HIS BRAIN LICSOLVED Operation On Boy Reveals a Remark able Condition. Baltimore, May 2.—Albert M. Groff, the eleven-year-old son of Milton F. Groff, died at the Maryland Homeo- pathic hospital, foilowing an operation performed during the day. This oper- ation developed a condition of the boy's brain which physicians of the hospital say is altogether unprece- dented, in that almost the entire left half gf the brain substance had disap- peared and its place been taken by a fluid, one and three-quarter pints of which were removed. The history of the case shows that about four years ago the boy was struck on the head with a bat during a ball game. No noteworthy effects followed at the time, but months after the incident young Groff lost the sight of the right eye, and later that of the left became affected. This seems not to have been attributed to the blow on his head, nor were the subsequent loss of the use of his right leg, followed by that of his right arm. Gradually the entire right side became affected and the left side of the skull was much dis- tended. Prior to two years ago the boy suffered from convulsions, but these ceased, and for some months past he has suffered no pain, though he seemed to be slowly dying. The op- eration was performed under the be- lief that there might be some pressure upon the brain. This was found not to exist, however, the fluid found seem- ing to have dissolved the brain mat- ter. Young Groff, whose hearing and speech had not suffered, underwent the operation quite willingly. BAIL FOR SMITH AND WOMEN Alleged Accessories to Murder of Child Freed on Writ. Easton, Pa, May 65.—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith, parents of Irene Smith, the little girl who was strangled to death by Robert Bachman during al religious orgy at Nazareth, were re leased from the Northampton county prison upon the order of Judge Scott, | who held that there was no evidence to connect them with the death of the child. Mrs, Bachman also was re leased on the same ground. The Smiths and Mrs. Bachman were held in $3000 bail, however, to appear as witnesses against Bachman when he is called for trial. Bachman's brother, a wealthy and prominent cement manufacturer, is on his way east from California, and it is stated he will put up a strong fight in defense of the prisoner, who, the district attorney declares, will be in dicted and tried for the murder of the Smith child. Former Attorney General Kirkpatrick has been engaged to defend the prisoner. It is reported that the defense will ask for a change of venue on the ground that public sentiment in Northampton county is so strong against Bachman that he might not receive a fair and impartial trial. NOT CONFINED TO BED Mr. Cleveland's Recovery Confidently Expected. Lakewood, N. J., May 5.—Those who are familiar with ex-President Cleve land’s condition are indignant at the persistent newspaper reports that he is critically ill, despite authoritative denial. Mrs. Cleveland is especially distressed because of the apparent re fusal to accept her statement that her husband is steadily improving, though if her word needed corroboration it would find it in the fact that she spent sll of Saturday in Princeton with her children. She would not have left her husband if his condition were such as some newspaper correspondents in sist that it is. Briefly, and with authoritative em- phasis, it may be said that while Mr. Cleveland is a sick man, he is not hopelessly ill, nor is he so ill that his physicians do not look confidently to his recovery. He is suffering from acute indigestion and gout. He has no other ailments. He is not confined to his bed. He spends several hours a day in an armchair. Six Dead In Tenement Fire. New York, May 4.—aAn early morn. ing fire in a fourstery brick tenement at 17 Humboldt street, Brooklyn, caused the death of six persons and the serious imjury of four others. Every member of one family, consist ug of a mother and four children, are among the dead. There were many thrilling rescues by the police and fire men and it was due to their brave work that the death list was not larger. A half dozen or more persons who were trapped in the upper stories were saved by jumping into life nets. The financial loss caused by the fire is estimated at $10,000. The dead are: Mrs. Dora Abrams and Sadie, Carrie, Anna and Charles Abrams, and Mrs. Jennie Cohen. Beware of Buttercup Fever. Philadelphia, May 5.—That the pick- ing of buttercups is injurious to the health of children is the belief of Dr. W. W. Chalfante, of this city. Dr. Chalfante declares that in many in stances so-called cases of measles ao not measles at all, but are the effects of the gathering of buttercups and the inhaling of their perfume. “Buttercup fever,” is the term Dr. Chalfante gives the disease. A tree in the orchard begins to droop, its leaves begin to wither. There's no ap- parent injury to the tree, no visible para- site preying on its lite. Bat the tree keeps on failing. Ax length the farmer digs aroond it to loosen the soil at the roots, and ia digging he comes on a great, flat stone, whioh had cut the tree off from proper nourishment. When the stone is taken away the tree regains its original beauty and strength. Women fail and droop sometimes. There's no apparent cause. They take care of themselves but in spite of all they droop daily. They begin to think the cause must be within them and hidden. When, in this ocondi- tion, they turn to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Presoription, the result is almost always a complete cure. ‘‘Favorite Prescription’ searobes out and removes the obstructions to woman’s health. It not only heals the local organs but enriches the whole body. Keep the Balance Up. It bas been truthfully said that any dis- turbance of the even balance of health | causes serions trouble. Nobody can be too careful to keep this balance up. When | people begin to lose appetite, or to get tired | easily, the least imprudence brings on | sickness, weakness, or debility. The sys- | tem needs a tonic, craves it, and should not | be denied it ; and the best sonic of which | we bave any knowledge is Hood's Sarea- parilla. What this medicine has done 10 keeping healthy people healthy, in keep- ing up the even balance of bealth, gives it the same distinction as a preventive that it enjoys as a cure. Its sry use has illos- trated the wisdom of the old eaying that a stitch in time saves nine, Take Hood's for appetite, strength, and endurance. | i Archimedes said, ‘Give we a fulerum for my lever and I will move the world.” Nature, like Archimedes, demands a fol- | erom for her lever. She will lift the sick up to health, move mountains of disease, but she must bave a falerum for the lever of help. That fuleram is just what ia sup- plied in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery. 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