BIRDOR RECORDER
as a career
In spite of all recent
restrictions and efforts to raise the
standard of admissions to medical
schools, tn spite of long courses and
additional training In hospitals, the
prefession Is so "congested" that the
average practitioner finds it hard to
make a decent living The spread of
meatal healing and the improved sani
tary conditions of our cities and towns
are among the causes of the decline
of medical Incomes. In short, young
men are urged to shun medicine un
less they are devoted to the science
of health, take an Intellectual and hu
manitarian interest In it and expect
to practice at a sacrltiie. It may be
observed in passing that there ie
scarcely a profession which does not
complain of oversupply of practition
era and decreasing demand for their
services or falling returns. It would
not be a bad thing If thousands of
young men "intended" for law. medi
cine, engineering, teaching were in
duced to take up farming and garden
Ing and see what brains, education, in
dustry and efficiency can do by way
of Increasing the yield of land. But,
this aspect aside, there is no real
ground for pessimism as to the future
of the medical profession. The old
order changeth, but the new situation
creates new opportunities and new
sources of usefulness and Income.
Harvard has just established a de
partment of preventive medicine and
hygiene, and here Is its prospectus:
“It has for its field of work the laws
of health in relation to the preven-
tlon of the occurrence and the limita-
tlon of the spread of disease; it will
consider the laws of the town, the
State and the country in their bearing
on the health of the community, and
the natural history of disease in rela
tion to the individual and the com
munity; it will train men for the in
vestigation of these problems, and
men to fill various offices in boards
of public health and other public
health work; it will meet the growing
need tor men to direct the people in
ways of rational healthy life.” It is
certain that other colleges will follow
this example of Harvard. The health
departments and the public school sys
tems will enlist more and more phy
sicians In their services. More and
more will be done nationally and lo
cally by public, semi-public and pri
vate agencies—like insurance com
panies—for the promotion of health
and the prevention of disease and
death. Research will also be extended
and stimulated, for such problems as
cancer, consumption, pellagra and so
on are pressing for solution. The ills
human flesh Is heir to are still many
and terrible, and there is plenty of
work for trained and earnest physi
cians. The period of transition brings
hardships to many, but there is no
occasion for anxiety as to the future
CHA IH TREASURED HEIRLOOM.
"7
Helle I ar*l I, > John ilden'g Drst-enil*
nnt« More IhHn zoo War*,
In his office at 68 Essex street Wil-
lfam P. Church has a colonial high
■ANDON....................... CMDON
chair more than 200 years old thaï
has held several generations of round-
* faced youngsters, all descendants of
If <e could see ou reel ve* ts others
John Alden of the Mayflower, a New
• ua, we wouldn't believe quite all
York Herald's Boston dispatch says.
Mr. Church is a direct descendant of
Cuba has held her first lottery, and
Alden. The chair was given to h'm
the winners feel that it was a great
by his aunt. Mrs. Elizabeth Church
success.
Stoddard, daughter of Lydia Alden.
who married Gamaliel Church, “I am
And the weary public soon will wish
sure that it belonged to your great
that both Peary and Cook had stayed
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
two and one-fourth bales of cotton, eighty five bushels
grandfather.” Mrs. Stoddard told him.
at the pole.
of corn and eighty bushels of oats. He keeps about
"It may have belonged to your great
MERICAN social ways and manners are
twenty-four head of native cattle, mainly for the sake
great-grandfather."
the subject of much and growing foreign
A female burglar has been caught in
comment It is wholesome for the thought of the manure, although they yield him a small profit
Mr. Church feels assured that this
Connecticut. When will woman stop
chair was used in the family of the
ful patriot to have a glimpse of the for besides.—Washington Post.
breaking Into men's jobs?
fifth John Alden, born in 1*40, who
eign view. Sensible Americans are will
lived In Mfddleboro. It may have been
ing to be judged, since they may thereby
WANING
OF
FEUDS.
The theory that it is never too late
handed down to him by his father,
better judge themselves. In fact, self-crit
N the days when law and order were In
to mend is very comforting to those
John Alden, born in 1718, who also
iclsm not seldom adds savor to the salt of reflect
the making It was, perhaps, excusable for
who are in no hurry to begin.
lived In Mlddleboro.
ive American wit.
