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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-01-21

Leary moved to amend section Il. by
the salaries sl,7W per year in
stead. Of $500. Mr.. Barber opposed the
proposition, as did Mr.. Williams of New
port. Mr.. Harding Of Vcrslurc favored
the amendment which was adopted by n
vote of III to 60.
Mr.. Daniels Of East Montpelier moved
to amend In section 3 by striking out
the words cor telephone lines" Mr..
Watson Of the city of ST. Adams opposed
the proposed amendment. nnd it was
voted down. Mr.. Goodall of Nottingham
favored the bill. Mr.. Harding of YER
shire opposed the bill and moved its dis.
missal, but Withdrew 1t on request Of Nj.
DcIocr who called for the yeas and
nays. Mr.. Blaisdell of Bridport opposed
the bill. Mr.. Ballou of Chester moved
the previous question. The vote resulted
in 40 yeas and 50 nayH ana the bill was
passed.
RECONSTRUCTED
H.. 50S-To provide proceedings for the
settlement of title to land, which at the
morning session was refused n third
reading, was on motion Of Mr.. Howe
of ST. Johnsbury brought before the
House. Mr.. Watson Of the city Of ST.
Adams strongly urged the PASSAGE Of
the bill. Nh. Fletcher Of C"ayeudish OPP
posed the bill as did M. Howe Of St.
Johnsburv. Mr.. Leary offered an amend
mcnt to the bill by providing for trial
by jury. and the bill was ordered TO a
third reading.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
II. G2+-By the committee on Grand list.
a. rz-1 H. IT -..1 ,.r.Afa1 .-.-.s.-r =
real estate for the year 1905 and the
grand lists for the years 1906, 1891 and 1908
in the town of Northtleld.
II. 62t-By the committee on imnigra-
ton and industrial interests, for the
protection OF apprentices.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Providing for tho extension Of time
for verifying engros-cd bills. Adopted
on the part of the House.
Relating to the compensation Of tho
messenger of tho electoral college
chosen to carry the certificates Of votes
to tie Judge OF the United states court.
Adopted on tho part of tho House.
THIRD READING REFUSED.
II. 1co-Relating to grand list.
II. 1o2-Rclating to- taxation &C shares
OF STOCK IN l"icl-h corporations
H. Nl-Ncl'tlns L" lH' U+"''I'h 'i
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amount cf $500.
H. oo0-Rolotirr -o cxcmpiion from
taxation.
II. ogf-Relatinc ~ cvomu,i.n from
taxation.
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-01-21
A R VERY I'LL.
Has Been Sick for a Long Time ut Her
Home in YOnlkers.

New York. Jan. lit was learned
tonight that Clara Morris, the actress
who has been III for a long time. IL in
a serious condition.
Miss Morris. who In private life 10
Mrs. Frederick c. Harriet. la at her
home in YorH<ers. She Is sixty years
old.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-01-21

For a mild, easy action OF tho lNw-
Is. a single dose of Doan's Regulets
is enough. Treatment cures habitual
n~,atination 20 cents a box. Ask
vour druggist for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

tional center. The United States Naval
Medical School attracts less attention
than 1t deserves from visitors also
largely by reason of the fact that it's
location at the foot of Oath street is
somewhat out of the beaten path of tour
lists engaged in sightseeing at the capital.
However. several influences have lately
combined to cause an increased enroll
ment at this institution, where the off,
GERS Of the Medical Corps of the Navy
are trained for their diverse duties on
shipboard and at short stations.
Until few years ago. for some unex-
plainable reason. but small percentage
of the graduates of American medical
colleges were attracted to the naval serv
ice. and as rule the graduating class at
the school for navy doctors in Washing
ton never numbered more than thirty
five young men. However, there has been
a continual improvement in the status of
the medical officers, and such events as
the outcome of the recent controversy re-
garding the United States hospital ship
Relief have served to inspire the medical
men with new ambition and added inter-
est in their work.
