Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 December 1896 — Page 2

THE MEDICAL SECJ5

DB. WALKER SCME£I AODBEBSU THB TKBBl flAOIE LITKBABX CLUB.

B»OatUawtb« History ot JMleriSetanee From the Earliest Time Up to tlieFMMOtOSp

"Medical Sects" was the siiDject of a very learned paper prepared by Dr. Walker Schell and read last evening before the Terre Haute Literary club. The paper was a very extended discussion of the history of the medical science from the earliest time up to the present day. It was an argument from one end to the other and showed Dr. Schell to be one of the leading students in his profession in this city. On account of the extreme interest which is being manifested in this subject at the present day, an extract of the paper is here given. Dr. Schell spoke in part as follows: "Every age confutes oid errors and begets new."

The first part of the paper deals with the original

GreeK

philosophy and medicine and the

evolution of medicine from the primary necessities ot mankind. Medicine old in the time of Homer, since it had then, lost trace of its priestly and divine origin which axe always primitive myths. The hospitals of Greece were advanced institutions, where patients were treated by baths, clictic regulations and byp110tic suggestions just as in modern times.

The first of the ancient sects to reach an eminence worthy of remembrance in this day was the school that followed the teaching Of Hippocrates. He was born in the eightieth Olympiad or 460 A. C. This was the golden age of Greece and his contemporaries were Sophocles, Aristophares, Aeschylus, Euripides and Pindar among the poets, Pericles the orator, Socrates and his pupil, Plato, Xenophan, Herodotus and Thusydides. This was also the age of Confucius and Zoroaster.

It would seem that some Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods to enkindle the brains of men so productive of great deeds and thoughts was this age. The advances given to the world by this school are separation of medicine from philosophy. Medicine lost also Its mystical and religious character and became an art if not a science. The Hippocratlc oath shows the high plane of practice which this art attained. It Is still an ethical guide to physicians in their relation to patrons and to each other. Many methods in U6e by this school are still practiced to this day.. The literary style of this school is remarkable for clearness, brevity and accuracy of description taken first hand from nature by perhaps the most acute intellect the world has ever seen. It Is still a model of the scientific method to this day.

This great man Is also the model which physicians in all ages have followed in times of danger. He labored In the great plague of Athens of which Thucydides wrote In much inferior style acoordiug to Galen.

His heroism was imitated at Memphis, where half the profession died at the post of duty and in the civil war, where in the Union armies the highest percent of slain was in the medical corps. This school was founded upon the rock of bedside observation. It promulgated little theory, but that little was of high "character as was to be expected from our acute and sound intellect.

Nature the Physician.

The theory of humors comes from this school. Humoral pathology has not ceased even In this day to influence medical thought, and Is engrafted in the language of the proiesslon and laity. The motto, "Nature is the physician of diseases." is from Hippocrates and well sets forth the practice of this school which has not been excelled till the last half of this century.

He also ..originated the classic saying that the special duty of the physicians was "to do good or to do no harm."

The Greeks at Alexandria surpassed in many respects the original school. They excelled in knowledge of anatomy and surgery. They did many of the capital operations of surgery that have only been revived In modern times.

This school in its long career originated many warring sects. The Empiries, which even in this day influence medical thought and practice, the Sceptics, which so largely dominated ancient philosophy and medicine, and the practical works of life aTe from the Alexandrian school. This medical sect was especially strong in the Roman school, and its Influence extended into the middle ages. It much suited the mediaeval mind. This school widely extended our science and anatomy,

Slodern

urgery and obstetrics were advanced to standards. The Roman Intellect was unsuited to the cultivation of medicine. The practice was in the hands of the Greeks. Even the Greeks at Rome distinctly retrograded when measured by the Hippocratic standard. They rejected the doctrine vis medicatrlx naturae and originated the school known in history as the Methodict or Methodists. This school held to solidest doctrines of pathology as opposed to the theory of humors.

Although the doctrines of the art retrograded, the practice in some directions advanced. Soranus wrote a work on "Diseases of Women," which is the only work on that subject that has come down to us complete from ancient times. It shows an advanced state of this medical specialty. Many Instruments In use by the Romans have been uncovered In the ruins of Pompeii, and they have in many cases been re-invented in modern times. Although medicine as a science and art does not owe much to the Roman, yet medical history was fortunate in two great writers, Celsus and Galen. Galen was a man of vast learning and great llterarv ability. He was the prince of theorists. He added the notion of pneuma or spirit- to the humors of Hippocrates and attacked the Methodists. He originated the notion of temperaments. He filled his works with speculations. He elaborated the system of treating disease by contraries, which gave rise to the allopathic school, which was perhaps the dominant school in the middle ages. His knowledge of drugs was vast and accurate, and the medicines on the shelves of drug stores today are for the most part called Galenic preparations. The Arabs did much to restore ancient medicine and preserved for us the classics of antiquity. The revival of learning furnished the sect called humanists, who were the enthusiastic students and imitators of the ancients.

