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JF THE farmer’ 3 w lJ r E. -
Monday is for washing.
Tuesday is for ironing,
*r«Wlay is for mending and putting
VO* Clothes away; 1
* TTuirsday i* for rhornlno-.
I
i rioay » lor inuuig
Ratwroay is always the grand cleaning day ,
But then there is the breakfast. !
And the dinner, and the tea to get;
Besides, there i* the milking to ho done each
night and morn;
The hens to feed, the knitting.
The sweeping and the bread to set,
And the carding of the wool when the pretty
sheep are shorn.
There is never any ending
But always work beginning.
. SatUrdAy . , .
Ttni ht n 7 UJC ’ rmn ®
But oftentimes I And,
If a merry song I’m singing.
My heart is gay and happy, then all my
work seems light.
Godey't Ladies' Book.
MY SINGULAR VISIONS.
Early iu the winter of 188- I was
lodging in a large, old-fashioned house
in London. Insomnia, brought on by
business troubles, had reduced me to a
state of nervous collapse, and I was on
the verge of serious illness.
Rising one night, after vainly courting
sleep for two hours, I determined to take
a warn bath. The hour was 2 o’clock.
Having thrown on a dressing-gown, I
entered the bathroom, and turned on the
.
riot water. While the bath filled I gazed
out at the rear of a house, about one
huudred yards distant, in C-street.
Suddenly, on the illuminated curtain of a
room two or three floors above the street,
1 saw figures of a man and woman in
silhouette. Stirred by curiosity, I
watched the curtain with its tell-tale
pictures, wondering what movements
they would execute. As f gazed, surprise
and horror seized rue, for f saw the man
raise a shadowy arm and pierce the
woman’s bosom with !l dagger. She
brew hex aims wildly in the air, opened
er mouth, as if to emit a scream, and fell
to the floor, whence, of course, her
figure cast no shadow on the curtain.
All tins had occupied perhaps less than
two seconds, but in that time I endured
a mental torture such as 1 had never felt
before. As the dagger descended I in
voluntarily threw out my arms, as if to
shield the victim, and uttered an ex
clamation of mingled rage and horror.
The absolute silence of the pantomimic
rnun or made it more shocking, and for
an instant I felt as if the darkness and
one mess ot tlie night had shut me in
wit i i ie mm del er, and made me a
participator iu his guilt. I turned shud¬
dering from the w indow just as the
shadowy criminal stooped toward the
spot where his victim lay; and before I
could cry out, I reeled aud fell heavily to
the floor.
My fall roused the whole house, and.
Philip Holt, whose rooms were on the
same floor with mine, carried me to bed.
The vision of that night hastened my
long-threatened illness, and ten days
passed before my faculties returned suffi¬
ciently for me to relate what I had seen.
The doctor smiled at my story and said;
It was a pure hallucination, my dear
fellow. Such things are common to per
Sons in your condition.
But, sanl I, “the thing happened
w*hen I was wide awake, and in every
detail it was as distinct as any genuine
occurrence I ever beheld.”
Not at all remarkable, was his re
pl\. “\ou ought to be satisfied with
the knowledge that there has not been a
^° r «'• sufdl a c F imeau y newspaper.
An affair of the kind could not have been
concealed for ten days. Don t think of
it any more.”
Two weeks later 1 was in mj usual
health, save that mv <rid trouble, of in
somiua hovered near, and recurred with
any imprudence iu Sating, worry, or ex
citement.
.
Noi entirely satisfied with the doctor s
theory of my vision, 1 went to the lodg
mg house in C—— street and inquired
for rooms. A snuffy old hag, with peer¬
ing, suspicious eyes, and an air of unde¬
tected criminality, showed me through
the house, aud offered to let a furnished
suite, consisting of bedroom, sitting
room, and bathroom. As near as I could
guess. the sitting-room was the one where
the crime of my vision had been com
milted.
“Who occupied these rooms last?” I
inquired.
“Mr. Carr aud his wife,” answered the
ha*:, with evident unwillingness.
