The Clinton News-Record, 1899-10-05, Page 7iN•iiiilk.enelisio*****i
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KITCHEN KELPS.
A Woman 01101/1d have all the appli-
anees that will really lighten the labor
in her kitchen. Many of these things
• ere inexpensive, and any one who has
a little ingenuity on arrange them,
Perhaps you cannot afford one of the
very convenient kitchen, ohinets that.
are so widely advertieed, but a set Of
bracket shelvee, aecurely fatitened to
the wall above the flour chest le a
eon to the housewife who must go
back and forth from the pantry to the
kitchen with every cupfel of flour or
teaspoonful of salt er soda she uses.,
These shelves may be used for the
baking powder, tialt, mixing spoons,
cake pane, pie tins' and other thinge
ueed ou baking day. A eretonne cur-
taln hung on a brass rod In front of
the thelves will keep the dust out.
Uteosils of •gianite or Porcelain are
lighter th handle than those made of
iron, and if well oared tor will last tor
years.
double boiler is excellent for cook-
ing rice, oatmeal or other cereals, with-
out danger of ecorching, but if you
cannik get it, a tin bucket with a
elosely fitting lid set in a kettle of
' boiling water will answer 'the purpose
nieely ; tin tonlete cans, or large bak.
ing powder cane are nice for steaming
brown bread in ; a meat chopper, rais-
in seeder, can opener and acettle clean-
er occupy important places among the
kithhen utensils.
Housekeepers are often annoyed by
the soiled vets that are sometimes
founde upon clothes that have been
carefully washed. It is likely that
they were made by coming' in contact
with the. clothes basket, line or pins,
—and—these-should be washed every
. -week, Do not imagine that the suds
through which the greeter part of the
clothes have been washed will Answer.
Prepare a Mean suds of pearline and
hot water and serub the basket in-
side and outside with it. If cotton
rope is used for e clothes line, it can
be waihed without any trouble, and
the clothes pies should be thoroughly
cleaned beeore they are used. Al-
ways have a prace to keep these things
where they will be rroteeted from the
dust.
If your irons are rough put a little
aalt on a paper and rub them upon
it. This will Prevent their sticking
to anything that is starohed anti make
them smooth.
A gasoline stove is almost a noise..
• sity during the summer months. .•It
Ore -7 -does net keep the kettles and pans
black, costs less for fuel in most lo-
' calities, and saves a great deal of time,
for one can prepare the food for a meal
arid set it on to cook; only enough at-
tention is needed after that to keep
it from burning. :
SCRAPS SAVED.
• Lettuce 9r eelery inlay be kept fresh
and Crisp for several deem* wrepping
e cloth wrung out. et old water,
and then pinping the- !whcite in n Oleic
ease sandwichei•are •alteeys :in or-
der genie with salad... Gene), ebeese
and .rub it to a paste with butter,
- Spread the. bread, siiiinkle: with • 'salt,
. aed pepeer and cut ioto.etrips;• ' .
Coffee should 'be kept hi air -tight
jars er vans, and distribetedin .seyere
. al small jars,. : rather. than a. large
amount in one jar, as the daily Open-
•ing no doubt wastes neueli of the
arcuate ' •
- If cookirig frtilt burns -to the bottom
of the kettle, do net stie, hut pour the
top .off quickty before ' the sterched
taste pentrates the whole. Then put
a litte ashes and water into the kettle,
let it stand on the back of the stove
.awhile, and the burnt. spots may ' be
xemcpred without injuriiig the porfacu
It is only the laziest !chided ct house.
!keeper who •wields, that abomination—
the feather duster. If only the Audti-
bon Society -could Bee lb) Way ether te
• starting a ceased° ageinst that, goad
'housekeepers the world over would cry
• Amen and amen."
Two-thirds of the scandals" that OM-
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son the iiocial atmosphere steal out,
like pestilential fogs, through seivante'
gossip. , .
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i YOUR HTISB.AND'S CLOTHES. •
There are many little things that
add so Much to the comfort of a man's
home that no wife should consider it
unnecessary for her• to know. One of
theml is the dare of inen's clothes.
Trousers should be folded carefully,
so as to get a crease down the centre
of the ieg, and pet into a trouser-
atretcher or drawer., They should
nevesr be " hung up" 14hich is women's
way of " tidying." Coats, if 'hung up,
should be done in this way: Hay the
frame to prevent creases; or, if folded
should be dond in this.way: Lay the
coat flat, outside uppermost; then pull
out the sleeves and fold upward in
half ; next fold' the fronts carefullY.
and last of all ,double the, coat up
down the centre of the back, leaving
the lining outside. A.nother little es-
tiential to remember la, that a man
likes to find every article of hie dress
or toilet in exaetly the same place
every day ; his shaving things here, his
bruehes on the side of the table, and
!to on.
Trifles these; but it is the small
thittgs of life that have the power to
make °teener its comfort, after all.
THE BABY AT NIGHT.
I have seen reothera put the baby
to bed, then becattse it fussed take it
' again and rock it, says a writer,
This failing to quiet it, the mother
week walk the floor of try the' big
rocking chair until an. 'hour or more
of the bitty evening was consumed;
before the child was quieted. This is
very uaneceasary and can be avoid.
ed if the mether begins right. Put
the baby to bed In the• • dark, im.
mecilately after nursing, whether
Weep or awake, and do not tette it uP
again unless 11, is ill, If it eries, go in
end turn it over, pat its batik or sing
a little aoftly, butt do not take it up,
and what is most iMportant, do not
take a light WO the room. The habit
of going to bed 0.10A6 in a quiet Tom
le of thestimable value to both Mothee
and child, especially it one or both are
of nervous temperament, A Mind
Used to being rocked. to sleep may not
take kindly to thte reform, but if the
Mother- oersteds in it, the baby' will
Flood forget and, go to sleep quietly.
Our boy was about four months old
when We began to put hist to bed alone,
Ile dried Considerably for two nighta,
; • then settled down, and. ati a result he
formed the hithit of dropping to sleep
• yeti quickie. and not until he was
• Bie years old, when visiting some lite
friends who told him steries of
heath and bugab00% dia he kneev what
it Was ter be afraid of the darle or ef
being alone.
On the very watm nights, when the
babe is too nertants Or fretful to sleep
With handful of rook -salt diseolved
try givtng tt * sponge bath, using
water of theUt 90 degrees, Heat
in it. It Will soothe a Child when
nothing else Will, A very little Cold
water or A Slitter of chopped iee Will
often OOP babyt fretting. Hy
getting baby to bed before the latone
are lighted, and not taking him up
/Igen, be tvill nob see much ortitkial
light. and ,thit Iff to be avoided le far
Pettighle, cut every young child
Oared fIXedly at a H&C, it habit very
‘weakenitlit 67 the 6Y6Sight.
BROWN BARAD AND DESSERTS.
