The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, February 14, 1884, Image 4
LETTERS OF EXPLANATION
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i brought about in thb way,
> had baen a regatta on the Sohuyl
UU, at Philadelphia, Mr. Oharlee Gray
don, a waident, had been preeented to
Mha Thurlpw, a viaitar. They talked
of boata and rirera, and thenoe drifted
to the ocean and eteauerm.
Said Miaa Thnrlow: "Hometimea
Baney I ahould like to be a eailor—a real
ptoleeaitinal Bailor, I mean. I’d like to
oocnmand an ooean steamer, to oroseand
recroaa the Atlantic a half-dozen times a
year."
Tea, Mr. Oraydon had orooeed the At
lantic several times, and generally en
joyed his trips abroad thoroughly. He
. j.had formed pleasant acquaintances on
steamers, which developed afterward
{ linto close friendships. He had been de
ceived, too, by outward appearances,
f "I remember several years ago,” he
said, “I was going over on the Onnard
line. There was on board a young
clergyman whom everyone liked. We
became very friendly, and spent many a
half hour walking the deck together.
Jnst before we reached Queenstown he
said to me, 'Oraydon, I find myself a
little embarrassed. I hsven’t as much
money left ss I need. Would yon lend
me fifty dollars till we reach London T
I’ll pay you there. I hate to ask you,
but I am really in need of it.’ I natu
rally understood his delicacy, and so
made light of the matter, replying
merely, ‘Certainly, Waldron, I am only
too glad to be of service to yon,’ and I
banded him the snm he asked for. We
parted at Queenstown to meet in Lon
don; bht, do you know, I have never
‘'card from my young clergyman since.
He wore his cloak very well."
A bright color was in Miss Thurlow's
cheeks as she asked, "What did yon say
his name was
—"He called himaell. Theodore Wal
dron, although I doubtpvhether that watt
his real name.”
Mias Thurlow's brow contracted and
her eyes flashed, bnt she said, calmly :
"There must lie some mistake. Surely
a clergyman oonld not be gnilty of such
aa act. Tell me, when did this hap?
pen f”
"In July, 1868. I have not been over
since, ”
After loaving Mias Thnrlow, Mr. Oray
don wondered why it was that she grew
•o suddenly oool in her manner toward^
him. "She most be a clergyman’s
daughter,” thought he, and the matter
passed from his mind.
These are the letters that ensued.
The first was received by Mr. Oraydon
some ten days after the regatta :
"Cbicaoo, September 16, 1873.
"Mr. OaaRLM Orayixw, Phils. : j
"Sir:—My sister, Miss Thurlow, has
related to me in detail her conversation
with yon in Philadelphia on the occa
sion of meeting yon at a regatta. While
1 deplore her misfortune in having pre
sented to her notice a man so unprin
cipled as you have shown yourself to'be
—a man who deserves no better name
than blackguard when he attempts to
cloud the unsullied reputation of another
—I am forced so far to recognize you as
to demand a retraction on your part of
the gross calumny you. have uttered.
The Rev. Theodore Waldron is a life
long friend of mine and of my family.
He is not at present in Chicago, but
even if he were here I should not hesi
tate to take this matter into my own
hands. Yon cannot fail to understand
that I expect you to retract and apolo
gise. -
Frank Thublow.”
"Philadilphia, Sept. 19, 1873.
‘‘Mr. Ffmnk Tnughow, Chicago, 111.1
"Sir—Your very extraordinary letter
of the 16th iimt. has been received. ' I
am not quite clear upon the subject, but
fancy you must have written it from a
mad-house. Tou demand an apology, a
retraction—1 don’t quite know what. I
am in the dark. Do I understand that
yon expect me to confess to lying—that
yon expect me to say that what 1 said of
Mr. Waldron is not trueT Why, sir,
the more I think of it the more Xfii I ir
ritated. It is yon that have insulted
me. It is yon that will apologize. I
have spoken nothing bnt the truth; and
as regards Mr. Waldron, yonr life-long
friend (and associate, I presume), I re
iterate that he borrowed money from me
under false pretenses, and I add now
that he deserves to be branded publicly,
London was unable to find you. I there-
foe+dlff ill I oonld whin I paid the sun
at the bank whire you mentioned hav
ing a letter of credit. *~
"I have written to Mann Brothers,
and by return steamer shall possess i
receipt showing that on Angvst 4,1868,
the money was paid to your account,
have now merely to say that your
achemerhas utterly failed, and that I
leave you to the contemplation of your
self. > Thzodors Waijjbo*.’’
