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GEORGIA.
Dawson lias an electric light plant
which 1b the equal of the best in the state. !
At Royle Wednesday morning while on j
the way to school little Berta Harper j
dropped dead.
There are I*l2 candidates for the post- |
tlon of city weigher of Atlanta. The sal
ary is S6O a month.
Hitch, Powers & Co.'s stock of goods at
Quitman were sold Thursday by Receiver
R. C. Mclntosh, bringing tMli per cent of
the invoice. *
IM. B. Eubanks is the newly elected city
recorder of Rome. P. H. Spullock held
the office for some years, but resigned on
account of bad health.
The following ticket has been elected at
Flovllla. For mayor, R. V. Smith; for
eounellmen. W. B. Dozier, \V. F. Douglas,
R. L. Gardner, J. L. Holloway and S. 1/.
Thompson.
The residence of J. E. Mclver of the
Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine
Company, at Atlanta, was burned Thurs
day night, and Slab worth of diamonds
stolen. The thief escaped with his booty
and there Is no clew to his identity.
A few nights ago a dwelling on Judge
J. B. Pliny’s place, within a few miles of
Dawson, was destroyed by lire. The
house was vacant, the tenant having mov
ed out a few days before, and the lire was
evidently of Incendiary origin. Judge
Pliny offers a reward of SIOO with proof to
convict the incendiary.
H. E. Jenkins, one of the best known cit
izens of Box Springs, near Columbus, In
Talbot county, has received letters which
indicate that whitecaps are after him.
He is charged by moonshiners with being
an informer, and they give him twenty
days in which to leave the county. A ne
gro has been arrested in connection with
the case.
A movement is on foot among the busi
ness men of Dawson to have Dawson
made a rating point and put on an equal
footing in freight facilities with Albany,
Amerlcus anti other rival towns. The bus
iness men of Dawson pay the railroads an
nually $150.(.)0 for freight. $20,000 more than
is pa;d by either Albany or Amerlcus for
the same volume of business.
The stockholders of the Third National
Bank of Columbus contemplates Increas
ing its capital stock from SIOO,OOO to $150.-
000. At the annual meeting of stockhold
er* on Tuesday, at which So per cent, of
the stock was represented, the matter was
discussed favorably, and it was decided
to pass upon the advisability of doing
this at a meeting in February.
The contemplated strike of the dye
house of the Eagle and Phenlx mills at
Columbus will not take place. The trou
ble was settled by the receivers agreeing
to remove all the colored employes and
allowing only whites to work. While this
does not give the employes any more
money they say it will help them by
other men being put In to till the places
now filled by negroes.
An adjourned term of Terrell county su -
perior court will open at Dawson to-mor
row to try five negro men charged with
three murders, who were not behind the
liars when the last November court was
In session. These are General liayes, who
so brutally whipped and burned to death
his little child; Ed Stevens, who killed an
other negro man. Jack Gresham. Christ
mas week, and Harris Floyd. Oss Kelly
and Turner Solomon for killing Owen
Cross, a negro man, a short time since,
whose murder was shrouded In mystery
for several days.
Motion for bail in the case of Dr. A. T.
Ford of Worth county, who killed his
cousin, William J. Ford, in October, 1835,
was argued before Judge IJttlejohn of
the southwestern circuit at Albany Thurs
day. Judge Spence being disqualified. Dr.
Ford went to trial at last fall term of
Worth superior court, but the Jury failed
to agree and a mistrial was declared.
Defendant is confined in Bibb county Jail
for safe keeping, and by consent the case
was tried without having him present.
Judge Littlejohn announced at the con
clusion of the argument by counsel, that
he would take time to review the evl
dence before rendering his decision.
Alfred Cain, the man Bhot on Factory
street at Atlanta Christmas day by Mitt
Smith, died Friday morning from the ef
fects. Cain was conducting a little groce
ry store at 90 Factory street, and
on Christmas day, his friends claim, he
was standing in the street talking to a
negro, when Smith came along on a horse
and, cursing the negro, ordered him to
get out of the way. Cain interferred,
when Smith drew a pistol and struck him
on the head twice. Cain then seized the
pistol and they clinched. In the scuffle
Cain was shot in the abdomen. He also
had a wound In the pulm of his hand,
from the effects of the shot. Smith Im
mediately disappeared and has never been
caught. The governor will be asked to of
fer a reward Or his capture.
Atlanta Journal: The ease of A. R. Fow
ler, who Is minus both hands, against the
Preferred Accident Insurance Company,
was argued before the second division of
the supreme court. Messrs. Payne and
Tyne, counsel for the Insurance company,
lion-suited the case in the city court some
time ago, and Mr. George Westmoreland,
on behalf of the plaintiff carried the case
to the supreme court. Mr. Fowler claims
that he took out an accident policy with
the Preferred Accident Company, which
provided that he should receive an indem
nity of $2,500 In case he should luse either
of his hands. Soon afterwards, while out
bunting, his gun was accidentally discharg
ed, the load injuring his hand to such a
degree that amputation was Imperative.
