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'CAN MI LIVEFOREVER? DR. HAMILTON DIFFERS WITH DR. BROWN SEQUARD ON THAT POINT. The Idea That New Life Can Be Infused Into a Man Is Scouted by the Official Head of the Government Staff of Phy sicians and Surgeons-He Says Dr. Brown-Sequard Must Be in His Do tage. (From the St. Louis Republic.) Dr. Brown-Sequard, the great French specialist in nervous diseases, declared before the Biological Society of Paris, of which he is the president, a few days ago, that after twenty years of experi menting he had discovered a true elixir of life, a substance that would rejuve nate the old and make strong the feeble. He contended that if the living cells of a young and vigorous being could be in jected into another where the vital spark was low, his organism must vibrate in unison with the fresh life. Many year ago the doctor advanced views of the same character in a lecture before tlft medical faculty of Paris, and has since been engaged in experimenting on the subject by treating old and worn out animals. Finally, as he states, he reached such perfection that he tried his elixir upon himself with startling re sults. The doctor is now 72 years old and, presumably, is subject to the weak nesses and infirmities of age. His re viving substance, he explained, was de rived from certain organs or glands taken, still quivering, from live animals and reduced at once to a pulp in a mor tar with distilled water. From this compound he extracts an essence which he uses as a hypodermic injection. T'e doctor administered to himself a cubic centimetre with a hypodermic syringe. just as morphine is injected. He do clares that the day following this experi ment, after two injections of this vital essence, be felt himself transformed. Before that time half an hour's work standing up in his laboratory exhausted him. Now he declares he can study three hours uninterruptedly without the least repose. His appetite has increased, his sleep is sweet and refreshing, his stomach performs its functions admira bly, and his intellectual labor is per formed with wonderful ease and clear ness. His feeling has also been youthful. Dr. Brown-Sequard declares that the dose he took was equivalent to ten years' rejuvenation. The statement by so eminent a doctor as Dr. Brown-Sequard that he has ais covered a means of renewing life is well calculated to cause the flurry it has in scientific circles. Dr. Brown-Sequard used to be well-known in Washington, and in fact, throughout America. Ten years ago he was probably the leading authority on nervous diseases. He had a great many personal and professional friends, and is a widely read medical author. Surgeon General Hamilton was asked by the Republic correspondent what he thought of the announcement that had cone from Paris. "I saw it," said Dr. Hamilton, "and I am very much sur "''rnJ it is true that Dr. Brown Sequard made such a statement as he has been reported to have made to the - Biological Society, I should ascribe it to the wandering fancies of an old man in bis dotage. Dr. Brown-Sequard is some -eighty years old and, naturally, his mindis not so clear and vigorous as it nsed to be. I used to know him well up to eight or ten years ago, and I know that he had never made any experiments in the direction indicated by this story. 40the statement that he has experi mented twenty years must be exagger ated. This effort to find some drug that will extend life or rejuvenate people is, as every sensible person as well as every physician must admit, chimerical. Ex perimentation to tlis end in the line in d'ested by this story of Dr. Brown-Se quard would neve- contemplate it. seri orsly unless he is, as I fear in this case. getting into his dotage. Why, if he did kill any animal and from a part of its body made a distillation to inject into a living person's blood, instead of pro longing the subject's life it would poison him. By the decomposition which sets in after death the portion of the body taken for the - elixir would become poisonous and dangerous instead of life g&iun. Every physician is anxious to prolong~ the lives of his patients. Desire for long life is universal, but no physi can in his right mind would think of injecting decoctions of defunct animals into a patient in the hope of extending his life. The way to strengthen life is to conserve it-not to try to renew it I think that it is impossible to pwlong life'indefinitely, but the way to do is not the way indicated by this story about Dr. Brown-Sequard. "What causes death? The wearing o']t of the organs of the bodtv. If we can present~ or retard the wearing out of these ofgans we can prevent or delay death. Now, suppose it is possible to find accurately by experiment the amount and kind of food necessary to the performance of a certain amount and kind of labor. Then you sit down with a-pencil and a piece of paper and make a schedule of your day's work. Suppose you say you are going to read one hour, that you will write three hours, that you will talk two hours, that you will drive two hours and sleep eight hours. .-raen..ghen you have your pro gramme for thelity's exegions all made out, you find out ho~fiuch brain food, how many ounces of muscle food, how much niti-ogeneous food, how much of each kind of food is required to do the work you have to do. Find out what food will best do the work, find out first how much of it you need to do the work you are going. to do, and then act ac cordingly. Then eat nothing but what -is necessary to do the work. In cold weather yon $ust eat food to keep you warm, too. 'Drink only what is neces sary. In this way you reduce the wear on "the organs of your body to just what is replaced .by the food and there is no surplus nourishment to get rid of. Of course it is not possible to find out jut what food and just how much of it is - necessary to do your work. If it was, you- might prolong your life indefinitely if von liked, according to this plan. But even if you could find out all this, don't you see there would be other diffi culties? Suppose you had taken your daily supply of food to do a day's work acording. to the programme we have laid at:- You start for your mile walk and a bulldog chases you two miles out of your way; you see your plan is all upset. You have eaten only enough muscle food to walk a mile, then a bull dog chasing you might be fatal. There might be a hundred circumstances during the day that would destroy your longevity plans. Aut if just the amount and kind of food necessary to a certain amount and kind of work could be found and mea sured, and if a person could eat just enough and the right kind of food to do0 the work he does, I do not think there is any doubt that he could prolong his life ~indefinitely. Some day medical sience will be far enoagh advanced to make this possible, and then people who are not exposed to unexpected exertion can prolong their lives far beyond the age reached by old people now, if not indefinitely.. "But this tale of an elixir of life is all bosh. There cannot be any such a thing. I do not think D~r. Brown-Sequard