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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-26

commend the use of power from the
locomotive or the carrying of a dyna- .
mo, on account of the increase in the
couplings of the train. Trains on Swiss
railways are being successfully lighted
by accumulators.
AN ELECTRICAL BRAIN-TEsTER.-An
apparatus for measuring brain effort
has been made by Mr.. J. /. BaIbi, who
suggests that the arrangement might
be made to point out the proper studies
for children, or those which can be
pursued with the least work and great
est profit. In the centre of a head-gear
Of some light heat conducting material,
he places a thermO electric pile, which
is connected by flexible wires to a SEN
sitive galvanometer. The slightest
rise in temperature due to rush of
blood to the head is indicated by the
galvanOmeter, the effect. of course, in
creasing with the intensity of the
| mental work.
THE WISCONSIN MOUNDS. Scarcely
anything in the range Of American
antiquities, according to a paper by
DR.. Frederick Starr in the proceedings
of the New York Academy of Sciences,
has caused more wonder and led to
more discussion than the animal
wounds of Wisconsin. Unlike many
wounds in the Ohio and Mississippi
| valleys, these were not sepulchral.
They may have been village guardians;
| perhaps tribal tOtems marking terri
tOrial limits; some may have been of
use as game drives; some may have
| even served as fetch helpers in the
hunt, like the prey gods of Zuni. They
| are nearly confined to a belt Of mOder-
ate width stretching through WiscOn-
sin and overlapping into Minnesota
and Iowa. Within this area they Oc-
cur by hundreds. DR.. Lapham pub
lished a great work on the effigy
mounds in 1885, since which time no
one has paid so much attention to them
as Stephen D. Peet, whose articles
have lately beeen issued in book form.
Mr.. Peet has studied the kinds of ami
mails representative most satisfac-
toriIy identified among many species
seeming to be the buffalo, moose, and
deer, or elk; the panther, bear, fox,
wolf, and squirrel; the lizard and tur-
tie; the eagle, hawk, owl, goose, and
crane; and fishes. One or two man
mounds are known, although most of
those so called are bird mounds. Some
times, too, composite mounds" are
found, and the same forms are found
cut into the ground instead of built
above it. These strange earth-works
are very skillfully done, more or less
in harmony with their surroundings,
and not only numerous, but of large
size-including a man pa feet long, a
beast $50 feet long with a tail measur-
ing 800 feet, and a hawk with wings
expanded 24O feet.
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Poetry
A TRIP TO

Little NelTd been helping mamma" She had
swept the porch and hall,
And had got so tired and hungry that she sat
Just to rest herself a moment, with her broom
across her knee;
When a strange thing happened to her, as she
tells the tale to me:
She just shut her eyes a moment, so her little
story runs,
When she went away to somewhere, where the
They were growing on the bushes, and were
hanging from the trees,
Sweet enough to tempt the palate OF the money
loving bees.
20, they was the very doodest buns that ever
was says she,
And she SmacES her lips, remembering, as Sne
tells the tale to me,
How She ate in that strange country that's not
down on any map,
BUn-fruit from the roadside bushes when they
thought she took a nap.
There were lots and lots of children in this very
pleasant place,
And it seemed that all were hungry, ana, as
happened in her case,
They had come there without knowing how they
came, but all agreed
Twas a most delightful COuntry-quite like fairy
land, indeed.
such a jolly, jolly country, where they played
the incest games,
And the children knew each other, though they
couldn't tell their names;
"Dest ,he bestest place that ever Twas in" says
81 And The bGnS-O, myy" Words fail her when
their sweetness she would tell.
How did you get back from BunIand:" Grand
Hia asks, with laughing eye,
As she listens to the story; Did you walk, or
ride, or hyE'
Il don't know" is NelIie's answer, with a
puzzled face and air;
"ItuIn back all in a minnit, but 1 know that
was there"
"Pshaw, you dreamed it." says her brother,
for l saw you fast asleep
On the steps" But No says Nellie, with a
faith she means to keep
In that pleasant, pleasant country where the
buns on bushes grow;
I'm dest sure that l went somewhere, an
didn't dream, | know
-Eben f. RerfOrd, in Home MGUdzine
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NOTICE TO THE

