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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-14
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends TO personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than Others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced IN the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
news. Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in so cent bottles, but It is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-14
south stockpridse.

Mrs. George Lamphire died last Thurs
iay of consumption and Bright's disease.
She was buried Friday, the Rev. Mr.. HUB
bard conducting the funeral services.
Mrs. Charles Montgomery, son and
daughter from West Randolph visited AT
the home OF Mrs. Montgomery's mother,
Mrs. /. Il. Jones. Johnny is to spend his
vacation with his grandmother.
Mrs. Will Packard and Mrs. 5. s. Long
ley visited in Mendon last week.
Mrs. Z. A. Roundy was in North Sher-
burne few days of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Davis are rejoicing
over the birth of an eleven pound son
born the 10th.
Mrs. r. Foster OF West Rutland recently
visited her sister, Mrs. L. +. Goddard.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-14
Pittsfeld.

George spaulding and wife of Rutland
are staying in town.
Mrs. Susan Peabody died at the home OF
her daue liter, Mrs. Albert Vose, Tuesday
June 5th, at the advanced age Of 50 years
The children did unusually well at the
concert Sunday evening.
Ed. Yose and two children are at the
Vose House.
Miss L. c. Hsdley of Lebanon, n. H., il
visiting at DR.. F. l.. Brigham's.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23
A WAR ON ARSENIC.
The Drug of Beauty Is to
Be Officially Sup
pressed.
ITS AWFUL HARM TO WOMEN.
The Government Has DiSeov-
cred a Strange State
OF Things.
GREAT INCREASE IN ITS SALE
Why Many Of the Women Of
America Use the Dead
ly Drug.
ITS AWFUL HARM TO WOMEN.
GREAT INCREASE IN ITS SALE

To such extremes has arsenic eating
been carried by the women of America
that the health boards of thirty cities
and nine states will shortly take meas.
ureS to discourage the use of the drug.
The concerted action thus inaugurated
will be unprecedented in its nature and
extent, and a source of surprise to
many persons who have no idea Of the
lengths 10 which the arsenic ha bit has
ravaged the health of American wome n
and girls. says the New York Press.
The first intimation that any evil ex-
listed came in evidences of the enormous
increase of the trade in arsenic during
the past five years. Governmental sta
tistics are always very dry affairs, but
any one curious enough to compare the
figures of the treasury and interior de.
partments will be surprised at the rev.
Citations they make on the subject of
arsenic. Now comparisons of these
figures with the health reports show a
decline in the diseases for which arsenic
is a specific. Thus the health board of
New York first became ware that great
quantities of the drug were being used
without the mediation of a DOCTORS
prescription.
But the inductlve evidence-thanks
to the labors of such experts as DIR. Cy-
rus Edison, commissioner of sheath OF
New York, Surgeon General Walter
Wyinan, of the treasury department.
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ment of the drug will convert her Ian
guorous beauty into faded uglinr>s. The
skin has the tint of ancient whitewash,
the nose grows f1abby, and the bue
which so adOrns the cheek capriciously
establishes itself at the tip of that
olfactory Organ. The head grows heavy
and the nervous system, like the hero.
Inc of any paper-covered romance, is
tori with ~contending emotions. A sim
gle look in the mirror makes this
wretched creature an arsenic consumer
once more.
Does any man deem this an. eXagger.
ated picture. or that we are not suffer
ing nationally from the habit which is
responsible for il? Ask an authority on
the drug trade or any active member of
the boards of health of such metropolI-
tan centers as San Francisco, ST. Louis,
Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Chi
cagO. The concerted action which these
bodies will make has reference only to
the sale Of the drug. The efforts of Com
missioner Edison himself have been
largely rendered nugatory by the facil-
ity with which small quantities of ar
senic can be mailed from one city to
another. Moreover. the legislation of
the states is not uniform. But now it
is intended to prevent the sale of the
drug unless specially prescribed and to
break up the trade in arsenicated nos
runs. A bill has been prepared and
will shortly be introduced into various
legislatures to this end.
arsenic has always offered a great
temptation to women" said DIR. Cyrus
Edison. reviewing the subject when he
was asked about it. "Buu after all we
can only take general measures. l do
not see how we are to prevent the use
of the drug unless we convince the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23

