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LISOX'S KEW LIGHT.
MARVELOUS DISCOVERY OF THE
GREAT WIZARD OF ELECTRICITY.
Wonderful Crystal, With Which He Hopes
to Make the Rodv Perfectly Transpar
ent—Entirely New Field For Scientific
Research Opened Cp by It.
Thomas A. Edison is about to give to
the world another discovery as wonder
ful in its way as the fluoroscope.
By means of the fluoroscope Mr. Edi
son put to practical use the discovery of
the so called X rays by Professor Roent
gen. His latest discovery is a further
development on this same line.
Mr. Edison, realizing the limitations
of the fluoroscope, its power when ap
plied to the human body—for in its sur
gical possibilities lies its greatest bene
fit to mankind—being confined to re
vealing the bony structure and the dim
outlines of such solid organs as the
heart, is determined to find, if possi
ble, some substance of more sensitive
quality than the tungstate of calcium
. used in the fluoroscope.
V “It was,” says he, “the action of the
X ray on crystals of platinocyanide of
barium which caused Roentgen to make
(he original discovery. Immediately
kfterward I discovered that tungstate of
calcium was more powerful, and I con
structed a practical instrument for util
izing the crystals in connection with
the X ray.”
Tungstate of calcium not being suffi
ciently sensitive to transform the
strange light discovered by Roentgen
into a light that would so illuminate
the interior of the human body as to
render its most delicate tissues visible
—in other words, to make it transpar
ent—Mr. Edison set about to find a
crystal that would possess the requisite
quality.
He has discovered one. Its name he
will not yet reveal, saying that he is
still experimenting with it and desires
to exhaust its possibilities before an
nouncing it to the world.
Less than a year ago it was thought
marvelous when the bones of the hand
were photographed. But by means of
the newly discovered crystals Mr. Edi
son can now disclose to the eye of the
surgeon organs and tissues that have
hitherto been seen only in the dissect
ing room and on the operating table. It
is probable that when he perfects his
now discovery the slightest derange
ment of the system will be revealed to
tho doctor’s eye.
So sensitive are these crystals that a
man with nis eyes bandaged may dis
■orrg'Dbjects, which suggests the possi
llity that to the eyes of the blind the
world around them may become a visu
al reality.
In speaking of his work to a reporter
Mr. Edison said:
“For the hist six months I have been
experimenting for the production of
chemical crystals which should have
the peculiar property of giving out light
when subjected to the action of that
mysterious force called provisionally the
X ray of Roentgen.
“I saw that with the fluoroscope as
it is today only tho bones of the body
and the heart can be seen, and that if
tho internal organs are to be rendered
visible it will be essential to increase
the sensitiveness of the crystals used in
tho fluoroscopo as well as the variation
in the quality of the X ray.
“I first purchased in this country and
Europe all tho chemicals known and
sold in the trade which I did not al
ready possess. These -were all tried in
the fluoroscope. Only one was found
equal in sensitiveness to tungstate of
calcium. Since then my chemists have
been making chemical combinations not
procurable elsewhere. ’ ’
“ Your chemists must produce a large
number of new combinations,” ven
tured tho reporter.
“Their average is SO new chemical
substances a day. Every one of these is
subjected to the X ray, and its fluores
cing power, if any, is measured. ”
“And do any of them compare favor
ably in fluorescing power with tung
state of calcium?”
“I have found one chemical which is
more sensitive to the X ray than any
heretofore known. But I shall keep on
trying until little hope is left of finding
anything better; ’ ’
‘ ‘ When do you suppose the chances of
such discovery will bo exhausted?’ ’
“Practically never, for when you re
member how many chemicals there aro
and then calculate tho number of possi
ble combinations you will find that they
run up into hundreds of millions. ”
“The possibilities of this discovery,
Mr. Edison, in their relation to surgery
seem immense.”
“Yes. Should I succeed in finding
just what I am after there is no doubt
that the fluoroscope will become an in
strument of great value to the surgeon,
for by it he will be able to make accu
rate diagnosis of the internal organs. ’ ’
There is another discovery that may
have an important bearing on Mr. Edi
son’s experiments and that suggests re
markable possibilities in the realm of
light manipulation. It is that of the
French chemist Becquerel that certain
crystals of the salts of the metal urani
um, when subjected to the action of sun
light and then taken into a dark room,
give off anew and hitherto unknown
ray which possesses the same property,
as the X ray—that of penetrating opaque
substances.
