Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1892 — Page 8

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1S92-WELYE PAGES.

BUILDING A GREAT CITY

AND NOT LETTING IT GROW A3 IS USUALLY THE CASE. How a City Taa Practically Rnlldad Oat f th TVlldrn A Iep Water Umrkr Blada Without GortrnmcBt Aid A Bttry That Band at If Taken from tbo Arabian KlfbU" Alladin'a Latrfp OqU ai 0. T7. Crawford, secretary of the Velasco (Tex.) Commercial club has been at the beniaon for the past day or two, looking over Indianapolis and transacting some little business in the interest of his city. Mr. Crawford is an easy, pleasant talker, and a half hour's talk with him gives bis visitor a clear insight into the condition of things in tbe Lone Star state. Last night be was in the humor for conversation and talked as follows : 0n this trip of travel through the East X have noticed more particularly bow different the operation of building towns and cities is now from wbat it must have been when the East was being settled. In fact we don't build towns any longer, at least we don't out West, and, by the bye, West means, speaking today, the transMissississippi country. New England tnar call Indiana Ve9ti but Texas calls it Eaet. "At present towns are not laid out. Urban development starts upon a plan which contemplates a city. Villages and towns in that p. an are not considered. In the times nf our grandfather hillsides and valleys were turned into farms, and trossroada became a village, and as the country settled the necessities and inter hange of commodities made of the villages towns. In the process of development competition made the most of advantages, and the towns possessing greatest advantages gradually grew into cities. "Railroad and modern business methods have entirely changed this. Now cities come lirst and they are usually planned and begun at the extreme end of a railroad, which has probabl y Leen driven out into an uninhabited and unbroken prairie or deep into a denso forest. Minerva is plucked fully equipped from Jupiter, Chicazo from New York, Kansas City from Chicago and Denver Iroui Kansas City. J-ucfc is the development of the railroad a?e in which we live. Grow tli or YYeatvrn Citlai. "The growth of eomo of our western cities has been an interesting subject of ltudy and in reviewing it today those with the greatest natural advantages are most prominent for their solid growth and commercial importance. "Without great advantages there cannot be great Cities. The most striking illustration of rapid development of a place is at a point on the gull coast of Texa. whore a syndicate of Chicago capitalist-, inriudingex-Senator C. B. Harwell. Col. Taylor and other?, with their own money, bavo deepened a harbor without government aid. They used the tame plan a did C'apt. Kads at the mouth Df the Mississippi river r.nd have been jest as successful. When they commenced Work at the mouth of tbe Brazoa river two fears and a half ago there was only four ind a half feet of water on the tar. Now there is seventeen and a half feet and the icour of the current of the river is washing the channel deeper all the time. Yolnaro'a Wonderful Gruitt!i. "A survey made last June showed that Ihey had by three feet the deepest water tf any port on the gulf of Mexico west of the mouth of the Mississippi river. On the let day of July they located and laid ut what is now tho "Boss Baby City" in America Velasco, Tex. The first lot was sold on July 11, 1 SO 1 , and now there is a population there of almost 3,000. The company has gold $1,410,000 worth of lots. There are Ö7Ö houses built, neverjteen brick blocks in progress of erection at present. The place is lighted with electricity. The long wharves built have already proved unequal to the business demands and are being extended. Over 00 vessels have entered the new port and discharged cargo, dome of them drawing; as much as sixteen feet and nine inches of water. Since the town has been laid oat it has been connected with the outside World by a railroad to Houston, which fcas thirteen railroads. Every train and essel which enters the port ii loaded with people, who have studied the situation and decided that the place which has deep water on the Texas coast will make a great city. "Heretofore the commerce of the world lias been walled out from the southwest by the san i Lara which almost closed the entrance to all the streams. The surplus products of the West have been compelled to go to export via Atlantic ports. Kven Texas beef and Texas wheat Lave been freighted by rail from almost in eight of the blue water cf the Mexican gulf 2.000 miles to deep water on tho Atlantic coast, (iatting Dp Watr, "The successful accomplishment of deepening the entrance to the Brazos river at Velanco has raided the embargo imposed by nature end already in the short space of eight months the tide of tralhc is changing. I am advised by wire that the Austerlitz, the first of a line of steamships which will ply between Liverpool and Velasco, arrived yesterday in the latter port. She will take out as her maiden cargo 5,000 bales of cotton and 109.0C0 pounds of cotton oil cake. "The promoter of this new seaport laid out not a town, but a city. True to modern methods, they have planned and are developing every equipment of a city electric lights, electric street transportation service, latest improvement in lewerage, boulevards and parks. "Tho development of our advantages will make a-i in a few years what I find Indianapolis is today a great city." Baking Powder is uniform and perfect in its composition and working. The analyses of to-day and those of years ago, show that Cleveland's is and always has been rightly made. Makers of other baking powders are changing their formula but continue to publish old "certificates" and "testimonials" to show that the new mixture is also "absolutely pure."

