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The Forrest City times., 1893-04-14

his way to the electric station, noticed this with much satisfaction, because he had wired" the clock, and it was his 1 first piece of independent wiring A short, thick-set young man hurried after him, and overlook him.
 'Halloo, Rob, is that you?'' he called out. Hold on minute"
 What is lt?' asked Robert, stopping
 Do you want job thatll bring you a live or ten extra?' "Yes. I guess so what is it?" ques- toned Robert.
 I'm to ride Longshanks at the Ap- pleton races, and I'm bound to come in winner, if it takes 'lectric battery to l do it -
 "A what" exclaimed Robert.
 "Hu-s -sh." cried the young man, in a low voice; Jim Flanders used one at the Stanford derby, and it brought him in o K every time"
 II don't understand" said Robert.
 'Well, you see these, don't you?" and the young man held up a bright new pair of spurs, ''and this," and he drew small battery from his pocket, these are to be connected up together, sos the battery will send the Electricity down into the spurs, then when the spurs hits against the horse he's put right on to his best speed in a hurry. ,"
 ''Oh. yes" said Robert, 'but that kind of work isn't in my line"
 .'Why not?" asked the young man; "'tain't no harm, not bit. If there was there'd be rule 'gainst it, but there ain't."
 Are you sure?" said Robert
 The young man nodded emphati- cally.
 And it doesn't harm the horse?" Robert persisted.
 ''No more than it does to get little wink of 'lectricity through you
 Hum" Robert reflected, with his eye upon the gold piece, which the young man displayed between his thumb and finger. It was ten dollars, and put with the ten he had saved would buy him the silver watch he had looked at in Harper's secondhand jew elry shop.
 'All right" he said at last, 'I'll fix mp your spurs; come round to the sta tion. Johnson"
 ''You allus was the fellow for me, ]" said Johnson, following Robert at no slow pace.
 They turned into a narrow back street to the electric station, and hur- ried up the stairs to the workshops, hung with a fine assortment of tools, and coils of insulated wire.
 This is my wire," Robert explained. drawing out a few yards from a waste heap in the corner; the manager said l could have 1t for an experiment I was making yesterday; now let me get the measure from your pocket to your heel"
 The measure taken there was snip, snip, quick twisting of the wire with the pincers. and the spurs and the bat tery were connected.
 "Well, that is a ncat iob.'' said John son. "Here's you money; put it out Of the way, tine boss is coming"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
SURGERY OF THE FUTURE.
It May Be Possible Yet to Supply the De
 fleets of Nature.

It May Be Possible Yet to Supply the De-
 fleets of Nature.
 The advance in scientific knowledge is wonderful thing and nothing in it is more wonderful than the develop ment of modern brain surgery. A few years ago, says the Boston Advertiser, a rupture of blood vessel in the mem- branes of the brain was sufficient to produce death, but the great surgeons of to-day have no fear of such result It is a simple matter of trcphining the skull at the injured point, letting out the extravasated blood and presto, consciousness returns and the patient lives. Does not this suggest infinite possibilities in the matter of mental improvement? Why cannot the skill ful surgeon operate upon the skull in such a manner as to supply natures defects? It is supposed that idiocy is the result of lack of proportion be- tween the brain and the skull. Con sequcntly, if the skull can be suiiiclent- ly enlarged to prevent overcrowling of the brain, the difficulty is at once removed Suppose that a man is de- fcient in any particular mental qual ity Call in the phrcnologist and the surgeon, hold a consultation, have defs incision here, remove a strip of cranium there. and the lack is no long CT existent. When this subject is prop erly studied the ancient joke about the rich man who told his sons tutor, when he complained that the boy had mo capacity to buy him one" will lose it's point, and the veriest idiot may find a capacity purchasable if he have money enough. It is even possi- 0le. is it not. that Dr. Johnson spoke more wisely than he knew when he re- marked that 1t required surgical operation to get joke through a Scotchman's head, and was an uncon- seious prophet of the cerebral surgery of thc future.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
KNEW HER RIGHTS.
When They Included q Special Train,
 Why, She Got the Special Train.

