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The Healer. (John Greenleaf Whittier to a youn physician, with Dore's Picture oJ Christ Healing the Sick.) So stood of old. the holy Christ Amidst the suffering throng; With -whom his lightest touch suffice To make the weakest strong. That healing gift he lends to them Who use it in his name; That power that filled his garment'i hem Is everomer the same. For lo! in human hearts unseen The Healer dwelleth still, And they who made his temples clear The best subserve his will. The holiest task by Heaven decreed, An errand all divine, The burden of our common need To render less is thine. The paths of pain are thine. Go forth With patience, trust, and hope; The sufferings of a sin-sick earth Shall give thee ample scope. Beside the unveiled mysteries Of life and death go stand With guarded lips and reverent eye, And pure of heart and hand. So shalt thou be with power endued Form Him who went about The -Syrian hillsides doing good, And casting demons out. That Good Physician liveth yet Thy friend and guide to be; The Healer by Gennesaret Shall walk the rounds with thee. Westminster, Md.. Sentinel. Under the auspices of the Carroll County Medical Association and the Western Maryland College, Dr. Me cormack, representing the American Medical Association, on Monday night, November- 25th. delivered in Alumni Hall, a notable lecture, which should be read by all who could not hear 't. The representa tive :f the American Sentinel was precent and made fu'l notes of th Doctor's eloquent address which was delivered without manuscript. In substance, Dr. MeCormnack said The trouble with laymen is that i,hey have always looked upon medicine as one of th'e oecult seiences. I pro pose to lift the veil 'that you may see doctors just as they are. To showi my fitness for the task a personal word is needed, and I woul,d say that almost every day for five years] have made addresses on this subject. I spent a great part of last year ii Grieat Britain and on the continent of Europe and have visited every state in the Union talking over these important matters with the people it a heart to heart way. I was led in to the wo,rk by'my experience as Sec retpry of the Board of Health oc Kentucky. I started out with the ' faith that I belonged to a high and nroble profession, but found in my experience with the legislature th.a doctors were looked upon with lit tle confidenee. - I 'learned 29 year ago, in Kenticky, that doctors 'spok with dispraise of each other, thai while eaeh iikdividual doctor was heli in high esteem by the individual fain ily, there was a low estimate of th4 profesion as a whole. We are band ed together 'to exterminate -this ding, but unfortunately this preij dice andi distrust has existed for s< long a time that it does not d.isap pear all at once. It concerns th people metre than it does the doc tors, that they should have a prope view of the profession. The nati^1' is affected by these conditions an< the eemeteries are filled. It has beei truly said that in the Spanish..Amar icjan war five young soldi'ers fell vie tims to preven.ti'ble disease to ever; one who fell in battle, and the con 'trast .of conditions in the Japanes army, in its recent conflict with Rus sia, has been pointed out ,to the die paragement of the doctors of thi country. The figures are true bu the infereenee is false. It is crued; unjust to say that this fatality amon our soldier -boys was due to lack o skill in our physicians and surgeon Dr. Sternberg had no authority t enforce precautionary measures. W have known that this calamity mnu befall our army in case of war.W ha. appeared before congress agai and again seeking such legislation a was needful. Since the , Japane war congress has been importune by the profession from every state1 the Union, but still there is no rf lief. In case of another war if col gress in the meantime does not e act such laws as are necessary, ti ~experience of th,~ past must be rn peated. The same conditions prevail in ci il life. A vast army dies in th country every year from preventib ' dseaesand vicious living. The: were last year .,500,000 deaths and ; 4,200.000 cases of sickness, of which F the doctors know that one-third were' preventible and should not have oc