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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 15, 1885.--TWELVE PAGES.
«letic survey wu, during the but fiscal year, car. led
on within the boundaries and off the coaste of
thirty-two States, two l emtoriee and the Dintrict
of Columbia. In July hut, certain irregularities
wrere found to exist in tho management in thin
bureau, which led to a prompt investigation of its
methods. The abuses which were brought
to light by this examination and the reckless
disregard of dutv and tho interests of the govern*
merit developed on the part of some of those con*
ner ted with the servico made a change of superin*
tendency and a few of its officers necessary. Since
the bureau has been in new hands an introduction
of economies and the application of business meth
ods have produced an important saviug to tho
government and a promise of more
useful resulti. This service ha» never
been regulated by anything but the most Indednito
Jrgal enactments and the most unsatisfactory rules.
It was many years ago sanctioned apparently for a
Tnn> ^c—regarded as temporary and related to a
onrvey of our euii** Keined. place In tbc
appropriation. Made b; CongroL"*: " “*• Rrtd’taUy
taken Itmlf ponnn anil objects no* con
templated *,n ita creation. and attended
—it, on-^ttoua until it sadl; need. le«Mattv« attae-
tlon.' Bo far aa a further tuner ut oiir total la eo-.
first day o.* July last, steps were at once taken
for the procurement of such plans for
the construction of these vessels ss would be likely
to insure their usefulnow when completed. These
are of the utmost important'-', considering the con
stant advance in the art of building vessels of
this character, and the time is not lost
which is sjteut in their careful consideration
and selection. All must admit tho importance of an
effective navy to » nation like ours, having such an
extended soe*caeat to protect, and yet we have uot
a single vessel of wsr that could meet the first-slasa
vessels of any important power. Such a condition
ought not longer Vo continue, lhe nation
that cannot resist aggression is constantly exposed
to it. Its foreign policy is of necessity weak and
its negotiations are conducted with disadvan
tages because it is uot in condition to enforce
the terms dictated by its sense of right and justice.
A RUSSIAN PRINCESS.
Throwing a Fortune Into tho Fire—The
Temper of a Fiend.
Caroline Baoer tells the story of thcP;i n .
WEALTH IN WASTE.
bonO, - l,h lhe
of a fiend, and become the moot admired
and feared woman at the conrt of tho Em
peror Alexander. Her husband idolized
ner, and, unfortunately, allowed her com-
ticH, now in charge x»f this establishment—it they
cannot be profitably attached to some existing de
partment or other bureau—should be prosecuted
under a law exactly defining their scope
and purpose. and with a careful discrimination be
tween the scientific inquires which may properly
bo assumed by the government and those which
should be nndertakcu by Ktate authority, or by in
dividual cnterpri«e. It is hoped that the report of
the Congressional committee heretofore appointed
to investigate this and other like matters will aid in
the accomplishment of proper legislation on this
subject
THE ABUT.
The report of the Secretary of War
is herewith submitted. The attention of
Congress is Invited to the detailed
account which it contains of the administration of
his department, and his recommendation and sug
gestions for the improvement of tho service. The
army consisted, at the date of the last consolidated
returns of 2.iso officers and 24,703 enlisted men
The expenses of the department for the fiscal yeai
ended June 3utb. 1885, including f 13,lt>MW.ttf for
public works and river and harbor improvements,
were $40,850,999.64. Besides the troops which were
dispatched in pursuit of the small baud of Indians
who left their reservation in Arizona and commit
ted murders and outrages, two regiments of cav
alry and one of infantry were sent last July to the
Indian Territory ?•• prevent an outbreak which
ecemcd imminent. They remained to aid if neces
sary in the expulsion of intruders upon the r»
vations who seemed to have caused the discon
tent among the Indians, but the executive procla
mation warning them to remove was compiled with
without their interference. Troops wcivalso sent
to Bock Springs, in Wyoming Territory,
after the massacre of Chinese there, to prevent fur
ther disturbances, and afterward to Beattie, in
Washington Territory, to a cert a threatened attack
upon Chinese laborers and domestic violence there.
