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Antique Furniture 3d Floor Exhibition A year has been spent in collecting these gems of cabinet making. Some of them are more than a century old; all show the careful workmanship and individuality of men whose craft is now well nigh displaced by modern machines and stereotyped patterns. We'd have more to show if connoisseurs were not so quick to snatch up each piece as it comes from our rcfinishing rooms. The following, all for sale, will be on exhibition Monday on our third floor: One Antique roster Bed, high posts, VS. One Antique Foster Bed, low posts, in. One Swell Front Solid Mahogany Sideboard, $73. One larpre Mahogany Sideboard, $60. One handsome Buffet Sideboard of Mahogany, One Chest of Carved Mahogany Drawer?, $45. One small Chest of Drawers, quite unique, $32.50. One Chest of large Mahogany Drawers. $53. One fine old Dresser of Carved Mahogany, $55. One solid, Single-post Sewing Table, $22.50. One Sewing Table, with four Carved Legs, J15.M. One pair of beautiful Dining Tables, with Carved Legs, Solid Mahogany, $33. One pair of Cllppeivlale Dining Tables, $55. One Grand Old Couch, eight feet long and elegantly carved, 73 years old, One old China Cabinet of Mahogany, Glass Front. $nrj. One Square Glass Mirror, $3.50. One English Clock of Mahogany, stood 1"i years In one house, still a good ' timekeeper, 575. One Cherry Clock, a century old, $73. One Mahogany Clock, with English works, $08. Lace Curtains Much Under Price Probably lower than we'd ordinarily make them if wc had no special ob ject in view. We want you to form a habit of visiting- this drapery floor. It is the third floor up, but elevators banish that disadvantage, and prices such as are here bulletined, backed by a variety hardly approachable in the vicinity, make a positive demand for the consideration of shrewd housekeepers. Ruffled Curtain?, attractive and scrviceablt, 3 yards long by 43 Inches wide. $1.23 quality 7,1c Irish Point, Brussels and other popular Laces, worth $3.50 and $'3.0, at' oO and 8130 A lot of $10 Curtains at SS-00 Mail Orders Given Careful Attention. To-day's Thought For Busy Men. How Long Would it Take To acquaint the public with the results of an election or other important event without the aid of newspapers? How long with such aU? Is there any good reason why the dissemination of business information should not be governed by the same principles? Does not'thls explain why so many derive rrolit from NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING? Is there not a hint here for you? THE JOURNAL Telephone 233.

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A MAHARAJAH'S COUOrS AND COST LY 31ETIIODS OP ENJOYMENT. He Keeps n "Zoo" on a large Scale, Support Collejres and I Liberal and Populai-A Uvely City Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. JEYPORE, India, Feb. 15. Jeypore is a small province in Central India, made up mostly of sand and mountain. It numbers 2,500,000 people, mostly beggars, and yet its capital, Jeypore, a city of 150,000 people, thanks to Its maharajah, Is by odds the liveliest city in India. In the first place, "Maharajah" means a very tall rajah. This last is the Indian and Hindoo name for king, but the suffix makes him a king of kings. Let us, first of all, do justice to this particular Maharajah, who does nothing by halves. He has caused Jeypore to bo laid out In American rectangles, and the main strcet3 are 140 feet wide and beautifully paved. The city is lighted by gas the only one, save, perhaps Bombay, In India. It has also first-class water works. All its buildings upon the main streets are, as a rule, three and four stories high and painted pink, with white and green trimmings; a thing unknown In any other city in the world. Then there la a big public library, a museum and public gardens that are unexcelled by anything In India. The Maharajah's college has 1,000 students. I called upon its master and ho showed me last year's examination' papers (all in English) and they are fully equal to thoso of Yale or Harvard. In short, right here, in a country that is the exact counterpart of Arizona in its desolation and vegetation, is a first-class city with all the modern improvements