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TILLMAN AND M’LAIIRIN OUT
Both of South Carolina’s Senators
Send In Their Resignation.
I PUB fill IS 1
Outcome of Joint Debate at Gaffney
Was an Unexpected Denou
ment and Tremendous
Sensation.
During the joint debate between
Senators McLaurin and Tillman, at
Gaffney, S. C., Saturday, the latter
replying to a remark of McLaurin,
stated that he was willing to resign
his seat in the United States senate/
if McLaurin would and, with him, go
before the people as candidates for re-i
election, the one against .me other.
The challenge was quickly accepted,
and after the meeting was over both
men wrote and mailed their resigna
tions to Governor McSweeney, thus
leaving the Palmetto state without a
representative in the upper branch of
the national congress, a situation
which has not obtained since the days
of reconstruction.
Among those who realize the import
of the resignations it created a sensa
tion. It was the most startling and
dramatic incident in South Carolina’s
startling politics for very many years,
and the very novelty of the situation
leaves considerable doubt as to the
procedure.
The joint debate was ihe most inter
esting political event in South Caro
lina since the famous Tillman cam
paigns of 1890 and 1892. Senators Till
man and McLaurin occupy antagonis
tic attitudes on questions of national
politics, and as a result their personal
relations have become greatly strain- j
ed. This was made manifest in the
course of their debate, and some of
the passages between them were in
tensely exciting. Tillman is the su- :
perior of McLaurin as a campaign j
speaker, but the latter is full of oar- \
neatness and spirit, and holds up his j
end of the argument with vigor. He j
had many supporters in the crowd and
his strong points were warmly cheer- |
ed. The majority of those present ap- i
peared to be with Tillman, however, |
and this gave him the advantage.
Tillman's Version.
“McLaurin made a bluff at me,” said
Tillman after the discussion was over,
“and didn't think I'd call him. I felt
that after I had made an assault in his
honesty and integrity of purpose, he
tried to parry that by taunting me
with the assertion that I wouldn’t
leave my six years’ bomb-proof. I saw
the opportunity to make a £en strike
for democracy, and I was ready to
take it, regardless of the personal
sacrifice. I want South Carolina to
say whether she wants two democrats
or two republicans in the senate. If
the people don’t want to re-elect me,
I don’t care to serve them. I shall
announce my candidacy to succeed my
self, and will tf.ke such other steps
as I find desirable. 1 regard it for
tunate that this is au off year, so that
we can discuss these national issues
without any trading and combinations,
the voters can live upon these issues
wthout outside influence. If I relieve
the state of eighteen months of Me-
Laurin, I think I am entitled to some
credit and thanks. If a commercial
democrat isn’t a republican, I don’t
know what he is. If McLaurin is a
democrat, lam not. I want the people
to decide between us."
McLaurin’s Comment.
Senator McLaurin, when asked
about the resignation, said: *
“Tillman made a bluff today and I
called him. 1 put him in a position
where he either had to resign and go
into a sensational race with me, or
confess he was bluffing and was afraid
to risk his political scalp, though will
ing to knife me in a campaign in
which he was not a candidate and had
nothing at stake. All I desire is a
free, fair and open fight witn Tillman
on the issue upon which we differ. I
earnestly hope mat all others will
keep out of our race and run for the
other senatorship, so that Tillman and
1 may meet as man to man and fight
it out. He said he was unwilling to
bulldoze me into a joint debate with
him. if I was afraid to meet him, and
I hope he will not show himself
afraid to meet me in the senatorial
race. I hope he will not get any of
his strikers into the race to dodge be
hind, but will meet me in it alone.”
Governor Ha 6 Resignations.
Governor MeSweeney at Columbia.
Sunday morning, received, on the
train while preparing to go to Chicka
mauga. the official resignations of Sen
ators Tillman and McLaurin, dated at
Gaffney, May 25th, to take effect Sep
tember 15th next. When asked what
he had to say about the matter, Gover
nor MeSweeney said:
“The resignations of Senators Till-
Aggy May Visit Us.
A special from Washington says:
Aguinaldo is likely to come to the
United States next fall and spend the
winter in Washington. This informa
tion reached the war department in
the mail from Manila.