Mr. Oraydon read this letter, tuned
Labis diary, and found that on August
8. 1868, he had. drawn his balance at
Mann Brothers’, and left London. He
rushed out, and a half-hour afterward
this cable dispatch was flashing under
the Atlantic:
"Mann Bhothrbs, London: '
"Have 1 s balance at you bank 7 If
so, how mnoh,. and when was it de
posited? Charles Gratdon.’ l -
The next, day be received this :
“Charles Oraydon, Philadelphia:
"A balance to yonr credit of ten
pounds six shillinga. Deposited August
4, 1868.
, Mann Brothers.”
The last letter:
"Philadelpia, Sept. 29, 1873
•'Rev. .Theodore Waldron,
— Chicago, BMaelET—
"My Dear Sir:—With feelings oi
leap shame and bitter regret f offer you
in apology. ^-SmeeTeoeiving ypqjJettet
i have telegraphed to Mann Brofbers,
amt have learned by their reply that
yonr statement is absolutely correct. It
is pcrhajMi useless for me to say more.
Yet, feeling that I have never had a de
sire to injure yon in any way, that I have
mver harbored a wish to annoy you
even,--1 may 1>c allowed to state that I
eft London on August 3, 1868, oil which
date I drew from the hanking house of
Mann Brothers all the money due me. I
wish also to assure you that although I
Save often related the incident of our
brief acquaintance, I never before men
tioned your name. My inadvertence on
this occasion would have probably
passed unnoticed under any other cir
cumstances. For this unfortunate affair
1 nm more than sorry: I am humiliated.
1 1 H*g that you will convey to Miaa Thur-
ow a separate apology for having so un
consciously wounded her.
. “Yours very contritely, -
0 "Charles Oraydon.”
Among the presents displayed at the
wedding of the Rev. Theodore Waldron
and Miss Thurlow, wEft one which at
tracted no little attention—an ingenious
Swiss clock, so constructed that, on
striking, a figure representing Charity
stepped forth and drew a veil over the
hour that had passed. On a card lying
near it was written, "With the beat
wishes of Mr. Charles Oraydon.”
When He Went Aloft.
NOTES 1ND COMMENTS.
EDITOR’* C0E8C1EXCE.
HATE
Mr. Pamau’t
alwayz wrapped in much myitery. Ho
in Ireland, and thorn are not
half • doom to whom his
in the
rnfabt of more than one great erfcb
•ioned some reflection, and for
while preceding hit recent triumphant
appearance in Dublin biz Cork constitu
ents oonld not hear from him or ascer
tain his whereabouts. *
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It has been said that because cattle
sometimes prefer impure water to pure
drinking water, no peine should be taken
to supply them with pure Water. The
BritUh Medical Journal explains to
agriculturists' that the reason for this
foot is that cattle when given tank water
are not properly supplied with rock salt.
In their desire for saline food animals
will drink the moot impure fluids, and
will even eat earth. The writer thin!
it both injudicious and cinel to deprive
cattle of salt, and thus compel them to
wek it in refuse. - _
At Leeds, lately, Mb. Arthur
Nichole delivered s lecture on "Hnakea
and Sntke Chsrihmg,”' in Which he gave
an instance of the appearance of the sea
serpent which occurred in his own ex
perience. It turned out to be the body
of a dead whale around which were col
lected thousands of gulls and albatrosses,
and which simnlated the shape and form
of a monster with a mane and long tail. _
It is a pity that every master of a ves
sel from which the sea serpent is seen
has not courage enongh to steer close to
it, so that its real nature may b& made
evident.
TsM by a W<
that the mention of his name was quite
accidental and unintentional on my part,
Mias Thurlow drew from me his name in
full, and thus identified him. When
yon have taken time to reflect you will
recognise your hastiness, and no doubt
tender me your full and ready apology.
"Ohablbe Oraydon.”
‘‘Chicago, September 26, 1873.
"Mr. Charles Oraydon, Phils.:
"I hardly know what to say to you,
sir. On my return to this city yesterday
Mr. Thurlow laid your letter before me,
and alao a copy of the one he had previ
ously written to you. Moreover, a full
statement of your malicious andoowardly
attack has been given me. Tour motive
for such action is beyond all conjecture.