save street cars and telephones! The main thoroughfare of Jeypore is net unliko Washington street in Indianapolis, save in Its motley crowd of Asiatics. As remarked, this Maharajah does nothing by halves. He is liberal with his passes, and often honors the guests at the hotels (which are all outside of the gates) with elephants to assist In their locomotion. The first of his establishments that we visited were the stables. Here are 300 beautifully kept horses, with all the accessories thereto belonging. It is a veritable "Hotel de Hoss," where these splendid animals enjoy all the delights of aristocratic life. One queer thing is that they are all tied, not only by their heads, but by their heels as well. Around each hind fetlock is an ingenious halter attached to a long rope the first thing of the kind I ever saw. Every variety of the horse family is here repre sented, from the fiery, fierce Arab charger to the diminutive v Shetland pony. From these gigantic stables, covering five acres of ground and employing 300 men, we passed: into the elephant quarters. Now an elephant is a very delicate and a very expensive animal to keep, and of but little use to any one. An English officer told me that it costs $300 or $500 a year to keep one of these huge beasts, and that his government finds them too expensive, except In time of actual war, when they are very useful to haul heavy siege guns. All the same, the Maharajah of Jeypore keeps the best assortment of these giants in India, And this is by no means all.- He is the proud and happy owner of 300 dogs. To keep this rack of dogs in health, he cm ploys a physician (none of your scrubs, but a graduate of one of our best medical col leges) at an annual salary of 6.000 rupees, which for India is a very great sum of money. As wc were making the rounds in the palace gardens, thirty or more of these dogs came out for their evening airing, They were none of your common dogs, but each one wore a delicate blanket. They were of the small variety, hao two keepers and showed all the marks of high life and aristocratic society. THE MAHARAJAH'S ALLIGATORS. This is by no means all. The Maharajah keeps at least a half dozen pet alligators In a huge cut-stone tank filled with rich mud, both dry and wet, and with aristo cratic wallows and deep and very dirty water these curious pets bask in the smiles of royalty and his many wives. These al Hgator wallows are in the rear of most beautiful gardens, so that all night long these saurians enjoy the notes of the night ingales and all day the fragrance of a thousand roses. What a bear Is for hu mor in the animal kingdom (und a bear has lots of fun In him) an aUlgator is in his world. To bring out this humor our guide purchased a quarter of fresh 'goat meat. As soon as we entered the inclo sure the alligators smelt the savory morsel and started in all directions for their share of it. Several of them were very old and lazy. These came up more slowly than their competitors. As they came and turned their rascally and cruel eyes upon the bait I saw how marvelously true to nature is the "mugger" talk, beginning with "Respect the Aged' in Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Stories." Their keeper stood upon a pair of stone steps and threw out to the pack portions of this meat at tached to a strong cord. Each had a huge mouth, set with cruel teeth, but the mouth was as white and clean as fresh milk. He had them under control, and at a word from him, aided by a bow upon their heads, the alligators would stand still with mouths wide open, those same mouths that would just as soon have swallowed the man as the meat. One of them climbed up on the steps and stood ready forjjls share of cither. "Respect the Aged While all this fun was going on the venerable father of the brood lay asleep on a neighboring mudbank. "When the strife was at its best he awoke and started for the fray. Winking his - scoundrelly old eyes as only an old "mugger" can wink. he plunged into the muddy water and slowly swam to the spot. Diving under the whole pack, he came up just where the meat was, and, with a snap, took it, cord and all, and, as much as to say, "This 13 tne way to do it, my children," swal lowed it and went off. These