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addressing and postage, in the aggregate
some $1,000 more; and the steel engravings,
counting SoOO to fl.OOO each. One hundred
copies of each boot constitute an edition de
luxe for the widow, in morocco and gold.
Sunday for Fnneral Orations.
'"I am in favor of using Sunday for all
funeral orations," said Senator Dolph, when
I asked him about this matter. "The day
is especially adapted to that purpose. Only
one objection occurs to me: Friends will
talk a good deal and make a big boos: of
eulogies. But even that would be better
than spending previous time that is being
paid for by the people at the rate ol 51,000 or
$2,000 an hour. And these special trains of
palace cars across the continent carrying a
lot of people some of whom do not know tbe
deceased and few of whom care for him I
have no doubt they will terminate with the
Congress that has just expired. It is the
last thing these dead men would want if
they could speak a parade over their dead
bodies, turning, more or less, into what the
good Samantby Allen called 'a pleasure
exertion "
,1 called on Mr. McKinley, and found him
fit the Ebbitt Hiuse up to his neck in docu
ments, letters ami garden seeds, trying to
work his way out, and he was quite as
amiable and cordial as he was before that un
comfortable Xorember blizzard.
McKInlcyls for Itelorm.
"There is certain to be a reform in the
method oi burying public men," he said.
"Both tee Interior and Treasury Depart
ments have been closed this winter on ac
count of the death of ex-Secretaries, and
thousands of clerks were turned into the
streets who never before heard the names of
the gentlemen whose demise they were re
quired thus joyously to celebrate. This is
all wren::, ot course, and I have no doubt
it will be stopped. A department or a
bureau or a division ought to adjourn for a
day when its immediate chief dies; that
much lsdue to the proprieties and humanities,
but there the holidaying ought to end. The
Government is too large and its work too
extensive to allow it to celebrate tbe 'exes.'
"As to tbe death of Congressmen it
should be formally recognized in some way,
but I am opposed to taking Sunday for it,
as some have suggested. 1 would have au
hour or two given to speeches funereal the
moment a death is announced and return to
it no more. Then, whatever is said, would
be impromptu and spontaneous; it would
come from the heart and co to the heart, and
there would be very little that woulu be
uierel formal and artificial.
Speeches Upon General Sherman.
"I was particularly struck with the su
periority of this method when Sherman's
death was announced in the House. We
were very busy, but without adjourning we
caused for au hour while his comrades,
Cutcheon, Butterworth and others, said a
fev earnest and fitting words struck off
witbout elaborate rhetorical finish, but
warm and eloquent. It was the same in
the Senate when Hearst's death was an
nounced what was to be said was said on
the spot and at the moment. This method I
hope the House will adopt hereafter."
"Mr. Oatcs says that this is only a small
part of the expense," I reminded the dis
tinguished Chairman of tbe Ways and
.Means.
"Yes," he replied, "and whether his fig
ures are exactly correct or not, there is
doubtless abundant reason for curtailing
these expenses, and especially to reduce the
proportions of the so-called 'junketing ex
cursions to 'bury our dead in some far-off
State. They should not be sent home unat
tended, of course, but it would perhaps be
practicable to enact and enforce a definite
law to govern these ceremonies, and to keep
disbursements within reasonable limits,
benator Hearst was buried last week at an
expense to make any poor family rich, and
the display was uncalled for. The next
Congressman who dies will bo less extrava
gantly buried.
Objector Bolmau's Opinion.
At the Hamilton I found Mr. Holman,
certainly the most disuneuished man in the
United States who gets his living by farm
ing. As the "Great Objector" and "Econ
omy Crank," he has made a name that the
Farmers' Alliance would not willingly let
die, and I dou't see clerrly how the Spcater
ol tbe next House, in view of the BZansas
Dakota tidal wave, can help making Hol
man, as he was 11 years ago, Chairman of
tbe Appropriations Committee. In fact, his
democratic manner, his plain clothing, his
rigid frugality, his shrewd face and his re
lentless hatred of rings and trusts, would
seem to make him the Western rival of Mr.
Cleveland for tbe Presidental nomination
next year and I hope the editor will per
mit me that little prophecy. I was a little
surprised to Lear him on tbis subject:
"So," he said, "I am not in favor of sav
ing money by any negligence of ceremoni
ous attention to the dead. I think that
Congress should immediately adjourn for
the day whenever a member's deatb is an
nounced, and that anotner working day, or
specified part of a working day, should be
allotted to the eulogies. Tnis thing has a
religious significance r.nd value, and it
would not be nearly so impressive and
striking if the addresses were delivered on
Sunday.
Lesson of a 1'uUSio Funeral.
"A public funeral o. a public man is a
constant reminder of mortality, of the short
ness of life, ot the necessity oi making tbe
most of ourselves, of cutting short mere
foolishness, of avoiain.g vices and trifling,
snd of facing manfully the realities and
duties ot life. It :s au encouragement, a
stimulus, and a warning to the living, even
more than an honor to the dead.
"But this junketing to attend a distant
funeral :s to be deplored and to be slopped.
The expense attending it is a subordinatt
matter; but such a top is cot solemn, and is
not beneficial m its effect even on the mem
bers who attend the tuneral. There is only
one obvious Way to keep down at once the
cost and the vulgar display. Let the House
and Seoateeack deputize a sergeant at arms
to attend as its official representative and
let him go alone. I suppose a large num
ber of people attended Hearst's funeral,
and of course tbeir primary object is not to
pay honor to tbe uead Senator by a good
deal."
Mr. Holman was addressing thousands of
packages of seeds to farmers with his own
hand, not being able to hire it done, and I
thoughtfully shortened my interview in
order to give him a chance to start his mit
railluse again and fire beneficial volleys of
beans, peas, patent potatoes and superior
rutabaga turnips into tbe bucolic host
W. A. CsoprcT.
HE PELL INK) TEE JAM.
Hlabap or an Italian Cook That Made Him
an Object of L'arstilt.
Chicago Her&l 0.1
Maurice Cerate, who cooks at the Colum
bian Hotel iit Hyde Park, wrapped hit big
red arms around a big can of cranberry jam
Wednesday afternoon and started to walk
acrcci the street A small melancholy dog,
ot a pleasing ecru shade, was strolling aim
lessly down the street at the same time. Mr.
Cerasa's feet struck tbe dog and he plunged
forward in ench a manner as to fall all over
himself and tbe street simultaneously, at
tbe same time ramming his head into the
van of jam.
When he gathered himself together and
arose, the cranberry juice, which had rnn
all over his head and down the back of his
neck-without any loss to speak of, he looked
as if a lawn mower had been run over his
face. Officer Parker, who drives the Hyde
Park patrol wagon, saw the sanguinary
enectacle from the police station across tbe
way, and leaped into tbe street and at Ce
rasa. He thought tbe Italians bad cut loose
with their knives again. Cerasa ran down
Fifty-third street for about five blocks, with
tbe policeman and a large crowd after him.
