Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1892 — Page 6

©he genwixat DECATUR, IND. V. BLACXBURN, ■ - - PCTX.M«»a. Cmu is suffering from an epidemic of measles. Peace to her rashes. The mongoose is a singular animal. At least no one knows his plural. The barmaid business is the one occupation that should not be open to women. A wise Milwaukee paper remarks that “the interests of labor and capitai are identical.” Exactly. Each wants the best of it. 1 r you think nobody cares for you, jt stand up at the theater. You v e surprised at finding how many j ... will take an interest in your i p i< ng and downfall. ' isE who have suffered most first fc. j touch of sympathy. JohnsUr :i which was almost wiped from th" th, is doing much to relieve tin - .rving Russians. Av a: n°McAllister’s latest move |s in ili" right direction. Let us hope tin t in his next revision of this kind of w York sassiety the first two flgui e* of the 150 will be dropped. Witt a fuller knowledge of things than ' hen he wrote “The Brook,” Eon; nnyson must be convinced by thi- tn.e that it is not the brook that fOf> n forever. It is the gas-meter. A < ■ heat deal of money is spent in tea i ng girls how to dance, how to Bin; 1 and how to play. A little time slim; A be spentin teaching them how to :Ik. Not one woman in fifty is a ireful walker. Ir is the best possible evidence of the universal appreciation of the World’s Fair that the demands for gpace are already so great that the magnificent edifices now building bid fair to be inadequate. h ie star known as Mu in the const, atinn of Cassionola, is traveling ai , tie rate of JOS miles a second. T best conception of this speed can 1. gained by comparing it with that of an American messenger boy. The manager of the big oatmeal trust has the impudence to say that the higher price comes out of the retailer, not the consumer- There is nothing mealy-mouthed about him, notwithstanding his mealy business. Russell Sage’s income is sls a minute and the additional day of leap year enables him to rake down •21,600. Russell may take a day off, but that income keeps right on doing business without slipping a cog or dropping a stitch. “Every boy differs, from every other boy,” says President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University. That may be, but they have so many ways in common that worry older people that n« one stops long enough to analyze the points of difference.

—An attempt to distribute bread to i the starving in Berlin was prohibited | by the police on the plea that it would ■ bring together a crowd of turbulent ■ enemies of the Government. It may be that in Russia and Germany hun- I * ger will prove to be an efficient spur to the spirit of liberty. ' —J _ Since Congress is going to tax the ; cigarette out of existence let it tackle ; the absinthe frappe and the creme ; de menthe, also dudely vices. And. I while at it, why not put a tax on trousers turned up at the bottom when it is isn’t raining and prescribe a fine for saying “doncherknow?” The plan of Postmaster General ' Wanamaker of having large postal | cards for men and smaller ones for , women has proved a failure, as lovely j woman always demands all she can! get for her penny. The plan was i uncommonly like cutting a big hole i in the door to admit the cat and then a smaller one for the kitten. It appears that the divorce suit brought by a man in Fresno. Cal., becausa his wife was in the habit of making biscuit without having first i washed her hands has been success- ! ful, and the matrimonial cake of that family is all dough. The saddest feature of the story is that baking powder companies will get hold of it sooner or later. , Walter Besant wrote a novel to y show that drunkards are the victims of inheritance, but Dr. Garvin says that the taste for alcoholic drinks is acquired, and that the danger lies in an inherited social disposition. Besant lives in the metropolis of Great Britain; Garvin lives in the metropoLis of Kentucky. The Garvin opinion will be accepted in thtTUnitccT States, at least. — ■ ...-/J. — - If there are any African savages that can beat the. playful customs of the white man of Arkansas they have not yet been discovered. Their burning at the stake a black man accused of a crime, but neither tried nor convicted by any form of a court, is a shame to the civilization of the age. rif there is any State in the Union which honest people should avoid it is Arkansas.

