The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, March 10, 1887, Image 2
Between winter and spring
That weary time that comes t>etweec
The last snow and the earliest preen I
One barren <!<xl the wide fields lie,
And all o ir co rfort is the sky.
"We know the sap is in tk > treeThat
life at buried roots must be;
Yet dreary is the earth we tread,
As if her very soul were dead.
Before the dawn the darkest hour!
The blank and chill before the flower!
Beauty prepares this backgrouqd grey,
TV hereon her loveliest tints to lay.
Ah. patience! ere we dream of it,
Spring's fa r new gospel will be writ.
Look up! gocd only can befall,
While heaven is at the heart of all!
?Lu:y Larcom, in Youth's Companion.
AFTER NIGHT THE DAWN.
The door of the country school-room
closed behind the tost noisy pupil, and
the young teacher was alone. She
bowed her head wearily upon her hand,
and looked around the bare, comfortless
room, with its hard benches, curtainless
windows, and rusty, broken stove, with
a shudder of d sgust.
There were days?and this had been
one--when every liber of her sensitive
being shrank from association with the
motley crowd of urchins, and from contact
with the dirty, dog's-eared books,
the grimy desks, and dingy walls; but
she never allowed these leelings to influence
her; the duties of her position
were conscientiously performed, the
more so, perhaps, because they were so
disagreeable.
She had dismissed s:hool an hour
earlier to-day, ostensibly to enable her to
correct the conpositious handed in for
to-morrow's read ng; really because she
had si.en Roy Carlton drive by, and
knew that he would return to ask her
company for an hour's drive behind his
handsome bays; and she had told her elf
that she would?because she must ?
refuse, henceforth and forever, all things
that he might ask of her; and she
wished to have a little time to strengthen
herself.to 4-have her dark hour unseen,"
before she should shut the gate forever
between that world of ease and happiness.
and, more than all else, of Roy's
love, and her werld of poverty, loneliness
and sorrow.
She could not help but love him, he
had laid so many drifts of sunshine
across her otherwise shadowed pathway,
had been such a rock of rc.'uge in her
desert of friendlessne-s, since she came,
over a year ago, to this dreary little vil-i
lage to earn her living by teaching.
I She had not chosen this vocation, not '
because she lik d it, for she did not, but j
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wv;uu>c >uc icii tuat auc was picjmicu
for it, and there seemed to be no place ]
for her elsewhere in the ranks of workers.
She was not fitted to do battle with the
grim fiend of poverty; she had, until
two years before, "fed on the roses, and
lain in the lilies of life." Then came
the death of her father, followed almost
immediately by that of her mother, and
she was l|ft unprepared to face ihciworld
alone.
Her father's wealth, which she always
supposed from their style of living to be
ample, faded away before the demands
of his creditors like snow in the springtime.
Her high sense of honor would |
not allow her to hold back even the old
homestead and household furniture, >o
dear from the associations clustering
around it, and reserving but one or two I
orticles, sne allowed. tne rest, even ner
piano, to be sold.
Her rammer trieads drifted away one
by one, and she noted their departure
with scarcely a sigh over their defect on.
"Was it because she realized of how little
worth wa; their evanescent friendship?)
or had her heart, suffering a deeper
wound, become dead to the smarting of
those lesser hurts?
Harry Vance had been her ideal of a
gentleman. She had cherished for him
a strong friendship, which, before her
father's death, had bidden fair to ripen
into lo\e ; his attentions had been very ;
lover-like, and this small world in which
the two moved had already, in imagina- j
tion, coupled their names together, when
the clouds of misfortune .-hrouded her; !
and he, with some trite sentences of con- j
dolence upon his tongue, had stepped i
nimbly out of their shadow, probably j.
congratulating himself that he had not
gone so far but what it was still easy to
recede.
