Heart Taken Out and
Sewed, He’s Recovering
Pittsburgh.-‘-Adam ’. Williams, 31
years old; whose heart was taken from
iiis body by a surgeon and four stitches
made in it. is “Improving,” it was said
today at Passavantdiospital, where the
operation was performed.
Stabbed through the heart ill a tight,
W illiams was taken to the hospital in a
serious condition, according to the sur
geon who performed the operation.
A large opening was made in Wil
liams’ chest, the pericardium or mem
brane surrounding the heart carefully
opened, and the heart lifted into the
surgeon's band while being stitched.
The organ throboed while he held it in
his hand,- the surgeon said.
After the stitches were taken the
heart was replaced in its proper place,
and the operation has every indication
of complete success, the surgeon de
clared. ___ _
Aviators, High in Air,
5 Miles Apart, ‘Talk’
Dayton.—Today, for the drst time in
history, according to armv aviation of
ficers here, two men several thousand
feet in the air and more than live miles
apart held-conversation.
This remarkable feat was accom
plished at Wilbur Wright Field by
Major H. J. Knerr and Lieutenant M.
N. Stewart during a test of new radio
equipment.
A test of the new radio equipment
included the flight of two ships
equipped with broadcasting and re
ceiving instruments. The men con
versed with each other with perfect
ease, Major Knerr said, while whizzing
through air at the rate of 120 miles an
hour, going in different directions.
By a second arrangement, t heir con -
ctersation was heat'd on receiving sets
ax Wright Field.
The tests were made preparatory to
equipping a number of planes with the
radio devices. It's said the equipment
■ is still in the experimental stage.
Outstanding Qualities.
"These are the outstanding qualities
that I have noticed in successful tuen:
“1. A complete willingness to do
any amount of work that may be neces
sary to master whatever they are en
gaged upon.’coupled with just as dis
tinct aa unwillingness to do any work
which has no connection with their
job. That is, considering the task on
which they are engaged, as a road,
they are the men who travel the full
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length of that road without going up
any byways or oIT into the fields to pick
[lowers.
“2. Both the will and the capacity
to think, and a strong and continuing
desire to learn. [ have uever seen a
really successful man who thought he
knew it. ail.
"3. An entire absence of envy. They
will admire and commend a competi
tor’s program, and then see what they
can laarn from him. Never will they
let another man’s success make them
sulky.
"4. They are always seeking how to
get things done in the best and easiest
wav, and trving to make it easier for
everybody to get things done. The
successful man rarely gives orders, al
ways does his own share, and not only
expects others to do their share, but
helps tnetn to do it by a tacit asshmp
tion that undoubtedly they can and
will do their part.
“5. A full appreciation of the fact
that the world is made up of human
beings who would rather work pleas
antly than loaf, but who also want a
decent share in the good things of life.
*'6. An absence of the quality that
we call greed. I have never known a
really successful man whose chief con
cern was t,he money he could make.;;
“On the other hand, among unsuc
cessful or mediocre tnen. 1 have noticed
that the controlling forces seem to be:
“1. Knvy. The cranky grouch who
is always complaining about what the
other fellow has, never, under any cir
cumstances, gets any where—and there
is ho earthly reason why he should.
“2. A passion for motioy. The man
who looks first to what he is going to
get out of a thing is worth nothing to
himself or to anyone else.
“3. An excessive egotism. This is
not to be confused with self confidence,
hut comes from a closing of the mind, a
resentmeut of criticism, an unwilling
ness to think and to work, and a great
willingness to give a profusion of or
ders to others as to how they should do
their work. The conceited man rarely
does his own work well, and, in addi
tion, will butt in on the work of others
and prevent them from doing their
work well. In the worst cases, the man
imagines that he knows everything,
and that no one else knows any thing.
Consequently, no one can work with
him.
“4. A selfish lack of consideration
of associates, so that everything the
man does is followed bv a maximum of
bad feeling.’-—H. L. Ferguson. R. J.
W., California News Letter.
An American in dear old London
was bragging about his automobile. He
ended his eulogy by declaring: “It runs
so smoothly that, von can't feel it, so
quietly vou can't, hear it, has such per
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for speed—boy, you can’t see it,.*>
“Hut, mv word, old dear,” interrupt
ed the Briton, anxiously, “how do you
know the bally tbiDg is there?”—Yluo
Baboon.
Murrav Hulbert, president of the
New York board of aldermen, said on
the Homeric as she plowed her way
homeward across the herring pond
“Europe is working hard to pay
America her war debts. I don’t think.
Europe reminds me of the hired man.
“A farmer in the middle of the af
ternoon found George, bis new hired
man, lying under a treo, smoking a
cigarette.
“ ‘Resting, George?’ said the farmer,
in a sarcastic voice.
“ ‘Nope,’ said George. ‘Not. exactly
restin’, for I hain't tired. I’m jest
waitin’ for the «un to go down, so’s I
kin quit work. 1
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Proposition. Yankee Creek
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About 7 miles long, extending iron/
No. 1 below discovery down to the
mouth of the creek.
Pay located all along tor1 a distance
of about 3 miles from upper end, and
pretty \vrll prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of ground is from
to 20 feet. Top is all black muck
that can be scraped freely. No rock
bigger than one’s fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to SI
■ ‘per square foot of bedrock.
Ditch on ‘the * round, 3 miles Jong,
together with water rights. Ground
is pretty well cleared. There is also
a drain, 3 miles long. Also a water
right on Heady Bullion creek, from
which water can be brought to
Yankee creek with a ditch less than
a mile long [4,900 feet], with a pres
sure or fall of 120 feet, being 1600
feet to the work from the ditch.
Alter doing away with muck there
will be from 4 to 6 feet of dirt to
handle.
Only about $11,000 has been taken
out
Prospecting work during the past
winter has resulted in finding values
that run up to $1 per square foot of
bedrock
1 will either sell the ground or give
a (Case on it. If the prospect is sat
isfactory to the buyer, a cash pay
ment will be expected.
For further information, terms,
etc., call on ground, or write or tele
graph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.