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The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23
THE HUMAN EYE.
Forest and Home.

It is a popular belief, more or less loosely formulated, that there is some- thing 90 terrible and majestic in the human eye that man has only to fl X his gaze on the most terrific denisens of the forest to inspire them with awe. Numerous and some we'll au- thenticated instances are on record of unarmed men, who have met the lion or the tiger in his native jungles, fixed their eyes on his and compelled him to turn tail. There is then some foundation for the popular belief, but if man having unquestioned faith in the overlapping power of the human eye proposes to put it to the test in his own person, considerable discretion Is to be recommended, not only in the selection of his beast, but also in the selection of his locality. For example, he should not mako his first experi- ment with rampsgious bull in ten- acre inclosure, at any considerable dis tance from the fence, nor would we strongly recommend trip to the Rocky Mountains, with the object of experimenting with & full-grown grizzly, for both bulls and bears are fighting animals, and have the habit of meeting their foes face to face.
 The measure is successful only with the cat family-lions, tigers, etc, and by no means to be relied upon with them. Hope of success depends upon the fact that the members of the cat family are not to any extent fighting animals; they do not hunt in packs and quarrel over their prey they very rarely quarrel with each other over the females at mating season, and in striking their prey they never st- tack in front. It is beautiful pro- vision of nature that the lion, the tiger, the panther, the leopard, and the whole family of FelidG, are prompted by irresistible instinct to seize their prey from behind, spring ing on it with their whole weight, closing their powerful jaws on the neck of their victim, and dislocating it with one wrench, while their fierce claws penetrate the flesh and paralyze the muscular powers. The tiger pur- Bu05 LuC bnAuC u1Ct1Ou ACtnCI prey is full-grown buffalo or timid lawn. The slender doe, with the lawn st her heels, goes into cover for her midday siesta, and confronts the turk ing tiger; she barks, stamps her foot, and endeavors to bounce him; the tiger, fixing his eyes on hers, crawls little nearer; paralyzed with terror the poor beast is incapable of flight, but unable to sustain the basilisk glance any longer, she turns, as if to essay retreat. At that instant the tiger springs, grasps her neck in his vise-like jaws, and the victim dies without pang.
 If the tiger comes unexpectedly on 6 powerful animal like a wild buffalo and it offers battle, the tiger declines 1t, but if hungry he will take advan- tage of what cover there is and ma n@uvre to get at the tail end of the buffslo and make his fatal spring.
 With civilized men the tiger is more
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23
s'Bob.'' ''
Youths Companion.


 A young man, who was about to take Horace Greeley's advice, and re- move bearer the setting sun, gave as his principal reason for the change of abode that he wanted to live where no one could call him Bob" He had been Bob from his childhood.
 At school he had known no other name, except when he was spoken to by the teacher, and the odious little syllable clung to him when he was studying law. If he played tennis or took his old place on the ball. field, 1t was nothing but Bob" at every stroke, and the reporter of the village paper had the impudence to commend Bob Smiths phenomenal catch in left field"
 We sympathize with MT. Robert Smith. A well-grown and good look ing youth, eighteen or nineteen years of age, of good manners and behavior, wearing stand-up collar and 6 suit of clothes bought in Boston, is injured when he is called by d name so belit- tling and ridiculous.
 If he resents it, he is thought by some to be proud and "stuck-up." If he accepts it, can he reasonably ex- pect respectable clients to entrust to his management important law busi- ness? No course seems open to him but to run away from the preposter- ous nickname. Accordingly he runs.
 Our political editors know how to use such names with highly injurious effect. Millions of people arc slightly prejudiced against public man by frequently reading of him as "Bill Chandler" "Corp. Tanner" "Joe Medill," "Ben Harrison" "Bill Sew ard," "Jim Blaine," "Dick Spofford." l" And even these are not the worst sb- breviations employed in the familiar intercourse of school and village life.
 Such names as shorty" Fatty" "Bricky," "Spindles," and many others, are not merely given and &C., cepted in country places, but they sometimes adhere to the unfortunate people who are called by them when they are men and office holders.
 A similar custom prevails in Eng land, where MT. Labouchere, NJ. P, is called "Labby," and one of the princes of the reigning house is con- tinually spoken of as "Collars and Cuffs"
 These absurd nicknames usually originate in the schools, In some of which, out of hundred boys, not ten will be called by their own names without abbreviation or appendage. Thus, 1t Is not enough that & boy should be doomed to carry through life such a sounding name as Napoleon Bonaparte, Lafayette, or Washington :; he must be punished for the error of his parents by being familiarity called "Pcle." "Laff," or "Wash."
 It is some comfort to know that, in few instances, nicknames convey agreeable impressions of those who bear them. They are expressions of affection; ss "Phil Sheridan" "Abe Lincoln" "Old Put" "Rough and Ready" and many others. In some cases, too, they seem unavoidable, as when there are six Smiths in the same school, and each has to be called by his number. Generally, 1t IS best to call people, young or old, by the names they wish to be called by
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23
Carl Pretzel's Philosophy.
Sunday NAtiC nal.

