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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15
MEDICAL
DR.. Chambers Suggests a Needed Reform in
the Teachings of Medical Colleges.

DR.. John Chambers, on yesterday, observed
the usual practice of medical teachers to give a
few words of advice at the close Of his course of
lectures on the practice of medicine, to the grad
uating class of the Medical College of Indiana,
selecting for his thought the subject Of medical
specialists. as contrasted with the general prac-
t~itioner.
Coming from a medical man who was seven
years a student in the best English schools and
great hospitals, and has been ten years q prom
inent teacher and practitioner in Indiana, his
views will be of interest to the medical profes-
sion interested in medical education.
Prof. Chambers thinks that Of recent years
the tendency in medical teaching has been away
from simple elementary, practical instruction in
the A B G of medical science. and toward the
development of medical specialties. 1.-THE stu
dent spends too much time in hearing full ac-
counts Of rare diseases and surgical op.
eratiops, when it is quite possible that,
once in practice, his first half dozen
cases may include diseases of which he
has not heard a word or seen q clinical case
while in college. The colleges should give more
time to plain, ordinary affections. such as we see
every day, rather than to special courses about
rare forms OF disease, which require years of
study to recognize, and which often nothing in
| Gods world can cure. Our medical schools have
| only brief courses aud should prepare men thor
| oughly for common every day work. Let the
schools, in their limited time. teach anatomy and
physiology; let them teach chemistry and mate
ria medica; let them teach surgery and
practice in their ordinary applications. and
| subdivisions. We have multiplied and refined
too much. It is time for a man to become a
specialist after he has proved himself a good
general doctor. If in advanced life he is drawn
to some special department, he should go to the
great cities and hospitals of the world, where
such branches are taught clinleally. 1t is my
honest belief and conclusion that. our Western
schools should give more time to the seven pri-
mary departments and let the so-called big sub
jects be put aside; and if / am to continue med
ical teaching longer, I shall insist that our
schools teach thoroughly the elementary
branches OF practical medicine, for that is all
that our common. everyday Western college
students need, and all we have time to teach
thoroughly"
DR.. Chambers closed with the statement that
the success or failure of medical schools lay with
the graduates quite as much as with the
teachers, and left a strong conviction with the
class that it is not the function of medical
schools to build up and support specialists, but
general practitioners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15
Still No Commissioners.

s'The Ambiguous Four" met again yesterday
afternoon, clucked, cackled and incubated, but
failed to hatch tile police commissioner. But
for the opposition of Auditor Rice, Frank Bird
would have been appointed, the other State off
GERS having signed petition asking him to accept
the position. Mr.. Bird. at the instance of his
friends, had decided to do SO, but would now
follow the example of Mr.. Failey. aud decline.
if the commission should now be rendered him, on
the ground that the appointment was not made
unanimously. Auditor Rice admitted to a Jour
nal reporter. yesterday, just before the meeting,
that Mr.. Bird would make a most acceptable
commissioner, and his opposition is to be &C
counted for only on personal grounds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15

The lecture of Governor Porter. on GLAD.
stone" which was postponed FROM Feb. 10, win
be given under the auspices Of the Morton Club
at Plymouth Church, Friday evening next Tho
lecture will be given at the expense Of the club.
NO admission being charged. The public are
invited to be present. A quartet Of young men
will furnish music for the occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15
Indianapolis wins Again.

The concluding game of the series between
the Indianapolis and Columbus polo clubs was
played last night at the Meridian Rink, and was
won by the home club in a little more than ten
minutes, the Meridians scoring three straight
goals. The goals were made by Dasher, Wood
and Landia
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15

OK February %. the Model Clothing Company
will open a hat and cap department. 1t is need
less to remark that The Model win knock the
bottom outof prices in their hat department. the
same as they have done in all other branches Of
their large business.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15
TRADE AND COMMERCE.
Business Recovery from the Setback Caused
by the Cold Weather.

