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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-29

H.; Nashville, Tenn; Springfield, O.;
Ierre Haute, Fort Wayne and In
dianapolis, Ind; and all other cities.
where the test was conducted at the
offices of the Stackhouse Medical in
stitute.
During this month, this style OF
advertising is being used by adver-
Using doctors in Davenport, Chica-
go, and even in New York and Phil.
adelphia.
Brains originate, apes initiate.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-29
"All RIGHT Now"

Another Instance of the Success of the
StacIIhouse Treatment When All Others
Failed.
Il had catarrhal trouble of Is
years standing, but am now all
right" said Mr.. Henry Rosenkranz,
OF No. 12OS Harrison street, Daven-
port.
besides having all the unpleasant
symptoms that characterize this
malay, there was discharge from
my right ear for 20 years. The ply
sicians of the Stackhouse Medical
institute removed a polypus from
the ear, and now it is we'll
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-29

The Stackhouse treatment has
been infinitely more successful in the
eradication of my catarrhal troubles
than all the remedies and physicians
| ever tried. l am highly pleased
with the treatment, for | am better
now than l have been for many
years.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-29
BRAINS ORIGINATE.
It Does not Require any Further Test" to Prove
This Assertion.

Thoroughly Demonstrated in the
of he Stackhouse Medical Institute viii Have Been
Regularly Copied by Small-Fry specialists
in Davenport and
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

BAPTIZED A CORPSE.-The Atlanta
Herald tells a strange story about the
Immersion of q man in Walker County,
Georgia, after he was dead. 1t seems
improbable, and is given only for what
it IL worth.
j. w. Massey, well-known and
highly respected citizen of this com
munity, had been sick for quite q
while, and on May 18th died. Before
his death he failed to unite with the
church OF his choice, and while he was
dangerously i'll he requested to be bap-
tized, but his physician notified him
that 1t would be hazardous to immerse
him, and the man made special re-
quest that If he died his body should be
baptized before burial.
He wanted it done, he said, as a
grave warming to all who knew it their
duty before death to obey this strict
command Of the Bible and put it of
from time to time. He said he had
neglected this duty during life and
want people TO take his example as a
warning.
When the funeral occurred at the
Hixon graveyard the Rev. W. l.. Dren-
non, who had been preaching to Mr..
Massey for years, with the assistance
OF several men, baptized the dead mans
body and then buried it in tho family
cemetery.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

THE COLOR AND QUALITY OF EGGS.
Food has q great influence on the
quality of eggs. Corn has the effect
when fed literally OF causing the hens
to produce eggs with rich looking, dark
yellow yolks. While wheat fed instead
of corn will yield eggs Of pale yellow.
The public imagine the dark yellow
yOlk eggs are the richest. They are
not; the pale yolk egg, made so from a
good, sound wheat diet, is the richest,
says the Baltimore Sun. Green food in
the spring produces the dark yellow
yolk. While food has considerable in
fiuence on the yolk Of tho egg it has
little or none whatever on the color OF
the shell. There are certain breeds
that never lay any other than white
shelled eggs, and others that also in.
variably lay brown shelled ones. An
egg from Leghorn that was not white,
and pure white at that, would never be
set by poultry fancier. A white egg
from any of the Asiatic breeds would
be curiosity. The distinctive shape
and color Of the eggs of domestic poul.
try are as marked and established q
feature as 10 tho case with wild birds
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20
Why Incomes Should BE Taxed.

