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BLAINE WEAKER,
Ex-CMef Clerk Lloyd Describes the
Plumed Knight as Ee Came
Upon the Political Arena.
HIS EE1LAEKABLE EQUIPMENT.
The Beau Ideal of a Presiding Officer
and a Power That Friend and
Foe Alike Respected.
HIS ATTACK OX KOSCOB CONKLING.
EiSanstkss Store of Anecdote That He Often Mala to
Erne Hun on the Floor.
rwBITTZX TOE THI DISrATCB.
There is no more remarkable living states
man to-day in this or any other country
than James G. Blaine, and no American
since the days of Henry Clay who has had
bo devoted a following. He came to Con
gress at the same time that I took service in
the House of Representatives. He im
pressed me, on my first acquaintance with
him, as a man of exceptional ability.
Although then but 33 years of age, he
seemed to be fully equipped in every re
spect for the political career upon which he
was entering. He possessed a mint of in
tellectual wealth, ready coined for circula
tion at will, and which, like the widow's
cruse of oil, was kept so continually replen
ished that it never seemed to sufler diminu
tion by anv drafts that were made upon it
His knowlcdce of political facts and the
readiness ith which he could recall them
have never been excelled.
As Well Equipped Then as Jfow.
Indeed so complete was this mental equip
ment that it seemed impossible to add any
thing to it in all the subsequent years of
political service, and he appears to me to
be the same man now that he was then.
This is exceptional in my experience and
observation of men. Xo occasion ever
found him wanting or at fault no attack
upon him, however sudden, found him un
prepared to meet it as fully as if he had
been anticipating it
On the occasion of Colfax's election to
the "Vice Presidency, and consequent trans
fer to the Senate, Blaine was elected
Speaker of the House. His accession to
the chair, which had been filled for the six
preceding years by so accomplished a
Speaker as "Colfax, was a severe test, but he
proved, as always, equal to the occasion.
With a rapid, but very clear and distinct
utterance, extraordinary quickness of ap
prehension, excellent power off discrimina
tion, great promptness of decision, an un
surpassed magnetism of manner, constantly
felt and impossible to resist, a prodigious
memory, great readdiness of wit; and withal
a superb physique, he was certainly the
Keau Idoal of a Presiding Officer
over a popnlar assembly. Born in Wash
ington countv, Pa., n descendant of that
most remarkable class of people known as
Scotch-Irish, whose sterling qualities have
left their impress for good on many of our
institutions, he, in early life, wended his
way "down East," contrary to the usual
course of empire, under an influence stronger
than the tides of emigration, and which I
leave to Mrs. Blaine to more fully explain,
and so he became "Blaine of Maine."
Previously to his elevation to the
Epeaker'6 chair I was a frequent witness of
lus encounters with his fellow gladiators on
the floor, in which, though then apparently
but a mere stripling, he proved himsolf the
peer of any of them in masterful ability.
His attack on Conkling, the most skilful
debater in the House, savored of rashness,
but he bore himself in such a manner as to
make his adversary beware of him, and in
flicted wounds upon him that never ceased
to rankle. He snowed in this encounter a
marvellous facility in finding the weak
joints in his opponent's armor, and his lance
struck where it would most effectually tell.
Knew Where to Strike Conkling.
It is impossible to conceive of a speech
more thoroughly calculated to produce the
effect intended than this. He had measured
Conkling accurately and knew just where to
strike. And yet he has probably lived to
regret it The statement is fully warranted
that, but for that speech, Blaine would have
been elected President, and it is another in
stance showing upon what apparently triv
ial circumstances turns human destiny.
On another occasion that I particularly
recall, he completely floored Raymond, of
the Times, no mean antagonist either, by his
superior knowledge and recollection of
political facts. He was the only man whom
I ever knew to make Butler wince. Com
ing down from the chair for the purpose, he
charged upon him with an impetuosity that
for the nonce completely put him to rout
He was fond of anecdote, of which he
Eossessed a seemingly exhaustless fund.
is answer to someone who asked him about
n political defeat of the party in Maine on
one occasion was characteristic of the man.
"Oh, they have only stepped back to spit
on their hands and take a fresh hold."
His Joko on Gall Hamilton.
On being told that it was reported that
certain articles written by Gail Hamilton,
who was a connection of the family and an
inmate of his house, had -been inspired by
him, he said: "That reminds me of an in
cident that occurred in "Western Pennsylva
nia A married woman came with her hus
band to a Justice of the Peace to acknowl
edge a deed, and was asked the usual ques
tion, whether she had executed it of her
own free will and accord, and without anv
coercion or compulsion by her husband.
Placirg her hands on her hips, and looking
the macistrate in the eye, she replied,
"hi, J edge, I guess you don't know the
family.'"
His wonderful readiness on all occasions,
his great wealth of anecdote, and facility of
illustration, combined with unfailing good
humor, made him the delight of the social
circle, and one of the most agreeable and
entertaining of men the only drawback be
ing that he seemed at tiu.ii to get absorbed
in some apparev; process of mental intro
version that mad L,j' appear indifferent to
what was being said by others; a peculiar
ity that I have observed in a number of
other distinguished men.
Lincoln Didn't Like Stsrchlness.
