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TREE ORNAMENTS, TOYS, FAVORS, 421 9TH ST. ay Gould A case of alleged threais occupied the attention of Judge Miller in the Police Court today for nearly two hours, and it was then found impossible to reach a con- clusion. The hearing was continued until Monday. Isaiah Washington, colorei, was the defendant and the prosecuting witness was Gertie Baker. The Secretary “Deals Sharply With the Pacific Roads, SENATOR VEST'S ASPHALT TOUCHED UP A Conservative but Patriotic Pen- sion Policy. . THE PUBLIC DOMAIN ehh Ae rsiw az The annual report of Secretary Francis was made public this morning. The Secre- tary of the Interior considers in a prompt and decisive way a number of questions of public policy that have for many years balked settlement. The report offers a so- lution of the problem of the bond-aided roads, deals exhaustively with pension ad- ministration, reviews the work of the Dawes commission and touches on various matters of especial significance in the west. The public domain is the first topic con- sidered. The total number of acres dis- posed of up to June 30 last was 946,000,000, leaving public domain stijl vacant estima:- ed at over 500,000,000, not including the dis- trict of Alaska, with an area of over 369,- 000,000 acres. Since the homestead act was Passed on May 20, 1802, there have been 162,502,132 acres entered by homestead set- ters. Of this 103,000,000 acres will be pat- ented when the legal conditions have been met. Of the remainder, 42,000,0W0 acres represent entries canceied and almost 10,- ¥uu,000 acres commuted to cash. Muere are yet due to railroads and Wagon roads under their grants 114,736,630 acres, of which not more than 60 per cent are avallable for patenting under the con- ditions of the grants. The total grants of ands to the various states and territories tp to March 12 last aggregated 18,968,680 acres, in addition to agricultura: scrip for 7,830,000 acres. Disappearing Public Domain. The total of all lands segreguted from the public domain aggregates 946,219,160 acres. ‘The report says: “These figures demonstrate that the country is being settled with great rapidi- ty, and that the public domain ig being dimnished by great strides. 1f the rate of disposition of the last thirteen years,which ig 25,000,000 acres a year, is continued for thirteen years to come there will be little of the public domain outside of Alaska in possession of the government at the expi- ration of that time. Jf the 114,000,000, acres granted to railroads, but nut patent- ed, there can be no objection to transfer- ring possession and control of whatever porticn has been earned by complying with the grants, and that may be available thereunder (estimated at 70,000,000. acres) with as much promptness as possible; but unul these grants are adjusted no addi- tional ones should be mad: during the Year 15,527,844 acres were patented to rail- Toads under congressional grants.” Discussing forest reservations, the repert says, no permits to cut timber en public jands should be granted for any purpose other than to supply the needs of settlers in_the neighbornoca. Secretary Francis urges upon Congress the necessity for legislation for the recia- mation and disp 1 of lands within the arid regions. Unless the Carey act could be amended so as to give the state power to piedge .ands for their rec! ttion, he Says it would be better to place the lands under the direct control of the states oriy so far as may be necessary to secure their reclamation for the Uenelit of actual set- uers. Payment of Pensions, Pensions paid by the government and the cost of paying them for thirty-one years amount to $2,034,817,76. This lacks’ but ¥346,712,000 of being equal to the high water mark of the interest-bearing public debt. The present number of pensioners is 970,078, greater by 4,666 than in 1s93, when the maximum cost was reachei, and is greater than ever before. This is due to the death of old soidiers and the con- tinued payment of aliowances to their seirs, while tue amount paid is decreased through the death of invalid pensioners ieaving no depenuents. ‘The pension policy of the department has been to make the pension list roll a roll of honor rather than to save money to the goverment; the effort has been to defeat the designs of impostors, while recogn.zing ine claims of the neesy and deserving. General public sentiment, however, is that the obligation of tne gov- ernment is confined to those who fought for its