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Ashes of Discoverer to Make Last Voyage
Eccentric Old Man Lets Property
Go to Ruin After Family Quar
rel—Known as “The Bear.”
SPRING LAKE, MICH. Am 2
Stricken with paralysis and unable to
utter n word. William H. Hell, pioneer
lumberman, one of the wealthiest m«*n
in the village and known all over
Ottawa County as an eccentric, lies
at the point of death In his ram
shackle hut on the shore of Spring
Lake, his condition mourned by none
save a relative who arrived recently
from Portland. Oreg , and a few sym
pathetic neighbors
His father <ame to Michigan from
Canada in 1864. when tlie lumber
business wan at its height, to take
charge of the large Interests that fell
to him through the tragic drowning
of his mother-in-law. James Barber,
one of the. first men to engage in
the lumber business in this section of
the State.
With his younger brother. Edward
R. Bell, who died recently in Wash
ington, where he was acting as offi
cer in the Capitol Guards by ap
point msr of Senator Smith, William
H. Bell i .ospered until 1871. when the
hrotheis quarreled and the mill was
shut uov n, never to run again. In
spite of the efforts of business asso
ciates ami relatives to ^ITect u recon
ciliation. *
What the quarrel was about no one
has ever known. It was always a
sealed book with both of them, and
some believe it was the questions put
to him on this point that caused the
elder Bell to shut himself In his home,
close the prosperous store adjoining
it, and pfrmil everything to fall Into
d eca y.
Edward started out to make his
own wav in the world and spent
many years in the employ of The
Grand Rapids Herald and The E\eat
ing Press. He was getting old by
this time. The world had been un
kind to him. and his Washington ap
pointment by Senator Smith came as
a godsend.
Offer* for Mill Refused.
Offer after offer was made to his
eccentric brother for the mill Itself
the wagons, the old boats stored w ith
in it. the valuable machinery, but
William Bell turned a deaf ear to all
of them. Even after lumbering was
on the decline, and the raw' material
had to be shipped In by rail, he was
offered $9,600 for the mill, but turned
the offer down and drove the Insis
tent buyer from his door.
. He kept everything. The horses
/£rew old and fat and died off one q.
one. without doing a stroke of work
after the closing of the mill. When
'he last of these was gone Bell shut
himself up for good In his house, and
only appeared to carry home provi
sions. He had no Intimates and but
few acquaintances.
From his long winter sojourns In
his barricaded house he earned the ti
tle of “The Bear.” and in spite of his
fatal illness the natives still mention
him by that name.
For the last 40 year* he has lived
the life of a hermit as completely as
if he were buried in the mountains
He never ven.tired In society, al
though at the time of his quarrel he
was on* of the meat popu’ar and fin
est-looking men in Bprlng Lake. He
never ventured to the poli.s. He lived
on the rcantiest of fond, and was
never seen to smile. On warm days
he would take his rustic sent In one
of the apple tree* overlooking the
lake and sit for hours viewing his de-
caying buildings and gazing up the
splendid view along Spring I*ake.
The <dd hermit's hours are num
bered and with his death it is ex
pected the ruins will he cleared away
and the property sold for building
purposes. Bell View, as the place
is called, is one of the prettiest points
on the lake, and many wealthy re
sorters living in the locality have
been waiting for the old man’s death
to submit their bids on the property
Father Objects to
Pardon for His Son
(lirititopher Columbus, from a bust in 1b** Capitolint* tlal
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Assistant Secretary of State Author of Idea to
Honor Memory of America’s Finder.
TO CO-OPERATE
Wife Alienated in
Artistic Manner
Husband Alleges That 'Polish’ and
‘Cunning Audacity’ Were Used
by His Rival.
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Assistant .Secretary of State Os
borne suggests that on the first ship
passing through the Panama (’anal
the bone* of Columbus ►•hall he car
ried from ocean to ocean. It is an
idea which will appeal to the senti
mental sympathies of ail the world.
