Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 6, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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ITEMS AND IDEAS.
A New Yorker, in the employ of ■
manufacturing jeweler, has confessed
to stealing one gold ring every work-
ing day for the last eight years.
The only two civilized countries in
the world in which a white man is
not permitted to acquires civil rights
or own property are Liberia and
Hayti.
A new railroad uniting the Atlantic
and Pacific is nearly completed. It
crosses the Andes and brings Buenos
Ayres within forty hours’ travel of
Valparaiso.
Adolph Freitsch, the Milwaukee
man who crossed the Atlantic in a
sail boat, now proposes to attempt a
v°yag'e across the Pacific to Australia,
stopping only at Honolulu.
Mrs. Hel en Johnson of Wellsville,
N. Y., saved money to get into the
Buffalo home for old ladies. She is
old and blind. Iler banker failed
and she is in the poor house.
Franklin county, Me., has a woman
Nimrod who delights in winter hunt-
ing. She is an expert in killing
foxes,and can travel as many miles in
a day on snowshoes as any man in
that region.
Ear piercing has so much gone out
of fashion now that special devices to
enable women to wear earrings with-
out submitting to the drill have some
vogue. They bear the trade name of
ear vises and cost $5 or $6 a pair.
An inquest has been held in Bir-
mingham, England, on the body of a
girl of seventeen, whose death was
attributed to drinking vinegar and
other compounds for the purpose of
making herself thinner and paler.
If eaten while it is still frozen or
before it has been thawed out the
orange is good and retains its natural
taste, but otherwise the juices from
the seed and from the rind become
mixed with those of the interior, and
so the taste is spoiled.
The lot on which the Blaine man-
sion in Washington stood was owned
at one time by Henry Clay. He traded
it to Commodore Lodgers for an
Andalusian jackass, one of the four
animals of the kind brought to the
United States by the commodore. Mr.
Clay lost the jackass at the card-
table, but subsequently regained
possession of it and sent it to Vir-
ginia, where it became the ancestor
of a strain of mules famous to this
day. ___
One Secret of .Longevity.
Those anxious to prolong this rapid transi-
tory existence of ours beyond the average span,
should foster his digestion, negatively toy ab-
staining from indiscretions in diet and affirm-
atively by the ti3@ of that peerless stomachic,
J-Iostettor’a Stomach Bitters, when he expe-
riences symptoms of indigestion. The
impairment oi the digestive function is fatal to
vigor. Subdue with Bitters, also fever and
wgtiy?, M’AibutnesS-Awd 0aost3p-&*&xa.
The Japanese, up to 1856, were vac-
cinated on the tip of the nose.
STATE OF OHIO, CTTY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by the uso of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
my presence, this Sth day of December,
A. D. 1SS6.
(Seal.) A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public. .
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and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testi-
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Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Some lovely little ice tubs in Havi-
land, China, are among the table acces-
sories desired by dainty women.
GREAT deal of
nonsense has been
written—and be-
lieved, about
blood purifiers.
What purifies the
bleed? « .. ♦.
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AMD THEY ALONE.
If diseased, however, they cannot,
and the blood continually becomes
more impure. Every drop of blood
in the body goes through the kidneys,
the sewers of the system, every three
minutes, night and day, while life
endures.
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puts the kidneys in perfect health, and
nature does the rest.
The heavy, dragged out feeling, the
bilious attacks, headaches, nervous
J unrest, fickle appetite, all caused by
' poisoned blood, will disappear when
the kidneys properly perform their
functions.
There is no doubt about this.
Thousands have so testified. The
A theory is right, the cure is right and
"3 health follows as a natural sequence.
B j Be self-convinced through
2 sonal proof.
“Hypnotism,” said the German doc-
tor, speaking in delightful broken Eng-
lish, which rendered the monotonous
Anglo-Saxon words into poetical prose,
“is defined in books as an extra-psycho-
logo-experimental state of the nervous
system.”
“Just as I always supposed,” mur-
mured the charming widow, making
wicked lightning of her eyes for the
benefit of the doctor.
“I never heard it explained before,”
supplemented the pale, natural blonde,
who was a recent addition to the Chum-
mery, as we called our Arcadian co-
operative system of sharing expenses.
“Yes,” continued the doctor, “hypno-
tism is an artificial neurosis which is
developed in a predisposed subject, a
pseudo-sleep which is inspired, during
which the subject under experiment
loses all knowledge of the external
world.”
Coffee and muffins grew cold as the
hypnotic doctor thus lucidly explained
a science that to him was as clear as
day, but which to the large family of
the Chummery was densely dark, be-
sides being payed with explanations
that were more difficult to surmount
than the original proposition.
“As I see it,” remarked the dark-
browed musician who was distinguished
as the lover of the natural blonde, “it
is an effort of the will. Your will being
stronger than mine, you choose that I
shall do a certain thing, and I obey
you passively.”