I shall never forget the glee with which
he told of an interview with President Lin
coln. He had been appointed a member of
the joint committee of the two Houses to
wait upon the President and inform him
that they had assembled, etc. The Chair
man of the committee was Senator Foot of
Vermont, a very courtly gentleman. On
being admitted Mr. Foot struck an attitude
and said: "Mr. President, we have been ap
pointed a committee on the part of the two
Houses of Congress to wait upoa you and
advise vou that they have met and organ
ized and are ready to receive any communi
cation which you may be pleased to make
to them."
Mr. Lincoln walked up to him, and, slap
ping him on the shoulder, said: "Sow,
look here, Foot; if it is a matter of life or
death to you I can send in my message to
day, but if it isn't I would like to keep it
till to-morrow to slick it up a little."
Blaine's greatest qualities were never
more conspicuously displayed than on the
occasion ot the deadlock over the attempt to
pass the civil rights bill in the House and
v hid, held the House in continuous session
for 4S hours. Hour after hour, through the
lone and dragging days and nights, ne sat
in the chair, "
Apparently Insensible to Fatigue,
ruling points of order with a facility and
clearness which seemed to increase with
every successive question presented, and
controlling the mob on the floor by dint of
sheer moral power. In the language of
Lamar, ot Mississippi, who, though a polit
ical opponent, was cast in that mold of
knightly courtesy which is ever .ready to
accord the full meed of praise to a worthy
antagonist, "the man absolutely corrus
catcd." .,
The most remarkable exhibition of this
power was displayed during the second
night of the protracted, struggle, in a par
liamentary encounter with Butler. The
tactics of the opposition were of course di
rected to the preventing of a vote being
taken on the main question and, when ail
other means failed, resort would be had to
the making of dilatory motions, and calling
for the ayes and noes in accordance with a
practice that had prevailed, and continued
until Reed's accession to the Speakership,
and when this method would not longer
suffice, then the opposition members would
sit silent when their names were called, in
order to break a quorum. There is, as is
well known, a rule which requires every
member to vote when his name is called, but
it had been uniformly held that the obliga
tion of this rule rested entirely in the
Jloral Power f the Man.
Butler, however, baeked by a number of
the strongest and most radical members of
the party, determined to test the right of
the House to enforce obedience to this rule,
and offered a resolution directing the
Bergeant-at-Arms to arrest Randall, who
was leading the opposition, and bring him
before the bar of the House to answer as for
contempt in refusing obedience to the
rule. Blaine flatly refused to entertain the
motion.
Butler cried out in his stentorian tones:
"What! does the Speaker of this House as
sume the autocratic power to refuse to put
a motion made in good faith by a member of
the House?"
Blaine, towering to his full height, re
plied in thunder tones: "Xes, I take that
responsibility. My duty is to preserve
order, and preserve the organization of the
House, and such a resolution is disorganiz
ing, and, if allowed, would turn the House
into a mob. I will put no such motion."
The effect was tremendous, and his man
ner so overwhelming that no member dared
to take an appeaL I never saw a more
splendid instance of the moral power of one
man, and it was the more remarkable in
that it was set off against the moral power
of a large number of the ablest men of his
own political party, and their acquiescence
in it was an unconscious tribute of their
admiration for the courage of a man who
dares to do right in a trying emergency.
One of His Peculiar Ruling.
As an instance of the clearness of his per
ception and admirable, method in ruling a
point, I may cite an instance in which a
member got into an altercation with him in
regt rd to a report made by General Albright,
chairman of a special committee on Southern
outrages. There was, as was usual in such
cases, a good deal of wrangling about com
ing to a final vote, when the member re
ferred to arose and gave notice that he
would call for a vote at a certain hour.
Blaine promptly declared, "The gentleman
has no such right"
"Why not?" inquired the member.
"Because;" replied Blaine, "yon have
not charge of the report The father of the
child is entitled to its custody, and the
Chair wili not recognize the right of anyone
else to meddle with it"
As an illustration of his remarkable per
sonal magnetism, I recall an incident that
occurred at the close of the last Congress
over which he presided. During the last
night of the session, Eldridge came up to
the desk and complained that he
Had Not Understood a Motion
that had just been put and carried In the
midst of much confusion. Blaine, who had
become unusually wearied, replied, rather
snappishly for him: "I can t help that:
you might have understood it if you had
given proper attention."
"I don't want any of your impudence,"
said Eldridge.
".Nor I any of yours," was the quick re
tort This was pretty rough on both sides.
The next day, when the hammer fell, after
a short, ringing speech by Blaine, announc
ing the final adjournment, there was a spon
taneous outburst of cheers from the thou
sands who thronged the floor and galleries,
followed by an impromptu, ovation, in
which the multitude pressed around him for
a final handshake, and prominent among
them was Eldridge, actually with tears in
his eyes. Clinton Lloyd.
Copyright, 189L
THE BLIND CAS SEE.
An Intuition That Enables Them to Know
What Things Look like.
St. Lesls Globe-Democrat.
It seems paradoxical to talk of a blind
man seeing, bnt as a fact, a blind man who
has lost his sight after attaining maturity,
sees a good deal more than is commonly
supposed. Not that he gains any impres
sion of light, but before losing his eye
sight, he had become accustomed to asso
ciate voices with various phenomena of ap
Eearance, and so forms a pretty fair idea of
ow a man looks from hearing the tone and
words of his conversation.
