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Took in Money Hand Over Fist.

But the way that stuff went at 81 a
bottle was q caution! All hands were
pressed into service TO peregrinate
through the crowd. We started with
arms full Of bottles and returned to the
phaeton Just loaded down with ccin,
which was unceremoniously dumped into
the capacious hip pockets of Or. Bill's :
buckslIin pants He never stopped to
count the proceeds until after the show
But Just to show the business the man
did he opened his trunk in my presence
in Fargo. s. D.. and showed $4,000 in
cold cash slowed away in a secret tray.
And his daily expenses must have been
considerable. He carried a pretty big
company with him, and they had to be
fed. and fed well. three times a day, in
addition to their salaries.
But apart from his nightly song and
dance act and great public tooth pull
ing. he did considerable business on the
side In the way OF private consultation
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Lineup Always Made a Hit.

This accomplished, tie parade was
called to order, and the cowboy band
headed an impressive cavaIcade to the
town plaza. The lineup would have
attracted attention even in little old
New York, and at Hayseed Junction 1t
sure was a winner. 1t was something
like this:
Front. row, Brazos Bill and Mrs.
Bill
Second roW-Hank. the tuba player.
with Indian hair running at cross pur-
poses. and buckslzin pants that didn't
fit; Noodles. with a baritone horn that
had seen better days. and a costume
to match Yours Truly. slide trombone
artist doing syncopated duos with
stereotyped leg; and Billy Marks,
playing a. tenor horn in six different
languages without stopping for breath.
Third row-Grossvater Johann, ma
nfpulating an F-fiat clarinet. once yell
low. now black; Bud Groner.- six feet
tall, with a bell over-shouIder, E-f1at
alto; then Maurice, about three sizes
shorter. blowing the same kind of an
instrument, with cowboy outfit that
was evidently culled from the bad
lands of Arizona.
Fourth row-Made up of piccolo,
drums. and cymbals. each playing in
such time as happened TO suit MS IAN
ey, and wearing a costume each diff
ferent from and worse than the other.
However. we made a hit with the
popuIace No wonder; it was an aggre-
cation of wind TANNERS such as I never
| hope to see again.
| After the concert in the plaza it was
a case of march back 70 camp with the
| yokels strung out and following in the
rear. Then in awe-stricken wonder they
waited Al ound fer the night spiel. It
was more fun than revival to them. At
night after the band played an over
| ture. Brazos Bill was the first on the
boards He waltzed over to the side
board. expatiated on the marveis of his
| collection of medicines while the band
between sentences blew itself blue in the
face. Then came the tooth pulling con-
| test to the accompaniment of brazen
| outbursts that had the Wagnerian idea
| of perpetual lett motif beat to stand
still.
| And the way il rained teeth with DR..
Bill and Mrs Bill operating IN unison.
Say. the man with the big bell bass
| horn was compelled every now and then
| to up-end the instrument and dump out
the molars before he was swamped. The
patient had no consideration as to how.
when. and where they expectorated. as
the blood-stained white trousers of the
old German clarinet player on the end
mutely testified.
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GretcheE's Pretty Romance.

One pretty German girl arrived ths
other day with trunk full OF hand
made linen as a dover. There was
pretty romance about the case dating
back 10 earliest childhood. Hans Hilger
had come 10 America some ten years
before 10 earn enough money to enable
him to marry and bring over his sweet
heart. At last the appointed time came.
He sent her money for her passage and
she arrived. Hans came all smiles and
bushes and wanted 10 take her right
off TO the little nest he had made for
her. But the law stepped in and the
two were married first.
Occasionally we have had little
stowaway bride. Marriage by proxy Is
not uncommon. One occurred a month
ago The man went before q notary in
New York and swore before him TO love
honor etc. then sent the document TO
Italy. This was laid before the legal
powers and a friend impersonated tbs
bridegroom IN a marriage ceremony.
There were wedding presents and good
wishes from friends and the husband
less bride sailed for this country. Her
fiance met her at the dock
The missionaries room has witnessed
some strange romances. But its mar
ttstic appearance doesn't dim the hap
Diness Of the brides and bridegrooms
who daily utilize It for a wedding
chapel
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Gane Was Afraid to kick.

