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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
Some Physicians Think It Is as
Far OFF as Ever.
EXPERIMENTS WITH THE ELIXIR

Philadelphia Reporters Rue the Day
They Sacrificed themselves to science.
Baltimore and Chicago Physicians re-
ject DR.. Brown sequard's ThoOry-suc-
cessful Results Reported from wili-
iamsport. Pa.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 1.-THE daring
representatives of newspapers who sub
jected themselves out of curiosity TO the
Brown-Sequard elixir at the Medico-
ChirurgicaI hospital, are both laid up
for repairs, and one of them is consider
ably scared about his condition. He
sent summons for Professor Henry q.
Boenning, who administered the emul-
sive preparation, and upon concluding
his experiments Professor Boenning re-
paired at once to the scene and found
the patient, who had been enjoying the
best of good health and spirits, in bed.
his face wore a woebegone expression,
and he showed traces of having slept
very little during the night. His SYM
toms were severe pains in the head,
soreness i'm the limbs and high fever.
He sorely regretted having had anything
to do with the new life giving remedy.
Another journalistic victim tn Science.
The other newspaper man who tried it
failed to report for duty also, and in
quiry developed the fact that he was
compelled to keep his bed with q high
fever, pains in the head, painful con-
fusion of ideas, and severe pains In the
groin and its vicinity. This young gem
tleman Is also badly scared and re-
proaches himself for his folly.
The result Of the experiment with the
newspaper men made Professor Boen-
ming extremely cautious, and he declined
to administer the injection to any patient
until he first explicitly stated that it
was at his own personal risk,
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-08-14

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14-Complaint
has been lodged with the civil service
commission against Postmaster Ankeny
Of Minneapolis, of having made divers
and sundry" appointments in his Office
in violation of the civil service law.
The complaint is sworn to and the sub
mitters' credibility v0uched for by q
reputable citizen of Minneapolis. The
commission is now investigating the
charges. Mr.. Ankeny was appointed
postmaster in July, 1886.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-08-14

CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-Chicago physic-
ians do not take much stock in DIR.
BIown-Sequards so called elixir of life.
A number OF the most prominent in the
city have been interviewed and they ex-
press the opinion that the elixir Is a
fraud.
Health Commissioner DeWoIf is es-
pecially strong in his denunciations, as
he has been testing il for a week with
ont raaraIf
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woaIng nalmy sleep.

''Sleeps We never enjoyed sleeping
more III our lives. In fact, we reduced
it to fine art. Senator Quay is a sound
sleeper, when he does sleep. But he
does not, as a rule, sleep long. Col.
COnger IS 4 sleeper and dreamer. One
night ] felt somebody tugging at my
night gown and found that it was Col.
Conger. He said that he dreamed he
was pulling in big fish.
Eek Senator Hobart, Of New Jersey,
was not far behind in the quantity Of
fish he caught. OF course. being from
New Jersey, hc thought it strange we
were not eaten up By mosquitoes. be-
lieve / have gained in flesh, although
our principal diet was fish.
Cooking We had an excellent
cook. Senator Quay is an epicure Of a
high order. He can cook terrapin to
perfection, and, as for fish, he knows
how they should be served. Wec0asted
along Cape May. Off the banks, of Vlr-
q;nia. and ran mn the Delaware River to
Chincoteague. There is nothing like q
fishing trip on Q yacht with congenial
party.
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Great Council II Rea men.

AUBURN. n. Y, Aug. 1.-THE twenty
first annual session of the great council
of the Improved Order of Red Men COM
nnenced In this city. About 200 dele
gates, representing over 100 tribes, are
III attendance.
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secretary Feasenden HAS Rslapse.

CARE NAY. Aug. A-H0n. Samuel
Fessenden is not so well. His tempera-
ture is higher and he is in fever.
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We VIII Insert in this column advertise
@Snta o. Wants. For Rent, For Sale, Lost.
@0Mm1s &css mot ex09edAmg four lines. ONE
WEEK. or lesss for 2B Cents.
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FOR SALE, Rent Or LEASE.

QR 000TO LOAN on Mortgage. as a
gV9VVV whole or In less amounts.
A-@o JNO. IRELAND.
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COSTLY BLUNDERs OF A CLERK.
The Michigan High-License Law Possibly Vi
tiated by Numerous and Glaring Errors.

