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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, LrA« TUESDAY JANUARY 20 188'J 11 SUCCESSFUL FARMERS. Bow Fifteen Bales of Cotton Was Raised on Fire Acrea-Good Farming in Washington County -Sending Out Seeds—Tobacco Culture- Its Mode of Cultivation, Sto. Next week we will print In this department the methods l»y which four farmers made 3 1*3 bales of cotton to the acre on 0 acres each, and how four other farmers made over 100 bushels of corn to tho acre, being; the eight prize fanners In Geo. W. Scott & Co.'s contest. Don't fall to get It. How Fifteen Bales Was liaised on Five Acres. We are glad to be able to give our readers tho method by which Mr, Geo. W. Smith, of Troup, raised fifteen bales of cotton ou five acres and won the gossypium phospho prize. It is well worth reading and should bo filed in every former's book: LaGbakge, Ga., January 18.—Editors Con stitution: In response to yonrs of recent date I submit the following offhand statement of iny forming operations in 1885, and a brief &ystcm by which I have worked, and under which poor thin hilly land has been brought up to a remunerative state of fertility. In the year, 1878 I bought between 600 and COO acres of land, five miles south of LaGrange—all upland except about twenty- five acre* of creek and branch bottoms which had never been in cultivation. My first year's business resulted in fourteen bales cotton and scarcely enough corn and food crops to meet mv needs for another crop, I commenced with the determination to always make enough corn, oats, etc., for homo con sumption. A former living ten miles from market can make a crop of corn in about tthe same time it would take to haul it that distance,besides saving the loss of wear and tear to team and wagon. I soon felt the importauco of directing all my spare time (early morn and rainy days) to saving barn, yard and stable manures which I managed to gather up in large quantities and applied it liberally in tho shape of compost— havo paid close attention to terracing and the preservation of terraces, and prepared all my cotton and corn lands every year for the past four years, with large two-horse plows follow ed by a subsoil—have rotated my crops and given my lands all tho possible advantage of vegetable mould, and managed to turn under stubble in time to get the benefit of freezes. I made last year flfty-fivo bales of cotton with two mules, with tho exception of abont ten day’s work with yoke of oxen—which will bo. seen below—and on about tbo same number of seres of land that only barely one-third as much four years ago. On five acres of creek Itottom I raised fifteen bales of cotton, and ns that turned out to bo the middle of April I broko up tbo flvo acres with a large two horse plow, followed with a pulverizing harrow, layed tho rows four feet with a large sized straight shovel and bedded on 520 pounds gossypium phospho to tho acre, afterwards checking the rows four feet, drop- ping my seed five or six to the hill, covering with boot. As soon as the plant would admit of a ploughing I gave it with a long scrapo and snort scooter, running with tho beds in order to keep the guano well under the plants while young. I continued plowing it at in tervals of eight or ten days until layed by— only went over the patch twice with a hoe— thinned the plants out with hand mostly, leaving one stalk to the hill, and was careful not to bruise the stalk left. My upland crop of cotton was bronght al most to a stand by running a Thomas smooth ing harrow diagonally across the rows,which I did by hitching a couple of oxen—one each to a section of the harrow—and driven by ten year-old hoys, thereby saving much time and expense, affording me the use of my plows with other crops at a time when mnch needed, and really benefited land and crop. I repeated with the harrow about ten days later in the season, running in opposito direction from tho first—and it waa as late as 10th Jnne before it wss necessary to go Into the field with the plow and hoe. My rows on upland was 4 feet in width and the plants all of 18 inches apart in the drill. For several years I havo usod tho Thomas Brooks cotton planter, the cheap est and best planter ever made (at least as for as my knowledge extends in the south,) and 1 will never foil to use tho Thomas smoothing harrow as above indicated, as it is no longer an experiment. I had nearly forgotten to stato that I broad casted 200 pounds gossypium to the acre on my premium patch tho third ploughing, ahead of the plows. Deep ploughing, thorough, shallow and rapid cultivation of crops, the saving of all manures which accumulate around a form from pen ning of cattle and stock regularly, leaves, etc., which can be done at odd times, commencing as soon as lone crop is out of the way of an other, would in a few years make Georgia for mers money-lenders instead of money borrow ers. Yous truly, Gbosok W. T*uitt. [We will ' * ties from l Look out for them.