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THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,
MONDAY' AUGUST 24, 189J.'
THE GOOD YOU CASDO.
Opportunities in Everyone's Life to
Accomplish Koble Deeds.
SOT OX THE RED FIELDS OF GLORY,
lut in the nnmuler Walts of Everj Day
Life iu Acts of Kindness.
KET. DR. TALHAGE TALKS OX EXPLOITS
rSPECIAI, TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Ocean Gbovb, N. J., Aug. 23. This is
Campmeeting Sunday at Ocean Grove.
This year the attractions of its observance
J have been enhanced by the presence of Dr.
Talmnge, who preached this afternoon in the
Auditorium. His text was Daniel ii:J?2:
"The people that do know their God shall
be strong and do exploits."
Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner,
came down three time-vith his army to des
olate the Israelites advancing one time with
102 trained elephant', swinging their trunks
this way and that, and 0:1,000 infantiy, and
I 6.000 cavalry troops and they were driven
hack. Then, the second time, he advanced
with 70.000 armed men, and had been again
defeated, lint the third time lie laid suc
cessful siege until the navy of Home came
in with the flash of their long banks of oars
and demanded that the siege be lifted.
THE WORD EXPLOIT PErlXXI).
And Antiochus Epiphanes said he wanted
time to consult with his friends about it,
and Popilius, one of the Roman embas
sadors, 'took a staff nnd made a circle on the
ground around Antiochus Epiphanes, and
compelled him to decide before he came out
of that circle; whereupon he lifted the
siege. Sine of the Hebrew shad submitted
to the invader, but some of them resisted
valorous.lv, as did Eleazer when he had
swiue's flesh forced into his mouth, spit it
out, although he knew he must die ior it,
and did die for it; and others, as my text
says, did exploits.
An exploit I would dcfineTrfo be a heroic
act, a brave feat, a great achievement.
"Well," you sav, "I admire such things,
but there is no chance for me; mine is a
sort of hum-drum life. If I had an Antio
chus Epiphanes to fight, I also could do ex
ploits." You are right, so far as great wars
are concerned. There will probably be no
opportunity to distinguish yourself in bat
tle. The most of the Brigadier Generals of
this country would neer have been heard of
had it not been for the war.
Neither will you probably become a great
inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-
nine out ol every 1,000 inventions found in
the Patent Office at Washington never
vicldcd their authors enough monev to pav
for the expenses of sccuring.the patent. So
f you will probably never be a Morse of an
Edison or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli
Whitney.
THE EXIGEXIES Or LlrE.
During the course of his life, almost
every man gets into an exigency, is caught
between two fires, is ground fietween twfc
millstones, sits on the edge of some preci
pice, or iu home other way comes near de
molition. It may be a financial or a do
mestic or a social or a political exigency.
You sometimes see it in court rooms. A
voung man has got into bad company and he
Las offended the Ian , and he is arraigned.
All blushing and confused he is in the pres
ence of .Judge and jury and lawyers. He
can be sent right on in the wrong direc
tion. He is feeling disgraced, and
he is almost desperate. Let the
District Attorney overhaul him
as though he were an old offender, let the
ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a
i ord for him, because he cannot afford a
considerable fee; let the Judge give no ou
portunity for presenting Ihe mitigating cir
cumstances, hurry up the case and hustle
him up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he lives
V0 years for 70 years he will be a criminal,
and each decade of his life will be blacker
than its predecessor. In the interregnums
of prison lite he can get no work, and he is
glad to break a window glass, or blow up a
sale, or pla the high w av man, so as to get
back within the. walls where he can get
something to eat, and hide himself from the
gaze of the world.
Why don't his father come and help him?
His father is dead. Why don't his mother
come nd help him? She is dead. Where
are all the ameliorating and salutary in
fluences of society? They do not touch
him.
s SOME OPl'OKTUXITIES LOST.
Why did not some one lone ago in the
case understand that there vasanoppor-
unity for the exploit which would be 1am-
V ous in heaven a quadrillion of years after
the earth has become scattered ashes in the
, last whirlwind? Why did not the District
Attorney take that young man into his
private office and say: "My son, I see that
you are the victim of circumstances. This
is your first crime. You are sorry. I will
bring the person you wronged into your
presence, and you will apologize and make
all the reparation you can, and I will give
you another chance."
Or that young man is presented in the
court room, and ne has no friends present,
and the Judge says: "Who is your coun
sel?" And he answers: "I ha've none."
And the Judge says: "Who will take this
voung man's case?" And there is a dead
halt, and no one offers, and after a while
the Judge turns .to some attorney who
never had a good case in all his life, and
never w ill, and w hose advocacy w ould be
enough to secure the condemnation of
innocence itself. And the professional in
competent crawls up beside the prisoner,
helplessness to rescue despair, when there
ought to be a struggle among all the best
men of the profession as to who should
liave the honor of trying to help tliat un
fortunate. How much would such an attorney have
received as his fee for such an advocacy?
Nothing in dollars, but much every way in
a. happy consciousness that would make his
own lite brighter, and his own dying pillow
sweeter, and his own heaven happier the
consciousness that he had saved a man!
PUEDICAMKXTS IK ItCbUkESS.
So there are commercial exigencies. A
verv Life spring obliterates the demand for
spring overcoats and spring hats and spring
apparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands
ol people say: "It seems we are going to
have no spring, and we shall go straight out
of winter into warm weather, and we can
get along without the usual spring attire."
The young merchant with a somewhat
limited capital is in a predicament. What
shnll the old merchants do as they see the
young man in this awful crisis? Rub their
hands and laugh and say: "Good for him.
He might have known better. When he
has been in business as long as we have, he
will not load his shelves in that way. Ha!
Ha! He will burst up before long. He had
do business to open his store so near to ours
anyhow."
the young man, broken-spirited, goes to
hard drinking. The young wife, with her
baby, goes to her father's house, and not
only is his More wiped out, but his home,
his'morals and his prospects for two worlds
this and the next. And devils make a
banquet of fire and fill their cups of gall and
drink deep to the health of the old merchant
who swallowed up the young merchant who
got stuck on spring goods and went down.
That is one way, and some of you have
tried it.
THE BETTER 'WAT.
But there is another way. That young
merchant who found that he had miscalcu
lated in laying in too many goods of one
kind, and been flung of the unusual season,
is standing behind the counter, feeling very
blue, and biting his finger nails, or looking
over his account books, which read darker
and worse every time lie looks at them, and,
thinking how h'is young wife will have to
be put in a plainer house than she ever ex
pected to live in, or go to a third-rate
boarding house where they have toush liv cr
and sour bread five mornings out of seven.
