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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 21.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1897.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,125.
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HER MISSION.
(By Amy Randolph.)
ND you think I'd
really better adver.
tise'" said the Rev.
Septimus Hixon.
"By all means,"
.rT JS; - jmi b 1 i c of Snag-
lown; that's the
only business
way."
Mr. Hixon, a tall, pale, close-shaven
young clergyman, sal in his Gothic
etudy, with a vase of rosebuds before
his sheets of sermon paper, and a
tack of new pens all placed ready for
use. Maj. Clark, short and stout, with
a fringe of white whiskers around his
rubicund countenance, was smoking a
cigar on the doorstep. Mr. Hixon
disliked the odor of Havanas, and Maj.
Clark despised the rosebuds. But they
were both mildly tolerant of the
other's weakness. Maj. Clark had an
idea that it looked respectable to be
on social terms with your clergyman,
end Mr. Hixon, who had only recent
ly accepted a call to Snagtown, de
pended a good deal on Maj. Clark's
thorough acquaintance with the peo
ple and the place.
' And, to speak truth, the beautiful,
rose-garlanded parsonage was not al
together without Its thorns. Mr. Hixon
knew nothing about housekeeping, and
the old woman, who had always man
aged the domestic helm for his prede
cessor, had just retired from business
on a legacy. An.l the topic which
Maj. Clark and he were discussing at
that especial moment was how to re
place Betsey Ann Snedecor.
So. Mr. Hixon took the major's ad
vice and inserted an advertisement in
the Snagtown Weekly Trumpet. The
major gave it to the editor with the
dollar which was to guarantee its
prompt insertion.
And the Snagtown Weekly Trumpet
had not decorated the breakfast table
of the citizens for half an hour on
the Wednesday morning of its Issue
when Mr. Hixon, studying out the
"fifthly" of his next week's sermon,
was startled by a tap at the door, and
in walked a lady.
A young lady. And rather a pretty
lady, with a flush on her cheeks as red
as the Rev. Mr. Hixon's own rose
buds, pretty brown hair and dark blue
eyes veiled with long lashes.
"Ah!" stammered Mr. Hixon, rising
rather awkwardly, "how do you do.
Miss Lennox? A fine morning after
the rain. Pray be seated pray favor
me by occupying this chair!"
For he had seen Barbara Lennox
several times. ailed once nt her fath
er's snug little farmhouse, and put
down her name in his list of people to
be visited frequently. He liked Bar
lara. and he did not think that Bar
bara disliked him. There are some
people with whom wo feel that we
should like to be better acquainted.
And pretty Barbara was one of these,
classed on the white pages of the min
ister's memorandum book.
So, of course, when she came to the
"WILL YOU MARRY ME?"
tudy that July morning, looking so
fresh and pretty in her pink muslin
flress and gypsy hat. with its wreaths
of daisies, he was a degree or so more
iwkward and clumsy than usual.
"But I can't stay," fluttered Bar
bara; "I have come to see you on busi
ness, Mr. Hixon."
"On business. Miss Barbara?"
""Yes." nodded Barbara; "I have
een the paper this morning."
"Oh!" said Mr. Hixon. reddening up
!o the roots o' his hair, as he remem
bered the advertisement. "Ah. yes!
Have :ou any trustworthy person
whom you can recommend?"
"Myself." said Barbara.
Mr. Hixon moed back his studv
rhalr. thereby seriously inconvenie
Ing the tortoise-shell cit. which was
Rsleep in the sunshine close behind
him.
"You!" said lie.
"Yes," said Barbara; "why not? I
nm such a meic useless doll in the
world now. Don't you think. Mr. Hix
pn, you could find something for me
to do?"
Mr. Hixon rubbed his Greek nose.
"There's enough to do," said he;
'"not a question of that. But whether
fou would like that sort of work "
"Any work that is done for the
church would please me, I know," said
Barbara, eagerly.
"Do you think, by dear Miss Len
nox, that you are strong enough?" du
biously asked the clergyman.
She laughed a merry bobolink sort j
Df laugh. j
"I,' cried she. "strong enough? I
rould do anything. Look at the frail,
lelicate women who have successfully
-fone out to our foreign missions!"
"Ah. but this field of labor is very
different," reasoned the Rev. Septi
mus. "Yes, of coarse," said Barbara; "but
it's doing good, just the same, isn't
'.t?"
