The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, July 30, 1890, Image 4
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HYPNOTISM.
MEDICAL MEN OP EUROPE IN
TERESTED IN THE SUBJECT.
An Eye Witness's Account of Some
Marvelous Tests—Theories ot Dr.
Charcot, the Preach Leader of
the Hypnotic Crusade.
The doctors of London and Paris arc
petting excited of hypnotism. The few
believe it to be an immense gain and a
blessing to science; the majority are
either actively, hostile to it or quietly
skeptical to the claims set up in its be
half. It requires a bold man to advocate
the cultivation of the hypnotizing power,
or gift, as will be seen from what fol
lows: Dr. Charcot, the eminent Profct-
seur do Clinique at the Hospice de Sqlt-
A HYPNOTIZED SUBJECT.
petriere in Paris, is bold enough to pub
lish in the fullest way the particulars of
the experiments he has for a long time
ccen making. So is Dr. Milne Bram-
well, a physician in Goole, England,
who willingly shows bis experiments to
scientific investigators.
That the hypnotic power is capable
of accomplishing wonders cannot be
doubted. I, myself, says a London cor
respondent of the New York Mail and
Erprttt, recently saw a series of exceed
ingly interesting experiments, the sub
ject being a French woman, young,
comely and apparently of the peasant
class. She was of a plcgmatic tempera
ment, dreamy-eyed and generally what
we would call a weak-willed womai.
The operator was a very positive person,
a slim, wiry, keen-eyed Mephisto
phelean Frenchman. When she took her
seat the operator came where I stood,
about twenty feet or more away from
her. He simply asked her to look into
bis eyes, he looking into hers at the
same time. In a moment she was fast
asleep, with her head sideways and her
arms hanging listlessly down.
I asked the operator to caifse the pa
tient to do certain things such as lift a
hand or finger, or cross or rearrange her
feet. Though no word was spoken or
whispered to the sleeping woman, and
though the operator and myself were at
the opposite end of the room, she obeyed
every command of the operator’s silent
OPERATING AT A DISTANCE.
will. When it came to my turn to test
the experiment I took the operator right
back to the door, quite forty feet distant
from the sleeping girl, and there I
whispered as low as I could in his ear
something like thi»: “Let her raise her
right arm, comb her hair with her fingers,
and then take hold of her left hand on
her knee.” The operator never opened
his lips nor moved from the spot, but he
stared piercingly at his patient, and in •
few seconds she performed the move
ments I had requested, slowly indeed,
but without failure in any point.
To prove the soundness of the girl’s
sleep, and her insensibility to pain while
in it, the operator borrowed a scarf-pin
from a spectator and thrust it right
through the fleshy part of the upper arm
so that the point struck out an inch. She
was then made to extend her arm and
walk around us for close inspection,
which lasted ten minutes by the watch, a
feat which few strong men could do
without letting the arm drop, even with-
THE VICTIM EXHAUSTED,
put a pm through it. There was no
biood, and when the pin was withdrawn
»nd the girl restored to consciousness she
told us i-ho only felt as though she had
been pricked slightly.
Dr. Charcot divides the action of hyp
notism (which means the state of perfect
sleep) into tltrcc stages—first, lethargy;
second, catalepsy, and third, somnam
bulism. On the recent visit to his place
of an investigation Dr. Charcot produced
a young woman of twenty-four, stoutly
built, with a bright and intelligent faoe.
Bbe was a highly hysterical subject, hab
itually insensible to pain on the left half
of the borly. Dr. Charcot showed this by
pricking her with a pin on each side.
Bbe was bidden to gaze intently on a
point near and above her eyes, when she
soon went off into unconsciousness, and
the doctor closed her eyelids. Now the
probe could be inserted anywhere with
out any signs of pain. By touching cer
tain muscles, various actions were me
chanically performed by the limbs and
fingers and muscles of the face. Then
the doctor pressed on certain tendons,
the result being the stiffening of the
whole body; so rigid was she that the
doctor could place her head on the back
of a chair and her heels on the floor with
out the girl falling.
The second, or cataleptic, stage was
induced by the forcible opening of the
girl's eyelids, resulting in a stare as of
entrancement. In this state the girl was
made to believe everything and any
thing. A gong was struck and she was
told it was a church bell, upon which she
struck a devotional attitude. A bit of
red glass was put before her eyes
with the information that the
house was on fire, and at ones
the became frantic with terror. A num
ber of other experiments followed, which
port of us have seen done in exhibition*
of mesmerism during the last thirty
years; but whereas most of those vulgar
performances ware -impostures, these
hypnotic manifestations arc undoubtedly
genuine.
The third, or somnambulistic stage
was induced by rubbing the girl’s hair
on top of her head. Bhe now saw things
around her as they were, but the reason
ing power was deranged. Again ahe be
lieved whatever was told her. One man
was an iceberg, and she shivered when
he came near her. She gnawed a steel
file, believing it to be chocolate, and so
on. In this stage the doctor could
paralyze an; limb at will.