He made application to the company for
his Insurance, but It was refused and he
tiled suit to recover. The company alleged
that Mr. Fowler, when he was a theolog
ical student preparing to enter the univer
sity as a Presbyterian preacher, went to
Mn> office of the company and made appli
cation for an accident policy. The policy
provided for the compensation of $2,5u0 for
the less of a hand, which was the largest
sum provided for in any policy Issued by
the company. The company refused the
payment on the grounds that when the ac
cident occurred Mr. Fowler had not been
accepted as a risk. The defense; urged at
the trial that it was a very unusual thing
for a man to seek accident Insuiance and
pick out the very best the company could
grant and In just seven days afterward
have an accident befall him. The lower
court sustained the position of the compa
ny and Mr. Fowler carried t)e case to the
higher court. Now comes an interesting
feature of the case. While the suit was
pending before the supreme court, Mr.
Fow.er took out another accident insur
ance policy with the accident department
of the Aetna Life Insurance Company. On
Oct. 22. 18S, while out hunting, near Union
City, Tenn., Mr. Fowler lost his other
hand, for which the Aetna Immediately
remunerated him in the sum of f1,666.#3.
Mr. Fowler, in a letter to -Mr. Zeno T.
Harris, the general agent of the company,
said that he was very grateful for the
prompt payment of the insurance, as ht
did not think his application had yet been*
accepted.- Mr. Fowler first made applica
tion for $10.09(1 Insurance, which the com
pany declined to accept, but granted him
the indemnity for the loss of his hand,
which application he had subsequently
made. The ease against the Preferred
Company is now under consideration by the
supreme court.
At.anta' Journal: in Jones’ history of
Georgia there, is a statement to the effect
that one Samuel Delk settled in July, 1777,
on the Ogeechee river, at what was known
as Morgan’s ferry, and in August, while
absent from him Indians came and mur
dered his wife and four of his children. Hi
was a brave soldier of the revolution. Col.
W. C. Glenn says that he is in receipt of
a letter from a gentleman In Augusta
ailing his attention to the fact of Samue.
Deik's settlement on the Ogeechee river,
and that he knows Taylor Delk is a direct
descendant of Samuel Delk. Samuel Delk
was a soldier In the American revolution.
The Delks, so Col. Glenn says, moved to
I’tke county seventy years ago* and hav<
lived in the house where the killing of
Sheriff Guinn took place during a.l tfiesi
years. According to this Mrs. Taylor,
who now lives in an humble little two-room
cottage on D'Alvigny street, has a right
to become a member of the Daughters of
the American Revolution.
FLORIDA.
The annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic occur* at St. Pe
tersburg, Jan. 19.
An unknown man was found alongside
of the railroad track at Vulee Friday
morning in an unconscious condition. He
is supposed to have fallen off a passing
train.
The shell road from DeLand to DeLeon
Springs is an assured fact. About $4,000
has been subscribed to build It, and when
finished It will he one of the most beau
tiful drives in the state.
The unusual sight of two whales was
witnessed in Pensacola harbor Friday.
They were about thirty feet in length,
and had Just crossed the Inner bar when
they were first seen spouting water.
Col. Samuel T. Shaylor of Jacksonville
has received a communication from the
’djutant general, tendering him the ap
pointment of judge advocate on the gen
eral staff, with the rank of colonel.
The petition for removal of the county
seat of Baker county from Macdenny to
Sanderson has been signed by more than
the requisite number, and will be present
ed to the board of county commissioners
at next meeting.
John Bettleford Is the latest candidate
for the postmastershlp of DcFuniak
Springs. Hon. T. F. McGourin, United
States commissioner and postmaster un
der the Harrison administration. Is con
sidered slated for the United States mar
shalship for the district.
The appolntmeht of J. C. Stowers rs
postmaster at West Palm Beach has been
confirmed by the Senate. This office was
made a presidential one of the third or
der last July, hut, as no confirmation could
take place until congress should meet, Mr.
Stowers ha* not felt secure of his place.
He Is now fixed for four years.
Several bushels of broom corn seed has
been received by the board of trade of
Orlando. The seed will lie planted In or
der to have a foundation for a broom
factory, and will he distributed among
such farmers of that Immediate vicinity
as will undertake to plant it properly and
to care for It. No charge will be mude
for the seed.
Several of the large shell mounds or.
the B|>eneer place at West Palm Beach
have been opened recently, and some cu
rious relics found. J. H. Dicks has ex
amined skeletons of very large-sized In
dians In perfect condition, at a depth of
one and one-half feet. The bones became
very soft when they were exposed to (he
air. They were found piled, us if burled
carelessly In a heap.