Birmingham f-iumbers Out.
k m AU the plunibers of Birmingham,
1 Ala., are out on a strike. The strike
W ,s due to the refusal of the employers
grant a seven-hour day on Saturday.
man and McLaurin as United States
senators was received by me in the
mail this morning as I was leaving
for Chickamauga, the resignations to
take effect September 15th. I will not
take up the consideration of these re
signations till I return to my office. At
the present I have nothing to say and
no comment to make upon the action
of these gentlemen.”
The meeting has created great in
terest all over the state on account of
its being the first between the two
senators since their difference became
emphasized, and there was a large at
tendance from other counties.
Interest at National Capital.
A Washington special says: Sena
tor Tillman has resigned his seat in
the senate for the purpose of forcing
Senator McLaurin to meet him on the
stump. That is the view which South
carolinans in Washington take of the
announcement that both senators have
resigned. They are at a loss to un
derstand, however, what object Sena
tor McLaurin could have had in re
signing, for they believe he can have
no hope of re-election. Whatever may
be the explanation o. the course of
the junior senator, it is not doubted
that these resignations are the pre
lude of the most sensational political
fight that has occurred in the Palmet
to state in recent years—a fight in
which personalities will be indulged
in with the utmost freedom.
Ever since Senator McLaurin broke
over the party lines in the senate and
refused to follow the democratic party
in opposing the peace treaty, the Han
na ship subsidy bill, the army bill and
other measures, Senator Tillman has
been axious to break a lance with his
independent young colleague. Senator
McLaurin. in his recent speeches in
North and South Carolina, has resent
ed the attempt of Senator Tillman and
other leading decorats of the state to
criticise his independent attitude, and
has indulged in certain reflections
upon Senator Tillman and others who
differ with him, which incensed Sena
tor Tillman so much that he issued a
lormal challenge to Senator McLaurin
to go upon tne stump and jointly de
bate the questions at issue before the
voters of the state. Senator McLaurin
declined to accept Senator Tillman’s
challenge on the ground that the lat
ter was not a candidate for re-election
to the state senate. McLaurin inti
mated that he would cheerfully debate
the issues of the campaign with any
of the avowed candidates for the posi
tion he now holds. Senator Tillman
had just been re-elected for a second
term in the senate, his election being
practically unanimous. His resigna
tion is doubtless for the purpose of
placing him on an equal footing with
the other rivalß of Senator McLaurin
and thus forcing the latter to meet
him upon the hustings.
STREET CARS IN AWFUL CRASH
Five People Instantly Killed and Many
Hurt In Trolley Accident
at Albany, N. Y.
A special from Albany, N. Y., says:
Electric cars racing for a switch, while
running in opposite directions at the
rate or forty miles an hour, cost five
lives Sunday afternoon by a terrific
collision in which over forty promi
nent people were injured, some fatal
ly and others seriously.
The lobby of the local post office
filled with dead and wounded, hyster
ical women and children looking for
relatives and friends, surgeons admin
istering temporary relief and ambu
lances raeng through the city taking
the wounded to hospitals, were the
early intimations of the accident.
The scene of the accident was a
point about two miles out of Green
bush. on the line of the Albany and
Hudson railway. The point where the
cars met on the single track was at a
sharp cure, and so fast were both run
ning and so sudden the collision, that
the motormen never had time to put
on the brakes before the southbound
car had gone almost clean through the
other car and hung on the edge of a
high bluff. One motorman was pin
ioned up against the smashed front of
the southbound car with both legs sev
ered and instantly killed while the
other one lived but a few minutes.
Fully 120 men. women and children
formed a struggling, shrieking pyra
mid, mixed w T ith blood, detached por
tions of human bodies and the wreck
age of the cars. Some of the more
slightly injured of the men extricated
themselves and began to pull people
out at tfte rear ends of the two cars,
and almost every one was taken out
in this way, and nearly all were badly
injured.
SAVAGE ACTS OF FILIPINOS.
Perpetrators of Horrible Crimes Keep
Military Courts Hard at Work.
Officials papers received at the war
department from the Philippines give
the details of many horrible crimes
committed in the islands, for which
the perpetrators were tried before mil
itary commissions convened from time
to time.
Many of them, for savage cruelty
and pure wantonness, are unsurpassed.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA.
THE HUMORS OF TRAVEL.
“Did Clara bring home an interest
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tour?”
