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~ ——————————— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ART OF THE VOODOO How He Works His Charms and What He Proposes to Do. WHAT PAULINE PRY FOUND OUT Phases of the Belief in This City in Sorcery. BLACK ART DISCIPLES —— ID YOU EVER have a spell on you? Now, don’t be too sure. Just wait till you know what I'm talking about. I mean a conjuration pel. What's that? To understand the matter fully you should have the as- sistance of my friend, Gabalis. Who, where is he? rn ianalis is a seer who abides at the end of a road along which you will meet bleached bones, grinning skulls, rav- ing maniacs, g:bbering fools, souls sodden with despair—wrecks of men who have set ~ forth valiantly to know Gabalis and aban- doned the search in terror, only to find that y may never turn back. At the entrance abode arises a monster more subtile than the serpent in its power, more change- ful than the chameleon in the revelation of the horrors it contains—a monster that, merely espied in the distance, enters into of you, envelops you with its . pursues you from every side, A Voodoo Doctor. to be brought oniy by a miracle. mnot serve y mvention cannot . and reason has no strength to sus- n the attack. Nothing abides but me word before which the monster uttering wi men die, go el. ill find it written in the colors of a which is life. in the face of the which is death: in the heart of a which is love, and the word you will i with your blood and your breath is— gown, a dead child, S, a sweetheart un- der the sod, and nothing but faith in her left earth—-these do not make sorrow. t all you know of the mystery of tion spells I must tell you, but be- fore you can much as dimiy comprehend I may report of the lore Gabalis has t first possess the reve- s that proceed from mundane sources. The Police Court Records. Police Court blotter of a few ke hack is the record of a-conjuration yell that faiJed to work. A colored man had a woman in court charged with having pbtained $10-from him for a bottle of “con- fur: mixture,” which she told him woull bring him a jo» as coachman if he woull sprinkle it around stables on Con- avenue at 7 o'clock every evening. the man had done faithfully for a that no job was er would the voodoo re- This week ard complained forthcoming, turn his #10. This is an exceptional case In police cir- eles, not so much hecause the conjuration spell did not work as because of the voodoo being a woman, and her victim having the courage to seek to bring the vengeance of the law upon her. ““| know half a dozen voodoos, all men, who support themselves putting spells on people,” one of the detectives at police headquarters told me. “They Fave a large element of the colored population under their control, and ther> is no telling to what extert their power operates. The ences they dupe the worst are too much } A Victim. afraid of them to complain, and while their Practices are known in a general way to the police, ther> is nothing that can be done to interfere with them. These fel- lows all look a good deal alike as to style ard character, ard I tell you they aren’t altogether pleasxnt individuals to face. If you dcn’t belleve in the evil eye before looking Into theirs, you come pretty near to believing there's something in it after- ward. They wear their kinky hair long— ore I know has his hair so leng he rolls it up under his hat like a woman's. They usually wear a lot of. medals on their ccats, and they always carry a small hand bag, such as women carry to go shopping. In this bag they have bottles with differ- ent sorts of stuff, little pieces of glass, srarls of horse hair, small bones, dirty fags and the Lord knows what all. Each one has his circle of patrons, and ke makes bis round from house to house day after day just like a doctor. They claim to cure disea, nd they claim, too, to be able to put spells on persons and things that will anything from a gold mine to an un- = heart. This is their legitimate bus!- né<s, but underneath it they do another that vields the most returns. That is, Plees folks afraid of them—demanding Money under threat of putting-a spell on the person that refuses to pay it.” A King Voodoo. The detective assured me he does not know any female voodoos, but I happen myself to know of the operations of sev- eral. I also know a great deserted building in the northwest, where a king voodoo holds undisputed sway over between fifty and seventy-five craven subjects, who work for his vengeance as well as for his food and drink in any way and In any quarter bis remarkable evil way may dictate. This aking, voodoo is over six feet tall, the incar- Ration of sloth, as becomes a royal person, With slaves to do his bidding, and the gro- tesque rags in which he clothes himself would make him uncanny enough to be- hold, if his kinky hair were not twisted in horns on either side of his head, his ears —— with intmense clinking-fringed rass earrings, and the effrontery of his impenetrable black eyes agleam with a tru- ly unholy fire. One of the female voodoos of whom I krow until recently occupted a_tumble- down small house in the West End, and from this section drew her custom, not altogether from the serving class, I may tell you. Women who went to her dis- guised in servants’ attire she cleverly tracked, and no