
which to cook our puddings.' Then
along rumo tho captain. 'In tho nnmo
of heaven!' ho exclaimed, 'got buck to
your 75's. Cut tho pig In two!" A mil
itary Solomon had solved the dllllculty
nml both battailous hud pork for sup
pur that night."
Germans Without Humor.
Describing tho conditions surround
ing the HrltlHh army, u lieutenant In
tho Itoynl Army Medical corps, writ
ing homo, says:
"In front of us nro tho Herman
trenches, onl, n hundred ynrds nwny.
A bobbing bond, n Blinking list, an po
cnslouul spade wnvn, bespeak tho
prosoneo ot our too. Yosterdny ono of
our merry men llxed up n Inrgut. On
white pnper he drow a bull's-oyo ulth
n chnrroil stick, lied It on a cardboard
box. placed it In fro'U of tho tronch und
with ling behind recorded tho misses
of our friend I'rltz. I reel suro Hint f
In thoso trenches we had n moro hu
morous too Instead of the phlegmatic
Tmiton wo might pnss nwny many if
tho wonry hours of twitching in friend
ly Joke. Hut we nro up against n wnry
foe There. Is no lolsuro, for barbed
wire, artfully contrived hoops nnd
loopholes forever elnlm tho attention
f our hruve tuon.
'Theie nro times, though, oven un
der tln, when the humor of our sol
dli'ie hursts forth. On ono occasion,
titter a llermun shell had llred somo
wood, our men, seeing the Hi o. seized
tho opportunity to cook tliolr food.
Yesterday I hoard an amusing story
under trying circumstances told con
cerning n man In tho rrglmcnt lylnj
in the thin red linn next to us. Shrap
nel had burst, hilling two men on his
left nnd badly shattering nuother. Ho
was trying to light n pipo, .mil Imvlng
somo dllllculty ho enld to his mato,
Huro 'tis llclglnn tobacco, and theso
Trench matches will bo tho death of
me
German Shot Spoils Milking,
"I sometimos help tho nlllccra to
censor the mon's letters homo Ono
man says, 'Wo shall havo shells for
brenkfast not egg-shells. I shall ho In
llerllu In n ftrtnlglit, and I'll send you
somo sausages.' I ovorhenrd on the
mnrch ono 'rat' say to another, 'I
novcr hcllovo anything I hear, aud
only half of what I sny.' "
BRITISH
Hero aro two humorous touches
from tho letter of n Dublin fusllccr:
"At ono point of tho lino German
and French troops wcro not moro than
ono nundrjd yards apart. They could
hear each other talk, and sometimes
talked to each other. Ouo day a cow
strayed between tho lines. Uoth sldci
w.'.ntcd milk. Thoy agreed whoovct
lilt a horn first would ho let milk the
.Hv, Tho first shot enmo from the
dormán lines. Had as usual, It killed
tho cow."
"When both sides dig In thero Is
continuous rill o sniping, on tho Gor
man sido usually very bad. An officer
r' ours with n senso of humor put up
n tnrgot for thorn to practico on and
gave tlicin n marker with n ling to
signal tho misses. Tho target was
pretty largo, with u sketch of tho kai
ser's head and Bhouldors for a bull's
eye. Only ono shot wns fired at It,
nnd that bullet hit tho kaiser right
under tho chin. Wo appreciated tho
loku,"
Death of the Gallant Lancer.
And horo Is ono nhout n gallant
Irishman with somo pathos In It:
"Ono nftornoon when I wns riding
from tho transport to the battalion I
met n lancer going tho snmo road. Wo
wcro chums nt Aldcrshot n couple of
years ngo, met his wlfo when ho
brought her to tho mnrrled quarters,
a bonillo bride. Ho wns n squat llttlo
Irishman with a pair ot lively oyes
that spoko tho language of nil tongues.
Ho had fought nt Mons nnd been right
through tho campaign, nnd us wo rodo
together through tho town wi talked
over pant an-1 present. As wo passed
a butcher's nliop n pretty girl came to
tho door nml gave him ilunjour,' with
n charming umllo. Against regulations
lio doffed his cap nnd made her n
swooping how. Their oyos met It wns
n inoro panning salute, but ono could
seo ho hud pusscd that way before. Ho
turned to mo with n light laugh. 'We
nro nil bIiilIo at thn seaside.'
"Two ilnjs oftorward 1 mndo tho
ramo Journey on foot. Just nt that
samo hhop door I met n stretcher
my Inncor frlond wns lying on It
shrapnel th.'ough tho chest. As I
spoko to tho stretcher bearers tho girl
came to tho door. Her grief was pas
sionate. I doubt It tho wounded man
was conscious of her tears. 1-ntcr in
tho day I called nt tho field hospital.