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Is Able to Help Sick ’Women
When Doctors Fail.
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women, and the aid a man would give
is not at his command.
To treat a case properly it is neces
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information, many times, cannot be
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the United States.
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-USMITCHELLS FYE SALVE A,
TOAD IN A LUMP OF COAL
Taken Alive Out of the Fire and Put Into
a Jar.
The disbelievers who have smiled at
Die notion of a live toad being found in
a lump of coal will be shocked by an
event which has just happened at Rug
by.,
The oft-derided toad has appeared
from the midst of the ruins of the oft
discredited lump of coal. The exhumed
hermit is, moreover, now alive, and is
destined to be handed down to posterity
in a hermetically ?**d glass jar.
This historic toad was introduced to
modern society througn the instrumen
tality of a small poker, wielded in a
utilitarian spirit by Mr. Clarke of Heu
reux Villa, Bath street, Rugby. The
happy event occurred, not in Heureux
Villa, as might be imagined, but in Mr.
Clarke's office, in North street, Rugby,
where, one morning, three large lumps of
Baddesley coal had been placed in the
grate to encourage a disspirited fire.
Mr. Clarke took up the small poker.
He smote one of those lumps of War
wickshire coal. It fell in pieces.
Among them sat a good-sized toad of
inky blackness. So Mr. Clarke informed
a representative of the Daily Mail. If
he had added that the toad winked, never
so slightly, the scientific critic might
have concluded that that toad was a
joker. The toad did not wink, for the
very good reason that it apparently had
no eyes. It has since developed them.
Stranger still, it has no mouth.
Mr. Clarke fortunately rescued the
toad from its peril and dropped it into
a pail of water, where it revived. It is
now able to crawl. Before it is con
signed to its new tomb it is hoped that
it will hop.
As to its genuineness, there can be
no shadow of doubt, but unfortunately
the cavity in the coal could not be pre
served, as the lump, which bad been
smoldering on the fire for a considerable
time, fell to pieces when struck with
the poker.
That the toad is not the ordinary com
mon or garden animal is patent to the
most casual observer. A Daily Mail
correspondent had an opportunity of
examining it at Mr. Clarke’s office yes
terday. Much of its sooty appearance
disappeared in the water, and it is now
a dull brown. It has been sealed up
in a glass, and is to be submitted to the
examination of experts.
As stated, it has no mouth, but small
nostrils can be seen. There is a con
stant motion in the throat, and also oc
casional motions of the sides, as the
lungs contract and expand. Although
its eyes are exceedingly bright, it does
not see. this having been proved by plac
ing a lighted match close to the toad’s
eyes without causing it to recoil.
In shape it varies little from the or
dinary toad, but its forelegs, instead of
being underneath the body, grow out at
right angles. It does not move with
freedom, but doubtless its long incar
ceration, coupled with the fact that in
falling from the coal it dropped into
the fire and was slightly damaged about
the hindquarters before being rescued,
accounts for this.— London Mail.
A New Electrical Wind Register.
Considerable difficulty lias been ex
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DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS
THE REMARKABLE CASE OF MR.
WASHBURN, OF PENNSYLVANIA.’
The Break Basted Seventeen Years, In
Which Period He Was Married and
Blessed With Four Children Then a
Change and He Was With Strafigers.
A case that is said to he one of the
most remarkable known to the medical
profession is that of Charles Wash
burn. aged forty-one years, who, with
his family, resides at 92 Charles street.
Allegheny. Mr. Washburn has just
recovered liis memory after a lapse
of seventeen years, and since the re
covery can remember practically noth
ing that occurred during that time.
Mr. Washburn's native home was in
Eastern Pennsylvania, but in what
town he lias not yet been able to re
call. According to his statement to bis
doctors, made since the recovery of his
memory, be left for Hie West in 1884,
after the death of his father, to look
up some property lliat. had been left
to him. He remembers leaving Chi
cago on the Chicago and Rock Island
Railroad, but can only recall that the
train was wrecked a short time after
leaving Chicago. He remembers a
crash and the sensation of being
hurled through the air, but from that
time until he recovered his memory, a
few weeks ago, his mind is a blank, or
was at the time of his recovery.
Mrs. Washburn says she met her
husband twelve years ago, a few days
after liis arrival in the city, and two
years later married him. But Mr.
