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-- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. 1904. _ _ Enteren af the fort Oljtct at Sumter v., '2g Second ( tasx Miiter PERSONAL. Hr. W. B. Colclough spent Saturday in the city. Miss Carrie Joye is on a visit to Bisbopville. R.- D. * Lee, Esq., went to Bishop ville Friday. Mr. John Fishburne, of Florence, is in the city. Mrs. H. G. steen has returned from Cheraw. ? fr. John H. Brawn went to Colum bi^ Wednesday. Mr. C. L. Stubbs has returned from Hendersonville. E.Miss Marie Moise bas returned from Sullivans Island. Mrs. D. J. Auld has returned from % Pawley's Island. ' " : . Miss Bantzler, of Eloree," is visiting Miss Hattie Jones. Mrs. E. C. Waetorof Heriot, spent Srfeurday in the city. Miss-Margie Monaghan is in Colum bia visiting relatives. Miss Hallie Jones has gone to Ridge way to visit relatives. Mrs. John F.Jenkins of Camden ' spent Monday in the city. Dr. J. A. Mood has returned from his trip to the mountains. Miss Louise Scarborough is visiting' Miss Beth Allen in Dillon. Mr. Julius L rick, of Bisbopville, spent Wednesday in our city. Miss Evie Wilson has gone to Chick V Springs for a few weeks stay. Mr. Spurgeon Cherry, returned from Lancaster Wednesday evening. Miss Kate Sholar, of Wihniugton/ N.. C.. is visiting friends here. Mrs. C. H. Dorn and children have returned from Greenville. Miss L onora Willeford left : Thurs day for Yorkville to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Wilder, have gone to Bisbopville to visit friends. Rev. S. O. Cantey went to Summer ton last week on a visit to relatives. Miss Annie McNeill, of Florence is visiting Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Brown. Mr. E. M. Jenkins of St. Charles, spent Thursday in Columbia on busi ness. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Vogel arrived home on Saturday from Van Wert, Ohio. Mr. Jno. S. Beaty, ol Georgetown is on a visit to Mr. R. D. Cuttino and . family. Miss Louise Murray has returned from a visit to friends in Laurens and Saluda. Mrs. Clarence BuRant, is visiting her-son, Dr. H. C. DuRant, in Bish opville. Mr. Henry C. Cuttino, has retnrned to the city after an absence of several months. Mrs. H. K. Gilbert, of Florence, is * spending a few days with Mrs. F. F. Mortimer. Misses Carrie and Sarah Nelson and Mr. 'Guy Nelson, of Statesburg, were in the city. Mr. Frank O'Donnell went to Au gusta, Ga., Wednesday night on a business trip. Mr. Chevis Dickson cf Florence is visiting the family of his uncle, Capt. H. W. Lucius. Miss Le Ree Fate left this morning for Greenville and Spartan burg to visit relatives. Mrs, and M S3 Turner the grand mother and aunt of Mrs. J. T. Green re visiting her. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Friar, of Flor ence, spent a few" hours in the city yesterday morning. Capt. C. Lu Williamson, spent Satur day in the city, and reports the crops in his section good. Mrs. T. C. Seaffe left on Saturday for the mountains of North Carolina to spend several weeks. v Miss Amanda C. Weeks and nephew, Mr. Richard Rollins, have returned from Waynesvil e, N. C. JV!rs. E. S. Booth who has been spending the summer in the mountains has returned to the city. Mrs. J. M. Chandler, left Saturday for Anderson, where she will sp 2nd some time- with relatives. Miss Gladys and Winifred Atkinson, who have been visiting relatives in Chester, have returned home. Mrs. F. W. Webrbabn and children have returned to Charleston, accom panied by Miss Hattie Mason. Mr. G. A. Lemmon left on Satdrday afternoon for New York, to buy goods for the Sumter Dry Gooda Co. Miss Rosa Cooper bas returned to herborn* at iWisacky after spending several weeks at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. Annie Monaghan, Miss Nellie, and Richard and Tommie are spending a few weeks at Sullivans Island. Mrs. C. W. Stansill, Jr., has re turned to the city after a visit of sev eral weeks to relatives in Columbia. Rev. C. C. Brown, spent; last week week at the Isle of Palms, and from there has gone to Jacksonville, Fia. Mrs. J. L. Land, who has been on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. F. F. Mortimer, bas returned to her home. Miss Marie McCullough, who has been visiting relatives in the city has returned to lier heme in Darlington. Mrs. Rosa Ramlin and children of Charleston are visiting their uncle, Mr. W. J. Andrews of Oswego, S. C. Rev. N. W. Edmunds and Miss Mamie Edmunds leave for Waynes vi le, N. C., today to spend several weeks. Mr. S. M. McCall, of Mayesville, has returned from the meeting of the State Farmers' Institute at Clemson College. Mrs. L. Atkinson, milliner for the Sumter Dry Goods Co. has gone North to tibe spend two week cn the markets. Mr. J.