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VOL. XXXV
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY VA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1913
NO. 8
f GUARANTEED TO SATISFY CUSTOMERS
^ ^ FROM THE ORIGINAL CABBAGE PLANT GROWERS. ^
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than Succession.
SUCCESSION.
The fcsrheat
Fit i Head Variety .
EARLY JERSKY WaKLFIELD. CB*SLESTCX LAROET'iW.
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V 0?b-?r> Utown. M EltliMt
TRAOcI MARK CO^YS'GHTED
Established 1 868. Paid in Capital Stock $30,000.00
We grew the first FROST PROOF PLANTS in 1S6S. Now have over twenty thousand satisfied
Cnstomers. We have grown and sold more cabbuje plants than ai! other persons in the Soui^orn
?tat as comblnod. WHY? Because our plants must please or we send your money buck. Order hot.*;
It is time to set these piants In your section to pet extra early cabbage, and they are the ones
thn: gell for tho most money.
We sow three tons of Cabbage -Seed per season Strawberry plants,
Frnit trt'os and ornamentals. Write for free catalog of (fust-proof plants of the best varieties,
containing valuable Information about fruit and vegetable proving. Prices on Oabbare Plants:?
In lot* of ftftOatdi.OC; 1000 to 5000 $1 SO per thousand: 5,300 to 9.000 $1.25 per thousand: 10.000 aad over
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Let us fill your drug wants.
Our Stock is complete.
Our prices are right.
We pay the parcels post charges.
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better workmansh i
and a more artistic de
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3IHD KGW ALMOST EXTINCT |
Wild Pigeon, Once Counted In Mil* j
lions, So Rare 33 to 3s Account
ed a Curiosity.
The great reduction of bird life in
America Is illustrated by a stoiy
from Montreal of the capture of a
bird now rare which formerly was
Been by the million. This unusual
ornithological specimen was sent,
carefully packed in a pasteboard box, J
by parcel post from Odell Town,
Quebec, to the Montreal Witness.
The bird was taken to J. B. Innes, j
secretary of the Society for the Pre- :
vention of Cruelty to Animals, and
also secretary of the Quebec Fish and
Game club. He definitely identified
the bird as a wild pigeon or dove, a
species now almost extinct. Ouicers
connected with the society entered
the office while Mr. Innes was inspect
ing the bird, and they each at once
recognized it as a wild dove.
The sender of the little feathered
creature was John Hough, of Odell
Town, Quebec. He explained his rea
son for mailing it was to have It
identified, as he had heard queries
had been made -regarding wild
pigeons.
The wild, or passenger, pigeon, so
named from its habit of passing from
one part of the country to another,
was once a resident of southern Can
ada and the northern United States.
One naturalist computed that there
were more than a billion of these
birds in a continuous stream which
he saw on one occasion. Incessant
slaughter and the clearing away of
the forests destroyed the pigeons, the
disappearance of which was hastened
by a series of very cold winters be- .
tween I860 and 1S70.
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SNAPSHOTS AT RIGHT ANGLES
German Scientist Apparently Look3
Away From Subject While
Taking a Picture.
Herr Dr. Weissenberger of Berlin,
who is visiting with the German doc
tors, is somewhat of an amateur de
tective along scientific lines. Part of
his equipment consists of a camera,
which is calculated to deceive even
the most wary subject. Dr. Welssen
berger has photographed every mem
ber of the German physicians' party
he wanted to, and none of them knew
a thing about It. He lifts what looks
like a small telescope to his eye and
looks away, from the very man he
wants to snapshot. His Interest seems
to be centered at right angles from the
subject, but if the man who Is unwit
tingly photographed chanced to be
swift enough he might catch the in
stant gleam of a powerful little lem
set in the side of the rounded barrel
of the fake telescope. As the oper
ator of the camera looks apparently
out to sea, for instance, the image of
thngs beside him are focused clear be
fore him.
His finger is on a hair spring and j
a pressure records what was on tlia
finder. Detectives in Berlin are being
equipped with the camera, which C03ta
about $100, so finely constructed are
they. The success met with in taking
suspects for comparison with existing
police photographs has proved the
valua of the crafty little Instrument.