"Our acquaintance was but a limited
mein point of time; still in our con
stant intercourse and mutual confidence
doling tboaalaw days on board ship, I
felt that you were a gentleman. My
life has not been one to give me the ex
perience and judgment necessary to
combat with a man so wily and un-
eerupuious as yon seem to be, and yet it
is Strange that a man can be refined and
gentle in manner and a scoundrel at
heart Why did yon lend me the money
at all? Did you even then intend to in
jure me, end look to the fact ae e future
wecptt withwjhtofc toitrikeme? How
could yon hove known that I was about
to many Miss Tfcurlow? What have 1
ever dona that yon should wfah to eoese
between us now? Ioauonly look upon
this deetedly aet .es something beyond
"When I was a lad, my greatest de
sire was to go to sea,” remarked a well
mown citizen to a reporter the other
day. "My father was a farmer, but tili
ng the soil hat! no oharms for me. I
was discontented, and one day my
father, thinking it was the best way to
cure me, gave his consent to my becom
ing a sailor. I was never so bappy in
my life, and ell the boys in the neigh
borhood envied me. Before a fortnight
passed I envied them.
That was in the days of merchant
men, and my father was acquainted
with a merchant in New York who en
gaged in the China trade, and to him he
gave me a line asking him to put mlToh
one of his vessels. The captain was a
duff, hearty old fellow, the“VSry beau
ideal of a sea captain—when on shore-
I was very much pleased with his ap
pearance, but subsequently he didn’t
ook half ao pretty to me. He was a
thorough sailor, though. I never saw
the night that he didn’t come on deck
two or three times to see that all was as
it should be.
"I felt a little bit homesick as a little
tog took us down the bay, but I forgot
all about it when we got outside and
commenced making sail. Thera were
three of us boys on board* and we stood 6®* her a book."
lower' deijk
The secretary op one Western Board
of Trade bas mastered the alphabet of
bnsihevs. "It nny be true,” he writes
in subetauoe, "that we have produced
100,000,000 bushels less than an average
wheat crop, and that Europe Vas pro
duced 160,000,000 bushels less than an
average crop of wheat and rye,” but the
trading public, after lotting two cents
bushel per mouth for six months on the
strength of these stories, is getting tired
of believing them. It occurs to him that
enormous aocnmulatibns of grain, hero
and abroad, tell a different story. So did
the statistics, to those who did not prefer
to believe the stories of manipulators.
Sacripioed to the Fisheries.—Sev
enteen vessels and 209 lives were lost in
the Gloucester fisheries during the past
year. Forty of the men are known to
have left widows and a number of chil
dren, of whom there is a record of 68.
Seventy-one men who warecapeued
or went astray in dories reached the
shore, or were resened by passing ves
sets, many o( them after great exposure
and suffering. A summarized list gives
the following-figures : Total tonnage of
the 17 vessels, 1,120; valne, $91,300; in
surance, $76,972. In 1882 12 vessels,
valned at $79,700, and 115 lives were
lost. The total losses in the New Eng
land fisheries, ontside of Gloucester,
principally in Maine, were 12 teasels, of
650 tons, and 17 lives.
Shortly apter Miss^Alcott’s "Lit
tle Women” was published a quiet-look
ing lady entered a Boston circulating
library and asked the lady clerk to pick
her out "a good book that would rest
and amuse her.” Naturally "Little
Women” was offered; and declined.
"It’s very nice; you’d like it^” urged the
clerk. "I should not care to read it,
said the other. "Bnt at least look at
it.” "No,” came the answer, firmly,
and with En odd smile; "it is not a book
that I should care to read.” Then the
clerk, pretty angry, Walked away to the
chief librarian and cried: "There’s a
woman down there wants a book, and if
you want her waited on some one else
must do it. I' won’t” "Why, why
not?" "Why, she says 'little Women*
isn’t good enough for her to read. ’’ "Do
you know who that Ifly ?” "Wo, snd
I don’t care.” "Well, I’ll tell yon.
That is Louisa M. Aloott Now go and
fuddled together on the
watching‘the sailors aa they ranoni the
spars and let fall the sails, and we fell
to wondering how lopg it would be bc>
fore we would be required to go aloft
and lay out on a yard. One of us
thought it would be a month or two and
although ii| justice to .myself I most say .another -thought it would be six months.