It took some time to quiet Cerasa and Par
ker down.
He Cut His Best Friend.
Kew Tort Morulas JournaLl
Frank Ehret was asked the other day If
he knew what it meant j be out by the
tbe best friend that be ever had.
"I should ay o," replied the genial
Frank, "the first time I shatod I cut 07-sslf."
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MAGIC FIELD PLANTS.
Subtle Wonder-Workers in the
Eeach of All Who Want Them.
A TUEH IN THE GREEK WOODS.
Healing' Properties of Cooking 'Weeds and
Bints on Wrinkles.
A FA1E OF SH1ELEI DARE'S LETTEES
IWEITTZX FOB TBI DISr-jLTCft.;
INCE the letters I have
lately received .from
women have cot been
all taken up with ques
tions this talk is not to
be all on one side, let
mo tell you.
Some of them have
such interesting sug
gestions as would be a
sin to withhold. To
chance the first letter
would lose its aroma of
field lore, which has come down from our
English forefathers of Chaucer's day
throueh Carolina settlers to Kentucky
mountain dames:
"I read with interest the late articles
about herb lore.and I only wisb such papers
onnlrl tin illnctrotpn' for folk like myself.
who have forgotten the little driblets of
botany that trictle between political econ
omy and mathematics in the regulation col
lege course. Last year I was worn out with
study and the conventionalities of a country
not city lif in a neighborhood where
people had dragged in an ironclad code of
etiquette, which forbade denying yourself
to any visitor who chose to call and spend
the day, no matter what must go undone,
besides the early breakfast at farming
hours and the neighborly chats that kept
one up and yawning till 10 o'clock in the
evening.
In the Wilds of Kentucky.
"Worn out with this sort of thing, I de
cided to go for a breathing spellto the
mountains anywhere beyond civilization.
1 fouud a place in the wilds'of Grayson
county, Ky. The county is noted as having
'seed ticks enough to saw it and snakes
enough to fence it, so the natives told me,
with very evident relish of the pun and the
quip on zigzag rail fences.
"The air was glorious and the wild, and
rocky woods a continuous delight to me,
and as all the eight children belonging to
my boarding house were used to livmg out
of doors, I led a new life with them, climb
ing and Jumping and tramping about, and
as a consequence I had a most ravenous
appetite; but, alas ! there was nothing but
half-cooked bacon, sour cornbread, chiccory
coffee and grease-sodden potatoes to appease
one's hunger. At great expense and incon
venience I had some groceries sent me, but
when they came I could not eat tbem, sur
rounded by those hungry looking children,
who had never tasted oranges, chocolate
or any kind of preserved fruits. Some
potted soup reminded them of cooking
weeds (sweet herbs), and from that tbey
proposed to take me hunting for 'greens.'
One Learned In Herbs.
"I wanted to stay in the place, so I was
delighted to hear of something green and
fresh to eat They took me to see one of
their neighbors, who gathered roots to-sell
and who knew all tbe wild things. Un
fortunately tbis woman had a penchant for
chickens and tobacco that belonged to
other people, and as she was caught taking
some of my host's. I had but little oppor
tunity to learn what she knew about "weeds
in general, but 'greens' in particular, which
are the first leaves tha1 come ic spring.
"She said that when used as meat instead
of medicirna littl of each kind should be
used, but whei desv.'n as tryes a particular
one shoull be used for a base, and other ap
propriate ones in smallar proportions. For
instance:
"For indigestion lamb's tongue is sovereign,
with a little wild horseradish, sheep, sorrel,
horse sorrel and blue thistle.
"For biliousness sheep sorrel, horse sorrel,
clover poke and speckled dick (or spotted mar
got.) "! or ulcers in tbe nose, on the tongne and
ferer blitters fern, hemlock, sweet mint and
peppermint, which, I suppose, is based on tut
anthelmintic properties of certain kinds of
fern. Indicated when ths nose itches and erup
tive pustules form.
"Wild lettuce and wild cabbage are sovereign
remedies for neuralgia, and dock and thistle
for rheumatism.
"Wild violet leaves, wild mustard, four kinds
of thistles and poLe leaves for backache. Flan
tain is boiled with a tea and taken for lencor
rhea. A visiting preacher told us that 'plan
tain makes plum good creens.'
Au Experience in a Z.og-IJause.
"It was a very rainy season, bnt I oould
not endure being literally shut up in the
little log house which had but one two by
four feet window in each sixteeu by sixteen
room. Should any of us wish to sew or
read while kept indoors the hostess opened
an outside door and we scattered Out of the
incoming shower, and those on the edge of
the circle were kept husy drying one side
of their dresses at the great opea,re, while
the rain mist wet the other side, and in a
very few minutes the drying of the wet
clothes and the rain on the warm clothes,
coupled with the usual high temperature of
the room, filled the room with steam, which
the moist outdoor,uir beat back into the
room.
"But one member of this family had an
unlovely complexion, and I think this way
they had of staying at home in a steamy
atmosphere must have softened and whit
ened the skin as the English fog is said to
do. Of course the warm room and the
draughts :from doors that were so swollen
they would never shut gave mej cold, and
when they noticed my hoarseness she told
me she would fix me a 'dimmyjohn' that
would 'square me up by breakfast'
A Motel Cure for a Cold.
"At bedtime the 'dimmyjohn' was brought
in, and I must confess I was surprised to
see instead ot a toady of 'mountain dew' an
earthenware pot of sheep sorrel tea, of which
I was directed to take half and then eat the
lamb's tongue salad, made of lamb's tongue
gathered fresb, boiled in salted water, then
seasoned with red pepper, cider vinegar,
brown sugar and a -small quantity of salt,
in fact as much salt as sugar. This salad I
was to eat while steaming my toes in a
piggin of hot water, well salted, after which
I was to jnmp in the big hill of the feather
bed and drink the reit ot the tea.
"Kelt morning my voice was clear, and I
felt as fresh as a daisy. A little streak of
sun smiled into the room that we steamed in
the night before, and a gentle little "wind
rustled among the peach twigs and turned
all the little brown buds to tbe sun, who
enticed the little pink things out of their
muffs, although it was a month too toon, and
the frost caught them finally.
Out Catherine fcpring Greens.
"Bnt that mild sunshining and breath of
wind dried the ground, which is ealled hun
gry because it is sandy and absorbs water
last, so that by 10 o'clock all the children
and I were out with our snnbonniits tied
under our chins and a grape basket on each
arm. To be sure, there was mud a little
and a thousand gurgling branches running
down every cowpath in tbe hills.
