Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 January 1896 — Page 3

Physician Talks.

THE REMARKABLE STORY AND AFFIDAVIT OF DR. LEWIS BLUNDIN.

Afflicted wltl) Paralyili fur Twmty« five Year*—A Case of World Wide Interest. (from the Philadelphia Timet.)

Lewis D. lilundin was bora in '41 al Bridgewater, Pa., and is now a resident of Hulnieville tunic state. He went through the war as private, sergeant and hospital steward of Company C. 28th Pa. Volunteers. As a reHult oi' an attuck of tvphoid fever in Ga., his kidneys became affected and this finally developed into spinal disease, which lasted through hia army service. In '66 he was mustered out and entered Jeffersom Medical College, Phila., as a student from which he graduated two years later. The remainder of the story is nest told in hia own words:

One day, after I had graduated, I was lying on a sofa at my home, in Manayunk, when 1 felt a sold sensation in my lower limbs as though the blood had Suddenly left them. When I tried to move them 1 was horrified at the discovery that 1 was para-' lyzed from my hips to my toes. The paralysis was complete and a pin or a pinch of the flesh caused no pain. could not move a muscle. I called in Dr. Willi4»n C. Todd, of Philadelphia. He made an exhaustive examination "f my oose, and announced that my, troubu' was caused by inflammation of the spinni cord, and that I would likely have aii'ther stroke of paralysis. I consulted Dr. I. \V. G'css and l'r. P'ancoast of Jeflerson College, Philadelphia, and Dr. Morehouse, of Philadelphia with the sama result.

One day last September 1 decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I had always been troubled with a sort of •ertigo after my first stroke of paralysis to such an extent that when 1 got out of my bed my head would swim and I had difficulty in saving myself from falling. My appetite was bad, digestive organs ruined and no assimilation of food. In addition to my many other ailmenta, rheumatism held a prominent place. By the time I had finished the first box of Pink Pills I was comparatively free from these minor ills. First one ail would disappear, then another until the pills got to work upon the foundation stones of my trouble—paralysis. Before had taken the six boxes of pills, 1 was sitting in my chair and one afternoon, when I felt a curious sensation in my left foot. Upon investigation I found it had flexed, or in other words, become movable, ana I eould move it. From that time on my improvement was steady and it waa not long before I was walking around on crutches with little or no discomfort. It was three •ears before taking the Pink Pills that I had been able to use the crutches at any time and I feel sure that Pink Fills have dons me more good than all the doctors and all the medicine in the country and as they are not costly I can easily afford the treatment."

Sworn to before me this 15th dav of May, '#93. GBORGK HAKRIBON. flot. PubUa.

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."By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion ane nutrition, and by a careful application of the line properties of well-selcoted Cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided for our breakfast and supper a delicately flavored beverage wbioh mays ve us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the ludlciouB use of such ortlolos of diet that a constitution may qe gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies aro floating around us ready to attaok wherever there Is

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Coflfe* Growing .'i'W"

"Coffee growing exhausts tho soil

utterly that the land must lie fallow afterward," explained onr guide, daring a tour of Jamaioa. 'The saltpeter has got into the coffee, sab,' is the niggers' favorite expression when they pull hp a tree to show yon that it is rotten at the roots. Now, considering that there is no saltpeter.in the whole island, bow and whence they ever got their idea of its qualities is a mystery to me."

The process of preparing coffee berries for market was now briefly explained to pie by this kind acquaintance. When gathered, red and round as oberries, the berries are subjected to the only machine used throughout the work. This is not unlike a nutmeg grater, or graters, which free the twin beans inside the berry from their fleshy covering, leaving them clean and blue. They ore then sun dried, and on the best plantations this is done by spreading them on barbecues, or cement terraceB, sloped so to allow the rain to run off quickly, having gutters all around and one raised place in the middle. The beans are rakconstantly to expose all of them in turn to the sun, but should there be any signs of rain coming over the sky the 'Whole orop is gathered with haste into a fieap in the raised center, and a shelter honse on wheels is drawn over the berries while the bad weather lasts. Last of all, the berries are hand picked with care, and the finest are put aside. —Cornhill Magazine.

