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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
cHLORoFoRM AND BURGLARY.
Discussion Of the Possibility of Mar
cotixing Sleeping Persons.
Brltlsh Medlcal journal.


A curious story is reported in the lay
press which involves an important medico-
legal question Some burglars are stated to
have entered a dwelling house at Clayton
l9-MoorS, Accrington, and to have chloro-
formed the Inhabitants as a preliminary
measure to successfully looting the house.
The alleged victims of this outrage were
a grown-up son of the householder, two
adult daughters and two young children.
The burglars first entered the room in
which tho girls and children were sleeping,
chloroformed them all without disturbing
their slumbers, then went TO the rooms OF
the youth and dealt with him in the same
way. In the morning the young man
awakened and complained of feeling very
Nl, while his sisters did not awaken un-
til recalled to mundane existence through
the efforts of a medical man. All profeSsed
they did not know anything about The
burglars, 1t is not our business to discuss
the inherent improbabiltty of the story.
Whether nVe persons could be reduced 10
anaesthetic sleep by burglars using chlorO-
form in such way not to disturb their
usual slumbers Is matter which interests
the profession.
Dobeau tested the possibility of chloro-
forming sleeping persons, and found that,
even using the greatest care. he only sue
that, under even the most favorable condi-
tons, B0lbean succeeded In chIoroforming
without awakening the patient I'm about 80
per cent. OF the cases. Cluness succeeded
with two children. and generally IL is ad-
mitted that young persons are more easily
the well-known case Of Richard Smith, who
was found IN bed murdered while his wife
slept beside him. the Woman's defense was
that she had been drugged with chloro-
form and was not a partlceps criminis.
0uimbys evidence in support Of this plea
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form of address, and no well-informed
change. lady" or Fare lady" without
the shuddering conviction that she is figur-
ing in a cheap melodrama or is the heroine
of a servant girls romance in a story pa
per. 1t is not to be supposed that the word
''lady' as a form of address will be immedi-
sufferance ana perversion, but we should
like to note the issuance of a general order
in the department stores looking to its abo-
lition AS for sales ladies and cash ladies and
washer ladies. we must deal gently with
them for they have few comforts in life
and are entitled to our utmost considera-
ton and good humor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
RISKS OF BEAUTY SEEKERS.
Demand for Petroleum Hair Wash
Since Mrs. SamueIsOn's Death.

London Letter in New York Journal
A pointer as to what risks unlovely
woman will take to make herself lovely, or
lovely woman to make herself Iovelcr is
day into the death OF Mrs. Samuelson who
sUccumbed from the effect of burns due to
an explosion of a petroleum wash that was
being used on her hair in Emile's shop on
Conduit street last week. This terrible ac-
cident has been the newspaper sensation
of the month, not only by reason of the
fact that Mrs Samuelson was a woman of
wealth and fashion and a famous beauty,
but because of the mysterious agency that
brought about her frightful sufferings and
death. The hair wash that caused the ia
tality was known to be explosive and for
that reason it was applied in a room where
no gas was used and no lame from any
outside source could penetrate. The con-
sensus of expert opinion is, therefore, that
the explosion was caused by a spark of
electricity produced by friction in brush
ing the hair. One would naturally imagine,
this being the case, and the same conditions
therefore existing whenever and wherever
the wash might be applied, that an end had
been put to its use forever.
Not so. however. The fact was adduced
at the inquest yesterday that out of thirty
eight West End hairdressers twenty-five
had never used the petroleum and thirteen
had used it previous to Mrs. Samuelson's
abandoned it's USE and the three who had
not stated that their business in petroleum
hairdressing had largely Increased since the
accident, while one hairdresser had COM
menced using 1t since the explosion in
Emile's shop on account of the greatly in
creased demand. The fact was testified to
that in one shop lady. fully realizing the
danger of the application, had wooden
blanket. laid by the side, of her chair to
extinguish the flames if she caught fire. 1t
is almost a pity that the cornoner pointed
out that th6 position of any hairdresser
who should use petroleum hair wash after
the awful public warning caused by Mrs.
Samuelson's death would be most serious
in the case of another similar fatality,
since any fool of a woman who would run
f-Ir yfsfaFT Nf yafeg
the sake of making herself more beautiful
would not be seriously missed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Through the Park.