The middle ages ended with the triumph of the alchemists, searchers after the philosopher's stone and the elixir vita.

The immortal names of this school are Paracelsus and Van Helmont. The seventeenth century gave the world Bacon, Newton and Boyle and the chem'.cai pnllosophers. They originated the school who held that diseases were due to acid and alkali humors and the fermentation of the organs. The moderns of this school are Liebig and Snow.

The eighteenth century of medicine was dominated by theory. The two great theorists of this century were John Brown and Hahnemann. Brown and Hahnemann had much in common. Both rejected the notion that diseases were unities and entitled to names. They attempted to simplify classification .by rejecting all that had been learned by centuries ot painful toil. Brown divided diseases Into two great classes, sthemio and asthemic, and the treatment was to be either stimulating or debilitating, according as it was one or tlio other. Elimination and support are the basis of the therapeutics of the followers of Brown.

The Homeopathic Treatment Hahnemann was a medical Nihilist. He rejected anatomy, physiology, pathology and chemistry as worthless to the practical physician. He denied that diseases were entitled to separate names. Chronic diseases he regarded due to three causes—psora or itch, syphilis and eycosis. This simplicity has been a source ot pride to his followers. He is compared to Cuvier. His classification is so simple as to be meaningless as can be understood when psora or itch is given, as the real causa of nervous debility, hysteria, hypochondriasis, mania, melancholy, idiocy, madness, epilepsy and convulsions of all kinds, softening of bones, radlctis, scoliosis caries of bones, canter, varices gout hemorrhoids, dropsy, asthma, cataract, diseases of special senses and pains of all kinds. Hahnemann then claimsd that seven-eighths of all diseases were due to the Itch. When the microscope discovered the itch mite the falsity of this part of Hahnemann's theory was proven. Sycosis is known to us also in the form of the barbers' itch, as a skin disease. W© thus see the great Impression skin diseases made on tho father of homeopathy.

He rejected nature as a guide and reproaches her methods as unreasonable. The doctrine of infinitesimal dose is an essential teaching of Hahnemann. The ordinary dose recommended Is the deciiHonth of a grain.

A fraction the denomination of which is unity followed by sixty ciphers Is the common dose, and this Is so "potenttied." "spiritualised," or "dynamatiaed," especially if shaken by a powerful arm, as to cure the most obstinate diseases with a single dose. According to Hahnemann it is not even necessary to take this dose, since it will heal equally well by olfaction and this in a patient who has lost the sense of smell. Hahnemann's doctrine si»illia similibus curantur is copied literallv without acknowledgment from Paracelsus. If this doctrine were true diseases would for the most part be incurable, since medicine cannot produce disease resembling diphtheria, *carlet fever, small pox or malarial fever. Antl-toxln. the specific for diphtheria, acts by ^neutralising the poison and rendering unfit the culture ground of the specific micro-organ-ism. The organisms which produce malaria we ace killed in the blood by quinine. This the ^microscope shows us. The cause of the whole oup of contagious diseases was unkno^fj^o hnemann. Indeed he argued against al cause and contended that diseases ?irere

•ft*

bs*e:'^«nawMii with the fi»dM»nta| idiea ©f doctrine* whlck is from Hippocrates, The t&Seeticm Is that it i* not compute and satisfactory. It is a partial truth, soch as impress* A certain grade of intellect It is not a law^ of natura like gravity. It contains iust enough truth to deceive the ignorant.

It has been asserted and proved by the homeopaths themselves that they do not practice their system. IbW, Bobody Mw b^lieves its doctrine. The name has only a business value. It is not taught in any greatuniversity. It is one of the conspicuous examples of the power of error to reader the operation* of the human intellect sterile.

No homeopath has ever written cUssic. Freedom is absolutely thought and when the mind of man is sbaewea by an exclusive dogma it is as barren as Sa hara. jf-

THE FREEDOM OF CHINA*

Wong Chin Foo Wants fi.OOO Irishmen to Fight For It. Chicago, Dec. 14.-Wong Chin Foo, who is credited with "being the leader of a party which is gaining ground In China and which has for its object the establishment of a republic in the land of Confucius, delivered an interesting lecture last night at Kimball hall upon the "Philosophy of Confucius."