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THE SIKE'S MURDER TRIAL. DANFORTH'S STATEMENT MADE JUST BEFORE DEATH. Prcraa of tbo Caao at Noblaavlllo Other Htato Ii'awi A New Swladlo on Farinara Jackiva County Fruit Crap l'roapocta A Minltltr Gono TVronK Strloksn ly Par. aljrl Oraiic Flowar Uc mlnlacaneas of an Old Sattler. Noelesville, April 7. Special The case of the state of Indiana against Mrs. Julia Sikes of Westfield for the murder of John Danforth was called for trial in court this morning. The cas-e is one of the most important ever brought before this court for trial. The readers of The Sentinel will remember how John Danforth. whilo walking along the streets of Westfield in rather an intoxicated condition, wad shot by some unknown person. He died two days afterward from the wounds. JShortly before bis death Mrs. Julia Sikes was arrested, charged with the shooting, and after a careful investigation by the grand jury a true bill of murder was returned in the first degree. Although Mrs. Sikes admitted the shooting, soon after she was arrested, yet she pleaded "not guilty" this morning. The defense has secured a brilliant array of legal talent and the eao will bo foueht strenuously. The trial will probably occupy a week. NoHLEr-vii.LE, April 10. Special. Yesterday tho state completed its evidence in the Sikes murder trial by reading the following dying declaration of John Danforth, deceased, before the jury : fc'TATK OF fSPIANA, ? Hamilton County, es. ) Deposition of John Danforth taken ou tbe .'Uth day of February, Qurrtion. Where wtre you on the evening of Feb. 1., Aoawcr. In Weatßeld, Ind. Cj. About whut time iu tho evening did you tart home? A. About 7 o'clock p. m. 2. Ii .nytLilng happened to you more than tnu&l, p.easo täte what it was tt near as you cau remember. A. 1 wm ghot by Mrs. Sikei. (J. About where were you at tbe time yon received the wound from the laid bot? A. About tereuty feet northeast of the residence of the ail Mm. H;ki on tbe public highway, just as I ieppel down oo a LriJge as i l waa coming norue inui t esineu. Q. Had there bean any trouble between you and Mr. Sikes on the evening mentioned or at any time before, aud farther, had you been at her door or on her fron: poroh ou the ereEici of Feb. 13. . A. No. Q. I'lea täte how yon know who shot you. A. 1 heard a shot and looked around to eee who did it, and by the lieht of the lamp in Lin. Nkc' house through the open door I saw said Mrs. ikea standing on the front porch of her house, and when I turned around to resume my trip homeward 1 received a shot in the back. She fired three times in quick succession. In witneis whereof the said John Danforth has hereunto set hi hand and eat this -Olh day of February, John Danforth. Witness: WILLIAM G. SrouT. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of February, V. M. A r.N i.tt, Notary 1'ubJic. So far this has been the most damaging testimony eiven aeainet the defendant. .Saturday afternoon tho defence began introducing evidence. They will enter a plea of eeif-deiense. AS OLD AS THE CENTURY. Tbo Iteinliilsoencaa f an Early Indla.ua Fionoor. Fkakkfokt, April 10. Special. During a trip through Hamilton county a few days ago I met a most interesting character. William Burkhardt is a resident of F.l Dorado, Hamilton county. Ho was born in Kentucky in DsOO. Ho came to this state with bis uncle when ten years of ace, and bag teen the rough sido of life. He helped to carry the chain to survey the land where our capital city now stands, and grubed the ground where tha magnificent dopot is located. Ho said that be was once ot!ercd four acres of land in Indianapolis for 100, but didn't consider it worth half that sum. He knew all the old settlers of that part of the ptate and was a contractor on the canal which cost tho itate an enormous sum. Mr. Durkhart was married to Mi9 Susannah Hunt in the year 18:H', and was for a number of years located in Johnson county near Greenwood, where be owned h fine farm. The fall of 1S70 the western fever struck that part of the country and he, with his family, moved to southern Missouri, buying land in Dallas county, where he lived until the year lobO. His wife died during his eojouru there, and becoming dissatislieJ tradeJ for property in the lit tla town where he now lives. Ho in the father of nine children, seven boys and two girls, and all are living escjpt one son. Grandpa Durkhart, as he u familiarly known, is very interesting company and notwithstanding his ao, is pos-jsned of his mental faculties to a much greater degree than many would suppose. W. L. Up.uxnemer. A NE3T OF MISMANAGEMENT. 