Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 April 1895 — Page 3

A WAR ECHO. EVErJV HONORABLE VETERAN DESERVES HIS PENSION.

THE TARANTULA KILLER.

Aiul ihc Lone Limb Is Not the Only lU-uson fr a Government Ilevarl Either.

(From the Journal, Lewiston, Mc.) Samuel R. Jordan has just given the Journal an account of his life, which in view of his extremely hard lot for the past few years is of great interest. "I am 4S years old and have always lived in New Portland. I enlisted in the army in 1S62 as a private in Company A, Twenty-eighty Maine Volunteers. My army experience injured my health to some extent, although I worked at blacksmithing some part of the time, when suddenly, several years ago, I was prostrated with what able physicians pronounced Locomotor Ataxia. At first I could get around somewhat, yet the disease progressed quite rapidly until I had hardly any feeling in my legs and feet, they felt like sticks of wood, and I grew so much worse that I could not move for three years without help, as my neighbors and friends could testify. I employed several physicians in my vicinity, and elsewhere, and they all. told me that medicines would not help me, that they could do nothing to effect a cure and that in time I should become entirely helpless. I became discouraged. I was a great care to my wife and friends. Shortly after I met an old army comrade, Mr. All. Parlin, a resident of Madison, Me., and he incidently mentioned how he had tried Dr. Williams Pink Pills for a severe case of rheumatism and a spinal and malarial trouble, that he had suffered with consequent of his army life, and had been greatly benefited by their use. By his earnest recommendation I was induced to try the pills. After taking them for a time I began to feel prickly sensations in my legs and a return of strength so I could move them a little. After a few weeks I began to feel a marked improvement in my conditon. I soon was enabled to walk around a little with the help of crutches. After taking for some time I can now walk without crutches, my general health is much improved and I have regained my oldtime vigor. I can walk about and enjoy life once more, for which I feel very thankful, and this happy result is due to the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills " Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People were first compounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So great was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of all. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Willlams' Medicine company, Schenectady, N. T., and are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Med. Co.

Fortunes on Their Beads. In many instances Dutch women carry their entire fortunes on their heads. Females in very humble circumstances frequently wear headgears worth $250 and more. They are most costly heirlooms, many of which were made, in the seventeenth century, and under no circumstances can their owners be induced to part with them.

Tbe Smallest Watch. The smallest watch in the world has just been completed by some Bombay jewelers. It is not larger than a twoanna bit, and has the most perfect jewelled lever movement, and a fullycompensated chronometer balance.

Canoes made in Canada are now shipped direct to England, where much clumsier craft called canoes are now in general use. Ex.

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! Giant Wasp That Stings the Spider to

Death. The tarantula is a large burrowing spider, which dwells ih a shaft-like hole it sinks in the earth. Its appearance is most repulsive, and inspires anyone who examines it with a feeling of profound disgust. As it stands, it frequently covers an area as larjre as the palm of a man's hand, and over its body and legs the-re bristles a thick covering: of rod-urown hair, it may be said that its home is in many lands, but its greatest size is attained in tropical and semi-tropical countries. In the south of Europe, along the Mediter-

! ranean coast, it has been known for

centuries as the "mad spider," because the symptoms following its bite are similar to those of hydrophobia. There are the peasantry, especially those of Sicilly, regard it with minglei? feelings of hate and superstitious dread. They will tell you that the only chance of recovery from its bite is for the patient to commence dancing without delay, and to continue until he falls senseless from exhaustion a remedy which, ridiculous as it seems, has something to be said in its favor, when we know that the one danger to overcome is the tendency to sleep. As long as this can be successfully avoided the patient is in no danger; but if he gives, way, and allows himself to fall into a stupor, then he is likely to succumb, even from the comparatively mild poison of the European variety. It is in the tropical countries of South America, however, where all forms of insect and vegetable life attain their highest development, that the great spider is most deadly. And farther north, in the province of Mexico, where It is quite as numerous, its poison is only a slight degree less dangerous. There we have met it everywhere and studied its habits. In the orange orchards, in the vineyards, and the open prairies, we have watched it attack enemies many times its own size and marveled at the ease with which it overcame them. Even its own kind are not exempt from its fierce onslaught, and we remember once seeing a pair of them meet on the upturned root of a fig tree and fight a duel to death the death of both. Of man it seems to have no fear whatever, and will attack without hesitation, either his hand or his foot, if they come within striking distance. In doing so it stands upon its four hind legs. It opens wide its enormous fangs until the mandibles protrude in a straight line from its face; then, with all the muscular force it is capable of launches itself forward, sinking them with a vicious thrust deep into the flesh of the enemy.

YOUTHFUL PRODIGIES.