“There is more than that,” said the
doctor; “the will is mental; hypnotism
is also spiritual and physical. All the
forces unite to make you project your-
self mentally and spiritually into a
wish-a-command-to the subject to do
what you choose.”
“Even to make him commit a crime?”
“Yes; the hypnotist can make the
subject do anything he wishes.”
“Do you mean to say, doctor,” asked
the musician’s sweetheart, “that you
can send me out on the avenue after I
am in a hypnotic state to kill some one
I dislike?”
“Your like3 or dislikes would have
nothing to do with it,” said the doctor.
“I would be the criminal, but you would
be my instrument to commit a murder.”
“Ah, but doctor, you could not hypno-
tize me,” she said, with a toss of her
blende head.
“Yes, I could,” answered the doctor
quickly.
“Not against my will ?”
“You would have nothing to do with
it. If you were in another house I
could compel you to come to me by the
force of my will.”
The guests of the Chummery were
startled. The fierce foreign strain of
blood in the musician’s veins was show-
ing in his face. The lovers were very
dear to the family, they being the only
two with a love affair, and consequent-
ly looked upon as among the immor-
tals. A green tinge spread over the
Arcadian community, reflected from the
lover’s face.
“Gertrude,” he said, furiously, “we
will leave here at once. This is no
place for you. Your father must take
you to another home. I will not have
you subjected to this—this monster’s
pc<i'er! You hhfi.Il answer to me, sir,
if any harm comes to this young wom-
an.”
He strode from the room in a fury,
Gertrude meekly following. The
Chummery had lost its lovers.
“Make him stay. Hypnotize him, doc-
tor, dear,” suggested the widow.
The doctor shrugged his shoulders.
“It is the way of the world,” he said,
“to accept science as if it were witch-
craft. Because you can kill with elec-
tricity does not prevent its use to f’*r-
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“GERTRUDE!” HE SAID.
ther the best interests of mankind.
If I cure by suggestion I can kill. But
I must first become a criminal myself,
and my hypnotic subject must also be
a criminal.”
“Can you really compel a subject to
come to you from a distance and
against the will?” asked the widow.
“Yes. But so can any one with a
strong will if it is exerted according to
the known laws of hypnosis.”
“What are those laws?”
“Ach. That is my secret. Hypno-
tism is undeveloped yet, and is an un-
known power. I experiment and suc-
ceed: you experiment and fail. I have
stronger will power, more love for sci-
ence, and I use it for healing in my
profession. It is according to sugges-
tion. You say, ‘Doctor, I have a pain
in my elbow.’ I say. ‘No,’ and set my
will to remove the pain and it is gone.
I kftve a paralyzed patient. Now I
have not made him walk yet, but I Bay,
when I lift his arm, Tceep it there,’ and
1m doee not move it until I have made
a thorough examination. When It is
time I will make him walk, but I must
follow him with my will until he is
cured. I cannot explain it, but I feel
the power. All divine healers are hyp-
notists.”
“I know,” said another member of
the Chummery, “that I am hypnotized
when I go shopping. I order things
sent home that I never think of buying
until they are shown to me, and as
soon as I leave the store I wonder why
I made such purchases. Isn’t that one
phase of hypnosis, doctor?”
“Every good salesman is a hypno-
tist,” answered the doctor. “Business
is all conducted on hypnotic principles.
If we only bought what we needed our-
selves we would spend very little, hut
others tell us we want more; it is al-
ways the suggestion. You meet a
friend, tell him how ill he looks, so
pale, so thin; he goes to his bed and
if 3mu will it he dies. That is what in
the old country they call the Evil Eye.”
All the Chums grew thoughtful. To
their simple minds it looked as if the
serpent had entered their new Eden,
not in the form of the doctor, who is an
original Chum and highly valued for his
known good qualities; but would any
one be safe with this terrible power
going about in an unseen but most in-
sidious form? The hypnotist read their
thoughts.
“You are all safe,” he said. “I have
not the time nor the strength to work
on your subjective minds, which are
always filled with something else. Don’t
imagine that I will put you all to sleep
and forget to wake you up for a hun-
dred years.”
“Oh,” murmured the widow, “who
would be the sleeping beauty?”
“I would take that part myself,” said
the doctor, his round face beaming with
mirth as he closed the discussion.
SLAVERY UNDER BRITISH FLAG.
A Dreadful Picture of Helpless Suffer-
ing at Zanzibar.
