Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — Page 7

Lingering Superstitions.

A strange instance of cruelty, prompted by superstition, recently occurred at Clonmel, in Ireland. Two ignorant peasant girls took a poor deformed little child of 3 (years of age, and subjected it to agonies which endangered and were perhaps fatal to its life. Among other barbarous tortures, they put it On a hot shovel, and so burned it dreadfully. The excuse given by the women was that the child was what is known in the rural districts of Ireland as a “fairy changeling.” It is still believed by large numbers of the Irish peasantry, that certain supernatural being which they call “elves” exist, and sometimes visit the abodes of mortals. These elves are said to be but three or four inches in height; they may make themselves transparent or invisible at will; they are reported to dwell in beautiful underground grottoes; and are supposed to play many mischievous pranks with human beings. One of the customs attributed to the elves is that of coming down the chimney, or even through a key-hole, taking Children away, and replacing them with 'Vitch-like babes, which are therefore vailed “changelings.;” and it was because the two peasant women thought their crjppled little victim to be a fairy changeling that they tortured it. Their purpose was to drive the witch-spirit out of it. The rural parts of Europe, as well as of Asia, fairly teem with still lingering superstitions, not a whit less gross and absurd than that which has been spoken of. In many Irish dictricts, implicit belief is“still given to the existence of a “banshee,” or female spirit of the household. Another supernatural being in Ireland is “Chericanne,” who reveals himself to mortals as a wrinkled old man, and leads those whom he favors to find hidden treasures. A less beneficent spirit is that of “Phooka,” a fierce demon who hurries his victims to destruction across bogs and over yawning precipices. “Phooka” takes many shapes, according to the superstition; but most often appears as an eagle, or a black horse. In Scotland the belief in “Kelpy” and “Brownie” yet lingers in remote Highland fastnesses; and there are certain secluded districts in England, sunk in ignorance, where peasants may be found who are convinced that misfor-tune-working witches still live and work their malignant spells. It is less than twenty years ago that a poor old Frenchman was outrageously maltreated in an English village bcause he was suspected of witchcraft. To this day many a Devonshire hind believes in the influence of the “evil eye,” and will religiously shun a person whom he thinks possesses this ocular deformity. Perhaps of all countries, Italy is the most rife with superstition in all its strange and imaginative varieties. Italians believe in the “evil eye.” They have a “false spirit,” which is, given to practical jokes upon mortals; and a darker hobgoblin, the “Fata Morgana,” who draws youths beneath the waves of the Straits of Messina, and leaves them there to drown. There is a certain walnut tree near Benevento, in Italy, around which the witches are said to gather on certain nights; and many a peasant of the campagna believes that the witches assemble on midsummer night amid the ruins of the Roman Forum, where they turn themselves into huge black eats. As one goes East, the superstitions of the ignorant thicken and multiply. India is full of supernatural traditions and fantasies; and many are the tortures and cruelties visited upon the poor creatures who are charged with witchcraft or demonism. It is, however, a certain and comforting fact that the further education spreads, the further it drives back and roots out these foolish fears and fancies, which are bred of ignorance. It is not many centuries since superstition Was universal the world over. It now only lingers where the light of knowledge has not yet been able to penetrate. —Youth’s Companion.

The Evils Resulting from High Heels.

