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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
WHY MEN BECOME DRUNK.
Philosophy of Inebriety Considered by
Learned Writer.
Nm YnrL E,roninr Pnst

New York Evening Post.
A paper Just published by Sir Lauder
Brunton and DR.. Zunnicfiffe upon Certain
Apparently Injurious Constituents of Pota-
BILE Spirits" goes a long way toward ex
planning the reason for the various physio-
logical symptoms arising from overindul-
gence in alcoholic liquors, particularly of
whisky. Their researches show that, while
intoxication is undoubtedly caused by the
ethyl alcohol in the liquor, the actual way
in which inebriates get drunk, or get sober
after being drunk. depends on the quality
of the liquor partaken of. and that this
quality is positively impurity called fur
fural," which the whisky contains. The
sources of furfural in the manufacture of
whisky is a class of substance known as
pentosans; these are derived from the ceIlu
lose of the grain husks, and under the in
fiuence of that. in the presence of acids.
are. in the wash still, converted into fur
fural.
This furfural in the body tends to pass
into its corresponding acid thus diminish
ing the akalinity of the blood. which, ac-
cording TO most physicians, favors the oc-
currence of equity deposits in the joints
The physiological action of pure furfural
on animals ana man was studied and led
TO interesting results. 1t gives rise. il ap-
pears, TO paralysis of the voluntary mus
Cles and To clonic and tonic commissions.
The odd point. however. about these
symptoms is their transient nature: i'm
mediately after the injection OF the drug
the animal would fall completely par
alyzed. commissions would ensue. and the
animal would then become rapidly normal.
The human subjects who were brave
enough 10 take this active poison in the
same dose suffered from throbbing head
aches, which lasted for a day This result
leads TO the most interesting point of the
research 1t will probably be generally adj
mftted that the cOmmonest results of too
free rotations on the human subject is a
bad. thrObbing headache. and this head
ache appears TO be directly caused by the
furfural impurity OF the liquor.
The reason that old whisky Is less liable
To cause headache than new is that ma
duration can also be obtained by distilling
the fresh spirit with phenyl-hydrazine-
sulphOnate. BY this means the authors
were able 10 obtain the effect of IL upon
animals comparing IL with that of the
same spirit before distillation. They found
that in the case OF the original spirit
drunkenness was entirely absent and on
becoming sober the animal appeared per-
fectly normal. and took food with relish
CuriOusly all 'pick-me-ups." such as cit
rate OF caffeine. are just such substances
neutralize furfuraL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

people of characteristics like these could
ban on moral grounds the free informing
ling of the sexes. properly and tastefully
clothed, in sea bathing, is more than one
can even guess. 1t is surely nothing but
prejudice and the Englishman's adherence
of change that are involved in this ques-
ton. He would have men and women battle
separately for the same reason that the
sexes are still separated in so many
churches over here, viz, because so it has
been from time immemorial.
But whatever the reason for it. this GUS
tom of separate bathing still remains at
almost every watering place, and the result
is that bathing is not popular, and with
those who undertake it it is so formal and
so purely a soap and suds matter that there
is no attraction in it for either the victims
or spectators. What in our country is a
scene of gayety and frolic and laughter is
bering bathing machines, drawn out into
the water by horses, one might easily i'm
agine to be impromptu funeral carts car
rying their lonely occupants to watery
graves. 1t has been said of the English
that they take their pleasures sadly. Ger
tainly they take their bathing sadly. Ev-
eryLn1nS ABOUT IL Is SOnDer and dampen-
ing. True is it that If the law does not
allow you to battle in the company of the
fair sex it does permit that you may walk
along the shore and reverently gaze from a
distance. But nobody does this-nobody
cares to take any interest because there Is
almost uniformly the bather's part a
total Indifference to everything but just
getting as wet and loking as bedraggled as
possible. No care beyond this for appear
ances and no pretty notions, no bits of in
viting color in the dress. This on the wom-
ans side, while on the mems the dress,
consisting only of an Adams apron, is
quite too small matter to speak of
ENGLISH EXCLUSIVENESS
1t may possibly be that the Englishman's
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

