Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 January 1896 — Page 5

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Semi-Annual Discount

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Commenced Monday

Morning

December 30th.

Every article in our immense

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Strictly Cash!

DRUGS FOE A DIME.

ALL PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FILLED FOR 10 CENTS EACH.

A Chicago Institution That Is of Untold Service to the Suffering Poor—What la Done In the Various Branche* or the

Harvey Medical Settlement.

The only dime drug store in the world is located in South Halsted street, Chicago.

At this dispensary all prescriptions, regardless of the compounds, regardless of the labor in compounding, are filled for the sum of 10 United States cents. The store is a benevolent institution in a community which previous to its establishment stood much in need of benevolence it attracts an enormous trado from the patrons for whose benefit it was originated. The customers receive the benefit and the drugs, and the store manages to weather financial storms, though it might not be able to keep its head above water without the more than occasional donation of stocks of patent medicines and prepared foods which Chicago manufacturers donate to keep the charity institution on its feet.

The drug store is part and parcel of the Harvey Medical settlement, 20*3, 210, 212 South Halsted street, a portion of Chicago inhabited for the greater part by "shabby genteel, too proud to beg, too honest to steal, and a still lower 2lass not affected by the aforementioned pride.

The medical settlement is constituted of the following named charitable institutions: The Harvey hospital, Harvey Free dispensary, Harvey Training School For Nurses, Harvey out practice,'' Harvey Medical college and Harvey Dime drug storo.

Dr. Marshall, Dr. Frances Dickenson and Dr. Effie Lobdell, assisted by Miss Amy Mace, a registered pharmacist in charge of the drug store, and such physicians who may chance to have patients in the Harvey hospital have entire charge of the community, from a medical standpoint.

Other societies take an interest in the poor of this neighborhood the Epworth league looks to the preservation of diseased and other souls, and Hull House Christiauly endeavors to promote affairs socially, but the Harvey settlement has control from a medicinal point of the compass, and judging from its efficient work since the inauguration of its efforts, Jan. 1, 1894, its labors have been crowned with warranted success. The Harvey hospital was opened on that date and started in business with seven beds and four patients, and has since been reconstructed so as to accommodate 30 sufferers. The sorvices of the best men and women physicians and surgeons are accorded patients at a nominal cast and in cases of extreme poverty or accident are furnished free of charge. The intention of the management of the hospital, as is the case in the government of the dime drug storo, is to provide a proper place for worthy poor, who do not, like the county hospital because of the almost general aversion to being classed among paupers, resulting from being a patient in a freo hospital. And there are poor and sick able to afford the cost of treatment and nursing in a hospital of this sort "vho could not pay the ordinary cost attached to receiving proper medical attendance. The income from patients at the Harvey hospital does not cover the expense ot' maintaining the institution. Any physician of good standing is permitted to plu-.:e patients in the liotj-. pital.

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Harvey Medical settlement is, in the opinion of those who have investigated it, the right thing in tho right place. It is supplying along felt want in a long wanting community.—Chicago Tribune.

First Moral*, Then Literature.

Moral teaching was Miss Edgeworth's first objoet literature or the interest of her tale came only second. To* this cardinal defect she is indebted for most of her faults as a novelist. Her plots are improbable, and her characters become dummies. If she does not avow her didactic purpose so clearly as Hannah More or Mrs. Sherwood, she is not satisfied, liko Miss Austen, to leave her characters convey their own lesson. She aeems more intent upon erecting moral sign postH for the convenience of future travelers than of accomplishing her own jonrnev with rapidity and success. Nor is her teaching of an elevated kind. Irs pole star is enlightened selfishness.

As her pattern children are always rewarded, so hor heroes and heroines are sure to prosper, to discover themselves the inheritors of great fortunes and to marry into the peerage. Small space is allowed in her system for imagination, passion or religious enthusiasm. The internal struggle which their strength creates would only have disturbed hor simple balance betwoeu right and wrong. Previous novelists had based morality on feeling. She ascribes it to the understanding. She allows no amiable weaknesses, no sudden impulses, no uncontrolable emotions. Even Cupid, king of men, is elbowed from his throne and in exchange for his kingdom is offered a sinecure as the keeper of nonconformist consciences. A large tract of life is, in fact, to Miss Edgeworth a terra incognita of which she knows nothing because she feels uytliiug.—Quarterly Re-* view,

Pictorial Fiction of Chinaman.

