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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Few Anti-Funionists.

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 4-The anti-fusion
Populists' State convention this afternoon
was almost a failure. Bohannan's Hall was
advertised as the place of meeting but the
convention was held in a private office, the
purpose being, so it was announced by the
delegates, to outwit those favorable TO
fusion who might attempt TO gain control
as was done last year. After ascertaining
the almost total absence of delegates from
outside of this county it was voted TO post
pone the State convention, which means
it's abandonment. Local delegates then or
ganized as a county convention and selected
a ticket
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DlSTILLERY CLOSED
Because There Are No Government Of
GERS on Duty at the Plant.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va Oct. 4-Acting
under instruction from the secretary of the
treasury, Internal Revenue Collector A. b.
White to-day closed the big Hannis dis
tillery pending the decision of Judge Jack
son. of the United States Court. on a mo-
tion TO perpetuate the injunction enjoin-
ing the collector from assigning 70 duty
at the distillery any officers other than
those employed there The usual changes
in assignments were made by the commis-
sioner of internal revenue on Oct. l. Dem
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05

NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-Four men in the
employ Of Hennessey Brothers, fishermen
OF North Long Branch, \. j., were drowned
yards off shore The names OF the men
We're: Joseph Herth. Adolph Pierson. A.
Hendrickson, all Of Brooklyn. and Geo.
Robins, of Monmouth Beach. n. j. Three
other men who were with those named were
rescued
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Kansas city,s Fan Fetes.

KANSAS CITY. No, Oct 4.-Thousands
of visitors are pouring into the city from
every direction to attend the fall festivities
Athene and her attendant priests. Carnival
week proper will open tomorrow with a
parade of gorgeously decorated floats and
Will be followed each day during the week
with a succession of special events. includ-
ing flower parade, which promises to excel
those ia the past: an address Wednesday
night by William ]. Bryan; a sham battle:
a bicycle road race, and a pigeon shoot be-
tween Worlds Champion J. A. 4. Elliott
and Fred Gilbert.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05

Special 10 the IndIanapoIls JOuThaI
ELWOOD, Ind. Oct. 4.-The dedication
of the new Holiness Christian Church here
took place yesterday many ministers
and other church workers being present
from over the State. Among the features
of the dedication was the feet-washing conl-
munion participated in by five hundred peo-
pie The Ministerial Association of the
church is in session to-day, arranging for
the organization of auxiliaries. The con-
ference closes "Wednesday night.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05

LOUISVILLE. Oct. 4.-rhe twentv-third
annual meeting Of the Mississippi VaIiev
Medical Association will begin al I.ieder,
eight hundred physicians Will be i'm attend
ance. The doctors began arriving to-day
Among the notable surgeons present viii
oe Dr.. Murphy, of Chicago; DR.. House. of
Cleveland. Or. Parker. OF Cleveland and
DR.. Wishard. Of Indianapolis The eye and
ear specialists are DR.. DAILY. Of Pittsbure
DR.. Loeb. of St Louis, and Or. Coulter
Of Chicago. Papers viii be read In the
medical section and the surgical section in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05

special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Oct 4. - Inc re-
modelled Evangelical Church OF TINS city
was dedicated Sunday. The congregation Is
small, but, by hard labor and sacrlhces' II
r,anaged to overhaul its old church and
nslSe it a very neat and comfortable house
The sermon was delivered by Rev 5. r.
Spreng. of Cleveland. The other denomina-
tions of the city united in the services
More than enough money to pay all the
debts of the church was raised in a short
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Woman surrage Defeated.

CAMDEN. n. J.. oct. 4.-The return
board of judges made their returns of the
constitutional amendment election this aft
ernoon. The official figures show a majority
of l02 for anti-gambling amendments. 800
for the regulation of appointments and 905
against woman suffrage
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-05
Tine Popu1ar
MoNoN ROUTE
Il ssns sHs to CHICAGOTGn,%sssa 70 4s HOURS