WORTH, THE FAMOUS DRESSMAKER.
the suburb of Paris where Gambetta
died. Worth receives his would-be cus
tomers with the dignified air of a veri
table sovereign. He listens to their in
timations of the style in which they be
lieve the forthcoming costume should be
“created,” but he does not always follow
their suggestions. He refuses to be
fettered in any way in his “creations.”
The interview ended he waves his fair
visitor toward an adjoining room, where
Mile. Louise or some other of his chief
issistants, perhaps “tries on” a dress of
theityle desired by the caller, and at
tends to the details of her order.
With ft High Number on It.
'"""’teva C««n»tjv -
First Burglar—“What do you like
breaking into best, Bill?—a bank?”
Bill—“No; a bank-note. ”—Lipjrincotl.
The Original Buffalo Bill.
There is probably no better known
name throughout the entire length and
breadth of this country than that of Buf
falo Bill, and at this time there are but
few who do not know that William F.
Cody is the bearer of the title. Mr.
Cody,however,is not the original Buffalo
Bill. There is nothing underhand or
illegitimate in his bearing it. Ho is fully
entitled to it, but for all that, ha comes
by it second handed. The original Buf
falo Bill is now living, an aged, wealthy,
pronoinent and highly respected citizen,
and the President of a savings bank at
Wichita, Kan. His name is William
Matthewson. He is a thorough Demo
crat, and is high up in the Order of Odd
Fellows. Years ago Mr. Matthewson was
a bold frontiersman on the plains, en
gaged in hunting and trapping for a liv
ing. He supplied the forts of Kansas
and Nebraska with buffalo; aud his suc
cess in this work was so great that he
was given the title of Buffalo Bill. Dur
ing this time he engaged a boy to work
for him, and the lad was so diligent and
faithful that he remained in Matthew
son’s employ until the latter quit the
business to settle down to a more quiet
life. As a reward the employer turned
over the hunting contracts to the em
ploye, who then followed in his late
master's footsteps. That he was success
ful, that he earned honor, fame and
wealth for himself, cannot be denied
when it is told that his name is William
F. Cody. With the business rights he
was given the title his employer ha l
borne. The world knows he has kept it
bright, and that neither stain nor tarnish
has touched it.—Chicago Herald.
Smuggling Jewels From Mexico.
Commenting upon evidence in a re
cent smuggling case tried in San An
tonio, Texas, District Attorney Evans
told his experience in the trial of men
charged with bringing goods across the
border without having paid duty.
“The Government,” he said, “might
ts well abolish the duty on jewelry and
precious stoues, so far as its value along
the Mexican border is concerned. Great
quantities of such are brought into this
country, but it is very seldom that duty
is paid upon them. Of course, the
•mailer an article is the easier it is to
escape detection. Fiae jewelry and pre
cious stones are safely smuggled on this
account, and quite a number of the
smugglers are known to the Custom
house officials, who, however cannot b«
detected.
“Men and women almost known to
have jewelry in their posse—ion are
etopped and searched, but nothing duti
able is revealed. A thousand dollars'
worth of precious atones might be hid
den- under a plaster. False pockets is
clothes and wearing apparel are common.
I do not believe that as many prectoul
stones as formerly are brought from
Mexico, but there is plenty of Mexican
jewelry smuggled into the United State*.'
— Chicago Herald.
The lenareh of Dressmakers.
Few American women who have visited
Europe are unfamiliar with the entres&l
on the Avenue de I’Opera in which
Worth, the monarch of dre—makers,
holds his court. Worth waa originally
a shopman in a large London dry goods
store. He waa promoted from the counter
to become a buyer for the firm by which
be was employed. In that capacity ha
waited Faria, and their conceived the
. idea of the drewmaking buaina— which
has made bis name as familiar to women
as that of Bismarck or Gladstone it to
the world et large.
The portrait herewith is reproduced
from the HlutlraUd American, which
obtained from Worth the only photo
graph of himself that he ever coosented
to here published. It shows him in the
costume in which he usually receiv— his
mbjects—the devotees of f—hion—who
will at once recognize the peculiar velvet
aip, somewhat like a loose Tam o’
ihanter, and the velvet-face dre—ing-
jown which he effect*.
Worth’* manner is autocratic. He
fully appreciate* the fact that he has
tchieved greatne-. He lives in a pretty
HU* buried in flow, at YW« d’Arrsy,
NINE PIGS FOR A BRIDEil
A MATRIMONIAL AUCTION SAUt.
AMONG SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS./? ‘
Girl* Are Secluded for Years and
Then Sold to the Highest Bidder
—Fat Girls in Demand.
Every New British community is
sharply divided into two clans, known
respectively as the Maramara and the
Pikalaba. They are most intimately
associated in all the business and
pleasure of life, they live in the same
houses, in fact, no household con exist
Without having representatives of each
clan. That there may never be any
doubt of the clan to which any par
ticular individual belongs the device of
the clan is prominently displayed in tat
tooed lines upon his back and breast.
