El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 185, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1897 Page: 4 of 4
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fKEELEY NOT FIRST.
CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS RE-
PORTED FROM THE LONG AGO.
The Remark Able Effect of the “Indian
DoetorV* Simple Remcdie#—How the
“Medicine** Cored Joe Koblneon With-
out Aeking the **I>octor.**
Living H#yond Income, v***
Mabj? people are living atuotlg lux-
uries which are suited to their tastes
and their desires, but aro not suited to
anything else about, them. Their cir-
cumstances—would we could thorough-
ly apply that word—are not their real
It was about the medicated whisky
cure which we proposed to speak. To
Dr. Keeley, who, living down at
Dwight, is almost a neighbor, credit is
generally given for being the first per-
son who employed the pharmacopoeia
for the purpose of killing a drunkard's
appetite. But Dr. Keeley is by no
means entitled to this credit. The first
physician whose medicine ever cured a
drinking man of his thirst was a long
haired, spectacled old tourist who called
himself “the Indian doctor,” and who
operated down in the neighborhood of
Belpre, O.
The doctor did not tell the secret
of his medicament, but three or four
boys who lived near the farmhouse
where he boarded had an inkling, be-
cause the boys had tho contract for
catching the toads for which the doctor
paid them 10 cents a dozen.
While the doctor’s abode has been
spoken of as a farmhouse it was more
than that, for, being near a stockyard,
where trains “lay over,” it was also a
boarding house, or tavern, whither the
drovers came for entertainment.
Among the stockmen whose duties
brought them frequently to the yards,
and therefore to the farmhouse board-
ing place, was a man named Joe Robin-
son, who had drunk whisky all the way
from St, Louis to Baltimore, with spe-
cial reference to Piedmont and the
country along tho 17 mile grade of tho
Baltimore and Ohio. Robinson was a
firm, vigorous and vigilant drinker, one
who allowed no guilty dramshop to es-
cape. He was such a shining light that
at least 12 temperance societies were
working upon him at once, for it was
known that tho credit for his reforma-
tion would mean much. But he resisted
all their entreating efforts.
This brings things up to one May
evening. Robinson bad arrived at
Belpre with seven cars of hogs and a
large, commodious and farreacking jag.
He took the hogs into the stockyards
and the jag to the city of Parkersburg,
W. Va., just across the river, for he
wanted to trim and ornament it a little
hefore retiring. Now it so occurred that
it was a damp night, and Harry Stone
and Hughey Drain, the boys whq had
the contract for supplying hoptoads to
the salve making Indian doctor, set out
on tbeir own hook and without consol-
ation with their employer to get a flour
hag full of toads. They were eminently
successful, and at 8 o’clock they ap-
peared at the boarding house with a
peck of kicking, piping, shrieking spoil.
For good measure they bad on this oc-
casion added three belated garter snakes,
two lizards and a hoot owl. The family
was not happy.
Mrs. Bruce directed the boys to carry
tbeir burden, of the character of which
abe had no idea, up to the doctor’s
zoom, he being out The boys did so—
or at least they thought they di,d—but
they turned the wrong corner at the
bead of the stairs and deposited the
sack in the room to be occupied by Joe
Robinson.
Mr. Robinson came home from Par
kersburg about midnight, The evening
had been a most successful one. He bad
found 12 new saloons. He entered the
room in the boarding house with the
presumption that he was either the czar
of Rwasia or Napoleon Bonaparte, but
was not quite sure which. In his doubt
he collided with the paper flour bag
full of hoptoads and things. There were
a few words of wicked derivation, and
then, turning np the light, Mr. Robin-
•oo looked to see what he had found.
" Who're you, feller?” he inquired,
addressing the bag. “Won't answer,
hey? Too p'lite to talk to a drover,
huh? 'Lri! Take that!” And he aimed
an unsteady kick at the doctor’s ingre-
dients. Then things happened.
