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The old-fashioned toy house that
told us it was going to be fair because
tbe woniati name out of the house, '
aud that it was going to be stormy
because the'man stood to the front,
gave ns the natural idea of the wife's
aud the husband's place. In matters !
fail- and geutie aud domestic the wife
is properly the head; in stormy, stern, |
and especially iu out-of-doors affairs, j
the husband is the best head of the !
house, or his wife is unfortunate.
Our bill for ammunition during ihe j
Spanish war was not one-tifthas great I
as the amount expended annually j
by the British navy in practice.
Forty-five thousand dollars' worth of i
ammunition was fired at Montojo's I
Seel iu Manila Bay and SIOO,OOO was!
expended in following up aud destroy- i
lug t'ervera's Heet. Kach rouiul fired j
by Dewey cost about $8.50 and the i
average price of the rounds tired by
Sampson was $11.25. These prices
indicate tbe preponderance iu the
tights of small calibre guns.
Geoige Dewey may have begun to
be a hero late in life, as he says, but !
he is a real hero, because he is so
human, observes the Sew York Sun.
We know from his manner of speech,
bis sympathies, his toleration, ki.s j
brave natural carriage aud tbe bold j
but gentle light of his eyes that he
must have been the same Dewey
all his life that he is today. The man
was always ready for the opportunity
to he great,but it did uot come to bim \
u util the first of May, 1898. It has 1
probably puzzled him to find that he
lias grown so famous, aud that iu the !
estimation of the world lie is to take ;
bis place among its great men for all
time—puzzled him because be is so j
modest and so incapable of being
anything but the plain, unaffected
character whose worth his friends, i
aud whose great 'pialities his brother
officers, have known all along.
There is always something interest
ing iu the discovery, or even the sup- :
posed discovery, of a new malady. '
The race rejoices in nothing so much
as in talking about its physical disa
bilities. We have a long succession
of troubles in connection with the
bicycle. It is only natural that the
new rival of the wheel should keep
in the swim and produce its own
peculiar troubles. A piece of dialogue i
iu the Automobile Magazine shows
that the expected has happened. A
young woman is the subject of the
conversation " 'Puts on a good many
airs,'said one neighbor to another, as
they walked home after the rapidly
disappearing automobile. 'You'd
think that she invented the horseless
carriage aud owned the only one iu
use, instead of taking a few rides by
special invitation. And did you
notice that she's getting the antoino- !
l.ile face?' '[ noticed she looked
k.ud of ipieer.' 'Yes proud and
puffed up, as if she were somebody
better'n auy other woman. That's
the way they all look,' "
-■ —' m
Km tall Coin In Deiuund.
There has been no relaxation of the
demand for fractional silver, and the
situation, according to treasury offi
cials, is likely to get worse rather
than better. All the uncurrent and de
faced coins have now been coined up,
and the treasury is at. the end of its
resources. When Secretary Clage took
hold in March. 1897, he had Slti.OOO,-
000 in subsidiary coin. That sum lias
steadily declined, until now there is
less than $3,000,000 in the possession
of the treasury, and thir scattered
over the country. The demand for
small coins continues from all sec
tions, and there lias been found no au
thority of law to purchase bullion to
supply the demand. The secretary last
year suggested to congress that he be
given authority to use the seigniorage
for subsidiary coinage, but the only
response was to direct the coinage of
all this seigniorage into silver dollars.
There will be a scarcity of small
change until congress acts.
The Won! Won Him.
Sprockett Wheeler seeras to be
stuck on that new doctor of his. Skor
cha—Yes, he likes his up-to-dateness.
When Wheeler was stck In bed the first
thing the doctor said was: "O! we'll
have you on pedals again in a few
, hum "•-Catholic Standard and TVrosa.
THE REWARD THAT IS WAITING*
Buoceas <• in waiting somewhere
For the man who keop9 pegging away;
Who strives In foul weather and fair
Shall meet her, all smiling somo day—
Some day the reward that he craves shall
be won—
If the world deigns to notice before he Is
done.
The way lies direct to the goal
For him who keeps doing his part
With faith ever fresh in his soul
And hope ever high in his heart;
Tho reward of his worth shall be granted
some day
If It isn't too late when the world looks his
way.
—S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald.
