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N < HRUv { ) NI'JWS ' : JANUARY 5 l I I ! ) [ US TEN DAYS OF LUXURY ON NEW RAILWAY TRAIN. CLARK'S NEW SALT LAKE ROAD Nine Trains , Built nt n Coat of n Mil lion Dollars , Have Deen Put Into Service by the Northwestern , Union Pacific and Snn Pedro Lines. Chicago IM | ' "H \ngolos shook hnnilH hiMt \\tf- id llu > llrHt ( line In tholr lives. Tinrnnniil Introduction \vn made by llu > Northwestern , tlio Union I'at-llh1 nnil ( ho Han Pedro rail \vuy companies. and now tlio two cltUM nro wnnn friends. Heretofore tlio two liuvo boon Hoparatcd by deserts mid Death Vnlloy HHtl tlio Dovll'H Play ground hut now tin opening througli tllUHO Obstacles llllS bOOII Illllllo IHIll It IH for tlio Urst ( line possible to lnoU westward from tlio city on Lake Mich Igiui nnil see lit tlio fur end of tlio stoo ribbons tlio sparkling hlno wittoni ol tlio Pacific ocean. Tlio ninrvi'loiiHly equipped now Los Angeles Limited train IH tlio tnimtiH u this oiid. Hy diving Into tlio demir ! at Salt Lake and swimming across tlio contlnnnt through tlio ono-tlnio desori land and through tlio inoiinlaliiH am ! tlio once-thought Impenetrable Dcntl Valley , thlH now train , drawn hy i stallion of stool and tlio lonith of nlno magnllleont riilliiuuiH , pokes UH nosi out at tlio end of twonty-Hlx hours am glisten Into tlio deep blue of tlio weal orn ocean. It may Hit there for a da\ and a night before the trains on tin fonnor roulo have inado tholr w from tlio city of MormoiiH to tlio ell ; of I ho Angels. The very llrHl traiiHconliiunli ( train that ever ran ever thlH no\\ roulo from Kail l.nlco to LOH Angeles loft Chicago at 10 o'clock at nliht ; 01 Sunday , December 115 , and touched l.oi Angolon Wednesday alloriKion. Tin distance of moro than ' . ' ,1100 nil.it which had always hoforo by the round iihoul Frisco route required elghty- hours or four days and three nights was made by this now train In sixty eliht hours. or In less than three di unit three nights A Straloht Line. " \ straight line Is the Hhortost ills t niiro between two points , " and tin new Los Angeles Limited train , ovt : the Northwestern from Chicago U Omaha , ever the Union I'acltlo 1'ron Oi mini to Salt Lake and ever Sonalo clarK's now line from Salt Lnko I/- * \ngolos , Is as straight a line bo IVKMII iho oust and tlio west as > \il er bo Known acroaa America. Thu doiM iho now San Pedro line shave Hi transcontinental Bchedulo , because o UH great cut olT and It does nine more. li was not a gront many years ngo Hoi MO long ago , In fact , thai It doe lU'i still Htand iiromlnontly In th iiu uiorles of the grandfathers of Amoi leu when a trip fiom son to HO ; in. ant making faces at tedious month of hardship , wild animals of the foi est troiichomm ; rivers of the plains sharp rocks of the mountains , thlrs on the douort , starvation and dual ! Today It Is possible lo stop Into a pa icion wheels In Chicago any ovenln of the year , to see farms and rallwn st. u ions and mountain ranges dash h with klnotoscoplc fashion ; to eat Hire meals from excellent moiui of oystci nn I strawberries and Uirkey an wmos ; to order champagne or min er i ! water from ( he bulfot car ; and , or ilio third afternoon , lo Bland in tin' hnlniy atmosphere of U > s Angeles , Ci Mornta. with the picture of America pa.ntod vividly on one's mind. Columbus Never Realized. Columbus never reall/.ed what ho had found when ho ran up on the be ich. threw his arm about the shoul der of an Indian who was playing mar- hithere , and said. "You have been discovered. " The world today thinks it Knows pre'tx well what the landing of Christopher unfolded In the Amer ican euntineiii. but the world today is laigoly mistaken. The world will not Hi < > v. the sigu'flcancr nt' the landing of Ylumhus until it has taKcn a rldo through the llmitlohs deserts of No va la. Into ibe Death Valley and out , an t across the well-named Devil's ph. \ ground in n c.u that rides iho raiis ol the new Salt Lnko route. \nd that the world may have a look nt this wlerd corner of the earth , for tunately unlike another on this conti nent. the three railroad companies mentioned have installed tholr new I > s Angeles Limited service nt a cost of one million dollars. To keep the sen-lee going 305 days every year , tin-re are nlno trains , fresh from the car shops , now running back and forth across the country. Each train lias nine cars and each train is worth more than $100,000 of current coin. Luxuriant Trains. These nine trains nro now from on- gi 10 to observation car. Darkness Is cast out into the prnirlc by means of brilliant electric lights which mnko coy every single berth in the sleepers. At the rear cn.il of each train Is a now sMi > combination buffet , library and ol servatlon car. In one corner is a b'l'U'tln ' board upon which , twice or tl > rce times each day , Is posted a bu ! li'ui of the latest telegraph news from all parts of the world , tlio Union Pa cific having adopted this unique. scheme some months ago. The train Is a sister to the overland limited , ex cepting that it cuts the wind at u moro rapid gait. It was in such luxury as this that tlio thirty-four newspaper men from II purls of the country , uieimilngl | \i w Vuli. rhlriu' " , Cincinnail. IMltR urc. Miniu apnlln. Hi Paul. Kamw < Hy. rii M-bind , Omaha. lin\i-r. Den lolniM and Norfolk , made the trip on ' 10 new train In UH Initial run IICIOHH bo counlryVllh Alfred Darlow. ad- ortlNlng agent of the Union Paclllc ; : 1 , LOIIIIIX , general piiHmuigor agenl ; ml other railroad olllolalH as IIOHM ! ; ml with tlio wheelH of their railroad . .rinding beneath Iho party , U may ho inaglnod that It wan always fair voathor from Iho MlnnlsHlppl to tbu 'aelllc and relnrn. regardless of Iho ml of doors. The llrst three days of that maiden rip of IhlH perfectly superior train of urn , were spent In getting to Houtliorn 'allfornla The next four wore do- Ightfully ami graphically written ipon thirty-four mlndH by meatiH of side trips out from I-OH Angelim , and hen I hero were three more In com ng homo. Past Historical Points. To the middle west the country nx 'ar out IIH Ogdiin , ever the Knchy uounlaltiH. IH not particularly now , Pretty nearly everybody him boon here or him friends who have made Inil trip up from Chuyenno and then lown Iho Hleep inoimlnlim boHldu the 'lear , fiiHl llttlo iitroaniH and by the Devil's ( dido and other features of U'ehor and Echo canyons. Hut down through the waslo land of Iho desert , whl//Ing by such notorious points IIH LOH Vegas , llullfrog ami Meadow Mountain of massacre fame is all a new scene lo Hut tourist. Am ! without It , Ilio career of the sightseer Is Incomplete. To be able to sit In i princely appointed Pullman with every comfort known to man available , am lo look out of the window upon linn dredH of miles of absolutely barret sands , t horned with cactus growth , IH an experience undreamed of hy the forty-niners. And It makes one tucl his caii more closely to his head ti hear the tales of death from thirst I h < il IIIIH come to hundreds of men It yearn thai are not KO long gone hy , It this very valley. Off to the right is a big , black monii tain peak and just on the other side of thai Is perched Iho lown of floli Mountain , where existed a few years ago IIvo thousand people ami when there are now but three hundred hov ering around the mouth of that mine of millions. The thousands waited so many years In vain for a railroad thai now--now thai the railroad has come -tin-re are hut a few left to appre ciate the coming. Towns Walk up to the Car. Within this llttlo Rlrotch here and the conductor polnlB off to a melan choly spot thirty-five men are known to linvo succumbed during a few months some yours ago. Now and then a town walks up to the car window , stops a moment to peek In and then vanishes In the sand. That lown consists of a little row of one-room saloons , with "Pete's Place , " stuck over the doors ; a tiny bit of a woodshed labelled "PostolHce , " and two or three new sheds with Mexican section men standing about the doors. And one wonders how It Is that man can live In so desolate a tract. At one town where locomotives were changed a man who had ridden all night long In the bumpers of the train , was put off hy the trainmen bo- cuuse of the danger of the trip through the sand. Ills face was so crusted \\lth sand that it was dllllcult to make nut whether ho was man or ape. This man on the bumpers owed the fad thai blood sllll coursed In bis ar teries to Iho fact that oil had been spriuMed on the track. A big