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fit 1
Finally we concluded that we would be
worked into it gradually; sent upa little
way one day, a little further tlje* next,
and so on until we could go all overihe
rigging; You can imagine my surprise,
therefore, when, after all the ropes had
been coiled up, the deck cleared and
everything made ship shape, the captain
turned to me and said:
" ‘Here, youngster, do you see that
rope a-flying up there? Go np and
bring it down.' \
"It was a bit of marline, about three
feet long, flying from the topmast cross-
trees, and I suppose some sailor had
pnt it there on purpose. Gracious 1 the
thought of going way up there made my
hair stand on eod, and I told the cap
tain I was afraid I couldn’t do it.
" ‘You are, eh ! Well, I oan take all
that ont of yon 1* and he started for a
rope’s eod. . :
"I didn’t wait for him to get it, but
ran np the rigging as well as 1 was able,
never expecting to get beck alive. There
was quite a heavy sea, and the mast
swayed frightfully. If I could have
been put back on the farm at that mo
ment, no one would ever have heard me
say another word about going to sea.”
"Did you get the marline ?.”
"Yon bet I did. And wa’n’t I proud
when I banded it to the captain t And
didn’t I put on airs over the other boys:
I’d been aloft and they hadn’t.”
The important matter of irrigqaqo
is receiving much attention in Colorado.
Until recent years little was done in (his
regard beyond the digging of ditches or
flumes a few rods in length. In the lest
few years, according - to the Denver
Tribune, companies with large capital
have been organized, with the object of
bringing under cultivation the thousands
ol acres of land, otherwise arid, but
which with proper iirigation prove as
arable and fertile as the most favored
farming sections in the rich West. This
new industry of irrigation not only pro
vides labor for hundreds of men and
teams, but adds to the wealth of Colo
rado by increasing-the acreage of arable
lands and swelling the aggregate volume
of natural products, notably oerpahr^
fruit and vegetables. Two blades of*
grass are made to grow where one grew
before, and Colorado, from being de
pendent for home consumption upon
natural products imported from other
States, is fast becoming a source of sup
ply for Eastern markets. 'x
A Mexican Hurricane.
Mutton. —A Loudon acisntiflo paper
says that a shoulder of mutton contains
,, one-third more bone than a leg, and
, I remember the exam, considerably more fat and connective
date of depositing the money to yoar tissue, and that. conaequenUy, a shod- drowned-
ert*dit at Mann Brothers, I was de-*» <ter at 20 cents a pound ia dearer than a
tained Is Inland, and on my arrival ia ‘fog ^ 25 cento.
A hurricane occurred on the Mexican
coast on November 4, which entirely de
stroyed the town of Altata, at the port
of that name. Not a house remained
standing, and vessels and launches at
anchor suffered severely. At Mazatlan
the wind blew with great violence, and
the sea was excessively rough. When
the gale commenced the Mexican steam
er Democrats and barks Oar 1 os Paladin
and Harmodiua were at anchor. The
Paladin out away her anchors, losing
her first mate in the operation, as he was
washed overboard and drowned. She
then commenced to drift, and finally,
after striking on the rocks in front of
Olas At)as, drifted on the beach at
Puerto Viejo, near the Oemeroo. Her
crew succeeded in roeehing the shove,
with the exception of two, who were
The Harmodius sent down
her upper matte and yards, and rode
the cala out in safety.
o •—
A War
[Froai Peek’s Bun.] -
To-day a letter oame from the business
office to the editorial desk, and when the
opened it and saw the date-line
"Troy, Alabama,” his heart smote him,
and ha reached for bh oheok-book, in-
•tinetive|f. Then he stopped and read
the letter, and breathed freer when he
found that it was only a letter.from a
boy Who Wanted the editor’s autograph.
What oonld have caused Jibe editor’s
heart to jump up into hWmouth whan
he opened that letter from Troy ? What
mads him reach for his oheok-book?
Header, young reader particularly, the
editor once stole a hone at Troy, Ala
bama. Do not hold up your hands in
horror, at the deed, and say you have
always mistrusted that the bald-headed
man, with the pleasant face, was a hone
thief in disguise, for you have never
thought any such thing. Besides, a
was not considered a hone thief in
those days who took another man’s horse.
