Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-06-03
IMPOSTURES 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
Mapping butcher, was going on. From
several singular cases which we propose
to recount it would appear that supersti-
tion 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 rivaled by the British yeo-
many who become the victims of quacks
and witchery.
In the diary of that same Orion, other
wise Tiehborne, of whom we have
spoken, was found a somewhat remarka-
Bile maxim, 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;
j think them as has plenty money no
brains vas made for them as has plenty
brains no money"
1t was principle upon which this
great man himself diligently acted, and
which all impostors, before and after
him, carry out. Knavery dupes creduli-
ty the world over; nor does the constant
exposure of the one have the least effect
on opening the eyes of and curing the
ether.
A curious drama of the knave-persus-
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 majorship, had fitted up
a somber and mysterious-looking apart
ment. and had announced 10 ailing hu-
manity that, by strange gifts and stranger
indictments, he was ready to assuage
it's pains and forever Danish its imper-
fections. Mr. Henry Jackson was in the
height of success and reputation when
lusty young farmer, who was for the
moment out of health, hearing OF the
great healer's wonderful cures, repaired
20 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 MIR. Henry jackson
indicted at Borough Sessions tor 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 rev
Z citation.
Professor" jackson had first told him
TO blow through tube into glass o.
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 hi
prayers, for he would not live over two
months. Then began the selling OF In
Vulnerable bottles of Indian remedy,
which gradually made the water turr
less milky, Yet poor Dickett was Ia
from being cured, and had yet har'
medical road to travel First he bough
box of stuff said to have come iron
India, for which he paid three pound
ten, with five shillings extra for express
age from Calcutta Then he was toll
by the professor that the great lndlai
balsam-merchant of whom he had 90
tanned his medicines had just died, at TN
good age of 40, and that he 1.-THE pro
lessor had been lucky enough TO obtaii
lhe mamma and balsams OF the aget