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b Bill Allowed

Yesterday morning the County Commissioner
allowed the bill of Coroner Beck for $141, con-
ending that they had no other course to follow.
An effort will be made to see if some of the ex-
penses cannot be collected from the estates of
those upon whom inquests have been held.
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Natural Gas FIXTURES.
We have the best assortment Brass and wrough
steel Tenders, AndirOns. Moisteners Gas Logs, eta.
In the city. Also Chatting and Baking Dishes, Rang
Kettles. Roger Cutlery, Builders Hardware. Agent
1or 9tna dynamite and Dead shot spOrtingpOw ier
Call andsee Us before you buy.
o. UGATE
50 South Meridian street.
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Ke3t0rdt Safe.
$4,000 worth of gas fixtures and globes to
be closed out at actual cost within twenty
days. 1t will paw you to investigate. as
this sale is bona fide.
G. w. Nickel,
75 North Pennsylvania st.
Grand Op~era-house Block.
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Re,noraI Sale.

DIR. J. H.. TAYLOR is confined TO his homo
witt congestion of the brain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-13

Mother ana Child Missing.
Mrs. Ida Wilson. colored. and her two-yearo old
child hare been missipg from their home ON
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Natural Gas Fixtures.

To Chica0o-$5.O0-To Chicago
Via Pennsylvania Line from indianapolis.
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We place on sale tomorrow morn
ing Mems Stiff Hats, genuine fur, silk
lined, silk band and binding. You
will pay So for the identical same
thing to regular hatters. TUESDAY
and WEDNESDAY we sell them for
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ice," continued Mr.. EIkins, ''that was
rather curious in the light of my present
position. 1t was my first meeting with
General Schofeld. He was surrounded by
orderlies in gay uniforms, and be dazzled
our eyes with the gold lace, brass buttons
and the fine clothes of Major General
and his staff. He was as straight as an
arrow. His eyes were sharp and command
ing, and as he sat there upon his horse
among his soldiers he seemed to me the
very incarnation of martial warfare. AS I
looked 1 thought: well, this ends it!
What fools the rebels are to think they can
beat such soldiers as these! If they could
only see our army they would throw up the
struggle at once'''
WELL" Mr.. Elkius continued, 'T did
not see General Schofeld to speak with
him from that day until 1 met him here as
Secretary of War, when he came as General
of the Army to pay his respects to me as his
superior officer. As I shook his hand I
said: General Schofeld, I have met you
before. I paid my respects to you when
you were Major General at 81 in Missouri,
and thought then that you were the great
est general the world had ever made. I was
a boy captain of militia and you were a
hero in my eyes, and it seems strange that
We should meet again after nearly 30 years
and stranger that j, by the fates, should be
placed over you.
Practicing Law in New Mexico.
CATER the war;" continued Mr.. Elkins,
I decided to 60 West. We went in wagons
and had two large trains with military
escorts to keep off the Indians We
travelled over that great American desert
day after day until our eyes were sore and
our souls were sick with its bleakness and
barrenness. I travelled to the town of Mes
silla, near Ell Paso, and there began the
practice of the law.
81 had been studying Spanish con-
tinued the Secretary, while we crossed the
plains. All the courts were in Spanish,
the government proceedings of all kinds
were in Spanish. My first case 1 tried in
broken Spanish, and I remember I got $40
for it. 1t took me about five minutes, and
it was the first money had ever made. I
remember looking at it and thinking had
made it very easy and feeling proud of it.
soon got plenty to do. My Spanish i'm
proved and 1 was made candidate for the
Legislature, where all the proceedings were
in Spanish. 1 first attempted to speak
through an interpreter, but / did so poorly
at it that I dismissed the interpreter and
begged the pardon of the Legislature for my
broken Spanish, and made my speeches as
well as 1 could. was well grounded in
Greek and Latin, and soon found that
had mastered the language, and to-day can
speak Spanish fairly well
Learning the Value Of Money.
s'The lawyers of New Mexico then trav-
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Darwin has pointed out that the fine. scarce
~ visible hairs which cover the limbs are
arranged just like those of the higher apes,
and that on tho arms their direction ID
toward the elbow He goes on to show the
utility of this arrangement of the hair in the
anthropoids In man no such uses exist,
yet the strange similarity remains. have
taken it as q general principle to work
upon. that if any habit or structure, which
is still existent, but of no apparent use, is
generally present in all animals of class,
we shall find that 1t was at one tlme-often
in the very distant past-of essential service
In the struggle for existence.
The Survival of.the Fittest.
It will be easily understood that if some
habit essential for maintaining the. exist
ence Of the race, such habit, for instance,
as that Of the young partridge, to crouch
and hide itself on the approach Of danger,
is operative through many generations, it
becomes thoroughly ground into the nature
Of the creature possessing it. When the
hawk hovers over the brood it would always
be the chick which is least successful in
concealing itself which would be pounced
upon and devoured.
Every one which had not the instinct Of
concealment, or the physical qualities to
render such a ruse successful, would be
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much marked out in lines as the hands.
These lines show the old creases which were
essential when the foot was true 'grasping
organ.
If the bottom of the foot at the point of
the juncture of the great toe and the rest
Of the sole is gently Irritated, the toes are
bent downward to an extraordinary extent,
as If trying to close themselves around some
object Often, the great toe, which in
adults has a limited up and down move
ment only, is bent inward across the sole,
beneath the other toes, after the fashion Of
thumb. At the same time the creases
which cross the sole are rendered more ap-
parent, just Is those on the hand are when
half closed.
Now if we regard the foot merely as
part of the machinery of locomotion, these
lines are unexplained and have no raison
d'etre whatever. No animal which uses its
feet for progression only, and whose habits
ip this respect do not differ from those Of
its ancestors, presents this popularity. It
follows, therefore, that the human foot il
but hand which has been modified as the
environment Of the owner changed 10 as to
be used as chief means of locomotion on
the ground.
Infants Begin to walk as Apes.
Prof Romanes has told me that the habit
of the anthropoid apes Of walking ON the
outer side Of the foot and curling the toes
inward is still observable in infants when,
Is Moses says, they begin to ''feel their
feet, " that is when they show an inclination
to use their lower limbs to bear their own
weight. This entirely accords with my own
observations, and can be noticed in any
nursery when young child 10 taken out Of
its bath and its wet feet are Just allowed to
touch the floor. The foot print thus formed
and the, extreme tips Of the hexed toes only.
To takea further survey Of the skin,
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THE GERMS OF LocKJAw.
Frenchmen Have Isolated Them and May
BE Able to Prevent the Disease.

