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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1899-05-26
Mothers Friend

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The sense Of dread and foreboding Is not
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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1899-05-26

lives a happy wife. She writes: 81
have used Mothers Friend before
two confinements. The last time had
twins, and was in labor only a few min
utes. Suffered very little" The reason
why
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CAN MAN STAND 1000 VOLTS?

A report has come from New York of
a man having received an electric
shock sufficient to run four lines Of
trolley and to furnish hundreds Of
lights, and yet he lived to tell of It.
This is the story:
New York special: Joseph Hampel,
an employee of the Lexington avenue
cable power house, while working at
his switchboard received and survived
an electric shock of about 1000 volts.
The mans body was burned black from
head to foot; every stitch OF clothing
was torn from him and he fell sense
less through hole instantaneously
burned in the floor by the terrific cleo
trical power. The doctors who at
tended him say there is no case on rec
ord of a man withstanding a similar
shock. The accident was caused
through Hampel trying to tighten
loose screw on the switchboard and in
some way creating a circuit. The
enormous power Of the shock may be
judged from the fact that until the
circuits were readjusted all the cars OF
the road were brought to standstill."
The report Is discredited in Chicago,
One of the leading electricians of the
Edison company said Such a thing
could not occur. and ! regard the dis
patch purely as q faiFy tale.'5=It re-
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quires current of from seventeen to
$500 volts in cases Of electrocution, and
If the report Of Joseph Hampel be cor
rect, then say many persons having
been electrocuted and declared scien-
tifcally dead have been buried alive.
And no current of 1000 volts could
burn hole in floor large enough for
a man to fall through"
City Electrician Edward B. Ellicott
said on the subject: 1T is impossible
for. the man to have received so great
shock In pewer house, for no street
car line in the United States uses a
greater current than 500 volts. Again
II the mans body was burned black it
was not from the electrical shock for
1t is not reported as forceful enough
to cause him to turn color, but must
have been caused by the burning OF his
clothes. 1t Is possible for a man to
survive shock of 1000 volts, provid-
ed 1t did not strike him on a vital
spot. One of the city electricians was
injured last year by current of 1000
volts force, and no holes were made in
the floor, nor did his clothing catch
fire, but he lived, The blow came ON
his arm, between the hand and elbow.
He was in a hospital for six months,
and after that seemed to be all right"
@Chicago Chronicle.
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support for the head, and, summoaing
the little visitor, the operator directed
him to stand behind her, put his hands
on either side of her face, and let her
brace herself against his shoulder.
Il did as l was told" continued tho
narrator, but at the Arst twist of the
old-fashioned turnkey the patient ut
tered yell which. never having heard
an Indian war wnoop, thrilled me with
horror, and, deserving my post, l fed
in dismay. In an instant George was
in my place, and can see now the set
look Of determination upon his face
and the resolute pose Of his sturdy
little figure, as with the Iady's head
pillowed upon his breast, he grasped
an ear firmly with either small hand.
When the tooth was out and we
were again alone he endeavored to con-
vince me that a 'woman's screams
couldn't hurt but had my own opin-
ion on the subject, which logic failed
to alter
On another occasion when the two
boys had come into possession of a
bottle OF maple syrup they agreed to
go to the schoolhouse, where a fire still
burned in the stove, and sugar it."
Upon their arrival they happened to
try the door leading to an upper room,
and, finding 1t fast, although there was
no lock upon it, they concluded that
1t was being held by some intruder,
who, intent upon mischief, had con-
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-18
Alfred Do,se,s Career.

1t Is strange coincidence that the
Armour felt and curled-hair works
should have burned just as Alfred
Dodge, founder of Dolgeville, N. Y, and
former millionaire, had arranged to
make a new start in life by taking
charge Of the plant. Dolge's career
has been romantic one. He arrived
in this country penniless emigrant
boy. Thrift and hard work made him
prominent as manufacturer, and
finally he went up into the foothills
Of the Adirondack mountains, bought
a huge tract of land and started the
town Of Dolgeville. The firm of Alfred
Dodge & Son was interested In nearly
every enterprise in the village. They
controlled six or eight factories. ran a
weekly newspaper and became famous
as the leading piano felt manufacturers
Of the country. Among their many
employees they put into practice a sys-
tenn Of profit sharing. The firm also
furnished life insurance and gave old
age pensions to deserving employees.
Dolgeville was much like patriarchal
community, with Alfred Dodge at the
head of 1t. After the failure of the
firm creditors began supplementary
proceedings which left Mr.. Dodge prac-
tically without means. The burning
of the Armour works must therefore
come to him as severe blow. His
son, Rudolf Dodge, is now the agent of
some American manufacturers in Cara
cas-, Venezuela.
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QUEER CHRISTENING CUSTOMS
Chinese. Dsspising Girls, Number Them