would descend to anything like charlatanism, but this sort of thing is nothing else. I should rather think that .if the story were true, which I doubt, it is the result of the wandering speculations of an old mn in his dotae Dr. Brown-Sequard is a man of too great knowledge and ex perience and too thorough a student to take-up such an idea as that indicated in newspaper stories-au idea that the veriest tyro would recognize at once as chimerical. "Probably ever since the study of medicine began people have been pre tending to find an elixir of life. The philosopier's stone and the elixir of life used to go hand in hand. ,Medical his tory is full of accounts of operations of eharlatans who pretended to have dis covered an elixir of life. One very suc cessful one was Dr. Graham. He grad uated in Edinburgh and opened a mag nificett house in London he called the Palace of Health. He delivered lectures on longevity and preservation at a guinea apiece and sold a preparation that he claimed would enable one to live forever for ?1,000. Many noblemen were his patrons. But Dr. Graham died when he was fifty-two years old. "In all ages and countries there have been imposters' with elixirs of life. This idea of making the elixir of parts of human or animal bodies is going away back into the Dark Ages, when medi :'ne made of human skeletons was sup posed to be of especial efficacy. If there is any part of a human body or of an animal's body that has any medicinal virtue it has not been discovered yet." "Would the infusion of blood from the body of a strong, healthy person into the veing of a weak or ill person pro long the life of the latter' CURtES For OLD AGE. "Not a bit. No permanent good could be done by any such an operation. This prolonging life by medicines is all bosh. But the ideas those old fellows have about it are amusing sometimes. Here is an old English book of 'Cures for Old Age.' Lord Francis Bacon wrote a large part of it. In his cure lie enu merates gold, pearls, emeralds and other precious stones as efficacious for the cure of old age. But he says 'the bezoar stone and unicorn's horn have lost credit with us' as of value in pro longing life. - A large part of this book is by Friar Bacon. who (lied in 1292. During his life he was imprisoned for magic and witchcraft. He says the following ingredients form a sure cure for old age: Gold, coral, rose mary, the bone of a stag's breast, aloes wood and part - of a snake. In -The Code of Ihealth,' by Sir John Sin clair, printed in 1807, is a recipe for an elixir of life, used extensively by a Swedish doctor. By its use the doctor lived to be 104 ye..rs- old, and other members of his fataily to be over one hundred. The elixir is made as follows: One ounce and one dram of sugar of aloes, one dram of zedoria, one dram of. gentiana, one dram of saffron, from the Levant, one dram of fine rhubarb and one dram of theciaqua of Venice. The elixir was said to have wonderful effi ciency in prolonging life. Really it has very slight medicinal properties, if any. Hoffman, a celebrated French doctor, was also the discoverer of an elixir of life that was famous. 'Hoffman's Mix ture,' a prescription of some old doctors, is a medicine still in use by doctors and is often prescribed. There have been lots of these elixirs made of all sorts of odd things. They were rife when alchemy and magic were rife, and when the doc tors were astrologists and theosophists. Even in more modern years there have been so-called ehixirs of life, and quacks have become rich on their sale." DEATH OF MRS. TYLER. Widow of the Late Er-President John - Tyler. RICHMoND, Va., July 10.-Mrs. John Tyler, wife of Ex-President Tyler, died at the Exchange Hotel this evening from a congestive chill. Mrs. Tyler bad only been at the hotel since Sunday evening, having come from a visit to burg, and was to have left here Monday on a visit to another son on the James River, but feeling unwell she. kept her room. Tuesday at 11 o'clock she was taken with a chili. D~r. Edward McGuire was sent for, and he was soon joined by Dr. Hunter McGuire; but medical skil proved of no avail, and she died at 10:15 o'clock this p. m. Mrs. Tyler leaves four childrei-Lyon G. Tyler,'president of William and Mary College, Virginia; Gardine G. Tyler, who lives in Charles County, Va.; Dr. Lacklan Tyler of Washington city, and Mrs. Willham Ellis of Montgomery County, Md. 11er children have beeno telegraphed for, but it is doubtful if any of them will be able to reach the city to-night. Mrs. Tyler's Funeral. RICHMOND, Va., Ju'u 11.--All of Mrs. Tyler's children, excepiTmg Lachlan Ty ler, who resides at Elkhorn, W. Va., and Mrs. Ellis, who lives in Montgom ery County, Va., have arrived here. Arrangements for the funeral were coin pleted to-day. The ceremonies will be gin at the Exchange Hall, wvhere Mrs. Tlers remains lie in state. The fu neral services proper will take place at St. Peter's Cathedral to-morrow morn ing at 11 o'clock. Among the honorary pall-bearers are Gov. Fitzhugh Lee, Mayor H. Taylor Ellison, Speaker Caldwell of the House of Representatives, all the Judges of the City Courts and other distinguished citizens. The active pall-hearers include the names of most of the junior mem bers of the bar, Congressman G. D) Wise andl others. After the ceremonmes at the Cathedral, Mrs. Tyler's remains will be conveyed to Hiolywood Cemetery and interred between the graves of her late husband ex-President Tyler, and daughter, Mrs. Win. IL Spencer. There will be a large attendance at the fu neral. TARRED AND FEATHERED. A Minnesota Physician Punished for Maltreating His Wife. CLaYrON, Minn., July 7.-For some time past Drm. Stephen B. Newell, a wealthy retired physician aiid one of the largest~landed preprietors in Minnesota, has beeni in the habit of abusing his wife, an invalid, who has been bed riden for years. lie would go home druik at all hours of the night and order the poor woman to cook supper for him. Being ulnab~le to comply with his demand, she was compelled to suffer the most shocking ill-treatment. New ell was repeatedly warned by neighbors and residlents of this lac~e to turn over a new leaf, but he paid no attention to the remonstrance, even threatening to shoot the first man that interfered with him. Last night, while drunk, he attacked his wite with an umbrella, and beat her until she lost consciousness. News of the affair was brought here and officers arrested Newell. The officers returned with their prsoe at 1 o'clock this morning. ando were- met on the outskirts of the vilage by a band of miasked men, who biound amnd gagged Newell, piaced him astride of a ril and bore him through the pirinciplol5 sre-ets. The mob took hin to the court house, deprived int of his clothing and coveredl him with a mixture of tar, feathers and sand. Newell was then liberated and was made to promise that he would leave Murray County within forty-eight hours. lie retturned home and word ws receivedl from there to-night that both Newell and lhis wife are dlanger ousy ill from thle etreets of the treat met they received, Mrs. Newell not be ing expected to