Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-10-12

We'll, Is your patent medlclneE"
asked Ward.
Il haven't any. Besides there are
too many in the business. You have to
have some originality about a thing like
that Now. here is my scheme. have
money enough to float the affair, and
have ideas enough il can get them in
shape. If you can put those ideas into
good, readable, plausible form and
throw in dash OF science, as If you are
perfectly conversant with electricity
and magnetism and physiology and all
that sort OF thing. why, Til take you in
with me. Have you got any cashP"
"Oh, l have got enough to pay for
my lunch, guoss."
mo moro than that?"
''Well, not much more"
"Thafs pity. OF course we need.
cash, but that is easily got We can
float company in no time il you can
get out the correct prospectus, and after
that the matter is easy Now. I'll pay
for the lunch to-day, and we'll adjourn
to my rooms, if you have time, and l
will put the scheme before you"
When they got to Rodgers room,
which he had grandiloquently called by
the plural. Ward found it small apart
ment very high up and overlooking the
river and the Brooklyn bridge. On the
wall there hung something that looked
to Ward like telephone. Depending
from that were certain wires attached
to what appeared to be the mattress of
bed.
There's the instrument" said Rod
gers.
Looks like telephone"
|Phe reason for that is, said Rod
gers, airily. "is because iti telephone
"a telephone without connection to
the central station. Now, here is my
idea: l want you to get up pamphlet
which will describe the scheme in
scientific phraseology. That's where l
am lame. / can furnish the ideas, but
| can't put it ina plausible way so that
the general darn-fool public will bite at
it am the bare hook; you will be
the bait Now. the idea is this, we
want pamphlet that VIII start out
with this talk is life This is the great
talk cure. We will cure every disease
under the sun, or the moon either, for
that matter. We.will have the regular
physicians against us, OF course, but
that will be q great feather in our cap
and We want to make the most OF that
You want to write u separate chapter
going for the physicians and their old
fogy ways; showing how all the great
discoveries of science have had the
physicians dead against them at first.
It's always popular thing to go for
the physicians, anyhow Lay it on to
them thick. Say that they would rather
see their patients die than accept the
new Improvements OF science which
come from outside of the schools"
whats the principle Of the cure2"
said Ward.
''PrincipleP Oh, it amt got no prin-
ciple."
"Well, but we will have to have
some principle to put before the general
public"
why, certainly. The principle is
this: That talk is life You can do a
good thing by showing how eloquenco
has stirred up people to riot or to muir
der or to any thing else. What's the
reason of it? Some people say it elo-
qucnce. Well, we admit that partly;
but its the words. the thoughts, it's the
life-giving principle that's in words,
and which has heretofore never been
recognized in science. This is the
grand discovery of the nineteenth CEN
tury, and will place the name OF Rod
gers side by side with those of the
philosophers OF all ages. You see, we
hitch this wire on to the ordinary tele-
phone that's in every house. We have
special silver woven mattress which
we sell to the pubic. The wires are
attached to the different corners OF the
sheet, and that is placed on the bed and
the patient lies thereon and covers
himself up just as he would for an ordi-
nary nights rest What is the conse-
quenceP Through his body from north
to south-by the way, that's a good
point, we'll have to fix tho bed with a
compass directly north and south and
run in something about the magnetic
current assisting the telephone work,
then you see we'll have a new-fangled
switch that nobody will see the inside
OF. which is supposed to turn all the
talk that goes on over the telephone Of
the night through the patient In the
morning he arises electrified with talk.
thoughts that burn, words that have
flown through him all during the night
All this thought power which has been
going to waste on tho telephone wires
is thus collected and concentrated on
to human body, and the result is that
he has stored enough energy of thought
to do his work for that day and does
not need to call on the spring OF life,
and so the spring of life naturally re-
mains uncalled on, and the result is
long life"
But" said Ward, when your pa
tients die, what thenPn
ooh, that's all right; we expect them
to, but we'll have the writing OF the
advertisements and won't mention those
who die. Besides. it won't hurt EN-
any how, and so they won'tdie any the
sooner for having name little money
out of EN-. Then in the dire ctions OF
how to use the great talk cure, you can
work in good rules of health which
people should follow. How they should
eat, and what they should drink or