It eras in 1864, and a cavalry regiment
to which the editor belonged made a raid
through that portion of Alabama, and
one afternoon stopped at the beautiful
UtQe vflBige of Troy. There was a thin,
pale, nervous, red-headed soldier in the
regiment who had been riding a hard
hearted, deceptive, diabolical, disgusting
mule for a week, a mule that didn’t care
whether school kept or not, a male that
would not keep up with the procession,
and tried hard to lag behind so the
rebels would capture the red-headed sol
dier. To keep up with tne regiment it
was necessary to wear ont a pair of
spurs, a clapboard, two fence rails and
the rider, every bleeaed day, on the
mole, and much of the hatred of mules
which the present editor has was born of
that experience. That evening the sol
dier gave of his rations to a little colored
boy who looked smart, and told him to
always be a good boy, and learn to read,
and be kind to his old master, and he
would be all right, when the colored boy
told where there was a fine horse in afjcaUcaUe'd the invalids
pasture a few miles away, a "turrer
bred” he said. There is no person ex
cept one who has ridden a mole a week
who can appreciate a story about a fine
horse belonging to the enemy,
“male was saddled, and soon the soldier
and the colored boy, and another soldier
and another colored boy, were trying to
catch that horse. O, he was a beauty.
As he galloped across the pasture and
neighed and snorted and pat on scallops
he looked like a picture.
—It was not long before the red-headed
soldier’s saddle was on the fine horse
and the procession rode np by the plant
er’s house. Ah, there was the rub. The
old motbsr and father Of the boy yho
owned the fine horse, who was in the
confederate army, sat on the veranda
They had seen the soldiers go through
the granary, the smoke house, and
everything where' they could get any
thing to eat, and the old people had not
mnrmnred. They sat there smoking
corn-cob pipes, acting as though in war
times they must submit to war measures.
Bat when the red-headed soldier rode by
on the beautiful horse, his canteen and
sabre rattling, and the horse looking so
proud, as though he had been left out of
the war, and was now going in fresh to
put a stop to it, the old folks saw-the
animal, the old lady said, "Oh, pa, the
Yankees have found Bub's horse,” and
then they both burst out crying.
"Bub,” the brave young confederate,
was away-with his regiment, and poor
old pa and ma had to Sit there and
his horse go off wi\h the Yankees. The
slim soldier had a heart concealed about
his person even then, and he thought of
his old father and mother in Wisconsin,
and he had half a mind to take the horse
back, notwithstanding the fact that an
other soldier would take him in a holy
minnte, but just then the bugle sounded
for the "assembly,” the soldiers yelled
and spurred their horses toward camp,
and the new horse began to pYanoe and
LITE AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD.
wanted to go along so bad, that the slim
soldiei 1 "let him went,” and a beautiful
race it was. For nearly two years after
that horse was the constant companion
of the slim soldier, who rode him about
ten thousand miles more or lees, bftt
there was hardly a day of all those
long marches that he did not think of
the poor old father and mother of the
soldier boy who owned the horse, and of
their tears when they saw the noble ani
mal go down the lane earrying a Yan
kee, when they would have been so de
lighted to have seen their own gray-
coated soldier on his back. And so it
was, when we opened the letter from the
boy who wanted our autograph, who was
probably unborn when the horse was
taken, we came so near potting the auto
graph on a check and sending it to the
old people who smoked the 00b pipes
nineteen years ago and wept over the
horse.
A Novel Plot.
Philadelphia famishes a capital plot
for a novelist A lady flamed Hardy
married James Black, a wealthy trades
man. In her own right she inherited
considerable property, which involved
her in a long and tedious lawsuit She
entered into a written contract with
Joseph F. Farrar, an insurance agent to
give him a large share of the estate if he
would oolleot the necessary evidence and
establish her identity. This agreement
was lodged with a lawyer for safe keep
ing. The ease was a long time in the
courts, and a decision in Mrs. Black’s'
favor was finally reached only a short
time ainoe. Meantime Mr. Farrar had
died. Ha had for yean been estranged
from his wife and all trace of his only
heir, a daughter, named Frances Joseph
ine, was missing. Under a provision in
the father’s will and at the desire oi
Mrs. Black, the lawyer with when the
Teeasent was placed entered open
active search for the child, and after
much difficulty succeeded last weak hi
finding her.
;
It is said that the Chinese giam
speaks eight languages. He’s not a tail
Miuorant. - - -
A
summer I was " dotnz London" as
tboroucklr as an American woman without
escort oan, when one moraine, after catching
prudent glimpses of what remains of the “St.
OOcs,’' Immortalized by Hogarth or Douglas
Jen-old, and of the “Seven Dials,” I turned
Into Now Oxford street (which Is topped by
Tottenham court road and end* at Mudto's
Library). Walking along towards Holbora 1
found myself Involuntarily stopping before
One of the prettiest fronts I had yet seen.
