SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. VIII.
SONG OF THE FARMER'S WIFE.
Monday is for washing,
Tuesday is for ironing,
Wednesday is for mending and putting
clothes away;
Thursday is for churning,
Friday is for baking
Saturday is always the grand cleaning day.
But then there is the breakfast.
And the dinner, and the tea to get;
Besides, there is the milking to be done each
night and morn;
The hens to feed, the knitting.
The sweeping and the bread to set,
And the carding of the wool when the pretty
sheep are shorn.
There is never any ending
But always work beginning,
From early Monday morning till Saturday
at night;
But oftentimes I And,
If a merry song I'm singing.
My heart is gay and happy, then all my
work seems light.
—Uodcy's Ladies' Book.
MY SINGULAR VISIONS.
Early in the winter of 188- I was
lodging in a large, old-fashioned house
in London. Insomnia, brought on by
business troubles, had reduced me to a
state of nervous collapse, and I was on
the verge of serious illness.
Rising one night, after vainly courting
sleep for two hours, I determined to take
a warn bath. The hour was 2 o'clock, j
Having thrown on a dressing-gown, I i
entered the bathroom, and turned on the |
hot water. While the bath filled I gazed
out at the rear of a house, about one j
huudrcd yards distant, in C street, j
Suddenly, on the illuminated curtain of a
room two or three floors above the street, 1
I saw figures of a man and woman in [
silhouette. Stirred by curiosity, I
watched the curtain with its tell-tale ;
pictures, wondering what movements j
they would execute. As I gazed, surprise j
and horror seized me, for I saw the man I
raise a shadowy arm and pierce the
woman's bosom with a dagger. She
threw her arms wildly in the air, opened I
her mouth, as if to emit a scream, and fell 1
to the floor, whence, of course, her
figure cast no shadow on the curtain. |
All this had occupied perhaps less than
two seconds, but in that time I endured
a mental torture such as I had never felt j
before. As the dagger descended I in- I
voluntarily threw out my arms, as if to
shield the victim, and uttered an ex
clamation of mingled rage and horror.
The absolute silence of the pantomimic
murder made it more shocking, and for
an instant I felt as if tin? darkness and
loneliness of the night had shut me in
with the murderer, and made me a
participator in his guilt. I turned shud
dering from the window just as the !
shadowy criminal stooped toward the
spot where his victim lay; and before I
could cry out, I reeled and fell heavily to j
the floor.
My fall roused the whole house, and
Philip Holt, whose rooms were on the
same floor with mine, carried me to bed. j
The vision of that night hastened my
long-threatened illness, and ten days
passed before my faculties returned sufli- 1
ciently for me to relate what I had seen. '
The doctor smiled at my story and said:
"It was a pure hallucination, my dear |
fellow. Such things are common to per
sons in your condition."
"But," said I, "the thing happened
when I was wide awake, and in every
detail it was as distinct as any genuine
occurrence I ever beheld."
"Not at all remarkable," was his re
ply. "You ought to be satisfied with
the knowledge that there lias not been a j
word of such a crime in any newspaper.
An affair of the kind could not have been
concealed for ten days. Don't think of
it any more."
Two weeks later I was in my usual
health, save that my old trouble of in- |
somnia hovered near, and recurred with :
any imprudence in eating, worry, or ex
citement.
Not entirely satisfied with the doctor's
theory of my vision, I went to the lodg- !
ing house in C street and inquired
for rooms. A snuffy old hag, with peer
ing, suspicious eyes, and an air of unde- j
tected criminality, showed me through
the house, and offered to let a furnished i
suite, consisting of bedroom, sitting I
room, and bathroom. As near as I could
guess, the sitting-room was the one where
the crime of my vision had been com
mitted.
"Who occupied these rooms last?" I
inquired.
"Mr. Carr and his wife," answered the
hag, with evident unwillingness.
"Do you know Mr. Carl's business?''
"The tenants' business hain't none o'
mine," she replied, sharply.
