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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
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MEDICAL, T,EGTST,ATTON

Regarding the mooted question of sep
arating the licensing power to practice medi-
cine from the teaching power-a question
which has been agitating the profession in all
parts of the country for years, and which
provoked violent discussion in the Indiana
State Medical Society at its last meeting-Dr.
Fordyce Barker, of New York, says: '"The
experience of all countries has demonstrated
the wisdom. and necessity Of examination by
and the assent Of the teaching faculties"
DR.. Barker suggests that there would
be additional protection to the profession
and to the public by the concurrence of an
examining board, acting as check on the
medical colleges which give diplomas unde-
servedly. In Germany and France the med
ical schools are under government control
In the latter country the Minister Of Instruc-
| ton has the power Of granting or Withholding
the diploma, and also of retiring any medical
teacher whose work is not up with the times
DR.. Barker believes that "a committee of iu-
dicious and unprecedented medical men, repre-
senting st once the best interests of the pro-
fess ion, the medical schools and the public,
legal advisers, which would combine the two
methods of college and State license in ac-
cordance with the spirit of republican institu-
tons and the sentiments of the epoch. and so
save the profession from unfortunate and
heated controversies, and from crude, hasty,
and ever-changing legislation"
The medical schools will within a month
graduate thousand students in the Missis-
sippi valley. Perhaps of the half hundred
schools half dozen have full appliances for
teaching and will not graduate any but COM
| petent men. A board Of State examiners,
made up of teachers and non-teachers as
might happen, but elected from the best men
in the profession, irrespective of systems of
practice, would certainly act as a check
against the graduation of men who have paid
their fees, but are illiterate and incompetent.
A school teacher or dentist is compelled
to show competency; why not doctor? No
State can afford to lag behind in the matter of
medical legislation, looking to the better edu-
cation of physicians. The State discourages
the carrying Of deadly weapons, and the care
less dispensation of poisons. The hypodernic
syringe and the commonest drugs are even
| more dangerous in the hands of ignorant and
unprincipled practitioners Let man prac-
tics whatever system OF medication he plcases,
but the Legislature owes i. to the community
to pus some check on purely mercenary deal
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by means of immense oars, and is constructed as
to twist like huge snake in the narrow channels
The sale of single raft at the end Of the voyage often
realizes about $3.50, 900.
Mr.. BURNAND. the editor Of Punch is the father of
eleven daughters. and what is still remarkable
they all married. If Mrs. Burnand would tell the
world how she managed it. her memory would be for.
ever held blessed by many parents oppressed with
superabundance of daughters whose matrimonial pros
poets appear dim and remote. Mrs Burnand ought
not to miss such opportunity of saving many gray
heads from premature graves.
TINES havo changed indeed in Merrie England.
Away hack in 1467, when George Neviil was conse-
Grated Archbishop of York, his brother Richard Earl
of Warwick gave grand feast to the dwellers round
about his castle, at which were consumed 104 oxen
1000 sheep, 500 stays, 1000 swine, 1000 chick
ems 6 wild bulls, small game in enormous quantities.
and to wash it all down. 800 tuns of ale 100 tuns of
wine, and pipe of 'the most goodle and pleasant
ipocrasso." A few days ago the heir of Brancepeth
of age and, within stones throw, almost, of
the Of that former great revel Lord Boyne
banquet, at which the cheer consisted of one single
solitary roasted sheen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE letter of Gov. Hendricks to Grover
Cleveland is not creditable to the press of the
country, in that publication attrib1ting to
Mrs. Hendricks the ambition to be s'the first
lady Of the and'-whatever such an idiotic
phrase may mean in this country-was deemed
sufficiently important to warrant its writing;
but it is not creditable to either Mr. Cleve-
land or to Dir. Hendricks, that such thing
should have been made the subject Of COM
ment or correspondence between them. 1t is
inconceivable that really heightened, digni.
fed man, a man worthy to be chosen either
the President or Vice-president Of the Nation
could be moved for a moment, or '.rattled, or
penny-a-liner, utterly without authority or
responsibility. That the subject has been
dignifed by the apparently authorized print
ing of a letter from Mr. Hendricks to Mr..
Cleveland, shows an apprehension on the part
of the writer that the President-elect might
be stung, and that in his anger he might be
small enough to attribute the publication in
some way or other to Mr. or Mrs.
Hendricks. It is most unfortunate
thing all around, and unpleasantly
exposes the trivialities that appear to move
some supposed great men. AS matter of
fact the writing and the printing of the letter
show, how delicate the relations between Mr..
Cleveland and Mr. Hendricks really are, and
how little thing it would take, in Mr.. Hen
dricks's estimation, to strain them unpleas-
antly, or possibly to rupture them. This is
the only plausible excuse we can find for the
letter or its public appearance, and in any
event, and under any circumstances, the Incl
dent is undignifed and pitiable, however
creditable the letter, as private note, may be
to the heart and we'll known fine sense Of So
cial propriety which so greatly characterizes
our distinguished fellow-citizen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

