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The herald., 1898-12-18

ness as of man and woman. But it is to be
noticed that there is vast difference when
you qualify the terms man and woman by
the term physician. How easy it would be
fol such advertisers to say, write to
woman physician because a man physician
cannot understand u woman, Just because
he is man." How easy it would be to do
this if the woman" who invites correspon-
dcnce could or dared write NJ. ID. after her
name, and even then, how preposterous the
statement would remain. For two thousand
years the practice of medicine has been en-
tirely III the hands of men, as it is in general
today. w oman in medicine Is a new thing
so new that she has not entered to any
known extent into the field of surgery.
Whatever any woman practitioner has
learned of medicine, she must have learned
III schools, taught by men, and from books
written by men. What a paradox, there
fore, is presented in the claim that the man
who has taught woman all she knows about
medicine does not know anything about
medicine himself
Women who are educated in medicine
would be the first to laugh at such state
ments. It's only the woman of the adver-
tisements, the woman" for revenue only
and who is not a physician who can afford
to make such amazing and ridiculous claims.
But this side issue has led us somewhat
a-feld from DR.. Pierce and his great host
OF women correspondents. To these the
doctor stands sort of father coniessor of
things physical. Every letter is read pri-
vately, answered privately, and its contents
guarded as sacredly as becomes such CON
tessions. And as many women are natur-
ally sensitive about their ailments, even
the replies are mailed, carefully and secure
ly sealed in a perfectly plain envelope, with
out printing or advertising upon it, that
The herald., 1898-12-18
THE TWELFTH CENSUS.
WON'T BE TAKEN ON A CIVIL
SERVICE BASIS
LITTLE LEFT FOR SPOILSMEN
And These Few Loaves and Fishes
Will Not Be Taken Away
From Them
Special Correspondence to The Herald

WASHINGTON, Dec. lin a little
more than one year the twelfth census OF
the United States must be taken and 1T Is
none too early for congress to make provls-
ion for the work. Indeed, it was expected
that this would be done at the last session
and several warm arguments took place in
the house as to whether the civil service
rules were to apply to the employees or not.
But the war with Spain drove everything
else out of the public mind and the census
question was permitted to go over until now.
1t is pretty well agreed now that there
will be no civil service about the business.
Congress never did like that system and
probably never will extend its scope any
further than it is compelled to. Such
large part OF the government employees are
already under the rules that Ne offices still
left for the spoilsmen are few enough as it
is without circumscribing them still further.
In taking the last census some 5000 or 1000
persons in Washington alone were appoint
ed by Influence" and it is safe to say that
the work cost some $2,0O0,0O0 more than it
should owing TO the character of the en-
ployes. Those in the country districts were
much better.
The bureau was made sort of hospital
for the relatives of senators and members,
who received good salaries irrespective OF
their usefulness. Women of somewhat
questionable antecedents received places to
please their official friends and the Office
continually trembled on the brink of scan
dals. OF course, it is not meant that all or
even a majority Of the employees were bad
or useless, but enough certainly were to
hamper the office seriously.
The public conscience has so improved
since 1890 that there will be no repetition
of the evils of that time, but the appoint
mcnts will unquestionably continue to be
the prey of the spoilsmen.
OF course the enumerators cannot be ex-
amined. They are caught like fish in net
and are held for few weeks by the law
making it penal offense to throw up job
without having resignation accepted.
About half of them would resign as soon as
they learned the requirements of the work
if they could do so. But this does not ap-
ply to the fat jobs in Washington.
1t is generally admitted that the eleventh
census was defective in many respects.
notably in taking the population of the
large cities. a police census taken in New
York shortly after the federal one showed
some 200, 900 more residents than it did, and
similar conditions existed all over the coun-
try.
The senate committee on census has
reported a bill by which the secre-
tary of the interior will supervise the ap-
pointments, but this will undoubtedly be
stricken out.
One reform that is almost certain is the
limitation by congress of the number of
the questions that will be asked. r. p. Por
ter, who had charge of the last census, had
pretty much everything conceivable tabu-
lated, often spending far more to obtain the
The herald., 1898-12-18

