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The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-08-21

Ex-Mayor William r. Grace, the chief
tain of the anti snappers, has heavy
moustache slightly tinged with gray, and
wears extraordinarily large eyeglasses
so large, in fact, that they have been
called window pane glasses" Mr..
Grace's hair must originally have
been auburn, if not red; there are still
traces of this tint discernible. He, like
Thomas G. Platt, is now wearing russe'
shoes. Mr.. Grace and Mr.. Whitney meet
and chat as old friends. The gossip Ii
that if Mr.. Grace cannot be governor O.
New York State he wouldn't object tt
succeeding Frank Hiscock in the United
States Senate. The ex mayor is warn
personal friend of James G.. Blaine, Sec
retary of State under Mr.. Garfield ane
Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Grace, at 60 years
is as active, persistent, determined ant
forceful as a youth, with unfathomabl
experience to back his activity.
Gen. James S. ClarksOn, of the repub
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

age to possible breach of promise suits
Some of the letters state that the writer's
will vote for WRnanaker as President If he
comes out Here is one.
IT am on ths warpath again. begin is
better than steeling. l think where there
is so much welth and grandure among the
citizens of washington the president and
congressman they might help poor repub-
lican from being sold out by the sheriff for
$50 interest. work hard every day as my
nurvest hands show it drink no strong drink
and make-the best of everything I can't
keep the wolf, from the door, Gould you
speak word among the welthy and help
me 1ittle this spring. 1t may be like
bread cast upon the waters when you come
out for president, if not hope to meet you
in the kingdom"
Numerous Requests for Loans.
Requests for loans como from everywhere
and they range in size from $40 up to thou
sands Of dollars. A Wisconsin man wants
5000 to take the mortgage off his farm, an
Ohio woman wants S100 which she will pay
as soon as she can. A Kentucky mother
has boy who is in some sort of trouble
with girl and needs money to get out of it,
and there are preachers aud business men
from everywhere. Here is letter from
Oregon from a woman who wants $500
which she will pay in three years, and here
is another from one of the Northwestern
States asking for $1,000 to lit mortgage
from farm.
Many of these letters state that "The
Lord loveth a cheerful giver;" they are full
Of 'God bless yous" and of pious cant, and
a great number Of them are from profess
sionals who are evidently working the
world for all it is worth and this is one of
their methods. would say to them, how
ever, that it is purely waste of postage
and that such letters never meet the eyes Of
the men they are intended for.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
CATARRHAL ASTHMA.
ITS EVIL consequences TO THE
LUNGS
A Husbands Letter Describing His wife's
Cure.
A GRATEFUL FAMILY.

T. W. Montgomery, of Huntingdon, Pa,
under date of December %, 1891, gave the
following story to press reporter, which
will, doubtless, interest many of our read
ers He said: "My wife was severely
afflicted with what developed into a severe
attack of asthma, and 1 wrote to the Pc
ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company as to
the propriety of giving her Pe-ru-na. They
answered me, advising me to give it to her,
and inclosed special direc tions, which we
followed carefully and with the best results
possible. have been waiting to see if
there would be any symptoms of return
wife appears to be fully recovered, and has
been ever since and is now enjoying as good
health as ever in her life. Pe-ru-na is q
great medicine"
Asthma is of three varieties-catarrhal
spasmodic and periodic (hay iever). The
above case was one of the catarrhal variety,
which is by far the most common kind.
Catarrh of the head or throat soon begins to
extend jownwards through the bronchial
tubes to the lungs, when it will cause asthma
or consumption. In case it produces
asthma it causes loose cough, with much
expecroration, shortness of breath at the
least exertion, with spells of very difficult
breathing.
Pe-ru-na IS sure cure 1or tnls conQltl0n,
as we'll Is for all other catarrhal diseases.
Catarrh of all stages, wherever located,
soon yields to the benefcent action Of this
remedy. Pe-ru-na is the only medicine
that has stood the test of time as a catarrh
remedy. 1t acts agreeably and cures per-
manently.
A pamphlet on the cause and cure of all
catarrhal diseases and consumption sent
free to any address by the Pe-ru-na Drug
Manufacturing Company, Columbus, o.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

