The Cedarville Herald, Volume 11, Numbers 22-52

■wr* OF GENERAL INTEREST, CATCHING CONVICTS. ,-The Maori women of New Zealand gr* killing: themselves trying to wear aopets Since th ey have seen them on the missionary women. —An ordinary elephant produces ISO pounds of ivory; worth $300. England eonsumes 030 tons, for which I t is necoa- esry to kill 13,000 elephants a year.- —The olook recently removed from the exohange tow er'In Savannah, Ga., hss marked oil time there for eighty* seven years. • I t was removed because it had become too unreliable. A modern timepiece is to,t*ke its pl&oe, —At Springfield, O., Arthur Basinger, a farmer, was struck and killed by light- njjigwhile -in his hayfiold. The bolt which killed him also excavated a hole ilkea gravo immediately ^behind him, into whioh ho fell. A man a t work with him was badly shocked, . —The Franciscan monks' recently opened their first Canadian monastery •fhMontreal. Those monks live entirely - 'by alms and are allowed to touch no money. - If -victuals are n o t.(supplied they. go forth and bog. They preach penance and conversion, and their prin­ cipal occupation Is prayer, meditation and penance. Their doors are always- Open to the poor, and with them the ' ‘monks share such as- they have thom- solves. ‘ • . i ■—Alliance, N, J., the settlement of refugee Russian Jews, has during the. past eight years grown into a prosper­ ous village of six hundred and twelve inhabitants. Eight years ago several thousand acres of wild brush land. In .fialfemCounty wore purchased and given to the refugees by the Hebrew Aid' So- ■clety, the land being then valued at about 318 per acre. I t is now worth 'Over 8100 per acre- and the Jews are prosperous and happy citizens. —ALondon theatrical costumer writes to the Times to say th a t, he disguises people every day, “mostly jealous hus­ bands desirous.of watching their wives. They every one of them wear wigs, not necessarily' because they are bald, though they often are, but as the best means of destroying their identity. It . has long been understood that we do not know how half the world lives, but- that any considerable po rtion ' of it Should occupy thbmselves in this way is rather startling. • __ . —The. Boston purists have broken loose again and are protesting vigorous­ ly against the term “artificial ico.” They assert th a t the product of the, ice- 'inaWng machine^ Is “ice"—neither “ar- ‘ tlfloial" nor “imitation" ice. Guess they About right; yet how is the stuff to be distinguished by name from“ natural doe?": The term “machine ice" seems, to meet the case, for “manufactured doe” would apply equally to that-pro­ duced by human agency or by natural process. I t will be a cold day when Boston finds nothing to carp a t —New­ ark News. —Up to the present day Vanderbilt's check for £700,000 was erroneously sup­ posed to be toe largest ever drawn. This has been eclipsed, as one drawn by the Indian A Peninsula Bailroad Com­ pany for £1,380,000 on the London and County Bank of London has just passed through the clearing house. In 1883 the Po.nrisylvania railroad drew a check in favor ot Messrs. Kidder, PeabodySfe Co. for over 81^000,000 in payment ok the Philadelphia, Wilmington A Baltimore aidok. This oheok was framed and hung Op in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.—London Financial News. —An Intereating contest has taken place in a North London oolleglate School for girls .between two factions which have been actively divided on the question,of corset wearing. Arguments add discussions simply added fuel to the flame, and i t was finally decided to Settle the disousaion by an athletic con- teat, consisting of a high leaftTrlong Rap, a tug-of-war and a foot race. There were -sixteen competitors, eight of Whom were laced into whalebone girdles and eight wore simple .blouses. The non-corset factions were easily vic­ tors, their champion distancing a ll riv­ als with a leap of twelve fe e t —The Methodist minister in Ohio who got into trouble with h is congrega­ tion because he Insisted th a t fans should notbe lived in church had loss tact than a Massachusetts minister, who also dis­ liked fans. Going quietly to a church Ccshmittee he explained to them th a t fansofall varieties distracted his atten ­ tion and requested th a t fans of one va­ riety Only should be used. An immedl- tf* compliance followed, and tho flirts* ttoas fan, the