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The herald., 1896-10-26
BETTER CITY GOVERNMENT
Postal Primary Ballots Will Be Counted
Today

The ballots in the Better City Govern
ment leagues primary election will be
counted today. Nearly all of the tick
cts sent out have been returned to the
postoffice. Postmaster Mathews has
had them assorted for the convenience of
the counting committee, the envelopes
for each precinct being placed in sep
arate package. This morning at o'clock
they will be taken out of the postoffice
vault and delivered to a committee of
prominent citizens, who will convey them
to Music hall, where the count will take
place.
The clerks and judges Of election will
The herald., 1896-10-26

finding q stretch of road that you can
not trot on.
"Sprague Is one of the best men who
ever ran for an office. He is q brainy
man, and, what's more, thoroughly con-
scientious and straightforward. He will
be elected II his neighbors have enough
votes"
Mr.. Rogers went north last night to
fill political engagements. He will re-
turn to speak twice in Orange county
and to close the campaign at Riverside.
The herald., 1896-10-26
FACE RAW
BLEEDING

Ny little boy was afflicted with Eczema in
acute form for year, during which we tried
order appeared on the right cheek and was of
blistery and bloody form. His pillow, mornings,
would bear the bloody imprint of the side of his
from scratching his face owing to the itching.
Advised to try CurIcURA, I bought box. The
first application was made at night, and It is
fact, that the appearance of the affected parts
showed a noticeable improvement the neat morn
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DICKENS THE YOUNGER.
The Boy Was 81 Failure, Never Coming
Up to His Fathers Expectations.
his London LETTER

Julian Rdlpn LONDON Letter
Charles Dickens, eldest son of the great
novelist, was sixty years old when he died
in West Kensington, London, recently. He
had a paralytc stroke month ago. and it
was known that if he had lived he must
remain a permanent invalid. He lived only
a year longer than his father and died OF
an ailment that came from a similar cause
to that OF the apoplexv with which his
father was stricken. When he was born
the novelist mad married Catherine Ho-
garth and was living in Furnvafs Inn.
Holborn. the Chambers, to see which
dreds every summer. Dickens had been u
Woodworking reporter up to this time. but,
under the signature of Boz had brought
out 'Pfckwick Papers, so that fortune
had begun to smile upon him.
On the night young Charles was born
the father wandered up and down the
street with his sister-in-law. Mary. seek
Ing table for his wifeS room. One that
he liked and wanted very much he passed
several times. because ne did not like to
ask the price. he afterward wrote. AS
the years went on Dickens wrote of his
son: Il am delighted with Charles pre-
cocity; he takes after his father. he does"
The father sent him to Kings College, then
to Eto I and then to Leiosig. Il want
Ito have an interest in and TO acquire a
knowledge of the life around him, and to
be treated like a gentleman. though PAM
pered in nothing. BY punctuaIity In all
things. great small 1 set great store"
Through the interest of Lady Burdett-
Coutts, he got the young man a place in
the Barring bank. but young Dickens didn't
like banking. so he started out to be an
energy and push. and drifted into journal
ism, beginning to contribute to his fathers
paper. Household Words. He became
subeditor and finally sole proprietor of
the paper, aud published ''Dickens's Die
tionary of London and 'Dickens's Diction-
airy of the Thames" He seems always to
have been unsuccessful. He never tried
fiction, but was a good reciter and one of
the best after dinner speakers in Eng
land. He grew to look very like his father.
He leaves several children, the eldest bear
ing the honored name of Charles Dickens,
ana the younger one called Mary Angela.
VINO is beginning to attract attention
actress. OF the children of Charles Dick
ems. the elder. the most distinguished Is
Henry yielding Dickens Queens counsel
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BEES HAVE COMMON SENSE.
They Do Not Walk Backward When
in the Presence of Their Queen.