"Ton have never done anything of
the sort before." said Mr. Hixon, more
nd more puzzled.
"?fo. but there must be a first begin
ning to everything," said Barbara,
rheerfully.
"The compensation is not high,"
aid Mr. Hixon. wondering what the
old ladies of the parish would say to
seeing Barbara Lennox In his kitchen.
"As if I cared for that." said Bar
oara. "My work is light." added the clergy
man, "and of cp::tf you would have
t great deal of time to yourself."
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fyd(t)- i 1 Maj. Clark,
'yi-Vff "piIt 'our?e,f in di"
. MBjrw rct communication
tfS Rrlrf'Tr' with the general
Itll
"Oh, but I Ki-nt to be kept busy,"
pleaded Barbara.
"I I am afraid you are too young,"
said Mr. Hixon in desperation.
"Too young!" cried Barbara. "What
difference does that make?"
"People might say gossiping, hl-na-tured
things." reasoned Mr. Hixon,
looking very hard at the tops of the
cars of the tat. which had by this
time jumped into Miss Lennox's lap.
"And much as I should appreciate your
kind offer"
"If you won't take me." said Bar
bara, springing to her feet with a red
spot glowing on either cheek, "I'll go
to Mr. Symington, the Baptist minis
ter." "I don't think he needs one," said
Mr. Hixon, also rising and looking per
turbed. "Needs what?"
"A maid-servant," explained Mr.
Hixon in the blunt way in which your
Latin scholar sometimes blurts out his
facts.
"But," cried Barbara, with very
wide-open eyes, "who is talking about
a maid-servant?"
"You." said Mr. Hixon. "Aren't
you?"
"Indeed I'm not," said Barbara.
"Didn't you allude to my advertise
ment for a servant-maid, which ap
peared in this morning's Snagtown
Weekly Trumpet?" asked Mr. Hixon.
feeling as if the world were all turn
ing upside down, and he were losing
his hold on creation in general.
"So," said Barbara Lennox. "I al
luded to an editorial in the same pa
per which called the attention of the
public to the lack of workers in the
field of domestic missions."
Mr. Hixon heaved a deep sigh. "Dear,
dear," said he, "how very rediculous.
I must have made myself "
"What must you have thought of
me?" cross-questioned Barbara, sud
denly perceiving the weak side of her
own position. And. without waiting
fcr his response, she dropped the as
tonished cat and flew out of the study,
crossing the old orchard, where the
cherries were winking their scarlet
eyes through the leaves, and at length
losing herself in the woods beyond.
"I have ofTended her," said Mr. Hix
on to himself. "How clumsy I must
have been! I must go after her, at
once!"
He did so, overtaking her just where
a rustic bridge spanned the quiet brook
below the woods.
"Barbara," he pleaded in piteous
tones, "Miss Lennox I didn't mean to
say anything which could offend you!"
"Oh!" cried Barbara, "I am not of
fended. I am only vexed and angry
with myself!"
"Barbara!"
"Yes. Mr. Hixon!"
"You are determined not to try the
situation?"
Her eyelashes fell. "I am not
worthy even of that, Mr. Hixon."
"Barbara?" '
"Well. Mr. Hixon?"
"If you won't be my mission Sunday
school teacher, will you be my wife?"
"Mr. Hixon!"
"We can at least work together, Bar
bara, in our Master's vineyard," said
the young clergyman solemnly. "And
ever since I have been here I have
felt that I lacked something to get
force and energy to my daily ministra
tions. I know now what it is a wife!
Dear little Barbara, will you marry
me?"
"If if you think I am good enough,"
said Barbara, drooping her head so
that he could scarcely see the shell
pink glow of her cheeks.
So they took the advertisement out
of the Snagtown Weekly Trumpet,
and were married quietly and
Mrs. Septimus Hixon brought with her
to the parsonage a faithful old domes
tic, who asked for no better lot in
life than to work for "Miss Barbara
and her husband."
And Barbara has at length achieved
the great longing of her life a mis
sion! She is a pattern clergyman's
wife, an earnest worker, a faithful mis
sionary In the home field. And Mr.
Hixon has cut the little advertisement
out of the village paper, and preserves
it among his dearest mementos.
"I didn't advertise for a wife." said
he. "but I got one. Eh, Barbara?"
New York Ledger.
OURIOUS MONTANA CURRENCY
Potatoes tiiren for Debt, Onions for
Chance. Matches for Melons.
