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epochs of pestilence.
PLAQUES DEVASTATING THE
EARTH.
A Compilation of tSo Great Epidemics
From Early Aires to the Present
Day.
From the Globe-Democrat.
Death of first born, Egypt, B. C. 1491, de
clared by a rabbi to be of cholera.
In B. C. 837 an epidemio of leprosy in
Western China destroyed thousands.
B. C 534, terrible plague nt Carthage.
Children sacrificed to appease the gods.
Dreadful plague in Rome B. C. 453 ; 200,-
000 died in Italy.
Athenian plague graphically described by
Thuoydides B. C. 430.
B. C. 439, Athenian plague spread to all
parts of the world.
Hippocrates, B. C. 400, described Asiatic
cholera, course and sympt oms.
Great plague In Qreeca. Egypt and Syria,
g,OOO died daily, B. C. 187.
B C. 172 strange peslllenoe in Chinese
Tartary; 600,000 deaths.
In Chinese pestilence, B. C. 172, the mem
bers dropped off before death.
B C 72 black tongue in India. Tongue
black and ao swollen as to Protrude
Aretfpus of Cappadocia, A. D. 50, gave
correct diagnosis' of oholerasymptoms.
A, D. 61, a mysterious pestilence in
Damascus, men became blind before death.
A. D. 71, pestilenoe in Judea from stench
of dead bodies In Jerusalem.
A. D. 78, plague in Rome, 10,000 deaths
plague at Rome, A. D. 80; 10,000
persons perished every day.
Oalen, lu A. D. 131. described a visit of
cholera to Italy in that year.
Falling sickness throughout the Roman
empire in A. D. 167.
In A. I>. 169 a pestilenoe resembling
ohi lers devastated the Roman empire.
In A. D. 189 fever in France and Bpain
destroyed one-balf the population.
In A. 1). 190 plague prevailed over the
Roman empire; many towns depopulated.
i irabasius of Pergainus described a cholera
pestilence in A. D. 380.
In A. D. 250 5,000 persons died daily at
Rome. Total deaths 1,000,000.
In A. D. 252, ereut pestilenoe throughout
the Roman empire: 3,000,000 died.
In A. D. 437, mysterious pestilenoe tn
Arabia; men’s eyes dropped out.
In A. D. 430, dreadful plague In Britain;
the living could not bury the dead.
Alexander of Tralles, A. D. 535, men
tioned a visit of cholera to Greece in 521.
A long-continued plague in Europe, Asia
and Africa in A. D. 558.
In A. D. 569 small-pox prevailed In Ara
bia and the east. Great mortality.
Terrible pestilenoe in Constantinople in
746; 200,000 perished.
First general plague in the world took
place A. D. 767. ,
In Chesterfield, England, 772, “sore
throat” carried oil 34,000 people.
About 890 small-pox spread all over Eu
rope and North Africa.
In 954 “swollen throat” plague destroyed
40,000 lives.
Flague broke out in London In 962; 50,000
persons died.
" Black mouth” in London in 1094; one
third the population died.
Famine and plague in Ireland in 1095:
one-half the population destroyed.
Plague in London, 1111; men, oattle,
fowls and dogs died with same-symptoms.
In 1172 Henry 1L forced to evaouate Ire
land on aooount of plague.
Iu 1187 small-pox was general In Europe,
brought from east by crusaders.
In the small-pox pestilence of 1187 over
1,000,000 died.
In 1204 Ireland was almost depopulated by
famine and pestilence.
The “black death” appeared in Italy In
1340. Spread all over Europe.
In 1848 Europe again soourged. The
Florentine plague, deecrlbed by Boooaoeio.
In 1349 Britaiu an l Ireland visited by
black death; 2,UOJ deaths daily in London.
In 1361 a fever in London and Paris
caused fearful mortality.
"Sweating disease" soourged England and
Ireland in 1367; thousands of deaths.
A “fever and shaking disease” in London
in 1369, spread all over Britain.
The “fever and sore throat” in Ireland in
1370 caused many thousands of deaths.
A great pestilence in Ireland, 1383, de
stroyed a fourth of the people.
Lond m ravaged by plague. 1407 ; 80,000
persons died during the summer.
Great famine aud pestilence in Ireland,
1466; 300,000 died.
Black death in Dublin, 1470; half the
people of the city died.
Pestilence at Oxford, 1471, spread over
England; one-third population destroyed.
In 1485 the “sweating sickness” carried off
many thousands in London.
Yellow fever believed to exist among In
dians at discovery of America, 1492.
In 1499 the plague in Lo idon so deadly
that the nourt removed to Calais.
Sweating sickness in London 1506 ; 27,000
died in one month.
Hweating sickness in London, 1517.
Strong men died in three hours after fall
ing ill.
In 1517 half the town population Eng
land died. Oxford was depopulated.
Limerick attaoked by plague in 1522.