But this land has been sub
disputants to settle their controversies
The chair bears evidence of its aga
jected to the review of a journal from far Bengal,
The men who are digging the Pana
with the gun or the sword and for their
Well it may. for the Alden children
and to see ourselves through the eyes of a Hindu may
families
to
prolong
ma canal consume 129,414 pies a year.
the strife. The sur-
grew up very much as children grow
be interesting, if not profitable. It is the American girl
vival of the fittest has always been the
It is certainly going to be a great
up to-day. On the arms of the chair
who has attracted the arrows of this pagan critic. His
social religion of a new country and an
canal.
are countless childish scratches. There
chief indictment is that of deception. He declares that
incomplete civilization, but with the coming of wider
are also one or two generous jabs with
the girl in the Uulted States who is courted does her
A Kansas girl has been engaged
education and deeper culture that law of the natural
a knife or some other sharp instru
utmost
to
make
herself
agreeable
to
the
suitor.
She
seven times since June. Evidently she
world has been abandoned as a standard of social 'ip-
ment. The hickory footrung is im
hides flaws of temperament. She conceals physical ail
didn't put in much time helping her
building. and in its place has been founded the more
pressed
with the kickings of two and
ments.
She
disguises
bad
temper.
She
paints
and
pow
mother.
substantial doctrines that Impose obligation of the
possibly three generations of chubby
ders. Worst of all, these arts are so transparent that
strong to the weak. Consequently, extension of respect
Mr. Taft confesses that he can’t
feet.
they must tickle the vanity of the aspirant for her
and reverence for law has enjoyed coetaneous growth
doubts
favor.
milk a cow. We have serious
Fashioned in the days when house
with the acquisition of finer sensibilities and fuller ap
also concerning King Edward's ability
hold furniture was homemade and
The ways of the American wife and daughter are the
preciation of the actual and fundamental obligations of
in that direction.
“made for keeps,” this heirloom is an
ways of open candor. Their hospitality, to those who
society. With the spread of this sentiment comes a
interesting bit of workmanship.
A
win entrance through its portals, is as frank as cor
popular disposition that condemns and dwarfs the spirit
A Boston physician says it is a
friend of Mr. Church Interested in
dial. But even so, the divine mystery of womanhood
upon which feudal principles feed.
crime to remove the vermiform ap
antiques came into his office to glance
persists in lending its elusive charm. It defies the
Moreover, feuds, like other evils, must inevitably fall
pendix. Unfortunately the operation
at it one day and found that he had
analysis of cold criticism, whether native or foreign.
before the publicity of the press. The spectacle of a
often precedes a funeral, too.
In this, as in other instances of alien observation, the
spent a half hour before lie had finish
community disrupted by factional warfare presents
American girl can prove her own and sufficient cham
ed turning it over.
never an lnvtting scene. Its carnage and anarchy, its
As practically all of the rest of the
pion.—Washington Herald.
There is not a nail in It. The join-
passion and its resultant woe, depict such grewsome
records have been broken this year,
Ings, which only show a fine seam,
panoramas of crime through the cold revelation of facts
why not complete the list by sinash-
and which have lasted for centuries.
MAKING A FARM PAY.
as
to emphasize the reprehensible nature of the things
Ing the phonograph records?
The small
were made with pegs,
OUTHERN farmers cannot fall to find
that caused them.—San Antonio Express.
pieces
of
wood
at
the
back
of
the chair
much of interest and profit in a recent
The senior William K. Vanderbilt Is
were made from oak barrel staves. A
Department
of
Agriculture
publication,
quoted as saying that there have been
piece of homespun linen duck, sub
RESULT OF SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
“A Profitable Cotton Farm,” by C. L.
enough divorces in the Vanderbilt
stantial and woven on an old-time
Goodrich,
one
of
the
government
’
s
experts.
FORTHCOMING
circular
of
the
Agricul
family, and that there will not be any
hand
loom by the mother or sister in
The farm in question is located in South
tural Department will contradict the pre
more. He is half right, anyhow.
the family, is stretched across the seat.
