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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 1885.
THE DOCTORS.
BILL* ARP DEVOTES HIS LETTER TO
TH^M.
The Pint Doctor He Baw-How tho Old Fat Physi
cian Improved Him-The Bow Between Two
S!g Medicine Mca-Tbe Indispensable
- Family Physician-Hospital Scenes. .
Tlio first doctor I ever niw had a good dea
of diameter aud about three'times as much
circumference. He was bigger round than
high lip, and in childish ignorance I associated
his size with his profession and have never
gotten over iti To fhis day when I rcad of a
great physician I think.of him as a large, fat
man. I can???t help it All the'small or the
lean, long doctors seem to me a mistake. This
old Doctor Hall was n dignified, drossy man,
and wore a heavy gold watch chain, with big
links, and a broad, fiat key and a seal attached
???a eeal with an H cut in it. With
what profound reverence did we
children watch him when he placed
ono of his fat hands upon the pulse
end held his big gold watch open in the other.
Wc felt like he carried with him tho seals of
life and death. He was our family doctor and
lie bled and gave calomel and forbade water,
and was the town oracle besides. He was a
man of opinions, but his words and pithy say
ings were like his breath, short winded. He
was kind of heart,but easily vexed and had
t no patienco with other people who dared to
, have opinions. I used to look at him as lie
covered a split-bottomed chair and wondered
If he ever crossed his legs like my father, and
I longed to see him try it.
His office was right on the public square aud
I was sent there sometimes for medicine.
He kept all tho medicine there, about a big
wheelbarrow foil of bottles and brown paper
packages, and sometimes he would unwrap a
package on the shelf and give mo a stick of liq-
orice root. He had a long, tall clock in ono
corner with apendulum that never tired and a
face that showed a moon that grew larger aud
huger or shrank up to nothing according to
age. I imagined that the clock was a myste
rious port or his mysterious profession. In an
other corner was a long tall box that stood on
end and had a door as long as the box, and one
day I saw it partly open and my hair stood on
.end. Awe and fear took possession of m3 for
there was a human skeleton hanging there and
I thought its cavernous eyes were looking
at me. Its teeth looked hungry, and the dang
ling arms had bony claws at their ends???claws
that looked like they could reach out after a
boy ever so far and grab him. The old darkies
used to tell us stories about raw head ami
bloody bones, and I thought that I had found
hit hiding place. But still I belloved that the
old doctor had him under his control, and
that this skeleton was certainly a part of his
calling. I have seen an hundred since, but
only that ono is photographed on my memory.
I see it now as plain as then.
Thcro was another fat man in town who30
name was Boyd, and he too had opinion.!.
Fat men always have opinions. Boyd
did not admire Dr. Hall, for they met some-
times and their opinions clashed. In course of
time they got ???at outs,??? and Boyd spoko of tho
doctor ns old ???Lobcely,??? or old ???Phloebotomy,???
or old ???Calomel,??? or old ???Apodcldoc,??? and soma
Pansy Sniffle who loved mischief would tell
the doctor what Boyd said, and tell Boyd what
the doctor said, and so the fire burned. Boyd
was not so shapely or so dressy as Hall, and the
doctor said that be looked liko a dirty old mo
lasses hogshead with two pegs in the bottom for
legs and two in the sides for arms and a big
soap gourd on top for a head. So thoy swore
wrath against each other and were going to
whip one another on sight. They had their
usual routes to the postoffico and about and
about, and each kept a sharp lookout for fear
he would meet tho other. But ono
day they made an oversight or a miscalcula
tion, and they turned a corner as ono was
coming and tho other was going. Hall hod
been to tho postoffico and. had an open news
paper in his hand and his gold spectacles on
his nose. They collided with some little' forco
aud their circumferences met . and flattened
and rebounded. Without a word they began
to strike out and claw each other, but either
their arms were too short or their diameters
too long and both foiled to reach the mark.
Nevertheless they clawed around and mado a
commotion and got red in the face and out of
breath until my father and another friend
camo up and gontly separated thorn
and;thcn suddenly their tongues were un
loosed aud they unloaded upon each other. ???J
???aid I was going to whip you,??? said Boyd, ???and
now I've done it.??? ???You lying old dirt-dauber,???
eaid Hall, ???I whipped you and never stopped
reading my paper.??????
Dr. Hall had a big, fat, lazy horso whoso
name was Selim. Selim was gentle and kind
and had his gait???only one gait???and that w?
a stately, dignified walk. Ho was never know .
to get out of it. There was a horso block in
front of tbo doctor???s office, and Selim know ex
actly liow to place himself for the doctor to
mount. His back was broad and tho saddlo was
broad and* the doctor was broad qnd
everything was in harmony. When the caval*
cade moved it looked liko it was going to a fa
ucial instead of to prevent one, and nothing
could hurry it???not even tho most Iminent
peril or unexpected accident, for tho old doc
tor was a kind of fatalist and believed that
what is to be will be whether it happens or not,
and so ho carried no whip and wore no spurs.
