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of Garfield, a virtue which with him was
Bpt to be a weakness, that he kept his pa
tience with the scornful Senator.
CIIAEACTERS Or THE TWO MEX.
Hut the two men were so far apart. The
laughing, rollicking, sensitive, joyous Gar
field: eoniplaisant.self-indulgent, anxious to
see everyone about him so happy, to whom
politics was after all such againe; flexible,
impressionable, dramatic, willing to make
anv sacrifice for peace; and on the other
hand the Etern, imperious, dominant Sena
tor, to whom the slightest political-incident
had the gravity of the Magna Charta; aus
tere, reserved, an anchorite; never uncon
scious of his own personality, nor timid in
asserting it, of the wcrld, but above it; ex
acting, almost burdensome, in friendship,
implacable in enmity. Xo two men could
have been less in unison, nor cau I conceive
the possibility of a universe large- enough
to have permitted their existence together
in a stale of harmony or recognition.
And such a Cabinet. "When the Garfield
Cabinet came it vexed the Senator. And
among other acts of unspeakable folly, of
giving way to crude, interested advice; of
once more surrendering his own judgment,
which was never wrong.to the importunities
of those who were never right how could
he in a moment of unspeakable weakness
have done such a thing a to go to Mentor?
It was so sorely against his will, for had the
people not observed that Blaine did not go?
Think of that! How he raved over it.
Blaine not going to Mentor! "Wasthere not
enough in that to exasperate even the most
patient of men, let alone this suspicious,
irritated statesmen?
HIS OPIXIOJf OF TIIE CABrSXT.
And such a Cabinet! "A statesman yes,
heavilv plated, to look like silver! A poli
tician, but shirking his opinions when they
were worth anything! A name! A brother-in-law!
Some clerks! "Why did not the
Executive, after lie had agreed with himself
that he must endure his Secretary of State,
that he must even carry oa his back this old
man of the sea, send "for the Treasury Ap
pointment Clerk, and ask him todctail some
clerks from the upperdivisions of the Treas
ury to complete tlie Cabinet? It would
have been as useful and representative.
I remember this as a condensed summary
of Conkling's commentaries upon the Gar
field cabinet, intermingled with running
descriptive phrases, intensely amusing, but
not to be printed now. The incident shows
that when the Sck York noniinatipns were
made Mr. Conkling was in a state of unrest
toward the Administration, which might
Hash into any form of commotion. "When
the Xew York nominations came it was the
general desire, even among those who had
the fortunes of Mr. Conkling much at heart,
to regard them with indillercnce. My re
membrance is that Grant was of " this
mind. At least I inferred as much from a
letter Grant wrote to me from Galveston on
his way to Mexico, alluding to the nomina
tion of I'obertson to be Collector of the
Port, whicu showed thnt it was noi a kill
ing matter, and expressing the hope that
Garfield would soon be out of his patronage
troubles and sailing over smooth seas to a
successful admiuUtration.
Grant did not return from Mexico until
the battle was on, and then the instinct of
battle asserting itself his heart was in the
iight as he found it raging. But Conkling
must have immediate war had no patience
with any policy of !ilepce and indifference.
AN ADMINISTRATION'S HONEYMOON.
"You can never," as I ventured to say to
Conkling, 'you can never successfully
quarrel with an administration iu its honey
moon. The people will shrink. They arc
out of an election fight, why plunge "them
into patronage strife? Give them time to
breathe. In a few months the appointments
will be over and the outs in a mood for
criticism and controversy. You can dig up
ior improvise some twopence half penny
question which patriotism will no longer
endure. You will then fight w ith the hope
of a responsive public sentiment. Xow it is
patriotism wanting office then it will be
patriotism disappointed in office. Patriot
ism is now against you. Eemember
Douglas' war on Buchanan, his anti
Leeompton controversy. Douglas had a
frievance and iu that found his pretext.
Jemember how Sumner and Schurz opened
up on the French Arms sale against Grant.
It was their pretext. I believe in righteous
indignation, but there is a time for it to
speak and a time for silence. The time for
silence is in a honeymoon of the new ad
ministration." KODERTSON IN" Mr. CONVENTION.
I was furthermore strengthened in this
opinion from the story told General Grant
and myself, by the late-Mr. Chaffee, of Col
orado, that Mr. Kobertson had gone to the
conven;ion which nominated Garfield as an
original Garfield man, and that Blaine was
a nominal, no a real choice. It was the be
lief of Chaffee, and I know that he con
veyed it to Grant as a fact within his own
inowledge, that Kobertson, having de
spaired of driving the Blaine chariot over
the ficrv furnace of the Grant flames, had
evolved Garfieid a6 a possibility, had ap
proached Chaifeewith a request for aid.
Chaffee, however, was a Blaine enthusiast
and had no second choice. After Blaine
anyone would do, and he was without ani
mosities toward either Conkling or Grant.
"With liobertson, however, Conkling had
risen to the dignity of fanaticism. Robert
son opposed Grant, not because he disliked
the General or had the slightest doubt of his.
patriotism, but because Grant's re-election
meant his own political destruction in Xew
York, and with him that of Husted, De
peiv, Roberts, Drarts, Bliss, Choatc who
ever ventured to, breathe without looking
with the Islam eyes of prayer and adora
tion toward the Prophet of TJtica.
But liobertson meant Blaine, to the angry
eyes of Conkling. Never receptive in the
matter of advice, he didn't take mine,
thus cynically given, in good part. For,
said the prophet, "I do well to be angrv
even unto death." This was his mood.
His temper in those days was so volcanic
that I studied my peace of mind, and pre
served my admiration for Conkling, by
keeping away. I had no heart in his coun
cils, not much belief in the policy they in
spired. SENATOR CONKXING'S RESIGNATION.
Hi resignation from the Senate was
a surprise. I knew of it first in the pub
lic journals. It was splendid and conclu
sive. You must admire the scornful re
nunciation. Here was a man, who could
afford to do right no matter the sacrifice.
A sentiment of grumbling approval when
we m-aru tie naa resigned. Here, again,
was Coriolanus, the old Itoman once more,
like an eagle in a dove-cote fluttering the
"Volsces in Corioli. But when the news
came that after the drama of the renuncia
tion there was to be the melodrama of the
re-election it chilled! Coriolanus had be
come Buffalo Bill, and the finest political
incident in the drama of American politics
was to descend into a bar-room brawl, and
the pitiful wranglings of a legislative cau
cus at Albany.
And the friendships, the fair and noble
friendships, which in their fruitage and
their bloom had meant so much in the early
Conkling days, when this comelv young
statesman, this superb, brilliant, chivalrous
giant, came from proud, trusting Utica to
lead the partv in the spirit of the elder
days! Xo such avatar in New York politi
cal affairs since Hamilton vanished in a
pUtol flash, and Seward had sunk into the
Johnson maelstrom of self-abnegation and
ruin. Now at last, a man! And how they
came around Conkling, attracted by the
rays of his genius, and happy to rejoice in
the splendor of his fame.