"When diil the Carrs move out?"
"About three weeks ago."
"Did you sec Mrs. Can' on the day j
they left the house?"
"Now what do you ask nie that for?
I don't watch people's doin's in this
house. The tenants is respectable fam'-
lies, and they don't like no mcddliu'. If
you want these rooms you can have 'em,
but you won't stay long if you ask too
many questions about your neighbors. We
don't want no troublesome or worrying
people here."
It was evidently useless to ask further
questions, so I tramped downward j
through the ill-smelling, narrow halls, i
my suspicions far from lulled.
When I again spoke to llolt on the
subject, and told him that my suspicions
still existed, he frowned and said: "If I
your permit yourself togo on in this way !
you'll be in bed again. There is no rea- j
sonable doubt of your hallucination. The |
books are full of such cases. Further- j
more, the woman could not have been !
actually murdered, or the crime would j
have come to light before this, and if
she was only wounded, it is not your
business to ferret the matter out. If j
you're not careful you'll get into the ]
newspapers and be made ridiculous."
This last argument was enough. I
gradually came to accept the theory of my
friends. I passed through the winter
without further illness, but gained
strength slowly, and when spring ap
peared my sleeplessness returned. With j
it came an irresistible attraction toward
the bathroom window, whence my vision
of a few months before had been seen.
Whenever I lay awake, I went some time ;
during the night, and stared out toward j
that uncanny lodging house. Night after .
night I saw nothing, and turned away, J
relieved at the assurance that one symp- |
torn of my former illness was wanting.
Finally, at 1 o'clock on a cool April j
morning, after three hours of vain toss
ing in bed, I entered the bathroom, with
my eyes directed toward the house. For
an instant I could not credit the vision j
that met my gaze. On the luminous cur- ,
tain where 1 had seen the shadow panto- {
mime before, the same tragedy was being
enacted. This time I had arrived a little
later in the progress of the scene, for all j
1 saw was the falling woman and the
withdrawn dagger in the hand of her j
companion. The man stooped, as before, j
toward his victim, and I waited to see |
him rise, in hopes of obtaining some as- |
suranee that what I had seen was real. I
saw nothing further. If the shadowy
slayer had stooped to a real victim, he
must have risen in such a spot that his
figure was not brought again before the |
light and the curtain.
Filled with forebodings of a new ill
ness, I awoke llolt and told my vision.
We went to the window, looked toward
the lodging house, and saw only the faint !
gleam of unlighted panes. Holt gave
me an opiate, and next morning the doc- j
tor had me removed to the country.
I remained out of town all summer, j
bathing, fishing and boating. For three |
months I went to bed tired every night,
and slept ten hours. Then I took a long
sea voyage, and arrived back in about j
the middle of September, more robust
than I had ever been before. Holt and I j
laughed at the old hallucination, and tlic !
doctor rallied me considerably upon my !
detective spirit of the winter before. On
the first night in my lodgings I forgot
the fateful window, and slept without
di«' «rbance. The next night, however,
I caine in late, and yielded to a sudden |
whim that led me to the bathroom win
dow.
As I entered the bathroom I looked
over toward the lodging-house, and gave
a little start at seeing a light in the very .
apartment that had so long possessed for
me a fascinating interest. The night
was warm, and the window whence the
light shone was hoisted. The curtains (
were drawn also, and I could see pretty
clearly a man and a woman sitting oppo
site each other near the center of the !
room. I shivered a little on discovering
that the couple were very like those of
pantomimes.
As I gazed I saw the woman suddenly
start toward her compauion with some
| gleaming weapon in her upraised hand.
I felt my heart quicken and my breath
j come thick. The man rose to receive
i the attack, and I saw a shining dagger ,
plunged into her bosom. Trembling
I with horror, I was about to cry out,when
a hearty,natural laugh burst upon my ear '
i from the hall.
On looking round I saw my friend |
Holt in the doorway.
"Merciful powers, man, did you see
that?" 1 gasped.
