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dte*EfjttbUam. PUBLISHED DAILY BY HIE J, TIMES-REPUBLIOAN PltlNTlNO CO. TERMS: imeYoar. by Mull $*•*) iy the Month, by Mail.......... .. delivered by Carrier, bv the Month JU Entered at the l'ostofllee at Mursh.illtown, Iowa, as second-class mall matter. GUARDING THE PRESIDENT. Congress did not succeed in passing in anti-anarchy bill, altlio during the period just before the session opened it was considered one of the most im »ortant measures to be passed upon. Each house adopted a bill designed to unish those who take the life or per nanently injure the president, but an igreement was not reached by the two louses. The real reason for this would aot in all probability be far to seek. The inadequacy of preventive legisla tion in such a case is widely recognized. Those who make up their minds to compass the death of the president practically dedicate their lives to this work and have little thought of conse quences. The most severe measure of •punishment that enlightened govern ment would permit would not prove a deterrent in their cases. Thesamemight be said of those who are insane or cranky on this subject. Hence the pre cautionary measures-tliat must be pro vided are in large measure a careful ^guarding of the person of the president -by secret service or open guards, altho it is probable that a measure for the punishment of such murderous assail ants will be enacted into law before the Fifty-seventh congress finally closes its .work at the next session. When President Roosevelt arranged to leave for Oyster Bay, where he is to spend six weeks, the chief of the secret service in Washington expressed a sense of relief, for he was so constantly exposed at the national capital as to awaken great solicitude in the mind of vthis official. While the president was In Pittsburg on the Fourth the most ex traordinary precautions for his safety Were provided by the national and lo cal authorities and it will be consid ered appropriate and necessary to do this when he visits the west in Septem ber. On the thgory that it is better to be safe than sorry it is a wise thing to "do. PHILIPPINE CIVIL GOVERNMENT. The establishment of civil govern •'ment in the Philippines, and the reduc tion of the army in the islands to 18,000, indicate the firm faith of our govern ment in its work of pacification. The proclamation of President Roosevelt on the 4th formally declaring the restora tfon of peace in the archipelago, plac ing the islands under complete civil control and extending amnesty to the Filipino political prisoners, marks a newera for our colonial territory. Sup plementing and confirming this state ment comes a dispatch to Secretary Root from Acting Governor Wright stating that provincial government was Inaugurated in Luguna on July 1, thus completing the establishment of civil government over all the civilized peo ple in the archipelago. He also stated that acceptance of American autlioalty is general and pacification complete. According to Chairman Cooper, of the house committee on insular affairs, the first step to put the new law into operation will be the complete transfer of authority from the military to the civil officials. The next step will be to take the census, as provided by the new act. Governor Taft will begin this work as soon as he returns to the isl ands. His plan is to have his work done as far as possible by Filipinos, and the commission will get up its own census system, guided of course by our home experience. The purpose, how ever, is to make the work thoroughly a local one, so that it will serve the Fil ipinos as an object lesson. The census work will take about a year. Governor Taft recently said of this '•civil government bill, that if it became a law we would hear no more of the Philippines than we do of Porto Rico, •and that the Philippine problem would gradually disappear. This bill makes such ample provision for civil rights that It should prove thoroughly satisfactory to the enlight ened portion of the islanders. It will give the same opportunity to demons trate their capacity for self rule that the discontented anti-imperialists de mand, and better than that, it will be under the guiding hand of our own na tion. ROOSEVELT AND THE TRUSTS. The London Standard expresses great surprise that a president of the United States, with his political future before him, should dare to deliver so pronounced a view of trusts as con tained in the Fourth of July address of President Roosevelt. When London learns to know the Rooscveltian char acter it will cease to be surprised at these things, but rather expect them, for Roosevelt could not be himself un less he should speak his own mind, without thought of the effect upon his career. He became president because he had been frank and fearless, and so long as he is in office he will follow his own Ideals. This is the character of the t4X v. i, man. -k *•,'•. The declaration on trusts was not in Itself very