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VALLIS GAZETTE RIB Pt:BliIMIII "Wii"- ORVALLIS, ORECON. TO WALT WHITMAN. Walter H. Thorns. O, rich fulfillment of the Prophecies, By God's own linger writ on every han.l, In plain and mountain of thy native land, Its boundless prairies, rivers, lakes and sens, O Bard ! with thought aud speech befitting these, And soul in all as generously p'anuedl Present in these, by Nature's largess, stand And voice themselves the world's democra cies. All Power, that wait on freedom, thee at tend, And breathe in every cadence of tliv song; And every impulse that doth work the Will That shapes the world forever to the end, That heaven in man shall yet itself fulfill. Is thine ally and shall thy versa prolong. TWO BAD BOYS. Some of the Thins They Iiu To a Han of Altitude and Alcohol. New York Sun. Shortly after 4 p. m. a long man came over the bridge, and, on arriving at the steps on the New York end, uttered a shriek, aud shot down to the sidewalk, whence he coasted cheerily into the guttir. "Thash a silly thing to do," he said, after a moment's deep reflection. "i small cat would know better'n that." Then he resumed his torn hat, put the lighted end of his cigar in his mouth, took it out and put it in his trousers pocket, aud achieved a position that bordered upon the upright. Presently his face expiessed a pang. He thrust his hand into his pocket, pulled out the cigar, put it in his mouth, smiled, and began to pick his way in a perverse and labyrinthic course toward the city hall. Two small boys, with their chins de pressed, their shoulders humped, and their hands in tbeir pockets, trudged along the eastern edge of the park. One of them stooped and looked at the man who had just escaped a perilous maze composed of equal parts of bobtail cars, eight-horse sweepers, and milk trucks. "Scotty," he cried, in the clear ring ing tones of happy childhood, "get on to his jogs wid the busted dicer." They darted toward the long man and, seizing him by the arms on either side, conducted him with gentleness and kindness to the sidewalk. The man, who evidently saw eight-horse sweepers and bobtail cars careering fiercely about him on every side, muttered his thanks and asked them to start him toward the Sixth Avenue cars. The boys started him. They began with a slow walk, but increased the speed until the unfortunate man was tearing along the eastern walk of the park at a rate that bore the impress of disaster in every frantic lunge. Ice and suow as well as alcohol and speed perplexed his feet. As he approached the curb formed by the asphalt piazza which runs across the park, the boys gave him a shove, and lie went sprawling over the edge and shot south. Ultimately he stopped. After con sidering tilings for awhile lie struggled into a sitting posture and looked at his hat, which was about ten feet in ad vance of him. At this point one of the boys slid a iarge and irrii;iiig iaioie down the back of the man's neck. The man evidently fe't the passage of the ice down bis spine and its subsequent lodgment. He looked as though life was not worth living. Then the other boy picked u the bat, ran with it to the fountain, and set it on one of the four corners. With a snort of rage the bedraggled and ice hampered man plunged after his hat. He fell four times, and when he arrived at the fountain found that his hat had been removed to another corner. He pur sued it until he had slipped and strug gled around the fountain a dozen times after the always-elusive hat, and then a brawny policeman came along, seized him by the collar, and yanked him backward with : "Phat kind of an exhibition iz this here, anyway V Y'oughter be ashamed uv yersel. On a Sunday, too." " Take me to th'bridge, pleash," moaned the man. He was dragged there. As he put his arm around the bridge policeman's neck he muttered slowly : " Send me home in the carsh. Sendmebacktobrooken . Lemetoutf n york." Postal facilities Years Aso. Respecting the early postal facilities in Texas, a writer of The Galveston News says : " The intelligence of the death of President Jackson was brought to Galveston by the master of an Italian brig, whose craft had stopped at the mouth of the Mississippi and received a New Orleans paper containing an ac count of the death of ' Old Hickory.' Neither the captain nor any of the crew being able to read English, the paper was untouched until three days after the arrival of the brig at this port, when it was accidentally discovered, and the tidings were given to the people of Texas fourteen days after the presi dent's