* M. Chandler, left for New York and eastern markets Sf.tnrday afternoon in the interest of Cuttino & Chandler. Messrs. Altamont Moses and J. Biggs Wilder returned on Saturday : from the A. O. U. W. convention in 1 Meridian, Miss. Mr. J. T. Frierson, Jr., of Cbarles ! ton, was in the city yesterday en-route i to Summerton tc attend the Anderson I Tindal marriage. t Mr. J. Hugh McCollum left Friday afternoon for New York and Boston where he will select tne stock for Shaw & McCollum. Mr. W. G. Stubbs, left for Boston and New York Friday afternoon where he will purchase the fall stock for the Sumter Clothing Co. Mrs. J. J. Fowler and daughter, Miss Nellie, have returned to their home in Wilmington after a visit to Mrs. C. G. Bultman. Miss Edna Hughson is visiting rela tives at Ridge Spring and willgo from there to Chick Spring's before she com pletes her two weeks vacation. ' Mr. Perry M. Parrot^ is in Conway for a short time filling the place o Cashier of the Bank of Horry during the sickness of the regular cashier. Mr. W. H. Andrews, of Charleston who has been visiting his brother, Mr. W. J. Andrews, of Oswego, bas gone to Augusta on a visit to his child ren, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Stubbs and Miss Alice Stubbs left Friday morning for Boston, Mass. Returning they will visit other points of interest in New England and New York. Mr. W. A. Mcllwain left last Thurs dayafternoon for Charleston to take the steamer for New York, where he will spend two weeks selecting the fall stock for Messrs. O'Donnell & Co. Mr. Willie Bultman of the firm of Bultman Bros. is now in Boston and will spend two weeks visiting the large shoe manufacturing centers of New England in the interest of his firm. Mr. J. L. Haynsworth has gone to New York in the interest of the Sumter Dry Goods Co. He is a mem ber of the Sumter party of merchants who took the steamer on Friday from Charleston. Rev. T. Tracey Walsh, of Orange burg is in the city. Mr. Walsh was for several years prior to entering the ministry a resident of Sumter and he has many friends here who are always glad to seee him. Mrs. L. L Parrott, Mrs. A. R. Flow ers and Mrs. W. R. Phillips and their children left last Fiiday morning for their old home in Irvington, Ky., to spend some time. They will also vis it the St. JLouis Exposition before re turning home. Mr. D. A. Minor and Mr. E. B. Wells of the M4nor Store went to Charleston Thursday afternoon ;wbere they took the steamer for New York. They will spend sometime there select ing the stock for the enlarged busi ness of the new Minor Co. Lieut, L. S. Carson and wife, who have been visiting Capt. E. S. Car son's family, left on Wednesday for Fort McPherson, Ga., to visit Mrs. Carson's parents aDd will go from there to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where Lieutenant Carson will' report for duty. Mr. R. -B. Vinson, who for the last seventeen months has been manager of the Virginia Life Insurance company in this city, has become one of the firm of the Minor Dry Goods com pany, of Snmter, and will go. to that city the latter part of this week. Mr. Vinson has made many friends in his short stay in onr city who re gret very much to see him leave, bet whose best wishes -for his future pros perity go with him.-Orangebrg Pa triot. Dr. and Mrs. Z. F. Highsmith, left this morning for points in North Carolina and Virginia for a two weeks trip. Mrs. J. G. DeLorme has r turned from visiting relatives in Spartan burg. Mrs. Henry M. Stuckey has gone to Bishopville to visit Mrs. Henry Stuckey. Mr. John T. Green left this morn ing for Glenn Springs. Mr W. P. Newman, of Elliotts, who spent yesterday in the city, reported that on Monday the heaviest rain of the season fell in his section. The rain was accompanied by'a violent thunder storm and a great deal of hail. While the fall of hail was heavy the stones were small and the damage to crops was not great. It was reported, he said, that the hail was heavier and more destructive across Lynches river in Darlington county than at Elliotts. Frank Ruffin, colored, a well known tailor, died sudd nly of heart disease last night at Emmanuel church where an entertainment was being held. Shortly before his death he complain ed of feeling ill and remarked to one of his friends that he believed he'was going to die before he could get home. He left the church and went to his buggy near by, where a few minutes afterward? he was fonnd dead, He has been suffering front heart trouble for sometime, hence his sudden death