MEDICATION BY FOKCE
STARTLING PROPOSITION MADE BY
A NOTED PHYSICIAN.
Slekaew Should Be Punishable toy Law.
Ha Advocates That There Be No Private
Practitioners, but an Organized Medical
' Police A Badlcal Idea.
"Sickness is a crime and. should be
made punishable by law."
This remark emanated from one of the
jnost eminent and highly respected phy
jncianB in the city.
, . No physician, however far advanced
in his profession he may be, can con
scientioasly say that he is infallibly fa
miliar with the cases he is called on to
treat," continued the doctor. "My
opinion is, as much as I love my profes
sion, that the sooner the present class of
doctors is wiped out the better. I be-
4Mf q buan win guroiuiiiouii buuuiu uavc
-.complete charge of caring for the sick
throughout the country, and that the
most miserable pauper should have the
use treatment and show for his life
tiutt the millionaire has. I believe that
if sach was the case sickness could be re
duced to such a minimum that the legis
latore could conscientiously construct a
law making it a crime to be sick. Epi
demics spring from carelessness, and all
sicknesses result from abuses of the hu
man system and neglect.
"My suggestion would be to have the
government select certain physicians and
educate them up to the very best stand
ard possible to be obtained in medicine.
Let expense be a secondary considera
tion. If it cost a million dollars to reach
this end let it be spent. After these
physicians have attained their education
cause a medical department to be estab
lished on the same general plan as the
police department is run.
HIS UNIQUE PLAN.
"Have a chief of physicians, inspector
of physicians, captains of physicians,
sergeants and patrolmen, the same as
the police department has. Let this
city, for instance, be divided into pre
cincts and sub-precincts, and let the pa
trolmen visit each family every day, and
where sickness is found let reports be
made and the proper medical remedies
applied. Let every person, rich or poor,
receive the same proper treatment.
"Let the salaries of the officers be of
such a standard and the rules govern
ing the department be so strict that it
-would be folly for a subordinate to at
tempt discrimination between the rich
and poor. Make it a crime punishable
by imprisonment for a person to attempt
to employ a physician not appointed in
the department. Have it so systematized
that a person could not be taken down
Hck without the fact becoming immedi
ately known to tiie department and the
disease checked m its incipiency. .
"-For instance, suppose a patrolman
.should discover a peculiar disease in a
tenement house district. Let him ad
minister to the immediate relief of the
patient and report the case to his cap
tain. The latter reports it to the chief
and the chief sends one of his staff of ex-
jrifcvpert physicians to diagnose the case and
"then apply tlse proper remedies. . '
"There is no reason why people should
lie sick, and when it is discovered that
the same persons have become sick sev
eral times with the same disease through
their own carelessness they should be
arrested and imprisoned as criminals.
r CRIMINAL MALPRACTICE.
"As strange and preposterous as it
may seem, according to years of observa
tion and careful calculation and compar
ison with other countries, there are in the
United States more than a million cases
of criminal malpractice annually under
the present system of doctoring. This
is one of the principal evils that would
he checked should the government es
tablish such a department as I have de
scribed,.
- I ""It would be onlv a comparatively
abort time when we would have the I
Wealthiest city in the world, and it
would ultimately result in establishing I
a condition of affairs where sickness, ex
cept in a natural way, would be entirely
eliminated.
"Why, just take the report of the
-"mortality in this state. It shows a
death rate of 262 persons a day, or an
annual rate of 16 persons to every 1,000
inhabitants. Nearly one-third of these
deaths occurred under the age of 5 years
from diseases that with proper and im
mediate attention could have been cured.
Diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping
cough, measles, diarrhoeal diseases and
typhoid fever were the principal causes
of death. Under the system I have de
scribed patrolmen could have discovered
these wises in time to have checked the
diseases and saved the persons' lives.
"It is the only way by which epi
demics of infectious diseases can-be suc
cessfully eradicated, and the sooner the
government sees the necessity of estab
lishing such a department and over
throwing the present system of doctor
ing the sick the better it will be for the
nation." New York Telegram.
Limestone for Oysters.
The oyster planters of Long Island
sound are taking limestone from the
Hudson river with which to make oyster
beds on which the spawn can attach
itself. These planters first used all the
ovBter shells they could get from towns
along the sound and from New York.
Then they brought them by the ship
load from Maryland. The oyster shells,
however, broke up rapidly and were
washed away, and it was found neces
sary to resort to limestone, which is
found to make a permanent bed. Chi
cago Herald. ' . g.
Important if True. '
The Chronicle, of Wilkesboro, N. C, is
responsible for the following stunner:
Near Shelby Grove church, Moravian
Grove township, lives a man about 75
years of age, whose locks for many years
had been as white as the drifted snow
flake. . On the morning of the 1st day
of December, 1890, he woke to find him
self in possession of a most beautiful
head of hair, with scarcely a gray hair
to be found.
SPENDING HER HONEYMOON ALONE.
Economy Prevent a Bridegroom
Accompanying Ills Bride.