of historical Importance as tending to
bring together brilliant players from
all over the country. Moreover, there
are certain moot points. in the game
which have never been settled and
which the tournament could deter.
mine once for all. How come it, L
wonder. that while we have had whist
tournaments and euchre conclaves. the
devotees of poker have never come to-
gether in national council? Well, we
will change all that, it seems, and | am
glad of it."
"What is your experience of the
effects of poker playing on actors?" 81
have noticed that the best actors are
lovers of the game. If you go over a
list of the great names in the profession
you will find that they are nearly all
fond of a good game of poker"
The observation of Mr.. Frohman ap-
plies with equal force to many other
walks of life. Even John q. Carlisle
varies tine burdens of the secretaryship
of the treasury by taking a hand in a
lively round.
or course this series of games cannot
be arranged without some preliminary
negotiations. 1t will require considera-
BILE correspondence to inaugurate the
first play, but any party of six is eligi-
BILE, and the stakes must be SEM to the
committee selected by general consent.
Let, at the latest, this autumn or win
ter, witness the final contest. the winner
of which may be pardoned for regarding
as a mere babe in arms that popular
character, the man who broke the bank
at Monte Carlo.
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How is the evil to be dealt with? 1t may
not De Known to many men, although il
undoubtedly Is 10 most WoNher, that al
immense business has grown up all
over the country in the manufacture
and sale of what are known rs arsenic
complexion waters In New York, Phila-
delphia. Chicago and Boston these goods
are delivered from wagons 20 the re.
tail druggists, so great has the trade be-
come. The waters are white pellets
which must he taken morning and
night indefinitely. Now, these goods
contain very little arsenic. but when a
woman whose system does not yield
readily becomes impatient for results.
she has another eSource at command.
is 10 persuade . medical friend to
give her a medical prescription for the
drug Or to purchase it on some pretense
at a store. Young girls are the most
frequent victims of this sort. 1t is a
curious fact that very few women over
so are arsenic fiends in this country,
which shows 1T habit to be compare
lively recent here.
But when Il woman has once become
a user of the drug in this way there
Gems no escape for her. The horrors
set forth in that lurid volume, The
Confessions of an Opium Eater" are
nothing compared to the ordeal of a
woman who is battling the nostalgia of
arsenic. Even a few weeks abandon
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and former Chief A. l.. Drummond, of
the secret Serylce-that arsenic is the
resource of many a woman's beauty be-
came lrrefutable as time went IN.
1t is becoming more and more evident
that American women who lead lives
which make personal attractivenesS q
desirable possession, are characterized
by a languor that is melting, by a fra.
ellity that is more emblamatic of the
lily than consistent with good appetite,
and by a Slow, slbilant utterancc, clear
and resonant, but accompanied by a
nervous excitaDility of the lips. Added
10 TINS Is the growing rarity of a pair Of
rosy cheeks and the frequency of that
pallOr of cOuntenance which imparts a
distinguished air TO the most irreg ular
features.
OF course, 1t is the effect upou the
III which tempts so many women to
their arsenlcal servitude. Arsenic, of
all drugs, is wonderful in its cosmetic
effects. After a few months dosing
the cuticle acquires a pellucld clear
ness. free from spot or blemlsh, beneath
which the fine tracing of a vein or the
unrestricted play of an emotion is eX.
Quisitely pictured. To be sure. there
are some obstinate skins which will
yield only to a prolonged dosing, but
there Is further compensation i'll such
cases through the softenlng of harsh
ness in the visage and a general round
ing out of what, in this way, becomes a
lovely countenance.
Now this pleasing state of things
like the uglinesS of the Sibyl, is eXter-
nal only. The woman who uses arsenic
for any length Of time draws drafts
upon the near future, which are only
redeemed in the bankruptcy of her
health. The languor which externally is
delicious proves inwardly a torture. That
exquisite whiteness of brow, cheek, nose
and neck is concomitant only with an
organic agony, in comparison with
which the path of virtue is triumph of
the flesh. And when the repose of the
pillow affords TO an ugly girl the solace
of dreams or sleep, her fair, drugged
sister losses like a skiff in a storm.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23
HOW WE WALK.
Muscles Used and the Mechanical
Work They Do.

London Hospital.
The chief muscles concerned in walk.
Ing are those in the calf and back of
leg. which. by pulling up the heel, also
pull up the bones of the foot connected
with 1t, II then the whole body, the
weight of which is passed on through
the bones of the leg. When walking.
the trunk is thrown forward so that it
would fall down PROSTATE were not the
right foot planted in time to support it.
The calf muscles are helped in this ac-
ton by those on the front of the trunk
and legs, which contract and pull the
BODY forward, and, the trunk slanting
forward when the heel is raised by the
calf muscles, the whole body will be
raised and pushed forward and upward.
This advancement of each leg is effect
ed partly by the muscular action, the
muscles used being (D those OH the
front OF the thigh, bending it forward
on the pelvis; () the hamstring mus
cles. which slightly bend the leg on the
thlgh; (S) the muscles on the front of
the leg, which raise the front of the
foot and toes, preventing the latter, in
swinging forward, from hitching in the
ground.
when one foot has reached the ground
the action of the other has not ceased.
There is another point in walking. The
body is constantly supported and bal
anced on each leg alternately, and,
therefore, on only II at once. Hence,
there must be some means for throwing
the center of gravity over the line of
support formed by the bones of each
leg. as it supports the weight of the
body. This is done in various ways.
and hence the difference in the walk of
different people. There may be slight
rotation at the hip joint, bringing the
center of gravity of the body over the
foot of this side. This "rocking" mo-
tion of the trunk and thigh is accompa.
MED by a movement of the whole trunk
II leg over the foot planted on the
ground, and is accompanied by a COM
pensating outward movement at the
hip. The body rises and swings alter
nately from Il side 10 the other as its
center of gravity comes alternately over
one or the other leg, and the curvature
OF the spinal bones is altered with the
varying position of the weight.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23
DEVOTION
shown by a Parrot for Its Luckless
Mate.

