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Do nothing behind a man's back that you would not do to his fhce. Peary evidently thinks the pole will keep, as he has postponed his expedi­ tion until next summer. The Chicago woman who lost $800 in cash and jewelry out o^ her stock­ ing ought to buy a money belt. The Washington dancing girl who bathed in beer was merely further demonstrating her love for hops. TERRIBLE COLLISION OCCURS NEAR CANAAN STATION, VT. THE INJURED NUMBER 27 Passenger Trains on the Boston A Maine Crash Together--Confu­ sion of Orders Blamed for the Disaster. The woman who died recently at the age of 107 and claimed that she owed her life to eating onions had a strong reason for her prolonged exist­ ence. An Italian duke who has no bad habits and no debts is engaged to an American girl, but we notice that the girl's father is a multimillionaire, all the same. Duke of the Abruzzi Is talking of making a balloon trip to the pole. Walter Wellman may be able to fur­ nish him with a diagram of the best aerial route. We have our doubts about kissing removing freckles, says the Nashville American, since noticing that quite a sprinkling of married ladies havei a complexion like a guinea egg. It is officially denied that the dow­ ager empress of China is ill, and the Bpineless emperor may as well put off indefinitely the day when he hopes to rule where he is supposed to reign. A feminine writer in a Washington paper says that there are some hus-- bands who cannot be managed any better than some mules. It might be added that some husbands have an­ other attribute in common with the homely mul^--they are great kickers. It may be true as the professor tells us that peanuts contain more nour­ ishment than beef steak, but no one would claim that a sack of goober# can impart that beatific expression to ihe countenance that seems glued on to stay when good digestion waits on a large, jucy beefsteak. Following the enactment of a law in Texas, requiring that sheets on hotel beds shall be at least nine feet long, comes the passage of a bill in Geor­ gia making clean sheets, clean pillow­ cases and clean towels compulsory in the hotels of that state. The next step will naturally be legal provision for clean tablecloths and dry napkins in all hotels and restaurants. A New York clergyman «aid at Chautauqua the other day that there had been altogether too much preach­ ing about the Jebusites, the Mal­ achites and the other ites, and not enough about the living gospel. But how could we remember the names of all those itish people if the preach­ er did not cqMtantly jog'our memor­ ies? These are somewhat embarrassing days for modest judges. One in Omaha was actually caused to blush by a handsome and grateful woman to whom he had given the custody of her children, and who proceeded to hug and kiss him in open court, with­ out leave first obtained. It is note­ worthy, however, that he had no pro­ ceedings instituted either for assault or for contempt of court. The war on cruelty to animals has reached an acute stage at Omaha, •where the Rev. John ^Williams has appealed to the City Council for an ordinance establishing a six-hour day for monkeys. Father William states that the organ grinders of Omaha force the unhappy monks to work from twelve to sixteen hours a day, and give them no chance to go to school. What a contrast with New­ port! White River Junction, Vt.--A fear­ ful head-on collision between the south-bound Quebec express and a north-bound freight train on the Con­ cord division of the Boston & Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canaan Stat-ion early Sunday, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders, and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken out 24 dead and dying and 27 other passengers, most of them seriously wounded. r Nearly all those who were in the "death car were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec,, 60 miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan Station, receiving, according to the superin­ tendent of the division, a copy of a telegraph order from the train dis­ patcher at Concord which confused the train numbers 30 and 34. The wreck occurred just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track, but owing to the early morning mist neither engineer saw the other's headlight until it was too late. Crowded Car Telescoped. The baggage car in the rear was hurled back into the passenger coach like a great ram and tore it asunder from end to end. The ill-fated pas­ senger coach was crowded with more than 50 people. Shortly before the ac­ cident a few of the men had gone back into the smoking car in the rear, leaving the women to get a little sleep in the straight seats. One of those who escaped said that as the train was rounding a curve some one in the