Copies of President Folks official
plan for organizing a lecture system,
which is sent out by the instructions of
the National Legislative Council of our
order, has been sent to each County
Secretary in the State and to the State
and District Lecturers and Stew
ards. Be sure these circulars are
carefully read, studied and explained
at your next county meeting. Do all
in your power to see it's requirements
carried out. We must haze a uniform
understanding of secret work, a
higher appreciation and more thorough
knowledge of the noble principles of
our Order and unity of action wherever
our interests are concerned. 1t is i'm
possible for us to have these things
without a thorough system Of Lecturing.
If we follow the plan" we will soon
have that. Lend your aid and infu-
ence, my brother. Be sure to attend
your county meeting and look afterthis
all-impOrtant matter.
Yours fraternally,
W. s. BARNES,
Snc'v N q 4 9 A
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but more, I think, to a want of real
grit among them.
Chinese and japanese make much
better patients. They have faith, want
to recover, and endeavor to do so.
They are fairly tractable and obedient,
their average constitution is more rO-
bust, and they are not destitute of
moral courage; consequently treatment
yields in their cases, better results.
Again, I have found that the phleg-
matte German is much more easily
treated than the fussy Frenchman.
The isolation of a community ap-
pears to result in a high susceptibility
to disease when imported among them.
For example: during my stay at AS
censiOn Island, I was told by a resident
official that a cold, introduced from a
passing vessel, runs rapidly through
the island as a severe epidemic, This
effect is still more virulent, leading
even to fatal results in the island of
Tristan d'Acunha, where the isolation
is more complete, and the people of
British origin.
On the other hand, acclimitization
and heredity sometimes impart i'm
munity from diseases fatal to foreign
ers. Typhoid fever affords typical in
stances, for in tropi al regions the
disease is often limited to strangers.
But with yellow fever, accumulation
is by no means absolute; special liabil-
ity and increased mortality still char
~acterize the fair-haired races, while
pure bloodedn negroes possess c%ongenital
immunity, which is certainly not
shared by Redskins or Hindoo Coolies,
though the Chinese are almost exempt.
It is, perhaps, in malaria that we have
the best evidences of acclimitization of
races. SO. Bernard Hofneister, N. A.,
NJ. d, in Popular Science Monthly,
NeU York, for April.
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SPECIAL NOTICE TO DISTRICT
LECTURERS.

After consultation with the Executive
Committee in regard to the lecture sys-
tenn formulated and adopted by the
National Legislative Council; and
whereas in many of our districts
lecturers had been at work for some
time and appointments had been pub
lished before the action of the Legisla-
tive council was known; and whereas
the time is 50 short from May district
meetings, as per order of our National
President, to u annual meeting of the
State Alliance; and whereas the May
meeting would bring an additional ex-
pense to the order, and the change
would carry confusion to our brethren
on account of appointments already
published, it is therefore ordered that
the lecturers already appointed must
continue their work till the regular
meeting of the State Alliance, and that
the system proposed by Our National
Legislative Council be deferred till that
meeting. ELIAS CARR,
Pres n. G. +. S. A.
w. S. BARNES,
Sec'y n. c.. F. S. \.
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SPECIAL NOTICE TO LECTURERS

