Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1883 — Page 1

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CAPKB THItIMPHAST. 9PH ' BY 8 H. EL The goat stood by the bill board* Ana he tore a > srd or so From the gaviy colored bills which were To advertise the show. And as he chewtd r flectire,, W th a quier. s nl nl Joy, Another personage appeared— An unsuspecting boy. lie did not see the a-imal, Which* ra , pant, doth appear AVI h ore feet on the oak* n keg Which ho ds the springtide bee*; But he gazed upon the j ostere, And his y.jr.ng heart lltd with glee, , For his means w o Id gain him entrance To the Upper gallery. The capr'oom, however, Saw the boy, and ctraightway he Left li s meal and hied himthiiherwaad WKh great voiccity. The boy went thr< n. h the bill board, ■ Bui, tne goat, unmoved by that, - j tMffkti i laci i mien stood-8 ill and ate The boy s abandoned bat. — Tuck.

“NEVER UNDER 500."

A Tale of Life Snsnranee. “We never dispute under 500 pounds, of course,” said Mr. Luke Franks. “ But if you pay on fire policies which you know are frauds, you are encouraging crime I” replied his friend L Blake. li “ Not in the city; competition in the city is so deadly.” “But what about the neighbors who get stirred up and nearly frightened out of their lives?” “ Well, really we have nothing to do with the neighbors—in the city.” “ It does look bad, though 1” “ Pooh 1” replied Mr. Luke Frank, “ you know nothing abofit business—you are a retired Paymaster in the navy, with a longish family of boys rations. Your idea of life is a strict ledger and three dozen for everytliing beyond discipline. Give me another cut of beef. But business is business, you know, and insurance is —the—dev-il. I give you my word, as sec. of a right rippon company, that wo dare not question increased policies.” “ How do yon mean ?” “Suppose Stubbs,-greengrocer, insures for a hundred and fifty and suddenly runs it up to three hundred—what wonld you do?” “ See where the other hundred and fifty was!” “Precisely, and ruin the company. We should ask Stubbs two or three proforma questions, shut our eyes, take his money and ” “ And pay him his money when he burnt his house down ?” “My dear fellow, there are 800 chances to one that he will not attempt to bum his house down—l,Boo to one that it will not be burnt down when he fires it.” “I don’t follow you!” “More ledger work, my dear boy. Try and follow me. By delicate calculations we find that out of 300 scoundrels who increase tlieir policies without making any addition to their household, goods, or business stock, only one rises to the point of striking the lucifer, as we call firing a house. We also find that only one in six of the small houses overinsured and set fire to are burnt out. Briefly, we make £897 profit upon intentional and foiled rascality as against one failure, say for £3oo—anu that we generally cut down by the display of good humor.” “Why, I thought you said you never disputed anything under £SOO. ” “Dispute, my good Blake—no, we never think of it. But we do argue; and when I put itoto you that nineteen out of twenty incendiaries are arrant cowards you can understand that we get off with something under a £SO note, which would be what, perhaps, the goods burned were worth.” “Bpt if all the insurance companies combined to be honest?” “The fire brigade could go home. But it is not to be thought of. Business is business.” “I suppose there are some real fires ?” said dismayed John Blake. “Yes; rats which toy with lucifers are our chief enemies, and sour servants of all kinds, with a grudge, d.t’s., or warning-” “Well,” said Mrs. Blake, who had been listening intently, “if you have done with the beef we will have up the cheese. ” Those who read these pages need be no further informed as- to the three persons here mentioned —two old school-fellows, one talking “shop,” over a supper at the house of one of them, the wife making a third. Neither Blake nor his spouse had an idea of evil as the candid secretary displayed the secrets of his office. Blit temptation, in the shape of a letter, was then pitching over the Atlantic. It was a very short missive. “By the next post expect a letter, a blank sheet of paper; you will know what to do with it.” This was addressed to “Dear Providence,” who had been a Miss Mittigen, presumably Portuguese and perhaps of Jewish origin,-a devoted mother to her boys and a perfect tigress in their interests. With this woman maternal love had developed into a danger; a keen and eager woman, like a hungry weasel, was Mrs. Blake. She belonged to an adroit family, small, active, restless. Her five brothers; finding England too small for their development, all went to America, where, at the time this short letter was pitching across the Atlantic, their number had been reduced to two. The other three had passed over to the majority—after short interviews with Judge Lynch. At the end of abont three seconds, or may be a fraction more, Mrs. Blake had the thread of the enigma, and said: “The blank sheet of paper will be & letter written with sympathetic ink, and when we hold it to the fire ( my dear brother’s letter will come out in lemoncolored writing! We used to write letters in that way!” Blake looked rather ruefully concerning “my dear brother,” who, despite his great performance, was, like his lessening host of brothers, always wanting a “ten-pounder” from “dear Prowy.” “This time,” said Providence Blake, *T feel it i sfortune.” “I’m sure I hope you are right, my dear,” said the Paymaster pensioner, “for there’s John would make a fine engineer, James is a born doctor, while Charles is really great in the building way, and I’ve no money saved. How eonld I have? It has.gone so many Ways.” “No reproaches, Jack—my brothers will pay back fourfold, nay, a hundred; and my boys are to be men. I’ll never submit to mediocrity. You forget that if my family have come down upcu you, your brother James must have drawn hundreds!” “But he has gone for good, and he is in Australia!” “I doubt if for good,” she replied,

