THE daily ; ;
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JC1ENTIFIC WEDLOCK;
THE PHYSICAL. AND MORAL EFFECTS
OF UNWISE MARRIAGES.
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M1011M I5c Ixok-l After Itesalta.
It is both interesting and instructive to
ttudythe jicoplo and races of the earth, as
their methods of contracting marriages in
fluenco their deterioration or advancement.
Among the ivpiimaux, who rank very low
on the scalo of humanity, marriage is a mere
matter of convenience. The sentiment of
lovo seems almost unknown. The woman
tlmply need to lo fel, and the man requires
some onei make his clothes and to tako care
of his hut while ho is bunting or fishing. The
contract is made wlien the. parties are in In
fancy. The ljoy's father selects a little girl
fur his son's wife, and pays her father for her
perhaps a jair of snow shoes or a dozen
liercuesion caji. Tho two are then consid
ered engaged, and when they become old
enough live together. It is at once evident
that no attention can here be given to those
points which should govern a wise and scien
tific marriage. The prospective bride and
groom are too young, at the time when they
ore afliaiicod, for any one to know into what
ort of representatives of their race they will
develop, Tertians tho question of cheapness
L tho in in one. Their method of contract
ing iiiai'iaga alliances goes fur to show why
it is the Esquimaux have remained so long
at their present low IcveL
In various parts of South America there is
an ample Held to study the effects of Judi
cious alliances. There exists there almost
every variety of cross letween the native In
dians, tho resident and indolent Spaniards,
and other more active, vigorous and Intel
h ttual Europeans. Tho alliances are hardly
formed with a view to the laws of scientific
parentage, though they clearly show the
working of these when they have been ob
served, as well as the opioite effect when
they have been disregarded. Thero is a re
markable and welf-imposed fumily law which
opularly prevails, we are told, throughout
llrazil in relation to matrimony. It is recog
nized among all tho higher classes. The man
who is about to marry is required to furnish
a certificate from ono or more physicians
that ho isfree from diseases of a certain char
acter, and that ho is free also from all signs
of any of the diseases which are liable to be
transmitted to the offspring. Not only that,
but the physicians consulted must testify
that, as far us they can learn, there exists no
reason to believe that the union will be other
-- than in accord with the laws of sanitation.
Tho ruling families of many of the small
Eurojxyiu states have their range in marriage
selction so restricted by their social code as
to furnish noteworthy examples of tho dis
oledienoe of the laws'of scientific wedlock.
Tho consequence is, the members are often
feeble minded, weak bodied, bigoted and dis
eased. Francis Galton speaks of the disap
jH.arance largely duo to marriage selection
in England of theonce famousaud thorough
bred looking 2orman tyie. When found
now it generally exists, not among eelebri
ties, but in inconspicuous members of aristo
cratic families such as undistinguished army
oilioers and tho like. He notes, too, the very
evident superiority in highbred appearance
of the otherwise less noteworthy Austrian
over the modem Prussians. Yet the
IYussians well in the world's front as
they have placed themselves aro run
ning a race danger in their constant
' employment in the army of their lest men.
These are exposed to early death, are often
tempted into vice, and are prevented from
marrying during tho prime of life. Tho
shorter and weaker men, with feebler consti
tutions, are left at homo to raise the families;
and thus danger is threatened to the con
'nued superiority of the population.
Ia ninny countries the poorer classes marry
early and have largo families. They are too
ynorant to know anything of the scientific
ll.vs which should go vera marriages and pa
rentage. Not only aro they poor and ig
norant, but often vicious. Says Greg: "The
careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman multi
plies like rabbits; the frugal, farseeing, self
respecting Scot, stern in his morality, spirit
- ual in his faith, sagacious and disciplined in
intelligence, passes his best year3 in struggle
and celibacy, marries late, and leaves few
behind him. Given a laud originally peopled
bv a thousand Saxons and a thousand Celts,
and in a dozen cenerations llve-sixtha of tho
lunula tion would be Celts; but five-sixths of
the property, oi ice power, ui iu iu.-ikw,
would belong to tho one-sixth of tho Saxons
that remained. " Hays another writer: "It
is one of the laws of life that each individual
shrill to n treat extent take the benefits and
evils f its own nature, no matter whether
these come from nncestors by inheritance or
sif produced from habii. A child ia 6n-
iitl.,1 & to birth with as few defects of char
acter and constitution as it is possible to give
it. Parents are bound by honor and by their
own self interest, if they bring children int
tho world, to do it under such circumstancc-a
and conditions that their offspring may live
healthr. hnmv. useful lives. TP bring chil
dren into the world which will bo incapable,
criminal, or so diseased that their wholo lives
will r miserable, is wrons, it not a crime.
