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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30

when he took the oath of office, was small
morocco-covered Bible, we'll worn, with gilt
edges. 1t was the Bible given to him by his
mother when. as young man, he left home
to become the architect of his own destiny,
and it was at his special request that the
committee of arrangements had it in readiness
when the chief justice of the United States
came forward TO administer the oath of the
high Office to which he had been called.
The origin of the oath upon the Bidle has
been traced to the old Roman law, and the
kissing of the the book is said to be an ilnita-
ton of the priests kissing the ritual as q sign
of reverence before he reads it to the people.
Bouyier's law dictionary says: 1.-The COM
mencement of an oath is made by the party
taking hold of the book after being required
by the officer to do so, and ends generally with
the words $50 help you God" and kissing the
book, when the form is that of swearing on
the evangelists."
In protestant courts, Jews usually decline
to be sworn on the Bible if it includes the New
Testament, and they very rarely kiss the
book although the jews from the earliest
period were sworn on the Pentateuch. They
had, haweyer, like the Greeks and Romans,
two forms of oaths known as the greater and
lesser oath. The lesser oath was by Jerusa-
lem, the temple, heaven the alter; but
their most solemn oaths were when they laid
their hand upon the book of the law and
Swore by the God of Israel.
The Mohammedans are sworn on the Koran,
and the Greeks and Romans swore by the
souls of the dead, the ashes of their fathers,
by their own lives Or the lives of their friends,
by their heads and by their right hands, while
among Scandinayians and Germans it was
customary to rest the hand upon some object
while repeating an oath.
When it is considered that the lower classes,
dieased and dirty, kiss the Bible in our lower
and higher courts with q resounding smack.
and that by this contact disease may be dis
seminated to the very sensitive organs the
lips, there is good reason for the medical jour
nails to open war on the custom of kissing
the book
The Medical Register OF recent date says:
"The kissing of the Bible in any case is form
which might easily, without the sacrifice of
solemnity or OF the structure of an oath, be set
aside in favor of simply touching of the book
with the hand or recognition of it in the aver
ration. The lips are most sensitive receptaces
for the germs of disease, and, from the motley
throng OF dirty and diseased persons who are
summonedin court of justice, what infec-
tions germs may not be disseminated? The
person who kisses Bible in. court has not the
least surety that his lips do not come into di-
rect contact with the pollution left by pre-
decessor who was suffering from some foul
skin disease or faint, not to speak Of the germs
OF eruptive fevers and the like"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30
Taik of Lares Sized Party.

from the 81 Louis Globe d emociat
Eel PAso. Tex, October 25.--It Is UNDER
stood from the best OF sources that grand hunting
party to be led by Buffalo Bill is looked for in lei
Paso in about two weeks The party win consist OF
q few distinguished Americans and a number Of
European seions of nobility aud wealth. 1t will
take In the northern portions Of chihuahua and
Sonora and penetrate the Businesses of the Sierra
Madres that have been long closed TO the inves-
tigalion The white man by the h stile Apaehes,
which are now completely removed They will
travel III special cars, which will be left In ll Pso
during their lengthy stay in Mexico, which may be
prolonged for months, Orders have already
reached El Paso TO make preparations
Lord Charles Beresford, and in all probability a
grand Ike of Russia will come along E Pase
VIII be the supply point of the hunt They will go
first TO the Corraltos country, where the Mormons
are starting their settlements on large scale and
to the adjoining Casas Graudes district where the
most interesting and majestic remains of Aztec an
tiquitg can be found that have never yet been de-
scTibsd by American scientists end historians
They viii go then 10 senaor HoarRf@s great renehc
HAsss 3SgSn slie midst 81 aaea@&etnIigit rtsnaltit
country. full of antiqultles and game. Most Of
thtt country has never beore been trod by the foot
OF white man, At the Hoffman house in New
York, where the preliminary arrangements are ia
being perfected, Judge J. Il. Crosby heard several
members of the party say that they intended to %
principally in search Of game, but would also keep
an eye TO windward for such other objects as might
present an attractive appearance
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-30