Carolina, and in 1902, when its present
vailing impression that the fertility of the
About an inch front the floor were
owner took possession, it was in a deplorably bad con-
soil of the country is wearing out, but will
A Washington judge has decided
originally four cross pieces. Evident
dltion, after having been under cultivation for about
show
that,
notwithstanding
the
abandon
that chewing gum constitutes- con
ly the temptation of placing one's toes
eighty years. Now it is fertile, well improved with
ment of farming districts in the Northeast,
tempt of court. This is no indication,
on one of these rungs and rocking
fences and farm buildings, and is producing crops which
not only is tJiere an Increase in the total
however, that this blow will put the
backward
and forward, irrespective of
yield the owner a handsome profit and a large income.
volume of crops, but an actual growth in the average
•hewing gum trust out of business.
whoever
happened
to be in the chair,
All this has been accomplished by a deep and thorough
yield per acre under cultivation. This result is ob
was too much for the small Aldens.
cultivation of the soil, by the use of barnyard manure
tained
by
restoring
to
the
soil
those
elements
and
com
The names of some of England's
Three of the pieces have been rocked
and some commercial fertilizer, by rotation of crops
pounds needed and consumed by the different crops.
biggest battle ships are Indomitable,
away. Despite this the old chair wob-
and by the Industry and good judgment of the farmer
The
well-informed
farmer
of
the
present
day
does
Indefatigable and Inflexible. A good
bles only slightly.
himself.
not blindly send his parents out to grope for their food,
many of the English people think the
The farm is not an especially large one, containing
but
sees
that
it
is
supplied
them
in
proper
measure.
next big one ought to be named the
only 132 acres, half of which are planted. The farmer
Recent discoveries in bacteriology have greatly assisted
Insupportable.
has divided his tilled land into three equal fields, on
the planter, enabling him to obtain bacteria, with
which he raises corn, oats and cotton in succession.
which the growing plant may be inoculated and by
The Governor of Connecticut pro
Before he took the farm it was producing only five to
which the nitrogen of the air is fixed in form available
tests against the continued use of the
eight bushels of corn or about 300 pounds of seed cot for plant food and fed to the plant as required. A few
term "Wooden Nutmeg State.” Al
ton to the acre. The first year he made it produce
cents per acre spent inoculating ’he plants comes back
though not one in a thousand of those
one and one-half bales of cotton and thirty-seven bush to the farmer In increased yield of many dollars per
The wasp can cut its way through
who use It means it as a slur upon PAPA'S ADVICE WAS FOLLOWED
els of corn to the acre. Now’ his yields per acre are acre.—Mobile Register.
a seashell.
the State, or knows the origin of the
phrase, it is just as well to drop it. Rut "Dail" Didn't Know Ho Had
The first motor exhibition was held
SUPPOSING A CASE.
in a narrow street; the subway Isn’t with those three deep lines between in England in 1895.
Been Talking About HI* Daughtar.
A place or a person acquires a nick
quite a lodge in some vast wilderness; your eyes. But perhaps that isn’t Miss
name, even one wholly undeserved,
"The late Bishop Thomas Frederick
Of the 12,000,000 acres under culti
much more easily than It rids Itself Davies of Detroit,” Baid a Detroit man Not Kupponnblr, hut Itrrnlla n Good but never until I watched a toothless Foster's way?” hazarded Mabel.
vation
in Burma, 8,000,000 are devoted
Story About Theodore Hook.
“No, it isn’t,” her father said, dry-
saw cut through a cold steel rail by
of it.
in the Providence Journal, "once told
to rice.
Suppose
within
a
few
days
a
gen
friction,
melting
Its
way
—
you
can
see
iy.
me an interesting story of an elope-
The London hansom seems to be on
During the twelve months ending ment. He figured in this elopement tleman should arrive at London or the smeared ends afterward—did I ex
"I’m not surprised,” Mabel said,
the
decline. Other types of convey
in June there were four hundred and as the officiating clergyman. It was Berlin front the far north claiming perlence a noise that my ear felt sagely,
“She's a nice woman, of
ance are taking its place.
forty-four women in the English bank in Philadelphia, during his rectorship to be one or the other of the two dis rather than heard, says Eugene Wood course, but not tactful, like mother.
coverers of the long-sought pole. Sup in Success Magazine. The toothless
“Oh, I almost forgot to say that I
ruptcy courts. Failures among mar of St. Peter's.
