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VOLUME XXVIII.--NUMBER 30.
COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1897.
WHOLE NUMBER 1,434.
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NINETTE'S SAGIUFICE.
RETTY Ninette
skipped daintily
along the shore,
her bright curls
tossing with the
breeze, and the
j gayly colored ker
j chief, v.'hich should
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swinging iu her
hand.
She was happy as
the birds, and her very heart
sung for joy, lor was she not
on her way to the dear artist's
studio, where she spent the happiest
hours of the day? Was she not helping
to make the beauttfui picture which he
said was to bring him fame and happi
ness? And as she thought, her steps
grew slower, and the bright, beautiful
past rose up before her like a wonder
ful panorama, each view more entranc
ing than the preceding one; her memo
ry went back to that early summer's
day, when he had come upon her as
she sat mending her father's nets on
the shore, and had asked her to sit for
him each day. while he had put her
picture on the canvas with a genius
that almost frightened the simple fisher
maiden.
Happy days! in which she had
learned to love him for his gentle
words, his bonny smile and the song
and story with which he had beguiled
the hours In which she strove with all
her soul to embody his meaning, with
aa earnestness that pleased while it
surprised him. Ah! but it was her sig
nor, and he had chosen her from all
the girls on the shore, and the picture
was hers as well as his, and she gloried
in its perfection. Half child, half wom
an, as she was, she did not understand
what it was that made the sun so
bright, the sea so joyous, and life so al
together delightful.
To-day she entered the studio with
eyes shining like stars, the soft color
coming and going in her cheeks, the
dewy lips, arched like Cupid's bow,
tremulous with excitement and it was
no wonder that his artist soul reveled
in her beaut'.
When the day's work was over he
called her to him and showed her the
picture, which was approaching com
pletion. "We shall soon have it done, my
dear, and then we will send it away
to the big city, where there will be
none so beautiful ns my little fisher
girl; only a few more days and our
work is over."
He drew her close to him and pressed
a kiss on her innocent lips; which to
him was but an expression of thank
fulness to the chSld who had helped him
to win the fame he felt sure was with
in his grasp; but to her it was the
awakening of a soul, and he, cold
blooded northerner as he was, did not
understand how soon womanhood, with
all Its joys and sorrows, comes to
maidens under a southern sun.
She silently left the room and
thoughtfully pursued her way to her
home. Her few simple duties over, she
crept to her bed, still with this new se
cret warming her heart and opening
SHE FALLS OVER THE CLIFF,
out a new vista of happiness in her
life.
Mother she had none; her father, a
rough, uncouth fisherman, was seldom
at home except to sleep off some drunk
en orgie; it was strange that so lovely
a flower could have sprung from such
a parent; but it was said that the moth
er had been of gentle birth, had mar
ried the handsome, rollicking dare
devil, and broken her heart when she
camo to realize his utter worthless
uess. Some time in the night Ninette
awakened from a deep sleep by hear
ing voices outside the hut, and soon
distinguished her father's and those of
some of his cronies. As she listened
she grew cold as with a sudden chill,
as she heard them plan to waylay and
rob some one, and she held her breath
to catch the name. Ah! heaven, could
it be that she heard aright! "The pic
ture fellow," they said, "he has plenty
of money and jewels worth taking."
She must save him, he who had ca
ressed her so fondly, her dear friend,
for even to herself she scarcely dared
call him by any fonder name yet. She
would listen to all their plans, and per
haps she could warn him.
"He will be coming home along the
cliff road from the chateau that holds
his sweetheart," said her father's voice;
"they will think he fell over," he ad
ded, with a fiendish chuckle.
"Hist." said another, "the Kirl may
wake."
She could hear no more, for they
moved away; but the iron had entered
her soul, and jealousy had made a
woman of the girl of yesterday. "Over
the cliff to see his sweetheart," then
she could never fee anything to him:
she was only a child to amuse him.
Then all her passionate nature rose In
revolt; no one else should have his
love, she thought; they might throw
him from the cliff, she would have the
remembrance cf that kiss of yesterday,
and after he was dead she would go too,
and find her lover in the cruel waves
where they had flung him, and he
should be hers in death.
