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WIZARDS OF WEST INDIES.
E T 0 BE FOUND IN FORESTS,
' f( ,U\S HAMLETS AND VILLAGES.
jjuninn Sacrifices Sometimes Offered
nmnihal Priests—Superstitions
p) , p
Ilfliif' Brought From Africa Com.
„ lon _Klrm Faith In tlie Efficacy of
, he obeah Man’s Charms.
From ihe Washington Star.
Th£ . West Indian forests are full of wiz
. w j.'h€s and conjurers, and not the
only, but the plantations, the
1 ,),e hamlets in the mountains and
V wila-cs by the sea. They are not,
" an} . them, of the vicious sort, but
lively mild and inoffensive,
ttouuh now and then one is met that is
dangerous and had better be avoided.
pre of the strangest of my experiences
as w hen in the woods of Tobago, an
blind not far from Trinidad on the South
American coast, I found myself not only
completely surrounded by wizards'
l ia lt compelled to yse them my
■ . as ft protection or counter charm. I
'..j an old-time negro named Balfour as
1,. an d assistant, who knew the for-
SIS am i everything they contained. We
tre in pursuit of rare birds and beasts,
a nJ to obtain them it was thought neces
tary , 0 establish a permanent camp in
the heart of the woods to last several
months. My black friend built a little
hut in which we lived, a hut made of
(Klim logs and thatched with palm leaves,
aß d, after clearing a space on the sloping
lull side in front, he planted it with ed
j,,, sweet potatoes, yams and such like
tropical vegetables as would yield their
ic rease in a short time. Then he captur
el a few agoutis, or wild hares, obtained
somewhere a cock and pair of hens, and
ae were as snugly established on our little
farm as though we had lived there for
utr- We were so far from all other
human habitations that I felt perfectly
secure in our solitude.
\V. ,I. it seems that my sense.of security
teas false, for one day on returning home
from a long hunt in the woods we dis
covered the imprint of a big bare human
foot in various parts of our garden. We
were very much disturbed, of course, and
speculated upon the motives that might
impel one to invade our retreat, finally
agreeing that they could not be other than
sinister.
Protected by a Charm.
“Dat’s a brack man’s footstep,” said
my old guide, wagging his wolly head,
"an’ he ain’ here fer no good, nohow. But
] fix him, sah. I done put chahm on him
dal make him neber come here ’gin
no mo’.”
The next night as I took a walk through
the garden I came across a stick about
four ft-et long stuck slantwise into the soil,
at the upper end of which was hung a par
rots head, a red rag, a rude imitation of
a man. whittled out of a sweet potato, and
a rusty nail, which latier was stuck
through the chest of the potato man.
"What’s this nonsense?” I demanded
of Balfour. “Pull it up and throw it
away.”
"Pat, sah, is de obeah chahm, an pleaFe,
massa. don’ Crow it ’way, fer it am necus
sary to perfect de gyarden. Yissah, it am
de truf, data man what make de footsteps
done steal all de pervisions ef we don’ put
out obeah chahm, sah. It am de truf, ef
yvedon’ let a man know dat we hab chahm
’gins- him he done run ’way wiv eberytings
we had, an’ p’raps cut our floats, too, but
when he sees dat he know it ain’ no use
an he done run ’way hisself.”
His argument was unanswerable, so I let
the stuff remains, and. at all events, our
garden was unmolested thenceforth, and I
iiave no doubt this exemption was owing
to the obeah charm.
The practice of obi, or obeah, I later
found upon investigation, is indeed a spe
cies of demonology or devil worship,
though the word is undoubtedly derived
from Ob or Aub, the ancient Egyptian for
a serpent. In fact, those who have at
tained the greatest proficiency In the art
and who are to-day the most feared, as the
sorcerers of the Haytian highland, are de
clared serpent worshipers. Even as the
serpent was the visible presence of the
evil one In the original Garden of Eden, so
at present he is selected to represent satan
by those who worship the fallen archangel.
Tlie African “Obeah Man.”