One day the old doctor died in his big arm
chair and waa succeeded by a younger and
more progressive man???a relative of his by tho
natno cf Wild man. He was fresh from New
York???fresh from tho school of Valentine
Mott aud he waked up things in
town. He ent off limbs in a hurry
and removed tumors and cataracts and stones
and bad an electric battery with a big glass
wheel, and when ho was called to the country
he went in a hurry, and his driving was liko
the driving of Jehu. His name and his fame
were spread all over tho country, and he liad
students and fired them up with his own ambi
tion. By and by they got to robbing gravo-
yards by night, and there was great consterna
tion. My eider brother was studying medi-
cino then and so waa Dr. Alexander, of your
city, aud Dr. Craig and Dr. Wilson, and, ono
dark, rainy night I waa let into their secret,
and was permitted to go with them to tho old
Bedlaml graveyard and dig np a darkey,
and they brought him in and dissected
him and studied his muscles, and tendons, and
veins, and arteries, and then they boiled him
down and made a skeleton of his bones, and
learned much for thcmaclvea and more for hu
manity. I don???t blame folks for guarding the
graves of their dead, and I don???t blame the
doctors for getting corpses when they can. One
la family sentiment for the dead, and the other
abroad humanity for the living. I have no ob
jection to their taking other people???s remains,
but I don???t want them to take those who are
near and dear to me, and just so it is with
everyItodv. A man loves his own dog and will
fight for him, bnt he don???t, care a cent for any
body e???ae???s d??g, {1
Dr. Wildman moved to Columbus and from
there to Savannah, where he died during a
pestilence.
Doctors are a curious institution. I like the
profession and honor them, but they are
carious. The practice of their calling makes
them ro. Some are more sympathetic and
tender hearted than others, but as a general
rule all of them get hardened to suffering. A
S in ora pang or an agony is no more to them
n the creaking of a machine. I hear them
talk it mistimes when they get together, and
they remind me of hunters telling their ex
ploits. Well, not that exactly, for hunters tell
how many they killed, and the doctors don???t.
* But they talk with the ouno enthusiasm and
} bo same indifference to human
??? offering. Their success is the big thing
* that
, tlong
B ... e of in terra rceptiou,
and he said: ???I tried everything that was ever
heard of, end as a last resort I got a block and
tackle and fastened it to a joist m the kitchen
and then I swung the darkey up with his head
down and I bumped him around awhile until
I heard something pop and sure enough he
straightened out and said he was all right, and
he was, and I am going to takeouts patent on
that.???
These hospital surgeons work oil human
flesh, with their knives and saws just like a
butcher works on sausage meat.
Nearly twenty-five years ago I saw Dr.
Miller cut ofT arms aud legs
after a battle as fast as our
old darkies used to cut up hogs in 'killing
time.??? When he got through with one he
wiped his hands and his knife and said, next
It would not do for the doctors to have much
sympathy. It would unfit them for business.
1 can read about suffering and distress until I
am sick and sad and feel like weeping rivers of
tears for the poor things, but I feel my utter
helplessness and quit reading and thinking
about misery. If the doctors had to shed tears
for every patient, the fountain would soon be
exhausted. They experiment and diagnose and
make mistakes ana lose patients, bat it is
all for the best. Somebody has to be sacrificed or
science would not progress. It is like a father
with his children fleeing from the wolves.
Ho presses his team as hard os he can and
throws over a hat or a cloak to gain time, and
next ho throws his dog to the hungry brntes,
and finally he has to give them one of his
children to save tho rest, Tho doctors experi
ment with disease and skirmish with doath
just like the general of an army fights battles,
Some must be sacrificed to save the country,
and so after a battle he counts up the killed
and wounded aud is happy if ho has killed
more of tho other aide than he lost
of his own. He likes to show
a good balance sheet, even though it is a bloody
one. Victory and glory arc bigger things than
human suffering or the grief of the loved ones
at homes.
But still the family doctor is a part of the
family???an honored part. We are drawn to
him as to a friend in need, and he is drawn to
us. Ho lias enough sympathy for his purposes.
His tenderness may lie professional,but it is tho
right kind for tho patient. Tho doctor is near
er and dearer to the family than the preacher,
although one ministerial to tho mortal
Jiodv nncl the other the immortal soul. Bodies
are higher things than souls. Tho whole world
with all its vast machinery is at work for
bodies, hat tho work done for souls is only a
side show in comparison. The family doctor
holds n higher place than tho family lawyer,
for health is a bigger thing than monoy or
property, and there nro but few lawyers
who would not take a case against usas readily
as one for us.' There are two sides to litigation
but only one to medicine.