" Do you know Mr. Carr's business? ’
' I he tenants business haiu’t none o
mnu \ replied, sharply.
'Y\ hen did the Carrs move out:
About three weeks ago.
"Did you see Mrs. Carr on the day
they left the house?
"Now what do you ask me that for;
I dtm t watch people s doin s in this
house. I ho tenants is respectable fain -
lies, and they don t like no meddlin’.
you want these rooms you can have 'em,
but you won t stay long if you ask too
many questions about your neighbors. We
don't want no troublesome or worrying
people here.
It was evidently useless to ask further
questions, so I tramped downward
through the ill-smelling, narrow halls,
my suspicions far from lulled.
When I again spoke to Holt on the
subject, and told him that my suspicions
still existed, he frowned and*said: “If
your permit yourself to go on in this way
you’ll be in bed again. There is no re a
’sonable doubt of your hallucination. The
books are full of such cases. Further
more, the woman could not have been
actually murdered, to*light or the crime would
have come before this, and if
she was only wounded, it is not your
business to ferret the matter out. If
you're not carefuf you'll get into the
'
newspapers and be made ridiculous.”
This last argnmeut was enough. 1
graduallv came to accept the theorv of mv
frieuds. I passed through the'winter
without further illness. but gained
strength slowly, and when spring ap
peared my sleeplessness returned. With
it came an irresistible attraction toward
the bathroom window, whence my vision
of a few months before had been seen,
Whenever I lay awake, I went some time
during the night and stared out toward
that uncanny lodging house. Night after
night I saw nothing, and turned away,
relieved at the assurance that one svmp
tom of my former illness was wanting.
Finally, at 1 o’clock on a cool April
morning, after three hours of vain tCSSr
mg ia bed, I entered the bathroom, with
my eyes directed toward the house. For
aa instant I could not credit the vision
that met my gaze. On the luminous cur¬
tain where I had seen th* shadow jxmto-
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baforc, tije same tragedywas beifig
enacted. This time I had arrived a little
later in the progress of the scene, for all
I saw was the falling woman and the
withdrawn dagger in the hand of her
companion. The man stooped, n« before,
y g • ^ ^
b j m rise, in hop**s of obtaining some as
mrance that what I had seen was real. I
saw nothing further. If the shadowy
slayer had stooped to a real victim, he
mu,st hav, ‘ risen iu sUt h a *l* jt th at his
figure was not brought again before the
aD<1 tlic curtain.
Filled with forebodings of a new ill
ueHS - 1 awoke Holt and told my vision,
We went to the window, looked toward
the lodging house, and saw only the faint
gleam of unlighted panes. Holt gave
mo an opiate, and next morning the doc
tor had me removed to the country.
1 reBM,ned out ° f t0mi *“ SUHiUier ’
bathing, fishing and boating. For three
months I went to bed tired every night,
and slept ten hours. Then I took a long
sea voyage, and arrived back in about
the middle of September, more robust
t han I had ever lieen before. Holt and I
lau g hefl at the old hallucination, and the
doctor rallied me considerably upon my
detective spirit of the winter before. On
the first night in my lodgings I forgot
the fateful window, and slept without
disturbance. The next night, however,
I came in late, and yielded to a sudden
whim that led me to the bathroom win¬
dow.
As I entered the bathroom I looked
over toward the lodging-house, and gave
a little start that at had seeing a long lighten possessed the very for
apartment so
me a fascinating interest. The night
was warm, and the window whence the
light shone was hoisted. The curtains
were drawn also, and I could see pretty
clearly a man and a woman sitting oppo¬
site each other near the center of the
room. I shivered a little on discovering
that the couple were very like those of
pantomimes.
As 1 gazed I saw the woman suddenly
start toward her companion with some
gleaming weapon in her upraised hand,
f felt my heart quicken and my breath
come thick. The man rose to receive
the attack, and I saw a shining dagger
plunged into her bosom. Trembling
with horror, I was about to cry out,when
H hearty,natural laugh burst upon my ear
f rom the hall,
On looking round I saw fhv friend
Holt in the doorway.
