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FuMIs aad vwnea T ! I etmt Evejuna- cvepi Wlee Corner Worth Ith and Aiim niiMiu and Hi'TtlMru BimImkm OKIm UK: hm M1CBXOMO. SaTDIAJf A UBscRimoN TUtia la Mehmead M M per yea m vaaoe) tr lOo pr week. RITUAL ROTTMI On year, in 4tun 9M Six month. In uwm On monta, la advene . Address changed as of tan aa dartrd; aaw aad ld aadriaaaa sut aa sTlveo. fesesrikere will pleas rK J , whloh should a srtvaai far a speatiled trm; nana will not a aatarad aatll pay man t la rwetve. MAIL UBOCRIPTXOJffl On year. In edvaace If Mis months, la advance Ona month, In advance Catered at Richmond. Indiana, pea: office aa second olaaa mall mattar. Maw York Representative Payne Tounar, t. 14 Wast lid street, and ISIt Waat 12nd straet. New York. N. T. Chicago Representatives li'arn d) Youn. T774l Marquette Buildinc, Chlcaco. 111. ff I 111 1 1 iamm Advarti&m ka M. VV eaaened anal certified to V the carUtief this pahHead ae. Thefiswres of drcalaUaa aaataiaad ia th AaaacJatiea'a repeat Jy ar guaranteed. fca&si tf Asata Aivertsers No. WMtaaMHai.alT.CHy 7As s My 44th Birthday HILLIPPE ROY. Phllllppe Roy. who a year ago was appoint ad to succeed the late Hector Kabre aa Canadian Commissioner to Franc, was born in Montmagmy county. Quebec, February 13, 1S68, and was educated at th college of Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere and Laval university. From th last-named institution he took his dgree in medicine. He went weat and later became a newspaper publisher. In 1906, he became a member of the senate of Canada. Mis interest in the promotion of a number of large Industrial concerns brought him In contact with many eminent French capitalists and led to his appointment later to the Important position of Canadian Commissioner to Franca. Congratulations to Major-General Qeorg B. Davis, former Judge-advo-' oat general , of the United 8tates amy, 6S years old today. James Guthrie Scott, the builder of several prominent Canadian railroads, t years old today. Do you know that more real danger larks ttt a common cold than In any other of th minor aliments? The safe way Is to tak Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, a thorough IV reliable preparation, and rid yourself of the cold as Quickly as possible. This remedy is for sal by all dealers. MASONIC CALENDAR Tuesday, Feb. 13. Richmond Lodge No. 19, F. A. M. Called meeting. Work in Entered Apprentice degree. Friday, Feb. 16. King Solomon's Chapter No. 4, R. A. M. Called Convocation. Work In Mark Master degree. Saturday, Feb. 17. Loyal Chapter No. 49, O. E. S. Stated mooting and social. Th Largest Painting. The largest painting, exclusive of frescoes and panoramas, Is Tintoretto's "Paradise." It Is hung In the grand saloon of th doges' palace at Venice and la eighty-four feet wide and thirty-four feet high. DAGKACHE HOT A DISEASE nal Which Every Woman Should Heed. Backache is a symptom of organic trsaknsss or derangement. If you have backache don't neglect it. To get permanent relief you must reach the root of th trouble. Read about Mrs. Wood.all's experience. Morton's GapJCentucky. "I suffered two years with female disorders, my I health was very bad and I had a continual backache which was simply awful. I could not stand on my feet long enough to cook a meal's victuals without my back nearly killing me, Sawt VJrAn A taanam d -ww visns MSB U V such dragging sensaa a uons i couki naraiy bear it I had sore-

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The "Doctors Trust"'

About vry weak this newspaper. In common with other newspapers, reoalvea a voluminous output of soma publicity bureau which protest against what It terms "the doctors' trust.' which Is backing, according to the charges, what is known as the Owen bill in congress. This MIL introduced by 8enator Owen provides for the creation of a national Department of Health and the duties of this national Department of Health are to be almllar to the dutiee of the various boards or bureaus of health now maintained In several states, one of which is Indiana. The bill also provides that the bureau of Chemistry, now under the Department of Agriculture, shall be transferred to this proposed Department of Health. This bureau of chemistry now is charged with the investigation of violations of the pure food act. and Is under the supervision of Dr. Wiley. This proposed department is like any other government department, subject. Anally, to the jurisdiction of congress. There is not the least chance for it to become any more autocratic than the department of agriculture or the war department. Congress will always have the right and the power to go into its affaire, make any changes deemed advisable, remove any of the officials for cause or do anything with it that can now be done with any department of the government.

