Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 August 1897 — Page 3

THE DAILY BAIISTNEK TIMES, GBERKCASTLE, INDIANA.

SERMON.

'NARROW ESCAPES" LAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. from the Following: Text. Job xlx, 20: —“I Am Esoaped With the Skin of My Teeth”—The Text an It May Be Applied to Our I-ivea io ThU Age of I* rogresa.

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come to your present state, I know not. { wreck, and found that it was a capThere are two gates to your nature: . sized vessel, and that three men had the gate of the head, and the gate of ; been digging their way out through the the heart. The gate of your head is bottom of the ship. When the vessel locked with bolts and bars that an capsized they had no means of escape, archangel could not break, but the ' l 'be captain took his penknife and dug gate of your heart swings easily on its awa y through the planks until his hinges. If I assaulted your body with knlfe brt,kp - Th( ' n an old nal1 was weapons you would meet me with found - wt, b which they attempted to weapons, and it would be sword-stroke scra P e ,heir wa >’ “P out of the dark '

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NAVAL COMMAND3R AT HONOLULU.

WAS KING FOR THREE MONTHS

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and bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a fool of a wife, he wished ho was dead; and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone and his bones were ^ dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cried out, “I am escaped with the ■kin of my teeth.” There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome and Schultens, and Doctors Good and Poole and Barnes have ali tried their forceps on Job’s teeth. You deny my interpretation, and say, ‘‘What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?” He knew everything about it. Dental surgery Is almost as old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found to-day with gold filling in their teeth. Ovid, and Horace, and Solomon, and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints, Job, I think, lias added an exasperating toothache, and putting bis hand against the inflamed face, he says, "I am escaped with the ■kin of my teeth.” A very narrow escape, you say, for Job’s body and soul; but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel; but, as Job finally escaped. so have they. Thank God! thank C-od! Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are “saved as by fire.” A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shoved off The flames advance; you can endure the heat no longer .n your face. Y'ou slide down on the side of the vessel, and hold on with your fingers, until the forked tongue of the fire begins to liek the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the life-boats comes hack, atul the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you—you drop into It—you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, but after all get off—"saved as by fire.” But I like the figure of Job a little better than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out; and I want to show you if God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souls, and are saved as "with the skin of their teeth.” It is as easy for some people to look to the Cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say, ‘‘Grandon joined the church yesterday.” Your business comrades say, “That is just what might have been expected; he always was of that turn of mind.” In youth, 'his person whom I describe was always good. He never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At seven, be could sit an hour In church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor the left, hut straight Into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things nor lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here Is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery In an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house-roof to see if he could balance himself. There was no horse that he dared not ride—no tree he could not climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicaments; his manhood was reckless; his mid-life very wayward. But now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say, “Arkwright joined the church yesterday.” Your friends say, “It is not possible! You must be joking," You ■ay, “No, I tell you the truth. He joined the church.” Then tljoy reply, “There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Christian!" In other words, we will admit that it la more difficult for some men to accept the Gospel than for others. I may be preaching to some who have cut loose from churches, and Bibles, and Sundays, and who have no Intention of becoming Christians themselves, and yet you may find yourself escaping, before you leave this house, as “with the skin of your teeth.” I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Gape May or Long Branch, and drop their nets, and after awhile come ashore, pulling in the nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of a net. But we expect no such excursion to-day. The water Is full of fish, the wind Is in the right direction, the Gospel net is strong. O thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us how to cast the net on the right side of the ship. Some of you, in coming to God, will have to run against skeptical notions. It is useless for people to say sharp and rutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of temptation, or trial, or betrayal, you have

for sword-stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood; but if 1 come and knock at the door of your house, you open it, and give me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you now with an argument, you would answer me with an argument; if with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm; blow for blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come and knock at the door of your heart, you open it and say, "Come in, my brother, and tell me all you know

about Christ and heaven.”

ness, each one working lyitll his hand was well-nigh paralyzed, and he sank back faint and sick. After long and ! tedious work, the light broke through the bottom of the ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help came. They were taken on board the vessel and ! saved. Did ever men come so near a watery grave without dropping into it? 1 How narrowly they escaped—escaped l only “with the skin of their teeth.” I There are men who have been capsized ( of evil passions, and capsized midI ocean, and they are a thousand miles away from any shore of help. They

