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The Grippe and Sulphur.
In my daily papers of December
22d I find that there are supposed
to be something like 100,000 cases
•of grippe in New York city, and
that it is also prevailing largely in
Washington, Philadelphia and oth
er cities, and is now threatening
Boston. It is a fact that when it
was prevailing as an epidemic
largely in our city a few years ago
J ascertained, by inquiry of my of
ficers at “Byarn’B Match Factory,”
that of the forty-three persons em
ployed there, not one had been
troubled by it
I have at various times told the
press how many at Memphis, Ten
nessee. | including the agents of
“The Howard Benevolent Associa
tion”] escaped the terrible epidem
ic of yellow fever there [es they
claimed | by wearing powdered sul
phur in their shoes—-also the evi
dence of a distinguished German
medical writer translated into
Bnglish, that wearing sulphur in
this way has proved a complete
protection against cholera and
cither epidemic diseases, —also
that'those working in the sulphur
mines of Italy escape the malaria
which prevails all about them, —
tdeo that sulphur in the shoes has
cured various cases of rheumatism,
—also that sulphur taken inter
nally or worn in the shoes has suf
ficient power to pass through the
body, the clothing and the pocket
hook, blackening the silver there.
I find in the London Lancet that
no lees authority than the presi
dent of the Institute of Civil En
gineers of London declares that
the sulphurous vapor produced by
the combustion of coal in that
city kills the disease germs in the
atmosphere.
It seems to me a duty, at this
time, to again suggest as widely as
possible through my own paper
and others that sulphur is very
cheap, and whether it destroys or
keeps out germs of disease from the
body, or only acts upon the imagi
nation it cannot do much harm to
try i t.
In the Scott County [Mississip
pi] Register of June 15th last will
Iw found an account of how the
agents of‘’The Howard Benevolent
Association,” at Memphis, escaped
yellow fever by wearing sulphur
in their shoos.
Hfc’f a teaspoouful of powdered
sulphur m each shoe or stocking
is considered to he sufficient.
As our readers know, we did our j
beat lust spring to put these facts ;
$ hxr the protection ot our soldiers ]
before our army and navy officials
at Washington.
We do not know whether any
thing was done about the matter
by our medical ollicers there, but
tee have roceived letters from army
olTicers and men, that with sulphur
iu the shoes they had no fevers
And also found the sulphur a com
.plote protection against ileas. On
this same Decembe 22nd we receive
in a letter from Captain Julius A.
Palmer, of this city, the following:
u ‘By the way. in view' of your f e
vjuent recommendations of com
mon sulphur, it came to my notice
vooetrtly that on California ranges
where walnuts are prepared for the
market the shells are bleached by
the use of brimstone fumes, and
that the men having charge of that
work are never touched by the
grippe, influenza or other epidem
ics which attackjtheir fellow-labor
ers on the eanie estates.” —In our
hum Animals Geo T. Angell.
La Grippe is again epidemic. Every
precaution should be taken to avoid it
Tts specific cure i9 One Minute Cough
Care. A. J. Shepord, Publisher Agri
•nltural Journal and Advertiser, Eiden.
-Mo., says: “No one will be disappointed
*ll using one Minute Cough Cure for La
Grippe.” Pleas mt to take, quick to act.
<J W. D.'L vPcrriere.
THE MAIL ROBBERY.
A CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE THE POOR
OF CHEAP LITERATURE. 4 *
Con k reim man Loud'a Attempt to
CknnKe the Ptatul Laws In the In
terest of the Itich Not a Word
AKolnat Transportation Robbery.
The conspiracy to knock out period
ical publications is still being pushed
by Lond and his committee of corpora
tion monopolista
It is claimed that tho big deficit in
the postal service is owing to the trans
portation of second class matter.
If railroad transportation could be
had at fair and reasonable rates, there
would be uo deficit.
It has beeu shown time and again
that the government rays from three to
ten times as much for carrying its mails
as the express companies pay for carry
ing packages. Asa rulo mail pouches
and express packages are carried in the
Eame car. They therefore receive the
same care, are transported in the same
time and at the same actual expense.
Then why should tho government pay
three and four times as much?
Of course there is “l>oodh” in the
contracts for mail service, and Uncle
Sam’s servants who are intrusted with
the matter get a rake off.
One of the inspiring causes, however,
for knocking out serial publication is
the opposition of the plutocracy to an
education of the masses. The more en
lightened the people the harder the road
for the wealth accumulators. Ignorance
is the cornerstone of a moneyed oli
garchy.
There are hundreds of thousands of
homes in the United States today where
good though cheap books can be plenti
fully found as a consequence of cheap
mail transportation. Within the last
dozen years millions upon millions of
these books—9o per cent of them useful
and meritorious—have been distributed
among the poorer classes, where not a
single book could have been found to
day had it not been fertile cent a pound
postal rate.
The question is, Shall this education
al benefit to the poorer classes he de
stroyed in order to put the postal serv
ice on a “paying basis?’’
