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VOL. XXV. NO. 24.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1892.
quarterly, temporary auvernsemenia i
S1.50 PER ANNUM.
be paui in advance.
Job work cash on delivery.
Twenty-seven of the, States and Terri
tories have compulsory education laws.
- It is estimated that fully two-thirds of
the whole amount of public money held
by the London banks does not bear in
terest. Mynhcor UolTnieyr, one of the most
astute politicians in South Africa, has
commenced a (ierce agitation against
English control at the Cape.
According to the latest census bulletin
the native population increased twenty
throe per cent, between 1880 and 1890,
the foreign thirty-eight por cent, and
the colored fifteen per cent.
Tho English of our day is considered
by a high authority almost perfect, alike
lot the purpose of the orator, the philoso
pher, the lecturer and tho poet. The
purest English is said to be spoken in
Lincolnshiie.
The Austrian Emperor, in order to ac
knowledge a singular display of loyalty,
accepted the sum of live florins, equal to
about two dollars, which had been be
queathed to his majesty by a poor peas
ant, recently deceased in the Austrian
province of Uarniola.
The Boston Herald would like to have
the European custom, of soiling fish alive
in the markets, introduced into this
country. "Our fashion of sailing fish
in the market," it says, "would fill a
German with disgust. In the Gorman
cities fish is almost invariably sold alive."
The rapiil growth of the habit of so
briety and temperance is, in the estima
tion of the Chicago Herald, one of :he
characteristics of the American railway
service, the use of intoxicants becoming
more and ra-jro tho exception, although
it is said to be the rule in the English
service. It was a subject for comment
'n an English railway publication recent
ly that the 5000 laborers employed in
changing the grade of tho Great West
ern Railroad were not fallowed to refresh
themselves during working hours with
anything stronger than oatmeal water.
Iluury M. Stauloy, in one of his
speeches while standing for a seat in tho
Itritish Prtrlimmnt- said: "ThnnMi nt
British birth and parentage, I have spent
the greater part of ray life in travel and
ezploratiou in foreign lands, and when I
returned two years ago to live in Eng
land I was a naturalized citizen of the
United States, but in all my wandorings
I have seen no power so great and so be
neficent as the British Empire, and I feel
that my birthright of English citizenship
was a privilege which I could no longei
forego. I thercforo resumed the alle
giance of my birth and resolved that if
ever I could serve England again in any
way there should be no barrier to over
come. My one mastering desiro is for
the maintenance, the spread, the dignity,
the usefulness of the British Empire."
Widespread public interest is being
aroused on the subject of improving the
public highways of our country. Col
onel Albert A. Pope, of Boston, lias
given a great impetus to the question by
publishing in pamphlet form "A Me
morial to Congress on the Subject of a
Comprehensive Exhibit of Reads, Their
Construction and Maintenance at the
World's Columbian Exposition." The
Memorial contains letters from
President Harrison, members of the
Cabinet and a large number of other
prominent men in every section of tho
country, all highly commendatory of the
movement for the improvement of public
roads throughout tho United States. Be
sides those letters extracts are given from
editorial articles favoring road reform in
leading papers all over the Union. These
extracts show that the press every
where is in line with the laudable ef
forts to improve and maintain public
roads all over the laud.
Tho editor of a Nw York weekly
paper hai offered to pay Professor Schi
a pare Ill's expenses to this country and
back in order to give the distinguished
scientist an opportunity to peep at Mars
through tho great Lick telescope in
California. It is generally agreed, re
murks the Chicago Herald, that the most
important of tho professor's discoveries
have been confirmed by tho recent ob
servations of other astronomers. Tho
strange thing about it it that Sobiapai
el li has been able to see more with a
tolescopo of a certuin size thtu others
have distinguished with lurger instru
ments. This will be popularly explained
by saying that he has very bright eyes.
The professor himself cays that he has
been observing that one planet for many
years, and that one's eyes derive greater
distinguishing power by becoming ac
customed to the light of a particular
star. Whichever theory is true, if Sebi
nparelli comes to look through the Lick
telescope he ought to be able, under
favorable con lit ions, to tell us something
new about the surface of Mars.
THE HAY1NO TIME.
Click, click, click 1 goes the mowing ma
chine. With lta shields of iron and falchions keen,
As over the plain it speeds,
Like a proud triumphal car,
Like a chariot of war.
(Vith foaming, panting steeds.
The field with a thrill of fear is stirred..
