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The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18
Natures Iriumph.

Nature, in her luxuriance, has clothed
the hills and the dales with herb and
shrub, whose occult natures merely re-
quire the earnest application of the scien-
tific and inquiring mind to reveal their
curative properties, for in the vegetable
world kindly providence has placed
healing for all nations. The only speci-
fics for any disease yet discovered arc
vegetable in their nature, and while
quinine has been accepted as the only
remedy for one class, the extract of the
buchu plant is rapidly taking its place as
sovereign remedy for other OF those ills
which aillict humanity. The type of
disease to which it is remedial is broad
one, and its manifestations are legion,
but it may be stated in general terms
that all diseases of the urinary organs,
whether caused by climate, irregularity,
or Self-generated, submit at once to the
operation of its power. lIelmbold's
Buchu, for all such complaints, is the
result of long research, and is acknowl-
edged superior to all other preparations.
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An African 6SHe.

In zone tribe, after leaving Tanganyika,
Lieutenant Cameron found The women
much more regarded than usual among
Africans, and consequently far more
fashionable than the rest of their sex
in that happy country.
One of the bellies of the country is
thus described in Camcron's journal {:
"She is merry sort of person. this
Mrs. POkwanywa, and really lady-like
in her manners. IL was great fun show
ing her lOoking-glass.
''She had never seen one before, and
vas half afraid of IL, and ashamed to
show she was afraid. She Is a dressy
body, double rows of cowries around
her head, besides copper, iron and ivory
ornaments stuck in her hair, and Just
above and in front of each ear tassel
of red and white bea,s. A large neck
lace of shells was around her nee and
around her waist string of g.
colored sinagomazzi and a rope maCL of
red beads. Her front apron WAS leopard
skin and the rear one OF grass cloth,
with its fringe strung with beads and
cowries sewed on in pattern; bright
iron rings were round her ankles, and
ropper and ivory bracelets were on her
arms; her nair was shaved n little back
from the forehead, and three lines. each
about a quarter Of an inch wide were
painted below. The nearest Jne 10 the
iair was red, the next black and the
1ext white. Her upper lip WAS per
orated and piece of stone inserted,
until the upper lip proirudcd Il couple
of inches, giving a hide0ns expression 10
the face, and making her articulation
Iuite lndistinct.
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Emersou,s Unpublished Writings.

In an illustrated paper on "The Home
and Ilaunts of EmmersOn," Mr.. +. B.
Sanborn says: Scarcely any of his num-
erous sermons have been published (;
most of his speeches on political and
social occasions remain uncOllected and
unedited; many verses exist only in
manuscript, or have been Withdrawn
from publication; and even of his lect-
ures, from which he has printed very
freely, for nearly forty years, Il great
many still remain i'll manuscript. Even
those that were published omit much
that was spoken,-the fine lectures on
History, on Love, and others, displayed
SO many omissions TO those who heard
them that the author WAS ut the time
sorely complained of by his faithful
hearers for leaving out SO much That had
delighted them. Few or none of the
philosophical lecturers read at Harvard
University eight or nine years ago, and
designed TO make part of what Mr..
Emerson calls "The Natural History of
the Intellect" have ever been printed.
This work, when completed, was to be
the authors most systematic and con-
nected treatise. 1t was TO contain, what
could not fail TO be of interest 10 all
readers, Mr.. Emerson's observations on
his own intellectual processes and
methods. of which he las always been
studimIsly watchful, and which, from his
habit of writing he has carefully noted
down. From this work, which, even if
not finished, will ut some time be printed,
and from his correspondence of these
many years, portions of which will
finally he printed, it will he possible TO
reconstruct hereafter Il rare and remark
able episode of literary history
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

A. Boston romance, in which n hale
and hearty man of 80 and n slight, little
woman u couple Of years younger fig
ured, is reported. The two met on a
rainy day, while hurrying with lifted
umbrellas about their business, cOlli-
sion followed, and the woman slipped to
the sidewalk In picking her up the
man recognized her rs an old fame.
Thirty years before, when she WAS a
Lowell factory girl, and he POOR medi-
cal student at Harvard, they had loved
each other. In 1919 he went to CalifOr-
MIA and forgot the girl he left behind
him. He prospere,l in business, became
rich, and married. Later his wife and
children died, and i'm his loneliness he
remembered the LOr-ell factory girl. A
dream told him she was in distress. He
hurried east to find her, but looked in
WIN till they accidentally met. She
was n widow, with two children, bn'
that is all over now.
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After the Blockade.