startling, for Theodore Roosevelt Is a very safe, conservative, level-headed man, He' merely ad vanced the theory that, while enormous combinations of corporate capita! are very necessary to the best industrial •development and national trade su -lV-'J^"-» fplftBllsft premacy, that when used properly they are all right, yet, because of their great power, if misdirected, they would be come a terrible menace to individual liberty. For this reason the president thought and expressed the opinion that some new legislation would be needed, "conceived in no radical or revolution ary spirit, but in a spirit of common sense, common honesty and a resolute desire to face facts as they are," lie said. It has been suggested by a Washing ton correspondent that, after long do liberations upon the trust question, both the president and Attorney Gen eral Knox have jointed in requesting Congressman Liltlefleld of Maine to draft a trust law along the conserva tive and "common sense" lines suggest ed by the president. Mr. -Link-field is recognized as the ablest constitutional lawyer in congress, and his brief politi cal career has shown him to be a man with the requisite courage to face the facts. So it may be expected that the president will keep alive the subject of trust legislation in anticipation of the campaign to be made in the next ses sion of congress. Whether the president's plans will be accepted favorably by the republican leaders or not remains to be seen. There will unquestionably be more or less resentment toward executive in terference in legislative matters, but the president's position is undoubtedly the right one, and sooner or later it will have to be accepted as a party policy. The trust question, the billion dollar corporation, is one that contains too violent a departure from the American principles of individual liberty to es cape public notice. There is no ques tion but what this country has greatly benefited by the concentration of capi tal. It has been able thereby to cap ture foreign markets and lurnish addi tional employment to American labor, and has lessened the cost of production to the benefit of the entire American public, but President Roosevelt realizes the truth of Governor Cummins' doc trine that the "consumer has a better right to competition than the producer has to protection." Both statesmen can see the menace to American liberty in the power of the monopoly. The presi dent believes that federal legislation is needed to limit the power of the trust, to prevent its abusing its power by ex torting from the people, and the gover nor believes that when tariffs are found sheltering monopolies to the detriment of the whole consuming public said tar ifts should be removed to that extent that competition In that business may again enter to grant the consumer liis inherent rights. The trust question is sure to occupy the attention of con gress, and the manifest wisdom of the Roosevelt position will eventually make it a republican policy, the jealousies of legislators notwithstanding. BUSINESS FEATURES.' /. The uncertainty about grain crops placed the general level of grain prices higher than usual last week, and while this uncertainty remains speculative interests will be active. It is too early to say what the cor» crop may be, but that it has been seriously damaged in many places is widely admitted. Th\s has the effect of holding up the prices of this cereal. IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES. "Congress has adjourned and the democratic party is still without an is sue," observes the Keokuk Gate City. InSioticing that "Men lacking prop erty and unbiased judgment vote taxes onto women for the support of public projects," the Dubuque Times believes "The women taxpayers should have the ballot as a means of defense it they want it an-.l if they get it and don't want it, or show less wisdom than the men in their use of it, they will erect another obstacle in the path of equal suffrage." In speaking of Gov. Cummins' posi tion on the tariff and trusts the Sac Sun declares that "Any interpretation of his utterances that places hini out of line with the best expression of republi canism evidently is unauthorized." The Ames Times is of the opinion that N. S. Ketchum, as a candidate for railway commissioner, "ought to be able to ketchum votes." The, Boone News asks, "Would it be IMS possible for Governor Cummins to do anything that would not call for criti cisms from the Burlington llawkeye? it must be really true that J. W. Blythe is going to run for senator." The Montezuma Republican declares that the late Judge liubbard was a free trader at heart. "When the president comes to Io»va in September," says the Odebolt Chronicle, "lie will find the people heartily in sym pathy with him. The congressional del egation has misrepresented low a. sen la ment." The Parkersburg Eclipse say there are a lot of congressmen who will find, when they get buck to their constitu ents, that the people