Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1891 — Page 6

©he DECATUR, IND. .z—'x N. BLACKBURN, - - - PUBUSHBa. Steamboats will soon be running on the Sea of Galilee. Senator Davis of Minnesota used to be a telegraph operator, and was one of of the first four men to read telegraphy by sound. Uncle Sam has educated one Indian until he is a very clever forger and has taken liberties with the checks of one of Uncle Sam’s departments. The Indian is advancing. The man who has, however, imperceptibly, helped in the work of the universe, has lived. The plain man serves the world by his action, and as a wheel in the machine; the thinker serves it by his intellect, and as a light upon its Path“Ah! but this is something like!” chuckles the resident of Northern Dussia as he looks out upon nine feet of snow and more coming, and he is almost tempted to believe that the old days, when fifteen feet of snow was no surprise, are about to return. A Chicago philanthropist started out to lend money to dead broke actors to put them on their feet again, and at the end of one year he had $2,700 worth of notes for which he was offered $3 in cash, and couldn’t see that he had helped the profession up the "ladder a single round. < Let the student tfot grieve too much because of unfit associates. AVheu he sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word no act, no record would be. „ {___ The Portuguese have equipped some of their African troops with velocipedes. So the march of progress goes on, and we may yet see the day when there will be squadrons of flying machine cavalry and prisoners or troops will be conveyed from one post to another through pneumatic tubes. The following is recommended as a sure way of finding where a crack in a piece of metal ends: Moisten the surface with petroleum, then wipe it, and then immediately: rub it with chalk. The oil that has penetrated into the cracks exudes, and thus indicates where the crack ends. President Washington’s Cabinet included Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, and Gen. Henry Knox, Secretary of War. Under the Constitution a Supreme Court was orof which John Jay was appointed Chief-Justice, Edmund Ranwas chosen Attorney General. The sting* of the bee is so peculiarly constructed that if you pull it out, instead of relieving the pain, it adds, greatly to it, for instead of pulling out the poison you push it into the flesh. This is not generally known, hence the severer pain from the sting. Scrape the sting out immediately with a knife, and you scrape the poison out also, and soon forget that you have been stung.

In February, 1848, a treaty of peace •was signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo, by •which the Rio Grande was made the boundary of Texas, and the great tracts of lands embraced in California and New Mexico were ceded to the United States. She iu her turn assumed Mexican debts to the amount of $3,500,000 and, gave in addition $15,000,000 to the Mexican Government. A clause of the marriage contract between the late Dr. Schliemann and the Greek girl whom he made his second wife was to the effect that she should improve her knowledge of Homer by learning and reciting fifty lines of the Iliad nightly. Schliemann, when telling the story to his friends, always said that neither tears nor entreaties ever induced him to let her off a single line. Over its dispatches the other day about the Kansas Legislature The Cincinnati Enquirer put the’ following rhyming headline: They Have Plenty of Sense But Not Many Dollars. They Wear Black Ties and Laydown Collars. In the Hall of the House There is Nary a Tile, They Are There for Business and Not for Style. “ We’re Fresh from the Country and Somewhat Green, But Will Soon Be Able to Run the Machine.” At Straubing, in Bavaria, some Celtic tombs have been opened and found to contaih most interesting bronze ornaments and iron weapons belonging to the people of Rhretia before the Roman conquest. The long-sought-for Roman cemetery has also been a discovered—through the unearthing of a Roman tomb containing cinerary urns—flanking the old military road from Servidurum (Straubing) to Abusima, both situated on the Danube. Swelling of the feet, when of such character that a little hollow, or “pit,” is left behind after a few seconds’ pressure of the finger, should always excite alarm, as it is an indication of a condition of the system which may be serious. This kind of swelling may be due to disease of the heart or the kidneys, or it may rise simply from a condition of anaemia, or poverty of the blood. In either case it is a condition that should lead to a careful investigation by competent physician. ' > jfiß WiLIdSM Thomson demonstrates the solidity of the earth by rotating two eggs, one raw and the other cooked, suspended- by steel threads. The cooked egg behaves like any solid body,

and continues to move for a long time; but the raw egg soon comes to a stop, because the shell only was put in motion, and the friction of the matter of the egg soon overcomes the impulse. From this it appears that the earth cannot consist of a thin solid crust containing a liquid or pasty nucleus, such constitution being particularly incompatible with the movement of the terrestrial axis corresponding to the precession of the equinoxes. At the beginning of King Philip’s War, in Colonial times, King Philip had a coat or cape made of bits of shells of wampum. This was considered of great value among the Indians all over New England, because, each little shellbead in it was in their eyes a piece of money. Indeed if a man of our day should have a coat .made entirely of gold dollars strung upon beads and woven together, it would have the same value to us that Philip’s shell coat did to the Indians. But when the war began he bravely cut his precious garment in pieces, and used the wampum to hire warriors of other tribes to fight for him. « . .

