Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 July 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by W. 8. MONTOOMKBY.

•BVRK FIELD

INDIANA

MAJOR HANDY, the well-known Chicago newspaper man, now doin^r service on the Inter-Ocean, writes to that paper from New York expressing his satisfaction at having signed a petition asking Judge Ingraham to fix a light sentence for Erastus Wiman. The bulk of the testimony goes to show that Mr. "Wiman was actually guilty of forgery, and it also clearly establishes the fact that the intimate relations and almost incalculable services of Mr. Wiman to the firm of R. G. Dun A Co., gave him a certain "moral" right to use the firm's name and means in almost any manner that he might see fit. The failure of his plans brought to light liis technical crime. The base ingratitude of his former business associates who have persecuted and prosecuted him •while enjoying the great wealth gathered as a result of Mr. Wiman's ability as a financier and organizer is only another illustration of the old axiom: "Business is business." Forgery among expert criminals is regarded as the most foolish olTense possible, few offenders escaping. Their "sin is sure to find them out." Mr. Wiman is doomed to a felon's cell, although he madp restitution to the last cent possible, and would liave been able to pay everything in a few years could he have retained his libertv.

IF A spontaneous movement should arise in Lake county for the annexation of that bailivvic-.lc to the State of Illinois it is not probable that any determined opposition would be aroused in the old Hoosier State. Our experience, lately, in helping suppress the lawlessness originating in Chicago which metaphorically frothed over into our borders, is calculated to awaken apprehensions for the future, and the time may shortly come when this matter will assume an aspect of the greatest danger and fraught with the gravest consequences to our State government. Indiana can hardly afford to grant unlimited police protection to the great and wicked city just across the line. The dangers and annoyance from this source is likely to rapidly increase in the near future. Hammond is already spoken of as eastern suburb of the World's Fair City. as. in fact it is, and with the rapid growth of the last few years continued for a comparatively short time all those suburban towns in Lake county will be merged into the great metropolis of the West. Aggravating auestions of jurisdiction must necessarily arise, and the Legislatures of the two States ar€ likely to have an interesting problem to wrestle with.

WORD comes from Washington that the Senate has been "having fun" with Senator Call over the sock exhibition recently conducted in the Senate chamber by that distinguished statesman, mention of which was recently made in these columns. It seems that Mr. Call's constituents have been writing to him about the matter until he got "rattled," and broke forth in an angry speech abusing the correspondent who first made the matter public, whom he characterized as a "malicious wretch." HE admits taking off his boots but denies that be elevated his feet on top of the desk. The Senator supposed he could count on the sympathy of his fellow members, but to his consternation they greeted his tirade with roars of laughter that even the traditional "Senatorial courtesy" could not restrain. Mr. Call even went to the length of offering a resolution that the Sergeant-at arms should ascertain the name of the correspondent and expel him from the press gallery, but it failed to pass. Afterwards Mr. Call circulated a pa-' per among his colleagues, which was freely signed, denying the truth ol the story "as told" and had it printed in the Florida papers. From this it will be seen that even dignified Senators are not exempt from trivial annoyances, and lose then serenity like common people. 11 was a clear case of "nagging." Th« old man has our sympathy. All the same we feel "called" upon to laugh, and believe it is quite safe to do 8C at this distance.

Eontai Notd.

Stranger: ••Where doos thnt new dentist have his office?" Policeman: ••You mean the oi»e who pulls teeth without, pain?" Stranger: "Yes.' Policeman: "Go right around the corner. You will have 110 trouble finding his office. You can hear his patients yell half a block away."

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Ton're Bon Ltgged.

My son. don't advertise your grf.efs. Jf you have crooked legs don't tveai striped pantaloons.-—Boston 'J'ran•unut

THESEWSOF THE WEEK

Minneapolis had a $500,000 fire on the 19th. Secretary Qresham is sick and confined to his bed.

California militia is being rearmed with Martini rifles. All tljp potteries at East Liverpool, O., resumed on the 23d.

A commonweal division was driven out of Clyde, O., on the 23d. The war on the Rock Island Road in Indian Territory continues.

Extensive forest fires in northern Minnesota have caused gieat loss. Postmaster Leonard, of Boise. Ida., has skipped, leaving a shortage of $7,6u0.