In both cases the mere presence of tho troops had
the desired effect. It appears that tho number of
desertions have diminished, but that during the
last fiscal year they numbered 2,927; and oue in
stance is given by the Lieutenant-General of six
desertions by the same recruit. I am
convinced that this number of de
sertion* can be much diminished by better
discipline and treatment, but the punishment
should be increased for repeated offenses. These
desertions might also bo reduced by lessening the
term of first enlistment, thus allowing a discon
tented recruit to contemplate a nearer discharge
and the army a profitable riddance. After one term
of service a’re-enlistmeut would be quite apt to
weenie a contented recruit and a good soldier. The
acting judge-advocate-general reports that the
number of trials by general courts-martial
during the year was 2.328, and that 11,851 trials
took place before garrison and regimental courts-
martial. The suggestion tbst probably more Umu
half the army have been tried for offenses, great
and small, in one year, may well arrest attention.
Of course many of these trials before garrison and
regimental courts-martial were for offenses almost
frivolous, and there should. I think, be a way de*
Tiaed to dispose of these in a more sum
mary and less inconvenient mauner
than by courts-martial. If some of tho
proceedings of courts martial which I have had
occasion to examine present the ideas of Justice
which generally prevail in these tribunals, I am
satisfied that they should be much reformed if tho
honor and the honesty of the army and navy are by
their Instrumentality to he vindicated aud pro-
The board on fortifications or other defenses, ap
pointed in pursuance of the provisions of the act
of Congress approved March 3, 1886, will in a short
time present their report, and it is hoped that this
may neatly aid the legislation so necessary to
remedy the present defenseless condition of our sea
TUX MORAL SEXT1CK.
The work of the signal service has been prose
cuted during the last year with results of Increas
ing benefit to the country. The field of Instruction
has been enlarged with a view of adding to ita use
fulness. The cumber of stations in operation June
autk, 1885, was 489. Telegraphic reports are received
dally from 140 stations. Reports are also received
from 26 Canadian stations, 3i5 volunteer observers,
62 army sergeants at military posts and 333 foreign
stations. The expenses of the service during the fiscal
▼ear, after deducting receipts from military tele
graph lines, was f7y2.6ltt.97. In view of tho fact
referred to l y the Secretary of War, that the work
of this service ordinarily Is of a scientific nature,
und the further fact tbtt it In assuming largo pro-
portion* cou.«ti>ntly, and becoming more and more
uusultcd to tho fixed rule# which must govern the
Army, lam luc lined to agree with him in the opin-
i# n . ,l "**ouid be separately established.
If this is done the scope and extent
operations should as nearly a*
«Msib.e be definitely prescribed by law, and always
9f WKt Mevr&atttoi 9 always
THE UlLlTAUf ACaDTMT.
The Military Academy at West Point is reported
as being iu a high state of efficiency and well
equip]**! for the satisfactory accomplishment of
the purpose of its maintenance. 'The fact that the
class which graduates next year is an unusually
large one has constrained me to decline to make
appointments to second lieutenancies in the army
ftotn civil life, so that such vacancies as exist in
these pUi-esutay be reserved for such graduates. As
yet it is not probable that there wtU bs enough va
cancies to provide positions for them »ll when they
leave the military school. Under the prevailing
law and usage those not assigned tg duty never
active*' rnter tbe military service. It is suggested
that the U« on this ahMeti bs chanm* so that auoh
Million, of Dollar* to Iw Ssved anil Ite-
corereil by a Simple Appliance.
Carbon dale, I'*., Special.
As near as any ono can calculate there are
heaped iu the anthracite coal r<;poUH of
I’ennaylvania not lets than 150,000,OiXJ tons
of mine waste. This waste is called cnlm.
Everywhere in tho coal country it meets the
eye in block tuouuds that cover acres iuid
rival in dimensions and height the sur
rounding hills themselves. Tho land oo-
l.up'ed by these unsightly upheavals in
Lackawanna, Luzerno, Carbon, Lehigh, and
Schuylkill counties would make another
county. To carry this waste from tile brak-
era and dump it require* milts o! railroad
track and thousands of men | )0 ,. s aU( j
mules. A low estimate p- m( *s the cost of
a«.m-!ttff fttlll «UI»* .* • .1. - •
of Ihsro young men u u* not u VBW
duty liter graduating may niliuro
second UeuteUbU 5# the srmy If
-dealro It, subloet to ualgnment when
opportunity occur, and under proper
rule, is to priority of (election.