was not a surprise. Coroner Flowers when be was in formed of the death, made sufficient investigation to satisfy him that no inquest was necessary. The weather telegrams and weather flags are forecasts for thirty-six hours ahead-or, from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m. the following day. Mr. J. L. McCallum has purchased, through White & McCallum, the resi dence on Broad street now occr.pied by Dr. E. Mood Smith. After an existence of more than a hundred years the Statebure posto h'ce was closed on he l$tb, as a rural free delivery route from Sumter bas been establishea. We are indebted to Mr. G. W. Ma hony for a delightful watermelon weigh ing 42 pounds. It was enjoyed hy our entire printing office force and they ail desire to return thanks. Mr. A. D. Berts, the President o the Y. M. C. ^. of Watford College, delivered two fine addi esses at the Magnolia Street Obnrcb, Sunday. In th* evening, his theme of "Young Manhood" was delivered before a large and atientive congregation. To Wed In Charlotte. _ i Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Field, have issued invitations to rbe marriage of their daughter, Mabel L=e, and Mr. ! Richard Baker Belsar, which will be ; celebrated at their residence, 407 j North Graham Street, Charlotte, N. j C., Wednesday evening, August 24th j at 7 o'cloe i. ? Death of Mr, McLean. Mr.'William McLean, of Cheraw, who was fatally injured in the wreck of a mixedi freight and passenger, train at Robbies Neck, near Eennettsville on Thursday last, died at Dr. Bakers Infirmary Saturday afternoon. His injuries were believed from the first to be necessarily fatal, but such was his vitality he lingered until Satur day afternoon. The body was taken to Cheraw Saturday night on a special train furnished by the Atlantic Coast Line, there being no regular train on the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad. The deceased was in his twenty second year and was one of the most promising business men of Cheraw, where he "was a general favorite. He leaves a widowed mother and two sisters who for the second time within a few years are called upon to mourn the untimely death of a member of the family, a sister having been killed by a street car in Columbia a few years ago. He was brought to Sumter about eight o'clock on Friday evening and taken to Dr. Baker's infirmary for treatment The Daily Item of Saturday said : From one of his friends who accom panied him to Sumter we learn that his condition is most critical, and that they have little, if any, hope cf his recovery. One leg is fractured in three places, some of the bones of the hip seem to be crushed, there is an ugly wound on the head, and there are symptoms of injury to the bowels. He has not rallied from the shock of the accident sufficiently for his physi cians to determine the extent of the internal injuries or to permit them to make any attempt to repair the dam age. He has only been conscious at intervals since the accident. * He was accompanied to Sumter by bis mother, Mrs. McLean, and his sis ters, Misses Bessie and Agness, uncle and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. God frev of Cheraw, uncles, W. C. Wilson of Darlington, T. W. Evans of Marl boro County, and Messrs, S. W. Evans of Marlboro County, Harrington God frey and D. G. .McIntosh cf Cheraw. Death of Mrs. H. D. Plowden. Manning, Aug. 10.-Mrs.. Haynes worth D. Plowden died of typhoid fever and was buried today. She was a daughter of Dr. James of Cheraw, a sister o Dr. Owmgs of Columbia and a most estimable lady. Death of Mrs. J. C. Carmichael. Dillon,' Aug. 10.-Mrs. Bessie Carnes, daughter* of the late John Carnes., of Bishopville and wife of Dr. Jno. C. Carmichael, died here on the evening of the 6th inst., after an ill ness of several days, aged about 28 years. She was a niece of Mrs. Bob Lucien Bethea, formerly of Bishop ville, now of Dillon, and sister of Mrs, Howard Alford of this place. On the 13th o* last January she was married to Mr. Jno. C. Carmichael and but a few weeks before her death this young couple had established a home of their own with every earthly assurance of their share of the usual allotment of the joy and happiness that is always the dream of the young on life's thres hold. Recorders Court. Recorder Hurst had any all-day ses sion Tuesday of last week and a crowd ed house. The case on trial was that of the City vs. George Shaw, for creating a disturbance and fighti ng on the streets. Shaw was tried and convicted on Monday and sentenced to pay a fine of 85 or serve thirty days on the chain gang. His attorney, L. D. Jennings, Esq., asked for a new