small amount of pin money bus been diverted from matinee tickets and bonbons and even French bonnets, and pet Jewels have been sacrificed to supply hush money for this crafty witch. Her specialty is revenge, which she works to accomplish by most impressive means. She makes a Conjuration. figure of wax, representing the person wished to be injured. Around the neck of this figure she ties a cloth spotted with her own blood, and attaches it there by a string that has been drawn through the Fulpy mass of a crushed spider. Then she takes a bow and arrow made, she claims, from some mysteriously grown wood, ties a piece of glass or a bristle to the arrow, which she then shoots into the wax image, the end being to transmit into the body of the enemy the glass or bristle attached to the arrow, which will in turn produce an aoe baffling the skill of science to make well. The feraale voodoo with whom I person- ally would love least to commune frequent- ly is one residing in a cut-throat alley. I honestly would not dare invade her place unaccompanied by my friend Gabalis—ah, really you should know him—Gabalis. He is invaluable. His power is as tender as his ways are inscrutable. Her Reserve Force of Satan. This witch claims to have Italian blood in her veins, and though to all appear- ances she is pure African, the bravest man among you is altozether likely to grant her this or anything she claims, once you come under the spell of her eyes, that suck in your will power as a sponge absorbs water. Should you withstand the spell of her eyes, you are certain to give over to her when She calls out her reserve force of Satan, a great black snake, which is fully ten feet long, as. large around as your arm, and which trails its horrible length about in her house as familiarly as the poodie wanders in your own. With this favorite shape of the devil coiled around her shoulders, its monstrous head resting against her cheek, its forked tongue fitfully shooting sugges- tion of its nature and pi er unto your notice, the woman's demoniacal eyes fixed upon you, and her absolutely expression- less voice, that reminds you of nothing on earth, save now and then in an occasional articulation of the warning of a rattle- snake, any “conjuration spell” this vision of unhcliness might dispense, you would feel pretty certain could not fail to do its deadly work. I know one hard-working, poor white man, who paid this creature $35 in irstaii- ments to rid his wife of a “spell.” The poor wife had had the suggestion of hav- ing been bewitched so impressed upon her mind that she was in truth half demented. Her body was being consumed with fever, and her ey The Shades of Evening. shrieked continually to behold frightful shapes that delirium summoned into be- ing. The conjuration treatment for which her husband delivered up his hard-earned, scant cash was thus administere: She was fastened in bed by the voodoo, and on either side of her were arranged three strings of horse hair, each running through three black beads. On the head- beard of her bed was a black cat secured by nine black pins, three in the head, three in the feet and three in the region of the heart. Every day the voodoo came, and for so much per, recited certain conjuration words, ihe promised effect being that eventually the “spell” would depart; it would go gradually, and at every stage of its departure a pin would fall out of the black cat, those from the heart last. “See, said the poor husband, in grateful anticipation of a- speedy deliver- “one pin have already gone from the heart; all will soon be gone.” “Yes; in just this way,” answered an un- | belleving and courageous Christian woman, who, suiting action to her words, grabbed the black cat, and with a single sweep, threw that and the horse hair and the beads from the bed. ““Mye God! My God! what have you done!” ejaculated the husband, in terror. “Do not poaer it—ough! Go away—My God! My ar . The man was beside himself with fear. He took a poker and a shovel, and earnest- ly praying the while, poked the cat from the floor on the shovel and put it in the fire, explaining, with horror, that the spell, as it departed from his wife, was being at- tracted to the cat, and that whoever touched it would be “conjured” in his turn. Evil Influence of Sorcery: I am told by a missionary who has work- ed many years in the alleys of Washington that whole sections of the depraved classes, both black and white, are banded together in various branches of an anti-law order association that operates its tools in all quarters of the city by means of power its leaders maintain through fear excited by voodoo practices. This is not the worst, I have heen told. A man of science has informed me that the evil influence of sorcery is not con- fined to the ignorant nor restricted in oper- ation to alleys and servants’ quarters. So- ciety in general, he says, is living under a reign of black art... To be sure I per- sorally believe the man of science is crazy or foolish, but as I believe the same of a great many other men of sctence, who, nevertheless, are above suspicion in the minds of the majority, my opinion should not bias your judgment in the present in- stance. Says my scientific informant: “The magic, sorcery and mysteries of the middle ages have been revived among us in America, with a more scientific