The old merchant comes in and says:,
i 'Well, Joe. this has been a hard season for
young merchants, and this prolonged cool
weather has put many in the doldrums, and
I have been thinking of you a good deal of
late, for just after I started in business I
once got into the same scrape. Now, if
there is anything I can do to help you out I
will gladly do it. Better just put those
goods out of sight for the present, and next
season we will plan something about them.
I will help you to some goods that you can
sell for me on commission, and I will go
down to one of the wholesale houses and
tell them that I know you and will back
von up, and if you want a few dollars to
bridge over the present I can let v ou have
them."
In a short time after the old merchant,
who had been a good while shaky in his
limbs and who had poor spelis, is called
upon to leave the world, and the 12 angels
who keep the 12 gates of heaven unite in
crying down to this approaehiniftspirit of
the old man: "Come in aud "welcome, for
it has been told all over these celestial
lands tliat you baved a man."
riTMINlNK EXIGENCIES ALSO.
There sometimes come exigencies in the
life of a w oman. One morning a few years
ago I saw in the newspaper tliat there was
a young woman m .Ncu iork, whose pocK-ctbooke-ontaiiiingfw7
.To had becnstolcn,r.nd
she had been left without a penny at the
beginning of winter, in n strange city, and
no work. And althoughshc was a stranger,
I did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave
the limp-post on our corner, without carry
irg the ?37 33; and the case was proved gen
uine.
Now I have read all of Shakespeare's
tragedies, and all Victor Hugo's tragedies,
and all Alexander Smith's tragedies, but I
nev er read a tracedy more thrilling than
that case, and similar cases by the hundreds
and thousands in all our large cities; young
vi omen without money and without home
and without work in the great maelstroms
of metropolitan life. When such a case
comes under your obscrv ation how do you
treat it? "Get out of my way, we have no
room in our establishment "for'any lnore
hands."
But there is another way, and I saw it
one dav in the Methodist Book Concern in
New York, w here a voung woman applied
for work, and the gentleman in tone and
manner said: "My daughter, we employ
women hcrej but I do not know of any va
cant place m our department. Yoa had
better inquire at such and such a place, and
I hope you will be successful in getting
something to do. Here is my name, and
tell them I sent you."
1IARITY OP CHRISTIAN CHAKITY.
New York and Brooklyn ground up last
vear about 30,000 young w omen, and would
like to grind up about as many this year.
Out of all that long procession of women
who march ou with no hope for this world
or the next, battered and bruised and scoffed
at, and flung over the precipice, not one
but might have been saved lor home and
God and heaven. But good men and good
women ara not in that kind of business.
Alas for that poor thing! nothing but the
thread of that sewing girl's needle held her,
and the thread broke.
I have heard men tell in public discourse
what a man is; but what is si woman? Until
some one shall give a better definition, I
will tell you w hat woman is. Direct from
God, a sacred and delicate gift, with affec
tions so great that no measuring line short
of that of the infinite God can tell their
bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe and
lift and irradiate home and society and the
world. Of such value that no one can ap
preciate it, unless his mother lived long
enough to let him understand it, or who in
some great crisis of lite, when all else failed
him, had a wife to reinforce him with a
faith in God that nothing could disturb.
Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet
that rocked you and the anxious aces that
hovered ov er you! Speak out, ye nurseries
of all Christendom, and ye homes whether
desolate or still in full bloom with the faces
of wife, mother, and daughter, and help me
to define what woman is.
But as geographers tell us that the depths
of the sea correspond with the heights of
the mouutams, 1 have to tell you that a
good womanhood is not higher up thauliad
womanhood is deep down. The grander
the palace, the more awful the conflagra
tion that destrovs it. The grander the
steamer Oregon, the more terrible her going
down j ust oif the-coast.
There may be in this audience, gathered
from all parts of the world, there may be a
man whose behavior toward womanhood has
been perfidious, Repent ! Stand up, thou
masterpiece of sin and death, that I may
charge thee ! When that fine collar anil
cravat, and that elegant suit of clothes
comes off and your uncovered soul stands
before God, you w ill be better off if you
save that w oman.
YOU MAY SATE CHILDREN.
There is another exploit you can do, and
that is to save a child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. Well, your esti
mate of a child is quite different from that
mother's estimate who lost her child this
summer. They took it to the salt air of the
seashore and to the tonic air of the moun
tains, but no help came, and the brief para
graph of its life is ended.
I am glad that there are those who know
something of the value of a child. Its pos
sibilities are tremendous. What will those
hands yet do? Where will those feet yet
walk? Toward w hat destiny will that never
dying soul betake itself? Shall those lips
be the throne of blasphemy or benediction?
Come, chronologists, and calculate the de
cades of decadcs,the centuries on centuries,
of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am I
not right in putting that among the great
exploits?
But what arc you going to do with those
children w ho are worse oil than if their
father and mother had dietl'fW''lay they
were born? There are tensof Wousands of
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name was against them. The struc
ture of their skulls against them. Their
nerves and muscles contaminated by the in
ebriety or dissoluteness of their parents;
they are practically at their birth laid out
on a planK in the middle -of the Atlantic
Ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and told to
make for shore. What to do with them is
the question olten asked.
There is another question quiet as perti
nent, and that is, w hat are they going to do
with us? They will, 10 or ll" years from
now, have as many votes as the same num
ber of well-bom "children, and they will
hand this land over to anarchy and political
damnation juntas sure as we neglect them.
Suppose wc each one of us save a boy or
save a girl. You can doit. Will you" I
wilL
BESCCH YOUE OWN KIN.
And while j ou are saving strangers you
nay save some of your own Kin. You think
your brothers and sisters and children and
grandchildren all safe, but they are not
dead, and no one is safe till he isdead. On
the English coast there was a wild storm,
and a wreck in the offing, and the cry was:
"Man the liicboat!"'
But Harry, the usual leader of the sailor's
crew, w as not to be found, and they went
w ithout him, and brought back all the ship
wrecked people but one. By this time,
Harry, the leader of the crew, appeared and
said:
"Why did you leave that one?" The an
swer was:
"He could not help himself at all, and we
could not get him into the boat."
"Man the lifeboat!" shouted Harry,
"and we will go for that one."
"No," said his aged mother, standing by,
"you must not go. I lost your father in a
storm like this, and vour brother Will went
oif six years ago." bis reply was:
"Mother, I must go and save that one
man, and if I am lost, God will take care of
you in your old days."