Mr*. Ann McCarty arrived at Cypress
Friday looking for her only child, a girl
of about 12 years. She says that while
she was confined in an asylum in Texas,
two yearß ago, her husband left that
state, taking the child with him. As soon
as released, two months ago, she found
out by some means that the man had
gone to West Florida, and the child had
bttl in near Apalachicola. Without any
money she made her way to Apalachicola.
There she heard that her daughter was
with a family .near Cypress, and retraced
her Journey to Cypres*. The long search
was rewarded by a happy meeting with
her little daughter.
Fort Ogden has not had a good rain In
two months, and the ponds are all drying
Up. There have been several white frosts,
killing potato vines and tomatoes and
beans. The truckers of Fort Ogden will
plant largely of watermelon*, under con
tract with Mr. R. A. Hurford of Johns
town, Ga. He furnishes the Kolb Gem
seeds, and will pay s2(l per hundred for
all that will average twenty pounds and
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JANUARY 17. 1897.
Deaf
From Catarrh.
The sufferer from catarrh, perhaps,
meets with more discouragement in
■eeking a cure than those afflicted
with all other ailments. After ex
hausting the skill of the best physi
cians, and inhaling various mixtures,
paying out large sums for doctors’
fees and medicines, he finds himself
either as bad off as at first or a great
deal worse.
The cause of this is easily explained.
The disease is in the blood, and only a
real blood remedy can possibly have
any effect upon it. The doctors being
unable, with their stereotyped reme
dies of potash and mercury, to cure
diseases of the blood, direct their
efforts toward treating the symp
toms of the disease, and ignoring ita
cause. The inhaling of various sprays,
and use of washes, etc., is but a su
perficial and temporary treatment,
and cannot possibly effect a cure.
Mrs. Josephine Polhill.
Mra. Josephine Polhill, of Due West,
8. C., was for years a sufferer from
this distressing complaint, and has
learned by experience its tortures.
She says:
“For years I was the victim of the
worst case of catarrh that I ever
heard of. I was treated by several
doctors, and took numerous medicines
claiming to cure the disease, but in
stead of being benefitted my condi
tion grew worse steadily.
“The trouble became so deep-seated
that I was entirely deaf in one ear.
It is difficult to describe my condition,
but some idea of the ravages of the
disease can be obtained when I state
that all the inside of my nose, includ
ing part of the bone sloughed off. It
can be readily understood how offen
sive all this was, and how unbearable
my condition became. When the
disease had gone this far the physi
cian gave me up as incurable, and
told me I would never be any better.
“Reading of many similar cases be
ing cured by S. S. S., I determined to
try it as a last resort. I soon discov
ered that all my former treatment
had been wrong, as the disease was in
the blood, and only a blood remedy
could cure it. I began to improve at
once, and grew better as I continued
to take S. S. S. It seemed to get at
the seat of the disease, and after a
few weeks’ treatment I was entirely
cured, and for more than seven years
have had no sign of the disease.”
Catarrh is one of the deep-seated
blood diseases, and only a thorough
blood remedy will have any effect
upon it. S. S. S. is the only blood
remedy that is guaranteed
Purely Vegetable
and cures Catarrh, Cancer, Conta
gious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Rheu
matism, Eczema, and all other dis
eases arising from impure blood.
Books on blood and skin diseases
will be mailed free to any address.
Swift Specific Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
upwards up to the Ist day of June. He
has also contracted all along the Florida
Southern railroad on the same terms, and
will ship in car lots. This is anew plan
and will work to the advantage of all, as
the small growers who do not have a car
load can sell all they have.
The Florida East Coast railway and as
sociate companies havo recently completed
the platting of two town sites in Dade
county, where the surrounding lands are
especially adapted for growing citrus
fruits, pineapples and winter vegetables.
The town of Fort Lauderdale, on New riv
er. has a beautiful location on both sides
of the river. The streets are grubbed and
cleared, and a powtofllce, store, telegraph
office, express office and "Adirondack
Camp,” with accommodations for fifty
people, are now established. Fort Lauder
dale Is but two miles from the ocean. Pro
gresso is located on Middle river, one mile
north of Fort Lauderdale. It has a line
site, comprising some of the best lands In
the county, with surrounding farm lands.
The streets are cleared and grubbed. In
order to get a settlement started at these
points the companies offer the following
inducements to excursionists from points
north of the Ohio river: To the tlrst fifty
persons who shall purchase two and one
half acres of fruit land at list prices at
Fort Lauderdale one lot, valued at from
17.1 to $l5O. will lie given free. To the next
fifty persons a lot worth from SIOO to sl2l
will be sold for SSO. To the next fifty i>er
sons a discount of 25 per cent, from list
price will be made on any town lot. Simi
lar Inducements are offered to purchasers
of land at Progresso. A. Shulson, solic
iting ugent of the Florida Kast Coast rail
way. will leave the west on Jan. 19, with
an excursion of homeseekers bound fof
Fort Lauderdale and Progresso.
