The Brussels Post, 1893-3-24, Page 7MAItcu 24, 1893, THE BRUSS.TJLS Pon.
ADAM ON AN IOEBBW+.
Perilous Adventure at. Sen.
A. survivor of the Whaler Mermaid, of
Liverpool, hue recently narratedl the peed•
due adventures of Ili:melf and eontj)anlmm
in the South Polar Nona, They fell iii with
another whaler oil' Cape Farewell, which
sent e, heat to a hilt them its the elatr,n is
0n meeting at sea in a calla. 51r, Davis our
mate, obtained pet•nlis:don to pull off ts the
stranger, Indeed it was etiquette that we
should make the exehango, J1'nn' of us
were to go with the mute, who Atouked the
batt as it intending to make it voyage of a
thousand miles. He had once been mast
away and undergone great :sabring, and
after that he would not oven lower for to
whale without having lits boat prevlstonod.
When we left the brig on our return issue•
hey the sky was as clear and the set as
bright 0.9 you ever saw then. We had not
pulled half the (distance when a squall carne
down on no from the north with the speed
of a bullet. There was not the slightest
warning of what was oomi• g, In an In.
start
TRI( SIC Y GREW' DARK
and the squall struck, and before we had
pulled three times our length it Was 800 w•
ing as no man ever sew the flakes oonte
down except elf Cape Hurn. The barque
was dile west of es and a mile away when
the squall struck. Even if ah a coald have
hold her position we could not have reach•
ed her. I have always remembered with
pride how quickly Mr. Davis grasped the
situation, We were pulling four oars.
Under his order they wore lashed together
and flung overboard for a drag inside of
two minutes. With her head to the wind
the boat rode like a duck. There wasn't
over an hour of daylight left us when the
sganlL name down, and when night fell the
gusts had settled down into a steady gale,
The snowstorm passed [away with the pull's
and gusto, and then, of comae we looked for
the lights of the ships. No one W08 more
than temporarily disappointed that we
could not make them out. We would drive
touch faster than this barque or brig if they
lay to, and if they had to run before they
were
Mtn -ES AMIRAn
of us to the south. At about six o'clock
each man snuggled down to make bimsolf
as comfortable as possible, and it was an
hour later when the roar of breakers camp
to our ears. Eves?, one instantly divined
that we were drifting down upon the ice•
bergs, and that tee wet a also perfectly help.
less in the matter. To have pulled in that
drag would have been fatal. Before the
onie could have been detached and flung
out the boat would have been in the trough
of the sea. Perhaps every man was pray.
fug to his Clod; as the roaring grew nearer,
and the ghostly glare of the berg name to
us through the darkness. We missed the
north-west corner of the berg by not more
than twenty feet, and the spray of the
breaking wave half filled our craft, We
drifted along in sight of the great island of
ice for ten . minutes before reaching its
southern face, and then a current drew ns
into the lee of it, and we knew that we were
temporarily saved. Now Wo got in our brag
and put out the oars, and, atter rowing to
the east for about a mile, we found an in-
let or bay, and ran in and made fast. Phis
bay extended back into the berg a quarter
of 9. mile, and was about 100 feet fn width.
It was like a river flowing down to the sea
through great cliffs. We
win*: ratteKturt.y SItFI,Tl.nxn.
hare, and by the light of the boat's lantern
we made a hearty meal of our provtsion0,
and then turned in for an all night's sleep.
The weather had become freezing gold, but
all were warmly clad, and we had tine sail
of the boat to cover us to. We could hear
the wind howling above us and feel the berg
tremble au the great waves flung thenselvea
against the opposite face, but every mon
slept till daylight without a break. I have
called the mass of ice an iceberg. Perhaps
" ice island " would be a better term for it,
as when we canto to inspect it by daylight
we found it to be over a mile long on each
face. - It was as if two bergs had stood still
within a mile of each other until field ice
had wedged between and frozen solid. The
bergs were two mountains, and the field ice
was the plain between, only the plain was
great cakes of ire heaped up in the grandest
confusion. The gale was still piping away
and a tremendous sea running when we
awoke, and of course we had no thought of
leaving the shelter ; but we left the bay and
pulled alone to the east: and landed upon a
sort of speltr. Wo had the material at hand
to build a hut, and before noon we had an
ice cabin big enough to comfortably hold the
five of us and the stores from our boat.
