Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Page 2

HYPNOTISM AND LOVE.

London Daily Telegraph. Many a doubtful deed and reprehensible enterprise has been nipped in the bud wholesome fear of the hl? ortho land, and a record of* the feats left thus unachieved would prove highly entertaining. A case in point has just arisen, and it is one of such uncommon interest that those who hear of it will no doubt be tempted to regret that the last act of the unfinished drama was not played in a law court. The story turns upon hypnotic suggestion of an illgitimate kind, and whose main features are the following: In the busy city of Budapest there are numbers of people too serious or too poor to spend their evenings in the theaters or at the card table, and many of the cultivate science on on the cheap in the form of spiritualistic research. Table-rapping, spiritsummoning, fortune-telling, magnetizing, and so forth, are generally in-cluded-in the program of the night’s entertainment which is offered at a private house to the friends and relatives of the owner., A t times mei n - bers of the intelligence and aristoc- - - racy c.f the coun try carried away by the current, go and do likewise. Herr Nameth. a respected land owner, who spends his autumn and summer on the banks of the Danube, having in his leisure moments read up a considerable number of of semiscientific treaties on hypnotism, clairvoyance, the bilocation of the soul and all the other branches of this universal problem, likewise felt eager to see some practical proofs of the theory. Why not summon; the shade of Kossuth, for instance, and find out what is going to happen in Hungary in a hundred years. •'Yes” said his daughter, “or learn the numbers that will be drawn in the next State lotteries. It might mean the doubling of my dowry, you know.” For Miss Nameth was engaged to be married, and the wedding was fixed lor a day from which five short weeks separated her. Her bridegroom,, Herr Samek,is a member of the Hungarian bar, whose fame and fortune are yet before him, and he would be the last to object to an increase of Miss Anna’s dowry. But the practical uses of hypnotism played but a very secondary part among the motives that induced Herr Nan. eh to “go in ’ for the eerie “science.”' He was simply under the influence of a morbid curiosity, dike Bluebeard’s wife, wlien_she put the ke£ in the door of the forir.diien chuinber and entered. And lie mentioned the matter to friends and acquaintances, but none of them seemed able to give him agl mpse.of “Borderland.” One day. it might be eight or nine weeks ago- he was, introduced 7 by a friend to young Dr. Klausberg, who, having taken his degree ata Hungarian university, had studied a year under Chare >t in Paris. Behold the man! th< ught Herr Nameth, as the physician’s antecedents were made known to him by a friend. A day or two later Dr. Klausberg was invited to dinner by Herr Nameth, then to supper, and he soon became a friend of the house, liked by all the members of the family—except the bridegroom, and he was only a member in spe. One evening, when the conversation turned on spiritism and hypnotism. Dr. Klausberg said that the main thing in all experiments is to hit upon a good medium, and that that is a very difficult problem. “I hate mercenary mediums,” exclaimed the master of the house, “and unless I knew personally the individual hypnotised, I should not give a straw for anything he might say or do.” “Well, you have a very favorable opportunity,” remarked the doctor, “for. if.you will allow me to say so, Miss Anna is a magnificent medium, with whom we might work wonders.” “Do you really think so?” asked the delighted father. “Why do you take me for a godtl medium?” inquired, the young lady. “1 can tell it by your eye,” the physician replied, fixing his own upon her. “Let her be a latent medium,” exclaimed the bridegroopi. “Weil,-I confess, I was about to ask yom - permission, Miss, to hypnotize ycu—that is, of course, if you have no objection. I can promise that it will not hurt you in the least —quite the contrary, indeed, it will refresh you." “I,” said the lady, “should like it of all things, because I have always ” “Now, Anna, please, that will do. Experiments may be performed upon guinea pigs, but not on young ladies on the eve of marriage. I protest.” “Nonsense!” replied the Iqdy, “don’t talk like that. It is a matter for me to decide,” and although her father and mother quitejjnexpectedly took the bridegroom’s side, and refused to hear of it, they all ended by giving wav, and the bride was hypnotized in their presence. It was a most entertaining spectacle to watch the patient’s antics, as she took herself to be a sailor to be suffering from shipwreck, a general in the thick of battle, an ancient Hun, and so on. She bit a raw potato and found it luscious when told it was a peach; she found hidden pins and needles and displayed a wonderful knowledge of New’ York city when informed that she was there, and generally did everything that hypnotized persons usually do for the amusement of their expectant friends. At last, when it was time for her to return to her ordinary state of consciousness, Dr. Klausberg ordered her yyhen she awoke to put various questions to her bridegroom, and to leave her father's house secretly at lip. tn. And everything took ph ce exactly as he said it