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r 7 THE older yard men told the
I story even yet—how young
_ 1 Michael Bryan, aa straight
and manly a fellow as ever
left his green, old, native land for the
better chances of the new world this
side the sea, cauie whistling out of
the round-house that morning and
stepped hastily from before an incom
ing locomotive, neither seeing nor
hearing another rushing up the par
allel track. His mates cried out to
hiin—*too late! Nobody who saw it
would ever forget the look of agony
which distorted his handsome face in
that one horrible instant, when he
recognized his doom, or the perpen
dicular leap iuto the air, from which
he fell back beneath the crunching
wheels.
In the excitement and consterna
tion of tlie time no messenger had
been sent in advance to prepare the
ioor young wife for her trouble, and
she stood in the doorway with her
baby crowing in her arms when the
stout bearers paused at her gate with
their mangled burden. She uttered i
a terrible c*y and fell faiuting—the !
child's *maer buck striking the sharp !
edge or the door stone.
"What a pity it was not killed out- j
right!" said everybody but tho mother. I
She herself always insisted that only |
her constant watching over the little,
flickering life kept her from going mad I
in the first dreadful months of her be- |
reavement.
"Crooked .Toe's a rum 'un," said
one of his rough acquaintances, when !
Joe bad reached his twelfth year. "He
senses his troubles well enough, but
ho don't let on to nobody."
Mr. Crump, the telegraph operator,
was .Toe's constant friend. It was he
who at odd moments had taught the
hoy to read and had initiated him into
some of the mysteries of the clicking
instrument, which to Joe's imagina
tive mind seemed some strange creat- |
ure with a hidden life of its own.
It was growing toward dark one No
vember afternoon. Joe —never an un
welcome visitor—sat curled in a cor
ner of Mr. Crump's office, waitiug for
his mother to finish her work. He was
laboriously spelling out by the fading
light the words upon a page of an il
lustrated newspaper, quite oblivious !
of the ticking, like that of a very i
jerky and rheumatic clock, which
sounded in the room.
Mr. Crump, too, had a paper before
him, but his ears were alive. Sudden-1
ly he sprang to his feet., repeating
aloud the message which that moment
flashed along the wire.
"Engine No. 110 running wild.
Clear track."
He rushed to the door, shouting the
news.
"Not a second to spare! She'll be 1
down in seven minutes!"
The word passed like lightuing. Tu i
a moment the yard was in wild com- j
motion. Men Hew hither and thither, '
yard engines steamed wildly away, the I
switches closing behind them.
The main track was barely cleared 1
wlieu 110 came in sight, swaying from !
side to side, her wheels threatening to
leave the track at each revolution. She
passed the depot like a meteor, her
bell claugiug with every leap of the
piston, the steam escaping from her
whistle with the continuous shriek oi
a demon, and the occupants of the cab
wrapped from view in a cloud of
am eke.
Some'hundred rods beyond the de
pot the track took a sharp upward
grade, from which it descended again
to strike the bridge across a narrow
but deep and rocky gorge.
Men looked after the Hying locomo
tive, and then at each other with j
blanched faces.
I "They're gone! A miracle cau't I
; save 'em," said one, voicing the word
less terror of the rest. "If they don't
fly tho track on the up grade, they'll
! go down as soon as they strike the
; trestle."
The crowd began to run along the
j track, some with a vain instinct of
helpfulness, others moved by that
morbid curiosity which seeks to be "in
at the death."
But look! Midway tho long rise
the speed of the runaway engine sud-
I dcilly slackens.
j "What does it mean? She never
could 'a' died out in that time!"
' shouted an old yardman.
Excitement winged their feet.
When the foreiuoht runners reached
ihe place the smoking engine stood
still in her track, quivering in every
| steel-clad nerve, her great wheels
; still whi/./.ing "ournl and round amid
i a flight of red sparks from beneath.
, "What did it.' What stopped
her?"
The engineer, stagger/ug from the
cab with the pallid face of the fireman
behind him, pointed without speak
ing to where a little pale-faced
crooked-backed boy had sunk down,
panting with exertion, beskle the
track. At his feet lay a huge oil cau
! overturned and empty.
I The crowd stared, one at another
I open-mouthed. Theu tho truth
; flashed upon them.
"He oiled the track!"
i for Crooked Joe!"
"Three ohaersl Hurra! hnrra!
hurra!"