Ho wns dond. A woman In Ireland Is
teaching his llttlo ouo to pray for his
soul. A girl hi Franco Is putting flow
ers on his gravo."
A FRENCH BOMB-PROOF
Ono of tho bomb-proofs In the uu
vnnced trenches on tho eastern frontier.
Í 1
Fundamental
Principles of
Healih
Í I) y ALIIURT S. GRAY, M. D.
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(CowrUht. 1914. by A. S. Grur)
THE RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS.
Tho discovery of tho X-rny by Pro
fessor Itocntgcn In 1895 fnmlllnrlzcd
tho minds of men with a typo of radi
ation Invlslblo to tho unaided oye hut
iblo to traverso opaque objects and
affect a photographic plata behind
them. It had long been known that
certain substances exposed to sun
shine nttcrwnrds glow In tho dnrk, a
property known ns phosphorescence,
nnd It had been discovered that tho
X-rny davelopcd theso samo qualities
In theso substances. This led to ex
periments to seo If similar types ot
rays wcro not produced In other ways.
Llko many other great discoveries,
tho culmination ot tho search owed
something to luck or accident. Henri
llccqucrcl In Paris In 1890 chanced to
uso n plcco of uranium and discov
ered In compounds of that cloincnt
emanations closely allied to tho X-rny
In their general nature, a property wo
now call radioactivity, Theso now
radiations in varying extent pass
through nil mntter quito Independent
ot whether It Is opnquo or transparent
to light. In addition to tho proper
ties possessed by light of acting on a
photographic plato and of causing cer
tain substances, llko tho platino
cyanides, to fluoresce, tho now rcdln
Hons resembled tho X-rays also In
"Ionizing" the nlr and other gases,
rendering them for tho timo being
partial conductors of electricity.
Tho pioneer In developments on tho
chcmlcnl sido was Mine. Curio, who,
with her husband, Isolated rndltlm
nnd polonium. Other Investigators
following tlicco lines developed somo
thirty Individual rndlo elements. As
n result of experiments, observations
and deductions, wo nro beginning to
suspect that there nxlsts In every
form of mntter the process of Its own
decay, nnd this suspicion Is gradually
crystallizing Into a heller, u now phil
osophy, a philosophy destined pro
foundly to Influence tho thoughts nnd
actions of futuro generations of men.
Tho cmnnntlonH from radioactive
elements havo been classed ns nlnlia.
beta and gamma rays, nnd nro ills-'
llugulslieil by enormous differences In
power of penetration. Tho nlphu
rays have been shown to bo ntoms
of helium carrying au, elect rlcnl
charge, nml shootlni; nut from radioac
tivo materials In tho course or their
disintegration. Tho alplm rays of
radium nre distinguishable In peno
trnllng power fioin Mio nlphu rays of
Uranium nml from Thorium, hut tho
differences among nlpha ms ns a
class nro small nnd unimportant, rela
tively compared to tho enormous dif
formicos between nny nlphn ray and n
hula or a gumma ray.
The most penetrating nlphn ray
known is not moro than twice us pene
trating ns tho least penetrating nlphn
rny known, but beta rays ns h class
aro 100 times more penetrating than
nlphn rays and tho gammn rays In
turn nro fully 100 times moro pene
trating than tho beta rays us a class.
Alpha lays nro completely nbaorbed
by thin screens of paper or a few
Indies of ulr, while beta rays pass
through n visiting curd or ordinary
tinfoil with ease. Hut Soddy shows
Hint n gammn rny will penetrate one
half Inch of steel or u stnek of twelve
pennies, .six Inches of lend or one foot
of solid Iron.
The compound microscope liecnme
nn elllelont weapon of scientific truth
about lS.'IO, and In 181)9 Schwann dem
onstrated that "nil tho higher nnlinnls
nre commonwealths of cells."
1,'very human Individual begins llfo
us n singlo coll about a hundred nml
twentieth of an Inch In diameter nnd
In tho brief period of forty weeks at
tains nn nverngo weight of npproxl
inntoly sovon pounds. Arter birth
thero ensues n period of growth.
Orowth Is not n Blmple niigmontntlon
ot voliitno, but an alteration In form
nnd typo.
I'or Inslnnco, If wo compnro tho
skeleton of a. new-born child with that
of an ndult, wo discover vnst differ
ences between tho relntlvo propor
tions of tho different parts, Tho
child's head Is enormously larger than
Hint of tho adult In proportion to its
stature and tho chest mensuro also
Is nmrkedly greater In thu child,
Theso fncts Imply the presence or
smno check, a balance wheel or
growth regulator. It Is ensy to under
stand that anything thnt will throw
theso growth regulation factors out of
sear must proiluco gravo results and
In tho extraordinary Increnso In thn
mortality from cancer wo havo tho
results of such a disturbance.