When the English royal family begins to doubt the loyalty of the people in any part of the kingdom, some member is sent at once tq be present at a ball, launch a ship, open a hospital or appear at a reception. PO9-

gibly this accounts for the expected visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada. It takes a pretty strong radical to Tesist the blandishments of a prince. The amount of money earned by Mackenzie during his thirty years of practice must have been very large. Within a very few years of his commencing practice (in 1862) ho was making some £5,000 a year, and his income rapidly Increased as his reputation spread, till about 1875 he touched high-water mark with “takings" of from £12,000 to £15,000 a year—an enormous figure for a practice the bulk of which consisted of guinea fees. The succulent oyster is said to be in danger of extinction owing to the wasteful destruction of the oyster beds. Must the oyster go, as the elephant is going and the buffalo has gone? There are millions of acres in Mississippi Sound where the finest oysters of the world grow. Not onehundredth part of the ground is occupied, but it is big enough to produce oysters for all the world. The Biloxi oyster in size and flavor is equal to any ever produced. If the Prince gt Wales is really go ing to honor us with a visit, Col. John Laurence Sullivan and Ward McAllister, as personal friends of England’s prospective ruler, should at once get together and prepare plans and specifications for an entertainment worthy of so distinguished a guest. The Colonel can arrange the outlines, and his friend McAllister supply all the filigree work. Chances are that this would bring Mr. Sullivan into a new ring and increase the New York peerage to 40J. It is not surprising that throughout Europe -and in America among well-informed persons great concern is felt for the health of Pope Leo XIII. Among Protestants scarcely less than among Catholics he is respected and beloved; and the older he grows the greater and better he seems. He is the friend of republican France, and he loves America, often speaks of her people, and always kindly. His insight is remarkable. So wise and so benevolent, so sincere In purpose and so charming in manner, his death would not only be a loss to the Catholic Church but also to the world. The czar is much incensed because Count Tolstoi wrote a letter descriptive of the horrors of the famine, which has been published in many European journals. As a punishment the ruler of the starving nation has ordered Tolstoi to forsake his work amid the famished ones and retire to his estate. The population of Russia is, in round ‘ numbers, 110,000,000. There is one czar, supported by an army of 1,700,000 men. Perhaps it would be the wiser course for other peoples of the earth, no matter how sympathetic or how benevolent their impulses, to withhold all assistance from the stricken people of Russia until famine and suffering shall prompt them to rise in their might and overthrow and grind into the dust the execrable rule that is a blot upon modern civilization.

The Chicago Tribune sounds a note of warning which school officials all over the land would do well to heed. The condition of affairs is not so aggravated in the district as in the village high school; but in the district schools there is almost invariably to be found a jumbled, poorly arranged course of study, combined too frequently with the alleged teaching of some simpering miss of sixteen or seventeen summers, which makes futile the efforts and expenditures of the patrons of the schools. The Tribune says: “Here are two nice, easy little problems taken at random from one of the arithmetics which boys and girls 8, 10 and 12 years of age are studying in the schools of this city: How much money must a man invest in United States 6’s at 111, when gold is quoted at 110}, in order 1 to have a dividend of $2,210 semi- ; annually? Henry Ivison, through his ; New York broker, invested a certain ; sum in New York 6’s at 107} and twice the amount in United States s’s at 98}, brokerage in each case being one-half per tient. His income from both sources was $3,348. What was the amount invested in each? ; Any experienced bank cashier, broker 'or practical accountant can solve ' these problems, and. of course, a boy ) 10 years old ought to be able to do 1 the same—else why does he go to ! school? By all means let a few more i new studies, with now and then an [important fad for a side-dish, be I added to the common school course. ! The children have too a easytime. j : — ; In all European countries creosoted wood is used, wherever possible, on ' account of its lasting so long. The process of creosoting is not an expensive one, and in view of’the excessive use of wood in mines it is suggested that it would be economy for all collieries to use only creosoted timber in permajient haulage roads, shaftways, stairways, etc., and in the ease 1 of the larger companies it would pay ; to secure; the right, and erect creosoting works of their own.

(ipTiujANs and oculists say that belfry and steeple clocks are abso- ! lutely useless to at least a third of I those for whose benefit they are set up. In many instances such defect of the eyeg is unsuspected in children, and probably hundreds of children earn at school a reputation for ; stupidity when not intellect but the ~eye is at faiilt. ’ [ A Costly Dog. Farmer Hardin and Lawyer Mc- | Kinney, of -Moberly, Mo., went to ; law over a 10-cent' dog. The farmer j lost the suit, and also lost over SIOO in costs.

