Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1895, Page 14

14 ; THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1895-SIXTEEN PAGES. RIPANS TABULES | Are Indorsed and Preseribed by Some of the Leading Piny sicglans of America. Read What Eminent Boston Doctors Say of Them. Physicians, as a class, are opposed to ready-made medicines, probably from the fact that these medicines are usually com- pounded from a secret formula which they do not know, and cannot, consequently, recommend. The formula of Ripans is good enough to publish to the world--it is composed of Rhubarb, Ipecac,.Peppermint, Aloes, Nux Vomica and Soda, seven of the best known. remedies for constipation, dyspepsia, sick headache, biliousness and liver com=- plaints known to the medical world. Read what eminent physicians of Boston say regarding Ripans Tabules: “Just Suits Him.” The formula just suits my idea of a remedy for many forms of dyspepsia. The Ipecac is the key= note to the whole business. This is the first for- mula of the kind that I have seen that has Ipe- cac.” Dr. Clark. “A Decided Improvement On His Regular Remedy.” “I am very much in sympathy with sucha combination, and shall use them in my practice. I am in the habit of using such a mixture with the Nux Vomica and Aloes omitted, but think the tabules a decided improvement on my combina- tion. I ‘shall certainly give them atrial.” Dr. W. Coy. “Heard of Them Before.” “I consider the formula good and likely, espe- cially the Ipecac and Nux Vomica, and also the Soda, the old standby. I have heard of them be- fore.’’ Dr. Morris. “Cures Where Others Fail.’ é “f am indeed very much pleased with my ex- aso with Ripans Tabules. I have a customer in Portland, Maine, to whom I gave a small vial to try. This customer had two physicians steadily for a long time treating his wife for dyspepsia, and the tabules were the only thing that did any gocd.” Dr. Dam, Columbus avenue. “Often Used the Same Formula.” ‘1 am pleased to receive a box of the tabules, and approve of the formula, I often use sucha formula in powder and mixture.’’ Dr. Bernard. _“A Doctor Willing to Learn.” : “I think the formula an exceptionally geod one, and a good deal more to the point and better than many written by so-called very professional doctors, who claim that nothing is orthodox but their own. I am always ready to get points from any source.” Dr. E. F. Newton, 124 Huntington avenue. “Different From Anything Else.” “The formula seems to be good, and shall re- ceive my attention. There are a great many such things on the market, but the formula is very dif- ferent from any other.”” Dr. Murphy. “Short but Emphatic.” “Very good indeed; shall try them.” Dr. Thomas Pitt. 3 “Good for Dyspepsia.” “The formula is an old and a good one. They are very beneficial for many forms of dyspepsia.”’ Dr. John G. Dewis. : : “Sees Nothing to Criticise.” “The formula is very good, and I cannot see anything to criticise.” Dr. Emery L. Bond. “Likes the Formula.”’ “I like such a formula and will use them. I always find the Ipecac very efficient in cases of indigestion. I also like the Nux Vomica. I think the dose about right.”’ Dr. Caiger. ; “Uses the Same Ingredients.’ “I shall be pleased to try them, believing the formula to be very sensible. Often have occasion to prescribe such ingredients, but differently com- bined.”” Dr. Rovinsky, Hanover Street. “Why This Doctor _ Does Not Prescribe Ripans.” “I could never prescribe an article gotten up in that way. If I should prescribe them once my patients would use them at will and when more ~ were required they would know what to ask for.” Dr. O'Shea. Chelsea st., East Boston. “Prescribes the Same Remedy in Powder Form.” “I think them very good and very often pre- scribe a similar remedy in powders. I never heard of a tablet of the same composition.” Dr. G. S. Cahill, Chamber st. “Not Opposed to Advertised : Medicines if They Have Merit.” “I ‘am very much pleased to try them, be- lieving them good. I have had occasion to use a formula very similar, but nct exactly. I do not care what is advertised. If it has merit I will _ back it up.” Dr. R. K. Noyes. “Used in the Polyclinic Hospital in New York.” “I am very familiar with such a formula. It is very much more used in’ New York than in Boston. There is a liquid mixture which is used considerably in the Polyclinic Hospital in New York that is the exact formula, but not so con- venient to administer. It isa good idea and I be- lieve it will take well with many physicians. There is another mixture which is very much the same, with the omission of the “I” and the addi- tion of glycerine, used very largely in Roosevelt Hospital, New York.” Dr. Thompson, Green st. From a perusal of the above letters it will be seen that all of the ingredients used