exercised that the patient does not collapse
under it. Sometimes this happens, but not
often. The skilled men are Watching every
symptom, and they know at once ii the
danger line is getting too near.
At last the work is done, bandages,
stepped in sntiseptics, have been applied,
and the patient, dazed as be comes from un-
der the influence, looks drowsily around
him as he is placed on the wheeled couch
and pushed swiftly and noiselessly to his
ward to rest after the ordeal through which
he mas just passed. In the meantime, the
operator is talking to the students about
the work they have just witnessed, and is
answering questions put to him by some OF
the students who seek information on vari-
GUS points.
knowledge Through Autopsies.
In some part ofthe building of the ordinary
medical college is a room, well lighted, per-
haps with whitewashed walls, and with lit
tie ease. 1t is at the top Of the building,
and is isolated from the rest Of the estab-
lishment. This is the autopsy room. Post
mortem examinations afford among the best
means OF finding out reasons and results Of
different fatal diseases. Autopsies are con-
Quoted by demonstration who keeps up q
running address, as he LAYS bare the organs,
the arrangement Of which has caused the
death of the person on the table. There is no
gallery in the autopsy room, but 100 young
men can watch, and there is not the same
need for quietude as in the operating thea
ter, where human life is at stake. In the
autopsy room the work done is not for the
benefit of the subject, but OF others whose
lives may be saved by the knowledge ac-
quircd from the present examination.
The student, having attended three regu-
lar courses of lectures and passed examina-
tions, is ready for graduation. He must
have spent a certain number of days in the
dissecting room, and must be able to answer
intelligently any questions put to him by
the examiners. Then he is given his diploma
and is ready to take his place among the
practicing physicians ot his State. The
diplomas granted in one State are recognized
in all others, and the doctor who moves
from one place to another need not procure
certificate in the State to which he has
moved, with the single exception of Penn
sylvania. But medicine is a science in
which something can always be learned, and
the conscientious man who has Just received
his diploma knows that he is only Just enter
ing school, instead of leaving it, when he
gets ready to treat his first patient as a
regular doctor. G. c. j.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
TEA MAKES INEBRIATES.
Tipping at the Sizzling Pot Leads 10 IL
cess at the Buffet.

Tipping at tho Sizzling Pot Leads 10 tx
cess at the Buffet.
The positive assertion by a physician that
tea is the cause of great deal of the drink
evil in this country, and especially among
servant girls and women, contains consider
able truth, and one may infer from it that
many other irritating drinks have similar
effect in creating desire for alcoholic
liquids writes A. s. Atkinson, NJ. D. The
increase ofdrunkenness among the servant
girls in large cities has been attributed to
the apparently harmless teapot which is kept
simmerIng over the fire during the greater
part of the day. The constant slipping of
strong tea gradually creates stomach
troubles, which may lead the drinker to
long for something more satisfying The
desire for something else is not very def
inite, but when the taste for liquor is once
acquired the craving seems to be satisfied
only when this is obtained The brain and
nervous system of the inveterate tea tippler
become excited, and along with the stomach
irritation they acquire a strong love for
drink.
This does not appear so prominently when
the person takes nutritious food along with
the strong tea, but when the teais used
clear and at odd intervals during the day,
it gradually robs the appetite and makes
this stimulent answer the purpose Of good
food. The use of any irritating drink would
act in the same way. Instead of satisfying
the stomach 1t e1cites the mind, stimulates
the nerves unduly, and creates morbid
stomach troubles, which in time appear to
demand alcohol to make them quiet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
AverscahartcPMs
Every Dose Effective.

We do not knowswhyi
SCOTS Emulsion of cod liver
oil is so useful in those simple
but varied conditions which
you know as " having a
cough" We cannot explain
it: we only know the fact
from experience.
1t may be due to the COM
bination of tonic effects of
cod-liver oil and the hypo-
phosphites it may be partly
due to the glycerine. There
are many effects in medical
practice the causes of which
appear to be plain, but how
those causes produce those
effects we do not know at all.
scorr 8 BOVINE. Chemists. 1sa South sth Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-lives
sil-all druggists everywhere do. 81.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

lands The whole thing stands about two
feet and half high, and is a mighty orna-
mental bit for either parlor or music room.
To keep this shining stand in countenance,
there are pianos with white and gold cases
In the finest enamel So far they are made
only to order But the fancy for them in
creases SO rapidly that manufacturers say
that white and gold pianos will soon be
kept in stock Instead Of a stool such in
struments have a seat enough for two per-
formers, with low arms and solid, slightly
lncurved back. This, too, is all over gilt
like the music stand, and has loose cushion
of rich gold satin accurately fitting the bot
tom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
MATERIAL SIDE OF MUSIC.

