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danger Of laying a foundation for a habit.
The drug given originally as an anastaetic
in surgical cases has too many times taken
hold on the patient which has been almost
impossible to shake off. Nothing could be
more terrible than the wrecks which NOR
phine has thus left behind it. Hypnotism
avoids this peril. Hypnotism has been fire.
quently used in minor surgical cases, such
as the extraction ofteeth, etc, and very sue
ceSsfully.
| had recently learned that one of the
most powerful of England's novelists-
Hall Caine-had decided to use the attempt
OF physician to cure beautiful young
victim of the drink habit by means of
hypnotism, as the plot for his next story.
His idea had been suggested by an eNhi-
bition given during the winter at the Royal
Aquarium in London, where several men
were kept in hypnotic trance for very great
lengths OF time. He proposed TO make
his heroine sufferer from periodical dip
somnia, and to have cured her by having
her thrown into a hypnotic trance every
time the crave" for liquor began to make
itself manifest, thus to remain until IL
passed away and she rcgained her normal
control over herself. In the meantime,
while she was in the entranced state, the
physician was, by means OF hypnotic sug-
gestion. to cndcavor to inculcate in her
loathing for liquor strong enough to over
come her terrible hereditary tendency.
| asked Prof Luys about this.
Il do not see" he replied, "why hyp-
notism should not offer the long sought
specific for the liquor habit. 1t is true,
however. that the presence OF alcohol
in a persons system is antagonistic to
hypnotic influence There are also other
reasons Vhy the plan as You outline it
would probably prove to be impractical, but
there is no good reason why a modified use
! of il should not be made. Indeed IL has
! been used very successfully in the cure of
! dipsomana by Or. Tuckey understand
But are there absolutely no i'll effects
/ TO be observed from the use OF hypnotism?'
| | asked.
Yes; continued subjection to the will
! of a hypnotlzer probably weakens the
will of the subject ana persons who did
not thoroughly understand what they were
about might easily ruin or even kill a
! hypnotic subject. But objections may be
| made to almost everything. As / have
| already said, hypnotic knowledge may be
| dreadfuIly abused by a wicked person, but
/ as it is used in the hospitals of Paris and
by scientists all over the world, no wadays,
/ it is more nearly harmless than any other
/ thing of equal Importance.
| THE public seems to look upon bypno-
! tism as a new and strange discovery.
/ Nonsense. 1t is as old as history. l am
! inclined 10 believe that the ancients knew
great deal about it, think that many
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was al the time under the hypnotic in
fluence Of Anderson Gray, al Conway,
Kan. and who. SO clearly established this
influence that be was acquitted although
he admitted dong the killing. while Gray
was convicted and condemned.
In four of The cases Eere mentioned, -
continues the French physician, There
was such strong evidence that hypnotic in
fIuanCa rg ally did play Its part in The crimes
that il had ItS effect upon the verdi0tS.
Thus The situation mus now be recognized
a. T.Ous. We must ask science for some
way of controlling this power which IL has
liberated This G0rcawhich we are assured
VIII do much toward forwarding tie
Science OF medicine. toward eifect.ng a
cure in many fields hitherto closed, VIII
apparently as quickly obey the commands
Of malafaCtOrs as of scientists. This IS
hOrribla-f0r there is absolutely no way in
which The world can be guarded against
this danger
The criminal who works through the
medium OF hypnotiSm is safe. He selects
his victim. the one whose life he wishes
20 fal0uiously end. He then selects his
weapon. The weapon is no longer knife,
the ms tuIment OF the Old-tIme assassin who
worked with crude direCtness. This fin de
steele murderer chooses differently. He
picks ont another man. a woman, & little
child He may choose the victims best
friend He may choose his very sweetheart
or wife From then on it is very simple.