fail to ciidoisc their inactive policy on many of the living questions of the day—the tarilt reduction and reciprocity measuie, for instance. The Sioux City Journal observes that "The close of his Pittsburg speech left the president just as outspoken as ever for the cause of Cuba. As a ke note the speech indicates that Mr. Roosevelt is prepared to speak out for Cuba at e\ery opportunity." TOPICS OF THE TIMES Over 10 000 Oregon republicans scratched their candidate for governor, and that enabled the democratic candi date to pull thru by 256, official. The republican majority on supreme Judge Was 17,140. A traveler in England came'upon a solitary fisherman, who looked as if time and the world might pass a\\a without disturbing his cmtent. "Il.iVe you fished long In this stream?" asked the traveler. "Eighteen years,' was the calm response. "Get many bites.' was the next question. -The fisherman scarcely turned his gaze from the rod in his hands. "Five ye.'rs ago in this very spot I had a fine bite, he an swered, hopefully. Once upon a time an honest and in dustrious son of northern Sweden emi grated and came to the United Stales. At the end of thirty years he. retired with a competence. The first use he made of his leisure was to revisit the old country, intend ing to remain a year or two among the scenes of his boyhood, but in two or three months he turned up at his lor mer place of business, which, it is hard ly necessary to say, was in Minneapolis. "How is this?" they asked him. "What brings you back so soon?" "Well," he said, "the old country ain't what it used to be. I couldn't get Business is on such a firm basis that unpleasant features do not awaken ap prehension, tho they should command careful attention. Dun's review notices any sleep. It's daylight till It mid night. and the next morning begins right away already. that the commercial failures for the first half of the year aggregated over $00,000,000, or 54,570,100 greater than last year, compared with a similar per iod, and $18,311,023 more than the ex ceptionally favorable period of 1890. Yet Dun states that it would be neces sary to go back fifteen years to find another more gratifying showing than that of this year. There is a general feeling that nearly everybody can suc ceed in business in a prosperous period, and it is quite true that it requires less financing or less sMllful management than in close times, but there is anoth er tendency that develops as we recede from the period when hard times less ons are impressed upon us and lead us to caution: that is, there is less care and more recklessness displayed in carrying on commercial trade. Money is so plentiful that less difficulty is ex perienced in getting hold of it for bus iness ventures. Goods may be bought on less rigorous terms, and a general ixness permits too many inexperi enced and unskillful men to enter pur suits that can only succeed thru good business judgment. It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the At lantlc,cable to the other. '•..•-.•ivi?, Y-'7 The ship subsidy bill did not exhibit any signs of life In the last congress, yet despite this during the past year 1,657 nevT" vessels were built at the yards in this country, and the build ers had orders for more that they could not handle. There Is a very remarkable cave In Custer county, South Dakota, which the government is being asked to buy. Ac cording to the reports of the scientists who have made a survey of it, there aro 3.000 chambers in the cave and 100 miles of passages. The cave is said to be the largest and most remarkable in the world. About twenty years ago a cowboy riding in the vicinity was at tracted by a loud noise caused by the rushing of air thru a small opening in the rocky surface of the earth. The aperture was opened by drilling and blasting, and formed the entrance to what has proven to be a most wbnderful cave. Explorers who have entered the cave have not begun to dis cover its full extent, but the chambers •already visited are found to contain urious natural formations of rare beauty. One of these Is Noah's beard, which consists of long strings like sil ver wire. It is said that many of the chambers are large enough to hold the congressional library. The proposition for the purchase of the great subterra nean wonder has already received fa vorable consideration in the senate. The Boone News says: "The Tinies Kepubican now becomes the only really •independent' paper in Iowa, except, the Sioux City Nondescript." The Times Republican accepts this as a compli ment. While being a loyal republican paper It aims to keep as far as possible from the biased ruts of partisanship. Speaker Henderson and Congressman Hepburn an* both Iowa men, but they (io not follow the same rules as to the 1 ronunciatlon of proper names. The other day Mr. Hepburn had the floor and Mr. Meltae desired to a^k a ques tion. ".Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gen tleman from Arkansas," said Hepburn, pronouncing the last: two syllables oi the state name as tho it were Kansas. "The gentleman lrorn Arkansaw has the floor," said the speaker. a .7$ "This. search of the democrats after an issue in the Philippines," said Rep resentative Olmstead, of Pennsylvania, "reminds me of a client of mine the ne cessities of whose large family, recent ly augmented by twins, made him poor. He came to me joyfully one day and said he had found oil flowing from a siuing on his land. The bottle contain ^imtittg Ttines-^icpuhTTnwt, TOarshalllouw, ^aiuct, nta 1 The sundry civil bill, carrying addi tional St. Louis World's Fair appropri ation ($1,04S.000) and providing for the postponement of the fair to 1!'04, \\as approved by congress. Lxc luslve ol the island and teirltorial exhibits, congress lias now made appropriations aggregat ing $0,298,000 on account of the world's fair ,v_\ ing the sample which he brought me had evidently seen family use, hut 1 forwarded it to an expert for analysis. The reply dashed to the earth the hopes of my client and myself. The expert said: "Find no trace of oil. Think your friend has struck paregoric.' It is believed that the plant of the National Fiber and Ccrllulo.se Company, soon to be established in Kankakee. 111., will eventually decrease the price of paper. While it is not the intention of the corporation to manufacture paper at once, it intends to make paper stock, and ultimately paper mills will proba bly be located there. The company is owner of a process for preparing paper t.lock and cellulose from cornstalks, a product that is now mostly wasted. It is proposed by the company to locate mills in different sections to work up the raw material—that is. husk, si rip and separate the pulp and fiber, which will then be pressed and shipped to central mills in Kankakee for reduction. These auxiliary mills w'11 be situated wherever cornstalks may be luul. The price paid for the raw stalks will be lroin $2.50 to $3 a ton. 0 .5. ..,••"•••-VjVg. The Des Moines Register and Leader makes this excellent point: "To repeat the major part of last year's utterances upon the tariff, but retract one sen tence, would make that sentence the is sue of this campaiern." As democracy i.', chielly in the fault-finding business, it would be prudent political sense to guard all points. The republican press is generally approving the policy of en dorsing the past'record. The revival of the old-fashioned country fairs in Kansas, which is quite pronounced this year, is believed to be more a return to "first principles" thair a supposition that the state will make good all deficiencies. How Iron Was Discovered.—Teacher —Johnny, can you tell me how iron was first discovered? Johnny—Yes, sir. 1 "Well, just tell the class what your information Is on that point." "I heard pa say yesterday that they smelt it." —London Spare Moments. BRYAN CAN THROW BRICKBATS. LSt. Louis Globe-Democrat. Bryan, of course, was wise in refus ing the Nebraska fusion nomination for governor. He knew his party would be defeated in any case, and a defeat for him at the head of the state ticket would hit his prestige pretty hard. The fact, h'owever, that both elements of the coalition wanted Bryan to accept, and the further fact that the conven tions of the democracy and the popu lists in Kansas were overwhelmingly Bryanite in sentiment, show a situa tion which will give some trouble to the reorganizers. Bryan will never be pres ident, but he can and will throw obsta cles in the way of any anti-Bryan dem ocrat who attempts to reach that office in the next few years. A Common Scold. [St. Louis Globe-Demicrat.l The democratic party got a hard blow from Congressman Cannon, ol Illinois, the other day when he said: "We pull the wagon and we do the work, and you find the Tault. We are doing the best that can be done in settling the questions that grew out of the war of 1808, but all that you do is to scold." If anybody recollects anything that ha® been done by the democracy in recent years except to scold he ought to tell ii as a contribution to history. When Money, of Mississippi, as blatant a demagogue as Clark, of jNfissourj, or Tillman, of South Carolina, was asked a few months ago how he would solve the Philippine problem his answer was. "The Philippines may go to the devil for all I care." This is the democratic way of dealing with great issues. That party's only function in the politics of the past forty years has been to obstruct every groat measure which the republican party has brought forward. Once or twice when it essayed something in the field of creative statesmanship it passed sil ver Villis and put thru a tariff which President ClevNand said stood for "party perfidy and party dishonor," and which he refused to sign, letting it be come a law thru the expiration of the time limit. All the legislation since I Mi I which met the national necessities as they presented themselves has been enacted by the republican party and. in almost every case, against