The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1895. ® Q [~} Blue and Gold. Two Years Old, o buttercups le your downs and ups. d gold, and goid and blue, Seemeth all the worid to you. Little Two Years 01d, too soon You will know the heat of noon. Dust along your path will lie, And the grass be sere and dry. e a thrust, Rose and flame with cruel thorn Best will tell the sweet pain borne. Red and brown and brown and red Seems the world, the sun o'erhead. ttle Two Years Old, the light ard up to God. nd gold and blue, be to you. Have you children been foolish enough to believe all these years that the dear old iry ood to be true? high time for you to learn that none of them were even half so beautiful nor half so wonderful as plenty of things that are happening all around you all the time without your ever notic- ing. I hing like the game of ‘“hunt ’ that is alw so much fun, you put the thimble in some s and improbable spot it right away, and if you sight’’ in the most place in the room nobody it, even if you call ‘‘hot! hot!” while they are looking right t it. 4 he way with the fairy stories, too, and to prove to you that thereare good fairies s and that you can be one yourself justas well as notif you want to, I am going to tell youa story that is every bit true and that ppened right here in San Francisco, and all since the beginning of the y same moon that is growing old now. In the straw of a little stable not many blocks from the heart of our City two wretched little children slept when they had worn themselves out with sobbingand moaning. Their mother lay besides them some- putit - conspic! times, cramped into a space too short and small for her, wringing her hands silently, moving her head from side to side, but never sleeping for a single moment. I will not tell you the long tale of mis- fortune t had_brought these people to such a pass, for I am afraid you already know well enough that want always threatens the poor, and that, unless there are strong ds and stout hearts to drive him away, he is a cruel enemy. Jennie and Fred, the sleepers in the v, conld have told you, had they been ce, that papa was dead, killed, long ago, in the mill where he was working; mma had worked so hard that she h, so sick! and then had worked and suffering, earning less each ¥ 1e grew worse, and needing medi- cines and food, and, most of all, the rest that never came. Perhaps she was not a very wise business woman, this poor mamma, who was still young, and who used to be such a pretty mma before she was so sick. But even if she was not very wise, this mother, she loved her babes and hoped for them, al- ays until to-night, when there was only stable and a great hunger for all three. Almost crazed with suffering and de- spair, the woman crept out from her hiding place after a time—softly, not to_wake the little ones to knowledge of their pain again. Groping out into the dingy alley her eyes were attracted by the light above, and she looked up to where the stars were shining serenelv in the sky. Did the pretty stars beam down some message of hope and love to the lonely and sorrowing mother? At least she was ealmed and comforted as she looked, and it seemed to her that the stars were good companions up there, smiling down upon a world of men who were good companions to each other, too, and no one need be alone in pain and want. “I will go to find somebody,” she said to herself, “‘and I will tell about mf children here alone, and somebody will help us, and we shall be happy again.” A great clock was striking 2 when- she began her walk, and the woman walked a long way before she found anybody at sll. Then all at once she turned a corner and came face to face with Prince Mistle- toe, who was walking auickly toward her. Prince Mistletoe is a little brown man from over ,and we are going to call him that because it doesn’t mean anything at all, but sounds pleasant and isn’t the least little bit like his real name. Prince Mistletoe was hurrying along at a lively pace, as if he did not much like finding bimself in the street atsuch an hour, which was quite true. He was hur- rying to his hotel, this magician from a far-away land, after entertaining a gay party of people with an exhibition of what he could do with that clever little nght hand of his. I am not going to tell you guite what gift Prince Mistletoe has which brings Plenty of great big gold picces flying to his pockets just asif they bad wings and knew where they wanted to go. Perhaps he only wields the bow of a violin skillfully, and people give money for the pleasure of listening to his music. Perhaps it is a paint brush that he_holds in his strong lit- tle brown hand, with harmonies in