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room for a few hours; for the cat, or
bird, or flowers will become visible to
him in the darkness. AT first ,ney
will appear as n grey cloud
on a black background; then he will
see some lighter spots; and finally
each object will become distinct becom-
ing more and more so as time passes.
Go into the dark room yourself with
such a sensitive" man, and sit there
quietly for several hours. Finally
your companion will begin to see you,
Your hands. for example, will at first
appear to him as Il grey smoke; then
each finger will shine with its own
light. He will Sc luminous protub-
erance at the end of each finger, some
times as long as the finger itself.
When the first surprise is past, ask
your sensitive" mau to detail exact
ly what he has seen. He will tell you
that the colors of the lights are not
the same on all parts of your body;
that your right hand shows a blue
light, and your left hand yellow-red-
dish light. He will insist that there
is the same difference in color be-
tween the luminous effluvia' of your
feet. He will state that the right side
Of your body and face is blush and
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"China's Sorrow" curious name for

"China's Sorrow" curious name for
a river. is the title bestowed upon the
great Hoang Ho which rises in the noun
tans Of Thibet, and follows a wonder.
fully circuitous channel for two thou
sand five hundred miles to the Yellow
Sea. The waywardness of this mighty
volume of water makes the river a con-
slant source of anxiety and danger to
the 110,000.000 of people inhabiting the
central plain of Asia. 1t is known to
have suddenly changed its course nina
times. 1t has moved its mouth four de-
grees of latitude each time, emptyinE
its vast floods in different directions, ana
finding q new channel for itself wherQ
scores of towns and villages have Stood
The river has greatly changed the ply
sical character of wide area, convert
ing fertile regions into a sandy desert OF
making shadows of them. Whether 10
is within the power of modern science to
save this great plain from disastrous
overflow and changes of the rivers bed,
is a question which during late years
has been widely discussed. especially in
the scientific circles of Paris and Lon
don.
Another remarkable river is the Indus,
a great stream in Hindustan. 1t rises In
1hibet. and It's course is a wonderful one.
On reaching Sussi. its most northern
point it turns southwark loses itself In
the hills. and reappears at Takot in Ko'
histan. The Indus is one thousand sew.
en- hundred miles in length. After re-
ceiving the waters of many tributaries
its channel grows narrow. and here 1t
divides into many channels. some OF
which never return to the parent stream.
1t abounds in fish and crocodiles.
That classical river. the Ganges, is c9t
ratio in its course. like the Hoang He.
It is prominent both in the religion and
the geography of India. 1t varies not
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more lucrative employment. and for
years was employed in the old posting
days to secure relays, numbering among
his patrons Squire Jack" Mytton and
Corbett the Earls of Wilton and Bal
cares. the Marquis of Queensbury (old
o.. aud later the Marquis of Waterford
and his set of whose mad freaks he was
never tired of telling. His general run
was sixty miles a day. On all the great
roads from the north 10 the metropolis
he was a wcll-known figure. and his
supplies en- route were furnished with.
out dcmur. and the cost charged to his
patrons. I'D 10 the last he was in re-
ceipt of a pension of II week. He died
on Monday at the residence of his great
granddaughter at Forest Gate.-West-
minister Gazette.
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SAME SENSITIVENESS.
darker than the left side. which is vel
low-reddish and much lighter.
1t has been known for some time
that under similar conditions in a
dark room n magnet emits Il blue light
at its north pole, and a yellow-reddish
lightat its south pole. The strength of
this light varies according to the power
of the magnet and the sensitiveness of
the eyes of the subject. 1t may be one
or three feet in diameter, and appears
like fiery flood intermingled with
sparks. Hyptonized subjects fire.
quently speak of this effluvia from the
poles of a magnet. That their very
sensitive retinae do see these pheno-
mena has been demonstrated beyond
a shadow OF doubt by such eminent
and reliable authorities as Alfred Rus
sell Wallace. Reichenbach, Deleuze,
Dcspine,, Charpignon, Luys and final
ly by the great Charcot himself.
NJ. A. dc Rochas, the director of the
"Ecole Polytechnique," in Paris. has
quite recently published the results
of his own personal experiments. show
ing that these luminous effuvia"
are real and objective, and not imagi-
nary.
The herald., 1896-03-08
WEIGHT or A HUMAN BRAIN.

