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    SWALLOWS OER5IS
TO PROVE DISEASES ARE NOT
CONTACIOUS.
IiftrlmBItl far Taa Ion -lluriae
Tkat Tlata Ha I'lalac ta Hava Taken
Ik* Rarllll of Virulent lllieavaa lata
■ la Iptva
BN have done very I
strange things and |
have taken deeper- !
ate chances in the ,
interest of scienae,
but none haw been
sti anger or more
desiierate than the
act of Or. Thomas
Powell, a leading
physician of I»s
Angeloa, Cal., who
, has actually taken into hie system dur
ing the past ten years tho germs of
the deadliest diseases, for the specific
purpose of shattering the time-honored
theories regarding tho transmission of
contagious complaints from one per
son to another. Incredible as it may
seem. Dr. Powell has not only sur
vived the desperate experiments that
he has undertaken, but has never
shown tho slightest signs of any ill ef
fects resulting from them. The evi
dence regarding the truth of his claim
is conclusive. His own written state
ments are hacked up by the testimony
of many well-known physicians In :
whose presence Dr. Powell has taken ;
the germs into his system during ex- ]
peri merits that be has been secretly i
making during the past ten years. Dr. !
Powell has decided that the time has
* come for giving to the world the re
su!» of his experiments, which he
claim* have been a complete and un
qualified success. Here Is the doctor's
statement of the result of his defiance
of the power of germs:
"Hefore going Into the details of my
experiments with the germ* of viru
lent diseases, I want to preface my
statements with the explanation that
I do not declare the germs to be harm
less in all cases. What I do say Is that
a person to whom the germs of a par
ticular disease are likely to prove dan
gerous mHst have a predisposition to
wards that particular disease, such
predisposition being either hereditary
or acquired. Given a man or woman
with no such predisposition and I hold
that tbs deadliest germs are powerless
io harm them. They can enter the
sick chamber without fear of contract
ing disease, or even do as 1 have Hone,
take the living germ Into their sys
tem and suffer no harm. My experi
ment* have proved the truth of iny
theory.
"J that disease germs ara ut
terly Incapable of successfully aasalk.
Ing the tissues of the living body; that
they are the results and not the cause
of disease; that they are not in the
DR. THOS. POWELL,
least Inimical to the life or health of
ihe body; that, on the ctmtrary. It U
their peculiar function to rescue the
living organism, whether of man or
beast, from impending injury or de
struction. They accomplish this by
bringing about the decomposition of
that obstructing matter which consti
tuted predisposition to disease and
cause it to be passed out by the blood.
"Kor ten years I have worked on
Ihts theory, and the results achieved
I now give to the world. I determined
in the first place to experiment by in
oculating, not an animal whose hold
upon life is exceedingly feeble, as Is
that of the rabbit or guinea pig, hut
the human body. 1 made the experi
ments upon myself, then upon mem
bers sf my own family, and lastly up
on surh patients as were within the
range of safe experimentation. 1 in
oculated myself with the most viru
lent typhoid bacilli ootaiuauie, having
first eradicated from my system any
predisposing cause for the disease.
The result was entirely satisfactory,
no evil ensuing beyond the usual sore
ucs* at In vaccination. Then I took
tutu my system the typhoid bacilli,
and no typhoid fever making its ap
pearance. 1 repealed the experiment
with diphtheria germs, without the
least perceptible affect In order to
tuake the experiment* still more com
plete, I cultivated the germs of diph
theria and glaaders ualli there cuutd
he su doubt a* to their virility, aad
•null them into m» system la the pres
sure *1 two reputable physlelaaa The
eutrato# praelaely the same as ke
tore.
