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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
By Tom SlaVin...

form any habits or traits of character. HIS
first lesson Is to learn to obey. This Is also
the greatest lesson that he is put through.
It is the basis upon which the rest OF his
training is built. After he learns this hrst
lesson he Is taken into the field, where his
training progresses, the work generally be-
Ing done with an old, steady dog as COM
panion. The puppy Is taught to Initiate the
old dog as much as he will; he Is taught to
come 10 q point. to heel, and to stand stanch
when the gun Is fired over him.
His lessons are many and hard In The flrst
two years OF puppyhood. but when they are
learned thoroughly the PUPPY Is a trained
dog with a marketvalue OF from $50 to $500
on his head, according to breeding. age. and
the man whom he Is being sold TO.
metImes a dog Is sold on the day OF his
birth, to be delivered q year later II he Is
alive and we'll trained. to the purchaser.
This is often the case where the dog Is OF
excellent breeding. While 1t would seem
that at the above prices dog raiser could
grow rich In hurry, there are drawbacks
10 the business. Puppies sicken and die.
often without apparent cause; sometimes
they refuse to train we'll. and there is always
the danger Of accident ending the young
dogs career Of usefulness
u
The bird dog Ia not the only class Of hunt
Ing dog that Is In active demand. There is
always call for the foxhound, bred and
trained to follow trail In satisfactory
manner. While most hunting clubs make q
speciality of raising their own dogs, there is
always n call for good dogs Of this kind.
Tho selling prices do not run as high as the
bird dog, but there Is much less trouble In
raising them and less cost. Even the dog
that will chase the little rabbit Is a. salable
article when properly trained, and there are
two or three large kennels In the country
that make specially OF raising rabbit
hounds. These are low set hounds, OF almost
any small breed, bred with q view Of de-
creasing the speed Of les and increasing the
keenness OF scent at the same time
Tho maryels that may be accomplished
through continued breeding with one point
In view Is shown by the shape OF the hounds
turned out to hunt rabbits. They are ex-
tremely short legged and they will take
trail and hold IT steadily for hours at time.
Mt q pace Just calculated to keen the quarry
without driving It into ITS hole, Some
OF these dogs are sold at high as 500,
But of all the dogs trained for the hunting
field the bear hound Ia the most interesting.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
Work in Pla que Ridden CITY,

- labored among the Turks until late in
1911, Then l was moved over to help cure and
convert the people Of Kerbela in the Irak
country. did well there. They had little
medicine except herbs and lamentations, but
the general health was good until December
IN 1873, when began the experience of my
life. In that year the bubonic plague broke
out In Kerbela and the surrounding country,
brought there, suppose by pilgrims who had
been down into Persia. The treatment ac-
corded the plague sufferers was brutal-and
effective for everyone who was treated by
the local medicine men died sooner than they
otherwise would have done. They treated
them by burning birthstone and applying tho
hot mass to their backs. tried scientific
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
New Treatment for Neur als,a.

8 ! ?
There was n subchief who was sick with
acknowledgements neuralgia, superin-
duced by being Kicked over an acre or two by
an acquaintance. Twas doing tho best could
but HI called In a rival doctor, who dug Up
the bones Of his ancestors, burned them
into chalk. and then marked on his body
with them After that the doctor lighted
a bunch OF grass In the fire and proceeded
to scorch his body, splitting upon his patient
during the process. The treatment did not
appear to be doing any good, SO the doctor
claimed witches were persecutng the pa
tlent. and he accused three men In the tribe
OF employing the witches, They all denied
IT. TO find out whether or not 1t was so
each OF the accused had to drink poison.
They gulped down bowls OF poison, they
sweated and trelnbled in agony, but finally
recovered. and proved they were innocent.
:. I will admit that gave each OF the three
ipecac TO help prove their innocence. The
witch doctor then took the noison and
withheld the ipecac-but he got we'll any
how. having taken poison before,
= I was sent up Into Ovampoand. among
the Hereros, and encountered scurvy. Every
man in, the tribe was suffering from It,
secured lemon Juice and held up Portuguese
steamer FOR peck OF potatoes, and cured
them all. It was o strange form Of scurvy,
for the tribe will eat no salt at all, and I
was forced to squeeze the juice from pota-&
toes and mix 1t with salt to get them to take
any. for argued that the disease resulted
partly from lack OF salt in The systems.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11