Several months ago we pointed out some of the injuries caused by the use of high-heeled boots and shoes. It is not at all difficult to understand, on anatomical grounds, av hy this fashion should have resulted in so much injury to health as it undoubtedly has. It is extremely difficult to imagine why the very ungainly gait which is thus acquired should remain in fashion for a single week in a civilized country. Nature has intended that the foot in standing should bear the xveight of the body chiefly through the heel, and that this position should imply but little or no voluntary strain of the trunk or limbs. It is so when one stands on the naked foot. The arch of the instep has only a steadying .influence. The latter comes into play in walking, when, the heel being raised by the -muscles of the calf, it acts as a lever to raise the body and bear it forward, while the contraction of the muscles of the sole completes the same movement in the backward pressure of the tres. In natural progression, therefore, the joints and muscles are exercised in turn, and pressure falls where it can be borne. With the high heel, on the other hand, the posterior part of the instep is continually the seat of pressure; the wearer stands, and also walks, or rather stumps, upon its arch. The plantar m uscles are atrophied from pressure, the center of gravity is moved forward from the heel, the foot itself is weakened, and the muscles of the leg strained. As well stated by Dr. Busey, of Washingson, these evils are not all. Changes in the spinal curves follow, and give rise to the deep depression at the loin and prominence of the hips, with associated mincing gait, which are so commonly seen on every promenade.’’ Fortunately, many of those who adhere to the use of this fashionable foot-gear do not wear it constantly, and therefore do not experience its worst effects/ Of late it is pleasant to note a tendency to adopt newer styles, which are not only much more elegant than that which we have been criticising, but which allow of free movements without the risk of after ill-effects. -■ No hunian foot should be allowed to rest within a boot whose heel does not fall evenly below its own, and JjOes not afford in its moderate

height and width a guarantee for ease and security in walking.— London Lancet. ' .

Two Acts.

“Who will volunteer?” “I!” shouted a dozen voices, and twelve men stepped out of the ranks. They were quickly ordered to a dangerous duty, and as they moved off, they silently waved their hands to their companions standing in the ranks. The duty was to remove the gunpowder stored near the hospital building to a place of safety. This was On the Tennesseean the summer of ’63. The Confederates were shelling the camp, and the buildings in which a large amount of powder had been stored were already bn fire. Under the direction of a sergeant, we went to work, for we knew that an explosion so near the hospital meant certain death to the poor fellows there. We had removed all the kegs but one. The fire had burned our faces and singed our clothes, and we all shrank back except our sergeant. He rushed in, enveloped in asheet of flame, and scorched, blinded, blistered, brought out the smoking keg and rolled it to a place of safety. And then what a cheer went up! We were proud of him, and prouder still next day when he received an Officer’s commission. Two days after, the call came again. “Who will volunteer?” Not a man in the company responded. It was a different case. “Bounty Tom” had been arrested in the act of deserting. While confined in the guard-house awaiting his trial, he had been thken ill with smallpox, and was now in a lonely • cabin, a mile from camp. Who would volunteer to watch by the sick “bounty-jumper ?” The nurses had all left him. The surgeons were all busy. Every one-de-spised Tom as a deserter and a ruffian. “Better let him die!” they said. “I will go,” said a quiet voice. And <>a man who had been sneered at during an engagement as a coward, went to the bedside of that loathsome ruffian and nursed* him until he died. Then he came back AJjd quietly took his place among us, as calmly as if he had been home bn a furlough. Brave Sergeant Wittlesy’s name was mentioned with honor in the dispatches. Simple Jack Holley passed unnoticed. His act was soon forgotten, and there is hardly a man in Company who remembers his name tq-day. But which was the braver man?— Youth’s Companion.

Thy Speech Bewrayeth Thee.

A Highlander, in the British army,._ during the war of the Revolution, was caught one evening creeping out of a thicket just beyond the lines, evidently returning from some secret errand. The American outposts (along the Hudson ) were then quite near to those of the British, and, being concealed ’in the forest, their exact number and distance were always uncertain. Under the circumstances the Highlander was suspected of being an informer, i. e., in communication xvith the enemy. It was shortly after the execution of Major. Andre; and the enraged British were in no state to let a man go who was accused of sympathy with the Americans. The soldier was taken before his Colonel. and the witnesses of his presumed guilt told their story. “What have you to say for yourself?” demanded the Colonel, with a threatening frown. “Only this, sir: I got away quietly from my comrades to pray a bit while in the bush, and xvas coming back when the soldiers took me.” “Are you in the habit of praying?” demanded the officer. “Yes, sir.” “Then, pray now. You never needed it more in your life. ” And the Colonel took out his watch. Fully believing that he had but a few minutes to live, the Christian soldier knelt and poured out bis soul in such language as only a friend o| God could use. All who heard it were astonished, the commander himself among thereat. “Go,” said he; “you have told the truth. If you had not been often to drill, you could not have done go well at review.”— The Watchword.