Prince Edward of Wales, future King
pose he is received with high acclaim. saw whirled with unimaginable speed; I think that letter must have blown of England, until a few weeks ago re
ried women showed a marked Increas"
“It seems that the proprietor of one
during the year, as against a material of the largest dry-goods houses in Is the subject of unlimited oratory, the sparks show’ered like an enormous away, for I couldn’t find It next morn ceived 24 cents pocket money each
is the guest of honor at many ban pinwheel and the unwilling steel emit ing when I looked. But It is all right week while in residence at Osborne
decrease in the failures among spin
Philadelphia had noticed for some
quets, the whole land rings with his ted a shriek of agony that was like now, isn't it, father,” Mabel Inquired, Naval College.
sters and widows, and a commentator
months the melancholy attitude of his
praise. Suppose that a few days later
accounts for it by suggesting that a
blithely, “if Butler & Briggs have writ
Germany’s top output for 1907 is es
head clerk, a young man whom he another gentleman arrives from the a forceful finger jammed Into my ear
ten again?"
woman attempts too much when she
and
scratching
on
my
ear-drum
with
timated at $25,000,000, of which $19,-
held In high regard.
far north with the claim that he. he
“They have written, canceling their 000,000 was exported, and of the total
undertakes to “run" both a business
"The clerk's pallor and increasing alone, has discovered the coveted pole, its nail. It was like a brass band of
order, as you would have seen if you the United States and Great Britain
and a family. The explanation seecns
a
hundred
pieces,
each
piece
blowing
leanness, his frequent sighs and ab- and the man who has received the
had finished reading their letter.
adequate. Successfully to manage the
took more than half.
sent-mindedness worried the million honors and the banquets lias left noth fortissimo, a note a half-tone higher
affairs of a household calls for as
They
have been my best customers for
than
its
fellow.
I
don't
care
for
such
aire proprietor. He questioned the ing for him. although the first comer I
Compulsory study of the ancient
ten years.”
much of commercial acuteness as the
young man daily. And finally the may prove to be a faker and a fraud. "close harmony/’
Irish
language in the new national
average human being is able to com
Mabel’s eyes opened widely, then her
Well, it's a grand sight, steel-mak
clerk admitted that he was in love.
university at Dublin is expected to
Something very like this did once ing. I don't know of any grander one, lips curled.
mand.
" 'Well,' said the head, ‘marry her. happen, says the Indianapolis News.
"Are men as small-cnlnded as that?” meet some opposition. At Queen’s Col
unless it is Niagara. The two spec
The American construction party Your salary Is big enough.*
The Spanish ambassador was expected tacles, seemingly so different, are yet she asked. "Why, the meanest, hate- lege, in Cork, Irish classes were in
“ 'Ah,' said the clerk sadly, ‘you to arrive at Southampton, England. A
stituted four years ago. The first year
which has been at work building wood
Identical In the one prime requisite fullest girl In '09 wouldn't stoop to
four pupils appeared, only two of
en cottages for the earthquake victims don't understand. She belongs to one mischievous idea came Into the head of grandeur—terror.
that.
I
should
think,
”
virtuous
wrath
You respect
at Messina and Reggio has disbanded. of the first families of Philadelphia of Theodore Hook (born 1788, died Niagara when you depict yourself In her eyes and voice, "you would be whom stayed out the course; the sec
ond year there was a class of two, and
Eighteen hundred and seventeen cot and her father is a millionaire.’
1841), novelist and journalist, and poised for one heart-beat on the silver glad to be rid of such people.”