The startled bobolink has heard
The warning and goes In quest
Of his mate; together they fly,
Now clrollng low, now high
Above their rush-hidden nest.
But the Iron oppressor's work is wrought
With a swift career that spareth naught,
And the tall grass, purple-crowned,
And the flowers in fragrant bloom
Go down In common doom
And lie withered on the ground.
Thus the sons of toil their tasks fulfill,
Lightened by man's inventive skill;
But a spirit of sweetness hatn flown,
That haunted the green highways
Of the old time haying days.
Ere the iron-wrought mower was known.
When the summer days with song were
blithe.
And the sturdy mower whot his scythe,
And the best man, never loth,
Led tho haying crew with pride
Through the field's sweet-scented tide,
Turning the double swath.
Close followed by boys, bare-foot and
brown,
Joyously spreading the winrows down;
Thus the toilers from early morn
Cheerily filled each hour
Ever watchful for a sign of shower,
Till fie sound of the dinner horn.
Then the bobolink might safely rest;
For a shield of grass to mark its nest
By the mower was kindly spared.
And he stays his brawny arm,
Lest some nestling sutler harm,
For they his friendship shared.
We will honor with song our modern ways,
But a dearer, tenderer, strain of praise
Is echoed in memory's chime
Of the days so glad and long,
When the hopes of youth were stron3,
In the sweet old haying time.
St. Louis Republic.
A FORTUNATE MISTAKE.
S Captain Sprowl
threw his hat on the
bed and eat down in
bis easy chair in tho
cabin he looked rue
fully at a neat pack
age that lay on tho
table.
"What a fool I
j was to buy that," he
thought. "Old sex
tant was plenty good
enough, though I
had it nine years.
Bought it in Liver
pool when I was second mato of the Julia
A. Smith. And now I have put out a
month's earnings for a new. one. What
possessed me I don't know."
And so the captain went on.
Now, Captain Sprowl wis not, a yon
might think from the name, a bald
headed old man with bushy whiskers.
No; names are very misleading. In
stead, he was 'tall and slender, with a
sandy mustache, and had not a gray
hair in his head. He came from Maine,
and although but thirty years old, he
had been for six years captain or the
Edna Dunu, now lying at Constitution
wherf, in Boston, discharging her cargo
of sugur. .
Well," puffed the captain, "nothing
to do now but to get rid uf the old sex
tant. I should go ashore next time if I
had two sextants to navigate by. Must
wotk the old off on some landlubber or
somebody."
The package was lying on au old news
paper which he had read through and
through on his lost trip out.
"The very tiling 1" said he. "I'll put
a notice in tho paper 'Sextant for sale,
cheap,' and if somebody don't bite nt
it, I miss my guess."
The next morning tho only thing tho
captain could see in the paper was this:
Sextant for sale by a ship captain; near
lyn ew and in perfect order; will be sold
cheap. Address O., 41 lilobs oftiee.
And now my story's begun.
Etta Bourne had been at work in a
raillineiy store in Boston for nearly two
years. She nnd her older sister Annie
had learned the trade with the village
milliner down in Keunebunk.
But Annie, who had long been the
belle of the village, got married, and
Etta concluded to try her fortune in
Boston.
She was full of ambition.
So it fell that in her two yean in the
millinery store she studied shorthand
aud typewriting, with the intentiou of
fitting herself to bt a coulideutial clerk.
On Sunday she saw this advertise
ment: For Sale Jones's Premier Typewriter at
halt price; been used less than a mouth; in
perfect order. Address O., 47 Globe ottice,
Etta Bourne, being a Maine Yankee,
knew a bargain when she saw it. She
wanted to own a typewriter, and so she
wrote a brief note addressed to "O., 47
Globe Ollice," asking where the machine
could be seen, and dropped it into the
letter box as she went to work Monday
morning.
Now, I raid at the beginning that the
advertising clerk was to blame. Per
haps the mistake was partly that of Etta
Bourne. At any rule it will never be
known.
The clerk was sorting the replies aud
putting them in their apropriute boxes.
When he cumo to Etta Bourne's letter to
"O. 47," he read it "O. 41" uud put it
in the pigeonhole as such.
That was u very, very little mistake,
of course, but you who have noticed
how things go in this world of ours have
discovered that the most serious change
in the ccurso of our lives come bbout
from just such little happenings.
For it was that very day that Captain
Sprowl advertised his sextant for sale.
I And Captain Sprowl was "O 41.