AS through the park I go
When morning bushes, fair, piquant and cool
The careful nurse-maid tends her white-robed
charge
And in the FLASHING fountains emerald pool
The laughing children sail a fairy barge.
The moody student. DER his book. apart
Pouders the while. in touch with Natures heart.
Yon tired sleeper's supine form in shade
OF Mother Earth-his only kin--is laid.
And the sun shines, flowers bloom and fountains
fall
And God is over all.
As through the park 1 so
When noontides rich refulgent glories pour.
His heated pulses dipping in the wave.
The laborer, from his precious nooning- hour,
fingers awhile 10 rest--to quaff-to lave
And busy denizens who homeward pass
Leave the hot path and rest their weary feet
Deep in the cooling comfort Of the grass.
Thankful for midway breathing-place sweet
Ard the leaves dance, the fountains rise and fall
And God is all.
AS through the park 1 go
Only that cleaning, crimson double spark
Betrays the wheelman lovers in the dark.
Minglinc their honeyed nothings with the breeze
That soughs aeolian nocturnes thro' the trees.
The late home-goer with uncovered head
Nights incense breathes ana bates his Quickened
tread.
Gene isl the CLEAN of daylight's garish charms
Night hath EMBODIED all in restful arms
The shines soft-the drowsy night-brds
call,
And God is over all.
God of Nature. Thou who didst bestow
TIL eternal boon of beauty's quickenng BALM
Grant that within souls may thrill and glow
Some grateful, holy-though unworded-psalm.
Grant that to Thee some vision be given,
Some thought that hits us nearer 10 Thy heaven
AS through the park we go.
Sarah s Pratt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

New York Independent.

New York Independent.
When a new great poem makes IT'S APP
pearance an opportunity is given wnich the
young students of literature should not
miss. TO study ii carefully and discover
consist Take Kipling's "RecessiOnal."
They should take it line by line. word by
word, and each vowel and consonant, and
find out in what rests the music OF the eN-
preston as well as the worthiness of the
thought Examine the alterations; count
the repetltions of a vowel sound; observe
whether a repeated consonant not so placed
as TO be properly a1terative is musical;
see If YOU like the repetitions OF words or
phrases: tell whether far-hung and
'.stin stands are agreeable; whether two
successive lines with twenty monosylables
sacrifice f1uency TO strength; whether the
middle lines Of the last verse give verbal
conceits or fine expression. and whether
eight times of Test we forget becomes
burdensome. IT is a great poem with great
merits, not without flaws. and IL deserves
and win repay study, For one thing. 1t
initiates nobody
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Pensions for Veterans.

Certificates have been issued to the fol-
lowing named Indianians:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. r. Allen, Ridgevile
Restoration and Observation-Disclosures F.
Wiseman, Sulphur.
Reissue and Increase-Royal H. Edgerly,
Elkhart.
Increase-Jacob S. Bloom, Goshen; George
NJ. Kicker, Union City; William L. Camp
bell, Atkinsonvlle; Elias A. Stoneburner,
Sidney: Jesse w. Burch Oaktown
T2eissue-Wesl $. Tiff, New Pittsburg;
William Standriff, Lawrenceburg.
Original Widows, etc.-(Special Aug. %
Sarah f. McCune, Montezuma; Susan Ja-
cobs, Madison; Jennie E. Robinson, Sellers
burg; Rachel Trew, Homer; Anna +; La
rick, Rochester; minor OF Adam Belcher,
Anderson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
KipIing's "R occasional"


Mr.. Rudyard Kipllng has achieved some
thing far greater than writing a beautiful
poem or moving the critics and men of let
ters TO admiration. In his jubilee Recess
sional he has touched the heart of the
tioa deeply, and touched il 10 deep issues.
His poem has moved his fellow-country-
men, not by any subtle dose Of imperial
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Rebuilding Sale Notion Bargains

6 darners and shawl pins. all for. &c
Stocxinet Dress Shields pair. ........... SO
Finishing Braid, all colors, bolt........ &c
Gents Handkerchiefs, White............ 4c
Turkey Red Floss, ball................... lc
2 dozen card Fancy Pearl Buttons..... 19c
Buttermilk and Witch Hazel Soap, 3
cakes in box, Tor ....'';;...;.:......, &C
regular Csc Purses Tor ................ 10c
Cents Shareholders pair. &c
70 dozen box Black Pants Buttons...... 90
Fancy Gilt Hair Pins, worth Csc
dozen: sale price, doZen.............,.. 80
A. Foot Clothes Observation-Disclosures. &c
10c to 15c French Harps. .,..,...,.,..... SC
Large Japanese Handkerchiefs; ..'"..,. &c
Combination Sets, Face Powder ana
Perfume, for OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 90
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
The Advance
Blanket Sale

