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Ripon, Wis., June 13.-Advocating restriction on the amount of wealth a man or corporation may acquire, urging the exclusion of rich men from the United States Senate, and defending the "muck-rakers," Justice-elect William H. Timlin, of the Supreme Court, to-day delivered the commencement address of the Ripon College. Among other things, he said:

"One of the first things that we must give up is the notion that any individual or corporation has the right to get, hold or own as much money or property of the country as he or it can acquire. There should be a limitation written into the Constitution of the United States where the forces of repeal cannot easily reach it providing the maximum amount of money and property which can be held by any one person, natural or artificial. I grant there is some danger in this, but is there not some danger in the present condition?

"Then again a multi-millionaire should not be eligible to a seat in the United States Senate. See to what pitch the vulgar rich have brought this body, which promist in its inception to be the grandest legislativ body in all the history of the world.

"All regulation of corporations should be enforced by the imprisonment of delinquent officers. Our courts should be trained to learn that the imprisonment of a millionaire is not a sacrilege.

"Neither lapse of time nor innocent purchases of securities should be allowed to bar the right to wrest from any person or corporation every privilege obtained in whole or in part by bribery. A rational code of laws governing the relations of corporations or their servants, such as exists in England, France and Germany, and even in Russia, should be enacted. The power of petty officials to grant valuable franchises should be taken away and such franchises should be granted upon condemnation and payment of their reasonable value and be subject to reappraisal periodically."

It is easy to say "a million dollars," but it is hard to realize just what that expression means. Ten years ago I made an attempt to present the matter so that the ordinary mind could realize what a vast sum a million dollars is. A few years before I had made a journey to the holy land, and I used observations there to help me. I called the article "An Honest Million." It was the "Talk" in THE WORLD for May, 1896. It was copied by many papers of all kinds all over the country. I wonder if it is worth repeating here in connection with the above subject. Our circulation was smaller then than now, so comparativly few of our present readers could refer to a WORLD that far back. So here it is:

An Honest Million.

I have never been so imprest by a place where there was so little to see as by Nazareth, once the home of the one whose gentle life and wise teachings have so remarkably influenced the civilized world. The place is not particularly impressiv, but one's thought are thronged with memories of teachings which began at mother's knee, then continued in the Sunday-school, church, etc., and connected with every sacred relations, as christenings, weddings, and funerals. And here was His home! We are treading the very streets that He trod. The views that meet our eyes in every direction are scenes once familiar to Him. Yonder plain of Esdraelon, which we crost in coming here, was well known to Him. Yonder mountain is practically the same now as it was when it was a familiar figure in His daily landscape. I went to bed that night with an impressiv realization that I was to sleep in the town which was once His home. And when leaving the next day I often turned my horse about to look again and again at the little town and its surrounding hills and valleys-scenes of His daily life.

In the last few years, during which the industrial question has assumed such great importance in our country, my mind has often gone back to those scenes in Galilee. I have thought of the principal actor, not as a teacher, but as a workingman-the Carpenter of Galilee. Millionaires and multi-millionaires have become numerous in our country, bringing in their wake an army of unemployed, many of whom, by force of onditions, degenerate into tramps and vagabonds.

Both these classes, the millionaires and tramps, are a detriment to the best interests of our country. I have made a calculation bearing upon the honesty of these millions in private coffers, and to help us to realize what a sum a million dollars is and what it is to actually earn a million dollars. All will agree that when a workingman can save $1 every working day in the year he is doing well.

Our era begins with the birth of this Carpenter of Galilee. Let us suppose that he was able to begin work on the day of his birth and that each working day he was able to save $1 above his living expenses. Let us suppose that he never loses a day by sickness or bad weather, and that his life and health and strength are miraculously prolonged until he shall earn one million dollars by saving $1 for every working day. Then we will be able to realize what an honest million is.

We will trace our workman who began work on the day of his birth. At the historic time of his death, at the age of 33, what would he be worth? The calculation is easy: 365 days minus 52 Sundays equals 313 working days in each year. Multiply that by 33 years and we have 10,329 days; but we must add 8 days for 8 leap years. This would make it 10,337-and $1 per day saved would equal as many dollars-$10,337. Far from a million, yet labor began at birth, and never a holiday nor a day lost by sickness! Let us suppose that he had lived the allotted 70 years; then how would the account stand? Only $21,927! Our workman has a long and weary task before him to earn so large an amount as a million dollars. Our hero must trudge along thru summer's heat and winter's storms. Years and decades come and go until they grow into centuries, and still he works on, for his task is only begun. He sees kingdoms and empires rise and fall, but still he labors on, for the greater part of his task is still before him.