would, Anna made the suggested inquiries, and at 11 o’clock sharp endeavored to steal out of the house unobserved. —From that evening forth the lady was r ' so to say, transfigured and - transformed. Site took no interest in anything but hypnotism—it had done her such incalculable good; and she wanted to be sent off into a trance every day. Her bridegroom, on the other hand, was extremely apprehensive that her nervous system would break down under these absurd experiments; but she. would not acknowledge his right to a voice in the matter, and the trances were continued. Her parents, too, were afraid, and Herr Nameth’s curiosity, already half satisfied, was more than outweighed by the obvious danger to his daughter’s heal th. — He besought her to return to her former normal habits of life, and t) leave hypnotism to the doctors. But all entreaty was in vain. Life, the young lady said, was no longer life without the soothing influences from the psychic world, winch rained down upon her in hypnotic sleep. “Well, but what will you do in September, when you will be - married?” asked Herr Nameth.--‘Your husband will forbid Dr Klausberg the house, and you must make the best of life without that new fangled charm.” “That,” replied Miss Anna, “is the very matter I have been longing to speak to you about, father. The fact is, that I can not marry Herr Samek. Our engagement must be broken off.” “Why, the girl is mad!” exclaimed her father. “She is bewitched!” said the mother. “Are you in your right mind, Anna, dear?” asked the bridegroom. “What has induced you to think of breaking off our engagement?” “It must not be, is not to be,” answered the “magnificent medium.” “But you must surely have some reason. You loved your bridegroom and vou told us so. We never suggested that you should accept his proposal. You followed the bent of your own inclination. What has happened to alter your mind?” “I don’t know; nothing. I can give no reason but a woman’s reason. I feel an utter repugnance to the match,and I will not marry him. That is the long and short of it.” And bursting into tears, she rushed to her room and threw herself on the bed, where her mother found her in hysterics. All the arts of persuasion, all the arguments of reason, all the incentives to affection—were tried upon her to induce her to keep her pledged word to her bridegroom, but in vain. Herr Samek himself talked to her for hours, but he might as well have been whistling jigs to a milestone. “I do not love you, Dr. Fell, the reason why I cannot tell,” was the gist of her stereotyped reply. Now, Herr Samek did love the girl very tenderly, and his peace of mind was utterly destroyed in consequence. He could do no work and he could devise no means of regaining the affection of MisS Anna, who had now ceased to be more than a “magnificent medium.” One day he confided his sorrow to a brother lawyer, who, having heard the whole story and questioned him about various details, said, with an air of profound conviction: “Believe me, it is a case of hypnotic suggestion, and you have only told me onehalf of the results. Let me tell you the other half. The girl is in love with that Dr. Klausberg.” “What? Do you really fancy so?” “I am ready to take my affidavit on it.” “Well, but supposing it is so, how does the knowledge of the fact help me? She is free to love whom she will,! and it is not by violent or by legal measures that a girl’s love can be won.” “O! I think I can help you. But first verify what I have just asserted. Ask your bride whether she prefers any one to yourself, and tell her that if she does you will gladly release her from the engagement.” Herr Samek did not let the grass grow under his feet. The same day he had an interview with his beloved in the presence of her parents. He asked her frankly whether she loved him less because she loved sdmbody else more. But the reply was an emphatic negative. She loved no one at present, she said, and she could not think of marriage. This was good news for the bridegroom, as far as it went; and he lost no time in communicating it to his colleague. “Well, said that gentlejnan, nothing disconcerted, “if she is not in love with the doctor, the doctor is in love with her, and he has suggested that her engagement with you should be broken off, as a first step to his marrying her himself.” “What do you suggest, then?” “Let us call on him at his lodgings, and 1 will do the talking.” One morning early, the pair rang the bell of Dr. Klausberg’s flat, and asked to see him on very urgent business. He was not up at the time, but, dressing hurriedly, he came into the drawing room in an excited state, and hoped no accident had happened. . “Well, that is just what we have come to ask you,” was the lawyer’s reply, and the cross-examination forthwith began. It ended in threats —threats of the law, imprisonment, Of social ruin. “For we know.from the girl’s own conduct and conversation, that you suggested to her that the engagement be broken off, and this is a criminal offense. You will never be allowed to see the lady till she ap pears as a witness against you in a law court. You have still one chanoe

