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The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

a good memory; his speech was free and easy; his intelligence was such as we should expect to find in an ordinary man.
 In the ordinary working of the brain one half is more active than the other and exercises superiority on it's neigh DOT lobe. This lobe-in ordinary per- sons the left, of course-is the .cere- bral master. Heredity, education or what we Will-all the combined inf1u- ences, in short, which mold human life have tended, by some process of. phys- illogical selection, to place one lobe over the other in point of importance. The other (righD lobe is the servant of the left in measure. It's educa- tion has been neglected, and 1t re- quires the control of its better cultured neighbor in order that life may be con- ducted in sensible and sane fashion. The most hopeless cases of insanity, Wigan would have held, would be those in which both hemispheres were af- fected. If one was alone ailing. the other might exert more or less control over it, and the extent of the control would depend on which lobe exhibited the diseased action. All degrees of insanity or mental derangement could thus be accounted for on this suppo- sition of the relative control of one hemisphere by the other. The perfect life is that in which the better and higher half controls the weaker and less responsible. * In our courts of law the question of double conscious- ness occasionally forms the subject of legal deliberations. For a man in his second self may commit crime of which he has no recollection whatever in his natural state. He is, in other words, at one time the Jekyll of his household and may be a loving father, a responsible citizen, and respecta- ble friend. Then, when he lapses, he becomes the Hyde of the romance real ized to the full.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

1IhOUI the connecting Struc- N / ture there can be no exact CO.,
 NN operative action of the double
 K \ brain. Now, there is ample
 evidence to. show that defi- clency of the corpus callosum has not necessarily been attended with the ef- fects which, on the theory of the sim gle nature of the brain, we should have expected. In instances in which it was discovered after death that the con- meeting bridge between the hemispheres was entirely wanting, neither derange- ment in intellect was observed, nor any other abnormality of life in the way of movement or sensation.
 Thus. in the notable case of Bichat, one of the foremost anatomists of his day, one lobe of his brain was found markedly smaller than the other. He was, in fact, deficient in one-half of his brain, and yet his mental and physical life was in it's way notably of a high order. In another case, reported by Cruveilhier, a man died in the hospital at the age of 42 years from heart dis ease. He exhibited no lack of intelli- gence, yet after his death it was dis covered that his left brain was practi- cally destroyed and replaced by a wat cry substance Another case, reported by Andral, was of man who died at the age of 2S. He had suffered from a fall when three years old, and as a result was paralyzed on his left side The right half of his brain had practi- cally disappeared, so that the parts be- low this half constituted the floor for an empty space. Andral says of this man that he had received a good edu- cation, and had profited by it; he had
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
=PHRIS ABANDONED ITSELF
 TO THE FLOWER FETE
Hll tbe World Turned Out to Join in the Lively Scenes in the Bois de BouIogne
 Why the Californans Were Surprised
By GeneVieVe Green.
Special Paris Letter to The Sunday Call.

luxury of dec ration that chare.u 4eIize the California festivals. After all the Californians have more of everything than any people that l have seen. l sometimes wonder if we are not little vulgar in our profusion.
 However that may be a Californian expects more every place than he is at all apt to receive.
 With the true California spirit I went to the Paris fete and at first ex- perienced a sensation of disappoint- ment. What I had expected 1 do not know, but the flowers seemed scarce to me and the decorations meager. My California temperament asserted itself stubbornly and vigorously demanded more"
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03

TN HE floral fete on, the Bois de - =. BouIogne is the last event of the
 Paris. season. Then society
 shakes the: city dust from its . - =: :: over befriiled petticoats and hies away. to the. country, leaving the big old town "deserted'' from the point of view of: the: high bred Parisian. The ceaseless hum of the unimportant mill lions who remain does not alter the desolation.
 ]. Those who have witnessed the floral festivals in California I think are at first: disappointed in the Paris fete. One misses. the splendid profusion and the
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-03
CURIOUS STUDIES
 OF BRTIN PROCESSES
Notable Instances Where Men Went
 Through the World gIl Right With Only Part of Their Brains in Working Order.