So deceiving is the apparatus that
the reporter who snapjted Dr. Weis
senberger using tho camera did not
think until afterward when he waa
told by the doctor that he would ex
change pictures with him that he him
self had been snapshotted in re
turn.
He Wished for Her.
They were dining in a rostaurant,
and ha had ordered a whole roast
chicken.
"You see," he explained to her as ha
showed her the wishbone, "you take
hold here. Then we must both make
a wish and pull, and when it breaks
the one who has the biggest part of
it will have his or hor wish grati
fied."
"But I don't know what to wish for,"
she protested.
"Oh, you can think of something,"
he said.
"No, I can't," she replied. "I can't ;
think of anything I want very much." I
"Well, I'll wish for you," he ex- j
claimed.
"Will you really?" she asked.
"Yes."
"Y*Tell, then, there's no use fooling
with the old wishbone," she interrupt
ed with a glad smile, "you can have
me!"
Farm Wagon Funeral.
The Essex squire who has been car
ried to his burial in a farm wagon
drawn by a farm wagon team perpet
uates a custom whii:h Btill exists in
other families and in other countries
and is of very ancient origin.
It typifies the intimate connection
ihat used to exist between the land
lord of the soil and its tenants. The
wagon is not usually made funereal
nor Is the team put into mourning.
The wagoner walks with a bit of
crepe on his whip and a black armlet
to his smock; that is all. ? Pall MaU
Gazette.
Rewritten History.
How these Turkish place names re
veal history! The city of Seres, just
occupied by the Bulgars, is, next to
Saloniki, the most Important town In
southern Macedonia. It was the ear
liest European home of the culture of
silk worms and the manufacture of
silk. "Cloth of Sere3," indeed, was the
earliest Greek and Latin name for this
fabric, and the name still remains em
balmed in the modern world, sericul
ture. History is being written on the
fields of Macedonia, but much of it is
merely a rewriting.
Piedmont Business College}
; Lynchburg, is offering great incii.ee
! ment to the first young man or
lady enrolling from Highland Co.
FJIGHT HAWK'S REAL TROUBLE
!!
Teamster Who Has Horse Fall While1
Streets Are Deserted Surely De
serving of Sympathy.
"Any teamster who thinks be ha3 a
hard time getting a horse on his feet
that has fallen in the daytime has no
fight to complain," said the man who
boards. "The fellow who has a right
to do that is the driver whose horse
[alls in the dead of night. At 2 o'clock
on a recent rainy morning I was
pwakened by the fall of a horse in
front of our house. I got up and
Jooked out. A dozen other people in
the neighborhood did the same thing.
The cabman saw us.
" 'You folks don't do any good up
there!' he shouted. 'Come down and
help!' ? :
"He needed help. The horse could;
not get a foothold on the slippery
asphalt, and there was no one to helpi
bolster him up. Ours is a quiet block,;
where nocturnal revelers are rare,,
and there was no one abroad to lend'
p, hand. The hor?e pawed and slipped,'
the cabman tugged and pulled, but
they made no headway. Finally an- j
c!her man and myself dressed and
went to their assistance. It was all
the three of us could do to get the.
horse up. And that gave me some- i
thing new to think about. Of course,
horses do fall at night, but I never ,
thought about it before, nor what a
difficult matter it is to get them up."
?Boston Globe.
SHOWS GEOGRAPHY OF W0RLD:
Record of the Rocks Pointed to byi
Scientists to Prove Positions They
Have Taken.
At a recent meeting of the Birming
ham and Midland Institute Scientific
society, A. W. Knapp gave a lecture
on "The Earth's Record in the Rocks."
The lecturer took each geological aga
in turn, and gave some idea of the life
that existed at those times as shown
in fossllizsd remains. He also showed
how the geography of the world from
age to age could be defined from the
composition of the rocks. The lime
stone. he said, proved that the greater
part of England was at one time under
the sea, and by collecting evidence
of this kind one was able to draw a
man representing all the various
periods of the world's development.
The lecturer west on to show how
the land rose and luxuriant vegeta
tion grew, to be covered in turn by
other deposits, leading to the forma
tion of the coalfields. The earliest
remains of man were toward the end
of the Ice age. Would, he asked, the
people of today leave any remains?