The dav when true sanitary marriage will
krt-.mo the rale Is a lone way oft. The need
.it.-f miiilo more plainly evident In this
country we are developing, from the amal
gamation of many strains, a race wholly new
to tho world. Our Immigrants, as they inter-
TTvnrrv with those that have preceded them,
produce descendants of a quicker and more
Bc-iwivfl mental typo than their own, and
it is noted by Darwin that the bodies and
limbs of these descendants are very noticea-
l.K- lon-rer than those of their ancestors, inur
ing our civil war the uniforms manufactured
toiit the average American soldier, Including
those of foreie-n descent, though born here,
-wer found, as a rule, to bo much too long
Vr foreigners iust arrived. "When we shall
Lave learned, and learned to apply, the laws
4 of proper selection in marriage our race
oaht to bo second to none in health and
rhvsical development, and that means, also,
intellectual advancement. A wide 6tep to
ward the needed reform has been taken by
up as a people, for far more than ever before
ere we interested in physical culture, upon
which health so clearly depends. There Is a
thnt it will vet have the high place
fa the curriculum of education which it de
serves.
Our schools now, on account of the absence
of a proper system of physical culture, are
constantly sending out into the world young
men and vounz women who, by reason of
tli?r infirmitiw5 never oucht to marry. And
again, our ill ventilated counting rooms and
factories aro generating an army, the cl'i
which must r.resent every phase of
bodJy imperfection. The remedy for tJii3 ia
i.ivsirl culture, and the sooner it is recog
nized bv all, and particularly by our edu
cators, the better. Social reformers and phi
lanthropUts have here a wide Held for culti
vation. Let them impress upon our growing
youth the importance of healthy bodies, har
moniously developed by proper exercise. Let
thxin also aid them everywhere, as our be
nevolent institutions here in Boston have
lone bv wovidinir trvmnasiums and grounds
for opeu air f porta, uuU they will well have
earned the highest reward lor their labors.
LkKton Herald.
THE HUMAN VOICE.
What It Is In tVMcb the Soul of the Or
gan Consists. ,
The individual peculiarities and delicate
expressions of the human voice have been
looked upon as almost belonging to the soul,
and as, therefore, incapable of reproduction.
V e recognize people by these slight, but sure.
difference in quality, and think that "there
Is no mistaking that voice." We pay the
same tribute to the individuality of each kind
of musical instrument, being able to distin
guish one from another positively, by the
quality of the sound only, after bearing pre
cisely ttie same musical note struck upon
each.
The first question to be answered is, what
is the difference in the sounds of dif
ferent voices and of different mu
sical instruments by which we distin
guish them, if it is difference neither in
the loudness nor in tho pitch of tho tone pro
duced? It is the simultaneous sounding of
other notes which accompany faintly the
note played upon the instrument, not loud
enough to be heard, but giving it richness
and quality in precisely the same way that a
chord makes a richer sound than a single
note. These extra notes, sometimes called
sympathetic vibrations, are too faint to be
separately recognized, but they modify the
original note, giving it a richness, quality of
"timbre" which differs for every instrument.
The piano is richer than the harp, because
its strings are surrounded by a case which
imparts the vibrations of each string to such
of the other strings as are in accord with it,
thereby causing those nearest in agreement
to accompany every note struck. The pro
portion of faint notes which accompany the
note played is different in different kinds of
musical instruments, being affected by the
shape of the case, tho material, etc ; hence
the difference in quality of sound.
In talking, the sounds of the voice aro made
nearly all in one note, and articulation is
simply tho effect of rapid and decided varia
tions in the quality or tho timbre of the note,
as if the instrument which was sounding was
rapidly changed from an organ to a violin,
a piano, etc., as the different syllables are
pronounced. These changes m the musical
nature of the mouth are made by using the
tongue, palato. Hps and teeth to vary It3
shape and bring out the extra vibrations in
the various proportions of different musical
instruments from moment to moment. Ia
other words, speech or articulation consists
of one tone produced by the voice or vocal
chords, and then modified by the various
shapes which the mouth can assume so as to
possess at will the quality giving properties
of any instrument. This inflexibility of the
voice is illustrated by tho fact that the voice
can Imitate almost any musical instrument.