Chinese. Dsspising Girls, Number Them
Instead OF Giving Them Names.
In some countries curious customs
prevail In regard to selecting the
name OF a baby. A Hindoo baby is
named when it is II days old, and
usually by the mother. Sometimes
the father wishes for another name
than that selected by the mother. In
that case two lamps are placed over
the two names and the name over
which the lamp burns the brighter is
the one given to the child. In an
Egyptian family the parents choose
name for their baby by lighting
three wax candles; to each of these
they give a name, one of the three
belonging always to some dignif1ed
parsonage. The candle that burns the
longest determines the name for the
baby. The Mohammedans sometimes
write desirable names on FIVE slips of
paper, and these they place in the
Koran. The name upon the slip first
drawn out is given to the child. The
children of the Amos, a people living
in northern japan, do not receive
their names until they are five years
old. 1t Is the father who then chooses
the mamie by which the child is after
ward called. The Chinese give their
boy babies name in addition to
their surnames, and they must call
themselves by these names until they
are 20 years old. At that age the
father gives his son a new name.
The Chinese care so little for their girl
babies that they do not give them a
baby name, but Just call them No.
1, No. 3, No. 8, according to their
birth. Boys are thought so much
more of in China than girls that II
you ask Chinese father who has
both boy and a girl how many chill
dren he has he will always reply,
only one child" German parents
sometimes change the name Of their
baby II 1t is i'll, and the Japanese
are sure to change the name of a
child four times.
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inally exceedingly small, but was sew
eral times added to.
Within the last two or three years,
wishing to replace this modest struc-
ture with a handsomer, more modern
edifce, Edward Dewey, the second son,
sold the dwelling and barn (retaining
the grounds) for $3.50. Three days
afterward the buildings were resold for
$500, the last purchaser, who paid the
cost Of removal, placing them on a lot
on State street.
Since the battle of Manila this house,
as the birthplace and early home of its
hero, has been an object of interest to
tourists and hunters. The latter,
indeed, have threatened to carry it
away piecemeal, souvenir fiend In one
instance wrenching off a silver-plated
faucet and leaving the water running
In the bathroom with the pressure Of
the full system of 1913 pounds.
OF characteristic stories of Dewey
many are preserved in the mental
archives of those who were his com
panions in the boyish escapades of
which he was the instigator, and in
which he always played a prominent
part.
An incident in his earliest boyhood,
graphically portrayed by one of these,
brings wildly before us a delightful
tragi-comedy, with the dramatis per-
sonae and stage setting of front yard
and vine-clad cottage.
AS the two children were at play one
morning lady, with the indubitable
toothache symptoms of swollen face
and hand pressed to cheek, alighted
from a vehicle before the gate and
asked to see the doctor. Deciding to
apply the only infallible remedy, and
wishing to get the best light upon his
patient, that gentleman asked that she
would take her seat in the front door
way, resting Ter feet on the upper step.
But here new diliculty arose. The
improvised dental chair provided no
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-18
BIG FEES.
European Physicians Obtain Forum %
for N single Onarattor

European Physicians Obtain Forum %
for q Single Operation.
Several European physicians have
made fortunes by single operations.
DR.. Thomas Dimsdale, Hertfordshire
specialist, who~was summoned to St.
Petersburg in 1852 to vaccinate En-
press Catherine H., received 100000
and a pension of $4,000 year. A GER
tain DR.. Butler, who had obtained a
worldwide reputation for his opera
tons in lithotomy, received a lakh of
rupees (then worth $50,00O) from each
Of sixtIndian Rajahs for relieving them
from their pains. The late car of
Russia paid Prof .zacherine, a noted
specialist of Moscow, $4,000 for two
days attendance. DR.. Gale, of Bristol,
received a check for $250,00O for cur
ing certain prominent nobleman of a
diseased knee. DR.. Gale Yowski. who
travelled all the way to Teheran to at
tend the son of the late shah. received
$35, 900 and his expenses. Sir William
Jenner received baronetcy and $780,
900 for four weeks attendance at the
bedside Of the prince of Wales. Sir
Morell Mackenzie received $10O, 900 for
attending the Emperor Frederick.
Perhaps the most extravagant fee of
all, however, is that of an English
army surgeon, who charged an indian
rajah $4,000 for one prescription in a
simple case of rheumatism.
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Incidents of the Youthful Days of the
Hero of Manila. Born Leader.

