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Bacteriology VS.. Medicine.


Too much must not be expected from bac-
teriology. which is only an aid to diagnosis,
though an invaluable aid. There still are
few practitioners. rapidly diminishing in
numbers who minimize the Information II
be obtained from exact scientific procedure.
regarding 1t as likely to be misieadinf or
fancifui. They are wrong in their attitude.
which Is opposed to all progress. but, on the
other hand. many enthusiastic workers are
inclined to place too high value on. the
knowledge to be obtained by the use of
ARCHAEOLOGICAL methods.
These ardent bactertologists are prone to
forget that there are essential differences
between man and test tube; they do
not allow sufficiently for the gaps In: our
knowledge of vital processes. Too great
stress can hardly be laid upon the fact: that
In order to secure the greatest amount Of
value from bacteriology as an assistant TO
clinical medicine the ciinician and the bac-
teriologist must work together. BY this plan
only can the erres6 in diagnoais BE- Isssened.
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through the villages beloved by all the wo-
men. envied and admired by all the men,
afraid of nobody. Impossible though it
seems. they wear even more arms than the
other citizens. They strut by the Turks
superciliously. mockingly.
Sometimes the Macedonian brigand sits on
a rock just out Of gunshot from garrison
Of Turks and sings little songs carefully
calculated to embitter even the most stolid
souls.
The care-free spirit of the Macedonian is
beautifully expressed by his simple method
OF melting the Turks to commit atrocities,
in order to attract the attention Of the out
side world. This charming little bit Of
state-craft is not rare. 1t explains many
things-among others why Macedonian
brigand may be expected to keep his word
If he promises captured traveller that his
ear shall be cut off if ransom is not ready
at certain time.
A person who is ready at all hours of the
day or night to provoke the Turk into mas
sacring his friends Is not likely to hesf-
tate unduly about a strangers ear.
Living Dwellers in Past Ages.
Everybody lives in the past. The Balkans
were the portals into Europe of all the
strange tribes of early time The traces Of
the Dacians, the Marcomanni, the Quad,
the Goths the Huns, all are to be found In
survival in the Balkans. 1t is as If all those
irrupting tribes and races had left their
ffotsam and 1etsam there, to remain un-
changed in those undesirable mountains.
Their songs are songs of the Car Simeon
and the Gar Boris and the Car Dushan,
who ruled more than thousand years ago,
when there was no such thing as car in
Russia.
Throughout the Balkans today the favor
tie dance IS the Kolo, which is nothing more
or less than the ancient Roman dance of
Horo, without a change.
Bagpipers go around everywhere, and
everywhere the inhabitants are prone to
drop their work suddenly and dance and
sing as If every one of those queer villages
were a stage village and all the peasants
were ballet.
The land has been described by one trav-
eler as a land that still lives in the days of
the troubadours.
The Montenegro. If he is truly patriotic.
still wears his little red fez with a black
band. 1t has been worn by Montenegrins
the killing by the Turks of the last Of the
great Serb czars in 1889. The loyal Monte
negrin declares that the cap shall be worn
until a terrible, revenge has been wreaked
on the Turk.
The Bosnian is another old one. Although
the Hungarian railroads beat at his door
with goods, he still ploughs with a wooden
plough. His ox-cart is made Of wood alone,
without a bit of metal In ii. The harness
of his horses is OF rope.
The little Bosnian horse Is still the lead
ing means of transport. Instead Of saddle,
a wooden thing that looks like a table up
side down is tied to the beast with ropes
and the load is tied to the table legs with
simple disregard Of beauty or the finer
feelings of the horse.
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In her ears, yet we have not heard that
there were fewer marriages during the
year. Although many people marry
without reasoning about it, and do no.
know the word romance, they feel ii
and act it all their lives and are con-
tent. There are unhappy married lives,
o. but large percentage of these unhappy
homes are due to the illness Of the wife,
mother or daughter. The more civil
lied or cultured race becomes, doing
with less and less physical exercise in
the out-of-doors air, and with the wear
ing OF corsets and other modish customs,
the more likely are the women to suffer
from wonaniy ills. Every woman should
know what right lining is-for perfect
health and fair complexion she should
occasionally take vegetable laxative
such as DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
If you want to know what ais you
the United States mail will bring you
the best medical advice for only the cost
of writing materials and stamps.
Many people owe their present good
health to the fact that they consulted
DR.. Pierce by letter, giving him all pos
sible information about their condition,
symptoms, etc., and received in return
good medical advice Whi6h cost them
nothing. This is why we advise you to
write to DR.. R. " Pierce, the founder
Of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical In
stitute, at Buffalo, n Y.
DR. Pierce by no means confines him
self to prescribing his well-known medi-
cines. He tells you in the most COM
mon-sense way what ails you, what you
ought to do, what line of treatment
should be followed out in your particular
case, and if your case does not indicate
the need for his proprietary medicine,
he tells you plainly and frankly zHat
yOn do need, and the best possible
method Of improving your health. If
you are a young woman Just entering
upon the duties of life, you should have
good medical advice of a confidential
nature. II you're mother of children,
you may want advice about yourself and
how best to put your system in order
that your children may be healthy. To
sufferers from chronic diseases which do
not readily yield to treatment, or to
people who are past the youthful stage
OF life and want confidential advice
about their ailments or their physical
condition, DR.. Pierce offers to carefully
consider your case and give you the best
medical advice within his power, free of
cost to you.
DR.. Pierce, during long period of
practice, found prescription made up
entirely of roots and herbs, without the
use of alcohol, which was positive in its
action. After using this remedy for
many years in his private practice he
put it up in form that would make it
easily procurable, and it can be had at
any store where medicines are handled.
$500 REWARD FOR WOMEN WHO
CANNOT BE CURED.
Backed up by over a third of CEN
fury of remarkable and uniform cures,
a record such as no other remedy for
the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to
women ever attained, the proprietors
and makers Of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription now feel fully warranted in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-16
Buying Abbotsford.
rom the London Atbenaenm.