WEIGHT OF A HUMAN BRAIN. =
''Some interesting facts" says DIR. d.
G. Brinton in Science. "were @Aveloped
by Professor Ranke at the last meeting
of the German Anthropological Society.
in relation to the relative weights of the
brain and spinal cord in man. 1t Is we'll
known that man has not the heaviest
brain of any animal; the whale and the
elephant have heavier. Nor has he the
heaviest in proportion to his weight;
some singing birds. various small apes
and the mole have proportionately heav-
ver brains. What Ranke brings out Is
that the weight of the human brain is
greater in proportion to the weight Of
the spinal cord than in any other verte-
brate: and this. therefore, constitutes
an anatomical distinction of man, srong-
" contrasting him with all other eni-
NAL FORMS" ,.Ii.
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had reached the difficult part Of the
stream their supplies and energy were
exhausted. and they could go no further.
1t is only by seeking the sources Of riv-
ers by overland routes that explorers
meet with success. 1t was in this man
ncr that Henry M. Stanley traced the
route of the Congo in Africa. In this
way of procedure Frederick Schwatka
was enabled to float down to Yukon. and
Speke found the secret of the river Nile.
One of the most curious rivers that has
come to the knowledge of men is the
Webbe Shebeyli of Eastern Africa,
deep and rapid stream. abounding in
strange fish and ferocious crocodlcs. Al
though it flows for hundreds of miles
through fertile lands. the immense vol
ume of water never reaches the sea. A
short distance north of the equator the
river is lost in desert region few
miles from the Indian Ocean
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BUSTLED ABOUT CARRYING AWAY THE GREAT CLOTHES


borne for three years; for it carried with
it an imputation Of cowardice. Il wish
there wasn't any bars" he said vicious
ly, as he threw down his axe and start
ed for the house, his tumbed brown
hair hanging in confusion over pair of
honest gray eyes, and shading his al
ready richly sunburned neck from
further harm. He was tall and long
jointed, with hands and feet always
reaching out beyond the limits of his
too abbreviated trousers and jacket
sleeves; and that might be why more
courage was expected of him-though
he was only fourteen years of age-than
Of boys of less stature. He was destined
as the years went by. to grow into a
tall, well built man who would stand
head and shoulders above the average
of his fellows; but of this he was igno-
rant and it did not help him in any way
at present.
pretty name to keep dinging''
ing was one of Toms favorite words
'in fellows ears. Maybe" he growled
savagcly, ''maybc if they had been hit
in the heel" and he emphasized the
last pharase determinedly, "by bar
biggcrn moose, they might want some
one to believe it, anyway"
All this time mother was waiting, and
once more she called out, Bar Heels"
"Im comin',' came the reply. and the
next moment Bar Heels shadow dar-
kened the doorway of the big. comforta,
bic looking kitchen, with its wide fire
place, now partly boarded up and fur
nished with modern stove. At one of
hp 81 Of
altogether better looking than Bar
Heels. less awkward and more trinity
built whistling Il lively air to the motion
of his iacknife. which scattered crisp
shavings all over the neat floor.
'Want me?' inquired Tom. as he came
in.
Toms i'll temper was. of frequent oc-
currence. but of short duration.
Yet it did veX him that his lack of
courage was a source Of merrment to
his family. =.
"Yes. | want YOU" AS his mother
spoke. viii looked up from his whiting
and regarded Tom with that cool stare.
which from an elder to a younger bro
her is so disconccrting.
what for?'
"Wcll''-AIrs. Walton talked very slow
~ as we'll as musically, and her boys
usually had to wait some time before
they realized the drift of her conversa-
tion-"Will and / have got to go to the
village six miles away, and a
long drive for their jogging old mare
"and you'll have to stay and keep
house"
"Ain't father comm home?' said Tom
inpatiently.
Mr. Walton had gone to conference
meeting.
"One thing we're going to Dover for."
replied his mother lis TO bring father
back. | can't go alone. an there won't
anything, hurt you she added with n
smile.
Bar Heels afraid" laughed Win.
"He was always rraid of his shadow.
Can't any bars catch you in The house.
Bar Heels"
II amt afraid, snapped Tom suddenly.
"You'd be afraid. guess if you'd been
chased as | waS-yes. as | was" and he
raised his voice and brought out each
word with vigor, as Will laughed dcris-
lively.
"As you was" he repeated sarcastical-
ly. "You thought so. Bar Heels. My.
How you did come running into the
house. scrcamin' there's Il bar chased
me; he's bit my heel and fell plump in
TO my arms. | guess mothc1 i.avcrll
send you up TO the lumber camp any
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strong will is positive 1 mean to
say that his life principal. will, men
tality. or whatever you choose to call
it, exudes from his person, and flows
from his eyes and ears and other or
gans, lieke the long tongues of flame that
we see mounting up from high CHM
neys at night. But in the case of a
man with weak will, or Of hypnotized
subject. these flames. or outward visi-
bic signs of the inner fire, are so weak
as to barely leave the surface of the
body.
So too. | may contend that the will
OF the lypnotizer and the will of the
subject to be hyptonized struggle to-
gether. The stronger flame beats back
the weaker; what was at first defeat
becomes finally u complete surrender,
and the flames of the hypnotizcr's will
find their way to the very brain CEN
tres of the hypnotizcd subject.
5. MlLLINGTON MILLER, MD.
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garret TO cellar. Then he Went out Of
doors and rugged up Il new tail for an
old kite, though there was not Il breath
of wind stirring. When the sun was Ii
rectly overhead lie returned to the house
and made such inroads on the good old
fashioned cooking, not vet out Of date
in homclike farmhouses. as would proba-
bly, have the effect of making his mother
regret placing such an unlimited quanti-
~ ut his disposal. Then he went out
again to the barn. and. sitting in the
open door whstled discontentedly.
II wish they'd either come. or some
thing would happen he muitered. gaz-
ing sleepily at the house. and as if in
answer to his wish hin spiral of smoke
culled lazily upward from the easement
of one of the pall0r windows.
lie jumped to his feet. Did his eyes
deceive him? -,
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LAST oFTHE RUNNINGFooTMEN