While the stores were being unloaded Mr.
Davie and I made our way
OVER TIIE HUMIDORS
to the north to a heap of driftwood he had
caught sight of. We found three or four
dwarf pines, a log, two planks from a ship's
bottom, portions of a cook's galley, two wood.
bottomed chairs, and a broken cabin table.
Those things told of a wreck, but we did not
extend our soaroh until three days later,
when Wo solved the fate of the ship Golden
Horn, of New. London, which had been
missing for five years and was thought to be
frozen up in the Polar seas. We found one
of her staved boats, the mate's chest, her
maintnpmaat, two cabin chairs, and, strang•
eat of all finds, a mirror throe feet long by
twenty inohes wide, which had hong in her
cabin. Tho name of the ship was painted
on the frame of the mirror, How a thing
of that sort could have knocked about the
icefields without the glaea being even oraok•
ed 18 a matter to excite wonder, When the
weather finally cleared away our chances of
the ships had become almost hopeless. Tho
storm I have described proved to bathe tail
end of winter. Un the sixth day the weather
became so mild that the ice began to molt,
and Mr. Davis told us that our island had
been caught in a current of the strait and
was
DRIFTIN(4 SOUTH
at the rate of two miles an hour, Wo were
in peril now from the breaking up Of the
Maes. On the same sixth day it turned
completely arouud, and a great rift appear.
ed right through the centro. We launched
the boat and pulled to what I called the
east mountain. This was biue.wltite ire from
a glacier, In size at the baso it would have
covered twenty pores of land, while its
highest point from the water was fully 200f t.
When the field foo (tonnes:Ong it with the
other berg should break up this big lump
would be in no Wise affected. By noon of
the seventh day we had transferred our.
solves to the berg and erected another
8hoiter, and we were not an hour too soot.
Tho rift through the centre continued to
Widen and deepen, and by and by there was
a great clash, and the two bergs wore sep-
arator!. The waves then made short work
of the fringe hanging to their bases. Before
Sundown our malostie berg had no ononm•
branoo, and was drifting along so steadily
that it was hard to believe it was ennui.
For throe days end nights nothing happen•
ed worth relating, oxcopt that wo ibarpooned
mut 000ttrod two seals ass they crawled epee
a ledge on the sunny aide of the burg, (1n
the morning of the fmirth day.
n111'0ltl( 1(911.1 1(1T
had yet crime, our graft oree'led into a burg
road h
which
1 probably grounded, and our
oecape from instant' 0etrnetinn watt nitrite.
ulcus, The 001(111 gide, or it large portloe
of it. wa1split 00, leaving our het standing
onthe very edgy, of a Miff Dirty feet high,
We had to mut our way through the bpeit
wall to escape. Otte boat went with the
iee, and within two Matra the berg heeled
over on 110 side. Thin movement tools prone
very 810wly, and brought es on the Great of
the lump, instead of being on a shelf near
the water, We soon had another lint up
and our geode )n01d0 of it, and the next clay
we (nada another strange find. Diclo0ed 1n
tight portion of the berg which must have
been forty feet under water before the
collision was a native Greenlander in full
dress, with a sealing spear in his band. In.
stoat of being on his foot, his position was
reversed. We figured that i11
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he had pitched forward into a rift, though
when wechopped Inion out we could net find
that lie had been iujnred by the fall. HIe
oyes were open, his lips slightly parted,
and but for his stiffness one would have been
inclined to speak to Hint, We could not get
the spear without knocking otT his hand,
and so we did not take it. Wo got his
knife and a sort of game bag, however, and
also some handmade horn buttons from
his clothing, He [night have beer. dead one
year oe 100 years for all we could toll, as
the ice would hnvo preserved the body in•
definitely. We heaved it into the sea after
a while, and it disappeared from sight like
n etone. For the next eight days we moved
steadily southward with the current, and
the weather continued to grow milder, At
nine o'olock on the morning of the ninth
day we Bighted a sail, made a smoke as n
signal, and at noon we were.taken off safe
and sound by the brig Frost King, bound
from St, John's, N. F.,;to the Shetland Isl.
ands. It was a year before we heard from
the two whaling ships. Both were sadly
knocked about in the furious gale, bet both
weathered it, and so it came about that the
loss of the yawl woe th eonly one sustained
throughout the whale adventure.