The midnight oil burns dimly while I writs.
On tho bureau nro signs of sickness. Vials,
with, labels and numbers and the druggist's
name ??ml the doctor's and tho patient???s. There
is aconite and gclsemlnum and tnrnsntino
emulsion aud veratrum and bromine and
cnralybtus pills and calomel and glass tubes
and a machine to throw carbolic spray into
the threat. There is a chart hanging in tho
hull marked off in squares to register tho
mcruing and evening temperature of tho pa
tient, In one corner of the room is n bod and
a cat beside It, and a sick boy on tho bod, and
his mother goes noislcssly around and
watches him aud arranges the cover
and keeps the bottle of hot water to his feet,
and moistens his lips and sponges his forchoad,
and sometimes leans over and whispers lovinj
words, and kisses his feverish brow. This i
the sick room, and thcro arc thousands of them
over the land???the room where hopes and fears
abound and nothing enters hut love and pity
and tenderness. Thirty-five days have passed
over this oue and the good doctor says thcro
ore more to come, but the boy will weather tho
storm, and so wo aro hopeful and thankful
and patient. It was a good time to write about
doctors, and so I have ^written.
_ Bill Arp.
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S SAFETY.
?and they hare no time to say ???How <
poor follow did suffer.??? I heard one not 1
'ago tell anotherabout a case of intersnreept
Ifow Absolute Freedom From Danger was
to Ilave neon So cured.
From the Washington Post.
When President Cleveland accepted Presi
dent Garrett???s tender of a special train to carry
lilm over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to In
dianapolis, that company began to make prepara
tions of unusual completeness. Extraordinary
precaution* were to have been taken to insure the
safety of the president. Officials over tho entire line
of the railroad were summoned to Baltimore for
conference, and only there high In authority were
acquainted with tho fact that the presidential party
would go over the rood. It was arranged that two
trains should bo run, ono an hour ahead of tho
other, and between them pilot engines and track
walkers, so that no moment for an hour prior to tho
coming of the presidential special was there to bo
any cessation in the personal inspection of tho
track.
The first train was to have two or three extra
can, closed up, so aa to create tho Impression, that
the presidential party was aboard, this being dono
to avoid the crowds which might otherwise gather
at the Jdepots and stations enroute. Tho second
special, w hich was to leave Washington from a
point known only to those in the confidence of tin
president, was to run one hour behind the firs
speclalnml be composed of five private cars, namely
Mr. Gam-tt???scarforthe use of the president, and
the cars of Vice-President???* Bpenccr and Smith and
General Manager Dunham and General Su
perintendent Lee for the cabinet. Two
engines were ordered to bo ready at ouch division
headquarters, and in every instance to bo most care
fully inspcctid and thoroughly gone over. Prior to
the arrival of tho presidential party watchmen
were placed at every station and crossing through
out the entire system. All trains of whatsoever
ehoracter, limited express, passenger or otherwise,
were instructed not to rnovo on the west bound
track upon ar.y consideration from tho timo of the
arrival of the- firet social until tho time of passage
of tho second, fo that any mishap was almost -im
possible. None of the changes of engine* on the
presidential special party were made iu tbo citlos,
but in each instanco at points beyond.
When the president decided to abandon his trip
the railroad company concluded to let tho entire
arrangements stand and carry tho cabinet to In
dianapolis exactly as tho president would havo
been conveyed. Mr. Bayard occupw** the car de
signed tortlic president, while Secretaries Lamar
and Wl-dUiey and Postmaster-General Vilas mid
Colonel Wllron have equally cxcliidvo accommo
dation*. Tho train will make an average of
thirty-live miles an hour between here aud Indian-
thirty-1
???joifs.
AMERICAN WITCHCRAFT.
The belief in witches and witchcraft was very
general In early colonial times. There was much
excitement in England during the reign of King
James I. on the subject, and the excitement natur
ally spread to this country. In Virginia there were
several Instances of witchcraft, which were dis
posed of by ducking the victims. In Pennsylvania
wc find the only witchcraft care recorded In 1GS3.
A woman was tried, on perfectly trivial evidence,
for bewitching cows and geese.
The council, presided over by Penn,
found the woman not guilty according to the tonus
of the indictment, but guilty, or common
fame as a witch; and she was bound in
the sum of ??100 to good behavior. In the colonies
there were reputed witches, but only in Massachu-
setts was the extreme measure of putting them to
death adopted. Previous to the extraordinary ex
citement about the Salem witches there had been
several executions #n this charge in the Massachu
setts colonies. The latest Instance had been the
hanging of an Irish woman In Boston in IMS, ac
cused of hew Itching four children. During the
winter of 1001-92 a com^any^ consisting mostly of
SOUTHERN SCENES.
Life In tho Old Plantation Time???Catching
Doodles.