A WISH LITTLE DAK.EH.
gpnrron Help Him Materially In
Keeping His Shop Clean.
From the Philadelphia Times.
New Orleans, La.—There Is a wise little
baker down In the neighborhood of the
French Market, who has solved the prob
lem of keeping his’ place free from tiles,
and also from much of the dirt that more
or less accumulates on the counters and
about the floors of even the best regulated
of bread shops.
This he has done by coaxing a flock of
gay little sparrows to make free about the
place, catching the files and picking up
the crumbs us they fall. This they do In
the busiest and jolllest manner possible,
making the little shop the liveliest and
quaintest place In the whole quarter.
It is quite a drawing card for the wise
little baker, too, for, somehow, folks like
to see him dealing out the clean brown
and white loaves In the midst of his chat
tering. neat little friends, sometimes six
or eight of the birds being perched at
once on his Jolly round shoulders, or |-ep-
Ing over the top of his bald head. They
get a good living out of the shop, but they
earn every morsel of It, for they do their
work well.
THE BANDIT WAS KILLED,
A WESTER* HOLD-UP THAT HAD A
STABTLUiC CLIMAX.
An Engineer's terve—tVntchlnK 111*
< linin' V, He < aught Ills Guard I na
tvarea anil. After Putting u llul'.rt
Through fin- Hubbrr', llrnil, I*ut
on Full Steiun and Ran Away From
the Hanilits.
From the St. Louis Republic.
A train hold-up. w'ith an unusual end
ing, occurred recently in California. In
stead of the engineer bringing to town a
train load of frightened and plundered pas
sengers, he pulled in with nothing missing
except a leaden ball from his revolver.
This ball had found a lodging place In
the brain of one of the bandits, who had
been left a coprse beside the track, while
the train went triumphantly on. Here is
the story, as told by the engineer, Edwin
F. Ingles, upon the arrival of the train
at Oakland:
tVe had been a little late all the way
up from Benicia, said Mr. Ingles, and we
made the stop at Davis as short as pos
sible, in order to save a little time. 1
certainly did not notice anyone get on the
tender or the front car, and I cannot find
anyone who did, though that is undoubt
edly the place where the dead robber mad?
his start. After we left Davis we wera
whooping it up pretty lively, trying to
make up some of the lost time, and we
were coming down that straight track
nearly fifty miles an hour, headed for Sac
ramento.
Just after we passed Swingle's Siding,
when the old compound was legging it
pretty well, I heard a voice from over the
tender say:
"Throw up your hands!"
I looked around, and there over the coal
boards was a face looking down at me
and a big, black revolver with a. muzzle
that looked as big as the stack of a loco
motive pointed straight at my head. The
man repeated:
"Thrown up your hands!”
You can bet that it didn't take very long
for us to.obey, and our hands went up.
There were three of us on the footboard
of the engine, my fireman. Burns; a col
ored cook from the dining car and my
self. The cook had got on the engine at
Davis to ride into Sacramento with us
There is a standing joke among the din
ing car men that I am held up every little
while and they won't ride with me be
cause of that. I was joking with this fel
low and Davis and asked him If he was
afraid to ride with me and he said not,
that he would ride even if I was held up.
I guess that he got all that he bargained
for. -b
When that robber got his gun over the
coal boards the whole three of its gavi
up, for he had the dead wood on us, and it
would have done no good to fight. He
came down off the coal pile and stood in
the-gangway of the engine, holding on
to the railing with his left hand and keep
ing his revolver pointed at me through
the cab window. I was sitting directly in
the window, and he had the absolute drop
OR
life UiJo me to pull about four car lengths
over the big trestle that is being rebuilt
just east of Webster's, and then slow
down. I slowed down going over the tres
tie, as we always do for safety, and kept
talking to him all the time.
• It was only a very few moments from
the time that he made his appearance over
the coal until we got to the trestle.
I kept talking to hint, asking him what
to do, and apparently agreeing cheerfully
with everything that he wanted. I saw
that there was no use to do anything ex
cept wait for a chance* and so I talked
to him all the time to disarm him and
get him feeling more at home, so that he
might give us some kind of an opening.
Ho told me to ytHow down at the trestle
and I came almost to a slop, when he told
me to pull ahead a little further. When he
got to the right point he told me to stop
and I did so.
The men, had planned everything very
carefully. fW the stopping point was a
great one for anything of that kind. The
engine and express ears were over the
trestle, hut the rest of the train was on
the bridge, so that the passengers could
not get off ttpd.ruq up to Interfere. Their
object was evidently to cut the express
car off and run it ahead to rob It at their
leisure, safe from disturbance from the
passengers.