MAGICIAN TESLA.
Aatott,"Iing Experiments by the tt•oung
Electrician,
With the air all around hi In luminous
with purple haze, through ahiolt dazzling
electron sparks leaped with lightning rapid.
ity, and with brushes ofeleotr10 flames play.
ing about hie fingers and shooting from his
heels to the floor, Nikola Tanta, the Hun-
garian electrician, and the rival of Edison
in the almost magic power he exercises over
the subtle force, concluded his lecture on
the effects of alternating currents amid the
thunderous applause of the 00ientista who
orowded the old Franklin Institute last
evening to hear him, says the Philadelphia
To make good his claim that he has dis-
covered meatus to harness electric forge, so
that it shall serve man without injuring
him, Tesla allowed a force of 300,000 volts
to pass through hint, and illuminate a bulb
containing sulphate of calcium which he held
in hie hand. The bulb was made to glow
with a light so intense as to fill the room
with brightness, and to disclose the great
electrician holding it aloft unharmed and
smiling, bowing in acknowledgment of the
wild applause of the audience.
"I'm getting some 300,000 volts through
me now, at the rate of millions of vibrations
a second, enough to satisfy the most obsbin•
ate criminal, if traveling by the ordinary
method. Thank heaven, though, I'm not a
condenser."
" But, gentlemen, this is nothing," en-
thusiastioally continued the inventor, and
the audienee fully agreed before the lecture
waa over that, comparatively speaking, the
words were true. The great effort of the
evening was his feat of producing as illum-
ination in a glass bulb, to which a vacuum
had been procured by passing a powerful
and rapidly alternating Durrant through it.
The bulb was hung from a wire stretched
across the operating desk and connected
with the terminals of the condenser. The
intermit was turned on and, taking a pair of
forceps in his hand, Tesla approached them
to the bulb. In an instant it was aglow
with an iutenae yellow light and flashes of
electricity leaped across from one side of
the bulb to the other and played all over
its surface. The phoephoreeeenco of the
bulb set the audienoe wild with delight,and
Tesla was obliged to acknowledge the ova-
tion again and again.
The experiment, "Phantom Streams,"
was one of the most beautiful- of the meny
with which Tesla fairly bewitched his and.
lance, Two heavily insulated conductors
wore adjusted about eight inohos from one
another and the alternating current turned
on, when the interval was filled with a col.
umn of purple haze, and the scent of ozone
and nitric acid filled the air. Another won.
derful exhibition was the incandescence of
a rarefied gas in long glass tubes, Making
the connection with one of the terminals,
and grasping it in one hand and the tube in.
the other, the latter was in an instant
transferred into a wand of soft, opalesoent
light. The magician, for such he seemed
to all who witnessed his exploits, then 00.
eon to twirl the tube rapidly, producing a
startling effect, not unlike that of a pin.
wheel, but infinitely more beautiful.
Anoient Egypt.
As regards the social and art life of
Egypt, nothing is more healthily lowering
to the modern mind than to find Egypt
continually saying : " I told you so " and,
what is mora, I told you so some thousands
of years ago." Until I went to Egypt 1
had a lively admiration for Mr. Edison.
It is true his inventions Deem to complicate
Life, but at any rate they were new,
After visiting Egypt, I believe half of
them are simple infringements of old Egyp.
tier ideas, the patents for whioh have long
since expired. .Professor I'iazzi Smyth is
sure (I am nob) that the Pyramid of Cheops
oontafus a revelation of nearly all the
scientifle discoveries of the last 8,000 years,
Egypt is a sphinx that is perpetually
asking questions, and modern civilizations
perpetually "giving up" the answers. Take
the famine statue of Oloophren, carved
from ablock et green diorite, Diorite is one
of the hardest stones known ;it holds it own
against modern tools, How, and with
what implenlontsdid the old Egyplfansoarva
1tI Six thousand years ago they produced
the wonderful stated of rho Village Sheik
at Gdzeh. IL is infinitely superior to 0d per
cent. of tihe mo(10rit English sculpture,
Through what oonturios of superb civil.
ization did thio art dovolop, and slowly
riper to such perfootion 1 After la prelim.
inary ourvoy of those and similar questions
it became vnaninist that, if reason were to
retain her seat, .1 must take certain prem•
nous figures and stick to then( at all her,.
ardo.