An active garter snake left the bag
in midair, and, alighting on a picture
frame, twisted and squirmed before Mr,
Robinson’s view. Then the toads began
raining around him, and when he felt
most surprised and interested the owl
came fbrth sod flew at tbo lamp. The
sack fell to tbo floor and a lizard shot
Into lengthened view and thereat of the
hoptoads leaped out iuto comparative
liberty. Mr. Robinson clambered in
fright upon the bed and found himself
in the presence of half a dozen of the
betrachian , invaders which had been
flung upon tbo counterpane by the force
of that very vigorous and masterful
kick. He crept behind the bureau and,
lo! a garter snake dropped therefrom
and made for the shelter of the closet,
In the middle of the floor there were,
he believed, about 8,952 varied kinds of
hopping visitors, and with a wailing
cry Mr Robinson crashed through the
vortex and made for the door and bolted
for the night outside,
The next morning a very pale and un-
strung man appeared at the farm board
ing house and answered to the name of
Joe Robinson. He went up to his apart
ment and looked about for some signs
of the visitation of the night before, but
the toads and tilings, more frightened
than he, hail escaped by the same door
through which he had gone, while the
careful hired girl had gathered up the
flour bag and burned it Mr Robinson
sat down and thought for a moment,
and then he said, addressing himself to
the picture frame from which the snake
had dangled, that this was the last
time. He had had enough. More would
be too much.
And for tho remaining H years of his
travel* that way he was the soberest
drover known to history.
This, we believe, is really the first
surroundings, not those of their proper
standing.
The false start is made with the wed-
ding presents. Foolish friends give to
the bride of the young clerk or book-
keeper articles of luxury suited to an
establishment that should expend $10,-
000 a year. It would knock out a great
deal of tho sentiment no doubt for
wealthy and liberal well wishers to
send a check expressive of their inter-
est, but it would give a little freedom
to tho newly married folks to put it
away for a future demanding more ex-
pense. Of course tho foolish bride might
instantly spend it in some personal or
furnishing finery—might fed under ob-
ligations to the giver to do so, when the
money should be considered rather as a
“nest egg. ”
As it is now, everything is made hard
for them. They are expected to compete
in church anil out of it with incomes
five times their own. They uro asked to
contribute with the rich to every char-
ity that is going. They have never
studied the economies of housekeeping
or cooking, and neither of them knows
how to save coals or bow to teach the
ignorant servants who come iuto their
service.—Good Housekeeping.
Curious Frraks of lia/ora.
The finest grades of razors are so del-
icate that even the famous Damascus
sword blades cannot equal them in tex-
ture. It is not generally known that the
grain of a Swedish razor is so sensitive
that its general direction is changed
after a short service.
When you buy a fine razor,'tho grains
run from the upper end of the outer
point in a diagonal direction toward the
handle. Constant stropping will twist
the steel until the grain appears to be
straight up and down. Subsequent use
will drag the gruin outward from the
edge, so that after steady use for several
mouths the fiber of the steel occupies a
position exactly the reverse of that
which it did on tho day of purchase,
The process also affects the temper of
the blade, and when the grain sets from
the lower outer points toward the back
you have a razor which cannot be kept
in condition even by the most conscien-
tious barter.
But here’s another curious freak that
will take place in the same tool:
If you leave the razor alone for a
month or two and take it up, you will
find that the grain has assumed its first
position. The operation can he repeated
until the steel is worn through to the
back.—Strand Magazine.
The White Whale's Tall.
Looking at the white whale at the
aquarium a person not familiar with
water animals might be mildly aston-
ished to see that creature lean outward
when swimming around in a circle,
instead of inward. Seeking the cause of
this, the observer unfamiliar with
whales would discover that the whale’s
tail is set not in a vertical plane as is
the case of fishes, but in a horizontal
plane.
Set horizontally instead of vertically,
the whale’s tail is of the very greatest
assistance to it in diving, and especially
in rising promptly to the surface, which
it is necessary for it to do at intervals
to fill its lungs w ith air.