- Good Farming In Washington. Mr. X. J. Newsom, near here, made tho post year with ten plows 200 bales of cotton aver aging 450 pounds, or 20 bales to the plow and 2,000 bushels of corn, or 200 bushels to the plow. This was reported to mo by his agent. Mr. Cris. Woodard, also of this county, made with two plows 38 bales of cotton, or 10bales to the plow, and plenty of corn to run him for another year. B. F. Leoxabd. OVER IK ALABAMA. Editors Constitution: 1 see that you havo added a department to your paper that I am confident will provo of great benefit and interest to one class of your subscribers, and that is the sketches of Geor gia’s progressive fanners. Knowing that you have a large number of readers in our vicinity I am In hopes that a short sketch of a few of Taladega’s live farmers will stimulate others to put on extra energy this coming year. This county, and narticufariy Taladejra valley, has long wen celebrated for the fertility of its soil and its romantic and beautiftil scenery. Fifty years and more, however, of almost exculsive cultivation of cotton has sadly ex hausted even the best lauds, so that tho use of fertilizers has become a necessity. Among the first of our progressive men I will mention Mr. E. Ledbetter. Hibought some years ago a farm that waa called worn out—full of gul lies, overgrown with broomsage and saaaafraa. It was a discouraging outlook for a jroung 1 follow this admirable paper with artl- thc railing of tho other premium crops. >r them.—Eds. constitution.] man. Procuring tho beat of plow, and with three mules to it. he soon filled up the washed places and buried the sassafras and sedge out of sight His first efforts were successful. I think he has always raised his graiu and meat, while his Jersey cattle, fine hogs, hundreds of sheep and goats, are a guarantee that he needs no ad vances and can livo comfortably at home. Mr. Bily Thompson, a near neighbor, started life with a piece of laud that was thought to be poorer than Ledbetter’s, and waa without buildings of any kind. He, also, raises his grain and meat, and has a fine orchard, vine yard, a good dwelling, a steam gin, grist mid sawmill. Dr. I. W. Peacock and Mr. William Gooden started outpretty much the same way, with poor’land. Their efforts have always been first to have something to eat. and cotton as a surplus, and they have suc ceeded. 1 might mention others, such as Dr. Rhodes, J. M. Hancock and Mr. Tom Welch. All these are successful farmers and the true and only secret of their prosperi ty is they have raised their eatables with their cotton as a surplus. Home of them hire their laborers by the month, others work on the share system, and a few rent their lands. Their motto is a full barn all the time. . CHEMEO. SENDING Ol’T SEED. *here is a good deal of life and activity nt the agricultural department, and the look promises even more than is now seen re every day. ... lie demand for tobacco seed is as large aa r. Every mall brings on an average fifty Notions for them, and these applications forth iu their letters, is that cotton is no longer king in Georgia, and that the crown will havo to go to some other product Although the crop of cotton in this state was large last year, the nullity was poor In consequence of the bad weather, and prices have not been satisfactory. As a general 'thing tho formers raised enough corn to carry them through to tho next crop, but are out of money as, it took ail ions. There seems to be a strong feeling favor of planting diversified crops, and mak ing tobacco one of the leading products. FULLY A THOUSAND PACKAGES of seed havo already been sent out. all of thorn upon applications, and that is the only way that they can be procured, as tho commissioner desires to famish. seed to only such persons who will give tho planting of tobacco a fair and square trial. He docs not waut to see the seed wasted by getting into tho hands of auy- one who will not plant it. While tho work of distributing to bacco sped is going on other seed are < sent out watermelon seed of the variety known as tho Kolb Gem variety havo