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The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-02-04
DRUNKENNESS
OR THE LIQUOR HABIT CAN DE CURED
by ADMINISTERING DIR. HAINES'
GOLDEN SPECIFIC.

Can pc given In a cup ofcofee or tea with
out the knowledge OF the person taking IL. IL
mapent and speedy cure whether the patient
Is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck.
IL has been given In thousands of cases, and
IN every instance perfect cure has followed.
mated with the Specific, IL becomes an utter
imposslbillty for the liquor appetite 20 exist.
For sale by 3. II. WARE, under the Ebbltt
House; II. X. HELPHENSrINE, Fourteenth
street and Vermont avenue. Washington.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-02-04

DoS'r miss the opportunity to get dis.
count of 10 per cent. on hnc parlor work,
cabinets, tables etc, hand .maie work; goods
marked in plain figures. WUHpEMAS ~ Co,
GO 10th st., third door north OF + st.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-02-04

To Rent During the Inauguration,
Cots. Mattresses. Quilts, Blankets, Pillows,
Sheets etc PACK n SON, 626 Twelfth 81. n.
w. Make your contracts early.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-02-04
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MEN UNLl .MHoqppS'' 's Ss%Sssa s %s ssa

Mind, Lack of Strength, yigor and develop
ment, caused by Errors, Excesses, &c. Mode
free se AdSassa FR nha f MPnda ea 20
FALO, MY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10

OF. me productive capacity Of one opera
tive In the United States, Great Britain and
Germany, taking 100 as the unit, is In
the United States, 100 in cotton, wool ano
silk; in Great Britain, 81 in cotton. a in
wool, 81 in silk; IN Germany, 2711S ia cot
ton, go in wool, 6S in silk.
AN Iowa clergyman recently made. the
startling assertion that ''every year in the
United States 2, 700 brakemen are killed anC
10000 are crippled" That is, that one
brakeman out of every twenty-seven is
killed every year, and that one brakeman
out Of every three or four is either killed OF
crippled. The New York Sun estimates
that the number of brakemen killed is only
about 1851, instead of %, 200, but thinks
that this number is higher than it should
be, and that ''the railroad companies car
not do too much for the comfort and pro
lection of a class of men who risk life on
limb every day that they are in service
A NUMBER of Minneapolis people who take
an interest in labor matters are ADVISING
the girls who work in manufacturing es
adjustments in that city to try to lay the
basis for cooperative factory by making
a few dozen samples of overalls, Jackets
etc., and putting them on sale in the CO
operative store. 1t is thought that trade
could be worked up among the organized
men, which would give employment to sew
eral expert workers. If some of the ex
perienced girls would take the time to make
a line of samples the outlay would be trifiinR
and many successful cooperative enter
prise has started in just as humble S
fashion
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10
THOUGHT HE HAD EN-.
A Traveller Secs q PinOn Snake an
SwearS on for q Time.

Traveller Secs q Pinon Snake and
Swears on for = Time.
The plnon snake is an inhabitant of the
mountains Of New Mexico and is never
seen in any other section of the country.
The season of the year when this reptile is
ripe, says the Albuquerque Democrat, is
during the months of July and August.
The serpent is then OF bright-red color, re-
sembling raw meat. Prior to that date he
IS OF dusky or Venetian red hue, and, to
the tenderfoot who has never seen one
presents horrifying aspect. A couple of
weeks ago q gentleman from the East
went to Coyote canyon, and, while rum
maglng about the place, one of these SER
penis ran out OF the rocks, across the trail,
into pinon tree and then disappeared.
When the snake first appeared the gentle
man was startled, but when he saw the
thing In the road he became frightened
and could not move from his tracks, and it
was only after the red reptile disappeared
that he recovered his means of Iocomotion
and fed precipitately from the spot. The
canyon had lost ali interest for him, and,
mounting his horse, he came to Albu-
queruue lmbibed with the idea that he had
been drinking too much.
He said nothing about the matter. and
had concluded that he had been afflicted
with an optical illusion until he overheard an
old-timer detailing his experience with one
OF these red snakes of the mountains. The
gentleman was prospector, and had spent
years in the rocky Businesses of Colorado,
but among the wonders he had seen never
had there appeared to his vision a red
snake. While prospecting on the north side
OF Santa Rosa mountain, at Cerillos, one
hot day in August he became tired and
concluded to rest. He hunted up a large
pinon tree and reclined in the shade for
quiet nap. CHANGING to look up in the tree
he saw what he took to be a piece of raw
meat hanging across limb. He got up
and threw a stone at the object, which
proved to be a plnon snake. The stone
struck the reptile and broke its back, and it
dropped to the ground, where, after much
hesitancy, the prospector killed it, and
upon measuring the same found its length
to be five feet nine inches. The gentleman
became interested, and then told the pros
peotor of the sight he had seen. He was
informed that the snake is reality, and
also that it is harmless, and he now drinks
his mint julep again without fear Of red
snakes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10