Fearful mortality.
Sweating sickness In London, 1528. Gen
eral exodus from capital.
Sweating and falling sickness in Ger
many, 1529. Especially fatal to soldiers.
In 1551 fifth visit of sweating sickness to
London; fearful mortality.
Aiiatio cholera war first described by
Gerela del Huerto in 1560.
Plague appeared in England in 1603 ; 30,-
578 died in L mdon alone.
In 1604 plague destroyed one-fourth the
people of Ireland.
In 1611, 200,000 persons died of plague in
Constantinople; millions in Asia Minor.
Plague brought from Sardinia to Naples;
4j0,000 died In six months; 1612.
Mysterious disease m London, 1635; 85,417
deaths in a few weeks.
lnsease like cholera in Franoe, 1632; 60,000
deaths in Lyons alone.
In 1656 there were 380,000 death at Naples
in twenty-eight weeks.
“Great plague" of London, 1664, destroyed
68.596 lives. Desoribed by Defoe.
In 1065 there were 68,800 deaths In London
“ thirty-three weeks.
'Great plague” lasted two years, finally
Subdued by “great fire," 1666.
Terrible ravages of yellow fever in Phila
delphia, 1699; 1700 deaths.
.Hague came from east to Marseilles,
17S0; 60,000 deaths in seven weeks.
Awful plague in Syria, 1720; whole cities
Peopled only bv the dead.
Pestileuoe of yellow fever in Cuba iu
great mortality.
Yellow fever in Jamaioa in 1739; whito
Population almost annihilated.
.General yellow fever in West Indiss In
thousands of deaths.
Between 1756 and 1892 there have been
**elvu general oholera epidemics,
lesi tW9lv ®-y®ar epidemics of 1756, 1768,
i*, noted by many medical writers,
in 1756 twelve-year epidemics begin, oon
wmporaneous with Hindoo festivals.
Awful destruction by yellow fever at
Philadelphia in 1763,
i *[i 9r * u * pestilence, like cholera In Persia
W 1778; 80,000 died at Bassora.
Jerrible outbreak of oholera in India in
Millions died.
In 1778 there were 170,000 deaths In Con
stantinople la eighteen weeks.
in 1781 heslthy men dropped dead by
Dozens; millions died in India.
In 1781 5,000 English troops attaoked on
“>arch in India; 3,000 died.
York desolated by yellow fever in
Her vices in all the oburobesfor abate
ment.
(} r"at plague of Egypt 1792 ; 800,000 per
*°s? (I >d in six mouths.
fever in Philadelphia in 1793,
t , .deaths.
h( l r r ; 'J96 small-pox carried off large num
, of Indians in the northwest.
Bin!! 796 “ n lto b epidemio In Italy and
Y I many suloidas from suffering.
Plague throughout east and Africa in
1799 ; 247,000 deaths at Fez.
In 1800 plague visited Moroooo; 1,968
died in one day.
Philadelphia visited by yellow fever in
1802; city deserted by people.
Yellow fever carried to Bpain from West
Indies in 1803; very fatal.
In 18'J4 small-pox became general in Cen
tral Afrioa, carried by traders.
In 1804 a contagious fever desolated Bpain
and almost depopulated Gibraltar.
Gibraltar visited by yellow fever in 1804;
garrison decimated.
In 1812 there were 144,000 deaths in Con
stantinople in thirteen weeks; cholera.
In 1815 Mauritius lost one fourth of its
population from yellow fever.
In India, 1817, 30,000 English soldiers per
ished during the summer.
In Indian cholera of 1817 highways filled
with bodies of those who fled.
The Asialio cholera epidemio in Bengal in
1817, afterward spread over India.
In 1817 terrible visit of cholera to Bassora;
18,000 died in two weeks.
Cholera In Anglo-ludian army of 90,000
men; 9,000 dead in two weeks; 1817.
In 1817, cholera at Caloutta; 70,000 Jug
gernaut pilgrims died.
Cadiz. Bpain, in 1819, was desolated by
yellow fever. Procession organized.
In 1826, cholera at Hurd war; source of
Ganges.
To Hurdwar, 3,000,000 pilgrims go every
twelfth year; 5,000,000 every sixtieth year.
The black vomit raged at Gibraltar for a
year tn 182a
In 1828 Gibraltar was visited by ship
fever, which proved very destructive.
Cholera, 1829, brought to England by ves
sels from Black and Mediterranean seas
Cholera over Russia In 1829 ; 300,000 per
sons died during the summer.
Cholera in Russia in 1830; whole provlnoes
almost depopulated.
Cholera during Polish revolution of 1880;
both armies almost destroyed.
Cholera In Germany in 1031; 900,000
deaths from the pestilence.
The first European cholera epidemio, 1831,
lasted seven years.
The Asiatio oholera first appeared in
England at Sunderland, In 1831.