The priest of obi, or the “obeah man,”
is always an African by birth or descent,
some hoary-headed and taciturn old negro
who has some knowledge of medicinal
plants and poisons, and who resides alone
or in a lonely locality. What he doesn't
really know the incredulity of the negroes
supplies, as they Invest him with every
kind of knowledge, and especially endow
him with supernatural talents. He may
be a marked man to all the ne.groes on a
large plantation or in a wide district, yet
wholly unknown to any white person with
in that area. Around all his doings is
drawn a veil of mystery, as he works only
at night and performs his incantations
only iietween the hours of sunset and
dawn.
Apropos of the loyalty of the negroes
to this wizard of their race, it is related
that a certain gentleman residing in Ja
maica who owned a large plantation In
that land suddenly became aware that his
slaves were dying at a rapid rate, and
that of those who remained alive more
than half were bloated and terribly debili
tated This condition of affairs prevailed
for several years, until the planter lost,
tirst and last, by this mysterious malady,
more than 100 negroes. He strongly sus
pected that obeah was at the bottom of
it but could not verify his suspicions, as
neither the well nor sick, nor even
'base he questioned when at the point of
death, would admit as much. At last an
dl l n-gress came to him one day and said
that she knew she had not long to live and
she felt herself bound to impart to him
the terrible secret in hope that the deaths
of many others might be averted. She
;,T“ n confessed that her stepmother, a
opo" negress, more than SO years of
had "put obeah on her,” and that
had put it on all those who had died
at'O, as well as upon many others who
*** suffering from the mysterious 111-
Xo sooner were the other negroes
'‘ maimed with the confession the old
e n had made and realized that no
arm ould come to them from revealing
■ar knowledge than they all hastened to
all she had said.
“ate From the Black Witch.
How the black witch Induced her victims
j, ,ak " her nauseous medicines Is not
men. h ut it was directly established that
v u - the cause of most of the deaths
v , h" Plantation. After she was arrested
tore ,ht negroes became convinced their
thrt mor , was unable to work them fur
rso m J s ‘ blef the y all began to mend and
1( ... 'hose afflicted recovered, the place
i* , c * ,s normal tone and the cur.se
bur,' ,;ed. The old woman’s hut was
m , t 0 ,<le Kround, with all It contain.
f he beldame, instead of being
- ■ burned, as she richly deserved,
1 imported.
„‘I not need actual contact with the
it, ' aarm or the taking of an obeah
' , a ” on into the system to bring about
i., ' 1 h o f an individual. So firm Is the
K terrible efficacy of
j , ' concoction* that as soon as
Ntn rV °^ eab for him, either in the
in: ' r leads to the door of his hut or
i.in,-.,' ( ' °° rstc *P itself, he at once gives
thin ur> for His only recourse
/° some other obeah man whose
’ , n ural skill may possibly be greater
t* f of his enemy. If such cannot
1 or he doubts the superior
"medicine" of his own practitioner the vic
tim soon sinks into a decline.
T,le . obi ’ or charm, which is set for
the victim may be compost'd of many ma
terials, as of some already enumerated,
but the most common are blood, feather*,
broken glass and bottle*, parrots’ beaks
dog, cat. monkey and alltgator teeth, rum
eggshells and graveyard dirt. The prac
tice has been known in the West Indies
ever since the first importation of slaves
from Africa, and so long as the neg Toes
confined their arts to the hanging up of
tilings the English took to be of the na
ture of scarecrows, such as feathers, bot
tles, etc., in order to prevent the plunder
ing of hen roosts and pig sties, no objec
tion was made by the ruling class or fh©
whites.
Dislodging a Firm Relief.
But when, in one of the great insurrect
ions, the chief instigator was found to
be an obeah man, who administered to
each insurgent a magical draught which
was to make him invulnerabfe, it was
seen to be a very serious business. Every
black devil in the conspiracy, having full
laith in his invulnerability, fought like
u 'bend, and it was not until several of
them had been kiaVd and the obear man
himself hung in chains, with all his war
paint on him, that the deluded blacks saw
h°w' they had been fooled. But the obeah
man, whether he believed in his own in
cantations or Hi -1. died game and told the
executioner as he swung him off that it
was not in his power to kill him, so that
the onlooking ncgn.es were very much
perplexed when they finally saw h m ex
pire. Jt was because of the terribie
power exercised by the priests of obeah
over their followers that the laws of Ja
maica passed in the last century contained
two clauses especially aimed at them.