v'ISnOuU c0IIus.on and with no expectation
OF meeting any such person, but they were
bound to the strictest obedience to the doc
tor, In whose healing powers they reposed
the utmost confidence. They had obeyed
his commands or prescriptions, and when
the exercises were broken up by the police
they were astonished at being acc1sed of
criminal acts, and thought they were en-
gagged in lawful proceeding.
1t seems impossible to doubt the honest
professions Of at least some Of the women
implicated, and in view of the possibility
that they have been innocently betrayed
into such enormities, the public should be-
filed with alarm that such thing could be
possible. Every body who knows the
negroes is aware that their religion even at
the best is largely made up of superstition,
but it Is not so generally known that they
have in great measure preserved the dia-
bolical pagan rites of Africa, and that
there are few of them who do not attach
more or less Importance to the ancient doc
trines, while many practice them with great
zeal and devotion in secret, of course.
We have heard from time to time that
not few whites had been drawn into these
heathenish ceremonies which are degrad-
ing and demoralizing in the extreme, but
this has not been always believed It is
known that respectable white persons had
visited the gris-gris men or voodoo doctors,
but the revelation that white women of any
class attended their diabolical orgies will
aStonish the community.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10
STORY OF A FORTUNE.
Two Georgia Heiresses Whose Wealth
Hold by the Crown of Holland.

Two Georgia Heiresses Whose Wealth Il
Held by the Crown of Holland.
There are two little girls in Toccoa who
are related on their fathers side to ex
Governor Fenton, of New York, ex-Presi
dent Grover Cleveland, Governor Hill, Mr..
Fargo, of Wells, Fargo & Co., and on their
mothers side to- ex-President Jefferson
Davis, and thus are a connecting link be.
tween the North and South.
They can trace their Holland ancestry
back 200 years to awealthy nobleman named
Weber. He left will beQueathing $50, 0O0,-
600 to be held in trust 200 years, and then to
be divided among his descendants who
should at the expiration of that time be liv-
ing, and in addition, plate and jewels valued
at SIG, 0O0, 600 to be likewise divided In the
same way
Ten years were by the terms of the will,
to ~ added to the 200, during which time
the heirs were to be hunted up, and if all
were found, the vast sum, the plate and the
jewels were to be equally divided between
them; If all could not be found this great
wealth was to go to the crown of Holland.
1t so happened that one of the heirs was a
sea captain and he could not be found,
though most diligent and anxious search
was made for him. The ten years few
swiftly by and brought no tidings of the
lost captain. though he was the necessary
link In the chain that connected the heirs to
the great treasure. He was never found
and 30 the treasure was turned over to
Hollands King and Queen and those little
Toccoa ladies will never get their share. 3
The present Queen Of Holland is a little
dot, says the Toccoa (Ga.) News, only few
years older than the sweet little misses we
sometimes see toddling along our streets.
The News suggests that letter be sent
from these little ladies to the young Queen,
asking her to send over some of that treas
pre and plate and Jewels to the rigntful
heirR
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WILL HANG ANYBODY.
The American Executing Company No
Ready for Business.