Mr. A. M. Cannon gives a good report of his luck in Washington, where he is at present located, in Spokane Falls. “I went to the country,” he says, “when there weren’t any prospects except of getting your scalp taken off. al made a little money and started a sawmill, and bought a quarter section of land at $2.50 an acre. A man working for me at S2O a month, hauling slabs, pre-empted another quarter section next me. It came time for him to pay up and he couldn’t do it, so I bought a quarter section of him for SSOO. I’ve since sold off about $300,000 worth of that land, and there’s SBOO,OOO worth more. A movement is on foot to, if possible, put the railways of the United Kingdom under government control, to be operated for the nation and controlled by a government department to be established for the purpose. The railway systems of Great Britain and Ireland are said to be in a rotten condition and especially are the “third-class” passengers “oppressed” by the companies. It is argued that these steel roads are just as much public thoroughfares as the turnpike roads and are national avenues of commerce and as such should at once be bought up and maintained by the national a government for the benefit of the people at large. This is a move in the right direction. Ungraciousness is wholly opposed to all our ideas of good breeding. An ungracious person will never come up to our standard of a true gentleman or gentlewoman, although possibly wellborn and well educated. The sensation of insecurity a*d of being on the look-out for some ill-judged speech dissipates that safe and calm atmosphere which surrounds the truly refined. There is always a nervous dread of what may come next, and a feeling of constraint is generated. Persons who are much in the society of the ungracious foster insensibly a guarded carefulness as to topics likely to call forth a show of ungraciousness, and a cautious manner of feeling their way on a subject, so to speak, very trying to those having to practice it. Yet, with every care taken, the feeling will appear, and almost always when least expected, and on occasions seemingly calling for it the least.

One of the oldest houses on the New Jersey coast is that of Col. Albert L, Johnson, an ex-Confederate Kentuckian, who, after passing the better part of hia lifetime far inland, found leisure in advancing years and came straight to the Atlantic coast that he might indulge a long cherished passion for the sea. The house is close to the water at Bay Ridge. "When approached from the* land it appears to be a one-story structure set upon a hill, but once inside one finds that the front door is almost in the roof, and that below that part of the house visible from the landward side is story after story facing the sea. In fact, the house is built against a bluff, with only the roof and one story peeping above the hilL Thus almost every room in the house has a sea view, and is cooled in summer by the sea breeze. A powerful telescope is one equipment of the place, and with this tho owner is able to spy out every ship entering or departing from the harbor. Ingersoll as an Entertainer. Last winter CoL Ingersoll gave re/ ceptions to his friends on Sunday evenings. His parlors were always crowded, and the great Agnostic was the most delightful of men. He laughed with the girls, talked seriously with the men, cracked a joke at the supper table, and seemed to be as contented as man can well be. I noticed on more than one occasion, whenever some ill-man-nered person brought up the subject of religion, that Col. Ingersoll deftly turned the conversation. But upon one memorable night that I recall, Grace Greenwood, the authoress, turned to him and said familiarly, as do most of his friends: “Bob, what do you think of Shakspeare?” I suppose the question was prompted by a magnificent bust of the Bard of Avon that stood on a pedestal near by. Col. Ingersoll was not at a loss for an answer. He walked over to the bust, looked at the fectionately, and then in a low voice began as eloquent a tribute to the great poet as has ever been paid him. For five minutes he poured forth his eloquence in a low, calm voice, and when he looked up he found that *ll the men and women in the parlors were on tiptoe eager to catch every word that fell from his lips. I wish I could reproduce those words now, but I can’t.— New York Letter to Pittsburgh Leader. Moonlight Sonata. Young man (with young lady on his arm) —Can you tell me the way to Maple street, sir? Young lady—And please, sir, will you tell us the longest way around, because we are in no hurry at all, sir. Rural Auntie— My dear, your mother tells me you are going so get married. Miss de Fad—Yes, auntie, it’s all the style now.— Cincinnati Enquirer. 4 ■

