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the Physician Led the Surgeon In Decfd
Ing on the Operation.

| Iu6 KnyUCIAn LR0 v00 8UfRA0n In nRNtd.
| Ing on the Operation.
| 10 rur Eprros OF TEE str-si,, 7 ,..s r.,s
interest TIE suss editorial on .surgery IN P1,h,..
Disease I was sorry 10 learn, however. thai
shall be obliged to remove from my own hall o
fame the name OF Reginald II. Fitz and substitute
that OF Simon Bsruch But before doing so shall
walt while and be guided by the verdict Of future
NAV or NAV not Eve s1D5e S OF sppenacus Sh'
! Maurice Rlchardson Charles NcBurney Lewis 4
Sumson and last. but not least. 70 the late II. b.
Have " YOU 1 nv, ro, p,r,cn m. lat. n., Ma. No.
and appendicitis slightly mixed up, Nv"
BOSTON. April H. vERNUoaA
|
n, psr oor,e spo neea not ieei constrained
Reginald H. Fn ' nor Maurice NJ ias ias nss O
| nor Mckinney nor StImson nor the ~. .,.r
snd smons the her aHe .@iO.n,
when he acaualnts himself with the evolution
ths ,ne ~, oprrat,on ,or appenalci.s ne wi md
esv sne n'oues. prae.i.loner OF medicine u
ton e the E Sa 1sSas plGs in that
'o To- p.o.n,., ,.s-
ruoh's care. developed within t twen Hy our
hours OF his seizure symptoms OF perforating
perityphlitis las the disease was then called,
an opera.,oh was insisted upon and DR. Sands
G hopeess sos sssn.s ne declared the
other consnlt,,inn uas hnid =; Oprs dten, Mn-
on,,,. ' was hc,o' ~ WhIch announcer
eminent SURGEON OF New York city took part.
and the result OF this consultation was that
it was determined to make an exploratory
IN cision ,hro,,,h ~ ahJo,-..., III .s =.
seat Of the appendix. and this operation. at the
hr ne s,o Of the physician was performed
There was found , r,,,uro ~. ..r,,,,
,,s, wa .ouhu arupture OF the VermiIorm
appenolN' throueh which fecal concretion
S Sisb e'0apoa a This foreign u; body was removed
which was free in the general peTitopeal cav.
ity mot encapsuiedj. and the opening into the
appendix was closed by sutures. the appendix
itself not being removed. The abdominal
wound was only nartIaIIv c,os.d and ~.
,noI.S 80, ~ 80 ahu 'no re-
m,dhoer was packed WIN lodoiorm gauze.
The temperature. which had been high. fell to
normal in few hours, and the patient recoy-
cred. DR.. Sands publicly admitted that III.
iavora9e result IN TINS case was due 70 The
early diagnosis made by the physician In
charge and his insistence upon the operation.
This diagnosis was predieated upon the Oh
..--a,,.,. 4. =. - a. 49,. ~, -. ~ ~
sorNa'lohs III Gaze 10 which tne same symp-
toms were present. and which was rapidly
fatal. 1t was the first case upon which Dr.
nos,s - -. pe,seeo,,a IN gu .a,y Tag
nosiS OF the perioration mao been made. and
Dr. Baruch compelled the attention OF the sur
geons to this condition and the operation.
---
IN. uou.r r-.,ho,,o. and En-. vru,.s..
'"o "0"~" Sa'"""os s"o ''io 1"A"ppanos'
To THE EDITOR or TIE sUS-Sir: Letters
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BOnds Of Our AnneNes 70 BE TaN Free.
Mayor Low will approve the bill ex-
empting from taxation the bonds and stocks
issued by the communities which are now
consolidated into the greater city.
The Mayor will disapprove the bill par
ments to be paid in FIVE annual INSTALL
ments.
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placed on ev,u n. publ.h.d onsol.l r,ports.

