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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT May 9, 1901 Heaves Heedl FW! To feed the vital fires or they lose the power to regulate and trol the body. Unnatural stimulants won't do. Lake an air con blast on dying embers they cause a sudden flash of heat then all is drad. Give the nerves plenty of fuel, and the worry and fretting, the headaches, the nervousness, loss of sleep, deranged digestion, neuralgia, rheumatism and heart troubles, that burn up the brain substance and destroy the nerve-force, will disappear forever. Don't wait till the fires are burned out. Begin now. 44 1 was so nerrotw and ret ties that I could get little sleep, and the headache were something dreadful. T"ainj wouJd start ia the temples and travel down the chord at the tack of ray neck to chest and arms. Poo lers gare no relief, but Dr. Miles Nervine cured jne." Mas. A. 11. V. itmav, aerial .yjMey'tlk.' " - " create a good appetite, stimulates digestion, quiets nerv iui trrl tattoo, fives refreshing sleep and sends pleat of fitih fciuod to tis f urnacea ct the brain and nerves. Suia tj .tif iurzsXct, Do. Muxs Hzvicxu Co., Elkhart, Ind THE GREAT FARUER GENERAL t Wt Ik OrlMl Military il f Mtra Time, MTHh a Hee4fl of Me II 1114 Miraf f 1 00,000 la t kKk Ttre a r2 in the Cosmopolitan f Mijr oti cf th csoit let resting ar ti:W U it Las Un printed in any rr.ar;7.r.e d vinng tt- last jrir. It was written by Mr. Allea San,Tfe, -wbo vu ith Oorral De Wt in a larjre Ecc tft-r cf h's campaigns and ia one of U- ilTinruL.h-4 nin who risked their Itrit ?a pM--nt to the orl-l a vivid account cf bat many military men tlirve tf be tte roott wonderful cam plsn -r fotisht ia any age. Mr. TI iraance cf Christian De Wet In S-utU Africa was like ih blast of a tror.'- t In a dert-d building. The l. fSra z r. l oer4 Duller by constant bsttli..s ! i finally crossed the Tu T!a :n l :.'iLl bark Use thin, dust- is-!! l.r.c of burgher, who were tick to b total with fighting against tuh M. Ladyfsaltb was relieved. a?-1 thirtfi-a tho-nund men were lib-ent-d. Ktn :. : :, cf KLartouro had ';.t r.JUL'ard with a big army and rt-1 Cil Rhode at Klmberley. ll ia-l'o !l was displaying such f'.iic j irti.nr at Mafeking that this b-ar-T-d stronghold would have to I- i i.i i'j,.-.l is or r that the Boers tzhiius tl r could t withdrawn to Utile Ij t i Robert toit encamped at Ii!on''jntf in which threatened to wir. it downfall of Pretoria. The filtration vc-m strongly dUtress ir.g. .'i e' tad the grtt cations tlrtutif. KoU. France and the l'b't-l States declined to interfere w.th F.r.g'.Aiii'e, program, a the burgh- n ,u tg Il to hop they would, tut F.irLar.J was even permitted to land irvr ps at Beira. a neutral port, and convey :,Lt thousand men across !wrtirj Kaxt Africa, giving as an neu: t b: t they were needed to keep the r. ms,jugation. Arainst this violation cf treaty. Mr. Kroger a ad Sxretary Iteit a; ralM in vain. The whole world apjeared to be in l-artie to crush the little republic, and Jt is sziall wonder that many burgh ers lost L' rt. In this hour of r'wra thre suddenly broke from an inky sky one piercing ray of .iihine that presently Sooded the ecrire veldt 1 mean the homely, tiiitutored, patriot general. Christian Ie Wet. The nes of the first har rowicg O fst which this unknown t-urg-er adrasriiitered to Colonel Broadwofei at Hannah Tost arrived In Pretoria wfcet the Transvaal artillery fcs still encamped at Helpmakaar, guarditg the Natal mountain pases. and ha half a doien of the largest commandoes were sparring with Gen eral Kitchener at Fourteen Streams in the westerly Free State. No fight had iU-ea eipeeted at that place, where ther wre to few Boer forces, and vhfD the detailed report reached Pre toria of Low General De Wet had killed or wounded two hundred and fifty men. taken four hundred and twenty-five prisoners and captured seven cannon, it was observed that a quiet tot ardent jcy dwelt in the capi tal. There were cheerful faces in the goertmnt oSlees. and Fitlanders who sympathized with Kruger a wore tbat tbii chap De Wet the boy. With we'd had him at the start." These persons expressed a common reeret. and there is little doubt that tad Christian De Wet begun nla ca rter ia Natal at the head of thirty thousand burghers, fresh, vigorous and powerfully mounted, Ladysmith would never hate teen relieved nor the siege cf K:iaberley raised. It ia not kind to speak unpleasantly of the dead, but poor eld General Joubert was entirely Incapable of tU heavy tatlc I have en his own friend weep with re morse over the ill-fated Natal cam paign of this aged leader. At the battle of Colenso. when the British columns were ftarrerfn? eros the TugeU in deplorable defeat, he o-ld not permit his burgher to fir on thera. "It is not hurnar.e, he said- Again, in that same battle he forbade General Botha to attempt cap turing: the English naval guns. His reason was the one he usually gave when it was proposed to make some hazardous expedition: "lm afraid that would te dangerous. Some of our