Leave Indianapolis-7:oO a M. 1:5o q M. s:es
3. m, 1850 night.
Trains Arrive Inianapolis-s:So a. M, T:ls q
m, 2:95 D. m, l27 d. M
Local sleeper IN indianapolis ready at $50 D.
n A.esHes Cntcago returning at 2:45 g. m. Can
be taken any time after $3.50 D. m.
Ticket Offices, West Washington street Union
Station and Observation-Disclosures DEPOT
GEO. w. HAYLER. d. p. A.
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To Soothe and Heal Anything,
poTTTRs TnH Witch Hazel jelly
II1vaIid Chaira
2s-cent tubes at druggists

OF all kinds and accessories for the sick room
Trusses made and properly adjusted. Store open
every Saturday night.
VIM. II. ARMSTRONG q CO.,
CJew No. 127) n S. Illinois St., indianapolis, Ind.
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IT was past 3 o'clock. after dozen more
men had been examined, that the attorneys
finally contented themselves with these
twelve good men and true:
Amos Stafford. Edward Lankford, John
A. Wilson. Benjamin Kirk. Perry Morgan,
William c. Rhea, james Rodgers, George
w. Richards. Paris r. Kennedy, John IL.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

SN ELL SUIT.
(This Outfit Represents an Outlay Of s7l5)
and worn with a series OF vests and
shirt fronts.
1t sounds very simple just to say: II
shall order at least three vests for my
new bicycle suit" doesn't it? Well,
that is what the "millionairess' in
question did, and these three vests are
going to cost $a5 apiece. The principal
color in her suit is green. SO she has or
dered one vest of sage green, one of
geranium red, embroidered in black and
gold, and one of white broadcloth, m
broidered in silver. With these vests
she will wear snow-white linen shirt
fronts and black satin ties.
And SIS is not so very eXtravagant for
a vest, when you stop to consider that
the garment is made when the material
is wet and has t. be nodded to the
figure.
A Panama straw hat, fawn color and
trimmed with scarlet and green, will
add one $40 item, and bicycle boots of
finest leather will add another of SIS.
Golf stockings in mixed greens and
tans will be worn in place Of the high
top boot. An entire box of these stock
iugs has been ordered, as it is difficult
to match them exactly. Fifteen dollars
a half dozen vii! buy the softest and
best in the shops.
But the GROWING extravaganza of
this particular "bikiDp" maid is vet 10
come. Her belt of elephant green leath-
er is clasped with a buckle of oxidized
silver set with emeralds. The buckle
is in the form of two bicycle wheels; the
rim of each wheel is bordered with
small green stones, a large single EN-
crald forming the hub. This trifing
decoration to adorn the slender waist"
of the pretty wheelwoman will cost
treble the price of her wheel; that is to
say, exactly $3Oo.-N. Y. Sunday Jour
nal.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

a post, \ better arrangement is that
shown in our illustration. II rcvolves
with greater ease and does not neces-
state the children sitting on opposite
ends to balance each other.
Let the board be at least &c feet long,
and at the center attach, by mor,ising.
q four-inch post eight feet long, which
Is braced in an upright position by
means of wire or small iron chains
passing from near its top to a point
well out toward either end of the board.
In the base of this post q one-inch
rod should be firmly set. and project
several inches below the board. This
forms the pin on which the swing re.
wolves. and should fit loosely in the
socket, n hole in the top OF the pos,
which has been set in the ground SO as
to project about IL inches
At the top OF the post u similar pin Is
inserted and passed through a tri-
angular piece of iron, which any black
smith can make for you. At each
corner of the triangle the metal il
drawn out and curved upward into n
loop from which chains or wires pass
TO the trees mt q little distance
American Agriculturist.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

