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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
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Martin Anderson, of Bridgeton, was in
town this week,
Wilmer Flitcraft, of Camden, was N
ON Wednesday.
Mrs. J.. Wilmer Barber. of Elmer, has
been visiting in Woodstown this week.
Jas. p. Capper, who has been confined
to the house by an attack of typhoid fever,
is again able to be out.
BENZ. Borton has relinqaished his
position at the Harrisonville creamery and
entered the employ of Wilmer Flitcrait,
in Camden.
Jos. S. Carter and wife, Clark Ridgway
and wife, Mickleton; aud Carlton A.
Rulon and wife, Swedesboro, spent Sab
bath with Cooper Coles and family.
A. Killeore, who has been associated
with VIM. Disston at the Pleasant Valley
Stock farm, has given ~ the position, and
will return to Pennington, his former
home.
Rev. ID. Dewolf, vino recently resigned
the Passionate of the Memorial Baptist
Church in Salem, for the purpose OF ac-
cepting the SUPPLEMENTARY OF Baptist
Missions for the State of New Jersey, IN
tends to remove with his family to Newark.
R~eOpenfns services at the M. &. Church.
The main audience room of the NJ. h.
church will be reopened on Sunday, Dec.
21st. The preachers for the occasion VIII
be duly announced. 1880 p. M. there
will be q platform meeting, consisting OF
addresses and miscellaneous exercises.
The various improvements make a mar
yelous change for the better, both for
heautv and conveniencp. The largo front
window, almost fin ished, is in Tvs place,
and the heaters are being put 10 aud will
probably be fixed in position by this (Fri-
day. evening.
s-inch fiat bottom wash boilers, 90c; s-incf
for 81 90. 5c-pound painted lard cans zoe. 6oll
for 60c, at Humphreys.
xou 49, uot a I'll nnnnd of nure black neN-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12

s-inch fiat bottom wash boilers, 90c; s-inch
for LOO. 5c-pound painted lard cans zoe. 6llb
for 60c, at Humphreys.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-12
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

from "No Name" and "The Moonstone" to
speak with fervor of 1.-THE Black Robe"
1.-THE Catholic clergy are attacking me for
it." said be, "but meant it to be compli-
mentary to them. I respect the Roman
Catholic religion and those of its followers
whom 1 know"
1 asked him to give me some hints about
fiction writing, and the leading points OF his
advice were as follows:
RULES FOR WRITING FICTION.
First-Keep the story moving. Second
Pay great attention to the literary style.
Third-Delineate characters as they are, not
as they are traditionally pictured in fiction.
Fourth-Never go back on your tracks in
the old fashioned wav, which says, 1--WE
must now return so and Sc" but 60 on with
the story, right straight ahead. Fifth
Don't tell peoples back histories, but pick
them up from where you met them, and go
on with them from that out, just as we do In
life.
A friend Of mine who has read all Wilkie
Collins novels tells me that he has violated
every single one of these injunctions, not
once, but several times. Many portraits of
Wilkie Collins are extant, and they give q
fair representation OF his face and head;
these were large and commanding-there-
fore all the greater was the surprise Of one
who met him as I did with the idea of an
imposing figure being the necessary adjunct.
to find him short man, very much below
the average height. In the last year or two
OF his life his back was bent almost double
over the hand which held his stick. and
he then looked like dwarf. With his long
gray beard. his spectacles, his stick. his
bent back and puny legs, he appeared the
wizard of enthralling fiction. even as the
mind of childhood pictures him.
OLIVE LOGAN.
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basis of various theosophical, Christian
scientist and other opinions. true and untrue.
MR.. /. Il. THOMPSON

