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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1892.
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Forest republican.
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Twenty -sevcu 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. Mynheer Hoffmcyr, one of the most
astute politicians in South Africa, has
commenced a fierce agitation against
Euglish control at the Cape.
According to the latest census bulletin
the native population increased twenty
three per cent, between 1880 and 1890,
the foreign thirty-eight por cent, and
the colored fifteen per cent.
The English of our day Is considered
by a high authority almost perfect, alike
foV the purpose of the orator, the philoso
pher, the lecturer and the poet. The
purest English is said to be spoken in
Lincolnshiie.
The Austrian Emperor, in order to ac
knowledge a singular display of loyalty,
nrrnntud the sum of five florins, eaual to
nbout two dollars, which had been be
queathed to his majesty by a poor peas
ant, recently deceased in the Austrian
province of Carniola.
The Boston Herald would like to have
the European custom, of selling fish alive
In the markets, introduced into this
country. "Our fashion of selling flsh
in the market," it says, "would fill a
German with disgust. In the German
cities fish is almost invariably sold alive."
The rapid growth of the habit of so
briety and temperance is, in the estima
tion of the Chicago Herald, one of :ho
characteristics of the American railway
service, the use of intoxicants becoming
more and more the exception, although
it is laid to bo the rule in the English
service. It was a subject for comment
in an English railway publication recent
ly that the 5000 laborers employed in
changing the grade of the Great West
ern Bailroad were not allowed to refresh
themselves during working hours with
anything stronger than oatmeal water.
Henry M. Stanloy, in one of his
speeches while standing for a seat in the
Ttrlti.h Parliament, said: "Thousrh of
British birth and parentage, I have spent
the greater part of my life in travel and
exploration 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 ray wanderings
I have seen no power so grent 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 therefore 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 o ver
come. My one mastering desire 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, has
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 Roids, Their
Construction and Maintenance at the
World's Columbian Exposition." The
Memorial contains letter from
President Harrison, members of the
Cabinet and a large numbor of other
prominent men in every section of the
country, all highly commendatory of the
movement for the improvement of public
roads throughout the United States. Be
sides these 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 publio
roads all over the laud.
The editor of a Nw Vork weekly
paper hai offered to pay Professor Schi
aparelli's expenses to this country and
back in order to give the distinguished
scientist an opportunity to peep at Mars
through the great Lick telescope in
California. It is generally agreed, re
marks the Chicago Herald, that the most
important of the professor's discoveries
have been confirmed by the recent ob
servations of other astronomers. The
strange thing about it is that Sohia;ar
elli has been able to see more with a
telescope of a certain size than others
have distinguished with larger instru
ments. This will be popularly explaiuud
by saying that he has very bright eyes.
The professor himself says 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 Schi
op&relli comes to look through the Lick
telescope he ought to be able, under
favorable con litious, to tell u something
new about the surface of Mars.
THB HAYINGI TIME.
Click, click, click! goes the mowing ma
chine, With its shields of Iron and falchions keen,
As over the plain It speeds,
Like a prond triumphal car,
Like a chariot of war.
(Vith foaming, panting steeds.
Tb. field with a thrill of fear is stirred..
The startle! bobolink has heard
The warning and goes in quest
Of his mate; together they fly,
Now circling low, now high
Above their rush-bidden nest.
But the Iron oppressor's work is wrought
With a swift career that spareth naughty
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 iweetns hath 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 whet bis scythe,
And the best man, never loth,'
Led the 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 t ie sound of the dinner horn.
Then the bobolink might sifely 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 suffer 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 strong.
In the sweet old haying time.
St. Louis Repub Ho.
A FORTUNATE MISTAKE.
S Captain Sprowl
threw his hat on the
bed and eat down in
his easy chair in the
cabin he looked rue
fully at a neat pack
age that lay on the
table.
'What a fool
JJ was to buy that," he
thought. "Uldsex
taut was plenty good
enough, though I
had it nine years.
