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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, y <GrOI> J^TSttt OXJR COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCB. VOLUME 10. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1876. NUMBER W. SWAPPING SOULS. A MAR YELL OUS ST OR Y. The Immortal. Bodies of Two Men, Dying at .Oitosite Portions of the Giobe, Seek Differknt Earthly Habitations. .i Members of the Medico-Legal Society of New York arc astounded at the present time by the following remarkable events, the intelligence of which has just reached them : By the direction of the Emperor of Russin, a scientific investigation is uow going oh into the most astound ing case of metempsychosis, or wandering of the human soul from -one body into another, that has ever been known to the world. The inst ance referred to is vouched for by the Medical Weekly Journal of St. Pclers <burg, by a newspaper printed at New .Westminster, British Columbia, by 'the imperial governor of Orenburg, 'by Professor Orlow, of St. Petersburg, and by several gentlemen of New Yoik, to whom Orlow told the strange story about nino months ago, and who 'themselves had an opportunity to see :and converse with the two men whose souls are alleged to have been so 'miraculously interchanged. Il'n September, 1874, in Orenburg. ?Russia, there, lay sick with typhoid fever a wealtihy Jew by the-name of Abraham Ciittrkoy, a native of the place, known to everybody, married, *nd father of several children. On the 22d day of that month he seemed to be dying. At midnight he suffered greatly, and the physician pronoun ced him in the agonies of death. A number of Jews were called in, vns is customary, prayers were said' Vax candles lit, the wife and children _were por^Av^illy^vce,{)in-^^^r^hoig-. ?bereavement, when suddenly the sick H\u\n gave u tremendous jerk, heaved *u deep sigh,'began to breathe freely, ?opened bra eyes and looked with ?"amazement at the doings *oi the people ??anUrtfd hiWi^ *.trd then fell asleep. 'The $?\ysfctani*nrtt*uiecd that now all ?AaWgdr was ?over-. He shept t hrough 'i he night, but what happened in the ?norning was most Won de*!??. When 4ie awoke he infused to recognize either Iiis Wife or children, and push ed them away in auger when they ?came near him, Besides, he spoke a language none could understand. Previously he had known only a cor rupted mixture of German and He brew, and some little Russian,hut Uow when addressed he seemed not to understand a word. In a week he was Nvcll enough to leave the bed, but utterly refused to wear Iiis customary vlolhcs. The physicians unanimously pronounced him insane. In appear <ince he had not changed. He was the same tall, lean man, with dark, ?curling locks of hair, ion.; black beard, and a dark, furrowed line across Iiis forehead. Yet he spoke an unintelli gible language, refused to know Iiis family, and even his father and mother appeared as perfect strangers to him1. By chance one dny he be held himself in a mirror, and a fear ful shriek escaped his lips, lie touch ed and pulled at his long, Oriental nose, he felt his long, block curls, his flowing black beard, and with a scream he fell to the floor as in a swoon. The case caused great excite ment, and a Aill report was made to the medical section of the Ministry of the Intci ior of St. Petersburg. The order went out to Orenburg to send the Jew and his family, his parents and the other witnesses at once to St. Petersburg, to be examined by the medical faculty. The examination was conducted by Professor Orlow, one of the most learned men of Russia. The astonishment of the professor may be imagined, when ho found that his illitcrat3 jew from Orenburg spoke pure, idiomatic English with fluency and even with some elegance, that ho wrote it gramatically and orthogra phically correct, while his family and parents insisted vehemently that Abraham never in his life spoke any thing else but a German-Jewish jar gon and some Russian, and could I 11 ? - ? fei ?-?? rrctor write otherwise than iu Jewish characters. Still more cause tor tho' professor's wondcrmont Was tho state ment of the Jett hiriiself in Euglish that ho was not Abraham Charkoy at nil, that those who pretended to be his wife and children and his parents were total strangers to him, that he was not a native of Orenburg, never lived there, did not know how he got Iber.?, that he was not even a Russian, but an Englishman named Abraham Durham, born in tho town of New Westminster, in British Columbia, where ho resided as a fur dealer, and where he had a wife and one child living; that from somo inexplicable cause he found himselfcbauged-in appcarnnce, that he is naturally small in stature, stout, in body, with fair complexion, and blondo hair and whiskers. The professor nud his associated doctors did