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ACUTE DYSPEPSIA. rATIIETIC HEART DISEASE OFTEN .; ATTENDS IT. Modern Treatment Consist In Tie ! moving the Cause. ,0m the Republican, Cedar Rapids,. Iowa). Irs. V. Curley, who has resided in Clarence, ; s-a, for the past twenty-two years, tells an eresting story of what she considers rescue m premature death. Her narrative Is as loW3: 'For ten years prior to 18$i, I was a con- mt sufferer from, acute stomach trouble. I id all the manifold symptoms of acute dy3- ?psia, and at times other troubles were pres it in complication I did not know what it ras to enjoy a meal. No matter how careful might be as to the quality, quantity and 5 reparation of my food, distress always fol lowed eating. I .was despondent and blue. Almost to the point of insanity at times, and would have been glad to die. Often and often 1 could not sleep.- Sympathetic heart trouble set in and time and again I was ob liged to call a doctor in the night to relieve sudden attacks of suffocation which would come on without a moment's warning;. "My troubles increased as time wore on and I spent largo sums in doctor bills, being com pelled to have medical attendants almost con stantly. During 1832 and 1893, it was im possible for me to retain food, and Water brashos plagued me. I wa3 reduced to a skeleton. A consultation of physicians was unable to determine just what did ail me. The doctors gave us as their opinion that the probable trouble was ulceration of the coats -of the stomach and held out no hope of re covery. One doctor said, 'All I can do to relieve your suffering is by the use of opium. . "About this time a. friend of mine, Mrs. Symantha Smith, of Gliddon, Iowa, told me about the case of Mrs. Thurston, of Oxford Junction, Iowa. This lady said she had been afflicted much the same as I had. She had consulted local physicians without relief, and had gone to Davenport for treatment. Giving up all hope of recovery, she was persuaded by a friend to take Dr. Williams' rink Pills. The result was almost magical. "I was led to try them from her'experience, and before many months I felt better than I had for a dozen years. I am now almost free from trouble, and if through some error of diet I feel badly, this splendid remedy sets mo right again. I have regained my strength and am once more in my usual flesh. I sleep well and can eat without distress. I have no doubt that I owo my rocovory to Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills. I only wish that I had heard of them years ago, thereby saving myself ten "years of suffering and much money." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the ele ments necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for salo by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine .Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for OQe. per box, or six boxes for $2.50. General Hancock's Firmness. General Hancock was In command of the train which brought General Grant's remains from Mt. McGregor to New York. He and his staff were in the coach next to the last In the rear car was a party of Pennsylvania militia officers, who were popping an occas ionM bottle of champagne and smok ing quite sociably. General Hancock saiv through from his car what was going on In the rear. It did not com port with his ideas of the proprieties of s5 solemn an occasion, and, calling the conductor, he said: "Will you present my compliments to those gentlemen, with the request that they cea3e smoking and drinking?" In a few moments the conductor re turned with the announcement that the convivial officers returned their compli ments with a peremptory declination to relinquish their cigars or wine. "Where is the next switch?" asked nancock. "About five miles below," replied the conductor. "When you reach it, if the smoking and drinking in that car has not ceased, switch In on a sidetrack and leave it You may tell the gentlemen what I have said." In two minutes cigars and wine were not to be seen in the rear coach. Its occupants knew' that Haucock meant Just what he said. CHINESE CRUELTY. GHASTLY SCEVE AT AS EXECU TION PLACE-IN CANTON. While the Death-Squad Were Un dergoing Decapitation the Crowd Made Merry The Su- preme Horror. Jr OME four . years ago, says a writer in Harper's Weekly, I v 1 snent fnnr dn.va in Hnnf nn fl-io i. . J " , . metropolis of Southern China, on a special mission to investigate Chinese justice, and the results sur passed my most ghastly anticipation. What I witnessed was nothing un usual, and is the daily practice of the country, but I am compelled to tone down the details to make them pre sentable' for publication. Nothing but the strongest spirit of inquiry, supported by an iron resolution, car ried me through the horrors of those days, and for weeks afterward I suf fered from perpetual nightmare. The place of execution, or "Matou," as it is called by tb.9 Chinese, is a iil thy yard, long and narrow, like a blind alley, and, singularly enough, it is used as a potter's field when not re quired for execution. On a cold January afternoon I pro ceeded thither to witness the final re lease of a batch of poor wretches who had already undergone a prolonged course of torture. On this occasion the death-squad consists of thirteen, who . are tightly bound hand and foot and carried in, huddled up in baskets slang on a bamboo between two coolies. On ar riving at the centre of the ground these living loads are pitched out un ceremoniously, and