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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-11-24

Success is astonishing everybody. He
has treated successfully 40 Patients
timOnials most flattering from all
parts Of the city aud State,
as seen in another column, as sample of the many
By request of his many patients and friends of
Portland and Vicinity, has returned than he
intended and will be happy to see them in parlors
United States Hotel, until FUR
ther notice.
To tell of his wonderful gifts miraculous cures
would appear egotistic-He only asks for trial of
his skill, he never expe riments upon his patients.
His new method of diagnosing disease has no equal
and is exclusively his own discovery he fails
to explain every ache and pain in the most conpIi
Gated disease without asking word, when the pa
tient may ask questions and every explanation is
given without the slightest reservation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
Whipping Children.

It is a significant sign of the improve
ment of our race, that the general feeling
to-day is against fogging as a means of
reformation or punishment. 1t has been
abandoned, in great measure, all over
the world in the armies, and it no longer
forms a part of the discipline of our
prisons. In the schools it is fast going
out of favor, In fact, has almost disap-
peared.
And as regards parents and their chill
dren, fogging is fast becoming obsolete.
In spite Of all attempts to palliate paren-
tai brutality, the factremains that it is bet
Ter to rule by love than fear and that the
person who cannot succeed through love
is not fit to rule There is no sentiment
alism in this conclusion, for the accuracy
of the principle has been proved count
less times by experience, with beings
of far lower grade than children ever are
and of meaner quality of affection.
One phase of love explains the regard
of tho masses for a political leader, a
feeling somewhat similar attaches a sol
der to his fayorite general, and the same
sentiment, though of far coarser quality,
makes a cut throat the faithful slave Of
pirate chief.
To say that the child, which is the
only animal except the dog that will kiss
the hand which strikes it, cannot be con-
trolled through the feeling that keeps
turbulent men in order is worse than
untrue-it is idiotie. The parent who
confesses to inability 10 control child
without recourse 10 force merely admits
lack of affection enough TO enable
patience to have its perfect work, for
some one-often person of no particular
intelligence or characters sure not
only to find the child's heart, but to find
it healthy and of full size.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
USEFUL HINTS.
PIMPIES,


The following is recommended for
pimples Take an ounce of barley meal
(the finer the better, one ounce of pow
dered bitter almonds, and a sufficient
quantity of honey to make them into a
smooth paste, and apply this frequently.
You had also better consult good ply
stefan as to medicine to clear the blood.
REMOVAL OF STAINS AND SPOTS.
Matter Adhering Neutrality-suspicious.
ing, brushing and currents of water
either on the upper or under sides.
Gum, Sugar, etc.-Simple washing
with water at hand heat.
Grease-White goods, wash with soap
or alkaline lyes. Colored cottons, wash
with lukewarm soap lyes. Colored wool
ems the same, or ammonia. Silks, alb
sorb with French chalk or fuller's earth,
and dissolve away with benzine or ether.
Oil Colors, Varnish and Resins-On
white or colored linens, cottons or
woolens, use rectifed oil of trlrpentine.
alcohol, I've and then soap. On silks,
use benzine, ether and mild soap, very
cautiously.
Blood and Albuminoid Matters-Steep.
ing in lukewarm water. If pepsine, or
the juice of CarjcG papGgG, can be pro-
cured, the spots are first softened with
lukewarm water, and then either Of these
substances is applied.
Iron Spots and Black Ink-White
goods, hot oxalic acid, dilute muriatic
acid, with little fragments of tin. On
fast dyed cottons and woolens, citric
acid is cautiously and repeatedly applied.
Silks, impossible.
Lime and Alkalies-White goods,
simple washing. Colored cottons,
woolens and silks are moistened, and
very dilute citric acid is applied with the
finger end.
Acids, Vinegar, Sour Wine, Must,
Sour Fruits--White goods, simple wash
ing, followed up by chlorine water, if
fruit color Accompanies the acid.
Colored eottons, woolens and silks are
very carefully moistened with dilute
ammonia, with the finger end. In case
of delicate colors it will be found prefer
able to make some prepared chalk into
a thin paste, with water, and apply it to
the spots.
Iannn1ng from Chestnuts, Green Wal
nuts, etc., or Leather White goods,
hot chlorine water and concentrated tar
taric acid. Colored cottons, woolens
and silks, apply dilute chlorine water
cautiously to the spot, washing it away
and reapplying it several times.
Tar, Cart-Wheel Grease, Mixtures OF
Fat, Resin, Carbon, and Acetic Acid
On white goods, soap and oil of turpen-
tine, alternating with streams of water.
Colored cottons and woolens, rub in
with lard, let lie, soap, let lie again, and
treat alternately with oil of turpentine
and water. Silks the same, more care
fully, using benzine instead of oil of tur-
pentine.
Scorching goods, rub well
with linen rags dipped in chlorine water.
Colored cottons, redye if possible, or in
woolens raise fresh surface. Silks,
no remedy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
Destruction of Historical Temple.