Wedding tours are expensive affairs.
It sounds like treason, but the. honey
moon usually costs a good deal more than
it is worth. . A young Pittsburger who
fell into matrimony the other day hit
upon a novel plan to reduce the expenses
of the wedding trip. His bride to be
and he, before the wedding . day came
around, talked as most young . lovers do
of all the places they would visit during
the honeymoon. : The drew np a new
itinerary every evening and altered it
the next night as others in the same
delightful state of imbecility have done.
But as the fateful day drew near the
young man fell to counting his pile and
estimating how much it would cost to
go to Niagara Falls and to New York
city and the rest of the places that had
figured in love's young dream. Then he
footed np the cost of furnishing a little
home, and no matter how he tried to
keep the figures down; paring off a dol
lar or two from a table here and a car
pet there, and economizing on plates
and other, prosaic things which lovers
very seldom think of at all till the col
lector rings the bell and will not go
away , without that little amount no
matter how he clipped and lopped and
pinched, the total expenditure for hon
eymoon and the home at the end of it
covered all the assets, and lapped over
into the bargain.
This would never do, he thought and
then he went on thinking. The boldest
fact of all that stared him in the face
was the cruel indifference of the rail
road companies and hotel proprietors to
the needs of the newly married. Though
a minister or a magistrate declare two
people to be one, the railroads and the
hotels insist upon charging for two.
Contemplation of this cruel condition
led the bridegroom-to-be a solution of
the problem.
When next he visited his beloved he
spread the minutes of his self com
munion before her and boldly suggested
that she should take the tour they had
planned alone, while he remained be
hind to prepare the home. She de
murred at first warmly, but he persisted
that she needed the change of air and
scene she was a hard working girl
that he did not. She had set her heart
upon the trip and she should have it. At
last she gave in. They were married,
and she went to Niagara and the other
places alone.
They belonged to a sphere where Mrs.
Grundy is not a power, and very few of
their friends to this day know the unique
character of their honeymoon. It ac
tually occurred as has been told in
Pittsburg, too, and no a great while
ago, either. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Bis Marriage Aided Him.
Abram S. Hewitt affords an example
of the value of profitable marriages.
Naturally a man of great force of char
acter and a zealous student with worthy
ambitions, he would have succeeded
anywhere and in almost any line of
activity, but his marriage to the daugh
ter of Peter Cooper placed him at once
on a plane which he, unaided by the
fortunate alliance, might never have
succeeded in attaining.
He was but a teacher when he first
loved his respected wife, but once the
son-in-law of the great benefactor and
philanthropist he assumed a prominence
in the public eye that gave him prestige.
As plain Abram S. Hewitt, the teacher,
he would have been no less a man; but
as Abram S. Hewitt, the son-in-law of
Peter Cooper, the public was predisposed
to hear him.
The marriage leveled for him barriers
that long years of self, unaided labor
might never have overcome. He profited
by the circumstances and became an al
most natural figure. ' . That he improved
his opportunities is to his credit, but that
the opportunities were available was the
result of a happy, fortunate marriage.
New York Letter.
Courtesy with a Vengeance,
"Did I ever tell you how I was made
to give up my seat?" 1
"No; do." -"Well,
I had to cross the ferry one
night to take a New Jersey local. The
car I got into was empty except one seat,
where sat an awful pretty girL For
some reason or other I sat down beside
her. The car was filling up all the time. '
Presently there wasn't a seat for any
body and several people were standing.
Two old women stood right in front of
me, but there were a lot of men sitting
around who didn't offer to give them a
seat, so I didn't. Presently the pretty
girl got up and offered her seat to one of
the old womcvi, and for some reason or
other I offered mine to the other old
woman. Five men sprang up and of
fered a seat to the pretty girl. She
blushed and smiled, sat down beside the
handsomest, and I stood for the rest of
the journey and looked at her. New
York Herald. -
A Proof of Gallantry.
Those vinegary persons who think po
liteness 1b a lost science because . they
sometimes see ladies standing in the
cars while tired men are seated can see
the refinement of gallantry any and
every day in the General postoffice.
There is never an hour while the long
line of men tails away from the retail
stamp window that some woman does
not insist upon' taking her place at the
head of the line instead of the foot, to
buy a stamp or get a package weighed.
Time is precious to most of the men in
the line, but no one has ever been known
to object to 'the peculiarly feminine ir
regularity, whereas if a man tries to do
the same thin; oaths and violence are
sometimes used to right the injustice.
New York Sun.
Tile Average Death Rate.
In England the average number of
deaths each year is 1 out of each 43 in
habitants; in France, 1 out of each 32,
and in the United States, 1 out of each
81. In this country the rate in the
northwestern states is 1 in each 120; id
the middle states, 1 in each 83; in the
southern states, 1 in each 70; in the Gnli
states, 1 in each C3. St. Louis Republic
; ' i 'TROUBLE. V ' T
There is sorrow that causes the world to replnet
There is grief in the world, little man, . . . .