THE DRESSES WE WEAR.
Why Gowns Made mt Home Lack Chic
and sDiartness

Why is it that professional dress
makers, who are, presumably. ONE
Of little education, and no particular
talent, can produce satisfactory gowns
| with a pronounced chic in cut and style
that proclaims them at once TO be "cus-
| ON made" while the amateur, with
| greater taste and cultivated artistic in
,elligence and perception, should make
| such abortiye creations whenever she
tries to make her ovn dresses, is u prob
lem that is often commented upon.
Home made'gowns are certainly not as
smart as those built" by professionals,
and why not? Why cannot women of in
telligence, who have straitened in
comes, dress themselves and their
daughters without calling in extraneous
aid? 1t seems such a simple thing to
dc, especially in these days when the
most reliable patterns of the latest
fashions may be had almost for the ask
ing, and materials cost next to nothing.
What is 1t that stamps it, as it undcni-
ubIy does, d dress made at home, as sec
ond-rate?
In the first place, the trademark, as
1t were, is wanting i'll amateur work.
a dressmakcr does everything by rule
and rote, but this want of technical
knowledge could be easily rectified
either by taking the trouble to learn the
trade, which is taught in comparatively
few lessons, or by copying i'll detail the
construction OF q gown from a good
dressmakcr's. Finish" is also one of
the great essentials in which profess
SIGNALS score to advantage. Take the
wrist of an amateurs sleeve, for in
stance, and that of a professional of
good reputation. The difference is
most marked. The bottom of the skirt,
too, almost invariably betrays it's or
igin, besides many other little details
dependent upon the character of the
dress. Finally, another marked diff
ference between amateur and tirst-class
professional work is in the generous
use of material. The former never
"skimps," whereas the latter, if she
makes her own gowns, obviously tries
TO save every penny. In homemade
millinery, especially, this skimpiness is
very apparent. A young woman with
a pretty taste in trimming bonnets who
could easily have half Il dozen hats for
the price she pays for one, confesses
naively that she is obliged to buy her
~headgear and give large sums for each
confection, because she simply cannot
make up her mind 10 buy as much rib
bon or as many flowers as is really re-
quired.
My hats always look economical"
she declared, but when ! am buying
ribbon by the yard l cannot bring my
self TO buy enough" So this season
she pays $25 for II hat that she might
easily have made herself if she would
purchase the same materials.-N. y.
Tribune
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

deck, as If he We're seven feet long;
but about that he frequently is, and
five feet about the girth, and with six
or seven gallons of oil in his queer
body.
Birch bark canoes are still used by
the Indians for this sport, and the way
they handle them in the wide, stormy
waters Of the Bay of Fundy is a revela-
ton as to the seaworthiness of those
wonderful little craft. Boys must be-
gin their training as porpoise hunters
when they are 10 or ~ years old, going
nut with an older man in good wealth
or first. The Indians generally go two
together, for, while shooting the por-
poise can be done easily by IL in
smooth water, it Is not the shooting, but
the landing of him that is the ticklish
business. After he is shot he is speared
TO finish him, and then the Indian runs
TWO fingers in the blow-hole, takes hold
of his fin with the other hand, lifts the
length is above the %cnnoe's gunwale,
and then drags him aboard. Imagine
doing that in II birch bark canoe on a
rough wintersea. Getamana lonein his
canoe under such conditions will often
accomplish the feat, and not so rarely
he will fail, and lose his life to boot.
The usual thing is for two to work to-
Eethcr, and then accidents are com
parativcly rare. A man has to stand up
TO shoot, if the water is rough. OF
curse he could not see his game if he
didn't. One of those Indians car stand
and shoot, and at the same time adapt
every movement TO the swaying of his
boat, keeping her on an even keel with
a success that is simply miraculous.
There are many sharks in these wa
tiers, and there are perfectly nuthenti.
Gated stories of sharks cutting por.
poises in two just as the Indians were
hauling them aboard, but they don't
seem to mind the sharks at all. driving
them OIL with their long spears when
they are too encroaching, with perfect
GOODNESS.
Passport, Me-, is the market where
the Indians sell most OF their OIL
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
SWELL CYCLING SUIT.


10 Lost 91lO.
The most expensive bicycle suit ON
record has just been ordered at one Of
the SWEETEST tailors in New York
The girl who meets the bill is worth
a million in her own right. is an athletic
beauty and a reigning belle in the ultra.
smart set.
The suit which makes the bill is tho
most elaborate ever designed in thia
country. 1t is lined with silk, finished
with jewels and will cost a lump sum Of
$715.3O.
Two "Scott and Adie" shawls at s7s
apiece will be employed in making the
skirt and jacket. And, by the way.
these English shawls are the very latest
thing for any sort of fancy outing suit.
The skirt will be stitched half way
to the knees, with the lines of stitching
not over a sixteenth of an inch apart:
this is the new device to stitfen the
lower part of the skirt without adding
to the weight.
The edges of the jacket are also
stitched, and, together with the skirt,
it is deliberately braided, which latter
touch adds some s25 to the expense.
Boomers and Innings of suit through.
out will be of silk-not less than 10
yards of silk to be used. which gives an.
other item of S22.5 0 With the boomers
have been ordered half a dozen in.
terlining of the finest lawn at $3.50 a
pair.
Loose jackets are no longer the cor.
rect thing for the crack bicyclist. The
newest waist is tight-titting always,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
EnIn rntnE II Girls Skull.