There would be the churchyards and
the great cities like London, while
tha deposits in the Black country,
which looked so much like volcanic
dust, might mislead the scientists of
some future age.
Occupations of College Men.
Occupations of college graduates in
this country, as indicated by returns
from 37 collages and universities, cov
ering the period from 1642 to 1900,
have been studied by the federal bu
reau of education, and the data ob
tained has been analysed by William
B. Bailey of the economics faculty at
Yale for the next issue of the Inde
pendent. Teaching, it appears, now at
tracts one-fourth of the graduates, a
proportion much larger than that of
any other profession, though it was
engagod in by comparatively few down
to 1825. Formerly most of the gradu
ates became clergymen; at the close
of the seventeenth century the minis
try was chosen by about two-thir<fe of
all the graduates. One hundred years
later only about one-fifth adopted this
profession, and by 1900 the ministry
was receiving less than six per cent.
Law drew to its service more gradu
ates than any other profession at
about 1800, but since then it has lost
in relative importance, although the
actual number of graduates entering
this field has Increased. Business
claims an increasing proportion of
graduates; at present nearly one-fifth
enter commercial careers. ? Columbia
(S. C.) State.
Womanly Touch.
Adam was showing Eve through
the cave.
"This is the living room," he said.
"It is furnished as luxuriously as pos
sible in these prehistoric days; I
have spared no expense on it, and
yet it lacks something or other, some
final touch that I cannot name."
Eve took a swift look around. Then
she pulled the magazine table out a
little from the wall, gave the Morris
chair a twist, laid a book on the win
dow Bill, and kicked the tiger-skin
rug back a foot from the door.
"Wonderful?" cried Adam, and
gazed open-mouthed at the magical
transformation.
The cave was more than a cav*
now. It was a home.
Tbera's no place like home. ? New*
ark News.
Eook Disinfoction.
It hr.s been charged against books
that while they disseminate informa
tion and entertainment, they may at
the same time be carriers of disease,
and that public library books may
scatter scarlet fever. The Journal of
the American Medical Association
gives as a practical method for gen
eral book disinfection a mlxturo ? of
course, this should be compounded by
a capable chemist or pharmacist ? of
gas machine gasoline and two per
cent, of phenol crystals. The books
nre to be immersed in this mixture
for 20 minutes, removed and placed
before an electrician for two minutes
find then set on end to dry for from
24 to 48 hours.
Notice- I will be at McDowell I
Feb. 17, and will remain one week.
At Doe Hill 25th to remain a week.,
0. J. Campbell, Dentist
: CHIVALRY NOT IN QUESTION,!
Harold Hemminqwelfjht Had H!s Cwn J
Reason for Wishing to Resign
8eat In Street Car.
Out on the street not a soul was to
bo seen, not a heel was to be heard,
but tha car was crowded. )
Mabel Hinterslida, who had an idea
that women are as good aa men, if not
better, and just aa much entitled ten
rote and to hang onto trolley straps*
frowned as the handsome young man!
started to rise.
"Keep your seat," she Btid. '1 am;
capable of standing." And, reaching
forth a hand that could coax a classic
put of a pianoforte end hurl a suffrage
etone through a window with equal
facility, she pushed Harcld IIemmingj
weight back into his seat again.
But Ilarold Hemraingweight, appari
ently, waa a stickler for etiquette.
"I beg of you ? ** he ?aid and rose
apaln, and once more Mabel Hinter
plide pushed liim forcibly but not un
gracefully back into his Beat. "I have
a right to stand, and I insist on it!"
she cried.
Four times did Harold Hemming:
weight endeavor to rise, and four times
did Mabel Hinterslide push him back
again into his seat.
It was not until the young man was
on the verge of tears that he could'
make her understand he was five
blocks beyond his destination. ? Phil
adelphia Telegraph.
AUTO'S VALUE IN WARFARE
Recent Maneuvers Have Shown That;
It Is a Power That Must Be
Reckoned With.
In the Interesting presidential ad-,
dress before the Institution of Auto-,
mobile Engineers, at London, T. B,
Prowne stated that in the recent army
maneuvers held on a large scale tn j
this country the automobile proved ?