Pianos in White and Gold and Other Things
to Match Are Coming.
Music hath other ''charms" than its con-
cord of sweet sounds. Love, we know of
old, fingers in its lap, legend, poetry,
romance cling and abide about it, but it is
also often the reason for ''being" to any
number of beautiful things. Such, for
example, is a music stand all over richly
gilt. Either end of it is a perfect harp,
wonderfully true and graceful in line
and creeve. Inside are these graduated
partitions, crowned with horiate gar
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

HIS is the age OF
the private secre-
tary. Every public
man here at Wash
ington n ow re-
quires one or more
watchdogs to pro-
tect him from the
pablic, a n d t h e
richer. the man is
or the higher his
position, the more
careful are t h e
watches place e d
around him. Pres
ident Harrison is
guarded by messen-
gers and secreta-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
A SICK ROOM CONVENIENCE

It Allows Patients the Pleasure OF Trying
to Feed Themselves.
Sick folk-small blame to them-like to
feed themselves, albeit their weak hands
constantly slop and spill To save them
from the consequences, says M. c. Will
Jams, an accomplished nurse, try this dinner
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
A DOCTORS SECRETS.
How They Are Acquired in the Dis
secting Room and Hospitals.
MADE In PUBLIC.
Enthusiasm for Science That Often Leads to
Blood Poisoning.
TRAINING UNDER A PRACTITIONER
WRITTEN FOR THE prsrArcH.1

+ all the learned
professions there
are none that pos
sess more fasci-
nation for those
engaged in them
than the science of
medicine. Wheth-
er it be true or not
that the proper
study of mankind
is man," :" it is un-
deniabIe that n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

Holding His Own, and so are the
Carlsbad Sprudel Salts against all
limitations and attempts to steal our
thunder. This universal standard
and world-renowned remedy is now
appreciated by millions. 1t is
common thing for people of wealth
to visit Carlsbad seeking health, new
blood, strong stomach and cure
for constipation; but everybody can
have it now at the drugstores in the
shape of the Carlsbad Sprudel Salts
or the imported waters; just as effica-
cious; Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole
Agents, New York. su
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

D"toro onu AAsH'- WOODS PHO6PHODINE: U
he offers worthless medicine in place of this.
leave his dishonest store inclose price in letter.
and we will send BY return mail. Price, one pack
age. 81; six, s. One will please, six will cure
Pamphlet I'm plain sealed envelope, stamps. Ad
dress THE WOOD CHEMICAL CO., 13i Wood
ward avenue. Detroit. Mich. Sold In Pittsburg by
Jos. FLEMING Son, AZ Market street.
eI7-5I-eodwk
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
VIGOR OF MEN

Easily. Quickly, Permanently RESTohEh
WEAKNESS, NERVOUSNESS, DEBILITY,
and ALI the train of evils, the results Of over.
work, sickness, worry, etc. Full strength,
developments, and tone guaranteed in all
cases. Simple, natural methods. lmmedi'
ate fInnroyement seen. Failure Impossible.
2eOo references Book, explanations and
proofs mailed (sealed) free. Address
ERIE MEDICAL CO., BUFFALO, n. Y.
jel0-4
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

The thing for himself
No matter how high
Tho price ! might set.
Ana 80 don't you see
If / manase this plan
How nice it VIII be.
Jack gives II neat sum
Toward our fair for tho poor,
Receiving instead
What he values much more,
And then whom I marry
Dear Jack. 1t is plain
III own both the quilt
And lncmento again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
WOODS PHOSPHODINE,
The Great English Remedy.
,lish Remedy.

