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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-25
REDUCING THE FORCE
RETRENCHMENTI IN NEARLY ALL
BRANCHES OF THE ARMY.
FOLLOWS CLOSE ON WAR

neer Bureaus Are the First to Be
Affected = Military Commissioners
Relieved of Their Commands
Matter May Now Be Sent. to Spain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-25

Fruit and Grain Not Suffering fo1
MOis.-rC.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-09
LlFE-LIKE PRESERVATION OF FOOT AND HAND.
 From 9 photograp

IGNOR EFTSTO MARIN of Naples has found out the way to make the human body immor- tal-not the live body, but the body after the soul has flown.
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, and the mate, acting as the officer of l the deck, attempted to rouse him.
 Here's a telegram, Calkins," {" exclaimed the officer. Its from your home and
 it says that your little girl is dead; l Brace up, man; you must go at once.
 'We talked it over, Millie and me, D mumbled the form on the mattress. Tt
 was a farm we decided on. l was to be captain and Millie was to be first | Huff And we was going to raise-to
 raise garden truck and-and- He slept again
 When the Vandalia was paid off af- ter a cruise in the later eighties, a Wiry little Irishman named Duffy, a fireman on board, left the ship with cool $500 in his monk bag" He was ashore for a good time, and he went to the Bowery to find 1t. That night he was found in a hallway stripped of every cent, drugged and beaten A policeman paid his carfare to the Yard and he shipped at once A week later, after he had rested up and re- covered some of his usual good spir- it's, Duffy asked for liberty, but it was denied him because he was In debt for his new outfit.
 Shortly after midnight he slipped over the side to the dock by way of a moOring hawser and made his escape from the Yard through the swamp" as the land north of the marine bar racks was called. There was just a touch of gray in the east when Duffy, hilarious and lurching, appeared on the dock again. He saluted the aston ished sentry with a wave of his hand, staggered up the gangway, and as he stepped on board his foot slipped and he fell prostrate on the edge of the quarterback There yIa D in lirNCy If ani nd oct number of dimes, nickels quarters and half-dollars fell from Duffy's pockets and rolled haphazard over the deck
 Gather thim cop. me b'yes," he shouted proudly to the anchor watch which had hastened to his assistance. It's all money av that baste av a thafe, Murphy, who kapes the gin mill slf as is square wid him." He sub sided into a peaceful sleep in the brig" and the mystery remained un- solved until the morning papers ap- peared with a scare head article an nouncing that the saloon of one Mi chael Murphy on the Bowery had been entered during the night, that the cash drawer had been robbed of it's contents. that Murphy himself had been set upon by the burglars and beaten insensible. and that a sailors knife lanyard had been found on the premises. A few detectives prOWled around the yard for several days, but Duffy was kept under cover by his admiring shipmates and the affair was finally forgotten.
 If there is any excuse for registering the naval sailor has it. He is con demned to pass the greater part of his time on board a vessel much too small and cramped for the crew occupying it. He can seldom secure two consec- utive days ashore, and if he should overstay his leave by so much as an hour he Is punished by restriction
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master stepped up to the table and drew the tidy sum of S1020 II hope you will take care of that money, Cal kins," spoke up the commanding off cer. who was standing by watching the operation. Better put 1t away In some safe bank and let 1t draw interest for your old age. Another cruise of the same"
 Saving your pardon, car'ain, I ain't coming back" interrupted Bill proudly i've had enough of the service, sir I've got a little girl awaitin' for me and me and her are going to start a farm out on Long Island. I've been going to raise something more re- spectacle" Those of his shipmates within hearing grinned broadly. Bill as a farmer was the best joke of the cruise, As he went below to pack his black bag he was the subject of much course by night, mate," advised the master -at-arms. Its mighty bad cruising nowadays along York street" " Why don't you charter a canal boat to take you to Hayseed harbor?" said another shipmate with mock concern. I'd help to smuggle you out of the ship after eight bells if you pass the are knocking at the navy yard gate before this time next week." was the ships cooks comment, and at last Bills ire was aroused.
