The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-28
THE DISTRESSED POOR.
Means Adopted for Their Relief and Care
in Phnadsiphis-fnterestinz
kfaftsfte.

Many thousands OF the honest poor OF this
city have reason to feel thankful for the ex
istence Of the Home Missionary Society"
the agents and visitors of which have for the
past fifty years been actively employed In
furnishing food, fuel and raiment, distribut-
ing medicines. ond otherwise providing for
the wants OF the sick ana needy. The socie-
ty was organized in 1885 and incorporated
On June :, 1915. Ii IS undenominational
and supported by voluntary contributions.
Numbers OF people in distress are found
daily in it's rooms sskirg Tor hello. Their
story is heard by Mr.. Emanuel II. Toland.
the general egent, and all deserving cases are
provided for. During the year ended Sep.
tember 80. 1884. the contributions amounted
to $S,075.95, and the cash payments during
the same year TO 50 AL 81. which shows
<i60.c 50 expenditure IN excess of receipts.
Last yeer , 40 visits were made, and food
and medicine furnished > al times. As also
SsO4.15 given in cash. About 200 leading
citizens OF Philadelphia contribute literally
10 the aid Of this good work.
In conversation with Mr.. Toland q few
days ago, the reporter learned much as TO
the methods of the society. Mr.. TOland pic.
tured graphically the condition OF the poor
this winter, and the unusual amount Of sick
ness amongst them. They were, he said, un.
able to pay for q physician. nor could the
Society afford to employ one IN every case.
Tn agents, however, obtain medicines, aud
are careful always tina. they shall be of the
purest character. For coughs colds and
bronchitis. they invariably use the new rem
edY, Red Star Cough Cure. He, Mr.. Toland,
mad seen the autograph certificate OF Profes-
sor Charles Il. Williams, OF this city, in which
he said that in bis analysis OF the medicine
he had found no traces Of morphia or the
alkalofAc of Cpfup m . that naffhor ~ thaaa arh
stances entered into the preparation, aud that
IL Is a new and valuable rsmedy. Prof.
Williams is q we'll known analytical chemist
and Is endorsed by the faculty of Jefferson
Medical College. he was formerly professor
OF chemistry in thu University OF Missouri
and State chemist OF Delaware. Mr.. Toland
added that the Society bad u%nbounded con-
idence In Red Star Cough Care, oTing to its
marked efficacy in every case in which IL had
been used, as reported by their agents. at
present, no said, there was almost an cpl
demic OF coughs in the city, and it would
be necessary for them TO lay in a fresh sup
ply OF the. medicine. Such rigid chemical
tests and the observation OF men accustomed
TO cases OF sickness among the poor had con
vinced him that the remedy is an inestima-
bic boon TO all.
Evidence such as that given by Mr.. Tolsnd
is unanswerable. 1t Is true that there may
be 3 few people ready 10 endorse ANYTHING or
anybody; but nothing of this can be suggest
ed of the managers of charitable institutions
The responsibilities which rest upon them
are great, and they are careful neither 10 use
any remedy nor stamp it with the seal OF
their approval until they have thoroughly
tested ~. II has been commended for gener-
atoms that a cough mixture TO be effective
must contain opiates or narcotics. but strong
protests have OF late been made by medical
men against the use of such drugs, and the
new remedy has been declared by them TO
be a desirable new departure in the treat
ment of throat and lung troubles.
1t is not simply, however, in public insti.
tutions that people are found who know the
virtues OF this remedy. The reporter heard
most remarkable story from Mr.. Joseph E.
Tiel, AS North Eleventh street, in this city
Mr.. Tiel is q vel. real estate agent
he formerly lived at Isl East Forty-ninth
street, New York city, and was then business
manager off periodical devoted to the inter
ests OF civil engineering. While living there
he had a severe bronchial affection, following
an attack Of asthma. His condition became
so pTecarieus that in October last, his physi-
clan, DR.. Birch, as q last resort, advised hin
togo to New Orleans. he gave up business,
sold his furniture, and after leaving his
family with friends in this city started fog
New Orleans. He waited there, daily ex-
pecting TO improve. but there was no change
for the better, and at last his condition be.
came such that, fearing he woul be among
cA4a1ECl6f nO tlaNClCN UaCA w easy btHktS W
Philadelphia. When Christmas came he
was failing very fast, and had about given
up all hope when q friend recommended
him to Try Red Star Cough Cure. He did so,
and now says that after taking several doses,
there was 8 change for the better, n that
after be bad used q few bottles, his bron-
chial troubles and cough left him, and that
he Is better than he has been for years
II would have bean easy for the reporter
to continue his inquiries in other directions,
as the names OF several men prominent in
public affairs were given to him as being
able to SPEAK from personal experience OF the
virtues of the remedy. He confined him.
self, however, for the present to Hon. Will
liam Mutchler, member of Congress for the
Tenth Pennsylvania District. That gentle
man stated that he considered Bed Star
Cough Cure o most eficacious medicine, aud
one which marked q new departure in the
treatment Of coughs, colds and throat affec.
tions. This opinion he had made public, aud
so had his friend, United States Senator
Blackburn, Of Kentucky, who had derived
great benefit from its use.
Prof. John j. Caldwell, NJ. D.. member of
the medical societies OF New York, Kings
County and Baltimore. and the author of
several medicalstrestises, says in giving the
result of his analysis and personal obssrva-
ton OF Red Star Cough Cure, that it is q
medicine of remarkable purity, and PROBES.
sor o. Grothe, a graduate OF Kiel, Germany,
and chemist to the Brooklyn Board of
Health, vino also analysed it. says that it is
free from opiates. and IS harmless and cura-
tive. Men like United States Senators Back.
burn and German, who are accustomed to
weigh evidence and subject everything to
mental as science does to chemical examina-
ton, have emphaticslly endorsed the rem
edy; and the reporter CAM to the conclusion
that all the testimony led up TO the central
fact that q discovery had been made. the
value OF which the public atonce recognized.
Muncie's Mysterious Tragedy.