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I * , ; * SJJ fHE ? OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY ; AUGUST 7 , 1887-TWELYE PAGES. , 11 THE FAITfl CURE DISCUSSED , Becordi Show Many Extraordinary OUTM of Disease by This Method , THE CONDITIONS OF TREATMENT An Interesting nnd Instructive Ar ticle l > 7 Franulu Power Cobbo In The Contemporary Re * view. Religious enthusiasm and scientific me- dicinc , far as they seem to bo apart , have ono thing in commou. The records of . both abound in cases of extraordinary cures of disease effected by faith. The faith which accomplishes the religious cures is faith in holy men , holy prayers , * or , It may bo , holy oil , holy thorns , nnd holy water ; nnd the faith whicli brings about the medical cures Is faith In doc tors ( not necessarily holy ) , in bread pills and Impotent ointments. To judge from a remarkable article in a former number of the Contemporary Itovtew , there could bo , in the eyes of an eminent London physlcian.nothing more ridiculous than the assertion of a pilgrim to Lourdes or Bothshan that ho had been healed by a special exercise of divine mercy ; while , judging from such a work as Dr. Tuko's ' 'Influence of the Mind on the Body" ( London , 18W ) , nothing is more scientifically certain than that a largo number of persons have boon healed of all manner of diseases by bread pills. The lay mind can with difficulty admit that there is essential absurdity in attrib uting recovery from sickness to prayer , and no absurdity in attributing it to bread pills. That there is really such a thing as faith healing appears in my judgment a fact beyond dispute. Three-fourths perhaps it would be nearer the mark to r say ninotccn-twenticths of the stories ol cures of the religion * class are , undoubt edly , myths , frauds , exaggerations , falla f cics of memory or of reporting ; and ' ) i quito as many of the medical kind may be divided between silly self-deceptions nnd the arrant falsehoods of interested quacks. All deductions made , however , there remains , I am convinced , a certain number of cures of botii classesof which no Rutliciont account can be given ou any theory ot either fraud , or mistake , or natural recovery : cures which meet the following definitions : 1. The antecedent presence of serious dis ease , either functional or organic , has been established on sufllclent testimony. 3. The cure has been sulllclently sudden to exclude the hypothessla of a spontaneous termination of the Insect 3. The cure has been effected without the exhibition of any drug or therapeutic appli ance which could be recognized as adequate to the result No candid reader of ecclesiastical his tory citfi , 1 think , doubt that curoa ful til ling the above conditions have occurred many times in different ages and coun tries , and under many different phases of religious belief ; and , equally assuredly , readers of such works as Sir Henry Hol land's , Dr. Carpenter's , and Dr. Tuko's , must admit that cases of the lower kind of faith healing have likewise occurred not unfroquently. The former miracles are treated by men of science when they , deign to refer to thorn at all.with unmiti gated scorn , because they are associated with what they doom to be contemptible superstitions , and have been usually re corded by witnesses Ignorant of anatomy nnd physiology who make ridiculous blunders in describing disease. The lat ter are dealt with moro leniently , even with good-humored levity , as examples of the helpless credulity of patients , and of the action of a faculty which the writers ( who may be great physiologists , but are certainly not psychologists ) are pleased to call "imagination.1' But both classes of faith healing are , assuredly , deserving of quite other modes of treat ment than these. They form , to say the least , singular reversals of the usual order of medical art , whereby It Is sought to minister even to a 'mind diseased" through the stomach ; while the glimpse they afford us of n mighty magic capable of transforming Hicknoss to health , nnd causing the lame to walk and the deaf to hear , should make us sigh rather than smile , if we bo driven to the conclusion that the wnnd which works such beneficial wonders is beyond our grasp. Philosophic efforts hitherto made to reach the secretof faith healing have been few. comparatively to the interest of the subject. They hare not gone deep , and have been singularly barren of practical results. We are told of tbo value of "ex pectant attention" in effecting the cures of pilgrims to holy shrines , and of patients who swallow inert drugs : and of thefe last Dr. Tuke has afforded us a most amusing series of examples culled from Dr. Llslo and SirJohn Forbo's celebrated article "Young Physic. " in the British and Foreign Medical Review , January 1340. We hear also of the immense po tency of the will , as exomplilled by An drew Crosse , who got over an attack of hydrophobia by sheer dint ot pluck ( memoirs , p. 125) ) and by Edward Irving , who preached a splendid sermon in the agonies of Asiatic cholera. Hut no ef fort , that I am aware of , has been made to bring the two kinds of faith healings which boar such obvious analogies , undar any common law. or to con struct a theory which shall explain tholr essential nature. Thus wo find ourselves at the end of the nine teenth century , as regards this great agency , very much in the position whicli our forefathers occupied two centuries ago as regards electricity , when their ex periments were limited to rubbing bits ol umber and the backs of cats. Where arc the Franklins aud the Whoatstones oi faith healing ? Is it endurable that the use of a great bonolicont power in out nature should bo forever limitedas now , to fanatics and fools ? Cannot sensible nnd rationally religious persons bo ad mitted to a share of the priceless advantage "Sickness " said Dr. Moxon tago ? , , or ncularly rebuking Bethahan , "is toe serious to be trilled with by fanatics.1 It is also too serious to bo trilled will by doctors , who try diverting ex V vierlmontH on their patients will bread pills and pretended bleedings , wooden tractors and Braldism. But