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suffering from lung trouble and was sur
prised at her refusal to let him examine
her chest. On being reminded that he had
often made this examination. SIZE replied,
You never before did 1t when 1 was
asleep" When awakened she remembered
nothing OF the episode and apologized for
her rudeness to the physician. Subjects do
not usually recall IN the waking state their
hypnotic experiences, but remember them
when again ~hypnotized.
Hypnotic Limits.
Bernheim had a girl subject who seemed
to be entirely in the power of her oper-
ator, yet could not be persuaded to empty
an ink bottle on her best dress. An Ameri-
can subject cheerfully obeyed orders to
stab the operator with a cardboard dag
ger, but when al open penknife was given
her and she was told to repeat the act
she hesitated and had an attack Of hys-
terra.
More under the influence was a young
woman subject Of a European alienist who
had trained her to go into a trance at the
striking Of a gong. She was crossing a
street one day when she heard the chimes
Of church bells, became hypnotized, stag
gered about. was run down by a vehicle
and killed. A somewhat similar case was
that of an officer who had been hypno-
tized at a public performance and was
accustomed to fall into a trance when
ever he saw a shining light. One night
a carriage lump In the street producted
the usual effect on him and he was walk.
ing toward it in peril Of his life, when a
companion seized him.
Although the plea OF suggestion is no
so common In criminal cases today as II
was a few years ago. as far back as 1851
a tramp was tried and convicted in a Eu.
ropean court Of abusing a woman after
hyptonizing her. In 1879 a dentist wal
charged with mistreating a young patien.
by suggestive power. In 1894. a man namet
Czynsky, was sentenced to three years il
an Austrian jail for hyptonizing int
pseudo-matrimony a Baroness Won z
aged 80. DR.. Voisin reported the case o.
a woman who was hyptonized and used a.
the tool of extensive thievery by threI
criminals. Prof. Krafft-E bing testified Il
favor Of an accused shopIifter. who in
sisted that she had been hyptonized, an,
she was acquitted. bat IL was afterwar,
found that she was a professional the
and had deceived her scientific champion
Potency Of SUGGESTION.
Suggestion is potent In criminal cases II
another direction than the causing o.
crime. AS administered by the police in tn,
sweating" system. It Is a prolific eaus
OF false confession. Robert e. Cantwen
a Chicago lawyer. has found 1T cases oi
execution for murder on "eonfessions" II
which the alleged victims were afterwart
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drug. Another medicine was so diluted
that It would have required an, accumu-
lation of doses equal to sixty-four times
the bulk of the earth to amour. to one
grain of medicine. DR.. Elisha Perkins OF
Norwich, Conn. in 1876, patented a brass
and iron tracer three inches long, which
was drawn across the forehead to cure
tobthache and headache. It was popular
and successful.
Many kinds OF mechanical means, as
crystals, lights, the sound Of a gong and
passes with the operators hands, are used
to- start the subject on the subliminal path.
Experts variously give from three to nine
stages OF hypnosis. beginning with drowsi-
ness and ending with deep somnambulism
Ldebault says there is first drowsiness,
then drowsiness with a possibility of sug-
gcstive eatalepsy, then slight sleep with a
possibility of automatic movements, then
deep sleep in which the subject only hears
what the operator tells him, then light
somnambulism of which the waking
memory IS indistinct, and finally deep
somnambulism with an entire loss OF mem
DRY on awakening and a possibility Of all
the phenomena.
A Disputed Doctrine.
Evil suggestion, which is the scientific
counterpart OF malicious animal magnet
ism.' is a disputed doctrine. Some Euro
pean authorities. as Luys, maintain that
anything can be done with a hypnotized
subject, A man may be poisoned or mu-
dlated without the slightest after r~ecollec-
ton. Subjects may be made to sign their
names TO promlssory notes or wills. on
the other hand It is maintained that the
moral sense OF subjects is even keener dur
ing the hypnotic period than in the norma.
state, and almost invariably resists evl
suggestions.
Liebault, a member Of the Nancy Schoo
Of Investigation. found that only Or 5 pei
cent OF his subjects were amenable Il
criminal suggestions, Some subjects car.
ried out the experimental crimes evidently
because they realized that the deeds wer,
not BONA fide. An English experiments
suggested to a yoGhg shopkeeper. who haS
refused to play the role Of a minister o.
that OF a fish pedler. to put a lump o
arsenic ~(actually sugar. In a friends eul
OF tea. The young man did so. and whel
asked why he had poisoned his friend re
piled. laughingiy, 'oh, he has lived lonl
enough"
Many girl subjects refused to follow In
delicate or lmpolite suggestions, even show
inG a moral squeamishness not OF thei
waking state. one sirl Wouldn't help her
self 70 q glass OF water. deeminE Il i'm
polite. and another refused 70 tell an anec
dots which her mother regarded as a goo
joke A y woman declined 20 put be.
fingers 20 her nose as IN assistant IN TN
experiments. although she laughed at IN,
request A physician hyDnotEed q cir
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HARM DONE BY HYPNOTISM
Tragic and Comic Doings Suggesting
the Revival Of Witehcraft.
EALEs OF sPoOKs AND THINGS
HypnOtic SukgeatiOnH, Mental Thera-
Dsutics, NfnIicious Animal Mag
netism, and AweSome Aetiv-
ity of Ghosts.