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looking dreamily through the window— j then, starring, she said: “And not ra Australia, Jack, for here he comes, a j complete wreck, drifting up the garden.” The good fellow was in a moment steering out to meet a most miserablelooking object—unmistakably John Blake’s brother. “Don’t upbraid me, Jack, I’ve only come home to die.” Here the reader should be impressed by the fact that Bftke’s three boys were at boarding school; moreover, that Mrs. Blake was without a servant. Only she, her hnsband, and his'twin brother were that evening in the house. Let us get to the point when the brother was put to bed, very ill and very comfortable. “11l have nothing said to the neighbors,” observed Mrs. Blake to her husband, “about this shameful return. We must get him away before the boys come home, and, pension him off.” “As you think fit, my dear—but are we not wonderfully alike ?” . “Disgracefully so! it is as though you were dying, Jack!” “No fear of that.”

The blank sheet of paper came the very next day, the lemon-colored writing appeared, and the eagle-eyed little woman read: Dear Prowy —You remember our cipher writing? A letter will come next poet after this which will reveal aIL , To be brief—the third letter arrived. Prowy, as she was always called, had furbished up the cipher, and she read - - Dear P.—flick and me have struck oil, or know where to strike it—a thousand barrels a day. Borne Germans farm the land and know nothing of the oil worka Get Jack to find ns £3,000, and I guarantee £IOO,OOO for It in a month. You'know what striking oil means? She did, and she freely put it to her husband. “My dear, I can no more raise £3,000 than I can fly.” “I have it,” she screamed. «“What

“Yes,” she yelled, and dashed from the room. Five minutes—not five minutes elapsed, when she came back radiantly diabolical. “If you ure not an absolute ass, John Blake, in six months we shall l)e millionaires. John will be preparing for a great useful engineer, James will bo striving to help the world as a doctor, and Charles will lie on the way to give noble buildings to a thoughtless world; and I promise that not a shilling shall ultimately be lost by any living soul or public company. Do you say yes, or will you break my heart ?” “Yes, if it’s honest,” for John knew his wife and her family.

“You must insure your life in six offices for SSOO in each—don’t go to Luke Franks! I’ve saved enough money to pay for the first year’s premiums. Don’t stare! Then you must go away—over to my brothers, and there you must wait events! While here, James, your twill brother will die in your place, as you. I have made him understand that it is the only way in which he can pay Sou back something of all he owes you. [e burst into tears, and agreed. ” “The devil doubt yon—l don’t. You are a pretty pair! But I’ll have nothing to do with it!” “What! and ruin my dear children? I tell you every penny shall be returned to the insurance companies as conscience money. It Avill only be borrowing of them without their saying yes. Would you dare ruin my sons?” “Well, well —if nobody in the long run is robbed.”

“I have made out the list of offices—the ‘Hand and Heart,’ the ‘Rose and Thistle,’ the ‘Harp,’ the ‘Crown,’ the ‘Phaeton,’ and the ‘Royal .Standard,’ and the addresses. Here’s half-a-sov-ereign for p.c. Go directly.” That same night a mysterious cab removed the iniquitous elderly twin. Next day the new servant found as occupants Mr. and Mrs. John Blake, and no signs of any one else. Within a week John Blake had passed the six doctors (affiliated to six insurance companies) with flying colors, while, through the inter-secret service of the insurance companies, their directors wpre "enabled to possess the information that six of them had been favored by John. No suspicion was raised, for his character was perfect, his pension was beyond question, while many men distribute their insurance investments under similar circumstances, witjj the cautious idea that, if one company breaks, all can’t go. Two days afterward Mrs. Blake announced to the talkative neighbor that she and Mr. Blake were going for a month to the seaside, before the boys came from school.

A week afterward the neighbor received a letter, saying that Mr. Blake had caught a deathly cold, rescuing a boy who. was drowning, and that he was laid up. As a matter of fact, the boy had pitched into John for interfering with him while out bathing. Upon the night after the rescue, the landlady thought her lodgers were moving about a good deal, but took no notice. That night James was changed for John—who removed to Liverpool, whence he took a comfortable passage to America, and to the hut. occupied by brothers Zeph and Nick, who received him with all the honors. A week after her alarming letter, Mrs. John Blake was seen coming home in great tribulation— with her dear husband swathed in blankets, which were boiling over the frames of the cab windows. The whole neighborhood marked the family doctor drive up. - Said the family doctor ten minutes after, in consultation with Mrs. Blake: “Has my poor friend had a blow on the head?” “I fear so; but what—what makes you think this ?” “He asked after my little boy, and I have Only a little girl; I fear he is slightly light-headed. He is vastly changed—indeed, I hardly know him, though, of course, it is lie. I could swear to him by the birth-mark on his chest.”

