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Show OINSINQ CRAZE 13 SPREADING. Government Officials Worried by Many Letters About Its Culture, department to head it oft, the ginseng craze has spread over the country from ocean to ocean until the situation, from certain points of view, has become serious. Many persons who can ill afford to lose money are certain to suffer, the department officials believe, unless something can be done to convince them of the folly of trying to raise gin-sen- s. Ginseng is a plant used only by the Chinese. The root is aromatic and slightly stimulant, and the people of China have a faith in its medicinal properties that amounts almost to a superstition. They are willing to pay as much as (5 a pound tor toe dried root, and to this fact and to statements made by the agricultural department some time ago Is due theicraze for raising it which has swept over this country. Ginseng grows wild la the United States and Canada, but the best root comes from Corea. and from that country the Chinese annually import a large supply. The plant la cultivated In Corea and Manchuria and to a smalt extent in the United States. Mere is the danger to American farmers who go Into the cultivation of ginseng: Trior to 1902 China Imported from this country in five years only That 172.000 pounds of ginseng. amount of roots could have been raised acres. In a field of fifty or seventy-fivThe agricultural department has distributed to Inquirers not fewer than 25.Q00 or 30,000 copies of a pamphlet describing ginseng, and the officials are now painfully aware of the fact that tt a doaen persons in the United States should seriously take up the culture of ginseng they would Immediately eup-pl- y g the entire Chinese demand for from this country. Moreover, the market price for the root would immediately decline until it reached next to nothing. The crop wouldn't be profite 1 gin-ten- ably." James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, is an- enthusiast on the subject of Introducing new agricultural pursuits into tb.o United States, but be makes no bones of denouncing the ginseng craze. He says """g is a delusion and a snare , The eagerness to take op ginseng culture is especially noticeable on the Pacific Coast, where hundreds of thou- nnds of farmers and small ranchers are dreaming of great riches to be bad from marketing their product in China. la Seattle a few weeks ago a well known actor announced bis intention ef retiring from the stare. During a small ranch near the city and raising ginseng for the Chinese market. The agricultural department constantly re ceive requests for Information about this faacln&Urs crop. Corea Is rwognlwl as the natural babltat rf the ginseng plant, and United States Minister Allen has thrown t:p his hauls in despair over Che growing volutce of his rcrrespond-cr.- r cn this subjoct. He has roolvel to many letters from would to ginseng farmers in the TJnibrd States that ho has Informed the state department that he cannot undertake to answij- any more of the coxnrnunlcatlon. Every malL the Minis tor says, brings to him requests for ginscn; tends and p'tnts and Information. Not that the agricultural department long go became swampod with similar inquiries. Mr. Allen has referred his cor refine dents to that department. In a letter to the state) department, in hl-MinUtcr Allen tells of his troubles fjv.ra the ginseng craze, he ay: . "With great diiTVculty living mots tave Loen fhlpprd to America and a reliable supo'y must now bo available At kact one enterprising American (of Fan Franci.vo) ha "pent some months at the ginseng firms In Corea. study-le- g the culture and condillms and taking away with him a large shipment of living plar.ts, so that dealers In the United States must now have a plcnti-f-j- l supply of reliable plants and fresh seeds. "The ginr.g farms are some sixty tnltes distant frcro Joul, and there is no person there to whom one may aptly for seeds or plant. The American tnlasionarlrs rrslditg near the farms bate wii'lr decided not to attempt to and pln!s, m such a tjpnrt the course would ultimately rau.v trouble for thfm with the natives. "it ail the ginseng plants in America mcceed tbe product will be of little value. The only market far the