Psychic doings, tragic and comic, weird
charges OF malicious animal magnetism
ana mental malpractieer have lately been
pning on top Of one another in the vicinity
OF New York. and the average man has
been wondering whether a revival OF the
age OF witchcraft is imminent,
over In somerville. n. =, yaere was a
public exhibition Of hypnotism last week
in which Prof. Arthur Everton threw his
subject, Robert simpson. into a trance and
walled on his rigid body supported at the
extremides on two chairs, and then was
unable to awaken him. Everton was ar
fested. He Insisted that the subject was
alive. kilograms from all over the ,eoun-
try gave advice, one Of them reading
rsuggest heart action" An expert hypno.
ast from Newark arrived. and aid Suggest
heart action to the rigid figure lying IN
the dead room OF a hospital.
Bob, your heart action. Listen Bob
xoLr heart action Is strong. Bob, YOU
heart begins to beat, Bobl do you heal
met Bob. your heart Is starting!"
But II was not starting. and an autopsy
Showed that simpsons aorta had beer
aLtured, whether IS the result OF straiI
curing hypnosis or otherwise.
stirring American sDOOks.
Fellow passengers aboard the steamship
Princess Irene OF Madame Eusapia Palla
dlno. the celebrated italian medium VIII.
s being imported to this country TO SIT
up American spooks. told awesome tales o
seances during the Atlantic crossing. On
young woman tainted. other passenger
screamed and fled when Madame Pal
ladlno invoked ghostly arms. cold breezes
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To ENJOY

the full confidence of the Well Informed
Of the World and the C-ommendation Of
the most eminent physicians it was essen
tial that the component parts Of Syrup
Of Figs and Elixir Of SIENNA should be
known to and approved by them; there
fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. pub
fishes a full statement with every package.
The perfect purity and uniformity Of pro.
duct which they demand in a laxative
remedy Of an ethical character, are assured
by the Company's original method of man.
uiaoture known 20 the Company only.
The figs Of California are used in the
production Of Syrup of Figs and Elixir Of
SIENNA to promote the pleasant taste, but
the medicinal principles are obtained from
plants known TO act most benehciaTly.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine-manufactursd by the CALI
fOrnia Fig Syrup Co. only. and for sAls
~ all l'ading druggists
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matter for ghouls to open the tomb with
out risk Of detection, but the fear OF
some such visitation prompted Mrs. Harri-
man to take additional precautionary
measures. A time clock was accordingly
installed at the grave and the night
Waterman instructed to register the time
of his visits thereon. The tomb is visited
Twice every night, at about midnight and
The grave of Mr.. Hartman was made
near that OF Mr.. Harriman's first son, p.
H. Hartman. jr.. who died twenty-five
years ago. The walls were cemented to
insure absolute dryness, and for a dis
lance Of eighteen inches from the top con-
crete was solidly packed. Upon this bed
of concrete was laid a heavy iron chain.
1t is reported that this will in time be re-
placed by an imposing and costly granite
monument.-New York Herald.
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GRAVE GUARDED BY NIGHT
Precautions Taken by Family to Pro-
tect Tomb of HaFri-
man.

