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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15
EGYPTIAN
Their BonestGround Up to Make Paint
Tor the Artist.

VIEW 1OIh IISHSs
One of the lmost curious Of the many
paints used byfartists in portrait painting is
one Of q rich Brown hue, known as mum
N.Y." which is actually made from the bones
of Egyptian r4ummies ground up with the
bitumen with (which the ancient Egyptians
embalmed the4 dead. The paint has been in
use for more than fifty years in England,
and in this cnuntry for more than thirty
yeaCs, according TO one of the managers of
the Devoe-Reyslolds Paint Company. As the
artist buys it an tubes, ready for use, IL is
not expensiveS costing only about as much
as ordinary white paint. By weight, how
ever. it is fairly expensive, for 1T costs be-
tween 81 and 8 a pound, as against 20 cents
for white.
The foundation for mummy paint comes to
this country ~ the form of roughly pow
dered bones, a which pieces Of the linen
wrappings frequently are found. These
wrappings aresseparated from the bone by
a mechanical I$ocesS, and then the particles
are ground in Sill and put in tubes ready for
the painters ese. In England the color is
much used by bCrtrait painters in depicting
brown hair, b9t in this country it is used
comparatively aittle. An idea may be gath
cred Of how Mtle of it Is used when 1t Is
stated that onf mummy makes a supply or
paint sufficient to last four or five years.
Mummy paiIst has attracted considerable
attention to itfelf recently by the fact that
the Egyptian government no longer permits
the exportatioa of mummies. A few years
ago a good specimen could be bought for
SIS, but nowadays they bring $50. To make
paint of the required body the mummy
must be from 1000 to 5000 years old. for 1t
was In that period that the art of embalm-
ing reached its highest state of perfection.
AS ii is estimated that as many as 73o. 100000
bodies were ensbalmed in Egypt there would
seem to be no Immediate danger of exhaust
ing the supply of materials for this paint.
Embalming was practfced by the Egyp-
tians 1000 yeats before Christ, and in the
case of personages the embalmers frequent
ly worked for two or three months prepar-
ing the body far burial. After the body was
prepared it was wrapped in hundreds of
yards of linen cloths and then placed in two
wooden shellss the inner one being highly
ornamented. tie outer a plain cedar shell.
So we'll was this done that the feet of many
of the mummies exhumed at the present day
are still soft and pliable to the touch. The
art derived its origin from the belief that
the preservation Of the body was necessary
for the return Of the soul to the human form
after it had completed its cycle of existence
of three thousand or ten thousand years. In
the fifteenth AID sixteenth centuries num-
mics were usets for drugs and other medical
purposes. The first Egyptian mummy was
taken TO England in 1722 by Capt. William
Lethieuller. TIE Metropolitan Museum OF
Art has severa1 excellent specimens.
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PRONUNCIATION IN ENGLAND.
A Few Reasons Why a Stranger Over
There Should Take to the Woods.
Tit-BitS

We usually laugh at the foreigners eff
forts to master the pronunciation of our
mother tongue, but most Of US are not with
out doubt when we come TO pronounce GER
tain proper nouns. Any number of sur
names and geographical names receive as
many as four different renderings, and it is
quite possible to persuade any one that
his or her way is not the correct one. Some
surnames: are so maltreated as to be quite
unacceptable from the spelling. No won
der the average individual finds an Eng
lish dictionary Indispensable.
Probably the most remarkable quartet
are COlouhoun, Marjoribanks, Cholmonde-
ley and Ragehot. They look much less i'm
pressive when spelled as pronounced-Co-
hoon, Marshbanks, Chumley and Ballot.
Phonetic spelling d~eprives many names of
their terrors. That awful name Geoghegan
would become simply Gagan; Ruthven
would be Riven, and Cockburn Koburn.
Some people are much annoyed If they
are not addressed in their own special way.
Mr.. st. John likes to be called Sinjin. but as
saying Saint John. Anstruther is doubt
full. but often shortens into Anster. The
Macs" also are very susceptible regarding
their surnames. IL you want TO be friends
with Mcleod and Maclean. call them Max
loud and Maklane, and IL you have inten-
tons Regarding Mr.. Stranchan's daughter.
chances. but Strawn. Following these good
intentions, you must address Beauclerk as
Beauclare and Beauvoir as Beever.