killed one man. but the house was burned, an
nothin' saved. Beats anything 1 ever saw.
The one that was killed at Bright's Is this low
down fellow that we 'spected all along was
he jest didn't have Lakes luck. Get your
horse an your gun. We're going to bring
Lake johnson back with u.s.
SO RUDE Smith shut up his store, kissed his
wife and baby goodbye, and rode off with
them. About a mile from the store the horse
tracks left the road and with them were the
tracks of a man.
Chats queer" said one of the party, rs he
pointed to the mans track, "who can that be
with him.
That's White Hat, not with him but after
him." said the storekeeper. And he told OF
what he had seen that morning.
IS pose old White Hat finds him first" sug-
gested one.
"Oh," said another ''if White Hat is foler-
in him, an fms him, hen surely come back
and tell where he is. I'll bet"
You'll bet what?" laughed another.
,Nothin'-only b'lieye old White Hat was
after Lake Johnson-an' b'lieve maybe Lake
johnson foun' the Indian gold"
Leaving the road, they followed in silence
through the woods towards Flat mountain, and
Horn. Occasionally the tracks would be lost,
and the party would separate until the trail
was found. At the ford over Willow creek it
was lost again, and they separated, each with
his rife unslung and ready.
PRESENTLY pistol shot rang out-the signal
to gather instantly. They came up breathless.
The storekeeper pointed a few yards ahead to
two forms. Not word was spoken.
The two men-old White Hat and the out
iaw-were lying upon the ground locked in
close embrace, the outlaw above Each was
still holding knife in his right hand The
old Indians muscles were close drawn and
still knotted iii agony. The outlaw had fallen
to one side from his upright position, and both
were dead. The tableau told its own story.
With the lives of those two men the secret
OF the Cherokee treasures passed forever away
from the knowledge of men.
White Hat had kent his trust
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
SIC TRANSIT.

o wondrous life Of Joy and strength
whiN mans young power unspent Is.
Through all the ten years joyous length
The hot and eager twentes:
Next comes the decade sweet and strong,
Years where no harm u hurt is,
When life pours forth its fullest song
The proud a passionate thirties.
Lies summer glows; with lower and fruit
The long day al TO short IL.
And well its glorious ~splendors suit
Our mic day world, the forties.
Il this the first approach Of night:
Yes: downward now our drtft IL.
As on we fare through waning light,
Slow sinking through the ffties.
Sttl closer folds our narrowing range;
Our fate moro sure and liked is s.
For good or III. small chance Of change y
When once We reach the sixties.
Darkens the shadow OF the tomb, T:
And either hell or heaven it's.
As life, past, present and % come,
Looks on US through the seventies.
Shut out from ~manhood's earlier force,
How sad the growing weight IL
We bear along the dreary course
That fingers through the eighties!
SGllslowlier dips our weary oar.
But useless to repine it's:
And yet We long TO md . shore
Somewhere among the nineties.
Come, kindly death. unfeared. long sought.
Spare us the torturing one dread
Tha: Heaven has dropped rs out OF thought
To Is ole the hundred:
". Arthur Binns. in Hdrper's WeekIy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
RESURRECTION PLANT.
IL Apparently Dies, Nut Comes to Life
Again When Wet.