Brown Bread, No. 1.—Take two scant
cupfuls of pearled cora Meal, twte
heaping cupfuts of rye flour, one tea.
sPeolattl Of /mit and tWo heal/lag tea-
spoopfuls et baking povikler; mix to-
gether thormighly, then add one cup-
ful of dark reolaciees and cold water
enough to Inake a batter that will
POUr from the mixing dish after be-
ing p.ea.ten thoroughly. Bake one hour
in a Doti oven.
Brown Bread, No. 2. --One cupful pf
Meal, the same ectch of gra-
haut and white flour, one cupful of mo-
lasses, one of milk, anti one teaspoonful
each of soda and salt. Stir well to-.
denier and steam throe hours,
Imperial Cake. One pound of flour,
half a pound of butter, three-quartere
of sugar, four eggs, half a pound, of
corrants, half a teaspoonful of soda,
disselved in hot water, grated rind of
a lemon and juice and. teaspoonful of
cinnamon. Beat all together, and. drop
from acumen upon well butteredpaper
lining a baking pan. Bake quickly 'in
a well -heated oven.
Snow Balls.—Take one cupful .of flour
one of eugar, . two 'tablespoonfuls of
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of baking
powder, apd three eggs; flavor with
lemon. Put a tablespoonful of the
mixture into cups, and steam twenty
minutes. Roll in white sugar while
o .
Corn Starch Blano-Mange.—Dissolve
five level tablespoonfuls of cornstarch
in a little milk ; then add it to a quart
of boiling milk; add two eggs and stir
briskly. Pour into raolda and serve
with sugar and cream.
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THE FORTUNES OF WAR.
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wengering ;wimps seek 'elicit*. Mufti:lei
curlew) 'trays.
Tee gloriou,s uncertainty of tear- has
passed into ,a pioverb, and truly that°
is no knowinge,front moinent to me.
ment what may occur. The impreb-
able is alWays happening, and every
campaign yields a fresh batch of in-
stances in support. of the statement,
Thus in the eecent Hispano-Americari
war a, trooper in the Roosevelt
Rough Riders, who had passed un-
seat:bed through the whole of the cam-
paign, 'including the treacherous am-
bush in which the Rough Alders lest
so many men, while cleaning mit his
carbine preparatory t9' leaving fOr his
native land he came across what • he
took to be h spoilt cartridge: • This he
threw,intehis•camp fire. A. fearful ex-
plosion immediately took place, and a
burning brand from the scattered flee
struck the peer. young fellow in the
fitee, blinding him in both eye*. To
do anharined through an arduous and
protracted carupaign and .then to he
permanently .disabled by a cartridge
'from one's Own carbine is surety one
of the hardest ironies for athlete tn7
sciutable fate is responeible.
Dating one of the halfehearted bate
tles fought bet:Weep the Chinese and
the japs au incident: happened which
would' be ali but inoredible were it not
voieched for on the highest authoritY,
A Chinese foOt seedier wee kneeling in.
the trencheas taking aim at a Japan.
use effmer in the distance, when
let from the'enemy 'entered the muzzle.
of ,hie rifle, passed down it, eetploded
the cartridge, and •
BLEW THE MAN'S PACE' OFF.I
When We take inte 'consideration
the diameter of a rifle barrel and
rediron: up ',the likelihocid of a 'etray
bullet striking it exactlyin the:centre,
it will be seen that the odds agginst
this extraordinaey -incident • Were as
mIllions to one...And yet, strange te
say, a very similar thing took place
during the bombardment , of Alexan-.
dria by the British in 1888: The Res7
el -Din fort effete& a •stubboin reiist-
°we to the warahiPs. and several of
them had to train their guns on the
place before its big •guns were finally
silenced. During the thick of the tine
gegement, just .as one of these mon-
eters was about to be fired, a huge
projectile' from one of the ships en-
tered the fort end wehged itself firmty
in the mazzle of the gun, entirely pee -
eluding its, future use. Wben• our vice
torious bluejackets eatered. the eort
tbey fouseterthe cannon With its
etrangely-plugged muzzle, and photo-
graphed .it. Marvellous to relate; the
heavy charge in the gun was hot ex-
ploded hy the shock.
During the last Zulu. war a certain
chief of herculean build gave a- great
deatof trea&,to the British outposte.
Ile carriget hi* girdle, .a . brightly
gilded horseshoe, •and superatitious
Toixuny Atkins' said that -as iOng as
he carried. thie carious charm no bul-
let woila be able to touch him. At
last, however, • a young heutbnant
picked him off es he clambered over
the reeks,. and a eush was made to
secure the gilded horsethoe 'tie' a
trophy. Then a carious discovery was
made. The bullet had passed clean
through the brawny savage, and,
striking against either his ribs or his
spine, had beeen flattened out roughly
into the shape of a horseshoe! Both
ballet and shoe are now in possession
of the yottng officer's mother, for he,
poor lad, periehed in a night attack
not long utter killing the chief.
TO CAUSE OF CHARITY,
it Distillery in France Vellum instills Are
Devoted le That Purpose.
The poor twelve all the profits of
one. of the most famous.distilleries in
the world—that which is connected
with the Monastery of St. Bruno, In
the Department of Dauphine, which is
better known as La Grande Chartte-
use. The distillery itself is a con-
siderable distance) frd'm the monastery,
but it stands on land belonging to the
order, although the hic'rencpbeGmovoenrkno-
ment has a claim over
of St..Brun, altheugh they are sworn
to poverty, have control of an inelustry
which produces about $150,000 a year
profit. Of this one third goes as a
contribution to the fund known As
Peter's Pence. Another portion ts de-
voted to the maintenance of hospitals,
and the remainder is devoted to suh-
r aurae; throughout
;cdaitneg, and to the personal relief of
poor applicants without distinction of
church- or creed, It is interesting to
note that those who have control of
this lucrative business, are expressly
forbidden by their vowel te Carry •on a
trade whieh could result in tt profit to i
themselves, Many attempts have
been made to purchase the busineste
one notably by the Rethschilds, but
all have failed, because the heads) of
the order consuier that they are hot
justified in selling the business to a
firni that would make a personal pro -
/it by it.
THE RETIRED BUM,
DISCOYEEED HANSACKINO A HOUS:t.
AND HID IN A COFFIN'.
A Very Cuitsual 111.1Ing Plare. In WIWI',
However, Ile Meows Oleiervatleti.
"I hope it will be a long Ham yet
before% get into a coffin to slay," said
the retired burglar, "but I saw a time
once when I was very glad to get in-
to one for a brief periodi It just
went to show how you never ean tell
what's going to happen.
"Poklug• around once in a house that
I was prospecting, in e country town,
I woke somebody up somehow; I don't
know just how, begaueel 'tenting, corn -
Monty eternity ; but I woke up some-
body in a room overhead, I heard him
get out of bed and etand up; and I
imagined I could tell from hie weight
on the floor and his meaner of getting
tip on hie feet just about how big a
Mar be was, and what he was likely
to do. Now, you see, I was in the
parlor, or front room, or whatever you
call it, downstairs, and this man I ex-
pected would be coining down in a
minute to search the house, and I
guessed, or ray instinct told me or
something, that he'd make a thorough
job of tt, and that he'd begin in the
cellar, And presently I. saw him,
through a crack in the door of °the
room. I was in, oming down the stairs.
