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The south Kentuckian., 1879-07-15

kind we have had before will do;
just as the best of anything will do
inclodraina, farce or traecdy--but
there will never be another Pima
fore.w 4tl U fasi ilE syl,
! Mr.. II. M. Pulsifer Of the Boston
Herald quotes The statement that the
people of the United States pay $780,
0OO, 700 a year for spiri'uous and fer
mentcd liquors, ana only $95,5OO,000
for education, and $4S,000,00O for re-
ligion. al had no idea we we're such
q thirsty people," he says but I,liavc
heard good deal of viriuous in,lig-
nation expressed because church
property is exempted from taxation,
and some of the States have come
very near 10 running themselves with
expensive common schools. Suppos-
ing we should all swear off for three
years, and wipe ont the public debit.
j The Rev. Thomas Il. Beechcr thus
disposes of the tendency to religious
kcp.icisn, SO far as he is personally
concerned: 'lhave noted that theo-
ries, philosophers, theologies, and
even sciences change. Churches,
rituals, and usages change. But |
detect one fact and one testimony
that never has changed, and never
will. believe OH the Lord Jesus
Christ, AM at rest. Nothing shall
separate me from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus, my Lord
Mr.. Joaquin Miller gives in the
Independent, The following as his
idea of poem: TO mea poem
must be picture; and It must be q
picture, If a good poem, SO simple
that | can understand il at a glance.
and see in 1t and remember it, as |
would see and remember sunset.
| also demand that it shall be lofty
In sentiment aud sublime in express
sion. The only rule ] have for
measuring tile merits of written
poem is By the hold it takes OH nv
mind and memory, do not want
to remember the words, but do de-
mand that it remain with me q pict'
ure and become part of my exis'
tence.' Mr.. Miller cites Evangelinc
as answering his requirement. being
a succession Of pictures, and beauti'
ful In language. i 7o af ,95dl
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Miracles Of Mohammedaa Sheikh.

A correspondent Of tho New York
Sun, writing from Damascus, gives
an account of some OF the
miracles performed by Mohani-
lnedam Sheikh of that city, Ruslan
Abouton, from which we take the
following: '-r'Y ~
Taking q handful Of skewers sim.
liar 10 those used for cooking pur-
poses, each about O foot long, he call
ed the widest llali-stripped disciple
10 him, aud opening his mouth, NUT
tering the while with great apparent
intensity of concentration q prayer
or invocation, he will. sudden jerk,
forced the point clean through the
cheek so that it could be seen pro-,
jeciing on the other side. lie repeat
ed the process with thc other cheek,
Tile man showing no signs of pain
and not drop of blood flowing from
the wound. lie then went TO his
son, who callnly gazed at him with
his large swimming eyes, opened his
mouth, and received a stab through
the cheek without the culver of an
eyelid. | was watching him closely
aud could not observe the slightest
muscular contraction. The point
was clearly projecting through the
skin, and deception was impossible,
as there was every opportunity af-
forded for the closest inspection.
Leaving the two victims with their
mouths thus trussed, as it were, the
Sheikh took square box, which,
when it was opened, was found 10
contain sevemllive scorpions of unu-
sual size. Taking up one OF these as
an ordinary land crab, he handed II
all wriggling, darting its tail in IFS ef-
iorts to sting, to a man who came
forward,and calmly but rapidly drop
ped it into his mouth and crunched
1t with great apparent relish, eating
it completely up y t4}" (
s;Meaniime the man and boy who
had been pierced watched the pro-
ceedings with the utmost unconcern.
AS II was difficult to believe that to
remain with ones cheek skewed did
not at all events produce feeling of
discomfort, and as they must have
been standing for at least quarter Of
an hour in the same attitude, i told
the Sheikh to pull out the skewers.
This he did, in each case proceeding
| tho sharp pull with which he extract
ed them by an earnest invocation.
When they were drawn out the
points were bloodless, while, except
ing that there was apparent indura-
ton OF the cheek at the spots through
which the skewers had passed, there
was no signs OF what had happened.
"a brazier full oflive charcoal was
now brought in and famed into
fame. When it was glowing with Q
blue and luried light, the Sheikh,
calling suddenly on Allah several
times, jumped literally on the blazing
mass with his bare feet, and stood
there for nearly q minute. Then
tgetting down, the charcoal was agail
: famed into flame. and the men who
had eaten the scorpions and serpcnts
and who had been skewed through
the cheeks, rushed forward, plunged
their hands into the burning mass
, aud tossed the glowing embcrs init
their mouths, crunching them up witt
the greatest unconcern. Meantime
: the smell Of burned flesh became un
mistakable, which somewhat mill
tates against the theory that thei
! flesh is impervious to fire, though
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Do the Dying Suffer Pain9
tPanola W atchman,l