Frsnchmen Have Isolated Them and May
Be Able to Prevent the Disease.
Two Italian savants, Profs. Tizzoni and
Cattani, have recently isolated germs of
lockjaw and have not only rendered guinea
pigs and rabbits immune from the disease
by injecting poison derived from them,
but have cured six human beings attacked
by the complaint by means of incubation.
As is we'll known, lockjaw has hitherto
been considered almost inevitably fatal.
The germs Of the disease seem to be found
in the surface soil, so that immense num-
bers of them may exist in anybody's garden.
Rats can be given lookjaw BY simply mix
ing little garden earth with their food.
That is the reason why wound from
rusty nail is apt to communicate the
trouble. 1t il not the rust that il response
bic, a. is commonly thought, but q rusty
nail is dirty one. and presumably has
been lying on the ground. It has lookjaw
gsrms On II, and they, ,inoeulats tha victim.
The disease 10 one of the nervous system.
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ciate the honor of having the chance to b
the first Republican Governor of the South
| ern States could not well be the candi
date
'Do you think that West Virginia will
be Republican in the next Presidential elec-
tion?"
IT think there is a fair fighting chance
for it, was the reply.
"How about the general prospects,"
'T believe that President Harrison will
be the candidate of the Republican party,
and that he will be elected"
'tMr. Elkins, you have for the past II
years been closely associated with the man.
agement of party politics You have been
on the National Committee and have been
one of the managers of Presidential cam
paigns and you must know all about the in
side workings of such things. I want to
know whether there is much corruption in
politics and whether we are not growing
worse as we grow older"
Chairman Jones Ran Pure Campaign.
'T am not q politician" replied Mr.
Elkins, Sin the usual sense of the word and
have only been connected with politics as
the friend of the Republican party and as
the friend of MI. Blaine and of President
Harrison. have nothing to do with poll
tics outside Of the national campaign, and
as soon as these are over, 1 60 right back to
business. I think that party politics and
party management grow purer and purer as
the country grows Older. Congress to-day
is run on higher plane than ever before,
and public opinion demands higher poll
tical morality every year
'T don't believe there is as much corrup-
tion in Presidential campaigns as the PEOPLE
suppose. The buying of votes which Is
sometimes charged would, I think, be a
very dangerous thing. The laws are such
that the people would not dare to do it,
and don't think they want to as much as
is charged. When 1 was connected with
the Blaine campaign, in 1884, said to Mr..
B. F. Jones, who was the Chairman of the
committee, that did not want to 90 into
the campaign without we could go into it
on u pure, honest and bigh-toned basis, and
we then and there agreed that we would
allow no money for corruption of any sort.
We demaned vouchers for everything that
was spent, and we could to-day show our
books to the world without blush.''
How Elkins First Met Blaine.
''When did you first meet Mr. Blaine?"
asked.
''It was when came to Congress from
New Mexico in 1874. The day after Con-
gress opened was sitting at the table in
the front of Welcker's dining room, and
Mr.. Blaine came and took q seat at a table
in the back of the room. can see his fig
ure to-day in my minds eye as he looked
then. Tall, straight and bold his whole
personality was that of the aggressive pop
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.