"ThIs," said the wild-cyed stranger as
the train rushed past two ancient trees
and the last sad remains of a once beau
tiful rail fence; this is the spot where
four weeks ago we staid three days and
three nights, snow bound, unable to
leave the train" -
"Gracious," said the little man in the
next seat, spray how did you live all
that tinnT'
"Oh, V, managed TO get along all right,
all EXCEPT couple of babies who were
being weaneG, they suffered for the want
of milk" -
'Dear me-" said the little man in n
sympatheiic voice, "and of course no
milk 10 be had" -
"No, though they might have been
spared but for the brutal, unnaturalcon-
duct of the engineer; some of the boys
offered to milk the cow-catcher but he
wouldn't t 'cm." Then the wild-eyed
stranger + .tended TO pick cindcr from
his off eye.
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Snfculatinn.

Since the creation, it is estimated that
27,O00, 600. 200, 900, 900 have lived on the
earth. This sum divided by p, ,S64 200
the number Of square miles, gives ,3li,-
522, ,Os6 to a square rod, and 5to a square
foot. Suppose 4 square rod be divided
into / / graves, each grave would contain
100 persons. But this is speculation, and
of no benefit to the l ,000, ,0O0, 900 people
that now exist, 500, ,OO0, 900 of whom are
invaiids, 33,0OO,OO dying each year.
What they most want are the facts con-
cerning DIR. Pierce's Family Medicines.
For Years his Golden NJ. lical Discovery
has been the standard remedy for the
cure of all ScrofulOuS, throat and lung
diseases. While for over quarter of a
century, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
has been unrivaled is positive cure for
catarrh. The testimony of thousands of
ladies has been published, certifying
that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
positively cures the diseases and weak
ncSseS peculiar To women. For full in
formation, see the Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser, an illustrated
work of over 900 pages, price OpoSt-
paid) $3.50. Over 100000 copies sold.
Address the author, K. V. Pierce, NJ.
D., Buffalo, n. Y.
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Sun.Strnke.

When the cheated term" is upon us,
care should be taken to avoid excessively
heating the blood, which tends to the
attack called sun-stroke. They who are
temperate and hygienic in their eating
and drinking are much less liable to
sun-stroke than they who eat "evcry-
thing they want" and drink wine, whis-
ky, or ale. Then, too, the hygienic and
they who practice abstinence with re-
spect to alcoholic beverages, when sun
struck, recover much easier from the
attack than the drinkers. This is the
testimony of all physicians OF expe-
rience.
The treatment of one who has been
sun-struck is similar to that required in
apoplexy, rs the brain-congestion is sim
liar. Cold ablutions over the whole per-
son and ice to the head, considered the
best method by many physicians, may
do with strong, robust persons, but the
majority of cases would sink under such
treatment. A better method is to make
hot applications, or alternate hot and
cold. If hot water can not he OBJ
tained at first, bathe the head with tepid
water, and with the hands moistencd,
rub the extremities, the neck, and the
whole length of the spine, rubbing in a
downward direction TO draw blood from
The head. As soon as boiling water can
be obtained, put a dry blanket around
the body, then wiring flanncls from the
hot water and apply them quickly TO the
region of the stomach, liver, bowels, and
spine over the blanket; also immerse
the feet in hot water, or wrap them in
hot fannels as far as the body. Re
wiring the flannels once every five or
eight minutes for half an hour or more,
then remove them and apply cool water
in the same way, either by cool towels
OF by sponging with cool water dry well
and rub the surface lightly and briskly
with the hand until glow is produced
As soon as the patient can swallow, give
hot water TO drink-plenty of it-with
occasional bits of ice or sips of cold
water.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

Breathes there n man with soul 50
dead who never TO himself hath said, Il
would like to draw prize in n lotteryg'
1t is such an easy way of solving the
complex problems of life that Mt one
time of worriment or another it enters
into every unsuccessful mans wool-gatl-
ering But it is oftener bad than good
luck to carry off the big prize in the lot
terry. Money that comes easily always
goes rs easily. Here is story in an ln-
dianapolis paper of a young man who
did well enough until he drew prize of
5000 in a Louisville lottery. The
money was wasted in riOtous living, and
when it was gone drinking and gambling
had become passions with him. His
debts have been settled again and again,
and his embezzlements have been kept
out of sight, but he is now lying in
county Jail in Illinois. Another young
HoOSicr, who drew asprize of $1,000,
squandered it in few years, and is now
as worthless a vagabond rs can be found
i'll the West.
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An InspIred Orator.