I suppose every boy that has any boyishness
about him, haa an instinctive aversion to go
ing to chnrch. I wish I bad as many oppor
tunities of attending the good old-time meet
ings now as I had In those days when the
???oft bloom of childhood was on my cheek, and
my yonngeyes saw nothing bat Innocence
???nd purity In my surroundings. Yes,
would go to meeting regnlarly if I could go
over the past with this fund of experience to
guide me. I wouldn???t roll up my breeches
and wade about in the Icy water in search
of possom beans and bamboo berries. Nor
would I, when compelled to attend services,
stick pins In tho backs of other
unfortunates nor cost leering glances at cer
tain dignified maiden ladies who returned my
grins and grimaces with looks of the moifc
intense disgust and genuine disapproval
don???t think I???d make dumb signals at little
girls who sat prim and stuck-ap on their scats
near the aisle. No, I???m quit?? sure I???d bo fully
equal to those model lads w ho existed in tho
old-fashioned Sunday school literature. My
hair would be combed and tho smile of a half-
fledged saint would play about my pathetic
little mouth, and in my beaming countenance
the light of a heavenly divinity would shine
through the varnish of lye soap that was
used to remove tho accumulated dirt of six
(lavs tumbling and tossing about iu the dear
old dusty yard.
By tho way, did you eye r
catch doodles? Why, I boliovo doodles
have become extinct. I don???t think I???ve no
ticed a doodle bole iu fifteen or twenty years.
But they used to bo thick under tho old gin
liouso where the dirt was loose and dry. Thoir
miniature craters wero nicely scooped out, and
Jake was tho first person I over saw catching
doodles. Be taught me. He would take a
straw and ticklo the sand around tho edgte of
tho hole, and say ???doo-oo-dlo, doodle, doodle,
S ot er piece er meat an??? bread fur ye; doo-oo-
lo, doodllo, corao out cr dar,??? and tho doodle
would think tho straw w as an incautious in
sect that had fallen into tho pit, and ho would
begin to rustic around in tho bottom of the trap
and cast up little jots of sand to impedo tho
efforts of what ho supposed to be the strug
gling insect, and then Jake would scoop the
horrid little scaly insect up. Several
captures made wo would take thorn to a spot of
hard ground and havo a grand contest of doo
dles, for thevicious little things would claw
each other right royally.
But I am along wav off tho subject I started
on. What I started to tell you was about the
timefthe circuit rider camo toourhouso for din
ner and I was mado to put mysolf on exhibition
to my great annoyance,and the evident embar
rassment of tho parson. True, he patted mo
on the head ana said I showed a superior in
telligence, and that he had always noticed that
boys who had great rough heads like I had
were apt to turn out geniuses if thoy didn???t
drift into the legal profession, and
I left him with reelings of burniug
indignation and retired to tho cabin of Undo
Menton to got some information regarding tho
clerical profession.
Tho old man had an old worn Blblo in his
hand, and ho had learned to read a little, and
ho knew some by heart, having heard it quot
ed so much. I remember Just how ho road, in
a deep voice, with a peculiar monotonous into
nation:
???Iu thoso days camo John, tho (Baptist,
preaching in tho wilderness of Judc-ah, ana
say-Ing, re-pent ye, for theking-dom of heabou
is at hand,??? and so on.
???Ah-b! chile. I knows dem proodmhs mighty
well, I docs. Ono timo mo an??? yo??? fgran???pa and
some udder folkscs ???us or cornin???
down do rivah f???om August?
ou or flat boat. Doy 'us ono w???ito man w'at in
do crowd. A mighty woesked, but ???e strick
???boutn folkscs cutt???n up orroun do chu???ch
???ouso. One (lay we ???us all tl???od. an??? des at sun
down wo spied er big ole chuch 'ouso stau'in??? by
river bank, and wo all ???elded to go da??? an??? ror
fo???do night We pulled do olo boat up orgin
do bank, an??? we all wont inter do honso, an??? wo
so???ter poked erroun twel wo fonn' do way up
???ta???ra, an??? don wo all lay down np da an was
dcs cr gwino er have or good timo. A???ter so
long cr timo we heered do folks begin tor corao
inter do ebu???eh, an??? wo ???us mighty still *
wouldn??? know dat wo ???us dar, an??? a
lo do preachah got up, an??? ???o sung or chuno.
????? prayer an??? don '?? rota
tex an??? gun ter preach.
Do mo??? ???e preach do wa???mer ???o got, twol at las???
???c dcs got all flahed up n??? ???e say, ???o did, ???Ef
Gab'l wus to blow '?? trumpet who???d bo ready
fo??? ter go????'
Do boatman ???us er lying close to ???o boss, aud
'c speak low an??? 'e say, ???e did, ???Mossor, loume
give ???em cr toot.???