The recent announcement by tele-
graph, of serious riot in Canton, China,
and the destruction of the "Temple of
Longevity" gave news of quite re-
markable event. The "Temple of
Longevity" or Cheung- Show-Sz, as the
Chinese call it, is one of the Oldest and
most notable in that great city. 1t con-
tains colossal figure of Buddha in re-
cumbent posture, and is shrine Of
prayer for long life. Not only is itnoted
for the extent and number of it halls and
affairs, but for the rare beauty of its gar
dens, the variety of its trees and many
colored flowers. These surround fish
ponds and sinuous paths leading to pa
y1llons, forming all in all panorama of
oriental righteousness. Mandarins Of
distinction staying temporarily in Can
ton, often rent q range of buildings
fronting this garden. The priests
ibonzes) of this temple have reputa-
ton for superior learning, but like most
Buddhist priests are believed to be quite
lax in keeping their VOWS of celibacy.
Buddha enjoined that monks and nuns
should live apart, but it is well known
that they do not keep this injunction.
The priests for the most part, as well as
the nuns, are from the lower and mendi-
cant ranks of the people. They enter
the monaoteries only as an incident
means of livelihood, and not that they
are imbued or care for the lofty teach
ings of Buddha. The Chinese people,
high and low, are so well aware Of this,
and have come to look upon this imnlor-
atty of monastic life with such stolid
indifference, as to make it most singu-
lar event to mob and destroy a great and
ancient temple, like that of "Longey-
ity," for the reason that the priests and
nuns are guilty of the vice of non-celib-
acy. Is there to be a mighty upheaval
in Buddhism? Has some great reformer
in that wonderful church organization
arisen to restore the ancient faith and
teaching of Shakyamuni Gautama
Buddha? It has been given out not I'M
frequently recently in Asia, that
Buddhism is again to begin a new career
of publication and conquest This
rising against an evil long tolerated indi-
Gates a movement which may mean more
than the mere ebullition of a day. China
moves slowly, with all the slowness of
an immobile race, and those who hope
for growth are so often disappointed,
that any movement to break up the rot
tenness of centuries is a sign of progress
in this remarkably interesting people,
Cincinnati Comm eTciQ5.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
Mount Ararat.

Ararat is divided into two peaks, Great
Ararat on the northwest and Little Ara
rat on the southwest, whose bases blend
while their SUBMITS are seven miles
apart. The summit of Great Ararat is
1923 feet above the level of the sea,
and Il, 800 above its base; and for more
than 8, 200 feet below the summit it is
always covered with ice and snow. Little
Ararat is Ii, 600 above the sea level. The
apex of Great Ararat was visited by Par
rot October 9, 1929. DR.. Schaff, in COM
mon with Smith. says that Ararat in
Scripture refers to the lofty plateau or
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS which overlook the
plain of the Araxes. The same author
ity states that the mountains of Ararat
Gen. viii, y more properly refer to the
entire range of elevated lakeland In
that portion of Armenia, and upon some
lower part of this range, rather than
upon the high peaks, the ark more prob
ably rested; and the following reasons
are given in support of this view: This
plateau or range is about 5000 or 1000
feet high; it is equally distant from the
Euxine and the Caspian Seas, and be-
tween the Persian Gulf and the Medi-
terranean, and hence central point for
the dispersion of the race; the region is
volcanic in its 6r;gin, does not rise into
sharp crests, but has broad plains sepa-
rated by subordinate ranges of noun
tains; and the climate is temperate,
grass and grain are abundant, and the
harvests are quick to mature. These
facts, he believes, illustrate the Bible
narrative
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
Originality in STYLE.