She sighed, not for him, but for her !
shattered ideul, when she saw that he
armcrht: out, a shallow hrainlpss favoritn
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of fortune, and sought by a vigorous
courtship to obtain her hand in marriage. J
and possession of the property he knew
6he held in her own right, and in that 1
sigh exhaled the last lingering perfume 1
of the friendship Ellice Gray had felt, 1
not for Harry Vance, but for the man she .
had imagined him#to be; and in its place j
grew, loathing and contempt for Harry.
\ ante, the fortune hunter, intensified an
hundred fofdr-adien, later, she heard of 1
the debts and^uns that harrassed his \
pathway. JJtfr, strictlv upiightand hon- ]
orable lie^elf. 6he could tolerate no dis- ]
honest^iu others, and in her vocabulary j
theffrtind debt without means or intcn- j
tion of pay.i ent were synonymous terms.
".Many a heart is caught in the re-ij
bound" proved true in this oaso, for El-!
uce aau came to mis utile viuage to lose
the heart that had never really been in
Harry's keeping. 1
She knew Boy would ask her behi3
wife, and she had allowed herself to '
dream of how h ippy she could be with '
him; with what a blessed sense of rest 1
and peace she could creep into the shel-1
ter of his manly arms and lay her head <
upon his loving breast But now the
awakening had come, and the dream was ' >
over. She had loved him so entirely for ;
himself,for that great, generous heart of
V.io f 1.canmnrl Itir- ft onnimli tft tot-A in ' i
illO , IU>U CVViilUU V vuvu Q ii IV kUlW ill i
all mankind as brothers, that she had
not once thought of the difference in . i
their c rcumstances, for he was rich as |
she was poor.
Now she had heard her name coupled
with the obnoxious terras ' adventuress'' ]
and "fortune hunter," and the prophecy I
that "if Mr. Carlton marri a her he j
would soon know, as did all others, that ;
it was his wealth that won lier."
i-he did not know that the remark had
been made expressly for her ear, had
been made, too, with the unuttered hope
that its barbed bitterness might rankle i
in her heart, for had she not dared to,
kindly but unmistakably, refuse the attentions
of the speaker's son?
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Keenly sensitive to the opinions of
others, she might yet have dared their
censure, if this latter suggestion had not
given her pause. She loved him so truly
she could not bear that he should think
of her, even for a manient, as she thought
of Harry Vance; better that they should
part, at once and forever. This was
what she had told herself, again and
again, every hour of that long day and
night.
"If she was sure, quite sure,"'she told
herself, "that her willingness to accept
him had not been caused, in part, at
least,and almost unconsciously to herself,
by her intense hatred of the drudgery of
teaching, she would not give a thought
to what other. might think, or say, b it
she must be sure, <juite sure, herself,
then?" but the day had been so wearying.
she was so tired, she must have time
to think it all out. But time she was
destined not to have, for scarcely had
the echoes of th .* shout of the last emancipated
urchin died away in the distance
when Mr. Carlton caine up to the unpaintcd
pine desk, where the young
teacher sat with her head bowed upon
her hand.
Her face was so pale, and she did not
look up and smile as she was wont to do;
her whole attidude was so suggesive of
weariness, if not of dispair, she was such
a wee morsel of humanity, and he was so
strong and manly, that somehow, before
he well knew what he was saying, he was
telling her his passionate longing to take
her into his arms and shield her hence*?
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iortn irom every aiscuuuun.
She looked up then, with something
of the look the hunter sometimes sees in
the eyes of a wounded doe, looked up,
and crushed the hope out of his heart
with a cold refusal.
Then came, for her, the slow agony of
living on, day after day, knowing that
s-hc had in that one hour of weakness cast
aside all that made life worth living; of
walking daily through the furnace of
trial, with the ghost of her dead hopes
ever reproaching her with the cowardice
that put an eud to their bright, but brief
existence.