Now the tail captain was it very buy
f V
man, and it was late that afternoon bo
fore he went to the office to gather in
the replies from poople who weie anxious
to buy a sextant.
But the sextant market was apparent
ly rather dull, for all the clerk could
give him was one solitary letter. The
captain tore the envelope open and tossed
it aside.
"I saw your advertisement in tho
Globe," read the captain. "I with to
buy a good second-hand machine of
standard make, and if the one you offer
is in perfect repair and the price is sat
isfactory, perhaps we can trade. But I
caunot give more than $50, and it you
ask moro you need not reply to this.
Send your address, stating where ma
chine can be seen, to II. E. Bourne, 450
Winter street."
"Well," soliloquized the captain,
"I've got one answer, anyhow. But
what docs a woman want of a sextant
for this is certainly a woman's writingt
She seems to be in earnest though.
"And $301 Conscience I I never ex
pected to got more than $25. Well,
she'll have to come on board, I suppose,
so I'll send her my address." And
standing at the public desk he wrote
H. E. Bourne Dear Miss: Yours In re
ply to mv ad vertismient in the (ilobe is at
hand. Please call on me aboard the bark
Edna Dunn, Constitution wharf, between 3
and tf. Edwin H. Hi'Howl, Captain.
The next afternoon about 4 o'clock a
trim little figure walked rapidly over the
rough planks of Constitution wharf.
"It's a queer place to find a second
hand typewriter," thought Etta Bourne,
"but I suppose the captuin got tired of
it, or couldn't use it because the vessel
pitched so, or something liko that."
She saw the gilt letters, "Edna
Dunn." A fat, bald-headed man with a
little gingham apron on looked out tho
door of a box-like houie in tho middle
of the vessel.
A broad plank extended from the
wharf across the bulwarks. The man in
the apron camo forward.
"I wish to see Captain Sprowl," said
she.
"Vis, mini. Come right aboard, mim,
on that there plank, mim. The o aptain
is down in his cabin, mim.
Etta Bourne stepped hastily along tho
plank, and the stout cook, putting his
broad palms under her elbows, lifted her
lightly to the deck.
"This wny, mim," and he led her
around to the after-companion vay.
They went down the brass-railed
stairs, and as the cook knocked at the
door Etta noticed how spick and span
everything looked.
As a matter of fact the captain, In
viow of the lady's visit, had kept the
cook scouring tho wood and brasswork
all the forenoon.
"Captain, sir, a lady wishes to see
ye."
The captain, with half an hour's work
in his four-in-hand, bowed respect
fully. "I am Miss Bourne," begau Etta. "I
came in response to your advertisement
in the Globe about a"
Yes, ma'am," said the captain, "this
is thepluce. Will you take a seat?"
As Etta sank into an easy chair she
glanced about her in astonishment. She
had no idea that these little low houses
on ship's deck was so comfortable as
this.
Here was a dainty little sitting room,
with a rich, soft carpet, a hauging lamp
of elaborate design, hugo plush easy
chairs and sofa, a pretty rattan rocker
and a table strewn with the latest
magazines.
"I beg your pardon," said the tall
cxptain, who had been looking curiously
at her; "but aro you not related to Miss
Annie Bourne, of Keunebunk?'
"Why, yes, indeed; she is my own
sister," answered Etta, with animation.
"I used to go to school with her in
the old Berwick Academy, yean ago; but
I didn't know she had a sister."
"Oh, yes, I went to the academy my
self, but it was after she was graduated."
"And was old Brown principal when
you were therol"
From this they went on for tei mlu
utes, and each knew so many that the
other did that they soon became old ac
quaintances. The captain at once noticed that she
was a remarkably neat and pleasant little
woman, and Etta Bourne thought the
captain a fine-looking man, tall and
strong.
'Well, Captain Sprowl," said she,
finally, "I musn't forget what I camo
for. I believe you have a machine that
you wish to sell!"
'Why, yes," said the captain, won
dering what on earth this attractive
young woman could want of a sextant.
"And how did you come to want to
sell it," pursued she, wondering what
use this sea-captain had for a typewriter.
"Well, the fact is," said the captain,
reddening a little. "I bought a new one
the other day when I really didn't need
it, and of course, I haven't use for two.
And," continued he, "siuco turu ubout
is fair play, I am going to ask yuu what
you want of one?"
"To earn a living with," said she.
Tho captain looked puzzle! us he went
into the stateroom to get the sextant.
