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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH; SUNDAY," APEIL 26,' 189L
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CUPID 01 THE STAGE.
Unique Discnssion of the Merrj Lit
tle God's Doings Among
Actors and Actresses
BY FAMOUS THEATEICAL STARS.
Kearly All Agree That Separation f Man
and TYife is the Great Obsta
cle to Marriage.
EOUE AEE IX FAT,OK OP CELIBACY.
Qsrctict cf Wlttiir a Lift Firtstr Sanlt Si Cicita
Irca tie Fnftssion.
Owing to the itinerant life of the actor,
it he s often been asked: Is it wise for the
actor to niarry? Can he have a happy
home, and be away from it continuously?
"While the public has thought much on the
subject, the actor hat never been heard
Irom. Eeceatly these two queries were
caused to be submitted to a number of the
leading members of the dramatic prolessiou
by an occasioual correspondent of The Dis
patch, and their answers, unique and in
teresting, are given below:
IH STOCK COMPANY LAYS
Marriage Was All' Right, Says Clara Morris,
lint Times Change,
It is an old saying that nothing makes or
mars a man like marriage. Especially is
this true ot the actor. One of the essentials
to his success is an unfettered mind where
with to grasp the spirit of the playwright
and interpret it in its full meaning to bis
audience. This unfettered condition of mind
may obtain lu the matrimonial state; and
again it may not. It all depends upon the
kind of wman the actor marries.
The chances of unruffled happiness among
married pro essioaals are very few and re
mote. This is not because of any individual
weakness or crookedness of disposition, but
rither because of the circumstances in which
the lollouersof the stage are placed. It is
most difficult lor married players to obtain
engagements in the same company. It
troubles arise between the manager and one
ol the couple the other takes part, and the
trouble is augmented. In the old days of
stock companies things were different Alan
and wile were together :or a. longer period.
But with the advent of rapid railroad
lacilities and other innovations came the
traveling theatrical troupe, and now there
are but one or two stock companies in each
o. the big cities. The rest of the players
are always on the move.
Separation perforce ensues when man and
wife Jail of obtaining engagements in one
company. And what is married life when
the contracting parties see little or nothing
ot each other? Where is the opportunity to
"sove and cherish?" It is a mockery! Better
celibacy than such a state. , If one really
loves, picture the pain and heartburn at
parting for so long a period every season!
To die and Dart
Is a less evil but to part and live
There, there's tLe tormen.
And, nine times out often, the state of mind
ol the player has a depressing influence
upou the performance. These repeated
separatioi s can resi.it 1:1 but one thing
final drilling apart and divorce. And if
there be children, what of them? Go and
Tisit the schools and convents. One of the
cleverest o! newspaper men is always pro
testing that there should be no marriages
among professionals. And I sometimes
think tbc same nij&elf. Butlhe'actor is still
imbued to s great an extent as his fellow
creatures with the desire to love and be
loved. It is this phase of human nature
which makes nil discussions such as this
useless words, words, words.
Though I deprecate marriage among
pro essiouals, both for the good of
the profession and the individual,
I do not thins that matrimony
should be prohibited to them. Celibacy, in
my opinion, is not a good thing. And a
partner-in wedlock, on the other hand, is
often a very good thing. Matrimony is the
actor's privilege as much as tnat of any
man, but it should be entered into at the
proper time. Early marriages should be
avoided. Let the player first make a name
and a competence. These are more easily
made before than after marriage. Then go
beyond the pale of your profession and seek
a mate from the outside world one who
will be to you such a wife as God intended
a woman to be. The stage will be graced
by a more finished histrionic performance,
and the playcr,as the curtain descends upou
the last scene and he prepares to go to his
home, may well say, with our own Willis:
The world well tried the sweetest thing In life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
CLABA liOBBIS.
CEBTAIULY THEY SHOULD.
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Genius No Bar to Matrimonial Happiness,
. Bays Minnie Maddern.
I do not see how marriage can interfere
with the popularity of an actor. Public
veneration is given to genius, noble thought
and patient endeavor. Unless the domestic
relations interfere with these qualities, the
eetor need not fear that his audience is con
cerning itself with thoughts of his private
life
.Naturally, the most perfect union of the
people of the stage is that wherein both man
anJ woman participate in the same ambi
tion. In that case, there is a complete mu
tual understanding and congeniality in
taste. However, there is absolutely no
reason nhy a good woman should love a
rood husband tbc lets, or be lest happy in
her wedded life, because that husband is an
actor, though, she be not an actress.
I think that there exists hut one question
in regard to the advisability of au actor's
marriage, and that is in the case of the
woman of the stage who marries the man
cot ciuhccted with it. However glorious
her talents, no woman with a true heart in
her breast can find perfect content
and happiness without love and the dear
ties of home. So good woman should marry
nil less a love deeper and greater than that
which she feelb for her art is born to her. If
a man sufiers in what seems a publio exhi
bition of the dear personality so sacred to
him, the right sort of woman will not hesi
tate a moment in relinquishing that which
is humiliating to her husband, and conse
quently dangerous to the perfect content of
their union.
It would seem scarcely right to rob the
world ot any great gifts clearly bestowed for
its elevation and benefit. A great genius is
a great responsibility, an almost sacred
charge to be used for inestimable good. The
question is: "Should a genius marry?"
Certainly; genius would be a curse were it
to debar its possessor from tbeonly complete
happiness the tic of love and home. But
the marriage of a genius is no ordinary
affiir. Mutual c mcessions, perhaps sacri
fices, are necessary. Pages might be written
upon the subject, bnt, alter all, true, unsel
fish, generous lovers will discover the way
out 01 the complication. It seems to me
that this is the only question that appears in
the discussion of the actor's ohances of hap
piness in marriage.
, 'MuraiE Maddebjt-Fiskb.
DOKT XABBY IN THE PEOIXSSIOff.
Rhea Says an Actress Wrecks Her Future by
Taking, a Husband.
Never having had a husband, I find it
very difficult to answer tho question satis
factorily. It seems to me, however, that on
thegatage.ajs elsewhere, married HTe must
have its good and bad sides. I believe that
a young woman of talent who weds an actor J
1
wrecks her future, for if she loves herhus
band she will sacrifice herself for him, she
will accept any engagement to stay with
him, and, as a loving wife, she will take the
parts which mar most "bring out her hus
band's talent, while hers would remain al
most 'unknown. And yet I have seen
couples so happy that, though vanity, pride
and ambition wire not exactly satisfied, as a
return the heart was satisfied, and reason
had to be bushed.