The lifeboat put out, and after an awful
struggle with the sea, they picked the poor
fellow out of the rigging just in time to
save his life, and started for the shore.
And as they came within speaking dis
tance, Harry cried out:
"We saved him, and tell mother it was
brother WilL"
Oh, yes, my friends, let us start out to
save some one for time and for eternity,
some man, some woman, some child. And
who knows but it may, directly or indirect
ly, be the salvation! of one of our own
kindred.
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL.
fiaum Likely to Soon Leave the Pen
sion Office for Good.
MILLS SAYS HE WILL BE SPEAKER.
Some of the Real Estate Schemes Based on
a Rational Park.
TIIE COECOKAN GALLERYS EURCHASE
frnOM A STAFF COBRESrOSOEKT.
. Washington, Aug. 21. I am assured
by one who ought to know that Commis
sioner Raum will pass out from the Bureau
of Pensions with the advent of the autumn
frosts; that he is only waitinc to complete
business arrangements that will enable him
to resign without serious lapse of income.
Whether he is to devote himself to his
precious refrigerator which seems to have
been the cause ofmostofhis misery, I am
not informed.
Shrewd inventors and men versed in the
value of patents say there is nothing in the
refrigerator that the cold manufactured by
it cost more than would the quantity of ice
necessary to produce an equal degree of
temperature. However that may be the
machine has narrowly escaped being the
ruin of more than one person who has been
caught in its complicated meshes.
A CORCORAN PUECHASE.
At last the Corcoran Gallery of Art has
purchased a landscape by George Inness.
This institution has been strangely back
ward in its patronage of American artists,
except those of the old and now obsolete
school. Recently the trustees purchased a
large canvas with sheep and shepherdess by
a young American artist in Paris, named
Truesdell, who is merely spoken of as a
"coming man," but whose place in art is
not by any means assured; and now they
have bought an Inness.
It would seem that Inness ought to have
preceded Trnesdell, as he is conceded by
artists to be at the head of the modernland
scapc school in this country. The picture
purchased the other day is a canvas of com
mendable gallery size, and 'represents a
forest interior, with sharp glints of sunshine
cutting through the deep shadows, the grand
aim being the imitation of the reflection of
dazzling sunshine from the trunk f a beech
in the foreground, while this glaring effect
is somewhat counteracted by a vista at the
end of which there is a mellow sheen. A
composition that would be otherwise digni
fied is made trivial if not repulsive by the
mere technical trick of reproducing a spot
of sunlight, apparently regardless of color
harmony.
The general tone is brown and dingv, and
the glaring lights do not assimilate them
selves to it at all. It is a picture much be
neath the reputation of the artist, and the
gallery trustees should not have lent them
selves as a whole to the idea of some of
their number that purchases should be
made only of pictures that may catch the
lopnlar eye, or of pictures by artists who
lave had a great name manufactured for
them mostly by the dealers.
A LITTLE ART CRITICSM.
The Lafayette Monument makes quite a
noticeable pile at one corner of the delight
ful little park variously known as "Jackson
Square" and Lafayette" Square." It would
be very gratifying, however, to those who
have some comprehension of form and pro
portion, if some enthusiastic Fourth of July
cherub would place a giant cracker on the
spot of the pedestal where two alleged
"Children of Liberty" are comfortably
seated. These twin children look like idiots
with astoundingly abnormal development
of their heads. In all the grotesque piles
of this and other countries I have not else
where seen anything quite so bad as this
feature. It is'well for the artists tliat they
are citizens of France. To mob or lynch
them would result in a disagreeable diplo
matic complication. I would not like to be
an American and the author of this vile
composition. But we are used to much
that is execrable in tne name of art, and
possibly the thing may be endured.
I wonder if the time will ever come when
an artist of reputation will be called upon
to decorate the White House and other pub
lic buildings. Hithertothe ornamentation
of the White House has been in accordance
with the ideas of the mistress of the man
sion, or of the master, in the absence of a
mistress, and these have known nothing
of real art, and have usually been content
with the taste of the paperhangcr.
one 'monument.
It is true, President Arthur called upon
Tiffany to redecorate, but the most con
spicuous of his works is the stained glass
partition which cuts off a corridor irom
what used to be the main entrance hall, and
which is about the most repulsive invention
that could be fancied. This stands as a
monument of Tiffany. Most of his other
decorations have appeared under the con
flicting taste of subsequent masters, mis
tresses and paperhangers, and so the torture
of decorative art goes on. Under the tuition
of indifferent artists Mrs. Harrison is
enabled to do indifferent water colors and
china decoration, and therefore she is an
"artist," and is devoting personal genius to
the rcdecoration this year of the Executive
Mansion, not reflecting, perhaps, that it
will be her home, for which you and I are
paying the rent and expenses, for only a lit
tle" more thau a year more, when another
will ruthlessiy tear away the bad form and
coloring of her devices, possibly to supplant
them with worse. It is to be hoped that her
successor will have no alleged ideas in re
gard to art, and that Congress can be in
duced, when making an appropriation for
contingent expenses, to insert the stipula
tion that an artist of worldwide reputation
shall come and uproot tho vandalism that
has made this property of the people an
abiding place for the grotesque faucics of
the egotistical ignorant tenants, without
grant or hindrance on the part of the real
owners.
a chat wrrn 3iills.
Roger Quarlcs Mills is in town, and tells
me that he will be the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives. That he may is
the fervent hope of every Republican with
whom I have conversed. With Mills in the
chair Kaed's opportunity will come to pun
ish his enemies and brutal assailants of the
last Congress, and he is quite capable of
putting them to the most delightful and
commendable torture. Mills is pleasant
enough, usually, but when his temper is
aroused it is almost ungovernable. He can
be depended on to make an exhibition of
his fury at least once every day during the
term; and his fury is of the kind that breaks
forth in expletives that are as unparlia
mentary as anything that could be im
agined. Mr. Paul Wolff, one of the handsomest
and most picturesque of the gentlemen of
the "Row," who has been for years the cor
respondent of that wealthy and influential
journal, the Xea Yorker btaats Zedimg, is
about to divorce himself from us to take
the chief editorship of that other wealthy
and influential journal, the Illinois Staats
ZcUitng, of which Mr. A. C. Hesing, the
great German politician of Chicogo, is pro
prietor. To be so summoned is a high com
pliment to Wolff, as the late editor, whose
death is lamented deeply, was one of the
most brilliant German journalists known to
this country. It was at his dying request, I
am informed, that Hesing sent for Wolff, to
take charge of the paper. Years ago when
Paul was a youth in the business, he wrote
"editorials for a German paper and got
into a grand passage-at-arms with the great
editor of the Chicago thunderbolt. Wolff
so fairly beat hisTival, who was supposed to
be invincible with the pen, that the latter
always took an interest in him, and finally
on his death-bed suggested him as his most
worthy successor.
