Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1896, Page 11

* THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. ‘MEDICINES GIVEN AWAY---TREATMENT FREE At the McCoy Offices, 715 13th St. N.W., up to and Including Saturday, April 4—Something Regarding Dr. McCoy’s Professional Record. ‘DR. WCOY'S RECORD. ‘The Six Years of Preparation. Matricelant at University of New York. First horor min in bis class. 1379 Winner of famous Loomis prize....February, 1879 Candidaie for Bellevue Hospital appointment, Mareb, 1879 nm by competitive examination, cpen to all netors of the world, resident physician of Mare’ 1879 visiting pby- siclin to training sehool for nurses...April, 1880 Served as resident physician to Bellevue. .1879-1830 "The ding of a Great Special Prac- tice. in hospitals of London and Dublin, St. Bar- 3 of Lomlon, and the Mercer of Dub- 1876 pital experience...... treatment for the cure of 1883 s with pic- tures and interviews of patients eured..April, 1884 Dr. M m2 thousand patients a Mugas x Scdicuiee Applied Medicine. cond visit to Europe for further hospital ton. Discovery of a «September, 1895 st., cor. Re stifies to Dr. of catarrh. The free week at the offices of Doctors McCoy & Cowden closes Saturday evening at 8.o’clock. Dur- ing the regular office hours up to and including that time all are wel- come. All medicines given away, all advice, consultation and treatment free. No pay received on any con- sideration whatever, and no obliga- tion to pay incurred. This applies | to all patients and covers all dis-! eases. That all may know that the fa- mous physician of whom they have read for years is here himself; that all may have an opportunity of test-| ing for themselves Doctor McCoy’s treatment, which is attracting the at- tention of the whole country; that all may have a fair and abundant op- portunity without cost to themselves, of knowing of this wonderful agency which science has at last brought to the aid of mankind, during the first week of the inauguration of Doctor McCoy's practice in Washington the doors of his offices are thrown open to the public and all the pedple are 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. Doc- tor McCoy’s own challenge to his discovery, given in his celebrated Monograph, was that to prove its efficacy to him a treatment must cure by scores and hundreds. Isolated cases might result from chance or accident or natural causes. The hundreds in Washington who are taking advantage of this free week offer will afford the opportunity of proving to the people of this city what has been proven in New Eng- Iand—that Doctor McCoy’s treat- ment cures as no other method ever has cured in the history of the world. Around Doctor MeCoy’s Record, given in Its outline at the head of this article, €lusters so much that Is of service to mankind, 90 much that has been nevepted by the profession of of Modern Sefence, so much with which the people have grown familar from oth-r men, who have teken thet words and thelr Ynowledze from the Great Master, that It fs almest incredible to believe that the ife of one man, and he not yet passed the meridian, should have en- compassd such a mersure of achlevement. ‘The formulation of a treatment for Catarrhal and Bronchial troubles. from which sprang, through Doctor McCoy's students and employes, vast medi- Mr. E. Knowldon, Main st., Brattle boro, Vt., testifies to Dr. McCoy's ‘skill In curing deafness. (al enterprises, Imown wherever newspapers are ¢irculated by the ever-familiar portrait of, and feterview with, the cured patient, was only an in- ‘ @ident 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 entire ration in their scope, but imperfect enough to fall to satisfy the Commanding Medical Genius who had founded them, Doctor McCoy felt thelr 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 way 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 vsed, to 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, the dilly papers chronicled the departure of Doctor MeCoy 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 physiclyn to the abandoa- ment of the largest practice in the world, to the ‘Mattapan, Mass., testifies to MeCoy’s skill in’ curlug Locomotor Ataxia. expenditure of vast sums of money, to even the difficult mastery of foreign tongues, that he might Werk with sciontists of other nations; it was a discovery which lay deeper than that; the dis- covery of poison In the blood as the origin of dis- ease. His System of Medicine on the Blood