THE OMAHA SUNDAY HER: DECEMT1EU G, 1914. 7 13 Strange Islands Opened to Travel by Canal (Copyright. Wit. by Frank O. Carpenter) .ALPARAISO, Chlle.-I dined T I the other night on lobsters . I caught on the shores of the kirk, the real Robinson Cru soe, csat away. Thev were targe, tender and Juicy, and I doubt If better can be found In the world. Rob inson Crueoe's Island Is becoming a (treat fishing grounds. It has fine rod In Its waters, and It Is noted for Its lobsters and other shellfish. It hss also a large Chilean fishing colony, and the Japanese, who are organising a fishing Industry In northern Chile, are considering the ex ploitation of that territory. Robinson Crusoe's Island Is known on the maps as Juan Fernsndci. It belongs to Chile, nnd It lies about 400 miles west of this port of Valparaiso and 2.C00 mllU south of tho Panama canst. It Is reached by government steamers, which go there to supply the colony at certain tlmea of th year, nnd It is ruled by officer of the Chilean government. During my stay l.cre I have met men who know the Island well. ' ' They describe It as a. paradise. It has plenty of rain and Is covered with a luxuriant vegetation.' It Is affected by the antarctlo current, which keeps it perpetu ally cool, and the northern half on which the rains fall l covered with green. - , tslaad Not Very. Lara:. The Island Is only twelve miles long by seven miles wide. It consists of a grcsl mass of rocks rlning out of the ocrfin to a height of more than four thousand Teet. It Is made up cf bills ami' mountains, with ninny ravines and short valleys. The most of the shores are Inaccessible, but at Cumberland Ray there I an excellent landing place. Be hind ths Is a settlement of cottages and huts made of cone wattled with straw. Tho houses have gardens about them, and st one time there was an attempt to start a stock-raising Industry. One setUer !s said to have had as many as SO.flOO cattle and nn equal number of sheep. In time, however, bis business fell off nnd the attle ran wild. The Island now has wild rhoep. wild goats and wild mules, and the nulmalB thrive without human care. The uross Is excellent and -overs every open pot on the northern side of the Island. There are wild oats on some of the hills and also wild vegetables. There are wild fruits which have reproduced themselves from tho trees planted by Alexander Sel kirk, and from tho same source there aro wild grapes as delicious as those which Robinson Crusoe dried for raisins. Original Ronlnsoa Crusoe. Alexander Selkirk was the hero of Defoe's story and the real Robinson Crusoe. He was cast away on this Island more than 200 years ago, and there Is a monument to him, consisting of a marble tablet set In the rocks on one of the higher parts of the Island. The place is known as Robinson Crueoe's Lookout, and It Is where he Is supposed to have kept watchfires burning to attract ' "' v - : ' '"' ' ' . ' "'"V' V ' V.". . . .fmrf J-'" ' C II.. C -;-.. M . ;w r. tS V"'1 t Gzmhcrlajtd 3ay, cTuazi Ternaxulez , wJiene Mibinson Crusoe Landed . "-;: '.-. .vA-rTi::. -'.r ' ';) i-a:'"- '.w .' Qf b (le ' . Viet : -, ".ri- JZl MEND HAPPY HOLLOW COURSE Two Roll in (f Qreent Leveled, One the Famous Eleventh. WATER SYSTEM INSTALLED Rrlnrra fl.OOO aad f I.SOO Mill He pent In the Installation of n l.nrarer Main for Water ing the tireens. The Happy Hollow cfub Is preparing to make extensive Improvement on the golf link at the club. The new golf com mittee has been elected and will consist of C. K. Reed. Cliff Padler and F. I. Wead. Two of the greens, the elevctith and the eighteenth, have been leveled already, thus Improving the course In that respect. The eleventh green ha been regarded as the hardest In the rlty to make. On the aide of the green runa the creek and the green slope toward the creek. The dis tance Is so long that the first approach Is almost a drive and Invariably, If the approach puts the ball over the creek on the green It will roll down tha grade Into the creek. That green ha been leveled so that the ball will stick to the green and not roll back. Xrn Metering gyste.m. Dana aro now being consummated to spend between H.OilO and 1. on a water ing system. Charley Johnson, professional at the club, has In the past found himself confronted with constant difficulties In maintaining bis green because of an In adequate water supply. He has asked for an extensive rystem with a large main and the request hns been granted. At