Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 45, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 May 1885 — Page 4

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

PTJBLJCATIOH OMCB,

Was. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing Howe Square.

TERRE HAUTE, MAY 2 1885.

F. D. MUSSKY, the Cincinnati Gazette's correspondent, has been over West Vir ginia and expresses tbe opinion that the Republicans can carry tbe State at tbe next election. Tbis is largely dne to tbe divisions in tbe Democratic ranks.

Six American ocean steamers have been chartered by tbe English govern ment for use in event of war witb Russia. Tbey will be refitted and employed as fast cruisers. Tbey have been hired for not less tban six months at a rental of about f100 000 per month for them all. Thus does America profit by tbe belligerency of her trans-atlantic neighbors.

Iif tbe death of ex-governor Baker, 'which occurred at his home in Indiana polls last Tuesday afternoon, tbe State has loftt a valuable and upright citizen While be bad not been notably prominent in public affairs for tbe last few years proceeding bis death bis influence upon tbe politics of tbe State bas been Important and always for good. There has never been a clearer, more upright and just man in tbe public affairs of tbe Stale tban was Mr. Baker, and he en Joyed tbe respect and confidence of tbe (eople without respect of party.

PATTI'S farewell night at tbe Academy of Music in New York, was a great and touching ovation. After the close of the opera, she was repeatedly recalled and walked across tbe stage throwing kiaees to all parts of the house and pressing her bands to ber heart. On the sixth recall she sang "Home, Sweet Home" witb such emotion that there were many wet eyes in tbe audience. It is thought she may ever appear again on tbe operatic stage of New York. If tbis shall prove to be so she has certainly gone out in a blaze of glory.

THH country reads with pleasure tbe daily reports of Gen. Grant's improving health. Tbe sixtj-third birthday of tbe old soldier occurred on last Monday, rand tbe anniversary was celebrated in a .public manner in many places throughout tbe country. All will bojje that be -will live another score of years but the chances are probably against his living one. The disease in his throat, whatever it be, is still severe and aggressive. His system has been greatly weakened by H, and If tbe drain upon his vital foroes cannot be stopped there is little hope for any protracted lease of life.

IT IS pleasant to read that the measures for preventing cholera recommended by tbe national board of health are being generally adopted throughout tbe country. In some places house-to-house lnspacllons are being maJe, and tbe health authorities are being strengthened by volunteer organizations. It is the duty of the citizens of every town and city in the country to see that nothing is neglected which ought to be attended to in this matter. There is real and imminent danger of a visit from the terrible scourge this summer, and there ought to be no delay ia preparing fot Its .reception. __________

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have had accounts from time to

He expects to winter in Persia and next eprlng will begin his route through the •Chinese empire. While In Persia he will have tbe opportunity, which he should not neglect, of making tbe acquaintance •of Hon. Baylesn W. Hanna, our distinguished minister to that country.

THK proportion of business failures eontlnwes to be much larger in the 'South and West than in other portlona of the country, but it does not follow from this that there is leas prosperity in those sections than elsewhere. Tbe fact may only Indicate that there is more activity and a greater number of new business ventures. It is natural to expect that where many business enterprieeaare undertaken there will be more failures than where the opposite state of aflaira exists. Of all such ventures a certain portion ends in failure always and everywhere, but where business is established and few enterprises are begun there should be a smaller per ceut. of failures.

ACCORDING to the Chicago Tribune the general result of tbe spring elections in Illinois was a sweeping victory for high license. Wherever high license was an inoe the Republicans took the affirmative and were aided by tbe high license Democrats, while tbe Prohiblbltioniats and low license Democrats, took the opposite side. JoUet, a strong Democratic city, re-enacted its »1.000 license for tbe third time. The law of Illinois permits towns and cities to fix the saloon tax at from

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pot it at the maximum figure,

and has reaped a substantial revenue from the tax which has been of great advantage to tbe dty in a financial way while the moral effect has been correspondingly good.

