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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1895. T AMONG THE NEW BOOKS Among the books of the week that the1 literary clan is talking about is Richard\ Hovey’s “‘Guinevere,”” extended notice of | which is made elsewhere. Itisa tragedy | in blank verse, based or. one of the legends | of the Knights of the Round Table and noble King Arthur, topics of which poets have sung almost ever since there were poets to sing; and Mr. Hovey of Chicago has sung well and clearly, and more orless musically—that must be admitted. Our old iriends, Sir Galahad and Launcelot and Merlin are brought out to say their parts | in a very effective little drama,in w ich | the lovers of Launcelot and Queen Guine- | vere are tenderly pictured. It was anam- | bitious effort on the partof Mr. Hovey, | and let us hope, for the sake of the West, that the sharp-penned and sharp-tongued | critics of New York may look leniently | upon this new drama of old England. \ A move in the right direction is )n(si Bertha Monroe Rickoff's effort to organize | classes in ‘‘current critic The plan has been tried successfully in many | cultured circles of Eastern cities. The criticism turned naturaily to things politi- | cal and literary, and these are broad fields | to traverse. Miss Rickoff irherits much of her energy in stimulating intellectual | activity. Her father, Professor Andrew J. | Rickoff, who is now aresident of Berkeley, | was for many years prominent among | Eastern educators, and for twenty vears | was superintendent of the public schools | of Cleveland, Ohio. As the Cleveland pub- | lic schoois to-day stand second to none in this country, Professor Rickoff has reason | to be proud of his monument. Mrs. Rickoff is the author of several educational textbooks. | Miss Grace Ethelyn Cody, formerly of | Chicago, whose short stories and sketches | are familiar to readers of various Eastern periodicals, is now a resident of Pasadena. The report is that she has been indus- triously employed of late, and some of her literary products will soon appear in the | magazines. Asa writer of sketches involy- ing a close study of child life, Miss Cody has few equals. Mark Twain, who recently started on a tour round the world, told a recent inter- viewer how he often felt a desire to ‘“cut loose” from civilization and to get away by himself, where he could run and vell to his heart’s, content. In this connection there is a story about the humorist and Canon Kingsley. Walking along the street one day, Mark felt the impulse to yell coming on him with irresistible force, and said to Kingsley, “I want to vell; I must yell.”” The canon said: *All right, yell away: I don't mind.” “And with that,” said Mark, “I stepped back a few steps, and, throwing my arms above my head, let out a war-whoop that could be heard for miles; and in less time than you could count Canon Kingsley and myself were surrounded by a multitude of anxious cit- izens, who wanted to know what was the matter. I told them nothing was the matter; I just wanted to yell, and had yelled.” The R. H. Woodward Company, Balti- more, will soon issue a new book, by Dr, Talmage. 1t gives an account of his re- cent travels around the world and will be liberally illustrated. | Artist A. B. Frost has been engaged for | a long time upon a series of 112 illustra- | tions for the original “Uncle Remus,” by Joel Chandler Harris, which has been re- | vised by the author, and is to appear | shortly in new dress as one of the leading | illustrated standard books of the year. A new edition of George Gissing’s novel, | ‘“Ibe Emancipated,” considered by many to be one of his most powerful works, is to be issued in America by Messrs. Way & Williams of Chicago, about the middie of Beptember. This same firm has lately in- duced Francis F. Browne, formerly editor of the Dial, to gather his fugitive pieces to- gether and consent to their publication in a small book for limited circulation. “Volunteer Grain”” Mr. Browne has mod- estly and appropriately named the collec- tion, and to it one might very appropri- ately apply several of the lines written by him to the author of “Old World Idyls"”: Humor and pathos blending smiles and tears, A sympathy with common hopes and fears. In an article on “The Fifth Gospel” Dr. Woods Hutchinson, an author of Des Moines, Iowa, proclaims in the October Monist, a new evangel, the gospel accord- ing to Darwin. Instead of destroying the religious spirit, this gospel, Dr, Hutchinson maintains, reanimates it and places it upon stronger foundations than ever before. ‘What is generally conceded in Philadel- phia to be one of the most desirable buila- ing sitesin the city has jusi been pur- chased by the Ladies’ Home Journal. The property is located at Sixth and Wal- nut streets, fronting on two of the most beautiful squares in Philadelphia, the famous Independence square on the east and %Washington square on the south, A $250,000 building is to be put up. Rev. Sylvanus Stall, D.D., associate edi- tor of the Lutheran Observer, has in prepa- ration a