J. G. Cannon was renominated for Congress in the Twelfth Illinois district. The ^President signed the bill admit tine Utah to Statehood, Tuesday night.

War now seems inevitable between China and Japan because of the Corean troubles.

Girl, match and curling iron caused a loss by tire of $176,00J in El Paso, 111., Thursday.

Two masked men "held up" a Santa Fc train, near Red Oak, Okla,, and got away with their plunder.

The next reunion of the Army of Cumberland will be at the dedication of Chickamauga Park, next year.

Republicans of North Dakota have nominated Roser Allen for Governor and M. G. Johnson for Congress.

Two persons perished in a burning restaurant at St. Louis. Fire started from an explosion of a gasoline stove.

Four persons were drowned at Otsego lake, near Cooperstown, N. Y., on the 23d, by the capsizing of a rowboat. "Gen." Coxey is out with anew scheme, lie thinks the people should compel the liovernment to buy the railroads.

Crops are in need of rain throughout the Northern States. In Iowa and Wisconsin corn is in a critical condition.

Opponents of Colonel Ureckinridge are endeavoring to induce Settle to withdraw to leave a clear field for Owens.

Three men who shot the postmaster at Somerset Center, Mich., while trying to rob him, have been arrested at Jackson.

Corbett will leave England for the United States. July 25. He announces his willingness to tight Jackson as soon as a sufficient purse is assured.

South Carolina State dispensaries will be reopened by Gov. Tillman who alleges a technical error in the recent Supreme Court decision holding the dispensary law unconstitutional.

In opposing assessments of the franchises oi the Milwaukee Street Railway Company, Vice President Payne said the property, which is bonded for $11,(.00,100, was not worth SG00.0J0,

Twenty banks and eighty leading business firms of Chicago on the 18th sent a telegram to the Senate and House demanding that Congress dispose of pending tariff legislation at once.

In a dispute over alleged scandalous re-maik-i by Rev. Mr. Piatt, at Ivory's Ferry, Ark., on the 21st, knives, pistols and Winchesters were used as arguments. Piatt was killed and a number of others injured.

A native of St, Louis, named Joseph D. (Jrinnockio. while visiting in Genoa, Italy, was arrested on a charge of desertion, and forced into the Italian army. The case will be carried before the State Department at Washington.

The President, Thursday, nominated Clifton It. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia, vice Andrew D. White, resigned, on account of ill-health. 4 Gen. Sanders' Commonwealers, doing time in the Topeka jail, will be released in *quads of three to prevent concerted action and break up the movement. The men declare, however, that they will meet and resume their march to Washington.

Senator Quay is said to have eighty pages of his great tariff speech in type for the Congressional Record that has not yet been delivered. If any possible opportunity occurs when the measure is reported back he will deliver it or prepare a new one of equal length.

Three shocks of earthquake were felt at Memphis on the 18th. The vibrations were from north to south. Tall buildings ind chandeliers swayed perceptibly and iishes and pictures rattled. Reports from Jalro, Fulton, Ky., New Madrid and oth^r points throughout the Mississippi ealley indicate that the seizure was wide spread.

Mgr. Satolli sustains the decision of Bishop Watterson, of Columbus, O., denying recognition to Catholic societies Having liquor dealers and saloonkeepers it their head or among their ollicers. His "Jecision condemns the liquor traffic, and especially the business as conducted in the United States, in strong language.

Secretary Gresham has warned Japan against pursuing her present policy in Corea. His dispatch practically places the United States on the side of China and Russia in the ponding dispute. The warning has caused a sensation in diplomatic circles and certain correspondents hint at serious consequences and characterize Gresham's action as a grave blunder. •Gov. Waite, in a speech at Denver, on lha 23d, denounced President Cleveland's action- in tho Chicago riots as a clear usurpation of power. Tho Governor quoted sec. 4, art. 4 of the Constitution in support of his position. He maintained that the contention that a strike on a railroad was an interruption of commerce would apply equally to a factory and that manufacturers would soon demand-Fed-ora I troops to compel men to work for 50 sents a day.

Senator George has introduced a joint resolution providing for an amendment to tho Constitution providing that eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work for persons doing manual labor. The proposed amendment specifies that "No person or association engaged in mining, manufacturing, or in any other mechanical pursuit or public'work, or in transportation other than water craft, shall require or permit any employe doing manual labor to work more than forty-eight hours in one week except in cases of emergency prescribed by law. Persons voluntarily and lawfully engaged in any of the .ihove pursuits shall not be unlawfully hindered or obstructed."