H simply calls this chosen instrument to
him and places him or her under hypnotic
influence We VIII say that be has chosen
the mans sweetheart. He gains hypnotic
control OF her. That may not be easy, but
il is not likely TO be hard Then, when she
Is in a trance. he says to her: Go, to-
morrow afternoon at half past three, and
take from the upper shelf Of the buffers
pantry in your house sharp knife. Carry
1T. concealed, 10 the draw wing-room. Send
for your lover. When he embraces you as
he enters. thrust fhe sharp knife into his
heart
III she is a good hypnotic subject
she viii do as he bids her, and viii
murder her lover without question at the
exact time and in the exact way which
he has commanded. Before the crime
she will be ignorant OF the impending
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acci idents-unexplained falls. These, he
says, are caused by the fact that being
unable TO guide and handle their wheels
without paying particular attention to
surroundings, they get into the habit of
gazing thoughtfuily aud steadily at the
ground in front OF their machines as they
ri de. Thus, involuutarily, they throw
themselves into hypnotic trance and fall
disastrously.
The time has unquestiouably come when
hypnotism is taken seriously by all the
real scientists OF the world. III London
Forbes Wnslow, the great insanity eX-
pert, is now treating certain stubborn and
obscure nervous di seases by means OF
hypnotic suggestions, and in America Dr..
George F. Shrady expressed his confidence
that great things would come OF hypuotism
more than five years ago 1t is great
thing for the new old science, that its
principal sponsor and teacher should be
a man of such high attainments and stand
ing as those OF DR. Luys.
EDWARD MARSHALL.
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seen Many cures have been accomplished
in this way.
'Other nervous troubles succumb to the
same method of treatment. Esther, one of
the best hypnotic subjects have ever seen,
was brought TO the hospital suffering from
convulsions. She came of family of
neuroticS. ALI her seven brothers and
sisters had commissions or fits. Several of
them died thus. She developed them in
her fourteenth year. Her cure was often
interrupted by her leaving the hospital for
as much as year at a time, but now. eight
years after she first entered. il is complete.
And in this case rot only her own disease
hadtob be overcome but utaninAeritedteudenc
OF many generations of growth.
'.In the same way the tobacco habit has
been cured. A subject has been assured
while ne was in the hypnotic state that he
disliked the taste or tobacco. This, kept
up many days, brought him to the point
where nothing upon earth could induce him
TO touch the weed. hypnotiZed, or in his
plain senses. A woman who was subject
to acute hyteria-she suffered from several
daily attacks-was placed in the c7rcSt..r
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By Gilbert Parker.

The five brothers lived with LousOn,
three miles from Pontiac, and Medallion
came to know them first through having
sold them, at an auction, slice of an ad-
joining farm. He had been invited 10 their
home, intimacy had grown, and afteFw ard,
having a severe illness, he had been taken
into the household and kept there till he
was well again The night OF his arrival
Louison, the sister, stood with a brother on
either hand-Octave and Florian-and re-
ceived him with Courtesy more stately
than usual, an expression of the reserve
and modssty of her single state. This
maidenly dignity was at all times shielded
by the five brothers, who treated her at all
times with constant and reverential
courtesy There was something signauy
suggestive in their homage, and Medallion
concluded at last that it was paid not only
to the sister, but to something that gave
her great Importance in their eyes
He puzzled long, and finally decided that
Louison had d romance There was some
thing in the way they said s'P,tite Louison''
ana in the way they avoided all gossip re-
garding marriages and marriage feast
Ing, in tue way they deferred to heriua ques-
ton of etiquette in married life, (as, for
IISAdANrs subulu tbc tIueHl Nlliu Ut gwen
the family name OF the wife or a Christian
name from her husbands famiIy.j which
suggested it. And P'tite LOuisOn's opin-
ion was accepted instantly as final. with
triumphant and satisfied mods on the part
of all the brothers, and with " hispers OF
How cleyerl how adorable! suct
beautyl''
P'tite LouisOn affected never 10 hear
these remarks. but looked COmplacently
straight before her. stirring the spoon in
her cup, or benignly passed the bread and
butter. She was quite ware OF the
alteration in which she was held, and She
gracefully accepted the TACT that she was an
object OF interest
Medallion had not the heart to laugh at
the homage OF the brothers. nor at the
outlandish sister, for though she was angular
and sallOw and thin, and her hands Were
| large and red, there was something deep
in her eyes. curious quality in her car
rage, which comma nded respect She
had ruled these brothers, had been wOr
shipped by them for nearly ha1 century
and the romance they had kept alive had
! produced a grOtesque sort or truth anG
beauty in the admiring ''P'tite LouisOn,'
| an affectionate name for her greatness
| ike THE Little Corporal for Napoleon
/ She was not little either, but about th'
middle heIght, and her hair was wei
| stredked with gray.
| Her manner toward Medallion was 10
ma rked by any dffeCtatiOn. She wa
| friendly in a kind, impersOnaI way, muCl
as nurse cares for patient, ana she ueye
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state and assured that She would suffer
such attacks no longer This was repeated
every day for ten days, and she was cured.
