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connected "with the discovery of
'Hdna," as the native Indians of Peru
called the cinchona trees from which
quinine is derived. What do you call
it kwi-nlne, kwe-neen, kin-nine,
keen-heen or liin-neon? It is possible
that your pronunciation of the word
may discover your birthplace. What
a lot of names the drug has had!
Quinine, cinchona, countess powder,
Jesuit's bark, Cardinal De Lugo's
powder, Peruvian bark, China baric,
quina, quinquina, chinchona bark,
etc.
The world is indebted to Louis XIV
for its general introduction. In
France and Italy physicians who pre
scribed its use were persecuted. Pro
testants altogether repudiated It.
Robert Talbot, an Englishman, . cured
the dauphin with it, and Louis le
Grand was induced to buy the secret.
He was the only king that ever em
harked in the drug business.
The discovery of cinchona bark is
enveloped In mystery. The wife of
the Spanish viceroy in 'Peru was
Countess Chinchon. She was cured, of
an intermittent fever by drinking an
infusion of the bark, introduced it In
Madrid and bestowed her name upon
it Chinchona. We have corrupted
this into cinchona. That's one story.
Another is that the Jesuit mission
alries, who were accustomed to taste
the bark of every tree they hewed
down, discovered the precious febri
fuge. A third Is that certain animals
while in a fever happened to gnaw
the bark of the cinchona tree and
were cured. A fourth is that some
persons suffering with fever drank
copiously of a pool of water in which
some- fallen cinchona trees had long
been soaking, charging the water with
the medicinal principle. Their speedy
cure led to an investigation Which
discovered quinine.
One of the strange things aboit
quinine is that it Is not used as medi
cine in the practice of the native phy
sicians of Peru, Ecquador or Colom
bia. The Indians did not even know
of its existence until enlightened by
the Spaniards about 250 years ago.
New York Press.
Power Behind the Boom
The New York correspondent for the
Chicago Tribune, under date of May 2,
sent to his newspaper a report from
which the following extracts are
taken:
As if to emphasize the friendliness
of Judge Parker to trusts, the demo
cratic state committee, at a meeting
in Albany on Saturday, against the
wishes of Hill, but at the dictation of
McCarren, blue eyed Billy Sheehan
and August Belmont himrelf, acting in
behalf of and at the express request of
Judge Parker himself, elected as chair
man Cord Meyer, who innerited his as
sociation with corporations from his
father, who sold out his refinery to the
sugar trust, and who is identified with
as many wealthy corporations as al
most any man in New York.
If Parker should be elected presi
dent, Cord Meyer, as chairman of the
New York central committee certainly
would have something to say in the
next administration at Washington.
It would be flying in the face of hu
man nature to assume for an Instant
that Cord Meyer and August Belmont
would do anything hostile to the great
corporations with which they and their
fathers were associated, and In wnose
funds their own fortunes and those of
their descendants are invested today.
Cord Meyer's father used to supply
bone and charcoal to the Havemeyer
sugar refineries Later on he became
a refiner himself, and subsequently
sold out to the sugar trust, receiving,
of course, stock In that organization.
' When hq died he left a fcftune of Jbe
tween $5,000,000 and ?10,000,000, which
was divided among five children, Cord
Meyer beint? the oldest son. When the
the republicans will naturally circulate
among the fanners handbills showing
the companies with which the chair
man of the democratic state central
committee-is identified. In the mean
while the same hand Dills probably
will bo mailed to the delegates to the
St. Louis convention as a part of tho
campaign now being inaugurated to
stamp Judge Parker as a special friend
and the chosen candidate of trust in
fluence. It may be worth while remembering,
therefore, that Cord Meyer, who, by
the way, was beaten for secretary of
state when he ran in lS!, Is Interested
in the active management of the Amer
ican Agricultural Chemical company,
the Hanover National bank, the Home
Insurance company, the Lake Charles
Rice Milling company, the Lampon
Zinc company, the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company, the Windsor Trust com
pany, the Citizens' Water Supply com
pany, the Cord Meyer company, the
Colonial Safe Deposit company, the
Colonial Trust company, and the Kings
County Trust company, besides a
whole string of other corporations in
which he is a heavy stockholder, and
with whose interests he is necessarily
identified both personally and polit
ically. Mr. Meyer is nominally a Tammany
man. He has always been, a large
contributor to the democratic fund,
and is said to be one of the best "fat
fryers" in the democratic party. Talc
ing one consideration with another,
Mr. Hill seems to have piled up a pret
ty good trust record for the New York
state campaign. In tho first place he
attempted a platform which seems to
indicate, as far as it indicates any
thing, a declaration In favor of state
rights and the exclusive control of cor
porations by state and not by the fed
eral government. The chairman of the
state central committee is an old sugar
trust manwho is still identified with
more corporations than he could pos
sibly count once around on. his nngers
and toes.
The actlvo political influence in favor
of Parker next to Hill himself is Wil
liam P. Sheehan, he or the mild blue
eyes. He is counsel ror August Bel
mont and his subway, as well as for
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit railway..
He was active in the last legislature in
promoting the passage of various
street railway grabs. He has been a
trust lawyer and a lobbyist since be
fore the day when he was lieutenant
governor under Flower. Sheehan is to
be made a member of the national
committee once more, from which ho
was ousted by JNorman Mack. Sheehan
notoriously bolted Brjan both in 1S96
and 1900.
August Belmont is to be the active
man of the Parker campaign, so far as
the financial end is concerned. He
was to have been a delegate at large
to St Louis, but it was feared his
name would vlo Parkor more harm
than good. The democrats from the
south and west have not yet forgotten
the part August Belmont and the
coterie of financiers ho represents
played In inducing Grover Cleveland
to, issue honds to a Wah street syndi
cate at extortionate prices. Mr.
Cleveland, beyond all question, saved
the country from going on a silver
basis, but ho slid It at a fearful price,
and the success of the popular bond is
sue before he went out of office dem
onstrated that he had permitted him
self to be used to pour a stream of
many millions Into the hands of an
unscrupulous ring of financiers In New
York city.
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