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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14
ASHES TO CURE CUTS.
Russian Physicians Revive an Old
Method Of Treating Wounds.

Russian Physicians Revive an Old
Method Of Treating Wounds.
Some Of the 'best-known physicians
in Russia are strongly advocating the
adoption In the government hospitals
Of an old Cossack custom Of treating
cuts and wounds with ashes. The Cos
sack peasantry have treated cases in
this fashion from time immemorial,
and Dr.. Psshkof, a Russian physician,
who has been studying the treatment
recently said in en- interview In Rus
Wan journal:
II strongly recommend the treatment
of severe cuts and wounds with ashes.
Experiment has convinced ME Of the
thorough efficacy Of the treatment, and,
In addition, 1t Is cheap, takes little
time to arrange, and does away with
bulky bandages, which have always
been the bane Of nurses and physicians.
The best ashes are those resulting from
the burning Of some cotton stuff or
linen, and only very thin layer should
be applied. If the wound has been
made by some dirty instrument and
there is danger of blood poisoning It
should be first washed thoroughly with
a lotion. The ashes with the blood
forms a hard substance, under which
the most severe cuts heal with rcmari
uble rapidity."
DR.. Pashkof has experimental with
Ishes on twenty-etght CASES Of cuts and
only two Of the entire number failed
to result successfully. These cases
would have been cured, too, had not
the nurses failed to apply prescribed
lotions to the wounds before the ply
slcians took them in charge. 1t IS ex-
tremely probable that the ashes treat
ment will be adopted in the st. Peters
burg hospitals before long.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14
Game "

At the dinner-table in G. country hotel
1 guest says to the waitress:
"Miss, are you sure that this IS wi!l
luck that you've given me:'
wild! Well, shorld talal1 t tvas.
Il you could o. seen US chasin' that
duck more'n forty tines around thc
barnyard fore We ketche:1. Il, suass
yov'l bel.eTe 'tTss Wllp'
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

by great effort to clear himself. Tht
picture shows the ridsr, after he hal
got to the ground, struggling to save his
horse. It was Of no AVAIL for the anil
mai gradually lost what little footing
1t had at first obtained on the loose
rubbish, and fell down the precipica
as described. The Illustration Is frey
sketch by Surgeon Major Dodd.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14
A PERlLoUS POSITION.

Iajor Dodd Trying to Save His Horse
from Destruction.
The above cut depicts an incidenl
Shich occurred to Surgeon Major Dodd,
In the Indian army, Willie riding along
q mountain road. The road gave away
beneath the horses feet and the horse
was dashed to pieces hundreds Of feet
below, the surgeon major managing
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14
In BaiiCOnS,

One Of the balloons recently sent up
by French scientists with automa TIC
ally registered thermometers and bar
ometers reached a height Of ten miles,
where the thermometer registered 1i0
DEGREES below EereA
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

THE Chinese government levies a
regular tax on begga-s and gives them
in return the privilege of begging in .
certain district.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14
scN SPOTS.

There's Heck OF rus: on fawless blade
On the armor of price there's one
Thele's mole on the cheek Of the lovely maid
There are spot on the sun.
But the blade o. Damascus has succorad the
weak,
The shield saved knight from fall
The mole IS grace on my lady's cheek
The sun shines for all.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

REFUSING to make fool Of oneself
at Christmas is very good habit to ge'
mIot
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

Naturalists are In doubt as to wneth.
Of the sponge Is plant or an animal
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

EVERY man who works schemes
6pally pulls bis QTp leg,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

WHEN Il man has nothing else to
do, he writes letters
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-14

