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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY REGISTER f
BV ELLEN J- DORTCH VOL, VI. NO. 33
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SHCRi.
■r. 11E1U1Y SMITH.
There’s a river called the river of Death
Flows past the homes of men;
Thick mists hang o’er it farther shore
And flic voyagers thither return no
more
To gladden their hdmes again.
Each yea, I stand by that river’s brink
Where loved ones launch their bark,
Antl 4 IT I strive five in m aain vain to to see see them them awain again,
•Till my J heart is chilled with a numbing
pain
As I peer into the dark.
But a sweet thought comes as I stand
and gaze
O’er the river wrapped in mist;
From the vales we know, one by one
they go,
And their names are crossed from tlie
list below.
And joined the heavenly list.
’Twill not be long, (for the flow of
time
I swift, unceasing, stern,)
When the last of all shall hear the call,
Shall don the shroud and deck the pall
And unto the earth return.
But tlie soul shall cross the River of
Death
By angel boatman oared.
And the broken band, clasp hand in
hand,
Slisll on the other shore united stand,
And praise their Savior Lord.
Fayette, Mo.
WEIRD PICTURE OF A TOMR.
Mr. J. II. Vane lias iu liis possession
a photograph of the monument of the
late Hon. John M. Clayton, in tlie
Presbyterian churchyard in this town,
at to ii
tion and has causcd_not a.^litile com
inept, Mr-N r anc is a photographer,
and in March last photographed the
nionujnent. lie wus accompanied by
a hoy. When he looked at tlie plate
he saw tliiugs never dreamed of in
connection with tlie monument and
showed them to the boy, The later no
soon er looked at the plate than his hair
got on tlie perpendiclar and feet had
an uncontrollable desire for home.
The monument is a very large, fine,
white marble one. The tomb rests
upon a dais under a heavy marble can¬
opy suporteil by liandsomely carved
pillars. There is a space of sevefal
feet.bet ween the tomb proper and the
canopy above. AM now comes the
strangely supernatural featuio of the
photograph. Between the tomb and
the canopy above can- tie dlstincly seen
the head and shoulders of a wlnte
ffhi^erpd wan, Rperwg aropnd the
the right hand corner ef the tomb, as
if watching him, caif he seen tlie head
of a woman with gaze fixed intently
upon the place occupied by the plito
grapher. Floating iu the air above
the monument can be seen the sliad
owy ecuutennnce of a largo, smooth
taped, white haired map, with eyes
and month open, tie expression be¬
ing one of astonishment. The only
explanation seems' to be that the
plate was some tfiiy defective, or
bad the impression imparled to it
in some mysten? inWfl| before
the photograph l*n.—Dover
Index mmm
all men i\«e not bad
^either uic all prepared remedieg
re |i,-ib/e. Ihis is proven by the re
..if, followinst the mm of Tfr W
Ilart eis lion /fepjc for
j> el im«t .___ ism, gcroiuia, ... jaundice, . toy
! ,J liyer and general weakness.
FOR SALE *
schoflirsuip In tho Louisville
iiicss titcms L'ullftro. con, go, lnefudins iiictu'iingocoh
dug and peumauMnp, 1 bfa is
u f ib« lm»t Ihwihom coltegM in
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WHITE SLAVERY IN COLONIAL TIMES
Wilier, and Indented Servant,.
*sb
white men, women and cliildien ueie
utgrt btavery. »ucu unite peisons owing
a personal service to individual masters
were generally iUal known as “term slaves,’’
thou-di their n^wWmiin- status «•<,<, ! ',, renresent>,1 J * "
l»v iim wrtri -'i, J, \ r
j Isaac s .„ nT At eld, Jr., Tl . ill ■ Ills • book ', of travels .
in America, published in tho last cen
t u r y, raaerts lk>t it w.-s ll.e cwstont of
hlupmasteis at Ivoiteidnm and the House
esseK «!-nr under g iwom^e o! of a free to passage then
to Amenta. On leaching tlie colonies
announcement of the arrival of mechanics
and laborers would be made, and persona
in want of such would flock to the ships,
anil the linnr if! •„“« rternians wnnl.l 0Ul 1 lm * snl.l ! T
o 10 i m l ^ C 10 Cai>tainS , • p0C ^ et
° ’ *
ing tl lopiocects. v> '
Redemptmners constituted m the coriy
par featuie °f(thc of colonial igttccn anxiety. i centeu-y They a iiecnliar
were
1. 7n LIfSd*Worl<l ! "'md'thrnmdf t uou L l1 thS 8
, „ > , ;/
a 1 '“"n- l.pv' Z' S 1 to? 1 Up0) vaerao!'- mcrlc 1
of ot nev noniiKtion population, but the the vagrant.-,,
felons and tlie dregs of her communities.
There was thus established among- tlie
first settlers a society that, in many
pestilence. Among lm the £ n< ? < * redemptionera, yyh
:
however, were a fair proportion of sturdy
souls, strong m purpose and endeavor,
who appreciated the great opportunity
crcated for them by this complete change
of life and country. At the expiration of
then- term of service many, by thrift and
industry, elevated themselves to respect
able positions, and wore absorber, -in the
middle class.