Charles Lamb speaks somewhere of a
friend of his who protested that there
was too much reading done and that
many people were too busy considering
9he thoughts of others to think for them
selves. He even went so far, Lamb
says, as to quit reading altogether,
much to the Improvement of his or
ginality." L have often thought of
his; that is to say the blighting Of ones
power of original thought by much read
ing. The omnivorous reader mistakenly
believes that he is only acquiring a
store Of fact and theories. He does not
remember that his mind is sure to be
tinted by every particular thing which
ne reads, and that by and by the natural
hue of it will be quite effaced. I have
often noticed with amusement and morti-
icatlon that everything read had an
sion both in writing and talking It has
eeen very humiliating to me to see how
little individuality [ possess. l humbly
)wn that [ am mentally like the chame-
leon, or whatever animal it is that takes
5traightway the color of whatever it
eats. [ remember in the English itera-
lure class at school, I have seen myself
'kip lightly from Addison to Macauley,
from Macauley to Dickens, only to for
get him and find myself on Monday tied
down to the limited yerbiage and POM
pous sentences of the preacher to whom
[ had listened the day before. don't
mean, of course, that my style could
ever in the remotest degree, approach in
excellence toward any of the writer's
whom I read. I only mean that every
mannerism that could catch and wrap
around my own thoughts, I instantly
made my own. But once did 1 actually
come near reproduction. Then I had to
write criticism of Pepy's Diary, and
discovered only when my paper was
finished and copied, that it was written
in very fair imitation of the worthy
Samuels style.
OF course, if this always held true,
the path of the writer would be smooth,
indeed. He would only have to sit at
home and diligently read his Shakes
peare. to become master of literary
composition. But unfortunately it
doesn't You have heard the stage mimic
at cheap shows initiate the pig; and
then "a pig under a gate" It has al
ways seemed to me that my Addison,
for instance was an Addison "under a
gate"
After all, I am not sure that an orig
inal style in writing is to be desired. I
am quite sure it should not be striven
for. How, indeed, can man be sure
that he has got his own natural style?
How does he know that he is not cramp-
ing his own powers by affectation? Peo-
pie who try to walk differently from
everybody else generally are lived out
sooner. A gnarled, warped, crank-sided
manner of expression may be perhaps
forgiven if it brings fine thought on
its shoulders, but it is none the less re-
pulsive.
Perhaps l am prejudiced, but I can
not get over feeling that writer who
has thoughts worth expressing does an
undigni6ed thing when he brings them
out in eccentric garb. And the more
elevated that the subject which he treats
may be, the more should he strive for
clearness and simplicity.-CIori8sa, in
Indianapolis Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
The Oneida Community.

The Oneida Community is commun-
,istie society on Oneida Greek, in Lenox
Township, Madison County, N. Y, about
which much has been said and written,
and which has some remarkable features.
The founder of the organization was
John Humphrey Noyes. He was born
1t Brattleboro, Vt, September 3, 1911,
and graduated at Dartmouth College,
when scarcely twenty years Of age. At
first he studied law, but he soon forsook
Blackstone and turned his attention to
theology, studying at Andover and New
Haven, and was licensed to preach when
ne was twenty-five years old. In 1884 he
experienced what he named "second
conversion" and made at once an at
Tempt to found community at New
Haven, which, however, was unsuccess-
full. Three years later he organized the
existing association, at Putney, VT, and
the members removed to the present
locality in 1847. The Community on
Oneida Creek has fine estate, several
mills and manufactures, and is reported
to be In prosperous condition. The
cardinal principles Of the Community are
four in number reconciliation to God,
salvation from sin, recognition of the
brotherhood and equality of man and
woman, and the community of labor and
it's fruits. The last-named principle
embraces scheme by which all the male
and all the female members of the Com
munity are held in a sense to be married
to each other. This has led to the charge
being made againstthem of being " free
lovers, but, says one writer, the system,
as regulated by the principle of sym
pathy," and controlled by that free pub
lie opinion which constitutes the supreme
government of the society, " is far from
being amenable to the reproach of i'm
morality in any ordinary sense of the
word" These edible Communists, as
they are styled, reject all rules of conduct
except those which each believer formu-
lates for himself, subject to the free
criticism of his associates. They hold
that the Mosaic law and ordinances were
abrogated by the second coming of
Christ, which Mr.. Noyes places at 70
A. D., and at which time the reign of
sin was concluded, and true believers
have since been free to follow the indica-
tons of the Holy Spirit in all things,
nothing being good or bad in itself.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
BITS OF INFORMATION.