IL Apparently Dies. Nut Comes to Life
Again When Wet.
This is the resurrection plant"
said u street peddler to a reporter, who
had stopped to look at the formers
stock in trade. In the middle Of his
table was a basket filed with dried
and curled up MOSES Of a vegetable
growth. Around it were aucer of
water in which plants were growing.
The peddler explained that the plants
SO green and thrifty-lOokins in the
saucers were the brown and apparent
ly dead punches in the basket after
placed for q short time in water.
''They grow in Chihuahua, Mex"
said he. THE Mexicans call them
siempre viva. which means, always
life.' The plants exist in the crevices
of rocks, and are subjected to long-con-
tinued and severe drouth. After . rain
they open and turn green, but after the
water dries up they begin to turn
brown and curl up again. and in a day
will seem dead. 1t is only after show
ers that they can be found readily. as
when they dry they are too neal the
color of the rocks to see without q close
search. l go to Mexico every spring
and pick them by the barrel 70 sell
through the summer"
The dried plants were each about the
size Of a large hens egg. with the
leaves rolled tightly in toward q COM
mon center. There was a small root
Of fibers almost as fine as hair, and at
tached to some were minute pieces OF
rock and traces of sand. The peddler
said he never knew one so old that it
would not unfold when wet for q short
time. He also had several varieties of
Mexican cactus. that he claimed were
in the United States. One was
diminutive in size. hardly larger than
. thimble. This vas said to be the
Rmallest cactus known. Another kind
MAS ribbed lengthwise. with long spines
standing out in two directions from
each rib. A third was q thick growth
Of short but needle-like prickles. An
were small. the biggest not being over
four inches tall.-&. LoUis GIobe-Dsm-
oerok
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The canning OF shrimps is becom-
inga great industry in New Orleans.
Fully 1OO. 900 cans . day are packed
there during the season.
"A remarkable phOtO-engraEed
chart Of the Pleiados. showing 1926
stars from the third to the seventeenth
magnitude. has been produced ut the
Paris observatory.
An eastern inventor has perfected
an electrical type writer. by means Of
which a message may be transmitted
over a telegraph wire to almost any
distance. and printed at the other end.
In a report on ''Steam BoilOr Ex-
~plosions." recently made to the Liver
pool Engineering Society. it was stated
that 1.-The actual percentage OF explO-
sions to boilers at work is very small.
being at the rate Of one explosion to
every $500 boilers in use."
"A patented material. said to have
all the properties Of lignum Vita. is
prepared in Leipsic. by n. StOckhardt,
from ordinary soft wood. The wood IL
first impregnated with oil. then SUBJ
jected to great pressure, causing con-
siderable increase in density.
-Potates ara dried. ss fruits are, for
use ON ships and in mining camps,
where the fresh vegetables a not be
easily procured. The potatoes r
sliced and dried in o common evapora-
tor. just a apples are. and when used
are soaked in water twelve hours to
soften and freshen them.
The new s0dium-preparing pro-
cess. by which caustic soda is distilled
with an intimate mixture of coke and
very finely divided iron. is said to
prove capable Of successful working on
a large scale. and it is expected to re-
duce the cost Of sodium to less than a
fourth Of its present price; also to
cheaper the production Of aluminium.
Variation In sound is regulated by
the number of vibrations; the o
numerous these vibrations the higher
the sound. The deepest. gravest tone
that is possible for human car to hear
has thirty-two vibrations per second.
The highest and shrillest has about
10000. Mans voice can scarcely go
below a sound that gives 164 vibra-
tons, nor woman's voice higher than
2.08S vibrations per second.
An interesting collection Of COM
mercial products. made by DIR. Forbes
Watson. has been acquired by Cniver-
sity College. Dundee. 1t contains some
1900 samples. embracing between 700
and 500 fibers, over 500 dyes and dye
stuffs. 500 oils and oil-seeds. COO or 700
gums. resins and guttas. nearly 1000
medicinal substances. and ore than
rs many samples of food-stuffs.
Prof. Haupt has calculated that the
opening of two diagonal streets in Phil
adelphia (85O.OO0 inhabitants) would
reduce the extreme distances by one
mile and q quarter. Tho annual num-
Der Of passengers carried by the cars
being 125. 1000. 900. the total saving
would reach about $4,000 per mile
travelled. The passengers would gain
3.565 years in time and would save
more than 5000. 900 horse power il.
motive nOwer-
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
n IVORY TRADE.