A Way to Grow Wise.

After reading a book, or an article, or an item of information from any reliable source, before turning your attention to other things, give two or three minutes’ quiet thought to the subject that has just been presented to your mind; see how much you can remember concerning it; and if there were any new ideas, instructive facts, or points of especial interest that impressed you as you read, force yourself to recall them. It may be a little troublesome at first until your mind gets under control-and learns to obey your will, but the very effort to think it all out will engrave the facts deeply upon the memory, so deeply that they will not be effaced by the rushing in of a new and different set of ideas; whereas, if the matter be given no further consideration at all, the impressions you have received will fade away so entirely that within a few weeks you will be totally unable to remember more than a dim outline of them. Form the good habit, then, of always reviewing what has just been read. It exercises and disciplines the mental faculties, strengthens the memory, and teaches concentration of thought. You will soon learn, in this way, to think and reason intelligently, to separate and classify different kinds of information; and in time the mind, instead of being a lumber-room in xvhich the various contents are thrown together in careless confusion and disorder, will become a store-honse where each special class or item of knowledge, neatly labeled, has its own particular place and is ready for use the instant there is need of it.— Martha Holmes Bates, in St. Nicholas. “Yes,” sighed Amelia', “before marriage George professed to be willing to die for me, and now he won’t even get his.life injured in my favor,” and the poor girl Durst into a fashionable flood of tqars.« ; - ' - “Man wants but little ear below,” was written before the telephone was invented. "

PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Why an Orator Must Understand Gesticulation. Gesticulation is foreign to our nation; and yet the man who would be an orator must learn what to do, as well as what to avoid doing, with his arms and 1 hands. The word is but an echo, the ambassador of thought All energetic passion, all deep sentiment, must be heralded by expression, or by outward and visible sign of some sort; otherwise the words will fall coldly, as emanating from the intellectual* machine, and not springing, warm and irrepreasible, from the heart. Talma, in his treatise on the art of acting, says: “The gesture, the attitude, the look, should precede the words, as the flash of lightning precedes the thunder.” Yet, if you watch any uncultivated speaker, you will find that his action never indicates the path he is traveling, but follows it. Observe the itineran preacher, whose apoplectic eloquence suggests that he is suffering from a determination of words to the mouth; you will see that the flinging of his arms to and fro is an effort to add force to his words, not the outcome of strong feeling before it lias broken into speech. The true orator’s movements must appear so spontaneous that they pass unnoticed, and yet, insensibly, they will affect his audience. The most powerful speakers are always, more or less, actors, who identify themselves with the cause they advocate. Cold rhetoricians who have mot this capacity may bring conviction to our reason when we read their speeches in the papers the morning after they are delivered; but, lacking the passionate persuasiveness of men whose voice and frame vibrate with the emotion their words evoke, they will never touch the hearts or rouse the enthusiasm of an audience. In public speaking, as in - reading, it is of primary importance that the voice be not pitched too high or too low, but that the keynote be struck in the middle of the register. Many persons become exhausted in reading, or in addressing an audience, from ignorance of the art of respiration, and from an erroneous notion that it is necessary to employ some.non-natural tone. Neither is it essential to shout that the speaker’s words may be carried to the furthest extremity of a large hall. There can be no greater mistakes than these. As in singing, so in oratory, the most natural emission of the voice, if combined with distinct articulation, will “tell” more at a great distance than all the bellowing in the world. Actors are especially liable to forget that violence is not power, and that loudness is indicative of hysterical and feminine impotence than of manlwiorce. I sat beside a great actress at the theater lately, when a scene that should have torn our very heart-strings was being enacted. “Why do they talk so loud?” she whispered to me. “They would produce twice the effqct if they did not scream at each other. ” — Nineteenth Century.

Eating Before Sleeping.

