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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
RATTLESNAKE BITES.
How They May Be Cured Without the Aid
 of Whisky or Other Stimulants.

How They May Be Cured Without the Aid of Whisky or Other Stimulants.
 Eighty years ago Joseph Geer, the
 first settler at Long Eddy, N. r..
 learned the cure for rattlesnake bite
 from John Johnson, haf-breed Dela-
 ware Indian, who had his wigwam on
 the Pennsylvania side of the river, at
 the foot of Long Eddy, and eked out
 miserable existence hunting, fishing
 and supplying the settlers with lead
 from mine somewhere in the vicini-
 ty, to which he would go and get a load and return the same day. John
 son, like most Indians, was an invet-
 crate lover of whisky, and for pint of
 it would let rattlesnake bite him and
 then cure himself with his remedy,
 which, however, he would not reveal
 Geer always kept liquor in his house, and on an occasion when Johnson was recovering from one of his frequent spells of drinking to excess, and was suffering terribly for the want of liq- uor, Geer promising never to reveal the secret while Johnson was alive, succeeded in getting the remedy for a pint of whisky. A few years thereaft- CT Johnson went off with a strolling band of Indians and never returned. Geer kept the remedy secret, howev- CT, till from old age he was unable longer to answer the calls of the set tiers when any of them or their stock had been bitten. and then told it freely to all. It is as follows: Apply to the wound poultice one-half each of con- mon salt and indigo, mixed with cold water, and renew every two hours. Eat freely of the leaves, or drink often of tea made from them, of variety of the blue violet ~. Sagittata), com monly known as the ''arrOw-leaved" violet. If the bite be upon the leg or an arm, bind the leaves in a circle around it above and just beyond the swelling. Moisten with cold water as often as they get dry from the fever created by the poison, and renew two or three times day. During the time this remedy has been in use in Mir. Geer's neighborhood it has effected 8 least twenty cures upon human beings a great many more upon beasts, anC has never failed with either Ralpl Geer and Moses Thomas, Long Eddy N. r., are the names and addresses O now living who have beer bitten by rattlesnakes and cured b this remedy without the aid of whis ky or any thing else. Chicago Iste Ocean,
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
CARPET-MAKlNC.
More Than Four Thousand Looms Run
 ming in thesUnited States.

More Than Four Thousand Looms Run.
 ming in theiUnited States.
 Recent investigations shoYsthat there are in the United States 4, 21& looms de- voted mainly to the weaving of extra and medium super carpets. Of. these looms 2,1S9 are in Philadelphia,sthe re- mainder being scattered. from Auburn, N. r., to the Eastern companies. Ip States they are as follows; ennsyi setts, 375; Connecticut, 347. The aver. age yield of an ingrain power-loom is thirty yards per diem, and the,possible yield of the entire country in extra supers is 37, S99, ,000 yards per an- mum. The value of the same is, at sixty cents per yard, S22, 739, 400. But all ingram power looms are not run ming on extras" and allowances will be made accordingly. The growth of the brussels industry is interesting. In 1886 brussels carpets were being woven in few cellars in Philadelphia by hand. About that time, also, the Auburn (N. Y.) State prison, under MT. Barber, was turning out body brussels, and the old factory at Astoria, which E. S. Higgins bought in 1S45, was one of the first to make brussels. The brussels manufacture, since the Bigelow loom was perfected, is familiar. Since the war the great companies at Hartford, Lowell and Clinton have as- sumed large proportions, and turn out each year a magnificent product in brussels, and other concerns are grow ing up about them. In the decade past Philadelphia has loomed and contains to-day large proportion of the brus- sells machinery of the country. There' are in the United States, in positiorsor about to be placed, 1,197 brussels looms. The number in each State is as follows: Pennsylvania, 4S5; New York, 106; Connecticut, 1e3: Massachusetts, 492: New Jersey, 10. The average yield of brussels loom is fifty yards day, and all the brussels looms in the country running on regular time would yield F, 955, 900 yards in one year, Sundays and holidays excluded. Averaging stouts and five-frame goods at S1 per yard, the value of our total brussels product would be S17,955,000. The largest tapestry-brussels concern in the United States is that of the Alexander Smith & Sons Company at Yonkers, N. Y. They have $50 looms on tapestries, and can turn out probably 455, ,000 yards per month. Philadelphia Carpet Trade.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
THE DARK CONTINENT.
The Chief Embarrassment Experienced by
 Travellers in Africa.