"Spring sprouts, a delicious herb, was
plentiful and was clustered in thick clumps
under every tuft of grass and every bowl
der. We gather ouly the young and fresb,
and pass by that with withered tips. For
'speckled Sick' we- went into a cornfield
that lay on the other side of a four-foot
creek of unknown depth in places, which
was bordered by a patch of green brier,
blackberry and thorn busbes, which we
went through cheerfully to get at the
bright red spotted green patches in the
stubble.
' Novelties From the Field.
"We found four kinds of thistle plentiful
and red and yellow dock, wild mustard,
wild cabbage, wild lettuce and 'chicken
fights' or wild violets, which are so mis
named because yhildreu catti two blorsons
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together at the curve of the stem, and with a
quick pull break off tbe poor little blue
heads. There was a creek called 'Sinking
Creek,' that had a confirmed habit of dis
appearing for SO or a 100 yards at short
intervals. There were deep holes in its
bed and quicksands on its banks, but we
took our chances and braved them all, but
we were very much scared when we found
the familiar scene changed as we climbed
over a big table rock to slip by vines down
its Sheer side into the path beyond it that
skirted the creek.
"As we were1readyto 'hand-over-hand' as
quick as yon can down the grapevine, we
saw the path was gone in a sink hole,' through
which the creek rushed with black reflec
tions on its very swift waters, and where
the creek had been was a cavern, whose
mouth was filled with rocks and sticks, an
old, long-drowned wagon just held in shape
by lily tubes and roots of reeds and water
plants that were cringing and drooping in
the sunshine.
Sliding, to a Treasure.
"We found another path to our cave,
which was entered by a steep funnel shaped
opening, a hundred yards across and about
25 from the top edge to the floor. Here the
cold air and dampness made an opal tinted
vapor that made distances very deceptive to
me, but my companions 'fairly scooted liken
squulls' (squirrels).
"Between tbe steepness and tbe slippery
blacc loam covered with more slippery dead
leaves that conspired to hide little trickling
tongues of water, and deceptive tree roots
that offered a firm footing for my uncertain
feet that no sooner felt my weight than they
shed their outer bark between them all I
was creatly discouraged, and, truth to tell,
I felt like crying when I looked at the
treasures so far below me, but, then, one of
tbe children gave me a hrm, lorcible push
and down I slid, sitting, as quick as if I
were on a third story banister; down I went
with skirts trailing behind me and never
stopped till I reached the pool below that
was formed by the stream that fell over the
edge of the funnel.
Besembled nn Umbrella.
All the company shrieked and laughed
and then came down and squeezed my skirts
dry and propped them out with switches as
the washerwoman sometimes used to spread
out old-fashioned petticoats with broom
handles and fisnine poles. So, looking like
an umbrella mashed flat, I had my first ex
perience and gathered the polished green
lamb's tongne with its yellow blossoms, and
fern and wild violets.
"We found what they called Adam's
apple, which is a very white onion-looking
bulb that tastes very sweet and pleasant
They knew of the wild plant that looks
like sweet William in height and shape of
leaves which we used to call 'devil in the
bnsh.' The puffy green leaves are full of
green juice which can easily be squeezed
out with the hands. We used to thin the
juice with clear water and, if possible, with
dew collected in the morning, and then
wash our faces in the greenish, soapy look
ing water; and, although this juice smells
like catalpa beans, ws left it on our faces
ever night, knowing the tan would be gone
in the morning and our skins would look
fresh and white. There is no telling how
lovely we might have become had we done
tbis regularly, but we took tnrn about, one
of us squeezing perfume from an atomizer
on the poor, ill-smelling face that had been
'deviled;' as it was, we had fair, rosy faces,
although we romped iu the woods like wild
things and never wore our sun bonnets.
A Priceless Eoapy Green.
"But all that was when we were little
chaps at school, and now when complexions
are showing wear we would be glad enough
to use this ill-smelling but potent weed
without requiring our husbands to force
perfume into the air we breathed till sleep
comes. To think how alive we were to tbe
mysteries of chemistry when we went to bed
little walnut stained darkies and gazed out
on the autumn stars that twinkled iu time
with the fragrant puffings and knew that
when we rose by the light of those same stars
in the morning we wonld be clean again,
makes us all eager to grub again in the
woods for that soapy green that-no florist or
druggist knows by its familiar name.
"I had only meant to tell you tbe little I
had learned about cooking weeds and how
full the woods are of such things, and how
these people use the sheep sorrel as we do
the rhubarb or pie plant for pies and fruit
sauces, but the memory of that delightful
free and easy time in the hills led me on to
such length as I had not intended in a cote
to a busy woman. So cow I can only send
this long letter, or else rewrite it which I
have not time to do else abandon my pur
pose. By the way, I was hunting a prophecy
and eame upon this:
" 'He ordered that they should lay a lump
of figs as a plaster on the wound and that it
would be healed.' Isaiah xxxviii., 21. I
wonder if that would not be nicer than the
old bread poultice for boils and ails of that
kind? "K."
An Early World Prescription.
Of course. Figs split and heated or roasted
are standard applications for bruises and
boils in tbe old pharmacopoeia practice
brought from the Saracen wars and wise
Arab physicians, doubtless one of the ear
liest prescriptions in the world after the
clay plaster, which was probably the first.
Here is an item of interest to our colored
sisters:
"I once knew a womana mulatto, whose
hair was remarkably long and thick. You
know colored women have short, crinkly
hair. She had been a missionary in Africa
for 20 years. She was full grown when she
leit thfs country and her hair was about a
foot lone. She attributed the growth and
luxuriance of her hair to the use of pure
palm oiL
"Have you ever noticed the tendency of
eyelashes to straighten out and lose the
pretty upward curve of childhood when
folks are full grown? I know a lady well
past 40 whose eyelashes are still as prettily
curved as they were SO years ago, and this
notwithstanding her having had at various
times since her childhood eyelids and eyes
so badly inflamed as to incapacitate her for
any kind of work.
Training Up the Eyelashes.
"In washing she bathes her eyes long and
thoroughly, and at the last runs her wet
forefinger along the upper lid, turning the
lashes up. I have never known anyone to
do this but her. My observation of others
has shown methat people wipe the lid down
and straighten out the lashes.
"I know, too, a woman who has passed
well into 40 who has escaped wrinkles and
is still young looking, and this in spite of
delicate health and a life fall of care and
anxiety for those dependent on her. In her
youth she was beautifully plump, with
round checks that are thin now but un
wrinkled. Wbe she saw that she was losing
flesh she expected wrinkles, but they never
rame. I don't think they ever will. She
has a way peculiarly her own of washing
her face. Instead of taking a cloth or a
sponge, a great hunch, a hand full, and
making a "half dozen big sweeps of the face,
as anyone else does, she takes a sort cloth
and twisting it around her two front fingers
she goes slowly all over her face, as though
she were rubbing iu oil. After she had read
your directions for effacing wrinkles she re
marked: 'That she believed she had pre
vented their coming by her manner of
washing her face.' I think so, too.
"E. P."
