Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 May 1895 — Page 3

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8. K MacConnell Healed toy Dr. Still, Founder of Osceopathy. (From Council Bluffs Nonpareil.) S. P. MacConnell was injured in getting off a motor car about ten months ago. Since that time he has been d cripple, it being thought that his knee was permanently injured. He was treated here at Council Bluffs and spent two months in one of the leading Chicago hospitals, but failed to get any relief. Two weeks ago he went to Kirksville. Mo., to undergo treatment at the institution of Dr. Still. Sunday he returned home almost cured, being able to walk without crutches, which he had been using almost continuously for ten months. Mr. MacConnell's recovery is almost miraculous, and the satisfaction he feels over his cure is only second to the gratitude he has toward Dr. Still. In speaking of his case Mr. MacConnell said: "My cure is only one of hundreds that Dr. Still is making. He is an old gentleman, 65 years old, and the founder of a new school of the healing art known as "osceopathy." The doctor has made a special study of the human body and ts perhaps the greatest anatomist in the United States. He uses no drugs, but cures by manipulation. No sooner lid he see my injury than he pronounced it a partial dislocation of the Mp. He at once set the limb and in a day or two my crutches were useless. The score of doctors I consulted previous to this diagnosed my injury as of the knee, and you can judge my surprise when I found my hip was injured instead. Dr. Still has a large institution with 30C patients at present. He also has a college with 100 students where his advanced anatomical theories are taught." Mr. MacConnell left yesterday for Kirksville again to take a further course of manipulation to restore the muscles of his limb, which were badly wasted from the disease of the member. Kirksville is located on the Wabash railroad, 205 miles from St. Louis, 186 miles from Kansas City, and 155 miles from Des Moines. Sleep the Great Beautlfier. Women who sleep a great deal and comfortably, who are addicted to cat naps and regard nine hours of wholesome rest as absolutely requisite to their physical well-being are' the women who defy the frosting hand of time. These are the women whose eyes remain the brightest and cheeks the rosiest for the longest period after the bloom of youth has fled. No less notable a beauty than Diane de Poictiers, who retained her irresistible loveliness until her 70th year, recognized the value of sleep as a preventive of wrinkles. Indeed, so fearful was she of losing a moment of perfect rest that, mistrusting the beds of her friends, she carried her own with its splendid fittings on all her journeys. v la Effect May 19. Remember the new service on the Nickel Plate road goes into effect May 19th. Afternoon train will leave Chicago at 1:30 p. m., arrive Cleveland 11:30 p. m., Buffalo 6. o'clock a. m. 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LITERARY LIGHTS. Swinburne is 58 years old, is flva feet high, and has a ghastly face and a head of unkempt hair. Aubrey Beardsley, it is said, has written a play in which the characters are to assume, as far as possible, the forms and features of his drawings. Walter Besant won't write a line under the settled rate of 10 guineas ($52.50) per thousand words, and none of the publishers has struck against it. According to the Bookmah the best sentence in Ibsen's new play is this: "Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad." The pleasant discovery has just been made at Galashiels, Scotland, of over a hundred letters written by Sir Walter Scott to Mr. Craig, the banker. The letters were discovered in a box filled with archives of the old Leith bank. A reproduction in a lasting material of the brain of the late Prof. Von Helmholtz has been made by Dr. Berliner of Berlin. The physicians who examined the brain considered it one of the most remarkable they had ever seen or heard of. George du Maurier and Alma Tadema were students together at Antwerp, and in those days resembled each other so closely that they were hardly distinguishable apart until Du Maurier lost the sight of an eye and began to wear blue spectacles. Mrs. Marie Robinson-Wright, the Mexican traveler and writer, received the highest price ever paid for a newspaper article $20,000 in gold, paid to her by the Mexican government for an illustrated article on Mexico in the New York World. The personal appearance of Jean Richepin, who is described as the most versatile genius in all France since the death of Victor Hugo, must impress the stranger who meets him for the first time. He is pictured as a tall, burly man, handsome in a brutal style, with a low brow, a thick neck, dilated nostrils and a general air of athletic calm.