In case you ever move in ambassadorial
circles or make friends on the Riviera,
don't forget the Baron de ~Longueville is
called Loleveal. NJ. st. Cyr will answer
you il You say Sanseer, and Strous would
be a good rendering OF the name of the
eminent composer of waltzes. Markyar-
velee will be as near as you can get to
Machiavelli. but possibly you may be able
to avoid this distinguished parsonage.
A couple of Saints are rather puzzling.
st. Clark should be rendered Sinclair, and
II you woald win a smile of approval, pro-
nounce st. Leger Sellinger or Selleger.
There is no need 10 look up Beauchamp:
IL is merely a playful rendering Of the ia
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MUST FOLLOW RECORDS.
Pension Commissioner OverruIed by
Assistant Secretary Miller.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-Assistant Sec
rotary Miller, Of the Interior Department,
has overruled the decision OF the commits
sioner OF pensions in the case OF Thomas
j. Norman. a Georgia volunteer in the
Mexican war, whose claim for pension was
rejected by the Pension Bureau on the
ground that Norman had been dishonorably
discharged and that subsequent legislation
does not operate to change the above
statute"
Congress-, on Feb. IS. 1903, directed the
secretary Of war to correct Norman's mil
itary record and grant him an honorable
discharge. The secretary OF war granted
the discharge and certified the fact TO the
commissioners of pensions. Mr.. Miller holds
that IL Is beyond the province OF the COM
missioner Of pensions or of the secretary Of
the interior to call into question the consti-
t~utionality OF an act Of Congress, and that
there was really no constitutional point In
volved. The department holds that the
commissioner OF pensions has to follow the
records OF the Wa Department, and must
accept her records as corrected by Con-
gress and adjudicate the claim accordingly.
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DRUGS BY
Osmosis, a New Method of Getting
Medicines Into Human System.

New York Press.
For a great many years investigators
in medical science have been trying to de-
wise some means of administering drugs
other than to have the patient swallow
them. There are many medicines so power
full as to destroy the efficiency Of the stom-
ach while they are curing some ailment in
the system. 1t is merely a question of get
ting the remedy into the blood, but before
the drug is assimilatd and capable Of per-
forming it's healing function 1t works havoc
with the digestive organs.
This is especially true Of rheumatism, one
of the common remedies for which is sa-
licylc acid. is regarded as a
local expression of a general condition, and
for this reason most physicians have adj
ministered the drugs through the stomach.
Persons who have had a protracted siege
with the malady have emerged from tin
case a cure is effected-hampered ever
afterward by a weak stomach.
Osmosis, a new method by which drugs
will be administered by means of electricity
to the part affected. is looked to BY medical
experts as means of obviating most of the
difficulties Of old practice. 1t will not be
used except In the case Of powerful drugs,
the employment of which would mean in
jury to the digestive organs. 1t has an
other advantage over aking medicine
drought the mouth. By the old method
1t is impossible to tell how much of the
former doses have been absorbed. Some
times they remain In the stomach unas-
simulated and the full effect of several doses
is felt all at once. BY osmosis the doses
| can be regulated to the most minute de-
gree.
1t is simply medical electrolysis. and by
| means of the current the drug is intro
| duced Immediately and accurately into the
blood, and the part to be treated receives
| the first benefit.
If it is a disease produced by a general
condition this method is fully as effective
as the old. 1t is even better where a
| special part is to be treated. There is no
| conjecture as 10 the length of time ii will
take for the dose to be absorbed. 1t is
absorbed the minute the current Is turned
on and the patient may be given another
dose at a stated interval.
Many efforts have been made in the past
TO obviate taking drugs through the mouth.
absorbed by the epidermic method, which
consists merely in rubbing them on the
skin. But many other medicines could not
be given in this way. 1t was found that
lanolin. sleeps wool fat. has properties of
carrying a drug through the skin, and
certain iodideS were mixed with Ii, rubbed
on the skin and thus introduced into the
blood.
Then there was an endermic method
which e~ntailed raising a blister, breaking
ii and rubbing the drug in the form of a
powder on the raw underskin. The hypo-
| dermic method was tried. This was found
unsatisfactory because il required an ex-
pert at all times to administer the dose
properly and because there was a danger
of Infection under certain conditions.