And he was, just us I had expected,
a big man, six feet or more, but older
than I had looked for, a man with
hair pretty *well ;nixed with gray as I
eciuld easily see by the light he car-
ried, but still a man in the prime of
strength and perfectly resolute and
fearless; and juit as expected he
made straight for the cellar first.; he
was a thorough -going chap and he
was going to
HECHN AT THE BEGINNING. ,
"His going doWn cellar cut me off
from geing out by the cellar 'window
thet I'd come in by, and 'didn't dare
try the froht deer or Cho back door
while he *as In the cellar for meta-
l* tell, Absolutely, how difficult they
might. turn out to be, or how much
work dodging him from room to room
noise I might make •It woold. be risky
ten the fiber I was on, and then I
couldn't tell what"reom he Would come
into first there; and( it seenied to ine
thee the wisest thing t could do wieuld
be to hide inya'elt somewhere, or get
ineo some place where lie woeldn't be
likely to leek, aud, soy there until he
had gone back to bed and to sleep,
smiths/a' get out. • And the place that
struck me as becit suited for this Nvas
a storeroom, or a sort of a lumber
room,. that I had looked into,: bet 'not
inspeeted,, in a glance around that I'd
made upstairs .before oeginnipg .werk
downstairs. tI thought rd pet skip.
thr that storeroom and stay then:1'1;111
the oldman had finished' his. search.
"The noise he'd; heard was down-
ataire and apparently in the front of
the, house; this storero•om was up-
stairs, in"the 'back; and businesslike
and thorough as he weel .theught the
chances weee against . his , looking
through the storeroom; or; foe that
matter, anywhere) upetaire• So when
he went down cellar I wept up the
staire he'd first come down from- the
floor above?, that 'I'd been, up myself
once before, and I made for. that store-
room. l'd only looked in before, now
I weet ih, anti -shut the'eloor, as I had
found it. The room Was. like any
room used for stab purposes, -boxea,
and oId pieces of furniture end truck
ef orie sort and another, piled up. and.
lying aeoUnd.' I' walked in with the
idea, of gettiog around back of some-
thing if I cpuld, and -walking around
ene end of' a pile of casually stacked
ute stuff •1. saw; lying on the floorebe.
yond it, a deffint ' '
"I should be lying' to you if I should
say .the coffin didn't startle me, be-
cause it did. But still, it didn't star-
tle one; such an everlariting sight, eith-
er. •
IT WAS A BIG COFFIN. •
• .
one of the old fashioned kind, made
by some cabinetmaker; and realized
about the minute.I set my eyes on it
that it 'had been'made for the big man
that I'd jnst seen' starting down cel-
lar carrying a light looking for me.
I'd teed . about people's having, their
coffins 2nade and keeping them in the
house till they died, Maybe many years,
and no doubt you.have. I haye never
been able to cipher it Mit in my own
mind Why men do this, but no doubt
they do; here was a man that did ;.a
hard-headed man .he was, too; though
being hard-headed, I have ebserved,
doesn't mean that a trisn has no
fancies.
"As I looked a.t that coffin, it. seem-
ed to me that if I could get into tt I
would be in the satest place I could
get to in that house; for I didn't be-
lieve anybod.y'd leek inside the coffin.
The lid was in plaoe, with screws In all
the scretvholes, but all but two of them
just stuck loosely into the holes in the
lid those two, one on one side Up
where the coffin narrowed down at
the head, and the other .on the other
side, half way down the nairowing
and. toward the Mot of °the coffin,
were screwed partly down into place
—enough to hold the lid on securely.
"I had a screw driver In thy bag, of
course, and I had those strews out,
and the lid eff, in a minute, and then
I got in with my hag and my lamp,
and lay' down in it. He was a bigger
man than was and I found plenty
of room. I drew the cover over me
and trued it 'round. the edge as near
iie could; so that it would look all
right. Of course I'd left those two
screws Meeting in the over ; theY
were of -a uniform height, now with
the reel:, bat there was no' break in
the rows.
"And then I waited. Aft a matter of
feet I didn't expect he'd come to that
room at ell, but he did. He opened
the door and came in, carrying his
light. Of course, / couldn't see him,
but I could hear him, and through the
slight crack between the lid of the cof-
fin and the body. of it I could see that
the roam was pow light, or as light
as it could be from the light that he
tarried, in a room piled. up as this one
wag with boxes and things that didn't
reflect light:
"Ile eaMe on into the room, and
around that pile of stuff behind which
the coffin' lay, as I cOuld tell by hetif-
ng him, and by the increasing amount
of light that I could see through the
orack. Another step or two broUght
him
CLOSE'BESIDE THE COFF/N
and kept as still, about, as though I
had 'been in a coffin 0, stay. Ile stoed
there for a moment, looking down
upon it, I knew; and then I could
tell by the shifting brightness of the
light, AS .1 saw It throUgh the creek
d th ed , th t g Id
up the light and sort of pasiming it •
tound; as he stood there, to enable him
the better t6 scan the surroundings in
the neighherhood ee the spot where the j
coffin lay.
"Then he turned and atarted
the tight growing dimmer as he went,
Until it faded out Altegether. He Mint
the doer behind UM So I was left
allele again. I gave hini tittle to get
back to his own room, and then I got
out, and got me, lamp and bag out,
and put the lid back, and set thuse
rev/A book Just / found 'ern.
ly this may seem to you like a
Inoue thing to do, but deng,
ao, I think you will agree with
t if tho man had wine to knew
nybody had been in hie coffin
Id have disturbed him. Ported -
wouldn't have wed a snap; but
he would. Anyhow, set those
partly in 08 they were. arid /
6 offirt juat as I found it.
d then t waited for the Man to
Sleep, iind when / had given WM
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. THE SECRET OF—ITe--
Ann Eliza ---There goes Mary Maio -
hey. She's th' stelishest dressed girl
of any of utt.
Merit( Jane—An' small wonder. Her
IniSSUUS is tie same site 's her, 'n em-
ploys CV best moddist in CI'
STRICTLY RUMNESS.
guess there will be a great deal
of war talk in this part.01. the cede.,
try, AMA the affable foreigner.
I don't know whether there is to be
any ,war I . 1„. „
Paul
fight
THE
Th
It le:
is re
look
Split
man
6. good fair ohande, went once more
down these Allah% finished gleaning
up what there waa to be had on that
lower floor, and then pasted out
through the cellar window.
"That was years and years ago, amid
th Id ft g
been put to the use for which it was
Made, for the stalwart, gray-haired
OM that ssvung his light around over
it, as I lay in it, that night in the
lumber room."
FAMOUS DISHES GE LONDON INNS.
8Peelanies or Eel Pies. Wave Suppers,
oreen Turtle soup tind Oyster rattles.