I am sure readers will join me in thanks
for these admirable letters. A few such
fresb, stimulating epistles atone for -hundreds
of meaningless, wearisome ones which
extraot a writer's strength and exhaust
time. SniBiEY Daee.
TTTT.T, is OHLY ORE UAH.
Thirteen Invitations for Twelve Guests, and
No Mistake Made.
Mew Tork Freis.1
"James," said the leading politician's
wife, "I notice by the list you have made
out that there will be 13 at dinner. This is
regarded as an unlucky number, and some
of tbe guests may cot like it"
"There will be only 12, dear."
"How do yon make that out? You have
noted down here two generals, four lawyers,
two Journalists, a Governor and a Senator.
"That's all right, Sear. The Governor
and Senator is only one man."
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH."
SOME SHORT TALKS.
Uncle Sam la a Very Bad Individual
to Hare a Claim Against.
BARRETT'S PRE8EHGE OP M1HD.
A Club Organized for the Purpose of Hay
ing First-Class Sport.
ENGLISHMEN ALWAYS LIES AMERICA
i coimxspOKDtncz or rat DisrAicn.1
Kew Yoek, March 28. Among the short
interviews I gathered during the week tbe
following, I hope, will interest the people of
Western Pennsylvania:
Sound to Have Good Sport,
Pago McCarty, of Richmond, Va. We have
organized a club down there for sporting pur
poses that will be heard from favorably some
day. It is called the Metompkln Club. It owns
10,000 acres of shooting lands on the Potomac,
famous lor duck, wljd turkey, qnail and terra
pin. We have a charter from the State of Vir
ginia in which every member of the club is a
btate peace officer empowered to enforce the
game laws of Virginia. We have the finest
pack of fox hounds in the State the famous
old King George county pack. Tbe tract of
land embraces the famous Chotank Crete used
by Oeneral Washington and all tbo old hunters
of colonial davs. In addition to tbis wehavo
tbe option or 20,000 acres more, almost equally
as good hunting lands. If you will come
down tbero some of these days we will show
yon a fox bunt worth seeing. The organizers
of the olub besides myself are SIcBarr Holmes
Conrad. Colonel Bob Hunter, Dr. John V.
Bransford, United States Navy, and Ueorge
Ben Johuston, nephew of General Joe John
ston. It is proposed to have a sporting ground
of land and water unequaled in auj section of
tbe country. You know the Virginians are
famous for their love of field sports. In ad
dition to the natives, however, we have several
prominent New Yorkers who will take a hand
in the scheme. Quite a number of distinguished
Federal officers at Washincton have beeu down
looking over the ground and are delighted with
the prospect of a permanent hunting park, such
as we propose.
Claims Against Uncle Sam.
Goneral McBride, of California While per
haps the matter is overlooked by the country
at large, I think the greatest outrage connect
ed with tbe recent Congress lies in tbe fact tbat
it almost wholly ignored the people who have
claims against the Qovernment It is well
known that there are outstanding debts of the
Government to private Individuals to the
amount ot millions of dollars. These claims
are passed upon by one House or another from
year to year, but from some cause never reach
a settlement Once in a while a case can be
taken np from the calendar and referred to the
Court ot Claims, when It goes through another
siege of Investigation and may finally reach ad
judication. I have noticed in my practice before
Coucress and the Federal courts that it has be
come harder and harder to clear any claim
agaiust tho Government of the United States.
I would advise any man now, who has a con
tract with the Government for the execution
of any particular work, to get somebody out
side of tbe Government circle and who Is per
sonally responsible to guarantee his claim for
him and execute a bona which will Insure its
payment on maturity, I don't know of any
man in private life so absolutely
rotten when it comes to a finan
cial obligation as this same Government
of the United States. Tbe evidence of Just
debts to tbe amount of millions of dollars lies
piled up in tbe committee rooms at tho National
Capital with no more hope to-day of financial
adjudication than they had on tbe day in which
tbe evidence was filed. Every Congress, it
seems, must begin de novo to go tbrongb these
committee's examinations and pass upon each
one of these cases and this, the accumulated
business and tbe political squabbles of each sno
ceediuc Congress makes a practical impossi
bility. Tbe time has come when every con
tractor dealini with the Government takes this
uncertainty Into consideration, and it costs tbe
Government just tbat much more to cot the
business or work executed or supplies furnished
than it wonld a man in pnvato business. Some
years ago I told a client of mine who had a
claim against the Government for some $14,000
that while the claim was undoubtedly a just
one. It would cost him a good deal of money to
clear it more, probably,than the amount of the
claim. Rejecting my advice he hired another
attorney and went to Washington and finally
prosecuted it. Five years later I saw that man
and he recalled the conversation. Hesaidthat
he bad been paid the claim after four years. I
congratulated him on getting tbrouzh so
quickly and was about to acknowledge my
error in counseling him to have nothing to do
with it when he interrupted me and said tbat
it had cost him just $47,000 to clear that claim
of $11,000.
The Sentiment That Justified Slavery.
A Citizen; of New Orleans The people who
so loudly condemned tbe action of tbe mob at
New Orleans did not know anything about the
straits which provoked tbe violence. If they
do know they do not realize what It all means.
Singularly enough I have not seen much con
demnation of tbe other side ot tbe case tbat
is to say of the infamous society known as tbe
-Mafia, which provoked " the best citizens of
New Orleans into taking the administration of
justice out of the bands of the regularly con
stituted authorities. New Orleans has about
20,000 Sicilian and Italian Inhabitants. Among
these are tbe very worst characters tbat can
be found in tbe world. They ware fueitives
from justice in their own countries. They
were outlaws, thieves, brigands, roobers and
murderers. Tbey were driven out of tbeir own
small communities In Italy, where, when they
mere caught, they were shot down like mad
dogs. .Under tbe protection of tbe laws of the
United States, which they did not understand,
and for which they did not care, they had be
come the terror of Now Orleans. It is Im
possible to cet a jury to convict tbem of any
crime whatever, trom ths very fact that if the
jurors were not bribed tbey knew that a
verdict against ahy of the wrong-doers wonld
be x death warrant for themselves. It Is a case
of self-preservation on tbe part of delinquent
juries, jnst as the slaughter ot these criminals
by tbe people of New Orleans was a case of
self-preservation. Ot all the Indignant Italian
utterances in this city and elsewhere, nobody
heart a word said In condemnation of the
villains who were wiped out, or the villainies
which tbey perpetrated. It was not becanse
tho men were Italians that they snifered. It
Mould have been the Bame if they bad been
French or negroes, or white Americans. Un
fortunate as tuoh ocenrrences are, the blow
fell upon the right men and in the right place.
No Progress in England's Interior.
Bydney Downing, an English-American I
have just returned from a trip to mypld home
in England, alter an absence of several years.