Naturally I looked up and saw above the
number s aa Jfhthetic looktng sign avalnst
the front (for projecting signs are Inadmissi
ble In the great metropolis), on which I read
"Dr. Pierce’s’Medicine*.” At once I gave s
little ejaculation of Joy, and fairly rushed
Into the shop. Whyl 1 had been during two'
whole days lamenting the awkwardness of a
railway porter, who, in my transit from
Southampton, after landing, had. so carelessly
handled my “boz'HSrunk Is also Inadmissible
in England) as to break not only my supply of
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, that I
had brought from New York, but all of his
Purgative Pellets (so advisable to ladies In
traveling) excepting a bottle I had In my
reticule. The clerk appeared to notice my
satisfaction as I looked around and saw a
portrait of Dr. Pierce, whose acquaintance I
had first made at a ball In the Wblte House,
when he was Congressman from the fine city
of Buffalo, and saw pictures of Its World's
Dispensary building and of Its HTvalkls'
Hotel, It: which I had been a guest patient (as
well, let me add, as a patient guest) during a
course of treatment with World's Dispensary
medicines which bad 'changed me from a
nervous, dyspeptic, fretful woman Into the
cheerful and healthful traveler I now found
myself to be. The clerk was vastly polite aa
I told him whsia surprise lt-w»e to me to And
that the boons of my life time.had found a
home In London. "Why," ho ^interrupted,
with a smile, “the medicines of which this is
the Euiopean rntrrpnf have won thousands
of grateful patients as enthusiastic as you
seem to be.” Of course In a short time the
mishap with the railway porter was forgot:
ten, and, after giving an ord.-r for a new as
sortment of the “Golden Discovery" and
“Pellets" sent to my lodrings In Bernal
street, I was again threading my way through
the London crowds. Fatigued with the day’s
exeroise and enjoyment 1 retired early to
bed, and with the pleasant incident of Oxford
street well to the fore In my mind as I fell
asleep. W hat wonder that I dreamed, or that
my fancies traveled across the J U inttc to
Buffalo and to me Invalid*' Hotel, which had
to me the same grateful memories' as the
church of her mttrrfage has to the happy
wife. «
1 seemed to be In a palace car between Al
bany and Buffalo, and the newsboy had
brought mo a copy of the marvelous book
•old freely on all the tra nj, “The People's
Common Sense Medical Adviser,” by Dr.
Pierce, ex Senator and ex-Congressman. I
wa* again reading its pages, expressed, as all
medical books for the people should be ex
pressed, In ‘ plain English,” and which is
full of everything relating to the ills which
flesh is heir to, so that the book may be
Bible and the Testa
ment for the alr.-ady strong, who would keep
themselvia always strong. The book, which
takes the child In the cradle through all the
Ills of nutrition and dentition; th * mother in
her agonies; the husband In his depressions:
the father in his sulfcrlngs from overwork;
and shows each and all (and even the practic
ing physician, who thinks he knows so much
and yet has always new things to learn) how
the brain is weaken si in functions, (be lung
poisoned, the blood contaminated, the liver
made torpid, the. heart disarranged, the
muscles made rigid, tl e nerves shattered, and
the tissues and abtorbents infected with the
subtle poisons of excesses and malanla. And
Anally, the precious volume—the veriest
gospel of health in thiis world—turns the
reader's attention to the Golden Medical Dis
covery, that, whether It is ‘used upon the
pores of the body or sent into the channels
of the body through the processes . of
assimilation and digestion immediately “cools
the brow and tempers the brain, and tnaketh
the faint one strong again." In my dream I
had arrived at Buffalo, given my book to an
interesting invalid of a girl who sat near me,
and whose modestly tilled purs* seemed to
forbid her the boon of the book albeit it was
so unusually cheap—six, page* of the profuse
ly illustrated book tor each cent of its dollar
and a half cflst! And 1 had been repaid by
her looks of gratitude. Ihen in .my dream
the once familiar sound of “ Dr. Pierce's
World's Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel" w as
heard from the.heulthy and attentive porters
awaiting tne arrival of patients. Then I was
driven to the old pioee with.its levlvlflcatron*
of architecture and comforts. • -
As I drove up I seemed to see the hotel in
a blaze of light, and heard music and the
sounds of happy voices and of lightly moving
feet. More surprised than ever'before I was
taken in hand by a female attendant—as
bright looking as these ever are in dream
land, and in a moment, as it seemed, was clad
in full evening costume, and soon, escorted
by an usher, was entering the groatAinlng-
room. transformed into a salon-of reception.
