Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A Remedy for Diphtheria.

Mias 8. H- Greene, of t hiladelpbia. Pa , sends the Chic po InterOcean the following, which may be worth t e attention of physi cians, parents, nurses and patients: Reading of the ravag s which diphtheria is making in year citv, 1 am moved to send for publication in your paper a prescription which has been successful in instances where the sufferer has been given up as incurabh.

Take a spoonful each of turpejtine and liquid tar; put them in a tin pan or cup and set fire to the mixture taking care to have a large pan under it a safeguard against the spread of ‘he flames. A dense resinous smoke arises making the room da. k. The patient immediately experienci s relief, the choking ana ratling stops, the patient falls into a slumb r and seems to inhale the smoke wi‘h pleasu.e. The fibrinu« membrane soon becomes detatehed and the patient coughs up microbes which, wh-n caught mag ass, may be seen to dissolve in the smoke. In the co use of three days the patient euti.ely recovers. Before using the ingredients named it is well to remove or cover up closelv any articles’ in the room that will lie injured by tho thick smoke. If you will spread the knowledge of this simple remedy many lives may be saved. It is always necessary after diphtheria to avoid any exertion whatever until perfect strength has been restored. Many people do not know the danger ot heart failure when the patient seems convalescent. Miss S. 11. Greene.

■Judge’ Healy will hereaft r keop on hand a select stock of ready made boots and shpes," arid will also continue td manufacture to order work entrusted to him. — The judge’s well known good judg ment of quality, workmanship and prices in his line will be a drawing ca r d tor patronage —o Cobs for sale, 50 cts. a load, de* hvered. Phone 1 51. W. H. Churchill.

Farmers Slaves to This Trust. Profits are Fabulous. Swallows all Small Concerns—Absolutely controls the Trade, and has Raised the Price to an Exhorbitant FigureNew York, March 13—The Journal publishes the following: A more extortionate, wider reaching trust than the sugar trust! A trust with its monopolistic tentacles fastened on the farms throughout tlie country! So says ex-Senator J. O’Donnell, former railroad commissioner, aud for twenty years a member of the New York legislature, who denounces the National harrow company. ihe company’s main office and works are at Utica. — Within ...j last ten years, says ex- Senator O’Donnell, it has practically swallowed every small manufacturer in the United States, and has bought up nearly every new and valuable invention. No farmer so poor, he de - dares, but he must pay his tribute to this inexorable concern. Mr. O’Donnell is prepaiingto arraign the trust before Senator Luxow He will men declare the National harrow company to exceed in proportion to the amount invested the profits of the sugar trust. “The dividends paid by this trust yearly,’’.said yesterday, “are something enormous, ana they all come out of the pocket of the farmer. There is not a farm in this country that can be worked without a harrow from any other than a company controlled, by the trust. “Five years ago Dr. A. K. Gebbie, of Lowville, N. Y., invented a new haiiow, and with 5,000 which he had saved, he managed to put it on the market. No sooner did the trust learn of this than it notified the doctor that he must discontinue tlie sale, claiming he had infringed on their rights. 1 lie two harrows a ere submitted to me, aud as Dr. Gebbie’s was an entirely new principle, 1 advised him to go ahead witli the manufacture and sale, ibis he did. “Finding themselves beaten at one game, the members of the combine took a new and more effective tackThey sent out circulars to tne farmers of the United States, notifying them that Dr. Gebbie had infringe I on their patent, and that any one using bis implement wo’d be subject to prosecution. “Now the average farmer is as afraid of a law suit as I e is of a green goods man, and so in time Dr. Gebbie was driven out of tlie business. “Suits galore have been instituted against the trust, and, while the courts in almost every instance have decided against it, the high-handed measures taken by it have driven its toes one by one out of the field. “Only a few weeks ago Hench & Dromgold of York, Pa., in attempting to free themselves from a contract made with the National harrow company, appealed to the supreme court. The decision handed down was that the trust was an illegel corporation, and hence could not enforce its contracts. Almost the same decision was rendered in Elmira, this state, when the Clipper Chilled plow company brought a similar suit. Adverse decis- 1 ions only spurred the trust on, however, and it is stronger ’ today than ever. < “Through its absolute control of the trade the farmer J is compelled to pay $5 more on each and every harrow he buys than he would otherwis i. The retail price is J $lO, sl2 and sl4, and the best should nevei sell for more > than $7. When the trust was originally formed, there were five companies in it—one in New York, one in Ge- 5 neva, two in Michigan and one in’ Buffalo— but since o then dozens of others have been drawn into the drag! “I am going into the matter fully, and when 1 have S gathered all my facts I shall ask the senate committee ■ to make a most rigid examination.” J