present a one-inch pipe furalshei water. It Is planned to Install two Inch main or even a four-Inch fMP In Its stead. That "will provide ample water t freshen the green continuously nd ny golfer know that perfect greens are msde nd maintained by liberal us of water on them. Hope for Perfect CJreens.' Charley Johnson and hi assistants hope to have a perfect greens a possible. While the Happy Hollow course Is admit edly a very hard eotirso the Improvement made on the greens will aid materially. They will make It possible for the u perlor golfer to play superior game without constantly encountering hard luck as was often tho case with the pe culiar roll of the eleventh and eighteenth greens and the extreme hardnes when the water supply waa Insufficient. HOW TO USE A DOCTOR CHAPTKIl VI. By IIEN11Y S. MUNllO, M. J. 'Oh wad the power some giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us." Darn In my last article I mentioned the great i well rounded medlc.il Institution. Rut. Jlplanlahon tn Llv& GslapagoJ Islands tlcted, Is the Archipelago de Colon. The name on the maps is the Galapagos Islands. Thee Islands belong to Ecua dor. They are situated about aa far from Panama as New York I distant from Chicago, and In such a location that they might form an important coaling sta tion for the ship on their way north and south between the two continent!. They the attention of any ship that might pass, j about goo miles from Ecuador an J, The monument wa erected In 1868 by u000 mieB north of Valparaiso. gome English naval officer. I have photograph of It The inscription read as follow: . IN MEMORY OF ALEXANDER SELKIRK, MARINER, A native of Largo, in the County of Fyfe, Scotland, who lived on thl Island, in complete solitude, four year and four month. . H wa landed from the "Cinque Porta" galley. S6 tons, 18 guns, A. D. 1704, and waa taken off In the. "puka". privateer 12th of February 1709. i J V Rff died Lieutenant of JX. M. S. '"Wey mouth" A. D; 1723, aged 47 year. This tablet I erected hear Selkirk' Look . out by Commodore Powell and the officer of H. M. 8. "Topai" A. D. 1868. Alexander Selkirk wa rescued In 1709, just a little . more than 200 years ago. 31 went to London and there met Defoe, who had many talk with him and there from got the idea and background of hi story. The work "Robinson Crusoe" waa published ten year later. It ran through four edition in a many month and was the big seller of it time. It is one of the biggest seller of today, and it ranks with the Bible and John Bunyan'a "Pilgrim' Progre" as the greatest sellers of history. "Robinson Crusoe" lias been translated into . nearly every known language. It ha been printed in! Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Greek and Arabic. It is one of the boys' book of Japan, and a Chinese edition has been recently issued which is having an enormous sale. Excursions to PInce. ' . Now that the Panama, canal is com pleted there will probably be soma special steamship excursions to Robinson Cru soe's Island. The round trip, from 'Val paraiso can be made in three or four days, and it might include a look at the cave in which Alexander Selkirk lived, t the Lookout, where for four long years e scanned the-sea for ships, and. I doubt not, at vestiges of Crusoe's man Friday, and perhaps a petrified footprint of that which the savage mad upon the sand. - Selkirk was found by a ship that had seen the fire on the Lookout .Accord ing to the narrative of the captain who took him to England, he was clad In goatskins and was running about as though crazy. When, he reached Lon don hi talk was the wonder of the coffee house and hi adventure were diacussed by everyone . Sir Richard Steele told of them In one of hi paper, and Selkirk published a little pamphlet of twelve pages describing his wanderings. The Robinson Crusoe cave, where Sel kirk lived, lies in a ridge . of . volcanlo rock. It is easily identified. It is about thirty feet deep, and Its roof is from ten to fifteen feet from the floor. The en trance la about fifteen feet high, and is almost hidden in ferns. The cave shows signs of having been lived in, and It is like the description of that In "Robin son Crusoe." Ther are holes and pockets scooped out of the walls and her and there Is a rusty nail that had been driven In between the stones. The cave la said to have been the resort of the buccaneers, who once ravaged the west coast of South America. There are other cave upon