The obtaining of the bones of Co
lumbus for this trip is the next, ques
tion. and it is only after a trip to
Santo Domingo that the Secretary
makes this suggestion.
While on this Journey he saw the
crypt in which the bones nr*' kept,
and hereby hangs an interesting tale
of the adventures of the bones of
tiiis most adventurous of m* n
On the day before his death in
Valadolid, May 20, 1506, he added a
codicil tv hi*' will In which he re
quested that his bones be buried in
some part of the New World which
he had discovered. This was not.
however, done for many years after
ward. HIh body was first deposited
in the Convent of the Franciscans at
Valadolid. and in 1583 transferred to
the grotto of the Convent of the Car
thusians of Santa Maria at Seville.
Meanwhile the great Cathedral or
Santo Domingo had been started in
1514. It was completed in 1540, and
some time between 1541 and 1549 his
body was takt n to Surito Domingo,
together with the body of Diego
Colon, his son. who dl^d in 1.V/6 Tim
Spaniards had taken the other leaden
(otfln in the previous century. This
little closet was separated from the
other by a wall-five Inches thick, and
was larger than the outer crypt.
If contained a well-preserved
leaden coffin, eight inches high, fif
teen inches long and seven inches
wide. From Inscriptions on this
leaden box it was deduced that the
bones, of the real Columbus had not
been taken away in 1795, but must
have remained here, while the body
of his son was removed.
The then Achbishop of San Do
mingo. Orope Roque Oocchia, an
nounced this Important discovery and
made an examination of the box In
the presence of a large number of
representatives of the Government
and resident consuls of other nations.
All w'ere convinced that these were
the true remains of Columbus, and
that those removed by the Spaniards
must have been those of his son,
Diego Colon.
In the course of the investigation a
third crypt was found, containing a
leaden coffin with the inscription,
“El Almlrante Don Luis Colon Duque
dc Jamaica Marques de Veragua,”
plainly the remains of Columbus’
grandson.
Commission Settles Dispute.
Many controversies arose, especial
ly with the Cubans, who believed that
they had the bones of the real Colum-
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Plan Is Expected to Greatly Ben
efit Farmers of Big Agri
cultural State.
TOPEKA, KANS, Aug 2.—The
bankers of Kansas are not going to
wait for the report of the Federal
Commission studying the system of
farm credits abroad.
A committee of the banker** is now
drawing up a plan of co-operation
which is expected to meet the needs
of the farmers in the way of land
credits.
The bankers believe that the first
idea should be to develop the land as
much as possible In the way of pro
viding farm experts, simplification of
marketing, seed selection, soil im
provement and crop rotation, and the
expansion of cattle raising and dairy
ing.
Kansas is so largely an agricultural
State that the bulk of the banking
business is with farmers. Naturally
it is to the interest of the bankers to
develop to as great an extent as pos
sible the State’.- farm resources, and,
in developing them, devise a system
of credits which will be to the farm
ers what an elastic currency system
is to the banks.
In several counties bankers have
taken the lead in organizing county
agricultural societies to provide for
the services of a farm expert and the
committee which is now at work on
the co-operation program is com
posed of bankers from counties where
these farm experts now are at work.
These farm demonstrators already
have shown that their work is the
most profitable investment the hank
ers and farmers could make.
In Leavenworth County, which war
the first to employ an investigator
and adviser, hundreds of farmers have
changed their methods on the advice
of the expert, and the results, as re
ported to the County Agricultural So
ciety. already are apparent In the way
of increased yields of fields or great
improvement in other ways.
The State Banking Department,
working in conjunction with the
bankers, will have drawn up any new'
laws that are necessary to further the
plane of co-operation.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 2.—Philip
K. Gordon, general agent of the pas
senger department of the Sunset
Central lines of the Southern Pacific
Company, is defendant in an alien
ation of affection suit for $50,000,
filed in the Supreme Court yester
day.
Arthur A. Beck, a civil engineer,
complains that Gordon broke up his
home in Oakland.