LANSING, Mich, Oct. 5.-The error found
in the new high-license law Thursday was
nothing to the plumbers that have been
discovered since. All the newly-found er-
rors are in Section ], the most vital section
of the bill. because it prescribes the amount
the saloon-keepers and wholesalers shall
pay in liquor taxes. Section 1 of the act, in
the form in which it was signed by the
Governor, and is now a law, differs radical
ly from the bill passed by the Legislature.
The act as signed and printed xes the
wholesale a on spirituOus liquors at $500
instead of $500. as recommended by the con-
ference committee and agreed to. The
licenses for selling both spirit
sale and retail appears at $1,000
instead of ST. 100 as passed. The Senate
adopted a provision allowing wholesalers
of spirituous liquors also to wholesale malt
liquors without additional license. The
conference committee struck this out, yet
it is retained in the law. Owing to this
blunder dealers can wholesale splrituOus
and malt liquors on payment of only $500
Legislature required $500 for spirituous and
$500 for malt liquors, or 81, 100 in all.
1t is probables that the mistakes were
made in%nocently by the clerk, who at
tempted to put the act into coherent shape
for the eng~rossing-rOOm. but the liquormen
are confident that it will enable them to
riddle the law in court. The clause in
was in the mutilated section. and it is be-
lieved that the saloons can force the State
to 60 back to the old S300-tax law, OF else
knock out the tax feature entirely.
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A Georgia Engineers Mascotte.


II was on the hight run,n said the engi-
neer, land my train was about thirty
minutes late. / said to my fireman, Keep
her hot; L mean to 60 to meeting point on.
time During the next fifteen minute I
was not long in passing the mile-posts. for
my engine few along at the rate of fifty
miles an hour, down a long grade as straight
as an arrow. Suddenly something struck
me in the face, making a slight wound. 1
slowed down. What's that near the
furnace doOri' / asked of the
fireman. pointing to a little bit
of white paper lying just to ny left. The
fireman stopped. picked up the paper and
handed it to me. In the dim light of the
steam gauge 1 read, Look out at the river
bridge; there's a tie on the track Sure
enough, just at the entrance to the bridge
/ found u tie securely fastened across the
track" The piece of paper has been
framed and hung over the engineers
parlor mantle, and he calls it his mascotte,
for he has never been behind since it was
thrown into his cab.
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An Eccentric Novelist.

Ouida is as grotesque a figure as Mrs.
Mackay is a proper and conventional one.
/ saw the novelist once in London, and l
shall never forget the impression which
her astounding appearance made on me. |
should say that Mademoiselle De la
Rance, as she now calls herself-adding a
syllable to her name with each decade
might be described as the worst-dressed
woman in Europe. Perhaps the most RI
diculOus thing about her appearance is her
air of assumed j~uvenility. On the day that
/ saw her she wore q skirt which showed
half an inch of white hose above a pair of
funny little congress-top CATERS, such as one
occasionally sees in the prints of 1850. The
skirt was perfectly round, like q cheese
cake. Above the waist was a jacket with
two odd little tails behind. and imbued
with a wonderful collection of i~ncongruous
colors. 1t looked as though it might have
been copied after one of the costumes worn
by Ouida's wonderful little v~ivandieres.
She wore lace mittens, a jaunty little hat.
and carried a huge scarlet parasol, when
such things were practically unknown.
She was going to call on the Prime Min
lister, or some similar erandee, it being her
custom at that time to look in upon any
body in London whose name CHANGED to at
tract her attention. Oddly enough, she
was received in any house she chose to
honor in London, English exclusiveness
giving way before the eccentricities of the
extraordinary little novelist.
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RENEWED EVIDENCE.
Twelve Months After Making Her State
ment She Renews Her Evidence.
Mrs. Catherine White, Of No. 100 John Street.
Bears Testimony Of Her Treatments and Cure.