Burlington Cvt) Correspondence: DR..
Julius Dewey. the father of the ad-
miral, while earning the means with
which to pay for his professional
training by teaching school in Yer
mont, acquired habits of economy
winch chung to him through life.
After his marriage and establish
ment In Montpelier, large family con-
neetion living in his native town, Ber-
lin, four miles distant, fell into a way
when business called them to the cap
ital of stopping with their teams at his
house.
The doctor stood 1t for a time in
silence, but on a certain market day
his patience suddenly gave way. and,
meeting his guests at the gate, he
directed them to hotel in an adjacent
square, where he assured them they
would find better accommodations than
ne could furnish, and at current
rates."
From this incident, which he fire.
quently related, he dated his prosper-
ity. He had always a high sense of his
religious obligations, however, and
was, indeed, the founder of Christ
Protestant Episcopal church in Mont
pelier, where his distinguished son was
baptized, attended Sunday school and
was confirmed, and which became the
ecclesiastical home of the family. The
house which he occupied. and in which
all of his children we're born. was orig
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-18

In his element, leading the way IN
every daring enterprise and acquiring
that hardihood and utter disregard Of
danger Of which the victory at Manila
was the glorious outcome. 1t was
while guiding his ice raft past bridges
and piers. over c-oss-currents formed
by the influx of lesser tributaries and
around quick bends in the river. that
he learned his first lessons in the
science Of navigation.
What man has done, man can do"
was the motto which formed the pro-
pelling power of his young life, carry
ing him through every bcyish under
taking. Who knows but that 1t may
have inspired his later achievements
as we'll?
or his experience at the Washington
County grammar school in Montpelier,
the first educational institution which
he attended, much has already been
written. Its pupils, taught by first
one teacher and then another, had ac-
CURED the reputation of being rather
difficult subjects, and Dewey is said to
have taken an active part in the ini-
tiatory hazing to which each new prin-
cipal was subjected and to have been
the ring-leader in the revolts which
marked the remainder Of his connec-
ton with the school.
When the Hon. Zebina K. Pangborn,
ex-mayor of Jersey City, and now the
editor and proprietor of the Jersey City
Evening Journal, consented to take
charge Of these refractory young peo-
pie at salary of 1925 a week, it was
with the determination to establish a
system of discipline amo-g them to
which they were strangers. Dewey
being the first to rebel, was made an
example of after the manner already
described.
1t Is said that, meeting Maj. Pang.
born in Washington two years ago, the
admiral told him that all that was
worthy Of consideration in his char
acter had It's beginning on that day.
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characters sometimes resulting in a
mutiny.
One night one of the younger set,
then "6-year-old," and not allowed to
go with the big boys, recalls the fasci-
nation which his society had for him,
and the hair-erecting stories of the
yellow-back variety with which he
sometimes RECALLED him. On a certain
memorable evening the smaller boy,
stealing away from home at dusk.
Joined young Dewey and two Of his
associates and accompanied them up a
deep ravine to an old-fashioned saw
mill, which they set in motion, the
double object thus accomplished being
the seeing OF 'the old thing shake
itself to pieces" and the securing of a
days holiday for their friend, the mil
ler,s son, by the suspension of opera
lions consequent upon draining the
pond.
The immense amount of snow which
Tails In the mountains and valleys of
New England and the large deposits Of
Ice which form it's rivers make the
breaking up of winter in that far
northern climate a period to which
every boy endowed with a spirit Of
adventure looks eagerly forward.
Two small rivers, the Winooski and
the Onion, come together in Montpelier
In such way as to,form the letter T.
and around this letter the town Ia
built. In the spring, when these streams
are swollen by the melting SHOWS and
pieces of ice are hurried along by the
current, the boy who gets upon the
smallest cake" which will bear his
Notwithstanding often in water four
or five inches deep-and succeeds in
effecting landing upon the mass Of
pulverized ice, interspersed with huge
eRd-wise and criss-cross blocks, which
lodges six miles below, becomes the
hero Of the hour.
On such occasions Tnuu< Dewey was
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cealed himself within. They called
several times, and, receiving no an
sWer, retired to convenient distance
and held a council of war, when
George, as tacitly acknowledged organ
izer, decided that they would get into
the upper window by climbing upon a
shed roof, and dislodge the enemy.
"You get CLUB from the woodpile,"
he said, "and l." unclasping it and Slip
ping it into the breast pocket of his lit
tie spencer, will take my knife. Let
me go first, and If there are two of
them you can club one while finish
the other.'
All this was as real to us then"
said my informant, "as was the battle
at Manila afterward to him. We made
our way stealthily to the upper win
dow, opening it with the utmost eau
ton, lest our prey, appraised Of our
approach, should escape us; but upon
entering the room there was not
creature to be seen. On examining the
door we found that the fire-shovel had
fallen against 1t in such a way as to
prevent its being opened from the out
side. and the mystery being thus
solved, we descended the stairway and
set about our syrup boiling
Another adventure in which the dan
ger was by no means imaginary threat
ened more serious termination, and
might have reversed the victory at Ma
Mia.
There was pile Of logs IN the back
yard at the Deweys, and the doctor
having a professional call likely to de-
tain him all day, George procured a
half filled powder horn, and, calling his
young companions together, invited
them to unite with him in a self
appointed celebration. Having bored
a hole In one of the logs and filed II
with powder. they arranged a fuse,
inserted a plug and retired to safe
distance to await results,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-18
DIDN'T DIscoNceRr ORATOR.
A Speaker Who Got Back at the Man
Who interrupted Him.

