Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1887, Page 10

THE FAITH CURE DISCUSSED. Ohbapter II, Relating to the Healing Miraoles of the Gospel. oure was only the pa= | up his parable, and preached well and N n to reason; L whe: a wl:soly's uh‘\m obedience to the natu- ElECTR‘ClTY lk HARNESS- man awakes from a dream and says, I | ral Iawa of health. But had his noble imagined [ had lost my leg, and am glad | life |asted till now, his voice, I think, = to find I have done nothing of the kind.” | would have been loudest in the denuncia- | Great Expeotations Regarding Electrical But it is sheer nonsense to describe his | tion of that hygeiolatry which threatens awakening and co'mln P hen a disease has been accurately diag- | might the better serye God with vigorous NUMEROUS OTHER MIRACLES N SrmbamAt Ry Canand pre- | Dre THE TELEPHONE IN CHINA, to be serious, there is no room [ chietly, it is to be feared, for our own — nnim;l to plxlxly in thebcur? iom‘('?rt, and nrde?tly ofi«rlst:‘ u\h'llle, Wrot tat all must be ef- avi no particular expectation of an- fected by some nl agent, such as we uthur.‘ While our fathers considered the | Rods Should be Placed—Magni- assume the soul itself to be; for the mere | most sublime line in French poetry to be tude of the Telegraph Business oturing faculty which we call imagina- | the profession of Joad, nation can at the most have only sup- | Je crains Dieu, cher Abmer, et n'al point lied some stimulus to the mind or soul, d’autre crainte; But if neither imagination nor, for simi- | we have ceased to fear God, and laatned lar reasons, hope nor attention can of | to fear microbes, . themselves produce a bodily disease,what | Two causes contribute to this change. are we to think of the entity, of which | One is the decline of faith; the other is [ & o b they are but facultios and phrases which | that advancement of science which | Chang for the introdction of a telephone ent—an agent which, | places us in the position of the poor without recognmizable machinery suddenly | Brahmin who was cruelly induced to steps forth to assuage pain and to send a | look through a microscope and perceive through the dis- | all the unsuspeeted monsters in a drop of ensed tissues and palsied limbs of its own | the water he was drinking. W hether the fleshly companion? i With all due hesitation in treating such | was, ot was not, well founded, its super- that the truth seems | ior suitability to produce courage as con- to mulllc be lllnu: l’lnnt p;u-t of u:’ w);:p!lm ;nuu;d v;;ltlh sclenullohnhy(s’hnl etermine ; ! we call mind, soul, or spirit, and which | ism, is obvious enough. Upon our gen- £ v " magazine will revolve as fast as the b in its ordinary relations with the body | eration it has come to lose in great de. | Fanked as marking the introduction of a Eleotric Springs. resembles a coupled dog, now pnllln* 1ts greu that Abhangigkeitsgefuhl which | new art, and not, as has been so strongly companion its own way, now pulled by | S itin an opposite direction, 15 capable, | tion of religion; and with it the “sense of under certain exceptional and yet obscure | being coudin(ins. of eafiu‘}‘y bl‘;:‘;xstqflng “5:5 Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, t can render the body insensible X v to the p»in_of mutilation on the battle- | No nne talks now of “‘every bullet hav- | characters in their alphabet. Even it a field,or of fiery dissolution at the martyr’s | ing 1ts billet,” or thinks of life as an ‘‘ap- | system of dots and dashes could be de- stake; and it can effect, independently of any extraneous agency, such & change in | the laws of dynamics, and t! the processes of physical life—the circu- Iation, the innervation, we know not | we desire that our days may be long in bl what-—as to banish disease and_ reinstate | the land, we know. thit tlm{ond musut bo | telegravh. OF course no such difficulties | of Washington QCures by Sham Medical Appliances— The Power of Pure Mental Impressions to Heal That T may not pain the feelings of any reader—says Francis Power Cobbe in his article in the Contemporary Review on Faith Healing and Fear Killing—I will not attempt to analyze from this point of view the healing miracles of the gospels (notably the cures of epileptics and maniacs), but eite the observations upon them of the Bishop of London, than which in my humble judgment nothing «can be more just or philosophical. aro his remarksTn his Bampton Lectures must be the real flood of fresh vitalit: a matter I would sa again, our Lord’s mi ‘There is no _question al power of the mind over the body 18 exceed- has .never yet been thor- Some have assigned to this cause the extraordinary cures that have ‘wrought at the shrines, or o0 sight or touch of relics, of Roman Catholic ain! t is quite conceivable that ny of His miracles of healin n the result of this power o h we are now considering. It is ingly great, and oughly examined. been undeniabl he uniformity o but to a superiority in his men e similar power pos: en seem to possess this their own bodles and over the bodies of in different degrees. of Rellgion and Sclence, p. 1! Putting aside, however, the miracles of the gospel as not desirable subjects for ument, we are elsewhere supplied undance of others; as, for exam- le, in the records of the miracles of St. sed by o:x;;; men., ower over Y ent, the conditions under which this soul healing is accomplished seem always to | guccessful be those of excitement. So far as we understand them at pres- hy[‘hmlu precautions; and that (barring ‘The Relations capable of being produced voluntarily | f Il horte rriod, and spontaneously by the subject, but U0 o6 oAt ATGL that th must be created by something outside of view must prove in the long run more M ’ Wi That something may be--and | conducive to gmltion than the x‘rzmtlon of a | hiee Whenever the Chinese huve used | tor nad been tornoff of every room as | 100 yards. Within 100 yards of w e R R S . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: BUNDAY.' AUGUST 14. 1887.