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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-15
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
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OUR FORESTS.
Statistics Disprove the Rumors That They
Are disappearing.

According to some facts and figures
presented by Henry Gannett in a
recent issue IN the New York sun
there is to-day nearly il not quite as
great an area of woodland in the
United States as when the white man
set foot on our shore. There are
not so many square miles of mer-
chantable timber now as then. but
the territory occupied by growing trees
is about as extensive as il was four
hundred years ago, and these trees Will
in time grow TO size suitable for the
production OF lumber. Some of Mr..
Gannetts ) statements are quite incOn-
sistent with the general belief that
American forests are giving out. He
saws. for instance. that only about two
hundred and seventy thousand square
miles, or less than one-tenth the area
Of the country. Is artifcialiy cleared
land. while 70 Offset this loss there has
in recent years been great extension
Of wooded land IN the prairie states as
well as in some of the natural tree
growing states. 4 table Is published
showing the total area and The wooded
area Of each state, the fig gures having
been obtained from reports of the cen
sus and agricultural departments, from
official surveys and IN few cases from
careful estimates. As grand result
it i shown that the wooded area in the
United States. excluding Alaska, il
nearly one million one hundred and
thirteen thousand square miles
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
OUT IN THE COLD.
Kept Warm by Love Alone, and Not Any
Too Warm Either.i

Too Warm Either.i
The steps leading to the platform OF
a railway car are not supposed to be
very pleasant place for society young
lady and gentleman to ride for any
considerable distance. especially when
the train is running at the rate of forty
miles an hour on cold, dark night.
But this is what recently happened
to such couple all the way from Balls
ton to Saratoga, says the Albany Even
ing Journal, and the probable outcome
of the incident will be an after-Easter
marriage in high life.
The couple in question had gone to
Ballston to take tea with mutual
friend, and to return by the nine p. m.
train. Being little late in reaching
the depot, and finding the train under
motion, by desperate effort the young
woman gained the steps to the rear
platform of the last car, and theyoung
man followed her.
The train was now moving at rapid
speed. and the young couple, carefully
clinging to the railing, started to
ascend the platform and seek safety
and more comfort on the inside of the
car. But they soon discovered that
they were on the steps OF vestibule
sleeping car, and that the door opening
into the vestibule was locked.
A seven miles ride in this uncom-
Portable position was the necessity
which stared them in the face. They
had to stand up all the way and to hold
closely to each other and TO the railing,
or the jolting of the train might have
thrown them off
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
FlRE-DOCTORS OF EEZ.
How Moorish Quacks Treat Rheumati'
Patients.

How Moorish Ouacks Treat Rheumatic
Patients.
In Fez there are fre-doctors who sit
In the more frequented streets, waiting
for rheumatic patients. Each doctor,
SAYS an exchange, has little furnace,
a pair of bellows and a number of GU
riously-shaped iron rods before him.
When not operating he solemnly and
necessarily reads a book of one SEN
tence.
There is no God, but God, and Mo-
hammed is his prophet"
When patient appears the doctor
lays down his book, blows up his fire
with his bellows and sticks into the
Goals several of the rods, which are
about two feet long and have queer
knobs and hooks on their heated ends.
While waiting for these to get hot he
constantly repeats his one sentence.
When all is ready the patient pays his
fee, lies down on his face, and draws
his clothing up on his back. ''In the
name of God" says the Freebooter, and
passes redhot rod with great delib-
Grafton over various parts of the back.
1t makes sizzling" noise, and smell
of burnt flesh fills the air. Meantime
q crowd of men have collected to wit
ness the operation. They necessarily
pass their fingers through their boards
and praise God and Mohammed. Fre-
quently the patient after one opera
ton lies still for awhile, perhaps wait
ing for another twinge of the disease.
If it comes he perceives that he is not
quite cured and demands another in
stallment of the treatment, for which
he pays another fee.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
INGENIOUS SMUGGLERS.
The Sst Office as an Instrument FOL
Their Illegal Traffic.