maintenance and those dependent upon them. The total number of our pen- siouers in foreign countries was 3,781, who were paid $%. The commissioner of pensions has been directed to accept from the pensioners residing in Germany onlv such declarations and other papers of claimants as may be made vefore a United States minister or consul, or other consular officer of the United States. increase of from $8 to $12 per month is recommended for all wholly disabled and destitute Mexican war survivors. The Indian Office. Under Indian affairs the Secretary re- peats the recommendation of his predeces- sor for a commission of three, one of whorn shall be an army officer, to take the place of the commissioner and assistant com- missioner of Indian affairs. With regard to the dispute over the Uncompahgre In- dian reservation in Utah in which valua- ble deposits of asphaltum have been dis- covered, Secretary Francis expressed the opinion that the commission which treated with the Indians for the allotment of their lands totally misunderstood the agrecment of 18%, by which the Uncompaagres were removed from Colorado. The Indians de- clined to pay $1.25 an acre for the lands allotted to them, because they were led to believe that the purchase money would come out of their trust fund of $1,250,000, which furnishes them $50,000 per annum. This is not the case. The purchase muney would not disturb the trust fund, but would eventually come out of the process cf the sale of their Colorado lands. The cem- mission was dissolved -iast February. “Tt is my judgment,” says the Secretary, “that some legislation should be enacted whereby the people of the United Scate: can at an early date have the benefit of these valuable and useful deposits. If the lands containing them were owned by an individual or a corporation instead of by the government, business methods would be pursued in disposing of them; they would be sold to the highest bidder at public auction, or by sealed bids, or would be leased, or the right to work the deposits would be granted for a consideration in the shape of a royalty or otherwise. Such lands are different from agricultural, tim- ber or coal lands. The Uncompahgre Asphalt. “It is claimed that a considerable portion of the Uncompahgre and Uintah reserva- ticns, known as the ‘lava beds,’ contain a substance called ‘elaterite,’ which, with a solution recently discovered, makes a valuable paint and an insulator of incom- parable quality. Such deposits of gilsonite or elaterite are of rare occurrence: in fact, I know of no other within the limits of the public domain. “As Congress took no further action on this subject, after receiving the reply of my predecessor to its resolution of Janu- ary 16, 18%, I have not felt justified in changing the situation as I found it. “1 recommend that Congress authorize the appointment of another commission, to negotiate with the Uncompahgres, exp'ain to them how the lands allotted can be paid for without depleting their trust fund, and that authority be given such commission to sell (subject to appreval of the Secretary of the Interior) the remaining portion of the lands of the reservation to the highest bidder, to lease them, or to negotiate with responsible parties for the working of the deposits, in order that the government may be fairly compensated, and to the end that the public may enjoy the benefit of a highly useful gift of nature.” ‘The Secretary makes ne comment on the work of the Dawes Indian commission, but includes in the report a partial report of the commission, which is now engaged, under the act of June 10, 1898, in deter. mining all applications for citizenship in the five civilized tribes. By the terms of the act, that work must be completed by December 10, 1896. The commission says the work 1s progressing with a celerity that exceeded their expectations. They ‘baye already -exemined- 5,860. of the 7,000 claims. - “a The Pacific Roads. Under the hegd of “Bond-atded Rail- roads” the Secretary says he has complied _with the joint zesolution ‘of June 10, 1806, requiring him fp continue the issue of patents. to. bona» fide purchasers of lands sold by bond-aided rafiroads, but he says he declined to issue patents to all surveyed lands on the application of the Central Pacific. He saysi “The representatives of -the Central Pacific further contended that their road is not!in default to the govern- ment, and that, ifit were, the lands are not covered by the-gevernment mortgage, and cannot be held-to seoure the