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00000000000000000000000003000 o o pdooooooooooooooooi The mot TIIIKLKSS WO UK Ell in O HAKE ADYEBTISIHG PIT hlizaWth City U the , by using the columns of the ECONOMIST, It CW4 into the homs of the eple, telling the news with the voice of a trusted friend. : the medium that reaches more families thau any other paper in Eastern Carolina. 7,Takc Each man's cansura-but reserva 1hy judgmetit, HamlBt3; I ' VOL. XXV- ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE lit 1897. NO 52 : ' ' ..''I' i- " - ;: i . . . . . ' . ,. . . . 'i I doa I Ihr'c errr w i food a J M rs!c m A;rr'Cathartic IV. I. Thry t! !! 30a Tecoru- tn.ee t tl.cm fjr aul a fcirc. Uhta I he a coll arsi che Iron t.c t a Let!, a or to cf tfct c U atl t?-.e r;!ioinr rrf'.f 1 tv t rae ritt afc-at a. 1 or I.ta lih :. p www www a the seasitivo palate. Some coats are too heavy ; they won't dissolve, and the pill3 they cover pass through the system, harmless as a bread pellet. Other coats are "too light, t ami permit tho speedy deterioration of the pill. Alter SO years exposure, Ayer's Sugar Coated Pills havo been found as effective as if just fresh from the laboratory. It's a good pill,1 "with a good coat. Ask your druggist for A Thi Uitimvtut will -" lound 5 t ititrJ other. Krrc. Ad !re: J. PUBLISHED WEEKLY FMirislHiii; no., K. V. I.AMIJ. M.nncr. It. 15. ritlxCY Editor. Subscription One Year, S1.C0 KOFKS ?I3NAr GAUDS. ' li r n. CUEKCY. Ktialx-th " ty. N. c; ami; s sunn ki:. l; 'i.kV: -i Mty, N. t' r,itt r' "A J" 1 r::.Ni: yah: ji an. ; l..i V4h t,ty N. C. C-.' ti-.; f.iit!if .ill r un.lc UliL iniN. YANN& PKL'KN, Prntltic in IV'.'i' tank, 1 riiuin:.in- Tyritli oint hi, aavl l,irtt !hf lAtf m: Supreme . . - i W u. ;oi:ioN. 1 urntuck. 1. II . N. C. r. ',!i rji n a ;' iittv. f I'rkCtirc ia :! tr nn l Fd r;d C- ur!-. (J M FKUKUKK. .Iff -rnf'i 'ttLtti. F.liaN th City.N. C at Cam-!cii C II. n M inIa. CPcVtiU" 1IIDMAS li.'SKlNNIlI;' - .t: ri,l"j .it'l.ic, . 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I".! i'vJrsv 3 f- ) Ir:mehe ' 1 .,..1 I other, for our professions IVv.l l.K.ririn. . i,,, n: it.,1,1:- s:,.,,! w M. sympathy, xou, doctor. ViT rTC3 rr,?"an)V y hlintcin.Frineipal. and last earthly friend. Y wfn ,-r Statt? Colo re. 1 Normal. P. w. -Moore, tho cates or lilo wnen or,-.- hour- h p. l-Jand l .''''V',,: ' f jPrineipal. world and you stand at to,,.- :hot.!;! lylll' ;n,U-First National: Chas. H. death when we gq out of it ,v- ,'V11' ' i:ol,i,mn. President; J no u. 00a, inp .m0ments of lourear " 4 : .u'':-l ,rrVl , nH " m A: VM1 as,li1- when tho hand of the wife - - . T 1. h. i;. trrimn. Teller, ui rectors : su. r . t p-iMic siIiciti d. sA.m:.icuou(ns3-iTu. J. W.'BIIAIUIM:. - -Proprietor. IF r anquil H ouse MANTEO, N. C. j A. V. RYAN'S, - . PrppruteV. First c!a. n . evry pnr.k ul r. Table applied withjer' delicacy. Kish, Oysters andllaifiC inabacdaace ia season. lf-denial i.- the tn thing niost diiVieult to inculcate and always hard t practice, esivciallv h'H there are Cd thir.es to eat within rick. But there is no elf-denlal r.tx-essary if you , take simmpns Liver Kegulator. . It pro mtes digestion, prevent Dtip s; ar.d a diM after a hearty niea' of dt-licaries will prevent any discoin f rt. IF the best gooil I ight toddy. Two second l and Itimlnr Trucks for .de at half price. Apply to, K. F. LAMl Pill Clothes. The pood pill has a good coat, Tho pill coat serves two purposes; it protects the pill, and disguises it to ia lull in Ayefs "Cureboo," with a C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mas. DIRECTORY. i fleer . llayor, Charles C. Too! J Attorney I"ac N. Meekin. 7orntnKin:u-r Pahnnon John, Thos. ! A. 0miuar.dr. John A Kramer li; I Krnnk Spne and Wm. V. Jriggs. J. rk (has. A. Dank; Treasurer li.-.. W. Clh; Constable and Chief of PoliceWin C. I'.rooks; Street Com-nii-Moner 1CmiImti W. Berry; Fir ; ('oiiU!ii'in.-r Allen Kramer ! (oll-tor of ( ii-tonis Jas. C. ltrooks. j !N-ttimtT K. F Ijimb. , 1 i:urffiiriin Surgeons of Pensions !r-. J. K. V.hI, V. W. tJ rises and Y. .1. I.um.odeii. Meet on the 1st and :rd Vtdn.