nervous little fdn, the pandsrous fan disappeared and in the i^ace of each of those there is now waved the respectable palm-leaf fan, Wilcb gives comfort to the congregation *ad satisfaction to the minister. ~A, tennis outfit costs anywhere fr wirty to fifty "dollars. This inclui feat tackota, ten balls and two bi to keep the bails within rei Wash they fly high over the middle n Atennis court requires the services *WOdgardener a t least twice a wet *•» a marking machine with which Waitewish the lines. About every J***ths a new middle not is need *** *ltogethcr the game calls foi WMlaerablo outlay during the sumtt •JNon. Tho opinion now seems to IJ*eral that tennis is really an exp ■*•«} hence there is a continual < ■tod for the more expensive quality goods, Women and children n dawdle on the lawn hate Jtok to croquet, and' tennis hae _ bter to athietoe and oottaiafc 2 ” *^tof*W'boplay the fttoein a th ,*P»»hner,-N. *,§**,.. The P e*e .(Tied -For That I’urpo .8 ta. tb i South Are Small I ’ox-HuaSt, Bloodhounds are inseparably as- •hejated with slavery in the South. “Uncle Tom's Cabin" »and other stories and dramas of th a t character would lose ■half their interest without tho horror- inspiring bloodhounds. *Since the war the bloodhound has been associated with, the recapture of escaped/ convicts. These convict-catching, bloodhounds aro a myth. There aro no such dogs in this section of th'e country. Tho dogs used in trailing escaped prisoners are small foxhounds, insignificant and harmless animals. At P ra tt Minos, five miles from this city, there are 1,300 convicts ieasod by the @$ate tq the Tennessee Coal, Iron A Railroad Company. To capture those who osoapo the company keeps a large pack of hounds. Those dogs are sma 1 red foxhounds. A few Of them , aro spotted, but the majority are a solid, dull red color. They*,aro small, slonder- lixnbed animals, capable of fair speed- .and endurance, and* they can without difficulty follow a trail five to eight hoursold. The dogs are kept in a largo stockade a short distance from the prison, and never taken outside the ihclosuro, ex­ cept When wanted to trail escaped con­ victs, To get the dogs on tho right trSil a coat or h at belonging to the es­ caped convict Is. obtained, if possible, and held to the nose of each dog, while Trainer Crosswell by signs-makes them understand th a t is the scent they.-, are expected to follow. , They are then taken to tho, .point wh-oro tho convict made h is .escape from tho mine or prison, or to tho place whore he was last seen. The moment they scent t h e . trail they recognize it and-give a short yelp, Their leashes are then slipped off, they are told to go, and the chase he-, gins. Guards on horses follow close be­ hind Trainer Crosswell, who rides a fleet ■borse-and keeps right with th e dogs. Trainer Crosswell is proud of his dogs. Once fairly startod on a trail they never lose it, .unlesj} thrown off the scent by a hard rain or tho.convict taking to water. They have trailed men through tho- principal streets of this city, where thousands had passed over the trail, and finally run the fugitive down. They never make a mistake. If they, are started on the right trail they follow It to the end. "When several convicts es­ cape together and separate in the woods when pursued, the dogs are divided and the separate trails all followed. j On several occasions these dogs have done good service in trailing down mur­ derers and burglars. , Trainer Crosswoll says he can take any'ordinary foxhound when young and teach it to trail men. I t is entirely a matter of education and not o f breed.—Birmingham . (Ala.) Letter. ' __________ ' METALLIZING a c o r p s e . An Interesting Proceaa WHose Secret Died ^ W ith Its Inventor. Two years ago>tho 4th of July; old Or, Angelo Motta, of Turin, Italy, breathed his last. The reader may think this announcement. of but littio consequenoo, but in the death of this' aged Motta sustained tho greatest loss of the present century. Although it is not generally known, Motta was tho in­ ventor of a procoss by which human flesh could bo transformed into a metal­ lic substance as hard as iron; tho groat loss to the world lies in the fact th a t the secret of the procoss went to tho grave with tho Inventor. The doctor .worked thirty-three years perfecting his process - of metallization, which, in many particulars, corresponds to petri­ fication. Of his method a writer in an Italian magazlno says: “ I visited Or. Motta some months boforo his death, even before his first sevore sickness, which occurred 1 1 May. When I called I was accompanied by a friend who, like myself, was curious to know some­ thing of the queer preparation and its' wonderful efleots. I said to the Pro­ fessor: ‘Such wonderful things have boon rotated of you th a t i t Is hard for me to believe them. I was told that you metallize human . bodies,' Evi­ dently what was meant was th a t you covered them with a coating of metal by galvanoplasty.