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The advocate., 1892-01-20
KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS HORSE AND MULE MI
W. g. TOUGH. Manager

w. g. TOUGH, Manager. a
saturday.
With be hsn kissod.
C. r. MORSE, & RICHARDSON P.
AsAS
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Typewriter's Stub Finger.

Widespread CONSERVATION has been caused
in the ranks of the typewriters by the state
ment that the doctors have so directly taken
cognizance of the digital degeneration en-
gendered by their occupation as to create
for it the specific title, "typewriter's stub
finger" 1t is now beyond question that the
constant pounding upon the little piano
like machines has an appreciable and most
undesirable effect on the fingers. This is
quite in accordance with the way in which
nature is apt to meet an exceptional call on
her resources. But the evil may be greatly
mitigated, il not altogether cured. Eight
fingers must do what is now given to four.
This is much more easily said than done.
Piano players recognize This difficulty, and
are content to submit 20 years of careful
practice in order to overcome it. Most type
writers shirk this labor and prefer to get up
their speed u. any sacrifice. Some Of the
best operators OF the day use the eight
finger system, and notably McGurrin, who
is generally regarded as the most rapid
writer of clean copy on the typewriter in
the world. Another method OF counteract-
ing the trouble in question is to provide ex-
ercise for the whole of the muscles of the
finger by an instrument. The only draw
back to this instrument Is its cost.
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A Camera for Marksmen.

It is stated that an Austrian has success
fully solved the problem of obtaining pho
tographic views in such q short period OF
time as is represented by the difference OF
time between pulling the trigger of gun
and exploding the cartridge, and by this
means securing an absolute reliable proof of
the aim of a moving gun. The apparatus is
made to fit any hunting gun or military rifle,
and it is so constructed that ehe pulling of
the trigger will open and close it before the
effect of the explosion takes place. The
small attachments is made of aluminium and
is fastened to the lower side OF the barrels
in such manner that its optical axis stands
i'll straight line with the aiming point Ir
therefore follows that when shot Is fired
at distance below go yards the center OF
the picture thus obtained will show dis
tant spot representing the true point of aim
at the moment of pulling the trigger. One
excellent result of the use of such q device
as this should be the improvement OF bad
markSmen.
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Throttle or Teach.

There are 30, 900 Indian children in this
land, and only 10. 900 of them go to school,
That leaves about 35, 900 that will have to
be shot one of these days, and we only have
about 20. 900 soldiers to shoot them. Looks
as though the Government would save
money and trouble and little strain on the
conscience if it would build a few more
schools and maintain them at a great annual
loss In the light of our past experience,
one can read that it costs great deal more
to kill one Indian than it would to educate
a whole tribe. And this estimate does not
include the value set on the lives of the
soldiers and officers who are killed by the
Indian during the struggle'for his scalp.
There is nothing in this world so e1pen-
sive as killing. Just see, right here in our
civilized communities, how much it costs in
time, in legal machinery, in money, in
trouble and heartache to hang one white
man, who possibly richly deserves hanging
if ever man did. Why, it would cost
more to hang the meanest man in Mont
gomery county-and everybody knows who
that is-than would suffice to pay the sala-
ries of all the teachers in a district school
for five years. And it costs still more to
kill an Indian. And it ought to. Because
the meanest sort of savage is better, by
reason of his being a savage, than a mean
white man. A meah white man, when he
is ''plumb mean," is the "orneriest" crea-
ture that crawls on the earth.
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WN ~.