man who will work for the advancement or
his roads interests.
A natural aptitude ana liking for ralroa d
work are properly the great qualities thar
will make man in this line. man who
might make an excellent salesman may be
as far out of place in railroadlng as q pig
In l,arlor, a man who would fail mlserably
as a salesman may develop into good rail-
ROAD man. Tho work Is peculiar and its re-
quir-ments keep pace with 1t. A man should
DO possessed OF unlimited energy, tho ability.
to rough 1t II necessary, and to undergo
actual hardships II necessary before he
starts out on the chase Of big position, for
these things are apt to be part of his lot, even
after the big position is acquired, Night is
the same rs dayto the -alroad man, and
his home Is apt to be anywhere along his
company's lines.
The young man starting in should from the
beginning resolve to make n study Of not
only his work but Of railroad work In gem
eral and of his roads trend In particular,
Every phase of 1t he should try to familiar
ize himself With, for it Is by thus being pre-
pared to go In and fill u gap It 4 moments,
notice that mans chance often comes In
railrond circles. Teegraphy Is valuable to
the railroad man. One officer OF a western
road owes his start to the fact that when
a clerk In a Denver ofiice he learned how to
take and send messages, While acting as
clerk for travelling officer the opportunity
came for him to save q train from certain
Wrecliage through his knowledge OF Morse
The official took notice and soon the young
clerk came to work In his once as q con-
ndential secretary.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
Opportunities to Rise Plentiful.

1FF' F"'''N'N" '"SF' VI WIZ "
railroad life. In fact, It Is a business OF
chances. CHANGES for death and injury to-
the men OF the operating departments and
chances for quick failure or success, Abil-
ity to see and act quickly to grasp big
things and handle them without confusion,
to be able to work through nights Without
rest " necessary and then ride for hundreds
of miles to some other place-tlese are the
things that the railroad official Is called upoD
TO do, no the man who can do this there
nre chances arplenly In this line; for the one
who cannot 4, Is q poor line to 90 into,
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portupity to indulge his fancy 70
safety and make living At me ~
same time. BY the same token u -
nrohably only the most enthusiastic fancler
who can enter the business with any nope
Of success, for the woes and troubles OF the
dog raiser. whether he raises srnali uoss
or large ones, dogs for the pet market or
-dops for the hunting field. fancy breeds, or
!" Just dogs" are many and dlsconcerllns'
Because Of this and because It IS only me
dog crank who has the inclination or hi.oHl-
edge necessary to the start OF dos arm
there is no danger Of this line Of stock rais-
ing becoming overcrowded, despite the llnl-
tied demand for the dog in America.
II or the men who go In to raise eggs On .
large scale those who devote their time ana
money to breeding the hunting dog OF all
kinds stand the best show Of making con-
sistent income than any one. excepting OF
course the man who is fortunate enough 70
possess a breed Of pet or show dog whose
name has made his kennel famous IN the
dog world.
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Raising Dogs May Be Made to Pay.

