Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1894 — Page 2

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CHAPTER VllL—Confined. The night was as good a one as need have been, and though better had occasionally been known, there was on the present occasion, no call for complaint. Jerry, in particular, was fortunate, and the little girl’s spirits would have risen under the inspiring influence, if it had produced a like effect u: on her companion. But although Bellenden assisted both in taking the. fish off the hooks, and in baiting them again, and although he was always read}- with his congratulatory. “Another, Jerry? You are lucky to-night, " she felt t hat the spirit was alisent. and that the passing scene had only a faint, inadequate hold on his attention. His very smile was grave. But after a while, and that at a movement of her own. ho looked round quick;}. She hail shivered as the air grew colder, and a slight breeze had sprung up. •You are cold,” said Bellenden, at Once laying down his hand-line, “let me put this over your shoulders,” and he drew a rough, warm, weatherbeaten plaid around her. “Don't you go and catch cold to-night, and then be ill | after I a u gone. I ttle one."' “It won’t matter if I do.” The words c.-caped under her breath, i but they reached his ear nevertheless, ’ and he could not but make some response. “I ou think your chances of getting out on the moor and the loch will depart with me? Is that it? Is Cecil no good.-' 1 “I shall not care to go with Cecil.” “You cared to go by yourself before I came.” She was silent. It seemed to her that she would not care even to go by herself any more. But Bellenuen's tone grew more and more soft and gentle. It moved him infinitely. In his present subdued anti pensive frame, to think how much of her affections this open-hearted, in-nocent-minded child had given him in one short fortnight. It gratified his vanity, and something better than his vanity his benevolence. Hewasglad to think he had made anyone the happier. uarticularly anyone so sweet, and natural, and lovable as Geraldine. He p t his arm around her, and drew her to his side. “You must not forget me, Jerry,” he said. “No.” She had stopped fishing to listen. “I may come and see you again some day. may I not?” “Oh, yes.” “And you are going to be a good girl, and learn a great deal, and have a great deai to tell me wiien Ido come? And you will go on with our collections, and read up about them, and have them all in nice order?'" '/Oh, yes.” “I shall tell your cousins about you if I come across them.” “Shall you come across them?” “Very likely 1 may. if 1 meet Lord and Lady Haymond. I shall ask to see Ethel and Alicia, and tell them all about their little cousin in the north.” “Do you think they would care about me?” “I shall make them care about you.” I “You won t say that I am very— 1 very •” “Very what?” “You know what. You know how you found me that first fishing day. But indeed, 1 am not often as bad as that, and I am never going to be as bad again. I have promised granny that 1 shall not. Aunt Charlotte, and Ethel, and Alicia would have thought it dreadful. 1 don't want them to_thiuk me dreadful.” “I promise that they sha'n’t.” “Well, they won't if you stand up for me.” and Jerry smiled confidingly round. "Because I am grown up. I suppose.” “Oh. ves: and a man, and all that. They woula think a great deal of what you say: and if you say that I am— —” Here she stopped. “Goon. That you are ” “No; I am silly. “ “Not silly at all. I want to hear. Go on, there's a good child. You are quite safe with me,” und his arm pressed her a little closer. “I was only going to say if you would say I was rather nice—that is, if you could say it," said poor Jerry humbly. “they would tell Aunt Charlotte. ! and she would perhaps believe it. and that would please granny. You see Aunt Charlotte does not like mo very mueh now. and that vexes dear granny, who loves me so dreadfully, and I thought I tho. ght it might "just no one vise could do any good.” she concluded. There was something so truthful ana confiding in the limpid, childish eyes, and so artless in the childish < onfession, that Bellenden could not smile at it. “I will certainly do what I can,” he said, "and—and you were quite right to tell me all about it, Jerry dear. Now, you see, I know what I am about. And it a chance offers, why, of course, I shall embrace it at once.” And to himself he added, “Is there any hope that she will alw>ays remain like this? Will she, can she expect to be always as true and honest ' Or will she be like all the rest in a few short years?" and even the man of the world sighed. For he little knew, he little dreamed, that even then he had not seen to the depths of the heart he called a child's. Just before the boat touched the shore he stooped over Jerry for a moment. “Farewell to Loch Marew,” he said. “Farewell to all the kind hearts here. Farewell, Geraldine. Good-bye. dear child - say Good-bye' for 1 shall be up and away long before you are awake in the morning. lam to breaklast in my own room, so you must not get up ,