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and
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medi in love.
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SHE IS KISSING IT.

praying for land. What could the matter
be? Tracy alone could have told, the other,
couldn't even invent a theory.
Meanwhile they were having a similarly
dismal time at the Thompson house; in fact,
twin experience. Gwendolen was ashamed
of herself for allowing her disappointment
to so depress her spirits and make her SO
strangely and profoundly miserable; but
feeling ashamed of herself didn't improve
the matter any; it only seemed to aggravate
the suffering. She explained that she was
not feeling very well, and everybody could
see that this was true; so she got sincere
sympathy and commlseration; but that
didn't help the case. Nothing helps that
kind of case. 1t is best to just stand off
and let it tester. The moment the dinner
was over the girl excused herself, and she
hurried home feeling unspeakably grateful
to get away from that house and that in
tolerable captivity and suffering.
Will he be gone? The thought arose in
her brain, but took effect in her heels. She
slipped into the house, threw off her things
and made straight for the dining room. She
stopped and listened. Her fathers voice
with no life in it; presently her mothers
no life in that; a considerable vacancy, then
sterile remark from Washington Hav-
kins Another silence; then, not Tracy's,
but her fathers voice again.
"He's gone" she said to herself, despair
ingly, and listlessly opened the door and
stepped within.
"Why, my child" cried the mother,
show white you are. Are you-has any
thing"
"White?" exclaimed Sellers. cts gone
like flash; 'twasn't serious Already she's
as red as the soul of watermelon. Sit
down, dear, sit down-goodness knows
you're welcome. Did you have a good
time? We've had great times here-im-
mense. Why didn't Miss Belle Gomez Mr.
Tracy is not feeling well, and she'd have
made him forget 1t. ="
happy eyes there went light that told
secret to another pair of eyes there, and got
q secret in return. In just that infinitely
small fraction of second those two great
confessions were made, received and per-
fectly understood. All anxiety, apprehen-
sion, uncertainty, vanished out OF these
young peoples hearts, and left them filled
with great peace.
Sellers had had the most confident faith
that with the new reinforcement victory
would be at this last moment snatched
from the jaws of defeat, but it was an
error. The talk was as stubbornlv dis
jointsd as ever. He was proud of Gwen
dolen, and liked to show her off, even
against Miss Belle Thompson, and here had
been great opportunity, and what had
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He shook hands all around and went Of
| to do some work which he said was pressing.
The idolators were the width of the room
apart, and apparently unconscious of each
| others presence. The distance got short
ened little now. Very soon the mother
withdrew. The distance narrowed again.
Tracy stood before chrome of some Ohio
politician which had been retouched and
chain-mailed for crusading Rossmore, and
Gwendolen was sitting on the sofa not far
from his elbow artifcially absorbed in e1-
amining photograph album that hadn't
any photographs in it.
The Senator still fingered. He was
sorry for the young people; it had been
dull evening for them. In the goodness of
his heart he tried to make it pleasant for
them now; tried to remove the i'll impression
necessarily left by the general defeat; tried
to be chatty, even tried to be gay. But the
responses were sickly, there was no start,
ing any enthusiasm; he would give up and
quit-it was day specially picked out and
consecrated to failures.
But when Gwendolen rose up promptly
and smiled a glad smile, and said with
thankfulness and blessing-"Must you go?'
it seemed cruel to desert, and he sat down
again.
He was about to begin remark when
when he didn't. We have all been there.
He didn't know how he knew his conclud-
ing to stay longer had been a mistake, he
merely knew it, and he knew it for dead
