The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, November 17, 1886, Image 7
~~ if WAR TIMES.
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PICTURES OF LIFE IX THE CONFEDERATE
STATES.
Primitive Threshing?A Substitute
for Pie Crust?Rice and Sugar
Cane Mills?Utilizing Brown
Paper?Primeval Farming.
"Writing about life in the South during
the Civil War, a Philadelphia Times correspondent
says: Of c ?urse there was
some bother about threshing the wheat.
"While some could "'thrash" and "fan"
at their gin houses, there were those who
would bide the time for the traveling
thresher to come around. Others whose
sowing and reaping was on a sm^Jl scale
would maul the whc.it out with tiails of
their own make. One day we went to
see the threshing ari nngemcnt one woman
whose husbana and sons were in the
army hud devised. Wc found the room
carpeted with sheets and tapestried with
coverlets and the woman seated in a hair,
with a common-si ed barrel before her.
A sheaf of wheat was in her hands and
she wai pounding the grains of w! eat
out over a barrel. She would in this
primitive way flail as much as two or
three bushels and then spread the sheets
on the ground in the open air, the wheat
being poured on in a continuous stream.
The wind acted as the great fan and curried
the'.half lightly away. The wheat
bein? ground at soma flouring mill would
last her quite awhile. When u?ed up the
same rude flailing would be resorted to,
Hundreds during the war threshed in
the same primitive manner,
i Notwithstanding the South put forth
her best energies to the raising of wheat,
flour was scarce. It is amusing to think
of our resort for '-pie cru t" when no
flourjcould be had. Meal would be j
6iftea through a tine sieve,again through !
a fine muslin cloth and mixed up with I
6calding water to tn-ke it more viscid
and adhesive. AVhen linished off with
the rolliug pin and talked brown it was
by no means a bad sub-titut- for pic
crust.
For want of r'ce mills to strip the j
coarse husks from the rice wooden mor-1
tars hud to be used. A tree of the proper !
size would be felled from which a block
of suitable size w u d bu sawed. A cav-1
ity would be hollowjd with an ad~e in i
the end, and it w.r.tl I be made smooth
by burning with lire fo;- the want of bet- j
ter polishing tools. Then the charred
urface would be .^cr.iped smoothly and
??i? frvr>rl frnm the
cvcuijr. auu uiu uvi.vu ?.vvw
coal dust. The "pestle" nude perhaps
from the bough of tlie same tree, completed
the rice m il. The rough rice,
poured in such rude mortars and winnowed
by the wind, was very nice.
"Mills had also to be erected for
crushing the juice from sugar-cane.
Wooden cylinde s w.re almost universally
used, as tho<e of iron were scarcely
obtainable during the war. While
wooden cylinders were not satisfactory,
as all the juice of ihc cane could not
^ thoroughly be pressed from the crushed
cane, the farmers cheered themselves
with the idea that there was no great
loss, as the swine coidd draw from it the
leavings. The furnaces for syrup and
Bu^ar boiling were raised on rocks, if
bricks were not convenient, though many
6mall brick yards were put in operation
during the four years of the war. Long
wooden troughs, hollowed from trees,
were also indespen-ab e foi pouring the
syrup from the boilcis to cool, 'ine
6jrup was thick ami clear. The sugar
was unavoidably b:o\v?. as there was no
means in the great .stress of the times of
clarifying it. I have seen the planters
work long smooth oak splits, cut thin
from the top to the bottom of the barrel
filled with the home made sugar, to aid
the dripping and to b.-tter free the .sugar
from moisture. There was a pleasing
and gratified delight jsmoug the planters
when they had been successful in making
their sugar very 1 ght and dry and it not
infrequently happened that o 1 a ne'ghbor
calling the fir-t tiling after the conventional
greeting would be to bring
forth a small | arrkuge of his make of sugar
wrapped in brown paper.