same. 1 do not agreg,with either of these state- ments. The tables presented clearly show that the Centrat Pacific railroad is in de- fault’ to the government, but whether so or not, it unquestionably will be on Janu- ary 1, next, or, about thirty days hence, when $2,432,000 additional of its indebted- ness, together with thirty years’ interest thereon, will fall due, and must be 1e- deemed by the government. “In answer to the contention that the government lien is not secured by the lands granted the Central and Union Pacitic com- panies, section 5 of the act of 1852 provides that on the refusal or failure of a company to redeem its bonds or any part thereof the Secretary of the Treasury may take Possession of all lands which at the time of sald default shall remain in the ownership of the company. Land Grants as Secarity. “For the above reasons I have declined to patent lands to the Unien Pacific railroad or the Central Pacific railroad, except in cases where it can_be shown that the lands for which patents are asked have been sold to bona fide purchasers. Inasmuch as the subsidy bonds issued by the government to ald in the construction of these roads are falling due from time to time and must be redeemed by the government as they ma- ture, while the roads are unable to reim- burse the treasury for the amount so paid, and for the further reason that a bill is now pending in Congress providing for a funding of this indebtedness, I deem It ‘the part of prudence for this department to re- tain whatever of the property of the roads it may have in its possession or in {ts con- trol until there shall be an adjustment of the amounts due the government.” The Secretary says he has requested an opinion from the Secretary of the Treasury as to whether the Central Pacific is in de: fault and of the Attorney General as to whether, if in default, he is authorized to patent lands granted to bond-alded rail- Toads even when they have been sold to bona fide purchasers. The Secretary by in plication questions the authority of the concurrent resolution directing him to con- tinue the issue of patents. Commission Idea Stepped On, Referring to the railroad commissioner's recommendaticns for a commission to settle the indebtedness of the bond-aided roads, the Secretary says: “Congress is not likely to delegate to any commission the power to settle this indebt- edness, without making such settlement subject to its approval; but whether Con- ress would do so or not, the delay conse- quent upon the appointment of a commis- sion and its work would be so great that most or all of the bonds issued in aid of these roads would mature and the govern- ment be called upon to redeem tne same. In the meantime, other bills would be in- troduced seeking to effect other settle- ments, and in the end the government would receive less for its claim than it would if a compromise by the cash pay- ment of a lump sim should be effected in the immediate future and the government become relieved thereby from all connec- tion with these roads. New Honds Objected To. “This indebtedness has been a subject of attempted legislation for many years past, and it seems impossible to frame any re- newal or extension of the loan which will be acceptable both to the legislators and the indebted companies. A funding of the debt which contemplates the government accepting long-time bonds for its advances will not remove this troublesome subject from the consideration of Congr d Would probably result in renewed measures for relief of the foads being proposed as those bonds approach maturity. + “In my judgineat it is much better for the government to accept a lump sum in cash for its claim against these roads, if, by doing so, that claim can be settled and the connection between the government and the only roads it has ever aided by di- rect subsidy be effectually severed. Such a solution of this vexed question would meet with the hearty approval of the people gen- eraily, and relieve the legislators and all branches of the government of a trouble some problem and a trying responsibility.” With regard to the Nicaraguan Canal Compary chartered by the government in IS89, the Secretary says a preliminary re- Fort cf the company submitted to him shows that no work was done during the present ycar. In conclusion the Secretary calls attention to the cramped quarters in the Interior De- partment, the large sum paid for rent an nually (reaching $46,000 last’ year) and earnestly recommends the erection of an- other