On certain occasion Prentiss visited
Boston, and addressed its citizens in
Faneuil Hall. A gentleman who heard
him, then n venerable judge told this
anecdote, which illustrates the orators
power. Unable TO procure 4 seat, he
stood jammed by the crowd. As MIR.
Prentiss began to speak the gentleman
took out his watch to time him. As he
was replacing it in his fob something in
the orators manner and words arrested
his attention. He found il impossible TO
take away his eyes or ears. He forgot
the presence of tho crowd, his own IA
tigue, the passage of the time, everything
but the speaker. Mr.. Prentiss seemed
fatigued. So intense was the sympathy
of the venerable man with him that he
found himself breathing rapidly and
painfully. ~sess-ssle -
At last the orator, exclaiming, MY
powers fall" sank exhausted into 2
chair,
i, Not till then did the aged listener dis
cover that his hand was still holding his
watch ut the opening Of his pocket. He
looked at ii. He had stood in that
crowd listening for three hours and fif-
teen minutes. Near him stood an aged
minister who, tremulous with excite
ment, exclaimed,
= "Will any one ever doubt again that
God inspires MANI"
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hnnored and Blessed.

When a board of eminent physician:
and chemists announced the discovery
that by combining some well known val
uable remedies, the most wonderful
medicine was produced, which would
cure such n wide range of diseases that
most all other remedies could be dis.
penscd with, many were sceptical; but
proof of its merits by actual trial has
dispelled all doubt, and to-day the dis
coverers OF that great medicine, Hop
Bitters, are honored and blessed by all
as bencfactors.
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The Hawaiian Deafh.Xail.

\ correspondent of the San Francisco
! Chronicle, thus writes: The hour when
the soul of the patient takes its flight to
| the Eternal, when the Ominous word
make dead is sounded like a knell
upon the ears Of the survivOrs,-then
suddenly all voices are united in singing,
or rather chanting, the auwe in deep,
mclodious, and pathetic tones, that sound
like the wailing of the sea in the night
time. The contagion, like magnetic
current, spreads through the village.
Instantly all hearts are moved, and the
auwe is chanted from one house TO
another, until an ocean of sympathy
seems TO float upon the air. There is
something so touching and pitiful in this
wall that foreigners, in passing by dur
ing its continuation, will stand as if
electrified and listen TO it rs the sweetest,
saddest music ever heard upon earth.
II is taken up in currents, the silence
intervening being sOlemn,-mOre solemn
and impressive than any pathetic Grafton
delivered by the most famous orator at
the grave of the most illustrious man.
moments silence, and again the auwe
breaks forth in its intensity, resOunding
throughout the village in peals of mourn
ful lamentation. Thus at intervals, while
the corpse is laid out, the wailing is
heard in all its sadness. 1t is not monot-
onOus, for sadness is congenial to the
human heart, or at least it is burden
which we all must bear, and hence we
like the echoes of our common lot. 1t
is rather enchanting and fascinating;
it attracts with strange, weird power.
There are other customs especially
noticeable ut the deaths of chiefs. To
sing The praises of a chief in songs
lascivious, and accompany them with
dances the most unchaste, were the
highest honors that could be paid to ALI.
When Lunatillo, the predecessor of King
Kalakaua, died, the writer witnessed as
tonishing levities like those herein
mentioned"
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Adverfisinn lndaes,

How often, deceived by sensational
heading, we think we have found some
thing interesting, and settle ourselves
for quiet enjoyment, when after reading
few lines, we find that the advertiser S
trick has led us astray, and we have
been reading that Eureka Ague Pills are
a sure cure for Ague, and that Com
pound Extract Sarsaparilla, Dandelion
and Iodide of Potassium purifes the
the blood and invigorates the Liver, and
then adds, for sale by King e. Proud and
7. S. Hinde, Oregon, Simpson & Mann
and E. Anibal, BigelOw, and E. Bumps,
Forbes.
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Some Things That Mexico Produces.