Our writing paper was also brown, as
well as the school b^oks printed in the
South during the war, because we could
oot buy nor make white paper. The castor-bean
plant,being nati? e to the South,
* ' .. ! * of ofn
growing lll.\uriuu><) IU bin.- nnu DMtv,
was soon brought into cultivation, and
from it was extracted a pure, thick and
transparent castor oil.
As leather and shoes soon became highpriced,
farmers were reduced to the necessity
of tanning their own leather for
home use, as well as in lending their aid
in supplying the soldiers of uur army
with shoes. There were mauy tanneries
put in ope ation during the war. Yet
every farmer could uot carry the few
hides he might have to the tanvards. So
the question was how to tan them at
home. The hides w re soaked for a few
^ days in a ba rel of water, in which some
very weak lve,filtrated wfthwood ashes,
had been mingled. The hair was then
easily removed. I may also add that few
hides were then piissc I by as useless.The
home process of tanning was perliai s as
primeval as that belonging to the earliest
ag s. A pit of size to suit the number of
hides would be dug in the g4 0und near n
spring or stream of water. I have heard
many say they never bought better leather
than that tanned by their simple method.
Saddles were icpaired or mad-j anew,
gear of all kinds used on the plantations
mended or newly made; harness for
wagoas, buggies itnd carrs ges to make
and keep repaired?the aimv wagons
and the outfit for our cavalry, together
with shoes for our army and the home
ones. To meet the demands it is no
wonder that th; hides of horses, mules
aud ho.^8 were utilized.
As no shoe blacking or polish for shoes
could be bought during the war, the
want of blacking was supplied with soot
and oil mixed. The shoes would then
be painted with the soot blacking. Tlu
polish, a thin paste made of flour would
be applied, and when dry the shoe:
presente 1 as black aud as glossy appear
ance as if "shined" by the best boot
blacks.
Obtaining salt wa? at time? quite i
bother, especially to those remote fron
the seacoast. There are tho'-e who wil
yet remember digging up the salty soi
of the smoke house :;nd placing it it
hoppers. After passing through th<
process of percolation the brine wai
boiled down to the proper consistency,
poured iuto shallow vessels and placcc
in the sun for evaporation to perfect th<
rest. The salt from such crude proceed
ings was all that could be desired, if nol
of snowy whiteness, and served well tc
tide over the emergeucy.
T?to Ways,
burn's wat.
Then gently scan your brother man,
And gentler sister woman,
And if they gan a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human.
the modern wat.
Then keenly scan your brother man,
? And keener sister woman,
And if they gang a kennin wrang
Come down upon them Jike a thousand o
Brick and show that you have no sympathy
For anything,save yourself, that is human
* ?Boston Courier.
Sngar Statistics.
The ordinary {.agar of commerce it
made from sugar cane and beets. There
is very little difference in the quality of
the two varieties. The bulk of the cane
sugar is grown in the tropical regions of
North and South America, the East and
"West India Islands, British India and
Southern China. The beet sugar is produced
chiefly in France, Germany, Russian
Poland and Austria-Hungary. The
relative amount of cane and beet sugar
id virv riMrlv o iii.il. the nrosnective crop
of cane s .'gar for the current year in
what are known as exporting countries,
being 2,44"i.0('0 tons, while the prospective
crop of beet sugar will not be far
from 2, ">23,000 tous. making a total
available supply for the year of 4,980,000
| tons.
Statistics show, however, that sugar,
like some other good things in the world,
is not distributed evenly. Great Hritein
consumes more sugar per capita than any
other country, and the Inilcd States
come next in the li-t.
For the year 18S"? the consumption of
sugar, so tar as it can be traccd by relia.ble
figures, was as follows:
Ton p. Tons.
