The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 15, 1893, Image 1
0T yOL. VII.
BOTH ItlCll AND HAPPY.
Present Condition Of The Clierokee
I ii(li;ilis.
The St Louis Republic.
Taiii.kquaii, 1. T., May 31.?One
of the saddest stories on reconl is
the removul of tlio Cherokee from
V their Eastern home some 50 years
* V Gold had been discovered in
Georgia and. there oxisted a general
illofeeling among whites towards the
Chofo'?fce8; and consequently the Indians
had to move away. About
20,00, all told, men, women anduhil'
dren, left the old nation at tue approach
of winter. History rentes
that the severity of the w&illffr, together
with the number of old and
firm emigrants, rendered them
unable to make over 5 to 15 miles a
a day. Before their long journey
t ended, disease attacked them with
frightful fatality. Many of them
, lay down by the roadside and died.
Finally the great caravan became a
ly'Jnstrous funeral procession, the
tQ-lth rate numbering as high as 20
/ a day.
\\ hen they arrived upon the
threshold of their Western name, at
that time a wildcrnes, over 4,000
p were missing, one fourth of the
great exodus having left their bones'
by the wayside.'
After arriving here a government
was established, and a majority of
the tribe went to work to build
homes anew, a very few resorting to
tlia ohaRft fur n livnlihrmil 'I'lmit
prospered until the beginning of the
Civil War. when their country was
to'ajly wrecked by the two armies.
I After the war, commencing once
? more with that same indefatigable
i energy that hud long been their principal
characteristic, the Cherokees
wont to work and re-established their
government. From that time to now
{ their progress has been phenominal,
} and to day the Cherokee Nation presents
a scene of activity in agriculI
y tural and stock raising pursuits
\ much the same as is noticed in any
/ of the border States. This progress,
of course, is due largoly to the
whites, who have intermarried with
the Indians to such an extent that a
real Indian is hard to find.
Many of the largo uumber of
Cherokee girls now in Eastern colleges
seeking the advantages of
higher educational institutions received
their early training in missionary
schools.
The Cherokees look with greatest
. pride to their many bemvUful ybung
i women. It would be an oxaggera
f tion perhaps to any that the Cher
rokees coum nave turnisnea as good a
sul^bct for the silver statue at the
World's Fair as did their parent
Government in the selection of Miss
Kehan. Thare are numerous Cherokee
women who could wear the
crown of lberty with the same grace
and ease, and it is to bo regretted
that no provision was made for the
Cherokees at the World's Fair. Not
a few of the women of the tribe are
natural artists, and a display of their
work at Chicago would have worked
' - wonders in the minds of those who
through ignorance believe the Cherokees
to be still living in the dark
ages. Again there are numerous
musicians, some of which are now
making reputations in Eastern cities.
Of the male population it need
on I Abe said that the Cherokees. have
pr^piced a gerat many distinguished
men.
A most happy event to the Cherokees
is soon to take place in the
payment of the money obtained for
the Cherokee Strip. The whole
amount will be $6,300,000. Each
person, from head of family down
to the suckling babe, will receive
? <(350; therefore a family of five will
receive <(1,750. Even the negro citizens
are included and will share
equally with the Cherokees. It will
be noticed that it nays to be a Cherokee.
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Washington Letter.
Our Regular* Correspondent*
The gold question is again very
much on top, the exportation of gold
having.brought the reserve fund
below $90,000,000, and the prospect
being that a large amount will be
required to meet the demands for the
next week or ten days. Great pressure
is still being brought to bear by
the New York bankers to compel an
issue of bonds, but it is having no
apparent effect. A special meeting
of the cabinet was held this morning
to consider thi# nnestion and it war
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a^yery lengthy one. No announcement
has been made, or is likely to
be made for some time of any change
in the present policy, although there
are good reasons for believing there
will be a change should the present
demand for gold continue for any
length of time to boas great as dur
ing the past week. . While it cannot
be stated as ? certainty it is believed
by some lawyers that Seoretary Carj
lisle nas authority under a section of
the act of March 17, 1862 to issue
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Icgul tender notes for the purpose of
purchasing gold. The cabinet is said
f A I ll I I t L' I hu t frlna ?? ? ? C I 4
tu viiiiirv Iiinv vino 1IIVIIIUM 11 It UU
legal would be preferable to an issue
of bonds. Those who chiton that
the authority conferred bv the act
mentioned still exists say that there
is no l(mit other than the Secretary's
discretion n the amount of legal
tender notes that may bo issued to
purchase gold*. Tjus method would
meet the ' approiyt'l. of those who
think an increase in tha amount of
money ia circulation would bo yd- !
