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| the House and in due time will pass
the Senate and receive the approval
of the Governor. This bill thus rec
ognizes one of the best institutions OF
learning in the west and does much
towards placing it upon proper foot
ing as a Military Academy.
Two years ago the House witnessed
a "battle royaln between the allo-
pathic and the osteopathic schools of
medicine, or as the "boys" called them
the sold lanterns and the 'new
lights" 1t ragged fully four hours
with much feeling and some bitter
ness. The "new lights" won. Last
Tuesday night a scene was witnessed
in the House never before looked
upon in the Capital City-not per-
haps in any city in the State. 1t was
occasioned by joint meeting of the
Senate and House Committees on
eleemosynary institutions to consider
the bill introduced by Mr.. Hall, of
Saline, regulating the practice of
medicine and surgery in Missouri.
This bill makes it "unlawful" for
''any person not nor registered
physician to practice medicine or
surgery" or "to profess to cure and
attempt to treat the SICK" except as
provided in the bill. The bill fires a
terrific shot at the so-called Christian
Scientists and makes them amenable
to prosecution and conviction and
punishment. The introduction of this
bill sounded the tocsin Of war. 1t
rolled and reverberated over the State
and aroused the Christian Scientists
as the old bag-pipe aroused the Scot
tish Highlanders in days of long ago.
Their leaders asked for a hearing. OF
course, it was given and Tuesday
night was the time.
About nightfall chartered trains
began to roll into the city-from st.
Louis, Kansas City, st. Joe and inter-
mediate points. The streets of JEFF
ferson City were filed. People won
dered what was the matter-what
meant these chartered trains and
this crowd of visitors. They soon
found out.
Before 1880 O'Clock the hall Of the
House was packed, crammed, jammed.
Your correspondent entered the Cap
itol building about o'clock, and just
as he entered he heard an uproar that
was startling. He hurried to the hall
Of the House to discover the cause and
saw the crowd as described above. A
gentleman was pleading earnestly,
lfervently;
"We harm no one, we pray to God
to have mercy on all. We believe in
prayer. God has cured diseases, and
He can do it now, and He will do it if
you ask Him as He ought to be
asked. We are not a lawless gang.
1t is awful to class us with criminals
and felons. We do not pray and heal
and cure the sick for filthy lucre.
Our charges, or contributions, are so
small that they amount to nothing"
In words like unto these he con-
tinued for 10 or 20 minutes. / looked
around over the audience. | saw
men and women, some with faces that
indicated the most intense interest;
scores of them with eyes closed, their
heads bowed, their lips moving slowly,
tears running down their cheeks. Now
and then the speaker would give
quick answer to some question asked
him and "the shot" was applauded
by nearly a thousand people.
am told that there were 7S0 Chris
tian Scientists in the hall who had
come on the chartered trains from all
over the State. / left. at II O'Clock.
They were still telling of their won
derful cures and proving" them by
the benefciarles who were present.
Right or wrong, they are dead in
earnest ~ II they don't cure, they
don't kill, and that is l-e-e-t-l-e more
than some Of the cold lantern" doc
tors can say. A story told more than
forty years ago on an old-time country
doctor in the Kentucky mountains,
illustrates the ignorance which then
prevailed among doctors of that re-
gion. A man was very sick. The old
doctor was sent for. He came under
"whip and spur" He felt the pulse,
looked puzzled, opened his saddle
bags, prepared two spoonfulls OF
"awfullooking" stuff, saying; 81
don't know what is the matter, but /
will give him this to throw him into
fits, and am hell on fits"
1t has heretofore been and is now
the law to allow city authorities the
privilege of granting franchises tC
individuals, companies, etc. Mr.
Carmach, of Sullivan, realizes that
this privilege has done much to cor
rupt aldermen and councilmen Of
cities, and his bill proposes to allow NJ
franchise to be granted, or assigned
after once granted, unless the people
of the city approve it by a vote.
Mr.. Harper, Of Bates, wants mOr'
information about farm products, and
by a bill provides a law requiring as
SCISSORS to make a note Of live sick
all sorts of farm products, dairy prod
ucts, etc, ETC., hand them into tn,
county clerk and he TO hand them t.
1.-THE Board Of Agriculture. The as
SCISSOR to be paid, the county clerk T.
! be paid, Secretary Board of Agricul
ture to be paid, the state to furnisl
blanks by the car load and to pay 70
= all the printing, while not one farme
, in 1000 will ever get the printed re
, ports.
The taste and fancy OF Mr.. SpierS
3 Of Stone, play along the lines of tn
! beautiful and sublime. He propose
, a law to establish a State Park "l
that portion OF Stone county tina
: a bounds in the beauties OF nature"
JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. l5.-Durin
5 The campaign last year the Republ
p cans had much to say about the schoC
/, fund, etc. They are always willing
l embarraSs the Democrats, whetht
right OF wrong, and they now say tha
! ! when the State bonded debt sha
have been paid, as it win be dor