 You blemed muddle-fingers don't seem to understand the case, confound you!" he shouted This aint no sud den resolve, mates. When I got home from the China station last cruise, found that my little girl had growed al- most into woman. She was staying with her grandmother. and 1t struck me it was near time 1 helped her along 4..N N1,z . Ilr..[l T promised to save every penny and we start a little farm I've saved the money, and I'm going to put that little girl beyond want, s'help me if l don't. Goodby. fellers.''
 The Nipsic was put under repairs without going out of commission, and preparations for shipping a new crew after g, man limped up to the sentry at the York street gate and demanded admittance. He was battered and bruised, a nondescript suit of ragged overalls clothed him, and he spoke in a hesitating, rambling way, as if his he whispered. Got a big discharge and a ratin' of chief quartermaster. Got a little girl, too, May be I'll buy a farm fur her some day. We talked it over, and-say, want to go aboard the guardo and sign in. Had a terri DIc lllue SuOIe anu NdHl to get DdCK in service again. Lemme in, will your"
 Its Bill Calkins," said the watch man to the marine. "The sharks got him after all. I heard he was paid off with a wad as big as your right leg No use in talking, there are strings on the rum over in the Bowery and you cant nohow resist 'em.'
 Bill was escorted to the receiving ship and permitted to sleep upon an old hammock mattress spread on the for ward berthdeck. About eight bells, midnight, the sergeant of the guard
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Marbelfzed Body of Cardinal duglieln1o Sam Felice

tissues will become soft again. Marini took a fragment of an Egyptian num- my, dead for five thousand years, and restored the flesh-like characteristics to what was left of the tissue. For this feat the Neapolitan received the cross of the Legion of Honor.
 Neaton, to test Marinf, gave him dried up human foot, marking 1t to as- sure its identity, asking him to restore 1t to it's natural condition. In few days Marini handed back the foot, fresh and pink, the arteries and veins in such a state that liquids might have been injected This foot, with Nelaton's au- tograph statement of these facts, is valued exhibit In the collection of the famous embalmer of Naples.
 The possibilities of this discovery are endless. It can be applied to animals, and the natural history museums of the future will be practically a me nagerie-not a collection of unnatural looking stuffed creatures.
 The second process of Marini is that
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l formed on the skin and living as g par- aSite reduced it to a state of dryneSS that prevented decay.
 One of the most precious souvenirs which Marini petrified was some blood of Garibaldi.
 He made 1t into medal and offered it to the general in order that he, as Marfni wrote him, might in looking at 1t, brace himself up for his last fight, and that others might remember it as a part of the same blood that the hero shed on the rocks of D'AspromOnte.
 In the middle of the medal are en- graved these words: 'The blood Of Garibaldi is forever red"
 In spite of the honors scientific men have showered upon Marini he is modest.
 For thirty years he has lived at Ma ples on his private practice. All sorts of opportunities have been offered him to go to foreign countries, where he could make large. sums out of his abilities, but these offers only make him miser- able. He is a patriot and they show him how little his own country appre- ciates him in comparison with others. He would consider it a crime to eni- grate with his discoveries. He thinks they belong to Italy. But that country, unfortunately, does not seem to be in the active intellectual condition neces- sary to appreciate at his true worth a man of Marini's capacity.
 At one time it looked-that was In 1871-as if Italy were going to recognize his merit The Minister of Public h. struction created a commission to in- Vestigate his work, but nothing came of it except some flattering testimonials.
 In some places Marini has been de- nounced as a sOrcerer and a devil-a man who used the black arts of the al- chemist of former days, spending his time in trying to extract from dead bodies the elixir of life. Others look upon him as a crank. Marini himself has often become discouraged He saiu recently to Ferrara, signing. his white head bowed with grief:
 Relieve me, my dear sir, believe me, I shall finish by throwing everything into the sea.
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the Marini process would have been

the Marini process would have been very great.
 NeIaton, the physician of Napoleon III, by order of the Emperor investi- gated the Marini discoveries.