STRONG 3IKN IX JUS FOLLOWING.
Piatt, from the inner counties, with his
wise, grave, intrepid character; a master of
the comities, courtesies, minute details of
the body politic; who knew that there was
no nerve so minute that it might not throb
with the jar of exquisite pain; a man who
forgot nothing aud who was resolute in
the integrity of every political obliga
tion; Andrew D. AVlfite, the President
of Cornell, who held in the poll
York a position like -that I
in Massachusetts -scholar. I
lies oi jew
if Klimiiar ,n trn.pnnlineaa BAnnTn.
philanthropist, student, diplomatist and
htatesman; honored by Grant, who had him
iu reserve as Premier in his Cabinet should
Governor Pish, as he at times ieared, follow
lhebent of his craving for private "life;
unsworn, ot iroy, lamousin early war days,
who came with h'is Democracy to the Union
, jt . .
cause and laid his fortunes on its altar.
Alonzo Cornell, the heir to a great name,
near to Conkling, whom he lollowed"with a
fidelity that should have outridden the
storm of any political misunderstanding;
Woodford, from Kings, soldier and orator,
with the finish of Chesterfield united to a
kind and winning nature. a These and other
names come to me as I write, and even as I
might write for many a column. They gath
ered about Conkling. They made him Sen
ator, leader. They would "have made,hjn
President of the United States.
Yet the storm was to come in its fury, to
rend them all, and to rend none that meant
so much as the ties which bound the for
tunes of Conkling and Arthur. The aliena
tion from Arthur was an especial grief to
those who knew the men. j was happily
nbsent from the United States at the time,
and never heard of it except as rumor. Of
Arthur I may not write at this time, al
though I should ever welcome the opportu
nity of bearing my poor tribute to his name.
Wc shall know him some day as he was,
the
FIRST GENTLEMAN OF HIS TIME.
"Wc shall know that blending of chivalry,
humanity, knowledge and courage, which
never came into your life without increas
ing admiration tor his character, we snail
know that fine courtesy which never waited
when it could anticipate; ever gentle to
women, to children, to the humblest sup
plication. Wc shill know that devoted
heart, its love for those to whom his love
was a heritage and a benediction, and how
the sorrow that fell as a thunderbolt from
an all too radiant summer sky upon the
gentlest and most gracious of homes,
brought a grief that never found,
consolation. "Ve shall know that when
the bullet of the assassin crashed into the
joyous life of an eager, bounding, unsus
pecting President, on the holiday wing to
fields and stream, it carried agony unspeak
able to the lolty spirited gentleman who
would gladly have given his own life to
have warded" the impious doom. We shall
know his steady devotion to duty; how he
arose to every requirement of the Presi
dency: how the courage of the political
leader guarded and governed the conscience
of the Chief Magistrate) how he was every
hour, every moment the President. "We
shall know that under him the civil service
found its truest exemplification and that no
tempting of political ambition could answer
even with a finger touch the resentment of
officials who, like Collector Robertson, used
their patronage to his pol'tical overthrow.
We shill know the conservative patience
with which he met the pathetic problems im
posed by the nation's grief over his prede
cessor's'fate. We shall know with what a
self denial of personal ambition, political
resentment or revenge, he overcame
the distrust of the country, elimi
nated th: apprehensions of those even -of
his own party who saw in his advent so
many misfortunes how he inspired the con-
hdence w hici averted a disastrous business
panio. We shall know the wide and in
telligrnt scholarship, the knowledge of
books as well as of men, which made him
the most valuable as he was the most agree
able of companions. We shall know the
genius, the tact, the superb, patriotic com
dod sense which made his term of office the
most tranquil of administrations.
WHAT KILLED CHESTEE A. ARTHUR.
We shall know the many disappointments
which came with the relusal by his party of
the renomination which he had won by
his magnanimity and justice; how it sunk
into his heart, and as those nearest to him
have told me prematurely bore him into the
grave. We shall know, when the time and
istory and the just judgment of his fellow
citizens have spoKen, that there was a man
who deserved well of his country and man
kind, and that Chester A. Arth'ur should
have gratclul remembrance among the
worthiest of our Presidents, even as the
successor of Garfield, Jefferson and Adams.
I left the United States for China in the
early months of 1881!. and veais were to
pass before I was to see Conkling. I left
him in the unhappy tumult of the Garfield
war, the strong man raging from one side
to the other in the arena; breathing defi
ance, anger, death. When I returned hij
nianner had changed. Timj was telling on
him. He had plunged into severe intel
lectual labcr, and for the first time in his
life was earning a large income. And
money meant such an atmosphere of inde
pendence to this proud, strenuous man.
Party fee'ing was turning toward him. His
countrymen seemed to be growing fond of
him. His vanities, his faults, his whims
and mannerisms, were after al1 were they
not eX.ress'.ons of virtues not too often
seen in American public life; th faults of a
superb, high principled, rarely gifted
leader? There were Republicans who re
called the early days of their ascendancy,
and who had grown weary of government
by mobs of drunken adventurers; weary of
the buying and selling of nominations, and
who turned toward the man who was ever
too stately to bend to an ignoble expedient
BELIEVED IX CONKXING'S FUTURE.
Time served to bring recognition, and in
a measure vindication, and he had only, so
his friends believed, to wait until his party
returned to him returned bringing honors
which he had won by his genius and lost by
his integrity. I fancy Conkling was com
ing into sympathy with the mood about
him that he felt it; that he once more
could throw open the morning window and
feel that there might be airs from heaven
and not inevitably blasts from hell.
"What, paint my picture!" as he said to
Carpenter, the artist, on one of those sad,
Garfield days. "What paint my picture?
Who can conceive of such a thing! I would
that every vestige of me were banished
irom the earth that my -very name might
pass from men."
The tempest-tossed, tumultuous soul I
When I returned, this mood, which I had
so often seen, had passed away. There were
sunny days; no allusions to the angry past;
a deep interest in politic, in the detail of
events, the movement and drift of political
action. The warhorse seemed to hear the
noise of the battle and the fighting, even as
in the old days. He was opposed to the
candidature of Colonel Grant, now our Min
ister to Austria, lor Secretary of State, on
the ground that he would not receive loyal
support from the antagonists of General
Grant. The canvass, however, although
unfavorable to the Colonel, showed that the
Republican vote had been given with heart
iness and sincerity. He was impatient with
Cleveland, for some cause that 1 do not re
call; hoped he would be known as the "Cen
tennial President," if for no other reason
than that Cleveland was as much as the coun
try could stand in a hundred years. At the
same time he retained his membership of
the Manhattan Club.
COXKLIKG AND SHERIDAN.
I found him deeply interested in the suc
cession to Cleveland. He accepted Mr.