knowledge of elec- trology. The popular use of electricity and magnetism in treating disease has resulted in the nerves, muscles and brains of thou- sands cf people being connected by a cur- rent of electricity, which makes them a me- diim of any thought or sensation that a strong personality may impose upon them. They have virtually lost their identity and becorae merely the instrument of any chance agent that seeks to control them. At the same time, demonology, under the |- nome of hypnotism, is being practiced in all its forms, and the demon’s incubi are entering into every human relation.” Now, it is uncomfortable enough in our natural state te believe that occasionally we entertain angels unawares, but to think of hobnobting with incubi—I don’t like it, and I have accordingly appealed to Gabalis to tell me just what bl whether there is any possible occult truth in voodcoism in our alleys and hypnotism in our schools and playhouses—whether cee ig, in any form of magic,sanything to fear. Magic and Sorcery. This is the knowledge Gabalis has im- parted to me: “Black art, voodooism, magic—you use the terms synonymously,” said he; “that is incorrect.. The true significance of the term magic is spiritual knowledge, or wisdom, in contradistincticn to merely speculative phil- osophy or changeable scientific opinions. Magic is not only a science, but the art of directing and employing invisible powers of nature. Black art, sorcery, of which the voodooism you mention is an expres- sion, employs the same means as magic, but is as different from the latter as light is from darkness. Magic does the work of God, end sorcery the work of the devil. “A strong faith snd a powerful imagina- tion are the two pillars supporting the dcor to the temple of magic, and without which nothing can be accomplished. You must not confcund imagination with fancy. Fancy is the, cornerstone of superstition and foolishness, and is an idle operation of the intellectual faculty, while imagination is the power by which the will forms ma- terial entities out of thoughts. The power of the imagination depends for its accom- plishments upen faith. True faith, how- ever, is rot a matter of creeds or belief or opinion. It rests in spiritual knowledge, which is only td be acquired through super- ratural experienco. There is only one power of faith, but its application may be good or evil, and in the latter instance faith be- ccmes the cause of witchcraft and sorcer- fes. You ask me what there is in these ta fear. I answer, the harm that may come to any one from these sources is exactly measured by the evil there is in his heart. “To practice magic the first step neces- sary is the development of the will. It would be very easy to give full instruc- tions concerning how one may acquire the art of magic, but as such instructions might be used by wicked persons to the in- jury of others, these may not be made pub-- lic. Still, there are certain things that ought to be known, and so much I will tell you. “Now, when ‘t happens that a physician finds in a patient’s body nails, hair, nee- dles, bristles, pieces of glass and any such A Sure Thing. thing which, after being cut out or drawn out, ‘continue to reappear, he should un- derstand that these things have been brought there by the power of the evil im- agination of a sorcerer, and that if he put one of the extracted articles into an elder or oak tree, on the side toward the rising sun, that article will, like a magnet, at- tract the evil influence, and the patient will be cured. “It should further be generally known that the imagination of women is usually stronger than that of men, and that they have a greater power of imagination when they are alone. They ought, therefore, not to be left much to themselves. They ought to be amused and kept happy, because if they are ill-disposed and harboring ev:l thoughts they may, by the power of their imagination, poison the food which they cook or make it impure. Women who have Uttle self-control, and who are occupied a reat deal with their own thoughts, should not be permitted to nurse and educate in- fants, because the impressions which their imagination creates may unconsciously im- Press itself and act injuriously upon the minds of the latter.” Proof Against Evil Spirits. . I asked Gabalis concerning incub! and the other evil spirits which the man of science asserts are preying upon us, and Gabalis told me, what I may not repeat, of the prevalence of these spirits in our midst, but for the assurance of all, he gave me this answer: “A healthy mind is a castle that no evil spirit can invade. Where the spirit of truth is the devil nor his agents cannot abide. A human being in whom the ani- mal nature predominates may be obsessed. In such a case, praying and abstinence from all thoughts that may stimulate the imagination or excite the brain are the only true remedies.” I have begged Gabalis to let me explain the meaning of moles, which are a great deal more than an ugly blot on fair skin. This he has forbidden me to do. I may tell you, however, that the passing yellow spots which you doubtless notice occasion- ally on your face, your throat or your limbs, have nothing whatever to do with the condition of your liver, but are the marks of kisses a dead sweetheart has left upon your body while you slept. “Ah, there are yellow