There were two kinds of redemptioners
— “indented servants, who had bound
themselves to their masters for a term Oi
years previous to leaving the old couu
try, and “free willers. who, being with
out money and desirous of emigrating,
agreed with the captains of ships to
allow themselves or their families to bo
sold on arri\al for the captain s ad\an
tage, and thus repay costs of passage and
other expenses, iho former—-indented
servants were often trapped into their
engagements by corrupt agents at home,
who persuaded them all under false
promises of tender and humane treat
raeiit, and assurances of remunerative
eniployment at expiration of service,
wluel; would insure a competent provi
sion for the remainder of their days.
The emigrants often discovered‘on arrival
that the advantages to to obtained in
America had teen painted by tho agen ts
in muclt too fiUurmg forced them colors, Frequently
their masters to mos-jt rigid
labor, and exercised an unnecessary
so ^ nty ;
The free willers suffered a- , even worse
treatment at the hands of shipmasters
and agents. They were led to believe
that on arrival m America tlielr services
would lie eagerly solicited by persons
wlio would gladly pay tlio cost of their
passages; winch being only £9, tlio eiju
gi-ants would soon be able to repay, and
tlms secure their liberty and all tlio c»
joyment and prosperity that the new
country offered to adventurers. Agree
ments were entered into whereby theso
deludeil ones bound themselves, tliat if,
on arrival, . , they did not , succeed . within a
certain number of days in securing tm
ploymont on their own terms, they could
te sold for a term of years to defray t ic
charges “free willers,’ for then; with passages. exceptions, Alas, had the
rare
a rudo a" aliening on l eachmg tho col
omes. Dnder then agiecments the
tains had a legal Item on the persons of
the emigrants until the ship charges were
paid; consequently they were not allowed
to go on shore, but were exposed to view
on deck to the people on came board
in search of seiwants. Except in cases
of extraordinary qualifications, very few
of them were happy enough to make
their themselves own sold Btipalatiaos, tor several and^ j ears tlieyjound of teui
ous later and sm'vii u< <?.
The usual price par in Fennsvlvania
for three years’ service was ±21 Is. Cd.
When his time had expired a man was
entitled to receive two suits of clothes, a
a “ a T
ax. Children sold for fiom £8 P n to fin, P1
and their masters were required and to see
tliat they were taught to read wnte,
and had at least one quarter g schooling,
In New Jersey—according to ‘team
ing and Spicer —no white servant, if
sold or teund after 17 years of age, coukl
serve above four >' car ^ « under that
age, they were to be free on reaching ,
tlieir majority. At the expiration of ser
vice tlieir masters were obbgto to supply
them with two good guits of clothing,
suitable for a servant, one good bushels failing pf
ax, one good hoe and seven
Indian corn. A servant was to be irnme
diately freeil in case of being so abust’d ,
by master or mistress ns to result in tlio
loss ot an eye or a tooth. Tlio Jaws against
aiding redemptionists to escape were very
severe. ,a|pBI A fine of £■) was imixised for
______ such and t lio
offering assistance in cases,
aider aiaeranu and abettor aueuw was w«w uuugeu obligcxl to «« make
full totofaction satisfaction to to master master or or mistress mistress for for
all nil I loss, 08 ** damage damage or or coat cost sustained sustained by by tho tlie
absence absence of of or or search search for for the the runaway, runaway.
Auy Any ono ono who who concealed concealed or or entertained entertained nn nn
g to cop di n g mlemptioner could lie fined
** tto dhcKikm of tlw
mode to day wiy ten shillings to the owner
foreaeli to hud liarbonsl thesirvant.
In looking lsiek ottMie i*cuiiniiisn,
eliangfs, and gradations of aoeiety «*
New colonial toys, it fa mrkm
to note iiow tto well to do emigrants ,
aftiT wto irrivnl lirtHigJit mtemrtfi*. witli tl iwu aervonto tut pur<li?i~d offin
lout Wo tto 1,1 (ui-srige Hw at ttoir cmnlry i«(iiu<-«M e; U mg
'*n» " aw to im.intein
ibMr rank iallucime. IIMr humlris «r
vitors, lam ever, innml by toriUdp «md
W»r to tto jmsHierisi stem mcosfata** ot uawitM
••kd****'’ wal thrm,. 'Iim
BtoM mm . sfu-r serving Uglr lima, am
♦pured tevmgj imid owl is am* by tUUatwv mi
M wm let rna mu&m, iu ito
CARNES VILLE, GA-, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 0 1887.
Who had owned their time during their
ESi’SasSs
Times.