elect Mr.. Watterson Gays: "Mr. Cleveland
ought to know, and if he does not the sooner
he learns the better, that there is West,
already most powerful and eyer-growing,
whose jealousy of the proscriptiye narrowness
and vulgar greediness of the East is steadily
increasing. This West wants no Wall-street
attorney at the head of the Treasury Depart
ment, and will make its disapproyal of such
an appointee very surely felt The sound of
the alarm drum may yet be heard among the
Kentucky bluegrass hills
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Saloon Expenses and High L cense.

InuIHNApOTYs NtWH.
A conservative estimate of the expense en-
tailed upon this city alone each year oy the sa
looms thereof, over and above what they pay as
their part of the public burden, is $50, 265-a
little more than a round thousand dollars week
The people of this city have to make UP by taxa
ton upon their homes and other POSSESSIONS
which constitute the real strength of State,
ST, 900 week to foot the bills the saloons create
Indianapolis is not singular in this, and any
community in the State may reckon proper
tional cost to it from a similar cause. In the
face of this, the Legislature refuses to do what
the legislatures of other States have done and
are doing The refusal cannot last. The kind
of men who thus tax homes and healthful indus
tries for the maintenance of these crime breed
ing places will DO relegated to private life, and
representatives chosen who will do tue simple
act of justice which shall! compel the saloons to
pay the bills they make, or as nearly that as a
high license law can adjust it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

How long will brainlcss sensationalsts in
sist on trying to deceive the public into the
belief that there was plot to do away with
that blatant humbug, ODonovan Rossas 1t
is an easy thing for him and his friends to
write threatening letters and mail them to
him as though genuine, but few will be fooled
by that shallow trick But when it comes to
outsiders taking hand in the business Of de-
veloping conspiracy, halt must be called.
The latest attempt to impose on the public
comes from J. E. Lawrence, the landlord of
two-dcllar- week hotel in an obscure Mime
sofa town. The idea Of asking sensible
man to believe that person bent on murder
would write in the idiotic fashion of this
trumped-up letter is a little too much. Mr..
Lawrence doubtless sought to advertise his
tavern free of cost. He is welcome TO what
the Journal gives him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

IT is bitter commentary upon the action
of the Democratic party, which, two years
ago, raped the benevolent institutions of the
State, that at this session the Democratic
majority is compelled to appoint special
committee to prepare bill to restore to the
Governor the right to appoint trustees Of the
Knightstown Home, at which place the most
shameful and scandalous condition Of affairs
has been uncovered since the Democracy OBJ
tanned control of it. The very power the
Brown bill of 1888 took away from the Gov
ernor, it is now proposed to restore. The diff
ference is that in 1883 the Governor was a
Republican, and in 1885 he is Democrat
This is the principle, contemplate and out
rageous, upon which the Democratic party
manages the most sacred public trusts. 1t is
to be noted that the Republicans stand for the
same principle now that they affirmed in 1883,
although the power it confers would be in
the hands of a political opponent. Noincident
more clearly shows the difference between the
spirit Of the two parties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:

In speaking of Queen Victoria's children, In a
regent number of the Journal, you mention Leo
pold as the only one being dead. a. Is not
Alice dead, alsol (2.l Whom did she marry?
81 Whom did Albert Edward marry? a.
Where does Edmund Yates liver (5.) Is he
now or was he ever in PRISON. (6 If so, what
was the nature of his offerse2 READER.
OXFORD Ind.
a. She is. (2.) She married Prince Louis
of Hesse-Darmstadt. 81 Princess Alexandra,
of Denmark ~ London. Is and g.. He is
in prison now for having published contribu
ton stating that Lord Lonsdale had eloped with
lady. Mr. Yates was absent from London at
the time, and as the contribution came from
titled lady, and no names were mentioned, the
editor in charge published it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE st. Louis Post-Dispatch trusts that
Governor Marmaduke will surrender Frank
James to the Minnesota authorities, because
to do otherwise would identify the confed-
crate element in Missouri politics-the
'honest men who fought under the Southern
fag-with the unworthy train-robber gang
This tender consideration for the confederate
element is hardly consistent with the frantic
assertions Of the same paper, whenever it de-
sects the faintest wave of the bloody shirt,
that the issues of the war are dead and buried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
High License wanted in Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA Record iDem.)
Tt is the duty of tho State to so exerciseits police
powers as to protect the health and we'll being of
its inhabitants and to repress such scandals and
vices as offend public decency and public morals.
The present license system Of Pennsylvania is
not wise exercise of the police powers Of the
State Any man with fifty dollars to buy H.
eense and as much more to buy a half barrel of
whisky can set up his saloon in a neighborhood.
of whose idleness and vice it becomes the resort
In our cities and large towns the low saloons that
are increasing so rapidly in number have be-
come common schools OF vice under the liberal
encouragement of the State. A high-lieeuse law
vigorously enforced would extirpatehalf Of them
at blow
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