Frohmanns, Hammersteins and AL Hay
mans have the last word.
OF course the graceful and clever Reich
emberg says it was all a mistake; the
bundle that should have contained only her
own nighties, petticoats, handkerchefs,
stockings and lingerie generally having
been made up by a green maid who didn't
know anything about the awful exclusive
ness of the Comedies washtubs, but the
director claims that mistakes" of this
sort are happening right along, and, in
deed, threaten to swamp his treasury 1.-THE
laundry privilege is shamefully abused in
all the theaters," he says, and we, in par
ticular, are washing enough infants thing.
to keep small-sized orphan asylum 60
ing"
And this recalls the strange and almost
forgotten fact that the better class of Paris
playhouses furnish their actors and act
resses not only with stage clothes-things
that are seen as we'll as those unseen-but
and repairing them. Indeed some theaters
go so far as to provide their actors with
fine clothes to cut dash in public
THE ENDOWED THEATER.
This is particularly true of the endowed
ique. and others, among which the French
republics subsidy of $500 900 per year for
the purpose of "cultivating classical pro-
auctions of music and literature" is di-
vided. AS a matter of fact almost the en-
tire subsidy goes into the pockets of manu-
facturers of silks, satins, linens and dress
goods of man milliners, tailors and wash
erwomen.
You will probably remember NJ lie Bar
gy, the dandy of our Coincide Franchise,
lecturing Chicago on the art of dressing
well. Talk is easy with him, for since he
became connected with the house of Mo-
liere the gentleman never bought as much
a tie with his own money Pardon. he
may have bought himself dressing sack
or a nightcap; everything else that he or
his colleagues, known or unknown. may
want in the way of garments is supplied by
the manager. Think of it, the elder Coque-
lin and the younger, the great Got and
Paul Mounet. Lambert fills and the rest of
the celebrities-all apply to the director
when they want change OF clothes, with
this restriction only: The requisition must
call for promenade, visiting or evening
dress. But then you can easily smuggle in
a loungng suit or two under these heads.
Is il TO be wondered at that Coquelin has
saved NJ a snug million and that all his
elder confreres are worth considerable
Milers and Hacketts could all afford sea-
going yachts. doubt, if their managers
were as liberal.
This happy state of affairs was born. sew
eral hundred years ago. by the Kings de-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15

attachment to his present methods of
bathing is simply one of the many out
growths of his proverbial exclusiveness.
In that beautiful resort on the southern
coast, where this writer spent three happy
weeks, there was a floating population of
about 10000, and a resident population of
twice that many. The latter are mostly
people of means, who can afford to keep
up good houses. But in the smooth wind
ing roads, back from the two miles of
sea front. one could hardly tell what the
houses were like, so lofty and impenetra-
BILE were the Enclosures in which they stood.
This is decidedly walled town. Every
body has fenced himself in against
everybody else, and in this feature
the place is only an exaggerated type
of what one sees everywhere in this coun-
try. Whether in city or village, the En-
glishman builds his house and lays out his
beautiful garden, and then, by high brick
or stone wall or by a thick and towering
wooded hedge, he proceeds to wrap about
his possessions the garment of exclusive
ness. What the Englishman owns is his,
mind you and even the enjoyment of seeing
it is not for others excepting as a con-
descension. Who that's ever been in Eng
land will not admit this as a national char
acteristic and a curious fancy with me,
when I've seen these people drawn out In
a numbering chariot which for the present
was all their own, thence emerging to dis
port themselves in a little bit of the ocean
which also for the present was all their
own, has been that there was an express
sion of this national characteristic even in
so small a matter as the way in which the
Englishman takes his sea-bath.
But if the bathing has lacked in attrac-
tiveness there have been plenty of other
attractions to make up for it. The swim
ming contests for women at the corporation
baths were decidedly taking event So
was the annual regatta and the quarter
mile ocean swimming for the championship
of England. Every week there was an il
Illuminated promenade concert in a large
garden which lent itself admirably to
Illuminating purposes, and at these you
saw not only the English skill in devisinC
and arranging colored lights and the pref
test effects in Chinese lanterns. but the
feminine English passion for decorative
dress and the captivating effects il pro-
duced in the prevailing runs and frills and
streamers and general gauziness and soft
ness. Withal. too, one thanked his lucky
stars every hour. by day and night. that
everything could be enjoyed in the English
rather than the American type of weather
on the south coast. yet no heat that even
approached the sweltering conditions of a
hot day at Long Branch or Martha's Vine
yard. Eighty in the shade exceptionally
CONTINUED ON PAGE IA. COL. %
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The Women Paddle About in Short
Skirts and Bare Feet in Water
Not More Than Six Inches Deep.
NO MINGLING OF THE SEXES
A NATION THAT TAKES ITS BATHING
WITH EXTREME SADNESS.
English Watering Places Are Not
without Attractions, Some of
Which Are Here Enumerated.
Of the Indianapolis Journal.

