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are pulverized. and intestines torn into
small pieces and lacerated in the most
singular manner. The hole made by the
ball in entering is scarcely percepubie;
that which it makes in leaving the body
is sometimes six to eight inches in
the ball always passes entirely through
The body, and through a second and third
If they are placed one behind another.
only stopping in the fourth.
4 ball striking the arm or leg de-
sti1ys the member entirely. IL IL strikes
kills infallibly. II II passes through the
thoracic cavity the wounded person may
recover II the vital organs are spared.
Beyond half a mile. and most Of the fir
ing in future battles viii be beyond that
distance. the wounds are a little less
serious and the mortality less. The ef-
fects are still. however. FAR more Sc
rious than with the weapons formerly I'm
use. From two-thirds of a mile 10 dis
tances slightly exceeding a mile, the
bone is fractured all about the hole made
by the ball in its passage. Even when
the distance considerably exceeds a mile
the bone is broken i'm nearly half the
cases and the splinterS are driven in
different directions through the flesh At
longer distances the clothing is driven
into the flesh, which is always a serious
ageravation OF a wound. not only on ac-
l.
but because il is generally covered with
microbes that produce corruption.
The report adds other peculiarities at
tending The use Of the new ball. The en-
velope which is composed Of sheet steel,
loses its shape when IL enters the body
and often divides into minute fragments,
each Of which takes different direction,
decorating all IL comes in contact with.
Its temperature when fl enters the body
is greatly elevated, always 20 degrees
and sometimes as high as $50 degrees.
a few Of these pecuJarities were OBJ
served by the French during the war
with Dahomey IN the use Of the Lebel
rifle. The ball of this wea pom. which is
an exceedingly small. oblong object,
cased with steel. killed two or three Da-
Romans. If they happened 10 be one be-
hind the other but the French surgeons
had not time 10 study the nature Of the
wounds. Even If they had dissected and
examined minutely all the wounded. 10 is
scarcely probable they would have dis
covered all the singular effects mem
toned. numerous changes having been
made in Austria and Germany since the
Lebcl was invented. 1t is easy 10 see
how uncertain is TO be the issue OF fut-
ure wars with the snokeless powder.
these terrible weapons in the hands OF
the infantry, and an artillery entirely
metamorphosed and infinitely more ef-
fectivc. II is not surprising that, fur
nlshed with these means of destruction,
the great nations of Europe should hest
tate 10 provoke a war, the results OF
which no one can foresee. but which
would. IN any event. be terribly disas.
trous.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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ence in the massing and arrangement Of
the hair $50 that while the mans is
largely concentrated on his face, the
wOman's is chiefly massed on her head,
and the difference in the larynX and
voice by which a further degree of devel-
opment forms part Of male evolution.
These are typical secondary sexual char
acters, and we may define human
sexual character as one which, by more
highly differentiating abe sexes. helps 10
make them more attractive to each other.
Other things being equal, a man is more
attracted to a woman with luXuriant
hair on her head than to one whose hair
is sparse; other things being equal. Il
woman is more attracted TO a man with
a deep vibrant voice than TO a man with
a shrill feminine voice. The sexes are
not greatly attracted by any purely
aesthetic qualities. The secondary sexual
characters. as thus understood, are those
which indirectly favor reproduction. and
might conceivably be developed
by sexual selection as understood
by Darwin, whether or not they
are actually so developed. There
are, however, other sexual differ
ences less obvious, many of them rela-
tive, or only perceptible when averages
are taken into consideration, but they
are very numerous. For instance, we
have the much greater shallowness, pro-
portionately. of the female skull: the
greater size and activity of the thyroid
gland in women and the smaller average
proportion Of red blood corpuscles: and a
different average relationship Of the parts
of the brain to each other. These differ
encesare probably related indirectly to
primary and secondary sexual differ
ences; they are not Of great Importance
from the geological point of view, but
they are of considerable interest from
the anthropological point of view, very
often of interest from the pathological
pont of view, and occasionally Of great
interest from the social point of view.