The following is an extract from Ia
1up0JrdfG WcricGnd, an able and liberal
paper published in the City of Mexico.
1t will bc all the more interesting, as it
gives some facts about the country, COM
piled by intelligent native authority /:
Incredible as it may seem, i'll many
parts of Mexico there are acres upon
acres of land that yield every year three
and ercll four crops of corn, cultivated as
they are in the crude way still followed
by the Indians and a yield of five hum
dred for one is common enough through
out the country. Eight hundred and
fifty-siy thousand square miles, the area
of the republic, present no mean field
for commercial enterprise where the soil
yields every necessary of human want,
every element of luxurious comfort,
every element of accumulating wealth.
And the country is still in IFS major part,
undeveloped, in many parts even uncx-
plored and the McXicans themselves,
only partially estimate the wealth and
resources that lie dormant under their
pil, in their valleys and on their noun
i,in ranges. According 10 official statis-
lies, the foreign commerce of Mexico,
imports and exports united, exceeds
rorling to the facts, and taking into con-
sideration the extensive smuggling car
ried on over the six thousand miles of
sea coast she has TO guard, we may
almost double these figures and ray ono
hundred millions The purely Internal
trade may be put at four hundred mill
ions per annum. The estimated value
of farming properties is seven hundred
ar, ftrnr,f-- f,ntlltnnu of 1nllar- at,1 nF
city properties, six hundred ami sixty
five millions. Humboldt gave the gold
and silver product up 20 1903 at SG,2i2,-
000,0 900; and for the seyenty-fiYe years
to date, at thirty millions per annum, ms
We have the startling figures, S, S,i92, ,000,-
900 as McXico's contribution to the
precious metals circulating in the world.
One year with another, not less than
fifteen millions in gold and silver bars
and coin, go TO Europe through the GUS
tom houses. and nearly rs much more
goes rs contrdbGndO. All these figures
are simply fraction of what the republic
can produce if worked up TO anything
like her capacity for the yield of gold
and silver. Here is grand field for the
mining instruments and apparatus of
the North, which every manufacturer of
the United States should attend TO.
Mexico, says the same paper, can SUP
ply the United States at n cheaper rate
with all the goods imported from the
West Indies, Brazil and Central and
South America, and there is little doubt
of the fact Mexican trade will be
great fact yet, notwithstanding the per-
sistent efforts of certain parties in
Mexico and in this country working in
the interest Of European traders, 10 put
obstacles in the way. We believe the
manufacturers of Chicago and the North
west have made the right beginning.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

. Many people look upon the compass
as an introduction of the fifteenth GEN.
tury, but it seems TO have been well
known in a primitive form in the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries In one of the
popular songs written in the time of
King John, Il is said that the sailors who
60 on long voyages TO Eriesland or to the
east know their way by observing the
Tramontane or Polar star; but, when
the sky is covered with clouds, and they
could no longer see the stars of heaven,
they had contrivance, which was this
They took a needle of iron and put it
through piece of cork, 80 that one end
remained out, which they rubbed with
loadstone, and then they placed il in a
vessel full of water, and, whichever way
the end of the needle pointed, there,
without any doubt, was the Polar star.
This formed primitive but fairly per-
feet mariners compass.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

J Those who are much given to finding
fault with others are strangely oblivious
TO their own; unconsciously, perhaps,
arraying themselves i'm ermine, and seat
ing themselves upon the bench-an as
sumption of dignity that would be pre-
posterous if it were not wicked; morbid
ly sensitive TO the faults of others, insen-
sible to their own. Poor, weak humani-
ty, forbearance and forgiveness is but the
common debt of man TO man, and he is
noblest who is most forgiving.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18
TrHE FRIEND OF ALI.
HoLLoWAY'S PILLS.

These famous Pills purify the blood. and act
noSt powrrflly. yet sssothinsly ON the Liver.
stomach. Ki'IneyS and BoNels giving Tome
EnrI.y and Nigor To the whole system. Tb-Y
wonderfully efiiFTIciOltS IN ailments incidental
lily Medicine. for tlIe cure Of most complaints
they arr uIeVullled.
lNPOHTANT CAUTION None are genuine
unless the signature uf J. lfay'lock. ~ agent for
the United Stsif.sS. surrounds zach IL Y Of Pills
and Ointment. Foxes ut - Gents. o. cIS., and II
each There Il considerable saving by tak Hs
the larger sizes. HOLLOWAY 4 co.
For I by NEW NOKK-
KING s PROUD. Orcgpn. Ma
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MANHOOD.
How Lost and How Restored

