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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10
THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED
HAND"

In this workaday world. of ours =
this practical, prosaic world, there is
not much time for the tender reverie,
the gentle communion of present and
past which like link of gold con.
meets US with sentiment but yet-have
you not, weary perchance with the
fret and The turmoil of the day, the
sibilant, rasping grind of the wheels
of life, at even time sat and with face
shaded from the light, with body at
ease, with the soft lullaby of natures
goodnight song ringing in your ear.
allowed your mind to drift backward
backward to where presence stood,
where voice rose and fell with a
cadence of sweetness which Gods
photograph will never allow to die,
and which went away one day from
earth but never quite forgot to live in
your memory-never, never?
Have you not reached back and
felt the caress light as bird on your
hair, the soft fut'er of pink-tipped
fingers against your lips, the "touch
of vanished hand" aye, the touch
of vanished hand that once was as
SWEET. once was as restful as the ten.
der protection of a mother, or the
peace Of Somnus.
Oh how much we miss
that hand, how long it seems,
how many dreary days, how many sad
nights, how many months, or years
maybe since it was warm in ours
God help us, We did not know then
that ere loog that hand would clasp
plying rose above dead white breast
that it wOnld slip away from ours and
we should 60 out where the breakers
would dash us against the rocks and
losing our anchor, "the touch of
Ia vanished hand" We should drift
into the maelstrom of strife and
wrongs and deceits and hates and
bruised and beaten should sit and
m0urn as those do mourn who have
memories which stir the very soul
with their presence and which are
more precious than reached ambition
pr triumph of fame, or discovered
wealth.
''The touch of a vanished hand -"
perchance it was the hand ola mother,
perhaps of a sister, perhaps of a
fdearer one" it comes back just as of
gore, and gone are the barren deserts
Pf time, gone the woe, gone the weari-
ness and heartache and once more
there are green fields adot with
iaisies and buttercups and where was
woe is memory and where was heart
Rshe is solace and happiness and all
things good and hopeful.
"The touch of a vanished hand"
has power which does not vanish
with the hand, Heaven be praised, it is
the rythm which runs through the
years and it is the music which car
ries the soul to where partings never
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10

railroad situation, though decrea ed
apprehension On the score of silver
legislation has improved It's tone.
Both Wall street and the business
world are waiting. But, on the
whole, the situation is not discourag
ing. An early and rapid improve
ment seems to be more than possible.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10
No Responsibility.
on are married, Jack?"

$50 you are married, Jack?"
81 am, jim"
II hope you considered the matter
we'll 1t is serious matter assuming
the responsibilities involved in mar
rage"
You're wrong, my friend. have no
responsibility at all now. My wife's
the boss Boston Courier.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10

Aunt Chloe-''Yes, Rastus, it were
q sad case; one o. de saddles dat come
across. De boy was jes' runnin' across
de railroad track bringin' home a water
million from mahket. When he crossed
de track he sat down absent-minded like
to plug the million ter see if it were
ripe, an train come along and cut Of
both his legs" Uncle Rastus-''Deah
me, SUI; amt dat tarrible. DID you
heah If de million waz ripe?'-AmericA
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10
ScrOfula Cured.

have a sister younger thOn myself whose
whole body was cyv-re With scrofuIa sores, from
head TO foot. She could not lie down at ight,
and had TO ppace by day. A friend sdvised her
TO try the CuTIousA REMEDIES. She did so, and
they cured her. DJRA B ERVING,
Rushsylyania, Ohio.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10

"A Prof Adametz has discovered that
. soft cheese, near the periphery, con-
tains $500. 900 to 100000 microbes.
Prof. Adametz, it is preArmed, was his
own census enumerator, and he no doubt
made a fair count, for the soft cheese
has not yet disputed his figures, and
claimed larger microbe population. -
Norristown Herald.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10
Made the Teacher Feel Good.