The American Executing Company Nov
Ready for Business.
The American Executing Company is the
cheerful and suggestive title of corpora
ton that was given a charter by the Score
tary of State at Springfield recently.
Its purpose is to execute persons sen
fenced to death, its capital stock is sos, 00(
and its incorporators are Stephen Lawson
M E. Clear and Jacob A E. Iffert
M. e. Clear was found at his residence by
a Chicago Tribune reporter and requested
to give some details of the business in
which the American Executing Company
proposed engaging.
He was reluctant to talk about the mat
ter, not being sure that the charter had
been granted, but finally was induced to say
thatl was the intention to furnish materials
and executioners in all cases where capita
punishment was ordered by the courts.
"Wil your business be confined to Chi
cago or Illinois; or will it take in the whole
country?"
20, the whole country"
"Wtu you give some further explanation
OF your plans?"
"Well, you see, when there's an execution
the sheriff generally pays somebody TO dc
1t. Often the person employed is bunglel
and makes mess of it, We propose to de-
it scientifcallXAnd relieve the sheriff of his
embarrassment"
with neatness and dispatch, as it wereg'
"Yes, and economically. We can do exc.
cutions cheaper and better than amateurs
and thus save money to the sheriffs."
"What will be your methods of ending
the lives Of condemned menr'
Changing or electricity, or any other
way; all will depend on the law of the State
in which the execution takes place.
"Will you keep supply of apparatus and
executioners on hand so as to be able tc
supply simultaneous demands from differ
emit places1''
EsYes,n
"What is the customary price per execu
tionP'
''The sherif's fees are generally from
$500 to $780,"
''What does the actual executioner-'the
man in the box'-getl'
''The man that pulls the triggerl Well
that depends. It's easier to get man in g
big place like Chicago than in a small town
but 800 would be fair average"
"Will you pay your executioners sal
ariesr'
Certainly; we couldn't expect to keeI
experienced men unless we paid them"
''Have you engaged any yet!'
''Well, might say we have two in view. y
"Are they among the incorporatorsr
aNo,n
.sThe incorporators then will not take al
active personal part in the executionsa"
"Hon
'iWhat is the prospect for success from q
business point of viewl''
ave consider it good"
"Has all the capital stock been takeni"
''No; none of the stock has been taker
yet"
''Is it for sale-will any of it be placed or
the marketfn
1T will not be for sale. Arrangement.
have been made to place all of itn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10
FRESH SCIENCE NOTES.
The Latest Inventions Pertaining to FL
tricity and kindred Arts.

The Latest Inventions Pertaining to Elec-
trtcity and KindrO q Arts.
Captain Ericsson's valuable collection of
scientific models is to be presented 70 the
Smithsonian Institution.
Paper is now made as tough as wood by
mixing chloride of zinc with the pulp in
course Of manufacture.
Minneapolis is to have street locomotives
run by soda. Steam engines are forbidden
for street use In that city.
Quartz Is most useful insulator in cleo
trostatic apparatus, When 1t Is used the
troublesome sulphuriO aOid may be dis
pensed with.
A new system Of universal telegraphic
language has been proposed. 1t is to be
used in cable lines and for international
communication. --As az '-.-A.,,...-..
The skeleton Of the largest elephant ever
killed in India Is to be exhumed and sent to
the museum at Madras. The skeleton Ii ex.
actly ten feet six inches In height.
A scientist has discovered that solid
electrotype like glass is q better conductor
of electricity when in condition Of tension
or strain than when free from strain.
It is proposed to apply telephones to the
INFECTIOUS wards" Of the French hospitals
so as to enable sick people to communicate
with their friends without danger Of con-
veying the infection.
Mr.. Chordonnet has prepared from cellu-
lose new artificial silk-s silk which re-
sembles the naturalproducta as celluloid does
ivory The great drawback to the new ar.
ticle is that it is highly inflammable, but
Mr.. Chordonnet feels confident that this OBJ.
lection can be overcome. When it is we
shall hsye a new textile fabric Of the great
est Importance
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In the boarding-hou who were in attend
ance upon her. As the day advanced the
landlady, seeing no signs of the gentleman's
return. visited an undertaker's near by,
and preparations were made for laying out
the corpse. The body was cold and stiff
when the undertaken arrived. He viewed
the corpse and went back to his shop for
his assistant. During his absence the
missing companion of the dead young
woman arrived upon the scene. 1t was now
about four o'clock in the afternoon. Upon
being informed of her death five hours be-
fore the gentleman uttered an exclama-
ton of surprise. Then rushing up to the
room where the body lay he closed the
door behind him and turned the key. When
the undertaken returned he was refused
admission. Two hours later the gentle
man emerged from the room and ordered
two suppers sent to the apartment. Later
the young lady was seen sitting upright in
bed, eating heartily. Her companion had
brought her back to life by method of
rubbing and physical manipulation known
only to himself. Twice after this he re-
peated the performance. Three times to
my knowledge has this man brought the
young woman back from the dead She
lives here to-day, still an invalid, and is La
BILE to die again at almost any mOmentD
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10
WORK AND WoRKERs.