First death by cholera iu Ainerloa, at
Quebeo, in 1832,
First visit of ch lera to New York in
June, 1832. Brought from Quebeo,
In 1832 oholera spread along the Ohio
and Mississippi, from Pittsburg to New
Orleans.
In 1832 Scotland and Ireland were ter
ribly ravaged by the cholera.
Terrible pestilence of oholera at Edin
burgh In 1832; many districts deserted by
people.
Terrible mortality from cholera in Europe,
1832; 18,000 deatos In Pans.
Cholera at New Orleans in 1832 ; 6,000 in
population of 55,000 died.
In 1832 cholera among troops for Blaok
Hawk war; one regiment lost 200.
The second visit of cholera to the United
States was In 1834.
In 1836 oholera again visited the British
Isles; very destructive.
The second European oholera epidemio,
1847, lasted seventeen years.
Yellow fever at New Orleans in 1847;
2,350 deaths; 30,000 cases.
Cholera In England in 1848 ; 53,293 deaths
in six months.
In 1848 oholera followed the emigrant
route to San Franclsoo.
A mild form of oholera prevalent in
United States in 1849 aud 1850.
In 1849 13,131 persons died in London of
oholera; 120,000 lu England.
In 1849 oholera appeared In London;
3,183 deaths In one week.
In 1849 cholera appeared among troops in
Hungarian rebellion; great fatality.
Bt. Louis visited by cholera in 1850;
Methodist general conference dis .landed.
In 1853 New Orleans attaoked by yellow
fever; 7,848 deaths.
Outbreak of oholera In England in 1854 ;
20,097 deaths during the summer.
In 1854 allied English, Freuoh and Turkish
army at Varna attacked bv oholera.
In 1854 oholera very severe in Italy and
Sioily; 10,000 deaths in Naples.
A severe visit of oholera to the United
States in 1855.
The Virginia coast visited by yellow fever
in 1855; great suffering.
In 1855 yellow fever at New Orleans;
2,670 deaths.
In 1856 epidemio diphtheria carried off
great numbers In the United Btates.
In 1858 yellow fever at New Orleans, from
Vera Cruz, 4,845 deaths.
In 1862 Wilmington, N. C., was attaoked
by yellow fever, which spread into the
oountry.
In 1865 and 1356 the cholera raged
throughout Franoe, Bpain aud Italy.
Scourge of oholera at Alexaudria 1865,
11,000 deaths in six week*.
In 1865 cholera was general along ths
whole Mediterranean ooast.
Chdera in Constantinople 1865, over
50,000 deaths in three months.
The third Europeau cholera epidemic
(1865) laited ten years.
In 1865 cholera fearfully fatal at Constan
tinople and throughout Asia Minor.
In 1866 an iucurable disease called black
death appeared in Dublin. The black death
of 1766 was characterized by purple spots
on the skin.
General but not very destructive visit of
cholera to the United States In 1866.
Outbreak of cholera, 1866, in East Lon
don ; 346 deaths in one week.
Cholera in South England ports In 1866.
Quarantine adopted.
An international congress at Constantino
ple, 1866, to consider preventive steps.
In 1866 terrible fatal cholera Destilenoe at
Naples; 53,000 deaths.
House to bouse collections first made In
London for cholera sufferers in 1866.
In the cholera of 1866 737 in 10,000 popu
lation died in Constantinople.
In 1866 cholera followed railroad and
steamboat lines all over this coantry.
In 1867 cholera very severe in Rome,
Naples, Sicily and Bpain.
The outbreak of 1867 caused by exoavat
ing a plague cemetery of Nero’s time.
In 1867 plague and oholera appeared to
gether In Rome; great mortality.
In 1867 black jack at New Orleans; from
Havana; 3,107 deaths.
In 1871 there were 26,300 deaths in Buenos
Ayres in eleven weeks; yellow fever.
Cholera general lu every quarter of
Vienna; thousands of deaths In 1873.
In 1873 cholera in the United States spread
over ninstesn states In eight months.
Savannah, Ga., suffered severely from a
visitation of yellow fever tn 1876.
In 1877 measles broke out in the Russian
army on the Danube; 10,000 died.
Black vomit at New Orleans in 1878, from
Havana; 3,977 deaths.
Memphis almost depopulated by yellow
fever in 1878; 5,160 deaths.
In 1878 yellow fever general In the south.
Total cases, 65,976; total deaths. 14,809.
Memphis scourged by yellow fever in
1879 ; 485 deaths.
In 1885 cholera destroyed 100,000 persons
In Italy alone.
In 1892 oholera reached New York by
steamer Moravia; 22 deaths on voyage.
The oholera bos never crossed the Faolfic
ocean.
Tne Indian oholera follows the caravan
routes through Persia and Arabia.
In Bombay there are ninety-four shrines
and ninety-fonr cholera oeliters.
