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” Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil
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Da. q. c. Osoood,
Lowell, Maas.
"Castoria la the best remedy for children of
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stead of the various quack nostrums which are
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morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby —nding
them to premature graves.”
Da. J. F. EipcBXLoa,
Conway, Ark.
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“ Castoria Is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any pnsoipNn
known to me.”
H. A. Abchmb, ML D.,
Ill Bo. Oxford St.. Brooklyn, N. T.
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DUAL PERSONALITY.
RESIDUAL PHENOMENA OF THE MINC
IN SANE PEOPLE.
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Thl» Feature of Complex Personality It
Beit Seen la the Caie of • So Called Al>
eentmlnded Boxlneu Man—Experience!
of the Sleeping Mind.
Evidence is not wanting to show that
what we call personality is an extremely
complex thing, the sum of subsidiary per
sonalities which now shift and change
like the figures in a kaleidoscope, and
again becoming sharply defined undei
some abnormal condition crystallize intc
two or more distinct groups of elements,
which alternately sleep and wake oi
even coexist. These complex elements
may be so unstable, the groups compos
ing them constantly breaking up and
forming new combinations, that the idea
of multiple personality does not natural
ly attach itself to them; it is only when
they become stable, and especially when
each exhibits a well defined conscious
ness that we begin to think of such a
thing. But besides the abnormal and
diseased conditions wtiich cause such a
separation or crystallization there are
other conditions in which in appears
somewhat less distinctly. To one class
of these 1 desire to call attention very
briefly—to that embracing what may bi
called cases of residual personality.
Residual phenomena of all kinds arc
particularly interesting and instructive,
especially those where the few things re
maining in a group after many have been
removed differ widely in their collective
properties from those that have been
taken away, while these latter are not
in any way distinguishable from those
of the sum of both before the division
This is the case often with residual per
sonality. Nothing is more common than
for a group of elements in what we call
a person to be differentiated in one of
various ways, leaving behind a residual
group differing altogether in its charac
teristics. though the differentiated group
represents to us and is considered to
be identical with the original person.
1 he commonest method of such differ
entiation is sleep. The elements of
sleep are, as it were, substracted from
the normal personality, but there is
usually left behind a very curious some
thing-illogical, credulous, fantastic—
whoso nightly experiences the whole re
united person recollects in the morning
as dreams. The next commonest case is
that of the absentminded person. The
major part of the person being absorbed
in mental processes of some sort, the re
sidual person lives its own separate men
tal life, thinks, feels and wills by itself,
and perhaps carries on a train of proc
esses which is continuous with a preced
ing train carried on under similar cir
cumstances the day before.
This residual person may act very
mechanically. The reunited person may
fail to recollect what its acts or thoughts
were and be surprised to find how it has
been making use of his limbs while he—
what he vainly regards as the one un
alterable ego—has been absorbed in
thought. But, on the other hand, it maf
be perfectly conscious and may carry
on an entirely different train of thought
of its own. Almost always, however, it
is eccentric and betrays a weakness at
one point or another.
For instance, a suburban resident,
whom we will call A, is accustomed on
landing at the New York side of the
ferry to abandon the mechanical task of
walking to his office entirely to his resid
ual personality and to give up the major
part of himself to thought. The two per
sonalities act often with perfect—always
with practical—separateness, the residual
person being quite equal to the low task
of evading vehicles, steering clear of pass
ersby and turning the proper corners.
When the office is reached and the two
persons again become one, it is often a
difficult task to remember any circum
stances of the walk.