To convince the member Of the family
OF the late f. Fl. Hartman that his grave
is nightly visited by a Waterman at
specific hours a time clock has been placed
at his tomb in the Protestant Episcopal
churehyard at Arden. The clock Is care
fully inspected by some member OF the
family every day and due record made OF
the time OF each nightly visit.
Resting between walls OF granite and
with the opening sealed with eighteen
inches Of concrete, Il would be a difficult
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16

MONEY In Patents. Hints to Inventors mailed
free. Send for it now. Clark, Deemer & Co,
Patent Attorneys, 234 Broadway, New York.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
TOTAL LOSS OF HAIR

Seemed mminent-ScaIp Was Very
ScaIy and Hair Came Out by
Handfu1s-ScaIp Now Clear and
New Hair Grown by Cuticura.
About two years ago l was troubled
with my head being scaly. Shortly after
that | had an attack of typhoid fever
and / was out Of the hospital possibly
two months when l first noticed the
loss of hair, my scalp being still scaly.
l started to use dandruff cures to no
effect whatever. | had actually lost
hope of saving any hair at all. could
brush it off my coat by the handful. /
was afraid to comb it. But after using
two cakes of Cuticura Soap and nearly
a box of Cuticura Ointment, the change
was surprising. My scalp is now clear
and healthy as could be and my hair
thicker than ever, whereas l had my
mind made up to be bald w. f.
Steese, 5S12 Broad ST., Pittsburg, Pa,
May and q, 1908"
Potter Drug 4 Chem Corp, Sole
Props. Of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
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Short Su-Sestioux


1t is better to cook too slowly than
too fast.
Vinegar diluted with water will re,
move grease from a stove.
Marble should be washed with am.
monia and water rather than with soar
and water.
great many blemishes on wall
paper may be removed with a rubber
on lead pencil.
The bureau drawer can be made tc
open easily and noiselessly by rubbing
it with common soap.
Dried lemon peel sprinkled over
Goals will destroy any disagreeable
odor about the house
Combs soon warp and break if
washed with water. good stiff nail.
brush cleans them well.
A weak solution of turpentine poured
down the water pipes once a week will
drive the water bugs away.
To cool an oven while baking never
leave the door open, but cool it by the
drafts or removing one of the plates
over the oven.
If you scorch a garment when iron
ing it rub a lump of dry starch on the
mark, then sponge it off. Repeat til.
the yellow disappears
Half Il lemon dipped in salt is ex-
cellent for cleaning copper articles
Oxalic acid, too, is equally successful
both for copper and brass.
An Irdia-rubber hot water bottle is
easily cleaned. Wash it well with
luke-warm water and soap, rubbing Oh
the soap with a piece of flannel
Remove grease stains by saturating
the spots with alcohol rather than ben
zine. Alcohol does not leave a ring
around the spot afterward Wash With
cold water.
One often hears complaints that the
boiler ruins and iron molds the clothes.
To prevent this, as soon as the boiler
Is emptied rub well with soap. This
viii not only prevent rust; it viii also
help to make suds for the next boiling.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
GROWTH OF REDWOOD.
Develops as Rapidly as Any Other
Native Tree.

NATIVE Tree.
Few people realize the rapidity of
growth of the coast redwood trees of
California. Because some of the large
trees of this family are a thousand
years or more in age, often attaining a
size where they are larger than any
other tree, excepting the famous big
trees. redwood has the reputation of be-
ing very slow growing tree. As a
matter Of fact, redwood sprouts grow
ing from stumps of older trees are
among the most rapid growing of our
native trees.
To illustrate this point, the United
States Forest service will exhibit at the
Alaska-Y ukon-Pacifc exposition in Seat
tie this summer, sections from a young
redwood sprout, together with explana-
tory diagrams showing its rate of growth
in diameter, height and volume. This
tree, which was cut from the Dupont
Powder works tracts near Santa Cruz
is over 80 inches in circumference at the
stump, almost 125 feet in height, and is
only Al years of age. These dimen-
slons indicate a growth of over y inch
IN diameter per year, and an annual
growth OF almost 2.7-1O feet in height.
Trees of an even more rapid growth
were seen in the Big river country of
MendocinO county, California, where
redwood sprouts over 80 inches in di-
ameter on the stump and 125 to 100
feet in height were found growing on
land cut over 40 to 10 years ago Red
wood sprouts thus rival in their rate
of growth the much lauded eucalyptus.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
WHERE A GREAT ARTIST ERRED.
Da Vinci's "Feast of Cana" Contains In
correct Architecture.

