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THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY,. OCTOBER, .12, 1896—-SIXTEEN PAGES. 18 GERMS AND SICH Microbes the Cause of All Diseases. RADAM’S MICROBE KILLER, a Wonderful Discovery, A Pleasant, Simple, Inexpensive, In- fallible Remedy. ‘There Is nm reason that people should be sick. Sickness is aa unnataral state. The taking of medicine for the eure of disease is as unnatural os it ts needless. Strict adherence to nature's laws, and a knowledge of the real cause of disease, will nuke sickness as rare as it fs disagreeable. The germ theory of disease is now well known and everywhere recognized. People have read and know alout it in a general way, but do not thoroughly understand it, end are as yet unwilling to accept it in {ts entirety. ‘The indisputable fact remains, however, that all diseases are due to germs and their development. ‘The germs aud mferobes In the blood are the one and only cause of all diseases. 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You may doubt this statement if you wish to, but if you are sick and want to get well, you are doing yours-If a great Injustice if you do not make a trial of this mest wonderful remedy. A 50-page book containing full tnfermation, also testimonials of led free on application to the Wm. 1 Microbe Killer Co., 121 Prince st., New ity, or Wasbington ¢ 1018 7th st. n.w.lt cures, Redz York DOLLS MOVE AT WILL. Three Figures in a Glass Tube Rap Sixnals by Command of Visitors. From the New York World. An apparent manifestation of an entire- ly new force in nature is attracting atten- tion among the scientific men and the cu- rious people in the neighborhood of East Providence, R. I. Out on the road leading to Rumford stands an odd-looking one-story frame house. In it resides an old man, John Nel- son Sherman, who has mystified many scientists by his wonderful performances. ‘The old gentleman describes fvith pleas- ure the various curiosities outside the house, but his hobby is to invite visitors inside. Passing through the parior and kitchen, one is ushered into the “holy of holies.” There one finds placed upon a table a puzzling array of bottles and tum- blers of all descriptions. Suspended from the corks by a pendulum, finely balanced. is a brass rod, which hangs down inside the bottle. At the bottom of the rod is a small brass ball. These are so arranged that vibrations cause the pendulum to swing and preduce a rapping upon the sides of the bottle. me eighteen or twenty of these bottles @ upon the table. The old gentle- eats himself at the table, placing his He will ask you to any particular ball which you yould like to see swing, and without any perceptible motion on his part it will com- mence to vibrate, very slowly at first, gradually increasing in force, until it ob- tains sufficient moméntum to strike the sides of the bottle. In a large lamp chimney are suspendei three small china dolls. He calls these Mamie, Jennie and Harry—the names of three of his children who are dead. Harry occupies the center, with a sister on each i On asking Mamie, for instance, to ock she will respond immediately. Asked to stop and let Harry knock instead, she remains quiet and Harry commences, or, if Tequested, two or all three will swing at one time to suit the desires of the specta- ters. On being asked ply invariably is: “What does it?" his re- “I don’t know, and should be very pleased if any one could inform me. I do not wish to deceive myself, but I believe it must be the work of disem- bodied intelligence. I was impressed with tne idea ten years ago, and cannot explain it any better today. Professors from Har- vard and Brown universities have visited me to witness the manifestations, but have failed to solve the mystery. Their only explanation is that it is some invisible and unknown force of nature.” The old gentleman has no pecuniary in- terest in exhibiting this phenomenon. He shows it freely and without price. The sugxestion of electricity is impossible, for every child knows that glas conductor. Unconscious vibrations, caused by circulation of the blood, fails to ex- plain’ it, for, as previously stated, in that case all the pendulums would swing at the same time. —eE—— is a non- Clothes and Business. From the Philadelphia Publie Ledger. ‘known banker alighted from his in Wall street. yesterday an old ant turned to your correspondent and said: “I remember the time when a man’s eredit would have suffered if a business man came to his office in a carriage. In those days one was looked upon with sus- picion if he carried a cane, unless he was A man would have had difficulty in arranging a loan at his bank- er’s if he wore a mustache, as it was con- sidered the appendage of a ‘sport.’ I well remember that when, as a young man, I began to cultivate the growth of hair on my uppec Hp, my employer gave me a friendly warning. Yet one could then go to business in what is now evening dress, and yet be considered 2s prorerly, though ele- fantly, attired. New a man would be hoot- ed at in the streets if he should wear his evening dress in the daytime. But times have changed great’y, Or rather fashion for human nature is the same. ‘After a long business career, my dellb- erate judgment is that it pays to wear ‘tlothes, feshionably made. I remember when, <s a boy, I began my business career at $% « week. I was sent on an errand to the swell taflor’s establishment of the city. After I had done my errand the tailor look- ed me over, and, noticing my country-made clothes, said to me that I ought to order “& new suit. I explained to him my financial condition, when he said to me kindly, ‘My ‘oy, whatever it might cost, it would be the best business Investment you could make. With fashionably cut garments on, your own confidence and self-esteem will be enhanced. and other people will think better of you,” and he generously offered to make me a suit and let me pay for it when- ever I could, or not at all. He was right. it was as good an investment as I could have made, for I believe the habit it gave me of always wearing good clothes helped me fmmensely in my business career. I traded. with that tailor for over thirty years.” carriag mere! DISTRICT -AFFAIRS|CONDITIONS IN. INDIANA Board of Children's Guatdians Have Hoaring. Local Notes of Interest to All Local ‘Taxpayers Told in Brict Paragraphs. Mesers. Simcn