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The herald., 1896-03-15
THE PROGRESS OF ECONOMY

The public debt statement for March
shows the receipts and expenditures
for eight months of the fiscal year.
The deficit was only $17,50O,O00. Dur
ing the same period of the previous
year it was $36,300,O00, showing a gain
of nearly $19,000.000. At this rate of
progress it is reasonable anticipation
that in the next fiscal year, beginning
July, 1896, the receipts will equal the
expenditures. The only thing that
can prevent this is the continual beat
ing of war drums at Washington. Ii
congress would adjourn or would take
up it's proper business, and stop med
ding with foreign affairs and getting
us into unnecessary broils, there would
be period OF renewed prosperity in
all parts of the country, the effects of
which would be Immediately perceptl-
BILE in the public revenues. The main
tenance Of the gold standard is now
assured, not only by the accumulation
of that metal in the treasury. but still
more by the purpose shown by the pub
lie in the recent bond sale to furnish
all that may be needed for that pur-
pose hereafter The only cloud upon
the business horizon is that which has
been wantonly created by reckless pol
iticians.-New York Evening Post
The herald., 1896-03-15

linens before ironing them. AS soon
as they absorb the moisture sufficiently
the skins are put on q marble slab and
shaved with q knife blade about six
inches wide and eight In length and as
sharp as razor. This gives the skin
elasticity, and it is impossible to cut 1T
without first doing this. The measure
ments ara next taken and the skins
planked--that is, cut into pieces the
proper length and width
There are only three or four firms
in this city that make gloves to order,
and they get the skins after they have
gone through the process OF kneeing
and are ready to be planked: All gloves
cut for stock, such as these street
gloves that I'm fitting on you, are cut
on caliber. We cut six pairs at once
and send them to the sewers in pack
ages of a dozen pairs. 1t used to be
the fashion to make gloves by hand,
but now they are sewed altogether on
the macine and are much more satiefac-
tory and durable than hand-sewed
gloves"
"What about bicycle gloves?' asked
the customer, as she gave an admiring
glance at her latest selection.
"A great many of my customers ride
wheels, but they use their old, soiled
gloves for the purpose, and they are
wealthy, fashionable women, too. Ii
one does buy new pair to 60 with her
bicycle suit, however, she usually Sc
lects pair of extra heavy g!ace walk
ing gloves"
The herald., 1896-03-15
Odd BOukon Boxes

Dainty bonbon boxes for luncheon
or dinner may be readily made at home.
Have variety of cardboard boxes and
cover them with art muslins or China
silks that have cream grounds upon
them. Cover boxes neatly on the out
side and line inside with plain color
and tie them with ribbons the color of
the flowers. When one iN clever at
using the brush, cover odd-shaped little
boxes with white linen or silk and
paint them with different flowers. Put
the guests name across one corner.
Such boxes are much prettier for a
table and more highly priced than any
thing that can be bought
The herald., 1896-03-15
ANESTHESiA FOR ANIMALS

The use of anesthetic5 for alleviating
lords of creation. Humanitarans have
come forward with the declaration that
the lower animals shall not bs subject
ed to the knife or the redhot iron with
out first being reduced to unconscious
ness, when they may be operated upon
at pleasure Mr.. John Moore Of Man
chester is authority for the statement
that operations done without chloro-
form are "veritable and revolving acts
Of cruelty and butchery.'
Hitherto the objection to the en-
pioyment of chloroform for the pur-
pose of aiding operations in animal
surgery has been the expense. Veter-
mary surgeons have not thought it
worth the cost to secure the poor
dumb creatures from pain. But the
objection can now no longer be main
tanned, as an inexpensive form of the
drug is available, and an economical
method of administering it has just
been discovered. The quantity of the
drug required is very small.
The apparatus consists Of a sort of
mask, lined on the inside with an alb
sorbent cotton material. When fitted
on he face the animal succumbs grad
ualiy to the influence of the anes-
thetic, but once he feels the effect he is
aroused with difficulty, and then only
after considerable period. Horses
require more chloroform than other
animals, and the cost in their case is
estimated at cents head.
rba danpnr Of ovpr6OGinO vary
small. A horse cannot be killed by
chloroform inhalation nnder ordinary
circumstances. For sheep, which are
subjected to painful mutilation, chloro-
form can be easily employed. The
operation is better performed, the flow
of blood being not go great as when
chloroform IS not used, and fewer
hands are required.
The firing of horses, "ringing" of
bulls and swine and branding and cat
tie are now successfully done with the
aid of chloroform. In each instance
the results have been more satisfactory
than when the animals were cut up and
mutilated in cold blood. A writer on
the subject in the London Lancet says:
"Ihe rough and tumble butchery
of the rec-hloroform era of veterin-
ary surgery has little to commend it
when compared with the precise
methods and accurate results OBJ
tanned by scientific exponents OF
veterinary surgery, such as can be
arrived at by the aid of chloroform
If owners of horses and farm stock
and of pets once realized that chloro'
form for their animals meant not only
immunity from pain, but also insured
better results and less risk of failure
or accident, there is no doubt that they
would insist on it's use."
The herald., 1896-03-15
LeXeI-tIeaded Mrs. Jac ok

