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New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
pursu. of knowledge in the medical profession Hav.

pursuit OF knowledge in the medical profession. Hav.
Ing completed the medical course at home, he spent
several years In the study of hospital practice In
foreign cities Of note He was always an ardent and
progressive student, and contributed several valuable
discoveries 10 the domain Of surgery. to which branch
which he early an honorable fame. He was still
In his twentles when he published his famous essay
upon cooperative interference in appendicitis. work
which reyolutIonized the medical world in the treat
ment of that hitherto fatal disease for which no rem
edy had been found.
was, II the inherent qualities OF Or. BurchaTd 8
na,ure which greatly endeared him 10 all VINO
upon both sides OF the The cold specuations OF
science became with him warm, living realities FOR
the benefit Of his fellowmen. man Of large SYM
pathles of tender sensbilites and OF unselsh char
ity his heart went with his hand In bestowing
were glad TO pay him great fees fer his services and
who left him handsome bequests when mortal aid
could do no more for mortal Ills and they passed on
Into the immortal life. And there were countless
others beside whose sick and dying beds ne stood and
oan minister stricken morta.s in the hour of their
drest need and to whom his valuable services wee
given with great love and without price Those
who are still among the living will remember an ms
goodness. his gentleness ard patient heipfulness.
These will shed bitter tears above his new maze
grave in Greenwood mourning the loss OF their pest
hearts so long as the feblood flows their breasts.
HIM gratefully in their prayers when they Deseecn he
Inscrutable One who has summoned him away to
forget not In measuring his reward how roply ana
how we'll he fulfilled his mission upon earth
Gone in the midst OF his wide and far-rcachlng ca.
the temple of fame whose doors flung wide open
To receive him. gone forever from the hearts ana ne
hearths Of those who loved and doiised him leaving
filled True hearted. noble and faithful friend fare
well May all your deeds Of loving kindness here on
the great beyond a band Of shining ones. 10 welcome
you into the better and higher fe or an imm9rtal
sphere beyond tho tomb. JENNIE E. HICKS
yt-,cl,f rrfon
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
AN OLD ADMIRER OF THE TRIBUNE.
HIS PRESENT ENTHUSIASM AN oUTGRowTH OF
MANY YEARS READING


To the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Let mo say that Tho Sunday Tribune Is now
a ma gnihcent paper, and contains moro mat
ter than read ! never fall to read every line
on the editorial page all the cable letters. "ExA'
taches" articles and Topics in California" and
was during the campaign. deeply Interested IN the
triumphant progress OF the Mckinley boom.
II you will refer TO The Tribune supplement OF
October :. 1887. you will sec what faithful reader
OF your paper I have been An article Is there
cmanet,ng from your Washington bureau In Au-
gust, IA was residing at Elkton. Cecil County.
Nd employed at q salary Of SIS per year A few
words from tho postmaster OF the town. who
an Old Hickory Democrat. appointed during Pres.-
dent Jacksons first term. Induced mo to subscribe
for Tho Weekly Tribune. From that timo on
have been. except when on an ocean voyage or r.
long overland Journey, q constant reader Of the
paper.
I could tell great many Incidents about my do
votion TO your paper which would surprise readers
Of this generation. On January II. 1880 stepped
into The Tribune Office and purchased fifty copies
OF tho paper at four cents each. then went on
board Of the Pacific Mall steamer Prometheus.
bound for San Francisco. and In thlrty-four days
arrived the Coast. whore sold every copy at
soon os asceaincd that could just as rssdy have
sold them for dollar each Ever since that time
was again living In E.kton at the time OF the
John Brown raid upon IIarper's Ferry The first
timo the County Court convened In my town aftor
that raid ! came within ono vote OF being sent 10
tho Maryland Pententary. for other offence
than this publicly proclaimed from the bench. OF
being a subscriber to The New York Daily Trib
une There a secret history known only TO
myself and the foreman Of the Grand Jury. as to
why that vote lacking. The whole community
was camorous for my incarceratcn. | lived thero
for Ave years more and kept taking The Daily
Tribune.
| arrived IN Helena. Mont. July J. 1867. after an
eirh,y-seven days trip without having seen
newspaper. and at once went 10 tho news
stand and bought Tribune eighteen days DID, AMI
paid 80 cents f,r H. Since first subscribing for The
Tribune ] have lived In eight States and Terri
tories have been In frontier towns where Colt and
Rowic took precedence over Blackstone and Chitty,
and wherever / have been The Tribune has
always with me. X L. MAY.
Bozeman. Mont, Nov. q. 1s98
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
New-York. Nov. Il, 1896.
RAPID TRANSIT BEYOND THE HARLEM.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Please allow me. 4 resident OF the twenty
fourth Ward. and a constant reader OF Tne tribune
10 express my qualification that some action has at
lonp,h heen taken toward giving rapid transit faci-
ties 20 this section OF NewYork. will not preten1
TO say whether the Union Railway Company or the
PEOPLES Traction Company would do the work pest
Of supplying the needed facilities. but DO say tnas
everybody in this section wants the work DONE ana
done quickly hope therefore. the decision OF Con-
troer Fitch will end the matter and that the people
interests will not be sacrificed to long litigation
between rival corporations. The Controllers remark.
as reported in The Tribune that II ne should decds M
10 do nothing "t would be Impossible 10 foresee tne
outcome and the possibility would certainly exist
that ali of the competing bidders might Tor Iohg
time remain satisfied with the present status anu d
deadlock would thereby ensus whereby the Peop,,e'
Of the Twenty-thrd and Twenty fourth waris woulu
no derived OF the rapidtrans relief which they 50
much need" is thoroughly indorsed up this way W e
glad ne took acton II TsmanS nTW WARpER
New-York. Nov. q, lNsb.
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
WITH QUEENS AND ROCKS
WAITING FOR NEWS FROM THE MOS
COW MATCH.
r,AsrSFR MAY MEET TsCHIGORIN IN ST PETERS
BryRo-A CHANGE OF DATE FOR THE
c,pru MsTC-J cr-GCFSTrD