Going over again to the wall tanks,
the observer may note again, and this
time with a new interest, that all the
fishes there have tails np and clown, in
line with the body, in a vertical plane,
aud he learns upon inquiry that all
fishes have tails in a vertical plane, and
that all aquatic mammals, of which the
whale is ODe, havo tails set exactly the
other way, in a horizontal plane.—New
York Suu.
Salvation Army Marrlagra.
In speaking of the Salvation Army
marriage bureau which he recently es-
tablished General Booth says: “I would
that we had some such arrangement for
every soldier in our ranks. Beyond
question it will come to that. Indeed I
shall not be surprised to find myself
looking down from heaven in future
years and seeing the whole business of
the selection of partners for marriage
intrusted tocouuciH of the wisest, most
experienced and spiritual of our officers
who will arrange not only who each
officer and Boldier shall marry, but the
time of the event, and, in certain cases,
whether they shall marry at all, instead
of the business being left to the hap-
hazard, accidental, irratiouul system—
or no system at all—of individual
choice as at present. ”
Th* Deception of Distance.
“It’s very deceptive to Judge of thfl
iize or capacity of an object which is 50
feet or moro in the air,” said an archi-
tect to the writer ns wc were passing
the royal courts of justice a few days
ago.
“Now, look at that clock,” pointing
to the law courts clock, which liaugs
about 70 feel above live pavement. “It
looks very small, doesn’t it? Hardly
big enough to bold a man. Yet a party
of us breakfasted in the case before the
works were put ill. ”
Everybody knows how deceptive is
the appearance of the Westminster clock.
Looking at the dial from the eiubauk-
ment or from Great George street, it
seems as if a man of medium size could
easily stretch across the dial with both
arms. Yet it would take four pairs of
outstretched arms to cross it. The min-
ute hand, which looks like an ordinary
wuiking stick, is longer than the two
tallest soldier* in the life guards. The
figures on the dial are bigger than a
8 year-old child, and the second dots
are as big as a dinner plate.
Equally deceptive are tho funnels of
the Atlantic steamers. Tho funnels of
the Umbria aud Etruria are 18 feet in
diameter, while the funnels of the grey-
honndsof the Cunard line, the Lncania
aud Campania, aro 21 feet across.
Each fnnnel from the top to its junc-
tion with the furnace is 120 feet in
length. Bets are frequently made by
passengers as to tho diameter of these
ocean chimneys, and many a laugh has
been raised when a passenger has esti-
mated their diameter at the seemingly
extravagant figure of 10 feet.—London
Standard.
Palace Diniog Hall,
HI LOY CO ,
123 SI Phi Street.
The beet II at olaaa Itwtaurant
Id the city. Open dny and night.
Regular Dinner 8:30 to 8 p. m.
The Senate.
Lcmp'sExtra PaleLager
1 lie Beat Beer in El Pa*o.
J. R. SALAS,
Merchant Tailor.
Balt* mad* In Litait Style* and vary
cheap. Large assortment of samples.
Gleaning and rspalrlng. Ladles'goods
olesned and dyad. Satlefaotlon guar-
anteed. El Paso, Texas.
Napoleon J. Boy
MERCHANT
TAILOR ...
EL PABO, : :
HHSLDOMBLOCK.
TEXAS.
It Takes Wlnft.
I knew Daniel Drew when he had
110,000,000, and he died in debt,
knew a gentlemun who at one time bad
$8,000,000 in the bunk who is now
earning about 11,200 a year. Tho |3,
000,000 was iu cash, in addition to hie
investments of various kinds. Thero are
a dozen men iu New York who ask me
for occasional loans of from 50 cents to
|5 who, when I first came to New York,
were among the rich men of the town.
—Chauncey M. Depew.
hot All Do It.
said
“Any fool can write a novel,
Griggle. “You can make things come
out just a* you want them to.”