Boys in thgJSast someti
es think
tBmr
money ayscatce enoug
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they really know v
lttlc aBoi
ut it
compared with '
t some of their
West could tell
cousins trom tne
era. There
often goes fgiaJBays
ivithout sight 3f even so rqrch as
a
nickel and thfn the neonle?rcsort to
all sorts oLqueer devices to "make
change." mKn. Easternftan who had
occasionto spend Jnauy months in
Montarvtells of having seen a man
buyJox of mdrfnes with a water
mejmi, and reejave as change two
mnskmelons. Another paid for sus
renders in turnips, and got a carrot or
two back with his purchase. "But of all
the queer financial transactions that I
have ever known," said he. "the oddest
came under the head of 'paying the
fiddler.' It had been noised abroad
that a dance was to be given a little
way up the mountain, and I agreed to
go along with one of the boys and see
the fun. After going through the ela
borate preparations of blacking his
boots and putting on a collar, I saw
my companion go to the potato bin
and carefully select a dozen nice pota
toes and put them in his pocke.
No sooner had we arrived at the
'music hall' than he gracefully sur
lendered his vegetables for an entrance
ticket. But what puzzled me the most
was that upon coming out after danc
ing all night he was given two onions
as 'change. I have been trying to
make tip my mind ever since just what
that dance was worth in the 'currency
of the realm.' " San Francisco Chron
icle. Still They Are One.
"A man and a woman." remarked the
observer of men and things, "are quite
likely to look at a thing from opposite
points of view; a man will see notbing
bnt the outlay, where a woman has no
eyes for anything but the layout.'
l-'CLIUlL JUU1UOI.
In the sixteenth century frogs were
considered fish, and allowed on fast
days.
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GOODCROPSAflDPKICE
PROSPERITY RAPIDLY RETURN
ING TO THE LAND.
Talk With a DUtlnffaUbe Statesman
ad Agricultural Expert B. W. Snow
Ilaa Some Interesting Views on Con
ditions and Prospects.
Washington, D. C, Aug. :, 1897.
It is seldom that the eatire country
is blessed with such an abundance as
this year. In no section is there re
ported "no crops." Illinois has
pehaps the poorest wheat yield
but her corn crop is magnificent and
the small losses from winter killed
wheat sections do not amount to any
thing in the grand total yield.
Mr. B. W. Snow, the ex-asslstant sta
tistician of the department of agricul
ture, who is still making a specialty
of agricultural statistics, . Bald, in
speaking of the great agricultural
wealth of the country at this time:
"With the bountiful crops throughout
the United States not in prospect but
actually in hand, with increased and
Increasing consumption at home and
a larger foreign dc-iimnd for American
products and with prices on the up
grade even while the crops arc still
on the farms, this year of 1837 wil's
be remembered as a year of great agri
cultural prosperity and plenty."
"Harvesting is so far advanced, Mr.
Snow, that it is no longer a matter of
estimate and conjecture as to the yield,
but In many cjses you have the actual
approximate figures?"
"Ye3. The crop season is now so far
advanced that the final results can be
safely promised. Nevertheless the re
sult is no less pleasing than the earlier
prospective hopes of the most opti
mistic. In no line of agricultural pro
duction is it a light year and in moot
the yields are heavy. Hay has rarely
flourished as it has this year. The
abundant rains have given us a very
unusual crop and hay is a more im
portant crop than usually thought.
The rates of the new tariff law thor
oughly protect our farmers in this re
spect. The year's wheat crop is the
second largest in the history of the
country, running upwards of 300,000.
000 bushels and well distributed over
the country. The corn crop promises
to be a very large one. The oat crop is
also well above the average. All the
minor crops aro in promising form. The
fruit crop generally promises good re
sults. But these facts of large yield
and good promise do not tell the whole
story of prosperity. Prolific crops have
been harvested before, but in some
cases, have for want of consumption
and demand, proven a burden rather
than a blessing. It was a common
saying that the farmer would rather
have small crops with good prices than
large crops and no prices. But this
year come the abundant crops and high
prices, a rare combination and one
calculated to warm the cockles of the
heart of the thrifty farmer. Prices
are high and inclining upward. There
is no reason to fear a reaction and
slump because of the actual conditions
of the world's crops. The United
States holds the key to prices. The
wheat crop of the world is known to
be about 100,000,000 bushels short.
Argentina, India and Australia have
no surplus and Russia practically none.