been received at tbo department, and yesterday one hundred bushols of peanuts or “goobers," of a Spanish variety, said to bo very prolific, were delivered at the department. It is said that this variety will produce three hundred bushels to tho aero on ordinary soil, and that aboyt a peck of them will plant an acre. A largo quautlty of cotton seed and ten pouuds of Orinoco tobacco soed, which seems to ho more in doniand than nuv other variety of tobacco, havo been ordered. TOBACCO CULTURE. Its Mode of Cultivation—Cutting and Drying It, Etc. When the plants In tho plant-bed show leaves as largo as a silver dollar, or larger, they are ready for transplanting. A damp, cloudy day should bo chosen for this operation. Prepare the ridges in the field, just in advance of planting, by striking off tho crust with a plow board or light harrow. Draw tbo suita ble plants from the sced-bed with care, avoid ing ail bruising, and set them as you would choice cabbage or tomato, taking care to press the soil firmly around tho roots and atoms, and using such precautions and expedients, accord ing to circumstances, as are used in planting other tender plants. Tobacco plants are oven more tender than cabbage or potato plants, and should not bo permitted to wilt in tho least before rc-ecttiug in tho soil. When a good season for transplanting occurs, and a largo area is to be planted everything else should give way to this work, and it should bo pressed through sunshine and shower. CULTIVATION. Tho cultivation of tobacco in tho oarly stages, before tho growth of tho plant is re newed, is very similar to that of tho sweet potato. Within a fow days tho surface soil should ho lightly stirred around each plant, and as soon as they havo become well estab lished and commenced to grow, loose soil should be drawn around them with the hand- hoes. The subsequent cultivation is similar to that of cotton, consisting in frequent stirring of the soil to a modcrato depth, and tho do- stiuction of all weeds, using tho hand-hoe as may be necessary to keep tho soil near tho plant smooth and mellow and well drawn up. When tho seed heads, or “buttons,” as .they aro called, begin to appear, cultivation with tho plow should cease. Weeds which may spring up after this stage is reached will do the crop no injury, though unsightly. TOPPINO. In about seven or eight weeks after trans planting, tho plants will begin to show tho seed-bnds. Excepting for seed purposes, these should not bo allowed to develop, as tho strength of the plant will bo absorbed in flowering and maturing seed, instead of per fecting the leaf. This operation must be per formed with judgment, as the quality or the product will be materially affected by the number of leaves each plant is permitted to mature. Careful hands should go over tho field, snd selecting such stalks as may be showing the bud, they should be first primed, or have their lower leaves removed to say four or six inches from the ground. Then top to ten leaves. At intervals of seven or eight davs the field should be gone over again and the plants ready to be topped should be primed and reduced to nine leaves, snd so on at Intervals of a week, reducing tho number of leaves by one each time. It is important that the plants be not permitted to carry too many leaves—a temptation to beginners. TOBACCO WORMS. Though infested in its early stages by the common garden cut-worm—with which, snd the more or less effectual preventives used, all are perhaps familiar—the “horn worm” Is the great insect foe of tho tobacco plant. This green monster is identical with the Urge worm that infests the tomato and Irish potato pUnts. No means of destruction have been found to be equal to a persistent war upon them with the finger and thumb. After they have mado their appearance the crop most be gone over nt least once a week, and each marauder de stroyed. The first brood makes Itsappearanco in May or June, and, like the early brood of the cotton caterpillar, docs but little injury. But every worm that is permitted to live snd undergo its transformation will de velop in August into a full-grown moth, wliicl immediately lays its eggs for a for more nu mcrous snd destructive crop. The chang from the caterpillar form to that of the moth ia effected by the descent of the worm into the ground. When the moth emerges, many of them may 1* destroyed by placing in the flow- era of the “Jimson” weed a solution of peris* green or cobalt. Other devices similar to thoso used for entrapping tho cotton caterpillar moth, such as