4 mi"- S . ' '
HOW 1 POUuni a WILD CAT.
BROKEN SWORD OP DREYFUS.
UNQUIET GRAVE OF LINCOLN.
"1 have heard a great deal about rata
nd titers, their similarity of species
their tnaatlable desire for blood. Bui
I used to think that eata were made
to suffer for the sins of their relative
tigers. It was difficult for me to Imag
ine how such a domestic, friendly, coo
lng creature as the cat usually la could
turn out to be a blood-seeking beast.
Ordinarily the cat rubs against one
seeks friendship, loves to be stroked
miu usss 10 ne petted. But the horrible
beast which attacked me has upset all
- my preconceived ldaa about cats, saga
Yvette Gullbert In the New York Jour
nal. Perhaps that cat was an excen
lion. Upon Inquiry, however, I find the
exefpyons rather numerous. The hor
rible beast flew at me without provo
cation. I ws alone.
As Ill-lurk would have It, no one was
wunjn can.
The cat s eyes glared Ilk fiery balls.
It showed Its tiger-like teeth. It hissed
rorth sounds such as are heard when
one throws water upon the Are.
It wagged its tail with fiendish de
light. Then followed a terrific spring, the
wrute. evidently Intending to land upon
my throat.
Nature has endowed me with very
Jon garma.
The gestures occasioned by my call
ing have strengthened these arms.
I had no weapon of defence.
With my arms I struck out against
the cat.
Fortunately I did not lose, my head.
The great thing was to prevent the
cat from getting a grip on me. This 1
knew.
1 struck with all my might. No prise
fighter ever mustered up all his force
with more energy than I. Prize fighters
usually contend for a championship. I
thought I was fighting for my life.
The policeman who fought two cats
recently in Paris was armed with a
word. He lunged and parried as tho
he were fighting a duel. He pierced
their bodies with his sabre. But sword
less as I was. what could I dot Merely
keep up the fight as long as the strength
of my great arms lusted. I cannot de
scribe the fight by rounds, for there
was no respite. It was a case of con
tinuous action. Every seelnd I hoped
would bring some one to my assistance.
Alas, no one came! Even my maid,
who rarely leaves me, was not within
the sound of my voice. On this occa
sion every one seemed to have deserted
me. I began to think what an awful
fate was about to befall me.
An artist of my standing to be killed
Jy a cat! Perish the thought!
1 struck the brute a terrific blow. It
itsigeref; it rallied. It made one su
preme Jump at my throat Instead of
LOST TRIBE IN THE FAR NORTH.
Thomas Campbell's vision of "The
Lost Man" came near being realized
m mS .o. ory o tuo tnwc uf onklinu
recently discovered by Captain Cro
mer, commander of an Arctic whal
ing vessel, on Southampton island. In
the north end of Hudson bay. These
people are less than 100 In number,
and they believed that they were the
only human beings on the earth. For
more than 400 years they had been
shut up In that lonely retreat, which
Is about the size of the state of Maine,
living in the most primitive style. In
credible as It may seem, not a single
article Introduced on the American
continent since Its discovery ,by Co
lumbus was found o nthla Island.
Captain Cromer obtained a large col
lection of the weapons and household
effects used by this strange tribe. This
collection has been secured by the
American Museum of Natural History
of New York, and It will soon be placed
on exhibition in the cast wing of that
Kreat Institution.
These Eskimo speak a language dif
ferent from that employed by the Es
kimo of the far North, and different
from any other language known, but
their size, color and hW" proclaim
them -undoubtedly members of the
ii asst. general family. The men and
wr" are clothed alike. In Jackets
at jouscrs of deer and sealskin. The
Jae4 Is hooded, with openings for the
fa '! bands. The women fashion
the skin into clothing and footwear,
Hewing ts dona with bone needles and
thread of sinew from the seal.