Under the heading, "Pictorial Li^s," the Shangtung correspondent of the North China Daily News says: "Not long since I found in a Chineso inn a set of highly colored pictures, such as the natives are wont to use as wall decorations, setting forth the events of the late war with Japan. The superscriptions narrated in very bad Chinese how that tho petty king of Japan had rebelled against the constituted authority of the Dragon throne, and in the pride of his heart had constructed a navy and troops to harass his imperial majesty withal. But at Ping Yang the rebellious king, even after hiring tho Koreans to fight for him, was completely routed without the loss of a single Chinese banner. The terrible havoc at Ping Yang is depicted with mucli display of gore among the Japanese ranks. Next scene, great victory of the Chinese troops in Manchuria. General Sung is represented as issuing forth from a city gate and chasing the panic stricken enemy pell mell over a stone bridge. Then comes tho storming of a fortress on the sea const. A dozen impassible warships are belching forth fire and shell. The flags at the mastheads arc inscribed with the common Chinese names of Japan, England, France, Germany and the United States. Notwithstanding this unequal contest of all the world against China, the soldiery of the fortress are watching the onset with tho utmost complacency,not even deigning to return the fire."—London News.

The Light of the Diamond.

An expert in gems has lately called attention to a property in the diamond which has not hitherto been fully appreciated. In a paper by Robert Boyle, publishod in tho transactions of tho Royal society, mention is made of a diamond that became phosphorescent simply by the heat of tho hand, absorbed light by being held near a caudle and omitted light on being briskly rubbeiK

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Observations by Mr. KU the

gctn expert VCfS'rred t5, confirm Boole's statement tha$ diamonds bec6S§ phosphorescent in th^ $ark after exposure to (he sunlight or electric light but they also snow that all diamonds emit light by being rubbed nn wood, cloth or meta^.. .... ..J •—''iSSSZ

This property is ..n itnportaut que, as it will enable the nonexpert to distinguish between the true diamond and other hard stones as well as paste,'none pf which-exhibitH this phenomenon. This pi'opcrty is evidently not elt-.-trie, us is clearly shown by Its being vi. ible when tho gem is rubbed on metal.

^Hlackie'n Ways.

It is said that the late Professor' Bluckie hail a quaint, ceremonious little way of expressing his rever»nce for the Wizard of the North. Whenever, through his long life, he passed Walter Scott's Jion.so in Edinburgh, he would stand still, and, leaning on his stick, remain for a moment in silent meditation. Strangers were often puzzled when they saw the venerable figure of Professor Bluckie, .standing motionless in Castle street, his plaid blown by the wind, and his face wearing a look of dreamy abstraction. Another out of door note on Blaokio is this amusing one Calling on a lady, he'said abruptly: "When I walk along Princes' street, I go with a kingly air, my head enc.t, my chest, expanded, my hair flowing, my plaid flying, my stick swinging. Do you know what, makes me do that? Well. I'll tell you— just conceit

r»M, i*n»m»nt and Future.

Tin? haiiic seen from tlnvo different points of view—the past, the present and the future—often exhibits three different faces to us, like those signboards over .shop doors which represent. tho lace of a lion as we approach, of a man when we are in front and of tin ass when we have passed.—Longfellow. 'V '.

Much attention is being $iid at present to the lony neglected letter "u" of our alphabet. Teachers in vocal culture give their pupils tho sentence, "Did yon get your Century I sent you:" to enunciate with an entire elimination of "j" and "ch" sounds.

Brave conquerors! for so you are, that war against your own affections and the huge army of the world's desires.— Shakespeare.

Jade originally signified any rude person, without regard to sex.