THERE is great indignation in Dakota over tbe recent proclamation of the president revoking the order of President Arthur which opened np tbe Crow creek county to settlement. Under tbe former order hundreds of settlers went in and took possession of lands. They claim that they thus gained a vested right to their homesteads, the first proclamation being intended as a final decision of tbe government in the mailer. Tbis argument ia not without force, and there is room for question as fo tbe right of our President to set aside and annul the orders made by his predecessor. Tbe safest rule would seem to be for each President to regard the acts of all his predecessors as final and conclusive, and not disturb them. Otherwise if be can undo the acts of his immediate predecessor why not those of a remote predecessor? The policy adopted by Mr. Cleveland will tend to uncertainty and instability in tbe ad ministration of tbe laws and should not bt encouraged.

THK Cincinnati Commercial Gazette complains at tbe great waste of time in examining and cross-examining witnesses in the criminal trials in that city. The writer asserts that tbe contentions over trivialities that do not affect tbe merits of tbe case in tbe minds of the jurors occupy so much time that cases which ought to be disposed of in a day take the time of the court for three or four days or a week. The same complaint could, with equal force, be made against similar practices in tbis and other cities. In fact court proceedings are very much tbe same the country over and, as a rule, very much more tedious and time-killing than there is any sense in their being. But tbis is true, as the Gazette writer suggests, that tbe more competent and experienced tbe lawyer tbe less inclined he is to run into irrelevanciesand load bis case with incidents which really have no bearing on the main question. It is tbe incompetent or inexperienced attorneys who sin so grievously in tbis respect.

THK Philadelphia Inquirer sensibly suggests that an association for promoting and increasing amusements would be productive of more good to tbe community than one for decreasing and circumscribing them. We have societies for furnishing work but none for providing amusements for supplying food and clothing for tbe poor, but they may really be more in need of recreation tban of something |to eat and wear. This is one sided. The.' bible says we shall not live by bread alone. Life is to have its bright as well as its dark side its sport as well as its work. Man shall not live by work alone. Observation will bear out the statement that those communities are happiest, most prosperous, most peaceable and most free from crime in which a large proportion of the people enjoy a reasonable amount of bright but harmless recreation. The long-faced, lugubrious tribe who never smile but set themselves against all kinds of amusements have outlived their time and should retire to the shades ef thepast.

EACH week brings some development in tbe European situation and the Indications are not favorable to peace. England repeated her demand upon Russia for a military inquiry into the Pendjeh affkir, the first request having been summarily refused. Meantime the war loan of fitty-flve millions asked for by Gladstone was promptly voted by parliament. Tbe Duchess of Edlnburg, a sister of tbe Czar, has written him a letter imploring him to avert a war, but

time of long rides on the bicycle, but *|,ja subjects appear to want it and the who would have thought that any one would ever go round the world on one? Yet tbis is what Mr. Thomas Stevens, the famous bicyclist, proposes to do. Having ridden from San Francisco to Boston, he has sailed thence for Liverpool and will travel on his machine through Europe and Asia.

Russian newspapers are disposed to urge affairs to the extremest limit. Indian sentiment Is also strongly for war. The European press genally regarded Gladstone's speech on asking the war loan as dispelling tbe idea that England will make any concessions to Russia and the recent sdvanoe of the Russians to and occupation of Merutcbak, Is 'considered In parliamentary circles to be conclusive of Russia's intention not to yield, but to push on and attack Herat. Both powers are perfecting their military preparations as fast as possible and the newspapers are filled with speculations as to probable alliances of the belligerents. There is a bare possibility that war may yet be averted, but the probabilities are all the other way.

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Journal of Commerce tells some "oold facts" about Florida which it would be well for a great many people to know. After describing the bleak, barren, sanddusty character of the country, he says the lover of scenery or the artist never finds in Florida anything for his purpose except in tbe dense swazips "where the luxuriant tanglesof vines hanging from trees over tbe black water, affords opportunity for the pencil but makes dangerous places for the life and health of the artists." Towns described in glowing terms in the guide books torn out to be stretches of sandy soil in the {dne forest, with a few hastily constructed small houses scattered along imaginary streets." Orange groves advertised for sale are often young trees which will not bear fruit for ten ysnn. The winds sre hot and filled with penetrating sand. The soil will yield if properly cultivated but an orange grove in Florida ia not worth more than an apple orchard in New England until its owner 1MS put into it years of hard work and much money. Indeed the writer oelleves that a good apple orchard pays a larger Interest on ita costs than the best orange grove. It is evident that some "tall lying" ia being done about Florida and hundreds of people who "go their finds

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

People live to a greater age on tbe average in New Hampshire than in any other State in the Union.