So two years drifted by, and along
the thoruy pathway that she trod Ellice
(tray learned priceless lesions of self-reliance
and courage; learned to be a law
unto 1 ersclf, and, once having chosen a
pathway, knowing it to bo right, grew
strong to follow it steadfastly to the
end, though a thousand tongues might
censure.
Within a month after his rejection
Roy left his affairs in the hands of his
steward, to whom he gave power of at
r.orney, ana went away to tuc ony. n.
year passed, and the dishone-t steward,
turning everything except the Carlton
homestead into money, gathered his
booty and fled; and no one knew Roy's
address.
Ellice Gray knew nothing of this.
When vacation came she had given up
her a hool, for she could not stay where
everything reminded her of Roy. She
was teaching in a distant village, when
one morning the postman brought her a
letter which proved to be from a former
pupil in Shafton, Roy's home. It told
of the loss of his property, stated thathc
had of late returned to his home; that
while in the city he had joined a volunteer
coips of firemen, aud ) while in the
discharge of his duty had been stru k
on the side of his head by a falling timber,and
carried away insensible. "\Vhen
he revived," the letter went on to say,
"he was blind. The physician talked of
paralysis of the optic nerve, thought
time, or electric treatment, when he had
.r.o,oV,ot fivm tbo sVinrV
might be beneficial, but," said the letter,
4,.Mr. Ca:lton does not get better, he
seems to have lost all interest in life."
Then the writer went on to give the
other news of the village, but Kllice did
not read it. Hastily she prepared for a
journey, and when the next train left
the station, it bore her in the direction
of Shafton.
The rosy blushes chased each other
over her otherwise pale cheeks whenever
she thought of her errand, but she did
foltAt* ovon tl*Vian oho rnnnr thft hpll
at the "Squire's," and was ushered, by
the prim housekeeper into the emp:y
parlor. Her heart beat tumultously as
she heard the slow, uncertain step come
down the stairs, and the hand grope for
the knob of the door. He came in and
closed the door, and then stood moving
his head from side to side, as if looking
for some one.
"I beg pardom," he said at last, for
Ellice did not speak, "but does any one
wait to see me'i I am blind.''
"Yes, Hoy," Ellice answered in a
choked voice, putting out her hand to
lead him to a seat. It was the first time
she had ever called him by h s given
name, and she saw the lisht flash over
his fa e.
1? J--I! ill
"JVlllce, on, my uiimuy. 110 caclaimed,
then be stammered, "forgive
me, Miss Gray, that I forgot for a mo
mcnt. It was very kind of you to come."
"I fear you will think the motive sfelfsh,
when I have given you my reasons
Tor coming," she replied, struggling
bravely for composure as she sat down
near him. Then, "the train leaves in
iwo hours, and I must return, so you
will pardon ,me if I am somewhat abrupt
in naming my errand?"
"Certainly," he replied, courteously.
"Well," said his visitor, somewhat
weakly, striving to gain time, now that
the decisive moment had come, "the
fact is, I am thinking of getting married."
"Ellicc," he said, brokenly, "it was
cruel to come here to tell me that. Did
you think I had still auy hopes that you
cared for me, that you should come
here to kill them with that announcement?"
"No," she replied, and then, as no
other words would come, sat staring
helplessly at the pale face, as he leaned
against the cushions of his chair. Pres- |
ently she arose and stood beside him,
letting her fingers toy with the crisp,
dark curls that shaded his brow.
"Roy," she whispered, hurrying into
speech, lest her courage should fail,
"Hoy, don't you know that I love you
better than any one else in the world? I
loved you then, but I love you an
hundred times more now. My life has
been one long regret ever since. I came
here to-day to ask you to marry mo.
Don't refuse me, Hoy. I have suffered
enough for my mistake and I love
you."
"Oh! Ellicc," he cried, between pain
and pleasure, "how can I consent! It
would be such a sacrifice."
"I know it, Roy." she answered, willfully
misunderstanding him, "when you
are worthy of the best woman living;
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but only let me be your wife, and I will
try so hard to make you happy."
