Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — Page 7

Origin of Spiritualism.

Bpirita&lkm in America was born in 1847, in Hyderville, Wayne Comity, N. Y., where ene night there was a rapping at the door of Michael Weekman, and a second rapping at the door, and a third rapping at the door, and every time the door was opened there was no one there. Proof positive that they were invisible knuckles that rapped at the door. In that same house there was a man who felt a cold hand pass over his forehead, and there was no arm attached to the hand. Proof positive it was spiritualistic influence. After awhile, Mr. Fox, with his family, moved into that house, and they had bangings at the door every night. One night Mr. Fox cried out: “Are you a Bpirit?” Two raps, answer in the affirmative. “Are you an injured spirit?” Two raps, answered in the affirmative. Then they knew right away that it was the spirit of a peddler who had been murdered in that house years before, and who had been robbed of SSOO. Whether the spirit of the peddler eame back to collect his SSOO or his bones Ido not know. But from that time on there was a constant excitement around the premises, and the excitement spread all over the land, and Judge Edmunds had his head turned by the excitement, and he says that he saw a bell start from the top of a shelf in the closet and heard it ring over the heads of the people who were in the closet, then swing to the back parlor and ring over the heads of the people in the back parlor, then swing to the front parlor and ring over the heads of the people in the front parlor, and then drop on the floor. A young man was said to have been lifted from the earth and carried through the air by an invisible power, and giving an account of it he says he went so rapidly he could not count the posts of the fence; and he held in his hand a sawbuck and a square, and he says while he went they rattled together and made most delightful music. All these are matters of history. People said: “Well, now we have a new religion.” But in all "ages there have been necromancers —those who consulted the spirits of the departed—charmers who threw people into a mesmeric state; sorcerers who, by eating poisonous herbs, can see everything, hear everything, and. tell everything; astrologers who found out a new dispensation of the stars; experts in palmistry who can tell by the lines in the palm of your hand your origin, your history, and your destiny. From the cavern on Mount Parnassus, it is said, there came up an air, an atmosphere, that intoxicated the sheep and the goats -that came near by, and under its influence the shepherds were lifted into exaltation, so that they could foretell future events and consult with familiar spirits. Long before the time of Christ the Brahmins had all the table-rocking and the table-quaking. You want to know what God thinks of all these things. He says in one place: “I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers.” He says in another place: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live and lest you should make too wide a margin between spiritualism and witchcraft, He groups them together and says: “There shall not be ionnd among you a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lordand then the still more remarkable passage which says: “The soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off’ from anrfng his people,” and a score of passages showing that God never speaks of these in any other way than with livid thunders of indignation. After all this, be a spiritualist if you dare.— Dr. Talmage, in Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine.

Wonders of Plant Life.

Lord Lindsay states that in tlie course of his wanderings amid the pyramids of Egypt, he stumbled on a mummy, proved by its hieroglyphics to be at least 2,000 years old. In examining the mummy after it was Unwrapped, he found in one of its closed hands a tuberous root. He took it from the mummy’s hand, planted it in a sunny soil, allowed the rains and dews of heaven to descend upon it, and in the course of a few weeks, to his astonishment and joy the root burst forth, and bloomed into a beauteous dahlia. The roots of many plants retain their vitality under intense temperature. Those of the vitex agnus castrus will not be affected though immersed in boiling water, and boiling water may be applied to many others without their sustaining injury. Certain plants also may by their roots absorb some poisons which would be destructive to others. The longevity of the spores of ferns is well known, gome have grown when taken from herbarium specimens after having been gathered many years. A recent writer, Mayer, says he has had them grow at twenty years; but he believes this is about the limit. It is now known that pollen has also a surprisingly long lease of life. A remarkable instance of continued vitality of seeds- has just come to light in Greece. In cleaning away the refuse from the ancient silver mines of Laurium, a lage number of seeds were found, unknown to modem science, but described in the writings of Pliny. The seeds took root, budded and blossomed, bearing beautiful yellow flowers after a burial of at least 1,600 years. Somewhere in the State of Maine a few years ago, a well was dug, the earth, which was thrown out from a great depth, being left on the surface of the ground. The followin'? spring, strange vegetable growths made their appearance, unknown in that part of the country. Who can tell for how many ages tlie c e seeds had slept in their deep, dark beds?

Mistook Her for a Dummy.