There are two standards Of comparison
for SEXUAL characters in a man or in a
woman The first is constituted by the
child and its anatomical and physiologi-
cal characteristics; the second to the char
aCters Of the ape, the savage and the
aged human creature. Mr.. Ellis adopts
both standards and treats In detail the
growth and proportions of the body
Many of his facts and figures are very
At birth male infants are
already heavier than female infants, and
somewhat taller. and their chest girth Is
greater In Great Britain girls grow
more rapidly than boys between the ages
OF ten and fifteen: and at the ages Of
eleven and a half 10 fourteen and half
they are actually taller, and between the
ages Of twelve and a half and fifteen
and half actually heavier than boys
at the same age. At the age of fifteen
boys again take the lead, growing at
first rapidly and then more slowly, and
their complete growth Is attained. prac-
ucally about the age Of twenty-three.
Girls. on the other hand grow very
slowly after the age 81 sixteen, and at
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The system of guns Of small caliber
now almost universally adopted in
Europe was suggested, as We're all the
other recent European improvements in
small arms, by some one or another Of
the American rifles, whose excellence
has long been universally acknowledged.
The principle is, the smaller the caliber
the greater the force of projection and
the longer the range. Changes in this
direction once commenced, it was i'm
possible to predict where they would
cease. The rifle cartridge of the kind
now used in italy and Austria scarcely
exceeds that of a small-sized revolver,
and resembles more than anything else
a short segment OF steel wire finished at
the ends.
This change in armament will neces-
sarily cause important notifications in
military tactics. but Of what kind is not
yet known and can not be precisely
known till some European war of i'm
portance shall furnish the data. In the
first place the statisticians are endeavor-
ing TO discover what number of dis
charges or balls will be necessary to
cause the death Of a single combatant.
In the battles previous to 1859 1t required
143 In 1864 and 1866. considerable inn
provement in small arms having been
made, it required sXty-siX, while in the
Franco-German war of 1870 the number
on each side was estimated at forty-nine
according to some authorities. and at 1902
according to others. Before 1859 military
writer's expressed the opinion that If the
fatality did not amount to seven in
thousand. that Is. one soldier killed for
every 143 balls expended, the game was
not worth the powder and the firing
had better cease. The problem is still
further complicated by the invention Of
smokeless powder. which, It is thought,
will increase the mortality with less eX-
pense of ammunition. This opinion is
confirmed by the events of the late civil
war I'm Chill. where of 1926 combatants,
though only 3. i46 were armed with the
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Of sexual seIective action on the nervous
system. tends TO attack the brain in men.
and the spinal cord in women; that
women have played the larger part IN
nearly all hypnotic phenomena; that the
artistic impulse is generally more marked
in men: that the birth rate Of males IS
higher than that Of females, and the
death rate sill higher: and. finally, that
the greater resistance of women to dis
ease and death is geological fact. The
small group Of women who wish TO prove
absolutely inferiority of the male sex, as
well as the larger group of men who wish
TO circumscribe rigidly the sphere or
women, must alike be ruled out of court.
The facts are far too complex to enable
the reader to rush to any fixed judgment
as TO their significance, yet certain gen.
eral conclusions seem certainly warrant
able.
One Of these is greater variability Of
the male. and this has social and prac-
teal consequences of the widest Signlti-
canoe. Another general conclusion of an
equally far-reaching character is the pre-
cocity of women, involving greater rapid
ity OF growth and it's earlier arrest than
in men. The result Of this precocity is
that women, taken altogether, present
the characters of short men. and, TO
some extent, 10 children. On account OF
this fact alone. the whole organism OF
the average woman, physical and
the average man. The earlier arrest OF
development IN women is connected with
the variational tendency of men, and
all sexual differences probably have their
origin In the more intimate connection
Of women with offspring. Further evil
denCe regarding the 'infantile dathesis
of woman is found in pathological statis-
tics. 1t is easy to find diseases which are
common in children and women and rare
in men. Yet To assume. as Herbert
Spencer and many others have assumed.