—TWELVE PAGES, ground, though'it is claime back to his | to become our only religion. Kingsley Inventions. imagination. | adjuredtus to preserve health that we ponse, but t! of a strong public demand forit. » the chimney A Carbon Feeder For Electric Lighta ns and hands. We coddle ourselves, Lighting Cars With Electricity—How ~Queer Eloctric Antics, The Telephone in China. Chicago Tribuno: The syadicats or- ganized by Wharton Barker and Si Hung system in China has a fine field before it. The telephone 1s one of the simplest, handiest, and most useful of modera in- ventions, and it has come into such gen- eral use the world over, that 1t is only surprising the Chinese have delayed tak- ing it up so long. So far as the Chinese uro concerned the telephono must be | Calculate The carbon feeder or magazine wi! old belief in an over-ruling Providence lighted carbons become exhausted and chleiermacher deemed the very founda- | claimed in this country, ‘‘an improve- | It 1s practically a sel ment in telegraphy,” The Chinese have never been able to use the telegraph, owing to the existence of over 4,000 As in the natal, 1n the mortal hour. H: ¢ A po— On May 20, Queer Electric Antics, nan county, T ploy it 1n any commercial use of the p,';.':‘l':,f‘m;?l (?}?:'H pointed span.”” ‘The bullet Kroneeda by | vised to represent such an alphabet it o length of o life is detormyned by those of blnh;!ay, it would be practically impossible to em attend the telephone, which will *‘talk” Chinese or any other tongue with as much accuracy as it does English, sought 'exclusively by sanitary and ning bolt struc acel ly we “struggle for existence' Thoy are not equal. The telephone, theorefore, offers No one can doubt that this scientific e in the bigher kinds of soul healing 1 pre- | providontial span, or of fate, or a planet, | 1o folegraph in other countrics, as in rancis and numberless other saints, of of Valentine lohunluhe, and ot sume _always is—an_ exalting idea pre- sonted to the mind either by somo grand | cally find all aronnd us ovidences of re- | ook Ministers, the dispatehies had to bo | doors were wrenched off thoir I Groatrakes, of Prince } personality, or by arelic or token sug- | doubled care concerning the conditions | oot in English and translated at both Father Mathew. If such “miracles” then, be explicable mental excitement— h - greater in de- experienced, ~we gestive of sacred or patriotic sentiments, and touching those cords which vibrate | this new cantion is good and rational. deeuuénm ':": h"',:",’,'“ k’enrt. &ho v.lmor); ceive great improvement in China. "The | ¢oo40q but rocently put forth by Messrs. Myers and | rooms, better drained houses, and | urpose thero is to uso it not simply in- | Cxpioded, u bk eonlnil:‘:dmfix“:x‘:;g;:n‘lll‘;: more effectual ablutions, are real im- ] rifle concentrated on a bodily condition 1sthat | tors,but the excess to which hygenic pro- communication botween remote points, wherein its influence is at & maximum-— | cautions are carried, is, in :my humble opinion, the very re- verse of the truth. #8 results of stron, the same in kind thow gree than we have al! are forbidden by the law of an explanation of them farther in any material force or effinence. he second class of faith healing supports the same conclusion with even ency. As I have already sai force proceeding from a living #aint is just conceivable; but one issuing il, thorns, old bones, ts of wood, is hardly Gurney, speakin, u It is, I hold, precisely | serious interests of life, is becoming ab- when the mina is most completely | surd,and conducting us rapidly to a state SHHD ooty pahological conditions, that it can | tear,we aro paralyzed by it for all natural | LAHer not to compete with the tolegraply supreme spiritual faculty nails, hairs, and bif or kismet; and accordingly we practi- of health. Of course in many directions thing, as the urchins say, ‘‘knockeéd 0dd as it may seem, there a strong More temperate diet, more airy bed- provements on the habits of our ances- side towns and cities but for long distance the proportion which such cares now ocupy amid the uld L body and its | of things wherein, if we are not killed by of healing. Concentration of the mind on | spirit scems alrondy fled from' tho ma. | 10n&:distance communication by telo: within rational aceeptance. ‘when it is noted that fictitious relics(such a8 the pieces of the ‘‘true cross,’’ of which there are said to be enough to build a ship) are just as efficacious as others, we cannot fail to see thatitis through the believing mind of the patient that the As he approaches the holy shrine, to which he has perhaps made along and toilsome pilgrimage— the longer and more toilsome the better —or 18 annointed on his sick bed,amid the tears and solemn prayers of his friends, the tide of rehigious emotiqn rises in the man’s soul as in the presence of a living the body is the source, I conceive, always | jority of English homes. Aged people of disease, not of health, There are also, | {from this and, no doubt, other concur- as we have noted, other and lower stimu- | rent canses) sel Iants of the excitement which maysuftico | tie gniety which so often brightened | 10 UN2%, on, tho contrary, every indugo. to produce healing results; the most com- % o monly effectual being the hope of recov- | calm evening of a wellspent life, through the use of some nostrum. s he last and supreme problem regard- apply it? is,of course, the real crux of all. the persons who are just | reach us trom the great schools, a very n endeavoring to accom- | marked change has come over them, plish faith cures of the religious kind— | curiously indicative of the sensitiveness some of them very humble and obviously intellectual level—are all ~on the | and harder, and are interested in pecu- Boston Commercial Bulletin: The | Jooked as red as fire. John Gunn, John wrong tack (if the views stated in this | niary profits rather than in nobler pro- paper be correct) to discover a real | fessional ambitions. Nay, we have been method of faith healing. in looking “for the angel to "stir the | ulity!) that English schoolboys have al- waters,” instead of seeking the natural fount of hope and courage and wpiety in | cold, about eating indigestible things, He R ¥ M f > through