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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-14
The DIuscatine Dynamiters.

MUscATINE, Ia, May 13-Rewards to
the extent of $500 have been offered for
the arrest of the scoundrels who blew up
three residences here. The loss of John
Mahin, editor of the Muscatine Journal,
will be $1,000 L. NJ. Kessinger's loss will
be $1,000 and Attorney ~ Rosenberger's
$500. The horror of the deed grows upon
the inhabitants the more they consider it.
Dynamite was used, and was thrown in
the basement floors of the houses near the
middle of the night and at time
when the people were sleeping in the
rooms above. Had the full effect of the
scoundrels' purpose been met more than u
dozen deaths would be charged to their &C
count
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More Ohio College Troubles.

DELAWARE, o., May 13-Frank Ger
hart, The Commercial Gazette correspon-
dent from this place, has been dismissed
from the Ohio Wesleyan university by the
faculty for his refusal to retract state
ments in his articles to his paper concern
Ing the recent hazing. The account of the
occurrence charged the college authorities
with having suppressed the accounts con-
corning the theft of the college grade books
and guns from the armory last winter
stating that the offenders were known to
the faculty but allowed to go unpublished.
Gerhart assumed defiant attitude and re-
fused to retract.
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A PROMINENT paltimorcan Dead.

BALTIMORE, May 13-Major r. Alfred
Williams, for II years financial and com
mercial editor of the Baltimore Americ III,
died here in his list year. Hewas a ma i've
OF Richmond and one of the founders of
Dove Lodge of Masons in that city. He
served in the Confederate army and was
severely wounded in one of the many des-
perate engagements near the close Of the
war. Major Williams was II brother of j.
IL. Williams, the we'll known Richmond
banker, and father of A. b. Williams, edi-
tor of the Granville, S. c., News The re-
mains will be taken to Richmond for in
terment In Hollywood cemetery. Major
Williams was one of the leading men in
his department of newspaper work on the
southern press.
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HS,ePENlNGS BRIEFLY NOTED.

There wa an epidemic of small bank
failures ii Ohio end Indiana.
Amos A. paskery, OF F1s-.williatn, died at
Keene, N. H, ageI 1ot years ana seven
months.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Chey-
enne, wy, has been transferred to the see
of ST Joseph, Mo.
The Brooklyn Daily Chronicle, morn
paper on and after Sunday.
The flour, hay and grain establishment
OF Clarence r. Merrill, Manchester, N. H,
was totally destroyed by fire. Loss S25, 900
George Riley, agent for the United States
Calcium Light company at Boston, was
Instantly killed by the explosion of cal
eium light tank
James Durgin of Salem, Mass, proprie-
tor of one of the largest tannery plants In
Essex county, has assigned. Heavy specu.
lation in land is the alleged cause.
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be admitted, was n pretty severe un-
dcrtaking considering the character of
my wound. Every now and then /
would stop and rest under the shade of
a tree, bathing my head with cold
water from my cantcen.
Just before this / had found my way
to the Division Hospital, in charge of
DR.. Farley. My wound was dressed
and was removed to the Philadelphia
Hospital, then in charge of Surgeon
Hayes, famous in connection with the
expedition to the North Pole. This
hospital was terribly crowded, the
patients were obliged to double up"
the atmosphere was horrible, and as Il
consequence | contracted the disease
known as hospital gangrene.
Later on was removed to the Ladies'
Home Hospital, corner of Lexington
avenue and Fifty-frst street, New York.
This might truly be called the sick
mans paradise, for the treatment was
the very best possible.
1t was decided by the physicians that
an operation should be performed on
my head. The doctors Ia Philadelphia
had arrived at the conclusion that
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British steamer Blake Aground.

MONTREAL, May 13.-'rhe st. Lawrence
river is not likely to prove a particularly
favorable route for ocean communication
with the Worlds fair ut Chicago. Only q
few days since the British steamship HUI
ron, from Shields, England, had her hull SO
badly stove in by ice that she was beached
on the river shore below Quebec. Infor-
nation has been received here that the
British steamer Blake is ashore 100 miles
above Quebec, and on rocks and in posi-
ton difficult to remove her without Sc
rious damage to her hull. The Blake ar
rived at Montreal from New York en- route
for Chicago. She refused to take local
pilot when she left Montreal. rs she had
men aboard who were supposed to be ia
miliar with river navigation. Their knowl-
edge, however, proved insufficient to keep
her from running ashore ut Isle Aux Sol
dates, and she is now high and dry ON the
rocks
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Mr.. LEECH'S RESIGNATION.
Somewhat OF n Sensation Caused by Ills
y Voluntary Retirement.