sprink ler runs along the rails and pours oil on the roadbed , thus eliminating even lust from the cars. Senator Clark Did It Right. On a new railroad U Is not nncom- ,11011 to strlko steel parallels which lionnd up and down and In and out like snakes. Ami ever a mountainous region It has not been at all unusual to find tracks curving far around the mountains In order to save the ex pense of tunnels. Senator Clark's new ro'id IK a revelation In this respect lor he has tossed precedents far Into the skies. ( trades over the path of the new limited train have been reduced until the train rolls along so perfectly smoothly that It Is hard to catch the clicks of the ralla in trying to count them to the minute. And where curves have seemed Imminent , Clark has paid many millions to bore through the solid rocks , thus clinging to the straight line theory with admir able foreslglitedness. The outlay in this construction has been tremcn dons , but the result has chopped oft eighteen hours from Salt Lake to the sen , and proportionately as much In bringing fresh California fruits to the middle west , and In taking Nebraska products to the coast either for con sumption there or for shipment to the orient. Engraved Hospitality. The parly of thirty-four newspaper men who were Invited with engraved invitations by the three railroads to take this Initial trip , shook hands with themselves over tholr good luck. They enjoyed engraved hospitality all the wny and there was engraved conge ulnlity and entertainment aboard the new train. Tor the most pnrt the par ty was made up of managing editors of metropolitan eastern newspapers editorial writers , war correspondents Assoclned Press olllclnls and the like Of especial prominence , aside fron Mr. Darlow anil Mr. Ijomax , wore A C. Thomas , western superintendent for the Associated Press , with headqnar tors at Chicago ; Will J. Davis , owner of the Illinois theater In Chicago am of the Iroquols theater at the time it burni'd Hic'nrdll Little , war mrrer .mull ni in iho Jap liiiKMinit war. UK lloer uni and the Spanish American . iir , Marry llciirdnlcv , associate oil- lor of I.ewlie'H Wi-oKly ; and otherf from Ibr Ne.v York Tlmon , Now York Tribune , Chicago American , Cleveland Plalndeiilor and the like. The I'liMtein men expressed astonish- neiil at Hie development of the west 'rotu Nebraska ( o the coimt. Some of hem had been as far west as Ituffalo n tholr lives , and they hadn't reall/ed hat there was much beyond that. Many of them returned with n deter- nlnntlon to some day come hack and nake their homes. There was fun on tap from the time lie locomotive whistled "out of town" it Chicago until It returned to Its starting point. Two rival newspapers , morning dally and nn evening dally , were published on tlio train and It WHS mild that there never has been n hilly newspaper published anywhere upon which so many dlstlngulBlicd and hlgh-prlcod writers worked. The morn Ing paper was called "Tho Coyote , " itnd the evening paper was called , "The Yellow Pup. " The motto of one of thorn was , "Howl , Damn You , Howl. ' A libel suit was stirred up In one of them and Senator Heed Smoot of Utah , cnroiito to his Utah home by way of the now train , was called In to act as Jmlgo. A Cold Wave. A cold wave struck Los Angeles nm southern California simultaneously with the arrival of the newspaper par ly Ice fro/.o over Inlm of water at night and overcoats were never tin comfortable , with winter clothing nn ilerneutli. The government sent bill lellim warning ( ho cold wave , and at I In the morning the orange groves were smudged with oil bricks to drive off the frost. The oranges are nearly ripe and the ( lowers , of course , In bloom. Among the features of Iho entertainment in California were ii drlvo lo Lucky Ualdwln's ranch anil through It ; a trip to the oldesl mission church In the country ; nn automobile Irlp lo Pasadena and around the town ; a trip to an oslrlch farm ; a bath In Hut sea at LongHnnch ; a ship rldo to Catallna islands though a typhoon prevented landing ; and a hull's head , breakfast In Spanish style Deb Dnrdettc There , Too , At Pasadena a luncheon was served in one of the many magnincent hotels. Hob Iturdi Ue wns there and gave n brief ( alk Ho remembers Norfolk well and spoke , alter