w WITHOUT the connecting struc- \ N / ture there can be no exact CO., NN operative action of the double
 K x brain. Now, there is ample |
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
WORLDS r.. r. MILEAGE.
It Has Increased $4,000 Miles in
Four Years-Africa's Per Cent
of Gain the Highest

Philadelphia, May "a census of the
worlds railways, recently compiled,
gives the following figures:
In Europe the miles operated has RS
an in four years from IA, ,552 to 155, ,2S4;
in Asia from 22,O25 to 26.S in Africa
from 6,522 to 8169; in America from
212, GA to 229, ,722, and in Australia from
Il, 1922 to 1883, making total for the
world Of 433. .953 against 1913, 143 four
years ago.
These figures show that Africa made
the greatest proportionate advance, ,that
continents gain being over 70 per cent,
against 9 per cent in Europe, p per cent
in Asia. per cent in America, 1212 per
cent in Australia and nearly 10 per cent
for the entire world.
The length of the worlds railways IN
1895 of 433,9 ,953 miles, is more than II
fines the circumference of the earth at
the equator. The North American con-
tinent has greater mileage of railways
than the rest of the world comblneo.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
OVER FIFTY MILLIONS
Is the Legal Debt of New York City
Above the Limit

New York, May 2-Tammany Controller
Bird g. Co1er today made public state
ment of the financial condition of the city.
1t shows that Greater New York has ap-
parently exceeded its constitutional debt
limit OF 10 per cent of the assessed value
OF its real estate by more than $50 0OO, 600.
Mr.. Coler reaches the conclusion that
the exact excess of the debt over the
limit, so far as he has been able to collect
the evidence of the indebtedness, is $780,
1925. He finds that the old city of New
York exceeded its limit by $24, ,224. SAG and
that the territory consolidated with Man
haitian and the Bronx went $25, 1853 1893 be-
yond its limit.
According to this statement the total
bonded Indebtedness of the greater city
is only 1926, 302, ,673 or $16,010 S95 within the
debt limit. This apparent margin is more
than wiped out by the amounts for which
the city is liable for the performance of
contracts not yet completed, and for LA
bilities growing out of street opening pro-
ceedings and the condemnation of land for
park and other purposes.
Controller Coler does not pretend that
his statement is complete but he believes
that further investigation will show the
financial condition of the city to be actu-
ally worse instead of better than his fig
ures now indicate.
Apparently all city work involving the
expenditure of money for permanent i'm
provements must stand still and delay of
indefinite duration is probable.
Controller Coler bitterly charges the last
reform administration with the gravest
kind OF m1smanagement to which is due
the present very bad condition of New
YOrk'S finances.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
UNITED FOR MAJOR HOOD.
His Home County Unanimous for Its
Candidate for Governor.

The Lyon county Republican conVen-
ton held Saturday was one of the most
enthusiastic and harmonious held in
Emporia for many years. The cause OF
this general feeling of confidence In
victory for the party this fall is due TO
the fact that the Republicans of the
county are thoroughly united for MAJOR
Hood for governor.
The convention instructed for Major
Hood and gave him the following en-
dorsement by resolution:
Whereas, The name of our esteemed
fellow citizen, Major Calvin Hood, has
been generally and favorab1y mentioned
over the state as candidate before the
Hutchinson convention for governor on
the Republican state ticket.
Whereas, This convention has ac-
corded to him the privilege of selecting
his own delegates to said convention,
therefore,
Resolved, That it is the judgment Of
this convention, assembled in his home
county, that his nomination would
prove tower of strength to his party
throughout the state and that under his
leadership, the entire Republican state
ticket would be triumphantly elected.
therefore,
Resolved further, That the delegates
by him selected be assured of the hearty
support of this convention in the of
all honorable means to secure his noni-
nation as the standard bearer of the
party in the approaching campaign. be-
lieving that his nomination would be
received by Republicans everywhere
with unbounded enthusiasm.
The delegates are: L. D. Jacobs, c. V.
Eskridge, I. E. Lambert, w. P. Wilcox,
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
COSTS MORE TO LIVE.
War Sends the Prices of Food Bound.
ing Upwards.