“Merciful powers, man. did vou see
that?” I gasped.
“Certainly,” he said, with another
laugh.
“Then how can you stand there laugh
jng? If we both saw it there can be no
doubt of its reality.”
“It was real and unreal, old man.
Your sight is vindicated and the doctor
and I are put to shame, but there is no
cause for horror. See, the light has been
turned out and there is nothing more to
be learned. Take something to steady
your nerves and I’ll explain the mystery.”
Wondering at his language, but con¬
siderably reassured, I followed him to his
room, and sat down.
“Now,” said Holt, “the thing you saw
to-night” (I shuddered again as he spoke)
“and on two other occasions is easily ex¬
plained. James Carr and liis wife, who
have lived in that apartment off and on
for eight months, are known to many
theatre-goers here and elsewhere as
Arthur Leroy aud MUe. Picard. What
you saw to-night was a rehearsal of an
incident in a play which is to be pro
duced at the X--Theatre early next
week, You'll find the very scene on a
dozen boardings in the streets. It's a
quarrel. The woman attacks the mau
with a pair of scissors, and he responds
with a dagger. The play was produced
fo the provinces last winter, and at one
or two watering places in the summer,
You’ve seen three rehearsals.”
“Holt, I don’t believe you,” I cried, as
it flashed upon me that my old illness was
returning, and that Holt had taken this
method of diverting my mind from the
threatened calamity,
Holt promptly went over the whole
occurrence and his description differed
j n no important feature from my own
vision,
<>n the next day I went round to my
doctor, laughed at his learniug, and ac
eepted his apologies for the discredit he
had east upon my visual sanity,
That evening at dinner while reading
an afternoon paper I came upon a eon
spicuous heading iu these words: “Slain
u t Rehearsal.” I started, read on, and
discovered that James Carr, alias Arthui
Leroy, had killed his wife the night be¬
fore iu their rooms in C- street.
Then I knew that Ilok and I had ac
tually seen the crime committed.
According to the newspaper's account,
Carr, on being arrested, had confessed
the homicide and pleaded self-defense.
had been married five years, but lie
■
and his wife had always lived a cat-and
dog life. After their rehearsal of the
night before, she had called up an olu
grievance, and finally, iu a fit of angei
attacked him with a pair of scissors, the
very weapon she was to have used in the
mimic scene on the approaching “first
night.” He had defended himself with
the dagger just employed at rehearsal,
and was horrified to find that he had
slam her.
Nobody quite believed Carr's story at
first, but the testimony of Holt and my
self saved his neck,
*
A King's Attempted Suicide.
Advices received from Samoa report tin
return there of the exiled King Malietos
on board the Germau war ship Wolf. Ac
cording to a report from Apia, a sensa
tional incident occurred on the voyage ol
the Wolf from Jaluit Island to Samo3
with Malietoa on board. When the King
was taken on the vessel he was not told
what were the intentions regarding him
hut on the second day after having dined
with the officers. Malietoa was told that
he was being taken back to Samoa
Whether he distrusted this information
and feared some punishment or whethei
bis mind had become affected is no'
known: but he seized the first oppor
tunity, aud a short time afteward jumped
overboard in midoceau. A boat was
quickly lowered and he was rescued. A
watch was then kept upon the chief’s
movements ; but two days afterward he
eluded the vigilance of those on board.
a nd for the second time threw himself
into the sea. He was again brought on
board, aud during the remainder of the
anything voyage to Apia was guarded to prevent
further of the kind,
What the Wise Merchant Doe*,
Wiiea runes are hard and trade is dull,
The merchant then who wise is
Doth not sit down to scratch his skull
Whil9 he a scheme devisas
His trusting creditors to gull,
But straightway advertises.
—Boston Courier,
BUDGET OF FUN. ~
HIMOROC9 SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
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Delusion—Crushed Hopes—Had Met
Them—A Gentle Tonch Would
Do — A Presuming Little
Girl. Etc., Etc.
