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MUM MV MINES.
A VAST t'KMDTERY OF THE EM
MAI,MUD DEAD IN PERU.
Kirin* For the Mum mi fled He
main* t,, Strip Them of Valu
nftlo Adornments—Petri¬
fied Eye-Ball*.
“T~ UST north of the Morro, says i
. letter from Peru to the PiHtbfltg
Uispatcb,i* a low line ot verdure,
modern built houses clustered iu
rows around a rather iiandsomo church,
fcad u long mole, the latter piled up with
bags, bales and boxes, and crowded with
aoldiers, mere! its Kul cargadores.
This is A ricti i port of considerable
Taena ■consequence, and b cause being the outlet to
"‘key” rich mines beyond, and the
to the still debatable territory,
^ rk '.withstaadii lg its mole, steamers must
anchor away 01 it. in the bay, and passen
gers be rowed ashore in canoes, flow
ever, they no longer huve to be carried
through the Mirf on the backs of men,
as during the Peruvian regime, for th<
port has quito cuanged her complexion
since claimed bv Chile.
Behind the, town a great winilrovr ol
forming yeliaw sand sweeps back from the Morro,
a kind of amphitheatre, unre
tieved by tree or shrub or blade of grass,
i’his ridge, and all the desert for miles
beyond, is n vast burial ground, which
must once have been of much greater ex
tent, for it is known that during the last
hundred years the ocean lias made con
rlderable inroad A few veins «??<>.
. .
when workmen were digging up tin
sand to (ill Arica’s pier, and opening a
tftack lor the railroad that leads to Taena
Ktho important city of the district, forty
*ui'.es inland they found mummies
’everywhere; not only humble fishermen,
wrapped in their nets, and lowly tillers
of the soil in shrouds of braided rushes,
but the iriveled bones of chiefs and
other personages of consequence, en
veloped in fine cloth and thin layers o(
beaten gold. These aristocrats of a l>y
gone age fared worse than their brother
plebeians—for, while the latter were left
•comparativeiy undisturbed, los liicos,
now grim and ghastly as the poorest,
were stripped by rude hands and their
'Crumbling bones tossed, uncovered, by
the wayside. Our party went mummy
hunting on horseback, striking straight
across the desert to a point about five
miles south of Arioa. We wero ac¬
companied by several poones (labor¬
ers) and a suitable escort; for it
is considered unsafe for strangers to go
out unattended,as highwaymen aro abroad
in tho laud and the pco.ies might be
tempted to make r <»w mummies if any
thing of value were unearthed, How
ever, people h<mt, tm such blood-curdling
errands as disturbing tho dead nre nol
likely to nuut alone, but naturally prefei
comply to keep their spirits up.
'-/lg anywhere, and you canii ot go amist
df h grave. The spades of other iuquisi
tive persons have scratched the desen
'hero and there, but the great bu'k of li
is enlitely undisturbed except by fitful
winds that whitl the sand into crescent
shaped mounds, and doubtless it will re
main so until, in the lapse of ages, the
slowly encroaching Pacific shall swallow
it all. Nothing can decay protected by
the magnetic dust of this rainless regiou,
and the contents of the tombs look as if
they were put there yesterday. There it
no consuming worm or insect. Flesh
dries without decomposition; wood and
vegetable matter petrify from the ab
sence of moisture, while fabrics and ar¬
ticles in stone aud clay “keep” forever.
Our workmen dug in several differ
wit places to the dppth of live or six feel
and brought up a dozen yvcII conditioned
“ancients”—two of which I have shipped
to the United States with their wrappings
Yntact. The most curious things we found
that day were not the rings of beater
•gold or silver encircling bony fingers,
nor clay water jars moulded in quaint de¬
signs, nor boue spindles, with thread
still in them, just as the weaver laid
down his work some centuries ago, but
the petrified eyeballs, which a careful
digger may always find, seldom inserted
in the face of the mummy, but fallen
out among the wrappings. Modern ici
auce cannot comprehend how these eyes
were preserved; the commonly accepted
theory’ is that they were never the visual
organs of human beings, with which the
more perishable optics of the subjects
to be mummified were replaced. But
they are not less curious, and are really
beautiful things—flat ou one side, round
aud smooth on the other, amber like
yellow iu color, holding light as au opal,
aud varying ia size from the tip of your
smallest finger to the end of a man’s
thumb. They are eagerly sought for the
settings of pins, sleeve buttons, etc.,aiul
are durable as most jewels.
The early Peruvians preserved their
dead something nfter the manner of the
Egyptians, except that the mummies
Dr Peru are always iu a sitiug posture,
with knees drawn up to (he chin and
hands clasped in front of the knees. The
head aud all is first enveloped in dyed
cotton cloth, bound with ropes of braided
llama yvooI (similar to the ropes made
to-day by Andean Indians); the whole
uncanny bundle inclosed within another
netting of ropes, or a basket-like case of
braided rushes. Remove the cloth aud
the hair, always loug, black and glossy,
will be found elaborately braided, per
baps gold or silver carriu^s in the ears,
ami a necklace of the same metal de¬
pending upon the breast. The features
ire well preserved, even to tbeir expres¬
sion, which is usually one of extreme
terror aud mental agonv—confirming
the assertion of historians that those
about to die were placed by their oblig¬
ing relatives in what was considered the
correct position for a mummy, and firmly
bound with ropes before the breath had
le.t the body and death stiffened the
muscles.