Bought it in Liver
pool when I was second mate 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 ws not, as you
mi.ht 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 thivty years old, he
had been for six venrs captain or the
Edna Dunn, now lyiug at Constitution
wharf, in Boston, discharging her cargo
of sucrar. .
"Well," puffed the captain, "nothing
to do now but to get rid of the old sex
tant. I should go ashore next time if I
bad two sextants to navigate by. Must
work the old oil on somo landlubber or
nmfhnrlv."
The package washing on an oldnows-
paper which he bad read through and
throuzh on bis last trip out.
"The very thingl" said he. "I'll put
a notice in the paper 'Sextant for sale,
cheap,' and if somebody don't bite at
it. I miss my guess."
The next moraine tho only thing the
captain could see in the paper was this :
Sextant for sale by a ship captain; near-
lvn w and in perfect nrJer; will be sold
cheap. Address U.. 41 Globe office.
And now my story's begun.
Etta Bourne had been at work in
rnillineiv store iu Boston for nearly two
vears. She and her older sister Annie
had learned the trade with the village
milliner down in Kennebunk.
But Annio, who had long been the
belle of the village, got married, and
Etta concluded to try her fortune iu
Boston.
She was full of ambition.
So it fell that in her two vesri in the
millinery store she studied shorthand
and typewriting, with the intention of
fitting herself to lt a confidential clerk.
On Sunday she saw this advertise
meat:
For Bale Jones's Premier Typewriter at
hale price: been used leu taan a mourn; m
perfect order. Addreas O., 47 Glob, otliee
Etta Bourne, being a Maine Yankee,
knew a bar train when she saw it. She
wanted to own a typewriter, and so she
wrote a brief note addressed to "O., 47
Globe Office," asking where the machine
could be seen, and dropped it into the
letter box as she went to work Monday
morning.
Now, I said at the beginning that the
advertising clerk was to blame. Per
haps the mistake was partly that of Etta
Bourne. At any rate it will never be
known.
The clerk was sorting the replies aud
nutting them in their apropriate boxes.
When he came to Etta Bourne's letter to
"O. 47," he read it "O. 41" aud put it
in the pigeonhole as such.
That was a 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 about
from just such little huppeniugs.
For it was that very day that Captain
Sprowl advertised his sextant for sale.
IAnd Captain bprowl was "O 41.
Row the tail captain was a Ytry busy
f V
St
man, and it was lata that afternoon be
fore he went to the office to gather in
the replies from people who were 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 the
Globe," read the captaia. "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 U sat
isfactory, perhaps we can trade. But I
cannot give mors than 50, and if you
ask mora 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 does a woman want of a sextant
for this is certainly a woman's writing!
She seems to be in earnest though.
"And 501 Conscience I I never ex
pected to get 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 my advertisament in the Globe is at
land. Please call on me aboard the bark
Edna Dunn, Constitution wharf, between 8
and D. Edwin K. Btrowl, Captain.
The next afternoon about 4 o'clock a
trim little figure walked rapidly over the
rough planks of Constitution wharf.
"It a queer place to And a second
hand typewriter," thought Etta Bourne,
"but I suppose the captain got tired ol
it, or couldn't use it because the vessel
pitched so, or something like 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 home in the middle
of the vessel.
A broad plank oxtended from the
wharf across the bulwarks. The man in
the apron came forward.
"I wish to see Captain Sprowl," said
she.
"Yis, mini. Come right abnard, mim,
on that there plank, mim. The c aptain
is down in his cabin, mim."
Etta Bourne stepped hastily along the
plank, and the stout cook, putting his
broad palms under her elbows, lifted her
lightly to the deck.
"This way, mim," and he led her
around to the after-companionway.
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
view of the lady visit, had kept the
cook scouring the wood and brasswork
all the foreuoon.
"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 the place. 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 hanging lamp
of elaborate design, huge plush easy
chairs and sofa, a pretty rattan rocker
and a table strewn with the latest
magazines.