NOT M’KIN)LEIED. THE FAILURE OF THE FARMER’S TARIFF EXPOSED. Porter’s New York Press Shows that the McKinley Duties Have Not Raised the Prices ot Fann Products—Facts and Figures Showing the Worthlessness ot the “Farmer’s Tariff.’' The protection papers can be depended upon to make admissions which damage their case and confirm the positions of the tariff reformers. The opponents of our present tariff system have at all times contended that protective duties on general farm’ products could not possibly result in any advantage to the farmers, since we are exporters of such products to an enormous extent, and since we import almost nothing in those lines. For these reasons tariff reformers predicted that McKinley’s so-called “farmers’ tariff” would prove a failure, since his duties on farm products could not raise the prices on such commodities. A prominent Republican journal now undertakes to show in detail that this prediction is fulfilled, that the prices of tarm products have not advanced. This journal is the New York Press', of which Robert P. Porter was editor before he became Superintendent of the Census. The Press was founded and has been kept alive by wealthy protectionists for the purpose of propagating the protection heresy. This protectionist missionary journal Undertakes in a two-column news article, entitled “Not ‘McKinleyed,’ ” to show that the McKinley law has not increased the price of the necessaries of life.

The Press goes about its task in a very light-hearted way. “There has been a great.deal of talk,” it says, “anent the new tariff law, that the measure was bound to raise the price of necessaries, would raise the price anyway, and great endeavors have been made by free-trad-ers to prove that the enactment of the bill introduced by Major McKinley has ‘enhanced the price pf necessaries to the poor,’ to employ an English common-law idiom. The Jaw has niw been, in effect three months, and the Press lias been looking around a little in this city and its suburbs to ascertain in a quiet way for itself what real y has been the effect of the McKinley law in its bearings upoh the necessaries of the table. The result in this city is that the free-trade outcry appears to have all the well-de-fined symptoms of a bugaboo.” With this jaunty introduction the Press proceeds to give brief interviews with grocers and ■butchers, and to print the price lists of some of these. Looking over these price lists, one sees that they art 1 made up entirely of the products of our farms, dairies and orchards. The prices of beef, mutton, pork and poultry, vegetables, green and canned fruits, canned meats, etc., are given in these lists, and we are assured by the merchants that these things are as cheap now as in October. This is precisely what ally man could have foretold; but it was not to be expected that one of the chief protection organs in the country would undertake to demonstrate to the farmers that McKinley’s tariff on farm products does them no possible good. One wholesale dealer in meats assured the Press reporter that “prices have been high right along for five months, and the McKinley bill has had no effect on them whatever. The fact is that the prices average two cents a pound lower than they did Nov. 1 ” A fruit dealer “declared that prices now ' remain steadily as they were Oct 1;” and a dealer in butter and cheese made precisely the same report for those articles. A firm of large pork dealdrs asserted that their prices were the same as Oct. 1. The head of this firm went on: “The fact is, we are purchasing a little cheaper than we