With the nation rapidly adding to its
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House
HOLD
hints

While scientists and doctors are falling
foul Of each other in their expressed
opinions about the origin of the new-to-
American disease, pellagra. some claim
ing it is caused by eating corn that has
been altered by fermentation, I think we
may go on eating this great American
staple without let or hind-ance. 1t goes
without saying that any food. animal or
vegetable, should be in good condition be-
fore inviting entrance into the system.
Because oysters or fish give ptomaine
poisoning or typhoid when past their
freshness or fattened in impure waters.
must we give up fish in toto? Because
milk from a diseased COW or filthy dairy
can convey typhoid shall we eliminate
milk from our dietary? Must all water
be tabooed because there are fouled
springs that in many instances have car
ried disease and death to the consumer!
If salads are open to suspicion when I'M
properly irrigated or enriched does That
make the whole family of salads ineli-
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and the rejuvenated home of the Mill
tary Academy at West Point.
Assistant surgeons, as the student Of
ficers of the Medical Corps are desig-
mated enter the Medical School imme-
diately following their appointment to
the service, and each newcomer in the
corps spends at least year in this in
stitution gaining the advantages of what
is virtually a postgraduate course that
supplements the instruction previously re-
ceived at some college of medicine. The
six months course looks to the prep
aration of the young surgeon for any
subsequent duty which may fall to his
lot. af1oat or ashore. The course of study
is essentially practical and includes trop
zeal medicine, bacterology and labora
tory work. naval surgery. drills, etc. In
deed, there are few graduates of our best
medical schools who are afforded an OPP
portunity equal to that of the newly
commissioned assistant surgeon of the
navy for rounding out their education a
physicians and surgeons. And all the
while these newly enrolled officers are
cefving the full pay of their rank, with
allowances.
The qualifications of a navy doctor are
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address auhntie in a language that she
is more familiar with than she is with
English. but, do you know, Auhntie Mar
garet is SO intensely patriotic that she will
not even breathe word of any other Ian
guage than English while she is on Amer
lean soil? And all the time she was saying
it she was trying to catch her auhnt's eye.
l couldn't help. really I couldn't. but
laugh right out, for do you suppose
that 7 was going to let that ninnyfied
Mrs. Puttonlugs think that l was believ-
ing any such crazy thing as that? For
u minute I thought sure the fat old thing
was going to blurt it out that she didn't
know a word of any other language but
worked finally and the stodgy old thing
kept still. But, my dear, during the ten
minutes that I was there the funny old
creature said L seen it. and Il done it.
and she taken it and her and me- and
such frightful things at least hundred
times, and Mrs. Puttonlugs sitting there
in mortal agony, the perspiration posi-
lively running in rivulets down her skim
py, withery face and forming pool,
was almost going to say. at her feet.
II haven't seen Mrs. Puttonlugs since,
but I doubt If she'll be running in here to
do her Dragging over me any more about
her marvelously rich and cultivated rela-
tives, but Pierre told me yesterday that
her Auhnt Margaret had gone, so S'pose
Mrs. Puttonlugs sent the old creature a.
kiting fixing up some kind of an excuse,
! suppose, for getting her out of the place.
But, my dear, positively 1 never enjoyed
in all my born days as 1 en-
joyed the ten minutes that I spent up
there in Mrs. Puttonlugs' apartment with
her Auhnt Margaret telling me all about
how she never seen such a purity place
like Washington, and how her and me
Mrs. Puttonlugs and herself. that is-had
gone shopping and how they seen some
shirt waists that was on'y two-dollar
apiece, marked down from five. and all
that-dearie, it was absolutely killing, and
it's the regret of my life that you weren't
with me. for you'd have expired, deed
YOU would've!'
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from the Spanish-AmeTican war made it
impossible to continue the project. Mat
tiers then lapsed until 1902 when Surgeon
General Rixey, present head OF the Medi-
cal Corps, took hold of the matter in
earnest and secured the establishment at
the capital of the of the United States
Naval Medical School and Hospital.
