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The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
Medical Science.

In the journal des Debats, DR.. Da-
remberg gives an account Of medical
education during the middle ages. OW-
ing to the influence of the Arabian doc
tors, medicine was then regarded al
most as an exact science. In the elev-
enth century the school of Salerno was
celebrated as the representative of Hip
p~ocratic principles, while Bagdad, Cal
70 and Cordova followed Galen. To-
ward the close of the middle ages,
there was a craze for performing ex-
periments upon the living human body.
AS is well-known vivisection of human
subjects was extensively practiced in
the school of medicine at Alexandria.
Under Ptolemy Sotsr, 600 convicts were
handed over to the surgeons, who
opened their bodies in order to observe
respiration and the action of the heart.
In our own time, many well-known
men of science have experimental upon
themselves. Especially famous are the
self-inoculations of Hunter and Ricord,
of Pasteur and his disciples, while III
physiology the experiments of Spallan-
Zani, Brown-Sequard, Stark and Rabu-
teau are classic. But if in former times
the pursuit of medical science was
cruel and barbarous, the practitioner
was well trained in what might be
called bedside etiquette" Arichima-
thaeus, of Salerno, gives a number Of
rules, which we believe are not unob-
served at the present time. He says,
for example: Promise to cure the pa
tient; tell his friends that he is very
seriously ill; then if you cure him your
reputation is increased; if he dies, it
will be said that you foresaw his
death"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
CHAS. F. PFISTER CLEARED
The Milwaukee Capitalist Declared
Innocent of Larceny by Bailee.
He Was Charged With Appropriate
ing $4,000 Belonging TO tle Wis
consin Rendering Co.

Milwaukee, Dec. 16.-Judge Brazee, in
the municipal court, Friday, decided
that Charles +. Pfister was not guilty
of larceny as bailee, as charged in the
indictment returned August 4 by the
grand jury. The decision was on a mo-
ton to dismiss the defendant after the
state had rested it's case.
The charge against Mr.. Pfister was
that of larceny as bailee of $14 600 be-
longing to the Wisconsin Rendering Co.
Mr.. Pfster was the recipient of many
congratulations, after the decision had
been rendered. In an interview, Mr..
Pfster expressed himself as follows:
"One can hardly comprehend the feel
ings of a man falsely accused, day after
day in a criminal court, with the knowl-
edge of innocence in his heart, with
the officers of a great state seeking to
convict him in any event. There is
nothing much l can say. Absolute
proof of my innocence was easy OF as
certainment had the district attorney
cured to procure it. 1t may seem a
small thing to them to indict and pros
ccute a man for an infamous ~offense,
but it is a terrible thing for. an inno-
cent man to be compelled to submit to
it. I have nothing to say at this time
as to the motives inspiring those who
have sought to disgrace and ruin me.
| have only to say further that | hope
that no innocent mar will ever be
obliged to undergo the same ordeal. My
Indictment was false, cruel and inhu-
man. my prosecution worse"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

Curious things take place on the wit
ness stand. People insult one another
without fear of chastisement, whereas
if the offensive language were used
outside the court room there would be
a fight in five minutes. The witness
stand sobers the gay and makes the
sensitive nervous and men draw heavi-
ly on their stock of religion to sustain
them in the hour of trial. The 'lacer-
ated feelings spoken of in legal pa
pers when heavy damages are asked
for broken hearts has "a real meaning
for many a man who has butted up
hard against an adversary. To listen
to some lawyers the audience in the
court rooms might imagine that there
were no good characters in the world
except those of the attorneys. A man
never suspects he is half the villain he
is until he is on the witness stand and
is assailed by the lawyers on the other
side.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
UNTIL AFTER TIE HOLIDAYS
Railroad Rate Legislation Will be
Allowed to Rest Until the Holt
day Recess in ended.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Railroad rate
legislation will be allowed to rest until
after the holidays. Members of the
house committee on interstate and for
eign have agreed to take up
and dispose of less important matters
than those affecting rates during the
recess. In the senate also there is a
disposition to let the rate legislation
slumber for the time being. Members
OF the interstate commerce committee
in that body have decided to hold but
one meeting a week before Christmas,
ami there is a general understanding
that legislation affecting the interstate
commerce commission will not be pub
lisned. 1t is likely that several addi-
tional railway rate bills will be intro
dnced in both houses before the COM
mittees are ready to take up the sub
iect
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
N. C. D0UGHERTY'S SHORTAGE
Report of the EVerit Auditing Conn
mittee Appointed to Envest--
gate the DefaIcatiOn.