to save yourself. Acknowledge youi offense, and suggest to Miss Nameth that she should return to her normal state of mind, and everything will be forgiven.” Dr. Klausberg followed the advice. He confessed there and then that hi was in love with Miss Nameth, that love knoweth no law,and that, yielding to an insuperable-temptation, he had taken the best way of gaining her affection, and began by suggesting that she should never wed his rival. He ended by promising to call at the house that same evening, in order to break the spell he had woven round her. At 7 o'clock he came and in presence of the lady’s parents and bridegroom he put h.er in a. trance and suggested that she should marry Herr Samek and cease to left after hypnotic sleep. Then ha hanker the house forever. From that evening Miss Nameth had no further objections to offer and was willing to have a new day fixed for the wedding. Unfortunately the doctors have now exercised their veto, and the happy day is as far off as ever. The lady is a walk-! ing shadow, has lost her appetite and her—sleep, and is slowly passing away. She has frequent fainting fits and hallucinations, and often fancies she sees the hypnotiser in' the room preparing to send her into a trance. The doctors are apprehensive les| she should lose her reason, and iq snite of his promise to the contrary Herr Samek insists on bringing thq matter before the courts.

Yellow in Vogue.

New York Evening Post. Yellow is introduced into manv winter dress fabrics, chamois yellow being particularly favored, although many other shades are popular, even to deepest orange and the old sash-1 ioned pumpkin dyes. Yellow is sug, gestive of sunshine, and with a touclj of red in the plaid, ttyeed, check or stripe, is to very many preferable to masses of the latter color. Cloth skirts of palest yellow, fawn and doe color are edged with brown fur and Worth waists of brown or green velvet, Shepherd’s check silk, velours, brocade or heavy; repped bengaline. Mustard yellow coats, cloaks and golf capes lined with Tartan silk in rich color effects are imported this season. This color is by no means as unbecoming-as would appear, viewed in the imagination only, or to • judge Jit merely by its name. It is the. pale French mustard tint, and anything Parisian is almost sure to be made “complimentary” to the wearer, either by rich velvet accessories or by being placed in juxtaposition with some apropriate color in silk or satin.

A Spider Party.

New York Evening Post. The invitations sent out to a child’s party had each in the corner a golden web, in the center of which was entangled a brown spider. They were invitations to “a spider at home,” an English substitue for a Jack Horner pie, or, it might be, for a Christmas tree. On their arrival at the house of their hostess the little guests were shown into a good sized room, where an immense glittering spider seemed to have spun a web’ that stretched across the room. The web was composed of many webs, each started from a spider in the center and extended to many nails and projections, where each one terminated in a little wooden winder. After choosing a winder each child followed its wanderings to the spider in which it terminated. Inside these spiders were concealed small gifts? Instead of spiders beetles or other insects might be used. A variety, of insects for such a party could be found at the large Japanese stores, or could be fashioned at no very great expense at home. While white cotton threads can be used, a much prettier effect could be gained by| using tinsel cord like that used by confectioners for tying boxfes of bonbons.

Fontainebleau Forest.