When They Included q Special Train,
 Why, She Got the Special Train.
 Perhaps it is because she is colored that Miss Lily May Tucker, professor of the divine art of cookery at Quogue, L. l., knows her civil rights. Anyway, she obtained one of her rights where strong men would merely have sworn and walked. Wishing to go from Quogue to Riverhead recently, by way of Manor, to do some shopping, Miss Lily asked for ticket by that route. The ticket was supplied to her and she paid for it. Then she boarded the train and arrived rapidly at Manor, but was there informed that the train which last summer ran from Manor to Riverhead was not running this sea- son Right there is where a mere white man would have made a feeble exhibition of the ioferiority of his color and sex.
 But Lily! She just looked over that station agent and said.
 You mean it hasn't been running, young man. It's agoing to run, cause I've got ticket that calls for my transportation from Manor to River head and I'm going by that route
 Then she sat down on bench and let the station agent walk the plat form. After awhile he went into his office and telegraphed something to somebody. When he got an answer he went out and looked at Miss Lily's ticket. Then he telegraphed some more, and some more was telegraphed to him. Then he went out again, wiping his brow, and said that if Miss Lily insisted upon going by the route called for on her ticket special train would have to be made up to carry her. Miss Lily made answer:
 ''I ain't sisting; I'm just waiting here for that train what's going to take me to Riverhead."
 And the train was made up and Miss Lily in her lonely majesty was trans ported to Riverhead as per her ticket.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
Dogs, Wonderful Smell.

It has often been proved that dogs are able to track their masters through crowded streets where it would be i'm possible to attribute their accuracy to anything except the sense of smell alone. A naturalist once made some interesting experiments as to this power as exhibited in his own dog. In these tests the naturalist found that his dumb friend could follow in the tracks of his master, though he was far out Of sight, and that, too, after no less than eleven persons had followed. stepping exactly in the tracks made by his master, it being the deliberate in tention to confuse the senses of the dog if possible. Further experiment: proved that the animal trac,1el the boots instead Of the man, for when the naturalist put on now footCcar the dog failed entirely.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
YANKEES DON'T LIKE WORK.
Automatic Accomplishment of Labor
 Their Idea of Mans Mission.

Automatic Accomplishment of Labor
 Their Idea of Mans Mission.
 The Yankees antipathy to work has never yet been adequately appreciated. He is in state of perpetual insur- rection against the primal curse, says writer in Scribner's Magazine. He feels that he was born to sit on the fence and whittle in the sunshine, and he is against every apparent necessity that would compel him to forego the serene pleasures of purely contemp- lative existence. He recognizes, to be sure, that work has got to be done. No one has more vivid realization of that. But the consciousness of the need of getting things done does not impel him to take his coat off and do them, so much as to contrive some way of accomplishing ends without working. The crudest way of doing that is to get rich enough to hire labor. Accordingly, the Yankee does try to get rich, and does not try in vain. It is not that he loves money so much and desires to possess it as that he loves labor so little. But to get rich IS only an indirect way of beating the tyrant. The Yankee would rather abolish work than elude it. If he can get it done without human interven- tion at all he likes that best, and, if he cannot wholly eliminate human intervention, he wants to reduce it to its lowest possible limit. When he gets matters fixed so that the work is
 
 he is willing to sit by and supervise the process. He will put lever and turn a cock now and then without much complaint, if so be it that he can ruminate and whittle. His name is synonym for energy and persever- ance. But to make things work to- gether for the automatic accomplish ment of labor, and to sit by and see that they work right-that is the Yankee idea of the mission of man.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
EXPLOITS OF A FAKiR.
Marvellous JuggIery in India-A Skin Tha
 Heffed Red-Eot Iron.

Defed Red-Hot Iron.
 E P Evans. in an article entitled 'sModern Miracles in Popular Science, gives accounts of several astonishing feats performed by Hindoo jugglers. Among them were the following:
 ''In a short time the falzir had suffi- ciently recovered from his trance to stand up, and, when the sheik pointed to the brazier, he thrust his hand into it. seized some of the live coals, blew them till they emitted sparks. bit off pieces of them as one would bite an apple, and eagerly ate them up. He then went to a large pricl1ly cac- tus, which was standing on the plat form, plucked a leaf armed with strong spines. bit off a piece and swallowed it. With equal avidity he crunched and consumed thin sheets of glass. Frag- ments of the cactus and the glass were handed to the spectators. who exam ined them and convinced themselves that they were really the substances they were represented to be. An at tendant brought in a shovel, the iron part of which was red-hot, so that a bit of paper thrown upon it flashed at once into flame The fakir took the wooden handle of the shovel with his right hand, placed his left hand on the glowing iron plate, which he also licked with apparent relish, and then stood upon it with his bare feet until it became black. This last exploit filled the air with a faint odor of burned horn.
 GA sword, so sharp that it cut a piece of paper in two when drawn across the edge, was handed to the fakir, who thrust it with all his force against his throat, his breast and his sides. The sword was then held in q horizontal position about three feet from the ground with the edge up- ward by the servant, who took hold of the point, which was wrapped in sev- eral folds of cloth for the protection of his hand, and by another 'Aissaui, who held it by the hilt. The fakir placed his hands on the shoulders of the two men and lcaping up barefoot on the edge of the sword stood there for some seconds. He then stripped and rest ing his naked abdomen on the edge of the sword balanced himself in the air without touching the floor with his feet, the sheik meanwhile pressing down upon the fakir's back with the whole weight of his body"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
PICTURESQUE PEASANTS.
Places in Europe Where the Rustics Re-
 tain Their Unique Costumes.