Aunt-Didn't you get another thrash
ing in school to-day?
Johnny-Yes indeed, 1 did; but il
didn't hurt bit.
'Did you cry?"
Eyes, bellered like every thing; but
only did it to humor the teacher
Texas Siftings.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10
On a great oak at Fort TETON. Cal

On a great oak at Fort TETON, Cal.
Is inscribed: 81. III. S. T. Peter Lebeck.
Killed by bear Oct. IS 1881" The
other day the grave was opened and
there were found. according to the Kern
County California, the remains Of the
arstknown white pioneer of that whole
country. a marble slaSwiQ be erected
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10

A family by the name of Moore, liv-
ing six miles west of Columbus, Ind,
has peculiar and distinguishing family
mark running through three genera
tions. At reunion, held on Thursday
Of this week, IL was learned that out OK
twenty-seven persons, which represent
sd the three generations, nineteen had
six toes on each foot.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10

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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10

occasionally with foreign powers.
Two such questions with our very
powerful British neighbor are now
pending, and although the is no
immediate danger of hostilities result
ing from them their mere existence
ought to be sufficient to suggest that
the country should not be
left entirely defenseless. No
country wants to 60 to war with
the United States, and no country
will except under very pressing cir
cumstanc4s. But those circumstances
will he found very much less pressing
If it were known that our rich har-
bors were adequately defended. Our
modern engineers and ordnance off,
GERS have agreed upon forts aud guns
that will afford US ample defense for
many years to come. No ship could
pass the proposed work at Sandy Hook
for instance, without taking an enor-
nous chance of destruction. Con-
gress should give us forts and guns
reasonable in number and expense.
There should be neither extravaganza
nor false economy in this matter.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-02-10
A man who has prscticed medicine for
40 years, ought to know salt from sugar !;
read what he says:
TOLEDO, O., Jan. 10, 1887.

read what he says:
TOLEDO. o., Jan. 10, 1887.
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and would say in conclusion that / have
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pV'0 Skin and Scalp purified and beaut fed
DAD Oby CUrIcURA SOAP. Ab3Oiutel. pure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

Some women never feel an itching on
the soles of their feet but they know they
are going 70 walk on strange ground;
never drop 8 Knife or FORK without ex-
pectiug a visitor ot either sex Most
myths, and most Of the Characters OF
mythology, arose from the desire Of man
10 read the writing Of nature, 10 under
stand her symbolism, which be could best
do by synbol.zing her forces in turn. Did
q storm blow down a tree he fancied s
spirit in the air. then q spirit in the tree;
n war between them, and the result was
the overthrow OF the Dryads. The mysfe-
rious noises of the forest were TO him the
whisperings Of = myriad Of spirits 70
whom he gave form, and whom he feared
or loved as they were kind or the re-
verse. Our forests are 10 longer primsval
except IN novels, but their influence upon
the mind % man has altered in quantity
more than il kind To this day, in Ger
tain parts o. Pennsylvania. the people ~
iieve in ''black man OF the woods i'm
ported from the HART mountains. and
from the same state comes the story of an
old laborer who is popularity supposed 70
be wizard Il i repeated here % show
taat superstition dies with difficulty, II
at all
1he Pennsylvania wise man met last
fali an overladen appie cart drawn by 4
poor old horse, and be remarked 70 the
farmer, who was on his way 20 a CIDER mil.
that Se would not GET there with the load
sure enough, a little farther on the old
horse fell, and Was 50 badly injured that
be had 10 be killed on the spot. Farmers
oi the nelghborhood. called upon 20 render
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