It is a bachelor who always knows how a child should be brought up, hut he forgets it after marriage.

John Swinton is close about the truth in saying that our Government has become a Government of lawyers, by lawyers, for lawyers.

A bell on tbe roof of a beer saloon at Bridgeport, Conn., is struck three times every time the proprietor has a fresh keg of beer tapped.

Amos A. Lawrence, ef Bostpo, is a member of twenty-seven oharltable organizations whose work is largely made neoessary by liquor.

Dr. Dallinger, tbe eminent London microscopist, has sat sixteen successive days at his microscope studying the motions of a bacillus.

Governor Leon Abbett, of New Jersey, preserves his digestive faculties by drinking a glass of orange juice every morning at breakfast, and lunching at noon on milk.

It is denied thatJ'OliverWendell Holmes carries a large horse chestnut in his pocket as a preventive of rheumatic pains." On the contrary, "no man on top of tbe Boston soil is freer from superstitions and delusions tban is tbe alert and active-brained Autocrat."

R. H. Newell, better known as Orpheus C. Kerr, who as a writer was once very popular, is now broken down, old and despondent. His family have oast him off, and be is obliged to see his manuscript, once so eagerly sought for, either coldly rejected or multilated beyond recognition.

They seem to be a little particular about funerals out in Arizona. "Tbe only thing to mar the pleasure of the occasion," writes one of tbe papers about a recent funeral, "was a little diffloulty between the clergyman and one of the mourners concerning the ownership of a flask found in the carriage they had occupied."

In Jamaica coffins are often brought to the house before the sick person is dead. Recently an American actor, who was traveling there, was taken sick at 10 A. x., and was buried at 4 the same day. His companion on the next day was taken ill at 3 A. X., and by 7 the same morning had begun his last long sleep in the cemetery just out of the town.

A story worth telling of the late lamented Prof. Charles O. Thompson illustrates bcth hia quickness of thought and marvelous memory. One morning some waggish Worcester students replaced the large chapel Bible with Webster's Dictionary, and tbe Professor, riding to officiate at prayers, read without an instant's hesitation along psalm from the dictionary page, to the utter confounding of tbe conspiracy.

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themselves sadly deceived and suffer grievous losses on account of it. Which illustrates what The Mail has often urged, that people cannot be t6o careful in getting reliable information about any new country before tbey move into it. Such a course will often prevent woful disappointment and heavy sacri fices of time, comfort and money. People are too apt to imagine that the better land is always somewhere else and when they undertake to find it they sometimes find instead that they have left the better country behind them and would be glad to get back to it again if tbey could. Frequently they do get back but much poorer than when they went away.

As Is well known tbe business of the country bas been in a very quiet condition for a year or more. A kind of stagnation has marked all branches of trade. Tbe movement of goods has been sluggish in consequence of which competition has made the margins of profit small. Men complain that they are not making enough, but our people have been spoiled. They expect too much. They are never satisfied unless there is a "boom" and booms do not last all the time. It is not tbelr nature to do so. We must learn to get slong without them to be satisfied witb smaller things. A leading western journal, which always discusses business affairs witb sound intelligence, expresses the conviction that if the manufacturers and dealers could make a little more on tbeir transactions and the comparatively small number of laboring people who are out of work could be employed, the country would now be in a model con dition. "It would be free from tbe evils of abnormal activity and yet nearly every producer would be able to save something." If this is the true situa tion we are the farthest possible from a panic. We are in fact down to "hard pan,J' 09 a solid basis and in a conditioa of real and safe prosperity. Tbe majority of business men are not getting rich very fast, but it is all tbe better that tbey should not be. Great booms are the forerunners of great panics.

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Of tbe eighty-one wholesale liquor dealers in Nashville, Tenn., sixty-eight are church members. The rest may be presumed to constitute a thirteen club.

AN INTERESTING BOOK.

TELLING ABOUT THE CURES OF DR. R. C. FLOWER, OF BOSTON.

Statements of Some of the Wonderful Cures Hade by This Extraordinary Practitioner—Many Ave So Marvelous that They Seem To Be

Almost Miraculous.