Speaking of the ways of women, one
of my acquaintance is known every
where as one of the few women whose
marriage is ideally successful. l asked
her one day how she managed it. She
showed me great big blank book.
THAT'S my safety valve" she said.
"When lose my purse and Jack says:
sWhy, how did you come to do it?' or l
break my tortoise she'll comb, and he
clicks his tongue against his teeth; in
short, when something happens that
infuriates me beyond the limit of en-
durance, l dash into my room and
write it ali down in this book. II l
didn't I'd say things that all apology
wouldn't make either of US forget, or
I'd unbosom myself to my dearest
friend, which would increase my wrath
and work general havoc. write all the
mean things | can think down, and then
seal the page shut with thread and my
private seal. 1 am relieved and the
family peace is preserved. And at the
end of the year 1 burn the book, sac
rifice to the goddess-Pm sure, though,
it's goddess of unreason."
The herald., 1896-03-15

is taken. Next the prisoner is made to
stand on one foot, the left, and the
length ia gagged by the ordinary rule
used by shoemakers. The length of
the left little finger, the left middle
finger and the left forearm are next
measured. Then he is told to sit on
stool, and the length of the trunk is
taken. The total length of the prison
er standing upright is next taken.
These are the principal measurements,
but others are generally taken. The
metric or French system is universally
used, everything being divided into
teDths.
The measurements are entered on
card. On the back is pasted a photo
graph of the prisoner and beneath it is
written a brief history Of his career.
These cards are filed away in cabinet.
A cabinet as large as an ordinary desk
will hold the records of 10000 crimin-
ais. Ten cabinets that sizs would ac-
commodate 100000 criminals. In a
small cabinet there are three divisions,
and in each division there are three
large boxes filled with the cards. In
one of the divisions is kept the short
head lengths, in the second the medium
head lengths and in the third the long
head lengths.
For instance, if the measurements of
q criminal which the police wish to
identify show that his head is 1875 in
length he would be classed among the
long heads. That would show the divi-
sion he belonged to. The long heads
as we'll as the medium and short are
also divided into three sections, the
narrow medium and wide heads. If the
width of the prisoners head measures
146 he would be classed with the mar
, row long heads. The long, narrow
heads are again sub-divided into long,
short and medium left middle fingers.
If the measurement shows medium
length left middle finger he is to be
found among the long, narrow heads
medium left middle finger crowd
These are again sub-divided into three
sections. those with a long, medium or
short left foot. All these sub. divisions
divide the total number of cards into
one eighty-first. If the left little fin
gers are sub.divided it would bring it
down to one-two hundred and forty
third of the total number, or if the left
| forearm we're sub-didided it would
bring it down to 1-729th of the total
, number.
1t can be seen from this that even
where there are 100000 cards it is easy
to elaborate the system 90 that the
identifier will only have to look over
eighty or ninety cards TO find the par
ticular one he is after.
Originally the Bertiilon system was
conducted as commercial enterprise
! in Paris, but rs the agents of the cor.
The herald., 1896-03-15

c,ency, have made els borate expert
ments which bear out this statement.
they have complete measurements OF
dO0,OC0 criminals. and there is not sin
gle pair of duplicates in the lot.
This collection represents not only all
the criminals OF France, but nearly all
OF the more important criminals the
world over Ali of the European ma
lions using the system work in concert
and Interchange the measurements.
This is obviously of the greatest ben
eft aud aids in the capture of male
factors who may try to escape arrest
by iieeing to other countries. 1t prac-
tically binas together the police forces
of all TIE nations using the system
into one terrible engine for the de-
straction of the criminal. The police
Statistics of Paris show that since the
adoption of the system there has been
steady decrease in the varieties of
crime committed by regular criminals,
as the latter have learned to appreciate
the futility of trying TO escape identity
when confronted by the measurement
card.
The unique feature of the system is
the method of filing the measurements.
In no city in this country is the SIM
plicity of this fully shown, because of
the lack of large numbers of records.
1t is comparatively easy to manage
eight, ten or fifteen thousand records,
bat it would puzzle most people to
know what to do with 100000 records,
SC that certain one Of them could be
picked out in short time.
It has been found that only eleven
measurements are required. These are
the length of the head from the tip of
the nose to the back of the head. Then
the width of the head from side to side
The herald., 1896-03-15

