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NOVELS.

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cy for the \ merican News
Co. we are enabled to sup
ply our patrons with almost
any magazine republication
printed. a rice line of nov
els just received. among
which are choice books of
the Seaside and Old Cap
Collier detective stories
Libraries. Also Ii. Rider
Haggard's works. l1rice, 5,
10, 20 and % ceats per copy.
Gail at the Advance" Office
and see them.
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case. Of namlc,a., Iusan,,x.

Have you had much experience with
this form of insanity. DOCTOR
Many aud many case remember
once being visited by gardener ile
told me that his niece kept house for him.
and that rs 10 had raised her lie g
very fond OF her One day he was filed
with an Impulse to drive n pitchfork
through her neck lie was talking to
her at tho time and had the pitchfork in
his hand by n tremendous effort be re
Trained Several times afterwards ho
lei, the same desire coming over him. and
each time 1t grew stronger. and at last he
made figure. with the neck and bust of
straw. Whenever the desire To stick his
niece in tho neck with the pitchforlS came
over him he would rush out and stab the
figure. got him into an asylum and he
was eventually cured
remember another ceso where n man
In Arkansas wrote me saving that one
doy while he was digging la the garden
ms little Child camo running out To play
IS soon as he saw her Sudden desire 10
Kill her with the spade came over him
lie said the feeling was so strong that lo
had to tell the chi.l 10 leave the garden
Afterwards he declared that he feared he
would kill his family | wrote him to no
to an asylum Immediately. because if he
dill not the mania would grow and he
''Ne'H w h'Nisiif Ollc, IN winch
event hc would be morally rs guilty as If
ho had planned tho murder in his sober
senses.
Tho case OF De Mallard. the French
man. Is noted one. and from the fact
that the victims were all women II Is
peculiarly interesting lie used TO adver
tie for servant girls When they came
no would lead them of to some secluded
spot and murder them There was no
other object than mad thirst for human
blood. lie is known TO have murdered
six women in this way. and is supposed to
have killed ,naay more whose bodies were
never discovered lic was executed The
books are full of such cases. and they arc
not confined 20 men. either. Women have
hSured quite as prominently One French
woman. between 1855 and 1851. murdered
over twenty people She used poison In
every instance. and her victims included
relatives. neighbors. physicians and nuns
She attended number of her victims
while they were on their deathbeds and
gave every evidence of being deeply
affected. Perhaps she was OF course
she had no object except Gil insane desire
to see people die.
This mania is bat one Of a number. all
of which are of tho same general family
In soElc cases it is klcptomanin. in others
mania for suicide, in others for murder.
and so on DIR. William a. Hammond In
Now York World
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n Novel Test Ia Tasting,