The claptrap sent out by the enemies of the "doctors trust" alleges the whole bill is an effort to drive all practitioners except those of one school of medicine out of business, by creating the power to declare any and all other schools of medicine except the one favored by this department are unsafe and against the best interests of the public. In order to show the utter falsity of this claim permit us to quote from the bill: "And provided further, that the Bureau of Health established by this act shall have no power to regulate the practice of medicine or the practice of healing, or to interfere with the right of a citizen to employ the practitioner of his choice within any state of the union, and all appointments within the department, including the head of the department, ehal be made without discrimination against any school of medicine or of healing." Certainly nothing could be clear r and it is a complete refutation of the claims that the Owen bill is bei ig backed by any one school of medicine for the purpose of putting practitioners of other schools out of business. The special reference to the "practice of healing" and the prohibition of any discrimination against any "school of healing" effectually answers the allegation that the bill is aimed against Christian Science or the science of osteopathy, which is the burden of much of the literature being Bent out attacking the bill. An honest inspection of the Owen bill convinces one of its merits. It will injure no one engaged In the legitimate practice of any legitimate school of science of healing, whethe it is by medicine or otherwise. What it will Injure is the criminal who doe ; not stop even at sacrificing human life in order to gain a living by prey.ng upon the credulity and imposing upon the ignorance of the multitude, and also that other criminals who concocts various alleged remedies that are claimed will cure all the human ills from gout to bubonic plague, but which in reality are either absolutely worthless because absolutely harmless, or else filled with drugs that fasten upon the victim the morphine, ocaine or other habits. If there is any profession on ear.h that should be rigidly safeguarded it is the profession of medicine the profession that deals with human lives. The government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year in supporting the department of agriculture, one of its principal functions being to study the diseases that affect plant and animal life and discover means to eradicate these diseases. It is not denied by any one that this money is well spent. Yet when a bill is introduced that will protect human life there suddenly appears opposition of a foVmidable character to it, upon the plea that it is a "doctors' trust."

There is no field of activity where there is greater need for a trust than in the medical fraternity. In no other field of activity can anyone secure a position, even of a menial character, without some qualification for that position. From the day laborer to the highest paid executive the first question asked Is "What do you know about this work?" In no other Instance can the applicant for a position or the man who wishes to enter a profession start with his work without proving to his employer his ability. There is considerable agitation in tavor of a higher qualification for attorneys, and it is needed, but even under the present conditions the attorney who is not qualifed to practice law is never entrusted with important litigation, and hia success after all depends largely upon his making good. While he may aucceed in getting admitted to the bar he cannot continue practicing law and make a living unless he masters to some extent the fundamental legal principles. With the practice of medicine it is different. That is a scientific profession and consequently the public cannot judge of a physician's qualifications, because the public is ignorant of the science of medicine and cannot pass judgment upon those who adve tise themselves as masters of that science. The public can tell if a lawyer is a good lawyer, if a carpenter can make a box, if a plumber can stop a leak, if an engineer can run his machine, if a stenographer can take dictation correctly. But when it comes to the science of medicine the public has only one recommendation that of the state which issues a license to a physician or which permits some one styling himself a physician to continue in the profession.