BRIEF AND INTERES'PING,
Finland has women bulldors.
Canada has aboutl1.4 000 lntdIrsof railroad.
[,reek [vines nearly all turn to vinegar in
alt miler,
'1'11e Romans blit[ the first dykes In Hull -
and,
(hens in ohtimed to bo taught in all the
Austrian publi0 sehnnls,
In China twiny village Imo its theatre
every city bas several.
Itis said that the Chinese will soon con
trot the shoemaking trade in California,
MEB, AND MRS. BOWSE11
Ily George 1 but sash a man as that
ought. to lo burned 1(t thetato 9"
exclaimedAir, Bowser as l:0 looked up front lits paper
the outer evening.
" W hat is it•?" asked 9y, re, Bowser.
" Why, a St, Louis father Was so mad at.
having to get up in the night with a slok
child that he broke its neck, If It had been
in thio town I'd hews led Itmob to lynch him
before norm next day. heats all what fiends
1 sumo fathers are ! Poor, stoic child, bow
tumid it help crying out?'"
" Yeo," 0(996(1 Mrs, dowser, as else looked
at 911119 askaneo,0
" I've a good mind to write to a St. Louie
taper and suggest that he be (skinned
olive 9" muttered hlr, Bowoor as he got up
and walked around. " Seizing his own bah
and blood and lit caking its neok because it
woke Min out of his sleep 9 I can't believe
we have such liends to 111is country, and yet
it nest be true,"
Ho was so upset that It was a quarter of
an hour before he could sit down and resume
hie paper, and he waa quite put out becans9
Mrs. Bowser hadn't more to say about it,
That night about midnight, while Mr, Bele.
ser was area:Mug of being oloebod to the
Mate legislature, he heard a faraway voice
saying :
"1 wlah you'd gat up. Baby note as if
he might have a fit."
" 1Vhit—•what's the platter?" asked Mr.
Bowser as Ile sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Baby is sink. You'll have 10 get hot
water and fill the foot bath."
Mr, Bowser winked and blinked like an
owl at noonday and then fell bank and (nor•
ed. Mrs. Bowser roused him again after a
minute, and he swung his legs out of bed
and shouted:
"What in the old Harry is all this row
about, anyway, and what ails that imp of
a young un ?"
" 1 told you that he was sick. It's his
eye-teeth, 1 suppose, and I'm afraid he'll
have afit. "
" Fit ! Fit 9 Hoar him yell ! See him
kick ! It's simply pure ouesocbtoss, Mrs.
Bowser, and he wan la a good licking instead
of hot water! You've encouraged him in
the habit of waking up every night and
howling around, and now you can take
care of hint 9"
"This is the first night he has disturbed
you for months. Poor child 9 See haw
flighty be looks 9 Please get the hot wet.
er
" The idea of a cull like him upsetting
the whole house in this way," growled Mr.
Bowser, as he went stumbling about " 1
believe he does it just to be ugly. If he'd
had a good licking before he went to bed
he'd have been all right.
If he should (lie, Mr. Bowser, you'd
feel sorry all your life."
" 1 would, eh? Bear him yell 9 That's
pure and unadulterated deviltry and ho
ought to be soundly spanked. Why (ton's
you toss him up and down or sing to him or
something to choke hint off ? We'll have
the police in here the first thing we know.
If 1 live to see Horning that kid goes to a
foundlings' home."
" Why, Mr. Bowser 1 Only a few hours
ago you were reading about that case in St.
Louis, and yon WON ao indiguant that—"
"Never road of any case in St, Louis,
and there's your hot water. Got itim into
it and drown hint as soon as possible.
Young man, It's a mighty good thing for
you that we are not here alone."
" Why don't yon break his nock instead
of soaring him to (leath?" hotly demanded
Mrs. Bowser, "You wanted to skin that
St. Loris man alive."
" Mrs. Bowser,"he replied as he stabbed
his toe against a chair and sat down on the
bed, with his face very white, "if there is
a place in this country called St. Louie, and
if there is a father there who has a mallei.
ous and ngly tentpered young 'un who ached
to bo killed, and if that father broke its
neok after years of such suffering as 1 have
gone through with, he should be praised in-
stead of censured."