vahtngeous, and it could not be |
claimed by those who profess to be
in deadly fear of a depreciated currency
that there would bo the slightest
danger in that direction, as every
dollar so issued would bo replaced in
the Treasury by a gold dollar, provided,
of course, that the gold could
be obtained at par Your correspondent
doubts the existence of the
authority for tho issuo of legal tender
notes by tho Secretary of the
Treasury.
The annual meeting of tho board |
of lady regents of the Mount Vernon
Association, which was usually in
foresting this year, has just adjourned.
According to the annual report
of the superintendent 87,000 people
visited the grounds last year. That
number will he quadrupled this year
by reason of tho electric railway from !
Alexandria to the Mount Vernon j
grounds. From each visitor tho as- '
sociation exacts twenty live cents for
admission to the grounds, and in addition,
a steam boat company^which
has for many years been monopolizing
the right to land at the Mount
Vernon wharf has paid nine cents
for each passenger. This steam
boat company has grown rich out of
visitors to Mount Vernon, and until
the electric railway began to cut into
its traffic it charged $1.00 for a
round trip Mount Vernon ticket,
while it sold round trip tickets for a
wharf on tjie Maryland side of the
Potomac, almost directly opposite
Mount Vernon, for twenty live cents.
Now that the exclusive wtuirf nrivi ?
leges uro not so desirable this steamboat
company had the cheek to ask
the huly regents to excuse it from
paying that additional nine cents a
passenger during the remainder of
its contract. The agitation for the
purchase of Mount Vernon by tho
government, and its being thrown
open without charge to all comers,
seems to have temporarily died out,
but that it will sooner or later he
done is the general belief. Surely
it is not just the proper thing to
charge an admission fee to the home
of George] Washington, althoughunder
present conditions it is necessary in
order to raise the money to keep the
grounds in condition and the house
in rnr.fiirs.
Either many Congressmen are
going to vote contrary to their talk
or the administration is preparing a
great disappointment for itself in
regard to the silver question. It is
stated with the greatest apparent
confidence by members-of the administration
that President Cleveland
has assurances which make him
certain that there will be no trouble
in passing a bill for the unconditional
repeal of the Sherman Silver law
through both the House and Senate,
as soon as Congress gets to work.
This is directly contrary to what
Senator Stewart, who claims to have
>uado a canvas of the Senate, says.
Can it be possible that somo of the
Senators have been tolling the President
one thiug and Senator Sewart
another? Perhaps after all it^ is
merely a game of political brag all
around.
Secretary Hoke Smith is now hearing
a land case involving several
million dollars worth of land in the
state of Washington, upon which are
some 1500 settlers. The land in
question is claimed l>y the Northern
Pacific Railroad Co. The record of
Sec. Smith has been such that it is
altogether probable that if there are
any doubts in the case he will gire
th? set tiers the benefit of thefh.
The State Department wiM short- I
ly make public all of the correspondence
with Mr. Blount, both as Commissicmbr
and Minister to Hawaii.
Washington, Juno 5, I8b5.
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D N, Morgan, of Connecticut, has |
taken charge of the U. S. treasary ;
vioe E. U. Nebeckor, and the count!
of money haa begun. It will take
six weeks steady work to complete
tqe count.
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A HEARTRENDING DISASTER.
Collapse of Ford's Old Theatre
in Washington.
News and Courier.
Washington, .Juno 9. Another
tragedy, less national in fchuracter,
but involving the loss of many more
lives and much more human suffer-'
ing, has stained the walls of the
old "Ford's Theatre," in Washington,
where Abraham Lincoln was
asssassinated by J. Wilkes Booth
in April, 1805and the horrors of
the scetlo were by nd* means lessened
by the knowledge chat a blunder,
surely in this case almost "worse
than a crime," had caused the death
of from twenty to thirty persons at
least, and inllicted mannings and
injuries upon lifty or sixty more.