LAST OFTHE RUNNING GFOOTMEN
Sam Cliffe. who claimed to be the sole
survivor of the race of running foOtmen.
was inferred this week in the City of
London cemetery in the presence Of fif-
ty-four of his descendants. Born near
Shrewsbury on November 10, 1903. he
retained his faculties up TO the last,
when sudden senile collapse terminated
his existence. AS boy he was accus.
toned to act as gateopener for the
Shropshire pack. and attracted attention
of the riders with those hounds by
his knowledge of the country and hit
powers of endurance, he soon obtained
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1t was my fault" said Mrs. Walton.
care you hurt much!' inquired VIII.
while tears of genuine sympathy and ad-
mration stood in his eyes.
Not much,' said Tom. enjoying the
situation. Il stepped on Il red hot coal
that clothes horse was hard wood and
made II good lirc-and ii burned off
about half my heel. | suppose you'll
agree that somethin" hit my heel?" and
he smiled, Il lnnguid sort Of smile.
"The danger was real this time" said
viii. land you're Il trump. Bar Heels.
But | shan't stop calling you tlet all
the same You'll be Bar Heels TO us
to the end of your days if that's what
You mean" he added with short laugh.
Il thought So" said Tom rcsignedly.
as he turned oyer and fell asleep again.
= AGNES l.. PRATT.
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THE EVIL EYE.

Not many people are aware, perhaps.
that the superstitious dread Of the ''evil
eye is still lingering on in some remote
parts of England. According to +. L.
Elworthy. who is q recognized authority
upon such abtruse subjects. although
the absurd belief has almost disappeared,
the wearing of "charms" to ward OF tn
danger is still extensively Practical =
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10 IL ~ NJ ElicM EMU lLlIU SlON
Colonel de Rochas has hypnotized,
at different stages, two different sub
jects at the same time and in the
same room. Let us call them A and Il.
A reported that he could see Il lumi-
nous or phosphOrescent coating on BIS
body. He could see besides that B's
mouth, eyes, ears, nostrils, and finger
ends were emitting a flame-like light
blue on one side of the body, and yel-
low-reddish on the other. Those open
ings seemed to act like escapes for
these flames. which were distinct
from the coating of the skin.
A glass of water was put within the
radius of BIS luminous eflluvia" as
described by \, who could see how far
they reached. After Il few minutes A
reported that the water itself had be-
come luminous. and that it remained
so for Il long while. even if removed
to the other end of the room out of
reach of BIS effluvia. =
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WAS BAR HEELS A COWARD?
He Ran From Imaginary Bears, But
Fought Fire Like Hero.
HIS GOODNESS SAVED HIS HOME
How the Shame of n Hated Nick.
name Spurred Him on to Face
Pain and Peril i'm the
Hour of Trial.

