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The Much Too Honest BootblaCk.
[San Jose Herald. ]

"Look here, Mister! Did you drop this
here iVe-dollar piece?"
The party addressed turned around and look
ed at the bootblaclc as the latter held out a
sinner in his hand.
Why good gracious femme see-why, yes
you're a fine boy, you are; here-here' couple
of dollars for you. That's right my boy; be
honest-it pays"
So saying, the delighted San Josean slipped
the $5-piece in his pocket and walked off.
"And you hadn't lost the money at all? " in
quired q companion of the fortunate possessor
of the S., az the two comfortably rested their
elbows on the Auzeras bar and proceeded to
hide the respective ends of their noses in q
couple of glasses.
"Of course not! But, you see, I gave the
kid 81, which was certainly fair. And Pm just
50 ahead" exclaimed the individual, az he
tossed the v on the counter and called for
change.
The bartender picked up the coin, gave it q
careless glance and quietly pushed it back.
"Bogus!" he said
For the next minute 1t was so quiet you could
hear the beer foam.
"And this is the highly moral city of San
Jose Z" bitterly exclaimed the dnped man as he
passed out into the cold and cherries street
g To think that the very bootblacks are dis
honestl"
But his feelings were too deep for utterance
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The neroinm OF Women.

The number is legion who are chronic in
valds. aud are extremely puzzled to tell what
ails them. They are miserable extremely mis-
cradle. Especially may this be said of very
large class of females. They have a heavy,
weighty feeling as if being dragged to the
earth misery in their back; an all-gone feel
ing. Scarcely abe to put one foot before another,
and yet seeing the work must be done, they go
on, tread-Inill life from early morn till late at
night, keeping about from the mere force of
will. Arising in the morning but little refreshed
by the few hours of broken sleep; no one but
themselves knowing that incessant aches and
pains had robbed them of that mueh-needed
rest.
The following Ia brief statement taken from
one of many letters received of similar import !:
CULPEPER, VA, May 81, 1855.
"DRs. STARKEY & PALEE II wrote you my
symptoms one year ago last February, when
was taking the Compound Oxygen, then given
me by friend, but ! was SO very weak and
nervous at that time doubt if it was sufficiently
legible.
MY doctor treated me for catarrhal con-
sumption, and gave me all kinds of medicines
for suppression, but they only seemed to in
crease my pain. At last he concluded there was
some organic arrangement, and gave me surgi-
cal treatment, which instead of relieving me,
increased my agony producing Inflammation
that reached my BRAIN making me utterly
sleepless and deliri0us for months.
Zone day friend came to see me who had a
part of Home Treatment Of Compound Oxygen
at her house, and persuaded nae to try it, She
sent it to me, and l commenced using it, but l
must say with very little faith. After using it
| about a week my nose bled very profusely, and
l felt great relief from the brain pressure that
had kept me crazed for months. / began to
| sleep. My mind came back to me, though my
| doctor had said if l ever got better, or lived,
would never recover my mind. He seemed
surprised that had. He recommended surgical
! treatment, but / had suffered so much by that
from him | would not trust it again. This was
about year ago, and / was an invalid until a
month or so since, when / commenced to drag
around little, becoming so tired could not
rest. But since using Compound Oxygen can
rest and walk about and the cold had when
the Compound Oxygen arrived soon disappeared
/ am stronger and better than for years. Have
resumed my old Sunday-school class, and played
| on the organ last Sunday"
There are very many people interested In
| the treatment which has done so much for this
lady in Virginia. If you wish fuller informa.
ton, send to Drs. Starkey & Palen, 1929 Arch
street, Philadelphia, Pa, for their treatise
! which Is sent free.
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he could not pass an opinion on any tumor
except that which he examined that t was
possible for q cancerous tumOr to co-exist but
he so far. had seen nothing to change his
opinion. He felt very sensitive over the criti-
cisuls that had been made. Some swelling Of
the glands under the jaw were noticed in the
latter part of November, and the vendors of
quaek remedies loaded down the mails with their
circulars aud letters of advice. By Dec. 16
Sir MOrell Mackenzie found another small
growth on the vocal cord, which ne removed,
and another period of Fccuperation set in,
which considerably Disconnected the native
doctors who took part in the San Reno consul
tatiOn, which pronounced the disease a cancer.
At the end Of the first week in January. 1888,
the improvement was even more marked, but
it was thought that perich0sdritis .iaiamma-
ton Of the cartiages} was present. and that
another operation would be required. The in
iammation progressed, and on February / a
piece of infamed tissue sloughed lfell) out,
leaving some dead cartilage exposed and q
clear ulcer, which seemed disposed 20 heal
kindly, but there was still some thickeuiug on
the other side Of the larynx, aud for fear of
Sudden swelling, which would cause the patient
TO choke to death, it became necessary TO open
the windpipe, which operation was performed
by the wel-knOwn surgeon, Won Bergman, Of
Berlin. A tube was inserted, aud there is now
no danger of sudden suIiOCation, nor IS there
anything in the history of the case to show
positively that the disease IS q canCerOus one.
1t now seems certain that the original diagno-
sis of YirchOw was correct and that Macken-
zie remains unriyalled as a laryngOlogist. II
is impossible in the present state Of scientific
/ knowledge to conceive Of any higher evidence
Of skill and good Judgment than has been
shown by Mackenzie in his long and wcarisome
labor in the conduct of this case.
It is proper to bear IN mind that although
the disease is doubtless an Inflammation, and
not cancerous, yet infammatory diseases Of
the larynx rank among the most fatal of dis
easas If the air M ssares
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party was hardly re-