A loud voice, for instance, is always in
variably associated with a robust physique,
and horse talk with a plug hat and a suit of
plaid clothes. But aside from the power of
association, blind people often acquire a sort
of brain sensitiveness which enables them
intuitively to perceive much ol their sur
roundings. A blind man can often perceive
the proximity of a wall, for example, and
can tell whether it is of stone or brick, and
even when standing in shadow, can perceive
the passage of a cloud over the sun.
The Man Who Waits.
We all know him, and the more intimate
the knowledge the deeper the pain attend
ing it
He is the individual who has delayed send
ing in his advertisement until the last mo
ment, and appears at a quarter past the
eleventh hour with the imperious demand
that the 'matter be "rushed right through, so
as to get in to-morrow's edition."
You probably receive these instructions
wiih a pleasant and winning smile, and as
sure him in the blandest of tones that his
will is mighty and shall be done; but the
chances are that, after the patent door
spring has clicked after his exit, the record
ing angel has to work overtime that even
ing in order to jot down the Anglo-Saxon in
which you have expressed yourself regard
ing your customer's business methods.
For some unexplained reason there seems
to exist a regular system of procrastination
with some men in regard to their adver
tising. 5Tour friend alluded to above, is probably
in other matters the most exact ancf method
ical of beings. His orders for goods are all
given well in advance of needs; not a want
or a possible want bnt has been foreseen and
provided for; but when his advertising is in
question, behold the difference! For a week
past he has known perfectly that in certain
issues of certain publications an announce
ment must appear. The matter for that an
nouncement mis for that week been pigeon
holed in his desk; but not until the last pos
sible moment has the copy and order been
given to His agents, and then only by super
human efforts and the lowering of the moral
tone of the entire staff is it possible to get
that advertisement inserted.
The fact that when copy and list of papers
is delivered the real work has just com
menced does not seem to dawn upon an ad
vertiser of this class, for if it did it is
scarcely possible that he would be so blind
to his own interests as to cause his business
to be railroaded through at an express
speed, which leaves no time for the best re
sults as to display and position to be
secured, but sacrifices every minor detail to
the one great necessity of getting insertion
anyhow, anywhere, in the issues ordered,
often under that nondescript heading, "Too
Late for Classification." From Printers'
Ink.
From Franklin County.
I usd Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhea Remedy on two occasions for pain
in the stomach and received almost instant
relief. I believe it to be all you recommend
it William C. Koontz,
Shady Grove, Franklin county, Pa.
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SERMONS OF MICAE.
How He Stood Forth Fearlessly in
Condemnation of Evils.
HIS WAS A MESSAGE OF AflGEK,
Ministers Now Seek to Prevent -Bather
Than Punish Wrong.
TWO PASSAGES THAT AEE IMPORTANT
rwWTTEN TOB THI DISPATCH.
The prophet Micah, 100 years after he was
dead, saved a man's life. Nobody knows
how many men he led to change their lives
in his own day by his plain preaching, nor
how much good he has done since in the
world by the record of his helpful words.
But this, at least, we are sure of: That .100
years after he was dead he saved a man's
life.
It happened in this way: Jehoikim was
King of Judah, and everything was going
badly. And the Prophet Jeremiah, was
moved in spirit to stand up one day proba
bly at a great festival and in the hearing of
a multitude to stand and speak by the gate
of the Temple at Jerusalem, and tell the
people exactly what he thought about the
whole bad business. He declared that if
things went on after that fashion the city
would be made a curse to all the nations of
the world. And he said that, and much
more like it, in good, plain, emphatic He
brew which everybody could understand;
and the result was a riot The priests and
the people laid hold on the fearless
preacher, and dragged him before the
princes, crying out that he must
At Once Be Pot to Death,
The wonder is that thej did not tear him
in pieces. When they got him into the
presence of the princes and gave him a
chance to speak for himself, he immediately
proceeded to repeat his sermon "with numer
ous emphatic additions. He had no thought
of compromise, nothing to take back; in
stead of that, more and worse to speak.
What could they do with him? The princes
and the elders considered the matter.
At last one said: ''Don't you remember,
about Micah, how he preached in Heze
kiah's day, and preached just this same
sort of stern sermon? Don't you know how
he declared that Jerusalem should be as a
plowed field, and that the Temple hill
should become as a tangled forest? And
did they put him to death? Hoj they lis
tened to him, and amended their lives. Let
us do that, too."
And that was what they did. At least,
they spared the life of Jeremiah.
The prophet Micah, six or seven hundred
years after he was dead, guided a company
of men on a most interesting and important
journey. They had come from a far country,
a party of astronomers, and had lost their
way. And they had arrived at a great city,
and asked direction in the streets, but
nobody could tell them, People looked
curiously at their strange dress, but could
give no answer. At last
They Asked the King Himself
and the King called his men together, and
they got down this old book which we are
studying to-day, and there they found the
answer. Where is he that is born King of
the Jews? the men from the East had asked.
In Bethlehem, they said; and read the
answer out of the book of Micah.
And now, to-day, the old prophet being
in his grave some five and twenty centuries,
he may still, perhaps, be of some help, ex
ample, guidance, even to us.
Mican lived in the days and in the land of
King Hezekiahj that is," away off in Syria,
beside the Mediterranean Sea, possibly in
sight of it, centuries and centuries ago.