survive the night. Newell's brother (vs he Will institute proeeiigs against the mob, which was made up of the most prommitent people f the villagre and Contv. PUGILISM FROM A CHICAGO PULPIT A Presbyterian Divine Finds the Recent Meeting Full of Valuable Suggestions. (From the Chicago Tribune.) "If Mr. Brobst has never been a pro fessional trainer his sermon is a great compliment to his imagination," said a gentleman from Clark street who was attracted to the Westminster Presbyte rian Church last evening by the an nouncement that the minister would preach on "Prize Fights." Mr. Brobst turned the thoughts of his audience into pugdistic channels at the outset by reading about "God's strong right arm" in the ninth verse of the ninety-eighth Psalm. He quickly fol lowed this by a lesson from Paul's pas sage: "I have fought a good fight." Then he prayed that the audience might enter the arena of Christian faith. Fi nally be selected for the choir the most combative hymn in the song book, "Brightly Gleams Our Banner!" Having thus prepared is audience, Mr. Brobst rolled up his sleeves a little from the. cuffs, and attacked the subject of the discourse. His text was the sen teuce in Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth: "So fight I, not as one beat ing the air." 'The gaze of this nation and foreign countries," he said, "is now centered on two men. The telegraph is throbbing with their movements. The daily press is given up to accounts of their condi tion. The pictorial press is filled with cuts of their every muscle. The world has followed them South to New Or leans. Three Governors have issued proclamations to prevent their meeting. But they will meet, and they will meet to-morrow! - "Who are those two men? They are two rained pugilists-two men of brawn . One is John L. Sullivan, who has amiassed a fortune of over $600,000 through his prowess in the prize ring. The other is Jake Kilrain, who thinks he can knock the Boston cham pion out. "See them as they face each other for the fight!" Mr. Brobst squared himself behind the pulpit. Ile threw his fists before his breast in a defensive, yet ready attitude. Ile slugged from the shoulder, he sparred, he countered, he even closed with the pulpit, and could easily have thrown it over the ropes- from the ros tram. People almost rose in their seats in the intensity of their interest. "Has the world advanced since the days of the Coliseum?" asked Mr. Brobst, after a pause in which he rubbed him self down with his handkerchief. "Has the world advanced? See the money poured out like water to witness this modern encounter. It used to be poured out in Rome in the same way. But Caesar then poured it out. The nobility poured out. Maidens poured it out. But the President of the United States is not on his way to New Orleans. And the th-ee Governors who issued their proclamations will not act as referees. No ladies will be present. In view of this difference in the class of attendants then and now, 1 say the world has ad vanced. "Look at the preparation these two men have gone through," he said. "A short time ago they were drnkers, sen sual, beastly. But for weeks and months they have been. temperate-they have denied themselves. They have passed through the severest training. Talk about taking up your cross, Christiars! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Take a lesson in hardship and denial from these pugilists! Think how they 1-rve worked to be ready for a fight which may last only a half hour. "What a lesson this is to us!" went on Mr. Brobst. "Many of us are letting the time for preparation slip by when we have heaven's battle to fight. "See the force they exert in the ring,' said Mr. Brobst, "the will power, the determination . Tey hurl themselves agaist ach the. Thy sruge for hour after hour, round after round, until one falls. "They bend their every muscle and every thought to the fight," continued Mr. Brobst. "They are willing to kill themselves to achieve victory. Take another lesson, Christians! "Then look at their skill. They have spent years learning the art of parrying, and striking, and grappling. Their training has aroused the faculties of their brains so that they are rational in their work. They know what they are doing ini the thickest of the fray. Min isters hear it said that if they want to preach good sermons they should go into the pulpit and leave it to God to tell them what to say. But it takes skill to preach a good sermon. Minis ters, take a lesson from the prize fight - ers! Christians, take another lesson! "Look, next, at the courage of these two men. We hear of Sullivan's boast -ing and Kilrain's self-confidene. If we could get near enough to them to-night, just on the eve of the battle to-morrow morning, I expect we could hear their earts beat with anxiety. Reports get started that this one and then that one is going to back down. You hear it said that their trainers have to spur them up to make them come to the scratch, Well, it takes courage to walk into a prize ring and stand up before a hu man catapult, and take the chance of of having your jawbone knocked out of recognition. But did you ever hear of prize fighters failing 'to come to time? These men will conme to time in the morning just as the Brooklyni champion a few weeks ago showed up fresh after losing one side of his face. "The eyes of the world are on these men." said Mr. Brobst, "and they will face each other. Take another lesson from their courage,. Christians! "Look at the toughness of these two men. They arc no delicate fellows. They are not to be scared by a fire racker. They arec not to be paralyzed by a scratch. They stand up .a that ian ini Brooklyn did anid take ox-felling blows. What contempt these men in their toughness have for suffering. Take :mothier lesson, Christians. We are called on to suffer. Learn how to do it from these pugilists!" Mr. Brobst made a rush at the pulpit, grappled with it in an eloquent perora tion, and pronounced the benediction over an audience which would have acked him on the spot against any featherweight in the ministry. THE CRONIN CASE. Extradition of Martin Burke-Habeas Corpus Refused in'.the Case of Beggs. WINNIPEG, Man., July 1.--Argument in the proceedings for the extradition of Martin Burke, under indictment in Chi ago for the murder of Cronin, was oncluded here this afternoon, and Judge Bain gave an order for his extra dition. CnICAGo, July 10.-Judge Tuley in the ircuit Court this morning declined to issue a writ of habeas corpus in the case f John F. Beggs, Senior Guardian f No. 20 Clan-na-Gael, now in jail ud'-r indictment charging him with onspiracy to murder Dr. Cronin. The writ was asked in order that the pris ner might be brought into court for a earing on the question of his admission o bail. The State opposed it in order o avoid disclosing the nature of the vidence against accused at the present tine. Death of a Prominent Railroad Man. WILMINGTON, N. C., July 12.