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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-20
GLlMPsEs OF CAssATT
Noted Railroad Expert Was a
Giant In Mind and Body.
CONCENTRATION HIS STRONG POINT

Nothing Could Disturb Late Presi-
/. dent OF the Pennsylvania When
Solving Hard I'roblems-I'hysically
Stronger Than Any Employee and
Consideration For Othcrx-Instance
of His Memory.
In his general characteristics, in his
methods aud in his untlagging energy
the late Alexander Johnston Cassatt,
president OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, bore strong resemblance to
Thomas a. Scott. the fourth president
of the Pennsylvania railroad, who died
in 1881, says the New York World. Mr..
Scott was noted for his activity and
tireleSS devotion to business Mr.. Cas-
satt was intimately associated with
him. and this contact seemed to con-
vey the spirit of energy from the older
man to the younger. The difference in
their ages was fifteen years.
The bodily vigor of Mr. Cassatt was
as marked as the mental. He was
large in frame and possessed of great
muscular strength and remarkable
powers of endurance. Brought down
to an actual physical test. there was
not an engineer or fireman on the road
when he was forty years old who could
go SO long without sleep or food or rest
and attend to business. 1t was COM
mon saying OIL the eastern division of
the railroad that Mr. Cassatt could tire
out the strongest employee.
His mental powers were in complete
consonance with his physical. Con-
centration was his strong point. When
he had a difficult problem to solve in
railroad management or railroad engi-
neering. for he was practical civil
engineer. nothing could disturb him.
He could work and figure out Icon
clusion in hubbub that would have
scattered the thoughts of an ordinary
man.
His ability to apply himself to task
and to stick to it until finished was one
of the points in which he was so much
like Scott. He could weary relay after
relay of expert clerks. and even if he
worked until long after midnight for
weeks in succession he was fresh and
bright every morning, ready and eager
to continue what he had started to per-
form
Mr.. s,assatt was peculiarly ditiident.
lie enjoyed witty speeches at dinners.
hut never made Il speech in his life
and could not be induced to attempt
one. One of his greatest enjoyments
was listening to the badinage at the
dinners of the famous old Glover club
of Philadelphia when it was in the hey
DAY Of its nonulartv and when the
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sa7Yf
west by an expenditure OF -$24, UOO,U UU.
The $780, 100000 tunnel operation was
already under way, and the western
manager was afraid that his scheme
stood poor chance. The president ex-
amined the plans carefully.
'sAre you sure that S24,O00,0O0 will
be enough?" he asked quietly.
"Quite sure"
"Confident that you haven't overlook
ed anything?'
absolutely"
".Then go ahead"
No matter what big financial schemes
he might have in hand, Mr.. Cassatt
never lost sight of the details of rail-
road management Not long ago $4,000
freight cars got tangled up in Pitts
burg-tangled SO tightly that all the
yard managers and officers on the
scene were hopelessy confused.
The snarl was such as to imperil the
traffic of the whole system. Mr.. Cas-
satt took a special train for Pittsburg,
called all the officers around him and
got the maps and reports that had
been prepared Orders began to fly
like electric sparks, and within TWEEN
| ty-four hours the president had 10000
cars moving.
A group of railroad men were relat-
ing anecdotes in corner of the Wal
dorf-Astoria hotel, In New York, one
evening when this one of President A.
j. Cassatt of the Pennsylvania was
told, says the New York Mail:
Soon after the requirement of the
Long Island railroad by the Pennsyl-
vania President Cassatt had occasion
to direct one of the old Long Island
officials to make some changes in his
methods.
ut has always been our custom"
was the tenor of the Long Island mans
objections.
But you mist follow Pennsylvania
customs now" said Mr.. Cassatt.
II fear you are an autocrat." was the
reply.
lit is no news to the president Of the
Pennsylvania suavely remarked Mr..
Cassatt, "that he is an autocrat"
Some years ago. when A. J.. Cassatt
was still vice president of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad company, he and Presi-
dent Roberts We're travelling ON the
Chicago limited, which, as a rule,
makes but very few stops, when. at
some out of the way point up in the
mountains, the train pulled up. and
Mr.. Roberts was amazed to find Il
rather young and comely looking wo-
man taken on board by the conductor.
He immediately went forward and in
{; tone of astonished Indignation de-
manded to know by what right the
conductor had taken the liberty of
stopping the train at this point
by order of Mr.. Cassatt. sir" said
1 the conductor
OF course there was nothing for MI
Roberts to do but to accept the situa-
ton. But he flew back into the private
car in state of excitement.
SIS it possible. Cassatt," he said.
"that you gave orders to have this
train stopped at this out of the way
| place to take on a lady?'
Yes" said Mr.. Cassatt.
"Why, my dear fellow" said Mr..
Roberts, "do you know that wouldn't
stop this train for my own wife,"
Neither would for mine," said
Cassatt quietly. but would for some
| other fellows s.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-20
Smart Youth.