Christians are persecuted in various countries, the Roman Empire disappears, the dark ages come and still he labors on, his task not yet completed. The crusades are fought, America is discovered, modern science awakens the world from its shroud of darkness, and still he labors on. The stirring events of modern history transpire and bring us down to the present moment, and-would you believe it?-our Carpenter is still laboring on, not yet having saved a million dollars, yet not having missed a single working day from sickness or any other cause in all these centuries. Let us see how his task would stand at this time. We are not counting interest, but purely the earnings of labor. We have seen that his savings would be $313 per year; this would be $31,300 per century, but adding 25 days for 25 leap years per century, it would be $31,325 per century. To determin how his account would stand at the beginning of the present century multiply $31,325 by 18, and the result is $561,850, and add $30,048 for the 96 years of the present century and the amount is $591,898. So the task at the present time would be only a little more than half done. Let us in imagination bring him before us. Here he comes, time-scarred, storm-scarred, laborscarred. We ask him questions. He tells us interesting stories of how he has builded homes for princes and peasants in many countries, of how he workt on the Colosseum, the Alhambra and St. Peter's. He mentions familiarly such masters as Michael Angelo. He praises his good fortune in having steady employment during all these centuries, and that his wages were always promptly paid and that he was allowed to make up the time lost by going from one job to another by night work-but suddenly he says: "I must not tarry. I am the drudge of the ages, with the task of earning a million dollars. I must get it honestly, therefore I must earn it. My task will require many, many years, even centuries yet, so adieu." With this he leaves us. But does he not leave many reflections concerning our millionaires and their millions. What shall we say to those who obtain not only one million, but many millions in the few years of the adult period of a single life?

It is plain that no man can earn a million dollars in a brief human life, however hard he may work. But many have become millionaires, and while it is im

PRACTICAL POINTS

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tient lie on the side opposit the affected ear, and filling the canal with water; or, if at hand, peroxid of hydrogen; the latter being much the better, owing to the effervescence caused by the contact of the fluid with the cerumen. If no chloroform is at hand (tho no practician should ever go out of his office without a small bottle in his handcase or pocket), relief is promptly experienced by filling the canal with any bland oil. This causes the wings and legs of the insect to stick together in such manner that his threshing about is quickly stopt. He may then be removed as before.

If the insect be dead, his removal is the only thing demanded. It is often possible to quiet the patient's forebodings until one can have him brought to the office, or until a return trip, with the proper armamentarium, may be made. But, if the patient is unduly excitable, one may dip a soft camel's hair brush in glue and insert it into the canal, gently, as far as it will go; after waiting a few minutes, gently withdraw the brush and the insect will usually come along. The glue can be removed later by proper syringing with water.

If the "oil" treatment be decided upon, and no oil be obtainable, glycerin may be used; or, after slight cooling, melted vaselin. If the brush plan is selected, and no brush is at hand, a long feather from a barnyard fowl will answer the purpose admirably.

It is always to be remembered that harsh or reckless instrumentation of the auditory canal is never excusable, as it frequently produces abrasions which are difficult to heal. Sometimes, however, the efforts of the patient, or of his misguided friends, have already abraded or in some cases of hard foreign body, even lacerated the edges of the canal. In such a case, results are obtained quickest by "masterly inactivity," in so far as continued attempts at removal are made. It is better to reduce the swelling by continuous instillations of warm water directed against or into the canal, when suitable treatment may be instituted later.

These are little things, but we have seen able men nonplust and mortified because they did not know them.

The Serum Treatment of Cancers. The vaporings and effusions of enthusiasts, and of the absolutely ignorant "space writers" who clog the columns of the yellow press with their slush, occasionally bears fruit in a query to THE WORLD as to the "present status of the serum and radium treatment of cancer."

The serum treatment is heard from perennially, and men of acknowledged ability continue to experiment along this line. This, too, despite the fact that by every rule of pathology, bacteriology, and of medicin, they are beginning at the wrong end of the subject

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entirely. Before a "serum treatment malignant tumors can be devised that will give any promise of certainty in results, it will be necessary to isolate either an organism responsible for the tumor and against which the proposed germicidal serum can work, or a toxin produced by the growth toward which the proposed antitoxin may direct its attack. Neither of these elementary essentials appear to have been considered by either the "space writer or the experimenters. The illy advised attempts which have been made to inject cancer cells or their juicy extracts into animals, and from these animals to extract a serum which would be prejudicial to the growth and development of malignant tumors, have been of no avail.

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There is, however, the theory of Coley, which may yet give hopeful dreams. doubtedly his serum has demonstrated the power in some instances of inducing cellular degeneration of malignant tumors. Nevertheless, the very important detail of insuring harmlessness of the serum to the surrounding healthy tissues has decidedly not been accomplisht. Coley works on the old hypothesis, that because it has been noted in the case of certain patients suffering from malignant tumors who spontaneously contracted erysipelas, that a retrogression or disappearance of the tumor occurred; that, therefore (?), there must be something about the streptococcus erysipelatis inimical to growth and development of the cancer cell. When fatal cases developt subsequent to the direct injection of the streptococcus erysipelatis by himself and Fehleisen, altho both reported brilliant results in sarcoma and carcinoma, the sentiment of the profession was that the treatment was too dangerous. Coley then devised a cytolytic serum, and it is from this that present hopes of benefit take origin. He proposes producing the erysipelatous effect in milder degree by artificial culture of the streptococcus erysipelatis combined with the growth of the micrococcus prodigiosus. The former is grown alone for 10 to 14 days, and then the prodigiosus is added to the culture, and the incubation again proceeds for 10 days more. The broth is then sterilized by heating to 58° Centigrade, and the unfiltered fluid, containing the dead bodies of the mixt germs, is employed as an injection. The initial dose is one-half minim injected into the body of the tumor, or as close to it as possible, under due antiseptic precautions. This is repeated every two or three days. If no beneficial results are noted in four weeks the case is declared unsuited to the treatment; but if any diminution in the size of the growth is noted, the treatment is continued over a long period, i. e., "three times a week for two and a half or three years." Occasional intermissions in treatment are advisable. He reports 230 cases treated by himself and 35 cases treated by others. Of the