Just as soon as we had come to a full
stop a second man showed up out of the
darkness and stood by the side of the
train. Just as soon as this other man
showed up he asked: “Is everything all
right?" The man on the engine with us
said it was. and he ordered my fireman to
get down off the footboard and go with
the fellow on the ground. I knew that
they wanted ttt'httve him cut the train in
two. Burns obeyed, and disappeared in
the darkness with the new man. leaving
the cook, the robber and myself on the
epglne.
The bandit kept his position on the side
of the engine, hanging on with his left
hand, and keeping me covered with the
revolver. 1 sat still, witn my nand on the
lever, and kept on asking questions. I
noticed that the man was a little nerv
ous, and that he would turn his head
away from me every few moments and
look back in the direction In which my
fireman and his partner had gone. He
was evidently expecting a signal to go
ahead, and was watching for It.
When he turned his head and before he
looked back, I made a dive into the tool
box In front of me and got my revolver
out. I held It behind the seat until he
turned.llls head again, and then I aimed
directiy v H him and let drive. I aimed to
hit him in tho temple, the side of his head
being turned toward me. but as I fired he
turned his eyes back upon me and the bul
let struck him just under the eye, passing
through his head. I fired a second time
and struck him In the neck, and then he
fell off. As he tumbled out into the night
his death grip tightened on his revolver
and it went oft, striking the tender tank
and tearing the varnish off.
Just ns soon as tha robber tumbled on I
yanked open the throttle and turned her
loose for Sacramento without waiting to
get any more shooting. The cook was in
the cab and had behaved first rate. I
asked him if he could shovel coal and told
him to get down and fill the engine up.
He did the best he could, but I soon saw
that he was banking the fire and that I
would have to Are myself, so I gave him
my pistol and asked him if he would
shoot. He said that he would, and I told
him to get up on the tender and shoot the
first man who came over there. I did not
want anyone else who might be on the
front platform to shoot me from the dark
ness. He took the pistol and got up on the
coal and rode Into Sacramento that way.
I had-my old signal whistle tooting all
the wuy in and we made some lively time
rolling Into the Sacramento depot.
I did not know what had become of my
fireman, and 1 was never so tickled as I
was when I slowed up In the depot and
saw him running up from the rear of the
train.
Fireman Patrick Burns' statement takes
up the story at the point where he was or
dered to the ground to uncouple the train.
The man that came into the cab had no
mask on at all, but the fellow who took
me in charge had a handkerchief musk on.
He had a revolver in his hand and told me
to come back to the third platform and
uncouple the train. We were walking
along the side of the track when we heard
the shooting going on between Ingles and
GREATEST MEDICAL iIGCESS.
W OINDERFUL CURES.
Ur. A. W. Kriimra, German, Specialist, from Ci c inmti, Formerly I
of Atlanta, Ga., Has Permanently Located ik Thii City, at
401 YV. Broughton Street, Corner Montgiinery-Our
Proposition: No Cure, No Pay—lie
Treatment That Cures.
How the wonderful medication does Its
beneficial work! It reaches, soothes and
heals every part of the human system,
curing invariably all forms of catarrhal
diseases of the nose, throat, vocal chords,
bronchial tubes, lungs and deafness. Dr.
KRI'MM has lifted the darkness and
blight of the word “incurables” from hun
dreds of thousands of these diseases. He
is in demand everywhere. He has obtain
ed from the United States Patent Office,
Washington, D. C., May 19, ’96, an honor
ary patent for the treatment of catarrh,
throat and lung troubles, it has astound
ed the whole medical profession all over
this country and Europe. It can be used
by any patient, as well as his physician,
and has cured invariably every case where
it has been used. It reaches every sore spot
from the orifice of the nose to the deepest
part of the lungs and to the innermost re
cesses of the middle ear.
Instead of irritating with sprays, inflam
ing and feeding the fires of the disease, it
the other fellow, and my man stopped and
said:
“What's that?”
I knew that Ingles had shot his man, but
I also knew that if I said anything of the
kind I would get it without waiting, so I
said: “I guess that partner of yours is
doing a little shooting to scare people.”
"You come hack and cut this train off,”
was ail he said.
We got on the platform and I began to
monkey with the coupling on top instead
of going under the cars. If I had intend
ed to cut the train in two properly I should
have first gone under the train and cut
the air hose. I knew that if I did that
it would tie the train up and make it hard
of impossible for Ingels to 3tart out If he
got the chance. Besides, I wanted to
make all the time I could, because I knew
that Ingles would get hia man if he had a
chance.
I found that the men had been fooling
with one of the levers and had it a little
loose. I put my foot over the latch of the
other one and pulled it two or three times
and pretended that it would not move.
One of the men stood by me and the other
sat with a shotgun in his lap on the steps
of the other car.