Peoria, H., Dec. 15.-The Everitt
auditing committee, which is investi-
eating the shortage in the accounts Of
N. c. Dougherty, former school super
intendent, will make a report to the
school board Monday night, and this,
the first public announcement of the
shortage will show that the accounts
are short slightly over $500, 600 in the
last five years, and that the defalcation
will run back for several years fur
Their.
The official shortage for the year end
in June, 1905, is $94, 600; for 1904, $780,
600; 1903, $4,000 and for the two years
preceding, a total Of about 100000.
In the possession of the school board
now is property turned over by Dough-
erty aggregating in value 1920, 900, and
the balance of approximately 5000, 600
is unsecured.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
MILLIONS IN THE DEBRIS
tanning, Perhaps, % 100000, in
Ruins of Cooper building.

New York, Dec. 15.-The large
Cooper building. Brooklyn, together
with the Windsor cafe and a row Of
dwelling houses, were destroyed by fire
early Thursday morning. The loss is
estimated at $500, 900. The principal
losers are the Brooklyn Trust Co., the
American & London Harness Co.,
Reed Ice Cream Co. and Bryant & STRAIT
ton business college. A number of pri-
vate offices in the Cooper building, in
Guiding those of Senator Charles Coop
er, owner of the structure, were also
burned out. In Cooper's suite were
paintings valued at $40, 900, and a law
library valued at several thousand dol
lars.
The safe Of the Brooklyn Trust Co.,
containing between 81, 500, 900 and ST.
000, 900, is in the ruins, and will be
guarded by the police reserves and a
number Of members of the Twenty
third regiment, New York national
guard, until cool enough to be removed.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
GUNBOAT WASP MAY BE LOST
She Had Eighty Men on Board N
Started to the Relief of Nam
tucket Lightship.

Newport, R. l., Dec. 12.-The absence
of news regarding the converted gun
boat Wasp, which left here shortly be-
for the storm Sunday morning to go
to the aid of the disabled Nantucket
Iightship and the brig Harry Smith,
only Is miles away, is causing the
greatest anxiety. While the naval Of
ficials at the torpedo station realize
fully the seriousness of the accident
to the lightship, there was anxiety at
the training station regarding the
whereabouts of the Wasp, which, at
dark last night, had been out 48 hours
without being reported.
The Wasp carried a crew of so men,
and was commanded by Chief Boat
swain Hugh Sweeney.
The Lightship FOundered.
New Bedford, Mass, Dec. 12.-The
lighthouse tender Azalea arrived here
at 2:15 o'clock this Tuesday morn
ing with the crew Of the Nantucket
south shoal lightship. The lightship
foundered at 4 a. m. Monday, IS miles
west of her station. while in tow of the
tender.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
INDICTED FOR MATRICIDE
Terrible Charge Against William
LAGER, His Wife and August Nell
gen., of Cards Point, Ill.

Mount Carmel, Ill, Dec. 12.-The
grand jury have returned indictments
against William LAGER, Alice LAGER, his
wife, and August Nelgen, charging
them with the murder, on the night of
December 80, 1903, of Mrs. Elizabeth
LAGER, mother of William LAGER, who
was killed by a rife shot fired
through a window as she sat in her
home at Cards Point, nine miles north
east of here. William LAGER was ar
rested at the time, charged with the
crime, but the grand jury at that time
failed to find a true bill against him
and he was released.
A Chicago detective has been work
ing on the case, but the nature of the
evidence secured by him is as yet a
secret. 1t is known, however, that 45
witnesses were summoned before the
present grand jury, and the officers in
innate that a surprise will be sprung
when the case up for trial.
LAGER is said to have benefited very
materially by his mothers death.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
UNDER TWO INDICTMENTS
DIR. A. s. Harrison and John Swee-
ney Charged With a Heinous
Crime at Bennett, Mo.

Bennett, Mo, Dec. 11.-Dr. A. S.
Harrison, one of the best-known ply
sicians in this section of Missouri, and
John Sweeney, an ex-convict, have
been indicted by the Dunklin county
grand jury on double charges OF as
sault with intent TO kill and mayhem,
Harrison has been released on bond,
and Sweeney is in jail pending the re-
covery Of Daniel Critics, the victim CT
an illegal and inhuman operation. He
is at the Kennett hotel under the care
of three physicians.
Should Critics die, and the physicians
attending him say that this is very
likely, Prosecuting Attorney ". r.
Hall says that he will at once issue
information against DR.. Harrison and
Sweeney charging murder in the first
degree.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
Published Weekly.
Prizes for Babies.