somewhat OF Sensation Caused by Ills
Voluntary Retirement.
WASHINGTON, May 13.-Mr. Edward o.
Leech, whose voluntary resignation as
director of the mint has caused something
OF sensation, will accept the position of
cashier of the National Union bank of
New York, which is to be opened in that
city on the first instant. Director Ieech
was born in Washington and has been
connected with the mint service since the
organization of the bureau of the mint in
1873, having entered the department with
DR.. Henry Il. Linderman, the first director
Of the mint, and served in every position
In the bureau from the bottom to the top
In addition to having n thorough knowl-
edge of the business of the mint, acquired
through years of experience as examiner,
Mr. Leech has made n study of monetary
subjects and has built up line of money
statistics covering the products of the
precious metals in the various countries of
the world which have been generally ac-
cepted rs authority in this country and in
ErrOpa
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TO the base of my head where it
ploughed hole through the skull Just
above the neck. AT the present time
there are several holes in each side of
my head, each as largo as n halfdollar;
they are like port holes in n fort.
l lay unconscious probably half an
hour waking to lind myself totally
blind. mt once attributed my blind
ness to a shock to the optic nerves, for
i remembered having read something
on that subject. Fearful that should
be blind for life 1 wished that the shot
had killed me on the spot.
l lay thus helpless about an hour,
dimly realizing my terrible condition.
Suddenly / discovered, in rude outline,
the features of the surrounding land
scape. My joy can be imagined when
/ found my right restored almost as
quickly as it had been taken away.
In the meantime had paid some at
tentiOn to the wound in my head
took off my llnapsacls, tore II piece
from my shelter tent, made wad or
compress of it and put it in the open
ing in my head. ! suffered no pain but
afterward, when the shattered bone be-
gan to suppurate, | suffered as much as
it is possible fora man to sufferan live.
also made bandage from piece Of
tent, placed it around my head and start
ed off on 4 walk, not knowing exactly
where l was going. could see that
both lines of battle were getting ready
for general engagement. l soon re-
ceived an in timation that i was going
wrong; one of the soldiers of the Sixth
Wisconsin shouted to me- at the same
time making n motion for me to go
back. l turned about, not knowing
which direction to take, because was
out on the battlefield away from the
roads. After three days detention ut
Gettysburg l walked to Littlctown, IL
distance of eleven miles, which, it will
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Confession of a Firebug.

WIIEEsBARRE, Pa, May 13-The great
Methodist tabernacle in Scranton has been
twice destroyed by fire in two years and
each time the edifice was nearly ready for
dedication. The fires looked very much
like incendiarism. Peter Humbach, the
Waterman, while 1t was being built, CON
fessed to Detective O'Brien of this city
that he was the incendiary. Humbach had
II dclusion that the church was being built
OH ground that was bequcathed to him by
an uncle in Cincinnati. While on the train
Humbach was arrested and broke down.
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Forest Fires I'm New .kersev

Tons RIVER N. j., May 13.-Forest
fires have covered all the eastern end of
Berkeley township for the past three days.
burning hundreds of acres of oak, pine and
many valuable cranberry boys and three
houses. The fire is supposed to have
started from New Jersey Central road
engine. The fire came dangerously near
to the town OF Toms River, but the wind
changed just in time to save the place.
Fires are still burning south of Toms
River and cranberry boys and many homes
In the small clearing are Threatened.
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Seven months after 1 had received
the wound l submitted to an operation
to remove the shattered piece of skull.
1t was performed by Drs. Robi and
Hinton, and lasted OVER an hour L
sat in u chair, resting my head in
my left hand while the doctors
worked. / refused to take an an
aesthetic, because l was SO much inter-
cstcd in my own case that I wanted to
know exactly what they dill. Already
i had for months suffered the most in
tense pain and ! cannot smy that the
surgeons knife added materially to my
misery; in fact it almost seemed to be
relief. AS say, although previous
to the operations had been well nour,-
ished, never slept except under OPT
ates.
1t seems that che ball or she'll which
struck me had torn my scalp, carrying
away the pcriosteum of the occipital
bone and cracking the latter so that
subsequent inflammation caused the ex-
poliation or throwing off of the bone.
Portions of the inner table OF the
skull came away, but the in
ner periosteum remained intact;
nature has provided new matter, which
has formed thin shell-lilse protection
over my brain. At the time the bone
was removed the surgeons could feel
the pulsations of the brain, tire inner
pcriosteum having become visible
After the bono was removed Profess
sor Il. X. Hamilton, who attended Pres
ident Garfield during his last illness,
examined my wound and was SO struck
with the peculiarly of the fracture that
he took me to Bellevue Hospital, where
furnished the subject of Il lecture to
the clinic. This lecture was published
in the London Lancet for 1854
AT the clinic with me was, man
named Monk, with n small hole in his
head That is, it appeared very small
beside mine, though the lecturer inti-
mated that his chances of surviving
were not as good as mine.
Another interesting and not very
cheerful feature OF this experience was
the fact that the lecturer brought from
abinet IL number Of skulls each one
representing some phase of fracture
of the head. He would hold mp one.
after another of these CHASTITY memen-
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Sad News From nIn.lrIa