The mother who takes her child to a physician has no means of knowing whether that physician is acquainted with the science of medicine or whether he is a quack, a charlatan, not familiar even with the human body, unversed in the art of diagnos's and treatment. Then, too, there is the stress of human interest that enters into the equation. The desire to be cured of ills breeds ' gullibility and leads the human race to fly to other Ills they know not of. The high-sounding phrases or the suave assurances of the quacks and "dope-distributors" open the door to the hope that burns within the breast of all afflicted and makes them hesitate to close it for fear it may after all be the one remedy, the particular kind of treatment that will restore health. Do the afflicted ask of their kind regarding the qualifications of the physicians who would experiment upon them? They are seeking Information from those no better informed than themselves. Do they ask of a really reputable physician and receive an answer that is derogatory they attribute it to professional jealousy, or, as the case in point, to the existence of a doctors' trust, and the truth is immediately discredited because of the very fact it is the truth. No one Is better acquainted with this contradictory and perverse condition than the quack who wishes to extract money from suffering humanity and finds it easier to do It by establishing a "new school" of medicine J4an by selling gold bricks and that furthermore he is protected in his criminal work by the very law that should be set in motion to prosecute him and drive his ilk out of existence. If then, some one rises and asks that he be required to have special training of such character as to fit him for the practice of medicine, asks that the doctor be treated on the same basis as the plumber and the electrician and the contractor, there comes from every side the cry of "doctors' trust." If there is an attempt made to prevent the man who "invents" a new science from being placed on a par with the man who has spent years in laboratories studying science, those who manufacture the various cults and systems protest that their rights are being taken from them and that a law against frauds is an infringement upon personal liberty.

Inasmuch as it is impossible for the average man to know the good from the bad in the field of medicine, and inasmuch as it is the duty of the state to protect the life and limb and happiness of its citizens, why should not the state, or the nation, establish a department which ia able to discriminate between the student of medicine and the common fakir,' and offer the citlaen protection from those who would multiply his ills while pretending to cure them, or make him sick by treating him for something which he has not. So long as such cries as "the doctors' trust" ran carry weight and such a campaign against sanity ran be made successfully, there is not much chance to conserve human life. We all join In movements to stop hog cholera or sheep scab or the San Jose scale, but when it comes to protecting human life from greedy criminals and passing laws that will enforce sanitation and make a doctor by profession be a doctor by virtue of study and training, we are turned aside and split into factions by those who make a living by a lavish use of their ignorance and a workable -howled of hunaa credulity. '''

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USIC Tvo been hero In Chicago on a Tlalt fer a while; 'Moat everywhere Ie went they've had some music In some style; ve tuk In showa where people sun-, an' et In swell caffays Where all th time a feller eats a bunch o' flddlera plays But thare'a one eong- that aeems to mo aounds better Mn th" rest. It's: "Train fer Clinton. O-ma-haw. an Denver an' th' weat!" I heard one long-haired fiddler play I never knowed that strings Could ever give out sounds that made you feel like you aaw things! I neerd planner pounders claw their way along th' keys . An make you think o shootln' scrapes. an' orchard blooms an' beea; But ther'a a piece o' music that Td Jest like to auggeat; Ifs "All a-board fer Clinton. an' far DeD-ver. an' th' weatl" I sot a ear fer music, I would have you understand; I pat my foot right smart to Alexander's Ragtime Band; I holler, too. fer Dixie; an' Tvo sung some In my daysJest sort o' off-hand slngtn". but X got through, anywaya. But when you size it up. ther'a one that sounds about th' best; It's: "Train fer Clinton. Oma-haw, an Denver an' th' weat!" Xva been down to th 'dee-po' every day, 'most, here o' late If I don't make a raise right soon. Ill have to go by freight. But there's a aort o' comfort, when that feller opena out An' makes th. whole blame dee-po echo back his drawed-out shout. I feel heaps like applaudln' when he gits It off his cheat , That: "Tra-a-aln fer Clln-ton, O-may-haw, an Denver, an' th' weat!" WE THE PEOPLE. We are the smartest people on earth. We give tips to bat boys. We give tips to bellboys. We give tips to porters and door men. We buy theater tickets of scalpers. We buy baseball tickets of scalpers. We hang to straps in street cars. We cringe before hotel clerks. We are snubbed by ticket sellers. We are bossed by our servants. We wear unbecoming things because Some one says the style has changed. We listen to bores at banquets. We allow politicians to say for whom we shall vote. We are the smartest people on earth. SAT THAT AGAIN, AND SAT IT SLOWLY. A Diplomatic Statesman. "Mr. Bigbug." say the biographer, "I find this unidentified statement of yours among some of your notes: 'The matter la one which deserves the thoughtful consideration of every public-spirited citizen, and which cannot be specifically decided without the prayerful contemplation which characterized the deliberations or the fathers of the country.' Will you tell me what the question was, so that I may insert the quotation In its proper placer' "Oh. that?" smiles the eminent man. "That was Just a nice little speech I wrote out and learned by heart so I ceuld repeat It whenever t was asked for my opinion on the initiative and referendum or the recall, or any other public question. It sounded good, and read just as well, and If I wre interrupted in a speech a reply like that would convince the audience that I was mighty conscientious." Insistent Debtors. The folk who borrow 'trouble Xo good intentions lack; They wait till it grows double Then try to pay It back. Vague Suspicion. "Jonadab." says his wife, "l mm beginning to have doubts of your sincerity." "Tbu are!" "Yes. I have observed that whenever I find it necessary to speak to you in an admonitory way, you very soon thereafter bump into a chair or a door and mutter., under your breath. I am growing to believe that you bump Into things Just as an excuse for swearing about what I say to you." One of the newest musical instruments, operated by electricity, reproduces the notes of forty-five orchestra performers.