Their Illegal Traffic.
The post Office inspectors keep
sharp lookout for smuggling through
the mails, says a Washington letter to
the Boston Transcript. About 750
sealed packages are seized annually in
the New York post Office. In an aver
age year % .000 unsealed parcels are
confscated at the same Office and re-
leased on the payment Of fines which
are equivalent to the duties. Some
very ingenious methods are employed
for transmitting dutiable articles by
post. Not long ago a package from
Germany was found to contain small
roll of butter. A wire passed through
it met with an obstruction, which
proved to be tin box filled with valu-
able jewelry. Probably a dozen silk
handkerchiefs are found wrapped up
in newspapers in every mali from
China. The skill exhibited by the
postal clerks in detecting such contra
band Enclosures is wonderful. II seems
to partake of the nature of intuition.
They say they do not know'themselves
how they do it. but that newspaper
with a silk handkerchief in it has
sort of guilty feeling when manipulat-
ed Silk stockings are mailed from
France in the same manner. An odd
kind of smuggling Is the sending Of
mushrooms by mail from Italy They
are of a peculiar kind. dried. and are
much relished by natives of that'cOun-
try in the United States They come
in small bags and are easily dis
tinguished by smell
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
STORES ON SHlPBOARD.
Passengers VIII Soon Be Able to Get What
They Need in Midocean.

They Need in Midocean.
The steamship men are talking of
adopting another wrinkle. 1T is
capital idea" said the originator. who,
according to the New York Evening
World. manages one of the biggest
lines running between the Mersey and
New York.
.'It is our intention 70 establish a
counter on every one of our ships The
department Will be in charge of a
landsman and an assistant, the latter
a petty officer on board. II Will be
necessary TO select landsman. because
sailor nen know very little about no.
tion counters.
Everything to be found in q first
class dry goods store will be put on
sale at this counter; everything. say,
with the possible exception Of the
latest fangle in bonnets and trunks
Wen run a full line and sell as
good and as cheap as any firm on shore.
The time has gone bywhen passengers
have to be inconvenience through an
oversight in having forgotten 70 pack
away shoe buttoners. particular kind
of glove. hair brush. hand glass or
any other article that makes human
nature kind and good.
No. we won't have any special sales.
but we'll have silks and ginghans in
abundance. that the ladies may have 4
chanc. to while away the monotouy
of the voyage. It's a big scheme, and
il will be q great boon % our patrons
when 1t is fully established.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
CINDERELLA ABROAD.
They Don't Expect to Find sHer in Paris.
Though.

A new sort of Cinderellascompetition,
saws the London Post, has been started
by French paper.in search of sensa-
ton. A shoe nineteen and one-half
centimeters (seTen and four-ffths
inches) long has been specially made
and the lady who succeeds in putting
it on will receive a handsome present
of plate, and will have her fame car
ried throughout the length and breadth
of France. The notion is said to be a
Yankee oneO Experts are of opinion
that the woman does not exist-in Eu-
rope, at all events, for tits necessary
to exclude China in a competition OF
this liind-who will be a}ole to fulfill
the required condition. The lady who
has been for many years atithe head of
the ladies' boots department at one of
the Paris universal providers declares
that in all her experience she has
never seen a woman's foot only seven
and four-fifths inches long. The aver
age length is twenty-five ceHtimeters
to twenty-five and one-half centame-
ters ten inches to ten and one-ifth
inches). Oddly enough, it is found
that country girls have feet just as
small as those of their sisters in town,
although tits true the latter are more
cunning in choosing boots that make
the foot look small.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
vhcr. TO Stop in Chicago.

The perplexing question which is every
day asked by people who desire 10 so TO
Chicago 10 attend the worlds fair is,
Where are we going to stay when we get
there?" This is easily answered. and If
YOU will so TO the ticket agent of the Santa
Fe. Mr.. W. ID. Mnrdock, he will tell you.
Arrangements have been made for the
distribution 10y the santa Fe company of
r pamphlet entitled Homes for Visitors
10 the Worlds Fair" This is a reliable
pamphlet containing the names and ad-
dresses of about 1900 families who will
furnish accommodation TO visitors from
May lst To October 3lst, 1898, The pamph-
let also containing sectional maps which
will enable the intending visitor to select
any quarter of the city that he would pre-
fer. Correspondence can then be carried
on definite arrangements made so that
when visitors arrive III Chicago they can
proceed at once 10 their quarters. 156 II
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
An Artists Eye.