At the entrance to one of the nreminent dry-goods stores on Federal street, Allegheny, recently, a lady, remarkable for the wax-like appearance of her complexion, stood waiting for a car. A young man, accompanied by two ladies, passed in and came out in a few minutes. The lady was still standing like a statue in the same position. The young man said, “Now just look at this,” and raised his hand and struck the sup

posed figure a smart slap on the cheek. The statue turned a pair of flashing black eyes on him and wilted hkn with a look. He stammered incoherently: “I—l—thought you were a dummy,* and almost ran away, allowing his companions to follow as best they could.— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.

A Legend of the Narcissus.

There dwelt, in far Cathay, a man rich in gold, silver, and lands; he had two sons. The mother had long been sleeping ’neath the roses and lilies. At length the father fell sick, and his two sons gathered around his dying couch to receive his parting blessing. To the elde&t son he gave all his possessions, except a small, rocky piece of ground, containing a few acres, which he gave to his youngest son. After the last sad rites were paid to the departed father, the youngest son, crest-fallen and dejected, turned to his poor inheritance; but he found it so barren and unfruitful that he left.it and became a wanderer in the land. At length, weary and foot-sore, he came to a rippling brook, where with its crystal waters he quenched his thirst; and ’neath the friendly willow he laid himself down to rest. The fragrance of the flowers, and the soft murmur of the brook lulled him to sleep. During his rest a beautiful water-nymph came to him and said: “Take the bulbs of the flowers which grow so plentifully around you to your home, plant them in the rocks, tend them well and you shall have your reward. ” He awoke with a start, looked around for the nymph he had seen in his dream, but she was gone. He arose, laughed at his dream and started on his journey, but his dream so haunted him that he turned and went back, gathered the bulbs and laden with them returned to his home, planted and watered them well and screened them from the rays of the scorching noon-day sun. His companions gazed at him in amazement, and said among themselves: “Surely no good can come from these senseless roots.” But he, continued his care of them, and was at last rewarded for all his labor by seeing the flower-buds make their appearance. And as the Chinese New Year approached, what a year ago was but a bare and rocky knoll, now appeared to be a fairy table spread with snowy saucers and golden cups filled with creamy pollen. Now young and old came in throngs to buy the lovely flowers for their New Year’s festival. At the close of the day, in beholding his harvest, he felt amply rewarded for his trouble. In every Chinese dwelling, however humble, you find the narcissus growing in a dish of stones, and if they blossom before the dawn of their New Year, it is considered a good omen. Add to this day the narcissus, or Chinese lily, is their favorite flower.

Smoking as a Gentleman.

There is no one thing, perhaps, in which the difference between the wellbred man and the ill-bred man more appears than in the manner in which, the place where, and the time when they smoke. The well-bred man does not smoke, nor does he seem to smoke, to show off, whereas the ill-bred man very often smokes in a self-conscious manner that seems to say: “Look at me! see how skilfully my lips hold this cigar; how I can shift it from one side of my mouth to the other without touching it with my fingers, and how well I can articulate with it in my mouth; in short, look you what perfect control I have over my labial muscles, and, having seen, admire!” In short, there are many low-bred young men—very many—that appear to smoke only to display their—imagined—grace and skill, when, in fact, in smoking as they do, where they do, and when they do, they but publish their vulgarity. Such men are certainly not of the sort that Shakspeare accuses of having a “vaulting ambition.” As they smoke chiefly for show, a poor cigar answers their purpose as well as a good one; consequently, they usually buy of the kind that. are sold at the rate of two for a cent.

The well-bred man, on the contrary, the gentleman, the man that smokes only for the love of it, puts but as much of his cigar in his mouth as is necessary in order to draw it, keeps it in his mouth no longer than is necessary, and never fails to remove it when he talks, or passes any one toward whom he would be respectful, especially a lady. Further, our best-bred men never smoke in any street at an hour when it is much frequented, nor in any public place where smoking is likely to be offensive to others. —“ The Meritor” by Alfred Ayres.

The common tradition that the timber of old churches was frequently of chestnut seems to have been exploded by the researches of the French chemist, M. Payer, who procured a large number of pieces for examination, and pronounced that they were not chestnut, added to which chestnut trees, whatever their abundance in old times, are now extremely rare. We are told that if letters are drawn upon oak and chestnut planks, by means of pure sulphate of iron dissolved in distilled water, the characters appear at once fn black upon the oak and in deep violet upon the chestnut, while ammonia produces a short-lived red upon the chestnut, which is much paler and less distinct upon the oak. Another mode of examination is by making sections of the wood, which cannot well be mistaken, as chestnut timber possesses only concentric layers, while all French and American varieties of oak show the medullary rays crossing the woody fiber from the center across the circumference.