Washington was. of course. obvious
~ the proper location for the new seat
of learning. and as site for this uni
versity for navy doctors there was
cured the buildings and grounds of the
old naval observatory located in the
western part Of the city on a knoll
overlooking the Potomac river and Il
considerable portion of the Capital city
The old observatory building, a ram
bling, spacious, spotlessly white struc-
ture, surmounted by the now unused
observatory dome, made when remodel
ed an excellent nucleus for the home
of the new school, and to this have
been added supplementary structures,
including power plant. laundry. stables,
etc, and finally the notable new hos
pital completed a comparatively short
time ago. What has been done is only
a beginning. There has been prepared
d proposed plan for new buildings for
officers quarters, an enlargement of
the hospital to a capacity of 800 beds.
and other new construction that viii
enable the headquarters of the Medical
Corps to take rank with the new home
of the Naval Academy at Annapolis
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roster of fighting ships. hospital ships
being placed in commission and lengthy
cruises of frequent occurrence, there is
manifest an imperative need for an eX-
panson of the Medical Corps. This is
the aim of the faculty of the medical
school. under the direction of Medical
Director J. G. Boyd, the president of the
school. Examinations for admission to
the Medical Corps of the navy as acting
assistant surgeons are now being held
twice a month, and there is stimulus
throughout this branch Of the service.
For all that the Naval Medical School
is not. of course, SO large or pretentious
val Academy at Annapolis, Md, where
the line officers are trained. 1t is, never
theless. a most interesting seat of learn
ing and one that is in all respects credi-
table to the nation Considering the
short time since it's ception-not more
than half dozen years ago-the develop
ment has been nothing short of remarka-
bic. The need for an institution where
a systematic course of instruction could
be provided for officers of the Medical
Corps of both army and navy was recog-
nized from the early days of the govern
ment, but. despite frequent agitation on
the subject. the naval officials We're not
able to accomplish anything in this direc-
ton until 1893.
In that year Surgeon General Tryon
started department of instruction at
the United States laboratory in New
York city, and the results were very sat
isfactory. but the conditions resulting
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very different from What might be sup
posed by the average layman, who has
an idea that a technical knowledge of
pills and powders is all that is required.
How varied Is the training is best proven
by a visit to the Naval Medical School
during the morning hours of any week
day. Promptly at O'Clock all the stu
dent officers emerge from the building
attired in athletic togs, including sweat
ers and for Il considerable interval de-
vote themselves to strenuous physical
program. including "setting-up'' drills.
and winding up with a brisk run of half
mile to a mile. Then follows a litter
drill in the open air, which tends to give
the young men the utmost facility in
the quick handling Of stretchers. After
Il change to regulation uniforms the
young officers devote d quarter of an
hour or more to the sword drill. and
ofttimes this is followed by a period of
practice in Wigwag signaling. Having
aroused all their faculties by this phySi
cal activity the assistant surgeons next
don flowing black robes and plunge into
laboratory work. Lectures by eminent
specialists and practical work in the hos
pital are also features of this valuable in
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win me. She was quarreiing with the
elevator man-you remember him. the
coai-black one that was born in Mar
Unique and that speaks French so beau
tifully-because she said he'd started the
elevator suddenly a-purpose to Jar her
and make her nervous. Pierre-that's the
elevator man. you remember-said that he
really hadn't started the elevator any
more suddenly than usual, and he hadn't.
either. as l could testify. but the freaky-
looking old fat thing jawed and jawed at
him about it till she reached her floor.
Don't y dare tell me that v didn't
f'r I seen you do it" she kept saying to
Pierre, and Pierre stopped defending him
self and only smiled, and the fussy fun
ny-looking old fatty was still muttering
and shaking her head when she got off at
the fourth floor.
"'Who. pray, Pierre said to the ele-
vator man. is that person"
pierre laughed and showed all Of his
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how long she was going to stay, and if
she intended to winter. as usual in Flor
ence, and, my dear, the pudgy old thing
looked at me as if she thought l had es-
capped from lunatic asylum. and l felt
just like laughing right out, and I would
have. too, maybe. if it hadn't been for
the positively tragic expression on Mrs.