We published a short time ago quite a lengthy article about the professional work of Dr. R. C. Flower, of Boston We have recently come into possession of a pamphlet devoted to the life and work of Dr. Flower, giving numerous accounts of his

MIRACUI1OU8 CURES

sqd almost supernatural triumphsPover disease. We believe a review of the same would be highly interesting to our readers. The book reads more like fairy story than anything else, yet every claim and assertion is substantiated by numerous facts.

We publish below a number of extracts from this book, that our readers may know more of the doings of tbis wonderful physician, who seems to have stirred the earth with his professional triumphs from center to almost circumference. Tbe first chapter is a biographical history of the doctor, which starts out by saying:

For some years Dr. R. C. Flower has startled the eastern world, from time to time, by performing what has seemed miraculous or supernatural cures. One writer, in describing Dr. Flower's triumph in tbe sick-room, says:

Sickness is a toy in his bands in a most pheromenal way he sheds light into the darkened eye, life into tbe dying form, and robs the sick-room of its sufferer and the coffin of its prey."

Dr. Flower has been called to consult over important and bad cases from tbe Rockies to tbe Chesapeake, from Canada to the Rio Grande. His greatest ability is seen in desperate cases, and his mightiest feats and most miraculous cures at the death-bed Itself,

Or. Flower is a young man but 34 years of age, smooth face, medium size, very large head. He is a hard student, deep thinker, a man or remarkable quick perception and intuitional faculty,which are said to be^marvelous. "A phenomenal feature in his practice is his method of diagnosing disease. He never asks a patient his trouble, but tbe instant he takes the hand of a sick person be tells most accurately the disease in all its ramifications. This phenomenal phase of bis practice bas brought to him thousands upon thousands of patients, and it Is claimed that out of upward of 100,000 examinations he has never made a mistake. "In the business world Dr. Flower is as great a wonder as be Is In tbe practice of medicine. His intuitional powers in detecting the actual condition of the markets seem almost Infallible. If be buys stocks, they go up If he sells, they go down. He has made fortunes for many of his friends, and saved many from ruin. "He is a man of great individuality, a man of methods, and a man who, from all appearances, does the work of a hundredmen."

Following is an interesting biography of his professional career. Next Is a chapter upon his

MIRACULOUS CURES,

which reads more like the curing of the sick, making the lame walk, and tbe blind see of eighteen hundred years ago than anything else.

The chapter following, entitled "A MEDICAL WONDER," leads you still further into fascinating realms of what seems to be miraculous. Among these startling accounts and miraculous cures is recorded a case of a gentlemaa tor many years a sufferer visiting Dr. Flower, as a last resort, in search of health. As soon as Dr. Flower saw him he said: Xou have a live animal in your stomach, and one which belongs to a southern country. You must have pwallowed it many years ago."

The horror-stricken man replied: "I was afraid I had." He then stated that he was In tbe army, during which time he frequently drank from

POOLS IK THE FLORIDA SWAMPS, and shortly after leaving there he felt the creature, as the doctor described it, in his stomach, and that every minute of his life for the last fifteen years be had been in perfect dread, and pretty much all the time In great agony. Dr. Flower took charge of the case. It was soon apparent that tbe first remedy was a death-blow to tbe creature, and soon there began to pass away scales and bones ana pieces of feet. The man received almost Immediate relief, and Is to-day comparatively a w|U ag£ happy man.

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rofestionsl man In America Is better than this successful, energetic, skillful physician of the 'Hub.' "HIS PROFESSIONAL STANDING. "Professionally, Dr. Flower stands very high, and with tbe progressive and liberal physician is pre-eminently a leader. His opinion in very critical cases is regarded final. A distinguished Boston physician of forty years'practice said to your correspondent: *1 regard Dr. Flower the most wonderful of living physicians, and one of the most wonderful of men. Why, sir, I have called him at different times to see twenty-one of my patients after I bad regarded them as incurable, and furthermore, after I had submitted tbe esses to tbe best medical talent in the city, only to have them confirm my opinion, adding tbat life could last but a short time at longest. Well, oat of tbe twenty-one eases, Dr. Flower, after his examinations, pronounced four as incurable.' Reporter:

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did tbey die?' 'Yes

sir: tbe longest only lived one hour sod fifty minufes. Of tbe other seventeen, lie said in his judgment tbey would recover if certain treatment was observed. He suggested treatment I had never used, and in some instances never heard of. I followed tbe directions to the letter, and, to my surprise, every one of the seventeen patients got well. I tell you, sir, there is destiny in Dr. Flower's dlsgnosis of disease, be reads the internal condition of a patient the same as jou wosld an open book.'