The evidence found in the official
records appears conclusive that as
ag? as 1885 this building,
which the Government purchased
alter inncoins assination and used
as an army musbum, J was officially
proclaimed by Congress an unsafe
despository for even ihe inanimate
skeletons, mummies and books of
the army medical museum, for which
a safer place of stgrago was provided
by Act of Congress. But notwithstaadiug
tho fact that in the
public press and in Congress also
continued attention was called to
the bulging' walls of the building
and its darkness and general unstiit
ability and nnsafcty it continued to
be used for the daily .employment
of nearly five hundrru clerks of the
pension record division of tho war
ollice, with a?jrefinement of discrimination,
however, between what could
he replaeed#aiul what could not he
?bo easily supplied. While the clerks
werfTTrustod in the unsafe building
the original records were retained in
the substantial fireproof war depart
meat building proper. So the comforting
official assurance is given
that, while thirty clerks may have
been killed, tho pension records are
all saved and uninjured.
The building collapsed in tho
midst of an ill-judged effort to remedy
some of its defects. Tho moral
of the disaster, if there is any, is
omphai/.ed by tho fact that there are
known to be at least two great Government
buildings, tho printing
office and the Winder building, annex
of tho war department, each
containing many more employees
than were caged in tho Ford's Theatre
deatli trap, which are in an
equally dangerous condition.
Tho hour of the disaster was very
shortly after the departments had
settled down for the days work.
The workmen, whose operations
under the building wore the immediate
cause of the catastrophe, had
been tinkering upon it for two hours
or more. I,f the disaster had happened
half tin hour earlier very few
lives won Id hill vo been lost.
There were four hundred and
seventy-five persons, mostly (lovermen
t clerks, employed in the bnil
ding, and nearly all of these were
at work when the building fell. An
excavation for an electric light plant
was being made in the cellar of the
structure, a three story affair, and
according to the best information
obtainable the workmen this morning
had dug beneath the foundation
supports in the front of the
building, weaknening them to such
an extent that the walls gave way
before they could he jacked. This
explanation of the cause of the accident
is the only ouo advanced, but
it seems somewhat strange in view
of the fact that the top floor gave
way first.
( HASH CAMK WITHOUT WARNING.
Those on the top floor wore suddenly
precipitated to the floor below and
the weight of the falling timbers
and furniture carried the second
and first lloors with it. Fortunately
only the forward half of the lloors
gave way. The outer edges of the
floors and the rear part of the structure
remained intact. The walls did
not fall.
THE NEWS SPREADS LIKE WILDFIRE.
News that the building had fallen
spread with lightening like rap
idity, and soon 1 Oth street and the
adjacent throughfares were crowded
with people. Within, an hour the
news was known all over Washington,
and hundreds to the vicinity of
the old theatre. Women appealed
anxidusly to every bystander for
information above some particular
person, while men came with tears in
their eyes and imploring besought
police lines that they might obtain
some knowledge of their friends and
relative^
A general fire alarm was sounded
a few minutes after the crash, and
then all the ambulances in the city
were summoned.
TUB W^RK OF HKSCUK.
Ag quickly as possible the poliece
and firemen formed a rescue brigado
and ready hands assisted them to take
out the killed and wounded* In
less than an hour about twenty five
people bad been taken out, and
every few minutes thereafter some
still form would bo borne out on a
stretcher from the build*ng.
The police and army ambulances,
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cabs, carriages and vehicles of every
description were pressed into service
for the taking away the dead and
injured. All the hospitals in the
city were utilized in caring fer the
injured," and scores of physicians
volunteered their services for this
work.
WIIAT UK N (HI A NT SAYS.
(Jen. (Jrant received reports from
time to time, and upon these lie based
his hope and belief that the calamity
would prove to be less in extent
than had been at first feared. He
says that the roll showed that the
full force employed in the building
numbered 511 persons. A mttnber
of these were absent leave or because
df illness; so that probably not more,
than *100 or 450 persons were in the
building when the crash came. Then,
as only half of the lloors fell, the
number of persons who went down
was further reduced, and of those
who actually fell many escaped with
slight injuries or without harm.