It is not many years aince Practical.'
ly every London tavern, with any pre..
tensione at all, had He own special
dish, were whose.exoellence it prided
itself, and to practice of whiele people
°nett travelled considerable distances,
Eel pies, for instance, were once ihe
greet feature of the ,"duelistal breek-
fasts" served at Um Md. Sluice' House,
Dear Finsbury Park; the neoessarY
quantity of fish being regularly
drehged up from the stream that used
to run under the windowe, The% Piee
ean atilt he had, but the eels are now
obtained frem A fishmonger wha' car-
ries on business in an adjoining thor-
oughfare
Dating back to about the same period,
are the oyster -patties, for which Rule's
- In Diaidenlane, is' still famotrie While
not far away, in the Strande is SimPe
son's, noted ter its fish dinners. Thee()
latter were ' quite an instilittion in
days gene by, and even now there are
to•be found certain old--fasthotted bon-
vivants who swear by them. The
guest pays a certain fixed sum, -and
eats as much Heti of as many different
varieties tis he may care for. -
The Daniel Lainnert has been cele-
brated for its triPe suppers from time
iihmemorial, and up till quite recently
brown stoat, in tankards, used to be
the only correot—accompanying_ bever-
age. :
The Ship and Turtle, Leadenhall
Street, is noted for' three•things — its
turtle soup, its tarbot, and its Mad-
eira. 'The flist named is prepared af-
ter a recipe which has been in the pos.,
session of 'the hosts of the house tor
over a century. The only portions *of
the• fish titled, it appears, are the call -
pee, the calipash; and the fins. These
are stewed together for some time in
a specially -prepared stook, and the
result is u peculiar gelatinous green
liquor, which tastes of nothing in par-
ticular; . • •
To this foundation is Added, however,
at different timea. end in varyintt pro-
pc:Maims allspice, majoram, , thynie,
whole pepper, salt, green besil, rue,
flour; butter, parsley, a few. email
shallots, half a bottle a Madeira, the
jute() of 4 large lemon, ene a ether of
mace; with the reault that a. basin of
the.finishatt preparation is Uimething
to be supremely, thankful fore
Both the Coek and the Rainbow peine
themselves On their 'chops. It should
be borne in mind, hnviever, that the
former' hestelry is by no nietenti hien-
Heat vvith the tavern iminortalized by
Tennyson in his "'Will Waterproof..
That particular bowie stood, in fact,
op the opposite 'side Of the: sereet, and
was of far lees pretentious proper-
t'ilesilsides its chelxi, the RiCinbow boasts
of a epecial dish, in the shape of • a
saddle of real Seuthdowit mutton.
which- is wheeled Up to the diner on a
little movable•table, in ordet that that
individual may be able to. direct tbe
carver's attention to the particular tie.)
bits and slices he most fancies.
47.
• " SPANKING MACHINES. -
It Es falrodured„Wlik ilamillleout Effect
Into English ,
The sorrow 'attendant upon Spanking
doei not lie. in the Mere ace itself
Wbich :is but a trifle, but in the-herai-
Dation of being chastised in. that way
before one" teiends and .acquaintances,
a very trying humiliation, which is
rarely experienced more than,' Bay
twice, by the same bad boy as a tele.
• But this familiar form .of punish-
ment for peison and reformatory
sehool purposes is admired metshanical-
ly, so that there's no chance of get-
ting a few)eaay strokes, each' stroke
tells.. with stinging' effect and up to
the pretient the new puniehment has
fairly w.coaght a miracle in the con -
elect of the Inmate% of these: pieces,
:There. are a few -hundred prisoners
in the plitices eeferred to, buts since the
day—about a month ago—when one
of their number Was "spanked," which
was done before nearly a couple of
hundred of the man's fellow prisoners,
not one man had been reported.
Spanking humiliates more than it
hurts. You may whip the blood out of
a man's back or beat him into insen-
that a public) spanking will give,
that a public epaking will give.
This adoption of an old custom is
but in the experimental stage as yee in
prisons bet there is every likelihood
that ere long the smacking chain will
be found ihe only inediutia of punish-
reexents.for refractory prioners of both
The Victim is strapped- in the chair,
which has an open bottom, and the
paddles, two la number, do the work,
obtaining their foree by means of a re-
voleing' ceg, which is turned by a
wheel operated from the back of the
chair.
ANTIQUE PIANOS.
:donde instrtintents WSW Ity the Creed
Composers,
There is a very interesting celiac-.
Lion of old pianos in, the Roman mei--
ettlri Hildeshelm, Germany. Dating
all the way iron% the end of the sev-
enteenth century, the collection ex -
habits in tt very instructive way the
priraitive origin of piano manufacture,
and gives one an idea of the simple
instruments used by our greatest
muaki composers. The oldest instru-
meth: on exhibition is a sinall Maple
chord of the seventeenth century, pos.
sessing 84 tones with 28 two.choral
bound strings. Another of equal
antiquarian value has four full Octaves
—a one -chord Italian spinet, built at
an angle and possessing a rich and
beautiful tone for singing accompani-
tuent. The strings are rifted with
pointed crow quills. Both instru.
talents, date Wen the time of Handel,
Bath and Gluck. One instrument was
made in the first half of the eigh-
teenth century, and is a bound clavi-
chord of four arid one half octaves, 58
tones' and 40 strings, There is also
an Instrument from the second half
01 the last century which possesses
five and one fourth octaves. The last
two are supplied with strings tipped
with brass, and their immediate fol-
lowers Were the hammer pianos of
1760, tised at the time Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven, and even by Mendel*.
Bartholdye Chopin and Franz
Liszt during their youth.
CHECHMATED.
They' were ;peaking ot *the MAO -W(1 -
MM% MoVenten t.
If a girl proposefl to you, she said,
you weeldn't dare refuse her.
If a girl had the nerve and the deter-
nainatIori to make a proposal, he repli-
ed. I wouldn't dare marry her.
In view of the circumstance* she de-
cideil tO wait for him to speak firsL
XNTELL/GENCE IN MELONS,
Something like intelligence ie often
exhibited by plants. V; during a dry
Wiesen, a bucket of water be plated
near A growing puntpkitt or Melon, in
the SOUrfle of a few days it will turn
from itt eonrse, and get at Moat One
of its haves 'kat water,
BREAMS THAT 00i3 TRIM.
SONE REMARKABLE`, INSTANCES OF
' APPARENT PREVISION.
.31eliseltee From the eplriS World...111W
Deeaust Are 40110147811011-1340
feet Illystery or Minaret, Amman%
Dreamt; are tie yet a inystery. NQ
man knows by what process of eithe
brain they are produced, writes •Prof,
James II. Hyslop.
The brain and the forces it exerts
are yet to be understood. A few years
ago men of science supposed that they
had discovered from which portions of
the brain certain influenees were exert-
ed. But recent distoverthe have alrnost
Wilted. out those theories.
Investigatere had pointed out a cer-
tain Spot upon the ten:tete, for instance,
and deolared that beneath it was that
portion of the brain, which, if render-
ed useless, would interrupt memory.
Yet men have been found, whose mem-
ory has gone, but in whom that,part
,of the brain wes perfect.