New York, May at costs more to
| live in New York. than it did a week ago
War has sent the prices of nearly ev-
cry staple article of food bounding up
ward and a sympathetic advance has
resulted in many lines of merchandise.
everything that is necessity to the
poor man is dearer than it was yester-
day and Will be dearer still tomorrow.
His potatoes, flour, sugar, coffee, tea and
meat are all increasing in prices daily,
some rapidly and some slowly, but just
as surely.
The greatest increase is in breadstuffs
and provisions. Flour has jumped 81. so
a barrel in the last two weeks, about so
cents of this rise having come in the
in this city is small, according to a To-
cal dealer, the jump in price is due to
the war and to the speculation and rise
in wheat, which makes it difficult for
the mills to get a sufficient supply.
There has been a corresponding in
crease in al farinaceous goods. White
beans have advanced 40 cents a BUSH
ell; California lima beans 80 cents; rye
Hour costs 15 cents more a barrel than
last week, and all corn and oat products
are between and 10 per cent higher
The price of potatoes has gone up 5O
cents a barrel on the old and $1.50
barrel on the new. Sugar has risen one
fourth of a cent per pound, which means
75 cents a barrel.
The extra cost of teas and coffees.
produced arbitrarily by the holders of
large stocks, is 112 cents a pound on
coffee and between and cents a
pound on tea.
Hog products are rising also. Pork
has gone up between rs cents and 81. so
a barrel; lard one-fourth to one-half
cent a pound, bacon and hams one-half
to one cent a pound. AS result of
these advances the retail grOcerS have
put up the prices from two to six cents
on retail quantities.
In the dry goods line therewas gen
eral small advance in certain fabrics,
due to eXpected government contracts.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
A HUNDRED REASONS

Can be given why Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets are the best and most effectua1
cure for every form of indigestion.
They are in tablet form which retains
their good qualities indefinitely, while
liquid preparations become stale and
useless with age.
They are convenient, can be carried in
the pocket and taken when needed. They
are pleasant to the taste.
After each meal dissolve one or two
of them in the mouth and, mingling
with the food, they constitute perfect
digestive, absolutely safe for the most
sensitive stomach.
They digest the food before it has
time to ferment thus preventing the
formation of gas and keeping the blood
pure and free from the poisonous pro-
ducts of fermented, half d1gested 1000
Stuart'S Dyspepsia Tablets make the
complexion clear by keeping the blood
pure.
They increase flesh by digesting flesh
forming foods.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the on
ly remedy designed especially for the
cure of stomach troubles and nothing
else.
One disease, one remedy, the success
full physician of today is the specialist,
the successful medicine is the medicine
prepared especially for one disease.
A whole package taken at one time
would not hurt you, but would simply
be a waste of good material.
Over six thousand men and women in
the state of Michigan alone have been
cured of indigestion and dyspepsia by
the use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
Sold by all druggists at so cents per
package.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
DEPEW ON BONDS.
Criticised Members of Congress Who
Attempted to Make Conditions.

New York, May AIT the dinner given
by the Republican club in honor of former
President Merriam, Chauncey NJ. Depew
made a speech in which he criticised the
members of congress who attempt to
make conditions in regard to the bond is
sue proposed for raising war revenue.
''At our last monthly meeting said Mr..
Depew, I'VE were divided Some of US
thought that the war was the only means
of settling our difficulties with Spain.
while others believed that peace might be
maintained. There is division now.
We are all for war. We are all back of
the president.
'I regret that the call for volunteers has
been for compare lively few men. do
not propose to criticise the authorities at
Washington, who probably know what
they are about, but 1 hope they have not
forgotten the lesson of the rebellion. Had
the first call been for 100000 instead of IS.
600 volunteers the predictions of Seward
and Lincoln might have been fulfilled.
II have patience with either senators
or representatives who stand out for po-
1tical or personal reasons against the
bond issues and exact conditions as to
the amount, character or time of the bonds
that may be issued to carry on the war.
Those who higgle and haggle in congress
about this are neither more nor less than
allies of Spain herself"
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
DREAMED HEwAs DRAFTED
Wife Then Shoots Her Husband for
Supposed officer.