Here Mrs. B. felt her _ senses going at this risk which the twin had nearly brought upon the scheme. How account for the faint? She had but a moment. “Is there danger, doctor?” “I fear so,” said he, very slowly. Down she fell, and Dr. Jolke at his great examination before the Syndicate of Insurance Companies’ Directors swore it was no pretense. Ten days afterward Mr. John Blake, R. N? (so the Times said), died at his residence in Canonbury Park of rapid consumption. It was rapid. A month previously be -had been passed by six doctors, attached to as many insurance companies, as perfectly healthy, and likely to live many years. On the day after the funeral, ,Mrs. Blake, .withoutany reference to the family solicitor, Wrote to each of the six companies for her £SOO, making the

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statement on a mere -itirtr paper, floating in a perfect ocean of black-edge. At the end of a week, by the same post, cannTsix letters from the Secretaries of as many insurance companies, disputing the claim, bnt offering to compromise it. Each Secretary had based his letter upon the decision of a syndicate.' • She wrote six notes as follows: Sib: I amin formed that you are bound to pay the insurance money, due to me by dear husband’s death, at the expiration of three months; if by that time the amount is not paid, on the folio a lug morning" I shall make a personal appeal to the Lord Mayor. Yours in grief, Providence Blase (Widow} Those six companies’ directors went nearly wild with indignation. They spent hundreds in detection, and detected nothing; the doctors, the neighbors, the servant, all were tested, and all testified for the widow., The body was legally exhumed, and that gave better evidence still. Seven old companions of John Blake swore to the remains—for, as you know, there had been a twin birthmark even. Then they tackled the will made early in the evening preceding that night when the landlady of the seaside lodging heard a great, deal of racket. No question about the will—leaving Prov. everything. Three clerks <from the Admiralty, who had known Blake’s handwriting ’ through twenty yews, swore to the signature. So the companies paid the money, and the lady insisted on six humble apologies, which she also obtained.

Six weeks after that collective £3,000 was paid some wonderful news came from the oil-field district of the United States. The firm ©f Messrs. Mittigen Bros, had purchased the Rightaway estate (2,000 acres)* held by a German colony, and had tapped an oil realm which had yielded as much as 2,000 barrels in one day. The land had been let on quarter-acre runs, at the rate of SI,OOO per acre per annum and a royalty of one-fourth of the sales. Should the field hold out, the Brothers Mittigen would be big millionaires. Already upon the land a town had sprung up in a fortnight. Two vigilance committees had been formed to protect the property, and a newspaper started. A month passed, and each of those life Insurance companies received on the same day, and in the same handwriting, drafts each for £SOO. It was Mrs. Blake who forwarded drafts and letters, the latter intimating that she had inherited a large fortune in America and could not condescend to keep money which had been paid her so grudgingly. She had kept her word—not a soul had actually been robbed of a penny, and her sons might work nntrammeled by want of means —and as hard, as they liked.

This they have done, and are most respectable members of society. But poor, comparatively innocent, John Blake! He has had to remain for years dead to liis own sons —bnt bis wife has promised him that when he is a little more changed he shall come to England as his own brother and pass among “my dear boys” as their “uncle.” The Riglitawny oil fields are one of the great properties of America, but, unfortunately, tlie Brothers Mittigen are no longer interested in the concern, having met with a couple of “leaden favors” at “eucher” in the very “saloon” they had themselves opened at Rightaway in order to make things pleasant. Millionaire Mrs. Blake receives scores of offers by the week, but she refuses all. She is a noble widow,’ devoted to her three very clever and distinguished sons.

Life in Tokio.

The Rev. W. E. Griffs writes from Tokio, Japan, to the Christian Intelligencer: Yeddo began to be a large city in 1603, when Japan’s greatest ruler, Eseyasu, made the place his headquarters. Until 1854 it was never visited by foreigners, except the Dutch merchants from Nagasaki; but in 1868 the mikado left Kioto; which had been tlie old capital for over nine hundred years, and made Bay-door the kio, or capital. Then *it became “The Wonderful City of Tokio,” about which Mr. ' Greer has written a lively book, as full of pictures as a Japanese novel. Those who read “The Young Americans in Japan,” will know at once without any introduction who Mr. and Mrs. Jewett, and Fritz and Sallio and Otto Nambo are. *Tfciey are living in Tokio, and many a pleasant walk do they take through its lively streets. They live in a Japanesfe house, which consists chiefly of paper, matting, thin wood and tiled, and which rocks in the frequent earthquakes like a cradle. They don’t plaster the ceilings or Avails, chiefly because sculls are softer than hard lime, and a lively earthquake, which shivers as though old mother earth had a chill, ’tumbles over the lamps, so that fires are numerous. For a whole village to be wiped off the face of the earth like rows of chalk-figures off a black board is no uncommon sight. I have seen, at one time,-three or four miles of burning houses in Tokio. The Japanestake it, as a matter of course, as a thing that cannot be helped. But it is rather hard for people from less combustible cities, who see their more expensive houses, churches and stores laid in ashes because the natives are as careless os foolish children. Now the old swamps of Bay-door are filled up, and Tsuki-ji (filled-iniland) is the part of Tokio in which our missionaries live and Christian houses of worship are built—though our Reformed church has other chapels in this great wilderness of houses. Nowadays when our parlors, dining and bed-rooms and summer cottages are decorated Avith gay Japanese fans, parasols, curtains, racks, napkins, and all the brightly colored paper finery and lacquered woodwork, it is fine fun to read of the Jewetts visiting the Japanese fan-makers at' home, seeing the porcelain-painters at work, and going shopping in .Tokio stores where every one sits on the floor and sips tea, while the clerks add up their columns of figures on rows of sticks full of sliding bnttons. Notwithstanding all their pretty things,Hnany of them are very costly, the greater part of the people are very poor, and earn but a few cents daily.