Itself of the greatest advantage. The
Invaders and defenders, each consist
ing ^of one cavalry division and two
infantry divisions, were furnished
with approximately 110 petrol vehicles
nod 36 steam vehicles, which, working
in conjunction with the railways, un
dertook the> whole of the supplies to
the armies. Where roads are avail
able the gain by the use of automo
hjlea over horses for this purpose is
enormous, as it can easily be seen
that where the latter cover 40 miles
in two days the same distance would
be covered in four hours by the for
mer. It takes four motor lorries to
carry one day's supplies for a brigade
of about 4,000 men, and each lorry
takes a three-ton load, which is equiv
alent to three horse wagons. More
over, the motor vehicles take up only
two-thirds of the road space required
for the horse vehicles.
Quito's Water Portera.
Around a fountain In one of the
principal squares of Quito assemble
every morning the city's aquadores.
These water porters differ from tho
less energetic ones of some South
American cities In carrying their jars
upon their back instead of on the
backs of mules. Their earthen jars
are deep, have a wide mouth, and
hold about forty liters.
The porter carries it on his shoul
der fastened with leather straps. He
n^er detaches himself from his jar
either to fill It or to transfer its con
tents to that of his customer.
He turns his back to the fountain
so that the Jar comes under one of
the jets of water, listens to the aounl
of the water In the jar, and his ear
Is so well trained that he always
walks away at the exact moment
when it Is filled to the brim.
Arriving at the house of a cus
tomer, he goes to the household jar,
makes a deep bow, and disappears
behind a torrent of water. Foreign
ers ean never receive without laugh*
lng the visit of their aguador, the
respectful little man who bows to
one behind a cataract of water. ? Ex
change.
Rubber Trees In Hawaii.
It has been known that the rubber
tree grows in Hawaii, but it has not
been cultivated commercially. A new
and valuable industry is likely to de
velop from the reported discovery that
6,000 acros of native rubber forest ly
ing: on the Kona Kohala side of Mavna
Kea's slopes yield rubber of good qual
ity. The forest, which lies at a height
of from 2,000 to 3,000 feet, and which
is somewhat inaccessible, being above
the lava flow of 1301, is on government
land, and the quest'.on has already
arisen whether the lessee for grazing
purposes has the right of tapping tho
trees. If the opinion of experts as to'
the quality of the rubber is confirmed
this will prove a valuable find, but a
somewhat extended test is needed, for
Mr. Rock, t territorial botanist of the
College of Hawaii, says that thi3 spe
cies is found nowhere else in the
world.
When He Ctoppsd.
In a suit lately tried the plaintiff 1
had testified that his financial posi
tion had always been a good one. The
opposing counsel took him in hand for
cross-examination, and undertook to ,
break down his testimony upon this
point. ?
"Have you ever been bankrupt?"
usked the counsel.
"I have not"
"Now, be careful," admonished the !
lawyer, with raised finger. "Did you i
ever stop payment?"
"Yes."
"Ah! I thought we should get at i
the truth," observed the counsel, with
an unpleasant smile. "When did thisJ
BUsppnHion of payment occur?"
"When I paid all I owed." ? Phila- I
,'olpMa P'ib'ic Ledger.
Let the Recorder Job office print
i your stationary. Will do the work
vas cheap as any other concern.
FARM ON SCIENTIFIC BASIS
^normou3 Strides Have Been Taken
by Agricultural Industry In
the Last Century.
Despite tho asertlons that farming
has not advanced and kept pace with
the Improvements In other lines of
pictlvlty, the fact remains that In no
Industry have there been such revolu
tionary changes as in agriculture.
From a hit-or-mlss, makeshift occu
pation in which at bost the farmer
paade a bare subsistence and hung on1
nntll he could secure something bet
ter or else remained stolidly and In-;
differently plodding along the road his
father traveled, farming has become
a highly organized and commercial
ized business, based on the applica
tion of scientific principles.
It Is to the great farm sections of!
the northwest that we must look for
the best example of commercialized
farming. Farming In the Dakotas,
Montana and Idaho Is being conduct
ed on a large commercial scale and it
Is not uncommon to see a farm of a
thousand acres being plowed and
planted In one season by modern,
scientific methods.