Although the bracks of the British West
Indies have beeti free for over two gen
erations. yet they have not become fre*d
from the superstitions brought by their
ancestors from Africa. Superstition, in
fact, will rather increase than diminish,
unless vigorous y and constantly com
bated. and this is well illustrated in the
condition of the freed negroes to-day.
There are thousands of them who, though
nominally Christians, are yet enchained
by obeah and devoted votaries of the pre
vailing devil worship.
It is a strange fact that, while ihis de
graded superstition flourishes among the
French and British islands, it does not pie
vail to any great extent in the Spanish,
as in Cuba and Porto Kico. The natives
of those islands are sunken deep in other
superstitions, but they are ma nly such as
the while man has fostered and not the
black. But it is in the negro island of
Hayti that we find obeahism rampant. I
have said that it is infrequently harmful
in the British islands, but :n Hayti this
cannot be affirmed. Known there under
the name of the vaudoo (derived from
"vaudois" and giving origin to the com
mon ‘ hoodoo’’) the obeah practice flour
ishes in all is pristine vigor and is really
an unadulterated fo;m of the African
serpent worship.
Sacrifice* Offered Up.
The African of the west coast, besides a
number of deities, believed in a family
deity, or tutelar saint, who was supposed
originally to have been one like themselves
and the first founder of their family. On
the anniversary of this saint’s burial the
whole number of his descendants gathered
around his grave and the oldest man of
the assemblage, after offering up praises
to Accompong, Assarci, Ip-boa and the
tutelar deity, sacrifices a cock or a goat
by cutting its throat and shedding its
blood upon the grave. Every head of a
household does the same, and as soon as
all those who are able to bring such sac
rifices have made their ob.ations the unl
mals which have been killed are prepared
and a great festival follows. This custom
is followed out almost exactly in the for
ests of the Haytien serpent worshipers, or
the vaudou. If you perchance find your
self in the great forest which lies between
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riquillo and should hear the muffled boom
of the native drum, or "goombay” (which
is formed by stretching a skin over a hol
low log), you should by all means make
haste 10 seek a place of safely. Not that
the average Haytian. even Ihe savage
mountaineer, would in cold Wood strike
you down, but if you should follow the
sound of the drum you might run into ihe
charmed circle of the serpent worshippers
and be sacrificed because of your temerity.
These vaudou people have their priests
and priestesses, whom they call the “papa
and mamma loi,” and most of these are
not only sorcerers, but also cannibals.
That is. they are ritual cannibals and of
fer human sacrifices to their gods. Start
ing out with the African ceremony already
mentioned of offering lo the names of
their ancestors a cock or goat without a
blemish, they have at last descended to
actual cannibalism. Assembled in the
secret recesses of the forest, a email com
pany will work itself into a fury over the
incantations of the priest or priestess and
then, when the excitement is at its high!,
someone will demand tlie sacrifice to their
deity of the "goat without horns.” If the
demand be complied with a child is pro
duced (generally white or of light complex
ion), its hands tied behind its hack. At a
given signal the Innocent victim is jerked
to the roof of the hut in which they are
assembled by a rope attached to its feet,
it throat cut and the blood eagerly drunk
by the votaries. The flesh is cooked and
devoured by the cannibals.
ISELIN GIVES IT I’P.
M ill Not Participate in Any More
Cup Defense Events.
From the Philadelphia Times.
On authority of friends of C. Oliver Ise
lin, it may be announced that the three
times successful champion of America’s
cup will no longer guard that prized tro
phy. Mr. Iselin is said to have declared
that he will not again undertake to build
or manage a yacht for an international
race. His retirement may be followed by
that of Nat Herreshoff, designer of the
three fleet vessels that have kept the
British yachtsmen out of sight of the cup.
At the finish of the last race between
the Columbia and the Shamrock, just at
the moment when scores of steam whis
tles and thousands of hearty cheers were
telling the story of the home boat’s suc
cessful defense of the cup, both Mr. Ise
lin and Capt. Herreshoff made some sig
nificant remarks.