the per sistent and malignant hostility of the Gemocracy. (istensibly the democrats are very anxious to have a Cuban reciprocity bill passed, but they favor this policy only as a means of embarrassing the republicans, but the republicans are no* showing the slightest amount of em barrassment on this or any other issue. The Cuban question will be dealt with in this session and will never arise again to bother the republicans. The reciprocity which was favored at the outset by one element of the republic ans has been given up, and probablv newer will reappear. This question will soon be^ out of the way, and congress will have a chance to give its attention to something edse. The democrats have made no contribution to the construct ive legislation of the session. They will make none to that or this congress. The democracy's only function is ob struction and even in this fiedd it has no inlluenco which any public-spirited American need rcekon with. If a Man Lie to You, And say some- other salve, ointment, let ion. Oil or alleged healer is as gooel as Bueklen's Arnica Salve tell him that thirty years of marvelous cures of piles burns, boils, corns, felons, ulcers, cuts, scalds, bruises and skin eruptions prove ii's tin' best and cheapest. Twenty-live cents at George P. Powers' drug store. Mother Always Keeps It Handy. "My mother sulteted from distressing pains and general lit health due lo indi gestion," says L. W. Spalding, Verona. Mo. "Two years ago I got her to try Kodol. She grew better at once an 1 now eats anything she wants, remark ing that she' tea is no bad cllects as slu* lias her bottle of Kodol handy." It j: nature's own tonic. The F.Iks' jubilee carnival attracted 110,000 people to Davenport. Iowa, on Weiinesilay, the attraction being the floral parade, in winch Thekla Haak was the Davenport queen, Miss Bessie: (iilmorc, the Itock Island (111.) queen, mil Mrs. A. K. First, the jMoline OH.) illleell. TOmtrictrt $ ROSARY OF A RAMBLER if THE BRASS BAND Pen Picture of a National Institution in the Country Town. LHarvey Sutherland in Ainslee's Maga zine.] Oh, listen to the band! Oil,- ain't is something grand? —Popular Song. How It may be in Europe I can not pretend to say, but in this country a town without a brass band of its own must be a poor thing, shamefully lark ing in local pride and public spirit, a town with no "gil-up" to it at all. I do not know that there are such. hope not. 1 like to think that everywhere in my country they speak in an affectionate way of the' musicians as "the band boys," and brag aboiu bow milch bet ter they can plav than the Mt.. Victory band. 1 like to think that all the merchants and storekeepers in town helped out when the band was organ i/.ed and the fellejws came around so liciting subscriptions for the first pay ment on the Instruments, and that when the other installments fall due everybody buys tickets to the home taleiil minstrel' shows got up to raise the money, not only because there will ^nTg 7, 1902 .1 -vv-!"!"!*v*vvvvvvv*-H":"r-:*v*!" "K We are always hearing about "And it shall be visiteel upon the children, e'ven unto fhe thirel and fourth geiie-r atiems." And it is always supposed to mean something very disagreeable. Which might well bring forth the state ment that most Scripture whn is quoted is done so with the' air that it is something which we human beings do not care for, breaking on our picas tire's and our gooel natures from some censorious 1 i• -art and unsmiling lips, as the cross nurse elid in youthful days, who was wont, to remind lis of the probable chastisement when we went home and the unsavory nostrums which we would be compelled to swallow to atone for present gastronomic delights. Yes, lliosl. people who quote the I! I bit', seem determined to hunt out the hard and the cruel passag'-s or even to con vert the passively good into tin? ac tively bad. That is why the quotation about the third and fourth generations is not generally reckoned as a pleasing veTse. But the other da v. a little story came to the attention of the Rambler, which those words seem to fit and it was such a sweet, such a pure little story that it really should be told. It is a simple story, It is a simple story but rcaly don't you think it has a power of gooel in it, il it a can take away from those words the stigma of harshness and injustice? The' story begins years ago in New York. A young ami beau tiful woman, thru no fault of her own but rather thru the be-auty of her na ture and its loyalty, was an exile lroin her country anil her home. Slu.' was a widow with a tbiy daughter, and eleli cately reared and educated for the life ef luxury to which she had been born and to which it was supposed her life would be given, she had many hard ships to care- for herself and the baby daughter. Thru some means, she nfet with a great-hearteel woman, who was kindness itself to her. Perhaps it was her own baby daughter that drew her love to the other young mother per haps it was