both In breeding and training. Despite that
the bear no longer is numerous In many Sec
lions Of the country. there Is a dog raiser In
kentucky who raises nothing but bear dogs
and who sells all the dogs he can raise. Some
OF these dogs are sold in the southern states
many in the extreme western, and a few in
tho north. They arc guaranteed to find bear
wherever there is any to be found, and TO
keep from getting killed, which is the prime
virtue of q bear dog.
q The bear hound Is the largest OF his type,
usually crossed with Siberian bloodhound
sometimes a bulldog, and sometimes even tho
calm collie. He is bis of bone and strong of
mouth, but his strong forte Is his ability to
avoid bears ackinstead offghting him,
The manner in which he is trained is unique,
to say the least. and suggests unlimited dan
ger to the trainer. The natural Instinct Of a
dog is to attack the front Of everything.
This means sudden, horrible death for doggy
when the thing attacked happens to be n
bear, So the trainers work Is to correct
this inclination in the dog under his charge,
He does it In manner most thorough,
Trainer Acts as Bear.
The trainer arrays himself in a bearskln.
crawls on his hands and knees, and. roaring
like tho beast he represents. faces crowd
Of ambitious puppies, Puppy being of tho
proper breed, leaps feroclously at the head
OF the black thing before him, Then tho
lights go out for puppy for some time, for
the trainer most numerically swats him
with club. When he comes to he tries the
trick over again, Again he Is rudely re-
PEELED.
After he has been knocked silly half a
dozen times lie learns thatt tho front is tho
end OF bear to avoid, and he goes around
to the rear to make his attack. Here there
Is padding for him to chew and worry to his
hearts delight, and ever afterward 1t Is there
that he will devote his energies, When he
meets a real bear he knows enough to follow
him along and nip his hind legs, thus retard-
Ing his progress and avoiding punishment
at the same time. A good beardog lis seldom
sold for less than 500,
Little Money In Raising Pets.
THE fine pet dog offers little opportunity for
tho professional raiser, It Is generally bred
to a point where 1t Is worth too much money
for a man to have many about a farm and Is
extremely delicate as to health Most net
dogs are raised by wealthy fanclers, who sell
their surplus. The terrier that is trained TO
kill rats Is much more salable than The Der
but the hunter Is easily the market proposi.
ton In the dog line.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
Money in Well Bred Dogs.

Well bred, we'll trained bunting GOES are
always in good demand, In fact. there IS
never time when a man with good hunt-
ing dog cannot realize omit. and the SPORTS
man is never inclined to maggie about the
prlce OF a dos when no is buying one Ihus
lie hunting dog raiseris in position where lie
The question of his income is only question
If tic number of dogs that he can breed.
raise, and train into mature doEhood,
Tho bird dog Is the desired Of all hunting
dogs, from the viewpoint of the sportsman OF
tbs dog raiser. IIeisln greater demand, be-
cause more dogs are used In bird hunting
than In other lines of hunting, and he Is less
troublesome to raise and less liable 70 illness
than many other strains, The big rangy
1r,sh setter, the Gordon setter of q good
i,reed, and the pointer are tho dogs favored N
this line, All OF them find their ba ckers, both
MS chow dogs and hunters, and they are all
u good ra!sers.'' The better dos Is bred.
tho better no IL. not only from a commercial
standpoint but physically. He is not SO llabls
to fall Ill. as the dog ofinferlor breed and this,
coupled with the fact that lie Is worth much
more when sold, makes It deslra bile for the
raiser to keep his breed IN as high ms pos
islble.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
Medical Missionary Is Years.

pecullarltless OF the people among whom he
was sent, besides striving always to advance
the cause Of the religion of which he was a
nrm follower and preacher. He admits that
he has during his long and busy career left
the spiritual healing mainly to his cowork-
ers and devoted hmself.to repairing the
broken and wasted bodies, putting them in to
condition to receive spiritual aid more read
lily. After his long service as missionary
doctor ne became an investigator on his own
account, and for eleven years pursued his
travels and Investigations among savage
psoplcs. Also he had four years of work with
q company that formed an advance guard of
civ. 'lization
d. ring these thirty-eight years of active,
sire, luous practice of medicine he saw many
wild adventures and faced perils that would
shake strong men; he lived in plague colonies,
worke calmly among lnobs of madmen when
Whole tribes were stricken with insanity,
brought help and sustennnce when death
seemed the portion of an entire settlement.
Averr.ged Less than $1,000 a Year
Sitting In his luxurious library in the
Back Bay district looking from his window
across the Charles river toward Harvard,
his ideal among schools, DR.. Brown laugh
ingly estimated that his income during his
thirty-eiisht years of practice had averaged
less than S1,0GO q year. He was wealthy
originally and is now possessed OF greater
wealth acquired through lcgacies.
%'SI was first sent into Turkey as medical
mi. ,sionary." said DR.. Brown. THAT was
In HGG, at the beginning of the missionary
attempt to Christianize tho Ottoman EN-
pire practced medicine there under diff
cultes, co1ltcnding with superstitions, GUS
toms. tnd habits that We're enough to dis
amy young man. Civilized medi-
cine and surgery were too new tangled for
those people. l remember well my first OBJ
ca Sc The mother was not doing
we'll and was working hard to save her
life when suddenly ! learned that my melh-
DDS were nut at all ethical. The mother in
sisted upon calling in local physician for
consultation, His methods were unique
First he started fire under a brazier, and,
when 1t wassred hot. he dropped a Glove into
it and the Glove burst open. That 1 learned
Indicated that the haZar' or evil eye had
been averted and the mother would get WELL
continued my treatment, however. The
native physician. having discovered that
the danger was passed proceeded TO dis
cover cure. He cut Wisp of hair from
the head of the infant and lock from tho
head OF the mother and burned them to-
gether in the brazier, The woman got we'll
land we both claimed the credit.
His treatment may have been the best,
but kept contending with those Turkish
loctors for several years, and never could
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11