The lecturer had been in the United States for mere than twenty years, and bad made a careful study of our institutions and national characteristics. He was obliged to leave China in 1873 as a result of his active participation in an insurrection against the reigning Tartar dynasty, and upon his arrival in America entered Columbia college, where he studied for several years. He afterwards spent several years in the lecture field, but subsequently took up mercantile business. About two months ago he became a newspaper man, establishing in this city the Chinese News, which Is the only Chinese paper published in America. To a reporter today Wong Chin Foo said: ''I am impelled to point out to the "people of Chicago the beauties of the Confucial system of philosophy, wander which the people of China have lived in happinngSjand tranquillity for so many centuries. I see no much unrest and misery among your people that I cannot refrain, from trying to point out to your people a system under which those evils do not exist in anything like such a degree as here. I was expelled from my own country for trying to remedy the abuses which existed there, and perhaps yoir will make me go back home again for doing the same work here. But if ever I go back to China I want to take 5,060 fighting Irishmen with mg, and after they have helped me to free China, I will guarantee to furnish 50,000 fighting Chinamen to help ffee Ireland."

In the course of his lecture Wcffig Chin Foo said: "You have now studied the'Bible for twenty centuries and have tried to force the christian religion down the throats of the so-called heathen nations even at the point of the bayonet. Yet your own people are no better than the people of other religions or than they were in the beginning. Confucius teaches that we should take care of the present life, and not go to heaven before we have done our full work here. He teaches that the future life will take care of itself if we do our whole duty to our fellowmen here."

Wong Chin Foo then bitterly attacked the civil service system of this country. He declared that civil service related only to the minor positions, while the heads of the departments were left undisturbed.

On the subject of police protection Mr. Foo said there were cities in China containing 250,000 inhabitants, in which there was not a policeman. "In Chicago," said he, "there are thousands of them, and yet a man Is not safe here in broad daylight."

Wong' Chin Foo concluded .the lecture by stating that the keynote to the philosophy of Confucius is: "Do unto others as you would have others do to you."

Radical Pout Office Changes. Washington,' Dec. 14.—Postmaster-Gen-eral WilsonJias issued an order extending the house and house collection and deliver letter system so as to provide for the sale of postage and special delivery stamps through orders to letter carriers on slips contained in a unique official stamp selling envelope to be furnished by the postal improvement company. The order provides for one of the most radical improvements yet made in the postal system. It will be tried in Washington at once, and if found practicable, extended generally. It affords the conduct of one's business with the postoffice at home, at least so far as ordinary transactions are concerned, and it is expected to largely increase stamp sales as soon as the system becomes general. The house to house collection of mail by means of ingeniously contrived boxes has already been adopted and extended to twenty-five free delivery cities.

Pennsylvania Hanks Assiju. Hollidaysburg,"lPenn., Dec. 14.—A deed of assignment was this evening recorded from the Martinsburg Deposit Bank of Martins burg, this county, to its cashier. The bank was a private partnership with a paid up capital of $25,000. Its assets will aggregate $200,000.

The Williamsburg bank, of Williamsburg this county, also assigned to its cashier. This bank is incorporated with a paid up capital of $27,000. Its mercantile rating is $175,000. It is said the failures were participated by the withdrawal of Pennsylvania railway funds.

Cable Trains Collide.

St. Paul, Dec. 14.—A serious accident occurred in this city tonight on the Selby avenue hill, two cable trains colliding and very severely injuring Miss Julia Holmberg, Miss Annie Migsen and Henry B. Young, while a large number of others were less jseriously injured. A cable train got away from* the control of the brakes and crashed into an ascending train at the foot of the hill at Pleasant avenue. A number jumped and escaped serious injury, while several others suffered slight injuries.

Fortnne-See emigrants. Many poor families that seek the western wilds In the hope of winning a fortune are preserved from that insidious foe of the emigrant and frontiersman—chills and fever— by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. So effectually does that incomparable medicinal defense fortify the system against the combined influence of a malarious atmosphere and miasma-tainted water, that protected by it the pioneer, the miner or the tourist provided with it, may safely encounter the danger.

A Valuable Glf* For Princeton. Princeton, N. J., Dec. 14.—Junius S. Morgan, of New York, has presented to Princeton university a collection of Early editions of Virgil. The books are said to be worth $50,000. The gift comprises 312 volumes, twenty one of which are fifteent^century editions, including the first rare edition of Seveynheim and Pannarts, Rome, 1496, of Which only six copies exist today.

A Uccel vera trip Vacntml.

Cincinnati, Dec. 14.—Judge Taft, of the United states Circuit Court, issued an order today dissolving the rece.vership of John J. Waterbury and Wm. E, Strong, of the United States Cordage Trust. It is said the affairs of the trust are in good shape, and a re-organisation committee will be set at work upon them.

,\ I'alureil Woman Kataliy Burne:l. Washington, Dec. 14.—Mrs. Alice Thomas, a colored woman, who is known to be over 102 years of age, was fatally burned today. She fell against the stove and not having the strength to summon assistance, there being no one else inBide the hou«"» at the time, died-A horrible death.