It il said that Mr.. Alexander Macdonald
Of Ohio Is negotiating for the purchase Of
Abbotsford In order to present the place to
the Scottish people. A correspondent of q
Glasgow journal reminds us that II the SUBJ
-scription of 10000 projected after Scotts
death to discharge all membranes and
entail the house had been successful such
a possibility could not have been suggested.
Lockhart states that a part OF the sum
.rashly appointed to the post OF secretary,
who carried 1t with him to America, where
he soon after died. Mr.. Macdonald, the
prospective purchaser Of Abbotsford, Il an
American Scot, president Of the Standard
OH Company Of Kentucky.
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Pity for Western Nations.
ON the Pekin Sin Pao,

From the Fekin Sin Pho.
The Chinese enjoy the greatest liberty.
The laws OF the western nations are too
numerous and too severe. Instances OF
their bondage may be given. All the chill
dren In the country are bound to attend
wants to print book he has to ask for
copyright Before a man can establish. q
newspaper he must apply for certificate
from his government sanctionfng him to do
80. There are fixed regulations governing
all companies and firms. All marriages
must be reported to a certain department
for registration. Thus there u no liberty
between husband and wife,
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lis year we have heard a
great deal about the mar
rage question, from men
and women of letters and
Professors addressing col
lege students. The profess
sor who announced that
"love and romance die out
with the sound of the we'd
ding-bells," was the first to
start the ball rolling. 1t
would seem a brave woman
,.,1o ..1 A..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-16

A general row and free fight occurred in
the Missouri legislature over charges that
Doodle was being used to defeat a school
text book bill. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-16

James A. Price. coiored. tell down the
Ohio avenue. yesterday afternoon and re-
ceived a painful scalp wound. He was given
surgical treatment at the Emergency Hos
pitak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-16
The Marriage Question.

rNcver marry but for love but see that thou
lowest only what is lovely.n-H,m. Penn.
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Levying Tribute.

