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Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
' Be you to others kind and true
AS you'd have others he tn Won >
McCIauohreY,s Narxe-

"The news of the resignation of Colonel
McClaughrey, Warden of Joliet" said
Robert c. Waldorf, merchant of Ches-
ter, H., recalls to my mind an instance
IN which he showed nerve and presence of
mind such as would have been exhibited
by few. Some ten years ago | was sum
moned as witness in case of burglary,
and the criminal was sentenced to fifteen
years in Joliet. MeClaughrey was warned
that the man was most desperate char
acter, and told to keep sharp eye on him.
This he did, but, as the mans behavior
was perfect, the vigilance of the guards was
somewhat relaxed, and he was treated like
any other prisoner
"This was what he was waiting for and
one day, when moving from the workshop
to the dinner-room, he shifted out of the
line and passed through passage leading
to the Warden's Office There was no pos
sibility of his leaving the penitentiary I'M
observed, but he determined to get a start,
If possible, by terrorizing the Warden.
McClaughrey was sitting at his desk writ
ing when the convict came in. He was
tremendously powerful fellow, weighing
fifty pounds more than the Warden, and
his physical superior in every way. Il am
going through there were his first words,
pointing to window behind the desk,
and you can't stop me- McClaughrey
looked up with a smile, entirely conceal
ing his astonishment, and said well, go
on can't stop you, and won't try. There's
man outside with sixteen-shooter who
may stop you, but l shan't What have
you to complain of anyway? Are you not
well treated p
In this way he got the man into con-
versation, and after few minutes said /:
By the way, your friends are getting up
petition for your pardon, which | have in
my desk. think that it will go through,
and that you are very foolish to try and
escape now. will show it to yon, and see
what you think of it, Saying this, he
opened drawer and pretended to be rum
maging about for some papers, but in re-
ality managed to take out his revolver and
lay it on his lap. | must have been mis-
taken,' he then said, there isn't any petit
ton here With an oath the man stepped
forward, when he saw the cooked pistol in
the Warden's lap. He stopped short, looked
at him moment and then said Well,
you've got me- | reckon | have the
Warden answered, and you had better not
try any games .'"-St. Louis Post Dispatch
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
Electricity Instead of Laughing Gas

Boston people nowadays have their su-
perfiuous teeth drawn by means of cleo
tricitv. Inasmuch as all new ideas in the
arts and sciences are read from this en-
Gghtened metropolis originally, and from
hence extended over the country, there is
little doubt that sooner or later this new
method will supersede laughing-gas and
ether in other big cities of the Union. The
process in question is very simple, scarce
any apparatus being required beyond an
ordinary two-cell battery, with vibrator
attachment. This attachment is thin
strip of metal, fastened at the ends, which
is made to vibrate thousand or more
times per second by the electric current.
At each vibration the circuit is cut off and
renewed again, the effect being to give a
perfectly steady flow of the mysterious
fluid. In order to make sure that the flow
is quite satisfactory the operator tunes the
machine-assisted by little reed tuning
pipe-until the strip Of metal signs "A -
So far, SO good.
Now, to the battery are attached three
wires. Two of them have handles at the
ends, and the third is hitched to a forceps.
The patient in the chair is given handle
to hold in each hand, and the current is
turned on gradually until it becomes pain
full. Then he is told to grasp the handles
as strongly as possible, the electricity
having been switched off for moments
turned on again suddenly, and the dental
surgeon applies his forceps simultaneously
to the tooth. The moment the molar is
touched it, as well as the parts surround
ing, becomes electrified and absolutely in
sensible to pain. When it is Withdrawn
from the socket the subject of the opera
ton feels not the slightest disagreeable
sensation. A jerk and the tooth is out,
and the patient drops the handles and the
affair is over-Boston Letter to St Louis
Globe Democrat.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
Inoculating an Elephant.