that woman is ''undeveloped man. is to
state that matter in an altogether mis-
leading manner. Women. 1t is true, re-
main nearer than men to the infantile
state; but, on the other hand, men APP
proach more nearly than women 10 the
ape-like and senile state. Taking a broad
view of the matter, IL seems difficult u
avoid the conclusion that IL is safer to
trust to the conservatism of nature than
to the conservatism Of man. We are not
at liberty 10 introduce any artificial
sexual barrier into social concerns. The
respective fitness Of men and women for
any kind OF work or any kind Of privi-
lege can only he ascertained by actual
open experiment; and as the conditions
for such experiment are never twice the
same. IL can never be positively affirmed
that anything has been settled once ana
for all.
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tain their full stature about the twenti-
eth year. Both in Europe and the United
States the year most active growth ap-
pears in boys to be the sixteenth, in
girls the thirteenth, or las in Sweden)
the fourteenth. The average hight of
adult males in England is about GA
inches; OF adult females about 62.7 inches.
In this country. while the sexual differ
ence in weight Is somewhat less than in
England the difference in hight and also
in vital capacity is 10 a marked extent
greater; the greater sexual differences
being, it seems due to the greater de-
VelOpment Of the American men rather
than to the less development of women.
Or. Sargents measurements have shown
that the average American far exceeds
in hight, weight and strength the aver
age OF any other nation, even England.
Ii is by his relatively long legs that the
adult civilized man most cOnspicuously
differs in proportion from the infant, al
though not necessarily from the savage,
whose legs are sometimes very long; and
the leg is that portion of the body which
grows most rapidly and to the most
variable extent; it IS also that part of the
body which Is more affected by an early
arrest of development, although in this
the arm also largely participates. The
thigh grows with greatest rapidity, and
shows the most decided sexual differ
ences. In women IL Is markedly shorter
than in men; it is larger and is set at
different angle. The greater circum-
ference of the thigh i'm women is very
well marked and begins at a compare
lively early age. II is indeed, the only
measurement that, from an early period
OF puberty onward, is both absolutely
and relatively always greater In both
European and American women than in
men.
1t would be quite impossible for us to
follow step by step the several stages of
comparison instituted by our author.
namely, as 10 the sexual character Of
head, pelvis, the senses, motion. metabol-
ism. the viscera, etc. II the facts are sell
dom conclusive they. at least, are always
deeply interesting. We learn for exam
pie, that, while in Europe men undoubted-
~ possess absolutely" larger brains than
women, yet womens brains are "propor-
tlonately" larger than mems: that. in the
question Of touch. Lombroso's invcstiga-
tons show the greater obstuseuess Of men:
while Prof Jastrow's results indicate the
greater obtuseness Of men; that women
are probably keener Of sight and taste
than men, while mon have q keener sense
Of smell and a greater range Of hearing
than women; that women have obtained
their reputation for delicate sensory per-
ceptlons from a popular confusion. Of two
distinct nervous qualities-sensibility and
irrtablity; that women are doubtless as
well able TO form accurate sense-judg-
ments as men, and, when the hand is con-
cerned. are al an advantage; that the In
tellectual differences Of men and women
can not as yet be accurately determined
while Psychology Is still in it's infancy:
that alcohol which Is the best example
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-06-27
ABOUT MAN AND WOMAN.
a WORK on CERTAIN DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN THE SEXES.
Division OF LabOr-The Militant EIe-
ment-Beard and Hair-PhySicnI
Growth and NInturity-The Conserv-
atfsTa of Nature.

Mr.. Havelock Ellis. the capable editor
OF the Contemporary Science Series, has
contributed TO that very useful library
a volume entitled Man and Woman"
which contains a comprehensive. anthro-
biological and psychological study of
those secondary sexual differences which
exist among civilized human races. Mr..