With the new method OF osmosis drugs
| that cannot be taken into the stomach
without harm can be introduced In the
| blood directly without difficulty or danger.
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PIE PLEA OF INSANITY,
Cases Should Be Well Tested in Order
to Prevent Fraud.
Washington Star.

1T seems to be fashionable to plead in
sanity in cases where the accused is charged
with crime for the first time" observed an
official OF a penal institution, land it is
about time that the courts and turies were
paying but little attention to such pleas. In
a case where it is known that a man was
insane at the time the crime charged was
committed the prosecuting attorney is
usually more than willing to have the mans
mental condition determined in advance of
trial, ano when such action is not taken
there is seldom but little to warrant such a
plea being made.
I'm some cases. he continued. s'amusing
features have developed. People to whom
no suspicion of insanity was ever attached
become suddenly insane when they get in
prison, and their queer conduct sometimes
ends about as suddenly as 1t started. Charge
a mar OF good reputation with crime and
he can sometimes feign insanity to order
at short notice. Others are not such apt
scholars and make themselves ridiculous.
only @ short time ago a prisoner in the
district JAN who feared a p~erftentiary SEN
his part well until a trap was set for him.
and then he was only too glad to let eyery-
body know he was not crazy. This man
procured the pictures OF a great many fe-
males and pasted them on the walls of his
cell. Then he paraded before them and an
nounced himself as Solomon, and pretended
ne imagined the pictures were his wives. He
would address them by name and spend
hours copversing with them. Several ef-
forts We're made to show he was sham
ming, and the officials had about con-
cluded he was really insane when it was
decided To make one more effort.
He was told that some information of
benefit to. him had been obtained, but his de-
votion to his many wives was of more value
to him than the Information. Then he was
told 1t was about time for him to come
down a peg and behave himself. When he
was told that he would be sent to the in
sane asylum for life and thai he could not
get out under any circumstances he be-
came suddenly sane and expressed a will
tngness to spend a term in prison instead.
In cases where insanity comes in such a
way it IS always well for the authorities
to put the people to a severe test, and. if
possible, bring about a settlement of the
question before the case reaches a jury"
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l.. s. & NJ. s. Bonds.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14-Debenture bonds
of the al Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad authorized last week to the extent
of $5O.0OO,oW have been taken under con-
tract, according to the Herald by j. p. Nor
gan e. Co. 1t is likely that a large block
will be taken abroad and the rest underwrit-
ten by a local syndicate. AT a special meet
ing of the Lake Shore directorate the plan
for marketing the bonds has been discussed
and approved. At the meeting held last
week a debenture bond issue of $4,000, 900,
bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent,
was authorized to care for the unfunded
debt of the company. The great bulk of
this debt was incurred by the purchase of a
half interest in the holdings of stocks in
other lines acquired by Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The
notes for this stock. aggregating $25,00o, 900,
mature in January.
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Then Agree to support IL After At
tempting to Abolish the ugar Diff
f~erentfaI by Amendment.
CAUCUS HELD LAST NIGHT
AT WHICH 1T VAS AGREED TO Of
FER AN AMENDMENT,
Also to Vote for Reciprocity i'm Case
Their Proposition Was Defeated
Pension Decision Overruied.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-After discuss
ing the Cuban reciprocity measure for
three hours IN caucus tonight, the Demo-
cratic members Of the House of Represent
atives agreed TO a resolution, by a vote of
50 TO Is, pledging themselves to support the
bill after efforts have been made to secure
its amendment abolishing the differential
on refined sugar and eliminating the five
year clause in the treaty. The opposition
to this action came from the members from
Louisiana, Texas and California. The
three Democratic members from the latter
State said they could not vote the measure
under any circumstances, but it is said.
although not officially stated, that the &C
ton of the caucus would be considered
binding.
The resolution adopted was presented by
Mr.. Williams, the minority floor leader.