You may find a fine old gentleman,
dressed in a long skirt that fails below the
knees and with pretty weapons fastened
to all available protuberances. He win talk
to you az he trusts You and you are FORUM
ately so poor that you are not worth cap
turing) of his system OF leyyfng tribute as
unconcernedly as y ne lived In the day Of
sword and shield sssA -
Turkish soldiers gaze with respect at the
very brigands whom they are technically
sworn to XIII Those brigands swagger
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when You once make an animal perfect
ly helpless 1t ceases to struggle. seeming to
realize, quite as well as human being
that 1t has lost the fight. This was the case
with the mare. She lay on her side, not
another kick of rebellion left In her ener-
getic legs, and her tranquility was com
municasea 10 her syHpatni1ers' All OF them
the place was almost as quiet as a tomb.
1--WE then gave her the anaesthetic and
drew her bad teeth. In an hour she was
on her feet again ana smiling. II ever a
horse smiled, for she had none OF the pain
of the aching tooth. and only that left by
the lacerating Of the gums. We do these
jobs very decentiy nowadays" he conclud-
ed. and from what had been seen by the
reporter during his inspection of the place
it seemed to him that the faint praise was
well merited.
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The Hand Of the Turk.
/. last Turkish garrison did not ,

The last Turkisha garrison did not move
out Of Belgrade uHtii 1857. and until then
the entire eastern portion Of the town was
populated by Turks. The Turks hand Is
still to be seen eveEywhere--in minarets and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
COLD WEATHER NEEDED
IN THE COAL TRADE

CHICAGO. Dec 1.-THE Black Diamond. Of
fcIai organ OF the coal industry. reviewing the
Western coal trade. tomorrow will say:
Severely cold weather accompanied by snow,
s. badly needed to stimulate Western coal mar
kets and bring them 10 the active point where
20 absorb the tonnage which is being produced
and the retailers Will receive enough orders 10
permit them 10 dispose OF some Of the coal which
they have accumulated IN stock. Although the
sumption has been reasonably heavy. stocks
have not been depleted to the extent anticipated,
and the general tone OF business. from the ship
pers' standpoint. has been somewhat draggy. II
Is believed that with storms which would tie up
transportation the production would be reduced
20 a considerable extent, and some considerable
proportion Of the coal which is In stock would
then begin 20 move out
Accompanying the dull market has been a ten
dency toward lower prices In some lines Of coal.
Indiana and Illinois domestic graoes are not
holding to the firm basis they did few weeks
ago, and. while there has been no tendency
toward general reduction OF prices, actual sell
ing figures show wider range than in some
I'm the Western anthracite trade there con-
tinues to be a dull market. and, although ex-
IRENE pressure Is being resorted to on the part
volume OF orders. results are not entirely salts
factory. The curtailment OF production for the
Is one OF the saving graces OF the situation. Had
tie production Of coal continued as heavy
throughout the year as IL was up TO Sept. / in
all probability the situation would have beer
during the early spring and summer Is showing
the effects at this time more than ever before
and until the transient trade becomes a more i'm
portant factor the market will undoubtedly be
confined TO about the same channels as at pres
ent. The lake season ended this week, with re-
cepts by water several hundred thousand tons
1ious ssason-19of-and more than twice heavy
as last year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
NEW GERMAN CRUISERS
TO BE FORMIDABLE

BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE eight armored
cruisers that yet remain to be built under
the naval programme will approach battle
ships in tonnage with corresponding in
creases in armor. gunpower and steaming
radius. The first Of these has already been
designed by the Navy Department and will
be laid down Immediately. The largest Ger
man cruiser in course of construction is the
Room, which was launched at Kiel in June
last. She is under 10000 tons. Technical
writer's, especially Lieutenant General Count
Won Reventlow, have been urging the gov
eminent to build cruisers large as those
OF Great Britain, the United States and
France with considerable coal capacity, the
present armored cruisers of the German
navy having a limited field of action and
inferior ornaments. The vessels OF the new
cruiser type will somewhat impair the
reason the Navy Department reluctantly
adopted them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
Tie Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous!

