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Show ARE PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTION ATHLETE STATESMAN. FORMER IN COACH FOOTBALL CHARGE OF A DEPARTMENT. W. Woodruff. Qeorg Who Made a Na- tional Reputation for Penn Eleven, Temporarily Appointed to Secretary Garfield's Place. Washington. Following bis established preference for athletic men. President Roosevelt has made a termer football coach secretary of the inOf course, it Is only a temterior porary appointment thai goes to George W. Woodruff, former developer of Penn and Carlisle Indian elevens, tor Secretary Garfield still lias his Job. But while Mr. Garfield is away on his vacation the inventor of that piece of football strategy known as guards-bacwill have full authority in the itiuent. Mr. Woodruff is one of the five assistants to the attorney general, and lie is connected with the department of justice, though his assignment is to Kive id vice to the department of the interior in matters where legal points are raised The acting secretary of the interior Is about the same age as the president, and was at Vale at the same time Mr. Koosevelt was a student at Harvard. Hut Mr Woodruff as a college man had a career that paled If r Roosevelt's. His He was an exceptional athlete. was the unusual record of having been for his entire four veins a member of the football eleven, the track and field teams and the 'varsity crew. He captained the crew in 1889. After finishing his Classical course at Yale Mr. Woodruff Wenl to the University of Pennsylvania to study law, and It was here that he made his reputation as one of the foremost football tacticians of his day. Woodruff bad a career of success for five years at l'enn, then a time came when the quality of candidates fell off. and he no longer hail men who could carry his ideas into effect The result was a long .succession of defeats which at last roused opposition to he former-ly Idolized coach As a culmination of to difficulties, Mr. Woodruff resigned and announced that he would quit coaching. First he went to Chicago to take a place with the sporting goods house of A (1 Spalding, hut the desire to cjiach was sluing within the famous tactician and after a short time he came back to the oast and signed to teach the Carlisle Indian eleven. It, was exepected that with the fleet redskins to carry out his ideas, Wood ruff would invent all kinds of tricks. The eleven did play good football, but not enough bettor than in preceding seasons to make Woodruff want the job another year. So he made a final renunciation ot football and turned hi attention to his neglected profession. Mr, Woodruff had been admitted to practice in the United States courts, all the way up to the supreme court, while he was still coaching the l'enn sylvania eleven, but he was so busy with football that he gave little seri ous effort to getting c'ients. Hut when he got to law in serious earnest he found out that he was a good lawyer, and others quicklv made the same discovery. A fighter was wanted in the forest service as a law officer, ami Mr. Wood tuff got the appointment, becoming Chief aid to Gilford Plnchot, the government forester. He did yeoman service in organizing the national forest reserve policy, and his industry and ability especially commended itself to the president, who soon discov- de-p- , HERO MEDAL norance or for mercenary reasons are opposing the sale of all household remedies, uhy is it not equally necessary for patients to kiwir the compo- i! ;ii of the remedy prescribed by a physi'ianf Does any sane person believe that the opium in a physician's prescription is less potent or less likely to create a drug habit than the opl-uIn a proprietary medicine? As a n alter of fact, v.ore opium-addict- s and cocainflends hare been made through the criminal carelessness of ignorant physicians than by any other To one not qualified, and few lay. men are, to discriminate Intelligently bet ween physicians' prescriptions, proprietary medicines and nostrums, it may seem little short of a crime to hint even that physicians' prescriptions are in any manner related to nostrums; nevertheless, an impartial examination of all the facts in the case leads Irresistibly to the conclusion that every medicinal preparation means. compounded and di.