The Literary Digest notes the grow
ing popularity Of the income tax ant
says:
The proposition to impose q fed
eral tax on incomes has evidently as
sumed an important political signifi
! canoe. The report that the presi
don't will recommend such tax in hi,
next message has not been authorita
lively confirmed or denied, but .s ap
parent that the democratic press /.
strongly inclined to believe the report
and, as well, to favor the tax. The
Justice of the tax, making the burdens
of government rest on the strong in
proportion to their strength (2) the
needs of the treasury, owing, in large
measure. to the pension legislation
l3) the need Of some new mode of rails
ing revenue IL the tariff schedule is re.
formed along Democratic lines"
The three reasons here stated for
levying such tax are apparently un.
answerable. 1t is certainly fair and
just that the rich people whose
fortunes have been largely built up
by the favoritism of the government
should contribute more than the poorer
classes to the support of the govern
ment. The needs of the treasury
caused by the pension drain, and to be
down of our customs duties, will i'm
peratively demand an increase OF
revenue, and the only way to get it
will be to increase existing taxes or
tax something that now escapes taxa
tion.
The sentiment of the people is
against increasing our present tax
rate. It is urged that the thousands
OF rich men deriving big incomes from
untaxed bonds and securities should be
made to bear their proportionate share
of the public burden. They are able
to pay q tax, and there is more justice
in taxing their incomes than there
would be in piling heavier taxes on
the masses. AS matters now stand,
there are millionaires in the eastern
cities who get off with poll tax.
Their money Is invested in bonds yield
ing them enormous incomes. They
escape taxation, while the average
citizen with his little cottage or small
farm is taxed to make up the amount
which they should pay into the public
treasury.
The protests against the income tax
come mainly from the eastern pluto
cats. Their favorite argument is that
such tax would be levied upon money.
and not upon any particular class of
persons, disposes of the first point.
The man who paid an income tax one
year might escape it the next year in
consequence of reversal of fortune.
The tax is aimed at the income and
not ut the man. The second objection
is of little weight. England collects
an income tax and we collect an in
ternal revenue tax. We can collect
any other tax when we settle down to
business. A man with an income of
$4,000 q year will return it and pay
the tax on it rather than risk the peni-
tentiary. Constitution.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20
DIVORCES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Judge Witherspoon, of this State,
has recently made Il decision which af-
fects the legal status OF any one who is
granted q divorce in another State, so
far as our laws are concerned The
4orkville Enquirer furnishes an au-
thoriZed statement of the decision,
which Is quite interesting, and SAYS
that under this decision it would seem
to follow that if the divorced wife
should marry again and return to this
State, she would be liable to prosecu-
tion for bigamy.
The question came up in the case of
Charles w. McCreery, plaintiff against
). Henry Davis, defendant, in suit to
compel the specific performance OF a
contract in land transaction. Davis,
IT. appears sometime ago, contracted
with McCreery for the purchase of two
lots in the city of Columbia, the
purchase money to be due and PAYABLE
on the surrender by McCreery of the
title deeds to the lots. In due time
McCreery rendered the deeds, but
Davis refused to receive them or pay
the money, on the ground that, contain
ing no remuneration of dover, they
were imperfect.
McCreery set up that he had been
married In the State of New York, but
after becoming citizen of South Caro-
lima. his wife went to Chicago, and
there secured divorce, he having
been made party to it by publication.
Therefore, the wife had no right of
dover in the property, and alleging
that the titles were complete, brought
| suit to compel Davis to specifically
perform his part of the contract.
The matter came up before Judge
WltherspOOn, and the main question
considered was this: Can the laws OF
another State, by granting q divorce
| to the wife, adjudge to be dissolved the
matrimonial relations of the husband
then and now domicied citizen OF
| this State? Judge WithcrspoQn says
no. 1t is universally recognized that
each State has the sovereign power to
regulate the domestic status of its own
citizens. Therefore, while q foreign
divorce to the wife may change her
status within the State in which the
divorce is obtained, it cannot affect the
status OF the husband dOmicilcd in this
State, for his status is regulated by oul
own laws. Our laws prescribe and oul
courts have decided, that in this State
marriage Isl civil contract, indissoluble
except by the death of one of the partie.
to 1T, and, therefore, whether the
marriage may have been contracted in
South Carolina or New York, divorce
granted in illiOnis cannot alter on
change the matrimonial status of the
husband in this State.
Outside of South Carolina, the former
Mrs. McCreery is divorced woman
but in South Carolina she is still tn,
recognized wife OF Mr.. McCreery, ant
retains her right of dover in his prop
erty until her death.
The case, which is very interesting
one, will go up to the supreme court
where the final decision upon IT, ont
way or the other, will lie OF far reach
ing Importance.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20
REUNION OF SURVIVORS.
All Confederate Veterans Invited to
a Barbecue ut Greenwood.