the pitiful sight of the exile scarcely more than a girl, trying so cheerily to be brave: perhapsMt was the simple goodness of her heart which recognized In all the needy of the earth, her knulred—whatever it was, her home ivas open to the woman whom she had taken for lief friend. True aristocracy was that of the foreigner's, the aristoc racy of brains and spirit, which do not always go with that of wealth and blood. She worked and the recognition of her work came at last. Was she happy? Well, if she was not. he made the lips which might have complained, say bright words and smile rare sun diine, and she reared that baby daugh ter in the one way which she thought a girdl should be reared. She has been dead these many years, and so has the woman who was her friend, but to the last their friendship was one of beauti :ul simplicity. Many years of their life wen spent apart, for the one moved to ihe west, while the other lived and died in her native city. The sequel to the story has just come about. Into an Iowa town there moved a few years ago, young married couple. They had no friends, but the bride was anxious to tind one lamily in the town, a family of whom she had heard her mother talk all her lite. On iheir meeting there was reminiscences and family legends, for the bride was the granddaughter of the kindhearted woman of the east, and the woman whom she so longed to see, was once the baby who had played with her mother. The friendship of the two families was extendeel into the third genertions, for a young daughter lived ui the western home, and bewteen her and the young stranger to the town, I here existed from the first a hearty af fection. The poor little eastern girl who had come west, had need of friend ship and help, and she found it right royally, when not long ago her husband, debauched by self-indulgence and dissi pation, deserted her and her child. It was a crushing blow to her, for she was left absolutely alone in the world and without home, without monejJ The young girl was to have spent the sum in Europe. She had dreamed of the trip, all her life, and she had worked three years without a vacation and saved every penny she could, to make the trip possible. Kveryone knew she ha el intended to take the trip, and of course everyone in the town knew of her friendship for the poor deserted wife and mother. Still they wondered, when she said that after all, she did not believe she would go abroad tills sum mer. Even her father and sisters wem •ierod at the sudden abandonment of her-plans. Only her mother, and the heartbroken wife anil the rambler have known why It was that a sweet faced girl will spend her fortnight's vacation visiting an old colleige chum in another Iowa town. She doesn't think there is anything wonderful in it, at all. She could scarcely keep from crying when her friend sobbed out her gratitude and she felt her mother was making almost too liuie'h ado about it, when she called her, "mother's brave girl,' 'and If she sees thai the rambler has told the story to so large an audii'uee, she will prob ably be very angry. "Why It is only paying back in part my grandmother's ami my mother's debt," she says. That is the' best part of it all—that she her self. thinks It only what she could not help but do. It is a long way for kind ness to travel, but perhaps God is more rejoiced when good news to "the thinl generation." than when bitterness and punishment do. be more fun than a little, but also bceaui.'i they ish them good luck. And how proud we all are of them when "the boys" turn out for the first time in their new uniforms! Talk aboi Solomon in all his glory. 1 have seen bandsmen ihat would make him look as if' he had overalls on. And the drum major! If I could be- a drum major for a living, and look the part and dress up like him and walk in front of the band, tossing up my silver knobbed baton and catching it again the way he does, I wouldn't bmliei my head about being president of the l.'mted States. Not for a minute. can just see the handstand on Main street, or perhaps in the court house yard, where on Saturday nights the band gives concerts by torchlight and plays "n Duty March" and "llolter Skelter Galop." and maybe "No. -3 in the Black Book." while the fanners listen, well paid for the long drive in from the country ten or fifteen miles. Fair time, political rallies, firemen's tournaments, ball games, Decoration days, Fourth of July, I can see the boys swagger along in the middle of the street and hear the drums roll. "Prrrrrr-roinpom!" before the tune strikes up. When they brought home Col. Clayburn's body and led his rider less horse behind the hearse it was the band playing "Webster's Funeral March" with a handkerchief slu (feel between the snares of the tenor drum to inufile lis sharp note that made all seem so solemn, and who can forget how lonesome sounded tho melody of "tans" (,n one single cornet just before the grave was filled in? Inseparable from all our civic func tions, the