color instead of sound flowing from theend of it. Perhaps it is even a pen that is the tool of Prince Mistletoe’s trade. Iam go- ing to let you wonder about that, and only ask you to remember that there is a power in being able to do any of those things, or any other useful thing, well, that is reater than any magic that anybody ever reamed about. I must tell you, though, that easy as it is for our Prince to win the gold pieces he never has any of them ahout him for long at a time. He does not believe in clipping their wings and{keeping them prisoners, as your big brother does his pigeons. He enjoys seeing them fly away again just as much as he enjoys seeing them fly toward him. Perbaps it is because Prince Mistie- toe is a foreigner and not very learned in our ways; but somehow he seems to think that gold pieces are made to be kept flying from one person to another, bringing a blessing when they come and burdened ‘with anotier when they €y away. But in very much less time than it has taken you to read all this our poor starv- | ing mother has told her story to Prince | Mistletoe and that absurd little man (you | will see at once that he is very childish | and not at all like our wise and sensible | selves) was actually so sorry for her that | he cried a little bit and walked straight | along with the woman to the stable where | the children were sleeping. A policeman | went along, too, but he knew the Prince | very well and felt quite safe in obeying his | sign that the woman must not be troubled | by his coming very near or asking her any questions. At the stable they found the children awake, crying and calling for their mother, cold and wretched. And what do you think that silly Prince did when he heard those children cry and | saw their pale, pinched Jittle faces? Well,he | | forgot that these were strange children of | another race, and he thought of himself | when he was a littie child in a far-away | land and crying in the lonely night for his | mother, who was dead, and _he cried again | as children do and made spots that| wouldn’t come qut all over the sleeve of | | his beautiful light overcoat. That wasn’t a bit like any and bookkeeper in a pleasant little store that belonged to a man who was sure to be as good as gold, because he was a friend of Prince Mistletoe’s. Only think of being ‘“‘wanted.” Onl think what that meant to a poor little bit of a woman who had been “Want.ing” s0 long that she hed almost forgotten that it was possible that she could ever be “wanted’’ anywhere. ‘And so when the very next steamer left for the south, a woman stood with her arms around two little children, who were standing on a bench beside the rail and waving their bandkerchiefs to a little brown man who was standing on the dock. The woman had some tears in her eyes, but she smiled through them, and she looked as if she was going to grow into the “pretty mamma’* of long ago in a very short time. The little brown man on the shore beamed upon everything and everybody like a full moon. He hadn’t the least sus- picion that he was nn_vzh‘mfz like a fairy prince, but he couldn’t help smiling all over whenever he thought how very lucky | it was that he staid out so late one night, other prince [ and so had an opportunity of taking care American dentistry leads the world to-day, and the world justly honors us fer the great advances we have made in the pres- ervation of teeth; but the fact still con- fronts us that mlilions of teeth are annu- ally lost in America that need not have been sacrificed if proper care and cleanli- ness of the montfl E:d vegun in child- hood and continued to manhood and womanhood. The dentists of America havedone much to educate and train_our citizens in the care of their teeth, We must do more. At the same time, in order to multiply our usefulness, we must solicit the aid of our teachers. With their co-operation we can reach and train millions of children. A majority of the children of our land are in our public schools. They are under the teacher’s instractions from 5 to 17 years of age. If the teachers were required to instruct and train the children in the proper care of their teeth,and to insist upon their carrying out snch instructions practically at home, we would have accom- flished—or at least begun—a great work. f such pupils could be trained from 1n- fancy ng through all the grades tothe high school, I am very sure we would see men and women with better teeth than the average American of to-day. The teachers are the only ones who can do this work. The parents of a large percentage of the pupils are ignorant and careless almost be- yond belief, and their children will foilow in their footsteps unless the dentists of America come to the rescue.