The cotton-manufacturing industry, long a Northern monopoly, is moving toward the neighborhood of the cottonlields, and Southern newspapers confidently. say the erection of Southern cotton-mills has already made itself sensibv felt in the Northern market; that the manufacturers of coarse yams find themselves unable to withstand the pressure of Southern competition, and that Southern manufacturers are declaring handsome dividends, while the Northern mills are running on short lime and reduced wages. *

RENSSELAER, JASPER COtTNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1883.

A WILLING TOOL.

The Exploits of Robert F. Porter on tho Packed Tariff Commission—Th* Interests of the Extreme Protectionists Assiduously Looked After—A Suggestive Correspondence Carried on with Pig-Iron Kelley—Mr. Kenner’s Doings. [Washington Telegram to Chicago ’nmea.l The more" the letters of the Tariff Commissioners are examined the plainer it is that the commission was packed in the interest of the importers, and that Judge Kelley, acting through his man Friday, who usually signs his name Robert P. Porter; was manipulating the commission after his own fashion. The high compliments paid by Judge Kelley to the work of the commission in his speech to-day would be almost enough of itself to condemn the commission in the minds of men who are not monomaniacs on the subject of protection. The following is one of the first letters written by Porter to the gentleman who got him on the commission in payment of a large invoice of taffy, and the sight of whose portrait threw Porter into ecstasies:

Long Branch, July 19,1883. Hon. William D. Kelley, House of Representatives, Washington: My Dear Judge— l have been here since last Saturday, and am getting a little accustomed to the place and acquainted with many of the people. According to the arrangement made in Washington, Henry Bower came here on Sunday and presented, in a very elaborate and carefully-prepared argument, the case of the chemical industries of the United States. The clear and concise manner in which he presented some of his tables—notably those in reply to Moore’s attacks in the Time* —both surprised and gratified me. It* is evident that Mr. Bower has his facts well In hand, and that he will make quite an impression on the commission I have no doubt The argument was to have been resumed on Monday night, but he was taken ill; and, though I trust it is nothing serious, he was obliged to return without completing the matter. Among other things, he called my attention to a history of Venice, which was in French, but from which I learned some entirely new facts in regard to the manner In which tho citizens of Venice encouraged aud built up their enormous Industries. I shall undoubted y be able to a sist Mr. Bower in laying the cause of the chemical industries before the commisson. lam still unsatisfied with the President His absurd policy in attempting to manage everything himself, even to the priming and so on, naturally blocks the work, and I am afraid that, unless Harry Oliver. MacMa on and myseit can get him right down to business, our worst fears will be realized. However, we must live in hope, and possibly the real, earnest work will smother his present notions and posing. From the papers, I see that you are ire ty sure of adjourning by the Ist It is highly important that you should get off theu, or the opening of the Denver Exposition will have to be postponed. Plea e write me at your earliest convenience, and let me know exactly whut the House will do in regard to tariff matters, as It is highly important that I should be informed on this point as early as possible. Your son was < own here on Sunday, looking very well, and I trust you will redeem a our promise and come down before we get through. Faithfully yours, Robert P. Porter.

This letter shows several things very clearly, and among others the fitness of Porter to hear as a Judge the arguments of Bower and Moore. It also shows that Porter was less fastidious as ta appearances than Kenner Avas. Kenner wrote to-a Louisiana friend that he could not appear as counsel in a case on which he sat as a Judge, therefore he wanted his correspondent to perform the duties of counsel. But Porter says frankly that he “shall undoubtedly be able to assist Mr. Bower in laying the case of the- chemical industries before the commission,”'of which Porter Avas part. It further appears that Porter and Kelley were dissatisfied with Mr. Hayes, President of the commission. “Harry Oliver, MacMalion and myself” did not succeed in “getting him right doAvn to business,” and so two measures Avere invented for circumventing him. In the first place, a committee on order of business and route of travel, composed of Kenner, Oliver and Porter, -was organized, and this "took from Mr. Hayes most of his Presidential prerogatives. The rest were taken lrom him by the simple device of going into committee of the whole Avitli Mr. Ambler in .the chair. Thus was Mr. Hayes reduced to the rank of a figurehead. The French history of .Venice which Avas tin-own in Porter’s way was turned over to a learned person acquainted Avith the barbarous tongue in which it Avas written, and portions of it Avere translated into good United States, and the United States paid for Mr. Porter’s lack of acquaintance Avith French, the pay of the translator going into the expenses of the commission. But the people of this country do not grudge any money spent in giving Porter information. It would be interesting to knoAV, however, what lessons a state which lived by foreign commerce could teach a school of alleged economists, the greatest of whom regretted that the Atlantic ocean was not an ocean of fire, so that there could be no commerce upon it. The following letter from Porter to Col. Seaton, Superintendent of Ihe Census, raises some horrible suspicions of the A r alue of the census, portions of which were prepared under Porter’s supervision. Porter’s residence, by tho Avav, bothered him a good deal. When he went to Washington he was a resident of Illiy nois. Later he became connected with a New York concern. While a census official he registered from New York, and so made out a bill for expenses while in Washington on tl**-pretense that he was away from home. But when he went on the Tariff Commission he went on as a resident of the District of Columbia, because Illinois and New York were other-wise represented on tho’ commission.