--i ensed by a physiUnquestionably, there are a number of sense In the the strict is. cian word, of proprietary remedies on the market a nostrum, and that the average, of which should be prohibitproprietary remedy is the sales no and doubt they witl be when ed, specially-preparethe average superior to of the Food and the requirements physicians' prescription. What is a nostrum? According to Drugs Act are rigidly enforced; many some the Standard Dictionary a nostrum Is are frauds, pure and simple, and Of the aver"a medicine the composition of which are decidedly harmful. age proprietary remedy, however, it is kept a secret." Now, when a physiis discian compounds and dispenses with may truthfully be said that it his own hands a remedy for the treat tinctly better than the average physicians' prescription; for not only Is its ment of a disease and it is authoritaless secret, but it Is pretively stated that probably 60 per composition the for proprietor by reputable pared of all cent, physicians' prescriptions in this country are so dispensed the manufacturing pharmacists in magnificently equipped laboratories and unnames and quantities of the ingre dients which constitute the remedy der the supervision and advice of able are not made known to the patient. chemists, competent physicians and skillful pharmacists. It should not be Hence, since its composition is kept a so secret by the physician, the remedy or considered strange, therefore, that to prescribe many physicians prefer Is in the unquestionably, prescription these proprietary remtrue meaning of the word, a Simon-purnostrum. Furthermore, the pre- edies rather than trust those of their own devising. scription compounded by the average physician is more than likely to be a ALL RELIGIONS IN LONDON. perfect jumble replete with therainpeutic, physiologic and chemical Faithist Community Latest Addition compatibilities and bearing all the earto Its Queer Sects. marks of pharmaceutical incompetency; for It is now generally admitted The Faithist community which has that unless a physician has made a established a modest footing in am special study of pharmacy and whose gospel comprehensive i tft-ta tM r as rt rrt tcr fr a of man to from the , , ''S creation . . .. . a ... , pose oi gaining practical Kiiowieugb d.1 JL LllVli " a ftlV'l UI1W gUUO EU of modern pharmaceutical methods, goddesses of theIttljl'l Etherian heavens," is he is not fitted to compound remedies the latest addition to the long list of for his patients. Moreover, a physi- London's which are sects, religious cian who compounds his own prescrip- now almost as many as the days of tions not only deprives the pharmacist the year. In London the Chinaman of his just emoluments, but he endanburns his incense stick in more than gers the lives of patients; for It is one in the east end, the Maonly by the detection and elimination hometan has his mosque, the Malayan of errors in prescriptions by clever, his near St. George's street that the east; temple, competent prescriptionists the Parsees worship the sun in safety of the public can be effectually Hloomsbury, the Mormons have a misshielded from the criminal blunders sion in Islington, and in many parts of ignorant physicians. of the metropolis the Buddhists and Nor can it be said that the average Ancestor Worshipers perform their physician is any more competent to strange rites. Of Christian sects in formulate a prescription than he is to London there are at least 300, Includcompound it. When memorized or di- ing the Cokelers, the disciples of Wilbook of a "favorite liam rectly copied from shoeSirgood, the Walworth prescriptions by famous physicians," maker; the Peculiar People, who preor medical fer or from some text-booprayer to physicians; the journal, the prescription may be all the followers of Joanna that It should be. It is only when the Southcott, the prophetic serving to a originate physician is required maid; the Shakers and the Seventh formula on the spur of the moment Day Baptists. that his Incompetency is distinctly evident. Seemingly, however, the physiWOMEN IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. cians of the United States are little worse than the average British physi- In Many Ways They Had Easier Lives cian; for we find Dr. James Burnett, Than Their Descendants. lecturer on Practical Materia Medica and Pharmacy, Edinburgh, lamenting The women of the sixteenth century in the Medical Magazine the passing and earlier times had easier lives than of the prescription and bemoaning the those of our To be sure, generation. fact that seldom does he find a "final there are a hundred labor saving deman" able to devise a prescription vices which were unknown to even in "good contracted