death." Earthquake and Telephone. Chicago Herald. During the late great Java earthquake it was discovered that it was utterly im possible to use the telephone at Singa pore in consequence of the effect of the phenomenon on the wires. The instru ments produced sounds like those of a distant waterfall. Rublin Deserted. Exchange. The aristocracy have fled from Dub lin. In 178 twelve peers and fourteen members of parliament had permanent residences in Upper Sackville street; now there is not a single nobleman resi dent in the city. Prof. Swing : There is a good and bad skepticism the good being that which hopes the good is true, and acts as though it were true ; the bad being that which hastens to a conclusion in harmony with a lawless character. Frederic Harrison : The fault of the churches is that they are not religious enough ; in their eagerness to be spirit ual they are ceasing to be human. THE HOME OF REPTILES. Through the Kverslale of Fiorida--Myriads of Leeches, Alligators and Snakes. The New Orleans Times-De-noerat prints a detailed account of its Florida Everglades expedition. The report was written by Maj. A. H. Williams, com mander ot the expedition. The explor ing party consisted of twelve uorsona, six white and six colored, and carried six Racine canoes. They went by steamer on October 17 last, from Cedar Keys to Puntarassa. Fla.. where they took to the canoes, and pro.-eeded up the Caloo sahatchie river to Lake Okeechobee, a distance of about ninety miles, arriving on the 1st of November. Skirting the western and southern shores of Lake Okeechobee they discovered eight large streams flowing into a dense saw grass swamp that borders the everglades. On entering one of the streams, which was named "T. D.," the expedition pro ceeded to its head, and began the tedious work of cutting its way through the swamp to the saw-grass. The denseni ss of this swamp can be imagined from the fact that the party traveled on an average only a quarter of a mile a day. Myriads of huge alli gators, snakes, leeches and poisonous bugs were encountered. Leaches were especially troublesome, covering the legs of the men. Emerging from the swamp the party entered saw-grass which grows from ten to twelve feet high, very dense, with sharp edges that cut one way and saw the other. This grass the party fired, and pushed for ward over the stubble. After traveling due south some ten miles the party struck innumerable small, deep lakes or ponds filled with alligators and the finest fish. About thirty miles from Lake Okeechobee the party entered the grassy waters of the everglades and en camped on an island, the first dry land encountered after leaving the lake. The only trees on the island were the cus tard apple and wild fig. The progress of the expedition thenceforth was more rapid. It passed through thousands of small islands, some slightly submerged and all covered with large trees of luxu riant foliage. No Indians were encoun tered. The head of Sharks river was reached on the 5th of December, the expedition sailing down. It debouched into White water bay, on the gulf coast, about thirty miles from Cape Sable. The dis tance traveled from Lake Okeechobee to the gulf is about 140 miles. The whole distance in canoes was nearly three hundred miles. The expedition estab lished the fact that the everglades, from Lake Okeechobee to Cape Sable, were worthless lor any purpose of cultiva tion; that they contain no large tracts of land above water ; that they cannot be suc.-essfu ly drained, and that the establishment and maintenance of a telegraph line along the route traversed would be impossible. The eer jdades, and especially the northern glades, are a vast swamp, irrecla mable aud useless for any purpose. The only cultivable portions of the southern peninsula lie on the Atlant.'c and gulf coasts, with this vast morass bet ween them. An EnormoiH Collection of Cat. Atlanta Constitution. In 1839 there came to Hwkinsville, fronJharleslou, S. U., two well dreslBS scrnWemeil. One of them was very stingy an 1 close, the other was the reverse, liberal and free with his money, and the greatest lover of fun I had ever seen. Two weeks before Christmas he caused to be printed a number of hand bills, as follows : WANTED o,0b0 cats to import to London, as the rais are about to undermine the great city. 1 waut them deli ve.ed here on Christ mas day. From all points of the compass came negroes with sacks and wallets of cats. They hung them on shade-trees, on fences, in fact, look where you might, and cats greeted you. f ifty cents for grown cats, 25 cents for