SAoNu ny u Z urrOC lOr xCS
Mate.
Zoologist.
l have known two parrots which had
lived together for years, when the te-
male became weak and her legs swelled.
These were symptoms of govt, a dis
ease to which all birds Of this family
are subject in England. 1t became i'm
possible for her to descend from the
perch, or take her food as formerly, but
the male was most asSiduouSin carrying
it to her in his beak. He continued
feeding her in this manner during
foul months, but the infirmities of his
companion increased from day to day, so
thai at last she was unable to support
herself on he perch. She remained
covering down in the bottom Of the
cage, making from time to time inef-
fectual efforts to regain the perch.
The male was always near her, and
attempts of his dear better half. Seiz-
ing the poor invalid by the beak or the
upper part of the wing, he tried to raise
her, and renewed his efforts several
times. His cOnstancy, his gestures and
his continued solicitude all showed In
this affectionate bird the most ardent
desire to relieve the sufferings and as
sist the weakness of his companion. But
the scene became still more interesting
when the female was dying.
Her unhappy spouse moved around
her necessarily, his attention and tender
cares redoubled. He even tried to open
her beak to give her some n~ourishment.
He ran to her, then returned with a
troubled look. AT intervals he uttered
the most plaintive cries. then, with his
eyes fixed on her, kept a mournful
silence. At last his companion
breathed her last; from that moment he
pinned away and died in the course of a
| few weeks.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23

women that it does more harm than
good. They can always procure it by
stealth, even if it be made a misde-
meanor to traffic in 1t, and then we
wOdld have only aggravated the evil.
Physicians are very careful in prescrib-
ing arSenib, and not in%frequently do
not reveal to the patient that the drug
has been prescribed at all. 1t is of UNI
doubted efficacy in skin disease"
AS a rule men find out whether
their wives, daughters or s~weethearts
are using the drug or not. Suspicion
would be usually aroused by such a re.
mark as "Isn't Maud getting to be quite
good looking now? l always thought
her so plain" were 1t not that the prev
alence of the arsenic habit Is sc little
suspected that no admirer dreams Of
attributing feminine loneliness to it.
Yet it has won many a husband. and
explains In occasional instances the
ravages from which certain types Of
l~ackadaisical loneliness suffer.
1t was Surgeon General Wyman who
pointed out, when the anti arsenic agi-
tation began, that there is danger from
slavery to the drug in another direction.
1t gives occasion for a murderOuS use of
arsenic, and will complicate the invests
cations of suspicious deaths. Traces of
dISctlCdl pOloUu dIc uOW fCIy WEAK as
evidences of murder. The victim may
have been a ''iend." Indeed, some of
the most interesting murder cases have
been complicated in this way. Mrs. May
brick owed her peculiar type of beauty
to indulgence in the Turing poison, and
one of the most famous of WilkIe Col
Inns novels hinged upon the same en-
slavement of the heroine. Were 100
lovely women to die under suspicious
circumstances tomorrow it would be
rash to conjecture the number of corpses
in which traces of %arsenlcal ~poison.'
as the reports of autopsies put it, would
be found. Instances of the effect of
arsenic are conspicuous IN Lady Brooke,
the English beauty, in the Empress of
Austria and in Sarah Bernhardt.
So much, then, for this growing prob.
lem of American life-this increasing
loneliness in u women, accompanied
by an increasing traffic In arsenic.
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ers each would be organized. Each
man must put up 50 to a jack pot, as be-
fore, with IS to open. The limit, it
should be stated, is IS all the way
through this series of games.
Well, then, there would be a $40 pot
In every instance. and twenty of them
at that. Three men on an average stay
in the game when the jack pot Is
opened. That would give twenty $25
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23
The Origin of Forest Fires.