Wolf, B. Pickman Mann and Agent Lewis of the board, of children’s guardians had an extended hearing before the Commissioners this morning with ref- erence to an increase in the appropriation for the support of the board. The esti- rates setting forth the increases recom- mended in each department have heretofore appeared in The Star. The object of the hearing this morning was to explain more fully to the Commissioners and urge upon them the necessity for the increase. Agent Lewis, after Mr. Wolf had Stated the ob- ject of the hearing, read the estimates. The committee desired to lay special stress upon the item of $6,130 for administrative purposes. The current appropriation was $4,000 and net sufficient. The Increase asked was naeessary to enable the board to employ additional assistants to visit the children placed out by the board of guard- fans as required by law. Upward of 230 n were now in private families, and must be visited yearly by the board agents. Then the homes for the care of these children must be looked after and kept up, and a great deal of investigation was necessary to find suitable homes. The board also urged the Commissioners to recommend a separate and distinct appro- priaticn for-the care of feeble-minded chil- dren. Thig had never been done by Con- gress, although it was highly desirable. An appropriation of $7,875 for this work was recommended. * Mr. Simon Wolf argued at length for favorable action by the Commissioners. In closing he sald: i “The misfortune is that while you listen to us patiently, when we get to Congress the matter is listened to by the committees and then becomes a subject of debate, both political and religious, so called. -I say so-called because it is very poor religion that attacks an institution that cares for the poor and needy.” The Commissioners promised to give the recommendation of the board of children’s guardians their consideration in making up the estimates to Congress for the support of the District during the next fiscai year. Cleaned by Hand. If the experiment proves satisfactory the principal streets of Washington will all be cleaned by hand. * For some time the Commissioners have been considering such a change, and The Star referred to the matter last July. Yes- terday the Commissioners decided to make the experiment. An order was sent to the superintendent of strest cleaning directing him to put four men at work upon G street northwest between 5th and 15th. The re- sults will be carefully noted. Then a gang will be put to work on F street next Wed- nesday with orders to clean that street between 5th and 15th by hand. The results of these two gangs will decide the ques- tion. The greatest argument urged against the idea is the cost. Were Reappointed. Judge Cox and Police Judges Miller and Kimball have reappointed as members of the board of children’s guardians Mrs. Mary L. D. Macfarland, Mr. William J. Miller and Mr. John F. Cook. The vacan- cies were caused by expiration on September 16, 1896, of the three-years terms of the in- cumbents. = + The appointments were made under au- thority of the law of 1892, which constitutes the judges of the Police Court and the judge holding the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia a board to select the guardians. —_——.__ FAMILY TROUBLES. The Wife Had a Revolver and is Un- der Arrest. Three years ago Manville Dunlap, a young colored man, and Louisa Dunlap, his wife, came here from Warrenton, Va., and have been Hving at the home of his parents, 1618 O street northwest, but Louisa was not at home today. Instead, she was in Judge Miller’s court as a pris- oner, and the charge against her was carry- ing a revolver. The incarceration of the young woman was the result of a family unpleasantness which has caused trouble for some time, and although Mrs. Dunlap went to church last night armed with a revolver, in search of her husband, the lat- ter does not want to prosecute his wife. The woman was arrested last night at the Rev. George W. Lee's Baptist Church, on Vermont avenue, where she had gone in search of her husband. She says she had complained to him about going cff every Sunday and not paying proper at- tention to her, and last night she went to the church to look for him. When the services were over she says she saw him in conversation with two women, and she asked him to go home with her. He re- fused and went down stairs, and she fol- lowed. When they got in the church kitchen, she says, he grabbed her and she threw the pistol at him and did not at- tempt to shoot. Two of the cartridges showed that the hammer had fallen against them,but Louisa denies that she pulled the trigger. ° Louisa is a quiet and inoffensive-looking woman and has never before been in trouble. Behind the bars was a new ex- perience for her, and she was very much affected by her incarceration. The case will be heard Wednesday. Noses USED A KNIFE. Result of a Desire to Play a Game of Cards. William Banks, colored, almost scalped, and with serious cuts in his leg, groin and back, was found on the porch in front of his brother’s house Saturday, fast bleeding to death. Precinct Detective Barnes, who found him, learned from him that Henry Porter had inflicted the wounds, and, after sending the badly cut-up man to the hospi- tal, he went out and arrested Porter. The prisoner’s clothing was badly stained with blood, and he made no effort to rid himself of responsibility for Banks’ condition. He admitted his guilt, and suid he had thrown the knife away. Seth Banks, brother of the injured man, lives at No. 1235 4th street northwest, and Saturday night when he went out he left his brother William in charge of the house. A friend named Bell was there with him, and about 10 o’clock Porter,-who was un- der the influence of lHquor, called with a friend and wanted to start a game. “You can’t do any gambling in here,” said William, “‘because my brother Seth is out.” Porter could not understand what Seth's presence had to do with a game of cards. ‘There was a table in the house, they had cards, and four of them were there to make up the game. But illiam was not certain that his brother Seth would be pleased, and he in- sisted that they would have to waft until he returned. Porter, on the other hand, insisted on having a game, but in order to do so he found it absolutely necessary to get William out of the way. This he tried