Business Recovery from the Setback Caused
by the Cold Weather.
INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. I3.
The volume of trade the three last days of the
week closing to-day has been a decided improve
ment over that of the early half Of the
week. In fact, it is said not for many years, if
ever before, did the unfavorable elements 30
completely knock the bottom out of business
as on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last.
But with the return of a milder temperature,
there is very favorable reaction in trade. While
there Is no boom, nor likely to be. there
is a healthy distribution. Collections
are easier and indications decidedly favorable.
As we have said before, most lamentations in
values since the coming in of the new year have
been toward higher prices. This means better
margins for merchants. Grocers report sugars,
roasted coffees and canned goods firm at quo
t~ations, and prospects for an improvement in
prices of salt fish will the approach of the lenten
season. Produce markets were fairly active to-
day. Receipts of eggs more liberal, yet prices
showed no decline. The same is true Of poul-
try. The butter market is mew glutted
again, and prices are easier, unless for a really
choice article. The provision market is rather
sluggish in q wholesale way, while the iobbing
trade is fair for February. Prices firm at quo
tations.
The local market continues much in the same
position as for several days past. For spot
stuff there is a good demand, while little interest
is shown in futures. The Board of Trade Price
Current says Of wheat: About the same in price
and feeling. Local market quiet. We quote;
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15

Rye-No. 2. nominal
Bran-$12. so bid; held at $13. so.
Shipstuf-Steady; held at $780, so.
GRAIN IN STORE.
Feb. Is, 1885.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15

hunting TO farming are long and slow. You can
go from hunting to herdinr. horse. breakinp.
cattle-taming, and from these, by and by, to farm
Hng. The Norman and the Saxon were more diff
fienlt to civiliZe than any Sioux-as carniyorous
and as bloody In their vengeance. Every race of
men has been savage, and can be savage. Con
RideFing that the negro of to-day is the son of a
slave and the great grandson of an African saw
age, he is doing pretty well. There is more than
one kind of civilization. The japanese are more
polite and urbane than we are. One of them, in
Yale College, being insulted by a fellow student,
v'as not violent. He wrote a note to President
Porter asking permission. merely, to kill the Of
fender. daughter Abraham and Job, and
the men to whom the angels came announcing
the birth OF the Savior, were civil, If not civilized.
They were not farmers-not one of the twelve
Apostles We're farmers. They were civil. how
ever. The example that Christ sets is for the
mind and spirit. His gentleman can live in a
palace or a tent. The example of Jesus is very
flexible as to form, and can be followed by an
Eskimo. Conversion is not at all a change Of the
outward, but of the inner man. The soldiers
Hayelock, Stonewali jackson and Gordon
are able to he Christians as we'll as the
.Dairyman's Daughter and the ..Shepherd
pf Salisbury Plain And the negroes who
bring the dead body of Livingstone q journey of
flonths 20 the coast, and never leave il till they
give it in charge of an English ship at Zanzibar.
Lave the spirit of Christ. And the African
@omen who feed and tenderly care for the dying
hsungo Park. these fulfill the the laws of Christ,
aid will ask at the Judgment: when saw we
Thee an hungered and fed Theelr and He will an
ewer: ''Inasmueh as We did it TO a stranger.
starving aad dying in the edge OF your village.
ye did it unto ne.b
The Puritan is one kind of a good man. There
are as many kinds as of apples. Which is bet
ter, a harvest apple or a .~rIsset9r Each is good
in its time. j can think OF no one kind OF men
that / would label .'Seek-no-further." Beautiful
1t is to see the moral men Of divers colors, cos
tune and custom. all sorts and conditions of
Easn, coming from the north. and the south. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15