Some months ago the readers of the In
~dianapolis papers were somewhat startled
by the statement of Mrs. Catherine White.
Many of her friends would not believe it
until they had seen her and talked 10 her.
They were well aware of her desperate
condition before. and could not believe such
a change could be broughta 50 short
a time. A reporter saw Mrs. White a few
days ago and she insisted on making the
following statement: Il do not think there
lives the human being who had suffered
more than / did. 1t is simply impossible TO
convey an idea of my mental and physical
condition. Day was q torment 20 me. and
night was ~unbearable. Death was tar
MORE TO BE DESIRED
than life under such circumstances, and
had almost prayed to be released. Only
those who have been placed under such
heavy burdens can realize the profound
gratitude that one feels toward any human
being who brings the coveted relief and
help.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
FRANKLIN, Ind, Oct. 5.-The large saw-mill
belonging to Daily Brunnemen, at Greenwood,
this county, was burned to the ground last night.
The mill and lumber burned were valued at over
81 900. There was no insurance. The origin of
the fire is not known.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-A $3.50 fire occurred to-
night III the Waller estates five-stOry business
block, Nos. los and 10 East Randolph street.
Kellogg, johnson * Bliss, hardware and cutlery,
lost SOS, 600; Maris x Co., glassware, $50, 600;
Klemm, Smith & Co., picture frames, $40, 900; c.
G.. Mckenzie, printer, So, 600. The building is
damaged $12, 600. All the losses are we'll in
sured-
HASTINGS, Neb.. Oct: 5.-The Hastings brewery
burned, ysst era y tb Loss ss,,, ST1,o9O insurance.
writer's of New York. 81 500 in the Traders of
Chicago, 81 O00 III the Western of Toronto, and
81 900 in the American of New Jersey. on stock
and fixtures.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass, Oct. 5.-The stone pulp
mill at the east end of the Hoosac tunnel was
burned to-day with contents. Loss about $780,
O0O; partially insured. Twenty men narrowly
escaped death by the fire, being caught upstairs
with slight means OF escape.
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Greencastle Division. u. R. was organized, on
Friday evening. by Major-general Carnahan.
Captain W. L. Heiskell instituted a division of
the q. r. at Muncie. Thursday evening last
General Carnahan anc General Ross visited
Evansville on Uniform Rank business on Tues
day.
A Supreme Temple of the Order of Pythian
Sisters will be organized, in this city, during the
coming week.
p. c. Johns. X. OF r. and 6. of Anniversary
Lodge, Martinsville. has been visiting in the city
during the past week.
Hon. NJ. L. Stevens. chairman of the committee
on foreign correspondence. and a Z. q. c. OF the
State OF Maine, Is in the city.
Past Grand C,E- shixely; of Richmond. was
in the city on Friday. He Is a candidate Tor
State Senator from Wayne county.
Founder J. H. Rathbone will begin his lecture
tour at Muncie, on the 2lst His arrangements
are such that he can give Indiana but four
weeks. but after the year closes he may be able
TO arrange other dates.
Kosciusko Lodge. No. go. was organized at
Syracuse, on the I'd with a goodly number OF
members. H.. II. Lockwood. assisted by {. J..
Bart0l and a number OF other members OF War
saw, Goshen, Rochester and other localities con-
Quoted the ceremonies.
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INSURANCE COMPACT BROKEN.
The Etna Company Takes a Step That Presages
Breakup Of All Combinations.