CABLE MATCH SUGGESTED.
M news from the Moscow battlefield: that is to
| cav I'D 10 Yesterday noon nothing known IN
this city about the seventh game of the champion
shin chess match between Laskor and Steinitz tho
score therefore, being still the same. namely to
in favor OF Lasker, one game. the NTH OF tho
series being drawn The St Petersburg Chess
Club writes Mleses from Berlin. are now negotiat-
ng with I.asler for a match TO be played in ST.
Petersburg between tho German and Tschgorin.
The British Chess Club London does not Ike the
date nxed for the cable chess match with America
February T. as It is thought 10 be 100 early In the
season. ths more SO. as they intend TO arrange
tournament in order TO pick their team
Tho Metropolitan Chess Club. in this city VIII ex-
tend the courtesy OF the club on one night each
week SATURDAYS excepted, TO non-mombers OF any
recognized chess club in the metropolis for the pur-
pose OF playing rapid transit tournaments Young
men who wish 20 take part in these contests arc
requested TO communicate with the secretary OF the
Manhattan Chess Club. Central Opera House. Eas,
''f The managers OF the intercollegiate Chess Tour
bbeiWoen amo Teprcsenatves from coHmba
ward. Yale and Princeton Will be played "a az the
Columbia Grammar School. Nos. 81 and % ia It
rifty-first-st in this city. beginning on December
IS and concluding on January 2 ,no ,o,,om,rg ,,s,
Columbia will select men from the following iist'
John I,rsl,inc College; Miles T. Monatt. College;
legc: Ernest o Lemcke. college; Gordon Parker
soeE Afa ssfer W WroSer Mars P6osophy fHrsg y
and Arthur VI. Price. Law.
Harvard will be represented by two men taken
from the following list;, ". 9. Arensberg co.
Fay. Law Ii. c. Ffoulke, ,9S; \. w. Ryder. ~;
i. f. southard. ~. and f. T.. Thayer, s9.
Yale will have take two from the following
list: + A. Lehlbach. 49, G. II. Robbins. 20; $
Gilman. 80: l.. \. Cook: 90; {. T.. Andrews. 'o0
and " NJ Murdoch. ~ :.
Princeton VIII send two men from the following
llst: Henry /. Bassett 'sS ACADEMIC; Milton B
gs Academic John A. Ply. 49, scientic; William
Academic: r. W. Jarvis 'C0. Scientific: G. w. Cor
don 30, Academic. and Walter L. Johnson. 81
Following is tho record OF these tournaments up
TO date:
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
crvsu1yE AuONG THE PALMS.
RE1TEn THAN NnNni