1
“ 'Well, maybe he wasn't when he above all contriver of that diversion
since then there have been no students
tages were built, and material for some
verge of Its long drop; you respect I That evening, after a little private
twelve hundred more was turned over married. You have a good position known as the hoax. The English fleet steel-making when you depict yourself | talk with his wife, Mabel's father said of Irish at all in the college.
to the Italian carpenters. No more and a good name, You are a fair was lying off Southampton.
Hook, for the heartbeat in which you can her mother wanted to go to the moun
There are practically no fire engines
practical and beneficent relief was match for any girl,' said the other.
then a young man, knew many of the see a chain-link snap and the full tains for a few days, and would like in Japan, but the Yokohama City
Offered to the stricken people of Sicily
“‘It's no use,' sighed the clerk. 'Her younger officers. He former his scheme
Council has made an appropriation to
to have Mabel go with her.
ladle spill toward you.
and Calabria than that which Ameri pa rents would not listen to me for and one morning a launch set out
"It would be lovely,” admitted Mabel, buy two. In the old days of bam
can money made possible and Lieuten one moment.’
from the fleet and drew up at the
"but it wouldn't be businesslike to boo houses, which the owners could
ant Commander Belknap's party dis
“ Then,' said the head, 'elope with quay.
leave you in the lurch. Hadn't I bet take apart and carry off under the
pensed. From the King and Queen her.'
In this launch was he who purport-
HELPING FATHER
ter stay on a day or two and break arms, fires caused little concern in the
down to the poorest homeless sufferer
"'Do you advise that?' the clerk ed to be the Spanish Ambassador, in
the new stenographer in?'
land of the Mikado, but the Yankees
at Messina, the Italians have again asked excitedly.
almost royal robes, arrived two days
Her father thought it would not be of the East have been constructing real
and again manifested their gratitude
"‘Certainly I do. Is she
Do I before the expected time. The mayor
necessary.
buildings in recent years, Some de-
The week after Mal>el was graduated , “Well, if you can
for It.
of Southampton, who was to receive
know her?’
spare me,” said structive blazes, with heavy losses,
" 'Yes. She will be at your dance the Spanish envoy, was greatly fluster her father's middle-aged stenographer Mabel, happily, “Uli go.”—Youth's started the fire engine movement.
The American Bar Association, in
ed It was all so sudden. He did the succumbed to sickness, and Mabel | Companion.
at Devon to-morrow night.’
It beats all what odd questions
its attempt to offer something in the
“ Well, see here,’ said the head. best he could. Several companies cf i begged to be allowed to take her place |
reach
some of the departments of gov-
way of a cure for desertion of family,
‘1'11 have my coachman out in front soldiers, some on foot, some mounted, till just the right kind of succcessor
The New Yorker In the West.
ernment in Washington. Not long ago
doesn't go far enough. It proposes to
was
found.
"With
real
wages,"
she
of my gate at 9:30. Rush the girl off were called out. The bells were rung
At the recent convention of advet the treasury received a letter from a
put the deserter In prison for not
In town and marry her. I'll arrange The ambassador, accompanied by a supplemented. So it came about that I Using men in Louisville, one of the Pittsburg man who had made a bet,
more than a year and make him pay
number of young officers of the fleet, she was engaged, went duly to work, | delegates who lives in the west told a
asking "How many cents are there in
to the deserted 50 cents a day from with the clergyman for you.'
'"By Jove,’ said the clerk, ‘I'll do was escorted with much pomp to the I and for a week and a half, with the ' story of having met a man from New a bushel?” The answer was not easy
his earnings as a convict. This will
mayor's palace. There
’
was a banquet help of 811 the younR nien ln lhe offlce- York.
be well enough, provided that 50 cents It!’
to offer. If the man had asked about
and speec h making, one of the young succeeded In evading her father’s
‘
•And
he
did.
The
next
night
Dr.
“Where are you from?” inquired the pounds he might have received a def
represents his entire earnings per
wrath
and
an
inglorious
discharge.
officers acting as Interpreter for the
New Yorker.
inite answer. As it was, he got in re
diem. The theory that convicts should Davies performed the ceremony, and ambassador.