Long Branch, Ang. 10, l&w. Charles W. Seaton, Superintendent of the Census Bureau, Washington, D. C.: My Dear Colonel— We had before the commission to-day a delegation of gentlemen representing the sadd ery hardware industry. They would have been very sflad to have presented statistics indicating the magnitude of their trade, but, unfortunately, on looking throngh the preliminary bulletin referring to the manufactures of tho twenty principal cities of the United States, we were wholly at a loss to find out where they had been classified, as in onlv one case—that of Newark (page V!>—could we find any mention o» “hardware saddlery,” In which there are enumerated thirty-five establishments. #75,000 capital and 1,248 as the largestmumberof hands employed at any one time during the year. What we should like to know is whether the are classified under “hardware,” which o n hardly be the case, as the total is comparatively insignificant I also took out the capi al given under saddlery and harness, which only amounts to #5.00(i 000 in a’l, and could not represent sadd'erv hardware. Mr. Oliver is inclined to think' that in Pittsburgh it has been included under iron and steel, because he says he has as much capital Invested and as many men emnloyed in this business as yon gave for the total hardware saddlery trade In the twenty principal cities Kindly ask Mr. Williams to look Into this matter and advise me on the subject Yours truly, Robert P. Porter The following letter from Kenner to a sorghum sugar maker in St. Paul is of interest only as showing, in conneo*

tion Brith other letters of Kenner’s, the eagerness with which he was all the time looking out for alliances for the sngar interest : Long Branch, Aug 15.188 i R. BUkelv, Esq.. No. 27 Davidson's Block. St. Paul, Minn.: * My Drab Sir: Your letter of Aug. 9, with address to Tariff Commission and sample of sugar, have been received. I will take an early opportunity to present the address to tiie commission and make an exhibit of the sample of sugar. I was very much gratified by the receipt of those documents. I had Intended to nave written you requesting you to appear before as and give your testimony on this subject, but your communication has precluded that necessity. We will some time in the month of September visit Chicago Could you not so arrange it as to appear in Chicago and deliver your testimony verbally, and submit to such interrogatories as the commission would be pleased to address you? You can thus develop the importance of your industry and the relations to the interests of the country so much more fully than you cJau in a letter or an address. You will learn from time to time by the newspapers of our movements, and thus be enabled to meet us at Chicago. I will, however, when the day to assemble in Chicago is determined upon, give you notice of the fact, but for fear of miscarriage wat h the newspapers on this subject I shall be pleased to hear from you from time to time. My recollections of our intercourse at St Louis’are very agreeable. Yours truly, Duncan F. Kenner Blakely replied to this letter a week later with a communication to the commission, and he appeared before the commission personally at Chicago.

THE TARIFF DISCUSSION.

