A
SALVATION BOOM •
IN MATABELELAND
By FRANK NORRI8
"They're close in!" shouted West In
a few moments.
Otto raised bls head from bla work
and saw that it was so.
Then the last boards fell away, and
the little American organ stood out
under the African sun. »'lining lirave-
ly with veneer and scrollwork and cel
luloid.
“Play!” cried West again. “For Gori's
sake playplay anything!
They'll
da lice so long as you can keep it
up."
And Marks flung himself at the in
striiment and dashed his bands u|s>n
the keys Just as the rush came, and tin*
green bush was shut from view by the
tu-ores of crowding brown Isslles. glia
tening with sweat and all a-JIngle with
lieads and wirework.
Otto was hl<-cougliing with terror,
hut he stuck to his work, playing away
nt the only kind of music he knew, the
Missly and Sankey gosjiel hymns that
I
ODD THINGS IN SIAM
CURIOUS CUSTOMS AND CEREMONIES
THAT ARE STILL OBSERVED.
I
I
C'BIttk* the TopUaol ot the Child
For Ills SpleKual Welfare — The
Weddlag aad Ita Caletero! I oo—Cr«-
Mallau Witte Hefreateateata.
CATCHING CRABS.
rhnplaak River Fishers I.aad Th*«
te» aa laaealaas Methad.
THINK the story should ho
set down In this place be
cause it Is curious and worth
Its iuk ami because It showa
what strange manner of men are the
Matal*e!e— the music mini, magnith-ent,
brave, unspeakably cruel Mataliele.
IngiHlusi. who first told It, was an
Induna in Ixibengula'a |*»t regiment, or
imp«, which afterward came to be the
great Imbozzo Imp!. Since the tale is
from such high authority, I think it
must be true.
Ingodusl is a ring man and a head
Induna and can have more than one
wife and can apeak his thoughts aloud
In the king’s Indaba.
It happened when Ingodusl was
nineteen years old and was undergoing
Mahunda with alaiut a hundred other
young Matabele away up In the heart
of .Matabeleland, somewhere lietween
Inyungo and the Unifull river.
By some fearful mischance, at the
very height of the Mahunda indaba.
Otto Marks trekked full upon it. But
the matter must lie told from Otto's
point of view.
Otto was a sergeant in the Salvation
Army. He came from Toledo, O., to
Mafeklng, in Bechuanaland. which was
then as fur north as the railroad went.
Otto used to play the little organ every
evening at the gatherings in the Sal
vation barracks at Mafeklng until hi«
superior otticer decided to lxM,m salva
tion in that mysterious wilderness ot t Uttu win i/bniinfi gonpil hyiKitt Jur tin
life he loved.
South Africa knowu Indiscriminately
he
had
learned
In Toledo and that he
as “up country” or t’liarterland or
had found effective In the Salvation
Rhodesia or Matabeleland.
barracks at Cap«' Town and nt Mafe
Otto Marks started up in April lie-
king.
fore the rains were done with a trans
Then that strange procession began
port rider named West and a little nig —the eighteen bullocks headed by the
ger voorlooper, a ten-year-old Zulu little voorlooper. gray with terror:
boy.
West, his face set rigidly to the front,
Eighteen bullocks were spanned into walking by the wh«*el bullocks, th«
their wagon, but their load was made creaking wagon following, and upon 11
up chiefly of two parlor organs from Otto Marks tolling at the melodeon
playing go;q>el hymns for the life lit
Boston thut were to help outfit the bar
loved, while close pressed aliout then:
racks In some up country settlement.
all, hemming them in on every side
That was a strange sight—the eight were the hundreds of nak«*d Mataliele
een lean Busuta bullocks, very slow shaking tlieir bulls' hide shields and
pui-ed, led by the little Zulu voorlooper, tossing assagais and kirrls high in th«
and the big, strange Transvaal wagon, air. .
Music mad. as only the Zulu race ean
loaded only with these* two boxed up
organs, the name of the Boston firm be, their minds all exalt«*d and distort
stenciled on the outside of the lioards. ed by the self lmpos«*«! tortures of the
Mahunda rites, dizzied and confiist'd
For two months Otto trekked stead
i by the «lrunkenness of the C iiim * smoke.
ily northward, singing hymns upon oc Otto's music caught them and held
casion and ou Bundays spanning out them, and they danced and danced a«
all day long. At times lie tried to re though they would never tire, dazed
vive the spirit of righteousness in his and bewildered, working themselvet
transport rider, West, who blasphemed into a fury, leaping and shouting a lorn',
the bullocks hourly in more ways than without knowing why.