-Col. L. C. ones. superintendent of the Carolina Jentral Railroad, (lied here of heart ailure to-night, after a sic.kness of four as. He was an accomplished civil ngineer and one of the most popular mn in the btate. "BOYLEITEISM." A NEW RELIGIOUS SECT SPRlNGING UP IN SOUTH CAROLINA. It Finds Its Votaries Among the Low. est and Most Ignorant Classes in Sumter, Darlington, Kershaw and Chesterfield Counties-Some Peculiaa and Extraordinazy Doctrines-A Good Field for Missionary Work. Ices. W. L. Wail in Souther n Cheritian Advoecat It may not be entirely uninteresting to the readers of The Advocate to heal something of a new sect that has sprung up in Sumter and some of the adjoining Counties. Some years ago, a man b3 the name of Boyle, who had been s Methodist, and who resided near Lynch burg, in Sumter County, conceived the idea of founding a new sect. His fol lowers were first called "True Light Baptist," but they are commonly known as "Boyleites." They have spread up both sides of Lynch's River througi Sumter, Darlington, Kershaw and Chesterfield Counties, and perhaps farther, taking hold of the lowest and m'ost ignorant classes. It is not i large denomination, and, thanks to the intelligence of our land, never can be but its followers are very stubborn it their belief, so that it is almost impossi 1'e to reclaim one of them. Their mosi prominent and popular doctrine is that it is an unpardonable sin tor a preaches to receive pay for his work, and this closes their ears to the efforts of the regular ministry. 'They have no regular ministers, but claim that every member of their church is inspired of God to in terpret the Scriptures, thus making-ever) one of both sexes ministers of the gos pel. It is not uncommon for women tc preach among them. Another favoritt dogma is that they constitute the onl3 true followers of God, and that all othei denominations are heading straight foi the devil. They believe in immersion, of course; but with this distinction, that il must be administered by one oftheircom munion to be of any avail. They reject the Old Testament entirely, and receive onl3 such portions of the New Testament a: suit their purpose, rejecting any pas sages that are opposed to their peculiar beliefs as uninspired. They claim tha: the observance of the Sabbath was ab rogated along with the Levitical law and hence reject Sunday as a day to bi observed in the worship of God. The: perform ordinary work on Sunday, o1 engage in any sports that they desire and have been seen fiddling and dancing on that day. They believe in the dam nation of the infants of unbelieving (i. e non-Boyleite) parents who die in in fancy. They believe in the social equal ity of the races. Just what else they believe. in I an unable to say. Fortunately my work i: not plagued with.very many of them but they flourish around Marshall' Church in the East Kershaw Circuit and have churches of their o*n it some portions of Kershaw County As a rule dense ignorance prevail: where they flourish. I heard a man sal not long since, that he once taugh1 school in the neighborhood where the3 now claim the majority of thepeople ai their. adherents, and that only two out of the sixty pupils it his school knew their letter, when they first came to him. Gener ally, they will not permit a minister o the gospel to read the Scriptures or en gage in prayer in their houses; and i they concede that much to him, the: laugh and talk while heprays,and pay D< attention whatever to him.Just what to d< with such .'characters is a problem'. believe that tha employment of conse crated missionary school teachers among them, who will gradually elevate then socially and morally, is the only trut solution. Crop Report. The estimates given below are based upon replies received from 212 special correspondents of the Department oa Agriculture, covering every County it the State. One hundred and two cor respondents report the weather favor able and nineteen unfavorable. COTION. There has been a decided improve meut in the condition of cotton since June 1st, the seasons having been very favorable throughout the month. Seve ral correspondents report the croi "grassy" on account of excessive rain fall, but generally the crop has beer well worked and is "clean." The con dition on July 1st is: In upper Carolina 90; middle Carolina 84; lower Carolhna 91. Average for -the State 88, against 84 at the same date in 1888, and 76 or thc 1st of last month. CORN. The reports show good prospectsfo an average crop, though in some sections crops on bottom lands have been dam. aged by freshets and in other sections the bill bug and bud worm have caused slight damage. The condition of upper Carolina is reported at 100; middle Carolina 96, and lower Carolina 95. Average for the State 97, against 81 at the same date last year and 84 on the 1st of last month. RICE. There has been a slight improvement in condition of rice since the 1st of last month, and it is-reported in good condi tion. It is estimated that there has been a decrease since last year of 3 per cent. in the area of the rice crop. The con dition on Jrly 1 is: Upper Carolina 95, middle Carolina 96, and lower Carolina 96-average for the State 96, against 93 at the same date in 1888, and 89 on the 1st of last month. WHEAT AND OATS. The small grain crop was harvested in fine condition. Wheat was slightly in jured by rust. The yield is estimated at S bushels, or very nearly an average. yhie product is rep~orted as being 1 per cent. greater than last year. The quality is reported as being better by 91 corre s~ondents, same by 3:3 and inferior by 11. The yield of oats is estimated at 11 bushels per acre. Fall sown yielded 15, and spring 7 bushels per acre. The total product is estimated at 15 per cent, less than last year. Th% quality is reported better by 41 correspondents, same by 73 and inferioir by 80. SMALLER CRoPs. The smaller crops are reported in good ondition-Sorghum at 93; sugar cane, 94; sweet potatoes, 89; irish potatoes, 82; garden products, 85; peaches. 109; apples, 79; pears, 84; grapes, 98; berries, 97; watermelons, 93. AcQuitted of Libel. The case against Newman Crenshaw, . K. Hunter and George W. Sadler, in. ieted for libel against several promi ent people in Walhalla and West Union y posting obscene hand-bills, after pending over two years, was brought to trial at Walhalla last week and resulted in an acquittal. The trial was com menced Thursday morning, and was given to the jury at 6:30 Friday after noon, and a verdict of "not guilty" was returned at 1:30 Saturday morn ing. -Crenshaw was represented by ex Judge T. H. Cooke of Greenville, and Johnstone & Cromes of Newberry, rep resented Hunter and Sadler. The pros cution was conducted by Solicitor An cl and ex-Solicitor J. L. Orr. Religious Intolerance in Russia. S. PETERSBURG, July 12.