Blaine's Florence letter in the spirit in
which it was written; regaided Blaine as a
spectator ratoer than a participant in pub
lic affairs. When questioned as to his pref
erences ior the Presidency he named three
candidates, Sheridan. Judge Gresham and
Judge Miller, of the Supreme Court, Sher
idan was hie first choice. Sheridan meant
the glory of the war; meant all that was
noble in the Grant traditions, with his own
brilliant character added. To the objection
that the religion of Sheridan wrftila injure
him among the Protestant sections of the
Middle aud Western States, especially the
resolute Scotch-Irish people, Republicans,
but'living in daily terror of the Papacy,
Conkling made a lorcible reply, contending
that for every vote Sheridan might lose
through the lingering remnant of a ques
tionable religious sentiment, he would
gain a dozen Irom those who admired his
character and genius, and who would .be
fascinated with the splendor of a mighty
name.
Alas, the unpausing hand of fate! How
soon death was likewise to rend that fairest
of lrieudships; that of the illustrious young
Captain with the statesman who never
looked upon him but with fond, approving
eyes. Iu a few months that is to sav. in
j"' before even the convention
d met, the statesman was to die. And
neiore tne trees, then in their springtide
bloom, could know the summer's ripening
touch the earth was to take into its clear,
sorrowtul embrace the glorious ashes of
Sheridan.
GRESHAM OR MILLER.
As I was saving, I found Conkling once
more concerned in politics. And if this
religious opposition would not down in the
case of Sheridan, then in- Gresham he saw
an intrepid Republican. I inferred that
Conkling had been drawn "to Gresham by
the high appreciation in which Grant had
held the Judge when Gresham served in tho
Western armies. Gresham was one of
Grant's enthusiasms. He had been placed
suddenly in a position of trial and tempta
tion during the war, and there was that in
the behavior of the man sornc unique and
shining quality in the way of honesty that
won Grant's heart. Conkling dwelt upon
this. It was enough for him that Gresham
had been under the Grant benedition. That
to him was perpetual acceptance and absolu
tion. If not Gresham, then Justice M:ller, then
of the Supreme Court, now unhappily be
fore another tribunal; and Miller was
sketched in the jjrand Conkling way. What
ever was sacred in the genius of the law was
epitomized in Miller. We should take him
while we could, as we would take Marshall
or Jay should the reluctant gods give them
back to our keeping.
There were outbursts of enthusiasm on
.gentler themes, and I recall some evenings
when oonfclrng was never more radiant,
more brilliant The last time I dined with
him, as I read before me noted in a diary,
.was at a dinner given by John W. Maekay,
among the gucsrs'Kobert Ingersoll, Charles
Crocker, of California, railroad magnate;
Ochiltree, of Texas; Senator Jones, ot Ne
vada; poor,.dear, ever to be remembered
Lawrence Jerome a dinner 'that can only
bring sad memories, thinking of those pres
ent and since gone, Conklintr so inexhaust-
I ible in his banter with Maekay for having
proviueu sucn wonaeriui vintages ior tem
perance cranks" like himself and most of
the.guests present, and so on. These and
other themes. ,The talk serious to the end
, serious and memorable: the themes his
torical no time or space to recall them
now.
POVERTY OF PUBLIC MEJT.
As a general thing Conkling in those days
was in a reminiscent vein. I recall even
ings at his rooms when I would listen by
the hour to a stream of extraordinary talk.
One especially, from 8 until 1 in the morn
ing, a monologue the human mind in won
der at the torrent and such talk! One of
his'themes was poverty which he dreaded.
He would, sweep with abruptness upon the
theme of the misery of poverty in publio
life and as the bane" of public men. While
he was in this vein one evening I recalled
an incident from Greville, if I remember,
about Lord John Russell having to write
magazine articles for income.at a time when
"his brother was one of the richest peers in
England, and ho himself had high place in
politics. This I must send him, the whole
story. Poverty! What he might not have
done but for that, when he was in power.
This dreadful poverty. Friends who heard
these conversations marveled, and I recall
apprehensions from some who knew and
loved him, that overwork legal cares
something was preying upon his most
sovereign reason, and that there were in
these odd phenomena what boded no good
to the welfare of his body or mind.
There were friends around him in whose
companionship he rejoiced. John W.
Maekay was close to him, and I have a letter
from Conkling nothing I ever read of his
writings so eloquent expressive of his dis
appointment at juacKay s retnsai to be a
candidate from Nevada for the United States
Senate. It was a political purpose near to
his heart, and he inveighed against the.
obstinacy which, as Maekay said to the Sen
ator, "would insist upon being at home in a
silver mine rather than out of place in the
Senate."
OTHERS OF HIS STAUNCH FRIENDS.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, who had more
influence with him than any of his associ
ates, was much with him. He had also
found Mr. Pulitzer, of the World, and one
evening he declaimed over this discovery.
And although I had known Mr. Pulitzer
for years, and had realized what was possi
ble Xo the ravenous and abounding energy
of that distinguished politician and journal
ist, I must have the biography all over the
wonderful story of what was possible to
ambition in the United States. I could add
other names, many of them, were it proper.
But it would be unjust to close the list
without writing that of the one friend
dearer than others, the Jonathan to his
David, the gifted, high spirited, masterful,
friendly George C. Gorham, of California.
Much might be written of his trenchant,
witty, flashing speeches. I presume every
one of his friends has a special private vo-
cauuiary. jjuv me point oi uonKltng s wit
was in the manner. "So and So, yes," as
he once said to me; "the words So and So
and perfidy are synonymous terms." How
I recall so many of these barbed winging
pmasca mat eu jar as iuis writer is con
cerned must forever remain as shafts shot
into the sileivu. He was prone to banter;
not always considerate if iun were in the
vocative, and even in amiable moods uncer
tain, not e.asy to get on with. "Put Roscoe
in a room w"ith a half dozen friends, re
solved to bewitch them all. He will quar
rel with one or twp before the evening is
over." This was said by one of his earliest
friends.
HIS WONDROUS MOHAWK VALLEY.
He was impatient of contradiction, could
be resonant over small annoyances; lie
awake over the idle newspaper adjective of
some tipsy political writer. His life had
developed under narrowed conditions, his
horizon never expanded, and his judgment
and opinions wanted in perspective.
"This," said the Irish car-driver to Thack
eray, "is the hill of Howth, the highest hill
fn all Ireland." It was the only hill tho poor
boy had ever seen, remarked Tlmnfcernv
and was therefore to him tho highest in all
Ireland. The Mohawk Valley was Conk
ling's hill of Howth. From'tiiore somehow
had come tho statesmen, tho leaders who
.had governed the nation, amd there only tho
supieme test of human greatness. I have sat
with him in London, men of world-wide
fame about him, and marveled at the sweep
and finish of his eloquence; illustration after
illustration coming with due felicity fioin
that wondrous Mohawk Vallev: some nllu.
sion to Wellington recalling some Oneida
corner grocery warrior, whose career must
needs be told; some story aboutfPeel or Bea
consfield reminding him of tho eloquent
Somebody called Smith, or the astonishing
Nobody called Jones, whose eloquence had
won even the admiration of sucu a man as
Thuilow Weed, or had received tho com
mendations even of such a critic as George
W. Demers, whose writings in an Albany
journal were familiar to Cabinets and Par
liaments. I huvo speculated at the effect of this nar
rowed and nan owing horizon .on Conkling.