Origin. After Doctor McCoy's return from his second tour in Europe, laboratories were erected, where he continued his research and experiment for the perfection of a system of appHed medicines, based on the theory of poisons In the blood as the origin of disease. To bis intimate friends he gave as the key-note and text of his work the aingle phrase: DISEASE TO THE SCIENTIST TODAY MEANS SIMPLY A BLOOD THAT CONTAINS POISON. Announcements were mad> in the daily papers that be would no longer consult with patients either in New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, and for the sake of entirely withdrawing from all de- mands pen his attention, his laboratories were erected in Boston. Only a few intimate friends in the profession knew of the prozress he was making, until in "Ut he announced what he felt was the perfection of his system of medicine to the world, end In Apcil, *@, the Boston papers contained the statement that the famous physician would extend to the public generally the benefits that might be derived from his Discovery. The System Fresented to the Public. To att-mpt to present in a newspaper article any- thing like a record of the year that followed Doc- tor McCcs’s announcement would be uscless. The adoption and recognition of the Discovery of polson in the blood as the origin of disease, by such an eminent medfeal authority, the presentation of a system of applied medicines besed upon it attracted the attention of the profession as well as the pub- Me. 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 surgeon; Doctor Chapin, presi- dent of the Rhode Isiand Board of Healti, and others equally as eminent. Straight upon the annoupeement and adoption of the New ‘Treatment, there came the news of an avaltnehe of cures; such cures as were never known before in the. practice of medicine; such cures as the profession knew were possible by no existing methods; ‘sueh cures as had’ never been worked before by surgeons or physicians. . The Avalanche of Cures. People, by Jong journeyings from remote sec- tions, testified to the vast public toterest which has been awakened. The forinulation of a system of medicine, bused on the diseovery of the blood Mra. D. T. Compton, Kimball Revere, Mass., testifies to Dr. Mc- Coy’s skill in curing Liver Diseases. origin by the one maz in America most capable of the task, inaugurated, indeed, a new era in what fs known as medical practic>. But the climax was not reached here. The dis- covery ard its application in a system of medicine wes only the prelude to what was more wonderful, tore impressive, to what will alwara be remem- bered as the greatest work of the Famous Phy- sician, to what in the pullle view will always be the capstone and the ktystone arch of his re- markable life—the Discovery of a Cure for Deuf- ness. The Climax Not Reached. In the application of medicines, based upon the ood theery, or MeCoy found that certain drugs, always regarded ly the chemists as in- compatible, were, in given and delicate propor- tlons, chemieal affinities. Sach a chemical union he had long sought for In vain in his treatment of Ear Disenses. Straight upon his accidental achievement of this unlon he sent for se cases of Deafness, whick he had noted as in- curable in bis own private practice. To the marvel of ig colleagues. thelr hearing responded at once to the application of this magical com- Position—they hea: P Birth of the Hiscesety. of the Cen- tury. ‘Thus was born this wonderful cure of Deafness, rember Doctor McCoy gave it to the and in Sey pablic. ithin a few mnths bis offices and [aboratories In Boston became utterly Insuficient to accommodate the crowds of people who sought lifs aid, and the throngs of physicians from other cities who sought to learn the means which Be had summoned from neture to Iead the aoe from the Tomb of Sileace to the World of Sound. Now, as to the influences which have led Doctor weary Sorlecate bis practic: in the city of Wash- ‘This ery of a cure for Deafness be- longs not ‘entiraly to him: it belongs, to. the Nec tion, and that is why its ‘fi:et formal presentation to, the world will be given fiom the nation’s capl- tal, fon. ‘The Honor for the Cure for Deafness National. In the formulation of a system of medicine based on the blood theory, Doctor McCey had the_assist- ance of the famous scientists of Europs, of the greatest laboratories on the continent, of the famous clinics and hospitals, where medical learning had the prestige of ‘the cen- turies. The of its