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The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
The Mystery of Sleep.

WHAT are the differences between
sleeping and waking? What is the pc
culiar nature of that mysterious condi-
ton which we call sleep? These are
questions long and earnestly asked, but
never answered. There is something
about this phenomenon that seems to defy
investigation The distinctions between
the sleeping and waking state are, save a
few external differences, as entirely I'M
recognized to-day as they were ages ago.
Sit by the cradle of child, and watch
it as it sinks into quiet slumber. The
muscles gradually relax the eyelids fall;
and voluntary motion ceases. The
breathing is slower, as is also the action
of the heart. The temperature of the
body is slightly depressed; and state OF
apparent uncOnsciousness accompanies
the physical changes specified. That is
all we can see, and yet it seems hard to
believe these things are all that constitute
sleep. If so, sleep mi ght be accurately
defined as simple cessation of
volitiOn, or the action of the will,
go that thought and motion of all muscles
except those of the vital organs is impos-
sible. But little thought will show that
cessation of will is only one Of the mani
festations of sleep, and that the will may
and frequently does only partially cease to
act, retaining command of the voluntary
muscles, and giving rise to the phenome-
non of somnambulsm. At times also the
mind becomes active in sleep, and often
reasons with surprising conference, and
dreams, more or less appr0ximating to
realities Of waking hours, are produced.
But the mystery of mysteries pertain
ing to sleep, is the fact that that it reno
Yates the system from fatigue. And after
al, this is 10 greater mystery than IA
tigue itself. What is fatigue? Ia what
state of mind or body, or Of both. does II
consist, arehuestions the answers to which
still puzzle the profoundest Psychologists.
The periodicity of the desire for sleer
is another popularity which is still in
volved in mystery. Why is it that dark
ness, monotonous noises, the fixing of the
eyes upon some stationary object, all favor
the approach of sleep? On all these
points there is still no certain light. Upor
respiration, digestion, circulation, repro
duction, and assimilation, some accurat,
knowledge exists, but of sleep almos
nothing This function, which influences
more or less every other, and which ha:
been aptly described as "a partial dealt
from which springs fresher lite" is ap
parently no less remote from presen
means of scientific investigation than thu
| greatest mystery of all, life itself.-Scien
| tifc American
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
Have Plants Intelligence

If the oyster fastened on the rock can
teel, why not the rose or the cOnvOlvulus.
or the great oak tree that is fast rooted in
the ground Of the glow Of the sum
shine, or the freshness of the rain and the
air, are they not pleased recipients? Who
can tell? Or who shall deny, and give
good reason for his incredibly? Who,
however learned he may be, can decide
where animal life ends, and where vege-
table life begins? What, for instance, is
sponge? And if, as Linneus says,
plants have no feeling, what makes the
mimOsa, or sensitive plant, shrink SO tim
idly from the slightest touch, and appar-
emily with such pain or terror from
ruder blow? Whether / am scientifically
and philosophically right or wrong, take
pleasure in believing that the possession
OF LIE IN however infinitesimal degree,
presupposes in its possessor, whether
animal or vegetable, faculty of sensation
that administers to its happiness. and that
may consequently administer to its suffer
ing. For, pleasure and pain are twins,
and the one is not attainabie without
liability 10 the other. The idea is not new
10 poetry, though not accepted by science.
1t blooms and sparkles in the graceful
mythology of Rome: as all who remem-
bOA TIC DIyduS anu I1dtuduTyduS, the
loves OF Apollo for Laura, Daphne and
Acantha; or who at school or college
have pOred over the metaphors of Ovid,
viii readily admit The Oriental poets OF
India and Persia delighted to animate the
flowers and trees, and, according to Hafiz,
the rose appreciates the tender melodies
OF her love, The nightingale. Greek SUI
perstition endowed the Atropa Mandra-
CORA with ali the sensations of an animal,
and believed that it shrieked with pain
when ITS roots were wrested from the
ground.
Science may laugh at all such notions,
but science, though a very great and
learned lady, does not yet know every
thing. Her elder sister, poetry, often
sees further and deeper into things than
she does. Did not Shakespeare, in the
Tempest" foreshadog the possibility OF
The electric telegraph more than TWO hun.
bred years before Wheatst0ne? Did not
DIR. Erasmus Darwin, long IN advance OF
James Watt and Robert Stephenson, pre-
dict the steamship and the locomotive
Did not Coleridge, in the "Ancient Mari
ner, explain the mOdgs Openmdi of the
then unsupported atmospheric railway -
Scientific american
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
Want of Vitality.