United States.. 1,?54,''00 Oth?r European
(front Britain...1,20:1,101 countries 333,000
France...... .. S7n,oo.j Non - exporting
( 'urnian Kmp:rc 3:;C,iKU couutrus 1,009,000
Austria 1S.000
Holland 4".,000 Total 5,432,000
This statement, al'owing the last year's
crop to have been as great as the prospective
crop for 1S8C, would leive 1,141*,000
tons on hand or to have gone into con
sumption unaccounted lor. The per
capita consumption of Great Britain was
a trifle over 00 pounds; that of the
United State, 4l).:> pounds; that of
France was scarcely 30 pounds, and that
of Germany still less. The consumption
for the United States varies somewhat,
according to the condition of business.
While in 1883 it was 39.8 pounds per
capita, in 1804 it was 51 and in 1883 only
4 7.0. ?P/'i iladelph ia Times.
Fivo-Cent Restaurants.
The very newest thing in New York is
the Cleveland Restaurant on Chatham
street. It is on the same block with
three lively rivals. First came the Boss
Tweed Restaurant, with au olfer of beefsteak
for ten cents; then was established
|theJimFisk, which se ls a Hamburger
j steak for eight cents or coffee or pic for
' seven cents. This was left in the dis!
tancj by the Gladstone, which offered
i the public corn-beef hash for five cents,
I nnd now the newest one is the Cleveland
i Restaurant, with flaming announcements
of "four crullers and a cup of coffee for
five cents." With such opportunities one
must be very poor to be obliged to go
hungry.
'I wo of these establishments arc large
and busy places wherein two good dishes
can be had for a clime. It is said that the
i waiters are all ath'etics and skilled
bouncers, who are more respected by the
public than any waiters ever were before.
It is like trifling with dynamite to try
and beat one of these places out of a dinner,
and the bummer who does so is described
as looking and feeling ns if he
had been through a rolling mill when his
waiter has tired of toying with him.
There is a general boom in the New
York restaurant business. An enterprising
man in Fourteenth street has
started an eating house of immense dii
mensions which he calls a "dairy
kitchen." It is in the henrt of the shopping
district and to attract the ladies he
employs a string band to play in the front
of it all day while cooks prepare bou bons
and pastry, in the big front window, liut
the biggest restaurants in America are
two that face AVa^hington Market. One
feeds ten thousand persons a dap and the
other serves eight thousand. The average
cost of a meal in one of th; se mammoth
dining rooms is twenty-five tents.
?Philadelphia Times.
A Big Hop Country.
Few farmers in the country can tell of
such wonderful crops as arc raised in
Washington Territory. It would open
the eyes of some of the Eastern farmers
to know that with but little labor the
owner of a small farm can clear $5(J0 per
acre every year, and more than this when
the weather fonditions hold good. In a
talk with a hop farmer of the White
Kiver valley yesterday, he said: "I raised
from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds of hops per
acic, on live acres of "my land this year,
for which I received thirty-five cents a
pound. There is a big boom for Washington
Territory hops this year. The
California crop is a failure, and the Eastern
people have come to Puget Sound to
get their hops. The crops in the Puyallup
and White River valleys have been
larger at times than this year, but the
quality has never been equate 1 heretofore.
There appears to be more gi;m in
tl>n limic tlii< Tri'nr than fiver l>eforp_ The
cost of raising hops is about seven cents
a pound on the average. This includes
the curing and the packing. We got
per pound for hops in 1882."
The farmer then enthusiastically said
that he believed the White Itivcr valley
to be the finest piece of land on God's
footstool, lie had lived thire twenty
years and the condition* of fanning were
so superior to the country in the East
and South that it wa< a wonder to him
that people did not fairly swarm into the
territory.
"Look at it," he continued. "There
arc no fierce storms here to sweep over
our land and drown out or blow down
our crops. There is no thunder and
lightning, no great snowstorms and no
iusects to eat up our crops. The winter
is short, the summer long and mild, and
1 the intervening seasons pleasant. Why,
, I would not go back to farming again in
\wz i?
t iuisamui il>i .my kuunmciuuuu, ?j.uw
' ma (17. T.) Telegraph.
Rodent Against Reptile.