To wed a beautiful actor is rather danger
ous. They are surrounded by temptation;,
and they are but men, alter all. I believe
that the happiest couples are those where
the husband alone is an actor and the wife
not an artist. She stays -home, takes care of
the house, of the children, and when her
husband comes back from along stay "on
the road" his home appears to him then as a
paradise, where he can rest from his troubles
and labors, and where everything appears to
him new and consequently beautiful.
On the whole, what I have just said ean
be resumed thus: Actors do well to marry,
but should not do so among themselves.
BbeA.
HAED TO GET A WIFE.
Women Who Are Actors' Uqaals Are Kept
Away I"rora Them.
Mr. Bichard Mansfield, when asked for
an opinion on this subject, said: "Actors
are able to support their wives, why, there
fore, should they not have wives to support?
I do not think, however, that they are apt
to marry, for the reason that it is so difficult
for them to secure wives I mean wives who
would be their equals. I am speaking. now
of an actor in the best sense of the word
that is, of a gentleman who has adopted the
stage as a means of livelihood, and who re
tains with his profession his breeding and
gentle characteristics. Such men rarely
marry, despite their ability to do so, for the
reason, as I have said, that it is difficult
for them to secure women who are intellect
ually and sociallytheir equals. They have
not many opportunities for knowing such
women, "though they will be afforded
almost endless opportunities for meeting
them. An actor of the rank and standing I
am describing finds the door of almost nny
home open to him; he is asked to dine, per
haps even to visit with most desirable
hosts, and allowed to become 'chummy'
with the sons; bat the line is distinctly
drawn with a close hand when he attempts
to make love to the daughters. The feeling
which prompted the passing of a law in
Queen Eliztbelh's time making an actor 'a
vagabond and an ontoast' exists in but
slightly modified form to this day.
"An acquaintance of at least a short
duration is primary to a falling in love,
and with the possibilities lor such an ac
quaintance prevented bv vigilant circum
stance, and with the difficulties increased
by the nomadic nature of the actor's life,
the opportunity is, indeed, lacking. But
provided an actor can find a woman who
will be a real wife to him, there can surely
be no good reasons to urge lor his celibacy."
LYDIA THOMPSON SAYS YES.
She Thinks Acton as a Class Have a Perfeot
Right to Get Married.
1 1 do not think any particular profession
should be so jealous of its members as to
prevent marrying and giving in marriage.
Actors should certainly marry, but, to my
mind, it is a question whether they should
marry in the profession if they inteud to
keep their wives on the stage. Where the
actor-husband and the actress-wife have -to
act from season to season in different com
panies, then I decidedly think the actor
should not marry. This separation natur
ally leads to a legal separation. To my
mind, much of the divorce scandal pre
valent in the profession is due primarily
to husband and wife playing in different
companies.
Where the actor keeps his wife off the
stage, then I can see no reason why lie
should not marry. Even if he plavs in the
same company with his wife, be is wise in
marrying. If the question is asked, should
actors, as a class, marry? I would certainly
answer in the alhrm.-Uive. From a moral
standpoint, marriage would not injure an
actor, and I do not think that connubial
bliss is inimical to success upon the stage.
Historv tells that the great tragedian, Ed
mund Kean, was married and had three or
more children when be made his great hit
in London. Perhaps the thought that his
wile and children wouM starve.unless he
succeeded gave him the courage and the
ambition necessary to electrify his critical
audience the first night of his appearance.
Marriage oftentimes puts a man on his
mettle, arouses him from his lethargy, and
makes him push forward with an energy
and courage that means success.
Actors should marry with discrimination.
A hasty and ill advised match oftentimes
proves fatal to the success of an actor.
Ltdia Thompson.
HABEIAGES OS SPEC.
Isabelle TJrqnhart Has Some Fault to Find
' "With Stage Alliance.
Why is it that I am asked for an opinion
on marriage? I can only give vague reasons
for having any opinion on the matter what
soever. From observation I should say that
there are marriages, and, then, there are
marriages. In our profession, as a rule,
they are made as contracts are, signed
hurriedly, without thought, and totally "on
spec." And sometimes, alasl the nsual two
weeks' notice on either side is an unwritten
part of the agreement.
Where there is true love between man and
womau there is nothing left tbep but mar
riage. Where there is .not there should be
no marriage. I think about one man out of
a thousand to one woman in a hundred (a
ratio of one-tenth man to one woman) can
love sincerely and faithfully; consequently,
marriaze should occur in about that propor
tion. I don't mean by this that one man
should marry ten women, or that all women
should marry ten times. Marriage, to me,
is like politics and religion there is no
argument that will shake one's firm convic
tions on there matters, and my firm cop
viction is that marriage is a very, very good
institution, when you are quite sure of it
being a success. The worst of it is, you
never can be surel
I seeao reason why actors and ectresses
may not mafry. They are separated con
stantly, and all that, you say. That is no
excuse whatever. A true marriage of hearts
and souls will stand very much more trying
ordeals than separations.
Isabelle Ubqtjhabt.
SHE MABEIED TO00tnG.
Marie Tempest Tears Out a Leaf of Her
Experience In Matrimony,
lam afraid if I give my opinion of the
subject people will think I am prejudiced,
but I will say that I think girls on the. stage
should wait until they are old enough to
know their own minds belore they marry.
It was so in my own rase. I married very
young for a home, and I found afterward
that my hus band and myself were entirely
unsuited to each other. We had no sym
pathy with each other; hence a divorce. I
see no reason why an actress should not be
happily married if she only waits until she
is old enough to know who ;she wants, and
whether her choice will render her happy.
Marie Tempest.
SHOULD GIVE UP THE 6TAGE.
John Ward' a Wife Was Going; to Quit the
' Boards bat Didn't.
There are certainly as many happy mar
riages on the stage as off. An actress who
marries a man not interested in theatrical
matters shbuld at once make up her mind
to give up the stage and retire to private
life, if she wishes to be happy. With men
it is different, for tbey can take their wires
with them in traveling. '
In my own case, when I married I was
just as fully determined to retire from the
stage forever, at I am dot determined
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never to leave it again while I have health
and strength. Helen Dauybay.