MR. SPRINGER’S REPORT. THE TARIFF DOESN’T BENEFIT MANUFACTURING. A Strong Argument lu Furor of * Revision of Ilin Wool untl Woolon Tariff— The Reign of Shoddy—ln 1830—The Cordage Trust. The Tariff Should fie RevHed. Chairman Springer shows, in his report on the wool bill, that from 1867 the policy of high protective tariffs upon wool and woolens has resulted in disaster to the growers, manufacturers, and consumers. In considering the effect of the wool and woolens tariff of 1867 upon sheep husbandry, Mr. Springer says: “In 1868 there were 6,730,000,5heep in Ohio; in 1870 the number had fallen to 4,928,000; in 1880 to 4,080,000; in 1883 5,050,000; in 1890 there were only 3,943,000 reported, while in 1891 the number was given at 4,061,000. Similar results took place in all the other States east of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The increase in the number of sheep in the United States has been in States west of those rivers or in localities where there was a free range upon the public domain. There were in the whole United States in 1868 nearly 39,000,000 sheep; at this time there are only 43,000,000, an increase of 4,000,000 in twenty years, the whole increase being in sheep upon the ranches of the West. - “In 1867, the year in which the WoolTariff act was passed, there were only 38,000,000 pounds of wool imported into the United States, which was 19 per cent, only of the wool consumed in this country. In 1891 there were 129,000,000 pounds of wool imported, which was 30.8 per cent, of the total consumption ot the country. Thus it appears that there is at this time 62 per cent, more of foreign wooLconsumed in this country, as compared with the whole amount consumed, than there was in 1867. The wool-growers of 1867 believed that the imposition of high tariffs on wool would ■ecure them the control of the home market. The result proves how greatly they were mistaken and how ineffectual the law has been to produce the condition which they desired. “As to its effect on prices, wool has steadily declined from 1867, when’it was t worth 63 cents per pound in currency, to ! the present time. The McKinley actl increased the duty on wool an average of one cent a pound. The result has ; been a fall in price of two to three i cents a pound instead of a rise in price. , After twenty-five years of experiment j the result has been a reduction of one- j one-half in the number of sheep in the ; States east of the Mississippi and Mis- I sour! Rivers, and a reduction of one-half in the price of wool." Os the effect of the tariffs upon manufactures, Mr. Springer says: “Nor have the manufacturers of woolen ; goods been benefited by the imposition 1 of high duties on wool and woolen goods. There have been many seasons [ of great depression in their business ■ and many petitions have been sent to ’ Congress asking for free wool. The ; manufacturers of woolen goods are di- j vided in opinion as to whether wool should be placed upon the free list, but. all concede the great disadvantage to j which American wool manufacturers are subjected by reason of the tariff on wool.

“A statement of the Census Office shows that if we deduct the idle establishments (271) and the shoddy establishments (94), which are included for the first time in woolen manufactures, it will be seen that instead ot 2,867 establishments in 1890, there were only 2,502 woolen establishments in acttv# operation. This shows a failing on in the number of establishments between 1880 and 1890 of 187. The capital invested in 1890 also includes hired property to the value of $17,742,000. A careful examination of this preliminary statement will show that woolen establishments have increased in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and in the New England States, but that, as a rule, there has been a falling off in woolen establishments between Isev and 1890 in the Southern States and States west of the Alleghany Mountains. “It will be seen that the increase amounted to only 26.08 per cent., which is but little more than the increase of population. With an actual decrease to the amount of 174 in woolen establishments, and an output which merely keeps pace with the growth of population in the United States, it cannot be claimed that the manufacture of woolen goods has been in a flourishing condition during the last decade. With a high protective tariff on the raw material, and compensator}’ and high ad valorem duties on the finished product, and products limited to the home market, woolen manufacturers cannot even hope to increase their productions beyond the annual increase of population.” How consumers of woolens have been injured, the following clearly shows: “Woolen goods, or goods composed in whole qr in part of wool, including carpets, are articles of universal consumption in this country. Their cost to consumers is very great. It is impossible to estimate accurately how much the people of the country expend on this account. Such goods are absolutely necessary to the health and comfort of the people, and they are entitled to supply their wants in this respect at the lowest possible cost. “If the existing law imposing an average of 91 per cent, on such goods when imported does not increase the price ‘of domestic goods of like character, which do not pay any tax whatever, then the manufacturer receives no benefits from protective tariffs and should not object to their repeal. If domestic goods are increased in price by reason of duties imposed upon foreign goods of like character, the extent or amount of this increase is the measure ot protection which domestic manufacturers receive. Just how much this protection increases the eost of domestic goods to American consumers cannot be ascertained with-accuracy. As all persons are compelled to use woolen goods, are also compelled to pay the increased cost by reason of the tariff, whatever it may be.“ This exaction is taken from the many for the benefit of the few. Concerning the growth of the shoddy industry, Mr. Springer says: “Notwithstanding the high protection accorded manufacturers of woolen goods, the quality of such goods has deteriorated from year to year since the discovery of machinery for converting woolen rags into substitutes for wool. In 1860 there were in this country thirty shoddy establishments with an invested capital of $123,500, using in raw material $227,925, employing 290 hands at an annual cost of $54,124 and with an annual product of $402,590. During the war the public became greatly prejudiced against its use, through its extensive use in the manufacture of inferior army clothing and blankets. The census statistics of 1870 showed an increase in capital ln- ' vested dn shoddy manufacture of 561 per ! cent., ind an increase in the value of the product aniountiug to 339 per cent. The shoddy produced in the United States in 1890 v .11 amount to 100,000,000 pounds. The scoured wool produced in that year amounted “to* 0fi1y464,900,000. pounds. Thus it appears that the shoddy produced in the United States in the census year of 1890 had a greater cloth-producing power than all the wool which was produced in tire United States for that year. “It thus appears that the high pro-