Painters cultivate what is called the
Innocence of the eye" trying to See
nature simply as forms and colors, as a
child sees it, without reference to what
reason and experience may teach
them. No two of them see exactly the
same way. One painter in New York
says that he is astonished to find how
gray everything is-even sky and foli-
age. Another finds the streets full of
reds and puppies. A younger artist
says: when | began to paint every
thing seemed to me dark. The longer
| look at nature the more light l find
in it. My great trouble now is to get
my pictures as light as nature seems to
my eye | find more yellow in the
landscape than l used to. But, after
all, these things are subjective, and a
man paints what is inside of his head,
not what he sees outside of it."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
TURNED GRAY III A NIGHT.
How . Germans Hair Was Blanched b!
the Horror of Dciiriuin.

How Germans Hair Was Blanched by
the Horror of DeiiriuIn.
Though it has long been a popular
belief that the hair may be suddenly
turned white under the influence of
some very powerful emotion, such as
grief or terror, and though numerous
stories about it are related in popular
literature and folk tales, yet some
PSYCHOLOGISTS are doubtful of such a
sudden change ever taking place, and
well authenticated instances of its
actual occurrence are very rare. The
case of Ovide Musin, the violinist,
whose hair and beard were completely
blarched as the result of railroad
wreck, is much better vouched for than
most stories Of the Find. though there
are few that SEEM to answer the re-
quirementS OF the most exacting Scien-
lists. One OF these quoted by the New
York Advertiser is mentioned in Dr..
Virchow's Archives for April, 1906"
by DR.. Landois, as occurring under
the observation of himself and DIR.
Lohmer. In this case the blanching
of the hair occurred In shospital in
single night while the patient was
under the daily observation of the Wis
iting physicians. and it would seem to
prove beyond doubt not only that
actual grief or terror may produce
this peculiar resut, but that the SIM
ulated horrors of delirium may have
the same effect. The patient, a com
position thirty-four years Of age, with
light hair and blue eyes, WAS admitted
into the-hospital July 9, 1865, suffering
from an, acute attack of delfriu1n tre-
mems. A marked popularity in the
disease was excessive terror whenever
anyone approached the patient. He
slept for twelve hours on the night
of the 11th of July after having
taken thirty drops OF taudanum. Up
to this time nothing unusual had been
observed regarding the hair. On the
morning of July 10 it was evident to
the medical attendants and to all who
saw the patient that the hair of the
head and beard had become gray. The
patient himself remarked the change
with intense ishment. The hair
remained gray as long as the patient
was under observation to Septem-
beri17,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
American Tramps.

Until the year 1878 the tramp was
little known in America. In that year
there was an entire collapse in our in
dustrial IA bric. Banks toppled like
row OF bricks; great commercial houses
fell: manufacturing establishments
employing thousands were closed for
ever and the United States entered on
the longest and direst period of dis
tress ever experienced in the history
of the country. About this time ap-
peared the tramp or travelling beggar,
a native American beggar; and began
his strange career of independence, in
science and entire indifference as TO
the future. New recruits, principally
young men without family ties, joined
the army OF stragglers. The tramps
became most numerous in 1850, remain
ing stationary for several years, and
then began to decrease. The old army
is still marching on, but IS not ge tting
so many recruits now among the
young; and if the present state of things
continues the ragged. dirty beggar
who has for years been the terror of
rural communities viii in another dec
ade have passed away.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
Men and Women in the United States.

In the United States there are thir-
ty-two million men and thirty-one
million women. Men are in the
majority in all the states and terri
tories except in the District of Column
bia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
North Carolina, Maryland. Connec-
ticut, New Hampshire, New York,
South Carolina, Virginia and New Jer-
sey, in which there are more women
than men. The District of Columbia
has the largest proportionate excess of
female population and Montana con-
tains the largest percentage of men.
In New Jersey the two sexes are most
nearly equally represented.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
KANs as TO IHE FRONT
" It'll a ! ast and Imp. owed rain Service 10 haa-
ssJ.ty, 81 Loaf Chicago aud he
Worlds Far.