Pamela Watchmnn,l
People do not like TO think Of
death. IL is an unpleasant subject |;
but il constantly obtrudes itself, and
there has been much speculation as
10 whether mental or physical pain
attends the final act. Observation
teaches us that there is little pain Of
either kind in dying. Experience
will come 10 US all one Of these days,
but II will come too late to benefit
those who remain. 1t seems to be a
kind provision of nature that, as we
approach the dread event, our terrors
diminish, and the coward and the
hero die slike-fenrless, indifferent
or resigned. AS to physical pain.
DR.. Edward ii. Clark, in "Vision,"
says; a
'''fhe rule is that inconsistencies,
not pain, attends the final act. To
the subject of it death Ia no more
painful than birth. Painless we
come; whence VIC know not. Ma
lurc kindly provides ali an,esthetic
for the body WHEN the spirit leaves
it. Previous TO that moment and IN
preparation for it, respiration be-
comes feeble, generally slow and
short, sudden expiraiions, SO that
the blood is steadily less aud less OK
ygcnated. AT the same time the
heart acts will, corresponding debih-
ty, producing slew, feeble and Of
ten irregular pulse. AS this process
goes on, the blood is not only driven
to the head with diminished force
and in less quantity, but what flows
there is loaded more and more with
carbomic acid gas, powerful anes'
thctic, the sameas that deriyed from
charcoal. Subject to its influence Tho
nerve centcrs lose consciousness and
sensibility, apparent sleep creep'
over the system; then comes stupor
and then the end
The south Kentuckian., 1879-07-15
Christian County Twenty Five
Years ago.
Editor South Kentuckiaa:

-Edtt0f South II entucELun. ti4
1t is often asked by the younger
portion of the citizens Of this county
if as much Importance was attached
to the election of officers, before the
late war as is at the present time. |
will give the result of the first cleo
ton that was held in Christian coun-
ty after the adoption of the present
Constitution according to, my reool-
lection. Should there be errors or
mistakes discovered, however, by
any of your reaoers, ! will cheerfully
stand corrected, and be pleased for
any Of your readers to set us right.
The first election under the present
Constitution occurred.in May, 1S5l-
% years, ago. Before, this time the
only Offices that were filed by the
people were Governor, Lieut-Gover-
nor, Congressman, State Senator, and
Representatives in the Legislature.
Christian county up to this time had
been entitled to two Representatives,
who were elected annually. The
Wings had generally been elected to
the Legislature each year. Though
sometimes one Democrat and ono
Wing were chosen, in such cases the
Democrat had TO be an extremely
popular man. Delegates TO the con-
vontion to form the Constitution had
been elected. Two years before, one
of each political party had been
chosen, Col. John d. Morris (Dem.)
and Ninian L. Gray, (Whig) were
the successful candidates in tic race.
But not until May, 1851, were the
people called upon 10 elect Judicial
and county officers rs they elect them
now. Consequently, not only all the
county Offices were 10 be filled, but
there were other officers to elect still
higher in rank. The two OLD politi-
cal pa,tcs had near'y died away.
Still the candidates were known as
either Whigs or Democrats but /,
was only in name, for no candidate
was willing 10 own that llo was run
iling IN the interest of either politica
party. Hon. Elijah Wise, (Dem.'
was elected Judge Of the Court ol
| Appeals, Henry J. Sites, (Dcm.)
| Circuit Judge r.. Towles, (Whig)
Commemorative Attorney: II. T.
Lambdin, Circuit Clerk; W. V. Der
nard, County Judge; Abram Stitcs
County Clerk ; II T. Petrce, Count.
| Attorney; Thomas S. Bryan, Sheriff
John w. Campbell, Seryeyor, anc
! II. Wiley, Assessor. There were al
SO elections held the same day
throughout the connty for magis'
trates and coiIstables. There wcr,
then but eight voting places IN I'M
county. The 7lh aud Stli District IN
cluded nearly all the tcrriior!
lin what is termed North Christian
Reynolds Mill was the voting plac
4 of The seventh. There men met tha
lived from 20 TO 25 miles apart 10 cas-
I. Itheir votes. airusg rgc sif 20
Time rapidly changes mems asso
ciates. Although This has been b'l
little over a quarter Of "a century ago
! a large per cent. of the voters VIII
participated in this election hay
passed away, while younger set ar
filing their places, and 1t is hoped Al
trying TO initiate their fathers VII
tues. Not wishing to be tedious
will not, for the present, further cou
tinue my narrative. b.
IIamby's Precinct, May 80, 1879.
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We are happy 10 announce 10 the
people of Christian and adjoining
counties that we have arrangements
whereby we can offer several valua-
BILE premiums TO our CASH subscrib-
ers. We are desirous of doubling
the number : of our subscribers; we
want three thousand and have them
we viii, il Inducements will avail
anything.
We shall distribute, OIL the last day
of our next county Fair, premiums To
the amount of about FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS among those subscribers
who have paid " for a subscription
10 the SOUTH KENTUcKIAN. e9
Each person holding our receipt for
that amount will have Il fair oppor.
tunitv TO get one OF the premiums
named below. -
Those parties who have already
paid their subscriptions for yeal
will be entitled 10 q like privilege
and should present their receipts at
our Office 10 DC numbered and regis.
tered, otherwise they will be left out
For the benefit OF those subscribers
who were unable OH account of filian
cial circumstances 10 pay by the first
Of June. we have extended tho time
| a little while longer, in order that all
may stand MI equal chance.
The following is the list of articles
to be given us premiums
FiRsT-Onc stem winding. stem,
setting, solid, Is karat gold watch
with elegant Is karat, full length
soli'l gold chain. Can be seen al
Mills Jcwclry Store, oil Mail
Street. This premium worth $l25.
SEooND-Latcst style, opcn-top
home made, seasoned hickory, bes
made buggy. Can be seen at Blu
menstiel, McCamy & Bonte's Carriage
Factory. This premium worth $l25
THuHD.-Onc Wheat Drill, bes
made, worth N5. ms
81 FOURTH One extra finished, sea
son imbercd, light running, durabl,
wagon, warranted tirst-ciass, and eve
ry part made by NJ. e. Forbes, ant
TO be seen NJ his factory, worth $50.
FIrrH.-One triple silver sci. lates
style, elegantly engraved and n per
feet model OF convenience and beau
ty. To he seen at IIowcs Jewelr,
Store corner Main and Spring streets
worth $50. .i3a.
SIXTu.-One celebrated Olive
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Popular Favorites.

The Floral Riches Cologne Water,
Alista Bouquet and Pet Rose h-nd-
kcrchicf extracts, made by Dir. Price,
are becoming popular iavorites. Dr,
Prices Floral Riches is the finest
cologne or toilet water made, and is
in high repute among clcrgymsn, pub
lie speakers and invalids for its fine,
agreeable and refreshing fragrance.
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It is Well Known.

Many grocers sell DR.. Prices
Cream Baking Powder at the same
price Of the cheaper kinds, aud as they
pay more for it; make less money;
hence, they meyer sell it unless the
purchaser demands it. Purc articles
can not be made as cheap as those
that are adulterated.
The south Kentuckian., 1879-07-15

n W, SMITII, North coroer Russcllvillc and
", yhhpia Streets tMlt kt
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
A GOOD IDEA.

We find in Connecticut paper the
following query: "Why cannot the
farmers wives and daughters have
hoasekeepers meeting, just as the farm
ers themselves have farmers meeting I?
A regular monthly or semi-monthlY
meeting held at different farm houses
ard attended by the wives and daughters
for the purpose of assisting each other
in the arts of domestic life, might be
the means of doing great good. Farmers
wives are just as liable to get into the
ruts as their husbands are, never finding
time or having the inclination to try to
discover any better methods of doing
their work than those they have follow
ed all their days. Some women do not
know how to cook when they are mar
ried, and they never learn to do it we'll.
They fall into habits of poor cooking,
and never know why their families are
so much troubled with indigestion and
other forms of disease. The wives of
dairymen might learn great deal of
each other by meeting together, describ-
ing their own methods. and listening to
suggestions. At these meetings some
one might be appointed, probably the
lady where the meetings are held,-to
60 through with some one process of
cookery or dairy manufacture, while the
others look on and make inquiries.
What housekeeper among our readers
shall be the first to move in this direc-
tion, and report progress to the MoNI-
TOR.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
o, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF
MORTAL BE PROUD!