Hamilton, o., May 2.-Charles Hark-
raider, aged % years, a well known far
mer living one mile north of Monroe,
Butler county, met with a peculiar death
at his home about o'clock this morn
ing.
The supposition is that his wife, aged
20 years, whom he only married last
February, shot him through the heart
while in state of somnambulism. 1t
has developed that the young couple
have been deeply interested on the war
question, and that at 2 o'clock this
morning Mrs. Harkrader dreamed that
the troops had come for her husband,
and it was then that she got up in her
sleep, took her husbands pistol and
fired two shots into her husbands left
breast, penetrating the heart and caus-
ing instant death.
Mr.. Harkrader has been in the habit
of keeping a pistol under his pillow. AZ
ter the neighbors were notified, Mrs.
Harkrader said that she remembered
that her husband was drafted for the
army, and that when the men came for
him she found the revolver and began
to fire at them.
When she learned that her husband
was dead, her grief was pitiable, and it
is feared that she will lose her mind.
Both people are highly connected and
come from the best families in Butler
county.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
PLEA OF GEN. WALLACE.
Begs to Enlist as Private and Atone
for His Error at Shiloh.

Indianapolis, May 2.-Out of the bleak
and dreary prospects of a rainy, raw day
in the camp of the Indiana soldiery came
an event that will stir with all the emo
tions of patriotism and pathos millions of
people who read about it. The grizzled
old warrior and author of Ben Hur,
General Lew Wallace, walked into the
camp of the Second regiment and begged
like boy to be enlisted as a private in
company M of that regiment. Behind
this is a story of tortured pride and emo
tions that might inspire a volume equally
beautiful, if not as tragic, as that which
embraces 1.-The Tale of the Christ"
General Wallace came through the rain
on foot, with his old army cape looped
about his shoulders.
toned army countenance, but tears welled
ject of his visit to Colonel Smith.
Il desire" said he, from the bottom of
my heart, even at this age of life, to give
back to my country a fragment of its
usefulness. 1t is my most fervent wish
to carry musl1et to the field of battle to
Cuba, and if possible redeem in q measure
what I lost through an unfortunate error
on my part at the battle or Shiloh"
OF course, General Wallace was ac-
quainted with the fact that his age was
a bar against his enlistment, but he tar
his influence toward getting him into the
ranks as a private, ana It may be ac-
battle of Shiloh that the day was lost on
account of General Wallace's failure to
General Grant to reinforce a certain divis-
ion that was in peril Wallace headed his
troops Tor the spot TO Wnlcn ne ndQ Deen
directed, as he thought, but after. long
march discovered that he had taken the
trapped in the rear of the Confederate
force. On the instant General Wallace
turned and marched his men through the
gap. He then brought them up to the
position he had first sought to gain, but
it was too late, and the day was lost
General Grant severely reprimanded Wal
lace, and for over 20 years the distinguish
ed poet, author and patriot rested under
the humiliation of that reprimand. Then
General Grant wrote and published a let
ter fully exonerating General Wallace, but
from that day to this the author of Ben
Hur'' felt the stigma keenly. With his
three score years and ten he today sought
to wipe out forever the blot that he i'm
agines had been cast upon his record as
a. soldier
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
BEET SUGAR PLANT.
One to Cost $5oo,Ooo to Be Estab-
lished at Benton Harbor.

Benton Harbor, Mich. May 2aBenton ;o,ee ton
beet sugar as Grand Rapids is for furni-
ture or Kalamazoo for celery. plan to
build a beet sugar factory here IS mater
talking in the hands of the board OF
u It is desired to put $4,000 into plant
here. making factory similar to that 313d,,1d a{
handle $50 tons of sugar beets a day and
would require the product of 3,OOO acres OF
heats in a season The factory grounds
will require at least S5 acres, which the
city donates. The farmers viii contrlp-
1Ite one years crop of beets, or 335 acres.
equivalent to $4,000 in cash, at the regu+ II+
lar price for beet sugar. This Will amount
to about u per cent of the land used IN
growing beets. To encourage sugar-Ina a
ing from beets Michigan pays bounty OF
one per cent per pound, and has hXed the
price to be paid at 81 per ton for beets that
contain Il per cent of saccharine matter
If the beets contain 13 per cent the price
as fixed by law is S4.25 per ton, II IA per
cent $3.50, and 25 cents per ton Tor eacn
additional per cent sugar substance.
The average crop of beets is about l2
tons to the acre, and an acre of land Will
Weld in cash from $50 to $50 per acre. Inc
cost of cultivation is $50 per acre.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
LOS ANGELES PATRIOTIC.
Directors of the Annual Festival La
Fiesta to Abandon the Event.