it's all wrong, it's all wrong and ought to
be abolished, should say. -
The mention of Darwin brought on a
literary discussion, and this topic reused
such enthusiasm in Barrow that he took off
his coat and made himself the more free
and comfortable for it, and detained him so
long that he was still at it when the noisy
proprietors of the room came shouting and
skylarking in and began to romp, scuffle,
wash and otherwise entertain themselves.
He fingered vet little longer to offer the
hospitalities of bis room and his book shelf
to Tracy, and ask him personal question
or two:
"What is your trade"
"They-well, they call me cowboy, but
that is fancy; I'm not that. Haven't any
trade
"What do you work at for your living 2"
''Oh, anything-I mean 1 would work at
anything could get to do but thus far L
havn't been able to find an occupation"
'Msybe can help you; I'd like to try"
II shall be very glad, I've tried myself
to weariness.'
swell, of course where a man hasn't
regular trade he's pretty bad off in this
world. What you needed, l reckon, was
less book learning and mora. bread-and-but-
ter learning. 1 don't know what your
father could have been thinking of. You
ought to have had trade, you ought to
have had a trade, by all means. But never
mind about that; well stir up something to
do, guess And don't you get homesick;
that's bad business. Well talk the thing
over and look around little. You'll come
out all right. Wait for me-I'n go down
to supper with you"
By this time Tracy had achieved very
friendly feeling for Barrow and would
L. la l.
too suddenly on a straight-out requirement
to realize on his theories. He was glad of
his society, anyway, and was feeling lighter
hearted than before. Also he was pretty
curious to know what vocation it might be
which had furnished Barrow such a large
acquaintanceship with books and allowed
him so much time to read
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Comments and Suggestions,

Three things, my son, you never return
when you borrow, umbrellas, books and
trouble.
"How to make home happy" starts off
an exchange. That's easy; have the children
study their geography lessons there. IF
that doesn't make home happy there is no
longitude.
We see by the papers that Amelie Rives-
Chanler is having "a beautiful study and an
elegant studio built on her country house
in Virginia. All, she has, then, de-
termined to quit work altogether? That is
too bad, when she had but fairly begun.
A religious exchange discusses the "Ad-
vantages to preacher of visit to Pales-
tine" Well, there is one good thing al
ways comes from it: his congregation gets
some good preaching while he is gone. The
advantages are not all on the side of the
parson.
"What is the cheapest fertilizer" asked
Mr.. Hayseed, looking in at the Office of his
favorite paper for information. ''Soda,
replied the agricultural editor, "you get a
nitrate on that And low, sepulchral
laughter was heard to issue from the potato
hole.
1t is stated that the Emperor of China is
learning the English language, and his
teachers give the world assurance that he
will soon "be able to speak it like born
Englishman." Whv doesn't he learn the
pigeon English instead? Then somebody
could understand him.
ROBERT J. BURDETTE
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opportunity, bringing TO the surface and
developing his capacity and genius In
confronting these new men, bred under
modern conditions and trained in all the
newer tactics, the older commanders will be
severely tested, and it is not easy to pre-
dict the result which may ensue.
The Generals of Germany
Germany, whose military forces are cred
tied with being the best organized in tho
world, has none of the great war generals
of 1870 to lead her cohorts. Won Blume n
thai, the last of the old regime to retire,
has resigned from active service Very
distinguished in his day, especially a
strategist, he will be of avail in an
advisory capacity during the coming strug-
gle. Won Waldersee is foremost in the
ranks of German officers. He has done
good fighting in the war against Denmark
in 1864 and was also in the Austrian cam
paign of 1866 His career is remarkable
instance of successful ambition. American
gold has had no small share in enabling
him to attain his ends and influence which
wealth vas gained through his marriage to
an American. the widow of Prince Fred
erick of Schleswig- g-Holstein. Waldersee is
picturesque figure. Some think that this
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CHAPTER XII.