7 ha Palawara Poor Farm's Condition T'ndar Ilapabll can tarn. Mi ncie, April 11. Special. A sensational surprise party waa caused in Muncie today upon the arrival of a pair of well-known old gentlemen who are inmates of the county poor house. They bad walked to this city for protection, they say, from being murdered. They fcought Judge Lötz, and then Squire Kf euer, to whont they told the following story : They claim that John Watson, a eon of Strawder Watson, who has charge of the poor farm, gets drunk and beats and abuses the inmates and that they are afraid ho will kill them. Cannon and Callihan, with tears starting from their eyes and with voices trembling with emotion, told of the sickness and death of John Jacks, a blind man about eighty year of age, who died at the institution one week ago Sunday. The men say that Jack was knocked down by John Watson a few days before his death and that during the blind man's sickness he was not furnished witli nutritious food euch as should be given to a sick mau, especially one who was as old as Jack. Ca!; ib an said that cne day last summer Jack was in the yard and waa knocked down by young Watson, who hit the poor man with his fist. Jack was picked up by Wation and his mother and taken to the side of the house. Callihan said he went to the blind man and found him gaspiDg

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for breath and nnable to speak for pome time. Also, that he (Callihan) was carrying some fresh water to Henry Mann, who is sick and cged about eighty years, when one of the girls told him to go away, as Mrs. Watson had eiven orders to allow nothing to bo brought upstairs by the inmates. A short time afterward Dill Edwards jerked Callihan around in the hall and struck him in the face. This occurred yefterday morning when Callihan was at the door ct Mann's room. The men pay that tho food is bad and half the time is not lit to eat. They related ono circumstance as follows : Watson buys his hot: from hi eon-in-law, who resides in Madison county, and on on occasion when eight head were hauled into the barnyard at tho poor farm one of them was dead. Tho animal was not thrown away, hut was put into hot water to warm it before it was stuck. After the knife had entered the throat of the hog no blood flowed, but nevertheless the animal was scraped and cooked for the inmates. The authorities will investigate the charges and if found to be true Forioua trouble will bo made in the republican management camp. THE LAVF.LLE TRIAL, Cliarged wlttt Horning tho Davlats County Court House. rETKitsBcrio, April G. Tho trial of James Lavelle, Michael Lave'lo and Aaron B. Hawes for burning the Daviess county court house ia progressing slowly. The report of tho expert examination of Davelle's books revealed a shortage of lS, ;i3. Tho array of )cv.a talent on each side is probably the greatest that hns ever appeared in a l'iüo couutv court. The attorneys for the state are W. 11. Gardner, J. H. O'Xeal and J. A. Ogden of Washington, Ely ä Davenport and T. H. Diliou of DeterBtmre, Delhimer it Dowing and Charles Meyers. The attorneys for the deieusfnre Arnold Padgett. Col. Hardy and Clinton Thorpe of Washington, C. S. Dobbins and .McCcrruick & Inman of Shoals and I'osey Ä Chappelland Diehardson & Taylor of Petersburg. Uasil Ledgerw-.od and Samuel Harbin came from tho Indiana Htate prison south as Ntato witncpses. Tney are the men w iiom Lavelle and Hawes aro said to have hired to lire the court house and public records and who are now serving eeventeen years' eentence3 for the crime. pETEiisr.i-nG, April 11. Special. The cafe of the Plate vs. James C. Lavello was resumed this morning. Samuel Harbin waa recalled over the objections of the defenno and subjected to a number of impeaching r.ueetiors, which he refused to answer. When asked about his confession in the Daviess county jail he said he did make it under fear of "being hung up by tbe neck until he was dead, and if what he said now was not true he hoped th Almighty God would strike him dead before ho got oil" the chair. The next witness was Mrs. Sallie Harbin, wife of Samuel. The Btate is going to tho extremity for testimony. Nothing of much importance was illicited from her. Newton M. Wilson then testified that hoppent the eveninir with defendant until 11 :V,0 o'clock and leit him at defendant's residence. The l'inki-rton detective, William V. Forshee, was called. He stated he jiot ft pistol from Harbin's wffo aud identified it; identified key as the one taken out of Harbin'd well, which fit the door of tha auditor's ollice; said be did not show the pistol to any ono but tho ptato's parties; denied that he had stated he irot $-";UO for putting the key in the well ; admitted that he had paid for 1U,000 he could convict the bett man in Daviess county of any criiue. THE CURTIS BASS TRIAL. Charged with sn Attain pt to Assassinate His Pathar-ln-Law. ItEDronn, April Ct. Special. The trial of Curtis Das, charged with attempting! to assassinate his father-in-law, William Henry Tow last August, waa commonced yesterday. Nothing of any consequence took place until today when Dawson Moore, the marshal of Mitchell, was placed on the stand, when he testified that he went to Dane' houso on the day that Tow was shot and Pass waa not at home. He went