The morning times., 1896-08-09

| As tie visitor sat down she tpOk from
her little girl her goIdrimmed glasses.
which she carefully adjusted to schoi-
| arly angie. On TER fingers she wore three
rings. all of pure brass.
what sort OF sickness have you?" she
| asked, as size leaned forward and looked
| up in a weary sort of way. but at tie
same time erid emily sizing up" her
patient.
rheumatism. right here in my shout
| der. around tile shoulder blade
''Humph, you better look out or IT will
| git to be cornicly."
1T seems to extend through to the
front OF the chest here continued the
reporter, indicating a place a little below
| the clavicle.
But she was not TO he diverted by this
| and continued TO describe the way rheulna-
tisin becomes .'cornice.''
AT first she said, Its Just little
ache and pain and you don't pay no at
tentiou 10 it. But after awhile it COLL
nIences to largenin' down about the jints.
That's the crupshun an' misery working
down outeD the niarrer OF de bone. When
| 1t gifts into the jiDt its powerful hard to
| git it out again. gives a kind OF herb
medicine that draws 1t out in Kind of
yellow grease
CAN CURE ANYTHING.
"Can you let he have some medicine
that Will keep it from getting into the
| joints?''
"Yes; course child; Use got somethin'
for every kin. Hut maybe taiut rheumatic
you's got. You say il goes clar through.
Maybe you's got some kin o lung trouble.
The Rheumatic an the lung disease comes
a srnY cold Won
gets right col on tile damp sroun' an
| then IL settles down aroun' the bones an
you has rIeuIua;ics. Then sometimes this
turns iuto oonsonshun or some other lung
disease
The patient tried for some time to show
that his lungs were sound, but tie herb
doctress'' was determined 10 make out her
own diagnosis. ,
What does you spit upc''
As the reporter was not addicted to tie
use OF either of tobacco OF chewing gum,
has a gos,d digestion, and from the late
Mr.. Dickens has learned that the American
habit of exreciuration Is perDfcious, he
docs rplt spit up anything and promptly
said so. The "doctress' nevertheless
went into a description or .clar spit and
bow il might he full uf poison that WAS in
tended TO impress her auditor with her
! skill and TO lead him to fear that be might
have some insidiuus lung affection that
was undermining his constitution. But he
really had the touch uf rheumatism he asked
treatment for and diplumatically held the
seventh daughter TO that.
Size would net undertake the case un-
less II was agreed that she should be given
a fair chance 10 effect a complete cure.
She would not furnish single bottle of
| medicine for the rhcgma usni, but the suf
ferer mast undergo course OF treatment
occupying several weeks. Her charge
was according To tile length of the treat
m.pt. and thar depended On the character
the ailinent developed as the medicine was
used.
"Rheunatis?' mused the sable erudite.
Let me See and she reached for the re-
porter's pulse. She took his right hand in
her left and felt for that almost discarded
symptom the character and rapidity Of
the arterial flow. 1t happens that the
particular subject she was handling has
the artery in his wrist rather deeply
buried and the dociress'' had quite a dis
,ressing time trying 10 find even the usual
results In the pulse.
She felt In four different places on the
right wris: aud then took the left one. She
Indicated that there Was not much TO show
immediate DANGER She said, however.
thar II would be necessary TO use an internal
as well as an external remedy. Some
people thought that II was enough 10 rub
kDtnetDlnH Oh tndl WCulU take away IEa
soreness, but that was no use unless an iu-
terrIai medicine was taken TO drive the
poison out OF the system
Reverting for a moment to the possibility
that her patient had some sort OF long
disease, she said:
some folks IniIks they breathes throus:,
their stomas hS, but that amt so.'' EvI-
IDENTIFY this was one Of her own theories
which she had exploded by some accession
nf n form No indeed ha
doesn' breathe through they stomachs at
all. They breathcs through they longs
and The stomach has nothin' at all to do
with ii. En- whilst the rheumatic 4 I'd tie,
long disease comes fun the same that's
col FUN the damp grouE'-they doesn'ttake
the same kin @ medicine; not ut all. II
takes another Kin O. verbs for the longs
altogether
To q question as to references to those
whom she had cured Madam Jones re-
sponded:
SOME OF HER PATIENTS.
"Yes, plenty knows all about me. was
The seventh daughter. | lived with Ms
Mattinly out al Mt. Pieasan' till / was
eighteen. That was the mother Of Mr.
W iliiam A. MaItinly, the lawyer on Il
street. They knows all about me.
never done 30 doctorin' till after / Ief'
them, an WAS married. Then 1 roun' out
Sooid thC tSs a
teller. l reads de lines o. the han an
also the cards. 1 charges 90 cents fob
the cards and dollar TO the pam.
don know how l does II; it's a gif. i
JUS sees things. It's mighty werryin, an
sometimes says is goin' to give it up,
an the dOrtorin', tCo.''
why does it tire you so to tell fortunes?
Is IL hard work.
"Oh. no; it's Dothin' at all but /
foS' To hnf
to leave off somebody else comes an
makes me tell their fortune or else some
body wants me to doctor ,'or them aud
won't have anybody else an then / have
10 go back to II. i can't get away It's
so bothcrsome. l don't want nobody to
pay me anything 'cept they're satisfied
I'll do what / says. / always does. 1
never had no trouble with nobody. Imoved
from Seventeenth street down on b street
southwest just back OF the church at the
corner by the Capitol
Then flash of remembrance came over
the reporter. He had seen Madam Jones'
sign there. She lived in an old rattle
trap of house that looked as though it
might fall down any moment. Weather
beaten, moss grown, stained with the rains
and SHOWS, and eaten by the elements, the
old-fashioned weather. boarded, two-story
house sat hack in an environment Of
wreckage. with only n few flowers about
the door, and that same sign to indicate
that 1T was tenunted. 1t was q fit and a
picturesque place for a necromancer and
soothsayer. But evidently Madam Jones
had prospered there in spite of mon y
stringency and the worry over ratios. to
be able to move into her present. quarters,
palatial by comparison.
us doctOred lots" She went on to say.
''Alice, bring me that letter 1 got yester-