formulation and applica- tion was not all his own. It was a divided honor, Dut the discovery of the cure “for Deafness belongs American, and it will remain In history the ‘credit. of American. selence. “It. will be kuown for agea as the most wonderful achievement of this For That Reason Presented From Washington. and histocy will record that it was ac SSoplithed yan an American, a man who was born on Amerizan trained on an American farm, taught in American schools ‘who ‘his pebtte end colleges physician the “American etapa This, ts why the first formal ‘of Doctor Me- Preseutat ia made from the capital of ‘America—from "Washington. im HONORED BY GREAT DOCTORS. rom Boston Globe, Jan. 12, 1896.) Straight across the ethical barrier ralsed against advertising co many years ago, no one knows why, Rave been extend to Doctor MeCoy today, in con- gratulsticn, the hards of the really great men in the profession of medicine. Since Doctor McCcy'’s return from Europe Prof. Loomis, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Roach, Dr. Chapin and others just as emineut hare hastened, even through the medium of the ley press, to pay cordial tribute to the skill of the Great Master. THE MARVELOUS TRIBUTE OF THE PEOPLE, Who havo cone long ard tedicus jougreys to obtain { the benefit of the Mister's power over disease, tells | of mere then faith in that pewer. It tells of un- broken confiderce in a professional honesty, never yet tartished by deceit. They know they come to the ministration of that superb skill, for which no Ue has ever been spoken. THIS FUBLISHED TRIBUTE OF THE DOCTORS —the first in the history of American practice to be psid to any physician in the secular press—is mere than a tribute to Doctor McCoy's skill, which has never yet been questioned. It is a tacit recogni- tlon, long deloyed, of the trath that the treatment which Doctor MeCoy gave the world ten years ago (in perfect, a3 be now frankly admits it to be) is teday the generally adopted treatment of the pro- fession, and that just us surely and by the same 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. ity Registrar of Pr interviewed Friday by Isaac Kirby, Providence correspondent of the Beston Globe, regarding the cures of deafness with whiclt Doctor McCoy has startled New and, sald a Knew Dr. McCoy’ first as ne of the students conmetitive exasnination for Belle- ras in 1880 be graduated, ward of general snr- same time. ‘ey Was a man cf marked ability, and. ches ihe srooat surgery ward, while I went into the medical department. “E had a good opportunity to know Doctor Me- Coy while at Believue. His skill and enerzy, and his great desire for advanced knowledge and prac- tice “aronsed my interest in him, He was Worker and took great pride in having his surgical uses come ont all rizht. Ono ease expecially I remember in which gawsrene had set In In the foot, the thigh had swollen, and the gangrene had ex: tended from the fot up to the base of the thigh. It was discovered that a clot of blood had lodged 10 a large blood vessel in the thigh. r Me- Coy operated, and, to my surprise, had the patient out in the open afr in a very short time. “I should Judge x McCoy to be about forty yenrs old. As for myself, I wonld call him in to ‘attend me personally much sooner than many other doctors. might decry his advertisi “As to oueiamentin Whether he would ive fable to discover for deafness, I woukl say I Would covalder Doctor Mecoy Just ax iablen and @ little more so than one I ki to dis- cover such care, He is liable to discover soul. thing good in this as well as in any other lve. Of course, it 1s a big question you ask me. ‘There ‘Mrs. Elmira P. 11 Loring st., South Boston, testifies to Dr. Me- Coy's skill in curing Eczema. are many degrees of deafnes frentment. If it in a, cure for abeolnte ds the repeat Doctor MeCoy is discover that as any other man I know surgeon or otberwise."” and many kinds of faces is le. to. -physieian, From Professor Loomin. (New York World of Sept. 2d, 1894.) Professor Loomis of the University of New York, the great specialist, speaking on the ethical grounds of physiclans advertising, said in allading to, medi- eg] men who advertise: ‘4 McCoy, for in- stance, isan able. mar. well educated, «thorough sclentist and a first-ciass physician. He is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital. He advertises, does an immense business, ia doing much good, and, as I understaml, becoming rich.” From Secretary Harvey. Caterview in, Traveler, Nov. 16th.) win