Far from being a division of the com
munity, these two elans tend toward its
closer union, for no person may marry a
member of his own clan, but must choose
from the other. This plan is still further
complicated by the subdivision of each
dan into four co-ordinate group* which
are named respectfully after some fish,
plant, bird or beast. The natural object
whose name is borne by each groiip, be
comes in Some sort its totem and in tat
tooing upon the body and in rude carving
upon the doorway is displayed as a de
vice. The group in each dan which bear
a kindred device are looked upon as too
closely related to allow of intermarriage
between members of each although their
dans are indistinct. Likewise the in
dividual must not marry into the group
of either parent or one cognate therewith
In the other clan. This may seem far
from dear—a concrete example will serve
for illustration. Remember that there
can be no doubt about the dan and group
of any individual, for the most cursory
glance at his body will at once show his
position.
Lumie we will take for example, a
young man who has built himself a house,
who owns a whole fishing net and has
the equity of a yam plantation or so and
many cocoanuts. His house seems lonely
and he wants a wife. This is how he
goes to work. His own father belonged
to the Pikalaba clan and the fish group,
his mother was a Maramara of the plant
group; thus, he, inheriting nothing from
his father and everything from his
mother, is likewise a Maramara plant.
He is therefore debarred from marriage
with any member of a plant or fish group,
but must restrict his choice to the Pika
laba birds and beasts, say to one fourth
of the girl population of his town. This
is indeed no great hardship to him, for
he has known from his earliest child
hood that some of the maidens were
positively prohibited to him, and by
the time his thoughts bend toward
matrimony he must have become re
signed to his fate and is prepared to con
fine his attentions to ever^*fourth girl. A
young man so prosperous as Lumie seems
to be could not be expected to mate with
any but the daughter of a family equally
as wealthy as his own. The poorer girls
whom he will see about the town may
become wives to him, but they must wait
until be has made selections of bis chief
wife and then they without any cere
mony are summoned to take the minor
positions, which arc in little different
from slavery. But of the maidens of high
degree he has no view, for they are all
carefully caged at their seminary in the
bush under the protection of the dread
tabu. Upon a morning early the women
of the town are in commotion; they have
learned through some mysterious channel
that a girl will on that day be brought
home fiom b cr seclusion of from six to
eight years. Who the debutante may be
they do not know, but they gleefully
spread their news about the town. All
other plans must yield to the great
event; the fishers on this day draw no
nets, the warriors grant one day’s respite
to the towns on either hand—all busy
themselves with guessing who it is whose
education has been completed and in ab-
surb speculation as to what she will fetch.
As the sun climbs high and nearer to
its midday point the villagera flock out
along the path which leads to the girls’
retreat and crowd about the latticed
hedge from which dangle the cloth
streamers and fillet or hair which mark
the tabu; well to the frout will be found
Lumie and any others who may be ready
for marriage. Upon the other side of
the slisrht bulwark people are heard mov
ing about, and at the moment of high
noon the guardian of the young girls ap
pears and leads into view her charge,who
perhaps would blush if she were not as
black as a bag of soot. After one mo
ment of interested inspection, a murmur
of dissatisfaction arises from many of the
young men, who find her to belong to a
clan and group prohibited to them. But
not from Lumie. He spies upon her
breast the Pickalaba mark, and tatnoed
above it the outstretched wings of a
bird; by this he knows that she is eligi
ble. Led by the chief and by all the
young men who seek to marry her, the
young woman goes down to her old home
in the village, and nods and speaks to
those whose faces are yet familiar after
her long absence. Bhe sits upon a small
mat before her father's door to receive
her friends, and at her side sits her
guardian, who now and again conde
scends to a gratified smile when one and
another compliment her upon the fatness
of her charge. Meaniyhile a feast is prepar
ing in the house behind her, to which all
the village is invited. In the high post
af honor sits the maiden just about to
make her entry into the world of so
ciety, thus plqced on exhibition that her
chance of finding a husband may be
better. The morning after the feast she
is put up at auction on the village green.
The bidding begins at two pigs, for that
is the amount which has been expended
spon her education; pig by pig it runs
up to seven or eight and then, if Lumie
has any earnest competitor, it may creep
slowly up now by a bid of an additional
cowrie or a palm of shell money until
nine pigs is reached and the girl it
knocked down to the highest bidder.
That is all the ceremony there is. Lumie
drives his pigs to the house of his father-
in-law, leads the girl to his own house
and she is his wife. To bring as much
as nine pigs a girl must he very fat and
be furthermore the daughter of a man
wealthy enough to be a chief; seven
pigs i* a high figure and few run over
six. But if the amount realized by the
auction docs not satisfy the father of
the property sold he can show his scorn
of tho higher education of women by
quietly throttling the schoolmistress.
These new British msrriages are more
matters of bargain and sale, sale, too, by
the public auctioneer. The buyer pays
so many pigs ot their equivalent in cow.
lies or strings of shell money, he takes
hia purchase to his home and looks to
her domestic services to make good the
amount which he has paid. ,Such a sys
tem affords no room for any of the softer
sentiments, it would seem; no such thing
as love, it would appear, could exist
where marriage ia a mere matter of pigs.
