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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
Another Treatment of pbt,,,sis.

Two of the strongest cases quoted by DR..
kremianski, the Russian physician, in be-
half of his new treatment of phthisis, have
been described in the foreign journals. In
one of these, that of lad of Is who had
undoubted phthisis, there was ordered a
four days dose of aniline-but by mistake
three times the proper quantity was taken
combined with nux vomica, mint water
and antifbrin, his diet being good, includ-
ing dried meat, kvas and oranges he was
also given inhalations of atomized aniline.
A remarkable change took place almost
Immediately, all the bacilli disappearing,
and his temperature, respiration and pulse
becoming normal. The second case was a
complicated one, there being tuberacular
peritonitis and meningitis, together with
typhoid fever, present at the same time rs
pulmonary phthisis; aniline Limitations,
washing ont the pulmonary cavities and
corrosive subIimate and antifbrin were
employed, together with 4 special acid
diet as in the other case Here, too, the
results are said to have been remarkably
good, the bacilli disappearing from the
sputum and the patient regaining his
health entirelv-N y. Tribune.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
Niagara as an Eieotrio s,,nn,v

An article in Sc'ibnc's upon 'sThe Elec
trIc Motos and Its Applications" by
Franklin Leonard Pope, refers to the
proposition of Siemens, in 1877, that the
energy of the water at Niagara Falls might
be transferred to New York and there
utilized for mechanical purposes, and the
belief of Sir William Thompson, an
nounced in 1879, that, by the use of half
inch insulated copper wire, $4,000 horse
power of energy being taken from water
wheels, q, 900 could be delivered at
point 800 miles away Mr.. Pope goes on
to say that it seems indisputable that
Marcel Deprez, French electrician, has
delivered more than thirty-fye horse power
at point seventy miles distant from that
at which an energy of sixty-two horse
power was applied, showing loss in trans
mission of only about 43 per cent.-Detroa
Free Press
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
The Fact and the Method of Creation

1t is curious to observe how, when the
question is concerning nature, we no sooner
find oct how thing is made than we i'm
mediately exclaim, " 1t is not made at all
it became so of itselfr' So long as we
knew not how worlds were made we of
course concluded they must have been
created; but, so soon as science showed hotc
it was probably done, Immediately we say
we were mistaken-they were not made at
all So, also, so long as We could not i'm
agine how new organic forms originated,
We were willing to believe they were
created but, so soon as we find that thew
originated from evolution, many at once
say, ave were mistaken-no creator is
necessary at all" Is this so when the
question is concerning a work of man !?
Yes, of one kind-viz., the work of the
magician. Here, indeed, we believe in
him and are delighted with his work, until
we know how it is done, and then all our
faith and wonder cease. But in any honest
work it is not so; but, on the contrary,
when we understand how it is done, stupid
wonder is changed into intellectual delight
Does it not seem, then, that to most people
God is mere wonder-worker, chief ma
gician? But the mission of science is to
show us how things are done Is it any
wonder, then, that to such persons science
is constantly destroying their superstitious
illusions? But if God is an honest worker,
according to reason. e., according to
law-ought not science rather to change
gaping wonder into intelligent delight
superstition into rational worship PROT.
Joseph lie Conte, IN Popular Science.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

Keep in good llumor 1t is not great
calamities that embitter existence. 1t is
the petty vexations, the small .iealousies,
the little disappointments, the minor
miseries, that make the heart heavy and
the temper sour. Don't let them. Anger
is pure waste Of vitality; it is always
foolish and always disgraceful, except in
some rare cases, when ii is kindled by sec
ing wrong done to another; and even that
noble rage seldom mcnds the matter
Keep in good bumor No man does mis-
best except when he is cheerful 4 light
heart makes nimble hands and keeps the
mind free and alert. No misfortune is so
great as one that sours the temper. Until
cheerfulness is lost nothing is lost. Keep
in good humor The company of good
humored man is perpetual feast; he is
welcomed everywhere-eyes glisten at his
approach and difficulties vanish in his
presence. Franklin's indomitable good
humor did as much for his country in the
old Congress as Adams fire or Jefferson's
wisdom; he clothed wisdom with smiles,
and softened contentious minds into acqui-
escence. Keep in good humor-Er.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