The expenditure on account of the military,
academy tor tho but ftacal year, excloelvo of tb,
rum taken for ita porpoaM from apprn|.rinUoue for
Iha support of Lb. army warn |2ttkiia.u7.
The act approved March a. tans, deigned to com-
penult officer, and enllated rum for the tow of pet-
v.w nr.n-.rta .title In the aervtca of the United
Btatee, ta'ao iudednitt tn ita tertne aud apnuonU;
admits bo many claim the adjustment of which
could not bare bees contemplated that If U Is to
remain upon the atatule book It naeda amend
ment.
aanxiKs ovkb xavio abl* watxas.
There ahoold ba a general tow of Oonanan pro-
klbiting the construction of bridge, over navlgnbla
water, in auch manner aa to oUtruct navlgaiion,
with provisions for preventing the mi. It mm,
that under sxlating statutes tho government cannot
Intervene to prevent such a construction when en
forced upon U without its consent, though when
auch consent la asked and grunted npon conditions,
the authority to Insist npon wvth condi
tion la clear. Thus it la rcpreorstod that
while the officers of the ««»**roment are with
great care guarding against the obstruction of navi
gation by a bridge across the Mi««lMlppi river at
SL Paul a large pkr for a bridge baa been built
just below this plsce, directly in the navigable
channel of the river. If such things are to ba per
mitted a strong argument la presented against the
appropriation of Urge sums of money to improve
the navigation of this and other important high
ways of commerce.
HI BAVT.
The report of the Secretary of the Navy gives a
history of the operations of his department and the
present condition of the work committed to his
charge. Ue also details in full the course pursued
by him to protect the right of the government. In
respect to certain veasek unfinished “
And also concern ina the disnatch
boat Dolphin, claimed to be completed and await-
s from the recitals coutetued in this report
that only the application of business principles has
been Insisted upon in the treatment of
these subjects, and that whatever controversy
0Uen was caused by the exaction
by the department of contract obligations, aa they
were legally construed, la the case of the Dolphin,
With entire Justice to the contractors, an agreement
has since been entered into, providing for the
asesrtsinlng by Inquiry of 'he completeness
»4 her construction, snl further providing
for the reeessment of any damages to which the
governs.ent may be entitled on account of a par
tial failure to perform such contract, or the pay-
reant of the sum still remaining unpaid npon her
price in case a full performance Is adjudged.
The contractor by reason of failure in boatman be
ing unable to complete the other three vessels,
they were taken possession of by the government
iu their unfinished state, under a clause tn tl
tier love for pleasure and luxury he went
beyond his means, and then sold one estate
after another. Once when he handed her
a littlo pack of bank notes he had won as a
sort of peace offering. Natalie seized them
and threw them into tho fire, to cure the
general, she said, of club and gaming and
Etta hours. Another night, when she was
adorned in full splendor for a court ball,
the general kept her waiting. At last he
came, greatly excited, with a red face and
dashing eyes. She supposed tho excite*
ment was caused by wiiie, and told him so
in vehement words.
“No, dear darling,” he protested, “I had
the most important business to attend to,
concerning yourself and our Alexandra.
Look at theso ruble notes—you will not
throw them into the fire.” “I will, though, ”
she exclaimed. And as she spoke sho
snatched the notes from his hands and
throw them into the flames. He shrieked
in despair and rushed forward to save
them-too late! There was seen a bright
blaze, and—
“Natalie,” ho said, in a hollow voice,
“you have just destroyed our whole for
tune—300,000. I hope, if I should not re
turn alive from the Caucasus, that yon may
uevor have n bitter repentance. To-day I
received orders from the Emperor’s own
lips to join the army in the Caucasus to
morrow. In order to secure your and our
child’s future. I to-day sold our last estate
to the crown, ond everything now is ashes!
at-hes!”
Uen. Kurakin was killed lu one of his
first engagements in the Caucasus, and
XatAlio became the most heartless of
widows.
Gossip About l’eople.
M. Paste nr is the seU-made son of n tan
ner.
Senator Logan bos been made a Knigbt
Templar.
