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dlcated by pains, paralysis and other sys-
toms of hysterical, hypochrodriac and
neurasthenic affections, is astonishing
Although not merely imaginary COM
plants, they cease with the removal of
the 'autosuggestive cause" which NAV
be affected by any change of scene ban
Ishlng 1T from the thoughts or by hatero-
suggestion (FTeRtdSaggeStiO51) on the part
OF physician, who may impart it YER
bally or in the disguise of a dose of medi-
cine. In obstinate cases. in which the
autosuggestion is firmly intrenched in
mental lmbeclllty, superstition, morbid
appetltes and passions, inveterate habits
or abnormalities of character, recourse
must be had to hypnotlsm. That the
great majority of mankind are capable of
being hypnotiZed is shown by the exper-
lments of DR.. Freiherr Won Schrenk- Not-
zing of Munich on sos persons of differ
erent natlOnalities, OF whom only
per cent. proved to be entirely unsuscep-
tible.
The basic truths in this whole business
are perfectly we'll understood by all ply
siclans and not few of their patients.
There are those who believe that this
power can and will be successfully used
in dentistry and the more common cases
of surgery. But whether this ever
comes about or not, it is Of the first con-
sequence to know that it will henceforth
have the place in therapeutics to which
1t Is manitestlv entitled. The good re-
suits directly flowing from an Intelligent
use OF this potent factor in the healing art
will be at once appreciated by every one;
while the remoter effects, if the practice
becomes settled and as effective as most
of its advocates believe, will be of ire
mendous significance TO society. 1t can
not be doubted that in this line the Guack
has had the field mainly to himself in the
past, and has been able to deceive the pa
tent and the public, to his own enrich
ment and to the dIsparagement and dis
credit of the general profession. More
than this. He has made use of the most
sacred names and functions of religion
itself and dishonored and disgraced them
all, by means of the simple forces of
mind now just coming to be understood
and invoked by the faithful seeker after
truth. Let Us hope that the ordinary
fakir and more detested spiritualist
healer" will find themselves held at
their real value and the educated profess
sion take on the character it is entitled to
bear. Tremendous responsibilities will
come of such prodigious changes as seem
to be foreshs dowed by the probable early
coming Of general hypnotic healing.
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IMPROVED HIGHWAYS.
Los Angeles Herald. I

Los Angeles County needs better pub
lie roads in the country districts. AS a
city, Los Angeles is exceptionally well
supplied with paved and graded and
graveled streets. Not many cities in the
Union can show more substantial i'm
provements in this line, and they are for
the most part kept in fairly good repair
But it is different in the county at large.
Out of 1000 miles of road, perhaps 200
miles may be described as good, and 200
more as fairly good, with all the rest but
little short of villainous. .
People who have been used to bad
roads all their lives do not appreciate
what it means to have good ones, and
not few will be found TO declare that
the bad roads are good enough. 1t is
self-evident that nothing is good enough
which can be bettered to advantage,
and although the existing highways
may be said TO be endurabIe, and are not
worse, but on the contrary perhaps a
little better than the roads ten years ago.
they, nevertheless, can be vastly inn
proved, and their improvement would
be to the advantage of every resident of
the county.
a TROUBLESOME VICTORY
Red Bluff News
It is evident that the Republican party
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BRIEF NOTES

Mrs. Bowman, of Ills @ street, slipped
and fell at Fifteenth and streets and
broke an arm yesterday.
Governor Markham has appointed C.
+. Masterson director of Agricultural
District No. 80, vice j. b. Ludley, re-
signed.
Rev. J. w. Daniels of San Diego is in
the city at work in the interest Of the
Children's Home Society. This society
is successfully engaged in the service of
placing waits and dependent children in
choice homes.
During dance at Single Springs on
Wednesday night shooting atfray oc-
Cured between Sam Rivers and Oscar
Sims, but no damage was done.
There is some talk of the railroad COM
pany transferring it's passenger traffic
from Front and r streets to the track
running east of the city to Brighton
junction. The understanding is that the
river front will be devoted entirely to
freight handling and the fruit traffic.
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ADJUSTMENTS