good deal of natural sagacity and horse sense,
and made considerable impression upon juries.
He liked words that were long, rotund and
sonorous, and used them, as the colored preacher
said, "irregardless," and without clearly compre-
hending their meaning. When the late Judge
Samuel E. Perkins delivered his famous opinion
of the Supreme Court declaring the prohibitory
temperance law to be unconstitutional, the Judge
had stated that a certain section of the law might
be paraphrased in a certain way, of which he
gave an example. Afterwards the Judge was
witness in a case against Colley, and Sims, in
referring to the Judges evidence, convulsed his
auditors by the declaration: And here comes
Perkins-the venerable Perkins-who has
moaned, and ~groaned, and wept, and para
phrasedr
Colley's ignorance of law, coupled with his
amazing impudence, led members of the bar at
times, naturally enough, to speak slightingly of
him, or show by their demeanor their apprecia.
ton of his deficiencies. On this score he made a
number of appalling examples. One of those
harpooned by Colley's coarse wit was Judge N.
b. Taylor. then, as now. recognized as a thor
ough lawyer. Coliey's drawl and old Kaintuck
way of ignoring his RS and hattening his as were
inimitable, and can not be even approximately
reproduced in print. With a whitening glance,
and a conten.ptuous wafture of the hand toward
the offending counsel, he said: Nap o-l-e-o.n
B-o-n-a-p-a-r-t-e Taylor. Whewi What's in a
name!'
Governor Porter was once opposed to Colley in
acaseln which a woman was prosecuted for keep
ing a house of Ill .repute, Colley, of course. being
for the defense. The Governor was at the time Re-
porter of the Supreme Court. In citing authori-
ties Colley said: May it please the court, 1 will
refer your Honor to 9th John land the
Scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a
woman taken in adultery etc. and 7th Por-
tor" which had the effect to seriously disturb
the dignity of the court for the remainder of the
| trial. at least
Colley's business was, of course, entirely with
the law-breasing elements Of society. He was
e criminal lawyer. When q culprit was ar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
Questions Answered.

G. n. S., Troy.-You are misin-
formed Senator Edmunds did not vote
against the pension bill you name; he
voted for it.
H. c. N, st. Johnsbury. You would
be required to pay 81 in advance to join
the Vermont colony. Out of this sum
the expenses of the locating committee
are paid
N. A. S., Middlesex.-A dependent
mother of soldier who deserted from
one regiment, changed his name and
enlisted in another regiment, and was
killed in the service, is entitled to a
pension.
H. n. D., Winooski.-The rate of
pension for the loss of leg at the hip
joint is $3.50 per month. BY the act
approved March 3, 1885, the same rate
is given for the loss of the arm at the
shoulder joint.
H. c., Burlington.-Very few pen
sions are rated by the acts of congress
except for the loss of limb, total
deafness, etc. The department of the
interior has established rates for some
disabilities like hernia, partial deafness
ETC., but these are liable to be changed
from time to time. The rates in most
cases are fixed by the testimony, and the
surgeons report shows to what extent
the applicant is incapacitatedfo for manual
labor. One pensioner may receive s.
month for rheumatism, while another
would receive $50 month on the same
disease.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29

has broadened the scope of our duties
and conferred upon us greater authority.
Up to 1879 or 1880, when the entire
force of special agents ranged from fif-
teen to forty in all, it was very seldom
that case was submitted to us for in
vestigation as to its merits. Only such
cases were submitted as partook of
criminality, and the best fellow was the
one who corraled the most offenders.
Now the criminal investigations are
but small proportion of our examine
tons. Ninety per cent of the cases in
my hands are for special examination
to determine their merits-openly and
above board-in the presence of the
claimant and any others he may desire
present. Originally our work was done,
as you might say, in the dark. The
claimant was not permitted to be pres
ent at our examinations, nor was he APP
prised of the names of the witnesses adj
verse to him. In this way he had no
fair opportunity to offer testimony in
rebuttal, and l have no doubt much in
justice was done. OF course in certain
cases Criminal casey even now our ex-
aminations are conducted secretly and
our inquiries are confidential in their
character. There are about three hun
bred fifty examiners now in the field.
The examiners, the year round, do not
average more than seven or eight re-
ports per month. The force in this dis
trict has ranged from six to twenty two
men; at present there are nineteen on
duty. Last year we reported seventeen
hundred twenty-five cases and answered
thirty-six hundred eighty-four inquiries
as to the credibility of persons inquired
of us by the commissioner of pensions.
There are twenty districts. Multiply
our work done by twenty and you will
get fair idea of the work of the special
examiners throughout the country"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29