"B'ar Heels!'
Tom Walton looked up from the stick
of wood he was aimlessly chopping and
answered lazily. "what?" as the soft
tones of his mothers voice floated out
to his ears from the kitchen door. Mrs.
Walton had voice peculiarly sweet and
but somehow it Jared on Toms
ears to-day.
1t was not the voice either, but the
name, the hated nickname which he had
The herald., 1896-03-08
RIVERS OF INK AND ACID.
And Other Queer Streams That Most Folks
Know Nothing About.
YOU CAN FIND THEM ON THE MAP
The Indus That Hides Itself for
Miles and Then Appears Again
The Mississippi Not the
Largest River in North
America.

1t is IA recognized fact in science that
very few great rivers have been thor
oughly explored by going up stream
For nearly two thousand years travellers
and explorers endeavored to discover
the sources of the Nile by ascending that
wonderful river. But by the time they
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y l. IL HAL VI lut
{ e III permanent
called "sensi-
tive" in q dark
room. Then put
u cat, or a bird.
or some parts of
flowers in the
same room. The
man will see
strange things
after he has been
Xl-& L., ,,I-
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only from season 10 season, but from
year 10 year, and frequently exchanges
old passages for new ones. 1t has been
sld that the Ganges delivers into the
sea every year 534 100000 tons Of muds
sand, and other solid matter.
The herald., 1896-03-08
WHAT DARKNESS REVEALS.
s. Millington Miller Describes Extraordi
nary Phenomena Connected With Hyp-
motto Trance.
LIGHT FROM LIVING ORGANISMS
II Illuminates the Face and Flows
From the Finger Tips-Feeling
Without Touching-A The
DRY Advanced.

Onnsxiabt1sns- h- RanhslIer. johnson Bacheller)
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09
AMONG THE ATHENIANs.
4 Man of 01 Takes His First Ride on
Railroad Train.

Athens, Ga, Jan. S-The charity ball
given tonight by the Hebrew Ladies' Be
nevolent Association was a great sue
cess. Quite a neat sum Of money was
realized from the sale of tickets, and it
will be expended in charity ball chan
nels.
Prof. J. H. T. Mcpherson of the univer-
sity is i'll with the measles.
NJ Andrew Wages, a Jackson county
farmer, 81 years old, rode on a railroad
train for the first time last month. He
was taken to the Atlanta exposition by
his grandson, and while there saw a
street car for the first time in his life
Young Mr.. Stands of Clinton, S. c., was
brought to Athens to-day to have the
maidstone owned by Maj. w. B. Pruitt
applied to the wounds inflicted on him by
a dog supposed to be mad. The maidstone
would not stick and it is now believed
the dag was not mad.
Patrick Edwards, a white boy 16 years
old. was arrested last night for being
drunk and for insulting a young lady on
the streets. This morning he pleaded
guilty to the first charge, but said he
did not remember saying anything to a
young lady. He was given a light fine
on account Of his youth, and warned
never TO do so again.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

Peanuts-Ample stock; fair demand;
market STEADY; fancy hand picked Nlr-
ginia, per pound, Sc; hand picked, per
pound. 41sc; small hand picked, per pound,
onions-Crates. soc: barrels. 500; sacks.
Potatoes-Irish. barrels. s1.s5; sacks,
Oranges-Boxes. $45Oaf75.
Nails-Market. firm; steel. 10d to cod in
elusive, s.. 81 per key; Sd, S3.01. Cd 1916; al
10 81, Ss.SI: Sd, $751; finishing, 1Od to I'D
1906; Sd, SO 16; Sd. 1881; sd. S3.51: I'd, 1856;
Sd. fine. $4O1. Spikes, all sizes. $29l Wire
nails, led to God inclusive, 1921: Sd, 1881;
3D. S3.46; 4d to sd. 1851: Sd. s. o. Finishing
10d to god, 1886; Sd, $S.46; Cd, 1891; sd, S3.S1;
I'D, 1926.
81 so; buck, 81. SO.
Iron-Market very steady; swede, 4lk9
&c; refined, $500 base.
Gun Powder-Per key. s2.75; half key.
$1.65; quarter key, 95c. Champion Ducking,
quarter key, $2.25. Austin smokeless, half
keg, $50; quarter keg, $3.50; 3-pound can
lister, $40; l-pound canister, 75c. Less 20
and 10 per cent. Off.
Lumber-Demand both foreign and do
nestle is firm. Ordinary sizes, S11. 900
1900; difficult sizes, $130061SO0: flooring,
boards, Sl50o6f22.0 90; ship stufrs, Sl650a2O .OO;
sawn ties, $1,000.
pair 60Q70c; %-grown, 45q55c; half-grown,
Eggs-NIarket firm; candled. per dozen,
Hides, Wool, Etc.-Hides-The market
is weak; dry flint. &c: dry salt, Sc; dry
butcher, &c; green sailed, Sc. Wool
Quiet; prime Georgia, free Of sand, burrs
and black WOOL lac blacks. lie; bury, IA
&c; wax. 25c; tallow, &c. Deer skins
Fine, zoe; sailed, 15c.
Bagging and Ties-The market is firm;
jute bagging, 2h-pound, SIC; 2-pound, SIC
1&-pound sac; quotations are for job lots,
small lots higher; sea island bagging, SJkc.
Iron ties, large lots, S0qS5c; smaller lots,
soc.
Dry Goods-The market is firm and ad-
vancing; demand brisk. Prints, 4d5hc;
Georgia brown shirtings q, 4jkc; "a sc;
"A brown sheetings, &c; white osnaburgs
7lAc; checks, 4Q512c; brown drillings,
6a7kc.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-09

