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if Woman's Sight Is Restored By Radium Rkaoing, Pa., June 24. -To be able to see her children, ajrain after siktht of them had been de nied her for five years of almost tM;d blindness caused by hard work in a factory to support them is the happy lot of Mrs. Kaima Kpler. of Mohnton, five miles from this city. When she visited Pr. Kv she could barely distinguish the difference be tween day and night. Applica tions of radium were made for six to eight hours at a time. Ar the end of three weeks she was able to distinguish houses at a distance, and a week later she was able to distinguish the faces of her children and tell one from another. After five weeks of treatment she was able to read half a dozen lines of test card sot before her, and today she is aole to read a newspaper with out glasses. Radium's success in the treat ment of blindness was announced yesterday by Dr. Ege, who is treating several other patients ani hopes to have as good re su'ts. FOILED THE MAJOR Ha Had to Flee at the Last Battle cf the Revolution. A FIGHT WON WITH A BROOM. The Engagement Wai Short, Sharp and Decisive, and In It the Patriot Spitfire, Mistress Day, Earned the Right to Her Title and to Fame. The last luittle of the Revolution was not t Ymktowu. nor was it any of the (uuiiy stmill skirmishes that occurred after tile surrender of Cornwallls and before the formal declaration of peace in 1783. The last battle was of the na ture of a duel. Hud it bapei)ed on the day the British evacuated New York. The great day that was to see the last of King (Jeorge III.'u regimeuts leave these shores dually arrived. The British army was to board the ships that lay in the hariior. Washington and his troops were waiting at Kings bridge and McGowan's pass to take possession of the city Inimedately on their departure Major William Cunningham, the British provost marshal and command er of the prison on the itiuiuion. gave one last look about his office, tossed the key on the table and went out into the sunlight, slamming the door liehind him with much unnecessary violence. H . infamous reign was over. There were few forms of cruel ty that he had hesitated to practice on the luckless Continental prisoners in bis charge. Among the mildest were the contamination of their drinking water by throwing rubbish Into the well and the appropriation and sale of their virions for his own profit The friends and relatives of his vic tims were flocking back to the city trl umpbant. and It behooved Major Cun ningham not to linger. So he left the prison, turned into the common, and crossed it to gain Broadway. He strode along muttering curses under his breath. At the corner, of Iiroad way and Murray street something 'aught his eye. lie stopped, hesitated, then turned aside and hastened down Murray street. "What audacity! What monstrous audacity!" he thought But it was like that rebel spitfire. Mistress Day. Uo would tench her one final lesson. He reached the Day house, which was a tavern near Greenwich street, opened the gntf and shook his fist at Ihe Stars nod Stripes that fluttered from a tall flagpole, as if waving a triumphant welcome to the Continental troops. Wrathfully he seized the halyards and began to pull the flag down this pole. There was something about th action that soothed his rullled feelings. He would at least take back to Eng laud with him one captured rebel ban ner. But he bad reckoned without Mistress Day! From her kitchen that patriotic wo man heard the creaking of the pulley on her flagstaff. She tiptoed to her front windows and peeped out She knew the major only too well, and she determined to prevent this final out rage. She flew back to the kitchen and seized her broom. In the meantime, with bis back to the bouse, the major was hauling away vigorously. A few more Jerks and tha Aug would be within bis grasp. Bang! His hat suddenly (lew off a 114 went scuttling down the yard. In his as tonisluneut he continued to pull me chanically 011 the halyards. Bang, whack! The major saw many times more Hum thirteen stars, and the pow der tlew flout his wig In all directions. Ho dropped the rope and turned about, purple with Indignation. 'Woman, do you realize what you ure doing'.'" he roared. The broom stick was In the air again, and the major dodged. Whack! It struck him squarely across (lie bridge of his noso, and the Held at once became ensan guined. The bleeding olllcer now begnu to take hasty counsel with himself, lit' was late for the embarkation, tho American troops would soon be upon the ground, his hat had received an Ir reparable dent, his wig was In the wildest disorder, his regimentals were stained with njarks of the bloody af fray; his bead was yet splinting from contact with Mistress Day's weapon, and there were unmistakable signs that Mistress Day's arm was by no means weary! Some warning bugle notes from the Battery decided the matter, lie turned about and strode off. picking up his damaged headgear on the way. Mistress Day. smiling contentedly, returned to her kitchen to continue the baking and brewing for the evening festival. It took the major muue time to re move the evidences of conflict before he aiveared at the Battery He must have been hard put to It to explain his lateness and his disheveled state to his superior officer. His career after his return to England continued to foe dis reputable lie was executed for for gery eight years after he left New York. As for Mistress Day. the wo man who flew the first American flag In the evacuated city and who fought and won the Inst conflict of the Revo lution, she deserves 11 wider fame than she has enjoyed - Youth's Companion. WEIGHT OF A BODY. How It Decreases as It Goes Above or Below the Earth's Surface. Everybody weighs more at the sur face of the earth than it can at any other point Its weight diminishes as It is removed above the surface or be low it. As It rises from the surface Its weight decreases In Inverse ratio to the squares of the distances from the center of the earth. As it descends below the surface Its weight decreases directly as the distance from the cen ter of the earth. Thus a body weighing 100 pounds at the surface of the earth, which is ap proximately 4.000 miles from the cen to, would weigh only twenty-five pounds at a point 4.000 miles high. At twice the distance it has one-quarter the weight. If we drop the same body half the distance to the center of the earth or to a point approximately 2.000 miles below the surface It will weigh fifty pounds. The reason for this Is that at 2.000 miles from the center the body Is ou the surface of a sphere of 2.000 miles' radius. What causes weight Is the mass of matter combined with distance from the center. A globe of 2,000 miles' radius contains one-eighth as much matter as a globe of 4.000 miles' ra dius, the size of the eiirth; therefore only one-eighth as much matter at tracts the body, which. If mass were the only factor, would nt 2.000 miles from the center weigh one-eighth as much as at the surface of the earth. 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