if rlthcr from the fanatics or the doctors wo can obtain a clue to the mystery o faith healing carried on by both , wo neci not fuar the charge of "trilling with sick ness. " The inquiry into this subject Is interest ing likewise from another point of viev beside utility. Wo are distracted in thesi days by perpetual talk about the action o body on thu mind. Morals and psychol ogy in the hands of the dominant schoo of biologists and novohtts bid fair to bo coma mere branches of pathology ; sii being reduced to a symptom of a dia ll/J ordered liver , aud genius in IU heaven soaring ( lights being brought down to : superior supply of blood to a well convo luted brain. No sacred sentiment in hu man nature , not even the love of i mother for her child , escapes belli ) stripped of its robe of beauty and sane tity , and nako'dly presented to us as th mere result of the physical conditions o the relation. No action , howsoove divinely heroic , will henceforth b * * * Bettuhan-lt la a little sUrtlln ? to lean Is known to tuo profane a * poatoRlce Nc 10 , Urayton park , Hello way road , N' . , tx 'tween Highbury aud llollowa/ station ! o the North London aud Great Nocthtru rail waya , attributed to the BoTf-sacrillcing' ' spirit of the martyr or the patriot , but only to the "coinbativoncss of the male animal" " developed by "sexual se lection. " Double-sided beings as wo are every feeling and every act being like the convex nnd concave sides of the shield , half mmd , half matter. wo have hitherto needed to bo reminded In the triumph of life , as by the slave beside the Roman victor's car , "Thou art mortal ; " there is a physical analogue to all which our souls feel and do , and the body must not bo forgotten. It was reserved for modern science to Ignore , not the body , but the soul ; to treat the material moiety of our being ns thu primary nnd all- important , perhaps the only really existent part of It ; and to In struct us , as wo tread the Via Dolorosaof our earthly way : "Remem ber thou art not a hero , not a martyrnot a saint ; only a parcel of bono nnd tissue , llcsh and blood , which any chemist could reduce to a few phials of water and white powdcr.and range ou a shelf in the South Kensington Museum. " I venture to think that it would bo well.cveninthu interests of scientific truth , to pay a little more at tention to the front of the shield ; to study psychology a little more , and physiology , possibly , a little loss. An inquiry into the laws of that mysterious power of whicli we are speaking as lodged in the mind , and thoncu stopping forth to transform the conditions of the body , would seem , of all othersbest lilted to counterbalance the materialist doctrines of the Biichncr and Carl Vogt school. Wore n science of psychical therapeutics really to bo formti < lated , it would both supply us with the most potent of remedial agencies , and likewise help ns , more than any other knowledge , to understand our own double natures soul and body , spirit and matter , demi-god and demi-bruto. Who will stop forward ami help to clear the way for this science of psychotherapeutics - therapeutics ? At present , even when a doctor has himself effected astonishing cures by such things as a few crumbs of biscuit , it ndvor seems to occur to him to prosecute his investigations. As Dr. Hack Tuko says of some such dull physi cians : With regard to the experiments made by Dr. HayKartli and others with womleii tract ors , It can hardly fail to surprise the reader that these observers were content to stop when they hnd proved that tlujir Instruments were ns potent as It metallic. They had re lieved their patients by something sooner than they would otherwise have been relieved , nnd vet It never occurred to them to continue the practice. They called tills something "Imagination , " and thought that was quite sufllclent to dispose ot the whole subject. ( Influence , etc. , vol. II. p. aio ) . Men vyho ransack the mineral and veg etable kingdoms of nature , and torture the animal , to find out the secrets of dis eases and their remedies , are strangely content to leave tills great , battery of healing power locked tip. They sneer at the lunatics and smile at the fools who are healed by prayer or bread pills , and say "these people who know not the law" ( of science ] arc besotted. But even the exasperating recurrence of whole cycles of religious miracles , and the still more obnoxious successes of quacks , fail to rouse them to sift the matter to the bottom , nnd trj if they cannot , with all their science , equal Lourdes or Knock , nnd cure their patients honestly , without condescending to bamboozle them \vith bread pills. Il the mind of a silly or stupid person can be inspired so as to make it heal his body , surely the mind of an intelligent and rational person ( which , by the hypoth esis , must bo much the stronger and more litted to cope with disease ) , ought to bo equally open to influence. It is a disgrace to science to bo obliged to con fess that old Burton is still ritrht , and that "nn empinck oftentimes doth more strange cures than a rational physi cian. ' ' Ho goes on to add , "because the patient puts his conlidciico in him ; " but the reason is a circular argument , for why docs the patient believe in the "enipinck"iuoro than in the rational phy sician , save that ho knows the former has wrought more cures than the latter ? The position of sundry eminent surgeons and physicians to-day , as regards bonesetters - setters and various medical heretics , is like that which the astronomer royal would hold had Zadkiel foretold an tclipso which ho had failed to predict. Vhc.n they find they cannot euro our rheumatism , our paralysis , and twenty other maladies , surely our physicians night help us to obtain the mysterious > enelits which have been derived from > read pills. Such Is the weakness of uiman nature , that I fear the majority of us would olcct to recover in the most rregular and unscientific man- lor rather than die secuudcm artem by orthodox medicine , leaving our mourn- ng relatives to find the consolation con veyed by inscribing on our tombstones , 'Physicians was in vain ! " The aim