the open country at the rate of about climbing trecs and precipices, | jury o roofs and a menance to the safoty | 15 thal no one washurt or even shocked! | foreor fifty sniles an AAIEX Gt AoTtably The third class (c) of faith healings, wrought by charms and amulets, com mon among uneducated people day in England, and everywhere implic- savages, are 80 obvi- t by mental stimulus alone (whenever wrought at all), that it is needless to speak of them at any length in this connection, T'he fourth clas itly believed amon ously cures wroug ch the gravest side of this | about going on deep water in unseawor- (d) of cures includes those wrought by men supposed to pos- gess natural healing powers. find ourselves in the mdst of the meric and hypnotic controversies, into which I confess myself unable to pene- One point connected with them, which supports the view that faith heal- ings are purely subjective, 1s-that the phenomena produced Guldol‘-'s picnlm)1 ztrilgnz ‘down Lucifer, then, beyond all doubt, mistrust and pes- | write always under reservation),who may | s, .’ > 5 in digzing o cans vhe: 4 T 3 hen, bey A wa f i reet are a nuisance and onl artiall n digging a canal where the channel Y od r ring r simism and fear must correspondingly | be described as Molly-coddles,so cautious i % ‘;,t;{]':“:,h ;2:3{'“%;,"'{3:; (‘,‘,’g‘fi‘,{;:c.‘,“_,‘;‘,‘; Sympathy with the brutes is calculated re may bere- | to make A warm man warmer and a hot % f property in preventj If fuith and piety and hope so | thy b fn short, about all thoso | by hremen’ i aniition Lo e unis | Great Eleotrical Expectations. elevate and stimulate the soul a3 to en- | pursuits which excited the perennial properly lated, dangerous to people Electrical Review: The public expect | trs able it to dispel disense like Gabrielin [ alarms of their fond mothers. | who come in contact with them as well | much of improvements in which _electri- | gp, Many boys are to be found, it is stated (I | ag liable to fires. Poles in a public | ity is employed. Millions may be spent depress the soul sad leave Lucifer mas- ter of the situation. ter In this case also, it | limbs. " Urchins in round jackets spaak is literally true that *‘he who will save | of the danger of checking perspiration He who values his | after eri t, and decline to partake of ic 8 X1SLS avi ments until success seems to by eX- ! vthing lifo beyond tho purposes for which life | wnripe applcs. and pastey on the Bever. practical system exists it must be devised, cees! s to be the ex- | cleaner, cooler and cheaper, if anything A ! S ich for the popular senfiment on this matter | ception, but let there be a failure of an | jg to be argued from the successful trials was given, will forfeit it by hissickly | before-heard-of ground “of dyspep: i Stro The | electrical piece of mechanism and ever: 5 vith i 'd n 5 A Aln l'\llull (;:;:r)d O!llh“m)hmtss';o Invited in the holidays to the ecstatic 18 becoming stronger every day. The P eIy | lately made with improved motors in holds good of health; neither are to be iv e ion i {evelopement of the systems plectri ntlm‘m{,d by mi\lkmzfllt thlu chief ob]eft o{ 1l;o,y‘lul\vc (leclfim;d lwi(h ru(em;lcel to !hg’ L L T ST T e e o mortal care. How then do we now stand | playfulness of their pony's heels; an i o evel 4 s a3 regards fear killing, the antithesis of | have beon scon to shrink from pupby's | Loy goverument, for soveral yeurs past, | Pow It seewms to me that | caressing tongue, murmuring the omin- the gains which have ac- crued to our gencration from the pro- | who are just acquining physical courage gienic science we have ac- his life shall lose it.” when a powerful makes passes over his patient s to fling the magnetic fluid upon him, are very nearly matched b the phenomena produced™ by Brai and hypnotisin, where no mesme As I have said, 1 feel incom- petent to deal with this matter. are many other cures, however, worked by faith in men or women quite i pendently of either mesmeric or relig in the case of doctors of great reputation, whose mere presence in the sick room does more good than their prescriptions, Lastly, we reach the fifth (o) class of faith healings--cures wrougnt by sham medical appliances supposed to possess natural healing powers, mont of the subject we have certainly evi- alore of the power of purely mental impressions to heal disease. dmpossible to catalogue the absurd and absolutely inert drugsand agencies which ~—necessarily impotent on the body of the atient—have been powerful enough in ir influence on his mind to enable that nd to cure his body, marked of one of them (a spider’s web 11s), it is necossary that they “‘with the knowledge of the patient, else they have no effect at ' [t 1s, then, his' mental impression ency wherein all their potency resides. Dr. Carpenter admits that theso sham medicines produce their effect not only in maladies in which nervous disor- ders have a share, but also in some, such a8 scurvy and gout, which “'seem to de- peud on the existence of a defimto per- version in the condition of the blood.” He Lind "'On Scurvy,” a story of the siege of Breda in 1625, when the rrison were in so deplorable a state ¥ that they were on the point of capitulating when the prince of Urange managed to send three small phials con- taining & decoction of chamomile and camphor to the doctors, who gave out that four or five drops in a gallon of water, was an infallible remedy for sourvy. The “‘prince’s remedy’'thorough- ly checked the disesse,and restored num- bers who had “‘Mental Physiology,'’ p. 688. We have now briefly surveyed the dif- ferent kinds of faith healin, brave man dies but once. a cow- | their valuable persons. ard a thousand times; coming perilously near the verge of cow. | should be motloeable. anywhore in tay underground in front of the Providence | methods used in gas-muking were not | as the single question of cost can be over: * [ am informed that the ‘‘true” faith- h | ulplo do not allow the use of any "y roader desite to seo the exceeding | i3 @nough to point out that all this new- nonsense which can be written and printed | born caution about their health (to which, | gnort