elbow. This was ten thousand times
worse than he had dreamed. "The
story I've heard, then, is true, Harry;
Mr.. Lynde is going to be married."
"Why, how do you know, Mr.. Cole
man? He said it was a secret. He let
me go all over his house Yesterday
he's hired Lun's cottage, corner of
Vine street-and things shine, l tell
you. You just ought to see those car
pets. Miss Haywood helped him pick
'em ont. The other woman don't sus-
pect thing"
What other woman?"
Why, the woman Mr.. Lynde is 60
ing to marry. She lives down in Maine.
She thinks after the wedding on Christ
mas she's coming with Mr.. Lynde to
his clearinghouse; but instead of that,
sir, he's going to fetch her right home
to his pretty cottage. I'll bet she'll be
surprised"
Mr. Coleman dropped back upon the
! pillow with an expression a Raphael
might have despaired of reproducing.
He lay there few minutes rejecting,
then sat bolt-upright, his towel-begirt
head in bold relief against the mahog-
any headboard.
oloW Jul Gllc ldlup, marry, pledS0.
Draw up the curtains, and hand me my
writing-desk there on the table III
give you dollar if you'll carry a mes
sage to Miss Haywood for me this
morning"
"Bless my soul, Coleman, you're
tough as pine knot!' exclaimed the
doctor, boiling in as his patient sealed
the note. 80 You had ague enough last
night to shake sensitive mortal into
the grave, and here you're up attend
ing to business. Let's feel your pulse.
Rapid yet, but softer. If you're pru-
dent you'll be out in few days.
Harry rushed off on his Grand, and
delivered Mr.. Coleman's billet into the
hands of Miss Rue herself, who in his
private opinion looked very sober and
red-eyed.
Dear Rue I've been having a chill,
one of the bona fide castanet order. / hope
you'll do me the favor to believe it was com
ing on at your house. If / raved furiously
and behaved worse than savage, as know
| did, do forgive me, dear. I'm coming to
beg pardon on my knees as soon as they are
hrm enough. Enclosed please find the ring
Ever thine, JOHN.
"P. S.-Don't on any account withdraw
from the operetta'
"Poor, dear soul, how i'll he must
have been!" unused loving little Rue,
slipping the cherished ring back upon
her finger. But hope he isn't going
to be subject to these chills," she
added, with doleful look. " do hope
he isn't, for the sake of both of us. u
Harper's Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
Stray Shots.

SPECIAL examiners of the pension
office, James p. Curran and Charles E.
Moody, are both engaged on pension
cases in Washington county.
THE number of pension certificates
issued from the pension office during
the week ending April 20, 1885, was
seventeen hundred sixty-eight.
COLONEL WILLIAM E. MCLEAN of
Indiana, the newly-appointed deputy
commissioner of pensions, is fifty years
of age, worth S150,0O0, and is regarded
as man of excellent character and at
tainments. He is practicing attorney,
and has had considerable experience
with pension laws and practice.
LIEUTENANT w. A. PHILLIPS of the
First Vermont Battery, now in Chi
cago, says: " Tell the boys who are in
tending to settle in the West to keep
away from Dakota" We have heard
the same advice given by others who
ought to know. The proposed Yer
mont colony now numbers about one
hundred. The locating committee is
now in the West to select the township
for Vermonters to settle in.
Mr.. WALTER SCRIBNER, a letter
carrier in Haverhill, Mass, was at
tackled at his home on the twentieth
anniversary of his liberation from the
rebel prison at Andersonville by a sur
prise party The attacking parties sat
isfied him that they were friends, and
not enemies, by presenting him with a
very handsome article of furniture-a
secretary and roller-top desk combined.
Mr.. Scribner gave the party reception
which satisfied them that he duly appre-
ciated their kind intentions. Mr. Serb
ner enlisted at Montpelier, September
l, 1861, in the Fourth Regiment, Ver-
mont Volunteers, and served through
the war. He was in twenty-eight en-
gagements, and a prisoner from June
%, 1864, to April II, 1865.
A SPECIAL examiner of the pension
Office gives us an account of case that he
had to investigate where a sworn state
ment had been made at the pension Office
that a certain pensioner had the hernia
for which he was pensioned) before he
enlisted, for he (he witness) saw it
when he was breaking a colt for him,
before the war. When the examiner
called on the witness he gave it as a
reason for knowing that the pension
er's hernia existed prior to enlistment,
because he saw it when breaking colt.
The examiner asked him where the
horse was that he broke. He answered
81 have it." " How old is it now?'
He told the age and saw he was caught
because the horse was not old enough
to have been in existence even at the
close of the war. The witness took
back all he had said and no further ex,
animation was made The soldier con
tinues to draw his pension.
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Cine Gables.
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing Dec. Ia, 1894.