A Speaker Who Got Back at the Man
Who interrupted Him.
"oratory is not a lost art" said
Major Newman of Tennessee. now in
Chicago on business; at least, it's still
a power In my state. One of the most
famous old-time orators In southern
Tennessee was William, universally
known as Bill Grove. He was a law
yer of decided ability, though his con-
yivial habits prevented him from &C
cumulating any property. Before the
war, Lincoln county, where Grove re-
sided, was decidedly democratic, the
lawyer being an enthusiastic whig.
Like the great majority Of his party,
Ell was opposed to secession, but
finally yielded to sectional prejudice
and enlisted in the confederate service,
serving with considerable distinction
for four years. After 1.-The close Of the
war Bill became Democrat, but many
old-timers never forgot that he had
been a Whig and lost no opportunity
of irritating the old lawyer. A few
years ago the surviving confederate
soldiers of southern Tennessee held
grand reunion, Bill Grove being the
orator Of the day. The opera house
was crowded and Bill was doing honor
to himself and his section in delivering
a mastery and telling address, when,
while speaking of the outbreak of the
war, an old democrat in the rear of
the room, hoping to embarrass the ora
tor, shouted out: Where were you
then, Bill?' The face of the old law
yer blushed, but he was a real orator,
and had evidently no intention of
spelling the well-rounded period that
came next in order or losing the op-
portunity of making aTErand climax,
for he never looked at the man who
had sought to confuse him, but bided
his time and continued in ringing
tones: That little stream of blood
which first began to trickle down the
nations side at Fort Sumter rolled
on, widening, deepening, surging, un-
til 1t became vast deluge-a deluge
upon whose red bosom rolled and rock
ed the frail ark of southern national
ity-an ark which knew no Ararat,
but, wrecked and ruined, sank beneath
the engulfng food deeper than plum
met ever sounded; carrying with 1t the
noblest ship and the boldest crew that
ever fioated upon the sea of time-I
was there, you fatherless reprobaate!
Where were your"
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Even the horror-fed public Of To-
day might we'll be temporarily startled
by the statement of Sir Crichton
Browne, that wicked persons with a
modern scientific training might poison
with impunity. Doctors are charged
with creating scares, but If most of
them spoke all they knew they would
tell the public not what might be, but
what is-that murder under the very
eyes of careful doctors may often BE-
done with impunity."
First, particularly note this fact, for
1t has a vital bearing on what / am
going to say. There is scarcely one
poisoner of the present century ulti-
rately brought to justice, who had
not served a sort Of horrible appren-
ticeship to poisoning, and knew that
It might generally be done without
fear. Scarcely one Of the list has there
been who has not poisoned others be-
fore those in respect Of whom the final
trial took place. Drs. Pritchard, Palm
er and Lamson, and Neill-Cream, and
the bag as to whom a great Judge said
W montague w WHO udu uc-
Tended her: To-day have sentenced
to death the most terrible criminal
of the century, All these had pois-
oned, seemingly undetected till the
final catastrophe came. Remember
that even the very last on the list
Walter Horsford-had probably, scath-
less, murdered two people before the
victim who was avenged. Then re-
member that even the victims in re-
spect of whom these murderers were
tried had nearly all been buried for
periods shorter nor longer, and had
been exhumed. Each Of these execrated
murderers has positively been lured
on by the immunity he enjoyed.
want to show you the amazing
difficulty that even a doctor Of the
most distinguished skill may labor un-
der in such cases, and to show also
that the medical men who attended
on the earlier victims Of notorious
prisoners were wanting neither in skill
nor foresight Quite half dozen noted
doctors, friends of mine, have told
me Of cases attended by them where
they felt little moral doubt that the
patient was being murdered, and yet
they had to keep silence. Put yourself
in the position of young and clever
doctor practicing amongst local COM
munity who is called to a patient OF
some position. He actually suspects
that the latter is being poisoned. and
then ensues an awful dilemma. In
whom is he to confide? If he told his
suspicious to the patient the shock
might cause the most serious results;
besides. cruel injustice would be pos
sible. in that the patient might at
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-18

Atlanta Constitution: A friend asks
for the origin Of this poem One story
has 1t that the story was written by
Mrs. Sarah Hale in 1927, and set to
music by DR.. Lowell Mason, who had
singing classes for children in the
Boston public schools. The incident oc-
Cured to her when a child The 9TH
er story makes. Mary Sawyer, of Som
erville, Mass, the heroine of the poem,
and the poet young man named Roul-
stone or Revision. The lamb of this
story was killed 'by cow one Thanks
giving day.