Mr. Iselin crossed the Columbia’s quar
terdeck, to where Mr. Herreshoff was
standing, and, shaking the designer’s
hand, said deliberately:
“Mr. Herreshoff, this is my last Amer
ica’s cup race.”
Capt. Nat returned Mr. Iselin’s earnest
gaze, and replied in his quiet way:
"And it is also my last, Mr. Iselin.”
From 1893 to 1899 Mr. Iselin and Mr.
Herreshoff have been associated in ihe de
fense of the old trophy, which Sir Thomas
Lipton wanted to "lift” so badly. First,
it was with the Vigilant, in 1893; next with
the Defender, in 3895, and then the Co
lumbia. AU these winning boats were de
signed by Capt. Nat Herreshoff, and Mr.
Iselin was the managing owner of each.
This record needs no comment.
It required nearly a year to build the
Vigilant and get her into racing shape.
The Defender took a similar period, and
it was about fourteen months from the
time that the Columbia’s model was de
cided upon to the last of her races with
the Shamrock. The strain on both the de
signer and the managing owner, particu
larly in the late match, was so great their
intimate friends are not now surprised to
hear that they have sailed the last of
their cup matches.
Whether the decision made by Mr. Her
reshoff means that he will not design an
other cup defender has not and possibly
may not be easily ascertained, as he is a
man of very few words and keeps his own
counsel; and it is not at all probable that
Mr. Iselin will talk of his future plans.
But there the case stands. The remarks
quoted were made as given, and have been
since repeated by those who heard them.
HISTORY FROM COINS AND VASES.
Missing Link Have Keen Supplied by
Means of Ancient Inscriptions.
Percy Gardner in Atlantic Monthly.
Some of the most notable work of recent
times has been done in numismatics. I can
remember the time, scarcely' a quarter of
a century ago, when Greek coins were
commonly called medals and valued only
as works or art or as interesting docu
ments of mythology, or perhaps as serv
ing to illustrate some passage in Sopho
cles or Euripides. The idea of placing the
coins of every Greek city in strict chro
nological sequence, so that at every point
they could be brought into relations wi h
the recorded history of that city, was for
eign to earlier numismatists. It was like
the letting out of water when Bar- lay
Head, now keeper of coins in the. British
Museum, published his m#dest work on the
chronological sequence of the coins of Syr
acuse, in which for the first time a rigor
ous and logical method of arranging the
coins was followed. This work made its
appearance in 1874. and in Ihe score of
years which have since elapsed the entire
procedure In Greek nu mi-mo ties has been
changed and wo regard coins as docu
ments always lo be placed in the strictest
relation to history, in a series which runs
parallel to the civil and military transac
tions of every city, and often casts on
these a light which is by no means to be
despised. * * *
It is well known that while works of
Greek sculpture survive in abundance the
equally beautiful and important creations
of the great painters of Greece have ut
terly perished. Our knowledge of great
masters of the brush in Greece is very
scanty. We even have to fall back on
the stories, often slily and always un
trustworthy, told of them by the elder
Pliny. But we are now slowly working
back to them from the designs of Greek
vases, which cannot indeeel give us any
notion of the coloring which they used, but
may serve to enlighten us in regard to
their treatment of subjects, their group
ing and perspective, and their drawing.
In regard to the greatest of early Greek
painters, Polygnotus, who probably exer
cised much Influence even on the genius
of Pheidias, we have lately gained much
light. Comparing the elaborate de- rip
tlons of his work by the traveler Pausm
ias with the designs of extant vases we
have by degrees, Prof. Robert of Halle
leading the way, at length reached a point
at which we may claim to have recovered
the general character of Polygnotan art
—John Dryden of the Canadian Parlia
ment is a member of the family which
produced his namesake, the poet.
STRUGGLE OF THE KRUPPS.
HOW THE FAMOUS (JIA MAKERS
ROSE SLOW LY FROM POVERTY.
Forty Year* of n Hard Fight Final
ly Crowned With Snores*— I The El
der Krapp Melted Family I'lnte lo
Pay His Workmen—How (lie Vast
Establishment Employs an Army
of 41.000 Men.
From the Now York Sun.