According to the complaint, Gor
don met Mrs. Beck at a ranch in July,
1912, and with “the cunning audacity,
the polish of a finished master of the
art. began a course of delicately re
served, w’ell-bred attention and love.”
which impelled Mrs. Beck to lose all
regard for her husband and her
home.
Beck alleges that Gordon induced
Mrs. Beck to look upon him as a
“shrimp and unworthy to be her hus
band.”
Gordon’s father is a retired army
officer residing in Washington.
Man Guards Wife's
Remains Ten Months
TOPALEFACE
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Doctors Say That Indian’s Change
in Color Is Caused by Intense
Nervous Disorder.
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In Love 15 Years;
Pair at Last Weds
Romance Survive* Rigors of Mining
Camp Life, Heat of Tropics
and Cold of North.
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Youth Is Serving Life Sentence In
Ohio for Having Killed
Hit Mother.
COLUMBUS. OHIO. Aug 2.—Be
cause of statements made by his fa *
ther to Governor Cox it is understood
that there will be no pardon for Don
Harvey Hazel, aged 23. serving a life
sentence in the Ohio penitentiary for
the murder of his mother. Hazel was
declared Innocent by the State Board
of Pardons He whs convicted :n
1908
Hardly had the recommendation
been placed in the Governor's hands
before the boy's father. John F. Ha
zel, former superintendent of the Lak*
Shore Railroad at Toledo, came ;o
enter objection to his release.
The Governor’s practical determi
nation not to release the young man
is a refutation of hi* declaration that
!n every rn*e he will follow the sug
gestions of the Board of Pardons.
LIGHTNING STRIKESVTIMES
IN SAME SPOT IN KANSAS
COTTONWOOD FALLfl. KANS.
\ug 2—Striking in the same spot
four times is th*' freak lightning
played on the Lind farm, a mile from
Staffordville. Each time it has struck
barn* and twice has set them on fir?,
burning them to the ground. In t;i
electrical storm a few days ago light
ning struck the Lind barn for the
fourth time, destroying it In the
barn was a fine stallion valued at
more than $1,500. which was burned.
JUDGE HOLDS THAT THE
WIFE SHOULDN’T WORK
CHICAGO. Aug 2.—Women who J
insist on working after the> are mar
ried are doing their husbands an in-
just ice. besides helping their matri
monial life along to divorce courts.
This is the opinion <>f Judge Sulli
van. of the Superior Court who chal
lenged the right of a woman to ask
for alimony from her husband after
she had helped support him during j
rtheir married life.
New Safeguard Now Established
Against Entry Into the United
States Through Mails.
WASHINGTON. Aug 2. Bugs and
plant diseases that expect to stow
away in the mails and thus gain en
try to this country to raise Cain with
the farming interests are now con
fronted at the Department of Agri
culture with a cul-de-sac from which
there is no exit except through the
crematory.
The new safeguard is the “quaran
tine room” that has .lust been estab
lished in the office of seed and plant
Introduction It has worked onl>
once in the few days since it was
built.
The quarantine room is a harmless
looking structure. It is Just a little
glass-inclosed cage about 8 by 12
feet in one of the big rooms of
the new building on Fourteenth
street.
it is bug-proof and glass inclosed,
except for wire netting over the door
and windows forty-mesh netting
almost as close as cheese cloth and
too small to allow the passage of
anything much bigger than a typhoid
germ
Every foreign plant that is mailed
to the United States has to be ad
dressed to the Secretary of Agricul
ture and go to this room This is
the result of the recently passed
Federal plant quarantine law
SPOKANE'S NEW CODE
STRIKES AT CITY NOISES
8P<>KANE. Aug. 2 The city’s new
criminal code contains a strong pro
vision prohibiting unnecessary noises In
the city
The vide as adopted combines about
4a to 50 per cent of the existing ordi
ranees incorporates the entire State
criminal c»*de. covering misdemeanors
wed ados several new laws covering pet
ty offenses.