novel bet was won and lost In Vino
stree, resort the other evening 4 party
OF gentlemen were intulging In social
glass. and 6ually the conversation turned
u.-..in the quality of liquors and the ability
~ certain persons TO judge them by the
sense of smell and taste One man ian the
party claimed that the lest judges could
be fooled by the compounderssa and. after
sSie argument became quite warm. made
the astounding assertion that a large per
ccntage Of bar patrons did not know what
they were drinking
The debate grew hotter and hotter. and
finally the man who had advanced such
outrageous ideas offered to bet basket
Of wine that lao could confound any one of
thc party so that he could not tell water
from whisky John Ilummcl. the circus
man. who he's had u varied experience In
the drinking line. accepted the wager. and
the prcliminarics began John was first
heavily blindfolded. and then number Of
Sltsscs containing water. milk. WHISKY.
sherry, c!arct Rhine wine and gin were
Let ont on the bar They were handed to
the blindfolded man one ut time. and he
WAS told to name the liquor after tasting
Il lie got through the list bravely until
ne came t. tie gin. which he called port
wine Then the man started him back.
brt IT was soon very evident that Hum
nels palate had lost its power He called
Esiik water. and finally was forced 10 nd
git that all the liquors tasted alike. and
.hat he had lost his bet II was some
sine before he was able to enjoy the wine
he had lost.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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oracing their legs so extended rs To Le in
position tn take them oil or push them
on over the ankles and the foot heels at
any time Thus the chains could he car
ried on the soldier or around the waist
instead of around tho legs. and walking
vas much easier
OF course. the soldiers and their com
nandcr know well what the metallic
sounds meant. but they did not care to in
terscre. Some of the escort officers were
good uaturcd Sicn. and paid no attention
10 these little transgressions" of the
law: others were strict and rigid. not
tolcrating any such liberties on the part
of tho convicts. and "a tho latter had a
marvellous ability for sizing up" their
commanders. they marched one day with
the chains around their legs and anot her
with the chains around their waists
Many Of the convicts managed to throw
of tho chains even from their arms
These being very short. give such post
are TO the woarcr rs TO render his ten or
twelve hours march extremely difficult
Tho contact of the iron of the chains.
moreover. occasions. i'm tn. bones during
the Intense Siberian heats or frosts. an
nsurportable rheumatic pnin. which after
several weeks of walking becomes real
torture. Michael MalkoI in Chicago
News
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From the LIST of December to the last of
April. dinners are in order. and many
fashionable folk scarcely dine ut home
once month unless they play host under
their own roof How thoy manage their
digestion know not. for season 5 elabo
rate dinners are enough to disturb the in
terror OF M ostrich | am aware that
cooking Of the Careme kind claims to i'm
sure eupopsy but. while this may be
true i'll theory. it is not in practice Scores
of rlen die here annually from excessive
dining oat, and | am acquainted with
dozens who have lost their health from
the same cause Women seldom suffer
because they are nc, educated, anl cannot
DO educated into epicures. II they are
tortured 10y govt it s usually all inherit
cnce most mcn earn their govt by pro
tractcd stomachic abuse Excessive eat
Ing. say experienced physicians. destroys
rs many constitutions as does excessive
drinking. And excessive eating is the
baae of New York society men and mcn
of leisure. who are represented by round
protruding eyes. double chims and olear
nous conplcxions-"D euceace'' In Globe
Democrat
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Some New Found Indian Tribes.

The great table land of Matte Crosse
IN the western pert of Brazil. Is still one
OF the least known portions of South
America. When ur Clauss and DR. Won
Gen Steincn penetrated il several years
ago. and followed The large Xingu river
from IT'S head waters TO the Amazon. they
foated down about 1 900 miles before they
reached the Known portion of the river
They did not have limo to adequately
study the strange and unhea-,l of Indian
tribes they met AMID these dense forest =
anu barren uplinds. and for tho purpose
OF making fur her researches among them
Ut Won den \. eincn returned to the urncr
Aingu last year He visited the VILLAGES
OF nine of these tribes. and in a recent
lecture in 10, de Janeiro he gave the In.
tercsting res ats of his studies
There is hardly n corner of the Garth
whose people have not had some inIslng
OF the great world beyond them: But
these primitive natives of tho upper
Aingu had. apparently. never seen n scrap
OF trade goods or heard that human beings
existed outside their little circle of
observation. They uso no metal implo-
nents. but fell trees with stone axes to
clear tho ground for their plantations of
Indian corn. cotton and tobacco Wearing
shell ornaments. they use hammers and
nails OF stone to pcrforate them. They
i""nS hiiNeS out OF SGClIS Cuu the sharp
teeth OF certain ish. and with these
poor tools they carve their rudcly orna
mentcd stools and weapons.
Dogs and fowls are found in all parts of
the Amazon valley that have been visited
by traders. but these Xingu tries have
never heard IF them Neither have they
any knowledge of the banana. sugar cane
md rice. with which natives of the
tropical zone are generally familiar. They
have not the slightest conception of a
God. but they believe they will live again
after death. Their most important rivth
relates TO the creation OF tho world
which. in their view, consists wholly of
the head waters of the upper Xingn and
Tapajos rivers.
From the languages and pottery Of all
but one OF these tribes the explorer dc.
rived the idea that these isolated peoples
are allied 70 the original stock Of the once
powerful Cariba. who journeyei from the
south TO tho sea. One tribe differed so
greatly from all others that lac was unable
10 trace its relation to any other pcople.
These people arc ALMOST wholly isolated
even from each other. and their languages.
though of the same derivation, are so
dissimilar that the tribes cannot under
stand each other Few people exist today
who are so primitive in their IDEAS and so
low III the social scale as these new foun1
Indians of South America New YcrL
SIM $3.50
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The seourgo which makes readers Of
telegraphic dispatches from Florida from.
bic appeals TO "a vague sense Of Eorror
ana crcad IL tells how helpless arc we
Ia tho presence Of q plague which I. or,Iv
o cesPicable little living thing. 80 inlin.
itesimally little that We can neither sec.
nor touch. DOT paint. nor Kill ~. III n
Marks or Shepherd could only photograph
~ " VIC could 60 netting for its covcys;
if VIC could discover its habits md ,f.,o
Dclls and catch its Swnrms ia bechivcs. IN
we could build great fires im tho streets
ond mako streets and houses PERFECTLY
cry and force air currents burdeucd with
these lying spores into flames. III we
could see the shape end how thcso If,lc
creatures move, wo could pcrlices Gle.
stroy them. But ert and learning and
genius and the truest heroisn. ever illus.
trated In self sacrifice. arc ell impotcrt
and uncrowncd and humilia;ed In the
presence OF spore. -Duprc in EirIping.
ham (Ala) News
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Contagiousncss OF Lenrnsr.

