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Wifwj$mmmmw Mlfe cte $ ""-J &aW Zi&fig&t W' tVs- t & w Kf KRBB COUNT QI ANTS. Skeleton, er Ken Tea Feet High Fonad m Cat. Philadelphia Times. 'Wty this mn was ten or twelve feet high!" "Thunder and lightning!" exclaimed farmer Porter in aatonishment. The first speaker, who has won local dis tinction as a scientist, reiterated hie assertion. J. H. Porter has a farm near North east, not manjr miles from where the Lake Shore railroad crosses the New York state boundary line. Early this week some workmen in Mr. Porter's em ploy came upon the entrance to a cave nd on entering it found heaps of human bones within. Many skeletons were complete and specimens of the find were br ughtout and exhibited to the natura lisos and archaeologists of the neighbor hood. They informed the wondering bystanders that the remains were un mistakably those of giants. Tne entire village of Northeast was aroused by the discovery, and to-day hundreds of people from this city took advantage of their holiday to visit the scene. It was at first conjectured that the remains were those of soldiers killed in battle with the Indians that abound ed in the vicinity durhig the last cen tury, but the size of the skulls and length of the leg bones dispelled that theory. So far about 150 giant skeletons of power ful proportions have been exhumed and indications point to a second cave east ward, which may probably contain as many mo e. Scientists who have ex humed skeletons and made careful measurements of the bones eay that tney are the remains of a race of gigantic creatures, compared with which our tal lest men would appear as pygmies. There are no arrow heads, stone hatchets or other implements of war with the bodies. Some of the bones are on exhi bition at the various stores. One is as thick as a good-sized bucket. IHE FOUBTEEX-IEAB LOCUSTS. An Old Farmer In West Virginia Discovers Tbat They are a Blessing. St. Albans, "VV. Va , June 15. One of tbe numerous Billy Wilsons of America lives at St. Albans, W. Va. A parson of that place, having learned that Billy had a locust theory of some interest, deter mined to interview him and write out the theory. He found Billy at home by a warm fire and in a genial mood. He had a large, well-formed head, and facial lines that indicate natural wit. He look ed like a man such as an intelligent leader of a doubtful expedition would keep near him for the benefit cf prac tical enervations. "Friend William," said the parson, "I understand that you have some theory about the fourteen-year locusts, and I wish to write it up for your favorite pa per, the San, and hope you will give it to me." "Well, parson, did you never take any notice of the locusts yourself?" "Yes, I have observed that the squir rels fatten on them, and become delight ful eating; that the chickens lay eggs so fast while they are in existence that the shells do not form with sufficient thick ness to preserve them, and but I shall soon make the impression on you that I am given to the habit imputed to preach ers, of thinking too much about some thing good to eat. I had better remem ber that I am interviewing you." "It is curious, parson, to see the locust splitting the bark on a young twig. Two little knife-like things are thrown out behind, and, as the insect moves along, they cut a furrow in the bark that does not close up. Between the cutters the egg depositor works, dropping the eggs into the groove with more neatness than the best corn planter places the seed in the furrow. The groove is never on top, but either under or on the side of the twig, which soon dies and falls to the ground. Here, as you can easily see, is the first benefit the forest gets from the locust, a cutting back that all trees must have to perfect their fruit, enlarge the growth of their trunks, and keep them from overshadowing one another. But it is after the locust gets to the ground that he puts in his best work for the trees. I have seen them dug up twenty feet nuder the Burface. I think he con tinues to go down until he strikes water, rock or hard pan. When we remember that there are at least half a dozen to the square foot of surface we can see how much the ground is loosened and pre- fared for the roots of the trees by this ittle insect. And then think how the soil is prepared to ab7orb the moisture necessary lor the growth of the trees. But let us go a step further. I suppose the hole a locust makes in coming out of the ground is at least a square inch. When we recollect how innumerable the holes are, and their depth, I think we can see what became of the waters in former vears that now dash into the river channels and give us such high floods. Cutting away the forests con tracts the work of the locust, and the subsoil is not in a condition to take up the water." "Why, my friend, you make a big thing out of the locust." "Why, parson, when we take in all you have said about fattening every thing that will eat him, the fact that he 'eats nothing above ground himself, and all that is reasonable in what I have just said, he must be called the most unmiti gated blessing God gives us. Parson, what