toettve tariff on wool, which was enacted with the avowed purpose of aiding woolgrowers, haa forced manufacturers to use a cheaper material than wool; and the competition which now threatens mostly the wool producers of the country comes from the ninety-four establishments manufacturing shoddy in the United States rather than from wool grown iu Australia and South America." In 1833 anil Now. Are things cheaper now than they used to bo? In answer to foe above question we will say they are—very much cheaper—in material and construction and in many instances price; but it is safe to say that in wear and tear the common articles of every day use sold forty years ago were much cheaper to the purchaser, for the best iq always the cheapest. Wo have in our possession the books kept by Samuel N. Baker, who was the founder of the potteries now conducted by his sons in Rockville, and who also kept a general store for some years before his death in 1860. Below is the account of a day laborer named Franklin Stuart: Oct. 3, to I paper needles• -W Oct.«, to 6 pound* ooffoe at lt)%o W Oct. 0, % band tobacco at Oct. 0, !4 pound *oda at Oct. 0. 4 macker*! at 6)40 Oct. is. by 1 pair aboe* ••• 1 M Jan. 29,1856, 2 yard* cotton and drilling2B Feb. 1,1 check Feb. 11. tobacco and comb••• March 14, one hoe ■ w Total • 4 - 18 On page 12 of the ledger we notice an entry at James W. Beadle's account, as follows: Oct. 31,1853, 1 pair »u«pender* per Johnloc Also we notice that O. J. Innis bought a rake on the 18th of April, 1856, for 25 cents. Aside from all questions of superiority of goods sold thirty-five years ago, how much cheaper can the above items be bought in Rockville to-day? Some items may be purchased at a lower price, others will cost more. But it must always be remembered that there was not a railroad in Parke County thirty-five years ago, and every pound of goods sold in Rockville had to be hauled hoot ’ji wagons. Then comes the important question of labor. In those days nearly everything was made by hand. Inventions have so cheapened the labor cost of articles that one man and a machine now does the work formerly done by 100 men. Goods ought to be sold to Rockville laborers at much lower prices than are now paid. We also have before us a copy of the Terre Haute Journal. January 23, 1852, published just forty years ago to-day, and in the advertisements of the Prairie City store we read: “Now opened and scattering 10,000 yards heavy brown sheetings and shirtings, the price, 6 to 8 cents per yard.” F. Nippert, in the same paper, advertises to sell “calicoes of every quality, ranging from 5 cents to 12} cents per yard." These records are worth more than all the "witnesses” who might be called to give testimony from memory. » On the single item of calico, Rockville prices at the same time show a marked difference. It can only be explained by the fact that none of the cheaper grades wore sold here. In that event there is not much difference between the price of the hand-made goods of those days and the machine goods of to-day. NVe are told that the best calico has recently retailed at 12} cents. According to a writer in the Republican, labor about Rockville, measured from a standard of wood chopping, was paid 50 cents per cord in 1859. Exactly the same price is paid to-day, so in the matter of wages the laborer is no better off after thirty years of a national system of economy that has given twothirds of the wealth produced In that time to one two-thousandth of the population. The county records tell the rest. The laborersof that day were on the tax duplicates as self-supporting property owners, paying on an average of over S2OO of property each, and paying it. Their counterparts of to-day, if assessed at all, are llst.d only for poll tax, and as a rule this is' delinquent:- - 4 ■ - The pauper expense of Park County in 1860 was $1,131.59. In 1890 it was $13,262.76. Here are some interesting figures for those who argue that the day laborer is better off than he was in 1860. —Rockville (Ind.) Tribune.