Sometimes there is lack of vitality in large and
apparently well developed frames Herculean
sinews and muscles are not always indicative of
stamina and constitutional vigor in their pos ses-
sor. Health depends more upon the condition
of the stomach, the liver and the bowels than upon
the breadth of the shoulders, the size of loose
levers and pulleys of the system in which strength
is supposed TO reside. All this grand animal ma
chiDery is of itself proecl ion against sickness
and decay. Easy and perfect digestion. regular
and healthy secretiOns. uDcon'aminated blood,
and eGular discharge of the waste matter of the
body through the intestines, the kidneys aud the
pores, are the most potent safeguards against dis
ease, the best guarantees OF longevity. To pro-
mote these objects is the great end ana purpose OF
HOstetter's stomach Bitters. The ingredients OF
which the Great Tonic and Alternative is composed
taken solely from the vegetable kingdom, and
their medicinal virtues couuterbalanced by
the acid and poisonous elements which exist,
more or less. in all the powerful mineral drugs.
Sufferers from Indigestion. biliousness, intermit
tent fevers, nervous debility or constipation. not
only find immediate relief from the of this
agreeable stimulant and invigorant, but become
conscious time wears on. of an increase OF con-
stitutioual elasticity and vital force. Labor and
exposure no longer produce the same effect upon
them heretofore and they feel If they had ac-
quired q new hold On life, new reserve of physi
periepce of thousands of bo n sexes, and every
day adds to the mass OF cOnfirmatory testimony
At this season of the year. when the temperature
and state of tire atmosphere exercise peculiarly
de- pressing influence over the minds and bodies
invali6s HOsetcrs Bitters il the only tonic upOI
which the detiliated can rely for swift and perma
neut restoration
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

All women know that it is beauty, rather than
genius, which all generations of men have wor-
shipped in the sex. Can it be wondered at, then,
that so much of woman's time and attention
should be devoted to the means of developing
and preserving that beauty Women KIN ow, too,
that when men speak of the intellect of women,
they speak critically, tamely, coolly; but when
they come to speak of the charms of beautiful
woman, their language and their eyes kindle
with an enthusiasm which shows them to he pro-
foundry Il not indeed ridiculously in earnest
1t ia part of the natural sagacity of women to
perceive all this. and therefore employ every al
lowable art to become the goddess of that adora-
ton. Preach to the contrary, as we may, against
the arts employed by women for enhancing their
beauty there still stands the eternal fact that the
world does not prefer the society of an ugly wo-
man of genius to that of beauty of less intellec-
tual requirements. The world has yet allowed no
higher mission to woman than TO be beautifu q,
and ii wonld seem that the ladies of the present
age carrying this idea of the world to greater
extremes than ever, for all women now to whom
nature has denied the taismanic power of beauty,
supply the deficiency by the use of smost delight
| full toilet article, known as the Bloom of
Youth" which has lately been introduced into
| this country by GEORGE w. LAIRD, delicate
| beautifer, which smooths out all indentations,
burrows, scars, removing tan, freckles, and dis
celebrations from the skin, leaving the complexion
clear brilliant and beautiful, the skin soft and
| smooth. With the assistance of this new Ameri
| can trick of Ladys toilet female beauty is des
| tined to play larger part in the admiration Of
men and the ambition of women than all the art:
employed since her creation. Prof. c. +. Chand
| Ter, Chemist to the Metropolitan Board of Health
| has recently prepared a chemical analysis o.
| this delightful toilet preparation, and reported
| that the - Bloom of Youth was harmless, con
| tanning nothing injurious to ~" health. Lade:
need have no fear of using tr is invaluable toilet
| acquisition.
| Sold by every druggist and fqacy goods dealer
| in the United States.
Depot, ) Gold ST., New York.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
Interesting Statistics of HydrophObia.