True Asiatic oholera always originates In
Hindoostan and travels west.
Most violent oholera epidemics have been
connected with oontamlnatlon of water
supply.
In all European cholera epidemics the
disease reached this oountry in less than two
years.
The famous oholera years in India were
1756, 1768, 1780, 1792, 1804, 1816,1828, 1840,
1852, 1864, 1876, 1888.
No other Sarsaparilla has the merit by
which Hood's Sarsaparilla has won such a
firm hold upon the oonfldenoe of the people.
ad.
Just Received.
Another shipment of the oelebrated Zin
faundel claret wine direct from the Napa
Valley county, California; 60 cents per
bottle; |4 50 per case. Dryfus & Riob, 161
Congress street, Savannah.— ad.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1892—TWELVE PAGES.
BAIT TO CATCH SUCKERS.
AND THBRB ARB ALWAYS FOOLS
TO BITE AND BB CAUGHT.
Queer Devices Employed by City
Swindlers to Get Hold of Country
Cash—Large Fortunes Made by Ad
vertisers Who Offer to Give Some
thing for Nothing.
From the Sew Fork Herald.
Some two years ago a firm ostensibly
doing business in the sooth advertised widely
that if any one would forward name and
address he or she would receive a lot In a
oertain flourishing oounty in Florida free
from all expense. The sole tax to be paid
by the happy reoiplent would be sl, the cost
of making out the deed. It was also stipu
lated that the taxes for some years to oome
upon said lot would be merely nominal. I was
told upon good authority last week that the
people of this coantry responded to this in
vitation to the extent of $250,000. The
men who got up the scheme made a clear
profit of something like $180,060 and has
since retired from business, perhaps to be
ftn elsewhere some.lung of tne same kind.
he whole business is, of course, more or
less of a fraud, and yet it was not exactly
getting money for nothing The way in
which it was managed was very simple.
The man who devised and engineered the
scheme went down to Florida and found a
tract of oountry in one of the gulf counties
which he could buy at the rate of 50 oents
an aore. It was practically worthless and
yet not more than five miles from a rail
road station. He bought 20,000 aores and
had it'recorded upon the town books. That
was the whole work to be done in Florida
upon this property so far as be was oon
oerned. Once having a transfer he began
to write out his ciroulart. Aooording to
his acoount this new town was to be the
garden spot of Florida. Its advan
tages were so many that he scaroely
knew where to stop. It had roads,
groves, streets, churches, schools, hotels,
factories, all on paper—very muoh the sort
of place that Dlokens describes under the
name of Eden in “Martin Chuzzlewlt.”
Then his advertisements began to appear in
the daily press. He wanted people to come
and realize how magnificent were the op
portunities offered in this new oity, and to
induce them to do so he made this magul
fleent offer: To give away every second
lot upon the flourishing avenues. When
the place became fully popu
lated the Intervening lots whiob
he proposed —on paper —to hold
as an investment would become enormously
valuable aud he would reap his profit.
Human nature is pretty gullible. If this
man had offered to sell his lots at $1 apiece,
it may be doubted whether he would have
made any money, but the moment he of
fered to give them away for nothing, suc
cess was assured. People from all over the
country wrote, some of them being so eager
that they even telegraphed and sent
him letters with special delivery
stamps. I can see the smile with which he
mutt have reoeived these missives. As I
say, about 250,000 persona swallowed the
bait.
LOTS THAT COST FOUR CENTS APIEOB.
By return mail they were informed that
their application for a free lot in this new
and flourishing Florida city had been re
ceived, and that such and snob a lot had
been awarded them. The onlv thing now
to be done was to send $1 with whioh to
oover the expense of making out the deed.
The profit oama in this way: No sooner bad
this ingenious speonlator got bis 30,000 acres
than he wont to the oounty clerk and asked
him what be usually made a year out of
his business. The man answered that he
was very glad to m :ke SSOO. Our yaakee
genius offered him $5,000 to devote his
time and his official stamp to making
out as many deeds as he could manufacture.
The man jumped at the chance and went
into the business. The actual cost of the
deed, properly oertified, and the postage,
was about 10 oents, so that 90 oents profit
remained. As there are sixteen lots In an
acre of ground, aud the acre costs 50 oents,
the actual cost of the lots was less than 4
cents a lot. It took two years before the
crop of dupes throughout the country was
exhausted for this partioular field of Indus
try, aud I do not suppose that If the whole
thing were to be repeated to-morrow or a
few years from now U would be any less
successful. It is the old Itching of people to
get hold of something for n ’thing.
Not a week pusses but that our postoffloe
authorities do not receive complaints from
persons living far awey that they have been
swindled; they have seat money and re
ceived no return. A short time ago I took
oocasion to send to a number of persons who
advertised in small oountry papers that
they will give employment at remunerative
ratoß to any one who applied for it and 1
kept my batch of answers as curiosities.