queer pets by no means exhaust the Maharajah's resources. The Hladoo religion has nothing mean about it when It comes to gods. There aro 13,333,33 of them more .than enough to go around. In side the palace gardens 13 a high Hindoo temple for the King's special use, with a big assortment of fat priests. He also keeps professional kite flyer?, whose busi ness it Is to keep In the air over the gar dens a half-dozen . highly colored kites. Then in the rear of the seven-story pal aco there are a mass of huge yet beauti ful buildings, which suggests that the" Ma harajah does not suffer from lack of fe male society. . His photograph Is in all the shops. He Is a large man. with a full clipped beard and cood-humored face. which indicates that he is by no means a bad man, only that he does not mean to be a kins without his full share of all th

stantly In my mind as I wandered over his vast palace and wonderfully beautiful ano

costly gardens. "If a one-horsa little king like this can live on this scale, what must a real, no-mistake king, with 50,000.0 subjects dor SOME OTHER JEYFORE SIGHTS. Among the amusing things we saw to day was a street fight. The two combatants were very angry and had a ring of backers around them, but used no blows. It was an effort to throw dust in each other's faces, which, when it was accomplished, seemed to satisfy them. The "holy men" of Jeypore are very nu merous. They are religions ascetics who seem to think that nothing pleases their gods more than to have their disciples smear themselves with ashes and cowdung and stand -on one leg in the hot sun and pray for hours together. On the other hand. I saw, after this foolishness, some genuine worship. At a roadside little tem ple, not much bigger than a dog kennel. thirty or more women had gathered for prayer and worship. They were all neat and well-dressed, with good faces. In their hands they held cakes of rice and small plates of clarified butter and per haps other offerings. Inside of the little temple was the elephant's head of Garish, the god of wisdom. He had before him a little pan of red paint, and as each woman or girl said her prayers and made her of fering the priest smeared a little upon her forehead. This custom is universal. Horizontal marks indicate one sect and vertical another, and seldom is a real Hindoo seen without some paint, cither red or white, upon his forehead, indicating that ho has done his duty. But, unfortunately. the matter ends here. After he has made his prayer and anointed his god with but ter and had his forehead marked he can lie or steal without the least thought of its wrongfulness. Of sin as we know it the Asiatic has but little conception. They are all kindly people. A native Hindoo who is In a position to know told me that the Hindoo women were saints on earth, with their husbands as their gods, and that they live noble and devoted lives. He did not speak thu3 kindly of the men, who have the usual vices of mankind, save one licentiousness. In Hindoostan there are no unmarried men. A boy of fifteen will have a wife. So young do girls marry that the British government had to Interfere and fix the girl's age at thirteen years. But one thing they have never been able to control cruelty to widows. In olden times, up to seventy-five years ago, the widow was burned as a matter of religion with her husband's corpse. While this cannot now be done, still, when the man dies the widow is held to have no further business in this world. She cannot marry again and becomes a social outcast. As yet no remedy has been found for this most unnatural practice. I shall do a great Injustice to the Maharajah did I not mention his charities. Famine Is sore In India. They have had no rain now for two or more years and thousands are starving to death. With his usual generosity this fine-looking Maharajah is Importing Into the capital large quantities of grain and Is selling it to his people for a nominal sum. In all the public squares arc great crowds of Hindoos squatted in circles around some petty official, who with a pair of scales weighs out a fixed quantity to eifceh person. This grain they take and pound up, hulls and all. into a flour and m?ke bread of U. It Is of about the quality that our own