trial, which was granted by the Recorder after hearing argument. Mr. Jennings exercised his right to demand a jury trial. The case went to trial the second time yes treday morning and was not conced ed until late in the afternoon. The jury returned a verdict.of guilty and Recorder Hurst imposed a sentence of thirty days on the chain gang or a fine of $15. The trial yesterday developed evidence not brought out in the first trial and it was on account of this evi dence that the sentence was made heavier. Mr. Jennings gave* notice of appeal to the Circuit Court on the ground that the sentence was excess ive. The trial of Jethro Conyers, who was the other party to the row in which Shaw was hurt, was post poned until Friday. Call for Mail. Persons who advertise and direct that replies be addressed to this office should not forget to call for mail. Two letters for "Boarder" care of Daily Item, and one for "P" care Watchman and Southrcn have be on our desk uncalled for from one to three weeks. A strong endorsement of Osteopathy was made by Dr. John Madison Tay lor in a paper read before the Ameri can Medical Association at New Or leans, it appears in another column and will bear careful reading. The ladies of Bradford Springs Episcopal Church will give an ice cream festival at the pavilion at Prov idence Springs on Aug. 25th for tile purpose of buying an organ for the church. The public are cordially in vited to attend from G to 10 p. m. Dr. J. C. Spann has been reelected President of the City Board of Healh. Tins is the third time Dr. Spann has been honored by being elected to this position. His term having expired, Dr. Spann started to vacate the pre siding officer's chair and decline re election, but the attempt was cut shon by the members unanimously reelect ing the doctor by acclamation before Dr. Spann could .draw his breath, fie has. made a very efficient President and takes a great interest in the de partment of health. 1W III Wi . - Dr. K-nnedy, Osteopath, office over Bu I tm an Bros. Consultation free. Aug. (j-tf 1 AN ALARM BY NIGHT. A Crazy Negro Frightens Resident on Salem Avenue A negro man who is mildly insane or idiotic alarmed a number of the residents of Salem Ave. Monday night by attempting to enter their houses. He made a good deal of noise and frightened several ladies, but did not succeed in entering any of the houses. The screams of the terrified ladies brought Deputy Sheriff Gaillard and several other gentlemen to the scene and the negro was taken into custody and locked up in the guard house. He is too idiotic to gave any satisfac tory account of himself and no one has appeared to identify him. As near as can be made ont from his in coherent talk his name is Evans. THE BASE BALL MATINE. Daily Report of the South Atlantic League Hot From the Wires. Every afternoon, over the Sumter Savings Bank, the base ball enthusi asts of the city listen witli unbounded pleasure to the returns of the games, as they are told in the story over the wire, and in which Columbia has been so phenominally successful. The capital city team bas a number of ardent admirers here ; and yester day, as Dexter, Daly, and Shea pounded the leather for long, clean hits, the walls of the room fairly shook from the cheering that follow ed. The operator in Columbia is at the ball park, and he gives the fans here every detail of the game. The matinee is the next best thing to ac tually attending the games, and the people of Sumter should avail them selves of this very interesting and ex citing form of amusement. WOODMEN MONUMENT UNVEILED. Hollywood Camp Marks the Resting Place , of Sovereign A. T. Buddin. A delegation bf about thirty mem bers of Holy wood Camp Woodmen of the World went to Shiloh Church last Sunday to unveil the monument re cently erected to the memory of the late A. T. Buddin, of Sardinia, who was a faithful and consistent Wood man. The monument which is of the con ventional Woodman design, was un veiled at 12 o'clock with the custo mary* ceremonies prescribed by the ritual of the order. Mr. L. L Par rott acted as the presiding officer and Consul Commander C. M. Hurst, of Hollywood Camp, delivered the ora tion. Appropriate music was furnish ed by a quartette from the Second Regiment Band. There were present at the unveiling between six and eight hundred persons from the Shiloh and Sardinia sections where Mr. Buddin was best known and most highly re spected. His friends gathered from far and near to unite with the Wood men in paying a tribute of respect to his memory. The Woodmen from this city and others from a distance were most hos pitably entertained by the good people