1914 White Cotton Blankets, 49c QOc
kind; sale price, pair. ..................O~
1914 Gray and Camels' Hair Color A1c
Cotton Blankets; sale price, pair. III
2 cases fine Wool-finished White
Cotton Blankets, worth 73c pair no.
safe price
100 pairs 1914 fine Atwood Blankets
worth in season ssiaa s. pair all col $2.4S
so pairs left of those finest Atwood
ia size, 6-pound Blankets, worth & M
$7.9S; sale price, pair. ................. ~"'"V
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Shirt Waist Clearance
Bargains in Ladies Capes
Bargains in Ladies Skirts

Washable P. K. Skirts worth 75c; 3Oc
SAFE price ....-..s...'.' ..'s.'''.'' =
Black Brocaded Brilliantine Skirts, 60 AZ
worth $685. sale price .......-....- %~sOO
so Atwood Brocaded Black Satin
Berber Skirts, actual value $3.50 Q2
safe 1T
Big lot of Black Brocaded Silk
Skirts, Velvet Corduroy and
No More sn Velour o skirts. sold up TO $4.9
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15

Dealers may deceive. Let no one
convince you that there is q genu- Ex
ire piece OF Libbey cut glass with ks{fc6eU
oct this trade mark cut ON every w.
niece
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Still Deeper Price Cuts I'D :.
WASH DRESS GOODS

so pieces of neat patterns in reg
ular sc Wash Dress Challies
and Cream Color Batistes; sale
price. a yard. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
100 pieces of regular Zoe Printed
Organize Lawns, reduced to, a
yard ..............,..... ..............
100 pieces best Fancy Dress
Prints, reduced to. yard. .........
20 pieces 10c to 100 Plain Color
Organize Lawns, reduced to,
so pieces black ground regular
12lac Printed Organizes, on sale
Monday at, a yard .................
50 pieces Lace Lappets, originally
sold at 19c a yard, Monday, at. 500.
50 pieces yaTd-wide English
Lawns, were 10c, now, a yard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
THE REBUILDING SALE
KEEPS GROWING IN POPULARITY

prices We There
about it. We will clean stocks COM
finished
building by the last of week We want
little goods possible Of the work. dirt trouble
be
goods Notice prices you will
that determined.
Business will continue uninterrupted while rebuilding
Impossible to samples O. goods advertised
September Fashion (MCCals) ready.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
XANDALIA LINE.


Leave Indianapolis Daily-S:l0 a. IN, 1910
noon, p. m, 1l;20 y. m.
Arrive st. Louis Union Station-S:l5 D. ma
7:12 y. m, IA a. m. Z a.
Parlor car on IL 40 noon train daily anu
local sleeper on 11:20 p. IN. train daily for
Evansville and ST. Louis. open to receive
passengers at $40.
street and Union Station.
w w. RICHARDSON, p. p. A
Il. A. FORD. General Passenger Agent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Rebuilding Sale of
. Shoes

~
When we move into the finished part of
our new building the shoe department will
have to give up part of its space, and the
only way we can do it is TO get rid of the
goods. Here are prices that will tempt you
to supply your future needs.
ANY LADIES' SHOE, $2.4S
This means choice of our Ladies Finest
Shoes-goods that sold a So to $4.50-Blacks
and all colors, Hand-turned, Welts, etc. !;
made of finest French Kids in all the new
est styles. Cost cuts no figure with US, the
goods must so.
81 OXFoRDS REDUCED TO S1.39
Ladies Oxfords and Prince Alberts; Cho-
colates, Greens and Blacks-newest styles.
LADIES' SHOES All soc
A para lot of so pairs, worth 81. 69-Cho-
colates and Ox-bloods, all Sizes lace Col
ors slightly imperfect is the cause of this
tremendous price sacrifice.
S2.4S FOR CHOICE MEMS SHOES
Any Mans Shoe in stock is offered at
81. 4S-aII colors, all styles, all sizes, various
feathers Values up to IS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08
Irby Curses and Threatens Tillman.