At the Metropolitan Theater this even
ing, the American tragedian, Robert
Downing, will appear in the tragedy,
1.-THE Gladiator" He will be supported
by Miss Eugenia Blair, a most accom-
plished actress, and who is woman OF
exceptionally fine stage presence; by
Mrs. f. NJ. Bates, one of the few remain
ing actresses of the school in which in
tellectual merit and hard study were
exactions, and by company in addition
Endorsed by the San Francisco press as
strong and in every way commendable.
MIR. Downing is a man Of splendid ply
sique, an actor who has risen from the
lowest to the upper levels of the dramatic
art, who was the pupil of Booth and the
support of Mary Anderson, j ohm McCul-
Tough, 10 Jefferson, and other leading
American artists. We gave the other
day a sketch of his successful career. 1t
remains now to add that he is recognized
as among the few foremost actors of our
own country. The troupe brings with it
much scenery prepared for the play, and
all the necessary furniture and stage fit
tings to present The Gladiator with
classic accuracy. The company will not
leave here until tomorrow, so that no
fear need be entertained Of an abridged
or hurried performance. The following
notes are extracted from the San Fran
and give an idea OF the enthusiasm with
which the critics received Downing in the
metropolis:
"a large audience assembled at the
California Theater last night to greet
Robert Downing in the 'Gladiator.'
Many who were there possibly came pre-
pared to criticise. If so, they remained
10 approve aud to call the star and the
mem bers of his supporting company be-
fore the curtain. 1t is a long time since
tie walls of the California have echoed to
such hearty applause which was rendered
with as sincere good will by the occu-
pants of the seats on the ground floor as
we'll as by those spectators who sat in the
higher seats"
The san Francisco Chronicle, among
other things, said of Mr.. Downing:
'Every quality be has suits the 'Gladia-
tor'-tigure, voice and manner especi-
ally fitting. The audience enjoyed the
presentation of kind of part which has
hardly been seen here since McCullough's
time Miss Blair has gained. if any
thing, in charm and attractiveness. She
makes a Neodamia about whom there is
q classic spirit far enough from this CEN
tury. She has the method of the old
classical play thoroughly learned, and
she is most graceful and easy actress"
At the Clunie Opera-house this even
inc the ''Galley Slave" will be played.
TT will be given at o'clock to-day for
matinee performance, and will be pre-
sapted for the last time tomorrow, Sum
6av evening. 1t has been very success
mi this week, and the company mas won
now honors in it. Extensive prepara-
tions are in progress for the presentation
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of michael Strogof7' next week, upon
which the management is laying out
great deal of energy and much money.
AT the Congregation Church Wednes-
day evening, December 5th, testimonial
concert will be given to Mrs. Mary L.
Ross, the well-known soprano of this city.
She will be aided by Willis Bachelor of
San Francisco, a tenor, who has just re-
turned from Europe, and study under
Shakespeare of London, and Nannini of
Italy; Mr.. Ladda, celloist, San Francisco,
pupil of Heine, and frst-class artist;
Miss Wilcox, late of Boston, soprano of
prominence; Mrs. William J. Younger Of
San Francisco, accompanist, we'll known
here; Mrs. a. Bonnheim OF this city,
who has just returned from two years.
residence in the music centers of Europe;
Mr.. Weissmann, basso, late Of the Con-
reid Opera Company; Mr.. and Mrs. G. a.
Neale and Mr.. Nanderhoof, in instru-
mental trios. Mrs. Ross, will also have
two numbers on the programme. The
talent thus promised gives assurance of
an artistic concert of varied character,
and full of interest. Mrs. Ross is one of
the best and most reliable of Sacramento's
singers. She deserves well, and her con-
cert is quite certain to draw full house.
Tickets can be had at Purnel's book
store, and of the Cooper Music Company.
The Waites, "hypnotist' and "medi-
um," had large audience at the Metro
politan Theater last night. The cabinet
e-tying by Harry Waite was done
under the criticism of a committee con-
sisting of G. w. Jackson, DIR. f. +. TeD-
bets and o. z. Dodge. They were unable
to discover human agency and lett the
stage puzzled. Hypnotic experiments
followed and the doctor had some good
subjects. Apparently they were COM
pletely under his control. Two of them
he has had on the stage before. He had
also Chlnaman and Japanese subject.
His best subject was young man named
Hoffman. The envelope and bank-note
tests were not introduced, owing to the
lateness of the hour, but are promised for
Sunday night, when another entertain
ment will be given with varied expert
mentS.
The Horseshoe Club will give a party
at Turner Hall on Thanksgiving Eve.
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DIED.