* *Oh, not’ replied Motta. Not a t alL I do not apply a covering, I substitute metal for the'organic matter; in a word, I metal­ lize in the fullest sense ot the word." Saying this he led us Into a room in whioh he conducted his metallizing operations. On a pedestal stood a mag­ nificent bust of a woman, whioh appeared to be of the flfiast copper-colored metal. Even the wi inkles -and veins of the, neck, hands and face wore reproduced with wonderful exactness. In describ­ ing the process the Professor ‘said: “1 destroy the organic substance and re­ place it with metal. Here, for an ex­ ample, I have the arm ot a child, in Which I have destroyed a portion of the organio matter. By means of a chem*. leal preparation, which is my aeorot, 1 lolidify tho arm without altering its shape. Then I place It In a metal bath and pass a strong current of cloctrlcity through it. Skin, hones, flesh and libera gradually disappear and are re­ placed by metallic deposits.' Although we remained in his ‘atelier’ several hours and examined hundreds of metal Objects th a t had once hr on human flesh, We learned nothing of the secret of the wonderful process, which, i t is said, is lost since thadeafh of the old Inventor." —S t Louis Republic. —Not one island has risen o r sunk ic tfis Paalfio Ooean lor thirty-four years, and geologists declare th a t th e earth it reetiny for som« m ighty *&<>** tho fatu rti TEMPERANCE NOTES. SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Dr. T. » , /Rrothera on A lcoholic Jffaradtty to p ii u M i o f 'Children. A. B, came under my care for home treatment for periodic inebriety. He has psed wine on the table a t meals for twenty years; for ten years past ho had d rin k in paroxysms. HIS wife used wine on the table also, and during lac­ tation had used both beer and wine freely. He had two children, one a girl of eight years! tho other a hoy five' years old, both invalids, and had been under constant medical care from In­ fancy, tho general diagnosis being scrofula and general anaemia; and both wero of pale and delicate appearanoe,. extremely excitable And nervous, ‘They had continuous irritation of the stomach, from an unrestricted d ie t of all kinds of foods and dttnlts, except wine and lwor; were very passionate a t , ’,tho slictotest oppositiou to their w isb es^ahd attar a period of rage would . bo. greatly ex­ hausted and have a distinct fever for a day or more. Tbogirl had attacks of emo­ tional religiosity, in which she mani­ fested great 8 orrowG=hnd iuolancholy at her. sins, and abked tho prayers' of all persons she came in contaot with; at other times a'he.was precociously bright, and Irritable 'at any opposition to her 'wishes. ‘ . The family physician had no faith in heredity; and treated these, various con­ ditions as so many symptoms of threat­ ened: organic disorders which his skill and remedies prevented from gaining farther. Both had- suffered from rube­ ola and scarlatina, and were supposed to have nevor fully recovered. Bronchitis, enteritis, gastritis, neuritis and various heart diseases were constantly threat­ ening, and as constantly averted'. Fi­ nally, death of the physician brought a new man who recognized the alcoholic heredity of .those cases and . ordered them to ;tho country where tho diet was restricted, and enforced exercise out-doors, and frequent bath­ ing Whon it'qould bo carried out. These children had" marked '.nerve and brain instability, with low vitality, and were neurotics, which would of necessity develop insanity, inobrlety or any ofher form of nerve and brain de­ generation; and tho rational treatment should have recognized this condition, and given special a tten tion . to fcbo diet and surroundings, and the avoid­ ance of,.all existing cau ses'that would Stimulate the brain and nervous system. ", ~ A physician