-day.H of -ach month at the rurpt-rof i:ai and Church Strt-ets. f'A'rcA Mftl'tHlist, i:cv. J. II. Hall, Iitir ; s'Tviit-H -viry Sundav at 11 a. 11. and T p. in. raitist, liev. Calvin i I.'a-:k.' i!, intor; -trvicts every 'iin laf at 11 a. m. and 7 p. 111. Pres- Ii tt-ri.in. K,v. I- II. John.-ton, iviMor; -."r iv Vf ry Sunday at II a. 111. and 7:! p-!iii. Kpi.M'opal, Kv. Ij. Ij. Wil liam. r-'lor; s-rvi'"5 eery Sunday at 1 1 a. 111. and 4 p- ni. I.t"T,1 .Masonic: Kureka Lodpe No. HIT. Ir. V. V. (iriu-s, W. M. ; W. Hruth.-rs, S. V.; M. II. Snowden J. V.; 1 . H. Itnulford, S-e'ty ami Ik F. Sience, Tr annr. Mftsi 1st and ord Tuesday nights; , Odd Fellows: Aehoroe IakIo o 14. f (. M. Hurst s. N. ;.; V. II. Hallard, t V. U.: H. o. Hill. Fin. Secretary; Matiii., Ws'oit zTreasurer. Mets evt-ry Friday at 7:S0p..m. . i:val Areanum: Tiher Creek Coun eil No.,IifJ: II. CI HillKegeiit; 1). A. Morgan. Yi -e R.wnt ; C, Uuirkin, Orator; . II.Z.H'lIer, Secretary; F.M I'uk lr.. Collectur; . J. V ooIle, ll V T V,..11. Trra-u. er. . Mts every 1st and 3rd Monday i.ic!it. Ktrht- of Honor: 11. H. Vhit Die tat.r;J. II Hugh; Yice Dictator; T. .1. .Ionian. Reporter; T. H. Wilson, Fi- naree Reporter;- J. C. Benbury, 1 reas- urt-r. Mn-ts 1st and 4th Friday in earh ni..nih. Pi-.jtiotnnk Trihe No. 8, 1. O. II. M. C. W. F-1 inja. Prophet ; J. P. Simpson, Sarhiip; W . II anford,Sr. Sagamore; Will And rs-n, Jr. Sagamore; James 'Spires, C. of K.; S. H.'Mtirrel K.of W. M.' t every Wednesday night. I ( -ti.j OJiar. Commissioners C 1 K. Kramer.'Chairman; P. 31. Godfrey, .1. V. Williams. SherilT. T. P. Wilcox, ! Superior Court Clerk, John P. Over man; Iiegister of Deeds, M. Ik Culiep ter ; Treasurer. John S. Morris County Healtli Otfscers, Dr. J. E. Wood; IIord of Fducation, J. T. Davis, J. D rFulmer, N. A Junes. F.vunilier, iaton Pool. ,N , Atlantic Collegiate Inti- tnii', . Ij. Mieep, l'resnlent 1 ....1. t 1 ir...l 1 II ru.n XT 11 i.iiiiiii, i . i), iirituiuiui l MM. UIU,1 j. f White, Jno. G. Wood,; J. Ik Blades, C. 1 1 .1J.y.",,,n: . t uiriii v o. ir.ictric j'jht Ok J. Ik lllads, Presi dent. ii. M. Scott, Yice President, D, P.. " Ilradford, ec'ty, Noah Burfoot. Treasurer. TtUf'" r Bradford, Presi- .!. nt; Ij, S. Bladrs, Yice-President ; j Frd. Davis, Secretary and Treasurer. J7.r Imi.r-'rn tt.t C. h. F. Aydlett, President: T. G. Skinner, Yice Presi- ih-nt Trf.i- : C. II Mirer. Dobinson, Secretary and K. C-tl-n .VmV President, Dr. O .Mc Mullan, Vice President. Heo. M. Scott, See. and Trea., D. Ik Bradford, Sup! II. F. Smith. Directors: Dr. O. MeMulJan. It. 31. Seott, K. F. Aydlett, J. W. Sharber, Jas. Ik Blades, C. II. Kohiii'ou, Thos. O. Skinner, C. K. Iv?a::ii-r, J, Ik Flora, II . F. Smith and 11. Ik Bradford. yiir.il rtJtr'rcj. W. J. Griflln, Lieu tenant s cominnniling; J. B. Ferebee. Lieutenant Junior tirade; L. A. Win der, Ensign. Regular Drill each Tues dav night. Anns: 40 Magazine Hi ties; 12 "Navy Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. Stvt'.tra Hrpr Coinpauy. 51. H. Snowden. Agent. lltdril iiei StavniotiU ilail train g'ing North, leaves 8 a. 111. anil 2:l- IK in., going Soutn, li:4U ana .1 : -V) p.; 111. . Steamers for Newberne leave at 6 p. 111. Steamer Newton, leaves Eliza U'th Citv for Cresswell on Mondays ami Tursdays at 9 : SO a. m. Re turning will leave Elizabeth City follow incriay.at 2. 33 p. m.: Steamer Har binger. willHeavo Eizabetb City for Hertford Wednesdavs and Saturdays at .. D a. m.: Elizaleth City for Nor Io!k Thursilays and Mondays P. m A. . Wiivwillyon buy bitter nauseating 1 tonics when Grove's TastelOiJ Chill Tonic is as pleasant as Iemon Syrup. I Your druggist is authorized to refund the money in every case where it fails to cure. Price 50 cents. "Never tell in the parlor what yon heard in the kitchen" unWs the Cook tells you -that Fox's Wafer Crackers are the best, then you can pass the word along anywhere and anytime because its truth that interests every J one who