Great Britain, France and Germany
arc far short in their production of
their home demand. There was an
American surplus of last year's crop
of 70,000,000 bushels and the fortunate
thing is that this is in the hands of
the farmer. The advanced position of
wheat developed before the farmer had
disposed of his wheat to buyers and
now he will reap the full benefit of the
advance."
"Is not the present crop larger than
was expected sometime ago, Mr.
Snow?"
"It is, and the quality is of the fin
est. In winter killed sections the
wheat braced up wonderfully. Fields
in Illinois whose plowing under was
contemplated early in the season have
made very fair yields and others with
a supposed small yield have shown by
the thresher enormous returns. The
actual increase in money in the hands
of the farmers through their wheat
holdings throughout the country is an
enormous sum. Wheat is worth now
about 20 cents a bushel more than the
crop last year and the advance for
this year has just begun. The market
will continue to rise. The ir.c-eased
value of the wheat crop of Kansas
alone this ye?r in comparison with last
amounts to nearly or quite $23,000,000,
while the increased value of the coun
try's crop at present prices is in ex
cess of $100,000,000 over that of last
year."
"What are the corn outlooks, Mr
Snow?"
"Most gratifying. Although the sea
son started late the yield will be
large. 2.000.000,09 bushels is a fair
estimate as the ccreage is the largest
ever planted. Every indication poiurs
to advancing prices in corn. Last
year at this time prices were shrinking
at the prospect of a large crop; this
year the tendency is upward. Millions
of bushels of old corn now lie in the
cribs in the west and with rising prices
for this as well as the new crop, there
can be but one result."
"All along the line of agricultuia!
production, including all live stock,
there is a general steady increase!
Large new flocks of sheep are con
templated as p. result of the wool tariff
and the demand has ire-eased the
value of the sheep holdings of the
country $10,000,000.
"But the finest point in all these
Increases is the fact that they come
at a time when the farmer holds his
products and that he individually will
reap the full benefit. I have a little
table here prepared some days ago
for publication which shows the im
provement in cash values of leading
farm products. They are recent Chi
cago quotations for 1S97 In compari
son with those exactly one year ago.
1896 1S97.
Wheat .58 .77
Corn .23 .27
Oats .18 .17
Rye .29 .39
Barley .27 .31
Flaxseed .73 .83
Hogs $2.90 to $3 .20 $3.40 to $3.60
Cattle $3.95 to $4.30 $4.40 to $4.90
Sheep $2.00 to $3.80 $2.35 to $4.00
"In these articles named, with the
tingle exception of flaxseed this year's
itoct
supply is larger than that of last and
the supply, as I have said, is In the
banfr of the producer.
G. H. WILLIAM9.
The Maker and the Taken
American Economist: There la no
motive to make a product if you can't
find somebody to take it The maker
must find the taker. You will not em
ploy labor to make a product if you
cannot find a buyer for that product
after labor has made it. President Mc
Kinley. This is so obvious a truth that we
may suppose that even a free-trader
would agree to it.
The conclusions in-
Ai'ifnlilt .r...lt :.. rnn. iliSc tfltttl 0A
equally' obvious.' Why the free-traders
cannot see them is one of the mysteries
of the nineteentii century. It ought to
be perfectly plain thct if, by free-trade,
th.2 products "of foreign manufacturers
are brought into this country to under
sell American manufacturers, the for
eign "makers" will find all the
"takers," and the reult will be that
American manufacturers will not be
able to find buyers for their products,
and will, therefore, not employ labor to
make those products. The leasoning is
perfectly simple. But we have had
something more than reasoning in re
gard to it during the last four yean?.
We have had a practical demonstration.
The doctrinaires and hide-bound free
traders may not et have had their eyes
opened, but the people of the country
have. And that's why William McKin
ley is president of the United States
Decatur, III.. "Republican."
"Come In Out
The Outlook for Wool.
We congratulate the American wool
growers upon their outlook. After
nearly five years of steady deprecia
tion in the value of sheep and wool,
brought abei.e solely by the Democrat
ic policy of freo trade in wool, our Am
erican sheep owners will have protec
tion restored to their agricultural in
dustry and with it, we trust, an increas?
in the number and value of their flocks.
While we wish no harm to Australian
sheep owners, the following extract
from the monthly wool circular of
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort & Co., of
Melbourne, dated May 7, is of inter
est: The pastoral position almoat through
out Australia is at present one of great
gravity; the severity of the drought is
almost as acute as it is widespread.