—Dr. J.C. Coy in the Journal of the American Medi- cal Association. Philosophy of Babyland. “I understand you bave a fine garden, Tommie.” “Yeth.” “What do you raise in it chiefly ?” “Taty-bugs,” said Tommie.—Harper's Bazar. “How do you get on with your music, Gussie?” Gussie—Oh, ever and ever so fast. I used to get behind my teacher when we Jayed duets, but now I can get twoor g.\ree bars ahead just as easy. Mamma—Robbie, why didn’t you speak to Mrs. Bangle when you met her just now? Robbie—You said I_must always_think before I speak, and I couldn’t think of anything to think. Auntie—Now I must give the goldfish some fresh water. Little Ethel—Why, auntie, they haven’t drank up what they have yet!—Bazar. A little girl of 4 years who was staying |in a fairy tale, I admit, but it was very much Jike a good and kindman who had | kept the loving_heart of a child buttoned | safely away inside his coat where the world y could not spoil it. “I thank you very much,” Prince Mistletoe said to the woman in his soft broken English. “I thauk you very much for telling me about this. “I know not how much money I have in my pockets, but so much as J have that is yours. I hopeitis much. Let us see.” And in his various pockets Prince Mistle- toe found $22 that had not flown away yet and he was very glad to find so much, “You must lie down here together till daylight,” he said to the children, ‘‘and your mother with you. And in the morn- ing when you have had some breakfast you must come and find me.” And he went away to his hotel, thinking very hard what he should do and what a pity it was that the woman had not told somebody about her troubles before things got so bad. Very early in the morning he went out to find a woman that he knew and engaged some rooms from her for his new friend. “Mind,” he said to her, I wanteverything of the best—the bathroom ready, the beds fresh and sweet.” And into this pleasant place came those weary outcasts, and here they were rested, [From a photograph.] of somebody who needed it very much indeed. MaRY CALKINS JOHNSON. The Teeth of Our School Children. For the past ten years my practice has been in a community that numbers among its citizens many persons of culture and refinement, others whose exterior appor- tionments of life were all that could be de- sired, and whose children were beign trained in all the arts and sciences of the day except that of cleanliness of the mouth. ‘We have thousands of this class. I have examined and worked for hundrecs of them in the past ten years. The ignorance on the part of the parents, and neglect on the part of the children who know no better is one of the wonders of the nineteenth cen- tury. ’ In one school of 700 pupils, 500 from 10 to 18 years of age, I distributed printed slips with the following questions: Do you cleanse your teeth with a brush every day? Do you cleanse your teeth with a brush twice aday? The teachers requested the children to answer the questions by writing yes, or no, to each question. The slips were immediately gathered up. On summinF up, it was ascertained that out of 500 pupils, 50 cleaned their teeth twice a NOW LOOK [Reproduced from an engrav: PLEASANT. ing in the “Great Divide."] fed and comforted. Do you not believe that the pretty rcoms, the excellent din. ners and the new clothes made a real fairy- land for Jennie and Fred? As tothe clothes theé' were ever €0 much better than a fairy godmother could conjure up, for they were stronger anda warmer, and so very much more in_style, yon know, thau garments from fairyland coula possibly be, Of course this sort of thing could rot go on forever, and when Prince Mistletoe had done this much he had to sit down and think so hard that the veins in his fore- head made ridges and lumps. He had more to do than to wave a wand to make things go the right way. He bad to think what was the right way first, and then he had to send letters and telegrams and talk to people, and even do the thing thatis hardest of all for a mortal man—he had te ask questions. But in the end a telegram came one day that made the Prince rub his hands and grin with glee and sent him flying off to make arrangements for the next thing to be done. The poor little womszn was not very strong, and thoush she must earn a living for her babes, there were not so very many things that she would be able to do. She ought to get away irom the great city, t00, and live in a sunshiny land. And that blessed telegram said she was wanted in Los Angeles, where she could be cashier day; 275 used a brush sometimes; while 175 did not own a brush. Notice, the ages were from 10 to 18. In the primary de- partment of 200 pupils, from 