lishplents is very remarkable, and is appar-
ent at once TO every person who has had the
opportunity OF actually comparing DIR,
Picrce's laboratory with that of any other
institution. For instance, since DR.. Pierce
has advertised to give free consultation by
letter, many have initiated the advisements
and make an exactly similar offer. As far
as the advertisements go they make just as
good showing as DIR. Pierce. But go to
these other establishments and ask to see
the doctor who gives medical advice and
you'll find, nine times out of ten, that there
is no doctor connected with the establish
ment. Where there is a doctor he is prob
ably some medical failure, selling his pro-
fessional title to the medicine firm for a
small consideration. Compare this with
DR.. Pierce's institution, the lnvalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, with its staff Of
nearly score of graduated and experienced
doctors, busy every day in actual practice,
its great special laboratory and dispen-
sary, from which special medicines and aux
iliary treatment are sent out daily to all
parts of the country, its hospital with it's
surgical and mechanical appliances and op-
Grating rooms In such a comparison you
sec at a glance that there is no institution
equal to Dr. Pierce's in the whole country;
that for any one else to offeS what he offers,
is to promise what cannot be performed;
that no other institution has equal facili-
ties for the treatment of chronic diseases.
In the work of the Worlds Dispensary
and Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
there is real philanthropy rs well as real
medical and surgical skill. The best recog-
milton of the philanthropic aspect of this
work comes from the citizens of Buffalo,
DR.. Pierces home town, who elected him
State Senator, and later gave him seat in
Congress. From the latter position DR..
The herald., 1898-12-18

Mayer, about thirty-one miles from here,
is coming to the front rapidly. The rail
road from Prescott to Mayer has opened up
q vast mineral country. The road is a well
built, ballasted road and is already doing
large business. The town is named after
Joe Mayer, who settled here sixteen years
ago, and who by his own efforts has accu-
mulated a fortune and was always hospita-
bic. lie now holds the position of mayor,
postmaster, justice OF the peace, hotel
keeper and merchant a spring seven miles
away supplies the town and can if it reaches
u population of 10000. Mayer is now con-
nected with Prescott and Crown King by
telephone and telegraph. The famous Big
Bug quarries of onyx are located here and
will soon be in full operation and polished
onyx will go out in all directions, more beau
tiful and cheaper than the celebrated Mexi-
can product. The onyx field covers about
two hundred acres, patented, and the sup
ply cannot be exhausted. Mayer will be
permanent town and is the center of the Big
Bug mining district that is developing so
rapidly. Much placer mining is going on as
about one hundred men are at it. There are
many new mines being operated by bo tn
local and eastern parties, and several hun
drcd prospects are awaiting development
work. In this district all kinds of mines are
found, copper, gold, lead and silver, either
alone or several found together. Several
smelters are located in the vicinity and sew
eral mines have electrical plants.
The herald., 1898-12-18
THE MAN THAT
WOMEN WRITE TO

There's man in Buffalo who has, without
doubt, larger number of woman CORE
spondents than any other person, man or
woman, in the entire country. And yet not
one in a thousand of the women who write
have ever seen the man they write to. For
after all, it's not the man they write to, but
the physician. There's no sex in medicine.
The physician with this extensive CORE
spondence is DIR. II. V. Pierce, chief con-
sulting physician of the Invalids Hotel and
Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, n. Y.
Undoubtedly Doctor Pierce. owes his great
popularity among women to his many and
wonderful cures of that class of diseases
known as ''female troubles To the
treatment and cure of these diseases he has
given over thirty years of his professional
life, and has established himself as the spe-
cialist par excellence in the treatment of
diseases peculiar to women.
The esteem in which DR.. Pierce is held
by women is not to be wondered at when
it is known that in the thirty years and
over, in which he has given attention to
woman's diseases, he has, aided by his staff
of nearly score of experienced and skilled
specialists, treated over half million
women, and with such success that ninety
eight out of every hundred treated have
been absolutely and altogether cured.
Doubtless there are other reasons why
The herald., 1898-12-18
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Harry Funk, who lives near Corydon.
md, has Just celebrated his eighty h
birthday upon the afrm where he WIS horn
ana has passed his entire life.
Commodore Philip has been elected q
member of the Young Mems Christian as
s9clatlons international committee and
chairman of the subcommittee in cbarca
oil the associations work in the navy.
An American soldier thus writes of an
experience in the Sandwich islands: "Yon
ask me II | saw Queen Lii. Yes, | saw her
TINS morning. She came to camp and the
shoulder straps made us drill for her. Oh
put 1t was hot, and some of the boys wished
that she was wher it was hotter.'
The real motive of the German emperor in
sending his sister-in-law, Princess Henry
OF Prussia, to China and Japan, ostensibly
tor the purpose of being with her husband.
is alleged to be to have her become person.
ally acquainted with the two empresses
winch would be greatly to the advantage of
Germany IN diplomatic movements.
Count Camille Pecci, grandnephew of
Pope, Leo oil. and colonel of the Noble
guard, Is about to visit this country and
Cuba. The visit will be unofficial, and his
stay. in the country will only be incidental to
hls journey to Cuba. A few years ago Count
Pecci was married to Cuban woman, who
had inherited large plantation there.
In an audress before Harvard literary
society last week DR.. Edward Everett Hale
told the story of James Russell Lowell first
client, as Lowell told it to him. He had
hardly opened his new office when a
stranger appeared. Lowell deferentially
offered him a chair, took out his notebook
talked of the weather and when he finally
came to business found the stranger was a
bill collector.
Professor James 7. Hatfield of the North
western university, Professor Kune Francke
of Harvard and Professor Horatio S. White
of Cornell have been named as members of
a committee of 100 which is to arrange for
the celebration in Strasburg of the one hun
dred and fiiteth anniversary of the birth of
Goethe. In connection With this celebra-
tion there will be the dedication of Goethe
monument representing the poet as. boy
The herald., 1898-12-18
He Was Famous Collector Of Relics