For here surely was a man broad and large
enough to have filled at hjast the canvass ot
a Mctternich or a tiortschakoff. In intel
lectual pon er, in ambition, in marked and
singular gifts, Conkling in some l espects ex
ceeded any man I have ever known.
EXPLAINS HIS IRRITABILITY.
nis limitations seemed to chafo him, and
may have explained, perhaps, something of
tho strange irritability so trying to his
friends. You felt sometimes as you saw him
at Syracuse conventions; towering in tho
Fifth Avenue Hotel lobbies; in "conference"
with inspectors of customs, police captains
and guagers; sniffling, impatient, censorious;
the sympathy you give tosomo royal brute
of a Bengal tiger, as he claws the iron bars.
Surely this noble cieature should have his
roamings in the jungle and plains. I have
sometimes thought that hisinner aspirations
wero for tho State Department; that In our
foicign lelations would bo room for his
genius, his audacity, and his imagination.
He camo into public life at the wrong
conjunction ot tho stars the Con
gress before the war and before ho
could inako known his eloquence
and power the war fell and tho statesman
was overwhelmed by the soldier, his genius
drowned out of recognition as surely as that
of Canning by WtJUmtton, or Chateaubriand
by Napoleon. He must have felt the obscura
tion. Ho was not meant for periods ot re
construction or civil strife; to bind up tho
wounds of a nation, or sow oneo moro tho
wasted, harried flelds. He should havo lived
in tlie Webster days, or stood with Sumner
and Sewaid when reason and eloquence
were lighting the battle of ft eedom.botore
reason and eloquence wero lost in the fury
and havoc of rapine. If ho could only have
had tho opportunity our foreign relations
would have given I I fanoy it is a moi e im
pression, with no tangible reason for so be
lieving, but I have thought that the dlsap
pointmentof Conkling at not being the Sec
retary of State under President Arthur was
the cause of their separation. Unhappily,
and under tho sod surroundings, although
Conkling was the ono man who could never
see It, this was the one appointment Arthur
could not make. If it had been his time I
I eel suie that in the department he would
havo won as noble a. fame as that won by
JIarcy and Flsli.
LAST INTERVIEW WITH CONKLING.
There la the woird Scottish word "fey"
taken from the Highland lore that when
ono docs something out of the range of bis
thoughts and habits he is "foy," marked for
death, Is under the spell of his predestina
tion, the thought of Lochiol in Campbell's
verses, that coming" events cast their
shadows De.fore. A wierd, pregnant word,
often in my fancy. '"Tho last timo I saw my
father," wrote CarlyTo, "was nbont the first
of August. Ho was very kind, seemed
prouder ofme than over. Ills eyes wero
nparkllng mildly, with a kind of deliberate
Joy. Strangely, too, he offeredme on one of
those mornings, knowing that I was poor,
two sovereigns," "seemed really anxious
and desirous that I should take them, should
take his llttlo hoard his all that he had to
Rive. I said Jokingly afterward that surely
ho was fey. So it lias proved." Tho last
timo I saw Conkling, us I find on re
ferring to a poor memorandum of a diary
that I pretend to keep, was on the morning
of Friday, March 16, 1883. the fourth
day after that historical blizzard, in which
he had so wild an experience. lie was in a
radiant, gentle humor, described to three or
four friends his blizzard journey up Broad
way, stood some quaint rallying on tho
whiteness of his hair from an out of town
friend with unaccustomed patience not apt
to ho in repose under banter of nny kind,
especially as to his personal appearance. I
remember the conversation with sad dis
tinctness, and his reproaches addressed to
myself personally for not having Bigncd an
article I had written in tho current North
Ameriaan Review. And although myexense
for not having signed it was that the leading
thought had been given mo by General
Silerman, and I hesitated to assume as my
own what really belonged to that illustrious
man, Mr. Conkling, nraong whose aversions
was anonynimity in journalism, was ex
plicit in his censures. No message was
worth reading without a name given to it
a man behind U and that there was no
abomination so unendurable as the editorial
"Wc," with such absurd variations on
"We" as a themo editors, tapo worms, em
perors all blended in irresistible mockery.
A TRIBUTE TO CURTIS.
The out-of-town friend who had been com
menting on the whitened hair, changed tho
theme to a reception that had been given to
Henry Irving tho day before, and a speoch
to Irving by Goorgo William Curtis, with
certain criticisms and disparagements of
Curtis. These came, as I fanciod at the
time as a bid for graciousness from Conk
ling, the speaker knowing that for years
Curtis had been a picador bull-fighting
theme in the Senator's eyes. "Well, let us
on., tlifa n ...- PnWln In ..a Ka .nfj.alv lnof
to'Curtis, let us admit," and so on in words
of oulogy, which I will not, because I can
not, repeat, but content myself with the im
pression. The genius and character of
Curtis never received more eloquent, more
gentle recognition. It was a pleasure to me,
with my own estimate of that eminent man,
which differences and disappointments in
Iiolltlcs had never dismissed, and whloh I
md maintained at times in the way of "dep
recation of the invectives of Conkling in.
tho days when the battle was on anil tho
skies bent under tho storm. As I heard
Conkling's estimated Curtis the weird High
land fancy camo into my mind, and I re
called the Carlyle story. "Surely," I
thought, "Conkling is fey." And so It
proved. This talk, as hero wrltton in my
diary, was March 16, 1838. I turn tho pagoi.
mid there likewise, under tho date of April
18, 1888, is tho sad, irreparable line: "Eoscoo
Conkling dead."
FAREWELL TO CONKLING.
Ito3coo Conkling dead, and with him so
nuch of tho daring forces of American
statesmanship. There is much more to
writo of him, but that duty belongs to the
historian, who will narrata with cooler Judg
ment the men and events of his ttemendous
time. What I said of Conkling, when ho
was lying cold and dead, his biographer has
accepted, and I may repeat now:
"Conkling was to die, if true leaders of
opinion over die. Tno palpable man whom
wo saw but yesterday, with commanding
mien, stern, deep set eyes, the brows
Olympian, the over whitened hair, the rud
dy face eternal in youtli and expression,
vigor, genius, grace, personal" beauty typi
fied; tho orator, scholar, the implacable
opponent and tumultuous man of affairs,
has gone but the impalpable spirit remains.
We have lost the most aggressive leader in
American politics since Clay and Webster,
36 years ago. But he is not dead. Hislifo
romains an incentive, an example, let us say
an admonition. For it may be well to re
member as an admonition that in any public
career, pride, intolerance and the Swift-like-gift
of withering invective may retard or
prevent opportunities of lustrous servicoto
tho Commonwealth. But even so, gener
ations will como and go before the examplo
of this extraordinary man, his eloquence
and learning, his undaunted devotion to
truth, hi purity and courage, his uncom
promising patriotism, his scorn of cant and
deception will be forgotten. A masterful,
imperial soul has passed away, leaving a
name whioh Americans will not soon let
diet" Jonir Ecssel Totmo.