BATHER ALIVEIiT WEEK.
For a midsummer season we have been
decidedly alive during the past week, and
we have been aSorded new proof that we are
fast becoming the great and only city for
those annual conclaves of all sorts of organi
zations which in former years were wont to
distribute the favor of their presence in
every part of the country. This week we
have had the Old Telegraphers, the Society
for the Advancement of Science, a great
rowing regatta, besides the usual influx of
visitors by "excursion," which gives one
the chance to study the provincial action
and accent peculiar to all the back counties,
as well as the front counties of the repub
lic. The regatta brought in a large number
of oarsmen and other sports, who. I suppose,
imagine thev are doing as much for their
country as the scientists.
The Old Telegraphers talked over the
days ante-dating the almost inconceivable
advance in the application of electrioity to
the uses of mankind, while the scientists
conversed of mysteries which suggest the
early discovery of the very elementary
forces which produce form and promise a
solution shortly of all the hidden things
which touch upon life, and death, and eter
nity of matter, whether that matter retain
the personality it now possesses or passee
through changes that would make it unrec
ognizable even to ourselves, it we could see
it with the eyes of the present.
Last week "we had the Society of Micro
scopists, which showed us that we are
principally made of myriads of little ani
mals that "make their home with us, and
which long ago settled in their own conven
tions that we are created for their sole use,
which discard us when we begin to grow old
and tough; and when they begin to shake
us wc soon drop into that irritating disin
tegration called death. The microscopists
tell us what we arc, the advancing scientists
tell us w hat we may or may .not be. The
weight of opinion seems to be that we as a
personality will not be at all, after we and
our particular billionsofmicrobestake leave
of each other.
NO KEMEDY FOR THAT.
One strange thing is that none of the
learned scientists who come here appear to
have a remedy for the poverty ana crime
that form so large a part of our civilization.
Economists who have settled with us know
a little of everything except of real soc'al
economy. They study the planets and the
suns and the eomets and the nebula; and
the meteorites, give bijj names to things
and conditions, go deep into the mysteries
of physiology,p3ychology,psychometry,tele
pathy, and so on, but they can't devise a
simple plan by which all men and women
might earn a comfortable livelihood, in
which woman would not be the sport of
man and in which men would not be the
slaves of their fellow-men.
A GOVERNMENT PAKE.
We are just now having a long and ab
sorbing fight in the courts over the acquisi
tion by the Government of land for the Rock
Creek National Park. Beginning at Wood
ley lane, just above Georgetown, the Gov
ernment has already purcnased about zoo
acres for a zoological garden. They are will
ing to provide a beautiful home for the mon
keys, bears, hyenas, kangaroos and other
quadrupeds, to be maintained at great ex
pense, but not one dollar can be voted to es
tablish what would soonjiecome a self-supporting
home for 50,000 biped animals of
the District who are living from hand to
mouth, and who are a blight and burden to
the community.
North of this land the project is to pur
chase about 2,000 acres more for a national
park, to be retained for the growing popula
tion of the capital forever. Bock creek is a
nasty little dickens of a stream that brings
down tons of mud and acres of debris with
every freshet, and has nothing in the world
to commend it except a few insignificent
rocks which crop out in one or two places
within the territory which it is proposed to
acquire.
In time of flood half of the land included
will be under water unless a great wall is
built to inclose it, and then for two-thirds
of the year the stream will be yeasty with
mud. The scheme is largely due to the in
fluence of speculators in real estate, and
just here comes in the basis of the fun they
are now having in the courts.
THE ASSESSED VALUE.
Five or six years ago the land wanted was
a wild tract, useless for cultivation, and
largely useless for building purposes with
out enormous expenditure for grading. It
is not in the line of the development of the
fashionable "northwest" section. The ten
dency of capital shoots widely away from it.
But it was for the most part'gobbied up by
speculators at low prices, and much of it is
assessed at from ?25 to 5150 per acre, though
it is the law of the District that assessments
shall be at the full value of the property.
Sales were few and at an insignificant ad
vance on the prices paid. But behold, the
moment the bill for the construction of the
park was passed the property w as put up to
a nign ngure, oiten ten times tne amount
paid and in instances even 20 times.
With the park project in view fictitious
offers of purchase were made, and these are
now being used in the fight for high prices.
The owners are combined and are standing
bravely together to make the Government
pay from five to ten times more than the
property is worth, and the prospects are
that if the land is acquired at all the peo
ple will be swindled out of a million or so.
But it is possible the speculators have
overreached themselves. Alreadv there is
a general inquiry why, if this land is so val
uable, the assessment" should be so out of
proportion to the value. The speculators
sweaFthat land which is assessed at ?25 per
acre is worth $1,000 or 2,000, and the com
mon taxpayers are demanding that if this
is the case the land shall be properly rated
at the new assessment which will soon be
made. This is a specimen of the manner in
which the wealthy and influential men of
the District saddle their taxes on the poorer
people. Tlie property of the '"middle
class" single householders in the city is as
sessed at its full value, and often for more
than it would bring in the market, while
that of the speculators and of persons whose
single holdings are worth a large sum is put
down far below its selling value.
E. W. L.
DBIFTING FH0M THE OLD PASTIES.
The Third Party Has a Majority of Friends
in the Texas Alliance.
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 23. The Farmers'
State Alliance, which has been in session
here for nearly a week, finally adjourned
to-night. Aside from adopting the Ocala
platform and reaffirming the sub-treasury
scheme, it took no other step in a political
way.
But in canvassing the delegates, the third
Darty was found to have more friends than
enemies. It is useless to deny that the
tendency of the Alliance is to drift away
from the Republican and Democratic par
ties. SEKAT0E WALTHALL POPULAR
Although He Decline to Succeed Himself
Ills Tarty Is for Him.
Jackson, Miss., Aug. 23. Senator Wal
thall, who has been quite unwell for sev
eral weeks, is said to be rapidly regaining
his health and strength. Although he de
clined to be a candidate to succeed himself
in the United States Senate, the Democratic
primary elections and conventions held in
various counties to date show him to have
been overwhelming indorsed for re-election.
Children Enjoy
The pleasant flavor, gentlo action and
soothing ettects of Syrup of Tigs, when in
need ot a laxative and if the father or
mother bo costive or bilious the most grati
fying results follow its use, so that it is the
best family remedy known and every family
should have a bottle.