London Truth.
The question was asked IN Truth the 9TH
err day, Who trains elderly gentlemen to
walk backward III royal professions? ' A
correspondent seems to think he has found
the answer to the question in the follow
ing extract from a book on bees, which he
sends to me-:
ses the combs, the bees clear a passage on
her approach. their heads turned toward
her. The affection they show for
her is plainly the mere loyalty of subjects,
rather than the personal love of a child
and to fully realize its nature We
must take into account the intense patri-
otto spirit of the bees; they know that the
queen is essential to the prosperity of the
commonwealth. and such, and not car
ing a straw a crumb Of wax about her
individual person, they cherish her devot-
eddy, and show their lives. to be bound up
in hers
WHO taught the bees this?' asks the
gentleman who sends me this extract, and
or sanity?' Apparently he is under the i'm
preston that the elderly gentleman TIC
whom L referred learned to walk backward
by the light of nature, or that providence
imparts the necessary instinct for this
mode of locomotion in Court functionaries.
do not know whether my correspondent
is an elderly gentleman, but If he were
suddenly given place at court L think ne
would speedily exemplify in his own per-
does not develop itself spontaneously in
human beings. L also fancy that he can
never have seen PROCESSION OF court ON
dence by suggesting that so ludicrous
spectacle is a natural phenomenon. Ii ma
ture inspired man to proceed stern fore
most she would at least teach him how to
do it with dignity and grace-accompl1sh-
ments which no court functionary ever
mastered nor, in my opinion, ever will.
The above extract shows how easy 1t IS
for any one to misread passage in order
to support some conclusion which he has
previously formed in his own MIND. If my
correspondent will look at his author again,
he will see that he does not even say tnat
the bees walk backward. They merely clear
a passage for the queen as she approaches,
and turn their heads toward her. This Is
nreciselv what a crowd does in the streets
of London when her Majesty passes. A lit
tie compulsion from the police &c. may De DC C
cleared hut the crowd turn their faces to
the sovereign spontaneously. This is nature,
if YOU like, and the passage quoted SHOWS
mot i'm this respect bee nature is very
much like human nature. But until IL can
be shown that the bees perform ansn dnl
antics entirely contrary to nature IN order
70 testify their loyalty / am inclined TO
think that the bee is the superior being.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
A SURE POsT-MORTEM TEST.
Application of Rays Believed to R'
InfaIIibIe.

New York Journal
At last what seems an infalliable indica-
ton of death has been discovered. Scores
of people have a horror of being buried
alive, and there have been many attempts
time that will assure the friends that death
has really occurred, and that the burial
may safely proceed. Heretofore none OF
these tests has been absolute, and each
has failed signally.
has recently been experimenting with X
rays, and he now announces that they Will
determine positively whether real death
has occurred or whether the patient is in a
trance. DIR. Barnes made a shadowgraph
of his own hand. and on the same plato
laid the dissected hand of cadaver. When
the plate was developed, after being ex-
posed to the mysterious rays for some time,
the difference in the two photographs was
noticeable The dead flesh offered more
resistance to the penetration of the rays
than the living, and glance would de-
termine which was the hand of the corpse.
Other experiments which he made con-
f1rmed his opinion. The Horoscope is even
better than the shadowgraph as n means
of determining whether life is present or
not.
1t seems strange that there should be no
accurate way of determining when man
is dead, but such is really the case. The
absence of the circulation of the blood is a
fairly good test, but there are instances OF
persons having recovered after the heart
had ceased to beat-or, at least, beat so
weakly that it was not perceptible either in
the breast at the pulse. Muscular con-
traction cannot be relied on, as dead people
will twitch when an electric battery is APP
piled to them. Rigor mortis cannot be re-
lied on, for that is often present in the case
of cataleptics. The gradual cooling of the
body has long been regarded by physicians
as an accurate test, but it is not known
that such a condition may follow the col
lapse which accompanies partial drowning.
The contraction of the muscles is an ac-
compartment of certain diseases. and so is
the discoloration of the skin which is
ticeable after death.
DR.. Barnes is a well-known physician,
and his discovery is regarded one OF
vast importance. He has written several
books dissection. emDal Inning and kim
dred subjects, and has been experimenting
with the X rays ever since Roentgen made
n lie lx
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
THE DAY OF SMALL MEN.
They Are Said to he Smarter than
Men of Large. Physique.