They caught up the exhausted child
flinging him from burly shoulder to
shoulder, striving with each other for
the honor of bearing him, and so, in
irregular, tumultuous, triumphal pro
cession they brought him hack to the
depot and sot him down among them.
"Pass tho hat, pards!" cried one.
It had been pay day, and the saved
cugiueer and fireman dropped in each
their month's wages. Not a hand in
all the throng that did not delve into
a pocket. There was the crisp rustle
of bills, the chink of gold aud silver
coiu.
"Out with your handkerchief, Joe!
| Your hands won't hold it all! Why,
j young one—What?—what's the mat
ter?"
For the boy with scarlet cheeks and
burning oyes had clenched both small
bauds behind his back—tho poor,
twisted back laden with its burden of
deformity and pain.
"No! no!" he cried in a shrill, high
voice. "Don't pay me! Cau't you see
what it's worth to me, cnce—just once
in all my life—to be of a little use
like other folks?"
The superintendent had come from
his office. He had laid his hand on
the hoy's head.
".Toe," he said, "we couldn't pay
you if we wished. Money doesn't pay
for lives! But you have saved us u
great mar.y dollars besides. Won't
you let UH do something for you?"
"You can't! You can't! Nobody
can!" Tho child's voice was almost a
shriek. It seemed to rend the air
with tho peut-up agony of years.
"There's only one thing in the world
I want, and nobody can give me that.
Nobody can ever make me anything
but Crooked Joe!"
The superintendent lifted him and
held him against his own breast.
"My boy," he said in his firm, gen
tle tones, "you are right. None of us
can do that for you. But you cau do
it for yourself. Listen to me! Where
is tho quick train God pave you and
the brave heart? Not in that bent
back of yours—that has nothing to do
with them. Let us help you to a
chance—only a chance to work and to
learn—and it will rest with yourself,
to say whether in twenty years from
now, if you are alive, if you are
'Crooked Joe' or Mr. Joseph Bryan!"
Visiting in C not long ago a
friend said to me.
"Court is in session. You must go
with me and hear Bryan."
The court room was crowded, at
our entrance, with an expectant audi
ence. When the brilliant young at
torney rose to make his plea I noticed,
with a shock of surprise, that his
uoble head surmounted an undersized
and mis-shapen body. He had spoken !
but five minutes, however, when I
had utterly forgotten the physical de
fect; in ten minutes I was eagerly in
terested, and thereafter, during the
two-hours' speech, held spell-bound
by the marvelous eloquence which is
fast raising him to the leadership of i
his profession in his native city.
"A wonderful man!" said my friend, j
as we walked slowly homeward. Then I
he told me the story of "Crooked
Joe." —San Francisco Report.
11r ClinicrHt I'OIH<IIH1OII.
All was excitement at the scene of !
the supposed fire on High street. The ,
uproar of the clanging engines drew •
the usual crowd of curious people,who !
were greatly disappointed because the !
fire turned out to be nothing more se- !
rious than the angry sputtering of an
overworked chimney. The lady of
the house was, nevertheless, almost j
hysterical with excitement as she re- ;
lated to a group of sympathizers tile
details of the stirring episode.
"The first thing I thought of," she
panted, "was my bicycle and—and—l
rushed for that. Theu I thought of
my new dress, aud I was bound to save
that. Ho I ran upstairs aud secured |
it. Of course there were many other
things of value, but if the house had :
burned, I would have been satisfied ;
that I had saved two of my most pre- '
cious possessions."
"But what about your baby?" asked
one of the ladies, in surprise.
"Oh, dear me, I had forgotten all
about the baby! I wonder if the
little darling is awake!" And the ex
cited woman bounded up the stairs at
a rapid transit rate.
"Well," remarked one of her neigh
bors, "seems to me Mrs. is ter
ribly absent-minded."—Detroit Free
I Press.
A Coal and Iron Center.