farmers in Indiana feed to their stock. KDUCATIONAL, FACILITIES. Jeypore has a splendid public library, a superb museum set in seventy acres of the most beautiful gardens in India. Also the Maharajah supports at his own cost three large colleges, one for general students, one for Sanscrit and one for the sons of noblemen. I visited the last one and enjoyed an hour's talk with a quiet and ablyeducated gentleman a Hindoo who also 5poke good English and gave me a most interesting insight into higher education in India. Each of its larger cities has a firstclass college where a boy can get a free education. They have no Latin or Greek, but instead teach the Arabic, Tersian and Sanscrit languages. Their courses in English are very complete and would do credit to any American school, Yale and Harvard not excepted. And yet I am sorry to say, no provision is made, to speak of, for girls. I am glad ' to add that In the province of Jeypore an excellent beginning has been made for poor children; out of a population of two and one-half millions 13 per cent, can read and write. Not the. least of the attractions of this Tarislan city is the uniformity of Its building and their gay colors. Thursday I stumbled through a court of abomination and up four pairs of stairs to the shop of the leading jeweler in Jeypore. He was a tig, fat man, with a good-humored face. There was not a thing visible except himself and half a dozen attendants in his little dog kennel of a shop. Seating us at a rickety old table, the first thing that he showed was a pearl necklace, the price of which was $10,000. Then he began to send his boys after the expensive articles, and In a few minutes he had $200,000 worth of jewels and gold spread out in a glitering array before us. Of course he does not keep such articles for fun or for his health, but because some one is ready to purchase. And yet, as we left, a swarm of naked beggars flocked around us and were perfectly satisfied with a copper coin which is worth onetwelfth part of our cent. Such Is life In the gorgeous East. I. P. BALDWIN. On Xvrenty-Seven Cents a Day. Washington Star. "Oh. yes: there are plenty of fellows In this city who live well on 27 cents a day," said a dining-room owner to a Star reporter. The lunch man has been in the business for years, and knows what he i3 saying. "I'll tell you how they do It: They get up In the morning, and with 6 cents go to a 3-cent lunchroom. There they procure a cup of coffee and a sandwich, each costing 3 cents, or something of that sort. This is sufficient for them. At lunch time they visit the 3-cent places again, and .with a piece of p' and a glass of milk are con tented until dinner. That is a total of 12 cents. At dinner they go to the regular lunch or dining room and eat themselves happy on 15 cents. At a number of regular dining rooms in the city a dinner can be bought for 15 cents, and will be a good one. too. It will consist of soup and bread, one meat and one entree, two vegetables, a piece of pie or other dessert, and a cup of tea or coffee. But where these sharpers do the lunchroom proprietors is in another way. They have become so expert at the business that they know when each dining room is to have a certain dish for dinner. and therefore they have their pick of meats and other things. I remember that I used to serve chicken on a certain day. I soon found that these fellows were getting the 'best or me. All of them would visit me on 'chicken day and with their 13 cents would get a good dinner. The next day they would disappear, and would show up at the dining rooms of some other man. Of course, I couldn't stand the expense of this kind of business, and I disarranged the entire programme of the young fellows by not having any regular bill of fare for every day in the week, as most dining rooms have. I lost some of thisHrade, but In dotns so I think I made roonej. These 27-cent fellows can ecentictJ cream for days ahead, and trill bs on fcand. They ere r-vrr ccc:cd cf tt ',7 err:-! r.ry-, t-

good positions. For all I know they may do this to save money. I expect, however, that they simply save to spend in dress, and in making an appearance in other ways where their style will show to advantage." CITY OF IRKUTSK.