Humors of a Potato Famine.
The failure of the potato crop created
a general panic in a little Pennsylvania
town several years ago. The merchants
put the price of potatoes up to an exoro
itant figure and there was distress
through all the neighboring countv.
The keeper of the only hotel. Solomon
Hanks, was vexed and. troubled, lie
feared to driv away his patrons by rais¬
ing the hardly price of board, yet his 'profiu
family. w< re He large began enough to keep up his
to cut down expo nses.
and the first thing that had to go was
his free omnibus, For several months
that crazy old vehicle carried the follow¬
ing sign: “Owing to the high price of
potatoes twenty-five guests must pay a fare of
cents to ride in this "bus.—
0t. Louis Republic.
The MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH, GA, T UESD AY, MAY 10. 189-2.—EIGHT PAGES.
THE SARATOGA MIRACLE
FI I1TIIER INVESTIGATED BY AN EX
PRSSS REPORTER.
Tnx Tacts Ai.rf.adt Stated Fct.lt Con¬
firmed-] stekvikws With LtADtNtt
Physicians Vi no Treated Quant
—The Most Marvelous Cas*
in the HirfoRY or Medi¬
cal Science,
A few weeks ago An article appeared in
this paper copied from the Albany, N. Y.,
Journal, K'ving ihe particulars of one of the
most remarkable cures of the 19th century.
The article was un ler the heading ‘‘A
. aratoga Co. Miracle,” enl excited such
Widespread comment that another Albany
paper the Express—letailed a reporter to
make a thorough investigation of the state
merits appearing in the Journal’s article.
e m elicited by the Express reporter
f:re given in the loilowin^ article, which ap
peered in that paper on April 16to, and
makes one o. the most interestina stolid
ever related;
A ff i w .there Was ptibliShed id
,i tiie Ailmhy » P.Venin^ -.J, tirnnl the
mo t remarkable—indeed Story of a
to well -ju-Ufy the so remarkable as
term “miraculous” —cure
ot a revere ense of locomotor ataxia or
fee; ing paralysis, simply bv the use of
Rink Pills for l a e People, and in comply
ance with instruction- an Express It-1 > r*er
lias inv. la-en dividing N.ine time m a critical
The Btigntiou of the real fads ot the case.
story Of the wonderlul cure of Charles
A, Quant, of Galway, {Saratoga Gountv.
N. Y.. as first to I'm the Journal has
been copied into hundre Is if tint thousands
Of other dftilv i.nd y, ekly bcwnpaper** and
has created n sensation tl.n ughmit the
mliio country that it Was deemed a duty
' ue all the | i*>p c, an i especially the thou
sands of ;irnilar y affi cte.l that the state
uunts of the c 2- a> male in the Albany
Journal, and copied into so many other
new-papers sh uid, if true, b > ver fLoi- or
if exposed as an inioc^ition unon u lblid
credulity, 1
'J he r. ’Ult of the Express reporter’s in
vestigations au-h ri« s him iii s vying that
the story of Charles V Q i ant’s cure of
locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills
lor Pule People, a popular remedy prepared
and put up by tin f)r. Williams Medicine
Company, ville, Morri>smv», X. Y., and Brook
Ontario, IS i HUE. ant that all iis
statem* n‘s are not only justifle I but verifle l
by the fuller development of the further ’
taet« of the case
Pi rhaps the renders of the Express are
not a lot them fully familiar with the de
lails of this miraculous restoration to health
of a man who after weeks and months of
i n at tin nt by the most skillful doctors in
two of the best hospitals in the State of New
York-the R« o i veil Hospital in New York
(My and St, Pctei’s Hosp tal in Albany
was dismissed from each as incurable nnd,
because the case was deemed incurable, the
man was denied admission into several oth
ers to which api lication was made in his be
half. I he story as tol 1 by Mr. Quant him
self nnd published in the Albany J Journal, is
u ' ol lows *
»>■ h Chart.. A. Quant; 1 am 37
years old; I was born in the village of Gal
way and ixceptmg w hile traveling on busi
ness an I a little w-h le in Amsterdam, have
spent my whole life here. Up to about eight
years ago I hod i.ev r b,en sick and was
then in perfect health. I was fully Ux feet
tall, weighed 180 pounds and was very
strong. For 12 yens was traveling sales
man had for do, a piano and organ company, and
to or at least did do, a great deal of
and heavy li, ting, i;ot my rneai. very irregularly
slept in enough ‘s;ir’ beds’ in coun
try houses to freeze an ordinary man to
death, or nt least give him the rheurna
tism. About eight years ago 1 began to
feel distress in mv stomach, and corn ulte 1
several doctors about it. they all said it
was treated dyspepsia, l»y ami for dyspepsia 1 was
various doctors in different
places, could and took alt the [latent medicines 1
bear of that claime • to be a cure for
dyspt p-in. But 1 continued to grow gra b
ually have worse for lour years. Then I began
to p.in in my buck and logs and uc
came conscious that my legs were getting
weak and my step unsteady, an 1 then i
staggered when I walked. Having received