second volume of “Five Minute Object Sermons to Children.” The first volume, published by the Funk & Wag- nalls Company, New York, has run through several editions. During the coming year St. Nicholas will print a series of characteristic letters written by Robert Louis Stevenson to a boy relative, describing the romantic inci- dents of his life in Samoa. Lloyd Osbourne | ater. The letters will be enriched by a series of pictures from photographs, most of them | never before published. | Captain Alfred T. Mahan, who has recently won such distinguished honors in Europe, end who has been hailed as the | foremost naval tactician in the world, has written four papers which will shorily ap- pear in The Century. These are studies of | the naval engagements which gave Nelson | his fame—the battles of Cape St. Vincent, Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Macmilian & Co. announce the publica- tion of the American Historical Review, anew quarterly review, to be devoted en- | tirely to history. This review was founded by a conference representing some thirty universities and many emihent historical scholars. Professor Jameson of Brown University has been chosen as managing editor. Itis hoped that historical scholars throughout the United States and in other ments to the poets of other nations—to Scott, to Burns, to Goethe, or even to the world’s Shakespeare, while we have utterly and shamefully neglected our brother, who, if we have one at all, was and 1s certainly our American Shakespeare. ‘I am sure that no one of us has ever loaded his little wheelbarrow with mire to empty upon the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. Many there are, however, who have loaded up such heaps to emFty upon his poor grave. He has not slept the less calmly and the less peacefully. But for the defilers let us only ask that ‘they be forgiven, too. When the mournful story of his life was written out the book of it was not _closed. It has been kept open_for more mire and for more dishonor and for more calumny, and even to-day those who are editing in noble volumes his immortal works write depreciatory biographies, patronizing notices and apologies for what they call his ‘misspent life.’ “His misspent life! Gentlemen, if Edgar Allan Poe, while writing his immortal Erose and poetry upon an empty stomach, ept body and soul together with a glassof brandy, 1 am tempted to say that I thank God for that glass of brandy. Iam rather tempted to congratulate English literature that he did not sign any pledge of total abstinence until that glass of brandy had helped him to carve in living words, in words that we read to-day, fifty years after he wrote them, his placein letters, a place that nobody ever fi]}ed before, and that no- body has had the temerity to ruskinto and to try to occupy since. MRS, WARD'S HOME AT ALDBURY, The author of “Robert Elsmere” and “Marcella,” Mrs. Humphry Ward, has a charming home at Aldbury, a quaint English village in the Chiltern Hill is a quiet sort of nook that bustling ci zation seems to have passed by. The passer-by, says the Westminster Review, can just catch a glimpse, through the clean, white-painted lodge-gates, of Mrs. Ward’s residence, which is appropriately Mrs. Ward's Home at Aldbury. named ‘Stocks House,”” lying back some little distance from the main road, and ufl;rm\ched through a picturesque avenue ofh countries will take advantage of this op- portunity to place before the public in- terested in such matters the results of their investigations. EDGAR A, POE'S BIRTHPLACE. The Shakespeare Society of New York met on the 22d ult. in the Poe cottage at Fordham. The principal feature of the occasion, says the Times, was an address by President Appleton Morgan. The par- ticular object of his remarks was to get those indiviauals who wish to perpetuate the memories of Edgar Allan Poe suffi- ciently interested to contribute toward purchasing the Poe cottage. The cottage is now for sale, and if it is not purchased in the near future it will igh trees. On entering the house one is immediately struck by the size of the | hall and reception-rooms, on the walls of | which are a choice assortment of old masters, the Dutch and Flemish schools | being especially well represented; and by | the antiquity of the furniture and large, | characteristic fireplaces. Well in keeping | with these is the massive oak staircase by | which the study is reached. | The home of the Rothschilds is near | 2ldbury ana not far away is the village of | Ivinghoe, from which Sir Walter Scott is | said to have taken the name for “‘Ivan- hoe.” | | IRRIGATION FARMING. The Orange-Judd Company of New York never issued a more valuable book than | the last which has come from its presses. I 1t is entitled *“Irrigation Farming” and 150 easae a5 !EE[NI" Ky il £ _w o | | P have to be razed for the widening of the Kings Bridge road, which will cut the old | cottage just in hali. The buildingisina | very dilapidated condition, but could be moved in toto. Thomas W. Keene and Augustin Daly have already contributed | toward the fund, and three