of Shiloh, who had provided a boun tiful dinner which was served iu the grove beside the church, after the un veiling ceremonies had b en conclud ed. ---m a -? The believers in the saying that it will rain every day of dog days if it rains the first day, have the evidence on their sids this year sure. The secretary of state Thursday chartered the Minor store of Sumter E. Wells is president, Elisha Carson secretarv and treasurer. Th^ captai is S3 0,000. The passenger travel from and through this city is quite large now, and the ticket agent is kept busy sell ing tickets. One day last week, it is reported, he took in 8800 before break fast The Secretary of State has issued a commission to the Elliott Lumber Company, of Elliott, Lee county ; cap ital stock, S3,000; corporators, E. D. Law and J. G. McIntosh. The Recorder's Court is in session every day, but the cases are usually of little importance, those most fre quently on the docket being the re sult of family rows between negroes. The appearance of Col. Wilson of the Northwestern. Railroad and Capt. Lynch of the A. C. L. a few days in the city leads us to believed probably that there is something doing in rail road circles here. Mr. P. R. Felder has purchased, through White & McCallurn, the resi dence on Church Street now occupied by Mr. I. A. Ryttenberg, but has since Fold it to Dr. E. Mood Smith, who will occupy it after Sept. 1st. A commission has been issued to the Citizens Building and Loan Associa tion of Bishopville, capitalized at 835,000. The cnrporatois are : J. W. Weatherly, F. F. Herndon, J. P. Kil gore, G. O. Rogers, W. R. Scarbor ough and Thos. G. McLeod. An excurison train from Wilmington to Columbia passed through the city yesterday and a number of Sumter peo ple took advantage of the opportunity and the exceptionally low rates to go over to Columbia to attend the Char leston-Columbia ball game this after noon. It has been suggested that it would be a great improvement for City Coun cil to open up several new streets, as ; follows: extend Reardon Avenue from ; E. Hampton Avenue and E. Calhoun j Street: extend N. Magnolia Street north from E. Calhoun and then ex- , tend Warren Street east to connect with N. Magnolia extension. The ex tension of these streets will open up soma very valuable building lots in a desirable residence section, lt is un derstood that most of the land for ex- ; tension of streets will be given. Sumter's Health OfHcer was very proudly riding, or trying to ride, his j new chain less Tribune wheel Thursday when a negro riding a horse at a full gallop around the corner of Harvin and Bartlette streets rode the Health j Officer down and knocked him and j his wheel a good distance. He was ! terribly *4jarred," as he expressed it, i but further than a few bruises was not j hurt much. The ehainless was unin jured, except breaking the bell, which-j shows that the Health Officer and his bicycle are made of good material, to withstand such a severe collision. Sam Pierson is authority for what the Health Officer said to the colored rider. Stateburg Sayings. Statesburg, Aug. IG.-We are glad to say that the rainy spell is broken afc last. Within the pa3t week, we have had four days without rain, and the farmers are trying to get in their fod der. Some of our enterprising young far mers' have had several open bolls of cotton at least ten days ago ! Mr. John Barnwell, who is now employed in business in Yorkville, is spending a few days at home. Mr. Frank P. Burgess, left last eve ning for Summerton, where on Wed nesday ev ninghe will officiate as*'best man" afc. the Tindal-Anderson wed ding. Mr. J. Temple Frierson, Jr., is at home for a few days. Mr. W. ii. Frierson and himself will also attend the wedding of their cousin, Mr. W. H. Anderson. Miss Carrie Nelson, is at home from Florence. She will be in Stateb'urg until Sept. lst^much to the delight of her many friends. Mr. Robert Wells of Piinewood spent last week with his cousin Mr. W. J. Norris. Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Cain and son of Pmopolis are visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ramsey. Miss Kate Bull cf Charleston, is spending seme time at "Cherry Vale" the guest of Misses Bettie and Julianne Frierson. Misses Lizzie and Minna Richard son and Mr. Richard Richardson, of Clarendon, spent Saturday with Mrs. Scriven Moore. Miss Leila D. Tew, cf Columbia, is at "Farmhill" visiting Miss Lee. To Dundee and Back. To Dundee, S. C., not Scotland. Why it was so named I am unable to say, but surely m net because of an abundant Scotch population, there be ing kbut two families of them about. Possibly it was so named with a view to colonizing. However that may be, few people in the country, even in South Carolina, know where Dundee, S. C., is. Well,it is in West Kershaw, down on the wire road twelve miles from Camden. "What is in a name?" "Better kill a dog than give him a bad name." Lafayette passing up or down this road, I know not which, said some things thai; were not in compliment of the contiguous country and though they never appeared in print, I believe yet to this day as tra dition, they continue to be handed down wielding an influence most truthful, for there are scores and scores of people who can not conceive of any good being found there while in reality some of the best lands and finest crop in Kershaw county are i here,cotton that will make all the way I from half to one bale per acre and that i with only two hundred pounds ferti I lizer and corn, some without fertilizer, that will make from ten to fifty bush els per acre. This goodly land, con venient to railroad, the S. A. L., pro ducing abundant crops of apples and peaches is free from malaria and mos quitos. To my sceptical reader I say, "Don't judge by appearances; a little investigation will prove the great bug aboo of the famous Marquis to be a thing of naught. The crops on either side of the river are promising, and show little signs of the severe drought. We were away just two weeks and returning joined company with Chas, and Julian San ders on their way home from the.ex position, about which they had noth ing but words of praise. Just as we stepped off the train at Hagood whom should we meet on their way to the ex position bat E. E. Rembert and wife. On every hand, I hear reports of good crops. The rains of late may have been harmful, but the writer has repeatedly noticed that where well fertilized cotton did not cast its fruit. Would you believe it that there are sections in South Carolina yet where red liquor continues to flow at the campaign meetings, that under its in fluence men wallow in the dirt, quar rel and fight. Let me tell some of the campaign managers how to make a little pocket change. Write all the candidates you are going to have a big dinner and assess each one so much. Pocket what you want, pay the balance to some other fellow to get the dinner up. When the candidates send their friends around let him charge each one a quarter or more for his dinner. I hear it has been done in South Car olina, and what has been may bo again, but I hope we are improving. , Hagood. Gen. M. L. Bonham, in his letter in yesterday's Daily Mail, ga\*6 ut terance to a great and proven truth when he said, in effect: People who try to deceive the people in political matters will be found out. And then when the people find them out they will resent it. They will say, if these men deceived us unintentionally they are unworthy of our confidence, and if they deceived us intentionally they are not capable of representing us in any capacity. The people cannot be fool ed for long, and a campaign of mis representation and deception will act as a boomerang on those who started it.-Anderson Mail. Hunt's Round Pointed Pens for sale at Osteen's Book Store. A STRONG ARGUMENT FAVORING OSTEOPATHY. Manual Treatment Far in Advance of Oth er Methods. Says Eminent Philadel phia Physician. At the meeting of the American Medical Association of New Orleans, Dr. John Madison Taylor read a paper from which the following extracts are taken : "One of the most ancient, reliable, practical and realy demonstrative of all therapeutic measures is manual treatment." "The half forgotten, and often un recorded lore of many lands, furn ishes enough and more than enough, to show that by skill in applying, to even simple laws of anatomy, and phy siology, traditional measures of read justments, etc., there can be accom plished great relief and often cures where medical skill has as yet signally failed." ' ' Osteopathy has so far come large ly as a surprise and bewilderment to the medical mind and it is the pur pose of this article to say a few words on the subject. The writer has been especially interested in mechanical or manual therapeutics for a quarter of a century ; he lias taught the principles of remedial movements and massage in the first and most im portant school of the subject in Phila delphia for sixteen years, and has done his best to learn what there>is to know of the subject. When the Osteo* patbic doctors appeared he was nat urally eager to ascertain what myster ies, with what control over Nature's processes, they were especially endow ed. Their literature was eagerly search ed, the professors were sought out and the