bruises on my body, And violet stains; Though no white vampire came, with lps blood-crimsoned, To suck my veins! Now I bethink me of a sweet, weird story, That in the dark Our dead loves thus with seal of chilly kisses Our bodies mark!” So Gautier has recorded this fact of oc- cult science in melodious verse, which, be- sides being pleasant to the ear, is evidence that the truths of Gabalis are accorded re- spectful treatment by genius far transcend- ing that of simple «- PAULINE PRY. Se ge THE TRAMP’S STORY. He Explained Why Learning a Trade Injured His Prospects. A tramp appeared at the door of a house in Takoma Park yesterday. He was not an ordinary looking tramp. Although rag- ged, there was an air about him that be- tokened good breeding. He touched the rim of his battercd hat with the grace of a Chesterfield, and the lady of the house gave him something to eat. “You look as though you had been a gentleman,” she said. “I am afraid you are addicted to drink.” “No, madam, you are in error,” he re- Plied; “addicted implies a habit. I am therefore not addicted to either eating or drinking. I was, however, once a gentle- man. My downfall came from learning a trade.” “Learning a trade?” “Yes, madam. I-worked at the machin- ists’ trade for five years, and so injured my thumb and forefinger that I could follow my profession no longer, madam.” “What was your profession?” “I wrote checks, madam.” And even then she did not know what he meart; not until her husband came home and told her why the writing of checks made him have to learn a trade. = 3 ‘What We May Expect. From Life. jay, Dick, lend me that five dollar bill ‘Haven't any, old man.” “Yes, you have; this photograph I just took of you shows one in your left-hand} art amounts to, | waistcoat pocket.”. A SPECIMEN : TOWN Glimpses of o Thriving Munici- pality in Florida, BICYCLING, POLO, GOLF °AND CLUBS fi Points About the Culture of the Luscious Pineagiple. OTHER NOTES OF INTEREST Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star. : ORLANDO, Fla., March 24, 1890. EARLY ONH HUN- Ne and fifty miles below Jacksonville and situated in the center, of famous Orange county, of which it is the seat, is the city of Or- lando, after which every other new place in the state is endeavoring to pat- tern. It has wide streets, with clay roadways and grano- s.aewalks on the business streets. It is as clean as a new pin, has water and gas works, and a telephone system is be- ing put in now. Within the city limits are fourteen lakes, nearly all of which are sur- rounded by the residences of citizens and of northerners, who spend the winters here. On the banks of Lake Lucerne, around which is a splendid drive, G. B. Green of Washington has a beautiful place. | Lake Hole, a few rods away, has a bicycle {track around it nearly a mile in length. There Is an excellently equipped club, the Lucerne, for the men, and the Rosalind 'Club, for the ladies. The Oriando Polo | Club has some of the best riders and train- | ed ponies in the country, and thé society people turn out en m: @ at the games, | which are played each Tuesday. Around | Lake Eole are golf links, where this new | importation from merry Britain 1s ‘fre- | quently exhibited. There is an imposing | court house, a hospital, a Catholic, Epis- copalian, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Congregational church, a convent and | attractive stores. The county ts out of debt. The only poor farm for the support | ef the indigent in Florida is in Orlando. | And twenty years ago the village of Or- | Jando was in a dense forest. 2 Were 300,00) boxe ped from Orlando the season of 1803 and 1894. Not an orange was sent out this son, but the city does not appear to w any of the evil effects of this loss. Its municipal regulations are as modern as those, of Washington, and the erection of a frame building within the fire limits is prohibited. Merely a Specimen of Others. I have enumerated these details about Orlando, in order to show what the people of Florida, who dwell in communities, are doing for their comfort and pleasure, for rearly all the other new towns In the state are managing their affairs the same way. The climate here is superb for health, and the land needs but little attention to make it fertile. Chief Justice Bingham is en- icying the benefits of the first, and hun- dreds of others are seeking the benefits of of oranges ship- the last. There are many English settlers of the better class of Britons, and you hear their distinctive enunciation of the lan- guage everywhere. There are also a number of New England people hereabout, largely from New Hampshire. The mixture makes a shrewd, energetic, far-seeing and enter- prising community. i Atong other things to which the soil in this vicinity is wonderfully well adapted are pineapples. Few people in Washington know what a Florida pineapple really is. Compared to the fruit, grown. elsewhere— but no comparison is possible. The Florida pineapple has merely the faintest sem- blance of the core that {s hempen-like in other varieties. Its flavor Is indescribably delicious, and it melts in its own juice al- most when cut. ‘ The freeze of last’ year killed the pines down to the roots, but, like the orange trees, they are growing up finely, and I saw many plants with tiny fruit yesterday that will be ripe and luscious