Another interest which is to be serv
ed in cutting off the cent a pound rate
on periodicals is that of the wealthy
user of letter postage. Tho wealthy mer
chant or manufacturer, the banker and
the broker, who uses anywhere from
SSO to SSOO worth of postage stamps a
day, is anxious for a 1 cent rate for let
ters. This will save him any where from
SI,OOO to SIOO,OOO a year.
It would save tens of thousands of
dollars every year to each of 50 rail
roads that could be named.
Is it not safe to say that, including
all correspondence, notices sent out,
etc., by express companies at least
$1,000,000 a year is paid for letter
postage? Now, if letter postage can he
cut down one-half, it will be a direct
benefit of $500,000 a year to the express
companies alone.
Then think of tho wealthy insurance
companies which use thousands and
thousands of dollars every year for let
ter postage.
There is a single national bank in
Chicago which uses probably $25,000 a
year in postage stamps. What a “good
thing’’ it would be for that one institu
tion if letter postage could be cut down
to $12,500!
It is safe to say that two-thirds of all
postage stamps used in the United
States are used by wealthy men and
wealthy corpoatious.
In 1895 the number of letters aud
packages at letter poetage rates mailed
was 2,298,000,000. This year it will
reach fully 2,500,000,000. This means
about $50,000,000 expended for letter
postage in a single year.
If two-thirds of it, or, say, $35,000,-
000, is spent by wealthy men aud cor
porations, a reduction to a 1 cent rate
would mean a saving to them of sl?,-
600,000 a year.
But so long as the present annual def
icit of about $20,000,000 exists in con
sequence of the low rate on periodical
literature, as it is alleged, there is do
use of talking about 1 cent postage, say
the moneyed champions of cheap letter
postage.
Therefore, “the first thing to do” is
to shut out periodical publications, even
if it does deprive the masses of cheap
reading matter.
Congressman Loud of California has
been selected as the champion of this
grab all’s plan to knock out one kind of
cheap postage which benefits the masses
in order to inaugurate another kind of
cheap postage which will benefit the
rich.
Constituted as the government at
Washington is today, the chances are
that Mr. Loud's conspiracy will win.—
Norton's Monthly.
Slilllod Rifle Shots.
Attingbausen, a village in the Swiss
canton of Uri, as one of the homes of
William Tell tries to keep up its repu
tation for shooting straight. Out of 500
inhabitants 184, men and women, are
skilled rifie shots. The first prize in the
last schuetzeufest was carried off by a
15-year-old girl. Her father, seven
brother* and three sisters all shot, the
family taking nine prizes.
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PERSONALITIES.
Senator Platt of New York has an
enormous stock of conundrums which
he originates himself.
Samuel R. Collaway, president of the
Nickel Plate railroad, began work at a
salary of $8.83 a month.
Ethel Mary Charles is the first wom
an in England to adopt architecture as
a profession, aud she has already taken
many prizes.
Of all New York’s millionaires Cor
nelius Vanderbilt is said to be the most
sensitive to criticism, particularly crit
icism in print.
Frank G. Logan of Chicago gave
$35,000 to the Chicago Art institute as
a Christmas present. The money will
be used to build a library building.
Congressman John Murray Mitchell
of New York is a most enthusiastic
wheelman. His bike is of the most ex
pensive make, as are all its accessories,
including a $lO lamp.
The latest story of Lord Kitchener is
that when asked if he contemplated a
narrative of the Sudan campaign he an
swered: “No, no. Do let us have one
general who has not written a book!”
The latest sensation of Paris is a
young Swiss giant, Constantin byname,
who is amusing the audiences at the
Folies Bergere. He is over 8 feet tall
and so weak in the knees that he cau
scarcely walk.
Virgil N. Bakiluck, a native of Braz
za, in the Adriatic, and a member of
San Francisco's police force, is a good
Latin and Greek scholar and speaks
English, Russian, French, German,
Italian and Spanish.
It is related of Francis McKinley,
great-uncle to the president, that when
he was shot for participation in the
Irish uprising of 1798 he snatched the
bandage from his eyes and himself gave
the command to fire.
Two of the most famous living
Scotsmen are cripples—Lord Kelvin,
who is the greatest living Scotch scien
tist, aud Dr. James Macgregor of Edin
burgh, who is said to be tho greatest
living Scottisli preacher.
William Allen Butler, the transcon
tinental railway magnate, is the man
who, 80 years ago and more, created
the once famous Flora McFlimsey in
“Nothing to Wear.” He is uow t a suc
cessful New York lawyer.
Tho three greatest, living British sol
diers aro from the Green Island. Lord
Wolseley was born in Ireland, Lord
Roberts of Kandahar was born in India
of Irish parentage, Lord Kitchener of
Khartum was born in County Kerry.
James R. Keene is said to be the most
methodical man in New \ T ork. He has
his whoie day laid out to the minute
long beforehand and can remember at
once the opening and closing, highest
and lowest quotations of even the most
obscure stock for any day of a week
previous
YOU don’t need the doctor for
every little trouble, but
you do need in the house a trusty
remedy for times of danger.