If anything In tbe world would make an
Englishman satisfied with America, It Is a visit
to his old stamping ground. I was down in
County Kent where 1 went to school as a boy
np to 17 years of age. Tho place is exactly what
it waswhen 1 left it 1 don't believe that a
brick or a stone bad been turned over. The
very old people are still very old, and the young
fellows .with whom I went to school have
cleared out for fresher fields and new countries
or have gone to. London in business. I have
traveled a little, since I lived in New York,
into the interior of tbis country, and I can
never go back twice to tbe same place witbout
noting the most wonderful changes in archi
tecture and business progression of all Kinds.
Things seem to more ahead in America. Things
never move ahead in tbe interior ot Enclaml.
I am reminded of the old story of a reporter
who rodo on tbe cab of an engine along an
Illinois ruad and mentioned casually to the
engineer that a new town bad grown into a city
since ho had beon there. "That's nothing."
said tbe engineer. "I go over the route once a
day and never without seeluc a new town
where co town was before. It is nothing in
America to see a town of 5,000 inhabitants one
day and see it 10,000 tbe next day." This is
putting It a little strong, but the truth is won
derful enough. After living in New York and
visiting other parts ot -America no man could
ever feel content to go back to England and
live anv place else, except London. I know it
is customary for an Englishman to deride this
"blarsted country," bnt after they live here
awhile you couldn't hire them to go back to
their native Una.
The Danger of a Cold.
Dr. Cyrus Edison Perhaps you wouldn't
think so, bnt a vory large proportion of dis
eases In New York come from carelessness
about catcbing cold. A cold Is a very simple
thing to most people, and they pay little or no
attention to It It it were some serious disease
they would probably break their necks, so to
speak, to get a doctor and to follow bis advice.
Bnt it is snch a simple thing and so common
that very few people, unless it Is a caseot
pneumonia, pay any attention to a cold. New
York is one of tbe healthiest places on the At
lantic coast and yet- there are a great many
cases ot catarrh and consumption, which bave
tbeir origin in tbis neglect of tbe simplest pre
cautions of everyday life. If a doctor tells any
ot these people tbat a eold IS a serions thing
theT would probably laugh at him, and tblnk
that be was doing it merely to get a chance for
a fee. One feature of a cold, and I mean tbe
common, everyday article, is tbat ft often
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affects the internal organs, the muscles, the
nerves, the head, the brain and the blood.
What is known as la erlppo is usually the re
sult of personal neglect on the part of a pa
tient, what is commonly known as pneumo
nia weather is simply that state of the atmos
phere conducive to colds, and more liable tore
suit In something serious. As to a cold the
simplest and most sensible advice is, when you
have one get rid of it as soon as possible. By
all means do not neglect it
Forced to Be a Democrat
Oeneral Black, of South Carolina If I was a
Northerner I would probably be a Republican.
As it is, no respectable white citizen of tbe
South can be scarcely anything but a Democrat
under tbe existing order of things. This is not
wholly a question ot race prejudice with us,
but because the Interests of the most respect
able portion of tbe Southern commubitles are
naturally alligned on tbe side of home rule.
We believe iu home rnle In the South, thesame
as patriotic IiHbmen believe in home rnle for
Ireland. If there were any movement looking
to a division on this question of national pol
itics, without sacrificing ths grand principles
of home rule, there wonld be a good many white
people who are now Democrats voting the Re
publican ticket When the Federal Govern
ment ceases to interfere or attempting to in
terfere with local home rule in tbo South, then
the Republican party will stand some show of
carrying: Southern States in a general election.
That point might have been reached some time
ago, but the ill-advisedattempts of tbemajority
iu Congress and tbe Republican administration
to control our local elections have placed that
possibility beyond immediate reach. These
attempt, have stimulated the home feeling to
such an extent tbat it will bo a long time be
fore the effect is destroyed.
A Story of Lawrence Barrett
A Newspaper Man The lata Lawrence Bar
rett's presence of mind in an emergency was
remarkable. As you have seen from tbe
obituary notices, he was a man possessed of an
immense amount of grit lie went through in
his early stage lit o what wonld have completely
cured any man of dramatic ambition. I re
member one occasion when he was playing
.Richelieu this stamina prevented what would
have otherwise been a disastrous panic In
the theater. In tbe act where he comes into
bis study with an open Roman lamp in his
band tbe flames caught tbe curtain. Ue was in
the midst of his soliloquy. Without hesitating
au instant or even pausing in bis lines he
ciughtat tho names with bis other band, bnt
didn't reach high enough to Bmotber tbem.
The audience was breathless with excitement.
Sweeping his cardinal robe aside and changing
the lamp into his other hand, he grasped tbe
curtain, which was looped back as a portiere,
and pulled tho whole business down and
trampled It under his feet That audience
rose as one person, and I thought they would
take tbe roof off with tbe vociferous apprecia
tion of his presence of mind.
Underground Transit in New York.
(j. V. Powell, Mechanical Engineer The pro
posed tunnel under Broadway and otherstreets
of New York suggested by Austin Corbin, will,
in my opinion, be about tbe last thing to be
adopted by New Yorkers in the way of rapid
transit Not that an underground system is not
a correct one, but that particular scheme of go
ing down 75 or 100 feet before traveling to and
from your business will not be a paying venture
becanso it niy not be a popular means of
travel. I notlco that Mr. Corbin alluded to the
expense his corporation bad gone to in order to
ascertain tbe character of the sub-strata. In
reality tbe company didn't expend any money
whatever, but took the reports of the various
engineers who have bored for artesian wells In
different parts of tbe city, from the Battery up.
A good many peeple do not know that quite a
number of artesian wells have been successful
ly put down here. Some ot these snecessful
ones force water to tbe height of several feet
above tbe surface. This water is found at
depths varying from 250 to 1,000 feet An effort
was made at tbe Fifth Avenue Hotel to reach
water through boring, but after going down
1,000 feet or more without success the thing
was given up. All of these various borings
illustrate the character ot the rock underlying
Manhattan Island.
Pleasures of Life In Slam.
General Baldeman, late Minister to Siam I
jnst received a letter lrom Colonel Boyd, my
successor at Bankok. He had just arrived ana
is perfectly de lighted with the country so far
as he has seen it Siam Is a delightful climate
to live in, and there are enough English resi
dents to afford, all of the society necessary to a
pleasant existence. There. Is a diplomatio
corps of about 20 members, and the isolation
brings tbem nearer together socially than
members or the diplomatic service are usually
brought elsewhere. Sitae of tbem have tbeir
' wiVes and families with tbem, and very often
English and American ladles pay extended
Tisits. You can wear white duck tbe year
around in Siam, and yet in summer the mer
cury hardly ever rises above 90. I have seen it
hotter in St Louis many a time. There is con
siderable conviviality indulged in at Bankok,
though tho wines are light and wholesome.