Otto struck into a frtodi hymn with a
you would believe possible, and al
times he would try to convert the little veritable frenzy. The excitement ami
the strangeness of the tiling were lie
voorlooper.
ginning to tell upon them as well. Nt
The little Zulu was stunned and be barracks gathering had ever aroused
wildered by Otto Marks’ clamor, but such enthusiasm as this. By now lu
Otto's swinging revival songs with bad come to—
their tambourine accompaniment sent
Pull for the shore, sailor.
Pull for the shore;
him into a frenzy of delight, and he
Heed not the raging waves.
would iuvariably set to dancing, shak
Though loudly they roar.
ing bls lists with vague and furious
And after this, without it moment'«
gestures.
pause, he dashed into—
After two months they were stopiied
I am so glad that Jesus loves me.
When that was done, lie dug his tin
by the Umnyatl river, which was in
flood, and were obliged to make u long gers into the celluloid keys again
cross country detour, with the line of kneading them with all the strengtl
of his two arms, swaying from side tt
telegraph ¡ mj I ch as their guide.
side, and. while bls feet tbrushed oui
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the rhythm u{Min the iiednls. played:-
The huge wagon lurched down into
Halleluiah, 'tie done.
the bed of the slult, plowed across
I believe on the Son.
through the scattered bowlders and
Suddenly the Matabele began to sing
took the rising slope of the opposite catching up the tunes with the quick
bank with the heave and crash of a ness and facility ot savages, slnglnf
stranding galley. West lasluxl at the to the airs of these gospel hymns th«
wheel bullocks with the sJnmlKik of words of the war song of Moaelekatae
the chant of the Black Bull:
rhinoceros hide and then swore in Be
Vatng-g' labl
chuana at the little voorlooper because
Leyo n kunse
Y'al ukufa.
be was not prodding ou the lead bul
Then at last the tension broke. Th,
locks, but was standing motionless at
the head of the span, his hands dan thing was more than Mr. Otto Marks oi
gling at bis sides, sturlng stupidly Toltslo was made to bear. All at oik «
his nerves crisped and recoiled like th«
across the bush. He was dumb with
broken ends of the overstraine«l har{
terror.
I string, and he leap«*«! in the air. sml
The wagon slipped backward Into denly seizeil with hysteria, shrieking
the bed of the slult, and the bullock« and laughing and banging his fists up
fell into confusion as the voorl<s>i>er on the keys.
With the cessation of the music tli«
came running back along the span,
spell was broken, the droning chain
wuving his arms wildly.
As was said before. Otto Marks bac stopp«*d in a in«*dley of disconis, nnt, Buddhist monks away in one of tlie
The Hat tea of Caracalla.
booths will be reciting sacred texts
trekked full upon an Impi of Matabele the «lancing f«*et grew at ill.
The Romans appear to have been
“Goon! Go ou!” screem«*d West. "<•< meanwhile, but nothing in the WHy of
doing Mahuuda, and when that hap
well off in the matter of bathhig places
on playing!" But Otto neither he«*de<
pens to a white man he were best de nor heard, for he was out of his beat I prayer, whether for the dead or the in the first and second centuries. In
living, enters into the ceremony.
himself to death as swiftly as be may with terror and excitement and win
Fireworks will lie let off. including a the Imlhs of Caracalla l.tJOO bathers
for a swift death, even If It be the kint! dancing upon the wagon, shrieking oil very mournful one known to the na could lie aceoiniiKNlated at one time.
that Iles In the crook of one's foretln snatches of gospel hymns. He wat tives as the “roaring of elephants.” It The inclosed area was 300 square
ger, Is better than the kind that com« waving his fists above his lieiul. Hit Is made by shaving a thick bamlxsi yards, but it included a course for foot
slowly and in the midst of thick sutok* eyes were a>i the eyes of n fish, and li< very thin nt one point and then making racing. The lmthlng establishment was
u slit. The inside is filled with compo 240 yards in length by 124 wide The
and screams and liorr'd twistings ol was ble«Mllng at the nose.
An
assagai
struck
him
all
nt
oin-e
fill
sition and sealed, and this, when fired, remains of the wnlls-are 8 and 10 feet
the body. But Otto did not know th's
»•**> Wa«t, who should have known it on the face, and he spun aliout twice exerts grent. pressure on the silt, mak thick and in some places as much as 50
jose to think that they might ever gripping at I be air, and then »eul ote: ing the edges vibrate continuously, so feel b'igA.Sj
sideways upon «lie keyboard «if lb« producing a series of loud groans of a
then escape.
organ, his blomi splashing th«* <lnzzlin> most doleful character. When the de
The Wrna« Saaaestl**«.