"Thea I made the gtasnai trial ef
-u |a the preeeace of twenty •««
physUlass I ttrnh. hrat the hactiii uf
typhwkd Idlu the stumack Incleaed '•
gelatine gapsulee, snd muni lh* ba
eUM «f diphtheria hy hsk the <• e».
method aad suhcxttaxMuua taee
idattoa Rxaghfaattoa* were efter
earda made hy the physleiaag referral
m ef the twite, the temperature aa4
•f the reepiraito*. aad H wag waaat
mwsR dew to red that thaw* lateral*
i sex psvdered au greet eg effect ugssa
me thee might have bee* egpatoed
fram a IN* fwaatHy ef ealae la to
•ler that there should be no possibility
of doubting Thomases declaring that
the experiments were successful only
In my ease, and that t had in some way
been made contagion-proof by nature,
I singled out from among my patients
two who appeared to be (it subjects
for similar experimentations, and.
with their consent, put them through
the same course as I hail undergone,
with leas virulent diseases. The out
come proved that my calculations were
well founded, no evil resulting In their
case any more thsn in mine."
GREAT LEGAL MIND.
.• _ -
Sir I htrln Kn*«eil la On# of FuglauU's
Foremost laaicri.
Sir Charles Russell, lord chief justice
of Kngland. is far and away the great
est legal mind of these times. As u
jurist he Is unsurpassed and as a states
man he Is great. All In all. It may be
truly said that Lord Russell la ‘he
greatest Irishman, and he la Irish nil
through By sheer forte of brain and j
ability he won tils way. step by step, j
to the lofty height he notv looks down ^
from, laird Russell w.i- made a peer
by the queen arid advanced to the high- j
est Judicial place oil the earth Just lie- |
cause he bad the stuff in him. His
intense Irish nay, anli-Knglish—sen
timents did not stand in his way. laird
Russell wa-i Parnell's "outside man,"
as they say over there. That Is. he was
the great patriot’s adviser. The Kng
lii.h felt the force of his ability direct- |
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL. i
ed against themselves, recognized tal
ent when they found It even In a Ro
man Catholic Irishman, uml made him
lord chief Justice, Sir Charles gave up
a law practice of $125,000 a year to take
a place on the bench at less than half
that Income. He was born In Newry M
3eufleld House, Rostrevor, educated at ;
rrlnity, Dublin, and going to I>ondon
swept all before him In the law courts.
[Sreaf. Britain’s most profound lawyer f
!? a jovial, happy, sunny man. who
loves a laugh, and who Is fond of open
air exercise. When Isjrd Russell was
at the bar It Is said that he was the
most terrible cross-examiner In all
Fleet street; He Is admitted upon ail ^
hands to be the most eloquent and stir- j
ring orator In the United Kingdom, and
his speeches are classic.
BISHOP OF NEW ORLEANS.
A Noted Prelate of tbe Roman Cliorch
for the Cr«*rwil City.
Right IWtv. Camlllus Paul Macs, wild,
It Is reported, has been chosen by the
pope to succeed the late Archbishop
Janssens as Homan Catholic archbishop
of New Orleans, Is a native of Belgium
and one of the most, learned of the
fathers of the church. He studied the
arts In the college at Courtral, In West
Flanders, and then entered the semi
nary at Bruges to prepare for the
priesthood. He was ambitious to de
vote himself to the mission In the
United States, and to that end he en
tered the American college at l<ouvai9,
where he completed his course and was
ordained for the diocese of Detroit.
When he arrived in Michigan he was
made pastor of St. Peter’s Church at
Mount Clemens, und after two years of
service there he wan assigned to Mon
roe, one of the oldest Catholic seats In
America. There he waB pastor of St.
Mary’s and later of St. John's. In 18X0
he became secretary of Bishop Borgess,
and In 1884 he was elected to the '.ee
of Covington and attended the plenary
council in Baltimore. ArchbUhop Eld
er of Cincinnati consecrated Dr. Macs
In the cathedral at Covington. This
was In January, 1885, since which timo
i
Rumor MAR*.