Among the recent valuable discoveries
of the famous French physician, NJ. Pas
teur, is that of the vaccination of domestic
animals for the prevention of the dire dis
ease known as anthrax, or splenic fever.
The marked success attending this system,
In combating the rinderpest in Europe,
encouraged j. II. Lamprey to bring the
subject under the notice of the Govern
ment Of India, where no efficient remedy
was known for this rapidly fatal illness.
which annually carries off large percent
age of cattle of every kind. An order in
Council has been issued, after the most
careful investigation of the merits of the
system, and of the probability of securing
It's favorable reception by native proprie-
tors. In order to carry out this object,
some native Indian students, who have re-
ceived their education at the Cirencester
Agricultural College, are now undergoing
q course of instruction at the Paris labora-
tory of NJ. Pasteur, and will shortly pro-
eeed to stations in India, to dispense the
vaccine, which is applied to elephants as
well as to oxen and other beasts 1t Is
confidently expected that their labors will
be attended with the same success that fol
lowed the introduction of the system into
those countries where it is now in full
operation, with an ultimate prospect of the
total determination Of the most serious
maladies, working great havoc among
fiocks and herds throughout the world.
The elephant, in domestic state, is liable.
as well as other animals in the service of
man, to certain epidemic diseases.--Mus-
trdted London Ners.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
THE sun DANCE.
Festival Celebrated With SelF-Torture by
the Crows.

The Crows have sun dance of their
own, writes a Cincinnati Enquirer corre-
spondent. The dance originates in a spirit
of revenge, and through 1t they seem to
seek to secure the assistance of the Supreme
Being in carrying out their plans for ven
geance and in prosecuting their wars and
horse-stealing expeditions.
Beside the strings by which the dancer
is fastened through the sinews of the chest
and back to long pole, the brave en-
deavors to procure good luck by mutilating
himself with knives in many parts of the
body. Some of the young men fasten
buffalo heads to the muscles of the back
and dance themselves free and through
and about camp. Their legends say that
God made them first of all human beings,
the other Indians next, and the white man
at the last as punishment for some offenses.
How much bodily pain one of these Crow
warriors can undergo ! witnessed in 1880
near this post. 1t was in the fall of that
year when Hon. Carl Schurz, the then
Secretary of the Interior, visited the cap
tured Sioux and Cheyennes near Fort
Keogh. The honorable gentleman desired
to observe the natives at one of their
dances and feasts and General Miles, our
commanding officer, conducted him to the
neighboring encampment. The writer ac-
companied the party, which went on horse
back. As we neared the spot we beheld
several hundreds of Indians squatted down
on the grass, singing, shouting and drum
ming. They were not dancing just then,
but were enjoying a star performance by a
solitary WARRIOR Grow Indian-some-
thing of an excruciatingly humorous ma
ture-a highly-seasoned and palatable side
dish in the feast, SO to speak.
The stalwart Crow stood in the center of
the circle, entirely naked with the excep-
tion of the proverbial breech-cloth the
blood was streaming from hundred gashes
which he was inficting upon chest,
shoulders, abdomen, arms and legs with
sharp-edged knives, handed to him alter
nately by some of the Sioux and Cheyenne
braves.
The sight was too much for the some
what sensitive organization of the fastidi-
Gus Secretary, and giving his horse the
spurs he soon escaped from the disgusting
spectacle. The attending Indians enjoyed
the performance hugely, for they soon
were chatting away and laughing gayly
while the horrible and certainly very pain
ful mutilation was going on. The inter-
prefer informed me that it was an atone
ment ceremony on the part of the Crow,
who had killed in the preceding winter a
Sioux. From the same source / learned
afterward that the very hight of the fes-
tiyity was reached by the audience when
the performer finally permitted his body
to be washed with vinegar, after which he
INDUCED in fits and commissions.
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Courtship in Honduras.

When legal marriages occur in this re-
gion the parents of the couple make all
the arrangements between themselves
The tender passion takes early root in the
tropics, and it is not uncommon TO see a
bride and groom both under fourteen
years. When the boy wants to get mar
ried he tells his mother all about it. She
talks with the father, and if both are will
ling to accept the girl as their daughter
they repair to the house of her parents,
taking with them a chiquihuit OF fowls,
fruits, bread, ears of dried corn and strings
of peppers. They organize a sort of pro-
cession, composed of their relatives and
friends, headed by band of music, thus
publicly proclaiming their intention.
1t is good form for the girls mother to
politely refuse the first request until she
has had time to consult the maiden as to
her wishes in the matter, and 10 find out
what her own friends may think of it.
She sends the procession home completely
in the dark as to the results of its mission.
If the answer be irrevocably unfavorable,
she simply sends back to the parents Of
the would-5e lover their baskets, with the
contents untouched If, on the contrary,
she be inclined to entertain the proposals,
in the course of week or two she sends
to them another chiquihuit filed with
similar otierings.-Letter from Honduras.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
A Glove-Fitter Talks About Buyers.