London Daily News.
Our Paris correspondent writes In all
the stories about giants and dwarfs, the
latter are inventive and enterprising, and
the former heavy and stupid. The Ogre
was a gloomy cannibal, for whom little
Poucet was too many Bunyan brought
two giants Grim and Despair, into THE
Pilgrims Progress" Doctors Brissaud
and Marie. two authorities on nervous dis
eases, hold by the popular idea about
giants. and justify it on scientific grounds.
The 1ong-continued growth entails abnor-
NAL growth of the muscular and adipoSe
tissues at the expense of the nervous sys-
ly tall persons, or even of very tall persons.
The two doctors in question say that
giants. or persons with immense hands
or feet, are subject to tumors on the brain.
The healthiest persons are rather under
than above the middle height. If a child
has a very active BRAN its growth is slow.
Forcing a young brain is at the cost of nor
NAL growth. The legs in this case are
stunted, but the vascular system and spine
are we'll developed. Turenne, Louis XIV.
Noltaire Napoleon, Theirs, Guizot, Cavour
topped the generations they belonged to.
Turenne was remarkable for long head in
preparing his plans. but the others for self
confidence and high spirits. The children
who come out best at school examination
in France are those whose bodies have
grown slowly. DrS. BrisSaud and Marie
think the present-day tendency to cultivate
the brain highly will in some generations
have for a consequence dwarfiSh stature.
Prince Bismarck is one of the few instan-
ces of a very bright mind being found in a
very tall body. The Celts, a gay race, have
small feet and hands and are rarely very
tall
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
DOLL WAS A MISSIONARY.
A White Girls Piaything Conquers
n Savage Tribe.

Portland Oregonian. 49,
"A gentleman from the grouno up-lle
finest gentleman in the regular army, was
the way an old Omaha reporter reIerred 10
a gentleman at the Hotel Portlano AI llJ1.,I
Holm q Bourke formerly aid TO Genefai
Crock And then warming up to his work,
the old reporter told the following
.aThev used to tell a story of Mr. Bourke
when he was down in Arizona with crook
that shows what kind of man ne IS me
General was trying to put bano OF Apa-
ches back on the reserve, but couIdn
catch them without killing them, anu ne
a papoose and took her to the fort. She
was quiet all day, saying not woro, Out
her black beads of eyes watched every
thing When night came she broke COW
and sobbed as a white child would Inc
fort was in dispair until Mr.. Bourke mao
an idea From the adjutant's wife he bor-
rowed a doll that was a beautful creation
that had come to the adjutants little girl
the previous Christmas. When the young
Apache was made to understand THAT IL
fell asleep. When morning came the ooii
was still clasped in her arms: She played
with it all day, just as any child VINO nad
been educated to play prettiiy with It's
ma ke-beiieve babies would nave done, ana
seemingly all thought OF ever getting back
RI the tribe under the spell of enchant-
ment placed over her by the doll had lett
her -
for the thought of having TO keep the pa
some Inquiries as to its welfare bothered
them TO no inconsiderable extent Several
dayS passed with no sign OF oVertureS be-
ing made by the tribe. and finally In de-
Dossession was sent back to the tribe.
Major Bourke who was then first lieu
tenant when the child was sent back to
the tribe. had no idea of the effect his be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
KipIin.,s Personality.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
Mr.. Rudyard Kiplings personality has
bsen such a subject of conversation that
nothing very new can be said of him. Yet
there seems to be impression among
people who have never known or seen him,
and even perhaps have read but few of his
books, that he is a supreme egotiSt and
has an aggressive conceit that not even
the most pronounced success could war
rant. Il WISH, said a well-known pub
Usher the other day, that this idea of Kip
llngs conceit might be corrected. I know
him personally, and before the friendship
that ripened from purely business relations
found him the most modest and retiring
of men--very much of boy at heart and
natural to an extreme. Any man of such a
disposition naturally resents intrusion on
mis- privacy, and Mr. Kipling would prefer
to remain private citizen with no claim
on the public's attention than to be Wanted
as a curiosity with supposed peculiarities
so different from his fellow-men.''
It is nice to know this of Mr.. Kipling
spoken as 1t was with honest conviction.
He has been called conceited and his writ
ings are too delightful to be spoiled by a
Sweled head. His latest novel will soon
appear in McCIure's Magazine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06

it's proud prize tightly clasped in it's club
by hands, it created sensation among the
went back to the post with it. She was re-
ceived in a hospitable manner and kindly
treated, and the effect of her visit was such
that through her overtureS were made to
the tribe, with the result that soon after
ward the whole band moved back on the
reserve.
the kind act was done, in order to pla-
cate the heartbroken papoose, had no idea
of it ever being of such service to General
Crook and his forces. 1t saved them from
engaging in a bloody battle, in which the
lives of the Apaches and Uncle Sam S
such extent that many would have
been killed or MANNED for life. and made
possible, what is seldom accomplished, the
placing of a large body of one of the most
barbarous tribes on the American CONT
nent back on the reservation without the
loss of single life. The Apaches were
of the same tribe as that which Geronimo
made do deadly work not many years ago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
OFFERINGS OF THE POETS.
SIumber Song.