curred. By cooperation of our law making bodies - sickness and death would be decreased by at least one I third. For that legislation congress has been appealed to without avail, and the legislatures of many of the states have done little or nothing. Thousands of dollars are appropriated annually by the congress of the Unit ed States and by the legislatures of the several states to stamp out scab in sheep, tuberculosis in cattle, and other diseases of animals, but no hand is raised to prevent consuhp tion an,d other preventfible diseases among men. The time has come when it must be everywhere proclaimed that people are more important than sheep. I repeat that, in the state of Maryland, one-third 'of the deaths ought not to occur. Take the case of consumption. There is a wide spread impression that it is an inherited disease. but I affirm that no matter what you have inherited, you can not get the disease without the germs en tering your. body from some one else. If all expectorations could be de stroyed, there would be no more con sumption. Now one person out of av erv seven dies of this dread disease. It is a sad condition but one that, can be guarded against and overcome. -The same fact is true of the death t of thousands of infants, the result of weaning them too soon and feeding spoiled milk. Herod killed only a few pale children; by ISek of pro per care the modern Herod is de- i stroying thousands of children with- i out regard to sex. In talis commer-'] cial age it is strange that it is not realized that it would be cheaper to save the children than to, bury them. Then there is that disease, typhoid i fever,"with its thousands of victims. 1 This is a disease which is a filthy 4 one and a reproach to a family and i community. In our great centers of ] population; typhoid germs are car ried in the vater supply and in pol luted streams. Tne pollution of streams and soil is poisoning the wa ter and the earth and the air for the unborn generations . who will follow 1 us, and who will suffer even mors than we do unless proper precaution ary measures are adopted and put in-2 to practice. The germs of 'typhoid i fever are also -disseminated in milk and by dirty hands. In small 'ecom munities, like this it is carried en tirely by fliles. At the Chickamauga camp it was found that the flies that collected upon the piles of filth all disappeared from the'se at meal time. An experiment was tried. Flour was sprinkled over the fly epvered heaps of foulness, and the flies were thus marked as the hunter of7 a bee tree marks the bees. .T-hese marked flies were afterward found in the mess rooms, erawlirig over the food of the soldier boys. Cultures were taken from the feet of thiese same flies and millions of typhoisi fever germs were found. Another fact -was clearly seen, that while typhoid fever pre vailed in the tents of the private soldiers, the offreers escaped. The seret was in the faot that the offi ers, tents were screened against the flies, while those' of the private sold iers were (lot. These same facts have been verified in civil life. T-here is only one breeding place for flies, they breed only in- the heaps of man ure in the stables and stable yards, they have no other breeding place ex ept in filth, and they sometimres tra vel from 1.4 to 1-2 mile from the place where they are bred. It will be an easy thing to break u-p their Sbreeding places by .screening all man ure bThs, or by mixing lime in the 1piles thus ma,king them more valu able for fertilizing purposes. We plead with the people to screen threir houses and thus keep out the flies, eand call upon the newspapers t{o help ed.isseminate this information and urge the people to act upon it. The average American will send for the sdoctor when there is a case of siek tness in his family, but the profession 7is crippled in its lifesav~~ing work by the pregudice of the peopge, who sometimes resent th-e doctors' sug oestions that precautionary and pre o entive measures be taken. eFor years the doctors have be'en t en for the! enactment of pro progress-but slowly. The members sof the legislative bodies sometimes esay that the doctors are trying to~ d have laws passed for their own bene nfit. How can they b-c benefited by ~ uch lesislationl? They belong to a