Government Has Secret Anti-
Thin Emulsion to Give Light
weight Candidates.
CHICAGO. Aug. 2.—The Govern
ment will make you fat if you will
join the army.
This is the promise of Lieutenant
Colonel William L. Kenly, supervisor
of the trmy recruiting service and
president of the field artillery examin
ing board, who Is in Chicago. He
brought a bottle, the first anti-thin
emulsion ever introduced by the
United States Government.
Its purpose, the Colonel explained,
is to gat into the army thousand*, of
men who. otherwise fit. are barred by
reason of their light weight.
"In recent months,” Lieutenant i
Colonel Kenly said, “every recruiting !
district in the country, except Chi- j
cago, has fallen off seriously in its I
wock of bringing new men into the
army, chiefly because *«o many candi
date* were under weight. So I have j
evolved this solution”
Lead casket holding remains. At the top is shown the
inscription on the inside of the top of the leaden casket,
which, translated, reads "Illustrious Baron Cristoval Colon.”
At the bottom is the casket itself as it rests in its crypt in
the great cathedral of Santo Domingo, where it was taken
some time between 1541 and 1549, in accord with the last
wishes of the great discoverer.
SAYS MODERN LIFE ‘EATS'
CHILDREN IN BIG CITIES
GREELEY. COL*.).. Aug. 2. In an
address before the summer session of
the State Teachers' College. Dr. 1'. p.
Claxton, United States Commission
er of Education. su.id:
“More than 65 per cent of our
children are educated in the rural
schools and they form a large pan
of our population in the cities Prob
ably no city produces as mam citi
zens as it kills, and the modern civ
ilization. with its complex problems
and its nerve strain, really eats chil
dren in the city."
He advocated giving the rural
leat her a home and a tract of land.
body of his grandson, Luis Colon,
was* also taken to Santo Domingo
after his death in 1572, but there is
no record of the precise date of the
transfer. The bones of Columbus
had been deposited in the sanctuary
to the right of the main altar of the
Cathedral, where they lay undis
turbed for many years
Moved the Wrong Body.
Toward the close of the eighteenth
century political events compelled
Spain to cede Hispaniola, as this part
of her possessions in the New World
was then called, to France. In accord
ance with the treaty of July 22. 1795.
But the national pride of the Span
iards would not permit them to allow
the bones of Columbus to lie in the
possession of the alien On thito ac
count. in December. 1795, the litch
at the right of the altar of the Ca
thedral of San Domingo, in which
tradition placed the body of Colum
bus. was opened, and the leaden cof
fin found In a crypt there was taken
to Havana.
There was a heavy leaden coffin
outside of the smaller one. all gilded
ever, but marked by no sign what
ever. and this was taken with great
military and religious ceremonies and j
placed by the side of the large altar
of the Cathedral of Havana, January
II, 1796. in ISIS place was;
marked by a stone bearing a relief
portrait of Columbus, for they thought i
they had the body of Columbus there
Cathedral Plan Altered.
Investigation has shown mat the
plan of the cathedral in San Domingo
rad been materially altered between
1541 and 1795. which probably led to
the error, for when 82 years later
some laborers were repairing the floor
of the sanctuary- of the Cathedral of
Sin Domingo (September 10. 1877)
they stumbled upon a lit’le crvpt to
the right of the large altar, between;
the wall and the crypt front which the
bus in their cathedral in Havana, so
in the autumn of 1890 a special ex
amination was made. On January 11,
1891. all was laid before the Minister
of the Interior of San Domingo and
tiie various resident consuls from dif
ferent countries. The box was then
sealed up by the Archbishop, the dust
placed in a crystal vase, and a silver
plate put on the old leaden coffin, so
that it could never again be mistaken.
The inscriptions on the leaden coffin
were quite plain when the incrusta
tions of time were removed, and es
tablished the identity of the bones
found in it. On the inside of the top
of the box was the plainest and mo3t
unmistakable of all the inscriptions,
giving the full title, the “Illustrious
Baron Cristoval Colon," and on the
back and sides are similar inscrip
tions proving the genuineness of the
coffin and its contents.