A Copper Token From Uw

In a letter whioh inoloebd bing" of a cent, a reader of The Inquirer writes: "In some change received afc the mint a few days-ago I notimdapenny that attracted my attention.On, one side is an Indian head and" th» words, 'Millions for the cOntraoton^ and on the reverse side the words, '.Not one cent for the widows.' The dftte ofj the penny is 1868." A reporter shentqd the "rubbing" to R. A. McClure,

top*..':. A Smoker'* Stratagem.

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veteran and learned curator at th&mtnl» and from him learned that the coin was one of many thousand tokens whioh were issued by private persons, in 1865 and 18G4 in order to make up for the scarcity of small coins. The government: did not interfere at that time, and the circulation of the tokens was not prohibited until 1867. It is estimated that 5,200 tokens wero put out by private parties of copper or brass, and on many of the coins appeared the imprint of business firms. Some catalogued at tho mint show a Masonic mark, "For Public Accommodation," a portrait of General G. B.' McClellan, and any number of trade devices. The cent could only have been paid out at the mint by accident, for the cashier would not permit it knowingly to oirculate. The value of this class of tokens, according to a catalogue, is less than 8 cents at selling price.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

A Logical Indian.

Bishop Whipple of Minnesota says that the Dakota Indians onoeheld a war dance near a mission house. He went to Wabasha, the chief, and said: "Wabasha, you asked me for a missionary and a teacher. I gave theiji to you. I visit you, and the first sight is this brutal scalp dance. I knew the Chippewa whom your young men have murdered. His wife is crying for her husband his children are asking for their father. Wabasha, tho Great Spirit hears his children cry. He is angry. Some day he will ask Wabasha, 'Where is your red brother?'

The old chief smiled, drew his pip» from his mouth and said: "White man go to war with his own brother in the same country kill more men than Wabasha can count in all his life. Great Spirit smiles says'Good white man! He has my book. 1 love him very much. I have a good place for him by and by.* The Indian is a wild man. He has no Great Spirit book. He kills one man, has a scalp dance. Great Spirit is mad and says 'Bad Indian! I put him in a bad place by and by.' Wabasha don't believe it!"

The editor of the Melbourne Spectator, the Rev. Lorimer Fison, is a Wesleyau with a backbone and a considerable amount of humor. He edits the paper with his coat and boots off and a great pipe in his mouth. He relates that just before his ordination he was sent for by the board of examiners. "Mr. Fison," said one of the board, "your papers are excellent, but there is one thing wo object to."

Fison asked what it was. "You are addicted to the evuhabifc of smoking."

Fison explained that he saw no evil in it but, taking a large plug from his pocket, said, "In deference to your opinion, gentlemen, I promise you this—aa soon as I have smoked the plug I hold in my hand I will cease smoking forev#"

They were satisfied, and he was ordained the next day. But as ho refills the big pipe he chuokles and tells you: "I've-keptmy word. I've got that very plug yet."

Congress and Parliament.

The working out of the contrast afforded by congress and parliament is singular. ^Vhlle congress" cannot touch an outwork of the constitution on whioh the" Tlniiona^ goyernment

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in Westminster three ihifihimffiiS ber's of parliament might, in the spaoe of five or ten minutes, pass a bill for the abolition of the monarchy through sif* its stages, 'he speaTcer sitting pow'erlesa ill bis clini]. On the other hautK 0gn-» grass can scaiter ilie Soflars of the nation broadcast overland andsea^haugb t»ll tho whole 070 of the house of AOgJ" mous in parliament assembled could not vote away a single shilling of the pujjlio uJOrifiy nnless they wero assured that tlit) queeft sanctioned the outlay, and if, that assurance .having been vouchsafed to them, they sought to pass the 1 shilling approbation bill through more than a singln stage per sitting, the speaker would promptly interpose his veto.—North American Review.

Il« W:mtf(I tlit* Watch.

A young English barrister in Africa was once retained to defend a Zulu charged with stealing a gold watch. The evr^'iice was entirely circumstantial, and iiic iwyer made such a good defense that his client: wus discharged. The same eveiuig he was sitting with the magistrate on the porch of the hotel when the Zulu came up and said in English: '•Master, can I wear the watch now?" puihng out the stolen article at thg fa: iime. J*

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