“I am very much interested in Bec
querol’s discovery,” said Mr. Edison.
“The rays from these salts of uranium
penetrate opaque objects and give pho
tographic impressions. Other experi
menters have discovered that other crys
tals, among which may bo mentioned
white sugar, have the same property.
“Strange and curious results that
may materially add to our stock of
knowledge of the unseen world about
us may Jfivelop from our experiments
with thesAchcmical crystals which wo
are now subjecting to the various forces
of nature, imm very hopeful for the rc
jmitg gfCthe&eexperiments. ’’
this discovery of Becquo
rel’s, ” asked the reporter, ‘“openup an
entirely new field for scientific re
search?’ ’
“That science is now entering upon a
new and wonderful field fraught with
great possibilities, ’ ’ replied Mr. Edison,
“is illustrated by the knowledge that
through the action of the light stream
ing in upon our tables and pouring over
the sugar thereon some wonderful
change is brought about and that from
this sugar an unknown ray radiates out
into space and through our bodies, per
haps, producing effects in them of
which we have no idea. ’ ’
Mr. Edison took the reporter into the
room where the X ray experiments are
going on. There he introduced Mr. Dal
by, who has been working continuously
for the last year with the fluoroscope.
Mr. Dalby’s hands and arms were red
and covered with * scales. He said that
two mouths ago his arms and hands had
swelled to double their normal size and
the finger nails had all fallen off.
Since then he has been more cautious
with his experiments. When too close
to the X ray bulbs the pain, he says,
comes out at once. While talking with
Mr. Dalby of this manifestation of the
power of the X rays Mr. Edison sug
gested that possibly the rays might have
some action upon bacteria.
“Have you made any experiments on
that line?” asked the reporter.
“No, not yet,” replied the wizard,
“but bacteriologists have taken up the
subjects and are, I understand, still con
ducting their investigations.
“If in time the bacteriologist suc
ceeds in destroying all pathogenic bac
teria, and, on tho other hand, the sur
geon, by the aid of more sensitive flu
oroscopes and fluorescing photographic
plates, is enabled to view the internal
organs of the body with sufficient clear
ness to make accurate diagnosis, I be
lieve that human life will only be lim
ited by old age, accident or dissipation. ’ ’
—New York World.
TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN.
Stained Glass Window to He Placed In a
New York Church.
Asa tribute of respect to Queen Vic
toria, and in honor of the approaching
sixtieth anniversary of her accession to
tho throne, the members of the Anglo-
American Free Church of St. George the
Martyr propose to place a handsome
stained glass window in the Church of
St. John the Evangelist, in whose build
ing, at Waverley place and West Blew
entli street, Now York, the former con
gregation also worships. This parish
was organized in 1845 to build a church
and hospital for British immigrants, and
it obtained a grant of land on Fifth ave
nue, between Fifty-fourth and Fifty
fifth streets, upon which to erect the
church and hospital.
This property was subsequently trans
ferred to St. Luke’s Hospital association,
a part of the consideration for the trans
fer being that a ward or wing capable
of holding 20 beds should be known
and designated as the ward of St. George
the Martyr. For many years the con
gregation worshiped here and there,
with no settled church of their own, un
til more than 12 years ago they united
for worship with St. John the Evangel
ist the Rev. B. F. De Costa serving as
pastor to both congregations.
Ever since its foundation tho people
of St. George the Martyr have held the
queen of England in tender memory and
have set apart certain days for services
in her honor, notably on St. George’s
day and the queen’s birthday, when stat
ed prayers have been said. This, so far
as is known, is the only church in the
United States where such recognition
takes place. It is hoped that the win
dow will have been completed so that it
may he put in position for the coming
anniversary. A largo number of Anglo-
Americaus in New York have interest
ed themselves in the matter. New
York Sim.
Algor's Private Ledger.
General Russell A. Alger’s thorough
ness as a business man leads him to put
down in black mid white every detail of
all matters in which he figures, of what
soever nature—good, bad or indifferent.
This, of course, necessitates a series of
accounts and records which are far more
“private” than those which generally
are so denominated. General Alger has
one ledger which he himself keeps up to
date. Its covers aro of metal, and the
hook is closed by a padlock, the key to
which always is carried by the general.