front of the car began to sing, so that nearly every one was awake when the crash cam'i. Those who were in the other cars hurried to the demolished passenger coach, where groans, cries and shriek * were rending the air. Fortunately, with the engines off to one side, the wreckage did not take fire. The train hands, ably seconded by the passengers from the sleeping cars, groped their way among the ruins and began the work of rescue. Wounds were hastily bound up and cuts staunched by strips of bedding from the sleepers. The .little band worked diligently in the dawning light before the doctors came. The neighborhood is a sparsely set­ tled one, but the few farmers were aroused and lent every aid to the work of succor. In the meantime word had been disratched to this place and to Concord and Hanover and within an hour a large force of physicians was on their way to the wreck. LUSITANIA DEFEAT3 SISTER. The president of the New York aero club, just returned from a three months' stay In London and Paris, during which he devoted himself prin­ cipally to ballooning, says: "I can see no reason why pleasure parties of si^ or seven going up for a couple of hours will not be a common thing at our interior resorts in another year." Of course this exciting amusement will be too expensive for the middle classes. A Chicago University professor is on record as saying that Americans segregate and isolate themselves too much and are losing the sense of fel­ lowship. "We don't pour out our soul feelings to one another," he says, "and we fail to become confidential." Come, come! Where has this profes­ sor lived? Did he ever take a three hours' railway journey without some chance stranger telling hi& the story of his life? The statement by a lecturer that the country spends $6,000,000,000 a year on poverty and crime, and one by the government that rat's cost up $5,000,000 annually, shows some av­ enues of expense in which we might retrench. At least, none of the lux­ uries or necessaries mentioned yield either pleasure or profit at all propor­ tionate to the amount invested. Makes THp from Queenstown to New York in Five Days. New York. -- A new steamship record between a European port and New York has been made by the Cunard liae's new giant turbine ship, the LusitAnia, which arrived here Friday. The LuMtania left Queenstown,. the nearest transatlantic port to New York, at 52:10 p. m. Sunday. The log of -the Lusitania gives her time of passage as five days and fifty- four minutes, and her time of arrival off the Sandy Hook lightship as 8:05 a. m. Her average speed, according to her log. was 23.01 knots per hour, and the day's runs were five miles, 556, 575, 5?0, 593, and 483 to the light­ ship, a total distance of 2,782 miles. The Lusitania's time, according to the log. is six hours and twenty- nihe minutes better than the previous Queenstowa-New York record of five days and 3even hours and twenty- three minutes, held by the Lucania of the same hne. While the Lusitania has made a new record for the time a passenger is actually on board ship, she has not beaten the average speed per hour recorded. The Kaiser Wilhelm II. has" ma le an average of 23.58 knots per Four from New York to Plymouth a ad the Deutschland has a record of 23.51 knots per hour average to Plymouth. Watterton Has Another Fire. Louisville. Ky.--Fire which broke out late Wednesday afternoon, for a second time endangered the plants of the Courier Journal and Times and threatened to destroy that portion of the Courier-Journal office building left intact after the disastrous fire of ten days ago. The flames were brought under control with a loss of $25,000. The Timps was forced to abandon its last edition. Tke origin of the fire which brok* out on the top floor of the building, is unknown. Prof. Shailer Mathews of the univer­ sity of Chicago says that marriage is too much like a picnic. In some cases it is like^a picnic when it rains. Court proceedings in England have shown that a loung lady who poses in music halls as the living statue "Gala­ tea" earns as much as $500 a week, and yet it wouldn't be exactly right to say that her face is her fortune. Explosion in Georgia Mine. Washington Ga--Information was received hertj Sunday of a disastrous explosion at the Columbia gold mine, just across the river in the county. It is stated that the explosion was the result of a premature discharge of a charge of dynamite and caused the loss of several lives. Scientists are still wondering when a man ceases to be useful. Some men are never useful; the chances are thai If "they are useful to begin with the; remain so regardless of years. The thing that cannot be done feuf should be well done. German Miners Blown Up. Forbach, Germany --Four persons were killed and three dangerously in­ jured in a firedamp explosion in the Merlenbach mine Saturday night. Defaulter's Friend Tries Suicide. New Orleans--Virginia Ileed, the negro woraat who, according to Charles E. Letten, the defaulting tax clerk here, received about $90,000 out of the $j 00,000 or more he stole from the state, attempted to commit suicide Friday by jumping into the Bayou St John. She wan fished out. Deadlock as to 8a!e» Has Resulted In 10,000 Men Will New. York.