THE ART OF DANCING.
Importance of Learning to Dance What
Constitutes a Good Dancer.
Prom the earliest times the importance of
dancing in promoting that desirable com
bination, a sound mind in a sound body,
has been recognized by all nations. A good
dancer cannot be an ungraceful man or
woman. On the other hand, unless the
pupil is taught properly, he will never at
tain that proficiency in tha art which is to
distinguish him from the awkward creature
who has never learned to carry himself with
grace and dignify.
Perhaps the most popular academy for
the teaching .of dancing is that of Prbf. B,
F. Thuma, assisted by his brother and
sister. Prof. Thuma founds all his instruc
tion upon the principles laid down by Del
sarte. That is to say, grace pf movement
receives as much attention as the mere
teaching of steps. Pupils are taught to
walk, bow, enter and leave the room grace
fully, and to deport themselves generally
with that ease which is essential in good
society. To further this object, the assem
blies at the Thuma Academy, CI Fourth
avenue, are conducted on the plan of
private parties- Three ladies, mothers of
pupils, will act as chaperones on each even
ing. j.iiese cuuperuues nui ue luviieu to
take part, and there will be different ladies
in that capacity on the several evenings.
The young ladies will be instructed in the
rules of receiving and entertaining, and
each will be thoroughly grounded in all the
duties that fall to a hostess. This is some
thing entirely new, but it has already be
come very popular. Many young people
who know in a general way liow to conduct
themselves creditably in society are at a
loss on some points of etiquette that may
confront them at any moment.
The young men receive a due share of
attention at the Thuma Academy. Every
young man who goes into society should
know how to take a leading part in the
ballroom on occasion. Yet how lew there
are, comparatively, who can do this com
fortably to themselves and satisfactorily to
their friends. Prof. Thuma makes a
specialty of teaching the "gertnan" to
young men, with all the latest and most
fashionable variations in that distinctly
fashionable cotillon.
A half hour every evening is devoted to
the study 'of Delsarte. The philosophy of
this greaj. authority on grace and beauty is
thoroughly explained, together with its re
lation to dancing. Every pupil gets the
benefit of this half hour's study.
The Thuma Academy has for years been
famous for its success in the instruction of
children. It has produced some of the
cleverest little ones iu this art that have
ever left any school in the United States.
Stage dancing of all kinds can be learned at
the academy, the professor being always in
formed as to the latest style that has become
popular in tue jasi anu in Europe.
The assembly room at the Thuma Acad
emy is as beautiful as taste and lavishness
can make it. It is lined with immense mir
rors, so that one seems to look down long
vistas into spice, apparently unendiug. The
tints of the walls and ceiling nre old " rose
bordered by a frieze of Tuscan rod. This
gives a delightfully rich air to the halL
The windows are shaded by lambrequins of
rose tint, embroidered with daisies and
swordgrass. Portieres of the same kind of
material as the lambrequins indicate the
entrances to dressing rooms. These are pro
vided with all the necessaries for the toilet.
Incandesent lights give brilliant illumina
tion,.that abomination of the esthetic soul,
the center chandelier, being conspicuous by
its absence, and the appointments generally
are in perfect harmony with the spirit of
music that finds here so congenial an abid
ing place.
Badges for lodges and societies at Mo
Mahon Bros. & Adams', 62 Fourth avenue.
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THE BURLESQUE WAR.
Extremes to Which the French Go in
Baying Over Their Army.
THE FIGHT AGAINST lOHENGRIff.
Paris People Are Getting Angry With the
Ardent Bicyclers.
WHAT THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW BUFFER
rCQKKESPONDElfcE OP TITE PISrXTCH.1
IMnis, Sept. 18. Wo have had no laok of
things to talk about in Paris tho last week.
Everybody with a military bias and a
Frenchman without one is hard to find has
been watching tho game of war which tho
French army is playing in tho West. Around
the cafo tables you seo groups with large
maps spread before them hotly telling what
should, or should not bo done. Paris lqves
a spectaoular play and this mock campaign
is a bigger thing than even the destruction
of Pompeii.
Franco has bronght together the greatest
number of troops ever concentrated in time
of peace, she has intrusted them to her best
generals and has ordered that they eat,
sleep, march, fight, fall, succeotl, as they
would in actual warfare. Tho army is play
ing the rolo with enthusiasm. There has
been a deal of haid realism about it. One
day the soldier were even obliged to go on
half-rations. Thoj- take it seriously, even t
leigning wounds or death. The story Is told
of ono soldier who was carried in from the
mock battlo and who played his part so
naturally that a village priest ran up to
offer him religious consolation. Many
practical suggestions have resulted already
from tho maneuvers, but none so practical.
it seems to mo, as that of M. de Freycinet, A
.Minister or war, who said in his address to
tho army: "No one donbts that we are
strong, let us prove that we are wise."
A Itace of Babies.
Can these peoplo prove that they are
wiseT One doubts it when ho is In tho midst
of such a convulsion of folly as seized a por
tion of the populace when it was announced
that "Lohengrin" would be given at the
Grand Opera House on the 11th. A deliber
ative American cannot resist the suspicion
that after all that this is not a raco of men.
but, as an irate Englishman expressed it, of
babies. The German opera of "Lohencrrin"
was preparod four years ago, you will re
member, for presentation here, but because
of a violent demonstration by' German
haters was ordered off by tho Government.
It was thought that tho public temper was
rational enough to allow it this year, and it
has been prepared with oaro. As the time
approached for tho lopresentation many
signs of anccr were noticed, but the Govern
ment allowed the opera to bo advertised for
last week.
Immediately an agitation was worked up.
The leador of tho opera received threaten
ing letters,.nnd, it is said, stood at his post
at roheai sals, revolver in hand. Theaudi
ento was notified that tt would be driven
out by the discharge of sulphuretted hydro
gen gas. It was darkly hinted that Mine.
Wagner, tho widow of tho composer of the
opera, and members of the Berlin Wagner
ian Society would bo present. It was not
stated what they would do. The agitators
leltthat to our imagination. As no paper
could be found to espouse their case, bulle
tins wero issued in which in the blackest of
type it was told how:
Tho National Academy of Musio, sup
ported by the French people, is going to
apotheosize Klchard Wagner."
"Wagner, tho base lnsultor of Franoe, is
about to oonquer us in our own house."
"We are going to nsslst, at our own ex
pense, in the glorification of German
genius.''
"What a feast there will be at Berlin!"
"What will our friends at St. Petersburg
think of our frivolity, our faithlessness?"