taea might be killed. General Jou bert was continually being fooled, as. for instance, when one of Buller's staff Seer traversed the entire Boer forti fications rnder the guise of escort to a woman who lamented that her hus band was dying is Ladysmith. Tne general also consistently declined to fellow t;p & retreat, and when he saw the Esgiith running was went to call the army together and ask them to Join tn singingr & psalm. These are not the methods of De Wet, who. though nourished under the sme sun as General Joubert and pos sessing most of the amiable qualities that characterized the Boer farmer, hut fcen wrought up with hatred for the ngtish fag that he conducts war on more vigorous principles. He starved the mistakes that were made in the early part of the struggle, and when It came his chance to command he resolved to cut loose from all pre cedent. With a following that insists on independence or honorable death, he ba3 succeeded in ba31ing the en tire British army for nearly one year and a half, and has Increased the war expense to six hundred million dollars and the loss In English soldiers to sixty thousand killed or wounded. There is something almost mirac ulous about these continued exploits, and the Boers themselves ascribe De Wet's hair-breadth escapes to divine Intervention. For six months this ex-potato-grower has fled hither and thither over the veldt, capturing one garrison here and avoiding another there, and all the time pursued by a combined army of one hundred thou sand men. His position is much as though he were in London with a few retainers and skipping frcm street to street with the whole metropolis try ing to catch him. To secure food on a barren prairie, to replenish his cartridi'e-belts to keep his bases alive and to save his own head, under such perilous conditions, requires the strategy o? a Georgo Washington and the greatest mental domination. General De Wet has thesa. More than this, his troopers know that he is fighting for liberty, nothing else, and that he is ready to give up his life at any moment. They therefore trust him implicitly. If this military genius were to ap pear on the streets of New York or Boston, he woald not Invite a second glance, except for his uncouth gar ments. Black hair and beard, high cheekbones, narrow eyes wide apart and twinkling with humor much of the time, a nose large a'l aquiline, a firm mouth and chin, make his face strong but not distinguished. He is ix feet tall, with muscles of tempered fteel, rides horseback like a centaur, and always carries a ridiculously small carbine. At home, on his truck-farm in the Orange Free State, where he was quiet ly living when war broke out, he had some reputation as a practical joker nothing else in particular. He had served one session in the Raad at Bloemfontein, but achieved no emi nence "is a statesman. Even after the war was well under waj De Wet re mained in the background, and it was not until the enemy drew near his own homestead, bringing death and de struction, that his latent gifts awoke. Today De Wet Is the most relentless patriot in South Africa. His farm has bee n looted, his house burnt to a3hes, his wife and children deported to the shores of the Indian ocean. He has sworn a solemn oath never to surren der, and the British do not want to take him alive. The English folk seem to have missed the point in estimating the real spirit that has actuated this man De Wet- After these long months of bloodshed and suffering, they now come forward and say that the Boers ought to give up because they have al ready caused enough trouble, or that, after all, England will furnish a bet ter government than Kruger's. I even talked with one intelligent member of parliament recently who averred it was a crime on the part of De Wet to continue killing poor old farmers "Just to make a reputation for himself." The best answer to this was the re mark a Pretorian mother made to her little son when he dlsobej'ed her in some household command. "Johnny," she said, "from now on you must do exactly as I tell you, for when you get big you are to fight the English, and the first thing a soldier learns is to obey." Another youngster by way of illus trating th Intense feeling against England when saying his prayers the night after Lord Roberts entered Pre toria, suddenly turned to his mother and asked If Jesus Chris-: was an Eng lishman. "My child." said the mother, "I don't quite know whj.t he was, but I feel pretty sure he wasn't English." "Oh. I'm so glad!" exclaimed the little chap with a sigh of relief. General De Wet had had no exper ience in warfare previous to taking command of four hundred Free Stat ers in the fall of 1899. He had never heard of Kitchener or Roberts, had read little but his Duteh Bible, and knew nothing of Napol?on Bonaparte or Julius Caesar. One afternoon in the latter end of March, 1900, after several months' campaigning, a ncout rode Into his camp with news that an English garirson occupied a place called San nah Post. In two days this farmer won a victory that either of his two