"He seems to be better," whispered Mrs,
Bowser as baby ceased to Dry.
"He knows his gait, and went as far as
ho dared. In just one minute more I'd have
tanned his jacket, and he knew it, I tell
you, Mrs. Bowser, you are bringing that
child up for the gallows. Oub of twenty-
two murder oases 1 have investigated the
murderers all began by whooping and howl.
ing and waking their fathers up o' nights.
They were potted and encouraged by their
mothers, just as you are doing."
"You can go to bed, Mr. Bowser,"
" What's the use? IL will be daylight in
about two minutes, and it won't be ten
seconds before ho will raise the dead again.
The climax has been reached. After break.
fast that kid goes to a foundlings' home,
or yO0 Oen kill him off at home with rough
on rate nr poria green. If he was ailing I
wouldn't say a word, but when loo deliber-
ately—goes at it—to kick up—a row like—
this—this---"
Mr. Bowser fell beck across the bed and
knew no more until 7 o'clock in the morn-
ing. Then he awoke to find the baby play-
ing horse with his nose, and he held the
child aloft and kissed it and exclaimed :
" the horn spoon, Mrs. Bowser, but if
there is a handsomer, cuter, and better
natured kid than this in all the world I'd
like to see it. Wass he crying in the night?
Why didn't you wake rile up and have One
Derry him around 1"
•
Tu Namur beehives hang in the form
of oblong gourde from the brain:hen of
trees.
Celery coffee i8 a new drink. It io said
to give renewed etreugth to the brain and
nerve.
Jay Gould'o original intention was to be
a country editor, but he finally selected
another road by which to rea011(beimmanse
fortune which he had in view from the be-
ginning of his eat0er,
The moat indestructible wood is the
Jarrah wood of western Australia, which
defies all known forms of decay, and is an•
touched by all destructive insects, so that
ships built of it do not need to be copper011
In Rome thorn i0 much talk about an old
beggar who used to frequent the doors of
the Churoh of the Minerva, and who, dying
lately, was found to be possessed of 1(10,000
francs, which he had left by a properly
drawn tip will to his three children, who
were completely ignorant of their father's
wealth.
An important step towards the solution
of the difficulty of finding employment for
old soldiers and sailors has just been taken
by the trustees of the British Museum in
utilising the services of commissionaires for
warding the galleries of the Natural If istory
Museum, and, in a leaser degree of the
British Museum.
The exact cost of a Cabinet Minister's fnll-
dress uniform is 1:.10 guineas, and this tutu
has been expended lately by the mem.
bees of the Cabinet who are in oflioe for the
first time. The loot of the elaborate tunic
is due chiefly to the gold lace, in which it
is simply smothered ; bat such a tunic lasts
a lifetime, and those of the old Parliament-
ary hands are often very seedy,
The professore in the colleges of Spain
are miserably underpaid, often receiving no
more than 661100 per year. They endeavour
to make a small profit out of their text-
books, each repairing his own boot: to be
used. These books are frequently in mann.
script, or, if printed, are sold at unusual
prices. The students, also poor, resort in
consequence to second-hand shops and the
annual fair, where a specialty is made of
collegiate textbooks.
Professor Virchow has analysed "hunger -
bred," tate broad eaten by the peasantry it
the famine -stricken diatrtots of Reseda, and
finds that itis much more nutritious than
the rye bread made in Germany. The lat-
ter, according to an analysis of bread baked
in Berlin, contains but 0.04 per Dent. of
albumen and 0••18 per Dent. of fat, while
the "hunger.brod' 0ontain0 11.70 per
Dent, of albumen and 3.70 of fat.
If the Pacific could be laid bare, we should
have a most singular speotaole. There
would be a number of mountains with
truncated tops scattered over it, and those
mountains would have an appearance ,just
the very reverse of that presented by the
mou0taina we see on shore. You know that
the mountains on the shore are covered with
vegetation at their bases, while their tops
are barren or covered with snow ; but these
mountains would he perfectly bare at their
bases, and all round their tops they would
be covered with beautiful vegetation of
Doral polypes.