nicotine is 30 named from Jean
Nicot, lord of Villemain, who purchased
some tobacco at Lisbon In 1860. intro
duced it into France, and had the honor
of fixing his name on the plant. Our
word tobacco is from the Indian tabaco,
the tube used by the Indians for inhal-
ing the smoke, which by them is called
petuni or cohiba.
THE origin of the phrase, "Before
you could say Jack Robinson, /" is thus
explained: Grose says it originated
from very voluble gentleman Of that
appellation, who would call on his neigh
bors and be gone before his name could
be announced. But the following lines
are elsewhere given as the original
phrase:
warke 1t Us as easie to be doone,
As tvs to sage jack robys on!
BRAZILIAN nuts are the fruit of the
Bartholtdtid ercelsn. The tree grows
to.the height of 100 feet. The trunk sell
dom exceeds three feet in thickness, and
the leaves are nearly thirty inches long.
The fruit, falling from such a great
height, is hard and heavy enough to
severely burt any one coming within its
range. To avoid this danger the natives
of Brazil, during the nut harvest, cover
their heads and shoulders with strong
wooden buckler.
The epithet "turn-coat had its
origin in Saxony. The dominions of
the Duke of Saxony being between
France and Savoy, one of the early
Dukes hit upon the device of coat Of
blue on one side and white on the other.
When he wished to be thought in the
Spanish interest, he wore the blue out
side when he wished to be considered
on the side of the French, he wore the
white on the outside. From this he was
called Emanuel Turncoat.
The distribution of nationalities in
our army during the great rebellion was
as follows
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
"Have you, indeed2' he replied, in a

Have you, indeed?' he replied, in a
nasty, sneering way.
1t flashed through me at once. It
was her husband | She has deceived
me
May I ask if you are any relation to
Miss Jane Bell, of Dundas, Washing
ton county, n Y, Postofice box 1922"
he continued, in the same sneering way.
I suffered and stammered, tried to
lie, and nearly choked myself to death.
I wanted to be diplomatic / wanted to
shield her from his anger.
"Who the devil are you, anyway p
he exclaimed.
ell am John Bell" I answered i;
"and | have called to see your sister.
Is she i'll ?"
ST haven't any sister," said he non
chalantly; "that is, am my own sis
ter, and she has just escaped pneumonia. "
The truth flashed upon me. you
are an impostor, sir, I exclaimed.
Your sister doesn't think so" said
he complacently.
ST haven't any sister," said /, in my
turn.
lie wheeled sharply about: Who Is
Miss Bell, them"
ST am all the Miss Bell that exists,
I answered grimly.
"What |" he exclaimed, ssyou are the
petted darling who wanted to be poet
and an essayist and Lord only knows
what all? You are the only child of
wealthy parents? You are the lovely
creature who sits in pink boudoir and
writes verses with gold pen and on per-
fumed paperP"
"Yes," said I desperately.
Screven dropped into chair and
roared. ga sell all round |" said he.
And then he laughed until he cried,
while I quietly stole away back to the
hotel, a sadder but wiser man.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
Shall Women Practice Medicine?