The Forty-Seventh Congress Will Mot Give the Country Tariff Reform. [From the Indianapolis Sentinel.] There is not an honest man in the country, no matter what his party affiliations may be, who believes that tho present Republican Congress intends to give the country any substantial tariff reform. It is, well known that proceedings, so far, indicate anything but reform. The New York Times, with considerable boldness of speech, says that “some of the principal Republicans in the Senate are inclined to have recourse to a reduction of internal revenue, and to leave the impost duties unchanged. They are, it is said, receiving letters from labor organizations threatening opposition to the Republican party if the tariff be reduced, and they are bullied by the powerful iron aud steel interests which claim-to hold the balance of power—and usually do hold it—in the very important States of Pennsyh-ania and Ohio. With these influences pressing them, they argue, as it appears, that the contest of the next year can be carried^"on in the saAe way as that of 1880, and their ticket elected by tlie help of the manufacturers’ money and the votes of their workmen.” Every step that has been taken by these principal Republicans in the Senate has been in the interest of protectionists and monopolists, and the Times gives the reasons for such treason to the masses of the people. It is the campaign of 1884 that fs noAv looming up in the distance. But the Times declares that the principal Republicans are mistaken about the help the protectionists and monopolists can furnish in 1884. It says: “They leave out of their account the fact that the Republican party has since 1880 suffered an overwhelming and humiliating defeat, brought about not by any accident, not by discontent arising from commercial depression, not by the strength of its opponents or the mere indifference of its members, but by a revolt. They forget that last fall hundreds of thousands of Republicans voted the Democratic ticket for the express and avowed purpose of rebuking their own party, and that the rebuke was directed in great part to the recklessness with which war taxes had been maintained in time of peace. These men voted the Rapublican ticket in 1880 because they hoped that their party under Garfield would enter on a changed course. They went over to the Democracy last year because the party had stuck to the old policy. They Avill not come back next yeftr if the party continues to adhere to that policy. If they do not come back, how js the Republican ticket to l>e elect* ed? Not by the votes which the manufacturers control. We had those last year. They will not be so numerous next year. They did not save us in 1882. Hoav can they save us in 1884?” Here are plain facts plainly set forth by a Republican organ which is laboring with its party for the purpose of beating some common sense into the heads of “principal Senators” of the Republican persuasion who are disregarding the mandates of the people. One of the shameful phases of tins altogether bad business is that these “principal Republicans,” Avhose mistakes the Times vividly outlines, are able to intrap Democrats and obtain their votes to help on their outrages; and when the campaign of 1884 begins and Democrats again contend for tariff reform, the Republican party will have it in its power to point to Democratic votes which helped the Republican party to maintain old outrages or perpetrate new ones. The New York Herald’s Washington correspondent says: - The Republicans in Congress do not intend to relieve the burdens of taxation. They mean to maintain in force the odious ana needless interference of the internal-reven-ue system, with its fft,ooo,ooo worth of taxeating office holders and Its spies. So far as the tariff is concerned the Republican programme is now pretty well known. It is that both houses shall, at all hazards, pass their separate tariff bills, so that the whole question may then be remitted in the last weeks of the session to a conference committee. Such a Conference Committee has six members, three from each House, appointed by the presiding officer in each Hou«e. The Tariff conference committee would consist for the hou«e of Mr. Kelley and perhaps Mr. Kasson, both extreme protectionists, and Mr. Carlisle or Mr. Morrbon, reformer;and in the Senate of Messrs Morrill and Sherman, extreme protectionists, and perhaps Mr. Beck, refornjer. This would give four-extreme protectionists and two ref umers, and to them, sitting in private, would he committed the final shaping of ’the tariff.' The result, can easily be foreseen Those Avho have ex'pected tariff reform of the Forty-seventh Congress may as well abandon all hope -first as last. It will not come—and the reason for it is that the Republican bosses ex* ]K>ct protectionists and monopolists to bulldoze their employes in 1884, and furnish the money to keep the Republican party in power.

Authors, and occasionally publishers, have been known to do singtdar • •lings in the way of compiling favornl >le notices of their books. One American writer of distinction has been made to regret the kindliness with which he lias answered requests for his opinions of certain volumes. On one occasion a private letter in which he had unhesiintingly condemned a book was so cut and condensed for publication that it was made to appear a warm encomium. This is far from being a unique occurrence.— Xeic York Tribune.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Both branches of the Legislature devoted the entire day’s session, on Jan. 38, to the discussion of' the constitutional amendments.' In the Senate, Messrs. Smith of Delaware, Mny of Perry, Duncan of Brown, Sayre of Wabash and Van Vorhis of Marion spoke. In the House, the discussion was carried on by Stewart of Ohio, Moody of De Kalb, Wiley of Benton and Bynum of Marion. The prohibition amendment received its death blow in the Senate on the 29th ult The debate on the legal status of the meas, ore was closed by Mr. Henry for the Republicans and Mr. Bell for the Democrats, after occupying the greater portion of four days, during which the subject was most exhaustively discussed. Upon the, final question to concur in the report of the majority of the Judiciary Committee, that because of the omission from the printed journal of the General Assembly of 1881 of the full text of tbe proposed amendment it is not pending before this Legislature, the vote stood 25 to 23, as follows—the Democrats voted yea and the Republicans nay, except as noted: Yea—Bell, Benz, Bischowski (Rep), Brown, Brown, Compton, • Davidson, Duncan, Faulkner, Fletcher, Hill, Hillega.se, Howard, Hutchinson, Johnston of Dearborn, Johnston of Tippecanoe, May, McClure, McCulloch, Null, llahm, Richardson, Smith of Jay, Van Vorhis (Rep.), * Voyles, Youche (Rep.)—2s. Nay—Adkinson, Bundy, Campbell, Ernest (Dem.), Fleming, Foulke, Graham, Henry, Hoover (Dem.), Reiser, Lockbridge, Lafdley, Macartney, Magle (Dem.), Marvin (Dem.), Mclntosh (Dem), Overstreet, Ristine, Sayre, Smith of Delaware, Spann, White and Yanoey—23. Messrs. Hal litter, yea, and Willard, nay were paired Senator Campbell presented to the Senate a memorial from the Studebaker Bros.’ Manufacturing Company and the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, of South Bend, denouncing as false the charges of Benator Winterbotnam that they had bulldozed or intimidated voters at-the recent election, and asking tot the appointment of a committee to investigate the changes. The communication was sent to the Election Committee with instructions to fully investigate the charges referred to. Mr. Youche introduced in the Senate a bill defining the Thirty-first and Thirty-ninth judicial oircuits of Indiana—Lake, Porter and Starke to constitute the Thirty-first, and Carroll, White and Pulaski to constitute the Thirty-ninth judicial circuit. Mr. Voyles introduced a bill supplemental to the Fee and Salary act of March 81, 1879, making it unlawful to charge fees not authorized by law plainly specified, nor for services not actually rendered. Mr. Compton introduced a bill allowing the Supreme Court to extend the terms of office of Supreme Court Commissioners for two years from the expiration of tbeir present term. Mr. Fletcher introduced a bill to regulate the sale of medicine and poisons in the State of Indiana, which provides a Board of Pharmacy to be created, to consist of five, vacancies to be filled by the Governor, the terms of office to be one, two. three and four years from first election; to examine applicants or registration; issue certificates to pharmacists or assistant pharmacists to dispense drugs and compound prescriptions for the texm of one year. The pharmacist’s fee for license is fixed at 85 and assistant pharmacist's -fl. No part of the expense shall be paid by the State. The House devoted the entire day to the discussion of the constitutional amendments.