GREENWOOD, S. c., June 15.-At a
citizens meeting the following resolu-
tions were adopted:
Whereas the survivors of the Sixth
South Carolina Cavalry have called a
meeting for July 1 at Greenwood for
the purpose of eifecting permanent
organization and whereas, we the
citizens OF Greenwood and vicinity,
feeling deep interest in the move
ment and desiring to make the occasion
enjoyable; therefore, be it
Resolved lst. That free barbecue
be given to all attending survivors OF
the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry.
I'd. That we extend to all other
Confederate veterans who now reside
in this State, or once belonged to one
of It's organizations, an invitation to
be present and partake with the Sixth
Regiment of the barbecue.
3. That special invitations be ex
tended to Generals j. B. Gordon, Fit
Hugh Lee. James Longstreet and
Stephen ID. Lee, to be present, and tt
contribute to the enjoyment of the oc
casion.
4th. That invitations be extended
to Mrs. Col. Hugh Aiken and Mrs
Major Il. B. Ferguson to be present
and become the guests OF the town O
Greenwood.
THOMAS f. RILEY, Chairman.
j. ID. CARR, Secretary.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
The Recovery OF Stolen Boy After
Twcnty-Eight Years.

The strange story of lost boy being
restored to his parents after twenty
eight years had elapsed since his dis
appearance reads like a romance. AT
ter Il thorough investigation it IL dem
onstrated that w. p. CLANCY, OF
Gainesville, Ga., is the long-lost son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel CLANCY, OF
Washington, N. G. The boy was lost
on October 8, 1865, being then four
years old. His disappearance remained
IL profound mystery for twenty eight
years.
At first it was thought that he was
playing out behind the garden with his
brother, but it was not so. 1t seems
that they were playing together when
the elder trottcd to meet his uncle, the
| little one following, but being toe
small, lost sight of them and took the
wrong path and got lost.
His parents and hundreds of other
eager hunters searched the woods for
weeks and weeks, but no trace could be
found of the wanderer. Several ideas
prevailed ; some thought he had beer
burnt in blazing tar kiln, others sup
posed that he had been devoured by
wild animals, while some said he must
be stolen by IL tobacco pedler, whom
they had seen in the vicinity This
latter theory Is probably the correct
one. The boy, now u man 80 years O
age, remembers riding on water.
He was left at Roman Catholic in
stitution at Savannah, Ga, where he
remained twelve or fourteen years
Getting tired of it he decamped Octo
Der 81, 1884, and went to Forsyth
| County, whore he got living the bes
way he could, and afterwards in Blu
ford. He had been working in Gaines
vile some time when an old bool
agent, hearing his name, asked if he
had any kin in Washington, N. G. On
being told not, he advised him to write
as he might be the son they had los
so many years ago. This was on No
vember 20, 1892. So he wrote and sen
his photograph.
| In due time, on the first day of May
1893, he received letter telling hin
the story of his disappearance twenty
eight years before, and as he answered
the description, he determined to max,
the trip and left Gainesville May 10th
arriving at Washington on the 10th
His arrival having been widely her
aided by his overjoyed relatives,
multitude of people had assembled an,
he, trembling with emotion, was car
ried to vehicle and went to the los
boys home. Upon his arrival his oil.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

The mere use of intoxicants is not
a moral wrong. The wrong is in the
abuse, the immoderate use, but the line
between the moderate and immoderate
use is very vague and shadowy. Phil
anthropists, realizing the extent OF the
dark evil and the vice and sorrow 1t
causes the world, have called for a
spell with which to put down the de-
mon. The spell has been found and it
IN total abstinence. Millions have
been killed by alcohol who were never
drunk in their lives, as the word is
commonly understood. The effects OF
alcohol are 80 insidious, there are so
many opportunitiessfo the requirement
OF the habit OF intemperance, that the
only safeguard Is total abstinence. Let
good men, men OF strength and power,
be total abstainers and the weak will
follow. Oh, for the charity of Man,
ming who said he needed the pledge
because poor dock laborer needed IT.
Bishop ireland.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
The President Slightly Indisposed-
0htce-Seekers are Still Abundant
Various Items of Interest.