famous predecessors would nave been proud of. His opponent was Colonel Broad wood, an Indian veteran and a noted commander. He had with him two thousand five hundred men. They had camped on a knob of rising veldt. De Wet came within firing distance at 3 o'clock In the morning. He had four teen hundred burghers, and a battery of fonr Krupp guns and one Maxim mitrailleuse vThe latter were dragged to a spot five thousand yards from the English, where lour hundred riflemen lay down to wait for dawn. At an other spot six hundred marksmen were stationed, and the remaining four hun dred De Wet took with him to a dry river-bed that lay to the west, toward which he hoped the British might re treat. The horses were concealed there, with their mouths tied shut to prevent their whinnying. The sun rose at 6 o'clock, and from the post were heard the sounds of camp-life, rattling of coffee-cans and crackle of fires. There was not even one outpost or scout, and when the Boers on the north opened fire, at 6:15, the English camp was thrown into a panic. The British artillery soon got in po sition, however, and opened on the kopje. The duel kept up for half an hour, then the Boer artillery let loose with its Krupps and created havoc. Three hundred British mounted in fantry rode out on the veldt toward De Wet, and then wheeling off, suddenly disappeared. They were not seen again in the fight. By 9 o'clock the English were so demoralized that they began to retreat, and, as De Wet expected, they rushed toward the spruit. First in the long khaki line were one hun dred and twenty wagons, scattered among which were many Cape-carts, or "spiders." But right in the midst of the line De Wet spied twelve can non and these he planned to capture. The first Tommy to arrive at the spruit was driving an ammunition wagon. De Wet rose up like a specter with his carbine resting on his arm, and motioning with his finger, said, "Come on, Toramv; I want you." The Tommy gulped down an oath and obeyed, never daring to signal his comrades. A dozen wagons had crossed the stream before word had passed to the rear and put i-lie column into con fusion. Broadwood sent three hun dred men down to the spruit to see what was the matter. De Wet and his four hundred sharpshooters had not fired as yet. When the captain was within fifteen feet of De Wet, the lat ter stepped out from cover again and called out, "Stop! Put down your arms:" Some of the men obeyed, but the captain tried to get away and De Wet shot him through the head. With in a few square feet of that officer, Captain Allen, the Norwegian military attache, told me that he afterward counted thirty-two dead Englishmen. The rattle cf Mausers was iike hail on a tin roof. Every strand on a wire fence across the spruit was shot away. Nearly all the artillerymen dropped dead with bullets through their heads. Every horse was shot down, and it was only by the most desperate brav ery that Broadwood was able to ex tricate five of the twelve cannon. The triple fire of the Boers so demoralized the English that for a time it was thought Broadwood himself must sur render. Between 10 . and 11 o'clock, however, he managed to get his pan icky troops in full retreat toward Bloemfontein, and to their heels clung three hurdred Boers, who followed to within sight of the Free State capital, yelling like mad, jumping off to shoot, and then remounting to get another crack. When De Wet got his com mando together at one o'clock to "take stock," he found his own loss to be four killed and twelve wounded. Of the Tenth Hussars, Roberts' Horse, Royal Field Artillery and Burham Mounted Infantry the troops that Broadwood commanded two hundred and fifty lay dead or wounded and four hundred and twenty-five had been taken prisoners. The seven cannon and one hundred and twenty wagons were put to in stant use by the Boers, who in six days had made special shells in their fac tory at Johannesburg for use in the Armstrongs and sent them back to do good service against their former pro prietors. De Wet's army today presents a grotesque appearance. By constant baggage-trains, the old bewhiskered Tak Haar riflemen are enabled to go about togged up in smart khaki clothes made for the king's officers. The ponies, many of which have been ridden two years continuously, are lit tle more than skin and bones. Mauser rifles have long since been abandoned, and only the Lee-Metfords taken from the English are in use. Among the troops may be found what few soldiers of the foreign legion have not been scared away, and a few score artil lerymen. The pace has set too rapid for most of the venerable burghers, and their place has been taken by young men, who will go down in his tory as the bravest of the brave. Many of them are mere school children, whose astonishing adventures will scarcely be believed by posterity. Sec retary Reitz has a son, Denys, only fourteen years of age. who when last heard of was fighting by the side of De Wet. According to the testimony of the foreign military attaches, De Wet is not only the most brilliant