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THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
fcl'&sCUl I11IIX : i 00 vr Tr, In Adf nrr.
NICHOLAS B. KLAINE, - Editoo.
LiailT OUT OF DAItKXESS.
How swekt It was at davn to tloat
Aduwn the iHv( r rivulet;
Like IMen Imwer aNire my boat
That w lid red rose clustering met.
Krtim tenderdawn to fenent main
Holt Iris colors ikiUM and jrlowtsl
On roeX, and trw, nnd flower fetoon.
Thioub uulch the widening riter flowed.
rmmnmn toevehmtilcidornn.
With nbnck and atrlfu of heat and cold:
Cioud harlots dm-a by peetral forms
Across the hisainr water rolled.
And now, at last, 111 air Is free:
The eyeless depth of heal en are dark,
I n e ery idrte a horeles tea
I M retched around tny t-batlered bark.
No help have I f rum tar nr cbrt,
Tnim leucon tlreoridinial lielt.
And cold and Utter o'er my u art
1 he deadly atera rise and s elL
liut lo! a lljrht on oecan't l"enre
shines tremulous through rosy mlt.
And Hocks with red the throbbing fturjre.
And wurms the clo'uds to amethyst.
Ala! t-o tempest-tossed was I,
mi blinded by the rain ami itprar-
Whlle lonir, liewlldered noun went by,
And fog and darkness hid ray way.
That If yonllirht Iks eeor morn.
A br'Khlenttur or a waninjr -flow,
A fltnileof life, the newly born.
Or torch of death, I may not know;
I!nt eertnward that liirht I (deer,
WHh Mcadliet -rate and yearning soul,
t'orlireord'ath. ibroiijrh faith or fear.
My only huiK, my only poaL
rViufer- Slaomine.
How Women Supplement Nature's Head
Coierintr.
Few persons have any idea of t!ie
amount of human hair and other hair
imported yearly lo this country. If onc-
liall ol the women Knewwiiat tncy were
wearing in the shajie of head-pear they
would be almost ready to fall into hys
terics. A little light on this subject
may be interesting to thousands of both
sexes. Kalse hair is not so fashionable
as it used to be a few years ago. when
tons were imported to this country;
nevertheless, at the present time an ex
tensive business is being carried on
throughout the United States. In Lon
don it is computed that fully six tons of
human hair are imported every year,
and that the trade increases annually.
In order to meet the demands of this
and other countries, thero must be a
regular harvest, which can be looked
forward to at a particular season; and
as thero are different markets for black
and green tea, for brown or pale bran
dy, so is there a market for light hair
distinct from the market for dark hair.
Light hair is almost exclusively a
German product, and is collected by
agents of linus and companies who visit
certain parts of Germany and Switzer
land. A few years ago light hair was
the more valuable, and one particular
golden tint was so much prized that
the dealers only produced it for favor
ite customers, and sold it at double its
weight in silver. The rich and silky
texture of this much treasured article
hail its attraction for pools and artists,
as well as traders. Tho immortal
Shakespeare delighted in golden hair,
lla-samo, describing Portia, speaks of
her "Minny ".ocks," and in the Two
Gentlemen of Verona Julia says of Syl
via and herself, "Her hair is auburn;
mine is jicrfect yellow." Mack hair is
onlv mentioned two or threo times in
all his plavs, showing that Shakespeare
considered light hair to be tho attribute
of soft and delicate women. With
painters light brown hair is generally
chosen for their subjects, as is cleaily
demonstrated by a walk through any
of our art galleries. It is admitted that
the color of the hair of the English peo
ple has deepened in tint within the pres
ent ccnturv, and that this change is
owing to tiie nioro fre)uent inter-marriage
since the Napoleonic wars with
nations nearer to the sunnr South.