An interesting battle recently look
place between a rat and a garter snake
at Yisalia, Cal. A laborer first saw the
i combatants and called a crowd of wit:
ncsses, who formed a ring about them
[ and watched the light to the finish. The
5 rat was cautious but quick, spiinging
- with lightning jumps upon the snake
. and burying its teeth through the serpent's
scales. The latter would coil and
i dart forward frequently, knocking the
i rat over on its back. Once the rat caught
I the snake's head and held it until the
1 latter, coiling about its body, s luec/.ed
i it so tightly that it was forced to let go.
; The rat growled and tho snake hissed uli
5 the while. Finally ths rat, by biting its
, antagonist through the neck several
1 times, severed its head, and dragged its
; long body in victory away.
l. TlAii1t1<>.Fnoi(>(] Tnts.
> Double-footed cats arc not found cvcrj
day. Poliecmau Odlin had an offer oi
one with six feet, to be sent from down
East. lie wrote that ho didn't want it.
lie had cats enough. The other day ir
opening his front door a cat came in,
Each of her fore paws was plainly sub
divided into two separate, well marked
feet, making six feet in all. It is nol
the same cat that his relatives had writ
ten to him about. It is altogether another,
The cat has lived with them ever since.
, They cun't drive her away if they would
- Double-footed cats are a good sign, say
. the grandmothers.?Lewiston (Afc.) Jour
nil.
I FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
There are 40,000 women belonging to
granges in the United States.
Ocean steamers burn from fifty to 300
tons of coal per day, accordiug to their
size and speed.
Mark Lane in London was originally
called Mart Lnne, from the privileges
of fare accorded by Edward I. to Sir
Thomas Ro3s, of Ilamlake.
Out of the 702,444 words composing
the revised Bible, 721,072 are the same
found in the received edition issued in
1611. Only nine per cent., 70,772, have
been changed; 65,508 have been excluded.
'
The Mary Rose, a British man-of-war,
was sunk oif the coast of France in 1543,
owing to the weight of the urmament
she carried. It is said that breech-loading
cannon have been recovered from
the wreck.
The oldest merchant vessel afloat is
said to be the bark True Love, which was
built in Philadelphia in 17??4, and is
therefore 122 y.ars old. She is still in
active service, and is owned by J. S.
Ward, of London.
The real S.ots were in fact Irish. In
the olden time Ireland or a part of Ireland
was called hr'cotia, and the Irish
people wvre called Scots. A great
many of these had crossed over the narrow
sea which divides the two countries,
and had settled in the nothern part of
what we now call Scotland.
The Chinese celebrate the ''festival of
the moon" with a peculiar sort of ,d.ble
called moon cake*. The cake is in imitation
of thesha eof the moon, or of a
beast or fish waiting for the moon to appear.
Almonds, sweet spices and minced
pork form the contents of the cake,
i which is covered with a crust of finest
! rdetn
M. Lesscnne claims that a ccrtain sign
of death is the permanent gaping of the
wound made in the skin by puncturing
it with a needle. If the person be living,
blood will usually follow the withdrawal
ofthe needle: but whether it does
or not, the wound will close at once.
The puncture made in the skin of a dead
person will remain open, as if made in
leather.
A paper published in Mexico avers
that it is cu-tomarv among the Indians
of the Jonacatepec district of that country
to exchange wives. Occasionally
these trades are permanent, but more often
they are for a stipulated length of
time, at the expirat'on of which each
woman returns to her former husband,
and the event is celebrated in each family
by a feast, at which the pulque flows
treely. Where the wives cannot be
traded even a dog, cat or a pig is added
on one side tc make the barter fair. In
the district of Tenango, at Tescaliacac,
the still more novel custom exists of
spllinor or tr.idiny oil mothers in-law. A
O ~ o #
very fair article of mother-in-law can be
bought for a lamb oi a sucking pig.
Swindling Canntry People.
