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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24 1885. TWELVE PAGES.
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THE NATION’S TREASURY
SOME OF ITS TREASURES AND CU
RIOSITIES.
The Orest Building m whioh Tatrty.rtrs Hundred
Clerks Are Employed— Phe Vsaiti sad w&it
Tbey Oontsin-Tas Bocae's Qsllery-
Oeo macs tn tho Treasury, Etc.
Washixqtox, February 15.—[Special.]—Tire
treasury it the mammoth of all the depart
ments* It stands at the bend of Pennsylva
nia avenue, just one mile from the capitol.
Both edifices are on hills and the wide, smooth
thoroughfare gently sloping down from each
is perhaps the prettieat street lb tho world.
As a drive aud a promenade thero
U nothing In America to compare with
it) and I am told Paris has few streets as
fine. Fro^ the top terrace on tho western
approach of the capitol there would be a clear
view to the wbito bouse but for Andrew Jack-
mod 1 * determination to put the treasury whero
it now standi. It is the noblest of the great
piles reared by the government on the
hills of Washington. To gaze on its
rows of mighty pillars resting upon a moun
tain of granite and supporting a mountain
more is to have faith m the treasury itself, en
throned in such a citadel. It is a silent pro
test in its brave, bare, beauty to the meretri
cious charms and clustered fineries of the
state, war and navy building on the other
side of the white house. The building lias
cost about
EIOHT MILLION DOLLARS —
about half as much as the capitol, and two-
ifairds as much as tho state, war aud navy
building will cost when completed. On the
five floors of this massive building, which is
almost as much beiow the surface aa above it,
there are employed about three thousand five
hundred clerks* The treasury.is a little world
within itself. Nino visitors out of ten inquire
most particularly about the
ORRAT PI LIS or UONIY
which are kept here. • The vaults are
in the basement and under the care of tho
treasurer, who arranges the com
binations on their locks aud controls all ap
proach to them. l f ntii recently it was com
paratively easy to gain access to the vaults
where hundreds of millions lio in gold, silver
and greenbacks. But the rule, has been
, changed, and a recent order of tho secretary
debars tue sight seer from tho privilege of
•peeping into tho cation's pocketbook. When
this privilege used ti be granted thero was •»
package of two millions of bonds, which hon
est looking visitors wero allowed to hold for a
moment. The best (hat can be dona now is to
walk down a dark hall and peep through a
wrought iron grating at the great stone and
utecl cbesta in which the country's treasure is
etored safe from fire and force. It is but a
faint sense of joint proprietorship that an or
dinary sovereign feels as he gazes at tho im
penetrable walla in which he is told lio hun
dreds of millions of “his" money. Tho heavy
coinage of silver has made tho construction
of soreral additional vaults necessary.
Under the present law it has rpnidly accumu
lated iu tho vaults. After stretching his im
agination ; to take in the contonts of the strong
boxes before him tne visitor is told that this
5s mi the government's big pile after all, but
that it is kept in tno sub-treasury at New
York, at the commercial capital ot the coun
try. On the sarno floor with the vaults in
rooms with iron*gratud doors are men and
women counting over bank notes mutilated,
worn, or called in. They are rapidly count-
tcd % tied into packages and punched with a
xnnehino that makes four semi-circular
holes through each of the bills. This is mere-
lyjthe beginningof tho work'of destruction.
Tno bills are then cut in two and sont to dif
ferent rooms whero they are counted again
several times over and tho counts, are com
pared to seo that they are ab»olulelr
) pared to seo that they are absolutely .correct." practical control of those roads, but
Then ibc fragmentary bills are carri-1 through Lean ... mistaken. Ho would vote
another scries of safe guards Into the bosorrient Sherman'a amendment and others, ,S»eauio ho
' jmm fmk *-* * • *• gm thought it better tdb a vs imperfect vlcglilatiou
tbannono at alh /
below where they suffer their l«Bt indignity.
They oro put into a huge masticating appara
tus where steam softens the paper ana the
teeth of the machino cut it quickly into a com
mon mass of smoking, pulpy, green. It is
taken from the apparatus and placed iu vats
whence it is sold to pnjter manufacturers or to
thoeo enterprising manufacturers of souve
nirs who mould it into all sorts of shapes and
•ell it aa representing fabulous sums of muti
lated money.