no benefit from the u-e of j ntetit medicines,
and feeling that 1 was constantly’' growing
worse, 1 then, upon fs advice, began the use oc'
electric belts, pv and all the many different
kinds of electric huudre.it . pp iances I could hear of,
and spent of dollars tor t hem, i ut
•bowed they did me no good. (Here Mr. Quant
the Journal n porter an ehctrm suit
ot underwear, lor which he piid $124.) In
the fall of 1888 the d<.ctors a vise. 1 a c :ange
of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ga.. and
acted as agent for the Estey Organ Com
panv. trie treatment, W bile there but I took a iberough e ec
disease, it on’y s emorl to aggra
vate my and the-only relief I could
get from the inorphiife. sha. p and d:streesing p uns was
to take The pain vas so in
tense at times th it it seemed as though I
could death not the stand only it, and 1 almost longed for
as certain relief. In Septeui
her of 1888 my legs g ve out entirely and my
lett eye was drawn to one side, so that 1 had
double sight and was dizzy. My trouble so
affected my whole nervous system that I
bad to give up business. Then 1 relumed to
New York and went to the Roosevelt Hos
era ital, where for lour months l was treated
y specialists and they pronounced my case
locomotor ataxia and incurable. After I
bad been under treatment by Prof, btarr
and Dr. Ware tor .our months, they told me
they had done ail they coul i for me. Then
1 went to the New York Hospital on Fii
teenth street, where, upon examination,they
saui 1 was incurable ’l-r •»»».} woul Ho.p.taf.hey 1 ■mi - el nia
in. At t he sh yterian
amined me and told me the same tiling, in
March, 1890, I was ta :en to St. Peter’s Hos
frankly pital in Albany, where Prof. H. H. Hun
told mv ivi e my case was hopeless;
that he could do nothing for meand that she
had better take me back home aud save mv
money. But I wanted to make a trial of
Prof. Hun’s famous skill and I remained
under his treatment for nine weeks, but se
cured no benefit. All this time I ha t been
growing worse. I had become entirely
paralyzed partly lost from my waist down an 1 bad
control cf my han is. The pain
was terrible; my le^s felt as though they
were 'reeziug and mv stomach would not re
tain food, and 1 felt away to 120 pounds,
In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen
big burns on my back one day with red hot
irons,and after a few days they put fourteen
more burns on and treated me with elec
tricity, but I got worse rattier thau better;
lost control of my bowels and water, and,
upon advice of the doctor, who said
there was no hope for me, I was brought
home, where it was thought that death would
soon come to relieve tue of my sufferings,
Last September, while in this helpless and
suffering condition, a friend of mine in
Hamilton, Out., called my attention to the
statement of one John Marshall, whose case
had been similar to xuv own. and who had
been cured by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink
P.lls for Pale People. In this ease Mr. Mar
shall, who is a prominent member of the
Koval Templars of Temperance, had, after
four years of constant treatment by the
most eminent Canadian physicians, been
pronounced incurable, and paid the $1000
total disabi ity claim al owed Dv the order in
such cases. Some months at ter Mr. Mar
shall l*egan a course of treatment with Dr.
Williams’ Rink Pills, and after taking some I
15 boxes was fully restored to health.
thought I would try them, nnd my wife sent
for two boxes of the pills, and I took them
aceor iing to the directions on the wrapper
on each box. For the first few days the
cold tiaths were pretty severe as I was so
very weak, but I continued to follow in¬
structions as to taking the pills and the
treatment, and even before I had used up
the two boxes of the pills 1 began to feel
beneficial results from them. My pairs were felt
not so bad. I felt warmer; my head
better; my food began to relish and agree
with me; I could straighten up; the feeiiug
began to come back into my limbs; I be
gau to be able to get about on crutches;
my eye came back agam os good il. ever,
ami now. after the us j of ei^ht boxes of the
pills, at a cost of only $4.(0— see!—loan with
the help of a cane ouiv, walk a l about the
house auh yard, can saw wood, an 1 on pleas¬
ant davs I walk down town. My stomach
trou le is gone; I have gaine l 1<> pounds; 1
feel like a new man, au 1 when the spring
opeus I expect to be able to renew my organ
and piano agency. I cannst speak Pills in too lor
high terms of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pale People, as I know they saved my life
alter all the doctors had given me up as in¬
curable.” which . the Ex¬
Such is the wonierful story
press reporter haa succeeded in securing ver¬
ification of in ail its details, from the hos¬
pital records where Mr. Quant was treated
and from the doctors who hail the case in
hand and who pronounced him incurable.