to do with a knife, and in- flicted the injuries stated. When Precinct Detective Barnes reached the house in re- sponse to a cry of “Murder,” the room in which the affair had happened looked more like a slaughter house than it did like a place of residence. Porter says that he had trouble with Banks two weeks ago, when he said Banks cut his hand, snd this seems to be the only excuse he had fer using the knife Satur- day night. At Freedmen’s Hospital the physicians fuund that Banks’ injuries were of a serious uature, although he will prob- ably recover. Today Porter was in Judge Miller's court on a charge of attempted murder, and was committed to jail to await the result of Banks’ injuries. —_—__ A Natural History Catalogue. Mr. Edward 8. Schmid has issued a large and attractive catalogue of the animals he has collected, which came from the press last week. It embraces over a hundred pages of instrucgive text and illustrations about pet stock. See ee ‘The Cuban vessel Dauntless has landed her big cargo of arms, men and ammuni- tion in Cuba. . Jey County and the Tenth District Probably Republican. The Democrats Must Convert More ° ‘Than Five Net Thousand Voters to Win the State. —s Correspondence of The Evening Star. PORTLAND, Ind., October 9, 1896. Jay ‘county is considered the closest po- litical county in the state, and the result is usually not known until the offictal count is in. It is therefore bitterly contested by the leaders of the two parties. In the last presidential election Harrison carried it by 72. Since then several glass favtories and other manufacturing industries Fave located here, and this has increased the re- publican vote several hundred. On “the other hand, about S00 populisis w:ll vote this year for Bryan, and about 100 pro- hibitionists and the silver republicans will cast from 75 to 100 votes. This is a larger number of silver republicans than I Fave found in other counties {n the state. The German vote, amounting to about 150, has changed from democratic to republican this ear. cet the adjoining county of Randolph, which has been a safely repavlican cow ty, the free silver craze has made consid- erable inroads on the republican vote, and is supported by a leading daily and week- ly republican paper. ‘The democrats cizim 800 new voters for sjlver. From talk with the farmers I believe this is overestimated. From all indications the demucrais have the best of it in this locality, and the con- ditions existing here are those that make the result in the state doubtful. The Tenth District. The late republican legislature in redis- tricting the state sought to make the tenth a sure republican district. The nine coun- ties composing the district have heretofore been usually republican. They are Lake, Porter, Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, White, Cass and Carroll. They cast about 45,000 votes, a large proportion ‘of which are cast by the towns of Lafayette, Hammond and Michigan City. The republican major- ity in the nine counties two years ago was 6,500, and the populist vote was 1,800. The pepulist vote will go almost entirely to Bryan this year, and about 70 prohibi- uonists will follow sult. It is hardly to be expected that the sound money democrats will offset the combined populist and pro- hibition vote in the district, but allowing for a net gain of 2,00) for Bryan, the dis- trict will be safely republican. In reckoning on the results in Indiana it should be remembered that-in the election of 1894, with which comparison should be made, there were cast over 2,600 populist votes and 3,900 prohibition votes, and from 75 to 80 per cent of these votes are con- ceded to Bryan by republicans. The repub- lican plurality in 184 was 45,000. A change of 5,000 votes in the state from the repub- lican to the democratic column would give the state to Bryan, if there were not a corresponding change the other way. I be- hheve there are more than 5,000 free silver republicans {n Indiana who will vote for Bryan, but I am also convinced there are fully that many sound money democrats who will vote for McKinley. As the cam- paign proceeds, republican chances improve in the state. This is due to a better under- standing of the issues and to the superior work ard showing of the republican man- egers. The voters who like to be on the winning side are influenced by the superior force exhibited in the republican campaign. In this district as in other sections, despite the efforts of Mr. Bryan, protection is the important issue. The working men know what protection did for them prior to 18%, and they know what partial free trade has done for them since. There is no guess work or theory about it, and while some of them may not love the free silver promises less, they love protection more, and will vote for it. F. B. NO CHARGE AGAINST HER. A Young Washington Woman Held in a New York Hospital. “The New York Journal of today says: Mrs. Daisy B. H. Helphenstein, whose stage name !s “Marion Barnwell,” is still an inmate of the prison ward In Bellevue Hospital, although the police admit that her arrest was a mistake. She is kept there simply because the ward physician does not deem it wise to remove her in her present condition. As soon as she is well enough she will be taken to a police court and hon- orably discharged. Mrs. Helphenstein Js a beautiful woman twenty years old, with dark brown hair and large blue eyes. Her mother, Mrs. Virginia Harrison, lives at No. 1226 14th street, Washington. Mrs. Heiphenstein, while teaching elocution in Washington, eloped with R. K. Helphen- stein, jr., a banker's son and one of her pupils, soon separated from him. She came to New York to fulfill a theatri- cal engagement, but was taken ill and was treated by Dr. Henry Kolb. Miss Cleve- land, a fellow boarder, accused Dr. Kolb and Mrs. Helphenstein of crime, and the latter, although ill, was placed under arrest and taken to Bellevue, notwithstanding the fact that Magistrate Crane had refused to issue a warrant against her and that Dr. Kolb was not molested. A bottle with the label removed was found in Mrs. Helphen- stein’s room. Dr. Kolb says that it con- tained morphia, pepsin and nux vomica. The hospital physician found no evidence of the commission of a crime. Neither did Coroner Hoeber, who was called to Belle- vue to take her ante-morten statement. Dr. Kolb blames his wife, from whom he was