German archaeologists excavating in
Galilee came upon a hill or large
mound under which they found the
fairly well preserved walls of a
house dating from the time of Christ
which belonged TO the dwelling Of we'll
TODD man. A large clubhouse also I'M
eearthed contained jars which evidently
had contained wine and olive oil.
The foundations of the house are so
well preserved that there will be no diff
Guilty in making an exact plan of the
rooms, which are similar in character
and design to those in which the famous
supper of Cana in Galilee took place.
These rooms are wholly unlike the
conception of Leonardo da Vinci and
other painters, who have treated this
subject. The room in which the water
was turned into wine probably was not
more than twenty feet long by ten wide
and had u low roof. There were stone
benches around the walls and Il recess
III the wall facing the east. in which
perhaps the giver of the feast sat.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
SICK DOCTOR.
Proper Food Put Him Right.

Proper Food Put Him Right.
The food experience of a physician
in his own case when worn and weak
from sickness and when needing nour-
ishment the worst way is valuable:
An attack of grip, so severe it came
near making an end of me, left my
stomach in such condition l could not
retain any ordinary food. l knew of
course that l must have food nourish-
ment or l could never recover.
II began to take four teaspoonfuls of
Grape-Nuts and cream three times a
day and for two weeks this was almost
my only food; it tasted so delicious
that | enjoyed it immensely and my
stomach handled it perfectly from the
first mouthful. 1t was so nourishing
l was quickly built back to normal
health and strength.
'Grape-Nuts is of great value as
food to sustain life during serious at
tacks in which the stomach is so de-
ranged it cannot digest and assimilate
other foods.
L am convinced that We're Grape
Nuts more widely used by physicians,
it would save many lives that are
otherwise lost from lack Of nourish-
ment."
Absolutely the most perfect food In
the world. Trial of Grape-Nuts 10
days proves. There's Reason"
Look in pkg. for the little book, 1.-The
Road TO Wellyille'
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
SABLE ISLAND PONY HUNTS.
Catching the Wild Horses Which Inhabit
the Place of Wrecks.

When the supply of horses runs low in
Nova Scotia an expedition goes to Sable
island, rounds up herd of wild ponies,
selects the best of the lot, lassoes them
and transports them to the mainland
and captivity. Most persons know Sable
island as one of the places where the
transatlantic liners are picked up by
wireless and reported and also as the
place of shipwrecks, but the wild horses
constitute an interesting feature of it.
Sable island is about 100 miles south
east of Cape Canso 1t is often con-
the southwestern extremity of Nova
Scotia. 1t doesn't fit in with ones ideas
OF horse ranch, in fact many persons
think of it as a barren waste, but it
has about 200 square miles of territory
and is fairly fertile. 1t was treeless
until the government began to plant
trees there in order to make the island
more conspicuous to mariners.
The ponies thrive and are a hardy lot.
They prefer the Open refusing the
rough shelters which persons with an
eye to future profits have erected for
their comfort. When a storm comes, as
it does frequently, the horses gather in
up as If for a battle. The herds arrange
themselves with the colts in the center
the mares next. then the stations and
the master stallion of the herd in the
most exposed situation.
The roundup comes at least once a
year and IS exciting sport. The island
is swept from end to end and the horses
driven into a large pound. The roping
of those marked down for shipment is a
hazardous task and equals a bronco
busting tournament in spectacular inter
est. When a horse is thrown and tied
he is loaded ANONYMOUSLY onto a wheel
barrow, and carted to a surf boat which
takes him to the Halifax steamship.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
The American Voice.