STAT1sTIcIANs estimate that there are over
10000 900 women in this country who are en-
gagged in work which is not domestic. OF
this number 275 are ministers and IS are
lawyers.
81. PAUL working women are organizing
q Womsn's Labor Lycenm. They meet
Thursday evenings and discuss questions
relating to thelr condition and methods Of
improving it.
BALTIMORE leads the country In the manu-
facture of overalls. In that city 5000 women
are employed in this industry. Their wages
run from IS to s. q week, with general
average of about $3.50.
BAKERS in Kansas City want more near
~ uniform scale Of wages and shorter hours.
They are getting from IS to sl5 week and
board, and they work from twelve to eight
cen hours day. They want twelve hours
work and better wages.
AN industry peculiar to Pittsburgh is the
business Of testing and inspecting structur
al iron and steel. Over one hundred expert
engineers, carefully trained and thoroughly
competent for this work, have made it q
special duty and do nothing else.
THE statement recently made by Mrs.
Barry, the Knights of Labor general in
vestigator OF yyomen's work, that only per
cent OF the 5000 female workers in Chica.
go are organized, is backed up by other
statisticians. Philadelphia is much better
| of in this regard
One of the objects of the Geneva inter
national labor conference, to which the
| Swiss Federal Council has invited all
! manufacturing nations to send delegates in
to provide for the regulations of the labor
OF women and children, the length Of their
working hours, and their pursuit Of danger.
Gus or unwholesome occupations.
THE six new female factory inspectors who
have been added TO the six male inspectors
employed by New York State, will prob.
ably find plenty of opportunities for doina
service IN the enforcement Of tho factory
laws. In that State there are nearly 30 ,OI
! factories of all kinds, about IL 900 of which
are IN New York city. The statistics show
that fully three htths of all the workers in
J them are women and children.
"If ever there was period in the history
ofthe United States,n says the Knights OF
l Labor, ''when there existed d sup~e,,e
| necessity for organization of the workin 9
classes it is the year OF grace 1889 The Isl
Of May, 1890, viii be red-letter day IN the
history Of labor If the working men fai
then to accomplish the eight hour Siay 1t vii
put back the labor movement twenty Years
or 1t viii be the precursor of storms and
I tempests among the working class such a.
the world has never Scent
A WEEKS work IL the cotton mills of En-
gland is So hours; IN the mills Of Massachu
sets, 90 hours; ia France, az hours: II
Germany, from s. 10 y hours: in the wool
en-mills in Germany, a. hours, In France
q hours; IN Massachusetts, 60. in Great
Britain. So: in Huddersfield aud DeusburG
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-10
CARING FOR LEPERS.
Father Damien's Noble Work of Self.
Sacrifica to Re Continuad