The preservation of stock requires in
cessant effort, and mortality is increas
ing with painful rapidity, while the
prospects of a lambing season have sel
dom, if ever, been more unpromising.
Even in stronger confirmation of the
unfavorable outlook for the Austral!an
flocks, with a consequent decrease in
the production of Australian wool, Sb
the following extract from a printed
letter dated at Sydney, Australia.
May 8:
"Here we are passing through a se
vere drought one of the worst experi
enced for many, many j-ears, and I
think that nearly the whole crop of
Iambs will be lost and possibly eight
to ten millions more sheep, so that you
may look for the numbers in this col
ony (New South Wales) going down
from 47 millions at December 31 last
year to about 35 to 37 millions at the
end of this year, because, even though
rain may come now, there must be a
tremendous mortality as the ewes are
lambing and the sheep generally are in
a very weak condition in most parts
of the colony. The bad season will al
so militate largely against the crops."
If it be possible to collect a duty up
on all foreign wool imported in antici
pation of the enactment of a protec
tive tariff, either in such manner as has
been suggested by Senator Warren or
by an internal revenue tax. then the
improvement in the outlook for al!
American wool interests will be even
quicker, stronger and surer.
Ilrmncr.it Not Free Trailers.
There are a great many editors and
a few public men who have deceived
themselves into believing that the
democratic party is a free trade party.
We need not pause here to inqi'f.re how
so confusing an error got afoot. It Is
sufficient to say that the time has
come to correct it. "Constitution,"
Atlanta, Ga.
We are indeed very glad to hear it,
and gladly do our part toward cor
recting the misapprehension by giving
the above Democratic statement the
widest possible circulation among our
exchanges and through our various
pi ess services.
Stimulating Conliilrnre.
The protective tariff act when passed
and signed will not act like magic to
restore prosperity in a single. night,
but it will stimulate the confidence of
manufacturers in the future of their
enterprises and work will be given to
thousands who are now idle as a result
of the untoward effects of free-trade
legislation and free silver agitation.
Detroit, Mich.. Journal.
On Labor Brotr.
It is too early rerhaps to speculate
as to the issues of the next Presidential
campaign, but it does look as if the
silk nightshirt might be one of them.
Fortunately no laurels can be gained
among the poor by any talk of pressing
a eilk nightshirt on the brow of labor.
Detroit Free Press.
of the Vict loiituiii
M'LEAN A COLD BUO.
Mr. McLean, it appears, has quite as
great a fondness for gold as those other
gentlemen with whom he vies in his al
leged friendship for silver. While he
evidently considers silver good enough
for the poor man, he does not consider
It good enough for John R. McLean.
There are plenty of evidences of this
in Mr. McLean's business transactions
in the District of Columbia. In his In
vestments, which have been numerous
and large here, he has, where possible,
selected those payable in gold, and has
fone s far as ; to dlscaru any .
, "uns wnicn mK ".
i Mcmauy tailen into his nanus, so ""
I f3h? to opportunity. An instance
is related in which a few years ago he
purchased a number of bond3 of the
District of Columbia of two classes.
These purchases were made indiscrimi
nately without reference to the classes
cf bonds, but were soon followed by a
sale by McUan of a number of those
wh'ch he had apparently bought as a
permanent investment. Observation as
lo the class of bonds of 'vhich he was
disposing disclosed that he invariably
retained the goM bonds and disposed
of those which were not specifically
made payable In gold coin, although
they were guaranteed by the United
States. Mr. McLean has made no con
cealment of lii; tnotive in these transac
tions, saying frankly that he wanted
the obligation which he held as an in-
j vestment payable in gold. On another
occasion, wh"n one of Mr. Bland's sil
ver me.isurps was pending in congress,
and there seemed a probabllit that it
might become a law. it is related on
:;eod nuthoritv that Mr. McLean hitr
licdly disposed of large quantities of
Hiked Slates bonds, taking gold coin
in exchange therefor and depositing if
in the vaults of one of the great safe
deposit establishments of this city, pil
ing up many thousands of dollars of the
yellow r.:etal against the possibility cf
'egislation in favor of silver, which,
'.owctir. did not take place.