Dr. Shannon, of the personal staff
of tho surgeon general, was in
charge of the (ro\Ttnment medical
oflicers, and every such otlicer was
promptly ordered to the scene of the
accident or to the various hospitals.
The ambulances of the lied Cress
Society rendered conspicous service.
LEFT FOK TilK 1.A8T.
Tho rescuing parties worked incessantly
in the intense heat, but.
mere was one part ot the rums left
to the last, a few feet back of the
front wall. When the day was far
advanced there was still a largo
quantity of wreckage which had not
yet been explored. It is nearly in
the centre of the section of the lloor
that fell,/*nd flint fact led to the
belief that a number of bodies would
he found beneath it. It is out in the
open space where no falling timber
arrested in its fall might shield the
unfortunates from tho crushing
weight of the falling lloor. As jjthero
seemed to he no hope of saving the
lives of any who might have fallen
there, consequently the efforts of the
workmen W^ro first directed to exploring
the sides of the building.
A LARGER EST IM ATK I II AN (SEN.
GKAN'l 'S.
When the crash came there were
supposed to be in the building 490
clerks, 18 mr.ssengers and 20 laborers,
a total of 534 persons.
The work of clearing away the
debris continued from half-past 11
until threo minutes past 5 o'clock
before another body was found. The
work was being done in tho collar
in the extreme front of the building
when one of the laborers announced
that "he saw a hand." Shovels and
picks were immediately dropped and
the debris was removed by hand.
The body of the unfortunate man,
who from his dress was evidently a
clerk, was laying face down, with
one arm doubled under him and the
other extended. Tho back of his
head whs badly crushed and his face
was cut in several places. Tho
body was removed with nil possible
cure and3cntto the morgue to await
identification.
Tho total casualties, as near as can
bo ascertained at this writing, nro as
follows: Twenty-one (load bodies
are at tho mhrgue and the emergency
haspjtal and four more persons are
reported whose names wero probably
confused witn some of the
bodies through physical resemblance.
Two person whose names
were included in tho earlier list of
victims taken from the ruins escaped
uninjured. The numderof the injured
reported is about fifty, but many
others, who were able to proceed to
their homes, wero hurt moro or less
badly
Columbian Letter.
l ilegulnr Correspondent.)
The first month of the Columbian
Exposition is over. While the attendance
has been as largo as ob
serving people predicted, it has by
no means come up to tlio mark sot
by the officers themselves. To them
the result must be little short of
galling, for their claims have been
loud and in instances almost hysterical.
What was the cause? The
main reason is formed in the unfinished
stuto of everything, from one
end of tne grounds to the other.
Another reason is formed in some
of the actions of the officials themselves.
On the first of May, it was
given out with a great flourish of
trumpets that the first of June
would see everything done, "You
can see a complete fair after the first
of June/ said the directors. Can
yon? Hardly. Not only is it incomplete,
but frightfully so. One
has only to step into the agricultural
building to realize the force of this
statement. Rods and rods of scaffolding
extend in every direction,
boxes and casings 11II up floor spaces
and confusion reigns on every hand
Of course occasionally an exhibit
appears in a complete state, but the)
are like oases in the desert.' Go in
to tho electricity building and yoi
will see a statu of affairs only a dc
gree less unsatisfactory. Over ii
the big manufacturers building con
sideraole progress is manifested, bn
so much remains unfinished that th<
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visitor wonders whether or not the
! fair will ho over before the workman
I ire called off. In the transporia:
tion, niaohinory and fisheries buildings,
things are in fairly good shape
j ?in fact, not much fault can here
; be found. Mining is not finished,
j but some day in the bright beyond
wu can ?t?u it ui a complete state
if we live long enough.
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The live rage person is apt to ask,
"Did tho directors know that the
fair would not bo liaised .lune 1? If
so, why should they so confidently
predict that such a result would be
' brought about?" Tho assumption
is thai iho officials well knew that
a month would not be nearly enough
.time for the fair's completion. 7t is
not easy how the matter could well
I stand otherwise. As to the second
question -well, tho receipts dun ig
the month of .I line?the most saluj
brious of ail months?ought to come
well up in seven figures.