eats. . PRAISE OF DOCTORS. I 1 REV. DR. TALMAGE PAYS A HIGH TRIB UTE TO THE MEDSCAL PROFESSION. He Takes the Caae of King Aaa, Who Had the Goat, aod 1 Miowi Why the Doctors CoqIJ Not Core Cim rtety and Medical sum. ; " I j New Ygi:k, Jane C. It is not often that icon of ceo profession have much cnconragcisf Lt for men of. another pro fession, Lnt tbia sermon prepared by Dr. Talmapo contains enthusiastic words of a ch rpyman to physicians. The text is II Chronicles xri, 12, 13, "And lsa,in tho thirty and ninth year of his xeicn, was uiseaFeu in his feet until hi disease was exceeding' great, yet in his diseaso he nought not to tho Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers." At this season of tho. year, when medical colleges of all schools of medi cine aro giving diplomas to young doc tors, and at the capital and in many of the cities medical associations aro as sembling to consult about tho advance ment of the interests of their profes sion, I feel this discourse is appropriate. King- Ana's Goat. In mv text is Kintr Asa with tho gout. High living and no exercise have vitiated his blood, and my text presents him with his inflamed and bandaged feet on an Ottoman. In defiance of God, whom ho hatedL ho tends for certain conjurors or quacks. They come and give him ali- sorts of lotions and pana ceas." They bleed him. They sweat him They manipulate him. They blister him. They poultice him. They scarify him. They drug! him. They cut him Ihey kill hiin. Hp was only a young man and had' nrdisease which, though very painful, seldom proves fatal to a young man, and ho ought to havo got well, but ho fell a victim to charlatan- ry and empiricism. "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his ffeet until his disease was exceeding great, yet in his disease he sought .not to the Lord,' but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fa thers." That is, tho doctors killed him." In this sharp and graphic way the Biblo sets forth tho truth, that you havo no right to shut God out from tho realm of pharmacy and therapeutics. If Asa had said: "O Lord, I am sick. Bless tho instrumentality employed for my recovery." "Now, servant, go and get tho best doctor you can find" he would havo recovered. Sin other words, tho world wants divinely directed physi cians. Thero aro a great many such. Tho diplomas they received from .the academics of medicine wero nothing compared with the diploma they re ceived from tho Head Physician of the universo on tho day when they started out and ho said to them, "(Jo heal tho sick and cast out. tho devils of pain and open tho blind eyes and unstop the deaf ears." God bless tho doctors'all the world over, and let nil tho hospitals and dispensaries and infirmaries and asylums and domestic circles of tho earth re spond, "Amen.'! Men of tho medical profession wo of ten meet in tho homo of distress. We shako hands across tho cradle of ago nized infancy. ?We join each other in an attempt at solaoj where the paroxysm of grief demands an anodyne as well as a prayer. Wo look into each other's sympathetic faces through tho dusk as the night cf death is falling in tho sick room.. We do not havo to climb over any barrier today in order to greet each are in full aro our first ou stand at wo enter tnis tho gates of In the clos- thly existence, or mother or sister cr daughter shall hold our right hand, it will givo strength to our dying moment if wo can feel tho tips of your fingers along tho pulsoof tho left wrist. We do not meet today, as on other days, In houses of distress, but by the pleasant altars of God, and I propose a sermon of helpfulneis' and .good cheer. As in tho nursery children sometimes re-enact all tho scenes of tho sickroom, so today you play that you are tho patient and that. I am tho physician, and take my prescription just once. It shall bo a tonic, a sedative,! a dietetic, a disinfect ant, a stimulns' and an anodyne at tho samo time. "la there not balm in Gil cad? Is thero not a physician there?" An Honorable Calling. In