certain, too. And 50 he babe good night,
and went incoming out, wondering what he
could have done that changed the stmos-
phere that way As the door closed behind
him those two were standing side by side,
looking at that door-looking at 1t in
waiting, second-counting, but deeply grate-
full kind of way. And the instant it closed
they flung their arms about each others
necks, and there, heart to heart and lip to
lip
"Oh, nv God, she's kissing It'll"
Nobody heard this remark, because Haw-
kins, who bred it, only thought it, he didn't
utter it. He had turned the moment he had
closed the door, and had pushed it open q
little, intending to re-enter and ask what
ill-advised thing he had done or said, and
apologize for it. But he didn't re-enter; he
staggered off stunned, terrified, distressed.
Five minutes later he was sitting In his
room, with his head bowed within the circle
of his arms on the table-fnal attitude of
grief and despair His tears were flowing
fast, and now and then q sob broke upon the
stiffness Presently he said:
'T knew her when she was q little child
and used to climb about my knees; love
her as I love my own, and now, oh, poor
thing, Door thing, cannot bear it-she's
gone and lost her heart to this NANCY ma
tsrializee. Why didn't we see that that
might happen? But how could we? Nobody
could. Nobody could ever have dreamed of
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she made Of il? He felt q good deal put
out. 1t vexed him to think that this Eng
lishman, with the travelling Briton's ever
lasting disposition to generalize whole
mountain ranges from single sample grains
of sand, would jump to the conclusion that
American girls were as dumb az himself
generalizing the whole tribe from this
single sample, and she at her poorest, there
being nothing at that table to inspire her,
give her a start, keep her from going to
sleep. He made up his mind that, for the
honor of the country, he would bring these
two together again over the social board
before long.
There would be different result another
time, he judged. He said TO himself, with
deep sense of injury. Hell put in his
diary-they all keep dairies-he'n put in
his diary that she was miraculously unin-
teresting-dear, dear, but wasn't she-I
never saw the hke-and yet looking as
beautiful as Satan, too-and couldn't seem
to do anything but paw bread crumbs, and
pick flowers to pieces, and look fdgety.
And it isn't any better here in the Hall Of
Audience. I've had enough; I'll haul down
my flag; the others may fight it out if they
want to.
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CHAPTER XXI.

CHAPTER xxi.
Dinner was kept waiting for awhile for
Miss Thompson, but as Gwendolen had not
delivered the invitation to her the waiting
did no good, and the household presently
went to the meal without her. Poor old
Sellers tried everything his hospitable soul
could devise to make the occasion an enjoy
able one for the guest, and the guest tried
his honest best to be CHEEKY and chatty and
happy for the old gentleman's sake; in fact
all hands worked hard in the interest of
mutual good time, but the thing was fall
ure from the start Tracy's heart was lead
in his bosom, there seemed to be only one
prominent feature in the landscape, and
that was vacant chair, he couldn't drag his
mind away from Gwendolen and his hard
luck; consequently his distractions allowed
deadly pauses to slip in every now and then
when 1t was his turn to say something, and
of course this disease spread to the rest of
the conversation, wherefore, instead of
having breezy sail in sunny waters, as an
ticipated, everybody was bailing out and
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STORIES OF ELK|NS.
1t Was a Case of Mutual Love
at First Sight When He
Met James G. Blaine.
HOW IT CAME ABOUT.
The New Secretary's First Ten
Dollar Bill Easily Earned.
A FEE OF $4,000 FOR AN HOUR.
Els Money-Getting Faculty Exempliied in
Land Purchases.
CHAIRMAN B. F. JONES' CAMPAIGN OF 'S4
CHAIRMAN B. F. JONES CAMPAIGN OF s4
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
WASHINGTON, March Il.