Among their hunting weapons the
bow and arrow plays an Important
part In shooting land animals. The
bow is of wood, wrapped with twisted
sinews; the arrows are pointed with
chipped flint. Bow and arrows are
carried In a bow case and quiver that
Is stuns; on the back.
hi stature they are of medium height
and robust and muscular, but the wo
men are much shorter than the men,
occasionally almost dwarfish.
Much of their food Is eaten raw, but
they cook It whtn convenient. They
will split and devour the back, fat and
flesh from the body of a deer killed
In the chase and while the fleers are
yet quivering.
Seal's fat and seal's Mood are put
Into a dish and slewed. This oily li
quid Is used like butter. Lean meat Is
dipped Into It to make It mors pal
table. Kalaka or skin eanoss art the water
raft of these psopls. They art from
Jl to 30 feet lit length. In the middle
to a hole for th body, the rest being
entirely decked over. The chief outfit
t the kalak Is a harpoon and spear,
Which art used In the hunt for whales
and seals. These are from six to sight
landing upon the desired spot, It sue-.
ceeded In sticking Its fangs Into my
arm.
The pain was Intense, and the cat was
furious to the last degree. I now suf
fered a twofold torture one physical,
the other menial. The latter waa the
worse. I feared that hydrophobia was
before me that I should go mad. The
thought occurred to me that It were
better to die bravely fighting even a cat
than to be locked up forever In a mad
house.
With my unemployed hand I grasped
the animal's) throat.
I got my thumb on the apple.
I squeezed and squeezed as never wo
man squeezed before.
The ferocious light of the cat's eyes
was soon replaced by a glassy stare,
It loosed It hold.
I flung the brute from me, rushed to
the door, slammed It, and I, Yvette
Gullbert, waa safe.
That feline fight waa the most terri
ble I have ever had In my life. I have
had maffr struggles. I used to suffer
keenly when I knew I had talent and
people would not listen because I was
not pretty. Still I fought my way with
out fear. I cannot say such was the
case in my fight with the cat; for I was
very much afraid, although my pres
ence of mind did not desert me even
for an Instant, and this proved to be my
salvation.
It Is said that women and cats do
not like each other. I can well believe
It after the attack which the cat made
upon me.
We frequently hear the expression
"Worse than the furies Is a woman
scorned," I can only say that I did
not scorn the cat which attacked me,
yet It was more than any furies which
the human mind can conjure up. Hence
I Infer that an Infuriated cat Is more
rplteful than a scorned woman.
Cross-tempered women are called cats
although my unhappy experience goes
to show that feminine passion com
pared with feline rage Is not even as
moonlight unto sunlight.
A cat has thirty teeth.
It has six incisors above and six be
low.
It has four molars above and four
below.
I felt as though the whole thirty
were stuck In me. The physicians will
not admit this, but, no matter, I am
speaking of my feelings and not of the
mere dental marks.
It was fortunate for me thnt there Is
a Pasteur Institute In Paris. Otherwise
I might now be foaming at the mouth
or In a madhouse or In the giave. How-
ever. I a mhere, safe and sound, firmly
resolved to avoid the Ire of cats for the
future and to advise my friends to do
likewise.
feet long, having sharp points of ivory
which become detached when the game
is ptereew. 'i-ne long line attached
gives ample scope for pluy until the
animal is exhausted.
vu mini me Bie utawn ny a dog
team of from seven to ten animals la
the only means of travel. The harness
consists of two large noosea, placed
one above the other and Joined by two
perpendicular straps four or five Inches
In length, so placed as to allow the
heads of the dogs to pass through, so
thai one noose will He along the back
and the other between the legs.
The body harness Is made of un
dressed sealskin, which does not chafe
The whips are of plaited thongs of
sealskin some twenty-five to thirty
feet long, and the natives possess a
surprising dexterity in the use of these
whips, being able to flick the ear of a
particular sluggish dog the full dis
tance of the length of the lash.
