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Show The Lot. ol Humbug. j If one may bo indulged in the use of a little slang, it makes a wiso man tired to see how persistently his compeers ruu after and are beguiled by the latent shams, and oeeia never so happy as when they are being deceived. Especially is this trait noticeable ia the matter of physical ailments. The family physician may measure out his prescribed doses of quiaino or senna, give the patient a plain, practical talk, and depart w ith the consciousness of duty done and the certainty cer-tainty that the subject will leave tho powders untouched on the mantel, unless un-less he becomes frightened, and that his reputation as a physician wiil sutler in consequeuce. But let some traveling fakir come along, pitch his tent, swin' out his flas, with ringing of bells aud blowing of horns, and io! tho public is at his fc-t ready to ba healed, willing to swallow the most nauseous mixtures, if only tbey be christened with unpronounceable and untranslatable names, anxious to pay double the fees of a respectable, responsible respon-sible physician, and bold to assert uft-r a week'sdiet.of bread pills and rain water sweetened with uolasses, that they are perfectly cured of imagined ailnionts, and are" urgent that their friends shall share in their good fortune. Science doesn't always receive theeu-port theeu-port of the universal public; huinbug-gery huinbug-gery does. The street wizard, with tangled hair and picturesque garb, can extract teeth painlesbly by tho saco pro-cess pro-cess which nearly murders the patient if performed by ar. educated dentist, dressed in Nineteenth century clothes and located in a well appointed effice. The nobie aborigine, in war paint and feathers, dealing out "Sagwa" and mystic oils, will carry oil all the spare char.ge of a community, while the village physician grows poverty stricken. Milwaukee Sentinel. Sen-tinel. . ' 1 |