Wren Was One Whom Age Did Wot Make Less Wonderful. Sir Christopher "Wren was a prodigy in youth, as in maturity, says Current Literature. Oughtred, the first mathematician of his day, declares in the preface to his great book that an ingenious boy, "Gentleman Commoner at Wadham," had enlarged the sciences of astronomy, statistics and mechanics by most brilliant discoveries, "praclaris in ventis." This was Wren at the age of 15. A year after that he had taken out a patent for an instrument to write with two pens at the same time; in the same year he was appointed demonstrating assistant on anatomy at Surgeon's hall. Wren lived to justify his early promise, but Dugald Stewart tells of a boy who, as he hoped, "would rival the fame of Sir Isaac Newton." This was the son of Count Pusgstall. "I cannot help considering him," wrote the Scotch professor, "as the most extraordinary prodigy of intellectual endowment that has ever fallen under my knowledge." This is a great saying, indeed, from Dugald Stewart, who was not given to enthusiasm or to careless expression. Unfortunately we have no detailed information about the youth's requirements in later years; he died at 19 of general decay, apparently. But Mr. Lemaistre met him in his travels and published an accobat In 1S06 the boy being then 5 ye.rs old. "He sits on a carpet surrounded by blocks, and when the gravest and most acute remarks fall from the lips of this little person a spirit seems to speak rather than a child and the fine expression which sparkles on his countenance tends to strengthen the idea." Among other tests Mr. Lemaistre asked him to make a map of the Venetian empire, which he did with accuracy. Those competent to judge the fact will readily believe that the child of 5 years who performed it was an animated miracle. The French armies barred near every road in Europe to an. English traveler at that date. Mr. Lemaistre asked how he could get home without touching Hanoverian, French or Dutch territory; the child "instantly traced on the globe the single road remaining open." I is well for this gentleman's credit that Dugald, Stewart's evidence long afterward makes the story possible.

Ashes of the Dead in Safety Vaults. "What are done with the ashes of the dead after cremation?" asked one merchant of a banker on 'change yesterday. "I can't tell what is done in every case," was the reply, "but I know how about a score of bodies have been temporarily disposed of. Down in our

saftey deposit vaults are that many !

urns. Relatives have trouble in settling the question finally, and may hire strong boxes at $5 a year and let the ashes rest there for a year or two till they can make a final disposition of them. I suppose we have had a hundred urns since the establishment of the crematory, but seldom more than twenty at one time." Cincinnati Times-Star.

Learning from Nature. The air-tight compartment theory of building ships was copied from a provision of nature shown in the case of the nautilus. The shell of this animal has forty or fifty compartments, into which air or water may be admitted to allow the occupant to sink or float, as he pleases.

Opium in Prison. Twenty per cent of the inmates of the state prison at Charlestown, Mass., are habitual opium-eaters, and Warden Bridges says it is next to impossible to prevent the smuggling of this drug into the prison.

k WOMAN'S BIBLE.

MAN IS NOT THE MASTER THEY SAY.

l Committee of Notable Women Kow at Work Endeavoring to I'rov the Equality of the Sexes by au Interpretation of the Holy Hook.

(WOMAN'S BIBLE, translated by a distinguished American and English Joint committee of women, is the most serious labor yet undertaken by the vomen's rights leaders. The first five books of the Old Testament Gene

sis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy have already been carefully studied, and the position of woman in the Bible has been fixed with precision. Six years ago this work began. It has for some time past been uuspectcd that a revision of certain portions of the scriptures would jshow that woman had not been fairly dealt with by Biblical students. The main question to be determined was whether there was any real basis in the Bible for the assertion that man was the master. The work of the new committee of women has, they claim, already progressed far enough to show that the scriptures do not proclaim the superiority of man. The members of the Revision committee find on every hand abundant evidence of the absolute equality of the sexes. The venerable leader of this committee is Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton of New York, who 5s now SO years of age. With Mrs. Stan-

were many famous names Mrs. Mary Livermore, the Rev. Olympla Brown, the Rev. Phoebe Hanaford, and Sarah A. Underwood, who was editor of tha Open Court, and with her husband, editor of the Index. John Bright's sistor, who has since died, was another famous woman who was to have assisted. Frances Ellen Burr, now of the Hartford Times?, and Helen Gardner, wore others. Mrs. Lord and I went through the Pentateuch, and next year while in London, assisted by my daughter, Mrs. Blatch, I continued with the same five books, in which are many of the most important mistranslated passages most frequently quoted to establish the inferiority of women. The other members of the committee, it must be confessed, did not carry on the work with much zest. There was some feeling that women were not ready then to bear the responsibility of the movement. I was president of the National Suffrage organization, and many women dreaded the effect of my leading such a work. Others urged that it was necessary to gain the support of religious denominations for the general emancipation of women, while any serious attacks based on the revision of the Bible would interfere with many avenues then opening to her where she might earn her living. During the fifty years since I went before the legislature of New York to urge the rights of women I have seen that the greatest trouble was that women believed themselves cursed of God, that they are the origin of sin, and that maternity is a condition of slavery. If they could only be brought to see that instead of that they were represented in the godhead at the creation, that woman was created in the Image of the motherhood, then they might regain their selfrespect. This, it seemed to me, could only be accomplished by a revision of the Bible. And while the work proceeded only slowly the ultimate neces-

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON1.