commencing Lee, ~, IO0f.
Trains Going South will Leave Montpelier
as follows
900 A M MAIL from St Adams and
c'~O a. Ia Burlington for Concord, Man
ton, Springfield, New London and New York.
1850 +. M. osdensbnrg and the West Vest for
Boston, via Lowell and New York via Springfield and
New London; Pullman Drawing Room Car to Bos
ton via Lowell and New York via Springfield.
800 P. M. MIXED TRAIN
ZOO p. M. MIXED for ROxbury.
1910 A. M. N Mn5Taa EXRREss from s%a
the West for Boston via Lowell and all points in New
England. Sleeping Cars to Boston via Lowell
Trains Going North and West:
800 A. M SGM and Saw EsSk from ST M sS
ttreal, ogdensburg and the West Sleeping Car to
Montreal.
$40 A. M. A bsns. to St. AL
$50 A. M SIS White
st. Adams and Rchford
$50 p M I DaY St A15sE fST sar 6s
densburg and the West Drawing Room Car to st.
Adams.
700 F. M B Buffet pa aHmE Gar to MontreaI
Trains leave for Barre at 100 A. NJ, 10: As A. NJ.
and 4: Is p.
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West for
j. w. HOBART. General Manager.
S. w. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
Special Examiners.

Colonel Thomas II. MacBride, the
supervising special examiner of the
pension office for this district at Bos-
ton, gives the following statement in re-
lation to the duties of special exam
liners: "We were formerly designate d
as special agents of the pension office.
When General Dudley became com
missioner he preferred that we should
be designated as special examiners, and
special examiners we are. The statute
authorizes our detail by the commits
sioner of pensions to investigate sus-
pected attempts at fraud on the gov
eminent, and to aid in prosecuting any
person so offending. Since the re-
vision of the statute, later legislation
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
THOMAs A. SANDERS ESTATE.

L COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington, Commissioners, to receive examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Thomas A. Sanders. late of Berlin, in
said District, deceased, and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto hereby give notice that will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at Joseph Chase's, on
the 10th day of May, and 10th day of October
next from two o'clock until four o'clock p NJ,
each of said days, and that six months from the
18th day of April, A. D. 1885 is the time limited by
said Court for said creditors present their claims
to us for examination and allowance,
Dated at Berlin, this goth day of April A. d. 1855.
JOSEPH CHASE, lC.,,,,,,i..i..,o.,
97-99 CHARLES J.. LEONARDO COMMISSIONER
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29
SYLvANUs F. NYE's ESTATE:

- COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned. having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington, Commissioners, to receive, examine, and ad
lust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Sylvanus +. Nye, late of Berlin, in
said District deceased, ana all claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby give notice that will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the late residence of
Sylvanus +. Nye the LIST day of June and 2st day
of September next, from one o'clock NJ. until four
o'clock r. NJ. each of said days and that six months
from the 23d day of March, A. d. 1885, is the time
limited by said Court for said creditors to present
their claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Berlin, this 2lth day of March, A. d. 1885
$685. s. H. COVEII commissioners.
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