People either drink wine or whisky. Malt
liquors are very rarely drunk, and are not suit
able to tbe warm climate. There Is a great
deal there to interest travelers, and these are
increasing every year.
Don't Wait Till the Horses Are Stolen.
A Builder You will notice that of late years
most of the houses nptown are provided with
very strong defenses as to tbe lower floors.
This is not because burglary and general house
breaking is anymore prevalent now than in
former years, but it is a very usoful precaution,
and peonle who are having private residences
built find that it Is a good deal cheaper to rive
ample security to tbe lower floors in the way
of bars and gratings than it Is to risk a loss by
burglary once In 60 years, or to expend the
samo money for private watchmen. It is true,
tbe iron bars at all tbe high stoop houses up
town give tbe appearance of a jail to the resi
dences, bnt tbey are very useful and are very
substantial preventives to housebreaking. In
the older countries the lower floors were
usually built up solid, with only a small grated
winaow, the front doors were of solid oak and
all bars of metal. That was when every man's
bouse was not only his castle in theory, but was
constrncted with a view to defense in case of
nocessity from street mobs and personal depre
dations. Claims Against Rich People.
A Broadway Tradesman Rich people are
vory often the very hardest peoplo with whom
we have to deaL It -is sometimes almost im
possible to collect a bill against one ot these
rich Now Yorkers without legal proceedings.
In such cases as tbat very few tradesmen will
sue, and will consequently not collect the bill
at alt There are two reasons for tbis. One is,
the cost of the snit will probably be moro than
the amount of the bill, and the other reason is
such an action would gain lor the tradesman
only tbe ill-will of tbe delinquent debtor's
friends. Some of these follows are well-known
club men; what you call men-about-town. and
they have a great many friends. It is not to
much dishonesty on tbeir part a3 it is a cold
blooded carelessness of money and an indiffer
ence to tbe rights of other people. They simply
don't care anything about it, and don't want to
be bothered with It Such fellows may spend
thousands of dollars every month, and yet have
no conscience whatever about a debt of S25.
Peoplo Aro Tired of Pedestrlanlsm.
A Professional Pedestrian The recent con
test at Madison Square Garden was a great
failure. It is clear that people take consider
ably less interest in peaestrlanlsm than they
did a few years ago. On some nights last week
thero were often not more than SO or 100 people
in the garden, and these did not seem to be
greatly concerned in the walkmg match.
Probably most of those who attended during
tbe week were deadheads. A large number of
passes were issued, complimentary. An agree
ment wasinado by those interested tbat no
mure than 2.000 compllmontarles should be
given out; I understand tbat upward of 15.000
were Issued. Tne attempt to paper a house
like Madison Square Garden would defeat the
purpose for which tho paper was Issued. It is
too big a place. In my opinion there will never
be another walking match of this kind In New
York. There is not enough support any longer
from the community at large.
Political Opinions of Texas.
A Texas Editor If the Democrats of Texas
would vote their honost convictions just now
they wonld throw Cleveland overboard. So
far as Texas is concerned, however, it a yellow
dog were nominated on the Democratic ticket
for president with a Republican platform to
stand on Texas would vote for him. As to sil
ver the people of my State must wait until
they hear from Senators Regan and Coke.
These two distinguished gentlemen furnish
tbe political opinion for Texas. Until tbey are
heard from It wonld be premature to say what
the Democracy of Texas think on the sliver is
sue. The Name Doesn't Pit
IJiiiau Lewis, Actress The actresses' clnb
was organized for a very worthy purpose. It
has served this purpose pretty well, and has
contributed largely to tho charities extended.
toward the unfortunate members of the pro
fession. It was very unfortunate, however, in
its choice of a title, "Fencing, Athletle and
Dancing," the initials of which were F. A, D.
It has proved more of a benevolent association
than anything in the athletic line. Under the
reorganization as the 'Twelfth Night Club"
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Women Are Learning Tbat Hnsband
Hnnting Isn't Necessary,
LIFE OF A GLORIFIED BFINSTER.
Three Old Maids of England Who Accom
plished a World of Good.
THE WORK OF GOOD QUEEN BESS
Mvmnx.1 roa ttii disfatcb.i
There are some men whose vanity is hurt
by the idea that there are women who are as
intelligent and well educated as themselves.
Such men hold that marriage is not a union
of equals, bnt a condition In which husbands
are to be rulers and wives subjects. They
can see no chance for harmony in the family
unless the wife plays second fiddle.
These men are fond of telling women that
It is their mission in lite to do duty in
the kitchen andthe nursery and that
they should have nothing to do
with politics or public questions.
But while resignation may be lauded as a
virtue, it seems to be quite plaiu that many
or the sisters are determined not to practice
it at present Many of them have reached
the condition of those whom a recent writer
denominates as "glorified spinsters" indi
viduals evolved from the well-known class
of "old maids," who have tasted the de
lights of liberty and independence and call
no man master a new order of women fitted
to take care of themselves, intelligent and
cultured beyond the common, who do
not look forward to marriage as
their distiny, and who do not feel
deprived of all chance ot happiness because
their souls' mates fail to appear upon the
scene and ask them to marry. This sort of
a spinster does not grow sonr or cranky.
She does not depend upon her relations for
support until a husband turns up. She has
sense enough to see how many ot her friends
have been wrecked by a bad marriage, and
does not mean to throw herself away in like
fashion. 0
TVo Will Have More of Them.
This class of single women will grow
larger with the spread of education and the
facilities that tbey cow enjoy of making a
livelihood. As Mrs. Chapman observes,
the number of (10.000 women who will
throw themselves away on 10-cent men will
grow smaller, divorces will grow lets in
proportion and happier marriages will he
the rule. It does not seem to the ministers
and laymen who form the "Anti-divorce
Society" that the best way to get at the root
of the evil is to preach independence to
women rather than subordination.
But even if all were willing to marry,
there ate not enough men to go round, hence
however much many of them might desire
tbe domestic mission, they must accept the
situation and find the exercise for their en
ergies and their power for good in other
fields. No country can display a more
famous lot of old maids than England, and
no King was ever more beloved and preised
than was the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth, who
made it her end and aim "to preserve her
throne, to keep England out of war, and
to restore and preserve order." Her
faults were not a few, but her
policy as a ruler was distinguished
for good sense. She loved peace, and her
doctrine of moderation and conciliation
brought prosperity to England. "I have
desired," said she in a message to Parlia
ment, "to have the obedience of my subjects
by love aud not by compulsion," and she
won the love of the people fairly, says
Green, by justice and good government
No married woman, or man either, for tha t
matter, ever did more for their country than
the illustrious old maid Elizabeth.
Three Famous Old Maids.