| Father Damien's Noble Work of Self
Sacrifice to Be Continued.
1t is most satisfactory to learn from the
| London Figaro that there Is no danger of
the work of Father Damien being neg
| lected. Three years before the devoted
Damien died he had been joined by Father
| Conrady, who, like Damien, is a Belgian
priest. HeATas ordained for the mission of
Oregon, and worked there for several
years until the self-sacrifice of his country
man prompted him to emulate his deeds
| he was very popular in Oregon, and many
| efforts were made to dissuade him from
| his purpose.
At Kalawao, where Father Damien died
and Father Conrady labors, there are vet
no assistants, but at place called Kakatoo
about mile from the business part of Ho-
nolulu, there is branch hospital, originally
| intended to be place where persons sus-
pected of being leprous were to be kept for
examination. This hospital is in charge of
seven Sisters of Charity, who left Syracuse,
N. Y, in 1888. Owing to the burden i'm
posed on Father Damien, they have lately
| taken charge of the female patients, and in
the branch hospital there are cases as bad
| as any in Kalawao.
| Mention has already been made of Miss
| Nellie Flavin, the Liverpool young lady who
has given up mother, sister, brother and
all nome ties TO work among the lepers, and
understand that yet another Igian Roman
4 Catholic priest, Father Wendolin Moellers,
| is on his way to Molokai to assist Father
| Conrady. Writing to one of his friends
Father Conrady says:
''If become leper the good st. Peter
no doubt, will let me pass all the easier
| when my hour comes. Sometimes, when
am kneeling by the side of a poor leper,
| from whom exhales an odor that would put
the most courageous to flight, often think
I am doing little of my purgatory. What
| do you think? Regularly every week a
small steamer makes its appearance here
and very early in the morning announces
| by the loud blowing of its whistle that
| lepers have been landed. Then those who
can hurry to the shore. Often we find our
new corners soaking wet through. Now
| again begin the cries and tears, for one
sees here the meeting again of husband
and wife, or wife seeing her husband
| among them; sometimes child seeing its
father or mother. They take the names of
the new arrivals, and every one sets out to
find a lodging. Although 1 am not leper,
I could not leave here to go to any other Of
these islands without proper certificate
from the board of health. But / have no
wish to go any where. Ny mission is here,
and here I'll remain"
Thus the spirit which animated Damien
| inspires his successor, and there is every
reason to anticipate that Father Conrady,
who is only thirty-ive years of age, will be
as truly the apostle of the lepers as his
heroic Predecessor was
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sNATcHED FROM DEATH.
A Young Woman Three Times Dead Y,
Still Living.

Young Woman Three Times Dead Yet
Still Living.
The question of being buried alive and
the recent case Of Washington Irving Bish-
OPP were matters discussed by q party Of
gentlemen at the Bohemian Club the other
night, says the San Francisco Chronicle.
journalist who was present told the fol-
lowing story of local interest, s,Liying in
San Francisco to-day are two persons whose
strange experiences have long been mys-
terry TO me. Two years ago Boston gen
tleman came out TO the coast He brought
with him his companion. young woman in
the last stages of consumption. She was
pretty and talented, and ten years Younger
thar her escort am OF the opinion that
a sort Of Piatonic love existed between
them
Three times TO my own knowledge the
young woman has apparently passed out of
this life into the other world, and twice
preparations have been made for her burial.
On one occasion her companion was out Of
the city. During his absence she was taken
suddenly With sinking spell, and the land
tady became greatly alarmed. In two hours
ahe invalid was pronounced dead by the ladies
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A Chicken-Eating Pony.


A prominent resident of Richmond, Ind,
has pony which, besides feeding as horses
usually do, will satisfy carnivorous tastes
il he gets q chance. He has been known TO
deyour very young chickens straying with
in his reach, and the sudden disappearance
from the stable of d litter Of kittens, while
their unsuspecting mother had just gone
away for few moments change and rest
from her parental duties, mas been, Oh good
grounds, charged TO him There is no dog
or other animal OF the premises 70 share
the blame. This pony was brought from
Iceland, where all horses are Of his size; is
q well shaped animal, with q pretty dun
coat, ught-colored mane aud tail, and is
very good for driving or riding. He was
imported by an Amaricaa gentleman who
Las travelled extensively IN Iceland, knows
the language, and IS learned about the
sagas Of that country.