The most difficult people to please among
our customers are the meu-not the bust
ness men, but the society elegantes, who
come in to select their own gloves, and re-
quire long and ceaseless attention before
the desired size and color is obtained. 1t
is the size on which they place the most
stress, as they invariably wish the smallest
they can possibly wear, and we have to 90
through every make until we find one suf-
ficiently pliable in which to crush the
efIeminate hand. On an average the soci-
ETY. girl, who is accused generally of ex-
trayagance, is really very modest lin her
glove supplies, seldom ordering more than
four pairs week, and you know they
wear them almost constantly. As fo- the
economical poor girl, who is in the swim,
too, she usually purchases a limited num-
Der in the beginning of the season and
brings them regularly to US to be cleaned
They generally wear as light color as is
consistent with fashion, as the lighter the
color the easier and better is the cleansing
process. Some of them go SO far as to
have them dyed when they have been
cleaned several times, as the charge for
dyeing is very reasonable. Chicago Ne,cs
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
THE KINDERGARTEN.
Value of the Institution in Establishing
the Foundation of Character.

Value of the Institution in Establishing
the Foundation of Character.
Certainly all will agree that the most
important of all work is the foundation.
In education, as in everything, if the
child is started as he should be, if the love
of gaining knowledge is implanted in his
soul, and if he is taught to use his facul-
ties, he is just so much better TO acquire
knowledge.
The kindergarten has three-fold ma
ture, mental, moral and physical.
In child life the senses unfold readily TO
methods of culture and the intellectual
strength depends on this culture.
The series of play objects in the hands
of the children are simple, yet contain
many truths of art and science.
1t is better by far to let the child grow
naturally into school life; certainly great
mistake on the part of parents to put him
in school without the general informa-
ton and gradual development child re-
ceives in kindergarten.
In the kindergarten the instruction
given is pleasure to the child. A child
at D or years has not the mental capacity
of one few years older. The brain of a
child grows most before it is Z, and the
greatest care should be taken that it is not
overtaxed.
The object lessons become more and
more difficult, but very gradually, and the
whole time the child is being prepared for
the school life which is to follow.
Physical culture holds prominent
place in the aims of the kindergarten.
Without a healthy body healthy mind
cannot exist.
Games and gymnastics help to develop
the little bodies. A child is naturally
active, and to give way to the activity is a
great pleasure as well as benefit.
The child also becomes conscious of his
own individuality, yet regards the rights
of others in the game he plays, and many
an opportunity occurs where one child can
help another.
The whole spirit of the kindergarten is
in these words
Be you to others kind and true
Asyou'd have others be to you"
The moral nature is most certainly de-
yeloped. The continual doing of things
that are true and right, the feeling of love
for that which is beautiful and good, must
have an immense influence on the after
life, if it is shed on child while it is SO
tender and while 1t is each day forming
habits that will last all through life.
Many of our poor children never see a
bright, happy room, or know anything of
life that is bright. To awaken in them
love for better things, and to lead them
to use the faculties that God has given
them, is great work, and a work that
should be done to a very much larger ex-
tent than at present.-M Clifton, in the
Epoch
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AMERICAN ODD FELLOWS.
Membership of the Order in the Unitet
Stases-Ihe Relief Disbursements