When tie gang lined up that after
noon with appetites yards long, and
went up against that catfish and onion
combination, they nearly tainted. But
they didn't dare complain For none Of
'ern wanted to contribute to the cou-
missary fund. Even Brazos Bill himself
buckled down to the broth. But tlaa
boys had bets out as to whether ha
took some Of his own medicine that
night-or whether he was satisfied with
plain ordinary bug juice like the rest
of Us. But we couldn't prove it.
I'VE trotted along with that outfit for
about nine months, and then we went
up against q town in Texas that was
serving out smallpox on fine quadrupls
plate silver trays. Bill tried to per-
suade them that Coral Oil was just the
thing. But he had 10 take back seat.
a greaser health official came along
and corai-ed his entire stock-cowboy
clothes, tents. furnishings-the whole
business went by the board. They left
;5s our hair-and I believe DR.. Bill man
aged TO hold on TO most of his coin
cause they didn't know it. 1t was
probably fumigated and disinfected en-
route, thougil-an I've been thinkin
some Of suggestin' TO John d. since he's
getting so touchy about his money
bein' tainted that he send It down TO
the isthmus and let EN- put 1t through
a course of yellow fever fumigatiOn.
However. people don't always take ad-
vice in the spirit in which its offered.
so I amt done 1t yet.
"To continuous boys of the band
concluded we'd mad about enough OF
the wild West and Indian doctors, so We
made Eee-Iine for Chicago. long hair
an all. and there we separated. Here 1
am, still pumping the old trombone ia
the same cireuaambient with the
Ereathings of the Rough Rider who has
known what it was IN his time to sport
tuckSlIIn and long hair.
THANK you-yes; don't mind If [ do.
Red eye for mine-and straight
A-a-a-h.'
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New Ideas About the Mind.

THAT is just about all insanity I'M
piled until some twenty years ago. It
was only a classification With certain
kinds OF cases a cure might come 20
pass. with others it rarely emerged. If
they might have good food, exercise.
recreation then was all done that
might be done. The change In all this
came about through an idea conceived
By German. an idea that now does
NOT appear particularly startling. It
seemed to him that we might know
much more of a badly working mind
If we were to comprehend the working
OF 8 normal mind. lie thereby turned
himself into a psychologist. Psychology
a this time was breaking its shell
and when it once got out of Its cover
ing the growth was mighty.
"One of the first steps showed that
the mind was not the nicely planned
affair which the older school had made
Il. pieced from this faculty and that
faculty all orderly and most pretty;
rather they came TO find out that mind
is the working OF something which has
grown as the body grows. bit by hit:
that although the general ARRANGEMENT
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Learned to Study Individuals.

This" DR.. Parker continued began
TO light UP insanity. The mind might
be ever so strangely affected, but now
you might get your fingers on its work
ing II was not just & picture Of the
present; a man raving, tearing his
clothes, did not mean merely a mania
1t meant that this excitement began
somewhere from some small beginning
They went on to find the beginning.
Since then the study OF insanity has
grown. We have learned TO study the
individual case ana those trained in this
psychological work have acquired many
ways of doing this. \ patient is carried
through a series of tests which deter
mine with great eXactness what are the
functions damaged and how far this
damage has gone.
Perhaps I can best explain this by
telling you Of case which fell into my
hands a short thine since. This case
had developed the delusfon that the
spirits Of the dead were about her con-
stantIy; she could hear the rustic of
their shrouds, see them as they stalked
about in the darkness of her rooms.
could feel their cold hands as they were
laid upon her, She could not be brought
to remain within the house alone: she
dared not enter a room not lighted: her
life she was spending on the verge Of a
terror which now had brought her for
commitment to an asylum. OF course
this had not come without cause. yet
her history showed no surface indica-
tions Of this. But here The new light
came in. II this cause were not to be
found In her waking state, it yet might
exist elsewhere. Underlying this wax
ing state Of ours. the so-called upper
consciousness. is that which we call the
subconsciousness. This is a strange re-
gion and in It we often find the germs
of disturbance later to appear in the
upper level,
I'm order to get at this region one
thing is necessary. You must put the
patient in a state where the subcon-
scious IS dominant. Now we all enjoy
at times more or less of these states,
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The Simple Life in Iceland