young man. there are two questions
in life-'Will it pay? and Is it rght%
Which shall You choose"
Both. III use the first up to fifty.
and then can probably afford to
adopt the second. Houston Chronicle,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-03-20
Great Advantage.

First Dramatist Ito second ditto)-
Oh. ! write only one act plays now.
You see, by the time the audience be-
gins to boot and whistle the act is
over.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
Wall Street Cheers Up.

New York, Nov. 16.-Never in the
history of Wall street has there been
such enormous purchases Of securities
by investors in odd lots and the trans
fer books of railroad and industrial
corporations show today a record
breaking number Of new shareholders.
The present low market prices OF
standard securities is responsible. The
New York Central railroad and sew
eral other companies report that the
number Of their stockholders has near
ly doubled in the last year. The dis
tribution Of stock to people of mcder-
ate means foretells certain relief for
the monetary situation, for brokerage
houses state today that these pur-
chases are made outright with cash
withdrawn from safety deposit vaults
or with certified checks. These sums,
ranging in amounts from 500 to $10.-
900, in the aggregate total many mil
lions of dollars. Bankers welcome the
small investor, for his appearance be-
tokens a firm conviction that the coun-
try's industrial well-being will be
maintained.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17

other than the ptomains or excretions
OF these virulent microorganisms.
The people should know that the term
ptomain is a scientific diplomatic
name for the excretions of these liv.
ing organisms, whose offal in no wise
differs from that of larger beings; they
are simply finer and consequently a
more subtle poison. The author fur
Their says: 1T should be used thera-
mentions also several eminent bacter-
biologists who have made notifications
of tuberculine with a view to lessenfng
its great dangers; for be 1t remem-
bered that it is the excretions of
mouse or man that is to be dreaded
and stunned, not the mouse or the
man himself. Exactly so with so
called disease-germ: it is not the liv-
ing thing that does the damage, but
it's ptomains or excretions. The fatal
prevalence of typhoid at camp Chick.
amauga which killed far more Of our
boys during the Spanish-American
war than bullets, was traced to con-
tact of flies with their food that had
previously Toasted on their excretions.
With these facts before us, who can
figure up the huge sum OF evil that
must inevitably result from the inoc-
ulation of these twenty-seven cows to
which our we'll meaning but misguided
city dairy inspector has administered
this tuberculine test? Verify, they
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
REPORT SAYS THAT
TRADE IS QU|ETER
Bradstreet's Review Has Sit
uation AptIy Described.
REIMBURSEMENT PROCESS.

