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Show SELECTED. The Wrongs of Helmbold. The famous Dr. Hembold. the author of those infallible and concentrated extracts ex-tracts which form the staple industry of Southern Africa, if we caa beliere all that is said to us in advertisement and poster, has a grievance. Hov.- an' one, in whose bosom the milk of human hu-man kindnejs ha. not curdled into the rourest kind of whey, could venture to do an injustice to a gentlemen who ha-gWen ha-gWen the resources of an inexhaustible intellect to the development of the vigor of manhood and the creation of brisk and lively feeling in the muscles of this flaccid and pale generation, is a wonder. But such a man has been found in James Gordon Bennet the Younger. It seems that Dr. llelmbold has been on a journey as celebrated as the voyages voya-ges of L lysses. In his capacity as a benefactor of the human race he has visited Washington, accompanied by six horses and an equipage as splendid as tho chariot of Cleopatra. While in Washington he entertained sumptuously sump-tuously the representatives of the press, and had as his guests journalists as eminent as "Cliff Warden, " Col. Jones. Col. James li. Young of the Tribtnt. Wm. B. Shaw of the ComwrciaK T. . Connery of the Iltrohl, Thomas B. Florence and Y. P. Copeland of the Jovni'il of Commerce. This dinner, we are told, far surpassed the famous feasts of Heliogabalus, and was supplemented sup-plemented with the rarest wines of Burgundy Bur-gundy and Champagne, and speeches on the subject f Buchu recalling the palmiest days of Ciceronian and Iem-ostlienian Iem-ostlienian eloquence. Whether it was because Mr. Beimett was not invited we cannot say, but plainly some motive for malice or anger existed, for, as the great Doctor avers he has been attacked by "squibs and otherwise," and has had his feelings lacerated by an attempt on the part of Mr. Bennett to "weigh him socially" in the Herald "scales." Again and again he has sought redress, going so far as to 6ee the managing editor, yes, and stooped to see the great J. G. B., Jr., who perfidiously gave him a "kindly shake of the hand," and the "warmest kind of assurances," but continued to "weigh" him. "It is now my belief," says the Doctor, about this dastardly manager, "that I had no sooner quitted him than he exulted perhaps considered they had done a smart thing, and smoothed it over nicely." Which is most probable. But the spectacle of the great benefactor bene-factor of the nineteenth century, the victim of the exulting scofi' of the managing man-aging edit jr is harrowing, and cannot meet too stern a condemnation. Finally, he called upon the younger Mr. Bennett and gaTe him forty-eight hours to retract and to make a "gentlemanly "gen-tlemanly apology." Mr. Bennett is pre-eminently a "gontlemanly" person, and he might have earned an enduring fame by yielding to the Doctor's mod est entreaty. But whether he was jealous of the Doctors high reputation reputa-tion or whether, as is most probable, he has an interest in Borne rival's concentrated con-centrated diuretics and fluid extracts and was withheld by base reasons of business and a desire to disparage and destroy, certain it is that the forty-eight forty-eight hours slipped into eternity, the apology was not made and the outraged out-raged author of Buchu appealed to the law. The great suit of llelmbold against Bennett will become one of the cavstx crUlrc. We are sure he is right, for a man who has done so much good to mankind could under no possible provocation pro-vocation do any wrong. Let him have the heaviest damages, and in addition to pecuniary recompense, let him be submitted to a rigid course of Buchu. F'or with our confidence in the virtues of this famed medicine, we are confident confi-dent that even as obdurate a man as Mr. Hennctt woald, after the first dozen bottles, make as "gentlemanly" an "apology" as even llelmbold could wish. X. i" Slamlarrf. |