In Formosa there is not much sickness, but when a man is sick they string him up by the neck aud let him down again qu ckly; This generally kills or cures him, and if the former his death is celebrated by a general spree. At twenty-one a map, is provided with a wife, but until the age of forty he must not visit her openly. He may do so stealth ly, however, and if he doesn’t like her he can get a divorce in ten minutes. A man often marries four or five times a year. No children born before the mother has reached thirtyseven are in any case permited to live".

CLEVELAND’S CABINET.

Probable Effects of the Change on OfficeHolders—Views of an Old-Timer. [Correspondence Rochester Sunday Herald.] “Yes, the principal topic of conversation here at present is the probable action of the incoming administration.” The speaker was Mr. William M. Ashley, of 506 Maine avenue, a man whose large and intimate acquaintance with prominent public men here in Washington renders his opinion of uausual weight. “The all-important question among the clerks of the various departments is, Who is to go? In my opinion there will be very few changes among the old-time employes who have been here year in and year out through several administrations. The removals will occur among the heads of departments.” “The sense of mistrust which must necessarily pervade the departm?nts is, I suppose, detrimental to the proper transaction of business?” “Well, rather, 1 reckon. It unfits the clerks for business. Some get very blue, for they have purchased little homes which they must sacrifice.” ‘ Last summer it was reported that many were ill of malaria. How is it?” “More likely ill of a fear of change. I don’t think Washington is so very mularious. At the sftme time I admit that since residing here I have not always felt first-rate. At timeß I have been greatly troubled with sharp-shooting pains. One day my right arm and leg would torture me with pain, there would be great redness, heat and swelling of the parts, and perhaps the next day the left arm and leg would be similarly affected. Then again it would locate in some particular part of my body and produce a tenderness which would well-nigh drive me frantic. There would be weeks at a time that I would be afflicted with an Intermitting kind of pain, that would como on every afternoon and leave me comparatively free from suffering during the balance of the twenty-four hours.” “Of course you consulted the doctors regarding your difficulty?” "Consulted them? Well, I should say I did. Some told me I had neuralgia; others that I bad inflammatory rheumatism, for which there was no cure.” “But didn’t they try to relieve your miseries?” “Yes, they vomited and physicked me, blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything but froze me, but without avail.” •‘But how did you finally recover?” “I had a friend living in Michigan who had been afflicted in a similar way and bad been cured. He wrote me regarding bis recovery and advised me to try the remedy which cured him. I procured a bottle and commenced its use, taking a tablespoonful after each meal and at bed time. I had used it about a week when I noticed a decrease of the soreness of the joints and a general feeling of relief. I persevered in its use and finally got so I could move around without limping, when I told my friends that it was Warner’s Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on my feet” “And do you regard your cure as permanent?” “This was more than a year ago, the trouble has not returned, and I haven’t been so well in years as I am now.” “ Speaking of President-olect Cleveland, who, in your opinion, will oomprise his Cabinet?” “That is as difficult to determine as it is to say what office-holders will go. Many good men have been named for the positions— Bayard, Thurman, Bragg, McClellan, not to mention a lot of lesser lights. Every prominent politician has a slate made up which ho is backing to win; but, tlion, as is always the case, some one will get left."

When an Indian Bathes.

People often wonder why it is that a fleshy Indian is so seldom seen. A scientist has discovered that it is water and not food that makes people fat. Whether this holds good with the noble red man or not is hard to say, but if an Indian were to depend on the water he uses in washing to become fat it is safe to say that he would be the thinnest man under the sun. The only time that an Indian ever gets a bath is when he rides his pony*across a stream or gets tipped out of a boat.— Peck’s Sun.

A Valuable Medical Treatise.

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Mourning for the Dead.

There are few things in which men anfl women show themselves so irrational as in prolonged and consuming grief for the dead. It is not in human nature to be philosophic when the earth has closed over one we love, but to nourish agony of remembrance and sorrow is ’ nearly an abdication of reason itself. The God who orders our births orders likewise our deaths. All must die. To die is as common and as natural as to live. Being common, universal, certain, it cannot be an evil. Those who have gone before, however long their days, seem to have lived and Vanished as creatures of an hour, so that even over the death of the young we should not lament at the seeming untimelessness of their taking off. It is indiscreet, to assume that the death of the young is a peculiar calamity and hardship. How can we tell what they have escaped, or decide that they are not singularly fortunate? Who finds life such an unmixed blessing as to grieve long over the translation of those who are yet innocent and happy to serener spheres? It is vain and unavailing to grieve at what has happened and cannot be altered. It does no good to the dead and it injures the living. It is also mutiny against the Presiding Judge of us all. To honor the dead aright is to cherish fondly the memory of good dispositions and deeds, and make that memory a guide for our own spiritual attainments. This is better than marble slabs, glowing memorials, or devouring pangs of fruitless woe. The ancient world never clothed death with the terrors which came in with the church of the middle ages. Who grieves forever has no faith in a reunion. Such tears silently proclaim the fear of annihilation, the despair that forgets God.— Pittsburgh Telegraph- Chronicle.

