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The National tribune., 1889-02-07
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ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN TRIBUNE JAN. II.
Trite and True Tange-Honesty is the best
policy.
Words of Wisdom Tangle-Who undertakes
many things at once seldom does anything we'll.
A Noted Noyelst-Thackemy.
Hidden Lailes-Lakes Earn, Aue, Fay, Shin,
Conn, Allen, Mask.
A Charade-Ivanhoe.
Poetieal Tangle-
Don't bs in too much of hurry
To credit what other folks say;
1t takes but "A slight little furry
To blow fallen leaves far away.
A G. c. Favorite-Maggie L. Hover
Seven Sleepers-Maximus, Malchus, MaTtinian,
Denis, John, Serapiom, Constantine.
BYRoNIc TANGLE.
ITO Nelia Hdmpton)
. Eth bow candess OF tanlonuni-post lash nidf
Het ftteSol shape toms trawp nj dulcos mad owns
Eth own essparuss usebuds Amkdinn,
Stunt olko ownd no eht athe 70 hOste elbow.
Eva e. Crate
TINE FOR REST.
ITO Lucia H. Gomez
When sable night rides down the west,
Chased by my first array,
sly second comes then with the first
Aud halls the GENIAL ray.
My whole combined to you will show
a time allowed for rest;
Tho tbs absurd, alas! too true,
Good Christians all confess.
-Edwyn r. Lerch Erie, Pa.
CHARADE FOR THE c. c.
Reader, in thy fancy view
Mid the scenes of strife and war
Where the soldiers brave and true
Calmly sleeping are;
Next IN dim cathedral aisle
Lit by early dawn's first ray;
Pause and listen for awhile,
Till thou hearst my second say,
DAY hath burst"
Those who love poetic lore
Must have heard an authors name
Not unknown 10 fame.
He's nay whole
Eva L. Lane, Newton, Kan
FLOWER ENIGMA.
Three you may find in eroeuses white;
Three in daftodis yellow and bright;
Three in daudelions brave and true;
Three in harebells slender and blue;
Three i'll roses OF every shade
The whole names those to whom honor is paid
Howard Brodhead, Liberty, N Y.
a MINISTERIAL ENIGMA.
My Christian name Is very plain
Aud not at all BETTING
position which but few obtain
And none would think of quitting.
am minister of fame,
My sermons are quite racy,
AND though you may not like my name,
You'll feel their efficacy.
If you should TO the bottom go
And taste their pungent flavor,
You'll then admit their strength, know,
And say there's no palaver.
No other pulpit in The land
Can be of mine the equal
Within stand both tall and grand,
And care not for the sequel
Maggie McClung.
POLITICAL ENIGMA.
Composed Of 20 letters:
My l. 6, g. % . is what hunters do.
ii, 8, 3, II, l6 propels the blood.
4, s, q, % IS to carry.
9, ii, -, Is Is part of house.
70, 10, 10, IL, % is a quadruped.
"a, 10, is "a man S name.
20 and a alike.
My whole is what the sweeping Republican
victory in the Fall of 1888 meant-Idgar S. Stevens
Goshen, Wy. L.
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POLITICAL ENIGMA.
No Time Should be Lost

BY those troubled with constipation in seeking re-
lief from Bostetter's Stomach Bitters. The disease
is easily relieved in its earlier stage and AS IL il
utterly subversive of the general health POSTPONE
ment Of the remedy is unwise. The same holds
complaints, nervousness, debility and rheumatism
ailments to which the Bitters is particularly
adanied.
The National tribune., 1889-02-07

When Baby was SEX. we gave her Castoria,
When she was 4 Child, she cred for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
wl4ca sle had Ci4ildren, she gave them Castoria.
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EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: Corp1 s. D.
Spear, Co. A, 77th Ohio, thinks that pensions
should be equalized. / think the same. 1t
seems as though our Representatives look at the
disabilities of the old soldiers from a wrong
standpoint should judge that poor old soldier
whose constitution is all broken down from
exposure and wounds and sickness, should be
entitled TO as much pension as a soldier who
has lost hand or foot. They cannot gee too
much. But compare these two: the one with
one hand or foot off can get about, and the most
of them can do almost as much manual labOras
ever; while the man whose constitution is
broken down can do nothing but drag himself
about, and the most of them get nothing. /
think there Is no paper capable of doing as much
for the old veterans as THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE. Just compare its record with that of any
other paper.-C. V. MEsLER. Gosport, n. Y.
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CATAHRH CURED.