MADRID, May 10. = Disquieting news
concerning the Infanta Eulalie's health
mas been received from Havana. The
queen regent has commanded Premier
Sagasta to obtain more details as to her
physical condition, and is said to feel that
the proposed journey to Chicago could be
made only ut the gravest risk. The
Infanta has been far from well for several
years. AT court the opinion is that the
lnfanta may be unable to attend the
Worlds fair, and the hope is expressed
that she will return directly to Spain from
Havana
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MARKET QUOTATIONS..

NEW YORK-Flour- Superline spring, Sl.s0
@2.l5; superfine winter, $l.9yff2.S0; No. . ex-
tras spring and winter, S2ll:,,.J0; No. extra
spring and winter, S230G3; winter clears,
ssSo9y34O; spring clears, S2.5og3.a9; spring
straghts, S350G4; winter stralghts, 1920
$3.50; winter patents, S3G0d4; spring patents,
S3Sll14.G0; city mills for West Indies, 81 OOl
40. Wheat--NO. hard winter at pc under
July afioat; No. red, u under July 4. o. b..
afioat. Corn No. 2, white, Sc Oats-No. ?,
white, 42le42l9c; No. white, Ale; No. 2,
mixed, 36,4c. Pork-Extra prime, nom
inal; short clear sides, s2l.0Od2'.5O; family.
S20.00G2l.00; mess. S207512l.50. l.arl-May
Slc.95c; July, Sll.2O September, Slli5. But
ter-Crcamery, state, 20c; creamery, western
separator, extras, &c; creamery, western
fresh, extras, 2s>49s9c. Eggs Eastern flrsts.
l5tl5Isc; western iirsts, l5l5I5Isc; southern
firsls, lie.
BALTIN1ORE-Flour- Western super, 81 IS
gals; western super, extra, So25ib3; western
super, family, S3.2563.G0; winter wheat pat
emit, s37504.i0; spring wheat patent, s4.1o
@43O spring wheat straight, s350l4.10.
Wheat-No. 2, red, spot, TJ@677ssc May, 7,lac
bid; June, 7S07Sllc; July, 7s34@19c, steam
or, No. 2, red, 7234c. Corn--White corn by
sample, 55c; yellow corn by sample, Sc.
Oats-No. 2, white western, 4l1t2c: No. 2,
mixed western, 36IaGl:}7c. Rye-S0. ., SIC bid
Hay Good demand, good TO choice timothy,
Si5.bOOlG.50. Cotton = Nominal middiing,
l-i8c. Provisions Mess pork, s3l.50 bulk
meats, loose shoulders, lie; long clear, ll1zc
clear rib sides, lllsc; sugar picked shoulders,
lllSc; sugar cured smoked shoulders, l21Sc;
hams, l554c. Lard. refined, l2c. But
ter Creamery, fancy, 2sc; creamery, fair to
choice, 26it:1c, creamery, imitation, 2ia25c;
ladle. fancy. 2l0ts3c; ladle, good to choice. 20c
rolls, fine, &c; fair to good 10000; rolls store
packed, a)c. Eggs, 14c. Coffee-Rio, No. q, lee
No. 4, leGle,sc. Sugar-Granulated. $40
Peanuts unchanpcd
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toes Of the living, place it alongside. Of
my own Uranium and say cheerfully.
Now we may expect Mr.. Jochum's
skull to look like this after he is dead"
This was quite grcwsome, but | con-
solcd myself with the thought that
might he helping along medical science.
After this lecture many surgeons
came to see me, travelling two or three
hundred miles for the purpose of study
ing my case. DIR. Van Buren,, at that
time a celc brated surgeon of New York,
examined me, together with DR.: Mott.
His experience with such surgical cases
had been long, but he expressed great
that at the time he called II small lnnd-
ful of sntnres which united the two
bones had come out, and these were
shown to him. The sutures had been
picked out by the surgeon until there
was quite Il collection. They filled a
tablespoon and looked like irregular
jagged pieces of ivo-y They would
slip off and work out through the hole
in my head.
My case is mentioned in the second
volume of the Medical and Surgical
History of the War, AMI the piece of
bone removed g - inches long BY / =
inches wide) is in the Medical Museum
at Washington.
daily attend to nay regular business
and have been interested in number
of public enterprises.
am proud to have been a member of
the Fourteenth regiment, which went
to the war as a Brooklyn regiment, re-
cruited as Brooklyn regiment. fought
as Brooklyn regiment, came home as
Brooklyn regiment and is Brooklyn
regiment to-day. But l am prouder
still of the record hold from, the cap
tain of my company: There could be
no better soldier; always ready for
duty, brave and courageous.
john JoCHUM.
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Hope For the Harmony Society.