For fine dress suits call on Davis q
Donahue, Merchant Tailors, 726 X street. =
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will find the fruits of its great victory
like Dead Sea apples. The upheaval that
threw it to the top brought up with it a
whole lot of rubbish that will be difficult
to dispose of. This is the effect of all
such upheavals and there is no reason to
suppose that that of 1894 will prove ar ex-
ception. The Republican party will have
great majority in the next Congress.
That majority is made up of l26 men
elected from districts that were Repub-
lican two years ago and over 100 who
were elected from districts now repre-
sented by Democrats. Some of these are
districts heretofore Democratic, while in
others the parties were evenly balanced,
and they were carried by the Democrats
two years ago by narrow majorities. A
very large per cent. of these districts
nominated new men who have no Con-
gressional experience and are of inferior
callber. When they get together the old
and steady leaders who have learned
something by experience will have great
difficulty in breaking in the fiery and un-
tutored statesmen of the party, who will
want TO set the world on fire at once and
make names for themselves that will be
handed down from generation to genera
ton until the angel Gabriel shall blow a
blast from his trumpet and proclaim that
time shall be no more.
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HYPNOTIC HEALING.
How the Treatment is Carried on in
Europe.
From the Los Angeles Herald


From the Los Angeles Herald
Very few people are aware to what ex-
tent hypnotic treatment aud suggestion
have been carried in therapeutics. Most
OF US have heard of instances which have
attracted local interest and comment, but
even these have not been very well au-
thenticated or understood. There have
been published more than one hundred
treatises on the subject during the past
year, and the general public may be pre-
pared at any time Is hear that medical
science has adopted and engratted into it
the general practice of hypnotism. Per-
haps the most striking work on the sub
ject is the new book by DIR. j. Grossman
of Berlin, editor of one of the famous
medical journals of the day. He prints
communications from thirty of the most
eminent professors and physicians in Eu-
rope, giving the result of their expert
ence in the application of hypnotic sug-
gestion to the healing OF disease. Thus
Van Cedan and Van Reuterghem of
Amsterdam report that from May 3,
1887, to June 80, 1893 in the institution
under their charge, 1,09S patients were
subjected to this treatments of these 2S. IS
per cent. were entirely cured; $3.50 per
cent. permanently improved; 2l.O2 per
cent. slightly bettered; l7.Sl per cent.
unaffected, and IN 9.1S per cent. of the
cases the results are unknown. DIR. Wet
terstrand of Stockholm has used this
method of medical treatment in 1000, and
DIR. Bernheim of Nancy in 1900 cases,
and both express themselves strongly in
favor of it. Indeed, DR.. Bernheim does
not hesitate to declare thai the study of
hypnotic suggestion should be made OBJ
ligatory in all medical schools, and that
nowadays physician who ignores the
psychical element in disease, and has no
knowledge OF the part 1t plays in patho-
geny and therapeutics, is no better than a
horse doctor, and should contipe himself
to veterinary practice. Another import
ant point brought out by DIR. Kraft
Ebing of Vienna is the influence of ''au-
tosuggestion" in the production of dis
ease. The number of ailments and NOR
bid conditions of this kind that have their
origin in the nervous system and are in
The record-union., 1894-11-24
Borne to the Grave.

Many friends of the late George Edwin
Mckee, nephew of City Collector Edwin
Mckee, Joined with the deceased young
mans relatives yesterday in the sad duty
of laying his body in the grave. The de-
ceased was born and reared in this city,
and his death-just as he was entering
upon manhood and with bright future
in store for him-is regretted by all that
knew him.
The large attendance by his young
friends at the funeral gave testimony OF
their esteem and love for their late COM
panion.
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SUNDAY PAPERS.