population there is but one policeman
There is neither jail nor any place of
Incarceration for criminals; nor yet is
there a court in which a high crime
could be tried
The percentage Of crime is so small
that it does not warrant The expense OF
Keeping up court. when i criminal
trial becomes necessary the offender is
taken 10 Denmark 90 answer to the law
for his misdeeds
'fhe women are among the most ad-
xanced in The world Their Woman $
Political League has a membersbir4 o'
200. and they enjoy more civil rights
than the women of almost any other
country having n voice in all elections
save that Tor members for their 1egisla-
tive bO0N.-The Pilgrim
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was. and we weren't any Of us In
position TO contradict him.
"In my soup extremity ] went down
10 the river where we had a number Of
fish lines buried and sneaked in four
big catfish. which used as the founda-
ton Of my soup. An Lord, he knew,
they We're strong enough 10 be the
foundation of most anything You
know how catfish smell in boiling water.
Wei, 1 added about a busheI of onions
by way of flavoring. and you may be-
Geve me or not. but I had a soup 80
strong il would stand alone
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legion. Having your teeth pulled is the
pet dissipation of the farming districts.
Before beginning operations they rubbed
their oil on the gums of their victims,
and ordered the band to play so as to
drown their shrieks. We had two bass
drums in the band-and they were
always butting in whether or no. The
audience thought it was just horse
play. but we knew that it was the stern
necessity of drowning. the anguish of
some unusually strenuous patient.
We never travelled by train, but al
ways overland. Brazos Bill and Mrs
Bill. with big sombreros as head pieces,
rode in the van, driving a. natty run
about. The band and the vaudeville
artists, of whom there were about a
dozen, followed in spick and span phae
tons, and the canvas men and camp
helpers brought up the rear. perched
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ellis Island q Gretna Green

the marriage lie. would never think Of
sc binding themselves.
-'One such case occurred the other
Gay. The girI-the oretuest Scandi-
navian maiden imagina ble-on arriving.
said she was TO meet her sweetheart
and marry him He was on hand, bat
he demurred against the marriage being
performed at the time.
I will marry her later on, when 1
can afford IT,, he said 1 reported the
case and she was turned over to me \
position was found for her IN nice
family. but as soon as she arrived there
she wrote to her hance and he called
for her It the house. She came back
a her own accord. When I discovered
that she had communicated with the
man [ took her back TO the island Then
1 sent for ner fance. Either you must
marry the girl or she viii be sent bach
to Scandinavia. ne was told He then
lost no time in marrying her.
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Being a Faithful Account of How the
Charms of Music Aided the Quick
Sales of Coral Oil, the
King of Pain"

none of them did-whether from motives
of honesty or discretion, deponent saith
not. "An. my stiff leg amt no fake,
neither, I got that bein' blown up in
a mine, near Steator, ILL.,, an that cured
me of any soarin ambition I might have
been afflicted with.
But ms hair-weIl. that amt no fake
Its Just a tender memory of a James
Dandy in the fake line. That WIS, grown
by Coral Oil, the King of Pain 1 put
in considerable time and energy exploit
ing that marvellous concoctIon, and was
particeps criminisAwhich isn't as bad
as it. sounds-to scheme for selling it
at 81 a bottle at a profit of 81 cents on
the cost of each bottle Sold That's a
profit that John D. himself wouldn' t
have sneezed at. It was good business
while it last. The only trouble was
that we hadn't his nerve, and when they
began yelling tainted money at us-an
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What Hypnosis Revealed.