The huts or houses of. the Eskimo
are made by putting together the great
Jawbones of right whales, which are
covered with skins and seem more fit
ting for the lairs of animala than for
the homes of human beings. There are
no windows In tho houses, only a small
opening about two and a half feet high
scrying for a door. Each building Is
occupied by several families.
Walrus and seal meat is stored away
In caves excavated In the snow. As
the temperature never rises above the
freezing point, the meat soon freezes
solid and keeps Indefinitely. They have
no furniture; the sole effects used In
housekeeping are a limestone tamp for
cooking, a dish made of the same ma
terial to hang above the lamp, and a
few cups male of whalebone.
The most Indispensable of these uten
sils la the lamp, the only source of
heat and light One of the chief duties
of the women Is to prevent the Ismp
from going out. Tbejamp Is utilised
for cooking and drying clothes, skins,
boots and mittens, which are hung
around on a rack of bones.
Cooking Is done In an oblong dish or
pot suspended above the flam. In this
their meal of blubber and fat and
whalenteat Is always kept slowly simmering-.
The people are obliged to
make their cooking vessels and lamps
out of slabs of limestone, glued togeth
er with a mixture of grease and deer
Mood. The lamps are burned by meant
of wicks of moss arranged around the
edge. ,
At a meeting of the Baptist Social
onion In Boston last week an announce
ment was mads formally of an offer of
John Bv Rockefeller to (Irs 1M,0M to
Newton Theological seminary, provided
a Ilk sum he raised by the institution.
The death of Qulllaume Gambler re
vives interest in what was perhaps the
most tragic Incident of the Dreyfus af
fair. Gambler waa & non-com mission
ed officer of the French dragoons a
blond, soldierly looking giant; an hon
est and earnest soul.
It was he who broke over hla knee
the sword of Dreyfus, a part of which
ha recently, by a curious chance,
found Its way to America, and tore
from his uniform all insignia of rank
when, In 1895, the-unfortunate officer
WOO UrgraUJCU II. 7U Ol IC
At that memorable moment the great
helmeted dragoon, powerful and stern
as the law, looked the very symbol of
Justice.
Yet in his heart that man was tor
tured by doubt or rather by the con
viction that he was made the instru
ment for a ghastly mistake.
He firmly believed In the innocence
of Dreyfus, and though he was a taci
turn man and spoke little, no fear ever
kept him from expressing his belief in
plain words when the occasion aroe.
In a letter which he addressed to his
old mother immediately after the de
gradation, Gambler gave an excellent
description of the dramatic ceremo
nies and spoke of the harrowing strug
gle which took place within him when
he was ordered to do his part of the
work. The letter has lately been pub
lished. The following extract from It
Is Intensely Interesting:
"No guilty man would have acted as
he did through that awful ordeal. His
eyes were brave and frank. The agony
In his voice, on his face, waa the
genuine despair of a man condemned
unjustly and unable to understand why
everybody was so fiercely unwilling to
hear him.
"Mother!" Dreyfus cried, and then
he cried to the yelling, mad multitude:
"I am Innocent. I swear before God
that I am Innocent." He cried that out
lo them In a despairing appeal, yet
dignified as I would have said it. And
they, vociferated curses at the poor
fellow.
"Only those who were present can
form any conception of the tense ex
citement of It all. The companies with
shining bayonets were Tlned up at the
four sides of the square. Behind those
walls the teeming black crowds, a sea
of enraged wild animals. And In the
Immediate open space Just the Utile
group of us the general and his staff
on horseback, myself standing four
paces before the general, and Dreyfus,
between four artillerymen, facing us.
"While the decree of degradation waa
being read, Dreyfus kept his eyes
steadily upon the general.
"The very silence of death had sud
denly descended from that vast plaza,
SURGERY ON THE HIGH SEAS.
Philadelphia, Pa. (Special.) One of
the most remarkable surgical opera-
noun ever uuuet ntucii u . wii,
14 .
by a Phlladelphlan recently on board
the steamer Ethelwolf, bound for Van
couver, B. C. The Ethelwolf Is a
"tramp" freight steamer engaged In
the East Indian and China trades, and
the substance of the story was Includ
ed In a letter, written to his family in
this city, by the steward, T. J. Crow
ley, formerly of Nlcetown, who was
present at the operation.