Washburn on the recovery of his mem
ory knew nothing of his marriage or
of the fact that he was the father of
four •children. He did not recognize
any of the people he has known for
the past ten years, he did not know
anything of the neighborhood in which
he has resided for the same time, nor
did he know anything of his former oc
cupation, painting, nor his present one,
the grocery business. Electric cars
wore to him as something springing
suddenly front the earth, and he had
hut a dim recollection of what electric
lights wore. An electric bell was also
a novelty, with the use of which he
was entirely unacquainted. The tall
buildings of the city amazed him, and
the sights on every band were as
strange to him as to a newly-born
babe.
For the past year and a half Mr.
Washburn has apparently been ill.
This caused his retirement from his
former occupation, a contracting paint
er, anil lit: embarked in the grocery
business, conducting a small store at
72 Taggart street. Dr. Stanley G.
Small, of Taggart street, had been his
physician and was treating him for
hepatic abscesses or abscess of tlie liv
er. The frequent bursting of the
abcesses caused great pain.
On the night of February 23 he was
walking the floor of his dining room
suffering intensely. A daughter, who
was in the room with him, accidental
ly overturned a lamp. Mr. Washburn
tried to grasp it as it fell, but as he
reached for it he murmured, “Oh, my
head.” and fell to the floor uncon
scious. He was Immediately put to
beil. and Dr. Small summoned. But
all the efforts of th doctor were ap
parently without resuit, as Mr. Wash
burn remained unconscious until the
next evening.
When he regained consciousness the
next day the events of the past seven
teen years were entirely forgotten. He
regained consciousness at the point
where his memory had left him and
his first words were:
“Was I much hurt’;”
Mrs. Washburn was in the room at
the time and replied in the negative.
Then he replied as to what hospital
be was in, and asked his wife if she
Was the nurse. She laughingly replied
that she was his wife, whereat he
grew indignant and told her that she
was taking liberties with him. He
then demanded to see the doctor, and
to humor him Mrs. Washburn sent for
Dr. Small. While awaiting the doctor,
Mrs. Washburn again engaged her
husband in conversation, calling him
by his first name and telling him that
he was the father of four children.
“I’m not married,” he replied. “Nice
thing for a man twenty-four years of
age to wake up after a night’s sleep
and to he told that he is the father of
four children.”
“But you are not a young man,” re
plied his wife, and she handed him a
mirror. When lie saw the reflection of
his face he acknowledged that he did
not look like a man of twenty-four
years of age, but still did not believe
that he was married, lie did not rec
ognize the face as his, exclaiming:
“.My tied, that is not me,” and pointed
to a portrait, taken about the time
of his marriage, as his own. Then
Mrs. Washburn showed him tlieir mar
riage certificate and brought in the
children, which convinced him of the
truth of her statement.
A few days later, when his condition
allowed of his being taken out, it was
made apparent how complete the lapse
of memory had been. When be saw a
trolley car he wanted to know what
kind of wagons they were, running
without horses. The information that
they were electric cars was practical
ly no information, so far as he was
concerned, and it necessitated an ex-
I planation of how they were operated
before he could be made to understand,
j When he called on Dr. Small his ignor
ance of recent events was again
shown. At the doctor s front door he
vainly tried to find the knob by which
to ring tlie bell, and a woman who
came up the steps behind him showed
him how to ring the electric bell. This,
too, the doctor had to explain, and he
dimly remembered having once seen
electric lights in New York. He did
not know one of his neighbors, with
ltiuny of whom ho had /been on intim
ate terms, and when, after he regained
his strength, it was proposed that he
astonished the doctor and liis fardiv
by saying that he knew nothing ab( Z
painting, and that he had im v be. u
a painter, notwithstanding that h e u i
lowed this occupation for over t,. n
years. Of the streets and city he dw
played Ignorance, not even knowing
the name of the latter.
An astonishing feature of the case i
that according to Mrs. Washburn’!!
statement, during their entire married
life she never noticed anything wrong
with him. lie acted rational at all
times, never smoked, drank hut verv
little and, until the time of his illnoss
began, had always worked hard and
provided well for his family. H e nev _
er did anything to lead her to believe
that he was not in possession of liis
senses, and her surprise was greater
than liis when ho recovered conscious
ness and did not recognize her.