6 to 10 years of age, the teachers said they did not think there were 10 children in the department who used a toothbrush. The school is not an_exceptional one in this matter, as further inquiry and investi- gation demonstrated. Infact its graduates take high rank at our universities, and if there is any difference it is in advance of most schools in percentage of those who have clean mouths, as well as neat clothes and bright faces. ‘When there is so much neglect, and no real care of the mouth, it 18 not at all strange that the sixth year molars have to be sacrificed daily, because the parents canuot go to the expense of treatment to have them preserved, thinking all the time that this most valuable tooth is de- ciduous, and soon to be replaced by one that is bacteria proof and will last forever in a mouth that has never been properly cleaned. The school of 700 pupils mentioned, where only fifty made any pretense to reg- ular care for the teeth, shows what a field for instruction and training every teaeher has. What an opportunity for philan- thropy and missionary work! The question before us is, what can we doto save the teeth of our school children? BOYS AND GIRLS ENJOY THE SURF. with an aunt was made to eat something she did not like, and on being told to give thanks for it the child folded her hands lA]nddemid, “Thank God, it’s over!”’—Baby- 00d. TUncle (to a small visitor in Chicago)— These tall buildings are what we call sky- scrapers, Bobbie. Bobbie (looking up with big round eyes)—The sky needs scraping ‘rrzny bad bere, doesn’t ‘it, Uncle. Robert?—Chicugo Tribune. There is one very clever small girl in New England who reasons out a grest many things for herself and who cannot be de- ceived, as many other small girls are, by things that are told them “for fun.” Having been told by one of her aunts that the moon is made of green cheese she immediately sought out her grandfather, to whom she said : “Aunt J— says the moon is made of green cheese, but I don’t pelieve it.” “And wby not?’ asked her grandfather. “Because, 1've been reading In the Bible, and it proves that the moen ain’t made of green cheese, because the moon was made before the cows was.”—Harper's Young People. AL & NENBERTS DETH The Quartermaster of Com- pany A, First Regiment National Guard. He Dled at the Very Hour Fixed for Swearing Him in for His Third Term. A singular coincidence happened in connection with the death on Friday night of Joel G. Newbert at his residence, 318 Noe street. Newbert had been connected with Com- pany A of the First Regiment, National Guard, for six years. His second term of three years expired on Friday. He was for five years quartermaster of the com- pany, and no member worked harder for its peneiit. During the troublous times last vear in connection with the railroad strike Company A was sent to Truckee to do service with the Fifth United States Artillery, and while there Newbert as quartermaster rendered most efficient service. Sunday last Captain_Marshall called to see him.” He was suffering from inflam- matory rheumatism and kidney troubles, but hnething serieus was anticipated. “Well, captain,” said he, *I will be down on Friday night to be sworn in for my third term.” “All right, Joel,” replied the captain. “I will be there to swear you in.” Almost at the very hour Newbert would bave been sworn in he drew his last breath. _As soon as Colonel Bush was notified of his death, he sent the regfmental colors to be placed on his coffin and ordered six- teen men from Company A to turn ous in full uniform as ngunrd over the remains, The funeral will take place this after- noon to Holy Cross Cemetery, and 100 men from A and other companies, under com- mand of Captain Marshall, will parade with side arms as mourners. There will also be a firing sqimfl of eight men under Col"poral Hynes of A Company. Newbert was a favorite in the regiment, He was 34 years of age, and was for mai years a trusted eierk for J. J. O'Brien Co., the dry-goods merchants. . An English captain named Burke, serv- ingin Bengal, who went benr-huntlng in the mountains lately, was attacked by a beast he had wounded. His servant went to his rescue, when the bear carried them both over the side of a precipice a thous sand feet deep. NEW TO-DAY. KELLY & LIEBES Cloak and Suit House, 120 EKearny Street. Another Big Bargain Wosk! JAST WEER WE WERE OROWDED. Hundreds of delighted buyers thanked us for the wouderful bargains we sold them for lit le money. We will make a special feature this week of Capes and Jackets. You shall buy them at your ewn price. For 40¢, 75¢ and $1. LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAISTR, nobby patterns, big sleeves: a_ big