Listen to two or three questions: have for Years been trying to dig their

way out. They have been digging away, and digging away, but they can never be delivered unless now they will hoist some signal of distress. However i weak and feeble it may be, Christ will see it. and bear down upon the helpless craft, and take them on board; and I it will be known on earth and in heaven how narrowly they escaped, “escaped as with the skin of their teeth.” There are others who in attempting to come to God, must run between a great many business perplexities. If a man go over to business at ten o’clock in the morning, and come away at three o’clock in the afternoon, lie has some time for religion; but how shall you find time for religious contemplation when you are driven from sunrise to sunset, and have been for five years going behind in business, and are frequently dunned by creditors whom you cannot pay, and when from Monday morning until Saturday night, you are dodging bills that you cannot meet? You walk day by day in uncertainties that have kept your brain on fire for

of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my | he .P a!it ,hrpp Y ears - Son >« w * th lMa „.,,i i„„i, business troubles than you have gone

Are you as happy as you used to be when you believed in the truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian, and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of the Gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life and die the same peaceful death? I hold in my hand a letter, sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says: "I am old enough to know that the joys and j leasures of life are evanescent, and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable In old age to believe in something relative to the future, and to have faith in some system that proposes to save. I am free to confess that 1 would be happier if 1 could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom l know. 1 am not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is

one

immortality, and look upon the death bed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done?” Ah! scepticism is a dark and doleful land. Let me say that tnis Bible is either true or false. If it be false, we are as well off as you; if it be true, then which of

us Is safer?

Let me also ask whether your trouble ] has not been that you confounded i Christianity with the inconsistent j character of some who profess It? Y'ou ! are a lawyer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that | anything against the law? Y'ou are a | doctor. There are unskilled and eon- ' ' temptlble men in your profession. Is ; that anything against medicine? You 1 are a merchant. There are thieves and j defrauders in your business. Is that anything against merchandise? Behold, then, tlie unfairness of charging upon Christianity the wicked ness of its disciples. We admit some of the charges against those who profess religion. Some of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have been carried on by members of the church. There are men standing in the front rank in the churches who would not be trusted for five dollars without good collateral security. They leave their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their Ups, go out, and take up their sins where they left off. To serve the devil is their regular work; to serve God a sort of playspell. With a Sunday sponge they expect to wipe off from their business slate all the past week's inconsistencies. You have no more right to take such a man's life as a specimen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It is time that we draw a line between religion and the frailties of those who

profess it.

Do you not feel that the Bible, take it all in all, is about the best book that the world lias ever seen? Do you know any book that has as much in it? Do you not think, upon the whole, that its influence has been beneficent? I come to you with both hamjs extended towards you. In one hand I have the Bible, and in the other hand I have nothing. This Bible in one hand I will surrender forever just as soon as in my other hand you can put a book that is betur. 1 invite you back into the good oldfashioned religion of your fathers—to the God whom they worshipped, to the Bible they read, to the promises on which they leaned, to the cross on which they hung their eternal expectations. Y'ou have not been happy a day since you fwung off; you will not be happy a minute until you swing

back.

******** If, with all the influences favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder is it when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue, and pulls a man down with hands of destruction? If, under such circumstances, he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side, and bend, and twist, and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit falls under the knee of the victor—escaped at last as “with the skifi of his teeth." The ship Emma, bound from Gottenburg to Harwich, was sailing on, when the man on the look-out saw something that he pronounced a vessel bottom up. There was something on it that looked like a sea-gull, but was afterward found to be a waving handkerchief. In the small boat the crew pushed out to the

Tli© Lark of a S**u i aptain

Near the Carolina*.

Capt. Curtis, of the wheat ship Euryulce was in the city today, having returned with his vessel to the West Seattle elevator. He has had an experience within the past twelve months that might make many a skipper envious, having ruled as king a group of Islands in the South Pacific ocean. Capt. Curtis was the first officer of the ship Flora E. Stafford, which was lost at soa

about a year ago.