Of • nature s sweet restorer, balmy sleep, 1 '
I’ve read. I’m rare, a hundred’ times or
more;
And yet. pray what doth haimlv deep re -
store?
Ui what avail these much-praised slumbers
It be deep? that with sleep the pulses
That may cheeks tint they leap.
amime a never
That toOlympian heights our fanciessoar .
But notwithstanding all our ills we keep.
Pshaw! Let the poets on sweet sleep dilate,
* n ” ve !’ J’ct such deep delusion saw.
It can’t put teeth within my empty juw.
Nor give me back the maid who jilted
m9 ‘
—Nathan M. Levy, in Judge.
CRUSHED HOPES.
“And what answer do- you make to
my appeal ?” he asked, as he knelt at her
feet. ’7t
*.£SiT , ... , , . tvith . , you,
"Oh, speak!” he implored, “and re¬
lieve me from this agony of suspense.”
“Then let me say it cannot be.”
“Why not? Oh! why not?”
“Because, James, I do not feel able to
support a husband.”—j Boston Courier.
HAD MET THEM.
Stranger (to bicycle rider)—“Are you
acquainted with the roads around here,
my friend?”
Bicycle Rider (pointing to the scars on
his face)—“Yes, I've met them quite of
ten.”— Time.
A GENTLE TOUCH WOULD DO.
Gazzam—“You ought to have heard
Miss Fencer talking to young Dolly.
She just knocked him silly.”
Cumso—“She didn't hit him very hard,
then.”— Epoch.
A PRESUMING LITTLE GIRL.
A little girl, who made very frequent
use of the word “guess,” was one day re¬
proved for it by her teacher.
“Don’t say ‘guess,’Mary,” said Miss
Jones; “say ‘presume. 1
Presently one of Mary’s little play¬
mates coming up to her, remarked:
“I think your cape is very pretty, and
my mamma wants your mamma to lend
her the pattern, because she is going to
make me one like it.”
“My mamma has no pattern,” was the
prompt reply; “she cut it,by presume.”
— Texas Siftings.
WAS A GOOD BOY.
Mother—“Did you break any of the
rules to-day, Tommy?”
Tommy (first day at school)—“No’m;
I was a good boy. Teacher broke two,
though; one on little Harry Fletcher and
another on me.”— Time.
A CONSTANT STRUGGLE.
“Poverty is no disgrace,” said Jinks.
“In many cases it is something to be
proud of. ’
“Yes,” replied Jones. “It’s a con¬
stant struggle with me to keep my pride
dow r n. ”—Merchant Traveler.
A REAL PERPLEXITY.
Prospective Father-in-law—“How do
you expect to get along without a salary
if you are going to get married?”
Young Smiley Basker—“That is not
the point-how am I to get along if I
don't get married?”— Time.
KEEN PERCEPTION.
Sminks—“Do you take your dog out
every morning?”
Cruncher—“Yes, sir; that’s what I
do.”
Sminks—“Well, I thought you did;
seein’ you out wid him every morning.”
— Puck.
“FIXED MIND AND HIGH RESOLVE.”
The Great Dress-maker—“Really, ma¬
dam, Ido not think that dress would be
appropriate for you. It does not match
your hair. ”
Mrs. De Swine—“Well, I’m going to
have it, any way. What color should I
die my hair?”— Puck.
A LOSING PROFESSION.
“Do not forget the poor blind man
Monsieur. ”
“But the last time I saw you, you
were deaf and dumb.”
. Monsieur; . but hardly
rue. you can
expect a gentleman to follow’a profession
(never in which he loses money.
Cvui ter ( es Etats Lms.
HE HAD FIXED IT.
“Do you want the leaves raked
your grass?'’ asked the boy as he rang the
door bell of a house on Fourth avenue.
“Why, we haven't got any,” replied
the woman. “We haven't a single shade
tree in front.”
“Oh, but you’ve got four big baskets
of leaves out here,*” protested the boy.
“Mea'n mother boy dumped ’em here
early this morning, and I'll carry 'em off
for a nickel !”—Detroit Free Press.
ANOTHER CHARGE.