Suddenly the train began to move, and
one of the men ordered me to set the
hand-brakes. I made a bluff at this and
put my foot on the catch, so that they
could not be set tight and stop the train.
The train kept on moving and the men
got nervous and asked what was the mat
ter. I said that their man must be pull
ing up a little way, but that did ndt satisfy
them.'
Then they told me to ptop back against
the door of the car. and I began to look
for developments. The train was going
faster and faster and the men got more
and more worried. When the man with
the shotgun began to get tip I made up
my mind that it was time to get a move
on. and just then a passenger came up
behind the door. The man raised his shot
gun and I opened the door and threw my
self backward, fiat on the floor, knock
ing the man down and saving his life, for
the roof of the car was filled with buck
shot.
I did not lose any time getting through
that car. When I came back cautiously
I found that the platform was empty—
the men had jumped. They must have got
a bad tumble, for the train had been run
ning pretty well for two miles, and the
track along there Is not good for jumping.
THE FIRST CHIKCH STOVES.
A Great Contest Over the Stove Ques
tion In it Connecticut Town.
From the Evaagellst.
The story of the Litchfield stove and Its
recent discovery Is of much historical In
terest. The earliest version I know of was
given by S. G. Goodrich ("Peter Parley”)
In his “Recollections of a Lifetime,” pub
lished In 1856. Mr. Goodrich was born in
Ridgefield, Conn., In 1793, and his recollec
tions of early times run back to the be
ginning of the century and even before.
Perhaps your readers may like to see
his version of the stove story:
"One thing strikes me now with wonder,
and that is the general indifference. In
those days, to the intensity of winter. No
doubt the climate was then more severe;
but, tie that as tt may, people seemed to
suffer less from it than at the present
stage. Nobody thought of staying at home
from church because of the extremity of
the weather. * • • Let me tell you a
story, by the way, upon the meeting houses
of those days. They were of wood and
slenderly built, of course admitting some
what freely the blast of the seasons. In
the severe winter days we only mitigated
the temperature by foot stoves, but these
were deemed effeminate luxuries, suited
to women and children. What would have
been thought of Dean Olmstead and Gran
ther Baldwin had they yielded to the
weakness of a foot stove?
“The age of comfortable meeting houses
and churches in country towns was sub
sequent to this some twenty or thirty
yeurs. All Improvement Is gradual, and
frequently advances only l>y conflict with
prejudice and victory over opposition. In
a certain country town within my know
ledge. the introduction of stoves Into the
meeting house, about the year 1830, threat
ened to overturn society. The incident
may be worth detailing, for trifles often
throw light upon important subjects. In
this case the metropolis, which we will
call H , had adopted stoves In the
churches, and, nuturally enough, some
people of the neighboring town of E— set
about Introducing this custom into the
soothes, quiets and cures. Hundreds tes
timonials from physicians and patients for
Inspection at his office, 401 West Broughton
street. Savannah, Ga. The wonderful
cures of Dr. KRUMM. the famous nerve
specialist, offers 8300 REWARD for any |
case of CHRONIC, SPECIAL. PRIVATE
or RECTAL disease he undertakes and
fails to cure. SYPHILIS. STRICTURE,
HYDROCELE, UNNATURAL DIS
CHARGES, IMPOTENCY', LOST MAN
HOOD, NERVOUS DEBILITY', NIGHT
LOSSES. ECZEMA, CANCER, TUMORS,
PIMPLES, ULCERS, PILES, and DIS
EASES of WOMEN.
Thousands have been cured where all
others have failed. NOW, REMEMBER
THIS! You are not to pay me one cent
for my services until you are fully re
stored to perfect health, as I do not want
anything for nothing. If you cannot be
cured I will tell you so, and the poor is I
treated absolutely free of charge. Send
for symptom blank free of charge, medi- ,
cine everywhere.
HOME TESTIMONIALS.
Ripley. Ohio, Sept. 2, 1893.
Dr. A. W. KRUMM, Cincinnati, Ohio:
Dear Doctor—Such is my gratitude for
the unspeakable good you have done me
that I write you this, hoping that it may
be the means of bringing other poor suf-
I ferers to you for their benefit. I will say
that for over twenty years I had been a
most intense sufferer from a very com
plicated form of RECTAL DISEASE, or
piles. For seven years I could hardly get
out of my bed. I suffered ten thousand
deaths. I had twenty-seven doctors work
and operate on me, but with no results
whatever. And when I came to you, rec
ommended through a friend, whom you
had cured, I had lost all hopes of ever
being restored to health again, but, thank
God, you have cured me in less time than
sixty days, and now I am a well woman.
1 will never forget you in my life, and
will do all in my power to bring the af
flicted to you, for I know you can cure
them after all others fall, and without any
painful operations or instruments. Your
medicines and methods is the wonder cure
of the nineteenth century. Y'Ours Most
Truly,
Mrs. JOHN M. COCHRAN.
meeting house in their own village. Now,
the two master spirits of society, the dem
on of progress and the angel of conserv
atism, somehow or other had got into the
place, and as soon as this reform was sug
gested they began to wrestle with the
people until at last the church and soci
ety were divided into two violent factions,
the stove party and the anti-stove party.