Otto climbed down from the wagon,
white of the cellulol«l keys.
ceased is of high rank, the king sends
A good planter's wife “befo’ de wall"
and he and West ran up the bank of
Thev ran_ in then and overwhelm«*« an «id-de-camp with a lump lighted rm U’sebJw a Jet black lions*' girl,
d*v siurrutid ¡<*okvd vtit fsA-across the
just fourteen and fresh from the plan
bush and saw the Mataliele Cuming the wagon like an angry ocean burst from one that Iskcjit continually burn
ing a dike, and the little voorlooper ing in the royal temple and whose light tation. the letters of the alphaliet.
down on them slowly In two long lines,
but West observed that they advauced found his death amid the panic strick was originally obtained from a tree Betsy bad learned the first two, says
tired by lightning. After the cremation Harper’s Magazine, but always forgot
with a regular cadenced movement en oxen.
West tri«*«i to shoot himself under the ashes are collected and most of the letter ”U.”
and that many of them stnggered in
neath the wagon, but whs dragged out them thrown Into the river, though of
"Don't you see with your eyes? Can't
the ranks, sometimes reeling almost
by one arm ami a leg with his chin ten a few sr» placed In the temple In a you nwmler the word see?" said her
to tlie ground.
wooden urn.—Mission Field.
mistress.
“Drunk," he exclaimed; "drunk wlti «hot away.
And what was done with Mr. Weat?
"Yassmu." answered Betsy. But she
cape smoke; blind drunk and dancing
"Maghwheena!
”
exclaimed
Tngodual
Greatly RrUuee«i.
could not. Five minutes Inter Betsy
l'vs seen these niggers Itefore.
W<
is he finlsh«*d the tale. “He was an
“Well. well, old man! This is quite a began again bravely, “A—B”— and
may get off. but. oh. It's a cbanve
Pray your God for a miracle now, ottr Umtagatl, a crawling snake. Him wa change ! Last time I saw you you were there she stopped.
crucifie«l upon a telegraph pole—hff the among the Four Hundred. And now"—
"Wbat do you do with your »yea,
Marks, for there's little short of It go
“Now I am clean back In fractions.”— Betsy V
Ing to get us clear of here Drunk and arms only.”
Baltimore American.
“I sleeps wif ’em mis’ ”
dancing!" lie repeated. "Yes, it's om
Ttee tars,«'« roroteWlaaa.
I
The savage regarded the first white
man thoughtfully.
"If I try to fight him." he said, "be
will exterminate me. and If I try to live
In peace with him he will cheat me out
of everything, and I will starve to
dentil
What chance have I got?” —
Chicago Post.
The Redwoods.
A remarkable peculiarity of the red
wood (Sequoia setupervirenst Is its mail
nor of In-reaae. which la from dormant
buds at the base of the stump as well
as from the seed. When a tree was
blown down or fell, as Its period of ex
istence was reached, several shoots
pushed upward from the circumference
His Clerical Rate«..
of the slump and. of course, in a circle
“Pooh! My papa wears evenin’ clothes These in time liera me fully frown. six.
every time be goes to parties.”
ten or n dozen feet In diameter. In aft
•'That ain't anything. Our minister er years, as these trees have fallen,
wears his nightclothes every time be each would have a circle of trees sur
preaches "-Cleveland Plain Dealer. .,
rounding it
<n l *r*lu(urlahl* Seat.
Those who crab for market ou the
Choptank river, Maryland, have an In
genioiiH method of catching crabs in
quantity. A rope about the thickness
ot a clothesline several humlnsl feet
loug Is kept eoiled In a keg. At inter
vals of two feet along the entire length
of the rofie the fisherman has untwisted
it and inserted between the strands
short pieces of salted eels. The torsion
of the strand holds them tightly In
place. Each end of the rofie has a keg
buoy attached, together with a heavy
stone. Arriving at the favored place,
usually on oyster beds, be throws a keg
overissu'd and pays out a highly scout
ed rope as he sails. When the other
eial is reached, he anchors it with an
other stone and throws out another
buoy, After lowering his sail he waits
u few minutes, then taken his stand on
the bow of bls boat. Alongside of him
is his landing net. with a luindle six
feet long, He raises the buoy and
stone and, hand over hand, pulls bis
boat along the line.
When a crab.
clinging to Its refreshment, comes in
sight, he seizes his net. dashes it under
the crab and flings it into the boat. The
wary crab may loosen his hold and dive
for the bottom, but such Is the tishcr-
m.-in's dexterity that his net is swifter
than the crab. One seldom gets away.
Several hundreds of crabs are often
taken at each overhauling of the ro|*e.
When he has caught all he wants, Lo
{tacks them In barrels and sells them to
a local dealer, who ships them to mar-
ket.—Country Life In America.