exclude too glaring light and di-
minish the dust nuisance. Floors thus
treated are kept clean much easier, as the
oil becomes incorporated with the wood
and makes hard finish, as it is oxidized
by contact with the air. The same treat
ment of floors, removal of carpets and I'M
necessary materials for the Judgment of
dust and organic impurities, will make the
sleeping apartments much more whole
some. 1t has long been acknowledged
that carpets are entirely out of place in
the apartments occupied by the sick that
they retain the poison Of such diseases as
small pox, diphtheria and scarlet fever;
and 1t seems strange that crusade against
them has not long since been organized.
In the far-of future, when people shall
have learned a moderate amount of SAM
tary knowledge, "the carpet must co.
american Aadlust.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
An Explanation.

What is this nervous trouble" with
which so many seem now to be afflicted /?
If you will remember, few years ago the
word malaria was comparatively I'M
known; to-day it is as common as any
word in the English language; yet this
word covers only the meaning of another
word used by our forefathers in times past.
So it is with nervous diseases, as they and
malaria are intended to cover what orr
grandfathers called biliousness, and all are
caused by troubles that arise from dis
eased condition of the liver, which, in per-
forming its functions, finding it cannot
dispose of the bile through the ordinary
channel, is compelled to pass it off through
the system, causing nervous troubles, ma
laria, bilious fever, etc. You who are suf-
fering can well appreciate a cure. We
recommend Green's August Flower. It's
cures are marvellous.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
No Carpets in summer.

The European system of painting floors
instead of Competing them, aud decorating
them with handsome rugs, is gradually
growing in popularity on this side Of the
Atlantic. Carpets, as we'll as curtains,
lambrequins, etc, may be deemed necessary
parts of house furnishing, bu. they all
collect dust and dirt of a more dangerous
character. In the winter they may be
tolerated, but when summer comes they
should all be removed to places OF security
and protected from light and insect de-
stroyers. The floors should be oiled with
boiled linseed oil, and wherever coverings
of any kind are desirable, on account OF
lessening sounds, rugs and mats should take
the place OF carpets, and plain
shades and shutters will suffice to
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

shoulders, weak limbs, and many of the
| disorders that are found among horses are
the results often of but short periods of too
severe strains, or of II day or half DAYS
work that was harder than they had been
used to. There is danger at this season of
the year of imposing hard tasks upon
teams, the roads being bad and some of
the heaviest farm work needing attention.
There is no time in the year, either, that
that farmers c:rn as little afford to get their
horses out of shape as now, the blowing
season being near at hand, when every
days work may mean so many dollars and
eents.-Natianni .ShncLnnnn
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
False Notions Ahnut Eatine

1t has been an old-wives' notion from
way back that certain kinds of food must
be avoided because they tend to produce
certain kinds of disease, This notion has
been fosterea by alleged physicians who
publish health journals and are always
laying down rules about living, which, if
any one undertook to follow literally and
scrupulously, would make life burden
from the cradle to the grave. Some years
ago DIR. bio Lewis, who was regarded as
somewhat of health expert, announced that
tomatoes were unhealthy, were the cause
of cancer, loosened and destroyed the teeth,
etc. For generations boys and girls had
been warned not to eat so much butter or
their faces would break out with "butter
sores" 1t is an old-time tradition that
buckwheat cakes are productive of skin
diseases, and the Scotch are said to be
cursed with the itch because they eat so
much oatmeal. DR.. James c. White, Pro-
fessor Of Dermatology in Harvard Uniyer-
sity, in recent article on cutaueous dis
eases, Ificks some of these annoying tradi-
tional bubbles. He says that uncooked
butter is perfectly harmless food so far as
the skin is concerned, and it is difficult to
conceive how any one could have thought
otherwise, unless, possibly, the use of bad
butter in food otherwise indigestible, may
may have disturbed the stomach and pro-
duced impure blood. Buckwheat cakes do
not produce cutaneous dieases, unless i'm
properly cooked and eaten hot with too
much syrup they disturb the digestion.
Oatmeal is perfectly harmless food, and
the idea that tomatoes cIu.e cancer is
ridiculous. pr White says thai the eat
ing Of fruits, nuts and iisll may lead to
irritation OF the skin III certain iudiYid-
uals, but this arises from some cause pecu-
liar to the individual. The notion that
certain kinds of food are detrimental to the
complexion is a false one. A good diges-
ton and healthy appetite will take care
of the skin, and it matters little what one
eats if the stomach is allowed to do its
work properly and furnish good material
for pure blood.-SPingfeld Union.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
How Horses are plsabled.

