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would.” Said I, “Write it out and send it to
tlie Trustees.” With merry face he re
plied, “They’ll receive more letters than
they can read without mine.” But if all
reason so, who will be left to write? And
what becomes of individual responsibility ?
And what, eventually of our Mercer ?
And, brethren, allow me to insist that we
write the plain, unvarnished truth, without
fear or fawning. Much has been said and
written on this subject that is now ex neces
sitate rei before us, in strains eloquent and
terms complimentary, which may serve to ad
vance the populaiity of the writer or speak
er, but will do Mercer no more good than
so many eloquent compliments showered
upon a ragged and starving man. Let us
have done with gush ; and with a candor and
courage becoming us as men, as Baptists,
as Christians and as those professing loyal
ty to the lofty interests now trembling in
the balance, let us, over our own signatures,
give the record of the facts we see and
know and talk, into the hands of our
noble Board and thus roll upon them
the responsibility of deciding foror against
Mercer’s good. This will give them the
vantage ground they have the right to claim,
and will put them in possession of all the
facts they need in order to best serve the in
terests of their sacred ward. And we can
not doubt that they will come bravely to
their work, and, standing upon convictions
resulting from the combined testimony of
the brotherhood and their own observations,
they may be safely expected to rectify all
wrongs, remove from Mercer the incubus
that rests upon her and pledge her afresh for
loftiests flights of honor and usefulness.
Then should they fail—which we neither
suspect nor sea case will revert to the
Convention and on its floor the indispensa
ble work should have to be done.
If the trustees purpose to formally invite
correspondence, we respectfully suggest that
the invitation be published at the earliest.
God bless and sanctify this effort to reju
vernate and refructify this grandest heritage
of Georgia Baptists transmi ’ted from the
fathers. E. R. Carswell, Jr.
P. S. It is worthy of a postscript to urge
that there be one unanimous resolution to
heal not one only, but all Mercer’s mala
dies ; and then administer the perpetual con
ic of money and patronage and attentions
every way, without which thesurgical treat
ment now in process will result, after all, in
the weakening—mayhap, in the death of the
patient. E. R. C., Jr.
Notice.
To the Members of the Churches composing the
Smyrna Association:
Dear Brethren and Sisters : I avail my
self of the columns of the Index, to call your
attention to the meeting of the Executive
Committee to take placeatNew Hope church
on Saturday before the 2nd Sabbath in
June, near Bro. James R. Smith, Coffee co.,
Ga., relative to missionary work in our
bounds. It is the desire of the Executive
Committee that those who made pledges at
our last Association, send their contribu
tions to our treasurer, J. M. Nelms, by that
time. Knowing also that many others of
our good brethren and sisters are fully as
able and willing to aid in the cause as those
who made pledges—their contributions, it is
hoped, will be forwarded by the time the
committee meets, so that they may know
what to rely on. The committee are anxious
to employ two ministers to travel, one in the
eastern and the other in the western parts of
our bounds if sufficient means are raised to
sustain them, but do not think it best to
venture far on the credit system.
H. D. O’Quin, Member of Ex. Com.
Nashville, Berten Co., Ga. May ‘list 1883.
Home News of the Week.
Saturday, May 19th.—Two hangings in
Georgia yesterday, a negro at Waycross and
a white wife-murderer at Lexington
George Quino, charged with burglary, com
mitted suicide in the Malone, N. Y. jail.
The young, handsome and cultured
wifeof Frank Zimmerman, an artist of N. Y.,
became insane, killed her twelve year old
daughter and tried to kill her mother yester
day Failures for the week 171; in
New England States 25, Middle, 24, South
ern 30, Western 56, Pacific 12, NY City 7,Can
ada 17. Loss of $13,000 by a Nashville,
Tenn., fire and of $50,000 by a Staffordville,
Conn., fire, yesterday The steamer,
Granite State was totally destroyed by fire
yesterday, between Hartford and N Y.; four
lives lost by burning and two by drowning
—one of the latter, a lady on her bridal
trip Dr. M. Estes, of Gainsville, Ga.,
fatherof Judge Jno. B. Estes, isdead
The tobacco tax paid to the Government, up
to May Ist., was $625,000,000C0tt0n
seed oil mills are to be built at Farmsdale
and Uniontown, AlaA cyclone, yes
terday, entirely demolished the Baptist
church at; Denison, Tex.