variety of styles: actually uced from $1 10, $1 50 and $2. For $2.50, $2.75 and $3. SILK WAISTS, plain and fancy silks, big sleeves, fancy collars, stylish nobby waists; actually reduced from $8, $7 50 and §8 50. For $4.50, $5 and $6.50. FINEST NOVELTY STRIPED SILK WAISTS, elogant styles, big sleeves, fancy collars and beits, beautitul silks; actually reduced from $9, $10 and $12. For $8.50, $10 and $12.50. SEPARATE STRiET SKIRTS, in Black Bro- cade, Taffets Silk and in Black, Blue and Tan Crepons; finest quality: Godet cut: all lined through and pieats stiffened: actually reduced for this week from $18, $22 60 and 827 50. For $10, $13.50 and $15. IMPORTED SAMPLE CAPES. in black and colors: only one of each kind: beautiful goods; silk lined and trimmed in the iatest styles: Sctaally reduced for this week from $25, $27 50 and $30. Special attention given all orders. Sati country Always send money with order, tion guaranteed. NEW TO-DAY. NEW TO-DAY. KELLY & LIEBES Cloak and Suit House, 120 Kearny Stroet. Amoihep Bis Bareain Week! TEHIS WEEK IS SPECTALLY DEVOTED TO Capes, Jackets and Dreases. Our gizanic sale | bas proven a gigantic success and we in 1is L0 be the biggest week. Ali new and styiish wraps | and prices simply don’t amount to what you would have Lo pay for the making. Z’ For $L50, $1.75, §2. DUCK DRESSES, fine stylish ducks, big wide skirts, big sleeves, blazer and box styles, actu- ally reduced for this week from $2 50, $3 50 and 84 50. For $2.25, $2.75, $3.50. DUCK DRESSES, extra heavy pique ducks, box jacket suits, ig sleeves, extra wide Godet skirts, 100 styles of ducks; also solid navys, tans, light blues and HYlacks, actually reduced from $5, $6 and $7. For $5, 6 styles, eeves and wide es, wonderful bar- fil@us, actually reduced from $12 50, $15 and For $7.50, $9, $11. BOX JACKET SUITS, big sleeves, wide skirts, fine all-wool goods, mixed cheviots, covert cloths, fine serges, grays, tans, blues and blacks, actually reduced for this week from $15, $20 and $22 50. Special attention given all country orders. Always send money with order. Satisfaction guaranteed. | goods sre new and not KELLY & LIEBES' Cloak and Suit Homse, 120 Eearny Streot. Ao Big Bareai Wl HIS WEEK WE OFFER CAPES dresses at glgantic reduction sale p will beat anything ever before d this will be the grandest week of bargains for c:pes and dresses. For $5, $6, $7.50. VELVET CAPES, silk-lined, fancy neck trim- mings of chiffon and ribbons and violets, mag- nificent goods, Actually reduced from $15, $18 and $20. For §10, $11.50, $13.50. VELVET CAPES, silk-lined and jet or brald trimmed, necks fancy trimmed with ribbons, elegant capes. Actually reduced from $22 50, $25 and $27 50. For $8.50, $10, $15.50. SILK CAPES, silk-lined and lace or jet trimmed, nobby and stylish. Actually reduced from $19, $22 50 and $26. e 9 mr g mx 5 For $2.75, $3.75, $4.50. ALL-WOOL C I fine gcods, full et mmed necks, some em- blacks and ail colors. 7 50, $10 and $12. broiderea_anc Actually reduced fron trimmed — assortment of s duced from $5, Q'f and $9. Special _attention given all country or- ders. Always send monecy with order. Matisfaction guaranteed s L fodiobactich A i Sy and a great Actually re- WITH THE SCIENTISTS Curious Facts and Figures Gleaned in the World of Medicine. A Complaint Pecullar to Streetcar Conductors— It Is Named ‘‘Cable Back.” We have often wondered perhaps why so many great statesmen, lawyers, doctors, and in fact all brain-workers, are able to continue to work with almost unimpaired activity and energy up to a period in their lives when their general condition seems to be rapidly advancing ‘o senile decay. An authority on this subject, Dr. Balfour, tells us that there is a physiological reason for this. He says that there are two parts of the human organism that escape senile inactivity if wisely used. They are the brain and the heart. He affirms that the normal brain re- mains vigorous to the last because its nutrition is especially provided for. Soon after middle life the arteries of the body begin to lose their elasticity and gradually dilate to such a degree that they become inefficient carriers of the nutrient blood to the smaller biood vessels, which supply nourishment to various parts of the body. There are two important arteries, how- ever, which supply the small vessels of the brain, that do not lose their elasticity, hence the cerebral blood pressure remains normallv higher than in any other part of the organism, and consequently the brain substance is well nourished while other parts degenerate through lack of nourish- ment. What a comfort this ought to be to those who have passed middle age, ambitious for grand worg in the future, and yet