Nothing could be of greater value than hyp-
notism in cases of hysteria. Violent sick
headaches have also been cured, but only
when they were OF purely nervous origin.
4 case of nervous loss of voice was cured III
Vienna by one seance. 1t is also true that
patients have been so completely hypno-
tized that surgical operations could be per
formed upon them without their suffering
pain. believe that hypnotism Will event
ually take the place of morphine and similar
drugs in 75 per cent. of the surgical opera
tions. II is very much less injurious than
the best of them and is without the terrible
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tragedy After the crime she will be
without the slightest memory OF having
done il or OF having been commanded TO
DO 1t That Knowledge is a part OF her
hypnotic existence only But OF course,
she = taken red handed, and is punished
The real murderer-the man on whose head
the blood OF the murdered man actually
rests-is as secure as il he Were really iuno
cent III this Is quite possible. Nay, II
is easy 10 hypnoiisIn. Cases as strange
have already been brought 10 the public at
teutiou, and there is no way in which we
can say with certainty that hundreds OF
cases have not occurred OF which the public
will never know aDythinG-the exact coun-
terpart or the case which ] have used as
an illustration may very well have oc-
CURED ycster ormay occur to morrow. "
The revival OF hypnotiSm Ia Paris is
one Of the most remarkable events of the
time 1t may be considered a revival.
for hypnotisIn is very old Some of the
biggest and most serious minds OF Paris
have been working at its problems dur
ing The past half dozen years and just now
results OF their labors are beginning to
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The Absurd Romance
I'll Ptite LOuiSOn

say he want to marry P'tite LouisOn. and
he say, of course. mat he IS not marry and
he have money. But he IS PTOtestan-
and the cure at first YER mad. BY gOshl
But at last when ne give a huuder dollars
dollars 10 the church she cure say yes Al
happy that way for while
''P'tite LouisOn, she get ready quick
holy, what fine things had she, and II Is
all to be done in a week, while the theater
IN New York wait for M'sieu. And ne
sit there with US, and play on the fiddle and
sing songs and act plays, and help FlOrian
in the barn and Octave to mend the fence
and the cure 70 fix the gTapeylnes on his
wall And he show me and Emile how
to play sword sticks. and he pick flowers
and fetch them to P'tite LOuIsOn and show
her how to make an onnelette and q salad
like the chef OF the LOUIS Quinze Hotel,
so he say. By gosh. what good time
we have! But first one. then another,
he get a sob in his throat when he think that
P'tite LouisOn 90 10 leave US, and the more
we try the more we are damn fools
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case so made by the most eminent medi-
cal men in France.
within the year hypnotism has three
times appeared in the evidence in murder
trials in Europe-once III France, once in
Germany and once in Belgium. In all
lhree trials the fact that hypnotism might
have been used for the commission OF
crimes was well established, whether or
not il was proved that il actually was
used In England II has thrice appeared,
Dnce in a case Of burglary-Jewelry rob
berry 10y a young woman OF family and posi-
ton. and here the case was well estab-
lished-once IN a case Of criminal outrage
and once in a case of forgery and mis-
appropriation of funds. In America il has
been even more persistent in its determina
tion TO show that a new element has
been INTRODUCED into our social life-a
Iawless. uncomfortable element, working
horror so secretly that TO expose 1t is
hopeless.
Here were cited the cases OF the murder
OF Caiharine Cling near Minneapolis, the
ruin of Mabel Briggs and Alma Leonard
al Eau Claire, Wis, II q celebrated Kalb
case N Columbus, Ohio, the murder OF
Thomas Patton by Tom Mcdonald, who
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tcopyright, 1898, by Bachelor, johnson &
Bacheller.

IRIS, July 10
Hypnotlsm has
some good sides.
Most of these
have been devel-
oped IN Paris.