-The gov ernment has totally suppressed the Lu thern Church in Russia. GEBONIMO, THE TRAIN BOBBER. A Fearless Bandit Who Has Made a For tune by His Lawless Acts. "Of all the smooth and slippery out laws now loose and enjoying perfect freedom, the smoothest and slipperiest is Geronimo, the train robber of Arizona and Mexico," said A. A. Herring, the mining man of Castle Dome, Ariz. I do aot refer to the wily Apache chief, who a short time ago led in so many depre dations on the frontier, but to his white namesake, who, if any thing, possesses more cunning. "Not much seems to be known of Geronimo in many Pacific coast States and Territories outside of Arizona and the mountainous regions to the South. He flies from one side of the Mexican line to the other in a few hours, and is as hard to get sight of as a will-o'-the wisp. He goes into .the most civilized towns of the frontier whenever he wants to, and nobody seems to have the nerve to tackle him. "Geronimo was connected with two or three of the heaviest robberies on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road a year or so ago. He lent a hand in the last hold-up on the Southern Pacific. No detectives are after him, or if they are they make no headway in capturing him. He seems to have the right to go anywhere unmolested. "His fnances are considerably. im proved by his robberies of Wells, Fargo & Co. Mine owners, too, caught out with well-filled pockets, as well as nume rous travelers, have paid tribute to him. Mexican and American cattle and horse owners have also suffered. These depredations have been car ried on for three and possi bly for five years. A very round sum must have gone into Geronimo's ex chequer in consequence. People most intimate with the circumstances of his plundering figure his gains at from $100,000 to $200,000. Perhaps not less than twenty men have been killed also. Yet he has been regarded as a myth by many who have only beard about him in a curious way. "I assure you be is about the liveliest blood, muscle and bone myth. however, that there is agoing. There are no flies on him, and evidently it is a good man who will get him-a second Bob Gar land, or somebody of that sort. He knows the mountains as well as Billy the Kid ever did, and better than any out law now living. - He came to Tombstone first three years ago, and went under the name of White. "He stayed for a short time around the gambling houses. He never was known to engage in honest labor. lie was a fair gambler, though lte never played for big stakes. He seemed to play for pastime more than anything else. In a short. time he disappeared and went to Clifton. Then be began his open career of crime. His last hauls were on the Atchison and Southern Pa cific roads, where, it is believed, he got $20,000 each time. Then he went to Mexico and was captured by the regular troops while driving away some horses. But the Sonora jails were not strong enough to hold him, and he is now back in Arizona. He often visits Tombstone, and a short time ago was seen playing billiards in the Comet saloon there. "He has no headquarters, and his de vices to elude pursuers are always suc. cessful. Nothing is known of his pres ence till the day after he has left a place, and there is no doubt that those who know where he is keep still about it, for fear of death at his hands. His com panion is a renegadge Mexican named Frederico. It has been said that Ge ronmmo is a Mexican, but this is a mis take. He is white, or very nearly so. "Geronimo is a dead shot and officers or anybody else are not in a hurry to try their skill against him. Some stiff rewards have been offered by the rail road and express companies for him and private parties have also offered "The Governors of Arizona and So nora have offered something like $3,000 each. There is money in his scalp if it can be got, but to get it is the trouble." --San Francisco Examiner. Poisoned Water. Dr. Cyrus Edson of the Health De partment of this city says that the water supply-from dug or driven wells-of twenty towns he visited last year was impure, and in most cases its pollution caused prevalence of typhoid fever. Wherever persons are congregated in houses and villages this "filth disease" -discreditable to the boasted civilizai tion of the nineteenth centur!-is epi demic. From Greenland to India, from England to China, it holds fatal sway. Yet it is easily preventable, but its rav ages grow more deadly from year to year, the teachings of science, confirmed by experience, seeming to be lost on the people at large. . Elaborating and illus trating this expression, he talked as fol lows to a recent Commercial Advertiser interviewer: "The fever is rarely due to any other cause than polluted water, milk or meat, and is most frequently propagated by contaminated well water. It is safe to say that there is not a well in the coun try the water of which it is safe to drink. Hence most of the cases of typhoid oc curring in this city in the fall are caused by water drunk from wells during the summier outing. Those wells furnish nice, sweet-tasting water, which will im press the drinker with its purity; but they are really what the Bible calls 'whited sepulchi-es.' The wells are sunk near the houses, often under the floors of the kitchens, near which are built the cesspools. The wells draw their supply of water from inverted cones, the base of which is the ground surface The cesspools contaminate the cones, and the germs of typhoid are thus spread. "Another cause of thie fever is ice lice, from infected water which have been shown to be a source of danger. The germ is not destroyed by extr:eme cold. The germs that caused the Plymonth epidemic were exposed to a temperature of twenty-two degrees be low zero. Dr. Fordyce Barker recently showed that of twenty-two cases of ty phoid fever developed at a popular wa tering place in this State during one of last summer's months, it was found that only those who used ice from a lake near by were affected. This ice was cut from a point near the entrance of a sewer, which drained the town or a portion of it. The use of this ice was stopped, and the epidemic ceased. Milk may be the carrier of typhoid germs, and may be come infected either through the water used in washing cans or get the germs through the digestive system of the cow." The conclusions, based upon well authenticated data, are thus summed up by Dr. Edson, and they impress anew, for immediate and universal application, the constant need of cleanliness and use of the safeguard of a high degree of heat applied to water, milk and meat for humran consumption. "First, the typhoid is due to a germ, in bacillus typhosus; second. this germ is contained in the sputa of typhoid fever patients; and, thirdly, the bacillus typhosus is easily destroyed by disinfec tion with efficient agents, such as heat, mercuric bichloride and carbolic acid. T'yphoid fever never infects the atmos phere; never arises de noco, and the causes of the disease in the order of their frequency arc as follows: First, infected water; second, infected milk; third, infected ice; fourth, digital infec ions; fifth, infected meat."--Exchange. GERMANY'S latest effort is to monopo ize the product of Krupp's cannon fac toies Rnt Krupp can't see it. CLAIMS TO BE CHRIST. HUNDREDS OF NEGROES LED BY AN IMPOSTER. Abandoning All Work to Follow a Luna tic to the "Promised Land" in the North. SAVANNAU, Ga., July 10.