Just puhliShed. a now edition Of Dr. Culver
wells Celebrated Essay on the rIdlral cure.
without medicine. of SpcFmltOrrhr Or Seminal
weakness. Involuntary Seminal L0SSeS. Impo-
trney. Mental anil Physical mcapaeity. Imped
imentS To- Marriage. etc. alSo. Consumption.
Epilepsy and Fits, induced by Self-indulgence
or s'Nual eNtravaglncc, etc.
ssS~Price in u sealed envelope only cents.
n The celebrate, author. in this admirable Is
~, clearly dssrO lStrlteS. frDm \ thirty years
SSkc.=ssfnl pr3 31lc.', that the alarming eeDSr
qINIe from 81 ahuts'' may he ratically cured
witliIkt the dan crOuS use Of internll medicines
or thcN Npp.icati Of the knife pointing ont y
mode Nslre at pee simple, certain and eifec-
tual. by Aans q which every sufferer, no mat :
ter what conc i'm may be- may euro lins eli
cheapIy, pfsRtely. Fld radically.
THIS ,etuf ShOU'd be In the hands Of every
Innth and evd man in the land.
E<uDt under Sdi In a plain envelope. to any
aIHftSS, post -pais bon receipt of six cents or
two postage STAN Address
TIE GU ERwELL MEDICAL CO.
Al Ann Street, y. Y; p. o. Box 1856.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

An Encyclopedia of Universal Knowl-
edge, in 20 volumes $4,000 pages, all
for so, and equal in all important re-
spects to any CyclOpedia heretofore sold
for less than slO0, is announced for
publication by the American Book Ex-
change, 55 Beekman Street, New York.
They have also just issued an edition OF
Chambers Cyclopedia Of English Liter
ature, complete in four volumes, neatly
cloth bound for $500. Their catalogue
of several hundred standard publica-
tiOns, at very low prices, will he sent
free on request.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

JUVENILE CLASSICS.-Beautiful large
type elegantly bound editions of Ara
bian Nights and Robinson CriSoe, for
80 cents each, and of Bunyan'S Pill
grim's Progress and Travels of Baron
Munchausen, for 80 cents each, have
just been published by the American
Book Exchange, 55 Bcekman Street,
New York.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

As an illustration of the meteorOlog-
ical effect of ocean currents, Mr.. j. X,
Laughton lately called attention in a
lecture 10 some estimates made by Mr..
Croll Of the heating influence of the gull
stream. He calculated that the surface
water of the north Atlantic, if deprived
of the gulf stream, would be reduced 10
temperature very far below the freez-
ing point, AMI that the heat which this
great current disperses into the air above
it, if converted into power, would be
equal to the horsepower of four him.
drcd million of the largest iron-clatl
men-of-war. 1t is this heat which, car
ried over the northwest Of Europe,
makes the green fields and the open
harbors during the winter, while in Lab
r;lGlOr and Newfoundland the earth is
covered with snow and the harbopa
blocked with ice.
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CCRE FOR ALL
HcLLOWAYS OINTMENT

rO>s,TsSeti If this remedy. ey-'ry man may be-
his own dOcfor. II may be rubbed into the syS-
tenn. 50 ~ a. rrarh any internal rOmpi5int by
ths-se RssaHS u ryrsS SsrrS and UbrerS in the
I mat Stomach. Liver. Spine or other parts. 10
Is fnfallil-e rrHIPdv fDr bad legs lsad Breasts
Contracted or Stiff Joints. Gcut. Rheumatism.
IsrPoETAST CAUTION Won: are gcniiiBS,
unlrSS the signature Of J. Ifaydock a..ent IL
the nttrd states SJnpuEtiS each box of Pulls
and Ointment. BbNes 1T - cts. ~ cts. and 50.
Ther. y considerable. Sayin. hv taking the laFg
CT sizrS- HOLLOWAY & 90. NEW YOEK.
For Sale by KING S PROUD. Oressun, No.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

Smiths Bible Dictionary, and an una
bridged Cruden'S Concordance, each to
he sold for 81, are recent announce
ments of the American Book Exchange,
80 Beekman Street, New York.
The Holt County sentinel., 1879-07-18

How To GO 10 SLEEP.-Sit down in an
easy position, relaxing all the muscles
of the body, and let the head drop for
ward upon the breast rs low rs il will
fall without forcing it. Sit quietly this
way for few minutes, freeing all the
viii power of the body, and a restful,
drowsy feeling will ensue, which will, if
not disturbed, lead to refreshing sleep.
If the slcepless fit comes OH in the mid
die of the night one can sit Up in the
position described. Stiffness of any part
Of the body must be avoided and it is
well to bend the body forward after ly-
ing down, rather than to keep it straight
or thrown back upon the pillow. The
writer suffered several years from sleep
lessness caused by severe pain and ner-
vousness, and was taught the above by
n physician of great experience and
ability and found through it complete
relief Many persons similarly afflicted
within the writer's knowledge have tried
it, and always with good results.