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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1f2fDREAD LEPROSYLOSING TERROREvldtmee Malady In, UnderControl in U. S.Carville, La,—Science la 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-iess 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, luce the institution was established y the United States public health service seven years ago, 8T have been released, and only one has suffered a relapse. Those released recentlyhad been under treatment from two to seven years, and about 400 others remain.Mnn.v of the bacteriological, chemical. pathological and clinical studies which have contributed to the ad winces made in treatment of the disease in recent years have been conducted by health service workers in Hawaii. Their principal achievement has been the development of chemical derivatives from chauimoogrn oil obtained from an Oriental tree which have Increased its effectiveness in enmbaiing the leprosy gerin.The scientific studies also have established that the disease is commu- I nicated only by direct and usually pro- j longed comae* wirh a victim. Casual contact, the investigators found, is nm danaerous 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 Usedfor Scientific WorkeiRL WORKS ISLAND!CLASH IN-FAR. NORTHCanadian College Graduate;Lives in Cabin.Toronto.—Women are ‘fitting on tfae top of the world in many fields of' activity, but to Miss Kathleen Rice, graduate of the University of Toronto,' goes the unusual distinction of active1 operations as a mining prospector.Mining is one of the chief topics ©£ conversation In Canada at present, but while the home woman, the business woman and the professional woman discuss how many shares of this oe iliat they own, Miss Rice is working her claim. Her part In the romance of mining is a definite one. At present her base camp Is on an island In Herb lake, or to use the more melodious Indian name, Wekusko lake, northern Manitoba. From this base £he has worked since 1921, Here she lives in a log cabin that harks back to the days of the pioneers, and here she pioneers on one of her most promising claims, a copper and nickel vein on an island, within a stone’s throw of her cabin. Hard work has been tangled up In the romance, and Miss Rice had considerable difficulty lit proving the claim. Now, however, she is receiving encouragement, for neers on the ground have pronounced the prospects good.Tote* * Gun.Kathleen Rice is one of those “girls of the great open spaces who tot© guns,” seen often on the screen as be-teg typical of Canada, but very rare, indeed, in the Canada of real Mfe, Most women would be satisfied to gin distinction in man’s field by prospecting in the summer, but Miss Biee 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•»4I-1itNew York.—How a piece of ordinary carbon paper, such as every office stenographer 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 ‘bject3 us 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 ■ meant that if a line of carbon sufficiently thin could be laid acn _ the surface under the microscope, it would form an object cr 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 bark of the carbon.operations. While she v*rp« lt;i a veteran, she never shlt;»«‘Once, when a moose fell * she preserved the meat tv,Devotion to animals is on-Bice's outstanding character ways, In the North, sbp D w and known by her far -spite the unwritten !«•* country, she ignores auo . • -*tthe lash. In this matter she • *full approval of the dogs, who nm only shower her with devotion but re-pay her by being the best trained dogs within hundreds of mlle3.Lone Venture.It is now 15 years since Miss Bice, daugbler erf Henry Lincoln Rice, B. A., of Toronto, went North on a lone Yen-' tare. The spirit of adventure was GchiiKskby a college chum from Chicago, whcNsi^ked her when she homesteaded in of her brother.Lincoln Rice, of ivNfclaryX Ontario. The young ra»ad*j: ? tired o£cities and classrooms !oes4^£or the North; fe i t “ i! ea ‘i of wi ad-swopr. places,” so she feft her p-^'ion A# «maihemauos ;a»is It; an Ontariohigh school and hiked a a unknownInorj The rest «f Hie stoiy is teemim \v*'b «lt;1\ ensure, her richest gold qimriz Halm is on the shore of Herb lake in I he Hue of strike wirh the Bing** lies and Kinski mines.-Sava use Starr is a family name, she calls, it the S«.trr Haim. The name Connor’s ?h- (tire family with the earliest New r.j.g and settlement. This claim si.i'W* nt i»niy gold but other highminora* vane* §i,e was one O? the«first f»r. ^’M'ctors in the North to findvntrt'l'trv,Russia Sends Coats to Moslem WomenTifils. Cau'-n*’!4-— »Mh- hundred thou-Danish Student Called “Busiest Man in Pitt”(Pittsburgh Pa.—Christian Xeilaon, h Danish .student \ the University of Pittsburgh, hus won the disiinrtiuu ofbeing called the “busiest man la
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Lowville Black River Democrat
Lowville, New York, US
Thu, Jan 10, 1929
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