The correspondent of The State at
Laurens had a short talk with Irby
Wednesday. In answer to the ques-
ton what he thought about the pri,
mary he said: Il have nothing to
say except that Tillman. pretending
to be hands off, has sneakingly come
into the State and knitted me to the
fat. ] made Tillman what he is to
day. Inever asked his support; did
not expect it; l gave him credit for
being truthful when he said he was
hands off. When he attacked me in
his interview I called him down
by kilograms. In his answers he lied
like q dog, but I was estopped.
made this fight to protect the poor
people of the State against the ravages
of the north. I expected Tillmar
would help because the poor people in
the State made us what we are. As tc
McLaurin, I have nothing to say. As
to Tillman, I put him upon notice
that when we meet he may expect
trouble. All that I ask is that he
give the rattlesnakes notice before he
attacks. Further than this, I have
nothing to say"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08

in the ground in better condition. and
be better fertilized in France and Eng
land, in Russia and Prussia, in Tur-
key and India and in Argentine and
indeed in all countries where wheat
can be grown, than has been planted
for years. The higher price o. this
year will stimulate all wheat growers
to plant more largely with the expec-
tation that such prices will be main
tanned. Our own American farmers
will travel the same road. History
will repeat itself. Over production
is as sure to come another year as the
year itself is to come, and nothing but
some great worldwide calamity can
prevent it. Where will be the sweet
consolation then, with wheat at forty
or fifty cents a bushel, which many
of our friends are now enjoying over
the great general prosperity which
dollar wheat is bringing to our coun-
try. 1t is a false hope, because it ap'
plies to but one farm crop out Ola
hundred-the others being still in the
slough of despond. We should be
able to look at things squarely in the
face.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08

The full intensity of living is
reached only by the perfectly healthy.
Sickness discounts the capacity for en-
joyment. If his body is all out of or
der and run. down, he will not be able
to en 10y anything, no matter how full
of enjoyment it may be for other peo-
pie. If ne is just a little bit out of or.
der, if be ''is not sick, but doesn't feel
Just right" he will only be able to en-
Joy things in a half-hearted sort OF
way. The nearer he is to being perfect
ly we'll, the nearer will his capacity
for enjoyment be perfect. If this COLI
dition doesn't exist. something ought
to be done. That means nine cases in
ten the use of Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t works directly
on the digestive organs, and on the
blood and through these On every tis
sue of the body. II makes the appetite
good, digestion and nutrition perfect
and supplies rich, red blood to all the
tissues, building up solid, healthful
flesh.
Send 81 cents in one-cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa
ton, Buffalo, N. Y, and receive DR..
Piercs's 1908 page Common Sense
Medical Adviser" protusely illustrat
ed
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08
Why Wheat Is High.

There is much being said about dol
lar wheat and that that will bring
prosperity to the American people.
Dollar wheat is a good thing, and we
wish more farmers had it to sell, but
not one farmer in fifty, no, not one
farmer in a hundred throughout the
United States, nor one person in every
one hundred thousand has bushel OF
wheat to dispose of, so the number to
be benefited by dollar wheat is very
small indeed. The dollar price at this
time is a mere accident. If there had
been the usual good yield abroad,
with the large yield we have here at
home wheat would command not
more than fifty cents a bushel now,
and would be fed, as it was few years
ago, when we had large crop, to our
live stock. A mere temporary relief
has come to the wheat farmers of this
country at this time, because of cruel
drouths and unpropitious weather in
most of the other wheat producing
sections of the world. Our wheat
farmers good fortune is based on the
misiortunes of wheat farmers in other
sections of the world, and it is very
weak foundation to base the presperi-
ty of the world upon. AT the best it
primarily reaches but one class of
producers, and that small class. II
we could have dollar corn and ten
cent cotton for this years product, it
would reach every farmer, for every
farmer raises corn and cotton aad has
it to sell. 1t is true by helping the
wheat farmer, other classes to greater
or less extent will be benefited, for he
will be enabled to pay the interest on
his mortgage indebtedness, to pay
his store bills, taxes, ETC., to patron
ize mechanics and merchants, and
all will fesl more or less the ben.
efts Of the influx of money from
abroad into his pockets. But will the
present increased price Of wheat be
any index to any permanent prosperi,
ty2 Does it give any assurance that
we will have dollar wheat year from
now? On the other hand does it not
give the assurance that in year from
now, wheat will bs begging for buyers
at fifty cents a bushel or less, unless
some great and worldwide calamity
should again beiall the crop2 We
have been watching closely for quar-
ter of century the result of such un-
expected upheavals in price of certain
farm crops, and we here make pre-
diction that one year from now wheat
will be selling at half the price it is
today. The increase in price will
stimulate production the world over.
It will not be confined to this country,
for the price is nigh everywhere.
More wheat will be planted and be put
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08
A Good Piano.