Many people do not realize that a conversa
tion is carried on in nearly a single tone,
with variations in its quality only. When
wo vary the pitch of the notes produced by
the voice, as well as the quality, we are sing
ing, and when we vary the pitch without
varying the quality, that is, without pro
nouncing words, we are "humming" a tune.
Harper's Weekly.
The Jackals of Calcutta.
Kind friends had warned us, ere we retired
to sleep the first night in Calcutta, not to
suppose that there was anything the matter
if we should hear the cry of the Jackals. JJut
for that warning I do not know what our
feelings would have been when, awakened
from our first sleep by them, we heard a
pack pass close to the house. It seemed to
us as though the conscience of the whole city
had unbarred the portals of hell and put a
trumpet in the hand of every liberated fiend.
I had presumptuously imagined that famil
iarity with the concerts of London cats
would enable me to. sleep through the jack
als' efforU.
But though the cat has undeniable power
he can never hope to reach the top notes of
the jackaL This latter, indeed, lacks the
conversational variety of the more domestic
animal. He confines himself mainly to one
tune, which begins, in a semi-apologetic low
note, then ascends a little, still with a suspi
cion of apology and explanation that he did
not mean to make quite so much noise but
could not help it ; and then the flood gates are
open, and seeming to say that he does not
care he yells with ecstatic abandon. Terri ble
a wandering voice or the night trie
jackal appears a poor creature should he be
come upon in his own proper person by day.
True, his teeth are to be respected, but hat
is because, like all cai rion feeders, bis bite is
more or less poisonous, lie is himseil a
sneaking coward, useful, however, beyond
description. No system of drainage will en
able Calcutta to dispense with its natural
scavengers, and of these the jackal is
among the most efficient. Peering into dark
corners and with a nose keen to scent out
what has escaped even the crow's bright eye.
little as that seems to miss, he fills a special
place in the 'sanitary economy of tJ9 City of
palaces. "xurpans ana rails."
Seriousness of Cuban Courtship.
TIia surveillance of naronts over daugh
ters renders the matter of courtship a serious
affair in Cuba. Many young men actually
become dolorous objects from persistent sere
nading before so much as civil recognition
by the family is granted. But there is un
doubtedly a high quality of patience exhib
ited on tho part of the family, as well as by
doughty lover, l lme aiier lime, at ui naurs
-,f t.ViA n!o-ht. on roturninsr to mv hotel from
divers wanderings in the Cuban capital,
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nave, x passeu lurao iu Dvuv.Acu juuxuo,
stationed opposite the homes of their inam
tna in nil manner of aironized attitudes.
strumming aew muineu. iiona ujjou buubuu
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guitars, aua nxtiug ineir voices in passionate
thoiiTh doleful netitious to the night, tho
moon, trie stars ana au tne saints, io aiu,
them in reaching tho ears and hearts oi tneir
All this may seem ridiculous to us, but it
is far from that to those who thus pour out
their soul3 upon the night. Nobody pays
onv attention to it. The parents, who are
used to it, simply turn In their beds with,
thanks to the saints tnat tneir aoors are
mi and the winnows are oi iron oars.
Belated male passengers cast sympathetio
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glances at toe lone woudououts, ituicuiuvi
ing their own dismal efforts in the past.
r.n .! nofrtv-ra k-ean silence, and not a
vi buw "-"-o r
rock or handy household implement is shot,
as from some shadowy catapult, on disturb
micair.ii through the bosky midnight air.
For hours of this lugubrious sort of vigil no
reward is sought pr expected, but if tbe flut
ter of a dainty himd or the shimmer of deli
cate laces is for an instant caught at the bal
cony of the fair one's alcoba, then is the
mtastrel lover In an ecstasy oi aengui. r.a
gar L. W akeman's Letter.
"Where the Day Ends.
In a German chart, published in 1S70 by
Dr. Gleuns, a line dividing place keeping
Sunday and Monday respectively passes
through Behring straits, leaving the Aleutian
isles on the east, curves sharply in between
the Philippines on the west and Carolines on
the east, then curves again sharply, sweeping
north of Guinea and leaving the Chatham
isles on the west. A( all places west of the
line it is Monday, while it i3 Sunday on the
easLAikansaw Traveler.