roots Is in China, and it Is overstocked, whl'e the Coran product which s.ms to be of e?pecl3l value, due to conditions of toil atrt climate la Increasing so ' - - h a'-el- s greatly that the purchasers of the last crop were obliged to destroy a large quantity in order to keep the supply more nearly within the demand." Doth Minister Allen and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson are of the opinion thai ginseng is a greater delusion than was ColoueJ Sellers amou3 Oriental eye liniment It may seem as if there were ml.lions in it for the ginseng farmers of the United States; but Mr. Wilson says: "Iet ginseng alone." It was the department of agriculture that began the trouble. It issued a pages on the pamphlet of thirty-twas of long ago as 1893. ginseng subject It was a Ions time before the authors of this really innocent publication fully realized tho trouble they bad mule- for themselves. Farmers all over the country began to make inquiries about ginseng cul ture, and tli-- inquiries increased In number until the officials were sorry they had evor beard of ginseng, much less written about it In 1!K2 it was deemed necessary to reprint the pamphlet and to publish with it a vigorous note of warning, but the mis-chief had been done, and the department was taxed more than ever with requests for information and applica tions for plants and seeds. This spring the ginseng craze seems to be on tbe increase, and instances ara known at the department of persona who bave actually begun tbe culture cf the much advertised plant. Fraud In connection with this Infant industry has already appeared, some firms hav ing advertised ginseng seeds for sale, which when planted produced common turnips. Tbe Chinese bave been regarded as legitimate prey by certain unscrupulous exporters who have loaded the ginseng root with nails, screws, lead and other heavy substances in order to make the sample welsh up well. These substances have been inserted when tbe root was soft. Upon drying there was no trace left of the adulteration. The Chinese take ginseng in three ways, as a confection, an infusion and pills. Its medicinal value is thought to be diminished by a steaming process to which it is frequently subjected for the purpose of improving Its color. It appears to receive the character of a confection by steeping :n honey or ty the uao of sugar. It seems probable that what medicinal virtues the root Ci&overed at a time when possess wt-rthe attributes of more powerful drug3 of similar qualities were unknown, and that tha conservatism of the Chinese, ltb their belief In the occult, couplod has maintained an exaggerated estimate of its efficacy. The Western world, profiting by experience and research In the province cf medicine, has dropped the use of gins, ns except as a demulcent, lor which purposa many other eubstancui are more popular. - e ChaH&f of Tim. r etatcs-ir.aaohl- Not Disturbed By Rattle of Cars Over Ralls. The locomotive engineer was talking about his run. Ile maintained that, with the roar and rumble of the engine directly beneath him and of the train thundering behind, he had no troutla In hearing what his fireman on tha other Bide of the tab said to him, and PEBBLE JEWELRY A FAD. BR. CIE SANITARIUM. r Lustrous Stones From the 6 e ashore Used Instead of Gems. A recent fad In jewelry Is to use iuotrous pebbles from the eeashore Instead of precious stones set in gold oi silver. There is such a variety In the color and luster of the beach peb bles that many different effects are when they are approriately cbtained the fireman could understand an set. An artistic chain was recently answer. The noise of the train seems ol made served by a Brooklyn young to be something extra, according r.j woman who bad taken a course in art him, to v.'hich he has become so accusLocated at 26th sad Wywt Ha. work. metal Tbe chain was fashion ESTABLISHED IB88. tomed that it does not interfere in any Onmniifid with. full staff of physicians and. ed of links of 6llver, and between way with the ordinary faculties. It each third or for treatment of all CUronio UiBeases one a red dish sumeoos fourth JHlRJf HOOHS tot aocommodstlon of pmonw. from his to be like appeared, remarks, DiMcuit Smrrical Ctrrmtion Prfrm4t rvitK a dull clatter of