the luncheon , of bin visit here and bis trip to the Nor- lolU sugar factory. Having wedded a widow of wealth , lie enjoys one of the most splendid mansions In America , and now is pastor of Iho Haptlst church at Pasadena. In ( his city , where eighty millionaires reside dur ing the winter and where n single residence lot sells at JfiO.OOO , there Is perhaps the choicest display of excel lent homes lo be found on this contl- nonl. Such men as Anhouser Uusch , Oreen of ' 'Orcen's August Flower" fame ; Standard Oil magnates and oth ers of the sort , have outdone them selves In surrounding Ihomselveshoro with Iho mosl beautiful dwellings , and a trip to California would bo complete ly Incomplete without a side trip to Pasadena. Cntalina Balked. The Irlp to Catallna was overpowered ered by a strong wind and during those eight hours of awful agony the newspaper men were perfectly ill. llanquets every night and luncheons at noon aided in this to a line degree. Itoturnlng home , a Christmas tree was Illuminated on board the train and on Christmas night a formal banquet in the dining car , with all present garbed In tuxedo , became the novel feature of Iho day. And Christmas , the guests of the railroads declared , next to be ing spent at home , was pleasantest on board the Los Angeles Limited. The 11 o'clock train out of Norfolk dally connects nt Columbus with the new limited , which passes Columbus at l-lr : > o'clock. No passes are good on this train and it Is probable that the initial guests nro all that will ever go "dead-head" on that trip. The last day at Los Angeles the Itroadway hotel , adjoining the Angelas where the party stayed , burned. It was thought the Angelus might go and the newspaper guests wore rout ed out of bed to escape. I THE PASS GOES DOWN ON THE COAST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND. ALL HANDS ON BOARD ARE LOST Word of the Tragedy Reaches Victoria This Morning Lost In a Heavy Gale Which Drives the Vessel Ashore Details Lacking. Victoria , H. C. , Dec. 'JS. Word rench es hero this morning that the British ship Pass , of Molfort. from Ancon , was driven ashore on Vancouver island during the terrific wind storm that has been raging along the coast , and wns lost with nil hands on board. Dotnlls of the number of inon and the cargo carried , are lacking. Strong Corn Market. Anokn , Neb. , Doc. 28. Special to TU News : Anokn 1ms n strong con market. Yesterday Nyo-Sehnoldor Kowler Co. raised the market fron : 2H ! < j cents to 32 cents on ear corn Shelled corn Is worth 27 cents , oats \Vo all feel young when wo buy , am ! old when wo do the paying. /OUNQ WOMAN'S CRAVING FOR GYM WORK FATAL. FELL WHILE WHIRLING ON BAR Miss Leona Wlrtb , Who Had Discard , cd the Mat Beneath Her , Whirled and Dropped Off the Bar , Striking Her Head Died Soon After. Now York , .Inn. 4. Ixsonn , Wlrtn , n iri'tty 17-year-old girl , died at St. Luke's hospital today , craving for ath li'tlcs. At her homo Miss Wlrth hnd i small gymnasium rlggod up. There she practiced hours every day , hard ening her nniHclcH and making her slender young body lithe and quick. She also spent much time in the church "gym" nearby. There she wna whirling upon a horizontal bar. There was no pad beneath It she got beyond all that Horl of thing as her skill In creased. Hut her grip on the bar of hlckoiy slipped and she fell backward. The girl struck squarely upon the back of her nock. She lay there quiet and white. An ambulance hurried her to the hospital and she dlod soon nfter reach ing It Her spine hnd been broken Just where It Joined the skull. THURSDAY TIDINGS. Chns. Nenow bus gone to Gordon. Kred Haley has returned from a trip to Sioux City. MU'.s Anna Kunco IH clerking at the store of Thos. Knoll & Co. Louis Oreenherg him returned from his visit with Omaha friends. Miss Laura Durland has gone to Plalnvlew for a few days visit. C. P. Parish nnd llttlo sen are at West Point visiting friends and rel atives. .1. W. Henderson of Weeping Water Is here visiting relatives and transact Ing business. Hnttle and Adolph Liechtenberg tune leturned from a holiday vLlt to Walnut , Iowa. Hmoiy Dickosei left last night for his work In the Black Hills , bo being located at Lead. Herman Neiiman of Stanton was In town yesterday seeing sights and transacting