filled with fears as to their ability to carry out their plans; owing to the knowledge that old age will soon be creeping upon them. This is surely a time for rejoicing, when we are given a physiological guarantee that the brain may keep on with its work, and that we may even expect it to be in such an improved condition that the excellence of the work performed improves, perhaps, to the last hour of life. In Japan the “new woman’ has asserted herself, and she is an American. Sbe is the wife of a native Japanese, named Suganuma, and is the first woman physi- cian to be officially recognized by the Japanese Government. n England they are discussing the plan of having hospitalson wheels (not bicycles) to be used during epidemics throughout the thinly populated districts. The New York Sun comments on the Hahnemann monument to be erected in Washington as follows: *“As a work of art we know of nothing better in this country than the model for the Hahnemann mona- ment to be erected in Washington, * * * The Washington monument will be the third erected in Hahnemann’s honor. There is one in Berlin and there is another in Leipzig. We cannot think of any other doctor thus widely honored.” After a careful study of the “grip” in New York E. B. Dunn of the Weather Bu- reau states that the higher the numidity and the more sudden the fall of tempera- ture the greater the number of deaths. A physician tells us that with regard to the weight of the human body several fal- lacies are commen. He who rejoices over a gain of a number of pounds in weight during a given period may be laboring under a great delusion. This investigator says that very few persons have any cor- rect idea of theirown weight. The weight of the body is continually changing, owing to influences of varying types. After breakfast, on a warm day, a man will lose more than one-third of a pound per hour. Seventy per cent of the body is water, and its wright varies constantly. The inference drawn from the loss or gain of a pound or two cannot be relied upon. Fluctuations of a few ounces are a sign that the body is in a healthy state. A man named Oscar Tully of Yardville, N. J., was obliged to have his vermiform appendix removed some time ago, and from all accounts it has proved quite a good thing for him, as the obstruction was found to be a large pearl, which must have been swallowed in an oyster, and for which he has been offered $200, but he has re- fused the offer as he thinks the pearlis worth more. In Central Amerca, at the foot of the Volcano Agua, a buried city, similar to Pompeii, is being excavated. Skeletons over six feet long have been found at depths of fourteen to eighteen feet. Jewels, fine glasswage, pottery and flint instru- ments have also been discovered. The medical profession of Vienna pro- poses to commemorate the fiftieth year of the reign of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, by the foundation of a hospital for children, with a capacity of 1000 beds. The United States has 13,000 medical students, the German universities have 8000 and England has only 552 If a spoen is placed in a glass before filling with hot water it will prevent the breaking of the glass, because the metal rapidly absorbs the greater part of the rate of in the same time. This makes an increase of the world of 1,200,000 peo- ple per annum. heat. In the Johns Hopkins Medical School 25 | per cent of the students at present are | women. | A recent medical journal teils of a pe- | culiar case at law, wherein the right to | the possession of an amputated limb is | brought into question. It says: “The | Bupreme Court of Belgium has just been | called upon to decide a novel and extra- | ordinary question. One of theleading sur- geons of Brussels had occasion about a year ago to amputate the leg of a| Kounz married lady belonging to the ighest circles of the aristocracy. | The operator was so pleased with ‘ | his job that he preserved the leg in a jar of | | spirits of wine and placed it on exhibition in his consulting-room, a card being af- | fixed to the jar giving the patient’s name | and the details concerning the circum- | stances which made the operation neces- sary. “On hearing this the husband of the lady demanded the immediate discontinuance | of the exhibition and the return of the severed member as being his property. To | this the surgeon demurred. He admitted that the plaintiff had property rightsin the leg while it formed part of his wife, but argued that the leg in itsgresent condition | | was the result of his (defendant’s) ekill | | and the work of his own hands and that | he was clearly entitled to keep it. The court seemed rather staggered by this Jine | of