Macdonald, an American concern, for the
installation of long-distance telephones
The window-glass manufacturers, who
have been in session at Pittsburg for two
days. adjourned last evening, after giving
a committee power TO press the proposed
selling agency until the end of the month.
II the committee succeeds In getting
enough pots into the agreement by that
time TO make UP total OF i.500 IL is 20 60
ahead with the organization OF the Manu-
facturers' Window-glass Company, and
call a general meeting for New Years day
in New York city. The agreement has
been signed by companies representing l,3oo
pots, leaving but 300 more TO secure.
The special convention OF the sheet steel
workers OF the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, 10 consider
the propositions OF the manufacturers that
the restrictive clause as TO output OF the
mills and that the men accept a reduction
of wages, adjourned at Pittsburg last
night, after having practically acceded 10
the removal of the limit Of output and de-
Gliding to put the question OF wage reduc-
ton to a referendum vote OF the lodges.
The manufacturers say the wage reduction
is as necessary the removal OF the limit
of output If the union mills are to compete
with the nonunion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
MONEY PAID FOR STOCKS
SUED FOR BY INVESTOR
Connecticut Man Seeks to Recover
from North American Trust
$225,ooo Paid Over to 1t.
SAYS HE WAS SWINDLED

NEW YORK, Dec. n.-Suit was instituted
to-day by Gardiner Hall, jr., of Connecti-
cut, In the United States Circuit Court.
against the North American Trust Com
pany for the recovery of $225 900 subscribed
and paid by him as member of the under
writing syndicate of the White Mountain
Paper Company. The White Mountain Pa
per Company never went into active opera
Mr.. Hall in his complaint says that about
June, 1901, the North American Trust Com
pany, with one Charles B. Locke, became
promoters of the White Mountain Paper
Company, organized to buy 10000 acres of
timber land in New Hampshire and Maine.
containing about 100000 cords of spruce,
poplar and other valuable woods suited to
the manufacture OF high-grade papers.
Pulp mills were to be erected. These prop
critics were owned or controlled by George
B. James, Of Boston.
The company was organized under the
laws of New Jersey with capital of s15,-
0OO. 0OO-S5,0O preferred and $4,000, 900
common. An issue OF s100O0,0OO bonds was
authorized. secured by first lien
The plaintiff alleges that he agreed to an
underwriting plan that the agreement
should become binding when s5,OOO,OOO was
subscribed for by parties satisfactory to
the trust company. He was to take $3.50, OO(
of the bonds for s225.OOo, receiving also a
bonus of preferred stock. He says he re-
ceived notice from the North American
Trust Company that subscriptions in excess
of IS 100000 had been secured, and in conse-
quence he paid s225OOO for $4,000 worth OF
bonds and 625 share of preferred stock as
bonus. He alleges that the statement that
the underwriting had been made was not
true, but that large amounts of said So
called underwriting and subscription OF
$50 900 were made by persons of no finan.
| cial standing and against whom the agree
ment of subscription could not be enforced
| at law, and that the defendant in some in
| stances knew that such subscribers were
| insolvent and financially irresponsible"
| Mr. Hall says he believes his stock anc
bonus are now of no substantial Yalue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
TRADE, INDUSTRY, LABOR

The Russo-Chinese Bank will open sub
scriptions Dec. u in Paris and st. Peters,
burg for the construction OF a railroad be-
tween Chenge-Ting-Fu province of Chilli,
and Tai Yuam-Fu, province of Shan-Si, to
cost $20,000.O00.
The Peruvian government has promulgat-
ed a law by which after 40 days from date
boiler tubes manometers, steel axles and
all the principal parts used in the construc-
ton of machinery will be admitted into
Peru free of duty.
vermilye & Co., of New York. announce
the closing of the syndicate formed to dis
pose of sl0OOo000 In st. Louis. Iron Noun
tain and Southern River & Gulf division
per cent bonds. All the bonds are said to
give syndicate profit to members of about
4 per cent.
Charles Z. Rieman, one of the directors
of the Commercial and Farmers National
placed in the hands Of a representative OF
the clearing house, was elected president in
the place Of Lawrence b. Kemp. resigned.
The bank was open as usual yesterday. II
is stated the election of Rieman to the pres
idency is only temporary the bank will
be reorganized by the stockholders.
The Independent Tobacco Manufacturers
Association, in session at Washington.
elected the following officers: John Land
| street, Richmond. Va, president; III. G..
Miller, Philadelphia. vice president; Walter
| Adolph OsterIoh, Richmond, Va, treasurer.
| Representatives Tawney of Minnesota and
| Trimble OF Kentucky addressed the meet
| ing, supporting the objects OF the associ-
| alton.
The Construction News. OF Chicago, says
building statistics for November, much to
the surprise of the seers. show an increase
| OF q per cent over the corresponding
| month a year ago. Permits were taken out
! in twenty-one OF the principal cities OF the
country for .S.2S2 building improvements.
/ aggregating $24.619.447. against 5.4Se build
| ing improvements, involving a cost of 49,
| 69, 7s9, or an increase Of 7s6 buildings and
| "a. 929, SIS.
The Cuban Senate has passed resolu-
| ton reyoking the order issued during the
occupation OF Cuba by the military govern
| ment OF the United States under which
| the prices charged for gas and electricity
/ in Havana were regulated. This Is done foI
| the purpose OF readJusting the rates. which
| IL Is claimed. are too high for ordinary
! users. The senate also has passed a bi
granting a concession to the Companis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12