Presently the supper bell began to ring in
the depths of the house, and the sound pro-
ceeded steadily upward, growing in intensity
all the way up toward the upper floors The
higher it came the more maddening was the
noise, until at last what it lacked of
being absolutely deafening, was made up
of the sudden clash and clatter of an ava
lanche of boarders down the uncarpeted
stairway. The peersge did not go to meals
in this fashion. Tracy's training had not
fitted him to enjoy this hilarious geological
clamor and enthusiasm He had to confess
that there was something about this extraor-
dinary outpouring of animal spirits which
he would have to get Injured to before he
could accept it. No doubt in time he would
prefer it, but he wished the process might
be modified and made just little more
gradual and not quite so pronounced and
violent. Barrow and Tracy followed
the avalanche down through an ever
increasing and ever more and more
aggressive stencil of bygone cabbage and
kindred smells; smells which are to be
found nowhere but in a cheap private
boarding house; smells which once encoun-
tered can never be forgotten; smells which
encountered generations later are instantly
recognizable, but never recognizable with
pleasure. To Tracy these odors were suffo-
eating, horrible, almost uncomfortable; but he
held his peace and said nothing Arrived
in the basement, they entered a large dining
room where 50 or 40 people sat at long
table. They took their places. The feast
had hardly begun and the conversation was
going on in the liveliest way from one end
of the table to the other The tablecloth
was of very coarse material and was hber-
ally spotted with coffee stains and grease.
The knives and forks were iron, with bone
handles, the spoons appeared to be iron or
sheet iron or something of the sort. The
tea and coffee cups were of the commonest
and heaviest and most durable stoneware.
All the furniture of the table was of the
commonest and cheapest sort. There was
a single large thick slice of bread
by each boarder's plate, and it
was observable that he economized
it as if he were not expecting it to be dupli-
Gated. Dishes of butter were distributed
along the table within reach of peoples
arms, if they had long ones, but there were
no private butter plates. The butter was
perhaps good enough, and was quiet and
well behaved, but it had more bouquet than
was necessary, though nobody commented
upon that fact or seemed in any way dis
turbed by it. The main feature of the feast
was q piping hot Irish stew, made of the
potatoes and meat left over from process
sion of previous meals. Everybody was
literally supplied with this dish. On the
table were couple of great dishes of sliced
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31
Survival of the Misf1t.

Scientists say-at least some of them do;
I suppose the rest of them denv it from the
ground up, as is the way of the scientist
that the orange was originally berry and
that its evolution has been going on for a
matter of 1000 years, or thereabouts. That
is quite likely. And it Is very encouraging
Anyone can see, from the manner in which
the strawberry has been expanding itself
during the past Is or 20 years, that it is only
a question of time until this pride of the
garden will be as big as q country fair
watermelon, with about as much strawberry
taste to it as pumpkin.
Now, if fair science will only get down to
prosaic business long enough to set the
strawberry box and the peach basket to
evoluting, until the one would hold quart
and the other peck. the world wouldn't
care very much whether Moses or Daniel
wrote the Pentateuch, nor if it were even
true, as has been darkly limited, that DR..
Briggs didn't believe that the synod be-
lieved that he believed what he said he be-
lieved they believed he believed and were
afraid to say So
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Nov.IPreyentiye OF s.asickn.sx

There are probably more cures for seasick-
ness devised in any one year than OF any
ailment under the sun. The latest attempts
in this direction is based on the idea that by
vaccination we produce an artificial small
pox, which wards off the real disease; and
similarly, if we can produce mild seasick-
ness on Shore it is reasonable to expect that
comparative immunity Will be secured at
sea The object of the proposed cure is to
initiate exactly the rolling of a ship, and
thus have a swing calculated to produce
exactly the same internal sensations. 1t is
CLAIMED that an hour in such swing daily,
gradually increasing the motion by mount
Irg away from the center of oscillation, will
~, rar to insure passengers to the real mo-
tion of the sea.
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of arms, Gallifet is entirely free from the
vulgar theatric attributes of Boulanger.
General Gallifet's heroic performances in
1870 have established his reputation upon
an enduring foundation. Born in Paris in
1880, he entered the cavalry as private.
He>was made a general of division in 1875,
and is now senior officer In that grade. On
the fatal field of Sedan, Gallifet, at the head
of his cavalry brigade, charged against the
solid German masses with such reckless
fury and astounding valor that Emperor
William cried aloud to the officers of his
staff as he and they watched with astonish-
ment the onslaught of the French horse
men, "Ah, ces braves gensL How they
rush to their DEATH
Taken prisoner with the rest at Sedan,
Gallifet offered to exchange himself for
Prussian officers, and agreed to 90. back to
the French army as private and to prom
ise not to resume his rank during the con-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-31