Under the force of tho excitement the
Government weakened and put up a bulletin
at the Opera about noon of the day of the
representetion, saying that Mr. Van Dvck.
who was to take the part of Lohengrin, was 1
Diable" was to be substituted for "Lohen
grin." Behold the fine degree of centralization a
Government has attained when at its word
opera singers can develop sore throats! In
spite of tho bulletin, there was a strong feol
ing that "Lohengrin" would bo given, and
the disgruntled kept up a commotion the
entire afternoon and evening. At 4 o'clock
I found groups of excited talkers gathered
about, and noted, too, that where the word
"Lohengrin" appealed on the bills it had
been mutilated spitefully. The police pre
vented serious disturbance in the crowds of
tho evening. Oneo the cry was raised, as an
old lady passed through, that "here was
Mother Wagner," and the poor woman was
hustled about alarmingly until lescued by
the police. "Lohengrin" was not given tnen,
but, thanks to evil-hearted people, it camo
later. The best people and the press do not
sympathize with this agitation, and have
turned tho tables neatly by calling attention
to the fact that Meyeroeer, the author ot
"Robert le Diable," was born and buried at
Berlin, and that he also wrote operas hostile
to France.
Fighting the Bicyclers.
Points of interest other than the opera
bulletin boards havo been the windows of
bicycle dealers. They are adorned with the
wheels used in the great race between here
and Brest and return. Even the mud on the
vehicles is exhibited. This race of nearly
700 miles was run by 300 contestants. Tho
victor, Charles Terront, won it in 7iy hours.
This man's endurance has been lostered
largely by tho newspapers. For the several
years while the Chambers sat at Versailles
he brought the reports of the business to
ono of the great papers in Paris, making
the trip two and three times u day on his
wheel. Not all the Parisians sympathize with
the enthusiasm over the race.
"Is it not bud enough," they ask crossly,
".when every time one crosses a street he Is
thumped in the back with a bicycle and
knocked in tho stomach with a tricycle?
Why should matters be made worse by
giving publio encouragement to this fatal
pastime?"
They are in the stage which we passed
some timo ago in America, teaching wheel
men that feet wero nmdo before wheels, and
that the earth is broad enough for both.
The Mother-ln-XAW.
We are ahead in securing the rights of
pedestrians. We nre also ahead in another
particular. Our funny colnmn has outlined
the mother-in-law Joke. Apparently this
topic has Just reached he Parisian Joke
maker. A dignified Journal prints the fol
Ibwlng! "Tonnjr 3Ir. C. was taken violently ill the
other day at the salon in the Champs de
Mars. His trionds pressed about him calling
out, 'Give him air.' The young man opened
Ills eyes. 'Xo, no; it's not nir. Look there,'
and he pointed to the wall where hung a
portrait of his mother-in-law "
According to the commentators on society
events one would conclude that only thoso
peoplo who have Just returned from their
summer ontings had a -pleasant time -who
witnessed accidents to their mothers-in-law.
One tells how his mother-in-law fell into the
sea, another how his tumbled from a rock,
etc., etc. Let us do thankful for American
progress.
Grevy "Was Too Commonplace.
The death of ex-President Grevy awakened
only pollto interest in Paris. If. Grevy -rfas
out of date. He served the country well, all
acknowledso. Out he never was brilliant.
Duty is in French eyes an admirable thing,
but it must wear a star in its forehead and
radiato light if it receives applause. SI.
Grevy never did his duty with the neces
rary scenic effects. He resigned his post us
President of the Kepublic, ibo, for domestic
reasons, to save a son-in-law who had been
weak. Pious, but slow, is the interpretation
of such an act.
So his death has cause little reminiscence
and interest. It was even doubttul whether
the Government would givo him a funeral
as it did Theirs and Gambetta. Thore U a
manlfost relief, however, that this has been
done. The luneral was at Government ex
pense. Several members of the ministry
were present, and the usual ceremonies of a
member of the Legion of Honor w ere per
formed. Two ramous' French Painters.
Tlie cable has told you, of course, of tho
death of the two French painters Elie
Delannay and Thcodule Eibot. Both wero
favorites in Paris, and many aro the pil
grimages made these days to their works in
various publio Duildings. Many are the
stories, too, told of their peculiarities in the
artists' studios. Selaunay was a modest lit
tle man in spite of tho fierce painting he
sometimes did, and of late years ho had had
a habit of falling asleep In company which
he liked none too well. Last year he was in
vited to visit the Duke of Autnale, who one
evening, to amuse hi guests, read aloud
from his "Life of the Princo of Conde." In
tho midst of the rradimr a lieavv nnra was
heard. Dolaunay -n as asleep. The conster- J
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snoring can be Imagined only by the bash
ful. OfKibot they tell many tales of his early
years of poverty. Once he and his chum,
also a painter, learned that a friend of theirs
wanted very much to marry, bnt had not
the money. The painters flew to their easels
nnd each produced a plctnre. which they
sent with this word: "If yon succeed in
selling these well, we shall be sufficiently
Said by noting as witnesses at your weu
Ing." The pictures did sell. The wedding
camo off. Blbot and his chum were wit
nesses. Trappings of Bohemian Paris.
A city full of aliens cannot exist without
some odd results, I suppose. One of these I
stumbled on lastcwcek; a sale one might
call it a public sale of the personal prop
erty of aliens dying here without leaving
heirs or wills. By a law of 1833 this property
grcs to tho city at tho end of a year and fs
offered at public sale. One of theso sales
takes place each year and tno city nets
$10,000 to $15,000 from them. Such an array
of stuff! There are dishes, pianos, brooms,
chairs, books. Above all there is bric-a-brac
and pictures, for the majority of the owners
woro artists. Nowhere can one get a better
idea of the miscellaneous outfits which pre
vail in Bohemian Paris than at ono of these
sales. Ida M. Tabbeil.
A Beautiful Place.
The following is an extract from a letter
of Bev. Mr. Cowper, of "Washington, Pa.,
to a friend in New York:
"Although the catalogue of Trinity Hall
gives a brief and concise description of the
place, it does not and it cannot do justice to
the lull beauty and advantage of its situa
tion. Washington county, in the first place,
is remarkable for the loveliness of its nat
ural scenery, which the agricultural arts of
man have enhanced rather than destroyed.
The town of Washington, cradled amid the
surrounding hills, presents a vision of com
fort and beauty from every point of view.
A good many people have heard of Trinity
Hall School, but very few have the slight
est conception of the surpassing beauty of
its setting. The cut in tne catalogue simply
gives one a good view of the building. But
Trinity Hall is, first of all,
a wealthy gentleman's residence,
Bituated in a well-kept park with
adjuncts of gardens and orchards. I have
recently been trying to persuadeMr. Smith,
the proprietor, to have a series of photo
graphs taken and embodied in the new cata
logue, that people at a distance may get that
truer idea of the school surroundings which
makes them so enthusiastic when they visit
it and receive the hospitable welcome which
always awaits them. Briefly described, the
school grounds contain 40 acres, situated in
a rich and beautiful hill country, 1,200 feet
above tide water, and surrounded by wide
spreading maples, elms, lindens and ever
greens, with orchards, gardens and vine
yards, through which wind broad drives,
bordered by well-kept lawns. These has
never been sickness in the school. Delicate
boys become strong and manly in its pure,
health-giving atmosphere. The morals of
the place are pure the tone elevating and
refining. The masters are selected for their
proficiency in teaching and their good breed
ing. Mr. Alfred C. Arnold, the rector, is a
B. A., of Harvard University, and has had
wonderful success in bringing the school
through a transition period and placingit
upon a most scholarly and desirable basis.