In the marble room the visitor is admitted
ton gallery which runs twenty feet above the
heads of tho employees below. Here tho eves
aro treated to the sight of a moderate amount
of money. Gold and silver are stacked in pro
fusion on the marblo slabs and mosses of
f rccnbacksare discovered in the open drawers.
lore government checks are coshod. coupons
of bonds are paid, and change of any kind and
in any amount is furnished to all applicants,
gtrarge as it may seem It is nevertheless truo
that bogus money attractsinore attention from
visitors than tho genuine article. No room in
tho building rivals in (mpularity
THK aOOUE'i fMLLSRV.
This is in the secret servieo division and
famous counterfeiters. Among the
faces on the walls and In the albums every
expression of the human countenance can
be found. Men end women, old and young,
the defiant rase ot tho hardened criminal and
tho handsome, frank face of the smooth villain
look into your eyre end chaiiengo your curb
oiity to trace the story that lies back of cad
of these bits of pasteboard. The photographs
of nil captured counterfeiter* are taken by tho
government officials lor this gallary. Borne-
times the rascals refuse to sit for their pictures,
and great difficulty is experienced in obtaining
a likeness. It is a trick of tho detectives to
engage such a prisoner in conversation
while a concealed photographer catches
•n impression on his plates. One
fellow defied all efforts of cunning and force
and a picture of the back of his head is the
best that could be gotten. Another was tied
to a plank and held upright while a view of
bia facewaa token. It presents a fiendish
Clare of frenzy. The largest group $o be seen
Is that of the Ingersoll family wno were cap
tured in Indiana threo years ago. There were
fourteen men and three women engaged in
counterfeiting with remarkable a/atemand
success.
In a large safe are preserved all the coun
terfeit plates and money ever captured,amount
ing to more than a million dollars. In a large
scrap books are manr specimens of the bait
counterfeits. Many of these are so perfect that
the average visitor admits his Inability to dis
cern any defret.
Tho moat daring and successful feat of coun
terfeiting ever accomplished was the joint
work of Brockway. the famous counterfeiter,
andtwoofhis partners, Smith and Doyle.
Brockway, though one of the most successful
and one of the best known of all countrrfeit-
ing celebrities is not an engraver. He is a
* " * ed engravers __
►case worked three years
on a plate for 11,000 United states bonds, and
produced one so perfect that
none but the beat of experts
can now point out its defects. The bonds run
off from this plate were given by Brock way to
Boyle, who worked off many of them before he
was caught. Finally he was betrayed end
arrested in Chicago witb|247,O0O worth of these
counterfeit bonds on his person. They were
ao fine that bankers who had been swindled
indignantly denied that Boyle's bonds were
bogus and offered to take more ot them. Brock
way is now in the Albany penitentiary serv
ing bis sentence for this job.
Charles F. Ublricb, a German, waa one of
the most successful counterfeiters.
He made a $50 bill which caught nearly every
bank in thee country aud ha had nearly
$100,000 of bis own make with him when he
vrat captured. He made a $50# bill which is
inmost respects a better piece of work than
the genuine. Hw was • genius the govern
ment would have been glad to employ at a
handsome salary if he had not started out on
his own hook. Several negroes have turned
ont excellent coulIhH" iters. The women
csngiit in this business bars generally bean
used aa agents in circulating spurious money.
Cue of the most gifted counterfeiters ever
caught waa a young fellow named Foster,
who amused himself while serving his time
by executing the most exquisite ornamental
pen work. A little frame in the rogue’s gal
lery contains an-illuminated aeroliih which
he wrote Sbakspeare’a apostrophe to mercy,
in the Merchant ot Venice.
Borne of tho most dangerous counterfeits ever
discovered were made with the pen aud brush.
There is a $20 bill of this kind tnat keeps com
ing out. All efiorta to traco its source have
£ roven furtilc. Each of these bills represents
mg and paioful labor and it is inexpli
cable why their author wearies
himself on such small denominations.
They are almost absolutely perfect, and tho
statement that they were made with a pen and
brush is incredible until the microsoopc veri
fies it. An engraver may labor for months
end years on a counterfeit plate, but when he
perfects it he can run off thousands of impres
sions. This fellow toils on each piece of his
miserable work with the perseverance of a
saint and the patieuce of a martyr—all for
twenty dollar*.