not know what to i).?kc of him, sinco he appeared to them a very intelligent ad educated Englishman; whilo the woman, her children, and tho other witnesses claimed him as the illiterate Russo Jcw, Abraham Charkoy. But while the matter was being further investi gated, and the entire family kept in close confinement in St. Petersburg, Abraham was missing one morning, having escaped on board of an Eng lish ship bound for Hull. Tho case was quietly dropped after his flight, but subsequent events were still more wonderful. Iu 1875, Professor Orlow, was sent to America by the Russian' Government, to make inquiries coii-; cerning the International Exhibition. While in this city he found in a New York paper, copied from the New Westminster Press of British Colum bia, thwe following startling account: "In New Westminster an occur rence recently taokpla.ee, Which caus ed gveftt sensation throughput., tjin whote territory oi British.O?l?mhin. On tire day of September, 1874. a fur-dcnlcr of said city was iu a dying condition) suffering from typhoid fever-, mid no one, not even his physi cian* seemed to entertain any hope as to tftc possibility of his recovery. Nevertheless the patient rallied and fully recovered, But wonderful to relate* the patient, who was an intelli gent Englishman, had forgotten his mother tongue nud speaks a language which is Understood by no one around him, but which at last is recognized by an inhabitant of the city to be a jargon of bad Jewish-German. The patient before his sickness a short, stout fellow and a blonde, is now thin and lean like a stick, refuses to recog nize his wife, and child, but insists that he has a wife and several child ren somewhere else; the man is bcliev* cd to be insane. All at once ;t Euro pcah traveller artives, marked with a genuine Hebrew face, and claims to be the husband of the wife of the fur dealer. He speaks to the woman in the same language her husband was wont to speak to her; he gives her and even Iiis parents, who live in said city, but who, of course, do not recog nize him as their son, the most detail ed and minutest descriptionol bygone events, and insists upon being the wo man's husband and the parents'son. The pooi1 woman is almost in peril of her reason, the effect of the trying ordeal.. She incessantly asks : " Who is this fellow ? How does be come to claim to be my husband ?" When she hears him speak and does not look at his figure, she is ready to think that he is her busband, but us soon as she looks at him, the spoil is broken; for surely, this stranger with the Jewish face can not be her hus band, whom she just nursed in his sickness. But the man continues to press his claim, and tells her tho most dclicato and secret fads, evidently known only to husband and wife." Professor Orlow rend and re-read this account, and the thought struck him that this seemingly impossible occurrence may have some connection with tho strikingly similar case of tho Orenburg Jew, Abraham Charkoy, tho investigation of which had so puzzled him at St. Petersburg. He sent a brief extract of it to the homo minister of Russia, and asked per mission to go to British Columbia aud continue hia ex um inn tun there. Leave was granted him, and June last found him at New Westminster. There, to his utter surprise,he found the same man, lank, black-haired, black-whiskered Oreiigburg Jow, i Abraham Charkoy, who had escaped from St. Petersburg, but now claim ing to bo Abraham Durham. And .there ho found also tho very repre sentative of the man described to hint by the Jew as he ought to look?a man small in stuture,.-stout in hotly, with a fair complexion and blonde hair, whom,all his neighbors and his wife and child said was Abraham Durham, ??atvHntcRigeut,',eddcated Englishman, hue who, since his par oxyism of the 22d day of September, 1874, at high noon, had seemingly forgotten all his knowledge < f the English -language, and was since speaking in a tongue- none could understand. Addressing, him the professor at: once ascertained him to speak the Jewish-German dialect pre valent at Orenburg, and asking him who he was tho man promptly repli ed that his Uame was Abraham Charkoy, a Jewish trailer of means, born and residing at Orcngburg, in Russia, where his parents still lived, giving their correct names, stating also that he had ft wife and three children there, describing them min utely by name and features, There was at that moment a nonplussed pro fessor. There was evidently no fraud in the mutter, because each of the two '?men was exceedingly earnest in his assertion that he was not himself, but the other man. A st range circum stance was also that the change in both occurred precisely on the samo day, the22d of September. 