"I am blind," he murmured, hopelessly.
"Let me be your eyes. Oh! Roy," she j
sobbed, turning away and covering her I
face with her hands, "don't send me j
away. I cannot Dear it. i cannot live
without yo i."
He was silent for a moment, then he
arose and turned toward her.
"It seems unmanly to accept your sac
rifi e, Ellice." he cried, "but my life is
so dark, and," his voice grew infinitely
tender, "I love you so, come to me, little
one," holding out his arms, "for I
cannot sec you."
Then, as he clasped her to his heart,
and kissed the warm lips so near his own,
he whispered:
"I never knew before what a deprivation
the loss of sight is."
"And how soon can we be married,
darling?'' he asked, as she was about to
leave him,
"Whenever you wish, Roy," she replied.
"Really?"
"Yes, really," she answered.
"To-day, then," said he, promptly.
"Oh. well, not quite so soon as that,"
she said laughing, "but in a fortnight,
norViona' TOO irtrn nool-o frnm tn.dn.v."
|/V?UUJ/0t J VW, ?ITW ? VV4.W ~-~~J '
"xt will be an age," he declared, kiss- |
ing her good-bye, "for I cannot even)
write to you."
But he did.
A week later she received a few lines |
from him. The words were blotted and
the letters, uneven, but she did not think
of that, for he wrote:
"l'ou brought me sight. I can distinguish
the shape of the paper upon
which I write, and I live in hopes that
when we meet I shall be able to see your
dear face."
And that hope was not vain.
Seeming Intoxication.
In no class of people does heredity do
a more disastrous work than in the descendants
of drinkers, whether excessive
or moderate. A morbid appetite for
liquor in such cases, with the disadvantage
of an inherited nerve degeneration,
may manifest itself in m^ny terrible
forms. Among these many forms are
the ordinary symptoms of intoxication in
a person perfectly temperate. Dr. Crothers,
of Hartford, Conn., presents many
such cases in a paper read before the
American Association for the Cure of
Inebriates, and published in the Alienist j
and Neurologist. The first cases that at
tracted his attention were two boys, sons
of drunkards, in the Hartford Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, who had shown clear
signs of intoxication from their birth.
He was afterward surprised to find such
cases not uncommon. In some persons ^
the symptoms are present all the time, i
either appearing at birth, or slowly de- !
veloping with the growth of the child.
Most of such cases show other marked
indications of physical degeneration?as
idiocy, imbecility, or bodily deformity.
In a second class of cases, almost any
excitement is sufficient to bring on an !
attack. This class may include persons
of average intellect, and even of genius.
In them the neurotic (nerve) degenera- j
tion may, at a later date,end in imbecility I
qr insanity. A farmer, fiftyyears
old; a man of wealth and ^Wlfccter,
whose father was a drunkard, but who i
himself never u>ed any kind of spirits, I
showed symptoms of intoxication after
meeting with an accident from a runaway
horse. At the funeral of a child,
some months later, his family were
greatly mortified at his silly language, !
staggering gait, and other marked symp- j
toms of intoxication. A year later a
similar attack followed the burning of j
some buildings on his farm.
There are similar cases in which the i
nerve degeneration is due,nottoheredity, i
but to early habits of intoxication. A '
noted temperance le.turer, a total ab- j
stniner for ten years or more, received !
while lecturing a despatch announcing
the fatal illness of his daughter. He
drank a "lass of water, became confused,
staggered, and was led from the stage
laughing and shouting in a maudlin, way.
He had drank no spirits, but the audience
supposed him intoxicated.?
Touth't Comj>anu>n.
A Miner Millionaire.
A miner in Leadville, Colorado, who
can neither read nor write, is worth today
at least $3,000,000. Four years ago
he hadn't a penny, except what he earned
from day to day as a miner. His name
is John L. Morrissey. He is a young
man, not over thirty-two or thirty-three.