One of the types of this swindling game,
which no amount of Interference on the
part of the police seems to break up, consists
in opening correspondence with ladles re
siding at a distance, offering profitable home
worx with particulars free. For instance,
the applicant is told that the “Artistic
Needle Work Company” does a large whole
sale business, and that most of the work is
performed by ladies at their own homes,
and that upon receipt of $1 samples of the
work to be done will be forwarded. The
?1 is “simply to protect ourselves," and
in return for it the applioant gets by
mail a piece of cotton velvet with a small
flower stamped on it, a piece of red felt of
the same size, a pattern and a small amount
of silk, the whole costing not more than 20
conts. When the pattern is worked out and
returned for inspection the applicant re
ceives word that it is satisfactory, but that
before permanent employment is secured it
will be necessary to forward $5 ‘ ‘in accord
ance with long standing commercial
usage.”
When the $5, whiob may he the scant
savings of some poor woman, has been for
warded, she receives a pleoe of goods, such
as a mantel oover, to be embroidered, and
for which, when finished, she is told she
will receive $5 and regular employment. In
due time the work is done aud sent to the
oompauy. That is the last the victim bears
of her work or her money, no matter how
many indignant letters she sends. The con
cern is just $5 and some fine needlework in
hand, aud the sum is so small that there is
little likelihood of trouble, especially as all
the victims are poor and the advertising is
done in newspapers hundreds and even
thousands of miles away from New York.
This particular swindle is perennial.
Some time ago there appeared in the
columns of one of our newspapers an invi
tation to every person short of money.
Work was offered which the advertiser as
sured his patrons would prove satisfactorv
and could be done by any one after a little
practice. I had the ouriosity to oall at the
address mentioned, not only to find out
what the work consisted of bat to gain some
notion of the number of persons out of em
ployment. I know that sometimes an at
tractively worded advertisement of this
kind will bring not lees than 500 answers.
This would argue a tremendous army of
persons watching their chance for work.
EMINENT ARTISTS WHO WORK CHEAP.
Upon climbing five stories of a dingy
building on a side street back of the Astor
house 1 discovered a small room where sat
an old man, his wife, a son, two daughters
aud four assistants—young girls supp sed
to be learning a uew and beautiful art
which might possibly load them on to fame
and fortune. The art in question consisted
iu ooloring some cheap little lithographs
with a wash laid on to imitate oil. The
stook consisted of Christmas oards for the
coming season, and the proprietor Informed
me that such was the tremendous demand
for these works of art that he
found it possible to offer me 2
oents for eaoh card that I would oolor with
oars and good ton e. He knew one young
man who hud actually succeeded in doing
10 J cards in a day’s work of ten hours. But
he was a wonder and bad eventually turned
up as a rival of his teacher and was now
engaged in cutting down prices. The work
was uot more difficult than the oolor lag a
bright child does In his picture books, but
it was certainly hand work and not printed
and was advertised as “hand painted carls
by real artlsrsof high repute.” at the ridic
ulously low price of 25 cents each.
“The eminent artists” looked up from
time to time as if they were aocustome 1 to
hearing themselves so described without go
ing iuto fits, and when the noon whistle
sounded they dropped their tools and
rushed down to the bakeshop below for a
mouthful of pie and a glass of beer. In the
meantime I questioned the owner of the
establishment as to the opportunities of
makißg my salt should I become an emi
nent artist. He said that he would teach
me the art for $2, to be repaid when I be
came expert enough to be trusted with a
genuine lithograph. I told him l was much
obliged for the opening and would c insider
his offer, and 1 went away thankful that
this was not wholly a despicable swindle,
intended to get hard earned dollars from
poor people.
Among the answers which I have received
from persons who advertise in small country
papers "A Sure Fortune for Any One,” or
“If You are in Debt and Without Work
Write to Us and Fortune Will be Yours,”
or again, “A Good Income Without Much
Work and no Canvassing,” are some ouri
ous specimens. Most of these hail from
small towns, and I am sorry to say that the
profits from dupes teem to be suoh as to
keep rogues oonstantly at it. The variety
of their devices is almost endle.s.
One advertisement offered valuable books
for almost nothing; others promised
pictures or works of art ass gift; others
propose to make the applioant rlcn in short
order by telling him secrets beyond all
prioe for a 2-cent postage stamp; again,
others have secrets for ouring consumption,
hydrophobia, paralysis and pretty much
every disease under the sun, whioh they
will impart to any oae who chooses to in
olose 10 oents to the advertiser, who gives
up his time not for the paltry 10 oents, oh
he is careful to say, but for his love of
humanity.
SWINDLERS WHO LAUGH.
Of oourse in these last there are a good
many oases of amusing roguery in whioh
the swindled person gets almost the worth
of his money for the lesson. X remember
that three years ago the postoffloe author
ities stopped the letters of a man who was
receiving about SSO a day from persons who
sent him a quarter for what he advertised
as '’a flue steel engraving of Queen Vic
toria” and gut a 3-csut postage stamp In
return.