Only one person knows what is in the
“locked ledger.”—Chicago Times-Her
ald.
To Colonize Palestine.
Professor Richard Gottheil, lecturing
at Temple Emaun-El, New York, ex
pressed his belief that Palestine should
be colonized by Jews; that they are en
tirely competent to make a strong agri
cultural and industrial state, and that
tho country can support such a popula
tion with case, as it formerly diiL He
has a further theory—that Palestine
onglit to lie made a purely independent
and neutral state, which should become
a court of arbitration for all nations.
This project in his view is not only ideal
but practical. —Springfield Republican.
Victoria No Invalid.
The queen through her private secre
tary, Sir Alfred Bigge, has written to
the mayor of Sheffield announcing her
intention to open the town hall there in
person in May next. This fact should
disprove the rumors about the physical
and mental prostration of her majesty.
A Reliable Indication.
It comes, that jocund gleam of good,
Across the dreary waste.
That warms the earth so damp and cold
And bids tho seed make liaste.
The south wind breathes unto the world
That message over gay.
On high are fleecy clouds unfurlod.
The heraldry of May.
Afar we noto tho time of bloom,
But not by signs like these.
For fickle sunshine yields to gloom.
And frost still claims the trees.
But this one fact- assures the change
Beyond all vague surmising—
The men of business now arrange
For springtime advertising.
—Washington Star.
THE TIMES: BRUNSWICK, GA., MARCH 7, 1896.
BETTERLETTHEMDIE
INDIA’S DYING MILLIONS THE VICTIMS
OF NATURE.
••
So Some of Eng) * Social Philosophers
Argue With Regard to the Plague arl
Famine—New Theory About Great Kpi
demits—Cold Logie With Reasou In It.
It was inevitable perhaps, that the
double scourge which has turned all
eyes of pity toward India should also
have revived public discussion of that
pitiless topic, ‘ ‘ The survival of the fit
test. ” It is a cold and relentless phi
losophy—but no more so than nature
herself—which is questioning tho ulti
mate wisdom of serious interference
with the natural calamities which are
devastating the most populous sections
of the British empire. The debate which
has began in the English press lias
been suggested by such obvious queries
as these: What part do these great epi
demics and periodical famines play in
the economy of nature? Are they, after
all, the unmitigated evil which they
appear to he at close quarters? Was Dar
win right or wrong in making these
great natural visitations the basis of
his theory of natural selection—a the
ory which holds a most important place
in the evolution of the human race?
Cold logic, softened by any consider
ations of human sympathy, has led some
debaters of these questions to conclu
sions which are much more creditable
to their heads than to their hearts. It
is not, however, in any spirit of un
charitableness that the discussion has
gone on. Now that the popular heart
has been touched the outpouring of
English gold for the benefit of the per
ishing millions of fellow- subjects of the
queen empress makes one of the sub
limest spectacles in the history of hu
manitariauism. The English people are
entitled, therefore, to discuss some of the
deeper social questions involved in the
calamity without exposing themselves
to the charge of shirking a duty of char
ity. The subject has also been forced
upon their attention in another way.
The anti-British press in Germany
has recently attempted to hold the Brit
ish authorities in India responsible both
for the ravages of the famine in the in
terior and for the spread of the plague
in Bombay. These charges have been
denied with a good deal of heat and in
dignation. But the defenders of British
rule have proved too much. The Times,
for instance, said a day or two ago up
on this point:
“It is due to British rule and to
nothing else that the famine has not
made itself felt until so late a period,
and that, notwithstanding an immense
increase of the population, it is now be
ing fought with success. It needs no in
quiry to tell us that the vast popula
tions of agricultural India live up very
closely to the limits of subsistence.
That follows from their immemorial
habits, their traditions and their modes
of thought. In fighting as we do the
consequences of these things we are try
ing a gigantic experiment which our
own success makes more formidable
each time that a deficient rainfall stops
the food supply. We are insensibly sub
stituting prudential checks for the nat
ural ones which we have removed. This
is proved by the improvement in the
general condition of the population not
withstanding its increase in numbers.