Shortsighted
To leave stocks, bonds and valuables in
safes accessible to others when you can for
a small sum have your own private box in
the safe-deposit vaults of the Fanners' De
posit National Bank, 66 Fourth avenue.
Administrators, executors, guardians and
others will find it to their advantage to
look into this. Jiwp
You can easily get a situation by adver
tising in the want columns of The Dis
patch. One cent a word is all it costs.
FAMOUS BLIND MEN.
The Loss of Sight is Not Always a
Bar to Success in Life.
SOME NAMES FKOJI A LONG LIST.
Scholars, Anthors, Philosophers and Travel
ers Among Them.
THE STORT OP A BLIND ROAD BUILDER
So much interest has been manifested by
the public in the education of the little
blind deaf mutes, Helen Kcllar, Edith
Thomas and Willie Itobin, that one is apt
to forget that there have been many cases
on record almost as wonderful as these re
cent ones. A few of the most interesting
cases may be of interest as showing how
thoroughly the mind can triumph over the
obstacles of its environment. It has often
seemed as if nature, to compensate for the
lack of sight, has given to the afflicted per
son an extraordinary Keenness in the use of
other faculties.
From the beginning of history there have
been blind poets, musicians, rulers and
statesmen. The majestic measures of the
sightless Homer, "the blind old poet of
Scio's rocky isle," the fiery and impas
sioned stanzas of Ossian and the high and
heroic epics of Milton will ever appeal to
the heart which echoes responsive to the
emotions of hope and love and courage.
NO DRAWBACK TO LEARNING.
In the walks of learning blindness has
seemed to prove no drawback. Diodotus,
the Stoic (100 B. C.), "guide, philosopher
and friend" of Cicero, was a famous teacher
of geometry. The famous Didymus (A. D.
31JW198) filled for many years the chair of
theology in the school of divinity at Alex
andria and was the author of a multitude of
valuable works on history and theology. It
is said that St. Anthony, the hermit, was
filled with astonishment that so profound a
scholar should regret the lack of a sense
"which we possess only in common with
gnats and ants."
James Shegkins, who died in the latter
part of the sixteenth century, taught physics
and philosophy at Tubingen for nearly a
score of years, and left many works on tiif
ferent branches of science. The ascetic St.
Simon would have pronounced him a man
after his own heart, since he steadfastly re
fused to have an operation performed, al
though assured of its success, since he "did
not wish to be compelled to see things
which might appear offensive or ridicu
lous." A book entitled "An Historical and Geo
graphical Account of Itiver Amazons" con
tains a faithful chart, which is remarkable
from the fact that its designer, who was the
author of the book as well, Field Marshal
Count de Hagen, was totally blind when
the book was written.
A GREAT MATHEMATICIAN.
The great mathematician, Euler (1707
1783), lost his sight when past 60 years of
age, but after this misfortune wrote works
which have been translated into almost
every civilized language; he was elected
honorary member of the Academy of
Science of Paris and received various prizes
from scientific bodies, among them one for
an essay on the inequalities of planetal
motion. Among other noted blind scholars
Was John Gough (174D-1825), the celebrated
botanist, mathematician and philosopher.
It is said that near the close of his life a
rare plant was given him for examination,
when he at once gave its name, stating that
he had met it only once before, o0 years
previously.
Dr. Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739), the
friend of Sir Isaac Newton, and his suc
cessor as Lucas Proiessor of Mathematics in
Cambridge University, was totally blind;
yet he became a member of the Koyal
Society, was made doctor of laws at the re
quest of King George IL, and wrote many
valuable mathematical works.
Dr. Henry Moyes (1750-1807), the cele
brated lecturer on optics, was himself blind
from infancy; but on one occasion he was
overturned in a stagecoach on a dark and
stormy night,and the driver and passengers,
with their full complement of eyes, had to
ask his assistance, and under his direction
the coach and horses were extricated from
the ditch. Dr. Davidson, the inventor of
the apparatus for removing firedamp from
mines, was a celebrated chemist, and, de
spite his blindness, carried out most com
plicated experiments, to the amazement of
all who saw him. He had previously fitted
himself for the ministry, but the judges de
cided that his misfortune prevented him
from undertaking clerical duties. The
question micht well be put as to which were
the really blind ones.
A CLASSICAL TEACHER.
Dr. Nelson, of Butgers College, in spite
of total blindness, was a most successful
classical teacher. Artman relates that on
one occasion, while he was a student, a dis
pute arose between Mr. Nelson and the
professor as to the construction of a cer
tain sentence, when the professor ex
claimed: "You must confess, sir, that the
comma shows conclusively that my view is
correct"
Slightly coloring and turning his sight
less eyeballs toward the book which he
mechanically held in his hand, young Nel
son replied: "I beg to inform you, sir, that
in my Heine's edition it is a colon."
Soon after Mr. Nelson started a classical
school, which soon became the best patron
ized in the country, and, as Dr. Griffin says,
"he succeeded in nlacine classical education
on higher ground than any of his prede
cessors or coteniporaries had done, and felt
proud to think that he was, in some meas
ure, a benefactor to that colleg which a few
years before he had entered in poverty and
quitted in blindness."
In the realms of natural history one would
hardly expect to find the blind eminent, yet
Francis Hyber, a Swiss (1760-1831), was one
of the greatest authorities on beekeeping.
He conducted investigations for many years,
aided by his wife, and published several
valuable works on the subject of the origin
nnd formation of wax, the swarming of
bees, which won for him recognition Irom
the foremost scientific societies of Europe.
A VOLTTJIE OF TRAVEL.
A volume of travels by a blind man, de
scriptive of people and scenery, would seem
.to be almost incredible, yet James Holmau,
ex-Lieutenant of the lloyal English Navy,
was the author of such a book, published in
182.'., describing his tnrvels through Aus
tria, Poland, Saxony, Prussia, Hanover,
liussia and Siberia. Nor was this the limit
of his travels, since at various times he vis
ited most of the other countries of Europe,
as well as the East Indies and the Ameri
can continent. Nearly the whole civilized
world was traversed by Jhis indefatigable
blind voyager, who added to his enterprise
the ability to describe in glowing and culti
vated words the wonders he had "seen."
One might dwell much longer upon the
subject without exhausting the facts which
are recorded about the blind who have
shown literary or scientific activity. The
lijt of authors, poets, clergymen, teachers,
and even doctors nnd lawyers is one of sur
prising magnitude.
In mechanical and industrial pursuits
some of the most painstaking work has been
accomplished by the blind. Encouraged by
the success of blind pianists and musicians,
the typewriter is already coming into ex
tensive use among the blind, and blind
seamstresses, embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.,
are not rarities.