in Ripans Tabules are in daily use among physicians, so that in buying Ripans you are simply purchasing a “ready-made” prescription, identically the same as your physician would prescribe if consulted. Ripans Tabules At All Druggists, 50 Cents Box. Or by mail if the price (soc. box) is sent to the Ripans Chemical Co., 10 Spruce Street, New York. WHOLESALERS: F. A. Tschiffely, 475 Pa. Ave., Wash., D.C. E. S. Leadbeater & Sons, Alexandria, Va. [ ome Who Has the Picturet To the Editor of The Evening Star: The exhibition of pictures at Cosmos Club House, Veerhoff’s, Metzerott building and other places by local artists in the past few weeks recalls to my mind a picture that was on exhibiticn many years ago, just on the eve of the civil war. I wish to know if it is owned by any one In this city, and, if so, will the owner kindly loan and permit it being placed on exhibition at Corcoran Art building, for the pleasure and benefit of the public? Description of the Picture o! ‘The Home of Washington, After the War, Painted by 8. P. Rossiter and L. R. Mignot. The war of the revolution happily con- summated, Washington, on the 23d of De- cember, 1783, resigned his commission at Annapolis and returned to Mount Vernon after an absence of eight years, with the exception of a two days’ visit with Count Rechambeau in 1781. With the cares and enxieties of com- mander-in-chief removed, the hero at once devoted himself to restoring his neglected estates, resuming the agricultural habits and pursuits of an opulent planter; and, on the ist of February, 1784, writes his confi- dential friend and brother soldier, Lafay- ette: “At length, my dear marquis, I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, free from the bustle of the camp and «he busy scenes of public life. Come view me in my domestic walks.” In accordance, doubtless, with this invi- tation, Lafayette, in August of that year, spent two wecks under the hospitable roof at Mount Vernon, which is the period chosen for illustration. ‘The busy prtion of the day 1s over; and, as the long shadows creep slowly cver the lawn, the family portion of the household have congregated under the ample portico. The general and his noble guest have risen from the chairs, which indicate that ey had formed a portion of the group with the ladies, and are standing in col- loquy, Washington in the act of speaking and Lafayette, leaning against a pillar, in deferential attitude, holds a newspaper in his hand, suggestive that the discourse is @ topic of the times. Mrs. Washington is sewing, while her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Stuart, formerly Mrs. John Parke Custis, and mother of the two children, is reading a note. On the table is a basket, witn the ever-present knitting, with which she set the example of industry to her associates and dependents. Leaning upon the grandmother’s lap is Eleanor Parke Custis, wko has sought her Protective presence while her beother, George Washington Parke Custis, fires a small cannon, with the assistance of a negress, who is blowing a lighted match. Two sporting dogs, with an instinct for gunpowder, are likewise watching the re- sult. On the lawn a negro servant, in the family livery of white and crimson, is driv- ing off some trespassing cows. Two guests in the distant summer house are looking at the prospect. On the river is a neighbor’s barge, rowed by six servants in red livery. Vessels and a raft are introduced in the dis- tance. At this epoch Washington was fifty-two years old, Mrs. Washington fifty-one, La- fayette twenty-seven years and Mrs. Stuart twenty-eight. The grandchildren Washing- ton adopted after the death of their father in 1781. The head of Washington was painted from an original transcript of the Houden bust. This picture should never have been al- lowed to leave this country (as I fear it did.) It was, as well as I now recall it, about five feet by seven, and to my girlish eyes was the ideal of an opulent country gentleman’s home. The ladies’ dresses were the handsome colonial dresses of that day. Washington's and Lafayette’s are too well known to need a description. For me this picture still hangs on the walls of memory’s chamber, and in this day of sons and daughters of “American revo- lution” a picture of this kind would serve to kindle anew and keep steadily burning the flame of patriotism on the altar of our country. Among a group of three persons who came to view this picture was Mrs. Robert E. Lee, who came over that morning from Arlington, her home. The little boy of the picture, G. W. P. Custis, was her father. Let us have the picture. M. W. C. —_>__ A No-Monopoly City. To the Editor of The Fvening Star- In connection with the Pingree plan I herewith submit a suggestion. If fully car- ried out it will finally