NEW YORK.. Oct 5.-Not since the disrup-
ton of the Metropolitan Association of Fire
Underwriters in April, 1887, following the
withdrawal of the Williamsburg City Fire
Insurance Company from its ranks has any
thing occurred to excite so much feeling
and comment IN insurance circles as the
announcement just made by the Etna COM
pany, of Hartford, of its withdrawal from
the New Hampshire compact. In 1880 New
Hampshire enacted what is known as q
valued policy" law. providing. however,
In an addition to the usual provision that
the amount for which the policy was writ
ten should be the measure of damages in
case of loss. and in addition thereto that
any company which should make applica-
ton to have any suit to which it was a
party removed to the United States courts
for trial or should enter into any com-
pact with other companies to gov
ern or control the rates of pre-
MUM to be charged for insurance
should have its license or authority to do
business revoked. Immediately thereafter.
the companies organized under the laws of
other States and countries. fifty-eight in
Number, and including all save one, the
q thaI Ak&A O0tA4
doing businessi in New Hampshire, Cancelled
their policies and withdrew their agencies
and entered into a mutual compact. which
was signed by all of them. agreeing not to
accept any risks on property in New Hamp-
shire so long as the law remained in force.
The compact also provided that If any conf
pany should withdraw from it. ninety days
notice should be given to the New England
Insurance Exchange, Three other States
Ohio. Wisconsin and Texas-enacted the
"valued-p0licy" feature of the law the same
year. and bills for the same purpose were
introduced in many other States, but were
defeated by the influences brought to bear
by the insurance companies The leg
islatiOn against combinations was omitted
from the Ohio and Wisconsin acts, and the
companies lie not withdraw their agencies
from those States, or cease doing business
in them. The New Hampshire compact
was entered into as much for the influence
1t would a on efforts at similar legisla-
ton in other States as to punish New
Hampshire. How effective the move has
proved to be cannot be determined. but no
other States have enacted the "valued-pol-
icy" law until last winter. when Mississippi
enacted it in a modified form. The action
of the Etna company is condemned by
some of the most experienced and success
full insurance men, and is welcomed as a
step in the right direction by others of
equal standing. Amanager of a prominent
English company says that it portends q
general breaking up of insurance combina-
tiOns all over the country. He thinks in
tiuences are at work which will shortly
compel each company to stand on its own
merits.
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hoWC Loii, An LduacS LAOmoS OuIual.
The affectatlon which consists in adopt
ing the English drawl and English accent
cannot be too severely condemned. But
while we condemn the sin. let us have
mercy upon the sinner, and remember that
he Is ~endeavorlng, in Abolish and mistaken
way, to seek after the light. He knows
that he and his fellow-Americans nave
harsh voices, and speak nasally, therefore
he tries the weak remedy of initiating the
speech of another nation. But it would be
quite as sensible for an American to adopt
a broken French method of p~ronouncing
English as to adopt that of our English
brethren. A copy-an imitation is always
vastly inferior to the original. We should
certainly endeavOr to amend the harshness
of our voices, but why in heavens name
should we who think, move and act quick
ly. speak with a lingering drawli 1t is ut
terly incongruous for us to do so. / have
often listened for amusement, not unmixed
with disgust, to the soft drawing accents
of our pseudO-British youth-whose voices
and tones were utterly denatiOnalized,
though the young people vainly imagined
that they spoke like Englishmen and wom-
EN-. To be a citizen of the greatest and
most prosperous nation on the face of the
earth-a nation that is admired and envied
by the people of all the countries of the
woodland to be ashamed of ones glorious
birthplace-is not this utterly foolish and
wickedi Yet this is practically what
"Anglo-drawliacs' do when they deny their
mother tongue, or vainly strive to do so.
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The Charivarl IL q Relic of Barbarian.

Dies MONIES, Ia, Oct. 5.-The Iowa Supreme
Court has given a death-blow to the hitherto
sacred rights and privileges of charivari parties.
IL has reversed the decision OF Judge Stuart, OF
the Monroe District Court, In the murder case OF
the State against Royal Adams. Adams was in
dicted for murder in the first degree for the ac-
cidental shooting OF q person named Daring, q
member of a charivari party, convicted Of man.
slaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for
seven years and six months. In reviewing the
case, the court says: 1.-THE party assembled on
called a charivari. It's object is about as barbar-
Gus as the pronunciation o. its name. Whatever
liberation 1t once had has long since passed
able to direct a jury that such an assemblage,
with all its tumuit and confusion, was not q
great provocation to those annoyed and insulted
by it, that time has passed away"
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ssGood Form" in the West.

The ladies who delight in making an ex-
hibition of their dresses for the readers of
the morning papers will doubtless be very
grateful for the labor-saving circulars sent
ont in anticipation of the Priests of Pallas
ball. Following the pleasant command,
possible comes the printed form in which
the lady is expected to jot down the minute
details of dress. bodice, petticoat. draperies,
ornaments, gloves, bouquet bonnet. fan
and slippers. 1t is. of course, to be assumed
with this innocent method of Haunting
their petticoats and slippers in the face of
the reading world. however questionable
the taste, and such women may be expected
TO go behind the returns and elaborate
ingenuity. Indeed. this is q great occasion
for the feeble-minded.
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woodruf,s Case Continued.

CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-As soon as the Criminal
Court was called TO order this morning State At
torny Longnecker made a motion that the case
against Frank Woodruff, one OF the men indicted
for the murder of DR.. Cr0nin, be continued until
by Mr.. Crews, of the counsel for Woodruff, who
demanded an immediate trial for his client.
Judge Mcconnell, however, decided that the
State was entitled to the delay asked, and
granted the motion. At the same hour in Judge
Bakers branch OF the same court, MIR. Browne
also of counsel for Woodruff, was withdrawing
client from custody. because he had not been
tried within the statutory time. The withdrawal
was without prejudice, and with q view to being
presented again at the next term, which begins
on Monday.
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A Singular Benevolencs.