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i ha iIIiimw of Otiln|lu«, lla la o«w
&l year* old
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It 0. Coopat *.**a a • uri..ua lullin',
of ika aullcltoda of o uottaraiiy for
Ho ati.danta It U oaa of tha ru!»a at
tl.idall arg I ha l all atudcou doiH« lah
oratory aorh and «»» attoodiop at
yartonaotal lartura# to ebaMtatry shall
tab# out ao a.vldaai lataraars policy
•otarla* tuaoaltlaa or-corrlao to tba
•tartiaca If o atodaai to cotirvlr 41,
ah lad ha raccivao h'h» par aaauat atth
a corroata-adlM aUaator* fur laaaar
lalortaa Hr tHwpot aaya thtt rah to
probably am ao «t«ol aa ouiutdara
otay aoaaoaa fiua thta upiltiiua aa
'ha per at loco lot lecture nairoa pat
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HENRY S. BOUTELL.
NEW CONGRESSMAN FROM THE
SIXTH ILLINOIS.
H* Is a l.farusd Man and Is l.lkctr to
Maks Ills Mark la Congress His
Klsrlloa Conlsst EnliaS National la
Isrssl.
K a mau wants to
go to aongress from
Chicago he most
first of all be a law
yer. Whether he ;«
a Democrat, a Re
publican or a Pop
ulist Is a second
ary consideration.
The four candi
dates who recently
contested for the
seat of the late K. D. Cook were all
disciples of Hiackslone. Henry Sher
man Boutell was chosen by a plurality
of 849. His predecessor, Mr. Cook, was
elected last year by a majority of 7,000
or therealwuts. The discrepancy shows
the lack of Interest In off years. The
successful candidate Is an able man and
on any side of any question would
make his mark In congress. He was
horn in Boston, Mass., March 14, 183d,
and Is the oldest surviving son of Ma
jor Iz-wIh Henry and Anne Green Bou
tell. The son went to Chicago wl‘h
his mother on Jan. 1. 1884, His uni
versity course was taken ut North
western In Hvanston, from which he
graduated In 1874. Afterward he went
to Harvard, graduating In 1878, and in
1877 he received from Harvard the de
gree of A. M. In civil and International
law. He entered the law office of Up
ton, Boutell & Waterman In 1877 and
completed his law studies in 1879 at
SprlngllcbJ, where he was acting as
private secretary to the lieutenant
governor. Mr. Boutell was admitted o
the bar In 1879. In 1882 he became a
member of the firm of Boutell, Water
man & Boutell, the other memlier* be
ing his father and A. N. Waterman. In
1884 Mr. Boutell took great Interest In
the preparation of the municipal elec
tion law .and In November of that year
he was elected a member of the legU
lattire as a Republican from the Sixth
Senatorial District, receiving the larg
est vote ever cast for any candidate In
that district, He was chairman of the
special committee having charge of tho
civil service reform bill. Mr. Boutell
married Euphemia, only child of
Charles Horatio Oates of Boston, on
Dec. 29. 1880. and he has three chil
dren. He Is a member of the State ami
Chicago Bar Associations, of the Chi
cago, Union league, University and
Literary clubs, the Ixiyal Legion. Sons
of the American Revolution. Society of
Coloulal Wars, and of Beta Theta Pi
college fraternity. He wus for three
years secretary and for two years pres
ident of the Harvard Alumni Club of
Chicago. He is also an active member
of the Citizens' Association and the ,
Civil Service Reform League.
CHINESE CASH.
A Scarcity of Small 1'oluuse In the
Slower? Kingdom.
The commissioner of customs at
Han kail, on the Vauglse, discusses in
a resent report the great scarcity < f
tho small coins, called cash. In China
during the past few years. He say*
that much of this currency was burl'd
(or safety during the Tatplng rebellion,
and the owners having been extermin
ated. their hoards were Irretrievably
lost. Very little cash has beau coined
for many years, while the population
baa greatly Increased, and factlitiee for
transport have caused a great develop
ment of trade. A few years slnrt- a
good deal uf this rash was smelted for
the purpose of mailing brass puts,
pipes, etc, ae cash was then much
cheaper la relatloa to silver Kev.t»
measure* were taken to present this
illreai pro* • edtug. and It IS lmp**salble
now to ascertain whether It still sx*
lets to any extent. Hut the norm**
lag value of sash In relation to stiver
haa probably pot a stop to It I "hah
are toads of brass, not copper, and
the hmaa la a mixture ef about xu per
sent uf > upper and Id per sent of ape!