Slumber, siuulber. little one, now
The bird is asleep in his nest on the bough;
The bird is asleep, he has folded his wings
And over him softly the dream-fairy sings:
Lullaby, 1ullaby-iullaby!
Pearls in the deep
Stars in the sky,
Dreams in sleep;
So, lullaby!
SIunber, slumber, little one.
The fairy will cone in the ship of the moon;
The fairy will with the pearls and the
stars,
And dreams will singing through shadowy
bars:
Lullaby, lullaby-Iullaby!
Pearls in the deep
Stars in the sky,
Dreams in sleep:
So, lullaby
Slumber, slumber, little one, so;
The the pearls that the dream-fairies
know,
The the pearls, and the bird in the nest,
A dear little fellow the fairies love best:
Lullaby, lullaby-lullaby!
Pearls in the deep
Stars in the sky
Dreams in sleep;
So, lullaby
Frank Dempster Sherman, in Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06

four days, eighty-nine churches. including
st. Paul's. the city gates, the Royal Ex-
change, the custom house, Guildhall, and
many other public buildings, besides b. 200
houses, laying waste 400 streets
Even apart from it's biblical association,
the River Jordan is of great interest. Dur
ing it's course it falls over 1.200 feet At
point is 1t navigable, even by small
craft, to any considerable distance, and
presents the unique spectacle of a river
which has never been nayigable, flowing
into a sea which contains not one living
creature.
The process for the manufacture of ar
tficial silk Is based upon that employed by
nature. The first thing used is wood-for
mulberry leaves are in reality the equiva-
lent of mulberry wood. The wood is worked
into a paste after being dipped in nitric
and sulphuric acids, is dried and placed in
a bath of ether and alcohol A transforms
ton takes place and kind of glue of coll
lOdion is the result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06

content with this, Bateman has denounced
the Butler letter stating that SewalI would
be retired after the Maine election. But
Ter reioins that Bateman is blather-
skite.''
It is a nasty complication, such as might
be expected among such men as these, and
MIR. Sewal is silent witness of the war
fare and recrimination between Washing
ton and Maine. 1t is situation which will
bring intense disgust TO the few self-re-
speeding men who cling to Bryan. 1t would
be no surprise here if Mr.. Sewall, seeing
the inevitable, would cast off associations
with the Bryan ticket, as a measure of
self preservation and Seif-reSpect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
The Connueror.

1 angel with majestic mien
And radiant brow. and smile eiivinely sweet;
Strong human passions writfled beneath his
feet.
There too expired those coward faults which
screen
Themselves behind inheritance, and lean
on dead for their strength and think il
meet
All, all lay PROSTATE, owning their defeat
Then the spirit with the eyes
cried aloud, in wonder and
''Oh. mighty one. who thou. that thy
glance
Can circumvent heredity. cheat chance
And CONQUER nature? What thine occult law?
Art thou inc&fnate Force--the Over SOIL ?''
The angel answered. II am Self-COrtrol.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. in Harpers Weekly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06

walked out. About o'clock that night he
came in and ordered another brandy smash,
and / made it for him just the same way.
He slipped it slowly and / saw that he was
enjoying it. Finally he wiped. his lips, say
ing: am in Room 297 and may order
brandy smashes from there tonight or in
the morning. / will be here several days
Keep the change. and he handed mesa 81
him brandy smashes to the best of my abil-
ity, and never kept him waiting. But few
people have sense enough to tip a bar
IpenaI-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
EyfGelrcc.