,. winter resorts Of the Carollnas. Georgia. Flori-
A. and california are being rapidly filled The South
80 railway CPledmon; Air Llne). the great
throuph-car line from New-York 10 ali principal
resorts South. IS doing very heavy passenger
traffic, mostly those seeking milder climate for
~, inter The .ncrea sed demand has caused add
,'onal Pullman sleepng-car service TO be established
~ The different resorts In addition to the superb
r,ice offered by this TO Florida. New
Wexico ana California improved service VIII be an
,nnrnced in n few days 10 Nassau Key West. etc;
irforr,ation regarding the South, Southwest ana
iacfc Coast furnished AT the General Eastern once
Of thts company. at New-York
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06

ana is chaperonng a party Of young people,
., 81 N; Blatchford, Port Warden Of New-York. Is
SSRehdlhg SR few weeks at the Homestead Hotel
Ahe butier brothers, Of the American Tobacco
COMPANY have been spending some time here.
~, among other recent arrivals from New-Yorh to
Bull L: B. BENEDICT, William =. Floyd Mrs. L.
d, j. campbell. "; J.. Bull Jr John j. lilroy, Miss
L y Brakeman. Miss Morgan, Miss Rhett, Miss
and Mrs r. F. WOODWARD Mr. ana Mrs H. /.
Boswell. Henry McAuey, Hermann Ellis, Mr.. and
MIS- John A. Duncan Mrs. ]. II. Mccullough
Miss. MCCULLOUGH. Mrs c. p Cassiiy Mrs. n
Deall. Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Williams and J. Stern.
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LAW.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: That remarkable statute which your corre-
spondent from Plattsburg inquiries about IN your
Issue OF Yesterday was introduced into the Legslat-
ure by Assemblyman Finn, OF the Ist Assembly Dis
trct OF this city Possibly he could tell The Tribune
what Il means and VINO on earth Is responsible for
such an outrage against helpless and bedridden men
who served our country In the second war or inde-
nendence-for there are many others interested.
ANOTHER GRANDSON OF 1872
New-York Nov. II, 1896.
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
5izE WEATHER At VIRGINIA RoT SPRINGS.

not Springs Va. Dec. 8 CspeciaD-rhs beautiful
~tner that has been prevalent at the Hot
~ v'nes for some time has driven tho guests at
- - charming resort to seek outdoor amuscnnonts
- popularity Of tho golf links has boon attosted
~ .ns crowds that daily gather on tho links to
..au'ss In that favorite pastimo But tho other
.a.asements come in for their share Of patronage.
- the billiard and pool rooms arc crowded con-
r~.ntv Pool tournaments have been In vogue
~ Week, Card parties also popular. and
1ssn,y Of the guests spond hours Of so1id comfort
Sy sitting In the large Colonial parlors playing
~ !. Risspsnt Morgan ayzlysa esw days ego.
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06
WORK FOR THE PALISADES COMMENDED.

To the Editor OF Tho Tribune.
Sir. Your efforts to create a strong public senti-
rnent against tho destruction Of the Palisades are
extremely commendable. Every time have visited
scarborough have been shocked by tho appear
ance OF the Palisades opposite this place. ana Dy
,ha tIastinr that Is constantly destroying these
picturesque rocks. HENRY OIiS NHAr"A
New-York, Nov. CO. 1886.
New-York tribune., 1896-12-06

lRoBIEM no. 1Cs-BY ROBERT BRAUNE. RosTOCK.
GERMANY.
Black-Five pieces
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

There is no beast in the world to
which more legendary virtues are at
tributed than to the stag; partly owing
to the tale of St. Hubert, partly to a
supposed antipathy of stays towards
serpents, partly to peculiar mass of
gristle in the shape of cross which
is found in the animals heart. A whole
book might be written on the miracu-
lous power of the hart, and the effica-
cy of different parts of him against thc
troubles of this evil world. Fouilloux,
in the 10th century, gives long list,
and Master Robert Topsel fills page
upon page with them; but our author
IN his solid English fashion is chary
about accepting such stories. Men say,
he admits, that when stag is right
old he beateth serpent with his foot
till she be wroth, and then eateth her,
and then goeth to drink, and then run
neth hither and thither until the water
and venom be meddled together, and
maketh him cast all his evil humors
that he had in his body, and maketh his
flesh come all new. but, he adds, with
the solemnity of Herodotus himself,
thereof make / none affirmation"
And this phrase occurs again and
rgain, for the count of Folk is too great
and noble hunter that any assertion
Of his should be laughed at.-Macmil-
lan's Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
Prize Poker Story.