structure on a block adjacent to the present building adequate to accommodate all branches of the department. ARE NOT CONVINCED Physicians Who Oppose the Use of Anti-Toxin, See ‘fo the Editor of The Evening Sta: Apropos of your reporter’s interesting in- terview with Dr. Adams on the “Use of Anti-toxin,” which was printed in last Monday’s Star, your readers may be inter- ested in a few brief extracts from recently published views of distinguished f. sn authorities on the same subject. One of the most eminent specialists and successful practitioners in diseases of the throat is Dr. Lennex Browne of London, whose ar- ticle reviewing the report on the u: of anti-toxin in the hospitals of the metropol!- tan asy!ums board was published in the Centemporary Review for last July. One of his most important points is tue untrust- worthiness cf medical statistics, which he illustrates by a statement made in a report from the provincial governments of Crotia and Slavonia to the effect that ‘those cases which were brought to the authorities too late—for example, on the six.h, seventh or eighth day of the disease, or later-—were not treated by the serum, as it wa 3 useless, and would have spoilt the statis- ties.” But, of course. no true comparison of the anti-toxin method with methods in which anti-toxin is not used can be unless the cases in all stages are inc! for when serum fs not u: bund or far-advahced cases the deaths are Juded in the non-serum cases, and the mortality in that class is increased. Another important point brought out by Dr. Browne is the inclusion of cases a “cured” within a few days of the com- mencement of thé treatment, although it is well known, that diphtheria often kills by its sequelae long after the acute stage is passed. Commenting on a reported mor- tality of only’ two out of forty-three cases treated with antistoxin at the Northwest- ern Fever Hospital, which wonderful result of 4.6 per cent, was published in the Lancet and British Medical Journal of February 2, 1895, as the ‘lowest mortality on record,* Dr. ‘Browne say: ‘Nothing could ‘be more misleading, for this report was applied for after little more than three wéeks of official trial of the remedy at this hospital, and more than one of the cases had been admitted only a day or two previotsl “Within two these figures this mortality of 4.6 b over § per cent; three weeks later it was 19 per cent, and at the end 9f four months, on 100 cases, in which these forty-three were included, the mortality was twen seven; in effect the same as nad been ob- tained in this hospital for the two previous years, under older methods of ireatmen:, cn nearly“2,4M) cases. At the end of the year the mortality on 363 cases treated witn serum at this hospital exceeled thirty-cwo per hundred. “No allusicn would have been these circumstances had a corrected recora of these premature reports been e‘fered: but as they stand they have gone forth to the world, carrying with ih un- justifiable encouragement, waic: years a plain duty to modify. Uncertain Results. Before the publication of the report, Dr. Browne had drawn attention to the fact that in the hospitals of the asylums board there had been no relaxation of the usual made to methods in- the treatment of diphtheria: and that there had been no new factor in dealing with the disease other than the in- dection of anti-toxin; and ‘that,:as the pa- tients had the benefit of the established system of treatment, as well as of the serum (the latter being simply additional), the results could not be apportioned. with any degree of certainty. On. this point he had satd:. - ¥ . “What does this anti-toxic serum counter- act? Is it that by its means the patient la more quickly cured of the suffccative mem- brane? Why, then, in these cases are Sprays—e. g., of a solution of carbonate of scda—a long-established method of loosen- ing the membrane—still employed? Is it that the serum destroys the bacilli—the spe- cific cause of the disease? Why, then, use germicidal solutions—e. g., of corrosive sub- limate of a concentration—1 in 1,000—of al- most infanticidal intensity?” The report of the asylums board hospitals distinctly states that when anti-toxin has been used it has been in addition to the older methods of treatment. Dr. Browne sums up as follow: “The report claims, however, that there is a reduction in the death rate from diph- theria during the year 1895 of 7 per cent over that of the previous year (1894), and that the whole credit for this decrease in _Goldenberg’s, 926-928 7th—706 K Sts. The greatest cloak sal We are glad to know that you read our announcements. Four extra salespeople with the regu- lar force are doing double duty on the sec- ond floor today. Scarecly a patron does not marvel at the extreme lowness of the prices—the ex- teeding values as compared with what others are offering. Every garment comes from one or two of the leading American wrap mak- Mortality must be assigned to anti-toxt ers, all of whom are suffering _ terribly ut on no logical ground can this claim be i G eon ceded ALGAS tens ETE GEE from cancellation and backwardness of reduction on the total death rate from diph- therla of 7 per cent during the past year; but that this has been brought about by the use of the anti-toxin serum is by no means proved, and is, in fact, in direct con- tradiction of the truth. We have account- ed for three-fifths of the cases treated with anti-toxin. In the remaining two-fifths, 1,347 in number, no anti-toxin was admin- istered, and they were treated by methods which are carefully stated in the report to be exactly the same as those in vogue be- fore the introduction of serum-therapy. The deaths in this series were 181, giving a mor- tality of less than 13% per cent, and it is orders. Our particular purchase was one of the largest ever consummated, and gives us an opportunity of offering the greatest values in high-grade garments— That you have ever had offered you. To neglect this sale when you need a wrap is disregard of economy. +} cases of croup.’ Ninety - inch Fine Wool Se this reduction in the mortality of the no serie yiteet Al gure eae Seen et | no ee serum treated series which mainly accounts tl inlaid buttons. < 125 inches; trimmed all for the 7 per cent reduction in the mor- Beaver Coats. Misses, with deep detachable | gijund with marten far and tality for 1895."" round coliars— ‘ape; box fronts; braided edged with marten: all satin which would bring $5 as well. dl, and trimmed with pretty u sis. Duttons—equal to those sold Choice. $ 4°65 Choice $11-75 and positively worth Comparative Mortality. The report admits that “in a certain num- ber of patients, being moribund at the time of their arrival, and beyond the reach of any treatment, no anti-toxin was given. But such cases (as previously observed) are Tan, Green and Black “Empire” Coats; heavy eat . 7 des ck Kersey 0% Capes: very full included in the non-serum class, the mor- Collars; froat trimmed with | xine aptigpradicesid iriagtont: ! pia apes; 26 inches long: © er tality of which fs thereby enlarged. aoe Pr onine full in sweep; trimmed with be b |The report makes the following distine- raul tion: “It is obvious that to compare the mor- tality of those (cases) treated with anti- toxin with that of those which during the same period were not so treated, would be to Institute a comparison between the se- vere cases and those of which a large pro- portion were mild. This would be elearly misleading.” To which Dr. Browne Not at all. It is the report which mis- leads. For the comparison of the gravity of the cases at age periods is not to be ob- tained by a difference of numbers in the respective classes, but by the proportionate death rate at those years of life in which ‘the fatality of diphtherla 1s (so) notorious,’ that in point of fact no case under five years of age can ever be said to be mild. ‘The following summary illustrates the position: 1894, mortality under five years without anti-toxin, 47.4 per cen mor- tality under five years with anti-toxin, 37.4 per cent; 184 mortality under five years without anti-to» .8 per cent. “Thus the mortality of cases treated with- out serum under five years in 185 is more than 20 per cent less than that of those treated under the same conditions in 1891, when it was 47.4; and more than 10 per cent less than that of the serum-treated cases in 1895."" Leaving the report, Dr. Browne refers to the case of the death of Prof. Langerhans’ infant son, which occurred immediat after a prophylactic injection, and observes that it Is by no means solitary. There 1s a case in this District of long-continued gon the part of a child and its escape irom death, following the stration of anti-toxin, well known to many persons in Washington, the father being prominent in official society and tin mother having devoied herself for month to the dutics of the sick room. Comment- ing on this appalling risk of death from poisonous serum aad the futility of trying to obviate or lessen the danger by pre- liminary