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Politics and Politicians Eliott W. Major, attorney general, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor of Missouri. Madison, Wis., has rejected a proposal for the adoption of the commission plan of municipal government. Thomas Nelson Page, the noted author, is mentioned for the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia. The Democratic State committee of Arkansas has turned down a proposal for preseldential preference primaries In that state. Leo Gow, candidate for councilman in Georgetown, Colo., is said to be the first foreign born Chinaman to run for office in America. Colorado Democrats will meet in Colorado Springs April 29. to select twelve delegates to the national convention at Baltimore . John Hays Hammond, president of the National Republican league, has issued a call for a meeting of the league to be held in Chicago, June 18. Governor Fobs of Massachusetts, who Is said to aspire to the Democratic presidential nomination, wil probably sit in the Baltimore convention as a delegate. Milton A. Miller, a member of the Oregon legislature for 14 years has announced his candidacy for the United States senate to succeed Jonathan Bourne, jr. Governor Charles S. Deneen of Illi'THIS DATb

FEBRUARY 13. 1889 William and Mary Proclaimed King and Queen of England. 1766 Benjamin Franklin examined before the English house of commons on the effect of the passage of the Stamp Act. 1788 Waren Hastings, governor general of India, placed on trial before the peers of Great Britain for high crimes and misdemeanors. 1795 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill opened. 1812 Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee, naval officer in the civil war, born in Virginia. Died June 5, 1897. 1843 Commoder Isaac Hull, U. S. N., who distinguished himself in the War of 1812, died. Born March 9, 1773. 1862 The Federals began their assault on Fort Donelson, Tennessee. 1877 Prof. A. Graham Bell telephoned from Salem to his laboratory in Boston. 1883 Richard Wagner, famous musical composer, died. Born May 22, 1813. 1898 Count Kalnoky, famouB Austrian foreign minister, died. Born Dec. 29, 1832.

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his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia. In attempting to forecast the results of the November election It may be well to remember that six Presidents of the United States were eected by a smaller number of votes than those which woman suffrage states will control in the next electoral colege. The Republican members of the United States senate whose terms will expire next March are William E. Borah of Idaho, Jonathan Bourne, jr., of Or egon, Frank C. Briggs of New Jersey, Norris Brown of Nebraska, Henry E. Burnham of Now Hampshire, W. Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, Charles Curtis of Kansas, Joseph M. Dixon of Montana. Robert J. Gamble of South Dakota, Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, William S. Kenyon of Iowa, Knute Nelson of Minnesota, H. A. Richardson of Delaware, William A. Smith of Michigan, Francis E. Warren of Wyoming and George P. Wetmore of Rhode Island. THE IDEAL VALENTINE. There is no other custom of the entire year so pretty as the sending of 'v alentines. St. Valentine's Day is on occasion that has never lost its charm for young and old alike. The ideal valentine is a beautiful, tasty little box of Violets. Sweet Peaa. Lily of the Valley or Orchids. All these and many other beautiful things at THE FLOWER SHOP, 12 2t 1015 Main Street. Recruits by conscription to the French army are now on the increase. The normal number for last October would have been about 202,000. It proved to be 224,000 men, and the authorities are highly pleased. IN HISTORY' J. A. WALLS OPECIALIOT OATS) SfOBTDAT, TVJSSOAT. aad n

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