on a stranger who knows their canniballstic
tendency Is immense. witnessed some In
terestlng surgical and medical treatments
while among them. For instance, I saw
woman who was suffering from leprosy and
luinbago. treated the lunlbago with some
snccess, but was displaced by native physi-
dian. His treatment was heroic. He first
tied the patient down to the ground and
then marked off a large cheokerboard on her
back with knife. Then he poured on cayenne
pepper and lime juice in copious quantities
and gave her q massage. rubbing In tho oom-
bined juices. She seemad glad when ap-
piled cocoa oIls-but she died.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
Chances for Boy in Railway Office.

~HERE Is romance and magic in the
name railroad to many a young man.
II spells motion, variety, even romance.
Even the work Of the big gailroad office
appears less monotonous to most OF
the young men who seek employment there
than the work of a big wholesale house or a
store. They are apt to be disappointed Il
they manage to secure work in such an
Office, for the work Of the general railroad
office is Just the ordinary hard work Of the
big, busy office. Perhaps the work in them
is harder than in the others, by reason
of the great amount which Is often handled
at short notice, the big rush seasons. ETC.,
but on the whole. it Is much the same
However, they are intimately connected
with the running of trains, and the clerk
In a railroad office can rightly lay claim 10
being q railroad man"
AS to the opportunities that will open to
the young man in the employ Of great
railroad company they are many. While
the majority Of the railroad officials como
from the ranks OF the operating department,
telegraph operators. train dlspntchers, and
station agents. there are plenty Of them
who began work as clerks In The main Of
fees and worked out into the broader de-
partments. IT Is II saying With railroad men
In high places that It takes a certain number
and kind of qualifications 10 make man
adapted to the railroad business What these
qualifications are and how man Is to tell
whether or no he has them are not easily
explained, but the officials Of most roads like
TO believe that they can pick out those who
would make good railroad men from those
who would not
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11

"a: :: a: a.: ;: !:
I. 0. -. q irna RyEilln same token It Is
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11

convince them that killing a calf In a public
place would not cure measles. They were
hopeless.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11

some ono had been cutting tho sacred groves.
and they hunted for those criminals all the
time. letting me do all the practicing.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-11
BY III. Morrow.

=. n
as one OF the wealthy men of Boston,
has practiccd and studied medicine In
A-sS twelve parts of the world and adapt
ed, from native practices of the tribes
with which he has been thrown, scores OF
new Ideas as to the treatment OF the sick nd
the injured.
His home, in the Back Bay district, Just
off OF Commonwealth avenue, Is museum
of strange medicines and stranger surgical
instruments that he has collected during
his long ljfe among the queer peoples Of the
world, among the savage, the semi-civilized.
and the Bostonese.
DR.. Brown studied medicine at the old
Startling medical college in Columbus, O.,
then under the charge of one of the greatest
MEDICAL and surgical authorities the United
States ever has known. He was completing
his medical course and preparing to settle
down TO q staid, steady practice in his native
city, when he suddenly became DESTROYS of
entering an entirely different line of work
and volunteered for service as medical
miss onary.
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Promotion of Good Men Certain.