TEXAS S1FTINGS. -1 -J' A matter of course dessert. Poor Wales feels that his life is throne away. Speaking of detectives, isn't the sun a great shadower? People who live in flats are apt to be annoyed by sharps. You cannot always tell the amount of gas in a poem by its meter. It is the clerk of the weather who frequently makes a signal failure. Poets take in the beauty of nature. Their wires take in washing. The yachtsmen ought to be thoroughly familiar with sheet music. The fraudulent gas mter must gobut that is exactly what it does. Whatever Noah's shortcomings, he knew enough to go in when it rained. A man can hardly be expected to foot a bill without a little kicking about it. "The race is not always to the strong," said the colored man who came in last. The great difficulty about advice is the predominance of quantity over quality. Gossips are not egotistical; they find more pleasure in talking of others than of themselves. To remove stains from clothing use benzine. To remove stains from the character use "sugar." A horse may win a race by a bare neck, and it is possible lovers may be so won at a fashionable ball. In some houses were boarders are kept the weakness of the coffee is often offset by the strong butter. "Miss Smart has accepted that young fellow who was paying her attention. Is he rich?" "Didn't 1 say she had accepted him" Things one would rather have expressed differently: PhotographerPlease look a little pleasant, miss. I know it's hard, but it's only for a moment! OUT OF THE ORDINARY. London manufactures $10,000,000 worth of umbrellas annually. A fashion correspondent says that snake skins are to be used as a trimming. The best parallel case of natural immunity from disease is said to be that afforded by the rat. Siberian women are raised as abject slaves, untidy in dress, and are bought with money as cattle. Paper is being used as an insulating agent for three main telephone wires that are being laid in Nottingham. There are ten "fruit schools" in France, where pupils are instructed practically how to cultivate and husband fruits. Species of snakes that are enemies of one another in captivity will coil up into their winter sleep in the same bundle. The Italian government has hit upon a rifle which, it is said, will send a bullet through five inches of solid oek at a distance of 4,000 feet. The hygienic congress at Buda-Pesth brought out the fact that there are four times as many men who stammer as there are women who are so afflicted. According to the transactions of the Cremation society, the disposal of the dead by burning is making a slow but steady progress in England. STUB ENDS. Frowning down a good cause is the modern way of stoning Stephen. The devil never expects to be hurt by the fellow who rides two horses. No one will ever shine in conversation who thinks of saying fine things. The man who is too nice to help in clean politics is too nice for the world. A dead beat that is hatched from laziness is of few days and full of trouble. Some men will "bet you ten dollars" when they are at the end of their argument. Give the conceited man all the road; the more he spreads the less he deceives. The man who becomes a successful hypocrite has to work at it every day in the week. There is no place like home, and that is why so many men spend their evenings down town. Hate is two points with poison tipsone toward your enemy and the other toward yourself. P.ill collectors pay little attention to the rules of etiquette, they never wait till a call is returned. A good, frugal, sensible wife is the best savings bank a spendthrift can gei. It is a- safe investment.

A PATHETIC SCENE.

A TRAMP DECORATES A PAUPERS GRAVE. "Ono Flower for Seven Oaks anil One for Malvern Hill, a Hunch for Old Antietata and Tears for a Nameless Tomb." HE LITTLE country churchyard at was filled with the good-hearted villagers who had gathered there to do reverence to the dead heroes. Upon the mounds, marked by little flags, whose stars and stripes fluttered in the soft breezes that dallied with the whispering leaves, flowers and wreaths were laid in profusion, commemorative of the love the living bore for the dead, sleeping so peacefully below. Kind words had been uttered by the good old preacher, whose long, white hair swept about his head as he lifted his face toward the blue, cloud-fleeced sky and asked God to bless the loved ones who gave up lue for the cause of right, and for all the dead who had taken part in the great struggle of war. And when the flowers were laid upon two graves lying close side by side, the tears gathered in the gentle old man's eyes as he recalled the pair of handsome sons who had gone from the quiet parsonage years ago to dye with their heart's blood the vernal sod of the sunny south. And now all was over and done, and the good people departed, leaving behind a few scattering ones walking among the narrow paths of the quiet churchyard, whose silence was broken alone by the twittering of birds among the rustling leaves. A man with wild, unkempt hair straggling about his bronzed, weather-beaten face, stood upon the outside, leaning with crossed arms upon the white picket fence. His clothes were ragged and dirt-stained: HERE'S A his shoes were battered, out at the toes, down at the heels. He was a dilapidated specimen of humanity, a voyager upon life's troubled stream, drifting from point to point as purposeless as a bubble upon the crest of a wave. His eyes were fixed intently upon one corner of the churchyard where briars and bushes covered in tangled masses a few mounds. "Forgotten again. Poor old pard! They mean well, but they don't finish the work." The words fell from the lips of the strange man in soft, low whispers. From a pocket of the ragged coat he drew a bit of red cloth and wiped away the tears that rolled down the seamed face. He walked around to the entrance and passed through the little turnstile. No one noticed the poor, ragged fellow who slowly wended his way along the narrow pathways toward the tangled coi ner of the churchyard. When he reached the spot he took off his hat and stood there with bowed head, gazing mournfully before him. Then he reached out his hand and pulled the briars and bushes aside and bent forward. "Just as I thought. Forgotten. They didivt know you. old pard. They didn't know how brave you was in time of war. There is no flag to mark your grave. They didn't know how proudly you carried the stars and stripes above you at Malvern Hill." The birds in the bushes were not disturbed by the stranger's whispered tones. There was something so quieting in the softened tones that the little birds hopped about among the brances so near that his trembling hands could have touched them. The man gathered a bunch of violets from the grass near the fence, and then went back to tbe brambles and pulled them aside. "Here's a pretty blossom, pard, for the cake of Seven Oaks; here's another for Lookout Mountain, where you was great, here's four or five for Malvern Hill, where you was a hero a nation could be proud of; and here are all the others for Antietam and other places, where you moved with the front line and never backed from your duty. And my tears are for your long days and longer nights spent in the career of a tramp who died a pauper soldier." The stranger turned away and walked with bent head out of the graveyard. He passed on down the village street, looking neither to right nor left; and when he reached the brow of the hill beyond he turned toward the peaceful town, waved his hand, whispered "Forgotten," and then he disappeared. When the straggling ones in the churchyard drew near the pauper's corner they wondered whose grave there had been strewn with violets, and they wondered who had placed them there; but the little birds among the brambles knew, an 3 they kept the secret to themselves. To attack a man with any weapon Is a serious matter in Madagascar. It is punishable by death.