Whether light or dark, the hair pur-
cnaeu uy me ueaier is so closely scru
tinized that he ran discriminate between
the German and French article by the
smell alone.
lllaek hair is mostly imported from
ltrittanv and the south of France, whero
it is collected once every year by the
agents of I'arisian houses. " In various
parts of the motley croud of a llrcton
lair may be met several of these hair
purchasers, who travel the country for
the purpose of attending fairs and buy
ing the tresses of the peasant girls. In
fact, in many instances, the irirls take
their hair to market as regularly as if
they were selling some kind of pro- j
vision. Iliese girls are sticarcu oi mcir
!..?. titct tll-i. en. mnni clinfin one fitter
, the other. They stand round in a ring
OUI 1UI IllUZtlS'Ulll IIIIU lit,. ....j,.. ...
tlieir nanus anil tneir long nair coiiioeu
out and hanging down to their waists.
By the side of the operator is a basket,
into which every cutting is placed sep
arately, tied up in a wisp. The girls or
women of llrittany do not lose much of
their personal adornment by having
tlieir hair cut off. as they wear close
caps, which entirely prevent any
part of the chevelure from being seen.
Tho jiortion of the crop most suitable
for perukes is purchased bvaptrticular
class of people, by whom it is cleaned,
curled nnd prepared to a certain stage,
and then disposed of to wig-makers for
ten and twenty limes more than its
original cost. It is then retailed at a
big profit; for choice heads of hair, like
choice old pictures or choice old china,
have no limit to the price they occa
sionally command. It is only some
fifteen years since it was used to any
extent in this country, but since that
time it has developed itself to a large
and almost incredible degree.
A great deal of the hair that is now
imported is not, however, human, much
of it being "yak" hair, taken from
Chinese cows and other animals. In
Europe it has been in use for many
years, and great attention is paid to its
preparation for the different markets.
A'. 1'. Hail.
Serpent Worship a Sunival.
Dit- These. F. S. A., F. R. G. S..
read before the British Association a
paper "On the Retention of Ancient
and Prehistoric Customs in the Pyre
nees." He said he could now repeat
more confidently the peculiar features
which indicate bevond question that the
customs of the Gallic population of the
south of France agreed, so far as they
might judge from their lithie monu
ments, with those who came further
north and settled in Britain. On the
crests and sides of the mountains' on
both sides of the Pyrenees, i. c in
Spain and France, are found sepulchral
arrangements of stones somewhat dif
ferent to any distinctly recorded among
our antiquities. These consist of a
I number of circles adjoining each other ;
in the center of each is a cist with an
urn having burned bones, and the form
I of the circle is that of a wavy or ser
1 pentine cross. Tho quaint old cus
1 toms of early Celtic life are kept up
all along tho Pyrenees, but not in
the towns, in the plains, or champagne
j country. One of these, which he de
' scribed last year as still existing in
, IJrittany, that of a wooden tally, in
I lieu of a bill or account, on which the
baker marked by notches the number
! of loaves he supplied, and which at-
tracted the attention of the President
of the section last year, was also exisi
' cut in the Pyrenees. He purchased a
' baker's bill at Pcrpignan a few months
ago, and, though not so rustic as that of
Brittany, it approached more to our
old Exchequer tally, and to the Welsh
stick of writing described in "Sardas."
i as well as to some elaborate and really
( wonderful calendars, still to be seen in
i the Chcctham Museum, at Manchester,
than to the rustic tally of Brittany.
I On crossing into Spain and prosecuting
' inquiries, he found the serpent or
dragon emblem everywhere prom
1 inent, and even learned that
i the Tarasquc, the ceremony of
which is performed at Tarascon, in
, Provence, was a well-known dragon
, with the Spanish people. He was told
I that, though used as a popular divcr
i sicn at fetes, it had always a religious
1 meaning. At Luchon living serpents
, arc consumed in the flames. The youths
of the village had miniature cloven
I pines which they burn. These they
brandish while flaming, in serpentine
! cunes, and cry loudly, " hilla-hilla"
' pronounced "clla." But the Basque I
, often stands for r, and if we used it here
I we had the old classic cry of the Bac
' chanals, who with serpents in tlieir
nanus rushed about wildly, crying "fcva,
cva." Tho place where these cries are
mostly practiced has most remarkable
sculptures of serpents. After the burn
ing of tho pine a rush is made by the
more jwwerf ul, and the burning embers
carried off in their hands, regardless of
pain. Pieces are then distributed to
every household, and kept religiously
during the year, as was the custom
with the ancient Britons. Mature
Hints to Stammerers.