placed on even the published of1clal reports.
From all obtainable records and state
ments only one inference 10 possible; that
is, that the methods Of Spanish administra-
ton In Cuba's custom houses were nothing
other than organized corruption. No Sc
cret was made Of II. By recognized and
established COLLISION between the importer
and the employees and officials OF the Gus
toms service. coffee. upon which the duty
was si2. per 100 kilos. might come In as
corn at $40 per 100 kilos. A plano upon
which the duty was fixed at Sis might
come in as an organ at half its real value
and at lower rate Of duty. Lace might
come In as cotton goods. and sheet copper,
at Sl4 per 100 kilos. might come in as sheet
iron at 500. False entries and under
valuation make 1t impossible to state with
accuracy the value Of Cuban imports In the
days OF Spanish control.
The value Of Cuban imports IL given off,
cially for 1898 and 1894 as, In round figures,
900, 100000 year. As result Of the war
1895 saw Cuban imports fallen OF about
one-third. The foreign trade Of the island
for the three calendar years Of the American
occupation Ia given by the Official Stats
follows:
Imports. Exports. De1ai.
1909 ......... t7&s+5.iso ts.so7iss t4.sT7,ses
1900 eoss7.s47 6i.ssi,osS is.iee.tS?
isoi.......... e17nss7 os,sos,asi i.2ss,ab
From the import table there should be
deducted for imports Of specie. as follows:
1906. Teo7.s4o
1900. sOa3.F2
iUi.''.''.'' ........',..'...'.......'.. %i.<ss
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These reductions bring the net merchan-
disc imports to the figures quoted in pre-
vious letter. approximately see,ooo,OOo a
year. Excluding coin from the calculation.
the export and import figures for the three
full years OF American occupation show a
balance Of trade against the island OF
Al,775,l55. Unlike similar statements when
made in connection with nations Of COM
plex international financial relations, such
presentation in connection with a country
like Cuba means that the island bought
more than 1t sold and ran into debt to for
eign creditors to the extent OF over $40 ,ooo.-
900 during the three years.
The increase In the volume OF exports Is
notable. Analysis shows 1t to lie chiefly
In the increase in sugar. The statement
appears as follows:
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From the import table there should be
deducted for imports OF specie, as follows:
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vastating war and almost complete indus
trial suppression. The limited percentage
Of cultivated area Is also to be borne in
mind II such results are shown under such
conditions, one may easily dream OF Cuba
populated with five million OF reasonably
industrious people, about three times the
present population, and doing an export
and import trade OF $500 900 900 a year.
There Is more Of cold fact and sound reason
ing in such a proposition than there is OF
idle dreaming and fanciful speculation.
In essaying the analysis Of Cuba's import
trade one enters field bristling with diff
culties and confusion. 1t is true that
figures arc available. but figures are, after
all, only figures. Figures may be made
to show anything or nothing. Which Of
these Is shown by the returns OF Cuba's
custom houses and by entries at foreign
shipping points is quite matter OF con-
lecture down to the opening Of the year 1899.
when that efficient and incorruptible Ameri-
can soldier. Gen. Tasker II. Bliss, intro
duced a system Of customs inspection and
collection which was a novelty and revo-
luton In the island Of Cuba. We know with
entire accuracy the imports OF Cuba during
the period Of Intervention. Merchandise en-
tered Cuban ports invoiced correctly or had
it's invoices corrected upon entry. 1t was
inspected and passed under a system quite
unlike the established Spanish system Of
open and unauestioned .'pradfcociones.
This reformation OF the Cuban customs
service is one Of the few experiences which
have escaped the general roundup OF glory
for Gen. Leonard Wood. The credit belongs
to Tasker II. Bliss, and to Bliss il has been
given. He well deserves all that has been
awarded him.
The methods employed in the custom
houses Of the island during the Spanish
regime wey' such that no reliance can b
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TO TIE EDITOR OF TIE SUH-Sir: I read With
Interest TEE SrSs editorial on Surgery In Bnghts
Disease" I was sorry 10 learn. however. that |
shall be obliged TO remove from my own hall o
fame the name OF Reginald II. Fitx and substitute
that OF Simon Baruch. But be fore doing so shall
walt while and be guided by the verdict OF future
writers on that vexed subject Of appendicitis. VIII,
may or may not give modlcum OF credit to FltA
Maurice Richardson Charles McBurney Lewis A.
Sumson, ana last. but not least. 70 the late II. b.
Sands OF New York.
Have you not 20, Baruch, the late Gen. Neal Dow
and appendicitis slightly mixed up'
BosTos. April IL VEaxUolA
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26
Hiqh License Increases Taxes.