internal revenue on the States great staple.
- declare, Dan" said the President fret
fully, as they crossed the North Carolina line
these Nirginians care for nothing but politics
and tobacco ] wish there was a prohibitory
tax on politicians. I'll be"
. Grogcr!" said hrs. Cleveland, lifting her
sweet eyes from TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. in
which She Was reading the "Woman's Work"
" was going to say, my dear, - said the Presi-
dent, gulPing something down, that I'd make
i mighty certain there'd be no tinkering with
that branch Of the revenue. But here we are
in North Carolina Here, know they'll ap-
prove Of every line Of my message"
- don't know ab9ut that" said Whitney,
dubi0usly. Down IN this section. where they
don't rsise anything but turpentine and pea
nuts, i'll be ali right; bat in the rest of the
State they run TO sheep aud fruit brandy. I've
just been in the forward car, where heard
them abusing you because you wanted 10 take
the protection Of wool and keep the tax on
spplejaek."
declare it IS impossible to please some
people" said the President, freifuIly; and the
journey was pursued in gloomy silence until
Charleston was reached.
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Monument to the Sd n. Y. Independent Battery.

A meeting of the Sd n. Y Independent Bat
terry was held last week at the residence OF
William A. Moore, the President, to hear his
report of visit to Gettysburg to locate the spot
ON which the battery fought, and secure the
ground for q monument. President Moore said
that he was happy to announce that that duty
had been satisfactorily performed; also the
work of obtaining a grant from the State OF
New York for a monument for the battery
The State Commissioners had contracted with
the Smith Granite Company to complete and
erect monument on or before the 1st of July
next
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1t was in vain that Secretary Whitney pro-
tested that he had never sailed anything but
toy-boat when he was a boy. The President
insisted that by virtue of his Office he ought to
know more about everything connected
with navigation than any other man in A4neri-
ca. boat was procured, but before they got
dozen rods away from the dock, Mrs. Clsye-
land became so alarmed at their narrow escapes
from upsetting and collision that she compell-
ed a return 10 the shore, and the next stop the
party made was amid the orange groves of
Florida
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electric cautery, by DR..
Mackenzie. The in
strument used for this
purpose was specially
made for this case, and
was an electrode guard
ed almost to the tip by
two little ivory plates.
These plates were fast
ened to the wires of
the battery with fine
silk thread, which is
coated with gum Ara
bic, SO as to prevent its
ooEaL.a Go .,yhns, H.
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the usual means, DR..
Mackenzie discovered
that the disease was
situated in the larynx,
and was then Of the
nature of a granular III
cerating surface on the
vocal cords. The dis
ease continued to adj
vance, and the Crown
Prince concluded to
visit London, hoping
that the change of eli
mate and the we'll
known skill of DIR,
Mackenzie would serve
to effect a cure. While
in London he was con-
stgntlv Under the oh
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TIE CROWN PRINCE.
A Concise Statement of His Disease
and Its Treatment,