as on the shooting days. So—sav 'Good-bye then, while we may," and |ou her cold, rosy cheek she suddenly felt his warm breath, and then the I pressure of his lips in a kiss. Her heart seemed to stand still — the pulses in her throat to choke her. Cecil, raising at .he other end of the boat, seemed like a shadow in a dream: his voice calling to her. an echo from some far away distant spot. Mechanically she rose to obey the summons, touched the different hards held out to guide her, sprang ashore, and stumbled along over the dark, wet weeds, blind and deaf to all outer sights and sounds. The other two were behind, having stayed to help up the boat: but she waited for no one. And she never spoke to Bellenden again, nor turned j her back to look for him, but hurried forward along through the dim mazes of the woodland path, and in through the great porch, and up the broad i stairs, straight to her own chamber, to be seen of no one any more at all that night. lor she was not required to come ! down again. There was to be no supper, only what the gentlemen chose to send for. while a tray was dispatched to her-elf: and so the farewell on the water was really what it had been given out to be. the parting between the two for many and many a day. It had not been exactly so interned bv Bellenden. The kiss had been given on the impulse of the moment, and there had : been no intention of producing . uch an effect as he could perceive had been wrought thereby. “Is she angry, I wonder?” he had i thought, half amazed, and half cha grilled, but after all su h a thing was hardly likely. It had really been j nothing to make anyone angry; it had ; been nothing to think twi< e about. A dear little girl. A sudden parting, i I A tender good-bye. Everything prov- | , ocative and excusable. Jerry could | ' not have thought any harm. After all. ■ ' what is a k ss at i.Vr Within twenty-four hours that kiss was in the giver's memory as though it had never been. During his rapid journey south, and while he had perforce many lung hours for meditation as the swiftest express trains bore him on from one far distant stopping place to another, Bellenden did indeed— having no companion to talk to. and nothing to divert his attention bestow a considerable share of his ruminations upon his iate sojourn in the old Highland castle. It was a relief to turn to it as a memory when almost spent with conjectures and cogitations in the only other direction which at such a time could command his attention, and the repose of his monotonous life, and the charm of its I inter ourse, at once simple and refined, soothed and hushed his sp rit when disposed to be chafed and impatient by uncertainty and anxiety as to what now awaited him. But once arrived within the landmarks of his home, once assured that he was. as he had divined he would be. too late, the necessity for action, the cessation ot mere passive endurance, the release Iroru suspense, even the presence and voices of others, put an end at once and altogether to the visi ions of the past. The future must now be everything. The now experience began at once: new, and yet foreseen and anticipated. There was the hush, the solemnity, the mournfulness, the whispers, tho death-like pause of expectancy. The old butler bowing his white head, the uuderlings subsiding with profoundest respect into the background, the shadows of the women Kitting past in the dim distance - all wanting to look upon him. unseen themselves: all desirous of seeing him yet none daring to intrude. And then he had to meet his mother, his brothers, his uncles: to interview the steward and the coachman: to give his sanction i to projected arrangements: to hear what had already tieen done: to write ' letters. It was now twelve hours since tho spirit had departed, and twelve hours at such times seem long. Lady Bellenden had so far recovered from the first shock and impression, that she had seen her children and consulted with her maid. The young men had had a furtive stroll rcund the premises, and peeped by stealth into the paddocks and kennels. The stablemen and boys had known to keep out of the way and affect not to see. as the poor young fellows wanaered aimless;}-about, feeling they knew not exactly what, wondering what they should do next, and how much would be considered lawful under l the circumstances. One and all had 1 wearied for the arrival of the elder ! brother. To learn from him what