Cairo street, one of the most interesting
of rll the exhibitions in the
Midway plaisancc, has been formally
opened to the public. Dancing girls
trained monkeys, whirling and singing
dervishes fakirs ami jugglers
who perform marvelous tricks, black
i Dion wiio givo representations of
! ICgygtian comedies which cbnsist of
' telling each oilier funny stories ac
companied by resounding smacks
of .the bauds, illustrate their modes
and customs, while numerous bazaars
cafes and shops tempt the visitor to
part with his small change. Hut
you are iu Cairo toall intents and
; purposes and you have only to stop
i through a gate, after you have gone
through the formality of depositing
a silver coin with the American girl
who sells tickets.
Two troops of ITiiitod Slates cavalry
have been ordered front Kort
Snclling, Minn, for guard duty
about the government building. It
was rumored that I hey were to be
used in repulsing would bo Sunday
visitors, and fanatics urged that they
use the bayonet unsparingly. As the
government is not up to such ca
pers, it is not expected tliut blood
will be more than knee-deep along
Stony Island avenue.
The directors are to figure out
why it was so many people stayed
away from Jackson park the first
open Sunday. Not more than a
third of those expected yielded up
cold half dollars for admission.
While fully 250,000 were looked for,
only something liko 115,000 were on
the grounds, of whom 15,000 bought
tickets. It was expected that the
occasion would be u test and the
small attendance was galling. Sunday
closers assort that the people
showed that they didn't want an
open Sunday. The oflieial say the
uncertainty in regard to opening
kept, thousands away who would
otherwise have shown up. And
there you are. sVhnt the result will
he is problematical at this writing.
The Sunday opening light is a
bitter one. An Illinois judge has
granted an injunction ordering the
directors to open the gates every day
and a mighty effort is being made
by "the Sunday closing people to
secure a United States in unction
directing that tlie fair shall be closed
on the Sabbath. 1/ they succeed,
l'. i ,.4..i* i.i. .:*i :
a national siuio "gut win precipi
tated that will attract a great deal
of attention. The result of the application
or injunction will no doubt
be known before this is spread before
youp' "era.
Over in the Dahomey village is
a monkey that can give {loints on
intellectual attainments to the average
Dahomey citizen. Ilia name
js Booat. Booost knows the differ
once between nickels and pennies,
and is polite to the ladies and Jlitth
boys. On the other hand the Da
homey yap can't toll a 2 cent piect
from a silver dollar, and loves tr
scare women and children out of thcii
wirs. Boost wears a pair of trous
, ?rs of ancient vintage, carries a cam
picks his teeth and.seratches his nose
' Besides that he rides a donkey, give.1
the military salute and picks uj
peanuts with his tail. Asa dancoi
he reminds one of the premiere of *
Chinese ballet. Boost has other ac
complishments but lack of space
prevents their mention. Visit Boos1
and he'll greet you as long-lost rela
tivo.
Maj. Moses P. Ilandy, high muck
a muck of the bureau of publicity
and promotion, lias called down 01
his head the deserved objurgation
of a good many country publisher
lately. A number of letters were re
ceived from editors who wanted passes
They were written in a way that wa
regardod as extremely funny b
those in charge of liandg's bure&i
und were given to the Chicago re
' porters, who, as usual, duly' wfbt
up the country editor as a yap an
; a yahoo whose notions about mattei
p and things were extremoly hazy an
a porsonago who was a legitimat
butt for choap fun, anyhow. Wei
1 Handy will hardly hear the last of
for awhile. It was a contemptibl
J trick, to say the least..
to Those olcctric fountains are n<
0 J yet in working order. "In the awe
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Tills ami physio have boon thoroughly
dismissed the past week by,
j doctors in congress at tho art insti
| tuto.