The illness of the Crown Prince, Unser
Fritz" has cast gloom over German society
which interferes with all the social pleasures
of the Prussian Capital and makes the ordi-
nary business affairs of our German cousins I'M
certain and panic-stricken.
A little over year ago the throat of the
Crown Prince began to give him some pain, and
failing to obtain relief from the remedies applied
by his Berlin physicians, he sent to London for
the distinguished laryngologist, DR.. Morell
Mackenzie On examination of the throat by
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{" What a wonderful
force that of the earth
quake IS" said the
President as they stroll
ed about the city, look
ing at the evidences OF
I he seismic wreck.
I" There's nothing like
it, except q tidal wave
10 politics. An, here is
the home Of John c.
Calhoun, the nursery of
ee-Trade, the birth
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VA otIAl
The only refuge for
the President seemed
to be his old one-go-
ing a-fshing. The ac-
commodating landlord
of the hotel had pre-
pared for this, and had
in readiness his big
alligator, which is al.
ways on hand to be
caught by the distin.
guished guest of the
day.
Grnver fhrew his
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tissue from which shorter and longer shreds pro-
jected. The larger of the two pieces three
millimetres long and rs millimetres thick; the
smaller was about two millimetres broad and thick
But these measurements probably do not aceU-
rately represent the natural dimensions as the par
ticle5 have diminished in size owing to the retrac
ton and to the folding of the sections after their
extirpation. Microscopic investigation confirmed
the diagnosis arrived at from a naked-eye exam
ination /. The surface everywhere consisted of a
very thick and dense membrane with stratifed
epithelium cells. In many Of the cells gelatinous
granues of large size visible; here and there
lay nest of cells lying in coneentric layers To-
ward the inside there similarly stratihed
layer of cylindrical cells without ella lhair-ike
tuftsl implanted directly the connective tissue.
2. The surface of the mucous membrane was COW
cred with long capillary excrescences, which, be-
side the elements of the connective tissue contain
ed rather large vascular loops. Each nodule Dump
visible TO the naked eye the surface formed
by papilla of this kind. As for the rest the mu-
cous membrane exhibited scarcely any modihca-
ton the blood vessels were only moderately di-
lated. Both portions removed included not only
the mucous membrane, but extended through into
the sub-mucous membranes. Hence, besides con-
nective tissue with numerous fine elastic abers
there a larger number of nerve bundles and
their branches, and small arteries and veins; at
some spots there masses of the lobules of mu-
cous glands. Although it was proved by this that
the ineision reached parts deep below the mucous
membrane,
The National tribune., 1888-02-23
Veterans Calendar.

Col Fred Bracket of this city, has gotten
out very neat and attractive calendar, which
shows all the corps badges, with some memo
randa concerning the corps commanders, etc.
The badges of the societies formed since the
war are also represented in colors upon the cal
endar. 1t is ornamental as we'll as useful.
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a - = $50 49, = - - 80
stored mil il reached
Richmond. whore the
incidents ol the morn
ing were forgotten in
the interesting sight
seeing Of that historic
city. but the Ct came
on again when a figure
Of the tntclary Goddess
Of Virginia was en-
conntered. bearing q
touching appeal TO the
President 10 change his
mind IN regard 70 the
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Mcclellan Monument Association.

These officers have been elected by the Nc
Clellan Monument Association of Philadelphia:
President, John D. NORMAN Y.-Ps, VIM. ].
Causland and Thomas Carey; Treas, John
Welsh
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cautery was in use. In this way none of the
tissues were burned except those touched by the
tip of the wire, which was heated to incandes-
cence. The Crown Prince after this operation
went to the coast at Cowes, and the week fol-
lowing to Braemar, in Scotland; but he shortly
returned to the Continent and visited the
Tyrol. On the 9th of September DIR. Mackenzie
was summoned to Balmoral, and the honor of
Knighthood conferred on him by the Queen,
presumably st the Crown Princes request.
In October it was reported that the distin-
guished patient had taken cold that there was
tendency to congestion, and that residence
in warm climate was absolutely necessary.
SAN RENO, IN ITALY,
was, therefore, selected as the place. In No
vember the growth again reappeared, and at
the same time there was great general swelling
of the larnyx, and it was feared that the opera
ton of tracheotomy Cutting the wind -pipe)
would become necessary. The pain at this
time became acute, and led to fierce controver-
sizes among the doctors not in attendance on
the case, and general assertion that the dis
ease was cancer. So clamorous did this discus
sion become that Virchow, the greatest pa
biologist of our times, felt obliged to make q
statement in the Berlin Medical Society Nov.
16, defending his statements, but stating that
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The fruit hangs re-
markably lightly on its
STEMS" said the Presi-
dent as he lodged the
golden apples which
showered around him
wherever he went. " 1t
falls if a breath stirs
it.D
Tt is expressing its
disapprobation of your
Excellency's idea," said
the owner Of the grove
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The officers of U. S. Grant Commandery, No. 2,
y. V. o., Department of Illinois, are as follows:
Colonel, w. C. Ream Lieut.-Col V. ID. Van
Fleet Maj, George w. Jewell Surg, Geo. E.
Cowell; Chap, s. R. Tobias; AdJt, w. w.
Fethian; O. NJ, ]. r. Bossert; o. D., W. s.
Noble; o. g., P. II, Wagner.
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REPRESENTATIVES, MARTINS spEEcH.