tap line thousand good sash smelled
Weigh IH enlllea 11 unity equals I I 1
pound* 11% sal ties uf henna coat at
pan I im each to that if a man
wasta to asnha 1% salt tea of braes
ptpm he van d*> so h» smelting i.now
<ash. instead of buying copper and
spelter for 1.330 cash. The saving of
330 cash on 7 Vi catties of brass Is a
high premium. The rise In the silver
price of cash will decrease the export
trade, for It will increase the price of
all exports. The commissioner in*
stances skins. “The people who sell
skins In the interior to collectors rt
quire payment in cash; the collector,
In turn, requires cash, and cash only,
and if be does not get enough cash as
profit he wil not collect skins. The
export of skins became possible be
cause these skins were purchased with
?a*h, which-cash'was purchased with
silver, which silver was purchased
with gold, the skins being sold for gold
In Europe. Now, however, the gain
between gold and silver has to be bal
anced by the loss between sliver and
cash. The same cause which enabled
the merchant here to send skins to
Europe also enabled the foreign mer
chant in Japan to send copper abroad,
chiefly to Ixmdon. This export of
copper from Japan to London caused
a rise In the price of copper in Japan,
and, as lian-kau gets copper chiefly
from Ja|»an, the price of copper in
lian-kau also increased, and this rise
caused Increased smelting of cash. A
few years ago a dollar was worth near
ly 1,200 cash; the lowest rate It touched
in 1890 was about 840.”— I,ondo:i
Times.
WILLIAM LECKY.
II* K*pr«**nt* * L'ntv«r«lty In th*
Hrlilsh Fitrllaiornt.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky was
born at Newton l'ark, near Dublin, and
sits In Parliament for Dublin Univer
sity. This Illustrious historian is one
I of the brightest scholars that scholarly
Ireland has produced. Although a
Unionist, he Is in thorough sympathy
with his race and his country, and his
works, especially his “History of Eng
land," have done much for the advance
ment of the Irish cause. Mr. Lecky
wrote that famous book, “History of
European Morals, from Augustus to
Charlemagne," and published it in
1889. It became a classic upon Its pub
lication, and no historical work ranks
above It. Akin to this grand perform
ance of the pen Is his "History of the
Rise and Influence of the Hpirlt of Ita
tionalism in Europe,” a book that is
considered by some to be of more im
portance than his popular masterpiece.
He has written a little library on the
history of Ireland, chiefly valuable to
statesmen and statists, and he has also
written a "History of England in the
Eighteenth Century," a work which has
taken high rank, and which baB been
translated Into Herman. Many of his
other works have also been done into
various languages. Mr. Leeky is now
59 years old. At 52 he brought out a
little volume of poems, most of which
were written when he was a young man
and some after he hail grown older.
The poems are by no means the be3t
Wll.UAM LKt'KY.
thing* that Mr lo-thy ha* tluu*. II*
la m ir* the historian ana lawyer than
b* la I ha tuaa of latter*
fiat at r«i|HIMM.
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tag Ml met. t»a iwrb llttho **<b.
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mortar ahtlla. watgbtag »•» g-un.l*
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COUNT GOLUCHO WSKI.
ONE OF THE FOREMOST EURO
PEAN STATESMEN.
He Helietee la Shattiag 0*1 Cenipell
tlan at the Alleged ( beep I.Bbf
the Called mate* —HI* Recenl hpee. h
oa the dohjert.