Sprofession. not a trade Supro5C -clergymen and editors and physle1Rl)s edid only what they we-e paid to do. Over one-third of the people pay nO doctor's bills. They .minister freely r- to God's poor, and the devil's Ipor is and poor devils. They give the same Le ttention to the inmates of the char millionaire in his hpme. Like the iorious physician in John Watson's stories. they go at every call, througn enld and heat, by day or by night. tnswering every call of need, without thought of reward. They cannot take financial advantage of any dis :overy they may make. They swore ith uplifted hand that they would nive to every creature the benefit of ind discovery they might make for the alleviation of human pain and .rief freely. without money and with )ut price. One rea..)n why doctors are mis judged is because in the past they iave too much criticized one another. )ther professions have done the ;ame. There is only one that is not ruilty-the lawyers. You can not get :hem to quarrel unless you pay both o do it. They, live in the aggregate, hey have many interests in common. It every term of court they come to ether. They are thrown in daily as ociation and contact. Doctors and lergymen live a segregated life, each part form the other. To. the law ers, who make and execute our aws, our country is indebted for its reatest bleslings. If the medical irofession had always been thus inited and harmonious, what could iot have been accomplished? We ought to be able to know the ocation and cause of every sickness nd death, that we might learn how o prevent disease. A National Board >f Health is as important as a su n'eme court of the United States. A itate Board of Health, properly sup )orted, with well equipped laborator es, with a board of inspectors, is as mportant as the Appellate Court. A 3oard of Health for Carroll county, vith laboratory, to which any one ,ould bring specimens for analysis vithout cost to the individual; with uspectors to visit slaughter houses. neat warkets, dairies and all places hat need insetion, is as important ;o Carroll county as its circuit court. :n our cities, the Jews are the only )eople who eat properly inspected neats. It is notorious that no one gets pure milk unless he keeps his >wn cow or procures it from a eon ;cientioius dairyman. There should ye inspectors to visit your schools, iot alone for the examination of rainage and ventilation and such natters of sanitation, but that with ;he teachers they might carefully ex mine all children. Many children Buy Your Chi -A The Sin Grocery They are Hee Christmi MAS WANTS TBIS YEAR BET TER THAN EVER. IF YOU MAKE YOUR BILL WITH US WE WILL SELL YOU LONDON LAYER RAI SINIS TEN CENTS POUND. WE HAVE A NICE LINE OF CAKE FRUIT SEEDED RAISBNS FIF TEEN CENTS POUND, TWO LBS. FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, CIT RON TWEiNTY CENTS LB, CUR RANTS FIFTEEN CENTS, TWO POUNDS FOR TWIENTYV-FIVE CENTS. FLAVORING OF ALL KINDS. NUTS! NUTS!! BRAZIL NUTS, ENGLISH WAL NUTS, AND NUT'S OF ALL KINDS. APPLES BY THE CARLOAD. BANANAS BY THE BUNCH, LEM ONS, ORANGES AND FRUIT OF ALL KINDS. 944 Main Street. Newber are .considered dull and inefficient and are supposed to be mentally de :ective when in fact their trouble is physical. Why are the children sent I to school? Is it not to fit them for best manhood and womanhood? Lat er in life, parents would give all that they have to restore to their -hildren healthi and vigor. A little attention now would save them. A county like this should have a heal;th officer, with a salary that would enable him to give all his time to his Work, with a health building as his hea-dquarters. I repeat that such a building and such an officer is certainly as important as court .ouse. judge or sheriff. These things would cost something, yes, but for every dollar you would thus pay out, you would receive $1000 in return. Because my profession knows that thi is true, I am commissioned to go up and down the land. It is a great scheme that we are develop ing, it' contemplates the forming of. societies in every county, in every state, for the nation, to carry out these needed reforms,, for the bene fit of all the homes and all the peo p!e. I am here to seek to enlist oth ers in earnest support of this great crusade. This afternoon the doc tors of. the county were in session. Such meetings are of primary im portance. In many sections it is said that it is impossible, to get phy sicians to attend them. 