The most serious obstacles to be en-
countered are not always the mot real
ones. In this, as In everything that
women do, the question Of capacity is
often outranked by the question of taste.
Whether woman, with all her organic
imperfections on her head, can be theo-
retically supposed capable of the study
and practice of medicine whether,
which is quite different question, there
actually exist any number of women
whose capacity in this direction has been
fairly tested and demonstrated
are interesting subjects of inquiry. But
the most completely affirmative answer
to such inquiry might still leave unset
tied question of much more import
ance for that large class of people whose
conditions and actions are under the
permanent domination of their tastes.
These ask not, els she capable ?" but,
els this fearfully capable person nice ?"
Will she upset our ideal of woman
hood, and maidenhood, and the social
relations of her sex? Can
woman physician be lovable? can
she marry? can she have children
will she take care of them? If she can
not, what is she E? "QU'est &c Qat'Wue
femme, said French journalist in this
connection, "qUj NEST nj eSpouSe nj
mere ?" Good" declared q Boston
physician well versed in the counsels Of
Providence, "never intended women to
practice medicine" Hence the INFER
ence that piety, if nothing else, de-
handed the exclusion of women from
Tho Mocco ohrca4fc MoJioaI Gooio4rv
is from the popularity of the conditions
involved that the handful of women now
engaged in the practice of medicine may
be considered IN any way to effect or en-
danger existing arrangements or social
ideals. Thousands of women, from
manifold ca2ser quite xtraneous to
medicine, remain celibates all their
lives; yet no one reproaches them for
refusing the duties of wife and
mother. Thousands of women
earn their living by non-domestic
labor; one profession, that of public
teaching, practically thrown open to
women only during the last half century,
is already thronged by them. Yet no
one feels that the foundations OF So
ciety are therefore liable to be over
thrown. What is it in the profess
sion of medicine which excites at
present such a different feeling and
such bitter prejudice? There are sew
eral things. In the first place, the
profession of medicine has been sub
lected to popular misconceptions, and
the odium due to these is necessarily
shared by the women who aspire to be
physicians. Again, by social fiction,
it is assumed that the usual employ
ments now sought by women are to
be filed by them only while waiting
for marriage, or as resource in widow
hood or desertion. Even such profess
sional work as teaching is expected to
be laid aside after few years, and there
is much, at least in the primary grades
of teaching, to make such Interrupt
tons rather desirable. But the pro-
fession of medicine must be chosen de-
hberately, and not at haphazard, from
strong and genuine taste, and not from
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
The Golden Ladder Of Charity.

There are eight degrees of steps, says
Maimonides, i'll the duty of charity.
The first and lowest degree is to give,
out with reluctance or regret. This is
tie gift Of the hand but not of the heart.
The second is to give cheerfully, but
not pl6portionately to the distress OF the
sufferer.
The third is to give cheerfully and pro-
portionately, but not until we are solic-
tied
The fourth is to give proportionately,
cheerfulig, and even unsolicited but to
put it in the poor mans hand, thereby
Xciting in him the painful emotion of
shame.
The'fifth is to give charity in such a
way that the distressed may receive the
bounty and know their benefactor with
out their being known to him. Such
was the conduct of some of our ances-
tors who used to convey their charitable
gifts Into poor peoples dwellings, taking
care that their own persons and names
should remain unknown.
the seventh is still more meritorious,
namely. to bestow charity in such way
that the benefactor may not know the
relieved objects, nor they the name of
their benefactor as was done by our
charitable forefathers during the exist
cnce of the temple. For there was in
that holy building place called the
Chamber of Silence or Inostentation,
wherein the good deposited secretly
whatever their generous hearts sug-
gested, and from which the most respec-
table poor families were maintained with
equal secrecy.
Lastly, the eighth and the most meri-
torious of all is to anticipate charity, by
preventing poverty; namely, to assist
the reduced brother either by consid-
cradle gift or loan of money, or by
teaching him trade, or by putting him
in the way of business, SO that he may
earn an honest livelihood, and not be
forced to the dreadful alternative of hold
ing up his hand for charity.-After the
IGinn4d.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-02-03
Won,an,s wit.

A woman's advice is generally worth
having; so, if you are In any trouble,
tell your mother, or your wife, or your
sister all about it. Be assured that light
viii flash upon your darkness. Women
are too commonly judged verdant in all
but purely womanish affairs. No philo-
sophical students of the sex thus Judge
them. Their intuitions CT insight are
most subtle, and if they cannot see a cat
in the meal there is no cat there. I adj
wise man to keep none of his affairs
from his wife. Many home has been
saved and many fortune retrieved by a
mans confidence in his wife. Woman is
far more seer and prophet than a
man, if she be given fair chance. As a
general rule the wives confide the minut-
est of their plans and thoughts to their
husbands. Why not reciprocate, if but
for the pleasure of meeting confidence
with confidence? The men who succeed
best in life are those who make conf
dants of their wives.