UN LOOKED TOR OCCUPATION.
There are other vocations in which those
deprived of sight have equalled or excelled
their more fortunate competitors, in which
one would hardly lookforsuch competition.
William Kennedy, a native of Ireland, was
one of the most celebrated clock makers of
his time, and supported a large family by
his skill in this direction, and in the mak.ng
and repairing of musical instruments, cabi
net and loom building, etc.
John Huntley, an Englishman, at about
the same time, was almost equally famous
for his skill in the making and repairing of
watches and clocks, and was often success
ful where his seeing rivals failed. Among
others equally skillful in their respective
lines were David Mapes, the wagonmaker,
of Angelica, N. Y.j Stephen Bagero, the
carpenter and builder, of Steabenville;
Thom Wilson, of Dumfries, Scotland, the
woodturner; Joseph Strong, the organ
builder; Nathan Price, the bookbinder, and
Giovanni Gambasio, the sculptor.
The pathetic story of the blind King of
Bohemia, who fell in the battle of Crecy, is
more than rivalled by the illustrious Troc
snow, better. known as Zisca, the great
Bohemian patriot and reformer. Early in
his military career he lost an eye, and at
the siege of Buby an arrow destroyed the
other. Undaunted by this misfortune, he
rose from his bed of suffering and again led
his armies to victory.
After many campaigns his forces com
pelled the Emperor Sigismund to grant all
their demands, and peace was proclaimed.
A grateful people sought to place him on
the throne, but he had no ambition, save to
serve his country, and advised the formation
of a republic.
A BLIND SAILOR.
It is natural to think of the sailor in con
nection with the soldier, and, marvelous
though it may seem, in William Talbot of
Tipperary, bom about 1780, is an instance
of a blind sailor. For four years Talbot
followed the sea, going aloft in any weather
without fear.
Among all of those whose mind and cour
age have raised them beyond the depriva
tion of sight, however, the qame of John
Metcalf must always be pre-eminent. When
a boy he joined his comrades in their sports,
apparently regardless of his lack of sight.
A fearless climber, he excelled in the rob
bing of birds' nests and fruit trees, and
played hare and hounds with a skill equal
to any of his playmates.
He was an excellent horseman, and as a
young man excelled in hunting, racing and
cock fighting. He became a thorough mu
sician, early supporting himself by his skill
in that direction, and later enlisting as a
musician in the armv. He established a
stage line between New York and Kanes
boro, and drove the stage himself.
At one time he was engagsd in smuggling,
and at another acted as a guide for travelers
at night or when the roads were covered
with snow. On a wager he rode three times
round a circle drawn on Forest Moor with
out deviating from the course, against a
skilled horseman, and won the race. He
was fond of riding to hounds, and seldom
failed to be "in at the death."
HERO OF AN ELOPEMENT.
He was tall and strong, handsome and
merry, and it is not surprising that he was
a favorite with the ladies, which is shown
by the fact that he eloped with and
married the belle of the county on the day
she was to be married to a wealthy land
owner. The most remarkable part of his history,
however, is the occupation he finally chose,
which was no other than the surveying and
building of highways and bridges. In this
work no natural obstacle could daunt him,
and the skill with which he would alone go
over the proposed course with his stout
stick, ascending mountains, fording
streams, penetrating almost inaccessible
fastnesses, determining the nature of the
soil and the requirements of the work, was
only less marvelous than the engineering
skill with which he laid his plans, and car
ried them out. To this day none of his
successors have bean able to improve upon
the work of John Metcalf, the blind road
builder. GOV. BOLES 01T PROHIBITION.
Ho Opens the Iowa Campaign for the
Democrats at Cherokee.
Cherokee, Ia., Aug. 23. This was
Dcmocratio day in Cherokee. Governor
Boies was the principal speaker. The
prohibition law, the Governor declared, had
proved a failure, and he cited the fact that
4,095 persons in the State, or an average of
more than 41 in each county, hold Federal
licenses for the sale of liquors, to say noth
ing of bootleggers and joints in counties
where no open saloons exist, Continuing,
he said:
The simple trnth is that tho penalties
which this law Inflicts ro in many in
stances hideously cruel, and their con
sequences to entirely innocent oartlos
are so serious that no " man
possessed of a human heart can
turn a deaf ear to the appeals that are con
stantly being mado to the Governor for re
llof. I do not underestimate the evils
of intemperance, yet I don't hesi
tate to declare that the enforce
ment nf this law, as lar as it has been en
forced in this State since its passage, has
pauperized more families and inflicted
greater suffering on wholly innocent parties
than all the intemperance that would have
existedin the State if the salo of alcoholic
liquors had been absolutely unrestricted
during that time.
A BIO CLUB SCANDAL.
The Pacific Union Gets llllarions the Night
of a Member's Funeral.
tSPECIAI. TELEQItAM TO THE DISPATCH.
San Francisco, Aug. 23. The Pacific
Union Club, an aristocratic organization
and one of the leading clubs of the West,
has set the town to thinking. Judge Ogden
noffman, of the United States Court, who
died last week, was one of the oldest club
members, and resided at the clubhouse. The
annual dinner of the club was postponed on
account of Judge Hoffman's illness and
death. Notwithstanding this, Mr. E. J.
Pillsbury gave an elaborate dinner party in
the clubrooms on the night of Judge Hoff
man's funeral, in honor of Justice Stephen
J. Field, of the United States Supreme
Court
It was a hilarious dinner, with plenty of
wine and song. Among those who clinked
their glasses in the clubroom were Senator
Fair, General Dimond, M. H. De Young,
Congressman Morrow and others. There
were 11 courses at diuner, and the story
teller kept up the fun until daylight. Great
indignation is expressed among club men
at the bad taste they believe Mr. Pillsbury
and the Chief Justice to have shown.
THE SOCIALISTS ADJ0TON.
An American Dolega o Proposes an Inter
national Federation of Bakers.
Brussels, Aug. 23. To-day was the
closing day of the International Socialist
WorKinen's Congress. During the day Mr.
Banial, of New York, spoke In favor of a
meeting of delegates representing the
bakers of the world at Hamburg or Frank
fort, to organize an international federation.
The congress to-day adopted a resolution
declaring the absolute equality of the sexes
and demanding the repeal of all special
legislation for women as an article of the
socialist creed.
At the afternoon session, it was decided
that the May Day eight-hour demonstration
be held as before, the amendment of French
delegates proposing a simultaneous "glorifi
cation ol peace" demonstration being re
jected. FOB SLEEPLESSNESS
Use Horsford's Acid l'hkphate.