There was also a man who offered for half
a dollar a sure method of killing the potato
bug and sent his hayseed clients two little
pieces of wood with the directions, “place
the bug between these pieces of wood and
squeeze hard.” I have no doubt that these
out-and-out swindles of a petty kind offer
good lessons at a small prioe.
The infallible receipt for getting rich
which was Bent in return for a 2-eeut stamp,
“Work night aud day aud never spends
oent,” and another for enabling a man to
do without eating, “Takeadoseof poison,”
are well worth the money to any oue who
cau laugh over the matter.
But in contrast to these wholesale h azes
are the cruel swindles which take dollars out
of the pockets of poor people, who cau least
afford the money bacayse they are out of
work. Some time ago the Brooklyn police
got information that many complaints were
ooming from oountry people concerning a
certain firm which advertised a gorgeous
prize together with a bottle of Dr.
Somebody’s unrivaled consumption cura
The postoffloe authorities reported to the
polioe that the firm in question received
from 300 to 400 letters a day, aud as noth
ing to the oredit of the estaolishment oould
be found deteotlves were sent to the house
of the reputed doctor, and after arresting
him broke into a back room, where a dozen
girls were engaged in wrapping up and pre
paring for the mail a little bottle of some
combination, supposed to be whisky
and water, and putting It into
a box together with the gorgeous
E resent aforesaid, which consisted of a brass
reastpin, worth perhaps 5 oents. The
package, stamp and all did not cost the en
terprising doctor mope
At the time the raid was made the mall for
that day was stopped and was found to con
sist of 142 $1 bills sent in answer to the ad
vertisement, twenty-eight letters of abusu
from victims who wanted their money
back, and, strangest of all, thirteen letters
from persons who hsd found themselves
greatly benefited by the consumption oure
aud wanted more. The police broke up the
establishment, knowing well that it would
be a matter of a few weeks before tt e • ‘doo
tor,” under some other name, began bis work
again.
ART WORK THAT IS QUEER.
From my investigations I found that ad
vertisements of the class In which you are
offered big income for little work may be
divided as follows;—First, those in whioh
you are invited to peddle some article whioh
you buy from the advertiser; second, those
in wliioh you buy a process for making
some compound whioh you must dispose of
by podaling yourself or getting others to
peddle for you; third, those iu which you
are invited to do some kind of work at
starvation prices of work whioh cannot be
done all. For Instance, one advertisement
reads: “If you want to make a comfor
table tnoome at home of SSO a week write
to the International Company, post
office box —, Chioago." I answered this
card and reoeived this note:
Dear Sir: The business we advertise, and in
whioh we need the services of many ladies aDd
gentlemen. Is the making of a beautiful plotu-e,
which we oaii the Artigraph. We send you a
certain kind of a picture on a delicate, specially
prepared China paper. We require you to put
it on cardboard and apply the colors as directed;
you can do it after a few days’ practice. We
send you, wheD you decide to undertake the
work, a book of instructions, for which we
charge you nothing, being desirous to have you
in our employ, and a box of paint and brushes,
for which you pay less than co-l price—namely,
$1 su. No natural taste or artistic training is
needed for this work; bear In min i any on- can
do it. For every pioture you send to us satis
factorily finished we pay you 45 cents We
send you at first five, which, when finished, will
net you $2 25, and after a little practice you can
easily finish four in one day’s work. We sell
these ptetures to canvassers and have never
been able to get enough of them to supply the
demand. Asa matter of form before sending
you the first five pictures we require you to
make a deposit of $1 as a guarantee of good
faith, and we cannot undertake to start anyone
in the business who is not willing to mako the
deposit.
We feel sure that you will be able to do this
work well and that the money earned will sur -
prise you. State bow you prefer to be paid—by
the week or by the montb, or whenever you
send us the finished pictures.
Together with this circular came a con
tract, in which the victim states bis will
ingness to do the work required and agrees
to devote so many hours a day and do his
best. He is supposed to sign this and en
close it with $2 50 to the Hydrographic
Company. In return will come five little
piolures on tissue paper and some cardboard
on whioh to mount the pictures; also a little
box of cheap paints and brusuee—the whole
outfit worth, perhaps, 50 cents at retail
prices. This is the comedy part of the per
formance. The tragedy part begins when
tho unfortunate victim tries to do the work,
which requires no artistic skill or previous
knowledge of the business. Asa matter of
fact, he believes that the work is made
purposely impossible. When an
attempt is made to paste
or mount the tissue paper picture upon the
cardboard it seems to dissolve and the vic
tim regards it with ming ed astonishment
and indignation. No matter how much care
ho takes or how delicately It is done—ami
even ex;rta have tried tuelr hands at it—
the result is an awful botch, whioh thee m
pany will be perfectly Justified in refusing
as “not up to the high standard required by
their patrons.” The upahot of the business
is that the victim Uses bis faith lu numan
nature, $2 50 and a good many hours of an
noyiug work. It will be n And that the let
ters sent by the firm say that “the money
earned will surprise you.” The victims earn
nothing and it does surprise them.