Great traction engines capable of
plowing 40 acres a day are employed
to make commercial farming easy and
lucrative. Machinery does the seed
ing and the planting and machinery
reaps the harvest. Modern scientific
methods have smoothed the way of
the pioneer without taking away from
him any of tho rewards that go with
the breaking and exploitation of a
new country.
The development of raw land into
orchards or grain fields or truck gar
dens Is simply a matter of mathemati
cal calculation and wise business in
vestment. This has not been accom
plished without a great deal of work
on the part of the men who have ?
for profit, it is true ? been laboring
for nearly a century to bring about
this highly scientific change in farm
methods.
TORTOISE SETS CHURCH AFIRE
Pet of Denver (Colo.) Pastor Upsets
Lamp and Threatening Slaze .
Follows.
The average fire in church edifices
is either the result of a defective
furnace that was "all right last spring"
or the work of an insane or revenge
ful incendiary. It is rare that a church
fire originates In any other manner.
But now from the west, which ever
seems to be like the ancient people of
Athens, seeking "either to hear or
tell some new thing," comes the start
ling and well authenticated report that
a harmless and unassuming tortoise
has set fire to St. Mark's church, Den
ver, Colo., and that a disastrous con
flagration was all but averted. Y/heth
er the recent missionary convention
and the influx of ecclesiastical digni
taries Into Denver excited his tortoise
ship and made him temporarily non
compos mentis, or whether the wor
shipers in the church disturbed his
slumbers by uniting too heartily In
the singing of the hymns and the read
ing of the responses or the Psalter,
we are not informed, but whatever the
cause, the tortoise upset a lamp and
the fire resulted.
Why Your Nose Is Small.
Your nose may not be 60 email as to
attract undue attention, but at least
It Is not so large and noble as it
would have been had you been living
In the days of Caesar, London An
swers asserts.
Tho insignificance of the present
day nose is due to the introduction
and general use of the handkerchief.
Handkerchiefs ? which are very mod
ern indeed, as things go ? were never
used by the Romans, and they wero
less liable to colds and the still more
troublesome complaint, influenza, than
we are now. As a result, they were
possessed of the largest and very best
shaped noses possible.
When civilization, which started in
Rome, spread to the northern coun
tries of Europe the Inhabitants c?
these changeable climates found they
had continually to rub their ncses,
and thus they fell below the Roman
standard.
This explanation, of course, sounds
somewhat fur fetched, but it i3 a well
known psychological fact that any
part of the body which is continually
ill used will eventually deteriorate.
Traffic in Rara Books.
Rare books to the value of nearly
$1,000,000 changed hand3 during the
last year. Those in great demand
seem to be works printed by old
craftsmen. A new feature of an Eng
lish periodical, however, call ad "The
Bargain Column," is visible evidence
of interest in a very different sort of
article. It records the li^ck of a visi
tor to a Suffolk inn, who found that
a glass on the washstand was a
Jacobite drinking glas3, with a por
trait of the pretender engraved on it.
Such a glass has brought as much as
$500. And who will say that the mo
tive of its collector was in any degree
lower than that of many a seeker of
rare editions? ? New York Evening
Post.
Powerful Salve.
A man in Nebraska has invented a
new powerful double-acting salve
which shows powers never before ex
hibited by splves of any kind.
The inventor accidentally cut off
the tail of a tame wolf, and, immedi
ately applying some of the salve to
the stump, a new tail grew out.
Then picking up the old tail, he ap
plied some of the pr.ha to the raw
end of that, and a wolf grew out; but
he was a wild wolf, and had to be
Fiiot. ? Cuicafto Tribune.
Your :r.5!s juivrrfising
h the reason your sales are l;gb' .
'Try an adv. Ratos reasonable.
WILL RELIEVE -JOMMOiJ ILLS
Simple Home Remedies That May Bo
Means of Preventing Serious
Attack of Sickness.
There is a happy medium between;
Buffering In silence and haunting a,
doctor's office. The drug habit is not
admirable, but equally foolish is it to
let ills become illnfcs3.
Here are a few simple home reme
dies, harmless, generally effective and
inexpensive.
A bad cold can often be broken if a
teaspoonful of powdered ginger in a
cup of hot milk is taken at the first
symptom.
