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. . - :. " y ' "4 -- -..U-v.-. ; .y ; 1 . xJJ r , . r .... V . .. v ; .. . .. ,.. ' ' f , . !' - .1 - i ! ; " . . . " - ' .," - -- . - " - - .' i , '"J ' . ' . fr . : i j i ,r " :,- .- v - -v. '-'!X''' ' " M.. ' i '", ; . ' -"'.. M ' . - - . ; : - : I - j i " . y I FEABLESSLY THE RIGHT DEFEND OfPAETIAIiliY THE WBONG CONDEMN. VOLUME I. PQLKTOjS, ANSON CO., N. 'C., THTJESDAY, JUNE 18, 1874. NUMBER! i . .;jtr i-'1 Farm and Household Department. The Iast of Sham. I Feminine Tact. The Fork Affair. Confidence Men. Play andjjPlajpi r - . . -i , .. i- : . . i .'in . . t I To Improve Bog Meadow. At a meeting of the .Farmers' CJub, Mr. Ely read a paper on the importance of bog mv?adow3. He said : Bogs only grow where there is an excess of water. - They start grass early cn their humpjocks, but it soon becomes so coarse and .tough that no cow or horse will eat it. First drain -it well ; cut a main ditclu Then if there are springs on its' border otf the outside, dig your' drains so as to cut them all off. If you have your utlet, that is the main drain, low as to carry 'all the sur- plus water off, your bogs wur all aie in a short time, making if an easy matter to cut them off by using a steut bog hoe made for the purpose. Do not pile them Up on the ground, but diaw them off ; make a pile of old rubbish, wood, and : stumps, that will start a fire in the neap ; once well on fire they will burn till they are all consumed, making you a fice lot of ashes. Make your "ditches somewhat in the 'shape of the letter V, slanting on each side towards the bot tom. Do cot lettha bog dirt remain on the side of your ditches, but draw It off to' some upland. It will pay you well for so doing. The first year plow as well as you can ; harrow well some dry day; sow with turnifPseed in July, using guano, about 400 pounds .to the acre. , I have raised them to weigh fifteen pounds each.. If the ground oa meadow is pure bog dirt with marl underneath, you can the next year venture ?to sow onion seed. They are the be t crip to raise on such " ground. Cabbage U tile next best. . Cucumbers are the next, but they are apt.to grow crooked if the ground is not kept dry enough. Beets, carrots, and parsnips I have , tried ; they . will not grow well, owing to the continued, moisture below. I am now setting out a large piece with the colossal . asparagus as I find it takes kindly to the soil. Have tried potatoes ;' if the season is too wet, the potatoes will set on the vines above ground and the crop will, be a failure. Fodder corn I rise in large quantities, arid with but little labor. These bog meadows require deep drainage, geod judgment, common - sense; expense, time, labor, and industry to "ckti item in good condition. Your ditches must be at least once a year cleaned out. The top of the water in your ditches should always be two feet from the top to the ground, and if the soil is deep you can raise crops for many years with but little ma nure or other fertilizers, j " , I have Teclaimed such ground by this plan that three years ago did not pay the taxes; now I have fine crops of onions growing in their season, and I consider it the best and most productive land on my farm. Raising Fruit. A. correspondent asks why Southern Pennsylvania is not as good a fruit produ cing country as in times past. In answer, says a fruit tree dealer," I will say the masses am less informed on the subject of fruit growing than almost any other. The nu:sry man who can sell the cheapest gets the farmer's .custom. For the last thirty years we have, been selling you trees grafted on roots cut in pieces three and four inches long. (All extensire nurseries, I believe, graft on this principle ) A tree produced in this way costs about one-third as much as to graft on the whole root, but they are Ehor:-lired, and at the expiration of about ten years we sell you another tlot. Don't you see the point ? Naturalists tell us the average life of the apple is seventy years when grown from the seed. Your first or chards were undoubtedly largely of " th:s class, probably grafted or budded in the top, but possessing the whole root. Now, if 3ou desire to see your orchard bending under an enormous load of fruit, return to your former habits. Instruct your nursery man to graft your trees on the whole root, though they may cost a trifle more. Diut 'Baths for Poultry. . Cleanliness is important in fowl-houses, for experience shows that poultry are un fa voi ably affected by the emanations from filthy quarters, and besides, working in places where roosts and floors are covered with droppings, is decidedly unpleasant Dry cartb, in the form of powder,, scattered everywhere, will absorb the bad odors, giving a. wholesome- atmosphere to the hen-house, and at the same time preserve the manure in the least offensive condition. Besides these purposes, a box of dry earth should be in a convenient corner of every fowl-house for the fowls to roll in. Dust from the highway is the most convenient Replace the same by ' an equal quantity of good gravel, and the public will be the gamer. f Singular