But the process is a slow one, and the
future of our Indian empire cannot be
regarded from an economical standpoint
without grave anxiety. ’ ’
The population of India, as Lord
George Hamilton remarked in parlia
ment the other day, has increased dur
ing the past 20 years by no less than
60,000,000. A small portion of this
was by annexation, but by far the
larger part was within the old area. At
that rate of increase, as The Times ob
serves, the day is not far distant when
all the resources of the British empire
will not suffice to cope with a succes
sion of bad seasons and a failure of
rains over an extended area. It is ar
gued further that the excellence of Brit
ish rule—the unprecedented security to
life which it has supplied—has chiefly
contributed to this condition of over
population.
In other words, British government
in India has been far too good. It has
brought about an abnormal condition
which only a great double cataclysm of
nature can set right. And now Great
Britain and the charitable world at
large are doing their utmost to thwart
nature in her necessary and inevitable
process.
This cold blooded conclusion is shock
ing to every human sensibility, but how
is it to be escaped from? say tho casu
ists. It is a view which may perhaps
be adopted with equanimity when it in
cludes only the distant and impersonal
millions of India, but how about it
when it is applied to the teeming thou
sands in the east end of London, on the
east side in New York and in the slums
of Chicago?
The plague, although it is far less se
rious in the number of victims which it
has thus fiir claimed than its brother
curse, the famine, just now obtains the
larger share of public attention. The
reason is obvious—it is a direct menace
to tho world at large, and its scat is in
the coast city of Bombay, which is now
a suburb of Europe instead of being
hidden ’in the unknown interior. The
bacteriologists and other modern ene
mies of this once omnipotent destroyer
are rapidly bringing the resources of
science to hear against him. Encourag
ing, but, I fear, premature, news of suc
cess on the side of modern knowledge
has already been sent out, but in the
meantime a historical study of the great
scourge has suggested an interesting
theory. It is said in general terms that
the plague is a dirt dise;ise.
Oue of the chief matters of concern
in dealing with the present plague situ
al to Mecca. This gathering
tbc and
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of tho year from a sanitary point of
view. And yet its arbitrary prohibition
would be a delicate and most dangerous
undertaking.
The faith of Mohammedans, as one
writer points out, in the divine impor
tance attaching to a pilgrimage to the
holy shrine of the prophet and to the
coveted title of “haji,” which follows
it, is blindly strong and fanatical. They
believe indeed that the more difficulty
encountered and the more devastation
created the more in proportion are the
divine blessings to be realized. To tell
some would be “hajis” that their pil
grimage to Mecca is likely to spread
death throughout non-Mohammedan,
countries is to make them the more
eager and determined to undertake it,
since, in the opinion of the more igno
rant, the great prophet’s prophecy can
only be consummated by the annihila
tion of all the “unfaithful. ”
Tho co-operation of the sultan, of the
shah and of the emir of Afghanistan
would he almost essential to the suc
cessful prohibition of the Mecca pil
grimage, and it is extremely doubtful
if this could be obtained even by strong
diplomatic pressure. The attempt will
probably be made, however.—London
Dispatch to New York Sun.
CLEVELAND’S MUSEUM.
Memento Hunters Want the -President's
Coon Dogs, Rucks, Rabbits’ Feet, Etc.
This is cleaning up preparatory to
moving time in the Cleveland house
hold, and the head of the family finds
his attention called from bothersome
Cuban complications and Queen Lil to
the more important business of getting
rid of a garret full of trash, gifts from
admiriug and office seeking Americans
which have been accumulating since
1893. And now that it is suspected that
the president may have something valu
able to give away, others of the dear
people who had nothing to do with aug
menting the accumulation are being
heard from in requests for keepsakes.
Grover Cleveland’s lasting fame as a
fisherman and duck hunter has caused
hundreds of folk to send him all kinds
and conditions of guns, game baskets,
cartridge belts, decoy ducks, fishing
rods, nets, reels, lines, bobs, hooks and
sinkers, as well as jackets, hats, hoots
and other articles needed in hunting in
the marshes. During the campaign he
was the recipient of left hind feet from
graveyard rabbits, luck stones and hoo
doo bags until the attic carried a scent
that was loud and lasting.
The country folk, having heard that
a grand distribution is to take place, are
losing no time in specifying what they
would like to have out of the heap as
mementos of their “great and good
friend. ’ ’
The marsh hunters of North Carolina
have filed claims to the decoy ducks
that so exasperated Private Secretary
Thurber’s patience and the remarkable
gun that carried far without salt.