Best Goods Are Put in Smallest Parcels.

The old proverb Is certainly true in the case of Dr. Pierce s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets,” which are little, sugar-wrapped parcels, scarcely larger than mustard seeds, containing as much ca hartio power as is done up m tho biggest most repulsive-look-ing pill. Unlike the big pills, however, they are mild and pleasant in their operation—do not produce griping pains, nor render the bowels costivo alter using. Crystaixiekd sugar is tbe “rook” that has turned many a man a-rye. —Marathon Independent.

Woman’s Face.

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The Best Butter Color.

The great unanimity with which dairymen Of high reputation havo adopted, in preference to anything else, the Improved Hutter Color, mado by Wells, HUhardton & Co., of Burlington, Vt., is remarkable. It shows that the claims of Imitative colors are baseless. Wise dairymen will use no other. By the will of nature, honey is the uni versal bee-quest. Horsfonl’s Acid Phosphate. SPECIFIC VIRTUES IN IJTSPEPBIA. Dr. A. Jenkins, Great Falls, N. H., says: “I can testify to Its seemingly almost specific virtues in cases of dyspepsia, nervousness, and morbid vigilance or wakefulness.” The parson at the wedding is the right man in the rite place. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Is highly praised by those who are obliged to stand all day in stores, and is a genuine blessing in every such case, as well as to the tired-out housekeeper who must bo on her feet all day. A button is one of those events that arealways coming off.

In Luck.

A few days ago John Coughlin, of 214 Sixth street, accidentally picked up a oopy of The Chicago Ledger. After reading a few of the Interesting stories contained therein, he concluded he would subscribe for the paper, and forthwith sent his name and dollar to the office of publication in Chicago. Yesterday, much to his surprise, the American Express Co. called at his house with a package Dearing his address, which contained an elegantly bound set of Dickens' Complete Works,fifteen volumes, and a note informing him that, he being a 25th subscriber to The Ledger, the books were the premium to which he was entitled. Mr. Coughlin considers his dollar well invested, and has great faith in The Ledger, which has given away a large amount of money in premiums during the past three months. Every twenty-fifth yearly subscriber receives a premium worth from five to one hundred dollars. The Ledger is a first-class story paper, and is fast becoming a Western favorite.— Sioux City (Iowa) Journal.

Abandoned Cases.

A comparatively large number of the cases which Drs. Starkey & Palen, of 1100 Girard street, Philadelphia, are so successfully treating with Compound Oxygen aro what are known as abandoned or “desperate” cases—many of them a class which no physician of any school would undertake to cure. They arc, la fact, such as have run the gauntlet of experiment within the regular schools of medicine and quackery without , until between diseases and drugs the patient is reduced to the saddest and most deplorable condition. No treatment can be subjected to a severer test Write for information in regard to its nature and action.