What sort of a time was that ? and what
kind of a man was Micah?
It was an evil time. We can be pretty
sure of that beforehand, just because we
have this book of sermons. Somehow, the
only sermons which remain out of those old
days are the sermons of men who were carry
ing on a great fight against the devil. We
know not how much preaching was done in
those distant ages, but only this much seems
to have lasted. The preachers, like the
generals, seem to have come to the front
only in times of trouble.
Messages of Indignation.
The message of these old preachers, in
almost every case, was a message of the in
dignation of God. Sin had come to be so
strong that there must at last be a battle
against it along the whole line. Of course,
there was always mention, also, of God's
mercy. But the burden was one of denun
ciation. We ought to have improved on
that, after these more than two-score cen
turies; and I am sure we have. We are
learning that the best way to deal with evil
is not by reformation but by prevention;
not by abusing people who have fallen into
sin, but by helping them so that they may
fences along the top to keep them from fall
ing over.
We have not learned the lesson, as Christ
taught it, even yet very perfectly. But we
are learning it We are coming to realize
that the chief mission of the preacher is
to preach "conversion," which means turn
ing back; but to lead, guide, educate peo
ple so that they may
Not Need to Be Converted.
We are learning that the laws of health
are better laws to know than the laws 'of
medicine, and that the best thing which the
doctor can do whether his title be M. D. or
D. D. is not to cure people who are sick,
but keep them froin getting sick. Still,
there is no lack of sickness, and no chance
yet of sately throwing physic to the dogs.
We still need curing and converting. In
the days of Micah there was more need for
conversion than there was for anything
else.
There were two kinds of.people in Micah's
day as there are in our own upon whom
the welfare of the nation very considerably
depended; those who had to do with the
people's pocket-books, and with the peo
ple's prayer books. And both these kind
of leaders had gone astray.
The rich oppressed the poor, laying house
to house, and field to field. The widow and
the fatherless were wronged. The pursuit
of wealth robbed life of all remembrance of
brotherliness. The strong trampled on the
weak There was cruelty, tyranny, all man
ner of injustice; there were foul tenements
and ivory palaces. There was wide-spread
commercial dishonesty. Men were even
more ready then than now
To Tell Lies for Dollars.
There were false weights and deceitful
balances. And in the face of all this social
and industrial wrong, what were the priests
doing? They were conducting beautiful
and elaborate services. They t ere receiv
ing large salaries from the capitalists who
were grinding the faces Of the poor. And
they were preaching peace, saying that
everything was right and best, preachihg
providence, teaching men to be content
with that state of life to which, they said,
God had called them, and to obey and rev
erence their betters.
This is what Micah saw and heard. Micah
was a plain countryman, living in a little
obscure village in the Philistine provinces,
named Moresheth. He had no official sta
tion, no social position, no money that we
know of; we have no information as to his
occupation a common man, -walking the
grass-grown streets of Moresheth. But
several times every year, he was in the
habit of going up to the city, the city of
Jerusalem, perhaps to sell the produce of
his trade, perhaps to say his prayers. Very
much as a farmer from -Mcnallen, down by
TJniontown. might visit Pittsburg. And
when he was in the city this countryman of
Moresheth saw a great deal. Probably he
saw more than the people who lived in the
city. There is an evident shortsightedness
which grows out of familiarity. Strangers
see more than citizens more of good and
more of evil We get used to things. Evil
itself is like bad air; those who live in its
. THE EITTSBTJEG DISPATOH, SUNDAY, JUNE
atmosphere do not realize how bad it Is.
But one who comes in from outside does.
What Slakes the Agitation.
Micah came in from outside and he real
ized what things meant And between his
vteite tn flip (rrpnt. rftt.v hrt lrpnfc tlT vlrmr-
ous thinking and praying; probably talked
much to tne wonder ot his neighbors.
Strange it is, how the same sight affects dif
ferent people differently! At last it gets
through some man's eyes into his heart, and
therestands up an agitator, a reformer, a
revolutionist
They called Micah all manner of hard
names no doubt of it He walked along
the streets of Moresheth, with head down
and hands clenched, thinkingwild thoughts.
And people pointed at him, and talked
about him at the dinner table. Out he came
at last from Moresheth and took up his resi
dence in Jerusalem, and became a street
preacher. Every day he got a crowd about
him somewhere and preached to them with
the curbstone for a pulpit Every day the
crowds got bigger. Attention was univer
sally attracted; Who is this? they began to
ask. A radical, a revolutionist, a wild an
archist, a man who is denouncing the aris
tocracy and the Church. Day after day, in
the Hyde Park of Jerusalem, Micah spoke
hard words; spoke hard words, as Christ
did afterward, against the rich and the rit
ualists. Effect of Revolutionary Sermons.
And what did they do? They listened.
They listened and heeded for a little while,
and tried to do better. There was a dim
recognition that this voice out of More
sheth was somehow a voice out of heaven.
There was a national reformation. The
preaching had effect, but things went back
again, it seems, even in the preacher's day,
and were as bad as before, perhaps worse.
Yet some good was done, anyhow.