The smoke clouds hovering over Essen
reveal its situation long before the trav
eler comes within sight of Its scores of tail
chimneys and the trains laidon with coal
and iron ore moving into the far-spreading
grounds of the Krupp works, the greatest
industrial establishment of Germany.
Everybody knows that Essen supplies Eu
rope and the world with the famous cast
steel guns which made the reputation and
success of Krupp their inventor. There is
one country in Europe, however, that has
no Krupp guns in its armament and that
is France, for the great gunmnker has re
fused to sell France a single cannon since
her war with Germany. Krupp is l>est
known by his guns, though they are only
a small part of his steel and iron pro
ductions and the present head of the house,
with his father and grandfather before
him, made the city of Essen what it is.
Eighty-nine years ago when ihe first
Krupp opened his little iron works, in
which he toiled with rolled-up sleeves from
dawn to dusk, the town had only 4,000 In
habitants. Last year Essen entered the
list of cities having over 100,000 residents,
and it is now one of the most populous
to*ns of Prussia. The growth of the
Krupp works has made Essen.
A little book entitled "Bel Krupp,” writ
ten by Dr. Kley, has Just been published
in Germany. It will attract much atten
tion, because it gives a great many curious
statistics and intersting bits of history
connected with the rise of the Krupps that
have never appeared in the numerous ac
counts of the great establishment. A more
remarkable story of industrial develop
ment was never written. It is the his
tory of an enterprise that had the hum
blest beginning and struggled for many
years to overcome a crowd of difficulties
that often threatened to stifle it, and it
tells of the sudden success that came like
a flood and soon made the name of Krupp
known everywhere. Here are some of the
most interesting facts and incidents, taken
from Dr. Kiev’s book, that marked the
growth, first slow and then impetuous,
that has marked the development of the
Krupp works.
Hard Fight of the Fonnder.
The grandfather of the present Krupp
was an iron worker of Essen who saved
his money until he had accumulated a few
thousand marks, with which he went into
business on his own account by starting a
little foundry in 1810. II was not his for
tune to make much headway in the six
teen laborious years he spent with two or
three employes In his humble building. He
made a l>are living, but managed to keep
his small property, and it was the nucleus
from which the Krupp works sprang. In
1526 his eon Alfred became the owner or
the establishment and he tasted all the
tribulations his father hod known and
many more for years and years before the
tide turned and carried him to great pros
perity. It was only by enormous labor,
endurance and pluck that Alfred Krupp
was able at last to master the situation.
In 1832. six years after he had entered
upon Ihe management of the enterprise,
he had only nine men In his employ, and
this was twenty-two years after the works
had started.
He struggled along for a quarter of a
century making good steel, good guns and
other good articles all that time, but there
was so little demand for his work that he
scarcely kept his head above water. He
had a few pieces of sliver plate, family
plate, heirlooms, and he was reduced to
such straits at one time that he melted
the plate and sold the silver in order te
raise a little money with which to pay his
workmen. He often said after he became
prosperous that for fifteen years it was a
constant struggle to get cash enough to
pay his tielp. Often, when things were
at their worst, he found the purchase of
postage stamps with which to mail his few
letters a rather annoying necessity.
The trouble was that he seemed unable
to secure a recognition for his products
either nt home or abroau. Tho old ad.ige
that “a prophet Is not without honor save
In his own country" was at last verified
again in Krupp’s case. He took his steel
and a gun or two to the London Exposi
tion in 1851 and before it was over the
British were calling him a great steel
maker. He emerged from the competition
with the English steel Industry with flying
colors and found himself talked about as
a man whose technical methods were not
understood, but whose products were un
doubtedly first-class. It may be said that
there are processes in the Krupp manu
facture and manipulation of steel that are
not known in the trade to-day, and they
are carried on in buildings that no visitor
or employe who does not work in them is
permitted to enter.
At Last on the I’p Grade.
The London Exposition of 1851 made the
tide in the affairs of Krupp that lei on to
fortune. His own country followed in the
wake of other lands and Krupp bad his
hands full of business when Prussia gave
him, in 1855. her first order for breech
loaders. H s first hirge comm sslons
were received from the Khedive of Egypt
and the Bey ol Tunis and they did him
the unusual honor of paying spot cash
for his goods. Russia has be>en the best
customer of the Krupp works. Since IB7x,
when the Russian government purchastd
1,800 Krupp guns as Ihe new equipment of
its field equipment, the "cannon king"
lias sold lo that country over 31,000 guns.
