St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10

of that. had rather be the one to rent.
1t does seem so hard to take the rent
from poor people when you know their
children are starving. One day. l col
lected $40 rent from woman. when her
little girl came up to me and SAID !:
Does Amy have bread?' Why. of
course Amy has bread" l replied.
Amy was my girl.) WELL said the
little one, Il wish | could get a piece of
Amy's bread For the love of God |
said, have you no bread?' Then L
went to the cupboard and found they
had absolutely nothing to eat in the
house. So said to the woman, Here
is dollar; go and get some bread
That was enough for me; l parted with
my property, traded some of 1t OH and
sold the rest: but was swindled in the
deal, and had to turn in and earn my
living. prayed the Lord to provide
me with some means of getting food for
myself and family, and He gave it. You
know | have married off three daugh-
ters and given two sons start in life
married 'em all from my own door, and
my husband is eighty-four years old.
Well. to return to your question. re-
membered the herbs and roots that the
old Indian woman used, and fixed them
up into the Balm of Gilead," with
which
ICAN CURE ANYTHING
in the human body. Yes, was left
with the Indians when | was two weeks
old. and did not find out who | was
until after had been married and had
two children of my own. ! wouldn't
tell youwho am. as | am related to
some of the finest families in America.
and they don't want to know where
l am or anything about me- But here
| am, sixty-one years old, and making
living for myself and the old man. The
doctors were going to have me run out
of Detroit. but old Col. R
came over in his buggy and
told me about it, so L left
in time. Yes. they were afraid of me:
| cured people when they failed utterly.
performed an operation on ten-year--
old boy. who had hip-ioint disease, and
cut two splinters of bone out, applied
the Balm of Gilead' and cured him. l
gather the materials for this myself in
the woods, and make it up in my own
kettles"
And so the garrulouS, but gOod-natured
old lady rambled on, telling Wondrous
stories of marvellous cures effected
solely by means of the great ''Balm OF
Gilead." No disease is so inSldious, no
malady so remote, that it can not be
reached by this panacea.
Coming back again to her inventions,
she explained that she had made models
of some of them, "Whittled them out
with a penknifd," as she expressed it.
And had a model made of one which
cost her $40; this she considered too large
a price. and preferred to make her own
in future. The plans which she gave the
reporter are feartully and wonderfully
made. Mrs. Binga says that she is no
hand at drawing, which remark was un-
necessary. glance at the plans reveal
ing the fact beyond the peraventure OF
a doubt, but she explains her stupendous
brain power by the fact that when IN
Michigan she lived
ALMOST ENTIRELY ON FISH.
AS she has failed to make anything
has no objection to their being made
public, thinking that it is possible the
humane society, or some railroad COM
pany, might take it into their heads to
send her something as a recognition of
the valuable services which she has
rendered to humanity at large. She
says that she has another valuable
scheme which she may some day make
something out of. 1t is device for
stopping any car of train instan-
taneously.
Il suppose she said. ''that passen-
ger looks out of the window and sees an
obstruction on the line, or another train
coming, he can by pushing down bar
stop the car he is in instantly. The rest
of the train has either got to stop too,
or else burst the coupling. This would
be an infallble remedy for railroad ac-
cidents, as the car has either got to stop
or burSt!"
1t seems, on reflection, that Mrs.
Adelphia Binga is benefactor to the
world at large, and with her ''Balm of
Giead" she would cure all the ills that
flesh is heir to. Her inventions in the
line of cattle and fish cars would great
ly ameliorate the sufferings of the ami
NAL kingdom, while the last mentioned
creation of her fertile brain would stop
the frightful loss of life in railroad ac-
cidents and take away from the news
papers one of their most sensational
features. 1t seems that she can invent
anything. She once wrote to the secre-
tary of the humane society, saying
that if he would send her $1,000 she
would keep On inventing and would
send him all the results of her work.
Strange to say she never received
reply.