prominent art- ists have agreed to give benefit perform- ances for the fund at some prominent the- President Morgan said: ‘“‘Although Edgar Allan Poe has been dead almost fifty years, and although his genius has been acknowledged and ad- mired by every English-speaking race for more than half a century, this is the first W. E. Norris, the Novelist. time that here, on this spot, where he lived and suffered unmerciful disaster, a demon- stration of his fellow-citizens and admirers has been made in his honor. But, instead of approving ourselves upon having at last come together to testify our admiration of Edear Allan Poe’s power and genius, I think we should be humiliated with shame to *hink how long our tribute has been deferred. “I think we should hang our heads for our country and for ourselves, when we think that while for half a century we bave, as a Nation, contributed ]iberafiy to every appeal to build memorials to the poets and the writers of other nations; while we have aided to_erect deserved monuments to Shelley, to Keats, to Tenny- son, even to Carlyle, who gmwled and bit his nails at us, we have utterly neglected and ignored the grandest and most unigue, will contribute a paper filling out the epi- sodes touched upon by Mr. Stevenson. the most noble, and the sweetest of our own poets. And it hardly, I think, miti- gates our error that we have raised monu- its author is Lute Wilcox of Denver. It contains only 309 pages, but within that space is crowded more sensible, useful and timely information than is common in practical works. Now that the possibilities of irrigation in California have been ais- covered this little book will prove a mine té all who have need to apply the infor- mation which it gives. The book is gen- erously illustrated with engravings, which add greatly to the value of the text. The history of irrigation and the close relation between it and the development of the ancient civilizations cof the world occupy the initial chapter. Then comes a discussion of the advantages of irrigation, in which it is shown that itisa higher and more scientific form of agri- culture than *‘rain farming” and that it produces surer results and more generous returcs. Here is a sample of the style and reasoning: “*As there is no material difference in the cost of cultivation of an acre yieldingten bushels of wheat aud another acre yield- ing sixty bushels, it must be evident that the man who gets only ten bushels pays six times as much as'does the man who produces sixty bushels. The profitsto be derived from “‘the new agrizulture,” as ir- rigation has been aptly called, comes not alone from the annual return from the | watered acres, but from the constantly in- creasing value of the land itself. Many in- dividual instances could be cited, espe- cially in regions devoted to fruit cuiture, where the returns are- almost fabulous. Lands which were worth from $2 to $10 an acre have, by the expenditure of from $10 to $20 an acre in the construction of irriga- tion works, become worth $300 an acre and upward. The same land set out with suit- | able varieties of trees and vines have sold within five years of planting at $1000 or more an acre. So valuable are irrigated lands in Spain that they sell from $720 to $880 an acre, which is ten times the price of the unirrifnted,and the same ratio of values prevails elsewhere.” T'his is his summary of the benefits of ir- rigation: ““Irrigation means better economig condi- tions; means small farms, orchards and vineyards; more homes and greater com- fort for men of moderate means. It means more intelligence and knowledge applied to farming; more profit from crops; more freight anda more commerce, because spe- cial products of higher grade and better market value will be enhanced. It means association in urban life instead of isolated farms. It means the occupation of small holdings. It means more telephones, tele- gmphs, good roads and swift motors; ruit and garden growths everywhere; schools in closer proximity; villages on every hand, and such general prosperity as can hardly be dreamed of by those who are not familiar with the results of even the present infancy of irrigation in America.” 2 The author then plunges into the more ractical parts of his subject. He first| Kimsm the important question of the relation of soils to irrigation. He de- scribes each kind of soil and shows what effect irrigation will have on it, to what extent its value will appear. and the quan- tity of water required for each under given conditions. The chapter on soils carrying alkalies is one of the best in the book, as among other things it gives clear instruc- tion as to the kind of crops suited to the different alkalies and how the alkali may be got rid of. Next he takes up the question of the “If I hit you, you’ll feel it.”’ [From “Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Quer Country,” by Joel Chandler Harris.] water supply, discussing it briefly in its scientific and practical aspects, and then passes quickly on to canal construction. With simple instructions he makes the laying out of canals and ditches with- out the aid of an engineer an easy task, illustrating simple levels and the manner of their use. He tells of the vari- ous methods and cost of ditching, the re- lation of size and grade to the carrying ca- pacity, how to avoid bank-cutting and other evils, how flumes, pipes and con- crete conduits are made and what they cost. and other similar matter. The important subject of the reservoir receives considerable "attention. How to select a site, how to build the various kinds of dams, how toestimate the capacity of the reservoir, etc., are fully set out. He explains what is meant by what irri- gation engineers term “the duty of water” —the quantity of water which should be used for a definite area of land devoted to a definite purpose. Water rights and how to acquire them receive attention. Elaborate instructions for the measure- ment and handling of water are given. Then comes the subject of its application to the soil. *“The amount of water a crop should receive, the time in its development to obtain the best results, the method of applying water to different crops, together with that skill in accurate and economical manipulation which comes through prac- tice and experience,” are some of the im- portant considerations which the author discusses. Then he tells of the various best ways of applying water to different crops, c}udinfi berries, fruits and field crops of all kinds, as well as the vineyard, the garden and other kinds of growth, The chapter on alfalfa is particularly val- uable. The various methods of raising water by ower are fully set forth, and numerous ingenious devices related to the subject of irrigation are described. ~Sub-irrigation and surface and subsoil drainage receive attention, and then the book gives the common law of irrigation, which was written for the volume by Judge T. C. Brown of Gunnison, Colo. This chapter is a compact statement of all the decisions which have been rendered affecting irriga- tion, and contains citations of them. 'lghe work closes with a glossary of terms re- lating to irrigation. THE MARRIAGE OF GUENEVERE. Richard Hovey, who may be classed among the new Chicago school of writers, has here essayed a drama, based on those Arthurian legends which have ever formed a mine for writers of English poetry. Naturally, since Tennyson has so well exploited this field, the tendency is to compare Mr. Hovey's work with that of the English bard, but this, it must be con- fessed, is hardly fair. The knights of the round table are here made to play their parts, and Galahault (not Galahad), Mer- lin, Launcelot, King Arthur and others have their sitting. There is scandal in it, involving Sir Launcelot and Queen Guene- vere, and a murder, but all ends with a reasonable amount of happiness. This speech of Launcelot to Guenevere gives an idea of the text: Faith T believe and T do not believe. The shocks of life oft startle us to thought, Rouse us from acquiescence and reveal That what we took for credence was but custom. Though the priests be the channels of God’s grace, Yet otherwise they are but men; they err As others, may mistake for falsehood truth, ‘And holluiess for sin—God help me. sweet, L cannot reason it—I only know 110ve you. And Guenevere is made to say furtheron: Oh, what a tangled anarchy is life! 11 the rash will strive in the helter-skelter To weave for itself a Iittle ordered space, Its skilless touch pulls unexpected threads That tighten to 'ts own strangling— The work is certainly a creditable piece of composition. {Stonc & Kimball, Chicago. For sale by William Doxey.] TOLSTOI'S MASTER AND MAW. Another edition of Tolstoi’s *‘Master and Man” has been issued in response to the public demand, and this time it comes in the form of a booklet, so daintily bound that it will prove even more attractive Mr. Phil May. [From a caricature in Black and White.) than ever. The success achieved by the story is one of the best evidences we have had of late of the exceilence of popular judgment in matters of literature. There is nothing in the tale that appeals to any form of false taste in fiction. It is the simple story of a Russian farmer and his servant lost in a snowstorm and the sacri- fice of the master to save the man. Tales of that kind have been told before and will probably betold again and again to the end of ‘time, and if there were nothing in Tostoi’s story but the incident it would not have made much impression nor be long remembered. There is in it, however, much more than the snowstorm, the wa derings of the lost travelers and the clos- ing sacrifice. There is the picture of Russian peasant life, worked out with the fidelit; that impresses every reader with a sense of its trush to nature. There are the characters of the greedy, aggressive, domineering peasant proprietor, the rising man of the village, contrasted with the character of the pa- tient, submissive, hopeless servant. There is the account of the workings of these two souls in the face of death; the servant facing the approach of death without fear, without hope, calmly resigned to it as he has