What fact within is evidence of life?
How can | know that death leads not to night p?
Amid the shadows dread shrouGing our sight,
What do | find to silence sin and strife?
How cut doubts Gordian knot with facts keen
knife,
And verify faiths prophecies of Fight,
When destiny shall blossom in delight,
And souls be free from mortal sorrows rife?
On every infants brow hehGld the print
Left as Creators seal. by hand divine:
In each souls being stamped indelibly
Though sin-defaced-bears stfll the heavenly
mint,
Image of God,-Io. read the wondrous sign,
Which destnes man TO Immortality.
Gail Hamilton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
The Rose of stars.


When love, our great Immortal,
Put on mortality,
And down from Eden'S portal
Brought this sweet world to be,
AT the sublime archangel
He laughed with yelled eyes.
For he bore within his bosom
Tie seed of Paradise.
He hid it in his bosom,
And there such warmth it found,
1t brake in bud and blossom,
And the rose fell on the ground;
AS the green light on the prairie,
AS the red light on the sea,
Through fragrant belts of summer
Came this sweet world to be.
And the grave archangel, seeing,
Spread his mighty vans for flight,
But a glow hung round him fleeing
Like the rose of an Arctic night;
And sadly moving heayenward
BY Venus and by Mars,
He heard the joyful planets
Hail Earth, the Rose of Stars.
E, Woodbury., in the September Century
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
Monochrome.

Shut fast again in beautys sheath,
Where ancient forms renew,
The round world seems above, beneath,
One wash of faintest blue.
And air and tide so Silly sweet
In namelesS union lie;
The little far-off fishing fleet
Goes drifting up the sky.
Secure of neither misted coast,
Nor ocean underlined,
Our brooding sail is like the ghost
OF one that served mankind.
Who, sad in space, as we upon
This visionary sea,
Finds labor and allegiance done,
And self begin to be-
Louise Imogen Quincy. in the Chap Book.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
a Rumaninn FoIk-sonG.

Meat is life like? Answer me.
-slcrcse say tree.
Win - bcughs broad and tail?
Tis tree. All. me.
Tor wind like autumns shakes its boughs,
And ma l.es the dead leaves fall
The dead leaves fall and fall
But what is life like? Answer me.
Suppose / say the sea,
Whose pillows RICE and roar?
'Tis like the All, mel
For its pillows only rise to fail
In spent waves the shore
Poor spent waves on the shore
Richard Henry Stoddard, in the Independent.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
MenlOry.

What miscal life is memory:
We walk upon narrow patch between
Two gulfs-what is to be, and what has been,
Led by a guide whose is Destiny;
Beyond is sightless gloom and mystery,
From whose unfathomable depths CLEAN
Chaotic hopes and terrors, dnly
Reflections of past reality.
Behind, pursuing through the twilight haze,
The phantom people of the past appear;
Hope, happiness and sorrow frutless strife,
And all the loved and lost of other days:
They crowd upon closer year by year,
Till we as phantoms haunt other life.
Charles Lotin Hildreth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
A Little short ON MEMORY.

fouths Companion.
one day the professor noticed his wife
placing large bouquet on his desk
What does that mean?' he asked
why. she exclaimed, don't YOU know
riage?"
.Ah. indeed. 1t ise'' said the professor,
politely. Kindly let me know when yours
comes around and / will endeavor TO re-
ciprocate the favnx."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-02

surface. 20 which It is 20 be applied. A
moistening roll in connection with the ap-
paratus performs the service which gem
orally devolves upon the lips and tongue
The letter is inserted. a button pressed
and the work is done,
The sailing merry-go-rouud Is a new in
veuton i'm which the children viii be in
terestcd. One has recently been built on
the Mediterranean coast, which is grace
ful and attractive. The principle IS sim
plea strong beam pivoted centrally. and
htted at each end with tiny sloop rig
EjrE. Seats 90 carry the riders are slung
under each arm. The device Is fitted with
automatic brakes. so that it may revolve
slowly when grandma or baby rides. or IL
may be $50 loaded with sails that IL Will
revolve rapidly. Young people love TO
handle the ropes" and with practice are
soon able 90 stop the merry-go-round by
a lexterous handling OF the ropes. But
this IS not necessary. as the end or the
boom may Dee made fast so as 20 have lit
tIe PLAY. and the sails viii take the right
position to- the wind, every half rcvo'u-
ton. LIZZIE LEONARD M&RTIN.