The hardest work on farm horses is that
of a spasmodic nature, heavy one day and
light the next, or a hard days work one
day and nothing at all to do the next.
Horses whose nerves become like iron and
which are able to stand almest anything in
the way Of wear and tear are those which
have an opportunity to lay out their
strength every day in the week. Sore
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

At the time of the blizzard, Edison n.
Shepard, Of Rrookfeld, had fifteen hens
completely showed under on their roost
He shoyeled them out and found twelve
all right, two dead and one he could not
find. On Saturday last, eighteen days af-
ter the storm, he went to the old roost and
there he discovered the missing hen lust
thawing out so that he could see her tail.
He pulled her out, and, to his great aston
lshment, she was still alive. He took her
by the fire and warmed her and fed her,
and the old hen felt 50 comfortable that
she began to sing. She is now all right
DGaburg Neus
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

Red clouds at sunrise indicate storm.
Foxes barking at night indicate storm.
The aurora, when very bright, indicates
storm.
The weather usually moderates before a
storm.
Sounds of travelling far and wide
A stormy day will betide.
North and south the sign of drought
East and west the sign OF blas'.
Peafowl utter low cries before a storm
and select low perch.
Domestic animals stand with their heads
from the coming storm.
Distant sounds heard with distinctness
during the day indicate rain.
Coal becoming alternately bright and
dim indicates approaching storms.
Wild geese flying over in great numbers
indicates approaching storm.
When oxen or sheep collect together as
if they were seeking shelter a storm may
be expected.
1t is said that blacksmiths select astormy
day in which to perform work that re-
quires extra heat
When a heavy cloud comes up in the
southwest and seems to settle back again
look out for storm.
Fire always burns brighter and throws
out more heat just before storm, and is
hotter during storm.
A long strip of clouds, called a salmon,
or Noah's ark, east and west, is sign of
stormy weather, but when it extends north
and south it is 4 sign of dry weather.
If the clouds be of different nights, the
sky being grayish or dirty blue, with hardly
any wind stirring, the wind, however,
changing from west to south, or sometimes
to southeast, without perceptibly increas-
ing in force, expect a storm.-New York
Nal and Express.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

Mother said Miss Clara, do you
think Bobby ought to lounge in that hand
some chair?" Certainly not, Bobby"
said the mother, reprovingly, you might
break it, If its strong enough to hold
Clara and Mr.. Featherly,p argued Bobby,
as he slowly slid down, cit ought to be
strong enough to hold little boyD-Nar
York SIN
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

The manufacture and sale Of cigarettes
has become business of vast proportions.
During one month recently one firm sold
over 60000,000 cigarettes. This amount
would furnish man one minute, day
and night, for 1l5 years.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

There are pitchers and pitchers. The
baseball pitcher gets about $4,000 a season,
while the fellow who pitches hay gets
about $500 for double the work and nc
glory
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28

We must not hope wholly to change
their original tempers, nor make the gay
pensiye and grave, nor the melancholy
sportiye, without spelling them.-Locke.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
Signs of Storms.

Red clouds at sunrise indicate storm.
Foxes barking at night indicate storm.
The aurora, when very bright, indicates
storm.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-08