“When the Stafford was given up,” said Capt. Curtis this morning, "we lowered the boats and left her at sea. I had six men with me in one boat, and the captain went in another boat. My boat headed for the Caroline Islands, and after fifteen days we came in sight of land. We were royally welcomed by the natives, who could not do enough to honor us. Ikirkikee, king of the Carol! as, insisted that he should abdicate his throne and make me his successor. 1 did not assume the royal garments and robes, for etiquette down there requires none of them, but 1 took tlie sceptre and ruled over those Islands for three months. I wooed and won • he ex-king’s daughter, and I also gave out orders against cannibalism, for I thought some of the Stafford's crew might drift ashore. My orders were strictly obeyed, for 1 was an absolute monarch. They allowed me little time to sleep. Every night 1 was compelDd to start the hoolah-hoolah dances with tlie women, and every day and night

THE SULTAN’S SUBJECTS. Wrm-ketl ftitraoKlIintry Variety

A MARVEL OK SURGERY.

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lt©ar A<lmlr»l UeurUaley of the l nite<l StutcH Navy Mav See Some Lively Timet* In the Sandwich iMlamU — Hit

Ileeord a* a Sailor. BAR Admiral lister A. Beardslee, who will safeguard the interests of the United States in Hawaii during the annexation crisis, is one of the most interesting characters in the United States navy. He is now (U years old, and is a

thorough sailor. He has been In the navy ever since 1850, when he was appointed acting midshipman. In 1855 he was attached to the sloop Plymouth for service in the East Indies, and in that year he participated in some of tie tions and in at least one battle h the Chinese army at Shanghai. In he was made passed midshipman a. ; detailed for service on the Merrimac. In 1863 he was attached to the Nantucket, and he participated in the attack on the ironclad licet in Charleston Harbor on April 7, 1863. After the war Lieutenant Beardslee, for that was now

his title, commanded-the gunboat Aroo- _ stook. Subsequently he was transferred some delegations of natives from otter to the command of the steamer Saginaw Islands in the group would call upon of the Pacific squadron, and later to i me to arbitrate in some murder case, the command of the steam sloop Lacka- | These fellows were always killing each wanna of the same station. In 1869 other. I would get into their canoes he was commissioned a commander. He and go with them. I would hear their

crazy. The clerk has heard a noise in the back counting-room, and gone in and found the chief man of the firm a raving manaic; or the wife has heard the bang of a pistol in the back parlor, and gone in, stumbling over the dead body of her husband- a suicide. There are men pursued, harraased, trodden down, and scalped of business perplexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now God will not be hard on you. He knows what obstacles are in the way of your being a Christian, and your first effort in the right direction he will crown with success. Do not let Satan, with cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and counters, and stocks of unsalable goods, block up your way to heaven. Gather up all your energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins. Take an agonizing look into the face of God, and then say, "Hero goes one grand effort for life eternal." and then bound away for heaven, escaping "as with the skin of your teeth ’’ This world Is a poor portion for your soul, oh, business man! An Eastern king had graven on his tomb two fingers, represented as sounding on each other with a snap, and under them the motto, “All is not worth that.” Apicius Coelius hanged himself because his steward informed him that he had only eighty thousand pounds sterling left. All of this world’s riches make but a small inheritance for a soul. Robespierre attempted to win the applause of the world; but when he was dying, a woman came rushing through tlie crowd, crying to him, "Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell, covered with the curses of every mother in France!” Many who have expected the plaudits of the world have died under its Anathema Maranatha. Oh, find your peace in God. Make one strong pull for heaven. No halfway work will do it. There sometimes comes a time on shipboard when everything must be sacrificed to save the passengers. The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing. The captain put,s the trumpet to his lip and shouts, "Cut away the mast." Some of you have been tossed anil driven, ami you have, in ycur efforts to keep the world well night lost your soul. Until you have decided this matter, let everything else go. Overboard with all those other anxieties and burdens. You will have to drop the sails of your pride, and cut away the mast. With one earnest cry for help, put your cause into the hand of him who helped Paul out of the breakers of Melita, and who, above the shrill blast of the wrathiest tempest that ever blackened the sky or shook the ocean, can hear the faintest Imploration for mercy. I shall close this sermon feeling that some of you, who have considered your case as hopeless, will take heart again, and that with a blood-red earnestness, such as you have never experienced before, you will start for the good land of the Gospel—at last to look hack, saying, “What a great risk I ran! Almost lost, but saved! Just got through, and no more! Escaped by the skin of my teeth.”