OLD TIME BOXERS

JJS1MC MACK, OF *NGfc*XD, MKKTS MIKE DOKOVAJi.

John X. Sullivan sad Mm Corbott At* Present—The Boat Declared Draw*

New York, Dee. 14.—The aren» of the Broadway Athletic Club was thronged tonight with a host of sporting men to see Jem Mace of England, the ex-champion heavyweight, aged $5 years, spar at* rounds for scientific pe'jits with Mike Donovan, the veteran boxing instructor of the New York Athletic Club. Mike Donovan forinerly held the middleweight honors, and although he is 49 years old, he can still hold his own against any of the club members and outsiders who visit the boxing room in the Mercury Foot Club building. With such old timers as Arthur Chambers, Billy Edwards, Barney Aaron and Dooney Harrison the programme to renew acquaintance in the roped arena after years of rest there was scarcely a chance of the benefit being failure. It was truly a veterans' reunion, and the warm welcome accorded to John L. Sullivan when he entered the building proved once more, if that were necessary, that the "Big Fellow" still has a warm corner in the hearts of the Bporting fraternity.

The friendly exhibitions which preceded the Mace-Donovan bout were each of three rounds' duration. Jim Hall of Australia and Pete Burns of Harlem made thing? lively in their bout, and whenever either pne landed the spectators applauded. Professor John Donaldson then had a lot of fun for three rounds with George Rooke, once well known in England sporting circles. Donaldson was too clever for the old timer. When-these two left the ring there were loud calls for John L. Sullivan, and in response the ex-champion made a short speech in which he thanked all those present for his warm reception and said in conclusion that it remained for the boxers of the present day and their managers to make boxing one of the leading sports in the athletic werid.

Those two old adversaries, Billy Edwards, of tbis city, and Arthur .Chambers,, of/Philadelphia, were next in order, and th^y boxed three very short rounds. Every effort of the men was fully applauded and both, were cheered as tbey left the ring. Bpb .Armstrong, the big colored heavyweight bpxer from Chicago, was then pitted against ^Tommy Kelly, the Hoboken lightweight eyejpne. This evenly matched pair put up a very amusing bout of three rounds. Barney Aaron and Dooney Harrison were, greeted with cheers when they made their appearance for a three round bout, and the former was presented with a floral horseshoe. George Dixon was then introduced, an4 it was announced that he would nteet Jack Downey at the club on January 4th. Kid Lavigne was also introduced and bowed his acknowledgments.

Jim Corbett and Jim McVey, of Philadelphia, boxed a three round exhibition. Corbett made an excellent showing. He looked to be in prime condition and was very quick in his movements. He was called on to? a speech, but did not respond, Jem Mace and Mike Donovan entered the ring at 10:30 o'clock. Both men wore long white trousers and Mace had a green stripe running down the side of his garments.

In the first round Donovan was decidedly the quicker man, but they simply tapped each other, and Donovan did the greater part of the leading. .. /j

In the second round Donovan tapped Jem on the face-and the

Englishman

a few seconds to remove his

stopped for

artificial

right

teeth,

wbicb caused a laugh at his expense. Donovan also had the call in the

second

On

points. Mace landed two left taps on Mike in the early part of the third round. Donovan jabbed his right on the body and face, and swung a

on the neck. All these

blows were very

light.

Donovan was still

the faster man. They mixed It up in the fourth and last round, and then shook hands. The rounds were only two minutes duration each and the decision "was left to the spectators, who all shouted "draw.

JOE GANS A VICTOR

Knocks Out Ctaarli® Rochette of San Francisco In the Fourth. San Francisco, Dec. 14.—Joe Gang, of Baltimore, knocked out Charlie Rochefte of San Francisco in the fourth round, and Jack Ward, of Newark, N. J., was awarded- the decision over Jimmy Anthony, of Australia, in a ten round contest. /&*/!*#/

The first fought at 32 pounds and the latter at 112. Rochette put up a good fight until near the end of the fourth round when Gans swung left on the head, staggering Rochette and before he could reapvef Gans put his right straight on the point of, the jaw. Rochette went down, but arose in a dazed condition and swung wildly until a rain of rights and lefts on the head from which the San Francisco man went down as the gong rang. It was apparent he could not respond and Referee Mitchell..declared Gans the winner.

In the Anthony-Ward fight, Anthony forced matters from the start. In the fourth Anthony jabbed his left on the nose and face, bringing the blood in a steady flow. Ward got in two or three hard rights full on Jimmie's ear, but they did not damage. In the seventh Anthony swung his left with terrific force on the wind which nearly doubled Ward up and the latter finished the round by breaking ground and clinching. Round eight was fast. Anthony rushed Ward and Jack came back with somfc hard swings in the head and neck, but Anthony did not seem to mind them.