distance, in lighting the Park thea- on this subject, he isreferred to a book which | perhaps, the very undesirable study of | tre the light being the Edison incand: expected of our electricians, The inven- has pasugd through ldlh'lfl edl‘llr:mslull:l A]lgerlcu vhg'shl)lnzy tb' y scl:xo)ulu‘fl)ys hi\s ;)n some 4 cience an ealth, with a Key to | schools contributed) will at the best ere- i i k. Now large sun f 3 i i 5 { : & ground is a line from the Western Union | crank. ge sums of money are | wires common to all cities will be a bar criptures,” by Mra. Eady, president of | ate o Reneration of hypochondrinos and | hioadquarters on State street down | exponded Jearly m systematic experi. | to the introduction of that crude method inarians, not of robust and stal- the highest skill, education and exceyt for suburbau lines, and it is plain In this depart- specimens of the counsels of Mrs. Eddy on “healing the sick,” vol. 180 “‘Argue there 1s no evidence and object of the senses you have to As Hunter re- . 180: disease. Itis but the ‘.‘?K»'“"e{"l" bl" °"""I'i“"'“"“°‘.‘ to the con- | ginary cables are drawn. As the pipes | retained as consulting eleetricians, til horses are shod with rubber instead ditions of health und longevity, may not | paye heen down for a few yoars the in- ST of iron. A currentin order to be cffec- nota reality....Say to the patient | literally kill anybody. 1t may be carry- | ¢ iating material has rotfed, as no at- | M2gnitude of the Telegraph Business, , you are not sick, and hold your | ing the paradox too far to say we shall tempt has been made to renew it New York Commercial Advertiser: No down the \:rllt:':h:ss:l:“:::l:stl;:\{r"ifle:“fm die of them, or even that they may not be e H 4 £ : f of placing the condult below the rails You will destroy those witnesses. and tho dis au‘ccel‘slrulsln lsntzt?tznlng ourutinl}:md:g any magftude to put wires underground. | the United States in the magnitude of its he evidence of senses, but _on the evi- 3 vit veri dences in metaphysical sciénce of man’s har- | ful and mean and mesquin. Life, to be AppUslio thel ollylgovernment Hfor mony and immortality....Avoid talking dis- | worth living, must be concerned with ease to the sick. Make no unnecessary in- | quite other things besides diseases, quirles relative to their symptoms; never J give them names for their diseases. ... Af the case te be treated is consumption, ease will disapvear. die by inches through half a century. arziment by takingz up the lend: | “"Pna goneral pessimism which weighs on the truth of man, and should be treated as ¢l . B e elixi; sue it ot nas aniLienon generation. Hope 18 the true elixir v Paul, we fear all things with Dr, And again, vol. L,p. 183: *‘Conservation or . A dla:\:n)esl () lrlnl :‘1;:1 llinaorv or Drl«cllcfi&nf :""'2“;" g(\)‘f‘:::::‘; y‘i‘:\ux::e:;om;lgl:ib?; Edison system consists of an'iron pipe of !‘V.l"i‘;i:'“g{’;‘fi”""pn;q‘ metaphysies applie he treatment of dis- 1€ y gave CATS —DOS! ifle i cordi in 1886, 312,005,710 mess: " el s beltay & gross ignorance of the | without precisely ‘ntending it—a bittor | Siflerent dismeters, according to the | " “rhord'is ‘o data for compari. | Line streets lino. A round try son b band, but n rocont writer in. tho | the cat.when tho truok wus clear for any Nineteenth Century makes the statement of cight miles an ek ‘whole subject. Diseaso can neither be | satire on our age. The radiant gnddess treated nor healed metaphysically if drugs or | whom Collins deseribed with external applications are employed; and pe- titioning a personal ibed not to permit any considerable improvement of the telephone service. off the plaster, almost melted a hole | g through the cast iron si and plunged | T [dom exhibit now that gen- b the flow of waters. Down cellar,the flu e R L e i ment eld outto have the invention after the ‘'six days' work” was done. The middlo-aged are one and all the telephone as is expected, marked im- young, if we may trust the reports which H precise instant of the shock, out. On the other hand it may have sy | of young souls to the chill breath of the.| fACtOrY as the telepliono service of China. | " (3ng person who saw the flash said jt folks,others on a much higher social | Zeitgeist. The lads have grown colder Underground Wires. was a_fool wide, and another said it They persist | told (it is a large demand upon cred- | would no doubt be a !po bular movement | Work, expecting to find e r_\-bodiri dead, | volume. L 3 with the great body of the citizens, The | but were agrecably surprisad to most ceased to be reckless about hent and | great .mf, of overhead wires is not only | the inmates lively and flinging water an eyesore but an incumbrance and in- | With&reat energy. The astonishing thin; lessen the objections to overbead wires. fills up from a slow movement of the soil It is merefy nquestion of years when | asfast asit is removed bev the dredging the wires in all ghe great citiés must to a | machines; failure after failure great extent go underground and if no | corded in the annals of mining develop- are they about their health and their man hotter. B¢ A matter of underground wires has re- | one wonders. In the early days of the i i *“lark’ of a long excursion on horseback, y Philadelphia. various electric companies and from the | lighting, storage, and transmis r, there were fow failures,and those but has been given no sucn thorough at- | were instructive. The first devices for tention as in other American cities where | automatically lighting and extinguishing commissions have been appointed to in- | gas were somewhat crude. Now, how- vestigate various systems and make ever, with careful installation, faiure is ous word ‘‘rabies.” In short, our girls, as a new virtue, are sometimes braver unless properly insulated, and there are | are put around the ol great donbts among electricians of the | be connected metallical success of any system of arc I{Fms under- | ductor, otherwise a flasl liances, and cleg higney each should irrers Sre oxyand with the con- might strike & that they [ hoop at a corner on the opposite side on are successtully operated in Philudelphia. | vassing to the conductor, from the near- Outside of the are light wires the main | est of the hoop, objection to placing wires underground | explosion, and the ol by the comflmes 8 the question of ex- | or even broken thro 1s will not vount in the face | or ties of metal sho ing their plants daily. 