Great Britain’s consul at Pemba,
near Zanzibar, tells, in his report to his
government, some strange facts about
the prevalence of slave trading under
the British flag. Pemba is an isolated de-
pendency of Zanzibar, lying some miles
north-northeast of it, which pasesd un-
der British protection with Zanzibar it-
self at the time when Heligoland was
ceded to Germany as a price for her
acquiescence in this arrangement. It is
indeed a picture of helpless suffering
that Consul O’Sullivan draws in de-
scribing the present condition of the
slave in Pemba. The Arab proprietors
are inexorably stern and exacting task-
masters. The slave is a chattel, a beast
of burden. We lives in what may by
courtesy be called a hut. Kfi is allow-
ed to till a small porh'on.... .land for
.hfio nr two-v ky» of the
week. The (remaining five he devotes
to work for /his master’s benefit. But
not all theWear through. When the
harvesting of the staple product of the
island comes round, the picking of
cloves, amt labor is more than usually
valuable, the slave works for his mas-
ter seven days in the week, being gen-
erously allowed to retain for himself
the third part—in some cases two-
thirds—of the fruits of his labor on
Thursday and Friday. And so this
miserable drudge lives his weary life,
until his strength is exhausted; and
then, when his arms are powerless to
labor and his legs refuse to carry him,
when his back is bent and he is, though
young in years, a decrepit old man, his
Arab master turns him out of his hut,
deprives him of his plot of land and
discards him—a worn-out instrument
for which he has no longer any use.
Such is the picture—no fancy one or
highly colored—of the African slave
who lives in a British protectorate.
On the island the slaves die like flies
and yet there is always an abundant
supply of them. Where do they come
from? It will scarcely be asserted that
they voluntarily intrust their lives to
the tender mercies of the Arab slave-
master. In this part of the world the
slave trade is still, at any rate, a flour-
ishing institution.
THE WELSH PRINCIPALITY.
Why Old-Time Superstitions, Customs
and Flavor Are Preserved.
It is related that an English lord
once said to his guests: “I have a
mansion in Wales which I have never
seen but which I am told is very fine.
Every day dinner for twelve is set
there and the carriage drawn up at the
door in case I should arrive.” This
may illustrate, says a Scotch writer in
Lippincott’s, the relation of Wales to
the average Englishman, for although
almost all the Welsh towns are merely
ten hours’ ride from London, there is
perhaps no other country in the world
lying so close to the center of civiliza-
tion of which so little is known to the
outside world. Book stores may load
their shelves with volumes on all sub-
jects but few books will be found
among them on this quaint, quiet and
perhaps most picturesque of all coun-
tries. The fact is, Wales is not much
visited, is lightly spoken of and little
read about—not having produced a
Walter Scott—and perhaps these cir-
cumstances have done much to pre-
serve the place in its typical state and
enabled the people to eling to old-time
superstitions, customs and language
and to present tc» a visitor a unique
and refreshing favor wholly It* ®wa
Exception is often taken to the use
of the word pedagogue instead oi
schoolmaster, when a teacher is to be
mentioned. What if one called the
place where teaching is done a peda-
gogue? It would sound odd enough
tow, but the word was formerly used
in that sense. Thus an English writer
of the last century, in describing his
journey to the East, said, “Another
part (of the university) is what they
call the pedagogue, which is for noble-
men and gentlemen. There are six
youths in each room, with a master
over them.”_
The real purpose of arbitration is to
show that the other fellow is wrong.
Dissipated men do not even have
the respect of their associates and im-
itators.
The cemeteries of the city of London
cover over 2,000 acres of ground.
Beauty’s bane is6
the fading cr falling cf
the hair. Luxuriant
tresses are far more to the
matron than to the maid whose casket
of charms , is yefi purified by time.
Beautiful women •will be glad to be
reminded- that falling or fading hair
is unknown to these who use
Ayer’s Hair Vigor.
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A great dry-goods store' in Chicago
has recently established bn its own
building a school where the ,tmiji'nyes
are given free instruction in common
and advanced branches of learning.
Under such fostering influences the
smallest cash-boy learns that intelli-
gence rules the world, and that an am-
bition for education is manly. Suppose
all business men should manifest the
spirit of helpfulness here shown. Sup-
pose, too, they avoided forcing the
wages of persons in their employ down
to the last dollar under which employ-
ment can be obtained. Suppose, also:
that wise, yet generous consideration
was shown in the payment of wages.
Would employes then be restless and
resentful? The uneasy mischief-makers
would still be heard. They would
make trouble under any condition oi
life. But the estranged attitude of the
majority of our employes toward em-
ployers would be modified.
It must be a settled principle with
the Christian that his life in Christ
shall be a life of faith.
lEncouraging.
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Housekeeper—Ccodness, what have
you broken now?
Little Help—A cup, mum.
Housekeeper—And this morning you
broke a saucer!
Little Help—Yes’m; but I h’ainf
broke a plate yet.
The faith that will move mountains
after awhile is moving a good many
smaller things now.
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TJOW did he get there? Once a vigorous,!
Jl A prosperous business man. How did hel
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f&K ’ losing his good sense, losing his business f
friends.
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Ward, Charles W. Shiner Gazette. (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 6, 1897, newspaper, January 6, 1897; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1111229/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.