The Cro.vu Point mine was just about
paying expenses. Her owners otfered to
sell her for $40,000. Morrissey went to
Phloanrn nnd Int.prpstad Diamond .Toe
,
Reynolds in the matter. Reynolds knew .
that.Morrissey was authority on mining,
even if he couldn't write his name. He
finally purchased the Crown Point,
agreeing to give Morrissey a half interest
after the original sum was repaid.
Within thirty days they.struckayeinof
high-class ore that has yi ;kled them a
monthly income of
since. There is s iid to f
worth of ore in sight.;
Great Libraries.
The largest library in the world is the
Bibliothequo National, in Paris, which
contains 2,000,000 volume", and is wonderfully
rich in manuscripts. The next
largest is that of the British Museum,
with 1,500,000 volumes, and the third
is the Imperial, in St. Petersburg, with
1,100,000 volumes. Other great libraries
are: Royal, Berlin, 700,000; Royal,Dresden,
and Royal, Copenhagen, 500,000
each; Royal, Munich, 450,000; Imperial,
Vienna, 400,000; Congressional, Washington,
380,000, and University, Leipsic,
:i!?0,000. The Boston public library is
the largest in America, after the Congressional,
having, including branches,
b55,000 volumes. The Yale Library has
190,000; the Astor, New York, 180,000;
tho Mercantile, in Philadelphia, 135,000;
the Philadelphia library, iuo,uuu. ana
the National, of Mexico, 100,000. The
famous Bodleian Library, Oxford Unisity,
England, has 330,000 volumes. ,
Another Sad Failure.
Sweet Girl?"And so you have been
on the plains for ten years?"
Handsome Cowboy?"Ves, this is the
first time I've been back into real civilization."
"Now please tell me, in that lonely
life, so far removed from the refining
influences of?civilization, you know,
what did you miss most?"
"Oysters."
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. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The streams penetrating the Gogebic
iron range near the south shore of lake
Superior are so black with discoloration
from the ore that fish cannot live in them.
This is p irticularlv true of the Montreal
River, the northern State line between
Wisconsin and Michigan.
Chemists are hard at work in the
French Antilles perfecting processes for
making alcohol from sweet potatoes.
Four gallons of alcohol can be made
from 22.3 pounds of sweet potatoes. Portions
of the pine lands of the Southern
States and a part of New Jersey are also
well adapted to the growing of the
sweet potato.
At a late meeting of the London Linnean
Society was exhibited a volume of
"Honzo Zufu" ("Illustrations and Brief
Descriptions of the Plants of Japan".),
by Iwasatti Tsanemasa, which consists
of ninety-six volumes containing 20,000
colored figures. The task of reproduction
by native hand-labor is so great that
only two or three copies are known to
have been completed.
The fact has been satisfactorily established
by various scientific researches,
that many substances absorb luminous
rays during the day, and at night emit
these rays in such a manner as to impress
photographic plates, although they may
toot be perceptiblo to, the unaided eye.
Artists have not only succeeded in photographing
the visible night phosphorescence
ot >Iont Blanc's summit, but
have even secured an impression of a
midnight landscape?invisible to the eye
?on the terrace of the Observatory at'
Prague.
A few years ago a society of eminent
Frenchmen discu-sed this question:
What language wouiaacnua naturaiiy
speak if never taught!" Twenty different
results were predicted. To test the
matter two infants were procured and
kept isolated with a deaf and dumb woman,
who lived alone in the Alps, surrounded
by her sheep and chickens.
After six years the children and their
nurse were brought before the savants,
who were waiting in great expectation
as to the lesult, when-lo! not a word
could either of them utter, but most perfectly
could they imitate the crowing of
a cock, the cackling of a hen and the
bleating of a sheep.