Dr. C. Ii. Dake, BelleviIIe.Ill., says: "I
have found it, and It alone, to be capable of
producing a sweet and natural sleep In cases
or insomnia from overwork of tho brain,
which so often occurs in active professional
and business men."
THE GEM OF THE MONONGAHELA.
Free Trains Every Day to tho New Town
of Blaine,
Departing from and arriving at the passen
ger deprot of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Railroad, end of Smithtield steeet bridge as
follows (city time): Depart 7:45 a. m., ar
rive 2:20 T. 31.; depart 12:05 p. ar., arrive
5:05 P. M. Also Saturday evening train
leaving at 5 o'clock, visitors' returning to
the Union depot at 10:35 p. M. via the Pitts
burg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad.
No Sunday free transportation. Call at our
office for tickets to the new town and get
maps, price lists, etc. before starting.
CH AISLES SOMEES & CO.,
129 Fourth avenue.
Veby desirable help can be obtained by
placing a cent a word advertisement in The
Dispatch.
ISSUES IN KANSAS.
The Farmers' Alliance Not Monopo
lizing All Attention Now.
OLD QUESTIONS TO THE FRONT.
Views on Prohibition and the Policy of the
Republican Party.
BOTH ORGANIZATIONS AKB DIVIDED
rSrECIAL TELEORAM TO THE DISP ITCH.
TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 23. For a brief
period the people of Kansas have ceased
talking about the Farmers' Alliance and
People's party and turned to discussing the
prohibition question and the future course
of the Eepublican party. All this agita
tion comes from the publication of a letter
recently written by Secretary of State
William Higgins to Eev. D. C. Milner. a
prominent Minister of the Presbyterian
Church.
Higgins declared that the continual agita
tion of the prohibition question by the
Eepublican party did not strengthen the
law, but caused members of other political
parties to antagonize it and wink at its
violation. Prohibition has been the para
mount issue of the Eepublican party for
the last 10 years, and at every election they
went before the people vith a strong prohi
bition plank in their pUtform. Mr. Hig
gins contends that it is because of this fact
that the Democratic party has continually
fought prohibition and made its campaigns
on that line.and that it was the opposite and
radical positions of the two old parties that
caused the People's party to ignore the
question in its platform last year.
DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE.
The Bepublicans are divided on this issue,
and quite a respectable minority indorses
Mr. Higgins' position. Probably the strong
est argument in fnvor of removing prohibi
tion from politics comes from Sol Miller,
editor of the Kansas Chief. He has pub
lished the paper 34 years, and has been a
supporter of the Republican ticket, no mat
ter what the platform covered. He indorses
the Higgins letter, and in an editorial says:
"Many of us think that it is time the
law was now treated as other laws in the
statute book. It should stand upon its own
merits, and not as i political issue. When
ever it is taken out of politics it will be en
forced as other laws; as long as it remains in
politics, one political party will be arrayed
in opposition to it, and pledged to break it
down. What is the sense of one party still
continuing to make it a plank in their plat
form any more than any other law that is in
force?
"There are thousands of Prohibition Dem
ocrats; but as the case now stands, there is
not a Democratic voice heard demanding
the enforcement of the prohibitory law,
simply because in so doing they would be
favoring a Eepublican issue and a plank in
the Eepublican platform. The man or men
who oDJect to leaving the enforcement of
the law to the people and dropping it as a
party question, are either afraid to trust
their cause with the people or are small
demagogues trying to foice a measure upon
an unwilling people by tacking it onto the
platform of a dominant party. If prohibi
tion is not yet old enough to be weaned and
walk alone, it never will be.
SURE TO BE A PAP.TIAL FAILURE.
"As a political question, prohibition will
always be a partial failure. We know men,
original prohibitionists, not lately converts,
who, wearied with the difficulties and an
noyances attendant upon enforcing the law,
even in temperance committees, have ex
Dressed the opinion that a license svstem
would be preferable to the present law. If
original prohibitionists are driven to con
template the license as a relief, many who
are not original prohibitionists, but who
have come to accept the law in good faith,
maybe pardonedt for suggesting that the
question he taken out of politics, and an cx-
ficriment be made to enforce the law as a
aw. not as a political issue."
On the other hand there are thousands of
Bepublicans in the State who will not sub
scribe to the above. They claim that pro
hibition is a part of the Eepublican party
in Kansas and that the two can not be sev
ered without the destruction of both. The
Democratic party is unalterably opposed to
the principle of prohibition. The People's
party declines to take any position on the
question, hence it is agreed that the Eepub
lican party cannot ignore it.
A recent issue of the Emporia RepuHkan
probably covers this side of the case very
correctly and represents the views of a large
majority of Bepublicans in Kansas. It says:
"It might, indeed, be a desirable thing for
prohibition to be taken out of politics, for
the reason stated in the Higgins explana
tion. Those who assault the law are the
ones to do it. When they cease their at
tacks, then the question will naturally set
tle itself and cease to be an issue. As long
as there is an organized party making war
upon prohibition the Eepublican party can
do nothing less than continue to champion
it; to ignore the question while an opposi
tion party is making a fight upon it would
be a cowardly abandonment.
CANNOT TURN BACK.
"The Kennbliean party of Kansas must
continue to indorse prohibition until
other parties cease to denounce ana assail
it, then it can consistently and honorably
omit it from its platform and leave it to the
Jovalty ot the people to enlorce, as Mr.
Higgins suggests."
The agitation has stirred up a hornet s
nest, and the straight-out Prohibitionists
are getting to the front, preparatory to
beat back any invasion, as they term it,
from the enemies of the cause. The ultra
prohibition Bepublicans do not hesitate to
say that if the party should go back on
prohibition, a third Prohibition party
would rise up in Kansas and poll 60,000
votes, which would largely come from the
Republican party. On the other hand, the
Republicans who indorse Secretary Hig
gins' views believe they would gain more
than they would lose in dropping the mat
ter entirely.
What the Gennun Emperor Drinks.
The London World of July 15, 1891, has
this to say in regard to the State banquet at
Windsor, which was given in honor of the
German Emperor:
The State banquet at Windsor was ad
mirably served and the menu had wisely
been reduced to reasonable proportions.
His Majesty drank Rhine wine at dinner
and Apollinaris water, and afterward he
took a bumper of the Queen's famous Ma
deira, finishing up with a glass ot Tokay,
like his grandfather, the Prince Consort,
who always concluded his dinner with
Tokay, of which Her Majesty possesses a
unique cellar.