The Chief Embarrassment Experienced by
 Travellers in Africa.
 It is difficult for us Americans who stay at home and lead rather humdrum lives to realize the mighty changes which are taking place in other lands. Here is Africa, for instance, which is being attacked by civilizing influences from every quarter. The English are hard at work in Northeastern and Southern Africa, the French in North Africa, while the Germans and Portu- guese are penetrating that continent from the east and west coasts. The Portuguese Government is building a railroad from Loanda, on the west coast, to Ambaca, two hundred and twenty three miles inland. Another road is soon to be constructed to Congo land. In the meanwhile white travellers, principally Germans, are making them selves at home in all parts of the in- terror. They are welcomed every where, and oddly enough their chief embarrassment is the desire of the Afri- can Princesses to marry them. One Serpa Pinto had to fly in the night from an Ambuella Princess who offered him the alternative of marriage or death. Herr Buchner had the utmost difficulty in declining marital alliance with a sister of Muata Yano, who offered broad acres and herds of cattle if he would only be her spouse. Herr Hopf- ner has been adopted into an African tribe as the Kings son. John Dunne, a Scotchman, is the most important chief of the thirteen in Zululand, and there are scores of other white men who are becoming all powerful in the interior of Africa. The next century will see great change in the status of Monthly.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
A Woman's Reason.

Mortified Husband-What's this see? Another new dress?
 Calm Wife-Yes; isn't it a beautye And it only cost eighty dollars, includ- ing the ribbons
 Eighty furies! You had one just like it last year that only cost forty"
 ''I know it. but dear. this was adver- tised as bargain. "-PhiladeEphia Call
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
Bostonese InquisitiVeness.

MT. D., a Western man, came East, and found at his hotel landlady who was much interested in his person. al history. He was unable to answer all her questions satisfactorily.
 "Did you ever see Daniel Webster?' "No."
 "Were you born in Webster's dayP" s.No."
 "Well, you don't look so very old. " 'No, I'm not so Uerg old.
 "Well, how old are you, anywayP" ''Old enough to mind my own affairs, and trouble nobody"
 "Well, how old is thatP''-Y Youth' s Companion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02

A horse thief, lately arrested in Denver, had ridden his stolen animal four hundred miles from Nebraska
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02

-Color-blindness is said to have been first reported in 1777,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
An Example Of SeIf-ControL

A droll incident occurred in court
lately, quite unknown outside Of the
court regions. A little god-da'ughter of
the queen, remarkably clever child OF
years of age, was received by her maj
esty. She sat on the queens lap; every
affectionate attention was shown her.
The queen caressed her, gave her.ben-:
bons, but not a word or even any fletice
could Be got out of the child. The little
creature sat firm bolt upright, her little
fists :clinched, her eyes fixed, gazing
straight forward.
After the audience the child was asked
why she acted SO disagreeably-why she
had not replied to her majesty. ~Perche," :"
replied the child. solemnly, "aveva paura
cheavree una bizza." because I was
afraid 1 would have a rage.) This little
Margherita entertains the nursery once
in while with what Florentile nurses
call a bizza. She throws herself passion
ately on the ground and kicks and
screams Justify. Imagine the effect if
such scene had taken place il the pres
ence of royalty! The marvel is how
those terribly rasped baby nerves, just
on the edge of the tempest, were kept in
check by the child.-Rome Cor. Chicago
News.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
To Protect Birds from Slaughter.

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes takes a
deep interest in the movement to protect
birds from slaughter. II am myself" he
SAYS, more than tolerant of the some
what intrusive intimacy of the English
SPARROW. No other birds outside of the
barnyard let me come SO near them-not
even the pigeons. But still more am
indebted to the gulls and ducks, who
during large part of the year are daily
visitors to the estuary Of the Charles, on
which look from my library windows.
wish they could be protected by law,
and if the law can not or will not do it,
that public opinion would come between
them and their murderers. Not less,
certainly, do I feel the shame of the
wanton destruction of our singing birds
to feed the demand of barbasic vanity"
=Exchapre.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
The Wolf Stories of Travellers.