Mr. Gladstone's voice baa quite recovered
its old volume.
General John M. Swift has become editor
of the Boston State.
Canon Farrar lectnred forty-one times,all
told, during his tour just ended.
Two of Speaker Carlisle's sons have
gone to Wichita, Kansas, to practice law.
W. II. Vanderbilt told a Cleveland, O.,
man that his income in 1883 was 120,000,-
000.
James Gonlon Bennett has picked out
Pan as tho place at which to spend bis
mouey this winter.
Prince Bismarck admits that ho ought
not to read the French society papers, but
be does read them with rcgnUnty.
Dr. Camison, the royal Spanish physi
cian, is to publish a pamphlet on tuo na
ture of the illness that killed Alfonso.
Georgs Bancroft, the historian, is the only
private citizen who has been given the right
to the floors of Congress at sll times.
The seventieth birthday of Mcrizel, the
great French painter, will be colebrated in
Paris to-day. The American _colouy are
taking much interest in the event,
EvQovernot and Congressman John D.
f-org, of Massaclmsett*, druwa an income
of from $&0,'066 to IdO.Ouo a year from tho
cstats of his wife, and has no care of it.*
Henry 8. Wellcome, an American, ho,
i n,t been given the bronze medal of the
tritish Itoyal Humane Society for heroism
in rescuing a woman from drowning in the
Thames.
A new honor awaits Canon Farrar npon
his arrival in England. It is said he will
be offered the Bishopric of Manchester, re
cently mado vacant by tho death of ita ad
ministrator.
An article on “Our Railway to the Pa
cific" is being written by Princess Louise
and the Marquis of Lome. Tho Marquis
contributes the letter press aud tho P»taoro«
{he illustration*,
Iilentenant-iiommander Gorriuge's body
bos been removed to Rockland Cemetery,
on the Jersey side of the Hudson, and a me
morial obelisk will be raised therein to com
memorate his various good sets.
The sister of Edwin M. Stanton, the only
surviving near relative of the war Secre
tary, has written to Jndge Kelley, thanking
him for his book on the relations between
President Lincoln and Mr. Stanton.
Sarah Bernhardt is not the only French
woman who has achieved skill In the sculp
tor's art. The published list of gifts just
made to a charity under the patronage of a
number of ladies in Paris include, several
works of art by the patronesses themselves,
among them being a statuette by the Duch
ess of Tzes, which, we are told, “no master
of the day would disown,” aud a bust of
Chopin, modelled by the Connies* do Beau-
moat-Castries. Sarah contributes a group.
Among the painting contributed by lauy
amateurs meutioned in the same list are a
Bad Biding Hood," by the Princesa
Mathilde; a landscape -a view in St. Helena
bv the Barones* Nathaniel de Rothschild;
“View of an Interior," by the Princess
Scylia. and a number of other pieces by
ladies of rank.
The Rev. Dr. Milburn, the well known
blind preacher, who was elected chaplain of
the H»n*e of Representatives for tLis ses
sion of Congress, once before filled that po
sition, over forty years ago. lie is s Meth
odist preacher and certainly has s mild end
convincing eloquence that is rare among a
ministry given to somewhat load exhorting
He is always * greet drawing card at camp-
meetings and revivals, when his simple but
graceful oratory ix rendered more effective
by the pathos of his Ufa long blindness.
The salary of the chaplain of the House is
(900 a year, and ita duties consist in mak
ing a short prayer every morning, when the
House baa been called to order. It is not
very often that a chaplain is re-elected, os
it is desired that every religious denomina
tion shall be represented in turn.
cimying^and duT.ping culm in the region
at $20,'““u a day, besides the interest on the
cost of the dumping grounds, »inch in many
thousands more.
At tho preseut time fifteen per cent, of
the product of the mines goeH to the culm
piles. For the first forty years of tho an-
ihraoita business the percentage of waste
averaged more than double that, for crude
and imperfect methods and appliances in
mining, breaking, and screening were un
able to save from tlio waste heaps cool that
is now the most profitable of nil the diller-
ent kinds on the market. It is only about
fifteen years ago that chestnut coal began
to be saved from the culm, and it was then
estimated that not less than 7,000,000 tons
of that size coal, worth about $25,000,000,
wore bnried iu the accumulations of mine
debris. Several years ago improved screen
ing produced u size of coal which was given
the name of pea coal. It rapidly became a
successful rival of chestnut coal for stoves
and grates. Then the mine engineers cal
culated that the culm piles bad swallowed
up five or six million tons of pea coal, worth
ten or twelve million dollars.