Latin." them. But in at least two important And what, it may be asked, is the respects they had the advantage over status of the written prescription the their descendants. They waged no prescription that is compounded and conflict against dirt such as we carry 'dispensed by the pharmacist is it, on from morning till night. The Eliztoo, a nostrum? It may be contended abethan had no prejudice against garthat the patient, with the written bage in his front yard, vermin in his formula In his possession, may learn bedroom, decaying rushes on the floor the character of the remedy pre- of his banquet hall, oi soiled lace in scribed. So, possibly, he might if he his sleeves. The strength of arm and understood Latin and were a physician spirit which now goes to keeping clean or a pharmacist, '"it as he usually poswas left to the medieval lady for other sesses no professional training and tasks. Moreover, although her clothcannot read Latin, the prescription is ing was gorgeous rich with embroidpractically a dead secret to him. ery and lace, and heavy with jewels Furthermore, the average prescription it was not subject to rapid changes of Is so badly written and so greatly fashion. The cut of a sleeve or the abbreviated that even the pharmao ang of a skirt was settled for five sKiueu as ne usually is in uecijari'-roav, rather than five months. Life medical hieroglyphs, is constantly was then free from the modern terror obliged to interview prescribers to of "looking like a last year's rag bag." find out what actually has been preYouth's Companion. scribed. It may also be contended, that Inasmuch as the formula is known THE LOAD OF THE LAZY. to both physician and pharmacist the prescription cannot therefore be a se- This Man Worked Hard in His Own cret. But with equal truth It might be Particular Way. contended that the formula of any nostrum Is not a secret since It One of the neighborhood loafers sat Is known to both proprietor and manucomfortably smoking his Lul pipe, ac facturer; for it must not be forgotten cording to his daily custom. In the prethat, according to reliable authority, scription room of a drug store. He 95 per cent, of the proprietors of was soliloquizing aloud to the clerk. Pftteit medicines prepared in Hero is a sample of his sound, con(His country have their remedies made tented philosophy: "I'll tell you what! for them by large, reputable manufacA man is mighty miserable if he ain't But even should got nothin' to do, when he ain't work-in- ' turing pharmacists. a patient be able to recognize the at somethin'. I know it I've tried nanus of the ingredients mentioned in both ways an' I find that there ain't a formula he would only know half nothin' that makes a man more miserthe story. It is seldom, for instance, able than doin' nothin'. But, you that alcohol Is specifically merit n :u d know, there's two kinds of work; one in a prescription, for It is usually of them is where a feller goes to work masked in the form of tinctures and at six in the niornin' an' works with fluid extracts, as are a great many his hands till six at night. The othet other substances. It Is evident, thereis where a feller sits around an' thinks. ain't never happy unless I'm work-in'fore, that the ordinary formulated preto litthe but I don't believe In that first Is, average scription patient, tle less than a secret remedy or nos- kind of work. I believe In thlnkin" all trum. day long, an' that's harder than the On the other hand, the formulae of other kind, I can tell you you Just try It If you don't believe me; a man nearly nil the proprietary medicine that are exploited exclusively to the Is mighty miserable when he ain't medical profession as well as those workin." of a large percentage of the proprieIn Praise of the Pie. tary remedies that are advertised to Laura Simmons tells In an article the public (the patent modi-clneare published In full. Under why good New Knglanders should stick to pie, and calls attention to the the Food and Drugs Act. every medicinal preparation entering Interstate fact that Emerson ate it three times commerce is now required to have the a day, and says that pie Is the ladder proportion or quantity of alcohol, by which New England has climbed She to Its place of proud eminence. opium, cocaln and other habit forming or harmful ingredients which it questions whether any sensible permay contain plainly printed on the son was ever known to forage at the As phvsicians' i rescrlptlons label. midnight hour for predlgested cere, ill seldom or