.. They located the cortical centre for
vision at aecortaiu poiht in the back
of the head, yet when the brains of
some learned men we e disse t d that
part was• found to be paralyzed and
usetess. The inference is that the same
functions niah be performed by var-
ious parts of the brain. On the Whete
it may be said that the brain also is
a mysteree
Of course theories are pet fOrth re-
gardiug the oust and origin of dreams;
ninny thinkere say that the mind is
always active, in sleep as well as in
our waking hours; that there ill a sub-
conscious condition, full 'of mental ac-
tivity, and that it Is only when these
thoughts rise tie higher altitudes that
they roach our stipereonsciousness and
are recognized as dreams, I cannot
tell what subconsciOusnees is; The
word I should say is simply a name
for. a vast concealed 'something, el
which we kitow absolutely nothing:
VAGARIES OF THE MIND:
It is faif to Aseume ihat ordinary
dreams are vagaries, of the mind, whep
(tie not pinned down to actu.alities by
'the sights, mien& and duties ofevery.
day life and is at the saitim.thue stbn-
ttiated by ree.ollections er pi, the sounds
or .iiensations of the Moment. 'But mien
When awake, if one. separates himself
from his SlirVOUndings, dveatilm May.be
preduced—day-dreams. If ahe lies down
in ii. qeiel: plate, making the •mind• as
empty. es poesible, the day diehms. are
alineet surce to enter inLo the vacanci.
For inalance„.on. MIMI an .occasion I
began. toadream: of the , sugar • bush;
where I Made. sugar aft a. boy: Then 1
thoegnt of. elernande Certee; wno coe-
quered Meek() . then of the Egyptian.
pyramids; then of Herodatus; thee of
the paPe of ' (16od 'Hope, 'and then of
the :diecovery of America. It 1,..0a.,s a
pefect. dreiin, with all the seeming
hatiOngrelti whieh .real drearns,,,,,kave;
and yat the. chain of. thought wee
quite enthral.. As •O bet, 1 had.read
Octet Corte* white 'cooling -stigare lie
had mentioned-pyrathids lin ittextco. Tee -
thought, of eytemitis suggested Hetes-
dotue,..who, lied written aeout. the Nile,
It ,licis been imPlied that Ilecodotee
knew that Afrie* hadebeen circuinnave
igateda .Thice suggested- the Cape of
Good Hope.; Vasco de Genaa diseovered
the Cape anti thatetiggested the diecoV-
ery Of America: These fatts nitty..poip
sibly iuggest that some commet ion may
Mast between theee different .peres ef
a &item which seem ebsolutele die.
iionnected. While I dreamed -this: dee'
ereain I was net' Conselous ef the links
which bound the• . arts togethet. •
. •• . . ,
liOW DARAMS ARE SUGOESTED.
... .. .
If such eincongtuieue dreams come to
us' •whmeatveke, it:is teasonable•to in-
fer, that:when •sleep relieves the Mind
from the trams:oda of etteth our dreams
will be wilder and:more withal, ati they
ate. • - : •
I suppose. there is he doubt that many
of our ordinarY dreanie aro euggeitted
by day lliciughte, although they :mey
be ahreinote Iron,. them es Ilerodottis
and the pyreinida. are froxii an Ale,
bathe. sugar hush. SometiMes the con-
neetiee is SO fine that it• is impossible
to detect it. But. doebtlese it exists,
The same uneertainty Masts regard-
ing dreams which eke 'called prophetie.
Of eoursd all eensible Men. reject •the
superstition that dreams' have. mean-
ings; that, for instance, a• dream . of
cloth foretells te marriage,. of that a
dream of a anake es a warning againat
treachery ; bue• it is not safe .to *sae
that warnings are alwitys absent. from
dreams. That is ahother of the mys-
teries: • • , - • ,
The newspapers every little while
contain accounts of dreams; giving
warning of certain eventa,' such' as
deaths, -the idiscovery of Mines, the de-
teeticte of criminals and so on. I, have
investigated some of them, and found
them untrue. Thin there are histor-
ical dream; ef this kind. Calphurnia,
for instance,: is aaid to have had) a
dream warning her of Caesar's death,.
The Bible:is.full of premonitory dteams.
There are also some authenticeted
dreante of More repent erigineiiitch tie
the " Nimblefoot Myseery " of 1870,
THE NIMBLEPOOT MYSTERY..
In that year., Walter Craig, of Bal-
larat, A.ustralia, dreamed that his
horse Nirablefoot would Win the Mel.
bourne Cup and that the jockey would
wear erape on his' arin. Sure enough,
Craig died 80011. after, and Nintblefoot
won the Hotham Stakes, with his Joe.
key in mourning.. This drew public
attention to the story and much spec.
elation was indulged in as to his
chances in the Melbaiirnee ButNinible.
foot woo that alio, and so the dream
of prophecy Watt fulfiled.
In 1895' Aureola won the Same cuP,
after her victory had been presaged in
a dream. It was •a long shot, and the
dreamer won $1,000 for' his widow by
tisane of this • ghostly tip. But the
dream had also foretold his own death
and he died before the race was run.
The proceedings of the Society . for
Psychical Research, thatt-fl,"tecold the
CASS of Christopher C. Brooks, the son
of wealthy parentse in Baltimore, who
dreamed that. the spirit of Ilia dead
tutor appeared and warned 'him that
he would elie of -heart disease on Wed-
nesday, Dec. 5, 1885.
He watt a strong, healthy youth.and
hie •htatt was seemingly iti perfect con-
dition. • A few dap! before the atated
time Dt. Mann, of Baltimore, wbo was
0
treating the young man or eons .
slight indispOeitien, said: " ledge my
diploma that at thip end f a few
weeks he will be nerfectly well." Bet
at 8.10 en the appointed day tha boy
died of paralysis of the heti&
Gurney, Myers and Podniore, in their
book, "Phantasms et the Living," a
standard work, allege a large number
of instances where premonitory drawls
have occurred,
. DREAms THAT "CAME TRITE."
Per instance, Mrs. Montgomery, an
Irish lady, with a large estate called
Beaulieu, County Louth, awing her
husband's absence at her sister's fun-
eral, saw Oa a dream ths entire
al ceremony, during, which her broth.
et fainted. and fell into the grave,
Mrs. Henry Lincoln, a Dublin lady,
dreamed twice that a friehd was dead,
rn the morning she awoke to learn that
the dream was it reality.
Mitt. W. A. Hobbs, wife of a mis,
sionery At Beerhhoont, India, dreamed
that her son ehoked to death M.8011001
in England. She told her dream and
note& Ile day and hour. Some weeks
later the learneA that he woe ehok-
ed, but that the meat had passed
down hie throat Nat in time to save
his life. At that Moment the boy was
thinking, "What will mother do when
she hears rm dead l"
A. 0. Sparrow, of Derwent Square,
boarding -school, and the dream was
vIstervietripocied.1, dreeened that hie son broke
hie hand while playing oricket at
A. A. Ashby, of Croydon, had a dream
Wien o Is son a aea. er peculiar
cireunastancee which afterward proved
to have been real,
These are only a few ease's" nut of
many.