On the morning of the tenth day
an
hour
or
two
later
the
millionaire
“Los Angeles,” said the man from ply a guess from a clerk, that “rough
not be turned loose with nothing is
her
father
summoned
her
to
his
pri
After it was over and the
California.
very beautiful as a general proposition found his daughter missing and was envoy was supposed to be on Spanish vate office.
ly there are something like $320, or
I1Í3 way
telegraphing
in
every
direction
to
the
“Oh, I see,” exclaimed the Empire 32,000 pennies.”
based on mercy and humaneness, but
explain
this?
”
“Can you
he demand
to London the true ambassador ar
State inhabitant. “So you're from the
there are at least two sorts of brutes young couple to come home and al)
rived. There was but a sorry recep ed, placing a letter before her.
The Xnked Truth.
would
be
forgiven.
”
west. Well, I've been west some my
whom merciful theories don't reach.
“ 'Letter ordering six carloads,' "
tion for him. The other ambassador,
There
is
an ancient fable which tells
self. Now last year I was out as far
We refer to wlfe-beaters and the con
who was Theodore Hook, having per read Mabel, rapidly, “ 'Have investi-
An Opportunity for Hint.
us
that
on
a summer afternoon Truth
as
Cleveland
and
stopped
a
while
at
temptible wretches who desert their
Morse Foreace (ardently)—Tell me, petrated the greatest hoax ever known gated—sure reached your office safe Pittsburg. I was all around the west.” and Falsehood set out to bathe togeth
little children. Lock up either of these
on a mayor amf a cityful. had ex-
"Is that so?” said the man from er. They found a crystal spring. They
sorts, and the chances are ten to one Miss Angle, may I contribute to yo'r The scandal wassogreat. the mayor and ly—’
"Oh. yes." she explained, with an air
future
happiness?
Miss
Angle
—
Well,
Los Angeles with a great show of In luithed in the cool, fresh water, and
that the Innocent wives and children
the people of Southampton had been of being about to give her father a
terest. "Well, I was up east myself Falsehood, emerging first, clothed
•nffer the most, mentally and physi Mr Foreace, as I accepted Abe Gin so outrageously sold,
that to make any pleasant surprise. “Butler & Briggs,
gerbread
last
ebenln'
dere
Is
weddln'
herself in the garments of Truth and
cally. If anything at all can be got
stir about the affair would only cause of course, and I remember their first not so very long ago. I was in Denver went her way. But Truth, unwlllins
presents
to
be
thought
ob,
to
lx
shuah.
and Salt Lake City and all around. 1
out of th« deserter of family, get It
them to be laughed nt nil the mare, letter perfectly. It came the morn
to put on the garb of Falsehood, de
It's strange we didn't meet.”
all Certain it is that the convict who —Judge.
With the exception of the dismissal ing after 1 began to work, and I
parted naked. And to this day False
«•serve« to 1* turned loose to a diet
Fooled Him.
of some of the naval officers who had ojtefied it by mistake, and when I saw
When a woman confesses to a poor hood wears Truth's fair white robes,
•f uncut graaa to the fellow who has
"He says he kissed you last night taken part In ft little was done and that it was Important, I put ft aside memory she says It isn't long enough so that many persons mistake her for
run away and toft his own littl« chll against yoar will.'’
the affair was allowed to blow over.
with some other memoranda to give to reach from the dining room to the Truth's very self, but poor Truth still
<r«n to atarv«, for all he cere*
"I suppose he believes it, toa"—
to you. But when you came in that kitehen.
goes naked.
•nttliiic llnllo Is Not Miialtnl.
afternoon you looked so worried aitout
A leading British medical orgaa Houston Post.
Many people who have no time to
One of the amusing things of every-
Rails ate cut with saws. Not quiet something that I couldn't bear to
warn« the you «a men in th« ««romtoiT
To be a successful explorer, doni ly; not at .all. There is considerable trouble yo« any more. I knew mother day life is to watch a young doctor ' play are always clamoring for Km«
(gbooto «nd colle*w to «veld taadlcia« tot tbo other fellow beat you to it 1 ia< ket underneath an elevated r ailroad
thin« to play wit«.
alw«|a wait« when you come UuuQe trying to look wise.
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
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