The proceedings of the Swain court mar
tial, as made public, are very remarkable.
The President evidently wanted the Judge
Acknowledgement dismissed, and he brought
all the power he could command to bear upon
the court to secure that end. But the court
did not regard the Generals offense
in the light the President did, and
reached two sentences, neither of which met
the executive idea. Finally third one was
formulated, which is approved, suspending
General Swain from rank and duty, on half
pay for period of twelve years. The opin-
ion Of the Journal as to General Swaim's
fitness for the Office of Judge Advocate
general is web known and it is not comrli
mentary to the General; but we can but con-
trast the proceedings and sentence in his
case with those in the casA, of Col
onel Morrow, who is convicted Of duplicating
his pay accounts, and is sentenced to
the frightfully severe punishment of
being ineligible to promotion for two years!
This sentence is scandal and a disgrace to
the army, and is fully as worthy of 4 letter
from the President rs is the sentence in the
case of General Swain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Literary Notes.

Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt has written papce
on politics in Albany for the Century
Hereafter the North American Review is to
have a new department, consisting of letters
from the public critcising and commenting upon
articles that have appeared in the Review. The
editor has long felt the need of such depart
ment. as he receives quantities of letters that
deserve n general reading.
A new weekly paper, intended for Sunday and
general reading, is to be issued by the Methodist
Book Concern. with DR.. j. Fl. Vincent as editor.
The new weekly, which will DO illustrated, will
contain stories and sketches, some serious and
others amusing, and will be sold for the very
low price Of one dollar year There will be a
special department devoted to the Oxford League.
a new organization designed to stimulate interest
in the history of Methodism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

Good heavens! Can it be possibleY A tele
gram from Indianapolis states that Vice presi-
dent elect Hendricks attended Chinese ban
quet there last evening" dinner given by
Cinnamon, mind you; that he actually sat down
at the table-sat down at the table along side Of
pigtail heather; do ye mind; one of these rat
eating, opium smoking fellows, with long finger
nails; and to car. the climax, responded to a
toast WE'LL we'll, WE'LL Can anyone point out
to US the direction in which we are driftingl
The Vice president of the United States eating
dinner with lot of Chinamen-and Demo
cratic Vice president at that This Is too much,
too much, too much
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE San Francisco Post, in considering the
Indian question, thinks it would be far
cheaper to take the entire Indian population
to New York and beard them at the most ex,
pensiye hotels than to continue the present
wasteful method of treatment. This plan
might please the Eastern lovers of the red
men, if, in addition, they were given the free
dom Of the city, and Central Park for hunt
in, ,,pouad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
ing ground.

DEPUTY POSTMASTER FERREN, of Batavia,
N. Y, preferred death to dishonor," and
committed suicide Has not the public had
enough twaddle about t'death before dis
honor" In nearly every instance the dis
honor PROCEEDS and follows death as inexora-
bly, as death follows life. Mr.. Ferren had APP
propriated Office funds to his own use. He
killed himself because. he was too cowardly to
live and face the consequences.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE Coming Cabinet" which ehear so
much about, is "up and coming "a Washing
ton to man. According to the aerscious cor
respondents, not one of the many distinguished
gentlemen who have been favorably mentioned
has failed to engage hotel accommodations at
the capital for Inauguration week Not one
means to fail of being hit by lightning through
remaining out of range.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

G. &. Bragg. Cincinnati.
/ som etimes think that newspapers make men
unsocial. Indeed, l know they do. Men no
longer go to each other for information, but
lo,k for it in their newspaper In the early
days of civilization, before the newspaper era
men gathered together as the Athenans did.
days OF tho country the crossroads store was
the news center, where gathered in eocial
way To communicate the news 10 one anotAeEs
But the newspaper changes all that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE Hon. Frank James, ex-murderer and
highwayman, is at last free man, and his
prosecutions are over so far as Missouri is
concerned. The murderers Of his sainted
brother Jesse should now be prosecuted and
Frank given a pension, when he would prob
ably conclude that his fellow-citizens were
inclined to do the right thing by him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

not only believes in using the ''cat, 2 but would
have the chaplain pray with tho convict before
whipping him, ito get him in the proper frame
of mind" The prayers of some chaplains would
assuredly make a man feel as though tho knout
were welcome change The people of Ten
nessae will probably condemn such excessive
punishment, and the practice of preliminary
torture will be abandoned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