Cause of Death. A bookkeeper in the employ of a lumber firm in Detroit Mich., became suddenly ill, and the Free Frets says the several physi cians -who were called decided that one of his lungs was affected wih an abscess caused by rubbing his side against the table. He was told that the abscess would break within two days, and that the chances were that he - would die. He made preparations for his decease, and his death occurred within a few minutes after the absceai broke. A Lesson for the People of this Day and Gen eration. By and by, perhaps, we shall get it beat en into our heads that sham, considered from a purely business point of view, doesn't pay ; indeed, is the poorest of all possible investments. It is high time we did. If this Mill River homicide sets the American public thinking on the subject, the dead will not have died in vain. A reservoir is built on the cheap and flimsy plan. It bursts, kills 150 people and de vastates four villages.- Isn't it pretty plain figuring that, in this case, sham hasn't paid? Aside from the lives lost-and uuman jire in xnese aays nas a money value, measurable in dollars and cents, as corporations are beginning to find out a good - many Imndred thousand dollars' worth of property, accumulated by the labor and thrift of years, has been wiped out in a very few minutes. Isnt the failure of the reservoir's owners to see that it was honestly and substantially built in the first instance a pretty plain case of penny-wis dom and poundTfoolishness ? And this is but one case out of hundreds and thousands It is a lamentable and alarming fact that sham work of all sorts has become very common with us of late years ; so common as to be accepted by too many of us as a matter of course.. Every intelligent, man sees the fact; every thoughtful man de plores it For sham is mefely a shorter word for dishonesty. It is at once a lie and a theif. But the children have got hold of a law of the universe when they say in their games that cheating never prospers It may seem to prosper for a while. But the prosperity that is built on fraud is built on the sand one 'day the .flood comes, there is a crash, and that is the end. The sham reservoir gives way ; the sham house tumbles in; the sham fireproof city shrivels to ashes ; the sham values collapse; the sham bank breaks ; the sham states manship, Christian or otherwise, is found out Carlyle was right : ' lyine: is not per mitted in this, universe.'' The Almighty has set his canon against it It is as bad political economy as it is bad morals, The worst of it- is, that a part of the- penalty always and unavoidably falls upon the inno cent It is time there was' a general revolt against this costly and cruel shoddyism which is sapping the prosperity and eating out the morality of the land. It is a hope- tulsign, ana oi gooa omen, tnat so many influential newspapers should take occasion of the Mill River affair to direct public attention to it Sham buildings, sham engineering, sham' financiering, sham statesmanship we have already tolerated them a good deal too long. Some of them may perhaps be reached by legislation but we must own to having very Uttle faith in the statute by itself, either as preventive or remedy. We would prescribe instead, education the education of a ' sound, wholesome, aczressive public sentiment that will hit the head of a sham wherever it sees it the education of the child at home, the boy at school, the young man at college or at the work bench, to honesty and thoroughness, and a self-respect that will not suffer him even to de-ire any reward that he has not fairly and honestly earned. The symptoms of the disease-blotch and pimple the whole face of our society; but its seat is in the individual character ; no radical cure can be effected until the remedy is applied there. At present the American young man too often desires above every thing else to acquire Tiches hastily. You must have a pridein your wrk,'' said Caleb Garth, " and in learning to do it well and not be always saying, There's tbis and there's that if I fd this or that to do, I might make something of it V No matter what a man is,. I wouldn't give two pence for him, whether he was the Prime Minister or the rich thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do." The great need of the country to-day is a gen eration of young Caleb Garths. Action of Hard Waters on Lead. Investigations made and published by an English physician, confirm the . statement emade by other experimenters, that while hard waters of a certain kind exercise a protecting influence on lead, Vthere are others which act energetically upon this metal. It seems from these researches then that hard waters do not protect lead, simply frpm the fact of their being hard ; but this protection, when effected, ia dependent not only on the nature of the salt causing the hardness, but also on the proportion pres ent ; for while all experience proves that a small amount of sulphate, at any rate of sulphate of lime, does protect, the lead, a large quantity of sulphate of magnesia acts considerably upon it . It also appears that chlorides