Promptly anS permanent-
ly cures all forms of nerv-
GUS weakness, emissions,
sperma matorrhea, 1mpotency
and all effects OF abuse or
excesses. Been prescribed
over IS years in thousands
of cases: Is the only reli-
able and honest medicine
known. Ask druggists for
WOOD,S PHOaPHODTNF. II
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

FIrs-An nts stopped free by DR.. Kline.s Great
Nerve Restorer. No fts after first days use. Mar.
veous cures Treatise and 81 90 trial bottle free
Fit cases. DIR. Kline. 93l Arch St., Phila, Pa. SUI
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
A PENALTY OF FAME,
Exquisite Torture to Which
Public Men Are Subject
ed by the Mails.
SPACIOUS WASTEBASKETS
Strained to Hold the Begging Letters
and Crank Epistles
HEADED OFF BY TIE SECRETARIES
How Very Smooth Individual Got Ten
Hollars From Mr.. Fester.
METHODS TEAT SAVE HARRISON WORRY
SPACIOUS WASTEBASKETS
HEADED OFF BY TIE SECRETARIES
How Very Smooth Individual Got Ten
rollars From Mr. Foster.
METHODS TEAr SAVE HARRISON WORRY

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pIsPArcH.l
WASHINGTON, April g.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
cOSHKEXESS

II not relieved by judicious and timely
treatment, is liable to result in chronic
constipation. As an aperient that may
be used with perfect safety and satis-
faction, Ayers Pills are unsurpassed.
Unlike most cathartics, these pills,
while they relax and cleanse, exert a
tonic influence on the stomach, liver,
and bowels, causing these organs to per-
form their functions with healthy regu-
larity and comfort. Being purely vege-
=; Il: ::$ Cured s.: &: s., T; :; !;
with injurious effects. Good for old
and young of every climate, Ayers Pills
are everywhere the favorite. G. W.
Bowman, 26 East Main street, Carlisle,
Pa, says: Having been subject, for
years, to constipation, without being
able to find much relief, I at last tried
Ayers Pills, and deem it both duty
and a pleasure to testify that have
derived great benefit from their use. 7
would not willingly be without them"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10

A FIFTH AVENUE property, neal. Market
Baird's ad., uth page. su
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
In the Operating Chair.

At last signal is given, and the patient
is wheeled in from the ward on q chair that
may perhaps be used tor an operating chair,
although generally the patient is moved to
that belonging to the room. The students
watch every move with the closest atten-
tion. As rule, the operation does not
take long The first thing is to apply the
anestheticy One of the assistants is given
this duty, and he keeps the chloroform over
the face Of the patient - long a. the oper-
ator directs, the most watehful care being
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-10
An Operation in a Hospital.

Cdllcu W thCy tdhC kuClE pl6CcS III
the operating theater and watch silently
and with deep interest the proceedings Of
the cool, ,self-possessed men who WELD a
keen knife with a certainty and skill that
guides them in exactly the right direction.
An incision one-si1teenth OF an inch one
way or the other may determine the life or
death of the patient, and the doctor must
cut exactly in the right place or not at ALL
An operation, with perhaps 200 young
men looking on, is conducted so quietly
that not sound is heard save the low voice
of the operator as he asks for this or that, or
more often signifies by nod what he wants.
The students in most hospitals are sitting in
a gallery-very steep, SO that those in the
back rows look clear over the heads of those
in the front, and are almost over the small
space in the center of the room, rallied off
and occupied only by the operator, two or
three assistants and the female nurses. The
light comes from above and is arranged so
as to fall full upon the table upon which
lies the patient This table has cranks and
screws in ali parts, so that it can be raised
or lowered in sections and the patient be
placed in any position required. Every
thing is ready before the patient is brought
in. There are faucets with hot and cold
water, bowls, sponges, towels, bandages,
antiseptics and other necessaries. The doc
tors-that is, the operator and his assist
ants-are in their shirt sleeves and wear
aprons with bibs.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-30
GOLD AND SILVER.