Yet husbands and wi/es in New Britain
display great affection and are as true as
though their marriage had been sol
emnized with the most elaborate vows.
After marriui}e the clan division it
ceremonially perpetuated in the house,
not to the extent of interfering with do
mestic. harmony, hut upon certain sol-
emu occasions. The doorway is in the
middle of one of the sides, the fire-place
directly opnosite on the other. Between
UAtKe.* Uftft.iikdiftwaA.oaft iflUa ^ * k -
house is the husband’s tide, the other is
wife’s; Each retains thb individual
^ownership of their separate property; h*
keeps hi* possessions on his side the linq
she on hers, and nothing is moved frog
one side to the other without an equiva
lent. The children belonging to each
are said to be “in tho door,” and it ii
only as they grow up or in the event of
the father’s death that they definitely
go over to the mother’s side.—New Or-
leant Picayune. y
Select siftings,
A talent of gold was (13,800.
A finger’s breadth is equal to one inch.
A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches.
The area of New Orleans, La., is 227J
miles.
A Biblieal shekel of silver was about
fifty cents.
A hand’s breadth is equal to three and
five-eighth inches,
Ctnaries fed with cayenne pepper So-
quite ft niddy plumage.
The first American library was founded
in Harvftrd College in 1638.
There are 13,000 different kinds of
postage stamps in the world.
Over 500 music leaf turners have been
patented in the United States.
A petrified bat was recently discoveted
by railroad laborers in Arizona.
There are more farmers in the United
States than any other nation possesses.
More girl babies were born during
1863 and 1873 than in any ten y««M
since.
A walrus hide weighs forty pounds, it
one inch thick and as hard as an oak
plank.
The first newspaper printed in England
was the English Mercury, issued in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth.
A cigarette carelessly thrown aside
caused the burning of 135 acres of wheat
in California a few days ago.
The Mongolian pheasants introduced
into the State of Washington have in
creased largely, and are now thoroughly
acclimated.
At a depth of thirty-seven feet, at
Springport, Ind., a vein of water was
struck which gushes several feet above
the surface and is clear and cool.
Judge Gunto, of Pary, Fla., has a
camphor tree on his place. Tho cold
does not seem to injure it at all,-and he
believea the trees can be successfully
raised. *
A Frenchman has discovered how to
make eilk straight from the mulberry leaf
without resorting to the silk worm. But
it i* inferior in richness and gloss to the
present silk.
It is said that from the summit of
Mount Blanc, Switzerland, one can see
the Tyrol, portions of France, Germany
and Austria, the Mediterranean and Italy
as far as the Apennines.
The luckiest tenderfoot in the LeadviUe
(Col.) mines was an Illinois farmer from
the back districts, who, after prospecting
in the mountains for three months
started home with a bank account of
$380,000.
A postage stamp was recently found
by a Connecticut physician in the ear of a
little patient, and on its removal a severe
pain, from which the child had suffered
and which caused the visit to the doctor,
disappeared.
The finest Australian eucalyptus ef its
age in California is probably one that
grows on Alameda Creek, about thirty
miles from San Francisco. Vick says
that it i* seventeen years old from the
seed, and girths nine, feet eight inches.
Among the immigrants landed at the
Barge Office in New York city the other
day was an Irishwoman seventy yean
old, whose face was adorned by a long,
silky, curling mustache, two inches in
length. She was in America nearly for
ty years ago.
Isaiah Powers, of Curtis, Neb., has an
orchard of Russian mulberry trees that
are gifted with a second blossoming.
The trees blossomed out nicely at their
proper season this year, but frost com
pletel; destroyed the blossoms, and thet
the trees again bloomed.
WISE WORDS.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKBYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
6uhj«et: 'TRuWdi OpuifDoor '
Genius, pluck, endurance and faith
ian be resisted by neither king* nor cabi-
sets.
Generosity, wrong placed, becometh ft
rice; ■ princely mind will undo a private
family.
Sustained enthusiasm hat been the
uotor of every movement in the progree*
•f mankind.
What is birth to a man, If it shall be*
itain to bis dead ancestora to have left
nich an offspring.
The persistent enthusiast whom on*
S mention despises as a lunatic with one
ea, eucceeding ones often worship a* •
senefactor.
Contentment is a pearl of great price,
tnd whoever procuret it at the expense
)f ten thousand desires, make* a wise
ind a happy purchase.
It 1* always a sign of poverty of mind,
irher* men are ever aiming to appear
{»eat; for they who are really great
sever seem to know it.
It is the peculierity of every individual
hat he wishes to be thought distin-
{uished for something other than that
spon which he has made his reputation.
It ia in dispntes, as in armies, where
the weaker side sets up false lights, and
makes a great noise, to make the enemy
believe them more numerous and strong
than they really an.