Business eame In by leaps and hound
and Krupp did not have sufficient capital
to enlarge his plant fast enough to meet
the demands upon it. So he borrowed
30,000 marks and with the profits of his
business in twelve years he was able to
discharge this debt. He used tlie bo.row
ed money and his own not only to In
crease his facilities for making step) and
its products, but also to render him* If
independt nt of alf rings and syndicaies In
all forms of industry with which his busi
ness was closely connected. He beg-an io
buy coal mines, eoke ovens, iron mines,
blast furnaces and so on. In 1872 Alfred
Krupp owr.e 1 414 iron ere diggings and
his son and successor now has over 500,
and ail hut a smnlf part of the Krupp
steel is made from his own
eeral. It has been the policy cf
the establishment for many years to ire
entirely Independent of all fluctuations in
the prices of ore, pig Iron aivl coal, and so '
Krupp has not only acquired the ov\nr
ship to the lands which supply most of
his ruw material, but he has also laid In
large stocks purchased abroad.
Vast Possessions of To-.laj.
For a long: time four Krupp Iron ore :
steamships were constantly plying bet ween
the north coast of S,ain amt Kotierdum,
carrying the ore of the famous mines of
Bilboa to the Dutch port, whence It wan
sent up the Rhine to within eighteen miles
of Essen. To-day the coal ami Iron mines
owned by Krupp, and his subsidiary Mast
furnaces and aicel works are scattered
far and wide. His works at Kiel alone em
ploy 7,000 men. and those of Magdeburg-
Huckau 3.648 men, and over 10,000 men are
employed In his foundries. In 185S, six
years after there began to is* a demand
for Krupp's products, he had all lold 1.017
men in his service. On Jan. I tills year
there were on the pay rolls of the present
Krupp the names of 11,700 men, of whom
25,1X1 were employed in the work at Ks
sen. and (he rest wero Scattered among
his various manufacturing and mining *n
tehprlses.
Such an establishment ns this affords
some very Interesting statistics. In 1893
there were in the cast-steel work at Essen
over 5.000 Implements and machines, be
sides 468 steam engines wilh a total of 36,-
5151-horse power. The length of the belt
ing used In transmitting this power was
over forty miles. The twelve Krupp blast
furnaces on the Rhine consumed daily
2,400 tons of Iron ore and produced 1,200 tons
of pig Iron, In the statistical year 1895-
90 over 1,000,000 tons of coal and coke were
consumed, or 3,660 tons a day. of which
3.500 lons a day were the product of
Krupp's own coal mines. The consump
tion of water in the establishment at Es
sen is equal to that of Dresden with Its
338.000 inhabitants. It consumes ns much
lHumimtting gas as the city of Hresl.au,
which Is a little larger than Dresden.
Fifty miles of railroad track on the prem
ises and connecting with the railroads out
side, thirty-six locomotives and 1,300
freight cars, are a part of the plant. There
are 322 telephones In the establishment,
with al>out fifty miles of wire. Germany
is the third greatest Iron country In the
world, and yet a twentieth of its entire
output of iron ore comes from the Krupp
mines and i manufactured In the Krupp
works. Krupp also buys from an eighth
lo a tenth of all the Iron ore and ptg Iron
imported into Oermany from foreign lands,
and this gigantic enterprise is the largest
producer in the German empire. The
freight hills Krupp pays to the Prussian
railroads make those of any other patron
appear insignificant, and the man who Is
doing all this to-day is the son of the man
who melted his silver plate to get money
to pay his workmen.
HOW TO AVOID LOCKJAW.
Causes of the Dreaded Tetanus and
the Rest Treatnieat for It.
From the gan Francisco Call.
Bathers have tong looked upon death by
drowning as their chief danger, hut there
is another peril, less known but a thous
and times more frightful, the peril of a
death beside which drowning Is a summer
afternoon’s diversion —death from the germ
of tetanus, or lockjaw.