In the ninth Anthony went at Ward, trying to corner him in order to use his right, but Ward cleverly got away. Anthony, however, got in his left on the face, bringing blood in a stream from a cut on the nose. At the call time Ward was groggy. The tenth and last round wag fast from the start, with Anthony forcing Ward about the ring and tryifig for a knockout. Ward countered beautifully, but his blows lacked punishing power, and he was decidedly weak at the close. "Young Mitchell, who had been announced as referee, "in the interest of fair sport," surprised a great many people by deciding that Ward had the better of the contest. Anthony had forced the fighting in every round and was fighting strong at the finish, while Ward was apparently saved by the gong In the seventh and eighth rounds. .The odds were 10 to 3U. on Anthony.

In the first round of the Gans-Hochette bout, Rochette stopped Gans with a'straight left in the face every time the latter flame at him. Gans landed only one left lightly on the head. In the third Rochette stopped Gans with left on the face, and in a rush Gans swung right and left hard on the head.

In the fourth, Gans got Rochette in.ft corner and put right on the body and left on the head. Rochette put harji left on the head and right on the body. Gans followed Rochette up and swung rjght and left on the head. Rochette put a straight left In the face and got a hard^ left swing on the head, staggering him. Before he could recover, Gans landed a straight right on the jaw and euded the fight.

An Kcbo of the A. R. U. Strike Detroit, Dec. 14.—John C. Bodewig and George W. Johnson, convicted of conspiracy to wreck a mail train on the Grand Trunk railroad, near Battle Creek, 189fc during the

American Railway Unl#n strike wore sentenced by Judfe Swan in tho United States District Court today. Boflewig was sentenced to two years in the Detroit house of correction and to pay a fine of $2,600. Johnson's sentence was twenty months Imprisonment in the house of correction and to pay a fine of $2,500.

GREATER NEW YORK'S CENSUS.

Proportions «f tM Toretffn-Born Mdwto of Various Division*. The population of the city of New York Is, roughly speaking, double the population of Brooklyn. That.is to say, there wo 2,000,000 people in New York city and 1,000,000 in Brooklyn. By the federal census of 1890, which was fairly accurate in Brooklyn, the population of that city was returned at 806,000, and by the same census, notoriously Inexact hs to New York, the population of this city was returned at 1,500,000. It was nearly 200,000 greater at that time. By the state census of 1892 the population of Brooklyn was returned at 957,000 and of New York at 1,800,000. The population of Richmond county, Staten Island, according to the New York Sun, is now about 60,000 (it was 53,402 by tha state census of four years ago), and the population of Long Island City is about half as much, or 30,000. These four commuj#tles—New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City and Staten IslandWill constitute nearly all of the Greater New York if the project goes through the legislature according to the present schedule, so far as the question population is concerned but In the matter of area the Queens county divisions of Hempstead and Jamaica are large enough to be considered.

While the number of inhabitants in New York is double the number in Brooklyn, and the voting population of New York is about twice as large as the voting papulation of Brooklyn, New York has nearly three times as many foreign born voters as Brooklyn, and the proportion of foreign born voters to the whole population will, therefore, if the greater New York project goes through, be materially reduced below the percentage of New York city at present, for there are, relatively, few foreign born voters in Richmond county or in the portions of Queens county to be annexed, outside of Long Island City. The proportion of Germans in the voting population is substantially as large in Brooklyn as in New York. There are 100,000 natives of Germany in Brooklyn compared with about 200,000 in New York. The percentage of Irish-born voters is relatively much larger in New York, and the number of Italian voters of New York is, compared with Brooklyn, relatively twice as large. That is, there are four times as many Italian voters in New York as in Brooklyn. There are ten times more Russian voters in New York than in Brooklyn—relatively five times more. There are fifteen times more Hungarians in New York than in Brooklyn1, and many more Bohemians, too. Englishmen tod Scotchmen, however, are relatively much more numerous in Brooklyn than in New York city, and the same is also tru§ of Scandinavians, who are much more numerous iff Brooklyn than New York, not only relatively but actually as well. There are 80,000 Austrians in New York exclusive of Bohemians an doPles, against only 2,600 in Brooklyn, but though their number is very Bmall there are more Portuguese in Brooklyn than in New York, and nearly as many Spaniards. The propor tion of native American voters would be uiuch larger, of course, in the Greater New York than in New York city at present

PHOTOGRAPHED BY NATURE.

A Forest Landscape Pictured in Colors On a.Chestout 81ab.