Most people have heard of rooms papered
with postage stamps, but the following
instance of patient industry will probably
be new to many readers. In a Midland
county there stands an old country house
in whiolt meet of the apartments are of the
spacious size which was popular with
architects of a century or two ago. Well,
the walls of one of these chambers has been
entirely covered with small shells, arranged
in a pattern resembling roses, and with the
smallest distance possible between the
flowers. This considerable task was am
oomplished by two persons, a lady and her
mato. Tim effect of their labours is said to
be extremely picturesque. But they are
also stated to have spent some ten years in
the employment, and the inevitable clues.
tion therefore arises, would not time have
been better occupied even in the croohet
work of our grandmothers ?
In a pair of fine shoes there aro twosowed
pieces, two inner soles, two etitTenings, two
pieces of steel to give a spring to the instep,
two rands, 12 heel pieces, two sole linins,
20 upper pieces , 30 necks, 12 nails in the
heels, and twenty buttons, to say nothing
of thread both silk and flax ; but the wonder
is found in the rapidity with which these
multithdin0us pieces are combined in a sin-
gle complete work, for, as oto experiment,
some ot our shoe factories have from the
leather completed a pair of shoes in less than
an hour and a half, and as a test a single
pair of men's shoes have been finished in
twenty minutes,
Ono of the prettiest miser0000pioal studies
is the examination ot the lunge of a plant,
Most people do not know a plant has lungs,
but it hes ; and its lunge are in its leaves.
Examined through a high power microscope
every leaf will show thousands upon thou-
sands of ope11inggs, infinitely emall,of course,
but each provided with lips, which, in
many apeniea, are continually opening and
elating. These openings lead to tiny
cavities in the body of the leaf, and by the
opening and °losing of the cavity air is con-
tinually passing in and out, so that tate tact
of respiration is continually going on. The
sap of the plant is thus purified, just at the
blood of an animal ie Moored of impurities
by passing through the lungs, and the
average sized tree will. therefore, in the
course of a day, do as much breathing as a
man.
Princess Margaret of Prussia was matTied
standing of one of the most interesting bite
of carpet in existence. This wits worked by
her tnother, the Empress Frederick, and all
her children knelt on it when they were
confirmed. Tho present Gorman Emperor,
Prince Henry of Prussia, and the Princesses
Charlotte, Sophia, and Victoria were mar.
ri0d otanding upon IL, and it served a sad -
del' purpose when the coffin containing the
remains of the late Emperor rested upon it.
Should a history of interesting carpets bo
over written, the 1':mprooa Froaerdok's
carpel should have an Itetored place in the
record.
In town not, hundred miles from Lon•
don there is preacher( every yaar what to
known ea a " drunken 00rman, It is a
telnperan00 annum. It was instituted
many ycnd's ago by an old, mtorutrfo man,
who harytteathrd to 1lie town a pulhli shouse
m1 nenditiel tltgI Atha h",btdncro,l from thio
0111,11111 rent and given to a minister who.
eltonirl preach a anrnton against the evils of
imentu'r+u>en,
More Fighting in Burmah(
Captain Atkinson, who is acting against
the Hardline in the Sima district, reports
that bhe operations of the Palap columns
have been attended with complete sueoes0.
The enemy's position wee attacked from
both aides by Oaptaitt Atkinson and Lieu-
tenant Dreyer, 'Phe former olllloer forced
his way at the head of his men through the
fence of a strong stockade, and, crawling
over the roof of a block -house between the
loopholes; leaped into the midst of the
Kaohina, who were taken by surprise, and
drove them out. The position was carried
in brilliant style, Thirteen of the enemy
were killed, while the British loss was two
killed and six wounded. According to in-
telligence telegraphed from Laehio under
date the 4th Inst., a party of 45 men, under
LieutenantFrench Mullen and the native
officer Gopal Singh, went to Meungyin on
the 2nd inst. They found the place occu-
pied by 200 liaohine, who resisted the
British force. They were, however, driven
out with the lose of 11 killed. There were
110 casualties on the Driblets side,
Ho—"Jenny, you aro a brick 9 Site
(between gasps)—Yea, a pressed brick.
Joky--' Pop, pop, that big, ugly dog has
swallowed m Waterbury." His Pop—
"
o
"Take him home, my boy.y He'll make a
good watch dog,"
"Do you know Mr, Drydust1" .said
Mand. " Yea," replied Mande. " lie's very
learned, isn't hot" "What makes your
think 001" " Ho ran talk SD long on rutin•
wresting things,"
Sister (1olclbug•--" I'eo har>;y sorry, Ilre'r
`Vliilotop, to Seo yet comic' out b' flat
saloon yisterday," Ilrother 1Vhitotop--
"C'an't bale it., Ndster l•oldhug,t I'so got
to go 110010 w111101 In or while."
