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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-6-10, Page 7THE GOUT 4F A KING. WHY THE. PHYSICIANS , COULD NOT CURE IT. Rev. Dr. Talmage Shows the Mistake of Shutting Out God .From the Realm of • Pharmacy and Therapeutics—A Benedic- tion for Doctors. New York, June 6.—It is not often that men of one profession leave much encouragement for men of another pro- fession, but this sermon, prepared by Dr. Talmage, contains enthusiastic words of a clergyman to physicians. The text is II. Chronioles zvi, 12, 13, "And Asa, in the thirty and ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet until his disease was exceeding great; yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to .the phy- sicians. And Asa slept with his fathers." At this season of the year, when medi- cal colleges of all schools of medicine are giving uiplomas to young doctors, and at the capital and in many of the cities medical associations are assembling to consult about the advancement of the in- terests of their profession, I feel this dis- course is appropriate. In my text is Sing Asa with the gout. High living and no exercise have vitiated his blood,and nay test presents him with his inflamed and bandaged feet on an ottoman. In defiance of God, whom he hated, he sends for certain conjurors or quacks. They come and give hien all sorts of lotions and panaceas, They bleed him. They sweat him. They rnanipluate him. They blister him. They poultice him, They scarify him. They drug him. They cut him. They kill him. He was only a young man, and had a disease whioh, though very painful, seldom probes fatal to a young man, and he ought to have got well, but he fell a vic- tim to charlatanry and empiricism. "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, un- til bis disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians, And Asa slept with his fathers." That is, the doctors killed him. In this sharp and graphic way the i Bible sots forth the truth that you have no right to shut God out from the realm of pharmaoy and therapeutics. If Asa bad said: "0 Lord, I am sick. Bless the instrumentality employed for my recov- ery!" "Now, servant, go and get the best doctor you can find"—ho would have recovered. In other wordsthe world wants divinely directed physicians. There are a great many such. The diplomas they received from the academies of medicine wore nothing compared with the diploma they received from the Head Physician of the universe on the day when they started out and he had said. to them: "(o heal the siok, and cast out the devil, of pain, and open the blind eyes, and unstop the deaf ears.." God bless the doctors all the world over, and • let all the hcspit tls and di:.penearies and infirmaries and asylums and domestic eireles of the e.irth respond, "Amen." ll:ilm in Gi1cad. y hien of the medical profession we often meet in the home of distress. We shake hands across the cradle* of agonized in - fence. \'i ec>join each other in an attentl:t at Foley where the paroxysm of grief di !:tan:.e an anodyne a:; well as a prayer. , na„ lout Into each other's syxnpathetio ' fee• s through the dusk as the night of death ie falling in the sickroom. We do not have to climb over any barrier to -day in c rlt•r to great eaeh other, for our pro- fe�:viun are in full sympathy. You, doe- ; tor, are our first and last earthly friend. : You stand at the gates of life when wo enter this world and you stand at tho gates of death when we go out of it. In the closing moments of our earthly exist- ence, when the hand of the wife, or . mother, or sister, or daughter shall hold our right hand, it'1\ ill give strength to our dying moments if we can feel the tips o ;tour fingers along the pulse of the left wrist. We do not enact to -day, as on other days, in houses of distress, ' but by the pleasant altars of God, and I nropoee a sermon of helpfulness and good , cheer. L in the nursery children some- ' tines re-enact all the scenes of the sick- ' room, so to -day you play that you are 1 the patient and that 1 sen the physioian, - and take nay prescription just once. It • shall he a tonic, a sedative, a dietetic, a , disinfectnut, a stimulus and an anodyne ! at the same time. "Is there not balm in Gilead? Is there not, a physician there?" In the first place, I think all the inedi- : cal profession should become Christians ' because of the debt of gratitude they owe to God for the honor he has put upon • their calling. 10 other calling in all the world, except it be that of the Christian iininistry, has' received so great an honor ' as yours. Christ bimsolf was not only preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurist, ophthahnologist, and under his mighty .