The Century. The grand old forest of Fontainebleau is everywhere very beautiful,, and, far from being/monotonous in character and simply a forest of trees, it has a great variety of other natural beauties. Certain parts contain rocky hills, enriched here and there by thick heath growing on a sandy soil. In places one sees great; heaps of rocks of sandstone formation piled one above the other on the slope of the hills, as if large masses of water had formerly rushed through this country, loosening the immense rocks and heaping them one upon the other. One peculiarity of these rocks is that many of them are formed like great living monsters. When we went into the forest toward nightfall Francois was always deeply moved. It seemed to him as though we were amid a crowd of antediluvian monsters, and he enjoyed pointing out to me the semblance to living forms of these mysterious shapes. * Ibsen, the writer, has brought suit against a Norwegian paper for printing facts about his new work before it w.as published. Ibsen says' he is under contract with his English and German publishers to tell nothing about his books until they have left the printing press. While Mr. Gladstone is reported in a state of rejuvenescence, he does not wish to be pestered by correspondehce, especlallj’ from unknown persons. In a recent letter on the school board question he sayss .‘‘After a contentious life of sixty* two years 1 am naturally anxious to spend ths remainder of my days in freedom from controversy. ,f U 1 >1 *

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

• ' A FRENCH EDEN. The above title will suggest to the average mind ideas totally at variance with the enterprise to which we will direct attention. Visions of licentiousness and wanton dissipation will arise as a natural seqt en?e so any proposed Eden that Frenchmen, would be likely to consider desirable. The reputation of Paris—the very word “Frenchy”—is so firmly established in the American mind that the idea of good morals, or great humanitarian reforms, seem quite impossible in the same connection. Yet Paris has been a potent factor in modern civilization, anti the boulevards of that gay capital have been the field on which many master minds have expended their energies. Every ism under the sun finds toleration there, and Socialists and Anarchiststs flourish as in no other place on earth. Repressive laws are indeed-in existence, but fail of their abject, as a rule. M. Gravelle, (he will need 1 ots of sand before begets through) is the erratic sponsor of the proposed Edenic enterprise. He is an artist and a bachelor, and has a reputation as a pamphleteer—altogether a man of ideas and considerable experience. He is at war with existing conditions, but is devoid of anarchistic tendencies. He does not wish to harm his fellow men —but rather hopes to do them good by a shining example of self sacrifice. He charges civilization with partiality in giving to one man patent leather shoes and to the millions no shoes at all. To get even he thinks civiliza-tion-should be abolished and that mankind should return to the primeval state. So zealous has M. Gravelle been in advocating his peculiar ideas that a wealthy landowner in the province of Cantal. named Garvier, has offered to furnish the reformer with land and all necessary supplies if he will find four other men besides himself to act as “Adams"—all in turn to find their “Eves” by the time the land shall have been-duly fenced off and stocked with animals. The proposition has been accepted by Gravelle, who has already arranged with four of his associates to go into the new Eden, which will be all ready for their reception, on the 15th of next April. May 1 they and their “Eves” will enter the iron gate, which will be locked after them. The “Adams” and “Eves” will dwell in the caves in the hills of their domain, and after , the clothing which they will wear into Eden is worn out they will clothe themselves with the skins of the animals that will be given them by M. Garvier. The colonists—the official title of their principality will be the “Colony of Nature”—will devote their time tq eating, hunting, fishing and sleeping. They think they will be able to do without bread, and have not as yet determined whether to raise any corn or wheat. They must depend entirely on the resources of their colony to supply all of their wants. They will have no money and__propose to pay their taxes to the government in peltries. If the government refuses to take that it may do without taxes, so fa l " as they are concerned. Altogether it looks like an idealic retreat for tramps of the “Weary Waggles” stripe. Nature, by M. Garvier, offers them food, clothing and lodging, and asks nothing in return. America should have such a retreat for “tired” people who find civilization too much for their capacities, and they should be compe lied to go there or go to work.

AN OVERDONE INDUSTRY.