’
Gypsies universally revere the mamago g
5”^ V ___ 0 elation. , .. What , other ,, poop.o
do? f say universally, and use that word
unqualifiedly. tion. There is not an excep
Tlio home, under dingy roof or
beneath t the tne stars stars, is isttieaieaiii, rhn dream tho tlie type,
*i, t.SnSS mi.’
to f
fidulity . but the rcligious facul as vv0
know it, develop it, distort it, is so
hig in them that another seems to have
taken its place. That is home worship, aid
Without ambition to rule and rend
rcm(xlel the worW ’ tl ioir who , p mpntnl
an( l heait , , powei concentrates . . upon and
about their own. Every earthly effort of
the gypsy man, as of every decent man,
is for tho liome, tho concrete shrine
n - itllill j.i, 6 i„ lp le holding. The gypsy
n.|f e> not being civilized into a social
harridan; not being developed into a
literal '. v ’ art or cluuch gadabout; not
being cultured into a female devil fish,
reaching her greedy tentacles to every
outl vill K sliule and then devouring her
-
own homo for self and social distortion,
j,as a whole body and soul and devotion
for those who call her wife and mother,
^ y,j 3 gyn S y family that you scorn j
and iny old poet friend calls “rascals,”
form an a41 sufticien t, invincible love
forco force that that the the combined comb ined assaults assaults of of ill ill
f()1 . tllnc can never , shock or Pndanger .
That is sure i y one thing worth remern
boring about the gypsies. Yet all this is
trup wit | 10Ut law. And it even begins
back of the suckling of the babe at tho
gypsy's mother’s breast. It is bred and
j u bred in pre-natal assimilated loyalty,
Then as the children come along with tho
y 0ars they absolutely know nothing else
or different, save about tho Gorgios or
non-gypsies, noii-gypsics, among among whom whom they they see see all all
y la f should be avoided and of whom we
)j I10Ti - a f P w things that Bhould bo
changed.—Edgar L. Wakeman’s Letter.
______
Indian-' Crew,
One little incident will serve to show
j 10w rapidly the aborigine of the north
west is forsaking tlie ways of his fore
fi bers' and taking to the customs and.
habits of tho white man. A month or
t, vo ng0) while the steamer Rosebud was
c'.mmmg mi the Missouri growling toundffor Ben
( 01}> the crew got to amongtlicm
selves and struck for higher wages. Upon
reaching Fort Bcrthold (the agency of the
LLanddn and Gros Ventre Indians) the
wiiito laborers came out openly, refused
; 0 work, and abandoned the boat. Capt.
t ik jj > of tlio steamer, stepped
i.’itorvHAWotl sonw oF-the” Y*evf
sfcjna, and in ton minutes he had booked
(| lc following crew: Little Sioux, Spotted
Wolf, Gray Head, Sheepish, Charles
Brewer, Crazy Horse, White Calf, Two
B ulls, Stink Face, Eddie Hill, Bull Head,
p ox _ y 0 ung Hawk and Blue Stone,
with this novel outfit tlio boat proceeded
oa f 0 Benton with perfect success, having
j e |q f] )0 white strikers standing dismayed
on y le bank and toiling with rage to foot
^ back to civilization file best way tliey
coukl . C apt. Todd bad to throw off bis
coat alH j bistruct the atorigines in tho
ways of the stevedore, handling barrels,
tying ropes, moving wheat and other
things, but after the first lesson he never
j,ad a more "rilling crew, and he did not
want a tetter. Tlie boat anrived at Ben
ton Dn time the Gros Ventre8 alld M an
dans b having' covered themselves with
acon grease, ^ flour, dirt, and glory. Tho
only little awb ack was tho redskins
wou i d s top in the middle of a job to smoko
fhe pipe r of ff peace with the white men,
pnd aIsQ to paid.^^cago nd out just when they wore
going to t Times.
_ _
rreservoUou of Food In Siberia.
To appreciate the severity of *thocli
p, at e of Northern Siberia, tactical it is (wfiy neces
to understand the \ purposes l i
jt ^ de t() Berve . T 10 ellt i ro co ltry
^ ^ ^ a v; , st refrigerator in preserv
jj,g <>ae articles of food,
day a traveler, dining at Tomsk
0t , a pi uu ^ ,p fowl, asked how long | the
bird ^ kilIfd . T, ie landlor evi .
don tly softened his roply os much as pos
pib j p> kn<>w j n g. Bie repugnance of most
foreigners to aiiy food not quite fresh,
“Two months only,” he said. “Nota
d aymore”
No precautions are required for the
p reserva ti 0 n of beef, for it takes care of
itself. Nearly all butchers kill at the be¬
ginning 0 f the cokl weather a sufficient
num to r c f animals to furnish provisions
j- or t | ie , entire winter and allow the meat
to freeze. Tliere is no fear of any food
c i ia , ig j n g jp such a temperature. Tiie
pej, i^-como go eolid and stiff tliat they
are ^ up on their tails against tho wails
0 f the markets ovfr te the tail ever so long
^d the fish so heavy,
Often fruitgproserved in ice are placed
np0 n tlie method two of the Siberian evening
jheal, tlie of keeping them being
gjnjjjnr to that employed with meats. As
lfOOH M Bj 0 ggxere cold sets in tlxey are
exp __,-------- osed to tho air, ..., if - ,----, possible toward the
„ or th, where tbero fa no sun to rear li
Biem; uiem; they mey snus thus become necomo completely completely
f frozpn rozen . .