INSANE NAN CURED.
opera/leo or reclaiming's Perrermen
Palliont Vancouver, 4'.
Captain J. S. Doherty, a rugged SO.
Man, 69 years of age, wail a few days
ago the subjeet of an unique opera -
lion for insanity, at.Vaneouver, As a
result he Is back at: work again, all the
symptoms of his affliCtion having die-
IrPPeared. Cow years ago Doherty,
was sent to the usylum dangerolislyl
and holpelessly Inmate., Tbe eleva-
tion was performed by Dr. etames
itughtlum, a yeung sergeon, who
went to Vancoluvea• front New
yorlf two years ago. .He is an in-
sanity expert, aodew the aid of an
application .of phrenological Methods
the operation wee entirely succeasful.
Doherty . was a totally uneducated
man, and had read very little, until
he actively took up- the study of
spirittialisna ten years ago. He devoted
all his spare tiroo to it, and in a
couple of years his friends noticed that
he became somewhat peculiar when
matters of the kind were mentioned.
la grew as years advanced, and Our
or five years ago the man would have
mazy fits. Then he suddenly develop-
ed a violent insanity, and threatened
bodily harm to his wife and children,
He was.seht to the asylum and until
early this year nothing more was
heard' of the case. Then a friend• of
the inanity, a lecturing phrenologist,
suggested that he had studied on this
one question of spirituelism and that
part of his brain was abnormelly de-
veloped. A doetor was asked to per-
form en operation, but he scoffed at
the idea, and not -until the members
of the family had signed a statement
to not hold the doctor lieble should
-death ensue, did le) proceed, end then
only as a rank experiraent. The
Phrenologist looated the parts of the
head which he argued were affected
by the 'pressure of the brain against
the skull, The doctor then performed
trephaning operation. Over parted
the brain affected he removed pieces
of the skull, each being about au inch
woes. The man's skull *as abnormal-
ly thick. When he recovered he mes
perfe,ctly sane, and his. first words
wereeq enquire about a piece of week
onewbech he was engaged three Years
age. . His recovery is mew complete,
even to- ay:voluntary burning of the
spiritualistic • books. Experts on the
coast think the regults of the case
are particularly remarkable. The Oper-
Mimi was never attempted outside of
New York, and seem,s to he the first
suctessfal one on re.cord where phren-
ology was brought into use.
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT.
it Y neon wipe Ont the DInthiellott or
1011y Mid Night.
" Within tne next half centu.ry
tifiCial light be so inexpensive, so
excellent and, so abundant," says a sm-
.
• ;"
entist, . that it will: wipe out the
demarciatiena of day and night." He
centinhes: • . •
" Darkii4d is eine of. the throe of
natute Dee:these- Which civilizatien
Wages war. It „thellitates) crirne, it im-
pedes yard, it puts arbitrery limits
oil human 'exert:hen. The time is chin.
ing when darkness will be thoroughly
conquered, and' the great (lilies flood-
ed from- mid, te end With a light t hat
wili.make every vocation of life as eaey
end its practicable at :one hour as an-.
other, In this latitnde night. is un-
houbtedly the best time to work —es-
pecially during summer. The temper-
ature from sunset to hunricie is cool
and equable, there.is•almost always a
refreshing breeze, and:as soon es dark.
nese is tibolished the peeple will grad-
ually andnaturally reverse their hours
of, toil. 4
'I venture the prediction that noon
in teed will, see the streets of our great'
eities;deserted,•extept for a few mid-
day toysterees and policemen with sun-
shades. Respectable folkii Will be
abed and esleeP, enjoying that 'delight-
ful repose which we now associate tvith
an afternoon snooze—soirriething, by the
way; that should long ago have giv-
en us a 'hint thet day was the proper
time to •r.est. Then, when the wonder-
ful tncandescents of the future blaze
ferth iit dusk, everibOdy will arise in-
vigorated and alert, and get ready to
begin the night's work.
"It is a beautiful vision. Whenever
I conjure it up, I could weep for vex-
ation to think that Ieves born a on -
BIRD MOTION.
Mims That Have Item Pound Out by the
Aleddp Inventors.
In flight the body is moved, forward -
by the resistance of the air to the
strokes of the wings. The reason
why the start, is the Moab laborious
part of the proceits is thus explitined
by M. Marey, the great authority on
all forms of animals locomotion: When
the bird is not 'yet in. Dtoii011, the
air struck by itd wings first of all
presents a reaistance due to ita iner-
tia, then begins to move, and flies be.:
low the wing, without affording any
support, When the bird is at full
speed, on the ontrarya its wings are
supported each succeeding moment
by new columns of air, each one offer-
ing the initial resistance due to.ite
inertia, The sum of these resistances
presents to the winds a mucht firmer
basis. The increase of the resistanee
of the air diminishes the labors of the
bird. ln calm air a seagull at its
swiftest exPends scarcely a fifth of
its flight- The bird which files against
the winct is in still better conditions,
fresh masses of air continually pre -
rotating theinselves to its wings. "The
start is, therefore, the most laborious
plume of flight. Hence birds employ
all kinds of artifices to acquire motion
before flapping their wings„ Some
run along • the ground before
darting late- the air, others jump
rapidly in the direction which they
wish to fry. Others again, let them-
selves drop from height with ex-
tended wings. Alt turn their bills to
the wind' at the moment of* starting,"
•
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•RATS 'UNDERMINED IT.
An extraordinaes .oteurrence hap-
pened, he other day in Brussels. A
Milkwonian, with her cart, drawn by
two dogs, was passing through entreat
in the center of the city, whett of a sud.
don the toadway opened and the. ort
anct doge disappeared, InVestigittlen
shovved that 'the roadway had Geen
undermined by rate, which swarm 4n
the neighbourhood.
•
PULL, BOYS, PITLI.1
Wan av those swingin doors wld
Push on th' Weed& an' Ptill th'
howl& remoitut me av gad
the janitor philosopher, Ye riade rush
until ye git insoide, on thin Ivery.
thfng is Tun.
somn LIRE IT.
Do you; believe in the obtervatice of
the golden little t Yee, always Ulm
te have Other people keep 11 In mind
when they are dealing with me.
- ' '
BAD BOYS UN BE MEE
THIS SCIENTIST SAYS THAT HYP-
NOTISM WILL SAVE THEM.
Wog, weptsmonis, cowordiee awl Nall
illtitat Are Declared te be Curshie—
Professor Illaellionald Cites instances
Whereby Ilypaittle SuggOilitta Mat Ite.
Wined Vicliala ChIldreir.
I Will describe some recent expert-
ments which show that in hypnotisnl
we have valuable means of breaking
childeen et bad habits," nays Moths.
sor Artbur McDonald, a noted hypoo-
logist and specialist on education of
the abnormal Nesse% „yhe Paris Soci-
ety of Hypnology, of which Professor
MacDonald, hi a member, has desig-
nated him as a, delegate to an inter-
national congress of :hypnotists, being
org•anized as a feature of the Exposi-
tion of 1100. 'He is a well knotvu Amer-
ican student and writer upon hypno-
ic su jots, and hes etudied hypeo-
tient under Cheroot, I3ernheim, Forel
and other European masters.