do the scientific men call the 14 year locust?" "Properly speaking, they are not lo custs, but cicada. The Kansas people are right when they call their big red-' legged grasshopper a locust." "Was it that grasshopper that John " the Baptist ate?" "Yes, 'twRR a species of that genus." A War RemlnUcence. A rather interesting story of the war was told by k Joseph R. Perry, at the national convention of soldiers, which was held in Indianapolis last summer; but, as the reports of the session were necessarily abridged, it escaped publica tion at the time. "It was some time in the summer of 1861," Mr. Perry said, "that the 2lst Ohio regiment was down in West Virginia, in the Kanawha region. The regiment was composed of men gathered up promiscuously in the Black swamp region of Ohio. There were one or two -companies of gray-haired men, too old too bear arms, who had gone into .the service to fight for a principle not merely to put down the rebellion, but to emancipate the slave. They were very religious, and they would' hold prayer meetings at night. They would pray for the freedom of the slaves, and that the negroes might have equal rights with ihe-white people. Their prayers were very interesting t us young fellows who wculd go there to listen to them, because they were asking for something more than the issue of the war promised at that time, but everything that these old fellows asked in their prayers came about afterwards, and it is out of those results that this incident I'm telling you about came to a conclusion. We camp ed one day near a little town called Bed Bank, on the Kanawha and after our coffee had been prepared we found that we hadn't a spoonful of sugar in camp. There were a lot of negro cabins over on the hillside opposite our camp, and I agreed to go over and try to get some sugar from the negroes. There was about thirteen cents in money in the whole camp, but I took that and started over with a tin can to get the sugar, I entered one of the cabins and found a buxom negro woman with two little pickaninnies hanging to her linsey dress. They drew off into a corner of the cabin, half frightened when I went in, but I told them that they needn't be afraid; that I only wanted to get some eugar, and that I bad tbe money to pay for it.' " 'I'se kindy feared o' you 'uns,' said the negro woman; 'mastah told me not to have anything to do with you Yan kees, 'cause you'ssgwine to take us off to Cuby and sell us to gtt money to carry on the wah.' " 'My good woman,' I said to her, giv ing her a little blarney, because I wanted the eugar, 'you don't understand what this war is about. AVe Yankees are fight ing for you, and if this war comes out the way we want it to, you will be free, and you won't have any master, and will have all the rights that white people have. Your little boy there will be sent to school, and he will have just as good a chance to become governor of Virginia as any white boy.' " 'Fo' de Lord, you" don't say so! she exclaimed. "I went on 1o tell her then about how the black people were just as good as the white, and how they would be benefited ii we were victorious. Before I quit talking she brought out an old can and gave me what sugar I wanted. She didn't want to take the money, but I told her that she'd better, and she ac cepted it. It was only an incident of the day, and after I told the boys in camp how I got the sugar I thought no more about the matter. I had forgotten it entirely until about three years ago, when I was returning from the city hos pital one night, when the car stopped for an old negro woman with a basket of clothes. I was sitting near the door, and helped her to lift the basket into the car. She sat down beside me, and remarked: 'Mighty cold to-night. Don't have any such cold weather down whar' my ole home is.' "'Where was your ole home?' I in quired. " 'At the little town of Red Bank, down on the Kanawha river, in Wes' Virginia. " 'Did you live in a little cabin, with a well beside it, and opposite a big white house?' I abked of her. '"Right dar was whar I lived.' " 'And do you remember when the the Yankee soldiers camped over meadow, near vour cabin?' in " ' 'Deed I do sir. I remember that mighty well ' "'Do you remember a young soldier with a brass horn strapped to his shoulder and a small sword at his side, coming over to your cabin to buy some sugar?' ' 'I should say I do. I remember dat young man mighty well. He spoke the first good words I ever heard taid about the colored people. He told me that 1 was to be free, and that my little boy might be president some day. Why, he gave me thirteen cents. I kept that money every siuce for luck, and I've got it right here!' and the old woman drew from her bosom a small, dirty purse, from which she took the coins that I had given her twenty years before. "'Do you think you would know that young fellow if you would ever see him again ?' "'Deed I would. 