back flüain, found Pass at his father's house. When he told him ho would have a war-, rant shortly for his arroht, Haaa' father said: "Curt will be here when you return." Pass finally decided to go to Mitchell without a warrant. They got in tbe buggy together. He paid to Psph: "You have made a bad job of this, vou havewouoded your man and ho is alive to give you away." Pass aewered that if the other barrel of the gun had pone of! he would have killed him then. Mooro swore that Pass offered him ft;00 to put them out of the way. Thia evidencejereated quite a een.ation in the court room. Walter Carroll, the next witness, swore that he saw Pass in the woods near where the shooting was done. Pass came up to him very excited and pale, carrying a double-barrel shotgun, and paid : "For God's pake don't tell anybody you aw me here." This closed the state's evidence and something sensational is looked for tomorrow from the defense as Pass claims to be able to prove an alibi. HER EIGHTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY. Sixteen Grandsons for Cleveland and TarllT IIa form. Prownhu-rj, April 0. Special. Tho eight-first birthday of Mrs. Mary ColTmnn was celebrate- in an appropriate manner yesterday at the residence of her son-in-law, William Symmonds, of Toll Gate, Ind. She has livingeight children, thirtyseven grandchildren and thirty greatgrandchildren. Owing to tbe fact that her children aro 80 scattered, Borne in Illinois, some in Kansas and ono in Oklahoma, there were present only three daughters and one son, eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. " As to reliion, Mrs. Coirman has been an exemplary member of the ()11 school baptist church for more than sixty years. As to politics, she is a democrat of the old Jetiersonian-Jack-eonian school, and she has sixteen grandsons old enough to vote, who are every one solid for Cleveland and tariff reform. She has been a regular reader of Tub Sentinel for many years and says that it is "tho greatest paper on earth." I'robnbla Chtia M iril.r. IIsazil, April 11. Special. Some six weeks ago Anna Crabb of Knihtsville gave birth to an illegitimate child. Yesterday morning it was found dead in bed and suspicious circumstances caused an investigation. Dra. Thornton and Davis i

held an autopsy, deciding it came to its death by violence. The mother and a man named George McXay were arrested, charged with murder. THE HENRY COUNTY RING.

A Sat-Dack to tbo Itoes of m Hepnbltcan Cnoaty. Newcastle, April 8. Special. The injuction prayed by M. Gillies, editor of the Democrat, against the board of commissioners, auditor, treasurer and W. H. Elliott, to enjoin Elliott from furnishing records and stationery, and the other defendants from paying for the same, was granted by Judge Comptock this afternoon. The decision will save the tax-payers of Henry county, who have been systematically robbed by tbe republican ring for years, thousands of dohars. This ia but one of the many ways in which these officials have robbed the people. The decision fs tho hardest blow ever given to the republicans in this county and is but the beginning of the end of ring rule, Iaatha. Edinbitiig, April 7. Special. John Sichler died today of typho-malaria, complicated with heart disease and a general breaking down of the eyetem. He was one of our most esteemed business men, having been identified with tbe merchant tailoring business for twenty-one years. He was a member of the K. of P. and I. O. O. F. lodges, Vincexse-s April 7. Special. Dr. W. M. Garrard, a prominent physician and democratic politician of southern Illinois, died today at Hot Springs. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 187G aud 18 SO, and during Cleveland's admiuietration was receiver of public moneys at Cheyenne. W. T. His remains will be brought to Lawrenceville for burial. English, April 7. Special. Joel C. Dillard, aged beventy-four years, died near Grange Hall, Orange county, last night. Ho was a stanch democrat and was elected justice of tho peace in 1848, which office he resigned alter two years' service. In 1880 ho was elected county commissioner, in which oilicd he served the people of Orange county nine years. Shoals, April 10. Special.! J. W. Kennedy, a prominent citizen of this place, died lust nuht of consumption. He was tho proprietor of the Commercial hotel, recently burned, and a prominent mason and odd fellow. Princeton, April 10. Special. W. P. Withenspoon, ngsvl eighty-five years, died at Patoka yesterday. He was an old resident of this couuty. Libanon, April 10. Special. The son of JulePernell, aced six years, of Ibanon. died of ecarlet fever. Ho was buried Sunday. Inatnutly Killed. Muncie, April S. Special. Yesterday at Albany, ten miles cast of Muncie, Poland, the seventeen-year-old son of Frank Hobba, fired a 22-caliber ball from a flobert rifle at a knothole ia a public outhouse. The bullet hit the hole, passed through and entered the heart of Walter