Scientific research shows ths,
meats. fish, milk, and other animal
food cost throo times more than flour,
meal, and other staple vegetable foods
TO get the Same nutritious result.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

ity. That is one Of the chief ingre-
dents of diplomacy. Diplomatic anna
bility is not so much the art of giving
ones interlocutor an agreeable impress
sion of ones self as to give him higher
idea of himself and to convey to him
the conviction that you hold him in
very high estimation. Then, from
sheer gratitude, he will have higher
idea of you, try to do all you want, ct
lie tour est joue. 1t is in this peculiarly
Muscovite art that Baron de Staal ex-
cells, which is all the more to his credit
since he is o martyr to lumbago.
Born in 1922 at Reval, he is scion of
one of tho Old German noble families
settled since the time of Peter the Great
In the Baltic provinces of Russia. He
began his diplomatic career at an early
age under Prince Gortschakoff, who
was first ambassador at Constantinople
on the eve of the Crimean war, and
afterward viceroy of Poland. Like the
good apprentice In the fairy tale, the
baron welded his chiefs daughter, and
is by marriage therefore a nephew of
Prince Alexander Gortschakoff, who
1Or 50 IldIly years COlUrO1iSu Ullc loi-
eign relations of Russia as chancellor
of the empire. He may be said to be
allied to the reigning family, since sew
eral of his wifes ancestors ruled as
czars, while the founder of her house Is
that Same Grand Duke Ruric to whom
the imperial family Of Romanof trace
their origin.
After his marriage Baron de Staal
represented the car as envoy at num-
Der Of minor German courts, notably at
Darnstadt, where his daughters may
be said TO have been brought up with
the girls of the late Grand Duchess
Alice, 1.-The youngest of whom is now
czarina of Russia. The latter looks
upon NJ. de Staal as one Of the oldest
friends OF her family, and there is every
reason to believe that his appointment
to the CHARACTERISTIC In preference to
Prince Lobanoff, who was regarded as
first choice for the post, may be due to
her influence.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

those far-off days when he sat In par
lament convened by King William the
Fourth.
Mr.. Gladstone-who, by the way, Is
quite boy compared with Mr.. Villiers,
being no less than eight years his
junior-seems to be still as prone to
awkward little adventures as he was
before his retirement. His heavy fall
at Hawarden the other day might easily
have been attended with very serious
results; but the wonderful veteran
seems specially fortunate in such es-
capades. 1t is no doubt his mental alb
sorption that renders him so prone to
come to physical grief. When he was
constantly walking about in town there
was seldom day In which he did not
place himself in more or less serious
danger of being run over, though only
two or three of his narrower escapes
found their way into the PAPERS
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

frigate Saranac, of the Pacific squad
ron, and the sloop of war Cyane. On
the outbreak of the civil war Lieut..
Meade applied at once for duty against
the public enemy on the Atlantic coast.
Returning when yet i'll of a fever con-
tracted In Mexican harbor, he was
assigned to duty as instructor in gum
merry to volunteer officers on board the
: United States receiving ship Ohio, at
Boston. During the three months that
he held this position he had as mem
bers of his class of fifty Acting Master
James R. Wheeler and Eben M. Stod.
dard. These were the men who command
ed the 11-inch pivot guns of the Kear-
sarge when she sunk the Alabama.
Active service followed the second year
in the war on the steam sloop Dacotah,
of the North Atlantic blockading squad-
ron, as executive officer of the United
States steamer Conemaugh for three
months during the summer. He was
commissioned lieutenant commander
in July of the same year. During this
period he participated in several affairs
with the confederate batteries on the
Vernon river In the fall of 1862 Com
mander Meade was appointed to
the command of the ironclad
/, Louisville, of the Mississippi squad
rdn (under Rear Admiral G. H..
Davis, and afterward under Rear Adj
miral Porter, and was active in the
events on the river between Memphis,
Tenn, and Helena. Ark. Highly COM
mended in official dispatches, he was
invalided home late in the winter, and
assumed the duties of an inspector OF
ordnance in the ports of New York and
Bostoh.s With health restored, he was
ordered to the command of the steamer
United States, and afterwards COM
manded the naval battalion in New
York during the July riots. Appointed
to the command of the steam gunboat
Marblehead, he was commended for
gallantry In the affairs on the Stone
river, and from that time to tie close
of the war he was actively in command,
and served with bravery and distinc-
ton in the gulf and along the Atlantic
seaboard. Since the war Admiral
Meades sea service has been great. lie
made a cruise of 431 days at sea in the
United States steamer Narragansett,
covering nearly 10000 miles, and a
cruise ofsthirty-nine months as captain
of the yspdalia His services at An
napolis Ms commaIs1ant of the navy
ward at Washington were OF great inn
nortance to the rebuilding OF the navy.
During this latter period the steel plant
and gun foundry were begun and
finished, The great brick ship Illinois
st the Columbian exposition was ADJ
miral Meade's idea, and he is to be
credited for it's successful completion.
On May 5, 1899, he was commissioned
commodore, and September Z, 1894, was
promoted. TO he rear admiral. Admiral
nepde has been eighteen years actually
. II sea, and In command Tor twelve years
f1,la r1o1{cd - - y
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
THE GOLD SYNDICATE.
A Question for American Debtors to Figure
and Ponder Upon.