In a Georgia town lives II girl of II,
with the intellect of an infant. She
was bright enough until she reached the
age of seven, and then she began to
lose memory and speech. The case was
a puzzle to physicians, until "A young
member Of the profession announced
that her skull was too small to permit
the brain TO grow. This suggested the
idea of charging the skull. and, such
are the triumphs of modern surgery,
the operation was performed, the girl
survived it, and now. after the lnpse'o Of q
month. she is physically as well as ever
and the mental improvement is most
marked. Perhaps, some day, we ran
have our heart and lungs made new
again as surgeons grow still more
clever.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

\ Pittsburgh artiiiccr, Walter Ken
needy by name, has taken charge of the
steel rail plant at Han Yang, China, and
is turning ont rails of standard quality.
AS good MS those of Pittsburgh, Bethle-
hem, Joliet, or any of the American or
European rolling mills, to be laid down
on the new Wo Sung railroad. The in
PRODUCTION of this industry is likely to
be of more Importance to China than
anything which has happened in her
history since the days of Confuclus.
As her guide IN this new and moment
industrial departure the country
did well To take an American, and ii
seems apparent that she has picked ont
a capable one, who understands his
business and is qualified to make the
pirtaiis understand 1t also,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
New OLOrA for Flowers,

1t is a fad in Paris to perfume flowers
artificially. Experiment has proved
that it is possible not only to take away
the natural odor of a flower, but also to
make it yield a perfume derived from
m other vegetable product. Some vic,
lets. for example, are perfect in form
and coloring, but without fragrance,
while others, very insignificant to look
at. emit a delicious fragrance. The
transfer of the odor from one species
to the other has been accomplished.
Those who have been most successful
in this branch Of horticulture refuse
to tell their secret. 1t is said that the
African marigold has been robbed OF its
disagreeable odor and endowed with a
perfume that makes it much sought.
The fad has been carried to the extreme
of giving to the sunflower the odor OF
the rose and to the chrysanthemum
that of the v~ioIet.-N. Y. Sun.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

llysterical persons often have a nnr-
vowed field of vision and a certain de
gree of local ,useusibiliiy. These signs
allow u diagnosis of hys,crta and u
connection with this form OF ]ucurosis
OF symptoms that might otherwise be
due Il different cnuScs. DIR. de Strol-
cwski, in La Medicine Modcrnc, notes
another Of these Stigmata-thc relative
insrusibtlity of the canal of the ear
ard of the nasal passages. With the
least sensitive persons. the tickling of
these regions with n strip of paper
win produce II violent reaction. With
persons affected with hystcria, no sen.
satinu of tickling, or a very feeble one,
Is felt. though the touch of the paper
is recognized, This symptom exists
in all forms of hystcria.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

4 new machine, invented Ny Prof.
Dwight, OF Nassnr college, is said TO
slice rock TO the thickness of one
hftieth OF an inch. This is accom-
p,ishcd by means of n series of tin disks
with edges charged with diamond dust.
A paleontologist objects to destroying
u fine specimen by breaking 1t with his
hammer and often the points Of great
est value are not shown upon the sur.
face of the rock. The beauty of many
varieties of stone increases as its
density is lesscned. Prof. Dwight's in.
,~ention makes it possible to study the
composition. grain and history of rocks
in a manner never before supposed pos
sible.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

Prof. C. II, Benjamin, of the Case
school OF applied science at Cleveland,
O., has given a detailed recount OF his
recent experiments in determining the
loss OF power through friction in the
transmission by belts and shnitiug,
These were made in 10 different tac.
tories. In a bridge material factory ST
per cent. Of the engines power was lost
In Il planning mill the loss was % per
cent, and IN u sewing machine factory
il was nearly 70 per cent. 1t was y per
cent, in q stamping mill, and IS per
cent. in a boiler and machine works
The average loss for heavy machine
shops was Il little over e. per cent, the
average for light machine work was
about - per cent.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
How In Made White.

