The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-02
A LOCAL TOPIC

alliance will be effected.
LOCAL TOPIC
IntelIigentIy Discussed by q Stranger in
Winfield.
II was just thinking" said Max May
er, pointing to the Brettun House, which
is rapidly nearing completion, what an
immense amount of pluck there is in
Kansas. In that elegant structure see
confidence in the future as well as salts
faction with the present of the city.
Now call that enterprise of the broad
est character. That building will be q
living monument of value for years to
come to this community. Apart from
Its value as q financial Investment it
will be fine educator. 1t is a shapely
and noble structure, and will exercise
large influence upon the minds of all
who hereafter erect buildings here.
Every building constructed from this
time forth will be little better because
of it.
"You see, sir" addressing the reporter
and growing argumentatiVe, there is
tangible durability and value expressed
in that house. It is bold assertion of
confidence which will beget confidence
In others. 1t is fact which presume
you will not attempt TO controyert, that
however hove -, delightful the intan,
to men in matters of sentiment
and religion, they shrink from the same
conditions in financial habit. The old
darkey expressed this fact in 9 homely
but forcible way when, in support of his
assertion that he would rather be smash
ed in a railroad train than wrecked on
the ocean, he said: If yO' is cast away
on de ocean. whar is ye? But if yo' is
smashed up on de train, dar yO' is
Men can grapple with the tangible, eth
er seen or felt, but are afraid of the con-
verse when it touches the pocket nerve.
It is also fact that men do not always
grasp the tangible, but it sometimes
grasps them. For instance; rheumatism
is tangible fact. Now. q man who has
rheumatism is painfully conscious of
my assertion. He recognizes it as an
existing fact, but is not able to control
it. He is in its grasp. His first thought
is of assistance. To obtain this he en-
plOys some tangible force in order tO
subdue his pain. l will illustrate, for
think illustration, when apt, the clearest
method of demonstrating proposition.
MIR. E. w. Hovey, one of your drug
gists whose pharmacy is located down
this street, while speaking of this very
subject remarked that no man can
exactly describe rheumatism, es-
pecIally the infianmatory type. 1t is
compound of everything THAI is pain
full. When it ID in your arm you feel as
though an elephant had trod on it. When
it attacks your body you gather the i'm
preston that the impact of q hurricane
of horror is being concentrated upon
you from all points of the compass. If
it be in your feet, you experience the
sensation of having been screwed up in
a wise with friend at the lever giving
it an extra twist at intervals in order 10
make good job of il. Through il all
your flesh is SO sensitively sore that the
weight of a feather will make you
scream, and the rustling of q lady's silk
dress in your room will cause your tor
tuEed nervous system to WriLhe in ag-
ony. Mr.. Hovey, who is from Bloom
ington, ILL.,, said he experienced Just
these sensations nearly two years ago
while living at his old home. Here,
then, we have a man in the grasp of
the tangible. Now The next step in
the demonstration is the employment
of force to grapple with and
master 1t, since the man himself is
not able to do it. Mr.. HOvey had good
medical attention, but, as many before
have experienced, they did not succeed
in mastering his disease. He was two
months in bed and growing worse. A
little thing finally turned the tide in his
favor. 1t is sometimes wonderful what
results flow from a little thing. They
say that the refusal of LeavenWorth 10
appropriate $4,000 towards building q
railroad bridge, built Kansas City.
Well, be this as it may, the happy
thought of fellow clerk employed in
ha n.,nl
ly saved that gentleman's life. When
friends, as we'll as himself,
began to think he was almost
ready TO climb the golden stairs his
friend sent him q bottle of st. Jacobs
Oil from the store with the suggestion
that it be applied thoroughly. The
physicians had been using compound
chloroform liniment and administering
medicine internally, and, with it all,
MIR. HOvey was only able to sleep and
forget his pain when under the influence
Of choral. They spilled the Great
German Remedy and the sufferer said he
felt immense relief. From that moment
they did not use any other liniment, but
just kept on applying the St: Jacobs Oil
the force for which his medical attend
ants had been looking, and it was owing
TO the incident of a friends passing
thought that it was used. Mr.. Hovey
remarked that ne, in common with ali
other men liz his profession, entertains
prejudice against what are termed
patent medicines. but his experience
with the Great German Remedy has
since compelled him to make an excep.
ton in its favor. This is simply the
Outcropping of mans natural skepti-
cism until he is convinced by Occular or
physical demonstration"
Now, the ladies, God bless them -
continued Mr.. Mayer, 'are cast in diff
their intuition, which is all the same.
When a good woman asserts fact and
gives as her reason: because put il
all down TO faith. and feel pretty near be-
lieving In il myself on nc
count of the confidence re-
pose in her intuition. A great preach
er once said that a woman ought 20 have
the virtue of faith and gratitude
in christian religion more largely de-
veloped in her than q man, because
christianity rescued her from slavery
So she has, and she carries l. intI every
thing In life, and will back her faith
against the reason of a man any time
Therefore when Mrs. T. 4. johnson,
who is conducting one Of your popular
apothecafies, realized that she had rheu-
matism. she at once TesOrtsd TO St. ia
cobs OIL for relief, and found Il. Hav-
ing read and heard much about IFS won
derful power il become q tangible force
to her mind simply through her intui-
tive faith. She would not probably ex-
plain it in this way, but l am inclined
to believe il true, notwithstanding the
fact that her husband suggested il rs q
possible efflcacious relevant Having
been cured herself Of rheumatism by the
st. Jacobs Oil she recommended il TO
others, and to-day she told me that this
Oil had relieved her husband OF neural
gia, and lady friend Of
rheumatism, while Davis Dix.
Q well digger, who had ztTained himself,
had been relieved by two or three appli-
cationa
81 think, sir; you will allow that /
have sustained my promises, viz: that
q noble building is OF priceless value to
q growing town, and 81. Jacobs OIL &
wonderful curative power in rheumatic
pain. May both the new hotel and the
Great German Remedy continue to
prove blessing To your citizens. Good
day"
The reporter stood gazing e the
figure Of Mr.. Mayer as he passed down
the street and disappeared in The bus,
which was going toward the depot.
Thus closed an interview with the man
who is devoting his life 20 the work Of
collecting material to write book upOn
the subject Of the Great German
Remedy and rheunatism. = Winfield