Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-16

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porous colonies of his kind may be found
All through New England and In many
other sections of the country the potato
bug Is doing his level best to make both
ends meet and preserve his reputation.
Early and late he is busy feastng upon
the potato tops of the farmers, and early
and late he is absorbing generous doses
of Paris green.
In Connecticut and in some parts of
Massachusetts war has been declared on
the elm tree beetle, which has lately de-
stroyed scores of valuable elms in the
Nutmeg State. The superintendent of
the public grounds department in Boston
has directed that strict watch be kept for
this pest. Inasmuch as the superlntend-
ent has no faith in spraying trees in
tested by the beetles, he will see to it
that any branches on which they may be
found are promptly removed.
The caterpillar descendants of the
brown-tal moth, it appears, still reign
supreme in various parts of New Eng
land, and the good people there are cud-
Ceiling their brains to discover some way
in which the singular pest may be exter-
minated.
All the while the New Jersey and
Staten Island mosquitoes have prospered
and grown fat; although, if DR.. Doty's
expectations are fulfilled, they have seen
their most prosperous days.-New York
Sun.
YOUNG DOCTORS AND LAWYERS.
Medical journals are puzzling over the
problem of finding patients for the
thousands of fledgling doctors who are
now graduated year after year and are be-
ginning practice. The professions Of law
and of medicine are already overcrowded.
or course, there is room at the top, but
the lower rungs of the ladder are beset
by throng of young men who are
trampling upon each other in their eager
ness to get a foothold. In American
towns and villages the Office signs of
physicians are overplentiful already, and
attorneys are so multitudinous that the
prospect of their securing clients enough
to keep them occupied is anything but
encouraging. The outlook for a con-
siderable percentage of the graduates of
our schools of medicine and of law
cannot be looked upon a. radiant. Many
of them must inevitably pass through
years of hardship before they attain sue
cess.
When competition in business is at fever
heat the rivaries of trade are frequently
prolific of litigation, which keeps lawyers
busy and affords them generous fees.
The combinations. consultations and
mergers so characteristic of this period
of vast undertakings lessen the list of
legal controversies and of cases in the
courts. When scores of mills are
brought together under single control,
when railroad lines abandon contention
and are operated in harmony, when
number of corporations of any kind are
amalgamated or managed by one board,
there is less work for the lawyers. AS to
the doctors, it must be borne in mind
that pitfalls and dispensaries are steadily
increasing in number and constantly en-
larging their work. The activity of these
institutions tends to lesson the oppOr-
tunities of the private practitioner and to
increase the difficulties in the way of his
finding patients enough to afford him
ledsoudulc suppolt'
1t is hard question in these days,
How are so many young doctors and
young lawyers to make make living:--
New York Tribune.
900
OUR MoNooLS.
We are acquiring lot of japanese, of
late. The figures for the present census
are 1880, as against 2,039 ten years ago.
The japanese element in the United
States is concentrated in the Western
division of states, which contained
23,3G0 japanese in 1900, as against 1863
ten years ago. In Alaska the japanese
number 265, as against about score in
1890 In Hawaii the japanese number
Gill as against 3,l20 in 1890.
A preliminary census statement con-
corning Chinese residents of this country
shows decrease of II, 500 in their num-
bers in the last ten years and also that
they are much more scattered through
out the country than at the time of the
previous census. The total Chinese pop
ulation of the United States in 1900 was
$4,000 as compared with l07 ,475 in 1890.
Of the approximate number of Chinese
in 1900, g. 800 or 20 per cent. are found
in the western division of the states and
territories, as against 96,s44 or 90 per
cent. in 1890. There were 72,412 in Cali
fornia alone in 1890, but this number has
been reduced to 1873. In the western
division, there has been loss of 26, 100
since 1890, and net loss for the United
States of 1880. The states and terri
tories outside of the western division
shows whole gain of 800 Chinese
since 1890.
Aside from the Chinese population of
the United States proper, there were BIG
in Alaska in 1900, as against 1928 Mon
golians, chiefly Chinese, by the census of
1890, and 25,7G7 in Hawaii in 1900, as
against lG,242 in 1s90.-Exchange.