The surgeon uses the knife to find out
what lies below the surface. So the
student of insanity uses hypnosis.
BY these methods a strange state
was brought out in this case 1t was
found that the delirium of death. the
hailunication Of voices. of shrouds. of
specters. and shades of the departed be-
gan In certain spirituaIistic experiences
which she had when mere child and
IN which she was the medium. A 50
called communication between the dead
and the living. All through her life
these frightful experiences had repeat
Ell themselves, although she ceased her.
spiritualistic work when eight years
old They did not repeat in her walk
ing life. for she did not remember when
waking
They had come only in her dreams
as does much of this Subconscious ma
teriaI. making of these one long hideous
delusion, a series of haIIucinatIons
which extend more and more until they
began to leak into her waking state
with their frightfuI content. Then she
began 10 see these when awake. hear
Them. feel them. II came from nowhere
for recall that she had no memory Of
the early experiences which had started
all this nor OF the subsequent dreams
1t was all haIlacinatlon OF tremendous
power and was working her mental
ruin
Where lies the point is that with
out these measures. the cause Of this
could never have been touched The
case is merely illustrative There is
no case Of insanity, which. studied hard
and sufficiently early. will not reveal it
self by these measures at hand to the
trained observer
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kkT YER been patent medicine
~ faker?
'tOh, of course not Vir-
tuous indignation and all that
sort of thing Oh, very we'll. I apologize.
Why should any one suspect you2 Why,
indeedg Amt darn one of you's got
the brains. But. say. you missed half
your life when you weren't There's
lots of fun to be gotten out of falip'.
You'd orter know that. This delicate
attention to the reporter) And of all
the takers in the whole blame business
the patent medicine takers the biggest
fake of all y d'you ever even have 4
heart TO heart talk with a real genuine
faker2 Novel;. then. you've missed
q quarter more OF your life. But if any
OF you nave got the price to buy. I'll
try to fix that for you while there is
firae.'
Tt was picturesque Har-chap who
made that proposition. Said his name
was john Stanton-which may or may
ROT be true Anyhow. it does for pub
lcation and as an evidence of good
faith He had met up with the re-
porter in the-er-weiI. the 5oozarium
of little country hotel on the Vir-
ginia side And. Il being pay day, the
reporter had the price. thereby saving
for possible future use the small re-
naming portion of his life which he
had not missed" :"
John Stanton had reached the
b0ozarium as one OF a travelling brass
band. which had been serenading the
Eotel-six or eight Tommy fuckers.
singing for their suppers-and singing
not in vain.
stanton worked the trombone-and
worked it hard. he had won the ad-
miration Of the group Of small boys
who gathered as soon as the band
tuned up Particularly he had impress
ed the eoIored contingent, who had
never seen such an instrument before.
and who gazed, open mouthed, and
listened open cared, until one dusky
youth unable 10 contain himself. burst
out; ''Fo' de Lawd's sake: jes' look at
dat man wild er slippin' hoFni" thereby
disruptms the band and bringing the
serenade to a sudden termination.
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Bill Was a Good Talker.

He was a mighty good taIker. our
DR.. Bill; and the fellow that said silence
was golden. didn't know. It was DR.
Bilfs talk that just raked in the coin
his talk and his band. The band Just
saved talk, that's ALL And silence
wasn't It's successful speciality either.
we made spectacular parades through
the Western towns Cuntll the authori-
ties drove us ouD and then furnished
music for his performances" at night.
In order to demonstrate the ef-
hcacy OF his oil as King of rain.
Brazos Bill, assisted by Mrs BIZ, would
engage in tooth-puiIing duet. operst-
ing on all who applied-and thew wer
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X Mental Irreeulery Reduced to a Fine Science =