???Hush, you rascal, n??? be still,??? 'o boss say.
Den de old preachah ???cdcsnnt???ally r???ar, ???odid,
an??? ???o jump un 'n??? hollah: ???Ef Gab???l???us ter blow
????? trumpet, who???d bo ready fo??? ter go????
Do boatman ???ns tickled to deaf, an??? ???o say,
???Do fo??? do Lo???ds sake, boss, lorn mo give 'cm
dcs cr lectio toot.???
???Shot up,??? any do boss, ???or I???ll des larrup
yo???, rail.???
But do olo preachah ???us dcs ca'Icd
cr way an???o hitder book ho ???ad or hard lick,
an' ???e stomp on do flo,??? an??? ???o yell back blase-!,
??? *TL
soon began to exhibit strange action*, falling Into
contortion* and spasms. The village physician be
ing applied to,said the children were bewitched,and
a council of clergymen held on the subject agreed
with him. When the children were questioned
they accused three women, one of them an Indian,
of having bewitched them. These persons were
brought before the magistrates for examination
March 1,1C02. The excitement in the village be
came very great, and spread itself throughout all
the neighboring country; other children
became affected and many person*,
at first only the old and poor, and
friend lets, but afterward some of the most upright
???nd respectable perrons In the town who endeav
ored to stem the tide of popular deltt'lon by pro
testing against it, were accused of being witches.
A special court was opened the first week In June
for the trial of the eases, and several sections were
held, the but opening September 9. Nineteen per
son*???six of them men, Including one clergyman,
and thirteen women???were hanged daring the four
Irst meeting or the conrt.
at hb trial, refaotng
penalty of peine forte
Mwesaed to death with heavy
hb body. A reaction of public
liay flf
held during the next January, at which three per
sons were condemned to death, none of these was
executed, and in-May the jmvemor act tree all the
???reused persons then In jail, to the number of no.
Clergymen and judge* who had been, a year before,
???
sham
elves at fault, and repented the ah
?JSSSlfSE/^SXr
???Ef Gab???l ???us ter blow ? ??~ trumpet dls minit,
I say who???d to ready ter go.
???Too-oo-oot!??? went. do olo buglo, In do Iof,
on???gentlemens, dat preacber *o deslitout???in
de back winder an' went os ha???d cs ???o could
t???arfrough dc woods, an??? do folkscs dos wcut
cr rushin??? out. an??? cv???y timo dat preacher tako
cr Jump ???o holler out, ???Git out, yo??? ainnulis,
fo??? GabTs dono blowcd ???o trumpet.??? I dos toll
yo??? w???at dem folkscs ???us was sca???d to deaf an???
do boatman ho des rolled cr roun??? an??? Inf, an???
boss ???o laugh some an??? ???osaysomo
mighty bad wo???ds, an??? all do
crow d dcs rolled and hollered.??? Tho enjoy
ment of this recital soon counterbalanced tho
effects of tho embnrasaing interview with tho
preacher, and I was soon romping around
with Bob and Abe, chasing some befuddled
robins that had got drunk eating china ber
ries. Tho lengthening shadows foil upon tho
brown fields, and tbe Jorees raised a groat
clatter on the ibady side*of the swamp, and
with ruddy cliceki and laughing eyes I ran up
the steps of tbo lovely piazza where tho glint
of the feeble sunlight rested an Instant and
then faded as the sun sank in a bed of amber
and gold. Grandma was in the sitting room
and her sweet plaintive voice, with a quaint
intonation at the end of each stanza, floated
out on the quiet evening air os she sang:
*Oh, bow happy are they
Who their Havlor obey
And bare laid up their treasureigabove.
Tongue cannot express
Tbe sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in iu earliest love.???
Yean have passed since that quiet Sunday
evening. Events have come trooping along,
each crowded on th?? heels of tho other. I
have walked on alien shores when there was
never a familiar face to greet me with a glance
of checrfol recognition. Then I have sat with
the wise and tho honored of the earth, and I
have mixed and mingled with the gay throng
where all the brightness of wit, youth and
beauty were assembled. But as I review the
many vicissitudes of my unquiet life, J
mark this one little bit of sweet experience
that seems set apart for the moments that I
???natch from the cares and tolls that beset my
path, and that old hymn, sung by that dear old.
voice, comes back to me as a something of
heavenly beanty. And those last lines have oc
curred to me often and again. Even in my
dreams, when the sweet comforter, sleep, en
deavored to grant me that release from over
whelming anxieties that the world denied me,
I have heard again:
???Tongue cannot express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in iu earliest love.???
And It has soothed my aching heart, and so
long as my soul Is slivo to the holler things of
life, Jost on long will I remember and cherish
that old-time hymn that haa proved such a
contort to me. M. M. Folsom.