The Irish Rain.

I must allow that it sometimes rains In Ireland, but Irish rain is not quite like other rain. It is, as a rule, softer than rain elsewhere, and, if the truth must be told, I like rain, so lung as one has not to say, "For the rain it rainoth every day." Irish weather is not so muoh capricious as coquettish. It likes to plague you, if but to prepare you to enjoy the more its sunny, melting mood

It will weep and wail all nigbt, and, lo! the next morning Ireland is one sweet smile and seems to say: "Is it raining I was yesterday? Ah, then, I'll rata no more." And the runnels le and laugh, and the pastures and very stone walls glisten the larks carol on their celestial journey there is a pun gent, healthy smell of drying peat the mountains are all dimpled with the joy of life and sunshine the lake lies perfectly still, content to.refleot the overhanging faoe of heaven, and just won't your honor buy the stoutest pair of homemade hose from a barefooted, bareheaded daughter of dethroned kings, with eyes like dewdrops and a voice that would charm the coin out of the moat churlish purse? If on raoh mornings as these you do not lose your heart to Ireland, it must be made of stern, unimpressionable stuff indeed. Blackwood's Magazine.

Khabarofta, Siberia.

Khabarofka is a wretched looking little place, about a quarter the size of Vladivostok, although it is the capital of eastern Siberia and the residence of the governor general. It lies about 40 degrees latitude north, or 0 degrees north of Vladivostok. In the publio garden is a bluff commanding a birdseye view of the river, beach and steamers. Here is a monument, in bronze, to Governor General Adjutant General Nikolai Nikolaievitch Muravief, who took part in two exploring expeditions— 1854, 1856—and ruined the title "Amurski" for his services in the acquisition of this Amur region to Russia. The chief street in Khabarofka is called, after him, Muravief-Amurski. On the statue'B pedestal are-engraved the names of himself. his wifd, about 26 military officers and seven scientific men, who shared in the toils and dangers of his expeditions.'' Near the statue is a band stand," where a military band plays on Bunday evenings, and a little temple of the Blessed Virgin, the Bogoroditza, with painted pictures inside the walls. Further on is a pretty little wood, left for 6bade. Behind is the governor's house, a flue brick building, with sentries pacing before it. Past the wood a steep path leads- to the bathing place, where one has the choice of wading in from the stony beach or diving from a regular bathing house at the end of a dilapidated wooden pier.—Fortnightly Review.

"E Plurlbns Unum" on Oar Coins.

According to the United States mint officials, the words, "E Pluribus Unum,'' as they appear on our coins, are there without the sanction of law. The legend first appeared upon a copper coin "struck" at the Newburg (N. Y.) mint in the year 786. The United States was very young at that time and could not afford the luxury of a mint, so a private individual of the name of Brasher opened the Newburg coining establishment with the intention of turning out money of the realm for all comers. Exactly how the words "E Pluribus Unum" came to be used as a motto is not known but one thing is certain, the Brasher copper coin bearing that legend and the date of 1786 is the most valuable metal disk ever minted on this continent, being worth about f2,000, or twice as much as the famous rare dollar of 1804.

Some time after coining his famous copper with the odd Latin motto as above described Brashor tried his hand on a large sized goldpiece, producing the coin known to the numismatists as

Brasher's twenty." The Brasher twenty" was not a |20 goldpiece, however, for it lacked of weighing enough, but of late years it has become very scarce and valuable because of the fact that the legend inscribed upon it reads "Unum E Pluribus" instead of

E Pluribus Unum.'' This coiri*is now valued at $1,500.—St Louis Republic.

Dominie and Domlne.

