The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-08-13

Perhaps at one time married lHe
was one grand, sweet song, admits
the Philadelphia Record, but noMA
days it seems more like talking n1s
chine. IA
The Pharaoh who was supposed b
have perished in the Red Sea d:ed
and was embalmed, asserts the Chris
tian Register, and his mummy re-
mains to this day.
/ It is waste of time, warns the
Philadelphia Ledger. to advise pao-
pie whose mental constructions imp ID
them to indulge in panics when the re-
is nothing to be scared about.
Prophesies the Cincinnati Elq' ir-
er: 1t will some day be dtsco-e cd
that the real reason fer the PIE cnt
crisis in our affairs is carsel by the
desire of young men and womel to
get along in the world without O.
ducing anything. The country has
been depopulated and the cities flt od-
ed with young people whose ambi on
it is to make a living with II ciY
brains rather than with their hans.
Why not the either? A core DO d.
ent suggests it in a note that gives
the New York Mail a pause: "Ve
should have national musical ms ru.
ment The violin is too difficult, the
piano is too expensive, brass and
| tube instruments are not suitable for
home use. We should choose he
either, which can be played by aHy-
body in any apartment, tenement, cot
| tage, camp. or dugout. The either can
be national" Well said! The zit en-
| is not noisy like the horn, nor occult
like the violin. This country Las
some millions of pianos bought for
misused, or unused. "The either can
be national" says this correspondent,
The only trouble is that it is already
International The observer at the
Office Window has heard its stra M
floating out from cottage windows
while tramping the roads of Gers
many, Switzerland, Austria, Italy aud
Russia. Other people discovered II
advantages ahead Of the Americar4
With million immigrants pouring
into the country this year, the prObs
lens of distribution, employme1t
education, and the general well-bein1
Of society become portentous to the
Christian Register. There is room
enough for a million men, women
and children if they could be put b
the right place and given a chance t1
earn their living with healthful cons
ditions and be stimulated to impr "
the chances of education; but, If they
are to come in at haphazard, to ba
crowded into the East Side of New
York, to be jammed into our mi e
and steel works, and there left to
work out their own salvation, crime.
poverty and misery will increase. A-
ready the criminal record of the III 1t.
ed States surpasses that Of the West"
ern European nations, and the wonse
elements of anarchy and semi-sav-
agery imported from the south east
of Europe are becoming defiant, law.
less and difficult to control. We have
native delinquents enough with ut
importing all the criminals of Sou'h-
ern Europe that can be smuggled 10.
to the country. !
It is easy to point to the unrots
tainties OF medical science and he
of medical authoritisA
but such criticisms seem extremely
trivial whenever we think OF the w1ne
lerful achievements that are to b
credited to the progress OF medicine
declares the New York Evening p1st. ).
When we think Of smallpox alniose
unknown; of diphtheria redu cd,
within a score or SO of years, from
being a terrible scourge to the POSI-.
lion of almost a minor ailment: a
yellow fever extirpated in our South
ern States, in Cuba, and at Panan A.
when we think of these and the al
most incredible achievements Of D,c1s
srn surgery, it makes the ordinary
careless fling at doctors seem very
small. All sciences, to be sure aso
made contributory, as physics Is IN
such a story as that given in thO
this morning of the ex-
,raction of a nail from a boys iun0
" the aid of the X-rays. What tale
# magic it would have seemed, .,e1.
ration or two ago, before anaes not.
cs had been invented, before nt6s
eptic methods of surgery had ueeu
Introduced, before surgery had bean
eveloped to its present wonderful
and before Rontgen haA