Places in Europe Where the Rustics Re- tain Their Unique Costumes.
 In the Italian cities, says the London Telegraph, there is little that is dis tinctive to be found in the dress of the women of the industrial orders, while in Rome the picturesquely attired women who have been banished by the police from. the steps of the Trinita del Monti, but who still, with their ragged and quaintlY dressed little chil dren, fit about the Piazza di Spanga and the Via Condotti, are in a great many instances professional mendi- cants who pretend to be artists mod els. When the begging season is at an end-that is to say. when the tourists have left the Eternal city-tbe pie turesquely clad women, with the white ''fazzoletti," on their heads, retire to their villages to live for awhile in com fort upon the profits of their Roman solicitations of aims, and there, per haps, they may continue to assume their traditional costumes. Pretty dresses may also be seen with ire quency in southern Italy. particularly in the villages around the Bay of Naples, in Calabria and in Sicily. The south of Spain is again a happy hunt ing ground for pictorial peasants dresses. The gypsies, too, who swarm both at Seville and at Granada, are sufficiently picturesque, although in the way of cleanliness and complete ness of garments they leave a good deal to be desired. It is perhaps in Switzerland, the Tyrol, in South Ger many, in Austria, in Hungary, in Nor way and throughout southeastern Eu- rope that picturesquely clad peasant women are most abundantly in evil dence, and the Americans will prob ably be intensely interested in the varied and really eye-gladdening gear assumed by female Hungarians, Sty- rians, Wallachians and Dalmatians, comprising, as the costumes do, lancer caps, furred pelisses, braided jackets, baggy trousers, plaited pigtails and other eccentricities of a feminine garb quite unknown, we should say, in the happy land of Columbia. At is as well that the Hungarian contingent are to bring band of musicians with them, as Chicago may be confidently reckoned upon to go into ecstasies of delight over the spectacle of Magyar maidens dancing a national reel in Wellington boots. Our kinsmen must be satiated by this time with pink tights, and a ladies' polka in Yelling tons might prove an exhilarating change.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
NEW FOREST sUPERsTITIONS.
Secluded Community Which Believes in
 All the Old Collins and Charms.

Secluded Community Which Believes in
 All the Old Collins and Charms.
 flares brains are supposed still to be a useful tonic for children that have come into the world before their time, says the Cornhill Magazine. Children afflicted with fits are still passed through cloven openings in ash trees. A certain Hchen again is used in To- tion for strengthening weak eyes; while the fat of the hedgehog is used to lubricate stiff joints. Bread baked on Good Friday, the forest people be- lieve, will keep good for seven years, and it will also cure certain complaints. The seventh son of seventh son is supposed to be endowed with wonder full gifts in performing cures. This last idea is not peculiar to the New For esters; in the midland counties it has a strong hold on the country folks.
 About the stoppage of blood flowing from wounds or ruptured blood-vessels especially, there are some very peculiar beliefs in some parts, one being that the secret can only be transmitted by a man to woman, and again by woman to a man. There is an anus ing proverb in use here about upstarts: "A dog is made fat in two meals" A curious idea is prevalent in the forest about the death 's-head moth; they be- lieve firmly that this insect was never seen until after the execution of Charles the First. There is scarcely village or hamlet in the New Forest but has it's pixey field or mead, or it's pixey's cave That mischievous spirit, which is known under the name of Laurence" still obtains possession of those whom "the gods wish to ruin." Laurence has got on him. they say of one who is lazy. A tricksy fairy, tempts their rough native ponies to stray. Also, they say he lives in bogs, into which he entices the unwary. "Colt pixies such as he are termed; only the frstborn may consider them selves to be free from his spell. The caterpillar is known, as in the days of the first translation of the Bible into English, as the 'palmerworm. Atwood lander talks of feeling lear-like when he is hungry, using a corruption of the word ''learnes," sld English for empti ness, which reminds one of the Ger man sleer."
 But one might fill pages with ex- amples showing how much nature, in "humans'' as we'll as in wild life, has been allowed to remain as she was so many generations ago. There is potent charm about this old-world state of things which seizes on one, and seems for time to fill one who en- ters the forest precincts with Q sense of rest that is soothing to both heart and brain.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
An Outrageous Verdict.