Gov. Hogg, of Texas, at Austin, on the 18th, was presented with a gold watch by jtlicers of the State militia, and, in response, made a speech, in which he took a gloomy view of the future. He predicted that within six wreks martial law would be declared in California, Kansas, Colo­

rado aud Illinois, and that the anarchists of Chicago would use dynamite and "bespatter the lofty buildings of the city with the hearts, lungs and livers of the citizens." He alluied to President Cleveland having ordered the troops there, and Judge Cooiey's letter commendatory of the act, and said he felt humiliated over it, as it was a dangerous invasion of Stato rights and had not been done before since i860. The Governor predicts a great revolution soon and possible dismemberment of the Republic, uuless a foreign war diverts attention from internal dissatisfaction.

Experts have unearthed tremendous frauds in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe accounts. There is an apparent shortage of $7.(0),000. but conservative men think it can hardly reach more than $4,0 0,000. These facts were brought out by the reorganization committee which met at New York, Saturday. July 21. It is supposed that the bulk of the money has gone for rebates to shippers, which is a violation of the inter-State commerce act. The financial statement of the Atchison system for the first two weeks of July show a decrease in the earnings of §819,493.88, but this is principally due to th« strike. •_

FOREIGN.

Assassins arc after the Snltan of Morocco. Monaco Was slightly shaken by an earthquake, Thursday.

More than 1,500 cases of cholera havo appeared in St. Petersburg since July 1. Thirteen men and women killed by lightning near Schwetz, West Prussia, Saturday. 4 The Samoans have sent to Emperor William a petition praying that Germany annex the islands.

Barros has been elected President Brazil by over 200.000 majority and Pereira Vice-President

M. Buette, a French engineer, was recently captured by Brazilian troops, forced to dig his own grave and then shot.

The bill to permit Sheffield to build a ship canal to the east coast has passed its third reading in the British House of Commons.

Seven wreckers were killed by® an ex. plosion of dynamite at Portsmouth, England, while engaged in demolishing thg wreck of a yacht.

In spite of the opposition of Premier Rosebery, the British House of Lords passed to second reading the bill directed against anarchists.

The Japanese government has purchased six steamships which belonged to the English line running between Liverpool and China. The steamers are being equipped for service in the event of war.

Russia has decided to build a railway from Sarmarcand to Ferghan, on tho threshold of the Pamirs. Eng and is building two forts to defend the passes between the Hunga country and the Pamirs.

A cable from Massowah, Egypt, states that a great battle has taken place between a large1body of Dervishes and Italian troops in which the former were defeated with great loss.

In the Assize Court, at Nice, an Italian workman was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for remarking upon learning of the death of President Carnot that '•it served him right. They should kil| them all. Crispi, too."

Letters from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, confirm the reports of a brutal slaughter of prisoners by both the rebels and the loyal troops. M. Buette, a French enginees, who was captured by Peixoto's men, was first employed in raising the sunken war ship Aquidaban. He was then made to dig his own grave, after which he was shot by his captors.

The Hamburger Correspondent states that the German government does not propose to make reprisals in consequence of the new American sugar tariff. A gen-

eral tariff war against the United States, it is added, would ruin the German export |jej

trade, and Germany will, therefore, seek to arrive at some agreement with the United States.

TBis uuoit coMiiissior

Lyman Trumbull Will Probably bo the Illinois Member.

It is stated, on what is considered reliable authority, that the President has. in addition to Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, chosen Judge Lyman Trumbull, of Chicago, and a promineit New Yorker, who has always taken a deep interest in the cause of labor and

CARROLL I). W1UOITT.

whose judgment in questions of this kind is regarded as fair and impartial, to serve as members of the commission to investigate the Chicago strike. Although the report that the President has chosen Lyman Trumbull, could not bo officially confirmed, it is generally credited. It is known that the President has unaer consideration tire names of Lyman J. Gage, the Chicago banker, and Lyman Trumbull, and has intimated his intention oi selecting the Illinois member of the commission early this week.