half-grown and 10 cents for kittens had been offered. The bad boys about town (myself among them) begun at a signal to cut the strings aud let loose the eats. Of course, a great many dogs were in town and the fur flew. About 11 o'clock an old man named Barney Will iams, livii.g near Hartford, came across the river with an ox cart, minus the body, but an eight by ten long square basket, filled with cats of all ages, colors, sexes and sizes. He stopped in front of Bohannon's hotel. After a short s: arch he found the man who wanted the cats, who appeared very anxious to secure the lot, and, try ing to peer into the basket, he cut the rope holding the quilt covering to the basket and out flew the cats, about forty . They went pell mell under the houses, in the bushes and every con ceivable place to hide. The old man Williams was very mad, for he had been two weeks gathering up the surplus felines of his neighborhood. There was no sleep for many nights in old Haw kinsville. The best judges estimated that not less than 2,000 cats had been turned loose on that occasion. The IMfl'erence Itetiveen Them. The Graphic When you see a thing you want to buy and have money enough to buy it, it is well to go home and imagine that the price of the coveted article covers all the cash you have. Then you may find out whether you merely want the article or need it. There is as much difference between a want and a need as between dessert and dinner. You need the dinner. You only want the dessert. Wonderful Wax Works. Some French showmen are to open a $500,000 wax works museum iu New York, showing statues of noted people and groups of noted events. Thus, a tableau of an assassination will be suc ceed by one representing the capture of the assassin and others representing the trial and execution. Philadelphia Press: Intimacy be tween father aud son is difficult. Hap py, thrice happy, is the son who has shared it and wise above men the father who secured it. Dr. David W . Yandell : Suppose we are personally driving toward the ceme tery? Shall we be afraid? We are sure to find good company there. rsrbse ruggirag oveme :wko: K; fie ! ana wi Medical Value of Music. Bos'on Journal. J It is not singular that in a city so justly famed for its love of inus c as Boston is, the effects which are pro duced upon the human organism by the concord of sweet sounds should have attracted the attention of sueh an in telligent physician as our young friend Dr. Fodders. He like, some others, had noticed the differences in apjear ance and action which such an 1 such compositions excite . in our concert goers the aspect of painful but heroic endurance which is caused by a Brahms symphony ; the lively wagging of heads, patting of feet, and beating time of hands when a lively march is plajted and the' peaceful slu: the features and at tiro a piano soloist is st composition in tive ni three-quarters of an He has cons 'queiitly eoi idea that, by developing 'tl which his observations in have given birth, a new Sch cine may be founded, where stead of physic shall be the human ills, and already pere self as the founder of a-sysfc shall be called the "Podgerianl him upon the same pedestal with Hahnemann. He is now busily en gaged in taking lessons upon the accordeon this instrument being easilv portable and less difficult of mastery than most othersand w&en he gets some patients, as he has ex pVjL tion of doing before lone, he kv'Ai his theory in a practical way. An incident which occurred the other day confirms him in his belief that he has hit upon a great principle. A man came into his office in search of some re lief from an overmastering lassitude and lack of desire for exertion, and Pod gers brought the accordeon and played "Peek-a-Boo" and "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By" to him. The sufferer showed manifest agitation while the first selec tion was being performed ; when Pod gers struck into the second he began walking the floor and swinging his arms, and, as the player crowded all his power of expression into the con cluding strain, he knocked the physi cian down with a treatise on osteology, and fled from the house with remark able rapidity. In view ol the evident success of the treatment Podgers has made out a bill, but for t!ie life of him doesn't know where to send it. lWc COLN UNDER FIRE. Innovation liscuraze I. 