A Question for American Debtors to Figure
and Ponder Upon.
The productive capital and labor of
the world is under bonds to pay 50, 000,-
600, 900 per year for interest on bor-
rowed money.
If compelled to pay that huge noun
tain of interest in gold, it cannot pay
over two weeks interest with the total
available product of the gold mines for
q whole year.
After paying all that can be got from
the mines about 500, 900, OOO, how is
the debtor world to pay the other So
900, 0OO, 900 of annual interest?
There is only one way, and that is by
giving up to the gold redemption"
syndicates the cream of the earth's
products from the fields, mines and
workshops throughout the world. And
these products in default of gold pay
ments must be rendered up to them at
such low prices as the bond brokers'
ring may dictate. For they can dictate
terms and prices and they are doing it.
That is exactly why our cotton,
wheat and all our great staples are be-
ing shipped and sold in Europe at prices
that mean bankruptcy and beggary TO
our American farmers.
And when the American farmers are
being beggared 1t is impossible for the
rest of the American people to prosper,
for 1t is on the farmers shoulders that
we all stand.N. Y. Recorder.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
WONDERFUL OLD MAN.
Hon. C. p. villiers, Father of the British
House of Commons.

Hon. C. p. viliiers, Father of the British
House of Commons.
G. p. Villiers, the wonderful father
of the house of commons" celebrated
his ninety-third birthday recently.
Whatever may be the effect of the
house of commons atmosphere upon
some constitutions it evidently agrees
with Mr.. Villiers, who has sat uninter-
ruptedly for the same constituency for
period of sixty years.
What marvellous kaleidoscope of
constant change must be the memory
of man who has been continuously in
public life ever since the days when the
'sailor king" sat upon the throne, and
all the amazing products of the Vic
torian era were still unknown and un-
dreamt of! The venerable member for
Wolverhampton must have felt Mr..
Gladstone's retirement keenly, for with
the departure of the ex-premier disap-
peared the last of his brother members
who was also his brother member in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

A TALKING match between two So
ciety women was feature at a recent.
church social at Brazil, Ind. No,
stenographer could begin to keep up
with the winner, little alto-voiced
woman.
AS AN example of the extent to which
betting is carried Rev. Mr.. Baker as
serted that one woman IN Philadelphia
had won six thousand dollars upon the
result of one of last falls football
games
ionairc and amateur whip who bought
the coach Vivid, exhibited at the worlds
fair, has arranged to run it between
Buffalo and Niagara Falls next SUM-
mer as public coach.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

lected as the person best fitted by So
cial position and managerial ability for
the difficult task of interesting the la
dies of Atlanta and of the south
in the great enterprise. The wisdom
of the choice was so apparent that
the ladies who became associated
with Mrs. Thompson in the work
elected her president without de-
bate. Among the other prominent Off
GERS are Mrs. w. G. Lanier, first vice
president; Mrs. s. M. Inman, second
vice president; Mrs. A. B. Steele, secre-
tary; Mrs. A. e. Thornton, treasurer,
and Mrs. w. II. FELTON,, chairman Of
the executive committee. This COM
mittee is very strong body, and its
membership includes many of the most
capable women of the south.
A reasonable portion of the exposi-
TONS funds were allotted for wom-
ans building upon condition that the
ladies should raise money for proper
exhibit. For such purpose large sum
was needed, but the ladies were un-
daunted. Every fair attache of the
woman's department. Immediately be-
gan scheming,. and many excellent
plans for securing money have been
and are being carried out. The gay
world of Atlanta has turned It's entire
attention to boarding up the American
dollar, and the proceeds of about every
entertainment that is held are devoted
to the woman's exhibit fund. AS re-
suit, money is coming In ata rapid rate,
and the success of the woman's depart
ment seems assured
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
REAR ADMIRAL MEADE.
Now In Command of the North
y Atlantic Squadron.
As Gallant an o}ncer as Ever Wore Uncle
Sans Uniform--For Eighteen Years
the Admiral Has Been Acc
tually ut Sea.