Chas. B. Landis, writing to the Indianapolis News from Delphi, Dec. 24, sounds a note of warning, and incidentally gives considerable information about the canning industry of the State, its past history and future prospects, together with an array of statistics that is worthy of attention and consideration. Mr. Landis states that there were sixtytwo canning establishments in operation in Indiana during the season of 1894. There are in process of construction at this time from twentyfive to forty new plants. This rapid increase is attributed to the efforts of manipulators who are making the location of new canning plants a special business. The methods of these self-sacrificing patriots are given in detail. They go into a neighborhood and systematically work up a 3-ittle boom for a factory, skillfully catering to local pride and ambition ,to gain their ends—which in all cases |s to sell the plant at an exorbitant torice. The agent is profuse in promises that his plant will turn out firstclass products, as,.they generally do, but his assurances that a ready market can always be found for the same not been verified by the experience of a majority of those unfortunates who are left to “hold the sack.” Mr. Landis estimates that

the ,average factory will turn out 1,000,000 cans per annum. With sixty-two canneries already in full blast, and with the already assured increase ia their number in operation, the output of canned goods in 1895 promises to breach phenomenal proportions that is likely to result in a “slump” in the market and the annihilation of all profits. Div* idends on this class of stock in the immediate future are likely to be painfully apparent by their absence. The work of establishing these factories is alleged to be simply a gigantic confidence game that is being worked by the same parties who, a few years ago, gulled the farmers Indiana into sinking many thousand dollars in creameries that stand today as idle as a gravestone—unhappy reminders of their owner’s credulity and innocence. The moral of it all is: “Take care! Beware!”

A HARMLESS(?) PASTIME.

Prize fighting is a very attractive amusement. Harmless, of course. -Gentlemanly, as a natural consequence. All these fatalities of late are purely accidental. G ood gracious, don’t men get killed every day! A man fell out of a hay mow the other day and broke his neck. Death is always at hand. Hence little drawbacks like the killing of Riordan and Bowen should not be allowed to interfere with “the manly art of selfdefense.” True, the details of the killing of Bowen appear to indicate that the “rules” were adhered to rather too closely. Testimony of sporting men establish the fact that Bowen was hardly able to stand up in at least three of the last rounds . He was utterly exhausted, but “game,” and refused to yield until “knocked out,” a result that was certain after the first round. In short, Bowen was literally pounded in to insensibility and killed for a stake of $3,000. Experts differ as to whether death resulted from a blow from Lavigne’s fist or concussion with the floor. In either case it was clearly deliberate and premeditated murder for money. No good reason can be given why all concerned should not suffer the penalty provided for such a crime.

A Remarkable Indian Runner.

Los Angeles Times. A. AV. Anthony, a mining engineer and naturalist,now living in San Diego, tells of an instance of fast traveling so extraordinary as to put all six-day go-as-you-please records in the deep shade. “We were in San Fernando, Mexico, several hundred miles below San Diego,” says Mr. Anthony. “A band of renegade Indians held up the camp, stealing all portable property. It was desirable to get a message to the nearest Governor, two hundred miles away, for assistance and aid to chase the outlaws. One runner. Jose a mission Indian, six feet two inches tall, weighing about 180 pounds.all muscle and bone, was given the dispatch and urged to make haste over the rugged and sometimes mountainous road to the Governor. He made haste. According to the official records now in the Mexican archives, our message asking for help was delivered in just twenty-four hours after Jose left us. Such a record of two hundred miles afoot in twenty-four hours is, I be--1 e .'e. unprecedented. This courier or runner traveled ninety-five to 125 miles daily on foot as a regular business, carrying mail. He could easily carry two sacks of ore weighing 150 each to the ore dumps. When running be was clad simply in overalls and shirt. His feet were protected either by sandals or thick-soled moccasins. He carried a leather water bottle and depended upon ranches along the trail for food.”

Matthew Arnold’s Democracy.

The Century. " During Matthew Arnold’s visits to this country, there were few things in which he manifested so eager an interest as in the conversation of our laboring men as overheard by him from time /to time. Frequently he repeated to me sentences which had reached him in the! street, upon the train, or at the railway stations, ask,' ing/-“Is not 'such intelligence uncommon amongst your working people?” Upon my replying in the negative he would say, “It is surprising; you would not meet with it in England.” A democrat by conviction rather than by temperament, urging democracy as only method consistent with the human instinct toward expansion,” he was yet an educator, and believed in equality upon a high, not upon a low plane. Like Rugkin, he demanded of men their best, and with less than their best refused to be satisfied. .J. 11l , ■ The Pope is at present in perfect health for one of his years and physical fragility. He works many hours a day with astonishing assiduity. He rises at 7, and after a short time in prayer performs mass in his private chapel. He then returns immediately to his study and works till 11, at which hour he receives »his secretary and other persons to whom I he has granted an audience. I Mr. H. O. Havemyer receives a sa’ary of s7s,Ob<i a year as president of the Sugar Trust and 125,000 a year as trustee.