Shortsighted
To leave stocks, bonds and valuables in
safes accessible to others when yon can for
a small sum have your own private box in
the safe-deposit vaults of the Farmers De
posit National Bank, 66 Fourth avenue.
Administrators, executors, guardians and
others will find it to their advantage to
look into this. mvvp
Employers of labor always read The
Dispatch. That fact makes it the best
medium in which to advertise for a situa
tion. Only a cent a word now for such ad
vertisements. Their Customers Like Pilsner.
That's why so many saloons sell this cel
ebrated beer. Proprietors are quick to
know that which best suits their patrons.
Pilsner beer will do this Iron City Brew
ing Company. Telephone No. 118a
WHTnot make your wants known through
the cent a word columns-of The Dispatch?
It circulates everywhere.
The Henry Auction Co. have removed
to their new store, 21 and 26 Ninth street.
See ad.
Mrs. Mary Roberts' Notable Testimony.
PROOF UPON PROOF
Of the Superior Skill of the Physi
cians of the Electropathic Insti
tute at 507 Penn Avenu?.
"I was in a very serious condition when I
went to see the physicians of the Electro
pathic Institute at 507 Penn avenue," said.
Mrs. Roberts. I had had nervousprostration
and heart trouble for a long time. I had
been under the care of various physicians,
but none of them seemed to understand my
case, and I kept growing worse all the time.
Now all is changed, my trouble has entirely
disappeared, and I owe it to the treatment
received at the hands of these physicians."
The lady speaking was Mrs. Mary Rob
erts, of No. 2746 Oakley alley.
"As I-said," continued Mrs. Roberts, "I
had nervous prostration and symptoms of
apoplexy. Three of my brothers were para
lyzed, and I feared very much that I would .
b"e a victim of the same trouble. My heart
was very weak, and I was afraid of heart
failure. " I was sick all the time; never felt
what I could call real well. I had no appe
tite, and was so terribly nervous that 1 could,
not sleep. My whole system seemed to be
run down, and I lost in weight steadily. I
thought I never would get welL
"I was advised to go to the physicians of
the Electropathic Institute. I called on
them and placed myself under their'carei.
"The very first treatment gave me relief!
I continued to improve, and now all my
trouble has disappeared, and I am enjoying
the best of health. I will gladly recom
mend the physicians of the Electropathic
Institute, and feel sure that all who go to
them will obtain great benefit from their
treatment."
A BHAKEMAN'S STORY.
Sir. Thomas 3IcGrecvey, of Tort Perry,
Gives Some Interesting Evidence.
Mr. Thomas McGreevy, a well-known
railroad brakeman residing at Port Perry,
in speaking of his successiul treatment with,
the physicians of the Electropathic Insti
tute, said:
"I have had catarrh and catarrhal deaf
ness also. The discharges from my
ears were large and most distress
ing, and my ears presented a very unsightly
and unpleasant appearance. My head
ached nearly all of the time, the disease had
so afiected my stomach as to seri
ously impair my digestion, and
my nervous system was almost ruined. I
Thomtn ircGrcevey, Fort Perry, Pa.
almost despaired of ever being any better,
when my attention was attracted to the
Electropathic Institute of 507 Penn avenuc,
Pittsburg, and its method of treatment.
"I called on the physicians in charge and
they made an electrical diagnosis of my
case, discovered the true nature of the
dise.ise and pronounced it curable. The re
sultihas verified their verdict. I am cured.
My catarrh, my deafness and the discharges
from my ears are thoroughly cured. My
general health is better than it has been for
years, and mv exhausted nervons system,
has ben completely built up. I cannot too
highly recommend the physicians of th
Electropathic Institute tor their skill and
science, their perfect and varied electrio
appliances and their intelligent use of them,
as shovwi in my desperate case."
This young man is, as has been said, very
favorably known iu the village of Port
Perry, and his rapid and complete recovery
from an apparently incurable disease of
years standing has given great surprise as ,
well as much pleasure to his numerous
friends there.
A GKEAT SI'GER'S AUNT.
Remarbable Recovery of an Aped Beiatlvs
of the Great Evangelist, Ira Sankey, De
scribed uyllersplf.
"I suffered constant and unremittlngpalns
for years. Consulted and was treated by
different doctors, in vafn. Tried the elec
trical treatment us administered by tho
physicians of the Electropathic Institute,
507 Penn avenue, and, as a result, my tronblo
lias dist ppeared," said Mrs. M. A. Sankey,
nnnt of the great evangelist. Ira Sankey, ro
sidinjc at 115 Lacock street, Allegheny.
Ifrs. 21. A. Sanl.ey, 115 Lacoclc street, Allegheny.
"My tin oat was the part most affected. I
suffered terrible pains, both sharp and dull.
It felt as though a band of iron was tightly
bound aiound it. I could scarcely speak:
without the effort causing mo pain. To
swallow caused me great sutfennjr, and the
food I attempted to swallow would nearly
choke me. Tne act of chewing my food wa3
attended with almost unbearable puin.
"I hud some of the best physicians in tho
two cities attending me, yet they all were in
doubtx as to my true ailment. Theydla
everything in their power yet I steadily
grew worse and worse. Together with tha
abovo tronblo, I suffered greatly from neu
ralgic pains, supplemented by nervous pro"
tration, until I becamo so bad that I shared
the beliofofm' friends that! would never
retrain my health.
"I nt last decided to seek the assistance of
the nhvsicians of the Electropathic Institute -at
507 Penn avenue, to alleviate, if possible,
my sufferings.
"Their first treatment was followed, by
marked Improvement, and in a short time
mv pains, aches and ailments disappeared as
if by magic. Although 83 y ears old, 1 am en
Joying as good health to-day as ever before
in my life."
507 PENN AVE., PITTSBURG, PA.
(Do not mistake the number.)
The physicians in charge of this Instirats
are niaisfERED isd qualivikd physicians.
They receive and successfully treat all
patients suffering from chronic ailments:
aUCVOCS DldKASES, .BLOOD SI3U31S,
RUEUMATISX,
paralysis, neuralgia, scrofula and oatahsh,
and nil diseases of the Eye and Ear.
Operations in electrical surgery performed
by the consulting physicians of tho Institute. .
Varicocele, Hydrocele and Uemmorhoid
successfully treated.
Consultation and diagnosis free.
Ladies will nnd a trained female assistant
in cnargo of their special department
Office hanrst9 ju ji. to IS si 2 to S p. x, 7 to .
8.30 p. K. bunday: 10 a.m. tolr.it.
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