Capt. John a. Duble, an old Mississippi
steamboat man, tells story of game of
cards played by cotton broker named
Weed, during the war. Gle boarded my
boat" he says, lat Cairo, after he had
made successful trip off a cargo of
cotton for the landing He placed
in the clerks office of the boat
box about the size of a
candle box, but securely nailed and
strapped with iron bands. Weed hailed
me as was passing through the cabin.
Captain said he, send me boy and
your carpenter When they were on
hand he told the boy to bring the box
out and the carpenter to open 1t. 1t was
full of crisp greenbacks. Then he pro.
ceeded to run up against the game of a
gang of old river sharks, and by the
time we got down stream he did not have
dollar. He told me he lost $500, 900 be-
tween st. Louis and New Orleans. The
last time | saw Weed he was river re,
porter in New Orleans, and he seemed
as perfectly happy as though he still
had his $500, 1000. "-Washington Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

A very smart young man wishing to
supply amusement for a group of young
ladies that accompanied him, accosted
the conductor of a railroad train as
follows:
"My dear conductor, what-er-do
you call an up train?"
"Why, train that blows up, ex-
plodes, goes to smash--anything of thai
sort"
"Ah, yes, to be sure. And-er-what
do you call down train?"
"Down rain?-why, that's a train
that goes down an embankment, or
through a trestle-work; has some sort
of fall, you know"
The young ladies were laughing
heartily at these answers, which emf
barrassed the young man, and desper-
ately pointing to the train they were
about to board, he asked: And where
might this train be going?"
"Oh,' replied the conductor, 1--WE
never agree to answer those questions
beforehand. "-Harper's Round Table.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
Feigned Deafness.

In a regiment in India private
wanted to get home and saw no other
way than shamming deafness. He re-
ported himself sick and was sent to the
hospital. The doctors tried all sorts
of ways to find him out, but he was too
sharp for them. One day the doctor
determined to try him by firing pist
off just behind him, but he got to hear
of the experiment and of course was
prepared for it. AS he and his chum
we're sitting on their cots opposite each
other smoking the doctor stole into the
room unawares as he thought, and fired
the pistol close to his ear. He, how
ever, took no notice of the report. but.
on seeiL.s the smoke he turned to his
chum and said: Put your pipe out,
you fool, the doctor will be round di-
rectly." His ruse worked.-N. Y. Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Listen:
Eve were camped in the quaking
aspen. Snow had fallen, and the elk
were coming down. You could hear
them bugling on every side just before
dawn. 1t is easy to stop band of elk, as
they pass near your camp, by initiating
their call upon an empty cartridge
shell. | have learned the trick, and Jack
had no hesitation in permitting me to
choose my own trail one morning and
follow it alone afoot, he and the guides
scattering in other directions. The
taste of the camp coffee was still upon
my lips; my cheeks tingled with the
frosty breath of the morning air as
kept cautiously to the windward of the
elk, whose trumpeting stirred me like
martial music.
"A stray bear track showed here and
there in the fresh snow. But l was
after elk. A hundred miles lay between
our camp and the nearest settlement.
All! the solitude of those woods!"
Mrs. Jack leans back in her chair and
signs reminiscently as she gazes into
the blazing hearth fire-a charming pic
ture in her house gown of old blue,
frightened with CLEANS of Persian en-
broidery, inwoven with uncut Jewels.
81 had gone three miles, perhaps four,
over fallen spruce, up the steep side of
ragged mountain, when crash. across
my trail came a band of elk, headed by II
magnificent bull.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

1t is obligatory in Seoul, the capital
of Corea, for every man to go home at
sunset, when the ringing of the large
bronze bell of the city is signal for
every man to retire to his home. ANY
man found in the streets after sunset.
when the city gates are closed, is liable
to be logged for d breach of the law.
The women are, however, allowed to go
out to take the air and gossip with their
friends. Another curious distinction
between men and women is that the lat
ter have no name before marriage, and
that after marriage the husband be-
comes answerable for his wife's mis-
demeanor and, in his own person, suf,
fers the penalty Observation-Disclosures
Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

"Crcuching behind q bowlder, I
waited. l have waited so often for big
game, from Alaska to the gulf Jack
says 1 have seen more than he can ever
hope to see, if he lives to be a hundred.
My hand was steady. Jack often gets
buck fever. | never do. | took delib-
crate aim. The elk came toward the
bullet and dropped dead without a
struggle. Blazing the trail, as | re-
traced it toward the camp for the pack
animals, l saw that there were new
bear tracks. was not out that day for
bear, and l did not care to come upon
one alone, although l had no thought
of Sinking the encounter were it forced
upon me.
"A bear in bear pit is clumsy crea-
ture. In the woods he challenges your
admiration by his clever fashion of COW
ering the ground without apparent eff
fort. The one | soon deserted ahead of
me was numbering along like a bunch
of tumbleweed, frightening the dis
lance between us at rapid rate.
'Foolishly 1 INDUCED myself in a
shot at him, striking his shoulder. He
turned upon me with roar of pain. At
thet instant needed all my nerve. This
time l chose tree for cover and waited.
He came on, without halt, straight
toward me. l fired again, missing him.
was Just about to try a third shot
when the test came, of which l have
spoken"
"The test?" murmurs the society,
breathlessly.
THE test of my courage to which
had always felt l should be unequal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