An Industry That Has Been Killed By the
lntroductisa Of Cslluloid.
A pair of magnificent elephants
tusks adOrn the window Of an East
Side downtown store and indicate to
the ~passer-by that ivory goods are sold
there. The proprietor of the estab-
lishment told a reporter. that the tusks
are the largest and most valuable in
the country. and that they came from
Africa nearly a o Of years ago and
have been in his possession ever since.
the tusks are nine feet long. weigh $50
pounds each and are valued at $500.
us there much doing in ivory at the
present time?" asked the reporter.
Nothing at ALL" was the reply. "or
next to nothing. 1 should say" he con-
tinued. 'Hfor Of III there will
always be more or less OF q demand
for ivory. but practically the business
is dead and celluloid has killed it.
"Why." he went on. ''evcry thing
that was made of ivory q few years
ago is made of celluloid to-day, and a
great many other things besides. How
many pianos in these days have ivory
keys do you think? Only the most
expensive. and then. too. combs and
brushes, umbrellas and cane handles,
billiard and pool balls. and ven dice.
Yes, I saw a set of dice the other day
that were made of celluloid that you
could scarcely tell from ivory, 70 per-
fectly were they done.
The latest thing. however, in the
celluloid line that I have heard Of is in
the shape Of playing cards. It is said
that they are in every way superior to
the ordinary pasteboard articles. for
they can be easily washed when they
become s0iled. and r so prepared
that the colors will not wash of.
Another attraction. their cheapness,
will undoubtedly make them popular,
and I believe they will supplant the old
fashioned cards altogether when they
become more generally known"
ITO what use are old and broken
billiard balls putt" inquired the re-
porter.
well. those that are only slightly
Clipped or broken are readily turned
down into balls suitable for bagatelle
or parlor games. but those that are
badly broken are thrown away Is use
less. II the billiard rooms should all
close up We would find little to do in
our line. All first-class billiard saloons
are provided with ivory balls. for the
celluloid limitations have found but lit
tie favor in the eyes of billiard players.
With the pool table. however. tho case
is different, for the majority Of pool sets
In this city r made Of celluloid.
Where We sold one hundred set of pool
balls . few years ago. even without
considering the natural growth Of the
trade. we sell less than twenty to-day
IN. 7. Letter. 5i1t r
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
POOR r HEART:


He Meets the Nan WITH the Iron Fist and
LsaFns . Lsssen.
A young man from some interior
town, who was In that condition known
As ..sprung." was seeking . skirmish
at the corner Of Woodward and Jeher-
O avenue yesterday. He said he
was the young man Of the Marble
Heart, whatever that is. and that no
felt lonesome because he hadn't shed
somebody's blood for three long hours.
The policeman on the beat warned in
q fatherly way to scatter himself over
tho city, but he replied:
..NOt > scatter! Honor chains me
here. 1 am the man of the Marble
Heart"
..Yes. but youdon't want to be locked
up. l take it," protested the officer.
There's no use in getting into trouble
because your heart isn't made on the
regular plan"
But he wouldn'tgo. He wanted gore
and other high-priced summer goods.
and waiting until the officer was q block
away he bristled up to q man with q
basket on his arm and dared him to
look cross-eyed.
II warn ye to kape off," exclaimed
the man as he moved along.
The man of the Marble Heart moved
after him. Then the basket dropped.
the young mar went into the gutter in
a heap. and q sport declared him
knocked out in the first round. Tho
policeman returned and picked him up
and called the wagon. and 1t was not
until the victim reached the station
that he spoke. Then he said:
.'S'all right. Man Of the Marble
Heart can't stand up to the Man with
the Iron Fist. Didn't know 1t before.
but l shall remember it now-always
remember it."-Detroit Free Press
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
OF FLEShY o

An Outline Of the Schwsnlngor Treetmene
for Obesity.
The system of Prof. Ernst Schwenia-
ger for the treatment of obesity, which
was introduced hero about two years
ago. has by this time been sufficiently
tested to demonstrate that any body
who will determinedly follow the regi-
men prescribed by it reduce his
flesh to any reasonable degree desired.
it being understood, Of course. that his
physical condition Is moi such by rea-
son of incurable heart or kidney
disease as to make reduction perilOus.
And there is just m thing about it
that is hard to get used to. That's tho
absolute prohibition of all liquids dur
ing meals and for an hour before and
an hour after each meal. It does not
seem so difficult to do without fluids to
wash down ones food until 1t is tried.
and the iron pressure Of habit In sip
ping and even gulping water. wine.
milk. tea, or coffee while eating Is
realized. The very fact Of prohibition
seems to make ono more intensely
thirsty. and the j~uiciest food takes on
the a~stringent dryness Of chewed
pOmeS-anate riud. OF course. n be-
comes accustomed to it after awhile.
eventually does not feel any desire for
liquids at the prohibited times. and
even finds less disposition to drink at
any time than he had before. Then
his reward comes, not only in tho re-
ductiOn Of flesh. but in . surprising
diminution of the nuisance of perspira-
ton. which il the misery Of all fat
men.
1t must not be supposed that this
shutting of ofliquids is the whole Of tho
treatment, though it appears to be the
most important requirement. That
ranking next to it Is that one must NOT
gorge with food. especially food in
which sugar and starch are largely
component parts.
The Iron Chancellor still lives By
Schweninger rules and in doing SCI
keeps down his tendency to growing
fat and remains . wonder OF vitality
and vigOr ut his advanced age. No
longer ago than last April one OF the
special dispatches told how he re-
stricted himself in eating to . light
breakfast and substantial dinner. with
NO liquids at meals and only . glass,ol
wine daily. taken juE beforo retiring.
One experiment with tho bogus system
Of three pints Of water before breakfast
by Bismarck would doubtless AFFORD
Germany another first-olass funeral
There is no royal road to relief from
corpulence that may be travelled with
ease and safety. and without self-sac-
rifce. NOstrums are from time to time
advertised As affording it-such as n
now doomed in England, and finding
not q few dupes here-but they do not.
Starvation . la Banting. and the nos
trum cures that profess to reduce glut-
tons while practicing their gluttony if
they will only take a wineglasstul at
each NEAL" are alike dangerous hum
bugs. Renouncing liquids seems to be
demonstrated the safest and best thing
when accompanied by due moderation
in eating. But in no q 8 is it abso-
lutely safe fora fat person to adopt any
really effective measures for reducing
weight without thorough preliminary
knowledge Of the actual condition Of
his vital organs.-N. Y. Sun.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10