-Forty miles below here, in the extreme Southern part of Liberty County, exists an astonishing and anomalous state of affairs. The ne groes have abandoned their patches, have turned their cattle in on their crops, are deserting the turpentine farms, saw mills and plantations, and are flocking around a pseudo Christ, who is preaching to them daily. So thoroughly are they infected with a re ligious craze that a surprising and inter esting evolution is taking place in their material and social condition. In obedience to the impostor's com mands, wives have separated from their husbands, children have left their pa rents, and in many instances whole families have deserted their homes to follow him. He tells them that on Fri day, August 16, he will load them Northward to the promised land, Ca naan, and in the meantime they must prepare themselves by prayer and fast ing for the march. He is a white man, betweeg thirty and thirty-five years of age, a little above average height, and of spare build. Christopher Orth is the name of his fleshly ~body, he says, and Jesus Christ of his spiritual body. Long ringlets fall from his head, which is large and of unusually fine proportions. Over 400 men, women and children have been accepted by him and con stantly attend him. Women, however, constitute the greater part of his flock. The colored people in that benighted dis trict place wonderful faith in him, and the band of 400 does not begin to repre sent the number that believe in him. For two weeks after his sud1en ap pearance the negro preachers did their utmost to persuade their people not t< listen to the man. Finding that thei advice was not heeded the preacher sought the influence and aid of the prominent white citizens of the County So the consulted Capt. E. P. Miller, a wealthy planter; ex-Congressman T. M. Norwood, who has a country place it: the County; Capt. Gus Fleming and others. The whites were deeply inter ested, too, for as the craze spread th< question of labor became a serious one. Whether the man was a lunatic or shari: working the negroes for money was nol certain. The decision was reached tt arrest Orth for vagrancy, and a warrant was issued upon the oath of a color cd preacher and politician named Stiles, who came within seven votes of being elected a member of the present Georgia Legislature. Colonel Norwood was re tained to prosecute Orth. Race trouble: were feared, but Orth told his follower to do no violence. He had prophesied that he would be seized and had declared that no harm would come to him. He believers would -have torn the officer piecemeal at the slightest word of command from their "Christ," as the called him, but he went willingly and was followed twelve miles on foot under a scorching June sun to the trial place, Flemington, by 300 men and women. Fully half of these were armed, maul of the women carrying muskets and shotguns. A hundred or more who sup posed that the trial was to take place at the County seat, Hinesville, took a short route across country through the wood. and swamps, and missed what suhse quently occurred. When arraigned before the County magistrate Orth exhibited several dol lars, and the charge of vagrancy and being without means of support was dismissed. Another warrant was im mediately issued charging him witi being a lunatic. The law gave him ter days before a commission of lunacy cot' - * rei.~T4N3 set, last wee , the impostor appeared with a following twice as large as he had before. Colonel Norwood subjected him toa long and rigid examination. Outside the crowd kept crying a werd chant: "They have takea our Chrisf! Buckra man want to kill our Christ, but they can't"' Orth stated that he formerly lived in Centrevile, Ohio. His familiarity with the Bible astonished court, jury and spectators. "if you are Christ show us a miracle, suggested Mr. Norwood. "Get thee behind me, Satan; I will not be tempted by you" was the response. "You are charged with being a luna tic, and unless this jury believes other wise you will be sent to an asylum. Show us the nailprints in your hands and convince the jury that you arc th( Christ who was crucified," said the lawyer. "This is the natural body which you see, corruptible, perishable. It is not the bo/i' which was fastened to the cross on' Calvary. The spirit, though, which is in me is the same living spirit which was in the body that was hung beside Barabbag. My spirit is ini every body." "Was it in George Washington?" "Yes, and ini Abraham Lincoln, too.' "Was it in Jefferson Davis?" "It was." Nothing could induce the self-styled Christ to undertak~e to perform a mira cle. He refused to turn water into wine on the ground that it would be taken as sanctioning the use of ardent and fer mented spirits. "I did that once, and the act has been misconstrued ever since," he observed. "I am about to tihe a chew of to bacco. If you can palsy my arm and stop me, I and the jury will believe in you," said the ex-Congressman. "I don't care whether you chew or not, and I don't watnt to maim you for life," Orthi retorted. T he commission de lunatico inquir endo quickly concluded that Orth is in' sane, and recommended that he be sent to the State Lunatic Asylum at Milledge ville. That institution, however, is overcrowded, and the superin tendent has declined to take more pa tiets for the present. Liberty County has no jail, and to send Orth here and have him confined would be an expense on the County. So the lunatic was re leased until some provision is made for his ease by order of one of the Judges of the Co'unty. He continues to preach. The negroes regard his release as un questionable evidence of his divinity and power, and the fanaticism is spread ing with greater rapidity than at any previous time. If the authorities do not remove him in a few days the whites 'and blacks will run him out of the County without doing him any violence. For this year, though, the negroes' rops are gone, and when winter comes they will have to be supported. Killed by a Fall. George Todd, a son of Mr. John N. Todd, aged sixteen years, was thrown from a horse in his father's yard, on July 2nd, and killed. The horse stum bledl and fell, throwing George h~adlong on .the ground. He never sp)oke, and after lingering two days, died without regaining consciousness. The fall pro duced concussion of the brain. He was buried at Bethel Presbyterian Church on the 5th instant, Rev. J. E. Fogartie onducting the funeral services.