I "Certainly," he said, with another
laugh.
"Then how can you stand there laugh
LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1889.
ing? If we both saw it there can be no
doubt of its reality."
"It was real and unreal, old man.
Your sight is vindicated and the doctor
and I arc put to shame, but there is no
cause for horror. See, the light has been
turned out and there is nothing more to
be learned. Take something to steady
your nerves and I'lMexplain the mystery."
Wondering at his language, but con
siderably reassured,>l followed him to his
room, and sat down.
"Now," said Holt,<"the thing you saw
to-niglit" (I shudderediagain as he spoke)
"and on two other occasions is easily ex
plained. James Carr and his wife, who
have lived in that apartment off and on
for eight months, are known to many
theatre-goers here and elsewhere as
Arthur Leroy and Mile. Picard. What
you saw to-night was a rehearsal of an
incident in a play which is to be pro
duced at the X Theatre early next
week. You'll find the very scene on a
dozen boardings in the streets. It's a
quarrel. The woman attacks the man
with a pair of scissors, and he responds
with a dagger. The play was produced
in the provinces last winter, and at one
or two watering places in the summer.
You've seen three rehearsals."
"Holt, I don't believe you," I cried, as
it flashed upon me that my old illness was
returning, and that. Holt had taken this
method of diverting my mind from the
threatened calamity.
Holt promptly went over the whole
occurrence and his description differed
in no important feature from my own
vision.
On the next day I went round to my
doctor, laughed at his learning, and ne
cepted liis apologies for the discredit lie
had cast upon my visual sanity.
That evening at dinner while reading
an afternoon paper I came upon a con
spicuous heading in these words. "Slain
at Keliearsal." 1 started, read on, and
discovered that James Carr, alias Arthur
Leroy, had killed his wife the night be
fore in their rooms in C street.
Then I knew that Holt and I had ac
tually seen the crime committed.
According to the newspaper's account,
Carr, on being arrested, had confessed
the homicide and pleaded self-defense,
lit? had been married five years, but lie
and his wife had always lived a cat-aud
dog life. After their rehearsal of the
night before, she had called up an old
grievance, and finally, in a fit of auger
attacked him with a pair of scissors, the
very weapon she was to have used in the
mimic scene on the approaching "first
night." He had defended himself with
the dagger just employed at rehearsal,
and was horrified to find that he had
slain her.
Nobody quite believed Carr's story
first, but the testimony of Holt and raj
self saved his neck.
Mummified Bodies on a Battlefield.
Captain Thompson of the schoone:
Challenger has just returned to .San
Francisco, from a long cruise in tin
South Sea and along the South American
coast. He had in his possession a little
black earthenware jar which was taken,
with valuable jewelry, from the tomb <>l
one of the Peruvian Incas, near Pisagun.
No tinted pottery is made by modern
Peruvians, and it is estimated that tlii s
jar was made in the time of Cortcz. The
captain also secured one of the Inca's
teeth. He visited the battlefield of
Tarapaca, where the Chilians and Peru
vians met November 17, 1879, and the
Peruvians, after losing 4000 men, were
forced to retreat, leaving their dead un
buried.
"In any other country," said the cap
tain, "these unburied corpses would
have been reduced in a few weeks to
skeletons by wild animals or the ele
phants, but for over 100 miles on either
side of the battleground there is not a
spear of grass. There are, consequently,
no wild animals, and the bodies remained
undisturbed by them. The soil, too, is
strongly impregnated with nitrate of
soda, and this, in connection with the
hot, dry atmosphere, has converted men
and horses into perfect mummies. Seen
on a bright moonlight night, as I first
saw it, the battle appears as if fought but
a day or two ago, the colors of the uni
forms being still bright anil the steel ol
their weapons untarnished. Inspection
by daylight, and a curious phenomenon
is observed. The hair of the bodies of
the men has grown since death to a
length of from two to four feet, and the
tails of the cavalry horses are now
long that, if alive, tliey would trail far
behind on the ground."— Globe-Democrat-
Mrs. Prank Leslie wears black leather
boots with tips and laces of silver.