But il is also in
Paris that the
awful dangers OF
this new force are
most vividly real
lied. This is the
statement Of The
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Perhaps a whim. He was great actor
ah. yes. subIime!'' he said
Medallion did not reply, but walked
slowly down TO where P'tite LOuisOn was
picking berries His hat was stin of.
Let me help you. mademoiselle,' be
said softly And hencefOrtn he was as
foolish as her brothers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-21
CAPSIZED SCHOONER.
One is Found Off Point Reyes, Cal.
Grew Undoubtedly
Drowned.

San Francisco, Cal, Feb. 16.-The
steamer Umatilla, which arrived from
Puget Sound ports yesterday morning,
reported passing capsized schooner OF"
Point Reyes. The identity of the wreck
vessel could not be made out. and only !;
general description of the wreck could
be given by the officers of the steamer.
AS soon as the Umatilla reported the
derellct the tugs Vigilant, Fearless and
Sea King were sent in search of it. The
Sea King sighted it first. and was soon
alongside. By the time she reached the
derelict the sail was awash and little of
1t showed above the water. 1t will be
a hard tow, and it is not likely that the
Sea King will get into port with the
schooner before this afternoon. There
is little hope that the crew of the I'M
known wrecked schooner were saved. A
vessel of her size would carry about six
men, and they likely found death beneath
10
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-21
AN ACTRESS MURDERED.
Madge Yorke Shot and Killed at
Philadelphia by Actor John
Gentry.

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb, 1S.-Madge
Yorke soprano singer with the bag
gage Check" company, was shot and al
most instantly killed last night at the
Zeiss hotel, this city, by James p. Gentry,
a comedian OF Golfers Back Number"
company Gentry escaped, and up to a
late hour had not been captured.
At o'clock Gentry walked into the
hotel Office and asked to be shown to
Miss Yorke's roon. Being unknown to
the attaches of the house, he was told to
wait few moments. A message was
then sent to the girls room, but Gentry
did not wait. He walked out into the
Hallway and assembled by means Of the
stairway.
Miss Yorke and Miss Ida Clarke.
member of the company, were in the
formers room, prncticing songs, when
Gentry opened the door and walked in
unannounced. Miss Yorke manifested
some surprise at seeing him, and intro
duced him to Miss Clarke. After hastily
acknowledging the Introduction, Miss
Clarke says, Gentry turned to Miss 1orke
end. in an angry tone. demanded:
why dill you not meet ME touay:
Before the girl could answer. he whipped
out revolver from his pocket and fired
three shots at her, each bullet taking eff
fect-one over the right eye: one IN the
center of the forehead and the third close
to the temple.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-21
FOREIGNERS SET FREE.
Japanese. However, Exact Promises
that Those Liberated Shall Not
Help China.

Che Foo, Feb. 16.-All the foreigners
who were serving with the Chinese forces
at Wei-Hai-Wei except the American,
John Wilde, alias HOWE or Harvle, have
been set free. Wilde is the man who was
arrested by the japanese at Kobe, aboard
the French steamer Sydney, with Cham
Iaa Moore, formerly interpreter for the
Chinese legation at Washington, and an
Englishman named Chameron on the
charge of being engaged in plot to des
stroy japanese warships by the means
of torpedoes. He and his two companions on
were released on taking oath to DO moth
ing to assist the Chinese during the
pending war.
1t is reported that Ii Hung Chang,
one Of the hew Chinese peace ENJOYS, is
on his way to Port Arthur where he is
to meet ENJOYS appointed by Japan and
arrange terms for the cessation of the
war. It is said here that Russia and
England will offer to mediate peace be-
also in circulation here that the foreign
representatives at Pel1in are again appre-
hensive of trouble and have ordered
guards to be brought up from their re-
spective warships at Tien Tsin for the
protection of the legations.
Wei-Hai-Wei, Feb. 16.-The japanese
forces are now in complete occupation of
the island of Liu Kung Tao in the bay
here the forts on which were the last to
hold out against the victorious Japanese
forces.