divorced, for the arrest. She denies the responstbility. Mrs. Helphenstein passed a quiet day in Bellevue yesterday. Her condition showed signs of Improvement. She expects to be released today. She had no callers during the day. She read with great interest the story published in yesterday’s Journal about her case. She said last night that she had not yet decided whether she would employ a lawyer to seek redress for the indignity to which she had been subjected. Her hus- band, she sald, was in Washington. She did not receive any message from him. —_—_—_ HEARING POSTPONED. ‘Application for Receiver Certificates for Eckington Road. Upon the suggestion of Mr. Jere M. Wil- son, representing certain bondholders, and Mr. Nathaniel Wilson, representing the American and Security and Trust Com- pany, the trustees, Judge Cox today post- poned the hearing of the rule to show cause in the matter of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Hcme and-the Belt Line Raflway companies until Thurgday, the 22d inst. Receiver W. Kesley Schoepf of the two Froads, it will be remémbered,"‘asked sev- “eral days ago for authority to issue and sell receiver's certificates with which to equip the roads with compréssed air motors, about $56,000 for the Eckington and, about $75,000 for the Belt Line. “A rule requir- ing all these intérésted to show cause to- day why the receiver shall not be so au- thorized was issued, being made return- able today. Counsel for the bondholders and the trus- tees explained today that they were not ready to have the matter heard now, and suggested a postponement of two weeks. In view of the urgent need of the two roads for rapid transit, Mr. Jchn Ridout, on be- half of the receiver, asked that the hear- ing be delayed not longer than Monday next, but the court split the difference by naming the 22d inst. The minority stock- holders were not represented at today’s hearing. —"— Geo. W. Webb’s Property. Upon the petition of Mr. J. J. Johnson, as the next friend of Geo. W. Webb, an al- leged lunatic, Judge Cox today ordered the committee of the unfortunate man, E. Douglass Webb, to show canse Wednesday rext why he should not be removed. It is claimed in support of the petition that the committee has spent the estate of ails charge. A suit cn the bond of the com- mittee is now pending on the law side of the court. _—— Cross Bill. In the divorce case of Sarah Ward Ellis against Ebenezer Ellis, the defendant to- day filed a cross bill, praying for divorce on the ground that his wife, August 12, 1800, deserted him. BIG. CLAIM$..IN WISCONSIN tin a aud, Republicans Are Gonfident of Carrying TE Committeeman Payne Predicts Over a Hundre@*Thousand Major- ity fer- McKinley. ote a Special Corresponderite Gt Te Evening Star. MILWAUKEE, October 8, 1896. On some of the ‘mips illustrating the po- Uttcal situation . Wisconsin ts included in A but if this the so-called center;” state is at the présent time the center of a political storm, that storm ts an anti-popo- cratic whirlwind that will astonish the stl- verites who have been claiming Wisconsin for Bryan and fot free coinage. Wiscon- sin’s large foreign popuiation is invariably en the side of sound money, and the votes of these conservative people may be count- ed on to preserve ‘the state from the dan- gerous silver heresy. The state has never been taken from the republican column ex- cept by local issues. .A granger revolution in 1873 placed the democrats in power for two years, with a majority of 15,375, and a coalition of the German Lutherans and the Catholics. in 1890, in opposition to an ob- noxious school law, gave the democrats another trick at the wheel, lasting four years. The plurality against the republi- cans was 28,320. In the presidential elec- tion of 1892 the feeling of hostility among the church people ‘against the republicans remained to a sufficient extent to give the state to Cleveland, and also to extend the lease of power for the democratic state offi- cers another term. In 1894 Wisconsin re- turned to the republican fold by giving Wm. H. Upham, the republican candidate for governor, over 50,000 plurality. The democrats and populists, who have fused, as in other states, declare that they will carry Wisconsin by a large plurality next month, but they have absolutely nothiug whereon to base their calculations. The republicans are also claiming the state by “big figures.” Their predictions range. all the way from 50,000 to 115,000, the latter es- timate being that of Henry C. Payne, who is generally admitted to be’one of the shrewdest political managers in this sec- tion of the country. A well-posted republi- can who has grown gray in““practical poll- ties” declares that with the utmost con- servatism he cannot figure the democrats as winners in any more than three of the seventy counties of the state. He predicts the election of the: McKinley electors and the entire republican state ticket by tre- mendous majorities, and the election of ublican Congressmen, the entire dele; tion. The only district concerning which there is any uneasiness is the fourth, a- bracing practically all of Milwaukee, where a fusion of the democrats and populists is aided by a reflex’ of the street railway trouble of last spring, and by dissatisfac- tion in the republican ranks in regard to the county ticket. This combination will bother the republicans to some extent, but nevertheless the iridications are favorable to the re-election of Representative Theo- bald Otjen, the republican nominee. ‘The lack of harmony in-the republican ranks in Milwaukee is an outgrowth of A. P. A. control in local politics, which has become distasteful to many voters. + GIFT TO. WEST POINT. ‘quptain Presented by Gen, Robt. ¢rson’s Daughter. Col. Ernst, superjntendent of the Military Aeademy, has formally accepted on behalf of the governmegt jhe beautiful fountain presented to the institution by Mrs. E. M. C. A, Lawton, daughjer of Gen. Robert An- derson of Fort Sumter fame, and widow of James Marsland fawion. The fountain is octagonal in shape and made of the very fipest polished granite and bronze. On.g platform and steps of finely cut granite rests an octagonal ‘basin of black polished granite, each side of which bearg a panel for elght different in- scriptions. In the,center of the large basin is a smaller one, Supported by eight col- umns of colored granites. These columns