“Very true,” replied Dixon,
you must admit that there are some
fools who do not write novels.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
’but
Knmethinf? Nice*
According to the following anecdote,
from The Sacred Heart Review, people
who do right as well as those who do
wrong sometimes resolve never to do it
again:
A gentleman heard that a young girl
whose mother was iu poor circum-
stances was convalescing from a dan-
gerous sickness. Forthwith he went to
a fruiterer's and secured some choice
bunches of Hamburg grapes at f 1 or
thereabout a pound.
He carried them, not without some
self satisfaction, to the house of the in-
valid and left them with her mother,
who received them in a dubious kind of
manner that did not evince, us he
thought, much gratitude.
This did not trouble him greatly,
however, but the next day when he
called he received a blow which almost
made him resolve never again to be
generous to strangers.
'How did your daughter like tbo
grapes?” he said to the grim aud un-
demonstrative matron.
“Oh, pretty well,” was tbo reluctant
answer.
‘ Did she eat them all?” was tho next
query.
“Yes, she got away with them,” was
the reply. “But she is a good deal like
me. She likes something nice and tasty
like canned corn. ”
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PROM U A. M. TO I O’CLOCK P. M.
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410 8. El PMoSt.
EMBALMING.
The largest and beat stook of
coffins, caskets, metallic cases,
eto. Work and prices gaa'an-
teed. Hearses and carriages far-
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TP
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The great popular route
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Bailroad extends weet from Chi-
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Orleans, Kansas Utty,
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Washington.
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Corner Sants Fe end Third Sta.
Favorite line to the North, Bast
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and solid trains from El Paso
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LINK RESTAURANT.
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SHORT ORDER HOUSE
AND RE8TAURANT.
PAST TIME
-AND—
_ rOp*n day end night. Orders, Fish and
Qua* In even stria-
Sure Connection.
His 1'ncle’n LougpHt Day.
There was in those days a serious
mannered Irish member named Blake
(not to bo coufouuded with tho ex-pro-
mier of Canada,' sifting member for
South Longford), who is remembered
for a brief correspondence ho read to
the delighted house. It was introduced
in a speech delivered iu debate on the
Irish Sunday closing bill. Mr. Blake
had, he confidentially informed the
house, an uncle who regularly took six
tumblers of whisky toddy daily. This
troubled him, and after much thought
he resolved to write und remonstrate
with his relative. The following was
the letter:
M V Dear L'st’i.E—I write to say how pleased
I should te If you could see your way to giv-
Ins up your six glasses of whisky u day. 1 am
Bure you would find many advantages In doing
so, the greatest of which would be that, as 1
am persuaded, it would bo tho means of length-
ening your days.
The uncle replied:
My Deak Nephew—1 am much obliged to
you for your dutiful letter. I was so much
struck by what you said, and in particular by
rour kind wish to lengthen my (lays, that Iasi
frlday I gave up the whisky. I believe you
uro right, my hoy, us to my days being length-
ened, for, bedad, it was tho longest day 1 cymr
remember I
—H. W. Lucy in North American Re-
view.
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CHARITY
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via Texas and Pacific railway.
For maps, time tables, tickets
rtaes and all required loforma
tlon, call on or address any o<
the ticket agents, or
nukes the distanoe between the
Gulf of Mexico and the Great
Lakes with bnt one night on tha
road. Through fcz* vestibule
trains between the Missouri Bivei
and Chicago. Direot connections
to principal points North, East
and West, from all prinolp
points South, East and West.
Tickets via the Iliinoie .atral
oan be obtained of agents of its
own or of connecting lines.
A. H. Hanson,
Gen. Pas. Agent, Ohioago.
W. A. Kellotjd,
Ass’t. Gen. Pass. Agent,
New Orleans
Washington Dining Hall
B. F. DARBY8HIRE
8. W. F.4P. A.
309 El Paso Bt., El Paeo, Tex.
Finest Restaurant In the City.
All ths DsllosoUs of the season.
Regular Dinner 12 to 8 p,
Open Day and Night.
Mby Hino & Co., Props.
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m.
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Volcanos,
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