Several Intellectual attempts were made to
amend it by the members representing the
sugar interests. No other subjects were
considered. The resolution is as follows:
Resolved. That 1T is the sense OF this
caucus that the minority floor leader be
instructed TO offer to the Cuban reciprocity
thereon IL possible, the following amend
strike from the bill the following Ian
kudkt, DcblluluB IL 1hlC ~ ohN NhAo
line 2. Page g: Provided that while said
convention is in force no sugar imported
from the Republic OF Cuba and being the
product Of the soil or industry or the Re-
public OF Cuba hall be admitted into the
United States at a reduction OF duty greater
than % per cent. OF the rates OF duty there
on. as provided by the tariff acts or the
United Statee, approved July "A, 1897, and
no sugar the product of any other foreign
country shall be admitted by treaty or con-
vention into the United States while this
convention Is in force at a lower rate OF
duty than that provided by the tariff act
of the United States approved July "A,
1891" And insert the following In lieu there
of: 'That upon the making Of said agree
ment and the issuance OF said proclamation
and while said agreement shall remain In
force there shall be levied, collected and
paid In lieu OF the dues thereon now pro-
vfded by law on all sugars above No. 10
Dutch standard in color and on all sugar
which has gone through a process or refining
imported into the United States l s25-lVvO
cents per pound
Resolved, further, that upon the adoption
or rejection of this amendment by the House
1t Is the sense OF this caucus that the
Democratic members of the House should
vote for the bill as q step In the direction
of free- and more m trade De-
tween the United States and Cuba.
Resolved, furthermore, that 1t Is the
sense of this caucus that II a rule shall De
brought into the House from the
on rules shutting of amendments 1t Is the
duty of the Democratic membership or the
House to vote against that
rule"
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CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
already placed their applications in the
hands Of Representative Holiday. Charles
pointed. Percy z. Church and Smith w.
A Aud are the other candidates. The term
OF tina Eessler does not expire until
next month and II will be several days be-
fore Mr.. Holiday files his answer.
x Xxx
Petitions have been received by members
OF the Indiana delegation from the local
branches OF the international Union of
Cigar Makers in South Bend and Vincennes
protesting against the provisions OF the
Cuban treaty relating to tobacco.
Senator Fairbanks has secured the an
pointment OF Charles p. Butler, of scipio.
Ind, TO q position IN the Jefferson Guards
at the St Louis worlds fair.
XXX
A rural free delivery route will be es-
tablishsd at Quincy, Owen county. ON the
recommendation OF Senator Fairbanks.
Xxx
Robert Elansield, OF Indiana, consul I'm
Chill. has applied for a transfer to some
post in France.
Indiana postmasters appointed to-day:
Charles Welker. at Libertyville. vigo coun-
~. vice George w. Landes. resigned, and
George Wilson at White Oak, Adams coun-
~. vice Adolph Ensley. resigned.
Rural free delivery has been ordered es
tablished In Indiana as follows:
Millsboro, Dearborn unty-Leng of
route. twenty-five miles: population served,
734; number OF houses on route. 164.
Evans Landing. Harrison Co~unty-Length
OF route. twenty-one miles; population, COO:
houses on route, l34.
Monroeville. Allen County-Length of
route. ninety-eight miles; population, ISIS;
houses, SCI.
Paris Crossing. jennings ~County-Length
OF route. twenty-three miles; population.
l63: houses. l04.
Representative crumpacker to-day con-
fributed a bit OF humor TO the dull monot-
ony now pervading the Postofice Depart
ment He called on Fourth Assistant
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National Capital Notes.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 14-Henry o. s.
Heistand, assistant adjutant general, has
been ordered to Omaha, Neb.. for duty as
adjutan general of the Department OF
Missouri.
On account OF the evidence collected by
Civil-service Commissioner William d.
Foulke. In connection with the investiga-
ton OF the st. Louis postofice. Andrew
McGrew, a clerk in the office OF the as
sistant treasurer in that city, has been
removed from the service.
Admiral Dewey returned here to-day on
the dispatch boa Dolphin from a trip Of
inspection to Norfolk, Newport News and
Annapolis.
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ENTIRE FAMILY DEAD.
Daughter, Father and Mother May
Have Been Poisoned.

UHRICHSVILLE, o., Nov. 14.-Strange
circumstances surrounding the deaths of DIR.
and Mrs. Matthew Schweeter and their
ten-year-oil daughter Marguerite, of
Leesville, The child died suddenly
early in the week. Shortly before
the funeral DR.. Schweeter fell in con-
vulsions beside the coffin and died. That
night Mrs. Schweeter sent the watchers
from the room and later she was heard to
fall to the floor. She was dead when
reached.