A clergyman, after years OF suffering from tha4
Ioathsome disease Cuglrrh. and v.dnly trying
every known remedy. at last found recipe
which completely cured and saved him from
DEATH Any sufferer from this dreadful disease
sending y selfaddTesseti stamped envelope TO
Prof J. A. Lawrence, 50 Warren street. New
York City, win receive the recipe free OK
charge.
The National tribune., 1889-02-07
SUNDAY MEDIATION.

Practical Duties Taught By Study of the Inter-
national Sunday.schoOl Lesson Appointed for
Feb. IL. st. Mark. } 25-34
Zone reading these notes should first carefully
study the paragraph from the Holy Scriptures as
indicated above.i
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Clue WHISPERS.

think the suggestion Of Cad NJ Repner to sacri-
good one. Yes, Cad. for thinlE IL far bles
sed 10 give than 10 receive. and small share of
pleasures given UP TO some one less fortunate than
ourselves would make their hearts joyful, and
would never miss the saerifee--Maggie MeCiung,
WasIlbuH. Kan.
shall leave the G c. temporarily on or about
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BY this tie we're bound,
More loyal friends than the G. @.
In this world cannot be found.
Nora l. Jerrolman, 50 Tenth St, Providence, r. l.
Congratulations for those who rejoice and sym
patty for those who sorrow: Maggie McClung,
Washburn Kan; Wilson McGinnis, Jacksonville,
o.; Jesse Beeman, Assumption, Ill; Emma ;. Per-
lSins NaticS, Mass; Lorena AdamsoD, Effe A
Smith, Maggie Thompson. Surprise, Kan. Ella
Morse, Odell, Ill.
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EauaIike t!le Pensions.

Consumptives obtain relief by using Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. No other cure is so effective
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Hearing Perfectly Restored
BY Peck's Pat Invisible Tubular Ear Cushions. III.
book free. Call or write +. Hiscox, $50 B'way N. Y.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
THE MORPH NE HABIT.
How to Stop the Growth of This Terrible
Feminine Vice.

siSo'
A physician OF this city states in an
interview that the opium habit is grow
ing to alarming proportions in this city
not the use of the raw article, but its
consumption in more agreeable forms,
such as morphine pills. injections, etc
He AYERS that it is no uncommon thing
for family physicians to find many pa
tients slaves to the habit, and their
arms and sometimes entire bodies COW
cred with scars made by the injections.
When their physicians discover the
result and forbid the future use Of the
drug he says they not infrequently
change doctors and lie in order to OBJ
tain medical permission to continue
their course. 1t is not unusual,
according to him, for them to
go to a strange physician and
represent themselves as from
the country and in sore need OF relief
by means of opium in some form.
Under these circumstances, the relator
says. he always insists on seeing their
arms. In nine of such cases out of ten
he finds evidences of hypodermic in
jections, and refuses their requests.
He claims that the habit is taking such
hold ,pon the people that it can only
be checked by the combined efforts OF
physicians and legislators, and that
unless it is firmly taken in hand it will
work as much ruin as does liquor.
1t seems that women are more ad-
dicted to this debasing habit than men,
for several reasons. To start with,
men have other stimulants, such as
liquor and tobacco. and again women
can obtain morphine more secretly than
they can liquor, and consume it without
showing so much OF its effects. There
is no need here to dilate upon the hor-
ror which this wretched practice brings
upon its victims. Nothing which sci
ence or ingenuity has discovered to the
world reacts SO terribly upon those
who abuse this creature brought into
the world for the alleviation OF mans
ills. II one tithe OF what the physician
has averrcd is true no time should be
lost by his fellows in cooperating TO
prevent the prescription Of the drug
save in cases of the utmost neces-
sity. When the Legislature meets
there should be a memorial presented
to that body asking for legislation OF
the strictest sort, which shall punish
with severity any druggist who sells
opium in any of Its forms without a
prescription from a physician of repu-
table standing, or any doctor who shall
prescribe the drug save to encompass
the saving Of life or the alleviation Of
the direst distress. Chicago Mail.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
SOME ENGLISH IDEAS.
Few Facts About Things ON This Side
of the Water.