( power optic and auditory nerve thrilled with light and sound,and catalepsy arose i from its lit, and the club foot was e:tightened, and anchylosis went out of 1'the stiffened tendons, and the foaming 1 manners became placid as a child, and the • streets of Jerusalem became an extem- I porized.hospital crowded with convales- 'i cent victims of casualty and invalidism.. . All ages have woven the garland for the • doctor's brow. Homer said :— • A wise physician, skilled,. our wounds i. to heal, Ismore than armies to the public weal. Cicero said: "There is nothing in • which men so approach the gods as when they try to give health to other men." Charles IX made proclamation that . all the Protestants in France should be put to death on St. Bartholomew's day, -but made one exception, and that the case of Pare, the father of French surgery. The battlefields of the American Reyolution welcomed Drs. Mercer and Warren and Rash. When the French army_ was en- tirely'demoralized at fear of the plague, the leading surgeon Of that army inocu- '-sated Himself with the plague to show 'the. soldiers there was no contagion in it, and 'their courage rose, and. they went on to conflict. God has honored this pro- fession all the way,thrnmgh: Oh, the ad- vancement from the day when Hippo- crates .tried to cure the great Pericles with helleboreand flaxseed poultices down to far later centuries when Haller announced the: theory of . respiration, and Harvey the circulation of the: blood, and Asceli the uses of the, lympathic vessels, and 'Jenner balked the worst disease that ever scourged Europe, ' and Sydenham developed the recuperative forces of the physical :organism, and cinchona bark steered' the shiveringagues of the world, ani Sir Ashley Cooper, aucl Abernethy. and Hosack, and Romeyn, and •Griscom, et aria V alentme Mott of the generation just past honored God and fought bank death with their keen scalpels. Heroes of Medicine. If we who are laymen .in medicine would understand what the medical pro- fession has accomplished for the insane, let us look into the dungeons where the poor creatures used to be incarcerated:, Madmen chained naked to the wall. A kennel of rotten straw their only sleep- ing place. Room unventilated and un- lighted. The worst calamity of the race punished with the very worst punish- ment. And then come and look at the insane asylums of Utica and Kirkbride sofaed and pictured, librarled, concerted, until all the arts and adornments Dome to coax recreant reason to assume her throne. Look at Edward Jenner, the great hero of medicine. Four hundred thousand people annually dying in Eu- rope from the smallpox, Jenner finds that by the innooulation of people with vac- cine from a cow the great scourge of nations may be arrested. The ministers of the gospel denounced vaccination; small wits caricatured Edward Jenner as riding in agreat procession on the back of a cow, and grave mon expressed it as their opinion that all the diseases of the brute creation would be transplanted into the hurnan family, and they gave instances where, they said, actually horns bad. come out on the foreheads of innocent persons and people had begun to chew the cud I But Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on fighting for vaccination until it has been estimated that that one doctor in 50 years has saved more lives than all the battles of any one oentury destroyed! Passing along the streets of Edinburgh a few weeks after the death of Sir James Y. Simpson, I saw the photograph of the doctor in all the windows of the shops and stores, and well might that photo- graph be put in every window, _ for he first used chloroform as an antesthetio agent. In other days they tried to dull human pain by the hasheesh of the Arabs and the madrepore of the Roman and the Greek. But it was left to Dr. James Simpson to introduce chloroform as an anaesthetic. Alas for the writhing sub- jects of surgery in other centuries! Blessed be God for that wet sponge or vial in the hand of the operating sur- geon in the olinioal ,department of the medical college, or in the sickroom of the domestic circle, or on the battlefield amid thousands of amputations. Napoleon after a battle rode along the line and saw under a tree, standing in the snow, Larrey the surgeon, operating upon the wounded. Napoleon passed on and 24 hours afterward came along the same place, and he saw the same surgeon operating in the same place, and he bad not left it. Alas for the battlefields with- out ohloform. But now the soldier boy takes a few breaths from the sponge and forgets all the pang of the gunshot frac- ture, rao-tune, and while the surgeons of the field hospital aro standing around him he lies there dreaming of home and mother and heaven. No snore parents standing around a suffering child, struggling to get away from the • sharp instrument, but mild slumber instead of excruciation, and the child wakes up and says: "Father, what's the matter? What's the doctor here to -day for?" Oh, blessed be God for James Y. Simpson and the heaven de- scended mercies of chloroform. Public Hy;ieno. The medical profession seeps into the courtroom and after conflicting witnesses have left everything in a fog, by ohemi- cal analyses shows the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, as