The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
EXPOSURES IN ENGLAND.

lmpOstures more successful in their
objects if not more famous than the
Tichborne case were being practiced in
England during the period when the al
most interminable trial of Orion, the
Wrapping butcher, was going on. From
several singular cases which we propose
to recount it would appear that supersti-
ton and credulity are not less rife among
English than among French rustics, and
that the latter. in crediting the miracles
of our Lady Of Lourdes and of the food
less girl are riyaled by the British yeo-
many who become the victims of quacks
and wftchery.
In the diary of that same Orion, other.
wise Tichborne, of whom we have
spoken, was found a somewhat remarka.
BILE maxim, a child, no doubt, of the
burly claimants own brain. 1t was as
follows, couched in rude but pregnant
language: "Some has plenty money no
brains; some has plenty brains no money;
i think them as has plenty money no
brains vas made for them as has plenty
Brains no money"
great man himself diligently acted, and
which all impostors, before and after
him, carry out. Knavery dupes creduli-
- eiIS NoiAN ONSI AOl uOCS Vic COuSlduG
exposure of the one have the least effect
on opening the eyes of and curing the
other.
\ curious drama of the knave-uersus-
fool sort was enacted at the pleasant
seaside town of Hull, England, not long
ago.
Mr.. Henry Jackson, a person of i'm
posing presence and glittering eye, had
served in the British army, and had, after
leaving it, held the dignity of drum
major of the Hull Rifle Volunteers. But
he had wearied of war and mock war,
and had made up his mind that his true
mission was rather to cure than create
physical ills in man. So he had retired
from the drum ma orship, had fitted up
somber and Notwithstanding apart
ment, and had announced to ailing hui
manity that, by strange gifts and stranger
medicaments, he was ready to assuage
its pains and forever Danish it's imper-
fections. Mr.. Henry Jackson was in the
height of success and reputation when a
lusty young farmer, who was for the
moment out of health, hearing of the
great healers wonderful cures, repaired
to him In all childlike confidence.
This rural gentleman, however, after
passing through an amazing variety of
treatment and spending, to no purpose,
several hundred pounds, at last awoke
to the truth, and had Mr.. Henry Jackson
indicted at Borough Sessions for obtain
ing money on false pretenses.-
The tale unfolded by the duped Dick
EFT, the treatment he underwent, the won
derful medicines he partook of, the gold
en- promises made to him, were a rev.
citation.
Professor" Jackson had first told him
to blow through tube into glass of
water, whereupon the water turned i'm.
mediately like milk. The professor
seized the rustic by the arm and con.
jured him to lose no time in saying his
prayers, for he would hot live over two
months. Then began the selling of in
Vulnerable bottles of "Indian remedy"
which gradually made the water turn
less milky. Yet poor Dickett was far
from being cured, and had yet hard
medical road to travef First he bought
box of stuff said to have come from
India, for which he paid three pounds
ten, with five shillings extra for express
age from Calcutta. Then he was told
by the professor that the great Indian
balsam-merchant of whom he had oh.
tanned his medicines had just died, at the
Soou okSf VI w. 3uO t4tsG uCA \luc pro.
fessoD had been lucky enough to obtain
the mama and balsams of the aged
patriarch. The mama, Dickett was as.
sured, was that which the Israelites used
in the wilderness, and that very little of
it would keep person alive many days.
For box Of this Dickett gladly paid
e51. An analysis having been made of
this costly and biblical food, it was found
to consist of about six pennyworths of
citrate of magnesia; the "elixir of life"
turned out to be simply SO much colored
water; while the precious ointment"
was composed ofordinary butterl
The curious remedies and imposing
presence of Mr.. Henry jackson irresisti-
bly, reminds US of other and less prosaic
days when the dispensers of wonderful
Oriental balsams were wont to ply their
mystic profession -undisturbed by the
minions of the law There are old peo-
pie still living who can remember
q quaint old fellow who called him
self the County Palattde,ss who used
to hafangue the crowd eloquently
from q. box in Covent.Garden Mar
ket, with q negro servant arrayed
In gorgeous livery by his side, standing
ready to hand him the balsams and elk
IRIS, which we're eagerly demanded by his
credulous auditors. TIE fame Of the
celebrated Joseph BatbAn0, Immortal
lied in the history aofstho Diamond
Necklace" and as Cagliostro in Dumas
"Diary of 4 Physiciap,p il mot yet dim,
and there dispensed to thousands of the
Mayfair fashionables the Egyptian pill
20 i:fo - r. s. n,,-so,,. that na1so,nn ~1hn