The ways of making a living are as
multifarious as the road to heaven, and
many of them arc as unorthodox. A
Tribune reporter came across an ingenious
scheme the other day, which was
being worked with considerable success
in the country towns of Illinois. Four
fellows composed the business partnership.
Some bright morning they dei
scend upon the peaceful country village
! and soou the streets are Hooded with cirI
eulars announcing that Professor John
Smith will deliver a lecture that evening
j on '-The Shakers, their Hcligiou, Habits
and Peculiarities." There is nothing
new in the idea of a lecture, but the circular
goes on to say that the lecturer was
adopted at an early age by this peculiar
people, and finally became an elder
among them; that a genuine Shaker
I dance will bo pcrlormeu, ana in a rruI
fessor Jones, Brown and Robinson, un|
excelled artists in their waj, will sing
plantation melodies, with guitar, bail o
and tambourine accompan'm nt. This
is quite in the beaten track; but the
final announcement catches all eyes.
Prizes will be given to the la iest man,
the prettie-t girl, the most popular mar'
ried woman and th homeliest man, the
' prizes to be awarded by the popular vote
at ten cents a vote. Of course everyb
dy turns out, including the young
! men with their best girls. The lecture
| is stuff cribbed from the encyclopedia,
| the Shaker dance is a travesty on any,
thing in the heavens above or the earth
' beneath, and the plantation melodies are
not much better.
I Then conies the voting. The cheap,
showy prizes are exhibited from the platform,
where distance lends enchantment.
Some enthusiastic youth casts a vote for
a village belle. Another chap starts a
rival beauty, and the contest grows in- |
i teresting. At tins juncture some vmugc
. loafer," hired for the purpose by the lecturer
and his partners, steps up and ca>ts
a heavy vote for a colored woman. This
; knocks the boys silly for a moment, and
then they join forces and procecd to outi
vote the latest candidate for popularity.
, The upshot of the matter is that the co!'
orcd woman is beaten, but only after
J the boys have expended their last dime,
i The prizes are then awarded, aad for a
I fifty-cent album the schemers take in
' anywhere from $20 to $40 in dimes, to
! say nothing of the vote on the other
| prizes. Of course they lo:-e no time in
getting out in time. The country boy
m iy be slow to see that he has been victimised,
but when his eyes are opened he
is apt to use vigorous measures, and the
I lecturer and his partner are well aware
of the fact. Next day the same programme
is repeated in another town,
and barring a rough experience now and
then, when their scheme i3 seen through,
the quartet make an easy and co.nfortable
living. ? Chicago Tribune.
Musk.
Musk is an animal substance, obtained
i from an abdominal sac of the male of the
i moschus moschatus, a small hornle s
; deer inhabiting the higher mountains of
i Central Asin, ranging from Thibet to
Chiua and into Asiatic Russia. The conI
. tents of the musk sac arc a solid, browni
ish, granulated ovoid mass exceedingly
; strong and tenacious in odor, aud varyt
iug in size from that of a walnut to that
of a lien's egg. There are four varieties
j of musk, viz: Tonquin, from China, rci
gardcd as the best and which is looked
i | upon as the most reel :e:chc; Yunnan,
I from the frontiers of Indo China: Assam,
? or Bengalee, and, least Talued of all, Kabartin,
from Tartaryand Siberia. Musk
is very expensive, the price at present
rang'ng from eight to twenty dollars per
, ounce, in the pods or b igs, according to
grade. This high price is the cause of
t much adulteration, in this country a9
well as at the place of production; so
, that there is vc;y little in the market
that can be considered pure. The priu.
cipal adulterants arc lead, iron, coagu[
latcd blood, le ithcr, stones, and evenpa;
per and rags. The adulferant is inserted
. in th'e bag and the opening closed in such
a manner as to defy detection. About
five hundred jxninds of musk arc used
annually in the I'nited States, of which
r ninety-five per cent, goes into toilet
. I soaps and perfumery, the rest being used
for medicinal purposes.?Analyd. j
Peasant Life iu Italy.