! Birmingham, Ala., is built on a
! foundation of limestoue. Its southern
I limits touch a range of hills which are
I filled with iron ore. On the north
i lies another ridge containing iin
■ mouse deposits of coal. Nowhere
I else, it is claimed, are the three es
• sentials for the manufacture of iron
and steel found so close together. As
: a consequence, Birmingham is one of
| the greatest producers of iron aud
! steel in the world. A new steel mill
to cost $1,500,000, and a rod, wire
and nail mill to cost $2,000,000 are
J;OW in process of erectiou. Biriniug
naiu makes pig iron at a cost of $0 a
; lon and basic steel at an additional
j cost oi from $3 to s"> a ton. Because
; of the low cost of production its mills
send more pig iron to foreign eoun
| tries than all tho rest of the United
j States put together. During the first
. six months of 1898 Birmingham's
j shipments to foreign ports amounted
I to 98,000 tons of pig iron, in addition
|to 8,000 tons of cast iron pipe. For*
| eigu trade for 1899 will show an in
i crease of more than thirty-three per
cent, over the previous year.
Comfortable Custom.
In the Island of New Britain a man
! must not speak to his mother-in-law.
j Not only is speech forbidden to his
| relative, but. she must be avoided;
I and if by chance the lady is met the
son-in-law must hide himself or cover
Lis face.—Boston Herald
A SON OF JUPITER.
ALFRED VANDERBILT INHERITS
$62,500,000.
Never Did a Hard Day's >Vork In His
Life, ISat Managed to I'lease His
Father-—His Urother Gets Only a
Paltry $12,000,000,
Alfred Gwynne Tanderbllt inherits
the bulk of the property left by Cor
uelius Vanderbilt, Sr. Alfred Gwynne
will inherit one-half of the paternal
millions, while hi 3 mother and his four
brothers and sisters will share equally
what remains. Estimating the value
of the estate at $125,000,000, Alfred
Gwynne will get $62,500,000. Poor Cor
nelius. Jr., will get only $12,500,-
000. This seems big enough to the eyes
of ordinary mortals, but many things
tend to make it small in the eyes of
Cornelius, Jr. Prior to his rupture
with his father some two years ago,
when cupid led him captive by the
forelock and made him indifferent to
consequences, Cornelius, Jr., was
looked upon as his father's legitimate
successor in charge of the vast estate.
Indeed be was specially trained to meet
this responsibility. But fate decreed
otherwise. However, he will not
ALFRED G WYNNE VANDERBILT.
starve on $12,500,000. This will easily |
support him until he can get some- |
thing to do. Alfred Gwyune is the j
second son of Cornelius, Sr. He gradu- i
ated from Yale college in June last.
Speaking of him one of the most inti
mate friends of the family says: "Al
fred Gwynne never gave his father one
single moment of serious uneasiness.
He has been an average boy of the
best sort. Throughout his college ca
reer at Yale he was universally popu
lar. Ho spent money freely, but he
was never ostentatious. He was not
trained like Cornelius, Jr., to assume
the responsibility of managing the
estate. Very likely Mr. Vanderbilt re
frained purposely from imposing this
burden upon hi 9 light-hearted son
whose spirits seemed at variance with
business restraints, while those of Cor
nelius, Jr., seemed to invite them. Al
fred Gwynne is thoroughly democratic.
In personal appearance he is tall, dark
and slender. He has a graceful, easy
manner and charming brown eyes. He
likes to enjoy himself. Those who
know him say that he would much
rather that his brother, to whom he is
! very devoted, should receive the great-
I est part of the millions, with the re
sponsibility they entail. But there is
| no telling how responsibility may de
! velop him. There is wonderful stuff
I in the Vanderbilts.
I Besides the original will there are
! said to be two copies. One is in the
i hands of Mrs. Vanderbilt and the oth
!cr Cornelius Vanderbilt has. Henry B.
I Anderson, the lawyer, has the original.
The war revenue tax on the estate will
be about $2,000,000. All estate above
1 $1,000,000 must pay a revenue of 2Mi
i per cent. Comptroller Coler of New
I Yoik will collect the state inheritance
tax, which amounts to $1,000,000. This
; is the largest tax ever paid by any
j estate. The surrogate will appoint an
! appraiser, as in the case of Jay Gould's
: fortune. There can be no division of
| the estate unti'. the taxes are paid.
A l'rliwe'H Kducatlon.
j The present idol of the British pub
| lie is Prince Edward of York, eldest
; . on of the duke of Ydrk, grandson of
I the prince of Wales, great-grandson of
Queen Victoria, and heir in the direct
j line of the crown of Great Britain.
I Prince Edward, having been born on
I June 23, 1894, is now well into his sixth
year, and regards himself a3 quite a
! big boy. His brother Albert is a year
j younger, and the two princes have had,
perhaps, their share, but no more, of
I brotherly "scraps." The duke of York
! is said not to have interfered with their
! small wars, saying to "let them fight
•It out will make them better men."