by nathematcal de. monstration, thus adding honors to medi- cal jurisprudence. This profession has done wonders for public hygiene 1 How often they have stood between this nation and Asiatic cholera, and the yellow fever 1 The monuments in Greenwood and Mount Auburn and Laurel Hill tell something 'of the history of those mon who stood. fade to face 'with pestilence in southern cities, until, staggering in their own siokness, they stumbled across the corpses of those whom they had come to save. This profession has been the successful advocate of ventilation, sewerage, d'•ain- age and fumigation, until their senti- ments were well expressed by Lord Palmerston when he said to the English nation at the time a fast had been pro- claimed tokeep off a great pestilence: "Clean your streets or death will ravage, notwithstanding all the prayers of this nation. Clean your streets, and then call on God for help." See what this profession bas done for human longevity. There was such a fear- ful subtraction from human life that there was a prospect that within a few centuries this world would be left almost inhabitantless. .Adam started with a whole eternity of earthly existence before him, but he out off the most of it and only comparatively few years were left— only 700 years of life, anis then 500, and then 400, and then 200, and then 100, and then 50, and then the average of hurnan life came to 40, and then it dropped to 18. But medical science came in, and since the sixteenth century the average of human life continues to rise until the average of human life will be 50, andit will be 60, and it will be 70, and a man will have no right to die be- fore 00, and the prophecy of Isaiah will be literally fulfilled, "And the child shall die 100 years old." The millennium for the souls+of men will be the millennium for the bodies of men. Sin done, disease will be done—the clergyman and the physician getting through with their work at the same time. • The Dispensaries. But it seemsto me that the most beautiful benediction of the medical pro- fession has been dropped upon the poor. No excuse now. for any one's not having scientific attendance. Dispensaries and infirmaries everywhere under the control of the best doctors, some of them poorly 'paid, some of them not paid at all. A half starved woman comes out from the low tenement house into the dispensary and unwraps the rags from her babe, a bundle of ulcers and rheum and pustules and overthat little sufferer bends the accumulated wisdom of the ages from sculapius'down to last week's autopsy.` In one dispensary in one year 150,000 prescriptions were issued. Why do I show you what God has allowed this profession to do? Is it to stir up your vanity? Oh, no. Tho day has gone by for pompous doctors,: with conspicuous gold '.headed canes and powdered wigs, which were the accompaniment in the days when the barber used to carry through the streets of London Dr. :Brookelsby's wig, to the admiration and awe of the people, saying; "Masco way: Here conies Dr. Brookelsby's wig." No, I announce these things not only to increase the appreciation of lay- men in regard to the work of physicians, but to stir in the hearts of the men of the medical, profession a feeling of grate- tude to God that they have been allowed to put their hand to such a magnificent work and that they have been called into suoh illustrious company. Haveyou never felt a spirit of gratitude for this opportunity? Doyou not feel thankful now? Then I am afraid, doctor, you are not a Christian, and that the old proverb whioh Christ quoted in his sermon may be appropriate to you, "Physician, heal thyself. Another reason why I think the medi- cal profession ought to be Christians is because there are so many trials and an- noyances in that profession that need positive Christian solace. S know you have the gratitude of a great many good people, and I know it must be a grand thing to walk intelligently through the avenues of human life and with anatomic skill poise yourself on the nerves and fibers which cross and recross this won- derful physical system. I suppose a skilled eye ban see more beauty even in malformation than an architect can point out in any of his structures, though it be the very triumph of arch and plinth and abacus. But how many annoyances and trials the medical pro- fession have! Dr. Rush need to say, in his valedictory addresses to the students of tho medical college, "Young gentle- men, have two pockets—a small and a big pocket; a small pocket in whioh to put your fees, a large pocket in which to put your annoyances A Doctor's Sacrifices. In the first place, the physician has no Sabbath. Busy merchants and lawyers and mechanics cannot afford to be sink during the secular week, and so they nurse themselves along with lozenges. and horehound candy until Sabbath morning comes, and then they say, "I' must have a aootor." And that spoils the Sabbath morning ohueoh service for the physioian. Besides that, there area great many mea who dine but