During my winter journey across ST.
IBERIA was somewhat disappointed at
seeing SO few wolves. In my journey Of
5000 miles across the steppes saw only
fourteen, eleven in one band, two in an
other and one solitary brute at distance
prowling about on the ice of the Yenes-
sci. But the sled is great place wherein
to brood wolf stories. When you are
living down under your furs at night and
the Sled passing quickly over the frozen
roads you imagine, if the weather is not
extremely cold, that you can hear the
deep growing Of wolves following your
sled. If the weather is terribly cold you
hear what you imagine to be the short,
quick yelping of 1000 famished brutes
after you. 1t is dreadful sound when
you first hear it, but you soon learn to
know that this peculiar noise, which, as
sisted by the imagination, you fancy to
be made by fery-mounted wolves, is
caused by the wooden runners passing
over the crisp snow. Travellers Siberian
wolf stories are, 1 am afraid, too often
the result Of imagination.-Cor. New
York World.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
A Wax Model for Anatolnists.

A highly interesting piece of work is
at present being executed at the Berlin
Royal academy, under the direction of
medical and artistic experts, the wax
model of carefully prepared human
body of life size. From it cast in zinc
is to be made, showing with rigid exact
ness the muscles, arteries and veins. An
idea of the nicely of the work may be
formed from the fact that Thus far
fifteen months have been spent upon the
head alone, which is not expected to be
finished under three years more. The
importance of the work for anatomical
studies, when completed, will amply
compensate for the trouble, time and
money spent upon it, which, when fin
ished, will be exhibited and bought by
the government.-Boston Budget.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
A Fearful Year Of Fridaya

Somebody points out that this year
came in on Friday and will 60 out on
Friday, and have fifty-three Fridays.
Two months in the year come in on Fri
day and two go out on Friday. There
are five months in the year that have
five Fridays. The phases Of the moon
change five times on Friday, and the sun
was eclipsed on March 5, which fell on
Friday. The longest day iii the year and
the shortest both fall on Friday. Peo-
pie who have asuperstitious prejudice
against Friday VIII be apt to see strange
condolences in all this.-Philadelphia
Record.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
"KHLEov'

KKiIld at What matters where9
He is dead, and that is enoughA
HKiIled!" 1t is written there
In letters that stare and stare!
What though the telling be rough2
He is dead, and that is enough!
@Died with his face to the foe,
Trying another to save"
How else, how else should he dief
I could not have loved him so
IF he had not been bravest of brave!
Dead, and no word of goodbye!
No whisper of love from afar!
o star! star! star!
looked in your eyes last night,
And saw his eyes in your light;
And knew, knew he would die,
For that was his last goodbye!
Get you gonel Get you gone from my
sightl
Why do you stand and stares
He is dead! It is written there! Il
And it's late-so late tonight!
There! there! forgive me, but go!
You mean to be kind, I know,
But leave me to Ged and to him!
sKilled, with his face to the foe!"
Leave me awhile! The light
The eight-is-getting-dim!-
Leave me-to God-and-to him!-
George Weatherly.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
Opening Up South Americas Interior

Explorers are now busily employed in
opening up the undeveloped and hitherto
almost unknown sections of South
America. A French explorer Is enthusi-
astic, about immense fertile plains be-
yond the dense coast forests of Guiana.
An expedition has traversed the valley
of the Xingu, southern sfiuent of the
Amazon as large as the Danube, and run
ming through the unexplored heart Of
Brazil. Voyagers on the Orinoco are
seeking to discover the connection be-
tween that river and the Amazon. Pata-
gonia is found to embrace rich grass
valleys well adapted to stock raising, and
the northern portion of the Argentine
Republic is being explored. Schemes are
onNfoot for bringing the interior of the
continent in contact with civilization by
means of railways and steamboat lines.
In every direction efforts are being made
to open up new fields for enterprise
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
SMOKING HIS FIRST CIGAR.