KABBT Iff THE PBqFESSION.
Ja.ilknjcb.ek Thinks Marriage U All Bight
hut Jealousy AwIuL
Should actors marry? Why not? Actors
are like other people; they have affection,
desires, pleasure, passion; have noble senti
ments, morals, companionship in fact, all
the attributes of people in other walks of
life, and to consign them to celibacy would
be unnatural and contrary to the command
of the Lord when he took part in the mar
riage at Cana. It must be admitted that
marriage Is honorable among all men, and
the Scripture especially enjoins that the
husband shall be the head of the wife, as
Christ is the head of the Church. I regard
marriage as a condition not to be entered
upon'without due consideration, and then
not unless the parties entertain thestrongest
and most endearing affection one lor the
other.. These considerations being observed,
there is no reason to think such a nnion will
not be a hapfcy one, even among actors, and
I say actors because the nature of their rela
tions to the mimio stage is frequently of
such a character as to' cause ungenerous and
unjust criticism from those who lose sight of
the artist, only seeing the man and woman
before the'm.
And this being the case, it would prob
ably be better, as a rule, for actors to marry
within tt profession, as the outside partner,
nnless possessed of more 'good sense and
judgment than we usually find in humanity,
will be apt to develop to a large degree the
green-eyed monster, and make home a val
ley of unrest and misery, and in that case
marriage, to that particular couple, wo,uId
be a failure, it not a crime.
JAHA"T7SCHEK.
00 OUTSIDE TEE BAKES.
Senator Crane Gives an Interesting
LeaT
From His Experience..
I shall have to give yon a leaf from my
own personal experience. My married life
has been a very happy one, and my wife has
always been my best friend and right-hand
man, so to speak. In fact, she is treasurer
of our company. My bank book bean the
name of E. C. Crane. She laughingly as
sures me many times that I cannot draw
any money nor make out any checks with
out her signature; and it's the truth. She
first began to take care of the money more
from amusement than anything else; then,
when she realized what a help it was to me,
she toot complete charge. One season in
Boston, when we were playing at the Hollis
Street Theater, our business manager, in a
spirit of fun,- put her name on the bills as
E. C. Grane, Treasurer, and it has remained
so ever since.
I doVt see why ao tors and actresses should
not marry and be happy, if they marry out
of the 'profession, as it is very
bard and very unsatisfactory to be
separated and obliged to play in dif
ferent companies. If husband and wife could
be placed in the same company always, then
everything wonld arrange itself nicely; but
very few managers nowadays care to have
both man and wife, as it causes trouble, and
the manager has two to contend with then
instead of one only.
If an actor or actress is desirous of mar
riage, then let tbem endeavor to seek their
life companion outside the ranks.
W. H. Crash.
THEY MAEEY D? EMITTES.
Nat Goodwin Says Discussion Doesn't Connt
Against Love.
Why shouldn't an actor marry? He is
human, like all men, and the love of home
is inherent in his nature as in that of all
men. It is my opinion that an actor is
spurred on to greater effort and more fin
nished work through love for wife, childreu
and horn. One can't lay down principles
for men in love to follow, but if the hus
band and wife be professionals both, it is
better that tbey should as nearly as possible
be of the same grade of ability. I think,
also, that they should endeavor to be cast in
the same company. It were better not to be
married than to be separated for months at
a time. But you will find that whatever I
think, or whatever anybody else thinks, on
this subject, if an actor be smitten at all
hard, he won't stop to think the matter
over, but will follow the promptings of his
heart and marry. And who will say that
he should not? Nat C Goodwin.
OTJTS1DEES CANT TJHDEBSTAHD.
Minnie Palmer Says the Green-Eyed Mon
ster Spoils Many Marriages.
I think actors and actresses should marry
if they can marry in the profession; that is,
some one who is connected with theatrical
matters in some way or other. The diffi
culty in an actress marrying outside her
profession is this: A man who is in an
other business cannot understand what
women on the stage are obliged to "do in
acting, and tbey immediately resent tbelr
wives' aflectionato'manner to their lovers in
the play. Whereas, if the husband were a
professional man he would understand that
it were obligatory on 'her part, and think
nothing of it. It is the same with an actor
marrying a woman off the stage. She be
comes intensely jealous of her husband
making love with any other woman.
We had one young fellow in our company
for two years, and during that time his wife
made his life so disagreeable with her jeal
ousies that he was obliged to give up his
position. Minnie Palmes.
DOESN'T HATTEE TEBY MUCK
Margaret Mather Says Genlns Will Win
Whether Married or Not,
I think there is too great a disposition on
the part of the publio to regard the actor
and actress as beings of a different order to
the general run of humanity. I see no rea
son why -one of my profession should find
any demand in his artistic life to compel
his abjuration of an institution so well es
tablished as marriage. And yet I should
not urge it as a necessity to the beginner in
the race , after dramatic laurels. Marriage
under pecuniary difficulties must surely be
as disadvantageous to the actor as to the ar
tisan. There are unhappy . marriages with
in and without the theatrical world.
But greatness of purpose will accomplish
its end under any circumstances, and genius
and talent, whether clogged bv unhaDDV
social conditions or encouraged by domestio
felicity, will find their vent. I should sim
ply say; let the actor marry if he chooses.
Maboabet Matheh.
BECOHD HATTJEE WITH FLORENCE.
No Doubt Exists In the Mind of the Clever
and Popular Comedian.
It is very strange that such a question
should arise, but still it may be a natural
one. Of course, I can only speak for Mrs.
Florence and myself. We have been mar
ried over 30 years, and are as happy as mor
tals can be. You may call this devotion, if
you like, but it's been going on so long now
that it has become second nature to both of
us. W. J. Floeence.
Individuals Most Decide.
I think this is a matter which everyone
should decide for himself and another's
opinion is an impertinence. I think every
one, should in such a matter follow his or
her own heart and feelings.
Fanht Datektobt.
Marriage Is a Blessing,
There are so many happy marriages that
they counterbalance the unhappy ones. I
think that marriage is a blessing to our pro
fession. Please use simply these words to
express my -opinion.
Lillian Bussell.
Actors Had Setter Stay Single.
My candid opinion is that actors should
not marry. 08A BAND.
FROLICS OF MAI-DAY.
The Down-East Custom of Hanging
-" Baskets to the Door Knobs.
GLADDEST DAY IN ALL THE TEAB.