Caution in crediting, reeerr* in (peek
ing, and in revealing one’a self to very
few, are the best tecuritie* both of peace
tnd a good understanding with the world,
and of the inward peace of our own
minda.
Intellectual effort in early yean of life
Is very injurious. All labor of mind re
quired of children before the seventh
year is in opposition to the laws of na
ture, end will prove injurious to the
physical organization and prevent its
proper and matore development.
. Text: "And, behold, d door was opened
f» Araeen,”—Rev. iv.. 1.
John had been the pastor of a church in
Ephesus; He had been driven from his
position in that city by an indignant pop
ulace. The preaching of a pure and earnest
gospel had made an excitement danger
ous to every form of iniquity. This will
often he the result of pointed preach
ing. Men will flinch under the eword-
strokes of truth. You ought not to be
surprised that the blind man makes an
outcry of pain when the surgeon removes
the cataract from his eye. It is a good sign
when you see men uneasy in the church pew.
and exhibiting impatience at some plain ut
terance of truth which smites a pet sin that
they are hugging to their hearts. After the
patient has been so low that for weeks he
•aid nothing and noticed nothing, it is
thought to be a good sign when he begins to
be a little cross. And so I notice that spir
itual invalids are in a fair way for recovery
when they become somewhat irascible and
choleric under the treatment of the truth.
But John had so mightily inculpated public
iniquity that he had been banished from hia
church and sent to Fotmas, a desolate island,
only a mile in breadth, against whose rocky
coasts the sea rose and mingled its voice with
the prayers and hymnings of the heroic exile.
You cannot but contrast the condition of
this banished apostle with that of another
famous exile. Look at the apostle on Pat
inos and the great Frenchman on Bt. Helena.
Both were suffering among desolation and
barrenness because of offenses committed.
Both bad passed through live* eventful and
thrilling. Both had been honored and de
spised. Both were imperial natures. Both
bad been turned off to die. Yet mark the
infinite difference—one had fought for the
perishable crown of worldly authority, the
other for one eternally lustrous, lae one
had marked his path with the bleached skulls
of his followers, the other had introduced
peace and good will among men. The one
had lived chiefly for self-aggrandisement
and the other for the glory of Christ. The
successes of the one were achieved amid the
breaking ot thousands of hearts and the
acute, heaven-rending cry of orphanage mid
widowhood, while the triumphs of the other
made joy in heaven among the angels of
God.
The heart of one exile was filled with re
morse and deepair, while the other was
lighted up witu thanksgiving and inex
tinguishable hope. Over St. Helena gath
ered the hlacknees and darknesa, clouds,
lighted up by no sunrising, but rent and
fringed and heaving with the lightnings of
a wrathful God, ami the spray flnng over
the rocks seemed to hiss with the condemna
tion, “The way of the ungodly shall perish.”
But over Patinos the heavens were opened,
and the stormy sea beneath was forgotten
in the roll and gleam of wafers from under
the throne like crystal; and the barrenness
of the ground under the apostle was forgot
ten as above him he saw the treee of life all
bending under the rich glow of heavenly
fruitage, while the hoarse blast of contend
ing elements around his suffering body waa
drowned in the trumpeting of trumpets and
theharpiug of harps, the victorious cry of
multitudes like the voice of many waters
and the hosanna of hosts in nnmher like the
stars.
What a dull spot upon which to stand and
have such a glorious vision! Had Patmos
been some tropical island, arbored with the
luxuriance of perpetual summer, and drowsy
with breath of cinnamon and cassia, and tee-
selated with long aisles of geranium and cac
tus, we would not have been surprised at the
splendor of the vision. But the last place
you would go to if you wanted to find beau
tiful visions would he the island of Patmos.
Yet it is around such gloomy spots that God
makes the most wonderful revelation. It was
looking through the awful shadow's of a
prison that John Bunyau saw the gate of the
celestial city. God there divided the light
from the darkness. In that gloomy abode,
on scraps ot old paper picked np about his
room, the great dream was written.
It was while John Calvin was a refugee
from bloody persecution, aud was hid In a
house at Angouleme, that he conceived the
idea of writing his immortal “Institutes.”
Jacob bad many a time seen the sun break
ing through tho mists, aud kindling them
Into shafts and pillars of fiery splendor that
‘ might well have been a ladder for the angels
to tread on, but the famous ladder which he
saw soared through a gloomy night over the
wilderness. The night of trial and desola
tion is the seen) of the grandest heavenly
revelations. From tho barren, surf beaten
rock of Patmos John looked up and saw that
a door was opened in heaven.