" During hepnotio sleep," Professor
MacDonald oontinues, " suggeations of
reform have more weight and a deeper
and more lasting effeet upon the. child
mind than during the waking state.
When thus repeated they developthe
faculty of concentration and correct
evil instincts, in vicious, unruly aed
obstinate ehildren, inca.pable of the
least atteneion and' of the least appli-
catkin.
" Of course, there fluty be as many
reasons against the use of hypnotisra
in the, education of normal, healthy
children as there are reasons for ith
employment in reforming bait, vieious
and sulky' epee. It is not always well
few the normal child's mind to be made
susceptilie to elle domination of an-
other mind, diet in"the case of the abe
normal child hypnotisia should be re-
sorted to wben other reforms have
failed, and then shpuld be applied ohly
under the direction of a competent phy-
sician, ' : . e
BAD HALaTS CURED.
' 'I know of cases of kleptomania, ly-
ing, biting of the finger nails, coward-
ice, fear of the eark—indeed, of many
other- bad habits, halting lately been
;cured by bypootie suggestion. Such
cities have demonstrated that it is even
Possible, 'through hypisotisna; to modi-
fy the ideas •of ehildren, change their
clutratters, form new habits, increase
their memories, awaken eatural apt-
itudes and improve theit perceptive
powers. • .
" The first sten-. in hypnotio reform
.
is to test the natneal sUggestibility
of "the phild. /ri a new histrument de-
vised for suCh *tests a .piece of wire is
80 Plaped that, the' hand of the subject
can readily gresp it, Electricity:hi ad-
mitted to the wire..by :a switchboard,
so 'T:enathicted that' the • mOveMent ef
turning. on the current can be simh-
lited without really :allowinh aey,:e1.-;
, .
ectricity to .entee the circuit.' The obild
'first takes hold of the wire end tots
nothing unusual. The -operativ‘e makes
i conspicuous Movement oethe switch,
and the wire becomes Slightly heeted.
The switeh is' then turned off eegain,
the subject all the while being ques-
tioned as to whether' the wite is cool-
" This id repeated several fillies un-
til the Operative 'makes another con-
spicuous movement. of ehe switch;
which -this time does not Close the'cir-
eoit. If the subject be susoptible to
suggestiom4uggeation here made. by
the movement of the mwitch—he will
:declare the wire 'to be warmer, al-
though its temperature has not change
ed. Veried.seeengths Of current mea-•
sure his relative suieeptibility. ,
" The suggestibility of the subject is
directly related: to his intellectual de-
velopment.. This' is an 'actual paycho-
logielaiv: The Mete he is developed
intellectually, the greatei the chance'
of the euggestions and ideas affecting
him. In • children, a suggestibility
much greater than their appearance
would: indtaite will be teyealed. .
• "htiggeetibility having beets tested
the neXt step ,is to put the: child•into
0 .140notic condition by supphessing the
different activities. of hisenend, When
I Was in. Parts I visited the Minie of
the famous hypnologist Bullion, edi.
tor of the Revue 'de hIlipmetisme, who
will be secretary Of the coming Inter-
national Congress ef Hypoology, On
arriving at the clinic 'found most of
the patients alreade there. The -doc-
tor eemarked that I. could visit awhile
in his private office; as,. most of the
petients woald .anea.nwhile hypnotize
themselves. .
" When . we returned to the clink
there were nine or ten persons of dif.
ferent ages ,and both sexes, who had
beep looking intently. at hypnotic mir-
fors or similar contrivances, and most
of them were already asleep The feet
that Berillon had hypnotized them in
Ude .rocim mane. times before.with the
aid of these same instruments, the fact.
that he had 'arrived, and their confid-
ence that he could hypnotize them as
soon as eie Itlintfy setved in in st'eases
aa sufficient to induce the hypnotic
state. But in the beginning uch et-
ei.
duction is not *so eesej'and e etim 14
many seances are uecensary be ire su a
jots can he in nod in the least.•
'" I have here heemotio mirror,
such as Berillon's A bjeots were ihg.
It consists of two revolving e ony
pieces about eight inches long, one inch
wide and a quarter of an inch thick,
emelt studded with Seven circular mir-
rors. When clockwork inside is wound,
the mirrorti revolve in oppesite diree-
thins. Some sub:jects are peculiarly sus-
ceptible to theur dazzling effeet. If a
hypnotic inirror be placed in front et
each of severed peraone some May fall
into, a hyppotie state without, the ata
of a hypnologist, especially those who
have been hypnotized before. Others
mnoatyizebde.so affected as to be quickie heP-
IAIDS TO HYPNOLOGISTS.
" Another mechanical aid to the hype
nologist is known as the hyenotio ball,
It consists of a curved flat meoe of me-
tal, holding. m lead wire on which is
fastened a nieltel ball, fifteen enilli-
Meters in diameter, which can be
changed from one position to another, ,
by bending GA wire, The bail is so plat-
ed as to strain -the •attentien. The
intuieles of the eye are thut fatigued.
After the *abject has conceht rated his
gaze upon this ball for awhile, the here-
nologiet suggests that the eyelids are
growIng heavier, . that the subject is
growing sleepy, ete, There is an inti-
tation of nature hero, as when We feel
sleepy our eyelids are heavy and we
can hardly keep them open.
"Hypnotic. sleep having been induc
ed, the.child'a mind is coMpletely iso-
lated from the outside World. It ean
be a•tvaketted, however, by the hyena._
logtet to a emnplete end undisturbed
ebncentratron upon any thought which
y gg . .. . . t
he made by actions as well as %yards,
If the ehlid be a kleptomaniac, for in-
dateneet the verbal suggestion may be-
gin with the, positive statement that
repetition of his thievings will un-
doubtedly lead :him to the penitentiary
Ith'eernribblee pdireatwurne.s of IMPrisonment triey
"The mechanical huggestiena MaY
consist of Wading before him an attrac.
tie() object to arouse temptation. Ile
twill thhee tnolcdt othiattakthining list, hi:1E1111 ans,,c1
mhortndeasta.0 TA threont st hteh a tte mu opt wa the ntromaaapYthhote
°Wed, The next Atop will be Internet
hint agaln, but, by taking. hold of hie
hand, to help him to resist the irli-
intIlle. SoOn he /*ill retiot without its.
sintanee. Then will he added Nugget,'
Cone of how easy it it to resiet.
POWER OP tNnuoTioN.