WHEN BE FINISHED READING THRsE WORDS.
it seemed to him that he would lose his
reason Putting his hands to his head, hs
tottered like one who has received death
blow. A binding mist came before his eyes
and horrible, ringing, sound filed his
ears. One straw's weight more, and he
would have gone, stark, staring mad-lil1e
those poor creatures whom he once saw in
their iron-barred cells, gnawing and biting
at their chains and shrieking out in their
frenzy.
Was it a hideous dreami Was he really
mad?
The most audacious fight of the widest
imagination could not have equaled this
step of one brief moment from worse than
utter poverty to possible millions. Who
ever saw or knew or heard or dreamed OF
such thingi
Suddenly his eye fell upon the dead Hay
dee at his feet-how gloriousiy beautiful
she looked nowi-hiS little sweetheart,
Haydee, whom the sea had cast up to him
with her heart and her wealth, all hisl
His frenzy ceased. He grew quiet and,
with tears of genuine affection, stopped
down and drew the marble, death-stin face
to his own and kissed it passionately, cry
ing:
"Haydeel o Haydeei Would to God 1
had seen you alive but once morer'
But, where was Ali, that grim, yet trusty
slave whom Fairfax so well remembered in
connection with his visit of long-ago to Tan
giers!
Faithful, even to DEATH For, alasl the
sobbing pillows answered, the next
moment they rolled his body into the cove,
burned and blaclened with powder and
slashed and hacked and pierced in a score of
places with sword and knife and bullet.
Now was all clear to Fairfax. His awful
dream was only too true. Only, in lieu of
the SNamovna," it was the vessel that bore
Haydee; and, instead Of the Princess, it
was Haydee herself.
Led on probably by "Matteo''-whoever
he might be-who was undoubtedly tempted
by her beauty and her wealth, the crew
mutinied and slew the captain and the
mate, while Haydee, preferring death,
plunged into the sea and was drowned; and
old Ali paid for his devotion to his mistress
with his life.
Here was a tale OF adventure on the high
seas, more marvellous than that OF fiction.
'And Ad, lGho bears about in his breast
the papers rhich he has sseoTn to protect to the
DEATH until he deliver hena 10 then
He had protected them to the death, and
was now come to Fairfax-"tO deliver
h em?''
ITO BE CONTINUED
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-08
CONCERNING CLOTHES.
Men and Women Who Give All Thelz
Thoughts to Dress.

Men and Women Who Give All Their
Thoughts to Dress.
If it were not for clothes great part OF
the world would have nothing to do, and
nothing to think about. Clothes are to some
what books and pictures and bric-a-brac,
music, poetry and conversation are to 9TH
ers. They take the place Of metaphysics,
astronomy and psychological research. Pos
sibly it may require as much thought to
plan reception gown as to calculate an
eclipse, especially when the purse is slen-
der; to imagine new shape for a bonnet, a
new drapery new trimming, as to invent
a philosophical solution of the universe or
to compose a symphony; but the mind Is
more enlarged and enriched by the one than
by the other. We do not exactly want to
live for clothes, to satisfy our souls with
such material things, although many are
apparently content to give all their
leisure and thoughts to them, and are no
sooner off with the old clothes than they
are on with the new. They always have q
dress maker in the house and shopping on
hand Their literature is fashion reports.
They have no interests to speak OF apart
from this frivolous pursuit, or none so
great, so absorbing. Happiness for such
people consists in a wardrobe where no
omission can be detected. But let it not be
supposed that this alteration of clothes is a
peculiarly feminine trait, although many
believe so. Are not fop and coxcomb both
in the masculine gender, and is there any
feminine synonym for thema OF course 1t
may be urged that men have nobler occu-
pations which consume their time, that their
minds are not so narrow as to be agitated
by the shape of collar, but this is perhaps
only an argument in favor Of the higher
education of women. If their minds were
as elegantly and suitably furnished as those
of their brothers, would they not have
something more interesting to devote
themselves tot
Dress is a kind Of recreation, like poetry
or music, not the absorbing interest OF
lifetime, although one might suspect quite
the reverse Too profound attention to it Is
facilitating to the mental fibre; like some
poisons it has an accumulative effect; one
can not trile with it or it asserts itself, and
becomes an lntoxication in one case, fetch
in another. 1t is always pleasure TO see
well-dressed people; gown that hts badly,
colors i'll assorted, tawdriness, depress one
like bad drawing, like ''sweet bells langling
out of tuner; but those who put their soul
into their clothes, into the hang OF skirt On
the set of sleeve, have generally very lit
tie else to recommend them, and one soon
exhausts their resources. "a sweet dis
order in the dross' may be advised for
artistic effect; it relieves primness and
gives q touch of piquancy to tonettei but
the disorder must not lapse into diseaset
one is not more certainly born with genius
for mus;c, for literature or art, than another
is born with a taste for dress, knows what
| to wear aud o-wear- h-A9rD
RasGzA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-08
CHAPTER xxx.
NOT ALL A DREAM.