In other coses of such advertisements,
where the advertiser is not a swindler, there
may be men and women who will make the
large amount of money promised, but they
will be In proportion to the number of at
tempts as one in a million. I have in mind
the olass in which the advertiser sells an ar
ticle to be peddled, the peddler to make hie
own stock In trade from a secret process.
I have received hundreds of circulars
from such concerns and am assured
by them that they offer the chance of my
life. lam told that if I undertake to can
vass my neighborhood for the photograph
albums, the silver-plated spoons, the gold
plated watch ohaiiis, the patent hair
orlmpers, patent button fasteners, the 50-
cent diamond ring, the $1 Cremona violin,
etc., fortune would smile upon me. In all
cases you are Invited to sign a oontract by
whioh you become agent for a certain ter
ritory. Cheap books and bibles, trashy
chrumos and household devices are offered
by the wholesale.
The man who advertises “A prize for 10
cents" says that his prise Is worth $lO, but
sends only a few oolored lithographs worth,
perhaps, the 10 cents, and with them a
budget of offers showing how much money
Is to be made out of the business or articles
sold by him and to be peddled by the cor
respondent. The prospective canvasser is
assured that taking subscriptions for this or
that particular book is easier than luxurious
idleness and that most people are aching for
a chance to subscribe. The circulars say
nothing about the tramp from bouse to
house for days at a time and having hard
work to keep out of the way of vicious bull
dogs taught to regard oauvassers in the
light of delioate morsels.
THE DELIGHTS OF CANVASSING.
One class of manufacturers who hope to
make money through oauvassers tell you
some partioular process for making an
article which you oau peddle at a tremen
dous advance upon the original oost. You
aro told that you ran make a bottle of hair
dje for Scouts whioh you ran sell forsl;
hair oil for 4 oents to be sold for 25; a 10-
oent package of stove polish can be
made for 1 cent, etc; staroh, iadeli
ble ink, washing powder, shoe black
ing, cough syrup, fly paper, arti
ficial honey, freckle lotion, perfumes, oourl
plasters, eto., are among the things whioh I
have tieen invited to make and spread
through a delighted neighborhood. lain
told that I can make 10,000 bottles of magio
hair restorer at 3 cams a bottle and sell
them for 10 cents to canvassers, who will
retail them at 25 cents apiece, I will make
lots of money, and that the whole neighbor
hood will rejoice, except, perhaps, the bald
headed man who tries the magio restorer.
1 have also been offered a salary or a for
tune if I would peddle a certain kind of
a face bleach, first, however, paying for $2
worth—enough to try It so as to be able to
talk intelligently of its merits. Another
person, anvious for my welfare, wauts me
to send $3 for a dozen bottles of oough
mixture. In these instances you must first
buy some face bleach or some cough syrup
and become perfectly conscious of their
merits before obtaining the oovetod salaried
position. Tbo advertisers say in their cir
culars that they make this rule iu order to
prove the good faith of the applicants.
in some of the answers I have received
where the advertiser offered to give valu
able pioturee, “real works of art," in return
for 10 cents, I have received a few cheap
little ohromos, with the request that should
1 wish more 1 oan get them by sending o
the advertiser the names of twenty-five
families residing in my neighborhood.
These names are made use of by firms send
ing out advertisements of patent medioines
and all sorts of trash, and such lists nave a
regular commercial valne, according to the
number of names upon them. The small
country postmasters are even offered a few
dollars iu return for a list of all the persons
who reoeiye mall from their office and these
lists are used In the same way.
The Exact Time.
Pompey Is a bright negro boy, employed to do
light work aud run errands in a boarding house,
says the Youth's Companion. He baa learned
a good many things in the course of bis 8 years
of life, but the art of reading a clock face L not
os yet completely under his control.
The expedients to which he resorts toooaceal
his ignorauae on this and other points are many
and amusing.
“What time is It Pomp?" asked a young man.
into whose room the boy had brought a hodf ul
of coal, and who bad not yet got out of bed.
Pompey studied the clock face anxiously for
some seconds, aud then said, in an ingratiating
tone:
“It’s one o’ dein times dat I can’ Jes precisely
mak’ out what time it am. Mist’ Wilkins, sab.
But oue oh do hands is platin' to les you, sab.
an’ do udder is pintin’ right todes me, sab, an’
I reckon you know 'zaokly what time dat am.”
MEDICAL
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i;BILIOUS and NERVOUS!;
DISORDERS,
l! Such as Sick Headache,
Weak Stomach,
Impaired Digestion,
Constipation, j!