Cites an Extremely Astonishing Instance Of
Mental TelcGrnphy.
l. There is what call a mental teleg-
raphy whereby intelligence can be trans
mitted from one person to another. In June
OF this year gentleman of Boston, pupil
oil mine in what 1 call mental progressive
science, was called to Washington, D. c.
On his return be had in New York an e1-
perience which disturbed him, and he could
make no decision in the case. l was sitting
in my room in this city (Boston), and heard
his call ior instruction, the case being in the
line of mental analysis of material condi-
tion. noted the time of day. and mentally
expressed two words "positiveness" and
silence"
On his returning to Boston the next day
J asked him where he was at the time I had
told me of his unpleasant experience. and
said that as he sat in the parlor of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel in New York he felt that I
stood beside him and used the words "posi-
tiveness" and Silence" and on adopting
that method in the case he was relieved of
anxiety.
This mental telegraphy is not mesmeric
nor magnetic; those forces cannot so far
leave their material base as to act in the
mental or brain wave. The magnetic or
mesmeric and the mental are two distinct
forces, and they are often antagonistic, which
is reason for so much confusion among So
called spiritualistic ranks.
z. HYpnotism is animal force. 1t
is that which is called magnetism, and is
that subtle force of aninality which de-
presses the development of the mental forces,
and defects the natural mind into supersti-
tious fear,
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KELLAR, THE MAGICIAN.
All Hypnotic Phenomena Can be Explained
on Natural Grounds.

All Hypnotic Phenomena Can be Explained
on Natural Grounds.
All the phenomena of hypnotism, think,
can be explained on perfectly natural
grounds. Mesmeric experiments do not
always succeed. Highly nervous persons,
persons of an irritable temperament, pale,
active people are most susceptible. The
effect Of causing the subject to stare at some
bright object is to cause irrltabIlity. ANY,
one staring for sometime at glittering OBJ
jeot held in the hand finds that the light be-
comes dim, objects begin to appear blurred
and indistiuct, and the medium becomes
dazed; his expectation of something strange
about to happen gets him into a nervous
and excitable state, and he is ready to be.
lieve almost anything, and is in excellent
condition to be hypnotized.
The Hindoos produce the hypnotic state
by repeating in u low drawling tone the
words. Ram-Ram-Ram-A -Amar-Ram. Persons
once hypnotized readily give way to the in
fuence. do not believe that the mesmer-
ist possesses any mysterious power further
than being able to excite the nervous sys-
tenn of the medium to such a degree as to
exhaust and put him in a state of uncon-
sc;ousness, and when in that state the
medium will perform certain acts impressed
on him by the mesmerizer.
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DR.. ALLAN MLANE HAMILTON.


The Existence of Hypnotism and It's Value
In Scientific Sense.
]. The belief in some peculiar force of
a material nature which can be transferred
from one person to another is, consider. a
delusive one. Prof. Crooke, of England,
some years ago attempted to demonstrate
so-called odic force, but his experiments did
not stand the test of subsequent investiga-
ton. have long been believer, however,
in the cultivation of mental power for the
purpose of developing in a second indi-
vidual certain initial psychical and, through
habit, intimate physical changes. To be
more explicit, 1 believe it is possible for two
individuals, even though separated, to lead
prearranged plan of life, and to establish
a mental discipline that will secondarily
lead to such series of habits that resulting
physical changes will follow, and perhaps
in succeeding generations there may be an
approximation not only of a mental but of a
physical type; but so far as the actual trans
ference of any force from A to B is con-
cerned, look upon those, at least at pres
ent, as purely fancIful propositions.
And this leads US to a consideration of
second sight or clairvoyance. The examples
you suggest are often explained by ordinary
causes. familiar to the student of mental
disease. A long existing superstition and
love of the mysterious will occasionally lead
in certain communities to coincident facts
and to happenings which are sometimes
simply marvellous in their apparent reality.
So-called reading of character is easily ex-
planned when we consider that nearly al
ways the confding person unconsciously
gives the information, which is ampliied
and garnished by the pretended mind
reader.
/. That there is such q condition as
hypnotism is weil-known scientific fact
1t consists in the abnegation OF volition and
suspension Of the action of the higher cor
dical layers of the brain, the functions of
which are dominated by the mesmerizer.
The hypnotic state is one that implies exag-
geration OF the expectant attention, when of
course the individual surrenders himself up
to all direct and intelligently applied ex-
ternal agencies. There is no doubt that it
is simply an exaggeration OF the condition
which in human society renders one subject
subservient to another, and which enables
the stronger person to control the weaker.
The practical results of recent study are
of extreme scientific value Vicious mental
states are easily corrected, many forms of
disease are cured, and "a condition oil anas-
thesia has been produced which has enabled
surgeons to amputate limbs and perform
pamtul surgical operations. The hypnotic
state is being introduced every day by repu-
table physicians in the treatment OF nervous
diseases. especially in Europe.
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MARQUISE Dl LAMA.
Mind Reader Bishop Not a Fraud But n
Man of Wonderful Mentality.