Again, the atuuuincement of such an
opened entrance suggests the truth that God
is looking down upon the earth and observ
ant of all occurrences. If we would gain s
wide prospect we climb up into a tower or
mountain. The higher np we are the broad
er tlie landscape we behold. Yet our most
comprehensive view is limited to only a few
leaguee—here a river and there a lake and
yonder a mountain peak. But what must
must he the glory of the earth in the eye of
Him who from the door of heaven beholds at
one glance all mountains mid lakes and prai
ries and oceans, lands bespangled with trop-
icel gorgoousnees and Aret e regions white
with everlasting snows, Lebanon majestic
with cedars and American wilds solemn with
unbroken forests of pine, African deserts of
glistening sand and wildernesses of water
unbroken by ship's keel, continents covered
with harvests of wheat and rice and inaise.
the glory of every zona, the whole world of
mountains and seas and forests and islands
taken in in a single glance of their great
Creator.
As we take our stand upon some high point
single objects dwindle into such insignificance
that we cease to see them in the minutiae,and
we behold only the grand points of the
scenery. But not so with God. Although
standing far up in the very tower of heaven,
nothing by reason of Its smallness escapes His
vision. Every lily of the field, every violet
under the grass, the tiniest heliotrope, aster
and gentian are as plainly seen by Him as
the proudest magnolia, and not one vein of
color in their leaf deepens or fades without
A Cure for Squinting.
A cure for squinting, which is not to
unsightly as the method at present
generally adopted—black goggles with a
hole in the centre—is highly recom
mended. Let the person afflicted take
any pair of spectacles that suit his sight,
or even plain glass, and in the centre of
one lent let him gum a small blue or
black wafer, or spot of black photo
graph varnish or Brunswick black, about
the size of a ten-cent piece. The result
is that the double image vanishes, and
the eye, without fatigue or lieat, is forced
to look straight, and with time and
patience is cured.—New Tort Herald.
The fastest time made by an American
train is calculated to bo 107 miles in
ninety-three minutes net (or 107 miles in
ninety-seven minutea,including fourmin-
utes stoppage for wacer)on tho Canadian
division of tbu .Vlichigtiu Central Kail
road, St. Clair Junction to Windsor, No
vembei 16, 1886, and of 66.3 miles at,
hour.
His notice. From this door in heaven God
sees all human conduct and the world’s
moral changes. Not one tear of sorrow falls
in hospital or workshop or dungeon but He
s -es it, and in high heaven makes record of
its fall.
The world's iniquities in all their ghastli
ness glower under His vision. Wars and
tumults, and the desolations of famine and
earthquake, whirlwind and shipwreck
spread out before Him. If there were no
l»ing in all the universe but God He could
be happy w ith such an outlook as the door
of heaven. But there He stands, no more
disturbed by the fait of a kingdom than the
dropping of a leaf, no more excited by the
rising of a throne than the bursting of a hud,
the falling of a deluge than the trickling of
n raindrop. Earthly royalty clutches ner
vously its scepter and waits in suspense the
will infiamod subjects, and the crown is
tossed from omm fmenur soowoMier. Bat
above all earthly viclssltndee and the as
sault ot human passions In unshaken security
stands the King of Kings watching all the
affairs of His empire from the Introduction
of an era to the counting of the hairt of your
head.
Again, I learn from the fact that a door
in heaven is opened that there is a way of
entrance for our prayers and of egreM for
ilivine blessings. It does not seem that our
weak voice has strength enough to climb np
to God’e ear. Shall not our prayer bw lost
in the clouds? Have words wings? The
truth is plain: Heaven’s door ts wide open to
receive ovary prayer. Must It not be loud?
Ought it not to ring up with the strength of
stoat lungs? Must it not be a loud oall,
such as drowning man utter, or like the shout
of some chieftain In the battle? No; a whis
per is as good as a shout, and the mere wish
of the soul in profound si lease Is as good as
a whisper. It rises just as high and accom
plishes just as mucli.
But ought not prayer to be made of golden
words if it is to enter suoh a splendid door
and live beside seraphim and archangel?
Ought not every phrase be rounded into per-
fi-ction, ought not the language be musical
and classic and poetic and rhetorical? No;
the most illiterate outcry, tba unjointed p»-
I ition, tho clumsy phrase, the sentence break
ing into grammatical blunders, an uusgprded
groan is just as effectual If It be the utterance
of the soul’s want. A heart all covered no
withgarlandsof thoughts wouldbenoattrao
tion to God, but a heart broken and contrite
—that is the acceptable sacrifice. “I know
that my Redeemer liveth," rising up In the
mighty harmony of a musical academy, may
overpower our ear aud heart, but it srlU not
reach the ear of God like the broken voiced
hymn of some sufferer amid rags and deso
lation looking up trustfully to a Saviour’s
compassion, singing amid tsars and pangs,
“I kuow that my Rsdeimer liveth."
1 suppose that there was more rhetoric
end classic elegance lit the prayers of the
Pharisee than of the puhlloau, but you know
which was successful. You may kneel with
corapleteeleganoe on tome soft cushion at en
altar of alabaster and utter a prayer of Mil-
tonic vublunity, but neither your graceful
posture nor the roll of your blank verse will
attract heavenly attention, while over some
dork cellar in which a Christian pauper is
prostrate in the straw angels bend from
their thrones and cry one to another: “Be
hold, he prays r Through this ooen door of
heaven what a long procession of proyers is
continually passing! What thanksgivings!