B. Harvey, the secretary of the Sieeachneette State Board of Rexistration in Medicine, said, after looking over the les of the gflce: re, ie the official record: “John Cresap cay, ante 0 iniversity of New hos tals in and New York'—wh aoe bad an Ercellent Craisitg Here are. Bis ‘They show an absolute mastery’ of the’ subjects sub. mitted. He has obtained the bighest’ mark tn four of the subjects, and bigher than was re- quired in the othe: ‘TRIBUTE FROM POETS. John J. Jennings of the New York World, having read the publishe? accounts of the triumphs over Deafness, has written the following Hues in commemoration of { Go ask them, and they wil tell How bapplness stream’d thro’ tears, When their loving volces fell Tike music upon my. ears How I dane: and reel Ki weit Soy, And thank’d the God of bit hen again my wife’ Tear as 1 felt hor Kise: How I clasped the boy to my breast, And biess'd him, and drank each word, Ashe prattled the the prayer E taught bi, ‘And every word ‘How the song of the bird in the cage, And the burs of the chandelter. @ tides of nolse In the street, ‘And the bells ringing toad apd clear, ‘And the tle tek-tiek of the clock. ‘And the sounds of feet in the hall Swept to my brain emotions ‘That thrilled my senses all. And thanks were mingled with gladness ‘That back to my love I'd found My way from the Tomb of Silence Tato the World of Sound. love you"? Miss Miriam F. Lyon of Providence, Rhode Island, who has heen cured of dea! by this treatment, tells in verse of the joy of hearing again. Out from a world of silence, Peopled only by shades ‘That move in soundless rbythm aes their voice'ess features fade— it from a desert dreary, Propiea only by fears, That throng the lonely wand'rer ‘Thiough all his lonely years— Mr. Henry A. Mott, P. ©. Woburn, Mass., testifies to Dr. McCoy's skill in coring Bronchial Catarrh. Out from a prison gk one fo col aie! 1a from {ts cells #0 gray’ and col 8 punishment to live— From the world and waste and prison Where the deaf are consigned to dwell, The — aoe of Medicine, 715 13th Street Northwest. Dr. J. CRESAP McCOY, Dr. J. M. COWDEN, Consulting Physicians. OFFICE HOURS, 9am. TO 8 p.m. DAILY. SUNDAY, 10am. T02p.m For one wreck from this date all medicines gi All econsulta- tions, advice ana ‘treaiment free. THE MYSJIC SHRINE < Bi OF Almas Temple Gd4¥634 Lady's Night With Groff owen ‘Those Who Con Hinted to the Pleas- _ Ure and tip semctont Com- mittecs fi Charge. Se D hate Almas Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, gave a ladic’ night at National Rifles’ Armory lastiavyening. Affairs of this sort have almost {hygblably proved a great success, but that 9f-last evening surpassed ell its predecessors 'in-the character of the entertainment, the brilliancy of the gath- ering and the general good feeling tha: pre- vailed. The Shriners have a reputation to sustain as entertainers, but they even | added to it last evening, and added con- siderably to their popularity with the fair sex. ‘The special feature of the evening was a musical and literary entertainment, to which some of the best local talent con- tributed. There were songs, recitations and fancy dancing, all of a high order. Among those who took part in the program were the Gridiron Quartet, composed of Alexander Mosher, Herndon Morsell, J. Henry Kaiser and William D. Hoover: E. B. Hay, Frank H. Cunningham, poten- tate of Acca Temple; William H. ‘Conley, Eugene Coffin, Miss Miriam Stoddart, Mrs. H. Clay Browning, Mrs. W. Andrew Boyd, . D. McFarland, John Tweedale, Miss Helen Winter and ‘a quartet consisting of Mrs. Browning, Mr. McFarland, Miss Mc- Nelly and Mr. Kaiser, Supper was served about 11 o'clock ut small tables in the lower hall, and dancing was kept up until a late hour. Among the special guests of the evening were a number of out-of-town Shriners, m- cluding Representative Curtis of York, Representative Jacob H. Bromwell, Representative Hilborn, Representative ‘Thomas C. McRae, Representative Frank W. Mondell, Potentate Starr of Boum! Tem- ple, Robert Downing, Henry Boykin, George Friedly, A. A. Warfield, Capt. Mushback, Mr. Fisher and Representative Tazcwell Ellett, all of Acca Temple, of Ricamon3, and Noble Braxman of Mecca Templ2. In Charge. The committees in charge of the various details of the affair were as follows: Executive—Harrison Dingman, chairman; Frank H. Thomas, Jesse F. Grant, William T. Gallther, Robert E. Constant, Ed H. Chamberlin, George H. Walker, Harry Standiford, Andrew W. Kelley, J. F. R. Appleby, M. D.; George W. Baird, William Andrew Boyd, George W. Evans and George Gibson. Reception—George W. Baird, chairman; Fred G. Alexander, M. W. Bayliss, George E. Corson, B. Donaldson, David G. Dixon, Joseph H. Jocum, Noble D. Larner, Jesse W. Lee, jr., John Lockie, Alexander McKenzie, Henry 8. Merrill, Myron M. Parker, George W. Pratt, James A. Sample, L. C. Williamson, L. C. ‘Wood and Jose M. Yznaga. Refreshment — William Andrew Boyd, chairman; A. L. Bliss, Thomas A. Chandler, William P. Cole, A.’ T. Coumbe, Willlam E. Dennison, William B. Easton, William F. Gude, Charles W. Hancock, Edwin B. Hay, P. M. Hough, William M. Larcombe, Charles C. Leavens, F. 0. McNew, Thomas P. Morgan, jr., Fred 8. Newman, John F. O'Neill, William H. Otterback, K. ee mond, J. M. Rieman, B. P. Rouse, Schafer, J. Henry ‘Sinall, Sam C. rhomp: son and harles E. Wood. F. R. Appleby, chairman; C. H. er, Fred W. Behrens, Frank A. William B. Creecy, Cc. Duff, John A. George E. Fleming, Ferd Gawler, vey Given, R. von Gluemer, Evan J. Gray, dB, -Hesse, James A. Hunter, Syd- ney R. Jacobs, Jacobus S. Jones, Jesse B. “K. Lee, James T. Macey, Lee Pitchtyn, Frank H.. Quast, Webster Vinson, Thomas B. Walker and William J. Wallace. Eatertainment—George Gibson, chairman; Bennett A. Allen, H. L. Briscoe, Joseph Brummett, H: C. Browning, F. W. Bud- decke, C. Caldwell, John C. Chaney, R. W. Darby, Daniel Fraser, Alexander Grant, W. E. Handy, M. D,: J. J. Harrower, S. B. Hege, William Bae ‘Yy, A. Nailor, Jr., George C. Ober, M. ').; James F. Oyster, J. William Palmer, William H. Rupp, Alex- ander Scott, S. W. Stinemetz, A. S. Taber, G. Taylor Wade and J. J. Wilber. Floor—George W. Evans, chairman; J. Harry Cunningham, Ferd. Gawler, William Gettinger, William S. Knox, S. Ed Tom- linson, Benjamin Parkhurst and 8S. C. Stokes. ——__. Theater Nuisances. ‘Tb the’ Fiitor of ‘fhe Evening ‘Star: ‘© -'' I do not propose to discuss at length the question raised by ‘‘Womoen” in. Monday's Star, as to whether stage-obscuring hats worn by tho female sex (I think the term “ladieg’ rather too complimentary to be applied generally to those who have no eonsiieration for the rights,. comfort. or feelings of others) or the habit hard-drink- ers have of going out between acts, is the greater nuisance to theater goers. It seems to me more profitable to pay atten- tion to the point as to whether both cannot be suppressed. As to the stage-obscuring hat, I do not believe it can be suppressed so long as there are women vain and fcclish enough to blindly follow every whim of fashiona- ble folly sent across the Atlantic by the joint efforts of the milliners, actresses and demi-monde women of Paris, and proudly parade it at all times, whether it is be- coming or not, or appropriate or wholly out of place for the particular occasion or place whers it 1s worn. The only way to stop it is by the action of the theater man- agers themselves. They owe it to their patrons to require all ladies to remove their hats before being shown to their seats in any respectaole place of amuse- ment. There would be no more hardship or difficulty in enforeing this rule than there is in the observance by mer of the urwritten law that thetr hats must not be worn’in a theater. And such a rule, if laid down and announced publicly, could be enforced without difficulty. That is the rule in the first-class places of amusement in England and on the continent, and if the managers there did not enforce it the audience would very speedily see that it should be carried out. Let Messrs. Al- baugh, Allen and Rapley therefore get to- gether and agree upon and announce such @ regulation for the first and second floors of the places of amusement controlled by them respectively, and public sentiment would speedily and effectt.ally second their efforts. The result would be much more attractive looking audiences, and peace and comfort prevailing whore there is now dis- Satisfaction and cursing, deep if not loud. As to the habit hard-drinkers have of go- ing out between acts, that is not so easily vhecked while debasing human appetites are so hard to control. Fortunately, how- ever, that nuisance is occasional, and lasts for a few moments only, and usually when nothing of interest is transpiring on the stage, whereas the sjage-obscuring hat is @ continuing intéfferonce, lasting during the whole performanée, and usually most obtrusive at the most inopportune times But the running put nuisance ought to be suppressed, all the au ‘The evil could be if greatly lessened