the Island, and there are also car dungeon which were occupied when the Island wa used for criminal. Some of the cells were far underground, and the prisoner could not stand upright within them. History record that the convicts once mutinied and murdered their guards. They captured the boats in the harbor. and 300 of them made their way to Chile and landed there. Chileans Bnlldlns; Prlee. Within the last year or so the Chilean government has decided to make Juan Fernandes again a convict settlement The officials have visited It, and they find It well fitted for Uv purpose. They have sent a number of convict there, and are now erecting a model prison tipoii it. Another group of Isiar-ds that will be important, now that the canal U cora- These islands were for a long time uninhabited, and not long ago they had a sort of a Robinson Crusoe, who lived there for years upon fruits and roots and upon the wild cattle and pigs which he waa able to kill. He caught the anlmaJs In traps and killed them with s. spear made of & pocket knife tied to a stick. He had a hut' with a roof of cowsklns and plgaktr.. . When found he wan naked and waa carrying a pig cn his back. He had been on the islands for yearj, having bean left there. by soma ship, lie had almost lost the . power .of speech,' and it took some time for him to grow accus tomed to civilised ways. ' Uncle Bmm Mar Buy Island. At several' times durWg our history the United States has considered the getting possession of the Galapagos Islands. In 1851 preliminaries of transfer were ar ranged with Ecuador, nnd at that time $3,000,000 was offe-- for the right of col lecting the guano on the islands. The sale fell through, however, and so far none of the subsequent negotiation ha uooeeded. Now that w have thu canal the. sale may again conw up In connec tion with cur Pad"- coast trade? It Is claimed that the Islands are fer tile. Borne parts of them ara, now being settled. The Ecuadorians havo estab lished several plantations, and say that they have enough grazing grounds to teed thousands of cattle. The Islands have excellent cod fisheries along tho shore, and are also famous for turtles of enormous sUe, which are found nowhere else. These turtle when full grown measure about three feet thick and weigh as much as 600 pound. They are valuable for their oil, which can be ued In place of lard. An ordinary turtle will yield about lz gallon of oil, and this will sell for 78 cents a gallon. The islands have also seals and wild dogs, as well as wild donkeys and cattle, all of which are the descendant of those brought by a colony from Ecuador, which once attempted to settle the Island, but failed. -Valnable for Fertiliser. There are other Islands lying off the west coast of South America that have I yielded mora money than any other spot upon earth of a similar size. I refer to the guano Islands, which have produced more than 11.000,000,009 wo Ah of fertilizer, and which. If the present movement for their renovation succeeds, will produce hundreds of millions of dollar more. Thl movement 1 backed by the Peruvian government, and 1 based upon aclentlflo Investigation I will describe It further on in thl letter. The guano islands begin at the north ern part of Peru,' and they run here and there through the sea off the west coast of the South American desert far down Into Chile. They are so situated that they have no rain, and they are absolutely barren except for tbe vast flock of bird which use them for their breeding place. X saw many of these Island on my way southward through the Pacific. At first they seemed to be rock of white chalk. The white, however, was made by the droppings of birds, which come there by the tens of mil 'ions every year to nest and raie their young. The great value conies from the drop pings or manure of these birds. At the time they were dlacovered the deposits were so large that the Peruvians were two generations In developing them. They shipped the guano to tho United States and Europe, and a fleet of vessels was engaged In carrying It The receipts paid a large part of the expenses of the government, and they kept the country rich. I. oat as Reaalt nf War. Then Peru had its war with Chile and was conquered. The result was an enor mous foreign debt in the settlement of which the best of the guano islands were given over to tho foreign bondholders, and came under what la known a the Peruvian corporation, which corporation Is still