"Ey *oh verbal ond mechtnical sug-
tgerOngbilla 411111:Z4A:
state this can be done mach more
gettenlinargfargt:i°Pr0;1-
tively aseert, 'If you ettennet to ta••0
that objea which doee not belong to
sible to cause the parelyste to occur
tweteln,teade
temperary paralysis, when the tit-
tle:I: IY0QaUrfteurrIwnerdwimnadbeee. °Trnhei P irl la
a great impressleh, .and it may be Poe'
Now try to take It.' The result will be
her, will, could break the habit. • She
el.ater al-
trnalthkelewptaokneinagniestaist
ed for yeara from the involuntary habit
of putting her paint brushes between
her lips ,to point them. The result wa8
4'A young woman artiet had suffer -
lead poisoning. No advice, no effort of
sulenitted to hypnotism. The, onerator
said; ' You• On no longer put your
try to do so your arm will becoxna Pars-
brushesi into your mouth.. and if you
ihsed ter the time being.' She was cur-
ed el the habit."
LYING HABIT CURED,
" Hypootie cure of lying in children
ie accomplished by methods similar to
those applied to kleptomania. I have
said that cowardiee, fear of the dark,
and biting of the finger , nails have
been successfully oured by such means,
The habit lest mentioned has been
broken not alone in ehildren in
adults. through hypnotic suggestion.
-" A man fitty-tsix years old had on-
stantly bitten his finger malls since
infancy. In spite of efforta .he had
been unable tie break the habit, He
was seated in tin arm ohair and the
bynnologist, taking hold of his wrists,
said, ' Try to put your .hands to your
month. You cannot, -The pressure
which exercise on your hand: is an
obstinate which You cannot; overcome.,.
This exercise was repeated several.
times for each.hand and the seance was
ended and the subject cured, .
" Another •experiment wbich T can
describe as att• illustration of the Utit-
iteeef ihypnotism in such eases is that
of a boy of . fifteen., who was every
intelligent 'pupil until a certain time'
when he became astonished. to see. him
writing uncertain and his hand shakY.
He became unable to take notes or
write from' dietation. to Beaty respeot
his studies became coMPromised. it be-
ing realiked that Im was seriously (10.
ranged in his neo•voussysteen, the• hye-
nolic treatment• was tried. Wbile in a
hyptiotie sleep . lie was. persuaded that
he had been Jacking in self-eontroi,
that. he trembled when writing be-
cause he. was without sufficient inter.-
gy to fix his'•attention fiemlyeen his
week or to .cootrol his movements; He •
was assured that by hypnotisni he:
would be given. his lacking moral
energy, that he would become maeter
of his mevernent A, and. that his ecni-
centration'would hee.ome cloinplete. 'able
treatment was..repeat ed. (ince a week
for three menthe, when netiminent cure
resulted. • , . • : •
." 7'he reason why Many petants pen -
not sentrol their children is because •
they *leek suggestive • pOWer, he,. tier-
.bailis of •
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A TURTLE FOR A WATCHDOG. '
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Att Ilanallatte Family's dulcet. Ilusrdlost—
nattugh to Carry the 011
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Stray turtles, measuring 4 or 5feet
in length; do hot often wander unmol-
ested through the streets of 'a thicklY
populated city. put not long since, a
well known family in Honolulu, Haw-
aiian Islands, eeceived a visitor•of this
kind. Nobody knows where the great, ,
heath: came from; he 'simply aPpeared: f:„ ,
one. day at the. garden:data/ and, force ,• , '.. .
hig en entrance, proceeded , 'to make '
himself at hOme on ...the'preinities. He ., .
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was promPtly expelled by the eston-
When family, 'to weeder bate More' On : . '': i
the city streets — for they, did not
know what elee to do with litm. The )
tuftle had different idees, hotvever; he
had found a eornfortable home and
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meant to May in he had.very likely
led a life • of hardship and intended to
end hiedays peace and security, so
he teturned, but was again turned out
upon the cruel world.' The turtle had t
a will Of his own' and was determined
to ,live in that( particular spot, so he
crawled in again the next time the
gate was open. The family gave upin •
desnaixe and alliewed . the uninvited
guest to reniain a few days before
they turned him out again. But he
retureed, onee,more. • This perform-
ance. wee repeaten a number' ot tithes;
if they shut the gate on hini, wbuld ' •
rear up on his hind lega and put his
two fore teet On the top—like a great '
It Was necessary to_ accept the in-
evitable, The people to ,whom be
wished to attaeh himself began to feel
A CERTAIN SUPERSTITION •
and allowed him to take possession. of
the garden which he had so long covet- -
ed as hia abode. There • het crawls
about in the daytime and sleeps at
night and is given his three good
meals a day of bran and water, and
scraps from the table. He is a per-
fectly harmless old fellow, end the
children have great sport With..hini, •
two or three at a time riding on his •
back. It is only ditngertnis to place
a hand on the side of his neck, for, as •
he coetraets his neck quickly within •
his shell, IL is likely to. be drawn be
and injured. BuL his funniest, char-
acteristic develop.ad after he had been
fairly accepted into the family eirclee
In return for the kindness lavished up-
on him. he took upen himeelf the tune- •
tions of a watch dog. The poor beast
is not able to bark; but when a stranger
etiters the gate he gives forth such
loud and formidable hisses as to trigh.
'ten the most courageous until they •
dhicover that his hiss is worse. than
Ibis bite.
I It is estimated that this great tur-
tle is very old. While iidt• of a
rare species, he his geown. IQ an Un-
usual size, Ilia neck is beginning to
shrivel and take upon itself the drewn
look of extreme age, It is thought. by
some that he is the famous turtle that
belonged to Ka mehameda • I. He was
the gteatest conqueror and King of the
Hawaiian Wands, and lived over HO
years ago. The animals remained for
generations in the custody of the toyel
family, and last belonged to the Queen
Dowager, Hapiolani. who died on Atria
24, Some time before the Queenai death
:the turtle disappeared. Bub whether
this queer old beast, with its almost
human intelligence, has eueli a roman- .
tie history or Isti, it is to -day one of
the most interesting sights ot Honolu-
lu, though few visitors know •of ifs
existence.
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LONG-HAIRED MEN.
eountriee Where Thee glarilaqg the W41-
. MOH hi TWA newel.
The native inhabitants of the Malay
Peninsula and several ot the 'Indian
tribes dour own country never per-
mit their hair ta he ot, The hair
of one of the Chiefs of the Crow tribe.
grew, to a /ength of 10 feet. The men
of the Latookas, one of the African
tribes, never cut their hair, but, al.
lowing It to grow, weave it into meat
wonderful shapes. The thick, erlap
wool is woVen with fine tWine Mddee
trent the bark of a tree Optil it repre-‘
Bente a network of felt. As the halt
grews it is subjected to the same pro.
cogs and trained into the shape of a
helmet. A rim about two limbos deep
Is formed, and the front part of thin
hair helmet is protected by a piece of
polished copper, while a piece of the
same metal, shaped like the half ef
Bishop's mitre, and about One foot in
length, forma the crest. The helmet
la then adorned with mfmerotio eerie
colored headt,
KCAL TO TIII4 OCCASION.
Pacetiont Gentlemsn—What is your .
retailer lustle tor illnIngt
Weary Watkint—Itight now 1 Itope
.yeer
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