E Jones. "If it was their own wives and
I families, their own little children!
Then they'd sing a different song be
fore all that blood and horror.
"Whenever I think of the terrorists
of Russia I am reminded of another
terrorist whom I knew in my boyhood.
I "This man wore a red necktie anid
1 [long hair. He sat day and night in a
an incision in the cornea made at the
top. Pushing the points down throtgh
the pupil, with the sharp blade he
punctured the opaque membrane of
the lens capsule and cut it squarely
in two. The task of the surgeon was
to cut so delicately and precisely as
to divide the obstruction and let the
light into the eye again.
The operation was entirely success
ful. The dead lens matter remains in
the eye and on either side of the pupil
a speck of the opaque substance can
yet be seen. This in time may be ab
sorbed.
Some Surgical Marvels.
Philadelphia and Toledo, Ohio, have
recently contributed to the list of
marvels of surgery through operations
on the brains of incorrigible and men
tally defective boys. A still more re
cent case is that of Carl Fredericks,
aged nine years, of No. 200 Clinton
street, Hoboken. He is under observa
tion at the Rahway Reformatory prep
aratory to the practical reconstruction
of his brain.
The doctors say the boy's brain is
so peculiarly constructed that it pre
vents him from being good for more
than an hour at a time. The head is
of abnormal shape, the skull coming
to a point.