THE "GHosT TFLLER's" NARRATIVE
or folk tale because it exerts itself mental
Iy-the influence of the stronger mind upon
the weaker-and as such a mental power
its phenomena may be sanely considered
and estimated
1t is delightful to be able nowadays to
consider as an actuality the nature and ex
perience of uneducated, or at least i'll regu.
lated, minds, without laying ones self liable
to the stigma of superstition; under the
grateful cover of scientific discussion to
relate tales, to rehearse visions and re-
embody myths without being called weak
minded. The old savage desire to propitiate
evil spirits is latent in most of us, and we
like to tell of them in hushed tones and in
clammy bodily conditions with that end in
view Even when strong minded scepti
cism was most rampant there could always
be found little coteries who would gather
in the shadow of the fireplace and listen
TO the "ghost teller" with the delicious
nervousness which every one decries and
ell feel. Otherwise how can we account
for the continued prosperity of the clair
voyants, seventh children, fortune tellers,
astrologers, whose advertisements fill col
umns Of the newspapers Whatever our
condition of doubt may be- we all see
ahead a tremendous void and we watch
with desire, not unming gled with dread,
the efforts of these people To light it with
their farthing candles.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

The cynical humor and eccentric saw.
ings Of Beau Brunmel were not ALWAYS
received by the auditors in the manner
which their originator Anticipated or de
sired. At one time Brummel was a mem.
Der Of Walters club, in London. which
wss then the most noted gambling house
in the metropolis. Among his fellow
members was a man named Biissh. whose
eccentricity amounted 81 times TO mild
insanity. One evening the Beau. having
lost a considerable stake, affected in his
farcical way very tragic and suicidal
air, and cried out Waiter, bring me a
cSndlestick and a loaded pistol"
Upon which Phgh, who was sitting
opposite to him. calmly produced two
pistols from his pocket, and placing
them upon the table said. Mr.. Brurn-
mel, if you are really desirous TO put a
period to your existence 1 am extremely
happy 10 offer you the means without
troubling the waiter" The effect upon
those present may be easily imagined,
for II was apparent 10 all that the good
nstured offer was sincerely meant. A
few JudiciOus words from the Beau. now
all seriousness, induced the other 10 re-
pocket the weapons, but the incident
somewhat dampened the spirits Of the
card party, which quickly broke up and
Eeuarsted--New York World
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

To remove tar rub thoroughly with
clean lard and wash with soap and warm
water.
Brass utensils may be Kept beautiful,
bright by an occasional rub with salt and
vinegar.
For bilious collie, soda and ginger in hor
water. 1t may be taken freely and Us ofte
as necessary.
Battle the lips occasionally with littl.
alum water, followed by little campuol
ice or glycerine.
Bent whalebones can be restored ana
used again by simply soaking in water
few hours and then drying them.
Take two large spools, drive large nal
through them in the wall about two incl
apart and hang your broom up, brush e.
up.
Ammonia applied two or three times
a fresh cold sore will kill it. 1t will drit
it away if used when the cold sore is III.
felt
When washing fine white flaunels add
tablespoonful of pulverized borax to pa
ful of water. This will keep them soft a.
white
Sleepliness caused by too much blood
the head may he overcome by applying
cloth wet with cold water TO the back O..
the neck.
Never let the suns rays strike mirror
1t acts upon the mercury and makes the
glass cloudy. which all the rubbing in the
world will not remove.
Wash white silk bandkerchiefs in tepid
water with CASTLE soap suds and press
when cold and nearly dry TO iron them
out Of hot water turns them yellow.
If paint has been spattered on window
panes wet the spots with water and rub
thoroughly with a new silver dollar, or
they may be washed with hot, sharp vim
egar.
To make waterproof writing ink. an ink
which will not blur if the writing is ex
posed TO rain, dissolve two ounces shellac
in one pint alcohol (95 per cent?, filter
through chalk and mix with best lamp
black.
Never put the handles of your knives in
water, as ivory cracks and discolors il wet.
Finely powdered Bristol brick is the best
polisher for steel knives and can be ru ubbed
on with large cork. Have knifeboard
and keep brick and cork together in place
When rubbed wash in hot suds and wipe
very dry.
Borax water is excellent for sponging
either silk or wool goods that are not
sOiled enough to need washing. Cashmere
or any wool goods may be washed with
little bOrax in the water and the color not
be injured They should not be rubbed on
the board, but only between the hands, aud
hung on the line to dry without wringing
If treated in this way and pressed on the
wrong side as soon as dry enough they Will
look Like new.-Wash hington Star.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14
THE NURSE FELL TO THE FLOOR