Correspondence Of the Indianapolis Journal.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-There is no account
ing for tastes, but after two weeks OBJ
servation of sea bathing as the English do
it, my taste inclines decidedly, upon both
moral and aesthetic grounds, to the way in
which Americans do it, What first strikes
one at an English watering place is that
the real article of sea bathing has relative
,ly so few devotees. English people flock to
the seashOre in great multitudes, but into
the sea itself for a genuine wrestle with
the swells of old ocean they go very
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
one of the Benefits Derived by Stage
People from Connection with
an Endowed Theater.
AN UNOFFICIAL NIGHTGOwN
BABY'S GARMENT IN THE WASH
SHOWS HOW PRIVILEGE is ABUSED.
What Managers Do with the Vast
Theatrical Wardrobe Owned by
RepubIic-StRge Fashions.
of the Indianapolis Journal

Correspondence OF the IndlanapoIls JOurndI.
PARIS, Sept. 4.-The director of the
Coincide Franchise found a baby s
''nightie' in the wash bundle of Mile.
Reichemberg, leading ingenue of the first
theater in the world, and the circumstance.
trif1ing as it is, may lead to the abolition
of one Of the most popular customs of the
Paris stage. The managers are talking of
doing away with the free laundry privi-
lege for actors and actresses Hereafter
only the chorus is going to get its clothes
washed free gratis and for nothing if our
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
SERIES CT SERMONS
Rev. Mcknight Discussing the Life of
Saint Paul

Rev. ]. P. Mcknight, of the Chris
tian church, is delivering series of
Sunday morning sermons on the life
of Saint Paul. The discourses are in
teresting and are attracting the at
tention of many outside his congre-
cation. Sunday he discussed Paul as
the Apostle and delivered an excel
lent address. The subjects mapped
out for the future are as follows:
Feb. 8 Paul the Missionary.
Feb. 10 Spiritual Development of
Paul.
Feb. II Cardinal Points in the
Teaching OF Paul.
Feb. "a A Missionary Rally.
In the Sunday evening services he
is discussing another subject, the fu-
ture announcements being:
Feb. Samson, or the Dangers of
Dalliance.
Feb. 10 Belshazzar, or the Dan
gers of Revelry:
Feb. II PLATE, or the Dangers Of
Cowardice.
Feb. "a Felix, or the Dangers of
Delay.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
Coming Musical Event

For several years past it has been
the custom of the Athletic Associa-
ton of Penn College to present to
Oskaloosa people winter entertain
ment, and this.year will be no ex-
ception.
On Tuesday evening, February IL,
Sehmitt's lConcert Orchestra, with
Mr.. JohnlW. Caste as director, and
Mr.. Frank H. Tousley as trombone
soloist, will appear at Penn College
Chapel in grand concert. The or
ganization is also accompanied by a
reader.
Mr.. Casio has achieved much sue
cess as popular composer and his
compositions have been received
with favorable comment by such au-
thorities as Theodore Dresser, editor
of the L''Etude" and John Philip
Sousa. His march "Hellene," intro
duced here Oct. 18th last by the Bos-
ton Ladies Symphony Orchestra, is
now being played by that organiza-
ton with success. Among the pop
ular numbers ofithe coming concert
will be rendered his latest march,
"The Rehearsal. -
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
CURRENT EVENTS.