She covered her head in the hed
rlotb.es and shivered and wept untH
morning; then with the bright sun
came better thoughts, and she remem
bered the grand picture that was to go
out Into the world she must save him
or it would not be finished. She would
ro along the cliff road at evening and
warn him of his danger. So, alternat
ing "between love and jealousy, she
Fpent all the day. and when the sun
sank to rest behind the hills she was
on her way oyer the rocks and up onto
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the cliff, where she could hide herself
and watch for his approach.
It grew dark, and the moon was hid
den behind black clouds; a storm waa
coming up; still she did not stir; the
thunder rolled, and lightning lit up the
heavens with fitful dashes. Perhaps
he would not return to-night, and she
prayed he might not, although It was
agony to picture to herself the lady at
the chateau pleading with him not to
go out into the night Hark! that was
his voice surely singing softly to him
self, and In one of the flashes she saw
coming from the chateau road the form
of him she loved; in one swift moment
she exulted that he had left his lady
in spite of pleading; but the feeling was
brief, for from the other direction she
heard voices, and realized that the evil
deed planned in darkness the ai?ht be
fore would be execmc-1 unless she could
prevent it. Nearer and nearer they
come until they are almost opposite her
hiding place.
Holy Mother! what can she do! There
is no time to warn him, as he conies
jauntily on to his doom, and she sees
like a flash his mangled form on the
rocks below, to be washed out by the
cruel waves in the morning; then the
picture rises before her In all its di
vine beauty; her brain is bursting with
excitement Unknowingly she rushes
out of her concealment, and the ruf
fians, seeing the form in the darkness,
think their victim is in their power.
In her frenzy she has gone too far;
one false step and she falls over the
cliff; a lightning flash lit up the sky,
and there was one shriek as of a lost
soul as she went over the edge. The
men turn and flee for dear life, think
ing in their superstitious fear that evil
spirits are pursuing them. In an in
stant all was over, and, unable to find
the cause of the disturbance, the artist
keeps on his way home.
The next morning the village rang
with excitement, for the frightened men
had confessed all, and the body of the
girl was found In the surf.
The maiden had sacrificed her life
for her friend, and although he never
realized that his thoughtless kiss had
cost her her life, be undertook the sim
ple burial, and placed a white cross
at her head, and he and his beautiful
wife make yearly pilgrimages to the
little grave of her who gave her life for
his. Boston Herald.
GIANTS. INDEED.
The Old Circca Man Recollections of
the Two llieeest Men He Ever Knew.
"Giants?" said tho old circus man.
"Oh, ye3, we've had some big men In
the show at one time and another. One
of the biggest we ever had used to
comb his hair with a section of a
picket fence. That was part of the
street show when we made the parade
in a town. Usually we had an arrange
ment in advance with the owner of
the fence, and had a panel loosened
so that the giant wouldn't wreck too
much of the fence in picking up the
part he wanted to use. When the show
came along to this spot the giant would
step up to the fence, take off his hat,
and pick up the piece of fence It al
ways looked as if he had tremendous
strength, too and raise it up and comb
his hair with it And then he would
put the big comb down again and put
on his hat and move on. This always
tickled the people immensely. And he
certainly was a big man, sure; but we
had a bigger man once. I wouldn't
dare tell you how big this other man
was, because you wouldn't believe it."
New York Sun.
A Sherlock Holmes Deduction.
Biggs "That man over there Is a
physician." Diggs "How do you
know?" Biggs "I heard him say that
he didn't enjoy good health."
He Had to Work
Wylie Do you use your wheel much
for exercise? Kiely No; I use it for
work. The bicycle gets the exercise.
Strictly Business Transaction.
First Heiress "Who presented the
count to you?" Second Heiress "No
one; I bought him."
LATE NEW INVENTIONS.
A recently patented bicycle frame
has springs inside the tubing for the
saddle post, crank hanger, front fork
and handle bars, to deaden the force
of a blow on the wheels and make
rough roads easy to ride over.
Hammers for hand use in machine
shops are operated by pneumatic pres
sure, a sliding spring pressed rod being
set in the casing to be driven by push
ing a button by which the air is ad
mitted to the driving chamber.
To safely support a lady's hat at a
theater a bracket is attached to the
under side of the seat to carry a swing
ing shelf extending nearly to the floor,
the device folding up against the bot
tom of the seat when not in use.
A recently patented water motor has
an endless upright chain of buckets
mounted on two axles with a stream of
water at the top to fill the buckets as
they start down, the length of the chain
determining the power of the motor.