The Virginia farmers have heard that
the White House kennels contain some
scores of hunting hounds and coon dogs
which the president will not take to
Princeton, owing to the recent increase
in the dog tax, and they have filed an
early bid.
The fishermen and weatherbeaten
tars of Buzzards Bay are using their
influence with Thurber to obtain for
them the left over bait bottles.
The household servants are feasting
their eyes on toilet articles and perfum
ery, which are likely to come their
way, while Jerry, the coachman, is an
ticipating some solid comfort in the ci
gars, which no one has had the courage
to sample.—New York Journal.
Impaneling a Jury In Arkansas.
“In some sections of Arkansas,” said
one of the representatives from that
state, “people have a very strong objec
tion to serving on juries. When I was
at home last fall, I heard a little story
in that regard. A certain judge in one
of the rural districts, having occasion to
try an important case, ordered the sher
iff to impanel a jury. When two days
had passed and no return had been
made, he sent for the sheriff and de
manded to know why his orders had not
been obeyed.
“Waal, jedge,” said the sheriff, “I’ve
got jest ten of ’em locked up in the
jail yere, and I turned out the dogs this
mornin arter the other two.”—Wash
ington Star.
The Prince’s Finances In Good Shape.
The Prince of Wales is buying large
tracts Of land in the Diirtmoor district,
apparently intending to form an exten
sive deer forest and hunting region. To
obtain tho necessary purchase money he
has through his agents disposed of South
African and other securities.
' There are signs of a marked clearing
up in the prince’s financial affairs. Any
sums he owed to Baron Hirsch, Sir Al
bert Sassoon and others have been paid
off. These debts never amounted to any
thing like the large sums generally re
ported. Tho prince is now able to invest
largely in land.
A Kingdom For Liliuokalani?
It is stated on what appears to be re
liable authority that Paul Newman,
who recently went to Guatemala, is en
gaged in a secret project for the annexa
tion of a large island 1,000 miles off the
coast of Guatemala, He found this is
land was unclaimed, and George D.
Freeth, formerly of Laysan island, char
tered a vessel in San Francisco and set
Bail for the unclaimed island, where he
will raise the Hawaiian flag.
Lil and Grover.
“You’re looking pale,” said Grover.
“You’re looking stout,” said she.
“My worry is most over,"
Responded Grover C.
“We’re having lots of freezes,”
Remarked the one time queen.
Said he, “Such heavy breezes
I’m sure I've rarely seen.”
“Well, there, I must be going,”
Said she of visage brown.
“And is there any knowing
When next you’ll be in town?”
She dropped her eyes so dreamy.
“I cannot tell,” said she.
“Be sure to come and see me.
Goodby,” said Grover C.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Broad Minded Divine.
EVERYONE IN SYRACUSE KNOWS
RbV S. R. CALTHROP,
A Scholarly, Christian Man and a Be
loved Pastor, Who Believes In
Training the Body as Well
as the Mind.
MT. HR. CALTHROP, 6YRACTTSE, N. Y.
The twenty-ninth day of April is a notable
day in' the history of the May Memorial
Church in Syracuse, as it is the anniversary
of the installation of the Rev. Samuel R.
Calthrop, D. I)., the eminent divine who so
long has ministered to them spiritually us
pastor of the Church.
Dr. Calthrop was born in England and re
ceived his preparatory scholastic training at
Rt. Paul’s School, London. Entering Trinity
College, Cambridge, he soon became a bright
figure in that brilliant coterie of scholars,
literary men and wits that followed in the
traditions of Macaulay and his associates at
the university. In the middle of the century
he visited Syracuse and received his first im
pressions of the voting city that nearly a
score of years later lie was to choose as his
home and in which his labors have been so
long and effective. The masterly pulpit ad
dresses of Dr. Calthrop have had their funda
mentals drawn from the deepest research.
His people have been instructed by him, not
only in things spiritual, but in the elements of
the broadest culture, in literature in art anil
in science. His young men have been taught
a muscular system of morality. In these and
in many other ways has he endeared himself
to his congregation, which is one of the most
highly cultured and wealthy in the city.
Dr. Calthrop has a striking personality.
To the eye he is a most picturesque figure.