He hud beard that women were becoming
the rivals of men in almost every trade
and profession, and he vaguely wondered
if Miss Bourne wus iutcudiug sometime
to become Captain Bourne.
"Well," said he, coming back and
holding the sextant out tow aids her,
"here it is. The ivory on the scale is u
little yellow, and the vernier glass has a
little crack across the other edge, but "
He stopped. Miss Bourne was hold
ing up her hands in amazement.
"Why why what is this?' she
stammered.
"Why, it's a sextant," said the cap
tain. "I thought you knew what that
looked like."
"But there's some misunderstand
here. I dou't have any use for a sextant.
It was a typewriter that I understood
you had to sell."
"A typewriter,"said the captain aston
ished in turn. "Why, no. Here's the
advertisement," and he put the paper iu
her hands.
Now, ai I have said, EtU Bourne was
a Maine Yankee, and In less than ton
seconds sho had guessed how the mistake
occurred.
"Well, now," said the captain. "I
thought it was awful funny that a woman
should want to buy a sextant. Now you
have disappointed me, I don't see how I
am going to sell it, unless I leave it at
tho instrument maker's and let him get
what he can for it."
Oddly enough, from this point this
story runs along so naturally that you can
tell it yourself.
The tall captain escorted Miss Bourno
up town, called on her two or three times
while he was in port, corresponded with
her when he was away, and in less than
a year this notice appeared :
Sprowl Bourne In Keunebunk, Me.,
May 8, at the residenceof the bride's parent",
('apt. Edwin R. Sprowl and Henrietti E.
Bourne.
And now my story is done. Boston
Globe.
The Sullen Hamster.
As the squirrel was said by the old
Norsemen to bring all the nows of tho
animals to Thor, because be was the
merriest and most sociable of beasts, so
in the talk of tho Russian peasants the
hamster is the synonym for all that is
sullen, avaricious, solitary and morose.
Even in color ho is unlike any other
animal, being light above and dark be
low. This gives tho hamster somewhat
the same incongruous appearance that a
pair of black trousers and a light coat
lend to a man ; in other respects he is
like a large, shaggy guinea pig, with
very large teeth and puffy cheeks, into
which he can cram a vast quantity of rye
or beans for transport.
Each hamster lives iu a large, roomy
burrow all by himself, in defense of
which he will fight liko a badger against
any other hamster who may try to enter.
Family life he wholly avoids, never
allowing a female inside his burrow, but
keeping ber at a good distance and mak
ing her find her own living for herself
and family. The last burden is, how
ever, not a serious one, for by the time
the young ones are three weeks old each
discovers that family life is a great mis
take and sets off to make a bachelor bur
row for itself and save up beans for the
winter. For, in addition to its other
amiable qualities, tho hamster has that
of avarice in a marked degree, and heaps
up treasures of corn, rye and horse beans
far in excess of his own private wants for
the winter. His favorite plan is to dig
a number of treasure chambers, all co n
municating with a central guard room,
in which the owner eats and grows fat
until tho hardest frosts begin, when ho
curls himself up to sleep until the
spring.
But this life of leisure docs not begin
until the harvest bus been gathered.
While the crops are ripening, tho
hamsters work incessantly to mcrcaso
their hoards, and as much as three hun
dred weight of grain and beans have
been takei from a hamster's burrow.
After harvest the peasants often search
with probes for the treasure chambers
of the robbers, aod during the present
scarcity in Central Europe they will no
doubt exact a heavy tribute from the
hamsters' stores. Spectator.
The Power or Ll?litnin?.
On August 1, 1840, St. George's
Unurch, Leicester, England, which was
a new building, was entirely destroyed
during a thunder storm. The steeple
having been burst asunder, parts of it
were blown to a distance of thirty feet
in every direction, while the vane rod
and top part of the spire fell perpen
dicularly down, carrying with them every
Boor in the tower, the bells and the
works of the clock. The falling mass
was not arrested until it arrived on tho
ground, under which was a strong brick
arch, and this ulso was broken by the
blow. I he gutters and ridge covering
were torn up, and the pipes used to con
vey tho water from the roof were blown
to pieces. Mr. Highton calculated tho
power developed in the discharge of the
lightning which destroyed this church
with some known mechanical force. He
discovered that a hundred tons of stone
were blown down a distance of thirty
feet in three seconds, and consequently
a 12,220 horso power engine would have
been required to resist tho efforts of this
singlo flash. Scientific American.