On the fourth of July last, the French
secretary of the interior communicated to
the Academy of Science In Paris, report
concerning all the cases of hydrophobia
which had come to the knowledge of his
employees from 1863 to 1869. Only eight
out of the one hundred departments into
which France is divided. failed to send in
reports, whilst in thirty departments
there had not occurred a single case OF hy-
drophobia. In the remaining fOrty-nine
departments 800 persons were bitten by
mad dogs. In 100 cases the biting was
followed by hydrophobia; in 1913 cases
the bitten persons suffered from no evil
consequence, and it was never made
known what became of the remaining IS.
i is probable, however, that the majority
of those were spared from the terrible
disease. In every case, without any ex-
ception, where hydrOphobia broke out.
the patients died. OF the whole number
of persons bitten only 26 were females.
Two-thirds of all persons who had been
bitten were males between five and fifteen
years of age. The number of mad dogs
was very nearly equally divided through
the four seasons. most of them, however
(s9), became mad in the forepart of the
year. Their number diminished some
what during the hottest months. The of
ficers succeeded in estabiis hing the time
when the hvdrophobia broke out in 106
cases. In 70 cases il broke out during the
first two months after the patients were
bitten, and the other cases were divided
among the following six months, only two
falling sick IN the eighth month. The dis
ease never lasted longer than four days
and almost all the patients died the second
day. OF all the remedies employed after
person was bitten by mad dog, the
burning of the wound proved the only
one which was followed by good results; ;
of 134 persons whose wounds were burned,
90 remained without evil consequences.
whilst the same was the case with only 10
OF 66 whose wounds were not burned.
The sucking of the wounds, or their treat
ment with ammonia Immediately after the
persons were bitten, proved salutary also
IN many cases, but cauteriZatiOn was far
the safest means of all. The report, more
over, states that Of 7S5 dogs which were
bitten by other mad dogs 52b were killed
at once, whilst more than 200 escaped and
were.permitted to propagate the disease.
III every dog which is IN the least sus-
pected of madness were at once killed,
and bitten persons had the courage to
burn their wounds Immediately, the prev
alent disease would be greatly diminished
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
=" Best Rooms"
BY NELLIE WILLOW.

L HAVE always wondered what some
people have best rooms for. 1t really
is a mystery; Tor they always keep them
closed ana dark-nO ray of sunlight ever
peeps through the curtains or falls upon
the carpet or pictures. Everything is
cold and still, and sort of awe inspiring
atmosphere pervades the en- ire room,
and you feel involuntariiy like raising
your hat and making a profound bow
when you enter.
a lew times year the apartment is
aired, and two or three times opened for
grand company" But how uncongenia'
everything is One feels just like wall
ing ON up-toe; the children are sure TO
talk In whispers, and there is a peryading
feehng that the carpet is too nice to walk
on, the CT AIRS too easy to be enjoyed, the
pictures too beautiful to be commented
upon, the books too handsomely bound to
be looked at and read. SO You sit bolt
upright and talk politics and tbeolocv
until you get as rigid as your surround
ings.
Now, don't like such roomsi dom
believe in having things that are too nice
10 De used; they always make me new
GUS III have nice dress, / want to
wear IL IL L have nice, pleasant room,
want 10 ENJOY It when have leisure. and
not when have rOomful of company to
entertain.
81 always think soft carpets are to walk
upon, easy chairs to lounge i'm. beal1tifuI
pictures TO look at and admire, handsome
books " read and talk about.
How love to throw open the "best
room now and then, and spend a quiet
evening there have father and brother
put ON their dressing gowns anG sinners
mother bring her knitting, and sisters
their crochet and embroidery; have some
one read good entertaining story, or a
sketch from some faTorite author,-then
piay an innocent game of some sort.
augh ana talk Just as much as You please
or sing pleasant, CHEEKY song, with the
piano for accompaniment.
Presently father will begin one of bie
long, thrilling stories of his early life in a
new country; mother will look compIa-
Gently around upon the family group and
think what happy change time has
wrought How bright and happy those
faces are around that hearthstOne Soon
the clock gives warning that It's an hour
past bed tlme-and where has the time
hown' Happy good nights are spoken,
and happier hearts think there is no place
like home, and there isn't.
Now, this is what call endowment. and
pltting our chest room" to proper use /;
and l am confident that if more parents
thought so, and would labor to make home
the happiest place on earth, there would
be far less dissipation and crime among
our young men, than there now is.
There Is nothing that sheds such a glow
of warmth through the soul as the feeling
that there is one place on earth where we
can find rest, and that is home; a place
where we can enjoy the society of those
most dear to us, and where all is peace
and happiness.
Parents, open your "best room" occa.
slonally, when only your own family il to
grace it, and see how much comfort yo,,
can take, and how great an amount of
happiness you will afford those over
wnom you have CONTROL Western RuroI
There are about 800 900 professional
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