NJ.
Fairfax had been dreaming. He stood
on a barren, rocky islet in mid-ocean. All
about him was wild, wide waste of de-
sorted, sunlit waters-not sail, not cloud,
not bird, nor fish, nor any living thing in
sight Only the endless, boundless, ever
lasting stretch of sea and the solid, scorch-
ing rock beneath his feet.
He knew not bow he came there, nor why.
To him time and space had no beginning
nor end. Past and future there was none
only one eternal no,c.
Like the ancient mariner, he was ''alone
on wide, wide sea-" but with no other
facts, no other data. no other knowledge of
any thing save of himself, Arthur Fairfax,
and this blistering, barren rock and that
vast, SILENT glazing wilderness Of waters,
met on all sides by heavens of braSSy hue.
Here he stood, stony hearted, passionless,
quiet as the rock itself and as motionless,
staring out over that horrible sca-salt plain,
with fixed, expressionless eyes.
There came no morn, no noon, no night;
but one never-ending, unchanging day.
Time was not.
1t might have been day, it might have
been month, @ year, q century-he knew
not nor cared-but at last there rose, far,
far away on the uttermost, EXTREMIST verge
of the horizon, feeble, upward-crawling
line of smoke, which came near and nearer,
and grew dense and yet more dense. On it
rolled with ever-increasing rapidity, until it
rushed ahead with lightning speed.
Within, and almost hidden by this mighty,
roaring column, belching forth fire and
smoke, he detected the outlines of vessel.
Straight toward the rocky islet, straight
towards himself it came, with unerring, un-
swerving course.
Now he saw and recognized it.
It was the "Namovna,' % enveloped in a rag
ing sheet of flame that shot upwards and
backwards, roaring and laundering with
terrific sound, and, high in the farthest
tip of the yet unscorched bow stood Natalie;
in speechless horror, her snow-white arms
stretched appealingly toward him.
Nearer and swifter, yet, swept on that
frightful. rolling pillar of fire, the sea boil
ing and seething in its track and vast
clouds Of white steam arising and inter-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-08
CHILDISH ASPIRATIONS.

II was years ago on a summer day.
Three children sat by the brock at play;
BY the brook where the grass grew tan and
rank, .-
And the willows swayed on the quiet bank,
Where the oak trees waved their branches
green,
And the sunbeams fell like gems between;
While the birds that sang in the greenwood
tree
Had no lighter hearts than the children three.
All the day long their feet had strnyed
In the leafy paths in the beech-tree snaoe;
Till tired at last, and with heat oppressed.
They sank on q moss-grown mound 10 resi-
And there in the quiet green retreat
They wove their flowers in garlands sweet;
And mid the shadows grim and Still
TThey planned future, as children will.
-sru be a soldier" the oldest cried,
I'm the battles front I'll boldly ride;
captain brave and true FL be,
And lead my hosts to victory;
The foe in terror will from me hee,
A conquering hero will be;
NY deeds shall cause all men amaze,
And all who speak shall give me praise"
The next began. and this spalSe she:
"A rich mans bride I'll surely be;
NV dress shall be silks and satins lnc,
And on my brow rare jewels shine"
''And l." said the third, with earnest looks
'.Wnl excel We all-ru write book;
And full of truth and good twill be,
And all the world shall hear OF me-"
The sands of time have fallen fast,
And more than q score of years have passed;
The future they pictured gay and bland
Has been far other than then they planned;
Their lives have not been SO very fair
AS the castles they built in the summer air;
When time looked on them with sober frown,
They ANONYMOUSLY tumbled down.
The boy was a soldier, as was his pride;
A crippled arm hangs by his side;
No epaulettes gay were given to him.
And his sole reward was useless limb
She who thought to pc lady gay
Is a sober. care-worn woman to-day:
And she who thought to be famous and grand
Writes this tale of how three children planned
Mrs. Josie Morley, in Yankee Blade.