--A crisis in the copper situation, due to a deadlock between the producer and the consumer, has resulted in a tremendous over-produd- tion of the metal, and the Amalgamat­ ed Copper company, the largest pro­ ducer of copper in this country, will soon shut down its mines in and about Butte, Mont. News of the intended suspension of operations there was made known Thursday by an interest closely iden­ tified with the company. Amalgamat­ ed stock fell over four points on the stock exchange when the news be­ came known, and the shares of the company sold down to $60.25, which is 61 points under the high record price of the year. It is said that the suspension at the Butte mines will throw 10,000 men out of work. The Amalgamated company has had diffi­ culty in obtaining an adequate supply of fuel at. Butte and this is said to be a contributing cause for the shut­ down. The Amalgamated Copper com­ pany, along with other copper compa­ nies, has been piling up a large surplus of copper for several months, and it is authoritatively stated that there is a surplus of 250,000,000 pounds of re­ fined copper in the United States. The present situation has developed from the seeming inability of the producer and consumer to reach a price for the metal that would prove satisfactory. The selling price of copper has been steadily reduced in the copper mar­ kets of the vforld, but the consumer has steadfastly declined to purchase except when needs were pressing. The official price for copper has been lowered from 25 cents to 18 cents a pound by the United Metals Selling company. Copper producers on the metal exchange in their efforts to tempt the buyer have gradually cut the price of copper to 15% for electro­ lytic, which figure was reached Thurs­ day, As a consequence of this acute situation copper stocks have accumu­ lated rapidly. The production of re­ fined copper in September, it was stated Thursday, will be 6,000,000 pounds less than last month. There were reports in the financial district that certain banks have declined to carry any more copper metal in their loans. G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT ENDS. South Dakota Bank Is Robbed. Aberdeen, g. D.--Three bandits broke into the First State bank at Le- ola early Friday morning, wrecked the safe and escaped with $1,200. Civil War Veterans Install Officers and Adjourn Until 1908. Saratoga, N. Y. -- Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic who have been attending the forty first annual encampment of the organ­ ization concluded their business Fri­ day and adjourned until 1908. . Installation of the officers elected Thursday, adoption of several recom­ mendations from the committee on resolutions and Commander-in-Chief Burton's announcement of appointive officers took up the time of the veter­ ans. The officers were installed by Rob­ ert B. Beath, of Philadelphia, past commander-in-chief. The encamp­ ment adopted the report of the com­ mittee on resolutions which recom­ mended legislation by congress author­ izing the erection of a soldiers' hos­ pital in the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico; increasing widows' pensions to $12 a month; providing some suit­ able memorial for the soldiers and sailors of the union army who were in the south when the war began and did not join the southern forces, and directing that widows of soldiers burled in the national cemeteries may be buried beside their husbands. These recommendations will be incorporated in bills to be presented to congress. Commander-in-Chief Burton's ap­ pointments include the following: Jere T. Dew, Kansas City, Mo., adju­ tant general; Charles Burrows, Ruth­ erford, N. J., quartermaster general; Col. D. R. Stowitz, Buffalo, inspector general; L. L. Collins, Minnesapolis, Aiinn., judge advocate general; J. Henry Heacomb, Philadelphia, assist­ ant general and custodian of records; J. Corle Winans, Toledo, O., senior aide-de-camp and chief of staff. Dewey Sees Old "Tar" Buried. New York. -- Admiral Dewey and a dozen rear admirals attend­ ed the funeral in Brooklyn of M. F. Tobin, commander of the Associated Veterans of Farragut's fleet. Mr. To­ bin conducted a lithographing estab­ lishment for thirty-five years in Broadway, and his office is a close reproduction of a naval officer's cabin. More Letter Carriers for Cities. Washington. -- Acting Postmaster General Hitchcock has authorized the appointment of additional letter car­ riers at post offices on October 1, as follows: New York, 75; Brooklyn, 71; Pittsburg, 25; Detroit, 21; Milwaukee, 15; Newark, N. J., 10, and Baltimore, nine. Engineer Killed in Collision. New Haven, Conn.