of such an inquiry as I would Fain see undertaken would bo twofold : first , by the correlation aud examination of credible cases of faith healing to ascor- ; ain what is the elliciont factor in each : ho essential element , probably common : o all , whereby the euro is actually wrought nboutsccondly ; , the possible em ployment Di this essential healing agency at will in the cure of disease without de scent either into fanaticism or quackery. Let us briefly catalogue the various classes of faith healing under the defi nitions given in the last page. They fall , L apprehend , into the following catego ries : ( a ) Cures wrought by a man or woman supposed to administer divine heallnir. b. Cures wrnuuht by relles.holy water , etc. , supposed to convey divine heallne. c. Curus wrought by charms , amuletsetc. , supposed tocon\oy a supernatural though not necessarily divine ticahnir. d. Cures wrought by a man or woman sup posed to transmit a natural healing. e. Cures wrought by sham medicines and medical appliances supposed to convey natural healing. In class ( a ) wo have a man or woman prominently engaged as the healer. His torically hn or she is generally distin guished by a great personal reputation for sanctity , but sometimes , as in the case of popes and of kings and qnecns , who "touched" for the evil , by the sacredness - crednoss of their office. * What part does this healer play in the cures ho performs , nud what otiier part belongs to the per son who is healed by faith in him ? Docs James , the healer , transmit a force , a virtue , an effluence of some sort , directly to the body of John , the person healed ? Or does James only influence John's mind by the recognized means of an im pressive personality or rank , and leave the healing to bo accomplished by John's body ? This is the lirst question to bo iinswnrod in any inquiry into faith healing. and it needs to bo carefully examined. The ordinary views is of coursq the first. It is assumed that a healing virtue proceeds straight from James to JotinM body. 1 musl state my reasons for being of a different opinion. In the first place , all evidence goes tc show that the siuu qua non of a success' ' fill experiment in miracle-working is the faith of the patient. "Not many mighty works" have been done in any tuna 01 where ' 'unbelief" prevailed. This Elaco would not bo indispensable if the euro was effected by a material force 01 ellluonco reaching directly the body o ! the patient. Secondly , an equolly largt * Bee Macaulay' * account of the "balsamh virtue * of the royal hand , " which U'llllait III. so unkiudly declined to exerclsn. lr Carpenter ( Mental 1'hyslolory. p. GSG ) telli us : "Xot only theologians of eminent learn Ina. ability , and virtue gave the sanction ol their authority to the belief , but some ot UK principal surgeons of the day certified thn the eures were so numerous and rapid thai they could not be attributed to any naturai cause , and thus the failures were to be as cribed to want of faith on the part of the tia tlcnts. Charles II. In the course of his refer had touched near a hundred thousand per sous , " The w rvlee appointed by the Cuurct of KngUnd for tkcio royal healings WK only withdrawn from the prayer-book aftei tile reign of < Jtiecn Anno. number 'of cures ( class b ) have been wrought by relics , holy water , und such objects , which may be understood vividly to affect the mind of n believer , but from which it Is impossible to thin ! : that a physical healing force or effluence can have been dispensed. For tin-so reasons I am convinced that all genuine cases of religious faith heal ing have boon wrought purely by men tal Influence.Con [ Con nt J ncit Sunday. ] Hlborlan Diet. Lansdcll , in Harper's Magazine for August : Aa regards the food of the aboriginals of Asiatic Russia , vegetarian ism cannot bo said to have made much headway among the nomads , whether in Siberia or Turkistan. Deprived for so many months of the year by snow of the sight of anything green , when the Siberians kill a reindeer they carefully empty its stomach of the indigested moss the animal has eaten , and servo that up as a delicacy , but in winter they set little vegetable food bo- sides. EVen with nomads of the Stonpo , what flour food they cat is taken chlclly in the form of uruel. It struck mo as & strange contrast of dietary customs when the Archbishop of Vernoye Informed me that they Intended to send monks as missionaries of the Russian church to the lluruti or Kara-Kirghcse , for the Russian monks oaj no moat , and the Burnt ! eat no bread so they proposed to cut the knot by planting a station on the shores of Lake tsik-Kul. where the holy men could feed on fish. The Kirgheso of the Steppe live in the summer almost entirely on milk , vari ously prepared , whilst the nch cat of mutton as their staple food , witn she ad dition of beef , and occasionally camel's esh. In the north the Yakutes are fond .f horse llosh. A Yakuto bride , on her wedding day , sets before her lord and naster as the greatest of delicacies horse- esh sausages , with a boiled horse's head , f which the brains are the most dainty morsel. The quantity too of horse-flesh hey oat is appalling. Their adage says , hat "to eat much meat , and grow fat pen it , is the highest destiny of man. " myself was not nresont at ono of their . .rgics , but as far back aa the days of Stahlenberg it was said that four Yakutes vould eat a horso. Once more the Gilyaks ixlslona very different kind of food , 'or they are almost ichthyophajri , .lalmon being their principal diet. The fish comes up the Amur n such numbers that they can bo tossed > ut with a pitchfork. Even the dogs go nto the stream and catch for themselves , mi salmon such as the finest seen in Lon don may bo purchased in the season among the Gilyaks for a penny each. The fish , cut up and dried , without fur- her cooking , at eaten , a piece of similar jizo per day serving alike for the Gilyalc .ind one of his dogs. I went to the lower Amur disposed to conlido m the theory ; hat lish diet , by reason of its phosphorus , ivas calculated to give brain power to Indents , but atter seeing the miserable .pecimens of