experimentation upon lower ani- mals, Dr. Browne opserves: front and ‘silk lined than $15. \Choice, $8-5° Strips of same; velvet in- serted collar—capes such as you'll be asked §7 elsewhere. iChoice, $4-98 nt Silk Seal 19 inches Handsome Imported Black, Brown, Green and Tan sey Coats; the newest style collars and fronts; half silk and satin ned. Also Ii ported Black Caterpillar Ef- fect Coats, made in siuilar sige Coats | which “should | sell for $13 to $16. Plush and very bra’ deep storm col- silk Mned through- which we see or round « <dzed with marten far; lined thi rejoins: mugghout wiih rich feta or black satiu; box pleated ba Your of 20 or Sin Really worth § out capes +| marked $5.50 in other stores. Choice, $5-¥8|Choice $179 Jength. Dress goods at about half price. In the purchase of colored dress goods our buyer has been un- usually fortunate. He has closed out from one of the leading im- immense quantity at about 50 per cent less than usual prices. We Lot one. 46-inch Honeycomh 65 pieces of All-wool Bon- cle novelties tm such shades | tien -the most as grecn, brown, navy, blac dress stuffs of the &e.. and 35. pieces. of Im! ba Works echoes ian ih ported —All-wool Tweeds— | fet green. brown, uffs whieh hav stuffs which we have sold this season for SOc. a yard, ing for 75c. a sard—will go for 50 cents. porters and from one of the leading manufacturers of America an have divided the purchase into three lots, and we promise you that an offering of such magnitude has not taken place in this city be- . such we datilia k, green and fore. Lot two. Lot three. be offered at 29 cents. GOLDENBERG?’S, sri 'Scec nd etpteende endnote denn ted An Element of Danger. “It is very evideat from the facts of this case (the death of Prof. Langerhans’ child), which are typical of a gradual increasing class, that there fs a certain element of danger in the serum, wh not be guarded against by experimenis on the herses, and caa only be tested by the effects of their serum on the children. Special instructions, indee}, have been given from the iaboratories that notes should be made by the atteadant physicis of the number, indicating the hors which the seru Sesesedeeentndetetetenteteteceeeeeentededeieteteteeeetedededetetetecteeebeedetedededecedeetneenenepegaine MOORE & LEDING, Jewelers, animals—a precedure which bears a peril- ously close relationsaip to human vivisec- tion. “The suggestion h in all s jousness by an Americ sician, with experience of three fatal results of injection, that the pos ity of the pr excluded by a p recently been made Intrinsic Value In our stock of Holiday Jewelry is only equaled by its artistic merit. The utmost care has been exercised by us to have a stock of beautiful things that can be bought NO- WHERE ELSE in town. We have been successful in the endeavor nd a visit of inspection will convince you of the fact. Moore & Leding, 1109 Penna. Ave. N.W. 2liminary trial on a cat. Having regard, however, to the proverbia nine-pewer resistance of this domestic ani- mal, the patient might die, or hapily re cover with the tre; while these pre- liminary experiments were in progress.’ Dr. Browne gives the following graphic illustration of the danger that arises from the fact that the serum is affecied by the condition of the animal from which it is taken: It has also been reportad that a certain ‘white horse’ had to be destroyed, because in those patients—who survived injection of serum derived from this source—local abscesses and :kin eruptions were undu‘ frequent. We hi nowever, no statistie: to show in hcw many cases death was mounted on this particular white horse, and it is not unfair to assume that the fatality with serum derived from it have been in excess of those treated with serum from other horses which did not produce these abscesses and other complications with equal frequency.”” About the same time that Dr. Browne's article appeared in the Contemporary Re- view an article from Dr. Lutaud of Paris appeared in the Journal de Medicine of that city (the 28th of last June), from shich I should like to lay before your readers the following remarkable passages, containing, as they do, expert opinions from Germany and Denmark, as well as an appeal to the physicians of France in the interest of true science and of the pless children on whom these disgusting and dangerous experiments are practiced: A French View. “As with all religions, that of the Pas- teurlans is supported upon terror and the fear of death; it has, like others, the ad- vantage of promising—not felicity in an- other world—but happiness and health im this. ‘Take our serum,’ say the new gods, ‘and you shell be preserved from diphthe- ria, scarlatina and all other epidemic scourges. Neither Christ nor Mahomet so much.’ This explains the im- success of the sero-therapy; it unites the suffrages—radicals, royalists, so- clalists and free-thinkers. Messrs. Roux and Marmoreck also profit from the vogue. Not content with selling their products at high prices, they wish to sell the profits of Seegeegesteeeegengensonsengengengensengengenongeadoatontongoegongongondoagengontongesgone ote Be sure and call for a copy of our dainty “Yule- tyde” Book if you don’t recelve one at your house. sapteduetetednetntedetdetntegedettetndegngetednetees PRC 66569426 T9VO TD 3FORTIFY $YOUR SYSTEM against sudden changes of ture. A’ slight or before the unanimous reprobation of prac- titioners. Not only does it not cure the bacterian m.ladies, but it aggravates con- siderably the mortality from them. We have made known in this journal the opin- fons of Messrs. Comby, Boissard, Bar, Gaulard and Dubrisay, and now we add that of M Variot: ‘My trials of the serum extendcd to but about a score of children, and I did not think I had the right to press them further. The consecutive failures of the injections were so painful and so grav and the benefit has seemed to me so doul) ful, that I have considered it would be i human to provoke cruel sufferings in un- fortunate children without any hope of ap- benefit.” orev may give Dr. Roux all the money swall matter in itself. ous mx are soon rid of it. thin people, a slight velops inte mores COD LIVER OTL 1} thens the entire system CURES coughs and colds. Our Cod Liver Oil is pure, fresh, and as pala- table as the finest Norwegian O1 — be 172 and Lc. bottle. W-Thompson, 7°33 syt PODS GOOFS OGG OGOE tery, they may raise to the state. Last year they. got a million | from the Paris lot! y ! ° . 2 franc glee tie eubsciption from the | hi, mato Soe (hoon et e/g S| PHARMACIST, “SStH.3 . year they wish for the funds en Bett <-nhah eh-2ed othe Pane ety they will have them, | Serums ‘will not survive close clinical €x- | @2G¢890¢009 e6eeGetit oes awe amination and tests; in five years they will have lived their life.” Whcther this prophecy of Dr. Lutaud is fulfilled or not, and whatever difference of opinion there may be as to the anti-toxic treatment, all will agree that the duty of the hour is to take such steps for the sani- tation of,the city as will remove the con- ditions which foster diphtheria; for until those conditions are removed there will be a recurrence of this dreadful disease, and the children will be constantly subject to danger. CRAMMOND KENNEDY. —— -—_ Phil. Sheridan Post. Phil Sheridan Post, No. 14, G. A. R,, elected the following officers last evening Commander, Alfred Shaw; senior vice com- mander, Theo. Hausmann; junior vice com- mander, H. C. Bradley; quariermaster, T. D. Yeager; surgeon, Chas. Banzhaf; chap- in, Rev. J. D. Smith; officer of the da. B W. Bonney; officer of the guard, Fred. Klein; representatives to department en- campment—P. O. Lawrence, Wm. E. Post and T. D. Yeager; alternates, Peter McGirr, Wm. L. Johnson and J. E. Jennings. Rev. Benjamin Tappan, D.D., ex-presi- dent of the Bangor Theological Seminary. died Thursday after a long illness. He was eighty-one years of age. and much besides. Let them make the most of their success; these good things are only for a time. ‘For us medical men, let us keep out of the current and guard ourselves against unreflecting enthusiasm. There is already too much staked on the anti-diphtheria rum. Last winter the mortality from diph- theria maintained the same total as during the years 1892 and 1893, in spite of the un- limited resort to sero-therapy. Let us ri call to memory the fact that this disco ery, due to Behring, and not to Roux, had been applied in Germany and abandoned before the Pasteur Institute took it under its powerful patronage. Here is what the Germans, who knew it before us, say of it: “Auerbach notifie- in the Centralbiatt fur Innere Medicin (No. 18, 1896), some grave corsequences produced by the serum of Behring, ‘which is more dangerous than useful.’ Gottstein publishes a large num- ber of fatal cases, and says, ‘the curative effect of the serum is net yet demonstrated; it does nut confer immunity, and possesses no prophylactic _action.’—(Theraputische Monatshefte, No. 5, 186). 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