1874; both were sick with typhoid, and both pre sumed to be in the agonies of death; -3?ho -distance-between Orenburg end New WeVlnitiister WaboUt' mne thou!?' und miles, but the two places oro. di rectly opposite each other-, direct anti podes. Hence Professor Orlow came to the conclusion that if such ft thing as metempsychosis or the transmigra tion of souls from one human body to another be within the range of possi bilities, the case of the two Abrahams in Russia and America seems to be an evidence of it, since tho soul-life or inner consciousness of the one has been completely changed to that of the other without any outward change in the appearance of the men. He was still more inclined to this belief from the fact that not only the day; but the very moment of the change j in the two men agreed. The Russian Buffered his change "on tho 22d of Sep tember, 387-1, at precisely midnight; the Englishman in British Columbia underwent a like transformation on the same day at noon, and the differ ence oi time and longitude is such that when it is midnight at Orenburg it is noon at New Westminster. May not the cause for these occurrences be found in some as yet undiscovered in fluence of terrestrial magnetism, was one of the thoughts of the learned pro fessor, and lie concluded to make ox- : Initiative inquiries into the affair. For this purpose he prevailed upon both men to accompany him to Russia, which they did, remaining for some days in this city, where the professor finished the work for which he was originally sent to this country by his government. Whilo there Prof. Or low told the account to several gentle men whose acquaintance ho had made, and they also spoke to the two mixed up Abrahams, coming to the same conclusion with tho professor that hero indeed was a case wholly ine x plicnble to any known law of nature. Siucc last November Prof, Orlow and ? the two wonders of the age have been at St. Petersburg, where tho inquiry is progressing slowlj'. Edward Dolan, a conductor on the Michigan Central railroad, has gono mad with joy on discovering that his wife had unexpectedly inherited a fortune of 8250,000. A resident of Gloucester, Mass., is preparing to cross the Atlantic alone in a sloop-rigged boat fiftcon bug, live and a half feet wido aud a half feet deep. Thoughts for the Month. Duripg the last teu years there has been a decided diBpnMlion to lay by crops too early. Sambo wauts to give them the leaslamoutit of labor possible, and landlords arc anxious to curtail;expenses as much as they can. Whatever the motive, the policy is a bad one. Crops should have undis puted possession of the land until they avefulfy matured, and whatever work is necossary to fcceuro this,,, should bo given them. So far as ploughing goes, a corn crop is all tho. better ?off for an early "laying by," if clean . and well worked up to time of "bunching"?for n, little hoc work will keep it clean after that, but cot ton should bo worked just as long as a plough can pass through it without breaking off the limbs. All upland crops should be "laid by" with the surface of the ground as flat and free from ridges as practic able. Now, that manuring and en riching our lands is the order of the day, it is worse than folly to let them wash away. If corn was planted in ; water furrow, enough dirt will have been thrown to it iu previous work ings, anl no necessity for hilling will exist. Cotton beds, if the crop has beef* cultivated, after tho first or second ploughing, with sweep, wi'l pretty,well disappear by August, and, though the surfaco be clean and loose ?conditions favorable to washing? very little will take place. Moreover, this cleau, flat surface will be admir ably adapted to receive a seeding down of oats iu September. To this latter point we beg to call the reader's attention vote, that be may think about aud prepare for it. We have juit harvested as fine a crop of oats as \VC ever grew, made by sowing the gj^ikiu^v cotton held iu September, ^rfSa^^ftm^g; : ohe -furrow of a three foot harrow in each middle. Just think of the small amount of labor such a crop involves?a hand can sow down and cover some five acres in a day 1 We will recur to this again, however, next month. Peas should always be sown broad cast when laying by corn, if not pre viously planted in the corn. They may take a little food away from the corn, but nothing like what grass would, and for any loss thus produced they return a four-fold equivalent in the food they yield and enrichment of the land. No opportunity should ever be lost on n farm to get in one I of these nitrogen gathering crops, like peas. Remember a good stippy of available nitrogen is tho foundation of of n good gm in crop. Go carefully over llic cotton fields now and kill all grass; tho bunches are large enough now to be easily seen, and later, whoa the cotton is larger, it will be more difficult to hoc among it. Every year's experience