These are the sermons which compose the
book of Micah. Here are the speeches
made 2;500 years ago in the streets of a
great city by a man of the people against
the'avance of the wealthy and the formal
ism of the religious. Xou wonld not expect
to find them very elaborate or exhaustive"
treatises, these street-corner speeches, these
revolutionary sermons. And they are not
Indeed, we seem to have here a collection
of fragments, paragraphs out of various
speeches set together. This, perhaps, is the
best we can do toward finding some logical
order in the book: At the head of chapter
one we may write, "Prologue of Denuncia
tion." The preacher is emphasizing the
anger of God. Put together the second
and third chapter and entitle that section,
"The Punishment of God Why?" The
prophet tells why plainly enough. Then
make another section out of the next two
chapters and call that "The Punishment of
God-r-But" You will always find that
blessed disjunctive conjunction "but"
Behind Every Declaration
of the punishment of God. If it isn't
written out in plain letters, it is always
meant to be understood. It is always there.
Jonah learned that when he went to Nine
vah and preached a sermon about fire from
heaven, and left that saying conjunction
out ''Yet 40 days and Ninevah shall be
destroyed!" no "but" there. But the
people repented,and the fortieth day passed
into the forty-first, and no fire fell at all.
That little word had grown into a great
shield and covered the whole city over.
That is the divine conjunction.
God never promises punishment without
an accompanying promise of release from
punishment if the criminal wins release.
We can be perfectly sure that God is never
going to punish anybody one second longer
than he deserves or needs it "These shall
go away into death everlasting." That is
a long word "everlasting." But this little
sharp word "but, this edge ot the sword ot
God, can cut that long word in two, any
time. Yeu know what Dante saw written
over the gate of hell, about the abandonment
of hope. That is a good inscription for the
outside door. But I believe that inside, all
over the walls, and the ceiling and the
floor, is printed this word "but, meaning
that the very instant one soul in that place
of torment turns to God, God turns to him
and
Hell Is Wo More HelL
Finally, take the last two chapters and'
entitle them the "Epilogue of Disap
pointment" After all, the sermon is for
gotten. The reformation has run its course.
All things seem to have gone back to the
old way. That is not an unusual experi
ence. After almost every effort to set the
cause of righteousness forward the reformer
may well write an epilogue of disappoint
ment Bnt God sees clearer than the re
formers. There are two passages in the sermons of
Micah which are especially notable. Here
is one of them: "But thou, Bethlehem
Ephratah, which art little to be among the
thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one
come forth unto me that is to be ruler in
Israel; whose goings forth are from of old,
from everlasting. Anybody who reads
the prophets, looking lor minute predic
tion, "making prophecy a sort of history
before the time," as Prof. Briggs says,
"and looking anxiously for the fulfillment
of the details of Biblical prediction," is go
ing to be disappointed. The prophets were
preachers. They were
Emphatically Men of the Present.
They looked forward, as all good men
who believe in God must do, to a final
victory of righteousness. But they were
not soothsayers. And yet here are tbese
strange words, the words which guided the
Chaldean astronomers to Bethlehem, mar
velously fulfilled! worth thinking about
The other passage is this: "Wherewith
shall I come betorc the Lord, and bow
myself before the high God? Shall I come
before him with burnt offerings, with calves
of a year old? will the Lord be pleased with
thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of
rivers of oil? Shall I give my first born for
my transgression, the fruit ot my body for
the sin ot my soul? He hath shewed thee,
O man, what is good; and what doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
thv God?" "I will have mercy and not sac
rifice," God said, first brotherliness, and
only after that ceremonial; first Godliness
and then religion. George Hodges.
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very fine assortment of men's light and dark
suits at $7 90 each. All we ask is a look at
them. Anybody, no matter how inex
perienced, will see at a glance that thev are
great bargains. Such excellent materials,
such elegant patterns, such finely made
suits never before were offered for 57 90.
Other houses ask $12 and $14 for the same
quality garments. This is truth. We in
clude men's fine sack and cutaway suits,
made from all-wool cassimere, 57 90; men's
plain black Hawthorne cheviot suits at
$7 90; men's bound or stitched diagonal
suits. $7 90; men's Bannockburn tweed
suits) 57 90. Come to-morrow. Our great
sale will attract thousands, and if you want
to get the best it's better to call in the
morning the most stylish goods sell first
P. C. C. C, Pittsburg Combination Cloth
ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond
streets.
Ikon Crrr beer tones you up from the
depression of heat, and is at the same time
a pleasant light stimulant Ask for it at
all first-class bars.
Will call on you with samples of furni
ture covering and furnish estimates on work.
Hatjgh & Keenan, 33 Water street
su
Italian awnings at Brown & Co.'s, cor
ner Grant and Water streets. TeL 1194.
Hanover awnings .at Mamaux & Son's,
639 Penn avenue.
LocrmrrAE awnings at Mamaux & Son's,
639 Penn avenue.
EATING BLMD FAITH.
It Is Commendable in a PatienM)nt
Ignorance Is dupable.
HEED TO KNOW ALL WE CAN.
Shirley Dare Comes to the Defense of Phy
sicians Who Write.
HOT BH0T FOR HIGH-PRICED DOCTORS
twnrmif fob tub DisrATcn.l
Whoso falls ont of the hands of God, says
the Talmud, shall fall into the hands of the
physicians. Having occasion lately to realize
this proverb, being in the hands of six doc
tors in as many weeks, others are welcome
to profit by my experience. I am no foe to
doctors or medicine. Sharply as our genial
Autocrat has spoken against drugs, I doubt
if his theory that they had better be thrown
into the sea would keep him from taking
soda mint or Carlsbad salts after an alumni
dinner or opium to allay the pains of in
complete digestion. Drugs are our vicarious
redemption from suffering, and whether to
fall into the hands of doctors is the first step
from grace or the last depends wholly on the
doctor.
