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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1 mDREAD LEPROSYLOSING TERROREvidftee Malady la UnderCentro! in U. S.Carville, La,—Science !« taking the terror out of one of the world’s most dreaded diseases.Regarded since the dawn of history as a living death, leprosy apparently is being brought within the list of curable maladies, and the leper is being given firm ground for hope.“Unclean V' the cry of fear, horror and revulsion has come down the centuries. The fear has always been exaggerated to a greater or less degree, but has been none-the-less real in the minds of victims and those about them.Within the last few weeks, eight patients have been released on probation from the National Leprosarium here, sent back to their homes no longer a menace to the public health, lince the institution was established y the United States public health service seven years ago, 87 have been released, and only one has suffered a relapse. Those released recently had been under treatment from two to seven years, and about 400 others remain.Mnn.v ot the bacteriological, chemical. pathological and clinical studies which have contributed to the ad \anees made in treatment of the disease in recent years have been conducted by health service workers in Hawaii. Their principal achievement has been ihe development of chemical derivatives from chaulmoogrn oil obtained from an Oriental tree which have increased its effectiveness in eombasiog the leprosy germ.The scientific studies also have established that the disease is commu- I Titrated only by direct and usually pro* j longed contact wirh a victim. Casual j contact, the investigators found, Is not danaermis as it has been regarded, and they suspect that nasal secretions probably have most to do with transmission of the germs.Statistical studies conducted in connection with the scientific work indicate that the number of cases of leprosy in the United States exceeds 1,000.Office Carbon Used for Scientific Work6IRL worn ISLANDOLAISmFAR. N0RTNCanadian College Graduate;Lives in Cabin.Toronto.—Women are ‘fitting on tbe top of the world” in many fields of activity, but to Miss Kathleen Klee,graduate of the University of Toronto,' goes the unusual distinction ot active1 operations as a mining prospector.Mining is one of the chief topics ©£ conversation In Canada at present, bat while the home woman, the fensis@s» woman and the professional woman, discuss how many shares of this or iliat they own, Miss Rice Is working her claim. Her part in the romance of mining is a definite one. At present her base ca-rap is on an island In Herb lake, or to use the more melodious Indian name, Wekusko lake, northern Manitoba. From thla base £he has worked since 1921, Here she lives in a log cabin that harks back to the days of the pioneers, and Afire she pioneers on one of her most promising claims, a copper and nlbkel vein on an island, within a stone’s throw of her cabin. Hard work ha* been tangled up in the romance, and SUsa Rice had considerable difficulty In proving the claim. Now, however, she is receiving encouragement, for neers on the ground have pronounced the prospects good.Tote* a Gun.Kathleen Rice is one of those “girls of the great open spaces who fcO,te guns” seen often on the screen as befog typical of Canada, but very rare, indeed, in the Canada of real Mfe. Most women would be satisfied to gain distinction in manTs field by prospecting In the summer, but Miss Rico add* further laurels to her outdoor reputation by trapping in the winter, in this way she actually Is successful enough to make her stake for anr»nipc• tat-oNew York.—How a piece of ordinarycarbon paper, such as every officestenographer uses for duplicate*letters, solved an exacting scientific problem •is recorded In the metallography department of the Bell Telephone labora^tories here.The problem was to focus the ultraviolet microscope, which uses the rays at the blue end of the spectrum. These rays are invisible to the eye, but register on a photographic plate. The delicacy of the adjustment is Indicated by the fact that the microscope phctogiapbs -bjects as small in diameter as two hundred or three hundred atoms, which is the closest to nothing that visibility has yet approached,Francis F. Lucas, in charge of the . work, observed *tha* carbon complete- J iy absorbed the ultraviolet light, which 1 meant that if a line of carbon sufficiently tliir. could he laid acn .. the surface under the microscope, it would form an object cf sufficient contrast to make focus possible. How to get such a line was solved, after considerable experiment, simply by laying a sheet of ordinary cat bon paper face down on the specimen and drawing a line with a pencil on the book of the carbon.operations. While she v*rp« lt;t a veteran, she never shlt;»«‘Once, when a moose felt * she preserved the meat tv,Devotion to animals is on-Rice’s outstanding character-ways, In the North, sb* N -and known by her far -spite the unwritten la** country, she ignores the lash. In this matter she ■ lt;- • *full approval of the dogs, who not only shower her with devotion but re-pay her by being the best trained dogs within hundreds of mile3.Lone Venture.It Is now 15 years since Miss Rice, daughter of Henry Lincoln Rice, B. A., of Toronto, went North on a lone Ten-* tore. The spirit of adventure was GfliiiK£kby a college chum from Chicago, whcN^ked her when she homesteaded in of her brother,Lincoln Rice, of ?~NfcIaryX Ontario. The young ramtdhs; ? tired otcities and classrooms js*»» loes4^£orthe North; few ot wiad-swopr.places,” she fefi her p^bioa as * mathemalins MiewaJisi It; as Ontario high school and hiked an unknown land The res? of the si my Is teem im w?• b «lt;1\enSLiie , her richest gold quart2 Haim is on the shore of Herb ifilcp in Hue of strike w’rb fchlt;s Bing** lies and Kinski minesJ$«-vuuse Starr is a family name, she eatta it tfie SMrr Haim. The name con-n**Hs Mi- Rh*e fainiiy with the earliest Ncs\ r.ng -iti«T settlement. This claim sl.i»\v«s n*'t »»niy g*»bJ but other highva'im* sue was one of the«first pr. in the North to findvatrtd u'v,Russia Sends Coats to Moslem WomenDanish Student Called“Busiest Man in Pitt”Tifiis. Cau,*i«au«‘—» »ik- hundred thousand ruble? worth of imnvy overcoat? lut\e been rushed hv tin Soviet guv erume \ the lt;‘hii«*msiis to pru\ideMohntnmedai women **t the numerous motuPaineei tiii-i w‘ih warn. clothiitg Th we.irin. id o\mv»»atS by women was li-rmi-M'. Pub'Men by thelaw of the prophet The women of the mountain? p,re ofi»»red the over coals on h»n« lert!. -»-«•••!»i and at prodUfiion priictII1Steals Diinnmy HamLouM.lb. Kj. — a gfore u?ed a woi den iiuit:t• iii of a tempting ham in a window display, and as a result must pay for a new glass for the show case A passerby saw the advertisement after midnight, shattered theRi'.fsburuh Pm—Omistiac Neiteoa, h Daidsti student at the University of Pittsburgh, bus won the distin?uua of being called the “busiest man laPin.”Neiis«.n. rt*g;?ered for a prumedicai cours*-. is doing two full-time jobs each day. He carrier on a fuP schedule of studios and woi*w$ e;ght boars a day as rai'rnau wHghiroaster at A'iouip.pa. near-by sieel confer. He travels bb aides each day to go to and fr- m the university.Injured several years aglt;» vvUise with. Urn Danish merchant marine, he waa !eM at Baltimore to recuperate Later he came to this district, completed, a fonr-yetir high school course in three years with highest honors and entered college When he was left to Baltimore he ci uid no? speak a word of Knglish Now he speaks the languageflawle^H
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Lowville Black River Democrat
Lowville, New York, US
Thu, Jan 10, 1929
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