Theic are plenty of circumstances of
this kind which might be detailed to
rliovv Mr. McLean's personal fondness
for the yellow metal and his unwilling
ness to accept obligations which could
be paid in silver, of which he now
lo?es as a champion. While these .ire
interesting and plentiful, they are omit
ted on this occasion in order to give
space for the detai's of a single transac-
ion showing his fondness for gold and
distrust of the other classes of currency
w hich he and his associates in Ohio arfc
now seeking to force upon the masses.
The transaction in question is that of
a contract made by him with the Col
umbia Athletic club of thk city in 189,
in which he requires that organization
to make sundry obligations, amounting
to $70,000, payable to him individually
in gold coin, both principal and inter
est. The transaction related to the con
struction of a club house for this or
ganization, the Columbia Athletic club
of the District of Columbia. In that
year he made an agreement with the
club by which he sold to it certain lots
in the fashionable northwest part of
Wnshinsrton. near tho War. State nml
Navy Departments, and erected there-
..non 9 ,.nmmn,iin., nml cnMv oii.i,
upon a commodious and costly club
house, the price of the land and the
club house being $70,000. This money
the club agreed to pay on or before the
1st of March, 1909, and issued bonds
payable to John R. McLean, bearing
his name upon their face. These bonds
he required the club to agree to pay ia
"gold coin of the United States of the
present standard of weight and fine
ness," also requiring it to pay the "in
terest thereon in like gold coin."
There can be no doubt about the ac
curacy of this statement. The bonds
were prepared and signed by the offi
cers of the club and turned over to
him, and some of them have since
passed into the hands of other parties
who now hold them. Not only are these '
bonds still extant and readily obtain
able by those who desire to verify this
statement, but a still more permanent
and unimpeachable record of this tran-
saction Is found upon the official recordg
of the District of Columbia. The dc-'
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tails of the entire transaction between
Mr. McLean and the Columbia Athletic
club are set forth in a copy of a deed of '
trust jiiven in connection with this
transaction
Turaeil Over :i w Leaf.
That "KnUtet Chain" Smalicl.
The eagerness of importers to evade
the new tariff had one noteworthy re
sult. It smashed the Cleveland inven
tion, that the drain of sold from the
treasury was due to our currency,
which furnished an "endiess chain" for
the draving out of gold. The currency
is the same to-day it was when Messrs.
Clevelard and Carlisle were casting
about f( r any reason but the true one
to acco-.nt for their bond sales. The
currency is the same and the treasury
is not drawn upon for gold exception
ally. The reason is the treasury has
money enough to meet the govern
ment's expenses. Republicans said all
the while the drain of gold and the
bond srles were due to the tariff for
deficit snd would cease as soon as rev
enue receipts equaled expenses. Utica,
N. Y.. Herald.
"Mvlng Wages.- v
The purchasing ability ofjlhe great
masses is what decides gooC times or
bad times, and that ability comes of ,
"living wages." Globe, Boston, Mass.
Ana tne living wages come only
tinder a Protective tariff.
TRADE. 0 Mfr2U
TALE OF HYPNOTISM.
THE WOMAN CHATS WHILE
SCALPEL STRIPS FLESH.
Not a Single Xerre Quivered After the
Or ileal She Remembered Nothing hut
Her Talk with the Surgeon While at
Their Work.
YPNOTISM prom
ises to become a
prominent factor in
modern surgery.
Considerable hyp
notic experiment
ing has been going
on of late.but many
of the most success
ful investigators of
this phase of psy
chological science
have refrained from giving or neglect
ed to give the results of their work to
the public, says the San Francisco
Call.
An apt illustration of the adaptabil
ity and harmlessness of hypnotism in
delicate and painful operations was
furnished a few days ago in the case
of Mrs. A. R. Clothier of Collinsville,
Solano county, now residing at 2115
Webster street, in this city.
An operation which is known among
the surgical fraternity as "trachelorr
aphy, was performed on her about ten
day3 ago under hypnotic influence, but
"perineorraphy" was performed later,
and owing to aggravated conditions
from the previous operation was a se
rious ordeal.
Dr. M. E. Van Meter was the operat
ing surgeon, assisted by Dr. Charles
Clark, who readily placed the patient
under the influence of hypnotism. The
only other persons present during the
operation wcie the assistant surgeons
and nurses.
At the first operation the lady was
hypnotized while lying on the couch,
and walked at the bidding of the doc
tor to the operating table, and after
the ordeal returned to her former rest
ing place. At the last operation Dr.