In a new French railway signaling
device a lever on the engine hangs in
position near the rail to receive a sig
nal from a flat strip of iron lying par
allel to the vail, an indicator in the cab
showing how many signals were given
by the iron strips.
Wave motors are being manufactur
ed with a float mounted on the end of
a rod to work up and down as the
waves move, the rod moving a piston
which operates a water or air com
pressor and fills a tank to furnish pow
er to run machinery.
In a new non-puncturable shield for
pneumatic tires the tread is formed of
closely woven wires, with the trans
verse strands extended beyond the
longitudinal strands, thus making an
armored tread without decreasing the
flexibility of the tire.
A recently patented insect-proof dis
play rack has a base on which rests a
cup, which is filled with water after the
socket of the rack has been inserted in
a hole in the center of the cup, thus
preventing insects and vermin from
crawling onto the shelves above.
Fire hose can be cleaned and dried
by a new mechanism, consisting of two
cylindrical brushes set in a frame
which can be attached to the hose cart,
the brushes being rapidly revolved as
the hose passes between them by a
chain geared to the axle of the hose
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SOME STRANGE. QUEER AND
CURIOUS PHASES OP LIFE.
l"e Color Jadlcleiuly When There
Were Xo Pottage Stamp X Bird
Telegraph Line To Ilaruesa the Sau
The Silliest Bird.
An Antaaaa Wondroad.
HEN the partridge
coveys fly
In the blrch-topa
cool and high;
When the dry cica
das twang
Where the purplins
flr-conts hang;
When the bunch
berries emboss
Scarlet beads the
roadside moss;
Crown with shadows. Dright with sun.
All day long till day Is done,
Sleeps In murmuring solitude
The worn old road that threads the wood.
In Its deep cup grassy. cool
Sleeps the little roadside pool;
Sleeps the butterfly on the weed
Sleeps the drifted thistle-seed.
-.Ike a great and blazing gem,
Baiks the beetle on the stem.
Up and down the shining rays
Dancing midges weave their maze.
High among the moveless boughs.
Drunk with day, the night hawks drowse.
Far up. unfathomably blue.
August's heaven vibrates through.
The old road leads to all things gcod;
The year's at full, and time's at flood.
Charles G. D. Roberts.
Use Color Judiciously.
There are colors that are refreshing
and broadening.others that absorb light
and give a boxed-up appearance to a
room, others that make a room with a
bleak northern exposure, or with no
exposure at all, appear bright and
cheerful; some that make a room ap
pear warm, some that make it cold.
The thermometer seems to fall six de
grees when you walk into a blue room.
Yellow is an advancing color; therefore
a room fitted up in yellow will appear
smaller than it is. On the other band,
blue of a certain shade introduced gen
erously into a room will give an idea
of space. Red makes no difference in
regard to size. Green makes very lit
tle. If a bright, sunny room gets its
light from a space obtruded upon by
russet-colored or yellow-painted houses
or else looks out upon a stretch of
green grass, it should be decorated in
a color very different from the shade
chosen if the light comes from only an
unbroken expanse of sky." Red brings
out in a room whatever hint of green
lurks in the composition of the other
colors employed. Green needs sunlight
to develop the yellow in it and make it
seem cheerful. If olive or red brown
be used in conjunction with mahogany
furniture, the effect is very different
from what it would be if blue were
used. Blue would develop the tawny
orange lurking in the mahogany. If a
ceiling is to be made higher, leave it
light, that it may appear to recede.
Deepening the color used on the ceiling
would make it lower an effect desir
able if the room is small and the ceil
ing very high. Various tones of yellow
are substitutes for sunlight. The Up
holsterer. When There Were No Postage Stamp.
In these days postage stamps are a
familiar necessity. Their loss would
occasion almost as much confusion and
difficulty as the loss of our money sys
tem; and yet fifty years ago the world
never had seen a postage stamp, nor
even an envelope.
Before the days of postage stamps it
was the custom to pay in cash at the
postoffice the charges for transporting
the letter, and the postmaster stamped
the word "paid" above the address. Our
first stamps were of two denominations,
5 and 10 cents. The first bore the like
ness of Franklin in rose color, and the
second that of Washington. Envel
opes were not in use in these days, but
a sheet of paper was carefully folded
and sealed with a red wafer. For a
letter of one sheet of paper for a dis
tance less than 300 miles the 5 cent
stamp sufficed. When envelopes, in
cluding the stamped envelope, came in
in 1S51. a revision of postal practices
was necessary, and weight, instead of
the number of sheets of paper, became
the standard of measure. Postage was
i in that year reduced, and the 3-cent
price for t?e half-ounce letter was
adopted.