A year ago tho Dehiwaro and Hudson Ca
nal Company succeeded in separating from
cnlm at the breakers a coal still smaller in
size than pea coal. This was called buck
wheat coal, and it was found that it was
just what the Hudson river steamers want
ed for their boilers. It coiiid not be screen
ed with sufficient facility to make it profit
able, because the coal in coming from the
mines to the breakers is so damp that the
dust clings to the finer fragments and they
cannot be cleansed by the ordinary process
es of screaning. Tho fact was mode clear,
though, that there was still a size ( of coal
going to waste which, if it could be sepa
rated from the culm, would be worth a mil
lion dollars a year to mine owners. Invent
ors had been lor years striving to devise
sonio plan by which cnlm could be bandied
aud disposed of more quickly and economi
cally. Mine owners had spent thousands
of dollars in furthering theso efforts.
After tlie discovery of buckwheat coal
the importance of a practical method of
overhauling old culm piles to recover tho
wealth in coal buried there gave a new im
petus to tho inventive genius of the coni
regions. Ransom T. Mitchell, of Bradford,
has at last solved the problem. He has se
cured patents on applying the use of tbc
air blast to coal waste, in connection witli
conducting pipe*, in such a manner that he
can carry cnfin from the breaker to the
dumping ground and to any desired eleva
tion. The air dries the dust on the minute
fragments of coal as the mass passes
through the pipes. At tho dumping ground
the culm is delivered into screens, whero
the dust is then easily separated and every
particlo of cool, however smnll, is made
merchantable. Besides thus absolutely ex
tracting sll the cool from the cuiui, the uir
blast removes the waste from the breaker
to tho pile at one-tenth tho cost of mnleand
car power, a saving of about $<>,000,000 a
year in the working cost of that branch of
00*1 Mining.
Mr. Mitchell's method simply consists in
setting up a blower of sufficient power at
the breaker, aud connecting it with the
pipes, which not only carry the cnlm awsy
from the breaker, but at tho samo time
draw out tho sulphurous mine gases and re
place them with pure air. Mitchell's pat
ents also cover the overhauling and sorting
nf old culm piles by means of the air blast,
by which the millions of dollars' worth of
coal buried there may be recovered at one-
quarter the cost at which the same quantity
conld be mined.
A practical test of the Mitchell air blast
in bundling vnlm was mode the other day At
tho Pennsylvania Coal Company’s breaker
No. 5. The success of the test was com
plete. Several large companies are making
arrangements to use the appliance* at their
collieries. Mitchell has refused an offer of
$500,000 for his psteuta. lie says that as
they hare mode a let of hitherto value lets
and unsightly hasps of cool dost worth $30,-
000,000, ana have made it possible to dis
pose of cnlm at on annual saving of $0,000,-
000, they an worth a great deal more mouey
than an;* one can giro him for them.
want you to understand that V must bleed?’
‘Yes, sir.’ ‘V., count ten and woke when
you get to seven.’
“He counted tho numerals up to seven,
ho started, rubbed bis eyes os though
awakening, but more aiowly proceeded
with tbe eight, nine, ten—but lie remained
asleep, as was proven by heavy snoring
which immediately followed his wonderful
exhibition. About u quarter of an hour
after this self-conducted dialogue, V. went
iuto the peculiar crisis which we have
noticed iu him after a suggested stigmatiza
tion. When it was over, wo examined the
arm and found the V which ho had traced
in his imagination, aud it was covered with
blood. This V wn* on the same spot where
1 pruwoux’.y, oii August 3, produced a
stigmatism in the presence Of l)r». Barth
and Dclarue. This same series of pheno
mena were repeated thrice during the
night, tho patient holding the same dis
course and the result being the same each
time.
“At 5 o’clock precisely V. awoke without
knowing that he had been asleep, hut con
vinced timt he had been employed in the
garden of the asylum, gathering flowers.