humanity in the Gilyaks who live on lish , my belief in this theory lias been rudely shikcn. The Gilyaks make another use of the almon which I do not remember to have loard of in other countries , inasmuch as .hey employ the skin for garments. Hence the Chinese call them "Yupi- .atze , " or tish-skin strangcn. The fish kin is prepared from two : inds of salmon. They strip .t oil with dexterity , and by beating with a mallet remove the scales , and so render it supple. Clothes thus mndo , 1 need hardly ' .say , are water-proof , but they have tin objectionable smell to noses polite. I was fortunate enough to pur chase on the Amur a fish-skin coat.which I believe in England is unique , for there is nothing like it in the British museum. It ia handsomely embroidered on the back , the intermixture of colors being skillfully wrought in needle-work. Ot'ish-skin , however , is used only for summer clothing. In winter the Gilyak delights to clothe himself in the skins of his dogs or of fox or wolf , us being next warmest. The tribes further west , as ndced do all the Siberian people , em- ) loy the skins of the reindeer end elk lire killed that in some years ono may buy in the town -of Yenisniscisk alone as u any as ton thousand skips. Firm-Class Curriculum nt West I'olnt. "Winninc a Commission. " by George I. Putnam , in St. Nicholas for August : During no year had the class found an easy course of study , and tlie first-class course was like the others in requiring the closest attention. The class drew strange-looking plans of fortifications ; thev built theoretical bridges , and prac- Lical ones also ; they slowly mastered the ilements of the Spanish language , and .laily shocked the professor by their un- Castiliau accent ; they discovered the analogy between the "Laws of the Medea and Persians" and the regulations of tbo Military academy ; and they skimmed over the history of the world from the settlement by Adam to the present time. They be came adepts in the manufacture of shot and shell , and all weapons of attack aod defense ; they became deeply versed in law , international , constitutional , and military ; they rode , they marched , they studied , they drilled ; they built parapets and miniature forts , and then demolished them ; they constructed pontoon bridges , spar bridges and rafts ; thev would have explained to you the minutest details in the manufacture of gunpowder and dyn amite , or told you just where the plans of battle of ereat military leaders wove defective. In fact , they became walking encyclopaedias of useful military knowf edge. SINGUIjAUiriES. A pair of owls shot by ( ildeon L. Mathlus , of Sundcrsvlllo , da. , measured each four feet six Inches from tip to tip of wiims. 1'ino City , W. T. , claims to have the small est llviuK woman. Site Is twenty-two years old , twenty-nine Inches tall , nnd wolchs thir ty-three pounds.Ylien her husband is In a great hurry.and liu wants to go with him , ho puts her in his coat-tall pocket. A negro UvliiK near Calera , Ala. , let a rat tlcsnaku bite him for a ruraw hat worth 15 cents , lie put a blue clay poultice on the wound , swallowed some plug tobacco , and next day started oil for caniD-meetlng with the new hat slanted over his light ear. On Sun ( lav , a little girl named Morris , liv- inc In C.irroIIton , Mich. , swallowed an or namental hair pin tluee Inches long , with a laree liunl. Attempts to remove It were un successful , and Friday the operation of tracheotomy was performed successfully and the pin removed from the windpipe where it bad lodged. A lumber firm ot West Uay City. Mich. . Has aelmmensp pine log en route which U was Intended to nave In the Fourth ot July procession providing It had reached Uay City In time. The lo. scales : t,800 fret and as will hn readily seen. It is a monster In size. The Idea of a single lot : , which when converted Into lumber , would possibly attain a value of about .200 is astonishing even in these days ot high stumpace. Mr. 1C M. Ilorton.who lives alx miles above Dahloneza , Ga. . hero In Yahoola dlstrlctwas In town Monday with the wine , bill and neck of a curious bird , which ho killed near hU house the other day. The bird somewhat re sembles a crane In the body , but Its bill was fipoou-slmped and about two and a quarter Inches wide and neven Inches lone. The wines and tail were a beautiful pink color. From tip to tip the bird was about live feel lontc. It U the only one ot the kind ever seen In this country , and Is thought to bo a sea-fowl which had got test It Is bettered to be one of the largo spoon-bills which live Womed Cluba. We may not a ree on the weather , ! Yet , In this we must agree That , though base balls ate raadu of leather , The clubs may worsted be. Old people suffer much from disorders of the urinary organs , and are always 5ratified at the wonderful eiTectd of Or , . II. McLean' * Liver and .Kidney Balm in banishing th.ilr trouble * . 91.00 per bottlu. SURROUNDED BY ELECTRICITY , ' The Toolings Incident to Being in Elec trical , Atmosphere , t r LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES' Telegraphing To and From Moving Trains An Inquisitive Elephant Shocked , Yn Illuminator Electric News. I ! Electricity. Now York World : At 8:30 : o'clock Fri day , July 29 , night thunder and light ning began to whoop things up in the clouds over Brooklyn , and fifteen min utes later the immense Hngstaff on thereof roof of the Young Men's Christian asso ciation building nt Fulton and lioad streets , Brooklyn , was strucR. The light ning cut a serpentine furrow from the top to the bottom of the staff and then scattered , some of the electric fluid fall ing in a shower of fire to the street and more of it running through all parts of the building. There were ibout seventy- live persons in the building nt the time , and although no ono was injured , all wore stunned for the moment , and none of them care to experience a similar sen sation again. There wore fifteen young men bathing In the swimming tank at the time , nnd they received the shock more severely than any othere. Fortu nately none wiw In deep water at the time. George F. Hayncs describes his experience in the