Puttonlugs weazeny face. She was try
ing to smile with her misery-contorted
features. you see, and the expression that
resulted was something that no artist
could paint, deed it's the truth
But Mrs. Puttonlugs Is quick thinker,
/ must say that for her, and how do YOU
suppose she tried to turn it off? My dear,
you VIII explode when 1 tell you. She
stopped me right in the middle of nv
French rigmarole-Mrs. Puttonlugs didn't
understand word of it herself, though
she processes to know French-by say
ing:
oh, my dear, it is SO good of You to
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her in French and see if she spoke
French, and Pierre did, and he laughed
when he told me about it, and said that
Auhnt Margaret not only didn't know a
word of French, but that she'd bridled up
when he'd spoken French to her. just as
if he'd said something insulting.
And So my dear, after hearing that, I
went right up to see Mrs. Puttonlugs-
after finding out from Pierre that Aunt
Margaret had not gone out, for [ wanted
to meet her face to face before Mrs. Put
tonlugs, you know. Mrs. Puttonlugs
looked as ii she wanted to sink right
through the floor when she opened the
door herself-I knew that it was her
maids afternoon off, you know, and that
she'd have to come TO the door herself-for
her famous and gorgeous and grand and
cultured Auhnt Margaret was standing
right beside her in the hall with floppy,
greasy old fiannelette wrapper on, and of
course Mrs. Puttonlugs couldn't tell her
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house, you know, that nave been dow
ing and clustering and Dragging to me
for ever so long about their grand ard
mighty and cultured and rich and high
falutin relatives. Well. I've seen some
of their relatives. The freaky creatures
the relatives, 1 mean-stopped here
on their way to New York to see the
Hudson-F Fulton celebration, you know;
and deed it's wonder to me that the
braggy women didn't hide their funny
looking relations in the cellar or shoe
EN- up to the roof or something, for of
all the
Well. dearie. you know that scrawny.
bean policy, affected Mrs. Puttonlugs-
she has the fourth floor front apart
ment-that always says shawnt and
'cawnt when she can remember it
but she always forgets it when she's
excited-when she's lighting the ice man
to make him give her ten-cent piece
of ice for u nickel, or something, and
then she says can't and shan't just like
human folks-you remember her. don't
you? Hasn't any hair at all in front of
her head, you know. and wears a whole
lot of switches that don't match in
color, and is so busy all the time tell
Ing folks what a great and glorious
family she belongs to that she's al
ways forgetting to hook her placket
and goes around looking perfect sight
and even the men folks notice it-yes,
j thought you'd recollect her, because
she moved in little while before you
moved away from here.
''Well. my dear. that woman has almost
set me crazy for more than two years
telling me about what cultivated and
polished and wealthy and high-and-
mighty pedigreed lot OF folks her people
were. and there was never any stopping
her. either, when she got on this subject
for. whenever I'd try to change the SUBJ
ject she'd actually ignore everything that
1 said and go right ahead praising her re-
lations up to the skies. until there were
times when positively felt like jumping
out of the window, deed there were.
1.-The one she Dragged the most about
was an aunt of hers-oh. yes, certainly
she called her 'auhntie-that she told me
didn't have a single. solitary thing but
money and that spent nearly all of her
time i'll Europe. living in Florence. Italy.
thing. / heard about Auhnt Margaret
till 1 could hardly see straight. Mrs. Put
tonlugs told me that her Auhnt Margaret
spoke all of the European languages and
was q literary woman who wrote beauti-
full poems for private distribution among
her friends and that she knew all OF the
swell writer's and artists and Bohemians
and things abroad and that she maintain
ed a salon In Florence. where the wealth
and beauty and nobility of Italy hooked
around and all that sort of fudge, till, my
taking hold of Mrs Puttonlugs by her two
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EIRST Term of Year
/ Opens Tomorrow in
Unique School of U. S. Navy
up to Few Years Ago
Small Percentage of Grad
yates From Medical Schools
Were Attracted to the Navy
Young Medical Students
Get Salaries While Going
Through Course of Studies
Local School Not as Large
as One at Annapolis. But 1t
Is Interesting Seat of Learn
ing.
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HERE viii open it's
j orS tomorrow
for the session of
1909-10 an inStitu-
ton which. though
comparatively un-
known to n large
portion of the city
of W a S h i n gton,
contributes in no
mean degree to the
reputation of this
city as an eduCa-
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E L l.. my dear,
there are some
people around here
that won't try to
be bra ggy with me
for a long time to
come, that's one
t II | n g certain
sure" said Mrs.