'Grata7' in N. Y. Tribune. For a new country like ours, it is amazing how innovation has be n dis couraged, tliouyh there has seldom been any real innovation which has not been triumphant. At a time when nearly all the actors in the country were worshipers of slave y, the play of " Uncle Tom's Cabin " walked upon the stage au l made nu.nero is fortunes. Only a few years ago Dr. Holland and Mr. Smith, who had been experiment ing with the reading p.ihlic bci.'i s it ought to be and as it was. b-Iieved they discerned a taste foi- pictures an 1 deco rations, aud thev tried a new magazine, wbicirSiiniost immediately struck the general taste, and that taste is now -em to be the taste of England too, because both the leading American maga ;ines have large c rculatiousin England, based in part upon their popular pictures, and the British publishers are seeing if they cannot pick up American hfpoi-k for similar illustrated magazines. American humor and ra -y description in at least one newspaper have resulted in a duplicate set of forms or electro types going abroad and being reprinted. Our press had become too enterprising for its audience, while the British press had endeavore I to maintain editorial opinion as the first standard of journal ism. In the long run those adventurers who find out the people the best will do the best. The present tendency of the American mind is to a3k for respect able guidance, but tin rein must not be drawn too tight, and facts must always be given freely to justify strong opin ion. An Elephant Color-Bearer. Iutar Ocean. , During a battle in India the driver of the elephant carrying the colors of the army had just given the command to halt when he was shot dead. The ele phant never stirred a foot, refusing to advance or retire, as the conflict became hotter and fiercer, until the Mahrattaa, seeing the standard still flying steadily in its place, refused to believe that they were being beaten, and rallied again and again round the colors. And all this while, amid the din of battle, the patient animal stood straining its ears to catch the sound of that voice it would never hear again. At length the tide of conquest left the 'field deserted. Mahrattas swept on in pursuit of the flying foe, but the elephant, like a rock, stood there, with the dead and dying around, and the ensign waving in its place. For three days and nights it remained where its master had given the command to halt. No bribe or threat could move it. They then sent to a village 100 miles away, and brought the mahout's little son. The noble hero seemed ihmt to remember how the driver had some times given his authority to the little child, and immediately, with all the shattered trappings clanging as he went, paced quietly and slowly away. Parisian Wakers-Up." San Francisco Chronicle. Among the carious callings in Paris is that of the "wakers-up." The wakers up are generally old men, and winter is their best season. The reveilleur, as he is called, starts out between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, taking their way through the suburbs adjoining the fortification mostly inhabited by me chanics and laborers. He awakes them by uttering a loud whoop or cry, and waits before a house to ascertain that it has been heard. livery work mau pays him 1 cent daily for his trouble. Dr. Foote's Monthly : Don't fill the gash with soot, sugar, or anything elsr to arrest the hemorrhage when you cut yourself, but bring the parts together with strips of adhesive plaster. Eastern proverb : There are but two creatures that can surmount the Pyra mids the eagle and the snail. An Incident of the Affair at Fort Stevens. Sear Washington's Suburb of Brightwood. Lieut. Darke. Chandler. The night closed in, and the next morning it was discovered that Gen. Early had-moved off in the direction of the Potomac, at Conrad's Ferry, where he crossed without molestation into Virginia. The battle of Fort Stevens was over, and the Washington authori ties and citizens once more breathed with freedom. Just before Gen. Wheaton made his charge, President Lincoln, ac companied by his wife and several prominent officials, came on the ground in a carriage without his escort, having lost that glittering bauble somewhere on the road. Seeing Gen. Wright, he at once extended his hand, saying : "General, I'm very glad, to see you. This looks as though you were going to do something." "Mr. President," said the general, pointing toward Port Stevens, "if you'll just come along down there with me, I'll show you one of the prettiest little fights you could wish to see." "No sooner were the words out of my moiith," remarked Gen. Wright in speaking of the matter afterward to the writer, "than I deeply regretted having uttered them. I fully recognized the fact that the president's life was far too