business. N. llaj Hall and wife of Lincoln r.ro guests nt do home of Mr. and Mrs. Chns. Belresdorf. Anton nuchhul7. is in Wayne today negotiating n loan for the Norfolk Building Loan asaoclatlon , N , A. Heynolds of Creighton was In the city today transacting business and exchanging Bieetlngs with friends. The Item yesterday about John Con- ley having purchased S. 11. McFnr- ami's business , should have rend , ! nn < os II. Conloy. Mr. and Mrs. H. Jl. Zleschc , who ire going to Ixis Angeles , Cal. , lo spend Iho winter , will ho accompanied : iy Miss Verona Ncnow. H. T. Leper of Adel , Iowa , who has ; ieen visiting his daughter , Mrs. C. E. Hurnham during the holidays , returned o his homo this morning. C. M. Kryger of Tokamnh and Miss IClsio Kryger of Neligh accompanied Itlle Hazel homo today , and will visit Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Kryger. Fred Spaulding has had his runs changed from the morning to the noon train on the M. O. , which will be much moro convenient for him. Kil S. Kvos of O'Neill Is in town to- lay. lay.Dr. Dr. Holdcn wns nt Fremont yester- lay. lay.J. J. H. Dlckovcr returned from Sioux ityMrs. Mrs. Mary Davenport Is visiting at Madison. Will Prachar of Madison was here nver night. K. Lewis of Meadow Grove wns here , iver night Mrs. Barnes of Plalnvlew Is regis tered at the Oxnard. M. H. Wlllbergcr of Anoka was in Xorfolk over night. Thomas DrnbcU of Spencer was in Norfolk over night. Alice Smith of Creighton was In Norfolk over night. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Hanson of Hullo j | were here ever night. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nichols of Madi-l I j son were hero this morning. ' H II. Antics of Stanton was In town last night exchanging greetings with friends. Leonard Hogelnnd of Lincoln has been hero visiting relatives. Thos. Hlght nnd wife have returned from their holiday visit at Ruth. Hey K. Brown of Neligh , who has been at Sioux City , passed through the city yesterday enrouto homo. Miss Helen Tanner returned to her homo In Bnttle Crook last night. \V. R. Ixcko of Stanton was In Nor folk last night nnd this morning. Mr. N. Mntzen returned Inst evening from a holiday visll at Leigh , Neb. Mrs. M. A. McMillan returned nt noon today from n visit at West Polnl. Samuel Ranslell of Cherokee , Iowa , Is visiting nt Iho homo of B. E. Reed. Morton Seymour wns at Mndlson vest onlay , transacting business at lhat place. 13. W. Halm , a baggage man who runs between hero nnd Columbus on the Union Paclllc , Is laid up for a few days with n badly sprained wrist. J. S. Tuckerman of Crolghton was visiting with his brolhor , Louis Tuck- orman yesterday. Miss Verona Nenow , who loft today for Us Angeles , will visit with her sister fourteen weeks. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hauser of Ne ligh were In the city today. Ho came down to meet his wife who had been -t..itiiic relatives at Plalnvlew , and ( < 'omp.inicd her hem > Henry Dohbs of Lynch was a gucnt last evening of Guy Cooley , being en onto homo from Omaha where ho spent the holidays. i Arthur Conrad of South Tenth street , who IIIIH been suffering from ; nn attack of typhoid fever , IH reported convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. Ludwlg Koenlgsteln returned Insl evening from Iholr Irlp soiilli , where they visited at Arkansas , St. Louis and other points. Ed. Belrosdorf , who has boon homo from Wakelleld with the folks , re turned to Wnkellold , where ho Is em ployed , yesterday. Word was received from G. J. Ilabn and family nt Hastings reports the llttlo folks of that household sick. The family Is quite well known in Norfolk and Crclgbton. C. E. Doughty will arrive home to day from his visit to Marsballtown and Hello Plalnc , Iowa. Ho will bo ac companied by Mrs. H. L. Doughly and children who have been making n hoi- Idny visit at Charles Oily and Hello Plalno In the same state. It was Mr. Doiighty's llrst visit back to eastern Iowa for several years. Rev. Victor F. Clark , Mrs. Clark and their daughter , Miss Martha , of tlio Congregational church at Nollgh , were In Norfolk yesterday bclwcen trains. They were guests nt Ilio homo of Rov. mil Mrs. W. .1. Turner. Philip Lehman and Adolph Knnu > f Stnnton were guests last night nt the homo