Fifth, high license increases taxes and
the financial burdens of the town and
State Carroll D. Wright, when at the
head of the Massachusetts Labor Bureau,
said that for every dollar Massachusetts re
ceives in license money from the saloon,
she pays out 81 to take care of the results
of the saloon, such as pauperism, insanity,
extra police and court expenses caused by
the saloon.
The pauper expenses and the number of
regular policemen of license towns in Mas
sachusetts are from two to three times as
large as in towns of the same size in Yer
mont under prohibition. The net pauper
expenses for Burlington, VT, in 1901 was
S4,156.02. Compare that with the Massa-
chusetts towns of about the same size.
Northampton's pauper department cost
SS,514.05; Chicopee, 80, 4i6.3O; Newbury-
part, S13,S85.76; Pittsfield, S19, 624.63.
Rutland's pauper department in 1901 cost
S5,24O.53. Compare with that the same
size license towns in Massachusetts. In
1901, Gardeners pauper department cost
SS,412.O6, Clinton's S10,181.83, Webster's
$, 1888.
Compare the number of regular police
men in Vermont and Massachusetts, towns
Rutland has 4; Gardner, Mass, has 10;
Clinton, Mass, has 20.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26
The Town Liquor Agencies.

But some one says that because there is
so much liquor sold in the Town Agencies
that they might just as we'll have the open
saloons. | admit that there is much more
liquor sold in the agencies than there
ought to be- but there would be more
than ten times as much sold in the open
saloons. According to the testimony of a
wholesale liquor dealer in HolyOke, Mass.
there is more liquor sold in that city alone,
in the open saloons, than in all the agen-
cies of the whole state of Vermont. l ask
ed him one day about what the average
sales per day of the saloons of that city
would be. asked him if S25 per day would
be fair average, and he said Eyes,
think that would be low average" So
that according to that wholesalers confess
sion, the licensed saloons of that city sell
over 100000 worth of liquor every year, to
say nothing of what is sold in the many
low dives in that city
Now, according to the last years official
report, the total amount of sales in all the
agencies of the whole state of Vermont
was only 1856, $40. 20, a very small amount
compared to what it would be if you had
the open saloons. Would you rather that
the open saloons should sell ten gallons of
whiskey than that the agency should sell
one gallon? | am not apologiZing for the
ought to be remedled or abolished all to-
gether; but the open saloon would be a
nuisance ten times as great
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26

dive keeper, who does not have to pay any
license fee, and who pays but little rent.
And the cas- er we make it to get liquor the
more there is sold. The more open the sa
looms are the greater the temptation to
drink. Hence we say there is much more
liquor sold under license than under pro-
hibition. The more liquor there is sold
the more drunkenness there is in the town.
Take the experience of our prohibition and
license cities in Massachusetts. The Ii
cense year in Massachusetts begins May
1st.
Let US put some facts in a table showing
the number of arrests in the same Mass
chusetts towns in license and prohibition
years.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26

Many more similar statistics could be
given, but l trust that enough has been
given to convince you that high license is
a most dangerous experiment to try in the
State of Vermont.
If Vermont should vote to have open sa-
looms, the towns would have to at least
double their police force and pauper ex-
penses.
The largely increased pauper and police
expenses would much more than eat up all
licensed saloons. Hence l say that high
license increases taxes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26

arrests for drunkenness in 1901, Cos in 1900,
and 65S in 1892
Many more such facts could be given did
space permit. But as general statement
l would say from the replies received from
various towns in Vermont and Massachu-
sets, that license towns in Massac husetts
have on an average from three to four times
as many arrests for drunkenness as towns
of the same size in Vermont.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26
A Source OF Corruption.