La it be remembered that all this ho* pi tal
treatment was two and tnree jaara ago,
while Pink Pills his cure, by the use ot Dr. William^
for Pale People, has been effected
since last September, 1891. So it is beyond
a doubt evident that bis recovery is wholly
due to the use of tb*»se famous pills which
have been found to have made such remark
able cure* in this and other cases.
Mr. Quant placed in the hands of the re
porter his card of admission to Roosevelt
Hospital, which is here reproduced in fur¬
ther confirmation of his statements:—
(SERIES I»>
ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL^
^osy OUT-PATIENT. immtdxAtjil/Jt..
No A +9
.-- C&CtT %cLe^ \
Agt 3 *£ Birth Olay .
___
Civil Condition _____ C . _____‘__________
Occupation ____
Rtititnct “w
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. *
W *»l
To verify Mr. Quant’s statement our re
porter a few days ago, (March 31st, 180.*,)
called on Dr. Allen Starr at his office. No.
22 West Twenty-eighth St., New York city,
^ )r ' ^ !arr is house physician of the Roose
v<,It hos P ita L situated corner of Ninth
evenue aud Fifty-ninth street. In reply to
inquiry he said b« remembered the case of
*' lr * Q aant Ver 7 well, and treated him some,
l,ut that he was chiefl T treated and under
j the raore es P ecial care of Dr. Ware. He
Biid he regarded this case as he did all cases
of locomotor ataxia as in arable. In order
t that • \ otir reporter might get copy of the
a
history Of the casa of Mr. Quant from the
hoi '‘‘“er -P'-tal record he very courteously gave him
! a of which the following is a copy;—
„ W' J et L ?/p; a ' y, h A btarr u rs * ?. 0 ? to 3 .'J® 1 a 86 Forty-eighth orli:
.' ' ' , ' >
“arch 81st, 189.’.-Dear , , Dr. r . \ought:Ifyou
have any record of a locomotor ataxia by
n ame ? f Q aant > who says he came to the
clinic3 , or 4 years ago, No. 14,037, of the O.
sent to me from Ware,
will you let the bearer know. If you have
ho record s® 1111 hi ' n to Roosevelt Hosp.
Aours, Starr.
n By means of , this ... letter access to the reo
hlsto or s was permitted Mr. Quant’s nnd a transcript of the
«;v of case made from them
as follows: 14 ’.° o7 Admitted September 16tli,
!? 8 i Charles ; Quant aged 34 years. Born
. Hoboken,
“History of the case:-Dyspepsia for past
four , or five years. About 14 months’ partial
4083 °, f P°^f r a,ul nu ’ 1,b “. ess “ *°. vver
tre ®«“» . G.rdhng sensation about abdo
me n ' ( : No vei ! lber 29tl l' 18 f ’ not lr “P^® d -
® xtern f “' strobtsmus f of lett , eye and dilata
Hon of the left eye.) borne difficulty in pass
\ n * water a * Hmes- no headache but some
l’ 122 ne »; alternate diarrhoea and constipa
t,on; partlal P tosls past two wewks ln left
e ^f ’
l n Ord. , T R. , h. p Bi . pep. an 1 , Soda, 5 „
1 hese ar0 the marked symptoms of a
“ vere cas e of locomotor ataxia. “And Dr.
8 ' tarr sai< la , wltbsucb marked symp
toms could . not be cured and Quant who was
receiving treatment in the out-patient de
I". r .¥K^^ ^ r l! SS‘ a ’»£ , ^2ji'ta th.
wor ( n 8U l Dr Starr tarr An 1 tuen said, said
-
Pft Warecan V “ u more about tb ® ca f
’
ns Qaan t was under hw more personal treat
ment i , a,n surprised, he said ‘that the
: abve , 1 taught he must be dead
" ,aH ,s ’ as
ong ago. cr
Tp«x. B «lward i \xt W areafe «.
s office, No. est Ninety-third street,
New V ° rk ' H e sa,d = 1 lave very distinct
t.“ „ ^no”nncid nounced f + case, itreatotn JmISn? n aDouc
• ht ^s. Hus the early
el ” l n was m sum
" ,er °* 1 8 90 ‘ 1 de0,, ? ed him “curable, and
thought him h . dead , before now lette Imagine f bl my
8 a V ! rp out ?? two W w f “ , ks recel a SO 7u- telling & me iu that *°, he m was ' n
a “ve was getting well and expects 1 soon to
be „Jil T recovered.
" ba ^ do T ou think, doctor, was the
cause of his . recovery.
I hat is more than I know. Quant says
he . has been taking some sort of pills and that
they have cured him. At all events, I am
6* a d the poor tellow is getting well, tor his
' vas a bad case an i ha ^ a ®,, a 8 reat 8 “ ffe ™ r -”
• Theodore R. Tuttle, of 31J West
F'ghteenth. „ street, to whom our reporter is
zindebte 1 tor assisting courtesies, said of
locomotor ataxia; “I have had several
cases o£ tbls disease m the course of my
tlce . I wl11 ^ that incurable,
P rac 1 , - no sa T i s well; I
hu f never , knew of a case to get but
wlU x 8a ^ lt 18 no } deemed curable by any
remedies . known to the med.cal profession.”