never enter Interstate com- or the Innocuous prune. She does not merce they are practically exempt un- believe that many New England ances der the law. And If It be necessary tors died of apoplexy, due to pie, but for the public to know th composi- counsels all to go on pie eating, despite the fact that the flat has gone forth tion of proprietary remedies, as contended by those who through lg- - that it Is vulgar to eat pie. ti ready-prepare- ready-prepare- d e ) i rfnT -- , w ered that the energetic, restless, planning bustling attorney was a man of much his own mold. During his stay with the forest bureau Mr. Woodruff made a special study of the public land laws and gained a reputation as Washington's foremost expert on this subject. Secretary Garfield, when he went to lie interior department, had land thieves to deal with, and he needed a man who would have both the courage and the knowledge to fight them. He decided that the former star football coach would be the man to second his crusade, and he had Mr. Woodruff ap pointed to the place In the attorney general's force that would make him available as adviser to the department of the Interior. Mr. Woodruff Is not unlike the president In appearance. He wears spec lades, while Mr. Roosevelt runs to eyeglasses, but the shade of the faces, with the prominent teeth, the mus tache and the expression of restless energy are not unlike. INDIANA WAR GOVERNOR ,T joss-hous- e Sande-manian- to-da- y Miss Quinan, of Middletown, Recognized for Bravery. N. Middletown, N. Y. Miss Mary of this city, is the first woman PI Y., in 7 I W Monument Erected in Indianapolis to Oliver P. Morton. Indianapolis. The Oliver P. Mor-tomonument, which was unveiled the other day, comprises a figure of the war governor In bronze, 12 feet high, standing on a base of granite 18 feet in height, and occupies a site In front of the east entrance to the state capitol. Bronse figures of a cavalryman and infantryman stand on either side of the effigy of the govin front Is an eschutcheon ernor, composed of a wreath and crossed Mrs. Morton, widow of the flags. venerated lndlanlan. says that the body, pose and facial expression are as nearly perfect as possible. Grand Army men secured from the leglsla ture an appropriation of $35,000 for the monument, and the remainder was made up by prlvote subscription Vice President Fairbanks, Gov. Hanly. Gen. R I!. Brown, commander-in-chie- f of the G. A. It.; :!,000 veterans of the this country to receive a Cnlted States medal for btavery. Miss Quinan con tinues to work as she has for IS years She is greatly in the shirt factory. pleased with a personal letter from President Koosevelt accompanying the On modal The medal Is bronze the lace Is a wreath, within which are the words. "For bravery awarded to Mary Quinan. Act of Congress. Feb Around the edges ruar IS, l!0f." of the medal, outside the wreath, are the words, "The United Slates medal for life saving on railroads." The reverse of the medal Is a raised figure Hardly Worth While. "So you think these calamity prophets hurl business?" said the drummer who was Introducing trick matches 'Wall. I should say so, stranger, drawled Storekeeper Jason. ".lust the olhi : day Hiram Hardapple was goiir; to buy a new suit of clothes, but when he heard that one of them thar proph ets predicted that the world was com ing to an end In 1914 he changed his miud. Said he couldn't think of spend Ing money for a stilt of clothes If he couldn't wear It over seven years, so he'reckonod he'd have to make the old stilt do." Graft in the Millions. The Philadelphia North American has summarized the results of the throe months' Inquiry of the commit tee which has been Investigating the construction anil furnishing of (he It has Pennsylvania state BgpttoL been shown that or the $1 3,0(H,(mmi ex wasted pended, st least $r.m(.nnu In graft CITY HAS NO CEMETERY. Kjtalme. Wash., n 1 Memorial to Morton of Indiana. civil war and members of the National Guard attended the unveiling, which was done by Oliver P. Morton of Hartford. Conn , a grandson of Gov. Molten. Gov. Hanly made an address. Daisies Dear In Cities. The Jersey woman was visiting her llatieni friends, when a daughter of the household entered with a small handful of daisies. "Oh, how pretty!" exclaimed the mother, following with the inevitable New York Inquiry: "How much?" "Twenty-fivcents.' replied the gin. Merciful heavens! " exclaimed the woman. "There's a w hole field of them back of ni house I never ' hing of picking." Jersey 