The statistics concerning the Order OF
Odd Fellowship in this country presented
at the session of the Sovereign Grand
Lodge at Los Angeles show total mem
bership of 555,722, being a gain of 25,-
422 for the past year. The lodge initia-
tions for the year aggregated 53,331, ex-
eeeding 1000 week through the twelve
months. The relief disbursements amounted
to S2,353,76 OF, being an increase OF
S126,441 80. There was gain of S405.-
319 % in the total revenue, the grand ag-
gregate being S6,065,o9l 42. There was
an unprecedented increase in the Rebekah
Lodge membership. The number admitted
in 1887 was 1850 The total membership
at the end of the year was Sc, ,101.
Important rulings have been made dur
ing the year in regard to the Rebekah de-
gree.
Members of Grand Lodge will rot be
permitted to he present at the exempliGca-
ton of the Re5ekah degree, unless mem
bers of Rebekah Degree lodges in good
standing. The reason is that the new
ritual is designed for the use Of degree
lodges of the Daughters of Rebelah only,
and those who are not in possession of
the degree as revised have no right to wit
ness it.
A woman divorced, a yiDcnlo matrilno-
nil, her father being third degree MEN,
ber, IS eligible tomembership ina Rsbekah
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
Love and Postaee staups.

Berlin women have reached an extreme
of folly by inventing this postage stamp
language" The stamp in the usual place,
that is, on the top right hand corner OF
the envelope, means, when upright, "I de-
sire your Friendships" across, "Do you love
me?" upside down, Don't write again !"
crooked, "Write at once" When the
stamp is at the bottom corner on the right
hand it means, if upright, Your love makes
me happy" When it is on the left top
corner it means, if UPRIGHT, love you y
across, My heart is another's; upside
down, Good day, my darling" When it
is on the bottom left hand corner it means,
upright, Fidelity will be rewarded p
across, Do not leave me alone in my sor-
rows" upside down, "You have withstood
all trials" When the stamp is on the same
line as thesurname of the address, it means,
if upright, "Accept my love; :" across, {"
long to see you;" upside down, ." am en-
gagged. London. Globe.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
4 Tran-Door snider,s Nest.

In a recent number of Psyche George F.
Atkinson describes the ingenious manner
III which species of trap-door spider con-
structs its nest for the evident purpose OF
entrapping the unwary insects, that they
might be ''gobbled in" A nest, which he
carefully examined, had two tubes or
chambers, the main one about nine inches
long, with the door opening at the surface
of the ground, the branch about one inch
long and placed six inches below the sur
face of the footpath, in which the nest
was constructed. The spider would open
the outer door, enter the branch and
close that door after her, and there await
results. Hungry insects, crawling on the
ground, would find the open tubs an at.
tractive place, entering and passing beyond
the branch-door, which is suddenly thrown
open, they, much to their surprise, find
themselves taken captive and made meal
Of by the cunning spider.
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places IN its center a spot of black enamel;
this is the pupil, which he encircles with
, its areola, and he concludes by drawing
those infinitely small fbres which are
found in the iris The globe of the eve
being completed, it remains now to place
it in the center of the ball. Nothing is
more simple. The hole made in the ball.
which becomes the sclerotica, having been
calculated according to the size of the eye
globe, 1t is placed in it and soldered by
means of the lamp. This done and the
artists finishing touches having rectifed
the small imperfections of the whole work,
it only remains to pare this ball in order
to obtain the eye shell: No mold of any
kind is used, the breath and hand of the
artist being alone employed. Each artist,
by the by, is persuaded that he alone
possesses the best formula for producing
the most liquid enamels, whose color Is
most like that of nature.
The profession of the oculist is older
than would be imagined. The ancients
made artificial eyes OF two classes, the
eshlephari and the hypoblephari. The first
were formed of a circle of iron, which
passing around the head, had at one end of
Its extremities thin sheet Of metal, COW
cred with a very fine skin, on which was
painted an eye with its eyelids and lashes.
1t was in fact nothing more than small
painted bandage, which concealed the
cavity OF the lost eye.
The hypoblephari were placed in the
orbital cavity, and were formed of a me-
tallio she'll, something like a walnut, on
which was painted the iris, the pupil and
the white of the eye. Some of the latter
were made of gold and silver, and it is re-
lated that at period of general distress
two citizens of Latium carried their arti-
fetal eyes to the public treasury, in the
same way that the French women offered
their trinkets as patriotic gifts during the
first revolution. Artificial eyes were, no
doubt, rarities during the middle ages, but
became common enough after the inyen.
ton of porcelain eyes i'll the sixteenth
century. 1t was not until the eighteenth
century that the era Of glass or enamel
eyes commenced.
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LOSS AND GAIN.

