The Iowa Mad-stone

Inquiry havicg recently been made as to the whereabouts of a germine madBtone, the following will givo the desired information regarding one wbich has a wonderf ui record. It is now ia the pobsession of Turner Evans, of Paris, Jackson township, Linn county, tho nearest point to which by railroad is Anamosn, ou tho Dubuquo and Soitfhwesterri railroad. lts properties were flrst kuown 130 years ago in Virginia. It has been in the Evaus fninily since first knowu. The present possefsor received it f rom his father, Adam Evans. Ifc did many wonderful ourea, and was known far and wido. He received it from his father in 1812, ivhile living near Boono Station, Ky. On the death of Adam Evans, it passed to Turner Evans, more thnn twenty years ago. During that poriod it has been tested many times, and never failed to cure the rabies, even in the most severe and almost hopeless coses. At first the neighbors of Mr. Evans were incredulous, and inclined to ridicule tbs thing, but, aftor numerons succeEsful trials on horses and cattle, doubt was changed to certainty. Duriug his possession of the stono nearly 700 cases havo been treated, and in not one case has the stone fniled to give relief and effect a cure. It is not longer than the end of a man's thnmb, Teighs one-fourtli of an onnce, nhd resembles a dark spongo, with fino pores extending from side to side. Seen through a magnifying glass it resembles flint, and at the onter end of the pores appear dnrk rings, liko sandstone. Itis triangular in f orm, having one fiat surfnee, which is callod tho working side. When tised it is placed in a bath oi one part milk to three parts water, anl warmed to blood-heat. 'Slie patiënt is required to expreife briskly until tlio blood becomes activo in circulation, when the skin near tho parts bitton is serntched with a sharp-pointed instrument until tlie blood starts, when the stone is applied. It immediatoly begins to absorb the virns, and, when filled, is removod nud soaked in the railk-andwater bath. It is thus repeatedly applied, until it ceases to adliero to tho flesh, which it will do as soon as tho virus is extracted, and not until theu. Whilotho virus remains, it requires considerable power to remove it. It has been applicd aearly 100 times in a siuglo oase. The rule is to apnly it as long as it will tako hokl. Applied to tho flesh of a pcwon not aflected witli rabies, it has no more effect than a piece of glass, unless there bo present tho taint of scrofulous disoase, when it will adhere as in cases of rabies. The cases curerï by this Btone are too many and too well autbcnticateJ to permit a doubt of its eülcacy. A Mr. Bunce, of Mechnniosville, bitten by a rabid dog, visited Mr. Evans, and, when he arrived there, was Hiiffcring froni paroxysms and nervous spasnis of the limbs. The stone was applied, and he waB cured. A Mr. Field, of Chicago, arrived there in a terrible eondition. For twenty-four liour before the stono was applied he suffered intense torture from nervous paroxysms and agony of mind, which, if continued another clay, would have, ho believss, resulted in matinees; infact, lio says death would lïoye been a relief to hira, rather than have endured the torment. Ho was wholly cured by the use of tho stoDO. Mr. Evans seeks no notoiiety. What he has received has come from those who have experienced the benofits of ]iis madstone. If any person afllicted with rabies visits liim, he will do all ho canto give him relief. He proruises nothinfr, and makes no pretensions. He is ucit a visionist, nor superstitious. The properties of the f tono nro to hi-n uu established fact, as mtich bo as that he will reap wlieat where he sows the seed. It is at the service of auy who wish to use it.