--Two passenger trains met almost head-on in Orange, on the New York, New Haven & Hart-s ford railroad, Sunday, and Engineer W. H. Johnson of the south-bound train was killed. More Cholera in Moscow. St. Petersburg.--Four fresh cases of cholera, of which three were fatal, have been reported from Moscow and that vicinity. The government of Viatka is declared to be Infected with the disease. Pettitene in Critical Condition. Boise, Idaho.--George A. Pettibone, charged with complicity in the mur­ der of Gov. Steunenberg, was taken to the hospital Friday in a critical con­ dition and an operation probably Will be necessary. Physicians Indicted as Trust. Dubuque, la.--THe grand jury of Bremer county Friday returned indict­ ments against 14 physicians for viola­ tion of the state anti-trust law, the medical society having raised fees some tLme ago. WONDW*. WHOJ tfOiN5 TO WiN ttyvr 'PEN NA/sr ?j >DU TICi WELLMAN EXPEDITION FAILS ARCTIC EXPLORER'8 WARSHIP LANDS ON A GLACIER. Encountered a Severe Storm and Effort to Reach Pole Abandoned for This Year. Trpmsoe, Norway.--Walter Well- man and his party, composing the Wellman-Chicago Reeord-Herald polar expedition, arrived here Thursday evening on the steamer Frithjof from Spitzbergen. Mr. Wellman says the airship Amer­ ica left her shed September 2 and made an ascent in bad weather, but she proved so strong and behaved so well that a start north was Immedi­ ately made. The airship, however, en­ countered a storm, was driven back and landed on top of a glacier. Every­ thing was saved. When the airship left the shed it was anchored to a steamer, the Ex­ press, which helped to tow it to Vogel Bay island, two miles northward to Walter Wellman. Camp Wellman. Rlesenberg and Vand- man occupied the car. The motor was found to work splendidly and, when it was started, drove the America ahead of the steanier. It was found that the airship answered her helm well. Off Vogel Bay island the America was freed from her anchor ropes, but an increasing gale and a driving snow­ storm beat her backward over the mainland of Spitzbergen. Seeing the hopelessness of attempting to battle with the gale the valves were opened and the balloon quickly descended on a glacier. The occupants of the car secured the balloon. A rescue party from the steamer reached the glacier an hour and a half later and had considerable difficulty in saving the airship. The balloon portion had to be cut In two and the car was taken to pieces in order to enable the rescuers to trans­ port it over the ice hills and fissures to the sea. Dynamite in Grain Bundles. Chippewa Falls, Wis.--An explosion of dynamite placed In a bundle of grain injured five men and wrecked a threshing machine Friday on the farm of Peter Peterson near here. Investi­ gation developed the fact that sticks of dynamite had been placed in sever­ al bundles of grain. The miscreant has not been located. Banker Killed in Auto Wreck. Pittsburg, Pa.--President John Run- nett, of the Metropolitan National bank of Pittsburg, Is dead and Dr. M. C. Cameron, a prominent physician of this city, is seriously injured as a re­ sult of the latter's/automobile coming into collision with a telegraph pole late Thursday. Lipton's Challenge en way. New York.--The New York Yacht club received a cablegram Friday say­ ing that the challenge of Sir Thomas Lipton for the America's cup, made in the name of the Royal Irish Yacht club, was mailed to the New York Yacht club Friday. Japanese Perish in Collision. Roseburg, Ore.--A double end col­ lision, in which five Japanese were killed and five were seriously injured, occurred at Dillftrd station, ten miles south of here, Thursday night. Steamer Sighted on Reef. New Orleans, La.--A steamer stranded on the Casyfoot Reef off the Florida south coast was sighted on Sept. 10 by the steamer El Dia, which arrived here Thursday from New York. The EI Dia did not stand by to learn anything of the plight of the stranded vessel and was too far away to make out her name or how many persons were on board. The funnels of ; i:< i« ;uu< r indicated that she was a Muuson lane freighter. She ground­ ed the line of regular trav- ol flHp passenger steamers. > ; . . MASKED MEN ROB TRAIN. Two Bandits Hold Up Great North­ ern's Oriental Limited. St. Paul, Minn.