Another quick cure is a half tea
spoonful each of bicarbonate of soda
and aromatic spirits of ammonia ta
ken in a half cupful of hot water as
soon as you feel the cold.
A bad headache can often bo cured
by drinking a half glass of cc'.J water
in which has been squeezed the Ji'ico
of half a lemon and a half teaspoon! :.l
of soda.
Bruises and cuts can have no better
treatment than to apply turpentine im
mediately. It will sting, but it will
cure. Cloths wrung from turpentine
and hot water can be frequently ap
plied. For a cold in the chest rubbing
with turpentine and lard is excellent.
For a burn there Is nothing better
than carrom oil, which is nothing more
than equal parts of linseed oil and
lime water.
To prevent infection in a cut perox-,
ide should be applied at once. Equal
ly good is pure alcohol. ? Boston GloLe.
NEW VERSION OF HAPPEN iK 3
Rumor That "Higher Critic" Hn v-rt
earthed a Revised Account of
Solomon's Famous Deed.
History is becoming more unreliab1^
all the time. The other day a "high
er critic," excavating in the Pelopon
nesus, unearthed the following revised
account of one of King Solomon's fa*
mous verdicts.
It seems that there was a child
which was claimed by two women,
and the case was brought before
Judge Solomon for decision. Accord
ing to the old version of the story
Judge Solomon, after careful consid
eration, proposed that the child be
cut in two and half given to each wom
an, whereupon the real mother pro*
tested.
It now appears that this is not
what he did at all. He was still
shrewder. Instead of cutting the child
in two on the spot, he ordered that it
ba capitalized. Thereupon a company
was formed and the stock equally di
vided between the two claimants. He
then pit the child to work in a sweat
shop. Both, women, satisfied, went
away and lived in ease and affluence
ever after on the proceeds. ? Life.
"St. Sophia" a Misnomer.
Some may have wondered who was
the St. Sophia who gave her name to
the great church at Constantinople. It
Is not named after a saint at all, its
correct designation, Agia Sophia,
meaning "House of Divine Wisdom."
According to tradition an angel in
spired this name. Shortly after the
foundation of tho church had been
laid by Justinian, a boy set to watch
the workmen's tools was visited by a
celestial figure with wings reaching
to heaven. "Go and tell the emperor,"
commanded the angel, "that this
church is to be named 'The House of
Divine Wisdom,' " and on hearing the
boy's story Justinian obeyed the an
gelic command.
Novel Reasons.
Some men write novels because
they have got into a meca with a
woman and want to see how it looks
on paper, or to explain their real mo
tives, or to find a way out. Other
novels are really intimate letters in
tended for one reader only. Others ?
and these are largely those written
by women ? create the kind of life
which the writer would have lived
had she ever had the chance; exer
cises in what may be called the Con
solation School of Fiction. But tho
greater number are written because
some one else wrote better, and tho
Imitative faculty is so strong in us.?
"London Lavender," by E. V. Lucas
Progress.
All our institutions, thoughts, senti
ments and methods are slowly chang
ing with the advancement of civiliza
tion. As time passes, the progressive
individuals and nations lay aside one
error and superstition after another.
Feudalism, chattel slavery, uivine right
cf kings, titles of nobility and militar
ism have already become antiquated
relics of the past. Our science is
daily growing more complete, religion
more liberal, inventions more perfect,
trade and industry more expansive
and unified, comforts and conveni
ences more general, education more
popular and governments mere demo*
cratic. ? Colorado Springs Gazette.
Lister Methods.
A recent number of the London Lan
cet gives an interesting account of the
life of Lister, the great surgeon, who
discovered the aseptic precautions to
be taken after surgical operations.
Lister, much like Harvey, who proved
the theory of the circulation of the
blood, was a careful and conscien
tious man who avoided print until ho
had thoroughly proved the value of
his discovery. The great objection in
j his mind was that he felt that until
every surgeon was convinced of the
necessity for asepsis and of the value
of the methods he advocated and waa
efficiently skilled in them, it would be
a serious matter to publish successful
results of operations which it would
L? practically criminal to perform un
1 less complete asepsis was secured.
Lister was evidently that rare product,
even rare in the medical profession, a
modest man.