Prom otton OF Goou Men Certain.
When aman has succeeded In showing that
he will make Il good railroad man he Is In di.
rect line for promotion right up TO the high.
est positions in the Gift of a road. for In the
railroad service as In no other kind Of work
is the rule of merit strictly adhered TO. In.
competency !n mn oiheal Of any kind means
!. weak link in the great chain that comroses
Il road aid With competition in railroad cir
cles az the white heat that /, is today no road
can AFFORD to have a weak spot anywhere in
!ts service. Efficiency Is absolutely demand-
cd, so the young man who has The ability and
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-12-23
| AN EXPERIMENT |
| In ROMANCE !

+ HE sat quite motionless, her beau
tiful hands lying idly in her lap, her
eyes, more beautiful still. fixed with
an icy Indifference on space. She
was aware that people were looking
at her. far more earnestly than at the
stage, but the knowledge did not
change her attitude by so much as the
flicker of an eyelid.t She was used
to being looked at, and bore it with
a naughty patience, a magnificent
resignation. What were such looks
to herr
She had a quiet manner, in CEN
tury when manners, as rule, are not
quiet-are, perhaps, indeed, hardly
manners at ala slow way of speak
ing, and that type of beauty which is
SO delicate that it seems cold. It
was impossible to imagine any vul-
gar passion ruff1ing the exquisite
serenity Of her features. She was al
ways serene, always, in a sense, gra-
cious and graceful. She was not, pos
sibly, amusing, but then that would
have been out of drawing for her.
She never laughed, she seldom smiled.
She had way of lifting her eye
brows when people made Jokes in her
presence which was so indescribably
disconcerting that the offense was
never repeated. Not that her look
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-12-23
i INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The European sugar crop this year
is estimated at between 6,550,00O and
6,675 900 tons. The German crop will
probably amount to 100000 tons.
England's first spinning mill to be-
worked by electricity has been started
at Pendlebury, Manchester. It con-
tains $4,000 spindles, and has no chim-
ney.
The first solid train OF canned peas
ever shipped from al American can
ming factory went out from a canning
company's plant at Longmont, Col,
recently.
Last year $4,000, 900 tons OF cargo
were carried from all the seaports of
the world, and out Ct that total 31,-
100000 tons were carried by ships
Of Great Britain.
Growing Of grapes in graperies fur
nishes an important source OF rev.
enue in some countries, notably Bel.
gium and the Channel islands, where
large quantities are annually grown
and exported. The United States is
good customer for them, as high as
IS cents to Is cents a pound wholesale,
and two to three dollars, and even
more, a pound retail being paid for
the fruit. Grape growing in pots :s
much practiced in parts OF Europe, and
especially in France, where the vines
are largely used for decorative pur.
poses on festive occasions.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-12-23
CHILDREN HAD NO SHELTER
Sight That Set Well-Fed English
man to Work Providing
Homes for Waits.

When a kind-hearted young doctor
told company of well-fed Englishmen
in London, about 40 years ago, that
homeless children slept outdoors in the
city even in the dead of winter. his
hearers doubted the statement. They
thought it possible. says Youths Com
panion, that a child was occasionally
without shelter at night, but it was
contrary to reason that any consider
able number could be in such straits.
The young doctor told the company
that within short ride of where they
were gathered he could show them a
score Of thinly. clad boys asleep under
such conditions as he had described.
Still doubling, the men went out into
the wintry night and were led to a
square in which more than 20 waits
were found sleeping in boxes and bar
rels, and anywhere they could get out
OF the wind. The men were convinced,
and helped the doctor in his work Of
rescuing such waits. Since that time
he has found homes for more than
$4,000 orphans, and has not turned
away from his doors single destitute
boy or girl. He knew that the poor
est accommodation that he could give
them, even though it were only place
to sleep on the floor in warm room.
was better than the best that they
could hope to find in the streets. Re-.
Gently this large-hearted philanthro-
pist died at the age of 60 years. His
name was Thomas John Barnardo.