! But he has Interfered successfully wuh
' another weakness of Prince Edward.
1 It Is customary for the royal children,
! in meeting the queen, to kiss her hand
j and not her cheek; but Prince Edward
1 did not like to do this, and objected
strenuously. One day he heara some
one speak of "her majesty." "I know
who 'her majesty' la," said he; "it's
just granny!" "And who was the
naughty little prince who would not
kiss granny's hand?" "That was me,"
said Prince Edward, unabashed; "and
I'm not going to kiss granny's hand."
But when he had arrived at the age of
5, he felt himself quite a man, and
began to ao as other men did—kissed
the queen s hand and always doffed his
cap in her presence.
UNDERTAKER'S RHYMES.
Novel Feature Introduced by a Man lu
Pennsylvania.
"The nicest part of my business," a
Manayunk undertaker said the other
day, according to the Philadelphia
Record, "is the writing of poems for
my patrons—dirges, don't you know,
lamenting the death of the departed.
Maybe you have seen some of my stuff
in the obituary columns. I cbarge $1
per stanza of four lines it the first and
third and the second and fourth lines
all rhyme. Besides appearing in the
papers, my works are printed usually
on sheets of paper about the size of
concert programmes. with broad
mourning lines Inclosing the print, and
copies are sent to all the friends of the
family. The recipients, if they are truly
appreciative people, frame the poems
and hang them in their parlors. It is
strange how practice makes perfect.
Before I went Into this undertaking
business I thought it was very difficult
to write poetry. Now I can write an
eight-stanza poem of the dollar
grade in two hours. First I
get my rhymes—grieve, dove, be
reave, love —something like that,
you know, and then all I have to do is
to fill In. If business ever gets slack
I'll take to writing poetry for the mag
azines. but I guess they don't pay as
much as I'm accustomed to getting."
SAMPSON'S SUCCESSOR.
Rear Admiral Farguhar has succeed
ed Rear Admiral Sampson in command
of the North Atlantic squadron. On
account of his years, which though not
greatly advanced are verging upon that
period when men naturally desire to
withdraw from the busy turmoils of
life and to enjoy what time remains
before them in comparative quietude,
Admiral Sampson asked to be assigned
to duty on shore; and in deference to
his wishes, backed by his service In
tho late war. this request has been
granted by the naval authorities. Ad
miral Farguhar, who is scheduled to
succeed Admiral Sampson, comes of
good fighting stock and if the past is
any indication of the future, he will
prove himself abundantly worthy of
tjie promotion. He entered the navy
some thirty-odd years ago and served
with distinction in the war between
REAR ADMIRAL FARGUHAR.
the states. Since that time he has ad
vanced rapidly from one post of honor
to another. In 189 Che was commander
of the Newark. His shore assignments
have included stations at the Boston
navy yard, the League Island navy
yard and the Norfolk navy yard. "He
was commissioned rear admiral on
March 3 last.
In the scales of bigotry, the greatest
of men have weighed but Utile.
CAUSES OF NIGHTMARE,
FRESH DATA WHICH THROW A NEW
LIGHT ON DREAMS.
How Character Can Be Kend by These
Villon* Wftliln Certain I.liniti— Pleai
ant Dreamt Made to Order—Dream*
Given to Ui For a Good Purpose.
•'Recent experiments, which do not
seem to have found their way into pop
ular print, throw a tremendous amount
of new light upon dreams," said a
well known specialist in u.rvous dis
eases a day or two ago to a New York
Herald reporter. "For instance, it is
shown very satisfactorily how charac
ter can be read from dreams within
certain limits,and how dreams can now
be made to order by applying certain
stimuli. Then, there is no end of
fresh data explaining causes of hide
ous nightmares aud ordinary dreams,
as well as of supposed premonitory
visions during the sleeping state.
"I have an instrument which has
lately been used to penetrate deep in
to dark and uuoxplored chasms of
dreamland. Technically, it is known
as the ophthomaloscope, bat I often
jokingly refer to it as my dream tele
scope. It is ordinarily used for care
ful examination of the inner mechan
ism of the eye. It has aided in show
ing that much of the real food for
dreams is contributed by opaque part
icles upon the eye, whioh in the wak
ing state appear projected into space
as twisted bodies, drops, lines, black
spots, etc., often mistaken for natural
objects.