were Oct. 1, but as we were selling very close then, the prices have not dropped. Hogs have not been so cheap in ten yeas as they are this year. They are two cents more a pound than they were Nov. 1, but that is due solely to the fact that feed is so high. It has nothing whatever to do with any tariff measure.” This article in the Press, as the farmer will see, was written for city readers, and was intended to show them that the McKinley law has not hurt them by raising the prices of farm produce. It , was noT intended for farmers, for the/ farmers must be made to believe tha't McKinley’s “farmer’s tariff” really does them some good. But how could the McKinley duties be expected to raise the prices of these things? Let the farmers reflect on a few figures of duties under the old law and under the McKinley law, together with our imports and exports of a few articles for the fiscal year 1890: Butter. —Old duty, 4 cents per pound; McKinley duty, 6 cents; imports, 75,523 pounds; exports, 29,748,043 pounds. Cheese. —Old duty 4 cents, McKinley duty 6 cents; imports, 9,263,573 pounds; exports, 95,376,053 pounds. Bacon. —Old duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 5 cents; imports (too insignificant to get into the Treasury reports, but all “meat products” were about §500,000 worth); exports, 531,899,000 pounds. Hams.—Old duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 5 cents; imports (none reported); exports, 76.591,000 pounds. Beef.—Old duty 1 cent, McKinley duty 2 cents; imports (none reported); exports, 353/500,000 pounds. Mutton.—Same duties as beef; imports (none reported); exports, 256,000 pounds. Pork. —(Fresh and pickled.) Same duties as beef; imports (none reported); /exports, 80,000,000 pounds. Lard.—Old duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 2 cents; imports (none reported); exports, 471.000,000 pounds. Apples.—Old duty (none), McKinley duty 25 cents per bushel; imports (none reported): exports 453,000 barrels. Dried Apples.—Old duty (none), McKinley duty 2 cents a pound; imports (none reported); exports, 20,800,000 pounds. J ' Barley.—Old duty 10 cents a bushel, McKinley duty 30 ceijts; imports, 11,330,000; exports, 1,400,000 bushels. Corn.—Old duty 10 cents, McKinley duty 15 cents; imports, 1,626 bushels; exports, 101,900,000 bushels. Oats. —Old duty 10 cents. McKinley duty 15 cents; imports, 2ROOO bushels; exports, 13,690.000 bushels. Oat Meal.—Old duty a half cent per pound, McKinley duty one cent; imports; 2,360.000 pounds: exports, 25,460,000 pounds. Wheat. —Old duty 30 cents a bushel, McKinley duty 25 cents; imports, 157,000 bushels; exports, 54,380,000 bushels. Flour.—Old duty 30 per cent., McKinley duty 25 per cent.; imports, 1,219 barrels; exports, 12,331,090 barrels. And yekMcKinley tried to remedy agricultural depression by raising the duties on farm products! Can anybody suppose that he thought an increase of duty on these products of the farm could have the slightest effect in raising prices, and thus in helping the farmers? If McKinley really expected his “farmers’ tariff” to have any such effect, this protectionist journal has taken pains to show that nothing of the kind has happened. What a sorry and discreditable thing the whole business is anyway! McKinley doubtless fancied that he was at ’least doing the cause of protection good service when he concocted this “farmers’, tariff,” and here is the protectionist Press equally sure that it is serving the cause of protection by showing its city readers that this same “farmers’ tariff* has had no effect at all in raising prices.

