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Another wholesome and simple food is the curd 

 obtained by using rennet, and flavored to suit one's 

 liking. Often this will be, relished by those who can 

 not take the soured curd. 



May be I should add that, in making the clabber, 

 the niilk is first brought to the scalding-point, but 

 not allowed to boil. It is then cooled to about 90 

 degrees P., and the starter is added. The milk is 

 then kept warm until the curd has formed. It 

 should then be immediately cooled, when it is readv 

 for use. The starter may be obtained by using a 

 small quantity of fresh skimmed milk (half a pint). 

 This must also be scalded, and allowed to cool and 

 sour. Whole milk makes the most palatable clab- 

 ber; but the starter should contain as little cream 

 as possible. 



I trust you will not overlook the importance of 

 mentioning" the fact that fermented milk and fruits 

 taken at the same time may bring about serious 

 digestive disturbance with some people. 



Aikin, Md., July 13. J. Foed Sempees. 



NOSTRUMS AND QUACKERY. 



On page 19 of the advertising depart- 

 ment of our previous issue I spoke of 

 fraudulent medicines. Well, this same med- 

 ical association has placed in my hands sev- 

 eral pamphlets exposing fake cures for 

 drunkenness, the tobacco habit, obesity, 

 consumption, etc. It is bad enough to "rob 

 sick people" in general; but when you 

 come to robbing the drunkard or drunk- 

 ard's wife by systematic robbery, how can 

 one well find words to express his disgust 

 and indignation? I have for some time 

 been suspicious of these "cures" for the 

 rum and tobacco habit; and several of our 

 readers who have followed them up have 

 wiitten us the results. If the tablets that 

 are sent free of charge have any effect on 

 the poor victim of tobacco or drink it is by 

 giving him morphine, cocaine, or some 

 other habit-forming drug that is worse, if 

 possible, than tobacco or alcohol. Most of 

 these schemes are advertised by some good 

 woman (?) whose husband or brother or 

 other relative has been cured. She pays the 

 expense of advertising out of her love for 

 Immanity, and tells people who respond to 

 her advertisement to send to some great 

 doctor in Cliieago. The thing is skillfully 

 worked up so as to entrap the friends of 

 the poor victim, and get them to scrape up 

 their hard earnings to send to the "great 

 medicine man." The cure for obesity is 

 $25.00; but, like the memory school I have 

 mentioned, if the victim does not "bite" 

 they come down to $15.00; a little later to 

 $10.00, and finally you can get the whole 

 tiling for $2.00 — that is, if you hold back 

 and do not bite right away. These quacks, 

 as you will notice, make a specialty of cur- 

 ing diseases that are beyond the skill of our 

 best doctors — cancers, consumption, epi- 

 lepsy, etc. I am sorry to know that these 

 rascals are usually punished by fines only, 

 wliich they can generally pay and go on 

 with their swindling. If our health com- 

 mission Avould add imprisonment, and give 



them a good long term, it would cure them, 

 for a time at least, of their pernicious hab- 

 its of robbing sick people. 



Just a word in regard to the medicines 

 sent free of charge. As a matter of 

 course, these give temporary relief. Co- 

 caine, morjihine, or a headache ciu-e usually 

 makes you feel better; but for that matter 

 so does a little whisky; but who would 

 tliink of resorting to whisky every time he 

 feels bad? or who would expect any perma- 

 nent relief from such a course? When you 

 are cured of any of these troubles by let- 

 ting nature do the work, as Terry directs, 

 then 3'ou have accomplished something: but 

 I confess I am gradually coining over to the 

 decision that medicines and the stuffs you 

 bity at the drug'stores seldom really cure 

 any thing. 



ROBBING SICK people; "oxypathy^^ as a 



REMEDY FOR DIABETES, PARALYSIS, ETC. 



Mr. A. I. Root: — I thank you with all my heart, 

 my Christian friend, for the advice you so kindly 

 gave in regard to my husband's health (you may 

 remember my writing to you in Florida about his 

 sufferings from diabetes) ; and I feel sure that our 

 prayers have been heard and answered, for he haa 

 been able to work right along, and at least seems to 

 be holding his own. Circumstances have, however, 

 been such that I could not keep him strictly to the 

 diet you advised. His mother was lately restored to 

 health (as she believes) from a threatened attack of 

 paralysis by use of an "oxypathor," and she thinks 

 it is the veritable cure-all it is claimed to be. I 

 offered to give them a 60-day note (with the money 

 deposited in a local bank) for their instrument, with 

 the understanding that, if my husband's health im- 

 proved while using their instrument, they could 

 collect the money; if not, we'd return their oxypa- 

 thor and stop payment of note. They didn't send 

 one on those terms. So I was afraid to invest. As 

 your experience and skill in detecting frauds is far 

 greater than mine, I enclose some of their advertis- 

 ing matter for your inspection, if you have time, 

 and would greatly appreciate your opinion as to the 

 worth of this (to me) new contrivance. 



Fannie M. Ferebee. 

 Ridgeland, S. C, July 5. 



My good friend, I am glad you wrote 

 me before wasting your money on what 

 you call a "new contrivance." On the con- 

 trary. Gleanings has been fighting this 

 same fraud for moi'e than twenty years. 

 See last issue. I notice by the circulars you 

 send, that, instead of the old price of 

 $25.00, they have now got it to $35.00, when 

 35 cents ought to pay for the whole outlit 

 if it were of any real benefit to anybody. 



Let me remind you of another thing be- 

 sides wasting money and "robbing sick peo- 

 ple." Some years ago our good friend 

 Prof. Cook informed me that lus father 

 lost his life by depending on patent-medi- 

 cine quackei'y. He was afiiicted with a mal- 

 ady that could easily have been managed 

 if taken in time; but instead of going to a 

 physician (or to his own son) he trifled 

 with some senseless remedy until he was 

 ]iast help. Most sick people are better at 

 times; and if these times of improvement 