now York, Nov. 16.-Bradstreet's
weekly review of trade today says:
Trade as a whole is quieter, and in
dustrial operations are being curtailed
in accord with the readjustment pro-
cess forced by the prevailing none
tary stringency and the spread of the
acute currency scarcity to the coun.
try at large. Evidences of this are
buying for future delivery, in the con-
f1nement OF jobbing trade to purely
dlling-in proportions, and in the cur
tailment of retail buying by the neces-
sary employment of credit instru-
ments. In manufacturing lines there
Is apparently a determination to fill
orders only as they are received and
indis position to accumulate stocks, the
result here being a slowing down OF
operations pending the settlement OF
affairs upon a substantial basis. This
Industrial quieting is also in no small
degree due to the fact that manufac-
turers unable or unwilling TO ask their
employees to take pay in credit instru-
ments, chose rather to reduce produc-
ton to point where operations can
be conducted free from dispute as to
the methods Of payment employed.
There are, however, some favorable
elements which point to the rehabilita-
ton process being well underway.
There Is in the first place an absence
Of anything like precipitate action in
the business community, the first fur
~ OF financial unsettlement has ap-
peared without much Of the disorgani-
ration witnessed In other years, and
there has succeeded steady deter
mination to make the best of situa-
tion which by many Is regarded as but
temporary and not of a lasting depres-
sing kind. The situation in the larger
financial markets Is unquestionably
more cheerful, gold arrivals from
abroad continue very large, and the
security markets display considerable
steadiness.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
Written for the Palladium

THE profession of medicine is but
one form of oligarchy, and, as such, eX-
posed to the risk which has distin-
guished oligarchial government in the
past. viz, that the governors act un-
justly when their own interests are
concerned" John Shaw, M. D.,
member of the Royal College of Physi-
clans, London, and physician for dis
eases of women, northwest London
hospital; Fellow date vice PRESIDENT Of
the British genealogical society; Eel
low of the British Electro Therapeutic
al society.
ITO establish therapeutic facts the
profession clings as with the heart and
hand of one man-clings with a desper-
alton and unanimity whose intensity
| is the measure of the unsatisfied de-
sire for something fixed. Yet with
what a Babel of discordant voices does
| it celebrate it's two thousand years.
Narrowing our gaze to the regular
profession and to a few decades, and
what do we see? Experience teaching
that not to bleed man suffering from
pneumonia is to consign him to an I'M
opened grave. and experience teaching
| that to bleed a man suffering from
pneumonia is to consign him to a
grave never opened by nature. Look
| ing at the revolutions and contradic-
| lions Of the past listening to the
therapeutic Babel of the PRESENTS it
a wonder that men should take refuge
in nihilism, and like the lotos-eaters.
dream that all alike is folly-that rest
and quiet and calm are the only hu-
man fruition ?'-Horation c. Wood, NJ.
~, Ii. D., Professor of Materia Medi-
ca and Therapeutics in the University
of Pennsylvania; member of the Ma
tional Academy of Science. Preface
to the thirteenth edition of "Thera-
peutics; Its Principles and Practice.
There are those who make light of
general principles, knowledge of detail
their sole demand, but this point of
view sees one side only of the shield,
be it silver or gold as it shall please
them; for whilst doubtless general
principles without details make but A
details without guidinl principles yield
but busy foolishness."
The millennium is not yet in sight,
and till it appear there will always be
ample scope for the simple healing art
as it finds expression in the words OF
Ambrose Pare: Il dressed his wounds
God healed him. '-Harrington Sains
bury, NJ. D.. F. r. c. P. Fellow of the
Physiological society. Physician to the
Royal Free Hospital. and to the City
of London hospital for diseases of the
chest, Victoria Park.
In order to fully understand the
above. from men whose attainments
integrity, comprehensive intelligence
and single mindedness for humanity
betterment have placed them on the
ltop round of medical en1inap 90 and Q
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important is, what is the real nature
and if possible more important, as it
is one that directly concerns every
fond mother of dear innocently COO
ing baby in Richmond, or elsewhere
for that matter, is, what will be the
effect on my child's future health, and
the hereditary effects, of this tubercu-
line infection of the COWS? Can it
have any deleterious influence on
milk that we are to give to our babies
and children? we'll let us candidly
and without bias investigate.
If one will talk with the intelligent
ed to learn of the extreme susceptible
ity of the mich COW and that while
this is so, she is rarely poisoned by
eating poisonous or unwholesome
herbs, because of the readiness with
which it is carried out of her system
by the excretions, of which the milk
Is the most active: so that COW Civ
ing suckle to a calf will, as a rule. not
be affected with "milk-sick" but the
calf will promptly be. Cows eating
volatile herbs, as mints, wild garlick,
rag-weed, etc, renders their milk un-
potable also the housewife will tell
you that she does not dare to set fresh
milk in the refrigerator along side OF
vegetables. such as onions, cucumbers
muskmelons, etc. We turn to Gould's
medical dictionary for definition OF
our dairy inspectors test as follows:
Tuberculine-a glycerine extract OF
cultures of the bacillus of tuberculosis
It Is a brownish, neutral, albuminoid
liquid. soluable in water. and consists
probably Of the ptomains of the tub
ercle-bacilli. Note that the author
says probably it consists of the pto
mains of the consumption germ; now
any one at all acquainted with the
subject knows that there is nc
probability about it; there can be NJ
question as to tuberculine being any
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
Gold Relieving the Stress.