DANGERS OF TIIE DEEP.
DERELICTS WHICH DRIFT AT THE
WILL OF WIND AND CURRENT.
Travels of an Abandoned Veel Iince
or Jitrlklnir a Water Logged Wreck The
Great Haft A Whistling Ituojr Adrift.
The Huptmtltlous Sailor.
A derelict is anything that has leen for
saken or abandoned, and, as applied to the
sea, it is a vessel that has been abandoned by
her crew and left floating on the ocean.
Derelicts are much more plentiful than a
casual observer would imagine. Besides ves
sels sunk near the coast in sufficiently shal
low water to make their protruding masts
dangerous to passing ships, there wt'e, on an
average, seventeen floating derelicts in the
North Atlantic reported to the hydrographio
office for each mouth of the year 1880. A
larger number of them was sighted in the
late fall, winter and early spring than dur
ing the other seasons of the year, no doubt
because there were then more dangerous
storms on the ocean. Some of these derelicts
drift around month after month, at the will
of the wind and current, and are reported
time after time by passing vessels.
The most interesting wreck that has been
reported for some yeara is doubtless that of
the derelict schooner Twenty-one Friends.
She was abandoned on March 24, 1885 about
one hundred and seventy-five miles east of
Cape Henry. Being lumber laden, Bhe con
tinued to float. Her masts were carried
away close to the deck, so that there was but
little surface exposed to tho wind, and her
progress was almost entirely due to the cur
rent of the Gulf Stream. Her track across
the Atlantic was directly in the rcute of the
European steamers, by whom she was
sighted many times, and whoso captains
doubtless grew to regard her as worse than
twenty-one enemies! Tho last report
received placed her about seventy
miles north of Cape Ortegal, Spair, on Dec.
4, 18Sj. She was probably towed into some
port by the Bay of Biscay fishermen, who
must have regarded her as a rich huO. Dur
ing her long cruise she covered some 8,300
miles, which made an average of about 425
miles of progress each month. A number of
similar cases could be given where derelicts
have been reported month after month in tho
highways of commerce.
Fogs and icebergs are encountered only at
a particular period of the j-ear, and within
oertaiu limita of the ocean, but derelicts aro
liable to be met anywhere and at any time.
A ship striking one of these water logged
wrecks would be apt to sustain about as
much damage as if she ran upon a rock. An
inhospitable coast is kuown at night by its
lights, the presence of icebergs by the chill
of the water in tho vicinity ; but during dark
ness or fogs there Is nothing to indicate the
presence of a derelict.
Sometimes, when it is found necessary to
abandon a vessel, the captain is thoughtful
enough to set her on fire. Sometimes, if the
sea be smooth and uho weather favorable, a
captain, on meeting one pf t hesa derelicts,
will lower a boat aud seud some or his crow
to fire her, but this is also a rai occurrence.
Reports are occasionally received of ships
being injured by striking wrecks, and no
doubt some of those that have left port, and
never been heard from afterward, have been
lost in just this way.
Perhaps the most novel derelict on record
was that of tb.6 great raft which it was at
tempted to tow round from tho Canadian
coast to New York some months ago. Tho
attempt failed, the towing steamer- broksi
away f rain, the faf and ihe great mass of
logs was left to float about directly in the
path of vessels coming into New York, For
tunately, tho raft was ppeodily broken up and
the logs were scattered, and no serious casu
alty is vnown to have occurred from col
lisions with them.
A word ou the subject of bouys which have
gone adrift may not be amiss. While mos'i
buoys are small and insignificant, a few aye
large and heavy, av,d might do. considerable
damage to a ship if run into at
full' speed. There is a small number
of lighted, whistling buoys at im
portant points on our coast. These &re of
mammoth size, and act as beacens, and, at
the same time, they give warniug by the
noise they make. The whistle is automatic,
and is sounded twenty or thirty times a min
ute by action of the sea. There is a chamber
into which gas is forced, and it is lighted by
means of a lens lantern at tho top of the
bouy. Of course the gas must be replenished
at regular intervals.
One of these enormous buoys was driven
from its moorings off Caw Hattetas, in De
cemter, SSj, ciu, arter taking an involun
tary journey of about twelve hundred miles,
it was, on the 25th of the following May,
captured and towed into Bermuda by an
English steamer.. Jt was in good condition,
but evidences of its long trip were found in
the large barnacles adhering to it. When it
started on this cruise the gas was soon ex'
hausted, causing the light to become, extiu-r
guisbed, but doubtless tiso whistle continued
to pipe iustily with every rise and fall of the
sea.