immediately seized by the executioner and his assistants, who arrange them in two lines in a kneeling position. ' " At a nod from the presiding man darin, and with incredible swiftness. the butchery commences. The assist ant seizes the first victim by the shoulders from behind, while the ex ecutioner steps up to his left side, armed with an enormously heavy short sword with a broad blade and razor like edge. Witliout any.compulsion, the victim, still kneeling, bends his head forward, and. almost instantane ously it leaps from it3 body, severed by one swift stroke. The assistant pushes the trunk over forward, and a shrill burst of approving "li-yahs goes up from the crowd. After the uncertain and clumsy op erations of the medisaval headsman, one had been led to suppose that a hu man head required a great deal of severance ; but so adept are the Chi nese executioners that they appear to display no more effort or emotion in cutting off a head than they would in lopping a poppy from its stalk. With fearful rapidity the slaughter proceeds, and not five seconds elapse between the fall of each head. One un erring stroke ends each life, and the Bed or All To cleanse the system in a gentle and trnly beneficial manner, when the Springtime come, Qfe the true and perfect remedy,Syrupof Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costa only 50 cents; the lar? e aie $1. Try It and be pleased. Manufactured by the Califor Fl Syrup Co. only. Socrates wa said to remember tb.9 faces na-nes of air who attended his dis course, t victims are so arranged that each can witness the fate of all those in frpnt of him before his turn comes. The crowd is now in the most jovial humor, and signifies its light-hearted enjoyment by ribald chaff at the ex pense of the remaining victims, who frequently retort defiantly, and exhibit the most stolid indifference to their fate. Suddenlv a burst of merriment arises in one corner. A portly mer chant has approached too near, and his lonsr white coat is splashed with blood. How the bystanders laugh ! Was there ever such a good joke 1 The last few heads are falling now, when my hand is plucked by an ex cited vounerster of ten, dancing with delighti who cries, eagerly, "Ho-tai?" (Isn't it beautiful?) I repress a fierce desire to throttle him, and m a few- seconds all is over. Justice- is vindi cated, and the crowd quickly dis perses, all but the city gamins, who remain behind to rehearse the whole proceedings and to skylark with the bodies. Horrible though the sight has been, death has, at any rate, been swift and merciful, but another day the su premo horror of Chinesa justice is revealed to us. For certain offenders, notably par ricides and women who kill their hus bands, the penalty is the "Ling-chee," or "thousand cuts." This is too ghastly for detailed description, but suffice it to say that the victim is first crucified to a low cross, and then 6lowly sliced to pieces with a knife. So skillful is the executioner that although his victim soon becomes al most unrecognizable as a human be ing, yet no vital wound ia indicted till perhaps half an hour of this torture has elapsed, when the agony is ended by decapitation. So superior an entertainment as this is naturally rewarded by a full house, and even greater merriment prevails than at mere head-chopping displays, which savor somewhat of monotony to the blase Cantonese. When Old Railroaders Smile. "Old railroaders smile frequently when they read in the newspapers the accounts of alleged thrilling adven tures of engineers," said a member of the craft. "For instance, I noticed a story in some Chicago paper not long ago of the terribla experience of a man whose hair was. turned white in fifteen minutes, or something of that kind, by the close call ho had fox go ing through a bridge. There had been a heavy rain, the supports had been undermined, and the whole busi ness would have gone down under the next train that struck it. "All this would have haDoencd if the eagle eye' of the man at the throttle hadn't taken in the situation about half a mile back on a heavy down grade and reversed his engine. The queer part of the story was that this 'eagle eye that s what we call 'em on the road daren't reverse hi3 lever until he had nearly brought the train to standstill with the air brake.. 'Otherwise,' said this "story writer, 'the engine would have jumped the track.' That is to say, if he had put on the air brake and reversed his lever at the same time the sudden stoppage and reversal would have thrown her off. "Xow, all this reads very well, I suppose, to the general public, who don't care whether a thing is true or not, just so it interests them. It amuses a railroad man for another reason. He knows that an engine won't do anything of the sort. When ever there is danger ahead which com-, pels a man to stop right quick he doesn't.have any time to waste setting the brakes and then waiting for . his train to slow up before he throws his lever. He gives the air brake a shove with his foot and throws back the lever, all by the same motion, you might say. It's all done in a second. "Then if he has a- chance he looks out for himself ; he has done all he can and he jumps. As a general rule, if the accident which he has prepared for really takes place he doesn't have time to jump, and although engineers are as brave as any set of men alive, because a man takes his life in his hand whenever he goes out on a run, they often get-the credit of being heroes and sticking