Differences that seem very slight in foreign or provincial words may be very real, and it is important to know and to note them. An eminent New York scholar calls attention, in this line, to an erroneous use of the word "dominie" for "domihe" by a recent contributor to The Sunday School Times. He-says: "The terms 'dominie' and 'domine' both are plainly derived from the Latin, but do not mean the same thing. The former is a Scottish usage for schoolmaster only, and is universally known because of 'Dominie Sampson' in one of the Waverley novels. The latter is a Hollandish, respectful designation for a minister of the gospel only. It is used very generally in the Dutch ohurches in this country, but always in a reverent and, indeed, affectionate sense. It appears to me that the two terms should not be confounded, but Invariably confined to that application whioh is required by their historio origty"

This distinction is not generally {mown, although the dictionaries point it ont.—Sunday School Times.

The Cursed Tower of the Bhone.

^he cursedtower is an architectural curiosity. It is almost as zar out from the perpendioular as is the tower at Pisa and is far more impressive, beoause it stands upon an isolated crag which drops below it sheer to the river in a vast precipice. Anoiently, before it went wrong and its curse oame upon it, the tower was the keep of the Benedictine nunnery of Soyons. Most ungallantly, in the year 1569, the Huguenots captured the abbey by assault, and thereupon the abbesB, Louise d'Amanze (poor frightened soull) hurriedly embraced the reformed religion, in dread lest, without this concession to the rather deoided opinions of the conquerors, still worse might come. Several of her nuns followed her hastily heterodox example, but the mass of them stood stoutly by their faith and ended by making off with it intaot to Valence.—Thomas A. Janvier in Century.

Opposed to Dtsgraeiii Innovations.

The other day a proposal was made at a parish meeting for the lighting of the village of Godshill, isle of Wight, with eight lamps, which, it seemed, could be maintained at the modest cost of a halfpenny rate once every three years. Up rose a farmer named Hollis to oppose the revolutionary scheme. To the mind of this worthy man its authors were "wanting to turn night into day." "It v.-on hi net ,i bad example to the young," ii r. ntinned, "keeping them out all I his uf i'tit) night. What they ought to

\v..-i to tct good example by going btfl eai-jy id getting up early, and would iil-e to hear tho curfew rung li."—London Truth.

Mur^ii: il pass, on tho Denver and Rio ot.a-d'j railroad, is the highest point yet attained by a railroad in the United States. Elevation, 10,855 feet.

In 1880 there were 174,659 handsemiloyed in the cotton mills in the United Itates. In 1890 the number had risen to 881,585.

Move Alone.

The Indian's view of the way in .which he has been treated by the white man in thiscountry was well given in an anecdote related by Professor Ellicott Evans of Hamilton college. The famous Indian chief Red Jacket once met Mr. Evans' granduncle, Joseph Ellicott, :tt Tonawanda, Niagara county. Mr. Kllicott at that time was agent of the Holland Land oompany, which owned most of the land in what was later known as the Eighth Judicial district of New York.

The two men shook hands and sat down on a convenient log, both being near the middle of it. After a short time spent in amicable conversation, Red Jacket said pleasantly, "Move along, Joe."

Mr. Ellicott did as ho had been requested, and the chief moved up oloseto him. In a 3'ew minutes came a second request, "Move along, Joe."

Again Mr. Ellicott complied, though with considerable surpriee, and again the chief followed him closely. Scarcely had this been done when Red Jacket again said, "Move along, Joe."

Mr. Ellicott was greatly annoyed, but willing to humor the chief he "moved along" once more, this time reaching the end of the log.

This was not sufficient to satisfy the chief, however, for a moment later came the fourth request, "Move along, Joe." "Why, man," cried the agent irritably, "I can't move any farther without getting off the log into the mud!" "Ugh!" exclaimed Red Jacket contemptuously. "Just so white man. Want Indian move along—move along. Can't go no farther, but he say, 'Move along.'

Cultivation of Violets.