BangSmith to her
caller. There are
a lot of women :n
t h i s apartment
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Auhnt Margaret to run and get out OF the
way. and so, dearie. l just had her dead; ;
/ certainly did.
X
Mrs. Puttonlugs was so Illustrated that
she could hardly introduce her wonderful
auhnt to me. But l should love to have
had you see her face, and her Auhnt Mar
garet's face, too, when l addressed the
fat old thing in French! 1 don't brag
about my French, my dear. for l know
It's pretty Ollendorfy, but 1 can make
myself understood anyhow. which is more
than lot of folks can that brag about
their French. asked the puffy old creature
in French how she liked New York and
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bony shoulders and shaking her until her
false teeth-yeS, dear, She has whole
upper set that Is false, and on a plate,
too-until her false teeth fell out on the
floor. She said that her Auhnt MarsRret's
deceased husband had become enormously
wealthy as a decorator; conveying the i'm
preston, you see, or, anyhow, trying to
convey it, that her Auhnt Margarets hus-
band was artist Or something like
that.
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his, and yet initiating Mrs. Puttonlugs,
too. Why, madame. Eat ees Meeses PoOt-
oonlooks' Auhnt Marguerite and he said
'Auhnt' just like Mrs. Puttonlugs says it,
so that he must have overheard her brag-
ging about her Auhnt Margaret. and no
wonder, for J suppose everybody in the
building. including the engineer and fire
man, must have heard her doing that at
one time or another.
''Well, dearie, / knew that I had the
silly thing Just where l wanted her then.
but I wanted to be perfectly sure about
some other things, and so I told Pierre
that l wanted him, the next time Auhnt
Margaret got on the elevator to address
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well, my dear. 1 was coming up in the
elevator couple of afternoons ago. and
there was funny-looking fat creature
with one of those fioppy little knots Of
bonnets, covered with nodding cherries.
on one side of her head, on the elevator
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itiation into the naval service.
AS has been said, the student officers
are on Uncle Sans pay roll from the day
they enter the medical school. \ doctor
enters the service as assistant surgeon,
(which rank corresponds to that of first
lieutenant in the army, and carries pay
at the rate og SLIGO per year, in addition
to which quarters are provided or an
allowance of S2SS per year made in lieu
of same. Three years from the date of
first commission the assistant surgeon
is entitled by law to promotion to rank
corresponding to that of captain in the
army and this means of course, an adj
vance in pay and allowances. Further
promotions are made vacancies occur.
until the Medical Corps man reaches a
rank equivalent to that Of colonel In the
army, with minimum salary Of $1,000
and allowances.
All army and naval officers are given
10 per cent additional pay for every hve
years of service until such bonus reaches
40 per cent, and in this connection the
Medical Corps man has distinct ad-
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Not only do the newly enrolled assistant
surgeons receive training at the Naval
Medical School, but there is also course
of instruction for surgeons and passed
assistant surgeons-Yeterans in the serN-
ice-who are detailed for study from their
ships or from some of the seventeen
naval hospitals located in various parts
of the country, and who come to this IN
stitution to familiarize themselves with
the newest discoveries in their profes-
sion. The faculty OF the medical school
for the session about to open represents
perhaps, the best corps of instructors thae
has ever served the institution. Pronis
nent among them is Surgeon {. +. STOKES.
who was in command of the hospital snip
Relief during the cruise OF the battieship
fleet around the world. and whose ap"
pointment to the position Of commanoer
of that vessel was so bitterly contested
and resulted indirectly in the resignation
of Rear Admiral Brownson as chief OF
the bureau Of navigation. Other mems
hers of the faculty include Surgeons f. L.
Pleadwell, f. J. Grow and c. ]. Butier.
Passed Assistant Surgeons .. j. MINK
and F. NJ. Scook. Lieut.. Commander
D. L. Wilson. retired. will act as m
structor in signaling, hospital corps drliiS'
etc. which, as above explained. constl-
tute a. very important part of the course
of instruction at the medical schooi.