Sholty, a day laborer, who was instantly killed, leaving a young wife and a little daughter in destitute circumstances. The fearful result of the reckless shot wan not discovered for some time, and until W. A. Powers, a young man from Elwood, who is clerking in a Btoro, had occasion to visit the place. Coroner Driscoll held a post mortem and found the ball had paed through the left lung and downward into the heart. The boy is nearly crazed with grief. loiter. Tonight Coroner Driscoll had a warrant ißsued for Poland Hobbs. the boy who accidentally killed Waiter Sholty at Albany yesterday. Tho charge is criminal carelessness. Anotlior Naw Sswlorile. Wabash, April 10. Special. Adam Minks, a farmer of Apple Creek, Wayne county, 0., has been taken in by sharpers who represented themselves as distant relatives and informed him that be was the heir to considerable property in this county left by a member of tho family recently deceased. Adam wrote to the county clerk here and stated the case to him, and the official ha replied saving that there never has been such an estate in the courts here. A number of such letters have been received by the clerk during the past year, and it is surmised that a gang of swindlers are working Ohio farmers, obtaining money from them ou the plea that they will secure possession of the property for the grangers. Trip ota. Anperpon, April 7. Special. A mare belonging to Amos Williams, eight miles south of this city, droppsd threo welldeveloped colta. The little fellows are frisky as kittens, and to all appearances will live to maturity. Stockmen claim this is the Grit inetauce of its kind in the country. SEYMom, April 8. Special. Mrs. Ethan W. Day, a j-oune married woman of thia neighborhood, has given birth to trip'ets -ono son and two daughters. Ths children are robust and with the mother are doing finely. Waddings. SEYMom, April 10. Special. Married last evening, with Justice Thurston master of ceremonies, Joseph E. Sherber of Richmond and Miss Emma L. Able of Seymour. The happy couple left for the groom's home this morning. It ia not theory but fact that Hood's Sarsaparilia makes the weak strong. A fair trit.1 will convince you of its merits. DER MAJBSTTS CORSET. THE BEST IX TFIE WOBLD! OFCOltSET IS! From April 14 to 10 inclusive, Mrs. Jencva C. Percy will be at our establishment for tho sole purpose of explaining tho WHY this corset should be worn in preference to any other. It is tho wish of the PK1NCESS OF WALES COMPANY that MUS. PERCY shall have tho privilege of fitting this Corset to all LADIES, and thus illustrate tho MAGNIFICENT FIGURE it CREATES. We trust that as many LADIES as possible will avail themselves of this OPPORTUNITY to learn what a PERFECTLY FITTING CORSET really is. WE GUARANTEE every pair of these CORSETS that we sell. L. S. AIRES k CO.

POWER OF THE MIND.

RAILROAD PRESIDENT CURED IN A MIRACULOUS WAY. SeemlDg Mlraclae In the Care ot Most Dasperai Cases. Eoiron Letter In an Ka'tern Exebange. On the 2d of last December Prof. Townsend published in the Boston daily Journal a lengthy article which has since been noted by many of our most critical papers, upon tho treatment and cure of chronic diseasos by a Boston physician which suggestes the miracles of eighteen hundred years ago more than anything which has ever appeared in modern print. In this article he said: "About thirteen years ago the country was startled by the sudden prostration, under a shock of paralysis, of the president of the Pennsylvania railroad. Everything was done for this great railroad magnet, Tho specialists of Philadelphia and New York tried their skill,.- In despair, he w ent to Europe, aud by the best physicians in England and upon the continent was treated. He returned to America worse than when ho left, unable to walk, to use ins left hand or to talk. At the earnest solicitation of a director of his road, John M. Kennedy, be sent for a prominent specialist, a young physician who was attracting great attention and curios' people every day without medicine, and in a way which many claiinedwas miraculous. After a few minutes' conversation the doctor eaid: ''Your hand ia better, sir; your arm is stronger ; raise it up." To the surprise of every one this dead, paralyzed arm was raised with ease. "Now. shut your hand." lie did, and for the firet time in two years. "You feet better, now.'' said the doctor, but his patient only pointed to 'his mouth, signifying that it was bard to talk. "Yes, you can talk; speak out," was tho doctor's quick reply. "When from his lips the distinct words came, "Yes, I feel better." "Now walk," paid tho doctor, and he did eo without any dilliculty. This improvement continued, and though the euro wa9 made, tho doctor would never tay how lie did it. The ten-year old son of llyron "Woodward, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, was stricken down with Bpinal meningitis; everything was done for him that tho hands of lovo aud wealth could