Nineteen Dowie lace makers were per-
mitted to land at Boston.
Thieves robbed the county treasurer's
office at Joliet, ILL.,, of S513
A Wisconsin Judge declared the use of
cigarettes good ground for a divorce.
The queens death has changed the
plans for opening OF the Canadian par
lament.
The Illinois Central road has added
s6,OO0,0O0 to its capital stock for new
equipment
w. ]. Allen, United States judge for the
northern district of Illinois, died at Hot
Springs, Ark.
Railroads reduced east-bound rates on
-four and provisions for export because
of rate-cutting.
The death OF Queen Victoria will change
the center of the dominating force among
the great powers of Europe.
Curtis l.. Crane, of Erookline, Mass,
was killed while boxing with GeorgetR.
Ainsworth, his chum, at Harvard.
The procedure at the accession of Ed
ward VII. was conducted according to in
structions prepared by Queen Victoria.
An explosion of molten copper at the
works of the Baltimore Copper Melting
and Rolling company resulted in fatal in
jury to Charles Murkey Patrick Downey,
Timothy Chisham and Frank Martin.
Sheriff James Summers, of Madison
county, Montana, was shot and killed
near Virginia City by John Woolf, IS
years old whom he was trying to arrest.
Two posses are hunting for Woolf, and
he may be lynched.
The Pittsburgh Telegraph is
authority for the denial of the story that
the Carnegie interests have acquired con-
troll of the Pressed Steel Car company.
The two companies, 1t says, however,
work closely together.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
REASSURING DISPATCH.
vasion of Cape Colony Has
Done Little Harm.

London, Jan. Pa dispatch re-
ceiyed from the war Office from Gen.
Kitchener, dated Pretoria, January
"a, mentions uuimportant contacts
with Belarey's and Haasbroek's COM
mands, that a score of Beers have
been captured and that Gen. Methuen
has cleared Griqualand and Kuru-
man. The invaders have done little
harm in Cape Colony. They have not
been Joined by the inhabitants, with
whom they are daily becoming more
unpopular.
Cape Town, Jan. 26.--Assemblyman
Lotter and his son have been arrested
and jailed at Uitenhage, charged vita
aiding the Beers. 1t is alleged that
dynamite was found in Mr.. Lotter's
house.
Pretoria, Thursday, Jan. a.
Wednesday a train, with Lord Kitch-
ener and body Of troops, proceeded
toward Middelburg. an armored pilot
engine preceding. 1t was derailed by
dynamite near Balmoral. The Beers,
who were in force. opened Ere and the
British replied. Ultimately the Beers
were driven off. The British sustained
no casualties.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
PLEASES MISSIONARIES.
Government Is In No Way OPP
posed to Them.

Picking, Jan. 24.-The foreign min
listers have sent a note to the Chinese
plenipotentiaries ON the lines previ-
ously stated.
Upon receipt of the dispatch an
nouncing the death of Queen Victoria
the meeting of ministers then in ses-
sion Immediately adjourned.
Prince Ching yesterday assured q
committee of missionaries that there
was no intention or desire on the part
of the Chinese government to place
restrictions upon the missions, and
that the government itself never had
in the past any objections to the mis-
sionaries or to their methods. The
missionaries are greatly pleased with
Prince Ching's frankly expressed as
surance.
Paris, Jan. pa Havas Agency dis
patch from Shanghai says the diplo-
mats have decided unanimously to no.
tify the Chinese plenipotentiaries that
the military arrangements of the pow
ers depend on the promptitude with
which China executes her engagements.
They will also demand that the death
penalty be imposed on four Chinese
functionaries, including Chousang
Wing Men (?}. posthumous death
penalty will also be demanded for
Prince Kang Vi assistant grand Sec
rotary and president of the civil board,
who committed suicide). They will
finally ask that the death penalty be
decreed in the case of Gen. Tung Fuh
Slang, and that it be carried out when
he is CAPTURED.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
$Ioo Reward, 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrah being constitution
al disease, requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there.
by destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patier strength by
building up the constitution and assist
nature TO do its own work. The propri-
etors have so much faith in its curative
powers. that t!ley offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure
Send for list of Testimonials.
Address, F. ]. CHENEY eco.
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Halls FAMILY PITS are the best.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
Her AssaiIants Fined.