water as follows ; " 'There was a fat man about to enter the water , " ho says , ' , 'and ho was very timid. Ho did not seem to want to get wot. AVe were all gathered at the end of the tank whore tiio water is only about four , feet deep , and wo wcro waiting to give the timid fat man a wet reception. Just as he was about to step into the water , my attention was attracted by u bright light , and. looking through n win- ow , I saw two balls of tire drop to the idcwalk on Hanover place. At the same inie I heard a great snapping , and then ho water appeared to bo charged with Icctricity. I waa so affected by the hock that I could not move , and I did lot hear the loud peal of thunder that I lave since been told followed the light ing. When I recovered I aaw that some f the men were hastening out of the vater , aud that others wore still unable 0 move. My lirst impulse was to rush > ut of the water , and I did so. By the imo 1 got out all had recovered and were lurrying after mo. What was the son- ation ? Well , I felt as I would If 1 should bo told of a great calamity having hap pened to my dearest friend. " C. A. Frceburn , of the reception com mittee , was sitting in the ofllcu at the ime. He declares that he tasted the ightninjj. Ho says : "I heard two loud reports ; not thunder , Hit the snapping of the lightning. It ippeared to come down the telephone wires in the corner of thu room. The air ippcared to bo filled with the fluid and I could tab to it. It tasted like sulphur. L'liere were about fifty men in the re.ad- ng-room and tncy all got out in about .wo seconds. . The sound was like the iring of two'immense cannon occuring list under mv cars. Yes , I realized that ho building flail'boon ' struck by light- ling as soon 'as ' 1 heard aud tasted the " ' ' ightniiig. Robert Jameson was sitting in the reading-roomi Ifq suddenly noticed that ' .he air was blue , and at the same time lis body was ( drawn up. His left foot ho says was drawn lup to the seat of the chair. He believed ho had been stricken with paralysis and he attempted to asker or help , but ; 'he' was speechless. Then 10 heard and felt the crash , and ho knew t was lightning ] lie saw the man who sat opposite him' drop his book and ris-o irorn his chair. His face was pale and ie trembled from head to foot. Then everyone ran from the room and Jame son followed. He says he wits not fright ened , but that if he had time to think he jclioves he would have been scared. Those who were in front of the build ing saw the lightning twisting itself irouiid the pole as it ran down. Just before it reached the roof it Hew from the polu and foil in a bliower to the street. Mr. McMahon , who was in charge of L'erkin's wine store , directly opposite the association building , was sitting at the door of the store when the lightning struck , : tnd ho saw the shower of electric lluid. He says : "it was like the greatest llyiug boom you could imagine. There were hundreds of balls of file , some of them as large as my head , raining down from the roof of the building , and when they struck the street they scattered in all directions like molten iron would. Everything was bril liantly illuminated , and the brightness cannot bo described. With this was the crashing of the flagstaff , and hundreds of larce splinters fell to the street. I picked up three of these pieces. In live minutes they had all been picked up and some of them were sold at twonty-fivo cents each. lor a while I was unable to move from the fascinating sight and then 1 run , tcrror-sincKon and hid behind a uilo of boxes. I do not know why J was frightened , in tact I did not think at all. The sight was so awfully grand that all thought in mo was suspended. " Long Distance Telephone * . An officer of the American Telephone and Telegraph company said recently tea a reporter of the New York bvcning Post : "By means of great care in keep ing our wires in perfect condition , we are able to do what seemed impossible in the early days of the telephone that is , give business men the convenience of talking between Now York and cities within 500 miles of New York ns easily as if they wcro within ton feet of each other. The first line was opened from Now York to Philadelphia last January with fifty wires , constituting twenty-live circuits. Some of these circuits we have leased outright to business men nnd cor porations ; others we divide up among a number of tirm , and the others wo retain for transient business. In New York there are 130 offices in which there is direct communication by ou wires with Philadelphia without resorting to the Metropolitan Telephone Service. We charge $1 fpr a live minutes' talk be tween New York-and Philadelphia ; but the charge begins only when connection has been established between the persons who wish to talk : if wo cannot got this connection made , there is no charge. Business men'who are telegraphing back nnd forth ofery ; .day known what an amount of nnws can be given by tele phone in tlvotmmptes If the instrument works perfectly and there are no inter ruptions. I suppose that our business in single messages of this kind will average from ISO to 250 a May ; with the tendency to increase steadily. " In some of the announcements of the extension of this ( oner-distance telephone service , the newspapers have Intimated that the los cf business to the telegraph companies owing to this competition would be tremendous. One of the offi cers of the Western Union Telegraph company , who was asked concerning this , said : "Of course the telephone may lake the place of the telegraph in many Instances , but. the moment you get dis tances of more than 300 miles the ex pense running double-wired circuits of copper is going to become enormous , and as the number of tolphono messages which can be sent is insignificant as com pared to the amount of business which can bo done by telegraph. I do not see that wo need fear any competition. " The possibility of making some device which shall register a message coming by telephone has long been discussed , but as yet nothing practicable has ap peared. Ono inventor has suggested that some nodiucatioB ol the phonograph eonld bo attached