The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-30

be washed and take slumber on the hide
Of a sacrificed beast He first discovered
the Importance of thorough prognosis
and diagnosis. He formulated the Ia
nous oath Of Hippocrates which is taken
by physicians from superstition, empir-
cism, and priestcraft. He was the father
of all the infirmaries, hospitals, and
medical colleges Of the last twenty-three
centuries. Ancient medicament and
surgery had before that been anamotical
and physiological assault and battery,
long after the time Of Hippocrates the
Greek doctor, where his theories were
not known, the Bible speaks Of fatal
medical treatment, when it says: In
his disease he sought not to the Lord,
and Asa SLEPT with his fathers And we
read in the New Testament Of the poor
woman who had been treated by the
incompetent doctors who asked large fees.
where it says: She had suffered many
things of many physicians, and mad
spent all that she had, and was nothing
better, but rather grew worse. For our
glorious science of medicine and surgery,
more sublime than astronomy, for we
have more to do with disease than with
the stars; more beautiful than botany,
for bloom of health in the cheek OF wife
and child is worth more to us than all
the roses of the garden-for this grandest
of all sciences. the science of healing.
every pillow Of recovered invalid, every
ward of American and European hospital
may well cry out, Thank God for old DIR.
Hippocrates! /, like Paul, am indebted
to the Greeks
Furthermore. all the world is obi
gated to Hellas more than 1t can ever
pay for it's heroics in the cause Of liberty
and right. United Europe to-day had
not better think that the Greeks will not
fight. There may be fallings back and
vaeillations and temporary defeat, but il
Greece is right all Europe cannot put her
down. The other nations, before they
open the portfolios of their men-of-war
against that small kingdom, had better
read Of the battle of Marathon, where
ten thousand Athenians, led on by Milti-
AIDES, triumphed over one hundred thou
sand Of their enemies. At that time in
Greek council of war FIVE Generals were
for beginning the battle and five were
against it. Callimachus, presiding at the
council of war, had the deciding vote,
and Miltiades addressed him, saying:
1T now rests with you, Callimachus,
either to enslave Athens, or by insuring
her freedom to win yourself an immortali-
ty Of fame. for never since the Athen-
ians were people, were they
i'm such danger as they a-a ut this mo-
ment. If they bow the knee to these
Modes they are to be given up to Hip
pias, and you know what they will then
have to suffer; but if Athens comes vic
torous out of this contest, she has it in
her power to become the first city OF
Greece. Your vote is to decide whether
we are to join battle or not. III we do
not bring on battle presently sont
factious intrigue will disunite the Athen-
ians and the city will be betrayed to the
Modes, but if we fight before there ls
anything rotten in the State OF Athens,
/ believe that, provided the gods will
give fair field and no favor, we are able
to get the best of it in the engagement.
THE STRIKE FOR FREEDOM.
s'That won the vote Of Callimachus,
and soon the battle opened, and in full
run the men of Milt:adas fell upon the
Persian hosts, shouting, ON! sons OF
Greece! Strike for freedom Of your
country! Strike for freedom Of your
children and your wives, for the shrines
of your fathers gods, and for the sepuI
clIers Of your sires! All, all are now
staked on the strife While only one
hundred and ninety-two Greeks fell, six
thousand four hundred Persians lay
dead upon the field, and many OF the
Asi0tic hosts who took to the war yes
sells in the harbor were consumed In
the shipping. Persian oppression was
rebuked. Grecian liberty was achieved,
the cause of civilization was advanced,
and the Western world and all nations
have felt the heroes. Had there been
no MiItiades there might have been no
Washington.
''Also at Thsrmopylae, three hundred
Greeks, along a road only wide en@ngh
for a wheel track between a mountain
and a marsh, died rather than surrender.
Had there been no Thermopylae there
might have been no Bunker Hill. The
echo Of Athenian and Spartan heroics
was heard at the gates of Lucknow ana
Sebastopol and Bannockburn and Eek
fngton and Gettysburg. English Magma
Charta and Declaration of American In
dependence and the song of Robert
Burns, entitled "a Mans Man for
a. That were only the long-continued
reverberation of what was said and done
twenty centuries before in that little
kingdom that the powers Of Europe are
now imposing upon. Greece having again
and again shown that ten men in the
right are stronger than hundred men
in the wrong, the heroics of Leonidas
and Aristides and Themistocles will not
cease their mission until the last man on
earth is as free as God means him to be-
There is not ON either side Of the At
lantic to-day republic that cannot
truthfully employ the words of the text
and say, 4 am debtor to the Greeks.
But now comes the practical question,
How can we pay that debt, or part OF
it? For we cannot pay more than 10
per cent. of that debt in which Paul
acknowledged himself a bankrupt. BY
praying Almighty God that he will help
Greece in it's present war with Moham-
mechanism and the concerted empires OF
Europe have seen and talked with her
Queen, a noble, Christian woman, her
face the throne Of all beneficence and