There can, therefore, be no doubt
that if Secretary Osborne's suggestion
is accepted, the real bones of the real
Columbus will go upon a voyage such
as he may have dreamed about, but
which could not be realized until the
Panama Canal was built, he will have
found a route to th« Indies, by sail
ing west.
MARRIAGE AND INSANITY
ON INCREASE IN OHIO
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Auk 2.—Mar-
riage and insanity both are on the
increase, according to official State
records.
There were 46.756 marriages in Ohio
during the year ended March 31, ac
cording to figures compiled in the
Secretary of State's office by Statis
tician S. M. Johnson. This is an in
crease of 3.401 over the year before.
The number of commitments to
State hospitals during the year was
3.081. The commitments the preced
ing year were 2,586.
Pennsylvanian Finally Takes Body to
England for Burial at
Birthplace.
JEANNETTE. PA., Aug. 2.—With
the body of his wife, who died July
17, 1912, in a hermetically sealed cas
ket, William Clifford, almost 80. will
go to England to bury the remains at
Mrs. Clifford’s old home in Sheffield,
Yorkshire. She was 72 years old.
For ten months the casket contain
ing the embalmed body had been
carefully guarded by the aged hus
band In the parlor of his handsome
residence in Fort Pitt, on the out
skirts of Jeannette. It was first
placed in a vault in the St. Clair
Cemetery', Greensburg. but rather
than have his wife rest In alien soil.
Mr. Clifford had it taken to his home.
Mrs. Clifford was formerly part
owner of the Clifford-Capped Mine
F'an Works in Jeannette and was an
inventor. Recently the works were
sold.
Illinois Women Can't
Act on Coroner Jury
Chicago Official Ditcovers That Their
Serving Is Specifically For
bidden by Constitution.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2—A school-
day romance which proved strong
enough to resist the rigors of mining
camp life In the tropics, the desert
and frozen north for more than fif
teen years, culminated here In the
marriage of Miss Elsie Merz, of Daw
son. Alaska and E. M. Pines, of Raw-
hide, Nev. The ceremony was per
formed in the parlor*-* of the Hotel
Federal by the Rev. Henry Feiz, pas
tor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.
Fifteen y ?ars ago the bride and
bridegroom were schoolmates in Ari
zona. Miss Merz’s father went to the
Klondike with the first gold rush and
took her with him. Meantime Pines
went to Peru in search of gold and
later returned to Nevada, where he
found It. He wrote to Alaska and re-
! minded Miss Merz of her schoolday
| promise. She came to San Fra. icisco
! a short time ago to keep it.
Lifts Ban on Wedding
On His Deathbed
Employer Leaves Bequest to Worker,
With Provision, but Finally
Removes It.
CHICAGO. Aug. 2.—Coroner Peter
Hoffman was legally advised last
night that under the State Constitu
tion men only can serve on a Cor
oner's Jury. Hence, he was faced
with the need of writing letters of
apology and explanation to six Chi
cago women he had selected to act as
Jurors at the inquest regarding the
death of Mrs. Mary Halpln, of No. 128
South Ashland avenue, who was killed
by an auto truck last Thursday after
noon.
Attorney George W. Barrett pointed
out that chapter 31. section 19. revised
statutes, referring to Coroners’ juries,
expressly mentions “man” as being
eligible.
WIFE TURNS PAPERHANGER
TO SUPPORT SICK HUSBAND
MENASHA. WIS., Auk. 2—Once
again the field of man’s work has
been invaded by a woman. Mrs. Al
bert Jones, of Menasha, believes she
is the only woman in Wisconsin who
makes her living by paper hangring.
She learned how before marriage,
when she papered a house for her
mother and then did similar work in
her own home after the honeymoon.
She is young and comely, but bears
in her thin face the marks of the
struggle with responsibility that has
marked her path for four years since
she has been forced to support her
sick husband.