A writer in the New York Herald
gives an interesting suggestion about
the origin in forest fires. "All this
talk" he says, ''about passing through
the tail of Biela's comet is %poppycock.
Il have seen forest fires, though
one so terrible as this last one in
the Northwest. Let me give you a
plausible theory to explain those sheets
of fame. balls of fire, and explosions IN
the air away from any intiammable ma.
terial.
"Those pine forests contain a vast
quantity of turpentine. resinous gums
and volatile oils. The intense heat dis
tills those oiIs-volatlZes them. The
want of oxygen prevents immediate ex-
plosiOn, and they are carried by the
cyclone in advance of the fire, and
explode as soon as they get sufficient
oxygen. AS they explode they light
new fires, new gases are produced, and
the same process repeated. This process
is reinforced by showers OF sparks and
burning brands. and the hell-likc holo-
caust proceeds with the velocity OF the
wind"
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pots, or $500 more to add to the original
snm of So 900.

The twenty who came out OF this
second ordeal as winners now form an
other series of i've games OF four players
each. Needless to say there would be
an adjournment between each series
long enough to settle differences OF
opinion between gentlemen and to de-
termine the choice of referee whose
decision in all cases must be final. But
when the twenty survivors get together
for their five games under the same
terms as have previously prevailed, it
follows that 50 from each man and S.
to open would mean IS at least the pot
in each. Five times SIS gives $50 to
swell the sum in hand already.
Now comes the final bout. The five
veterans who thus come out of these
various ordeals sit down together to a
glorious final game. The pot would be
s., 200 plus $500, plus $50, OR $3.50. 1t
would be still a jack, with two dollars
apiece to come in. or $40 in all, max
ing SO, 800 t o start the game with. The
limit is still S.. The winner of this
final pot pockets all the money.
On a More Magnificent Scale.
But it was Willis B. Hawkins, king OF
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THE FINAL BOUT.

poker pots. whose bluffs have make his
name a household word wherever such
things as raises are known. who not
only expressed boundless enthusiasm
over the tournament to c0lnc but per-
fected a plan under which! the contest
will take place, and WHICH, as will be
seen, materially changes tlw aspect of
the contest as originally outlined. Her
is what-the editor of Brains said:
"The initial work Of the great nltional
jack pot has not all been done as yet,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23
NEW Workers. BRIGHT IDEA.
The Leading American Card
Game Carried to Its Ulti-
mate End.
A CONVENTION TO BE HELD.
This Plan Carried Out, Poker
Players Will Take on
New Dignity.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Poker playing
has never involved anything like a Sc
we're mental strain, whatever may be
said of its effect upon the nervous sys-
TEN. The literature of the game has
heretofore largely consisted of anec-
dOtal fragments calculated rather to
elucidate the department of the great in
crisis of one kind or another than to
afford material for the pages of the
scientific historian. Now, however, we
are on the eve of a revolution fully as
mOmentous in its way as is that of the
earth upon its axis. The learned s0ci-
cites whose transactions afford such de-
light to all whose livelihood is connect
ed with the size of printers bills will
find a rival in the movement which
seems destined to reach a climax in the
assembly of a poker conclave and coll
gress, of which the published proceed
ings will mark an epoch In the use Of
jack pots.
The whole affair had its origin in the
merest trifle, but so did the Punic wars,
for that matter. 1t was to a New York
enthusiast that the idea first occurred
of a pre-arranged series of poker games
played in different cities throughout
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the country by parties of local chip re =
deemers. To take II town only, say
Buffalo. Six poker players have a "a me
on an evening to be selected. Each man
has 50 in the pot, and it takes SIS to open.
There being Sl2 in the game to start
with, it follows that were four only to
stay in at the opening there would be
1872 to win at the very lowest. Nor need
it be pointed out to a tyro in the game
that endless contingencies might arise
in which the pot would much exceed
that sum. However, let it 60, as they
say on Coney Island, at S32.
Reserved for a Grand Fund.
Now, under the terms of the compact
as arranged. poker players all over the
Union would have united in these little
games. The winner Of each does not,
however. pocket his earnings. The S32
in every case is reserved for a grand
fund made up by the hundred-odd
games so played throughout the u
try. That would make $500 in all.
The winning hundred would meet in
convention and arrange for a new set of
winners. Twenty games Of five play
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aABghting vivid Nightmares. The devil,
according to st. Cyprlan. makes women
pay for their beauty. Arsenic, In their
respect, is like the devil.
When the reports of the treasury de.
partment and of that of the interior had
been received, the question arose.:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23

Here is a sure cu.o ,ut IfeckieS: Get
up early In the morning, find a dew
spangled plantain leaf aud rub the face
with it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23

Some one has figured out the fact that
Adam was created just as the sun wal
setting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-23

It's easier to dodge the income tax
collector than a girl who's just learning
to ride the bicycle.