Tho power of human resistance to
this disenso scouts to ha stendll, Ucr
I
cllnlng. ii Massachusetts and Ncv
JcrTonhil'liBliiocn 'American cities
tho government reports Indlcato that
mortality from cancer has Increased
100 per cent slnco 1880, and during
the ten years from 1901 lo HUI It has
Increased 2d per cent. Cnncer costs
the United Stntes about 75,000 lives
annually and thn rato In tho registra
tion nrca per 100,000 In 1911 was 7!;
In Knglainl and Wnlcs it was 97,
Thero Is n deep ilgnlllcanco to
mnny minds In nil tho foregoing facts,
nnd men everywhere nro senrchlng
for thu key to tho riddle, nnd somo
dny, half by chanco perhaps, It will
bo found.
A WORD ADOUT CANCER.
United Btntos government reports
show that during tho ten years pro
ceding 1911 tho population of this
country Incfcnscd 21 por cent. Dur
ing this period tho death rato per
100,000 from cancer Increased 30 por
cent among males nnd 22 per cent
among fomnles. "Tho extraordinary
Increnso In tho mortality duo to can
cer In this and other countries tins
long slnco rnlscd Hint malady to the
proportions of a great plague," says
on authority who wroto on this suhr
Ject luccntly. "Tho povvor of human
rcBlstnneo to this disenso seems to
bo steadily declining." Ho then pro-,
coeds to predict that at tho present
rnto of Increase In another 25 years
cancor will causo moro deaths than
tuberculosis, typhoid fever and ma
laria combined,
Scientists throughout the world are'
diligently senrchlng tor tho causo of
this fearful scourgu ot mankind, in
order that a specific preventivo and
euro may bo found. Mcnnwhlto ev
ery ludlvldtinl should bo informed
thnt cancer Is to n larga degroo pro
rentable If wo will but apply tho
knowledge wo already possess to
guard against It.
Thero nro muny theories ns to tho
cause of cancer, the moBt logical ono
being that udvnnccd by n group of
mlcroscoplsts working along biologi
cal lines. Tho basis ot this theory Is
that cancer Is n stnto of nnnrchy with
in tho body To bo able to grasp tho
theory nnd nlso to understand why tho
X-ray Is nt nil cffectlvo In cases of
cancer It Is necessary to havo u
thorough comprehension of tho prop
osition advanced by Vlrchow In 1858,
which I huvo noted In u previous ar
ticle; namely, that each ouo of tho
cells composing tho human body Is
a distinct Individual possessed ot all
the chnrnclorlstlis or life. Thnt Is
to say, every reader ur this urtlclo
Is composed ot many billions ot Indi
viduals, each having nil tho pnwora
nnd fucultloH that tho reader Is con
scious of possessing and differing In
no wny snvo In degree Kvcry living
tiling Is constructed ot those snmo In
dividual celts, composed or the snmo
protoplasm, nnd differs only In organ
ization. It Is during the first row years nnd
muro pai Ocularly during tho first year
of llfo that the highest human mor
tality takes place. Tho newly pro
liferated cell.) aro not thoroughly or
ganized and tho en tiro organism la
therefore weak aud mistadlo. Ordi
narily we do not think of working
young children or nnlmals, bcuusu wo
know that tliolr tissues nro soft and
thereforo that they muy very easily
ho broken down mid ruined; hut nt
maturity wo know thero Is n moro per
fect organization, tho cells aro moro
llxed, stable and adaptable and nro
thereforo highly resistant. This fuel
forms tho basis tor thu action of tho
X-rnys on cnncer.
Thero is no remedy known to medi
cino that has n selectivo Influence,
thero Is nothing that can ho put Into
theso bodies ot ours thnt will drlvo
dlseaso out and not touch healthy
tissues. Hut, depending on tho stnto
ot tho Individual cell vitality, tissues
react differently to the snmo Influ
ence; honco tissues having mnrkctl
power of proliferation nro necessarily
composed of masses or theso young or
"Juvenllo" cells ami ato ot course vast
ly moro suscoptlblo to any Influence
than uro tho moro fully formed und
stable "ndult" cells which may often
remulu unchanged for years.
An "nuurchlst cell" finds , favora
ble locution and proceeds to prolifer
ate; that Is to say, It multiplies by
division, ns all the somntla cells do,
and theso young and weak colls form
what Is technically known ns "Juve
nllo" tlsBUo within tho moro stable,
older, or "adult' tissue of tho organ
In which tho cancerous process Is ta
king placo. II now tho "hard," very
penetrating rays of tho X-ray arq
turned upon this diseased area ono
of two things takes placo either tho
short, sharp oscillations, which we
havo noted approximate moro than
800,000,000,000 per second, shako these
weak "Juvenllo" colls Into n healthful
reuctlon, or they destroy them nu n
dog kills n rat by shaking It, unci thn
healthy cells are stimulated by tho
light.