Temporary Terminus of the Trnnsilbcrlnn Not Attractive. Letter In Boston Transcript. As wc ncared the city we passed through three gates in the space of a mile. No soldiers were in evidence and we were not asked for our papers. The gatemen were old and had the look of pensioners. As a rule elderly men perform this service in Siberia. At last we caught sight of church towers by the dozen, and their size and style told us we were about over the rough part of our Siberian journey. There are two leading hotels in Irkutsk, the Deko and the Russia. We had been told by Siberians that one was as bad as the other. That one is thoroughly bad we can testify. We drove to the Deko, secured rooms, and, after the Siberian fashion, unloaded our tarantas in the courtyard and left It there. A man in a dirty blouse escorted us up a flight of dirty stairs into a dirty hall, and to a room flooded with sunshine. Kvcry ray of light accentuated the unclcanliness of the apartment. The floor was unswept. scattered with paper and dust; the tables bore water, beer and food marks, and the chairs, three of which were unusable be cause of broken legs, were thick with dust. The looking-glass was fly-specked lind grimy, and the curtains, hung out of reach, were for ornament, not use. The single iron bed had Its broken wire mattress replaced by two boards, these suportlng a thin, dirty, hard mattress. No pillows or bed clothes, for which we gave our usual thanks. In one comer a wooden stool that had never known cleansing cloth since the day of Its installation, held a big. tin basin and pitcher, both much the worse for wear. tin slop-bucket that an American stable would not own was a side feature of this toilet outfit. But seven weeks of Siberia had rubbed off our outer layer of fastidi ousness. We had to accept the situation or stay in the street. We were at the best hotel in Irkutsk, and It was offering us its best. But, alas, it could not give us what we craved most a hot bath. The American woman to the rescue: Two of the largest samovars were ordered, to the amazement of the four dirty sen-ants about us, and two extra pitchers of cold water. From the time it took to get all this It was evident there had been no such call for water at the leading hostelry of Irkutsk for many a day. Our order was finally filled, and with our own soap, towels and brushes we managed our first samovar bath. Irkutsk has disappointed us. We expected too much. We had read that it was really a Kuropean city, wealthy, cultured and refined. To our view tho word pretentious sizes it up. Viewed from afar, churches, chapels and white buildings, and -the swift and gleaming Angora, give the city an alluring aspect. Another illustre tion of" distance lending enchantment. The broad, unpaved streets are dusty In dry weather, dusty in a dense sense, and In wet a series of mud puddles. The sidewalks are wooden and badly kept. The buildings, aside from the log houses, are built of brick, plastered and painted white. The day after painting, one of these buildings attracts and holds the ej-e. A few weeks later it Is an example of shabby gentility. There is every reason why Irkutsk should be attractive. It has a naturally pretty site on the banks of a beautiful river, and with a moderate display of public spirit could be made charming. Despite the fact that the broad and deep river flows past Its doors and water Is to be haVL for the taking, water is a dear and scarce article, and is still hauled to the houses in tne primitive methodg of bygone days. The public baths are twenty minutes ride from the main street, and unclean and otherwise unsatisfactory. As a resident of Irkutsk advises me not to try them, it is fair to assume that they are pretty bad. Still. Irkutsk has no city debt. and. Judging by the proud bearing of the Irkutskian who gave me this fact, I imagine it will be some years before Irkutsk becomes clean and comfortable. Many of the buildings are of brick and three stories. The log houses are unusually large, and one gets an idea that the sixty thousand inhabitants have come to stay. Irkutsk is the nccepted capital of Oriental Siberia, and was founded in 1GÖ2. Here tho Governor of the district lives, and here are the central bureaus of the administration. The city has over twenty Russian churches, a Catholic and a Lutheran Church and two synagogues. In the suburbs are two cloisters. The forty city schools Include military and technical Institutions. There are many benevolent societies, a hospital, several hotels, an astronomical observatory, a library, club, bicycle association, a theater, open In the winter, a geographical and medical society, an ordinary measure and a literary triweekly newspaper. Since the great Amur region became officially independent of Irkutsk, owing to the business done with Vladivostock, Odessa and America, Irkutsk has lost much of its official and commercial prestige. As the American phrase runs, it has seen its best days. On account of its tea business and as the government depot