tho first place, X think all the med ical profession should become Christians because of the! debt of gratitude they owo to God for tho honor ho has put upon their calling. No other calling in all tho world,) except it bo that of the Christian ministry, has received so great an honor as, yours. Christ himself was not only preacher, but physician, surgeon, aurist, ophthalmologist, and under his mighty power optio aDd au ditory ncrvo thrilled . with light and sound, and catalepsy arose from its fit, and the clubfoot was straightened, and anchylosis went out of the stiffened ten dons, and tho' foaming maniac became placid as a child, 'and the streets of Je rusalem becamo an extemporized hospij.i tal crowded wth convalescent victims of casualty and ! invalidism. All ages have woven the garland for the doctor's brow. Homer said: A wise physician! eldlled our wound to hek Li more than armies to the public weal ' Cicero saidj 44Thero 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 Franco should be put to death t on St. Bartholomew's day, but made one exception, and that the case of Pare, the father of French Burgtry. The battlefields of the Amer ican revolution welcomed, Drs. Mercer and Warren and Rush. When the French army was entirely demoralized by fear of the plague, the leading surgeon of that armyi inoculated himself with the nlamo to show the soldiers there was co contagion in it, and their courage I rose, and they went on to the conflict' God fa as honored this profession all the; way throughT- Oh, the advancement from the days when Hippocrates tried to cure the great Pericles with hellebcra and flaxseed poultices down to far later centuries when Haller announced the theory of respiration, and Harvey thet circulation of the blood, and Asceli the uses of the lymphatic vessels, and Jen ner balked the worst disease that ever scourged Europe, and Sydenham devel oped the recuperative forces of the phy sical organism, and cinchona bark stop ped the shivering agues of the wcrld, and Sir Astley Cooper and Abernethy, and Hosack and Romeyn, and Griscom and Valentine Alott, of the generation just past, honored God and fought back death with their keen scalpels. If we who are laymen in medicine would understand what the medical profession has accomplished for the in sane, let ns look into the . dungeons where the poor creatures used to be in carcerated madmen chained naked to the wall, a kennel of rotten straw their only sleeping place, room unventilated and unlighted, the worst calamity of the race punished with the very worst puhishment-rand then come and look at the insane asylums of Utica and Kirkbride -sofaed and pictured, libra- ried, concerted, until all the arts and adornments come to coax recreant rea son to assume her throne. Look at Ed ward Jenner, tho great hero of medi cine, x our hundred thousand people an nually dying In Europe from the small pox; Jenner finds that by tne inocula tion of people with vaccine from a cow the great scourge of nations may bo ar rested. The ministers of the gospel de nounced vaccination, small wits carica tured Edward Jenner as riding in a great procession on the back of .a cow and grave men expressed it as their opinion that all the diseases of the brute creation would be transplanted into the human family, and they gave instances where, they said, actually horns had come out on tho foreheads of innocent persons and people had begun to chew the cud. But Dr. Jenner, the hero of medicine, went on fighting for vaccina tion until it has been estimated that one doctor in 50 years has saved more lives than all the battles of any one century destroyed. ' Medical Progress. Passing along tho streets of Edin burgh a few weeks after the death of Sir James Y. Simpson, I saw the pho tograph of tho doctor in all the win dows of the shops and stores, and well might that photograph bo put- in every window, for he first used chloroform as an anaesthetic 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 chlo roform, as an anaesthetic. Alas