once a week with their families. During the secular days they take a hasty, lunch at the restaurant, and on the Sabbath they make up for their six days' abstinence by especial gormandizing, which before night makes their amazed digestive organs cxy out for a dootor. And that spoils the evening church service for the physician. Then they are annoyed by people com- ing too late. Men wait until the last fortress of physical strength is taken and death has dug around 10 the trench of the grave, and then they run for the door tor. The slight fever which might have been cured with afootbath has become virulent typhus, and the hacking cough, killing pneumonia. As though a captain should sink his ship off Amagansett, and. then put ashore in a yawl and then come to New York to a marine office and want to get his vessel insured. Too late for the ship, too late for the patient, Then there are many wbo always blame the doctor because the people die, forgetting the Divine enactment, "It is appointed unto all men once to die." The father in medicine who announced the fact that he had discovered the art by whioh to make men in this world immortal himself died at 47 years of age, showing that immortality was less than half a century for him. Oh, how easy it is, when people die,to cry out, "Malprac- tice." Then the physioian must bear with all the whims, and tho sophistries, and the deceptions, and the stratagems, and the irritations of the shattered nerves and the beclouded brains of women, and more especially of men, who never know how gracefully to bN eiek. and who with their salivated mouth Durso the doctor, giving him his dues, as they say—about the only dues he will in that case collect. The last bill that is paid is the doctbr's bill. It seems so incoherent for a re- stored patient, with ruddy cheeks and rotund form, to be bothered with a bill charging him for old calomel and jalap. The physicians of this country do more missionary work without charge than all the other professions put together. From the concert room, from the merry party, from the comfortable couch on a cold night, when the thermometer is 5 degrees below zero, the doctor must go right away; be always must go right away. To keep up under this nervous strain, to go through this night work, to bear all these annoyances, many physi- cians have resorted to strong drink and perished. Others have appealed to God for sympathy and help and have lived. Which were the wise doctors, judge yet. Piety and Medical Skill. Again, the medical profession ought to be Christian because there are pro- fessional exigencies when they need God. Asa's destruction by unblessed physi- cians was a warning. There are awful crises in every medical practice when a doctor ought to know how to pray. All the hosts of ills will sometimes hurl themselves on the weak points of the physical organism, or with equal ferocity will assault the entire line of suscepti- bility to suffering. The next dose of medicine will decide whether or not the happy home shall be broken up. Shall t be this medicine or that medicine? God help the doctor. Between the five drops and the ten drops may be the question of life or death. Shall it be the five or ten drops? Be careful how you put that knife through those delicate portions of the body, for if it swing out of the way the sixth part of an inch the patient perishes. Under such circumstances a physioian needs not so much consultation with men of his own calling as he needs con- sultation with that God who strung the nerves and built the cells and swung. the crimson tide through the arteries. You wonder why the heart throbs—why it seems to open and shut. There is no wonder about it. It is God's hand shut- ting, opening, shutting, opening, on every heart. When a man comes to destor the eye, he ought to be in communica- tion with him who said to the blind, "Receive thy sight." When a dootor comes to treat a paralytic arm, he ought to be in communication with him who said, "Stretoh forth thy hand, and be stretched it forth." When a lean comes to doctor a bad case of hemorrhage, he needs to be in communitation with i;'.m who cured the issue of blood, saying, "Thy faith hath saved thee." I do not mean to say that piety will make up for medical skill. A bungling doctor, confounded with what was not a very bad case, went into the next room. to pray. A skilled physician was called in. He asked for the first .practitioner. "Oh," they said, "he's in the next room praying.'' "Well," said the skilled doo- tor, "tell birn to come out here and help. He can pray, and work at the same time.'' It was all in that sentencer '.Do the best we can and ask God to help ns. There are no two men in all the world, it seems to me, that so much need the grace of God as the minister who doctors the sick soul and the physician who . prescribes for the diseased body. Christian Usefulness. Another reason why the medical pro- fession ought to bo Christians is because -there opens before them such a grand field for Christian