The skill andferganlzitionofthe secret ser
vice bureau have reduced the amount of coun
terfeiting very greatly, but.it is still carried
on by bold and conning hands. Over 2,000
counterfeit silver dollars found their
wuy back to the treasury last year. The
amount of counterfeit greenbacks reported
during-ihe same time was uearly $10,000.
This was in circulation and does not include
sums captured In the hands of counterfeiters.
A great business is done in counterfeiting for
eign notes in.this country. Our counterfeit
ers work the foreigners both ways. They is
sue counterfeit notes on their banks and sell
them*in this country and then they send
counterfeit greenbacks abroad and havo them
passetEon foreign banks, Whlrich worked
off $50,000 of our five dollar
notes on a Batch bank and
some of bia victims were emigrants who oamo
from Holland wftn tirtir entire worldly for-
tuno represented in bogus $5 bills.
tnx good uoxsr
is made on the bill udar the Washington mon
ument, in tho bureau of engraving and print
ing. It is apart of the treasury,emcloying
abopt 1,000 pertoire, who put tho fibrous paper
scut over in counted sheets from the treasury
through all the processes needed for its con-
veraion into greenbacks. The adoption of the
new eilk fi'*re paper not only makes a
more durablo bill but gives far better
protection against counterfeiters. The
poper is the groat difficulty for tho counter
feiter, and entraps him oftener than his de
fective engraving. Our bills are the best en
graved In the world. The Bank of England
relies ou its paper and ornaments it with few
lines and mysteries. Their paper is superior
to ours or to any other that is mado anil is a
so re puzzle to tho counterfeiter. A bogus
Bank of England note is a curiosity iu Eng
land.
Tho government engravers oro paid from
$2,500 to $5,000 a year according to skill.
Borne of tho pressmen who work'off the green
back* moke os much as ton dollars a day
and . tho # n ini bio fingered womou
who count over tho crisp now bills earn from
$3 to $5 a day according to the speed and ac-'
curacy ot their count.
THK HARD MONEY
x>, iuQ country is coined at Philadelphia, 8an
Francisco, Denver, Corson City, ana New Or
leans. Coining is a simple process compared
to tho manufacture of greenbacks. Our gold
is seldom imitated because Qt tho careful scru
tiny given to the most loved of all kinds of
money and the natural difficulties in tho way
ot counterfeiting it. Punching, clipping, and
filing oro the most frequent methods
of attack on gold currency. F. H« It.
AN INCIDENT IN THE SENATE.
GOV. MOSES IN COURT.
Sentenced to Six Months in the House of Carreetloii
-Tho Prisoner Makes a Strooa Appeal for
Mercy-Bed rsloof Ruin end Dishonor
—Ho Bsoamea Common Swindler.
In Which Morgan and llmok f junrrol About
Their Nativity.
Washington, February 19.—In tho course of
§omo remarks on tho Texas Pacific forfeiture
bill, in the senate to-day, Mr. Beck said he.
had supposed- in 1878, when tho Thurman bill
was naaud, that congress had zocured some
leal control of those roads, but ho had
— *»- —to. ggainst
N»causo ho
The court proceedings printed below close per
haps a career, dazzling and despicable.
Franklin J. Moses was the sou of Chief Justice
Moses, of South Carolina, a beloved and respected
man. Young Moses at the close of tho war was
made district judge by Gcueral Can by, and became
a leading politician. Ho was speaker of the house,
a member of the convention, aud governor of Car
olina before be was thirty years old, Durlug this
period he msde and squandered millions. His
extravagance was colossal, and hit life voluptu
ous. Though lavish ns a prince, the old f< lends of
himself and family sternly ostracized him.
With the fall of tho carpetbag government ho
fell, impoverished and friendless. The people ho
had deserted refused him their hano.aud the tools
be had enriched deserted him. Ho fell lower and
lower and finally became a common awludler.
His favorite plan is to represent himself as the
brother of some well known man, and raako loans
in their name, ne lias played this game perhaps
a score ot times and has often been arrested be
fore. It Is said he stolo his wife’s dresses and Jew
elry and sold them for money. The following—
perhaps the last public chapter of this strange life,
will bo read with Interest.