Rear Admiral Richard Worsam
|. Meade, whose flag is flying on board
4 the United States steamship New York,
1.-the flagship of the North Atlantic
&squadron, will be shortly in command
Xof the most important and powerful
&1eet of vessels that has been gathered
&together under our flag since the war
Lof the rebellion. And since the re-
<iuvenation of the American navy, adds
EHarper's WsAly, no squadron OF evo-
Hutton has hsdpuch an opportunity for
Experiment and instruction at sea as
! that which will be under his orders.
Richard Worsarn Meade, third, comes
of an ancestry that has been identified
with the founding of the country and
the furtherance of it's prosperity as a
nation. He was born in New York city
on October 0, 1887, at the residence OF
his maternal grandfather, Judge Henry
4 Meigs, and is the eldest son of the late
Capt. Richard Worsam Meade, second,
of the United States navy.
In October, 1850, at the age of thir-
teen, the present admiral was appoint
ed midshipman from the First district
of California, and during his term at
the naval academy he made his first
practice cruise In the United States
steamer John Hancock and the sloop of
war Preble. Then, under Commodores
Morgan and Stringham, he made
cruises in the steam-frigate San JaciD-
to in the Mediterranean, being trans
ferred in 1853 to the sloop of war st.
Louis.
In 1856 Midshipman Meade was grad
uated fifth in class originally fifty
three In number. After leaving the
academy he was ordered to the Eu-
ropean squadron, and afterwards made
cruise among the West Indies in the
steam frigate Merrimac. At the age of
nineteen he was appointed acting mas
ter and navigating officer and ordered
to the Cumberland, the flagship of
Commodore Conover, who was in COM
mand of squadron on the west coast
of Africa. The young officer was pro-
noted to be master in January, 1858,
and the same month received his COM
mission as lieutenant, being at the time
but little over twenty years of age,
Then in succession he served on board
the United States ship Dale, the steam
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

Such the Bank of England Is characterized
Shall This Country Follow?

Such the Bank of England Is characterized
Shall This Country Follow?
In criticising and dissenting from
the proposed currency reform scheme
the New York Recorder says:
THE bullion purchasing department
lot the Bank of England is another
unique feature of the worlds biggest
bank. There the gold is brought in
bars of about eight inches long, three
wide and one inch thick. A bar of gold
of these dimensions will weigh about
two hundred ounces, and is worth, if
pure, about $4,000. Each bar, when
brought in, has it's weight tested by a
wonderful pair of scales, in which the
weight of a postage stamp will turn
the balance. The question Of its quail
ity is determined by the assaying pro-
cess.
1.-THE Bank of England's stock of gold
bullion varies in value from 5000, 900
to SIS, 900, 900. The bars are laid side
by side on small fat trucks, or bar
rows, carrying one hundred bars each.
1.-THE safeguards against robbery
either by force or fraud are many and
elaborate. At night the bank is guard
ed at all accessible points by an ample
military force. think it was Andrew
Jackson who lilxened all national
banks to national battles.
1.-The smile was appropriate. The
Bank of England is veritable bastile,
built to be defended as a grim fort.
There are sliding galleries, which can
be thrust out from its roof and enable
a body of sharpshooters to rake the
streets of London in all directions.
Part of it's defensive works includes a
graveyard. The Gordon riots in 1850,
during which the bank was attacked
by mob, called attention to the neces-
sity for strengthening it's defenses.
Military experts announced that an
adjoining church, bearing the name OF
| st. Christopher-le-Stoc was, in 6
military sense, source of danger
Thereupon an act of parliament wa:
passed to enable the directors to pur
chase the church an its appurtenances
The old church yard, tastefully laiC
out, now forms what is known as the
Bank garden, the handsome court
room, or bank parlor, abutting on one
of it's sides.
From that court room of the Lon
don bastile the English people, fancy
ing themselves free, are really ruled
by a despotism of organized usury.
1.-THE American people are invited to
erect banking bastile in this country
and submit themselves to like des-
potism."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