wholly neutralized, nullifed and harmless
if they are the undisputed property of every
individual in the nation. / think I realize
that caste does not exist and cannot exist
except by common consent of the masses
outside of its limits. 1 thought caste Gre
ated itself and perpetuated itself, but it
seems quite true that it only creates itself,
and is perpetuated by the people whom it
despises and who can dissolve it at any
time by assuming its mere sign names them
selves.
cts what think. There isn't any power
on earth that can prevent Engiand's 30, 000,-
900 from electing themselves dukes and
duchesses tomorrow and calling themselves
so. And within six months all the former
dukes and duchesses would have retired
from the business. 1 wish they'd try that
Royalty itself couldn't survive such pro-
cess A handful Of frowners against 80
600, 900 laughers in state of Eruption.
Why, it's Herculaneum against Vesuvius;
1t would take another Is centuries to find
that Herculaneum after the cataclysm.
What's colonel in our South? He's no.
body, because they are all colonels down
there. No, Tracy" (shudder from Tracy)
nobody in England would call YOU a gen
tleman, and you wouldn't call yourself one,
and tell you it's state of things that
makes a man put himself into most unbe-
coming attitudes sometimes-the broad and
general recognition and acceptance OF caste,
as caste does, mean. Makes him do it un-
consciously-beingb bred in him, you see,
and never thought over and reasoned out.
You couldn't conceive of the Matterhorn
being flattered by the notice of one of your
comely little English hills. could you?"
"Why, no.
'Well, then, let man in his right mind
try to conceive of Darwin feeling fastered
by the notice of aprincess. It's so grotesque
that it-well, it paralyzes the Imagination.
Yet that Memnon was fattered by the no.
tice of that statuette; he saws so-savs so
himself. The system that can make god
disown his godship and profane it-oh, well.
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MEMORY AND HEALTH.
Power of the Former an Indication
of the State of the Latter.
SNAP SHOTS AT FLYING GAME.
The Principle Of Vaccination Used to Pre-
vent Sea Sickness
sTUBBY FINGERS OF rYPEwRIrERs
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.I


W. h. Burnham in discussing the ques-
ton of memory, says that if trustworthy
memory is desired, the prime condition is
health. Not only are the more serious
forms OF paramnesia pathological; but even
torSetfulness, when unusual indicates dis
ease In point OF fact, memory forms a most
delicate gauge of ones physical well-being.
The power of committing to memory varies
notably with fluctuations of ones physical
condition: and, as everybody knows, recol-
lection is rendered difficult by fatigue, and
Is usually easier in the morning than at
night. The physiological cause seems to be
that retention is conditioned by process OF
nutrition, while recollection depends largely
upon the circulation, as is shown not only
Dy many cases of amnesia or forgetfulness
due to defective circulation, but also by the
hypermnesias of fever and other diseases,
where there is an. increased rapidity of the
cerebral circulation. In the second place,
the trustworthiness of memory depends
upon attention.
1.-THE true art of memory" as johnson
SAID, "1s the art of attention" But not
merely by strengthening the first impression
does attention aid memory. The ability to
recall any event depends largely upon the
power OF attention at the moment OF at
tempted recollection. 1t must be remem-
bered that memory is not, as used to be sup
posed. an independent faculty of the mind
that in some mysterious way may be
strengthened by exercise, as the blacksmith
strengthens his arm; but that memory is re-
tentive is due TO the Elasticity of nerve sub
stance, and to the property of nerve centers
by which they retain i'll growth their func-
tional notifications, and that recollection
depends upon physiological conditions such
as the cerebral circulation and the proper
functiontng of nerve cells; moreover, that a
complete act of recollection is q complex
process involving comparison, inference and
the like.
Hence, whatever in general is conducive
TO vigorous health, and whatever tends to
habits of clear and orderly thinkfng-such
conditions will aid recollection. And what
ever is detrimental to the normal function
ing Of the nerve-cells-!atigue, intense emo
ton or the hke-and whatever blinds the
Judgment, will hinder recollection.
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You notice going the rounds of the papers
just now the periodical paragraph concern
ing the danger of putting money in your
mouth, because you don't know where the
man who carried the coin had it before
you got it. Well, there is a great deal in
that worthy of consideration. Same way
with ham. just stop and think before you
put that piece of ham in your mouth, think
what awful places the hog was wallowing
it in not many months ago. Then try to
eat it.
The fact is, my boy, if you stop to think
all about things, where they were and who
had them, and what they did with them and
eat or wear anything, you are going to die
of thirst, starve to death, and be found
dead in the street, stark naked, one of
these days.
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care you paying anything for Jokes this
Winter" asked the rising young humorist,
as he paused before the desk of the able and
influential editor.
'sThis is the season for them, replied the
distinguished journalist winter is the
only time of the year when we do pay for
them"
'Indeed!" replied the rising young
humorist, who was known among his friends
as the Aristophanes of the Clay County
Sentinel 81 am glad to hear that" he
added, drawing a very large MANILA en-
velope, official size, and heavily laden, from
his inside pocket, because 1 have q few
left over which"
eyes, indeedy," continued the dis
tinguished man of letters, with reassuring
Jokes. 1t has to be a cold day when we
pay anything for jokes"
And all around the room, from the litho-
graphs of actresses on the walls, and from
the clammy depths of the paste -pot-grim
catacomb of the voracious and irreverent
cockroach-and from the grimy inkstand-
the sometime tomb of the erratic mucilage
brush-and from the wide extended Jaws of
the exchange-compelling scissors, and from
the broken nose of the space-creating blue
pencil, the humorist seemed to hear issuing
in staccato passages hoarse and derisive
laughter, such as comes from the other side
of the House to greet the good things of
Mr.. Reed or Mr.. Mills.
"Then," he said, bitterly, as he turned
upon his heel, sit seems to me that on
day like this ought to get about $500 for
what 1 have here.
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A Very Realistic Imitation,