To facilitate the operation of plastering,
a device has lately been invented,
termed a plasterer's platform, which is
set on casters and may be elevated or
lowered to wall or ceiling as the convenience
of the workman may require. Accompanying
this arrangement is an improved
two-hand trowel, and the platform
is capable of extension in a horizontal
as well a9 in a vertical direction.
Thu-, by the combined use of the two,
all cumbersome staging and the old-time
hod and the snort singie-nanaea trowei
arc dispensed with. The mortar is placed
in an extensible trough, which is .suspended
on the platform at a point and in
a manner convenient to workmen; the
apparatus can readily be moved endwise
from room to room, and the cost of laying
on either plaster or hard finish is said
to be thus much reduced.
JRapid flowing waiters seem more living
and healthful than those of sluggish
streams, but there is much illusion in
this appearance. If they get more exposure
to oxidntion, they also get less
time for it. If the slow stream leaves
more organic deposit in its bed, it is because
it has more time and repose for
settling, and le-s force for carrying the
dirt with it. The bed of the swift stream
is clean at the expense of cleanliness in
the water that scours just as the washed
dish is cleaner than the dish water. The
only valid reason for preferring the water
of a rapid stream, quantities being equal,
would be a position more elevated and
less exposed to surface drainage. Engineers
calculate that the carrying power
of water increases as the sixth power of
the increase of velocity, so that a stream
Uowing six times as fast as another will
be able to transport 40,~>5U times more
matter. Consequently, if pollution be
discharged into a lively flowing stream,
it will have very little chance of being
dropped from the water at all.
Maladies of Caged Birds.
The melancholy part of the study of
caged birds is the abundance of diseases
to which they are liable. Especially during
the winter and the early spring the
pathetic little captives are apt "to suffer
and die in a way which makes the very
fact of their captivity a reproach. After
examining the grisly catalogue of their
complaints, we have come to the conclusion
that the excessive dullness of their
lives in cages drives them to the only indulgence
which is possible to them, that
of overeating themselves. The excited
bird which falls from its perch, in the
middle of a burst of song, smitten with
apoplexy; the hot and lumpy bird which
is a victim to hepatitis; the corpulent bird
figure no dandcliou leaves or ?psomsalts
will reduce; the epileptic bird
tlitt^D&gs on existence by sipping tinctUreot'
lobelia and drops of castor oil,
all these melancholy invalids would have
escaped their sad condition if they could
have resisted the tempting hempseed
and the luscious milksop. But how are
they to drag life througli their long monotonous
days? In the utter insipidity
of aviary existence the open and inexhaustible
box of food decoys them like a
vice, and they succumb to temptation,as
^liue. Bovarvdid, from sheer unmitigated
ennui. Sometimes, in the later stages
of dec line, all reticence is thrown aside,
and the unfortunate songster sits all day
long at the feeding trough, shelling and
throwing aside the food that it positively
cannot swallow, and yet must be
handling. In these sad cuscs a live spider
is sometimes found beneficial, as for
hysterical human patients the family
Monmnmnrl n nnntnmimn or
a fancy ball. "We cannot but think that
more study might with advantage be
given to the question of the food of
caged birds, since this seems to be the
diliicultv upon which their management
always strikes. It is curious that bird
fanciers persist in feeding their charges
with hempseed, probably because the irresponsible
little wretches gobble it up
with so much greediness. But this is
no more a reason for giving it to them
than the fact that children like macaroons
would be a reason for feeding
them daily upon this indigestible dainty.
Birds require at least as much care
as children in selecting for them, not
what they prefer, but what is best.? Sat*
urdav Iteview,
INJUSTlffijfptKECTEP.
Convincing Verlfieati<ic of Wldecaet Fobll
btateraents.
TO THX RKASZRB 0* THIS VATZB.