We were talking about the war, when
a one-armed man came up and seemed
especially interested. The Major sized
him up for an old trooper, and finally
queried:
"My friend, perhaps you lost that
arm in the charge at Treviilion Station?”
••Oh, no. sir. It was another charge,”
replied the man. '
"Where?”
-• Down in a town in Missouri, about
_ t r .
, rr Iok
J fe’.”—A>»/- “
a (J ™ ki li York Sun
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rurr rr ” ‘
^ew Yorker tpo visiting ... Chicagoan)—
j '- No 1 don t believe there re a
-
; ' 1 'j zeu actlve Anarchists in the city,
ere pretty sme from dynamite, any
1 T ' a J
Chicagoan (as a terrific explosion is
heard)—• ‘Hello! what's that?”
. ,
‘ e ” <^iece]yi—"Uh t%it
may e a blasting ^er towing up in Broadway:
or cellar m Fifth avenue; or an
explosion m a steam-heating subway.
ae or e o. e* happens e*ery tew days;
but mere are seldom more than two or
three jiercona killed. I tell you. this L a
safe town to live in."
a disastrous clerical ssror.
Government Clerk (to a friend)— “Fib
in a frightful hole. I went to see two
doctors yesterday and got a medical cer¬
tificate from each. One was a certificate
of health for a life insurance company,
and the other was a certificate of illness
^to send to the ciiief with my petition for
~i. ecl*»WC5Ytr '__._____
Friend—-“I’ve done that myself.
What's the matter?”
Government Clerk—"Matter? Great
Scott! I mixed the certificates iu mail¬
ing them. The insurance company has my
certificate of ill-health, and the chief has
my certificate of good health .”—Bouton
Beacon.
a HINT FOB A JOURNALISTIC HIT.
Financier—“You literary men haven't
the least idea about business. Here you
hft ^. 10 ’°? 0 manuscripts piled'up
m thls dark cupboard, and you say they
are all paid for.”
Editor Great Magazine—"Years ago.”
>»tak of' it: Hasu't it over
occurred to you, sir, that you are losiug
the interest on. all the money you paid
out for those useless bundles ?’k
“Huh! You financiers haven't the
least idea about literature. Every one of
those manuscripts is from a different
author, and the whole ten thousand of
them will go on buying our magazine at*
a printed.'^— shilling a copy until the articles are
Tit-Bit*.
FROM SCIENCE TO SENTIMENT.
A good authority tells us that not long
since a lady and gentlman were convers¬
ing on the science of grammar.
“Pray, madam,” said the gentleman,
“what part of speech is a kiss?”
“Really, I can’t tell,” she replied,
thoughtfully.
“I think it must be a substantive,” he
continued in an uncertain tone.
“A noun?” she asked—“kissing a
noun? Then is it proper or common?”
smiling at him in -the most innocent
manner.
“Why—why—it is both,” he asserted
positively. “I am sure it is both proper
and common.” Then, in a whisper, “Let
me prove it to__you. ”—Memphis Av¬
alanche.
A SERMON IN STONE.
Professor Rocks (of the School ot
Mines, who is in the habit of lecturing
without visual reference to his specimens
—reading them with the fingers, as it
were)—“This is a specimen of argen¬
tiferous quartz from the lower belt of
Colorado. This (taking up a solid sec¬
tion of a Haverstraw brick, which has
been surreptitiously added to the collec¬
tion on the table by a facetious member of
the class)—this—this (feeling it. gently
with his thumb)—this, you at once per¬
ceive, is of a totally different character.
The quartz from Colorado is of the plei
oceue age. This specimen is of very re¬
cent formation. We owe its presence
here to the thoughtfulness of an amateur
geologist, but it is none the less deserv¬
ing of your study. The exact age of the
specimen is not yet settled; but the con¬
tributor is qf the asinine age, and when
the class is dismissed he may demonstrate
to you that the material of which this is
formed would make au admirable substi¬
tute for brains—that is, in certain
cases. ”— Puck.
THE ‘ ‘ARIZONA KICKER”ON THE WEATHER.