 Nelaton gave the Neapolitan two bodies to preserve, and this he did in 1S6S One was that of an old man who had been mysteriOusly murdered. The body looks to-day as it did thirty years ago. Round the neck is still the furroN made by the rope used to drag the vic tim along the street to a spot remote from the place where he had met his end
 The woman is of the same criminal type. She also was the victim of an assassin. The identity of neither body was known at the time Marini subject ed them to his process, and they would never have been known had not the doctor of Naples arrested the processes of nature.
 The "life-like'' process may be applied to a body that has been dried up; the
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of petrifaction. He changes human body to the consistency of marble-eVen the sOftest portions of the flesh, even the blood.
 Perhaps the most remarkable achieve ment of Dr. Marini in 'marD4eizing' human body was when he petrified Cardinal GuilIaume Sanfelice in the short space of four, days
 AS he was during his life so is the cardinal In his death. The face re- minds one, by its serene sweetness, of the mystic faces which Fra Angelica had the secret of depicting. It pre- serves still the benign smile which made it so dear to the Neapolitans, when bending his handsome forehead with a gentle air he raised his hand to bless them. The expression mas some thing about it spiritual, ethereal which gives to the person of the late Cardinal the simple, pure look of the saints of old. The face has a look which makes one think that the dead priest was worn out with works of piety. which his ardent love for humanity made him accomplish, but still smiling, despite it. with holy peace.
 The preservation. of the Cardinal sug- gests that other great men may by the Marini process be handed down to pos terity. The process seems to make un- necessary the work of the sculptor. We can keep our heroes not in stone or plaster, but In the flesh
 Some such motive, in addition to their religious beliefs, doubtless influenced the ancient Egyptians when they made their mummies.
 But the process of Marini Is as far superior to anything the Egyptian ever dreamed of as is the ocean greyhound to an Erie Canal barge. This difference is very well demonstrated in Marini's little museum, which contains samples of the work of those who preceded him in his speciality.
 In his showcase are many fragments of Egyptian mummies. He has a foot which was mummified by nature and which was taken from a vault in the Cathedral of Venzone, where all the dead bodies are perfectly preserved be- cause of a species of little fungus which
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Body of a Child i'm Life=Like Preservation.
 Ernma

they show the bones very plainly; here they are only revealed by a slightly darker tint.
 One point that is noteworthy about the process is shown by this experi- ment. The hands of woman suffer ing from dropsy were "Marinized." " They kept their enlarged morbid char acteriStiCS.
 The value of the application of what may be termed the '1ife-like" process Is evident in medical jurisprudence. Bodies that are not identified may be preserved indefinitely. In case of a murder the corpse of the victim might be produced in court months after death to show the nature of the wounds. In Marinis collection he has a heart pierced by a dagger which looks as fresh as the day on which 1t beat for the last time. It is in such a condition that 1t might be handed to the jury in a murder trial for their examination.
 In the Guldensuppe murder case and in the Bridgeport mystery the value of
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|" HE return or our Vlctorlous
 squadron from Cuba created in New York a condition of affairs which requires a new reading of two homely saws to do it jus tice: "All roads lead to the BOwery, and Jack and his money are soon parted" tell the story. Equipped with an enforced accumulation of four or five months salary, the sailors of Sampsons and Schley's fleets were in full possession of that portion of the city dear to the blue jackets heart.
 From the hour when the first liberty boat touched the dock on the direct route to the Bowery, a new order of affairs have prevailed. It has been a dry and desOlate season there since the late war dragged so many good GUS toners away in haste. The Bowery, that famous stretch of coast upon which many a naval sailor has drifted to his own undOing, and whose every cobbIestone could give expert testimony in fights and frauds and midnight crimes was a summer resort in De- cember
 The news that the sailor heroes were coming home again caused wave or feverish activity throughout the BOW cry, stores were rented and hastily fitted LID with counter and shelves and avnerts with corkscrew or club were en- gagged, every preparation necessary to the turing of the sailors dollar was made. Then a stiffness settled over the famous street. It was the calm before the storm.