Parents can place their boys under his
teaching and influence with the utmost con
fidence. Under the present management
the household, in all its departments, is
suitable for the sons of gentlemen, and has
all the comforts of a refined home. It is a
lovely spot indeed, favored by nature, de
veloped by the best skill of the landscape
gardener, kept up by those who take a pride
in it, and fortunate i& the boy who is per
mitted to spend his school days at Trinity
Hall."
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Thompson's
New York
Grocery.
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My Mamma Fays That 5he Always Goes to
Thompson's for Bargains in the Grocery
Line.
Ton get 6 pounds white sugar with every
dollar's worth of 30c, 40c, 50c and 60c tea, or
1 pound of cut loaf sugar with every pound
of tea. They oflfer this as an inducement
for you to try their teas, and one trial will
convince you that you can save 30c on every
dollar's worth.
2 cans condensed milk.. ............ .$ 25
2 lb can corn beef. 15
4 lbs broken Java coffee 1 00
Extra sugar cured hams, per lb 11 1
10 lbs white clover honey 1 65
9 lbs dessicated cocoannt . 1 00
13 large cans mustard sardines 1 00
4 large oval cans mackerel in tomato
sauce 1 00
25 lbs large lump starch I 00
1 lb pure ground black pepper 10
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white pepper 20
cinnamon .......... 15
cloves. 25
allspice 12
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ginger .
1 lb mustard seed
1 lb whole mixed pickling spices (very
best)
3 dozen parlor matches (200 in a box)
1 kit new mackerel (10 His) 75
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities. To those living out of the city we
will prepay freight on all orders or 510
and upward to any station or landing within
100 miles of Pittsburg. Send for price list.
M. E. Thompson,
- 801 Market street, opposite Gnsky'g.
Opening,
Wednesday and Thursday, September 30
and Ootober 1.
Paris, London and New York dresses.
Our own importation of costumes, gowns
and carriage wraps.
Also, new department for misses and
children's dresses in strictly exclusive
styles. Paecels & Jojtes,
29 Fifth avenue.
ELAINE.
JTree Trains Every Day.
Get work, secure a home, make an in
vestment in the future great Monongahela
"Valley town. For tickets, maps, price
lists and full particulars, call on
Chaeles Someks & Co.,
129 Fourth avenue.
Grand Oieka House next week, the
historical drama,
Abraham LnrcoMT.
Seats now on sale.
Badges for lodges and societies at Mc
Mahon Bros. & Adams', 52 Fourth avenue.
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In extending the 55 rate to all to October'
1, Drs. Copeland & Hall answer all requests
without rendering themselves liable to the
charge of favoring certain patients, and give
all ample and abundant time and oppor
tunity. All patients applyingfor treatment
before October 1 will be treated for 55 a
month and all medicines furnished free,
each month's treatment, including medicine,
to cost 15 UNTIL CUBED.
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A Startling Contrast Between Old-Fash-loned
Methods of Curing Catarrh and
the Modem Method of Drs. Copeland
and Hall Pleasant Applications and
Prompt Cnres.
The best possible evidence of the success
of the modern method of treating catarrh as
perfected by Drs. Copeland and Hall is shown
in their continued and constantly increasing
practice in this community. Day after day,
week after week, month after month and
year after vear has gone by since they were
first established here, and each hour has
seen their practice and success increase,
until now, when they treat more patients
and with more success than any other phy
sicians in the United States. What better
evidence of the correctness of their treat
ment, or their skill and science in its appli
cation could be offered?
That their parlors are crowded with
fatients and their mails overburdened with
etters does not, however, give them one
half the pleasure and satisfaction that they
derive from the fact that they have the con
fidence and indorsement of the intelligent,
right-thinking men and women of this com
munity. Some five or six years ago, before such
men as Drs. Copelan'd and Hall, and their
associates, gave their lives and their educa
tion and their ability to the treatment of
catarrh, the profession paid but little atten
tion to the disease and, in the light of pres
ent knowledge, apparently knew but very
little about tne proper methods for treating
and curing it.
At that time almost the universal practice
and authorized treatment of catarrh was by
the use of caustic applications, nitrate of
silver and acids, which were severe and
painful, and, while they may have been
theoretically and scientifically correct, in
many cases left a worse condition of the
membranes than that which they were in
tended to cure.
This, as we say, was the old-fashioned
treatment for the enre of catarrh. It was
harsh, it was severe, and not as effective as
that which modern skill and science has de
vised; which soothes, heals and relieves,
without pain or irritation. Dobelles solu
tion, lystrini, vasalene, albathol and other
of the modern cleansers and healers, have
taken the place of the scorching acids,burn
ing caustics and old-fashioned heroic ways
of curing this disease.
Methods of medicine change as well as
everything else experience teaches only to
those who are intelligent enough to follow
her instruction. Who wonld think of com
paring the wise, kindly, intelligent physi
cian of to-day with his wide culture, his
knowledge drawn from the crucible of the
centuries to the "leech" of not so many
years since, whose whole surgery was com
prised in knowing how to let blood, and
whose knowledge of medicines consisted of
administering great doses of calomel or
rhubarb, or salts and senna?
Our local treatment of catarrh is, putting
it plainly, a process of constant and method
ical cleansing, healing and soothing of the
membranes, foul aud irritated from the
poisonous catarrhal secretions. Catarrh is
a local as well as constitutional disease,
and the membraneous surface where the
local manifestations usually occur must be
kept clean and pure from the poisonous
catarrhal secretions as a wound must be
kept clean from poisonous accumulations.
The sprays and applications used in heal
ing, soothing and curing the affected parts
are effective, pleasant, and occasion neither
the slightest pain nor discomfort. They re
lieve the nostrils from theirstopped-up and
irritated condition, cleanse the parts thor
oughly, restore the healthy action of the
membranes, alleviate the inflammation and,
with the aid of proper constitutional treat
ment, in good process of time cure the dis
ease. Would you let a wound or sore grow foul,
for lack of proper cleansing? The wound
must be kept clean and pure, and the sys
tem supplied with what it needs to make it
clean and pure, then healing and health
will come. This is common sense and our
modern methods of curing disease.
The harsher modes of treatment were
done away with bv all-skillful and success
ful specialists many years, ago, and
local treatment, with the aid of proper
constitutional remedies, as used to-day
by Drs. Copeland & Hall; and by all suc
cessful specialists, is mild, pleasant and
affords instant and temporary relief, as well
a3, in regular sequence, permanent and
lasting cure.
Drs. Copeland & Hall congratulate them
selves upon no one thing more than upon
the fact that their methods are painless as
well as scientific and effective.
In so small and simple a matter as the
removal of polypus from the nose their
cures are accomplished without the slight
est pain or irritation. A few years ago
doctors would drag nasal polypi! out with
fcrceps, tearing the little tumors out by
the roots. The operation was attended with
pain, suffering and frequent hemorrhage.