Commencing Sunday, May lith. the
Missouri Pacific railway placed Ia opera
ton in additioC 10 its present service. an
excellent through train between points IN
Southern Kansas and Kansas tity, ~
Louis. Chicago amp the Worlds fair. The
new train. No 4G2. leaves Anthony daily
nj ESQ II. IN (; " ichita, 900 a. m: RI Do
raao. 10 a. III Yates Centre. 1880 p Va,
arriving at Kansas City ~ 5.4j o. m. max
ing direct connections with fast Missouri
Pacific trains to St Louis. and with AL
lines 10 Chicago
This j. probably the most satisfactory
and serviceaulc schedule ever placed into
effect between points Iu Southern kansss
and the north aud east. and places the
state Of Kansas OF IA equal footing with
other states ia the matter Of fast trains 20
the World FAIR c3ty. An elegant squip-
ment is used u tle make upof this special.
aud everything is looked after has will
add to the comfort Of the Passengers. For
fnrtLef information in regard 10 raies.
routes, maps. time iables. rte. address
nearest Missouri Pacific railway ticket
agent. or H. g. Townsend. general pas-
seuger and ticket agent. - Louis. No. or
r. t. BLECKLET.
L. & 4. i. " Wichita. Kan.
Telephone 2li. ia North A.aiu street.
GlJs Il
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
USING CAMELs IN AUSTRALIA.
Much More Valuable Than the Bulloeks
Which Have Hitherto Been Employed.

Which Have Hitherto Been Employed.
Although the camel proved unsatis-
factory for use as beast of burden in
the mining regions of Nevada and Ari-
Zona, the animal is coming into favor
and profitable use in mining countries
in other parts of the world. 1t seems
probable to the Mining Industry that
IN South Africa the camel will take the
place of the horse for most uses, as the
camel is not injured by the insects
which prove fatal to the horse and the
bulloclls. nor is it attacked by the dis
eases that destroy other beasts of bur
den The Germans are already making
great use of the camels in southwest
Africa. They are found to be very
valua bic for making long Journeys into
arid interior regions of the country, as
they are able to travel whole week
without water or food. In Australia
the camel is fast taking the place of
bulloclzs for use in the barren interior
regions. 1t is stated that there are al
ready opened up and in regular work
in Australia five lines of camel traffic,
and that on these lines over two thou
sand camels are in daily use. Camels
are found to be so useful that the num-
Der employed will be increased as rap
idly as possible. With bullock teams
only about ten miles day can be
made, but it is found that the camel
will travel eighty-four miles in eight
cen hours, carrying a load of three
hundred pounds. In the interior of
Australia are over one million square
miles of almost unknown desert. and it
is on the great inland plains that it is
intended to utilize the camel trains, as
by their use the various oases of civiii-
zation may be more directly connected
than by the old bullock routes. On the
arid plains and among the mud flats
and brackish lakes the camel finds
plenty of coarse grass and thorny
shrubs on which to subsist. 1t is
claimed that work can be found IN
Australia for one million camels.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
SPOILED BY a CORPSE.
How q French Peasant Failed TO Enjoy
the Carnival

Mardi Gras was spent in woeful fash
ion by peasant who had come up
from village near Melum to Paris for
a day to witness carnival merrymaking
on the boulevard, says the London
Telegraph. He was lunching in wine
shop and recruiting his strength with
a view to whole afternoon of sight
seeing, when a workman entered the
the restaurant where he was seated
and asked to be conducted to hos
pital, as he had suddenly been taken
i'll
At the landlords suggestion the
peasant generously offered the sick
man a piace in the cab he had hired,
with the intention of seeing the fete
as thoroughly and comfortably as pos
sible His errand of mercy would, he
thought, take him at most half an
hour, but during the journey the
workman became worse and died. At
the hospital the unlucky peasant was
kept waiting an hour. and finally told
that it was impossible to take in a
corpse. He drove off with his lu
gubrious charge to the nearest police
station. Here he again met with re-
fusal, and was dispatched off to the
police commissariat of the Belleville
quarter.
1t was six o'clock before the unfor-
tunate countryman could get rid of his
melancholy burden, and he had then
just time enough left to get TO his
train at the Lyons railway station He
had not as much as caught a glimpse
of the masks and confetti he had come
all the way from his native village to
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
FULL FREEDOM OF DEBATE.
Legislators in New south wales Not Ham
percd by Parliamentary Usage.