 When a warship was paid off at the expiration of a cruise, York street and its tributaries fairly swarmed with thugs. decoys and land sharks. Thefts and badgering became so frequent that finally more than one captain arranged to have his crew taken from the yard to New York City on Government tug But this was a wasted precau- ton. In those days the brutal high way robbery of the navy-yard's envi- comments compared with the more sub tie thieVery of the Bowery as lead pipe does with a jeweled dagger. JACK was ashore to be robbed, and he seldom escaped his destiny
 In 1883 the corvette NipStc reached the Brooklyn yard from long cruise on the European station. In her crew was a seaman who had managed to gain the rating of chief quartermaSter by strict attention to duty. His pay was $35 a month, and he contrived to save S3O. On previous cruises he had been a spendthrift and a fourth class man" of the worst description, and this change of attitude surprised his ship mates Whats up with Bill?" they asked. Hes either getting nutty or else some widdy's got him In tow. He wouldn't draw any monthly money last time, and the pay clerk almost turned fit Bill will be in the asylum at Washington before long,"
 But Bill" continued to save and also to add to his income by making caps and fine mastering shirts for the less thrifty members of the crew. When the Nipsic was paid off the chief quarter
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From a photograph.

1 described to me the bodies so treated ] come from pr. Marini's hands as if ! asleep, or in a condition of temporarily | suspended animation.
 ''Well-knOWn Italians dead within the ! last decade-like Benedetto Carroll and 1 Sanfelice-have been thus 'stereotyped, 1 so to say, for posterity and become to 1 the anatOmist, the anthropolOgist and | the medical jurist an object lesson in 1 the prosecution of their respective in ! terests.
 1 pr Marini has been sustained in his l lifelong work by the sympathetic en- ! coura6ement of surgeons like Nelaton ! and BIllrOth. and of anatomistS like l Richard Owen and Sappey" | This man robs death of one of its 1 worst terrors. In treating dead body he is no longer a scientist but an artist. His marvellous touch makes death b | serene repose, which preserves all the graces all the beauty of life T shall never forget" writes Signol Ferrara, the beautiful picture made by little girl put to sleep (exCuse the ex- pression) by Marini. Fran and pale with her brown ringlets clustering over her forehead, her childish freshness pre- served, little Marie-Which was the name or the baby-seems still, after so many years, to be neStling in the gilded dreams of cherubim of the same age
 She is in one of those naive poses which | D.
 Many other dead people sleep peace sably Tn the joyous spIendor of Poggio-
 rea4e, the cemetery of Naples em-
 banned In the same way. There is
 Mime. Sazzaro Cipriani, whose body at this moment has the look of an anae-
 mic dreaming. It was not embalmed py M. Marinf until twenty days after
 her death."
 Bodies preserved in this fashion nave nothing about them suggestive of death. The first impression one has on seeing one is that something magical
 and superhuman has occurred This one or the three processes is that of which MarInt is most proud
 Ills process keeps the bodies perma- nently fresh, sweet and supple Ther. is no trace of the rigidity of death They look as if they had been hypno-
 tlzed or were asleep. One expects them
 to move at any moment.
 The hands are as soft and fexibIe as
 II life were present; the flesh yields to the touch. Veins, arteries, muscles nerves, tendons, form, volume-au are
 so natural that the absence of life is
 startling.
 When you lift the hand of a Marin 1zed person and hold it against the light 1t Is seen to be of a transparent pink. In the case of a woman all the
 delicate tints are there changing in depth until the nails are reached. The skin has the softness of that of a little child, and instead of suggesting a
 deathbed or tomb the human clay aWakes feelings of sympathy.
 Signor Ferrara says that in looking at the foot of a woman that had been
 "Marinized" he saw that 1t had the Whiteness of marble. Instead of think ing of the grave his thoughts dwelt upon It's beauty, and he wondered how often that foot had whirled in the rhythmic waltz and how many men had admired the ankle when they saw if peeping out of a dainty shoe
 Placed under the Roentgen rays bodies preserved in this manner are completely transparent When living bodies are subjected to the fluoroscope
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 Naples has found out the way to
 make the human body immor-
 tal-not the live body, but the
 body after the soul has flown. Hi. process preserves it, it is believed, for thousands of years and during that period it undergoes no change in ap- pearance or in it's tissues.