His head and face, framed in luxuriant mas
ses of silky, snow white hair and heard, are of
the type of Bryant and Longfellow. Al
though over seventy years old, his rather
spare figure is firm and erect, and every
movement is active and graceful His whole
life long he lias been an ardent admirer anil
promoter of athletic sports, and even at his
advanced age, plays tennis with all the vigor
end skill of a young man. To Syracusans,
perhaps, this remarkably versatile man is
most widely known, apart from bur profession,
as a scientist.
On a bright April morning a reporter fob
lowed tire winding driveway that curving
around the bill leads to Caltnrop I,odge, an
old-fashioned, r 1 brick mansion, surrounded
by a grove of oaks and chestnuts. Wearing
a black skull cap and ahlai-k coat of semi
clerical cut, the master of Calthrop Lodge
preciously received the reporter who called to
inquire about his health, for, though manfully
repressing all possible evidences!)? his suffer
ing, Dr. Calthrop for many years has been the
victim of a distressing affliction until hy for
tunate chance he was led to take the remedy
which has effectually cured him.
During more than half of his pastorate in
Syracuse, I)r. Calthrop has been troubled
with rheumatism, and at intervals he suffered
excruciating agony from it. At tiroes the pain
was sc great as to prevent him from walking.
Many remedies were tried without success, and
he and his friends had given up hope of a
permanent cure or of more than temporary
relief when he took the preparation that drove
the disease completely from his system.
In a letter written to the editor of The
Evening News, of Syracuse, last year. Dr
Calthrop told of his affliction and its cure.
This is Dr. Calthrop’s letter-
To the Editor of The. Evening News —
Dear Sir: More than thirty-five years ago I
wrenched my left knee, throwing it almost
from its socket. Great swelling followed,
anil the synovial Juice kept leaking from the
idiot.
STORIES CF THE DAY.
Anecdotes, Seriou and Humorous, About
the Late Gen oral Joe Shelby,
General Shelby and Judge John F.
Phillips of the United Stateacircuit court
•were great friend:; for many years. In
fact, when they were boys in Kentucky
they both clerked in the same store.
During the civil war they were on op
posite sides, and as they were often near
each other they have many stories about
those stirring times.
Several months ago they were riding
on a train together in the central part
of the state, when Judge Phillips sud
denly pointed out of the window and
said:
“General, do you remember the time
we came very near to catching you over
there?”
“No, sir,” said General Shelby, “bnt
I remember the time I nearly caught
you there. If it had not been for the in
fernal stupidity of the man I sent out
to tear up that track, wo would have
had you sure. ”
At that time Shelby’s forces were
known to be in the immediate vicinity
and Judge Phillips—then Colonel Phil
lips—had taken an engine and gone up
the railroad a few miles to see if he could
learn anything of the movements of the
opposing forces. He was accompanied
by Colonel T. T. Crittenden, now con
sul general of the United States in the
City of Mexico. Shelby bad received
word of the little expedition, and as
soon as the engine passed going up the
track he sent a detachment of men, com
manded by a subordinate officer, with
instructions to tear up the track and
thus prevent the colonel’s reaching the
base of supplies.
The officer reached the track just in
time to hear the engine approaching
from a distance, and instead of doing
anything to prevent its passage he sat
on his horse and watched it fly by him.
When General Shelby found what had
happened, he was thoroughly mad, and
at once reduced the officer to the ranks.
“The worthless blockhead,” he said.
“If he had only possessed sense enough
to shoot a horse and let it fall aoross
the track, ho would have nabbed those
fellows. With even the slightest ob
struction on the track they would have
been unable to pass, and we could have
captured them. ”
Withal, the general loved a lake, and
This made me lame for years, and ftrun
time to time the weak knee would give out
entirely, and the swelling would commence.
This was always occasioned hy some strain
like a sudden stop. The knee gradually re
covered, but always was weaker than the
other.
About fifteen years ago the swi-lling re
eomme'nced this time without, any wrench at
all, and before long I realized that this was
rheumatism settling in the weakest part of
the body. The trouble came so often that I
was obliged to carry an opiate in my pocket
everywhere I went. 1 had generally a packet
in my waiscoat pocket: but in going to a con
ference at Buffalo I forgot it. and as the car
was damp and cold, before I got to Buffalo
my knee was swollen to twice its natural Bize.