fv?:hajye to be brought into danger by X , Ml C " -"A ajs. aieiesa woxwsui mine. - duiu wa too late. He nofnaaly accepted my in vitation, out insisted on - jworcpanying me, notwithstanding all I could say to prevent him. He sent his wife backs and when 1 mounted the parapet theri he was beside me, looking out upon th' scene with a great deal of interest. The enemy s sharpshooters were firing pretty closely, and I explained to him that the place was entirely too dangerous for him. "'It is not more dangerous forme than it is for you,' he replied coolly. "'But it is my duty to be here, while it is not your duty to expose j'ourself. Your position requires this, and 1 par ticularly request you to remember it.' "Just then a sharpshooter's bullet struck a surgeon who was standing near the president, and I became really alarmed for his safety, and I have no doubt was a little excited as I said firmly : " 'Mr. President, you must really get down from this exposed position : I can not allow you to remain here longer, and, if you refuse, I shall deem it my duty to have yon removed under guard.' I suppose the absurdity of my threat ening to put the president of the United States under arrest amused him, for he smiled, looked at me quizzically, and got down behind the parapet, where 1 provided him with an ammunition-box for a seat. But he wouldn't sitTstill a minute at a time, and was constantly stretching up his long form to see what was going on, therebT ex2)osing fully half of himself to danger, in spite of all I could do; and thus he continued to bob up and down until the action was over, when he cheered lustily along with the rest, and, bidding us good night, got into his carriage and rode awav home." QUEER SUPERSTITION IN AN A KM V II OS PI TA L . Sfrrov Ocean. In one of the general hospitals at Nashville, when the place was first oc pied by Union troops, there was a queer character employed as nurse. He was a large man, troubled with diabetes. This unfitted him for active service, but did not give him the appearance of ah invalid. The boys believed that this nurse knew when a man was going to die. Certain it was that when rapid decline in any man commenced the sympathetic old fellow took his place at the bedside of the unfortunate and was most untiring in his attention and kindnesses. In one row of cots he had closed the eyes of four men in death in as many days. The next man in order, going from right to left, grew nervous and was removed out of the row. The second man shut his lips and determined to get well. One night as this man lay thinking over the mys tery of the "fatal row," and trying to reason about the old nurse's strange instinct, he heard a whisper from the cot on the left, "I say, stranger, if old Fatty comes and situ down by you, hit him one for me. will you '! He hangs around for a fellow to die like a dog waiting for a bone." Days went by, and the man with the compressed lips was looked upon as the next victim, and every time the nurse passed the boys expected him to sit down. One night the nurse came through the ward, and discovering that the second man was feverish, picked up a fan and sat down at the head of his cot. Quick as thought the fever ish patient sprang up in bed and said wildly, "Take him first," pointing to the first cot. "You old fool, can't you count? You can't jump in this game, old fellow. Clear put, now. None of your sittin' down by me, when it isn't my turn. First relief's gone, second reliefs gone, third relief's gone, fourth relief's gone. Why don't you make the fifth relief fall in?" This was the whisperer of the night before, now al most a maniac on the subject of the nurse. Tho surgeon was called and the man was quieted. But even when he was almost well he dreaded the ap proach of the smypathetic, kind old nurse. Such superstitions were very common in the hospitals of the army. An Economical Wedding Tour. Springfield (Mass.) Homestead. It is rumored that a young couple recently married economized by not go ing far, far away on their wedding trip, bidding farewell to their friends on one side of a train and leaving for a Spring field hotel from the other side. The "funny man" of The Louisville Courier-Journal is a woman. HO MASKS. Mr. T. M. Casad, editor of the Corydon, Iowa, Times, writes that his little girl burned her foot severely on a stove. One application of St. Jacob's Oil, the great pain-reliever, cured it completely, leaving no marks. By two applications of St. Jacob's Oil he cured himself of a torturing pain in the side. The Oreat Lick Telescope. Detuorest's Monthly. A rich