That nature is a rare artist in colors, applying them with Incomparable effect, every one knows but few persons are aware, probably, that occasionally she also tries her cunning hand at photography, says the New York Sun. Frank S. Peabody, of Pawcatuek, at the extreme southeastern end of the Nutmeg state, has a wonderfully precise and curious specimen of her handiwork in this way. It is a natural landscape photograph on a chestnut slab.

A day or two ago, while wandering about the Lodging woodG, a vast and indescribable dreary wilderness of tangled forest, morasses and ferns, In the northern part of the hill town of North Stonington, Mr. Peabody came into clearing In the heart ot the jungle that was bestrewn with the prostrate trunks of many forest trees felled by the woodsman's ax. Stumbling about the jumble of logs, planks, fire and brushwood, many pieces of which were matted with patches of moss and lichens, forming singular and striking arabesque art patterns, he finally espied a short chestnut plank on whose wide face was imprinted a vivid, clearly defined picture of the woodland scene thereabout. "The slab," said Mr. Peabody, "had been lying for nearly a year in a muck or swamp region of the Ledging woods, and no doubt the disintegrating effluvia had wrought a phenomenal chemical change in its smooth face, developing therein a photographic fitness to receive and perpetuate Impressions. At any rate a perfect likeness of the landscape confronting the chestnut slab camera, set up there by nature, had been taken by it and faithfully and sharply fixed thereon. In fact, there is the whole scene imprinted accurate to a dot, with every tree, its crown and trunk, interlacing branches and boughs, even minute twigs, swamp shrubbery and spindling stadders and shoats, clearly defined in the plank likeness, The slab, since it was in a nearly recumbent posture, of course, photographed only the trees and brush that were directly in front and above it but the likeness is an unmistakable one. Furthermore, It Is a color photograph, for the outlines of the objects traced on the plank plate are of ft deep yellow, like ochre."

Mr. Peabody

displayed his odd treasure

in a show window, and scarps of people have examined It.

APPLE MORPHINE WELL TESTED.

A Drug Clerk Volunteers and Has a Wretched Experience. Special to .the Indianapolis News.

Rushville, Ind., Dec. 14.—While Drs. Parsons and Jones were discussing the merits of an emetic (apple morphine) which Dr. Jones had Just received from Chicago, Bert Mullen, drug clerk, volunteered to test Its efficacy, over which' there was some dispute. Dr. ParBons thereupon dissolved a tablet of the apple morphine and administered it with a hypodermic syringe by insertion in the clerk's arm. The effect was instantaneous, with a result wholly unlooked for. Mullen fainted away in the physician's arras and the doctors labored with him some time before consciousness returned, using ammonia and other restoratives. This was followed by a violent attack of vomiting, lasting twenty minutes and more, and leaving the patient in a pale and weakened condition. Mullen was compelled to retire to bed, where he slept for several hours, during which he dreamed that he was pursued with a legion of demons, each one bearing a platter laden with tablets of apple morphine.

a Fnnr*C«nt Fare Artopte'l. Chicago. Dec. 14.—The city council tonight adopted an ordinance compelling the street car companies to accept 4 cents for a ride. It is likely that the matter will be taken into tha courts.

To Core a Cold la One Day.

Take laxative Broffio Quinine Tablets. All druggist* retuad the money if It falls to cure. JPc.

R0BEBT J. BUBDETTE.

W1IA UOTQUV IN I** MM* M. K. OIGItlH THIS ITIKIKO

4R laterals* Aceoant of How Be Www tho BrakemM'a Story—The High Hat Question.

Robert Jonea Burdette—that is his namo in full—will give one of his enjoyable lectures this evening, December 15thf at the First*M. B. Church. It is some years since the humorist has been heard in Tejrre Haute, and those who have enjoyed him before will be the first to wish to hear him again. Mr. Burdette has rather a rapid delivery.' His voice is clear and well pitched. He talks straight ahead, as if he did not expect laughter or applause, but It is sure to follow his sparkling witticisms. As a humorous lecturer, Burdette stands at the front of those on the rostrum today. All who partake of his "good medicine," will laugh and it will not be the speaker's fault if they do not grow fat

Secretary Jamison has received a number of communications from ticket holders of the Association Lecture Course requesting that he make an effort to prevail upon women to refrain from wearing high hats to the lectures. The lecture course committee will regard it as a special favor if the ladies

How the Brakemuu's Story Was Written. A writer in the Sentinel gives an interesting account of how Bob Burdette came to write the brakeman's story:

Charles Wilson, private secretary to Governor Mount, has been for years an intimate friend and comptmion at times of Bob Burdette, the humoiist, formerly of the Burlington Hawkeye. Mr. Wilson tells an interesting incident In connection with Mr. Burdette's writings and experiences. "No doubt the most famous of Mr. Burdette's witticisms," said Mr. Wilson the other evening, "Is the brakeman's story in which he tells of his visit to church and in bis Btory uses the railroad figure of speech to describe certain alleged characteristics of the different denominations. You will remember that in the story the brakeman begins his tale just after the train had left Lebanon and ends it as the whistle blows for ZIonville. Well, apt as those two names of stations are, they are real.'."Some years ago I was at Lebanon with Mr. Burdette over Sunday and we strolled down street Sunday evening and into the doors of the Methodist Church. Mr. Burdette had lectured in the town the previous evening and he had been greeted with a large audience. "After the minister had completed his sermon he Introduced the collection with a good round scolding. He said the collections had been small and it was disgraceful. He said the people of the town could go out to hear a fool with cap and hells make them laugh for an hour or two and could pay a dollar each to hear this, but they could not contribute the same amount toward their church. "I was very angry at the incident and on our way home I epoke rather bitterly of the Insult which I felt had been thrust upon Mr. Burdette, but he laughed good naturedly and said not to mind It, as the minister probably did not appreciate how it sounded. I was surprised at the good nature shown by Mr. Burdette at the time. Some time afterward I got a manuscript copy of that brakeman's story from Mr. Burdette. You will remember that in It the Methodists get just a little harder rub than any of the other denominations. Well, I confess I read tha£ story with considerable amusement and then I decided that Mr. Burdette had played even and with interest That story will live longer than any other of this great humorist's writings. He wrote it the next day on the train."

THE NORMAL ADVANCE.

A Few Remarks From This Institutions' Monthly Paper.

The December number of the Normal Advance, the official organ of the students of the State Normal, has just been Issued. It is a very interesting publication and speaks highly for the editors by whose energies the paper is issued. The following articles are from the last issue:

Miss Wright will continue her work in physical culture next tefjn. As many new classes will be organized as Is found necessary to carry on the work successfully. If many of the advanced pupils drop out, then the remaining pupils will form a new class, but this Is not anticipated, as the wC, has been a source of much enjoyment and benefit. There will be no change in the rate of tuition.

Our institution is growing. It has been said by men of experience that ws have one of the best Normal Schools in the United States, and, judging from its late improvements, the fact of its progressiveness is plainly evident. Within the last month the interior of our college building bas undergone a marked change in many respects. The library has been enlarged, new tables put in, electric lights placed In proper positions throughout the rooms, the halls have been carpeted, the floors stained to prevent dust, etc. There is also built under the secretary's office a fire proof vault for the purpose of keeping the records of the school. The steps on the west side of the building are changed so that entrance may be made directly from the west. In keeping with the general growth and development of rhe school was the recent appointment of two new professors besides Professor McBeth, who will succeed Professor Hoich as assistant in geography. The two new Instructors are Professor F. R. Higgins, assistant professor of mathematics, and Professor Thomas H. Grosvenor, assistant professor in English. These are both considered able men, and will undoubtedly reflect credit on the institution. These new men will begin work next term.

The teacher should ever have a 3ugh standard of morality. Parents and friends of children in the public schools expect this of him, and they have a good right to, for the destiny of a child is largely In the hands of the teacher. Low aims and base actions make a teacher a reproach to the profession and an Instrument for doing great harm.

Most of our teachers possess a high moral standard, and their daily lives are such as to bless all with whom they come In contact but a few are not sa, their innor lives are black, and their influence is degrading. And, in our schools for the training of teachers are found a few of those in attendance who lead lives of extreme vicioussness and whose influence Is pernicious. When they are not under restraint their associates hear but little else than unclean w^rds from them, and fortunately their acquaintances cannot but know of the Immoral acts of such characters.

This institution Is not an exception with reference to this matter, and it is the duty of those students who make an effort to live pure lives to do something to rid the school of the few whose: eonduct contaminates its atmosphere. A moral leper Is not fit 10 be in a school as teacher. There Is not an institution In the land that requires a higher standard of morality among Itsstudentsthan this school, nor is there one that inspire*Its students to right conduct more thap

thif school, ind w« Relieve ttwt nowhere is found plaoo wit* a larger per cent of olsa9f uprifht students than the I. S. N., hut this fact should not Justify us in keeping silent upon this subject. It should encourage us to do what we can to make this school stand upon a still hifher plane. We, at least, can shun such persons, and show them that we heartily {Us»PJjrcvs such degraded conduct.