THE GREAT SOUTH ANEEICAN
SNE ONIC
Stornach?Liver Cure
The Most Astonishing Medical Discovery o1
the Last One Hundred Years.
It is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar.
It is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk.
This wonderful Nervine Tonic has only recently been introduced.
into this country by the proprietors and manufacturers of the Great
South American Nervier, Tunic, and yet its great value as a curative
agent has long been known by a few of the most learned physicians,
who Have not brought its merits and value to the knowledge of the
general public.
This medicine has completely solved the problem of' the cure of indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, and diseases of the general nervous system. It is
also of the greatest -rake in the euro of all forms of "fling health from
whatever cause. It performs this by the great nervine tonic qualities
which it possesses, and by its great curative powers upon the digestive
organs, the stomach, the liver and the bowels. No remedy compares
with this wonderfully valuable Nervine Tonic as a builder and strength-
ener of the life forces of the human body, and as a great renewer of a
broken-down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in
the treatment and cure of diseases of the lungs than any consumption.
remedy ever used on this continent. It is a marvelous cure for nerv-
ousness of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical'
period known as change in life. should not fail to use this great Nervine
Tonic, abnost constantly, for the space of two or three years. It will
carry them safely over' the danger. This great strengthener and cura-
tive is of inestimable value to the aged and infirm, because its great
energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten
or fifteen years to the lives of many of those who will use a half dozen
bottles of the remedy each year.
iT IS A GREAT REMEDY FOR THE CURE OF
Nervousness, Broken Constitution,
Nervous Prostration, Debility of Old Age,
Nervous Headache, Indigestion and Dyspepsia,
Sick Headache, Heartburn and Sour Stomach,
Female Weakness, Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,
Nervous Chills, Loss of Appetite,
Paralysis, Frightful Dreams,
Nervous Paroxysms and Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears,
Nervous Choking, Weakness of Extremities and
Hot Flashes, Fainting,
Palpitation of the Hearts Impure and Impoverished Blood,
Mental Despondency, Boils and Carbuncles,
Sleeplessness, Scrofula,
St. Vitus' Dance, Scrofulous Swellings and Ulcera,
Nervousness of Females, Consumption of the Lungs,
Nervousness of 0111 Age, Catarrh of the Lungs,
Neuralgia, Bronchitis and Chronic Cough,
Pains in the I-beart, Liver Complaint,
Pains in the Back, Chronic Diarrhoea,
Failing Health, Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer Complaint of Infants,
A11 these and many other complaints cured by this wonderful
Nervine Tonic.
NERVOUS 'I.IISEASESO
As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been
able to compare with the Nerving Tonic, which is very pleasant and
harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most
delicate individual. Nine -tenths of all the ailments to which the human
family is heir are dependent on nervous exhaustion and impaired diges-
tion. When there is an insufficient supply of nerve food in the blood, a
general state of debility of the brain, spinal marrow, and nerves is the
result. Starved nerves, like starved muscles, become strong when the
right kind of food is supplied; and a thousand weaknesses and ailments -
disappear as the nerves recover. As the nervous system must supply all
the power by which the vital forces of the body are carried on, it is the
first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not con-
tain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment necessary to repair
the wear our present mode of living and labor imposes upon the nerves.
For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied.
This South American Nervine has been found by analysis to contain the
essential elements out of which nerve tissue is formed. This accounts
for its universal adaptability to the cure of all forms of nervous de-
rangement.
OnAwronnio iLtn, Inn„ Aug. 20, M.
To the Oreat Soelh American, Medicine CO.