It never recommends a neighborhood to
be very far from medical aid, but a family
paper of high repute lately expresses itself
in terms which we have all heard too often:
"It is not too much to say that more than
half the physical ills which people are be
lieved to suffer are the result of an over
vivid imagination. Nothing is more ab
surd than to read of symptoms of disease in
medical books and brood over them. It is a
wise and safe rule to leave medical matters
to medical men, being sure to employ a man
in whom one can have thorough trust, and
then rely implicitly upon his judgment"
The Theory of the Majority.
You have all heard it before, and very
likely quoted it in exhortation to some
weaker brother or sister. The belief of
hundreds of people counting themselves in
telligent is: First, most diseases other
folks' diseases are sheer imagination;
sscond, you don't want to learn or read
anything about them so as to know whether
they are imaginary or not; and, lastly, if
you are sick put yourself in the hands Of a
doctor and leave health, life and death to
him. That is the theory of hygiene by1
which most people live and more die.
Popular ideas of medicine, law and drain
laying trot on the same level. You are to
leave your life and your property, which
makes "life worth living, and your drains,
which, concern both health and property, to
some professor of the arts concerning them,
and you are supposed to be as incapable
of knowing anything about the first
two as you are about taking levels
through walls, banks and angles. That is to
say, you are born into the world a dummy
or a tool, unequal to protecting your dearest
interests, and on your peril you seek to dis
sipate your native ignorance. I have.just
been through the trial of haying drains laid,
and if there is anything ot which I consid
ered myself hopelessly and incurably
ignorant it was the science of drain digging.
The rich and ancient borough of Dedham is
in the hands of local officers who devote
their energies to laying a town tax much
higher than that? of London or New York,
and in consequence are unequal to laying of
town drains. Yearly as the tax rate rises
the water rises in the cellars, and, as there
is no prospect of taxes lowering, the possi
bilities of floating off in some spring thaw
are disconcerting.
Shirley Dare's Experience in Drains.
So I sent for a man of drains, well rec
ommended, and placed affairs in his hands
with that childlike confidence which
medical men find exemplary in their
patients. The first discovery was that the
tile drain, supposed to keep the cellar dry,
sloped three inches up to the town gutter,
and to the old celebrity of Taunton water,
which was too weak to run down hill, must
be added that of Dedham water, which
was expected to be able to run up. hill. My
unassisted reason proved equal to grasping
the situation without tottering on its
throne.
Step by step the Interest grew in side
drains, dry wells, surface water and hard-
pan, unaided J. discovered the dinerence
between a day's work in fact and a day's
work so-called, and between a few pointed
words and some well disposed workmen I
have the pleasure of seeing work finished
this afternoon which this morning I was
assured would take two days.
At dawn there was before my window a
five-foot drain, filled part of its length with
rubble stone to a foot of the surface, that be
ing the fashion of contract drain filling for
people who don't know better. But Irom
reading up about drain building and a word
or two from better-informed people, the
heaped rubble was disposed 15 inches deep
oyer the bottom of the 50-foot drain and the
rest filled with gravel, sods and sand, as it
should be, saving some days' work with
men and teams and some dollars to my
pocket
It was rather funny to see a small woman
and a Manx kitten superintend that drain
digging, I suppose, but it is done for a gen
eration to come, and what I want to make
apparent is that the average disorders of our
systems can no more surpass our under
standings than the laying of cellar drains.
If it were impossible or inadvisable for men
and women to comprehend the needs of
their own bodies and lives it would be a re
flection against the wisdom of Him who
made us.
Safety Lies in Intelligence.
It is true that we cannot without more
time and study than most of us can devote
learn the intricacies of chronio disease and
the skill of surgery. But we can under
stand quite enough to prevent the horrors of
cancer, tumor, abscess, tubercle and their
train. We can learn the pulse, the heart
beat, the sympathy between digestion, nerves
and muscular exhaustion; between colds
and inflammations and the prompt treat
ment of their initial disorders.
Is knowledge of our joints, nerves and or
gans to lead us to sick fancies about them
or the reverse? Is the ability to determin
ate the freaks of gas in the stomach from
the presence of a live animal there injuri
ous to a nervous, dyspeptic woman? When,
day after day and liour after hour, the
crawling sensation repeats itself on the
shoulder so that one would swear a worm
was creeping there, is it or is it not quiet
ing for a sensitive person to know it is a
disorder of circulation, which physicians
know as the aura, only disturbing as ltpoints
to disorder of the nerves.
Is it best or not for a woman to be able to
detect the beginnings of tumor in time, when
it can be dispersed by diet and massage, or
should she ignorantly wait till it spoils her
figure and takes a year's treatment and vivi
section to relieve her of it? More. Is it
not comfortable for a woman to read medi
cine enough to learn that she has no myelitis
or any other hopeless form of spinal disease,
and to know that with equable pulse, good
sleep and ability for protracted effort there
cannot be anything serious the matter with
her vital Organs, though impaired digestion
may counterfeit heart trouble, lung disease
and half the ailments flesh is heir to?