"Bin Dryface," the Squire said, "wss
the life and the dread of the town. He
could mimic any man that everlived. He'd
sit here in the store, night after night, and
make fun of people, taking 'em off to the
very life, until we was just sore laughing
at him, and every man scarf for fear his
turn would come next But one night,
right in the middle of the fun, when Bill
was giving us limitations of the new Bap-
tist preacher, feller happened along and
seemed attracted by the noise. He stood at
the door and watched and listened for about
ten minutes, and then he up and took Bill
off himself; right to the very life, beat any
thing 1 ever saw in my born days"
'Show man?' queried the tourist
= "No," said the Squire, deputy Sheriff,
took him of so completely he amt never
came back since; won't either, for about two
years yet.
And tlen there was heard in the dusty
Office the voice Of man laughing long and
loud, and with repeated cadences Of infso-
tious mirth. like unto the laughter Of .
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when introduced to q chambermaid.

act when introduced to ehambermaid, or
to the heiress of a mechanics boarding
house. His other self-the self which rec
ognized the equality of all men-wouId
have managed the thing better, if it hadn' I
been caught off guard and robbed of its
chance. The young girl paid no attention
to the bow, but put out ner hand frankly
and gave the stranger a friendly shake and
said:
Chow do you do 90
Then she marched to the one washstand
in the room, tilted her head this way and
that before the wreck of cheap mirror that
hung above it, dampened her fingers with
her tongue, perfected the circle of a little
lock of hair that was pasted against her fore
head, then began to busy herself with the
slops.
"Well, 1 must be going-it's getting
toward supper time. Make yourself at
home, Mr.. Tracy; you'll hear the bell when
it's ready"
The laudlady took her tranquil departure
without commanding either of the young
people to vacate the room. The young man
wondered little that mother who seemed
so honest and respectable should be so
thoughtless, and was reaching for his hat,
intending to disembarrass the girl of his
presence; but she said:
"Where are you going?"
'Well, nowhere in particular, but as 1 am
only in the way here"
''Who said you were in the way? Sit
down-In move you when you are in the
way
She was making the beds now. he sat
down and watched her dett and diligent per-
formance.
s'What gave YOU that notion? Do you
reckon 1 need whole room just to make up
bed or two in?"
''Well, no: it wasn't that exactly. We
are away up here in an empty house, and
your mother being gone
The girl interrupted him with an amused
laugh, and said:
Nobody to protect me? Bless YOU, I