Sportsmen will bo gtblitly interested
in the display of game, lish and i
forbearing animals from the state of
Washington, Some people have an j
idea that Washington is composed |
of arid prnirc, liimountains ?and
deep gorges, but they may as well
bo prepared to bo astonished* They
1 have sent down oik, deer, lions, bears,
goats, wild cats, canvas back, pintails,
pheasants, wild geese, pelicans,
quail and so many other specimens
Lhatyvo can't record them. As for
salmon, no other display is to be
mentioned.
A sedate mail in a shiny hat and
long tailed coat stepped airily up
to a s<>n of the desert the other day
and said. "(Juess I'll take a little
ride with you, *ny friend." The
heathen's camel knelt and the sedate
man mounted and threw himself
into an unconcerned.,easy posture.
Hut when the camel humped
himself his attitude suddenly changed.
lie had to use his lingors and
toes or fall off. Before they had
gone twenty feet, he yelled "Stop
her." Before the camel got a
chance to squat, t he sedate man slid
to the ground, lie was pale and
held his head in his hands. "I won't
try that again," he said. "It's worse
tlian sea sickness."
Kentucky dedicated her building
last Thursday and people from
blue grass state unveiled a statute o?
Daniel lloono, in addition. Tho
statute is in the rotunda of the huil
ding and is in plaster of paris. After
the exposition it will be carefully
recast in bron/3 and transfered to
liouisville. (Jovernor Drown made
tho dedicatory address
' 'lie To ill per Ot Congress.
New York, .June 8.?The World!
interviewed nearly all the members
of Congress by telegraph on (be following
questions;
1. Do you, with your present information,
favor the repeal of the
Sherman silver law?
53. Do you favor an income tax?
3. Do you favor the repeal of the
State hank tax?
The World in reporting their answers
says: Many of the answers deviate
so far from plain "yes"' or 4<no.
and involve so many qualifications,
that no tabular statement would fairly
represent the opinions they e <pressThe
important facts shown are that
to the first question: Do you, with
your present information, favor the
repeal of the Sherman silver law?
there arc eighty-six Itepresentativcs
who say practically "yos," while only
eighteen say <vno." Of tho rest many
who qualify their answer so strongly
that they cannot bo placed in the
affirmative column show plainly that
their inclinations aro in favor of repeal.
The sentiment of the lower
house on that question seems to be
overwhelming.
The World had already polled the
Senate on the silver bill, and on
, March 0 last printed a table showing
that that body stood for repeal 20.
against repeal 28, non-committal 10.
It will bo noticed that several .who
wero non-committal then are now in
favor of repeal. There seems to be
no doubt that nearly two-thirds of
, tho Senate will vote that way.
The newer question of th income
tax develops an interesting situation.
I \funi.' ii/tiA ut\nnL- fMnnliF no fI lm 'silmi.
if IIV 1 i uuij do t??/ i/iic i *11V/1 1
man bill evade or ignore this ques
i tion, but 45 say squarely they favor
it, 42 that>tbey do not. Southern
- and Western Congressmen are the
most numerous advocates of such
> tax.
i On the statt bank tax question
opinion is almost as one-sided as in
< regard to the Sherman bill. Many
> dodge it entirely, butOO nro positively
r against repealing the tax, while only
30 favor the repeal,
A Disastrous Wreck.
J IIiijqkway, June 2.?About 4
o clock this morning tho passenger
taiiin, Conductor J. C, Wilson it)
1 charge, was derailed two miles below
Ridge way by a washout. In the
' wreck Kngiuecr Jack Germany and
his wliite fireman, Air. Henry, were
buried in the sand and water beneath
a mass of coal and beneath the ten.
tier and wore, of course, killed outy
ri^,,!t*
j Six ears of thi?iigh, freight being a
s combined 8or\ice train, lay heaped
s one upon the other, or telescoped in
. con fused. mass of broken. timbers
i twisted rails and scattered articles oi
,3 freight of all descriptions, Tho mail
y and express coach hung over the gaj
ti at an angle of 43 degress resting
_ upon the wreck in front. This sor
e vetl to retain the other two coachei
it and tho Pullman in tho rear upor
r3 the track and thu%prevented a tnori
d appalling loss of life.
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Hero And There.
A negro was lynched in Decatur
|0 Illinois, last week for the usua
crime. The details were, if anything
more horrible than any Southeri
ot lynching since tho Paris, Texas
et affair.