London Feb. 16.-This afternoons Pail
Mall Gazette prints a dispatch from Che
Foo repeating the statement that Admiral
Ting. the Chinese naval commander at
Wei-Hai-Wei, has committed suicide on
account Of the reverses to the Chinese
forces. The dispatch adds that Commo-
dore Liu and Gen. Chang have also taken
their own lives for the same reason.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-21
LOSES HIS FORTUNE.
In Addition to Serving Time in Sing
Sing, Mckane Must Restore
Property.

New York, Feb 1G.-By decision rem
dered today by Referee William q.
Choate, John Y, McKane, the cxx-chlef-
tain of Gravcsend, wiso is serving a
.ong term of Imprisonment at Sing Sing
for Juggling with the registration lists
of Coney island must restore to its right
full owners an estate variously estimated
to be worth from $15O,O0O to $500, 900.
The estate belongs tc Mrs. Catherine
Bauer and her daughter Katie, widow
and daughter of the late Paul Bauer,
a well-known Coney island hotel keeper,
who died in Bloomingdale insane asylum
january =. 1889. In addition to relin-
gushing the property. McKane also with
in sixty days must file an accounting
showing what he has done with all the
money he has collected in rents and from
other sources. The big estate fell into
his hands nearly seven years ago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-02-21
4 SEAL COMMISSION.
President Will Ask Great Britain
Russia and Japan to
Unite.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 16.-Import-
int action upon the seal fisheries Of the
Behrng sea was taken today by the
House committee ON ways and means. It
was agreed to authorize the President to
invite the governments of Great Britain,
Russia and Japan to unite with the
United States in sending a joint COM
mission to investigate the seal fisheries
of the North Pacific and Behring sea.
The President will be authorized to ar
range modus vivendi with these powers
for the protection of the seals until the
report of the commission has been made
and acted upon; The secretary of the
treasury will be empowered to take
steps to kill the seals under the terms Of
the Dingley bill in case the nations re-
fuse to join with the United States in
an investigation.
Representative Dingley of Maine says
the point raised in the ways and means
committee that the Paris arbitration and
the governments contract with the Alas
skan Commercial company are bars to the
acton &c h. resolution 20 20 ,, ,,.1g me
Behring sea seals, could be overcome by
inserting in the resolution the word 'fe-
male and proceeding to kill the female
seals, since the company is only permitted
to kill the males by the terms of the con-
trrsct.
THE Paris arbitration, Mr.. Dingley
says, is generally conceded to have been
failure in it's results. The government
entered into the arbitration for the pur-
pose of enacting regulations for the bet
ter protection of seals and as the regu>
lations have failed to accomplish their
object he sees no reason why the govern
ment should not give notice to the other
parties that unless they unite with the
United States to protect the seals effect,
lively, this government will proceed to kill
them. The Paris tribunal erred, Mr..
Dingley says, in supposing that the es>
tablishment of a sixty mile zone and the
prohibition of killing by firearms would
accomplish the preservation of seal life.
1t has been found that the seals can be
killed quite as easily with spears as with
guns
Mr.. Dingley says, is is conceded that
the herd have been decimated from sew
eral millions ITO about 3OO,OOO seals and
that at the present rate of destruction
they will be eXterminated in four or five
years at most-possibly within three
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THEY LIKE OUR CRUISERS.
Great Britain and France to Build
Some Modelled After the Min
neapoIis.

Washington, D. c., F Is. 1G.-The Brit
ish and French ha.ve taken alarm at
the splendid per. ormance of our two new
trlpie-screW cruisers, the Columbia and
the minneapolis. For a long time this
great departure in naval engineering SO
successfully practiced by Engineer Chief
Melville was looked upon with suspiclcn
by foreign naval powers, and indeed
there We're many criticisms ia our own
navy who predicted the failure of the
vessels, but now all opposition seems to
have disappeared and both Great Britain
and France are about to pay us the COM
pliment of building vessels of this type
and even endeavoring to improve Il Il
the originals. The British naval pre-
gramme for this year includes the con-
struction of four improved Blenheims,
the Blenheim being sister ship to the
armored cruiser BLAKE" which took
part in our naval review in 1893. The
French naval authorities are also about
to build two 'croiseurs corsaire." These
are intended as answers to the American
pirates" as vessels of the Columbia
class have come to be known, in spite of
the efforts of the navy department to
prevent the name from sticking.