kansas. Louisiana, Mississippi and Ten
nesSee; and. third, Atlantic states, en-
6racing North Carolina. South Carolina,
georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia
The amount contributed by each group
as above to the last three crops was, in
round figures, as follows: Texas-1S94-95.
bales; Atlantic states. 3625.O0O bales; total
crop, s,Sel,0O0 bales. Texas-lSs3-94. 2.ed9, -
90 bales; other gulf states, 2S16.OoO bales;
Atlantic states, 3,275.0oO bales: total CROP
7.550, O000 bales Texas-1S92-es. 2.1OS 900
bales; other gulf states, 1S65.00O bales;
Atlantic states 2,7ZIoO0 bales; total crop.
bslUoOO0 bales.
New York. Jan. s.-Riordan & Co. say
OF cotton to-day: The interior receipts
are so light that nothing but the fear of
trouble IN Europe prevented a higher
opening to-day. AS II was, March opened
unchanged at T-9lc. But, as the day ad-
Nanced, the news became more pacific and
me financial outlook became more cheer
Iul The shorts fastened to cover, and
there was heavy buying on Wall street
account March advanced TO S.O5c and
closed at S.O3qS.O4 with the tone steady.
The spinners stocks are running low,
and ii is thought that they must soon
enter the market. Unless to-day's i'm
provement in the financial and political
complications should receive a setback, We
look for higher prices for cotton"
Mcintyre & Wardwelrs cotton letter, by
private wire to I. F. Johnson, broker.
ProVident Building.
New York, Jan. S-Prices Jumped up
ward IA points and closed steady, with
sales of $4,000 bales. The upward i'm
pulse was given by a higher stock mar
ket, rally in British consols a more
favorable financial situation generally, an
apparently less threatening political out
look, light receipts at the ports and in
terror towns, a small estimate for New
Orleans and Houston tomorrow, and Mr..
HeSter'S figures on the quantity in sight,
covering of shorts by local operators, and
considerable buying by Wall street. Liv-
erpool declined 1-32d on the spot, with
sales OF 10000; futures then declined IL to
points, then rallied ~, still later lost this
rally and finally closed 2 to 3 points
lower than the close yesterday, with the
tone very steady. Manchester was
steady, for yarns and cloth were easy.
There was a holiday at New Orleans,
and advices from there say if there is
any prolonged monetary stringency at the
south, it will call down the advances made
by factors to raise next crop. Sales of
fertilizers and mules in Georgia and the
Carolinas are reported large. The De-
cember report of the British board of
tade shows exports of yarns for the sea-
son of 252, 562, 600 pounds, against 236, 1871 600
during the previous season and of cloth,
5,OS3 $4,000 yards, against 53l2, $4,000 in
previous season. Spot cotton here ad-
Vanced &c, with sales of 105 for spin
ming. From the view, point of the trade
and unless there is some further political
or financial disturbance, it is likely to
rise as a necessary consequence. the
outlook is not absolutely certain, as un-
favorable political developments may oc-
cur at any time. We therefore advise
purchases on the reactions for moderate
turns"