to .the receiver , and would be ready at any time to repeat what cjimo over the wire , ' As yet the- phonograph will not record anything so delicate tis the vibration of a telephone diaphragm. Telegraphing From Moving Train * . . Kloctrlcal World : What has for some time been looked upon as a successful experiment in telegraphing to and from moving trains may now be considered a thoroughgoing practical method of work ing. This system , developed by Mr. I'holpfl , Mr. Edison and others , has now been at work practically on Yho Lolngh VaHey railroad for several mouths , and we have had occasion to witness it our selves in excellent operation upon that road from Perth Amboy to Easton , a dis tance of fifty miles. The method of working Is well known to our readers , the principle of induction being em ployed as the medium of communication between a stationary wire along the track nnd n cell on the moving car. While the system bos , as n whole , worked to satisfaction , several Interest ing points have been developed which aru worthy of consideration. As wo noted some time ago , the line wire cov ered with insultion on this road was laid on the llange of the rail. It was found , however , that the induction sot up be tween the conductor and the rail itself weakened the action on the coil on the car , and though signals wcro perfectly intelligible , yet they were not as strong as those obtained with overhead lines. Hence it has been decided to change the line to overhead one on short poles. Another fact developed was that stronger signals could bo obtained by separating the convolutions of the coil on the car n short distance from each other , so : .s to avoid mutual induction and retardation between them. In commenting on the sjstem , the Railroad Gazette remarks that the increase of limited trains which niako many infrequent stops would seem to be one of the phases of modern railroading reading which is likely to show the de sirableness of a system of communication of this kind. The New York Central fast train keeps its passengers out of communication with the rest of the world about two nnd a half hours , while run ning between New York and Albany ; ami the Pennsylvania's limited occupies about three hours between Altoomvand Harrisburg. It might bo argued that the restless American ought , in justice to himself , to take a vacation of a few hours from his exciting all airs once in a while , nnd that if a few fortunes were lost in Wall street by this means no last- inir harm would result ; nevertheless many general uassonger agents will doubtless deem It to their interest to ac commodate their patrons with every con venience possible , nnd to the list of at tractions , btich as dining cars , "vesti bules''and electric ? lights thu train telegraph - graph will have to be added by those who wish to keep just a notch or two ahead of their competitors. There is a mission too for this convenience on or- Unary passenger trains. People arc willing to pay liberally for relief from Anxiety , and the fair patron who has left ' , n the car a parasol or a yard of ribbon nrllich she has traveled ten miles to pur chase would bless the railroad for a prompt means of telegraphing to the train , as fervently as would the broker on the limited who desired reports every en minutes from his oflicc. The more hat people use the telegraph and tele phone the less care and forethought they : ake in all their affairs affected by this means of communication. At first the .digraph was used largely in the sense of a corrector of mistakes ; for the send- 'ngof messages had been forgotten when ; he mail started. But gradually inten tional forgetting , so to speak , was in duced by the now facilities , so that now , with cheap rates , very often no pains at all are taken to send by mail. This en genders habits of impatience , for if half , or two-thirds of one's questions are an swered , or wants supplied , without delay the desire for equal convenience extends 'o all wants. This is a reason why the rain telegraph now has a field which it would not have had twenty-live years' ' ago. To Rnn by Klcctrlclty. Now York Times : The Jersey City and Bergen railroad will on Wednesday next move their cars by electric motors. President Thurston says that it will prove less expensive and bothersome than horse locomotion. The new motive power , contrived by Joseph Weiss , of Jersey City , has already been tested on the lines with the heaviest grades and found to work satisfactorily. A serie ? of electric cells placed under the car scats feed batteries underneath the car. Three wheels are connected with the latter con trivniice , two Hanged or rail wheels , and a center wheel which is flangeless. The mil wheels are charged with electricity , and are connected by a belt. The power is distributed by a small gear wheel , which makes 500 revolution * in harmony with n larger ono of 250 revolutions , which in turn is connected with the fric tion or center wheel , winch makes fifty revolutions. With thirty cells the car can bo driven 100 miles an hour , or as much slower as desired. The batteries will run it fifteen hours and do the work of twelve horses. The cars will bo lengthened live feet. It is proposed to employ the present drivers to run the new motors. At the opening Wednesday a number of distinguished guests will be in attendance. An Inquisitive Elephant Shocked. In the pageant of victory in the "Fall ol Babylon , " at Sr. George , are several huge elephants and other ponderous beasts. The tallest and heaviest elephant is called "Chief. " Along aud about the stace are laid over 100 electric wires , which are used to convoy the electric current to the RCO lights focused on the scenery to produce the necessary effects. As it is dangerous to come in contact with these wires signs are placed in con spicuous positions warning the perfohn- era of the danger. The other evening the entire company was suddenly startled by a roar from the big elephant , "Chief. " Win ID awaiting his cue to take his place in the procession ho had leisurely pro ceeded with Ills trunk to Investigate his immediate surroundings. Before ho could scent his peril ho had