Knock der front tooths of dempler- eng und sobriety your door out, und you leaf noting reshpectable in hoo- man gharackder.
 Merit vas If in 6 boardin house of neglected solitude, but presumption gets all der admiration of der world.
 Hooman sociedy vas combosed of goot und bad mems, und it vas easily oxtinguished who vas der goot feller und who vas der feller mitout some goot andicks.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23

Mrs. Finnigan's view of it.-Grocer -"Is 1t five or ten cents worth of soap you want, Mrs. Finnigan2"
 Mrs. Finnigan-"Tin cints' worth, indadel Whin there's much in the house much'n be used-give me foive cints' worth.n-Puck.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23

A Sufferer.-St. Peter-"Who is 1t this timer"
 Page-"A photographer-he says he made a speciality of taking photo graphs of babies."
 St. Peter Qeelingly)-"Show the sufferer in."-Life.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23
Consumption Surely Cured.

To THE EDITOR: Please inform your readers that have 6 positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and post-ofioe address. Respectfully,
 T. A. SLooUn, M. O., 1s1 Pearl st., NY.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-11-23

Not So Numerous.-"I tell you blood is thicker than water" ;" cried the orator.
 "Not on Wall street, it ain't, 1" yelled one of his hearers.-Haypes's BazdT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17

estab Eshment of the Congo Free State. His
frank replies to our correspondents incisive
ouestions set him in the true light OF Chris
tan sovereign performing his duty to millions
Of human creatures whose helplessness and
misery challenge his commiseration. The ex-
tension of belgian trade has had only subor-
dinate Mace in his scheme for opening the
Congo State to the commerce Of the world.
uo has aimed TO accomplish a great work for
civilization and Christianity in the Dark Con-
t;nent and professes, with an air of sincerity
that is not simulated. to have no desire to get
hack \ single franc of the vast sums which he
has exnended there. He is the leader to whose
indefatigable efforts and noble ASPIRATIONS the
Anti-Slavery Conference is to be acriped
RovaI AboIitionist he is taking up IN PRACTICAL
vay the work of Wilberforce in England ana
Of Garrison in America, and impartlng impetus
n \ movement which, if successful. will crown
with glory the nineteenth century as the era OF
enlightened humanity.
A single statement made by Cardinal Law
cerie sufficeS to demonstrate the urgent need
of combined action on the part OF CHRISTIAN ma
tionS for the abatement and suppression Vi ohe
Africa, slave trade This is his estimate sup
ported by the testimony OF Livingstone SIAN
lev Cameron. Wissmann and other explorers,
that 1000. 600 lives ale sacrificed every
year in the horrors OF slavery.
loss of life so appalling ]ustihes In
advance any measures that may Dc auopV
ed by the Brussels Conference for promoting
tho extinguishment of this terrible blight
African heart disease, as Professor Drummond
has concisey described it. The chief proposal
made by the leaders of the new crusade points
toward the establishment of permanent ponce
natrol on the Congo and the great African lakes
for the prevention of Arab slave raids. This
nlan nresupposes system of fortified depots OF
supplies, whence reinforements can be drawn
in an emergency, and between which armed
boats may regularly ply for the protection OF
the natives. This may not be the precise
scheme which will secure the sanction OF the
conference but it is reasonable to conclude thai
nositive action of some kind will be taken to
lessen the deplorable evils of baibarlsm and
atrocity in Africa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1889.
TWENTY-FIVE PAGES.
THE NEWS IRIS MORNING.