A Bird Telegraph Line.
Uncle Sam -s busily at work estab
lishing a bird telegraph line. At the
United States navy yards in Brooklyn a
two-story pigeo.i cote has been erected
and more than 150 of the finest carrier
pigeons nave -jeen purchased and
placed inside of it Most ot them are
young and inexperienced, and Mr. Car
ter, their keeper, is busily giving them
a good education. They are first taught
to push open the li,tle wire door that
leads into the cage, so that when they
return from a long flight they can eas
ily be caught Next the muscles of
their wings are hardened by flying
practice, which lasts far half an hour
every morning. All the birds in the
-age are kept in motion by the waving
of a white flag, and by constant repeti
tion of this exercise the pigeons become
exceedingly strong. When they ;et a
little older they are taken a few miles
away to Governor's island in "Mew
York harbor, to Staten island or to Ssn
dy Hook and set free with a xnessace
tied to their feet. Each time they an,;
given a longer flight, until they lean
to return homeward unerringly. As
they come in Mr. Carter makes a rec
ord of the time of their flight, so that
lie knows just what every bird can do.
.tame of the best pigeons made as good
tme as the fastest express trains. The
use to which these birds will be put is
most important Suppose a foreign
navy should cross the Atlantic and at
tack New York city. Of course, our
ships would go out to give them battle
and then the pigeons could be set free
and bring reports of the engagements
or requests for re-enforcements. It is
expected that the pigeons will be able
to return from a ship 300 miles out to
sea in less than eight hours, which is
much faster than any boat can sail.
To Harness the San.
One would think the sun had enough
work to do in wanning np the whole
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earth, but there are some shrewd Yan
kees down in New England who are
not at all satisfied and are determined
to make it do still more work. They
have already taken out a great num
ber of patents for solar heaters, solar
cookers and solar engines of many
kinds, although they have not been able
to invent any machine that is really
practicable for converting the sun's
heat into power. And yet they still
have hope. They say that lightning
has been harnessed, and they don't see
why sunshine should not be made to
carry burdens. Many wonderful things
have been accomplished by using the
sun's rays. In Europe a newspaper has
been printed by power from the sun.
and salt water has been distilled and
coffee and cider made. The only prob
lem to be solved in harnessing the sun
Is to properly concentrate its rays. To
do this many Inventors use an immense
curved mirror or a large lens like r
burning glass, but they are hampered
in their work, first, by the fact that
the sun does not shine steadily, and,
next, by the immense expense of large
lenses. It is reckoned that the heat ol
the sun would sufficiently warm ami
illuminate 2,000.000,000 globes as bie
as our earth. It would seem that som
clever inventor would sometime be able
to discover a way to use it The man
that succeeds will make a fortune.
Cily Where Sunlight Never Hhlnes.
Beep down in the earth near the city
of Galicia, in Austrian Poland, there is
a considerable city with streets, houses,
churches and other public buildings,
and a population of over 1,000 men.
women and children, a good number
of whom never have seen the dayligh .
It is known as the City of Salt, and it
is approached by means of a deep hole
in the ground. All the year around
the temperature is nearly the same, and
although no grass grows on Its lawns
and no water runs in its streams and
the only sky Is a vaulted arch of solid
&ck salt, the inhabitants love their
town as well as If It was situated by a
running river and under a blue sky.
They have built a theater, a church and
a town hall, ornamented with beauti
ful statues, all carved out of rock salt.
The streets are beautifully illuminated
with electricty, and the homes are large
and comfortable. Here men and wom
en are born and grow up, are married,
and die. and some of them never once
go to the surface and have no idea how
the big outside world looks. The pop
ulation is made up almost entirely of
the salt miners and their superintend
ents. Silliest Bird In the World.
Dodo is the Portuguese name for sim
pleton, and it is given to the silliest
bird that ever lived.