when When eaten eaten they tliey nro nro found found to to luive liavore- re
Gained mined their tlieir flavor flavor marvelously, marvelously, nofarifh- notwidi
standing gtonding their their thawed change change from from a n fro® fro»n n
r jgi,|ity to the state necessary being for
us“- At the moment of serrul
t |ioy uro usually as bard oa wo«J, and, if
y, py c |,ance to fall, rattle ilka atones
upon the floor. The heat of the room
graduaiiy S^lr softens tliem and tfaoy mmuim
dr%*nul form. elimate ought
Hucli u aonnmfaut c*t
tainly 7 ^ to abttplify toUUjs Iho Jwlsira of market
uwn r.,-YouU»’«
1
» M V Holm
fa fa p, to noted (lug Eg>(it fa again Itu
tuning a iawd uf “iti ai culture. for d «
uuoiiMte* ±fas«wirw are If fitly ami oilier »fiip|s»l to Kun>;*i A te*
(la UmU> iiuidiy asisUsi, pals. ubila
Mgr# *g„
§» tere reavuto tf test yum atom ii.oto
FOREST PRESERVATION.
American neonlo must uositivelv civo
supply * of food has tended VI, for ail some bun- llu, ‘
dreds , , of . years, if .« nqt-thousands, to ren
der human beings less economical of
means and careful of methods. Tife older
races, like the Chinese, never waste; to
'hem Jiem ererx-tbino everything has l, n « its its use. use Hut Rut we mo
Labor of a thousand years we have burned
up in a day. Civilization has invented
the phrase clearing up, which means
wanton removal of all things that stand
in the way of our immediate needs.
whom vast ’1 stretches j of oaks
millions .... Of aeies it ■■ IS Olfneu.t to And ... a
single grove or a singlo tree; hut how in
estimable such remains are when found!
It is not wholly from the utilitarian
stamIj,oint tl.atwo looit, lmt the aesthetic,
These are like their surroundings. If it
be undesirable to dwell in the forest, it is
still more undesirable to dwell without
the companionship of trees. But as a
matter of economy and physical
sitv we are compelled to have sympathy
for and with the vegetaldo world. Our
destiny, in common with tho whole nni
tnal kingdom, is identified with the plant
kingdom. In the struggle for existence,
from the outset, there has been a mutual
interdependence of all living things. If
we destroy tlie trees wo injure onr own
progress and prospects. Jn the present
economy of nature protoplasm, or the
bais of life, can only be created by the
plant kingdom; from it we receive the
same at second hand. But our existence
is dependent oil trees and plants in many
other ways, and always has been, The
earliest human races were littoral, or
shore dwellers. They had no tools to
work their way through denizens forests, of nor tlio
weapons to cope with the
forest. Bttt with increase of the art of
making tools human brings left the shore
and roamed the forests ns hunters. To
the hunting faces the destruction of trees
was the destruction of their means of ex¬
istence. Tho North American Indian
saw only starvation in the white man’s
unsparing ax. . brought into
Civilization lias us even
closer relation to trees, and more inti¬
mate dependence on -vegetation, The
equilibrium carbon of the air, adjusting for the healthy pro¬
portions of gases our Malaria is
existence, depends prevented, on trees. by judicious
not caused, but a Slia
proportion of forest land. Piufassor
ler takes up tho case with great energy
to show that the most serious result fol¬
lowing tho destruction of our forests will
■
vast areas into deserts. ‘ 'Already a large
part of many fertile regions has been
sterilized in this fashion; and each year a
larger portion of our infinitely precious finds
heritage of soil slips into rivers and
its way to the sea, because we have de¬
prived it of tlie protecting coating of
vegetation.” Wo have also to consider
the immense vegetation deposit which is
yearly added to tlie soil where forests
abound. Our own culture takes from
tho soil, on tho contrary, more than it
gives. So tlio waste from rain is greater
in tilled soils than in wooded lands. In
forests tlio soil is ever deepening; i:i open
lands ever decreasing. This evil we must
endure, but should lio careful not to ag¬
gravate. The amount of noil now swept
away annually is actually them clogging constantly tlie
targe rivers, compelling of
to change chanrn Is. The argument
Professor Shaler is pressed to soil show that that he
no man has such a right in
may lie wasteful of it, cr use it for tho
disadvantage of his neighbors. Govern¬
ment, beholds, should interfere to pre¬
vent waste of forests.
The question of forest preservation several has
been more or less considered by
of the states, but, i:i fact, apart from the
encouragement of tree planting, little lie
been done in a systematic manner V
regulate the use or prevent the waste cl
trees. Onr Our relalion relation to to the the vegetable vegetal)!
kingdom grows even more intricate, and
our serious dependence more emphasizoe
constantly, since the demands of civilian
tion for timber and fuel increase, and
must increase.