Monday, May 21st. —A man named Med
lock, bought some Atlanta land, 26 years ago,
for SI,OOO, gave a fourth of it away, sold a
part of it for $1,400, and got a support while
he lived from the residue, which has been
sold recently for sß6,oooThere are
6,000,000 more acres of land in Florida than
in the State of New York The addi
tion from the orange crop last year, to the
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: MAY 31, 1883.
income of J.’A. Harris, Marion county, Fla.,
was S63’OOOA cyclone at Racine,
Wis., Friday night, destroyed 150 houses,
killed2s personsand injured 100 others, en
tailing a loss of $150,000. Much damage was
done in Mo., Minn., and 111. also The
Virginia Episcopal Council recommends sep
arate churches’ for Negroes Loss of
from $40,000 to $50,000 by a fire at Memphis,
Saturday Lydia Pinkham, who did
$300,000 business in her medicine sales year
ly, is dead. Will that relieve us from her
picture in the papers ? Rev. Thomas
Battle, of Bolingbroke, Ga., the oldest Meth
odist minister in the State, is dead, aged 98.
Tuesday, May 22nd.—Mrs. Dr. R. B. Rid’
ley, daughter of Senator B. H. Hill, died yes.
terday, at Atlanta, of injuries received on
Saturday by a fall from a carriageA
flood in Dakota, caused by daily rains for a
month, has seriously injured the towns in
the gulches of the mmn tains; loss at Dead
wood S2OO,OOOEx-Governor Jeter, of
S. C.,died at Union, Sunday, aged 58
A man, named Hicks was killed by be’
ing run over by a through freight train
Sunday morning, at Lithonia, Ga., and a
young man named Story, was accidentally
drowned while bathing near Acworth, Ga.,
Sunday afternoon The Graphic,N. Y.
is embarrassed by the loss of $40,000 embez
zled by the treasurer of the establishment.
Virgin : a expended, last year, more
than $1,000,000 for her public schools, of
which 4,062 are white and 1,525 colored
schools The new Fulton county court
house, Atlanta, was “dedicated” yesterday:
cost, $126, 906. 19.
Wednesday, May, 23rd.—Snow storms in
Ohio and Indiana yesterday. At one point,
12 inches of snow fell. A frost in Illinois
that did more damage than the cyclone.
The third wife of a Mormon, at Salt
Lake, living in the house with the other two,
killed herself Joseph J. McGrath, a
converted Jew and a Methodist, has opened
a Christian reading room for his race in Sa
vannah, GaThere is not a Jew’ in
Blakely or Sylvania, GaAn i isane
mother,in Ashbalula county, Ohio, drowned
her two children, aged six and two years,
and poisoned herselfA New York
society belle has insured her wardrobe for
$21,000.
Thursday, May 24th.—Frost in Atlania
yesterday Snow a foot deep, Tuesday
night, near Lynchburg, VaA $40,000
fire in Charleston, 8. C., yesterday morning.
The general Council of the Reformed
Episcopal Church began its 9th annual ses
sion in Baltimore, yesterday Judge
S. W. Swanson, of LaGrange, Ga., died yes
terday of blood poisoningßishop
Gross, the Georgia Jesuit bishop, confirmed
the two condemned murderers, Wimbish and
Bailey,yesterday, in the jail at Macon
The Blue Ridge mountains in Northeast Ga.
were capped yesterday with snowln
Kinney county, Texas, a vein of gold has
been discoveredßishop Peck, North
ern Methodist, having an “ambition to die
without anything,” has given all his proper
ty to Syracuse University.
Friday, May 25th.—The bridge between
New York and Brooklyn yesterday, was
opened in the presence of President Arthur,
his cabinet, the governors of that State, New
Jersey, Vermont and Rhode IslandA
new Lutheran church has been dedicated at
Lovejoy’s Station, Central railroad, Ga.