At one end in huge electric letters I saw the
words, “Welcome, restored old patients.''—at
the other end. “Dr. Pierce, the Hotel I'o ind-
er,"—in the center of one long side, "Golden
Medical Discovery," and along the ceiling,
-also in electric letters, “Purgative Pellets."
As soon as this wonderful spectacle of
dreamland had become sufhclently natural
ized to my da/ed senses I looked around and
saw such happy congratulatory groups as
made mo thlnTT T was indeed in a phase of
Paradise. With words of whispered assur
ance, the usher led me to the highest por-
tlonof the room, where sat a €leopatra-like
woman of rare beauty and condescending'
carriage. “Permit me, oh, queen of Health,
to present to you another of your, subjects—
she who only, a year ago was, without her
will, excluded from, but has now re-entered,
your dominions.” She placed her epol hand
in ralhc, the which as I kissed a thrill of new
delight ran over my veins, and with a sceptre-
headed with a charmingly cut-bottle of silver
bearing In monogram the letter* “G. M. D.,“
she touched both my eyes which seemed to
anew drink in the gorgeous sight around me.
“And now,” said the Queen of Health, “let me
present you to my Prime Minister.” Timed
with her gesture to the right, I turned my eye*
and there saw. In evening costume, a robust
gentleman of medium stature^ who was
ln> physique the very -ideal type of
American manhood. Ho seemed the
very embodiment of healthful vigorous
vitality, and on his full lofty brow
I saw great indications of comprehensive
mental power, sweet benevolence, unvary
ing courtesy, tender sympathy, and business
sagacity. He *mi:ed and extended his hand.
When 1 reoogni/ed him in-the instant, and
rushing impetuously towa^s him seemed In
my dream to say, “Oh, Queen, this my pre
server, my ever-to be remembered physician,
Dr. Pierce." He greeted me as warmly as I
greeted him. At this the musk) struck up
congratulatory chords In unison with the
beating ot my heart, and he wbis|>ered in my
ear, “My best delight (and to it 1 have given
my life, even at the sacrifice of a public
carer and promised honors) 1* to benefit
those whom illness and disease afilicL”
A fresh procession of guests arriving at the
foot of the throne of the Queen of Health,
and demanding her attention, as it seemed to
me In my exhilarating dream, as well as the
attention of her Prime Minister Pieros, I re
ceded with my escort, and was soon mingling
with the bappy group*, the members of whleb
seemed bent upon enthusiastically exchang
ing with each other me nories of tbotr bappy
experience under the advice, whether here or
at their homes, of Dr. Pierce, through his
books and through his medicines, now con
trol led by a stndlcats of capltalista, under
the title of the "World * Dispensary Medical
Association." ‘1 was a SIcTtty' school iDri,"
sad one, “ignorant of tbe very rudiments of
physiology, and a victim inlerually to my Ig
norance. but the ' Med cal Adviser' recom
mended the 'Favorite Prescription' and It soon
restored me to bellebood, and here 1 am, full
of health and gratitude." Her escort was
a Harvard student, who told me that a short
time previous he bad been worn by Indiscreet
alternations of Boston pleasure-seeking and
Cambridge stifdy, a very martyr to poisoned
blood and dyspepsia,but “Medical Discovery,”
he joyously added, “not only made ma what
I am. but, by Its constant use. keeps me what
1 am.” As he moved away with the young
Jady, his affianced wife, I could not but regret
the small numbers In good society of a* hand
some healthy young fellows as be. “I,” re
marked a plump matron In black velvet and
diamonds “bad all the world oould give me ex
cept health. We exhausted the baths of Europe
and spent what to some would Fo a fortune
on eminent’ physicians of Paris, until 1 re
turned heme to die. But chance —mere
chan e, 1 am now ashamed to say —threw
Dr. Pierce's ‘Favorite Prescription' in
my way, and all my weaknesses vanished
ss the dew before the rising mk) summer
S'in. In two months I was s well woman.”
Tbe powerful voice of a bar.tone,
pressed Into the service of a song—still in my
dream—st one of the grand pianos of the In
valids' hotel, aroused my wonder, and to >n
the possessor of tbe voice was exciting o ir
marvel bv the narration of how ho owed It,
after a total destruction of voice by bron
chitis, So aa entire reoxygenaiion of lun s
and threat, through “GoMoo Dt sec very,” J
wa eh was now bis constant coxrpinkm.