HE CUT HIS TAIL SHORT.

Did You Ever Catch a Real Lirt Porcupine? Ploemington Eye. One morning recently Jack Lansdow, of Dyer county, Tenn., picked up a hatchet and started out to thf wood pile to cut some kindling. As he stepped from the kitchen door he was surprised to see a large hemlock porcupine climbling a tree about ter feet from the door. Lansdow had often heard that ifa porcupine’s tail is cut off while in the act of climbing it will stop and refuse to climb higher or descend. As the prickly little animal about four feet from , the ground, Jack had no difficulty in springing forward and with a quick blow of the hatchet severing the tail of the porcupine in twain. Sure enough, .the animal Stopped its ascent and has remained in the same posh tion since. A porcupine is rarely ever seen in that part of the country, and is therefore quite a curiosity to Tennesseeans. Jack’s meigbors soon heard

SHORTENING THE TAIL.

jf the porcupine and begah coming to see it. Lansdow could see no reason why he should not make some money out Of the thing, so he placed 1 twelve-foot peep tight fence around it and began charging 10 cents admission. He made several dollars a lay with his prize and one Sunday collected $4.10. The animal has become perfectly used to the crowd and readily eats ind drinks from its master’s hands. Lansdow says be would cut off a section of the tree with the porcupine/ jn it and carry the animal around ind exhibit it but for the fact that it is on a valuable shade tree, and that the porcupine may not be able to hold on much longer. At present, though, according to a Veracious correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, it looks as chipper as it did ' aefore it lost its caudal appendage.

A Belated Lecturer.

Boston Advertiser. Dr. John Lord used to tell a story )f a visit to Connecticut. He arrived very late at the town where he vas to speak, and on stepping from ;he train was confronted by a man, vho asked; “Be you the lecture man that’s to ;a„lk to-night?” “I am, and I fear I am late,” reponded Dr, Lord. “Well, jump right into this carriage. They’re a-waitin’ fer ye. Sent ne down to fetch ye with me right :o the hall.” After being driven rapidly to the lall the ,Doctor was met by an effusve conamittee, who pinned a blue ‘ibbon on his coat and pushed him io the platform. He was too busy irranging his notes to notice how he vas introduced, but when the applause died away he began to speak in the subject of Alexander Hamil- . ion. Before he had gone very far a loleinn individual in the audience irose and said: “Begging your indulgence, sir, br interrupting you. I’d like to ask, dr, if Mr. Hamilton was a teetotal* ir?” He had been mistaken for a temperance lecturer who was to speak here that night, but had been delved. Meanwhile his audience was iwaiting’ him in another hall. He sot to them finally, but it was rather ate when the lecture was over.

Tigers in the Arctic Regions.

■t. Louis Post-Pispatch. One of the most surprising facts hat have been brought out by the lussian scientific expedition to lorthern Siberia in 1885-86, the reults of which are now being pubished, is that the tiger in compara-» ily recent (although probably prelistoric) times, ranged far within he Arctic region, leaving its bones irmly imbedded in the deposits of he Yana river and of the Liakenov ir New Siberian islands. The conliiion in which the remains were ound point to the occupancy of the ’ ■egion during a cold period (postglacial), when seemingly the climatic ■elations could not have been very liffcrent from what they are at the iresent time. John Burns, M. P., and David lolmes, the English labor leaders at iresent in this country, have been epudiated by the London Socialists. ?he reasons given are that the first las supported the Liberal party and hat the latter Gen. Nelson A. Miles has con- i lucted every campaign against the ndians in the last fourteen years, le is described as being quick, lecisive and a stern disciplinarian, mt courteous and gallant withal, le was born in Massachusetts fiftyIve years ago.