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A survivor from stoueman,s Raid.

John w. January was one of the promptest
respondents to tho call for 100000 men. He
enlisted in Company b of the 14th Illinois
Cavalry, and on the 7th of February, the lad
having scarcely entered upon his sixteenth
year, entered the service. The Corps. under
the command of Colonel Horace Capron, was
transported by rail into Kentucky, and marched
thence across the Cumberland Mountains to
unite with the main body of the army. History
chronicles some sixteen battles in which the
18th was engaged between that time and the
Midsummer of 1864, and in all these Mr.. jan
uary took part. On July q his command was
detailed for service in the llstarred expedition
known as Stonemans Raid, set out from Atlanta,
for Macon, Ga, for the fourfold purpose of
harassng the enemy, cutting Off and destroying
their supplies, dverting their attention from
Sherman's Division, and releasing Union pris-
oners at Andersonvlle.
But five men returned of the ffty-fve which
Company B mustered at the start Twenty
three were killed and twenty soven captured,
among the last January himself, who a few
days later, after the usual transfers had been
effected, was imprisoned at Andersonvlle. On
the fall of Atlanta he was sent to Charleston,
s. c., and ten days later to Florence. s. c.,
where he remained until tho end of tho war
The trials and hardships of prison life began
to tell sadly upon January's constitution; from
tho hale, robust stripping of 165 pounds Mt the
time of his capture, three months later found
HIM reduced to forty five pounds.
After tedious and fatiguing journey he was
landed on David's Island, near New York Har-
Dor, and there, at tho end of seven months,
dwindled to a skeleton by the ravages of a
loathsome disease. The last sad scene of this
narrowing drama had now to come. A prey
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BADLY Scared.


I" 1t was at the battle of Gettysburg.e when
the bullets were falling like hail, and tho shells
were shrieking and bursting over our heads in
"A way to make the bravest heart tremble, that
a private dropped out of the ranks and skulked
back toward the rear. He was well under
way. when, unfortunately for him, he was met
by Gen. SlOcum coming 10 the front.
"' What are you doing here7 Get back to
your post the General shouted.
The poor follow stopped still and trembled
like a leaf, but madO no reply.
"'Get back to your post, you miserable
coward Aren't you ashamed Of yourself TO be
skulking back hero when you should be in
front with your brave cOmrndes?"
still the man made no reply, but commenced
TO cry like ycar-old infant.
as You Infamous, Enealsing coward shouted
the infuriated General. get back TO your post
I'll ride you down like dog. Why, you are
nothing but baby 1r1
"'I-i-Pll t-t-teil you what, General said
the blubbering fellow. I'd g'ggive anything
just now if was b-b-baby, and i-i-if j had
my choice I'd rather be- ag-grl b-b-baby.'"
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IMPORTANT TO ALL.

There is no doubt that some general pen
sion bin will pass Congress very soon. 1t is
impossible to predict just what it will pro-
vide, but it will, beyond question, add a
large number of persons to the pension-roll
whose cases have not been covered by exist
ing laws. Indeed, during the present week
the Senate has already passed the Davis
bill, printed in another colamn.
When any new law shall be enacted, the
work, and it is important to get your claim
fled early.
Every veteran, veterans widow, and vet
erans orphan, who has not been allowed
pension, should write me at once answering
the following questions:
l. Name and address in full
2. Name of the soldier.
3. Company and regiment.
A. When enlisted.
5. When discharged.
@. Cause of discharge.
2. Did soldier ever apply for pension9
s, If so, for what disability?
8. Was claim rejected or is it pending?
(Give number of claim.)
10. Date of birth. Month and year)
If the soldier be dead, in addition to the
foregoing questions, answer the following:
II. Relationship of inquirer to the soldier.
12: If widow of soldier, give her age.
Answers should be sent at once, because
bill may pass Congress and so to the
President any day.
The information sent in will be carefully
examined, proper action will be taken at
once, and delay in necessary preliminaries
will be thus saved without cost to the
applicant
| No charge is made for services unless sue
cessful, and then only the fee allowed by
law will be collected. Answer by return
| mail. Address,
GEORGE f. LEMON,
AttOrney-at-L Law,
Washington, ID. C.
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first tw0-gallon dose they call in another doctor
and try new concOGti0n. 1t is miracle if
they get well. A Burmese patient ought to i'm.
prove within Is minutes after the doctor calls.