"I beg your pardon," said the tall
ciptain, who had been looking curiously
at hor; "but are you not related to Miss
Annie Bourne, of Kennebunk?''
"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,years ago; but
I didn't know she had a sister."
."Ob, yes, I weut to the academy my
self, but it was after she was graduated."
"And was old Brown principal when
vou were there!
. From this they went on for tei min
utes, and each knew so many that the
other did that they soon became old ac
auaioUnces.
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 came
for. I believe you have a machine that
you wish to sell!"
"Why, yes," said the captain, won.
deriog what on earth this attractive
young woman could want of a sextant.
"And bow did you come to want to
sell it," pursued she, wondering what
use this sea-captain had tor 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, "since turn ubout
is fair play, I am going to as you t hat
you want of one!
"To earn a living with," said sho.
Tho captain looked puzzle J as he went
into the stateroom to get the sextant.
He had heard that women were becoming
the rivals of men in almost every trade
and profession, and he vaguely wondered
if Miss Bourne was intendiug sometime
to become Captain Bourne.
"Well," said be, coming back and
holding the sextant out towaids her,
"here it is. The ivory on the scale is a
little yellow, aud the vernier glass has a
little crack across the other edge, but
He stopped. Miss Bourne was hold
in up her hands in amazement.
"Why wby 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 don't have any use for a sextant.
It was a typewriter that I understood
you had to sell.
"A tvpewriter "said the captain aston
ished in turn. "Why, no. Here's the
advertisement," and he put the paper in
her hands.
Now, as I have said, EtU Bourne was
a Maine Yankee, and in 1cm than ten J
seconds the had guessed how the mistake
occurred.
"Well, now," ssid 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
the 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.
Toe tall captain escorted Miss Bourno
up town, called on hor two or three times
while he was in port, corresponded witri
her when he was away, and in loss than
a year this notice appeared:
Snrowl Bourne In Kennebunk. Me.,
Mavis, at the residence of the bride's parent.
Caps. Edwin B. Sprowl and Henrietta E.
Bourne.
And now mj story is done. Boston
Globe.
The Snllon Hamster.
As the squirrel was said by the old
Norsemen to briug all the news of tho
animals to Thor, because he was tho
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 he is unlike any other
animal, being light above and dark be
low. This gives the hamster somewhat
the same incongruous appearance that a
pair of black trousers and a light coat
lend to a man ; in other respects ho is
like a large, shaggy guinea pig, with
very large teeth and puffy cheoks, luto
which he can cram a vast quantity ot rye
or beans for transport.
Each hamster lives in 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 her 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 rnakeabacuolor bur
row for itself aud save up beans for the
winter. For, in addition to its other
amiable qualities, the 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
tho winter. His favorite plan is to dig
a number of treasure chambers, all com
municating with a central guard room,
in which the owner eats and grows fat
until the hardest frosts begin, whea he
curls himself up to sleep until tho
spring.
But this life of leisure does doc begin
until the harvest has bean gathered.
While the crops are riponing, the
hamsters work incessantly to increase
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, and during the present
scarcity in Central Europe they will no
doubt exact a heavy tribute from the
hamsters' stores. Spectator.
The Power of Llglilnln?.
On August 1, 1846, St. George's
Church, 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
floor in the tower, the bells aud tho
works of the clock. The falling mass
was not arrested until it arrived on the
ground, under which was a strong brick
arch, and this also "was broken by the
blow. The gutters and ridge covering
were torn up, and the pipes used to con
vey the water from the roof were blown
to pieces. Mr. Uignton 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 horse power engine would have
been required to resist tho efforts ot this
singlo flash. Scicutifio American.
Apricot Pasto.
Apricot paste, known as Kumar el
Dine, is, together with dried apricots,
one of tlie principal exports from Damas
cus. The fruit, when gathered, is
cruched iu 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 on planks cov
ered with a layer of oil, where it is
allowed to remain two days exposod to
the air. At the expiration of this time
the paste is removed and turned. On
the fourth day the pasto is again re
moved, and it then has the appearance
of a band of leather, very thin, and of a
reddish-brown ooior, about a yarsl aud a
half long and half a yard wide. This is
the finest quality of paste. The same
operation is repeated onco or twice to
obtain a second and 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 according to quality.