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"Personally, Dr. Flower Is exceeding popular, and his friends being largely of the old, leading, and representative families of tbe east given him great strength at his home. He is a young man, having just passed bis thirtyfourth birthday, though to look Into bis clean shaved, suiillng face you would not judge blm over 25."

He then gives a number of cures performed by Dr. Flower, which would seem to vie with the miracles of olden times and were it not for the corroborating proofs and tbe parties themselves still living to testify to their truth, these seemingly extraordinary claims would not be admissible in living print.

We extract tbe following as a few from almost numberless cases cited, which will give our readers at least- a partial idea of Dr. Flower's almost su

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ernatural triumphs over disease aud

"A TOUCHING 8CENE

"One of tbe moat touching incidents I ever witnessed was that of a patient from or near Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. F. C. Bailey. She was a lovely little woman, 37 years of age, a perfect type of southern beauty. She was small and frail. Her difficulties were cancerous— one large and three lesser cancers In the left breast and one on tbe lip. She had been treated by four of the leading physicians of tbe south and west, each of which had given her case up as hopeless two of tbem staling that under the most favorable circumstances sbe could not live more tban sixty days. In addition to tbis sbe had a heart trouble, peculiar in the family, two sisters and ber mother having died with it. After making a thorough examination, Dr. Flower said: 'Well, madam, you will pardon me for being plain, but tbis is a time for extreme candor nearly all tbe chances are against your getting well there are, however, In myJudgment, a few chances lu your favor. 1 would very much rather not take your case, but if you still desire me to I will, though I can only promise to do for you the best I can.' 'This is all we can expect you to do,' said tbe husband, 'and with it, whatever tbe result is, we will be satisfied.' 'You are my

ONLY HOPE,'

continued tbe woman 'I bave come a long way to see you if you can't help me, I must go home to be eaten up by these horrid eaueere.' Then, bursting into tears, she sobbed: 'Ob, Bir, for my sake, for the sake of my husband, for tbe sake of my six little children, ob won't you save m©?' This was more than tbe doctor coaJd stand. He fairly broke down, notwithstanding be sees such a variety of touching scenes every day. He paced tbe room In a thoughtful, uervous manner, breaking bis fingers through bis well-combed and even locks. Then, taking a seat by tbe sufferer, ber band gently in bis, be said 'Don't cry, dear woman put your truBt implicity and lovingly In a higher, wiser and stronger power than tbat of earth. I will stand between you and death at any cost, and by tbe aid of the unseen, summoning to tbe rescue all the powers I have and can draw, I will break death's scepter sv that his spear shall not hurt thee.

These, Mr. Editor, are facts given In an unvarnished way this is an exhibition of his powers. Call it what you may, but when it comes to a man standing in the presence of a dying patient, all eaten up and racked with pain, making a prophecy as to tbe future of tbe

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MIRACLES, IF SUOH THINGS ARE, written by the editor of tbe Boston Traveller, (which is one of the largest, most reputable, and conservative journals of tbe east,) after the most thorough investigation of Dr. Flower and bis practice, must always be, at least to tbe sick, a most interesting collection of facts. He savs: "The readers of Tbe Traveller are well acquainted with tbe name of Dr. R. C. Flower, of Boston, Mass. In fact no

and then go to work and fulfill

Is own prophecy, which Is apparently the changing of natural and inevitable events, I say when it comes to a man doing this constantly, it calls for tbe honest investigation of tbe public rather tban sneering criticisms from professional rivals.

He closes his thorough and critical investigation of Dr. Flower and his practice as follows: "I HAVE HERB GIVEN A vast and wonderful accumulation of facts pertaining to Dr. Flower and his cures. They are facts, oold, solid facts, and they are as startling ass voice from death. "From the crowds which throng bis spacious offices, No. 1762 Washington street, corner of Chester park, you might infer that all tbe siok or the world were seeking at bis bands relief. Whether the theory of many, 'that Dr. Flower holds the key of life,' is true or not, V*~