“At the head of the first was Mrs. Dea
K., and at the head of the latter was Mrs.
Dea P. The battie raged portentously,
very much like the renowned tempest in a
teapot. Society was indeed lashed into a
foam. The minister, between the contend
ing factions, scarcely dared to say his
soul was his own. He could scarcely find a'
text from Genesis to Jude that might not
commit him on one side or the other. The
strife, of course, ran into politics, and the
representative to the assembly got in by a
happy knack at dodging the question in
such wise as to be claimed by both par
ties.
“Finally the progressionists prevailed—
the stove party triumphed, and the stoves
were accordingly installed. Great was the
humiliation of the anti-stoveites; neverthe
less, they concluded to be submissive to
the dispensation of providence. On the
Sabbath succeeding the installation of the
stoves, Mrs. Dea P., instead of staying
away, did as she ought, and went to
church. As she moved up the broad aisle,
it was remarked that she looked pale but
calm, as a martyr should—conscious of in
jury, yet struggling to forgive. Neverthe
less, when the minister named his text
Romans, 11., 20—anil spoke about heaping
coals of fire on the' head, she slid from the
seat and subsided gently upon the floor.
The train of ideas suggested was, in fact,
too much for her heated brain and shat
tered nerves. There was a rush to her pew
and the fainting lady was taken out.
When she came to the air she revived.
“ ‘Pray what is the matter?' said Mrs.
Dea K., who bent over her, holding a
smelling hottle to her nose.
“ ‘Oh, it is the heat of those awful
stoves,’ said Mrs. Dea P.
“ ‘No, no, my dear,’ said Mrs. Dea K.,
‘that can’t be; it's a warm day, you know,
and there’s no tire in them.'
“ ‘No fire in the stoves?’ said Mrs. Dea
P.
“ ’Not a particle,’ said Mrs. Dea K.
“ ‘Well, I feel better,' said the poor lady,
ar.d so bidding her friends good-by, she
went home in a manner suited to the oc
casion.’
HEALER CI RES WITH SUGAR.
Swears at It, anil It Makes Cripples
Sound,
From the New York Press.
London—Any morning you may see In
front of a house In the Rue Doudeauville
at Montmartre, Paris, a number of people
who will strike you as being weazened,
poor, crippled and sad, seekers at once
after physic and consolation. The house
Is remarkable of all the houses in the
street which Is far from fashionable, for
the little brass plate by the door. That
bears only the word "Jourdain." Simply
“Jourdaln." 'Whoever “Jourdain” Is, one
Is assured at sight that he has most ex.
cellent taste for Montmartre, though that
question never entered his head, as he will
tell you himself. His fame has become
so great among those who seek physio
and consolation ns to make more unnec
essary. Neither he nor M. Fellk Faure
needs a first name for identification.
Y’oti will find the old man inside, along
with patients whose turn came before
those who are on the walk. He is sit
ting by a table mumbling, a handsome
old man, with white, flowing locks, a face
like that of Cato, who might well be
chosen as a lay member qf the French
academy for the sake of its dignity. It
you had looked closer at the people in the
street you would have seen that each car
ried a little sack, such as you get at a
grocer’s.
When JourdaJn's nephew marshals a
fresh squad Into the room each one places
hi* sack on the table at which the old
man is sitting. Then they look on wonder
ingly, admiringly. Jourdain passes his
hands back and forth over the sacks,
mumbling the while. Then he empties their
contents, which, it seems, is sugar, on the
table, making a pile In the center of it.
More passes, morn mumbling and a thor
ough mixing of it follows. Then he makes
it Into as many small piles as there were
sacks. The mumbling becomes a chant.
Jourdain blows on each pile. He passes
little quantities from one pile to another
until finally he points his finger Uramatlc
Here Is no ther tk wrltPS . I
* 1
ty-six days\go. My\***L f I
fectly cured, i just cL fron ? per ~ I
physician, Di DlcksoTL ho m / . famil >‘ I
animation. I* was ni th „„ 11 eT ~ I
as he and sc-vral I
on me, but wifi, no sucJL s |
you have my most smcel hank ’ |
may use my name wheL von ou ■
may do you some good.yours I
thankfully. Prof. C. I
Here are names ami addt ( ?i I
may call upon or I
may speak more glowini atalt I
KRUMM and his I
medicines: Mr. August K 1 43a I
street, Cincinnati, O.; Mr. tt Gibt)9 I ||
perintendent of the Electric kht Cos At' I
lanta, Ga.. and thousands oflhera i'k* I
Dr. KRUMM has personal \ ler , 0 j I
dorsement about his wonderfV, ur ' ea I
for his personal character he l ers you " I
ex-Congressman R. R. Butler lEast Ten- I
nessee, state representative; Morel I
land, Moreland, E. Tenn.; Th*r, re jj os .* I
man, Corporation Counsel, CIA-nati q". I
ex-Postmaster John Zumatelnlneinnau’ I
Dr. KRUMM offers to the p* c 5500 t 9 I
any one who will prove any o 8h e abova I
recommendations false or untrul
REMEMBER NO CURE | PAY.