Violets in frames require a great deal of attention during the dark winter months, and light and air mnst be given on every possible opportunity. It does no harm to leave the frames covered with snow for a couple of days in severe weather, but great damage is done if snow is allowed to remain for a week, when mold will spread with alarming rapidity. Even if sunlight can be admitted for but three hours and a little ventilation given, it is surprising how the plants are benefited. There are very few days dnring the whole winter when we do not give both light and air. Violets resent coddling, and air should be given freely whenever the outside temperature allows. If the thermometer registers several degrees below freezing, even in midwinter, the sun warms the frames sufficiently to permit a moderate amount of air being admitted. Violets in frames make much' more work than when they are grown in houses, and the flowers are less convenient to pick, but the quality of blooms is as good in all kinds, and much better in some, particularly the single varieties. The flowering season, too, is a little longer than with those grown in artificial heat.— Garden and Forest.

Private English Ghosts.

The ghost of Knaresdale Hall, near Haltwhi6tle, in Northumberland, was a steady belief not very, very long ago. In this case a brother murdered an inconvenient sister by drowning her in a pond, and the lady revenged herself by walking from the house to the pond upon every occasion that a member of the family happened to be about after dark. But if one were to enumerate what may be termed the "private ghosts" of England and Wales, the walking ladies and gentlemen who, having been nobodies during their lives, are determined that something more than the mere epitaphs over their graves shall keep their memories green, the limits of this paper would be very far exceeded. The very house in which the author of the paper is writing is well known by the villagers to have a white lady on its uppermost stair landing, a discovery which very much unhinged some American visitors, who deolared that if they had known it nothing would have induoed them to sleep so soundly in rooms abutting on the said landing during three months. But who she was history sayeth not.—Chambers' Journal.

A Pleasant Surprise.

Even Saxon courtesy and readiness to oblige may be carried a little too far. When about to return from a Bohemian village to a frontier town in Saxony, the occupants of a sledge had their foot warmers carefully rinsed out and replenished with full bodied Hungarian wine. Thus they passed the guardpost without let or hindrance, to the merry jingling of the sleighbells. Laughing ana joking at the success of their little dodge, they called at a wayside inn for refreshments. On resuming their seats one of the party exclaimed: "Why, the foot warmere are quite hot!"

Then' the boots of the inn stepped forward, and said, with a friendly grin, "The foot warmers were quite cold, so, just to oblige you, I emptied them and filled them again with hot water." Daheim-Kalender.

The Plea Might Do For the Lawyer.

The attorney for the defense became impressive. "Do yoa ask proof that my client is insane?" he asked. "Well, there is plenty of it. When he came to engage my services, he promised me $10,000 if I would take the case, and yet he hasn't a cent Is that the act of a sane man? "Did yon know that when yon took the case?" asked the attorney for the prosecution. "Certainly." "Well, I can't see that that helps ihim in any way, but it would make a splendid plea for yon if yon were on trial''

And the oourt so ruled.—Chicago Post,

Made Plain.

Teacher—Tommy, you may define the difference between awhile and a time. Tommy—Wy—wy—when paw

Commandments of Buddha.

All acts of living creatures become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three sim of the body, four sins of the tongue, and three sins of the mind. The Bins of the body are murder, theft and adultery of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and gossip of the mind, envy, hatred and error. Therefore I give you these commandments:

First. —Kill not, but have regard for life. Second.—Steal not, neither do ye fob, but help everybody to be master of the fruits of his labor.

Third.—Abstain from impurity and lead a life of chastity. Fourth.—Lie not, but be truthful. Speak the truth with discretion, fearlessly and in a loving heart.

Fifth.—Invent not'evil reports, neither do ye respect them. Carp not, but look for good sides of your fellow beings, so that you may with sincerity defend them against their enemies.

Sixth.—Swear not, but speak decently and with dignity. Seventh.—Waste not the time with gossip, but speak to the purpose or keep silent.

Eighth.—Covet not nor envy, but rejoice at the fortunes of other people. Ninth.—Cleanse your heart of malice and cherish no hatred, not even against your enemies, but embrace all living beings with kindness.