 To all intents and purposes the dead is in precisely the same condition as he was in one second after death. All that Is lacking is the vital spark to en- able him to get up and resume life where he left off.
 The simple truths related here sound like a romance. Jules Verne in his widest moments never created any thing that seemed more like dream But the facts are vouched for by emi- nent scientists, and the Naples phy- sician. who for forty years has fought against decomposition, is shown to have absolutely triumphed.
 The London Lancet, which is the ac- knowledged exponent of things medical in the British Isles, and which looks with a cynical eye upon any one who has a novelty to propound, Vouches for pr Marini as the following extract from the pages of it's issue of August 20 shows:
 "Once and again the Lancet has drawn attention to the ingenuity shown by Italian surgeons in minimizing the dead subject from decomposition, and the theme has acquired fresh interest from it's recent handling by Slgnor Lu- igi Ferrara.
 .'Throughout Italy, whether in its anatomical museums or in the family vaults of it's cemeteries, wonderful specimens of such successful immunlZa- ton are to be seen, but none of these can approach the perfection attained by pr. EfstO Marini in process which may well be called national
 For forty years that Neapolitan sur geon has striven to improve on the methods hitherto in practice, and his results, as known to the profession, throw all previous successes into the shade. Without incisiOn'-sO 1 am in forned-'without injections, simply with a series of baths. he has succeed ed in preserving the human subject from all risk of decomposition what ever
 His modus operandi consists of three T. Provisional desi~cation (preserva- tiOn applied to the corium in its transi- tion period). Bodies so prepared and immersed in liquid of his own devis ing may regain their primary freshness and be thereafter subjected to ana tonical operations or demonstrations like the ordinary cadaver of the dis secting room.
 "2 Fertilization of the body so pre- pared-a process which, in pr. Marini s hands, is so effective that the density as well as the consistency of marble is attained insomuch that a few hours after the completion of this stage key brought in sharp contact with the sur face elicits a true metallic ring from the body.
 ''3. The restoration to this desiccated and petrified subject of the freshness, the softness, the hexibility and even the complexion of the natural state. AS
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. HE return of our victorious squadron from Cuba created in New York a condition of affairs which requires a new reading of two homely saws to do it jus
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 lated Eurnno
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-18
HARLAN 7. HALSEY.

The funeral Of Harlan p Halsey, who was known
among readers Of "yellow-covered" literature as
"Old seu.h" Will be held at his home, NO. III Nc
Donough-st this afternoon al o'clock Inc REV.
A. J r BeArende. o. the Central Congregational
Church VIII conduct the service. The burial VIII
Be IN Evergreens Cemetery.
Nj Halsey was one OF the organizers OF the
Hamilton Trust Company, az well as or the h4hss
County Trust Company. He had hoped 10 es'aO-
Nsh printing Office which should be unique In its
way but this scheme was never accomplished. MI
Talsev WAS born in New-YOrk sixty-one years ago,
and had always been resident OF thai city ana
BROOKLYN widow. who is the president OF the
Colonial Daughte g Of the Seventeenth Century TWO
sons ane one daughter survive him. From ls> 20
1895 he served as a member Of the Board OF huuca-
ton IN which time he was particularly interested
IN night schools anc dra wing classes
From his youth Mr.. Halsey was nuen' writer
AS boy he was employed with Frank Leshe
Magazine" and when only sixteen years 9id ha h
written a novel Of three hundred pages WhlCn n
published at his expense ne doom =" ilc Il
Hrs, gained him the TILE OF 'Od sleutn "ds
founded on the Charlie Ross kidnapping case, .,o
He was n remarkably fast writer ana SOM tliiles
was known to write story ~ Gay, ~ I'd Sea
years he was IN the habit Of debating his stories
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