Prizes for yearling babies is the
latest effort of the great modern cru
SADIE to induce mothers to keep their
infants alive. The high mortality
rates of children less than a year old
have appealed to many a ph~ilanthrop
fist and many have been the efforts to
stop the slaughter, says American
Medicine. Mr.. Benjamin Broadbent.
the mayor of Huddersfield, England,
had found that the deaths were almost
wholly due to the ignorance of poor
mothers who had not sufficient breast
milk of their own. 1t was necessary
to enlighten them, but unfortunately
the reports of the births would not
be fled until the damage had been
done, and often the reports OF the
birth and death of a child were made
at The same time. First of all a shil-
ling was paid to the person who first
notified the authorities of a birth
within 4S hours of its o~ccurrence-a
RAdA WhICh Ndo AhlSC odSSNoSitAs A0A
some one was always ready to run for
that shilling. Immediately the house
would be visited by a lady health Wis
itor," generally a trained nurse who
had an eye out for all unhygienlc
surroundings system of sanitary IN
spection which is becoming quite COM
mon in England, women being far
more efficient than men for such sani-
tary work. The visitor would then
correct such faults as she found, give
advice as to the child. and leave cards
on which were printed rules for guard
ing the life and health of the baby,
together with the ominous warning,
'for every baby fed on its mothers
milk who dies before the age of three
months, is babies die who have been
fed by other means" Over the sigma
ture Of the mayor was a promise to
pay =. sovereign to the childs parents
or guardians, "on production of proof
that the said child has reached the age
of u months" The experiment is be-
ing watched with the keenest inter
est, and not only from motives OF hui
mainly, but from the more far-seelng
effort to check the alleged physical
degeneracy which is said to be an
increasing British danger.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
ALL RECORDS SURPASSED
Holiday Trade, Which Has Been the
Prevailing Business Feature, Has
Been Phenomenal.

New York, Dec. 16.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
Holiday trade has absorbed attention
this week and reports from all over
the country are unanimous that all
records for this stage of the season have
been surpassed. In reail trade proper
there is some complaint Of mild
weather retarding sales of heavy cloth
ing and footwear. Wholesale trade is
quiet except where liberal recorders for
holiday goods have reached jobbers
from retailers. The usual end of the
year inventories are being prepared for
by first hands, while jobbers are
making some special sales of goods
adapted to the season. Spring trade
reports thus far are satisfactory. Man.
ufacturing is still as active as ever,
notable in this respect being iron and
steel.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
HAZING TO BE STAMPED OUT
The Naval Academy to Be PUrged Of
HazinE, Regardless of n Num-
Der of Dismissals Necessary.

Washington, Dec. 15.-Hazing OF
every kind, it was announced, Thurs
day, would be stamped out of the naval
academy, regardless of the number OF
dismissals from the brigade of midship-
men necessary to bring about this re-
suit. Two midshipmen will be dis
missed from the academy within a few
days by the secretary Of the navy, the
one for hazing and the other for coun-
tenancing it by failure, while on duty, to
report it's occurrence. Other dismissals
will follow as often as m~idshipmen are
found guilty of hazing or c~ountenancing
it.
No secret is made at the navy de-
partment of the determination to make
short shrift Of hazing.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
ON THE MERCY OF THE COURT
DR.. oliver b. Hart Enters a Plea or
Guilty of the Murder OF irene
in Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 11.-Dr. Oliver B. Hart,
of a well-known and wealthy st. Louis
family, pleaded guilty in Judge Barnes
court to the murder of ten-year-oli
Irene Klokow, whom he drugged with
morphine and attacked in his W
home, in Rogers Park, on October 5.
His plea up to this time had been mot
guilty and he maintained that the
child's death was due to the accidental
eating of morphine tablets, which b
mistook for candy. He changed his
plea, and threw himself on the mercy
of the court.
A strong effort was at once begun by
the defense to prove that DIR. Hart is
insane, and should be sent to an asy-
lum instead of to the penitentiary.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
DECIDED TO MEET IN ROME
Worlds Sunday-School Convention
of 1907 to Meet in Eternal City.
ton VIII he the Largest In the
History of the Movement.