Hearti Went With the Petty Gifts and
Kisses Were Eewards.
INCIDENTS OP PIELDING'S B0IH00D
rWSITTEVrOBTBJ- DISPATCH.
As a Downeaster, I am always grieved at
this season of the year by the spectacle of
preparations for the. celebration of the 1st of
May. Recently I have had the curiosity to
ask a dozen or more of my acquaintances
whether they knew what a Downeaster May
Day was like, and I haven't found one who
did.
My section of the country is but sllmly
represented in New York and Pennsyl
vania. The staid 23 ew England conscience
unfits us for the' gay and original dishon
esty of the metropolis; we pre er tn go to
the West, where the questionable practices
of the people are more like the sins to which
we are accustomed. New Yorkers are near.
ly all foreigners, and such as I interrogated
replied with some nonsense about May
poles and dancing on the green. Not one
had ever tasted the delights of hanging May
baskets, or knew anything about the proper
celebration of the day.
One of the Days of the Tear.
When I was a boy we liked May Day bet
ter than Thanksgiving, ranking it "with
Christmas and the Ecfurth of July. In the
observances of -the last two holidays the old
folks mingled. On Christmas they did all
they could to make us happy, and on Fourth
of July we did all we could to make them
miserable, and thus we had the better of
them both ways. But May Day was all our
Jfot the Kits St Wanted.
own, except that we occasionally perverted
the uses of the occasion to the ends of fan
tastic vengeance upon our common enemies,
such as school teachers, doctors and people
who set bear traps in their orchards an
offense uhicb, by the way, resembles that of
the teacher, since it is he who surrounds
the tree ot knowledge' with instruments of
torture.
It was love, however, that ruled the day,
and the May basket was its symbol. In the
preparation of. this token we employed
secret wiles much darker than those with
which" we surrounded the Christmas present.
The Heart "Went With the Basket
The point of it was to hang a pretty
basket on the doorkuob of the house which
held the sweetest little girl in the world, and
then get away again without being caught
Shejwasto have no clew to the giver unless
her heart told her who he was. She was ex
pected to hang a May basket, top, but if she
were caught at it she might be kissed.
I remember lying in wait for a whole
hour in the porch, on a warm May night, ex
pectin? every moment to hear the sound of
Btealtby feet on the steps. It seemed a long
time, and I began- to have a green-eyed, hor-
riuie suspicion mat. sne wonia nang mo
basket for some other "fellow. She migot be
doing it eveu'then; he might be catching
her, and kissing her. Would I ever forgive
her? No, sir. Would I pound that other
fellow il I found out who it was? You bet!
Even if he should be big Ed Smith I'd fix
him so thafbe couldn't come to school lor a
week.
He Kissed the Wrong GlrL
My jealousy buzzed so loudly that the
door bell rang with a clamor, and scamper
ing feet resounded on the walk before I be
came aware that she had come. I was alter
her in an instant, but the breath had been
so startled out of niv body that I felt as if
she must escape. How she .did run! Up
the main street for a little way, and then
along a shadowy crossroad, her figure
flitted before me in the dusk, like a phan
tom. Pride came in aid of love; I wouldn't be
beaten by a girl. I was gaining; she was
but a lew yards ahead. In the darkest part
of that long lane I caught her; struggled a
moment lor a kiss; got it, and we both stood
panting till the moon looked out from be
hind a cloud, and showed me the queer,
round lace of a little colored girl, servant at
the house of my lady love, and doubtless in
trusted with the basket fur no other reason
than to play me this ridiculous trick.
I should have been rude if prudenoe had
not supplemented chivalry. As it was, I
promised her unlimited candy il she would
not tell; but she did.
The Larceny of a Gravestone.
On. the way home, with. my soul full of
bitterness, I encountered several ot the older
boys and joined them in a hazardous under
taking, which involved larceny Irom my
own father. Our kitchen chimney had of
late indulged in the bad habit of smoking,
and an expert had recommended putting a
Blab of stone over the top, supported by
bricks at the corners. My father had sent
to xseiiast lor tms slab, and some grim
humorist over there had shipped him an un-
used gravestone. This grizzly piece ot mar
ble had u"t been placed lp position, but was
lying in the back yard. 1
Sinceit had been there I had avoided the
localityafter dark, but emboldened by the
presence of the other boys, I led the'way,
and we secured it With much difficulty
we carried it to Dr. Wilson's iront door,
where we left it, with a card stating that
it had been sent as a token of remembrance
by a large number of his late patients.
I think that the doctor suspected my hand
in this matter, for my experiences during a
subsequent slight illness were too painful to
relate.
Aggravating Disparity In Ages.
By next May Day, I had transferred my
affections from the fair one who had. duped
me so cruelly to a girl of n more serious
mind. She was 15 years old and I was 13,
and. I used to weep bitter tears because, in
my ignorance of matrimonial affairs, I sap
posed that the,two years between ns consti
tuted an insuperable barrier to our union.
However, there is a time in every boy's life
when a hopeless passion becomes a necessity.
In the depths of my heart I had sworn an
endless, Borrowful devotion, and bad
clinched the vow by making a beautiful
May basket out of hair an egg shell fragile
as my hopes, I told myself. I filled this
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Affeollonate Attention Mesented.
basket with sugar hearts on whioh tender
sentiments were inscribed In tome poisonous,
red coloring matter, and suspended it upon
the bell-knob of her father's house when the
sacred night arrived. . '
This father of hers was a cholerio old
orthodox deacon named Simon P. Hatch,
and by bad luck he came in answer to my
frenzied summons, just as I was climbing
over bis garden fence. It wasn't too dark
for him to see me or to note thatlbad pulled
about six feet of his bell cord through the
side of bis house, and this did not tend 'to
make him more amiable 'than usual.' He
started in hot pursuit accompanied by a
large dog with a bad disposition, and I don't
know what tbey might have done to me if I
hadn't shinned up the lightning rod on the
side of the church just in time.
How He Fooled the Old Gentleman.
I was in hopes that be would try to shin
up after me and break hia neck in the opera
tion, but he contented himself with leaving
the dog on guard while he went for a Udder,
Collision With a Clothes Lint.
Taking advantage of his absence, I climbed
to the belfry, descended to the body of the
church, and dropped out ot a window on the
opposite side from the dog.
I heard alterward that in revenge the old
man had led the sugar hearts to his dog.