in June. Later they will be plentiful. The Largest Pinery in the World. At Orlando 1s the largest “pinery”--as a place where pineapples are raised is called —in the world. Six acres are already under cever and set with 8rowing pines. Thirty- two acres more are to be covered. The cover of a pinery is composed of narrow planks set a small distance apart, and sup- ported by poles and stringers seven or eight feet above the plants. It looks like a suc- cession of squares of bed slats. The sun and the shade reach the plants equally, and that Is what they need. The culture of this fruit 1s interesting. The green tops or crowns that we see on the pineapples In market merely necd to be broken off and stuck in the sandy soil to take root and become a thriving plant. When the fruit approaches maturity it sends out a quantity of shoots like bunches of tiny daggers, both from its base and top. The latter are called slips, and the former crownlets. The plants themselves send up similar shoots, which are called suckers. There are anywhere from ten to thirty of all these growths to each matured pineap- ple, and every one of them is worth within a few cents of the apple itself, because they are used as sets, and from each a lusty plant grows when it is planted. It takes a plant from a year to eighteen months to mature, and ten to twelve thou- gand grow in an acre. As a Florida pine- apple commands, when It Is grown, from 40 cents to $1, according to its size, and the “sets” bring from 25 to 50 cents each, it Is easy to see the enormous profit that fol- lows its successful culture. The cost of maintaining a pinery is considerable, as a Jerge amount of fertilizer must be used, but Mr. Harry L. Beeman, who is regarded as the most successful grower of pineap- ples in Florida, and who is considered an authority on their culture, told me today that stable manure produced better results than any other form of fert!lizer when ap- plied to the pinery. A compost in which tobacco dust is the chief ingredient also makes the plants healthy and prevents ravages of Insects. Everywhere in the residence portion of Orlando one walks beneath the thick foll- age of the water oaks and umbrella-like china berry trees. The water oak Is a par- ticularly beautiful tree, and I am told it is hardy enough to stand the weather in higher altitudes. The branches grow more closely together than those of the live oak and begin to spread ten or gwelve feet from the ground, and the small leaves are as green as green can well be. The china berries are just now full of purple bloom that Is lilac like In color and emits a per- fue similar to the lilac in strength, but softer and more delicious. Altogether the city is a most attractive one, and well dé- serves the confidence its people enthusias- tically express regarding its future. CLUSKEY ¢ROMWELL. —————— Mlustration in Short Hand. From the San Francisco Post. The teacher of the primary school in the mission read ‘“{he old oaken’ bucket” to the little tots, dnd explained ‘It to them very carefully. Then she asked them to copy the first stanza from the blackboard and illustrate as the artists illustrate a story In the daily papers, One little gicl harded in her verse with several little dots tetween two of the lines, a circle, half a dozen dots and three buckets. “Lizzie, I don't understand this, the teacher. . “What is that circle? “Oh, that’s the well.” “And why have you three buckets “One is the oaken bucket, one is the tron- bound bucket and the other is the. buckct that hung in the well.” “Then what are all of those little dots?” “Why, those are the loved spots which my infancy knew.” A Political Definition. From Truth. . . “What do they mean by saying that a candidate is in the hands of his friends?” “It means that their hands are in his pockets.” 17 DR.M’COY'S INTRODUCTION TO WASHINGTON The Great Master Inaugurates His Practice by Giving for One Week Medicines and Treatment Free to All—Something of His Record, His Public Services, and His Discovery That Has Startled the Whole World—Why He Comes to: Washington. Around Doctor MeCos’s récord, given in its out- line at the close of this article, clusters so much tat is of service to mankind, so much that bas been accepied by the profession of medicine as the Gospel of Modern Science, so much with which the people have grown faruiliar from other men, who have taken their words and their knowl- edge from the Great Master, that it is almost in- credible to beliave that the life of one man, and he not yet passed the meridian, should have en- compassed such a mersure of achievement. ‘The formulation of a treatment for Catarrhal and Bronchial troubles, from which sprang, through Doctor McCoy's students and employes, vast medi- cal enterprises, known wherever newspapers are circulated by the ever-famillar portrait of, and interview with, the cured patient, was only an in- cident of Doctor McCoy’s earlier practice. His Early Practice. Upon this incident systems of medicines were formed; systems part good and part bad; good enough: to encompass the entirs ration in their ope, but imperfect enough to fail to satisfy the Commanding Medical Genius who had founded them, Doctor McCoy felt their imperfections too strongly to glory over what he had produced. Readers of this paper will remember that throughout the years that