percd by Parliamentary Usage.
The '.lively scenes" which occasion
ally break the monotony of proceed
ings in the house of commons are very
dull, inspid affairs, says the London
Truth, in comparison with those con-
stantly enacted in the legislative as
sembIy Of New South Wales In a re-
cent issue of a Sidney paper there is
report Of a debate in which the premier
(Sir George Dibbsj twice interrupted a
member with the remark that he was
"a liar Sir George wa4 accused Of "A
disgraceful act Of nepOtism IN giving
an appointment 10 his nephew His
polite contradiction was: You are %
bigger liar than the man who told
YOU" and it was only after being
pressed by the chairman that he with
drew it. The postrna aster general tMr.
kidA was charged with comforting his
office worth $3.50 year on his partner
in business lie did not deny the soft
Impeachment. but told the member
who ra ised the matter that IL he were
half as honest as the partner in ques-
ton 1t would be good job Called
upon 70 withdraw. Mr. Kidd said. 81
admit that ne is half a. honest
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27

The sea cast up unique bit of treas
ure- -trove before an alderman of Leeds,
England, who was walking on the
shore at Bridlington. He saw neat
package coming towards him on the
crest of wave, and on securing and
opening it discovered that it contained
q promissory note for fifteen thousand
dollars and bank checks for twice that
amount, all drawn in the year 1915.
The papers are valueless, but are inter
esting as souvenirs.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
A Pleasant surpri.e.

what a beautiful ch;ld." exclaimed
Mrs IntheswiEn, pausing bsfore baby
carriage which nurse was wheeling
through the park That Z l0~ely
complexion. Your face IS familiar %
ne" she added, addressing the nurse;
will ron please tell me TO whom the
child belongs
Bless your heart. r1a'a-a- she's vour
OWE. bot she has grown 2 great deal
since you saw her last"-S. \ Pres
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-05-27
A PERlLOUS TRIP.
On Foot Through Tartary, Turkestan anc
Siberia to st. Petersburg.

On Foot Through Tartary, Tu-kestan and
Siberia to St. Petersburg.
It may be safely asserted that not
one of his Episcopal brethren has ever
performed such feat as formed an ep-
1sode in the early life of the newly-ap-
pointed bishop of Norwich, says the
st. James Gazette. After serving
couple of years as curate under DR..
Hook at Leeds, Mr.. Sheepshanks went
out to British Columbia in 1859, when
that colony was far wilder and more
isolated country than now. He did
eight years of rough work, and then
determined to come home for holiday,
at all events, electing to travel via
Japan and Chinas in those days a by no
means familiar route. For months he
disappeared entirely from mortal ken,
and his family began to entertain seri-
Gus misgivings as to his fate.
One evening young Cambridge man,
afterwards head-master of a we'll
known grammar-school, but tutor for
the nonce to Russian prince, was
smoking a cigarette in his rooms in st.
Petersburg, when his servant an
nounced that a moujik wanted to see
him very urgently. The unknown Wis
itor was shown up and appeared in the
wcll-worn garb from which Brian
O'Lynn derived his simple but practic-
al sartorial notions. TO his hosts ut
ter bewilderment this uncou1h being
addressed him in refined English, and
presently explained that he was a
brother Cantab desirous of securing
his good Offices The man, in short,
was Rev. John Sheepshanks, who, hav-
ing landed some six months before
near the mouth of the Amoor river,
had made his way alone and on foot
through Tartary, Turkestan and ST.
IBERIA to the banks of the Neva.