Clark approached her as she lay on the
operating table, and, placing a hand
across her temples, which were covered
with a handkerchief, said soothingly:
"You are going to sleep now on this
lounge, and will feel much refreshed
when you awake."
"Am I?" she said contentedly, and in
a few minutes, being told that every
one had left the room but himself, she
failed to see or hear any of those mov
ing about her. The surgeon bent over
her and touched her forehead, but she
showed no signs of consciousness,
though she was aware of all that Dr.
Clark said and did, conversing with
him and acquiescing in every state
ment he made and obeying him as a
child would.
In the meantime the operator had ar
ranged his instruments and began his
work. A slight stream of blood fol
lowed the glittering .scalpel, and she
still quietly discussed the topics of the
day with her companion. Needles,
scissors and knives were bereft of their
terrors, and the faintest hearted could
I but lose hlrase!f in intcrest a,ml wom1cr
' as the operation progressed. Every
moment or so the doctor said to her:
"You can feel neither touch nor pain;
you are resting perfectly," and she re
peated her affirmation of each state
ment and lay as quiet and motionless
as if in slumber, the muscles relaxed,
the respiration legular and normal and
the voice subdued.
At times she complained of weariness
and asked to change her position, but
subsided at a word, believing herself
perfectly comfortable. She asked for
water and drank from an imaginary
glass with perfect satisfaction to her
self. At last the task was finished and the
physicians prepared to lift the patient
from the tabic tr. her bed. Dr. Clark's
Influence was again brought to bear,
and she became rigid as if frozen, so
perfectly did she respond to the "hyp
notic suggestion." After being placed
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would feel no pain or weariness. "Post-
hvpnotic suggestions," as they arc
called, seem the most lemarkable of
all, for they control the subject after
waking, leaving him free from the in
fluence of the operator.
After the lady had been comfortably
placed the surgeons withdrew. Dr.
Clark stepped back from the bedside
to the middle of the room and watched
her closely without speaking.
As though lie had uttered his com
mand aloud she began to count "One,
two, three." and on reaching "twelve"
she threw back the handkerchief from
her face and opened her eyes. She re
membered nothing with the exception
of her conversation with Dr. Clark and
ther was no appearance of exhaustion
or pain. Later she complained of a
smarting sensation, but was persuaded
by further "suggestion" that she was
quite well.
A Wonderful lisli.
The Bohemians have a proerb,
"Every fish has another for its prey:"
the wels (Siiurus) has them all. This
is the largest fre.sh water fish found in
the rivers of Europe, except the stur
geon; it often reaches five or six feet
in length. It destroys many aquatic
birds and we are assured that it does
not spare the human species. On the
3d of July, 1700, a rea&ant tool: one
near Thorn that had an infant entire
in its stomach. They tell in Hungary
Df children and young girls belsg de
voured on going to dra- v.-ater, and
they ever relate that on the frontiers
of Turkey a poor fisherman took one
that had in its stomach the body of a
woman, her purse full of gold, and a
ring. This fish is even reputed to have
been taken sixteen feet long.
liunine'.
"She's going to ride a wheel to reduce
her weight." "No!" "Yes. and she
means business, too. You ought to see
the lovely pink chiffon sweater she's
having made." Now and then the hand
that never rocked a thing would, nevcr
heless, develop very great capabilities
along certain lines. Detroit Journal.
Freshy Professor, is it ever pos
sible to take the ereater from the less'
Prof. Potterby There is a prettv c!ob
approach to it when the cocesit Is
tav-n out of a freshman. Indianall
Tmimai
pip
WALKING ON WATER.
American Inventors Make Many VUna
to Do It.
A Boston man named Cook proposes
to walk all the way from Pittsburg to
Cincinnati by river route; not on the
river banks, but actually on the water.
Hecxpcctsto do it by means or peculiar
shoes invented by himself. Mr. Cook
is the latest of a large number of in
ventors who have tried to solve the
interesting problem of walking on
water. Next to flying it has always
been the most attractive problem left
to man to solve. The records ift the
patent office in Washington show thl.
One of the most recent patents in the
class of "aquatics" was granted to
Benjamin C. Morreale. of New York
city, for a water skate, with tin-like at
tachments which swing out from the
sides when the foot is moved back
ward. W. C. Sonle. of Savannah, N. Y..
in another genius In this line. He pro
poses to attach to each foot a curious
sort of boat by the aid of which he de
clares that it is practical to "move over
the surface of water as on ice, though
not so rapidly." A dozen different
kinds ot bicycles that run on water in
stead of on land have been invented.