Imagine the dismay of some superstitious
mariner whose ears should be greeted by a
half dozen violent whoops in tho small hours
of the night, when he comfortably believed
that no object was within miles: of tho ship.
Lieut. E. B. Underwood, U. S,. N.
A Bank Clerk's Funlshment.
A new method of punishing dishonest bank
clerks is now being tried in a certain institu
tion of that kind in New York. Some time
ago a clerk's accounts were investigated and
he was found to be several thousand dollars
short. To remove and prosecute the man
would have been troublesome and apt to hurt
the reputation of the bank, so they have
made him stay, as if nothing had happened,
but have placed him in such a position that
he can take no more, and informed his fellow
clerks of the defalcation. He is avoided by
the insiders, and his position is about as
disagreeable as can well be imagined. Con
stantly under surveillance, he will work out
in time the amount he has taken, and will
then be discharged..-Philadelphja Times.
A Subject for a Museum.
A news item states that "an umbrella has
been made in Glasgow for a king in East
Africa measuring twenty-one feet in diam
eter." The dimensions of the umbrella are
not given, but we should think it would
have to be pretty bidky to "cover a king
twenty-one feet in diameter. A king so cor
pulent could make more money by travel
ing in this country with a 10-cent show than
to remain on a throne at home. Norris
town Herald.
It Takes Brains to IV in.
Snorting Goods Dealer Yes, my adver
tised reductions are vj good faith, I'm sell
ing standard baseballs to boys at five cents
each.
Friend fin the same line) Great Scott!
You'll be bankrupt.
"No I won't! I'm getting rich. You see
I'm a silent partner in tho firm of Painter &
Glazier, dealers in window glass, etc." Lin
coin Journal,
" PARAGRAPHS OF INTCr.ZST.
A railroad will soon bo built from Gibral
tar to coinmunicato with the re6t of Spain. .
The new pasftport system in the Alsace
Lorraine districts is said to bo very annoying
to American tourists.
Tho secretary of the London Eletrta com
pany reports that the stokers struck and.
stopped the lights because "a gratuitous
meal of roost beef was served cold instead ol.'
hoW
At Hamilton, Ont., a man who borrowed
an umbrella and did not return it has just
been sentenced to jail for one j car. A timely
warning to tho wise is sufficient.
Tho last French rifle, es described, has a
ball so small that a soldier can carry 220
rounds, shoots with a now smokeless powder,
and its bullet pierces a brick wall eight
inches thick at 000 yards.
A disobedient schoolgirl at Portsmouth,
Va., was mndo by her teacher to stand in
ono spot without moving for a long time.
Tho strain made her sick, and she is now said
to be dying of a fover.
Some hen's eggs that were accidentally
covered up by somo men plowing at Peta
luraa, Cal., last summer, were hatched by
tho heat of the sun upon the earth and the
noise made by the chicks led to their discov
ery and release.
Tho first volume of tho correspondence of
Peter tho Great, edited by Count Tolstoi, has
been published. Thero will bo ten very large
volumes, containing upward of 20.000 letters,
which have been gathered from archives ull
over Europe.
Tho nolmden farm, near Tithole, Ta., for
which, in the days of the oil craze, tho Car
den City Petroleum oomyinr:.'-, :" f".:tv;-..,
paid $1,500,000, wus sola a low days ago for
taxes amounting to less than $100.
The lumber from which tho gallows was
constructed on which John Brown was exe
cuted is owned by a resident of Harper's
Ferry, who is waiting for some relic hunter
to come and take it off his hands. The modest
sum of $1,500 is asked for it.
Recently at a Moscow sunset the rays of
tho sun were intercepted by a cloud, and
through some peculiar proporty in the atmos
phere tho entire city was oolored a vivid
purple hue. This strange effect lasted for
eight miuutc-a.
The back of a gold watch, with a crowu
and tho letter N engraved upon it, was re
cently returned to Dent & Co., of London,
and they identified it as tho back of a watci
which the Empress Eugeuio had given to her
son, the Prince Eugeuo, in 1S78. Tho relic
was sold to a gentleman in the African dia
mond mines by a Zulu.