Here, then, we have a caso of hemor
rhagic stigmatization produced without in
termediary, and by auto-suggestion during
iuducod hypnotism, the stigmata being iii
the place of an old stigmatizations induced
by me on former occasions. Drs. Rama-
anchor in tho arm-chair in front of tbe
kitchen fire, where tho girls were getting
supper. He yanked off his boots and pall-
ed up the toe of his blue woolen stocking.
He had a vague impression of having for
gotten something. Ho thought ho would
usk his wife.
“Where’s your mother?" ho said, looking
around as ho held his loft Btockinged foot
in his right hand.
"Where’s who?" replied his oldest daugh
ter, ns she stood, astonished. With a tea
piate iu her hand.
“Why, where’H your mother?’*
"Out in the barn, niu’t she!' Didn't R i IR
You hug'at to know where
an y One,’ said Uncle B., in telling
this stor- on Wednesday iu Lewiston, "had
a fluTig me heels over head into our muck
bid, 1 couldn’t ’u felt so mean, but I braced
up and I says T reckon I know where your
mother is. She said she'd wait for me at
Oswald A Armstrong’s, on Lisbon street,
and I think I'd better not atop for any sup
per before I just drive down and get her.’
Well, I drove down to Lewiston and found
her. She was 'a sittin' there, kind of mad,
long about 6:30 o'clock, sho didn't say
nothin’ worth mentionin’ to yon. Wo both
eat pretty hearty when we reached home.
The next time I take her witli me I guess
I'll tie a string around my finger,"
Cotm« at ita tut
sntburtxNt tk*
«4 two lustwsta, at a rota sol tictilliis
Ue aaps^U H.SM.000. Tk* dtvrogrtttlusa f»r
tkis pupa* karts* bsroata siallakU us tkc
MESMERISM EXT it AO it DIN ARY,
Marvclottl Phenomena of Hypnotism Vouch
ed for hjr a French Physician.
A remarkable illustration of the marvel
ous phenomena of hypnotism is given in
full in the following hitherto nnraported
case of repeated stigmatization by auto
suggestion during induced sleep, as given
by Dr. Mabulc, the medical director-in-
chisf of the Asylum Lctond, near La Roche,
France:
“On August 2th last, at my visit, about
0:15 o’clock in the morning, in the presence
of Dr. Rnmadier, associate physician of the
Lefoud Asylum, anil M. Cusuvelot, interne
of the service. I plunged V. (one of the pa
tient*) into the somnambulistic state, and
wishing to combat the insomnia with which
he had lately been suffering, I said to him:
-This evening near 8 o'clock yon will say to
Ernest, the guardian of yonr word, “Put
me to bed, I am in need of sleep.” You
will go to bed, and precisely at 8 o’clock
you will go to sleep, and you will sleep
until 5 o'clock in the morning. Daring
yonr sleep you will hear nothing, see noth
ing and feel nothing. Do yon understand?"
V. answered in the affirmative. That even
ing at 7:57 o’clock, while walking in thr
courtyard and conversing with other pa
tients’ he stopped suddenly, his eyes be
came fixed, and several slight (Spasmodic
contractions passed over his fsco. He
passed into the hypnotic -or, rather, that
intermiarv condition described by M. Du-
montpollier, and going to the guardian of
tbe ward, he repeated the exact words
dictated by me iu the morning. He was
pnt to bed, and precisely at 8 o'clock he fell
into a deep slumber.
“From this moment it was impossible for
me to awakeu him, because be could
netber feel, sue nor hear anything. Pres
sure npon tbc hysterogenic zones had no
effect, bat in a short tune the patient him
self
"Tbst Miss Jones is s nice lookins |Lrl, Isn’t
•1m**
-to, rod shs'd be tbe bells of tbs Imn if It
wsso't for thins-”
-Wkst's thetV
"She bee catarrh so bad It la unpleasant I
aaarher. aha baa triad n dosen thing* and
la* kalpa bar. I an sorry, for I Ilka her. but that
do—a t stake It any leaa dlsasmabla fur one 1
Sow if she had seed Dr. Ka*r’e Catarrh Bamtcty.
th-r* would bare been aoiktas of the kind said, fur
It will can catarrh every tin*.
dicr and Ckauvelet watched through tbe
night witli mo and witnessed this remark
able exhibition.”