If the advocacy of lot of cranks con-
corning the publication of Sunday news
papers be followed to its natural Sc
quence there would be no Sunday or
Monday issues of morning papers, since
part of each day is required to get out pa
pers bearing those dates. 1t is the un-
reasonable characteristics of the too pious
people that causes their doctrines to fail
of realization. A little more of the prac-
teal and considerate side of worldly
affairs would have tendency to make
the sinful ones better. Cranks and crank
iSms never prevail.
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THE SMOKE NUISANCE.
Stockton independently

n nuisance is described in Section 3479
OF the Civil Code in part as: Anything
that is injurious to health or is indecent
or offensive to the senses, or an obstruc-
ton to the free use of property, so as to
Interfere with the comfortable endowment
of life or property" Section 1880 de-
scrlbes public nuisance as one which
affects at the same time an entire COM
munity or neighborhood or any consid-
cradle number Of persons. This describes
the custom of burning leaves or rubbish
IN the city, whether IN the streets or on
private premises. Law does not permit
one to use his own property in manner
that VIII prevent others from ENJOYING
their property in a reasonable manner, vet
city ordinances in several California cities
assume to permit every person who feels
so inclined to burn rubbish in the streets
and send the smoke wherever the wind
may carry 1t; into their neighbors' houses
or into their eyes ana lungs.
The right or power of City Council
to pass such an ordinance may well be
doubted. There are numerous decisions
that are against 1t, and there is also the
broad principal of law and good sense
that municipality cannot legalize any
thing that is. forbidden by State statute.
Leat-burnlng is survival of the village
state OF existence; OF the days when peo-
pie depended on Smudge to rid them of
the annoyance of mosquitoes, and de-
serves TO be abolished with the sidewalk
pasture system OF long ago. People to
wlndWard of rubbish fire have to close
their doors and windows, and even the
acrld smoke penetrateS and fills the
houses with its Odor
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VOICE OF THE PRESS.
What a Few of the Many California
Papers Have to Say.
c. Lea II Il

!San Jose Herald.
Another San Francisco sensation has
been exploded. The school girl who was
said to have committed suicide because
she was suspended at school turns up
smiling. and proves to have been only a
cunning little adventures. Meanwhile,
the San Francisco newspapers. with their
usual lack of sense and judgment, have
pilloried the principal who suspended the
girl and the teacher who made the COM
plant against her as heartless wretches
who ought 10 be i'll the penltentiary for
cruelty to children rather than honored
teachers in the public schools. When it
comes to such sensations as these, the
best that can be said for the newspapers
of San Francisco is that they are dis
grace to journalism.
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Rosy checked, pulpy, juicy, delicious.
The peaches of 1894 are the rarest of the
century. With DR.. Prices Cream Baking
Powder they make the richest shortcake
ever prepared.
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CIVIC PATRIOTISM.
TSan lose MercIIrv I

Now that so many advocates of NUM-
cipal reform are writing, preaching and
speaking on the subject of civic patriot
ism, it may be as we'll to point out to the
average man that there is no reason why
civic patriotism should confine itself to
politics. Political reform does indeed
give better chance for talking, but there
are other things that give better chance
for working and yield better results
Civic patriotism should concern itself
with business as well as with government.
A man may advance his city by promot-
ing enterprises as we'll as by purifying
the primaries. He can do as much if not
more for the community by cooperating
with all efforts to foster new undertake
ings in the way of local development
than by cooperating to organize indie
pendent political parties and start nom
partisan movements.
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this city, November 23, 1894,
ut the residence OF j. r. Foster, 1908 l.
street, William K. Lindsay. ST., a native of
Lexington, KY, aged So years and 5
months.
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Do NOT forget that DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder makes delicious biscuit,
griddle-cakes, doughnuts, waflies, pie
crusts and shortcake. 1t is the best.
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PEACHES from California? Yes, and
from Michigan too. All made into deli
cious shortcake with DR.. Prices Cream
baking Powder
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Mgr. Feict, bishop of Bruges, France.
is dead.
Baron Crewe of England is dead. Hs
was born Aug. 10, 1919.
The people of Kossuth county. Ia.
have organized for a wolf hunt Jan, I.
Croonquist's store, at Cannon Falls.
was burglarized of clothing and Jew
elry.
Fire in the business district of Hot
Springs, Ark, destroyed $75, 900 worth
of property.
The Paola, Kan, station agert and
operator were robbed of two gold
watches and $50.
Great distress prevails in the district
OF La Puglia, Southern Italy, and dis
turbances are feared.
Five workmen were injured at the
new union depot at st. Louis by the
falling of a scaffold.
Directors Of the New York and New
England road have decided to support
Thomas Platt for permanent receiver.
James Burns, wanted in Winona for
robbery, has been captured at Evans
vile, Ind, and the chief of police has
gone to get him.
News has been received from Hermo-
sillo of the death of Sonora Torres,
mother of Governor Luis E. Torres Of
Sonora and Yucatan.
Mrs. Ben Bixby, of Emerald, Wis,
was accidentally shot and killed by q
loaded gun falling from the wall to the
floor, the contents lodging in her breast.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-12
The defeat of the Torrey bankruptcy