o. why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like swift heetiug meteor, fast flying cloud
A fash of the lightning break the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be laid
And the young and the old, and the low and the high
Shall mouder to dust and together shall die.
The infant mother attended and loved,
The mother that infants affection which proved;
The husband that mother and infant who blessed,
Each all, away to their dwellings of rest.
eye,
Shone beauty and pleasure-her triumphs are by;
And the memory of those who loved her and praised
Are alike from the minds Of the living erased.
The hand OF the king that the sceptre hath borne;
The brow OF the priest that the mitre hath worn;
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave.
Are hidden and lost in the depth Of the grave.
The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap,
The herdsman,who climbed with his goats up the steep,
The begger. who wandered in search of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass we tread.
The saint who enjoyed the communion Of heaven,
The sinner who dared to remain unforgven,
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.
So the multitude goes like the flower and weed,
That wIther away to let others succeed;
So the multitude comes, even those we behold,
To repeat every tale that has often been told.
For the same things fathers have been;
We the same sights that our fathers have seem
We drink the stream, and feel the same sun,
And run the same course that fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would
think;
From the death We are shrinking from, they, too
would shrink;
To the life clinging to- they, too would cling;
But 1t speeds from the earth like bird on the wing
They loved, but their story cannot unfold:
They scorned but the heart Of the naughty is cold
They grieved. but no wall from their slumber will
Gomez
They enjoyed but the voice of their gladness is dumb
They ded-ay they died and we things that are now
Who walk on the turf that lies their brow,
Who made in their dwellings a transient abode,
Meet the changes they met on their pilgrimage road.
Yes, hope and despOndence, and pleasure and pain,
Are mingled together in sunshine and rain
And the smile and the tear. the song and the drge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
'Tis the twink of an eye It's the draught of breath
From the blossom Of health to the paeness Of DEATH
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-
o, why should the spirit of mortal be proud9
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14

Railroad building in the White Noun
tain region during the winter would not
seem to be very feasible operation,
but it has been carried on this winter
with little or no interruption on accoun.
of the weather. There are some two
hundred men at work upon the Bethle-
hem and Franconia narrow guage road
which is to give railroad line from
Bethlehem station down to the Profile
house, and the road is expected to be
completed by June, so as to be ready for
this years mountain travel. The resi-
dents of the White Mountain region say
that this has been a remarkably mild
winter there, and it has been generally
true this winter that the lowest temper
ature has not always been connected
with the higher latitudes. In one of
the early cold waves of the season the
lowest temperature of the country was
in the Gulf states. The White Noun
tain region has, however, lost its great
preeminence as depository of cold
cold weather since telegraphic communi-
cation was established with Manitoba,
and with such fabulously low tempera
ture, may we'll hide her diminished
head and keep her thermometrical re-
cords all to herself.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
CHOIR MUSIC.
JOSH BILLINGS ADVICE.
decay.

Deer Miss-This is an important
epock in your life. The lst thing to
make good quire singer is to giggle a
little.
Put your hair in kirl paper every Fri
day mite soze to have it in good shape
Sunday morning. If your daddy is rich
you can buy some stoir hair. If he is
very rich buy some more and build it
high up into your head then git high
priced bunnit that runs up very high at
the high part of it. This will help you
to sing high, as soprano is the highest
part.
When the tune is give out, don't pay
attention to it, but ask the nearest young
man what it is and then giggle. Giggle
good eel.
Whisper to the girl next you that
En-. Jones, which sits on the 3rd sect
from the front from the left-hand side,
has her bunnit trimmed with the same
color exact she had last year, and then
put up your book to your face and gig
gle.
Object to every tune unless there is a
solow shake your head like you was try
ing to shake the arti6shels off your bun.
nit, and when you cum to a high tone
brace yourself back little, twist your
head to one side and open your mouth
the widest on that side, shut the i've on
the same side jest triphel and then put
in for dear life.
When the preacher gifts under he'd
way with his preachin, write note
onto the blank leaf into the fourth part
of your note book. That's what the
blank leaf was made for. Git somebody
to pass the note to somebody else, and
watch them while they read it, and then
glggle.
If ennybody talks or lafs in the con-
gregashun and the preacher takes motifs
of it, that's good chance for you to
giggle, and you ought to giggle great
eel. The preacher darsent say anything
to yu bekaus you are in the quire, AMI
he can't run the meetin house to both
ends with the quire. If you had a be
before you went into the quire give hin
the mitten-you ought to have sumbody
better now.
Don't forgit to giggle.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14