--General Manager Elliott of the Great Northern Express company, announced Thursday that the Great Northern Oriental limited train No. 1, which left St. Paul Tues­ day morning, was held up by two masked men six or seven miles west of Rexford, Mont., at an early hour Thursday morning. The robbers crawled over the tender and at the point of their guns commanded the engineer to stop the train. Keeping up a fusillade of shots to terrify the passengers, the bandits blew open the express safe and, find­ ing it empty, took a quantity of regis­ tered mail and escaped. The com­ pany offers $10,000 reward for their arrest and conviction. RICH YOUNG MAN IS KILLED. C. Berry Winship, of Washington, Thrown from His Horse. Washington.--C Berry Winship, 21 years old," a member of a prominent family of this city, was almost in­ stantly killed in Rock Creek park Sun­ day by being thrown from his horse, which shied at an object in the road. One foot of the rider was held fast in the stirrup, and he was dragged for some distance and kicked into in­ sensibility. Dr. Glennon, of the public health and marine hospital service, who came along in an automobile im­ mediately after the accident, picked up the prostrate man and started for a hospital, but Mr. Winship lived only a few moments. The young man had just come into a large inheritance. MURDERED IN MEXICO. George Rose, of Michigan, 8lain by Bandits in Guanajuato. Laporte, Ind.--A telegram received Sunday from Dwight Furness, of Fur- nessville, Ind., who is United States consul at Guanajuato, Mexico, tells of the murder there by Mexican bandits of George Rose, an American, and the Injury to his wife. The murdered man was a son of W. A. D. Rose, of Benton Harbor, Mich., and was 34 years old. Torturer Confesses Crime. Lincoln, 111. -- Albert Wehr, a paroled convict, who was trailed by a bloodhound and arrested fol­ lowing the torture and robbery of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mun- dy, a wealthy couple in their Lincoln home Saturday night, gave the police information which led to the recovery of $60 of the loot. The county authorities also say Wehr con­ fessed to taking part with two other men in the robbery. The three mask­ ed men entered the Mundy home and forced Mr. and Mrs. Mundy to tell where the money was hidden by ap­ plying lighted matches to their feet. Break in Wire Strike. Cleveland, O.--There was a decisive break in the local telegraphers' strike Friday when eight former striking op­ erators, including the vice president, of the local telegraphers' union, re­ turned to work with the Postal Tele­ graph & Cable company. Drudge Grant's New Armistice. Paris.--Gen. Drude, in a dispatch to the war office, announces that he has given the Moroccan tribesmen another day's armistice to enable them to come to an understanding among themselves. ifdttle Hits Umpire Evans. St Louis.--During the St. Louis-De­ troit American league baseball game Sunday Umpire Evans was struck on the head by a soda water bottle thrown by a spectator and was pain­ fully injured, but it is expected he will be out again in a few days. The thrower of the bottle, a lad of 17 years, who declared he had no inten­ tion of hitting the umpire, is under arrest. The large crowd in attendance expressed strong disfavor for the act, but the speedy arrival of policemen prevented trouble. Defaulter Lacks Courage to Die. New Orleans, La.--Charles E. Let- ten, chief clerk in the office of the first district tax collector here, who disap­ peared several days ago, leaving a shortage of over $100,000, was discov­ ered Thursday afternoon standing on the bank of the Mississippi trying to< summon up courage enough to jump in the water and commit suicide. He said he had started toward the water sev­ eral times, but each time his courage had failed him. He made a full con­ fession and was brought to this city And locked up. STANDARD OIL MAGNATE HAS BAD PARALYTIC ATTACK. DUE TO BUSINESS WORRY His Retirement from Active Mfe Prob­ able--Relatives Reveal His Con­ dition in Boston Law Court. New York.--Information came from a s«und source Monday that H. H. Rogers has suffered a stroke of par­ alysis. The president of the Amalga­ mated Copper company has been re­ ported "ill" for about a fortnight, fol­ lowing his recent return from Europe, where he went some months ago for his health. But despite the trip abroad and the temporary retirement from all busi­ ness affairs, the Rockefeller chieftain grew worse, an illness which culmi­ nated in the stroke of helplessness. It is said that the magnate has been generally incommunicado for a fort­ night, only his near relatives and inti­ mate friends being permitted to his bedside. One of these in a Boston court Monday afternoon confirmed the story, and gave details of the finan­ cier's t breakdown, The recent order to close the Mon» tana mines of the Amalgamated Cop­ per company is supposed to have been given by William G. Rockefeller, who will take the position formerly occu­ pied by Rogers as the field general of the Standard Oil party. * Even should Rogers recover, it la believed that he will not return to his place in the directories of the various corporations with which'he has been identified. The decisions against the Standard Oil company and the failure of the Rockefellers to stem the tremendous slumps in their companies are sup­ posed to have been contributory causes to,Rogers' condition. Boston.