for the writhing subjects of surgery in other centuries I Blessed be God for that wet sponge or vial in the hand of tho oper ating surgeon in the clinical department of the medical college or in the sick room of the domestic circle or on the battlefield amid thousands of amputa tions. Napoleon after a baltle rode along the line and saw under a treo standing in the snow Larrey, tho surgeon, oper ating upon the wounded. Napoleon passed on, and 24 hours afterward came along the. same place, and he saw tho same surgeon operating in tne same place, and he had not left it. Alas for the battlefields without chloroform. But now the soldier boy takes a few breaths from the sponge and forgets all the pang of tho gunshot fracture, and while the surgeons of the field hospital are standing around him he lies there dreaming of home and mother and heav en. No more 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: "Fa ther, what's the matter? What's the doctor here today for?" Oh, blessed be God for James Y. Simpson and the heaven descended mercies of chloroform. The medical profession steps into the courtroom, and . after conflicting wit nesses have left everything in a fog, by. chemical analyses shows the guilt or in nocence of the prisoner, as by mathe matical demonstration, .thus adding honors to medical jurisprudence. This profession has done wonders for public hygiene. How of ten they have stood between this nation and Asiatic choleraand the yellow fever. The mon- umentsin Greenwood and Mount An- burn and Laurel Hill tell something of the story of those men who stood face to face with pestilence In sontnern cit- ies, until staggering in tneir own sick ness they stumbled across tho corpses of those whom they had come to save. This profession has been the successful advocate of ventilation, sewerage, drainage and . fumigation, until -their sentiments were well expressed by Lord Palmerston, when he said to the Eng lish nation at tho time a fast had been proclaimed to keep off a great pesti lence: ."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 has done for human j longevity. There was such a fearful j subtraction from human life that there was a prospect that within a few centuries this world would be left almost inhabitantless. Adam start ed with a whole eternity of earthly ex istence before him, but he cut off the most of it and only comparatively few years were left only 700 years of life,. and then 500, and then 400, and then 200, and then 100, and then 50, and then the average of human 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 has risen from 18 years to 44, and it will continue to rise until the average of human life will be 50, and it will be 60, and it will be 70, and a man will have no right to die before 90, 'and the prophecy of Isaiah will be literally ful-. filled, "And the child shall die 100 a i rriL 1 1 1 i M 11 ears Ola. xne millennium ,ior me bouIs of men will be the millennium for the bodies cf men. Sin done, disease will be done, the clergyman and the physician getting through with their work at the same time. i ! Doctor For the Poor. But it seems to me that! the most beautiful benediction! of the medical profession has been dropped j upon the poor. No excuse how", for any one 'a not having scientific attendance. Dispensa ries and infirmaries everywhere, under the control of the bestj dctcr, some, of them poorly paid, someof them not paid at alL A half starved woman pomes out from the low tenement house j into the dispensary and unwraps the rags from her babe., a bundle of ulcers and rheum and pustules, and over that little sufferer bends the accumulated wisdom of the ages, from sculapius dowri to last week's autopsy, jln j one dispensary in one year 150,000 . prescriptions were is sued. Why do I show you what God has allowed this profession to do? Is it to stir up your vanity? Oh, not The day has gone by for pompous doctors, with conspicuous gold headed canes and pow dered wigs, which were the accompani ments in the days when