Tenth.—Free your mind of ignorance and be anxious to learn the truth, especially in the one thing that is needed, lest you fall a prey either to skepticism or to errors. Skeptioism will make you indifferent, and errors will lead you astray, 60 that you will not find the noble path that leads to life eternal.— Gospel of Buddha.

Geese That Made an Eclipse.

"While I was on a hunting trip at Inman, Kan., I saw a sight which few sportsmen have ever seen," said Cook Herman. "One night just as it was growing dusk our party was hunting on a lake where we had been having good success with duck. Suddenly the sky seemed to be clouded over so that we thought a storm was coming up, but on looking to see what was the cause of the sudden darkness we discovered that immediately over us was a flight of wild geese which literally covered the sky for as far as the eye could reach. I do not believe I would be exaggerating if I were to say that the geese in that flight were numbered by the thousands. For half an hour we watched them flying by, forming all sorts of pioturesque groups like maps in the 6ky, shifting rapidly from one combination to another. They were flying just high enough to be out of gunshot reach, but I managed to kill one tired straggler, which had fallen behind one of the big bunches and ventured where he could be reached by along shot. It was a sight which I shall never forget, and I am still regretting that we could not have got a crack at them."—Kansas City Journal.

A Yankee-in-law.

The pedigree of the Grant family has been interesting people a good deal of late. Not long ago a sort of oousinship, through their great-grandparents, was traced between General Grant and Jefferson Davia More lately a writer in Th'e Vermonter gave currency to the notion thnt. Mrs. Grant was "a daughter of Vermont." A Vermont editor wrote to Colonel Grant in New York for some authentic information on this subject of his mother's birthplace and he replied as follows:

My mother was born in fit. Louis, Mo. her father was born at Cumberland, Hd., and her mother came from Pittsburg, Penn. Whoever gave her birthplacc as Vermont was mistaken.

My father's family, however, came from New England, Matthew Grant having settled at Windsor, Conn., in 1086, and the family remained there until my great-grandfather, soon after the Revolutionary war, went to western Pennsylvania, where my grandfather was born. Very truly yours, FREDERICK D. GIUJ*T.

So it appears that Mrs. Grant was not only not a daughter of Vermont, but not a New Englander, except remotely by marriage—a Yankee-in-law, so to speak.—Boston Transcript.

The Conductor's Wrong Assumption.

Old Lady—Will yon tell me, please, when we get to Winder street? Polite Conductor—Certainly, madam. (When the car reaches Windsor street, it is crowded with passengers, but tic obliging conduotor brings it to a fall stop and waits for the old lady to get ont. She calmly looks out of the car window without stirring.)

Polite Conductor (vociferonsly) Windsor street! Windsor street, ladyl Wasn't here where yon wanted to get out?

OldLady—Oh, bless yon, not I didn't want to get ont here at alL Yon see, my daughter's husband bought the third honse from the corner there the other day, and, as 1 was going by, I just wanted to take a look at it.—

Journal.

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he is going downtown for a while, maw says Bhe'll bet he is going for a time.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

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The Corbins Were Fighters.

From correspondence with Mr. Lemuel Healy, town olerkof Dudley, Mass., and with, persons in Connecticut, it is found that 15 male members of the Corbin family were soldiers of the Revolutionary war. They all hailed from Dudley, Mass., and Woodstock, Conn., the latter at that time being apart of the colony of Massachusetts. All are buried near the home of their yonthfnl days. The following are the names of theCorbin heroes: Amasa Corbin, Asa Corbin, Asahel Corbin, Clement Corbin, Daniel Corbin, David Corbin, Elijah Corbin, Elisha Corbin, Eliphalet Corbin, Elhajah Corbin, John Corbin, Jonathan Corbin, Moses Corbin, Peter Corbin, William Corbin.—Worcester (Mass.) Bpy.

The Pastor Scored One.

It was in a Caribou church that the choir did not put in an appearance at the. opening hour. The pastor arose, glanced at the empty choir seats and said: "I see the singers are absent this morning. Let all arise and sing, 'Praise God, from whom all-blessings flow.' —Lewiston Journal.

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