What confessions! What intercessions!
What beseechings! “And behold a door was
opened in heaven.”
Again, the door of heaven is opened to al
low us the opportunity of looking in. Christ
when He oame from heaven to Bethany left it
open, and no one since has dared to shut it.
Matthew threw it still wider open when ho
came to write, and Paul pushed the door
further back When he spoke of the glory to bo
revealed, ttrid John in Revelation actually
points us to the harp's, and the
waters, and the crowns, and the
thrones. There are profound mysteries
about that blessed place that we cannot
solve. But look through this wide open door
of heaven and see what you can see. God
means us to look and catch up now some
thing of the rapture and attune our hearts
to its worship.
It is wide open enough to see Christ. Be
hold Him, the Chief among ten thousand, all
the bannered pomp of heaven at His feet.
With your enkindled faith look up along
of , ? lol T- Wateh how their
accumulating in number and ever rising up
into gladder hoeannas. It you cannot stand
to look upon that joy for at least OUe hour
how could you endure to dwril among it for
ever? You would wish yourself out of it in’
three days, and choose the earth again or
any other place where ft was not always
Sunday.
My hearer in worldly prosperity, affluent,
honored, healthy and happy, look in upon
that company of the redeemed, and see how
tho poor soul in heaven is better off than
you are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate,
higher in power. Hearers, afflicted and
tried, look in through that open door, that
you may see to what gladness and glory vou
are coming, to what life, to what royalty.
Hearers pleased to fascination with this
world, gather up your souls for one appre-
vc
lo 1
•ver break, upon exportations 1
never disappointed. Look in and see if
there are not enough crowns to pay us for
all our battle^, enough rest to relieve all our
fatigues, enough living fountains to quench
all our thirst, enough glory to dash out for
ever ^nd ever all earth's sighing and restless
ness and darkness. Battles ended, tears
wiped away, thrones plucked from the
bosoms, stabs healed, the tomb riven—what
a scene to look upon!
Again, the door of heaven stands open for
the Christian's final entrance. Death to the
righteous is not climbing high walls or ford
ing deep rivers, but it is entering an open
door. If you ever visit the old homestead
where you were born, and while father and
mother are yet alive, as you go up the lane
in front of the farm house, and put your
hand on the door and lift the latch, do you
shudder with fear? No, you are glad to en
ter. So your last sickness will be only the
lane in front of your Father's house, from
which you hear the voica of singing before
you reach the door. And death, that is ths
lifting of the latch before you enter, the
greetings and embraces of the innumerable
family of the righteous. Nay, there is no
latch,for John says the door is already open.
What a company of spirits have already en
tered those portals, bright and shining!
Souls released from the earthly prison house
how they shouted as thev went through!
Spirits that sped up from the flames of mar
tyrdom, making heaven richer as thev went
in, pouring their notes into the celestial har
mony.
And that door has not begun to shut. If
redeemed by grace we all shall enter it. This
side of it we have wept, but on the other side
of It we shall never weep. On this side we
may have grown sick with weariness, but
on the other side of it we shall be without
fatigue. On this side we bleed with the war
rior's wounds, on the other side we shall wave
tho victor’s palm. When you think ot dying
what makes your brow contract, what makes
you breathe so deep a sigh? What makes
x>u gloomy in passing a graveyard? Fol-
jwer of Christ, you have been thinking
that death is something terrible, the measur
ing of lances with a powerful antagonist,
the closing in of a conflict which may be your
everlasting defeat. You do not want much
to think of dying. The step beyond this
life seems so mysterious you dread the taking
of it. Why, who tailght you this lesson
of horrors? Heaven’s door is wide open,
and you step out of your sick room into those
portals.
Not as long as a minute will elapse between.
your departure and your arrival there. Not
half «o long ae the twinkling; of an oyo. -Not
the millionth part of an instant. There is no
stumbling into darkness. There is no plung
ing down into mysterious depths. The door
is open. This instant you are here, the next
you are there. When a vessel struck the
rocks of the French coast, while the crew
were clambering up the beach a cage of birds
in the ship's cabin, awakened, began to sing
most sweetly, and when the last man left the
veaeel they were singing jet. Even so in the
last hour of our dissolution, when driven on
the coast of the other world, may our disem
barkation from.this rough, tossing life be
amid the eternal singing of a thousand prom
ises of deliverance and victory!
For all repenting and believing souls the
door of heaven is now wide open, the door
of mercy, the door of comfort, for the poor
est as well as for the wealthiest, for the out
law as well as for the moralist, for Chinese
coolie as well as his Emparor, for the Rus
sian boor as well as the Czar, for the Turk
as well as the Sultan. Richer than all
wealth, more refreshing than all fountains,
deeper than all depths higher than all
heights and broader than all breadths is
the salvation of Jesus Christ which I press
r n your consideration Comeall ye trav-
s of the desert under these palm trees.