But then the protectionists may be depended upon to show up the inconsistencies and absurdities of their so-called system; for even protectionists cannot shut their eyes to facts all summer and winter, too. TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER BROWN.. NO. 14. Does the Tariff Develop Our Industries Symmetrically ? Dear Farmer Brown: The protectionists deal in much specious talk about promoting “the symmetrical development of our industries,” and “an equilibrium of all industries.” lu his speech in the Senate on September 10, last year. Senator Jones, of Nevada, gave expression to this idea by saying: “I believe, in order to have a perfect system of industries, there must be an equilibrium of all industries, and that this country must produce everything which by nature it is capable of producing.” What the protectionists mean by this “equilibrium of industries” and “symmetry of industries” seems to be a combination of two ideas: First, that all possible industries must be carried on in this country: and, secondly, that the rate of profits must be kept at about the same level in all industries. One industry, they argue, or think ■ they argue, must not be favored at the expense of another;

NO LONGER BLIND, fgggja w® I ■ r w * Justice can now see which side most needs her care.— Chicago Globe.

must not be allowed to outstrip another in. gaining wealth. Talk of this .kind, be it remembered, is indulged in by protectionists in defense of protection; and it is in favor of the manufacturing classes that such talk is uttered. But what an absurd position these men take here! Who is it that would make unfair and disproportionate gains if there were no protective tariff? They mean, of course, that the farmer would; for when they say there must be an “equilibrium” of .profits ill all industries, and when they say this in support of aprotective tariff in manufactured goods, they necessarily imply that without protection the farmer would make much greater profits and the manufacturer much smaller profits. But do you think that the farmer is getting his share now in this “equilibrium” of profits? Gov. Boies of lowa stated in his noted speech at the dinner of the New York Reform Club that farming had I been done at a loss during the past few. years in the great State of lowa. lowa is one of the greatest of our agricultural States, and when farming is done at a loss there, how must the condition of agriculture be in less favored States? It -rs it well-known fact that the farmers are now, as is confessed by that arch-protec-tionist Robert P. Porter, “passing through the gloomy valley of hard times. ” It is not to be wondered at that the conviction is settling down in the minds of the farmers that they are not getting all that justly belongs to them, and that far from having an “equilibrium” of profits, they are toiling :tnd other men are reaping the profits of that toil. Indeed, there are indisputable facts to show that, while the farmers are either laying up nothing or else actually going in debt, many others in protected classes are making enormous fortunes every year. Andrew Carnegie has become a millionaire, worth, it is said, some $50,000,000, and all this made in the manufacture of steel rails ana other steel products, made at a time when there was a duty of sl7 a ton on steel rails, and when the country wajs paying every year, by a comparison of actual prices, $50,000,000 for iron and steel products, over and above the price in England. The figure given officially by United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, as the total cost of prcducing a ton of steel rails, is $25.77. The steel rail manufacture of this country was in the hands of elevon companies ten years ago, but consolidations have reduced the number to six, and these have a “combine” to regulate prices. This combine has just put up the prices of steel rails $2 to $3 a ton, making the price §3(l This makes a net profit of $4.23 a ton. The New York Engineering anti Mining Journal estimates the annual output of Carnegie’s two rail mills at 600,000 tons. This amount at a net profit of $4.23 a ton would yield $2,538,000. One of Carnegie’s mills recently turned out .1.441 tons of rails in a single day. This amount would yield a net profit of s6,o9s—and all this in a single day! But this is only one case. We hear of a plate-glass company that makes 34 per cent, a year on its capital; of a lampware factory that declares a dividend ot 20 per cent, a year, and puts more than that into its surplus fund besides; of a cotton mill that earns dividends of from 20 to 37 per cent; of a copper mining company with a capital of $1,250,000 which has paid dividends of $34,350,000 during its brief existences Yet all the prosperous concerns here named are highly protected under the humbug plea of developing our industries “symmetrically.” r Is this what is meant by a symmetry' of industries? How does Carnegie's profits for a single day compare with the profits of all the farmers in your county for a whole month? Can protection, then, give us an equalization of industries? Have I hot succeeded in showing in previous letters that it is of the very essence and nature of protection to take away from one industry in order to give to another? As farming is the only industry which can be preyed upon by nearly all others in order to meet the expenses, of. this “equilibrium,” and as there is absolutely no way in which the farmers can even up accounts with those who get the “equilibrium,” is it not a clear case that this most important industry gets no good at all, but only harm and disaster, from a system of protected “equilibrium?"

« 1 1 These principles can be laid down as the bed-rock underneath all this tariff controversy; That no man will permanently engage in an industry which cannot be conducted on a paying basis; that if an industry cannot be profitably conducted without a tariff it is run at a loss to the consumer with a tariff; that such an industry cannot add to the “sym metry” ot our industrial life, for it withdraws men from work which can be profitably done and sets them to doing what is, under natural conditions, unprofitable; that in many protected industries an undue number of seekers after wealth rush in with the expectation of gain, build factories far in excess of the home market, and these factories are therefore compelled either to go out of business altogether or to shut down for a part of the year; and that the products of these factories are in most cases shut out of the foreign market by reason of the high price of tariff-taxed raw materials. Where such forces are at work, how can it be said that we have “symmetry?” Is it not more reasonable to expect to find “symmetry” and “equilibrium” in industries in a country where each man can turn his hand to the labor of his -choice, with no one to step in and demand a part of his earnings under tho name of “protection” to some other man’s work? Yours truly, Richard Knox.