easily shown that under free coinage
there can be no difference between the
value of bullion and the coin made
can be no direct profit to the miner, or
profit of any kind not shared in by the
general public through the influence
on prices and business of an ample
supply of primary money, both by the
measure proposed by the secretary of
the treasury and the Baltimore plan
give forever profit to issuers of paper,
as often as il is loaned out. Both plans
virtually make banks paper mints,
with the right to coin money out of
paper, and to have all they can make
out of it, without cost of production
and without limit as to amount.
1t is admitted that four-ffths of the
gold of the world is now gathered into
a few great treasury boards, and con-
trolled by few hundred men at most.
With this control over gold, give to
banks entire control over the paper
currency, on gold basis, as is now
proposed, and what safety is there for
the worlds industries or for the world S
Can people be enslaved so easily on
so ceartainly In any other way? No;
poverty and servitude for the great
mass of the people are the necessary
consequences of this system of money.
We therefore earnestly recommend
that before it is too late to resist this
new attempt to subjugate them abso-
lutely to the money power, the people
everywhere hold meetings, and, by
resolutions and petitions, protest to
their representatives. and senator's
against the passage of the proposed
bill or of any measure that puts in the
hands of banking associations the alb
solute control of the money of the peo-
pie. A. j. WARNER.
Since the issuing of this address the
Carlisle bill has received a check in
congress which insures it's defeat, but
other currency schemes are being pre-
pared that are equally objectionab BILE
to the people, and against which
Gen. Warmers arguments will apply
with equal force.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
MRS. Thompson, the Charming President
OF the Ladies' Board.

Mrs. thompson, the Charming President
OF the Ladies' Board.
The women of the south are working
with will to make the Woman's build
ing and it's exhibit one of the most sue
.cessful features Of the proposed Cotton
States and international exposition.
The president of the board of women
managers is Mrs. Joseph Thompson,
one of the social leaders of Atlanta.
She is a daughter of Maj. Livingston
Minis, who was member of the staff
of Gen. Joseph Es Johnston during the
war, and her husband is one of the
prominent business men of the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson have a beauti-
full country home not far from Atlanta,
which has'become famous for its typical
southern hospitality.
When the exposition management
decided upon an exhibit for the fair
sex, Mrs. Thompson was promptly Sc
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15

or common mucilage to one side OF the
disk and stick it in the center of plate,
leaving margin between its circum-
ference and the inner rim of the plate.
Place billiard ball on the intervening
space at any point, and propose to any
one present to send the ball, without
touching it, in to the center of the plate,
SO that it will rest in the hole In the
cardboard. While watching the efforts
of the operator to accomplish this APP
parently simple feat, the reason for
calling the game patience" becomes
apparent. The bali goes round and
round, but will not be coaxed into the
center. To succeed, you must have re-
course to simple trick Let the ball
rest near the edge of the disk, by inclin-
ing the plate slightly, then suddenly
lower the plate, as if you were about to
drop it, and hastily raise 1t again, plac-
ing the center under the ball, which,
not having fallen as quickly as the
plate, clears the edge of the disk without
touching it and is for moment in the
air. Having received no momentum in
lateral sense, the ball will remain
stationary in The center Of the disk once
you succeed ip introducing it there in
the menner here described The trick
Is pretty and ingenious, and the game
will afford much amusement to the
curious.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-15
RussIA.s cHANcELLoR.
Baron de staal, tho Amiabie Successor OF
NJ. do Giers.

Baron de Staal, who hns just been
designated by the new car TO succeed
the late M. de Giers as chancellor OF
the Muscovite empire, Is the beau
ideal of foreign diplomat, with his
long, flowing. white whiskers and his
identified but suave manner, which con-
veys the impression that If he is as hard
and tenacious as his name implies, in
his case the steel is sheathed in velvet
No man has more friends, and the fact
that, although the representative of
Russia at the court of St. James for the
last ten years, he should have succeeded
in winning not only the confidence but
also the amity Of the English, who are
always SO suspicious with regard to
Russia, speaks volumes for his amiabil-