Oh, if I could gather before you that tre
mendous future upon which you are
invited to enter—dominions and princi
palities, day without night, martyrs
under the throne, and the four-and-
twenty elders falling before it, stretching off
in great distances the hundred and forty and
four thousand and thousands of thousands,
host beside host, rank beyond rank, in infi
nite distance, nations of the saved beyond
nations of the saved, until angelic visions
cease to catch anything more than the faint
outline of whole empires yet outstretching
beyond the capacity of any vision save the
•ye of God Almighty. Then, after I had
finished the sketch, I would like to ask you
if that place is not grand enough and high
enough, and if anything could be added,
any purity to the whiteness of the robes, any
power to the aeclaiining thunders of its
worship. And all that may be yours.
a YOTmmn* vicrm or whisky.
Howard Rut sell, seven Tears old, living at
Forest City, Ala., has often torn whisky
in medical prescriptions and thus acquired a
taste for the liquor. His stepmother, fear
ing he would become a drunkard, attempted
to creak off the desire for whisky by giving
him a surfeit. She furnish©?! him a pint or
more and told him to drink It all. He did
•o, and his death followed in about twenty-
four hours in spite of the efforts of the doo-
tor.—New York York Herald
‘ E. B. Walthall A; Co., Druggists, Horse
Omtrm, My., mmyi “Umlfm OartarrlB Owrw curw
every one that takes it.” Sold by Druggists,
75c
A man likes to bsTS kooo neighbor* whe
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FITS etopped free by Dn. (Clink's Griat
Nkrvk Restorer. No Fite after first day’e
nee. Marvelous ouree. Treatise and *a trial
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The man who is ri^bt ia aeidom left.
Deafnvsft cared. Description Of simple
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Expert* at picking locks—wig maker*.
Beecbam’s Pills act like magic on e weak
stomach.
A ttUHnlan sigh—Siberia.
Cot
The Best
It a good motto to follow In buying m medicine, at
«ell as In sverythlng else. By the universal satis
faction it has given, and by the many remarkable
cures It has accomplished, Hood's sarsaparilla ha*
proven Itself unequaled for building up and strengta
suing the system, and for all diseases arising from
or promoted by Impure blood. Be sure to get ooij
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists, tl; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD A CO., Lowell, Hass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
AN. U- 30
A Slaughter of Sheep.
Recently on the Atlantia and Pacd&o
Railroad a train ot cars loaded with
5000 fine merino sheep on the way from
California to the Chicago market was
wrecked, and every car but two was de
stroyed, more than 1000 sheep being
killed outright. The Indian* in the
vicinity took advantage of the occasion
to eupply themselves with mutton in suf
ficient quantities to lost them for monthe
to come. Some anxiety it now felt lest
the wily red man, having once realized I
the advantages of “accidents,” should
arrange them in future to suit the exi
gencies of hi* larder—Commercial Ad
vertiser.
Rubbing After a Bath.
A quick bath and a hard rub will work
wonders in preparing a man for each
day’i battle among men. There are two
stimulant* in the process, first that of
the cold water and then that of the
friction. The rubbing should be done
with an old-fashioned crash towel, not
one of thosaalleged bath towels that one
pays $2.50 for at fashionable stores—
they are no good—but a rough crash
towel, which any woman wilj know where
to buy. Rubbing with this will pro
duce a good reaction after the bath, and
without that the bath will prove hurt
ful rather than beneficial. Rub till the
•kin is red.— Timet-Democrat.
Please Dor.’l Fit net It.
That Dr. H. James'Cannabis Indies lapre-
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_jt Native Hemp, and la the only remedy
jltbtr Id that ronhtry ot thte that will post
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Bronchitis, A-thtpa. A’awu Catarrh and Pfrroust
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Lithographic stone and lead are being
found at Marble Falls, Texas.
orc& kjvjoymi
Both the method ftnd results whea
Syrup of Figs is Uken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the iy»
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of ita kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste anda»
ceptable to the stomach, prompt ia
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the moot
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
tke most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60e
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA F/0 SYtWF CtL
SAM FMAMdtCO, CAL
tame:tif. n. mew rest ».a
FOR MALARIA,
BILE BEANS.
It affords me pieat pleasure to add my testimony
U> the value of smith's Bile Beano: they ore cer
tainly an excellent medicine for bilions attacks and
cold. 1 have given them n thorough trial and can
conscientiously recommend them.
W. J. Cardwell, Irondale, Ala.
Try “BILE BEANS SMALL” (40 lit
tle beans In each bottle). Very
•mall-easy to take. Price of
either size, 25 cents.
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Among the nameless heroes, none aro
more worthy of martyrdom than he wh®
rode down the valley of the Conemaugta,
warning the people ahead of the Johns
town flood. Mounted on a powerful
horse, foster and faster went the rideri
but the flood was swiftly gaining, until
it caught the unlucky horseman end
swept on, grinding, crushing, annihila
ting both weak and strong.
In the tame way ia disease lurking
near, like unto the sword of Damocles,
ready to fall, without warning, on ita
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