Apricot Paste.
Apricot paste, known as Kamar el
Dine, is, together with dried apricots,
one of the principal exports from Damai
cus. The fruit, when gathered, is
crutbed in a kind of large iron wire
sieve, and the thick juice which results
from this operation is collected in earth
en vats, and then spread ou planks cov
ered with a layer of oil, where it is
allowed to remain two days exposed to
the air. At the expiration of this time
the paste is removed and turned. On
the fourth day tho pusto is again re
moved, and it then has tho appearance
of a baud of leather, very thin, and of a
reddish-brown color, about a yard aud a
half long and half a yard wide. I hi is
the finest quality of paste. The same
operation is repeated once or twice to
obtain a second aud third quality, each
time a little water being added to the
residuum of the former operation. Tho
bands of paste are then folded so as to
form bundles of about five pounds weight,
which are sold accordiug to quality.
Scientific American.
Microscopic Picture ol the President.
A microscopic peu picture of Presideut
ffurrisou by M. Diamond, au artist of
New York, which is a marvel of in
genuity, has bceu received at the Exec
utive Mansion from the artist. The pic
ture is about twenty-four by eighteen
inches, and is an excellent likeness of
the President. The face is surrouuded
by the American flag pendant ou either
side. The features, even to the ears, the
Dags, the boil y and the buttons on the
coat are all tilled iu with extracts from
speeches made by General Harrison dur
ing his long pnblio career. Those
speeches contain 11,000 words, and the
artist fittingly characterizes them "a life
history oflUeueral Hurrhou." Wushiug
ingtou Star.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Tho average man has 2,304,000 pores
In his skin.
About eight species of whalo aro
known on the California coast.
An opal weighing one pound nnd a
quarter has recently beon taken out of nn
Idaho mine.
The Krupp works in Essen, Germany,
contain 2512 furnaces. These consume
1665 tons of coal and coke daily.
A horse will eat In a year nino times
his own weight, a cow nine times, and
an ox six times and a sheep six times.
In spenking of the solidification of a
body by cooling, Professor Dewar says
that water can be made to become solid
by the evaporation of a quarter of its
weight.
San Francisco, Cal., has an earthquake-proof
hotel. It is constructed ol
iron aud in the foim of two hollow
squares, ono within the other, arranged
so as to brace each other.
It is said that a natural deposit of a
material capable of use as a polishing
powder for metals has been discovered
near Walcha, ISew South Wales, an
that it is being introduced on the mar
ket.
Not earthworms but ants nre tho soil-
tillers of parts of Southern Africa. Ant
hills exist by millions, each covered by
soil so fertile that a common saying is
that an ox can be pastured on an nn,
hill.
Sleeping in tho light of tho moon
when it is near tho full is said to be in
jurious, especiully near the tropics. It
has no effect whero tho direct rays do
not fall on the head or eyes of the
sleeper.
Among birds that havo tho power of
imitation the parrot is the best; but, as
a matter of fact, its voice is decidedly
inferior to that of the mynah, a species
of starling. Curiously enough, the male
bird speaks in a high, clear tone, like
that of a child, while the female has a
gruff voice.
An English scientist has made a calcu
lation about the time it will take to fill
tho world with all tho people it will
hold. The present population of tho
globo is supposed to be about 1,407,
000,000, and he astimutcs that the max
imum of the inhabitants that can be sus
tained on ths entire land surface of tho
earth is 5,944,000,000, and that this
figure will bo reached A. D. 2072.
Tho cableway at tho Deer Park group
of mines near Descanso, Cal., was
broken iu a singular manner recently.
K has a single span of 4450 lcet. Tno
tension is twenty ton, and the loads are
120-pound sacks of oro from the mines
on the mountain sido to the mills below
Just after an extra hard shake in tho
series of earthquakes thero it parted. It
is supposed that tho vibrations, coining
from each end of the lino, met in tho
centre aud caused the break.
Newsboy Sympathy.
A paralyzed newsboy sells papers from
a wheel chair at tho corner of Fifth avo
nue and Twenty-third street, writes the
New York co-respondent ot the St. Louis
Republic, visitors frim tho West may
have noticed him, for he is a pathetic
object and attracts much attention. His
helplossness has aroused all the latent
pathos in hearts that beat beneath ragged
jackets in that neighborhood. A local
writor tells a pleasing anecdote concorn
ing him, which I reproduce:
The newsboys all sympathize with
him. They help hnn fold and arrange
his papers. On waim days they take
tuins fanning him, carry his little fold
ing table and assist him in various ways.