About three weeks ago Dr. Small
turned the case over to Dr. Edward
E. Mayer, specialist ou mental and
nervous diseases at the West IYmi
Hospital, and also assistant professor
of the medical department of the
Western University of Pennsylvania.
Both physicians were at first reticent
regarding the case, and it was only
•after being shown that it had already
become public property and that relia
ble statements from them were better
than the version of others, that they
consented to talk about the case.
Dr. Small said that he had been
treating Mr. Washburn for hepatic
abscess for over a year. “He seemed
to suffer great pain in his right side.”
said the doctor, "and whenever he was
touched lie would fairly howl with
pain. When he lost consciousness L
thought it was the result of the ab
scess again breaking and was amazed
after his recovery of consciousness
that ho did not feel the slightest pain.
As soon as I arrived at the house I
began examining him. He did not rec
ognize me as anyone he had ever seen
before, and thought I insulted him
when I said that he had ail abscess.
He insisted that there was nothing
wrong with him, and when I handled
him a bit more severely than usual
he made no complaint of any pain. Nor
has he (lone so since the recovery of
his memory. He is a man of more
than ordinary intelligence, and his
children, who range from three to nine
years of age, are also bright, not show
ing the slightest trace of there having
been anything wrong with their fatti
er.”
Dr. Mayer, though at first disin
clined to talk, said: “I took hold of
the case three weeks ago. Amnesia,
the complaint with which he was af
flicted, is not uncommon. It is often
seen in insane cases which present al
terations in personality and double
personality, seemingly two minds in
the same body. Cases of double con
sciousness, in which the one is sudden
ly obliterated, to reappear after a lapse
of many years, are very rare. There
is only one ease on record of sudden
and total loss of memory. This is the
case of Pastor Hanna, reported by Dr.
Boris Sidis, of New York, and pub
lished in his hook ou ‘Psychology of
Suggestion.’
“Mr. Washburn’s case is not one of
complete amnesia, as he always re
membered his name. The case is of
great psychologic interest, as it is one
of the few that enable us to study the
synthesis of consciousness and the
cellular action and disaggregation of
the brain. Also interesting is the re
education of the man to the impres
sions made during seventeen years and
now lying dormant; the study of his
dreams, the disassociation of the past
from present impressions and tlieir
eventual combination. All of these
furnish much materia] for study and
observation. The method of treating
the case which I am following is pure
ly one of suggestion. This consists
of gradually separating him from any
impressions that have been left upon
his brain by the loss of memory, work
ing back to the time preceding it, and
then bringing his ideas slowly up to
the present time. There is no hyp
notic influence or anything of that sort
used in connection with the treatment.
It is all done through simple sugges
tion, and 1 believe it will lead to his
ideas being eventually brought up to
date.”—Pittsburg Times.
Farms of Porto Kieo.
Of the 953,243 population of Torto
Rico only 75,000 live in cities. On this
island, but 100 miles long and thirty
six wide, are 40,000 distinct farms, and
one-fifth of the island is under culti-
ration. The average size of a farm a
Porto Rico is forty-five acres, of which
twelve are cultivated. Seventy-one
per cent, of these Porto Rican farms
are owned by whites, and the rest by
negroes. Ninety-three per eent. of all
the farms are cultivated by tbeir own
ers, a higher rate of owner cultivation
than the United States can show,
where the proportion is but seventy
two per cent. Thirty-eight per cent,
of the Porto Itioans are colored. In
Porto Rico eighty-three per cent, of
the colored people are of mixed blood.
The percentage of illiteracy in Porto
Rico is very high—about eighty-four.
J his is higher than in any other coun
try from which statistics are obtain
able, except Guatemala.—The World's
Work.
The Court of Hustings*
“Oyez, oyez, oyez! All manner of
persons who have been five times
called by virtue of any exigent direct
ed by the sheriffs of London and have
not surrendered their bodies to the
said sheriffs, this court doth adjudge
tlio men to be outlawed and the wom
en to be waived.” It is autocratic, un
grammatical, but delightfully ancient,
aud was the proclamation of the Mace
bearer at the Court of Hustings in the
Guildhall yesterday. After all, tin*
only business of this ancient court,
which has not sat for some years, was
to enroll a couple of deeds providing
prize money for the School of Music
and a scholarship for the City of Lou-