The Ethelwolf had taken on a mixed
cargo at Hong Kong that taxed but
two-thirds of her capacity, and she
steamed for Canton, trusting In the
season. It being a good one for exports,
to fill out her holds. Twelve hours out
from Hong Kong a blow was encoun
tered, and a sudden lurch of the ves
sel threw Andrew Dawson, a stoker,
down the narrow, precipitous iron steps
leading to the fircroom, breaking his
leg.
There was no doctor on board, but
the Injured man was made as comfort
able as possible by his mates; and
when port was reached a surgeon was
called on board and the limb was s-l.
ii ws at once advised that Dawson
be sent to the English hospital at Can
ton, but the man begged so hard that
this was not done; and when the ship
sailed, Dawson was still In his cot in
the steward's cabin, his injured teg In
a planter cast.
All was well for a time, but suddenly
alarming symptoms were exhibited.
The man began to suffer excruciating
pains In the locality of the fracture.
Then the limb began to swell, necessi
tating; the removal of the cast. Then
It waa found that the leg was mottled
with deep purple spots; and this, to
gether with the swelling, could not be
mistaken. Gangrene had set In, and it
was felt thst, under the circumstances,
death would positively follow.
The officers held a consultation; am
putation was the only hope, but In the
absence of a surgeon that was held to
be Impossible. But Dawson was a man
not only of strong constitution, but of
strong character as well; and when the
serious nature of hla condition was Im
parted to Mm, he pleaded that the op
eration be undertaken by soSie man of
steady rferve among the ship's com
pany. It was death anyhow, he in
sisted, and he might as well die, under
the knife as give up without a Strug
He. An assistant engineer, named Carter,
volunteered to do the work.
In the Bthelwoir library was an old
Scotch medical work called "Carbln on
Surgery" Carter bunted this up and
began a bunt for a case similar to
Dawson's, but the book, with Its tech
reading seemed lost and distant.
and In the open air the voice that was
"Suddenly it ceased, and the sharp
order to do my part of the businest
came to me. In one wild whirl my
mind contemplated a lot of desperate
things. Do I obey, do I refuse?
"Then the habit of moving forward
at the command of a superior pushed
me forward towar dthe captain. I be
gan. I tore the epaulets and flung
them down at his feet. I tore the
braids from the cap, from the breast
the sleeves. All that had been par-
tially unsettled beforehand to mak
the task easier.
"The last thing was to pull Dreyfus
sword from the scabbard at his side
I did that with one sweep of my arm
and broke the beautiful bright blad
on my bent knee. It snapped like glass
and the two pieces fell over all thi
things I had torn from the uniform. Ai
I was unbuckling hts sword belt
"'I am Innocent!' cried Dreyfus ovei
my Bhoulder. He wante dto say more
but the drums rolled and the guards
were ordered forward to parade hlrr.
before the troops and the people.
"It was only faintly that I heard the
great din of execration that rose from
the mob everywhere as he passed. I
had withdrawn to my place, and I re
member one thought kept coming back
to me as in a dream 'What a pity 1
am a soldier! Why should have fate
selected me for this? What a pity It
warf I!' "
Despite these unwelcome opinions of
the affair, Gambler was such a fa
vorite among his men, comrades and
superiors that he never was molested
in any way.
He followed the Piennes trial with In
tense Interest, fully expecting to see
his beloved army set right what he
believed to have been an awful mis
take. When the second verdict con
firmed the first Gambler was much af
fected. He never afterward openert
his mouth on the subject.
A few days ago he died In the mili
tary hospital of Lune.ville, where his
regiment had long before been trans
ferred from Paris. Pneumonia carried
away that powerful and kind giant in
less than a week. His second term In
the army was soon to expire, and h
had decided not to re-enlist.