GOLDENDALE. WASH., Aug. 2.~a
The recent row in the Indian settle*
ment on the head of Squaw Creek, in
Eastern Klickitat, in which Peter
Tumhax, an aged Indian rancher, was
attacked by Charlie Pistolhead witll
an ax, has developed the fact that
Tumhax, who was suspected of being
a leper, is afflicted with a disease that
is slowly causing his skin to turn
white.
An examination of the Indian fol
lowed w'hen the 8herlff had him dis
robe to exhibit wounds which he al
leged the other Indian had made >n
hia back.
Covered With Whit# Patches.
It was found that Tumhax, who is
a dark, bronze-colored aborigine, was
covered with irregular white patches
of skin, which gave him the ap
pearance of a pinto pony. Pinkish
white spots on the side of his head
and under his Jaw, which were at first
thought to be birthmarks, were then
noticed.
A physician was called, who sail
the Indian was afflicted with a nerv
ous disorder known as leucopathia,
sometimes acquired by a severe fright
or shock to the nervous system, and
that if he lived long enough the skin
would turn white all over his bodv.
The physician who examined the In
dian said that similar cases occur fre
quently among the negroes in the
South.
Indian Is Unperturbed.
Tumhax is 67 years old, and says
that the white spots first began to
appear on his body eight years ago
after a severe sickness, which, he
says, was caused by a dose of strych
nine out of a bottle of alcohol given
him by a sheepherder, and from which
he drank.
Tumhax does not seem to be at ill
concerned about turning into a “pale
face, and says that the matter does
not cause him any discomposure.
American Girl Freed
From Hindu Mate
Declares Husband Always Slept With
Head to East and Prayed 45
Minutes Dally.
SEATTLE}, Aug. 2.—Ruth Anna
Singh, an American girl, who says sh®
married a Hindu, was granted a di
vorce from Sardar Harry Singh, on
the ground of cruelty and personal
indignities.
The couple were married at Seattle
April 10, 1910, and have one Child.
The wife said on the witness stand
that Singh insisted on sleeping with
bis head to the east and that he gave
45 minutes to prayer daily.
Poodle Sets Swarm
Of Bees on Bathers
Canine Pokes Nose Into Nest and
Then Runs to Water to
Dodge Stings.
RICHFIELD. N. J.. Aug. 2.—A poo
dle with a nose for sweets poked his
head into a bees’ nest on the banks
of the Morris Canal here w'hen men
and boys were in swimming.
The bees made for the dog and sent
him yelping wdth discomfort into the
canaJ, and then they tackled the bath
ers.
For the latter it was a case of
swimming under water out of range,
and for those who couldn’t swim mud
baths w'ere necessary.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—M. Wilber
Dyer, head of the M. Wilber Dyer
Company, who died on May 4 last, be
queathed 70 per cent of the stock
in the company to Mrs. Caroline E.
Dousset. No. 639 West One Hundred
and Forty-second street, an old em
ployee, on condition she does not
marry again. The remainder was di
vided between his two sons.
He stated that Mrs. Dousset, who
is an employee of the company, must
give a legal bond that she would not
marry. The day before he died, how
ever, he wrote a codicil in which he
said he gave the bequest to her “with
out a string to it—absolutely.”
Ruptured People-
Try This for Relief and Cure
Five-Cent Casino
No Crime, Says Court
Magistrate Holds That Accused Was
Within Law Playing for
Nominal Stake.
NLW YORK, Aug. 2.—Magistrate
Freschi. in the Essex Market Police
Court, discharged yesterday Frederick
Dohrman, proprietor of a livery sta
ble at No. 234 East Ninth street, who
was arraigned on a charge of gam
bling, preferred by Central Office De.
teettve Joseph Warahaw.
The court held that Dohrman, In
asmuch as the detective saw a game
of casino for 6-cent stakes in progress
through an open door and window,
was not guilty of a crime, having en
gaged in the game simply to “pass
the time away” and not as a* means
of livelihood.