An English lady, the Hon. Margaret
Collier, has written a book, "Our Home
by the Adriatic,"in which she give .some
very curious accounts of peasant Hfc in
Italy. ClennliLess is not one of tlie virtues
of Italian peasants. Miss Collier
found that to ask for a bath is to create
alarm regardingthc state of one's health.
-1-3 ? TirA?lr? A An fll/l f !l TTY1
UIJU UlU uiuu nuu nuiAvu v/u
being asked if he had ever been washed,
replied, after son.e reflection, that he believed
seme one had trashed him when
he was a small child. In the rich houses
they have great hoards of linen, which .
enables them to hold only one wasaing a
year. The dirty linen :is stowed away in
cupboards until the time comes round
for the imnual wash. Then is ncen a
procession of carts, filing down to the
neaiest strerm. The poor Italian babie^
have a hard time of it. Their le:js are
still bandaged with the fascia, li.ee the
l'mbs of mummies. Education is not
exccssix ely indulged in. A youn j lady
who had received her educatiou in a convent
asked Miss Collier if it was really
necessary to cross the ocean to ?et to
Ergland, and she did not know w'lat an
island is. To animals the lower Italians
are exceedingly cracl, yet otherwise
they take better caie of them than of
their own fan ilies, and when a doctor is
consulted it is almo. t always regarding
a 6ick animal. The Italian country gentleman
does not hesitate to beat the female
members of his family. Marriages
are arranged after the French method.
A young lady who came to be congratulated
by Miss Collier on her approaching
marriage, was nsked the name of her
chosen husband. "Ob, I don't know,"
she a oswered; "papa has not yet told me
that.1' '
Oddities of Noted Men.
Charles II. of England was very fond j
of hunting insects, and it is related by j
ce tain historians that he was hinting a 1
moth in the .-upper-room at "Whitehall
when the Dutch fl( et sailed up the
Thames and bu nid Shecrness.
Frederick the Great in his you:h wns
noted for his stubbornness and I. wilfulness,
and, wc are told, showed this at
his sister's marrings. Instead of appearing
at the cercmony in court a';tirc he
came with the servauts dressed as one of
their number.
Rossini,the composer of "The Barber,"
when engaged with any great :ompo-1
6ition, invariably shaved himself in a
most fantastic way to prevent hij going
out of doors. |
George IV., King of Englard, wag
veiy feminine in his habits: he possessed
scores of embroidered shirts, which were
considered by bim to be the best department
of his wardrobe, and were lccord- ,
ingly displayed with great pemp to any '
particular friend of his Majesty.
Napoleon habitually watched a certain
star, wh'ch he declared was his for it
never abandoned him, but was always in
sight commanding h m to go forward,
giwncr as a reason for his succcss its own
appearance. j
Augustus IIare, one of the cleverest di.
vines in the I nglish Church, when h?
had ended a train of hard thinking,
would rise from the de?k and spin around
on his heel a few seconds and then resume
his st ies.
A Celebrated Calf Case.
The famous Jones County calf case has
just been disposed of by the Supreme
Court of Iowa. This is one of Die most
remarkable cases on the rccords ol
American courts, and furnishes 8 strik- |
ing illustration of what an expensive
luxury a little satisfaction obtained in
legal fo:in may prove to be. Twelve,
years ay o a Green County farmer went,
to Jones County and bought some calves '
of a man named Johnson. They were '
nrobablv stolen, but Johnson claimed to
tnve bought tin m fiom a third party.
Johnson was prosecuted by ihe AntiHoise
Th:ef Associalion, but was ac- |
quilted. II< sued for if 10,0U0 damages, I
and the ca.ie has been tried five times, i
and each timo, except one, he has rc-!
ceived n vejdict for from $:<,000 to $7.- I
50(', which was always set a idc. He
a; pwtled to the Supre me Court. : nd the !
verdict has been revised, giving him no '
duni: go. The court costs are now !
t'00, Avhile the expenses on both side s
amount to at least $ 0.000, and several
persons have Leen ruined by the expenses
of the case.