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NO. 48.
LIGHT IX ON^S STOMACH.
I'ntlciit s May Swallow Electric
Lamps the 8i/.e of a 1*111.
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tricits to the medical science it has ^
become possible to vitalize the human
head as a lantern. This, snys the
New York Herald, was proved by
1 /r. Wendell t\ Philfips on Wednesday
night before a meeting! of the
laryingologica) section of the Ao.idc- *
my of Medicine. 1
The electric;*. apparatus used is
called a "head illuminator." It consists
of a small incandescent globe
and an electric light of thrce-candlo
power and about as big as a grape.
It is adjusted to t'no end of a rubber
tube, which in appearance resembles
a luad pencil, and through
which the wires reach the globe.
in demonstrating the properties
of this bgbt, before the Academy of
Medicine, Dr. Phillips called a small
boy to the platfofm and placed the
instrument- in his mouth. The boy
closed his lips, all the lights were
Hurtled out and then the light in the
instrument was turned on.
Immediately the boy's chocks
bee time translucent, and every vein
and imperfection of the skin stood
out with distinctness. The. light
also shone through the upper part of
the face.
"The beauty of this illuminator."
said Or. Phillips, "lies in the fact >
that it enables us td*read certain
conditions of the head which could
only l?e learned heartofore by operations
or prolongs. If the light shines
through one side'of the face and not
the other, we know the dark side is
affected.
"It also throws a light through
the bones of the face and discloses
formations of the bones <vhich, under
other circumstances, could only be
ascertained by drilling into the
bones.
"Placed in the corner of the eye,
the light shines up through the
cavity in the frontal f>one just over
the eyebrow. Catarrhal diseases aro
thus located."
J lore the Doctor placed a small
section of a rub or hose over the
light which ho held in his hand at
the time.
"Now notice how this shines
through my thumb,'' ho continued.
"Well, if there were a splinter there
it could he accurately located. Any
disarrangement of the small hones
of the hand c<m\l be ascertained in
the same manner.
"This practical use of electricity
in surgery is not new, however,"
added the Doctor. "Tho first man
to u'ulizc it was Voltolini. In re- *
garil to these n?wer instruments
which I have about me, I have just
added improvements.
"Here is a search light," said Div
i Phillips, taking up a curven piece
; of nickel made to lit over the head
1 mill pmftp down between the brows.
Between the brows was si lens which
stood out like the glass in a bull'seye
lantern. It was connected by
wire with si strong battery. A switch
was turned and si bright light shone
out from the apparatus like a star on
the forehead of a ballet dancer.
"This light,' said the physician,
"shines into stud down the throat of
a patient who is being examined for
throut troubles. This latter exami)
nation can also be performed by Jthe
insertion of a small electric light
the size of a pea.
"There is another instrument,
consisting of a flexible tube with si
small l?mp sit the end and connected
with a battery. The patient swal- \
lows this lamp and when it reaches
the stomach it shines throng, so
diseased organism can bo plainly
read from the outside The circulation
is visible and an abnormal development
stands out like a mole on #
a person's cheek.''
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With but little care and no trouble,
the beard and mustache crtn bo
kept a uniform brown or bUek color
by using Buckingham's Dyyffor the
I whiskers.
Boils, abscesses, tumors, and
even cancers^ are tin? result of a
1 natural effort of the system to expel
, the poisons which the liver and kidneys
have failed to remove. Ayer's
, Sarsaparilla stimulates all the organs
, to a proper performance of their
functions.
If you desire a beautiful complex.
l ion, absolutely free from pimples
[ and blotches, purify your blood by
i ; the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. He,
I move the cause of these disfigure[
nients huU the skin will take care of*
I itself. Be sure you get Ayer's Sar
> | sapurilla.
Trust uihI Combinations
Arc unpopular. Hut there is one
1 form of trust against which no one
' has anything to say. That is the
trust which the public reposes in
Hood's Snrsaparilla, and the best of
it is the trust is fully justified by
I the merit of the medicine. For,
r remember, Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures. v
] Hood's Fills are purely vegetable and
do not purge, pain or gripe. Sold
by all druggists.
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