Scientific American.
Microscopic Picture of the President.
A microscopic pea picture of President
flarrisou by M. Diamond, an artist of
New York, which is a marvel of iu
enuity, has been received at the Exec
utive Mansion from the artist. The pic
ture is about twenty-four by eighteeu
iuches, aud is aa excellent likeness of
the President. The face is surrounded
by the American flag pendant on either
side. The features, even to the ears, the
Hags, the body and the buttons on the
coat are all filled in with extracts from
speeches made by General Harrison dur
ing his long pabliu career. Those
speeches contain 11,000 words, aud the
artist fittingly characterizes them "a life
history oftUeoeral Harriiou." Washing
ingtou Star.
SCIENTIFIC ANI INDUSTRIAL.
The average man has 2,304,000 pores
la bis skin.
About eight species of whale are
known on the California coast.
An opal weighing one pound and a
quarter has recently been taken out of an
Idaho mine.
The Krupp works in Esson, Germany,
contain 2542 furnaces. Thcso consume
1665 tons of coal and coke daily.
A horse will eat in a year nine times
his own weight, a cow nine times, and
an ox six times and a sheep six times.
In speaking of the solidification of a
body by cooling, Professor Dewar says
that water can be made to becomo solid
by th evaporation of n quarter of its
weight.
San Francisco, Cal., has an earthquake-proof
hotel. It is constructed of
iron aud in the foim of two hollow
squares, one 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 discovorod
near Walcha, New South Wales, and
that it is being introduced on the mar
ket: Not earthworms but ants ore the 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 tan be pastured on an an
hill.
Sleeping In tho light of tho moon
when it is near the full is said to bo in
jurious, especially near the tropics. It
has no effect where tho direct rays do
uot fall on the head or eyes of the
sleeper.
Among birds that have tho power of
imitation the parrot is the best ; but, as
a mattor of fact, its voice is decidedly
inferior to that of the myniili, a species
of starling. Curiously enough, the malo
bird speaks in a hk'h, clear tone, liko
that of a child, while the female has a
gruff voice.
An English scientist has made a calcu
lation about the time it wilt take to till
the world with all tho people it will
hold. The present populutiou of the
globe is supposed to be about 1,467,
000,000, and he 3stimatcs that the max
imum of the inhabitants that can be sus
tained on the entire land surface of the
earth is 5,914,000,000, and that this
figure will bo reached A. D. 2072.
The cableway at the Door Park group
of mines near Descanso, Cal., wis
broken iu a singular manner recently.
It has a single span of 4450 icet. Tho
tension is twenty ton, and the loads aro
120-pound sacks of oro from tho miuei
on the mountain sido to the mills bulow.
Just after an extra hard shake in the
series of earthquakes tuero it parted. It
is supposed that the vibrations, coming
from each end of the liuo, met iu the
centre aud caused the break.
Newsboy Sympathy.
A paralyzed newsboy sells papers from
a wheel chair at the corner of Fifth avo
nue and Twenty-third street, writes tho
New York correspondent ot tho St. Louis
Republic. Visitors frjra the West may
have noticed him, for he is a pathetic
object and attracts much attention. His
helplessness has aroused all the latent
puthoa in hearts that beat beneath ragged
jackets in that neighborhood. A local
writor tells a pleasing anecdote concern
ing him, which I reproduce:
The newsboys all sympathize with
him. They help hiin fold and arrange
his papers. On waim days they take
tums 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 bis arm, dirt-begrimod and carry
ing a tin pail in his hand, walked up to
the cashier's window in a store not far
from whtro the cripple sits. Happing
on the window he attracted the attentiou
of the cashier, and as he stood on bis
tiptoe he handed in his pail, while a
smile bewitching as any 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, sparkliDg black eyes
caught hold of the cashier, aud he said :
"Say, mister, der lame blokey what soils
papers in de wagon on der corner wants
a drink of icewator."