would follow this sudden overturn ot all the past, what the new regime was likely to prove, and how it would affect each one of them, was now their very natural desire. Frederick had always been a good fellow, and they hoped the l<est -hoped he would not I change with his altered circumstances, ano appear.as others have been known , to do, a different man under different auspices. But who was to say? Thus Frederick’s arrival had been the thing most earnestly desired and anticipated both above and below stairs. It was late ere it took place, but no one wished to retire to rest first. For himself, he was too much confused and exited to feel fatigue. He had been traveling since 5 o’clock that morning, and he had not slept till long after midnight the night before; but he had not closed an eye all day. Even presently, even after ail calls and claims on his attention had ceased on the part of the household, and one by one the domestics departed tor the . night, and the doors had been locked, and silence within and without had settled down Stillmore deeply than before upon the house of mourning, even then the traveler seemed unwilling to be again alone. The brothers sat up with him. They talked together in quiet, subdued tones of the old days, the old boyish exploits, the quaint experiences, oyous or grievous, of the past Childish nicknames were recalled: childish jests were slip: ed o: t; little trifling tales rose once again to the lip, that but for such an hour had I een buried utterly. The old home seeme I dearer to one ’ and all than it had been supposed to be. Each had gone back to his own little

room. Each went to it that night happier Ilian on the previous one. Their lathe ■ was indeed gone: all wav over: they were very sorry: but— Frederick was all right, and their hearts were comforted. And Frederick himself? He also was now quited down. He knew the ground whereon he stood, and might be said to be already almo-t at home upon it. From sheer exhaustion of mind and body, long and heavy slumber at length visited his wearied frame, and the sun was high in the heavens ere he was aroused from his pillow on the following morning. But with consciousness awoke every new thought and reflection on the instant. A busy day—many busy days — lay before him. He must be" up and doing: no more lassitude, no more uncertainty. a whole crowd of things to be looked after, and instructions to lie given, and people to be seen awaited his appearance. All was solemn activity. and decorous supervision. Inchmarew Castle was like the palest spectre on its own misty heath, if ever the faintest recollection ot it flitted across his memory. And even that recollection was presently effaced. New claims, new responsibilities.new hopes and fears, a new arena in life altogether had to be entered upon.and with surprising rapidity Sir Frederick Bellenden accommodated himself to t he change. By-an l-by he gave uphiscommission in the army, and settled down at his country seat. Next came standing for his division of the county in Parliament. with the excitement of a contested election. Then the loss of the election, and the consolations of sport, hunting in the winter especially. There was yatching at Cowes moreover, grou-e and partridge and pheasant shooting as autumn came on again, and even a run to Scotland—and still never a thought of Geraldine. He hud not come across the Haymonds in the interim, and somehow he had omitted to look up young Raymond when in town, as he had meant io do. And he had ne. er sent the little heiress her present for he bad forgotten about it till too late. And. altogether, the thought of Inchmarew was not quite so pleasant as it had been at first, after his conscience told him he had not behaved so handsomely as he might have done: and again he resolved to make up for it, should occasion offer and again no occasion did offer: and so things went on for three full years, ami tlien—but what happened then calls for a new stage, and a fresh rising of the curtain. CHAPTER IX. THE BUTTERFLY TAKES HER FIRST FLIGHT. ‘ln London I never knew what I’d be at, F.urapt r.reit with tiffs and enchanted with that, I'm wild with the eweet; of variety a plan. And life :e uia a Meaning too happy for uian.' All was bustle and joyful alacrity in a smart little house in Mayfair. It was a bright, fresh spring morning, and though it was yet very early in May, the mildness of tho season had brought on leaf and blosso.n to such an extent that the parks, one and all, showed a blaze of rhododendron and azalea, glories, and the pink almond worn out and faded, was shedding itself in showers on every side. London was full and busy, and a brilliant season was prognostic 'ated. Mrs. Campbell had been lucky in finding a little bouse to suit