The con.agiousness Of leprosy still con
tines to be nlooted question. DR.. Rake
superintendent: OF the Trinidad Leper
hospital. has made report to the British
Medical association which embodics the
results OF his experiments in tho cultiva.
lion OF the germ of leprosv. the bacillus
IeprG, which have been under way for the
past four years. lie says that % at n
tropical temperature and on the ordinary
nutrient media he las failed TO grow the
bacillus leprsc; (e) in all animals vet ex
ahmed he las failed to find any local
growth or general dissemination Of Tie
bacillus after incubation, whether be
meath the skin, in the abdominal cavity
or in the anterior chamber; feeding with
leprous tissues has also given negative
results: (3) bc has found no growth Of the
bacillus leprie when placed in putrid fluids
or buried In the earth. lie further saws
That an inquiry 81 this kind is practically
endless. so varied are the conditions Of
temperature, time, nutrient media. living
animal tissues, or putrescent substance
and so many are tho observations neccs.
hnry to avoid or lessen the risk Of errors
OF experiment. Science
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Petty Me.nnes-e. o. nrtnr..

Actors and actresses nro very nprt
like other people. they are full Of petty
spites know Of case which happened
u London theatre not nInny weeks ago
IN winch one actor--Of rank in the pro
'esS'on-hGd 10 receive sonnet hing from 4
young player on the stage For some
reason or other lie did not like the vouu,
man. and determined To- buther him go in
stead Of taking the article rendered be
fell down as If in fit leaving the young
fellow without any cue TO go on with O,
any means OF exit
some years ago very celebrated actres,
used habitually TO annoy a well known
actor with whom she played is II the
case. asked the actor of her ouo
day. Miss -. that Whenever
have to say my lines In the third act. Won
cough as violently as you can TO drown
my voicer Yes Mr -" was the re
ply. Il think. do you know that vour
voice Is better when IL is drowned That
same lady once played n terrible trick
upon the actor Knowing he was uer
vous she gave him as POrtia rino
which he, az Basssnia. was unablo to 20,
on his finger. and so put him out that lao
nearly broke down altogether
But lately an actor told me himself that
so greatly did he dislike playing with a
lady who was In the same cast with him
that he frequently put chairs stools ard
TABLES IN her way purposely on the STAGE
so that she could not make her accIIs
toned PUSHES over tho boards without q
FISK OF tumbling Oh. yes there arc
plenty Of little spiteful Incidents ON the
stage and the people who perform them
are usually tie kin,Liest and most inno
cont IN appearance London Letter
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Italians. the veteran diplomntist Zoos
on to say, may become good diploma.ists
tound jurists and successful mcrchaufs
out they will never be soldiers I'm the frun
sense Of that word. Take their splendid
iect of irOnclads. for example, and mar
shall " IN battle array against French
English. Russian Cr German SQUADRON
commanded by n French. an English. a
Russian or n German admiral. and Che dis.
astcro OF LISA will b. rchcarscd over AMIN
Much Of this incap5dty for successful
military achievement Is dge to want 81
Training Ola the part Of the officers. Ina
ialy thcrc arc Eiany military schools that
arc well attended. but in thcm. a. i'm die
universities. there Is q fatal lack Of sover
hy in tie examinations. and once tho
student has left school ne IS never after
ward seen with q book in bis hand.
~ Is for this reason that we find the
officers in command Of the Rcd Sen cxpo
dition committing precisely the same er
TOfs mat their predecessors fell into ia
lslJ and 1865 The Italian officer seems
70 be concerned about only ono thing-tIe
eject That he is producing on the women
ana on The bystauders in general. and I
nave seen veteran8 covered with dccora
tiohs, who never forgot, before going into
the street, % arrange their hats ond 10
look into glass Paris Cor New York
Prc-s
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Coed Advice to Spectators.