Th* Cord*** Trust. Since the cordage trust got control of nearly all the cordage mills of the country last year, it hah made no less than six advances in price. The following table shows the full extent of these advances: Aug. 27, Feb. 25, ISM. 1492. per lb. per lb. Advance cent*. Cent*, per cent. Manila, in»?» ISM M.« Manila, % In.10)4 19j» 24.8 Manila, g in.lOK 13)4 g » Blsal, )4 in. 644 f ® 6U»I, H In 7H 944 34.8 New Zealand, )4in... 644 MS New Zealand K in.. • • 7)4 27.5 The trust has complete control over the manufacture of binding twine and binding-tiwine machinery. Though the duty on binding twine has been reduced it-is still prohibitive. Thus freed from foreign competition, the trust, by its control over the patents on twine machinery, is able to prevent new plants from being erected to compete with it. Only a short time ago the Legislature of Minnesota appointed a committee to take the necessary steps to establish a binding-twine factory in the prison at Stillwater. This committee tried to purchase machinery of the trust, but found that it could not get it for less than s2oo,ooo—an exorbitant price. The excuse which the trust offered for making so enormous a charge was that it feared labor trouble. Its real object, however, WM to prevent the State of Minnesota from manufacturing twine and selling it at a fair price to the farmers. Has Secretary Blaine succeeded in convincing the President that "trusts are private affairs,” with which the public has nothing to do? If not, why is not the Cordage trust made amenable to the anti-trust law, of which McKinley and his followers were wont to boast so proudly? McKinley boasts that one page of his tariff can hot be repealed in ten years; and he says with a sneer: “They have started in to repeal it item by item, and there are 2,500 items.” This is the taunt of mere physical obstruction, which is fatuous enough to fancy that its position I is so buttressed against the will of the people as to be impregnable. McKinley overlooks the fact that if the people shall find the demolition of the tariff wall by piecemeal too slow, they may rise in their might and topple the whole . business over in “horizontal fashion. Big crops at home and famine abroad ; can not always be depended upon to postpone tho day of reckoning. At Gooseberry Ravine, Nevada County. California, softie boys found four pieces of float quartz containing gold to the value of $6, $lB, $23, and 1 $32 respectively. Prospectors, have been thick In the ravine ever since, and reeaotly onc of them found a i ledge which Is believed to ne tris ' soft rce of the float. ; 4.' - A new typewriter, tinder the 1 “point" system, produces writings which the blind can read.

[SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND EXCLUDED FROM HOSPITALS AS INCURABLE. Ths Romarkabl* Experience at Cha»< Quant a* InTe»tigat«<l by *n Albany (N. Y.) Journal lUportnr-A Story ot Surpaaalng Intereat. (Albany, N. Y.. Journal. March 4.] Saratoga, March 4. —For some time past there have been reports here and elsewhere in Saratoga County of a most remarkable —Indeed, so remarkable as to be miraculous —cure of a most severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the use of a popular remedy known as “Pink Pills for Pale People," prepared and put up by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Morristown, N. Y. and Brookville, Ont. The story was to the effect that Mr. Charles A. Quant, of Galway, who for the last six or eight years has been a < great sufferer from creeping paralysis and its attendant ills, and who had become utterly powerless of all self-help, had, by the use of a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Palo People, been so fully restored to health as to be able to walk about the street without the aid of crutches. The fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought It worth his while to go to Galway to call on Mr. Quant, to learn from his lips, and from the observation and testimony of his neighbors, if his alleged cure was a fact or only an unfounded rumor. And so he drove to Galway and spent a day and a night there in visiting Mr. Quant, getting his story, and interviewing his neighbors and fellow-townsmen. It may be proper to say that Galway is a pretty little village of 400 people, delightfully located near the center of the town of Galway, in Saratoga County, and about 17 miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon inquiry, the residence of Mr. Charles A. Quant was easily found, for everybody seemed to know him, speak well of him, and to be overflowing with surprise and satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restoration to the activities of ■ enterprising citizenship, for Mr. Quant was born in Galway and had spent most of his life there. Mr. Quant was found at his pretty homo, on a pleasant street nearly opposite the academy. In response to a knock at the door it was opened by man who, in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was at home, said: “l am Mr. Quant. Will you come in?" After a little general and preliminary conversation, and after he had been apprised ot the object for which the Journal reporter had called upon him, he, at request, told the story of himself and of his sickness and terrible sufferings, and of the ineffectual treatment he had had, itnd of his final cure by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheerfully gave assent to its use for publication. He said: “My name is Charles A. Quant. lam 37 years old. I was born in the village of Galway, and, excepting while traveling on business and a little while in Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. My wife is a native of Ontario. Up to about eight years ago I had never been sick and was then in perfect health. I was fully six feet tall, weighed 180 pounds and was very strong. For twelve years I was a traveling salesman for a piano and organ company and had to do, or at least did do, a great deal of heavy lifting, got my meals very irregularly and slept in cnctigh 'spare bods’ in country houses to freeze any ordinary man to death, or at least give him the rheumatism. About eight years ago I began to feel distress in my stomach and consulted several doctors about it. They all said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia I was treated by various doctors in different places, and took all the patent medicines I could hear of that claimed to be a cure for dyspepsia. But I continued to grow gradually worse for four years. Then I began to have pain in my back and legs and became conscious that my legs were getting weak and my step unsteady, and then I staggered when I walked. Having received no benefit from the use of patent medicines, and feeling that I was constantly growing worse, I then, upon advice, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the many different kinds of electric appliances I could hear of, and spent hundreds of dollars for them, but they did me no good." (Here Mr. Quant showed the Journal reporter an electric suit of underwear for which he paid $124.) “In the fall of 1888 the doctors advised a change of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and acted as agent for the Estey Organ Company. While there I took a thorough electric treatment, but it only seemed to dggravate my disease, and the only relief I could get from the sharp and distressing pains was to take morphine. The pain was so intense at times that it seemed as though I could not stand it, and I almost longed for d«nth as the only certain relief. In berof 1888 my legs gave out entirely, and my left eye was drawn to one side, so that I had double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so affected my whole nervous system that I had to give up business. Then I returned to New York and went to the Roosevelt Hospital, where for four months I was treated by specialists and they pronounced my case locomotor ataxia and incurable. After I had Been under treatment of Prof. Starr and Dr. Ware for four months, they told me they had done all they could for me. Then I went to the New York hospital on Fifteenth street, whore, upon examination, they said I was incurable and would not take me in. Atthe Presbyterian hospital they examined me and told me the same thing. In March, 1890,1 was taken to St. Peter’s hospital in Albany, where Prof. H. H. Hun frankly told my wife my case was hopeless; that he could do nothing for me, and that she had better take me back home and save my money. But I wanted to make a trial ot Prof. Hun’s famous skill, and I remained under his treatment for nine weeks, but secured no benefit. All this time I had bedn growing worse. I had become entirely paralyzed from my waist down and had partly lost control of my hands. The pain was terrible; my logs felt as though they were freezing and my stomach would not retain food, and I fell away to 120 pounds. In the Albany hospital they put seventeen big burns on my back one day with redhot irons, and alter a few days they put fourteen more burns on and treated me with electricity, but I got worse rather than bettor; lost control of my bowels and water, and upon advice of the doc- ' fey, who said there was no hope for me, I was brought home, where ff WAS thought that death would soon come to relieve me of my sufferings. Last Sep--1 tomber, while in this helpless and suffer--1 ing condition, a friend of mine in Hamilton, Ont., called my attention to the

—— — statement of one John Marshall, whose case had been •imllar to my own, and who had been cured by the use of ft. Williams’ Pink Pills for Palo People. “In this case Mr. Marshall, who is a prominent member of the Royal Templars ot Temperance, had after four years of constant treatment by the most eminent Canadian physicians been pronounced incurable, and was paid the $1,060 total disability claim allowed by the order in such oases. Borno months after Mr. Marshall began a course of treatment with Dr, Williams’ Pink Pills, and after taking some 15 boxes was fully restored to health. “I thought I would try them, and my wife sent for two boxes of the pills and I took them according to the directions given on the wrapper in each box. For the first few days the cold baths were pretty severe, as I was so very weak, but I continued to follow instructions as to taking the pills and treatment, and even before I had used up the two boxes of pills I began to feel beneficial effects from them. My pains were not so bad”, I felt warmer; my head felt better; my food began to relish and agree with me; J could straighten up; the foellhg began to come back inti my limbs; I began to be able to get abouton crutches; my eye came back again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills—at a cost of s4—seel—l ban with the help of a cane only, walk all about the house and yard, can saw wood, and on pleasant days I walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone; I have gained ten pounds; I feel like a new man, and when the spring opens I expect to bo able to renew my organ and piano agency. I eannot speak In too high terms of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, as I know they saved my life after all the doctors had given me up as incurable.” Other citizens of Galway, seeing the wonderful cure of Mr. Quant by the Pink Pills for Pale People, are using them. Frederick Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, said he was finding great benefit from their use, and Mr. Schultz, who had suffered from chronic dysentery for years, said he had taken two boxes of the pills and was already cured. Mr. Quant had also tried faith cure, with experts of that treatment in Albany and Greenville, S. 0., but with no beneficial results.