Doctor McCoy's great offices were maintained in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, there was a record of cures that attracted the attention of the whole world, and yet, in spite of that, the great physician felt too strongly the imperfection of the treatment then used, io glory in the fame which followed him. * His Work in Europe. When in 1892, at the time of the announcement of the discovery of Prof. Koch in Berlin, tha daily papers chronicled the departure of Doctor McCoy for Europe, there were many who thought that the discovery of Prof. Koch was the object of his European trip. It was not, however, this discovery of the lymph which led the famous physiclan to the abandoa- ment of the largest practice in the world, to the expenditure of vast eums of moncy, to even the difficult mastery of foreign tongues, that he mizht werk with sclontists of other nations; it was a discovery which lay deeper than that; the dls- covery of polson in the blood as the origin of dis- ease, His System of icine on the Blood Origin. After Doctor MeCoy’s return from his second tour in Eurbpe, laboratories were erected, where he South Me., who testifies to Doctor McCoy’ skill in the treatment of deafness. Berwick, continued his research and experiment for the | perfection of a system of applied medicines, base on the theory of poisons in the blood as the origin | of disease. To bis inthwate friends be gave as the | key-note and text of his work tho single p! DISEASE TO THE SCIENTIST TODAY MEANS | SIMPLY A BLOOD THAT CONTAINS POTSOD Announcements were mnd> in the dally papers | that he would no longer consult with patients elther in New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, and for the suke of entircly withdrawing from all de- mands upon his attention, bis laboratories were erected in Boston, Only a few intimate friends in the profession knew of the progress he was making, until in '9¢ he announced what he felt was the perfection of his system of medicine to the world, end In April, | 95, the Boston papers contained the statement that the famous physician weuld extend to the public generally the benefits that might be derived from his Discovery. The System Presented to the Public. To attempt to present in a newspaper article an; thing like a record of the year that followed Do: tor MeCoy’s announcement would be useless. ‘The adoption and recognition of the Discovery of potson in the blood as the origin of disease, by such an eminent medical authority, the presentation of a system of app!led medicines bssed upon it attracted the attention of the profession as well as the pub- le. Ethical prejudices were powerless to stand in the way of hearty tributes of congratulation in the public press from Prof. Loomis of the University of New York, Doctor Harvey, secretary of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts; Doctor Roach, the eminent surzeon; Doctor Chapin, presi- dent of the Rhode Island Board of Health, and others equally as emincnt. Straight upon the announcement and adoption of the New Treatment, there came the news of an avalanche of cures; such cures as were never known before in the practice of medicine; 8 cures as the profession knew were possible by no existing methods; such cures as had never been worked before by surgeons or physiclans. The Avalanche of Cures. People, by Jong journeyings from remote sec- tions, testifled to the vast public interest which has been awakened. The formulation of a system of medicine, bused on the d ¥ of the Mood origin by the one man in America most capable of the task, inaugurated, indecd, a new era In what is known as medical practica. But the climax was not reached here. The dis- covery and its application in a system of medicine wes only the prelude to what was more wonderful, tore {mpressiva, to what will always be remem- bered as the greatest work of the Famous Pb: sician, to what in the pultic wew will always be the capstone and the kcystonp arch of his re- markable life—the Discovery of a Cure for Deaf- ness. The Climax Not Reached. In the application of medicines, based upon the blood theory, Doctor McCoy found that certain Mrs. Esther G. Bryant, 10 Gove st. Medford Hillside, Mass., cured of deafness. drugs, always regarded ty the chemists as in- compatible, were, in given and delicate propor- tions, chemical affinities. Such a chemical union he had long sought for in vain in his treatment of Ear Diseases. Straight upon his accidental achievement of this unilom he sent for several cases of Deafness, which he had noted as in- curable in Ms own private practice, To the marvel of his colleagues, their hearing responded at once to the application ef this magical com- position—they heard. Birth of the Discovery of the Cen- tury. ‘Thus was born this wonderful cure of Deafness, and in September Doctor McCoy gave it to the public. Within a few mcnths his offices and laboratories in Boston became utterly insufficient to accommodate the crowds of people who sought his aid, and the throngs of physicians from other cities who sought to learn the means which he had summoned from ure to lead the afflicted fr the Tomb of Sileace to the World of Sound. Now, as to the influences which have led Doctor McCoy to locate his practic> in the city of Wash- ington. This (liscovery of a cure for Deafness be- longs not