Tom Donaldson, who died in philadelphia
last Friday, possessed one ofthe most inter-
esting collection of historical relics in the
world. and 1t is to be hoped that he has be-
queathed them to the National muesum at
Washington. as several are too valuable to
remain In private custody. His collections
were made with method. For example, he
collected chairs that had been commonly
used by famous statesmen-Washingt
Madison. Jefferson, Jackson, Buchanan,
Clay, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and other
historical characters-both in this and the
old country He had number of Bibles,
which had belonged to great men, begin
ming with Martin Luther, and for twenty
years or more he has been seeking palettes
than were actually used by eminent artists.
Among his autographs, which are numer-
Gus. the most highly priced was the letter
of General Grant to General Pember. on,
demanding the unconditional surrender"
of Fort Donaldson. Another precious war
relic was the bride worn by Rienz., the
stallion which General Sheridan rode from
Winchester to Cedar creek. Drbing the
latter years of his life Mr.. Donaldson
amused himself by making scrapbooks
He arranged for the exchanges of several of
the Philadelphia newspapers to be sent to
his residence regularly. and sat day after
day reading them and making clippings
which were carefully classified, indexed
and filed away. He Is said to have nearly
a ton of them. These will probably go to
the congressional library.-Washington
Dispatch.
The herald., 1898-12-18
MAY HAVE TO GOVERN HAYTI
Uncle Sam Likely to Interfere to Stop
Vicious Practices

"A muattress with plump baby in her
arms reached Philadelphia on a sailing YES
sci from Iiayti the other day and declared
her eager desire to become resident of the
United States. 1t was necessary for her to
get Il bond as guarantee that she would not
become public charge, and while the Incl
dental formallties were in progress some
body asked her why she had come from a
tropical island and her own people to live
among strangers, where the making of d
living is task by no means easy. The wo-
man answered with an earnestness that said
much Tor her sincerity and something for her
accuracy, that she left Hayti because the
season forcertain characteristic rites in the
district where she lived were coming on
and that her child would have been killed
and eaten if she had not left the country.
ms horrible charge has been made against
the HAY tians many times and as often de-
nled by them, but the denials have not car
rIed the weight OF the accusations. and the
best authorities regard it at least as highly
probable that in parts OF the black republic
heathenlsh customs of the most frightful
sort nave been praeticed ever since the ex-
pulslon OF the French. The Haytians are now
very close neighbors of our own, and it re-
mains to be seen what the consequences of
TINS proximity will be. The old isolation is
sure to be broken down, business and other
relations with Americans are inevitable. and
existing conditions in Hayti may well be-
come as uncomfortable to lis as were those of
Cuba under Spanish rule.
Even if cannibalism is mere sporadic
CRIME IN ,Hayti, there are other things there
practically worse and morally almost as bad
aDout which there is no doubt whatever
lhee government is corrupt and sangin,arv.
and the treatment of white foreigners IS
often atrocious.- The Haytians have had
many years in which to develop the power
OF self-government, but they remain far be-
low the standard of civilization, and harsh
critics declare that they are sinking rather
than rising. Moreover, this island is poten-
prophecy in that fact.-New York Times.
The herald., 1898-12-18
SWEARING OFF ARGUMENTS
Promises Seldom Kept by Either of the
Parties

Speaking of swearing off" said narrow
chested, dark-complexione young fellow to
a group of his cronies at the Liars club the
other day, IL once swore off smoking That
was when | was young and did not know
myself. | swore off with a friend, and the
penalty was suit of clothes to cost $50. The
condition was that we were not to smoke
in town. When travelling or hunting or
fishing-out of town, in fact--we would be
allowed to smoke. The scheme worked well
for some time; then | began to want to
smoke. | battlcd with my desire for sew
eral weeks, each day OF the period becoming
harder trial than the preceding. At last,
when the longing became too great, went
to see my partner in misery to tell him that
we had better call the contract off. as ! could
not stand it. He was not at home. He had
gone out of town a week before and would
be absent another week. Then | broke
down. The thought OF the party of the sec
ond part smoking himself blue in the face
while | suffered was unbearable. So, with
the fine of $50 staring me in the face, |
bought cigar and smoked it. 1t was worth
$50, L thought. But ! did not die for lamb
only; | smoked a vast quantity OF cigars be-
fore he came home. Then | went to him
and told him to go order the suit that had
broken the contract. He smiled quietly, as
if to himself, and then said: "A Il right, old
fellow, but do not be disturbed about the
SUIT. kept the contract Just three days.
Another man said: There were two men
in this town who swore off, the breaker of
the contract to pay the other $lO hat.
Finally one OF them weakened, saying to
himself he did not mind giving $40 for a
smoke. When he meditated over the mat
ter, however, he thought out scheme to
save himself on the hat. He went to the
hatter's and bought Il $40 hat and had it
charged to the other fellow Then he called
on the other fellow and pointing to the hat,
said: See that hat, old boy? 1t is one
have just had charged to you on that swear
off contract The other fellow cried out
How the dickens did you lind out | had
been smokeng? Never mind,' said the
other, a little bird told me. '"-Pittsburg
The herald., 1898-12-18