act upon lead, either with or without the, presence of a sulphate, but their action is not so great as that of solu ble carbonates. These results, however, do not practically affect the question of the safety of using lead for. common waters, so fax as sulphates are concerned, it being well known that no bad consequences, on the core of health, result from such use. ' How Some Women Submit to their Husbands Figaro is responsible for the following Mrs. Jones says she hates these women who are always crying out for their rights. She is happy, and contented to submit .her will to her husband's, as it is a wife s duty to do. She scorns the idea of not allowing man to be master in his own house. She observes that "no one can accuse her of setting up her will in opposition to that of her husband." Jones acknowledges this, vet, somehow or other, he never seems to have his own way. He comforts himself that he might have it if he wanted to ; as he says there's nothing to prevent his doing eo.'' ' Very jaobn after he married, Jones, who is very fond of, a cigar after dinner, and likes to smoke it. while lying on the sofa, asked his wife if she minded it Mrs. Jones, with a smile, said, " Never mind, dear, smoke" your cigar. "i Jones, said, annoy you?'' Mrs. Jones then confessed that the smell of a cigar "had such-an effecf 'on her that she was always "laid up for daya after ward.'' Jones doesn't smoke, in the house. Mrs. Jones told Jones that he mustn't give up his club because he was married; she wouldn't hear of such a thing ; he must enjoy himself and be as free as ever. Jones rather liked this, but when after a week or two of married life he proposed visiting the club, he found that to do so would endanger Mrs. Jones's sanity, if not Jier life. She didn't mind his going, but she had never stayed alone in a house by herself. She couldn't call the servant in to sit with her, that would never do ; but it didn' t matter, Jones must go, only he must promise that he won't be frightened if he found her in a fit when he returned ; she didn't know that she would have a fit; but she might have one. Jones gave up his club. " . Now Jones, co-operatively with Mrs. Jones, is raising quite a large family ; he has four children. The other day Jones re marked that' he should soon be obliged to get a new business suit, as the clothes he wore were looking seedyMrs.. Jones .said by all means, Jones should haye a new suit of clothes, and she begged he would" no bother himself because she nad no sprmg dress, and the carpet in the front room was not fit to be seen, and Harry and George both wanted new suits and new boots ; they could go without these things and ' papa must have his nice new clothes.'' Jones did not buy any new clothes, and he has hole in his right boot which he strives to conceal by inking his stocking when it shows through. Jones used not to go to church before he was married. He goes now twice 'every Sunday. Mrs. Jones said she could go alone well enough : 'she did not mind, what all her . friends and relatives would say if her husband did not accom pany her ; that is, she did not care for her self, though she must confess that to hear her dear Albert spoken of as these people i "an gooa people in tneir way, out se vere ") would speak of him, would make her feel as if she never could lift up her head again " Mrs. Jone3 is always ready to give in her will to her husband's. He has only to say she is wrong and she will give in in a min ute. , She does not mind suffering. - If he wants to have the window open, she doesn't say he shan't, she only reminds him what a cold she caught only two weeks ago through the window being opened, but after all it didn't last long, and it didn't matter. Mrs. Jones is not the onty submissive wife who manages by- submitting to get her own way in "everything. But still Jones is happy, and such a thing as a quarrel is a rarity in" the J ones domicile. 1 Wives, submit your selves to your husbands." Take example by Mrs Jones, , Pretty. . An amusing story is told of the daughter of a well-known London Alderman who was taken into dinner by a Judge who fig ured prominently in tie Tichborne trial. The conversation turnedon the young lady's usual place of residence, which happened to be Highgate. " Don't you think High- gate pretty?" she asked. Unfortunately she was slightly uncertain in her aspirates. His lordship gave her one hurried glance of intense astonishment " You get pretty ?" he replied gallantly, recovering his presence7 of mind. ' No, Miss , I think you were always pretty." However horsified at the compliment, the young lady quite justified it by her profuse blushes. . AVhat He Wanted. A young man in one ' of the Penobscot River towns in Maine, recently supposing himself to be upon his death-bed, quietly arranged his earthly affairs, so fat as he was. able, and then astonished his weeping friends by the choice f of an " auc-' tioneer- to conduct the funeral services. "There's Mr. down to Bangor," he said, "he's ail easy, fluid fiker, and I alters liked to hear him. I'veVad dealin's with him, an' allers found he .set out things Jest about as they was He's the man I want to talk to my funeral. 