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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24
A Question Of Etiquette.

They always manage to make things
lively in Bangor. When the editors are not
fighting each other the doctors are. The
editors pelt each other with paragraphs, but
the doctors frequently hurl three columns
OF type at their opponents. DR.. Sanger dis
charged piece of that bore at the Penob-
scot Medical Society the other day, and the
echoes OF the report are ringing in the Ban
gor papers yet. The list of dead and
wounded has not been made up. OF the
general question at issue we have no opin-
ion to express, except that it appears to
us to have no merit. DR.. Sanger has been
expelled from the Penobscot association for
that gigantic crime of crimes" consulting
with an irregular practitioner, and for divers
other offenses 1t is rule in Bangor that
men who differ about the size of pills shall
hold no intercourse with eacL. How
ever, we do not purpose to dwell upon
this branch of the controversy. The whole
subject will be brought before the State So
ciety in June. That body will go into con-
clave, appoint an ''oficial reporter whose
duty it will be to omit all that is interesting
in the proceedings and report all that is un-
interesting, and probably censure or expel
the erring one or ones.
There is however one charge against Dr.
Sanger of which we purpose to speak. He
is arraigned for advertising his business. 1t
is medical etiquette, or ethics as they call it.
in Bangor as well as some other places, that
doctors cho11 ,of aIv fJ1o;r
but may advertise their quarrels. When
this rule was established there may have
been good reasons for it. 1t is difficult to
see what reasons can be advanced now.
What was once rule based on expediency
or some other good consideration now seems
like affectation. Why should not the medi-
cal practitioner publish his business card as
lawyers and other professional men do?
When lawyer makes fine argument or
minister delivers an interesting sermon, the
public prints comment and approve, and no
one objects to the mention. 1t is deemed
but proper recognition of good thing well
done. If surgeon successfully performs
difficult operation or a physician carries
patient safely through dangerous disease,
why are not the skill and discretion and
assiduity displayed proper to mention and to
praise? Are not medical men too fastidous
in these matters? And have they good rea-
son for their fastidiousness? So honorable
a profession, to whose skill and care and
kindheartedness all of us owe so much,
ought not to object to the mention of its
good deeds; for these deeds are encourage
nent to The requirement of knowledge and
the exercise of charity. We who recognize
the virtues of doctors would like to speak
praise out of the fullness of our hearts.
1t is not to be desired that doctors should
hang around newspaper Offices like some
members of other professions, and beg, like
fifth-rate exhibitors at country fairs, for
honorable mention" But it does seem to
us that their successes are proper to chroni-
icle, and that there is nothing derogatory to
themselves or offensive to their patients in
the publication of their business cards.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

Mr.. ISAAC BAssET, the Senate Doorkeep-
er, who has in charge the register of seats of
Senators, says that Senator Malone,
through friend, selected his seat on the
Republican side, it being the end seat on
the third row, at the left of the Vice Presi-
dents desk. General Miller, the new SEN
ator from California, will sit at his left, and
next to him Senator Hale of Maine. In
front of General Malone will sit General
Harrison, of Indiana, and at his left is Gen
eral Burnside's seat.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

THE dreadful day, SO feared by Governor
Piaisted and Senator Hoar, is close at hand
Let us hope we shall be granted safe de-
livery from the danger which these men see
in the presence of our militia men at Wash
ington on the Fourth of March.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

PROF. BAIRD tells an interviewer that the
only retributive remedy we can apply to
Canada for cheating us on the fish question
is to refuse to admit Canadian fish to our
markets free of duty after the expiration of
the treaty in 1885. A retaliation by the
Canadians in the form of the exclusion of
our fishermen from waters within the three
mile limit, will not, he thinks, be serious
matter. Our fishing craft seldom go within
the three-mile limit, except to get bait, and
the use of the gill net, now authorized by
the fish commission and becoming general,
makes bait unnecessary. Besides schools of
mackerel are now found in greater numbers
off our own coast than in the gulf of st.
Lawrence.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

1T is generally believed that General Gar
field has built his Cabinet, and that the
workmanship is good.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

The Tennessee Legislators think that
they can suppress riots by resolve, and the
Arkansas Senate attempts to make die
tionary of itself by declaring that the name
OF the State shall be pronounced car
kanSawv
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. "a.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
Will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
Of every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

GOVERNOR BLACKBURN of Kentucky re-
Gently issued one hundred and fifty pardons
in one day, and followed it up the next day
by sending out one hundred and forty more.
They were of persons convicted of ''regu-
lating," which is Kentucky survival of ku-
kluXiSm
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