At tho end of 80 minutes he is given his 12.
cent fee and dismissed, aud this goes on as long
as the doctors hold out. IL Is an unlucky thing
for the Burmese patient who is supposed to be
bewItched. The witch doctor ties a rope
around the sick mans neck and jerks it while
he chants out song asking the demon what he
is there for. If he does not go out after while
and no answers are given, the sick man is
beaten with stout bamboo; pins are stuck
into him and red pepper is sifted into his eyes
and the more no yeils the more his friends are
pleased, for il is the demon and not the man
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blood gall and teeth of the tiger rhinoceros'
elephant and crocodile, mixed with herbs
roots aud minerals, with an egg-shell or so
thrown in. In each house there is a sandstone
for grinding medicines. The doctor brings
these medicines with him in tho dried state,
and certain amount is ground off for the pa
tient by rubbing on the sandstone. The doctor
usually puts parts Of all the drugs he has on
hand into each prescription, aud when the
powder from these has been mixed together
a half gallon of water is added TO liquoiy the
dose. The Samese doctors say that the parts
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other Eastern countries than they ever did In
Europe during leudal ages. Tho Burman has
his horoscope cast at birth, and he has his as
trooger at work upon his lucky and unlucky
stars whenever he thinks of marrying. 1t
makes n great deal of difference as to what day
Of the week he was born on. and the boys
horoscope as made out by his astrologer is a
precious possession. IL is tho same in Turkey
and in Bulgaria, and you find these quacks by
the hundreds everywhere. We have specimens
of them ourselves in our clairvoyants aud
gypsics but a thousand people believe in them
III the East where one gives them any credenco
here.
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Witch doctors and wizards are found all over
the East, and priests profess 10 be able 10 drive
out evil spirits. These priests use swords and
gongs, and among the diseases which they pre-.
tend 10 cure are rheumatism, ague and billie GUS
attacks When the evil spirits get into a fam
lily tourist priest h called in. He wears d red
gown blue stockings and black cap. Incense
sticks arc lighted and the priest goes through "A
lot Of motions with his sword, charging the evil
spirits TO get out Of the house as quick as
lightning He fills his mouth with water and
spits it out calling upon the green spirits 10
vamose the house. lie goes from corner TO
corner of, the house, cutting the air with
his sword, aud yelling out: Kill the white
spirits! Kill the black spritsl Kill the vel.
low devils! and LET nll the evil spirits be driven
away" lie has IA thousand other foolish meth
DDS OF witch-drIying. and he charges good
price for bis work. Some Of the Chinese try
to drive out the bad spirits themselves and IL
is common for them 20 rub babies with copper
cash aud then 10 throw the money into the
street, hoping that the fever spirit will leave
the child aud rush after the money. There are
similar customs In Corca, and the witch doctors
OF Burmah are legion. Epilepsy is considered
the work Of spirit in Burmah aud the Bur-
mese have their alchcmists who are still work
ing on the philosophers stone, hoping to be
able 10 turn everything which they touch into
gold. Tho witch doctors have much the same
methods Of finding out witches as were common
with our ancestors. A woman suspected Of be-
ing witch has her hands and feet tied and n
quantity Of filth piled upon her. She is then
thrown into the water IL she swims she is "A
witch and is put 10 death. If she sinks, ID is a
proof that she is innocent, and her accusers are
punished A rope Is generally tied around the
wtch's waist to drag her out if she sinks.
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moment. The usual fees for the better classes
80 cents for the first visit, and after that the
doctor comes twice day until the patient gets
we'll For those intermediate visits no gets
nothing and at the close of the case, IL il is a
cure lie receives present of 80 or IS cents.
The highest fees paid by rich families for cures
rarely exceed Sl0 and this would be good pay
for a six months case. The Hudoos believe
that the Ganges water cures many diseases and
they often stuff the dying patients nose aud
mouth with Ganges mud and thus send him
post haste TO heaven. The doctors give large
dcscs. They never tell what their medicines
are made Of and they look upon surgery as only
fit for BARRIERS. They have several aperionts,
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WASHINGTON, 1890.

MASHINGrON, icSU.