17 Of the Man who Swallowed, a Fork. . A man named Raymond Lagerise, an old drummer in the regiment of Labedoyere, joined, after the restoration, a troupe of mountebanks, for whomhe carried the drunu He thus traveled over a pait of Europe, and did not return to France until nearly 1820. . At this lime he entered the service of a charlatan of la Tour-du Pisi, one Gurnet weU known in the department Isere, and the very evening that he was to begin his duties, at Voiron, in a public house, b.e was telling his companions the strange and wonderful tricks, which he had seen in his travels, especially, the one of swallowing swords. As the audience appeared incredulous, adding, the better to convince them, ex ample te declaration, Lagerise takes from the table, at which he had' just dined, a silver fork of large size, and introduces it, handle foremost, into his ' throat He pushed is down its entire length, holding it at the end of his fingers ; then losing his hold of It entirely, to show that there was do deceit about it, he remained thus a mo inent motionless enjoying the surprise of those, present But at the instant when he was about to withdraw the fork from his throat, in .;consequence of those instinctive and uncontrollable movements of swallow ing, wnicn are most suddenly and unexpect edly produced, all at once it disappeared entirely ; and before the lookers-on could even think of getting aid for Lagerise it had penetrated the oesophagus so far that it was impossible to reach it In Vain emetics w.ere tried ; indeed, in this case such prac-' tice could only end in disappointment The fork was four days, passing through the stomach and pylorous. 'The patient himself could indicate very exactly its situation and movements. At last, on the ninttuday, it became fixed on the right Bide of the bowel, four fingers length . in front and nearly on an level with the umbilicus a portion whicbl is kept until the day of operation. The patient suffered from its presence in the intestines a sharp pain which quiet and a reclining position flnt'cslrjelieved, but whichwalking . and presure increased. r f The most painful circumstance in his condition was not being able to stand or walk erect; But eating as usual digestion being good no alarming symptoms appear ing, he left his cure t time and circum stances. A month pfissed in this situation without his growing worse indeed, but also withe ut any relief. Dr. Raynoud,of Grenoble heard of this man with the fork, and went to see him. After a very careful ex amination the surgeon declared that the foreign body could be extracted, although the xplonftien of the parts would permit of its being touched but very lightly, and during a very .short time; and the least pressure upon the point of the bowels where it made a. slight protuberance had the effect to push the opposite extremity against the walls of the abdomen and to cause very severe pain. A day was set for the operation, which was to take place at the hospital at Romans, with the concur rence of the lecal physicians. iIt was a market day ; a crowd of people from the country, round gathered at the hospital, awaiting the result The fork was extract ed, as the Grenoble surgeon had predicted, and shown to he crowd, whe welcomed the exhibition with frantic huzzas. Newspaper Advertising. The English style of newspaper advertis ing has much to commend it, says'-Murat Halstead before the Kentucky Press Associ- atien. In posters flaming on the walls, in sign-boards, in utilizing famous scenery with glaring announcements, England sur passes us. The xoung Men's unnstian Association competes, in placarding land scapes, with the jocund proprietors- of patent medicines, and with The London Telegraph which proclaims throughout tha land; and along the sea the "joyful ti dings "of the " largest circulation in the world." The beauties of nature are of course enhanced .by the gigantic lettering of the most notable . spots with famous texts of scripture. But the ; advertising tn the journals of England is neat, not gaudy. It is high priced, and the prices are un changeable." It is the boast of The London Times counting-room that the ' price of ad vertising has not varied a penny a page fori a quarter of a century. ' The advertise ments in the first-rate English newspapers are rigorously classified. The people seek their," wants', under the appropriate heads. Among the advantages of this system is the promotion of the beauty of typography The heavy rates charged for advertise ments, and firmly maintained, yield a large revenue from a small space, and this gives room for the use of plain type in the read ing matter. If we could rid ourselves at once of the gortesque displays, and of the fraudulent advertising as reading matter, the appearance as well as the character of the American newspaper wuld be im proved ; - and without reducing our profits we might enlarge our type and spare the t of the students of current history, , The Original 4 The Manner in which Confiding Souls are ' Taken In in the Metropolis. ' All the teachings' of