Sixth, high license in Massachusetts is a
continual source of corruption, corruption
to the voter under local option to vote for
license and the open saloon because of the
revenue received and to the politician to
use as ali instrument of corrupt purposes,
and to the license commissioner to show
favoriti>m to the man who pays best for
his saloon license. When only one man in
1000 can get a license, and three men
want every license there is to be granted,
it is a tremendous source of temptation and
corruption to the three license commits
sioners to grant the license to those men
who will pay the largest bonus to the
commissioners. The rOttenness and cor
ruption of the license commission in most
license cities of Massachusetts is proverb-
ial.
The Rev. John L. Sewall, pastor of the
First Congregational Church, St. Adams,
had two column article in the St. AL
bans Messenger of Dec 10, in which he
showed up the dangerous character of the
proposed high license law, and urged all
good citizens TO vote against it. Among
other evils of the law he emphasized the
danger of corruption in the license com
mission as follows
'sThe prOvi- ions of the license law for
the selection of commissioners, severely
criticised even by some of the most inf1u
entail trainers of that law, seem to me
sufficient to compel its rejection by any
intelligent voter in Vermont. How will
that work in this city? Out CT the seven|
men-mayOr and six aldermen-tO be chOsen|
next March, any four of them Will have
the power to put in office three liquor com i
missiOners, majority of whom cannot bel
disturbed for four years. Does any One
doubt, in view of local political conditions
that it is perfectly possible for six rumsel
lers to combine, hold the balance of power
between republicans and democrats, elect
four of the seven aldermen and mayor, and
thus appoint and absolutely control al
their servile puppets the three men Wild
are supposed to deliver US from all abuses
in connection with liquor selling? This il
not theory; it is exactly what has been
seen again and again in Massachusetts
the theorists among US today are the onei
who imagine that drinkers who are thirst
ing for unlimited opportunities of del
bauchery and liquor sellers with glowing
visions of profits and political power ard
going to stand passively aside and allow
three of our most eminent citizens to bel
come license commissioners and conduct
matters IN the interests of temperance
Before this new bill was fairly out of TIL
hands of the committee at Montpelier,
man offered one of our local politician
$1,000 if he would secure him a place as Lii
cense commissioner; did he probably ex
pect to save that sum from his modes
compensation of g per diem for his sen
vices?'
Therefore, for all these reasons, appel
to you to vote against high license AMI
stand by prohibition which for half cerI
tury has done much to give your State I'd
high standing that it now holds among I'd
States of the Union.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-26

These facts also show that the longer
town enjoys prohibition that there is
steady decrease in drunkenness. That is
one reason why the number of arrests for
drunkenness in Vermont towns is much
less than the number of arrests for drunk
enness in local option prohibition towns
i'll Massachusetts of the same size, because
Vermont has longer enjoyed the benefits
of prohibition.
Are not all these facts and statistics from
official sources enough to convince any
reasonable person that drunkenness is
much greater in the same town when the
saloons are open than when they are clos
ed?
Now compare some Vermont prohibition
towns with sone Massachusetts towns of
the same size with reference TO drunken
ness.
/ have recently written to large num-
Der of towns in Vermont under prohibit
ton, and license towns in Massachusetts,
towns of the same siZe-and gotten facts
for each year for the last five years as to
a. Total number of arrests for all crimes;
o. Number of arrests for drunkenness;
81 Number OF regular poIlcemen: anu
a. Net cost of their pauper departments.
Now, as to drunkenness.
In 1901 there were 80 arrests for drunk
enness in Burlington, VT, under prohibit
ton. In Chicopee, Mass, a license town of
about the same size, there were 306 arrests
for drunkenness, and in Northampton 519,
and in Pittsfield 864. In Newburyport,
Mass, license town with 1000 less popu-
lation than Burlington, they had SAB ar
rests for drunkenness in 1901. And in
Massachusetts we only arrest about one
drunk in ten, so the police tell me.
Rutland, VT, had 81 arrests for drunk
enness in 1901, so in 1900, and 81 in 1899;
but Clinton, Mass, high license town OF
about the same size as Rutland, had 5Oz
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05
The SENATE CALLED TO CON
VENE ON NEXT
: THURSDAY.
The President May Call the House
to Meet In Extra Session If
the Philippine Tariff
Bill Is Not
Passed.