Good Doctors Are Not Mysterious.
If it is dangerous for people to read medi
cine let the study of physiology be banished
from our public schools witn the. rules of
witchcraft and the black art, or perhaps our
intelligent adviser would allow us to learn
to tell our humerus from our iunnybone,
but not how to take care of either. The
best doctors will not forbid their jiatients
learning anything that is of use to them.
Bather, they will find in an intelligent pa
tient who knows the exact situation and
meaning of symptoms the assurance of suc
cess in cure. In such a case the difficulty of
diagnosis is done away with.
The doctor cannot see into a patient's
body; he must guess at the state of internal
organs by appearances of the outward ones:
bnt the patient is clairvoyant to himself.
21, 189L
He knows just where the pain is and how
keen it is, and how his heart Jumps and
pulse loses beats, and when he can tell these
symptoms in plain lauguase one great diffi
culty iu healing is done away with. Unin
telligent persons are as hard to treat as
babies, because not being used to observe or i
uiaunguisn tneir sensations, tney cannu
tell what ails them.
Incomes and Intelligence
I have heard physicians distinguish each,
other as writing doctors and practising doc
tors. Now, if the profession are afraid
their practice will lose if people learn how
to take care of themselves, let me remind
them of the popularity attending men who
write on subjects of health, not to mention
more than Drs. Ward Bichardson, Weir
Mitchell, Eelix Oswald and Hammond.
These men have never been afraid to let
people know how to take care of themselves,
nor have they los tmedical prestige by so
doing. It is probable that with growing
intelligence the doctors' work will glide
into teaching people how not to be sick,
and it will be a far less laborious and more
profitable routine than their present one.
The winter's lectures on hygiene will be as
largely attended as any star course devised.
Gentlemen of the profession, the .people
are trading close upon your heels in the
matter of interest to medical subjects which
concern their households and their lives.
As little humbug as possible will serve you
best But you people cultivate humbug in
your doctors and ministers, bow down to it
and pay it high fees. Town people are
specially unfortunate on this point They
pass the modest, conscientious doctors who
would gladly attend for the regular fee of
52 a visit, and give their best thought and
latest reading to cross the palm ot a fash
ionable doctor, who keeps page and liver
ied coachman and has his receptions quoted
in the society papers, and pays for these
things out of your 510 a visit
Fashion and Duty for Doctors.
Don't grudge a man who has worked his
way up in hospital and battlefield, in epi
demic and through the slums his 510 or 5100
a visit, but when doctors begin by keeping
np appearances, leave them to society and
its fancied ailments. Will your 510 a visit
doctor allow himself to be called up in the
night to some patient writhing in sudden
agonies? It will interfere with his bril
liance at his afternoon receptions, and a
man who has 510 for every 15 minutes of
working time doesn't need to break his
downy slumbers for anybody.
Let me tell you one more point Don't
call a doctor a second time who keeps a pa
tient waiting in pain while he makes an
elaborate toilet in the middle of the night
I shall never forget the appearance of one
doctor only sent for when I found myself
foing lightheaded with pain, who kept the
jndly messenger cooling his heels on the
sidewalk for the better part of an hour, and
appeared at my bedside in toilet fit for a
ball at 3 in the morning. Sick as I was, the
immaculate elegance of his cuffs and studs
and the miraculous parting of his hair made
an indelible impression upon me.
Do doctors keep ready made partings for
instant use? for if not that straight moon
beam must have cost a good five minutes'
agony for his waiting patient I got just
such treatment as was to be expected irom
such an Adonis morphine disguised in
bromide of potassium, when I protested
against morphine, whose reaction brought
the pain worse another night, and an anx
ious, pressing invitation to end my woes by
a neat little surgical operation which would
have broken my strength for weeks and cost
at least 5100.
Why Doctors Prefer Surgery.
You do not wonder that superfine doctors
are fond of surgery when they can charge
five times as much for a half hoar's opera
tion as for an ordinary visit, with a steady
run Of attendance till you get well after it
Beware of the doctor who wants to flesh his
knife in you. I was awfully polite to this
one, and pressed his double fee upon him
before he left, for I never meant to see his
face again. Number two came next night,
a little rough in appearance, but prompt,
and knowing how to relieve, but he, too,
pressed the surgical treatment, and never
was sent for after. I learned from him,
however, the value of his fee, which was
only half that ot the man with the seraph
part in his hair, in the instruction that hot
water, hot as can be borne, is the great
panacea for internal pain kept scalding hot
and applied for at least half an hour.
Numbers three and four said unhesitat
ingly there was no need of surgery, and
made their words good by ending the trou
ble in three weeks without it They were
good doctors, skilful ones, but I parted
with them for what reason? Nothing in
themselves, but they had the drawbacks
with which too many physicians weight
themselves nowadays. These are the trained
nurse, the other is the sanitarium. A lot of
gush is written about trained nurses, which
is only to be accepted on the ground that
patients and their friends are all fools unfit
for the slightest care or control of them
selves. In severe cases, in critical surgery
and maternity cases and in hospitals the
trained nnrse is indispensable, but I have
heard most well-to-do and intelligent folk
who had tried them say that they never
would have one in the house again.
All Depends on the Kind of Nurse.