Three hundred years ago, when the
Portuguese first visited the island of
Maufitius, they found a great number
of these birds. They were about the
size of .a large swan, blackish gray in
color and having only a bunch of feath
ers in place of a tail, and little, useless
wings. More stupid and foolish birds
could not be imagined. They ran about
making a sillv. hissine noise like a
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goose and the sailors easily knocked '
them over with their paddles. The'
couldn't fly, they couldn't swim, the
cculdn't run at any great speed, and as ,
for fighting, they were the great es-t
cowards n the world. They were much
too stupid to build a nest, and so they
dropped an egg in the grass and went
off and let it hatch as best it could
Added to all of these things, its fles'
was fairly good to eat, and the Portu
guese pursued it so steadily for for
that in less than a century's time ther
wasn't a single dodo left in the world
It was quite too silly and stupid to saw
its own life and so it became extinct.
Farming for Frog.
You have all heard of corn and pump
kin farms, but who ever heard of a froe
farm? Yet just such a novelty exists
in the Trout river basin of Onta-io
Canada. It has been in operation U,
many years and has a large annua;
output of frog legs and live frogs. In
the summer time it is probably the
greatest place for hops in the world,
and as for orchestras and vocal music
few places can equal it The farm is
mostly a stretch of shallow water and
swamps and the frogs are allowed to
hop at large and breed until they are
3 or 4 years old. Then the "farmers"
go out at night with torches and the
frogs are caught in nets and placed in
pens. When they are wanted the wat
er is drained off and the frogs are sent
away to market. The farm is stocked
mostly with big bullfrogs, which pro
vide the largest and best legs. In 1893
and 1896 the "farm" produced the im
mense amount of 5,000 pounds of
dressed frog legs,beslde3 7,000 live frogs
for various purposes.
Caught on Fly Paper.
A Pittsburg grocer has been catching
flies on sticky fly paper, and the other
Homing he caught something else.
Having left several sheets on his coun
ter at nignt, when he opened the store
ne U morning he found the sheets par
tially rolled up on the floor, and tang- j
led up in them was a rat It had evi
dently got its feet on the paper in such
a manner as to prevent its running,
and then In lying down to free itself
gave the stickiness a good chance up
on its hairy coat, so that at last it was
unable to move and thus came to an
untimely end. Golden Days.
Bushels of Berries.
Little Lyndon went alone to nick
field strawberries and brought back a
small cup half full. "Oh, mamma," he
said, "there were bushels and bushels
of berries, but I nicked them all."
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A CHEAT ACTOR.
Sorrest Was Always Trade, Especially
When AUassny Day Came Bound.
McCuUough did mot carry the actor
into erery-day life, as Forrest did. For
rest was" always "the great tragedian,"
and after his divorce generally moody
and silent, but when he spoke it was
in deep, tragic tones and with shakings
of his black curly locks that Impressed j
uie listener witu unuounaea awe, says
the Overland Monthly. No one, I
think, ever dared to joke or be familiar
With the great Forrest When "ali
mony day" came around and he had to
pay a good, round sum to his divorced
wife it'was better to keep away from
him, for then he allowed his temper
and "ugliness" to have full sway. No
where in American dramatic history
does an actor stand out with the prom
inence of Forrest. His individuality
was so pronounced that no one who
once met him could ever obliterate that
meeting from his memory. Forrest is
also a part of history, for there are
many who remember the "Macready
riots," incited primarily by Forrest
hissing Macready in Hamlet tor intro
ducing some business he did not like
waving a handkerchief and dancing on
in the players' scene which Forrest
sarcastically dubbed "the Fas de Mou
choir." This was in London and the
news spread like wildfire, so that after
playing a magnificent first engagement
all over England his second was made
a failure by Macready's friends hiss
ing, groaning and interrupting his
plays.
HOLDING SUSPECTED VESSELS.
The system of quarantine observed
by civilized nations to-day shows the
methods of the past in anything but
a flattering light. The old habit of de
taining a suspected vessel for months
with its cargo, passengers and crew
constantly exposed to the possible in
fection is now absolutely disregarded
and after the people on the boat have
been removed, she is sent on her way
with very little fear of further disease
following, since the cargo has been
kept fastened close under tight hatches
during the whole voyage. It is an
endless task to clean a vessel and its
cargo of supposed contagion and it is
rarely done. The main precaution is
to get the exposed passengers and their
contaminated personal property off
into little bands, where, if the disease
does break out, only a small number
of people will be in danger.
At the discovery of vaccination by
Jenner in the beginning of the present
century the matter of taking care of
smallpox epidemics on shipboard be
came a simpler matter and the com
paratively recent discoveries in the
science of bacteriology have put the
matter of caring for infected craft on
a high plane of systematic intelligence.