lanterns set in pans of molasses and placed about tho field at night, have prov- cd more or less effective In catching the tobac co moth. MUCKERING. After the plant has been topped it puts forth suckers at every leaf. They should be broken offwbile still tender, with the fingers, as fost ss they sppenr. HARVESTING THE CROP. In sl>out 100 days from transplanting, or in from two to three weeks after topping tho plant licgins to ripen. This is indicated by the leaf Iwoming smooth, the ftizz disappear ing snd the appearance of yellow spots, tam ing to reddish and brownish. By this time also the upper leaves will have Income nearly as Urge as tho lower. The operation of cutting is now in order. This should not be done when the pUnt U wet with dew. nor within two or three days after a rain. With a sharp knifo the stalk is split down the center, as it sUnds, cut off below the tottom leaf, and then placed astride the tobacco stick or Utb, four feet long, which U in the hands of an assistant A better pUn U to pierce the bntts of the stalks with a spearhead, which fits on the end of the lath by a socket, and msvbcxtmoved when the UthU full. From five to eight plants are strung on each Utb, accord* ing to the size of the plants—they must net I c crowded—and carried immedUtely to tbe wagon. The Utter has a high frame so adjust* cure by Saturday, or on Friday and Saturday, commencing tbe curing on the following Mon day. TOBACCO BARNS* Sixteen feet square is the usual sise of R tobacco Urn, which U built of round logs, six inches in diameter, closely notched down, the cracks chinked and daubed with mud, and provided with a close-fitting door, 4 by 4 feet square, in tbe north or south side, and the whoU covered with a water-tight roof. The ground se lected should slope to the east to admit of the easy construction of fornaces In that side. While the walls are-being built, at the height of five feet, the first set offive tierpoles, four inches in diameter, are Uid acro« from north to south, dividing toe space into four equal parts. The next set U Uid about three logs above, and so on until five sets of tier poles aro in position. The Uths, laden with plants are adjusted one foot apart on tbest poles, just as in smoking meat, the first tier, however, be ing left vacant. THE TLUES. The curing of tobacco by the process called snd undergo its transrormat »in August Into a full-grown ediately lays iU eggs for a ms and destractive crop. “flue-curing’’ fs rapidly superseding other methods. The Smith patent fluo is most commonly used. The following description of tho man ner of constructing tho flues, and the process of flue-curing, is taken from an article in vol ume X, United States census of 1880: “Furnaces aro built, if tho barn is properly located, on tho east side; and if tho ground is rightly inclined, only ono log need bo sawed out, which is done four inches from tho comer next to both the north and south walls. The arch is built of brick or fireproof stone, fivo feet long, projecting externally eighteen inches. The walls aro built of brick two bricks thick, and two foot apart; eighteen iuclus high, four inches from the walls of the bain, the apaco being Ailed with dry earth, and tile spaeo between tho two carefully Ailed npto the Arst log. A covering la tliou mado over the external arch, running tho length of tho barn, and an ash bed is dug out iu the front of the opening of each arch. The iron lino pipca aro let in about (i inches from tho lloors of tho arches, and the cracks are stopped with clay. In order to give tho greatest heating enpneity, the lines aro built ono from the north, tho west and south walls,audaa a protec. tton against Are, when this is done, a thlu wall is built between the pipes and tho ground sills, running from where tho pipo joins the furnace ti feet along the Aac, the distance to which tho pipca nre heated red. Tho pipes aro mado of No. S I iron, except tlio two joints that enter the furnaces, which aro of 18 inch iron, and aro from 12 to 15 inches in diamo* ter. The pipo is elevated gradually nbout ono inch or two feet, and runs continuously from both Aaes along tho northlandsouth and wost wall. In the center of tho pipe, along tho west wall,which llespiorizontat.and one foot from tho wall, tho return pipo makes a T, and conduct, the draught through the center of the barn, back to tbo cast wall, rising gradually so a# to mike the perpendicular distance between I bo points where tho pipes leave tho furnaces aud that whero tho return pipo cornea out through the wall