IXORSFOBD???8 ACID rilOSFIIATB
For Lemons or Lime Juice,
is a superior substitute, and Its as* it positively
beneficial to health.
. GETTING A WITNESS.
Bow a Kentucky Judge and Sheriff Man
aged to Run the Court.
Louisville Cor. New York Times.
In one of the counties where scores Jiad boon
killed who belonged to the opposing factions,
and where houses were barricaded, the law
abandoned, where women and children wore
armed, and the extermination of the entire
population a matter of early possibility, the
governor requested Judge William L. Jackson,
of the Louisville circuit, to hold court. No
body thought the Louisville judge would com
ply, but In this they were mistaken, for he
proceeded forthwith to the scene of bloodshed,
quietly announced his presence and mako
known his mission. These tacts excited the
greatest enriositv throughout the county, and
when the day of trial came on the whole popu
lace appeared in the courthouse with but llttlo
exception. The first case, one of murder, was
called. All the witnesses responded to their
names save one. ???We must have that witness,
Mr. Sheriff,??? said the court, firmly.
???If your honor please, I can???t get him,??? said
tho county sheriff.
???That???s no excuse, sir: have him here with
out fail In four hours. Let tho court stand ad
journed until 2 o???clock,??? And ns Judge Jack-
son finished speaking lie arose from tho bench
With dignified ease, calmly put on his hat, and
walked from tho courtroom alone, to tho great
astonishment of the natives, whoso regular
judge would havo remained until perfectly
satisfied that no enemy was near.
At 2 o???clock court again convonod. Th??
bawl of tho sheriff, ???Oh, yes, oh, yes, court is
now open,??? had scarce died out keforo Judgo
Jackson asked sternly: ???Mr. Sheriff, havo you
brought that witness (n court ????
Tho sheriff, answering in tho negative, gavo
ns his reason for failure to obey tho court, that
lie found tho houso of tho witness barricaded
aud foil of armed mountaineers, who sworo
they would kill auy roan who attempted to
enter.
???Mr. Sheriff,??? said tho court very aharply,
???such an cxcuso Is not to bo thought of aud
will not bo entertained. I want that witnoss
hero at 10 o???clock tomorrow morniug if you
havo to bring him on a Utter. Mark you, sir.
a failure to comply on your part will compel
this court to fine and imprison you to tho foil
extent of tho law. Do jour duty, sir.???
To say that tho natives were astonished docs
not convey tho slightest idoa of their true foot
ings. All that afternoon and next morning
thcro was a universal desire to seo tho ???city
fellow who got to shak<
all tho freo drinks ho do
sired.
Court opened promptly at 10 o???clock.
???Mr. Sheriff, have you that witnoss???? asked
tho court.
???Yes. your honor,??? spoko tho sheriff excited
ly ; ???lie???s coming.???
A curious sight presented itself now. Half
a dozen stalwart men appeared carrying an
other, who was tho musing man. Ono arm
hung limp at bis side, a leg refosod to do its
duty, blood trickled from all over his head,
and an immense bandage concealed ono oyo.
???Stand up, sir,??? spoke th?? court, aud, with
tho old of his captors, tho fellow assumed as
fair an upright position as his wouuda would
permit.
???Whntdoyou mean by evading tho law????
asked tho judge.
???I did???t know it was yonr court, sir. _
thought they wanted to tako mo to Louisville
for moonshining. I kuow os how thoro wore
deputy marshals almut, sir.???
???Mr. Clerk,??? said tho judge, ???arc there any
United States marshals in this section????
Tho clerk said there were, and that they had
warrants for tbo civil witness, whereupon ho
directed the sheriff to bring every one of them
Into court, an order soon compiled with.
Eight United States marshals focod the court.
''Gentlemen,??? began tho Judgo, ???havo you
warrants for any or thcao witnesses????
???Yea, sir, for nearly all of thorn, and fonr
for this chap,??? answered a marshal, indicating
tho wounded man.
???Well, gentlemen, I am holding court here
now, and if yon Interfere with mo In any man
ncr whatcvi rJ???11 put yon all in Jail for a ye;
???evo'ry ono or you. Lot this caso begin.???
The trial proceeded, aud more convictions
followed than had happened previously In tbo
whole life of tho couuty of Brosthitt, which la
now one of tho best in Kentucky, and whero
capital is now finding tho richest cannol coal
In tbo world, England not excepted.
Judge Jackson recently went to Lotchcr
county at Governor Knott???s request.
???Will yon need a hundred men???? asked a
local friend of justice, who woll know tho des
perate affaire which had marked every previ
ous trial of the accused,
???No,??? thundered tho . .
equal to a hundred men itself.???
This remark went tho rounds liko wildfire,
and, during tho long trials which followed, en
abled the court to conduct its business without
tho slightest Jnr.