her, and she han now been in town for more than a fortnight, during which every day had been fully occupied in preparations for the important time now at hand. For Geraldine was 18, and was to make her appearance in the world. As a preliminary, she was of course to make her courtsey, and kiss the hand of our most gracious Queen, and it is on the eventful morning of her so doing that we catch our next glimpse of the wild little witch of Inchmarew. Any greater contrast than this to our first peep at her under the weath-er-stained yellow oilskin and sailor cap cannot well be imagined - and the outer difference does but shadow forth the still greater one within. Three years had done its work, and done it well for Geraldine. She was taller, gentler, milder than of old-she was lovelier by far—she was no whit lesq truthful, honest, ana frank. The governess had been a great success; if a governess had been searched for the whole world through to suit the place, the pupil, and her surroundings. a better could not have been found than the quiet, earnest, sympathetic and large-hearted woman who presently found for herself so warm a corner of the little girl's heart. Very quickly she had fathomed the depths and shallows of the soil to he worked, and had gauged its value. There had been no rude measures, no hastv reforms such as wo dd have revolted Jerry's very soul, but, instead, there had been much kindly appreciation, a fair meed of praise where praise was due, and. above all, and it was this which had finally won the pupil’s entire ass ections —a candid ignorance on many tonics as to which Jerry herself was well qualified to instruct. To be asked to teach when she had only expected to learn! All the generosity and nobility of the child's nature haa been aroused by the supplication, and no cause had Miss Corunna ever had to repent it. Once begun under such auspices, the pursuit of knowledge had thriven apace.

Geraldine had actually exulted during the brief, dull, winter days, when there had been little to tempt her from her tasks, in the thought, that the hours which she had been wont to while away in unproductive trivialities or doleful complaints had been now hardly long enough for all she bad had to do. What with one thing and another the weeks had seemed to fly. for her eager spirit had set no bounds to its desires, until even her delighted and almost equally enthusiastic preceptress had demurred. She had hardly known how to be moderate in the race. [TO BE CONTINUED, j A man who can eat buckwheat cakesand sausage, and digest them, need not worry about death. A woman is more disagreeable tc the man who has told her he loved her than to any other man. There are so many humiliations in life, that a new one is encountered nearly every day. You seldom admire a man you see a great deal of.

TOOLS OF THE TRUST. GROCERS’ ASSOCIATIONS CONTROLLED BY HAVEMEYERS. tome of the Secret History of How the Prices nf Both Raw and Refined Suuars .Vre Dictated—How Republi* cans Squirm. A Timely Exposure. There is one phase of the sugar trust with which the public is but little familiar. Most people know something of the trust's ability to dictate prices of both raw and refined sugars; to close refineries and throw men out of work; to manipulate its stocks in Wall street by means of false rumors as to prospective dividends or profits to defy laws and courts by refusing to give statistics to the Census Department, or to allow Senate committees to examine its books; and to bribe enough Senators to procure favorable legislation. But few people, however, know that during the last four years the trust has built up the nearly forty wholesale grocers' associations which now cover all parts of this country, and has so planned them that their most important function is to serve the base interests of the trust. Yet such is the case. By an Ingeniously devised system of rebates to the grocers, who are members of wholesale associations, and who sell only the trust’s sugars (or sugars of refiners allied with the trust, as practically all now are), at prices fixed daily by the trust, the grocers’ associations become the Instruments of the trust in sustaining prices so that no person in this country can obtain sugar except at trust prices. More than that; the profits from the rebates have been large enough to make allies and defenders of these natural enemies of the trust. Several times, when called upon, these grocers have sent in hundreds of telegrams to Congressmen from all parts of the country begging or threatening them not to favor legislation which would destroy some or all of the unholy profits of the sugar trust. Congressman John De Witt Warner, who secured the passage of the freesugar bill through the House, and who is, perhaps, the best posted on sugar trust matters of any man not connected with sugar business, has written a very interesting pamphlet, printed by the Reform Club of New York, entitled “The Distributing Combine.” He has made a great collection of original documents, correspondence, etc., upon the subject, and gives the most accurate details of the heretofore secret history of this gigantic trust and its powerful allies in every State. At the end of his twenty-four-page pamphlet Mr. Warner thus summarizes the startling details of this wonderful trust:

“With the Spreckels in control of Hawaii, and the Havemeyers extending their plantations in Cuba, the trust dictates to every branch of sugar production and distribution in the United States, taking under its wing every one concerned—except those who consume sugar. From its office, at 117 Wall street, cable messages fly daily to its agents in Cuba, fixing the price of raw sugars there; to San Francisco announcing ‘Cuban parity,' at which arriving Hawaiian sugars are to be valued; to Louisiana, telling her planters what—ln view of Cuban and Hawaiian prices—the trust condescends to offer for American sugar; and to its representatives all over the world, giving the limit—based on Cuban parity— at which they can pick up Austrian, Javan, Philippine, Brazilian and other sugars, when these are temporarily depressed in price. In an adjoining room the quotations at or above which the subservient dealers throughout the country are permitted to sell sugars, are daily settled, and through the four great sugar brokers who stand nearest the throne these are passed to the fortyothers who awaits the sugar trust’s nod at New York and telegraphed to the waiting hundreds in other cities of the land. These in turn so promptly notify their patrons, the thousands of wholesale grocers of the country, that before their doors are opened all danger of any purchaser getting his sugar below trust prices is over for the day. By discount from his bill or periodical remittance, as the case may be, each faithful wholesaler is promptly and liberally paid for his loyalty; and whenever, in the crisis of legislation, he hears the bugle call of the trust, he instantly steps into line, ready to bombard his Congressman with telegrams or fight him with ballots at short range until the sugar trust cause is triumphant. “Such is the grandest trade organization the world has ever seen. “The sugar trust dictates the tribute that shall be rendered it by the American people. “The wholesale grocers are rewarded by whatever of largess the trust thinks necessary to insure their loyalty. “And the public?—‘The public be damned’—and it is.” Iron and Steel Need No Protection. In a letter to the Herald on the tariff Mr. Seneca D. Kimbark, of Chicago, a veteran in the iron and steel business, writes: “The Iron and steel trade of this country does not need protection now. The time was when it did need it, but that time is passed. Neither does the tinplate industry need protection. All it needs is for vigorous, young, patriotic Americans to go into it. They will build up and remove it from any danger of Welsh or other foreign competition. “Any industry that demands forty or fifty per cent, protection ought to die.” Mr. Kimbark very forcibly adds:

“I have been in the iron and steel toess for forty years, and I say protection. Tariff dnta > » re * Ot extraction of selfish greed at the> t <__ No testimony could be and or show more clearly the Him stupidity of the present poiky of the facing refuse to consider th. Him i iron ore and bituminous free list The passage of th . would help American iron dustries generaily-by enabling Hum to cheapen production and 1 “ large the sale of their produc«.both a home and In the world's market* If the question could be considered out political bias and apart rnm. a.l political partisanship. American mana faeturers would probably- lie almo* unanimous in demanding free do taxation for these and other raw materials.—New York Herald. Babcock's Heretical Idea". Mr Babcock, the chairman of the I» publican Congressional eommlttee. bw been openly repudiating the - \ * bill and saying “it was not desired J one Republican out of five, and was an unreasonable imposition of the *nan" faeturers. and that the country wi.l not in any case go back to it." For this he was sternly chastised by the party organ. the Tribune, this morning, in an interesting though amusing, article Babcock was wrong in attacking the McKinley tariff, because “that was the latest form of tariff framed and formally approved by the Republican party as a whole." But then this m;?at have been said of the twenty-four Republican tariffs which have preceded it since ISfil. Each was in its day “the latest form of tariff,” etc., but ever,, one of them must have been attacked by some sacrilegious Republican dog like Babcock, or els.