Our subscribers have been both sur
prised and pleased at the way we have
hit the weather for the last t\to weeks.
We didn’t expect to do so well in the
start-off, as the only instrument we had
was an old horeshoe, a two-foot rule, and
a war map of the battle of Gettysburg,
but w’c made no mistake.
Our first prediction was that the. fol¬
lowing week would be cold, clear,
cloudy, warm and variable, w r ith possi¬
bly rain.
We hit it even to the variable, She
varied from a frost to such a hot night
; that everybody kicked the quilts off. The
rain didn’t last but three days, but that
was sufficient to let us out.
Our second prediction also hit it pat.
We predicted winds, calm, sunshine,
clouds, high pressure over the Arctic
Ocean, aud low pressure around the
mouth of the Amazon, with a consider¬
able wobble between here and the Pa¬
cific. She wobbled. We got just what
j ! we expected, and from this on we are
going ahead like a scared rabbit hunting
for cover. Watch our smoke .—Detroit
Free Press.
Why Austrian Officers Avoid Brawls.
Count Grotta, captain of one of the
crack hussar regiments of the Emperor
of Austria, is undergoing trial at Vienna
on a charge of having hewn down with
his sabre, an unarmed young man of the
name of Gartenbcrg. The Count does
; ! not deny having wounded the prosecutor,
but claims that he was obliged to draw
his sword in order to “preserve intact
his honor as an officer;” and while it is
certain that he will be acquitted by the
criminal dourt, it is equally positive that
h e be forced to resign his commis
i sion m army. In order to appreci
j ate tke position in which he is placed it
should be stated that if any officer,
j w ’nile in uniform, is. either struck or oth
erwise grossly insulted without avenging
i affront, he is dismissed from the
from army in disgrace, and not only expelled
i all the clubs, but also ostracised by
j society. While it is always possible to
avenge an insult on the part of an equal
or a superior, or, indeed, of any one
holding a commission in the Imperial
service, officers are«ot permitted to fight
duels with inferiors, such as non-com¬
missioned officers and private soldiers,
peasants, tradesmen or petty merchants.
They are, therefore, debarred from
av enginganyblowreceivedfromthelat
* er ’ ana consequently doomed, to ir
. L ble disgracetherebj.
romef a
resu ^ i s that Austrian officers
never appear in uniform in public with
their swords, which they are always
ready to use without* hesitation whenever
the-- believe themselves to be in danger
of being insulted or struck by an infe
rior. Should an officer in uniform quar
rel. for instance, with a cab driver and
; should the latter threaten to strike him
with Ms whip the officer would be re¬
garded bv the criminal courts as having
beco perfectly justified ,in cutting down
his wou id-be' assailant with his sword.
j While the criminal procedure, however,
recognizes this right of the officer to pro
tect the “honor of the Emperor's uni
form.” the military authorities themselves
i nva riably insist on the officer in ques
'
rion resi gning ° his commission in the ac
tive wm y, as a pun ishment for having
pl aee d himself in ^ a predicament where he
was obiiged t0 ^ sword. I need
scarcely add Thai all this renders Aus
tafcn officers particularly careful of their
conduct, and their names are never
found mixed tip m any street brawls or
similar street battier. — Town Topics.
HITXOTISM.
A POWER WHOSE MANIFESTA¬
TIONS SEEM INCREDIBLE.
Practically the Same as Mesmerism—
V’.lue in t ne'Treat ment of Dis¬
ease—Capable of In¬
jury When Abused.
The term hypnotism is nearly synony¬
mous with mesmerism, animal magnetism,
braidisin and syggignoscism. Hypnotism
is believed to have been practiced many
centuries ago; but little, however, is
known of its history previous to the time
of Mesmer (1778b Since then hynotism
has been much studied by many eminent
men in the professions of medicine,
science, religion and the arts. There
came a time when the interest in it
slagged very greatly, but a few years ago
a revival took place iu France, and since
then it has been generally recognized as a
therapeutic agent and employed by many
physicians all over the world. One of the
earliest uses of hypnotism was to pro- 1
ducc a state of insensibility, so that
surgical operations could be performed
without paiu. But it has been applied
for many other purposes, and some men,
very skillful in its application, use it in
the treatment of a long list of diseases
both acute and chronic, Nervous
affections sometimes yield very readily to
its influence.