subject approached with an open mind. The Osteopathic doctor lays down, as a broad principle, that all, or practically all, bodily derangements are results of disturbances in the ad justments of bones, whereby nerve and blood vessels are pressed upon or altered in their relationship, and that thereby innervation and circulation, and consequently sensory and nutri tive conditions a re altered. He claims a thorough knowledge of an ato ny and physiology and a sufficient familiarity with symptomatology and dignosis.' e avers that he can discover the cause of disease by locating the fault j in disturbed bony relationship and i that upon correcting these the disorder wilTcease. His methods involve mani pulations directed primarily to that end, and secondarily to the fountains I of innervations, chiefly in the spinal j areas and other centres, especially of the sympathetic system.. He is fully aware of * * * the significance of mechanical stimulation cf vasomotor centres and consequent alteration in the vasotonus, not only in the larger circulation, but in the lymphatics." "The field of manual tberaphy is practically boundless, and is the pre rogative and duty of the educated phy sician. Most certainly not in the re stricted sense that medical men now nndersand this, but through a knowl edge of the sympathetic nervous sys tem and the possibilities of influenc ing this, especially the vasomotor machanisms, as is dene , * * .* by the ' Ostoepath. Effects can be wrought.by these means, and cures accomplished beyond the scope or com prehension of most men. * * * If the medical profession would take the trouble to read carefully half a score of small books (after revising their knowledge of the nervous mechanisms) and themselves make practical use of the light thus gained, they would feel little hesitation in going forward thoroughly to acquire skill in so prac tical and valuable a branch of thera peutics. * * * It is a most promis ing field for research for the experi i cental physiologist,, and especially for the neurologist. The writer has been able, by these means, to accom plish cures * * * which if he were to publish them in the present attitude of the medical profession wouid pro bably cause him to be branded as a liar." "In so brief an article it is possible only to refer to certain generaliza tions, calling attention to the fact that literature of mechanical thera peutics is of most respectable size and by authors, in tho main, of large scientific attainments and always of wide practical experience, and even if based on pure empiracism, is worthy of special attention ; but there is a broad basis of physiological fact, of which only the most elementary parts are now formulated. So soon as medi cal colleges (as assuredly will occur soon), is directed to this subject, the profession will gain a wide realm of added usefulness to the means of con trolling disease. Again, it must not be assumed that mechanical or man ual therapy is mere massage and exer cise as conceived by the average phy sician : the scope is by no means con fined ' to passive movements "and muscle kneadings * * * or loosen ing ot' the joints contracted by disuse, etc." "The sphere of manual therapy lies in the ability of medical practitioners to influence centers of organic activity by mechanical stimulation through the vasomotor nerves, whereby less or more blood can be sent to parts, ac cording' to their need. Not only can this be accomplished, in varying utility with the physiological and other knowledge ct the practitioner, but sensory, as well as nutritive effects, are thus wrought, and in so much more accurate, safe and tuorough a fashion, that no one who bas had hrs attention thus aroused can remain content to omit using these excellent procedures. To be sure, it need not be that well tried and proved remedies and measures shall be abandoned, but in manual, therapy * * * there is a nice, exact and prompt agency, far in advance of ali other measures for the relief and cure of a wide variety of derangements, not only of the coarser mechanisms, but of the vital organs.'' "It remains, then, for medical men to investigate these statements, not to deny them. Drugs are admitted to fail frequently; the recognized forms of blaneotherapy and climatotherapy fail; hygeine in its broadest sense on which so many rely, can often accomplish little: of special rays, etc., much is hoped ; but the reasonableness of man ual theraphy must commend itself in creasingly to those physicians who will look carefully into the matter for themselves."-New York and Phila delphia Medical Journal. Have you read that very interest