shipping from them thirty or more thousand tons every year. The guano deposit are now almost ex hausted. The most of the product had been consumed before the war with Chile, and a continual export La gone oa sine then. The output now amount to only a few thousand ton a year, but through the plan now making by the Peruvian government the Island may be renovated, and a 'continual supply received from them for all tlmo to come. These plans are uased upon the work of Dr. H. O. Forbeg, a celebrated ornithologist, who has been sent by the president of Peru to report upon the Islands and advlso the government aa to their future. Dr. Forbes has -visited the whole coast In a motor boat, and has Investigated all th Island and roosting rock, studying the birds - and their possibilities. He ha caught some of the bird and kept them with a view to see how much guano each will produce. He find that the amount of fish consumed by them Is enormous. A single pelican will eat from eight to ten pound a day and it deposit an enor mous amount of guano In the Course of a nesting season. A sea gull will drop from four to six ounces per day or something like twenty-eight pounds during the Urn It Is' breeding. Other birds produce more and the total amount Is very great Deposits May Bo Worked Again. Dr. Forbes has divided the guana ar chipelago into ones and it Is his idea that each zone will be worked, only once In four years, during which times tho oth.r zones will be accumulating guano. In this way the supply will be continuous and the islands may again be enormously profitable. During my trip off the guano Island we had millions of pelican flying over our steamer. There were also ea gulls, wild ducks and diver of many kind. In place the sea wa covered with bird, and a great flock of cormorants or pellcans woiild drop out of the sky on to the water, covering an acre or so at one time. The birds feed in the sea. The pelicans have pouche or bag of yellow skin under their necks. arl they coop the fish into those. They often gorge themselves to uch an extent that they cannot rise from the water, but remain there until they have digested sufficient of their catch to lighten the weight They always hunt In flocks, and when they settle on some place where the fish are abundant, they form Islands on the sea a mile or so in diameter. . Dr. Forbes says that they sit so close together that those on the outside have to rise first before the bird In the Interior are able to get enough air under their wing to enable them to rise from the sea. Dr. Forbes has found that the most of the guano comes from eight species of deep and Alexander Humboldt, who visited them 110 years ago, said that they then contained enough manure to enrich all of the wornout lands of the old world. They were not thought to bo of value, however, until about fifty years later, when a Frenchman called attention to certain of the deposits, and claimed one-third of the product by right of discovery. The Peru vian congress voted him 5,000 tons, but it Is said he never got It and died In a poorhouse In Paris. Other deposits were discovered by an American named Landreau, and he was treated in the same way, although our State department took up his case, and President Hayes referred to it In one of his messages to congress. The deposits Landreau discovered were worth HOO.000, 000, and according to the Peruvian law he should have had 1133,000,000 from them. He received nothing, FRANK O. CARPENTER. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS Mamma Nettle, what are you doing to baby that make him cry so? Small Nettle Oh, he got fussy because I tried to open h.ls mouth wide with your glove streachcr. "Oh, mamma." exclaimed small Willie. "I'm sure there I a great big mouse in my bedroom." "Did you se it. dear?" she asked. "No, I didn't se It',' replied Willie, "but I heard It wagging Its tail." Drowsy and warm was the afternoon, and attention flagged considerably In the class room. Grammar seemed such a dry old thing after tho splendid battle that the boys had revelled In on the playground. The teaoher'a curt voice cut through their happy meditations, and the small lads pulled themselves together as best they were able. "Two cows In the field," repeated' the teacher, Indicating the writing on the blackboard. "Now, that sentence Is wrong. Can any boy tell me why?" Wearily she looked over the apathetic little gathering. "Come, come," she enld encouragingly. One