l think myself that what, as much as
anything else, laid the foundation of the
American voice was the nervous i'll
health, lasting over three or four genera
tons, of the American woman. Up to
the middle Of the Nineteenth century,
and even beyond, foreigners We're sur
prised when they came across a healthy
looking woman. The isolation of frontier
life, the general tension of the American
climate, malaria, bad diet and worse
sanitation, combined to turn one-half the
nation into semi-invalids; and the thin,
sharp, slovenIy, staccato tones of the
American woman were as often as not
the result of physical and nervous de-
preston. | do not say that i'll health
was the sole cause, but it is undoubted-
ly- the fact that as the health of Amer
leans has improved so have their voices.
London Chronicle
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16

or died, when L read about Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; so /
began to take it, and am well again and
relieved Of all my suffering. - Mrs.
GEORGE JoRDY, Box 40, Marion, NJ.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or HARM
ful drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases we know of, and
thousandsofvol Observation-Disclosures
on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form Of
female complaints, Inflammation, III
ceraion, displacements, fibroidtumors,
Irregularities, periodicpains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostitution
Every suffering woman owes it to her
self to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound q trial.
LII you would like special advice
about your case write 81 COntiden-
tlaI letter to Mrs. PinIzhann, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and ALWAYS helpful
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
EARISIAAN GAMBLERS DUPED.
A Clever Ruse Enables Robbers to Take
Their Money

1t has just been learned that a
'hoepenick" coup has been successfully
brought off on the Maison Laft1tte, the
well known Partisan club.
High gaming goes on in the club,
which some time ago evaded a police
raid only by getting previous warming
While the gaming tables We're crowded
seven welldressed men entered, and the
leader announced in an impressive of
fetal manner: L am a police commits
sary, and in the name of the law, l for
bid any one to leave the building"
Then the doors were locked, while the
'commissary" gathered up all the money
on the tables-about $4,000. He then
proceeded to take the names and ad-
dresses of everybody present, and an
nounced that a prosecution would follow
After that nothing happened for some
days, but one or two of the leading
members of the club decided to try and
square the commissary. When they
went to his office they found thai the
real commissary was a different man al
together, and knew nothing about the
raid"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16

One cup -four, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, two level
tabIespoonfuls of sugar, two-thirds cup
Of milk, one egg well beaten, two me-
dium-sized apples cut into small, thin
slices. Sift together the -four, baking
powder and sugar, add gradually the
milk, then the egg. Beat well and stir
in the apple. Drop by spoonfuls into
deep, hot fat. Drain on brown paper
and serve with maple syrup or a sweet
sauce
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
BUCKWHEAT DIET ASSAILED.
A Reformer Who Would Replace 1t will
Beechnuts and Apples.

There are buckwheat eaters in New
York state who set their sponge to rise
Thanksgiving day or sooner and never
see the bottom of that buckwheat batter
jar again till the first of May. Buck
wheat cakes, pork sausage, fried pota-
toes, coffee every morning for the next
four months! Is it any wonder after
three or four months of such diet, at
the same time living in close, superheat-
ed homes, filthy with breathed air, that
the bodily resistance is broken down and
that the tail of the winter brings it's
usual crop of pneumonia cases with its
haryests of death? Meantime, there are
a few of us who are wise to this little
game, and so we are just lying low, liv-
ing on beechnuts and apples, taking the
best care of this body we know how,
doing our work sanely and sweetly, pay
ing no doctor bills. supporting no drug
shops, gin mills or pill factories. We
have no cemetery lots engaged and no
dates with the undertaker.-Open Road.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16
PARIS FOR MORE PARKS.
A Plan That VIII Heighten the Beauty
of the French Capital.

At last a much-discussed project of
identifying Paris is on the way of be-
ing carried out. 1t is proposed to raze
the Notifications that form wall about
the city and convert them with the mill
tary zone in front of them into beautiful
parks and play grounds.
This would make a belt of parks
around Paris more extensive than the
park system of any other city. There
would be nine parks of $50 acres each.
The ancient walls and Notifications
serve no purpose in this day of long
range guns except to make it easier for
customs officers to keep smugglers out
of Paris
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-16

Cut a pound Of fresh pork into inch
squares and parboil. Soak five chiles
in not water, take out the seeds and
veins, wash them well and put in Il
mortar. Pound to a pulp, adding 4
little garlic, black pepper, two cloves
and a cooked tomato Fry this in hot
lard; then add the meat, with some Of
the liquid in which it was boiled, and
little salt. Cover and let it cook
doW1 until it is rather thick.