Steam is now used largely in treating
the "baggage of passeners and crew and
constant experiments are being made
with a view of securing absolute se
curity in such cases.
Quarantine, which means literally a
detention of forty days, was originally
instituted as a protection against the
bubonic plague, which Is working such
dire havoc in India at the present time. '
This dreadful visitation, known as the '
"black plague," was first officially
treated in Venice in 1348, at which
time it Is estimated that fully one
quarter of the population of Europe
succumbed to the terrible disease. Al
though these early attempts to stem
the flood of death were generally of lit
tle effect, we read that the plague in
1656 carried off 300,000 people in
Naples, while Rome's policy of better
sanitation kept its death rate down to
1.400.
England established a rigid quaran
tine against the plague in the first part
of the eighteenth century and the rules
were later extended to all "highly in
fectious disorders." The system thus
imposed was, however, named a "commerce-destroyer,"
for it was no rare
thing for a boat to be held for at least
two months while waiting for further
cases to appear among its passengers
or to arise from contact with the cargo.
Lazarets for the keeping of suspected
goods were constructed at a great cost
to the government. There are records
of cases where whole vessels and their
valuable cargoes have been burned or
sunk, the government paying the vast
sums to their owners as Indemnity.
Patient Doctor, this is the worst at- '
tack I ever had. Doctor Well, don't
worry yourself. I am quite sure you
won't have another.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
Three-fourths of all the iron mined
in the United States Is shipped from
Duluth.
It is affirmed by men in the building
trades that the Italians make splendid
union men.
Some twenty city councils in the
United States now use the union label
on their official printing.
Last year the United States exported
$12,000,000 worth of hams 130,000,000
pounds of which England bought 103,
000,000. It is reported that the Florence mills
at Forest City, N. C, have been bought
by the Henrietta mills and will be
equipped with 12,000 spindles and 400 j
looms.
The strike of the British Society of
Amalgamated Engineers for an eight
hour day without reduction in wage3
continues to spread, and 70,000 are now
oat oZ employment
A Georgia cotton mill has paid 90
per cent in dividends during the last
seven years, a testimony of the pros
perity of that form of industry in the
south which carries its own lesson
with it
The Tremont and Suffolk mills,
Lowell, Mass., are receiving unfinished
goods manufactured by southern mills.
This company recently napped a con
signment of 11,000 pieces of cloth for
a Georgia mill.
There are fifteen woolen establish
ments in Stafford, Conn., and all are
In operation except the worsted yarn
mill of the Warren Woolen company,
and arrangements are being made
which will insure the starting of that
Mill before many weeks.
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1 POWERS OF MUSIC.
ANCIENT PHYSICIANS BELIEV
ED SOUNDS WOULD CURE.
Effect Philip of Spain In Ecynt
Certain Sengs Were Used to Promote
Tlrtae la the Toang Stories Aboat
Famon Marlclaarf.
HE powerful influx
ence of music on
our intellectual fac- (
nlties and conse-,
quently on our .
fA(Jftv&P health has long
'l (TCIk9 been ascertained, I
either in raising j
energies of the
mind or producing
despondency and
meloncholy assocla
Uons ot ideas, says the Fireside.
Impressed with its sublime nature the
ancients gave it a divine origin. Dlod
orus tells ns that it was a boon be
stowed on mankind after the deluge
and owed its discovery to tho sound
produced by the wind when whistling
through tho reeds that grew on the
banks of the Nile. This science be
came the early study of philosophers
and physicians. Herophllus explained
the alterations of the pulse by the var
ious modes, and rhythms of music. In
the sacred writings we have many In
stances of its influence. The derange
ment of Saul yielded to the harp of
David and the hand of the Lord came
upon Elisha as the minstrel played. In
Egypt certain songs were legally or
dained in the education of youth to
promote virtue and morality.
Polybius assures us that music was
required to soften the manners of the
Arcadians, whose climate was heavy
and Impure; while the inhabitants of
Cynaethe, who neglected this science,
were the most barbarous in Greece.
The medical power of harmonious
sounds was also fully admitted. We
find Pythagoras directing certain men
tal disorders to be treated by music.
Thales was said to have even cured a
disastrous pestilence by its means.