Aalraabbcu maintained by tho Times In
dealing with Kentucky feuds, tho only thing
necessary to make peaceable ond good citizens
out of tho lawless men of tho mountains of
Kentucky has been the need of mnu like Judgo
Jackson, whoso norvo and firmness find respect
os quickly with desperadoes as with peaceahlo
citizens. Governor Knott expresses liimsolf as
much pleated with the manner in which Judgo
Jackson has conducted court In tbo mountains.
???I would rather send him to try these lawless
people than a regiment of soldiors,??? obsorved
the governor In a conversation rccontiy.
DONE BY COCAINE.
Chicago Physician Mode a Mental and
I???hjNlcal Wreck.
Chicago, November .10.???Dr. Charles I}.
Bradley, a physician of this city, was taken to
the Washington Home a mental and physical
wreck, wrought liy tho immediate, use of co
caine. Not only tho patient himself, but his
entire family, consisting of a wife nnd five
children, havo been practically ruined by his
excesses.
It wus shown that Dr. Bradley, quite a
prominent physician, bad been addicted to tho
use of cocaine to such on extent as to render
him practically insane. The story was told
that the doctor had, under its influence, per
formed experiments on his family that nave
made them physical wrecks. His claim was
that he could inject the hvdrochlorate without
pain, and remove the flesh without pain to th??
patient. He injected some of it into
his own arm, then with a red hot Iron hnrncd
it out without flinching. Home more of it he
injected into tbe wrist of bia throe-year-old
child and then with a knife cat out tne flesh,
tho little ono apparently suffer
ing no pain. He used tho
drag promiscuously In tho family, and became
himself a slave to ft, until In llttlo time his
practice fell away and his family was reduced
to want.
Under the Influence of the staff be claimed
he waa its discoverer, that It would revolution
ize medicine, and that the world would recog
nize In him a benefactor, whoso name would go
down to the ages. Ho became a fanatic on the
subject, a wild dreamer. He mortgaged all he
possessed, even bia horse and buggy, to pursue
his fovorite study. Ills wife, an invalid, and
his children ruined In health, their condition
was heartrending in tbe extreme. The seeno
in tbe court room waa dramatic. The poor vic
tim seemed to realize his sitnation, and sud
denly raising his voice to a high pitch and be
coming highly cxdted, called on God to help
convince the judge and the physicians present
that his theory was right.
He commenced the habit about the
last of May. and it has grown on him gradually
until Its culmination In the ruin of seven pao-
ple. Three of the children were sent to St.
Vincent's hospital, and his wife and the re
maining two children to St. Joseph. It is con
sidered doubtful whether any of them will
ever recover their normal condition.
A Natural Bock nous??.
From the Charlotte Home Democrat.
In Swsin county, N. C., there is a church of
nature???s own workmanship. It is near Jar-
rctt???si It Is called the ???natural rock bouse.???
It stands on ths Kantahals river, feeing the
river and railroad, and resembles th?? ruins of
an ancient mansion. Tbe long, arched pillars
give ft a very majestic appearance. It has flv??
rooms, the largest of whfeh holds about 300
persons, and Is used for a church. The d??dl-
was preached by the Bcr. Dr.
Th?? Sick Blan of Kansas.
A correspondent of the' Chicago Tribune,
writing (torn-Topeka, gives the following list of
???ales of one drug store for one day:
Pint of whisky, for lung disease. William Youn
ger.
Half pint whisky, for dyspepsia, V. R. Blush.
Half pint whisky, for biliousness. J. O. Borer.
llslf pint wliisky, for dyspepsia, Harry Young.
One bottle beer, for female weakness, W. A. Begi-
more.
Half pint whisky, for chills, William Warn.
Half pint whisky, for
Half pint whisky, for
Half pint whisky, for general debility, M. Me-
Csue.
Half pint gin. for kidneys, William Kent.
Half pint whisky, for rheumatism, a Franklin.
Half pint whisky, for cold. L. Johnson.
Pint whisky, for palpitation of tho heart, M. Brit
ton.
lint whisky, for rheumatism, W. If. Gill,
lint whisky, for indigestion, 0.8, Dyke.
M.D.
Pint alcohol, for bathing, Mary Mitchell.
Quarter pint whisky, for bowel complaint, Den
nu BtKl.
Quarter pint whisky, for sick stomach, Janies
^falf pint whisky, for mixture, J. W. Russell.
Half pint whisky, for colic, G. Johnson.
Half pint whisky, for malaria, Mr*. Martin.
HEMORRHOIDS
Blind, Bleeding and Itching-,*Positively Cured
by Cuticura.
A WARM bath with CtmontA Soar, an exquisite
skin Ifeantlller. and a single application otCu-
thc Intense Itching of tho most aggravated case of
Itching 111c*. This treatment, combined with smalll
rioseaof Cunct'RA Resolves r, tho new Blood Puri
fier, three times per day, to regulate andstrengthen
the bowels, overcome constipation and remove tho
cause, will cure Blind, bleeding and Itching Piles
innn:, ??in luiv jmiiui. j-htuiiik nun iuwiiug rim
when all other remedies, and even physicians, foil.