_
01'NT Agenor m
luchowskl, the Aus
trian minister if
foreign affaire w.io
desires to unite
Europe In a com
mercial war on th"
countries of Amer
ica, has the repu
tation among Eu
ropean diplomats
and statesmen of
being a very peaceful man. His recent
speech, in which he almost violently
advocated a concert of Europe for in
dustrial warfare on the United States
and the South American republics,
would be startling were there any pos
sibility of the count's plan being put
In practice. The count is a man in the
prime of life. He comes from a fam
ily which has been powerful in Aus
trian affairs for several generation .
and he holds one of the three minis
terial places within the gift of his
country. His only associates of equal
power and rank are the ministers of
war and finance. He has been regard
ed as one of the most brilliant diplo
mats in all the countries immediate
ly concerned In the troubles over the
Balkan states. It was his calm, deci
sive action in the last engagement be
tween Turkey and Greece that kept the
small provinces In a stale of peace. His
word Is law on diplomatic matters cov
ering uncertain territory between ins
own country and the Bosphorus, he
having served for years as head of the
diplomatic corps at Bucharest, the cap
ital of Roumania. It is to him that
the nations have looked for a quiet ad
justment of the eastern problems, Hi*
utterances against the crushing com
petition of the transatlantic nations Is
looked upon with amusement. He
claims all the countries of Europe must
stand shoulder to shoulder against the
encroachments made by the world
across the ocean. His remarks arc the
most serious, when it is remembered
that It Is suspected that he made them
with the full consent of the other pow
ers which arc trying to hold their own
against the commercial activity of the
western world. The Austrian authori
ties declare that the count's warning
COUNT OOLUCHOWSKI.
was more a desire than an express! >n
of a program.
Horse F.«»h »» a Hellracy.
The ancients considered horse meat
as a delicious food and offered it to
their guests as a mark of honor. Pliny
says that the ancients killed their
horses and ate their flesh raw. The
Sarmations, when hungry, never hesi
tated to cut a vein of the animal on
which they were riding, drink his
blood and then hind the wound to rave
the precious fluid. An embassy sent
by the king of France on a mission
to the Khan of Tartary, ate deliriously
smoked horse sides at his excellency’s
table. While horse flesh was eaten
generally among Germans until the
days of Charlemagne, it was regarded
with aversion by the early Christians.
At that time there was a crusade
against this meat because of its being
“unclean, unwholesome and untit to
eat.'* The present revival of the use
of horse flesh, concerning which the
French papers have had so much to
say, is the result of a movement among
prominent men. the principal object of
fthich is to add to the food resources
of the world.
Shah t'nnil ill
tu enthusiasm for rats the shah of
|vraU surptatns all oth r royal devo
teea. Il« haa fifty of them unit they
have attendants of their own with spe
cial rooms for m-ala. When the ah ih
SUM nway they go too. rarr ed by man
on horseback The lata c*ar of Huaata
was very fond of the feliua tribe.
When visiting the king of Denmark
| on one occasion be alarmed Hi* m*
niala by making out very early one
morning to the gardens fran the
window of hie sleeping room he had
■ wen a big dog attach hie favorite
i blech cal. and. without etaytag to com
! plete bta toilet, he had fled to her r»t
cue The famous royal eat of glam In
n large white short haired variety,
with blech, face and a peculiar form i
tton of ear lie precleneaeee may he
lodged from the M that It earn tooh
three gentleman of Influence three
month* in procure one fur aa Kugd.h
consul at lUnghoh
•caMMS MM daw (a a Maxell
A man In UmUdlle. Kv horrahsd
»i loud fur hie petlUral candidal# that
he dtehwated hie fltwheae lie eead
arena* fur some time with h«e mouth
1 eld* Ugcm, leaking f»C a date
MOLTKE OF TODAV.
Tbs Stftnin Soldier Wh mm fchs Veit
War Will l’«t Forward.