It would bo easy to relate Rovorfd other
instances almost as remarkable as those
given above of the phenomena of hypno'
tism, each and every one of which is au
thenticated by the numes of tbe ablest ond
best known physicians of France, whose
experiments hare been conducted in Buch
n manner as to leave no room to doubt of
ibo reality of the phenomena or the authen
ticity of tho details. Enough has been
shown to illustrate the general character of
tlie results attained, and to show, ns stated
in tho outset, that the human brain under
certain conditions, not us yet understood,
is capable of exercising an influence upon
the matter composing the body not pos
sessed by it in its normal state.
LONG OR SHORT SERMONS.
Blinll they Bliort mol Crisp, or Long and
Dull.
Boston Beimld.
It seems ns though a brighter era were
dawning for the study of American history,
since Mr. John Fiska has taken to lectur
ing on it. For long, it has justly been con
sidered the dullest and driest reading iu
the world, but Mr.Fiskc is fast showing lii*
fellow-countrymen that it can be made in
teresting ns a novel. Tho way he contrives
to make American history so attractive lies
in bis power of showing, in every germ-
seed of the colonial days, the whole future
tree that grew from it, performing, before
his very andienoe, the famous Indian juggler
trick of planting a seed in the earth, and
then seemingly making it sprout, leaf, flow
er, fruit, before their vety eyes. More than
one potent cause of later prowess and en
durance of the revolutionary sires lias he
shown lyidg latent in simple custom of
life, overlooked by sneli writers as Ban
croft, Hildreth and Higginson. But the
broadest of men have their limitations, and
so perhaps, it is not to be wondered at
thut even his phitosphic eye has failed to
detect tbe enormons influence exerted on
tho heroic epoch of American history by the
extreme length and amazing intricacy of
the sermons tho forefathers nerved them-
selves up to listen to every Sunday, os well
as to trace home the degeneracy that has
come npon these later days to the deplora
ble public iusistancc on brisk, niry little
pulpit sparks of twenty minutes. The
forefathers sat down before n sermon as be
fore a fortress. They meant to take it,
moats, wall, bastions, towers. The atmos
phere of the church was just ns cold as
though they were outside in the trenches.
The firstly, secondly, thirdly, and so on to
the twentieth, carried, they were still ns
determined ns ever to close in the parallels,
till they bad made the seventieth surren
der. What were Cornwallis and Yorktown
to a race of men who, fifty-two Sundays in
every year, h id stormed overy position of
a Jonathan Edwards, and planted the flag
of victory on it. They simply unbent their
minds over Yorktown. No doubt these
men got a certain drill in the revolutionary
army. Baron Steulien had introduced tb’e
Prussian system of tactics, and had acquir
ed no end of credit for it. But what do
anch pbilosophio minds aa Mr. Fiske's exist
for, but to probe down bencuth the sur
face and show how Dlft* are the claims of
nny for^gjj adventurer like Baron Steuben,
when placed alongside those of snch stub
born drill-master* os were scores of tbe ear
ly CalvioUUa divines? A sermon that does
not callout grim determination, ss well
as effusive piety, will breed none but emas
culate saints. How can a man that wea
ries and faints in twenty minutes— hardly
time enough to dig the ditch and throw up
the first earth-works of a strong theologi
cal position—ever expect to carry a real
material fortification? Far too many, not
too few, people go to cbnrcb for the church's
good. Large numbers of them ought to
be discriminately thiunod out, just as weak
kneed,undersized and consnmptive recruits
are rejected in the army. Only those who
can stand tho test of an hour's or an hour
and a quarter's discourse should lie retained.
Or, if theso others most go somewhere,
why not have special twenty minutes sanc
tuaries for them, publicly set apart, a* for
the invalid corps, while the able-minded
recruits are marched into churches where
it is fully understood they will be put
through s drill calculated to make soldiers
of tbe Lord out of them. If tho revived
study of American history shall only em
phasize the importance of snch a movement,
it will do a world of good.
. A PREHISTORIC HOME.