The way in which sugar is made per-
fectly white, 1t is said, was found out
in a curious way. A hen hat had gone
through u clay mud puddle went with
her muddy feet into a sugar house. 1t
was observed by some one that wherever
the tracks were the sugar was whitened,
This led to some experiments. The re-
suit was that wet clay came to be used
In refining sugar. 1t is used in this
way: Tho sugar is put into wooden
jars shaped as you ace the sugar loaves
are The larger ends nre upward. The
smaller ends have a hole in them. The
jar is filed with sugar, the clay put over
the top and kept wet. The moisture
goes down through the sugar and drops
from the hole in the small end of the
jar. This makes the sugar perfectly
White.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
HOT AIR MOTOR FOUNTAIN,

The hot air motor patented by NJ. Helm
rici works without steam, and, there
fore, many OF the shortcomings of
small steam engines are entirely OBJ
waited. The hot air motor has q re-
markably regular and soft motion,
quite contrary to the steam or naphtha
engines, where each stroke of the pis-
ton occasions a shock. The main III
ployment to which the Heinrich hot air
motor is put is the work of a pump in
the center of the flower stand, as shown
in our illustration. The benefit of hay-
ing n continuous jet oil water in a room
during the summe is obvious.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

Nothing contributes so much to the
soiling of the dinner cloth as the glass
of water which during n meal is being
continually picked up and set down
again in a new place. Some thrifty
housewives have adopted the custom Of
setting the glasses on tiny plates such
as are so generally used for bread and
butter nowadays. 1t has been found
that IA tnblecloth keeps clean much
longer by the use Of these plates, and
the idea Is especially popular among
boarding house keepers,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

They We're a bridal couple, and had
been sitting over in a dark corner of the
restaurant, spooning, for three-guar.
tiers of an hour.
What have they ordered since they
have beer over there?" asked the pro.
prietor of the waiter.
Nothing but some tea and toast"
go right over there and light both
gas lets."-Tammany Times.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
HUNTING.
DnBgerou. sport Followed by the
passnn,nquOddy Indians.

In the northern part Of Maine and IN
Nova Scotia there are still many
Indians of the Passamaquoddy tribe,
and these Indians follow a pursuit that
il almost unknown to the outside world.
They shoot PROPOSES. Everybody IA
mi!iar with the sea has watched these
queer creatures. They are less shy
about showing themselves than any
other inhAbitant Of the ocean; but 10
see them tumbling over themselves in
their odd regular way is all the world
IN general ever has TO do with them;
the Passamaquoddy Indians, however,
not only shoot them, but make their liv-
ing mainly out OF porpoise, and a living
well earned il is. too. for there is no
occupation in the world that calls for
more bravery, skill and endurance,
The money is obtained by sell
ing the oil, and pure porpoise
oil brings the Indians about 30
cents a gallon; the oil obtained
from the paws sells higher; it is tried
out by itself because of its superiority
and is valued by w~atchmakers aud
others, who want an oil Of very fine
lubricating quality. The Indians eat
the porpoise hesh-it is very much like
fresh pork and many white fishermen
around the coast like it well enough to
give the Indians fresh fish in exchange
for 1t.
There are no game laws to protect
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15
nnck-Artinn ENcaSntur,

In an improved steam shovel or eN.
cayutor the shovel instead OF being
thrust from the car of the machine in
digging or taking up n load is moved
toward the machine, which is thereby
particularly well adapted for places
where the surface IL be removed is
underlaid by ground too soft TO support
the weight of the machine after the
surface is removed, as the car can
travel in advance of the work.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-15

The application of electricity has
been emineutly successful for the
bleaching OF teeth. After filling the
nerve canal in the usual manner, the
cavity is excavatcd and filed with cot.
ton saturated with the bleaching soiu-
ton. The positive pole is connected
with the cotton in the>cavity, and the
negative 10 the wrist, aud the current
is allowed to remain for 20 or 30 min
utes, according TO the density of the
stain, The process is painless and most
AZ tfapfiyN-