the barber used to carry through the streets of London' Dr. Brockelsby's wig;;to the admiration and awe of the people, saying! "Alake way 1 Here j comes Dr. Brockelsby's wig." No; I announce these things not only to increase the appreciation of laymen in regard to the work of physi cians, but to stir in the hearts of the men of the medical profession a feeling of gratitude to God that they have been allowed to put their hand jto such a magnificent work and j that they have been calledj into! sucnj illustrious com pany. Have you neyer felt a spirit of gratitude for this' opportunity ' Do you not feel thankful now? Then, ' I am afraid, doctor, you are not. a Christian and that the old proverb which Christ quoted in his sermonfmay be appropri ate to you, "Physician heal thyself." Another reason, why 1 thinkj the med ical profession ought tq be Christians is because there aije soj jmany irials and annoyances in that. profession that need positive Christian solace. I know you have the, gratitud of a great many good people, and I know it must be a" grand thing to1 walk intjelligfently through the avenues of humdnj life, and with ana tomio skill poise yourjself on the nerves and fibers which cross and recross this wonderful physical; system. I Suppose a skilled eye cari see moro beauty even in malformation thjah an architect can point out in aiyj of his structures, though it be the jyeryj triumph of arch and plinth and abacust But how many annoyances and trialsjthe medical pro fession havel Dr RuSh used to say in. his valedictory aefdiress to the students of the medical college j "Young gentle men, have two pqpket s a small pocket and a big pockat,; a small pocket in which to put your fees, a large pocket in which to put yeur annoyances." In the first place, thj physician has no Sabbath. Busy njierchants and lawyers and mechanics c4nnofc afford to be sick during the ; seculfir w-eek, and so they nurse themselves! along with lozenges and horehound ' Jcandy until Sabbath morning comes, and then they say, 'I must have a doctor. ' And that spoils the Sabbath morning church service for the physician. Besides that, there are a great many men jwhof dine but once a week with their f amllies. During the secular days they jfcake: a hasty lunGh at the restaurant, anl on j the Sabbath" they make up for their six; days' abstinence by especial gormandizing, which, before night, makes their amazed digestive or gans cry out fori a doctor, j And that spoils the evening church service for the physician. p . Then, they are annoyed by people coming, too late., 'Men wait juntil the last fortress of physical strength is taken and death has luglarbtind it the trench of the gray e, afid theri they run for the doctor. The slight fever which might have been curecjl with a footbath has become , virulent jtyphns,1 and the hacking cough killing! pneumonia. As though a captain (should sink his ship off Amagansett, and tljen putj ashore in a yawl, and then come to New York to the marine office and Jwant to get hs vessel insured. " Too late for the ship, too late for tho patient J J " , Wise! Doctors. j. ' - . Then thero are j many, who .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 an- nounced the fact that he had discovered the art by which to mjike men in this world immortal, himself died at 47 years of age, showing tiiat immortality was xess tnan nan a century ior mm. Oh, how. easy it is w.nen people die to cry out, "Malpractice. Then the phy- sician must bear with J ali tile whims, and the sophistries and: the deceptions, and the stratagems; and the irritations of the shattered nerves and the becloud ed brains of women, andj more (especially of men, who never jkno howj graceful ly to be sick, and yhb with ! their sali vated mouths curs theli doctor, giving him his dues, as jhey ay--about the only dues he will In that caise collect The last bill that is paid is the doctor's bill,1 It seems soj incoherent for a re stored patient, with ruddy; cheeks and refund form, to be bothered with a bill