He Orient and the 0c-
cident are farther apart
in manners, customs
and business than they
are in distance. The
5000 miles of Pacific
Ocean between San
Francisco and Hong
Kong is but a step IN
comparison with the
real distance between
us and China. The
Chinese belong TO a diff
ferent world from ours,
and all the inhabitants
ol the East are 10 more
likeus in thought than
are the inhabitants of
the moon. They do
everything differently.
The carpenter pulls
his planethe other way,
the scholar writes from
right 10 left across the
page and makes his pen
dance up and down IT,
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The shampoOers of the East might be called
doctors, for they have great effect upon the
health of the people. In Japan when a man is
tired or sick he calls In a blind shampooer and
this man goes over his whole person with his
fingers pressing and kneading every joint aud
muscle until he has made practically now
man of him. While was travelling in Japan
often had these men knoad me after hard
days travelling. 1t is wonderfully refreshing.
| would strip rs naked as Adam, and then
throwing a sheet around myself wouid lie down
on the floor aud ask the blind man to begin.
He would go over mo for about an hour and at
the end of that time | would give him - cents,
which was about 10 times the ordinary fee.
These blind men have n monopoly of this busi-
ness in Japan, and they gain living by it.
They have a peculiar whistle, aud you may
hear this on the streets every evening from
sunset until late into the night. They 10 about
with long stats aud easily fnd their way. They
are highly respected and not few Of them lend
money. In Burmah the shampooers are women,
and in Japan it Is not an uncommon thing for
a woman to bo shnmpooed by blind man.
Among the poorer cassos wives shampoo their
husbands. aud a picture which always stirs tho
blood of the Japanese man is that of a beautiful
girl engaged IN shamPooing her aged father or
father-in.law. FRANK q. CARPENTER.
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The native women quacks of the East are
another feature of the medical life of the
Orient. There are in China female doctors
who devote themselves to the cure of the tooth
ache. The Chinese believe that all t0oth-ache
is caused by little worm or maggot which
has its nest i'll the gum near the root, and that
if this worm can be driven or coaXed out the
pain will cease. These women dentists claim
that they can coax out the worms, and they
look Mt your mouth and with slight twist of
the wrist pull out worm which they have
hidden somewhere in their fingers. In somo
cases where the tooth is hollow they get their
nippers on tho nerve, and it Is probable that tho
idea of the worm comes from tho nerve of the
tooth. A foreign lady in China who had
toothache and who called in ono of these
women, said that they apparently pulled three
worms out of her mouth, and another merchant
captain who had teeth rs sound as those oil
e-year-old horse, pretended to be sick, and
gave them trial. They pulled twenty worms
out of his mouth and upon his telling them
that he had been merely joking, and that he
had no tcothache whatever, they replied that
that made no difference aud that they had
found the worms in his mouth and that had he
loft them alone his teeth would have begun to
ache in a worry short time. These women
claim TO pull worms from the eyes when they
are infamed, and they charge rs rule % cents
n worm. i saw in Canton n male dentist who
was moving about the streets with n string
OF dccayed teeth about his neck, and | was told
that this was common scene Of the dentists
trade.
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cents a visit, and he often takes his patients on
condition that he will cure them or no pay.
He never secs female patient except when
there il a screen between them. aud the En-
press DowageT nearly died not long ago because
she would not let one Of the foreign doctors of
Peking come TO sec her, and she WAS kept alive
for long time on human milk, and there were
60 wet nurses at the palace 10 supply her
nutrition. When the vaccination WAS done for
the Sutan's harem some years ago, each houri
had 10 poke her arm through a curtain, and
the doctor thus operated upon 1t without seeing
her face. In India thousands Of women die
every year from poor medical attendance. If
they belong 10 the higher castes they dare
not be seen by men. The result is that
they receive no medical attendance whatever,
and il they die their husbands say it Is the
decree Of fate, and they trot of and get another
wife.
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QUEER PHYSICIANS,
All About the QuackS, AStrOlOgers,
Wizards and Doctors Of the Orient.

Able Physicians at Five Cents Visit and Medicine
for Song in Haif-galOn DOScs-The Medical
Idols. and How they Heal DiSegses-The Wonder
full Mule Of PekinE and the Sore-eyed Idols OF
Japan-The Chinese Idea OF Foreign Medicine
and the Constituents Of Chinese Prescriptions
The Moxa-MoHgoian ToOthaches' and the Worms
which Cause Them Vaccination ami Smallpox
among Dozen Different NaiIOus-IlOw the sui
tan's Harem was noculaiCd-InfuCniial Aneri-
can Women Who Doctor Eastern Nobles-Mcdi-
cine among the IIindoOs, aud the Wonderful
Ganges Mud-IIOu the Burmese Cure Witches
The Asirologcrs OF the East, and all about the
Blind Shamp00ers Of Japan.
