The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-04

Man, with his aches and his ails, and his gen
eral most delightful heritage of physical woe.
was made the sore victim OF quack- -salvers.-
Nor has the world, in this regard, very much
improved since. A great many people who
would at once detect any other quack, are
thoroughly humbugged by the quack of pill
or of potion. They give implicit credence to
the gibberish Of every medical mountebank,
and it makes but little difference whether he
be q fool who believes in his own medicines,
or knave who would not himself take them
without strenuous resistance. The case of
Bennett Us Bennett is now pending in the courts
in New-Haven, from which the complainant
seeks divorce from the respondent, her hus-
band, upon the ground Of cruelty. The re-
spondent is a manufacturer of pills, which are
calculated for the region of the liver, but will
answer for the adjoining parts. The COM
plainant, in order to show that the Doctor was
\ notorious, consumate and most accomplished
liar, put in pamphlet put out by him; and it
is to the unparalleled and sublime mendaclty
of this Pill Pamphlet that we wish to call the
attention Of Amateurs of Lying. In the course
of this wonderful work, DR.. Bennett stated to
an invalid public, and especially to those who
wept their chi.dlessness, that he was, at one
time without offspring, while the ianguishlng
health of Mrs. Bennett forbade him 10 indulge
in those pleasing hopes OF paternity which
would otherwise have gded his waking hours,
and filed his sleep with rapturous creams
But the Doctor was a man of tremendous
scnce. He invented a pill OF such power,
force and virtue that, alter taking IT., Mrs
Bennett, iE an incredible saort space o. time,
became the mother OF "tweive blooming,
healthy aud interesting children" At the head
of this pleasing and almost incredible narrative
of iruitiulness, the Doctor placed wooden cut,
in which he was represented with baby in
| his arms, and Mrs. Bennett was represented with
| a baby in her arms, while around his legs and
her skirts were gathered ten other children,
making, we may be sure, the prettiest work OF
art ever designed to illustrate the virtues OF a
plll, Diverted of romance, the solemn truth
was that, SO far from taking the Doctors medi
cine, the Doctors wife, who knew to well what
| it was made o., and who was in fact obliged to
assist in making it, would as soen have swallow
| ed henbane.
Having used up his wife by thus restoring
her to healt, the Doctor, as he states in the
pamphlet. next tackled his father. He signs
| th, little medical idyl with great JUNCTION and
pathos. He represents the elder Bennett, aged
95, in woodcut, reading the Bible. He then
narrate s,that the said senior Bennett, a number
| of wears ago was very sick" He was attended
by" eight celebrated doctors night and day,
and therefore the wonder is that he lived fol
twenty-iour hours. The household is in de-
spair. The dying man then delivers a speech
in which he states that, although he had spen
incredible larEeisums in making DR.. Bennett, jr.
doctor, yet that the vagrant practitioner wa
now in foreign lands, acquiring by persona
observation, = knowledge OF Indian vegetable
Remedies. "Tell him, when he arrives" SAT-
the dying old Bennett, "that / leave to hi
mother the sum OF Sl,o00,00o, and 10 himsel
the sum OF S2,ooo,0oo, together with all M
|. vessels"
He here was taken with shortness of breath
the neighbors were sent for, and praying wa
commenced, when suddenly, "a rumbling nois
was heardn in the street. Twas the youthft
Bennett, NJ. d. IA rumbling noise was hear
{ in the distance, like mighty chariot, windin
its way with great speed nearer aud aedre
> ,chen all at once "(exqusite bull "a beautif'
' coach stood before the door, out of ~hc
slirhied a noble and elegant. looking man.
This was young Doctor Bennett. He kissed b
Il mamma, and she tainted. He rushed to Il
bed side of his dying papa. He FASTENED bae
! to bis coach, which WAS freighted with "plan
y and roots" such as are always used by ",the RI
ID men of the forest" when they feel unwell.-
Df Young Bennett gave old Bennett root, al
;. an herb. Old Bennett began to feel better
:" lust two hours lie kept up the doses.
10 kept the system regular. And the result "
in that the ancient person entirely recovered, al
lived to be ninety fse, and the grandfather
Young Doctor Bennett's twelve children.
The mystery to US is that such incredible nc
sense aa this should impose upon anybody
even upon poor people, whose understandin
:, are impaired BY disease. That people are tf
= daily cheated, we are sorry to believe. But
~ is not often that we have the chance OF exp
Q ing such cruel knavery; and it is char
| uhicb we have To the best of our ability
proyed.-New York Tribune.