To-day Drs. Copeland & Hall remove
these polypii by a simple and delicate oper
ation without the slightest pain or loss of
blood.
AIT EKGIKEEK'S STORY.
O. C. McMnllin, of the Pittsburg- and West
ern, Tells a Trathfal Experience.
"You're right, I can give Drs. Copeland
and Hall credit for doing so much for me,
and I can recommend them to my friends
and acquaintances who need a physician."
The speaker was Mr. C. C McMnllin, a loco
motive engineer of the Pittsburg and West
ern Railroad, and a resident of Bennett, Pa.
C McMuUln, BetxneU, Ma.
"I havo had tho vexatious disease for five
years, and for the last two years it has Just
been terrible. It was brought ou bvfrequent
attacks of cold. Why, half the timo 1 had to
breathe through my mouth on account of
tho hard lumps and scabs that would collect
in my noso. I had pains across mv head
above my eyes and iso. My tonsils- were
swollen and my throat Inflamed nnd sore,
and I had buzzing noises in my ears.
"My appetite was poor and I had pains in
my stomach from indigestion and my bowels
were never regnlar. I had pains through
my body; more prevalent in the region of
my heart.
DARK SPOTS WOULD COME
Over my eyes and I would get so dizzy that
I wonld feel like falling over. I was restless
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at night and eould not sleep. When I arose
from my bed I was of course tired and unro
freshed. "Seeing that I must get relief or give up
my place, the managers gave me permit to
do work in the yards that I might take a
course of treatment from Doctors Copeland
and Hall. I have taken the course and I
feel it my duty to say their mode of local
and Internal treatment is mild, pleasant,
soothing and enratiye. All the symptoms I
have mentioned have passed away and I
feel better than I have felt for years.
"There is nothing further to add. After
what Drs. Copeland and Hall have done for
me I must and do realize that they have few
equals and no superior in their specialties."
Signed,
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September 21, JSM.
STOBT-OP A SHABPSBUBa MAN.
"1 do not hesitate to testify to the skill of
Drs. Copeland and Hall, for what thoy did for
me is almost miraculous," said Mr. George H.
Haslett, of ShaVpsburg, Pa., a plasterer, well
known among the mechanics of Pittsburg
and vicinity.
Mr. Geo. H. Haslett, Skarpiburg, Pa.
"I have had catarrh for ten years past. I
had pains in my head, weakness of eyes,
roaring in my ears and a very sore and in
flameii throat. My nose would fill np and
get dry. itchv and cracked. The matter
would drop Into mv throat. I would pet
sick at the stomach", causing distress and
vomiting. My back would ncho and tho
leaders of my neck would get so stiff that I
could not turn my head. I got so nervous
and weak that I could hardly stand or walk.
"When I went to Drs. Copeland and Hall
they told me my case was a bad one, but I
thought I would give them a trial, seeing
their charges were so moderate. I am glad
that I did so. I began to improve at once.
They have done mo more good than I could
possibly have expected. I can say now thas
I feel better than ever I did in my life."
bigned.
a4ufy'
September 14, ISM.
What Local Treatment Does.
"During tho past two months I have been
cured of a very bad case of catarrh by Drs.
Copeland & Hall. I was given local and In
ternal treatment and found it mild. pleasant
and most effective and have no hesitation
in commending it to the most delicate, as it
could not bo harmful and it will certainly
cure."
Signed,
September 13, 3891.
"For four or five years I suffered with a
bad case of catarrh, which became so bad t
was afraid I wonld bo forced to stop work;
entirely. I was given a course of local treat
ment by Drs. Copeland & Hall, nnd now feel
as well as ever I did in my life." Signed,
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September IS, 1P91.
"I have been a sufferer from catarrh for
years head.iches,nasal pasaagoi stopped up
mucus dropping into my throat, disordered
stomach, poor appetite, distressed feeling
after eating and an annoying conzh. Sinca
treatment with Drs. Copeland & Hall I have
entirely regained my health and can rec-
ommend their efficiency and skill."
Bigned,
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AiLEOtTErr, September 10, 1331.
"I have been ill with lung trouble, caused;
by bronchitis, for 10 years and coughed ter
ribly. I also bad much trouble with my
hoad, throat and ears. I doctored and tried
everything and never got any help until I
went to Drs. Copeland & HalL I can heartily
recommend them."
Signed,
latAcL
September 21, ISM.
Mr. John Davis, Wakefield strcet,Oakand
"The way I suffered for years with scarcely
any relief was terrible. .Each day brought
its additional pain. Drs. Copeland & Hall
have entirely cured my trouble."
Mr. .Lawrence Lyons, Cass avenue, Pitts
burg: "I had snffered with catarrh for three
years when I called on Drs. Copeland 4 Hall.
Their work in my case u as remarkable. All
my symptoms havo disappeared. I feel like
a new man."
Mr. James Walker, 123 Erin street, Pitts
burg: "I had a constant headache. My nose
and throat wero affected. My general health
was run down. Drs. Copeland & Hall have
cured me of nil my trouble."
Mr. Jam eh F. Boyer 2D JItller street, Pitts
burg: "I can heartily recommend Drs. Cope
land & Hall to all sufferers from catarrhal
troubles. They worked wonders in my case,
and I consider their treatment masterful
and scientific." .
Mr. .Tnhn Rorlitn. Cltv Hall. Pittsburg!
"The skill of these eminent physicians, Drs.
Copeland & Ilnll, relieved me of a trouble of
12 years' standing. I have every confidence,
in these gentlemen and their methods em
ployed." Mr. F. C. Shaffer, 49 Webster avenue, Pitts
burg: "I consider the methods employed by
Drs. Copclahd & Hall as scientific and suc
cessful in everv repect." ,
Mr. Michael Mcllra, Glcnshaw, Pa.t
"These gentlemen, Drs. Copeland & nail,
have my highest confidence in their ability
to accomplish successful results: my es
teem, personally."
Mr. Joseph Dickcrt, 1j Garland avenue.
Pittsburg: "My opinion of Drs. Copeland
and Hall as to 'their ability: They stand in
the foremost rank of their profession."
Mr. Thomas Doyle, of 6 Pride street, Pitts
bur': "I m a hundred times better than
over before. I iea.dily recommend thU
tn-itmcnt."
Mr. O.K. Gibson, of Now Castle, Pa.: "I
havo been a sufferer lor a long time. A
short time since I began treatment with,
Drs. Copeland and Hall and all my acquaint
ances know the result. I am at work again
and leel elegant."
Drs. Copeland JS Hall treat successfully
all curable case-", at 06 Sixth avenue, Pitts
burg, Pa. Office hours 9 to 11 A. x 3 to ST.
st. and 7 to 9 r. M.; Sundays, 10 a. it. toir.it.
Specialties Catarrh and ail diseases of th
eve, ear, throat and lungs, chronic diseases.
Consultation, $1.
Many cases treated successfully by mail."
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DltS. COPELAND & HALL,
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