are polished and, fndly carved, as is also the center basin, All. the ornamental part, carving and bronze represents the Egyptian lotus, which is symbolic of resurrection and immortality. Seven of these plants, with their leaves and flowers, are made to float on the top of the water in the large basin, and each one throws a spray into the up- per basin, The latter has in its center a cluster of the same plant, which returns to thé lower basin seven sprays also. There are eight graceful spouts, one on each cor- ner of this basin, which throws water back to the lower one in twenty-two sprays. Natural lotus will be grown in the lower part of the fountain, matching in color, as nearly as possible, the granite columns which support the center. This work of art serves a two-fold pur- pose. It is presented to West Point by Mrs. Lawton in the name of her husband, the late James M. Lawton, whose generosity enabled her to show one more token of her affection for him, and also for her illus- trious ‘father, Gen. Robert Anderson. The dedication panel is so worded that {t pro- claims it a monument to both. The entire conception and sentiment be- long to Mrs. Lawton, and from these senti- ments the design was made by James F. Barley of Washington, D. C., who was sculptor, architect and ¢ a pculbte ontractor, and cost Mrs. Lawton has also erected at West Point cemetery a monument to her hus- band. It is of Gothic design in the finest gray granite. In the center of this monu- ment, as in a shrine, is inserted a pure white marble panel, representing the inte- rior of Grace Church, New York, on a Palm Sunday. The architecture of the church, the altar piece, the huge palms sent from Mr. Lawton’s Cuban estate every year, are faithfully reproduced in marble. The de- tail work of this panel is greatly admired by artists and architects in New York and Washington. While the conception of this monument is also Mrs, Lawton’s, both de- signs, sculpture and contracts were by James F. Earley of this city. Mrs. Lawton has presented a new chapter house to Grace Church, New York, in t James M. Lawton. po renretot A Handsome eo MR. SMITH’S RESIGNATIO Letter of Secretary Olney Informing Him of Its Acceptance. Mr. Henry Clay Smith sends the follow- ing communication to The Star: “In reply to the article concerning me, in yeur Issue of last Saturday, kindly allow me to state that the acceptance of my resignation by the President, on the 9th instant, does not tally with the published reports, some months ago, that I had been ‘recalled’ or ‘dismissed.’ guch a bad man as certain. reporis woult! have {t, then the President did wrong in accepting my resignation.” Mr. Ofne}'s Letter. ‘The following Igtten; may possibly throw some light on the cause of the retirement of the gentleman ndthéd from the public service: DEPARTMENT. OF STATE. WASHINGTON, October 9, 1896. Mr. Henry Clay Smithy 503% D street north- west, WashingtorD. C. Sir: I have the‘hontt to acknowledge the receipt cf a rogisferet, letter of the Sth in- stant addressed {§-the Pr. him received in tie course of mail on the afternoon of the $th,*the material contents of which, howevep? a, Washington papé? oi the office of cons| Santos, Brazil. It is not deem#d '2 violent assumption that your resignatfon' is tendered in wel+ grounded anticipation®of the probable ac- tion of the President upon numerous charges of personal and official miscon- duct, some of which have been on file in this department for a considerable period all. of which have heen called to ycXr at- tention, and none of which you either re- futed or satisfactorily explained. As, however, the acceptance of your resignation by relieving the public service of the injurious consequences of your con- nection with it answers practically all the purposes that could be accomplished by your dismissal, I am directed by the Presi- dent to notify you-that your resignation ts accepted. Respectfully yours, > RICHARD OLNEY. 2 Rey. games Jameson, said to be an or- dained ‘minister of the Episcopal Church, is in Jail in New York charged with beat- ing hotels and with robbing guests of jewelry. ofvthe United States at If I was or am ident, and by eared in at least one| mm the evening of the Ir it you ie your resignation of 3 PILING UP POSTAL VOTES Nearly Thirty-Seven Thousand Ballots Have Been Cast in Chicago. Less Than Twenty-Five Per Cent Are im Favor of the Election ® of Mr. Bryan. The result of the latest count in the Chi- cago Record’s postal card poll of tte city of Chicego is as follows: Ward. Bryan, © McKinley. Palmer. Fist . 593 937 1% Second”! 1,301 40 ‘Third 1,630 40 Fourth"! 204s cy) Fifth 7 Sixth 19 Seventh 4 Eighth . RE Ninth 6 Tenth 18 Eleventh 16 ‘Twelfth a ny Thirteenth . w Fourteenth *) 3B Fifteenth 7 Sixteenth ry Seventeenth 6 Eighteenth 20 Nineteenth 23 Twentieth 2 Twenty-first td Twenty-second 2 26 Twenty-third 7 ‘Twenty-fourth 23 Twenty-fitth 42 Twenty-sixth 12 Twents-sevent 10 6 ‘Thirtieth . 19 ‘Thirty-first 17 Thirty-s-cond ot ‘Thirty-third 7. 4 ‘Thirty-fourth "2202 3 Totals. ........--7,041 24,813 at The Progress of the Vot! The correspondent of the New York Herald at Chicago has the following to say in today’s issue about the progress of the balloting: “The total vote so far counted in the Chicago Record’s postal card election now reaches nearly 37,000, and the mails are larger every day. With only the Chicago votes returning the election has been a great undertaking, but when the votes from twelve states begin to flood the mails, then, indeed, it will become an enormous task. “The Bryan vote is now about 21 per cent of the total vote so far cast, which is vir- tually the same position it showed at the close of the first and second days’ count- ing. Since that time it has fluctuated to 2+ per cent and 22% per cent. “Mailing of ba!lots throughout the county~ continues rapidly, and before the end of this week every voter whose name is on the poll list of April, 1896, will have a bat- lot which he may vote for the candidate of his choice. “The ballot for the twelve states which are to be included in the postal card election are being sent out gradually, and already there ig an indication that the vote of Illi- nols, the first begun in the mailing, will be prompt and large. Missouri ballots were the next started through the mails, and from now on the others will follow rapidly. “The commissioners are hard at