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I 100,000 ROYAL PRESENTS!!! I | A3XHP JS±., • I Xaong Loan at 4 Per Cent. I ■ f|THE publishers of the Chicago Pont and Courier desire to Reonre 100,900 more subscribers. For 50 cents we I H df; . I P? ,:11 ? ou our WP®! “ x months cm trial, and Immediately send you a numbered Receipt, which will en- H ■ title the holder to one of the following presents. All these presents will be given to these new 100,000 subscribers. ■ PARTIAL, VIST OP PRESENT* TO HE GIVEN AWAYi Gold Bracelets, filAenck; 10 Hllver Dinner- Services, 8100 each ■ 10 Silver TeaMet*,Boo each, pair* Ladles Roller HhntMi 800 pairs Boys’Roller (skates i an <F hundreds of other useful and valuable presents which we cannot enumerate here. All the above presents will be awarded In a fair and Impartial manner. Presents will be sent to snjCpart of the United States or Canada. Every person sending us 50 P ent * f<*» 6-months' trial subscription to our paper is also privileged to apply for a loan,-to be made out of advert!#. Ing profits, the amount borrowed being permitted to remain unpaid as long as the borrower remains a subscriber and keeps the interest paid. On the basis of 250,000 circulation (which will irrobably be doubled) the business and profits will approximate a# follows: Receipt#! 250, yearly subscribers, $250,000; 1.000 inches advertising. $2.50 P er ** issues, $360,000 ; total, SOIO,OOO. Expenses « For paper and press work. 250,000 copies, 24 ed ™ ori ! l 2, work ’ offlo *> re P?' [ ?- etc-.. #25.000; 100,000 presents, $40,000; total, $295,000, leaving a net For.this enormous profit for sale of advertising space the Chicago Pott,grid Courier depends oo its 250,000 subscribers, for advertisers pay for space in proportion to circulation. With but 25,000 circulation the profits would be but atenthi of the amount. Therefore as subscriber* are doing us a favor when they Rend us their we desire to retam favor for favor. Any subscriber who desires to borrow’from SWO to S6OO at 4 per cent, the principal to stud If desired, a* tong as the borrower remains a subscriber, should so state when he sends us 50 cuts for a 9-months’ trial>ubecri prion to our paper. CONDITIONS! to be deducted! ronfunount loaned? Your individual note yrovtdeti you will send the names of several of your neighbors to whom y ’ p v ‘ uea y< 2 f On. y.u sfter9.te.fvr vstu. reeeiwt, I promote m but m toyour (food character. Every gubynber mnflt positively to the order of the publisher of Chtcuqo JFW and CourUr , agree to show the paper and present to his friends and neigh- the sum of ........ dollars, with interest st 4 per cent 1 bora. When a loan is made, the adjoining form of note wiUbe per annum after maturity. It is undsntoud end • freed lent With the money to the subscriber’s nearest bank or express that no part of the prise, pel of this note will be demandoffice, and no note need bo signed until the money is paid over, ed or become payable (except at my pleasure), u lons ss | Bend the names of several references, and immediate inquiry I remain s paid-up subscriber to the above named paper. 1 will be made. If no loon is desired, no references need be eenk Waned) , 900 GOLD WATCHES FREE! I'X „-N WHO WILL HEM) THE QUICKEST? AT get this In making np the above list of presents, we decided to reserve $9,000 to bo M U Gold Watek ■ divided equally among the first 900 subscribers received. If you send 50 cents ■ R . ■ you will be entitled to one receipt good lor one present, and if your letter is rn fIUM II ,or among the firßt 900 received you will also be entitled to a beautiful gold watch. VL Rbflr fig 50 (Hu ■ The watch is one-third larger than the picture. We will send a printed list of mbMI WmJm „ ■ thfiawardß,free,andallpreseritswilibefonvardedtoholdereofrcceiptaastbey If yon may direct. A list of watch winners will be published in our paper. TMfflT s «“d at cues. ■ The 50 cents you send us is the regular price for six months, there- ■■■■■■ -LI fore you pay nothing for the present. Subscribe at once. Don’t waitaday. Wewiusend you the paper 9 months and 2 numbered receipts good for 2 presents, if you send us 75 cents. Send sl, JKfxpTT. „> and the patier will lx; marled you 1 year, and 3 receipts good for 3 ■A presents. Get five friends to join you, and send $2.50, and we will mtgSmSSS; i, _ ,j HB send tho paper 0 months and 1 mimlx-rod recei))tfor each of your /rMßraaUf’tNc subscribers and 1 extra for your trouble. No postponement. Send MBWiSsBraNrPt'ySKU- W* ■ 10 subscribers, with $5. and we will scud v«f 12 pubscriptioua \TL» ■ aud 13 receipts. This offer isgood only until 1-Vwuarv 25. Wchavo iWEHfWWfffiWW®-©®®))/ \f ■BD 150.000 subscribers already, and only require 100.000 more to ■■£#' vMS ■ ■ have the desired number. Our old patrons and subscribers, ■ whom we number by thousand*, stiould go to work at onco IM ■ ■ and help us increase our list by this grand and generous offer. i Mm o K m ONLY R 0 CENTS Soc1lr( '» <*> r J»pcr fi months on trial I *-nL W Wfcll I and one receipt go<xl forone present. REwBL - BH M As to our reliability, we refer io nnv linnU or >ler- (§Sj3^ ■ enntile Agency. Remember these are presents to our sub- Xml Mß&OuMt ■ scribcrs. given to them absolutely free. Ibis is a chance of a ■ lifetmie, the truepiithwai/ I" incur full:re fortune. Fvery N subscriber gets a prize. A fortune mag he yours if gnu mill hut M stretch forth v»ur hand to receive it. It costs only 50 centaAo - •' ■ try—is it possible you will let Itpassf Postage stamtis taken MHnHHBBBnnI ■ ° btainod ’ by Postal Note, envelope or Oxprera. AddressH Calheoa Plate,Chicago,lU.

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