On one occasion, however, A left the
Astor library on Lafayette place, as he
supposed, intending to walk down Clin
ton place. To do this he must turn first
to the left, then to the right and then
again to the left. He turned once to the
left, and after some time became dimly
conscious that he had walked for a long
time, and that the place for the second
turn had not been reached.
coming to mmseir. ne ronna mmseif
far down Broadway. Tracing back his
course mentally, he discovered that he
had been in the Mercantile library in
stead of the Astor. His first turn there
fore had taken him down Broadway, and
he of course did not reach the place for
the second. Mark now the peculiarities
of his residual person. It knew just
where it was to turn and in what direc
tion. and had sense enough to be uneasy
when it did not come to the proper place
to turn, but it had not intelligence
enough to know that it was on the wrong
street. Its mind was too weak to be
trusted further than it was accustomed
to go. This residual person, in short,
was about on a par with a harmless idiot.
Again. B. a New Yorker, is walking
along absorbed in a process of thought,
when his residual personality sees his
friend C approaching. It is not aston
ished. for he is nearC’s lodgings, but as
the person supposed to be C comes near
er. it sees that he only slightly resembles
C. He has on shabby clothes, and his
face is entirely different. The natural
conclusion would be that the person ap- :
proaching was not C. The residual per
Bon, however, does not argue thus It
concludes that C has greatly changed,
that he has become poor and that his
appearance has altered for the worse.
Pity and surprise are plainly felt by j
the residual person. During these men- i
tal processes, so similar to those of a [
dream residual, the major person has
kept on with his own train of thought.
Finally, however, on the close approach
of the supposed C, they unite in a flash
into the normal person, the two separate
consciousnesses become one. and the
truth is recognized at once. No doubt
these cases can be paralleled by thou
sands of others. It seems to me that
they are as true instances of double per
sonality as any exhibited by epileptic or
hyponotic persons.—A. E Bostwick in
Science.
A HYPNOTIC imposter.
... ..'simian lVlio Could Do Many Thing!
I or Teacher* of Hypnotism.
The subject who came to me had been
\ shining light in the profession, and 1
lave reason to know that he was ex
ceptionally gifted. He had performed tc
crowded houses under several greai
artists at the Aqnarium, and elsewhere
in London and the provinces. Ho had
figured at select seances of scientific hyp
notists. He had been privately operated
on by medical men anxiously seeking
after truth. And, by his own statement
he had humbugged them all. What
proof had I, then, that he was not hum
bugging me? Ample proof. He offered
in the first place, to do under my direc
tion everything which he had done it
public and private seances when undei
supposed hypnotic control. I contem
plated, in the first instance, accepting
this offer and giving a demonstration tc
a select circle, and it was solely owing tc
myself that this was not done.
As a preliminary, I asked him to ex
hibit a few of his powers for my private
edification. Se complied without hesita
tion. He first of all passed himself intc
the “cataleptic” state and lay on the
floor rigid. Two members of my stafl
took him in this condition and laid him
across the backs of two chairs—the back
of his head resting on one and his heels
on the other. He remained so for several
minutes. On a pass being made ovei
him with the hand, his body became
arched upward or downward. Twc
fairly robust individuals next sat on his
body, and the “cataleptic” supported
them without signs of inconvenience.
He then himself thrust a needle into his
arm and through the lobe of his ear, tc
prove that he was insensible to pain while
in the cataleptic state.
Next he showed how one side of his
face could be drawn down by toothache
(“suggested” by the operator), while the
other side was distended in a broad grin.
Again, at the “suggestion” of the oper
ator, the grin and the toothache changed
sides, and so on. He offered to swallow
an ounce of cayenne pepper in a glass of
water, but unfortunately I had no cay
enne pepper at hand. 1 asked him
whether he could take a wineglassful ol
ipecacuanha, and he professed readiness
to do it at once. The cayenne pepper I
could partly understand. It would be
a mere question of standing a certain
amount of pain. But 1 asked him how
he managed to control the effect of the
ipecacuanha. “We only do it for a
time,” he said. “You can learn to do it
with practice, like the rest of the tricks.
But we always bring the stuff up after
the performance.”
He also expressed his readiness to
drink oil. Among novel tricks which
he offered to perform was that of “slow
ing” the pulse while under hypnotic influ
ence. Of this he claimed to be the orig
inal inventor. I asked him whether all
the “subjects” were equal imposters.