One has been inverted In this country
by a Spaniard named Fernandez. Tlic
wheels of this machine arc big hollow
copper disks provided with rubber
tires. Weights are carried below to
prevent cipsizing. The driving wheel
is provided with blades that catch the
water. In other respects the machine
is much like an ordinary bicycle. W.
H. Richardson, of Mobile. Ala., is the
inventor of a queer contrivance which
he CiIIs a swimming machine. The op
erator is held up by an inflated rubber
bag, on which he lies; with his hands
he turns a wheel. The wheel actuates
a propeller, a-id thus he is supposed to
progress through the water at a great
late of speed. An "aquatic glove,"
which is intentled to be worn in swim
ming, is the inention of G. Ashman,
of Cincinnati. The fingers of the glove
are connected by a web. like the toes
of a duck, so as to in effect expand
the hand when opposed to the water in
making a stroke. Wolfe Adclman. of
Jersey City, is the originator of a
swimming shoe with a rubber role that
spreads out when the foot strikes tho
water and collapses as the foot ia
drawn toward the body.
A t'ottl.r Strike.
The officials of the London Cabdriv
ers Trade Union have issued a state
ment of accounts with reference to the
late strike of privileged railway cab
drivers, in which it is stated that tha
total cost of the dispute, which lasted
eight months, was 20,000, 19.000 ot
which was subscribed by the street cab
drivers.
Sar.tli Want Fireproof I)rMi.
Sarah Bernhardt, who has always
had a morbid dread of lire, is attempt
ing to have all her stage dresses mado
of fire-proof material.
SCRAPS.
In Bombay the plague is carrying on
500 persons a week still. It is now of
ficially declared that the plague exists
in Jiddah. the port from which Mecca
is reached.
A Mcridcn (Conn.) clothing dealer,
who is a shrewd advertiser, has bought
a tract of 3." acres south of the city,
and will lay out building lots, which
will be offered as prizes to buyers of
I is goods.
Roszilin, in the coal-mining district
of Silesia, is collapsing rapidly, owing
to reckless mining close to the siirfac.
One thousand people are already home
less and $."00.000 worth of buildings are
destroyed.
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion in Maine are endeavoring to col
lect Revolutionary arms wh'c'i Massa
chusetts gave to Maine when she be
came a state, in 1820. and were sold by
the state in the sixties.
The Japanese government now is
sues every day three weather charts,
which include observations in China
and the Lin-Kin islands, enabling cap
tains to ascertain the movements cf
storms several days in advance.
Peter L. Hoist, of Ch'caso, is the old
est man who ever applied for na'ural
ization papers in this country. He
came from Norway, and though ninety-two
years old, expects to enjoy at
least twenty-five years more of life.
"How is it that your son's head
seems to be drawn to one side? Only
a year ago he was as straight as aa
Indian." "I ran only account for it
through the fact that ho did the court
ing on a tandem." -Detroit Free Press
A Wcstficld man is feeling dog-goned
mean. He got up in the night to k:c';
his howling dog. and awoke in the
morning to find that the faithful ani
mal had been trying to warn liim of
chicken-thieves, who got away with
some of his choicest bis ds. Boston
Herald.
In Sonoma county, California, there
aie wemen who are taking an active
part in public life. One woman is
postmistiess at Sonoma, another an at
torney at Santa Rosa, two are physi
cians, one a sign painter, one an under
taker, and another a member of tho
beard of education in Petaluma.
EDITORIAL SNAP SHOTS.
One good point about the horseless
carriage is that it declines to run on
a' bad road.
The most fertile farm in all Iowa is
the one on which Farmer Uiagham
has just plowed up $S00.
A woman may go about in her shirt
sleeves, but the most a man is allowed
is a wheelman's sweater.
A war with Japan would have an ad
vantage the Chinese would probably
run away at the fim shot.
Millionaire Bradbury, whose wife
was hypnotized away fiom him, seems
to be something of a hypnotist him
self. Many chickens have been hatched
in Kentucky by the secent hat, and
it is to be feared that the mint crop
has been withered.
The Kansas City, Kas., women pris
oners will not wear pantaloons, their
friends having paid them out of dur
ance. If the authorities would now
turn about and resolve to put the male
prisoners in petticoats the jail might
be cleaned ont.
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