Philadelphia, Dec. 14.-The central
committee representing the Worlds
Sunday School convention, in charge of
the interests OF $50, 900 Sunday schools
with All enrolment Of 26, coo, 900 men,
bers, mel in this city. Wednesday, and
voted to hold the worlds fifth conven-
ton in Rome, Italy, May 1923, 1907.
Representatives were present from
various, parts of the United States and
Canada. DR.. Geo. w. Bailey, of this
city, chairman Of the worlds Sunday
school committee, presided at the meet
ing, and George w. Penniman, of Broc-
tor, Mass, acted as secretary.
1t is anticipated that the convention
will be the largest in the history of the
Sunday school movement. w. N,
Hartshor1, Of Boston, chairman of the
international committee, and secretary
Of the worlds convention, was made
chairman Of the committee on transport
tation. 1t was voted to authorize the
chairman. DR.. Bailey, to establish head
quarters in this city. In planning for
the convention, n of the matters de-
cided was the appointment of Rev. G.
R. Blakall. of Philadelphia, as director
of the Sunday school exposition to be
held in connection with the convention.
1t was decided to hold a preparatory
communion service in Rome Sunday
morning, May 10, and similar service
in each Of the churches of the dlITerent
denominations. 1t was unanimously
voted to ask Rev. Carey Bonner, OF
London, England, secretary of the Brit
ish Sunday-school union, to take charge
Of the music of the convention.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
WHEN CONGRESS ADJOURNS
ichoIas LOngwOrth and His Bride
tO-Be Are Planning to Make
a Tour of Europe.

Washington, Dec. 16.-Miss Alice
Roosevelt now realizes for the first
time her great popularity throughout
the country. Hundreds of manifesto
lions and good wishes have been re-
ceived in the form of letters, kilograms,
flowers and personal calls.
Mr.. Longworth announces that after
the wedding he will take his bride for
a short trip, and would then return to
the Eighteenth street home until after
the adjournment of congress. They
would then go on a European tour,
which might last several months, and
their permanent home would be made
in Cincinnati.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES
Some Idea of Their Extent Given by
the Report of the Commissioners
of the General Land Office.

Washington, Dec. 12.-In regard to
the alleged unlawful fraudulent entries
and illegal cutting OF timber Oh the
public domain, the report of the COM
missioner of the general land Office
shows that during the year nearly 1000
entries were suspended upon reports
of special agents, and that 1,500 entries
were cancelled as a result of these and
prior proceedings. Reports from special
agents showed unlawful Enclosures Of
public lands in more than 100 instances,
the elea of such Enclosures ~aggregating
363,377 acres of public land. Through
the efforts of the land offices and special
agents, 60 unlawful Enclosures have
been removed, and proceedings are
pending to compel the removal of fences
in the remaining cases reported. There
were pending in the courts on July 1,
1905, &C civil suits for the recovery of
81, 555, SO5.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
NAVAL CAREER IS NOT ENDED
Nidshipman Meriwether Escapes
With Confinement to Limits For
q Year and Reprimand.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Midshipman
Minor Meriwether, Jr., who was tried
by court-martial for causing the death
of Midshipman Branch, has been
sentenced to confinement to the limits
Of the naval academy for a period OF
one year, and to be publicly repri-
manded by the secretary of the navy.
Secretary Bonaparte has ordered
that the sentence be carried out, but
that so much of the penalty as would
debar the accused from serving on any
practice ship attached to the academy
be RENTED.
Representative Brcussard, of IEuis-
lana, who had a conference with the
secretary, regarding the case, after
reading the findings. announced that
he was entirely satisfied with them.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
THINKS ITS DAYS NUMBERED
Henry Sienkiewicz, the Novelist,
Thinks the Days of the Russian
Bureaucracy Nearly Over

Stockholm, Dec. lin an inter-
view with Henry Sienkiewicz, prior to
his receiving the Nobel prize for lit
erature, the novelist said:
81 have not been in Poland for three
weeks. The situation in Russia and
in Poland is extremely bad. The bu-
reaucracy can not last much longer
with or without revolution. Its days
are counted. The Russian people are
good, but the bureaucrats are a set of
thieves. That vas proved by the war.
Count Whites position is most diff
cut. White is clever and of great ca
pacity, but it is doubtful if he will be
able to retain his position"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION
A Bill to Cut Down Representation
in on of Ne
gro Disfranchisement.