How, then, can the dreamer see in
the dark? That is easily explained.
Few people realize that the human
body normally has the glow worm
characteristic of sidf illumination. Yet
it is true. Phosphorus exists in all
healthy bone, tissue, muscle,blood and
nervous gray matter. As is well known,
phosphorus emits light. So does the
protoplasm in every cell of the body.
So do calcic sulphide, boric sulphide
and chalk, naturally found iu the body.
So do teeth.
THE EYE ILIiCMINATED.
"As oxygen is being constantly
brought to these ingredients through
the lungs aud circulation, light is be
ing generated inside every part of the
organism. The eyelid, as well as the
inner eye, thns becomes illuminated
to a degree imperceptible iu the wak
ing state. Some people have been
known to be so phosphorescent as to
be normally luminous auywber. in the
dark. This is so especially in certain
diseases, such as phthisis and during
•luminous sweat.'
"Foreign substances upon the eye
thus throw their dark shadows, and
suggest objects which set the dream
mechanism in motion. Particles in
or upon the retina seem when the eye
is closed to be live or six feet distant.
The same is often true of shadows
due to folds in the cornea, shadows of
twitching blood vessels aud their cor
puscles within tho retina. Indeed,
increased blood pressure through the
retina is known to cause various
apectra.
"In our dreams we see more than
we hear. In a storm portrayed iu a
dream we seethe lightning but seldom
hear the thunder. Likewise we hear
more than we feel, feel more than we
taste and taste more than we smell
while dreaming.
"However, we have all noticed what
dream images have been suggested by
noises. The sharp banging of a door
suggests a dreatu in which the re
port of a gun is heard. During sleep
the ear receives innumerable vibra
tions, or molecular sounds, imper
ceptible in the waking state. These,
as well as shadows, furnish food for
many inexplicable dreams.
"How sensations of touch and of
temperature so act during sleep is
well known. I know a man who upon
feeling a hot water bottle placed at his
feet dreamed that he was walking upon
hot lava. In another such case Mexi
cans were holding the subject's feet to
fire to mnke him confess the secrets
of alchemy. A woman so treated im
agined herself a bear being taught to
dance over hot iron plates. If you
want to have some fun, try this ex
periment upon some unsuspecting
friend.
"A cold application will probably
suggest walking on snow or ice in the
bare feet. This often occurs when
the feet become uncovered. Then
there is the very common dream of
walking about the street divested of
your lower apparel, and of suffering
great embarrassment at being so dis
covered. When you dream this note
that you have kicked the covers off
your legs. Another common dream
is that of flying through the air. This
is due to a draught blowing over the
body. The sensation suggests to the
backward dream reasoning that the
body is moving through the wind.
EFFECTS OF SMEDIi AND TASTF..
"Likewise with the sense of smell.
I heard of a physician who when re
quired to spend the night at the ill
smelling house of a cheesemonger
dreamed he was sealed up in au im
mense cheese, where au army of rats
wore running over his body.
"Taste will act similarly. Former
Surgeon-General Hammond tells of a
young woman who put aloes on her
thumb to cure her baby habit of suck
ing that memher. She dreamed that
she crossed the ocean in a vessel of
wormwood and that she tasted its bit
terness whenever eating or drinking.
In Europe, she imagined a physician
treated her with ox gall, and the Pope
ordered her to eat a piece of Lot's
wife turned to salt, from whom she
broke a thumb, which she put to her
mouth. When she awoke she was
sucking her own thumb, and all of the
aloes had disappeared.
CAUSES OF NIGHTMARE.
"Nightmares are similarly suggest
ed by fatigue, ohanges in circulation,
hunger, thirst, and especially by indi
gestion, when gases of the stomach
press against the diaphragm and act
indirectly upon the heart. Paina
caused in this manner will appear in
nightmares to be due to some acci
dent. Often the nightdress collar is
accidentally tightened or the head has
assumed such an angle as to interfere
with circulation, causing a smothered
sensation, which suggests hanging or
I failing from some high point, aud be-
J ing unable to breathe the while.
! "Pleasant as well as bad dreams
can be made to order. Experiments
prove that hideous faces seen in sleep
may be replaced by attractive ones if
the subject is made to gaze long and
steadily at a beautiful picture just
before the eyes are closed in sleep.