NE of the biggest,
broadest and BRAIN
lest men at WASH
ington is Stephen
B. Elkins, the new
Secretary Of War.
He is known to the
world largely as a
business man and
as a politician, but
he is in reality 8
man ofbroadviews,
great culture and
remarkableability.
He is one of the
best takers in
Washington, is an
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BY MARK TWAIN.
FOE THE DISPATCH

Author of Innocents Abroad "Tom Sawyer "Huckeberry
Etc, ETC.
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WE CAME FROM APES.
A London Physicians Observations in
Support Of Darwin's Theory.
LINES ON THE SOLEs OF THE FEET
And tho Remarkable Power Of Infants to
Cling BY the Hands. O
FIELD FOR SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l
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GOOD many people
outside the classes es-
pecially devoted to the
pursuit Of physical
science are interested
in the question raised
by Darwin's teaching as
to mans origin, and all
evidence for or against
either of the two pre-
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bag. 1t was lined with coonskins and COW
cred his hips This with an overcoat that
was capped and fur-collared, made him proof
against the grim blasts Of January.
Fogs Worse Than Pittsburg Knows.
London has suffered from togs this winter
in such degree that they may be said to be
burning question. That is, at last there
is 80 much smoke in the air that there is q
great deal of fire in the public purpose.
There is no help except revolution as to
fires. Instead OF burning raw coal, the coal
must be converted to gas and brought to the
abolish one of the greatest luxuries of the
English-their open, abundant, glowing
fires. In winter time, certainly those fires
are worth the cost of q narrow and smoky
horizon. 1t is more important to have in
doors bright and cosy and happy than out
OF doors brilliant and spectacular
Such was the state of the London skies
during the six days was in the city that I
never saw an object half mile distant Sit
ting before my coal fire, however, unstinted
Goals blazing with fervent heat, felt recon-
ciled to the external conditions 1t was
shock, though, walking a clammy street
about IL o'clock A. NJ. to breathe the bitter,
smoky air, behold the houses vanishing in
vapor two or three blocks away; catching
occasionally q view of what seemed to be
phantom towers and domes; to hear the
greetingS of friends thus: "a fine morning,
sir" "a bright day, sir" did not Won
der ut American exclamations to the effect
that they wanted dose Of American sun
shine, even If il had q nipping aud eager
frost In it and blizzard behind it.
MURAT HALsTEAD.
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FOR SALE.

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A TRIBUTE
To the Memory Of Hon. Samuel Tit.
comb by the Trustees Of the Augusta
Savings Bank.

At 4 mee.iag Of the trustees of the Au
susEs saving, Bank held yesterday Il
choose ssuccessort TO Hon. Samuel Tic )ml
the following tribute was presented b.
judge Libbey;
Before proceeding to discharge thu dut;
imposed upon III, surviving trustees to fill
the vacancy IN the board by the tes.h q
don. Samuel Titc1mb, 1t is proper tina. W
should g'y1 expression to the deep sorfo
thrown over Us by his sudden death.
lie had served here with Us IS one {!
this board siLce Ausa:t. 1851. ably ard
faithfully, with no other motive than &c
sire to promote the b;st interest ofthe bar
sad its depositors; always gentlemsnIy
with no ptrson,l friction or unpls ssan
word. We l5ok back on OUT ttIic al ar ]
socitl Intercourse With him with happy re
membrircs. We hive los. q KIDD an!
And generous friend aid thu bank comp.
tent and faithful servant.
Voted, 1hs. this memorial be eltere
upon our records aud copy be sea; TO hi
family.
Leslie C. C)raish, E q was elected I'd
succeed Hon. Samuel Titcjmb as trustee