Foreign. The Brazilian revolutionists have pro-
claimed Republic, formed Cabinet, with
Dcdoro da Fonseca as President and issued a
r,anifesro The Imperial Ministers are under
r-r,st. The Emperor will he we'll treated, -
" Floouet has been elected president of the
French Chamber of Deputies =- \ new CABINET
las been formed in Rumania. - Emperor
William will soon set ont on another snort
Journey. - statne Of William III was I'M
\ led at Belfast; 10000 Orangemen were present.
Domestic-President Harrison returned TO Wash
IN .ton from his ducls-Shooting trip. == The
delegates TO the Maritime and Pan-American con-
fertnccs visited Annapolis - Princeton defeated
Harvard at football: Yale defeated Wesleyan ;
several other games between college elevens were
nlayed - James Clancy testified in Chicago
as to the conduct Of OSullivan after the recovery
+ Cronins body - The fast transcontinental
mail train reached Council Bluffs. - Iowa Re
publcans expressed confidence that the Pro
hibition law would not be repealed. - The
Republican inspectors arrested in Troy, n. Y.
we're released recognizance
City and Suburban was lively excite
ment among business men over the revolution
in Brazil; the views Of many merchants OF ITS
effect on American trade 80 Syracuse joined
the American Baseball Association == Columbia
College defeated the Manhattan Athletic Clubs
football team by % 10 o. - The New-lork
Athletic Club defeated the Staten Island Athletic
Club at football 10y a score of "a 10 0. 60
Winners at Elizabeth: Mamie B., Rainbow
Bohemian, Bellwood Freedom and Lonelay. =--
Stocks active and higher, closing strong
The Weather-Forecast for to-day: Warmer and
fair. possibly followed by threatening weather.
Temperature yesterday Highest, 81 degrees; low
est, 81 average, "a IA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
valuable and far-reaching Improvements in the
general rules of travel by sea.

The amising side of the trip through the
country Of the delegates to the international
American Congress is brought out in clever
sketch, in another column, of the many odd ex-
reriences of the travellers on their forty-days
tour. Everywhere they were overwhelmed
with attentions from enterprising and assiduous
committeeman. who. no doubt, often forgot the
comfort of thair -GseSts III an enthusiastic ana
pIa,seworthy preoccupauon lest anything worth
seeing should remain unseen. But if the dele
gates were put at times to unexpected exertions
they could not fail, of course, TO appreciate the
cor dial esteem and regard which lay at the
bottom of this ELUSIVE and irrepressible well
come. They have come back to Washington
il is safe to say, not only with wider knowl-
edge of the material resources of this country
but with higher respect and warmer feeling
for the average American citizen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17