Out on the Shady Side of. the Barn
Caught by IL Brother.
The first smoke don't last as long as a
case of sea-sickness, but willie it does
last it is original and unique. The new
smoker is no. Judge of cigars. He in
variably takes a strong one. He goes
good deal by the box in which he finds
the cigars. If cigar has a fancy paper
ring about it he will take it at any price.
If. he lives he will know better. Out on
the shady side of the barn he takes him
self and his cigar. He is afraid that
some one will molest him. He lights the
cigar, and holding it in the most awk-
ward manner between his fingers putfs
and expectorates. 1t seems manly to
smoke, and he pictures himself narratlng
to his chums how well he handled HIM
self and his first cigar.
The sensation is not at all pleasant.
He allows longer time to elapse between
the puffs, and wishes that the cigar
would burn up more rapidly. The mouth
has peculiar taste, which frequent ex-
pectorations will not remove. The old
familiar fence is turning green. He sees
everything circle around him. He is bet
ter after a while. Flat on his back on
the green sward, he looks up at the blue
heavens overhead and watches the feecy
white clouds float in many directions.
Dinner has no attractions for him.
Candy would not tempt him to get up.
He hears his name called by an elder
brother. 1t sounds way off, as if in
dream. Nearer and nearer it comes, and
finally the owner of the voice comes
around the corner OF the barn.
He guessed the cause for he sees the
half-smoked cigar. IF he is real good
boy with box full of Sunday-school
tickets he will tell his mother, and the
young smoker will be taken in the house
and lectured for the rest of his boyhood
days. If he is a real bad boy, onegwhose
badness insures his living to manhood's
estate, he will get his sick brother up on
the hay in the old barn, and will tell a
fb at the table; to excuse his absence.
His kindness viii cost the inexperienced
smoker later on many marbles, much
candy, and the best Of everything. BE
will threaten to inform their parents
many times of the first smoke, and will
scare the smoker into many scrapes and
much trouble.-St. Paul Globe.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
Salt water Better Than Fresh.

An analysis of the contents Of the
principal grenades, tubes and other pat
ent devices for the extinction of incipi-
ent confagrations has recently been
made BY Professor Kedzie, chemist OF
the agricultural college at Larsing,
Mich. He finds that the only active in
gredient in all that he analyzed is COM
mon salt, and his Investigations 60 to
prove what is generally known, namely,
that salt water is better than fresh water
for putting out fres.-Boston Budget.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
A Canoe for Italy's Queen.

The queen of Italy is soon to rejoice in
the possession of an American canoe, q
genuine Indian birch bark construction,
which Baron Fava, the Italian minister,
has secured for her. The canoe is
twenty feet long, and the baron has pro-
cured all the paddles and accompani-
ments for it, and is now having bead
work cushions and mats Of fragrant
grasses made for it. He will send it on
to Rome, and in due time it will float in
some lake Of the palace gardens and
ferry Queen Margherita over the waters.
-3Ruhamals's" Washington Letter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
rrario ra.e. of :LonetelIow's wife.

<<sF.
That 3 nature, SC, gentle and amiable as
Longfellow' s:skeuld have beeE subjected
20 tereavementin the most; tragic:an
appalling form seems stroke of fate as
cruel as the brutal bruising Of &Shower.
The catastrophe is thus recounted byhis
oiographer: ~On the 9th of July his wife
was sitting in the library with her two
little girls engaged in sealing up some
small packages of their curls,. which she
had just cut off. From. a match fallen
upon the floor her light summer dress
caught fire; the shock was too great, and
she died the next morning. Three days
later her burial took place at Mount Au-
burn. 1t was the annivegsary of her
marriage day and on her begatiful head,
loveITaad unmarried in death, soIneband
had piasgda wreatli of orange blesso1ps.
Her lus d OF lere ---con6 6nea to
his chanIbe tie sesea hufS&s eShich
he had himself eceived:g ~
These wounds healed'with time; time
could only., assauge, zneyeEs heabs the
deepar wounds that burned within: he
bore his grief in slence: only after
months had passed couldh speak ofat,
and then only in fewest words. 70 a
visitor who expressed hope that he
might be enabled to bear his cross with
patience, he replied: Bear the cross,
yes; but what if one is stretched upon it?
When-not till five years later-he began
again to write verses of his own, it IS
only infrequent phrases and lines that
reveal the sorrow lying ever at his heart.
New York Sun.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
Prices Coming Down III New York.