In Siam the cutting of the topknot la
co important a ceremony for the future
{plritual welfare of the child that it is
fnoot scrupulously carried out, with all
the |»mp and ceremony thut the means
of the iiarents will allow. That the
poor people may not be deprived of tte
benefit of the cereuiouy the government
provides all that is necessary for It at
one of the temples at Bangkok. The
center of the ceremony Is the cutting
oft' of the topknot, which is all the hair
(children are permitted to wear up tu
itliat time. But associated with it are a
!numl*er of purifications and other reli
gious forms which have to lie serupu
lously carried out. The topknot, which
is ordinarily adorned with a chaplet of
flowers or beads, often held lu place
with a Jeweled pin of considerable val
ue, Is now much more respleujentiy
adorned, while the child is further load
ed with the richest jewels the family
can provide. After the ceremony the
hair Is allowed to grow all over the
head and is usually worn alaiut ail Inch
long, standing up like a brush. The
child is now reckoned to have reached
man's estate, although, to their credit
lie It said, the Siamese are In no hurry
to marry tlieir children, in fact, undue
haste to make a mutch for a daughter
Is apt to raise a question as to whether
things are so flourishing with the fam
"Ilolua" Europe la lour Mind.
ily as they might be.
According to a Cairo contemporary,
When marriage is thought of, It is of persons who wish to let their friends
ten the result of mutual affection and know tli.it they are "doing" Europe on
takes the form of mi elopement, with a princely scale the while they are liv
subsequent forgiveness by the old folk. ing in retirement for a time need only
The more formal way calls for a lot of apply to nil agency in Paris, which will
negotiation and the payment to the undertake to send your letters to prac
parents of "ka nom,” which is often, tically any place in Europe you may se
however, returned to the daughter on lect and there to have them posted for
the birth of her first child. The monks, you on any difte you may choose. The
who are the astrologers of the country demand for such an institution arose
among other accomplishments, are out of tlie absolute horror the Parisian
called upon to fix the lucky day, on the of "high life" has of lielng suspected of
arrival of which the bridegroom and remaining in Paris or its environs in
his friends go to the bride's bouse, car the bathing season. One feature of the
rying presents of cakes and betel. All joke is that you can not only get your
Siamese chew betel, and not to offer it letters pasted from some distant spot,
to a guest is a serious breach of hospi but you can get answers received for
tality. The quids when ready for chew jon and reposted to your temporary bid
ing consist of leaves of the betel pep ing place. There are great possibilities
per, chips of areea nut—there la no for American travelers in this. Why
such thing as betel nut that careless not stay in America mid “do" Europe?
travelers write about—a little slaked —New York Tribune.
lime and sometimes tobacco also. The
Siamese word for this mixture is ap
In.ur.sr« Has Ils Humor.
propriately “muk.” This will always
An enterprising insurance agent in
be in evidence at weddings, and the
duced an Irishman to take out an acci
preparation and presentation of the be
dent policy for ills wife. A few days
tel tray to the bridegroom constitute
inter while conversing with a friend In
one of the forms of acceptance by the
his office lie was starti«! to see the
bride of Ills authority over her. The
Irishman rush in, brandishing fiercely
monks will lie already in attendance,
a stout cane.
feastigl with the liest that can be pro
“Ye rascal!" he yelled, springing to
vided, and the ceremony of marriage is
ward the agent, “Ye wanter client
performed by them with the sprinkling
me?”
of consecrated water over the couple.
I'ortnnatc'y ¡he enraged man was
But the greatest ceremony of all
disarmed and held fast by the agent's
takes place after death. If the {arson
friend, who was a powerfully built
be of high rank, tlie body is placed in a
man. The Irishman, struggling to get
sitting posture in a large metal urn or
free, shouted:
among the commoners in nil ordinary
"Let me git nt the spalpeen! Think
coffin. After being kept a period that
ov it. chargin' me foive dollars fer an
lengthens with the exaltation of rank
acsliident ticket fer me ole woman, ini'
n day Is fixed for the cremation. All
she jest broke her leg a-fallin’ down
the friends of the family are invited,
siitiiirs! Wot's the good of the ticket
and enormous sums are spent ou enter
anyhow?”
taining them and providing free shows
for the general public. The guests will
Male Bloshera.
enter the inclosure, while Chluese thea
One of the most ill founded of all
ters, Siamese marionettes and plays popular delusions is that blushing is
will be provided for all who care to the special characteristic of the female
witness them. RJn enjerlng one would sex. As a mutter of fact, except In the
be met by some member of the de ease of very young girls, men blush fur
ceased's family bearing a block bag’, more readily than women. The well
into which all are invited In turn to dip bred woman never blushes at all. while
a hand. It is found to contain a nuni-
it Is a matter of everyday experience
lier of tiny balls, each of which is hol
that in the excitement of business or
low and contains a screw of paper. A
political discussions men's cheeks red
Siamese figure on it refers to a similar
den with very little provocation. What
figure on some article in one of the
ever may have been the ease a hun
Imoths In tlie inclosure. and the guests
dred years ago. the modern woman
are expected to present the number to
shows her emotion not by blushing, but
the attendants and receive as a present
by turning pale—London Taller.
whatever It represents.
