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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.
But It is also only half as far from
the center as it was nt the surface and,
If distance were the only factor, would
weigh four times as much as on the
surface. Four times one-eighth is one
half; therefore It weighs half what It
would at the surface.
Now. suppose we drop this bod$ to
the very center of the earth and see
what It would weigh. All the matter
of the earth Is now outside It and can
exercise no attraction whatever upon
It; therefore It weighs nothing at all.
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