do more to increase the prosperity of our poor than has re- sulted from any plan ever yet undertaken. Almsgiving constitutes no part of it; it is based on the well-known fact that involun- tary poverty arises because its victims are, by reason of conditions arising out of ¢x- isting laws, barred from access to” oppor- tunities to produce wealth, or are com- pelled to yield to others without a just equivalent a large part of what they do produce. It simply consists of opening up certain opportunities to produce wealth to those who wish to help themselves, and in allowing them to produce all they wish, and to keep for their own use a much larger part of what they produce than they are now permitted to retain. The Arlington reservation, just across the river, contains about 1,100 acres, of which only about 200 acres are in use, and the remaining 900 acres are tangled a wil- derness of underbrush. My plan is substan- tially as follows: The Secretary of War to retain for the present his control, and under his direction the whole area not in use to be laid off as a city. Permission then to be granted to any one who so de- sires to permanently occupy and use, un- der proper regulations (such as those in vogue in most cities) one or more of said lots ugon the payment of a fair (economic) grou:@ rental therefor, to be fixed by a commission on the basis of demand. All sums zecelyec from such rents to be ap- plied to Sefraying the expenses of the local governmentand payment for public improve- ments. Ne local tax, license fee, fee to ay public officer, or water rent, to be pay- able. The local government to retain full control of all public places, and to lay all’ conduits, tramways, or other fixtures, at- tached to the soil, and supply all water, gas, electricity, telphone, and street car service, or else to contract with private citizens for such supply, contracts to be awarded for short periods to those who, after due advertisement and competitive bidding, offer, under proper guarantee, to render service or supply commodity at the lowest price. The new city to be -con- nected, of course, with’ Washington, by a good bridge and rapid transit service. Under this simple plan thousands of our unemployed would be immediately iven employment at good wages, and a thriving city would spring into “existence. Exemp- tion from taxation would attract thousands of residents. Home seekers would not have to pay a great price for a lot, nor would they have to pay enhancéd prices on ma- terials with which to bulid, due to local taxation, or a tax on house and lot after it was secured, but merely ground rent. A poor man who did not’wish to work for others could engage in some enterprise on _his own account without having first to pay a license fee. It would be a good place for a rich man to die in, as his widow and children would not be mulcted of a per= sonal property tax when’ his will was pro- bated; nor would merchants and others be compelled to swear to the customary lies on.this account, and would thereby retain some self respect and cash that they now forfeit. Work would be plenty and wages higher than anywhere else, and the gen- eral prosperity resulting from these facts would make the city a most desirable place from every point of view—business, social, moral, ete. Amid such environment intel- ligence and honesty would develop, crime would abate, and the evils that spring from poverty would, to a large extent, disappear. Let the city be built, and name it (for fear we should forget the source of its prosperity) NO MONOPOLY. Cc. B. HEMINGWAY. SS Resignation Accepted. The President has accepted the resigna- tion of Lieut. James L. Druien, tenth in- fantry, who entered the Military Academy from Kentucky in 1882. Forcible Maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The paragraph in your issue of recent date, from an English paper, stating that the United States never asserted the Mon- roe doctrine in any way other than by cor- respondence, and concluding that it never wetld be supported by force of arms, re- calls an event which came under my per- sonal observation. The effort of the archduke of Austria, Maximilian, to establish an empire in Mex- ico and supplant the republican form of government in that country, is a historical event of too recent occurrence and too well known to require more than mere men- tion here. It will be remembered that about the close of 1861 Spain, France and Eng- land sent troops to Vera Cruz to enforce the settlement of certain claims. The British and Spanish claims were settled, and their troops withdrawn; but the French troops remained, and formed the nucleus of the army, which, with Maximilian of Austria at its head, undertook to establish a heredi- tary monarchy. Maximilian arrived at the City of