A farmer in the north part part of Morgan county has a patch that raises 600 gallons of blackberries to the acre. He says he can buy a bushel of wheat with a gallon of blackberries, and even if wheat ia being raised this year at tho rate of twen-ty-five bushels to the acre on some ground, he asks if his blackberries don't pay bettei

The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago Thursday, returned twenty-three indictments, including the names of seventyfive individuals for violations of the federal statutes during the recent railroad troubles. Debs and the other officers ol the A. R. U. are included in nearly all the indictments.

MM STATE MS.

I Anderson's brass band has disorganized. Lebanon streets are all tore up for water

[mams. Bloomington schools. 1 Elkhart people will not patronize a Chinese laundry.

has two kindergarten

There will be a light nutmeg melon crop in Jackson county. The force of Deputy Marshals at Fort Wayne has been reduced.

A Vincennes bank was burglarized to the extent of $500. and the 23d. Valparaiso has a bonded debt of $69,(KX) and a floating debt of over $11,OCO.

The banks of White river near Anderson are again covered with dead fish. George Powell, of Mt. Vernon, tried to cut his wife's throat and she killed him.

A Huntington man recently imported an Irish terrier and named him 'Trendergast."

Col. J. R. Ross was sent by Gov. Matthews to relieve Col. Smith at Hammond, Monday.

An Anderson doctor has discovered a medicine that he claims will cure consumption.

Smallpox has been in the State since May and there have been fifty-live cases and eleven deaths.

The present number of saloons in Richmond is too small to supply the demand, and new ones will locate there.

Eighteen buildings at Somerset, including live small store rooms, were burned, Thursday morning. Loss, $4,000.

Charles Ilubbell, near Clay City, while felling timber, was crushed to death by a descending tree. He was nineteen years old.

Judge Johnson, of Valparaiso declined the nomination for Congress given him by the recent Republican convention at Hammond.

Madison is rapidly gaining the reputa tion of a tough town. It won't be long before she eclipses Shelbyville in the number of street lights. 2 Great Western pottery works, Kokomo, employing 303 men, and the Brookside canning factory, working 000 hands, have resumed operations.

The Democratic congressional convention for the Tenth District, at Hammond, on the 18th, nominated Valentine Zimmerman, of Rochester.

Col. C. G. Conn has consented to meet the Democratic Congressional committee at South Bend, July 24. and explain in full his position for declining the Thirteenth district nomination.

Merrett Alexander, a young man, fell out of an apple tree near Connersville Wednesday, and was impaled on a pole standing near the tree. Will die.

Brookville is horrified over the discovery that the reservoir from which the town secures its supply of water is a favorite swimming hole with the boys.

The dwelling on the farm of Albert Tow, mar Bedford, was burned, Tuesday night. Loss 51.500. It is supposed to be a continuation of the Tow-Bass feud.

The civic and military companies assisted in the ceremonies incident to laying the corner-stone of the new Baptist church at Peru. Tho church will cost ffiO O 0 when completed.

Boone county crops are unprecedented. The wheat is being rapidly threshed from the shock and measures up an average of thirty bushels to the acre. The yield of oats will be phenomenal.

Mrs. Mamie D. Goodrich, wife of Geo. Goodrich, photographer, of Shclbyville, died in the sanitarium at Spencer. It is thought she was poisoned by chemicals used in the photographic business.

A northern Indiana dentist claims to have such hypnotic power that he can persuade his patients to believe that they are swinging in hammocks and eating Ice cream while having teeth pulled.

Two tramps applied at the farm house of Albert Caris, near Elkhart, and upon

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refusej

f00(j they set fire to the

barn and stood by until the flames had

made good headway Then they effected their escape. It is claimed that Rush county farmers are now engaged in thrashing the greatest wheat crop iu tho history of tho county. It is further said that the yield will aggregate 2,000,00 bushels. The oats crop is also surprisingly large, and the corn is in fine condition.

Charles B. Landis, Republican nominee for Congress in tho Tenth district, has handed his resignation to Chairman Harley because of the factional light prevailing in several counties, which, Mr. Landis thinks, imperils the success of legislative and local candidates.

While Ed Colby, of tho Clover Leaf shops, Frankfort, was lifting a heavy piece of irou, his left arm suddenly droppod to his side, and he supposed that the elbow was dislocated. Examination showed that the heavy strain had burst the fore-arm muscles.