band has in the country town nearer ami more neighborly as sociations. For example, when 'Squire Morgan and his wife i-ele-brated their silver wedding anniversary. Every body thought the world ami all of the idel 'Squire and Aunt Margaret, and so, for a .surprise, when it got dark, the boys slipped quietly into the front yard and began to piay "When You and I were Young, Maggie." It is a sweet old tune, and we all stopped our chat ter to listen. As it lloated in on tho warm June air scented with honey suckles something clutched at our throats and made them ache. But now we are aged and gray, Mag gie, The trials of life nearly done: Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie, When you and I were young. The two old people stood listening. Their lips trembled, and the tears stole into their eyes. Their hands sought and clasped each the other's. When the notes ceased and the old 'squire went out on the front porch td thank the boys his voice broke and he could only bee'kon to tliem. And then they came tramping in, Charley Rodehaver, Frank and Will Pettigrew and Len Dysart and Henry Myrice and Clif Howard (old Jim Howard's boy he's out in Kansas now), and the whole posse of them, all laughing ami wishing many happy returns of the day. And how those fellows elid make the Ice cream and cake vanish! You would have thought they were hollow to their heels. Regular cut-ups, all of them, and Minnie de Wees put Clif's helmet on and tried to blow on the tuba. Such a time I like to think that in every town in the lanel somebody is practicing on his "tooby" out in the barn with a lantern—a tuba makes Mich a noise in the house—and going "Poomp—poonip —poompoompoompoom," and that out on the Milville road the tenor horn is ov* CH One [slapping his foot on the floor for the 'accented beats and tooting on the off beats: "Hoof-la. hoof-ta, hoof-tatt.v jtala:" that the alto horn has his book on the kitchen table, propped against the coffee pot, and is blowing, "taa-taa- Ah-ta-ta," and that the soprano cor net is working at his part, with his eiit'Sl raised and a. surprised and swelled up look on his face. Each of then from time to time wipes the mouthpiece and then his puffed hps land says to himself: "Dad blame iL! I li.v can't 1 get thai thing right?" I like to think of their regular prac tice night (Tuesday, I think it is) in the upstairs of hook and ladder No. 1. Eaeh fellow carries his instrument to I the hall done up in a bag, and before ^practice begins the-y all bleat away, ,each playing over his part, regardless of what the others are doing. By and thy comes the sharp rattle of the lead ler's baton, and in the silence the chairs scrape and squeal as they are hitched info a semi-circle on the bare floor. "Now, we got a new piece," says the leader "but, now, I guess we bct ter start in on No. 10. Now, boys, 'quit your fooling. Attention, now. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, tatta-ta-ral-tat-taa! and away they go. How to Succeed as a Physician. [From Dr. T. Galliard Thotn.'is's Ad dress at Cornell University.] In medicine, a quiet, well-balanced, amiable and kindly nature is of the utmost value to the aspirant for favo? and success—nay, even more tliaij this—it is almost an essential. When I cast a retrospective glance upon my career, and reeall the many talented, brilliant, charming fellows whom I have seen fail in the race, fall out of line and give place to men inferior to themselves in everything but temper, I feel as if I could not speak too strongly upon this subject Tiu trials of patience to which the physician is exposed: trials inflicted by persons oppressed and disordered by anxiety and sorrow upon men worn cut by prolonged watching and the loss of sleep: men who perhaps have just been roused up, upon a stormy night, at the time of greatest nerve de pression between 3 and 5 in the morn ing, are hard to bear. Even the ami able man finds them so the selfish, nervous, iritalde and quick-tempered #ne is often incompetent to bear them. But in our calling they must be borne, and the physician who can not endure them must make up his mind, in spite of talent, ability and perhaps even genius, to give place to one, his inferior in all these qualities, but his superior in temper. It matters not what be his sphere of action, the physician of the twenti eth century, if he aims at a dignified ami proper success, must make himself a many-sided man, and the power of doing' this is not confined to men of large cities by any means. Some wise man lias said: "Reading maketh a full man." Bear this maxim in mind and put It into practice. The serial medical literature of tho world, and more par ticularly that of the United States, is immense in amount, most valuable in character, and abundantly able to keep a faithful reader in full relation with his profession. Be extravagant in your subscriptions to medical period icals and read them faithfully. 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