At present tho greatest loss in the way
o( forest destruction is frein of .fires caused
by locomotives, malice cmrleasnSeA
Somo of the railroads have already taken
action to prevent the recurrence of the
evil from locomotive sparks. Tho plan
adopted is to clear away all tirater
growth for 100 feet on each side of tha
track. A furrow ia then run along tlie
outer edge of this space, and tlio whole
kept mowed and clean. The loss from
timber fires is not less tium an average of
£2,000,000 per state annually. This is
wholly preventable. Professor Shaler is notable
The work of
in this respect, that it makes the subject,
which has been rather held to be foeal, to
bo a continental matter. Ho has en¬
larged the subject, and shown that it
vitally touches tlio very possibility of
human existence.—Globe-Democrat.
iiratnlna th« rinsk Mambes.
An immense drainage work undertaken
by the Russian government contemplal<«
t h 0 rPP0Tf ,,. y 0 ( the vast region known
tin. i“in«k nnrahi-i in iho soatlnvest t-f
Rmwin near tto border , of Gnlliefa, nnd
w j,icU bitlierto Irn-i prevented tlie Russian
(Mtioni not on |« totween
f^cta on either fide, but also between
ijuMhfa ami Austro ftermany. Up ti> have ike
.^sent lime alnut 4,fM)fi,0Ott
...... „f ttocousinw
dim 4 g ibousand iuIUm nf ditelu«
illld canalH,—New Vork Htm.
"IliitterlM" In KagtsHd.
Butteruie, as eattwl iu Engl,ii d
■ («l Ml Ill'll' that the iliti IM
j| Vt ippii'd *“ i >ai MaiiM'id lor a to
|4 Mllig Hi l*i la, changed rim ihiitk treat h*
|c ri«M lo lll’IHHi il
|tD> him ia**d It “If in tliat way,* Ni
Vmli l*M#i
AN INVITATION.
Beotlirn—thc cloudsnroiu-okcu. Even now
Tho woodlaud ways are Rfccnlnp, and new liope,
Perched on caeh lifting' blade, mis all the nir
With votaries* murmurs, speaking to iho soul.
A little from life's killing care be tempted.
awKSKSsrs.-"
a ..... little only, and then comes the end.
Ami will ye toil on, making motkof life,
Stifling the hunR- rimr spirit’s ery within you,
scorning to rest—until unhindered death
you even with tho einyt
Th»'Mlia||flio sod bloom, and ye will not-know;
'n, 0 branch shall blossom, hut ye will not see;
.....»-—«—»—>
TunJo From ° >.»"'> care.uhnejeMhe heart hath fool- t ,
tec ven.iiamteand tbs springing returned. fields.
The spice?™,,l buds; the robin lmti.
Relieve mo, Oh,.|levc 1 ne ! m„hin K stay,
0*.« Gold u for t p‘tor '*ako at of the Bold—alas! apirU''» cost. the day,
Spent 111 r.ueh decking are so inuoh life lost,
—Robert liurn, Wilson in Tho Critic.
the CAPUCHIN LAPUCHIN_BR0THERS. BROTHERS
Their Queer Ornament* Made of Ilmiiap
B,me,_skeiet«„ or a Iliad Hrotber.
the Capuchin brother, attired in his
long wafst habit of coarse brown friezo, his
encircled by a hempen rope, his
stookingless feet bound in sandals, liistin
trimmed beard and shorn head bare, ♦ ox
cept for a diminutive scull cap, is a
familiar sight on tlie streets in Rome,
which he patiently traverses, carrying an
earthen bogs pitcher as a receptacle, while ho
alms from house to house.
There is a peculiarly stolid expression
on tlio faces of these men, ns though
every tiling human, or, nt ail events,
everything bordering bad on tho highest attri¬
butes of humanity, been stomped out
of their nature, leaving a mere machine
—an unwashed one at that.
Tlie Cliuroh of the Fraternity is in the
piazza of.the same name, in tho imme¬
diate vicinity of the Piazza Barberini. It
was founded by Cardinal Barberini,
brother of Pope Urban VIII, in 1624
same cardinal who was the friend of
Milton when he visited the Eternal City
in 1688. The church contains the tomb
of tlio founder and many remarkable
treasures of art, including tho magnifi¬
cent painting by Guido, representing
Michael the Archangel trampling the
devil—tho latter a portrait of Pope Inno¬
cent X, for whom the painter seems to
have had an inveterate hatred.
Passing through the church a few steps
to the right will lead you to as ghastly
and at tho same time as grotesquely hor¬
rible a spectacle as the most morbid
searcher after flesh creeping experiences
can possibly desire. A series of four
connected small apartments, tho floors
of which are made of earth, said
to have been canned from Jerusa
hm, contain the horrors I speak
of. Tlio wall and ceiling nro liber¬
ally decorated with ornamental devices
constructed by cunning workmen out of
human tones. The tones of tho verte¬
bra, wrists and ankles are arranged so as
to describe circles and curves. These
figures are interspersed here and there
with skulls, femurs and humerus, tibias,
fibulas, ulnas and radius.