"When Pitt was in power in England, and
when Colonel Boquet was building- his
redoubt in Pittsburg, which constitutes the
onl v relio left of British rule In this vicinity,
there were horn three .women in England
'who achieved fame, who lived. Jong and
useful lives, and who were subjected to the
sneers that then, more than now, fell to the
share of old maids Joanna Baillie, Maria
Edgeworth and Jane Austen. "While the
first families of Pittsburg were struggling
with all ot the hardships of pioneer life
these literary old maids were writing books
that have survived as masterpieces, even
after a hundred years. Joanna Baillie was
not so much given to the promotion of piety
as was Hannah More. The latter gave up
dramatic writing because she thought the
theater demoralising; but Joanna, equally
bent upon doing good, wrote with the strong
desire to reform the stage by furnishing
plays that should not only give pleasure,
but promote good morals. She wrote a
series of "Plays on the Passions" that have
won high praise and commendation from
distinguished writers.
Sir Walter Scott said of the truth, power
and feeling shown in these plays that tbey
entitled her to the fame ot standing second
ouly to Shakespeare, aud tbe assertion has
beeu made that Byron, "Wordsworth and
other late poets have drawn rich stories
from the mine of genius found in the works
of Joanna Baillie. Kemble used occasion
ally to play her "De Montfort" as giving
scope to his talents, but while her dramas
entitle her to high rank as a poet, and form
"a noble monument to her powerful mind
and eminent genius," they Ire not acting
plays for the multitude. Even the genius
of Mrs. Siddons did not make "The Eamily
Legend," in which she played the principal
part, a success in the theater. However,
Miss Baillie was not dependent upon her
writings for support, and she was not em
bittered and soured by the lack of popular
appreciation for her p'lays. Her work was
her delight, and received warmest welcome
from the eminent writers and critics of her
time. She lived to be SO years old, and
used her pen and her taleuts for the pleasure
and benefit of mankind and tbe enrichment
ot English literature." In comely age,
active and ardent she and her sister Agnes,
lived genial, happy lives as old maids'
"through grief and gladness, shade and
sheen.''
The Miss Alcott of Her Time.
Maria Edgeworth, who aohieved great
fame in her day and had a wide influence on
society through her books, was bcrn in
England, but lived most of her long and
useful life in Ireland. She wrote novels
and tales that were immensely popular, and
her works, says Lord Jeffrey, exhibit a
singular union of good, sound sense, inex
haustible invention, and a minute knowl
edge of all that distinguishes manners or
touches on happiness in every condition of
human fortune. Miss Edgeworth seems to
have been the Miss Alcott of a century ago.
Her books were no less the delight of chil
dren than of grown people. Her vivid portray
als of character, sparkling wit and good
humor, her touches of pathos all showed an
intimate acauaintance with human nature.
Her books were free from religious bias and
prejudice they were written for the amuse
ment, and enlightenment of the people of
all creeds. Her novels of Irish life are con
sidered her best, aud are said to have been
the inspiration that moved Sir "Walter
Scott "to do for Scotland what Miss Edge
worth had done for Ireland."
To ns of to-day the books of Miss Edge
worth seem somewhat dull, and the moral is
made tiresomely prominent The fore
fathers apd mothers were so constituted that
they could stand an infinite amount of pro
siness. Tbey could sit on hard benches in
cold churches and take In doctrinal ser
mons for hours together, whereas their
descendants will growl nowadays if
religious discourses exceed 20 min
utes in length. They delighted in
the most doleful of hymns, and long-drawn-out
penitential prayers. Those were
solemn times, and tbe tales of Miss Edge
worth and WalterScott must have fallen
with delicious freshness upon minds accus
tomed to tbe dry husks of theology and the
solemn sermons of the parsons, whose way
ot setting forth the eood tidings of great joy
sent the cold chills down people's backs
abd made the children' afraid to go to bed
in the dark.
A Writer True to Life.
None of these famous old maid, whose
influence was so strongly felt In' their day
and generation, have maintained so high1 a
place as Jane Austen. Truth io nature is
her highest excellence. She made common
.life interesting. The most discriminating
critics. -have given her books unstinted
praise. She did not take to novel writing
with a desire for fame and fortune.but being
single and without tbe cares and worries of
married life her taste and inclination
prompted her to the use of her pen.
She appears to have been extremely
modest and diffident as to her powers. So
much so that it was with difficulty that her
friends persuaded her to venture, on sub
mitting her first book "Sense and Sensi
bility" to a publisher. It made a hit
however, much to her surprise, aud netted
her what she considered an amazing sum
nearly 9S00. Her pictures of society and
domestic ltfe are so vividly true and life
like that someone has said that "the social
life of the England of the period could be
reconstructed from them it all other his
tories and records were to be swept away."
Her books are considered classic, though
like others penned by "immortals," they
have gone out of fashion, and are hut little
read in this rushing nineteenth century,
when "Walter. Scott grows tedious and the
charnf of Charles Dickens is on the wane;
A Very Pleasing Spinster.
Jane Austen was noted for her cheerful
ness, sweet temper and benevolence, no less
than for her beauty of person, and pleasing
manners. She lived 'a single life not so
many years as Joanna Baillie or Maria
Edgeworth, but long enough to be subject
to the derision of fools as au old maid long
enough to reach the rank of master in the
field of fiction. "Women were set aside from
the royal succession on the eround that
"Prance was too noble a country to,be ruled
by a woman," but there is no Salic law In
literature.
Now there are those who will maintain
that these old maids had missed th"r high
eft calling in lite; that they would bave
been better employed in tbe domes
tic mission in the kitchen and
the nursery. Or if they could
bot catch a husband by beauty, or
money, or diplomacy, they could at least
work slippers for tbe clergy, or make fancy
things for fairs. It is of" little avaiLwith.
such arrogant objectors to say that brains
are bestowed for use, that talents are given,
not to be buried but to be improved.
The women of whom I speak were "old
maids," but tbey were gifted with exalted
powers for doing good. That they did not
marry and left no children, ouly matches
the fact that some of the greatest of writers
among men were unmarried and childless.
Bbssie Beaiujle.
CATARRH AS CAUSE OF DISEASES.
Have I Catarrh? Is a Question Which
Everyone Ought to Care
fully Decide.
EEiLTH AKD CiTAEEH INCOHPATIBIX
If I were asked to name the disease which
most rarely destroys life I would name
catarrh. But were I asked to name the
disease which sets up in the system
oftenest'diseases which do destroy life I
would again name catarrh. Catarrh, while
it remains simply catarrh, very rarely de
stroys a life, although it makes life misera
ble; hut catarrh surely leads to a host of
diseases, many of which are fatal to life.
The following list of diseases, too well
known in this country, are each and all
simply catarrh affecting different organs of
the human body: Consumption, bronchitis,
laryngitis pharyngitis, stomatitis, rhinitis,
otitis, conjunctivitis, gastritis (dyspepsia),
intestinitls (chronic diarrhtsa and dysen
tery), vaginitis, urethritis, nephritis and
cystitis, are each thought by most people to
be essentially different diseases; but the
truth is they are catarrh of the mucus lining
of the various organs. A medicine that is
applicable to any one of the above list of
diseases is applicable to them oil, as each
one has for its cause the same condition.