The following from . San Diego
newspaper tells Of Southern CALIFORNIA;
bursted boom: Eight restaurants
closed in one day, is clerks discharged
from one dry-goods store. LOGO empty
rooms in lodging-houses. hotel rates
reduced q per day. shaving reduced
from Is cents to 10. coffee from 10 to
s. Real estate agents leaving by the
score"
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10

-''Can you give me q little break
fast, ma'am:" pleaded tho tramp; I'm
hungry and cold. / slept outdoors
last night, and tho rain came down in
sheetA." .'You should have got In BE-
tween the Sheets" said the woman
kindly, - she m0ti0nsd him to the
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10
A New Sleep-P PRODUCER.

Sulfonal. chemically entitled to the
name of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
than" is new hypnotic introduced by
Prof. Kast, of Freiburg. Its action.
unlike that of other drugs. appears to
be simply the intensifying Of the fac
tors that lead to natural sleep, and
from five to eight, and even ten hours
of refreshing slumber usually follow its
use. It Is said to have m Of the dis
advantages Of the deadly narcotics. and
to be more reliable than the brOmides.
It is claimed to be entirely free from
harmful or unpleasant effects. and to
retain its efficacy even when used for .
long period. 1t has already proven
valuable in the treatment OF mental
Observation-Disclosures Traveller.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10

Poor. sandy soil should not be left
u~ncultivated. Carefully prepare the
land, SOW to buckwheat, and pillow the
buckwheat under when the crop il II
blossom. In this way the land may b
gradually made productive
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-08-10

looked. till I could endure it no longer; then
I covered my eyes till the unseen terror was
worse than the sight itself.
As I have said, my education in ghosts
and hobgoblins had been neglected, but Aunt
Chatty, an old woman who sometimes
washed for my mother, had told US Of various
appearances" on the mountain. As the
latest of these apparitions was fifty years
before. we felt tolerably secure, but now
ordinary weeks seem short to the time /
stood confronting that diabolical whiteness
Il shut my eyes and counted fifty, ono hun
dred, ever one thousand, but each time I
looked. the appearance stood swaying and
floating before me.
..Speak to . ghost" Aunt Chatty had
said, land it will disappear"
But what should I sayl what converse
ton could one hold with such q shapel but
any thing was better than this. I deter
mined to speak, %, closing my yes and
mastering all my courage, l shouted:
s'Git aeout"
cautiously opened my eyes hoping the
coast was clear, but there it was, ~beckoning
and swaying; I almost thought it grinned
1t me.
At last, I thought I might Is well 90 to
meet 1t and die at once - to stand there
diving of dread and fear. I closed my ey,s
again, ran . few steps and opened them
quito near tO-a white birch treei The low
branches Of the hemlock had swayed In the
breeze before it. but the stalwsrt whit
trunk certainly neither swayed nor beckoned
nor yet grinned.
Isat down and cried and laughed In pure
nervousness. The noise woke some bird
lings in the nest over my head. I suppose,
for l heard the mother chipping q soft lula
by, and the old words: "Ye are Of mors
! value than many sparrows." stole into my
, hart with inexpresstble comfort