gople with an uncon- trollable_ thirst ‘only! had consideration enough for others to always secure end seats. Or, if thereifare not end seats enough, they might jqin together and col- onize themselves) in ;one section of the house, so that their outgoings and incom- ings would not disturb or inconvenience those who are able .to slake their thirst with a glass of wateripassed about by the water boys. If neither of these plans com- mends itself to thahard-drinkers, then peo- ple who are anngyed,by their movements have a partial remedy in thelr own hands. They shoutd invariably and sternly refuse to rise or make any ‘other effort to allow the bar-seeking cgntingent to easily pass from and to its seat in the middie of the row. This method could of course be en- forced only at some expense to the corns and dresses of those who decline to rise, but if faithfully followed, the H.-D.’s would, it is believed, learn to control their appetites after a while, or resort to the expedient of carrying a pocket flask, from which they could recruit their failing ener- gles when the lights are low. A VICTIM OF BOTH NUISANCES. March 31, 1896 ——__ ‘The “Day of Rest.” ‘To the Editcr of The Evening Star: In your paper of the 30th of March “‘Z. S. B.” says, in reference to Sunday opening of stores, “‘How can they be otherwise than’ offensive to the moral sense of the Chris- tian?” This Is the key to the true motive which underlies the movement for Sunday ! observance. Other eorrespondents have tele obscured the issue by pleading for & “rest day” when a@ puritanical Sabbath is what they really desire to infilct upon a community already overburdened with laws which trench upon personal liberty. It was the same spirit of religious domination (in a more violent form) witch established the Spanish inquisition, and which aasited it Salem witch burning, the persecution Russian Jews, the butchering of the eS tiane and other atrocities too numerous to mention. How wise our forefathers were when they wrote in our grand old Constitu- tion: “Congress shall make no law respect- ing an establishment of religion.” At the meeting reported in The Star of December 10, 1895, Dr. Elliott, who seems to be the leader of the movement, advises, against the use of the term “Lord’s day,” presumably to avoid religious prejudice e bill. He calls it “Sunday, a day If it is only a “day of rest” he desires I would like ‘0 | know whether he would consent to making Saturday the “day of rest,” that being the day observed by more than one religious sect. It will not do to say that Sunday is the day observed by the majority. Congress has no right to fcrce upon the people the religion of the majority. This is only one of the numerous schemes to make people iruly good by act of Congress. The ‘day of rest” idea is meant to catch the support of the laboring classes. Con- gress cannot legislate “snaps” for the work- irgman. Such matters must be arranged by mutual agreement between employer and employe. Certain classes of business places cannot close on Sunday without great loss- es, which to a certain extent would inev- itably be charged up to employes in reduced wages. Employes can always arrange fcr an occasional holiday. With most of them the trouble is too many furloughs and too much enforced idleness. It is not too inuch work, but too much icleness, that hurts. secking to compel the religious chserv: of Sunday Congress might succeed only making a day of universal idleness. With all due respect to Dr. Eliott and other good citizens who advocate the bill, I must say that the only safe rule is to let each man settle such questions for him- self according to the dictates of his own conscience, and without interference from others. THOMAS W. GILMER. The Proposed Hospital for Inchrintes. To the Editor of The Evcrivg Star: We have alwayz found that to insure the success of any important measure or re- form is to have it advocated by your ex- cellent paper. We therefore submit the f I- lowing, which we hope you will kindly in- sert, or give the matter your attention: Some three week ago we read in The Star that the committee had reported favor- ably on a bill to establish within the Dis- trict an asylum or hospital for inebriates. A measure of such importance should com- mend the earnest support of the communi- ty. There is no doubt that habitual drunk- enness in most cases is a disease which should receive treatment as other similar diseases of mind or body. There are asy- lums for the insane. Those who have no