It will not grow too happy in your time or mine
If we make some one glad when we can
There are tears far more plenty than spring's
early flowers J .. -We
may find them wherever we go;
Let as heed that no look, word or action of
ours '.-'..
Will cause even one more to flow ,
There is trouble enough in the world, little
. maid, r j- -. : : ...
There is trouble enough and to spare;
Let's keep ours to ourselves, we need not be
afraid
That the others will not have a share.
Ruth Day in Housekeepers' Weekly
,' ... Hints; for Bachelor.. -j-V; - ..;
An infant may be. as - old as Methuse
lah or as young as a baby ephemeron for
all yon-can. tell.: Now, yon need just
one suggestion to help you out. ' It is
this: If the baby is in long clothes call
it a yeari old. . It won't, be, but that's
part of the diplomacy.,! If it's in short
clothes and can't talk call it. 5 years. It
wont be that, but that's more diplomacy
If it can talk call it anywhere from 0 to
8 years old. ' :
This is the course which things may
then be confidently expected to take:
The mother -proudly exhibits her off
spring. Bearing in mind the rules here
laid down you say of a long skirted
youngster, "What a remarkably devel
oped child for one a year old!" . ; :
,, 'But it's really only six months, you
know," answers the mother, indulgently
unmindful of your mistake because of
the flattery it implies.
In the case of a short skirted, non
locomotive youngster you will be safe
in saying, "Isn't this a wonderfully fine
baby for one four or five years old?" You
may be years out of physical reckoning
again, but the mother will soon see that
it is the precocity of the infant that has
misled you. and as before she will par
don much. ' .
Remember this as you would the Ten
Commandments; Always add to the age
of a baby and subtract from the age of
its mother. No matter how far astray
you may go it will never be treasured up
against you. New York Evening Sun.
. No Need of "Beauty Sleep." j
. It is all nonsense about "beauty sleep',
coming in the hours before midnight
and that the rosy cheek on the country
lass is the . reward . for retiring , at the
time . when the proverbially pale faced
city girl's evening commences.' The late
hours of fashionable life would not neces
sarily scatter the roses from the cheek if
the late hour for retiring could be the
same every night without variation. It
is irregular hours and meals, that' cause
pale and haggard faces! The handsom
est couple I ever saw retired regularly
at 11:30, and always indulged in a light
lunch" just before retiring. They were
both pictures of health. - .,,.',' ; .
'. The lady did not look over 25. though
she never hesitated to say that she was
38 years old, and the husband looked at
least ten years younger than he really
was. They were both devotees to the
laws of health. For years they, had al
lowed nothing to interfere with the reg
ularity of sleeping and eating hours.
Almost the midnight hour was chosen
for , retiring, because it allowed them
evenings at the theatre and an hour or
so - at even the most fashionable receptions.-
When alone in their home they
never indulged in an earlier honr. Chi
cago Herald.
Advice for Speakers. '
One of the common mistakes made by
the tyro in public speaking is that of ex
hausting his subject and his audience at
the same time. . By too great discursive
ness the pith of the subject is lost, and
what might have been a victory is turned
into signal defeat. - To save such a dis
aster one should think carefully upon
any subject' before attempting to talk
upon it, and in the thinking keep strict
ly to the salient points and the simplest
possible form of giving them expres
sion, - . i . . . .
Only the born orator, the genius, may
safely venture into the flower garden of
speech and indulge in glowing - and
highly colored perorations. To the or
dinary speaker close attention to facts
and simple statement in well chosen and
convincing language are the safest and
surest means of winning golden opinions
for self and success for one s cause at
the same time. Jenness-Miller Maga
zine.
Twenty years ago no photograph was
more often seen than that of President
Lincoln sitting with a big book on his
knee, and his little son Tad leaning
against him and looking at it with . him.
The book was then thought to. be a. Bi
ble, but it wasn't. It was Photographer
Brady s picture album, which the presi
dent was examining with his son while
some ladies stood by. The artist begged
the president to remain quiet, and the
picture was taken.
Sailors are a bowlegged class. An old
salt always walks as if he were on the
deck of a ship, and he never takes great
strides like a landsman. He is used to
having to walk great distances, in his
imagination, on the quarter deck, and be
can't get rid of the habit of leaking the
most of his promenade.
A new leather dressing is a stuffing or
filling compound in wtiicb are employed
neatsioot oil, beeswax, extract of log
wood, borax, castiie soap and other in
greaients, in specinea proportions, in
order to soften and polish as well as pre
serve leather.
Senator Morrill, in spite of his 80
years, is devoted heart and soul to the
improvement of the Capitol building at
Washington. It is to him that is to be
given the credit for the beautiful ter
races which add so much of elegance
and beauty to the Capitol building.
Banker Isidor Wormser, of New York,
probably spends as much money for
cigars during a day as any other man in
the city. He smokes from' fifteen to
twenty cigars a day. The Perfecto is
his favorite brand and they cost him
twenty cents apiece.
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In Connection With his Fruit Stand
and Will Serve
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and Fresh
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