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Treatment by mail just as effltual a9
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Permanently located at 461 WestVough- I
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DR. KRUMM,
Gen Specialist, \
ally at each pile, saying: “And you: ail
you! and you! and now all of you! TiH
done!" I
The sugar Is returned to the sacks. All
each one of the suppliants receives hiJH
sack he gives Jourdain—“ Oh. whatevei I
you choose to make it. madam. m'sieur;B
it depends upon how efficacious you wist.H
the sugar to be." Madam, or m'sieur,*
gives liberally then, and so many m.ulamß
and monsteurs come that opulence and M. ■
Jourdain are already on friendly terms. I
“What do the poor folk do with the ru-B
gar?” I
“Oh, they put it in their coffee, only al
little, a mere pinch at a time. CouiJ there*
be any more pleasant way of taking medi-B
cine, m'sieur? Homeopathy outdone, eh, ■
m'sieur?” I
“And what will the sugar cure? Anil
what do you do to it?” I
“It will cure all the evils that flesh A |
heir to. One gentleman who came this!
morning was a cripple and had liver com- 1
plaint, and the little dark lady—oh. shol
gave me a franc—she is going to send her A I
to her soldier son in Algeria to keep oft I
the fever. And it will do It, too, m’sieur. I
I magnetize the sugar, m’sieur. an do I
other wonderful things to it which you ■
could not comprehend.” • I
"What did you say when you mure-1
bled?” I
“I swore by various saints who are my I
patrons and my allies. St. Louis Is one of I
them.” I
On the walls were curious testimonials I
from persons who have been cured. Ona I
person certifies to the cure of “a bad gas- I
trie trouble of the stomach.” Most of
them, however, were afflicted with sore
ness in an ankle joint. But this is due t
accident. Jourdain is too broad-minded a
"healer” to have a specialty. More im
portant than the testimonials is a motto
which stares at the patients as they wait,
saying, “Doubt is a sentiment which
chases all virtues from us.”
Once Jourdain was a workman, a plain
fellow in blue blouse. While walking in
the moonlight something sung in his ear
not the nightingale—but inner voices. ID
didn't wait to be called twice. He pack 1
his sachel and hurried off lo Paris, mag
netizing several concierges, who gava
him glowing testimonials on his way ’
Montmartre. His nephew, who doesn t
hear inner voices, but is not averse to the
jingle of franc pieces, is learning the art,
and assists when business Is too brisk lor
one person to attend to. Indeed, there is
the likelihood of a branch office being
started. One of Jourdan’s patients de
clares the water In her washbowl turne 1
into glycerine the other morning. To her
mind that is as good as a diploma. Jour
dain doesn’t think It is quite equal to tho
voices in the moonlight, but is rather of
the opinion it will do for a branch office.
STOLE A STONE WALL.
It Surron.led a Cemctery-Mvo
Pishes Also Become Booty.
From the New York Press.
Haverhill, Mass.-Two of the most
unique cases of thieving on record are be
ing Investigated In this city. One is the
stealing of 15,000 live fish and the other tho
theft of a big stone wall surrounding tho
cemetery of the Hebrew Burial Associa
tion. This Is the first Instance ever chron
icled of the larceny of a stone wall from s
graveyard.
Last fall Charles Goodrich constructed
an artificial lake on his estate and stock
ed it with "shiners” which he Intended 1
sell this wtnter. Yesterday he had a •
and went In search of the fish, but founj
that they had all gone. The lake was *'
there, and as there Is no outlet there was
only one explanation to the mystery.
The Hebrew Burial Association purchas
ed twenty acres of land near the _*
tier homestead two years ago. They in
closed the lot with a stone wall. The wait
has taken wings just as mysteriously
did the fish In the artificial lake.
The members of the association claim
that the stones were taken when the mi-i
--vsle reservoir was built, and they say tn -
they will bring suit against
board. The members of the board, how
ever, deny that they touched the stones 1
all and say that they got their stone trom
a lot of land which they purchased.
The stolen stone wall was about hair
mile long. It Is estimated that there wer
nearly 1,600 cords of stone In the wan.
Haverhill thieves have certainly selecte
strange booty. What have they done wn
it? Where could they hide It? The to a
of Haverhill any that a man who win
steal the fence from a graveyard will hee-
Itate at nothing