Looking back now upon those old time
confections, I wonder that they didn't kill
him.
I remained constant during -that year,
and, when the time came roqnd, I prepared
another May basket more beautiful than its
predecessor. In this labor I received valua
ble advice apd assistance from Harry Ray
mond, who was three years my senior. I
thought it very kind at himMbecause I had
suspected that be, too, was in love with
Alice, and I had wondered if I should ever
be big enough to "lick" him for it. But he
so assured me of his deep and everlasting
sympathy that I grew to like him Very
much, and even offered to make a May
basket for him, because it was well known
that he was too lazy to make one for' him
self. However, be generonsly refused.
An Accnninlatlon of Hard Ituck.
I pulled old Hatch's door bell that May
night with a beating heart, and lost no time
in taking flight There was a long vard at
oneslde ol the house, and I whizzed through
it like a cannon ball, making for the -open
fields beyond. But unfortunately "there was
a clothesline stretohed between two posts at
such a height from the ground that it
caught me squarely across the bridge of the
nose. My head stopped suddenlv and my
feet continued. I landed on my back after
a giddy plunge, and lay there, I don't know
how long, trying to decide whether I was
dead or only blind. .
By and by life enough came back to en
able me to erawl toward the street Both
my eyes were nearly closed, so that I eould
see only the general outlines of houses and
trees. "As I neared the gate, I beard the
sound of voices. First Alice asked in pity
ing tones: "Did he hurt yon much? Ob,
whv didn't you run faster?"
"I didn t mind it," said Harrr, "so long
as it was for you, though the old mas laid
it on pretty hard."
"Never mind, dear," whispered Alioe,"It
was such a beautiful basket, and so good of
yon to make it for me. I looted out of the
window just as the bell rang, and saw yon
run away with father after vou."
The iniamous traitor. He had hidden
there waiting lor me to bang the basket.and
had then allowed old Hatch to catch him ta
order to get Alice's sympathy.
Not Much Consolation In This.
"I knew you'd coma back," said Alice,
"so I stole out to console you, though
father'd give me fits if he canght me.
There oh Harry, two kisses are enough "
They were too much for me. Blind and
crippled as I was, I made a straight rush
for the traitor. Just when he eseaped from
me I don't know, but a few minutes .later
I found myself engaged la punimeling old
Hatch's tall white kitchen post nnder the
misapprehension that it was my unworthy
friend. .
Then I crawled- home, sore all over, es
pecially in my heart '
It was with such psstlmes as these that
we made May-night merry in the olden
time. I wonder if there is any spot on
earth where it is now celebrated as we used
to do way down in Mainea years ago. Per
haps not) but there are'men soattered all
over the country who would give half of
what they have since laboriously stolen
from their fellow men to h&Te A?a!n thn
hearts thatteat under their jackets in those
May days. Howabd Fielding.
CTHEB114TSYEAB,
A Very Old Quaker City Lady of a Long
Lived Family,
Philadelphia can be credited with, a
pbysiclogical phenomenon exhibited by the
recent census returns of no other oity. This
is no less than a group of five living gener
ations of one family, all female, the oldest
member of which is now in her 114th year
and in the possession of good health and
remarkably preserved faoulties says the
Timty of that city.
Mrs. Catharine Sharp was born on Febru
ary 26, 1778, and a "History of the Saints,"
which her parents cherished as a family
book, and is now in her possession, contains
that registry of hsr birth. Extraordinary
preservation of youth and health has been
the feature of the race. Her daughter, Mrs.
Mary H. Smith, is also a wonderfully pre
served woman, whose ?3 years sit as lightly,
on her shoulders as though they were not
more than half that sum. Mrs. Annie E.
Wilson, Mrs. Sharp's granddaughter, is
only 41, and scarcely a wrinkle has yet fur
rowed her brow. Looking like a child is
pretty little juary wetneriil, the great
granddaughter, only 21 years old, and the
proud mother of two plump, diminutive
bunches of femininity, the very picture of
infant health. v
Mrs. Sharp often saw Washington after
he became President
HEW ABB OLD WHISKY.
The Ago of the Stuff Determines the Effect
That It Has.
Newcastle, Eng., Chronicle.
There is whisky and whisky. There Is
Parliamentary whisky and several other
whiskies. It wiltbe remembered tbatsome
attention 'was drawn to the former a while
ago, and it is now announced that an "emi
nent distiller" has taken samples of the
new whisky supplied to the 'members of the
Housrof Commons and samples of the old,
and has tried their effects on'two monkeys
with, the following results, says an unofficial
report:
No. 1 monkey was made drunk with new
whisky, and became quarrelsome. Monkey
No. 2 was intoxicated wjth fine old whisky,
and got markedly hilarious. On the ani
mals returning to sobriety the experiments
were reversed with precisely tbesame results
No. 1 becoming happy under, the influ
ence of old whisky, and No. 2 disagreeable
with the new.
In the face ot this report, perhaps, some
honorable member will move for a commit
tee,to ascertain if there is any connection be
tween whisky and obstruction.
Wrt suffer with corns when you can
permanently cure them with Daisy Corn
Core? 15 cents; all druggists.
EARNINGSOF HUMOR.
M. Quad Will Go to Sew York on a
Salary of Ten Thousand a Tear.
AH EXPLOSION BK0DGHT HIM ODT.
James YThitcomb JJIIoj'a Money Trouble
Wonld Drive Anyone to Drink.
THE ESTATE OF FETfyllEUH T. NASBI
tCOBBSSFOirSZXCX Or TBI DISrATCH.J
' Detkoit, April 24. For the past deoade
Detroit has been famous as the residence of
the most prolific funny man in the United
States. HrrC.surrounded by the cold breezes
of two great laEes, his ears dinned by the
whistles ol the hundreds ol mighty steamers
which plunge their way past Detroit from
Montreal to Duluth, he has poked his steel
stub pen into the sides of the great Amer
ican public, and tickled them into convul
sions of laughter.
Here the Farmer's Lime Kiln Olnb was
born with him aa its father, and ont ot his
.brain sprang the old negro Bijab, who will
go down into literary history as one of the
strongest characters of American humor. It
was he who originated the terrible Mr.