A Few Facts About Things ON This Side
of the Water.
For my part, could almost wish
that we in England would give up
making any comments ON American
literature, manners or social habits.
We can make none that will give
pleasure; we can hardly speak without
making what is recognized as mis-
take. If we praise, we praise the
wrong thing; If we blame, our blame is
mere ignorant jealousy. This know.
for have tried, in an ineffective but
hearty manner, to praise Mark Twain
as one Of the greatest OF living genuises
(perhaps it is not saying much) who
now uses the English language. Yet
this humble appreciation has not
seemed to be welcome to all literary
Americans. they are not as proud of
Mark as one could wish On the
other hand, if l chance to describe
the style of an esoteric Ameri-
can novelty, a queer medley of bad
Ruskin and Indifferent Bret Harte,
am once more looked down upon from
the frozen heights of literary disap-
probation. The fact is that over here
we do not know what is the correct
thing either in current American liter
ature or society. We admire Amer
lean authors whom American critics
despise; we have never heard oi
authors whom the more serious Amer
lean reviews, which ought to know.
distinguish by their applause. 1t is
the same thing, of course, in America.
There they appreciate English writers
who are not or have not yet become
prophets in our own country, and they
disregard some very considerable
(minor) prophets of our own alto
gether. We do not mind this much
in our fine native bumptiousness We
fancy we know best. But one car
easily imagine that, to an American
man of letters, English praise OF {
countryman of his whom he does not
admire seems another proof of our
insularity.-Murrav'sa Magazine.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
ANGINA PECTORIS.
Nitro Glycerine an Almost Infallible
Remedy for Breast-Pang.

Nitro-Glycerine an Almost Infallible
Remedy for Breast-Pang.
Angina pectoris (agony Of the chest)
carries off many people, the last Of
whom, according to the newspapers,
was the novelist, Rev. f. P. Roe. who
expired in one day because OF its
crushing anguish. Major General
George b. Mcclellan (according to
published reports Of that time) like
wise succumbed after twenty-four
hours of uncomfortable pain. just how
these patients were treated | am un-
able to say, but DIR. Richardson, OF
London, long before General McClel-
lan's death. had received prize OF
25, 900 francs from the Academy OF
Medicine in Paris for having discov-
cred an almost infallible remedy for
angina pectoris by the administration.
in the very small dose OF 1-1OO to l-25
of grain of nitro-glycerine! This dis
covery entities DR.. Richardson to the
never-ending gratitude of every suffer-
ing man, woman or child afflicted with
angina pectoris.
l know a number OF persons who al
ways carry tablets of nitro-glycerine
with them, and l am equally certain
that all these people. by the use Of
nitro-glycerine, are living in compar-
ative comfort, who would otherwise
have fallen under the insupportable
torture OF that form Of heart-neuralg gia,
the most dreadful Of all pains. s.-Dr.
Fallen, in Beyord's Magazine.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
THE MEXICAN WASP,
An Insect that Carries the Spanish In
question In Its Tail.