From the Boston Herald:
Yesterday afternoon, at the superior criminal
court ot East Cambridge, Franklin J. Moses, ex
governor of South Carolina, was placed In tho
dock for sentence, ho haviug pleaded guilty to au
indictment for obtaining money by false preten
ces from Colonel T. W. Iliggiuson, of Cambridge.
Ho was pale, attenuated, with hair and beard
marly white, and presented the appearauco of a
man entirely broken in health. Colonel Higginson
stated Briefly the manner by which Most!imposed
upon him; that he came to his hoosoand repre
sented that he was Captain Brian of South Caro
lina, and he (the colonel) believed biin and gave
him 131. Afterward he telegraphed to South Caro
lina, and found that Captalu Brian had not left
tho state. Then the legal proceedings were insti
tuted, which resulted in tho arrest of the prisoner
In Detroit, Mich. Judge Pitman then tusked tho
prisoner if he bad anything to say upon tho matter
of sentence. Moses stood up and addressed tho
court as fellows:
"May it please sronr honor: Not on my own
account, but for tne sake of the name 1 bear—
which, uutil tbe death of my fatnor in 1877, was
au honored one in tbc. public annala of South
Carolina—1 crave your indulgence for my utter
ance of a few words iu connection with tho crilno
chanted against me, and of which, by my own
ncmiwiou, I stand before you as guilty. Not
under any circumstances could I have been able
to adduce before the court nuy facts which would
have gone to prove me guiltless of tho crime an
charged, but, were it not for tho paucity ot
my pecuniary means, it would have been within
my power most abundantly to have proved by
those who are cognizant ot tbe premises that even
before my accession to tho gubernatorial choir of
South Carolina, at the early »ge of thirty years, my
mind was in an unbalanced and unsettled condi
tion, consequent upon the unjust and utter alien
ation of those among whom, up to that time, my
whole life bad been passed. That alienation,
caused in the first iustanro by rov sincere oonvlo
tit*a as to my public duty ou tbe eve of "recon
struction" In tbe south, waa so complete and unan
imous as to render me
PttACnCAIAT A STRANGER
in Iho state which gave me birth and narrowed
and confined my sphere of social exlsteuco to
thocc who entertained political convictions Iden
tical with my own. These troubles unnerved and
almost pi
lu itrcaai
Frank Siddall’a Opinion.
Frank Biddall’s name has become a hooift**
hold word wherever purity in soap is prized'
and washing day is robbed ofitaold-fasnlonod
terrors. By tno introduction of tho soap
which bears his name, he has won a place iu
the gretelul hearts of tho women of America.
Tho opinions ot a man as ahrowd and obser
vant aa Mr. Siddall is known to be, are well
worthy of consideration in forming judgement
on a matter into which ho has examined.
Whether in a throng of invited guoats,
hia “silver wedding,” or in the quiet comfort
of life cozy homo, ills pleasant to spend an
evening with Mr. Siddail. Desiring to learn
his views concerning an important question ot
health, one-of our editors passed an Uonr with
him and his family. To look at Mr. and Mrs.
Siddail and their aon nobody would suppose
that they had ever been Invalids. Yot they
have, aud all three of thorn owe their present
health to——
Well, let them tell the story.
“No,” said Mr. Siddail, “you would hardly
think my wife an invalid. Certainly she .has
not an emaciated or feeblo appearance. But
some time ago. there appeared on her side
something which soemed to be a tumor. Two
of her relatives had died of cancer, and she
feared she was to bo a victim of that terrible
malady. Tho tumor, or whatever it waa, in
creased in size and painfulness. The chafing
of the dress against it was a continual remin
der of its pretence, as well as a constant irrita
tion. Wo feared the neoesity of tho surgeon's
knife as a last resort.
“But we tried another method. I had long
known of Compound Oxygon. It had never
made any impression on my mind until, after
**"*>! disbelief, I had tried it for my
Mr. Morgan said that tho effort of Mr. Bjek
to impeach tho democrats who had opposed
Itcagan, and had ado ‘ 1 ' *
course on this bill, wou
grin) from doing his duty. He had Been in tho
democratie party bo'oro tho senator from Ken
tucky (Beck) enjoyed tho privilogosof citizen*
chip in this country. IIo (Morgan) had boon
a true and faithful democrat, aud it did not
rest with the senator from Kentucky to im
peach bis democracy by such flings, as that
convoyed by hia last remarks.