HYPNOTISM.
A POWER WHOSE MANIFEST A- j
TIONS SEEM INCREDIBLE.
Practically the Same an Mesmerism—
Value in the Treatment ol'Dis
ease— Capable of In
jury Wlien Abused.
The term hypnotism is nearly synony
mous with mesmerism, animal magnetism,
braidism and syggignoscism. Hypnotism |
is believed to have been practiced many
centuries ago; but little, however, is;
known of its history previous to the time
of Mesmer (1778). Since then hynotism
has been much studied by many eminent
men in the professions of medicine,
science, religion and the arts. There
came a time when the interest in it
flagged very greatly, but a few years ago
a revival took place in France, and since
then it has been generally recognized as a
therapeutic agent an<l employed by many
physicians all over the world. One of the
earliest uses of hypnotism was t«> pro
duce a state of insensibility, so that,
surgical operations could be performed
without pain. But it has been applied
for many other purposes, and some men,
very skillful in its application, use it in
the treatment of a long list of diseases
both acute and chronic. Nervous
affections sometimes yield very readily to
its influence.
To produce hypnotism, operators have
methods which vary somewhat in detail,
but the principle is the same. Most all
use passes, although some depend almost
entirely, if not entirely, upon the fixation
of gaze. For reasons which will appear
anon, none of the methods employed to
produce the hypnotic state will be de
scribed in this communication. As to
the force generated or liberated in hyp
notism, no one pretends to know, but
many believe it to be electric, or perhaps
magnetic. According to one observer,
the description the subjects give of their
sensations is that they first feel their
fingers tingle and their hands and feet
get cold; then they become sleepy, and
when told that they can not open their
eyes, they say they hoar and know all,
but can not open them; then comes sleep,
unless it is desired to extract a tooth or
do some such work when the subject is
not entirely unconscious. Then they
know and do as bidden but suffer no
pain. They say if the skin is cut it. feels
as if something were being gently drawn
over it, and they feel the forceps applied
to the tooth, but that pulling the tooth
feels like pulling a peg out of a hole.
As to the value of hypnotism as a
remedial agent, there is necessarily much
difference of opinion. Some physicians
consider its range a very limited one,
while others think it applicable to a long
list of affections. The majority of those
who ought to know best appear to agree
that it will undoubtly prove of very
great service in properly selected cases in
medical practice. As for its use in surgical
operations as a substitute for gas, ether
or chloroform, it can never displace them
to more than a slight extent, except, per
haps, it be with children. Very many
who are about to have an operation per
formed must necessarily be so nervous
that hypnotism will be quite out of the
question.
And there will doubtless always exist
persons who will be insensible to the ef
forts of operators. Some subjects are
easy to hyptonize, while with others it is
the reverse; to which of these classes a
person belongs cannot be known until
an effort to put him into the hypnotic
state is made. And in the •susceptible
eases not infrequently several seances are
necessary before the power of the opera
tor is sufficiently felt.
One very important point that the
study of hypnotism has brought out and
emphasized, says an obsever, is the po
tency of suggestion. Doubtless most of
the slight aches and pains that the gen
eral practitioner is called upon to treat
are ] tartly imaginary, and all that is nec
essary for cure is a certain amount of
faith on the part of the patient, begotten
by judicious suggestion by the medical
man. At first sight this seems to be a
sort of chicanery, but it is impossible to
deny it, efficacy, and it is much safer for
the doctor to acknowledge, to himself at
least, that it is not his simple remedy
which has wrought the cure, but his sug
gestion to the patient.
We now come to the reason why none
of the methods employed to produce
hypnotism have been herein describe)!.