Abilene, Kan, Jan. 26.--All Mrs. Ma
tons assailants at Enterprise were
tried, found guilty and fined one dol
lar each. The joints reopened and did
big business. Injunction suits were
begun against eight jointists of the
county to close their places. The own
ers of the buildings are included in the
action. The county temperance union
has begun crusade to close all joints
in the county.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
A FINE TALK.


The January open meeting OF the
Woman's Club was held in the Bap-
tist church Friday evening, and a
fine address was delivered by Rev. j..
O. w. Coke, of Washington, Iowa.
The audience room of the church
was well filed with members and
friends, and all enjoyed the occasion
thoroughly. The entertainment was
under the auspices of the Literature
department of the club, of which
Miss Mae j. Evans is chairman.
During the winter this department
of the club has been studying the
Bible, and this was the theme upon
which Mr.. Coke based his scholarly
address. He termed it the book of
all books and illustrated that while
other books have been written, have
become popular and have been pre-
served, only few survive hundred
years, and rarely one more than p
century. The Bible, however, pre-
serves the history of the human race
for thirty centuries and grows more
sacred and popular with each sue
ceeding year. The more it is crit
icised the firmer it becomes rooted
in the hearts of its admirers.
Throughout, his talk was filled with
firm facts and beautiful word pic
lures, and the address was one of the
best of the kind ever heard in the
city.
The musical program of the even-
ing was made up of selections from
the Messiah" by part of the Han
del Chorus, Prof. Burnett taking the
solo parts and Mrs. Belle Ray pre-
siding at the piano.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
Many ADOPT Curfew Law.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 26.-The an
nual meeting of the national executive
committee of the Boys and Girls Ma
tionai Home and Employment associa.
ton was held at the Denison. hotel Fri
day. 1t was decided that the next ma
tional convention will be held at Wash
ington, ID. c., in December. Reports
were received from superintendent Of
many states, all showing large increase
in the number of cities that have adopt
ed curfew law. Arkansas reported SO,
Washington SO, and California 25 cities
and towns.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
An Inquiry

Mayor Wray is in receipt of COM
munication from Carlton Place, On
tario, Canada signed by one J. Clarke
Knox lnquiring concerning the rela-
tives of the late John Knox of this
city, The lettersstates that the writer
thinks theIold man is the brother of
his grandfather. The brothers were
separated in youth and nothing was
ever heard of John, who would be
about SO years of age according to
his wayI of figuring. j. Clarke in
quires concerning the size of the
estate andTpossible heirs.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
kecOn sidered

A Topeka man lost small opal sci
out of his ring and went to the jeweler
to have it replaced. Returning home he
found the lost set and, putting it in his
mouth for safe keeping, hurried back to
the jewelers. to have that set used in.
stead of the new opal. Rushing into the
store he said: Say, I've found the old
set so don't use that new one" He at
tempted to remove the stone from his
mouth, gave gulp, looked sheepsh, and
said: Il guess you'll have to use the new
stone"
That man needed bottle of DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin. Sold by Weldon
Campbell & Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
Brought Good Fortune

A small item in his own paper lately
brought amazing good fortune to Editor
Chris. Reitter, of the Saginaw (Mich)
Post and Zeitung. He and his family
had the grippe in its worst form. Their
doctor did them no good. Then he read
that DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds was a
guaranteed cure for La Grippe and all
Throat and Lung Troubles; tried it and
says: Three bottles cured the whole
family. No other medicine on earth
equals it" Only soc and SIoo at the
Green & Bentley Drug Co. Trial bottles
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-01-31
A Deep lIysIery

1t is a mystery why women endure
Backache Headache, Nervousness,
SleeplesSness, Melancholy. Painting and
Dizzy Spells when thousands have PROV
ed that Electric Bitters will quickly cure
such troubles II suffered for years with
kidney trouble" writes Mrs Phebe
Cherley of Peterson. Ia; "and lame
back panied me so ! could not dress my
self, but Electric Bitters wholly cured
me, and, though "a years old, | now
am able to do all my housework." 1t
overcomes Constipation, improves APP
petite, gives perfe>t Health. Only soc
at the Green & Bentley Drug Co.