- Wal alla Courier. PENsION COMMISSIONER TANNER. in his zeal for the success of the pension grab bers, has not lost sight of his own house hold. He has two daughters employed in the pension office-one at $720 and the other at $1,800 a year. Corporal Tanner evidently believes in pensions An Unwelcome Guest. "There is a guest we all detest, Forever at our side; He clings to as so fondly, Whatever may betide. "We hate him and abhor him, But when we cross his will lie glares at us sardonically And grasps us tighter still. "He is the terror of all lovers Whbt need to say more? For if he comes in the window Love flies out of the door. "He is a prince (.f empty pockets, Oat at elbow, out at knee: IIe's the kinz of all the millions And his name is Poverty." HE'S A TRUMP ANY WAY. Why a Western Democratic Editor Doesn't Want to be IPostmaster Any More. The following document has been re ceived at Washington from the editor postmaster at Mount Carmel, Ill.: MoUNT CARMEL, June 7, 1889. To Ron. B. Harrison, President, Etc. Sm: By the grace of God and Grover Cleveland I am postmaster at Mount Carmel. My official term will expire January 20th, 1890. In addition to editing the mails of this city I am also the editor of the Mount Carmel Register, a live, local Democ, .tic newspaper, es tablished in 1839, and published at $1.25 a year, cash in advance; a discount of twenty per cent. to ministers and Presidents. While the office has agreed with me, and I have in the main agreed with.the office, and while I might reasonably en tertain the hope of holding on for eight months longer, yet I feel it my duty to tender you my resignation. Being a Democrat, I have preached that "to the victors belong the -spoils." I feel disposed to practice that which I preach Your immediate predecessor hoped to build up his party by keeping the oppo sition in office. You are probably aware, if you are at all familiar with the vocabulary of true and trite sayings, that his name is now Dennis. I am moved further to tender you my resignation because of the anxiety of a barnyard full of patriots to succeed me. I believe that a tariff is a tax. They do not. Therefore they are of your own kith and kindred, and he who provides not for his own household is worse than an infidel. I am toid that you are not built that way. But to resume the thread of my dis course: The boys who are anxious to be my successor are very hungry; they have been feeding on shucks and icicles for four long, weary years; the official calf is fat and they yearn to taste its tender joints. They fought (among themselves), bled (at the nose), and are willing to die for the G. 0. P. When I asserted that you were the Chinaman's candidate and ate rat tail soup with chopsticks, they swore by Dudley and Foster that it was a campaign canard, and threatened to detail blocks of five to fry the fat out of me. Fortunately for me their threats were never carried into execution. They car ried torches, drank with the coons, sang "Granpa's hat will, just fit Benny," and did divers and many foolish things, none of which would they have been guilty of doing had they not scented an aroma of postoffice on the crisp morning air. And the pmans of praise which they sounded when it be -came evident that you "had got there, Eli," will never be a Sahara in my mem ory. For these and other reasons unneces sary to mention, I tender you my resig nation, with the hope that my successor will be animated by a similar spirit in 1893. If he is, your Democratic sue cessos will be spared the painful neces sity oM "turning the rascal out." I am respectfully yours, FRANK W. HAvILL, P. M. be postmaster. COTTON SEED OIL INDUSTRY. Great Activity in the Building of New Mills- The Trust Gobbles the Southern Oil Company. BALTIMORE, July 10.-The 3fanufae turers' Record says: There has lately been unprecedented activty in the building of new cot-ton seed oil mills, most of which are independent of the Cotton Oil Trust, though the Trust has, it is generally reported, recently virtu ally secured control of the Southern Oil Company, with its eight large mills. The Record published this week a com plete list of all the cotton seed oil mills in the South. showing 213 m'ills, with an aggregate capital of about $20,000,000, against forty mills, with a capital of $3,500,000 in 1880. THE EA'RTHQUAKER AGAIN. A Slight Shock Experienced in Charles ton Last Night. CHARLEsTON, July 11.--[Special to The Registr]-A slight shock of earthquake was felt here at 9:47 to-night. The du ration of the shock was about three seconds. the movement North to South and the motion vibratory, accompanied by a slight noise. The Shock Felt at Kingville. RINGvILLE, July 11.-[Special to The Register.]- A slight shock of earthquake was felt here this evening at 9:42 o'clock. Laughed Himself to Death. ATLANTA, Ga., July 9.-Jake Morris, janitor of the City Hall, and who be longed to every secret order in the city, laughed himself to death last might. He attended the Masonic lodge of which he was a member. .When he left the lodge room lie was accompanied by Professomr Otto Sphar, who had lost his hat and was compelled to go bareheaded until they reached Morris's room. Professor Sphar noticed that his friend laughed immoderately, a thing which seldom happened. This miorninig Morris was found dead by the servant. The theory is that he laughed so immoderately as to bring on palpitation of the heart, to which he was subject. Morris invested all his earnings in life insurance and leaves his two daughters about $24,000. Her Face was Her Fortune. She was as pretty as a picture and so aimated and lively that it did one good to look at her. She was all this, but she is not now. Poor soul, the roses linger o more in tier cheeks, the former lustre f her eyes is gone. She is a woe-begone ooking piece of hunianity now. She as one of those troubles so common to omen, andl needs Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It recuperates the wasted trength, puts the whole system right, estores the roses and the lustre and akes the woman what she once was, right., well and happy. "Favorite rescription" is the only medticine for omen, sold by diruggists, undera posi. ire fpuIrre(I/ee, from thle manutfact urers, hat it will give satisfaction in every' ese or money will be refunded. Tism uarantee has been printed on the bottle rapper, andl faithfully carried out for any years. For all derangements of the liver, tomach and bowels, take Dr. Pierce's ellets. One a dose. IT SEEMs certain that Governor Gor on will have no opposition in his aspi ation to a' seat in the United States enate. General Gordon would seem o be about the most successful man in mericani politics. He gets all he ans, for the sking merely. A Brave Lady. A lady well known in Plainfield (N. .) society, who has a great aversion to a public use of her name, is gifted wvta an amount of heroism, pluckyandcalculating courage quit beyond that of most men. At two different times last summer she had occasion to exar ise this trait of her character. Sho was visiting in Wheeling, W. Va., when the first occurred. A little child, not more than three years old, was playing in a narrow alleyway, and was seated upon the stone pavement. Turn ing suddenly from the street came a large, heavy truck, to which were attached large Norman horses. The driver did not see the child until too late, when, sudalenly pulling up the horses, he struck the great iron gate that stood open at the alley entrance. The gate, torn from its hinges, tottering, fell to ward the helpless child, now threatened with danger. This little Plainfield woman was passing at the time. In horror she saw the child's danger- from the now plunging horses and falling gate. Quicker than it takes to read it she sprang from the sidewalk to where the child, affrighted, sat, and, grasping it, dragged it away just as the sharp iron pick ets caught her own skirt, tearing it, but not injuring her. And she did not faint or tremble, either, but simply pinned up her skirt and hastened home, more concerned at her disheveled appearance than at anything else. A little later in the season, while on a short visit to a New Jersey seaside resort, a cry of fire was raised in the hotel where she was staying. It was in the afternoon, and this little Plainfield lady was taking a nap. The fire alarm awakened her, and going to the hall she found it filled with smoke. She heard the wailing cry of a child's voice com ing from a room near by. With not a thought of danger she groped her way along the floor where the smoke was least suffocat ing, and made her way into the room whence came the child's voice. It was here that the 'iro was, and the little one had fallen upon the floor in its efforts to grooe out of reach of harm. Half smothered she rescued the child. The fire was soon put out, but the little lady took chances just the sa:no as though the danger had been more pressing and greater.