Discovery of the Supposed Oldest Amerl-
(utu Habitation,
Santa Fo New Mecican,
Mnj. Powell, chief the geological survey,
has discovered in New Mexico, |nenr Cali
fornia mountain, what lie pronounces to be
the oldest human knbitntion upon tlio
American continent. Tho nmuntaina in
this vicinity are covered with huge beds of
lava, in which tbe prehistoric man ainl his
comrades cave excavated Rqunro rooms,
which were lined with n species of plaster
inndo from tho hint, ami in these rooms
were fouud various evidences of quite nn
advanced civilization, among them n spec’cs
of cloth mado of woven lnur and a lnrgo
number of pieces of pottery. In the sides
of the rooms cupboards and shelves were
excavated. In one room, sticking ont of
the bare face of the wall, was n smnll
branch of a tree. When this waspulledout
it was found that there was a hollow space
behind the wall. Col. James H. Stevenson,
Major Powell’s assistant, broke this with a
pick and found a little concealed niche, iu
which was a small curved figure, resem
bling a man, done up in a closely-woven fab
ric, which, with tho touoh of the hand,
turned to dust. It was blnck and crisp,
like the luuuuuy cloths of Egypt. In all,
some sixty groups of these lava .villages
were found, there bciug about twenty
bouses in each gronp. The evidences of
civilization were similar to, hut removed by
their crudity uml evident want of skill a
good ileal from tho articles found iu tbe
cliff bouses, which have been so fully writ
ten up in the reports of tlie geological sur
vey. Scientists await with a great deal of
interest Major Powell's report of these re
cent very important discoveries.
Excitement tn Tex*..
Orest excitement ties been caused In the vicintj
of 1‘srls, Tes., by the remsrksble recovery of Mr. *i.
K. Corley, who was so helpless be could not turn in
bod or raise his besd; tverybody sstil be «u dying
of consumption. A trial bottlo of Dr. King's New
Discovery was root him. Finding relief, he bouelit
s targe bottle and s box of Dr. King's New Life
PiUs; by tho time he tout taken two boxee of the
pllle and two bottle* of the Dtaeovery, he was well
end bed gained in flesh thirty-elx pounde.
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June 21, 1885. Brunswick, (ja.
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he had previously submitted at my hands.
He pretrod his eyes with his fingers as I
had done to produce lethargy; opened tire
lids at in inducing catalepsy; rubbed the
top of hie bead, aa though trying to indneo
hypnotism.
"He then commenced the following col
loquy, imitating my toicein the questions,
anil answering in his own voice: ‘Do you
hear me?' ‘Yea, sir.' *Oive me your arm.'
‘Yes, sir.’ ■Now, V., a quarter of an hour
after you awake there wtU be a V on your
arm at the place where 1 now mark it (he
marked the imaginary V on his forearm)
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FORGOT TUB OLI) LADY.
The Farmer’s shopping Tour that Resulted
L'nptvnnautly,
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Uncle B„ from one of the towns just out
of Lewistoo, is a very prosperous farmer.
He bss a snug bank account, s pleasant
home, and s nice wife. He is well along to
the shady side of 6U, but his face is round
sud so kindly that it belies his years, white
hi* wife’s cheeks are as roeyas Winter Bald
wins. They are a finely preserved couple,
anil Lewiston traders like to meet them
oc out the counter.
Uucle D usually drives in nl this i cason
of the year alone. Sometimes in summer
his amiable lady comes with him, but usu
ally at this season sbe is putt, og down the
pork and piling up the cheese. Tuesday of
this week, however, it was decided that she
should make the trip. They arrived at 2
self commenced spontaneously to go o'clock iu tbe afternoon at one of the
through )he series of experiments to which Lisbon street dry g ods stores, and.
leaving her, he drove off on a little busii
He went to the bank and talked with the
cashier. He drove up Ho the blacksmith's
shop to get ths shoe* sharpened on the old
mare, lie sold some butter, bought a coal
hod at tbe hirdware store, and put in a bag
of cottonseed at the grain store. It puzzled
him whether he had better market kayxnnw
or wait tiU spring, sud ba was thinking of it
when ha turned his mare's nose over Main
street bridge and chirruped a “gid-dap" to
her along the homeward road.
He unhitched, having driven right into
the born, and having fed and bedded Oils
bone, went into the house. He came to
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