Catarrh is catarrh wherever located, and the
remedy that will cure it in one organ of the
body will also cure it in any other organ.
As I have had occasion to frequently say
in former lectures, all the organs o'f the
body are lined by a delicate pink lining
composed chiefly of VeryJ- -minnie 'blood
vessels, and that,h!s1Inlhg is calledTrnucous
membrane. "When this membrane is healthy
there is constantly exuding from its surface
a clear, soothing fluid, called mucus; but as
soon as the mucous membrane becomes af
fected by catarrh the mucus becomes poison
ous and irritating, causing the mucous mem
branes to become inflamed or ulcerated, and
sometimes entirely destroying them. Thus
it is that the mncus, which is so useful in
lubricating and protecting these delicate
membranes in health, becomes, when
changed by catarrh, a corroding and dan
gerous fluid, which frequently eats its way
comnletelv through the tender membrane.
sometimes even destroying adjacent organs.
I have seen many cases where the poisonous
catarrhal secretions of the middle ear had
entirely destroyed the organ of hearing and
had ulcerated deeply into the bones of the
head and face. These cases sometimes ter
minate in deatb, and never fail to be a
source of great discomfort and harm.
Catarrhal secretions in the frontal sinus
(a little cavity in the bone of the forehead
between the eyes) never fails to give rise to
tbe most persistent headache or neuralgia.
Catarrh in the throat or bronchial tnbes
gives rise to an abundance of this acrid,
harmful mucu3, which so irritates the
bronchial tubes as to produce chronic
hoarseness or cough, and in thousands of
cases the fluid finds its way down into the
lungs, producing the most fatal form of con
sumption. ,
I am persuaded, after many years of ex-,
perience in the treatment of consumption,
tbat nearly every case is due to chronio
catarrh. The catarrh may have been so
slight previous to the development as to
cause no alarm; bnt suddenlv the dread
symptoms of consumption make their ap
pearance, many times too late to be cured.
A similar explanation will apply to catarrh
of the stomach and bowels, which so de
ranges the fluids of digestion on to produce
dyspepsia, uiarrlico-i and dysentery. "When
catarrh attacks the kidneys it at once pro
duces chronic inflammation of these organs,
in every respect resembling Bright's disease
of the kidneys. The acrid mucus formed in
the kidneys by catarrh not only sets up de
rangements of these organs, but frequently
also tbe other urinary organs.
In short, catarrh is capable of changing
all of the life-eiving secretions of the body
into scalding fluids, which destroy and In
flame every part they come in contact with.
Applications to the places affected by
catarrh can do little-good save to soothe or
quiet disagreeable symptoms. Hence ft is
that gargles, sprays, atomizers and inhal
ants only serve as" temporary relief, iiny
medicine, to effect a cure, must be taken
into tbe system. Pe-ru-na has shown Itself
in cases innumerable tobeapable of curing
catarrh bv removing tbe canse.
So long as tbe irritating seers t ions of
catarrh continue to be formed, so long will
tbe membranes continue to be inflamed,
no matter what treatment is used. As soon
as Pe-ru-na has been taken long enough to'
thoroughly act on the system it changes the
burning, harmful secretions to healthy
mucus, and tbe inflamed membranes soon
are as well as ever. Pe-ru-na will have
this effect whether the catarrh affect the
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head, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels of
kidneys - ,
When the Pe-rn-na, has overcome, tha
harmful effects of the catarrhal discharges
tbe medicine should be continued long
enough to allow thainjured membranes time)
enough to entirely recover, which will in
sure a permanent curs Each bottle of, Pe-rn-na
Is accompanied with all necessary
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Any one desiring to become well informed
as to the. nature and cure of catarrhal dis
eases should send for theJTamily Physician
No. 2, sent free by Tbe Peruna Medicine
Company, Columbus, O.
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Xa Grippe.
No healthy person need fear any danger
ous consequences frOmtbiS disease if prop
erly treated. It is much tbe same as a very
severe cold, no more dangerous and requires
precisely the same treatment.
There were many deaths from It during
the winter of 18S9 and 1890, but sot prob
ably more than there would have been had
the same vast number of persons contracted
very severe colds. Manv of those who suc
cumbed to the disease had weak lungs, or
were otherwise physically weak and -their
systems not strong enough to withstand the
disease. A still greater number were not
properly treated or neglected to use the very
necessary precautions to avoid a relapse.
"We wish it plainly understood, however,
that, no matter how strong or healthy a per
son may be; they cannot reasonably hope
for a complete recovery unless proDer care
Is ued to avoid exposure, especially- when
recovering from the disease, and the-right
treatment is adopted.
ME BE3X TEEAT1IEST VOZVZJL GBIPPE
Bemain quietly at home until all symp
toms of the disease disappear, and then when
yon go out have the body well clothed and
the leet well protected, so that they will re
main dry and warm.
. Take Chamberlain's Cough Eemedy as
directed for a severe cold. If freely taken
as soon as the first symptoms of the disease
appear, it will greatly lessen the severity of
the attack, and its continued use" will pre
vent dangerous consequences, provided, ot
course, that reasonably good care be taken
of the general system and to avoid ex
posure. .
Keep the bowels regular. JFever usually
causes constipation, the bowels are almost
certain 'to become constipated, and if al
lowed to remain so would mate the fever'
much worse and the headache much more
severe. It is of much importance tbat they
move once each day. If only slightly con
stipated one or two of St Patrick's Pills,
taken at bedtime, will insure an operation
the next morning, but if .badly constipated
three or four would be required. They pro
duce a mild and pleasant cathartic effect
Avoid large doses of active cathartics, as
they would weaken the system just when
strength and vigor are most needed.
Take quinine, in doses of two or three
grains each lour times a day, as soon as the
feeling of weakness or prostration appears.
It will help to keep up the vitality and en
able the system to withstand the attack.
For pain in the chest, which is very apt
to appear, saturate a flannel cloth with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind it over
the seat of pain. It will relieve the pain
and perhaps prevent pneumonia.
An even temperature as possible should
be maintained, as seemingly slight changes
of the temperature of the room would aggra
vate the disease, if not cause a relapse.
This treatment was followed by manv
thousands of persons and families during
the winter of 1889 and 1890, and was uni
formly successful. It greatly lessened the
severity of the attack and prevented pneu
monia or other dangerous consequences.
"Whilejljmany thousands we know were
cored by it, we have yet to learn of a single
case treated in this way that resulted fatal
ly. Tbe great value of Chamberlain's
Cough Bemedy in the treatment of influ
enza or the grip was fully proven, and it
made that reoledy immensely popular, and
undoubtedly saved the lives of a vast num
ber of persons, -wsu
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