Powder papers found indicated that poison
had caused the deaths, but the coroner re-
turned q. verdict of heart trouble and
apoplexy in all three cases.
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FOR ALLEGED BRIBERY
OVER n HUNDRED INDICTMENTS
RETURNED AT JEFFERSON CITY.
Some are for Connection with the
Alum baking owd Scandinavia
liam Zeigler's Name Mentioned.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Nov. 14.-The
Cole county grand jury to-day, it is report
ed, indicted William Zeigler. of New York,
president of the Royal Baking Powder
Company. for connection with alum legisla-
ton In the Missouri Assembly of 1901. The
indictment against Mr.. Zeigler is said to al
lege bribery on three counts, and states
that the defendant was trum In Sc
curing the votes Of certain state senator's
on the alum repeal bill of 1901, for which
Legislative Agent d. j. Kelly, Of New
York. was indicted on three counts. 1t is
believed that Mr.. Zeigler was indicted upon
the testimony of E. II. Baldwin,, the arctic
explorer, who has been in close consulta-
ton with Attorney General Crow for sew
eral days.
The grand jury to-day returned log in
indictments in all, but it is not made known
the number that are for boodling. 1t is
stated, however, that four indictments are
returned against Prosecuting Attorney r.
P. Stone on the allegations that he accepted
a railroad pass. accepted a bride for dis
missing prosecutions and accepted illegal
fees. Circuit Judge Harrell suspended At
torney Stone and appointed a special prose-
cutor until Dec. 3, when the case will be
heard. Attorney Stone has given out a
statement declaring that the charges are
false and are the work of parties who have
been bounding him. The indictments re-
suited from an investigation started by
charges made by Rev. G. Brooks, a. local
minister, who attacked the prosecuting at
torney Ii a sermon from the pulpit. Attor-
ney Store was present in court when the
indictments were read and gave bond for
his appearance at the next term Of court.
At 9 o'clock tonight it could not be
learned definitely as to what members of
the Legislature and others concerned had
been indicted, but rumors were generally
current which mentioned a number of we'll
known names. 1t was stated that the in
dictments will be served as soon as possible
and arrests made.
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CLOSELY ORGANIZED.
Teachers of Greater New York Perfect
a Central Body.

a Central Body.
NEW YORK, Nov. H.-Practically all the
teachers in the public schools of Greater
New York have been brought together in a
powerful organization. comparing in a
favorable light numerically with any trades
union In the city. The organization will be
known as the marlborough Council of
Teachers.
Overtures recently received from the Gen.
trail Federated Union to nave the teachers
form a regular trades union with the result
that they would be affiliated with union
workmen throughout the United States
were rejected, but the interborough coun-
Gil possesses all the attributes of a trades
union, although the teachers insist that
there is q wide difference I'm their existence.
Nearly 1900 teachers in the employ of the
Board OF Education are members of the
council, which will be the governing body
for the old associations. The latter are.
therefore,, practically a-malgamated after
many years of independent endeavor. The
organization has as it's direct object the bet
terment of the conditions of the teachers
and a better cooperation with the board
of education.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE Interstate
commerce Commission, in decisions an
nounced to-day in the three cases brought
by the city Of Wichita, Kan, against the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe. Rock Island
and other roads in that territory. declares
that both the export rates on grain from
Wichita to Galveston and the lumber rates
from west of the Mississippi river points in
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas to Wichita
are unreasonable and should be reduced.
The city of Wichita is allowed until Jan. L,
1904, TO apply for leave to submit further
testimony on the reasonableness of the coal
rates to Wichita.
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WASHINGTON. Nov. 1.-THE Interstate
Commission to-day issued a bull
letin showing a large increase In the num-
Der of railroad casualties during the fiscal
year closed June so last, as compared with
the previous fiscal year. There were 1858
persons killed and 1897 injured during the
year, against 2,Sl9 killed and $500 injured
the year before. The large increase is
partly attributed to the gain in railroad
traffic during the year and the increase of
u per cent. in the number of men EMPLOYED
in train service. 1t also is pointed out that
accidents are now being much more fully
reported.