New York, Nov. 16.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade today
says: liberal receipts Of gold from
abroad and large increase in bank
note circulation tend to relieve the
financial stress at New York; but the
interior Is now feeling the scarcity of
currency and commercial activity is
retarded to some extent Dispatches
from leading cities indicate conserv-
atism in preparation for future bust
ness and irregularity in collections
with most favorable news from agri-
cultural sections in which the crops
are being marketed as freely as the
supply of money will permit. Return
to normal conditions will be fastened
by large exports of farm staples, sup
plying credits abroad upon which the
much-needed gold may be imported.
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appreciate what is to follow in this pa

appreciate what is to follow in this pa
per- it is very necessary that the read
er thoroughly consider the difference
and the distinction we are to make be-
tween an hierarchy and oligarchy; the
Standard dictionary defines the two
words as follows:
Hierarchy-A body of ecclesiastical
rulers; the higher and lower clergy col
lectively; hence any body of rulers SIM
ilarly organized as the pope is the
head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Oligarchy-Governme by the few;
form of government in which SUI
preme power is restricted to a few per-
sons or families; also the members Of
such ruling class taken together. The
monarchy was changed into an dig
archy by process somewhat like that
which may be traced to Athens, annual
magistrates Prytaneis) being substi-
tuted for monarchs, the magistracy be-
ing confined to the royal family. Raw
lingson Herodotus Vol. III, blk. V, p.
229. note /.
1t should be noted that in the gen.
eral acceptation of the terms, oligar-
chy is government by the few, and
that all oligarchical governments, re-
ligiOus, political, or what not, from the
least to the greatest, are continually
evoking state and national legislation
for enactments giving them greater
latitude and legal power to Cypress
the people; the motto Of the oligarchy
is, the greatest good to the least
number" Amy large body of rulers
using their position and powers is a
broad and general function wisely and
we'll for the greatest good to the great
est number, constitutes an hierarchy;
now this generally understood distinc-
ton between an hierarchy and an oio-
garchy, the writer wishes to make a
specialized application to medicine;
/ for while we heartily agree with DR.
Shaw that the profession of medicine
! today is a form of autocratic bossism
the peer of any religious oligarchy
machine politics, or any ubiquitous
commercial trust that ever existed
yet nevertheless firmly believes that
il is essential in the eternal fitness
/ o1 luluSS. ludl lu6IS US uiCIS VI IlISL
in any calling or profession, more es
pecially so in medicine seeing the
countless myriads Of 10 here, and IL
there the magical miricle-workers
in the profession, regular, irregular
good, bad, indifferent and vastly worse
than the worst of these, that marsha
and self-marshal and masquerade I'm
der the banner of the noblest ant
grandest profession that the sun evel
shone upon, not excepting even the
ministry. The profession of medicine
must perforce bear the incubus o.
more evils and sins of will. defects o.
doubt both unavoidable and avoid
able, than any other calling. The wri
ter also believes that a medical hier
archy (not an oligarchy) is essentia
to any rational, scientific and practica
advancement of medicine. Then LEI
! us get p batter understanding of wha
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
The London View Of It.