do, but he grew rapidly worse. After threo consultations by ceveral noted physicians, the family were advised that nothing could save hi:n, that he was dying, that lie was in death's stupor, and would never return to confcciou?nees. In his desperation, and as a last resort, the father telegraphed for this physician; be hastened with all speed to the tick house. "Don't cry," eaid the doctor to the mother; "don't tay your boy must dio, I will etand between him and death, and, though irasping in the chill and gloom of the grave, w ear to you, that for your sake, ly the jtouer of faith, by the pouer of mind, in the name of everything th'it's good, your boy shall live." Then, placing his hand on tbe boy's head for a few minute, he turned to the father aud said: " our son is Out f Dancer." In less than twenty minutes the boy was sitting up, asking for something to eat, and in less than one hour the doctor was hastening to his home. The boy was permanently cured. On Saturday, the 2Uh of last October, a gentleman living a few mites out of tho city, a retired Boston business man, called upon this phvsician to visit his wife, who was dying. I will let the husband tell his story. "There is something very strange about this Christian or mental science, if that's what it is," said the old man, as bis tall Virginia form ttood erect in front of a blazing lire. "You eee, my wife had been sick the better part of tho time for three years with nervous prostration. She has quite a mite to worry her and, take it all together, it was more than ehe could stand. About eleven weeks before I called this doctor she was taken down with the fever; our physician attended her with great care, but nothing helped her. She was huruing by day and night with an intense lire. The lat eight or ten days her Rtomach cave out ; ehe could retain nothing that was given her except cracked ice, and for Ice! Ice! let! She was calling every few minutes; sho wasted to a skeleton, it seemed as if her bones would come through the ilesh. My wife caied ne to her side and said: 'Husband, I'm going to die. I havoju-t heard tho doctor say nothing could pave me. I believe h is right; at least. I am sure medicine cannot help inc. There is but ono doctor in the world that can help me, and I atu not sure that he can. Wid you get him for me?' 'Certainly I will, poor wife,' I said, 'but who is this phvsician?' Dr. It. C. Flower of Boston,' ehu paid ; I have known him to nearly rnise the dead, and I believe he can save me.' 'He is -a Christian or mental science healer,' I Faid. I believe so,' was her feeble reply, 'and that is what I want.' 'Well, I wasted no time in getting Dr. Flower. Without any ceremony he took a seat by her bed, placed one hand on her head and held her pulfe with the other. What do you most want?' he asked. 'To get well,' she eaid, 'for the pake of my little girls and my husband.' 'Be calm,' he aaid, 'don't worry, have faith. I tell you, you ha!l get well : in ten minutes you will be in a perspiration, in " aif an hour in a nound sleep.' Now, sir, what do you think, she suddenly stopped calling" for ice, in ten minutes she was wringing wet with perepiration, in twenty-five minutes in a sound slumber. As the doctor arove, lie said to me: 'Your wife is well, don't talk to her about ner eiekneps, she will soon recover her strength; let her eat what the want?.' She did rapidly recover her Mesh and strength, and is today perfectly well. ' "But this i not all," continued the old roan. "My niece had a goitre on her neck. Dr. Flower looked at it, talked to her a little while, and told her it would go away in eight days. It disappeared. Now," said the old man, "these things look like miracles, if such things ever were. Dr. Flower says there is no miracle abo il them, that it is a ecience, and one of the highest sciences known." Dr. Flower is a doctor who cured the railroad president, who raised from death the sou of Byron Woodward, and ha3 startled by his miraculous cures the world for the last fifteen years. I visited Dr.Flower at his beautiful offices, o5'J Columbuvave. ; I lonr.d him in the same genial mood everybody findd him, perfectly well, perfectly happy, and with a faith in the power to heal in mental or Christian ecienco ho strong that you can feel it when you comointo bis presence. "Then you are a mental or Christian scientist," I said. "Well, you can call it so," was his reply. "You claim to be able to cure the sick better without than with medicine," I eaid. "Certainly," was his reply. "Will tt.e cure be as permanent?" I said. "Much more so," was his answer. Rising to his feet, he said: "top, young man, we go to the root of the dbeiee, we remove the cause; when medicine fails, we cure, and cur cures our lasting. I would rather have a patient given up by the doctors as incurable, because then we readily show the power of the'ecience." "Will you treat all kinds of diseases, docChildren Cry for

EVlandy Ellen and the Preacher.