Mind Reader Bishop Not a Fraud But n
Man of Wonderful Mentality.
1. Thought, transference and mind read
ing are very different, and can ftly
claim earnest attention and discussion. The
late Irving Bishop possessed a mentality Of
very wonderful structure and which was
enormously developed. do not believe he
was fraud or that he ever tried to cheat
anybody. He positively had this psychic
force under his control.
Exactly what constitutes this force we do
not know. The simplest natural phenomena
are mysteries but they are there, neverthe-
less. Second sight is another thing whose
genuineness have no reason to deny. The
facts are before us, and until thev can be
proved absolutely false or absolutely true
we can affirm or reject nothing.
2. Hypnotism is most interesting
subject, but it should never be confounded
with mesmerism, as is often the case. With
mesmerism the subject is controlled and put
into an artificial sleep by means of some
power emanating from the mesmerizer.
Hypnotic subjects, on the contrary, fall into
the hypnotic trance through the medium of
anybody at all, and they frequently hypnot-
ize themselves by merely fixing their atten-
tion on some object and regarding it atten-
lively. l have witnessed great number OF
hypnotic seances and I have seen Subjects, I"
during the trance, do and say things which
do not believe they could accomplish in a
normal state
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PROF. ELLIOTT C0UES.

Science Supplies Foundation for tho The.
ory of the Soul.
1. Unquestionably there is, and to the ad-
jectives you use to describe it 1 might add
a dozen others, as akasic, astral. psychic
zoetheric, viogenic, nervauric, asthetoph-
orous, telepathic, prothylic, etc., terms in
vented or used by various psychists of re-
pute to indicate a substance of universal oc-
currence, so far as we know, and which is
supposed to be the common basis of both
mind and matter.
All persons arespartly composed of this
ubiquitous ethereal substance, which makes
up what St. Paul, the theosophist, called
the spiritual BODY" and which theosophists
of to-day know as the astral body or soul
case. This is the medium of all thought
transference, the basis OF all psychometry,
and the proper material for all psychical
research.
This substance is ordinarily inappreciable
to the physical senses, but sometimes, as
when ghosts of dead persons appear, or
phantasms of the living occur, it becomes
evident as a very real thing. 1t is probably
capable of sustaining individual conscious
ness and lite after the death of the physical
body, and constitutes in fact what every
body means, without knowing what they
mean, when they talk of the Immortality of
the soul. This has its foundation in scien-
titic fact.
2. "Hypnotism" is a modern and now
fashionable name, invented a few years
ago by an English physician, for an interest
ing series of natural phenomena, to avoid
giving Mesmer his just credit. Mesmerism
and hypnotism are precisely the same thing,
but the former is vulgar and cranky. and
the latter is proper and scientific. But the
word hypnotIsm is valuable, because under
that name scientists have studied and ac-
cepted things they would not condescend to
notice so long as they we're called mesmer-
ism. prefer the latter term for several
reasons. 1t is only fair to Mesmer; and the
explanation of the phenomena. which the
straight-out mesmerists give, seems to me
nearer the truth than those which it is now
fashionable to apply to hypnotism. But
call it what you please, the same thing itself
is one of the most momentous, comprehen-
sive and interesting facts in human nature
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArCH.i