There may be a dinner, but anyway
Mathematics ot Love.
refreshments will be provided in abun
dance. Just at sunset the pyre will be * “Margaret." lie began, “I have $3.750
lighted. A stick of scented wood or a in the bank. 1 own half Interest in a
wreath of flowers made of the per {Hitent churn company that clears $1.
fumed sandalwood, as well as a candle 700 a year. My salary is $20 a week,
of unbleached wax. Is handed to each with prospects of a raise to $22. I have
gltest. and lamps are lighted at the foot an aunt who will leave me twenty-sev
of the steps of the pyre. Just as with en shares of a railway stock now quot
us those at the graveside perforin the ed at 53. Tell me. Margaret, will you
last office for the dead in dropping a lie mine?"
“Wait,” she replied, “till I get a pen
little earth Into the grave, so in Siam
each one lights bls candle at a lamp cil.”
For she never had been good at men
and place« it under the urn or coffin, to
gether with the scented stick or wreath. tal arithmetic.—Newark News.
only chance. Quick now. off with the
case of that melodeon!”
Otto obeyed, at first stupidly and be-
nuinlied with fear; then, as West's
rrasy expedient flashed upon him. with
an excess of frenzy tearing wildly at
the stublswn lioanis. |>rylng them up
with his hunting knife, wrenching
them away with a strength that was
l*oi*n of the moment.
Meanwhile West had started the bul
locks again, and the wagon was pulled
np from the bed of the slult and rolled
out through the bnsh. heading dire* tly
toward the line of «lancing natives.
NEW SHORT STORIES
A
Beaatlfal
Ball.
An Irish editor being unable to obtain
a sufficiency of news for his daily pa
per. made the following extraordinary
announcement: "Owing to an unusual
pressure of matter we are today oblig
ed to leave several columns blank.”
Eaall.te as Iks Is Spake.
I
Tourist— s«y. my good fellow, a
on the right road to the town?
Native (after a pause!—Ta-as. stran
ger. but 1 reckon you're goln' In the
wrong dlrectabun. -Lippincott’s.
Representative Sibley of Pennsyl-
vauia has a bl; summer borne ou the
shore** of laike Cliaiuplain. near Platts
burg. N. Y. He took Representative
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi,
the |*oet of the Yazoo, up there with
him once, says a Washington curre-
s|M>udeut of the New York World.
The other day Williams went over to
Sibley's desk and said. “Joe. do you
i.-memlier that flue park back of your
house up there on Lake Champlain?”
"Indeed 1 do," replied Sibley. "Why?"
“Well, I’m writing a beautiful poem
about a lovely girl mid a handsome
young man sitting on the fence there
In the gloaming making love.”
"That's lni|H>ssible." protested Sibley.
"Why?” inquired Williams indignant-
ly. Are the young men and women of
nort hern New York so cold blooded that
they do not make love in the gloam-
Ing?”
"No.” snickered Sibley, “but the
fence you're putting hi the poeui is
made of barlied wire.”
Kasllr
Ksplalaed.
Dr. Edward Brooks, superintendent
of the public schools, was asked by one
of his little friends in Overbrook to lis
ten to the latter's rehearsal of a lesson
in which there was a reference to At
las, says the Philadelphia ledger.
"Do you know who Atlas was?"
asked Dr. Brooks.
"Yes. sir. He was a giant who sup
{sirted the world.”
“Ah! Supported the world, did he?”
went on the superintendent. “Well, tell
me who supported Atlas,”
The little fellow looked as though lie
had not given the subject any particu
lar attention, but showed Immediate
willingness to think It over. The doctor
stood looking on. trying hard to keep
back a smile, but the youngster finally
brightened up and answered:
"Well. I guess he must have married
H rich wife."
The Emperor's Early Call.
Good lininor is the dominant note of
the German emperor's intercourse witli
the diplomatic corps In Berlin. He had
occasion recently when staying for a
few days in Ills capital to see an am
bassador on pressing business. On the
way back from his early morning ride
THE BRAVE WOLVERENE.
kill
a
l.HUe Wolf, tent a
k*Arrat Monarch.
lll«aia*><l
Not "little wolf.” as the ignorant
think, is Hie significance of widverene.
but something of greater dignity an
rmlMMllment of th«' terrible spirit of the
Wihl tire of the prehistoric forests
Wonderful lu Its strength ami «mirage,
a tree climber on occasion, nut immenae
of size, but with limb* and claws great
out of all pru|M>rtion to its size, with a
muzzle almost boglike, bnt with great
white faugs, the beast bad still an
element of the grotesque In Its makeup,
with its sweeping, busby tail and the
broad Imnds of yellow white upon Its
back and shoulders. Woe to the small
er tieiist or the d«*er upon which It
drop|H*«l from some great low hanging
branch or before which it suddeuly ap-
peared In the dense windfalls!