After’this successful andmonth matory ln
destination m New York, our reporter, Peters
Satuiday, April «d, 189-., visited St.
f Hospital, m Albany, He h corner ot Albany and
err T st *" eet8 h p ?>' a courteous reception
superior b T f '. lster . of , ^ bt t ar T Peter’s . hilomena . Hospital, the and sister when
°‘ 1 f‘ he ob J ec £ ot hls ^ lslt ’A aid sbe rem ! m ‘
bered the case of poor Mr. Quant very dis
tmcUy. bald she: “It was a very distress
and excited my sympathies much,
Po( ? r teI!o w > h f col !' ,ln t **'Curedand had to
?° homa in . a terr.bls condition of helpless
ness and suffering.” recordsof The house Peter physician Hospital on
consulting the that bt Cbarles a A Qnant
“V 1 he found only
entered the hospital March 14th, 189d, was
Heated by Dr. Henry Hun, assisted by Dr.
} an ^ e 1 ! ve ? r ’ wb( ! was then, 1S9J, at the
beai ^ , the . hospital, and t.iat his case being
deemed not possible of cu co. he left the
hospital and was taken -o his home, as he
supposed to the die. full history of this most
buch is re
markable case ot successful recovery from a
heretofore , supposed incurable disease, and ,
lifter fill tlio doctors hifi<» ^ivgh liirn up, by
the rtn.pl. nse of Dr .William,’ Pink Pil.s
lor Pale People. Truly it is an interesting
story of a most miraculous cure of a dreadful
disease by the simple use of this popular
remedy. further investigation revealed the fact
A
that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are not a patent
medicine in the sense in which that term is
generally understood, but are a scientific
preparation successfully used in general
practice tor many years before They being offered
to the public generally. elements contain in a
condensed form all the necessary to
give new life and richness to the blood and
restore shattered nerves, diseases l’hey are an un
fai ing specific partial for paralysis, such Vitus as locomotor
ataxia, St. dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, the after rheumatism, effects of nervous
headache, la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, that prostration; tired feeling resulting
from nervous all diseases
depending upon vitiated humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.
They are also a specific for troubles peculiar
to females, such as suppressions, irregulari
ties and all forms of weakness. They build
up the blood and restore the glow of health
to rale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men
they effect a radical cure in all casesarising
from mental worry, over-work or excesses of
whatever nature.
On further inquiry manufactured the writer by found that
these pills Medicine are Company, Brockvitle, the Dr.
Williams
Ontario, and Morristown, ]N. Y., and are
sold in boxes (never in loose form by the
dozen or hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six
boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all drug
cists or direct by maii from Dr. Will i a m s
Medicine Company, these from either address,
The price at which pills are sold makes
a course of trer tment comparatively inex¬
pensive as compared with other remedies or
medical tr eatment.
A Mammoth Engine.
Friedensvillp, Pa., is not a very large
place, but it can boast of the largest
st-.nonary engine in the United States
and one of the largest in the world. Its
driving wheel is 35 feet in diameter and
weighs 40 tons; its sweep rod is forty
feet long; its cylinder is one hundred and
ten inches in diameter; its piston rod is
ten inches in diameter and and of a ten
foot stroke, and it raises seventeen thous¬
and and five Hundred gallons of water in
a minute. The engine has been patriot¬
ically name “The President.”
How to Got Change.
Stranger (i>olitely)—“Pardon the in¬
terruption. but could you change a five
dollar bill for me, so that I can pay street
car fare?”
Small Dealer (busily)—“Just out o’
change. Haven’t a cent.”
Stranger (abruptly)—“Gimme a cigar
Dealer (briskly)—“Yes, sir. Here you
are, sir. Thanks, sir. Here’s your
change, sir—four dollars ninety five
cents,”—Street & Smith’s Good News.
Fruit culture
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CENSUS FIGURES ON THE VAR
lOUs TROPICAL VARIETIES,
3range. Banana, Iicmoui ar„i Pine
apple Culture—Enormous Acre
a^e Covered and the Mill¬
ions Invested.
-TV \ ~T OTHINO more strikingly illos
\ (rates the growth and fatur
U_.\ -G l!ff b,l ' t,es 3 . ,h “ ? tt Ln '. a tc '
’ t “ t e T,net:
and possibility of , a number , of its . pro
duets. Besides corn and wheat, ant
hogs and cattie, and cotton, the possi
bility and practicability of its producing
pretty nearly everything else that w<
may need, is vapidly being proven.
\\ ho would have thought that there an
now 500,000 or more almond trees iu th<
United States actually bearing; that th<
bearing cocoanu; trees could be counted
by the hundred thousands; that then
are more than 250,000 olive trees pro¬
ducing fruit equal to the best Mediter¬
ranean variety; that the bearing banant
plants numoer over 500,000; the bear
ing lemon trees nearly 200,000; orange
trees nearly 4.000,000 and pineapple*
over 21,000,000? Yet it is a fact. Very
few- people probably would have guessed
the value of tropic and semi-tropic fruits
and nuts produced in this temperate zone
at $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 annually,
yet such i3 the fact. The census esti¬
mates the xalue of such portions of the
product of these tropic and semi-tropic
fruits and nuts as are reported at over
$14,000,000, and it is probable that il
the total could be had it would run up
to $20,000,000.