military genius that this war has produced, but the most able tactician of his genera tion. Like a skilful prize-fighter, he knows when to jump in and strike a fatal blow and he knows as well when to retreat. Compared with his achievements, those of Baden-Powell or Kitchener are like a burning match dropped in the ocean. De Wet himself has not been out of the, saddle in two years except to catch a few fours' sleep ev ery day. He has been surrounded a hundred times, with no apparent loop hole to escape. In this emergency he gives a quick order and his alert though wearied troopers, with the cry of "Oop sa'el, oop sa'el, burghers!" (In the saddle, in the saddle, burgh ers!) leap to horse and scatter like a flock of birds. They ride right through the English lines, and emerge only to gather again at some appointed place. The artillery at the same time hitch up their mules and thunder away like madmen over some stony path that would seem impossible, get a good position, and annoy the British, while De Wet has concentrated his force up on a detachment that his gifted brain tells him : is ill fitted to resist. His scouts are the most perfectly trained in the world, and they bring him ac curate Information as to the enemy's position. When ammunition is nearly exhausted, De Wet makes a wide de tour and falls unexpectedly upon a baggage-train, whence his troopers fill up their bandoleers with cartridges and their hampers with chocolate and Chicago tinned beef. In the midst of this mortal embar rassment, this farmer general finds time to joke and humor his men. While retreating with his commando north from Bradf ort, . we came across "BRAN SPAN KIN' NEW" Carriages and Wagons All New Stock a full line of Columbus Buggy. Co.s, Racine Carriage Co.'s, and " Moyer & Keys Bros. Work FRED. B. HUMPHREY 138-142 S. 12th St. Lincoln, Nebraska a Transvaal heliograph corps at sun rise one morning, that had intercepted signals between two English patrols. When De Wet had been told that the enemy intended attacking on the left flank, he ordered the heliographers to signal his thanks, as his men were about to have breakfast on the right flank and did. not want to be disturbed! Personally the man is kind-hearted, agreeable, and courteous to women. On one occasion, at the Sand river, he was coming along at a gallop in full retreat with a troop following, when a well-known American woman who had been witnessing the battle halted him with a rebuke for running away. "You ought to be ashamed," she de clared. "Why don't you stop and fight?" "Allemachte!" exclaimed the leader,- when this had been interpreted to him, and looking the lady over cun ningly, "would you have us all killed?" But he was greatly pleased, and ex pressed admiration for her gameness. It is too early as yet to discuss the ethics of De Wet in the alleged shoot ing of so-called peace envoys, for the information has come only through British sources. But inasmuch as the Boers in all this war have never killed a spy, though jany were captured; never shot a Tommy trying to escape, though fifteen burghers were pierced with bullets at Cape Town prison in one week, and have never hanged a traitor, though many a one deserved it, we could not blame him if he did do this. When a man is fighting for all he loves best, he does not receive kindly the cringing overtures of a ren egade. . THE DRUG HABIT Th American People Swallow Car Loads of Noxious Ingredients Year After Year and Still Some of Them Lire. There is nothing more astonishing to the sane man than the prevalence of the drug habit among the American people. The quantities swallowed are enormous. All classes of people seem to have the habit to a greater or less extent. Out of this habit comes most of the money that the doctors make, for fully one-half of their patients are the results of the drug habit. Several carloads of the stuff come to Lincoln every year and are swallowed by the inhabitants of the town and surround ing country. The habit has grown to such an extent that reputable physi cians are everywhere making stren uous protests. The various forms of faith and mind healing do their best work in the pro test that they make against the use of drugs, among which the most num erous just at present are the Christian scientists. Eminent physicians have for ' many years been declaring that drugs kill far more people every year than they cure. But that statement by the leaders of the profession is by no means a statement that drugs should never, under any circumstances be used. Take a case of poisoning. All the faith and Christian science in the world will not stop the effect of an active poison. A physician will ad minister an antidote and take other measures, which if he is called In time very often saves the life of the patient. While the Christian scientists have as many cures to their credit as the reg ular profession and their protest against the use of drugs has been an incalculable benefit to the world, KIDNEYanoBLADDER . OU R EI . . Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder cHuse Bright's Disease, Rheumatism, GraTeL, Pain in the Back, Bladder Disorders, difficult or too frequent passing water, Dropsy, etc For these diseases a PositXre Kpeeifio Cure is found in a new botanical discovery, the wonderful KtiTa Kava Shrub, called by botanists, the piper methysticum, from the Ganges River, East India. It has the extraordinary record of 1,200 hospital cures in 30 days. It acts directly on the Kidneys, and cures by draining out of the Blood the poisonous Uric Aeid, Urates, Lithates, etc., which cause the disease. Hon. R.C Wood, a leading attorney of Low ell. Ind.. cured of kidney and bladder disease, writes: I am now 65 years old and hare used various kinds of medicines. For the past ten years I hare suffered from rheumatism and liver trouble and have also suffered from kidney and bladder trouble for the past five years. I have been treated by our home physician and by three different specialists, besides having used various so-called specifics without receiving the least benefit. My bladder trouble became so troublesome that I had to get up from five to twelve times during the night to urinate. In fact, I was in misery the whole time and was becoming very despondent. I have now used Alkavis and am better than I have been for rive years. I know Alkavis will cure bladder and kidney trouble, and can most heartily recom mend it to all suffers. I feel so grateful to you that I feel I owe it to you to writs you this. Wishing yon the success you deserve. I am, Respectfully yours, R. C. WOOD. Rev. W. B. Moore, D. D., of Washington, D. C. testifies in the Christian Advocate that Alkavis completely cured him of Kidney and bladder disease of many years' standing. Many ladies, including Mrs. C. C Fowler, of Locktown, N. and Mrs. James Young, of Kent, Ohio, also testify to its wonderful cura tiue powers in kidney and other diseases pecu liar to womanhood. That you may judge of the value of this Great Discovery for yourself, we will send yon one Large Case by mail Free, only asking that when cured yourself you will recommend it to others. It is a sure Specific and can not faiL Address the Church Kidney Cure Company. No. 807 Fourth Avenue, New York City. there is no use to try to make a sane man believe that the work of an ac tive poison is simply an erroneous be lief or that its effects can he overcome by any suggestive treatment or influ ences of the mind. Between those two things there lies the dividing line be tween sanity and Insanity. Against the assaults made upon Christian scientists and their prosecu tion in the courts The Independent enters its most energetic protests The daily press has been filled, espe cially during the last few months, with falsehoods concerning them and Mrs. Eddy, the founder of the sect. It may be that some of the Christian scientist practitioners have made the claims ascribed to them in regard to contagious diseases, hut Mrs. Eddy repudiates them. In an interview which has every mark of genuineness which appeared in the Chicago Record-Herald, Mrs. Eddy says: "I say where vaccination is compul sory, let your children be vaccinated and see that your mind is in such a state that by your prayers it will do the children no harm." After an experience of many decades all men of sound mind who have made a thorough examination of the subject agree that vaccination is a preventive of smallpox. Experience proves that persons who come in contact with smallpox who have never been vacci nated usually contract the disease. That there are a few unvaccinated per sons who are immune to smallpox, re putable physicians will not deny. That thousands of persons who contract smallpox, especially in the mild form that it prevails at the present time will recover without any treatment by drugs, or faith or suggestion, no sane man doubts. Neither do they doubt that probably an equal number of pa tients treated by Christian scientists and the average practitioner will re cover. But disregard the teaching of medical science, abolish vaccination, disregard the sanitary laws that phy sicians have succeeded in having en acted, give the smallpox germ a chance to propagate under favorable circum stances, stop all disinfecting, or, in other words, adopt the theories of Christian science, and does any sane man doubt what the result would-be? In the interview with Mrs. Eddy quoted from above the following oc curs: "Do you reject utterly the bacteria theory of the propagation of disease?" ''Oh:" with a prolonged inflection, "entirely. If I . harbored that idea about a disease I would think myself in danger of catching it. No such thing. I may say that I am very sus ceptible to an atmosphere of fear about me." Is the microscope a fiction. Do the patheologists in our laboratories only imagine that they see these tiny be ings. Are they mistaken about finding them in the blood? Are all the dis coveries of these eminent scientists mortal errors? When the physician who is in doubt about his diagnosis sends a specimen from the throat of his patient to the bacteriologist and the scientist in the