experience and all rthe daily clamor of 1 the press seem to be unavailing to convince a certain class ol visitors from ihe interior that if they make sudden friendships in the city they will re gret it There is hardly a day in which the police of" New York, the Tribune tells us, are not'made the recipients of a tale of woe founded uponspontaneous intimacy and misplaced confidence. Sometimes a gentle stranger accosts the rural visitor as MrJ Huggins of Utica. He replies, " You are 9 w i mistaken ; my name is Muggins, and I live in .Skaneateles." The stranger apologizes and dis appears, and just around the corner a confederate comes up, calls Mr. Muggins by his own name, and is voluble about mati ters and things in Skaneateles. This is a plan by which even municipal dignitalied from the interior are sometimes beguipd. It was practiced a few days ago in Boston upon a New England deacon, who owns a. stocking-mill in Massachusetts.. He came to the city, sold his wares, and met a man who accosted him as ad old acquaintance, and in the flush of the renewed intimapy get all his money. .- j But a commoner and; coarser method of the predatory class is to approach the vic tim with frank and honest sincerity, saying, I don't know you, but Hike your looks.'' This seems universally effective. A .day or wo ago a singularly striking instance of the efficacy of this plan of plunder was seen in New York. An Indian trader from the Far West, one of those men whose lives are a continual struggle for .existence by means of the exercise of the sharpest and strongest faculties of observation and judgment; a man who had gained a fortune by sagacious trjp.de on the border, risked hs life and. lost his property by means of this i idiotic confi dence. A total stranger, met him on the cars and entered into conversation with him. He opened his heart to him instantly. and on arriving in this city they had already become "pardners." Instead of spending his money at hotels, he went; to the house of the osteasible " sister ' of his new Plyades. As a matter of course, he was found the next morning wandering half naked in the streets, drugged almost to un consciousness. Mis trunK and ms money are in the keeping of his friend and his friend's sister, ; wherever they may be. j It is hard to1 be compelled .to preach, a sermon or cynicism. Lsut unless every stranger learns the lesson of wholesome, distrust, he ' would do well to stay away from large cities. A man wha forces him- self upon your acquaintance with offers of friendship and service intends to' rob and swindle you. No one will fall in love with you at first sight, and if he tells you so? hie is after your pocketbook. But this may be, said and repeated to the end of. time, with- out putting men and women on their guird against swindlers." Vanity is stronger than common sense or experience. No one is safe from the confidence man, unless he. is convinced of his own ugliness. - To eay to' the average mortal, " I like yoir looks," in the phrase and manner suited to his degree of .cultivation, is the surest way to convince; him of. your own taste and candor. There are few men living who are' not more1 pleased, in their heart of heart V at a per- spnal compliment than at any eulogy upon their goodness or their righteous fame. The confidence man's whole stock in trade is this reliance upon human vanity. His only chance, of a livelihood is making people believe that their prepossessing appearance! has attracted him. And every day shows how easy a task it is. A man of ordinary ignorance may hold the severest views of flattery in the abstract, but he hears nothing but truth and discretion in the voicp of the concrete flatterer. There would seem to.be no remedy for the confidence game, excepi to adopt the English religion which has been so much laughed at, and never grant your acquaintance except upon a proper iniruuuuuuu; iiu n axijr uiau wwomw . . J it T -1 I tells yon they like your looks, the best way is to call the police.' Bkggaes. It is very nice to be a beggar and live in Reme. .There they have kitchens for the poor all the ear round, and the ovely, elegant and gifted woman, Princess Marie Hohenlohe, is at the head of them. m TT i. . ! I ine i-nncess goes every morning ro iae. great xuui wmi ucr aiua. ouc.ut -a uruau ge gubstancep Can be Changed, CX apron around her waist and for two hours' t i A ,nmK bv nresslne uoon it ladles out good i broth, cuts portions o healthy meat, and slices of bread. She tastes of good.' the food and knows that it is A little fellow, five or six years old, who had been wearing undershirta much - too small for him, was one day, after being washed, put into a. garment as much!! too large as the others had been two small. Our six-year-old shrugged his shoulders, burst out with, 44 Ma, I do feel awful lone- shook Himself , walked around, and anally some in this shirt' It is one of the curiosities of natural history that a horse enjoys his food most when he hasn't a bit in his mouth. : A Semixdjcehe of the Cholera in 1&32. in 1 83&-1 nd, by th way,' that was f 6rty- twij) years ago ays the Washington ChronUU, the