The same torrid ornaments aro ar¬
ranged alound the person of a deceased
brother, who appears suspended against
the middle of a wall, incased in the
coarse brown cloth, the garment he lived,
died and was buried in. The dried skin
clinging to tho face of the skeleton grins
in horrible mockery ns the living brother,
his former companion in tlie flesh, con¬
ducts you around this decorated charnel
house. He looks as though lie chuckled
over tho fact of having been released
from the grave below to give place to a
brother more recently defunct, for it is
tlio rule of the fraternity—who are com¬
pelled to make a small burial ground
meet tlio requirements of tlio order—
when a death takes place to dig up tlio
longest interred to make room for ids
successor.
There is a quality in the cartli em¬
ployed that has the effect of preventing
decay of the body, drying it up in
mummy fashion, and preserving effect the, hair, than
presenting a far more horrible
if bleached bones were presented to
view.
•There is a weird imeanniners about
this strange mixture of tho living and
dead, the latter divested of solemnity by
environment of ornamental osteology,
while the nir of the survivor seems toned
down to an unnatural sepulchrahtess—a life
sort of half way condition totween
and the tomb.—-Rome Cor. Ban Francisco
Chroniclo.
Thr Man Who fitnyeS Dead,
Just bej'ond Crosby ball, passing unde?
an arch, wo found Great Bt. Helen’s,
one of the oldest churches in London,
und were well repaid for our trouble. It
is simply a square divided into two aisle
by massive pillars; its floor an ancioiu
pavement of stones, a part of which arc
gravestones. Having Ix-en in '-ery epriy
fishes connected with a nunnery, tii”
stairs leading to the dormitories lead
directly into the church, and nt ono side
stone gratings are shown where the nuns
came to listen to tlie service. There are
many curious ancient torato here, one
toiug a very largo square e<lifice, stand¬
ing out into und abont filling one aisle a!
that point. Being very peculiar, told w;
(juestionod its meaning, nnd were
til'd it was built by a Mr. Francis Ban¬
croft for himself; that bis coffin was t >
to put tliere with the lid so that he conld
lift it, ns ho had a great horror of com¬
ing to life after burial, lie also had .»
key to tto tomb and <*u> to tto church
left there, and a vessel of water, and iu
left money to certain iiieu to visit Ui»
tomb once a year. But ns our guide said:
“Hi) Us fa only vMImI a dry for skeleton fifty )eur»," now, ami I/jn- to >
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inutreMiiiK ami novel Experiments by a
Melcntlflc Investigator.
I>r. O. J. Romanes, by his careful ol>
nervations ond nappy generalizations, has
made himself tlio representative of the
growing scionoe of comparative psychol
ogy. Dr. Romanes has mode an import
ant study on tho method hy which his
dog follows the scent of the master. Tho
observations were made on Dr. Romanes’
setter bitch, an animal very much at
taohcil to him. They were made on tho
grounds adjoining his house, and a mun
ber of precautions not easily described
wore taken.
When Dr. Romanos walks over the
ground with ins hunting boots on, the
do"- follows the scent with tlio greatest
It sto i. p». to U,o tart or,
dogwaslodintothoroornwhenprepara- toSi ’ °
V( ' l ° m £or «« o«tmg, hut
*“stead of f Oi -Romanes going ««Mho
g.unekceper (wl,,^ scent she follows
next after that ot l)r. Romanes) went;
when set free tho animal at tlrst followed
the track, but finding that her master
was not with the gamekeeper, returned,
The next experiment was a very in
genious one. Twelve men walked in In
dian tile, t>o that they all trod the same
footsteps, thus producing a conglomerate
of olfactory impressions. Dr. Romanes
head si the company, so that the traces of
his steps should be most obliterated; and,
after walking thus 800 yards, tho first six
men walked in one direction, the last six
in the another. followed The dog hy quickly ran along
route the twelve, over
shot the point of division, hut soon re
turned and followed the direction taken
by tho six headed by Dr, Romanes.
A number of experiments were made
to ascertain what part of Dr. Romanes’
person or of his apparel gave the clow to
the animal. It was suspected to bo the
hunting boots, and this proved correct,
A stranger put on these boots, and tho
dog eagerly followed the scent; and, con
trariwise, when Dr. Romanes put on tho
Strfmger’s boots the animal was indiffer
cut to lust track. Further experiments
were made to locate the source of the
scent in the boots. Tho dog did not fol
low tho scent of a stranger walking in
hare feet. When Dr. Romanes walked
in bare foot the dog followed tho trace,
but less eagerly than usual, and with
much hesitation. Again, the animal did
not follow Dr. Romanes when he put on
new shooting boots. Next a singlo sheet
of brown paper was glued to the soles Of
liis usual hunting boots. The dog did
uot catch tlie trail until lie came to a
place where, as Dr. Romanes had previ¬
ously noted, a few square millimetres of
the paper had come oil. When her
master walked in new cotton socks, the
trail ” Was lazily followed, and soon given
tiy. With’ woolen socks worn all day
tfio result was the same.
Dr. Romanes next walked fifty yards liis
in shooting boots; then SCO yards in
stocking soles, carrying bis toots; then
80(1 in his bare feet. The atlfmat caught
the scent and followed it unhesitatingly
through the whole distance, though the
twice ieft sufficient bv stockings or bare feet alone
was not to guide tho animal.