The TALLEsT TREEs.-The largest
trees in circumference and the grandest
ever discovered are those known as the
Big Trees of California. the SeguosG Gs-
gantea. But they are not the tallest.
The highest Sequonia now standing is in
the Calaveras Grove, near Stockton, and
measures 327 feet in height. 1t is alto
gether probable that among the fallen
trees in California forests there were
those which reached greater height, and
it has been shown that some of them had
a height of 400 feet. In Gippsland,
Victoria, there are some extraordinary
specimens of Eucalyptus, and on the
bank of river fallen tree was meas
ured, showing total length, from roots
to top, of 435 feet. The crest of this
tree was broken off, but the trunk at the
fracture was nine feet in circumference,
and the height of the tree when growing
was estimated at more than 500 feet.
The tree, however, was dead. Near
Fernshaw, in the Dandenong District,
Victoria, has been discovered specimen
of Eucalyptus amygdalesia. or almond
leaf gum, standing alive, which measures
$50 feet from the ground to the first
branch, and $50 feet to the topmost
twigl Its glrth Is, however, only eighty
feet, which is less than that of many
Sequoias, but it is probably the tallest
living tree in the world.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
Don't forgit to giggle.

The GREAT LAKEs.-There is a mys-
terry about the American lakes. Lake
Erie is only 60 to 70 feet deep. But
Lake Ontario is 592 feet deep, $50 feet
below the tide level of the ocean, or as
low as most parts of the Gulf of St.
Lawrence; and the bottom of Lake HUI
ron, Michigan and Superior, although
the surface is much higher, are all from
vast depths on level with the bottom
of Ontario. Now, as the discharge
through the river Detroit, after allow
ing for the probable portion carried off
by evaporation. does not appear by any
means equal to the quantity of water
which the three upper lakes receive, it
has been conjectured that a subterrane-
an river may run from Lake Superior,
by Huron to Ontario. This conjecture
is not impossible, and accounts for the
singular fact that salmon and herring
are caught in all the lakes, commuicat-
Ing with st. Lawrence, but no others.
As the Falls of Niagara must have al
ways existed. it would puzzle the natu-
ralist to say how these fish get into the
upper lakes without some sub.erranean
river; moreover, any periodical obstruc-
ton of the river would furnish not i'm
probable solution of the mysterious fuz
and refux of the lakes.-1he Amertca,
Ship.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-14
STOP A MINUTE.

Don't hurry SO. Move slower it may
be that you will 60 surer. Grind, grind.
grind-one everlasting grind from five
o'clock in the morning till ten at nj ght,
chasing the bubble of human riches.
What is the need, pray tell me? You
already have enough, and even more
than you can use. You are heaping up
wealth for others to waste or quarrel
over when you are dead; and half your
heirs, instead of remembering you CRATE
fully, will contemplate your departure
from this hurrying scene with infinite
satisfaction. Do rest awhile. You are
wearing out the vital forces faster than
there is need, and in this way subtract
ing years from the total sum of your
life. This rush and worry day after
day, this restless anxiety after some
thing you have got, it is like pebble
stones in machinery-they CRATE and
grind the life out of you. You have
useless burdens throw them off. You
have great deal of needless care; drop
it. Pull in the strings; compact your
business. Take time for thought of
better things. Go out into the air and
enjoy the sunshine. Stop thinking of
business and profit. Stop grumbling at
adverse fortune. You will probably
never see much better times than these
in this doomed world. Your most op-
perfume season is now; your happy day
is to-day. Calmly do your duty and