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Browns bronchial Troohes

Contain ingredients which act specially on the
organs of the voice They have AN extraordinary
efficacy in MI affections Of the Throat, caused by
cold or oyerexertion OF the voice. They are rec-
commended TO Singers aud Public Speakers, and all
who at any time, have n cough trouble with the
throat or lungs. :" | recommend their use TO pub
lie speakers. Rev. E. II. Chaplin. "Pre. emil
nentiy the best. "-Itev. Henry Ward Beecher.
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BLIND CHINESE.

of the tiger give courage TO the patient those
of the elephant add to his length of years, the
rhinoceros gives coutentmeut and quiet, and
the crocodile adds to his tranquility. The egg
shells and minerals are thrown in ad libitum,
aud the same character of concoctions are got
believe that the gall.bladdcr of man is the seat
of courage and the soldiers of China eat the
gall-badders of tigers to inspire themselves
with courage
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Speaking Of Chinese medicines, one of the
most highly priced is the root of the ginseng
plant. This is often worth IFS weight in gold,
and there are stores in Picking and the other
large cities which sell nothing else but ginseng.
A great deal Of the COrean exports TO China
is made up of ginseng, and instances are @Aown
Of 500 being paid for a single root In Japan
a revolution has gone on in medicine during
the past 10 years and the people now largely
believe in foreign doctors and in our medical
science. There are many native doctors in
Japan who have been educated in Europe and
you find good Japanese physicians everywhere.
Quack medicines are common, but the Japanese
Government requires license from those who
sell them and every man who makes up quack
medicine in Japan has TO send full descrip-
tiOn Of il aud its ingredients TO the Govern
ment.
The moxa is still common remedy in many
parts of Japan. Ii consists of burning the skin
with cones Of dried wool, and the Japanese use
il in the place of mustard plasters. A common
place for burning is along the spine, on the
chest and legs aud sides of the body, and you
may find many japanese who are covered all
over with mexa scars. In Egypt when boy has
the collie or the diarrhea IL is not uncommon for
the mother to burn his stomach with hot iron,
aud saw at Alden, in Arabia, a half naked boy
who was covered all over with scars. / asked
him how be got them, aud he told me that he
was very sick when he was little, and they
had scarifed his skin in order 10 cure him.
The japanese put needles into their cheeks
when they have the toothache, and they have
one drug known as the compound OF a hundred
drugs which they carry with them everywhere.
IL is a dark-brown powder with an aromatic
taste.
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the side Of the limb In which their friendly
efficacy Is respectively developed:
This being the year in which the Govern
mont issues artificial limbs to pensioners. all
entitled to such should communicate with the
house of A. A. Marks, 70l Broadway, n. Y. and
get tho Treatise and other information that
will prove of value TO them.
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The medical missionaries have done great
deal foT the women Of the East and tho women
doctors who have left America and who are
working among the heathen have more infiu-
ence than any other class of missionaries. In
Corea the King is rather henpccked quantity,
and his wife, who belongs 10 the great Min
family, has almost as much influence as he has.
a very bright young girl graduate of OberIin,
Ohio. went out 10 Seoul, and the Queen made
her the physician Of the palace Her influence
became very great, and she is now one Of the
most powerful women in C0rea and her hus-
band Is at the head Of the Kings school, and
she receives many presents from the Queen.
The wife Of Ii Hung Chang had her life saved
by an American girl doctor, and this girl, who
now lives at JIent 1sln. has great power with
the great NicerOy, ii Hung Chang is also said
10 be henpecked. His daughter WAS married
not long ago 10 man whom his wife did not
like, and the gossips Of North China say that
when Madame Ii heard Of the match she boxed
the Yiceroys ears Ii is through this man that
the American girl is able 10 do much good for
our people In China. In South China, at Can
ton, the missionaries have one of the largest
hospitals in the world, and there is a bright
American girl, DIR. Niles, among its PHI yscians.