Of the two broken parts of Dreyfus-
sword, one (the handle piece) Is still j
kept among the celebrated criminal
relics In the prefecture of police. Th
pointed half was picked up from when1
It had fallen. It was given to the
general who had presided at the de
gradation. The general kept It on his ;
desk as a memento till Mathtew Drey
fus, who learned of it, wrote the gen
eral, questioning his right to display
this constant pretext of eonversatior.
on a subject definitely settled.
nical terms, did little good; if snythin?
It shook his nerve and he threw il
ssidc, determined to gn blind, rather
than, bewilder himself with half-understood
instructions.
Dawson was stretched out upon e
table; a full-page colored plate, rlppec
from "Carbln on Surgery" was tacked
upon the wall; this was an Illustration
fo a leg which had been amputated
above the knee, find gave the positions
of the main and lesser arteries. Pallor
like, this was to serve as a chart, and
the most dangerous points, as referred
to In the text, were checked oft with a
pencil.
Dawson grew pale as death from los
of blood, but continued to encourage
Carter. As each artery was reached It
was tie dup like the first, but before
the leg was severed, a. id at last the
bone was reached. Dawson fainted at
this stage, and when he came to, the
saw had done Its office, and Carter,
faithfully following the chart upon th
wall, was finishing his work. Then the
stump was bound up tightly and the
patient put back in his1 cot.
The loss of blood had been consider
able, but not at all alarming. Dawson
seemed weakened, but full of pluck
and It was felt that, should blood poi
soning not set In, he would recover.
And this proved to be the case. Nc
bad results followed and the putlenl
grew In strength rapidly. Upon reach
ing Vancouver he was taken to a hos
pital, but the lejr was SJI but healed
and the doctors pronounced the cas
entirely out of danger, and said that ii
was as extraordinary an exhibition o)
nerve and vitality as ever came unde'
their notice.
Whisked at lightning speed through
two two-foot holes In the floor, and ar
unknown number cf times around
nine-foot flywheel, and finally hurled
through the air twenty feet against th
far end of the engine room In Milwau
kee, Fred Tlede Is still alive. Mor
than that, he escaped without a broker
bone, and the doctors say he will bi
able to go to work In a few days. Tled
Is an engineer at the quarry of th
Wauwatosa Stone company, went of
Milwaukee, and was working In the en.
glne room alone. No one witnessed thi
awful spectacle. George H. Sylvester
foreman at the quarry, entered the en
glne room, and falling to find Tlede at
his post began an Investigation. At thi
farther end of the engine room he no
tlced the apparently lifeless form of th
engineer, fully twenty-live feet froir
the whirling wheel.
sirs. Grant Allen, widow of the nov
1st, Is about to open a bookshop If
the London West ICnd.
All that remains of the earthly body
of Abraham Lincoln is at present lying
In a metallic casket In a crude wooden
box in a temporary vault in Oak Ridge
cemetery, Springfield, 111. The only
preparation which had been made for
the removal of the body from the bed
of cement In which It had rested for
thirteen years, was the preparation of
the vault so that it might be robber
proof.
The removal of the body was made
necessary by the fact that the monu-
bulld. and vMcSi was completed only
seventeen years Ago, had to be torn
down because of the shifting of the
base of the knoll on which the great
shaft rested.
When the casket was taken from the
cement the outer wooden box was, as
might have been expected, badly de
cayed. No other box had been pre
pared, and the wooden box In which
the body of the great emancipator is
now resting was made with a hatchet,
a saw, a few nails and some unplaned
boards. -It was constructed upon the
ground within a few feet of the tomb,
as were five similar boxes In which
were placed the decayed caskets con
taining the remains of Mrs. Lincoln,
the three sons and the grandson. The
matterrpf providing at least a respect
able wooden box, .with which to en
case the Lincoln coffin, was of so little
consequence that the matter was not
even thought of.