"Come, Janet" said old Fisher Ben one
bright morning to mis- little daughter; "do
you want to 60 out in the boat with me to-
day? The sea is as smooth as glass, and we
shall have no rough weather to trouble III"
Janet was not long in accepting the invi-
tation, for she loved the sea, and was al
ways happy in gliding over the waves in
their little boat. She could row, too, and
many a time had pulled an oar with her
father, who called her his little sailor. This
morning the waves danced merrily in the
sunshine, and the small vessel guided by the
strong hand of the fisherman sped gaily
through the water. Suddenly the rudder
with its iron point seemed to strike against
a hidden rock. There was a crash, and then
the king of the water nymphs appeared
above the waves.
"Fisher Ben," he cried angrily, ''you
have broken one of the columns of my crys-
tai palace under the water, and you must
mend il.
Little Janet was pale with fright; but her
father only laughed and said, Away with
you, old Water King; do not know how
to mend your windows, and to-day have no
time to talk with you"
And the boat shot away leaving the angry
king murmuring threats of vengeance.
A short time after this. great festival
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

Alexander is represented, as a bright,
brave, handsome lad; but he has a sa6
history behind him in the domestic and
political troubles which have ended in the
divorce OF his royal parents. In 1886 the
young Prince Alexander made Journey
with his mother to the Crimea; thence to
Florence, and finally to Wiesbaden where
Queen Natalie had hoped to remain and
educate her son. But in 1888 demand
was made for the boy through General
Protesch, and he was taken to Belgrade to
assume the grave responsibilities that might
well daunt the bravest Of men.
The education OF the young King is being
carefully superintendent by DR.. Lazar Do
kitsch, assisted by Nine. Pelingre,
talented lady of Swiss birth, who instructs
her royal pupil in the elementary branches.
Alexander already speaks German, French,
and little English; but until recently he
has not been taught Russian. Russian
influences, however, seem now likely to
assert themselves in the royal household Of
Servia.
The young king is just now greatly worry
ing his mamma by his tendency to emulate
his father. The other day she burst in on
him and found him drinking and playing
the great American game OF poker with
court companions. The precocious youngster
Is in danger.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
DANIEL G. THOMPSON.
Means of Communicution Between Mind and
Mind Not Yet Understood.

Means of Communication Between Mind and
Mind Not Yet Understood.
1 think there are means of communication
between mind and mind, the nature OF which
is not understood, and which has not been
properly explained. The facts of hypnotism
are undoubtedly established in scientific
manner There seems to be also some ground
lor a belief in thought transference, though
whether the assumed mind-reading of
Bishop, for example, is anything more than
muscle reading, as is claimed, may not be so
clear; but enough has been established to
make it evident that there are some things
vet to be found out in the line OF Spiritual
istic clairvoyants and mediumistic phenom-
ena."
This does not indicate, however, any SUBJ
stantial basis for SpirItualism; there may
be unknown properties of matter-unknown
modes of communication between one miud
and another Of material nature. which ii
fully explained beyond the occurrences Of
which we know without any recourse to a
spiritualistic hypothesis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20

breathed the fresh, pure air, and the moon
smiled kindly upon her; all night long 1.-The
flower boat sailed over the water, sometimes
along the shore and then ont upon the deep,
so that Janet sometimes even heard the Ia
miliar sound of the church clock telling the
hours. ,,,,,
So the months passed. Janet was still in
the power of the water king. Every night
she sailed over the sea in the water-lily boat
with the Kings daughter. She had learned
to sing the sea sougs, and often when the
two sweet voices, accompanied by the harp,
sounded over the water, the fishermen would
listen and wonder whence came the strange,
sweet music.
Although Janet loved her fairy friend,
and the time spent with her was very pleas
ant, she greatly longed for sight of her
dear parents One night she told this to the
nymph, who said: Perhaps some day
can help you, but now know of no wav."
As she SAID this, they saw something dark
floating in the water. Directing the boat
thither they discovered the body of little
girl. which had been carried off by the tide.
Now" said the fairy, ~ can release you.
/ shall take you to the shore, and while you
are running home shall put this little body
in YOUR prison."
The next morning while Janet was being
received with joy and gladness in her own
home, the wicked water king was rejoicing
over what he supposed to be the dead body
of Janet, thinking that now Fisher Ben
would never find his daughter.
But Janet did not forget her fairy friend;
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THEORY UF INSOMNIA.
The Nerves Controlling the Flow of Blood TO
the Brain Do the Mischief