The value of the calves was fifty dollars.
?Miiima/idi* Journal.
Fish Ponds in Saxony.
In traveling through Faxony, says a
correspondent, O'-e is struck with the
large number of j o ds of all siyes which
6tud the fields in every direction.
"\\ hether these ponds are the result of
accident or design, they are as carefully
tended as are trie r,e us uiunseivcs.
They, too,are a sourco of income to their
owners. 'J hey teem with carp, tench
and other fith that will thrive in sluggish
water, which arc taken out in the fall
and sold at prices ranging from 12 to 20
cents per pound. The ponds are then
restocked with a j oung brood, which
costs from f.O ccnts to tfl.25 p'.-r hun- I
died. ac<ording to si e. The e fish arc j
left to shift for themselves until they arc
a year o'd, when they arc generally large
enough for the market. In winter the
j-onds yield a crop of ice which is rendily
disposed of at a fair pricc. "Where their
services ore not required to turn ft mill,
they at least serve as watering places for
the cattle, and where they are situated
near a village or hamlet they even feed
the hand engine in crse of fire. Where
these ponds are made the land taken for
the purpose generally is unsuitcd foi
nurrnsM
I? Jt
A Sycophant.
My Aunt Jemima?bless her soul?
is ancient and wealthy;
But fate, which is perverse and droll,
Has made her strong and healthy;
Still as I am the only heir
Of her, my antique auut.
I cultivate her age with care
And play the sycophant.
But Aunt Jemin a's robust health
Will last for aye, I fear,
Tho' (ain I'd gain the precious wealth,
She lives from year to year.
I cat r to her. tho' I hate
Hypo risy and cant.
This part I \ lay I exe -rate,
And I am sick of aunt.
?Rambler.
Mr. Ed. P. Wells, Thetis P. O., Stevens Co.,
<Ya?h. Territrry, was entirely cured of rheumatism
by the i:se (if St. Jacobs Oil. He says:
'I consider it a wonderful reine ly arid will
always 8pca'< a gooti woim 101 n.
"Does tl:o rock hurt you much, rat?" inquired
a s\rr.(ialhi/.it of an Jr^imar. whine
toot was imjiriso cd under,*i rock. "No, itdou'l
hurt mc a bit," groaned 1'at; "it's mc loot thai
liuits mc."
Architect Edmond Legendre, 4t9 Suttei
street, San Franc isco, Cal? statoa that having
suffered for along time with n severe cough,
and failing to obtain any relief from doctorj
and tho numerous preparations ho tonk, lit
became alarmed. Tried Red Star Cough Cure,
and one bottle entirely cured him.
A FAsniON item asserts that "snowballs mak?
a lovely trimming foratulle bonnet." It may
be rather unreasonable to observe that small
boys consider snowballs appropriate trimmings
for men's hats idso.
A uniform and natural result is produced by
using Buckingham's Dye for the V* 1 iskers.
For a 6light cold, a hacking coug ), or luntf
troubles, take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
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- A
NEW TIEW OF CONSUMPTION.
And One which Appeal* to Common Senao
ManrCnrnble Cuw.
(Medical Stilus.),
"Many persons die of Consumption wh<
could easily be cured," says Dr. S. S. Clark,
of Watertown, N. Y., "if they would go ai
it right I have a new view if the disease.
Consumption is not always of luug origin."
"How so? What is it then?"
"Many cases or consumption are sei-uuir
ary. The disease itself prevails everywhere,
but the bcstt practitioners refuse to attributi
it entirely to inheritance or the weather. If
a person lives in the most favorable cliinati
in the world aud has any tendency to lung
weakness, if certain conditions exist in thi
system, that climate, however favorable,
will not prevent development of the disease. .
The disorder in such cases is only a secondary
symptom in the lungs of some other ailment, (
and can ntver be cured until approached
through its source."