Insinuated hia proboscis between two of the heav iest electrio wire ? used. The roars that followed were territic , and each succeed ing one was louder than the other. The keepers rushed to the spot and saw the ponderous beast fall to the ground , writhing in pain. A panic ensued among the supers and coryphees , who imagined "Chief" was going on a rnmpagu and would tear up things generally. Pails of water were thrown over the quivering trunk , while the poor beast tossed him self from side to side in agony. It was fifteen minutes before the unfortunate animal became sufficiently relieved to as sume n standing position and shako him self into form for his part. Tno scienti fic veterinarian who was called in found the end of the elephant's trnnk severely burned. Although the animal's suffer ings must have been intense at the time , ho was not seriously injured. Notable Electric Illumination. Ono of the notable electric Illumina tions for the jnbilee was that at Lincoln , whore the great tower of the cathedral , 371 feet high , was illuminated by thirty- two arc lamps of 2,000 candle-power each , making tbo total of 04,000 candle- power. Each ono of the four pinnacles bore a lamp at a height of 40 lect above the tower. As Lincoln Cathedral stands on n hill about 800 feet high , and Is surrounded - -rounded by level country in every direc tion , the light was visible at a great dis tance , as far north as Doncaster and York , westward well into the midland .counties , and southward as far aa Boston , Peterborough and Ely , The installation was put in by Metsn. llobey & Com pany , of Lincoln. JUS. SPARKLING SUMMER SMILES. A jBcorgia Editor Who Hoi Profiled By Experience , NO PLIES UPON HIS DARLING. A Vacation llomance The Cxnat Wny What Shall \Ve Drink-Bullet Glrl'ft Feat An A reo bte Chang * Witticism * . A Vacation Honmncc. Somcrviltt Journal. Thnv met at the seashore ono summer. With results there's no need to detlun ; He told his chum she was "a hummer , " And he , she told hers , was "divine. " Thnyfl Irted upon the veranda , With the moon shining bright overhead , He ventured to call her "Amanda , " And she shyly answered , "why , Near Tholr romance was sweet while It lasted , As seaside romances may bo ; But , alas ! all his fond hopes Nirre blasted. In a way that , of course , you foresee * For , when ho went back to the city. Her coolness occasioned him pain ; Antt to tniko a short end to my ditty Jler husbuDd met her at the tram. Some Georgia Nawsnnpnr Ilules. Arkansaw Traveler : Pasted over the desk of the city editor of a Georgia paper are the following instructions : "All brides are lovely.bcautlful and ac complished , except they bo old and tough widows , and then they are amiable and cultivated. "All merchant * who advertise arc en terprising , wide-awake and a credit to our city. The names of those who do not advertise must not appear in our paper. ' 'All old lawyers arc able and worthy of a place on the supreme bench. Young lawyers are promising and silvery- tongued. "Conductors on passenger trains are gentlemanly and courteous. "Doctors arc eminent. "Farmers arc intelligent. "Candidates who put their announce ments in our paper are gaining ground every day. Those who do not are likely to bo defeated. "Under no circumstances must these rules be broken. F. Meddleton Pry or , editor and proprietor. " TheUsun ! Wny. "Yes , I gave each of my sons ffi.OOO and sent them west to make their for tunes. John invested bis money in a cat tle ranch , aud went to work in earnest. It grieves uio to say that. Henry , disre garding my admonitions about honesty and industrv , started a faro bank. " "And it all turned out in the usual way , 1 suppose. " "Yes , Henry owns John's cattle ranch now , and has lent him money to come home with. " Alexander. Texan Sl/itiigf , There was a chao who kept a store. And thoiipb there might be erander , He sold his goods nor nsked tor more , Aud his oainu was Alexander. Ho mixed his Roods with cunning hand , He was a skilful Draiidcr ; And since hit sugar half was sand They called him Alec-Sander. lo had his dear , ono day Bhn came , Then lovingly hit scanned her : lo asked her would she change her name ? Then a ring did Alox-hand-ner. 'O. vcs , " she said , with smiling Up. "If I can be commander 1" And so they framed a partnership And called It AJex-and-her. BaTe From I'rospcnflon. A Dakota citizen had returned from a little lynching affair , aud his wife was badly frightened. "Aren't you afraid of being arrested ind tried for murder ? " she inquired. "No , " he said , "tho judge i nd the dis rict attorney wcro among those who had hold of the rope. " What Shall Wo Drink ? Some people say the man's a fool Who drinks Icu water to keep cool. And to some others it Is clear lie's foolish who drinks ale or beer. borne others say that soda's not The drink to take when days are hot. And Mystic and Cochltuato Arc worse than all , some people state. Wlmt shall we drink , for mercy's sake ? lln , ha ! Mlnt-Julcps let us take. Ilnllot Olrlu * Great Feat. Little girl , at the opera for the first time Mamma , what are those women Lloing with tholr feet ? Mother Don't ask so many questions. Little girl Mamma , arc they trying to atch Hies with their feel ? Mother No ; dudes. Ob , No. There's no rose without its thorn And no too witho ut its corn , ' No cherry without its grub , And no cigar without its stub. Anollinr Fine-Returning. Kincald Phwhich way now , Hartigan ? Ilartigan It's me that's dilcgated n c'mittco av wan to returrun th' Ilnpgorty Social club's banner wo tuk away from thiui at the picnic. It's as good as new barrin' the brick-hole , an' it's pluntin' humid feolin's wo are. Been With a Woman' * Ere. Somcrvttle Journal. There's nothing at nil In the paper to-day , " Sold he with a man's aggrandizement. Why dear said his wite , "you can't mean what you say. There's a lovely dry-tfoods advertisement. " An Agreeable Change. Detroit Free Press : A housewife on Antoine - toino street had cleared off the breakfast table the other morning , nnd lust as she gave her pan of dishwater a heave into the back yard a man came around the corner of the house and received the full