The next was a modification of tho last.
Dr. Romanes and a stranger entered a
carriage and drove for -several hundred
yards. The former, in liis I muting hoots,
then alighted and walked fifty yards,
whereupon be lo-entered the carriage,
and tho stranger walked (lie next 200
yards; tlio dog. when shown tho track,
ran tlio whole 200 yards without with pausing.
The experiment with was repeated result. an¬
other stranger the same
To test the power which the dog had of
selecting tho distinctive odor accompany¬
ing her master from other odors. Dr.
Romanes soaked liis limiting hoots in
anise-wed oil. Tho odor was so strong
that a friend could follow tlio track an
lionr later hy the odor of tlio oil; yet tlio
dog war. not confused except that she
hesitated about tho first few steps, but
then pursued ns usual.
The next test was directed toward as¬
certaining whether the animal could dis¬
tinguish her master by odors emanating
from other portions of liis person. Dr.
Romanes, after pursuing a zigzag course
just trodden over by a number of foot¬
step'), bid behind a wall, with Ilia eyes
just visible. The animal wont at once to
tho hiding place. Again, ho hid in a
ditch, with only the top of Ids head visi¬
ble. At 200 yards the, dog detected her
master, and went Vo him directly.
From these teste Dr. Romanes con¬
cludes that tho dog distinguishes him
from all others by the odor Of his lioota,
and does not odor distinguish probably l.im in Ids naked
feet. Tho is emitted hy the
feet, but must to mixed with that of shoe
leather to to of service to the dog. Tins
b doubtless a matter of education; had
the dog been used to following her maier
when without shoos, the animal would
have learned to follow him thus, 'ilto*
characteristic odor cannot penclrate a
sheet of brown paper, but a few square
millimeters of surface io sufficient to give
tlio dog the clew. The animal well is ready by to
to guided by inference as as per¬
ception, but tlio inference is instantaneous.
Lastly, not only the feet (through the
boot?), but the whole body, emits an odor
that the dog can distinguish in a mass of
others. This odor is recognized at great
distances to windward, or in culm
weather in any direction; it is not over
j lowered by anisesced oil or by tlio foot¬
prints of another.—Science.
Wliy Scout* Wear Iw.ng Hiilr.
I know tliat a grant many good men
have a decided prejudice against Jong
haired men, such as Cody, Gurver and
myself, but few know that there is a
methfsl in ihfa seeming iii.-wliiees of tto,
western scoot,. Among the Bioux In
diaiis, Cost, r waa respect'd nnd feared a*
was no othur man, nnd to wore bis
blonde curfa fur down bfa fau'lt. Tto
ikioux liatinii law tto 1 toir fixm tto rate
of bfa land cut off short, but tlait on I bo
scalp b« allows to grow lung, and hang
down iu three hraefa. It fa bfa dellano*
to lilii It nays In re fa my scalp, uimI *
with li < iiiiYt (Mufti In H* ritiiiH
Ink** it if hmi i-dli \ .Inot hiiirt^t man
|N Im&ifi HI* #11 Ik t i I mwml* Ttd# !«»<lmt%
^ i . .dIiI v a *il will# nn*! 1
M . t |i«t i|ihiM I La* my I I 1 * *4* U-.iij hail dtdi inf |
ifhu. ,** * »#*>« I IN iltk (Hi 11
Seoul i tfiiihif f;i lia > «*M< II miUii Miy M*#>
m fiat, im k 1 f ad(<^L i’i Vhiu4
•wmt, IN Ulofa.
ClBrtroUo Smoking,
It fa perfectly 'roll ■ known to phrri
chin tlir.t c.xccsaivo rlenretto smoking
docs do a great don! i ( linvni. and that *
man may die fvoin In the efrrving the nEticlVi
to an excess. first place, peopl t
who smoke cigarettes do more smoking
than those who use cigars and pi|ies. If
a man u going to leave liis office to rua
across the street for a minute, or is walk
j„g to take a horse enr, lie Will not light
a cigar; ho knows it nutst lx? thrown
away immediately, and a sense of econ •
omy restrains him. But if lie is in the ?
habit of rolling cigarettes, lie may tnko a
whiff at any time, and is pretty sure to
be always doing it The result is that
where a non-smoker has the beikKlt of
sumo fresh air in tho lungs whenever ho
is out of doors, the cigarette smoker
takes in nir charged with nicotine.
Smokers of cigars and pipes do not., as
a rule, inhale smoke, hut cigarette smok¬
ers do. Why this should be, it is difficult
to say, but it is an acknowledged fact
that it is so. It is thus easy to goo why
tho results of cigarette smoking reaching should tfio be
so baneful. Tho air in
lungs and the blood g*es through the
windpipe ami tho bronchial tubes. Be
tween the windpipe and the lungs tho
bronchial tubes keep dividing into two.