"Yes, doctor; but what is the method of
approach?" i
'If you dip your finger in acid you burn 1
it: do you not'" 1
"Yes."
"If you wash this burnt finger every second
with the acid, what is the result'" (
"Why, constant inflammation, festering j
and eventual destruction of the finger."
"Precisely! Now then for my method,
which commends itself to the iveason and
judgment of every skillful practitioner. You i
know certain a ids aredeveloped iu the body.
Well, if the system is all right these a . ids
are neutralized or utili. ed and carried out.
If the system is ran down by excesses, anxiety,
continual exposure or overwork, these
acids accumulate in the blood. If thore is
on3' natural weakness in the lung, this a id
attacks it, having a natural atlinity for
it, and if the acid is not neutralized or passed
out of the system, it burns, ulcerates and
finally destroys the lung. Is this clear'"
"Perfectly! But how do you prevent the
accumulation of these acids in tlie system P'
"Irregularities of the liver and kindneys
create tnis excess of acid and the supply can
Deem on oniy Dycorrecuug mo wriiujj utuuu
of these organ?. Tho kidneys alone should
carry out in quantity, in solution, enough of
this acid daily, which, if left in the blood,
would kill four men. When the stcma-h, the
liver aud the kineys are all conspiring to increase
the acid, the wonder is that weak
lungs resist death as long as they do!"
"But you have not told us how you would
treat suh cases."
"No, but I will. Tho lungs are only diseased
as an effect of this acid or kidney poison
in the blood. After having exhausted
all authorized remedies to correct this a.id
condition, I was compel'od, in justice to my
patients, to use Wasner's safe cure: though
a proprietary remedy, it 13 now recognized,
I see, by leading physicians, by Presidents of
State Boards of Health and by insurance
physician-i, as a s?ieutiflc and the only
specific for those great organs in which over
ninety per cent, of diseases originate or are
sustained.
"Is this form of treatment successful?'
"It is wonderfully so, and for that reason
I am only too willing that you should announce
it to the world of consumptives."
Note by the PublishersWe hav received
the above interview from H. H. Warner &
Co., Rochester, N. Y.. with the request thai
we puDlisn ID jor me gooa oj sujjcrwy [iev
pl?. In a foot note to their letter they say:
"The experience of Dr. Clark is not
strange to us. In our correspondence we
have round that many thousands of peoplare
suffering trom what they think is Consumption,
whereas the real difficulty is with
the liver and kidneys, proven by the fact
that when these organs are restored to health
by the use of Warner's safe cure, the consumption
disappears, aud so does uremic or
kidney poisoning, which causes so many
symptoms of diseases that the human system
is subject to. The same may be said of rheumatism,
caused by an acid condition of the
system. We insist upon what we alway
have claimed, if you remove the cause, the
system will soon pcrfect the work already
b-r/un. Mis. Rev. Dr. Theodore Wolf, of
Gettysburg, Pa., wife of the editor of the
Lutheran Quarterly, said har friends
thought her 'far gone with Consumption,'
but after a thorough treatment with Warner's
safe cure, she says: 'I am perfectly
well.' We can cite thousands of such cases,
but one is enough. If you publish the above
article, kindly send us a marked copy."
We gladly give place to the article, for if
we cau in any way stay the ravages of Con
sumption, which carries away so many mill-1
ions yearly, it is our bounden duty so to
do.}?P UB.
Dr. Johrstone would never enter a certain
lane in London without jroing between
two particular poits of which
there were four.
"Moro than all other Lunjr Remedies," Is
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A Case Not Beyond Help.
Dr. M. R. Hinsdale. Kewanee, III, advises us of a
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neighbor's wife was attacked with violent lung dla
ease and pronounced beyond help from Quick Consumption.
As a last res >rt the family was persuaded
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"Last spring I was troubled with bolls, caused by
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troubled with afTectio:is of the blood."?J. Lchoch
Peoria, 111.
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