“All,” he said. He knew them all per
sonally and would answer for them. He
ridiculed the mere suggestion that there
could be anything genuine in hypnotism,
whether in Paris, London or anywhere
else, but here he may have spoken be
yond his knowledge.—London Truth.
A Reminiscence of Fanny Kemble.
The late Fanny Kemble is remembered
by old residents of Germantown and
Philadelphia as a superb horsewoman.
She had a fiery temper, which matched
that of her husband. Pierce Butler, and
speedily brought about what is still one
one of the most noted divorce trials re
ported in the law books. In her youth
she was remarkably beautiful, and in the
role of Juliet she was the personifica
tion of dazzling loveliness. She was not
ed for her keenness of wit even in the
days of her old age. Once, when an im
pertinent street lounger stepped up to
her while she was looking in the window
of a bric-a-brac store and said, “Are you
fond of antiquities?” Mrs. Kemble quick
ly unpinned her veil and turning on the
man her aged face (she was then 73)
asked, “Are you?” One of Mrs. Kemble’s
daughters is Mrs. Wistar of German
town, well known in literature.—Har
per’s Weekly.
A Matter of Fact Dog.
There are prosaic men and women,
and there are matter of fact dogs. For
purely business purposes they are often
the best.
We once owned an excellent retriev
ing spaniel of the simple order of mind,
without a grain of humor. This dog ac
companied us unasked when we wanted
to shoot a bullfinch in the garden to
stuff. The gun went off. and the poor
bullfinch dropped.
Now, this dog had been used, when
the gun was fired, to go and look for a
dead or wounded rabbit. So, instead
of looking under the apple tree, he dis
appeared into the hedge, and in a few
minutes he returned with a rabbit in his
mouth! So much for the value of a
matter of fact dog.—London Spectator.
Tlio First and Last Time.
On a sultry day in August an aged
negro who gloried in the name of Pom
pey, was driving through Main street in
Springfield, Mass., a poor old skeleton
of a horse attached to a heavy load of
wood.
By the most frantic efforts the horse
had succeeded in dragging his load over
an unusually high crossing when sud
denly the poor animal stopped, reared
in the air and fell dead on the street.
Pompey stood for a moment in silent
astonishment, with extended hands, pend
ent lip and bulging eyeballs, then ex
claimed, “By gum! I nebber knowed
him do dat afore!”—Cor. New York
Press.
A First Thought In Church.
A little western boy less than 3 years
old was taken to church for the first
time. He gazed about with much inter
est and finally asked in a clear but awe
struck voice, “Mamma, where’s God?"—
New York Tribune.
Lore For Teachers.
“Do you love your teacher?”
“I suppose I have to.”
“Why so. Tommy?”
“Because the Bible says we must love
our enemies.”—New York Telegram.
REPROOF IN LOVE.
Because we are shut out from light.
Each of the other's look and smile:
Because the arms' and lips' delight
Are past and dead a weary while;
Because the dawn that joy has brought
Brings now but certainty of pain.
Nothing for you and ine has bought
The right to live our lives in vain.
Take not away the only lure '
That leads me on my lonely way—
To know you noble, sweet ami pure.
Great in least service day by day.
— Wives and Daughters.
How a Saber Cut Feels.
•‘I hardly know how it feels to be shot,
but I well realize how it feels to be cut,”
Eaid Mr. 0. D. Reeves of Indianapolis a:
the Lindell. “I enlisted in a cavaln
regiment when I was 16 and put in four
years for Uncle Sam. Do you see this
scar? That was doii9 at Nashville,” and
he held up his left hand, which was al
most encircled by a deep scar. “The
boys were ordered to charge, and I had
emptied my pistols and had just drawn
my saber when I saw hearing down upon
me one of the largest men 1 ever saw.
“Our horses were both going at full
speed, and he was headed directly for
me. He launched his blow first, and I
instinctively threw up my hand and
lowered my head. The saber struck my
hand, which fell helplessly by my side.