His worst enemies in the old days
acknowledged him to be clever de-
ective and past master in the deli
cate art OF dealing with the criminal
population. Now he is declared to be
all wrong, his system incompetent, his
ideas erroneous. His detractors do
not attack him personally, however.
They merely assail the methods he
originated, and they intend to wipe
chem out as speedily as possible.
The first step in this direction is to
do away with the famous Rogues' Gal
lery, which Byrnes spent many years
in establishing. 1t viii! be replaced by
the Bertillon system of keeping tab on
the criminal world, and all the latest
ideas and elaborations of that method
will be brought into play.
New York has been for years away
behind other cities in failing to adopt
this system. For some time it has been
operated in Chicago, Milwaukee, st.
Louis, Nashville, Cleveland, Rock Is
land, Bloomington and many OF the
lesser towns. 1t is also in use i'll France,
Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Italy,
Russia, Spain, in several of the South
extent, in Great Britain. An effort is
also on foot to induce the national
government to adopt the system, and
then it would only be question Of a
short time chen all the towns and
cities in th3 country would make use
81 it. In thGA event the path of the
regular crimip7l would not be strewn
with roses. No matter where he turned
up, it would be possible in five minutes
to fasten his previous career upon him.
The police of Chicago would be as
familiar with the green goods man of
the Fourth ward in New York as the
patrolman who passes him daily, or
the single policeman of small country y
town could, with little trouble, find out
all about any suspicious character who
might CROSS his path.
TO most people the Bertillon system
is thing clouded in mystery. 1t is
generally supposed to be a problem
which requires the most astute mind to
solve. Yet it is as simple as telling the
time by an eight-day clock. A small
boy could manage it satisfactorily and
could keep track of 100000 criminals
with little drilling.
1t is simply measurement Of bones.
The beauty of it is that the bones of no
two men are alike. They may look ex-
actly alike. be the same build and
height and externally be complete dou-
bles of each other, but there will be
some telling difference in the formation
of their bones The police Of Paris,
who have developed the Bertillon sys-
tenn to its present high degree of efii-
The herald., 1896-03-15
MINING UNDER THE OCEAN

There is striking example of mans
boldness in searching for wealth and
his skill in securing it at Betallock,
near Cape Cornwall, Alaska. Betailock
is a bold headland composed Of huge
masses of hornblende, masked by walls
of slate, against which the Atlantic
surges are constantly dashing. The
psrsevering efforts Of man have at this
point been more powerful than those
of nature.
"Kibbles" descend fathoms beneath
the sea, and ascend again with copper
or tin ores, which are wheeled away to
larger heaps, where women, boys and
girls separate various qualities with
the Systematic industry of workers in
a factory. Everybody and everything
rocks, platforms and paths-is
smeared with the prevailing red hue
derived from slight mixture OF iron
with copper or tin ores, and then the
very muddy stream flowing from the
stamp mill to the sea has impaired to
the beach, the breakers and the foam
the same rubicund tinge. If ore is
coming up plentifully and of good
quality, every body is pleased, and far
down to the gloomy depths of the
mine, which Cornish legends people
with spirits, the news that new
"bunch'' of copper has been struck, or
the old hole is growing richer, fills the
workers with professional joy.
AS the visitor creeps along the pass
ages into which the light Of day has
never entered he hears comparatively
little until, becoming accustomed to
the darkness, barely Illuminated by
the flicker of lamps, he dimly distin'
guishes the stalwart gnome at work.
| Coming from the upper world, amid
the din of heavy stamps and machinery
above and the surge of the sea below,
the rattle of wagons on tramways, and
the crowds of men and boys climbing
up and down paths which seem TO be
too steep for a goat, the modified 81
ience of the level strikes one as unnat'
ural.
In places, however, the guide may
ask the visitor to listen to curious
sound. 1t is the booming of the waves
above and the grating of the stones on
the sea bottom. Then he is told, tC
give him courage, that in some OF the
recesses Of the first level the ore has
been cut away until a roof of not more
than six feet thick has been left. First
worked on the face of the cliffs only
the mine descended, level by level, un
til the excavations extended for more
than six fathoms inland, while tbs
greatest depth to which it has beel
sunk is about 1000 feet.-San francisco
Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-03-15

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Money loaned en- real estate.
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Surplus and undivided profits ........... SI4I0 5S
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The herald., 1896-03-15
APPLIED Science OF BONES
New York to Adopt the Won
derful bertill0n System
END OF ROGUES' GALLERY
Long Time the Right Arm of Detect
ives and Police
To Be Replaced by the Modern Method OF
END OF ROGUES' GALLERY
To Be Replaced BY the Modern Method OF
Keeping Tab on the Criminal
Population

New YORK, Feb. 2S.-After slumber-
ing along for many years in the peace
full delusion that Gotham's police force
and its system for the gathering in of
criminals we're the finest things of the
kind in the land it has suddenly been
discovered that both are out of date.
Now there is going to be a big shake
up. Since the days OF DR.. Parkhurst's
crusade against Superintendent Byrnes
there have been many fallacies explod-
ed in the department. and it seems as
old regime left on which Byrnes can
hang his mantle Of fame
The herald., 1896-03-15

Many things absolutely essential to
human happiness, well-being and use
fulness, are looked upon as '.little
things" and unimportRnt things, by the
busy people of the day, but the little
things count, after all, for human life
= made up of comparative trihes.
The herald., 1896-03-15

Germ did not have proper facilities for
making measurements it did not pros
per. AS soon, however, as che regular
police took hold of it its utility was
shown
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