The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-31


of whatever name, We're struggling
for the saddle, instead of one that has
ridden so long it has forgotten the
art of walking. In other words, COM
petition for principles brings out the
best; competition for spoils brings
nothing.
My old family physician is about
to bring out a book on "CanceTs." 1t
is not to be about cancers, but as he
modesNy says to his friends. it is to
be AL about cancers"-the last word
to date concerning that dreaded dis
| ease. The history of the man HIM
self is somewhat interesting. While
in active practice he was still more
active with the microscope. For
years he devoted his spare hours to
"gapes' in chickens, and part of the
| time employed by the United States
| government to carry on his inyeStiga-
lions. l think Florida chickens do not
have that trouble, but none the less
1 poultrymen will be interested in the
| results of his studies. All know that
| a worm in the throat causes the cape.
| and that a feather dipped in turpen-
| tine or kerosene and applied will kill
| the worm, but DR.. Walker discovered
| the origin of the worm. 1t comes from
a parasite found in the angleworm.
| If chickens are kept from the ground.
| hence from these worms, for three
weeks. they viii not have it. and if
any chick is fed these parasites, the
| game will come in nine days. Once l
| remember he came to visit in our
family. 1t was a great day for him.
He had 1.-The prettieSt thing to show
us he said, that eye ever beheld,"
L. 4 3
bottle containing a perfect tapeworm
about three inches long that he had
found in a observation-disclosures, tail
all complete.
How would it be, Doctor" said
one, IF you would pay a little more
attention to your patients and lit
tie less to worms?"
The old man gave a chuckle. as
much as to say there is nothing like
worms in this world and so | think
he still feels, The last word on can
Ger" is this: II comes from a germ
taken into the system, by eating raw
vegetables, celery, tomatoes, cabbage,
etc.
Who knows but he has something
to make the medical world pause and
take notice?
| a recent issue or the chicago
American has an article in the stereo-
typed closing exercises of schools
which I'm sure voices the. sentiments
of every adult listener l feel inclined
to give it in full. There really is no
excuse for the insipidity and stiIted-
ness OF such occasions, and the pupil
Is never to be blamed. All the years
= through all the grades should be a
: preparation for the graduation day
In other words, the essay or Grafton
! should come easily and naturally as
| the fruit CT such work in that line,
Composition should begin with the
A b. C.s and be kept within easy
range OF his knowledge, will become
delight oevery child He has
learned him to define a subject, TO
separate 1t from other things, to di-
vide into heads, and amplifv its in
tiuences and uses, i. e., if he has been
properly taught The phrases flow
freely and smoothly with such prac-
tice az each school should give. The
day ought not to be 4 bugbear to the
child nor a bore TO the parent. Give
the enid proper training and a sub
Ject with which he is familiar, and il
IS bound to be interesting.
The editor says:
what Is the matter with educators
9 TINS country? If they don't know
any more about teaching arithmetic
than they do about the teaching the
young thinking they ought to go some
where and learn to be carpenters. At
4 school exhibition thirteen ESSAYS
were read. One girl wrote about BE
yond the Alps Lies Italy" She had
\ not been in Italy, she had not seen
e the Alps, and probably had no def
mite idea about what she was trying
I to say. Another read a paper on
4 The Higher Life
Nobody in the audience understood
= Il sentence she said and the girl was
not much better off herself. A boy
OF Il delivered an Grafton which he
: had written on The Decadence of
the Times Now. what on earth does
/ a boy of II know or have the imperti-
] ncnce to think he knows about the de-
4 cadence OF these or any other times
And so it went all through the pro-
j gram. Not one essay and not one ora
ton was worth attention save as a
4 joke.
q The boys and girls were unusual
I ly bright, but they didn't know enough
! to write about things they understood
! and their teachers hadn't the good
4 sense to make the mdo it.
Some day Il sensible superinten-
dent OF schools Will fine every teach