FREE LAND IN WASHINGTON.

iSoToraor-Vleot Rogers Proposes An Amendment to State Constitution. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 14.—Governor-elect Rogers has issued a copyrighted pamphlet containing about 3,200 words, and entitled "Free Land." A eopy has been sent to the members of the legislature which meets next month. He takes the position that free land is an "inalienable, imprescriptible and indestructible" right of man, and draws lessons from the freedom and enjoyment of the Puyallup reservation Indians, which he thinks results from their free, inalienable and untaxable homesteads. His position is supported by quotations from Emerson, Ingersoll and Seneca. In conclusion, he proposes an amendment to the state legislature providing that real estate and all usual improvements to a value of not to exceed $2,i00 occupied as a homestead by any private family, the head of which Is a citizen of the United States and this state shall be forever exempted from all taxation of every kind.

The exemption is limited to homesteads. The pamphlet states that in this amounut excepted by this scheme would not exceed 10 per cent of the entire valuation. He said such a plan enacted Into law "will prevent that fatal clash of ,_the classes otherwise Inevitable." .sYf,

The pamphlet' concludes: "County government should be abolished or reduced to the merest skeleton of what it now is. Township and municipal governments can attend to local affairs let,the. state be called^ in where necessary."

ANOTHER PICTURE SLASHED.

Philadelphia, 14fee Chicago, Has Despicable Enemies of the Presldeut. Philadelphia,. Dec. 13.—The despicable act of some person in slashing a bandscree oil portrait of Grover Cleveland in the rooms of the Thirty-second Ward Progressive Democratic club, at Seventeenth and Norris streets, has stirred up a feeling of resentment among many members of the organization, and steps are being taken to,fasten ihe guilt wherei it belongs. The cu.ts in tho canvas extend down tho middle from end to end, across from side to side, mutilating it so that it can never be repaired. The loss of the picture, however, is considered but trivial in comparison with the,Jesuit, .to the president.

Among the members of the club are several who were excessively bitter in denouncing the attitude of the administration in the recent campaign. At the instance of some of these men it is alleged that the portrait of Mr. Cleveland, and Its companion piece, a picture of Vice-President Stevenson, were taken from their places on the wall and stood wrong side about in the corner. 7,his step did not meet with unanimous approval, but was allowed to pass by without much protest, as those who did not like it feared to make themselves unpopular by open opposition. In the corner the pictures remained until the recent episode, which, it must be said, has aroused hearty condemnation.

HIGH REVELS IN THE NAVY,

Aa Episode at Rio. In Wliicli Americans and British Engage. "Well," said the retired naval officer, chuckling over his reminiscenses, "tha greatest bringing together in a common cause of the British and their American cousins that I have ever saw was back In 1885, In the harbor of Rio," quotes the New York Press. "The American flagship Lancaster had been ordered over there from the European station, apd when she got in by tho Suga* Loaf there was the little British gunboat Ruby of the gem class. The Lancaster had been obliged to stop on the African coast for some diplomatic reason before she got to Rio, and her officers were glad to be alivo again. *,• "We blew off the whole wardroom n:ess of the Ruby that night to tho best dinner our cook could put up, and then went ashore with the Britishers to' see the town. We saw it. "About 2 o'clock in the morning the officers of the Ruby invited y,s to go aboard their ship. Some Idiot spoke of the time Charlie Beresford painied out all the sipm In Portsmouth. We had no paint' excopt that with which wc had been painting tha town, so a council of war was hold, and wo concluded that It woul.l serve every purpose If we took all the sign in the Rue d'Ovidor and carried them .aboard the lluby. "This we did. A little police officer tried to interfere, but we pitched him into the gutter. The little wardroom of the Ituby could scarcely hold our spoils. As It was late wh%p we got aboard some fellews elected to stay where they W9i-e all n'ight. As for me, I never like to carry a joke too far, and went back to the Lancaster, so as to be ready for duty in the morning. My, what a noise those tin signs made as we rattled them down in tho Ruby's wardroom. The captain of the Ituby? Oh, he was all right. Our captain had been entertaining him."

LOCATING THE BLAME.

An Oversight Which

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Misleading.

One of Washington's amateur actors hai a profound faith In tho efficacy ol advertising. And it mu3t he confessed '.bat fhs public has given him reason to feel that It Is somewhat slow at making discoveries. It was after the euuvtaininent, f.nd ths chairman of the commniitlee on arrangbments was receiving his usual measure ol. reproof, says the Washington Star. "Who got-up the programme?" asked th« young man, "I did," replied the chairman of the committee. "I suppose you think that youi part of the performance was not given suffls cient prominence," "I don't care anything about the prominence. But so long as iny name was Mentioned at all it might as well have been dona right." "I don't see that you ought to say anything about the way in which we called attention to you. The audience didn't seem to know you were there." "On the contrary, a number of my friandi told me I was first-rate, especially wL*n 1 sang that comic song." "I didn't hear anybody laughing.'' "Of course not and that's wtier3 I say you are to blame. How could you e:\pftct them to laugh? You didn't srat in..,tha programme that it was a comic song."||s|

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