There is now filed with a will in litigation
in Monroe county. Ga., a silver dollar that
was issued in lno, and has been in possession
of the same family for more than 100 years.
It is one of thirteen dollars that were paid to
a Revolutionary soldier when discharged
from tho Continental army.
A Chinese lantern tied to a kite that was
poised in midair caused a sensation among
the negroes of Augusta, Ga., a few nights
ago. The uncanny light dancing in the
heavens terrified them, and their cries and
prayers are sai l to have been woful to hear.
One old woman prophesied that it was a
warning to them all to repent.
Something that pays better than a gold
mine is a larga ivdgo of mica located just
west of Moscow, Idaho. It was discovered a
few years ago by an Indian, who sold it for a
trifio to W. A. Woody. The ledgo was next
purchased by a Chicago firm, who paid
$135,000 for if., and havesmce taken a fortuno
out of it every year.
A great parrot show is to be held at Turin
this summer. Prizes are to be given for the
polly who can use the most phrases and for
tho oldest parrot. It is said that a polly who
has seen S0 years will be present. It ia re
lated that Cuvier, tho celebrated naturalist,
had a parrot in his vestibule, who, upon
seeing a, strangerj would cry out, "What do
you want with my master.''' And when a
reply was given he would respond: "Don't
talk too much,"
Girls Clad as Mummies.
It seems curious that a fresh and all alive
young creature should bo clad in cloth copied
exactly from the wrappings of tho Egyptian
dead. Th's fabric is a novelty of the season.
and will be used extensively for summer
gowns, being light, cool aud new in color. I
don't suppose that this reproduction of
mummy habiliments will make it rest at all
heavily on the fair form3 of our girls, al
though I have seen one case in which tho
wearer cert'ly realized the source of tho
material. She had fashioned it into a house
robe to exactly resemble the original Egyp
tian garment, with its curious trappings and
bands. It was an idea worthy of the spec
tral Bernhardt, although it originated with
a merry enough Fifth avenue maiden. As
tho result was a shapely sort of costume, such
as plenty of women are ready to adopt, I
shall not be surprised if, when touched up by
the skillful fingers of the modern costumer,
the spectacle of apparently vivified mummies
in uur streets becomes general. New York
Sun.
Thrift and Frugality,
A lawyer living in a town near Wator
bury, Conn. , states a fact which well illus
trates the thrift and frugauVy which char
acterize many of the old families which have
not been touched by modern extravagance
and love of display. In that town three es
tates have been settled within a few months
aggregating property to the amount of
$700,000, and yet he says if all the household
furniture of those three families had been
sold at the best possible price, tho amount
received for it would not have amounted at
tho outiide to $300. It is too often the habit
now to have thousand dollar furnishings for
hundred dollar estates. W'aterbury Amer
ican. Pasteur's Rabbit Destroyer a Failure.
The South Australian Register, to hand by
the latest mail, contains an account of some
experiments at Sydney with M. Pasteur's
microbes of chicken cholera. A number of
rabbits were inoculated with the microbes on
a Saturday morning and placed under
close supervision in isolated boxes; but or,
Monday the rabbits had not shows the
slightest traces of the disease, which, ac-.
cording to M. Pasteur, should prove fatal in
about twenty-four hours. The experiment?
were not regarded as final. Microbes may
be strengthened by cultivation, but that w ill
be & matter of time. Chicago Tribune.
lielievert to Be u "Witch.
In the narrow valley where the Amazon,
takes its rise among the Peruvian Andes, a
woman was recently burned to death because
the populace believed her to be a witch. The
town of;Pataz, which has thus distinguished
itself, lies on a Well traveled valley road, is
big enough to figure on the maps and in the
gazetteers, and from the mountains on the
west the intelligent citizens must be almost
able to see the railroad thut ha3 straggled
into the neighboring valley north of thero.
As the stone age of human existence, how
ever, still holdi sway in some parti of the
world, it is probably a little too early to ex
pect that witches will everywhere take a back
seat. New Orleans Times-DemocraL
The Plattsmo uth Herald
Ts on. joying a
DAIIilf ATD WEEKLY
EDITIONS,
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Tear
Will be one during which the subjects of
national interest and importance will be
strongly agitated and the election of a
President will take place. Hie people of
Cass Countv who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and would keep apace with
the times should
FOH
Daily or Weekly Herald.
Now while wc have the subject before the
people we will venture to speak ot our
Which is first-class in all respects and
from which our job printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
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