been resigned to every other thing that has come to him, and the strong man fighting against it for a time and, then see- ing it is inevitable for one of the two, giv- ing himself as a willing sacrifice for the servant, and finding in this exercise of his strength a jov he had never known before; & joy so great he wished that others might see him thus happy. These characteris- tics of genius infused into the story by Tolstoi take it out of the category of or- dinary tales and make its simplicity sub- Yime.” There may be disputes concerning the moral the great teacher sought to teach by the sacrifice of the master, but there can be none of its excellence asa story. [**Master and Man,” translated from the Russian of Lyof N. Tolstoi by S. Rapo- E.or: and John C. Kenworth. Boston, 'homas Y. Crowell & Co. Price, 35 cents.] TURNING POINTS IN SUCCESSFUL CA- REERS. In this volume Rev. William M. Thayer seeks to show that “the chance of a life- time comes to everv man.” The author aims to show to the struggling aspirant for fame and glory just how others ac- complished their purpose. From the lives of over fifty men and women he points the moral of tneir careers. Among these are inciuded the late Senator Stanford. Of his career as a railroad builder it is noted that **his providence turred Leland Stanford from the law by burning up his library and from traffic and mining to railroad building, that the greatest secular enter- prise of modern times might prove suc- cessful.” The sketches make good reading. The only criticism that might be made is that the author makes fulsome eulogies of all his sketches. [Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York.] THE TIDE OF THE PAST. Sometimes the troubled tide of all the past Upon my spirit's trembiing strand is rolled; Years never mine—ages an hundredfold, With all the weight those ages heve amassed Of human grief and wrong, ore On me cast. Within one sorcerous moment I grow oid, And blanch as one who scarce his way can hold. Upon a verge that takes some flood-tide vast. Then comes relief through some dear common hing: thing: The voices of the children at their play; The wind-wave through bright meadows, mov- ing fast; The bluebird's skyward call, on happy win S0 the Sweel présen: reassumes Ler sway So lapse the surges of the mounstrous past. —Edith M. Thomas, in the Century for October. HOW NOVELIST NORRIS WORKS, An English fiction writer of assured fameis W. E. Norris. He was a lawyer, like Anthony Hope, and he “went into literature” by advice of that prince of critics, Leslie Stephen. His home is in South Devon, and there he spends most of the year writing, so he tells a biographer, usually about four hours a day. Of this f :Think of it. ve the New York Critic says weary slaves of the desk—New York in the dog-days ana eight hours’ work—South Devon and four hours a day of writing! THE YOUNG REPORTER. William Drysdale, author of this enter- taining book for boys, evidently knows whereof he speaks. It is a reasonably faithful portrayal of the career of a young newspaper worker onone of the New York dailies. *‘Dick Sumner” is given a good start with sound principles to guide him, and the author shows what pluck and some luck may do for a wideawake young man. *Dick” attends sirictly to business and avoids the whirlpool of dissipation which lures so many journalistic workers to disaster. He is bright, intelhgent and faithful, and these qualities lead him along successfully. For any young man who is contemplating a career of this sort the book coutains many helpful hints, and is, withal, a very readable varn for older folks. [W. A! Wilde & Co., Boston.] THE MAGAZINES, LIPPINCOTT'S FOR OCTOBER. This is about the only popular maga- zine, except the old Atlantic, which has not yet yielded to the demand for illustra- tions. Itis full of good reading from the best American writers. The leading story is “My Strange Patient,” by William T, Nichols. THE CENTURY. An article of special interest to Califor- niansin this number of this popular maga- zine is that of the late E. J.Glave, who be- came well known in 8an Francisco by rea- son of his Alaskan explorations. An- other is by Miss Millicent Shinn on “The Marriage Rate of College ‘Women.” The Napoleon articles continue to take up much space, but there is enough other hiFh-clnss popular literature to in- terest all who may not be especially at- tracted by the historical features. ROMANCE FOR OCTOBER. This number of Romance has a pleas- ing cover printed in purple and green. Conan Doyle’s pathetic story 1s illustrated with pen and-ink drawings—a recent de- parture for this magazine. THE OCTOBER FORUM. The leading article is by ex-Secretary of the Treasury C. S. Fairchild on the “Silver Question.” Itisa “*sound-money,” anti-free- siiver argument. Louis Windmuller pro- tests against the present Sunday saloon- closing law in New York in an article on “The Resuscitation of the Blue Laws.” THE NICKEL MAGAZINE. In an ariicle on “‘Some Noble Women’’ in the October Nickel Magazine Mildred Aldrich reviews the careers of Ada Rehan, Grace Kimball, Eftie