PITTsDuRG, May 13-rhere is n proba-
bility that the legal troubles which threaten
to disrupt the Harmony society Mt Econ
omy will be compromised. a number of
the members, the board of elders and the
trustees seem DESTROYS of settlement to
avoid possible division of the property
and the certainty of II disruption. Several
propositions will be acted upon when the
attorneys meet at Beaver to argue the APP
plication for the appointment of master
to take testimony in the suits.
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Politics Lively In Virginia.

RICHMOND, May l3.-The fight over the
Democratic nomination for governor of
this state has been cnlivencd by the an
nOuncement that Colonel a. S. Bufor(l of
this city is in the race. Lieutenant Gov
ernor j. Hoge Tyler and Congressman
O'Ferrall have long been in the field, but
the three corncred contest that will be
waged from now until the convention
meets will rival the Malone Daniel fight
in which neither candidate received the
nomination,
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Kentucky whisky Firm Fails.

LOUISVILLE, May 13.-The wholesale
whisky firm of w. II. Thomas &, Sons has
suspended payment. The suspension at
first caused some excitement, which quick
ly subsidized when it became known that
this action was the result of the whisky
trade and the tight money market. The
different bankers with which the firm have
done business place the excess of assets
over liabilities at from $3.50 900 to 300 900.
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PROVIDENCE, May Is. = The supreme
court has handed down rescript on the
contested election cases in the town of
South Kingston in favor of the Democrats,
and practically ordering new election in
that town. This leaves the whole question
of state officers for the next year in an M
certain condition, there being tie In the
legislature, which elects them.
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RAILROADS
RAILROADS
N : : : W AorfoIksWe

sCHBDULE IN EFFECT OCTOBER 80. 1891.
wEsTBoUNp, LHAvn ROANOKE DAILY.
7:4O a. m. Nv ashington and Chattanooga linited)
ior Bristol and beyond. Stops only at Rad.
-, Memphis Dining car attached.
800 q. m. for Rsdford, Pulaski, Bristol and AL
e nsSsrmediaas tssations also Tor Bluoasd Po
and Louisville via Norton Pullman sioepeI
to Loui svilleivia Norton
GoV p. m. for kacford, Pulaski, and Bristol also
Lor blpuDCid Gnio extension; leaves Blue6elo
$40 A. m cb;ly for Senoya, Columbus and
the West Pullman Shoppers TO Memphis via
Chattanooga.
North AND EAerBouND. LEAVE ROANOKE DAILY
ITO =; m: tof Petersburg, Richmond and
ia45 p. m. for Washington, uagerstown, Phila
delphla nnd New York. Pullman eleepe
Roanose to New York. via Harrisburg aud
s2:45 p. m. daily for Richmond and Norfolk. PM
man parloi Ger 10 Norfolk. connects at Lynch
ol0 IN. 70: Buena Vieta and intermediate sta
lions. NO connections beyond.
G4b p m. for Richmond and Norfolk. Pullman
sleeper to No!folk and Lynchburg to Rich
3G45 night Washington and Chattanooga lin.
ted for W9shington. Hagerstown, philadol.
Washington via Shenandoah Junction AND
New York via Harrisburg. Pullman sleeper
hoanoke to Washington, open at 9:0j p. m.
tached. Stops only at Bnena Vista, Basic,
Shenandoah, Luray. Shenandoah, Junction,
Shepherds town, Antietam, Grimes and St.
Durham Dlvie.on-Leavc Lynchburg (UnioI
ntatiGpl aud s:l6 p m. daily for South Boston
Winston-salem Division-Leayc Roanoke Union
station 956 m. daily for Rocky Mount,
i Msa.rtinsyille. Winston-Salem and intcrmc
For oil additional information apply at ticket
office or to w b. BEVTIL.
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
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HIS BRAIN LAID BARE.
The Remarkable Experience of q
Gettysburg Veteran.
Alive With a Pierced skuii-part of
John Joshum's Head is in
Washington and Pnrtis
in New York.
Copyright, 1903, by Baclicller s Johnston
Syndicate)