abunt eighteen inches. A short cl- bow in a smnll chimney receives tho retnrn pipo on tbo outside. ‘•From two to three cords of dry wood supplies for one curing. Haras thus constructed, with Ancs complete, cost from §50 to $75 each; packing houses about $200 each. Witli barns und Hues properly constructed Arcs ore always the result of carelessness, and yet about ono barn in twenty ia lost by Arc.” [To l>c continued.] Tobacco* One of the most successful and experienced tobacco growers in Virginia, in his remarks on raising and curing tobacco, says on the subject of manuring: "Unless the toll is naturally rich, and such ia not often tho ease with soils heat adapted to ycilow tobacco, it will bo well to apply some fertilizing material to hasten forward tho J lints and mature them properly and oarly. Icrc, commercial fertilizers havo dono, atul aro doing their best work, llulky, coarse man- urea often do more harm than good on new anil ruify soils. Tho smaller tho bulk, and tho rnoro concentrated the fertilizing clcmonts, the moro readily they aro appropriated and assimilated hy tho plants if of tlio right ma terial aud iu tho moat available form. NUro* gen, phosphoric arid, potash, lime and soda, ate most necessary for the tobacco plant, and a fertilizer which supplies tho relative quantity of each,and from tho proper loaroes will never fail to show good cA'ccts thcrofrom, if tho rain- fall ia sufficient to quicken their action." Tiro Eddyatone soluble gnanomccts all theso requirements fully. It Is concentrated and it contains nltrogon phosphoric acid, potash llmo, and soda from the very best sources, in their moat avaliablo and an early maturity. R. W. Kearney, »U ‘' used one ton of Edd; B. W. Kearney, Mlddlchnrg, N. C., aaya: “I lystone with soven stand' ard brands on tobacco, and like it bettor than ent brands of fertilizer>, and did not seo any difference in tho growing of tho tobacco, hut And the tobacco, after cared, a Anar and riebar quality, and do not aspect to nao any other next season.” Bar. George A. Rote, Hanson, N. C., says: "I used one ton of Eddyatone guano under tobacco, which gave me perfect satisfaction. In fart, I can truly say it is tho beet I ever used,” W. J. Norwood. Warrenton, N. C., sags: “Tho Eddyatone told last season, for tobacco, lias given universal satisfaction. Some plan- ten aay they have never had anything to act so well,.* ill havo a good trado for it this ’ James Y. and E. 8. Merritt, Chappell IIIII, N. C., say: “That the ten tons Eddyatone furnished them has givon entire aattefaction, it wee ell used on tobacco, and it ia tbo tobacoo fertilizer. It ia ahead of three other reliable brands, and will use nono other this season. It yellows the tobacco on the hill, and gives it a smooth, silky texturo—tbe kind of tobacco that always cures and Mils beat. We heartily welcome it in the tobacco belt." A. Anderson, Riiabec's store, N. C.,aaya: “I nave been railed ra the tobacco belt, and havo used several different brands of fertilizers, but I have never used any which equaled tba Ed* dystonc. I tested it with other brands, and could tell tho Eddyatone tobacco in tho dark from tho other branda I used, it being flnoaml silky, and of a nice yellow color, and aella at a silky, ant T. IhY that their aalea of tho Eddyatono soluble gt havo given universal satisfaction, and it has built up for Itself a reputation that will in- crease the aale another year by doublo that of the past season. The Airmen say that it pushes a tobacco plant Aram tho start to tho end, making It mature early, rich and heavy.” Mr. John H. Green, of Atlanta, (la., has charge of the salt of this brand of guano, and will be pleased to communicate with tho read- era of tala article, or have them call upon tho dealers thronghoot tbo eonth for tbo Eddy- •tone soluble guano, as there is nothing bettor offered to the entire planting interest, not only for tobacco, but for everything raised from the toil, in this entire section. Aw Oi.d Tobacco Ghoweu! The War on Rye. At a meeting of tbo town council of Elbcr- ton, in regard to the prohibition law, it was resolved that “we will use every means in our powor to have said law strictly enforced, and to defeat any attempt made to violate the same. We call upon the cltisens of the town and county to unite with and aid us in snppreeaing tbe traffic.” The revenuo men have been suddenly etlr- king np the citizens in the neighborhood of 8uwanee. Seventeen warrants have been eued ont, and tbe informers are having a lively time of it. The new council of