The field which this bit of information
opeus to enterprising citizens of the
United States is large. Oranges,
bananas, lemons, olives, pineapples and
almost every branch, in fact, of this class
of articles, is represented largely in the
importation into this country, aud the
value of fruits and nuts imported runs
from $20,000,000 to$25,000,000 a year.
The possibility of the production ol
these at home is an eye-opener to the in
dividual who is hopeful tor the industries
of this country.
Nothing better illustrates the possi<
bilities in this line than the observations
which the President was able to maki
during his tower in California las(
spring, where he drove literally mile;
through orange orchards, with trees oi
every hand laden with the golden fruit
bearing so profusely that it wa3 only
with the greatest care that they could bt
prevented from breaking down beneath
the burden of the ripening oranges,
Just beside them he found bananas,
almonds, figs and olives growing to per
fection. The most striking fact of th<
observations he was permitted to mak<
on this tour w f as that these tropical anc
semi-tropical fruits were hffng produced
upon land wrhich a few years ago was
considered a desert; ground which
seemed a decade ago nothing but a bed
of sand, and capable of producing only
cactus, upon irrigation became capable
of producing the finest fruits,in every way
equal to those imported from the Medi
terranean countries. Beside this list of the
tropical fruits which are produced sc
largely in both Florida and California,
there are many uthetWesswidely known,
such as guava, kaki, citron, pomelo and
almonds, bananas, tigs and cocoanuts.
The census report shows that there were
in 1889 in the United States over 28 ?
000,000 trees aud plants bearing these
tropical and semi-tropical fruits and nuts,
and over 14,000,000 trees and plants not
yet arrived at a producing age.
The most astonishing feature, how¬
ever, of the showing made by the census
report is the number of acres of land
which are estimated by those skilled in
producing this class of articles as suitable
for tropical fruits aud nuts. The numbei
of acres upon which almonds can be
grown, for instance, is set down at 2,-
500,000; bananas, 500,000; cocoanuts,
nearly 200,000; figs, more than 3,000,
000; guava, over 2,000,000; lemoas, 1,-
250,000; olives, nearly 3,000,000;
oranges, 2,250,000; pecans, 1,500,000:
pineapples, nearly 1,000,000,and pomelo.
1,250,000 acres.
Florida and California are the mosl
prominent sections of the country in
which these tropical fruits and nuts are
produced, but tigs, oranges, kaki and
pecans grow in all the States bordering
on the Gulf of Mexico, and iu Florida,
Louisiana, California and Arizona oranges
are found in great quantities. The acre¬
age which can be successfully devoted
to pineapples on the southeastern coast
of Florida is estimated as very large. The
area which can produce this class of
fruits extend much further north on the
Pacific coast than on the Atlantic;
bananas, lemons, figs, dates, limes and
pomegranates are found as far north as
Charleston on the Atlantic coast, Yvhile
on the Pacific coast they extend as far
north as the fortieth parallel, in full
sight of Mt. Chaster, with its perpetual
snow and ice, while figs, almonds and
prunes are grown in Oregon and even
Washington, and olives in Southern
Nevada.
The future of this industry, the pro¬
duction of tropical and semi-tropical
fruits and nuts, promises something
wonderful. Excluding pineapples and
bananas, which are all counted as bear¬
ing plants, as they commence fruiting
within a year of planting, the average
number of all non-bearing trees is aboul
double that of the bearing trees, the
value of whose produce was $14,11(5
226.59 during the census year, divided
as follows: Almonds, 81,525,109.80:
banana. $280.653.75: cocoanut, $251,-
217.41; fig, $307,271.76; lemon, $988,
099,92; lime, $62,496.90; madeira nut,
$1,256,958; olive, $386,368.32; orange,
$6,602,099; pineapple, $812,159.17:
pomelo, $27,216, and pecan, $1,616,-
576.50. On the basis cf the present
prices, with all the non-bearing trees
aud fruitage, the next census ought to
show a value of product of more than
$50,000,000, aud as the nursery census
shows of young trees ready for planting,
64,128 limes. 103,000 pomelo, 328,016
olives, 641,222 lemons, and 6,209,313
oranges, or enough to plant over 70,000
acres, a partial forecast may be made of
what may be expected iu the future,
especially when these facts are studied
in connection with the estimated acres of
land thought to be suitable for planting
with the various products enumerated.
# John Higgins, a fanner near Decatur,
Ill., found $45,000 in his house the othei
day which had been secreted by his
father. The old man made every cent
of it on 120 acres of land, thus proving
what a man can do in the saving line
when, be tries
Opening of Meaapi if* Big Bridj-e.
May w ill be a great day in the
history of Memphis, Tenn. #a that day
the big bridge across the Mississippi at
that place,and which is about completed,
Will ue opened with graud and imposing
ceremonies.