IL Is the same ia siam, BurmHh, and in India,
and the English have medical universities in
India al which number OF native women doc
tors are being educated. Lady Dufferin is at
the head of this medical education of the
women Of India, and number of the rajahs
get doctors loT their wives from these schools.
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The japanese arc largely subject TO skin dis
eases. They have their hot springs as we have,
and at Yomoto. in the interior OF Japan saw
scores of naked japanese bathing, both sexes
leaping around in the stcaming water together.
Vaccination for smallpox is carried on through
out many parts Of China, and also smallpox in
Oculation. The Chinese yaccinate st the nose,
and they think no more Of the smallpox than
we do Of bad cold. There is a law that a
smallpox baby must have a red cap on its head,
and you see some OF these in nearly every city.
The East Indians do not submit to vaccination
very readily. They have a superstition that
their god KSishna will be rcincaruatcd, and
that be will have milk in his veins instead Of
blood. Some Of the more supcrstitious among
them believe that tho foreigners vaccnate in
order that they may find out this god aud kill
him. They look upon the whole scheme as q
fraud aud a snare.
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There are two great classes of doctors in India
tho Mahomotans and the HindoOs. The
Mahometan doctors ms rule apply heating
medicines and tho lIindoo doctors run to cool
ing ones. The HindoOs do not use medicine so
much rs tho Chinese and Siameso They are
so poor that they cut everything very close.
The common remedy for everything is fasting,
and they will only call in doctor in the last
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people Some Of the priests act as doefors and
in Japan, China and India you will end idols at
every temple which are supposed 90 possess
wonderful curative powers. III mother wants
a numerous family she sacrifices TO certain
god, and If her child has a sore eye she goes 10
the temple and rubs the babys fingers over the
wooden eye Of an image OF Buddha and then
presses the fingers 20 the sore eye Of the baby.
Some Of these medical gods are specialists, and
] saw one az big temple IN Toxic. the wooden
eyes ef which bad been worn into holes by this
rubbing. In Canton saw an idol whose belly
had been half rubbed away, and ] suppose he
was q specific for collie and near Peking there
is wonderful brass mule. the contact with
which j. supposed 10 cure al diseases He has
been rubbed until be shines like Washington
dO0rknob during the Congressional season. and
/ an told that one mule las been entirely
rubbed away during the past generation aud
that a new one has just been bought 20 take
his place. Scores Of these idols are made 70
cure the diseases OF children. aud IL Is the Gus
tom 10 tie piece Of cloth like a ehild's bib
around the throat OF the idol when IL has per-
formed q cure. Some Of the japanese idols
have hundreds of bibs around their necks and
those which are supposed 10 bring children are
Is much WOrshiped as the god OF fortune which
YOU fad ln every house. In Siam every doc
Tor has al image Of the father Of medicine in
his house. and the drugs are placed IN the idols
hand 20 receive his blessing before they arc
cent out to the people. The East Indians have
their gods Of medicine. and you find tie same
superstition prevailing IN Corea.
The doctors Of the lar East have no idea Of
anatomy as obtained from the study Of the
skeleton. They have q horror Of body snatch
ing and every now aud then q missionary is ia
danger II bis life because they think he has
been grinding up the bodies Of live Chinese
babies % make medicine cut OF them. This
superstition b. common in China and C0rea
and untll lately ia Japan. ] saw at Shanghai
an illustrated Chinese magazine which con
tained fui description Of how the Americans
make medicine. il was illustrated with cuts
and iB one Of these men in American clothes
were bending over great furnaces, in which, in
immense kettles the size Of an apple-butter
boiler, the heads and legs Of men were bobbiug
up aud down. Beside tie Ere were great bas-
kets aud tabs Of cut-up human bodies, the eyes
o. which IN each case were almond shaped
The Americans were engaged IN stirring the
Eteaming mass and IN throwing the bodies into
the caldTOn. ln another cut was shown the
machinery for grinding up the bones and lesh
and man IN American dress was sh0yelng
them on 70 the scales aud weighing them for
the grinding ia third cut American girls
were packing up the medicine for shipment
and the manager Of the magazine asked inc
whether the picture was not fair representa-
ton q tue reality. lie told me that the
missionaries often roasted Chinese babies for
their tables, and while j was in C0rea the
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Solid.

Mrs. slimdiet Ito new boarder)- THAT is
pound cake, Mr.. Starver.
New Boarder carefully hefting q pieee)-
What did you pound it with2