Th# man flew past me, and I turned my
horse to one side and rode far enough
away to examine my wound. No blood
escaped, neither did I feel any pain until
the wound was dressed a half hour later.
The reaction set in, and the strongest
opiates were used for days to give me re
lief from pain.”—St, Louis Republic.
The Thumb.
Thumbs have been appreciated ever
since the world began. The ancients
used to call the thumb the other hand.
Barbarous kings used to swear and make
compacts by their thumbs. In Rome it
was a sign of favor to wring and kiss the
thumb, and of disfavor or disgrace to
lift them up or turn them outward. A
man who was hurt in his thumbs was
excused from serving in the Roman wars.
Some of the scoundrelly citizens used t*
cut off their thumbs, so as to remain
home and get rich. Teachers used to
punish their pupils by biting their
thumbs.
The thumb is a great and influential
member. I can look at the thumb of a
young woman and describe her figure. 1
can tell whether she is thin and bony, or
plump and round; whether her joints
are large and ill shapen, or small and
perfectly proportioned. By examining
a man’s thumb I can tell what ought to
be his vocation.—New York Tribune.
Its Song Is Like the Filing of a Saw.
Of the Acadian owl, one of the rarest
of New England birds, Audubon saysr
“This little owl is known in Massachu
setts by the name of the ‘saw whet.' the
sound of its love notes bearing a great
resemblance to the noise produced by
filing the teeth of a large saw. These
notes, when coming, as they frequently
do, from the interior of a deep forest,
produce a very peculiar effect on the
traveler, who, not being aware of their
real nature, expects as he advances on
his route to meet with shelter under a
sawmill at no great distance. Until 1
shot the bird in the act I had myself
been more than once deceived in this
manner.”
—
The Restless Man.
Of all tiresome things a restless man is
the worst. A restless woman cannot be
gin to come up to a restless man. She
gets physically tired out after awhile and
must sit down. But a man—he can go
on and on forever.
In cafes, railroad trains, theaters—in
fact, wherever men do congregate—there
also is the restless man, driving every
one distracted with his ceaseless tramp
ing. He goes up, and he goes down, but
he is never weary.—New York Herald.
His Regard For Himself.
The comfortable, well clad citizen was
going along Woodward avenue home the
other evening when a big, burly tramp
stopped him and asked for a dime. The
citizen looked him over and asked:
“Do you have no more regard for
yourself than to beg on the streets?”
“That's just it, boss,” was the reply.
“It’s because I have regard for myself
that I do. There’s too many dogs in the
back yards.”—Detroit Free Press.
In Politics It Is “Pull.**
From the Hopeful Young Man to the
Pastor—As I stand in the broad avenue
of life I find so many closed doors I know
not which one to open. Ho’ can I tell
which will lead me to success .
From the Practical Pa. or to the
YoungMan—There’s onlyone, -"dyou’ll
find it labeled “Push.”—Exchange.
Saving and Spending.
“I saved up $3.08 last year.” said Wal
lis proudly.
“And I suppose you spent it on pres
ents for your papa and mamma?” asked
the visitor.
“Yes,” said Wallis. "That is, all but
$3 of it.”—Harper’s Bazar.
The man who, after studying a hun
dred women, thought he knew the sex
thoroughly, admitted, on intimate ac
quaintance with the one hundred and
first, that he was densely ignorant of the
nature of any ono of them.
The living alumni of the University of
Michigan are said to number twice as
many as the living alumni of any other
educational institution in this country.
Harvard is reported to be next, with I
Yale a good third.
It is said that when dressed in the
European gowns a Japanese wife pre
cedes her husband in entering a room,
while in the eastern dress she must fol
low him.
Richter was fond of pets and at one
time kept a great spider in a paper box,
carefully feeding and tending the crea
ture for many months.
The Japanese say, “A man takes a
drink, then the drink takes a drink, and
the next drink takes the man.”
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When she was a Child, she cried tor Ccrtcria. ,
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