to their engines in the face of danger when, as a mat- -ter of fact, it was the only thing they could possibly do. When a man dis covers a washout or another train com ing toward him on the same track it is usually too late to get out of the way before the smash takes place. The heroism comes in in folding a place year in and year out which is liable to cost him his life at any hour of the , day or night through the blander of some one else or some accident that nobody could foresee or prevent." Chicago Tribune. . ' Considerate. Tenant See here! That fiat you rent ed to me is full of cockroaches. Agent That's all right We never claim anything left over by a former tenant. New I York World. An Odd Ballroom. O. H. P. Belmont will occupy his luxurious bachelor apartments in his new combination villa and stablo at Newport, B. I., next eeason. There will be a grand ball in the way of a housewarming. The building has' a big ballroom on ths second floor, which is reached by an immencq ele vator. Guests will drive in on the lower floor, and their horses and car riages will be taken up on the eleva tor, just as they are- driven in, so that persons may alight directly at the ballroom door. New York Press. Pat It Oar. TYnat a little spark can do is illustrated by the burning down of Chicago, and the modern apparatus for putting oat great fires. The spark too enters the human family with do vastating effects; hence we hear of so many deaths by accidents with fire among careless cooks and children. This is another field of operation but a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil is the apparatus to put the fire out of the sys tem. Used according to direction It will soothe, heal, cure and leave no ugly scar be hind. The healing process gives new surface and kindly does its work. Jonabad Almanor, the famous could converse la twenty-seven linzulst. different languages. 9100 llefrard, 9100. The reader of ! this paper will be pleased to earn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stajes, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Care is the only positive cure known to the medicat fraternity. Catarrh being a roastitUs lional disease, requires a constitutional reat mcnt. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally-, acting directly on. the blood an I mucous sur faced of th system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dis;as3, and givmx the pa tient strength by building up the constitution: and asa'sting nature in aoinn its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers,-that they offer One Hundred Do lara for anv case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testmonuis. Address , F. J. Cheney & Co.,Tolodo, O, 525?Soid by Druggists, 75c. If we taxeJ wisdom and let each cn3 a Bess himself wha: a big reveaue tha State would have. I - Health Is Fconorar. A well man caii do as mut-h work as two men who are" under the weather." and do it better A box ot Ripans Tabuies In the office will save clerk-hire. There are five State of the German Em pire each smaller than Rbode Island. Piao's Curo for Coni amotion has saved me many a doctor's bill 3. P. Hardy, Hopkins Place, Baltimore, Mil., Dsc. 2, 1831. To Save Carpets, Pneumatic, matting, for uso under stair carpets, is a recent invention. It saves the carpet, and reduces the noise J- 1 .31.. ,1 .11 41. stairs. : ! OMEN'S FACES like flowers, fade and wither with time; the bloom of the rose is only known to the lieal thy woman's cheeks. The nerv - Atic cfriin r i f- 1 WW the ailments and pains peculiar to the sex, and the labor and worry of rearing a family, can often be traced by the lines in the woman's face. Dull eyes, the sallow or wrinkled face and those "feelings of weakness" have theit rise in the derangements and irregularities peculiar to women. The functional de rangements, painful disorders, and chronic weaknesses of women, can be cured with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. For the young girl just. entering womanhood, foi the mother and those about to become mothers, and later in "the change of life," the "Prescription " is just what they need; it aids nature in preparing the system foi the change. It's a medicine prescribed foi thirty years, in the diseases of women, bj Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti tute, at Buffalo, N. Y Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription will cure the chronic inflamma tion of the lining membranes which cause 9iwt-a (.auautiua, va uiii asvsu ia 3 j - It cures nervous prostration, sleeplessness, faintness. nervous debility and all disorders arising from derangement of the female organs and functions. . -Mrs. JfeNNiE Wilmams, of Mohank. Lane Co. Oregon, writes: "I was sick for over three years with blind dizzy ipells, , palpitation of the heart, pain in the back and head, and at tiines would have such a weak tired feel ing when I first got up in the morning, and at times nervous :hills. i ine pnvsicians an- a , fered as to what my . r aisease was. but none 1 3f them did me any r rood. As soon as rommenced taking Dr. J Pierce's Favorite Pre- -VS iS icnption. I began to ret better ;couW sleep Mas. Williams. well nights, and that bad. nervous feeling and the oain in my back soon left me. I can. walk serer U miles without getting tired. I took in all three dottles pf Prescription and two of ' DiscoTery " CliftiS iinLtit ail L& fJULS. is Beat Couth SjTna. Taste Good. Use
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