--Upon the evidence of mem­ bers of the family of Henry H. Rogers and the family physician that Mr. Rogers suffered a stroke last July, and has since been unable to transact any business, Judge Hammond, in the supreme court, Monday announced that it would be cruel to compel his attendance in court, and dismissed a motion to that effect. The condition of Mr. Rogers was disclosed in the course of a hearing on a motion to show that he was capable of attending the trial of a suit against him for $50,000,000 brought by C. M. Raymond, of Somerville, for alleged conversion of certain royalties in con­ nection with the production of pe­ troleum. ADMIRAL WALKER IS DEAD. Distinguished Retired Naval Officer Succumbs to Heart Disease. York Beach, Me.--Rear Admiral John G. Walker, U. S. N., retired, died here Monday. He had been ill for some time, but his death was quite un­ expected. He had been spending sev­ eral weeks with his family at the cot­ tage of Miss S. A. Pickering, of Salem, Mass. Death was due to heart dis­ ease. Washington.--Aside from his gen­ erally distinguished service in the navy, Rear Admiral Walker, who died Monday at York Beach, Me., had held several important assignments, the most conspicuous of which was chair­ man of the isthmian canal commission, which office he held from 1899 to 1901. Admiral Walker was 72 years of age and was retired with the rank of rear admiral after 49 years on the active list. BOAT UP8ET8; TWO DROWN. Young Couple Perish in Delaware River, Three Others Escaping. Philadelphia.--Miss Ada Smith, aged 19 years, of this city, and George Denver, aged 23 years, of Westville, N. J., were drowned, and Mrs. Ray Springer and her two children, of Bil- lingsport, N. J., narrowly escaped drowning In the Delaware river off that place Monday by the overturning of a small boat in which they were rowing. Miss Smith and Denver were visit­ ing the Springer home and before leaving they went for a row on the river in a 12-foot rowboat. When in midstream the heavily laden «craft was struck by a swell and capsized. Transport Five Days In a Typhoon. San Francisco.--In the grasp of a terrific typhoon, which raged unceas­ ingly for five days and nights, the United States army, transport Sher­ man, which arrived here Monday, re­ ceived a terrible buffeting during the voyage from Nagasaki. Shortly after leaving the latter port the vessel ran into the tail end of a typhoon and was tossed about like a cork. Heavy seas swept over the Sherman's bow, and but small progress was made during the four days which followed. Czar's Yacht Was Blown Up. London.--Facts in confirmation of the reported attempt to assassinate Czar Nicholas of Russia by blowing up his private yacht were received Monday. It is learned that instead of the royal yaclit Standart accidentally going aground off the shore of Fin­ land, she was stove in by the explosion of a floating dynamite mine. Her commander ran her ashore to save the lives of the Imperial family on board. The substantiation of the report was received by way of Copenhagen in a private message from St. Petersburg. Leap in Panic and Drown. Pittsburg, Pa.--Panic-stricken when a barge, in which they were crossing the Allegheny river, began to sink, six workmen employed by the Drave Con­ tracting company on the United States government dam No. 2 at Asplnwall, Pa., a suburb six miles above this city, jumped into the river Monday and were drowned. With the exception of Frank Herman, all the men were Ital­ ians. None of the men could swim and all perished before assistance from shore could be given. The bodies have been recovered ©M Inns of England have bet* responsible for the origin of many common sayings. An instance of this Is the proverbial phrase "He has gone to the devil." On Fleet street, London, near Temple Bar, was once a tavern which was known by the strict­ ly old-fashioned name, "The Devil and Saint Dunstan." It was famous for its- good dinners and excellent wines, and received a large patronage from the lawyers of Temple Bar. It was. familiarly known as "The Devil," and when a lawyer left his office to go there he usually left a no­ tice on his door, "Gone to the Devil." There were, some who patronized the tavern to the neglect of their business, and the notice was so regularly exhib­ ited pn their doors that it finally came to be used to characterize the who was losing his grip and going to destruction.