“Go .home and eat a good supper, that’s all the medicine you want,” and the medical gentleman to whom a reporter had gone for a nervous, or sedative, or sleeping potion, opened the door to show him out. “But, Doctor, it is 11 o’clock at night.” what of it? Oh, I see, the popular prejudice against eating at night. Let me tell you, my young friend, that.unless your stomach is out of order, it is more benefit to you te eat going to bed than it is harmful. Food of a simple kind induces sleep. At what hour did you dine ?” “Six o’clock.” “Humph! Just what I thought. Six o’clock. Fourteen hours between dinner and your breakfast. Enough to keep any man awake. By that time the fuel necessary to send the blood coursing through your system is burned out. Animals sleep instinctively after meals. Human beings become drowsy after eating. Why? Simply because the juices needed in digestion are supplied by the blood being solicited toward the stomach. Thus the brain receives less blood than during the hours of fasting, and becoming paler the powers grow dormant. Invalids and those in delicate health should always eat before going to bed. The sinking sensation in sleeplessness is a call for food. Wakefulness is oftentimes merely a symptom of hunger. Gratify the - desire and sleep ensues. The feeble will be stronger if they eat on going to bed. Some persons are exhausted merely by’ the process of making their toilet in the morning. A cup of warm milk and toast on retiring, or of beef tea on awakening* will correct it.” “But is it not essential that the stomach should rest?” “Undoubtedly. Yet, when hungry we should eat. Does the infant’s stomach rest as long as the adult’s.. Man eats less often only because his food requires more time for digestion. Invalids and children at night may take slowly, warm milk, beef tea, or oat meal. The vigorous adult can eat bread, milk, cold beef, chicken, raw oysters, or some other such food. Of course, it must be done in moderation. You start home now and take a cup of tea and a beef sandwich on the xvay, and I’ll risk your sleeping. Goodnight.— New York Mail.

Dickens at Thirty.

Charles Dickens, when he first visited Washington, in 1842, was just entering his thirtieth year. He was a middlesized, somewhat lieshy person, his hair, which was long and darki grew low upon the brow, had a wavy kink where it started from the head, and was corkscrewed as it fell on either side of his face. His forehead retreated gradually from the eyes, without any marked protuberance save at the outer angle, the upper portion of which formed a prominent ridge a little within the assigned position of the organ of ideality. The eyeballs completely filled their sockets. The aperture of the Eds was not large, nor the eye uncommonly clear or bright, but quick, moist and expressive. The nose was slightly aquiline, the mouth of moderate dimensions, making no great display of the teeth, the facial muscles occasionally drawing the upper Up most strongly on the left side as the mouth opened in speaking. His features, taken together, were well proportioned. i

Not a Question of Location.

Well, I took Mrs. Arp down in the lowland wheat this 1 evening, where it is thick and green and tall, and I explained to her all about the wheat being first in the boot, and then in the milk, and then in the dough, aad as we walked along in the water furroi 11 said that it reminded me of the old' long of “Coming Through the Rye,’ that I would change it a little, and say: "If a body meet a body coming through the wheat. And a body kiss a body wouldn't It be sweet?” And she smiled and said the rye of the poet was not a field, but a rocky branch named Rye, and the lassie was wading through it when her lover met her on the rocks and kissed her. So that knocked all the poetry out of the situation and I said no more on the subject, but I’ve seen the day when that wheat field would have been as good a place for the business as a branch, and, if anything, bqtter.— Bill Arp, in the Atlanta Constitution.

Taste in Jokes.

There are jokes and jokes. George Eliot says: “A difference in taste in jokes is very trying to the affections,” which wise expression is put to the test more frequently than you would think, if you didn’t take the trouble to think about it at all. How often has a friend told you something that he considered a good joke when the recital has betrayed a lack of sense, taste, or heart which you did not suspect before and which lowered him very much in your esteem.—Cincinnati Saturday Night.

Twenty-five Per Cent. Stronger than Any Other Butter Color.