Gracefully dancing In the ensntng quadrille. M.P-. AtUata,
/ . ■ *
1 saw a gentleman whom I was assured had
not (on* hff® criPP*** w, te
beyond even the paWetlon ^^HotSP rl
Arkansas, yet who. under “Golden Dis
covery ” had seemed to renew his strength,
like tke favored of the Psalmists song Aa
I moved about from group to group, 1 hrard
but one strain told in marfy "Sj-s-«md
that how marvelously, in Its one great
mission of purifying the blood
(which was’' tee fountain of health
or disease) the Golden Medical Discovery
bad com# to their horaes-in some Instances
after years of suffering and useless expendi-
tures—to renovate, and to make the names of
Dr. Pierce and the World's Dispensary Medical
Association household word* of cheer. Some
had been cured by tbe Discovery of great
eating ulcers, that had gnawed sway at their
flesh for years despite all the usual remedies.
Others had been restored to the full vigor of
health after one lung had been wastoa by
consumption (which is scrofula of the lungs),
and after night-sweats, spitting of blood, and
kindred symptoms, had manifested them
selves. Various forms of scrofulous diseases,
as fever-sores, white swellings, and hip-joint
disease, had been conquered with the world-
famed blood-purlfler—Golden Medical Dis
covery. * '
Presently a bugle from the orchestra gave
the summons to supper and all the guests be
gan to pair. Little Nubian boys in scarlet
uniforms (bright as everything bright is id
dreamland) teen glided in bearin*Jlttle silken,
pennons, each exposing the wards “Hope
in G. M. D.," which they distributed inline
Of nihrch, atid which each guest joyfully bore
aloft. Another bugle call for attention, and
1 saw two venerable, sweet faced men Of
Grcc'an features approaching the Queen of
. Health, bolding in their hands two wreaths of
evergreen—the veritable iaurel from tbe
Athenian groves. She stepped from her
thronfi, as complaisant monarch* do, and
raised them to her dal*. Another bugle for
silence and she spoke: “My guo.-ts, tefore we
sup an Interesting ceremony, remains. He
011 my right la Hippocrates from the Spirit
Land. He on my left is vEaculaplu*. They
come to crown our Dr. Pierce with the great
laurels of his noble profess'on—they the fcreat,
Past Grand Masters of tbe Healing Art, who
beat know who is conqueror of disease." In
a moment Dr. Pierce was about bending bis
knee In respectful obeisance tatheso ancient
Professors when a gesture from both ar
rested him, aS'jwlth (Uintv but dignified mo
tions they placed upon his head the laurel
leaves—each saving in a unison of'musical
monotone. “Thou art our legitimate suc
cessor,” while a burst of orchestral acclaim
and a chorus of thank* riving huzzas from the
guests arose. Imim d aiely alove this royal
and supornat'jrally looking tableau 1 saw in
pillnis of io*y light these great word*, the
mottrraf the crowned Dr. Pierce, and which
reveals the se .-ret of his almost divine suc
cess, “The Humid istiik Lira.” k
—And wWrthst i-awokei-tiv tTiy quafnt tittle
lodgings, to find (an unusual tiling .for Lon
don at early q.orn!ng any day)'cheery sun
Unlit streaming into the room, as there upon
my toilet table were my restored adjuncts te
continued life and happ ness—the Oxford
street supply of (teden ModlcRl)Dlscovery,
the guarantee of my continuing health.
Drar reader, although the foregoing is only
the narration of a dream, yet It but truthfully
reflects the marvelous cures wrought by those
world-famed medicines that .have, from their
intrinsic merits, become standard remedies
In all civilized countr e« foi the commoner
ilia of mankind.
Resolved.
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Interested
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T
The Secretary of the Lime-Kiln Clnb
announced an official communication
from the Commissioner of Agriculture
setting forth the fact that he had suc
ceeded in making sorghum at a coat of
only $1.62 cents a pound, and asking the
Club to assist him in circulating the
glorious news among the laboring men
of the country.
Nelson Blabs thereupon offered the
following resolution:
“Iteeolvcd, Dat de thanks of dis Club
an’ de 5,000,000 people it represents am
extended to de Commissioner fur his
patient an’ successful efforts to bring de
price of sliugar wridin de reach of ebery
poo’ family in America. ”
Judge Congo removed his coat, vest,
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vote. The result stood: Ayes, 121;
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