No sooner was the old woman free from
the integument than she disappeared. The
child, more curious than frightened, arose
| and felt the horrible heap. For several
| nights she witnessed the strange "undress-
ing" and then she related it TO the pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He
laughed at what he termed a childish
dream, and bade her, the next time she saw
the empty skin, to salt carefully the whole
inside. She followed his advice, and then
in fear and trembling awaited the return
of the old woman from her Walpurgis ex-
cursion. The child, who was u years old,
gave afterward her own testimony. Miss
Lide" (the woman's name was Miss Ida
Armstrong; "came in about morning and
began to put it on, but the very first touch
hurt her and she screamed. She screamed
louder and louder as she kept putting it
on, and she ran around the room as if sho
was burning up. The last saw she had
taken it off and gone away again, but this
time she did not leave her skin"
In the nature of the circumsta noes this
story must be taken, as the saying is ''for
what it is WORTH" but the substantial
fact which enforces itself on the minds of
the people Of that part of Connecticut Is
the unaccountable disappearance five years
ago of Ida Armstrong, who has never
been seen or heard from since.
In one of the villages of the beautiful
Whitewater valley, in southeastern Indi-
ana, there lived a few years ago an old
woman who was accustomed to nurse the
sick of the community. 1t was remarked
that six or seven of her charges had died
in succession, when one evening the old
dame herself being i'll her place at an in
valids bed was taken by healthy young
female of the village. AS the new nurse
went TO the window at the first glimmer
of dawn to get a breath of fresh air she
saw ghostly procession form at the gate
of the house and wend its way up the hill
side to the cemetery. When the vision had
passed away the nurse fell to the floor in
an attack OF Mysteries, which awoke and
so alarmed the patient that she died short
ly afterward.
The young woman averred that she had
seen the old granddame who was regularly
in charge of the Invalid personally direct
ing the order of the funeral procession, and
that before it moved she had taken her seat
beside the driver of the hearse. Most Of
the people in the town affected TO ridicule
the story of the vision as an idle tale, but
not single family ever again employed
the poor old nurse, who, finding her occu-
patton gone and herself under suspicion of
being allied with the evil one, grieved her
self to death.
These simple stories, so lightly strung
together, are told only as another way of
stating the fact that in 1S9l-the age of
realism in literature, of latitude in religion
there exists the belief in witchcraft, If
not the thing itself The world grows old,
its inhabitants become educated; but with
all changes one thing tangeth not, the
power of the strong mind over the weak
That is modern witchcraft, pure and
simple, and when the definition is univer-
sally accepted witchcraft will lose all the
horror of its name WILLIS STEEL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14
TO RE ROgBFD OF HEALTH

BY pestilential climate, by vocation en-
failing constant exposure, physical over
work or Sc entary irudgery at the desk, is
a hard OF. Yet many persons originally
possessed of fair constitution suffer this
deprivation before the meridian of life is
passed. To any and all subject to condi-
tions mimical TO health, no purer or more
agreeable preservatiYe of TIE greatest of
earthly blessings can be recommended
than Hostettr's Stomach Bitters, which
inures the system to climatic change,
physical fatigue and mental exhaustion.
IL eradicates dyspepsia, the bane of seden
tary brain workers, preserves and restores
regularity of the bowels and liver, when
disordered from any cause, annihilates
fever ana ague and prevents it, checks the
growth of "A tendency TO rheumatism and
Eout, and neutralizes the danger TO be ap
pretended from causes productive of kid
ney, bladder and uterine ailments. To be
convinced of the truth of these statements,
Il is only necessary 10 give this sterling
preparation an impartial trial.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