numerous typewriters translucent pebble was set Tbe ef- SkiU and Succtu turg$rf it tuctuary. woe light and shimmering and in a big ofUce, which never Interfere fect OF WOMEN. likewise original. Another graceful WellDISEASES eauinned to treat Uaeae Of women. with speech or thought once a person was a pendant of sliver, In open- Msdt who bave Buffered for jets cured bl. has become accustomed to the noise. piece Special book for womeo FKSB. work design efcudded with translu- bome. Train 1 Attendant. Itt Invalid' Rom. He asserted that he knew of old engila tha Wait. X.Bay Ud la ExajDiaatloaa. neers who had become stone deaf whea cent reddish and greenish cast pebA quiet bome for women durtnf confinement. A light, graduated fringe of the bles. CANCERS, TUM0ES-- H Money Tin til Cored. they were not In the cab, and their studded with tiny WRITS FOR FSII BOOK ON friends had to yell at them to make wire, Club Feet, Curvature of Lung, Ey. 6t1n, ornament themselves understood. But as soon as pebbles, edged and Kiduey.BlaUder, Lip, Pplue, In opaque pebblos an artistic effect Kpilepsy.Hare Mood and Catarrh. tbe veterans 6tepped Into the engine Nervous Diseases. Stomaca Troubles, was a with of rich produced pair and got the rattle of the train hi their ,'ILES, FUtula Cure Positively GoaraatMsV Without knifi. liraturt or tustic. Ho mont. ears they could hear the ordinary con- brown stones, ekmgatod in shape and In gotd, to be used as cuff buttons tcetfttii until ftitnt is rvfll. et f versational voice, despite the thunder A set of shirt studs to match were VARICOCELE. of the machinery and the wheels. As ItiwlioallT Cared la Tan Days under Ponltlvs, and a distinctive, while soon as the train stopped they were original puarantee. bciid fur bpecial FliEE Boole. was tbe New restorative treatment for Jos of Vital. set, deal again for that interval, only to be btooch, completing i'ower, Hydrocele, Kupture, Stricture, etc elective. equally soon as tbe pandemonium of right as DEFORMITIES CURED. A more Interesting type, because the wheels shook up their aural openAll rersona erlPDled. deformed, lame or rtara In executed copper, but set with the lytej hdouM know wbat caa be done by proper ings. Flttsburg Dispatch. tor tnrse cases, npeciai tiitnuoa rame kind of beach stones was a belt treatment paid to crippled children, at tbe Sauitarlum. two-tone- d . QUAKER REFLECTIONS. buckle. Tbe copper setting was :n tbe form of a wing, the metal being chenricalry treated, so as to glow Jn Irridescent effect In the middle of the conventionalized wrng a large, brown pebble was insert-c"- . Tbe copper framework was not Srt, but molded. Several yery striking stickpins bave been mounted, with the pebbles appropriately set. Some women are making money through the fad for bis Jewelry, which opens up a new field Jor the woman with artistic abil- - Patients successfully treated at bome Consultation Free and confidential, at pfflce or by letter. Thirty years' experience Illustrated Book Free, plrlna; much valuable l&formutlon. Call at ofilce or write to by-mat- The average young man's object la life is to become some girl's 3ubjecf, Aa "appetizer" really does give a man aa appetite for more appetizers. It seems funny, since talk is cheap, that anyone should speak of talk as "gas." Wlgwak "I hear Brown la os good as married." llenpecli. "Better. He's still eing.e." A pecullan thing about the Delaware peach crop is that if it doesn't fail it will go into the hands of receivers-l- ots it: Besides beach and brook pebbles, of them. If some men who go west to grow chers may be found of much beauty, hough toot nearly so abundant In up with the country would only grow billy and stony sections of the counup to It they'd stand some chance of try. Drooklyn Eagle. being big. DR. C. M. COE, COce. 915 Walaot St.. KAKSA3 CITY. well-shape- d When a widower gives it out that ha oa doesn't want to inflict a his children, you may depend he's discovered that no other woman wants him. "Miss Itichley Mabel, 1 love you!" exclaimed young Dreamer. "Ah, if I could only prove my love; if. like a knight of old, I could only go and fight for you." "You may go and speak t papa," said the girl, demurely. Reporter "Senator Buncombe mer ly mentioned the fact that the Republican party