A number of the more prominent citizens of Galway, as Rev. 0. E. Herbert, of the Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas. E. Kelly, principal of the academy; John P. and Harvey Crouch, and Frank and Edward Willard,"'merchants, and many others to whom Mr. Quant and his so miraculous cure by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are well known, were pleased to have the opportunity of bearing testimony to the high character of Mr. Quant, and of verifying the story of his recovery from the terrible affliction from which he had for so long a time been a sufferer. Truly, the duty ot the physician is not to save life, but to heal disease. The remarkable result from the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in the case of Mr. Quant, induced the reporter to make further inquiries concerning them, and he ascertained that they are not a patent medicine in the sense in which that term is generally used, but a highly scientific preparation, the result of years of study and careful experiment. They have no rival as a blood builder and nerve restorer, and have met with unparalleled success in the treatment of such diseases as paralysis, rheumatism, sciatica, St. Vitus’ dance, palpitation of the heart, that tired feeling which affecta so many, and all diseases depending up* on a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. On further inquiry the writer found that these pills are manufactured by the. Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brookville, Ont., and Morristown, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never Ip bulk by tfie hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, from either addresses. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. IN A CHICAGO HOTEL. It Wai Full Ot Magnificent DUtance* to Bother Country Oue*t*. He was from a country town and stopped at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and was assigned to a commodious inside room in the northwest corner of -the house, near La Salle street. He was not satisfied. The noise and rattle and tumult of ti e streets reached him and made him yearn to look out on the busy scene whence they came. The strokes of the big Board Os Trade clock resounded through the corridors, and this young man desired to gaze on the tower where the clanging bell hangs. So he went to the office, sought Sam Parker and spoke thus: “Say, mister, I don’t like that room you gave me. I can’t see anything but the walls of a big building and some sort of a place with a glass floor." Ho meant the court in the center of the hotel. “Why, cert’nly,” said the obliging, accommodating Parker. "What kind of a room would you like?” “Oh, I’m not particular. Anything where I can see something outdoors.” “Want a bath with it?” “Well, I dunno. I had a good wash just before leaving St. Louis, and " "I mean do you wish a room with a bath-room attached?” “Oh, I dofi’t care If it’s next to a bathroom. I won't kick about that, bo’s there don’t too many people have to go through my room to the bath-room. ” “How would a nice room around here on the Clark street front suit you?” “First-rate." “Front, change the gentleman from 203 to 276. V "How far apart are these rooms?" qniried the St. Louis man anxiously. “About two dollars and a half," replied Sam. “I mean how far in distance. How far will I have to carry my valise?” “Just about two blocks,” said Sam, making 11 giental survey and topographical plat of the second floor of the Grand Pacific. “Great gosh all hemlock! I want to stay in the hotel,” protested the man from tire bridge. “Oh, you can walk two blocks without getting out of this house,” said Mr. Parker. “If you get dost tell your troubles to a policeman. —Chicago Post. Nn Bn«lne»x to Think at All. A Russian press censor permitted tho following item to appear in a Moscow paper: “It is our opinion that Russia needs new railroads, and will have them. ” For this tho censor was suspended for three months and tho editor fined S3OO. An Utter Slav*. “Goodness, John, how queer baby looks. I believe he is going to have a tit." “By George, I believe you are right Where’s my efttrreraU—lndianapolis Journal. If you want to find out how much clear dog there is in a man, find out how he treats his wife.