Californian, named Lick, in dying some years ago, made a bequest for the bnilding of an observatory, which should iu time contain the most powerful telescope in the world. The work of constructing the latter was given to Mr. Alvin Clark, of Cambridge port, Mass., who has so far constructed the largest and finest telescojjes ever made. At last accounts Mr. Clark had not as yet commenced the making of this wonderful instrument. Achromatic object glasses are made of two distinct lenses, one of flint glass and the other of crown glass, the two combined making the perfect lens. The flint glass is ready to be worked, but the crown glass comes from abroad and has not yet arrived. It is extremely difficult to cast a solid disk of. crown glass three feet in diameter and perfect in all its parts. While the observatory is well under way, the great thirty-six-inch Lick telescope will take some time for its completion. When in position, it will convert the feeble rays from the most distant stars into a perfect blaze of light. A Wild Moil or Erin. Buffalo Express. In spite of the large amount of cul ture that is aliowj ton, there are thoroughly ji ies of modeiSk "Begorrj ea so run ittrepBons. loose in Bos do not get the niyster After many ma, ana bejab- lonal "wbisine irJliwtap .mar s day infolding a cor a wild son of Erin t the telephone in the where he was employed. "fime he kept one' efe intently the receiver, and at times be- wildlv excited and doubled up his fist, especially once, when the man disptvted with him. "Sure, and ef Tie had repeated it," said Pat, as be came away, "I wud a-knocked the hull ma sheen down his lvin' throat !" B9um rin came I'.u tl's Palace. Demorest's Monthly. The car which is to convey Patti around the country on her operatic tour is to be a marvel in the way of luxurious ness; it will, indeed, be tho most con venient and magnificent drawing-room car ever put on any road. It will have one novelty which ought to be imitated in summer time on ordinary cars. A refrigerating apparatus wdl be employed similar to that used in the Madison Square theatre in New York, by which the temperature can be reduced 100 de grees. Summer traveling is sometimes intolerable because of heat, which can be mitigated by this device. I am now supplied with a bottle, and will never'ije without, one." ENGLAND. Messrs. Francis Newberry & Son, Lon don, England, established for 125 years, write: As a testimonial from one of the oldest drug-houses in Great Britain, re specting your household remedy, will no doubt he of interest to vou, we are pleased to make the statement that we have sold, with satisfaction to the public, St. Jacobs Oil for several years, and that, owing to the extraordinary merits of the article, the demand is constinually increasing, and that we have heard of many favorable reports regarding its great virtue as a pain-curing remedv. australia. United States Consulate, ) Sydney, N. S. Wales, August 14, 1883. f 1, Charles Kahlo, Consul of the United States of America at Sydney and its dependencies, do hereby certify that C. C. Cohen appeared before me this day and acknowledged that he had signed the following instrument as his free and voluntary act. Given under my hand and seal of this Consulate, the day and year above writ ten. Ciiari.es Kahlo, U. S. Consul. Some three years ago I injured my left leg and knee to the extent that I thought 1 had become a permment cripple. My knee-cap was twice its natural size, and my leg was so contracted and shortened that I could not walk without considerable pain and inconvenience. During that time I had tried remedies innumerable, but without receiving the slightest benefit un til I gave St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain cure, a trial, and much to my delight and astonishment I began to get better; both my leg and knee assumed their normal condition, and to-day I am free from pain and can walk as well as ever I did in my life. I feel it incumbent on my part to in form the public of the great benefit I have received, and heartily recommend St. Ja cobs Oil to any one suffering from pain, and feel satisfied it has no equal as a cure. j r C. C. Cohen. Note. The Sydney, X? w South Wales "News." is vtlmwttcwr.'n1l 'ilc the above. :ajs eu.'onally: It is being made uwaevcr in the history of Australia, has a medical discovered beea accepted by the public with such general approbation as St. Jacobs Oil. Its cures are simply marvelous. NEW ZEALAND. At the New Zealand International Exhi bition, the magnificent First Prize Medal and Highest IJiploma were awarded to St. Jacobs Oil as the best pain-curing and healing remedy known to mankind, and among the valuable testimonials given in support of them, Mr. Wm. Moor, coach builder, Christ Church, N. Z., certifies that one application of St. Jacobs Oil cured him of Sciatica, which statement was attested by Mr. W. Gee, of the Post office Department, and Mr. John Black mere, Sergeant of the Armed Constabu lary. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Hon. Godfrey Sichel, member of the Parliament of the Colony, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, according to the offi cial report of the proceedings, published in The Journal, Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope, arose and said: He could speak from experience: he had spent a small lonune. ana couiu oDtain no relief trom the TiioHifal npnfduuimi I-T 1,,1 1 .... 1 omel, quinine, strychnine, and finally Jacobs Oil, and it cured him. If member II .1 t.l. "KJ 1 1 J 1 j 1 out auvioe Liiey wuuiu gcL a ootiie or Jacobs Oil, and it would core tpem. For the t'oin-C'razed. Exchange. Under the direction of Dr. Julius Friedlander, the Royal Numismatic cab inet in Berlin has, in the course of tltc last forty-five years, increoioJ from 213, 500 ancient and 70,000 mediieval anil modern coins to ,07,000 Greek, 3:33,000 Roman, 22,500 Oriental, and 80,000 mediae vu I and modern coins, including a large number of unique specimens. CANADA. The Hon. Billa Flint,, Dominion ParliMl.0 A Cincinnati judge, before whom a man was arraigned for cruelty to ani mals. decided that "mules have no rights in Cincinn ti coivts." ALL OVZK THE WORLD. An Astonished Editor What He Saw and What He Says. "From Greenland's Icy Mountains to Africa's Sunny Strand,' Baltimore, Mil The Daily Evening News publishes the following editorially: At the time the New- York Herald, with characteristic generosity, gave the princely sum of 100,000 to a relief fund, for the sufferers from famine in Ireland, one of the most distinguished literary men of America contributed to to the Art Auto graph, published for the benefit of that fund, the following note: "When a distressed nation appeals for this or that or the other grace or help, she hears an answering voice of sympathy from this or that or the other creed or group or taction, scattered here and there and yonder in the space of the earth; it is only when she asks for bread that creed and party are forgotten, and the whole world rises to respond." While recognizing the force of this sen timent, the experience which a member of our editorial staff had yesterday, furnishes unmistakable evidence of the fact that the want of bread that famine is not the only thing which causes the "whole world to rise," and by united action to record en thusiastic endorsement of a laudable meas ure or object. The conviction was occa sioned by a visit to a commercial enter prise, of which, although much has been said and written, the writer confesses he knew nothing from personal experience, prior to his investigations. The following facts are presented cheerfully, in the belief that they are not only of real public inter est, but are of so extraordinary a nature, so encouraging to our local pride, as to demonstrate beyond all doubt, that the agency in question is the most remarkable of its kind known in the history of scien tific discovery. Doubtless every inventor and every manufacturer of even an indifferent arti cle can, without serious difficulty, enlist a certain amount of local and general influ ence in support of his products on the same principle, perhaps, that every politi cal aspirant has some followers but the proofs here under consideration are so positive, and considering the high sources supplying the following statements, they are so extraordinary and conclusive, that no sane man can doubt that the expres sions were called forth by a really marrel ons degree of excellence and power. Here a Congress of Nations, composed of distinguished leaders in public, mer cantile, and social circles of all sections of the world, and in part of eminent profes sional men, whose conversation in matters of this kind is well known, basing their expressions upon actual experiments and observations, voluntarily join in public praise so high and unqualified as to set at rest all doubts and prejudices, to silence skeptics, and to carry conviction to every fair-minded man. When our representative examined the originals of the following forcible docu ments, he was, as above indicated, so struck with their extraordinary character, that he concluded to present them to our readers, as a matter of public interest. This, as before stated, is done cheerfully and of our own accord. GERMANY. Dr. Richard Oberlaender, Leipzig, Ger many, Secretary Ethnological Museum, F. S. U. G. A., M. G. S., author of Fremde Voelker (Foreign Nations), and a distin guished literateur, writes: "It gives me great pleasure to inform vou that, having been troubled with my old chronic neural gic pains, a traveling companion advised me to use St. Jacobs Oil, the great pa'n reliever. I tried it, and was entirely cured. int I ijenaioroi one 'Belleville, Ontario, Canada. -wH-: 1 lrlet ft. .jaeons uu ioi at"!