Of the three great men who helped
to rear the German empire only one
is now alive. Wilhelm baa eventvial
ly succeeded his grandfather. Who
has succeeded Moltke? Few persons
t in this country, we believe, could .n
swcr the question, says London Bla k
i and White. Vet every German who
j studies his Brockhaus must know, and
at the outbreak of the nest German
war the entire world would know, that
ft is the "Graf von Wnlderaee. General
oberst der Kavallerie," the latter title
being without an exact Kogllsh cqulv- w
alent, but It may lie Interpreted as
general-ln-chief of the cavalry After
a long and brilliant aervice dating back
to 1850, Count von Walderaee was, on
the accession of the present emperor,
appointed to flit the place of the late
renowned sirateglst. The key to in
lock his lipH is the magic word,
• Moltke." Talk of him and you will
draw from the count bla admiration for
the memory and Illustrious talen ■ f
his chief and teacher of the ar; < f
war. Modest as he is of his
achievements, the count’s face Ugh!'
up with a proud smile as tie tells you
how Moltke appreciated hia strategi il
ability and specially prepared him to
succeed to his appointment. Ills >*< -
know lodgment of what tie owes to the
military skill of Prince Charley, to
whom he was adjutant in 1885, Is
equally unstinted; while there is little
doubt, though he would be the last to
tell you, that thn present excellence of
the German cavalry Is grcutly due to
his own efforts as commander of this
particular branch of the service ever
since the Franco-German war lim
ing the war, besides helping to mobil
Was th/. f rrmna hn u/'Aft nnnnllllpfl fhif f fc
of the staff of the governor of Pari ■. ^
and In this capacity he was deputed on
the highly Important and delicate mis
sion of demanding the first Installnc :it
of the war indemnity. His personal
account of how this was accomplished
is highly graphic. At his hack Moltke
was ready with his cannon tf> open tiro
at the least symptom of evasion or de
lay. And yet everything had to be
arranged with politeness and sang
frold. When he Anally emerged from
the meeting with the French plenipo
tentiaries with a check for 60,000,000 in
his pocket, he described how he felt a
weight off his mind as he realized I hat
no further blood need be shed, and that
the Fatherland had won Its earnest of
the substantial fruits of a victory
which had already cost it so many
thousand brave lives.
REV. DR. HUOHES
Oils of tli« Most (>l«iir»t»d IUvIiih* of
KnflaniL
Kev. Hugh Price Hughes, perh ips
the foremost of divines in England, Is
a Wesleyan preacher who was born
fifty years ago at Carmarthen, South
Wales. He is about to visit this coun
try. In 1889 Hugh Price Hughes pub
lished "Social Christianity," which i: is
run through several editions, and in
1890 "The Philanthropy of God." In
1892 he was prominently before the
whole religious world by way of the
work he did at the “Review of the
Churches,” a conference at Grinden
wald. Here he proposed a reconciliation
between the Church of England and
the dissenters, which caused extreme
discussion. In 1893 he took part In the.
conferences at Lucerne. Ho Is a lead
er of “The Forward Movement," which
encourages social as well as individual
salvation. Mr. Hughes got his secular
education tn University College, Lon
don, and his divinity in tho Wesleyan
Theological College at Richmond. 'Die
celebrated Dr. Moulton was his tutor.
All of his f”ipolntment3 have been n
England. Tie preached at Dover,
llrighton, London, Oxford and Hrlx
ton Hill. He next got. into the West
London Mission. In that field the
scenes of hlB work have been In St.
■lames' Hall, Princes' Hall, Wardour
Hall and Cleveland Hall. This mission
has a social center in Soho square and
promotes the interests of a residence
for young men and a sisterhood. Mr.
Hughes has a way of always saying
something that provokes a discussion
in the journals and among tho clergy
of the established church. Ills Ideas
are practical aud entirely unconven
tional. and he may he said to be the
i
hkv iiihim pmk'u tirmtUA
l<rodurt ef modern eaitl rondlll >»a
acting Ike rellaiiMia element* n
man.
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1 kef* te a ««d old etoij el e e«b.
era) ntioee death *a* announced in a
neteatmiMtr t>» mieteha • cr«e*ra
•tame »hi«k annoted him ter) much
Me miked en Ilka ellwr aad demanded
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