Mr. Johnston, of Tippecanoe, offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 30th nit, to. amend section 1, article 16, of the constitution, requiring farther proposed amendments to be spread at length on the journals of both houses, with the yeas and nays The resolution was withdrawn on a point of order, but will be renewed. Mr. Brown introduced a bill requiring county offlcers to advertise for proposals to furnish books and stationery. In the House, the discussion of the amendments continued. Mr. Jewett, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, introduced the general appropriation bills for the years 1383-4 and 1884-5. The appropriations for the Executive and Judicial Departments are the same as those made for the past two years. For the benevolent, penal, educational and miscellaneous institutions, they are as follows for each year: Insane Asylum, maintenance, $330,000; clothing,- $12,000; current repairs, $15,000. By Nov. 1, the woman’s department will be so far completed as to afford accommodations for more than 200 inmates; then the appropriation for maintenance shall be increased by $45,000. Blind-Asyi'um, #30,000; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, #53,000; Institute for Feeble-Minded, #10,000; Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home maintenance, $20,000; repairs, $2,000; salaries, #2,400; State University, #23,000; Purdue University, #2,000; State Normal * Bchool, #5,100; State Board of Health, #5,000; Mine Inspector, #1,500; Fish Commission, SI,OOO, including the salary of the Commissioner, #BtW;-Btate Prison South, #75,000; State Prison North, #75,000; State Reform School, #50,000; Female Reformatory. #30,000; interest on the non-negotiable bonds of the State, #281,000; State Horticultural Society, #4OO. Mr. Smith's bill authorizing school teaohers to continue teaching the remainder of the school year when their, licenses expire during a term passed the Senate on the 31st ult. The Brown bill for the reorganization of the benevolent institutions was passed by a strict party vote, with the exception of Senator Magee, who voted with the Republicans against it The bill changes the present system of managing the benevolent institutions by taking away from the Governor the power of appointing the Trustees and giving It to the Legislature. It is a measure of party necessity and will pass the lower house and become „a law. Mr. Ristine’s bill authorizing counties to assume an indebtedness of 114 P er cent of the total taxable value of real and personal property for the construction of free gravelroads was under discussion in the Senate. The Voyles bill to reorganize the House of Refuge was advanced to third reading. In the House, the discussion of the constitutional amendments was concluded, the speakers being Messra Best,' Hanson, Howland, Campbell, Henderson, Hoeler, Weaver, Peters, Pettibone and McMullen. Representative Chittenden, of Allen countv, introduced a bill which proposes to create the office of State Inspector of Gasmeters, such official to be appointed by the Governor, at a salary of #2,500 a year, and to have authority to test and examine ail gas-meters in use in the State at least once a year, or oftener if desired. The annual examination is to be at the expense of the companies owning the meters, and inspections made at other times, at the request of the consumers, are to be paid for by the parties making the request, if the meter 1 correct, and, if otherwise, the company & to pay the inspection fee, which is at all times to be #l. Provision is made for the appointment of deputies, who are, to be paid by the feea ■ ' The greatest part of the day’s session, on the Ist inst, was devoted to clearing the flies, and.probably 100 bills of minor importance were indefinitely postponed. A bill to reorganize and maintain the State m ! litia on the plan proposed by Adjutant General Carnahan was Introduced in the Senate Senator Van Voorhis introduced a b 11 to reduce the number of Justices of the Peace He proposed that there shall not be more than three Justices in any township, with one additional for each incorporated eity situated therein The sensation of the day was the action taken in the Senate in removing Vincent Kirk, of Marshall county, from his office as doorkeeper. The tight upon him has been kept up constantly by Senator Duncan on the ground that he had too many employes. Hlh resolution, which brought about the action of to-day, recited that he had twelve employes to do the work |vhich had been done in other years by seven, and it also directed that the Senate proceed immediately to the election of Mr. Kirk’s successor. The resolution was passed by a vote 24 to 20. Senator Benz, Duhcan, and Mclntosh voting with the Republicans for Mr. Kirk’s removal. Amidst considerable confusion, the Senate proceeded to a new election. The movement had been made in the interest of Dick Huncheon, of La Porte, but in this respect it failed. To his nomination an amendment was moved, appointing Q A. Edmonds, the present Assistant Doorkeeper, to the office, which was adopted bv 25 to 2L Mr. Jewett’s bill, giving to Grand Juries jurisdiction only over felonies, came up in the House and was indefinitely postponed. The principal objection to It was. the claim that it was in the interest of the whiskyselletp, relieving them of the fear of prosecution for violation of the law. Mr. Aiken presented a bill providing for the appointment of a fee and salary commission, to be selected by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and State officials, to consist of one representative of each Congressional district, and one from the State at large, mak~