Special To the indianapolis Journal.
ANGOLA. Ind, Oct. 5.-The refusal OF the court
to set aside the will of L. B. Eaton, deceased, In
sures the execution OF a singular philanthropic
scheme. The terms OF the will provide for the
division Of the Eaton farm, consisting of four
hundred acres, into ten-acre lots, and the con-
structiOn thereon Of forty homes for friendless
widows and unmarried women above the age Of
thirty-five years, all to be of good repute. The
Board Of County Commissioners are designated
as trustees of the Eaton Home" The value of
the estate thus bestowed is about $4,000.
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How q Noblcman's Som Became a Miner.

in mine No. 8. at Stoneboro, Pa, dropped dead
last night. Carlson had n romantic history. He
was tue son of a Swedish n0bleman. who dis
owned him on account of his marriage to a
peasant girl. He came to this country. and for
years has eked out a miserable existence, work
ing at various jobs. His father offered to restore
him to favor II he would abandon his wife, but
Carlson steadily refused such an offer. He was
heir TO $45.0 600 which would have come to him
on the death of his mother. 1t will now go to
the eldest son. He was finely educated, but fast
living and the lack of a trade or profession COM
PEELED him to mine coal to support his wife,
who, with two children, survives him. An effort
will be made TO communicate with his parents in
Gu-aaan
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Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
MARSHALL, Ill, Oct. 5.-The committee APP
pointed a few weeks ago to prepare q list of text
books to be used in all the schools of the county,
met this afternoon and made a final report.
Barnes & Co.'s readers, Biographies and his
tories. Rays arithmetics, Harvey's grammar
and Sheldon's speller were chosen. This action
was taken with the especial view of securing
uniformity in the county schools. The directors
of graded schools are left free TO choose the
books needed in the higher branches than those
named. The movement 10 regarded by the lett
ing educators Of the county as q very wise on,,.
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rptc1sf 20 Tie InuianapoN9 JOufnAL
MtKrrSsvILLE. Ind. Oct 5.-Some months ago
an advertisement appeared in the indianapolis
papers saying that one James Morgan would ray
$1,000 for 9 wife, giving his address at this
place Hundreds Of letters have arrived at this
postofnce for him from every part of the country
since mat time. Many of them were scented
ana decorated IN q way that would do credit TO a
Cnerokee brave. A few weeks ago your CORE
sponaentlearned that the man who yearned for a
pride was sailing under false colors; that his true
name was Morgan Johnson. and that he resided
~ L1ke valley, this county. To-day. while Cir
sat Court was In session. the presiding Judge,
1iaJ =. W. Srubbs, was called upon to go TO the
sasLks omcc anu marry the happy couple. The
oLlao. Mss Kettle 9. Wilson, IL aged forty-seven,
WINE ar. Johnson'3 age 10 eighty-two.
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The Legislature of 1861.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Iobserved In the Journal a notice from Hon.
NJ. L. Bundy, of New Castle, Ind, and others,
suggesting that a social reunion be held in this
city on Tuesday, Nov. &c, 1880, for the purpose
of ~effecting a permanent organization of the sur
vivors of the General Assembly of 1861, the
convened in The State. and to perpetuate the
memory of the dead members thereof. AS a
member OF the. Senate Of that Legislature, l ap-
prove the suggestion, will aid in promoting the
object. and solicit correspondence upon that sub
.ject from those survivors who feel an interest In
the cause. w. c. HARRINGTON.
. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. >.
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Insurance Agent shot bv root-psd..

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 5.-William p. Rogers,
the general agent for Missouri and Kansas OF
the Equitable Life Insurance Company, of Iowa.
at 3 o'clock last night was shot by q footpad In
front OF his home and dangerously wounded.
Mr.. Rogers was returning home at that hour, and
was not more than q dozen PAGES from his door
when one OF two men. whom he had noticed
leaning idly against the fence az he was passing.
seized him by the arms. bending them backward
whtlo the other thrust . pistol in bic face. The