I cojimexed operations by writing
out a very large number of ordinary
sentences, asthcy presented themselves.
Having examined these sentences one
by one, and knowing well where I
should fail in uttering them as they
stood. I sought to device some method
by which those consonant initials might
be got rid of, or. at all events, dimin
ished. It struck me that if I could con
trive by any artificial division of the
words composing each sentence, to
bring the consonants at the end of a
division, instead of at the commence
ment, a grand object would be thus
achieved; for consonants at the end of
a word present no special difficulty,
the glottis having been already opened
by the preceding vowel sound, the
terminating consonant Hows out almost
as a matter of course. It is as when
we pour liquid from a full bottle. At
first it runs intermittently, with a "gluk-
f;luk," but when once enough ot tho
iquid is out to admit the air freely the
obstruction ceases. In a similar way
the object of the stammerer is lo prevent
the glottis lrom closing when once
it is opened. To ascertain whether or
not my idea was practicable, I wrote
out in' the ordinary way one sentence
at a time. I then rewrote this sentence,
not divided into simple words, but
making every initial consonant the final
lettcrofthe preceding word. Having
so divided the words composing the sen
tence, I then read them over aloud
many times, according to this artificial
division, to try if they were pronounce
able without any gross peculiarity. I
practiced this method incessantly, both
m reading and colloquial speaking; and,
to mv astonishment, I discovered with
in a few weeks that I was wielding an
instrument which was almost invariably
successful; and with this consciousness
of increased power my confidence daily
increased, so that I could frequently
speak on without regard to any meth
od. All who had known me up to this
time were perfectly astonished, and
anxiously inquired by what means so
remarkable a change "had been ctlected;
for mine, be it observed, was no mere
occasional hesitation, but a most habit
ual, unmistakable and invcterablc stam
mering. Shortly after this change. I
had numerous transactions, which in
volved a larsrc amount of talking, with
a gentleman occupying a somewhat
superior position, and, being anxious to
know whether tho working of my men
tal machinery was at all observable to
outsiders, I asked him whether ho had
ever observed any peculiarity in my
speaking. Ilis reply was: ""So; only
that you speak very distinctly." Cham
bers? Journal.
treason more than anything else tha
is, its seventy on those who defy it
we do not wish to agitato Mr. Fever, as
our ranks have already been visited by
tho merciless monster, and to his ma
jesty we say farewell. Savannah
Scics.
lleugne, or "Broken Bone Fcrer."
Dexgue, or broken-bone fever, also
known as "dandy fever," "bucket
fever." and " bouquet fever," is said to
have made its first appearanco as a mal
ady in the Wcstlndies in 1S27, at which
time it was also communicated to the
southern part of the United States.
The disease, as has previously been
stated, received tho name " dengue" j
irom tne apamarus ui me ti est uiuia
Islands, from their word dengue, do
noting prudery, which expresses stiff
nessa pain in the bones and stiffness
of the body being the principal features
of the sickening disease.
During tho past few months reports
have come from every quarter in the
Southern States regarding the preva
lence of this troublesome but not neces
sarily fatal disease. But few, if any,
deaths have been made known from its
effects. Nearly every citizen of Savan
nah has had a touch some light, some
severe of the maladv, and not one of
them can give a definite explanation of 4
me tortures vi mc ui?uivMj. n. uu
spared no one adults, children, little
men, large men. black men, white men,
colored men, business men, sporting
men, printers, editors, lawyers, every
one being subject to its fond embrace.