- it would never have had to give place to another. The Tribune next admits that the tariff of 1890 "is not a fetich to be stupidly w >rshipped,” which is in substance what Babcock says. “Tho defects of the measure may be profitably explained and corrected when the opportunity comes.” which is also Babcock s view. “Whenever power conies from tile people to frame a new revenue law. tho Republicans will improve on the act of IS9O as far as they can." We do not know Babcock, but if he would deny this, he would be far worse than hfs friends represent him to be. The mis sion of the Republican party Is to “improve our tariffs" by making new ones. The explanation the Tribune gives the wretched man of the meaning of the election in 1894 will not. we fear, help him to clearer views of the situation : “It is just as well to quit the notion that the American people meant in 1894 exactly what they meant in 1892. The change operated mightily, and lie is a dolt who does pot see it. Whatever the verdict of Is.<2 meant, we maybe entirely sure that the verdict of 1894 means not only something different bnt on the whole something directly opposite.” Now this is not a case of excluded middle. It does not. under the present laws of thought, follow that because tho verdict of 1892 meant something uncertain or unknown, the verdict of 1594 means something directly opposite. If one declines to go South, it does not show that bo wants to go north. He may want to go northwest or southwest or e-tst by north-northoast. This, we are sure, is Babcock's view, and we adv ise him tn stand his ground. We are pained to observe, however, that Mr. Babcock, before the Tribune got at him, had already begun to recant. He now says he did not mean to critise the bill "as a whole," but on y some details, and declares that “the intelligence of an American people was the foundation of our strength as a nation," a remark which evidently puts somebody “in a hole.” but whom does not appear. Mr. Reed also recants a little, as does Mr Apsley. of Massacbusetts.-New York Bost Squirming Republicans. That the education on the tariff qnestlon that has been going on for six rears has extended to the Republican partv is evident from the discussion among their leaders as to whether or not their party is still for high protective or of moderately low duties. The following sent out from Washington a few da / g bveoftT Ne V° rk Times is t ve of the growing tendenev of Re p nb .

Nothing could be more distressing zealous Bourbon Republicans »l ’v° agitation which is prog the the country in ' that discredits MeKinleyism hson, Sherman. Butterwn-*!. , ’ Al ' Republicans hare helped Other tendency on. and therlpX helped it too mueh. ChGrSnn has been endeavoring to eat nn •> ment attributed to him and ? StatP ' the moderate tariff id'en \ n rt PI l Ortlng strances against tho heresr A J” 011 ' all over the Capitol. ’ hean3 Capt. Boutelle, who is alw«r a ical and superlative in language hf at ° r ' his face against the temle n ’’ t^ Set and in words that can hare but ay ’ mg he says, in tones that cal for blocks: can ** teard “Instead of retreating th* <«. Os protection has adrafeed and lifted them hi ghe r than The demand for the nresorv..- "afore. American market for the r.kJto?? Os industry, and for such ° f Oat guarantee to American X™ Wiil greatest practicable th ' ployments and the highest " f ™' consistent aith the the whole people has boon . welfare of pons this UiXte« ,h < any man or set of mi » u q, . “ tones > and disregards or seeks to misinV^ 7 Whc mandate will fail to mu=te * nt ‘ W that guard of supporters cor Poral‘t and patriotic f<X la,el “«nt hope and future The v ai r. H '‘ nrs " 5 Li = ht ‘ iha^’at’c 0 u th< 'a. It is i fee* VA H ' >nr y wholly of iron. ” hel S ht > hudf

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. items gathered from OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary nt the Mors | m . portant Domg-t ot Oar Xoighbora-W ( .<L dioga and l»e»«ha-t rime* CasMltlea, ami Uca«™* Indiana kewe Metes. lion. J»tn« M. Harrett. Senator Janies M. Barrett of Fort Wayne, is onr of the young, hustling Democrats of Northern Indiana, and is a leader among the politicians of his party. He is a member of the firm of Morris. Bell, Barrett 4 Morris and his ability in that line is fully attested bv the success which his firm hag attained in the many legal battles in which tliey have participated. He made his first political speech at a poll raising in the > ix th Ward in 187 S, in honor of Mr. Charles A. Munson, then a candidate for Sheriff, and took an active part on the stump in every campaign since. In’lxsd he was elected Senator from Allen Countv by a majority of 1.937, that being tlie largest majority of any candidate on the Democratic County ticket. At the same election the Hon. J. B. White, Republican candidate for Congress, and the Hon. A. A. Chapin. Republican candidate for Judge of the Sujierior Court, were elected over their Democratic opponents. j n t . -sloiivf the state Senate of ISS7, was Chairman of the Committee on Prisons. and a member of the Committee on the ’ • ■/ - .