London, Nov. 16.-The Times in an
editorial discussing the financial sit
uation in the United States this morn
ing says that more light on the sub
1ect is desirable before the best in
formed people of London will be able
to share Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou's confidence. At the same
time it says it is necessary to keep a
cool head and not be misled as to the
more distant future by what after all
is only transient phenomenon such
as has occurred in America before,
though not on such a dangerous scale.
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OSN
found himself in the hands of the exc
cutioner by whom he was made to sit
on block, his feet just reaching the
ground His body was then bound
to the stake behind him by several
turns Of an iron chain, whilst his neck
was secured in like manner by the
coils Of a hempen rope. His two
books were then fastened to his waist,
and his head was encircled in mockery
with a chaplet of straw and green
twigs betreweu with birthstone. The
deadly torch was then applied to the
faggots and flashed in his face; and
the birthstone catching and the flames
rising. wrung from the victim such a
cry of anguish as struck terror to the
surrounding crowd. After this he
was bravely silent; but the wood being
purposely green, although the people
aided the eXecutioner in heaping the
faggots upon him, long half hour
elapsed before he ceased to show signs
Of life and suffering. Immediately be-
fore giving up the ghost, with a last
expiring effort he cried aloud: "Jesu,
compassion upon me. All was then
hushed save the kissing and cracking
Oh the green wood; and by and by there
remained no more of what had been
Michael Servetus, but a charred and
blackened trunk and a handful of
ashes"
Ninety-three years later, William
ed the circulation Of the blood
throughout the body or what Is called
the systematic circulation. For many
years Harvey experienced the cruelest
persecution by the medical oligarchy.
He had to resign professorship in the
university at Padua, after the publica-
ton Of his book on the circulation, mis-
and the oligarchy would have consign-
ed him to a much slower If not more
painful death than Servetus. that CT
starvation, had not noted friends come
to his rescue, such as King Charles |
of England, Bacon, Hobbs, Cowley and
other persons Of note.
Turning in disgust from the past
modern medicine, fixing our gaze on
Richmond, the beautiful. and what do
we see of the medical Oligarchy? In
the Saturday. Sept. 2Suh issue of the
Daily Palladium. we read in large
headlines-"Dairy Cows Given Tuber-
cunne Test-Precaution is Taken by
Health Authorities at the Raper Dairy
One Animal affected" The pa
per goes on to state. After
seven or eleven fine hogs were con
demned some time age at the Stole
slaughtering establishment, suspicion
Of the local health officers were i'm
mediately directed to the Raper dairy
farm, from which the hogs came. AS
a result of this suspicion, DR.. Hoover
city dairy inspector, Wednesday ad
nlinistered the tuberculine test tc
twenty-seven cows furnishing milk tc
the city of Richmond" Now such
statement on its surface, not only
looks harmless, but praiseworthy Of
these guiless and ever-watchful guar
dams of the dear peoples health and
happiness But let US lift the curtain
of the inner circle and push the probe
to the bottom of this health trust
The first and deeply vital question
that every intelligent and self-think
ing citizen should candidly face and
solve for himself is, what is tubercu
line any how? The second and no less
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17

Oxford. England, Nov. ia re-
markable outburst on the sun was OBJ
served by Prof. Ambau. director of
the Radcliffe observatory, at Has
yesterday morning. An immense
flame shot up at the rate of over 10
900 miles a minute until it reached a
height Of $4,000 miles. At 1910 it
broke into fragments and disappeared.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17
TOE ia.
p., ,Ihe Kind You Have AixayS Bouott
s's. at IxH2z1zx
Just as Good as Ever Too.

An old physician Of the last genera
ton was noted for his brusque man
ner and old fashioned methods One
time lady called him In to treat her
baby. who was slightly ailing. The
doctor prescribed castor oil.
But, DOCTOR" protested the young
mother. castor oil is such an old fash
Toned remedy"
Madam" replied the doctor, babies
are old fashioned things "-Exchange
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17

A somewhat weather beaten tramp
being asked what was the matter with
his coat replied: Insomnia. 1t hasn't
had nap in ten years"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-17

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