In oldcn times and not so very 'old'-
nations fought their own battles. England
improves on this by waging war in foreign
lands and calling upon still more distant
countries to furnish troops. The Mahdi de-
serves sympathy in his fight for his own.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE Louisville Courier-J Journal, after de-
Alaring that Daniel Manning won't do for the
Treasury portfolio, isungallant enough to say:
The chief of that department must be a man
OF brains, experience and conviction il the
new administration expects to sail out of port
with wet sheet and flowing sea and wind
that follows fast" Turning to che President
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

Two deaths have already occurred as the
result of exposure at the Washington nonu
ment dedication; the full list Of the fatalities
of that occasion cannot be expected for some
time yet 1t was very unfortunate that
Washington was born on cold day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

INDICATIONS point Enthusiastically to the fact
that public sentiment in favor of high
license is forming and gaining strength in
many States. The Indiana Legislators who
voted down the measure may. when it is too
late, learn something which would have been
to their own and to the States advantage.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE men who appeal to anarchy are no
friends of the workingmen Of this country.
Organized society is the only safeguard Of the
rights and welfare of those who depend upon
their daily labor for food. Lawlessness is the
refuge for rascals, affording them opportunity
to nllln1ar
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

TIE condition of Mr. Gladstones health is
az difficult for the public to determine as the
makeup Of the Cleveland Cabinet. Accord
ing to the cablegrams, special and other
wise, he is either dangerously i'll or in robust
health. The reader takes his choice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE news of the suicide of Captain W. A.
Montgomery, of Owen county, will be received
with Painful regret by very large number of
people who enjoyed the friendship of an hon
orable and companionable gentleman. He
was delegate to the last Republican national
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Dry Timber.
Philadelphla Press

PhliddetphlA PreS6.
President Cleveland has ar abundance Of
Cabinet timber on hand, but great deal of it
is green and worthless. Thurman, of Ohio.
Eaton, of Connecticut, and Palmer. Of Illinois,
are kiln-dried, and warranted to keep in any
climate without warping.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

TIE State Of Minnesota has passed five
hundreddollar high-license law 1t has also
affixed the death penalty to the crime of muir
der in the first degree. Hitherto it has been
optional with the courts to infict capital pun
ishment, and it has never been deoreed.
Minnesota is progressive State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Still a September State.

The people of Maine. by their representatives,
have decided not to transfer their State election
from September to November The State is still
to be the scene Of those preliminary contests
which give zest to politics in Presidential years.
1t is said this is in the interest of Mr. Blaine's
second candidacy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Watching Our Legislature.

II.
The legislative situation in Indiana may be-
come interesting enough to attract the attention
of the country in C. few days. A new legislative
appropriation bill is under consideration which
the Republicans claim is an outrageous gerry
mander. The Indianapolis Journal urges the
Republicans to go to extrenlties before they
will submit to it's passage This seems. accord
ing to Indiana precedents, to be advice thai the
Republicans should resign and leave the Leg;s-
lature without quorum
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE journal devotes considerable space
these days to the doings of Ell Mahdi and Ell
Moody but trusts that no reader will get the
two accounts confused. The methods of the
two prophets are entirely different.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

By the will of the late Francis A. Drexel, of
Philadelphia, one-tenth of his estate is to be de-
voted to charitable purposes AS the property is
variouslyj estimated at from ten to fifteen mill
ions it will be seen that the charity which suf-
fereth long, for once has it's reward.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

HONEST Emma Abbott has not lost any dia-
monds this season. but she has rescued child
from drowning under the ice while skating, at
Galveston, Tex. Miss Abbotts throat was not
injured in the least by the exerton and ex-
posure but the reporter who tells the story has
not since been heard from.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

Philadelphia T

Philadelphia Times.
Jefferson Davis has written letter on the
Sherman controversy, which is said to be very
bitter We trust Davis will handle 1t carefully.
He might poison himself with it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25

THE people Of Indianapolis are taxed over
81 900 week because Of the saloons. The
Journal believes that the latter should not
only share this burden but take it wholly
upon themselves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
Getting Tired of Them.

Terro Tauto Gazette (Dem.l
II the Indiana Legislature could be persuaded
to hurry up its business, pass the appropriation
bill aud adjourn TO attend the Inauguration, it
would be good thing in every way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-25
New Books Received.

AMERICAN CITATIONS Edited, with introductiors
by Alexander Johnston. G. p Putnams Sons, New
York; the Bowen Merrill Company indianapolis
Price, three volumes, 1915.
These volumes are uniform with those Issued
by the same house containing representative
British orations The idea is to give practical
idea, of what American oratory is by quoting GER
tain well-known speeches, by such men 90
Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Washington, Jeffer-
son, Calhoun. Hayne, Webster, Clay, Lincola,
Douglas, Garfield, etc.