| WASHINGTON, June l5.-The Presi-
dent is iudisposed, not seriously 80. Il
is said, but still sufficiently under the
weather to remain ct his country resi-
dence instead Of encountering the heat
and turmoil of the city and office.
seekers. He hopes to be able to visit
the White House tomorrow.
Appointments in the Office of the
Assistant Attorney General of the
Interior Department have been made
as follows: Emmett Womack OF Geor-
gia, reporter OF land decisions: VIII.
liam M. Byrd of Alabama Ebert NJ.
Eucker OF South Carolina and 10 Lyon
of Virginia, law clerks.
M. ID. Wickersham, United States
Attorney for the Southern District of
Alabama, has sent in his resignation,
which has been accepted blythe direc.
ton OF the President: Charles Price.
United States Attorney for Western
District OF North Carolina, has resign
ed and the same has been accepted.
Word was received at the Navy De-
partment to-day that the United States
steamer Atlanta has arrived at Colon
for coal. Yellow fever has appeared
at some points on the Isthmus, and as
afairs In Nicaragua appear to have
quieted down, it Is probable that the
kept much longer in that vicinity.
The Alliance will probably go down
the cost of South America as far as
Caliao and remain there until the Phil
udelphia arrives in Peruvian waters,
which it is expected will be some time
In August so that United States
naval vessel will be on hand during
and after the elections in July.
The Atlanta, in the meantime, will
return to Greytown. She reports that
she left everything quiet and harmon
ious in Nicaragua and matters are also
quiet on the Isthmus.
To-day the names of sixty-seyen
clerks were dropped from the rolls of
the General Land Ohice. OF this num-
Der six were from Class Isl, 800 per
annuml; nineteen from Glass 3, ($l ,60O);
sixteen from Glass =, ISL ,4OO); ten from
Glass ISL ,20O); eight from the 81 900
class, and eight from tho copyist class
of 5000.
Secretary Smith has been guided by a
desire to raise the standard of the
service, and to that end politics have
notabecn permitted to enter into the
question of who should be dismissed
and who retained. 1t is known that
clerks without any political support
whatever have been retained while
others having the personal friendship
and influence Of prominent Democratic
Senators and members of the House
and others high in official life have
been dismissed
The strict rule of efficiency, shaded
now and then by desire not to inhict
too grievous hardship, has been the
controlling force in making all the re-
movals.
The names of Thomas f.. Crittenden,
Consul General at the City of Mexico,
and OF Judge Sneed, both of Kentucky,
are said to be under consideration in
connection with the appointment of n
successor to j. H. Blount of Georgia AS
United States Minister to the Hawai-
ian Islands. Gossip has it that one
OF them will be chosen. There is no
agreement as to which one. Secretary
Gresham refused to be interviewed on
the subject.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20
ENGAGED TO FORTY MEN.
remarkable Accomplishment of
Clever Female Swindler.

ESeInarkQDle Accomplishment of &
Clever Female Swindler.
New York, June IA remarkabl,
brilliant female swindler with O pen
chant for love-making was arrested b,
q police'inspector at Albany today and
locked up in the county Jail, there tc
await the action of the United States
authorities. Miss Waters, otherwise
Miss Jenie f. Rivers, has made a good
income for some years as a result Of hel
ability to write tender missives. II
was her wont to advertise her charms
In the various matrimonial papers
published throughout the country.
HaVlng opened up correspondence
with all the lonesome swains who an.
swered her ads, Miss Waters or Rivers
would proceed to work them into fine
frenzy of love through the mails.
When they had reached the proper
stage she would accept the proposition
to marry that was always made, and
agree to join the seeker after her hand
at his home. But, in order to do this,
she informed her admirer that she
would have to ask them to send her
enough money to pay her travelling
ana incidental expenses. as she was "a
poo, girl whose parents had long been
dead.
After remittances for expenses came
her love would chill at once and no sub
sequent letters would be answered.
The police authorities have been re-
celvlng complaints from disappointed
and ungallant lovers for some time.
Among the latest complaints was a
young gentleman of the significant
name OF Fix, who lives at HallOck,
Mimi. He had fixed things with Miss
waters to the extent of sending her
$50.
Police Inspector James got all the
letters sent to Fix. They were all
signed Jessie E. Rivers" and had
been written from 5S8 Lansing street,
Albany. On Friday, Inspector James,
accompanied by Inspector Kyle, went
10 Albany and they today arrested the
woman. She is % years old, short and
a brunette. Though very good looking
herself, She was in the habit of making
doubly sure of catching her victims
by sending them pictures of professional
beauties and actresses which she re-
presented were good photographs" of
herself.
She has operated from the Lansing
street address, and also from rs Her
kimcr street, Albany. In the letters
to Fix she addressed him as "My Own
Dear Mr. Darling" and "My Dear
est Friend" and pictured their happi-
ness when she should have taken pos
session of is cottage. After getting
the travelling expenses to Hallock,
Mimi, where she was to meet him in
order to get married. she wrote asking
for "little additional money with
which to buy trunk and q pair of
shoes and a few other small things
needed by a woman under the circum-
stances"
AS soon as Fix can come east the wo-
man will he tried for using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. She had
promised to marry 40 men in the same
way. according to the records found bv
the inspectors, and it is believed that
she swindled many other seekers after
u wife of whom no record has been
made.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