Lawrenceviiio has fixed the liquor license at $250. Richard I.. Bark, of Cedartown, waa tried by Commissioner Beck, in Rome, for retailing liquor without licence. There were several witnetses against him from Polk eounty, who swore that Burk bad retailed liquor. IV to the Polk is a dry county, and according to the evidence, Bnrk would buy a gallon of whisky at Seney and retail among the Imbibers of bia town and , It waa also said that ho iky that maddened the e who participated itngo on tho day Hell's there. Gommiaeloner county by the drink. It was also laid that he furnished the whiaky that maddened the bralna of those In the Rockmart oni circus exhibited Beck required Burk to give a $300' bond for hie appearance at the next term of tha Unitad States conrt for the northern district of Geor gia, and upon his failure to do so waa sent to the Atlanta Jail. Eliutow, January 22.—[Special.]—Prohi bition has gone fully and completely into effect in Elberion, and there seems to be no effort or 1 stock before the law went into effect, leaving the town emphatically dry. Tha effect tbit tbe law will have on the business of the 5 lace ie yet an unsolved problem. Business ia ull now bat there are other causes for its be- ing so. "The Rest and Cheapest.” W. V. Kibosh, Aiken. H. C.-'Tbe best and cheapest piper in tbe south ” A TERRIBLE CONFESSION. A PHYSICIAN PRESENTS SOME START LING FACTS. Can It Re That the Danger Indicated is Universal. Tho following atory—which la attracting wide attention Aram tho press—ia so remarks- bio that we cannot excuse ourselves if we do not lay it entire bofare onr readers: To the Editor of tho Rochester, <N. Y„) Democrat: Bib:—On tho flrstdav of Juno, 1881, I lay at my residence in this city eurrounded by my friends aud waiting for death. Heaven only knows tho agony 1 thou oudured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a fow -yean previous any one had told me that I was to bo irought so low, and by so terrlblo a disease, I should have scoflfed at the idee. I had always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over two hundred pounds, and hardly knew in my own experience,wlint pain or sick. ncs3 were. Very many pooplo who wijl road thist statement renlizo at times they aro uon- suallytirodandcannotaccoantfor it. They fee{. dnil pains iu various parte of tho body and do uotuudentand why. Or they arc exceedingly hungry one day and entiroly without au appe tite tho next. This waa just tho way I felt when tho relentless malady which had fasten ed itself upon me Arat began. Still 1 thought nothing of it; that probably I had taken cold which would Boon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic, pain in one side oi my head, but as it would come one day and bo nono tho next, I paid llttlo attention to it. Then my stomach would get out of order nud my food often failed to digest, causing at times groat inconvenience. Yot. evon aa a physician, I did not think that these things meant uny- thing serious. I fancied I was suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But 1 got no better. I next noticed a peculiar col- or and odor about the Aulda I was passing— also that thcro wero largo quantities ono day end very little tho noxt, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared upon the surface, and a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these eymptoms continually, I Anally bccamo accuatomod to them, and my suspicion was wholly dlssrmod by tho fset that I had no pain in tho affeeto i organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been lo blind I cannot understand! 1 consulted tlio best medical skill in tbe land. I visited ail tbo famed mineral springs in America snd traveled from Malno to Califor nia. Still I grow wurso. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. Ono said I was troubled with spinal irritation, another, dys pepsia; another, heart disease: another, gen- oral debility; another, congestion of tho base of tho brain; and eo on through n long list of common diseases, tlio symptoms of many of this way several yesrs wbicli I really had. In passed, duringwhleh time I wasatoadlly grow ing worso. My condition had roally bccoino pitiablo. The slight symptoms I had at Arst experienced were developed into terrlblo and constant disordcra. My wolght had boon re duced from 207 to 150 pounds. My life was a bnnlcn to myself and friends. I conld retain no food on my stomncli, and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mats of pain. My pulse was ncontrollabiu. In my agony I fro- qucntly fell to tbo Aoor and clutched tho car- pet end prayed fordonth! Morphlno had llttlo or no effect in deadening tho pain. For six days and nights I had the death premonitory hiccough! constantly! My water was Alloa with tube-casts and nltmmen. I was atruf _ ig- S ling with Bright's Disease of tho kidneys in a last stageal While suffering thus I received a call from In tlio courso of conversation Dr. Foote do' tailed to mo the many remarkable cans of cssee Uke my own, which had come under his ot salvation. Asa practicing physician and a graduate of tbe achoola, I derided the Idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being in the lcaet beneficial. 