HOST TO MAN ONE DAY,
HIS PROSECUTOR NEXT
GAND FORKS. N. DAK., Aug 2.—
C. J. Vollmer and Isadora Groskings,
I former automobile dealers in Grand
j Forks, w'ere bound over to the Dis
trict Court to-day on charges pre
; erred by C. R Verrv. Vollmer’s busi
ness partner.
Last night Verrv entertained Voll-
mer as his guest at a theater, and
to-day he appeared in court support
ing charges made some time ago and
; on which Vollmer was captured in
Vancouver. B. C.
Removal of mortgaged automobiles
S: Paul constitutes the alleged
1 offenses.
Only Thing Good Enough
To Stand a 60-Day Test
Here is something you can try sixty
days—just as a test—without having
to risk a cent—
Something which in the last twen
ty-four years has saved thousands a?
ruptured people from having to un
dergo operation—
Something so strengthening to the
ruptured parts that you can work
right along without the slightest dan
ger—
Something absolutely guaranteed to
keep rupture from coming out—tf it
doesn't It won’t cost you a single
penny.
You Don’t Havo to Riek a Penny
We don't ask you to pay out a penny on the
strength of any mere promise nr claims.
W> will make you a guaranteed rupture holder
especially for your cast* make it to your measure—
and I*1 you try W sixty days.
Let you give It a thorough test without asking
you to rials a oaot-
If it doesn't keep your rupture from coming out
or bothering you in any way—If it doesn’t prove
every claim we make—then you can send It back
and it won't coat you a cent
See What It Does
This guaranteed rupture holder—the famous
CTluthe Automatic Massaging Truss—is made on
an absolutely sew principle. It is far mere than
Just a truss.
You see this truss—unlike ail others—la aelf-
adjuaunc. seif regulating
The support it gives automatically increases when
there Is suty sudden movement or strain—as in
working—eo no strain can force your rupture out
And. in addition, the Cluthe Trass provides the
ftitly way ever dleooveretf fer overcoming the weak-
aees wtiUh is the real cause of ruputa^
Juat haw it does (hat—entirely atrtematteally is
all explained in our free book.
300,000 People Have Tested It
The Oluth# Truss has such a remarkably
strengthening and beneficial effect that it has cured
some of the worst rases on record.
Among tnem men aud women 60 to 70 years old.
who had been ruptured from 20 to 5ft years.
Cured many of them after everything else, in
cluding operations, had failed to do any good
No Belt—No Leg-Straps—No Springs
The Cluthe Truss does away entirely with belts,
leg straps and spring*. People who have tried It
say it ts sa comfortable as their clothing. It is
water-proof—will hold in the bath. Also per
spiration-proof and easily kept clean.
Gat World’s Grestest Rupture Book
So that you can Judge for yourself, we want
to send you a free book we hate written—a cloth-
bound book of advice. People who have read It—•
Including physicians—say it is the beat book ever
written on Rupture.
It sums up all we have learned about rapture
In forty years of day-after-day experience. It deals
with rupture In all Its forms and stages. Explains
the dangers of operations. Shows why wearing
elastic or spring trusses is sooner or later almost
sure to shorten your life. And H exposes the hum
bug ''appliances.“ “methods," "plasters." eto. Put*
you on guard against throwing money away.
It shows why 80-days trial la the only safe way
to buy anything for ruptura. and how the Cluthe
Truss la the only thing you can get on such a
long trial, bocauae the only thing good enough to
•tend such a thorough test.
And it tells all about the Clothe Truaa—how it
ends constant expense—how you can try it 80
days, and how little It costa if you keep It,
5.800 other voluntary Indorsement* sent with
the book
Write for If to-day --don't put It off—this book
may be the means ef adding many years to your
life and of restoring you to full strength and use
fulness.
Just use the iwngwm or simply say In a letter
or poetai "Send me (he Book.**
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125 East 23d St.. NEW YORK CITY
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