I*ractlrul ClirtutlmiltT. Rev. J. H. Duncan of Wathena, Kan., dismissed his congregation Sunday,and leading them to a wheat field, directed and worked with them in stacking Farmer Uappleye's wheat. When inn minister, who had already commenced the services, noticed a storm approaching, he slowly closed his open Biblo and said, "Brethren, I believe in worshiping God, hut a heavy rain is coming up and Neighbor Uappleye’e wheat is in danger we will close the sermon and help him stack it.”

served a year in the hydrographic office in Washington. Since that time he has steadily risen in the service. Now he occupies one of the foremost places in the navy. Admiral Beardslee is a : most, efficient officer, and is brave, gentle, and popular. He has been a rear admiral since June 27, 1895.

testimony and decide who was quilty. My decision was final and the guilty

man would he shot.

"After remaining on the island three months I took passage on the first steamer that passed. I was landed at Manila in the Philippines, and reached there in time to see the execution of

REAR ADMIRAL BEARDSLEE.

Tho Sewing Mnrlline.

How many women, who day after day, keep up the rocking motion of the sewing machine treadle ever stop to think what this invention means, not only to them, but to tlie whole world? And do they know that ninetyper cent Of all the machines made In the world are the product of this great country of ours? Sewing nu chinos have revolutionized many branches of business, especially is this tlie ease in all kinds of leather work from tlie heaviest harness to the lightest gloves. A really first-class machine ready for

four insurgents. They were learned native doctors. They were led out to a public park and shot by half a regiment of soldiers. They fell to the earth pierced by a score of bullets. There was lighting on the island all the time. No one was allowed on the streets after 9 o’clock at night. The captain of the | Stafford had landed safely at Manila j

eight days after tho wreck.”

After leaving Manila Capt. Curtis j succeeded in reaching I long Kong. , where he was at once placed in command of the Eurydlce. He did not tell his experience until reaching the sound.

market costs about twenty dollars, j The Eurydlce broke all records, coming

From tliis figure the price drops to about fourteen, with possibly twelve, for the most inferior grades of what are considered tolerable machines. Hundreds of thousands of persons make their entire living by means of the sewing machine, and probably millions are gainers by its use. During a period of over thirty years the value of tlie exports of sewing machines was something like seventy millions of dollars. In 1896 they were considerably over three millions. Three hundred and fifty thousand pairs of shoes were sewed by machinery prior to 1877, and this product has multiplied almost

belief since that date.

from Hong Kong Seattle Times.

in nineteen days.

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Whirl* tli** Sultau Hulc*.

The Sultan of Turkey may be a verj inefficient ruler, but when we blami him for not carrying out the promised reforms without hitch or delay we do not treat him with that fair play of which we are so proud as a nation. Owing to the extraordinary variety of races and creeds over which he rules, his difficulties are almost insurmountable, and it is doubtful whether he or any one else will ever smesed in making Turkey a land of peace and harmony. There are no fewer than seven main divisions of races in the European and Asian provinces. In Europe both the Greeks and Albanians are as numerous as the Ottoman Turks, each contingent numbering about 1,300.000, according to the best authorities, Constantinople itself has just as diversified a mixture as the kindom generally, and only 385.000 of its 875.000 inhabitants are Mussulmans, the Greeks numbering 153,000. But in Asia there are twice as many Ottomans as all other ness put together. The Turks proper consist of Ottomans, Yurouks and Turkomans. The names have something terrible in their very sound to us, but travelers unite In describing the Ottomans ss honorabe and humane men, although they can fight when it comes to blows. The Turkomans live a pastoral life, while the Y'urouks are nomadic and therefore not easily subjeted to law. Although the Greeks and tho Albanians are regarded as belonging to the same Graeco-Latin save, the latter are for the most part Mussulmans. Some of the Albanians are Roman Catholi cs and o’hers are of the Greek church, and the two slightly divergent sects hate each other. But, whatever the form of faith, they prefer robbery as a means of livelihood to any other industry. At the same time they are of a fine physical type and make splendid soldiers; hut tney treat, their women like oxen, and, although they dress in rich clothes of the fashion of the Scottish Highlands, they have a horror of soap. In fact. It Is said that they put on their clothes once for all and never take them off. The Greeks have not penetrated very far inland, but have icittered themselves along the coast of laith European and Aslastic Turkey, where they arc always on the lookout to put money in their purse. Together with tlie Jews and the Armenians, they do nearly all the trading and banking of the country, and make a very good thing out of it. Armenians and their exterminators, the Kurds, arc both sprung from a Persian stock. The Kurds live In the mountains, and are not precisely the kind of people one would care to set about reforming. Some say there are an even million of them: others say there are over two millions. They keep the sultan in perpetual hot water, being very had Moslems. But they are very enterprising. chiefly in slaying Armenians anil stealing their neighbors’ goods. ; When not thus engaged they rear catI tie, sheep and goats: and they differ in no way from their anc -stors as dei scribed by Xenophon. Armenia was I a portion of western Asia, between the Caspian sea and Asia Minor, but it has suffered the fate of Poland, and the Armenians are now almost as scattered as the Jews. They number about two and a half millions, and are intelligent people with a particular talent for trade and banking. The Se mitic race has many families in Turkey. There are the Jews who, persecuted everywhere, took refuge in Turkey; tlie Greek church Maronites, wito are the deadly foes of their neighbors, the Druses; the Druses, of tlie .uohani medan faith, brave and temperate men who take neither wine nor tobacco and who detest the Maronites; the Chaldeans, who are Christians of a sort; the Arabs, of whom there are four or five millions, and who, though holding the same religious view as the sultan arc his inveterate enemies, and the Syrians. Then there is the fine race of Circassians, who are differentiated from most of the other inhabitants by the fact that they work for a living:

‘.lie Lazes and the Gypsies.

POWER OF MIND OVER MATTER WONDERFULLY ILLUSTRATED.

Sells Coal mid Wood. The death of tier Husband six years ago left Mrs. Nellie Russell Kimball the owner of a large coal and wood yard at Dunkirk, Pa. The young widow's health was low, but she bravely took up the heavy business and ever since has managed it with rare sue-

The Original of •l4 > aul© Duan*. The stone placed in Irongray shurchyard, Scotland, above the tomb of Helen Walker, the girl who served Sir Walter Scott as original for Jeanie Deans, is being chipped to pieces by relic-hunters. It was this girl who saved her sister's life by an appeal to the Duke of Argyle, and furnished Scott with a heroine for "The Heart of Midlothian."

True Heroism. A Welisville, N. Y., woman, carrying a baby in her arms, stepped upon tha railroad track in front of an approaching train to rescue her pet Jog. Sha and the child will die, but the pampered pride of the household escaped without the loss of a single curl in his lovely caudal appendage. The .lays of heroic deeds arc not yet passed.

tlrttlliK Down to "Have you made any new discoveries today with reference to that case we’re working on?” inquired one detective. "Not yet,” replied the other. I haven't had time to read the newspapers.”—Washington Star.

HU StinnlMP. She—Why Is It. I wonder, that little men so often marry large women?” He—I don’t know, unless it is that the little fellows are afraid to back out of the engagements.”—Cleveland Leader.

An F.ye to BtiMncm#.

A Maine paper tells of a farmer in that state who hired two boys to help him cut his hay. and when the job was finished gave each of them a cent for the work they had performed and then offered to harness his team and haul (he boys home for a cent apiece.

FOREIGN PEOPLE.

MRS. NELLIE RUSSELL KIMBALL, eess. In addition to a local trade she has the contract for supplying all the coal used by five dredges employed by tho government for cleaning the barber: this means supplying 3,000 tons. Mrs. Kimball is her own bookkeeper, weighs every ton of coal sent from the yards, employs and discharges her own men and personally watches the rare of ..er horses. Recetly she has added an eighty-acre farm to her cares. The young business woman has fair hair, bine eyes and a delightful manner.

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The statement is again made that tho j castle of Prince Hobenlohe at Povierj brad is being prepared for his retire1 ment from office in the autumn,which is now considered certain. A young Greek widow recently opened a small circulating library under the patronage of the queen. She is said to be the first Greek gentlewoman who has attempted to earn her own

living.

Lord Penrhyn, by way of a Jubilee gift, Is granting his North Wales agricultural tenantry an abatement of 15 per cent upon the current half year's rentals. Lord Penrhyn, it will he remembered was the man who stirred up Great Britain by shutting out 3,000 miners rather than recognize the Miners’ union. Lady Henry Somerset has been so long at the head and front of temperance work in England that it Is difficult to Imagine the British Women’s Temperance association without her. Her resignation, which is attributed to the refusal of the association to bo gov erued by her wishes In regard to the removal of the contagious diseases act In India, was most unexpected.