Isorrowed that the golden day was dead,
Its light no more the country side adjoining
But whilst grieved behold 1.-The east grew red
With morning.
l sighed that merry spring was forced to go
And dof the wreaths that did SO well become
her;
But whilst murmured at her absence, loi
Twas summer.
mourned because the daffodils were killed
By burning skies that scorched my early posies
But whilst for these l pined, my hands were
With roses.
Half broken-hearted bewailed the end
Of friendships than which none had once
seemed nearer:
But whilst wept found newer friend
And dearer
And thus learned old pleasures are estranged
Only that something better may be given,
Until at last we find this earth exchanged
For heaven.
Good UiOrds
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20

There are So persons in France claiming
to be eentenarians between one hundred
and one hundred and twelve years of age.
The women form a large majority, there
being 81 women to 81 men, 1t is the opin-
ion of French scientist that the chances
of person in the nineteenth century
reaching one hundred years of age are one
in 1S. 500.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

PEEp,s MILL, TEXAS, June 20. 1sSS-The
Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga-Gen-
tlenen: One of my children was troubled
with rheumatism and boils for about two
years. We gave be- various kinds of medi-
cine, but without pIo {, and began to despair
OF curing her at an I was re. aided to try
your S'gift's SpVcia: Af.e. si,e had used
several bottles the tiisTuasS 3 disappeared
ana she IS now hale, htli;, and healthy
girl twelve years old. Another child has
Just become afflicted in tie same way. and /
am using the 5. s. 5. aud anticipate & prompt
and permanent cure. n. .. VAaGoNER
Rich HILL, No, July Z, 1sss-The Swift
Specl1c Co., Atlanta, Ga.-Gentlemen: Our
little girl when but three weeks old broke
out with eczema We tried the prescriptions
from several good doctors, hut without any
special benefit. We tried S. s s. and by the
time one bottle was gone her head began tn
neal; and by the time she had taken six
pot bottles l she was completely cured. Now she
hearty child. feel it but my duty TO MAKE
this statement. Respectfully, II. T. SHoBE.
Chattanooga, TENN, June 27. iss8-The
In 1886 contracted blood poison. and ~ nT,ce
sought physician, who treated ME for sew
erai months; BY his advice I went to Crab
treatment was carefully observed. Irecov
cred, as l thought, but the next spring PIN
PIES began to appear on my face and body,
These gradually Increased TO sores and run.
ming ulcers. was advised to try s. s. s.. and
Immediately after taking it commenced to
Improve, slowly, at first, but more rapidly
tell OF my trouble. My blood IS now thor,
oughly eleansed, and my system free from
taiist ,1aIs ana owe my present condftion-a
perfect cure-to your medicine. Icheerfully
give this statement that others who have
suffered as Ihave may reap the same benefit.
HARDY II. BURT, q West Ninth st.
HOMER, LA, May IS, 1sSs-The Swift Specific
Co., Atlanta, Ga.-Gentlemen About two
years ago my general health gave way en-
tirely. was SO debIlitated that 1 almost
despaired OF ever feeling well again, All
hrO ybf
permanent relief. Friends insisted that /
should give S. s. S. q fair trial, although
thought il would be throwing away money.
After taking a thorough course, my health
ana strength returned and ] must saw that
s. ). s. alone cured me, as discarded all
others while using It,. AS a tonic can most
heartily recommend ft for general debility
u certainly is specific W. F. BRIDGES, j. r.
HOMER, LA.-I know Mr.. W. f. Bridges, and
VIII say that his statement Is correct
JOSEPH SHELTON. Druggist
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 3
Atlanta. Ga,
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No we'll regulated household should be
without q bottle Of Angostura Biiters, the
worId-renownel appetizer and invigorator.
Beware of counterfeits Ask your grocer
or druggist FOR the genuine article, manu-
fac.ured b. Dr.. ]. G. b. Siegert & Sons.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20

SoRoFULA is q more formidable enemy
than either consumption or cancer alone
for serofuls combines the worst possible
features of both. 1t is cured by Hoods
Sarssparilla, the blood purifier.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-20

The difference between the temperature
of the cellar and garret is largely due to
the climb-attic changes Merchant 7fas-
eler.