Of all the continent, the Michigan
lieiilnsula was the chosen habitat of
the wolverene, and lie struggled long
before buck woodsmen drove him from
Ills heritage. So enduring was lie, so
des|H'i-Htely courageous, that bis name
b<*cume a synonym for pluck and
prowess, and proudly the people of
Michigan accept the nickname wliieh
bus been glveu to him.—Outing.
BACON AND SHAKESPEARE.
The
Tso Men Separately aa«l
Two In One Belnu.
the
Ari.totle was an extraordinary man.
Plato was an extraordinary man. That
\wo men each severally so extraordi
nary should have been living at the
same time in the same place was a
very extraordinary thing. But would
It diminish the wonder to suppose th«i
two to lie one? So I say of Bacon and
Shakespeare. That a human being pos
«eased of the faculties necessary to
make a Shakespeare should exist is
extraordinary. That a human being
possess«! of the necessary faculties to
make Bacon should exist is extraor
dinary. That two such human beings
should have been living In London at
th«* saint* time was more extraordinary
still. But that one man should have
exist«*«! possessing the faculties and
opportunities necessary to make both
would have been the, most extraordi
nary thing of all.
Great writers, especially being con
temptirary, have many featur«?s Incom
mon, bnt If they are really great writ
ers they write naturally, and nature la
always Individual. I doubt whether
there are tlie lines together to be found
in Bacon which could be mistaken for
Shakespeare or five lines in Shake
speare which could be mistaken for
Bacon by one who was familiar with
their several styles and practiced in
such observations.—James Speddlng'a
"Essays.”
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Six Physicians
Said Diabetes.
Bright’s
D íhcskc
and
Diabete*
Are Positively Curable.
John A. Phelps, of the Hotel Repeller, 7K1
Sutter street, au old-1true Sun Francisco bu*»i<>
ness mun, Interviewed December Mi, 1901:
M.—It is bard fur people to believe Bright*«
Diseuse and Diabetes are curable. Will you
let us mention your case f
A.—You may. I've told many about it.
Q.—Did physicians declare it Diubetes T
A.—A half dozen'did. For three years I de
clined steadily till tinally 1 had to sell my
business. T he last doctor thought I'd live only
.bboul six weeks and advised me to straighten
out my uffairs.
Q.—How soon did you liegiu to mend under
the Fulton Com|N?undK ?
A.—The specific gravity soon began lo drop,
but It alb nearly a year before I wus perfectly
sound.
Q. —l)td any whom you told of it take it ?
A
cast s of Dmbetes and Brivht’s
Disease, u|x>n hearing my experience, took it
and recovered.
Q —<’au you recall the names !
A.- I don't like to mention them without
thei- permission One was a fr'end in Collin*
wood, Ohio, who wus pensioned off by his com
pany us incurable. He recovered. Another
was that of a well-to-do lady in this city, who
was also given up by her physicians. She is
now perfectly well.
Q —What do jou think now of the curability
of chronic Bright’s Disease and Diabetes!
A.—I have known fur several years that they
are curable.
Q --But the liooks say that they are not?
A.—Certainly they du, and f r that reason
many will not at first believe it, but they will
gradu. 1 ly.
Medical works agree that Bright’s Disease
and Diabetes are incurable, but 87 per cent, are
positively recovering under the Fulton (’om-
pounds (Common forms of kidney complaint
and rheumatism offer but. short resistance.)
Price, fl for the Bright’s Disease and 11.50 for
the Diabetic Compound. .John J. Fulton Co.,
ry> Montgomery St., San Francisco, sole oom-
poundors. Free te-ts made for patients. De-
icrlptive pamphlet mailed free.
Save the Baby.
The mortality among babies during the
(hire teething years is something frightful.
The census of HMM) shown that about one in
every seven succumbs.
The cause
Is
apparent.
With
baby’s
bones hardening, the fontanel (opening in the
skull) closing up and its teeth forming, all
these coming at ones create a demand for
bone material that nearly half the little
systems are deficient in.
The result Is
I eevlshness, weakness, sweating, fever, diar
rhoea, bruin troubles, convulsions, etc., that
prove terribly fatal. The deaths In 19W under
three years were 304,988, to suy nothing of
the vast number outside the big cities that
were not reported, and thia In the United
States alone.
When baby begins to sweat, worry or cry
out in sleep don’t wait, and the need in
neither medicine nor narcotics.