entirely to him; it belongs to the N; tion, and that 1s why ils fi:st formal presentation to tbe world will be given from the nation’s capl- tal, from Washington, The Honor for the Cure for Deafne: National. In the formulation of a system of medicine based on the blood theory, Doctor McCoy had the assist- ance and co-operation of the famous scientists of Europe, of the greatest laberatories on the con- Unent, of the famous clinics and horpitals, where medical learning had the prestige of the cen- tari®. The honor of its formulation and applica- tion was not all his own. It was a divided honor, but the discovery of the cure for Deafness belongs to an American, and it will remain in history to the credit of American science. It will be known for ages as the most wonderful achievement of this For That Reason Presented From Washingto century, and history will record that it was ac- complished by an American, 2 man who was born on American soil, trained ‘on an American farm, taught in ican public’ schools and collages “ho ed bis first fame and honor as a physician in the American metropolis. This is why the first. formal presentation of Doctor Me- Coy's Discovery is made from the capital of America—from "Washington. DR. WCOY'S RECORD. The Six Years of Preparation. Matriculant at University of New York. First honor man in bis claes.... 1876 1879 Winner of famous Loomts prize. Candidate for Bellevue Hospital a 1 1879 Chosen by competitive examination, open to all doctors of the world, resident physician of Beli vue Hospital March, The Founding of a Great Special Practice. Study in hospitals of London and Dublin, St. Bar- tholemew’s of London and the Mercer of Dublin, 881 Formulation of regular treatment for chronic troubles as a result of hospital experience. .1SS2 F nz diseases. ctfres first introduced ‘Journalists, with pi views of patients cured. April, 1884 ting over one thousand ‘patients a students from Bellev The Founding of a System of Ap- plied Medicine. The second visit to Europe for further hospital and inspection. Serving in the laboratortes of Prof. Koch at Berlin, in Charitie Hospital of Berlin and Royal inte under Von Bergmann ++ A891 Formulation of a system of medicine based on the discovery of poison in the blood as the origin of dise: o aoe ASML ‘The -system’ perfected” by "ay ‘xperl- ment in cases selected frem Dr. McCoy's p that’ the ai system should be located in Boston. .1804 McCoy's consultation rooms opened in T FREE FOR ONE WEEK. All Medicines Given Away, all Ad- vice, Consultation and Treatment Free. No Pay Received on any con- | sideration whatever and no obliga- tion to Pay Incurred for one week from this date at the McCoy Offices, at 715 13th st. n.w. This refers to all patients and includes all diseases. A little of what the public interest betokens, a little reflection from the hearts and minds of the people re- garding the Great Master’s triumph, may be gained in the short extracts from the Boston papers, may be gained in selection of poems written to celebrate the trumph over Deaf- Mr. D. Patch, s Undale. foreman Harvard University Agricuitural Farm, testifies to Doc- tor McCoy's skill in curing bronchial trouble. M. South st., Ros- ness may be gained in certain cases selected by portraits to show the verity of the triumph. A partial and imperfect presenta- tion of such is made in this publica- tion, but that all may know that the Famous Physician of whom they have read in years passed is here himself, that all may have an oppor- tunity of testing for themselves Doc- tor McCoy’s Treatment, which is attracting the attention of the whole country, that all may have a fair and abundant opportunity with- out cost to themselves of knowing of this wonderful agency which science has at last brought to the aid of the race, during the first week of fhe inauguration of Doctor McCoy’s practice in Washington the doors of his vast offices will be thrown open to the public and all the people will be cordially welcome to his consulta- tion, his care and his treatment ab- solutely without money and without price. No pay will be received and no obligation to pay incurred. Dr. McCoy’s own challenge to his dis- covery given in his celebrated mono- graph was that to prove its efficacy to him a treatment must cure by scores and hundreds. Isolated cases might result from chance or acci- dent or natural causes. The hun- dreds who take advantage of this Free week offer will afford the op- portunity of Proving to the people of Washington what has been proven to New England, that the New Treatment cures as no other method ever has cured in the history of the world, HONORED BY GREAT pDocTors., (From Boston Globe, Jan. 12, 1896.) Straight acroes the ethical barrier raised against advertising co many years ago, no one knows why, have been extend«d to Doctor McCoy today, in com. gratulaticn, the hards of the really great men in ies gpm of medicine. > ince Doctor McCcy’s return from Europe Prof. Loomis, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Roach, Dr. Chapin and others Just as eminent have hastened, even through the medium of the Izy press, to pay cordial tribute to the skill of the Great Master. THE MARVELOUS TRIBUTE OF THE PEOPLE, who have co.ne long ard tedicus jourreys to obtain the benefit of the Mceter’s power over disease, tells of more then faith in