Mexico June 12, 1864. To this effort to imperialize Mexico, and the occupation of the country by French troops, our government, then harassed by a stupendous civil war of its own, sent re- peated remonstrances. The close of our civil war found the imperialists making successful advances; and when, early in 1865, the United States troops, stationed on the island of Brazos de Santiago, near the mouth of the Rio Grande, moved inland to Brewnsville, Tex., Matamoras was occupied by the imperial troops, while the surround- ing country was scouted by detachments of troops of the Mexican republic. Then commenced the thering of a United States army on the Rio Grande. The twenty-fifth army corps, under Gen. Weitzel, and other troops filled the availa- ble camping grounds in and around Browns- ville, and were being deployed elong the Rio Grande. ‘On examining a diary kept by me, while stationed at Brownsville, with my regiment, I find an entry, made long after the close of our civil war, on September 18, 1865, stating that there had arrived per steamer that day, a lot of pontoons and wagons. This confirmed us in the belief that the massing of troops at that point was for the purpose of invading Mexico for the purpose of driving out Maximilian and his French forces. No other construction could be placed on the arrival of those pontoons, for the Rio Grande was the only water into which they could be placed. This demonstration no doubt had a great deal to do with the collapse of the imperial bubble. The movement on the part of our government was quietly made, but it meant business, and but for the withdrawal of the French troops and the abandonment of ‘the imperial scheme corps after corps of our trained soldiers would have swarmed over Mexican soil to drive the invading French into the gulf. We are better prepared, both in our army ard our available army material, to sup- pert the Monrve doctrine by force now than we were then, and it will not be safe for foreign governments to presume too much on Uncle Sam’s mild way of protesting, for such protests are not made in a spirit of bravado, nor idly, and a disregard of them will no doubt be the occasion of such an- other gathering of the armed forces of the ccuntry as was begun for the benefit of Maximilian and his invading forces. 8. WEAVER. — The Grand Lodge. Star of Hope Lodge of Good Templars, by unanimcus vote, postponed their regular meeting last Thursday evening, in order to allow the District Lodge, I. O. G. T., to hold thelr quarterly meeting in Star of Hope Hall; but during the meeting the District Lodge took a recess, in order that Star of Hope might hold a meeting for the purpose of initiating Wm. Hopkins of Chevy Chase, which, being accomplished, the District Lodge resumed its session, and did not adjourn until near midnight. ——S=3 Lack of Consideration for the Aged, To the Editor of The Evening Star: On Thursday afternoon, the 11th instant, three women rushed up to the car on 7th street, just above St. Dominic’s Church, and, in their haste, knocked down a little lady of seventy-five years, who was wait- ing to get on the car. They struck her so hard that she could not get up. Seeing what they had done, they had the grace to turn back and help her up and on to the car, but they made no apology, nor any in- qguiries as to whether she was hurt or not. ~ By the time the car reached the avenue she was in such distress that the conduc- tcrs and two ladies on the car got out, got a carriage and lifted her in. She was able to give her number, and so was at once taken to her home. Her physician found her thigh bone broken, and her situation is very serious. Those who have caused this little lady so much suffering (for the end is rot yet) may have some twinges of their consciences when they learn what they have done. INDIGNANT. —.__ Debates of the Preachers. The Washington Preachers’ Meeting holds weekly sessions each Monday morn- ing at Asbury M. E. Church, corner 1th end K streets northwest. The following are the recently elected officers: Rev. 8. Aiken Lewis, president; Rev. Noble Wa- kins, vice president; Rev. John H. Griffin, secretary; Rev. A. Dennis, treasurer. The committee on program is Rev. D. W. Hays, D. D.; Rev. S. G. Griffin of Alexandria, Va., and Rev. L. E. S. Nash, Methodist Episco- Fal pastors, representing several thousand members. Pastoral visiting in its relation to ministerial success was the topic dis- cussed yesterday mofning. Nearly all the pastors present took part In the discussion. The opening address was made by Rev. B. Myers. The subject for next Monday is “Do the Funeral Custor's Now Prevailing Among Our People Need Altering? If se, What are the Modifications Required and How Are They to be Secured?’ The sub- Ject will be opened by Rev. J. H. Griffin,