The mineral discoveries of the past two
years in western Colorado appear likely to
rival in the material, if not il the political
Importance of their results the great gold
discoveries of 1S4S in California. The vast
ness of the effects already produced in the
creation of new wealth, and the erection of
new centres of civilization and indus
try, with all the manifold activities
which these imply can hardly be estimated;
and yet the development and utilization of
these discoveries have hardly begun. Not
only are these new silver fields of hitherto
unequalled extent and richness, but the de-
posts of coal and iron apoear to be second
in variety and value only to those of Penn
sylvania; while a temperate climate and
facility of access favor all forms of indus
try and insures rapidity of development.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

We do not read anonymous letters and commun-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publica
tion but as a guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
m muncations that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

The Argus is greatly pleased at the as
sault of defender and member of one rail
road corporation made upon other railroad
corporations before legislative committee
at Augusta the other day: and gleefully
quotes his remarks. The Argus is easily
tickled. Two years ago it was greatly pleased
because stockholders in National banks and
sharers in their dividends ''concurred'' in
supporting its attack upon the National
banking system.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

Ex-MAYoR COOPER is spoken of as the
Democratic candidate for Congress in place
of Fernando Wood, deceased. So is John
Kelly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

GOOD manners are decaying in Washing
ton, according to the Post of that city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

THE Cherokees in the Indian territory have
sent an embassy to persuade the members of
their tribe still in North Carolina to join
them, and they count on receiving consider
able accessions from this source. There are
about 800 Cherokees in western North Caro-
lima, who own $4,000 acres of land and have
$40, 900 held in trust by the government.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

DEMOCRATIC journals and other journals
that are eager to give the Democrats a lift,
pretend to be greatly concerned because Mr..
Blaine has not resigned the Senatorship.
Their pretence of anxiety is not likely to
provoke great popular tumult. People
have learned that these papers are always
pretending to worry themselves and trying
to worry their readers about something.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-02-24

Citizens Mutual Relief Society.
FIlHE Stated meeting for February will be held
Il at Reception Hall, FRIDAY EVENING.
next, 25th inst, at 71a o'clock.
The Directors meet at the same place half an
hour carrier. Fer order M. n. RICH, Sec'y.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
A Dashing Ride.

General Phil Kearny, to whose mem- ory monument has been erected in Newark, N. J., was dashing soldier aid most fearless one On the break ing out of the Mexican war, in 1846, he relinquished his staff duties for the more congenial ones of 8 captain of cavalry. He was always 8 disciplinarian and a splendid organizer, and his troops of ''iron- -grays," in it's perfection of mount, outfit, drill, and efficiency, was the pride of the army. Contreras and Cherubusco won him majors straps, but it was reserved for his headlong charge up in the very walls of the City of Mexico to gain him special distinction and give him acolonelcy. Commencing this charge with two troops-at most not over 15O men-he ended it at the San Antonio gate with twelve privates and four officers. He had driven up the narrow causeway an opposition force al most as large as the entire American army. The Mexicans scattered and fled like sheep. Santa Anna in vain applied his riding whip to the flying officers tc shame them from their flight. Alone with his handful of, troopers, and unsup' ported, Kearny could only strike his steel against the enemies gates ano order retreat. One of the four officers was killed, two others were dangerously wounded, and Kearny left an arm be hind him. "It was the boldest charge I have ever seen or read of," said Gen Scott. The Mexicans, from the com mander-in-chief down, were demoralized by it. Santa Anna, in his report " ex culpatory of his fresh disasters" said
 ''What might we expect when mere handful of the enemy's dragons hat the temerity to mount the very rampar of our defenses p
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
The Detroit Landlady.

''So she's all broken up, eh ?" replied 8 Detroit landlady when she heard of the failure of another woman in the same business in Toledo. "Well, I knew it was only question of time. was in her house for week, and I saw plainly that she had no economy about her. tell you, landlady must think and plan"
 "Yes."
 "Not only in great things but in small. There's philosophy in running clearinghouse"
 "How
 "Well, I can't stop to tell you more than one instance. I have buckwheat pancakes every morning for breakf ast for fourteen boardels. They use butter on their cakes. keep the butter or ice until it is as hard as rock. The cakes are all placed on the table, not smoking hot, but mildly warm-just warm enough to soften the outside O. lump of butter. In this way make 8 saving of two pounds of butter pel week over the usual way of rushing o1 hot pancakes It's only one dodge out of hundred, but the landlady wht doesn't play more or less of them mus ultimately come to grief. Free Presa
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
An English Hunt.