F. r GEORGE NJ. PARKER. while
still a young man. is one or the
eminent mental specialists in
New York. He carefully Sc
Iected his line OF investigation and made
IL life study. He is called into many
eases as an expert, and II was his
testimony a few months ago that saved
the life of one George Wood, on trial
for murder in New Jersey.
DR.. Parker secently consented to an
interview with the Cleveland Plain
Dealer correspondent upon the science
Of mental irregnlarity and not only
that but agreed to make himself under
stood
''But let us start right in the begin
ing" he said. You must understand
that the study of mental diseases holds
a rather peculiar position, for it is at
once the deepest of all departments of
human knowledge and until recently
has. as well, been the most backward
IN its growth. Just why this latter
should be Is a trIhe hard to say OF
course st IS due ia a way 10 the pc
culiarity of the disease. To see Il man
vehemently declaring his divine origin
exploiting his fabulous wealth. mourn
ing because his hands ara of glass and
his feet OF clay, all this forms a pic
ture in your mind, but 1t is only pic
ture You compare II with other sim
liar pictures of similar cases and then
begin 10 recognize classes OF insanity.
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during his office hours IN the medicine
tent every afternoon. He performed all
sorts Of operations with dredging toags
and battle ak. Sometimes his patients
survived. When they did-well we had
to make a quick run for is 10 escape the
wrath of an indignant populace.
@YYhenever the cooks lady took 1t into
her head that she'd like a day off it
was up to each one of US 10 take 4 turn
in the cook tent. Once when II came
my turn we were camped on the Fox
river in Wisconsin. Soup was the de-
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of parts were there at birth. all
these parts grow differently in differ
ent individuals. some coming to per-
fection early. some late and some not al
all. They found that no experience has
been utterly lost, but all has exercised
an effect: that. in short, our mind at the
present moment Is made up of an enor-
nous past and a large part of the pres
ent which we neither realize nor know
in any completeness. but which none
the less IS there.
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The Wood Murder Case.

The Wood murder case, which l ex-
amined for the defense. was one in
which the defendant had committed d
crime in subconscious state The
question as to his responsibility in this
state came up. The murder was shown
10 have been purposeless, foolish uu-
premeditated. II occurred during a Pc
riod of six days. of all of which time
lhe defendant had not the slightest cue
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CAUTIOUS.

I have Just purchased one of those
run 10000 years
What is the principal on which 1t
Lord love you. ! don't know
Then how will YOU start Il again
when 1t stops ?'-Eouston Post.
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sleep is such. so is the dream state. the
state Of idle revery. or again the absent
minded individual too often is a crea-
ture OF his uncertain subconsciousness
Arhficially. however, to induce this state
one at times uses hypnosis Hypnosis
here is nothing more than the sealpeI to
70 the surgeon.
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Travelled With Brazos Bill.

Il was premier trombonist on a band
that Travelled with Brazos Bill. an IN
dian doctor. former sca-out with Custer
Che won medals to prove it, and sharp
shooter, per Sc. Now, don't ask me what
per Sc means right there Bill liked
to put 1t that way. 1t sounds well. an
It don't do no harm. so let it go at that.
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mand for dinner. and there wasn't a
blamed thing in camp to make it OF.
[ didn't dare kick; il would have cost
me money. and done no good. Any one
that found fault with the fodder was
fined. the fine being added to the com
missary fund. At least. Dr.. Bin said it
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| torpid liver do a song and dance act
| in sheer ecstasy, warranted to cure
most anything and equally good for
| external or internal application?
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ImpOsture Impossible.

Yes. naturally this subconscious hy-
pothesis offers itself to the interruptions
as means TO escape justice, but 10 one
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we couldn't deny it smelt 10 heaven
an run US out of town. it kinder broke
us all up.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-08
NEW YORK uNIoNlsM LEADS.
Ratio Of Organization is the Highest in
the World.

Albany, N. Y. May Statistics
recently received by the state depart
ment Of labor show that only three for
eign countries have as many organized
working people as New York state and
in proportion to population New York
lead these. Members of labor unions
in Great Britain and Ireland number
1,so2,3oS, in Germany 1,27S,s31, in
France 1855 and in New York 400,-
900. The ratio is one to each eighteen
inhabitants in New York, one to
twenty-five in Great Britain. one to
forty-four in Germany, one to fifty
three in France.
ut is a significant fact" said the
department, chat the hours of labor
are short or long in almost the pre-
else ratio of the degree Of organiza-
ton
The departments quarterly bulletin
states that in the last quarter Of
1904 the improvement IN industrial ac-
tivity which began in the summer
became so pronounced that the per
centage of idleness was smaller than
in 1903, or even 1902. The improve
ment was faily general turnout the
various trades and industries, with the
single exception Of building"