youngster, with a latent spark of chivalry, sought to help her out of the difficulty. ' "P'r"aps one of them are a calf, miss," he suggested Innocently. world movement toward a more efficient. more sx-lentiftr, and more practical medi cal sen-lee In accord with "Th New Km In Medicine" as outlined by the writer. Time did not permit me to cata log the scores of wlontlflc physicians In all parts of the civilised world whu have contributed their quota to the develop ment of the high statu of practical ef ficiency, which has been attained In all I branches of medicine and aurgcry, nil 'of which, have kept race with the mod ern advancement in Scientific Psychothe rapy, Cllnlca Medicine, or Psychiatry and Neurology, to which my work has been more especially devoted. Suffice It to say that these last mentioned branches (these correlated branches) have lingered longest In the darkness of Ignorance, pretension and despair. It Is fitting, therefore, that the beginning of the 0th century should have been marked by such marvelous therapeutlo advancement In these belated branches so as to almost completely eclipse the progress made In this particular field within the last half of the 19th century. so far as Its scientific application to the amelioration and cure of many of the diseases of mankind ara concerned, coming as the result of the practical employment of the theories of evolu tionary monism, or the aipllcatlon of the biological principles of evolution, to thai conservation of human life, the pre vention and cur of disease, and the achievement of health, sanity and effi ciency. In fact so rapid hns been the recent advancement In practical clinical medi cine, aclentlflo psychotherapy, or mod em psychiatry, and neurology that few physician of th present time have kept up with the vanguard of progress, a the papers presented at our recent Ne braska Medical Association clearly Indi cate, and a a comparison of thene pa ler with the more advanced article presented before the last meeting of the American Medical Association also, Il lustrate In no unmistakable manner. The reader can well understand, then, why th writer felt cramped beyond fur ther tolerance, with condition a they are In Nebraska, since ' the medical tchoola had the local medical and state societies within their grasp, forcing them to conform to th financial Interests of tho medical school and hospital machines, while the Interest .of the larger profes sional and social organizations were be ing neglected, so gullible wero the scarcely articulate mas constituting th rank and file of the profession. That the more enlightened minority outside the schools keenly felt the cramped po sition, from whloh thoy were unable to extricate themselves, I am more than glad to concede. Indeed, there I a high a quality of professional brain In th state of Nebraska as can be found In any state In th union and all that they require in the psycho-physlologlcsi stimulus of the light that I am now turning upon th situation, so a to evoke the reaction, that will set tho en tire herd aright in keeping with the ad vancement of the 10th century rrogreas In medical science and art More yet th rank and fll of tho constituting th faculty of th Medical Department of the Nebraska State Uni versity do not dessrv the sham and hu miliation to which they are aubjeoted by the searchlight being thrown upon th body a a whole; but sloes no ma chinery or organisation, I stronger than It weakest point they must taki tbelr part of th medicine. There are, on th other hand, In thl faoulty depart ment of medicine, eurgary, obstetric, gynecology, therapeutics, pharmacology, pathology, physloologlcal chemistry, bac teriology, and other laboratory studies that have no superior In th United State, to- say nothing of th OTHER EFFICIENT SPECIALTY DEPART MENTS, all of whloh are essenUal to a bird. The chief of these is Bougain ville' cormorant, whoso chief nesting place Is the Chlncha Islands. Last Feb ruary Dr. Forbes found 10,000,000 of these birds nesting In the middle of one of these Islands. The nests were close together, and the whole formed ono of the most wonderful bird sight ct the world. He watchei them, and found that each nest had It male and female, and that one bird sat on the nest while the other wa feeding, and that it. In turn, wa relieved by It mate. The cormorant started for their fishing ground at 6 or ( tn the morning, and flew in a broad tream perhaps 1P0 