laboratory finds the diphtheria germ, does he find it or is that a mortal error? Will the sugges tive treatment of the Christian scien tist kill that germ? Mrs. Eddy says: "I may say that I am very susceptible to an atmosphere of fear about me." The influence of fear and other emotions have been rec ognized by the medical profession for hundreds of years. The old medical works written in the last part of the 17th century are full of descriptions of the effects of fear. Many instances are given where fear caused death. Furthermore, there are several cases reported where the emotions had an actual, visible effect upon the body, such as the case where a window fell down on the fingers of a babe and the mother seeing the accident was so affected that a deep red mark appeared across the mother's fingers that lasted for several days. The effect of the mind upon the body is as well recog nized by physicians as anything in all nature." They all make use of it in healing in one way and another. A most distinguished physician the other day showed this writer his prescrip tion book. He had one of those new fangled things that keeps a copy of ev ery prescription that he writes. More than one-half of those prescriptions had no more medicinal qualities than so much flour. He said it was a mild sort of deception that he was forced to use to prevent his patients from ruining themselves with drugs. They were bound to have something to take and if he did not write prescriptions for them, they would go to the drug store and buy drugs that would be in jurious. There is no sort of doubt that the mind can create actual disease In the human body disease the most acute and desperate. A case was reported not long ago where a man induced appendicitis in that way. He imagined he had appendicitis. He came to con sult a physician who knew that he hadn't a sign of the disease and told him that the pain that he complained of was on the wrong side of the body. The man went away and charged the pain to the other side of the body. Two' months afterward the physician was sent for and found that the man had developed a real case of appendi citis for which an operation was per formed and the patient recovered. It is not unreasonable to believe that if a man can induce an inflammation of the vermiform appendix through the influence of the mind, that that inflam mation might be controlled in the same way. Some regular physicians in New York claim to cure appendicitis without a surgical operation, and their claim seems to be well established. One of them under close questioning said that he relied a great deal upon the influence of suggestion and to in duce the proper state of mind he used harmless drugs. The most reputable physicians are making earnest protests against the drug habit. Prof. Victor C. Vaughan, dean of the department of medicine and surgery in the University of Mich igan, recently published a paper on the subject in which he says: Notwitnstanding the fact that we Americans are very practical people, we are quite credulous, and the nos trum vender probably flourishes no where else as he does among us. We swallow gallons of concoctions of var ious sorts prepared by unscrupulous pretenders, many of whom are wholly ignorant of chemistry, physiology and all other branches of medicine. In spite of the general good sense for which we are justly reputed, at the core we are filled with superstition and are ready to drink from every cup offered us, invariably hoping that in it we may find the elixir of life and a panacea for our many ills. So eager are we in the pursuit of wealth, social position, political ambition or some other glittering bauble that we can not take the time to rest our tired nerves, and when the consequent aches and pains goad us some hasten to the physician, asking him to do the im possible, while others eagerly read the so-called histories of wonderful cures and then proceed to swallow bottle after bottle of some preparation of unknown composition. Fortunately most of these are Inert, but this Is not true of all. Many a babe has fallen into its last sleep un der the influence, of the medicine ad ministered by its mother. Some years ago I made a chemical examination of so-called opium cures then in the market, numbering nearly a score. All of these, with one exception, contained an opiate in; some form; the one ex ception was a solution of comon salt in water. I was once severely berated by an aged man, who was consulting me on account of slight indigestion, because I advised him not to take any medicine. Many of the powders, tablets and other preparations' now so widely used for the relief of headaches and other pains are positively injurious and a number of deaths result from their employment. The fact that no recog nized ill effect follows Immediately af ter the use of a drug does not prove that it has no bad effect; indeed, the appetite may be increased and a gen eral tonic effect be felt under the in fluence of a drug which is slowly caus ing degenerative changes in the liver or kidneys that can never