breakv Another made the remarkable an
nouncement that the peritoneum Is = Serious
membrane lining the belly and extending inuo
the chest, covering the heart and lungs" other
new and startling discoveries which the exam
iners found in these papers were that the
" oesophago us passed through the larynx" and
that iodine "is dug out of the earth in blocks
like iron"
But. as "The News" observes, errors of this
sort while quite bad enough, are far less seri-
ous than the ignorance of the doses Of powerful
drugs which some of the candidates revealed.
One of them, for instance, without apparent
hesitation announced that forty grains of pow
dered cantharideS would be proper order, and
another was prepared at the first opportunity
to administer q hypodermic dose of atropine
sufficient, says The News,D to poison twenty
adults, and through the mouth a dose compe-
tent to kill hundred at is worthy of re-
nark,n adds our contemporary, " that the can
didates in Virginia were not only Ignorant OF
medicine, bat were ignorant enough Of their
own mental state to dare the terrogs of an ex-
aminatiOn.n And it should be remembered par
ticularly that these dense individuals are all
graduates of medical schools which have GER
The fullest acceptation of all that such revela~
tons as this imply does not tend in the slight
est degree toward an underestimate Of the
SPLENDID contributions which this country has
made to the science Of medicine. The leaders
of the profession in the United States are men
of whom the whole world is proud Nor is there
any implied reflection either upon the general
body of physicians or upon tho great schools in
this city and elsewhere which annually turn
vast amount Of raw material into more or less
finished product The standard of medical educa-
ton has made great advances in recent years
and the constant endeavor of those who control
these schools is to raise it more and more. But
it is impossible to doubt that numerous institu-
tions empowered to confer degrees care more
for tuition fees than for their own reputation,
and are always ready to turn loose upon society
as many candidates as are willing to pay the
stipulated price for diplomas. And still more
dangerous to life and health than these are the
miscellaneous impoStOrs who slip into the pro-
feSsiOn through some concealed doorway, and
those who venture in boldly without any pre-
tence of authority.
State regulation in some form, of the priv
ilege of practising medicine is present neces-
sity. and we do not see why any school doing
honest work should object 20 it. No system
of examinations will make good doctors, but
almost any system would at least help to give
nature fair chance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
PERSONAL.

There is said to be no ground for the staemsr.
that Chief Justice Brigham, Of Massachusetts. abOu,
TO resign his ONCE.
Little Princess wnhelmina, heir to the Dutch nrous
has mastered Dutch and German and Is now daigealy
studying French
NJ Barthodi Will execute the statue Of Cambes,
which is to be erected at Les Jardies, VILE dAvay
The statesman's home there has been made stais
property, and Will be preserved intact as memorial
Mrs Campbell wife Of the Governor-elect Of Ohio.
was exceedingly popular in Washington society when
her husband was a Representative there. She DOS
sesses uncommon amount OF ready TACT She was
educated at Vassar College, entering IL the very year
it was opened.
Mr.. T. Adolphus Trollope, who is a robust young
man of eighty years and has not had days illness
for more than seventy years, is almost teetOtaer
though not professedly son the very rare o-
casions,, he says, on which find glass Of Fort
In my hand, which has come from bottle worth
about guinea, take a second or even third Of
the same But I cannot afford hlgh-claSs wine,
and do not care for secOnd-class. So | hsbitualy
take none Nor do drink beer. or any Kind Of
spirit The former. take II. Is not good haoliual
drink for muscles that would probably be Rheumatic
II they got an excuse for such misbehayior and tie
latter, one and all are extremely disagcespe 70 my
The result Is that my drink consists OF tea, coffee,
and milk which especially r, wh ot II CONES ih 1o
10 be an excellent drink very specially nued 70 10
the accompaniment 10 cigar for lntelngble reasons
which any chemist can understand
Pere Pamphile de Veuster, the brother II Father
Damien is now making a tour Of the world for the
purpose Of erecting memorial to the heroic lePer
priest in the shape Of institution for the purpose
of training missionaries for work among The epeFs,
an institution which will not only pre- are courageous
men so as 10 fit them administer 70 the spiritual
wants of the abandoned lepers but also teach methods
OF aleviating their bodily Ills. Other admirers OF the
apostle Of MoOkai propose TO found leper hospital
for the special purpose OF treating iepgs{, MN
In the hope Of discovering a remedy against is
ravages.
There is, or was, old Irishman at Lisbon who
was ROYAL coachman when the late King Of Portugal
was child One day the little Prince was caught
by the coachman up TO some mischief in the Royal
stables without any regard for the prncely dignity,
PAT laid the Heir OF the House Of BragaiLa across
his knee and spanked him sOundly, despite his hows
for mercy. The future King bore him no malice,
however and Pat was subsequently pcns,oned, and
lived on terms OF friendly familiarity with Dom
Luis and his family after his whiom victim @seehoeo
he throne.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
THE 1NTISL4TERY CONFERENCE