'If I were a layman in a community in which the doctors held such meetings for con sultation, and for the purpose of studying the latest discoveries and methods in practice, I would find out why my physician did not at tend them. He would either do so or I would quit him. It is so import and that a doctor kee abreast of the times tlat our plan contemplates practically a great University Ex tension course, by means of which an up to date doctor shall be put withij the reach of every family. Dr.'MoCormack then related the ex perience of another community in 1 which such an effort was made. The work was carried on for three years, and one who was in close touch with it declared that experience demon strated the Tact that one-half -of the doctors were too poor to practice medicine and supply (themselves with proper equipmenti and said, "~M J (Continued on page seven.). istmas Goods r 1th Co. Store. dquarters for is Goods DOLLS! DOLLS! DOLLS! OF ALL KINDS, CHINA, KID, WAX, AN]) RAG DOLLS. RANGE IN PRICEiS FROM FIVE/CFENTS TO TWO DOTLA'RS. TOYS OF EVERY DESORIP TION. HORNS, WAGONS, TOY MONKEYS, ALBUMS, BIEWS, BA BY RATTLERS AND A WORLD OF OTHERS. FIRE WO'RKS WHICH WE WrLL SELL WHOLESALE AND) RETAIL.. ROMAN CANDLES, FOUR BALLS TO TWENTY-FIVE BALLS, FIRE ORAJCKERS, SA LUTES, FIVE AND TEN CENT PACKAGES, JAP TORPEDOES OF ALL KINDS. DO NOT FOR GET TO BUY YOUR FIREWORKS FROM THE SMITH CO. CANDY OF ALL KINDS. WE HAVE A LARGE LINE OF POP STICKS AND CAPS TO POP IN THEM. Mittle Cornler, ry. S. C. Crisi as Bugers! I have sold holiday goods for mahy years. I have given the matter careful study. I have endeavored each year to so select my stock as to afford both satisfaction' and saving to our customers. I believe thatthis year I have been more successful than ever before. I believe I have come nearer to having just what people want. I have goods that will please both giver and recipient. I know that my prices are right; that quality considered. They are the lowest to be had Come Soon and See Whenever you start out on a shopping tour come here before you buy. I will not urge you to buy, but I do want you to see my goods as.' soon as you can, thanks in advance for all favors. Mages Book Soe,. NOW FOR YOUR .. Christmas Cake! Our 36th car of that Choice Tennessee Flour has just arrived, making 4,005 b'bls., and while 'it lasts goes for Best Patent-.-........... ..-- ... $5.50 .bbl. Best Half Patent._..-..-. -.--.-....... $5.25 " Every Barrel Guaranteed. Choice Meal........-....- 90c. bu Choice Grits .-...-. .----.-- - $1.85 sack. For Obrisinmas Presents / We Ari Headquaders[< We are making some cut prices to suit the "laanicky" times.<Y' and as a special inducement will make a clean cut of 10 Cents on the Dollar' 1 on following goods, goods all marked in plain figures, no decep~ ton or misleading. This is to jast until 1lst day of January, I 1908, and to be carried out to the letter, and includes All Ladies' .Hats, Feathers and Velvets, all Woe Dress Goods, Flannels, all Men's Hats.,and Caps, Men's, Youths' and Boys' Clothing, Rugs and Art Squares, Blankets, Men's ibants Goods,ILadies', Chfildren's and1 Misses' Shoes, Trunks, Valises, Satchels; Telescopes, ' Ladies' ,and Misses Jackets, Lap Robes, Domestic Sew ing Machines. This makes our $30.00 Machine for the extremely low price of $27.00,' our $25.00 Domes ic for $22.50 and is certainly best price in United States. We have an abundance of choice goods in all of our depart ments, and to reduce them are making some inviting prices all along the line. Yours truly, Moseley Bros.. 5 Years and 10 Reasons. Our growth has been stea.dy. We have paid interest promptly. Our interest is Four per cent. We pay inteFest computed semi-annually. Our Directol s are well known. Our efforts are to please customers. We take the public into our confidence. Our,patrd"ns embrace men, women and_children. We make few large loans, preferring tle small. We are progressive and accommodating. The Bank of ProsperitU, Prosperity, S. C. Dr. Geo. Y. Hunter, Pres't. Dr. J. S. Wheeler, V. Pres. J.F Browe Cahier. J. A. Counts, Asst. Cashr.