that power. It tells of un- broken confderce in a professional honesty, never yet tartished by deceit. They know they come to the ministration of that superb skill, for which no Me has ever been spoken. THIS FUBLISEED TRIBUTE OF THE DOCTORS the first in the history of American practice t bea peid to any physician in the secular press—is Micre than a tribute to Doctor McCoy's skill, which ‘has never yet been questioned. It is.a tacit recogni- tion, Icng deloycd, of the truth that the treatment which Doctor McCoy gave the world ten years ago (im perfect, aa be now frankly admits it to be) is today the generally adopted treatment of the pro- fession, and that just us surely and by the eame token the treatment which Doctor McCoy is now offering, first to the people of Boston, will be the treatment of the future. Dr. Chapin Interviewed. Dr. CHARLES V. CHAPIN, Superintendent Health and City Registrar of Provi. nee, R. 1, interviewed Friday ry glsnc. Kirby, Providense correspondent of the Boston Globe, regarding the cures of deafness, with which Doctor McCoy has startled New Engiand, said: knew Dr. McCoy’ first a8 one of the students Who passed the competitive examination for Belle- vue Hospital in It was in 1880 he graduated, after eighteen months in the ward of general sur : tthe same time y Was a man of marked ability, neral surgery ward, while I went into the medical department. “I had a good opportunity to know Doctor Mo- Coy while at Bellevue. His skill and energy, and his great desire for advanced knowledge and prac- tice “aroused my interest in him. le was worker and took great pride in having his sore cases come out all right. One case especially remember in which gangrene liad set in in the foot, the thigh had swollen, and the gangrene had ex tended from the foot up to the use of the thigh, It was discovered that a clot of blood bad lod in-a large blood ve In the thigh. Doctor Me- Coy operated, and, to my su patient out tn the open afr in a ve “I should judge Doctor Mec bout forty years old. “As for myself, I would call him tm to attend ‘to me pe ly thuch sooner than many other doctors who might decry his ising. ‘As to your question wh he would be Hable to discover e for deafness, I would say I would. consid wr McCoy just as lisble, and be a little more so ‘one I know, cover such a cure. s Mable to discover some- thing good in this as well er Mine. Of course, it Is a big ‘There ee — are many degrees of deafness, and many kinds of treatment. If it is a cure 4 then I at Doctor MeCoy is just as 1 iscover that as ony other man I know physician, surgeon or otherwise.” From Professor Loomis. (New York World of Se: Professor Loomis of th the great specialis of physicians adv cal men who adv stance, is an able scientist: and a first-riass Faduate of Rellevue Hospital. | 1 loes an immense business, fs doing aud, as I understand, tecotning rich.” ae in alludi advertises, rh good, From Secretary Harvey. @oterview in Traveler, Nov. 16 Hon. Edwin B. Harvey, the sc Massachusetts State Lourd of 3 Medicine, said, after looking over the Office: ¢ is the official record: ‘John Cressy McCoy, graduate of Uni f Now ¥ hos. Pitals in London and N: s had an excellent training. Thay show au absclute m: jects sub- mitted. He has ol st mark to four of the an Was Te TRIBUTE FROM POETS. John J. Jennings of the New York World, having read the publishe? accounts of the triumpas over Deafness, has written the alt Anes in commemoration of tt. ee Go ask them, and they will tell How happiness stream'd thro’ When their loving voices fell Like musie upon ears; How I danccd and recl'd with joy, And thank’d the God of Dilss, When again my wife's “Ik you” I heard as I felt her kiss: tears, How I clasped the boy to my breast, And bless'd him, and drank word, As he prattled the Praxer T taught him, And every word I heard; How the song of the bird in the caze, And the buzz of the chandeller, And the tides of noise In the stfect, And the bells ringing loud and And the tick-tick-tick of the cloc And the sounds of fect in the hall ‘Swept to my brain emotions That thrilled my senses al And thanks were mingled with ‘That, back to my loved T'd My was from the Tomb of Silence ito the World of Sound. Miss Miriam F. Lyon of Providence, Rhode Island, who has been cured of deafness by this treatment, tells An verse of the Joy of hearing again. Out from a world of silence, Peopled only by shades at move in soundless rhyth ‘Till thelr voiceless features fade Out from a desert dreury, Feopled only by fears, at throng the lonely wand'rer Through all his lonely years Ont from a prison gloom: Whore walls no echo give? Qut from its cells eo gray’and cold °Tis punishment to live— From the world and waste and prison Where the deaf are consigned to dwell, Mra. Elmira P. Fuller, 11 Loring $t., South Boston, testifies to Doctor MeOoy's «kill in curing eczema. From the world and waste and prison, Barth's prototypes of hell— To the glad new world of voters, And sounds that long were dead, To the world of word and song and Joy The Master's skill hath led. The McCoy System of Medicine, 715 13th Street Northwest. Dr. J. CRESAP McCOY, Dr. J. M. COWDEN, Consulting Physicians, OFFICE HOUKS, 9 am TO 8 p.m. DAILY. SUNDAY, 10am. T02 p.m. For one medicines reek from this date all ‘en away. All consulta, ltioms, advice and treatment free.