Calhoun, Ga., has a web-footed chick
en The New Jersey Prohibitionists
have put Dr. Isaac G. Quinby in the field as
their candidate for governorln De-
Land, Fla., two pound lemons are a frequent
sight Some Richmond, Va., restau
rants are serving frog legsTuesday
night 30 buildings were burned at Gueni
ville, Cal Lieut. Schlayer was killed
in a duel yesterday, with the editor of the
Military Journal, Lexington, Ky.
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE.
What a l.arly of Great Proniinenee Han
to Say About Her Sex.
[Boston Globe.j
On a recent trip by a representative of this
paper to the city of Havernill, Mass., a most
important incident occurred, which cannot
fail to be of the greatest interest to all, and
especially to our lady readers. The newspa
per man met a lady a trifle past middle age
with luxurious white hair that contrasted
strikingly with piercing black eves. She
possessed a straight, full habit, womanly,
but commanding, combined with manners
wholly lady like, and yet pronounced. Any
acute judge of human nature could see at
once that he was in the presence of an unus
ual personage—one destined to accomplish
more than most of her sex, and to exhert an
influence far-reaching in its power. The la
dy was Mrs. M. W. Wingate. Almost from
childhood she had taken a special interest in '
the bodily troubles of her sex and has prob
ably been more successful in relieving suf
fering and saving lives than any other wo
man in America. Indeed, she seems to
have been to women what Florence Night
engale and Dorothy Dix were to the suffer
ing soldiers. The instances of women who
were in the greatest agony and apparently
beyond the reach of human aid, that she has
restored to health and happiness, are al
most innumerable, and it was only natural
that the scribe should become specially in
terested and wish to converse with her more
in detail.
“How long have you been engaged in the
practice of medicine, Mrs. Wingate ?”
“For more than 25 years.”
“A long time certainly. How did you
happen to enter the field at that early day
when women in the profession were special
ly frowned down upon?”
“I think I must have inherited a taste
from my father, Professor J. C. Wood, of
Harvard college. He was eminent in the
profession, a hard worker and equally earn
est in his recreations. He hunted consider
ably and I remember when only nine years
old I used to dissect the birds and animals
he had killed. I felt infatuated with medi
cal science, even then and the infatuation
has continued up to the present time.”
“And did you begin your studies so early
in life ?”
“I can hardly say when I began, for I can
not remember when 1 did not read medical
literature. You would scarcely believe it,
but I was a slender girl and did not weigh
over 120 pounds, but I used to sit up night
after night until two o’clock in the morn
ingporing over my studies and never dream
ing of the flight of time. It seemed as
though calls for my attendance on the sick
always came unsolicited. I certainly can
not fix the date when I first began practic
ing. Os course most of my patients were
women, and the natural sympathy I felt
for my sex has increased during all these
years where I had been brought so closely in
contact with them, and have learned to an
ticipate their needs and sympathize with
their suffering. After the opening of the
Boston Medical College 1 appeared before
the faculty; passed examination and re
ceived a diploma. I had practiced for years
previous to that time, but thought it desir
able to receive another diploma, which I did
without any effort.”
“Your experience with the many and se
rious diseases of women having been so ex
tensive must also be valuable? Can you
give me some facts regarding them?”
“I find that w oman seems born to suffer
ing, and where she avoids it, it is by reason of
some care on her part or owing to some spe
cial renewing power. It is true some women
gothrough life without unusual suffering,
but they are none the less in danger, for
there are critical periods all along their
pathway when the utmost precaution is re
quired. The innumerable complaints called
female weaknesses; the irregularities of
life and changes of the system all indicate
the perils which hang over every woman’s
career, and which, unless attended to, may
result disastrously.”
“But is there no way by which these ter
rible troubles can be avoided ?”
“That has been the problem for years.