Bowser, and who keeps our digestions in
order still; by retailing his troubles with
his wife. It is he who writes all the widely
copied translations from the Arizona
Kicker, and it is he who for a dozen years
and more, has been the . author ofl nine
tenths 01 the humorous and pathetiivarticles
which have given bis paper a mighty cir
culation in the United States, in England
and in Australia.
M. Quad Is Going; to New York.
This man's . name, as far as the world
knows him, is M. Quad. His real name is
Mr. Ch,aries Lewis, and his individuality is
all the more interesting just now that he is
about to leave Detroit tor the wider field of
New York. His last contract of five years
here expires in May, and he has received
two offers from New York ot $10,400 a year
each', I am told his salary here has been
only 0,000 a year, and in moving he will
have twice the- salary, and what he cares
more for, a new field.
Mr. Lewis' greatest horror Is that he may
get into a rut He has seen the other fnnny
men of his generation rise and fall from not
varying their fields and subjects, and he
has learned a lesson by their example. Bob
Burdette was a great man for a time, but
he, to a great extent, wrote himself out.
Petroleum V. Nasby's funny business
practically stopped with the .war, and even
our own Bill Nye has but one field. M.
Quad can write a story that will imake your
eyes water, and with the same pen on the
same day he will describe a dog fight that
will make yon roar with laughter.
Striving Always for Variety.
When he had the Lime Kiln Club. 'at the
height oi its popularity, he dropped it for
fear he would tire his readers, and I am
told that he adopts all sorts of methods of
life to keep himself fresh. "M. Quad,"
.said one of the Detroit editors to me last
flight, "is one ol the best detectives in Mich
igan. He knows all about the eases that
come before the police here, and he has a
wide knowledge of all classes of people. I
went into a store the other day and found
him behind a counter selling hats. The
hatter told me he had sold there for an hour
and had done better than any of his olerkx.
"He is one of the most prolific writers in
the country, and he turns out from 10 to 12
columns every wees, xus most 01 nis mat
ter is unsigned, but It is all widely copied.
In addition to this he writes for other par
ities, and has for years written the advertise
ments lor one of our largest firms here., He
.does the most of his work at home, writes
rapidly and makes few corrections in his
manuscript. Both his offers are $20(1 a week
on a yearly contract, but one was from a
leadinglNew York newspaper, and the other
was from a big newspaper syndicate. He
is not a rich man, though he has saved
money since he parse to Detroit, and he is
worth, I judge, something like $50,000."
A Steamboat Explosion Made a Humorist,
"Where did he'eome from?" I asked.
"The story of 31. Quad's life is a curious
one," was the reply. "He originated, I
think, in Michigan, and like Petroleum. V.
Nasby, started as a printer. He set type for
some years on a weekly paper in one of the
interior Michigan towns, and saved enough
to buy a weekly paper that wag offered for
sale in one of the baok counties 'of Tennes
see. He left Michigan and went to Cincin
nati, intending to buy this paper. At Cin
cinnati he took the boat to go down the
river. He had never been on a steamer be
fore, and before taking passage he went up
to the Captain and asked.him if it was safe.
The Captain replied that it was, and upon
bis assurance that there was no danger of
the boat blowing up, M. Quad took bis stand
near the engine and watched its workings
with big and fearful eyes.
"This was just about the close of the rac
ing days on the Ohio and Mississippi, and
shortly after the boat left it got into a race
with a rival steamer, jjacon and oil were
thrown into the engine, the fires were made
aa hot as those of the Shadracb, Meshach
and Abednego furnace, and Just as the boat
was passing its hated rival, the boiler ex
ploded, and M. Quad, with the rest of the
passengers, were ,
Thrown Into the Water.
"He was dragged out insensible onto the
shore, but be had been so near the engine
that bis face was blackened, and it was some
time before he was attended to, aa it was
thought he was a negro. He was, however,
finally picked up and carried to the hospital
at Cincinnati, where he lay for some weeks.
In the explosion he lost, I think, the
money with which he 'intended to buy the
Tennessee paper, and he worked his way
back to Michigan and to his old case in the.
composing room.
"Now, the editor of M. Quad's paper,,
like many of bis kind, had a failing of
drinking too much at the wrong timeo: the
week. This prevailed tar such an extent, so
the story goes, that be did not have enough
copy to fill his columns, and the selection of
miscellany was left to M. Quad. Upon one
such occasion M. Quad set up from the case
the story of his experience on the Ohio.
The article was headed, 'How it feels to be
blown up.' It was full of the humor that
has since made its composer so famous, and
it was 'copied far and wide. Among the
other papers which copied it was the De
troit Free Press, and its editor was so struck
with it that be opened up a correspondence
with the editor of the paper, and finally of
fered M. Quad a place as legislative re-porterat-Lansing.
Ho Writes Up a Dos Fight.
' "M. Quad took it When the Legislature
adjourned he was ordered to come to Detroit
to do local work. He came in to the city
editor, and he, looking upon him as a green
country boy, asked him rather contempt
uously what he thought he could do. M.
Quad replied that he could do almost any
thing, but be had seen a dog fight on his
way up from the depot and he thought he
could make a good local out of that The
city editor replied that he seldom reported
dogfights, but be could write it .up if he
wanted to and he might perhaps use it M.
Quad wrote it
"The city editor passed it, and it was
copied everywhere. It was soon seen that
everything hewrote was received in like
manner, and he became the great feature of
the paper. Hia salary was steadily in
creased, and for five years and more he has
been receiving $100 per week. On the
whole, I suppose the question of salary is
not tbeonly one that enters into his resolu;
tion to change. The intellectual (animal
needs a change of diet as much as the
physical animal, and the genius who would
keep fresh must oiten seek pastures new."
Petroleum V. Nasby's Estate.
It is strange that two of the greatest hu
morists of our time should live within a few
mllea of each other. Nasbrdid his work
and made his fortune at Toledo, O., just a
short ride from Detroit and his wit gave th 1
Toledo Blade the start which now makes it
one of the most profitable newspaper proper
ties of the country. It makes, I was told at
Toledo yesterday, about $100,000 a year,
and the Nasby estate is now worth about
$1,000,000. This is a great increase over its
condition at the time of Mr. Locke's(Nasby)
death a few years ago. The great humorist
had invested largely in real estate and other
things, dnring bis latter years, and his
property, though valuable, was covered with
mortgages. It would not, it is thought, then
have sold, paper and all, under the hammer,
for such a price as to net $200,000.