usefulness.. You see so many people in pain, in trouble. in bereavement. You -ought to be the v he of heaven to their souls. Old Dr. Gash •ria De Witt, .a practitioner of New Yu;; , told me in his last days, "I •always pre- sent the rellgiou of Christ to my pa- tients, either directly or indirectly, and 1 find it is almost always acceptable." Drs. Abercrombie : and Brown of Scotland, Drs. Hey and Fothergill of England, anJ Dr,. Rush of our own oountry, were cele- brated for their faithfulness 'in that direc- tion. "Oil, ": say the medical profession, "that is your oeoupation; that belongs to the clergy, not to us." My brother there are severe illnesses in whioh you will •not. admit even the clergy, and that patient's salvation will depend upon your faith- fulness. With the medicine for the body in one band and the medicine for the soul in the other, oh, what a ohanoe1 There lies a dying Christian on the pillow. You need to hold over him the lantern of the gospel until its light streams across the pathway of the departing pilgrim, and. . you need to cry into the dull ear of death, "Hark to the song of heaven's welcome that comes stealing over the waters." There lies on the pillow a dying sinner, All the morphine that you brought with you cannot quiet him. Terror in the face. 'Terror in the heart. How he jerks himself up on one elbow and looks wildly into your face and says: "Doctor, I can't die. I ani not ready to die. What makes it so dark? Doctor, can you pray?" Blessed for you and blessed for him if then you oar kneel down and say: "0 God, I have done the best I could to cure this man's body and I have failed! Now I commit to thee his poor, suffering and affrighted soul. Open paradise to his departing spirit." But I must close, for there may be suffering men and women waiting in your office, or on the hot pillow,, wonder- ing why you don't come. But before you go, 0 doctors, hear my prayer for your eternal salvation. Blessed will be the reward in heaven fat the faithful' over- work, or from bending over a patient and catching his contagious breath, the doctor comes home and he lies down faint and siok. He is too weary to feel his own pulse or take the diagnosis. of his own complaint. He is worn out, The fact is his work on earth is ended. Tell those people in the office there they need not wait any longer; the doctor will never go there again. He has written his last prescription for the alleviation of human pain. The people will run up his front steps and inquire, "How is the doctor to -day?" All the sympathies of the neighborhood will be aroused, and there will be many prayers that he who has been so kind to the sink may be com- forted in his last pang. It is all over now. In two or three days, his conval- escent patients, with shawls wrapped around them, will cornu to the front win- dow and look out at the passing hearse, and the poor of the city, barefooted and bareheaded, will stand on the street corner, saying, "Oh, how good he was to us all l" But on the other side of the river of death some of his old patients, who are forever oured, will come out to welcome him, and the Physician of hea- ven, with looks as white as snow, accord- ing .to the apocalyptic vision, will eolue out and say: "Colne in, come in. I was sick and ye visited met" Roofs on American Buildings. We aro all affected in different ways by color and form, harmony and discord, the beautiful and the ugly. Experiments have preyed that certain colors have the power to induce a temporary insanity, from whioh relief is only obtained by the use of another color—as, an instance, green, the most reposeful of all the oolors in- nature. Discord in music excites irritability. Bad proportions in architec- ture depress the spirits, although no scientific experiments have been made to prove the fact, none, perhaps, being thought necessary, for a depression of spirits has assailed us all of late in look- ing at certain new buildings recently erected among us. Each of these has its distinct virtues and faults, but there is one fault none of them miss—the fault of a bad roof and hideous sky lines. From the park you get a glimpse of an imposing site—of a costly structure that might be a source of inspiration. But a great white pile is surmounted by a red roof, , and that, again, is topped by a white dome. One is distracted, depressed and disappointed beyond words. A gray stone armory on another fine site has a roof that is like a silly impertinence. 'A new mausoleum, placed as no other building among us has ever been placed, has sins in the way of sky lines that are not to be described. None of these roofs suggest anything in the way of utility, and as part of a decorative whole they are failures. Is it, as we wondered at that dinner the other night, that our climate and our social conditions have never made it necessary for us to use the tops of our houses ex- cept as storerooms and garrets, and that therefore the art ,of architecture, which is an adaptation of the ideal to the pew - tial, when confronted by a roof must fail? For wo do not, like the Moham- medan,use our roofs for our daily prayers or our nightly recreation, nor yet, again, is it necessary for us to retire to one for observation of our enertlies. 