There has been no money appro-
priat9d to defray the expenses of any
meeting of the District Lecturers. The
expenses of each County Lecturer to
these meetings should be borne by his
County Alliance.
All appointments made hereafter by
any District Lecturer must be confined
to the counties composing his district,
as laid off by the last Legislature.
Fraternally yours,
w. S. BARNES,
Sec'y N. Q. F. S. A.
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Mr.. G. E. Ravenstein estimates that
the earth could feed a total population
of about ), 1899, 600, 900.
There are now 1924 compound loco
motives at work or building, 523 being
in England, 43O in Germany, and eight
in North America.
A French RrOnaut has been con
structing an air ship of 5000 yards
capacity, to be propelled by a motor
made from aluminium.
Successful and satisfactory expert
ments have been made in Germany
with small locomotives for towing
heavy boats on canals.
One of the greatest engineering works
now in progress is the building of the
great reservoir that is to supply Bonn
bay with water. The dam will be two
miles long, 118 feet high, and 1913 feet
| wide at the base.
A French society has been trying
| electric motors for elevating and de-
pressing heavy guns, and for moving
them into direction, using a separate
motor for each of the two operations.
A considerable saving of time is
effected. Three war vessels for Chill
now being built in France, are to be
fitted with such motors, to be driven
from the electric light circuit.
RATS N MODERN MEDICINAL late
experimenter in DR.. Koch's laboratory,
MI. E. II. Rankin, Of Cambridge, Eng
land, has reported an interesting dis
covery. A long study Of anthrax sug-
gested Investigations which resulted
in bringing to light a "protective pro
ted" in the bodies Of rats, which en-
Joy a remarkable immunity from
many infectious diseases; and this,
cultivated in the usual way, proves to
be a remedy for anthrax, and may also
be effective for diphtheria.
SCIENCE N BUsINEss.-The loss to
England of the great coal tar industry,
which in its early stages was particu-
larly her own, is attributed to the more
thorough and systematic scientific
study of the Germans and French. Sir
T. Abel states that Germany has great
works where chemical research is car
ried on as an elaborate business, and
is pursued by men who have acquired
university degrees and distinction, one
establishment alone having 40 trained
chemists at work on the particular
branch of research in which it is in.
terested.
TELEGRAPHIC LIGHTNING. The dura.
ton of Geographic currents has been
calculated in Germany with these re
suits: In ordinary Morse working,
the signalling current lasts .125 sec
ond; and with the Hughes apparatus
only from .04 to OF second. With the
Meyer multeplex apparatus, however,
currents may have a duration of as
little as .O07 second, and with the
Delaney multiplex, Of .OO2 second
while the WheatstOne automatic, when
transmitting 600 words per minute,
sends out 80, 5000 currents every min
ute, each having, therefore, a duration
of ..OO19 second.
EUROPEAN TRAIN LIGHTING .-EXperi.
ments in the electric lighting of trains
on a German railway have been made
the subject of a report by Prof. Kohl
rausch. He concludes that only the
accumulation system is adapted fol
such lighting, the batteries being
charged by means of fixed engines al
various stations, and changed when
approaching exhaustion. He cannot
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SCIENTIFIC.
RACE INFLUENCE AND DISEASE.

NACA ANA LAW All ACS1OG
1t has been my lot to deal profession
ally for some years with people of
divers colOrs and races, nations and
languages, in many different parts Of
the world, I have thus had exceptional
opportunity and sufficient leisure to
ponder Over social variations as they
present themselves to the medical eye.
The nations of East Africa are No
hammedans Of a somewhat lax and
u~nOrthOdOx type, yet owing to their
implicit acceptance of MOhammed's
fatalistic doctrines, their submission
to Ei8fnet distinctly influences the
course of their illnesses: Indirectly, be-
cause it causes them to regard medical
treatment as useless; directly, because
they will to die, their religion promis-
ing them better times in their heaven.
Now we all know what it is, in the
crisis Of a severe illness, for a patient
to have logged pluck and to make up
his mind to pull through, if only to
please his friends, to spite his rivals, to
foil his foes, or to accomplish some
n0n-completed task. Such impulses as
these from the organs of thought and
will, have a distinct and beneficial effect
upon the rest of the nervOu system,
and may make all the difference in
tiding over a crisis, and during early
cOnvalescence.
One of my first cases IA that of a
stalwart East African who complained
of feeling i'll; on examination nothing
appeared amiss but slight febrile symp-
toms, and a small patch of pleuritic
friction. To my surprise, the poor
negro began by saying he was going to
die, and in the evening he expired,
more, it seemed, from what I might
call inerti0 than from his actual dis
ease. Later experience told me that had
I bullied the man, and given him
brandy with my WI hand, I might
have saved his life. AS Hugh Nisbet
says, when speaking of similar cases
When hope ceases to glow in their
breasts, or a superStitiOuS omen tells
them that they are about to die, they
can lie down and give up life just as
easily as they fall asleep. Sailors say
they die out of pure cussedness. A
Maori will count up the days he has to
live, inform his friends of the fact, and
die up to time: he calmly lies down and
dies without an effort"
The most successful means of treat
ing such cases lies in the use of alco-
hoI, and among people unaccustomed
to it's action, very small doses T re-
quired to produce a good effect. 1t
acts partly by a kind Of Intoxicating
influence, putting a little energy or
even devilment into them; and the
treatment being kept up until con-
~valescence is established, they realize
that destiny means them to survive.
The natives OF India, apart from the
| Sikhs and Northern frontier men, are
people of poor stamina and easily pros
trated. Timid and feeble, they dread
the pain of illness, and dislike the
| thought of death, mostly on account
of the ordeal of the dying process.
They are, however, very anxious for
medical treatment; but In spite of this,
they fare worse than Europeans in all
| ordinary diseases, which is partly at
| tributable to their habitually poor diet,
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PROGRESS.
THE GROWING AGE.