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BLUE AND GRAY.

Their Only Rivalry Now Is In Honoring Dead Heroes. Memorial day preserves its holy and sacred associations because it mingles into one, the highest, noblest and most grateful feelings of which mind and heart aud memory are capable. The gleam of joy is seen through the mist of tears. Flowers bloom and birds are highest up in the air, yet the funereal dirge is heard and the flowers are placed on tombs and over mounds where He the dead sleeping death's reconciling embrace. This rain upon the river and sunshine on the hill are a salutary mingling. For it is good for us to sorrow, and yet to sorrow with hope chasing away our tears. We cannot forget the past. What ingrates should we be even if we could. Nor can we be blind to the present. To perceive it is our duty. The tear for the past is in the eye, the joy for the present lights up the very tear with a radiance born of heaven. Memorial day is to be observed by Americans in all time because it commemorates our dead. It matters not now on which side they fell. They sleep together; and when summoned by the angel will awake together and be brothers for evermore. A reverent silence prevails as we put on every mound its garland. Who asks whether they wore the blue or the gray? We do not know, nor do we want to know, as we traverse the battlefields from whose verdant faces nature has wiped the track and stain of bloody conflict. Some boy, precious to woman, mother, wife, sweetheart, waited and waited and waited. He never came, so she went to him. The south and the north weep together. Their only rivalry is that of loving duty to the heroes gone. Let not a word of faction disturb the solemn tasks of mutual grief on a day which is a day of God. Although the graves of our revolutionary soldiers, of those of 1812, and of Jackson's warriors at New Orleans, may be difficult to discover, one could wish they should all shax-e the honors of the day. And many a gallant sailor boy is buried fathoms deep in ocean caves, and on the lakes where Perry swept to victory, and around the coasts of our southern clime. But BLOSSOM." though buried beyond our reach of hand, they are none of them beyond our hearts' affections. And every wreath on every American soldier's or sailor's grave is our tribute to one and all and all in one. Decoration Day. Shoulder to shoulder, heart 'to heart, eyes to the front, the men in blue marched together thirty years ago. The shoulders bore muskets; the hearts were like those of lions in their bravery; the eyes looked forward without flinching to the chance of suffering and death. And shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, eyes to the front, the men in blue will march together May 30. The shoulders will again bear muskets, but their harmless muzzles will hold bouquets instead of bullets; the hearts, still brave, will be filled with the tenderness of weeping women rather than the fury of fight; the eyes will look forward through a film of tears to the gra es where lie the men who fell in r.-iae w v i v . t av I those long past battles; to the last resting places of comrades who, escaping the dangers of war, have since dropped by the wayside at the call of peaceful death. Heroes all! All honor to thorn.' Make way! w i .u y lie me ruber the Soldierj. Remember the soldiers, children. Remember them all with flowers! Theirs was the battle and theirs the pain, Ours is the peace and ours the gain; Theirs was the sowing, the harvest ours And all we can give them today is flowers ! Decoration Day. A china decorator May is named. And pretty cups she paints, though all unfamed. Asked little Flo: "What shall you paint today?" "Nothing at all, my darling," answered May ; "I thought you'd paint a lot today," said Flo "Because it is Memorial day, you know!" That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln.

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