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cred up 20 keep out the air as much as
possible The temperature now is such
that there is not. much melting. Las win
ter my Ice bill was so small in comparison
10 what 1t otherwise would have been that
The ice man complained. My boarders did
no.. however. for as the snow cost Elc but
little | could afford ice cream for them
ofterer than l otherwise could
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My own idea is observed d physician
that some of the public school teachers
particularly some of the lady teachers. are
doing more harm than good by the way
they endeavor TO impart ideas on hygiene
1t is all right to be careful. and il is even
better TO be too careful than to be careless
but no good can come from exaggeration
Only few days ago while visiting some
patients. j was informed seriously by a
little girl of ten years that it was dread
fully dangerous to drink water from a cup
that any other person drank from. The
Httie girl even Went so far to say that
IL was also dreadfuliv dangerous 20 drink
soda water from any of the glasses in The
drug stores. for the reason that others
drank from The same glasses. | asked her
where she got such ideas from, and she
told me that her school teacher had told
her TIM. and time again.
Now. all this is carrying hygiene too
far. i have serious doubts that any one
was ever injured in any way from drinking
the pumps. from the cups in use in the
public schools. Every time they are used
they are rinsed out by the ones who use
them. especially If the water is drawn
from spigot. l know there are extremists
ih this matter. and physicians have fire.
quently gone as far wrong others. but /
do not think it is right for any one to ham
mer sucn Ideas into juvenile minds. IL
scares children so that they fear to drink
water at ALL which is all wrong. for an oc-
casional drink of water is as necessary as
air for every one. and children especially"
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"The late Senator Leland Stanford re-
ceivcd probably more anonymous letters
and paid less attention to them than any
man that know Of said an official of the
Senate. His rule was to throw them away
and pay no attention to their contents. As
a railroad president for many years he had
received thousands of them, and he carried
out the same rule after he entered public
life senator. 1 remember one evening
l was in his office. Among his callers was
a eolored man who claimed to be a min
lister and to ne the president of college
and orphan asylum in South Carolina. The
senator was very busy that evening and
he closed up the appeal of the minister for
money to help carry on his good work by
saying:
IF YOU will not detain me listening to
your appeal l will give you sl0O in the
morning. / would rather give you that
sum than to listen to your claims tonight
The minister thanked him and departed
with smile on his face. The following
morning L had some business with the
senator and was in his office early. Soon
after | arrived there the South Carolina
minister put in an appearance TO get the
money promised him the night before The
senator sent down word to one of his
clerks to maxi out d check for 500 The
clerk came up and whispered to the sena-
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letter saving that the minister was
fraud and swindler. Who was ii signed
by" asked the senator. The clerk answer
ed that it was anonymous. but that he had
some reasons for believing the statements
in regard to the minister were true.
- You know said the senator. my rule
is to pay no attention 10 anonymous let
ters. Give him the check. for l promised
1 would do so: ] can make no exceptions
TO the rule The check was made out and
handed 10 the minister, and he again de
parted smiling. The day following the So
called minister was arrested and arraiSned
In the courts as general swindler, the
charge having been made by the officers
OF d colored organization here. There was
plenty of evidence to substantiate the
charge. Senator Stanford's rule cost him
500 that time. as 1t had undoubtedly cost
him d great deal more in other ways. but
it his rule, and he adhered to it
strictly"
II every dunifcr OF the late strong
John Thomson placed a rose on his grave
his body would tonight be covered with
mountain of roses said well-known
business man. Strong John Thomson
had the respect of nearly every with
whom he came in contact simply because
he commanded and deserved it, TO many
of US he was known as Peanuts How he
got that nickname 1 do not know, but when
went 10 school to him. forty years ago.
the boys spoke of him oftener as Pea
nuts than Strong John. My first recol-
lection of him as a teacher was in the
building at the corner of 1ith and q
streets. where Smalls building now Is. Mr..
Thomson. as has been stated. took great
stock in the strap as means of educa-
ton His strap was always in sight, coil
ed up on his desk The strap was made of
sole leather. and was about two yards
long He always doubled 1t up when in
use In some cases he struck with the
loop end. and in others with the double
ends. Generally he applied the strap to
the open hand. but frequently. when he
used his strap over the boys back.
While 1 have seen him whip hundreds
of boys. l have also seen several boys whip
bim. He took his whipping without
grun be-and he thought best of the boys
who did likewise. His strong hold was
have talked to him very often. and
think he was sorry he had given so much
prominence TO the strap in his educational
methods. He felt there was danger OF his
being regarded as the mere user of the
strap. He never forgot the name OF one of
his boys. and nothing gave him SO much
pleasure as when he heard his boys We're
successful in life
Sufficiently Qualified.