One day during the late hot spell a
ragged urchin, with a buudle of papers
under his arm, uirt-bcgnmod and carry
ing a tin pail in his hand, walked up to
the cashier s window in a store not tar
from whhro the cripple sits. Rapping
on the window he attracted the atteutiou
of the cashier, and as ho stood on his
tiptoe he handed in his pail, while a
smile bewitching as nny society belle is
capable of, encircled his dirty face, dis
playing a set of teeth pearly white and
as beautiful as nature could form them.
His large, lustrous, sparkling black eyes
caught hold of tho cashier, and ho said:
"Say, mister, dor lame blokey what sells
papers in do wagon on der 'corner wants
a drink of ice water."
As the man who handles tho cash
passed out the pail of water the juveuile
remarked: "Tunks, mister; you know
der kid's awful lame und can't walk."
The New York newsboy is a rough,
slangy, harum-scarum, devil-may -care
and often mischievous individual, but
generally his heart is in the right place.
Vauderuilt'g Way.
A writer iu tho Figaro throws an in
teresting light upon Mr. VanderbiU' s
method of buying pictures. Tho mil
lionaire, it seems; weut ouco to Meisson-
ier and asked him which of his works
was, in his own opinion, his chef d'ouvrc.
Mcissouier answered: "The Chess Play
ers." "Wiiom does it belou" to? ' wus
Mr. Vandcrbilt's next question. "To
Herr Meyer, of Dresden," was tho an
swer. That very night Mr. Vauderbilt
dispatched a secretary to Dresden, who
weut straight to Herr Meyer uud de
manded to know his pneo. "50,000,"
replied the owner, thinking thut he had
effectually frightened his interrogator.
"I take it," suid the secretary to the
great astonishment of Herr .Meyer, uud
luke it he did. Pull .Mall Ua.etie.
A lleu's IJuecr Freak.
Hop Whitney, of Monroe, G.i., tells a
strange story of animal life. A cut se
lected the fodder loft as the home for
her kittens. A sitting hen was near her
neighbor, and had the misfortune to bo
broken up. She at once ousted the cat
from her bed and uppiopiiated her three
kilteus. When Hop weut into the lolt,
he was surprised to see the inaiuuiy cat.
lyingwithout her kittens, aud when lie
attempted to take the kittens from the lieu
he found he ha I a conxiiler.tiiiu row ou
l is hands, AtluuLt Constitution.
WONDERS OF HYPNOTISM.
If ARVELLO U3 EFFECTS OF A PHY
SICIAN'S EXPERIMENTS.
I'nin Entirely Suliilncit by tho I'orro
ot Will Power Active it ml las
alve Patients.
IN a very interesting paper on "Hyp
notism nnd Mental Sugacstion," in
the Arena, Mr. B. O. Flower says:
d Dr. Hamilton Osgood related to
mo many instances whero extraordinary
cures have followed positive suggestion
made to the patient when in a pcrfo:tly
normal condition. As n rule, however,
far more can bo accomplished nftcr tho
patient has been thrown into tho hyp
notic sleep, and it is this phenomenon
and the result attending tho same,
which, if the reader will now follow me,
I will describe as I personally witnessed
it, some few weeks sinco, at the Homo
for Incurables, in tho beautiful suburban
town of Ashmont.
During -this visit Dr. Osgood hypno
tized twelve patients. In each instance
tho experiment proved completely suc
cessful. In many cases tho patient
yielded readily to tho doctor's sugges
tion; in others it required a few mo
ments to bring tho invalid's will en
tirely under tho domination of tho phy
sician's will, although it must be remcm
Vered that in all instances tho patients
were hypnotized at their express desire.
To me there was something thrilling,
startling, and terrible iu this spcetuclo
of a human mind instantly yielding to a
will more royal thati his own; becoming
a willing vassal, with cars attuned to no
voice save tho regal master whose slight
est wish becomes absolute law.
The general nppearanc of a subject in
tho hypnotic trance is that of a natural
sleep, although, sometimes, when in a
profound slumber, one is reminded ot a
patient under the intluenco of ether.