D005 Genoa:—I 1100110 to say to you that I
have suffered for many years with a very serious
disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every
medicine I come hear of, but nothing done me
any appreciable good until I was advised to
try your Great South American N8101110 Tonic
and Stomltrh and Liver Core, and since using,
several bottles of It I must say that 1 am sur-
prised at its wonderful powers to cure the stom-
ach and genera6uorvous system. If everyone
knew the value of this remedy as 1 do you would
not be able to anpply the demand.
d. A. HAnDae, Ex-Treas. Montgomery Co,
RSaE0OA Wlos1xeos, of nrownevalley,
says : ' "'T had been Ina distressed condition for
three years from Nervousness, Weakness of the
Stomach, nyopepsin, and Indigestion, until my
health was gone. I had boron doctoring con -
stoutly, with no relief. I bought one bottle of
South American Nervine, which done ma mora
good than any $00 worth of doctor(ng I ever
d(d in my life. I would advise every weakly per-
son to use this valuable and lovely remedy, a
low bottles of it has cured me completely. I
consider it the grandest medicine in the world."
A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITAS' DANCE OR CHOREA.
CRAWFORDSV.ILLE, Iran., June 22, 1887.
My daughter, eleven years old, was severely afflicted with St. Vitus' Dance
or Chorea. We gave her three and one-half bottles of South American Ner-
vine and she is completely restored. I believe it will cure every case of St.
Vitus' Dance. I have kept it in my family for two years, and am sure it .is
the greatest remedy in the world for Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and for all
forms of Nervous Disorders and Failing Health, from whatever cause.
Scum T. Miss.
Stara of Indiana
hfonigomot;t,/ Indiana,
y, } ss
Subscribed and sworn o before me this June 2.,"1, 1887,
CHAS, W, Wezonr, Notary Public.
INDIGESTION J. ION A D DYSPEPSIA.
The Great South American Nervine Tonic
Which we now offer you, is the only absolutely unfailing remedy ever
discovered for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and the vast train of
symptoms and horrors which are the result of disease and debility of
the human stomach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incal-
culable value who is affected by disease of the stomach, because the ex-
perience and testimony of many go to prove that this is the ONE and,
ONLY oono great euro In the world for this universal destroyer. There
is no ease of unmalignant disease of the stomach which can resist the
wonderful curative powers of the South American Nervine Tonic.
Minims, E. HALL, of Waynetown, Ind„ Gaye; Stns, ELLA A, 118ATTOn, 0f Now ltosa, Indiana,
".L owo my life to rho Great, South American says: "I cannot express how much I awe to the
the
Nervine. I had been to hot( for flue menthe from Nervfne. Tonle, My system 0000 completely,hat-
Nercocas 1' et axhm,ated 0a gener l shattered
red
Nervone Penetration, and a general shattered tered, appetite goon, was coughing and spitting
condition of my whole systole, Had given up up blond; em sure I wee in the first stages
ail hopes of getting well. Ilad IMod three doe- of constimptien, an Inheritance handed down
tors, with no roller. The first bottle of the Nora- through several generations. I began taking
Inc Tonic Improved meso muds that lwas n.bleto the Ncrvino Table, and continued its use for
Walk about, and a tow bottne0 oared Inc entirely. about six months, and am entirely cared. :Ch
I bolievo It is the best medicine in the world. r le the grandest remedy for nerves, stomach and
Can not recommend it too highly." lunge I have ever seen,' in
No remedy romparos Willi Soomn Asrzntc,lxSwore ass a caro for tilt NOM. No remedyeom-
eana with South American Norville MI it wondrous Aire tot the Stomach. No remedy will at 0.11
romans with South American Nervine ns n cure for all forms of failing health, It never tails to
corn Teeig,otlon and 1lyspepsia. It nev0r fails to earn Chorea or St. Vitus' Dance, its Dowers to
build lm the whole ey0101n are wonderful to the ox(rone!. 1t enre0 the old, the young, and the, mid,
die aged. It Is a great Mend to the aged and Merin. Do not neglect to use this preeiouo boon:
If vola d" you may e
v n gtvrt 100 may remedy1 which ast reserve to l to heath. Seriph American
great.e la perfectly Sala, and they poem of freshness to the tn0(a utymto ladies, do not fat( to Use this
great hurl, driv eo 1w y yput the 610th ntdwkn and beauty upon goer ]ipo and in yout cheeks,
and quickly delve away your disabilities and weaknesses.
Pa'ioe, Large 16 ounce Bottle $1.00; Trial Size, 15 Cents.'
EVERY BOTTLE WARRANTED,
11 not kept by Druggists order direct from ,s
Dr. E. D TCH h, Crawfordsville, Intl.
A. 31)13A11)111Alit Wh olesnlb mad Retail Agent for ltruoselc.