The defeat of the Torrey bankruptcy
bill in the lower house Of congress leaves
the nation just where it has been for a
number of years-without any bank
ruptcy law. The bill was defeated part
ly by members who do not believe any
body ought to have the benefit of a bank
ruptcy law and partly by those who do
not believe in the involuntary or COM
pulsory bankruptcy for which the Tor.
rey bill provided. The bill provided both
the voluntary and involuntary bank
rupt features. Eastern merchants gen.
orally favored it. There is strong oppo-
sition, however, in many quarters to a
law which will not let people do as they
please about going into bankruptcy. 1t
is not certain, however, that even with
out the involuntary bankruptcy feature
the law could have been pas ,ed.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-12

Many persons labor under the impress
sion that laying up treasures in real es-
tate in Jerusalem-not the New Jerusa-
lem, but the old one in Palestine-will be
a paying investment. Ground there has
advanced in value at a rate that would
make eve a Chicago real estate specu-
lator turn green with envy. An acre of
ground in Jerusalem that sold for 81, 900
in 1855 brought in 1891 $4,000. A plot
that in 1890 went for $435 an acre
sold in 1892 for Ills the acre. An
acre that in 1879 was purchased for $40
brought, 20 years later, $12, COO. These
plots of ground are within a mile of the
city itself. The tremendous rise is part
ly accounted for by the fact that Jewish
immigration to Palestine has occurred
to a considerable extent in the past dec
ade. Still Jerusalem has at present a
population of rather less than 80, 200. and
of these not more than 2 1000 are Jews.
In all Palestine, wen with the number
swelled by recent immigration, there
are only about A 1900 Of the ancient race
"a very small proportion of the 7,OOO,.
900 Jews in the world. So far as talk Of
the Jews going once more and inhabit.
ing Palestine is concerned, it is foolish.
ness, for Palestine at the outside could
not contain more than a million people.
The Hehraw race has increased and mpl.
tiplied since it left the old home.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-12

Those who clamor for the adjustment
of the government agricultural stations
do not know what these have done for
the American farmer. 1t was an agri-
cultural station that devised the spray
ing of fruit and potatoes with substances
that destroyed the insect pests which
would have ruined the crops. A govern
ment station professor developed the
microbe that has routed the chinchbug
out of the orn and wheat crops. Again,
it is an agricultural professor who de-
vised the Babcock milk test, saving at
least $780, 900 annually to progressive
dairy and creamery men. These stations
are now experimenting on the most eco
nomical way of fattening beeves and
swine. They are trying what fruits and
vegetables are best adapted to the new
states. They are studying stables, COW
stalls, plows, ~fastenings for animals,
farm architecture, road building and
tree planting, as well as irrigation in the
arid states. Their conclusions are dis
tributed in bulletins to the farmers of
the country without money and without
price.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1894-01-12
By the governor:
L. RoTwITT, Secretary of State.
Savings Of Factory Operatives.

Savings Oh FACTORY operatives.
In one of his reports Hon. Carroll D.
Wright, United States labor commits.
sioner, shows how the American work
man is able often to own his home after
q few years. He could not do it in New
York or Chicago, but he can do it in
hundreds of the large factory towns of
the country, which are even p~leasanter
than New York or Chicago to live in and
have all their advantages besides.
A typical family mentioned by Colo
mel Wright resides in Delaware, n of
the cheapest states in the Union to live
in. A house of eight rooms is not to be
had everywhere, for instance, at $40 a
month rent, which is what the family
mentioned pay for their dwelling.
The husband is superintendent in a
dyeing o His wages amount to $3.50
a year. He has a wife and five children.
They live comfortably, OWL a piano and
keep all the children but one in school,
and yet they save $277 ayear. tits done
largely of course through the excellent
management of the wife and mother.
The largest sum is spent for rent-$l20
q year. Next comes in the meat bill
SOL. 80 a year. The total cost of food is
$291.1 This model family did not
skimp their brains, as they paid ont S14
for books and newspapers, which was
half as much as the mother of the fami-
ly spent for her clothing.