charging him for old calomel and jalap. The physicians of this cjpuntry do more missionary worz wiinout cnargu vuau all the other professionals put together. From the concert room, .from jthe merry party, from the comfortablejcjouch on a cold night, when , the thermometer; is . . ' 1 1 x. i . ii five degrees below 'zero, he doctor must go right away he always jmust go right away." To keep upjender this ner vous strain, to go through this night work; to .bear all these annoyances, many physicians have resorted to strong drink and perished. Others have appeal ed to God cr sympathy; and j help and have lived. Which were thejwise doc tors, judge ye? s ; v ; j " r Again, the medical profession ought to be Christians because jthere! are pro fessional exigencies vhen they need God. I Asa's destruction by tmblessed Dhvsicians was a warning.. Thsre are awful crises in every medical practioe KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN! Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on a package it Nothing else is the same.. been put up by any one except D- Ehfl- ZEDLDTJ & CO. And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark THE For nale hy;r. W, when a doctor ought to know .how- to pray.. AU the hosts of , ills will some times ; hurl ' themselves on tho weak points of the physical organism, or with equal ferocity will assault the entire lino of susceptibility to suffering. The next dose of medicine will decide whether or not the happy homo shall bo broken up. Shall it bo this mediciuo or that medicine? God 'help the doctor! Between tho five "drops5 and the, ten drops may be the question of life or death. Shall it be the five or the ten drops? Be careful, how you put that knife through those delicate portions of the body, for if it. swing outfrf the way the sixth part of an inch the patient perishes. 'Under such circumstances a physician needs not so much consulta-' tion with men of bis own calling as he needs consultation .with that God who strung the nerves and built the cells and swung the crimson tido through the arteries. You wonder why the heart throbs, why it seems to operand phut There is no wonder about it. It is God's hand, shutting', opening, shutting, open ing, on every heart When a man conies to doctor the eye, he ought be in com munication with him who , said' to tho blind, "Receive thy sight." When a doctor comes to treat a paralytic arm, he ought, to bo in 'communication with him who said, ".Stretch forth thy hand, and he stretched it forth. " When a man comes to doctor a bad case" of hemor rhage, he needs to be in communication with him who cured tho issue of blood, saying, "Thy, faith hath saved thee. " Piety and Medical Skill. 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 doc tor, "tell him .to come- out . hero-and f help. He can pray and work, at tho same time." It was all - in . that sen tence. Do the best we can and ask God to help ua There are no two men in all the world, it seems to me, that soniuch need the grace of God as tho minister who doctors the sick soul and the phy sician who prescribes for the diseased body. Another reason why .the medical pro fession ought to be 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 voice pf heaven td their souls. Old Dr. Gash-. erie De Witt, a practitioner of New York, told me in his last days, "I al ways present the religion of Christ to my patients', either directly or indirect ly, -and I find it is almost always accept abla" Drs. Abejcrombio and Brown of Scotland, Drs. Hey ;and Fothergill of England, and Dr. Rush of our.own coun try were celebrated for their faithful ness in that direction. "Oh," says the medical profession,, "that ia your occu pation. That belongs to the clergy, not to us." My brother,' there are severo ill nesses in which you; will not admit even the clergy, and that patient's salvation will depend upon your faithfulness. With the medicine for the body-in one hand, the medicine for Otho soul in tho other, oh, what a chancel There lies a dying