The brain of a child is proportion
ately much larger than an adults, but
of much softer consistency, and its
cOnvolutiOns are not complete untilthe
seventh year. This is n of the reasons
why early study is dangerous. The
child's heart beats much more rapidly
than that of an adult, and the growth
of the heart, instead of being regular,
like the growth of the body as a whole,
is accomplished by fits and starts. The
more rapid action of the heart renders
the child peculiarly liable to fever, and
the liability is further increased by his
weaker vital resistance. Hence child
hood is the special season for scarlet
fever, measles, whOOping- cough, and
other similar complaints. The irregu-
larity of the hearts growth may give
rise to disturbances of the organ Of a
seemingly dangerous character, but
with proper care they will pass away
as the heart attains it's full develop
ment. Such proper care includes ample
IOuII SllIl1SllU, SuI1C1CI1U SlCCP, Cb4IN CLIC
avoidance of special strain. The season
Of rapid growth and development, say
between the ages Of ten and twenty,
needs particular attention. Nature is
then at work, as it never will be again,
in building up the tissues and develop
ing the nervous sensibilities. This is
the period which makes the largest
demands for an outdoor life, for pure
air, sunlight, active exercise, abund-
ance of nutritious food, a vigorous
digestive tract, a ready assimilation,
| and an active elimination of waste. 1t
is the period of study and ambition,
| as we'll as of a wisdom that thinks it
self wiser than it is. The increasing
mental activity needs to be regulated
by experienced teachers and consider
ate mothers, lest the brain be worked
at the expense of other organs and
tissues. DuIler minds should not be
forced to keep step with those which
are naturally more active, and the in
fuences of the home and the school
room should be tranquillizing and
adapted to evoke the kindlier feelings.
Fretful parents and scolding teachers
may do a lifelong injury during this
susceptible period. 1t is a period when
neither study nor night excitements
should interfere with sleep; when dime
novels do their worst work; when
mothers need to know what their
children read, and to be their confiden-
| tial counsellor in all delicate matters
when the use of tobacco is specially
perilous, almost surely giving rise to
affections of the heart, and when spirit
uous liquors and all opiates are pecu-
IiarIy pernicious.- Youths Companion.
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L LII 1AON'
1t is very commonly said perhaps
no assertion is less likely to be disputed)
that the age of miracles is past; yet the
statement will hardly bear analysis,
unless the word miracle" is used only
in a secondary and special sense. DR..
Johnson defines it as "a wonder, an
event contrary to the laws of nature"
but Professor Skeat, q later and stricter
etymologist, only gives ga wonder, a
prodigy" and on turning to find his
Interpretation of prodigy" 10! he can
only explain it as "a portent, a won
der" Now, if a miracle is nothing
more than something astonishing,
something to excite wonder, surely the
age of miracles is in full swing; sur
prises lie in wait for us round the cor
ner Of each new almanac. On the
other hand, if we adopt DR.. Johnson's
| alternative Interpretation, the propO-
| sition is as unstable as ever, for the
| Doctor himself would assuredly have
| considered that to travel from London
to Edinburgh in eight hours would be
contrary to the laws of nature. y
During the whole history of the world,
up to his time, the fastest locOmotion
on land had been by means of horses
yoked to wheeled vehicles; imagination
failed to surmise anything beyond
what could be accomplished by the
| feetest animals harnessed to the most
perfect chariot. There are doubtless
laws in nature of which we know
nothing, and therefore have not yet
recognized feats performed by means
of these laws may seem to us miracles,
but we have no right to call them
supernatural because we cannot trace
the action of the law. There is nc
ir~reverence to Scripture involved in
this assertion. We see through a glass
darkly; we know in part. The Law
giver reveals Himself to us by the &C
ton of His own laws, by us imper,
fecUly understood; that action has in
past times transcribed or evaded the
observation of those who witnessed
certain events which we class as
miracles, just as the possibility OF
travelling sixty miles an hour tran
scended the imagination of Sir Walter
Scott. Looking back along the road
travelled by human beings in what we
conceitedIy call the March of Civiliza-
ton, what a laundering, crooked track
it is! how much shorter the journey
might have been made! How deeply
the ground is trampled where frequent
conflicts have taken place! how many
mighty barriers thrown across it by
law-givers, ecclesiastics, warriors, may
still be traced by their crumblingr ruins.
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Rabbits have been known by NJ. G.
Colin to live in perfect health for two
months in open hutches exposed to a
cold of 10 degrees above to Is degrees
below Sheep and pigs also sur
vive evere weather, but horses and
dogs are killed by it.
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GIVE WINGS TO THOUGHT.