feet wile. Thl stream con tinued for hour. Pelican Comes Mejtt. The next bird In Importance Is ths pelican. This also nests In great flocks and in the same neighborhood as the cormorants. When the pelicans sre feed ing 5.WO or 6,000 of them may be seen diving together. They fill the. great pouches under their bills, and carry the fish away to eat them at their leisure. Another Wrd is the gannet, whose young are beautiful little creatures cov ered with the purest white down. The gannets fly In flocks of from ten to twenty thousand, and they go down, like so many rockets, Into the sea. The guano of the Lobaa islands la found In pockets covered with layers oi sans irom two to fifteen feet deep, are old aeposlt. The sand is snoveled orr. end the guano Is dug out The stuff looks like fin sand. A it I dug up a strong smell of ammonia raise and the workmen wear iron masks ovsr their face to keep the ammoneal dust out or their lungs. The guano is loadad upon truck and carried on a tramway to the rhore. where it I transferred to tne ship for Europe or the U lilted Statea Such loading Is now being done on th Chlncha Island a well, and' upon the smaller Island still in th hand of th Peruvian government. When' these Islands were first discov ered they had fcuaQo deposits sixty feet For Rasiies fliiiiniiiiMs Hi ii Batlisi;! (McnrasoaD Followed by light applications of Cuticura Ointment afford imme diate relief, permit rest and sleep, and point to speedy heal ment even in severest cases. Try them before you buy them. Samples Free by Mall Although Cutieura op (I5a.) and Otatmael (5(o.) n tout ywiMn Md br suit, s mis pi. I xwk lik Ai-v. soak wlU b Mt tnm. AiOnm be these ever so efficient, th Inefflcl tncy of what has nosr I erom the most progressiva and all Inclusive branch of clinical medicine leaves th school de- fectlve at Its most vital point, so fur a the welfare of "the physician In the making" Is concerned, as well as for the Interest of the larger social organisation. Respect for age and physical Infirmity, should not blind us to the recognition of Incompetency, whether In referene to the teaching facilities of a medical school, or to the censor of a state medi cal association. SUCH DECREPITUDE CANNOT STOP TH K PROV1RK88 OF MEDICAL VCIENCK. EVEN IF A DAILY NEWSPAPER MI ST BE CON VERTED INTO A MEDICAL JOl'R NAL. The members of the medical faculty of a State Vnlvrrslty should be hospitable to every advance In applied scientific knowledge In a profession whose avowed purpose I to conserve th.? lives, snnlty and efficiency of our fellow cltl aen. They should be such men that. In their presence, even the humblest con tributor to medical knowledge could feel at ease. At least there should be no ungentlemanty outbursts of derision against an advance In the application of science to the amelioration and cure of the diseases and weaknesses of man kind. As o cltlsen of the state support ing the medical drpartrrent of a state university, the humb!-vl ha the right (IF HE HAS THE INTELLIGENCE TO DO SO) to demnnd that only such personalities aa those that have attained th stature of completely developed man hood are to be found occupying uch posi tion of promlnanc anl responsibility. AS A MEMBER OF ORGANIZED MEDICINE. AND AB A CITIZEN OF THE STATE OF NEBRA8KA, I am far more loyal to my profession and to my country by specking out upon uch question than I would be to complat aantly acquiesce In such manifest Incom petency, or to condone snich conduct on the ground of age. mi.ocenc o' Ignor ance. By such an attitude ONLY could I maintain my own self-respect which I a thousand times more valuable to m than the cpproval of one hundred thou sand American phylclati. Not for the wealth of th combined banks of Nebraska. TOGETHER WITH THE GUARANTEE OF ETERNAL YOUTH, would I exchanie the satisfac tion that Is mine ao tho result of a flf-tetn-year struggle, not tor profit but for service to my profession and for tho welfare of my fellow. The melancholy whin that "he la un true to the Medical Department of the Nebraska Bute Unlvvlty," Is but THE WAIL OF INCOMPETENT AND UN TRUTHFUL WEAKLINGS. Without the assistance of the men who are to manhood true, in the members of this faculty, could I have made the success ful fight which has secured a victory that ' Is for the entire medics 1 profes sion and for th whole of mankind, and far from It would I bo unloyal to their confidence and friendship. BY ALL MEANS LET UU HAVE A REAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE NEBRASKA STATE UNIVERSITY, WITH ITS OWN GENERAL AND PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITALS, RUN IN THE INTEREST OK THE ENTIRbJ STATE OF NEBRABKA, IN HARMONY WITH THE ACADEMIC DEPART MENT OF THI8 GREAT INSTITU TION, WHERE THE WORK OF ALL DEPARTMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE CAN BE CONCEN- T RATED AND THEIR PRINCIFLEH APPLIED FOR THE AMELIORATION AND CURE OF HUMAN SUFFERINO, AND EVERY PARTICLE OF ENERGY AT MY COMMAND WILL BE READY FOR SUCH AN ALLIANCE. If the Institution la to be maintained as 'an ad vertising machine, run In the Interest of a few "clinical teachers." In competition with th larger professional and social organisations. I WILL fTAND ALONE F I MUST, and fight thes parasite alngle handed". Hut I AM NOT ALONE. THE DIFFERENCE 1ETWF.KN THE REAL PHTSICIAN AND THE COUN-" TKHFEIT HERE FINDS THE LINE OF DEMARCATION. . WE CHEER FULLY AWAIT THE RECKONING. Nebraska is leading In Medical educa tion, and the leadership will go on re gardless of affiliation with organised medicine or with a medical school. Wc are going to have a REAL MEDI CAL SCHOOL IN" NEBRASKA, wher the prlnclplen of scler.tlflo knowledge enn be '.irsctlcally taimlit and applied to the alleviation of human suffering, tot the conservation of hu.T.an life and the promotion of efficiency a school that will be neither Protelsnt nor Catholic; Jew nor Gentile, neither "high" not "low," hut above all these, AMERICAN, and rtin In the Interest of our common De mocracy, for the welfa,' of all the peo ple. The men who ARE qualified to man such a school ure here, and they are not Inhospitable to a bearer of a torchlight of any branch of applied medical science, for they each have a torch of their own, that has been seen ml recognised from near and far. THEY ARE MY FRIENDS, and they have helped to sustain me In my pioneer efforts In the most progressive branch of practical clinical modiclne in such a manner that I GLADLY SURRENDER. ;TO THEM THEIR DESERVED PART OF THE CREDIT OF MY VICTORY. For one thing, I feel that th conduct of the entire herd deserve to bo cen sured. The physician who put "Mamma's little Hero" up to tell 'What the future of ths Omnha-Douglaa County Medical Society was going to be. AND TO SAf WHAT THE FUTURE MEMBERS OF THAT SOCIETY WERE NOT GOING TO DO, ought to be ashamed of his prank, and the bunch of gullible who cheered him In hi tryannlcal and die- tatory stopover, deserv their part of the condemnation that such conduct de serves. The two College Professor. both State Medical Association Official, who were boldest In their denunciation of scientific medical progress, or THE MOST PROGRESSIVE BRANCH OF CLINICAL MEDICINE were either elected as a County Medical Boclety President - or loudly applauded by the herd-?0 EASILY DO MEN MAKE DUPES OF THEMSELVES, BY MIS TAKING NOISE FOP. KNOWLEDGE! . "HE LA t'Q US BEST WHO LAUGHS LAST." I have not been supported by n "endowment fund," or a "State Sup plied Advertising Machine," but I am Up with the most advanoel member of th entire herd, local or national, and I defy all of them to prove that what I ay I not true. Supposa we leave It to David etar Jor dan, J. Btanley Hall, Victor C. Vuughn. John B. Murphy and Simon Flexner to decide. EITHER HAVE MY CLAIMS CON TESTED BY COMPETENT JUDGE! OR BEHAVE YOURSELVES AS MEM BERS OF A CIVILIZED SOCIAL ORDER AND BE GOVERNED AC CORDINGLY. Perhaps, also, it would be Veil for those posing as high example of con ventional morality to leara the "a, b, c" of ethics. Then such "sample" would have Just complant at th physician who chouses to use a dally newspaper as an Instrument of enlightenment.' The cry of "unethical" has been heard, but to use a church audience aa a me dium by which to deride a branch of practical medical science, according to the report of a newspaper. Is quits the polite thins to do. "LET HIM THAT IS OU1LTLHJS CAST V- THE FIRST STONE." With the debris removed, w will (next Sunday) proceed to th task at hand, I. ., tell "How to Un a Doctor." S06- Brandel Theater Bldg. ' There Are a Number of Advantages in Favor of Early Christmas Shopping 7DU will find complete stocks of of merchandise to choose from; plenty of salespeople who are not tired out, to wait on you; and you will find Travel on the street cars more comfortable 'now than later when the Christmas rush is on. 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