for Siberian gold the city is still important in a commercial way. The customs receipts, principally for duties on tea and Chinese silks, amount to $1.125.000 a year. Irkutsk is a city of padlocks. There are more padlocks on the shutters and doors of an Irkutsk store than can be found in an American city of 00.000. There are as many as three padlocks on some store doors, and every lower story shutter bears from one to five. The padlocks weigh from one to fifteen pounds. The popular style is five pounds and two and one-half inches thick. The closing of a store is an affair of consequence. The heavy shutters are swung together, the pondrous iron bars arcput In place, the padlock is adjusted and locked, and then comes the final and serious ceremony of locking the door. The door is shut, the bars are placed, the padlock is fixed and locked, and the verdant stranger thinks the closing operation is over. It is not. A piece of cord Is drawn through the hasp of the padlock, and the two ends are held against the door by a clerk or boy. while the proprietor melts a piece of sealing wax and sticks the end of the string to the door. On the hot wax he places his private stamp. A promenade on an Irkutsk business street after closing time shows the huge padlocks, the two lines of string and a fat dab of red wax as big as a silver dollar. In case sealing wax is dispensed with the padlock Is tied in a rag, tho string being knotted in a peculiar way. The business man of Irkutsk has no faith in a stringless padlock. Through the wax and rag medium the owner of a store knows If his locks have been tampered with In the night. We had seen carriage drivers in all sorts of costumes and in skirts of varying lengths. "Until we reached this city we had never met the limit in masculine pctticoats. Here the skirts trail on the ground. But. with all this style, these knights of the whip are as conscienceless as their fellow-drivers farther east. We rode'several times, always with Russian acquaintances, and in all save one instance the driver sulked over his fare and demanded more. The one satisfied man was a Christianized Buriat. May his tribe Increase! Rnklna Popularity at Oxford. Contributors' Club in the Atlantic. One recalls how, before the hour appointed for his lectures in the museum, every corner of the theater was crammed, and this not only by the young men who would most naturally have been expected to be there, but by a medley of men who would have been found on the running path or in their college barges, but of whom Phllistla might have been proud and glad. Ruskln felt then for the first time that his message was Indeed for young Oxford, and his spirit rose within him. One remembers how on one occasion, la the Taylorian Institute, whither, for the better accommodation of the crowd, he had adjourned, he seemed vexed, and vented his indignation in no measured terms upon certain of the fairer sex who had congregated to the exclusion of the undergraduates. "I came here," ho said, "with a message to my young men. and I am entirely troubled to find that by reason of so many fair bonnets and befeathered hats I cannot so much as see their faces." And though it la true he apologized at the next lecture, in most knightly fashion, for having t aid anything that should have seemed unkind to the fairer sex. bo maintained that hla business was net so much to tickle the eArs of t!- lidlra cf Orfcrd ta to tulTM a olemn

TRIBUTE TO JOHN BEARD

a rrnLic-Mini:n citizkx to WHOSE MKMOIIY IIOXOU IS ULH. To Him Morr Than to Any Other Should II r Given Credit for Existence of Indiana School Fand. Very few of her citizens know how largo a debt tho State cf Indiana owes to tho Hon. John Heard. In truth, it Is fo great that it is a matter of reproach that wo have let fall into obscurity the r.amo of our gentle benefactor. It Is rarely mentioned when the development of our magnificant public school system U raaae tho subject of laudation. Yet without thla plain, quiet man it would have lacked tho stable foundation which is the direct result of his wisdom and foresight and which Is equaled by that of no other State ii tho Union In security and value. John Heard was a lad of sixteen when his father, Thomas Beard, braved tho dangers of a passage through the wilderness literally cutting his way tri place, through the original forest for his team, in coming from North Carolina. Thero John was born Jan. 4, 17LG. Tho family settled in Wayne county. In the fall of lill. No sooner had they reached there, selected their land, 'raised" their cabin, commenced "deadcnlns" for tho clearing, than, they were visited by threo neighbors who lived some distance from them. They curuo to warn the half dozen families who formed the new neighborhood that they were in great danger from hostile Indians, and that they must cither fiee, or prepare to resist, "to fort," as it was called in the vernacular. Four of the families left, but Mr. Heard was unwilling to go and leave behind his effects, which to us of this generation