wrote me th a t he had given tincture cinahona to a neurotic child of one year of age, for slight fover which resembled malaria. In a short time the child would cry for 'the medicine,, and only would be satisfied for a littio time after it was given; on one occasion It took at once a two- ounce. mixture s of this drug. Ho changed to other tonics, but found that nothing,, would satisfy the child but tinoturqs. .The child was found to have an. alcoholic matbor, who died soon after its birth, and the, alcohol in the tine tures aroused a n . organio mompry which had been inherited. , In private praoticc, some years ago, I troatod a littio boy for over five years for tho most confusing and varied dis­ orders and diseases that it was possible to havo; he recovered from one disorder only to be prostrated with another. None of them were well doflnqd or clear, and-much difference of opinion pro- vailodr*among the numerous medical men who wore called in consultation. At puberty this boy becamo a pro­ nounced dipsomaniac^ suddenly, and without any special temptation. Years after be came under my care, and was a -chronic case. From a study of his history it was ascertained that hia father was an inebriate, and died bo- fore ho was born. Hero was an alco­ holic heredity, which had escaped no­ tice, and where the alcoholic neurotic symptoms were not understood. I think we may confidently’expect of the practice of medicine th a t in tho near future such cases will ho treatod so successfully th a t the alcoholic or insane predisposition will be warded off. I havo heard of numerous'’instances of child­ ren from Infancy upward to puberity, upon which alcohol in any form and in small quantities acted as a hypnotic; iii in some casc 3 no other medicine could he tolerated, and in some alcoholic her­ edity was present, in others I t was not clear. In tho study of the early history ot inebriates, a g reat variety of diseases common to childhood appear, and seem to havo been more intense than in oth­ er Children. v*Sucb. cases seem to have suffered more severely than others from nutrient disorders, shocks and traumatism; they are freighted with some heredity or predisposition to par­ ticular forms of degeneration; the or­ ganism has received a certain bias, from- whioh it can not escape. Alcohol, of all other drugs, seems most potent to Im­ press dell growth and function. No fact is more firmly established than that alcoholic ancestors will transm it to their children a defective brain and nerve power, Tho form and shape of this defect and its manifesta­ tions will vary widely. In many cases It may not be prominent- until after; the higher peripheral brain has reached a certain development, especially in the growth ot the emotional and inhibitory centers. In others this defect is seen in infancy, in an abnormal hyperesthesia • f tha senses, and nutrien t disturbances. Some abildran manifeat irritation a t all aounds, and' a ll ohangM of lig h t and surroundings, by oontinttous crying; tha skin or -alimentary canal is also very sensitive, and various akin disorders and nutrient troubles follow. Low powers of vitality and slow, irregular growth are common. This condition may continue for years, then gradually disappear, and only reappear at puber­ ty, or later in some distinct form of de­ generation, Sometimes a marked neu­ rasthenia and amentia appear in early life and continue up to puberty, then break out into some disease, or develop some hereditary malady. * o Another class of children are noted, who como from alcoholio ancestors, h y j their precocious development of brain* and nerve force. They exhibit powers of brain.ro coptivity and Instability th a t is called genius, which give way early to some disease or form of nerve degener­ ation from various causes. Inebriety, insanity, or both, are very common sequoia. Alcohol oif opium in any form is almost always a grateful.remedy, and Is demanded in many instances by the patient. The use of bitters that con­ tain larg e.quantities of spirits is also 1 very, popular, and an unconscious or­ ganic memory is,awakened th a t rarely dies out. In some children this craving for spirits .is*manifest very.early. A oasei ot this kind was brought to my notion by' Or. Smith of New York, where an infant ot two months old could only be quieted by a few.drops of .spirits. . Its taste was so pronounced that it would stop