'I'd know that young nan the minute I set eyes on him.' " 'Well, auntie, I'm that young man.' " 'For de Lord's sake, honey!' she ex claimed, and threw her arms about me. It was doubtless a funny scene to the passengers in the car, but her demon strations made it a little embarrassing and a trifle unpleasant for me, I learn ed afterwards that the woman's husband was a carpenter here in the city, and that they were tnoderately prosperous." Why her Lover Enlisted The mystery of George S. Carter's dis appearance last September, says an Ux bndge, Mass., telegram to the New York World, has been cleared up by the pub lication of a little love story with a ro mantic sequel in which Carter figures as the live hero. Young Carter was en gaged to a young lady here, and prepara tions had been mad e for the nuptials. On the evening of the second day before the appointed time young Carter drove to the home of his affianced and asked her to take a ride. She made some ex cuse for prefering to stay at home that evening, and Carter drove off alone in a sad and dejected frame of mind. He was not satisfied with her treatment of him, and this dissatisfaction was rather heightened an hour or so latter when he saw his young lady riding with another young man with whom he has not been on very good terms, and of whom he was rather jealous. He followed the young couple to know where they intended to go and learn how late they would re main together. He was satisfied that his betrothed was not true to him, and be drew his savings, amounting to $1. 000, from the bank and started for New York, where he enlisted in the regular army. His departure caused a sensa tion, and for a long tune no one could tell the cause of Carterfs departure nor his destination. At length a letter came from New Mexico telling his parents that their son was a soldier. He wrote again, asking their help in getting a discharge from the army, and his anxiety was no doubt increased when he learned that his parents had been left $30,000 by the death of a relative. The war secretary has not yet replied favorably and is rath er inclined to deny the petition on the ground that enlistments are very scarce. An appetRing way to cook chicken is to cut it In pieces, as if you were to frica see it; dip the pieces in beaten egg and then in fine Dread crumbs, seasoned with pepper and salt, and a little very fine sage if you like that; put them in tbe dripping pan, and a little water in the pan; bake slowly till done. Make a rich gravy in the dripping pan after you take the chicken out TBB MIKD-CURE CRAZE, Mn. Eddy's BeTelaUon and the New Faith Following It. Special Correspondence of the G'obe-Democrat. Boston, Mass., May 20. The new science of mental healing for nothing that originates in Boston is less than a science or art has gained such multi tudes of followers within a few months that its missionaries are sure to begin practicing and teaching the principles outside New England. The press of the country has found occasion to make fre quent sharp paragraphs about "Boston's mind;cure craze," but it is a long time since any local paper has been so indis creet as to cast si uring allusions upon the pathology. Absurd and idiotic as some of the ideas advanced by the proph ets of the system are the move ment has far outgrown the . limits of a popular but temporary craze. Its "wonaeriui cures nave been so per sistently proclaimed that a large propor tion of average Bostonians are willing at least to admit that "there is something in it." Hundreds claim to have been benefited in varying degrees by mind cure treatments. Many such become themselves "healers," and thus the new idea has spread. Just now the religious features of tne new departure more prominently engross public attention, and clergymen of all denominations are seriously considering how to deal with what they regard as the most dangerous innovation that has threatened the Christian Church in this region for many years. Scores of the most valued church members are join ing the Christian Scientist branch of the metaphysical organization and it has thus far been impossible to check the defection. It is a movement far-reaching in its influence and including many thousands among its sympathizers whose ordinary intelligence entitles respect for their judgment. A study, therefore, of some of the details of the novel scheme is at once interesting and most fascinating. SCENE IN A BOSTON PARLOR. Here is a familiar Boston parlor scene: Two ladies sit a little way apart in Quaker meeting silence for perhaps twenty minutes. The face of one is as hotly flushed as if she had been indulg ing in vioient exercise, physical instead of mental. Externally this is all that constitutes a mind cure treatment to which hundreds hereabouts are daily submitting. The fundamental idea that underlies the whole system is that there is no such thing as sickness. Disease, they say, is an error of the mind, the re sult of fear. This startling hypothesis entails some very strange and absurd conclusions. The leader of one of the factions, for there are several in sharp rivalry one with another, gives these in structions for healing: "Reason in your mind that God made everything good. He is not the author of disease. There fore, as disease is not a creation, it does not exist, but is merely a delu sion of the mind, the effect of fear. Fear is faith inverted and per verted. Youaretogain