This incessant subdivision reduces them
ultimately to great fineness. In the
hmgs'thoy the end are of scarcely each bronchial wider than tube a there hair,
At
i« what is:called a pneumonic globule, blood
H is in this globule that tho air end
meet; it is Imro that the blood becomes
“aerated,” or oxygenized. In the case
<>f men who inhalo the smoke of cigar
ottos, these globulds, instead of receiving
fresh air, receive air charged with nico
tine. In order to know the extent to
which the lungs receive the poisoned air
it is only necessary to remember that tho
area of these pneumonic globules fa nomo
1,200 square feet, that
There is a popular notion tho
paper wrappings of cigarettes do themix
chief. The. pa]?er perhaps does burn the
mouth. The wrappers of some Turkish
cigarettes oro impregnated with opium,
and these, of course, do harm: but that
,« not tho fault of the cigarette. Tho
trouble with cigarettes is that people will
smoko cigarettes at times when they will
uot smoke cigars, and that tobacco cigarette
,,makers thus uso more than
other people, and that cigarette smokers
inhalo tobacco and take into Iho lungs
nir charged with nicotine.—Now York
rimes,
■
Tl»c fmlhtn "Alodldna Ma»». M
The so called “Indian doctor,” who
iH'iietrates our cities and towns, or rxri - -
imhulates.the ireylng villages (he snjx'rstiturns,oftoiviii- and rural rit|hpe&.
ujion really red is novel'
satiou. It a man, a
;rue sham or “medichw man,” but come
.tnave, who has profited hy assiHriatson
'.villi the whites, taking a leaf from tho
took of tlio pale faced qharlatau. By
assumed stoicism, dignitj, ini)»rturba
bility and lirevlty of speech, the reasons
for which last am obvious, along- with
glances iom, replete with difficulty concentrated in wi*
ho has little securing
lupcs and following,
The true sham, or “medicine man,” ia
little understood hy civilization, silica ho
exhibits a phase of savage life that is
rarely permitted to come under casual
olwervntion. Very far from being a
mere knavish vnrlet, conspicuous for un
blusbing impudence and petty chicanery
as commonly depicted, ho in instead a
staid, earnest, shrewd, farseeing man,
move than ordinarily endowed with per¬
ceptive mid faculties sharpened by observa¬
tion training, and accustomed to re¬
ceive impressions ami draw conclusions
from matters ix> trivial ns to chute gen¬
eral comprehension. As a rulo lie is
honest—ns tto world goes—and a firm
believer in the truthfulness and advan
tages of liis calling. Tho deceits lie prac¬
tices are unavoidable, and less with a
view toguilo to delude tho humanity than to cajole
and unseen and unknown.
He is a “mind reader,” psychologist,
mesmerist and clairvoyant in one—of no
mean ability; nn inherent, endowment Clint,
though sometimes is oftener in¬
culcated and developed through ecstnci:;.
—G. Archie Btoekwril, M. D., in Homo
Journal.
The Oxidation of Zinc.
Tlio expctwlvo outdoor use of zinc by
build'-rs at the prosent time lias directed
attention to tho peculiar metal process undergoes, of oxida¬
tion which thin and
which is so important to to considered in
all applications involving exposure. off Tlie
rusted surface docs not rub or blow
away, but forms n sort of hard crust or
enamel upon the surface of tlio metal,
and when laid upon toarrling which fa or
may tecomo damp or exposed to steam
or condensation tolow, it rusts on both
sides. The thin zincs first introduced in
this way were rusted through, brittleness
ensuing, nnd failure being tlie result.
But if tlio zinc bo of sufficient thickm**,
after a certain time oxidation ceases, and
the result is a Ixxly of solid, sound metal,
incased above anil ixriow by a solid coat,
ing, thoroughly impermeable to the accls
dents which of requires weather painting. or temperature, The various® amSg
no 1
ways of spreading zinc con?ist Mainly in bh
laying it in a corrugated farm without
I warding, the trusses of iron or wood of «
tlio roof carrying tlio weight, or in ra±
til's nlxmt one foot, more or lews, ajiart, *
with a corrugation at each rafter boarding, only, er
upon a general surface of in
tlie manner of u lead fiat,—Boston
Budget.
m.iiHon,' Ontfltslu Bh*i«h«I am!Ocrmaur.
The following comparison of sotdieix’
“togs” in England and Germany fa fat'
teres ting: Iu England a great coat has to
j iu g f or fl V o years, in Germany eight
years; in England a helmet baa to last fo»
jj vn y ,. nWi j,i Germany tew; in England a
hj d<i 1*re lias three |silrs of trourem in two
ycuru, whifa in flmMSf a saWier ha*
m ,»|siirs of trtiurers In two )••■?>is and
a | MM t .right Iimulto. In Kn.'fMUtd
uiimili“U ismttxiM tot twiriva yia*'; m
o -rmet,y ttov ar* require,) tot thirty*
ki felon Tratwrrs.k.
11i.n l > J trade, of bt. L>»
“■ feuml u| aiaMgniM raff 1
Ufa ii'.ory in Mfiwt
f«. Iw*. «# j«‘ toto
mows.