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Show ) Power Of The Press J ry-iHE power of the newspaper Is like that of i J electricity. It has a positive and negative 1 pole. There was an "electric physician" here once who had a patient upon whom he used a battery daily. The patient did not improve and at last grew distrustful and asked his medical attendant what the theory of his healing was. The II man with the battery said: "You have a serious case of rheumatism. I place the positive pole of the battery in your right hand, take the negative in one of my hands, then, with the other hand grasp your' disengaged hand; on the instant the ' positive polo begins to drive the disease from you into my own nerves, but I am so vigorous 1 that I am immune, and the negative pole in my l " hand finally receives and neutralizes the pain." ! The patient thought for a moment and then said: a "Doctor, suppose we try an experiment. I am not improving; suppose you take the positive battery I and give me the negative, and then Ijvilldraw the health out of your system into my afflicted limb. In that way the limb will be charged with health and this accursed pain will have to get up ? and go." The experiment was tried with most salutary 1 e.ffect. The pain reacted on the negative pole and the patient rapidly recovered. i The Morning Redlight made a like mistake r when it attacked Mayor Bransford. It tried to fill the Mayor with its own poison, but got the ; ' wrong pole. The Mayor grew fat overy day and r now.the people are liable to insist upon his being i re-elected Mayor, while the accumulated poison has saturated the system of the Morning Red- 'v light, and it knows how the impaled rattler feels when the only honorable thing for it to do is l to turn and sting itself to death. |