of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lob man. They were enrouto to Now Him , Minn. , where they will the Gorman Lutheran college. Edmund Winter mil Albert Wnchter will also attend the same school. II. .1. Eccles , who was so badly in jured about seven weeks ago by the motor car near Crelghlon , is getting along all right. This morning his In jured wrist was examined by an X-iay and tlio physician says he will be all right , as Iho examination shows a satisfactory healing. Air. Ecclcs Is a bridge foreman on the Noithwestern system. C. W. Crnm. for several years comr ty superintendent In Madison county lias gone to Mcllride , Mich. , where ho will take to the farm of bis boyhooi days nnd resume tlio scenes of his youth , following the plow and husking corn. Efforts by insurance companies were made to secure the services ol Mr. Criim but ho preferred the out-of door life. At 10 o'clock this morning in the Catholic p-irsonagc of tills city thf marriage ceremony joining I3arl Sisk of Snn Francisco and Miss Tressn Qulgley of Dnnbury. Iowa , wns per formed by Father Walsh. Charles VI lorna of Lynch was best man and Miss Hoe Qulgley of Lynch , sister of the lirldo. was maid of honor. Mr. Siak formerly lived nt Odebolt , Iowa , and is now express ngent on a steamship line out of San Francisco. For the present the young couple will visit at the home of Mr. nnd Mrs. .1 Kellehor o Norfolk and later nt the groom's oil home. Later they will return to Sni Francisco. Announcement by the Burllngtoi that It has arranged to establish i homeseekors' Informal ion bureau fo the purpose of assisting homescokert , to locate on the available homestead lands In several counties In northon and western Nobrnslci under the Kin kaid homestead law , which permits bonn lido settlers to take G-10 acres In stead of ICO , as under the eld law. D Clem Denver , nt present receiver o the land olllce at O'Neill , Neb. , ha been appointed agent In charge of the bureau , with headquarters in Omaha The bureau will bo operative fron February 1. Us work will bo to locate every available section of land whlcl can be utilised for mixed fanning , am put a settler on it. Mr. Brake wishes to correct a state incut printed yesterday to the effec that the olllce of the manager of the Norfolk Business college Is removed t < the Bishop block. The olllcu of th Norfolk Business college Is in the Cot ton block , third door , and Mr. Brake is solo manager. No other person i authorized to speak for the Norfol Business college , nor to make nn promises , guarantees or engagement of any sort or kind whatever. Ebci Perry Is authorized to sell scholarship for tuition ; nothing moro. All patron can arrange for attendance at the co legc with Mr. Brake himself , as here toforo. This statement Is to correc any impression that Mr. Brake ha parted with control of the college. Mi Brake is proprietor and manager ii every particular. A new graft being practiced on th farmers is about the same old stor with n slight variation. Mr. Farmer i visited by a tank man who Is selling a patent water tank for farm purpose which has mnglc powers to proven water from freezing , no matter ho\ cold it may get. Should Mr. Agent fni to mnko a sale ho agrees to leave sample on trial , hut Mr. Farmer mus give him a receipt for same , as th goods do not belong to him , and sal ( agent must account for nil the tank bo takes out The receipt Is givoi the tank is never cnlled for , but ntnot dnys later n note turns up for Mi Farmer to pay. All farmers shonh beware of the magic tank man am look for a square deal with the loca man who sells tanks in which the wn tor will freeze. It is cheaper to cu Ice than to pay n big note nnd the only have n thlrd-grado tank in coi struction and quality. Bobsleds Come , Skates Go , Bobsleds Imvo come Into much use during the past two days of snow cov ered streets. As yet no good coasting has developed. Ice has boon so burled with the snow that there Is no skating. Porfoot In duality. Nloclornto In prloo. REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE AND SURGERY. MAILS TAKEN FROM STOMACHS When a Child Today Swallows a Nail , and After Old Time Methods Have Failed , the Child IB Relieved by Means of X-Ray Vlclon. If the "skilled" surgeon of seventy- dve or oven