the confidence of your patient; make him tell you the cause of what he thinks is his disease, but with your clearer mind you see that it is not sickness at all, but an error in his mind. You attain the power of healing by dwelling mentally upon the truth and wisdom of God, and thus the faith of the healer meeting the fear of the patient, produces a chemical change in the fluids of the system which results in health." Many invalids are naturally willing to accept this or any other soph istry in explanation of cures if they themselves are physically benefited. MODIFYING TEACHERS' IDEAS. But among the intelligent people in every-day life who have studied the mind-cure theories and to a greater or less extent are testing them, the ideas of the teachers are very much, modified. Indeed, hardly any two have just the same conception of the "science." One lady believes that to be a consistent healer one must be a TJniverealist. An other insists that the minds of her pa tients shall be made entirely free from guile, and accordingly asks for a full statement of their lives. Many persons who study the system renounce all re ligious and all superstitious ideas in con nection with it, but recognize the physi cal phenomena which they do not attempt to explain, and prac tice the art as successfully as any. A lady in Hyde Park who takes this position says she finds herself possessed of a power over many serious ills which she nardly knows how to use. She says she prays earnestly, and the ailment of the sufferer seems to be transferred to herself. Then she is able easy to throw it off. She does not know whether o call it mind-cure, faith cure or magnetism. Some operators say they use no will-power, but simply keep in their minds an image of perfect health, and let God or the Truth work through them. Others exert the will intensely to drag out the disease, as it were, by main force. CURIOUS IDEAS. To be consistent, the leading mind cure theorists have to maintain some very absurd ideas. Poisons, they say, would be harmless if fear of them were removed. Children, they explain, are affected because of unconcious heredi tary fear. Mrs. iMary B. G. Eddy, leader of the Christian Scientist: division of mental healers, clains that her husband, who died three or four years ago, was murdered by an enemy among the Scientists, whb 'thought arsenic into him." Some of these queer enthusiasts maintain that mental influence does not recognize dis tance, and that, therefore, the presence of the patient to be treated is not neces sary. A lady in Hyde Park has an inti mate friend in Sacramento, Cal., who, a few months ago, was given up by physi cians to die of inflammatory rheumatism. It was arranged by mail that at 3 o'clock, Boston time, on certain days, the invalid should submit herself to the treatment of her distant friend. It is claimed that the improvement was immediate, and that within a month the patient was able to visit San Francisco with her husband. Another lady, in treating absent patients, Eut a doll in a chair upon which to fix er mind in lieu of the sick penon. Most of the mental healers profess con tempt for the laws of hygiene. They bid their patients eat what they please and act as they please. Mrs. Eddy, how ever, makes the proviso that they must be of strong faith that what they eat and do will not hurt them. THE RESULTS ACHIEVED BY FAITH. Under this head the correspondent, gives numerous cases of so-called cures for which .we have not space. He also tells that there are fraudulent mind doctors. ffi A XXXIGIOTJB CXAZB. For several weeks past, as stated at the outset, the religious revolution in volved in the new departure has over shadowed the consideration of the phys ical phenomena in the public mind. The theological innovations are confined to the creed of the Christian Scientists, who constitute the largest division of the mind-cure host. They make the Erinciplesof anew religion indispnsa le in their theories of mental heeling. They are lead by Mrs. Eddy, the high priestess of the whole movement. Sne claims to be be the founder of the wh ence though rivals deny it, and her ac- uuuuii w mo jjivme origin ui uxv laxin is worth mentioning. In 1880, according to her story, she fell accidently upon the sidewalk and Buffered sninal ininrv and paralysis, which physicians declared would result fatally in a few hoars. Her rjastor called to see her inst hafora tha end was aDnarentlv at hand, and offered her consolation. She begged him to re turn in the afternoon,but no one believed she would then be living. By revelation from Heaven at that time God's actual relation toward her and toward the human race was made clear, and she realized that her disease was but an error, which, when supplanted by the truth, would disappear. By the light of her new knowledge she brought herself, through mental process, into a proper at titude toward Jehovah, and when the clergyman called a few hours later, ex pecting to comfort her bereaved family, she met him at the door. Ever since, Mrs. Eddy says, she has had the power of healing others as she was herself healed. The creed which she has for mulated as the basis of her