As the man who handles the cash
passed out the pail of water the juvenile
remarked: "Tanks, mister; you know
der kid's awful lame and 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.
Vanderhllt'a Way.
A writer iu the Figaro throws an in
teresting light upon Mr. VanderbiU' s
aiethod of buying pictures. The mil
lionaire, it seems; weut once to Meisson
ier and asked him which of his works
was, in bis own opinion, his chef d'ouvre.
Mcissouier answered: "The Chess Play
ers." "Whom does it belong to?' was
Mr. Vandcrbilt's next question. "To
Herr Meyer, of Dresden," was the au
swer. That very night Mr. Vauderbilt
dispatchod a secretary to Dresden, who
went straight to Herr Meyer aud de
manded to kuow his price. "50,000,"
replied the owner, thinking that he had
effectually frightened his interrogator.
"I take it," said the secretary to the
great astonishment of Herr Meyer, and
tuke it he did Pull Mull Gazette.
A Ilea's (Jueer I'reuk.
Hop Whitney, of Monroo, Ga., (ells a
strange story of animal life. A cat se
lected the fodder loft as the home for
her kittens. A sittiug hen was near her
neighbor, and bad the misfortune to be
broken up. She at once ousted the cat
from her bed and appiopriuted her threu
kittens. When Hop went into the lolt,
he was surprised to see the mammy cat
lyingwithout her kittens, and whou lie
attempted to take the kittens from the lieu
be found ha had a couideraiiu row uu
bis hands. Atlanta Constitution.
WONDERS OF HYPNOTISM.
MARVKLIiOtTS EFFECTS OF A PHT
SICIAN 3 EXPERIMENTO.
Pain F.ntlroly Subdued by tho Foroo
ol Will Power Active and Pa
ive Patirnt.
IS a very interesting paper on "Hyp
notism and Mental Suggestion," in
the Arena, Mr. B. O. Flower says:
Dr. Hamilton Osgood related to
me many instances where extraordinary
cures have followed positive suggestion
made to tho patient when in a perfectly
liormnl condition. As a rule, however,
far more can be accomplished nftcs tho
patient has been thrown into the hyp
notic sleep, and it is this phenomenon
and the result attending the same,
which, if the reader will now follow me,
I will doscribe as I personally witnessed
it, some few weeks since, at the Home
for Incurables, in tho beautiful suburban
town of Ashmont.
During -this visit Dr. Osgood hypno
tized twelve patients. In each instanco
the experiment provod completely suc
cessful. In many cases tho patient
yielded readily to the doctor's sugges
tion; in others it required a few mo
ments to briug tho invalid's will en
tirely under tho domination of tho phy
sician's will, although it must boremem
Vered that iu all instances the patients
were hypnotized at their express desiro.
To me thero was something thrilling,
startling, and terrible iu this spqctaclo
of a human mind instantly yielding to a
will more royal than his own: becoming
a willing vassal, with cars attuned to no
voice suve the regal master whoso slight
est wish becomes absolute law.
Tho general nppearaco of a subject in
tho hypnotic trauco is that of a natural
sleep, although, sometimes, when in a
profound slumber, one is reminded of a
patient under the iufiiienco of ether.
There are present, however, thcso pe
culinrites in tho hypnotio trance:
The subject, if iu a profound sleep, is
absolutely at tho command of tho
operator; at a suggestion from him tho
entire body is as insensible to pain as if
perfectly etherized ; at his command tho
body instantly becomes as rigid ns if all
life had departed; at his suggestion tho
patient sees visions of the operator's
creating and hears, perchance, the rav
ishing straius of celestial melody. In
this realm of dreams ho banqiiuts and
revels, while perhaps a limb is being
amputated. And yet at the voico of tLi
iutollhent operator ho instantly return
to a "normal condition, provided the
operator himself never for a moment
doubts his ability to awaken tho subject.