children into the garden, and, finding
them both dead, they shot themselves in
remorse. Shortly afterward, the mothers
of the lovers happening to pass by, saw
the four corpses, and attempted to kill
themselves with knives, but were pre-
vented by the neighbors, who had now
fastened on to the scene. OF course,
readers are left at liberty to believe as
much of this story as they choose.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
The LITTLE CoRpoRAI. MAGAZINE

The July number of this beautiful juvenile makes
its appearance, greatly enlarged and improved, as
well as finely illustrated. The matter is entirely
original and of very high order. The freshness
and vivacty of it, pages cause the eyes of all our
young people TO sparkle. In its new, improved
form il is one of the bandsOmest, it is the
cheapest, magazines we have ever seen. Childlike
but not childish it rejoiccs the hearts of both pa
rents and children. This number begins new
volume. One dollar year; sample copy. -
cents. Published by SEwEI.L Il MILLER, Chicago,
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

DR.. SCOTT. the proprietor and editor of the Leb-
anon, o, Star. prominent physician, says Perry
DdUis' Pm Killer the Old and well known RENE
dy. which has acquired 4 world wide renOwn Tor
for the cure of sudden colds coughs, ETC., weak
stomach, general debility, nursing sore mouth,
cankercd mouth throat, liver complaint, dys-
pepsia indigestion, cramp and pain in the stom-
ach, bowel complaint, painters collie, Asfatic
cholera. diarrhea and dysentery. has lost none OF
its good name by repeated taiais; but contin ues
TO occupy prominent position in every family
or CHI
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De- numhers there Is safety. Il was upon b

IL numbers there Is safety. 1t was upon this
principle that the formula OF JUDscE's MOUNTAIN
HERE Pulls prepared. Dr.. Judson, In
tending to spend fortune in advertising his pills
submitted bis recipe 10 the revision Of the most
intelligent and learned physicians of the age, and
the result IL simple bnt most effcaciOus medicine
the JUDsoN's MOUNTAIN HERB Pills. They
purity the blood, remove all distractions, cleanse
the skin OF al pimpes and blotches, and are per-
fectIy sure and safe in their operation. The JUD-
SONS MOUNTAIN HERR Pills cure Biliousness,
Female irregularities, Headache and msuy OF the
diseases arising from impure blood and deranged
digestion. Use the JUDsoN's MOUNTAIN HERB
PMS, and when you have proved their virtue
recommend them to your friends. They are both
sugar-coated and plain. For sae everywhere
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
Economical Housekeeping.

before circular published by the Sea Moss Far ne
Co, which advise every on who taxes an inter est
in the food question TO read. 1t describes. concisely
origin ard uses the cable Sea Moss Farine and
presents array OF scientific and other testimony in
its fay which can hardly fail 70 convince the most
skepticg of its paramount claims as an economic,
wholesome digestbe. eminently nutritious, and very
pleas ant addt TO the national caste. This at least Is
The conclusion at which many OF the most eminent
hotel keepers, artistic cooks physicians, chemists
m rchants, &c. of New York have arrived. and they
state their op ions the subject their own sig
natures, in the pamphlet TO which We aude.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
PrUSSin0ss VtuP0ar.