--The Sunday Magazine. MEDICAL FAILURES. An Authority Says Three-Fourths bf Graduates Are Unfitted to Practice. That 3,000 out of the 4,0©0 gradu­ ates turned out by the Medical Col­ leges each year are whollly unfitted to practice medicine and are menaces tc the commtixiities in which they set> tie was stated by Dr. Chester Mayer, of the State Board of Medical Exam­ iners of Kentucky at a meeting of the American Medical Association's Com­ mittee on Medical Education, held in Chicago not long ago. Dr. Mayer said that only 25 to 28 per cent of the graduates are qualified. Fifty-eight per cent of the graduates examined in 28 states were refused licenses. With few exceptions these failures took a second examination in a few weeks and only 50 per cent of them passed. "This does not mean that deficien­ cies in their training were corrected in those few weeks," Dr. Mayer said. "It probably shows that experience showed them what the test would probably be and they 'crammed' for the examination. Dr. W. T. Gott, Secretary of the Indiana Board said: "The , majority of our schools now teach their students how to pass ex­ aminations, not how to be good phy­ sicians." At the session of the American Medical Association held in Atlantic City in June, Dr. M. Clayton Thrush, a professor in the Medico Chirurgical College in Philadelphia said: "Many doctors turned out of the Medical Schools are so ignorant in matters pertaining to pharmacy that they know nothing about the properties of the drugs they prescribe for theii patients!" Dr. Henry Beats, Jr., Pres­ ident of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medical Examiners, after scrutinis­ ing the papers of a cla%s of candi­ dates for licensure said: "About one quarter of the papers show a degree of illiteracy that renders the candi­ dates for licensure incapable of un­ derstanding medicine." A great many more physicians and chemists might be quoted in support of the astounding charge that 3,000 in­ competents are being dumped onto an unsuspecting public each year. What the damage done amounts to can never be estimated for these in­ competents enjoy the privilege of di­ agnosing, prescribing or dispensing drugs regarding the properties ol which they know nothing and theD of signing death certificates that are Qot passed upon by anyone unless the coroner is called in. Probably there is not a grave yard from one end ol the country to the other that does not contain the buried evidences of the mistakes or criminal carelessness of incompetent physicians. During the last year there have been perhaps, half a dozen known cases where surgeons, after perform­ ing operations have sewed up the in­ cisions without first removing the gauze sponges used to absorb the blood, and in some cases forceps and even surgeon's scissors have been left in the wound. How many of these cases there have been, where the patient died, there 1b no means ol knowing and comparatively few of the cases where the discovery is made in time to save life become gen­ erally public. Reports from Sanita­ riums for the treatment of the Drug Habit show that members of the medi­ cal profession are more often treated in these institutions than members of any other profession, and that a majority of the patients, excluding the physicians themselves, can trace their downfall directly to a careless physician. How many criminal operations are performed by physicians is also a matter of conjecture. Operations of this class are, unfortunately, very frequent in large cities. Some gradu­ ated and licensed physicians, many of them of supposed respectability, make an exclusive practice of crim­ inal medical and surgical treatment. Dr. Henry G. W. Rheinhart, Coroner's physician of Chicago, estimates the number of crimiua' operations, anntt- allly, in Chicago alone at 38,000. How many resulted fatally are ^nknown, as when death results, the real cauBe is disguised in the death certificate, which the physician signs, and which no one but himself and a clerk sees. Probably not one case of malprac­ tice in 1,000 ever becomes the subject of a law suit but in the last year ap­ proximately 150 cases wherein the plaintiff has alleged malpractice have been reported in the newspapers, and owing to the social prominence and the favored positions of many physi­ cians not more than half the new suits stated, probably, result in any newspaper publicity, but it would probably not be an exaggeration to state that the total cases of malprac­ tice, not involving criminal operations or criminal medical practice, would amount to 150,000 or more thaji one case to each physician in the country. This estimate is, of course, more or less conjecture. Untimely deaths and permanent disabilities are frequent, and occur within the knowledge of al­ most every one, when lif6 could have been saved, or health restored had the physician been skillful, careful and competent. You do not learn that you may Uv» --you live that you may learn.