The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-08
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Less than half the children in the
public schools attend Sunday school.
Rev. Charles A. Trotman, pastor of
the Church of the Redeemer, st. Louis,
is also a practicing physician. having
regular Office hours during the week:
After an interval of 365 years a new
Roman Catholic abbot has been in
stalled at the abbey of Buckfasteigh,
Devon, England. The ancient monas-
terry, now reestablished, was sup
pressed in 1888.
A medal has been struck by the Ger
man Samaritan union III honor of Prof.
Won Esmarch's eithtieth birthday. This
medal will be awarded to those who
have distinguished themselves in the
service of the sick.
In the school for the blind at Lisbon
there has been established q newikind
of industry which will prove most re-
munerative to the inmates. It consists
in u~nraveling or picking. vegetable
fbers used as stufing material for
furniture, beds, etc.
The minister of fine arts in Paris, NJ.
Leagues, is at last about to sign a de-
cree admitting women students in the
school of fin arts to compete for the
Grand Prix de Rome. There are now
seven women studying painting, one
architecture and eight sculpture.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, of Topeka,
Kan. says that after he had married a
couple not long ago, the bridegroom
fumbled in his pockets %nervously with
out producing anything and finally adj
mitted that he had neglected to pro-
vide for the clergyman's fee. "But,"
he added, Frightening up II can show
you how to fix your gas meter so that
it won't register"
The physical director at Yale col
lege has measured all students enter
ing in the last nine years, The non
smokers average IS months younger
than the smokers. are taller, and during
the four yearsssin school gain "a per
cent. more in height and e6..7 per cent.
more in chest growth than do habitu-
al users of tobacco.
The Syrian Protestant college at
Beirut. an American nonsectarian in
stitution has 627 studentsin medicine,
pharmacy, commerce, arts and archae-
ology. Twenty-eight of the As profess
ors are Americans. and English is the
principal medium Of instruction. The
institution wishes samples of American
manufactures and commercial litera-
ture. Its students comesfrom Turkey,
Greece, Persia, Egypt and the Soudan.
one-Client Lawyers.
The poverty of briefiess barristers is
as proverbial as that Of the church
mouse. It would not he an unnatural
mistake to consider a barrister with
only one client hardly better off than.
one with none. But the modern some
client lawyer is usually a prosperous
individual. Said a man well known in
the business world some years ago to a
friend: Il want young lawyer to put
down at a desk beside mine. TIL famil-
iarize him will my affairs, and then i
want him to keep me out of trouble
The counterpart of this lawyer, whose
duty it is to act as his own clients
ounce of prevention, may be found in
the Office Of many large concerns. He
is often connected with trust com
panies, banks, banking houses, rail
road and other transportation com.
panies and large wholesale mercan-
tile houses. Whensa merchant found
himself in a tangle, it was once the
custom for. himato cote his lawyer fol
advice. The results we're q writer