ton have been associated Miss Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset, Mrs. Mary Livermore, the Rev. Olympia Hanaford, Sarah A. Underwood, Frances Ellen Burr, Heleti Gardner, and Miss Frances Lord of London. Perhaps the clearest narrative of the work and aims of the revisionists is best told in the words of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She said recently: "Yes, I will cheerfully tell you whatever I can as to the method of work on the Woman's Bible and its inception. 'Where did the idea originate?' Years ago in my own head. I have always been a careful student of the Bible since I went into woman's work and found that the worst foe we had was the mistranslation o' the Bible, which took away the selfrespect of woman and made her a slave to man. As the years went by I saw clearly that this must be combated. Women are politic by nature. They prefer to temporize, and so that course was followed. Men have never touched questions concerning women. With all the learned professors and scholastics who have been engaged in revising the Bible none has touched women. They have argued over man and the inanimate, but they have left woman just where she was in the beginning of the translations. There were hopes that in the last revision of the New Testament justice might at last be done woman and her equality with man clearly brought out, but they did nothing and still kept woman in a position that has taken away from her her self-respect. If man will not correct errors in translation which reflect on woman then women must do it. Six years ago I saw plainly that it must be the final blow to be struck before woman could stand on the plane of equality with man. At that time Miss Frances Lord came from England and remained two months with me at my country home ia Tenafly, N. J. In those two months we went through the entire Bible to find out what proportion of It woman constituted. We found we appeared in the King James version in only oneeleventh part. This proportion was somewhat of a surprise to me. I had ilways hesitated because it seemed men a herculean task to attempt to revise the entire Bible. But when we ."ound women filled but such a small yirt of the Bible, I decided that the vork could be done. I did 'it intend 'o attack any doctrines, eree&!, yr beiof, simply the false position wWfcn In A-.s Bible had been left throu;7i man's leglect. Miss Lord and I then iwk up ,.he Pentateuch and commencivi upon t. To carry out the plan of revision i. committee of English and American vomen was then formed. Among them

sity of it ne-er left me. When I read of the ferocious attack of the Baptist clergymen on woman during the convention in Atlanta it seemed to me the time had come. Yes, I know well that men will say 'And it has come to this at last! Not even the Bible is to be left free from woman's influence!' The assumption of a revision committee alone is enough to be called presumption on our part. Yet at the time six years ago that we formed the original committee many newspapers treated the subject with respect and liberality, and some even stated that they could not see any reason why women should be debarred from revising the Bible any more than men. I have never yet been able to see why. I may look much further ahead than other women do, but I believe firmly that before women can acquire equality with men, which is to be the next relative position of the sexes, the false translations of the Bible concerning women must be corrected. After the attack of the Baptist clergymen in Atlanta in January I decided it was time to move. If others cannot stand the possible controversy and stigma that may be the result of the woman's Bible I can. I am now SO years olil. My people live to the age of 8". or longer. I figure that in the natural course of events, I may expect to live to the same age. I am out of all official connection with women's organizations. I want nothing. I have no sails to trim to catch the favor of men or women. I have no offices to aspire 1o. I am beyond all that now, and regard it as the culminating work of my life. I am not going to say things to shock people. I am only going to bring out what is on the surface.

Mrs. Stanton expects that at the brier- i

est it will require two years for the completion and publication of the Woman's Bible. Although this appeals a very short time, in comparison with the New Testament, it is easily expla'ned by comparison of the amout t of work to be done. There is no intention of tampering with anything wliich does not concern woman directly, 'it is not the women of the Bible but woman in the Bible. And In some cases iiu-ii winmarried them have been brought

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The Grand Ziatlcuticus. Secretary Morton, In speaking as to the proposed annexation of Cuba, recalls that thirty or forty years ago when a popular movement for attaching Cuba to the United States was instituted in this country a secret organization known as the Sons of Malta sprang into existence for the purpose of inculcating the annexation idea. The organization was more of a joke than anything else, with its "Grand Ziatlcuticus" and other officers with picturesque titles. Secretary Morton was one of the hundreds of thousands who joined this society, being tossed In a blanket and subjected to other extraordinary ceremonies of initiation. Notwithstanding the frivolous purpose and methods of the Knights of Malta, they multiplied ax an amazing rate and raised several hundred thousand dollars for charitable purposes.

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Chauncey Depew has the length, range, agility and depth of the graceful greyhound; to let loose on him the savage dogs of war is no better than cruelty to animals. Ex.

The Evolution Of medicinal agents is gradually relegating the old-time herbs, pills, draughts and vegetable extracts to the rear and bringing into general use the pleasant and effective liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs. To get the true remedy see that it Is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only. For sale by all leading druggists.

It will be droll to find great private corporations running schools for money getting solemnly up and professing to be eleemosynary institutions. Chicago Tribune.

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Queenie Foote of Fort Wayne haa joined the Order of Maccabees. She ia 46 years old and only thirty-seven inches high. Ex.

It the Baby is Cutting Teeth. Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Xks. Wikslow's SOOTHINO Syrup for Children Teething-

An Osage Indian who tried his first feather bed at Stillwater, the other day, cut a hole in the ticking and crawled in among the feathers. Ex.

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