Americans are accustomed to speak of the
Garrison school as the great group Of Adolf
tiOniStS Of the century. 1t is not improbable
that the last decade Of the nineteenth century
will witness the development Of a movement
more humane and unSeliish in its scope and
larger in its results even than the agitation be-
gun nearly sixty years ago in Boston by the
twelve eyangelS of the American ant-Savery
cause Almost for the first time in the history
of modern Europe Catholics and ProtestantS are
uniting in great mission OF succor and hui
mainly to benghted and oppressed continent.
The appeals of Livingstone and the English and
Scotch missionaries Of NyaSSaand have been
aiken UP by Lavigerie. noblest Of Catholic Car
dinalS, in a crusade against slavery worthy of
Peter the Hermit. Within two years anti-Slayery
socet es have been organized with the Pope's
sanction in South Germany, Belgium, France,
Italy and Spain, and Protestants in England
North Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden
are conducting a similar agitation. Public
opinion has already forced Germany and Eng
land TO unite in blockading the Zanzibar coast,
and TO commit themselves to policy Of action
| against slavery. Tomorrow an important con-
ference attended by the representatives of four
| teen Christian Powers, is 70 be opened in Brus-
sells, for the main purpose of considering prac-
neal measures for extinguishing the slave trade
i'll Africa. These successive stages of rapid de-
veopment reveal the progressive character of
the new anti-savery movement, from which
magnificent results are to he expected before
the century closes.
1t remarkable fact that one of the pioneers
and leaders in this Abolition crusade is soyer-
eien. who has invested his private fortune large
" in enterprises for the redemption of Africa.
This is the King of the BelgianS, whose noble
and humane character is revealed in the adj
mjrabIe letter from an American in Brussels
He has often been represented by cynical OBJ
servers as swayed by sordid motives in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
DAILY Is-I"ENTYWo AGES

who has made If And suppose the record gets
smashed what of IL? Possibly in that event
boom will be given to the efforts now making 10
solve the rapid transit problem right here in the
city of New-Yor< If So Godspeed the travel
Iersl To-day person who sets out iron the
Battery to go TO Harlem discovers that IL @Xes
longer than IL ought to to make the triP ana
in the person is male Oh our
species the chances are that he Will be carried
over the elevated road not reclining " on howery
beds of ease,' kindly provided by the managers
of the line, but standing on his tired feet hooing
on for dear life 20 leather strap overhead
Most likely. however these hurried around-the
world iourneyings will not do anything for local
rapid transit Travellers bent upon cutting down
the record aud thus figuring in the angels book
of gold as no plus ultra hus,lers have small leisure
for studying any sort OF problems. Why then, do
they do IL at all? This generation, which is
nothing IL not fast, cannot be expected 10 get ex-
cited because somebody manages to slip around
this planet OF ours just little quicker than the
regulation schedule time. Calling the record
eighty days, the aim of the long distance cham
pions in question is to do it in seventy-fve. But
decrease from eighty to seventy-fve will hardly
satisfy the average American, OF whom Starr King
once said, lie lives so fast that when he reaches
the place at which 10 was appointed he should
die his acquired momentum carries him past the
place.
II occurs to u.s. therefore, that the moon is the
thing for restless souls, whose ambition leads them
to endeavor TO witch the world by means Of
sensational trip The first traveller who succeeds
in reaching the moon and returns to tell us all
about it will be a hero or heroine of the first
water, even if gone one hundred days. Mr.. Locke's
L" Moon Hoax and Mr. Hale's Brick Moon,'
even if not founded upon fact, demonstrate that
there is no reason why a traveller of sufficient
ingenuity should not accomplish a journey from
the earth TO the moon. All that is needed is
the right sort of motor. The moon, according TO
the latest measurements is 239 900 miles from the
Grand Central Depot so that if motor was built
capable of making 900 miles day one could
90 to and from the moon in something less than
year and third. OF course the over-conservatiye
will try to throw cold water the scheme by
arguing that there is neither water nor atmos-
phere on the moon But suppose these staples
are wanting? motor such as we have in view
would be supplied with water and atmosphere
sufficient for the round trip. An things consid
cred then, why would it not be the part Of wis.
dom for those who are fond of novel jaunts
TO give over flying around this much-fown-around
earth and focus their energies upon the con-
structon of the necessary motor so that they may
do the moon?