Washington, March 2.-The presi
dent to-dry issued the following
proclamation:
By the president of the United
States of America:
Whereas, public interest requires
the Senate should convene in extra
ordinary session; therefore,
L, Theodore Roosevelt, president
OF the United States of America. do
hereby proclaim and declare that an
extraordinary occasion requires the
Senate of the United States to con-
vene at the capitol, in the citv of
Washington, on the fifth day of
March next, at II o'clock noon. of
which all persons who shall at that
time be entitled to act as members
Of that body are hereby required to
take notice.
Given under my hand and theseal
of the United States, at Washino-
ton, the second day of March, in the
year OF our Lord one thousand. nine
hundred and three, and of the indie
pendence of the United States the |
one hundred and twenty-seventh.
(Signe0
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the president:
JOHN HAY,
Secretary of State.
Ii the present Congress adjourns
without taking final action on the
Philippine tariff bill, it is quite pos
lbte that the president may decide
% call both House and Senate in ex-
ra session.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05
A SURPRISE MARRIAGE

The announcement of the marriage
of Miss Julia MCGEE, of this city, a
young lady greatly admired by all
who know her, and Mr.. Ben w.
Switzerland, of Mt. Olive, last week,
in the latter town, comes in the ma
ture of a surprise to this community,
as none of the brides many friends
here were apprised of the event in
advance.
We all wish for the popular yonng
couple the fullest measure of happi-
ness and prosperity.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05
CAPT" STARKEY TILIERY
lie Has Been Dropped From the
Pay Roll Of the A. & n. G.
r. r., After CONTINUE
Gus Service of
% Years.
25 Years.

Ihls reporter met old Starkey Till
cry IN this city Sunday. He cam,
up from Morehead City, he said, t.
tell all of his friends good bye at thi,
end of the line.
For the past twenty-five years he
mas been running as porter on the
! a. d n. c. r. r., between here and
Morehead City. He has been faith
ful to his trust at all times and was
/ known to the travelling public as
Captain" Tillery, of which title he
was always proud.
The old fellow looked sad that
day. 1t was the first day in TWENTY
tive years that his name had not
been on the pay roll of the A. & N.
Y. road. Some months ago he saws
the superintendent told him that he
was getting to old to run on the
trains and that he was then given a
JOB cleaning cars at Morehead Citv.
'Now they have taken that lob
away from me, boss" old Starkev
SAID, ''and don't know what Pm
gWlne to do. [ don't know nothing
but ra1lroading and they say Pm to
OLD TO do that" He showed where !
he had lost one finger in the railroad |
service and then told of the internal
injury he received in an accident
When he was lying in a ditch with a
oox car on top Of him.
The old negro deserves some con-
'1deration at the hands of the insti-
'utlon for which he has given the
pest days of his life. He is now about
~ years old. The travelling public
as we'll as the people along
he line of the A. & N. G. r. R..
Vho know the old negro and for
Vhom old Starkey has always been
eady and willing to do favors of anv
ature, would be glad to learn that
IS name had been placed on the paw
oil permanently for the short while ,
lat he has to live. The A. & N.
!. Il. r. could do no more graceful
ct and none which would give more :,
eneral satisfaction to the stockhold- :
IS as well as the numerous ma
ons of the road.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05
Cures rheumatism and Catarrb
Medicine sent Free.

These two diseases are the result
of an awful poisoned condition Of the
blood. If you have aching joints and
back, shoulder blades, bone pains.
crippled hands, legs or feet, swollen
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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05
Relief in Six Hours.

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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05
WILSON POSTOFFICE CASE.

Washington, March 2.-Documen-
tary evidence was received here to-
day giving DR.. B. T. Person clean
bill of health as a bona fide resident
of Wilson. His nomination as post
master at that place is expected to
follow any day. Several affidavits
and letters came to Senator Pritchard
from citizens of Wilson, setting forth
that DIR. Person has been a contin-
uous resident of the town. Among
the number was letter from State
Senator Woodard to that effect.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-03-05

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