I had seen the good effects that Pink Pills
were having in such cases and 1 tried them
myself with the result that I have never had
a twinge oraswelling since. This was effected
by taking seven or eight boxes.
I need not say that I am thankftil for my
recovered independence, but 1 will add that
my knee is far stronger than it baa been for
thirty-five years.
I took oue pill at my meals three times a
day.
I gladly give you this statement.
Yours, R. R. CALTHROP.
Since writing this letter Dr. Calthrop has
not had any visits from his old enemy and is
even more cordial now in his recommendation
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills than he was then.
To the reporter he said :
“ 1 am continually recommending Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills to acquaintances and those
I chance to meet who are troubled with rheu
matism or locomotor ataxia.
“ Pink Pills,” continued Dr. Calthrop, “are
the best thing of the kind I know of. They
are infinitely superior to most medicines that
are put up for sale. 1 know pretty well what
the pills contain, and I consider it an excel
lent prescription. It is such a one as I might
get from my doctor, but lie would not give it
in such a compact term and so convenient to
take.
*’ I recommend the pills highly to all who
are troubled with rheumatism, locomotor
ataxia, or any impoverishment of the blood.”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
have an enormous .sale. An analysis of
their properties shows that they contain, in
a condensed form, tfll the elements necessary
to give new life and richness to the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are an
unfailing specific for such diseases as loco
motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’
dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nerv
ous headache, the after effect of la grippe,
palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow
complexions, that tired feeling resulting
from nervous prostration; all diseases re
sulting from vitiated humors in the blood,
such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.
They are also a specific for troubles peculiar
to females such as suppressions, irregulari
ties and all forms of weakness. They build
up the blond, and restore the glow of health
to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork or excesses of what
ever nature There are no ill effects follow
ing the use of this wonderful medicine, and it
can be given to children with perfect safety.
MAY MKMORIAL CHURCH. SYRACUSK, W. T.
These pills are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing
the firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 59
cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and are
never sold in bulk. They may be had of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr
Williams’ Medicine Company. The prici at
which these. Pills are sold makes a course of
treatment inexpensive as compared with other
remedies —From the Evening News, Syr -mue,
even inougn it were "ou’""!lj.'mseif, he
never questioned iis humor, though he
might reserve the right to keep it to
himself if permitted to by circum
stances.
Old Aunt Sarah lived with her hus
band—or perhaps he lived with her
would be more correct—over on the
Kansas side. Aunt Sarah was General
Shelby’s washerwoman.
One day Jim appeared at the gen
eral’s office in the federal building with
tears in his eyes and a sad, sad story.
“Mistah Shelby, ” ho said falteringly,
“Sarah’s gone. ”•
“Gone where, Jim?” said the gen
eral. “She ain’t run off?”
“No, sah,‘” said Jim, as he wiped his
eyes with the ball of his hand. “ Dead. ’ ’
General Shelby whirled straight in
his chair. “What?” he exclaimed.
“You don’t moan to tell me Sarah’s
dead? Why, she just did our washing
last week. ”
"Ah knows it,” said Jim. “Ah
knows it, Mistah Shelby, but she done
gone now, an I hain’t got money enough
to bury her decent. ’ ’
This was one of the tender spots.
“Why, bless your old black heart,
Jim, ” said the general, with tears in
his eyes, “I’ll fix that for you. ” And he
wrote out a check for $lO.
Jim took it and went away, and the
general wiped his eyes and turned to
work again.
The following Monday morning Gen
eral Shelby had not yet left home for
his office when the washerwoman came.
It was Sarah.
For just one minute the general did
not say a word, and he never did so far
as Jim and Sarah’s deaths were con
cerned. _
Handmade Silk Lace.
United States Consul Fowler at Che
fu, China, has supplied the state de
partment with a number of samples of
beautiful handmade silk lace made at
that place. The industry is compara
tively anew one, and the report sets
out some facts of interest about the prod
uct—which is said to be not only of the
best quality, but also of remarkable
cheapness. The latter is made possible
by the fact that the Chinese female lace
maker’s wage, is but 10 cents per day.
There is a reference also to magnificent
silk embroideries made at Ningpo un
der the direction of sisters of charity
upon the latest Parisian patterns wM
also sold at a veiy low figure.