THE COOK IN INDIA. H* I* «h* Monarch ot All Su»v*r» aad • Tr*a*ur* to H* • •r*lu ,, V K*P*> An Indian kitchen is usually In a detatchod outhouse, for the smoil of cooking and tho heat of a kitchen fire are not endurable indoors, say® tne National Review. Tho cook is monarch of tho kitchen. Ho almost al- y ways has a mate to help him. A good cook is a treasure not easily found., The best cooks are called "Mugs," or , "Chittagong Burmese’’; hut in reality they arc half-breeds, a cross between tho Mugs and tho ordinary Hindoo of ; Chittagong. Although those cooks will describe themselves as Rajbunsis, men of royal race, they hays no caste. It was the lack of that induced the Mug cooks Into ths - kitchen in India-first with the Portuguese and afterward with the English. They took to the business readily, and there are some families of them who are almost born cooks and have traditions and rules for she cooking of certain dishes. My favorite cook was one of those men. He lived with me for several years and had no intention of leaving $ me. He was dismissed more than once for drunkenness, but he soon get himself reinstated, after I had coffered for several days at the hands 01 some incompetent substitute. There was eventually an understanding that he was only to become drunk when we all dined out. He was not bound to be drunk, but he regarded opportunities to become so as feast days, and when repentance came In the morning he would lavish extra pains on the breakfast dishes. I could .« usually tell whether he had been indulging on the previous night Barring this weakness he was an excellent cook. He could read and write Bengali, and the menu for breakfast, for lunch and for dinner was always written by him and the khansamatl, and either submitted for my inspection or filed on a hook in the kitchen. It is desirable to have the kitchen whitewashed and the copper cooking vessels tinned at least once a month, and the cook should be supplied with plenty of soap and soda and dusters and clothes of all sorts, so that he may have no excuse for anything befog left dirty. Then and only then ean the mistress or master of a house pay V an unexpected visit to the kitchen without the chance of experiencing something analogous to the Bombay episode of a Chinese cook who was found washing his little feet in the soup tureen. I wish that I could have brought my cook to England with me. In some dishes he was incomparable. The late Lord Napier of Magdala, when a passing guest one day, suggested that the man must be a French cook, and poor Lord Canning, when he camo on a visit to my station on pnb- M lie business, declared that a souffle ■ made by my cook was superior to I souffles made by his own chef. By I his doctor’s orders Lord Canning bad ■ a souffle every day for his lunch. The M doctor considered it the most whole- ■ some food in India at midday. R

Autobiography ot a Cork. I am a cork. Young in years, very young. One day I was taken from a bundle of other corks. Put into a bottle of Mumm’s extra. Sen , to the Hotel Continental, Paris. 7 Thrown on the floor of room 95. Lay there two days. Was picked up by Leon Gascon. He tried to put me into a bottle of absinthe. I wouldn’t go in. Was cursed and thrown on the floor again. Kicked by Leon when ha reached for his revolver, mutterfog . "It isfase; good-by, Louise." Next day was picked up by a chambermaid. Thrown out on the street. A ragpicker took me up. Sold me | to a corkcuttcr. J Was placed among other corks. Next day was trimmed, pared, til! 1 I was a very ghost of a champagne J cork. jl Was sold to a druggist Put Into a I pint bottle of eau de cologne. I Bought by a lady. Placed in al dressing-case. 1 Confined in a trunk. Shipped tol New York. Put on a train. Jolted! around by an expressman. 1 Taken out of the trunk, placed nnfl the toilet tabic ot a Prairie avenuej belle. j Carefully taken out and replace™ each day for months. I Began to grow spongy. I Wrinkled in face. I Lost my color. 1 Grew smaller, narrower, Head softened. \ I Lower extremities withered. I A prey to microbes. I I tremble. ■ A glass-stopper will take my placß to-morrow. s I I go—where? H

Before repeating a bit of gossip S would be well to ask ourselves tbr® questions: First, “Mt true?” secon® “Is it kind?” third, “Is It necessary® This practice would save us ma®, bitter memories and regrets. ,H The pious Philip Neri was on® visited by a lady who accused herst® of slander. He hade her go to t®| market, buy a chicken just killed a®| still covered with feathers, and waHj a certain distance, plucking the bifl| as she went The woman did as she was direct®| and returned anxious to know®! meaning of the injunction. Hm “Retrace your steps,” said Phil®| “and gather up, one by one, all t®| feathers you have scattered.” “I cast the feathers caroljf®|| away, ” said the woman, “an<v®B wind carried them in all dirccttoi®|| “Well, my child,” replied Pniflß “so it is with slanders. Like feathers which the wind lias scattoi®|| they have been wafted in many H| rections. Call them back, nowflß you can. 188 They Will Ilemnniber Their Own FojMHil Young people should not say things to those who are older, 'fl® people usually know that nine-ttd®|| of the boasts of the young are foot®| 'they may not say anything, foiMEI sake of but they will ■ a great deal.—Atchison Globe. -19® Late market quotations nflMl corn easier. Put perhaps this itfl||| annual boom for the chiropod4st.«£jß|