1t is stated in Newburg, N. Y., thatin ashupyard in that place there is being constructed the first vessel to be pro- built in the et — thére might be an lled by electricity ever It is a yacht 37 feet Inug., 7 teot wide and 5 feet stored eleotricity. a Newark (N. J.,) electric company, and will run between this city and New be wrought into arallel to 1ts length, and therefore, to the conductor, and_then to be left unconnccwed, with it. Hartford (Conn.) Times: Mr. Julian | may be close along the brick or stone, it lgvmson, an employe of the Connecticut | makes no difference. Electric company, “of New Haven, has | need of a rod on each side of the build- made an invention of special importance | ing, but let the cast iron hoop and others to electric light companies, It is an ap- | yon speak of be connected with the rod,if paratus to feed new carbons automati- | there were rods on every side of the chim- cally ns fust as the old ones burn out and | ney. A three-fourth rod is no doubt are exhausted. In plain words, it does | better than a half inch, and, except for away with the man and ladder now in | the expense, I like it better. use, whereby the carbons have to be | inch has never yet failed. thrown to the street and fresh ones putin, | Coutt's brewery has been put up 14 ‘I con- | inches in diametor; but they did not mind tamn seventeen carbons, ten upper and | expense. The Nelson Column in London seven lower sticks, Under the Denison | has a half-inch rod—three fourths is bet- patent an electric light will burn steadily | ter. Ido not know of any case of harm It is building There will be no A dynamo of 22,000 pounds weizht and 500 horse power, with an armnature of forty-seten inches diameter, is at work at Comlef, Ala,, to separate aluminum American electrical supply houses are building up a large trade in Australia. A company has Leen organized ital of $500,000 to control the business. A Fronch engineer soaks rags in petrol eum and ignites them by electricity at fixed intervals when the mon arc out of the mines to burn the fire-damp. pheicleli—Seebiti A Musical Hisagreement. iA\ikunl:\« Trnvuler:h ot singing may carry the appearuuce hro%ha‘r‘ly onVfi and sisterly regard (if there 13 such a thing), but it is sometimes far from entertaining to the person who takes no part in the cently, at a very fashionable place of religious worship, where many untrained and unmusical voices run riot over per- suasive tunes,a man who knew miore nbout rain market than of ‘‘buckwheat up his presumed voice to_assist in the presentation of & hymn of long and A modest but de- ow who stood without watching fof, say, ninety hours | from hoop-iron inclosed in the building, or more on n stretch. ‘The first public | but if not in connection with the conduc- experiment will probably be with a | tor Ishould notlikeit; oven then it might magazine, throwing six upper carbons | cause harm if the lightning took the end d to burn for sixty hours. The | furthest from the conductor. Congregational dr p o ¥ Sr. Louts, July 12.—To the Editor of o bractiodily a s Flf:;ae;rt?r:l‘aflt::{. the Globe- ])cmocyrsl: The peculiar freaks culated to do away with 'tho constant | Of lightning are proverbial, and at times worry and fuss under the present system | it wonderful power is manifested in dis- of adjusting carbons. Within & week or | Astrous results, while on other oceasions 80 one of the Denison patent feeders will | it Proves to be beneficial. be attached to an electric light in New | With your kind permission, it is my plen- sure to chronicle a beneticial froak. 1887, near l,orena, McLen- In this article, hallowed standin, termined-looking in front of him turned around, touched the singer on the arm and said: “Do you live in this town?"’ “Yes," the singer replied, after allow= voice to fall to the floor. Al re you a member of this congrega- 'ex,, lightning étruck on a Times: Over in New | limestone.cropping on the prawie land tehfield county town | owned by Mr, H. C. Wiiliams, at a point the other day. a light- | about one mile west of his residence. k E. J. Cable's house with | Several persons witnessed the electrical somie of thln atruudgest results on record. | discharge, and they 5“,:6 the stroke M i . s 3 'he lightning rods were evidently of no | a very heavy one, as the appearance of denu? it depends exclusively on how | quality of voice and ennunciation being nrn(ccition‘ ‘s soon as t)ml :mmkuh«!-"lu:lnrudf the cam.h cl:lmrhy ::emons}trntn; u‘l‘ho ;luri i away it was found that the north side of | roundings looked as thoug! hey had T B R A S e et eh 61O ey tholr first opportunity o se- | thohouse had been badly shattered, the [ been blown up with dygamite, and piecos b "“L"’““ o of Ll e clnrhoanls blown off and the windows | of rook were scattered “around in every gence between distant parts of the em- glass flung out into the grass. Plas- | direction for a distance of sevent “Is it not one of the aims of thischurch to treat strangers with marked cour- L - = the lightning distributed itself along the | spring lightning struck there is a periodi- Ii, then, will you please do me a sending messages to diplomatic agents | yoymg in - divers directions. Closed | cal,which flows only in very wet weather, ’ 5 ERPy g llu’]‘t which has bnlcn (}ry for (;vcr a vear. o Y and hurled across the rooms, and every- | There are several other springs with a the sending and recaivin stations. u . haltmily that have all beon dey for over s ourtcen ways from Sunday.” Two | ayear. That part of the country has ha probability _that the telephone may re- | ounds of = blasting powder were | a severo drought for the past two years a8 flask* of | and water is very scarce. powder near by escaped. Upon examination of the place where The side of nkbux botltln containing tur- | the discharge tool; place, it ;lr.'ul r'n)oll.