It is an agent which only should lie used
by reputable physicians, for, like others
which they employ, it will do much
harm if injudiciously applied. Were tin
methods known there would natural!* In
Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months,
a tendency on the part of some to try it
is a means of amusement, while, without
doubt, there are not a few who would
use it for no good purpose. That hypno
tism may be rightly applied and without
injury it must be exclusively confined to
physicians, who alone are capable of dis
tinguishing between these subjects upon
whom it is likely to do good and those
likely to be injured by it. It is a
well-known fact that persons who are of
ten hypnotized finally become so suscep
tible that the act is accomplished with
the greatest ease. And, in not a few in
stances of subjects so treated for a long
time, it requires scarcely more tlnm a
single glance for the operator to throw
them into a hypnotic sleep.
So it will be seen that hypnotism
might prove a menace to society unless
steps were taken to guard against it.
The first precaution to suggest itself is
the prohibition of all public exhibitions
of hypnotism or mesmerism. This re
markable power should, if possible, be
; limited by law to the treatment of dis
: ease. And the operator should be per
mitted to influence his subject only as
! health may be improved.— Buxton Uercild.
An Engagement Recalls a Tragedy.
The Ilatzfeldt-Huntington engagement
recalls a romantic story of about ten years
ago, in which Miss Clara Huntington,
then in the very first loveliness of maid
enhood, was innocently involved in a
i tragedy that shocked the entire commu
nity of San Francisco. Miss Huntington
was at that time a beautiful girl, with all
I the simple coquetry of her ftge and her
recent emancipation from the school-room.
She was surrounded by numbers of ad
mirers, among whom were a certain Mr.
Daly, of, if I am not mistaken, New
Haven—a blond, tall.distinguished-look
ing, frank and direct in manner, and a
man most attractive in society; and a Mr.
Hanks, who was said to be h mining ex
pert who had made his money in Peru.
He. too, was very handsonie, although of
lan entirely different type from Daly.
Both men were infatuated with Miss
Huntington, and in justice- to every one,
I may say that Miss Huntington's money
was not by any means an important in
fluence with either of them.
One night the two men called upon
Miss Huntington in the Palace Hotel,
and on leaving quarreled hotly about the
iiucstiou of precedence in wooing the
heiress. In the excitement of the argu
ment Daly struck Hanks, knocking him
down on the marble flooring, just in
front of the hotel dining-room. Hanks
swore vengeance for the blow, and men
who witnessed the altercation, and knew
llanks's disposition, warned Daly togo
armed. Daly, however, scoffed at the
proposition, and asserted that he never
had gone armed and never would. On
the following morning the city was elec
trified by the story of a tragic shooting
affair, involving the two men whose
quarrel had already become known.
There were a dozen eye-witnesses to re
late the dreadful story of llanks's shot
from behind a sign-board, of Daly's fall,
and his dying words: "You coward!
and there were murmurs loud and deep
of Lynch law.
Hanks was immediately imprisoned,
and all the facilities for making his exit
from this world being left within his
reach by the curious legerete, which was
manifest at that time in the prison regu
lations,he secured a Springfield rifle from
a stack standing in the corridor where he
was allowed to exercise, seated himself,
placed the muzzle in his mouth, pulled
the trigger with his toe, and entered into
mystery. The newspaper accounts of the
affair were most curiously worded, and it
is scarcely necessary to say Miss Hunt
ington's name did not. figure in them.
Utterly blameless as she was in the affair,
the sensitive girl was overwhelmed by
the event, and it was long before she re
i covered from its shock.— Town Topic*.
Making a Nose From a Wish Bone.
Dr. L. F. 11. Tetamorc, of Brooklyn,
has performed an experiment in the way
ol providing a new nose for Mrs. E.
Hoffman. lie substituted for the natu
ral cartilage, eaten away by disease, the
cartilage from the breast bone of a chicken
with a portion of the bone attached, lb'
divided the skin of the sunken nose of
the woman, ami cutting the bone anil
cartilage from the breast of a live chicken,
placed them under the skin of the
woman's nose, and adjusted it to the
proper shape, covering it with skin
drawn down from the forehead. It will
take two months to determine whether
the experiment is a success or not.