dread jful sceurge 6f the cholera visited this country. It was of tho puit Asiatic type, a4d daily swept thou. ' sands into swif Uy-qpejning .graves. Then, as always during the j plague, .the, places of public amusement wee thronged; and par ticularly io in Philadelphia for' there . it was felt in Its severesjj forms. The people went about the streetsprith trembling limb and blanched faces, and terror reigned bu-.' preme, but the old Chktnut Street Theatre was evert evening full. I Its habitues sought in tire excitement of the stage for some re-1 lief from! fear and anxiety, and to have their thoughts turned from the solemn sur t - . : a - ' roundings 6f death int channels of laughter and peace. I ft 1 - - In those days the theatre had w'hat was. called the, " pit,'f answering to the orchestra of modern time$. It was the cheapest por tion of the house, ail always filled, with the; gamins of the citj lEdmon 3... Connor, during the plague, wtU filling an engage ment at tne theatre alluded to, and every night, among others in Jthv pit, it Was oc cupied by a Kentuckian. of tremendous 8iz3, and blessed1 withja pair of lungs .that could make hid voice jheard for at least a mile. He was enthusiastic as he was big, and whenever anything suited him he wenld Sing j;ut j V Good I "j with,, startling effect The! Heir at Law;7Tiowe,Vcr, seemed to be, his favorite play,1 and "Dick Dowlas and Cicely Homespun wjcluid rouse -him to a perfedt frenzy of appreciation, and In the climaxes of the playMe exclaimed, " Good, by (Heavens JwitBs ! a, power- that would makethe raftera tremble above. It was a Itttle new for Ned Cohnor and his confreres onl the! stage, and at first shook their nerves. and more than once they were interrupted in Ithei! performance.! 'But there was some mighty voice of the 'Dark and Bloody that, too, he had thincr sincere in s the burly son of j the j Beyond Ground.'' powerful magnetic presence. The great - fire of his enthusiasm seemed to warm and kindle into life all the lenergy and dormant talent 1 of the actorjs played for him and tia annlaiisei and with, tha on the stage. They him they won his ; the commendation To the company he did not even know of thej entire theatre was unknown, j TheM his' name,! but they called hint Mr. Good, anld Good's thundering exclamations of . " Good!? gave jhim 'liji soubriquet. ; It hid been a dreadful day in the Infected districts. The dead were in almost every household.!! The funeral march to the thickly strewn graves was an unbroken lino f from morning till night,; and when night came jOn It! hung over j the. plague-strickch city with the solemnity; of black velvet over a jcatafatque. That evening the, lights of the Chestnut Street Tneatre, strange as It may reem,! jwere lit up for an audience flll- inj; every portion of t. The play of the " Heii at Law f wa$ jcommenccd. Every one present, was expejeting an hour or two's diver-ion'from the horrible scenes going on without The play rjrceeded,but suddenly the audience seemed! jcjbngealed. It utterly refused to respond to tjhe strong points the actorSj made, and tlajey, too, In turn, were frozen! by the coldness pervading the audU j ence. The players turned to the accustomed t seat of their Kentucky friend, but it wae vacant. They waited kp hear his stentorian' voice ! shouting; 44 pood I Good,, by Heav-. f but it Was silfent Vhere wa he ? few hours before, ha!e.nd hearty, . Bum he was cheering them on, and while they 1 Jr r .' . f ' , ..,' : ' wondered, at that very hour, his corpse, a victim of the plagueJ was . being borne past the theatre but to the) burial ground. Good had gone to the reward of the good. ' Tampering Tfcrith the Eyes. I J i : - '! J ! . - . . . ': A - Boston opthalrhic surgeon, of ' high reputation,' in a recently published work, haji eiveh some hints' conccrnine eve affec t;r h5rh fn th rUnt rt, fnr miark '"- j -r jr-- n - . r remedies, "tv, Ki too widely known, the far-sightedness of being due to the He assures us thai .it I of fla old eyes, instead! tening Of the corpiea, ortfront of the eye1- bal, is the result of the gradual hardening and consequent loss jo f elasticity of the cryetalline leivfl. In relation to., a favorite ouack svstem of treatment he says : 44 It is a mischievous error! to suppose that the fofm of an elastifr gliobe filled with fluid or - " , T with the fingers, as hat oeen recommenaea by charlatans. Also, the theory that the ej e can have its form S-Tavdrably. modified by rubbing it always in bne direction, or by any other manipulation, has no foundation In -facts.' But while pirslstent jqueezihg ac cording to these methods can never do any good, it involves grejat risks. It may lead to jcoibgesUon and hemorrnage within the eyes, or give rise to destructive inflamma tion, or tbe formation of cataract by aisio- e crystalline lens, or cause almost immediate loss of right by the sepiration of the retina, or nervous distribution, from the neighboring parts.' It is to be hoped thai warnings Ske tfieise will not be lightly passed over, t" - PI! - 1, .'.'. .- ' .:.,'
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