A head-on collision at Griffith, on the Big Four, fifteen miles from Cincinnati, on the 23d, resulted in the death of Frank Taylor, fireman, of Indianapolis, and two tramps. Several passengers were severely injured and some may die. A gravel train, by some unaccountable error was going cast and met the west bound express.

The Bloomington Telephone professes to know that a determined effort will be made at the next meeting of the General Assembly to remove the Indiana Univer sity to Indianapolis. The city will bo asked to donate *400.000, and a plea will be made to the General Assembly that it stands prepared to give better buildings and a better site, which will not cost the State one cent if the institution is removed. i-

At Richmond, Saturday, Judge Fox, attorney for a creditor, made sensational charges of fraud acainst the management of the Richmond Street Railway company. The brief alleges that the capital stock was placed at 1200.000 and the projectors of the lino succeeded in raising 5150,000 more, making in all 1350,0(50, which they pretended to use for a line that cost not more than flCO.OCQ. This, the brief says, is evidence within itself that tho money was never expended on the line, but went for other purposes. Jndge Fox says that the case is one of the worst examples of' railroad wrecking that has ever come under his notice.

A Terra Haute dispatch July 18, says: Edward Ilolltfway, who is under arrest for the wrecking of the Big Four train at Fontanel, has made so many conflicting statements about his connection with the yrime that no one knows which one to be­

lieve. Tuesday afternoon he told Sherif Stout that bis confession of Monday wa not the truth, and that he was alone whei he threw the switch that wrecked th train at Fontanet. Afterward he went before the coroner and was sworn to the following statement: "I make this statement voluntarily, no coercion or strategy being employed in getting me to make it My statement made to tho coroner, Mon day, is correct, excepting that part of it which relates to opening the switch, and I make this after statement to stop all trouble and keep innocent men from sus picion. I was the one who opened the lock and threw the switch, and no one was with me when 1 did it. I opened the lock by striking it with a coupling-pin, after which I threw the lock to one side." Holloway was asked why he made con tradictory statements, and replied that he did not know. When he was asked which statement he wanted to stand by, he said: "I guess this last one." Wednesday, Holloway positively denied having any connection with wrecking the train and said the different stories he had told were forced from him by Detective Grady.

BROWN COUNTY OUTRAGE.

In Johnson township. Brown county,an outrageous case of White-capping took place early Wednesday morning. The White-cappers first visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Bloomfield and easily gained admission. With switches cut from a hillside Mr. and Mrs. Bloomfield were unmercifully whipped. Bloomfield's father, who is blind, and living with his son, protested, but he, too. suffered their fate, being fearfully whipped. From the Bloomfield home the Whit-'-eappers went to the home of the Sterns brothers, who ore married and reside in one large house. Here the law breakers had little trouble in gaining admittance. The two older brothers and their wives and the wife of the younger brother were fearfully whipped. The younger brother attempted to escape through a window. In doing so he was shot through the right ankle and thus became an easy mark for the White-cappers, who ran him down and applied the switches vigorously. There no known reason for the whipping. The unfortunate victims claim to have identified their assailants and suits will be filed against them. Three other families in the immediate neighborhood received notice to leave at once or take the consequences.

A PENSION FOR MRS. BAKER.

Chairman Martin of the House Committee on invalid pensions has reported favorably the bill introduced by Congressman Cooper, to pension Susan Baker, of Paragon, Morgan county, Indiana, as a dependent step-mother, at the rate of 513 a month. The case is full of interest. She was a widow with two sons when she married James H. Baker, who had six sons. The eieht young men enlisted in the union army, and in addition Mrs. Baker sent a son-in-law. The case attracted the attention of Colonel Matson when he was in Congress. He introduced a bill giving the needed relief. It has been barred by a technical objection heretofore, but in view of the fact that the family contributed nine volunteers to the cause of the Union, the committee decided to strain a point and recommend that Mrs. Baker, who is now past seventy, be pensioned.

The Man For the Place,

London Tit-Bits

Great Editor—I advertised for a private secretary, whose chief duties will be sit in the ante-room and keep poets, bores, and other undesirable persons at bay. The position requires something of a diplomate, as well as a fluent linguist. You would not do at all.