Nasby thought he was the soul of his news
paper, and that with his death it would be
gin to decline, and that it would steadily
decrease in value. He told his son Bobert
Locke this, and dnring his last hours, when
he knew he was going to die, urged him by
all means to sell as soon as posible. Young
Locke listened with due respect to his
father, but he did not sell and kept on pub
lishing it, and it has, I am told, made
enough money for him to pay off all the
mortgages, and to increase the value of the
property so that it is now worth a million.
Gossip About James Whitcomb Blley.
The true inwardness of the bad habits
which James Whitcomb Biley was accused
of at the time of his trouble with Bill Nye
some time ago has never been published. I
spent a day or so at Indianapolis a short
time ago, and the only wonder to me was
that Mr. Biley was as temperate as he was.
His troubles were not with Bill Nye so
much is an advance agent of Indianapolis,
who had a five years' contract with him, by
which he was to receive one-half of all the
profits of his lecture and reading tours.
Blley is as simple as a child, and he made
this contract, now nearly five years ago.
TheVgent managed him for a time himself,
and when the Bliey-Nye combination was
formed, he got to be an employe of Major
Pond and managed them.
If the report I hear at Indianapolis is
true, he received pay for this, and in addi
tion got on the quiet one-half of the receipts
that Biley received from his work. Thns
Bilev was furnishing- fully half the show,
doing the most of the work, and getting only
a small part ot the profits. It is no wonder
that be got gloomy under this slavery, and
if he now and then took more to drown his
troubles than was good for him, we need not
be surprised. He is, in fact, one of the best
drawing cards in the lecture field to-day,and
his receipts for going to make a single read
ing at Denver were, I am told, $1,000. His
contract with this agent has abont expired,
and he will be in the lecture field on his own
hook soon. v
His Genius Doesn't Grasp Details.
Speaking of his simplicity, an Indian
apolis editor says ha is'sure to get the wrong
train in going to any place, and they tell a
story there of ho w he once took a young lady
home from a party in Indianapolis, and then
in order to find his own way back to his
house, he had to go back to the place where
the party was held and start anew. He is,
however, much loved at Indianapolis, and
the people rightly call bim the Bobert Burns
of the present generation.
He has one of thegreatest souls among the
authors of to-day, and he is a genius of a
very high poetic order. He has a wonder
ful power as a lecturer, and he can render
his own poetry so as to bring tears to the eyes
of his hearers, or at. will, to bring the house
down in convulsions of laughter. He has
not the money-making sense to any extent,
and though he receives good prices from the
magazines for his poetry, it would be just
like him to give some of his best work away
to a friend who admired it There is no
snobbishness about him, and he is, In short,
what his poemsshow him to be,a great big boy,
with a soul in sympathy with the good, the
true and the beautiful, and with a kindly
feeling toward all that is sad and sorrowful
in humanity and human kind. It goes
witliout saying that such a man should not
sell his soul for one-half of its profits to an
advertising agent- James Whitcomb Biley 's
experience in money making is that of many
humorists. Artemus Ward never saved
anything, and he was as guileless as Biley.
il. Quad has made a good thing off of the
Detroit Free Press, but its owners have been
helped to make a fortune out othim, Mark
Twain once told me that "The Innocents
Abroad" paid him only 5 per cent ot the
retail' price of the book. I hear that the
Norristown Herald funny man has broken
down, and that a fund will be raised to give
him a vacation in Europe. He has worked
on and on, at $1,000 a year, until his health
is brokem Fbank O. Cabpxenzeb.
rAXfJSTEETH BLAKEB.
Owned by a Deacon's Wife and Dropped
Ont When She "Sang
Boston Herald.
At every meeting of the Congregational
Sunday school superintendents someone tells
a good story in illustration of some point
which he wishes to bring out The meeting
last night in Berkeley Temple took up
again the toplo that was left unfinished at
the last monthly meeting, "What Can the
Sunday School Learn From the Pnblio
Scbc-ol?" This subject gradually led up to
the "Choice, Tenmre and Change of Teach
ers in the Snnday School," in which Mr.
C. W. Carter spok'e at length. His re
marks led to a very funny story by Mr. E. O.
Bullock.
Mr. Carter spoke of the n'ecesslty of having
good teachers as something which everyone
admitted, but he recognised the fact that to
get the best ditchers was an exceedingly dif
ficult thing. To change teachers often was
a great Injury to a school, and he thought,
therefore, that it was often better to keep a
teacher who was not strictly first-class
rather than risk the alternative and hurt the
teacher's feelings deeply, besides.
, YChenMr. Bulloctc arose.
'There was once a country parish, he
said, "where the choir was led for a very
long time by the;wife of one of the deacons.
For ten years she sang acceptably to the
people, and for several years more she did
not sing acceptably, VThen it was made
worse by her getting a set of false teeth.
These teeth came out one day when she was
singing, and the deacon s wire didn t llseit
"The miuistv and the congregation
didn't like it, either. But the former was
like Brother Carter, and said, 4We will wait
a while. It would be too bad to hurt the
feelings of the deacon's wife." So he waited.
The teeth came ont a good many times dur
ing next year or so, but the deacon's wife
still sang. When her teeth came oat, of
course, some of the congregation laughed.
Finally the minister was obliged to do
something. He decreed that if the deacon's
wife was to sing in the choir the congrega
tion should stand back to the choir.
"Some of the congregation complied, some
didn't. That created a division in the
chnrch. Neither side would yield an incb.
and to-day there are two churches where.
there was then only one, all because the
minister was afraid of hurting the feelings
of the deacon's wife."
FIGHTS IH HIS SLEEP.
A Man Who Knocks His Wife's Face Ont
of Shape While Unconscious,
I had a patient recently, a married ssan,
says Dr. A. S. Wbitmore, of Boston, in the
St Louis Globe-Democrat, whose wife could
not sleep in the same bed with him Because
he was liable at any time to strike her in the
face while he was asleep. It was the worst
case of resilesstress in. sleep I ever saw. He
was a sleep-walker who didn't walk, but
used his bands in his dream-ideas just aa if
tbey were real. He had fairly beaten the
plastering from the wall on that side ol the
bed. The case was so strange that I sat by
bis bedside one night to watch lira.
His sleep was quiet for some time, and
then he commenced to faurmur unintel
ligibly and draw bis arms up and down.