The thing 1 had dreaded in my forest
wanderingstwith Jack"
"What?" the society demands, with
one voice.
Il had raised my rifle when I felt
something Tutoring in my hair. I
fancied "A leader had slipped from my
hat rim. Oh, horror, it was spider
and as l shook my head violently to dis
lodge it, it struggled into my ear.
Il have never been conscious of hav-
ing fired that third shot. Somehow the
rife was discharged, ard by the same
chance the bullet laid the bear low.
Il tainted, and when l came to N.Y.
self, was lying across the bears body,
with six strange men standing around
me.
Ten thousand boiler factories were
at work in my brain. Hear the noises
I cried. Will no one stop them?'
And now comes the strangest part
OF my story.
''The engineer of Jacks yacht once
got a mosquito in his ear. 1t drove him
quite mad before we could find doctor.
He hung over the yachts side, held
by six of the crew, begging for death.
When the doctor arrived upon the scene,
lie applied a handkerchief, wet with
ether, to the mans ear, quieting the
mosquitoes struggles and restoring the
nan to sanity.
Il believed myself in the mans plight,
stark, staring mad, when, upon this
peak of Darien, 500 miles from an am
bulance and surgeon, I heard one Of
the men to whom I had so wildly ap-
pealed reply, quietly: Have no fear.
madam, you are in safe hands, for we
are all DOCTORS.
"They deluged my ear with water
from nearby stream, which they
brought in tin cup. Finding the
spider still unsubdued, one of the doc
tors asked for hypodcrmic syringe.
Five were instantly proffered. An icy
arrow penetrated, seemingly, to the
seat of the gray matter, still without
effect upon the spider, whose pernicious
activity caused me indescribable agony.
Ether is the only remedy l said,
at last, and as coherently as I could
1 repeated the story of the engineer.
Enthusiastically returned the
doctor who was attending to me-
why, of course. Brown, fetch out your
ether-bottle,' and if Brown did not pro.
Guce from the depths of his wastcoat-
pocket small bottle of ether, may |
be instantly retired from the presj-
dency of our society. 1t transpired
later that Brown was physician with
an alien OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES car
ri>d ether with him everywhere to an
aesthetic his specimens.
SIN an instant relief came - such
blessed relief as only one who has
passed through an experience like nina
can appreciate.
''The rest of the story is soon told.
When l had gathered myself together,
the six doctors presented themselves
to me with due formality. They dined
that night at our camp, on my elk.
Jack was thoroughly ashamed Of
me. For what did the elk and the bear
matter, with the memory of the spider
fresh in our minds?
mo, decidedly" Mrs. Jack repeats.
as the maid fetches her a second cup of
tea, 81 shall never dare to look tiger
in the face, after my Waterloo on tho
Big Muddy. 1t would have been a
pleasing legend for my tombstone
this:
lone
To whom the forests were an open book;
Who Joined to Diana's daring the skill OF
her spear
Lies here
Slain by bug in her ear"
Mary Wakeman Botsford, in San
Francisco Argonaut.
C. w. NJ. Reynolds selected MAS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23
A Possibility.

Carson-Wouldn't it be an awful
thing for Henpeck ii his wife died?
Vokes-Not so very, unless she died
by accident.
Carson-By accident! What differ.
enec would that make?
Vokes-Weli, if she had time before
dying, she would tell him how her
funeral was to be conducted, what he
was to do during the remainder of his
life, and appoint a place to meet him
on the other side of Jordan.-Truth.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Smith-EIow are you, Jones?
Jones-EXcuse me, / don't know you.
Smith-You knew me when you Dor
rowed that ten dollars.
Jones-Well, l don't want to borrow
anything now.-Bay City Chat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Humility is like tree, whose root,
when it sets deepest in the earth, rises
higher and spreads fnirer and stands
surer and lasts longer, and every step
# it's descent is like a rib of iron.-
Jeremy Taylor
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

Health officers want 100000 with
which to fight tuberculosis in New
York state. They claim that the dis
ease is the one most prevalent among
human beings and animals In the state.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-04-23

C. W. NJ. Reynolds selected MAS
ter Timothy" when writing his choice
essays, which bore the title Master
Timothy's Bookcase"