Ellis has been collecting definite data
relating TO his important subject dur
ing a period OF twelve years and his
monograph reflects on every page the
CONSCIOUSNESS and exhaustive character
of his researches. The earnest student
and the general reader will alike find am
pie instruction and continuous interest
in the volume
At the outset. the author considers the
sexual division OF labor among very
primitive peoples, showing how man was
chiefly militant and woman chiefly in
dustrial Among savage races women
were by no means inferior 10 men. but
their industries were gradually shared
and then monopolized. While among
many races women have been to great
or or less extent I'm subOrdination 10
their more powerful mates. on the
whole, the wider control which they have
had over the means of production. as well
their skill in diplomacy. have given
them Influence and even authority The
militant element ruled throughout me-
oideVat Europe. insuring the predOmi-
nance Of men; and their entire absorption
IN fighting had marked effect on the
passion of love. The women in the epic
poems OF France are usually the wooers
the men are genrally Indifferent. rarely
actively I'm love with the women to whom
they yield. The women who openly en-
brace the men who attract them. and
only once do we read of a woman who
was ashamed 90 kiss in public. while
men are represented as decidedly less
sensual than women. But notwithstand-
Ing this freedom of initiative. when the
woman becomes a wife she is entirely
In the power Of her husband. who may
address her In terms of the greatest con-
tempt.
Perhaps the most marked human sec
ondary sexual characters are the differ
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Life.
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MODERN WEAPONS OF WAR
FRIGHTFUL WOUNDS MADE BY LONG
DISTANCE RIFLES.

Ideas for the Improvement of Which
Were Suggested by the American
Gun-Immense Projection and Long
Range the End Desired-Change in
Military Tactics Necessary.
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The ITEM has shown the public
how Gov. Foster is bent on carry
ing the congressional election for
the ring nominees. His acts in
removing police jurors and other
deeds were pointed out and the
fact demonstrated that he would
have the Democrats returned, no
matter what might be the majori-
ty east against them.
Gov. Foster has entered upon
this task in cold blood And is de-
termined to let nothing stand in
the way of the accomplishment OF
his purpose. rgo 5s
;. All of his pledges made ct the
time he was inaugurated Governor
have been violated. He has shown
that the protection which he pro-
missed the people of his State is s
"Such protection as vultufes
give to lambs" He has revealed
himself as he is, politician, with
all that the term implies .r,
Among the other outrages COM
mitted by Gov. Foster is the cut
ting of OF four polling places in
the parish Of st. Mary, his home,
in order to help his friend Price,
candidate for Congress in the
third district. He knows that this
will COMPEL some voters to travel
twenty miles or more to exercise
the right Of suffrage, and will re-
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Is not this conduct from q Gov
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for general condemnation? Can
Fov. Foster be considered worthy
Of the respect Of the people after
the commission Of such deeds?
He is STOPPING to methods which
demonstrate his utter unscrupu-
lousness atid which prove how to-
tally UNFIT he is, from a moral
point Of view, for the high Office
NC Ills. qelJss'e h,se 8 tanerr siai 8
Yet Gov. Foster was elected on
a platform Of morality. He was
trusted by the people who believ-
ed him when he said he was for
giving them an administration
which would have no dirt cling
ing to it; that he would use his
every effort to purify politics and
make them what they had not
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Is this his idea uf reformation
Is this what he calls purifcation?
If his views of right and wrong
are to be judged by his present
acts (and what better standard
could be foundry he has proved
to be one of the most unpriueipal
Governors that ever Louisiana
had. ~ sf-l .e..r.e I'D d ASt
The gentleman's conscience has
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political creed is that "the end
justifies the means" It mstters
not what wrongful act may have
to be committed; if it is deemed
necessary to SUCCESS hs-is ready
to do it The wrongfulness is Of
no moment whatever. It is the
end he looks to; the achievement
OF his purpose, Whatever it may
be. .i3tifl1 Ef hn si -
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