work every day, and the same certificate of the secrecy and the accuracy of the count gives daily guarantee of the care which they are taking.” A Criticism of Comparisons. Mr. Thomas Crusor, in a communication to The Star, takes issue with the manner in which the comparisons In the postal- card ballot are made by those having {t in charge. In his letter Mr. Crusor says: “An analysis of the results of the postal card poll of Chicago, as given in The Star of Saturday, would seem to show that the democratic suspicion of manipulation 1a the count is well founded. “I refer more particularly to the ‘table of ccmparative changes’ between the vote of 1892 and the postal card poll of 1896. In this table the charges from Cleveland to McKinley in a_ poil of 407 republican votes are set down as 4,343, and the changes from Harrison to Bryan in a poll of 6,6 democratic votes are set down as 1,848. From this it ts shown by the table that McKinley gains 2.514. Of course It is unfair to make a co! rison on that ba- sis. The correct method is to give the per- centage of changes from Harrison to Bry- an and from Cleveland to McKinl. Bryan’: y. Thus gain of 1,848 in 6,672 votes is found per cent, and McKinley's gain of 2,407 votes Is 19 per cent—a clear icKinley of 8 per cent. You wiil agree with me, I am sure, that this analy- sis is correct, and that instead of making a comparison between a disparity of num- bers, the Chicago counting committee should give the proportionate gains of the two candidates. This would show a gain of 8 per cent for Bryan, instead of an appar- ent gain of more than ®W per cent for Me- Kinle: “The republican press is figuring out an immense majority for McKinley in Chi- cago on the strength of the tables show- ing the resuits of the postal curd poll, whereas, in truth, the tables indicate that Rryan will carry’ the city by a pluralit far in excess of Cleveland’s—less Palmer's vote. In every thousand postal card votes cast for Bryan are 270 which were cast for Harriscn, and in every thousand cast for McKinley are 190 which were cast for Cleyeland—a gain for Bryan, on a pro- portionate comparison of changes, of 80 in every 2,000 postal card votes. This per- centage has been almost constant from day to day since the poll began.” es MARVELS OF MEMORY. Where and How Are the Ideas Stored Awny. From the National Magazine. An old lady in a remote country district in Scotland was locally famous for the strength of her memory. She could on Monday repeat verbatim the sermon she had heard the day before. A minister who had occupied the pulpit one Sunday, having heard the fame of this attentive hearer, called on her next day and put her memory to the test. She stood it well, but during the delivery of his discourse the preacher had been an- noyed by a restless canine that caused dis- turbance. Parenthetically he instructed the church officer to ut out that dog.” The old lady with the retentive memory repeat- ed the passage about the dog as if it had been an integral portion of the discourse. ‘An itinerant lecturer assured his audi- ences that he could teach the art of re- membering everything; but some doubt was thrown on his assertion when he went away and forgot his umbrella! The important part which the eye plays in memory must not mislead us as to the seat of the faculty, which is in the brain. Persons born blind never have a true no- tion of light and colors, and never dream about them; but John Milton, having once seen a beautiful world, can describe it af- ter he becomes blind, having the recoliec- tions stored in his brain. What is the brain like in Its capacity of storehouse? and what should we set if we could reduce our stature to infinitesimal proportions and travel along the corridors of the brain? = KS Does gt contain galleries ‘of pictures? Is it furnished with shelves and pligeon- holes for the classification and care of records and messages? It \s-impossible to conceive what kind of apparatus or fittings can at once be suitable for storing up pictures and sounds and all varieties of im- pressions received from all the senses. Nor can we d.8cover any curious ma- chinery, even with the microscope, for the structure of the gray matter is s0 minute as to defy the powers of the lens, and all that we can detect is an agglomera- tion of minute cells. Number of Brain Cells. A calculation has been made regarding the number of these brain cells. The cells vary in size from one three- hundredth of an inch in diameter to one three-thousandth, and this being known, it is not difficult to estimate the entire num- ber of them in the brain. nS Hooke, the mathematician, said 3,- 155,760,000; but according to Maynert's cal- culation the number of cerebral cells is only 600,000,000. If all the cells were onethree-hundredth of an inch in diameter there would be room for 27,000,000 of them In one cubic Inch, and therefore for 3,618,000,000 in the whole; but since many of the cells are smaller, the total number must be greater. Let us, however, be content with the 3,618,000,000. ‘What is a million? The Bible, Old and New Testament together, is said to contain gebout three and a quarter millions of let- ters; we should, therefore, have to pile up 1,113 copies of the Scriptures to get a heap * CENUINE™ DURHAM Blackwell *s Genuine BULL DURHAM ‘You will find one coupon inside each 2 ounce bag and two coupons inside each 4 ounce bag. Bay a bag, read the coupon and see how to get your share of $250,000 in presents. containing as many letters as the brain contains cells. As each cell may accommodate one idea or thought, probably even a smaller store- house would suffice for the wants of the average human creature. On the other hand, when great thinkers require more accommodation they may perhaps be able to grow more brain cells; and Webster did tell a great American scholar that he had to change the size of his hat every few years. The next question is, on what principle of arrangement our ideas are stored away. How are they grouped together? Do all the scientific thoughts congregate in one region, all literary ideas in another, all nottons of morals in a third? There is an admitted law of the association of ideas. It is common to say that in desultory con- versation “one thing leads to another,” and this is also true of our solitary musings the thoughts ramble on, and we are very soon far away from our starting