There are present, however, theso pe
culiarites in tho hypnotic trance:
The subject, if iu d profound sleep, is
absolutely at the command of tho
operator; at a suggestion from him tho
entire body is as insensible to pain as if
perfectly etherized ; at his comtnaud tho
body instantly becomes as rigid ns if all
lifo had departed; at his suggestion tho
patient sees visions of the operator's
creatiug and hears, perchance, tho rav
ishing straius of celestial melody. In
this realm of dreams ho banquets and
revels, while perhaps a limb is boing
amputated. And yet at the voice of thi
intelligent opcrutor ho instantly returns
to a normal condition, provided tho
operator himself never for a moment
doubts his ability to awaken tho subject.
As I noted before, some patieuts yield
much more readily than others. It wus
indeed interesting and curious to wit
ness the subtle and inhcrcLt traits of dif
ferent patients, evon in tho moment
when the patient's will-power was mo
mentarily yielding more and more to tho
bypnotizcr. Thus tho first subject hyp
notized by Dr. Osgood had expressed
his desiro to bo so treated, aud
has describe I at length the trouble
from which ho was suffering. I reully
saw that ho was ono of those- numerous
individuals who derive their greatest joy
from fault-finding and complaining a
chronic objector and I observed with
considerable curiosity tho doctor's
method of putting him to sleep." As I
had anticipated, ho involuntary resisted
tho physician's suggestions for a miniito
or two. For example, after ho had
been partially hypnotized, Dr. O. said;
"Your eyes are lieuvy. It is difficult
for you to raise your lids." He, with an
effort, kept his eyes open for u moment,
aud later, when the doctor said, "Vou
cannot open your eyes," ho strove to do
so and a gleam of triumph lit his coun
tenance when he succeeded, though tho
heavy lids fell back almost instantly;
and when the affirmation was repeated
ho made no furthur effort, being already
iu a deep sleep.
Tho next subject was a passive, mild
mannered man. The doctor did not
even look him in the eye, but simply
suggested sleep most positively to him,
after which he lightly touched his brow
between the eyes, and ho was iu a deep
slumber, from which he did not awake
until a half hour later, when tho doctor
loosened the bonds by a singlo word.
In another ward a lady asked to bo
hypnotized ; her stomach was cuusiug her
considerable paiu. She had been hypno
tized several times before, deriving great
benefit from this tie itment. Dr. Osgood
requested her to look him in the eyes for
a. moment. Ho then positively com
manded her to go to sleep; to keep her
mind passive; think only ot sleep, and go
to sleep. In half u minute she wus in a
profound slumber.
Ho took a sharp instrument iu his
hand nud pricked her face und hands
several timei with it, but there was
nothing to indicate that she felt iu tho
least dug rue uuy sensation whatever.
The doctor theu suggested that her
stomach would lie entirely relieved, ou
her waking; and placing his hand over
her stomac.i for a moment, he added:
"Vou are uo.v experiencing a warm
sensation; the blood is now called to the
stomach, and when you wake all paiu
will have disappeared. -Now sleep ou
until I call you." He then passed into
some other wards, where some other wo
men were hypnotised, two of whom re.
named sleeping only u few minutes after
the doctor left.
As all persons who are acquainted with
bypuotism know, thero are ilitlerent
stages. Ju some cases, tho doctor lu-
forms me, he may hypuoii.u a person
aud keep them entirely under hypnotic
iillucuco as long us present, but us soon
us he leaves they begin tj awake, iu
other ca-es a profound sleep follows sug
gestion, uud the patient docs not arouse
until the doctor breaks the sped by a
wold.
The Salvation Army ure about to build
a headquarter for Ireland ill iicllast, to
tost fi' i.UUi I.
Clusters of clover, if hung in a room
and lelt to dry and shed their pci.ume
through tho air, will drive uv.iy llies.
OLD JOHN HENRY,
Old John's Jos' made o' the commonest
John ITenry.
He's tough, I reckon, but none too tough
"Too much, though, 's better than no
enough,"
Says Old John Henry,
fie does his best and whon his tiest's bad,
He don't fret none, nor he don't get sad
Ho simply 'lows it's the liest he had
Old John Henry.
His doctern's je' o' tho plainest brand
Old John Henry.
"A smilin' face and a l.earty hand
'S a religion 'at all folks understand,"
Hays Old John henry.
He's stove up some with the rheumatic.
And they hain't no shine on them shoes o
his.
And his hair ain't cut, hut his eye teeth Is
old John Henry.
Ho feed hisself when the stock's all fed
Old John Henry.