The bacillus tetani. distils a poison so
terrible that the venom of a rattlesnake
Is nectar compared to it. One grain will
kill 3CO men.
These death-dealing creatures love a hot,
damp climate. Any grain of sand, any tin
can or rusty nail or scrap of meat or
broken clamshell may have a score of
them clinging to It.
These are precisely the conditions of our
American beach resorts—tha moist, warm
air, the beach too often strewn with ru!>-
blsh, and In any case littered with broken
shells and with bits of wreckage from
which broken nails protrude.
It Is strange that the most deadly work
of the germ Is done In late spring and
early autumn. Fifty per cent, of the
deaths from tetanus are due to wounds on
feet or hands.
After the bacillus has entered the wound
from five to fifteen days may elapse. The
bacilfi do not themselves pass Into the
system. They remain In the wound, but
generate a poison which does their work.
In most cases there are preliminary
symptoms similar to those of an approach
ing cold—a duil ache, located before the
ear,' fo'lowed by stiffness in the muscles
of the lower Jaw. There is a growing dtffl
cufty In opening the mouth, anti attempts
to swallow exaggerate the symptom. The
Jaws then become lo~k<d and the d'sease
passes downward to the rest of the holy.
In the open air the bacillus remains In
active. It is only when It enters more
deeply and gets away from the air that It
becomes dangerous. It may be rendered
harmless by cleansing the wound wllh a
mixture of one part carbolic acid In twen
ty of water. Afterward the wound should
be fined with tincture of iodine.
If the wound should be a deep one,
caused, for Instance, by a nail, or If It
should be a lacerat* <1 wound, caused, for
example, by gunpowder, or a crushed
wound, as with a hammer, the operation
of cleansing may be a difficult mailer, and
a physician should be called In, who may
Inject antitoxin.
Race Results at Hennings.
Washington, Nov. 15.—Results at Hen
nings:
First Race—Six and a half furlongs. Sid
ney Lucas, 9 to 10, won, with First Whip,
9 to 2 and even, second, and All Gold, 9
to 2, third. Time 1:23.
Second Race—Five furlongs. Sidney Lu
cas, 2 to 1, won, wllh Hagedon, 3 to 5, sec
ond, and Golden Rattle, 5 to 1, third. Time
1:02.
Third Rpce—Hurdles. mile and three
fourths, over seven hurdles. McFonso, 100
to 1. won, with Julius Caesar, 8 to 5 and 3
to 5, second, and The Lost Chord, 12 to 1,
third. Time 3:21 2-5.
Fourth Race—One mile and a hundred
yards. Alvarado 11, 3 lo 1, won, with
Strangest, 5 to 1 and 4 to 5, second, and
Matanxa. 5 to 2, third. Time* 1:51.
Fifth Race—Handicap, for 3-year-olds
and upward, mile and a sixteenth. War
renton, 3 to 1, won, with Klnnlklnnlc, 3H
to 1 and 6 to 5, second, and Churentus, 13
to 5, third. Time 1:51.
Day's Itaees at Newport.
Cincinnati, Nov. 16— HiosuKs at New
port:
First Race—Seven furlongs. Russell It.,
6 to 1, won, with Necklace, 8 to 5, b ronl,
and Inc'dentaf, 100 to ihird. Time 1:18?i
Second Race—Five furlongs. Miss Shan
ley, 6 to 5, won, wllh Irouhaline, 6 to 1.
second, and Isabtnda, 7 to 1, third. Time
1:01%.
Third Race —One ar.d one-half mil s. Al
bert Vale, 6 to 1, won, with Vlrgie 0.. 13
to 5, second, and Fresco, 4 lo 1. third. Time
2:35.
Fourth Race—One mile handicap. Moli,
5 to 2, won, with Souchon, 6 to I. second,
and Skllhnan, 18 to 15. third. Time 1
Fifth Race—Six furlongs. Merryday, 4
to 1, won, wllh I'topia, 16 to 5, second, and
Ferrol, sto 2, third. Time 1:13%.
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Then I haven't changed much, after all?
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Our stock of Iron Beds is complete. We are offering
this week an elegant Iron Bed, with all iron spring, for
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