1 , 22 Year TEN YEARS OF PAIN. Old, Nevei Had a Death. years Spokane. Wash. Twenty-twa city and yet no cemetery within a radius of 40 miles, is the claim advanced by the residents of Metaline, Wash. To make the claim even more remarkable, the city has been dead for 22 years, although It had great mineral at its finger tips, awaiting its awakening. Hut within the last week it has shown signs of coming to its own. Metaline is unique in many respects. The absence of a cemetery is a case in point. Colville, 40 miles distant, is said to have the nearest cemetery. It was solemnly told by citizens that there had been no funeral there since the city was founded, and that not one person had died of illness. "One must go away in order to die," is the way they put it to one. They claim sickness is almost unknown there. Dead Man's Reef," below the falls, has five graves along the shore, but this is occasioned by drownings that have taken place up the river toward Newport, ttie bodies floating to this point, where they are thrown on the reef and are placed in the ground without funeral or casket. Indications point to a great future for Metaline. It is now wholly dependent upon the steamboats that ply regularly between Newport and lone, a distance of DO miles. The boats can not go below lone, which is five inilet above Metaline. the rapids impeding further progress. old-tim- e ATOMIZER Latter Jumps ROUTS BURGLAR. from Window When Girl Turns on Spray. Bal-J-a- HONOR FOR WOMAN. j NOSTRUMS? are still Chicago Congratulations being received by Margaret Hobbs, the daughter of Roy Hobbs, because she had routed a burglar. Miss Hobbs and her parents had been seated on their front steps for some time when Miss Hobbs went into the house for a letter she wanted to mall. Suddenly there was a crash within Mr. Hobbs rushed into the house. His daughter was standing near a window holding an atomizer in her hand. An odor of lilac filled the room. The window was open. "Oh, you ought to have seen him run," laughed the girl. "I guess this gun of mine scared him more than he did me." Miss Hobbs then told her fathei that on entering the room she had dis covered the burglar. She took tin atomizer from a bureau and turned the stream of perfume on the intruder He jumped through the window. The same burglar is believed to have robbed several houses in the same neighborhood of small sums. Miss Hobbs said: "I surprised him as much as he startled me. But, oh, it was funny. When he got a whift of that perfume I guess he thought all the evil spirts were after him. "Was 1 frightened? Yes. I was. after it was all over." HOUSEKEEPERS FORM UNION. Resist Exorbitant Demands Servant Girls and Fix Wage Scale. Will of New York. To resist what they regard as the exorbitant demands of house servants, the women of Norris-town- , N. J., are planning to organize a H&isekeepers' Protective union, and a meeting for organization will shortly be held. It is proposed that the women shall each promise not to pay more than a certain price for certain classes of servants. In this way it is hoped either to drive out the .servants or to make them agree to a new scale of wages. "The servant question," one woman deeply interested said, "is now one that brings no good to any one except the intelligence office and the undertaker. It is emptying our pockets, breaking up our homes and making our lives such a burden that it Is breaking down strong women. "The servant problem must either be solved so that people in Ordinary circumstances can employ them or else we will become a people absolutely without home life." The women say that in 1901 waitresses received $12 a month, while the same class now demand $20 to In 1891 it was said a cook who $25. would do the laundry work received $14 and now the cheapest wage a cook will work for is $25 and she will not do laundry work. Unable to Do Even Housework cause of Kidney Troubles. Be- Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton St., Napoleon, O.. says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer rrom kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For 'ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Loan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Mi- l burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. CAME PRETTY FAST FOR PAT. At That, He Had Had Only What the Doctor Ordered. A Philadelphia physician says that not long ago he was called to see an Irishman, and among other directions told him to take an ounce of whisky three times a