The Nerves Controlling the Flow of Blood to
the Brain Do the Mischief
New York SUM-
Insomnia is most often found among
brain-workers, whose brain activity causes
the flow of too great an amount of blood to the
head The nerves controlling the contrac-
tion of the blood cells through weariness
fail to perform their duty, and temporary
passive congestion is established, which
effectually prevents sleeping the early part
OF the night. The victim should lie with
the head raised very high with pillows.
Frequently the sufferer who has counted
himself off into dreamland after hours of
misery is awakened toward morning again,
and sleep seems more hopeless than ever.
This awakening is due usually to the sud-
den and violent contracting OF these mali
cious little nerves who tail to perform their
duty in the early part of the night, and
wakefulness is caused by lack of blood in
the brain. 1t requires strength to sleep,
and this burning attack OF wakefulness is
usually relieved by cup of beef tea, or a
glass of cold water may refresh you, and set
the blood again in the right direction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
FREDDIE AND THE LILY.
They Are on the Outs and the Former 10
Trying to Capture q Widow.

They Are on the Outs and the Former 10
Trying to Capture q Widow.
New York World.l
Fred Gebhard returned from Europe two
or three weeks ago, and everything he has
done and said since that time has tended to
confirm the story in circulation to the effect
that he and Mrs. Langtry have agreed to
disagree and that the future will not be
marked. as the past has been. by recurring
reports of an approaching marriage. What
the trouble has been which led to the rup-
ture is not known.
That Gebhard is very much affected by
this outcome of years of deyotion is perfectly
clear to everybody who has seen him. He
has developed q marvellous fondness for
looking on the wine when it is red and
straw colored and various other shades, and
has begun paying desperate attentions to a
pretty young widow. Mr.. Gebhard's friends
honestly think that the result will be a
reaction from the Bohemian life he has led,
and that he will marry and settle down to
domestic LIE in New York.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
THE AGE OF CHIVALRY

Has Not Departed, nt Lenst Not From the
Rising Generation.
Baltimore Americana
Let those who say that the instincts of
chivalry are dying out in the rising genera
ton listen to this true tale and forever after
hold their peace. At No 20 Primary
Public School in this city a child was asked
lately if the following sentence was correct:
"Is it him or her?"
The child promptly replied: 1.-THE SEN
tence is it him or her?' is not correct. It
should be is it her or him?' because a gen.
tleman should never go before lady,"
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COST OF RUNNING NEW YORK.

Tho Expenses Foot Up More Than Three
Times Those of the State.
New York SUM-
The expense of running the city govern
ment of New York is more than three times
the cost of the State government. The city
has to pay almost half the State taxes.
There are only two items in the appropria-
tions of the Board Of Estimate and Appor-
tionment which are larger than the State
taxes. They are the interest on the city
debt, S.. 3O5, S19 and the appropriation for
the Police Department 81. 647 ,791. The State
taxes amount to 4,5l9,641 The State
wants more taxes, but the city refuses to
pay more. The demands of the State were
ior almost Sc, ,000, 900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
Sick Headache

is a complaint from which many suffer
and few are entirely free. Its cause
is indigestion and sluggish liver, the
cure for which is readily found in the
use of Ayers Pills.
"I have found that for sick headache,
caused by disordered condition Of the
stomach, Ayers Pills are the most re-
liable remedy. samuel G. Bradburn,
Worthington, Mass.
"After the use of Ayers Pills for
many years, in my practice and family,
I am justified in saying that they are an
excellent cathartic and liver medicine
sustaining all the claims made for them"
w. A. Westfall, NJ. D., V. P. Austin
& N. W. Railway Co., Burnet, Texas.
"Ayer's Pills are the best medicine
known to me for regulating the bowels,
and for all diseases caused by dis
ordered stomach and liver. / suffered
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digestion, and constipation. / had no
appetite and was weak and nervous
most of the time. By using three boxes
of Ayers Pills, and at the same time
dieting myself, 1 was completely cured"
Philip Lockwood, Topeka, Kansas.
"I was troubled for years with indi-
pestion. constipation, and headache. A
few boxes of Ayers Pills, used In small
daily doses, restored me to health.
They are prompt and effective. ."-W.H.
Strout, Meadyille, Pa.