THIS IS TRUE

that he changes in almost a miraculous manner tbe sick bed into a bealtb couch, robs death of its spoil by saving annualthousands from a premature grave. happy patients thus mysteriously cured live in every land, aud upon these ful homes the sun never sets." _he rest of the book is devoted to Dr. Flower's methods of treatment of hia occasional journeys south and W6st for the purpose of seeing such patients as li 'professional interview yet 1 unable to make tbe journey to Boston also, a number of testimonials, representing many of tbe prominent and leading characters of the west. Among these testimonials we notice the strong indorsement of J. Willard Rice, of Boston, ex-mayor of the city, and brother of

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Rice, and head of tbe great

manufacturing firm of Rice, Kendall A Co. Mr. Rice saysj "I have known Dr. Flower intimaUgr for years. He is highly educated and cultured man, andl know personally of

MANY REMARKABLE 00RRS,

both of ladies and gentlemen, effected by Dr. Flower, whom I unhesitatingly

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tbat for the sake of tby home, thy tears, and for tbe sake of tby helpless babes, thou shalt get well." These were terrible words, and upon the ears of all they fell like words from the sky. If tbey were idle words, tbey were mockery if true, tbey seemed more tban the voice of man. Immediately he commenced the treatment, and faithfully was It attended to, and In ten weeks and two days every cancer was removed clear and clean from the breast and one from the lip. and the heart trouble well under control, and to-day she Is in excellent health.

Another wonderful caacer cure was that of Mrs. W. H.. Shaw, of Portland, Me. This philanthropic woman is well known tnroughout the east, and by ber friends as well as ber physicians was regarded for some time as incurable. Dr. Flower with such skill removed the three large cancers as well as thoroughly cleansed ber system that many regarded tbe cure miraculous. Mrs. Shaw told your correspondent that she wished every sick person in the world knew what Dr. Flower had done for her, and what he can do and is doing every day "by," continued this enthusiastic lady, "look what he has done for me. I came to bim nearly dead, to-day I am in better health than I have been since early life he snatched me from tbe jaws of death, and cured me of my diseases with theease tbat a March wind would lift a straw. I tell you, sir, he is a remarkable man. To come into his presence is health to touch his band is cure." Dr. Flower's patients are numbered by thousands. Tbis may sound loud, but It Is true. He has thousands of patients all tbe time.

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declare to be a wonderful physician, an elegant gentleman, and a valuable friend." From the careful reading of tbis book it will be seen tbat Dr. Flower held tbe key of life and death at least in many instances when hops everywhere else had failed tbat h'a ability to detect disease, let It be ever so subtle and hidden, is.more than tbe nataral, and his power to cure tbe most hopeless cases, even in death's shadows, smacks strongly of the supernatural. Though in justice to Dr. Flower we should say he docs not claim there is any thing supernatural about bis work. Bearing upon this subject, we will quote Dr. Flower's own words: "Supernatural? No, sir I make no such claim. Such belongs to the readers of the divine." "Then, doctor, how do you account *or the cures you are performing daiWT" "Your qurstion is one I would ratber not answer. Tbat I cure where others fail, that I make the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk ,and tbat I rescue from death's jaws the sick and dying when abandoned by all others and tbe last vestige of faith has died upon the altar of a blasted hope, is a fact known to tens of thousands who are living witnesses of these cures."

Tnis exciting and interesting little book, giving orie! history of a more exciting and interesting character, is published by J. Hart Brittain, No. 32 Hawley street, Boston, Mass., and will be sent free to anyone sending a 2-cent stamp. It should be in tbe hands of every sick person. It should be read by every one in health.—[Baltimore American.

THE ACME RENOVATOR. This is anew process for cleaning earpets now being introduced here by George Atherf on A Co., and so far has given the greatest satisfaction. It does the work thoroughly, cleaning the earpet and restoring the colors without removing the same from tbe floor, and Is de-itined to do away witb the old fashioned way of banging tbe carpet on a line and knocking it to pieces witb a club. The Acme contains no add, ammonia or benzine, it is composed of strictly pure vegetable materials, and will not barm In the least the hands, face, leetb, mouth or the finest fabrlo made as Is evidenced by tbe following

Ross POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, CeuMicAL LABORATORY THRUIS BAUTE, Ind. April 20. I have examined a sample of tbe "Acme Renovator" submitted to me by Messrs. Atherton A Co., and find it to have no injurious action upon the fibres of carpet material. I believe it perfectly safe to use.

WALTER J. KEITH, Assistant in Chemistry.

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