Among the notables who will be pres
ent at the opening will be: Secretary of
War Elkins, Stcretary of Navy Tracy.
Speaker Crisp, Seuators Vorhees, Allison,
Cullom, Vest Bailer. Frye and Gordon;
Congressmen AHen Eurrowa, Henderson,
btorer, Fellows and Williams. Senator
Vorliees will deliver the oralion of the
dar. The bridge will be tested bv send
iog United fifteen heavy locomotives over it. A
States man-of-war will lie at
Memphis and three days will be giveu
up to the celebration. The citizens have
raised $50,000 for the celebratiou. A
banquet will be tendered the distin
guished visitors on the night of May
12th, and $10,000 worth ot fireworks
will be let off. There will be civic pa
fades and pagenn’, in which a number
of the mardi gras floats will be seen,
Belgiuui Punishes Hypnotists.
The votaries of the theory that there
no such thing as hypnotism will find it
hard to explain the action of the Belgian
authorities, who have just passed a law
prohibiting the indiscriminate exerciesof
this remarkable power. The cause for
this action is stated to be that “while it
is admitted that iu medical hands hypo
tism is a valuable therapeutic and reliev¬
ing patients afflicted with nervous dis¬
eases and in cases connected with cerebral
disorders and hallucinations, the use of
hypnotism places the patient within the
power of the operator, and the ascen¬
dancy of one mind over that of another
is,such that crimes may be suggested aud
fcgent ^dually of carried another’s out will.” by the The unconscious law
new
pre cribes punishment by both fine and
imprisonment for exhibiting a hypnotized
person iu public, and also prescribes a
penalty for the exercise of the mysterious
power by any one holding a physician’s
diploma.
A Foreigner.
Mr. Vantlerkase—“Vy you gall me a
foreigner, eh? I no more foreigner dan
yonrselfs.”
Mr. McCork—“Hear th’ slipalpeen!
Any one moight think he’d been born in
Oirlaud.”
Indifference of Savages to Pain.
The comparative indifference of savage
tribes to pain is u r oll known, lt has gen¬
erally been nscribod to superior courage
and fortitude; but it is highly probable
that it is owing in a very large degree to
dullness of the sensory norves. The tor¬
tures inflicted in so called “sun” dances
of the American Indians are often ex¬
treme; but the sufi’eror seldom cries out
or shows any signs of agony. The same
disregard of wounds und Bufferings is
visible in all savages. The writer of the
article under discussion makes effective
use of this acknowledged fact in the sup¬
port of his theory, lie says: “When we
read of a Kafflr laughing merrily at the
appearance which his own thigh, after a
severe of compound fracture, skull presented; been
and a second, whose had
broken in by a blow from a knobkerry,
submitting calmly and without anaesthet¬
ics to the operation of trephining, and
walking away afterward as though noth¬
ing had happened; and of a third hold¬
ing on his clieok, -which had been almost
entirely sliced off by a blow from a
sword, and yet yelling full and shouting with
his comrades in the enjoyment of
victory—wo may not feel L ned to
deny tha* the savage reels, we can
not hold that he feels as v feel,”—
New York Press.
The caravan trade in gold dust, ivory,
ostrich feathers and other articles Drought
from Central Africa has been abandoned, as
the roads are so unsafe that merchants will
not venture to send their goods along them.
China Still Leads.
According to the population tables of
the year the Chinese empire still leads the
world with 404,180,000 people. The
British empire comes next with 315,885,
000; then the Russian wit’i 104,201.000,
Ft auce and her colonies with 63,672,048
and the United States with about as
many.
BROwn’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia,Mala¬
ria. Biliousness and General Debility. Gives
Strength, aids Digestion, tones the nerves—
creates Mothers, appetite. weak The best tonic for Nursing
women and children.
Add but one item to the store of the world’s
tal knowledge zed. and your name will be immor¬
Mr. A. B. Laforme, Boston, Mass., says: “ I
ordered and distributed one dozen large bottles
headache, Bradycrotine among my friends afflicted with
and in every case it has afforded
almost instantaneous relief." Fifty cents.
If you will be truly happy keep yo ur blood
pure, your liver fro n growing torpid by using
Beecham’s Pills. 25 cents a box.
Wrar W'
jtfe MS v F
Mrs. William Lohr
Dyspepsia
“ C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
“A year ago this last fall I commenced to fail
rapidly; lost all appetite and ambition,
and barely dragged along with my work.
During the winter and spring had to have help
about my housework. Physicians did not help
me and I got more and more discouraged. 1
suffered from dyspepsia so that I
Could Not Eat Vegetables
or meat.and at last so that I could not even uso
butter on my toast. Used to dip the toast in
tea and even then it would distress my
stomach. Jn the spring I hired a girl perma¬
nently. my health was so poor. She tried to
persuade me to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, as a
lady for whom she had worked had been great¬
ly benefited by it. She said: ‘ It will only
cost a dollar to try it.’