Martinus Capella affirms that fevers
were thus removed. Xenocrates was
credited with curing maniacs by melo
dious sounds, and Asclepiades deafness
with a trumpet. In modern times it
has been related of a deaf lady that
she could only hear while a drum was
beating, and a drummer was kept in
her house for the purpose of enabling
her to converse. Aulus Gellius tells
ns that a case of sciatica was cured by
gentle modulations, and Theophrastus
maintains that the bites of serpents
and other venomous reptiles can be re
lieved by similar means. Ancient
physicians, who attributed many dis
eases to the influence of evil spirits,
fancied that harmonious sounds drove
them away, more especially when ac
companied by incantations; and we find
in Luther "that music is one of the
most beautiful and glorious gifts of
God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy."
In more modern times we have several
instances of the medical powers of
music. The effect produced by Far
iuelli on Philip of Spain is well known.
This monarch was in such a deplorable
state of despondency from ill-health
that he refused to be shaved or to ap
pear in public. On the arrival of Far
Inelli the queen was resolved to try
the power of music, and a concert was
ordered in a room adjoining the king's
chamber. Farinelll sung two of his
best airs, which so overcame Philip '
that he desired he might be brought in
to his presence, when he promised to
grant him any reasonable request he
might make. The performer. In the
most respectful manner, then begged
the king to allow himself to be shaved
and attended by his domestics, to
which Philip consented. Farinelll con
tinued to sing to him daily until a per
fect cure was effected. The story of
TartinI is rather curious; In a moment
of musical enthusiasm he fell asleep,
when the devil was said to have ap
peared to him playing on the violin,
bidding him with a horrible grin to
play as well as he did. Struck with
the vision, the musician awoke, ran to
hi3 harpsichord and produced a splen
did sonata. Bruckman and Hufeland
relate cases of St. Vitus' dance cured
by music, which, according to Deses
sarts, also was reported to have reliev
ed catalepsy. Schneider and Becker
have ascertained its Influence in hys
teria and hypochrondriac affections. A
singular effect of music is related by
Roger in the case of a poor wretch
broken upon the wheel. In his agon
ies he screamed in the most fearful
manner. Some Itinerant musicians
chanced to pass by; they were stopped
and requested to play to the sufferer,
when, to the surprise of all around, he
seemed relieved, and became so tran
quil that he confessed his manifold of
fenses and died, according to the tale,
with "calm resignation." It seems
more likely that the man lost con
sciousness owing to the horrible tor
ture inflicted.
This Thief Is Eccentric.
San Francisco has probably one ol
the most peculiar thieves In the coun
try. He is William H. Kinney, a middle-aged
Australian, who takes any
thing In sight when drunk and then
when sober gives himself up to the
police. Ten years of his life have been
spent in lail for petty thefts, of which
no one would have known but for his
voluntary confession. Only a few days
ago he was released from jail after
serving six months, but yesterday he
saw a nickel-in-the-slot machine In a
saloon, and when the barkeeper's back
was turned he stole It and pawned the
machine for 75 cents.
This Is Awful.
"Good story, eh?" "Yes, it is very
original to have a man fall in love with
his landlady. What are you going to
call it?" "I haven't yet decided. Can
you suggest something?" "How would
A Border Romance do?"
A New Meaning-'
Grover Walton The bass that got i
away was at least three feet long. Yon
may think I'm crazy, but Friend
(interrupting) Oh, I don't think that
I think you're only an angler-maniac.
A Fonr-BasTcer.
Plavwrieht I think mv Dlav will
make a hit Manager Br i I want a '
play that will make a rur.
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HEIRESS KIDNAPPED. '
Follee Minneapolis BaUsw Kiss
ataerferd Has Been Carried Away.
The Rutherford famUy of Minneap
olis is a very wealtL one. and as it
consists at present only of Mrs. Ruth
erford and her daughter Fanny, it will
be seen that this young woman is
heiress to no small fortune. But her
present wealth and future prospects
seem to be more of a curse than a
blessing, for they have made her in the
past a target for fortune-hunters, and
now she Is missing from home, and tho
police have offered a reward for J. A.
Morris, who is believed to have kidnap
ped the young woman. Morris, who
has a long criminal record, met Mrs.
Rutherford and her daughter while
they were traveling in the south last
spring, learned of their wealth, and
that they lived in Minneapolis. On the
6th of May Miss Rutherford disappear
ed from her home, leaving a note say
ing that she was going to St. Paul and
would return the following day. Since
then a letter has been received Iron:
her, evidently written under restraint,
saying that she was happily married to
a man she worshipped. The police are
convinced that she waa kidnapped by
Morris and is held by hiin, and they
are making every effort to find her.