As I noted before, some paticuts yield
much mere readily than others. It was
indeed interesting and curious to wit
ness the subtle and inhereLt traits of dif
ferent patients, even in the moment
when the patient's will-power was mo
mentarily yielding more and more to tho
hypnotizer. Thus tho first subject hyp
notizod by Dr. Osgood had expressed
his desiro to bo so treated, and
has describe 1 at length the trouble
from which he was suffering. I really
saw that he was one of thoso 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, he involuntary resistod
tho physician's suggestions for a ininuto
or two. For example, after he had
been partially hypnotized, Dr. O. said;
"Your eyes are heavy. It is difficult
for you to raise your lids." He, with an
effort, kept his eyes open for a moment,
and later, when the doctor said, "You
cannot open your eyes," he strove to do
so and a gleam of triumph lit his coun
tenance when he succeeded, though the
heavy lids fell back almost instantly;
and when the affirmation was repeated
he made no furthur effort, being already
iu a deep sleep.
The 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 he was iu a deep
slumber, from which he did not awake
until a half hour later, when tho doctor
loosened the bonds by a single word.
In another ward a ludy asked to bo
hypnotized; her stomach was causiug hor
couuideruble puio. She had been hypno
tized several times before, deriving great
benefit from this treatment. 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
miud passive; think only of sleep, aud go
to sleep. In half a minute she was in a
profound slumber.
Ho took a sharp instrument in his
hand and pricked her faco and hands
several time! with it, but there was
nothing to indicate that she felt iu the
least degree any sensation whatever.
The doctor then suggested that her
stomach would be entirely relieved, ou
her wukiug; and planing his huud over
her stomucli for a moment, he added:
"You ure now cxperieiiciug a warm
sensation; tho blood is now called to tho
stomach, and when you wake all pain
will huve disappeared. Now sleep ou
until I call you." He thcu paused into
some other wurdi, where somu other wo
men were hypnotised', two of whom re.
inuiued sleeping only a few miuules after
the doctor left.
Aa all persons w ho arc acquainted with
bypuotUiu know, there ure different
stages. Iu somo cases, tho doctor iu
forms me, hu may hypnotize a person
aud keep tuein entirely under hypnotic
iutlueueu as long as present, but as soon
as he leaves they be'iu to awake. In
other cases u profound slurp follows sug
gestion, aud the patient does uot arouse
until the doctor hreuks the spud by a
wold.
The Salvation Army are ubout to build
a he I'lquartera for Ireland at licllust, to
cost 10,000.
Clusters of clover, if hung in a room
aud left to dry and sued their perfume
through the air, will drive away llies.
OI.OJOKH H1NHY,
Old John's Jea made o' the commooesi
John Hen ry.
He's touirh, I reckon, but none too tough
Too much, though, 's better than not
cnouKh,"
bays Old John Henry.
He does his boat and when his best's bad,
He don't fret none, nor he don't get sad
He simply 'lows It's the liest he had-
Old John Henry.
His doctern's Jes o the plainatt brand
Old John Henry.
"A smilin' face and a l.earty hand
S a religion 'at all folks understand,
Says Old John Henry.
He's stove up some with the rheumatis.
And they hain't no shine on them shoes 0
his.
And his hair ain't cut, but his eye teeth la
Old John Henry.
Ho feed bissrlf when the stock's all fed
Old John Henry.
And "sleeps like a babe" when be goes to
bed,
"And dreams o heaven and home-made
bread,"
Says Old John Henry,
He ain't rermed as heort to be.
To fit the statutes of poetry.
Nor his clothes don't lit him, but he flte
me
Old John Honry.
James Wliitoomb Riley.
HU.U0H OF THE WAT.
Tho barber is poor indeed who doesn't
oven hono his razors. Eliuira Gazette.
Prudcnco in a plume dropped from the
wing of somo post folly. Texas Sittings.