day. A day or so later he made another visit and found the man, while not so sick, undeniably drunk. "How did this happen?" the physician demanded of Pat's wife, who was hovering about solicitously. "Sure, dochter, an' 'tis just what you ordered, an' no more, that he had," she protested. "I said one ounce of whisky three times a day; that could not make him drunk," the physician said. "He has had much more than that." "Divil a drop more, dochter, dear," "Sure an' oi didn't she declared. know just how mnch an ounce was so oi wint to the drug store an' asked, an' the lad he's a broth of a boy, too told me that an ounce was 16 drams and Pat has had thim regular, an' no more!" Harper's Weekly. Used Ink for Bluing. "One can never be too careful about apparently harmless articles setting about the house," said a housewife the other day. "Not long ago my husband brought home one of those big tall bottles of ink from the office. It had got to be such a nuisance buying one of t the small bottles every time we ran out of ink, that he said he would bring home a supply. "About a week after that I got a new maid, and when she did the washing she took the big bottle of ink for bluing. Of course every stitch of our white clothes in the washing was ruined." five-cen- Punishment by Inches. Bergen (Genesee county) justice of the peace has adopted an original scheme for the dispensation of justice. Henry Meyer, 27 years old and seven feet two inches tall, was a prisoner in his court for stealing four bags of oats. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, one day for each inch of stature and one for each bag. Nunda (N. Y.) News. A Big Loser. Mrs. Myles I see the son of a London dry goods man is a bankrupt, having managed to get rid of $2,100,000 since he came of age. Mrs. Styles Oh, well, boys will be boys! Mrs. Myles Well, this looks as if a boy had an ambition to be a bridge whist player. A high-price- lauiuiuiuiiiuuiuimiiuiumiuiiuiuuiimuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiat FOOD FACTS Grape-Nut- s FOOD A Body Balance People hesitate at the statement that the famous food, Grape-Nuts- , yields as much nourishment from one pound as can be absorbed by the system from ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or nats. Ten pounds of meat might contain more nourishment than one pound of Grape-Nuts- , but not in shape that the system will absorb as large a proQUESTION OF HEN'S IDENTITY. portion of, as the body can take up Man in Court Released When Mother from one pound of Grape-Nuts- . This food contains the selected parts Proves Fowl Is Her Property-Bosto- n. Of wheat and barley which are preUpon the Identification of pared and by natural means predla hen, a big cochin and gested, transformed into a form of eight fluffy little chicks, depended the sugar, ready for Immediate assimilafate of John Cullen. of Hyde Park, In tion. People In all parts of the world Dedhani court, where he was arraigned testify to the value of Grape-Nuts- . A Mo. man says: "I have gained ten jn a charge of larceny. A number of I can food. hen fanciers were in court. They sized pounds on Grape-Nut- s up the hen's legs, examined her bill truly recommend it to thin people." and looked over the chicks with a crit- He had been eating meat, bread, etc., ical eye, while Cullen waited in right along, but there was no ten The hen was pounds of added flesh until Grape-Nutanxious expectancy. tood was used. finnlly Identified by Mrs. J. P. Cullen, One curious feature regarding true of Garfield street, the defendant's health food is that Its use will reduce mother, and he was discharged. Cullen was In Dedham with a hen the weight of a corpulent person with under one arm. A suspicious peeping unhealthy flesh, and will add to the ound attracted the police. weight of a thin person not properly nourished. "I hain't seen nulfin' or no chickThere is abundance of ens," said Cullen when accosted. In evidence to prove this. Grape-Nutbalances the body in a spite of his protests one of the officers thrust his hand Into the man's condition of true health. Scientific secoat pocket and found a number of lection of food elements makes Grape-Nut- s chickens. good and valuable. Its delicious Cullen declared that he found the flavor and powerful nourishing prophen In the woods near the home of his erties have made friends that in mother and that he was returning It turn have made Grape-Nutfamous. There's a Reason " Read "The Koad to hsr hen yard. to Wellvllle," in pkgs. buff-colore- d s s |