Mr. Beck disclaimed any allusion to tho
senator from Alabama (Morgan) or any other
senator. “Ho is not quite so important," Mr.
Beck said, “in my estimation in regard to
these questions, as ho may think ho is. I did
not happen,” continued Mr. Beck, "to bo born
in this country, but I was not consulted about
my birth. 1 have been a citison of tho
United States sitico 1835. That
it a.good while ago. The senator may havo
been a very important man at that date, but
I doubt it. 1 havo endeavored to perform my
duties, as a private man end a public officer,
to the.best cl my ability since that time, and
it the senator thiuks it adds anything to his
uniicu oiaicp. no is welcome io an iuo nonor
be his mado by that fling at the place of my
nativity. Many good men nave been
born in Scotland, very many,
. and many who havo been born here trace with
{ •ride their ancestry back to tbe place where I
race mine. 1 might say more, but l will not."
lu conclusion Mr. Deck said; "I regard tha
suggestion as to tuy nativity as unworthy a
senator, as unworthy tho senate and unworthy
a reply.”
Mr. Morgan r.nid ho had made no reference
to the senator'* nativity, only to the time he
had been in the democratic party, and whilo
bis (Morgan) servieo to tho democratic parly
bad not i>c«n fo conspicuous aa those ot Mr.
Deck, tiny had been as honeat and aa
bcautifuL No Scotchman worthy of the name,
be continued, would take to himself aa a per
sonal allusion, anything that was not raoant
in that sense. There might be some doubt about
the object of that senator's nliusion, but Mr.
Morgan merely understood him to say that at
tbe moment of making biz remarks be did not
huvo within the raugeof his vision any sub
ject so miscroscopic as Morgan. “ Well, wiien
tho senator waa in ebnrgo of such heavy ar
tillery he should be careful how he wielded it.
He ought to have some consideration for gen
tlemen. “I am not a retail dealer in small
politics,” Mr. Morgan added; “I desire
neither place nor power, but while I occupy a
seat on this floor, senators must not supposo,
insignificant aa I may be, indifferent to public
praise though I may be, that* they can trample
Nubility ot lllood.
Fiotn the Boston Budget.
Ciants, in l.h* fcixon hhtoijr, tells u* of an Earl
of Abatis, tunumied, on account of hia great
strength, Don, who wax a great favorite of Edward
111, of Englscd, and much envied, aa favorites are
always sore to he, by the rest of tbe courtiers. On
one occasion, when the king was absent, some
nobfemui maliciously instigated the queen to
make trial of tbe noble blood of the favorite by
*— a lion to bo let l->no
_itn, saying, according to tbe
popular belief, that if tbe earl araa
truly noble the Hon would not touch hint.
own e**t over hi* l — „
trbtling bis hair, and growling destruction be
tween his teeth. The carl, not in the least daunt
ed, celled out with a stout voice, ** 8Und, yon
•Jog!" At tbiee words the lima crouched at his feet,
to tl* great amazement of tbe courtiers, who were
ngout at every window to see tbeiaaweof
ungenerous design. The earl laid holdef
the lion by the roaoe, turned him into hia cage,
ai d pJarlng his night cap on tbe llon’a back, tame
forth without casting a look behind him. "Now,"
eel#1 the earl, celling out to tbc courtier*, "let him
among scu ail. tb»t htand -th most upou bia ped
igree, go and fetch my night cop;"
Dr. Fuller's Toothful Vigor Pilfc care nmous
smkrtsir
premeditated ouc. After many yean of suffering
And privation 1 found myself with my family in
New York. imj>ovcil»bed and unemployed, and i
came to Bostou for tho purpose of asking aid ofoito
whom In earlier snd happier duys it h id beeniu
my power to assist under almost similar clrcuin-
starves. To my horror aud consternation I met
with a negative reply tn my earnest appeal. Not
for quo moment had 1 thought of such an answer,
and it left me aghast aud bewildered, in this
hour of unlooked for refusal tha horror of the alt-
nation came upou mo with irresistible force. In
znyfevuod imagination I mwmy wife aud little
«*lilldroti— 1 whom I love with passionate idolatry—
houseltss aud homeless on tbe public highways
of a great city, dependent for shelter
on the charity ot a* rangers. I.lko
a drowning man at sea. my mind looked out
upon tho boundless stretch of the waters in which
1 was engulfed without tbe sight of a single friend
ly nail. The trial was too great forme. My mind
gave way under it. It tvun in this condition of
mind the crime was committed. I found myself
with the means of assistance in my hands indue*l,
but, incredible as it may seem to your honor,
with sti immediate sense of self condemnation at
tha method employed to obtain it. I cherished
the hope that in the near future I should be able
to return the money.