Hon. w. n. Martin,
who represents t b Q
Second District of Tex
as, seems determined to
furnish amusement to
t h Q Washingtonians.
He is a combination of
Texan cowboy q n d
country lawyer, and
signalized his entry
in t o Washington by
blowing out the gas
in his room in Will
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1ard's Hotel, and was only rescued from as
phyxiation by the vigilance of the night watch
man. He has kept fairly quiet since until last
week, when bill came up to print a num-
Der of copies of the Agricultural De-
partment's reports on cattle diseases. hr.
Martin took a lively interest in this and sud
denly determined to SAY his say" There
was another speaker on the floor at the time,
but this did not deter the gentleman from
Texas, who boIted up from his seat and began
speaking without the customary Mr.. Speaker"
The Speaker tried TO rap him down, but Mr..
Martin would not down" until he was
through, and the Speaker broke his gavel in
his effort to call him to order. Mr.. Martin
pronounced the report " the finest document
since the Declaration of Independence"
VETERANS IN THE CITY.
Capt Charles o. Fellows, 18th Mass, Boston,
Mass Capt Fellows was one of the youngest
commissioned officers in the army
john Weigel, 18th Pa, Zelienople, Pa. Com
rade Weigel was delegate to the Encampment
Of the Department of Pennsylvania at Allen
town, and passed through the city on his way
home, where he is carrying on blacksmithing.
THE PRESIDENTS HIGHT
In answer to an inquiry as to Mr. Cleveland's
exact hight, his Private Secretary wrote:
The President is unable to answer this inquiry.
He thinks he is just about FIVE feet eleven.
d. s. LAMONT.
OUR LAWMAKERS
A wicked Western paper says that Senator
ingalls, was very handsome boy, but as his
beauty faded he grew very smart, and he has
been steadily growing uglier and smarter ever
since.
Hon Timothy E. Tarsney, of Michigan, has
been lying seriously i'll at Providence Hospital,
in this city, with pneumonia and nervous pro5'
tration,
sILKwoRMs FOR DISTRIBUTION:
The Commissioner of Agriculture has inst
received from Europe consignment of choice
silkworm eggs, which he will distribute gratu-
itously to all persons who desire to raise silk
worms, and who are so situated that they can
do so satisfactorily. Application should be
made to the Commissioner of Agriculture
Washington, D. G..
GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH.
| Last week a subcommittee of the House
Commerce Committee began the consideration
of the various bills vesting in commission
! jurisdiction over interstate telegraph lines.
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PENSION OFFICE NOTES.