and observation confirms the opinion heretofore expressed, that by proper care crab-grass can be banished from fields where its presence is not desir ed. If a cotton field is laid by per fectly clean and grass not allowed to sqcd iu it, little or no grass will appear in it the next year, and in a short time any original slock of grass seed which may have been in the soil will become exhausted. Just think of the diminished labor of making a cotton crop, if crab-grass was out of the way ! Is iL not worth au effort to do tliis??will not a little additional hoe ing now save manifold in the matter of hoeing another year ? As cotton has now commenced to Trait freely, tho working given it should bo at longer iuterva's, as it is now desirable to check gently tho growth of iceed and turn tho force? of the plant into fruit making. Rapid growth and fruiting seldom go to gether. Rapid growth from timo of coming up to the time of bloomiug? then slowly decreasing growth, finally ceasing about tho first of September, aro the ideal conditions of a large cotton crop. Of course the seasons have much to do with it, but tho far mer can control tho matter somewhat by tho manner of working llic crop. SWEET r'OTATOKS. Keep these clear of grass, aud see that the vmcs do not take roos in the middles. When this occurs numer ous small tuben are formed at the fxpeuse of the wain crops If the ground is wet a fair crop may h? made by throwing upa bed, opening a furrow on top of it and laying vines in it, say 3 or 4 side by side, and covering them at intervals, leaving spaces some G inches wide uncovered ?18 inches apart. This may be done, with the ctivly varieties, as late as the 20th of the mouth?with ordi nary varieties, not latter than the first week of July. TURNIPS. Have land ready to sow rutabagas towards the latter part of this month. Remember that verjy?nc tilth is asson tial to a turnip crop. The rutabaga is greatly preferable to all other turnips as stock feed ?being hardier and more nutritious than other varieties. Iu this con nection we would suggest a trial of the old fashioned'; long collarth asa crop for stock feed?especially milk cows. Plants may be set out as late as first of August, and, on good land, will mako an immense amount of nutritious food. A similar plant, called mv cabbage, is largely raised as cattle food in the Jersey Islands and in Portugal. Buttoned shoes without heels are seen on the most stylish children. Dress suits for girls just in their teens arc shown in colored grenadines summer silks, and iu whito lawn em broidered. Instead of sailor waists, the long waisted blouse is now laid in side plait', and finished with a belt or else worn with a sash. Many mothers arc returning to white stockings, and cream colored or unblejudjucd_ sen in preference to all others. Dark solid colored stockings are preferred to striped ones. Dark blue, clocked or embroidered with white or with red up each side,are shown in lisle thread and in raw silk. Among newly imported garments arc sack aprons, such as French chil dren have always worn. They arc cut iu sack shape, half high and square iu the neck, and are without sleeves. Girls polonaises are all buttoned behind. These are made in vi-ry straight and plain designs, and show a return to the simplicity that used to belong to tho clothing of young girls and children. Boy* still in short clothes wear long waisted plaited blouse and kilt shirts. Sjft light summer clothes of gray, brown, or blue, also shepherd's check of black and white twill, are the woolen materials used for theeo suits. The boy's hat is a sailor shape, and the hair i3 worn in pago style, with the front drooping over the forehead. Swiss straw hats lor boys come in the sailor shape, also in Derby shapes, with round high crown and stitTcurl ed brim. Infants' long robes arc from a yard to a yard and a quarter long, and the preference is given tc those trimmed around the bottom in rows of tucks, insertion, and lace rather than those with "robed" fronts trimmed from top to bottom. Beautiful and fine yoke slips of whito muslin, nccdlc-worked, are im ported for children just putting on short clothes. Tho small sized have clusters of fine tucks and embroidery above the hem, while the yoke is made of lengthwise tucks and rows of needlework. The Centennial sash of red, white, and blue ribbon six; or so von inches wide is one of tho patriotic fancies of the year. Ii costs $1.72 a yard, and is worn tied low down around the hips, with two deop loops aud onds banging behind instead of a stifF bow. -mm i ? 'Now, waitor, what's to pay?' 'What havo you had, sir V 'Three fish.' 'Only Drought up two, sir.' 'I had three?two tiout, and ouc smelt.' In what key would a lover write a - - proposal of marriage-rrBe mine, ah! 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