MT. George Augustus Sala, in the course of recent article on cruelty to animals, gives this illustration "We all know what happens when the stag hounds do meet at Slough or Langley and the stag is really hunted-how he is brought to the meet in 8 covered vehicle somewhat resembling pris- oners' van in miniature how he is un- carted in the midst of 8 surging, yelling mob, comprising, among the nobility and gentry of both sections, not few 'horsey' attorneys, veterinary surgeons, livery stable keepers and sporting pub icans, who glory in |ridin' to 'ounds, and who think riding to the Queen 'the reg'lar slap-up, down-the-road thing, yer know We are all of us, brethren, perfectly aware that it is un- derstood that the deer is not to be slaughtered, but only terrified and tor tured for couple of hours or so. Some times, by the merest accident, it hap. pens that the hounds do absolutely get the deer by the throat and kill him
 but that is an occurrence deeply re. gretted by all noble sportsmen whose object is that the good and gallant stag (out of the rutting season he is one of the most timid and most inof fensive of quadrupeds) should live te ! be hunted another day"
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
The Cause of DrOughts.

The question is often asked, why droughts are more common latterly than in former years. The main reason, we concede, however, to be, bscause the forests have been cut down. The effects of forests upon the atmosphere are two- fold. They fill the air with dampness, and again this dampness, when it is con- densed into clouds, is attracted by the forests. The roots of trees run deep into the ground and absorb the moisture that is contained in it a considerable depth below the surface. This moisture, much of 1t at least, is evaporated by the leaves, and thus the air is loaded with water. The amount of water that is lower down than the roots of ordinary cultivated plants penetrate is enormous. This water, if not drawn up by the roots of trees, would gradually make it's way into creeks and rivers, and ultimately into the ocean. Cutting down the for, ests has two other effects, both of which result in decreasing the amount of rain. Dry and parching winds are unimpeded in their progress, and the result is that they carry off the moisture which is ir the atmosphere. Another result is, thai small streams of water have in many in. stances been entirely annihilated, except i during the winter.months. This has de creased the volume of water in the creeks i and rivers, and consequently decreased the attractive force for the clouds anG the amount of water evaporated from tht surface of the earth in our particuIa7 | section
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
The Limit of Life.
SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE REACHED RE.
 VARIABLE AGES.

It, was Professor Hufeland's opinion that the limit of possible human life might be set at 200 years. This on the general principle that the life of a creature is eight times the years of its period of growth. That which is quickly formed quickly perishes, and the earlier complete development is reached the sooner bodily decay ensues. More women reach old age than men, but more men attain remarkable longevity than women. Some animals grow to be very old. Horned animals live shorter lives than those without horns, fierce longer tl.an timid, and amphibious longer than those which inhabit the air. The voracious pike exists, it is said, to an age of 150 years; the turtle is good for 100 years or more; and among birds the golden eagle is known 10 have lived nearly 200 years, while the sly and son. bre crow reaches the venerable age of 8 century. Passing up in the scale of life to man, and skipping the patriarchs, we find many recorded instances of lon gevity among the classic Greeks and Romans. Pliny notes that in the reign of the Emperor Vespasian, in the year 76, there were 124 men living in the limited area between the Apennines and the Pc of 100 years and upward, three of whom were 40 and four over 1855. Cicero's wife lived to the age of 103, and the late Roman actress Luceja played in public as late as her 112th year. Coming down to more recent times the most notable authentic instance of great age is that of Henry Jenkins, of York shire, England, who died in 1870, 169 years old, He was 8 fisherman, and at the age of 100 easily swan across rapid rivers. Another historic case is that ot Thomas Parr, of Shropshire, day la- borer, who lived to the age af 152 years. | When more than 120 he married his second wife, and until 130 he conlc swing the scythe and wield the fai with the best of his fellow laborers. In his 152d year Parr went up to London to exhibit himself to the King. Il proved an unlucky visit, for, violating the abstemious habit of 8 century and g half, the old man feasted so freely or 1 the royal victuals that he soon died o plethora. On examination his interna organs proved to be in excellent condi tion, and there was no reason why he should not have lived much longer save for this unfortunate taste of royal hospi tality. Professor Hufeland's s roll of cen tenarians includes many more remarka ble cases, among them that of Mittleste 8 Prussian soldier, who served sixty seven years under both Fredericks fighting many battles and enduring much hard campai gning, and who afte
 all this successively married three wives the last when he was no, only tw' years before his death.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
Afflicted With Trichin@.