multitudes of women consult Dr. Pierce by
letter, and as not the least among such
reasons women would set down the friend
ly, even fatherly, advice which the age and
experience of DR.. Pierce enable him to give
as supplemental to the advice and instruc-
tions OF the physician. Women also, are not
slow to remember that DR.. Pierce, through
his method of consultation by correspc1-
dence, was the first physician to offer them
relief from the unpleasant questions, the
offensive examinations and the local treat
ments, generally inseparable from the treat
ment of diseases of women by local prac-
titioners.
OF course, DR.. Pierce has had many imita-
tors, who steal the terms which his ad-
vertisements have made familiar, to use
them as their ''catch-words," and so to draw
the attention of women in their direction.
The most noticeable feature of these imi-
tations is that women with dangerous dis
eases are urged to consult by letter some
one who is not a physician and has neither
the educational ability nor the legal right
to treat disease And sometimes, because
it is impossible for these advertisers to Law
claim to the title of physician, they raise a
clamor of write to IA woman" Woman
understands woman" hoping, doubtless, by
this artifice to draw away attention from
the fact that they do not and cannot offer
the advice Of qualified physician.
women are quick to see that a woman, un-
less educated in medicine and qualified to
practice, can give no advice upon disease
chat would not be liable to be as dangerous
as the disease itself. For there is no place
where ignorance is SO dangerous as when it
undertakes to meddle with woman's
health.
That class of advertisers who raise the
cry of write to a woman" are getting to be
known as bearded women," because the
woman in the case" is mere fgurehead,
preys on woman's confidence. An example
of the peculiarly preposterous claims made
by these people is found in the claim that
imam can't understand a woman--jrlst
because he is man." The only way in
which this can be interpreted as true is by
accepting the statement in it's bare literal
The herald., 1898-12-18
At Globe

GLOBE, Ariz, Dec. l3.--Assistant United
States Attorney Bennett was in town this
week on case involving two Cinnamon
charged with violating the exclusion act
They will probably be deported. There is
another Chinaman awaiting deportation at
Solomonvlle.
The old mines are running full bast,now
and several new ones are coming into notice,
among other the gold mines in Lost Gulch,
eighteen miles from Globe, where large
deposit OF copper ore and gold-bearing rock
has been found.
The United Globe is out for improve
ments. A hospital, library, bath house and
residences for the superintendent and mine
foreman are being built n new dynamo
will soon be installed and electric lights will
shine all around the property.
At the Enterprise canal, near Solomon
vile, the rock work is progressing rapidly
at the headgate, and one hundred men and
teams are working on the first section and
will finish it this week.
Near Geronimo, in Graham county, the
Spcnazuma Mining company has installed
a new smelter. Fourteen cars OF machinery
are in the plant.
The coming of the Gila Valley railroad
has brought the expected stimulus to bust
ness. The stage line has been discontinued.
This valley offers advantages to the home
seeker as there is plenty of government land
here yet that can be had for the asking
One of the Cinnamon who was to be tried
at Solomonville for being unlawiully in the
United States, will have his charge changed
to insanity. He was confined in the old Jail
room with two other Cinnamon. lie opened
the door of large wood stove that was in
the room and running at it attempted to
throw himself into the fire. He struck his
head against the side of the stove and was
knocked senseless. His companions worked
over him and brought him back to con-
sciousness.
The herald., 1898-12-18
At Tucson

TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. l3.-At the city
election, held on the 18th, the Democrats
elected every officer except city recorder,
the. successful Republican being c. T. Com
sixteen votes. The successful Democrats
were: For mayor, Gus Hoif; for councilmen,
John Brown, Frank T.. Russell, Tom Clark,
for treasurer, Joaquin Legarra; for city
marshal, William Taylor, and for city as
sessor, James Flynn. The fight for mayor
and for the council was very close. The
mayor-elect won by fifty-one votes and the
councilmen by twenty seven, seventeen, and
one majority, in the order named
were a. G. Kennedy, Walter Jameson, j. b.
Sexton, G. Boone and Wm Stephens.