The tradesman from whom l acquire
my haberdashery informs me that the
dry goods stores are running his business.
They all deal in shirts, collars, cuffs, un-
derwear and the rest for men, and mar
ried men almost invariably do their shop
ping by the proxy of their wives, instead
of going to the furnishing goods store, as
of old. It is getting so bad, he avers'
that unmarried men get their female rela-
tives and friends to do the buying for
them, even at the risk of having to give
them the discount in ice cream or oys-
ters. The only hope could hold forth
to him was to cut his prices to compete
with his formidable rivals. In fact, there
is no longer an excuse for a man to be
short of linen or Isle thread, with shirts
selling at 40 cents apiece, as l noticed
at one store recently, and underwear at
an average of 81 set.
The prices of all manner of clothing
are rapidly descending to the European
level with us. A few years ago it cost
three times as much to dress decently in
New York as in London or Paris. 'As
for eating, one can feed better and
cheaper in New York to-day than in Lon
don or Paris. For IS cents I can buy a
healthier and heartier meal in this city
than I ever could in the cook-shops OF
London or the cheap tables d'hote of
Paris, and am credibly informed that
prices across the water have rather in
creased and the quality of food deteri-
Grated since my time.-New York News
"Babble."
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
Glucose Made from Sorghum.

And now it has been discovered that
the seed of the sorghum-plant will yield
an excellent grade of glucose, better
than that made from corn, and that the
glucose from the seed and the molasses
from the cane, when mixed, produce the
highest quality of sirup, hardly distin-
guishable from Vermont sirup.-Chicagc
Times.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29

We are apt to lumber up our minds
with lot of useless trash, and which it
isn't profitable to recall; in this sense
forgetfulness is essential to memory
PHILADELPHIA Call.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
The IRRIGATION Canals Of Arizona.

The farmers of Arizona, in digging
their irrigation canals, find themselves
mere imitators, on a small scale, of the
unknown people who once occupied the
country.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
SPRING CLOTHING.

My NEW SPRING CLOTHING
WI has arrived and been placed OH the
counters and ready for critical inspection.
New goods opened in every department for
the SPRING TRADE; this large assOrt
ment of SPRING CLOTHING for Men,
Youths and Boys are selected from the
largest and most reliable Manufacturers in
the country.
This stock is unusually attractive in
STYLES and PATTERNS, the ONE and
THREE BUTTON CUTAWAYS are of
imported CORKSCREWS, WHIPCORD
and CHEVIOTS, made and trimmed equal
to any custom made garment, also will fit
and cling to the figure and hold their shape:
See my line of the PATENT SQUARE
SHOULDER garments in SACK and CUT
AWAY SUITS. l am the sole agent
of these goods and those who have worn
them can testify to their superiority over
all other garments in fit, wear and holding
their shape. Every department, GENTS
FURNISHING GOODS, BATS, SHOES,
and BOYS, are full of choice novelties for
the SPRING AND SUMNER SEASON.
Call early and make your selection.
RESPECRFULI.Y,
vi. T.. 1a1NAGeD,
COLUMBIA, S. G.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-13

and 600 sick persons to bathe,a and have 10
continue on through the whole night.
have seen at those times persons placed
In the bath, one putrid mass Of sores from
head to feet, come out completely healed,
with scarcely trace upon their skin.
have seen persons suffering from the most
ulcers and cancers come
out Of the bath instantaneously cured"
"But all the cures are not 80 sudden and
remarkable7"
30, no, sir. The greater number are
gradual, and many are not cured until
after repeated baths, while others do not
experience any relief at all. But | have
never known of any case having grown
worse through the use of the baths. On
the contrary, they seem, II not cured, to
gain at least greater courage and resigna-
ton 10 bear their cross cheerfully for
love of their divine model and master"