The choice of nurses is like that ot wives.
The right sort is invaluable, but there are a
hundred women you would not have to one
you want. I leave your next neighbor to
tell you the reasons, for there isn't room in
this paper. But it is the custom for town
doctors to retain their own special nurses,
whom it is for their interest to keep in em
ployment, and the nurse is apt to be pressed
upon you whether exactly needed or not
So with the sanitarium, which physicians
keep as other men do yachts; and if it is ab
solutely impossible for patients to obtain
tolerable care and diet at home it may be
worth while to pay the price of a fashionable
hotel for very ordinary surroundings and
baked apples to eat But no penitentiary
is more abso ute than your sanitarium.
Once in you cannot get out, except to the
convenience of all concerned, on penalty of
a fuss with the doctor and the matron's
tongue. The doctor may be candid and
mean well and his system be admirable, but
the matron can undo all the good obtain
able from it. and this matter also I leave to
the amplication of those who have had more
experience of sanitariums than L For one
thing, it is cheaper to put one's own house
in sanitary condition and make it pleasant
for an invalid's wants than to spend any
length of time at a sanitarium, and saves
you the gossip. The trained nurse will
want the v. hole earth and your house made
over for her benefit anyhow.
No, my dear "brethren and sistern," let
us be wise in our own interests and learn all
we can about physiology, hygiene and med
cine. You will learn that the best doctors
are of the school of Asclepiadcs, the be
loved Greek physician, who held that cures
should be by speedy, safe and pleasant
means, on which the highest faculty are'
coming to agree. They are wise enough to
find that the surgery of women, as prac
ticed for 25 years, is barbarous and unneces
sary for diseases which can be cured by diet
and electricity. -Shirley Dare.
Invention.
Patents have been granted this week to
Pennsylvanians as follows, reported by
Higdon z rligdon, rzi .Fourth avenue,
Pittsburg: George Chaddick, Allegheny,
pianoforte; M. Folk, Pittsburg, tronsers;
C. M. Hine, Pittsburg, feeding mechanism
for sewing machines; Samuel Hough, Alle
gheny, frame for stretching fabrics; J. J.
Miller, Pittsburg (three patents), under
ground electric system for traction roads.
Summer Complaint.
Hot weather is coming, and the experi
ence of Bevr John Hertzler, of Bethel,
Berks county, Pa., will be of general inter
est It is as follows: Last fall I was taken
with a kind of summer complaint accom
panied by a wonderful diarrhoea. Soon
after my wife's sister, who lives With us, was
taken in the same way. We used almost
everything without benefit. Then I saidi
let us try Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Bemedy, which we did, and that
cured us right away. VI think much of it as
it did tor me what it was recommended to.
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SUITS.
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20 for a suit that was measured
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25 for a suit that was measured
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30 for a suit that was measured
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35 for a suit that was measured
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with little attention, secure and retain that
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Sloth patchos, freckles, pimples, blackheads,
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The only article which has yet been dis
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A. Euppert's Face Bleach. This article has
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Thousands who may read this havo made up
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visit to the parlors of Mme. Kuppert wUl
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and the ideas advanced in this little volume
arc invaluable 10 every woman who appre
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The next time you are on Fifth avenue
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tance, write to her and inclose 6 cents post
ago, and you will receive promptly her book,
also all information. The price of Mme. A.
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merit is considered. One bottler costs $3,
which will show improvement, and In some
cases a cure, or three bottles (usually re
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address
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TROUSERS.
4 for a pair of pants that was
measured-for $8.
5 for a pair of pants that wsa
measured for J!io.
$6 for a pair of pants that was
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$j for a pair of pants that-was
measured for $15.
$& for a pair of pants that was
measured for 16.
fg for a pair of pants that-was
measured for 18.
Pantaloons in all sizes, weights
and colors, stripes, checks and
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Next to Melton's Bank.
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"I had been troubled with tha usual ca
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eyes, clogging up of the nostril and drop
ping of tough, tenacious mucus into tho
throat, causing considerable hawking and
spitting to raise, for several years," savs Mr.
Byers, "but tho most annoying trouble was
a severe hoarseness which developed later.
It was for this trouble I consulted Dr. Byers,
as I had heard him so highly spoken of in
throat affections. After carefully examining
my nostrils and throat by means of artificial
light reflected by a mirror, he informed ma
that my trouble was due to an ulcerative
condition of the back part of my nostrils and
throat which extended to tho larynx, pro
ducing a thickening of the vocal cords, and
consequent partial loss of voice.
Mr. Peter By era, Turtle Creek, Pa.
"This hoarseness at times was so aggra
vated I could scarcely speak above a whli.
per, and I often feared I would loso my voice
permanently. My mind was therefore great
ly relieved when Dr. Byers said ho could
cure me if I would stay with him long
enough, at the same time Informing me it
wonla require considerable time and pa
tience on my par:. Well, I gave him a fair
trial, remaining under his treatment soven
months and vou will notice bv the clearness
of my -oico that he kept his promise. I am
more than satisfied with the results of the
treatment, as my catarrh symptoms are all
gone and my voice is once more strong and
natural. From my own experience I am
satisfied that many caes of catarrh consid
ered incurable are as curable as mine if peo
ple would only exemplify the same spirit of
perseverance I did."
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especially where tho nostrils aro not ob
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