Speculation - business that must be
studied as a specially, and though it Is
popularity believed that any man who has
money can Speculate. yet the ordinary
man. wit hout special training, in the bust
ness. is liable TO make as grca: q mistake
in this attempt as tic man Who thinks lie
can act rs his own lawyer ana who is said
Ito have fool for client" The com.
mon dciusion that expert knowledge is
not requircd in speculation has wrecked
many fortunes and reputation In Wall
street, and is still very influential in its
pcrnicious and i:ljlsOry achievements
Professional advice in Wall street. az
i'll legal affairs, is worth paying for, and
costs far less il tho end than tho chief
points that are distributed profuscly
around The street. thici; as autumn leaves
i'll Valiambrosa, and which only allure
Tie Innocent specuiator to put llis money
where hc Is almost certain TO lose it. Nj
advice 10 spectators WHO wish TO make
money il Wall street. therefore. is 10 IL.
moro the counsel OF tho baiToom ''tippers"
and ''tipp.ers," turn their backs OF
bucket shops" and when they wait
points" to purchase let them 20 to those
WHO kuow.-Lenry Cicws in tho Cosmo
p1litan.
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THE PONTIAC,

Abandoned on the shore, years before, LIZ her
gold seeking crow, and subsequently sur
rounded by drifting sand and refuse, until
we find her stern facing one OF San Fran
cisco's street,, the decks being partit;oncd of
for the accommodation OF the various room
erx
Tho baby girl Of former years osey-
assints IN the management OF the queer cstab-
lbhment, md two OF The tenants figure con
spicuous!y in the narrative
Tho owner O: the craft, Atr. Amer Mott, is
queer mixture Of guliibility, ridiculous in
noccnce nn'l persistent and ludicrous n,isap-
prehcnsior; but he is wiser than he looks. and
takes in Il San Francisc, real es,nte sharp.
who connivss To defrnud him of tho treasure
supposed 10 be sccreted in the bold Of the
Pontiac In n manner designed 70 Apoint a
moral, as IL certainly "a.iorris tho ialc.'
The sharper engages II yonng mnn to dis
cover tho treasure, but the young fellow
rcpPn'-. falls in love with Rosey and nobody
Is "ief:" but the would be robber
The illusir;,: ions in this story are by
CUsA;IIs. Here are Il few specimens:
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While number 81 convicts were en-
gagged ~ games Of hazard in the corridor
most Of thOfe w the rooms were aus ,ri,ed
~ another occupation Heavy metallic
strokes rang through the prison the fall
sug Of chaino uppn the floor could be- heard
from time 20 time. but the noise disturbed
nob"dy. neither those Who were fast
asleep IN the same rooms nor the com
uianding officer or the soldiers Who slcfs
10 the sans building The convicts
worked on the solution 81 one problem.
namely, on making the chain rugs EN-
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A ship OF rs.
4 California Tale Of the
Earlier Days.
BRET HARTE.
COPYRIGHTED And ILLUSTRATED