argument, and after taking a fortnight | to consider the question_finally decided | | against the doctor and in favor of the | husband’s claim to the possession of the | amputated leg of his better half.” | In the Krench Academy it is said thata | most remarkable case of rapid growth was “ recorded in 1729. A boy who was 5 feet 6 | inches tall at 6 years of age. When he was | 5 years of age his voice had changed; his | | beard had firown at 6 and he was possessed | | of great physical strength; at § his hair ianf beard were gray; at 10 his gait was | faltering, his teeth fell out and he became | palsied. He died at 12 years of age with | every sign of extreme old age, The latest disease is called by the med- ical profession ‘‘cable back,” which is a | pain in the small of the back complained of by streetcar conductors, and is caused | by the repetition of shocks to the spinal | column, due to the sudden starting of the | cable and electric cars. It keeps the doc- | tors busy studying up names for the dif- | ferent diseases the people seem so ready | to supply them with, as well as new reme- dies for their cure. They say that ne *‘microbe” has yet been discovered for this neyw disease. In Germany the medical profession has adopted a sysiem for separating the bright pupils from the stupid ones, the sorting process being carried out not by the teachers but by medical men. Thisisa most excellent 1dea, and should be carried out in every school in the United States, 8o that the standard of school work ma: be better adapted to the individual nle thus preventing overwork with the almost invariable mental and rervous prostration. Statistics have it that the death rate of the world is 67 per minute, with a birth The proportion of deaf mutes to the pop- ulation is 1 toevery 2043. In 1851 there was 1 aeaf mute to every 1738 of the popula- tion. Physicians claim that this decrea: is mainly traceable to greater knowle and care in the treatment of scarlatina in children. How can the public be made to know the necessity of a properly devised and practical method of mi i 1s not enough to know that the milk looks “creamy’’ or unadulterated, but the milk- man’s premises should be inspected and every detail thoroughly investizated. Often the water used for the p of cooling the milk is taken from tanks and wells in such a vile condition that the water when examined is found to be swarming with bacteria. During the past few years there have been a number of epidemics of typhoid fever caused by contaminated milk or water. 3 The cause of the great epidemic in Plymouth, Pa., and the more recent epi- demic in Windsor, Vt., was the infection of the public water supply. The very re- cent epidemic in Montclair, J., as'well as those in Waterbury, Conn., and Spring- field, were traced directly and conclusively to the milk supplicd. At present the peo- ple of Stamford and New Milford, in Con- necticut, are suffering from the ravages of typhoid fever. Outof 337 cases in Stam- ford 307 have been traced to the milk supply- AFTER ASHWORTH AGAIN. Property-Owners Protested to the Mayor Against Neglect of Cess- pools. A communication was received by Mayor Sutro on Friday from the property- | owners in the vicinity of Harrison and Ripley streets, inveighing against the apathy of Superintendent Ashworth. At~ tention is called to a resclution passed by the Board of Supervisors January 24 of this year instructing the Superintendent to clean the cesspools at the junction of Harrison and Ridley streets and to re- quest the property-owners to clean the gutters on Ridley street. The resolution was made in deference to a petition from the property-owners. George T. Gaden, the Mayor's expert, visited the district' mentioned on Friday afternoon and_he said yesterday that the cesspools and sewers were in a most frightful condition. Nothing had been done in the way of improvement, he said, There were no connections between the sewers and the cesspools and the latter are filled up to within a foot and a half of the surface. “Mr. Ashworth was ordered to do this work,” said Mr. Gaden, ‘“and why it has not been done is a mystery. If the prop- erty-owners refused to do their share he had the authority from the board to do it at their expense.” Mr. Rogers, th: Mayor's secretary,has been instructed to communi« cate with the Superintendent of Streets on the subject. NEW AND TWO BIG 1868 MARKET STREET, Near Van Ness Avenue, PUBLI SUHOOL ; Open Monday, July 22. Polytechnic High, Boys’ and Girls’ High, Grammar and Primary =)CHOOL BOOKS OLD BOUGHT AND SOLD. E70LD BOOKS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. =3 VAN NESS BAZAAR, STORES, 617 BUSH STREET, Between Powell and Stockton. <