An Insect that Carries the Spanish In.
question in Its Tail.
When Western wasp feels we'll and
is not troubled with rheumatism in the
back, it can put more OF its fine work
into the square inch Of a mans cuticle
than any other live fowl on the globe.
A man who has been thoroughly stung
by a Mexican wasp takes delight in
drinking melted lead or gallon or two
OF hot liquid sulphur, they are so de-
licious by contrast. A few red hot
nails driven into the soles Of ones feet
seem to ease the pain inadvertently
left by these wasps.
.If you have never been stung by an
old-fashioned Mexican wasp writes
Charles Brazil from Pueblo, Col, it is
an experience you want to avoid care
fully, contenting yourself with such in
formation about the little beauty as
you can gather from third parties and
documents. 1t is, when mature and
healthy. about two inches long,
with sting that looks like the
point of q fine cambric needle.
1t is brownish red in color,
and its disposition is always hostile.
When it stings you there is for mo.
ment or two sensation OF numbnes
about the part which rapidly gives
place to pain that can only be de.
scribed as agony. II you can imagine
how it would feel to have a wire drawn
through the most sensitive part OF youl
body and then raised slowly to a white
heat you could perhaps form q theo-
retical idea OF what the feeling is like.
The sting is never fatal. and the
pain passes away after an hour or two
but it is simply anguish while it lasts
During the Mexican war one OF the
companies OF Doniphan's command
camped in an old building where there
was colony of these wasps. They
managed to disturb the insects in some
way, and the company was completely
routed and demoralized; some OF th'
men ran miles away from the place be
fore they were found and gathered il
again. DIR. Cunning, Of Beshoar, Col.
has made quite a study OF these articu
lates, which, he says, represent an I'm
classified member OF the wasp family
There are, l believe, no living Great
ures outside of snakes. scorpions ant
centipedes which are able to inflict 81
much suffering on their enemies. IN
Y. Telegram.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
THE CAMEL'S HUMPS.
They Are Mere Lumps OF Fat, Collected
Under u Fold Of the Skin.

Th0y are mere VI raw NuhCOsCu
Under y Fold of the Skin.
Structurally, of course, the humps
are nothing-mere Jumps of lat, coli
lected under convenient fold OF the
skin, and utterly unprovided for in the
framework of the skeleton. When the
animal is at its best and we'll fed, they
are full and plump, standing up on his
back firm and upright; but on long
journey they are gradually absorbed
to keep up the fires that work the heart
and legs, and in the caravan camels
which arrive at the coast, the skin
hangs over, an empty bag, upon the
creatures hanks, bearing witness to
the scarcity OF external food during
the course OF his long, forced march
from the interior. A starved small
camel in this state Of health far more
closely resembles a Peruvian llama
than any one who has only seen the
fine. well-kept beasts in European
menageries or geological gardens could
readily imagine.
But water is even scantier in the
desert than food; and against want OF
water, therefore, the camel has had to
provide himself, functionally at least,
If not structurally, quito as much as
against want OF herbage. His stomach
has accordingly acquired the power OF
acting as an internal reservoir, and he
can take in as much water at the Bahrs
or Wadys, where he rests for awhile on
his toilsome march, as will supply his
needs for four or five days together.
There are some differences in this
respect, however, between the two
chief varieties of the camel. The
African kind is most abstemious. and
best adapted to sandy deserts; the
Bactrian, a product Of more varied and
better-watered country. Is larger and
stronger, but less patient Of hunger
and thirst, while at the same time It
can manage to subsist and to make its
way into somewhat rockier and more
rugged country. Grant allen. is P0p-
vlar Science Aoathly.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
SOLDIERS ON BICYCLES.
England's Army May Be Mounted ant
Ordered to Fight on Them.

England's Army May BE Mounted and
Ordered to Fight on Them.
The bicycle force that has been or
ganized in connection with the English
volunteers recently had its second field
maneuvers. Rainy and disagreeablc
weather embarrassed the troops on
each, but the result OF the turn ut has
been very satisfactory. On the recent
trials the men covered about one hun
dred miles in forty-eight hours, fight
ing, scouting, and camping by the way.
There were seventeen officers and sew
enty- y-seven men out, made up OF repre-
sentatives of u number of leading vol
unteer regiments. The force was
divided into two bodies, one retreating
and the other following it. At fre-
quent intervals the retreating force
made stands at bridges and other eligi-
BILE points of defense. and the pursuers
were compelled to halt, dismount. send
out skirmish line, and perform all
the other preliminaries Of attack. as
though in active war. 1t was found
that two or three men left behind by a
retreating body could make a show OF
force at a bridge, greatly delaying the
advance of pursuing force, and then
could mount and swiftly ride away
under cover OF hedge and escape to
the main body. This ability to figh,
and run away with greater facility
than the ordinary infantryman is one
of the chief points urged by the
bicyclers in favor OF the new ''arm. y
1t is said that scouting and reconnoiter-
ing parties mounted on bicycles could
do much more effective work. without
risk OF capture, than men on foot. In
these maneuvers, although the retreat
ing force numbered but three officers
and twelve men, they succeeded in de-
laying the pursuers SO that it took them
three hours to cover distance easily
made in less than two when no obstacles
are interposed. Three OF the retreat
ing force dallied too long at bridge
and were ridden down and captured r.
detachment of the enemy. There
were no other losses. The chez diff.
Guilty experienced was due ~ the num-
ber OF parallel roads occasionally con.
verging that ran through the country
traversed. The retreating party had
to keep scouts constantly ahead pick
ing up the lay 81 the land and bring
ing in report. 70 protect themselves
from the danger of being fanked or
some of these loads, and cut of entire
ly at coayerging point In coun
try with ono good main road and bu
few side roads, the success o. a bicycle
corps in obstructing the passage OF ar
enemy would be much greater Bi
cycles have not yet been introduced ir
tb, Eritish regular army. but if theil
saceess among the British volunteers
continues it is expected that a similar
corps will be organized in each rcgu
lar regiment London Telegraph
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
Height of Ocean Waves.

