The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-02-03
HOW TO GROW OLD


II is a pleasant thing to see those whom
VIC love and reverence grow old gracefully
receiving the butfets of Times wings with
out Il mnrnlur, and never trying to conceal
scars. When those solemn old crows, the
years, have left the imprints of their feet OF,
the check bones and temples, when the
eyes is growing dull for lack of vivifyinc
fuel, when age has reprcr,and-salted the
head, crooked the back, and spawned the
once supple limbs, it is very small piece OF
business to affect Il jaun,y air Of juvenitv
Foppislness and atfecta,ion are scarcely
excusab'e in the young, but in the old they
are as ridiculous as the antics of monkey
The comparison, however, is all in favor OF
the monkey, because its grimaccs, though,
grotcsque, arc at least natural. If we have
been unfortunate enough to live false life
in onr youth, We should live true one in
our declining age. An artificial old man
or woman is indeed a sorry sight To 90
down to the grave of age with painted
checks and dyed hair, is an insul, to Death,
who comes to claim the debt of nature,
not of art. And really these old masuue.
radeas deceive nobody. Wrinkles cannot
he 81 pu,,ied up, parchment checks SO he
roughed, gray hair so saturcd with sugar of
lead and nitrate Of silver, but that the
world shall discover the deception and
make it food for laughter. The old girl
of three score and ten may try to make her
shambc seem an amblc, but it is literally
no CO. She may sport transported bloom
on her damaged cheeks, aud cover what
should be her reverend head with a black
mass Of borrowed hair; hut no youthful
poctaster will play the 'hubn' to her arti
licIal roses or apostrophize her cLon locks,
except in Il satiric way, as II cloud with u
silver lining.' When she is dead. those
radicals, the worms, will pay no respect
whatever to her making up. and though
she paint an incl, thick, tc this complexion
she must come at last
]" our mind there is nothing more de
l'gh'lul to look than undi<guiscd, Heaven.
trusting age-the body leaning tremblinclv
for support npon its staff, the sou! trus,ful
iy upon its Maker. May such be our con
dltion as we toltcr down liG:'s last slopc to
the grand terminus.-N. y. Lnigcr.
Important # 7ruc.-A recent number
Of the Milwaukee True Democrat contains
il statement which is of value to the med
ical profession. That paper says:
Some eight months ago. Mr.. T.. Mason,
who kept n music store on Washington
street, aud is brother Of the well known
Lowell Mason, asccrtained that lie had a
cancer on his face of the size of pea. 1t
was cut out by DIR. Walcot, and the wound
partially healed. Subsequently it grew
again, and while he was in Cincinnati on
business, it attained the size of hickory
nut. lie has remained there since Christ.
mas under treatment and has come back
perfectly cured. The process is this:
~ piece of sticking plaster was put over
the cancer, with a circular piece cut out of
the centre a little larger than the cancer,
so that the cancer and q small circular rim
OF healthy skin next to it we're exposed
Then plaster made Of chloride of zinc
blood root and wheat flower was spread on
a bit of muslin Of the size Of this circular
opening, and applied to the cancer for TWEEN.
ty-four hours.
On removing it the cancer will be found
to be burned into, and appear of the color
and hardness Of an old shoe sole, and the
circular rim outside of it will appear white
and porboied, as if scalded by hot steam.
The wound is now dressed, and the out
side rim soon suppurates, and the cancer
comes out a hard lump: and the place heals
up.
The plaster kills the cancer, 50 that It
sIoughs like dead flesh and never Grows ont
again.
This remedy was discovered by DR.. Fell.
Of London, and has been used by him for
six or eight years with unfaiIing success,
and not case has been known of the re.
appearance Of the cancer where this RENE.
ly has been applied. 1t las tho sanction
of the most eminent physicians and eur.
geons Of London, but has not until recently
been used in this country, and many of
the faculty, with their proverbial opposi.
lion to innovations, look upon it with dis
trust.
1t was Eabit Of Lord Eden, when At
.orney General, TO close his speeches with
some remarks justifying his own character
At the trials of Horne Tooke, speaking of
lis own reputation, lie said:
at is the Inheritance I have to leave
ny children, and by Gods help, I will leave
t unimpaired"