Denver, May 2.-John Mcnamara,
secretary of the board of direction of
the Festival Mountain and Plain, re-
turned yesterday from California, where
he had been for several months He
says that the annual festival, which is
usually held at Los Angeles, May 5, had
to be abandoned. 1t was called La
Fiesta and the name killed it. The
hatred against everything Spanish is so
bitter that the directors did not dare to
go ahead with the show, although they
had finished their floats at a cost of
$4,000. The floats all represent Span
ish subjects and bear Spanish names,
and Mr.. McNamara says that it is GER
tain that the floats would be burned in
the streets if the parade were attempt
ed. The directors now hope to use the
floats July for a patriotic display.
While Mr.. Mcnamara was in Los An
geles an actress appeared in play
house dressed as a Spanish peasant
girl, and the audience Kissed her off the
stage. The Spanish people living in
California are very careful not to at
tract attention to themselves by show
ing sympathy for Spain.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
ARCHB. CORRIGAN SUED.
He and Other Church Dignitaries De-
fendants in an Action for False
Imprisonment

New York, May 2.-The suit brought by
damages from Anacletus de Angels,
Archbishop Michael A: Corrigan, William
I. Schley, Joseph L. Keane and the Soci-
Francis for false Imprisonment was be-
gun before Justice Keogh in the supreme
court in Brooklyn yesterday. Father
Dent said that he was indicted for per-
jury in Kings county, and that on De-
cember 19, 1896, the indictment was dis
missed on the recommendation of District
Attorney Backus. He was then forced.
ST. Francis for $4,000, agreeing to release
them from all claims in lieu of his mem
Former Judge James Troy moved to dis
miss the complaint on the ground that
when Father Dent signed the release it
released all the others in the action.
Father Dent said in reply that it may
have been illegal for him to sign the re-
lease, and in doing so he may have con-
tributed toward compounding a felony.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
EFFIGY BETTER CLOTHED.
Chicago Man Steals the Garments of
Dummy Weyler.

Chicago, May 2.-Striped trousers,
corduroy waistcoat, silk hat and patent
leather shoes adorning an efigy of Gen.
Weyler, suspended from telegraph
pole at Halstead and Ewing streets, ex-
cited the cupidity of John Abrahamson
last night and as he was ragged and
without shoes he climbed up to the fig
ure cut the wires and with the dummy
under his arm descended and walked
away, But the crowd of patriotic men
and boys to whom the Spanish general s
humiliation has been a source of pride
since he was hung in efhgy week ago,
protested against the seizure and po-
Hceman was called
He interrupted. Abrahamson as he
was stripping his prize in n nearby al
ley. With the recovery of the efHgy
the crowd was satisfied and at their re-
quest Abrahamson was released with
the promise that the patent leather
shoes would be his after the fall of
Moro castle.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-05-02
PLATT FORCES WEAK.
Anti Seth Low Enlistment Too Slow
for New York Senator.

New York, May 2.-Senator Platt is
sorely disappointed over the way his
lieutenants in New York are succeeding
with the primary bill.
He is not more disappointed than are
Lemuel Ely Quigg, Fred S. Gibbs, Cor
nelius Van Cott, Abraham Grueber and
the other machine leaders.
These had promised Mr.. Platt an en-
rollment of 10000 under the new enroll
ment within the first ten days. Up to
Saturday night, according to John Sa-
bine Smith and Mr.. Quigg of the Re
publican county committee, their enroll
ment amounted to about 10000. These
figures may be considered as correct.
In the meantime the anti-Platt Re
publicans, headed by General Wagner
Swayne, VIM. Brookfield, etc, say they
have so, 900 sigma lures. Neither faction
has come out in the open as did George
W. Plunkett, the chairman of the Tam
many enrolment committee, who filed
200 900 names last Saturday and will to-
day file 10000 more with the bureau of
elections, every name subscribed to be-
fore a notary public.
So far the enrolment has shown that
the Democrats are together and that
the Republicans will split at the primar-
les into two factions.