Liver Complaint,
and Female Ailments. ;
11 Covered with a Tasteless & Soluble Coating. ;!
] | Of all druggists. Price ZS cents a box. \ \
<> New York Depot. *6; Canal St. i 1
FUKSITUKa.
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6DESS m WE GIVE IT CP.
We do know, however,
that if you are at all inter
ested in
Furniture and Carpets
You will find our Fall selec
tions very choice. There’s
somethin? THAT WILL
JUST SUIT YOU.
BICYCLE DEPARTMENT.
We want to reduce our
stock and will sell any high
grade wheel at a discount of
$25. We mean it.
THE A. J. MILLER CO.,
171 Broughton Street
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OLD NIWBPAPBRS-W0 for ii OOQUM—
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I AM
># may kavi'wAatE&
\ousands visit Eu- Ki!
he natural
It of Carlsbad. //Ip
obtained by mafia* |Bj
ion at the Sfiringx, Ip!
i is identical tenth yl
waters in its ac • If
t andresultS.wkich |
the same to-day
ttrhs l i r . was cut * fr
four hundred years fcjj
\ and later George £jj
f -. Peter the Qreat, ||
l Maria Theresa if
ejited by their use. dj
ey aid digestion.
e constipation, and ftp
ify the blood.. $
1 litre to obtain the renu- KS
mterted article , with the El;
ature of “ Eisner &* Men- K 3;
' Cos., Sole Agents, New- By;,
t,” on the bottle. Jk|
| EISNER 6 MENDELSON CO . NEW VpfeK. 1
DRY &OODB.
fat Activity in Dry Goods.
LEOPOLD ADLER,
SUCCESSOR TO
A. R. ALTMAYER & CO.
in iiiin Bn suit Tlwiilit lit to
St* lira Mr lit Sew liugtigl
ILL GOODS MIU IN PLAIN FMRIS.
Grand Display.
Sp ecially Low Prices.
COLORED DRESS GOODS.
(Center Counter.)
We bunah together 50 pieoes High Class
Dress Goods in assorted styles. Plains,
Plaids, Htripes, Mlxturos and Rough Elfeots.
AH new and nobby, 36 to 40 inches wide.
Price 490. Actual value 65 and 750.
SILKS 08c. SILK&
50 pteoes Blaok and Colored Silks, valued
at and fully worth $1 25 a yard, will be
sold at
9Sc. 08c. 98a
Black Peau de Bole, Black Surahs with
oolored stripes, Changeable Taffetas, etc. etc.
SHOES.
Ladies’ extra fine Doagola Shoes In patent
tips and plain toe, price $1 50.
Ladles’ $4 shoes, hand sewed, turn and
welt, and fully worth $4, prioe this week $3.
DRESS TRIMMINGS.
All the latest novelties and importations.
Headed, Plain. Jet, Bright aud Dull, Iri
descent and Jeweled.
LEOPOLD
COR. BULL AND BROUGHTON STS-
JLiKATHKR GOO Do.
NEIDLINGER & RABUN
.JUST RECEIVED
WALRUS AND SEA LION GIN WRAPPING.
A FULL STOCK OF
RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING, PACKING AND
HOSE, SADDLES, HARNESS AND BRIDLES.
Heavy Timber Harness Made to Order.
154 r ST. JULIANA 153 BRYA IST STREET.
MACHINERY, CASTINGS, ETC.
AND" BRASS FOUNDERS AND
MACHINISTS, BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAKERS.
THE SAMSON SUGAR MILLS AND PANS.
DEALERS IN
STEAM ENGINES, INJECTORS, STEAM AND WATER FITTINGS.
CORRESPONDENCE 80UC1TKD— ESTIMATES OIVEN.
Not). . 4 and O Bay and 1, , 3,4, f> and 6 Hirer Streets.
SA.VATS NA H. <3-A.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorlau
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
250. a yard for Black Storm Serges, 36
inches wide, in Rough Angora Effects,
actual value 40c.
98c. a yard for the finest Satin Finished
Henriettas made, 44 inches wide. Sold tbs
world over at $1 50.
BLAZER SUITS.
|3 98 for Ladies’ Blaok and Navy Blue
Blazer Suits, all sizes, that are fuUy worth
*6.
We have Blazer Suits in Blaok aud Col
ored up to 115.
BOYS’ CLOTHING.
?2 50 Boys’ Knee Pauls Suits of beat wear
resisting fabrics, Cheviots and Victoria
Cassimeres, heavy weight, grand value at $4.
35c. per pair for our 50c. quality Boys’
Knee Pants, all sizes.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
1,000 dozeu Ladies’ and Oenta' Flue Pocket
Handkerchiefs,Colored Borders, Plain Whlta
and Embroidered, price 150., worth 95 to 350.
ADLER,
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