8o solicitous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I Anally prom- bed I would waive my prejudice. I began ita use on tho Ant day of Jnne, 1881, and took It according to directions. At first It slckonod me, but this 1 thought waa a good sign for ono in my debilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed, and I waa finally ablo to retain food apon my stomach. In a few days I noticed a decided change for tho better, aa also did my wife and Mends. My hiccoughs ceased and I expert- Sliced leas pain than formerly. I waa ao re joiced at this improved condition that, upon wbat I had believed but a row days before was my dying bed, I vowed. In tbe presence of my femily and friends, ahould 1 recover I would both publicly end privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever in opportunity, and this ist vow. My im- ra tha' " i I had pounds in flesh, becamo entirely psin end I believe I owe my life and present condition who! ‘ " " remedy which are caused by Bright's discaso of tho kldnoys. This may sound llko a raali statement, blit I am prepared to verify it ftally. Bright's disease naa no distinctive feature of its own, (Indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in tho kidneys or their vicinity), but bis tho symptoms of nearly every other com- mon complaint, llnndred of pcoplo die daily, whose burials are authorized by a physician's certificate aa occurring from “heart aiaeaae," ''apoplexy," ''paralyiis," "spinal complaint,” “rheumatism, "pneumonia,” and tho other common complaints, when In reality it ia from Bright’s discaso of the kidneys. Few physi cians, end fewer people, realise the extent of this diaceso or. its dangerous and Insldiona nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests ita presence if at all by tho com- moneet systoma and fastens itaelf ir. tbo consti tution before the victim is aware of it. It ia nearly as hereditary ea consumption, quite as common snd folly as fatal. Entire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died •ml yet none of the number knew or realized the snyetcrioue power which was removing them. Instead of common symptom! it often shows none whatever, but brings death sud- ■lenly, from convulsions, apoplexy or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he ears, I Imploro every one who reads these words not to neglect the sllgbtost symptom of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazsrd such chances. I make the foregoing statements based upon facta which I can substantiate to tho letter. Tho wclfkre of those who may possibly be sufferers such as 1 was is an ample inducement for me to tako tho step J have, and if I can ■uccessAsily warn others from the 'dangerous l»th in which I onco walked, I am willing to endure all the professional and personal con- sequences. J. B. IlKKIOX, M. D. Rochester N. Y., December 30. given Crazy Brothers. ST. Lorn,' January 24.—S4ven brothers all raving maniacs, enronte for the Jacksonville, Illinois, asylum, passed through tbie city yesterday. The commissioner in charge of the lunatics states that prior to the war a wealthy farmer, by the name of Anson Arnold, settled in Hickory connty, Mo., with a large family. Tho acquirement of money seemed to be their highest aim in life, and the whole family, seven sons and five daughters, deprived themselves of the necessities of life In order to gain it. Abont three yean ago a stranger visited their home, and after convin cing them that they could, in a short time, largely Increase their wealth, induced them to invest their all in what proved to be a mythi cal silver mine in Nevada. After a month's anxiety they learned that they had been im posed upon, and all seven of tbe brothers, upon the receipt of the news, Immediately became “ 'with a violent form of Insanity. E. 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