contents from chin to heels. "Oh ! dear , but I beg a thousand par dons ! " exclaimed t lie woman when she realized whnt she had done. "Not a pardon , ma'am , " ho calmly re plied. "But it was so careless in mo. " "Not a bit careless , ma'am. 1 am a gentleman out of work and with no means. I make it a practice to call at va rious houses In search of cold vitnals. In most cases they sling the bull-dog or the ax at mo. I lay my hand upon my heart and assure you that this l an innovation n change u diversion that I can really enjoy , aud I thank you for it. Good day , ma'am. " Engaged to a Finish , lie was an artist , courting the daugh ter of u sea captain. While ho waa whimpering soft nothings in her car in the parlorhe was paralyzed by the harsh voice of the ancient mariner in a neigh boring room : "Cast oil' that painter ! " But she explained that her father often used nautical phray.es in his sleep , and the engagement proceeded to a finish. They Han Him In. A youth filled up with bad liquor. Uecauso such a obstinate klquor , And uiadA such a din , That the cons ran him In , Which obliged him to pawn bis good liquor. Sensational Suljeote. PitUburg Times : Hov. J. B. Koehno , paiitor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church , Sixtli avenue , last Sunday mghl begun a series of sermons , the title ol each one being ono of the expression ! often heard on the street. "Damn It' was the title of last night's discourso.utu the users of that and similar , profane OB prcsuons wcro handled without gloves , The subjects for the other sermons , so fit as determined upon by Mr. Koehno. will bo : "How Is the Score ? " "Ho Hold Acn Full. " "How Was the Showf" "Wh Is That Now Girl ? Has She. Just Struck , the City ? " "Let us Have a Game ol Pool , " "Aro You Trying to Make R MiislU" MiislU"A A ' ' Nice llow-d'y-do' . The snimw of n chief of the Sioux Eloped with n red hrndcd Jlotix ; The pair In Dtitnique TUo husband o'ertotuiue. And this made anIce how-dloux-yloux-dloux. No Flics Upon llli Darling. "My daughter , " remarked a Wobel avenue paterfamilias In n burst of conll deuce this morning , "I wont you to keep our proud and wealthy name in dutiful remembrance. Keep up your eyes , Evangolino , and when you look about you for n partner for life select ono who U worthy of our name nnd future. " ' " 1 have selected ono already , pa , ' ' said the fair Evangcline.as the modest blushes suffused the croiuo do Us ou her fair nook nnd face. "Hal Speak quickly. Who la ho ! What is he ? For heaven's sake keep me not In suspense. " "It's it's Mr. Lorrigan , the baseball pitcher. " "Well done , Evangelino. There are no Hies on you , my darling. Come to my arms. You have made mo a happy man this time. Wealth and position Iiavo you gained in this bold hit in the first in ning. " And they both wept for joy. The BhootliiR ot Stonewall Jaokaoit "A Great Battle in a Forest , " by Gen eral Adam Bndonu , in St. Nicholas for August : After night fell Stonewall Jack son rode out with his staff to reconnoiter in front of the line ho had gained. It was his idea to stretch completely around in the rear of Hooker and cut him oft from the river. The night was dark and Jackson soon came upon the union lines. Their infan try drove him back , nnd as ho returned in the darkness , his own soldiers began firing at their commander , of course mis taking his party for the enemy. Jackson was shot in the hand and wrist , aud in the upper arm at the same time. His horse turned , nnd the general lost his hold of the bridle-rein ; his cap was brushed from his head by the branches , ho reeled , and was caught in the arms of an officer. After a moment ho waa as sisted to dismount , his wound was exam ined , and a litter was brought. Juat then the union artillery opened again , and a murderous tire came down upon the party throngh the woods aud the darkness. Ono of the litter-bearers stumbled and fell , and the others wore frightened ; they laid the lit ter on the ground , the furious .storm of shot and shell sweeping over them like hail. Jackson attempted to rise , but his aide-de-camp held him down till the tempest of tire was lulled. Then the wounded general was helped to rise and walked a few stops in the forest : but ho became faint and was again laid in his litter. Once ho rolled to the ground when nn assistant was shot , and the litter fell.OJust then General Ponder , ono of 'ils subordinates , passed , ho stopped and aid : . - "I hope you are not seriously hurt gon- ral. I fear I shall have to retire my roops , they are HO broken. " But Jackson looked up at ouce and ex- lainiod : "You must hold your ground , General 'cndcr , you must hold your ground , ir. " This was the last order he over gave. lo was borne some distance to the near- at house , nnd examined by the > urgeon ; and after midnight his left rni was amputated at the shoulder. * Vvhon Leo was told that his most trusted lieutenant had been wounded , he was greatly distressed , for the relations between them wore almost tender. "Jackson has lost bin loft arm. " laid Lee , "nut I have lost my right arm. " Does Killed by Electricity. Buffalo Express , July 17 : Yesterday morning was eventful one in the history -jf dogdom. Twenty-seven luckless cap tives whose term of probation had passed were offered up on the electric altar. The nnw form of execution dispenses al together with the "dull thud. " the "sharp report , " and the "loud splash. " Ono by ono the doomed dogs wcro led from the kennel room to the chamber of death. Ono by ono tboy were placed in n box about two by three , lined with tin , with about nn inch of water in the bottom. One by one they wore muzzled with a wire punning through the month. A simple touch of the tever a corpse. The work of extermination was witnessed yesterday Drs.McMichaol. Wendo , Park , Fell , nnd others , all of whom expressed delight at the expedition with which the work of destruction was performed. At present only three or four dogy , of evi dent good social standing , remain at the nouna. The fresh crop will probably be harvested to-morrow. YIELD * TO EVERT MOVEMENT OF THE WEARER. 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