nursing a t the sight of the person who gave, tho spirits and ory until it was gratified. Fortunately, such in­ stances arp -not common; but the ab­ normal tastes of children, and their ox- trenje sensitiveness 'o r. obtuseness to sensory Impressions, and low powers of vitality and : recuperation, ■ aro ' often clear symptoms of an alcoholio impres­ sion from ancestors. This alcoholio heredity will be seen in children that manifest extremes: of activity, particularly whero there is a. tendency to, the sudden liberation of nerve enorgles, as in violent passion (grief or joy) or work, play or study, which is followed by extreme prostra­ tion; The child is said to bo sullen, morose, or melancholy, then suddenly manifest the other extremes, indicating a great instability of brain colls and functional control. Its life'seems to bo threatened with fevers, prostrations, and'inanitions, accompanied with mon- tal irritations and wandering neuralgias th a t tax severely the sk.ill of the physi­ cian. Those conditions- may follow othor heredities, but they always point to a degree of norve and brain degener­ ation or retarded development, and de­ fective co-ordination, th a t must he rec­ ognized in the treatment. In all cases whore alcoholic ances­ tors, even back to the seepnd' genera­ tion, can bo traced, there aro certain prodispositions which must bo consid­ ered in tho treatment.' F.irst A tendency to exhaustion from feeble vitality, and low power ■of restoration. Tonics and nutriments that have a direct stimulant action on the brain should not be used, such as alcohol and opium, and moat broths. Those remedies havo a tendency to still further exhaust the vital forces, paralyzing tho- nervo- centers, and in­ creasing ■ the carbonaceous matters of the system, - ■ Second. An instability of cell and nerve function, and, strong predisposi­ tion to develop into some particular form of degeneration, which is prac­ tically an exhaustion of the higher brain centers with craving for relief. All stimulants and romodies whloli aot on tho brain centers increase the ex­ isting degeneration. / Third. There Is a special affinity for all nerve stimulants by thoso higher brain con tors. Their uso constantly interferes with tho natural development of brain energy from food. Thus alcohol, tea, coffeo and other sub­ stances havo a* peculiar delusive effect, Tho general principles which should govorn In the treatment may be grouped as follows: T. No form of al­ cohols aro safe, and narcotics of all kinds should bo- used with great care, 3, Tho diot should not includo meats of any kind, becaUso of their stimu­ lating character; while moats contain much food force, thoy act as stlmjilajits to a brain already over-stimulated and exhausted, ar.d .increase, th e -p e ril o f:, nervous disease. Tho pathological ten­ dency of all these cases is ■ to become alcohol-talcers and meat-eaters, bonce tho diot should always be nottifotimu- lating and farinaceous, and should be carried out witji m ilitary regularity. . 8 . The hygienic treatment is also of the greatest importance; every means and measure which can build up a system, and avoid brain and nerve stimulation, is required. 4. Cases of this char*' actor should be guarded against every possible extrome, both in tho sur­ roundings and physical conditions th a t are under the control of the physician. The tendency of all energy and norve force is to pass off In explosions, which should be counteracted; tho diseases thoy Buffer from show this tendency to concentrate and become intensified in certain directions, also to manifest dis­ tinct exacerbations. Finally, the fact of an alcoholic heredity in disease of children th a t we are called upon to treat, gives a wider therapeutical range of possibilities, both in direct and pre­ ventive medicine. Recent studies of alcohol cases show that over seventy per cent, are directly inherited. If this is confirmed^ by later studies, the treatment of In­ ebriety will in the future begin In infancy; and th a higher science and a rt Of medicine wilt, win ita greatest triumphs along the line of prevention, —American Lsnoet, ■a BIDDLE Photographer XENIA, OHIQ* . E n larg ing old pictu res a specialty. A rtistic Crayons, the new Opals an d Transparencies. F irs t class w o rk guaranteed. . ' C. a H E N R IE , A J •*—CONTHACTOK FOR— ■ Tin. 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