"a part of my head is In Washing
TOM
When made this statement the other
day in the course of conversation with
some friends, they looked at me very
closely. as il to see whether | was
really in my right mind. The expluna-
ton which followed am sure convinced
them that the statement made was
absolutely true, and at the request of a
newspaper man who was present, 1 re-
peat the story OF my strange experience
during the war, the resultof which was
to make my case one of the most re-
markabic in the annals of surgery.
was born in 1886 and have lived in
Brooklyn nearly all my life enlisted
III 1861 in the Fourteenth regiment
of Brooklyn. The peculiar and re-
marlSablc wound in my head was re-
ceived about IL O'clock of the first day
OF the battle of Gettysburg, just as the
command was given to charge on Davis
Mississippi brigade along the railroad
cut l do not know whether bullet
or shell struck me, but was proba-
bly, struck by sharpshooter in
neigh BORING. barn who had mortally
wounded General Reynolds us lie was
standing beside me moment before.
The bullet, or she'll. entered nv
head directly above the tenn
pie. taking circuitous course
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Drowning at clifton Forge.

CLIFTON FORGE, Va, May H. = Miss
Lilly King, of Upper Clopton, London,
England, was drowned in mill pond near
the well-known falls in Falling Springs
Valley, Allegheny county, while bathing
She was OH visit to the family of w. O.
luke, English settlers, and her brother
and others were bathing with her when
the accident occurred.
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The Indianapolis Bank to Resume.

INDIANAPOLIS, May 13-There is pros
pect that the National Capital bank which
recently suspended, will resume business
The directors have made public state
ment in which they say that the lepositors
will not lose cent, and that the failure of
the Chicago Chemical bank, which precipi-
tated the indianapolis suspension, will not
result in any loss to the Capital
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important railroad peclslon.

CHARLESTON, S. c., May ID. = In the
United States court here decision was
rendered by Judge Simonton in the two
eases involving control of the Port Royai
and Augusta railroad. The court refused
the motion to remand the case and ap.
pointed j. H. Averill temporary receiver of
the property of the Port Royal road.
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Bo.,y orI,ud,, Feed ROUND.

LOcKHAvEN, Pa, May 13.-The body of
Bndd Reed, one of the men drowned four
weeks.ago in the river by the npsetting
of a steam scow during storm has been
found. The bodies of the other two men
drowned at the same time have not yet
bapn foun1
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Atrocious Crime I'm yirrin,a.

MARION, Va, May l3,-The people of
this city lynched n young negro about 90
years of age who assaulted the wife of T.,
r. Atkins while she was alone at home,
cut her throat and left her for dead She
recovered consciousness ard identified the
negro. Mr. Atkins was away at the time
attending Knights Templar celebration
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could not live, but Dr. Alexander Mott,
IN Charge of the Ladies' Hospital.
thought there was chance Tor guy re-
covery. In the meantime they ffept up
my strength. not only had the best
kind OF food but drank daily, in alter
nation, ten ounces of sherry wine. eight
ounces of whisky, eight ounces of
brandy, two bottles of Guinness stout,
quart of ale. egg nogs and milk
punches
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Consolation.

1.-The price of whisky has been raised
again." said Col Bludd of Kentucky
Well" answered his neIshbor,
"there is one good thing; it cant cost
more than it is worth"
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Too Early for Ice Men 10 Fail.

TRENTON, May 13.-Colonel A. r. Kuser,
principal stockho and creditor of the
Hygienic Ice company of Trenton, applied
for the appointment of n receiver for that
company, and John Muirhead was named.
The total liabilities are said to be $3.50 900.
and the assets about the same.
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Oak View Sold.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Oak View, Presi-
dent Cleveland's former country home, has
been sold to Robert l. Fleming for $4,000.
Two acres of ground go with the purchase.
Most of the tract has been subdividcd.
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Hon. Rober. G. Minthrop,s Birthdny.

BosroN, May 1S.-Robert c. Winthrop,
thevenerable statesman and orator, cele-
brated the Sith anniversary of his birth.
Mr.. Winthrop is still in the enjoyment OF
Ill his faculties but his health is feeble.