Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-27
MORNING. OCTOBER 27, 1886.

| the voters who registered in 1884 did not
vote. If this proportion should hold good
this year-and the interest in the election
warrants the belief that the abstentions will
not be much more numerous than in the
presidential vote-the total vote for mayor
will be about 22S, 900.
! The Boston Advertiser SAYS editorially that
there is reason to believe that some of the
great railroad corporations outside of Con-
| necticut which have not found Senator Haw-
| ley SO accommodating as they wish senator
to be have contributed largely to influence
the election in this State, and the Advertiser
continues: William Fl. Barnum would be-
they have reason to think, much more pliable
to their interests. He is not the kind of a
man to let scruples stand in the way of serv-
ing powerful corporations, whatever service
they may require. The election of legisla-
ture that will send Barnum to the senate in
place of Hawley will indicate that money has
successfully debauched considerable pro-
portion of Connecticut voters. But it would
be another ''indorsement' of the administra-
tion.
The decision of the Supreme court of the
United States reversing the decision of the
Supreme court of Illinois against the
Wabash, ST. Louis & Pacific railroad COM
pany for violation of the ''short haul' law
of Illinois is an important one. The facts in
the case were admitted, namely, that the de-
PENDANTS had violated the State law by
charging parties in Gilman, Illinois, great
er price for transporting goods to New York
than was charged parties in Peoria, Illinois,
for the transportation of similar goods from
that city to New York, the distance to Peoria
from New York being sixty six miles greater
than to Gilman. The decision is based on
the ground that States cannot establish the
rates to be charged for conveying goods
through other States, and that to sanct ion
such legislation would be of detriment to the
freedom of commerce among the States. The
dissenting judges, besides Chief Justice
Waite, are Bradley and Gray.
Professor Leyden, President of the Berlin
Society of Medicine, has this to say regard
ing the value of fashion in remedies: No e1-
perienced physician will disregard the infu-
ence of fashion on medicine and therapeu-
tics; fashion constitutes, I aver, a remedial
agent which the physician has, in some de-
gree, to acknowledge. Patients have more
confidence in remedies which are of the fash
ion of the day, and more willingly submit to
deprivations enforced by treatment if this
happens to be in fashion, i. e., if a number
of well known leaders of society and of their
personal acquaintance have accepted it. This
influence of fashion we have met with in a
remarkable manner in the different methods
of treatment of obesity. Twenty years ago
Banting's cure was in fashion, which, if used
with certain rational restrictions, l still con-
slider the best treatment. At that time per-
sons of the better classes, who fancied or OBJ
served the slightest propensity for becoming
stouter, adopted Banting's dietary. At pres
ent, for the same reason, they barely dare to
partake of soups, and either limit to the ut
most their drinks, or entirely abstain from
liquids, and consider thirst far less severe
penance than any other kind of treatment.