Those of our readers who are DESTROYS OF
having good Vinegar should try Prussing's.
We can recommend it as superior to any we
have ever used. Being entirely pure and
wholesome, it is unlike the cheap, adulteratcd
stuff, SO frequently palmed off on the public
under the name of Vinegar. 1t possesses all
the excellent ilavOring and preserving quail
ties ola pure, genuine Vinegar which is sought
after by housckeepers.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

EVERY SATURDAY.-NO.2 %, for July 9,
contains double page illustration of Derby
Race five full-page engravings- Making the Gar
den; Little Emily, from Dickens story of David
Copperiield; View of Modern Athens; Fighting
Lions, from picture by f Snyders; On Board
the Cambria. 1.-THE Mystery of Edwin Brood
will be resumed in the next number. FIELDS,
OsaooD Il Co, Boston, Macs. $500 per annum.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

THE NURsERY.-The July number be-
gins the eighth volume of this superb little mega
zine. The neat little stories and sketches given
each month usually contain some good lesson, or
moral, while the pretty pictures are stories in
and We do not wonder that parents. as
well as the children, vel pleased with The
Nursery. Now is a good time to subscribe S150
a year; three copies, 81; five copies, 81. JOIN L..
SHoREY, 13 Washington street, Boston, Mass.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
Ilatrhelor,s Hair Dye,

This splendid Hair Dye is the best In the world,
the only true and perfect Dye harmless, reliable in
Simultaneous; no disappointment; no ridiculous
tints; remedies the i'll effects of bad eyes; invig-
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and properly applied at the Wig Factory, 10 Bond
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Fsc~ro,a Eatarra .souT

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Cures Catarrh IN ts worst forms, and svyeetens the
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AFTER n verdict had been rendered in
late trial in Austin county, Tex, the
judge addressed the jury in this way
BY your verdict you have said the ac-
cused is guilty of no crime. Your YER
dict being contrary to law, contrary to the
evidence, and contrary to the charge OF
the court, the court disapproves of your
action in the strongest possible manner.
1t is by such verdicts as this upon the part
of petit jurors, that Texas has been
brought into disrepute among the other
States of the Union"
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

THE purest and sweetest Cod Liver ol In the world
Ia Hazard Caswell's, made the shore, rom
fresh, selected livers, by CAswEIl., HAZARD q co.
New York. II is absolutely pure and aOeet. Patients
who have once taken II prefer 1t 10 all Others Phys
clans have decided II superior To of the other oi'
In market,
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

ACCORDING TO French statistician, TAX
ing the mean of many accounts, a man
fifty years of age has slept 5000 days,
worked $500 days, walked 800 days,
amused himself 1000 days, was eating
1000 days, was sick 500 days, etc. He ate
1900 pounds of bread, 10000 pounds OF
meat, 1900 pounds of vegetables, eggs,
and fish, and drank 1000 gallons of liquid,
water, coffee, tea, beer, wine, etc, ali to-
gether. This would make a respectable
lake of 300 square feet surface, and three
feet deep, on which a small steamboat
could navigate. And all this solid and
liquid material passing through human
being in fifty years.
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin, pmples, ring
worm, satrheum, and other cutsncous affections
cured. and the skin made soft and smooth, by using
the JUMPER TAR SOAP made by CASwELL. HAZ
ARD d CO, New York. IL is more convenient and
easily applied than other remedies avoiding the trouble
OF the greasy compounds now In
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30

Mr. ARNOLD, in the Ithica, n Y, Farm
ers' Club, recently stated that clover pas
ture does not make the best beef; that the
finest in the country comes from Ken
lucky where the cattle feed on blue grass
The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-06-30
Sweet Potatoes Without Ridges.


A writer in the South Land, published
at New Orleans, gives a method of raising
sweet potatoes without the use of a hoe
He says: My plan is to tiat-break, with
two horses, early. In April or May lay
off rows four feet with subsoil- pillow,
which makes nothing more than a mole
trace; drop the potato and sink it into this
trace with the foot then run harrow,
and continue to run often enough to
keep down the grass until the potatoes are
up. When up to pretty good stand,
throw two burrows with turning pillow,
covering them up entirely. Let them re-
main until they commence coming through,
then run subsoil pillow in the last fur
rows, and throw two more burrows with
the turning-plow, which will cover them
slightly and cover up the grass, leaving
them IN a nicely hilled condition Before
they commence running. break out the re-
manning balk with a turning-plOw and
run about three burrows with the subsoil.
When you dig, use the pillow