'Utility has therefore not helped us with a suggestion, nor yet has national custom or the exigencies of a torrid zone given us a hint. We are, in fact, in a difficult place, one in which only the genius of some young architect oar save us from monstrosity,and that genius is one whioh will make of roofs a special study.— Harper's Bazar. Snow the. "Small Graces" of Life. Young men should not get the idea that to know the "small graces of life" is useless or,frivulous. What we call the "sooial araoes" are very valuable to a young man. That is the great trouble with the young fellows who are earnest: they are too earnest, and upon all. occa- sions. They can have a high aim in life, a lofty ,purpose, and vet not close them- selves up to all social pleasures or amen- ities. Girls feel uncomfortable, and pardonably so, when they goto a con- cert or any other form of entertainment. with a young: man who constantly makes mistakes in little things. The small rules and laws whioh must be observed on all social occasions ; are not to be frowned down; they are important, and a young fellow makes a great mis- take when he considers them beneath lain or unworthy of his attention.— Edward W. Bok, : in Ladies' Home Journal. The Speed of Beasts. For a short distance, a lion or a tiger can outrun a man, and can equal the speed of a fast horse, but they lose their wind at the end of half a mile at the most. They have little endurance, and . i are remarkably weak in lung -power. Their strength is the kind which is cap= ahle of a terrific effort for a short time only. ' A a� c1'ER'S STORY. EXPOSURE BROUGHT ON AN AT. TACK OF RHEU11LATISli. Nervousness and Stomach Troubles esol- 1owed--Sleep at Times Was Impossible --Health Again Restored. From the. Amherst, N.S., Sentinel. The little village of Petitcodiac 3a situated in the south-easterly part of New Brunswick, on the line of the Inter - colonial Railway, Mr. Herbert. Yeomans, who resides there, follows the occupation of a hunter and trapper. His occupation requires hem to endure a great deal of exposure and hardi:tip, more especially when the snow lies thick and deep on the ground in our cola winters. A few years ago Mr. Yeomaus tells our comes pondent that he was seized with a sever+ bilious attack and a complication of diseases, such as sour stomaoh, sic headaohe and rheumatism. hir. Yeoman's version of the facts are: "I became vea ill and suffered the most excruciating pains in my arms, legs and shoulders, so much so that I could not rest in any position. .I frequently could not sleep nights, and when I did I awoke with a tired feeling and very much depressed. My appetite was very poor, and if I ate anything at all, no matter how light the food was, it gave me a dull, heavy feel- ing in my stomach, whioh would be followed by vomiting. I suffered so !mensel vitro pains in my arms and shoulders that I could scarcely raise my hands' to my bead. I tried different remedies, but all to no purpose. A neigh- bor came in one evening and asked 'have you tried Dr, Williams' Pink Pills?' I had not but then determined to try them, and procured a box, and before the pills were all gone, I began to improve. This encouraged me to pur- chase more and in a few weeks the pains in my shoulders and arms were all gone and I was able to got a good night's rest, My appetite came back and the dull, listless feeling left me. I oould eat a hearty meal and have no bad after effects and I felt strong and well enough as though I had taken a new lease of life. My old occupation became a pleasure to me and I think nothing of tramping eighteen or twenty miles a day. I know from experience and I fully appreciate the wonderful results of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as a safe and sure are and I would urge all those afflicted with rheumatism or any other ailment, to try Pink Pills as they create new vigor, build up the shattered nervous system and make a. new being of you. The genuine Pink Pills are sold only in boxes, bearing the full trade mark, "Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People." Protect yourself from imposition by refusing any pill that does not bear the registered trade mark around the box. Prinoo of Wales in America.. Stephen Fiske.in recalling "When the Prince of Wales was in America," writes in the Ladies' Home Journal that on September 17, 1860, he "entered the United States for the first time, riding to the American side for a farewell view of Niagara. Then, after the usual ceremonies at Hamilton, the Prince crossed to Detroit, on September 2,0, and became the guest of the people of this Republic. Tho Duke of Newcastle bad insisted that the Prince, as Baron Ren- frew, should be received by the people, not officially by the Government, and this arrangement was carried out during