Money talks; but it is frequently a
tritie dellcicnt in its grammar. Wash
ington Star.
Do not expect to go to the top of the
spire in politics uuluss you are willlugto
play tho weather cock. Galveston
News.
"Gentlemen," said the auctioneer,
"most of these books aro in English; but
there are a few volumes by Robert
Browning." Boston Transcript.
Mrs. D. "Just think, Mary, how ter
rible. The poor man was torn limb
from limb." "Lor" bless us, marm, and'
men so scurcol" New York Mercury.
The bell boy tugged at the traveler's trunk;
He purled till he ueany exploded.
Then said as his pride very visibly, shrunk, '
"1 didn't know that it wns loaded."
Washington Btar.
Schooppenstedt says he knows a
woman who is so neat that the greatest
troublo of her life is the knowledge that
she is mado of dust. Somerville Jour
nal. "Tho political convcn'iou Is a great
iustitutio'n," said Kickius. "It enables
the local politician to rest his mind and
gives his laryux a chauco." Washington
Star.
Lost influence returns no more;
The thought Ins soul must blister;
The man whocalled ulm "Judge" of yore,
Holers to biui as "mister."
Washington Star,
Sharks won't bite a swimmer who
keeps his legs in niotoin. If you nan
keep kicking longer than a shark can
keep waiting you'll bo all right. New
York Mercury.
"So," suid Mr. Douegan, "thoy's bee
printing tho funeral notices av a man
that wasn't doad yit. It's a nice fix he'd
be iu if he had been wuu o' these people
that bclievo iverything iu the newspa
pers." Wushiiigtou Star.
Mr. Grcutwudde "Thoso lawyors ar
fearlully exorbitant. I hod
drawn up to iluy aud ho got $50
Mrs. Gieatwaddc "That's n
Just think of what ho'll get wht
die." Detroit Froo Press.
Yabsley "Seo hero, Mudge, whe
lot you have that five dollars six wee
ago, you said you wanted it for a little
whilo only." Mudge "Well, I told the
truth. 1 didn't have it in my possession
more thau half nn hour." Indianapolis
Journal.
Husbund "I think young Mrs.
Ficttyfuce wus green with envy wh
you caine in with your new bonnet t
Mrs. Ilhumor "Huteful thing.
just did thut besuusa she knows that
green is becoming to bur." Chicago
lutcr-Occan.
Goswell "Goethe onco said, W
ought to look at some picture every
day.' " Dukkuts (of miserly proclivl
ties) "Yes, and there are no finer work
of art extant than the steel engravings on
the back of natiouulbauk notes." Pitts
burg Chronicle.
The Sword Swullowcr "I havohad
notice that they don't want me an
longer in the museum." Fat Woman
"Well, who will take your placet"
Sword Swallower "Why, a girl from
Boston is going to swallow her words."
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"Mr. Gingham," said Taper, "I
would like a fortnight's absence to at
tend the wedding of a very dear friend."
"It must be a very dear friend indeed to
make you want that much time. Who
is itl" "Why, sir, after the ceremony
she will be my wife." Jury.
"The man down there at that table,"
said the waiter, glariug at somebody at
the other cud of the room, "is no gen
tleman. That's all I've got to say."
"Wind's the mutter with him?" asked
the cashier. "He's breaking them
lemonade straws so we can't use 'em
again, doggoue him." Chicago Tribune.
Eusy Way to Iteiuove I'ulut,
It is very seldom now that you see a
painter hum off old paint with a spirit
lamp or torch, though there ure still a
few that stick to the old method. The
easiest way to clean paint off wood, or
even metal, is to mix lime aud salsoda
pretty thickly iu water aud then apply
treely willi a brush. After a short time
the paint can be it-raped off without
difficulty.- Any amateur can use this re
ceipt, oely a little cure U advisable, as
the mixture will remove skin from tho
hands or face even inure rapidly than i
will remove paiut from wood of met
New Yoik Journal. (