In common with .many publish era am
editors, we have b?ea accustomed to loot
upon certain statements which we have seei
in our columns as purely adroit advertising.
vousequeuuy wij reel JUSCIUW in KLKIIlg
the liberty of printing a few points from a
private letter recently received from one ol
our largest patois, as a sort of confession
of faith to ouffjjMjjMtt We quote:
"We have ourselves that by tell
ing what wej^^^^He true, we have produced
at last aH^HHjent conviction in the
pubiic mincLaMjMffyears ago we stated
what the uatiafiH^HBiG of this country was,
and that it increasing. Three
years ago ^csBWBHKt a marked check had
been given it4jj3Bw??|
"The statiaHBdHglp of the largest life insurance
comrmMmpBjpia country shows that
in 1883 and ufiH^BKortality from kidney
disorders over the previous
years; other q^^^HHj stated the same thing.
It is not preafl^HH for us to claim credit
for clieckiggHMBHMfagie.
"Seven stated that the condition
of ttfWfwas the key to the condi
tion of belH^HKn the post five years al
careful lifEBB^&'e companies have con
ceded the MbHHKs statement, for, where
as, ten yealtt^MHpmical analysis to deter
mine the the kidneys was not
required, tcM^HBH|ons of dollars in risk
are re/used^RMMK-chemical examinatioi
discovert uHHHH diseases of the kid
"Seven yeaSuMfce stated that the ravages
of BrigjuuHmtee were Insigniflcanl
compared wiraMRjanguspected disorder
of the kidndSS^HBty misleading names
that ninety- tftrd|yMr cent bf human ail
ments are attrionSBBfto deranged kidneys
which fills the h{ragwn uric acid, or kid
ney poison, whtcSaSmiB these many fata
~ "The uric aciMMRBpy poison, Is the real
cause of the majSN^ofcases of paralysis,
apoplexy, heart disease, convulsions, pneumo
ma, consumption, and insanity; over halj
the victims of consumption are first the vio
tims of diseased kidneys.
"When the recent death of an honored ex
official of the United States was announced
bis physician said that although he was suf
fering from Bright's Disease, that was no
the cause of death. He was not frank enougl
to admit that ths apoplexy which overtool
him in his bed, was the fatal effect of th<
kidney poison of the blood, which had eatei
away the substance of the arteries anc
brain; nor was Logan's physician hones
enough to state that his fatal rheumatisn
was caused by kidney acid in the blood.
"If the doctors would state in official re
ports ths original cause of death, the peopl
of this country would be alarmed, yes
nearly panic stricken, at the fearful mortal
ity from kidney disorders." ,
Ths writers of the above letter rive thes<
facts to tho public simply to justify th
claims that they have mods, that if th
kidneys and liver are kept in a healthy cor
ditiou by the use of Warner's safe cnrc
which hundreds of thousands hare proved t
be a specific, when all other remedies failed
and that has received the endorsement of th
highest medical talent in Europe, Australasi
and America, many a life would be pro
longed and the happiness of the people pr<
served. It is successful with so many differ
ent diseases because It and it alone, can re
move the uric acid from the blood througl
the kidneys."
Our readers are familiar with the prep an
tion named.
Commendation thereof has often ap peare
in our columna
We believe it to be one of the best, if noi
the best ever manufactured. We know th<
I proprietors are men of character and influ
i ence.
We are certain they have awakened t
| wide-spread interest in the public mind con
cerning the importance of tbe kidueys. W<
I believe with them that they are the key b
' health, and that for their restoration froa
disease and mainteofencwin bhalth, there i
nothing equal to this great remedy.
n?l%A NMAntMAfAM tV* iTT "/?Annf irlnrV
IJ.UU pi VptlClA/lO UUCJ UV UVV K*Vt ( U
this universal prevalence of disease, but ha v
ing started out with the purpose of spreadini
the merits of Warner's safe cure before tb
world, because it cured our senior proprie
tor, who was given up by doctors as incura
bit, we feel it our duty to state the facts am
leave the public to Its own inferences. Wi
point to our claims, and to their public ant
universal verification with pride, and if thi
public does not believe what we say, we tel
them to ask their friends and neighbor
what they think about our preparationa "
As stated above, we most cordially com
mend the perusal of this correspondence b;
our readers, believing that in so doing w"
are fulfilling a simple public obligation.