struck at an average depth. showed no
signs Of being anything more than an ordi-
nary well--that is, well running anywhere
from fifty to 100 barrels. The sixty-five-
quart shot of nitroglycerin was put in and
set off and the few persons assembled to
witness the shooting were wonderstruck
to see the huge column of green-black
crude oil rise over the derrick. Since then
the well has been gushing about every
thirty minutes, flowing approximately
thirty barrels each time. The well Is vari-
ously estimated at from 300 to a 1000
barrel producer.
The /. x. L. Oil and Gas Company, of
Chanute. brought in its well No. the first
of the week. There was thirty feet of pay
sand and ii is estimated that the well will
produce about fifty barrels. The Erie Oil
Company is one OF the new companies at
Chanute this week. The company holds
about $50 acres OF land in the rich Urbana
district. 1t is capitalized at 100000 under
the laws of Arizona.
At Altoona. Neosho county, big IS. 900
gas we'll was struck this week. big
smelter will be built at that place in the
near future.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
OFFICERS DOWNFALL
CHARGED TO CUBAN WAR
Wife Lost Her Money and Her
Husband Forged Friends Sig
natures to Notes.

BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE Spanish American
war is held responsible for the financial
and moral ruin of Lieut.. Col. Goetz und
Schwanenfiess, of the King Frederick Will
helm IT'S Grenadier Regiment at Frank
furt-on-the-Oder, who yesterday was sem
fenced to two years and three months in a
penitentiary for forging the signatures of
comrades and their wives to promissory
notes. Schwanenfiiess married a Cuban
heiress having an income amounting to $12,-
500 before the war. The income rapidly
diminished during the war and finally
ceased altogether. The family were unable
to accustom themselves to the changed sit
uation and friends were obliged to settle
their numerous debts. FINALLY Schwanen-
fliess yielded to temptation and forged sig
natures to new notes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
WANTED FULL S5,OOO,OOOj
AWARDED ONLY S896,67O
Pennsylvania and Other Roads
Will Appeal from Condemna-
ton Suit Decision.

CHICAGO, Dec. ia verdict for ss96,67o
compensation was returned by jury In
Judge Smiths court to-day I'm a condemna-
ton suit begun by the sanitary district to
obtain possession of land lying along the
west bank Of the Chicago river between
Madison and Van Buren, streets. After the
verdict had been read counsel for the Penn
sylvania Company and the Pittsburg. Fort
Wayne g. Chicago Railway Company, the
principal defendants in the case. made a
motion for a new trial, which will be ar
gued in few weeks
The verdict is considered a victory fol-
the sanitary district, as the defendant rail-
roads declared they would be damaged to
the extent of at least 100000 by the con-
demnation of the land. The jury took fif-
teen hours to reach a verdict.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-12
BAR TO ADVANCEMENT.
Booker Washington Says Color
Line Prevails in the North.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1L-Booker T. Wash
ington, in a speech here before the colored
branch Of the Y. NJ. c. A, declared the
real problem for the colored parent in the
North is not that of getting his son and
daughter educated, but OF finding jobs for
them after they receive their diplomas
IF a white boy gets place In an Of
fee and does his duty he is assured OF
advancement" said the speaker. but the
HACK bow has got TO work twice as hard
to get there. Any man, black or white.
who has learned TO do something better
than his fellows, has solved his problem.