Henry Labour-here, editor of London
Truth , was for years a rover iu the wilds
ot the far We*t.
NO. 9.
FUN.
The pig who gets into clover thinks
the sward is mightier than the pen.
Water differs from a good many things
111 that it is highest wheu there is most
of it.
It is when a man is in the iron grip of
poverty that his clothes begin to get
rusty.
Poverty may bring ill-health in its
train; but it ensures quick treatment by
the doctor.— Puck.
A river is one of the queerest things
out—its head isn't near as big as its
mouth.— Kentucky State Journal.
The man who married his pretty type
writer operator found that she refused to
be dictated to afterward.— New York
Journal.
A hen-pecked husband said in extenu
ation of his wife's raiil upon his scalp:
"You see, she takes her own hair off so
easily she doesn't know how it hurts to
have mine pulled out. '
Sol Tingle—"l was told to-day that
that lovely Miss Perkins was worth more
than fifty thousand in her own right."
Fidus Achates —"Hump! That's noth
ing to her pa value."— Judge.
"Yes," said the dentist, as he yanked
away at a tooth regardless of his patient's
yells, "a man is bound to succeed at his
"work, provided it is done with sufficient
pains."— Merchant Traveler.
First Anarchist—"The time is nearly
ripe for another uprising, I think. Are
you ready togo through tire 'or the
ijood of the cause?" Second Anarchist —
"Go through tire? Why, I'll even go
through water if it is necessary."— Terre
Iluute KjjurM.
"Papa, can't a human being move the
upper jaw?" "No, ray son, and it's a
irreat question in the minds of the court,
if some of the under jaws ought not to
have been hoppled in some way." and he
looked hard at the maternal partner in
the concern.— Dannille Breeze.
A Cure for Obesity. 4
Professor Schti'eniger, the German
doctor who gave Prince Bismarck a new
lease of life by curing him of his obesity,
is now one of the most influential men in
Berlin. His list of lady patients is as
long as the Unter den Linden drivtj, and
he asks and gets fees that turn the other
doctors green with envy. His system
consists principally of doing without
liquids. No beer at all, and the strain of
doing without this is very nearly suf
ficient to reduce a German to a skeleton,
no coffee, except once a day a small cup
ful, very hot, and with no milk and one
lump of sugar, uo tea and no water. If
the patient suffers from thirst she may
eat fruit, suck the juice of an orange or
mix the juice of a lemon with a few table
spoonfuls of water and drink it. When
the thirst becomes difficult to bear any
longer a cupful of boiling water, as hot
as it tfan be drunk, is allowed. It is
surprising to find, however, with what a
very small quantity of liquid one can ac
custom one's self to live. At tirst Pro
fessor Schweuiger's patients protest loud
ly their inability to do without liquid of
some sort, but his invariable reply is:
"Very well, madam; you can do as you
like, but don't expect, to get thin." That
always reduces them to terms, and
though they find it difficult, at first they
soon learn to live very comfortably on a
few tablespoonsfuls of liquid in twenty
four hours and joy to find their too, too
solid flesh beginning to decrease "visi
bly." The German women are all prone
to flesh, and hardly arc they out of their
teens before they begin to thicken
alarmingly and grow ponderous and un
wieldy. One of the leading actresses in
Berlin lies every afternoon for an hour
with cracked ice in a cloth wrapped
around her body to numb it so that she
can bear the laciutr for the mifht's per
formance, which is done by two muscu
lar maids.—JY etc York World.
Good Noses Are Scarce.
Of all the features of the human face
the nasal organ, being the most promi
neift, stands supreme as a revealer of
character. Its form gives the greatest
expression and individuality to the facial
ineaments, and even tiie voice is affected
and toned by this important member.
The individual whom nature has blessed
with a really well formed and perfect
nose should indeed be grateful,and on an
average barely two per cent, of the
ordinary population can claim to possess
a perfectly shaped nasal organ.
We should never make enemies, if for
no other reason, because it is so hard to
behave toward th«'in us we oujht