The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-20
THE RAcEs.-Of the forthcoming regattas in
SDrinpfield the ReDabicdn of Thursday possins

Springfield the Republican of Thursday gossips:
THE Harvard boys say that Josh Ward
wasn't more than two minutes out of the way
in the 1S.43 time which he took for them as
they rowed over the course the other day.
Whether the time was two minutes more or
less, is an open question. The Harvards them
selves darkly limiting that they have not vet
rowed over the course in 1910, although they
expect to do SO before the day of the race. They
consider the Yale six as having one of the best
chances to win, and sharply contradict the
popular opinion that Yale's crew is anything
rather than frst-class. In fact, the impress
sion seems to be gaining in boating circles that
Yale will make trouble for the other crews at
the regatta. Her six pull together better than
any other crew on the course, and appear to
have the muscle and wind necessary to keep up
their stroke, rapid as it is. A prominent gen
tleman of this city who is well versed in boat
ing matters, gives it as his opinion that the
Harvards are sure of the first prize and that the
second lies between Yale and Williams The
crew of the latter college is better one than it
is popularity supposed to be. 1t is one of the
heaviest on the river. and contains more farm
ers' boys than that of the "Aggies' themselves
The men are all scrupulously temperate in their
habits, only one of the six even using tobacco.
Three of them are carrying themselves through
college by their own labor. A crew made up of
such men is not one to be sneezed at, although
it is at disadvantage in having had little prac-
tice. The men are not trained down to q state
of chronic diarhea, but are in the best of health
and full of hope, and will undoubtedly not be
last in the struggle. The Bowdon crew show
themselves very little, rowing mainly up the
river from their quarters above the bridge
Those who have seen them pull say that they
have been much over-estimated, and that their
training has been grievousy at fault. They do
not pull together WELL nor is their stroke very
powerful one. At least, so "they say"
The college boys have not left all their tricks
behind them in leaving their alumne matres
The other day rustic traveller stopped at the
house where the Yales are boarding. and in
quired the way to the ferry The boys feeling
a little waggish, directed him to the Williams
boat-house, and RusticuS shortly after made his
appearance there, and offering his money re-
quested to be ferried over. He was undeceived
as quickly as possible, while the Williams men
grimly swore to be revenged either on Yale or
some other crew. Nor was the opportunity
slow in coming. That very evening man
drove up to their boarding place and inquired if
there was any one there who had calves to SELL
The boys answered him no, but directed him to
place, where, they assured him, he could find
some. Not long after, the individual stopped
at the farm house where the "Agges'' domes-
ticate and inquired for Mr.. Ward. Josh made
his appearance, and the - stranger
wanted to know if he didn't waut to sell Some
@ them Critters Josh looked inquiringly at
the stranger, when the latter remarked, apollo
getically, that ''some fellers back piece had
told him Mister Ward had six calves a rasin'
on 'em, and was drefful anxious to sell 'em"
Whose turn may come next is difficult to tell
ALLoPATHY AND HoMGoPATHY.-D e. M.
Kellogg, Homeopathic physician of New
York, for the purpose of ascertaining the COM
parative mortality under the two leading meth
DDS of medical treatment, spent three months
in analyzing the death register of the Metro
politan Board of Health of New York city.
throwing out all cases that do not properly come
within the pale of medical treatment; narrow
ing down the examination to those deaths
which occurred in private practice only, during
the years 1870 and 1871; and he submitted to
the public through the American Institute of
Homeopathy the result of his Investigations,
as follows: r .fi a-7 ..a. 80.
l find, then, that the deaths in New York
city during the past two years amount, in pri-
vate practice, 20 1864. Classifying this NOR
tally according to the kind of practice en-
ployed in each case, find that &c, 1896 persons
died under the care of the so-called Regulars
or Ai!opathic physicians in acknowledged good
standing; that 2530 died under the care of
Homeopathic physicians, and that the balance,
$685. died under the care of practitioners who.
with the sole exception of the .Eclectics' (who
are very few in number), belong to no medical
society and cannot, therefore, be readily classi-
quacks of all kinds, who flourish wherever the
professional barriers are so completely thrown
down as they are in this State, where the law
allows any one to practice medicine. tas r.
To compare, then, the Allopathc and Homp-
opathic mortality intelligeutly, / ascertaned the
number of the practitioners of the two rival
systems, and this is the result .-984 Allopathic
physicians lost &c, 1895 cases; 156 homeopathic
physicians lost $3.50 cases; averaging 3O.S9
deaths to every Allopath and 1922 deaths to
every Homoeopath practising in New York city
during the past two years In other words, the
mortality under Homeopathic treatment is,
proportionally, only SO per cent of che mortali-
ty under Allopathic treatment. where the phy-
sicians of the two schools have been practising
side by side. ~. 4 D.. 80 '-...g5--i- i1grf. .
To offset the force of so astonishing revela-
ton of practical results it has been urged that
the Hom9opaths treat comparatively few of
the poorer classes, and that their death-rate is
less, because their patients are so largely COM
posed of the weather. and more intelligent
part of the community. To satisfy myself on
that point, L have collected the annual reports
of our numerous city dispensaries, where the
sick poor apply for medical treatment; and
from them learn that the seven homeopathic
Dispensares treated in the year 1870 about one
fourth as many poor patients as all the Allo-
pathic Dispensaries. And as those dispepsary
patients who died in their own homes are in
Guided in the above mortality statistics, the ar
gument on this point is not against Hompopa-
thy but in its favor a.4..i .t.- ili ii ftll't
WHAT THE KUKLUx EXPECT OF GREELEY.
A Greeley organ in Alabama, the Talladeya
Neaos, recently published the following brutal
account of the murder of two Union soldiers,
while attempting to arrest a man who had been