The Press., 1900-08-23
PERFUME AND DISEASE.
Nature Practical, Not POetfcal, I'm
Scattering Sweet Blossoms.

PERFUME AND DISEASE.
Nature Practical, Not Poetical, I'm
Scattering Sweet Blossoms.
A French physician has decided that
perfumes prevent people from taking
certain diseases. During an epidemic
his attention was attracted to the fact
that persons who constantly used per-
fumes escaped taking the disease. But
he found that the more delicate per-
fumes, like violet, lavender, altar of
rose, were more eficacious than musk
and strong, rank essences.
Beccaria, the famous Italian botan-
list, long ago advised city officials to
plant trees and shrubs with odorifer.
GUS blossoms or fragrant leaves along
the highways, courts and parks Of
cities, because these strong odors pro-
duce ozone, and thereby purify the air
and make the city more healthful to
human beings confined to city streets
or narrow, sunless courts and alleys.
Indeed nature teaches us some of her
delicate mysteries and farreaching
processes when she plants tuberoses,
orange trees, the night blooming &C.
reus and other shrubs and blossoms
with such rich and oft well nigh over
towering odors in tropic lands to neu-
tralize the danger Of fevers and mala-
ria arising from dense vegetation or
damp, unwholesome marshes and riv-
ers.
Who of us can resist the charm to
the senses of great masses Of white
and purple lilacs with countless bees
murmuring round the fragrant spikes
of blossoms-the pure, delightful per-
fume not too strong in the open air
under the radiant sun of May? And
lilacs are so vigorous, are easily grown
on any soil and very long lived. Only
an expert could tell how old some lilacs
on a great-grandfather's old place are,
with the gnarled trunks and vigorous
masses of green and blossoms in May
Boston Transcript;
ROBBED THE GRAvE.-A startling Incl
dent, of which Mr.. John Oliver of Phila-
delphia, was the subject, is narrated by
him as follows: 81 was in most dread
full condition. My skin was almost yell
low. eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain
continually in back and sides, no appe-
tite-gradually growing weaker day by
day. Three physicians had given me up.
Fortunately, a friend advised trying 'Elec-
trio Bitters; and, to my great joy and
surprise, the first bottle made decided
improvement. l continued their use for
three weeks, and am now a well man. |
know they saved my life. and robbed the
grave of another victim" No one should
fail to try them. Only so cents per bottle.
Sold by A. G. Eaton, Druggist
How to Have Genius Rewarded.
The artist was bewailiug his luck.
"My paintings are gems" he said.
Gwen the critics admit that, but
can't get any prices for them"
"Of course not" returned the man Of
business. "You see, the trouble with
you is that you are alive, and genius
is rewarded only after death. Now,
If you could arrange to die"-
"But how could l profit by thatY'
| demanded the artist
"Let me finish," said the man of
business. eff you could arrange to die
| temporarily, your fortune would be
| made. Just make me the executor of
your estate, drop out of sight for
awhile and you will have both fame
and money. The trouble with you art
| lists is that you have no head for bust
| ness. Now the moment you are gone
you will be written up and lauded, and
all the pathos of your struggle for rec
ognition will be brought out, and peo-
pie will just fall over themselves to
get your paintings. Just give me a
chance to kill you off, and I'll have you
rolling in wealth, "-Chicago Post.
A MINISTER'S Coop WoRK.-'I had a
severe attack of bilious collie, got bottle
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rh@a Remedy, took two doses and was
entirely cured" says Rev. A. A. Power Of
Emporia, Kan. my neighbor across
the street was sick for over a week, had
doctor. He used them for three or four
days without relief, then called in anoth-
er doctor who treated him for some days
and gave him no relief, so discharged
him. | went over to see him the next
morning. He said his bowels were in a
terrible fix, that they had been running
off so long that it was almost bloody flux.
l asked him If he had tried Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy,
and he said, Mo- | went home and
brought him my bottle and gave him one
dose; told him to take another dose in
fifteen or twenty minutes If he did not
find relief, but he took no more and was
entirely cured"
| For sale by K. K. Taft, Stafford Springs !;
FL. F. Cady, Stafford; Gardiner Hall, Jr.,
& Co., South Wilmington.
| A Misunderstanding.
| "My DEAR" said a gentleman to his