In Illinois there is an old law on the statute books to the effect that in criminal cases the jury is judge of the law as well as the facts" Though not often quoted, once in awhile a lawyer with desperate case makes use of it. In one case the judge instructed the jury that it was to judge of the law as we'll as the facts, but added that it was not to judge of the law unless it was fully satisfied that it knew more law than the judge. An outrageous yer dict was brought in, contrary to all in- structions of the court, who felt called upon to rebuke the jury. At last one old farmer arose. "Jedge," said he, weren't we to jedge the law as well as the facts?" "Certainly,' was the re- sponse; ''but I told you not to judge the law unless you were clearly satis- fed that you knew the law better than did" Well. iedge," answered the farmer, as he shifted his quid, Eve considered that pint"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28
CATTLE BRANDS

Ear marks: Clean split from root to point left ear, upperbit in right ear Wattle (varuga) on jaw. under mouth. c on lift jaw (cheekJ bulls c on left cheek only. Flooded stock e on left cheek and c on left ribs.
 HENRY HUNING Post office: Show Low, Arizona Range: Show Low creek Silver creek LaSuna Ortega and Laguna Salada
 Horse brand C C. left shoulder.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-28

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MR. GILBERT READING UTOPIA" TO THE SAVOY COMPANY.

together. You see things have to he altered TO
beginning Sir Arthur and Mr. Gilbert make mutual
CONCESSIONS the one altering the music 10 III tnr
with The music: and the scencry-although a mod"
of the tout ensemble is made AT hrst-is conthuaiN
altered 1T the grouping and provide Tor the exits
"po YOU keep the same chorus from opera to
"Wcll we can hardly do that" she replies
They are bound 70 chnngc so2a dea e sne VINO
are Ien-wel. there's Mr. harrington and Miss
Hrandram think hsyve been here sine, since t IN,
this Is an unusually new company 1890.
Il have often wondered how you cast your
Wi Of course so far as the principals are con
eerneG a ns' a. the % ehor 81 RsTt no
in finding snss M IN T ST W. eG h%v a aest
mmlated 1000 names our books. with the voice
the appearanre, and hG sny OF e"'" 'ay OF
But 700. Mrs. carte-what can you do WIN
Wen. you see" said Mrs. Carte. we have iiye
provincial companies now. A provincial company
Of tora mi'ed tssf w c he srn Out
Mrs pOyly Carte hasn't told YOU. said MI
Carte that II Is she who manages these com
panies. arranges all the dates all the bookings
We are booked up 10 the end of ls9i-and every
other detail OF organization. have an idea ,ha,
map Of England and BRADSHAW, l.. ,.or,o,oo
"H Got now low said Mr carte though prefer to
send my own companies out II You sell an AMER,
novations They Introduce ballet into one Of IN,
operas and in tho 'Pinafore had girls for sailors ,
As We watched Mr.. Gilbert stu anNiousy direct
Ing still polishing 10 the pattern his own desiei
the smallest detail. 1t was rather interrsi,n;; t. To-
speculate upon his probable state of mind II n
saw a ballet introduced into the Women OF th'
Guard. He was out Of reach o. such dlsturp m;
reflections here. being engaged I'm fact WITH MIS-
tr.ss of Department In id-aliZing the courtesys o.
spread the train" said the Mistress Of beport
ncnt. Spread each others trains. ladies'. echoed
Mr. Gilbert (and could hear Mr.. Charles iihrfi.
nnuirnC sarcastical,y OF of the ladies nearest
To MIN II they imagined they were laying tabie
cloth. And slide the feet. ladies', Oh, slide IN
feet" continued Madam" x, with an uncoi
scious "Reminiscences OF the hard case OF Mr. buiu
tudc. . , -
mir. Gilbert seems anxious. ] said. III mus
be rather "A trial 10 him on first nights.
"ile never comes" said Mr.. Carte. Sir Arthur
sullivan and myself are present; but Mr.. Gilbert
generally walks on the Embankment Last time
he spent the evening at the Gae'y.'