IT WASTUKOLd. OLD STORY.
Temptatiou presenting itself in tho hour of trinf.
but in my cue tbc temptation rame tom mind
already enfeebled aud dixeased, and which, under ■
other circumstances, could and would firmly
resist its approach. May it please your honor, I
have a wife and children whom I dearly and de
votedly love, and vrbo are loft ia a destitute >
my life would have met with pardon aud tbe
tlu violated majesty of tbe law
wise, and I, therefore, humbly confAHH^BHJ
tut plead lu extenuation thereof the clfcuml
stances which rendered ice almost crazed at the
moment of It* commission. I entreat that your
Ihonorwll) Inquire whether It U not wholly un-i
worthy of belief that a man who in the years tb*t
have gone baye filled the positions aud performed
dutk-H that have fallen to my
IB^^vould, in his sober senses and
with bis mind In Ha full vigor, have stooped to
thecummhslon of a crime, tbe purpose of which
waa to obtain tbc comparatively amail sum of
of thinga that a man who has pride in his ancestry
von Id choose a cilmlual course of life—most espe-
iallyw htu such a course U in direct opposition
io his tastes and Instincts. From my earlJeit
days I have been known as a strictly tem
perate man, and have never taken part in
games of chance, whereby money or any
thing else could be gaiued or lost. Your honor, I
have done the state some sorvfee. Botasnurt
time after the close of the war, under the appoint
ment of tbe lamented General Conby, who at the
time repnt' iiUd the government as commanding
general in 8outh Carolina, I occupied, acceptably
‘ 'tn. the position of district judge and held the
. j» of justice both on the civil and criminal
sides of the court, amoug Itoo people of two coun-
ties in tbe state, at a time when
THK MINDS OF syuf U'KKK INff.ANKD
I with rwdon and prejudice, the one against the
other. As a member of the constitutional con
vention of Jbi8,1 took pert In framing the new
organic law, upon which, a* acondlilon precedent,
Imy native state was readmitted to her place with
in the union. I served as speaker of the hougp of
Ireprcsrntativr.-. and as adjutant aud inspactor-
general of the state from IWW to 1H72, In
cicsaof 1*74. No amount of sorrow, noamount
of suffering r.r misfortune, not even death luelf,
which, save for tbc sake* ol my wife and children,
would be most welcome, can rob me of tbe honor
cJti*
Judge Pitman said, addressing Moses: "Why
did it not cx cur to you Instate yourdrcumiUma
and throw yourself upon tho generosity of Colo-
r»J IJijralnwD, by mailing an appeal to him?"
Mcmn replied: "I had just before applied to a
r cJJJif glnaoo, by mailing an npjxal to him?"
Mcmn replied: "I bad just before applied to a
man tn Bo*ten to whom l bad sent £2V) when ho
was in confibcmc-nt at tbe Conciergerie in Paris aa
a dishonest tankrupt, and met with such a povi
five refusal that my mind was In a disturbed con-
J edge Pitmen then said: "It scans to me that
jour moral rente la more Impalmd than your
intellectual kmc. It is very sad to have to
■ei'teaoe a msn of jour ability, but tbe fact of your,
being a person of sorb Intelligence should deter
reu from the commission of crime. Your offense
against colonel lifgstasou was a mean one, having
all ibe efemiuu of treachery and deceit." The
court then sentenced the prkouer to sis m stubs
in the bou e ot correction, and bo was Ufcert to tbe
prison lodti the street in (be custody of Warded
a good deal ol
sick headaches. With close application to
largely increasing business which took my
whole time and thought, I had become
martyr to this distressing complaint,
seemed strange that such an invisible agent
thoga3 which is inhaled through a tubo could
make its impress on that condition of the
system which produces sick headache.
but it did. After taking ofllco treatmont,
found complo rest from brain woarinoss, and
entire exemption from the nausea and tho
harrowing pains which mako up that very
unpleasant combination known as sick head
ache. I became an entirely renovated man
in toy ability to attend to daily business. I
also for a long seris of years, sufferoi severely
from constipation. Tno Compound Oxygen
treatment completely removed this troublo.