Suddenly he clinched his fists and struck
out with bis right as hard as he could. He
was lying on his left side, facing me, so that
his blow w-is wasted on the empty air. I
awakened him, and he told me after a while
that he remembered dreaming of being at
tacked by a highwayman, whom be knocked
down. A sleeping dog often, moves his legs
as if running, and human beings are more
or less restless In the dream state, bnt this
w the worst ease. X ever knew.
TWO DOCTOES" EASHHTOS.
Hammond Bald to Have Made IM sbEib
for a Tear.
JTew Tort Son.
Dr. William A. Hammond, long of this
city, and now of Washington, is said to
have boasted that he built bis magnificent
Fifty-fourth street house now Chauncey
M. Depew'a residence with the lets betook
in a single year. That property cost mora
than $100,000. It la impossible ta say what
Dr. Hammond's income averaged, but never
went into battle a more spirited charger
than he. Intone case that can be confidently
referred to his bill for six short and ordinary
visits was $90, and it was a matter of com
mon repute that many persons paid $20 lor
consulting him preparatory to becoming
patients.
That is what may be called the Dr. Ham
mond or gilded side ot the medical outlook.
But there is another side. I know personally
a young practitioner who was graduated first
from college and then irom a medioal
school, and then began to attend lectures
and wait hospitals here and in Europe.
In these ways he spent seven years In
fitting himself to practice after he got
his bachelor's degree. He then rented a
house and hung out his shingle. There
was a long pause. No one knew him
and he knew no one. At last there came a
ring at his door bell and an excited neighbor
rushed in to say that a servantgirl had gone
crazy and to ask if the young doctor would
take care of her and conduct her to some
institution for safe keeping. The doctor
called a cab, and, after overpowering the
maniae. got her into the vehicle. It oc
curred to her on the journey to Bellevne to
thrust her legs out of the cab window, and
she would not take them in for any amonnt
of coaxing. Thus the doctor earned his
first fee after seven years of preparation.
I ' .
HO MIC30BES FOB HIS.
An
Honest Milkman Whose Conscience
Pats Him on the Back.
Chicago Times. 1
Mrs. Bulbal (insinuatingly) Yea ad
vertised to sell pure country milk, did yon
not, Mr. Milcan?
Miloan (hesitatingly) Yes, I dld,madam,
but
Mrs. Bulbul (sarcastically) And this
blue compound is nothing but chalk and
water, is it not?
Milcan (firmly) It is, Mrs. Bulbul, as
you say, nothing but chalk and water. But
I have it on the authority of the highest
German medioal talent, madam, that pure
cows' milk is the most deadly of drinks, and
I resolved that come what zaight, even
though my integrity, which I hold dearer
than life itself, were unjustly impugned and
my most sacred feelings wantonly torn, I,
at least, should never endanger the lives of
my customers and their little ones by induc
ing tbem to drink the wretched staff. I
hope, madam, that my explanation is satis
factory, but if it is not, I have at least the
satisfaction of an approving conscience.
EXTRACTS
FBOSI A FAMOUS LECTURE OK CA
TARRHAL DISEASES BY DR. 8. B.
HARTMAN, COLUMBTJ3, OHIO.
Chronlo Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, luflnanxa.
La Grippe, and Many Other Common
Affections Fully Explained aad
Treatment Given.
The disease known as catarrh is eapaUa
of setting up in the body such a variety of
derangements that there are a large group
of diseases, commonly thought to be dissim
ilar, but which are really different forms of
the same disease. The different names by
which the catarrhal affections have come to
be known have the effect of leading most
people to suppose each one to be an entirely
different disease. To illustrate! What (i
generally known as "a cold" is really aonte
catarrh of the sporadic variety. Epidemic
catarrh assumes three distinct phases,
known as infiuenas, distemper and la
grippe, each, one presenting different symp
toms, yet there Is no essential alfftreaoofc
their nature or successful treatment In
flammation of the eyes andmiddle ear an
simply catarrh of the mucous linlag ef
these organs. Pharyngitis and laryngitis
(sore throat) are both catarrh, although tfct
symptoms produced by them are quit dtfc
ferent Bronchitis, catarrh of the oronohlal
tubes, and consumption are in a majority a
cases but catarrh of the lungs. Dyspepsia,
diarrhoea, dysentery, inflammation of tile
bladder and other pelvio organs are nearly
always due 10 catarrn 01 these pans.
Thus it will be seen that the group of dis
eases properly included nnder the bead of
catarrh is a very large and important one,
and any remedy that to operates on tka
system as to cure catarrh of any variety can
be relied upon as a remedy In all other
varieties of the disease. It is established
beyond all question that Pe-ru-na Is by &r
the most celebrated, if not the only epeoifla,
remedy for catarrhal diseases. The dossj
and times of taking the remedy differ ac
cording to the variety pf catarrh for whiek
it is taken.
If it be a eommos cold, a wlnsglaufal 0
Pe-ru-na, taken in hot water, at the begin
ning of the attack, followed by a tablespoon
f ul every three hours nntil the symptoms all
subside,. irthe proper treatment In casa
of la grippe, distemper pud influents, the
dose is a lablespoonfnl every hour for adults,
and a corresponding less dose lor ohildren.
During the night, if the patients are quietly
sleeping, it is not my custom to wake them
to tafce the medicine; but if restless Pe-ru-na
sfcould be given regularly the whole twenty
four hours.
In cases ef sore throat, bronchitis and
consumption it is better to add two ounses
of rock candy to each bottle before osing
then take according to directions on the
bottle. This is also the proper way to use
Pe-ru-na in all eases where a cough is
permanent symptom. In cases of dyspepsia
and diseases'of the abdominal and pelvio
organs the directions on the bottle are suffi
cient Cases of chronic catarrh in the head,
throat, brqncbial tabes, stonxach and pelvio
organs, of 10, 15, or even 20 years' standing
are constantly being oured by the use of
Pe-ru-na. It has come to be a well-established
faet that Pe-ru-na will cure catarrh
in any stage or variety where the ease is not
complicated by any organic disease.
A valuable pamphlet of 32 pages, setting
forth in detail the treatment of catarrh in
every phase of the disease, will be sent tia
to any address by the Peruna Medicine
Company of Columbus, Ohio. This book
should be in every household, as It contains
a gseat deal of reliable information as ta the
cure and prevention of all catarrhal and
kindred diseases.
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