be repaired. The remote as well as the Immediate effects of drugs should be known be fore they are employed In the treat ment of disease. This Is the explana tion of the fact that the scientific med ical man finds it necessary to study the action of new drugs on the lower ani mals before he dares to prescribe them for man. It has been said that the effects of drugs on the lower ani mals and on man are so dissimilar that nothing of value can be learned by such experiments. This statement is not true, as every pharmacologist knows. While the different species of vertebrate animals often show wide variations in the doses necessary to produce certain effects, under the full influence of the drug the results are practically the same. The best prac titioners of medicine do not employ new drugs in the treatment of disease until their effects upon the lower ani mals, even in the minute microscopical changes, have been investigated. Ev ery first-class medical school has its pharmacological and pathological la boratories in which these studies are prosecuted. It must be evident from what has been stated that no medicine, unless it be of the simplest and most harm less character, should be taken except on the prescription of a competent medical man after a personal exami nation of the patient. Nevertheless, it is probably true that nine-tenths of the medicine taken by the people of this country is not prescribed by phy sicians. Members of the regular medi cal profession are not in the habit of giving medicine unless it be indicated, and many diseases are treated without any medication. It must not be supposed that medi cines are altogether useless or that all diseases can be treated without them. For Instance, malaria is caused by the presence of a parasite Introduced into the blood by the bite of a mosquito. Quinine is the only known substance that can be introduced into the body in sufficient quantity to kill the para site. However, even in this case the quinine must be administered at a cer tain time with reference to the onset of the chill and in certain doses before it will prove effective, and a qualified physician, after an examination of the patient, is the only one competent to decide when and in what form and doses the drug should be administered. The physician must first ascertain whether or not the disease is malaria. This he does by a microscopical ex amination of the blood, and then after acquainting himself with the history of the case he orders the quinine to be taken at a time when it will be effec tive. Diphtheria is treated with antitoxin, but this does not indicate that any and all diseases are benefited by the In jection of any kind of lymph or serum. The charlatan is always ready to warp and twist the discoveries of science to his own financial advantage. The qualified physician in a case of sus pected diphtheria takes a culture from the diseased throat, and, having satis fied himself of the true nature of the disease by proper examination, pro ceeds to use an antitoxin, the efficiency of which has been demonstrated by experiments upon animals. It is a sad commentary on our civili zation that this most beneficent dis covery of the value of antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria is now being used by unscrupulous men to support claims that are without scientific foun dation and that hundreds of people with locomotor ataxia and other nerv ous diseases are being treated and de luded by ignorant pretenders to scien tific knowledge. There are men who would not intrust a valuable watch In .need of repair to any but the most skil ful workman, and yet they will trust their bodies in need of repair to men who are wholly ignorant of anatomy and physiology. Looking at this from a selfish standpoint the reputable phy sician has no ground for complaint, because the drug habit to which thou sands are victims furnishes him no in considerable portion of his income. Nostrum venders very commonly sell their preparations under some meaningless or misleading name. In many of these compounds or mixtures, alcohol, opium, chloral, antipyrine or some other harmful drug is intro duced, and after the victim has taken a few bottles he finds that he does not feel well without it and goes on bind ing himself in fetters which he cannot break. Every physician of large ex perience has met with cases of this kind. There is no doubt that the wide spread prevalence of the drug habit is injurious to health and tends to short en life. Many chronic diseases of the digestive organs, liver and kidneys are induced by this habit." " ' Granting that the varied and numer- $5 A MONTH INCLUDING ALL DISEASES, ALL MED ICINES AND . ALL TREATMENT THERE IS NO OTHER CHARGE THE SUM TOTAL TOR TREATMENT BY DRS. SHEPARD & HEADR1CK catarrh; head AND THROAT. Is the voice husky? Do you ache all over? Is the nose stopped up? Do you snore at night? Does the nose bleed easily? - Is this worse toward night? Doe3 the nose itch and burn? Is there pain in front of head? 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