were pitifully small. Therefore he and the heads of the four other families remaining, decided to build ihrco block houses, and Mr. Deard's cabin was left within the inclosure. So stoutly did they build, with the help of pioneers who came from far and wide, that they could have successfully resisted the Indians had they been attacked, which however did not happen. The government afterwards used their structure as a fort for some time. The three remaining families lived in this cabin somehow until the danger was passed, and one can Imagine the horrlblo fear of the savage, the loneliness and homesickness that harassed them while prisoners therein, to which the physical discomfort wa3 as nothing. For the five years preceding his majority John Beard passed his time as every rloneer boy did. In doing a good deal of hard wortc, and with little pleasure other than his rude surroundings afforded; yet his must have been a life of savage charm from Its very hardships and dangers. At one-and-twenty he may be said to have entered on his political career, in which for the term of his life ho was more or leas engaged, and in which he was vitally interested. His coming of age was coincident with the admisflon of Indiana to statehood, and his first ballot was cast for delegates to the convention which framed the first Constitution of. tho State; and from that time to his death he was a participant In mo?t of the great' events in the internal developments of the commonwealth. When a very youn man, yet undr twenty-five, he was elected to jii3tlce of the peace. The legal business of his office was not very arduous; ho was chiefly employed In performing the marriage ceremony for his young friends, and became very popular In the exercise of this his prerogative, for which he never accepted a fee. There was no rivalry between him and the preachers, for they were few, if any, and the circuit rider, came rarely.

He, himself, was born in the Society cf Friends, and, while not actively identified with them, he never lost his "birthright," though he married out of the sect. In the autumn of 1 he went with romo friends to the new town of Crawford vlllc, in the hope of finding a more henlthful location. He purchased a large tract of land to the cast of the town and lived there to the end of his life. His death occurred Sept. 23, IS71, at the age of Ecvtn-ty-nlne years. IX THi: PUBLIC SEUVTJI1 From the commencement of his nsUcncc in Montgomery county John Beard was a power in public affairs. After only three years' sojourn within in borders he was elected to represent the county in the Legislature, and with the exception of but one term, was kept by his constituents In one or the other branch of the Houc for fifteen consecutive years. It was a jKrlod of eminently important legislation. He was a strong supporter of the measure for tho abolition of imprisonment for debt, introduced the bill himself, and worked faithfully for its passage. Bills for the liberal exemption of property from liability to execution, and for Inventing tht Governor with power to commute capital punishment to imprisonment for life he promoted to tho best of his ability. Ho heartily furthered the cause of tho Wabash and Eric canal, then the great hlshway-to-be for the eastward shli -ncnt of tho bountiful harvests of Indiana. In tha "State Bank" embroilment, warned by tho failure and loss from the bank at Vincennes, he voted again?t the bill to incorporate a State bank as it stood, anl It was defeated by a tingle vote. In its place he offered a rcso'.ution for the report of a plan which would secure the public again! loss, and In this matter succeeded to tho advantage of the people and the honor of the State. In 1X1 the State chartered such an institution and received as a deposit ll.OiXi.GOO from the general government, with the proviso that It was to b returned when called for by the fecrttary of the United States treasury. The State owned a large number of bhares. and it proved a paying institution, when wound up twenty-five years later, and the rurplus went to the school fund. Hon. John Coburn, in an addresr he made In 1573, raid: "I venture to wy that not one man In a hundred In our Htato knows tho name of him who proposed that the surplus of tho proceeds of the stock of the State thould bo appropriated as a school fund. He Is cn-z of our greatest public benefactors, a venerable, clmplehearted, eound-minded, old man r.amcd John Beard- When h proposed tho measure It was hardly treated seriously. Nobody thought anything would be left as a surplus. He himself doubtless did not realize Its Importance. But .) It vai. He put the net where It caught the golden fish, and we thank him for it ten thousand times; and we thank thpso strictly upright financiers who husbanded those funds fcr us. This Vnasur has been the rn-ans of producins our present fund of fscv,QCJ for the support of the common tchocl?.M Tis t-'Az c:,ti3 ia this era r.C15 rWJts rrrh -vs ct tlcn

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