wou?J oppose the Trusts. step-moth- at The following advertisement recently occupied a prominent place In the Gazette de Zurich: "An Austrian officer of the balloon section wishes to marry a lady who will have the courage to make ber honeymoon voyage with him In a balloon." Then followed" n address in Vienna, and S7 Intimation that no anonymous letters would te considered. It Is true that dead men tell eo tales, but there is some doubt aa to KX Read the following letters from. patients treated and cured by Dr. Coe; they tell their own story: Suffered for Twenty Years With Ner vous Headache Treated by Dr. Coo Considers Relief From Pain a Bless Ing General Health Better Than It Haa Been for Years Takes Pleasure In Recommending Dr. Coe. Ness City. Kaa.. July 0. 1901 Dr. C. M. Cte, Kansas Cay. Mi. Dear Dxnor: I bad rfufferd toe twenty ysara, with a pain in my head, and tried many adou remedies ana doctors without roller. four rtsrs aso I beran ttkics treatment frooa you, and derived much benefit from same. My btad and general health are better than lor years. Tbe relief from pais In my head is a bieralng- to ms. You have always treated ma wiih fairness and conntderation, and I taka pleasure in recommettdics you. tours very truly. J. w. uutiK. Th German Meat Law. One year ago the first of the present month the new German meat law went Into effect, and though It has bad tbe effect of raising prices for meats la Germany to an unprecedented height. It also has iveulted In bringing the trade in American meats In that country to a dead stop, to use th words of a representative of the Chicago pack - Their Little Girl Entirely Cured of St. Vitus' Danes Treated In 1833 Had ' Been Afflicted for Six Months Was Cured In Two Months' Time. Kansas City, Ma.. Scot. 12. 1X rtrl h now eti'lrely cured of SU Vitus' dace, by your treatment la fcae was sUucted iu months, lour treatment cured her la two months' time, and ever well i!nw. tilt bu rtma.ced MAGlilB WACHSXI AN, KsajwcliuUr. & W. Corner UJt and Asksw S:a. Dr. C. M. Coe. Dear bir: Our little Jcg Industry. This authority fcays that every subterfuge Is resorted to by the Inspectors In Germany to exclude American meats, a popular one being After Being Sick for lght Years and Stall I say thatr Editor "No. You to declare them cured with boracic Many Doctors Without Per Trying may say he "merely mentioned the al- aald; this they will maintain la face manent Relief, She Went to Dr. Cos cf the fact that the best of German ex leged fact, etc " and Wss Cured New Well and Doports have declared the meats -- eo When Cupil Ehoots his little dart ing Her Own Work Feels That Ghs Weil aimed to pierce a young mans fro si all such curatives. The packers Owes a Great Deal to Dr. Coe. are urging the government to bring Junction City. Kaa , Juoe 20. heart C. M. Cos. Kansas City, Ms. th German t terms by retaliating in Dr.Dear It often plerre. tad to tell. Donor: It ts now two yeaes sloxe t troaied st four In Ksnaas City, tbe matter of the r rman wlacs which was His poor w ik pocketbook as welL acd I am well a&d my inra work. Have known are to be adulterated. Farm gained thirty pounds ia weight. I was sick fjr The Fhlladelph'la Record. tifcbt years befrs and bad tr.ed many doctors, era' Voice. tut never cbtained any permanent reilef until I t.-- i. ftaU-arlus r4r l was treated at your gamtariuta. I tinl that owe graat deal u yau. Your respectfully, MICi. J. T. IIOMU-- K. I After one cf 43.WD vofts and another of J&.Olti and falling Oreatly Benefitted "by Dr. Coe'a Treat forty fct to the ground, Harry Elscy ment Feeia Like New Person-Tre- ated an electric lineman. Is airve, with the Four Years Ago and Has loss of two tor the only permanent fn Been Perfectly Wall Ever Since-H- ad Been III for Ten Years Be far Jury. Eliwy has retemmd from Kalamazoo, where he boa bm six works In Norton. Kaa . June 1X4. M. Coe. M. D., Kanaaa City, Mo. a hospital recovering. l?a recovery U C. Dear Doctor?! win say that your 'reatm.rt me, and male oil feel like con?id-foon cf tbe most remarkab; f tir btc8te4 It has been four yers since t tew t cn mcord. Thr current was so saxn took persoo. treatment from vou. arj Carn t have feit perfert.y wU. and bave 4)tt Che melted solos of bis It rubbe tbit more work than I bad for tea tears previously, I had beea ill for some tea before 1 rccrlv1rw cun-et- t lC-J- t, -- p, -- ad women. Engineers of moving train. G-- "Speaking of the changed conditions uri2-which we Live," Bald an observant man, "reminds me of a rat!c humorous reference I read a little while ajy to one of the change which have taken plao. I do not vouch for the truth of the ft-rbut I will gn far Li tba.t direction to remark enough that the story Is not an unreasonable on We have changed almost everything that could be changed. Old methods have given way to the new. 