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The Commoner.
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 16
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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nob.
Till: SHC'HKTAItY'S STOVEPIPE HAT
Colonel Bryan has equipped himself with the
crowning glory of au ofliceholder, a stovepipe
hat. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Don't you hear the nows a-humming up and
clown the mighty land,
From tho prairies of Nebraska to the far
Floridian sand?
Don you sense the modern wonder booming
up liko Thoric thunder?
Common People, stand from under since you
can not understand.
For it's William Jennings Bryan in a halt
what's that?
Yes, it's William Jennings Bryan In a stove
pipe hat!
I have seen a plague of places and observed
a lot of things
In a thirty year meander 'mong tho cabbages
and Icings; ;
I have witnessed cataclysms, been a party unto
schisms,
Known a many mad surprises such as ardent
living brings;
But I novor yet imagined such a shock as that
io' haU JenninB3 Bryan in a etove-
Is tho mild and meek Caucasian now eternally
playod out?
Is there nothing more to marvel at and nothing
loft to doubt?
Have the stars begun to tumble in a universal
juinble?
HaS inaSronueSUn l rUmbl' wIth tho PlanetB
WOlllikethatn " aT crosswIse for !t Beems
""stopih1 jenniusa Bryan
If toTo g0t t0 heaven' wnIch own J hpo
I shall not lay out a beelino for tho Cheru
blmlc crew; eiu
Nr my Sing 6 l0kinS Sn aS X have had
Nor for Shakespeare, nor for Shelloy, nor for
you, Dear Reader, you.
Nay, I'll mosey round tho Throno Room in tho
seventh heaven flat
Till I greet the angel Bryan in a stovepipe hat!
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Amid Tears and Cheers Dr. Friedmann Treat!
White Plague Victims
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HIS MESSAGE OF HOPE
1 am happy to have had an opportunity
to treat suffering Washingtonians. The
cases brought before me were sufft-
clently advanced to need immediate and
effective treatment. It is my fervent
hope that all of those upon whom I
operated will recover, and I might say
that I am reasonably confident of splen-
did results. Dr. Friedmann.
The following is from the Washington (D. C.)
Post of Thursday, April 15:
"Suffer little children to come unto me; for
of such is tho kingdom of heaven."
Nearly 1,900 years ago this admonition was
pronounced by Christ, the Healer. Yesterday,
Frledrich Franz Friedmann, tho distinguished
Berlin savant, who has dedicated his life to tho
eradication of the "great white plague" the
most devastating scourge ever visited upon the
human race gathered into a clinic at the
George Washington University hospital, before
an audience of world-famed men, several of
these tots who hobbled on crutches, or wero
brought prostrate upon stretchers in tho arms
of grief-stricken parents. They came to be
saved that they might enter the "kingdom of
heaven" in the flesh and spirit of the healthy
born.
The great amphitheater was a scene of pathos
and tragedy. The cry of the doomed mingled
with the ejaculation of the hopeful. Mothers
and fathers wept and children gave up their
bodies to science that it might be heralded to
the world, perhaps in the very near future, that
a new conqueror of disease has come to the sal
vation of mankind.
Aged women, their cheeks hollow and pallid,
their bodies emaciated, pleaded with tears in
their liisterless eyes for a drop of the new
'elixir of life." Many knelt before the stern
faced German, while others plucked at his
clothing and mumbled in gutteral tones their
belief In his cure.
They seemed to think that their lives would
be spared if he injected but a tiny bit of the
famous turtle serum into their diseased limbs
And when, man after man and woman after
ZT? turned away to a' living death, their
cries of anguish brought home even to the
trained, emotionless physician the terrible curse
of the malady that has baffled the ages But
the German scientist did not profess to lift the
dying from the shadow of the grave- he could
and would save only those whom it kerned pos
sible to save. He selected his cases from the
.scores who applied, and several of Ce he
treated already are near death, say those nhv
BiCiaRnSt7h(: J"??"8 the monstraC P Y
wifh rinldUv ?hndS f thG Pian worked
il a p ?iy their evory movement was fol
'cSunt w6 CyeS0f Secrtary of State Bryan.