-New York Press. Husband and Wife. If you sec a lady and gentleman disagreeup on trifling occasions, or correcting each other in company, you may be assured that they have tied the matrimonial noose. If you see a silent pair in a car or stage lolling carelessly, one at each window without seeming to know they have a companion, the sign is infallible. If you see a lady drop her glove, and a gen tleman by the side of her kindly telling her to pick it up, you need not hesitate in form ing an opinion; or If you meet a couple in the fields, the gen tieman twenty yards in advance of the lady, who, perhaps, is getting over a stile with dif ficulty, or picking her way through a muddy patch; or If you see a lady whose beauty and accom plishmentsattract the attention of every gen tleman in the room but one, you can have no difficulty in determining their relationship to each other-the one is her husband. If you see a gentleman particularly cour teous, obliging and good natured, relaxing into smiles, sayin'g sharp things, and toying with every pretty woman in the room, ex cept one, to whom he appears particularly cold and formal, and is unreasonably cross who that one is nobody can be at a loss to discover. If you see an old couple jarring, checking and thwarting each other, in differing opin Ion.before the opinion is expressed, eternally anticipating and breaking the thread of each other's discourse, yet using kind words, like honey bubles floating in vinegar, which are soon overwhelmed by a preponderence of the fluid, they are to all intents man and wife it is impossible to be mistaken. The rules above quoted are laid down as infallible in just interpretation; they may be resorted to with confidence, they are based upon unerring principles, and deducted from every day experience.-Atlanta Con stitution. The Favorite Timon for Suicide. Statistics show that the months in which the fewest suicides occur are October and November, while the greatest number occur In April, May and June. July iind Septem ber also have a goodly share, the latter pes most frequently in damp and gloomy weath er, for the months just mentioned as being the most prolific are certainly those in which the skies look brighte4 and the earth is fair est. Another remarkable fact in this con nection is that the progressive increase and decrease In the number of suicides coincide with the lengthening and shortening of the days, and, as M. Guerry has shown, not only the seasons of the year, but the days of the month and of the week, and even the hours of the day, exert an influence, the constancy of which cannot be mistaken. As a result of his elaborate research he found that the greatest number of suicides among men occurred during the first ten days of tihe month, and from Monday to Thursday of the week. This is accounted for by re membering that the majority of workingmen receive their wages either on the first of the ' month or the Inst of the week, anid that "pay day" is often followed by dissipation, de bauchery and remorse. Oettingen completed this interesting observation by. showing thai the larger number of suicides among women take place during the last half of the week, when they are most apt to feel the effects of man's prodigality and wrongdoing. In re gar dto the hours of the day, wo know, from Brierre de Boismont's examination of 1,993 cases of suicide in Paris, that the maximum number occurred between 6S a. m. and noon, and thereafter regularly declined, reaching the minimnum at the hour before sunrise. Charles W. Pilgrim, M. D., in Popular Sci ence Monthly. How It Was Settled. The novel fact that Gen. George L Becker was once elected to congress, but was beaten out of his seat by a game of seven-up, is prob ably known by very few at the present time. It was in the fall of 1857. The territory of Minnesota had just been organized, prepara tory to admission as a state the following year, and three men were elected to the lower house of congress, to wit: George L. Becker, of St Paul, James M. Cavannugh, of Cham field, and W. W. Phelps, of Red Wing, all Democrata. When the census of the terr tory was taken for the benefit of congress it turned out that the new state would be en titled to only two members of the lower house. There were three very much discons eted young men. for they were brimming with life and ambition, and neither of them relished the idea of giving up the captured prie. However, after a siege of contriving and bickering, in which neither gained a point over the other, young Becker laughing ly suggested that they decide the matter by a three handed game of seven-up. The other two jumped at the proposition, and in less than two hours proved to Mr. Becker that he ad made a very bad suggestion for his own interesta Becker accepted the defeat grace fully, but was unable to restrain a feeling of contempt for the hands the other fellows played.-$t. Paul Pioneer Press. Big Eiver and Great Dlamage. On Thursday of last week the Wa teree had fallen to about cighteen feet, when it suddenly took a turn and started to rise again at a rapid rate. It rose to twenty-eight feet four inches and overed nearly all the low land; along the river, doing immense damage to the growing corn and a good deal to cotton. For five years the farmers along the river have lost heavily, but each year they have gone to) wor-k amgainm with a desperate determination to regain their losses, if renewed energy and hard work would enable them to do so, but ach succeedhng year has blasted their oes u:ntil nouw utter ruin will be the lot of many of them.. Il y'i Piy But there is no hope for~ the piresen~t crops. They, like those in former years, are gone, and the work and money spent on them is lost-amden Iourjwd. Hanged for Murdering a Policeman. CHARLOTTE, N. (C., July iI.-Williamn Weddington (colored) was hanged here to-day at 12:30 inside the jail for- the murder of Policeman .Johin Pierce of Monroe, Union County. Mfay 5, 1888. Weddington made no remarks on the ~eatfold. Thle ei;.ht-v'ar-old son of ierce 'witnessedl the 'hanging of his rathe.'s slaer.