Miss Rutherford is about twenty-five
years old and is highly accomplished.
Her father was Capt. George Ruther
ford, a pioneer citizen of Minneapolis,
who left a vast estate to his widow and
only daughter. This wealth has
brought Miss Rutherford many suitors,
but she has always refused to leave her
mother, and has expressed no desire
to marry. All these things strengthen
the police in their belief that she has
been kidnapped.
LOVERS OF THIRTY YEARS WED
Indiana Boasts a Bright Example la
Constancy and Devotion.
A bright example in constancy and
filial devotion is afforded in the experi
ence of a couple recently wedded Iu
Liberty township, Indiana, the newiy
married pair being Mr. and Mre. Henry
Foreman, who reside on their 400-acro
farm near Greentown. In point of age
both bride and groom have passed the
half-century mark. Though lovers
from early childhood and betrothed
from youth, the marriage was deferred
until now, the engagement covering a
period of thirty years. Young Fore
man had a stepmother to whom he was
greatly attached, and to whom he
solemnly pledged to support during her
lifetime, promising not to marry while
she remained alive. Contrary to ex
pectations, the invalid and dependent
stepmother lived until a year or more
ago. During this long wait of nearly
a third of a century the lovers scrupul
ously observed their vows, tolling on
through the years without a thought
of disregarding the pledges given the
stepmother or breaking faith in any
manner whatever. They grew gray,
lived frugally, saved their earnings and
patiently bided their time. When
death removed the barrier, the lovers
had accumulated sufficient means to
buy the lnrgest farm in the township.
The minister first engaged to perform
the marriage ceremony died of old
age many years ago, and a divine of a
new generation officiated at the long
delayed wedding. Chicago Times-Herald.
The Wheel In Court.
The Adams express company has
been assessed $50 in a somewhat sin
gular suit decided by the New York Su
preme Court. A trained nurse went to
New Brunswick for her vacation, and
intrusted her bicj'clc to the express
company to be sent there. The agent
mislaid the document furnished by the
owner to get the machine through the
custom house, and not until the close of
vacation time was the wheel discov
ered. Having been deprived of its use
when she wanted it most the nurse
sued for its value. She recovered a
judgment for $50, and this decision has
just been sustained on appeal.
ni Discovery.
Grinncn "Old fellow, I've discover
ed the fountain of youth." Barrett
"What?"
Grinnen "That's right. And It l3n't
a fountain at all. It's a bicycle." Bar
ret (still incredulous) "What make'"
Chicago Tribune.
Not Cp-to-Date.
He lies in jail for bigamy;
The law is mo3t inhuman
In robbing man of liberty
For wanting a new woman.
NOTED MEN AND CHILDREN.
Children have a genuine friend in
the person of the King of Siam, and
he ha3 always taken an immense Inter
est in watching the progress of the
child rulers of Euroye Alphonso cf
Spain and the little qaeen of Holland.
During his present European trip he
intends to make theu personal ac
quaintance and become their fast
friend. In Alphonso of Spain he will
find the unique combination of a small
boy alive with infantile fun, mingled
with stately dignity, for the small king
of Spain is fully aware of his exalted
position.
By the younger members of the royal
family the Prince of Wa!e3 is consid
ered a martinet and a disciplinarian, In
spito of hi3 worldwide reputation for
jovial good nature. A short time ago
he saw tho little Princess of Batten
berg and Prince Edward of York at
play in one cf the palace courtyards.
Running past a sentinel they emitted to
return the salute which soldiers are
obliged to give every member of the
royal family, whether the age be 60
years or 60 days. Immediately the
prince called the children back and in
sisted that each should make his salute
to the soldier.
President Faure of France is ex
tremely fond of the youngsters, and his
greatest pleasure is a remp with his
grandson. When he became a grand
father for the second time the fact was
carefully kept from the public for 3
couple of weeks, the reason for this
act throwing a new light on the French
attitude toward Russia the great. The
strange reticence is officially explained
in this way. Almost at the time of the
birth of his grandson in Paris the czar
ina also became a mother, and the
French president thought it wiser to
wait for the royal proclamation from
St. Petersburg, so that his congratula
tions to the czar might precede those
f the czar to him.
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