A writer in the Liverpool Mercury
a captain OF the mercantile marine
has taken careful observations as to
the height of ocean waves in a gale.
He made them during voyage round
Cape Horn. and to do it he went up in
the main rigging, to get. If possible,
the top Of the wave coming up astern
in a line of sight from the mast to the
horizon at the back. 1t was a difficult
operation, but the Captain obtained
some good observations, marking the
height of the waves on the mast. Or
measuring the distance from these te
the mean draught, he found them to be
Us follows: Ga. 81, SO and 65 feet, re.
spectively, varying in length from 7oQ
70 600 feet
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-09
HYPNOTIC TRANCE.
4 Force Acting Through the Patients Q
Mind on iiis PhyslcAl Condition.

4 Force Acting Through the Patients
Mind ON Ills Physlcal Condition.
About a century ago. Mesmer, a ma
tive OF Switzerland, was able to induce
a peculiar sleep by means Of the now
well-knOwn passes" He professed to
have discovered new force. to which
he gave the name of animal magnet
ism. but which most people call mes
merism. In ls43. Braid, of England.
scientifically investigated the truth that
lay beneath the Ieiusions and decep-
tions OF the mesmerists. and was soon
Independently followed in the same di.
rection by Esdaille. in India. and
Mitchell. in the United States.
The patient. being made to fix his
eyes steadily on bright object. about
| a foot from his forehead and short
distance above it. n sleep was induced
in which all sensation was lost Nu-
merous surgical operations were per-
formed with absence OF all pain. The
celebrated Charcot performed many
experiments of the kind on his
hysterical patients at his famous
hospital in Paris. The late Dr. Beard,
Of this country, devoted much time,
with signal success. to a scientific in
vestigation OF the subject OF the
hypnotic state, and OF hypnotism gen
orally. The word hypnotism. now
usually employed. is from u Greek
word signifying sleep. More lately
there have been many contributions tt
the subject by German and French ex
perts, and some new conclusions have
been reached. According to the new
views the hypnotic condition is no
one OF lethargy, catalepsy nor som
nambulism, but it is a normal nervous
! state, closely allied to natural sleep.
The use Of bright objects before thu
! eyes is rejected and condemned as in
t furious. The operator sitting befor
I the patient, assures him confidentl
: and pleasantly that he will soon
asleep, tells him to make no resist
ance, and that he is alread
feeling drowsy. The patient fall
asleep in from five to fifteen mir
utes. From eighty to ninety per cent
of the persons experimental upon ca
be thus hypnotized. The best subject
|, are persons Of sound nervous constitr
D ton. The most susceptible are chi
n dren under fourteen wears of agt
i. Signal curative results have been oil
q tanned in rheumatism, neuralgia, alc'
It holism, morphine habit, various form
! of nervous diseases and amenorrhH
q 1t is not always necessary that til
8 patient be put fully to sleep. 1t
:. now thought by some investigator
It that mindcuringiand the. new hypnotis
n are essentially the same thing. The:
= results and the sleep itself are d
O termined by the suggestions of IL
# operator acting through the mind
i the patient on his physical system.
" Youth's Companion.