Washington, Dec. 15.-Representa-
tive Bennett, of New York, introduced
a bill to cut down the representation
of southern states in congress because
of the disfranchisement Of the negro.
The bill reduces the entire number Of
representatives from 1856 to 351. The
several states would have their delega-
tions reduced as follows: Alabama,
from 8 to 5; Arkansas, from Z to 5;
Florida, from 8 to g.; Georgia, from II
to 6: Louisiana, from Z to 4; MISSISSIPPI
pi, from s to 8; North Carolina, from
10 to Z; South Carolina, from Z to 8;
Tennessee, from 10 to s; Texas, from
16 to 10; Virginia, from 10 to Z.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
TO TAKE UP BROADER WORK
President Henry s. Pritclrett Of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
noIogy Has Resigned.

Boston, Dec. 14.-President Henry S.
Pritcaett. tie executive head of the
Massachusetts institute Of technology,
has handed his resignation to the cor
pcration of the Institution. President
Pritchotts retirement is prompted by
his desire to devote his entire time to
the Carnegie foundation, of which he is
president, and which was endowed with
a fund of $40, 000, 900 by Andrew Carne-
gle about a year ago.
President Pritchett has been at the
head of the institute for over five
wears.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22

A lot of young imbeciles who have
just outgrown the b~ottle-sucking age
are known as college men" and are
permitted to raise all kinds of trouble
without molestation from the police.
Other young toughs who are not sufi-
GENTLY enlightened to call their ruff
fianism "hazing" are arrested when
they become drunk and d%isorderly.
The moral to young men is, says the
Portland Oregonian, if you want to be-
come a thug with immunity from ar
rest take the football and chorus girl
course at some university.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
A Comet Discovered.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. ia tele-
phone message was received at Har-
ward observatory, Friday, from Prof.
Percival Lowell, of the Flagstaff Ariz.)
observatory, who is in the east, stating
that a comet was found by Prof. Slipher
on a photograph made November 20.
The comet was moving four miles per
hour in a direction Is degrees north
CT west. Moonlight has since inter-
fered with observation.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
APPLICATION FOR CLEMENCY
The French Foreign Office Asked to
Substitute a Fine For the Prison
Sentence of Elliott f. Shepard.

Paris, Dec. 15.-Application for ex-
ecutive clenency has been submitted
to the foreign office in hehalf of Elliott
F. Shepard, of New York, who was SEN
fenced, October &c, to three months
Imprisonment and $120 fine and to pay
1900 damages to the parents of Made
leine Marduel, who was killed by Mr..
Shepard's automobile April "a. The
purpose Of the application is to have a
fine substituted for the Imprisonment.
Premier Rouvier has referred the ap-
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
IN HONOR OF M J. HILL
President James j. Hill of the Great
Northern Railway Co., Guest of
Honor At 81 Banquet in st. Paul.

st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 15.-Three hum
bred of st. Paul's business and profess
SIGNAL men, besides a number of Wis
itors from other states, sat down to a
banquet at the Ryan hotel, Thursday
nigt, in honor of James J. Hill, presi-
dent of the Great Northern Railway
Co.. in recognition of his efforts in be-
half of the northwest. For every place
occupied $3.50 was paid. The ban
quet was given under the auspices Of
the st. Paul Commercial club, and was
the most elaborate and artistic affair
ever produced in the northwest, judged
from the standpoint Of floral decora-
lions alone.
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
A wealthy farmer of North Franklin

A wealthy farmer of North Franklin
lately, leaving a will which in
cludes the following unpretentious
provisions: Il direct that my body be
inferred in the hill orchard on the farm
I own, in a rough, unplaned box that
will cost about n dollar, and use the
clothing | have in the house and have
no funeral or preaching in the house.
Employ two men to haul my body up
to the orchard and inter it at the cor
ner tree of the Lewis Snyder farm and
mine and place no mark on the grave"
The Tupelo journal., 1905-12-22
N BY GOV. CHAMBERLAIN
.Iohu W. Gearfn. of Portland. Named
rs United States Senator From
the State of Oregon.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 14.-Gov. Cham
berlain has appointed, to succeed the
late John H. Mitchell as United States
senator. according to advices received
from Salem, Wednesday evening, John
NJ. Gearin, of this city, a democrat, the
first of that political faith to represent
this state since 1873.
Mr.. Gearin will start for Washington
next Saturday, and will probably take
the oath of Office and enter upon his
duties before the holiday recess.