■> ■ : - HOS. JAMES M. BARRETT. Judiciary and cities and Towns. AsCl-.air-manof the Committee on Prisons in 1887 he made an inv, siigation of the Southern Prison located at Jeffersonvilb-, and made a report to the Senate of the condition, mismanagement, and corrupt practices then existing in tlie State prison which compelled the resignation of the warden and directors (all Democrats i and resulted in the selection of an entirely new management. Also prepare*! and introduced a bill forthe complete reorganization of the prison system of the State by taking-the apjiointnient of directors away from the Legislature, and putting it in the han<ls of tlie Governor with power of removal. The bill, like all other bills of that session, failed to become a law by reason of tbe well-rememliered "d ead lock" of that session. A similar bill, however, was passed by the Democratic Legislature of 1893, and is now a law. In 1889 was made Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary -the most important and hardest worked committee of tlie Senate, and to which are referred all important measures. To this committee was referred the several bills of that session looking to tlie securing of a new election law for Indiana. As Chairman he prepared and reported a substitute bill, which was passed, and is now known as the Australian ballot law. Took an active part on the floor of tbe Senate in securing the passage of the School Book Law, and introduced and passed through the Senate a stringent bill against all trusts and combines, but which failed to pass the Lower House. He was author of the street improvement law. generally known as the “Barrett law." under which all street improvements in the cities and towns of Indiana have been made for the past six years, and which gave an iin|>etus to street improvements in every part of the State, so that the principal streets of the cities maybe said to be "lifted out of the mud." After tlie elos, of the session of 1889. the Indianapolis S-ntinel paid him the following compliment: "Among the Democratic leaders of the Fifty-sixth General Assembly none have taken higher rank or wielded greater influence than Senator Barrett of Allen County. He is a young man of extraordinary ability and untiring industry, and possesses all tho qualities for Ixfld and successful leadership, Ills knowleilge of tbe various departments of the State government and of tlie necessities and wants of the people is broad and comprehensive. He is a dilligent student. an indefatigable worker, a ready debater. and an excellent parliamentarian. He is well versed in the science of government, and his ideas of public duty are of tlie highest. He was one of the most conspicuous figures in the session just ended, and to him, as much as to and other member of either chamber, »s due the successful issue of the fight for election reform, and the rout of the schoolbook trust. Few men better equipi"'*! for legislative duties have ever sat in an Indiana General Assembly.” Senator i- Chairman of the Allen County Democratic Central Committee at tlie present time. His l ?al ability was recognized by the Commissioners of Allen County in their selection of him as County Attorney. Minor State Items* Scottsbubo i s clamoring fora creamery. Gosuex w ill hold a grand carnival next month. "ki.eans authorities are having a tussle with crap-shootera. DtAiioxo plate glass company, Kokomo, nave drilled in five monster gas wells the past week. A cemetery company has been organ‘“■ff ' incennes with 1,000 shares of stock at SSO each. f, < -iiiFFiTH, a Muncie attorney, lost I ll "“’ , 'tl»«>k. a year ago. containing $lO anil aluable papers. Tlie papers were retimed to him the other day by mail, w'/ * ra nce, living six miles south of 'j”'h, was taken in by lightning-rod f 1 '*' ,le made a contract with them io roa tus f„ r j2o. and was to receive went}-dollar discount bv way of adverilfi")? ! le business. After the swindlers ““ lullnu he had contracted for seven Points at $25 per point. tv. o E tx) ' ler °f the Vincennes Novelty being blown through the »a.i of ,he engine room. Brisk and other bris was hurled many squares. A flying vaM kW H ntas far as the Catholic school held d ; trui ' k a boy named Lane on the fatal’ c , tlng a ’ ound that may prove “Ml. The loss will be s3,uuo.