Shannon, Cissy Fitz- erald and othe: well-known actresses. fi’here is also in this number an interesting fi'iticjsm of Scott and his works by William orris. THE NEW BOHEMIAN. Here is a new magazine with a_mission. It offers baim to all ambitious writers who seek an easy road to fame. It is published in Cincinnati. Its prospectus defines its mission, to be ““to espouse the cause of tal- ented writers who have not yet achieved that degree of fame to which by right of superior ability they are justly entitled.” All hail to this laudable enterprisze! If all those who seek fame will only subscribe the success of the New Bohemian is as- sured. Artists, too, are to be discovered and given a helpful uplift. The first num- ber begins well. Among other contribu- tors, H. W. Morrow writes about literary greatness, and incidentally apologizes for the average magazine editor in this fash- ion: “The editor is a man of business, and he says that he is the best friend of bud- ding genius. That he is unable, until the bud has been pretty well developed by the careful hoeing and watering of some cne else, to decide whether it is going to be a Chinese lily or a pansy;that he cannot always tell the scream’of the eagle from the cluck of a Brahma hen, or a winged cupid from a furniture van, isnot hisfault, but the misfortune of his readers. The sun is not the only luminary capable of dgzzling the eye.” CEIPS TO BE A WEEKLY. Chips, the little magazine published from 150 Nassau street, New York, has proved so acceptable to the public that it will be issued ever{ week hereafter. The subscription has been increased to $2 a year. THE CHAP BOOK. Stone & Kimball have so increased the size of their Chicago Chap Book that it runs the risk of getting outside the list of ‘little thin books.” " With increase in volume there has been a proportionate in- crease in merit of the Kuh ication, and, therefore, the public will not complain. Fanciers of French posters will find the Chan Book's list particularly entertaining. NEW TO-DAY. CONSUMPHN, [t Ganse and Cure. Any disease which causes a gradual de- cay or wasting away of the body may be properly called consumption, but by gen- eral usage the term is now applied to a wasting away of the lungs, and . to distin- guish it from other lung diseases, as from all other diseases of the body, it is scienti- fically termed tuberculosis. As this article is written for the masses, as well as for scientists, we shall use the word consump- tion, as it is properly used, instead of em- ploying the less understood word tubercu- losis. There is probably no disease so much dreaded as is consumption. It is more common in climates subject to sudden changes, but thrives well in all—in the North, in the South, in the old continent and in the new continent. Everywhere the disease is known and dreaded. Were it not for consumption the mortality rate would be far lower. It isestimated that about 10 per cent of the deaths in this country are caused directly by consump- tion. Tt is quite certain, howevyer, that in many other cases consumption is com- bined with other ailments, ultimately causing death, but from numerous com- plications not attributable directly to con- sumption. In an article of this character it is not necessary 1o describe at length the action of consumption. Every person is more or less familiar with it, because there is sel- dom a family and never a small commu- nity where the disease is not known and dreaded. Tt seems to reach out 1ts arms to the robust and the delicate alike, and grad- ually it progresses, sapping the vitality until death ensues. All that is necessary to say here about the action of consumption is that the dis- ease has greatly advanced before it attacks the lungs. Gradually the lung cells are desiroyed, passing away in an offensive expectoration, until finally so much of the lungs has rotted away that the disease be- comes incurable. In some cases the patient may live for vears, while in others the patient is sud- denly seized with the disease, erows rapidly worse, and dies within a few weeks or months. So much for the general characteristics of consumption. We must look deeper and _ascertain exactly how consumption originates, how 1t progresses and why it progresses, in order that, if possible, we can discover a remedy for it.. If we ex- amine the expectoration of a consumptive with a powerful microscope we will see that it contains a great number of differ- ent kinds of microbes. Some are tubelike, of such small sizes that thousands of them might exist in a drop of the expectorated matter without being visible to the naked eye. A still more careful study of these minute objects reveals the fact that they have life and motion and rapidly propa- | gate themselves. The tube-like microbe is called the tubercle of consumption, and it is the countless numbers of these tubercles in tle lungs which cause the gradual decay of those organs. Tt was only a few years ago that the par- ticular microbe claimed to be the canse of consumption was discovered by Dr. Koch. The scientific world was slow to accept