Dr. Christian Fenzer has been talk ing about trichin@ to Chicago Tribune reporter. The Doctor said "The first case of trichin@ diagnosed was in 1855, but nothing like general knowledge of the disease was obtained until about 1860. We know that the hog gets the disease by eating rats and mice, but we do not know where the rats and mice get their supply-very probably from insects. It has almost been satisfacto- rily settled that all carniverous animals are liable to the affection, but it is also certain that animals not of that class have been diseased with trichina. For instance, pike-fsh caught in the har- bor of 8 Holland town was discovered to have its flesh impregnated with trichin@ the result, no doubt, of the fish hay ing eaten of the offal thrown into the harbor." Nothing has ever been dis covered which will counteract the effect of trichin@ or kill it after it has once found it's way into the muscles of per- son. The only thing for the patient to do is to take quinine if he is at all fever ish and to strengthen himself on wine or beer. If he is able to stand the siege after the trichin@ has found its way into his muscles, all right; if not, he dies. It is only in the stomach that trichinae breeds. The breeding is what creates the pains in the stomach, and it is while the little ones are scattering through the muscles in search of permanent abode that the patients body and limbs are filled with pain. After the locations are finally reached the patient recovers. As an illustration of the terrible havoc which small quantity of trichin@ could create he referred to the fact that once in small European town one porkel afflicted with trichin@ caused the sick ness of no less than $50 persons, o. which number 100 died. "You might not believe it, said the Doctor, "but if the flesh of every diseased persor were subjected to the microscope il would be shown that about one out O. every twenty persons are affected more or less with trichine. This is an evi dence of the fact that what is generally called rheumatism is often only a shgh attack of trichina.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
A Sultan's Generosity.

Eastern monarchs have a system of governing that certainly displays much wisdom and is in some cases eminently satisfactory to their subjects. An ex- ample of this is Sidi Muley Hassan, who holds the exalted rank of Sultan of Morocco. It appears that certain of his subjects, unmindful of the blessings they possessed in such 8 ruler, took up arms against him, and so much difficult ty did he have in suppressing the out break that his treasury became quite empty. Of course taxation became very high in consequence, and he re- solved upon an act of heroic self-sacri- | fee, that should at once relieve his people of portion of the expenses they
 were obliged to sustain, and at the same time reward men who had served him faithfully. He resolved to part with two hundred of his wives. Imag- try would feel in parting with 8 single wife. Think then of the anguish of this monarch in parting with two hundred of them. These wives he bestowed upon the officers of his army who had fought bravely for him during the re- bellion. And behold another instance of his generosity. To make the boon conferred upon those officers greater,
 he made careful selection of those
 wives. He did not take his latest spouses, young, giddy and untried girls,
 but he took those which had been long
 with him and whose many virtues he
 knew. Yea, even the very wives who
 had been his when he mounted the
 throne, long years ago, did he surrender
 and took upon himself the risk of being
 made unhappy should the young, skit
 tish girls whom he had buG lately
 welded, turn out bad. Of course he could not bestow this great boon upor
 the officers without asking something
 in return, and he therefore docked theil salaries twenty-five per cent. But evel then, they must have felt profoundl,
 grateful, and all so declared themselve except one, and he was found the nex day with his head cut off and throwl
 over 8 fence, and is believed to hay committed suicide in fit of remorse a
 his ingratitude. His prize was there fore bestowed upon another officer, an' so much was the Sultan's popularit
 increased by this generous act of re trenchment that his appearance in tn street is the signal for enthusiast cheering by the populace.
Connecticut western news., 1881-01-05
The Water Wheel Story.

Who has not heard of the story of Gen. Buffers attaching the water wheel of Lowell mill to bring the millowners to immediate terms in his suit to recover the wages of an operative A reporter asked the General if the story was true. " Not a bit of it, he replied "but yet it had foundation in fact, which is more than the stories told about me generally have. If you will look at it, there is an absurdity at the start, for you can't attach real estate-and the water wheel is real estate-without further process of law. But this is the way it was The mills for convenience pay their operatives monthly. Now a poor Irish girl rushed into my office one morning in state of great excitement telling me she was obliged to leave on account of the illness of her mother. and that she could not get her wages. She insisted with feminine vehemence on my prosecuting them at once. I told her that by the time the suit could be p decided the month would expire and she could then get her money. But this did not satisfy her. She wanted imme, diate justice. "Mr. Butler," she ex. claimed, "why don't ye attach the watther wheel?'' "Well, wel," I re. piled, "you come in at 2 o'clock and will see in the meantime what can be done." On her departure went ove1 to the mill and found out the amount ot wages that was due to her. When she returned I handed her the money, whict took pleasure in advancing, and toli her to sign a receipt, which she did.
 She gathered it up with alacrity ant was so profuse in her exclamations O gratitude that could not get i'll wori of explanation, and she skipped out O the office with, "Good for ye Misthe Butler; I knew ye'd get it by stopping the watther wheel, didn't I tell ye so ?
 That is where the water wheel stor, came from.