will power whatever to resist the drink habit are almost as much in reed of com- pulsory treatment as those who have en- tirely lost the use of their minds. The Keeley Institutes are unavailable for most such unfortunates, for the reason that they are too expensive. Besides they receive orly volunteer patients, who have no need to be confined while they try the experi- ment. There are hundreds of young men in this city of good families who have no other faults or vices except an uncontrol- able appetite for strong drink, which, in some cafes, appears to be hereditary. For such there is no place in this great capital of the nation, except the work house, where they are clasecd with criminals and have to wear the “stripes,” a degradation that takes from them what manhood they may have left. Yet they are not criminals and possibly not responsible for their conduct. If such are found after treatment to be in- curable they should at least have a place of confinement that is aecent and have the advantages of wholesome moral influences. Such an as made self-supporting, by providing suitable employment for each occupant and would become not only a great blessing to them, but an unspeakable relief and comfort to the many distressed mothers, who are to- tally withcut power to aid their loved ones in such cases. We call attention to this mat- ter for the reason that during the last ses- sion of Congress we were informed that provision for such an asylum had been made, but from song cause the project was not carried cut and we fear the present movement may also result in failure, unless the matter is urged. IOUS MOTHER. —— Physical Evils From the Division. To the Eéitor of The Evening Star: Your correspondent of March 30 men- tions the old arguments on the impossibil- ity of abolishing the social evil. I hope he and all others will join in the present ef- fort to accomplish this abolition, however. As moralists are frequently regarded in the light of being bores, I will not now raise the moral aspect of the question; but all acknowledge physical suffering. And what terrible seeds of disease are planted in the “Division!” Young men do not realize what may, and often does, happen to mar not only their own whole future, but that of their coming wives and descendants to the “third and fourth generation,” simply from a lark in the “Division.” It is a mathematical certainty that one who goes often to the “Division,” or its like, will, sooner or later, become inocu- lated with a frightful disease. It is not a merciful disease like cancer, which kills fairly early and is seldom transmitted to offspring, but it causes a lingering, death- like life, and is usually transmitted. Re- cently read in a New York paper a curse from a woman to her husband. She said: “May you catch everything and live!’ That is the sort of real curse found in the “Di- vision.”" Probably next to rum_this disease in its Treriote stages causes the largest number of suicides. The mental depression, physi- cal and financial ruin and upbraidings of conscience lead to this result, as well as the reil irsanity which sometimes occurs. Does not this physical view of the matter impress all present apologists for the “Di- vision’ with a strong desire to make the effort, at least, to abolish it? If we can save only one young man and his possible progeny by our efforts we will have “done PHYSICIAN. — A Suggestion to Mrs. Booth-Tucker. To the Eattor of The Evening Star: If Mrs. Booth-Tucker wishes to save hu- manity she should have commenced at home with her six-weeks-old baby. SUBSCRIBER OF THE STAR. ——<—_— The Philosophy of Immortality. The subject, “Immortality, the Necessary Implication of Nature,” was the topic for discussion at the mecting of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry held at Columbian University yesterday afternoon. Dr. Will- tam T. Harris, commissioner of educatio: Prof, Edwin Farquar, Rev. Dr. J. S. Kedney of Faribault, Minn., and Prof. Lester F. 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Navy, Resident Phy- sician, Hot Springs, Ark.: **My experience in the use of BUrFALo LITHIA WATER is limited to treatment of GOUT, RHEU- | MATISM and that hybrid disease, “RHEU- | MATIC GOUT’ (so-called), which is in| contradistinction to the Rheumatoid Arthritis of Garrod. i “TI have had excellent results from this water in these affections, both in my own person and in the treatment of patienis for whom I have prescribed it. 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