The habits of life and the demands of fash
ion are clearly at war with the health of wo
men. I have been, perhaps, unusually suc
cessful in my treatment of their troubles,
but there have been many cases that seemed
specially stubborn. I recall one in particu
lar. I had exhausted all the usual expedi
ents and the results were not satisfactory. I
became worried ovei the case, and really
did not know what to do. but finally
thought I would try something out of the
usual line. I had heard a certain remedy
recommended very highly and so I procured
some and made a chemical analysis of it. I
found it was perfectly pure, and that the in
gredients were unusually valuable. So I
began giving it to my patient, changing it,
however, into a bottle of my ow’n. To my
great joy it seemed to have an almost imme
diate effect and a complete cure was the re
sult. Since then I have used it constantly
in my practice, and have enred every form
of female weakness, as well as displace
ments, dropsical tumors, cellu dropsy and
all such troubles. I have also used it with
the best of results in cases of pregnancy and
gestation. Indeed I have found it of untold
value and benefit.”
“Have you any objecton in giving me the
name of this remedy of which you speak ?”
“None whatever. It is Warner's Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure.”
“Why, that is a proprietary medicine!”
“Certainly, but what of that? 1 have but
one end in view in the treatment of my pa
tients, namely—their restoration to health.
In the accomplishment of this end, I pre
scribe what I believe to be beneficial, no
matter what the professional consequences
may be.”
“1 notice in the New York papers that
Doctors Hammond, Agnew, andothir prom
inent physicians are taking a similar stand,
Mrs. Wingate.”
“Yes, and all independant thinkers in
the profession are bound to do so. lam
however, on the best of terms with my pro
fessional brethren as you cau see,” and the
lady produced a beautiful gold medal
mounted in the form of a badge which had
been presented her by the medical soci
ety, known as the Ensign of the Humble
Family, of which she is a prominent mem
ber. After examining it closely, the repor
ter remarked that the medical profession ev
idently were proud of what she had done, as
she might well be in the possession of such a
medal.
I am proud of that,” she replied, “and I
was also pleased a short time since, to re
ceive an offer at a large salary to take the
* n t ‘ le new medical college at
Walla Walla, on the Pacific coast. Ido not
know how they heard of me out there, but
1 was obliged to decline the offer.”
“And so, in your experience with the dis
eases of women, you have found success, and
that Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
has been a most efficient remedy.
“Yes, I have had unusual success, and the
remedy of which you speak has been proven
of great benefit. There are, however, some
base imitations of it to be found in the
market; these are bad and should be avoid
ed, but the genuine remedy is one of the
very best.”
“And has not the practice of your pro
fession injured your health ?”
“No, lam better now than ever before in
my life. I froze my limbs last winter,
while riding one cold night to see a patiem
and was obliged to remain indoors for over
two months. Otherwise, I am healthy, as
you can see by looking at me.”
“And may I publish this interview, Mrs,
Wingate?”
“Yes. If w’bat I have told you should be
the means of assisting any women who may
be suffering, 1 shall be perfectly willing to
have it published.”
DR. SALTER’FJTECIALTIES.
Cancers successfully treated and a cure ef
fected in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,
when taken in time.
Rheumatism cured in every case, in from
one to three months, at a cost of five dollars
per month for medicines.
Diseases of the Throat cured in from one
week to two months.
Catarrh of the Head cured in one to
three months, in most cases; occasionally
meet with one requiring more time.
All Diseases Peculiar to Women, cured
in one-half the time required by other sys
tems, and without the use of caustic.
Asthma relieved and permanently cured
in the youngand middle aged.
Nervous Debility.—From whateyercause
successfully treated and cured in one to
five months.
Btoop Diseases cured in from three to
twelve months.
Kidney Diseases cured in from one to
three months.
Diseases of Liver amenable to treatment
permanently cured in a few months.
Neuralgia and other nervous diseases sue
cessfully treated.
TERMS OF TREATMENT.
Consultation by mail or in person free.
Prescription and medicine per month,
five dollars, in all chronic cases—Cancers
and tumors excepted. Write to or call in
person. S. F. Salter, M. D., Cor. Broad and
Walton Streets. Atlanta, Ga. ap. 12-3 m.
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