Uncle Able Ilaverstick, Over on Sugar-crick, I a good provider. Has the best of everything He has, by Jing! From turkey-pullets to bard-cider. There's his daughter, Mandy Ellen, Used to eo with the school teacher. Till here comes Reverend Sammel Skellen, The new preacher; And, ot course, The pedagogue, he had to jog. All the gals in the neighborhood Waa arter the Beverend Sammel, From Mary Jane Sam an tha Wood To the widder, Sairy Cam' ell. Sift snap for Reverend Sam; Fer he had found One lone, con-tin-u-al round Of marmalade an' pie an' jam. One day the preacher-chap. On an invite by Manny Ellen's pa1 Drapped in to diue. Seemed to be olf his fced The pious man was spiled He'd run the gamut; ev'rything From fried to briled An' now began to heed his btoxach's whiae. Then Ellen poured the coffeeBright as a bird. He sort o chirruped up An' took a second cup An' then a third. That eve he did'nt go He stopped and popped: An' eo, Altho' it's ruther soon They'll marry now, come June. You ask the coffee-brand? Oh, ah I understand Perhaps you've gals yourself? I see, Why, 'twas the famous "IERSEY!" tor?" "Yes. to a certain extent, but I contine myself mostly to chronic diseases ; my specialty has always been chronic diseases." "You have assistants to help you. doctor?" "The best in the world." "So it absent, your work would go on?" "Just the same. "Will you take trips to tho West and South, as you used to?" "Ye?, sometimes." "Will you continue to examino the sick, as you have always done, by telling them their diseases, without asking them any questions?" "Juft the same, for it is worth everything for mo to know tho cause of my patient's trouble." "Can you treat patients at a distance without having seen them?-' "Certainly, many of my greatest cures have been made this way, but I would always rather see my patient rirpt." "When you aismiss a patient do you give him directions how to live?" "Always, and directions if be follows bo is not likely to be over bick, ever be unhappy, or even worry." "I should think you would form classes and teach others your ideas, that they may Leal as you do." "This I intend to do." For the past seven weeks I have investigated Dr. K. C. Flower's work in a most critical manner. There are two Drs. Flower, Drs. Ii. C. and A. II., brothers, associated together, aud are without doubt, if facts prove anything, the greatest healers on this earth. The older Dr. Flower is Dr. R. C, who has startled the world for years by his diagnosis of diseases without asking the patient any questions. His patieuts are all over the country, w est, northwest, south, southwest. He has upward ot seven hundred patients in the Btate of Texas alone. At the oflices of the Drs. Flower, öö'J Columbus-ave., Boston, crowds of patients can be seen at any time. These patients are from every section of tho country, and from other countries. Many of these patients are cured immediately, while olhersseem toreotuire months of treatment, but it is a phenomenal sight to eee the wav these desperate and tupposed incurables are cured. With tho Drs. Flower are associated other phy&icians aud metaphysicians, in fact, from mental healimr to medicine there irf some ono capable of doing everything known to cure tbe sick who visit this modern Mecca. Dr. R. C. Flower has entirely given up the ubo of medicine. To use his own woriis he would give his patient medicine if he thought he needed it, but that he can cure the sick and dving quicker and better without medicine than with it, hence the change. Dr. lt. C. Flower occasionally makes a professional visit through the Somh and Webt. Durinsr these times his brother, Dr. A. II. Flower, is at the ollice, i. e.. both of thera never leave tho oflice at the same time. Mrs. Hoed, a prominent lady of Attloboro, Mass., came hurriedly into Dr. Flower's tfice, on the If.th of January and asked for an interview. "Well," eaid the doctor, "what can I do for you?" "My father is dyinar." she said. "The doctors have given him up, and just informed us he can live but a few hours ; bis life is sinking away. Oh! can't you and won't you rHve hitu?" "Don't get worried," eaid Dr. Flower, in a teeming inditlerent way, "tell me about your father." She did" so. "Go home," said the doctor, "without any anxiety or worry, I will take care of your father; be will improve by midnight." That evening Dr. Flower received a telegram "Father is no better." lie replied, "Your father is better. You wül see tho chsnge before morning." The next morning she sent a teleirram "Father lins changed for tbo better." The day following "Father is still improving. From that time this old gentleman has Steadily improved, and is to-day well. "How did vou cure this man, doctor?" I aeked a few dayB ago. "I cannot tell you," was his reply, "and if I did you would not understand it." Mrs. Lawson of 2 Oxford terrace, this city, called on Dr. R. C. Flower a few months ao to bo treated for rupturo. Her case was a very bad case, and she had worn for twenty-five years a very large truss; this truss she was unable to lay aside for one minute without great sußering. Dr. Flower stated that he would rather not take the case, as euch cases generally required a long treatment, and he was overcrowded with critical cases. The woman insisted that ho do what he could for her, that she had known of many of his cures, and felt sure he could help her if he would. "Well," Baid Dr. Flower in an earnest tone of voice, "I will do for you what I can ;" then he added: "Next Wednesday lay your truss away; you will not need it any more." The woman began to remonstrate. "Stop," said tho doctor, "you will be well at the time I eay." On the day named by the doctor she took her truss olF, and, to her surprise, and the surprise of her friends, that monstrous rupture across the bowels was closed and she baa been well ever aince. Mrs. Mary E. Young, wife of a prominent business man of Bangor. Me., telegraphed Dr. IL C. Flower, Dec. 12. ISOl.as fo.lows: "My little girl is just alive with typhoid fever, has been given tip as dying; oh, can't you save ber?" Am quick oa thought Dr. Flower's answer flashed over the wire to Bangor: "Hold; I will save Pitcher's Cactorla;

Good coffee is the foundation of many a romance.