The body and that of the other mem
bers of the family will remain In the
temporary vault about a year, by
which time It is expected the monu
ment will be rebuilt. In order that It
may never tumble down again, the
foundations will be laid on bedrock,
which it Is believed will be found at a
depth of about thirty-five feet. The
new monument will be Just as near a
counterpart of the one' now being re
moved as possible, except that it wil!
be fifteen feet higher.
This is the seventh spot on which
Lincoln's remains have rested since
they were brought to Springfield aftei
his assassination on April 14, 1865
Upon their arrival there they wer
taken from the C. & A. depot to th-
hall of representatives, in the statr
house, and there remained in state fr.t
several days. From representative hall
they were taken to Oak Ridge ceme
tery and placed in the temporary re
ceiving vault of the cemetery, . where
they were under a guard of soldiers for
a long time. The body was next re
moved to a temporary vault on the
side of a hill.
Next all that was mortal of Lincoln
MAN WHO HAS NO THROAT.
j Unable to breathe through his mouth
, or nose, which have lost their respira
'tory functions; bereft of his 'throat,
j which was recently removed during a
! surgican operation, and capable with
j the use of a mirror of seeing his food
I pass from his mouth toward his stom
ach, August Ecklon of No. 75 Clifton
I n. ...... A ekl.ian) t, uHy-m anrl pniovincr
avenue, v.ii-p", "
better health than he has for the past
ten years.
Born In Germany thirty-nine years
ago and coming to this country when
he was only a few years old, Ecklon
developed Into a fine specimen of phys
ical manhood, and it was only his rug
ged constitution and splendid nerve
that made it possible for him to wlth-
treatments to which he has submitted j
since he became affected with tumor of
the larynx ten years ago.
It is staled by reliable physicians that
ICck Ion's case is the only instance of
recovery where the throat trouble was
so aggravated. Of the minor throat
troubles only 10 per cent live for three
or four years after the operation; but
heretofore extreme cases such as Eck
lon's have not survived the operation.
He has no wsufflciently recovered to
perform light work around his house,
such as paperhanging, and expects in
a short time to be able to resume his
duties at his meat market. He takes a
vi a lk every day, and, attired in his or
dinary street costume, there Is nothing
in hla appearance to indicate that he
is such a living phenomenon.
Eiklon. has never used alcohol or to
bacco to excess, and his health up to
1X90 was perfect. In that year he was
troubled with pneumonia and with an
attendant hoarseness, which prevented
him from speaking aloud. lie was sent
to Hot Springs, Ark., but the .baths
weakened him. On his return, In 1893,
he experienced a difficulty In breathing
and an opening was made In his wind
pipe and a tube Inserted. In February,
IK84, a cork was placed In the tube and
the patient was allowed to breathe
through his mouth and nose. His voice
at this time was Just above a whisper.
In July the tube was removed and the
opening was allowed to close. In Feb
ruary, 1895, his lungs again pained him
and he found It difficult to breathe un
til July of the same year, when the
tube was replaced, and it has never
been received since. Dr. Jacob Frank,
of the German hospital. Chicago, took
up Ecklon'e case In 18M, when the In
dications were those of stomach trou
ble and throat complications.
Ecklon began lo experience serious
trouble, owing to a large swelling on
the left side of his neck. In February,
ISM. Dr. Frank operated ' upon him
June ts, 1AM, when a large mast wss
sncountered firmly matted to the Im
portant vessels and nerves of that side,
was taken to the sarcophagus Inside
the north part of, the Lincoln monu
ment, th's constituting the third re
moval. While here an attempt was made to
steal the casket. After this the re
mains -were secretly carried to the
south side of the monument, conveyed
through Memorial hall, and three well
known gentlemen were selected from
the Lincoln gsard of honor to secrete
the casket. These three eprsons took
the body Into the superstructure of
the monument and hl1 Ir n na.rmnr
passage between two brick walls, which
formed a part of the foundation of the
monument; this constituted the fourth
removal. The remains were removed
a fifth time thirteen years ago, when
they were taken from between the
walls and placed in Memorial halt.