- 't1 my lace ana tootnacne. it actea like a charm. A few times rubbing with it took away all soreness and pain; better than having them drawn at the age of seventv-seven." EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND. Hon. George Colton, the distinguished oriental traveler, whose interesting letters from abroad are familiar to the public, writes, as a result of his close observation in Egypt and the Holy Land, that St. Ja cobs Oil, by its general use there, is shown to be a blessing to suffering humanity, and that wherever he has traveled, whether in England, France, Germany, or elsewhere, the same unqualified praise is 'given to the Great German Remedy as a conqueror of pain. CENTRAL AMERICA. Senor Mariano, Maradiaga, Ocotal, Nica ragua, says that he had suffered with rheumatism and that he was instantly cured by the use of St. Jacob's Oil, the great pain cure. CUBA. Dr. D. Antonio Jose Romay, the dis tinguished physician, Assistant and Honorary Member, Board of Health and ' Faculty of the Port Garrison, Havana, certifies that rheumatism and neuralgia ! have, by the use of the great pain cure, St. Jacob s Oil, been cured in a tew days. MEXICO. Dr. Manuel S. Izaguirre, Guadalajara, ! Jalisco, Mexico, writes: Ueino- a pro fessor in medicine and surgery, I have ! already obtained the best effects of St. I Jacob's Oil in cases of rheumatism, acute ! and chronic. I had treated the cases with different preparations without any result, but in a short time, by the use of St. Jacob's Oil, I obtained a complete cure. : I congratulate you on the triumph." PERU. Doctors D. Jose Felix Sudv, founder of the San Mateo Hospital, and D. Moises Allende, surgeons and physicians of the Chilian Army of Occupation during the war with Peru, were commissioned to make a report on the curative properties of St. Jacob's Oil, and in the execution of their commission used it upon fully 500 invalids suffering with rheumatism and neuralgic pains in all parts of the body, and upon all kinds of ailments incident to camp life. After exhaustive experi ments and complete success in every case, they certified to ihe wonderful pain curing and healing qualities of St. Jacob's Oil, which they used. The identity of Doctors Sudy and Allende has been estab lished before the American Consul, and Superintendent of the Sanitary service of Chili in Peru. Note El Dia (The Day) Callao, Peru, March 16, 1882, says of Dr. Jose Felix Sudy, above referred to, that ho is one of the most distin guished surgeons now in the field, and that he has received from Commander Diego A. Donosa, Lima, Peru, that the important assistance which he gave these troops at the San Mateo Hospital, deserves the high esteem of all, which is the sentiment of the officers and soldiers of the battalion. CHILI. Senor Ricardo Stuven, a leading com mission merchant of "Valparaiso, .ftr having exhausted all other remedies haw been completely cured of rheumatHm by the use of St. Jacob's Oil, the greaf, plin banisher. He makes this public. J SANDWICH ISLANDS. Hon. S. Crosby, Hawaiian fOnsul, Sandwich Islands, says he suff ered with rheumatism, and tried the conqueror of pain, St. Jacob's Oil. By three applica tions he was entirely cured. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Hon. John C. New, Assistant Secretary U. S. Treasury, writes, that it is a source of satisfaction and pleasure to give, from his personal experience, to St. Jacob's Oil, the conqueror of pain, his cordial recom mendation. General Rufus Ingalls, Quartermaster General U. S. Army, considers St. Jacob's Oil the best pain cure for sprains and bruises ever used. Dr. William A. Soula, D. V. S., the popular veterinary surgeon, New York, for nine years in charge of the Third AVenue Railroad stables, N. Y., certifies to the curative qualities of St. Jacob's Oil, the conqueror of pain, as superior to all other remedies for all ailments of horf.es, such as sprains, galls and rheu matism, that has ever come under his observation.