Jersey Mandy Ellen made good coffee because she had the choice berry from which to make it. Jersey Is the choicest selected berry (browned not ground) and put up by the t DAYTON SPICE HILLS CO. Frank S. Fishback, Manufacturers' Agent for Iodiana. your child, have no fear; she will begin to improve immediately you receive this answer," and strange as it may seem the scepter of death was broken at the little girl't bedside that very hour. Upon tho receipt of Dr. Flower's telegram a change took plsce. That seem r.g corpse and withered skeleton began to show eigns of life, and so much so that the mother was inspired to send Dr. Flower a second telegram: "My taby is heiter," and out of the shad. -8 of death this little girl arose most speedily into perfect health. Thea Aro ("old Facta. I present them as theyexi-t: I might recite hundreds if I had tiu:e. What does it mean? How does this man perform these cures? That he docs do and is doing eo all tbe time no one can deny. How he does these things he declines to say, an i how no one can tell. I have seen him touch a tumor and if shrinks, while in other cases it would taka months of different kinds of treatment to remove it. I have seen dv.er.s come to Ids office on crutches, and go away well, while in other cases it has taken months of faithful treatment to give them the usa of their limbs. I knew a woman who consulted Dr. Flower about a largo stone ccucer in he I breast. The doctor touched it and then turning wav, said: "it will never trouble you atrain." I saw the woman eight day after and the cancer had entirely gone. I have had the pleasure of witnessing Dr. Fiower examine mum eighteen or twenty people, all t-trnnirers to him. In every instance he has described each person's disease in detail better then the per eon could have told him. Dr. Flower i.s never excited over any cane, and never eeeins to think that a serious case is harder to cure than a simple trouble. One thing is turo: he is demonstrating that the terms of sickness are m the terms they ona were, an 1 the füclc man can safely "reel that if help fails bim elsewhere that still there is hope. The It. C Fiower medical company of Boston, carry on in the mo.-t extensive and marvelous way the work of healing. Fyery kind of treatment known is given by some one connected with the company. From my investigations I am convinced, by the brain and sitill employed, by the facilities for doing, and the result of my daily obeerv;tions for weeks, that the Drs. F.ower and tln-ir associates cure the supposed incurables of every kind of chronio disease in the most marvelous and speedy manner and in a way lü'erent from anything known in modern times. Theso doctors never treat anything hut chronio diseasen, but in the treatment ot such diseases they are tho greatest physicians oa this earth. Anyone interested in these inarvelong cures should nend to Dr. Flower for hij pamphlet entitled "Health. Il.ippir.ess and Youth," which is sent free of charga on receipt of "-cent stamp. It will do every one good and should levl tho sick and dying into new conditions of health and life. THE REACTIONARIES. Their Attempt to Setilie Wri locratlo Tart l'.ock. To tiif Fimoi: Sir: The opposition to Mr. Cleveland revives the situation which existed from the close of the war up to tha election of Mr. Cleveland in 188 i. During the period named the democratic party had been prostituted by association with every ism which w as the outgrowth of the general dissatisfaction of the peopla with the political pituation. The Randalls. Gortnans and Barnuraj were protection democrats and voted against their party. They defeated Gen. Hancock in 1SS0 by inducing him to w rite the letter wherein be stated that the tarilf w as a local isaue. Mr. Cleveland brought the party in lino on that question, and with him as its standard bearer there will b no standing still or going back. But as t -on as Hill, Gorman And company thought they saw an opportunity to defeat Cleveland the straddle ou the issues which are vital to the existence of the democratic partr began to show Hstsif, and no one can tell todav just where the anti-Cleveland fao tion'will etand on any of the questions' now before the people. The election of Mr, Crisp as speaker was the first move in their program, and as they knew just where to bud Mr. Milie they had no use for him. Hence, with the election of their speaker they opened fire all along the line on Mr. Cleveland, but sad to state for their cause, they com' menced too Boon and overworked theii campaign, giving the people time to think and the reaction has set in. Deny it as they may, the anti-Cleveland movement in our state is in charge of th4 Hill spoilsmen. Yours truly, Fort Way ne, April i. F. S. O'Kolkkb. Tl Kot. C. F. Hrooka Says that his little eirl is troubled with malaria very severely, and that since he gave her Sulphur Bitters h never thinks of leaving New York for bis summer resort without a few bottles, for they always cure his family, and are far euperior to quinine. The McKinley tarüT, arranged eo thai everybody can understand it, will be found in The Sentinel's "Indiana Alraa-C nacforl62." Price 25 ccota.

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