Let the earnest, loving, thoughtful
men and ONE in the rank and file of
Christianity rise and demand a free
pulpit for the prophets of God! These
men who would muzzle and throttle
the pulpit r in reality towards who
believe that they are vOicing the ma
iOrity of noses among the groUndlings.
If not they simply voice the ignorance
and superstitiOns Of a dark past in
their demand for the crucifiXiOn of the
hereto. Let human thought have
wings. Give the soul free air and free
sunlight! "Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free" is
the message of Jesus Christ to us to-
day. Let the followers of Christ abide
in His Spirit, seek His ways. Let the
prosecuting Pharisee of to-day hear
His message for him: "'Ye blind
guides which strain at the gnat and
swallow the camel. Ye generation Of
~vlpers-how shall ye escape the dam
nation of hell!'
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W. ,. BARNES,
Sec'y n. G. F. S. 4.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-03-27

"a agreeable substitute for household
work They ealoyed IL much more
thaa xAez nsixtboxs did for what
they lacked II sk;Q they made ap Ia en-
ergy. Bat their horny handed sire was
10 old - get his exercise u the acquire
uasns Of graceful aoeomp lishnents He
needed something searching. Trim
ming up the trees around his house af-
foxded him . relief which was small
compared b. the misery iatlcted upon
Van Alplnes and RIGHTEOUSNESS BY the
spectacle Of their new neighbOr, clad N
his r-Rstie garments, seated on a limb
and chawing large uouthtul Of tobae-
CO Ia time with tie motion Of his saw.
When all his own tross were trimmed.
he volunteered - do "a much for those
n the surrounding grounds, but his Of
fsrs were refused and he was forced 70
console himself 81 Joining the laborers
employed by the town To care for the
shade trees along the highways
Thus he whiled away a few days. but
before long ssEvi attacked him again as
violently as II he had known the society
name for il.
Then he painted his house. When
the idea Of doing il occurred 70 him, he
accepted it as an inspiration. IL was
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-03-27

ever, good reason for this apparent
favoritisln. and that is the superior pro
lection game birds are afforded III the
preserves Of the east. Another reason,
too, is that which nature provides in
giving her hospitality 10 the birds in
Maryland and North Carolina more
layishly than in western coverts. There
the shooting can, perforce, endure only
from the first Of September nu the
chill breath Of winter closes the ponds
and drives the birds to sedge grass new.
The Bsnjies Ducking c!ub. of Mary
land. which entertained the president.
has n location which, next TO Currituck.
in North Carolina, is the most famous
for duck. and one where the birds seem
to exist in their original abundance.
The club has taken stringent measures
to protect It's game, and all the adjoin-
ing lowlands and marshes haunted by
ducks have been bought up. The Ben
jies club, too, has been noted for its ex-
clusiveness, and not often are visitors
permitted to shoot from blind. The
result Of this restriction is shown in the
fact that on his first day out President
Harrison walked back to the club house
with six red head duck as his share of
the killing. The total shooting Of tho
day Was as follows: Twelve red heads,
two black heads and bald pate. Not q
bad record for the first shooting of the
early season. Later. Of course, the rec
ord will be multiplied by six for each
gun. and in September hundred ducks
a day for each sportsman and his gun
ner is no unusual average. The ducks
this spring are all the best kind, well fed
and fat, and while the president re-
manned such thing rs poor duck was
unknown.
The firing closed at SEQ p. m. for the
law wisely forbids shooting before SIM