Here the casket was opened for the
purpose of identification. The sixth
removal occurred when the casket wan
placed in the bed of cement, from
which It was removed Saturday a week;
ago. Mrs. Lincoln was also buried In
the cement beside the grave of her
husband. When the remains are again
placed in the monument they will have
been disturbed from seven resting
places since coming to Springfield.
Several persons declare that Lincoln's
remains were once placed In a vault on
the ground now occupied by the state
capitol building, but this is untrue.
Just after the assassination a tem
porary vault was erected there, but
Mrs." Lincoln preferred that the inter
ment be In Oak Ridge cemetery, and
her wishes were respected.
Great disintegration and decay has
taken place in the caskets and con
tents during the past few years. For
a week workmen dugin a bed of solid
concrete, in an endeavor to locate the
remains of the Great Emancipator and
his wife. For days the odor was so
bad that the workmen could remain In
the excavation they were malting but
a few minutes at a time, when they
would be forced to come out for fresh
lir. That this came from the two
icdies burled in the cement there is
doubt. The moisture had soaked
hrough the cement and had forced a
rost, possibly an Inch thick, around
he casket in which Lincoln was bur
ed. This moisture is undoubtedly re
sponsible for the advanced state of de
cay in which the cedar casket waa
found. Fortunately, Lincoln's body was
buried in a metallic coffin made oC
lead and copper, and were It not for
this fact, the probabilities are that the
remains could, not have been trans
ferred to a temporary resting place in
tact. necessitating a tedious dissection and
removal of part of the internal Jugular
vein. A pathological examination of
the tissue removed was made, and a
diagnosis given of cancer. A rapid
recurrence followed the operation, and
on September 13, 1899, a large mass waa
again removed, involving the nerves
and vessels of that region, as before.
The condition of the throat was so bad
that a complete removal of the larynx
was advised.
The operation was performed before,
the members of the Mississippi Valley
Medical association, who were holding a
convention in Chicago in September
last. Ecklon was placed on the oper
ating table of the German hospital and
Chief Surgeon Frank, assisted by Drs.
Klein, Fleberger and Storm, began tha
grewsome work. On account of being;
unable to breathe through the mouth,
chloroform was administered by a spe
cially devised apparatus through tha
opening in Ecklon's windpipe. An in
cision was then made from the top of
the Adam's apple to the opening in tha
windpipe, three inches long and threw
inches across. The two triangular flaps
of skin thus formed were thrown back
and the upward portion of the windpipe
cut across and divided. Before separat
ing the windpipe from oesophagus a
hard tube was passed Into the latter to
serve as a guide. A portion of tho
oesophagus had to be removed also, on,
account of complications. It was sub
sequently sewed up, but the thread
sloughed away and left an opening at
tha epper end of the oesophagus, which,
still remains, and communicates with
the outside.
At present Ecklon's neck looks like a
map of the Amazon river, with Its trib
utaries. The scars remain to testify!
to the work of the surgical knife, bet
he Is happy In his recovery and exhibits
the wounds with the pride of a veteran
warrior. The results In Bcklon's case
are most peculiar; one of them refutes
the theory that the vocal cords are nec
essary to articulation. Ecklon has no
vocal cords, as they were removed In .
the operation, yet nsture. In leaving the
fistula In his oesophagus, has tried ta
provide a substitute, for them In tha
two flaps which were formed when tha
threads relaxed during the operation.
These flaps regulate the pitch of bw
voice, relaxing and contracting the
same as the vocal cords. Ecklon has
not breathed through Ms mouth or mm
since IMS In fact, his mouth la prac
tically at the top of hta breast bone,
o far as his respiratory power arc
concerned. When he coughs be dosa ss
through this tube, and he extlngulshe
a match niaced In front of It with th
same ease that an ordinary per
would Mow it out with his month.
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