the microbe theory of consumption, and when itdid acceptit. it went too far. It pro- claimed the tubercle the sole cause of con- sumption, and declared that if it could once stamp out the tubercle bacillus con- sumption would be stamped out. Until a few years ago consumption was believed to be hereditary. As soon as the | microbe theory was established medical scientists declared that it was not heredi- tary, but contagious. On that principle they urged the isolation of consumptives and recommended - every precaution that might lead to an extermination of the tubercle, which they thought is the ap- parent cause of the disease. TUBERCLE BACILLI. (In Consumption.) Almost every consumptive person tells us that the first symptom of his trouble was a cough, caused by taking cold, fol- lowed by a discharge of fermented matter. This fermented matter is nothing but masses of microbes—in fact all fermenta- tion is caused by microbes. Sudden changes of temperature in the human body cause a rapid interruption in the circulation of the blood, and that process prepares a seedbed and temperature neces- sary for the development of microbes. As soon as the microbes enter the system the blood becomes stagnant in the affected arts, the coats of the stomach begin to erment, and the patient loses appetite, color, flesh and weight from the excessive expectoration. As water full of slime clogs up small pipes, so blood filled with mi- crobes is retarded in its free circulation, and when this takes place, but not before, ‘‘tubercle bacilli” find their oroper seed bed and the temperature congenial to their propagation and existence, prepared and aided by other microbes, and in com- pany with them they assist in destroying the lungs. . This demonstrates that ‘‘tubercle bacilli”” do not cause consump- tion, but merelK accompany the disease. ‘We have never heard of healthy men and women losing their lungs. The ‘“tubercle bacilli”” are entirely harmless to a healthy person. Thousands of persons may be seen dsily on our streets with all the symptoms indi- cating consumption. Although their sputum be a lively mass of microbes, yet it does not reveal any trace of tubercle until they cough, expectorate and waste away. Finally their sputum becomes dis- colored and they spit blood, & sign that tubercles have at last found their proper seedbed prepared, and, in company with other microbes, inaugurate the disease called consumption. The afore mentioned explains its cause. ‘What follows will show its cure. . The stomach and blood of a consump- tive person are so full of fermentation and gas, caused by the different kinds of microbes, that " the coats of the stomach also ferment, and that organ is unable to digest food. It ferments and the greater part is rejected. There is constant waste, but no repair. So long as the patient can- not eat and digest Ins food he can never build up or become well. Knowing these facts, common sense tells us_that to cure consumption or any other disease (never mind about diagnosis, name or symptomn, the cause being always the same), we must_stop fermentation by destroying all the microbes existing in the stomach and blood. This can only be done by the use of an antiseptic, which must be harmless to the patient, so that it can be used internally in large doses to saturate the system for any length of time; then fermentation will eradually cease, the coats of the stomach become renewed, the appetite return, and the patient again digest his food, which, by the way, con- tains all the ingredients necessary to form blood, flesh and color. By the use of Radam’s Microbe Killer, which is a harm- less antiseptic, every form of disease is curable, provided the patient has sufficient vitality and substance left to build up again. . To isolate consumptives by putting them into hospitals(as suggested by some physi- cians) and letting them die there will not improve the situation for the future. Ina rigorous and changeable climate people NEW TO-DAY. will always suffer from consumption. By observing proper sanitary conditions it may be prevented to some extent, and by the use of Radam’s Microbe Kilier in time it will be easily cured. To cure a disease means to ‘stop it, not allow it to go on. Man cannot always stay in a house; he must go out into the wet and cold, and if not prepared to resist the sudden changes of temperature he will take cold. That produces a cough and fermented mat- ter is discharged. Now, stop this fer- mentation by the nuse of a genuine antisep- tic and disease is cured. By this means we preserve the body from an early fer~ mentation and decay. ‘Wm. Radam’s Microbe Killer has to-day stood the test of years, and the cures ef- fected in many cases when the patients had been given up by all knowing them proves that tliis remedy is the genuine antiseptic needed. Write or call for pamphlet free on appli- cation, containing full particulars of the Microbe theory and testimonials, RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER $3 per gallon jug. $1 per 40-0z. bottle. 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