This story deals with n Missourisn who
sailed westward in u prairie schooner in
tile earlier dnys--accomranicl by Isis wife, n
baby girl, and his encountered In
dians, privntion ard suffering, and during the
journey los: his wife by fever. He worked
his why westward, an,i oar story finds lin
established in San Francisco, keeping a lojg-
ing house in the hull of deserted vessel,
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This Serial the opening chapters Of
which will soon appear. IL wri ten In
BRET HAHTE's best style.
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We cordially recommend TIE YdNKEE
bLADE 70 our readers as pure and hlgi-
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-01

PittsburR Chronicle.
It would be interesting TO know. IL the in
formation could be obtained, how many mem.
bsrs Of the Methodist Episcopal General Confer
encs who voted to GUST DR.. Buckley and elect
Miss Frances E. Willard editor Of the New
York Christian Advocate, are readers Of that
journal. Onefourth Of the confersnce voted 20
make her editor of the principal organ Of the
great Methodist Episcopal Church, when abe
was not q candidate for the place, and after she
had autographed that she would not
accept IL elected The motive Of
DR.. Buckley's opponents was apparent
He dared to have the courage OF his convictions,
and 10 speak against admitting women delegates,
and the votes for Miss Willard were . punish-
msnt. The idea that she 10 a. well qualified a.
DIR. Buckley to edit the New York Christian Ad-
vocate is preposterous. She could fill the paper
with narrow-gauge articles in favor OF prohibi-
sion Of both liquor and dolls, but there are other
subjects Of ss great importance about which
Miss Willard knows nothing Other memoers
of the General Conference who were candidates
for position mot ell, but some of them). circum-
specify kept quiet while the woman question
was being discussed. DR.. Buckley spoke up
like q man. and q lot of narrow-mindsd oppou-
ents tried 20 rebuke him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-01
IGNORANT TARIFF TiHKgRs.

A sufficient objection to the tariff bill now
before Congress lies in the fact that it was
prepared by men who know little, and SEEM
ingly care less, about the influence of the
proposed legislation upon the country. and
who represent constituencies but slightly in
terested in any line Of manufacturing indus
try.
The ignorance of the chairman of the ways
and means committee was quite pointedly IL
lustrated during his recent speech at Provi-
dence, r. l., in which he said that it was
useless to lay aduty on importations Of seams.
less stockings, since it was necessary to i'm
port all of them worn in this country, because
all were made abroad, and the peculiarities Of
their manufacture were a secret. Now the
fact il that the seamless stocking manufact-
ure has been established in this country for
years-originatsd here-and the only seam
less stockings manufactured abroad are made
on American machinery. There is little
ground for wonder at u~neasiness among both
owners and operatives when a man so lily
equipped is intrusted with legislation affect
ing every industry in the land.
But it is unreasonable to expect that Mr..
Mills and a majority of those who recon-
mended the pending bill should have knowl-
In the congressional district represented by
the chairman, the total capital invested in the
Enthusiastically, grist-mills and distil-
leries included-is only s552, s37; the number
of employees, S67. and total yearly wages paid,
$151, $50. Five of his free-trade colleagues
represent districts whose combined capital
employed in the indoor industries is only
So, SIS, $50. employing 1896 hands. at wages
amounting to 81, 7s4, 1863 per year. Thus six
of the eight free-traders constituting the ma
jority of the ways and means committee
represent industries employing less than
1000 persons. For Cook county, Illinois, the
census of 1880 gave for manufactures the fol-
lowing: Capital invested, $40, 401, 453, num-
Der persons employed, 81, 695; wages paid for
the year, $50, 603,5 67. This is eight times as
much capital, nine times as many hands, and
eighteen times as much yearly wages paid as
represented by the six Southern members of
the ways and means committee. There are on
that committee eight Democrats and FIVE Re-
publicans; therefore, the six members re-
ferred to, being three-fourths of the majority
side, naturally shaped the tariff bill to suit
their own ideas. That neither their knowl-
edge of the legislation required nor the i'm
p~ortance Of the industries they represent en-
title their work to consideration must be ap-
parent to every intelligent reader.