Burlington, Vt., May 3, 1882. I hereby certify that I have examined the Butter Color prepared by Wells, Richardson & Co., and that the same is free from alkali or any other substance’injurious to health; that I have compared itwith some of the best of the other Buttef'Colbrs in the market andfind it to be more than twenty-five per cent. Stronger in color than the best of the others, I am satisfied that it is not liable to become rancid, Or in any way to injure the buttgr. I have examined it after two months’ free exposure to the air in a place liable to large changes of temperature, and found no trace of rancidity, while other kinds similarly exposed became rancid. A. H. Sabin, Prof. Chemistry, University of Vermont. Courage is the strength that enables us to combat evil; fortitude is the armor that resists evil after the combat is decided against us.— Newman Independent. . Why ought poultry-keeping to be a most profitable business? Because for every grain you give a fowl it gives a peck.

Henry’s Carbolic Salve.

The best salve used in the world for outs,_ bruises, piles, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, coins, and all kinds of skin eruptions, freckles and pimples. The salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case. Be sure you get Henry’s Carbolic Salve, as all others are but imitations and counterfeits. A horribde but humorous paragraphist suggests that the Boston crematory Is only a new way of baking beings. The Horsford Almanac and Cook Book mailed free on application to the Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I. Grain merchants seldom indulge in short stories; they prefer cereals.— Bouton Courier. Mensman’s Peptonized beef Tonic, the only .preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains bloodmaking, force-generating, and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-work, or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. Lost his grip—the man who twisted a mule’s tall. Many ladies who for years had scarcely ever enjoyed the luxury of feeling' well have been renovated by the use of Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The close of the late war—the Blue and th* Gray.—Tsjxm Stftimjx.

“Put up” at the Gault House.

The business man or tourist will find firstclass accommodations at the low price of $> and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chicago, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot, Elevator; all appointments first-class. H. W. Hon, Proprietor.

Simply Wonderful!

The cures that are being made in nearly all chronic diseases, by Compound Oxygen, which is taken by inhalation, are * imply wonderful. If you are in need of such a treatment, write to Dis. Starkey & Paleo, 1109 Girard st., Philadelphia.

Carbo-lines.