({:ed Trree A pentine was knocked out, but the fluid | thata number of springs had broken and henco it is likely that the capacity | did not catch fire. Seemingly the largest | forth, discharging o stream of crystal il b ““1'!'““““' durl ’“fi.‘ WOTX | current ran easterly, shivering the sill of | purity in volume suflicient to fill a four- will be greatly ‘m{’)"“v“ g ';l‘ ‘:v”““' the house, dodged into the pantry, tore | inch pipe. This heavy flow continued Ui Ciha otween ¢ i destclk;n a big hole in the cupboard, setting | for two weeks, but since then the volume nion and the Boll company binds the | ¢ “on “fire, bored holes as large | hua slightly diminished. “Certainly, if it is within my power. What can I'do for you?” “Hush!"” the singer gasped. *“That's what I Efli\t" l “'1s it possible, sir, that you don't want aman to sing?’ “Oh, [ don’t mind a man's singing; don’t care how much he sings, but I don want him to give himself up to such di tressing noises as you huve been make fng. HM)‘ gracious alive! has it come to such ¥ : lI:Ir. \¥ill|lll‘{ll; k:'nt a man can't sing in his own & as & man’s thumb through two tin pails, | states that these springs will be of untol ? enjoyment. ' Tho old haalthfal, buoyant | OF, 8 the public the advantages of | gnattered some dishes, skittered across | value to him if they prove permanent, as | ‘It has come to suich 4 pass that you 1 can’t sing in any church. “You are insulting, sir.” “And you are tormenting." “If you don't like_my singing— ou that I've got no objection T the floor, splintered the woodwork, tore | he will be able to utilize the water to irri- Ph"""‘ The Boll compauy is in fact ato land that will be highly productive. e he water discharged varies in tempera- into the water pipe, ruining it, stoppin, true, some being delightfully cold, b fi l\ily HHJD.T‘V oth eh'a (;l]n‘ninps fif these 3 ran along the chain of a stoel trap which | springs 1s that the discharge falling on l(’ft‘l’,“"_m “p'l""“" full capx\m!yl u ”“; wag set for rats and sprun the trap. | the stratified limestone forced its way MHLLDLLORL LRU fediasdl g o) Selvernl holes were scorched in the flan- m";;“fi? the strnll‘ttled formations, wlucg 4 nel case of a violoncello, and the instru- | probably contained some moisture, an ing soul healing, can we find out how to | hag-ridden by anxiety; and as to the | Provements will doubtless follow, and by | pent was shattered. Several lamps and | found a line of least resiffance over tho time the Bell patent expires orls sot | 4 clook were knocked off a mantel. Tho [ Which it passed to symo- subterrancan Niatas ';n:ve:&?;fx‘gyf&‘:tbl[ :omnr:\::;! e destroyed with the hands | cavern or reservoir, which it opened and cation as simple, rapld, cheap and satis- pointing exactly at 6:15, which was the | permitted the confined waters to pass n't like me, yon—"" “Got no objections to you at all." By this time the hymn was finished and the congregation sat down, but pretty soon another hymn was announced. The annoying singer again lifted his voice, The man in front of him turned an touched him on the arm. “What do you want with me, sir?" “Want you to hush.” “J came here to sing and—"" “Wny don’t you sing then object to your singing, undes to tell you the truth, your vol me back to a time when I was very un- happy, a time when 1 raised hogs in the r, since then, wh hat sounds like——"" I won't worship in the same house with you, sir,” said the singer. leave this place,” “Thunk you,”’ the stranger replied, and, smoothing out the unpleasant ex- pression from his face, he sat himsell down and gave himself up to tke enjoy ment of the sermon. simply diverted a subterranean flow that supplied some other spring or springs, R it cafislng nb{o break fart!; n'i‘ this(nnint, i " Ludgate and Mr. Gahan ran over from | and possibly stopping the flow of some D o o artorEr o e, 2oont | Holls's matble siiop, whoto they wore at | other springs or greatly diminishing thoir nd all The Electric Motor. Memphis Avalanche: Whirling along south, and, si hear anything t seated by an open window in a well-ven- tilated coach, the mind of the summer raveler is not likely to busy itself with culations upon the development of the electric motor as if he sat behind a pair MA MEDICAL & SURGICAL INSTITUTE. Its use is not a new thin 3 but it has never yet been so successful ion of | applied as to lead 10 its genoral adoption. 1t is still the exception rather than the rule. Montgomery, Ala,, h: street cars run Kansas City, Mo., i 1 Salitwi ) kR bR iyabitent Seh LB ho b aat run out of Baltimore and Hamden. New d b ]us of mind which go far to | than their brothers, who think it *‘good rangements for placing all wires under- 5y ¥ ' he great | York civy is about to try the experiment counterbalance by electricity, so has and _similar Proverbially, | form” to profess disinolination to risk ground. system of Lighting byclectnmtfl had only | on Fulton street and Philadelphia has a In Boston, about five or six years ago | been dreamed of. It required t 1ty years | Jine fairly uuder way. The Philadelphia i to perfect the system of telegraphy. T i clined i Ferl SRS Tt is not a small matter that this ebb | *® attempt was made to run arc lights pe 8y graphy. The | Pressis inclined to the view that as soon railroad station,but it wasnot successful, | improved for a long period. ~ And it is owing to the disintegation of the insu- | possibly that the old process would have lating material. For the past three or | been in use for halfa century longer 1f four years a system of underground | the competition of electric lighting had wires has been in successful use for a | not necessitated improvements. So much has been accomplished that still more is tide of English manly courage. On the cunlrnr{ if it continue the results must be deplorable. For our present purpose it cent. The ouly telegraph line under- | tor or experimenter was once called a | the grounds. pnysical college (2 | vqlitu; 3 T o . Of menting, l“lu following are | . Englishmen. through Adamse square to the Eastern fi e . depot. It isnot a good system, being | abiljty is employed and the professors in Tiho fours