A piano is usually purchased but
once in a lifetime and hence the great
est care should be used in its selection.
A good piano will last lifetime and
give endless enjoyment. A poor
piano will last few years and give
endless vexation.
Read Ludden & Bates clever adver.
tisement in this issue and it will tell
you how to secure the good piano at
comparatively low figure. Ludden &
Bates have been selling pianos in the
South for over a quarter of a century
and it is a well known fact that their
advertising statements are conserva.
lively made and are Away strictly
lived up to. Those wishing pianos
cannot order from a more reliable
house. Read their ad vertisement.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08
YEARLY COTTON WASTE.
Our Farmers Should Exercise More Care
In Packing,


In Packing.
A writer in The New York CONNER
cial Advertiser is authority for the
statement that the amount of cotton
destroyed annually in this country by
fire, improper baling and careless
handling, aggregates something like
$25, 5,000,0 600.
In support of this alarming state.
ment the writer goes on to show that
when the various accidents of the year
are summed up they constitute tax OF
50. so on each bale of cotton produced.
On the basis OF last years cotton crop,
which aggregated 100000 bales In
round numbers he shows that the total
loss to the south amounted to $24. 500, E
900. Undoubtedly these figures are
excessive, but they will serve to open
the eyes of our farmers to the import
ance of exercising greater care in the
matter of baling cotton and also to the
urgent necessity which is every day
becoming more and more imperative
of adopting some new and improved
method of baling.
While the writer fails to suggest
any specific remedy for the evil which
he points out in these amazing figures,
he makes a comparison between the
loose methods of baling which prevail
| in this country, and the more effective
methods which obtain in India and
Egypt. Says the writer in this connec-
ton:
The Indian and Egyptian cotton ex.
porters pack their bales with rare skill,
while their American competitors is
lax and often negligent. The Egyp-
tian manages to get forty pounds into
a cubic foot in density; the Indian
does the same, while the American is
satisfied with from twenty-one to twen-
ty.fve pounds. The African and the
Asiatic exporter can put II, 900 bales
on board q ship or on 8 arailroad car
that an American can only put from
six to ten thousand bales on. The
american says that owing to his loose
ness in packing he gets Lie of cent.
the pound more at the mill for his cot
ton than his rival, but when this is
Offset by increased cost of freight, and
above all by damage Of FIRE, it sinks
into insignifcance.
MIR. Monaghan, the American con-
sui at Dresden, Sauoxy, says that the
bale of cotton as packed in Egypt
when it arrives at the mill in Chemn-
tiz looks as if it were as safe from
catching fire from spark as a log of
hard wood, while the bale packed in
New Orleans or Galveston has loose,
dirty inhammable appearance. The
American exporter charters vessel to
take out his cargo, and it does not
matter whether he puts 500or1, 500 bales
in the hold, so far as the cost is con-
cerned the more thrifty Bombay mer-
chant buys a space and uses economy
all round. 1t is very seldom one
hears of Indian or Egyptian cotton
taking fire, whereas in one year (1S95.
1869 forty.three fires were reported
which had to do with the great south
lern staple.
| The writer OF the article from which
| the foregoing paragraphs are extracted
lis evidently well informed on the sub
ject which he undertakes to discuss,
although he does not sign his name to
the article. The matter is one which
vitality concerns the welfare of our
southern farmers, and they should
Igive it their careful consideration.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-09-08

SEPTEMBER WEATHER Keep up
with cotton picking. A. J. DeVoe of
New Jersey, the best prophet in the
weather business, gives this warning
as to next month: A violent electri'
cal storm is due on the 3rd of the
month, reaching its height on the 5th,
and raging most severely over Western
Virginia and the southern part OF
Pennsylvania. Another big storm
will follow on the 10th and will sweep
across the Atlantic to ravage the
coasts OF the United Kingdom. But
worse yet, according to Mr.. Da Voc,
will bs storm from the 25Lh to the
3Oth, developing a tornado in Ohio
and heavy gales with cold rain on the
middle Atlantic coast. Destructive
tides are predicted for the 2Sth and a
counter storm in Italy, with floods in
Austria and Turkey.