Ricketts (who stutters a trifle)— That's where you make a riium-mum-mistake, squire! As sus-sus-soon's a bub-bore cuc-cuc-came.in I bug-bug-begin to tell a long s-story, and bub-bub-between whu-wh-what I'd sus-sus-sav and what I'd tut-try to sus-sav, I'd have him cum-cum-com-pletelv tut-tired out. I ain't mum-mum-much of a dud-diplomate, perhaps, but as a linguist I'm a caucaution.

A film has gathered on Mr. Gladstone's eye and another slight operation will be necessary.

Every woman who marries becomes a sort of amateur detective.

OUR MARKET REPORT.

July 24, 1834.

IndtahapoU*.

6HAIN AN1 HAT.

WHEAT—50c: corn, 45* £C: oats, 45c rye 45c hay, choice timothy, $12.00. LIVE STOCK.

CATTLE Shippers, $2.50 84.50: stoclcers, [email protected] heifers. [email protected]: cows, 51(a2.60 bulls, 52.00(^3,00 milkers, 515.00'i35.00.

HOGS— [email protected]. SHEKP—•$1.00($3.00. pour/ruv AXI) OTIIKU PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shipper J.)

PoUT/ruY-llens.

7c per lb: spring chick­

ens. 1()@ 12c. per lt turkeys, toins, 3c per lb hens, 5c per lb: ducks, 4c per 2» geese, $3 per doz. for choice.

EGOS—Shippers

paying 8c.

BUTTER—Choice, 8@10c. HOXKV—1(1 13C FEATHERS—Prime geese, 30@32c per

lb

mixed duck, 20c per lb. BEESWAX—20c for yellow 15c for darn. WOOL—Medium unwashed. 13c Cottswold and coarse combing. Il@l2c tubwashed. 16(g?22c burry aud unmerchantable. 5@lOo leas.

HIDES—No- 1 G. S. hides, 3'^c No. 2 S. hides, 2tfc No. 1 calf hides, Gc No. 2 a 4

Chicago.

WHEAT—52%c corn. 43!^c oats,34c pork, {12.55 lard, i»).S3).j. New Vor«.

WHEAT—5SKc corn. 47oats, 50:. St. Louis. WHEAT—51%c corn, 40'^c oats, 41%c.

Baltimore.

WHEAT—57c corn, 48.'^c oats,46c. ,•

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WHEAT--57Xc corn, 48^£C oats, 46c. Cincinnati. WIIEAT—51KC corn, 45c oats,45c pork, $12.75.

Toledo.

WHEAT—543-tfc corn, 49£c oats, 40c. Detroit. WHEAT—55%c corn 51c oats, 41^c.

East Llbertf.

CATTLE—Prime, [email protected], tlogs—Best, *5.30(85.35.

MIRACLE IN MISSOURI

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The Achievements of Medical Scionce Far Mora Wonderful than the Magic of the East.

Tli* Remarkable Expcrlcnc* of Paitnitc t«r Woodson, of Panama, Mo.—*'or Ten Years a Cripple—To-dajr "Well and Hearty Man. (From the Kansas City Times.) _,'3