AGAINST THE WOOL TAX. Tl\e wool tariff is doomed. The wool growers themselves have started to kill it. One of the most remarkable events in the recent, tariff agitation has just, happened. The oldest wool-growers' association in the country has passed resolutions strongly condemning the wool tax. and demanding that wool be placed on the free list. This is the Ontario and Livingston Sheep breeders and Woolgrowers'association, which recently held its twenty-fourth convention in Honeoye, N. Y. This association has always been strongly in favor of protection; but now a change has come over the spirit of its dreams. At the meeting referred to the following resolutions were passed: Whereas, It has been the policy in the past for this association to annually pass stereotyped resolutions praying Congress to restore the wool duty of 1867 or its equivalent; and Whereas, This association, finally recognizing (the unsoundness of its past position on this question, and ever ready to correct, any error into which it may have fallen, begs leave to submit the following: First—We recognize that the wool duty is a delusion and a snare to the wool grower, and that it has largely been instrumental in driving to the wall an industry it was calculated to benefit. Second —Prior to 1867, under the various changes of the wool duties, the price of wool fluctuated, not in sympathy with the tariff, but by reason of the ever controlling law of demand and supply, the grower having received high prices and low prices under high tariffs, and, conversely, low prices and high prices under low tariffs. Third—The success of the wool-grower depends on the success of the woolen manufacturer, while the American manufactuher is seriously handicapped by reason of being compelled to pay exorbitant tariff taxes on every pound of clothing wool imported for necessary admixture, while all foreign countries of any consequence have the benefit of free wool, and are thus enabled to undersell our manufacturers. Fourth—The great wool tariff of 1867 resulted in driving from the eight chief wool-producing States—for whose special benefit said tariff was conceived and passed— more than 50 per cent, of their sheep in a single decade, while the price of wool declined in a nearly corresponding ratio. Fisth —The importation of foreign wool increased from about 26,000,000 pounds in 1867 to more than 126,000,000 pounds in 1871, just four years succeeding the highest duty ever imposed on wool and woolens. Sixth—During eight of the past eighteen years the foreign price of imported clothing wools at the last port of export actually exceeded the price of our domestic fleece in the markets of Boston, New York or Philadelphia, while in no single year did the domestic wools bring the foreign price, plus the duty. Seventh—England. France, and Germany are the only three countries in the world that export woolen manufactures in excess of the Imports oflFawwool; in other words, these countries by admitting wool free have created a demand for their home wool in excess of all wools required to clothe their people, and, after giving employment to labor, export more wool than they have imported. The United States, on the other hand, by imposing a high duty on raw wool, has not only destroyed our export trade but so throttled our manufacturers as to ruin the market for domestic fleece and give to the English, French, and German manufacturers the cream of our markets for cloths. Eighth—The free importation of raw wool into the United States would knock out the imports of woolen goods, and would revive the present depressed state of our own manufactures, thus giving employment-to labor here, and creating an ’increased demand for our strong wools for necessary admixture. Ninth—Recognizing the truth of the above facts, therefore, we, the members of the Ontario and Livingston Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers'Association, in convention assembled, most respectfully petition Congress to immediately place wool and_ woolen manufactures on the free list, in order that these industries may again thrive and assume that magnitude commensurate with a nation of of people.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. The following bills were introduced in the Senate. January 26: Amending the gravelroad law: amending an act relative to the distribution of decedents’ estates; prohibiting other than relatives orthose having official authority from visiting certain wards in the insane asylums: also, making it discretiouarv with the Superintendents of such asylums whether visitors shall be admitted to any of the wards: providing for surveys for and improvements of drains; amending an act governing the construction of street railways; providing for the'distribution of an excess of funds assessed and collected for the construction of free gravel roads. Committee on Roads. Also: To provide for the transfer of insane convicts from the State prisons -or reformatory institutions to the insane asylums; protecting domestic animals, and to provide for the registration of dogs; making the gravel roads within the corporate limits of cities bordered by lands used for agricultural purposes a part of the free gravelroad system of the county: legalizing conveyances made by trustees of estates to creditors. The House passed a resolution refusing to appropriate money for a World’s Fair exhibit as long as there is a probability of the election bill becoming a law. In the Senate. January 27. a bill prohibiting the use of natural gas in flambeaus was ordered engrossed. The entire afternoon was devoted to a discussion of the concurrent resolution passed by the House withholding appropriations for the World’s Fair until the’United States Senate has disposed of the force bill. The resolution was adopted by a strict party vote. In the House there was a favorable report from the Judiciary Committee on Mr. Gleasner’s bill for the regulation of insanity inquests, apd the care of those thus adjudged insane, and the bill was ordered engrossed. Other bills, corning from this committee, were disposed of as indicated: Mr. Baker’s, concerning grand and petit juries, indefinitely postponed: Mr. Smith’s, regarding vacancies in the offices of Justice of the Peace, indefinitely postponed. Mr. Linemuth. amending the law regarding changes of venue, engrossed. The Senate. January 28, passed t-he following bills: Abolishing the office of State Mine Inspector and creak’ig the office of State Inspector of Mines: requiring manufacturing and mercantile establishments to furnish chairs for their women and girl employes when the latter are not engaged at their work; requiring corporations to pav their employes every two weeks- and prohibiting the use of scrip; reducing the rate of interest on school-fund loans from 8 per cent, to 6; providing for recording in its pendents record orders of court affecting the disposition of real estate; providing that constables may arrest horse-thieves without warrant and hold them until a warrant can be procured. A largo number of unimportant bills wore passed by the House and a few new ones introduced.