mother, bent down with her 73 years,
said she recognized him at once and
her faith that she would one day see
her boy again was rewarded. Equally
glad was his poor old father of eighty
two summers, as he welcomed the long
lost son.
Mrs. CLANCY, his mother, kept all
his playthings and when making quilts
for her children made his too, believ-
ing thatshe would see him some time
He has four brothers and two sisters,
and a host OF cousins, so many. he says,
If they all would give him a nickle a
month he would never have to work
any more. He is back at his work
now, but will, he says, return to his
new found home in the fall.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

John Hanson Craig, OF Danville,
Ind, Is undoubtedly the largest man
in the world. He Ia 81 years old and
weighs 907 pounds. He is six feet and
five inches high, measures eight feet
and four inches around the hips, eigh.
teen inches around the ankle, twenty.
nine inches around the knee and sixty
sin inches around the thigh next to
the body. He requires forty-one yards
for suit Of clothes, and three pounds
OF yarn for stockings. Mrs. Craig Is 9
good-looking blonde and weighs 13(
pounds.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

The SOUTHERN SOCIETY.-The no ted
Southern Society of New York has de-
cided to abandon the club feature Of
its organization, and at u recent meet
ing the following resolutions were
passed without a dissenting vote:
Resolved, That it is inexpedient for
tho society to continue longer any club
features. That such features entail an
expense incommensurate with the
society's income, preclude expendi-
lures requisite for the accomplishment
of the objects for which the society
was organized, and interfere with its
proper development and progress.
Resolved, That this society will abol-
ish all club features, and return to the
basis of the society. proper; that to
and dues be reduced to $40 per year for
resident and $40 for nonresident men,
bers; that the rooms be retained,
which shall be supplied with Southern
papers and periodicals, and with
proper facilities for meeting, for inter-
course of members and extension of
cOurtesies for nonresident Southerners
visiting the city and for the main
tenance and development of the society
library; that periodical reunions, an
nual banquets, receptions and other
like events of q society nature which
promote acquaintance and social inter-
course of members and further the OBJ
jects of the society, be continued and
amplitied; that larger provision be
made for the extension of sympathy
and aid to deserving cases of mis-
fortune or distress; that suitable
means be taken upon all proper occa-
sions to promote and honor those who
have contributed or shall contribute to
the advancement and welfare of the
South and especially to the portrayal
and perpetuation of the best traits OF
Southern life and character, and that
the society be ever ready to unite in
whatever expression is required to pro.
mote the honor and dignity of the
country and the city of New York.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

and that they will do more work in a
given time than the heavier variety.
His horses here, as well as those at
Palo Alto, will be given to the uni
versity estate, II he should die, and it
Is, think, his idea that his breeding
establishment will be continued
Frank G. Carpenter in Washington
Evening Star.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-06-20

"A destructive hail storm passed
over portions of Lancaster County last
week. Hundreds of acres of cotton and
corn were literally destroyed by the
hail. One farmer lost 100 acres of cot.
ton and forty-6ve acres Of corn.