As for a cure or a preventive for the
little nuisance, we are not prepared to
say what is good or what is not good in
either case, out leave the matter to tho
physicians, who, by the way. have been
reaping a rich harvest fromthe unlucky
victims of the disease. Some persons
have gone so far as to say that the fever
is more violent on those who havo de
lied it before falling into its clutches;
but for this we cannot vouch. We can
say. however, that any one. sooner or
later, who is among its victims, does not
wish a second battle in which to show
better fight. Probablv for the above
Fonr Comets Xoir Visible.
It is quite unusual to ha ve four comets
in the sky at once, as is the case at
present. The first of the four is Scha--berle's
comet, which was discovered
last April and is now receding from tho
sun, alter having passed behind it. The
second is rave'scomct; a small periodic
comet, which makes its circuit once in
live and a half years. It is now fast
passing from view and visible only to
the largest telescopes, after a short visit
timler unfavorable circumstances. The
third comet is the one discovered, on
September 29th, by Hartwig. at Stras
burg, and on the next evening, at Ann
Arbor, by Harrington. When first
seen, it was very bright for a telescopic
comet, and et en visible to the naked
eye, with a tail some two degrees long.
Its spectrum has been examined, and
found to be just like that of most other
comets apparently identical with tho
banded spectrum seen at the base of a
coal-gas llame. The comet when first
seen had passed its perihelion, and has
been continually growing fainter, until
now in the moonlight it is an insignifi
cant object. The fourth comet is tho
one discovered in the Constellation of
Pegasus, by Swift, of Rochester, on the
night of October 10-11. It is described
by the discoverer as faint but very
large, and moving very slowly toward
the north and west- The moonlight
is so troublesome that as yet astrono
mers, so far as known to the writer,
have failed to get any observations on
it. According to the computations of
Enckc, the comet of 1812 had an orbit
which would bring it around in "0.7
vears, and, as this period is considera
bly uncertain, its return is looked for
almost any time. Until the orbits of
the new comets are computed, it is im
possible to say whether one of them
may not be this object. It was not,
however, in 1812 anything but a tele
scopic body. A", i'. IntlciKndcnt.
A Liberal ' Editor.
We were grieved to read the other
day of tho death of one of Michigan's
jolliest editors almost tho last man of
a band who published weeklies in the
State when a coonskin would pay for a
column "ad," and three bushels of
corn dumped on the office lloor stood
for a year s subscription. Never a pub
lisher was more liberal with his space.
It was hard work for him to charge for
anything except the tax-list and mort
gage sales, and he measured short even
on them. One day in the years gone
by his paper copied an attack on a
county official, and old Mark was dozing
at his desk when the injure'd party
stalked in and began:
" You are a coward, sir a cow
ard!"' "Mebbe I am," was the editor's com
placent reply.
"And I can lick you, sir lick you out
of your wrinkled old boots!"
"I guess you could," answered Mark
as he busted the wrapper off his only
exchange.
"I'm going to write an article calling
you a fool, liar, coward, cur. slanderer,
and body-snatcher, and go over to Ionia
and pay live cents a line to have it pub
lished "Hey?" queried the old man as ho
wheeled around.
" Yes, I'll pay five cents a line to have
it published."
"Say, let me tell you something," re
plied Mark. "I've got two hundred
more circulation than tho ISanner, and
I'll publish your attack on me for two
cents a line and take it out in mill-feed
or corn-stalks! Don't trot over to Ionia
when you can help build up your own
town!"
Mark would have published it word
for word, just as he said, and thrown
in a cut of a horse or a stump-puller
free gratis, but the official cooled off.
Detroit Free Press.
The emigration from Canada to this
country is probablv greater than is gen
erally supposed. In 1874 the number
arriving was 32,5G0; in 1875, 24,051; in
1877, -Jl.aiG; in 1878, 25.5CS, and in
1879, 81,268.
Man proposes and woman often
wishes that he wouldn't be so long
about making up his mind.
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