How a Young Woman the R©*& Yirtlm nt a Oea<ll> Malady, and How Sh«» Wat* <'ur**d —t-'amoiiH >|i«M*lalit*t’* Kxtmordinary Story of a Hy*t**ric. One of the most interesting illustrations of the power of mind over the body, says the New Y'ork World, w»s related by Dr. Spit/.ka, the well-known alienist, at one of the meetings of the American Neurological Association. Every one has read with scepticism of the apparent “miracles” wrought by sacred relics in curing the halt, the sick and the blind. Disciples of “faith cures” have sometimes produced results in their patients which have puzzled the most intelligent. Those cures, whenever they are real, are attributed by scientific men to the power of the mind

over the body.

Dr. Spitzka declined for professional reasons to repeat for publication the story which he told the Neurological Association; hut here are the

facts:

A young woman of good personal and family history had access to a medical library and became deeply interested in the clinical history of disease. She became like the man in Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat,” who, after reading a medical work, suffered in his own person every disease described, except housemaid’s kuee. Dr. Spitzka's young woman confined her imagined ailment to a single disease—abdominal tumor. She became thoroughly familiar with all the symptoms of this dreadful malady and promptly imagined herself the victim of it. Her sufi'erings were intense, and her friends became convinced that her worst fears were justified. The physicians in attendance, however, were decidedly sceptical. Her youth and the absence of certain proofs convinced them that the case

was one of hysteria.

After exhausting all the usual means the doctors determined to consent to the performance of a dangerous operation for the removal of the tumor. The girl herself was carefully prepared for the operation for several days. The room in her own residence in which it was to be performed was stripped of wall-paper, carpet, and prepared with hospital-like cleanli-

ness and bareness.

The surgeon with his assistants and the trained nurses came upon the scene. The girl was carried into the operatingroom, in which, contrary to the usual practice, all the surgeons' knives and paraphernalia were spread out in full view of the patient. The physicians and trained nurses stood around the jperatiug table upon which the girl lay. She was then carefully etherized. Three hours later, when she was allowed to recover consciousness, she was too weak to raise her hand. Sha found herself carefully stitched np with elaborate and cumbersome surgeons’ dressings, and she knew a deep incision had been made half the length of her body. She felt the irritation of the wound, and tlie fading day told her that she had been three or four hours under the influence of ether, perfectly unconscious. She was thankful to find herself alive, although she felt like the ghost of herself. In two weeks the result was all that the clever physicians had anticipated —she was completely cured. The specialist told her again and again how remarkable was her escape, and requested as a privilege that ho might describe in her presence to several young physicians the operation which had been performed, showing them, at tlie same time, how oomph tily

the wound had healed.

Tlie young woman consented to go to a private hospital for that purpose, accompanied by a member of her family. and with a veil thrown over her face she again took her place on the operating table in a private clinic, to enable the surgeon to illustrate to his class the difficult operation which had been performed with such happy re-

sults.

This time there was, of course, no ether and tlie patient heard described all that she had undergone. Tho lecture being finished she was escorted from the clinic by the grateful physician, who speedily returned to his admiring class and said: ‘Oentlemen, this cure was effected exactly as l have described to yon. Thera is only one detail that I have omitted. No operation whatever was performed. While the patient was unconscious an incision w as made through the outer muscle, barely skin deep, and tlie wound then carefully stitched up ns though the body hud been indeedopeuo‘1. The irritation from this slight scratch, the abstinence from food, the effects of ether and the imagination did the rest. The youug woman really felt the pains of the disease which she dreaded. If the fictitious operation had been conducted with less painstaking care slia Would not have been deceived and might have easily drifted into a state ot hopeless invalidism. As it is, she is absolutely cured.”

Tim Sea Cow* Were IIunary. Mr. H. H. Thorpe regaled the Daycouiau office force yesterday afternoon with an account of the antics of six large manatees, or sea cows, which swam up to within twenty feet of tho end of his dock at Silver Beach last week, and grazed on a grass plat in about two feet of water. After feeding for about an hour they leisurely swam up the river.—Florida Daytouian. Color of Winning liacrhorse*. Winning racehorses are generally bays, chestnuts or browns, and for every 100 hays among them there are fifty chestnuts and thirty browns. There is no record of an important ra* being won by a piebald