Christian on tho 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 I" Thero lies on the pillow a dy ing sinner. All.tho morphinoa 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 am not ready to die-What makes it so dark? Doctor, can you pray?" Blessed for you and; blessed for VA 'i' if then you can kneel down and y:' "O God, I have done the best I co ; id to cure this man's bjody, and I have 1 la d. Now I commit f to thee his poor, r-cQ. ring and affright- ed souL ; Open Pur-uise to his departing spirit" " . The Lat Sickness. . ' But I must close, for there may be ! suffering men and women waiting in j your office, or on the hot pillow won-1 dering why you don't come. But before you go, O doctors, hear my prayer for yonr eternal salvation. Blessed will be the reward in heaven for the faithful Christian physician. Some day, through overwork or from bending over a pa tient and catching his contagious breath, the doctor comes home, and he lies down faint ahd sick. He i3 too weary to feel his own pulse or take tho diag nosis 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 today?" All the sympathies of the neighborhood will be aroused and there will be many prayers that he who has been so kind to the sick may be comforted in his last-oans. It i& all.ovr now. In; two or is not . ' :' . B REGULATOR. It cannot be and never has RED 2. GRIGGS & BON. uireo aays nis convalescent patient, with shawl wrapped around them, will come to tho front window aud look out at the' pawing hearm, and tho lfppr of tl oity, liarefwtwl and baro heuded, will stand on the street corner, rmi. "Oh, how.gotxl ho was to us all f j But on the other side of tho rivrr of death some of his old . patient who ajnj for ever cured, will come out' to N'olcoiiio him, and the phyKitTan of havenL with locks as white. as snow, according to th AnoCalyptic vision, will com" out and say : "Come in, come in. I was sick and ye visittd me." ' I A Iteautlful Lr(fnd. There is a beautiful old Scandinavian .legend' which says that bur bodies ; and minds and nouls renew their beauty and freshness and power in tho magic spring time. The story is, told of ' some great mythical hero who lived when the evil spirit of strife ruled . the world. This hero conquered many kingdoms and made them his own, and one fierce and . bitter winter ho entered into a mighty contest with the only remaining coun-' try he had not yet overcome, s But the. bitter north wind wrentlrd with, him and finally laid him low in . ; its icy embrace, and tho hero slept long' and did not move nor come to life again until the sweet-and gentle spring, in beautiful humility, came stealing softly ' through the world and left her loveliest blossoms and her deepest sunlight at tho. fierce north wind's feet Her winsome , beauty and her tender caresses won the , north wind's icy heart, and with (tears f in his eyos he hurried away and gavoup ' his powerful reign to the gentle sway of spring, and when the great, hero awoke his, wrath against tho unconquered country melted away and his bravo heart grew tender with love. The gen- ' tie beauty of spring had changed him too, and the smilo on his face was like the radiant glory of a fair April monir ing, and the flush in the rosy east was not more rich and beautiful than the clear c61or that stolo into his pale, cold, cheeks.' Tho dew starred violets Were not more sparkling than his happy eyes, ua he flung his mighty arms above 1 him ' and cried out: "The worm in beautiful when bitter strife is gone. ; My enemies nbail be my friends, and those I. have despoiled shall bo comforted with a four fold reparation. " ' i - ' " ' ' : - - I How Ft Wild Geese Fly. ; ; I During tho three days ending March . 22 numerous flocks of", geeso were socn migrating northward, or, rather, north eastward, since they were following tho general trend of the coast line, which, in; New England, is nearly northeast ward north of Capo Cod. On the lilprn ing of March 22, while A. E. 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