"So we concluded to try Compouud Oxygen
for Mrs. Siddail. Br. Starkey, after a careful
examination pronounced the abnormal growth
to be something entirely different from cancor.
This was a great relict, oven if tho growtli
could not be entirely removed, and it gave
great confidence in Br. Starkey, for some
practitioners would have tried to make it out
as aggravated anil nlarmir
iu order to magnify their
wero made. In even tho short space of a few
days tho effect wos perceptible. Compound
Oxygon was doing its work on the blood. The
poison in tho circulation, or whatovor it was
that had caused the growth of tho lump, waa
driven out of tho system. Most of tho hard
growth was absorbed into tho circulation apd
thus carried away. Tho hardnoss departed
Something like the * core of a boil canio eut
painlessly. Within four weoks from tho
time she began to take the Compound Oxygen-
the lump was gone, and the flesh had hoaled
and become as natural os that on any other
port of tho body.
“Mrs. Siddail is now as able as over to at
tend to her regular duties, which she heartily
enjoys. She is a wonderful help to me in my
exunslvc business, being at my office every
day. transacting, with great efficiency, tho
allairs of licr department, which consists of
supervision or the 20 lady clorks.
kml how as to your ion, Mr. Siddail f
Well, ho ia now as hearty as need be;
thank* to Compound Oxygen. His blood waa
impure. For years ho was my cashier, with
constant duty and heavy responsibility. It
wore on him. His appetito was irregular and
capricious. Thero wero pimples anil blotohoa
on hi- face indicative of tho condition ot his
Thero were dark spots under his eyes,
genorel state was such that although
he wvf. not laid up in bed as a chronic iffvafld
there was danger that ho would be. ' Wo tried
hiinjwith tho treatment. Compound Oxygen
soon did for him what it had *d<*uo for his
mother oml myself. It reuowed his blood and
gave him a heartier vitality. Tho pimplos,
blue spots, and other indication disappeared.
His skin bocamo soft and natural, liis appe
tite became regular, and hia digestion, which
of course hud been ini paired, was restored to
its proper condition.”
Then, Mr. Biddali, you havo no objection
to be quoted os a believer, firm, thorough and
constant, in Compound Oxygen.
“Believer l Why I consider that in tho dis
covery of Compound Oxygen, there has boon
given to the world something as valunblo and
us notable as Jenncr gave it in tho discovery
ol vaccination! Believer I Why, seo. our
family experience with it. Believer! Yes, ao
much so that I never loso an opportunity to
tend those of my friends who need medical
treatment to Vrs. Starkey and Union, and all
that I have heard from are enthusiastic iu
their approval of It. Notawordofdisappoint-
mcni from any of them. Believer! WoJJ, I
havo induced four of my clerks to take tho
treatment. Thero is Air. Johnson for instance,
come round to thn office and see him. He
had cutarrh so badly that at night he had to
toko a handkerchief to bod with him, aud to
have a basin by the side ot tbe bed, in whioh
to expectorate when moat people are asleep,
and now, alter but a few weeks’ treatment, ho
is almost entirely rid of this frouble. liis oars
were clogged with catarrh discharge. They
urc now entirely free from it.
“And so I might tell you till morning of
such cases, and others of similar Importance
and value. You cannot spoak too highly of
Compound Oxigen. You may give my opin
ion of it as strongly aa you ploaso.”
The writer called to see Mr. Johnson and
found him at hia post, not only free from ca
tarrh annoyances, but groatful for it, and en
thusiastic in his praises of Compound Oxygen.
And now, ifany one wishes to know all
about this wonderful Compound Oxygen, let
hitn write 16 I>rs. 8tarkey A Patou, Ifo'J Gf-
rord 8t., Philadelphia, and they will send
him an interesting little book in which ita
discovery, nature and action are fully des
cribed. It alto contains a large record of re
markable cures which have been made during
tho last twelve or thirteen years in all forma
ot chronic ailment.
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