And "sleeps like a babe" when he goes to
bed,
"And dreams o' heaven nnd home-made
bread,"
Says Old John Henry.
He ain't refhied as he ort to be.
To fit the statutes of poetry,
Nor his clothes don't lit him, but he fits
me
Old John Henry.
James Wlntcomb Riley,
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Tho barber is poor indeed who doesn't
cveu hone his razors. Eltnira Gazotte.
Prudence in a plume dropped from tho
wing of some past folly. Texas Sittings.
Money talks; but it is frequently a
trifle deficient iu its grammar. Wash
ington Star.
Do not expect to go to the top of the
spire in politics unless you are willing to
play the weather cock. Galveston
News.
"Gentlemen," said the auctioneer,
"most of these books aro in English; but
thero arc a few volumes by Robert
Browning." Boston Transcript.
Mrs. D. "Just think, Mury, how ter
rible. The poor man was torn Hmb
from limb." "Lor' bless us, marm, and
men so scarcol" New York Mercury.
Tho bell boy tugged at the traveler's trunk;
lie putrudtill ho neany explodeil.
Then said as Ills pride very visibly shrunk,
"1 didn't know tlmt it was loaded."
Wushington Star.
Schocppenstedt says he knows a
woman who is so neat that tho greatest
troublo of her life is the knowledge that
sho is mado of dust. Sornerville Jour
nal. "The political convention is a great
institution," said Kickins. "It enable
tho locul politician to rest his mind and
gives his laryux a chance." Washington
Star.
Lost influence returns no more;
The thought his soul must blister;
The inuii who called liiin "Juil je" of yore,
Kefers to him as "mister."
W ashington Star.
Sharks won't bito n swimmer who
keeps his iegs in motoin. If you oan
keep kicking longer than a shark can
keep waiting you'll bo ull right. New
York Mercury.
"So," said Mr. Doucgun, "thcy'sboen
printing the funeral notices av a man
that wasn't dead yit. It's a nice fix he'd
be in if he hail been wuti o' these people
that believe iverything in tho newspa
pers." Wushiugtou Star.
Mr. Great waddo "These lawyers ar
fearlully exorbitant. I ha'L
drawn up to day aud he got $50
Mrs. IJicatwuddc "That's u
Just think of what he'll get win
die." Detroit Free Press.
Yubsley "See here, Mudge, whe
let you have that five dollars six wee
ago, you suid you wanted it for a little
while only." .Mudge "Well, I told the
truth. 1 didn't have it in my possession
moro thau half an hour." Indianapolis
Journal.
Husbund "I think young Mrs.
Picttyfuce was green with envy whg
you cainu iu with your new bonnet 6
Mrs. llhumor "Hateful thing.
just did that because she knows that
green is becoming to her." Chicago
Intcr-Oucau.
Guswell "Goetho onco said, 'We
ought to look at some picture every
day.' " Dukkats (of miserly proclivi
ties) "Yes, und thero are no finer work
of urt extant than the steel engravings on ,
the back of national bauk notes." PitU
burg Chronicle.
Tho Sword Swullowcr "I havo bad
notice that they (lou t want me any
longer in the museum." Fat Woman
"Well, who will take your placet"
Sword Swullowcr "Why, a girl from
Boston is going to swallow her words." -
Chicago Inter-Oceau.
"Mr. Gingham," said Taper, "I
would like a fortnight's absence to at
tend the wedding of a very deur friend."
"It must be u very deurlricnd indeed to
make you want that much time. Who
is it I" "Why, sir, after the ceieiuony
bhe will bo my wife." Jury,
"The man down thero at that table,"
said the waiter, gluring ut somebody at
the other cud of the room, "is uo gen
tleman. Thut' ull I've got to say."
"What's the matter with him?" asked
the cashier. "He's breaking them
lemoiiadu btruws so we can't use 'em
aguiu, doggone him." C'hicugo Tribune.
Easy Way to lleiuove Paiut.
It is very seldom now that you see a
painter Imiu oil old paint with a spirit
lamp or torch, though there are still a
few that stick to tho old method. The
easiest way to rleuu paiut oil wood, or
even metal, is to mix lime and salsoda
prelty thickly iu water and then apply
treely with a brush. After a short time
the paint can be scraped ull without
d.lliculty. Any amateur can use this re
ceipt, oely a little cure U ud visible, aa
the mixture will remove skin from tho
h inds or lace cveu more rapidly than i
wiil remove panic from uood or lueta
New Yolk Journal.