Bleached Diamonds.
Everyone, of course, knows somethinj
about paste diamonds and Paris dia
monds, and the thousand and one imita
tions of this gem of great price. An<
most people, we imagine, know the va
rious tests by which the genuineness o
a stone can be established; but the reve
lations made at the Marvlebone polic
court the other day will probably b
news to some of us. As to the case it
self, we need say no more than that th
prisoners were committed for trial; bu
certain facts came out during the inqui
ry which possess considerable interes
for the public, or at least for those of th
public who are the happy owners of dia
monds. That there should be any mean
whereby yellow diamonds, which an
worth about ope-aeventh of white dia
monds of the^nfeftize, can be bleachei
?for that J^^BBfe.the manipulatioi
amounts to-jflMHrageccive an expert
is enoughj^H^Hp very serious dis
quietude fair bosom. Bu
Mr. StreQMMHPiven further than this
| for he g?S|0H|Jfy informed the magis
trate thffcjaSjM&^ears ago a French
! man upon the Lon
I don :9HmBKHH^U(jO pounds wortl
of diap^&yw'hich had thus been chemi
cally4|M?$d. It would be interesting
to khortr^roat hna become of those dia
monds. ha9 become of theii
Srotis successors? So valu
n has certainly not beer
e idle.?St. James's Ga
by Indian Blood.
th, a well-known citizer
Ind, has just struck a
>rt time since Meredith
jcovered that he had
L'iKrUUMSPM^11 17,wwu Mio fwmgy
thouglOjHl*ya regarded as afull-kloodcd
IIoosierTlpIe at odco applied for the
annuities"nnd privileges accorded members
of his tribe, and has recently returned
from a trip to Vinita, Indian
j Territory, where he selected a liberal
j slice of Unclj choicest lands. I e
I has rcccive^^^wKht for the property
i from the ClBaflKoljjlites Commissioner,
j Some tiiwpKft^g- the sixteenth cen
tury, one of lipKSrainnl Merediths in
this country galling young Knglishman,
wentVdrf-sfwiiding expedition
among the|Ch&tip|(:?es. He was made
captive, and Vf^about to be put to a
horrible dea? wSjfij/the chiefs daughter
interpiis his life. Meredith
gallantlj^ariie^th^.girl, and it is
from this m:trra^?fwajpid Meredith
Queen Victoria^&Wcfe||pivc a Jubilee
address from the^hiiflWr more survivors
of the famousj^ght Brigade of
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9 I like your "TannlU's Punch" ckiri very
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.nd will do all I con to push them. I believe In ad*
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a Portable lior?* Power Machine* ?et to work IngOmimttea W_
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rock ?to 1,000 feet. Farmer* and other* or* makigk
' to $40 per day with our machinery and fx>l?JSplendid W
f buslneee for WlMer or Summer. Wear# the oldest end V
largest Manufacturers In the hualnea*. S?nd4ceaUIa ?|
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l.OO, at Draiflau or br mall. Sampla KUKK for|
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JPlso'i Itemed/ for Catarrh Is (be 909
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county. Salary $75 per month and expenses, oifl|
large commission on sales If preferred. u<x"'s ?ta JW
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Ml* in 98 a day. Sample! worth ?1.50 tKHBH
Lines not under the horse's feet. Addr^HQI^^H
(0 v Brewster's Safety Rkin Holder, Holly,
DIaim'a Dill a Great English Goat aWBM|
Ulall S llllS. Rheumatic Remed) HI
Ho*.81.'lO i round. 50 eta.
AnillBH And Morphine Habit cured lnlO
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