Thousands are saved by having
at hand
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a certain cure for disorders of the
Liver, Kidneys and Bladder.
Use it atonce for sore back, furred
tongue, lost appetite and changes
in urine or bowels. It is wise to
be always ready for them. Sold
by druggists, si.oo a bottle.
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6T. LOUIS MO.
For sale by H. C. Poole.
*1 WAGONS |*
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B T.J G G I B S
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My stock of Wagons an
Buggies for this season i
the largest ever brought t
this section
An examination of my stock will convince the most skeptical t
the above is a true statement of facts.
ALL NOTES NOW DUE SirSMS
is a sufficent warning to our many customers, \\|
are due us by note or account, that they must cot
up at once and settle the same.
Don’t delay this matter longer, as we mean what we say anij
compelled to make these collections right away. Respectfully,
t. a. maynard;
WINDER, GEORGIA.
Tilt Age of Trusts.
One of the most pregnant signs of the
times in the commercial and financial
world is the concentration and central
ization of capital in allied branches of
trade and industry and which tend to
ward the monopoly or practical control
of each certain field. “Trusts” and
monopolies are tabooed by the law of
the land, but as there is more than one
way to skin an eel, so there is more
than one way to organize what is, to
all intents and purposes, a “trust,’’
with a full control of the desired prod
uct or branch of trade. The name
“trust” has now been legally eliminated
from the corporate titles of these mam
moth corporations that are springing
up on every side and in every branch of
trade and commerce, and as the success
and large profits resulting from these
large combinations of connecting inter
ests have become mora apparent similar
organizations are almost daily being
formed in heretofore neglected trades
or industries. From the present outlook
it would appear that the end will be
the control, or practical monopoly, of
each and every one of the larger branches
of trade and commerce by some mam
moth corporations that, to all intents
and purposes, fulfill the popular idea
of a “trust.”—Brooklyn Eagle.
State Farmi,
A joint committee of both houses of
the New Zealand parliament, appoint
ed to report on the desirableness of es
tablishing state farms and industrial
settlements as a means of alleviating
the evils arising from irregularity of
employment, recommended the estab
lishment of such state farms. The re
port goes to show that state farms are
necessary in order to meet the wants of
those who are temporarily unemployed,
have been displaced permanently by
machinery, or who, owing to irregu
larity of employment, are desirous of
obtaining practical knowledge of farm
ing operations and are unlikely to ob
tain employment elsewhere on account
of old age, bodily incapacity or ineffi
ciency. To these scate farms would of
fer a temporary home and employment
tinder certain specified conditions dur
ing the slack period and would give
useful and necessary training, aud to
the infirm would offer a comfortable
home and surroundings, besides tending
to lighten the burden of charitable
boards.
SOMETIME.
Out ol today’s mad struggle and distress.
Out of its ashes and duli weariness,
Hope sweetly rises with a patient grace
Strange to the fury of life's grinding plait
And, pointing o’er the hills where Sowell
dwells,
A whispered promise of her pleasure tells.
And we, who drag our yoke o’er heavy roi
Close in the shadow of more crushing loaai
Pause when the lash is still and lift oureji
To pictures hung against the distant skies
There we forget the sorrows of this clime
In the glad gardens of that fair SomelimS
Tomorrow is today again renewed.
With added penalties and servitude,
And smaller chance to dream of Someth
peace,
Where wasting weariness will find release.
Yet faith is stronger than our galling cares
And so we wait; but, oh, the waiting veaik
—George E. Bowen in Chicago Ke**
The Nicaragua Canal.
Several different syndicates are *i
Ing to build the Nicaragua canal, M
they wish the government to fun"
the money aud give to them the col
pleted work. We ought to havetb
canal, but we ought to build andoi
it as a national possession. Nob®
wants to see another steal like those:
eultiug from the building of the Pa c ‘
railroads. The people paid for build'
those roads three times over, yet ti)
don’t own even a single tie. W.
build that canal, pay for the work 1
treasury notes, collect tolls enough
pay expenses and to gradually pa. T(
those notes, and then the great
will belong free and unincumbered
us aud our children forever. Any o|l>
way of building it will be a stupeedd
steal.—Omaha Nonconformist.
The Sweet Child.
De Gauche (who has just broke"
plate)—Oh, 1 am sorry I
Mrs. Flash —It’s of no conseq"'"
Don’t apologize. ,
Flash, Junior, (age 5) —No, d®
matter. It’s only a borrowed one! -•“*
it, ma?—London Fun.
A Hopeless Qnest.
Fond Mother —Three years ago I **
him a chain, and he’s worn it out.
years ago I gave him a diamond =
aud he lost it, and last year I g° l
a watch, and he broke it. Now,
can I give that boy that will last- ,
Jeweler—Why not try diamon
r >ugs? J
Fond Mother —He couldn t
them. He pawned mine four y- ■ !
—Jewelers’ Weekly. j