'i nere Is new literature, a new kind of new politics, new religion, r.cw everything. No wonder then tbat a mlnUter, according to the story I bave In mind, finding In the hymn bol;s the rhyme: " Oh, may my heart in tune be found. Like David's harp of solemn sound, an 1 believing the harp an out of date ii.e;r.in.-r.t- . changed the lines to UTl following: " Oh. may my heart be tuned within Like David's sacred violin.' "As 1 sail Just now, I will tot vouch for the story, but do you not thfnk it a roasotftbie one In the light of your n experience and observation? I do, nd 1 am incllnM to think the thing happened."- - New Orleans Times-Democr- roots:: bote-yeer- boot. years ap treaucent. I rwommeod all to (o to yeu. Years truly. MUM. eo you for suSersr l s I. CXMm. Mother win find Mr. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the bst remedy to Successfully Operated cn .r Hemor use for their children during lh3 rholds Found Dr. Coe s Skillful tecthl&K period. Operstor Treatment and Accommo dations at ths Sanitarium all That Could be Desired Aurtrian laws prohibit marriages bv Recommends Treatment to Other Sufferers. Christians and Jews and be Woodwar!. Ok!s. .fov. a, tween Christians and InflJcla. Te WMm tt Vay Cntitera: t underwent a surcVal rpr'io fv,f h'mtr. st Dr. Ox's twn How's Thtsf offer One Hundred Dollars Re We "1 wl?h that doctab would put dea ward for any case of Catarrh that can pills In a tmaJkr box; dis sizt box al- not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. ways chokes me." F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Danl?l Vierge, bo die! recently la the undersigned, have known F. We, Paris and bo was knows as lh fatb I. Cheney for the last IS years, and be er of modern IlluetrUloi," was a pat-lar- d lieve him perfectly honorable in all by blrlb. At t.he eightieth birth- business transactions and financiilly day celebration of Victor lingo be was able to carry oct any obligations made stricken with paralysis which rename I by tbelr firm. bis right side powerless, but with ra.ro WEST & THUAX, Wholesale Drug- courage and perseverence he train! gists, Toledo, O. bis left hand and continued to the end WALDING, K INN AN MAHTIN, to b al the tead and front of tao3tra Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Illustrators. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Inter-nallacting directly upon the blood sermco and mucous eurfaees of the Jfpe "Ht did f r s system. broth rT" strike yon lat Tries "Sc per bottle. Sold by all DrugF faith r tmrhel m. brother; gists. Testimonials free. I was &3.f"p I J Cm iAit pew. Hall's Family Fills ars the best. " v, "' ritr?. rho.ds 6aQitanam. antra w iue ressful. 1 fitind Dr. se to be a very .Kn.rul and s(.mir'5(,.atitaa cpersior.fsni-.riu-li's treatment were all tNei in the no d be de f.r-4t cbeerfu.lr recommend all sufiersrs t consult Dt. Coe. . 1. M. D UYAux Treara for watarrn of tha Blaader Had Suffered for Years and Tried Mny Remedies Mors cf Them Him Dl ths Good That Ours Did. Kaob Nover, Me. Oct tt, im, M. In wrltlsa Deaf Sir. I take great treatment sni ue good i yau coneera'tf your has done for me for rararrb and biadfler. I for rears snd had tried msrir rvmej ea, s3rd bet fo" aver did the gm4 test your has dot Dr. C. M. Coe, Kaoaas City. piur Be?sUuliy yrs, . t. Tucvrmy C'.red of Stomach Trouble Thankful for Treatment and Klndnesa Rs ceived. tor ave. C. m. Coe, ttDear ret.or: few dsy tutmaa. Me., Jane City. M. Ksr;s Teur letter earn sea. snd I IS, t html a was clad te ee that ysu My stomsch trouble ta my threat done m take eotd. I ata very led ety fovyMtea me. eemBie-elwell, and w, Ufee I bibr thsfikfel for yter kltdnes Tecrs truly. end tre'mn'. K03A KICHHOl. |