To produce hypnotism, operators have
methods which vary somewhat m detail,
but the principle is the same. Most all
use passes, although some depend almost
entirely, if not entirely, upon the fixation
of gaze. For reasons which will appear
anon, none of the methods employed to
produce the hypnotic state will be de¬
scribed in this communication. As to
the force generated or liberated in hyp¬
notism, no one pretends to know, but
many believe it to be electric, or perhaps
magnetic. According to one observer,
the description the subjects give of their
sensations is that they first feel their
lingers tiugle and their hands and feet
get cold; then they become sleepy, and
when told that they can not open their
eyes, they say they hear and know all,
but can not open them; then comes sleep,
unless it is desired to extract a tooth or
do some such work when the subject is
not entirely unconscious. Then they
know and do as bidden but suffer no
pain. They say if the skin is cut it feels
as if something were being gently dra wn
over it, and they feel the forceps applied
to the tooth, but that pulling the tooth
feels like pulling a peg out of a hole.
As to the value of hypnotism as a
remedial agent, there is necessarily much
difference of opinion. Some physicians
consider its range a very limited one,
while others think it applicable to a long
list of affections^ The majority of those
who ought to know best appear to agree
that, it will undoubtly prove of very
great service in properly selected cases in
medical practice. As for its use in surgical
operations as a substitute for gas, ether
or chloroform, it can never displace them
to more than a slight extent, except, per¬
haps, it be with children. V cry many
who are about to have an operation per¬
formed must necessarily be so nervous
that hypnotism will be quite out of the
question.
And there will doubtless always exist
persons who will be insensible to the ef¬
forts of operators. Some subjects are
easy to hyptonize, while with others it is
the reverse; to which of these classes a
person belongs cannot be known until
an effort to put him into, the hypnotic
state is made. And in the susceptible
cases not infrequently several seances are
necessary before the power of the opera¬
tor is sufficiently felt.
One very important point that the
study of hypnotism has brought out and
emphasized, says an obsever, is the po¬
tency t>f suggestion. Doubtless most of
the slight aches and pains that the gen¬
eral practitioner is called upon to treat
are partly imaginary, and all that is nec¬
essary for cure is a certain amount of
faith on the part of the patient, begotten
by judicious suggestion by the medical
man. At first sight this seems to bow
sort of chicanery, but it is impossible to
deny it efficacy, and it is much safer for
the doctor to acknowledge, to himself at
least, that it is not his simple remedy
which has wrought the cure, but his sug¬
gestion to the patient.
We now come to the reason why none
of the methods employed to produce
hypnotism have been herein described.
It is an agent which only should be used
by reputable physicians, for, like others
which they employ, it will do much
harm if injudiciously applied. Were the
methods known there would naturally be
a tendency on the part of some to try it
as a means of amusement, while, without
doubt, there are not a few who would
use it for no good purpose. That hypno¬
tism may be rightly applied and without
injury it must be exclusively confined to
physicians, who alone are capable of dis¬
tinguishing between these subjects upon
whom it is likely to do good and those
likely to be injured by it. It is a
well-known fact that persons who are of¬
ten hypnotized finally become so suscep
tib’e that the act is accomplished with
!he greatest ease. And, in not a few in ;
siaaces of subjects so treated for a long
time, it requires scarcely more than a
single glance for the operator to throw
them into a hypnotic sleep.
So it will be seen that hypnotism
might prove a menace to society unless
steps were taken to guard against it.
The first precaution to suggest itself is
the prohibition of all public exhibitions
of hypnotism or mesmerism. This re¬
markable power should, if possible, be
limited by law to the treatment of dis¬
ease. And the operator should he per¬
mitted to influence his subject only as
health may be improved.— Bouton Herald.
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