new system is a peculiar theological mixture. But as Prof. Stacy Fowler recently said, in discussing the subject, "if they heal, people will not stop at a question of theology; if they heal, they will carry the day, and they ought to." Hence it is that Hawthorne Hall, where the Christian Scientists worship, is thronged for an hour before the time of service each Sunday. So eager are people to hear that after the standing room is all taken they crowd around outside the doors, where they catch only an occasional word or two. The service consists of ordinary devo tional exercises preceeding a sermon by Mrs. Eddy. But the creed she teaches is so blindly and iilogically presented, is so full of manifest inconsistencies that it would be an impossible task to des cribe it even in outline. "God is an in finite mind; matter is nothing. Person ality is the embodiment of mind. For giveness of sin means destruction of sin" these are ideas gamed by listening to one of Mrs. Eddy's rambling talks. MINISTERIAL OPINIONS. The Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D., a prom inent Baptist clergyman who has studied the books of the Christian Scientists thoroughly and talked with all the leaders, pronounces their creed a mixt ure of Pantheism and Buddhism. The delusion, he says, is most insidious. The large use of the bible, the strenuous de mand for holiness and self abnegation in the disciple8,the results apparently effect ed in the minister to the sick these are very powerful considerations for attract ing converts." Sohundreds of young ladies especially are drawn into the sys tem, under the impression that they are getting some finer quality of Christianity. Dr. Gordon predicts that this is not the final issue. If the body is only a phantom, and the flesh only a shadow, by and by some very practical sinners will take refuge under the system, and insist that the sins of the body and the transgressions of the flesh are harmless, since they are only the phantom of a phantom, and the shadow of a shadow. Dr. Gordon regards the whole system as a sort of witch's cauldron, in which every conceivable heathen and Christian heresy is seething and simmering to produce the subtle essence called "mental medicine." On the other hand, the Rev. O. P Gifford, another Baptist clergyman of equal standing; and several other prominent ministers, defend the Christian Scien tists, and endorse much of their philos ophy, while admitting that much more of it is unintelligible. But the clergy, as a whole, now regard the subject with grave apprehension, and on all sides they are discussing the situ ation with great earnestness. They hardly know how to deal with the danger, for the sincerity of all infected with this new faith is undoubted, and any policy of opposition or denunciation serves only to increase their ardor. Scores of applications have been made to Evangelical churches of the Baptist, Methodist, Congregational and Epis copal denominations for letters' of d smissal to the Christian Scientists' Church. All these applications have been refused, but the c onverts to the new church nevertheless worship with those of the new creed. The public dis cussion of the new theology was began a few weeks ago by Rev. Joseph Cook, upon his Monday lectureship platform. He indorsed the views of Dr. Goidon, and denounced the Christian scientists unsparingly. Since then the subject has been discussed from week to week, at one or more of the conferences of minis ters of the various denominations. A petition was presented to the Board ot Railroad Commissioners, June 13th, frotu Manhattan, signed by N. Green and 300 others, stating that the Manhattan and Northwestern Railroad Company was chartered in 1871, and that in 1879 it was re organized as the Manhattan and Blue Valley Railroad Company, and constmcted'by the last named company from Manhattan up the Big Blue River to the town of Stockdale, Riley county, a distance of fifteen miles. Since that time the company has failed to equip and operate the same, and in considera tion of the construction and operation of thfl said Titilrnad- "Rilev conntv voted $140,000 bonds to the original company in i7i. Tne petition complains oi sue great inconvenience to the people living alnnff the linn of this railroad, on account of it not being operated,and asks that the rolling stock upon said road that it may be operated. All admit that small grains are highly injurious to orchards; timothy is much woMP. It annronriates much of the rain, keeping it from the tree roots just wnen most neeaea, umess tnere is a sur plus, and the nourishment that should go to the tree is appropriated by the grassroots. Under such circumstances the tree roots are always found near the surface. They have come , there to get what they can of nourishment belong ing to them, and which they could not find below. In a well-cultivated orchard the tree roots lie much deeper. Prairie Farmer. STILL TO MORGAN Have just received their ry Goods We Have the Largest Caps, Gloves, Undeiwear Blankets EVER BROUGHT CW -OUR STOCK OF- FLANNELS CANNOT BE Come and Examine Our Stock. 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