The Commissioner of Pensions has been adj
vised that Simeon B. Manning, of Knox, Me-.
on the 10th inst, entered plea of guilty before
the U. S. Court at Portland, Me-, to the charge
of filing fraudulent pension claim. He was
sentenced to imprisonment for three months.
At the recent term of the United States Court
at Nashville Tenn, Samuel H. Smith, who was
charged with violation of Section 5465, Re-
vised Statutes of the United States, in pension
case of VIM. Maynard, was convicted and SEN
fenced TO pay fne Of $500 and costs which he
paid.
On Feb 8, 1888, the Grand Jury returned six
indictments into the u. S. Court at Parkers-
burg, w. Va, for violating Section 5485, Re-
yised Statutes of the United States, against
Fred Brinkman, of Western, w. Va. He was
also indicted on the same day for violation OF
act of Congress approved April 49, 1884, by
falsely assuming TO be United States Pension
Agent.
w. NJ e. Browne was convicted on the 4th
inst, in the United States Court at Portland,
Me-, Oh all the counts Of an indictment charging
him with violation of the attorney law in the
pension claim of Sarah Berry.
John x. Logan, alias Il. W. Brown, was ar
rested on the 18th instant at Wyandotte, Kan,
for falsely peTsonating a Government officer
He was bound over at Kansas City, Mo-, in the
sum of ST 600 10 await the action of the Grand
Jury.
DEATH OF AN OLD PRISONER OF WAR.
postal from Comrade Z. c. Harbort, Hi.
opolis, H., informs me of the death of John
North, one Of the best known prisoners in the
famous prison-pens at Andersonyille and Flor
ence. John, or Jack North, as he was called
was the son Of prosperous farmer in Sanga
mon County, H., a man of gigantic stature, but
Of the honesty, simplicity and good nature Of
| true manhood He was intensely loyal amid
| all the trying scenes of imprisonment, un
complaining about his own troubles, aud sym
1 pathesic as to those of his comrades. He wa,
as tsnder as a woman in nursing the sick and
! ding. The postal says that he died of Bright,
disease, of which he had suffered a long timt
and very severely, but no word of complaint
ever escaped his lips. This was characteristic,
/ of the man.
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"a veteran who had gone to Florida alter
the war. and developed fine property of de-
stroying the orange and lemon culture of this
country for the benefit Of the macaroni- eaters
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i want to get away
from the maddening
crowds ignoble strife.
/ want 10 90 out over
the dancing waters of
that silvery bay. /
viii not trust myself,
and my Importance
TO the state, TO any
hired boatman. You,
yourself, the chief of
all the mariners OF
America, are the only
one who should have so
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NOT A SINGLE SPOT

that had undergone any appreciable change was
discovered, despite the most careful examination
of these more deeply-situated parts, especially on
the extirpated side. All the essential changes
affected the surface, only they prove that the tu-
NOR is epithelial growth associated with papil-
lary excrescenceS. At no point WAS the mucous
membrane found TO be invaded by the epithelial
formations. The specimens now before are of
considerably greater scientific value than that laid
before ME May 81; in the particles examined only
scanty LESSONS ofan Initiative kind seen LESSONS
only distantly to be compared with those found in
the particles examined; in all probability the ir
irtatve changes affected the periphery (Outside) OF
the seat of the disease. II IS evident that the
present occasion more central spot reached
Although this spot has become affected in a very
marked manner, the healthy quality of the tissues
the extirpated portions gives grounds for very
favorable prognosis Judgment of the future)
Whether such prognosis be justiiable for the NAL
ady, considered as whole, cannot be concluded
with certainty from the two pieces that re-
moved However this may be, there is nothing in
them calculated to awaken suspicion of further
and more serious affection of these parts.
RUDOLPH VIRCHow.
The Crown Prince was in London Jubilee
Week. and it was thought by the medical at
tendant that the excitement attending the
ceremonies might unfavorably affect him, and
all treatment was suspended for that week {;
but the growth reappearing, it was again re-
moved by DR.. Mackenzie, who, as before, sent
the pieces to Virchow for examination. In
two weeks after the removal of the growth
June 30), July Is, the patient had regained
much of his health and spirits; he was able to
speak, and felt considerably improved. He
dispensed with the services of DIR. Wolfenden
and went to the Isle of Wight for few weeks,
DR.. Mackenzie going from London to see him
occasionally. At this time the Prince staid at
Norris Castle, and his speedy recovery was
deemed almost certain, and the aged Emperor
wrote him an autograph letter of congratula-
ton. But on the I'd of August the growth
again reappeared; the patient returned TO
London and the tumor was removed with the
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place of utilization. My message "-ad-
dressing himself to Charleston gentleman
who was acting as escort and guide" must
have seemed to son like the glad proclamation
OF new day. Your impoverished people must
welcome any proposition to take the burden
some war taxes off the necessaries of life"
Eyes, sah," said the Charleston gentleman
politely. We regarded if as great message,
sab; the greatest state paper since our own
John C. Calhoun died; but was requested by
the business men of our city to visit you, and
take the first opportunity to represent to you,
sab, that We are heartily in accord with your
views in regard to taking off all the protection
which the bloated manufacturers of the Nawth
enjoy, sab; but they are anxious that you
shoEld carefully discriminate. sab, when it
comes TO touching the industries of the South,
sab. Our people are poor, sah very poor.
About all that we have left, sab, upon which
we can reckon, is our rice crop; the duty on
that is too low, sab; much too low. We ought
not, sab, to have to compete with the moon
eyed lepers of China, and the idol-worship-
ing niggahs of Hindoostan, sab"
" Whitney I'm a-yYeary" said the President