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DECEMBER 4. 1902. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 13 ALMOSTAMIRACLE . THE WONDERFUL RECOVERY OF A MINNESOTA MAN Hit Lower Limbs Hd Become Uaaleit and II Dragged IIiuielf Arnad Like a Snake "While the story of the wonderful recovery of John Hunter in the little town of Chico, Cal., from paralysis and locomotor ataxia is still fresh in the mind cf everyone, an account of another equally remarkable and some what similar case comes from Minne sota. Near Northfield, Minn., lives P. A. O'Brien, known to everybody round about the town. In the fall of 1900 he was obliged to give up work, because of a disease which one of the physi cians who attended him called loco motor ataxia and another paralysis. He suffered for more than three years and, for part of the time, lay in a harness by the doctor's direction. He grew worse and the physicians pro nounced, him incurable. But at last, like a miracle, came his cure. Let him tell the story: It had been coming on slowly for eight years," he says. "A cold numb ness commenced in my feet and worVed upwards. It grew worse, and, in No vember, 1900, I had to quit work. The disease bent me over, and, when I at tempted to straighten up, it felt as if someone was cutting me in the pit of the stomach with a knife. I always felt tired and could not rest at night, my feet felt as if there were needles sticking in them and my legs got so numb that I could stick pins in them and never feel it. They would shake so sometimes that I could not hold them still with both hands. "Then I got so that I could not walk and I had to pull myself around like a snake. When I got excited mv heart would palpitate and I would choke up. My kidneys also became affected and caused me much pain." "Didn't the doctors help you?" was askd. "No. One of them had me on my bed in a harness for several months. b'it that did me no good. They trieJ various thines and, at last, said I could not be cured. "I began taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. The first box stopped my pain so I could sleep good. It was a week before I could move my feet the least bit, but from that on I gained prettv fast. I will never stop praising Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, for thfy have made a new man of me." At all druggists, or direct from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., fiftv cents per box; six boxes for two dollars and fifty cents. COAL AT COST SAVE DEALER'S PROFITS WRITE FOR PARTICULARS GREGORY THE GOAL MAN 1044 O Street Lincoln, ebr. Sixteen to One Don't be startled this is no disqui sition on the "crime of 73," but has reference to a new book by Dr. W. P. Brooks, of Cook, Neb., entitled, "16 to 1 Escaped Criminals to One Con viction." This book handles the liq uor question in a manner different from all other books on the subject. In the introduction Dr. Brooks says that "he is conscious of the fact that the temperance question is a well worn subject, and that there has been enough written to envince the aver age mind of the evils of the drink hab it, yet with all this, it still goes on in Its high handed career of cruelty and crime." Chapter I. quotes Col. Billing as au thority for the statement that of ev ery seventeen charged with crime about sixteen escape conviction, and Dr. Brooks relates several incidents coming under his own observation to show why this Is so. Chapter II. at tacks the license idea. "What evil genius," asks the doctor, "concocted the license system? Have not all men the right to do that which is right? Where, oh, where does anyone, of him self, or collectively as a government, find authority to give another liberty to do right?" Chapter III. relates a little hither to unwritten history of the struggles attendant upon the attempt to secure a licensed saloon in the town of Cook, the author's home. This chapter has aroused the ire of the whisky ele ment to such a pitch that not long since some unknown miscreant shot at the doctor, undoubtedly with the in teniton of murdering him, but fortun ately missed him. Chapter IV. is a story told by an old criminal lawyer and very entertain ingly told it is. Chapter V., on self ishness and greed, calls attention to the recent furore raised over the dis covery that certain milk dealers had been selling milk treated with forma lin, and Dr. Brooks inquires: "What is the difference in principle, in mor als, between poisoning a town with formalin-poisoned milk to make mon ey, and doing the same thing, either by keeping a saloon or voting for one, for the same purpose? There is none." In chapter VI. the author discusses hereditary oversight; and in chapter' VII. he shows how "it might be." "A united co-operative commonwealth." says Dr. Brooks, "is the only way by which the goal will ever br reached. The reforms sought will not be brought about by any system that pro poses to legislate morality into the people. To imagine for a single mo ment that a healthy equilibrium of the mental, moral and physical of an, can be brought about by 'be it enacted,' is the sheer end of all 'dis course of reason'." "Sixteen to One" contains 114 pages, with seven illustrations drawn by Doane Powell of Omaha (who has done considerable cartoon work for The Independent) ; it is bound in cloth and the . fact that the printing was done by the Woodruff-Collins Co., Lin coln, is a sufficient guaranty that it is correct typographically. Price, 75 cents a copy. Address the author. Mind Reader Wanted Fusion organs profess to be sure Ne braska would not have been carried by the republicans at the recent elec tion had all the voters registered their choice at the ballot box. The political mind reader who can tell how the stay-at-homes would have voted is sadly in requisition. Omaha Bee. The Bee sugests a point that should rot be overlooked. It is doubtless true that a majority of those who did not vote were populists and democrats but how would they have voted if they had gona to the polls? If the cry of "let well enough alone" was sufficient to lull them to sleep, no doubt a ma jority of them would have voted the republican ticket if they could have been persuaded to come to the polls. It is foolish to shut one's eyes to the facts a populist or democrat who in tentionally stays at home on election day has for the time being republi can leanings. He is satisfied to "keep on letting well enough alone." Per haps he may some day see his folly but that has nothing to do with the present If you are in need of groceries you should examine the special ten-dollar combination offered by Branch & Mil ler Co. of this city in their advertise ment on the last page. They are an entirely honorable firm, one of the largest in the city and will ship good goods and full weight just a3 adver tised. The Independent will guaran tee .nat and if you send them an or der and do not find the goods satis factory and as represented we'll see that they are made so. FARMS for EVERYBODYS Splendid Chance for Ituyem with Limited Mean. We have 50 quarters of land well located for sale on your own terras. The lard must be sold and will go at "snap" figures. Write for particulars. VAN DeCAR & BRADLEY. OFFICE'S : St. Paul, Nebraska. Wolbach, Nebraska. 222 S5 DON'T Because you bought a harness of a man and got cheated, is no reason for you to think that no harness makers are honest, is it? 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Thi3 election proves that it be gins with the confidence and good wishes of a great majority of the peo ple. But there are hints here an I there in the returns that suggest that it will not do to flinch from doing plain duties. This has been an elec tion which both cheers and warns. Geo. E. Roberts' Iowa State Register (rep.).