What the
little system is crying out for is more bone
material.
Sweetman’s Teething Food sup
plier it. It ha» sased the lives of thousand»
of babies.
They begin to improve within
forty-eight hours.
litre is what physicians
think of it.
2S34 Washington St.,
San Francisco, June 2, 1902.
Gentlemen—-I am prescribing your food in
the multitude of baby troubles due to im
peded dentition.
A large percentage of in
fantile Ills and fatalities are the result of
slow teething. Your food supplies what the
deficient system demands, and 1 have had
surprising success with it. ;n scores of eases
this diet, given with their Tegular food, has
not failed to check the infantile distresses.
Several of the more serious eases would, 1
feel sure, have been fatal without It. It can
not be too quickly brought to the attention
of the mothers of the country. It Is an ab
solute necessity.
L. C. MENDED, M. D.
Every human being carries with him
from his cradle to his grave certain
physical marks which do not change
their character and by which he can
always lie Identltiwl. and that without
shade of doubt or question. These
marks are his signature, his physiolog
ical autograph, so to speak, and this
autqgrnpli cannot be counterfeited, nor
can he disguise it or hide it away, nor
can it becoiiu* Illegible by the wear and
the mutations of time.
This autograph consists of the deli
cate lines or corrugations with which
nature marks tin* insides of the hands
and the soles of the feet. If you will
look at tlie balls of your fingers, you
Petaluma, Cal., September 1, 1902.
Dear Sirs—I have just tried the teething
that have very sharp eyesight, you will
food in two cases and in both it was a suc
observe that these dainty curving lines cess. One was a very serious case, so criti
lie close together, like those that indi cal that it was brought to me from another
fur treatment. Fatal results were feared.
cate the borders of oceans in iiiiips, and < In ity three
days the baby ceased worrying and
that they form various clearly defined commenced eating and is now well. Its action
in this ease was remarkable. 1 would ad
patterns, such as arches, circles, long vise you to put it in every drug store in this
curves, whorls and so forth, and that city. Yours,
I. M PROCTOH, M. D.
these patterns differ on the different
Sweetman’s Teething Food will carry baby
fingers.—“Ptidd nhead Wilson.”
THE DIPLOMAT OPENED HIH EYES.
he rang the embassy bell and asked it
his excellency were nt home. ,“His ex
cellency,” replied the flunky, almost
dumfounded nt the sight of the Im
perial visitor, “is in bed.” “Good," was
the emperor's answer; “I will see him
there.” Mounting the stairs two at a
time the emperor entered the sleeping
apartments of the ambassador, whom
lie found peacefully slumbering, with
one arm hanging over the bed. This
arm the emperor seized and heartily
shook. The diplomatist opened ills eyes
and on seeing the emperor bending over
him concluded tluit he was still dream
Ing. He was, however, quicklj- con
vinced of his error and half an hour
later was observed In no more impress
ive garments than bis sleeping suit
and dressing gown escorting the laugh
ing monarch down the stairs.
Combining lhe Two.
When Chaplain Hubbard, United
States army, retired, was stationed at
Fort Buford, N. D. (tin in tiered with the
alMindoned posts in 1803), his little son,
then six years old. chose as Ills career
the role of second lieutenant, as one of
his favorites among the officers was of
that rank.
One day, when talking over his anibi
tion, his mother said, "Whatever you
Or» my son I trust vou may be a Chris
tian gentleman.”
“Can't I l*e a Christian gentleman
and a second lieutenant, too, mamma?"
—New York Times.
——
Vlclorlas Os* Joke.
The late Queen Victoria, though she
bad literary ambitions, was not known
as a wit. Iler one recorded Joke, how
ever, is a good one and should be pre
served. The aged Duke of Wellington
having paid bls sovereign a visit on a
very wet day. she anxiously Inquired
wbat boots lie was wearing.
“The people call them ‘Wellingtons.’ "
said the duke.
“What nonsense!" exclaimed the
queen. “Where, I should like to know,
could you find a pair of Wellingtons?”
If all the petroleum produced last
year Io the United States was put In
standard barrels and the barrels placed
In a row touching each other, the line
would completely belt the earth.
Enough coal was produced to give
three and a half tone to every one St
the 70,000,000 persons In the United
States and enough gold to give every
American a cold dollar.
Two of the largest Rhenish Iron
workers are negotiating with the Jap
anese government for the supply of
70,000 tons of rails.
Ntrnn«e
For Mirror«.
safely and comfortably through the most dan-
gerous period of child life. It renders lanc
ing ol the gums unnecessary. It is the safest
plan and a blessing to the baby to not wait
for symptoms but to commence giving it the
fourth or fifth month.