IL the Gold Dollar an Honest DollarP,,
| Mr.. Cleveland's Letters on the Silver
| Question.
ED. News DEMoORAT:--We hear
much these days of 20 cent silver dol
lar, and the inference seems to be that
the gold dollar is an extremity honest
dollar and contains, when coined, 100
cents worth of gold bullion.
Now, will some one of your numer-
GUS readers that knows, inform us how
this is ? Does it take 100 cents worth of
gold bullion to make a gold dollarP
We have free coinage In gold, but not
In silver, these days, the latter metal
having been demonetized in 1873, prob
ably to please certain interested gentle
men, The founders of our government
undoubtedly believed in free coinage for
both metals, as they SO provided, and
free coinage was not disturbed until
1873, when that ass-tute statesman,
John Sherman, took the matter In hand,
no doubt for a purpose, since at that
time silver was above par, as compared
with gold
have recently read Grover Cleve-
lands two letters, one of February Gath,
1885, after his election to the Pres
ldency, and the other of February
10th, 1891. In the first Mr..
Cleveland advocates the "present sus-
pension and coinage of silver, in order,
as he says, "tD prevent the ultimate ex-
pulsion of gold by silver" Mr.. Cleve
land feared, unless all coinage of silver
was suspended, "a financial crisis would
certainly he precipitated."
Mr.. Cleveland's letter of February.
1891, was called out by a letter from the
Mugwump chairman of meeting held
at Cooper Union, New York CITY, TO
denounce the free coinage of silver. In
this letter Mr.. Cleveland fears businesa
disaster and says "the greatest perils
would be invited if in the present sit.
"uation we enter upon the dangerous.
"the reckless experiment of free. nm
Limited and independent silver coiu-
"age"
John Sherman seems to have been
the first of our solons to discover the
dangers in the old doctrine of free coin
age of both the precious metals. He is
entitled to the patent in this country.
although, in truth, it is British impor
tation, against which there was no
protection" ... ra |6T
My excuse for this conn unication Ia
to ascertain If possible the value of the
gold in gold dollar. Hoping to get
the information, remain,
ENQUIRER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-30
VAL UABLE GEMS,

The speech of Congressman Wilson
the permanent President of the Chicago
Convention, is gem. We published a
substance of it on the day of it's deliv
cry, but in the anxiety for the
events Of the Convention, we may have
failed TO note all the strong points
Some points will bear repeating. For
| instance:
But, gentlemen, we are confronted with
| new cry in this campaign. The Repub-
| lican party, says Governor Mckinley, now
stands for protection and reciprocity. He
was for protection alone when he framed
his bill in the house, or rather permitted
his beneflciaries to frame il for him, and
| firmly resisted all efforts of the statesman
from Maine to annex reciprocity to il. No
wonder that he favors the reciprocity
added to his bill by the senate. You may
explore the pages of burlesque literature
for anything more supremely ludicrous
than the SO called reciprocity Of the Nc
Kinley bill,
1t is not reciprocity at all it is retalia-
ton, and, worst of all, retaliation on our
people. 1t Furnishes the American citizens
for the necessities or the follies of other
people,. 1t says to few little countries
south of us: "If you are forced by your
necessities or led by your follies to make
bread higher and scarcer,to your people,we
will make shoes and sugar hi2her and
scarcer to our people," And now we are
told reciprocity is TO betheir battle cry. Al.
ready we are regaled with pictures of Ben
Jamin Harrison clad in armor and going
forth to battle on aplumed steed, Simple
Simon fishing for what's in his mothers
rain barrell, in great triumph capturing
on occasional wiggle waggle, is the true
realistic picture of reciprocity Of the
Mckinley bill.
When you confer upon the government
the power OF dealing out wealth, you un.
chain every evil that can prey upon and
eventually destroy free institutions-ex-
cessive taxation, class taxation, billion
dollar congresses, corrupt civil service,
debauched ballot box and purchased
elections. In every campaign the priyi-
iege OF taxing the people will be bartered
Tor contribution to corrupt them at the
polls; after every victory new Mckinley
bill to repay the contributions, with usury,
out of taxes wruug from the people. For
every selfgoverning people there can be
no more momentous question than the
question of taxation. 1t is the
question, as Mr.. Burke truly said, around
which all the great battles of freedom
have been fought. 1t is the question out
OF which grow all the issues of govern
ment. Until we settle this question, wise.
ly, permanently, and justly, we build all |
other reforms on a foundation of sand,