Tho people of Rich Hill, Mo., ani vlr cin.ty have re .ently been startle by a eoeming mirac of heal ng. Foryeuia one of tne best-known men in Bates and Vernon Co mies has been Mark M. Wo »us n. now postmaster at Panama, and brother o. ex-Stato nspector of Minos C. C. Woodson, of this city. The people of Kich Li 1, where he lormerly resided, and oi his pie entf home remerab'i* well t! bent form,1. misshapen almost from le semblance of man, which has painfull bow.d its head half to earth and labored sna.llice across the walks season after te ton, and when one day last month it si aightent tj its lull height, threwl vV away the heavy butt of eane which for years had been it: only.support from iotal he pljirsne s, and walked eiect,i '.irmly, unhesitatingly a out the two -g iit,e •, poo. le lo- ked and wondere I., 'f Tne story of ihe remarkable ease had I become the marvel of the two count.es.' K.xaotly as Mr. Vv ocdson told it to a I. Times reporter, it is here published: or ten years I have suffer©.! the torments of't damned and liave been I a useless invalid: to-uay 1 am a well anil I hearty man, free from aLnjost every touen o: pain. 1 don thin ma evor Buiiered more acute and constant azony than 1 have sin 18i. Tho rheumatism started then in my ri^ht knee, and after weeks of su .ering in bed 'I was at last relieved sumo ently to ,-| arise, but it was o..ly to get about on( crutches i'or live years, the ailment having settled tne jt int. L'e.-pite toasta. 11 eatment of most eminent physicians the rheumati grew worse, and for the last lour y^ars Hj have been compelled to go about, bent :v|.f half toward ground. In the w..ntor |S of l»l0-.ti. after the heu nati had -«.i| Bottled into its most chronic lorm, I weut to Kansas City upon advu iry other, ai for six weeks I was eat- |f ed in ono ol the lar# stand be t-known II dispensaries of tu at iity, but without sj.o .slight-eat improvement, i.e.ore I tj i-aino home I secured a strong galvanic r-m ha.tery this I used for montns th the same result. In August, 18lJ I i| went to s»t. Louis, and th-jre eonf rred with the widi ly known Dr. Mndd. ol hospital practice la ue, and Dr. r- a!e, :J of the cit.,' hospital. None of thera -?j! would take my ease with auy hoi-e of accruing me more .han temporary re* lief, and so came home, weak, doubled 4 with pain, helpless and despondent. if "About this time my attention was called to the acoi unt of a remarkable si cure of locomotor ataxia, rheu.natism and paralysis by Dr. Williams' fink Pills for ale i/e-ple. I ordered some of ie pills as an ex} erimont. $ When beg to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a' phase of paralysis: my leg, fro tho thigh down, was cold all the time and 4 could not be ept warm. In a short tiioe the pills we gone, and so waa the cane. I was ab:e to attend to tho if duties of my office, to get about as a 4 well and strong man. I was free from paiu and I could enjoy a suund and -f restful nights sleep, something I had not known for ten years. To-day aid practically and, I firmly believe, erJ manently cu:ed of my terrible and agonizing ailment. No magician of the Far East ever wrought tho miraeie with his wand that Dr. Willia.in#' Pink Pill did for me

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To verify the atorv beyond all ques^ tion of doubt, Mr. Woodson made that I following auidavit:

STATE OF MISSOURI,

COUNTY OP BATK.-,

I, M. M. Woodson, bei duly sworn, on my oath state that the following statements are true and correct, as I ve.ily believe. M. M. W.-ODON.

Subscribed and sworn to before this od day March, 1-.94. JOHN*D. MOORK. Notary Public. I

Dr. Williams' Pink 1-ilis for PaW -v-p Peoplo are manufactured by the Div Williams Med cine Comp iny, Schenectady. N. Y., and are sold onl/ inl boxes bd ring the firm's trade marU v| and wrapper, a*- 50 cents a box, or sijC boxes fo ii-. 0. Bear in mind that Dr^ Williams' Fink Pills are never sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundrei, and! auy dealer who offers substitutes hrf this form is trying defraud you and should be avoided. Dr. Wil iams' Pi iK Pills may be had of all druggists or di^ rect by mail from Dr. Williams' Modi' cine Company.

A WATER TELESCOPE.

The theorist

Boboy—Your mother hit you only once for breaking the window. I wis1!®! my mother wouldn't hit me more thanF that.

Little Johnnie—That's 'cause don't holler loud enough.—New Yorl Sun.

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How the Simple Instrument May Be Constructed. vl The water telescope iy be made of -I wood or of tin, whichever you prefer, and wo will describe both. The tin is better, because it is lighter and more easily handled. Its manufacture is, very simple. Got a tinsmith to make for you a funnel shaped tin horn about .j three feet long. It should be eight or ten inches in diameter at the bottoni and bro td enough at the top for both ..... eyes to look into. Into the bottom put apiece of glass, cut to fit, and make, it perfectly water-tight. The inside" should bo painted black to Pre*ti vent the reflection of the lighj*' upon the surface of the tin. Around the outside of the bottom soldei oa. several sinkers to offset the buoyancy of the air in the water-tight horn and make it easier to submerge. If it is not convenient to get a round piece glass, h=ive tho large end ide squart and use squaro gl.tss. That's all thero is of it, and when you sink your instrument down into the water una put your eyes at the small end you will be per*. fectly astonished at the plainness with which you will see all kinds of fisb and water animals swimming around in a stato of nature.