ITCHING PILES.
I was taken for the first timo in my life with Blind
Hies, so severe that I could hardly Veep on my feet.
1 used various remedies for three weeks, when the
disease took the form of Itching piles, and growing
worse, lty advice of an old gentleman I tried tho
CiTUVRA. Ono application relieved tho itching
and I was soon cured. I wish to tell the world that
In eases of ItchingPiles tho price of the CuticuSA
is of no account. From au unsolicited quarter.
O. C. K1UBY.
Concord, New Haven.
ITCmNO PILES.
I began the use of yonr Cvticcra remedies when
von first nut them on the market, and know of two
telling Hies that have been cured by tho
ii??? -**???- todies.
F.N. MARTIN.
them all that you clalm, and the demand for them
AUGUSTUS W. COLLINS.
use, at my suggestion, of these remedies.,
Vlrdun, Illinois.
ALL THATYOH CLAIM.
I have tried your Cuticura remedies and find
tern all that you elalir ???* * * " ***???
in this section is great.
Hlggston, Ga.
Sn.KNPID???SATIS FACTION.
Cratt???BA Remedies have given splendid satisfac
tion to those of my customers who havo had oeca???
caslon to uio them.
HENRY GERUAXX, Druggist.
Quincy, Illinois,
CtmcrRA Remedies aro a positive cure forovory
Send for ???How to Cure Bkiu Diseases.???
QTTTTVT Blemishes, Pimples, Blackhead* and
Ml\ I li Baby Humors, uso Cuticura Boai??.
??? nircngineuun, ram Anmmiaiou, in-
j (lamination subdued, and Malarial and
,1 Epidemic Diseases Prevented by that
r .\l| Infallible antldoto to pain and tnflam-
???*tlon, tho Cuticura Anti-1'aim Plaji-
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to havo ono before Christmas. Wo havo reduced
tho price therefore to 13.35 for tho Watch, Chain
and Paper.
Tho Waterbury Is worn by thouiands???ls an ac
curate timo-kceper???and as good for uso as a 9100
watch.
It is a
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Every Wnfcli Guaranteed Perfect nnd a
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vanilla, Leman. Orange, Almond, Bose, etc.
flavor aa delicately and naturally as the fruit. .
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Tint farmers may coma to know Amer
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Executor** Bale
rvF 440 ACRES OF VALUABLE LAND, AT
1/ crossings of (icorgia Pacino Railway and O x*a
river. 1 will roll to tho highest bidder, on Hatur*
day, December IS, 1895. on tlio premise*, In Talla
dega county, opiioslto Riverside, 446 acres of land
belonging to the cstato of Enoa Truss, doceased.
Ono hundred and forty acre* of flno yellow plno
??? ??? "^ ??? midst of a largo yellow pin??
.. J with tho river for one mile,
...is is a fine location for sawmill??
aud other manufacturing enterprise*, as it Is only
five miles from tho celebrated Gnooa coil fields,
which aroabovo on tho river, and brown Iron ore la
abundant both above nnd bolow nnd neartho river.
The navigation of tho Coora river to this point from
Koine, Ga., I* an assured foot, a* thcro Is but one
lo< k to fli.bh. tlic stone lor which is all diri-cd and
ready. The fern Won n Dcautiiul and healthy, and
for forming purpnres the laud Is uimipnasned by
any on tbo river, 100 acres being rich bottom land.
Tho wlmlo tract to be sold consists of 41<?? 7J-10#
acres, which 1* divided Into tracts of 13 to 100 arret.
Terms of ralo, one-third cn*h, balance In equal In
stallments at one and two years with Interest from
date of sale. Apply to J. T. Tm**, at Rivmtdc, wh??
will take plcasuro In showing tho land. James D.
Truss, Executor.sat wky
|r# ???JKiiw" Esctl 8nrfif Ttriin.
Lock ??nd LsucH st "Hsia Tlmti,**
Only $ tv la 913 each.
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How any lady rim lie mnile Ilcantlful.
N/TtnK'S B'ORffT DEFECTS OBUT*MT*>>-
The Form Beautifully and Permanently Developed
by tho only Method Known to Science.
Tbo Ace, shouldpt*. limbs, etc., all made to
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Flesh Increased or reduced ten to fifteen pounds ???
month.
THE BKIN BLEACHED BEAUTIFULLY WHITE
Wrinkle*, pitting*, freckle*, moles, moth, black
icad* and superfluous hair permanently removad.
llalr, brow* and lashes restored and dyed any
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M* of maturing years and all sex mud tease* success-
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