The following bills were passed by the Senate. Jan, 29: Legalizing the acts of deputy county officials under age; defining rape and providing penalties; making decisions of the Supreme Court evidence in certain cases: making more specific the provisions of the Barret law for the improvement of streets and alleys and construction of sewews: giving town trustees the same authority in the matter of making street improvements as that possessed by township trustees and road supervisors; legalizing the incorporation of Leavenworth. Crawford County. The following bills were read a third time and passed: In the House. Amending the law relating to mortgages so as to allow but fifteen days to record mortgages after they are made. The present law allows forty-five days to make such record. Abolishing the office of State Inspector of Oils and creating the office of State Supervisor of Oil Inspection, enabling cities and incorporated towns to license junk dealers, pawnbrokers and second hand dealers; to require them to keep registers of all pawns, purchases and exchanges. which registers shall be open at all times to the authorities, and making it unlawful for such dealers to buy. exchange or accept from persons under 18 years of age any articles or pawns except upon a written order from parents. This bill is designed to put a stop to petty thieving. Amending the act relating to the Plainfield Reformatory.

In the Senate. Jan, 30. memorial from Farmer’s Affiance and various labor organizations, asking for a number of reforms, among them being the passage of a fee and salary bill, and the enactment es a law taxing corporations to increase the State Revenue. Bills were introduced amending the Grubbs libel law. making Prosecuting Attorneys ex-officio members of Boards of County Commissioners. The Judiciary Committee reported favorable on a bill providing for the employment of five amanuenses by the Judges of the Supreme Court. Adjourned till Monday at 11 a. m. In the House, apportionment bills introduced, Chicago “pot hunters” to be excluded from the Kankakee regions. Adjourned till Monday, 2 p.m. Started the Graveyard. Out in the Erie coal fields near Burlington, Col., a few years ago a lean, freckle-faced fellow, with Spanish heels on his boots, walked into the Stone and Quartz saloon, at Burlington, and leaning his long body on his bony arms on the bar, turned round to the half dozen loiterers in the place, and with a drawl drew his lantern jaw down on his flannel shirt and said “How long has this yer camp been a runnin’?” “Two years,” replied the bartender, without raising his eyes. “Graveyard begun yit?* “Not yet.” “ ‘Bout time the camp had one. S’pose I start one?” One bony arm left the bar. It never reached it’s owner’s belt. There was a noise that sounded like a man dropping a log chain in an empty hardware store, and this noise was followed by a crash of exploding six shooters from the holsters. A curtain of white smoke rolled up against the ceiling. The man at the bar made a lurch and then fell upon the floor. Six bullets were in his body. A graveyard was started in Burlington next morning. The lean man started it himself. Burlington is now wiped out, but high up on Boar Rib Butte is one grave. It is the only one the camp left —N. Y. Dispatch. Judging from the number of hairless heads that assemble in the parque’te, the remorseless hand of time has been on a wholesale scalping expedition.— Peck's Sun. “Tight boots cause the blood tooflow to th* head,” says the Chicago Sun. That is the reason there is often so much slack in a dude’s pants.— Newman Independent. A Master of Many Languages. John Fiske, the historian and college professor, is well versed in languages. When only 18, besides his Greek and Latin, he could read fluently French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German, and had made a beginning in Dutch, Banish, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Sanscrit. A correspondent asks: “How ought temperance fanatics to be treated?” You onght never to treat them at all.— Boston Post. - Her -Love Subdued Tbeiu* Madam Conheur’s love and loving study of animals have given her strange control over them. It is now several' years since she gave to the Jardin des Plantes a beautiful lion and lioness, which to this day recognize her if she approaches their cage, and thrust their heads against the bars for the touch of her sympathetic little The New York Times is of the opinion that wedding presents are made for show purposes. They swell a newspaper account of a wedding to gratifying pro* portions. • * •

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