Count J. H. von Bernstorff, tho official remS
sentative of the German emperor? whose sub
ject Dr. Friedmann is; Dr. Paul SSS ?
minister from BwteerliidT heafls 0f?
the medical branches of the federal government'
Lea, of Tennessee, and William Hughes of Nw
eon. He asked if he might attend IS iii
and when assured of The Pleasure which &
to h s hZl foar ar?f?mpa?ied Dr ledmann
practice in the District o7 ColnmSi? lm .to
would proceed to achieve StaeSd ?W h
added that if the proper procedure appeared to
be by the introduction of a resolution in tha
senate he would take that course.
"I have received so many appeals from nor
sons who desire to be treated by Dr PHp,"
mann," he said, "that I determined to see if it
would not be possible for him to receivo tho
privilege to practice here in the district This
would have nothing to do with the investtea.
tion which is now being carried on by Surgeon
General Rupert Blue and his assistants t
simply aim to give the hundreds of people who
wish to take the treatment an opportunity to
avail themselves of it."
Dr. Friedmann went to tho hospital directly
from the White House, where he had gono to bo
presented by Secretary of the Interior Lane to
President Wilson. The president received the
physician graciously, and, after having sub
scribed his name in the autograph book in
which Dr. Friedmann has secured the names of
many of the most distinguished scientists and
public men in this and other countries, wished
the German visitor the best of. success.
Dr. Friedmann was greatly pleased by his
cordial treatment at the hands of the head of
the nation, and was struck by President Wil
son's democratic manner, evidenced, he said, by
the fact that he preferred to subscribe his name
amid those of a number of other persons of
less distinguished position. The book was also
signed by Secretary to the President Tumulty
and Senator Hughes.
When, at 1:30 o'clock, Dr. Friedmann, accom
panied by Charles DeV. Hundt, his secretary and
confidential advisers, as well as his assistants at
his clinics, entered the hospital he found a
motley throng. The hallway at the dispensary
was already crowded.
Here were assembled emaciated children,
whose bright eyes contrasted uncannily with
their pallid faces. Many, of them bent their
slight forms upon crutches and dragged after
them their crooked legs with lifeless muscles.
Sunken-cheeked women, whose bodies shook
with their hacking cough, waited patiently to be
called before the man who held out hope of
health. Men whose flesh had shriveled, leaving
m mu skeletons of skin and bone, sat sad-eyed.
The announcement that Dr. Friedmann would
remain in the city and administer his remedy
had only been made yesterday morning, but
the brief interval before the calling of the clinic
had proved sufficient to rally the sufferers from
distant points. Consequently, when he and Drs.
William Cllne Borden, dean of the George
Washington medical school and Charles Stanley
White, the distinguished surgeon, began tho
diagnoses which were to help Dr. Friedmann de
termine the selection of patients for the clinic,
more than one hundred strength-sapped men,
women and children were present to plead for
preference.
Sentiment gave way to science. Dr. Fried
mann had come to demonstrate his cure; his
time would not permit him to treat all. A dis
covery, which if efficacious, is to be epoch-making,
was to be demonstrated and the discoverer
was determined to select such cases as would
be typical of the disease in its every form.
., -roughout the morning, from the hour that
I im3tiJutIn opened its doors, appeals in per
son, Dy letter, and telephone had come to the
heads of the hospital for a chance to appear
nerore Dr. Friedmann and receive treatment
ii om his hands. Physicians throughout the city
appeared with cases in every stage of tho
disease. Parents had brought their crippled
oirsprmg and made pathetic appeals that they
bo given treatment.
,5rIFriedmalln' however, could not heed the
pathetic stories which were told. His heart
mastered his mind only to the extent that he
2fi 1? ?rst tor tno children sufferers prin
Si? y,?om tuDerculosis of the bone and joints.
eso. "Jf1 Patients struggled gamely into the
examination room alone where their physical
strength would permit, assisted by anxious
Sn whero excruciating pain would not
suiter shrunken limbs to support wasted bodies.
wext came the call for the adults. Men and
women struggled to pour their plaints into tho
ear of the German. His aim was to make his
demonstration general. Ho wished to embrace
in his clinic every form of tuberculosis. Ho
neard- generally the reports of the various cases
irom the attending 'physicians.
When two hours had been consumed, during
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