fifty years ago had been old that the time would come when 'ractured bones or dislocated joints could bo treated as they are at the iresenl day. ho would probably have considered his informant "stark mad" o say the lonst , nnd would undoubt edly have been ono of a "lunacy-coin- nit tee of threo" to pass judgment ipon said Informant's right to "life , Iherty and the pursuit of happiness. " The very Idea of being able to make ; > pnquo matter , semi-transparent by the application of Hint wonderful force , he X-ray , was in Itself considered in he light of a huge joke , when , a few . ears ago Its possibilities were first mule known to the general public. When , however , it became known : hnt Prof. Roentgen of the University if Wur/burg , Germany , was the dis coverer of the X-ray and in his report to the Medico-Physical Society of Wur/biirg , made known the wonderful powers of the hitherto undiscovered nergy that the results only of his experiments with it were known to him , while ( ho real nature of this sud denly developed power was still wrapped In mystery then , nnd only then did the thinking world accept , in n hnlf reluctant mnnner , the fact Hint n now element in modern life had boon scovered nnd had come to stny , while the years ( scarcely ton of them ) l"i\p only served to find new avenues of usefulness for its general applica tion. tion.As As was natural , Its IntUnl experi ments' were made upon and for the re lief of suffering humanity , so that now if the omnivorous Infant con cludes to make a meal of a shingle- nail or the llko and the old , time-hon ored remedies or a sudden reversal of bend and heels fails to dislodge the offending element , the sufferer Is hur tled to the nearest physician possessed of an X-ray , the exact location of the irrltutlng object located accurately , nnd all unnecessary cutting in the in evitable operation thus avoided. Or If trouble of a persistent kind in liny of the Inrger cavities of the body Is of such n nature as to baJIle ordi nary surgical skill and an operation is deemed unwise because of the pa tient's physical condition , the kindly X-ray comes to the rescue nnd enables the surgeons to decide the nature of the trouble , be It ever so obscure and thus bring to bear upon the situation , relief from harrowing pain nnd in al most Innumerable instances , a pro longation of life to the sufferer. Another wonderful stride to the front brought about by Prof. Roent gen's discovery Is the way in which fractured hones and dislocated joints nro nuulo to yield up their intricate variety of complications and just jog along on tlio road to health with Mother Nature's help when , thus aid ed , the proper treatment Is applied. The News man hnd occasion to call Into the olllce of one of Norfolk's lead ing physicians on Wednesday nnd while there wns given a chance to personally sec demonstrated the use of the X-ray when applied to the re cently united bones of the wrist of a patient. The fracture was close to the distal ends of the radius nnd ulna and , unfortunately , involved both bones In a compound fracture , and as The News man gazed at the result of Iho healing processes , the actual bones seemed before him , as though no sheathing of flesh and blood were in evidence , so powerful are the rays , whoso forces were focussed upon the Injured member. And so we progress in knowledge from what now scorns the dense ig norance of n century gone by , to the mysterious , but useful discoveries of the day , taking each ns It conies , some times ns a friend In disguise who haste to struggle painfully for any recogni tion sometimes with open arms. Moro recently we have had to ac knowledge ourselves baffled ngain , but ready to bo convinced by tlio discov ery of what is clnlmod to bo of far greater value to the scientific world than the X-ray and that Is Radium , the mysterious nnd almost appalling new element , the nature of which Is at present scarcely beyond the con jectural stage. Birthday Party. A birthday party wns hold nt the homo of Mrs. Peter Jnhl last night In honor of Mrs. Emll Molchor of Ixonia , AVIs. , who Is visiting horo. They had games and a general good time. Re freshments were served and at a Into hour and the guests dispersed to their several homos. Superior engraved cards. The New * .