Then all the teeth
will come healthfully, without pain, dis
tress or lancing. It is an auxiliary to their
regular diet and easily taken. Price 50 cents
(enough for six weeks), sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price. Pacific Coast Agents, Inland
Drug Co., Mills Building, tian Francisco.
Tlie celebrated Beau Bruinmel «lur
ing the first years of his exile, whllt
yet his fame ns a dandy was pre-emi
nent, had the ceiling of his bedroom
covereil with mirrors so that even while
nt rest he could study elegance and as
sume a graceful pose. For such a pur
pose a glass ceiling is, however, not
Tlie NpHninh Schoolteacher.
unique, and the notorious Duchess of
The tearlier of any land may be over
Clevelnml had such another construct
worked. He may sufiTer from the par-
ed to gratify her vanity.
For a far different reason a certain siinonioiiA policy of the powers ami be
Yorkshire gentleman of the last cen underpaid even in our own enlightened
tury had his ceiling paneled with mir country, but in few countriea, certain
rors. Ardently devot«l to the sport of ly not in the United States, could such
«Nickfighting, he continued to the last a story as the one which follows be
to enjoy his favorite pastime and even truthfully told:
In the streets of a Spanish city, says
when on bis deathbed his room was the
scene of ninny an exciting tight, which, the author of “The Land of the Dons,”
lying ou his back, he saw reflected in a police officer stumbled on the corpse
of a rugged and emaciated pauper. lu
the glass overhead.
making out his rcisirt he usked what
he should enter ns the dead man's pro
A Tender Hu.liand.
In connection with a slight aff«*c- fession.
“What did he die of?” asked the mag
tion of Mrs. Ulysses 8. Grant's eyes a
very r -;t.v story is told indicative of istrate.
“Starvation,” replied the ¡sdlceiuan.
General i ..nil's tender devotion to her.
“Put him down as a schoolmaster/*
When lie was president, she became
somewhat sensitive about her eyes— replied the magistrate.
she suffensl from strabismus- a nil con
sulted a specialist to see what could be
Izove Plant«.
done for her. The specialist told her
Plant« tMK*d in love divinations are
be thought lie could Improve her eyes, common. In many parts of England
but the operation would be painful, ■ ml Scotland the fa miliar southern
biie coiisuo«! net uonbarui to ¡can, WMol is known aa lad s love," "la«i
whether lie would nilvi.o the o|M*rntion. |»re|naa” or “lade’ love mid la-sea' de
"Don't have tt done, dear,” said the light.” Another British name for the
general, pressing her cheeks with his plant is "old man’s love” or simply “old
two bands. "Let those dear eyes stay mail." rrcm Its pa». ro«»tn!iif*ml«*d hv
Just as they are. If they were changed, Pliny. In Woburn, Masa., this herb Is
I might not recognize my sweetheart.” called ”lioys' love," and it is Raid that If
a girl tucks a tflt In her shoe she will
■ Hata life Trnv0led h, Odom.
marry the first boy she meets.
A r rii ilhiMtrntion of the dista nee
«slors are carried It is noteworthy that
He I nrierslooU.
■ lie fumes and exhalations from the
“Ami after I get off the cars.” Mid
sulphur springs of Colorado can lie dis- young Markley, who had asked and re
tingulsli«l nt a distance of fully twenty ceived pcrmlssidn to call, "which way
miles. The delicious perfume of tlie «lo I turn to get to your house?”
forests of Ceylon is earrl«l by the
“Why,” said she, “right in front of
wind twenty five mil«« out to sea, w hile you, on tlie corner, you'll s«*e a candy
In foggy weather travelers 100 miles store--a very nice candy store—and—er
from tli«' land have r«*ogniz«l their -when you come out you walk two
proxiniitv tn the coast of Colombia by blocks cast.”
tlie sweet smell brought them on a
The Gr«..SI,|«r.
breeze from the shore.
A grav«llgger, walking In the streets
Ton.lllii,.
the other day, chance? to turn and no-
All nttack of tonsilitis can usually l>e tlwl two doctors walking behind him.
ward«sl off by painting the iiiflatn«sl| He stopp«l till they paMHal and then
tonsil with tincture of ioiliue. If you rollow«t on beliiml them. “And why
are nMueWMful In the attempt ami the this?” said they. “1 know my place In
tonsils ulcerate, swab them at once the proeeusion,” returned be.
with guaiacum and rep«'at In five or six
boars. This I learned from a well
The Ir.l.a Relert.
known throat specialist of St. Iaiuis.
Mrs. Prissima Oh, but I got taken tn
and I find I can almost always rc-over when I married you. you wretch!
without the servlc«*» of my pbysiciau.
Mr. Prisstm»—Ye»—out of tb« wild.—
—Good Housekeeping.
Newark News.