point. Chain of Ideas. If a man on getting up in the morning says to his wife: “My dear, I see the stable door is open—what was it our minister said on Sunday about the Sadducees?” the wife may not see the connection of thought. Yet, probably, there was a chain of ideas, and the links may have been the foliowini ‘Stable open—horse stolen—I'll track the thief by the impressions of the horse's hoofs printed on the soft soil—print- ed, a wonderful art; when Dr. Faust tn- vented printing he was charged with hav- ing dealings with the devii—but the Sad- ducees can hardly have believed in a devil if they denied the existence of angels and spirits; and what was it our minister said on Sunday?” To fix a thing in the mind we must get it Hnked on to something we know al- ready. Hence, the more we know the easier it is to add to our knowledge; be- cause so many old ideas stretch out their hands to take hold of the new ones and give them welcome. Memsories tend to fade. Montaigne’s memory was so bad that ke thought he ought to be celebrated for its imperfection. At the same time he con- soled himself with the reflection that, therefore, he never could venture to tell lies. Dr. C. B. Ratcliffe tells us of a French lady who had lived in France until she reached her sixteenth year, and up to that time spoke only French. Then she came to England, and began to speak English. When about twenty years of age she mar- ried an American gentleman, and from that time, for about twenty years, she lived sometimes in America, sometimes in Exg- land, speaking English habitually and French scarcely ever. When Dr. Radcliffe saw her her mind was feeble, and that was all, but about two years afterward he found she had forgotten everything connected with her married life, her English not excepted; and if asked who she was and where she was, she gave her maiden name, and mentioned the street where she had lived in Paris when a girl. — SPEAKING OF FLEAS. Venesuelan Reminiscences Suggested by a mg Woman's Discomfort. From the New York Sun. Two girls, one phuiap and the other not fo, got aboard the train at 33d street, go- ing up town. They were conversing anl- matedly, in low tones, frequently inter- rupting each other and laughing. About 40th street the plump one gave a little jump, a startled look fiitted over her ex- pressive countenance, and she seemed to lose interest In the talk. Presently she | jumped again and involuntarily exclaimed “Oh!” The thin one appeared to be asking her what was the matter, but she only shook her head and pressed her lps tight- ly together, while her checks flushed red and a look of trouhe settled in her cyes. Now and then she would execute Ittle wriggles and squirms, under pretense of turning to glance out of the window, or e furtive small kicks and seemingly aimless clutches at her draperies. As the train stopped at 53d street station she sud- denly sprang up and hurried out, follow- ed by her evidently surprised companion. “Speaking of fleas—* sald an observant man who sat opposite her while all that was going on. “But who said anything about fleas interrupted the dull man beside him. “I'm going to,” answered the first speak- er imperturbably. “I made a discovery once in Venezuela that should be matter of puilic knowledge, especially in the tropics. I was in La Guayra, where I had to wait a fortnight for a Red D line steamer to get back to New York. It was in the sea- sen when the coffee crop comes in, and | people there say one flea comes with every coffee bean. That Is, I believe, an_under- stetement. Probably a thousand fleas to every bean would be more nearly correct. At all evenis, I have never seen so many fleas anywhere else, even in San Francisco or Mexico. The settling up of some busi- ness ccmpelled me to visit, nearly every day, the coffee warehouse of Senor Jose Del Ollo, where there was only a pathway between mountainous piles of bagged cof- fee back to the little square space at his desk, where he slept most of the time in his office chair. That path, as one ad- vanced upon it, would seem to rise four or five inches and float in the air ahead of him, waving and shiminering ‘n the band of sunshine that fell upon it from the open docr. The effect was produced by a solid mass of fleas startjed into activity. And, by the way, they and the little blue-tailed lizards were the only feally- active things I saw in Venezuela. Everything elee seem- ed to be languid, reposeful, either not yet fully waked up or just about drowsy enovgh to drop off asleep—except those actually-slumbering, as Senor Del Ollo gen- erally was. His ability to sleep among these fleas amazed me. Whether they bit him and he was not aware of It, or did not bite him, I never could decide His testi- mony was no good. He simply knew noth- ing about it. But it would be interesting to know, supposing they didn’t bite him, whether it was vut of consideration for his ‘proprietary standing or because of the gerlic with wiiéh he was saturated. “Anyway, whatever may have restrained them from attacking him nothing protect- ed me. The rapacious ttle devils would Swarm up my legs, make their way into my sleeves, pour down inside my collar, and riot over my body, tapping my rich, ungar:icked northern blood in a thousand places at once. I believe that if I had worn a diver’s air-tight suit, helmet and all, they would have found means for getting at me inside. Of course, I could do nothing but make a rush for my room fn the Hotel Leon Guairena, strip off my infested clothes, and take meager vengeance by killing perhaps one in a thousand of them. The others skipped out of my reach and went to breeding more fleas. In two or three hours my room was one of the best- stocked fiea farms in the universe. “A dozen different persons told me of a dozen different things, wild herbs and for- est leaves, each and all of which repelled fleas. No flea, I was assured, would stay a minute in a room where those things were strewn about,and I believed the story, for I had proved in San Francisco that they could be driven away by the bay leaves I gathered over at Saucelito. So I hired a couple of fellows who knew all those things to go and get them. They brought me about a cart load of leaves and ccvered my floor three inches deep with them. Some sorts of the leaves stunk so Vilely that I had great hopes of them, but it was all a failure. I had only"given the fleas a shelter in which they multiplied more rapidly than before. Seeing that, I had the leaves swept out. Most of the fleas remained. | “One morning, wher, I had just return” ed frcm my douche bath at the end of th patio, and was thinking, almost with de- Fpair, of the necessity immediately before me of dretsing and going down to Del Ul- lo’s, where I would inevitably get another cargo of fleas, an inspired idea came to me. ‘Venezvela men,’ I said to myself, ‘have a horror of limes. Now, these fleas are Ven- ezuelars, and perhaps may have the same fool rection and prejudice as the men. I will endeavor to find out.’ I sliced in halves a dozen or more of the fragrant little fruit from a basket of them that I always kept standing on my window sill, handy for frequent vse, and applied the julce Mber- ally around my ankles and legs to above the knees, over my wrists and forearms and upon my neck, shoulders and breas Then, when the juice had dried, I put on my clothes and went down to Del Ollo’s. He and I chatted, smoked and discussed business fully an ‘hour, and in all that time not one flea bit me. I went home and sat in my own splendid collection of ‘appetites a long time, reading placidly, and was not molested. ‘I don’t affirm that my theory was the real reason why those fleas fought shy of the lime juice, but I know they did, and from that on, as long as I stayed in Venezuela, I was as immune from fica bites as even the senor. 200 ISHMAEL’S MANGROV TREE. A Facile H Works Wa From t From 1 ders in a Maine Jail 1¢ Bangor Gommerctal. Chief Gilman of the Bangor police force has a curiosity up at his residence on the west side, which, if it continues to thrive, will be likely to prove more of a sensation to people of this vicinity than anything | which may result from the November elec- tion or the continued fall in the price of lard. This is a pretty little plant, about a foot in height, which Ishmael, the circus Hindoo now in the county jail here, tricked out of a pile of wet dirt up at the prison the other night. Ishmael is already well known to our readers. It was he who stalbed the Singalese rascal who dared ridicule the faith of Brahma, and he got into Bangor jail for doing it. As soon.as he struck the jail he began to amuse the other prisoners with his antics. He is more of an athlete than has ever been seen in Bangor, and, though he is only nineteen years of age, and rather undersized, he can handle a man twice his weight and years in a way that simply astonishes the latter; there is no fathom- ing his tricks of wrestling, for he has catches and holds that have been handed down in the inner circles of his race for many generations. He is as solid as a bundle of wires and as docile as a child. He Is a handsome boy, and he became the pet of the jail inmates about as soon as he got acquainted there. Ishmael brought with him to jail a few of his goods and chattels. They are a queer lot of dinky doddles, mintature tom- toms, dried betel nuts, pieces of cork, spools, snake skins, stones. cocoanut shell and tin dishes—everything you can think of ~a pile of common things with very un- common powers, as Ishmael makes them work. ‘The young Hindoo is a fakir—not the kiné that haunts the street corners and sella | sheestrings and patent medicines, for they are the creations of the slang language of the day; he is a real East Indian fakir, and the tricks which he does are regarded by his peopie as well nigh supernatural. | They have never been solved excepting when betrayed by some member of the race who got drunk on western fire-water, and | exposed the whole thing. These rascals die suddenly soon after. One o1 the best of the tricks is the grow- | ing of a bush out of a pile of dirt in full | view of an audience. Ishmael can do it. He did it the other night up in the jail when Sheriff Brown gave him a chance to use his apparatus, and Chief Gilman has the plant as proof. Ishmael took a little pile of sand and mud which had been brought for him in the jail yard underneath the window where he looks out and thinks up new tricks every day, and placed it in the middle of the floor on a cloth. Then he took what he said was a seed and showed it to his small | audience. This seed was the same thing | from which he had produced a dollar bill a few minutes before by simply squeezing | it, but that didn’t make any difference te him, but he put it in the dirt and got ready to grow his bush. Nobody thought he was really going to do it. He swore that he would produce a mangrove tree. Ishmael first took a cloth and placed it over the earth; then he began to say off some kind of a heathenish incantation, and in the course of a half minute, when he removed the covering, there was a little sprout starting up about an inch above the pile. That's pretty good. Ishmael smiled demurely and winked the other eye. Again Ishmael put the cloth on the dirt and again he rattled off his rubbish in choicest Hindoo. Something suddenly stuck itself up inside the cloth, which peaked up and wrinkled as it did so, and then off came the cover with a swish and exposed a very healthy young bush standing there in the dirt. Of course everybody said that the bush was made of paper, but it wasn’t. It was a real thing, and it was moist and soft and pithy just as if it had been newly plucked from the ground outside. At its bottom was a full set of little roots, which were covered with the clinging earth in which it had—well, grown. Chief Gilman, who was present, took the bush home with him, and set it out in his garden. He said on Saturday that it was getting on well, and that it looked if it had come to stay. He can’t understand how Ishmael did it. Neither can anybody else. Some of the men in the jail declare that the youngster is a devil in disguise, but most of them consider him a mighty smart iad. But he is a great vegetation starter; he beats super-phosphates at their own game. The bush is worth seeing; it is composed of close-growIng green leaves on a straight stalk and little red blossoms are beginning to grow on the top of it. It’s a curiosity. Ishmael says It’s eafy as rolling off a log. ooo It is said in New York that Chinese agents are negotiating in various cities for Chinese merchants to take contro! of the impertal arsenals and ship yards, now costing $5,000,000 per annum, without suffi- cient return. Take No Substitute. Gail Borden Eagle Brand