his tour It seemed as if all the people, headed by the Governor of Michigan, bad rushed to welcome him at Detroit. The crowds were so dense that the Royal party could not get to their hotel through the main streets. There wras a similar crowd at Chicago, which was reached two days later. St. Louis, where the Prince had a splendid reception on the Fair Grounds and opened the West, - ern Academy of Arts, and Cinoinnati where another tremendous crowd awaited him, and he danced all night at another ball, made the Prince glad to get to the comparative quiet of Wash- ington, where he was introduced by Lord Lyons to President Buchanan and Miss Harriet Lane, and was elegantly, but privately, entertained at the White House." Subsequently he visited Rich mond, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and some other Eastern cities, in nearly all of which he was sumtuously enter- tained, and was the guest of honor at receptions, balls, dinners, etc. On October 20 the Prince re -embarked from Portland, Maine, for England. Owing to a severe storm his ship, "Hero," had been driven out of her course, was several days overdue, and her officers. and crew were reduced to scant .salt fare. England was greatly alarmed for the safety of the young Prince, and rejoiced when the "Hero" finally landed him safe on his native shore. Tit for Tat. A. British sailor being a witness in a murder case, was called to the stand, and was asked by the counsel for the crown whether he was for the plaintiff or defendant. "Plaintiff or defendant?" said the. sailor, scratching his head. "Why, I don't knowwhat you mean by plaintiff or defendant. I come to speak for me friend," pointing to the prisoner. "You're a pretty fellow for a witness," said the counsel, "not to know'wbat plaintiff or defendant means." Later in the trial : the counsel asked the sailor what part of the ship he was in at the time of the mueder.. "Abaft the binnacle, me lord," said the sailor. "Abaft the binnacle?" replied the barrister. +e f What ' part ' of the ship , le that?"' "Ain't you a pretty faller for a coun. senor," said the sailor, grinning at the counsel, "not, to know what abaft the. binnacle is 1" The court' laughed. WHEN DEATHS OCCUR. The Time of Day When Bost t'eople Pala, From Earth. A very general opinion is entertained by medical practitioners and others ene gaged in .caring for the sick that the gteatest number of deaths occurring in 'individuals afflicted with disease takes puce duriug•the hours immediately suc- ceeding midnight and preceding dawn. The rule is said to be particularly true in those suffering in chronio exhausting die - eases, and deductions have been made from t:lose impressions which have ser- ved to regulate the administration of.. stimulants in suoh cases, it being said, "if six ounces of brandy be n4aded in twenty-four hours, four should' be ad- ministered from two to six a. nt,, for then is s itality in the bunion being at its lowest,' and "snore deaths coeur at these hours than at any other period." "I accepted this teaching at college," says a medical man, "because I had neither the means nor the time to verify or disprove it to my own satisfaction. Yet I always doubted the correctness of the conclusions drawn, and, to settle the doubts in my mind, since entering on xny duties at the hospital 1 haver:ullected statistics. which I find clo not agree with this generally accepted idea. The figures show twenty-seven fewer cases during the hours from six p. m. to six a. m, than for corresponding twelve hours of the day. Again, from two to six p. m, there were sixty-six more deaths than from two to six a. m. The total number of deaths in the list of acute diseases for the twelve hours frons, six p. m. to six a, en. is 160 less than for the correspond- ing period during the day. "'fhb hours from two to six a, m. in this list show fifty-three cases more than for the corresponding period in the after- noon, This in nearly 4,000 oases is very slight. In the chronic oases the greatest number of deaths at any one hour was at four p. m., with two and five p. m. and six a. m. closely following. The greatest in the aoute list was at three a. m., with eleven a. m. and p. m. closely following. "The lowest number in the acute list was at twelve, midnight, that hour so dreaded in the sick room by attendants, and to which a good deal of superstition. attaches. It is noticeable that the num- ber for this hour is oxceeodinglr low— about half of the average number. In the chronic cases the lowest number ap- pears at nine a. M. "From these 15,000 cases, extending over a period of twelve years; -it would appear that death occurs seemingly with- out any particular predilection for any certain hour, and that the number of deaths for each hour is very evenly pro- portioned, considering rhe large number of oases taken and the time covered." Not That Kind. Amiable Old Gentleman—Ah I . What a sweet little girl. And what a pretty dress she has! 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