aid, agreed that the horse had been placeo
under the wizards influence, and before
they would remove the dead animal they
cut slice of flesh from the hind quarters
and burned it, in order that the person
who cast the spell should burn in CORE
spending part of the body.
From Connecticut there comes a tale of
"salted skin," which is worthy place in
the folklore Of some tropical island. A
little girl, left homeless by the death of
her parents, was taken by an old wom-
an to reside with her near the suburbs Of
Glastonbury. The two lived alone, and
the child was happy and healthy except
that her sleep was troubled She COM
plained TO her schoolmates that the room
the two slept in was lighted up during the
night, although they retired without a
lamp.
One night, however. she woke and saw
her aged companion amounting herself with
a liquid from small bottle. with the re-
suit that her skin gradually fell from her
in heap on the floor like loose garment
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

Constantinople is believed TO have found
ed the first hospital in the world.
At Savannah, Ga, are five brothers, each
of whom is 8 feet 3 inches in height
Cab drivers are not permitted TO smoke
in the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland.
The Esquimaux call seals to them by
lying down on the ice and whistling
In Gunnison county, Colo, there are
three hills of solid iron and manganese
ores 500, l.0O0 and LOO feet high, their
bases covering more than 1000 acres.
There is a woman in Atchison, Kan.
who sets a chair At the table every day for
her husband, who died over year ago. Ia
his plate she never fails 10 place a little
bouquet Of flowers.
Two hundred thousand dollars year is
spent by the London school board in en-
forcing the attendance OF children. They
are discussing the French plan cf getting
children 10 schoo' by good lunches.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14
THE SURRENDER HOUSE.

NIAGARA FALLS, n. Y, Feb. 13--Capt.
NJ. f. Dunlap, a leading attorney, has re-
turned from southern trip, and states
that on January Il he purchased, on be-
ha'f of Others, the Mclean house, at Ap-
pomattox This is the house in which the
articles of surrender were drawn up and
signed by Gems. Grant aud Lee, on April
9. 1865, and it has always been known as
the surrender House." The purchase
was made OF Mrs. NJ. H. Ragland, and in
cludes twenty acres of land. The price. 1T
is un erstood, was $1,000. Capt. Dunlap
states that the house may be taken to the
worlds fair, and there located as head
quarters for Union and Confederate sol
diers, and also fitted up as museum of
war relics
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

known as a witch, or, to use the Pennsyl
vania Dutch term, "hex"-a woman who
worked mysterious charms by the aid of
little wax figures and nails, goats blood,
bat wings and other strange or trivial
things.
Modern story tellers, with their sneering
scepticism, have almost persuaded Us that
there is no such thing as witchcraft in this
humdrum world. Their tales of the un-
usual-when they indulge in such a child
ish fashion-by which they seek to produce
upon US the creeping sensation that was
Mrs. Radcliffe's peculiar art, always fail in
effect because we know beforehand they
are going to poke fun at us in the end for
having turned pale and trembled, as they
intended we should Before they have
done they will gibe at our ancestors, at
Frankenstein, at the Castle of Udolpho;
and such is the power of their soulless ex-
ample that we will laugh at ourselves and
avow we never felt an emotion save that of
ennui.
Fortunately FOR romance, however, in
these latter days science has come to her
aid. We have no longer a Poe or Hoff-
man, but we have CharcOt, a Brown-Se-
guard, DR. Koch, and these practitioners
on the border lands of the miraculous have
wonderfully revived the force of witch
craft; for if they, grave doctors of medi-
cine, shall attempt and do what our fathers
believed impossible, why should not we
give credence to the mysterious powers
over nature claimed by our fathers IA
theirs?
Modern witchcraft finds a more su bstan-
tial footing than that afforded by legend
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-14

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