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Vital OukUom!! ‘ Ask the most eminent physician Of any school, what is the beat thing In the world for quieting and allAying all irritation of the nerve* and curing all form* of nervous complaints, giving natural, childlike, refreshing sleep always ? And they will tell you unhesitatingly “Some fotia of Hops!” CHAPTER I. Ask any or all of the most eminent physicians: “What is the best and only remedy that ean be relied on to cure all diseases of ths kidneys and urinary organs; such as Bright’s disease, diabetes, retention or inability to retain urine, and all the diseases and ailment* peculiar to Women”— And they trill- tell you explicitly and emphatically “Buchh. Ask the same physicians “What is the most reliable and surest cur* for all liver diseases or dyspepsia, constipation, indigestion, biliousness, malarial fever, ague, Ac.?” and they will tell you: “Mandrake! or Dandelion!" Hence, when these remedies are combined with others equally valuable And compounded into Hop Bitten, such a wonderful and mysterious curative power is developed which is so varied in its operations that no disease or ill-health can possibly exist or resist its power, and yet it is Harmless for the most frail woman, weakest invalid or smallest child to use. CHAPTER 11. “ Patients j Almont dead or nearly dying” For years, and given up by physicians of Bright’s and other kidney diseases, liver complaints, severe coughs called consumption, have been cured. Women gone nearly crazy! From agony of neuralgia, nervousness, wakefulness and various diseases peculiar to women. People drawn out of shape from excruciating pangs of Rheumatism, Inflammatory and chronic, or suffering from scrofula! Erysipelas! Salt rheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, indigestion, and in fact almost all diseases frail Nature is heir to Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof st which can be found in every neighborhood i* the known world. *a"None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on th? white labeL Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with “Hop” or“ Hops" hi their name., GAIN Health andjappiness. BO AS OTHE3S i cTeoztr' mvedme Are your Kidneys disordered? ‘Kidney Wort brought me from my grave. Mil ■werc. cXtcrl had been given up by 13 beat doctors lb ■ Detroit.” M. W. .Deveroat, Mechanic, lonia, Mich. ' Are your nerves weak? “TMiv.-j Wort cured bid from nerroua weakne*, after I was not expected to Uve.”—Mrs. M. M. B. Goodwin, Ed. Christian Monitor, CleVjjHjnd, O. Have you Bright’s Disease? "Mldny Wort cured mo when my water waajurt I Hko chalc aad then Ilka blood. Frank WUson, Peabody, Maaa I Suffering from Diabetes ? **Kldnrjy-Wort Li th® most sucoesßfu] remedy I have ever tusecL Gives almost immediate relief.” Dr. Phillip C. Ballou, Monkfcm, Vt. Have you Liver Complaint? "Kidney-Wort cured mo of chronic Liver Duie-ae* after I prayed to die." Henry Ward, late CoL Wth Nat. Guard. N. T. Is your Back lame and aching? “Kidney-Wort, <1 bottle) cured me when I wasaoffi lame I had to >oll out of bed.” C. M. Tailmage, Milwaukee, Wtat Have you Kidney Disease? “Kidney-Wort made me sound In liver and kidney, after years ot unsuccessful doctoring; Its worth *lO a box.”—Bam’l Hodges, Williamstown, Wert Vsu Are you Constipated? “Kidney-Wort causes easy evacuations and cured me alter u years use of other medicine*." Nelson Palrchlld, Bt. Albsuu, Vt. Have you Malaria? "Kidney-Wort has done better than any other remedy I have ever used in my practice.” Dr. K. K. dark. Booth Hero, Vt. Are vou Bilious? “Kidney-Wort has done me more good than any other remedy I have ever taken.” I Mis. J. T. Gallo w-ay, Elk Flat, Oregon. i Are you tormented with Piles? ! “Kldney-Wortpermanenlly cured me of bleeding piles. Dr. w. C. Kline recommended it to me.” Geo. H. Hont, Cashier M. Bank, Myerstown, Pa. Are you Rheumatism racked? “Kidney-Wort cured me, after 1 was given up to die by physicians and I had suffered thirty years.” Elbridge Malcolm, Wert Bath, Maine. Ladies, are you suffering? “Kidney-Wort cured ma of peculiar trouolea of several yean standing. Many friend* use and nndse it.” Mrs.lLi_s-moreaux,lsleLaMode, Vt. ’ If you would Banish Disease i and gain Health, Take THB BLOOD CLKANBEM. Causes no Pain. Gives at Once. Thorough Treatment will Cure. Not a Liquid or Snuff. Apply with Finger. Give it a TriaL SO cents at Itrugpata'. 60 cents by muL registered. Send for circular. ELY BROTHERS. Druggist*. Owego, N.Y. x* A MONTH and Board for 3 itr* NtteAa Young Men or Eadies, in each county, to take orders for the Lives ot BLAINE and LOCANI Address P. W, ZIEGLER fc CO- Chicago. HL luusummA 5 TON JONES I> a L.v.rs, Bi**l Brorti p. In** • Tan ***** *>* tea Baa, BrtSHAMTD! S6O and yoxra s. nr* is. troirbt—<«r tw Frtc. List msßtlsa thl* **,w *a* ~ . xtersMjoaistFßHMMSTM ' Wlngh.art.- K.% Consumption Can Be Cured. S HALL’S Iungs.BALSAM Cnrea CoMumptiOT, Colds, Pneumonia, Inftoenia, Bronchial Difflculties,Bronchi tin, Houfmnews. Asthma, Croup, Whooptn* Couch, and all Diseases of the Breathing Organa. It soothe* and heals the Membrane of the Lungs,inflamed and poisoned by the disease, and prevent* thn night sweats and tightness across the chest which accompany iL Consumption to not an incurable malady. HALL’S BALSAM will cure yon, even though professional aid tells. Best Cough Syrup. Taste* good. M D*e in urns. Bohl by dniggtots. |R| 8.N.0. 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