of which we have boen speak- | pohot 1% 8 M9 % K000, B¥siomh, helng | B Uk voraltion pnd teohnical achools are Last year marked the only attempt of | country in the world begins to approach Light company Taai e KFrance came next, with 205,470 miles; permission to lay wires undergroundand | (ormany third, 180,000 miles, and Grent raughts and drains; and we wadt to fmph company asked for the same privi sent in G t Britain,which came second, | Failway officials. with 33,27 city proper. - g Hence they are not | lodge, are lowering the vitahty of our | “'f, & systems which these concerus have theithird 4 S » > | and Germany fourti then they will | §nd instead of hoping all things with B v o T prkod sucoesstully, | Tiiore aro also now in’ existence 1n " the c s - ies, through which, amount of wires to be placed in them. The pipe is covel with an impervious ©€YC5 SO | agphalt preparation. It is about twenty- fair,” trilling her “‘delighted measure,” God todo your 'work, o1 s 5 vy foot lengths, and tho joints are boxed and that the telephone "is, practically speak- ) Utionme s ersonal God todo your work or | Mr.'Watts depiotod as a blindfolded pa- WA “oonplotoly noblest to the basest, and reason to attribute the cure to an influence exorted primarily on the mind of the pa- tient, we are in a position to proceed to the main inquiry: What is the nature of that influgnce on the mind which enables rein truth works, and you understand | tient out 01.2“’ Brompton l“m"’"h“]- b"l““ the divine prineiple of your demoustration. | in & curve like an ammonite rather than | i34, 6ybles, each wire being insulated Animal magnotism, clairvoyance, medium- | # vertebrate creature, over a broken- “other Jasutati nent. ship, OF mesierism are antagonisiio to this | stringed Iyre. Sueh is the hope of tho from the other by rubber insulating prep- rendere: im}lmrvious by a coating at ing, not in general use Great Britain, T the joints. The wires are put inside the Cor. 15th St. and Capitol Ave. CHRONIC = SURGICAL BRACES AND APPLIANCES FOR DEFORMITIES, TRUSSES, AND THE NEW VARICOOELE SUSPENSORY CLAMP COMPRESS. ‘apparatus and renedies for sucoessful treatment of come, stored electricity as likely to displace both the use of horses and the cable system in that and other cities. Considerable progress has been made in the direction of “electric street cars since the days of the when a car was successfully run about The objection to overhead Book on Diseases of Women FREE, ble MEDICAL INSTITUTE AKING A SPECIALTY OF FRIVATE, SPECIAL and NERVOUS DISEASES, that the plan of sendin, along the rails wili never be popular un- tive is strong enough to shock horses whose feet touch the rails. h n be brought to perfection, the prob- telegraphic business. In 1886 there were c',‘" " e v 667,710 iniles of wire in_this country. loem will be practically solved. ¥ O Your cae, with stamp, rich field for the electrician, JOOK FREE TO MEN! Britain fourth, with 158,568 miles, It is | Electricity as a Street-Car Motor. ! ogas, but on_ difforant strosts and this | hot only in exiont of plant thatthe United | Philadelphia correspondence New York live, not merely to postpone death and | y&LOV Hava asked for additional prive | States takes first rank. We not only have | World: A satisfactory test of 4 surfuco ?lozss and bnch has now some mailes of | Wires, but we use them. In 1886 the num- | 6% "!’;"'""" e ‘:’lfl“h""'y fulal “’,"‘l"d" conduit underground, some of it in the | Der of messages sent in this country was -"“’“z"u"y at 1o umu . ““"" Ll ilamimation, - tubercles, hwuor- [ U8 all, the atra cura who has mounted | TETdino) Straats, and’ propose to extend | 72:000,000, more than double the nimber ton & Co., in the presence of a number o ecomposition are but thoughts, | behind every horseman and whom no | {hoir systems further underground in the es before mortal mind: amount of tobacco smoking seems to dis- e d not the immortal mind. "WEDICAL & NURGICAL, INSTITUTE, or Dr. McMenamy, Cor. 13th st. & Dapitol AY. Omaha, Neb, The ear was supplied by eighty-four storage batteries beneath the seats, which furnished tricity to a Sprague moior geared to the axlo of the front whecls, ~ Tho car. wiy od Sta ilog ires run nbout experimentally, after whieh it sufficient longth of time to judge. The | United States 133,231 milea of wires used | Tn # 200 SXROTHORIAIY e woro trans. | SWitched to the tracks of the Spruce and ‘T'he car wus Jnion line and Aine thoen | PR: OTTERBOURG, and that its benefits are not apprecited | considored that a thoroughly practical ittt o R 7 e er e N iy e8! was given to any approciable extent on the conti= | ¢ rves were rounded satisfactorily. At all times the car was under absolute con- ivs gusrasioed or aoney closing decades of the Victorian era! aration, and the cables are surrounded Lightning-Rods. trol. The man in charge oan, by the do- “Bathing and brushing, to (Coneluded n=xt Sunday.] with au asphal insulating compound. Engmecring News: Prof. Michael Fara- | vice at his hand, readily stop, start and tions or remove unhealthy it t> conquer the diseases of the body? ‘Weo must dismiss the idle notion which seemns so strangely to have contented the ters and talkers on this subject, that it is enongh to name some one faculty of the min heir duration, who says to her child, ‘you as concerned in the case, as if by 80 doing wo explained the modus operand: of the cure; su ., &8 hope, expectant attention, orimag- Roes to her little one fallen on her nose on ol h the earpet, and moaning more childishlythan | in building up a new scalp b —_——— ‘These pipes can be tapped like water | day says that the conductor should be of | back the car as well as regulate its speed. exhalations from the cuticle, receive a useful Secalp Grafts Wanted. or gas pipes. The system in use by the | half-inch copper rod, and should rise | An e! rebuke from Christian healing, that makes Hartford Times: Several months ago not clean the outside of the platter.” ol. L, p. 328: “That mother is not a meta- telephone company consists of cresoted | above the top of a ch quantity | signal. Miss Emma Neuman, of Bristol, had ner her child, says, ‘slamma knows youarehurt.’ | on the head nute bi ir i i ipes at hs oy . o A pagw! :m Srours minute bits of skin taken | anccording to their size, each wire being | there are any pump pipes at hand going | lin. on. Most absurd is it to speak of imagina- a8 is coustantly done even by htful medical writers,as it it wero a faculty which not only lies unreal pictures ikewise capable of into the material worl or the diznity ably he has exhausted the list of Miss | thread soaked wi o ectrical e 5 'y th paraffine. The cre- spect. As respects electrical condue- mlfl:dbnyn&lnt;;u 'f:'('“r?n‘;?.fi‘i«"fi suna rfi‘.’.‘?.‘k'.‘. E:n:ltl:fi:t: lg‘lr:rd:nflz? 'werolw‘n.l‘l‘in‘ to | osoted boxes are covered with tar paper | tion, no advantage is gained by expand- Jhicago News: During a t medica to lead man into temptation in every , for al s Lime direction I8 pitiful.” ‘alsy 18 x’\ belief that attacks mortal mind, | © this mind paralyzes the body through Young persons, not over thirty, who 2 ‘fiefixgfi"':’:"’l‘;a‘:‘” f}“;::g:"l":"i':&“‘:‘g are willing to confer a favor on Miss | conduits, which consists of a conduit or | ductor for this reason. A flash of light- Hones have no more | und her friends if they will all h i . - bstance than though! . Py Wi allow seeds | chemically treated to render it impervi- | break through many hundred yards, per- Jubsiatos than 3 ",":d:,;':\‘:h‘,':m‘:z',}l"lx:’;fif for grafting in the new scalp to be taken | ous to water. Each conduitis divided | haps miles, of air, and therefore an insu- | 4 mop in the hands of a scrub-woman. What we call matter was primitively ervorin | from their arms, The family and friends | into chambers. The practical value of | lation of 6 inches or 1 foot in length { have furnished material, ‘and a good | this system is yet to be fully determined. | could have no power in preventing its hm);d.ml lllhnmb:‘dmg( 'd::'z.h.."'lm scalp 13 being made, but the lack of suf- | From the testimony of noted electricians | lead to the brickwork, supposing that toe ojecting itsel as a foree, like Indolent and baffled in- quirers seem to think it convenient to ination, because or Ariel nmong laculties, and less amenabie to law udgment, either of ust as monstrous to cite as tho proximate cause of the cure It 18 to throw psychols to. apply tho name of the faculty to somethin, lorms sical miracles. one to maintain the original dis- 8as0 was umaginary, and. consequently directly as insanity. refer in this wa, Toohe 7‘::\;0' ‘::Ilo%\;wglnd must be our | cle in successfully covering the entire wires, i b y R last Towels o feath All | head. The picoe for grafting Itpmchag wires' can bs ot underground without | 1s equivalent almost to nothing. A ! ‘preaident” means by “meta- | eect on t! AT e from the arma of various persons. Prob- | insulated by being wound with cotton | into a well they should be useful in” that h e ef, 1« and tar at the joints, over which strips of | ing the rod horizontally into " strap or he ?lxuls for ouside aid in the following | ereosoted planks'are laid. face d nothing; the solid Rights have also been granted to the | section is the essential element. There American Conduit ;company to lay its | is no eccasion of insulation of the con- Emma Neuman, will greatly oblige her | pipe composed iof cement and sand, | ning has an intensity that enables it to ficient material is now the greatest obata- | it anpears that incangdescent electric light | conductor were notable to carry it away. tele, wires and telephone | Again 6 inches or 1 foot is so little that it up and sllhwdofl without pain or bad | any danger to the public, the only trou- | very {feble electricity could break ' m. or notify him, and arrangements will | dangerous, but she very much. stronger | v ngsley took | be made for the Bounnknuoo(punh A ourgs'glol h.uouxlr{nvnrydwnmu masses of metal. If, therefore, hoops » bell is sounded as & warning By means of vush-buttons thc g 4 fos ot Meimalhiag b hard pim:l boxes about fifteen inches.| equalio Lh{' wi~||th uf’nl,l AL 'ut th;.l cnmiuc!korlcu'n si;_v_umlltl‘x‘uuuriv?r to z:m;; & calp torn from her head by her hair | square and about twenty feet long. These | top. he lengths of rod should be wel or start, It is estimated that the cost of pician, and her aitections nead botter, ald | aatohing in machinery in the mill whoro | boxesare subdivided by ereosotedavooden | joad metallieally to each othor, and | running the clectric cars 15 from {wo- 100k sick,’ or ‘you look tired.’ etc., or who | 8he was employed. "Dr. J. Wilson of | partitions into nine chambers. In each | this is perhaps best done by screwing the | thirds to three-fourths the cost of horse Bristol has been diligently eni“ed since | of these chambers 18 lnid a lead pipe | ends into a copper socket.” The connec- | power. A car of this kind is running y grafting | which contains a hundred or more wires, | tion at the botiom should be good; if | rgularly in London and another in Ber- * Siate your case wwd wd fo itlier 1n persan or by mall. Orvicx Hovas. 910 13 8. 3 on, Pa., lightning in the hands of High Sh who was bathing in a tub, covered he found mnothing but splinters of the tub he had been bathing 0, and the water it contained was equally distributed over the floor, as if done with When he re- The metal in the knife was melted. other evidence that the lightning had en- tered the room could be found. Electric Brevitivs, There is a scazcity of skilled labor in electrical establishments. 0 person. Thosa who will as- | ble being to get & oot system of in-'| through that barrier, and a flash that | Edison stations to supply power aro to be os” u these volumes can only be known, | 8ist the recovery of Miss Neuman may | sulation, though this'can be artived at. | could not . break 5 or .iv feet |= gx(mnrnm.u call on Dr. Wilson at his ofice at 9:30 a. | . The current of the-above wires is mot | coulddo no harm te the chimney. . A ardice. Forty years ago Three largoe ercoted 10 the upper part of N | city. A trinl will soon be made in this ity in street cars, Blocks ery grest point 18 to have no insulated | city with electrici e R of cheap houses ar¢ being fitted up with