Experiments have also shown that
dreams of certain colors can be in
duced by causing the subject to gaze
.steadily at disks or through glass of
the Same color, shown iu such away
as to cause surprise just before retir
ing.
"Experiments further show that
cold compresses applied to the head
will banish bad dreams. A layer of
cotton wool, sirailarily placed, will,
by raising its temperature, make
dreams more vivid and intelligent.
Placing the sleeper on his right side
will make his dreams absurd, extrava
gant and of a remote time; on the loft
side, reasonable and of a recent time.
Experiment also shows that placing
a candle iu the otherwise dark room cf
the sleeper will serve often to dissipate
bad dreams.
ENFORCED BY ASSOCIATION.
"Experiments further show how
dreams are enforced by association. A
man who, while traveling in a certain
place always used a peculiar perfume,
iuvariably dreamed of that place when
a drop of this perfume was placed
upon his pillow. Another important
fact lately brought out is that many
people on awakening from vivid
dreams retain these dream images in
their eyes. These dream images can
be retained until the position of the
eye is changed. This phenomenon
may account for many supposed
ghosts seen immediately after awaken
ing, when the parent dream images
have not been retained in memory.
Dreams and hallucinations have the
same radical cause.
"It has been said that dreaming is
abnormal, temporary insanity. Elabor
ate notes lately made on thousands of
dreams show that the dreaming brain,
like the savage brain, has but feeble
appreciation of cause and effect.
Simple resemblances of form, color,
souud, etc., will bring together dream
images without sensible relationship.
Bad dreams are sometimes so vivid as
to drive men permanently mad. Cow
per's madness is said to have been
due to this cause.
"A characteristic of of the
aged is that scenes portrayed to thorn
in the present are usually composed
of iuHueuces tiguriugin younger days.
It is also found that dreams almost
invariably appear to be in the pres
ent time, that they occur most fre
quently during the light morning
sleep, that those after four o'clock are
more vivid than those before, and that
the deeper the sleep the less we par
ticipate iu our own dreams. Did you
ever note that you never see your own
face 111 your dreams?
"I have told you that character can
now be read from dreams. At least,
this possibility is indicated by these
researches. The data show that the
greater the individual development of
the subject, the more rich aud varied
his dreams. The uncultured seldom
dream, and when they do, their visions
are usually limited to crude repetitions
of experiences of the previous day or
week. Recent investigations of the
sleep of idiots and imbeciles show that
they are poor dreamers.
"Criminals are found the same. No
sleep is like the proverbial 'sleep of
the just' as that of the murderer.
Even during the night following his
crime he is not apt to dream.
"The best dreamers are usually the
best thinkers and the best sleepers.
Absence of dreams often is a premoni
tory symptom of mental and nervous
disease. Diseases which exhaust the
organism aud depress the emotions
diminish dreaming power. I might
also add that women are found to
dream more than men of their own
age—unmarried women more thau
those who have husbands.
"A man once told bis son, a small
child, where he had deposited his
will and where it might be found
should he die. The son grew to mid
dle age before his father's death. He
had forgotten about the will, and
after worrying about the settlement
of the estate for weeks, dreamed one
night that liis father appeared aud re
vealed the hiding place. Evidence of
witnesses present when the disclos
ure was actually made could not con
vince him that the dream was but a
rejuvenation of memory.
"Dreams are given to us for a good
purpose. Their functiou is to exer
cise regions of the brain left idle in
the waking state. They certainly
vary the grinding monotony of a uni
form, workaday life. There is a new
theory that premature age may be
hastened by dreaciloss sleep. The
circumstances of each mail's life de
termine what sort of repose his con
sciousness should enjoy during sleep.
Hence, things which interest us most
during the waking state seldom enter
our dreams."
Two Kind* of Sickroom*.'
Dr. Emily Blaekwell, one of the
pioneers of her sex in medicine, heard
a young physician deliver a tieroe di
atribe against opening the doors of
the profession to women. When he
ceased she asked: "Will you please
tell me one reason why they should
not practieG medicine?"
"Certainly, madam; they haven't
the muscle, the brawn, the" physical
strength."
"I see, sir. Your conception of a
sickroom is a slaughter-house; mine
is not."—Philadelphia Saturday Even
ing Post,