I Dragped Along
Until August,when I began to take Hood's Sar¬
saparilla. In about a week I felt a little better
Could keep more food on my stomach and grew
stronger. I took three bottles, am now perfect¬
ly well, have gained 22 pounds, am ia excel¬
lent health. I owe all this to
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and am glad to let you know what it has don\
for me.” Mrs. William Lohr, 101 Van BureV
■Street, Freeport, <11.
Pills, Hood’s Pill’s &re~the best after-dinnoi
assist digestion, oure headache.
There is a good story told of tho
powers of the Rev. W. II." Gladden, the
evangelist. Mr. Gladden was brought
into prominence last summer by his
work at the laronlum c;un]> meeting.
There the religious fervor ran so high
that it was a common occurrence for per¬
sons at the meetings to become over¬
powered and remain insensible for some
time. One instauoe is recalled of a man
who. becoming excited, shouted “Glo—”
and then fell over unconscious, remain¬
ing in that condition for nn hour. Ou
oomingto he completed the exclamation
by saying ‘tv,” showing that his mouth
had been set to sav ‘‘Glory,” but at the
first syllable animation was
and when the senses were restored the
lips had to complete the word.
The Skill and Knowledge
Essential to the production of the most per¬
fect and popular laxative remedy known have
enabled the California Fig Syrup Co. to
achieve a great success in the reputation of
its remedy. Syrup of Figs, as it is conceded
to be the universal laxative. For sale byali
druggists.
wift "oS Z»M.T!n’th. r
manufacture of jewelry.
. If Back ... Aches, all „
good your for nothing, or vou are worn debility! out,
Brown it is general
s Iron Bitters wdl cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and give a good ap
petite—tones the nerves.
;his One of the biggest insurance lady companies §10,000a in
country pays a manager
rear.
Beware of vouVai'u Mereuv>r ,nr * h TU **
As mercury will surely destroy the sense at
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when Such entering it through should the mucous sur
faces. articles never be used ex
tho Halls sood atarrli you;■«» Cure, possibly manufactured dyriv. (rom them.
t by PJ,
Cheney and is Co., internally, Toledo, O.,contains no mercury,
taken and acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfacesof the system.
In buying Hull's Catarrh Cure be sure you get
the genuine. It is taken internally, and made
In Toledo, Ohio, Druggists, by F. J. Cheney <fc Co.
U#” Bold by price <5c. per bottle.
The Only One Ever Printed.
CAN Y OU FIND THE WORD?
Tke»elsa3 inch display advertisement ln
this paper, this week, which has no two words
ah k e except one word. The same is true ot
each new ono appearing each week, from The
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a
“Crescent” on everything they make and pub¬
lish. Look for it, send them the name of the
word and they will return you book, beauti¬
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A Brilliant Discovery in Hemnioiosy.
It is said that superfluous hair can bo per¬
manently removed without pain. An interest¬
ing and valueble discovery has recently been
made by John H. Woodbury, of 125 West, -t:M
street, New York City. It is a remedy for the
permanent removal of superfluous hair, consist¬
ing of a fluid which is applied needle, to the lt is hair designed follicle to
by means of an electric and is said
be usod by patients at their electricity. homes, Full
to bo fully as effectual as remedy par¬
ticulars in reference to this valuable
are found in a little book of 128 pages, which is
sent to any address for 10 cents on application
lo the discoverer.
The worst cases ot female weakness reatlily
yield to Dr. Swan’s Pastiles. Samples free.
Dr. Swan. Beaver Dam. Wis.
&u e wgaut piece ox music. Th# “Opera''
wiibb Waltz Song. Send name and address on
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‘August Flower”
“What is August Flower* for?”
As easily answered as asked. It is
for Dyspepsia. It is a special rem¬
edy for the Stomach and Liver.—
August Nothing more than this. 1 We believe
Flower cm Dyspepsia.
We for knowing know it wilL^pp^nave it^To-day it reasons has
an
honored place in every town and
country store, possesses one of the
largest manufacturing plants in the
country, and sells everywhere. The
reason is simple. It does one thing,
and does i t right. It cures dyspepsia^
A ® Tuffs Tiny Pills
The dyspeptic, the debilitated, wheth- A
^ er from excess of work of mind or —
^ body or exposure in malarial regions, /rx
will And Tutt’s Pills the most genial
restorative ever offered the Invalid.
$ 50.00 sole that A woman bright, is agency needed wanted energetic for to in an take man every arti the tne cle of
A home and indispensa¬
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SELLS AT SI«HT, in
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a
Inf San for afterward. A “Bonanza”
fine the right person. Good
blal(\J soon n,l! ' taken. are scarce Write at once. and
J. _ W. JONES. Manager, Springfield, Ohio.
Plao’s Remedy fbr Catarrh Is the
Best, Easiest to TTse, and Cheapest.
CATVMR R W
Sold by druggists or sent by mail. P m.
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For gentlomen la a lino Calf Shoo, made seamless, ol
the best leather produced In this country. There are no
tacks or wax threads to hurt tha feet, and is made as
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$4.00 to $5.00, and acknowledged to be the
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