NUMBER 2.

tag fourteen to all, seven of whom are to be Republicans and seven Democrats, The Commissioners are to have authority to submit a series of interrogations to the various oounty officers, and compel answers as to their emoluments and the expenses of their offioes, and are then to frame a bill from the information thus obtained, regarding fees and salaries, which is to be reported to the General Assembly. Mr. Van Voorhis’ bill, limiting the number of Justices of the Peace in each township to two, with one additional for each town, passed under a suspension of the rules on the 2d inst Mr. Faulkner introduced a bill to abolish the State Library. Mr. Fletcher's bill to make the crime of rape upon a femala infant or insane woman, punishable with castration, was reported back to the Senate with a recommendation that it He on the table. The Committee on the Judiciary had serious doubts as to the constitutionality of the law there being a provision to that instrument precluding the Infliction of unusual or cruel punishment The House spent most of the dav discussing the County School Superintendent bill. It was voted to make the office an elective one by the people; making the term four years, and restrict eligibility to one tend. *

The Sun and the Moon.

•In the German language, as is well known, the genders 6f the sun and moon are respectively feminine and masculine, contrary to the rule of the Roman languages, where, as in Latin, the sun is masculine and the moon feminine. . In our own language Shakespeare speaks of the moon as “she;” and in Egypt and Peru the sun and moon were regarded both as brother and sister and as husband and - wife. In Arabic, Mexican, Litlmaniau, Slavonic and Greenlandisli, the moon and Sun, according to Grimm, are related as in German. The variation of gender imi plies, of course, a difference of thought, but the fundamental conception that gave them genders at all in language or ui legend is clearly the same in either case, namely, that the sun and moon were actual human beings like ourselves. This thought still lingers in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria, where it is still common, or was recently, to hear the sun spoken, of of Frau Sonne and the moon as Herr Mond. But yet more strange than this is the fact that in the same district the tale should still survive, which accounts inthe following suggestive way for the genders of the luminaries in Question: The moon and sun were man and wife, but the moon proving too cold a lover and too mueh addicted to sleep, his wife one day laid him a wager, by virtue of which the right of shining by day should belong in future to whichever of them should be the first to awake. Thfe moon laughed*, but accepted the wager, and awoke next day to find that the sun had for two hoars already been lighting up the world. As it was also a condition and consequence of their agreement that unless they awoke at the same time they should shine 'at different times, the effect of the wager was a permanent separation'—much to the , affliction of the triumphant sun, who, still retaining a spouse-like love for her husband, was and always is trying to repair the matrimonial breach. Eclipses are really due to tlieir meetings for the purpose of reconciliation; but as the pair always begin with mutual reproaches, the time comes for them to part before they have ceased to quarrel; and on that account the sun goes away blood-red with anger, and the teors of blood she weeps at her departure are often marked in the sky by the redly-setting sun. —Comhill Magazine,

Gas and Electricity.

When electricity was first successfully used for illuminating purposes there was a great fall in the price of gas stocks in all the large cities of the civilized world. There has been a recovery since then, and it really seems that Dr. Siemens was right when he claimed that the use of gas would increase, notwithstanding the employment of the electric light. He expressed the opinion that the. latter can never be used economically in the household. Bat gas, he said, would take the place of coal for heating and cooking purposes, and this prediction is being partially verified. We are noiV premised a revolution by the use of petroleum to produce gas which gives out'an intense heat. A patent has been taken out in every civilized country for the production of. a gas by some combination of Eetroleum with lime. • The companies ave been formed, and it is said that within a short time, and by the pipes used for carrying ordinary gas, that burning material will be introduced into our households winch will-beat our rooms and cook our food, at one-third of the cost now necessitated by the use of coal or wood. The recent speculative excitement in petroleum is said to be due to the practical application of this patent by some of our gas companies. Petroleum has never commanded a fair price in view of its production in excess of the demands of the consumers. Our wells have pumped out about 27,000,000 barrels per annum, but heretofore the world has been searched in .vain for a market for this ocean ’of mineral oil. Should we make use of it, however, for a heat-producing and cooking gas, there will be an abundant demand for all the petroleqjn we could produce. It would add marvelously to human comfort if so bulky a product as coal could be dispensed with, and our dwellings warmed by a cleanly and comparatively inexpensive gas.— Demoreet’e Monthly.

Banished Siberians.

As to the proportion of the banished who are condemned to hard labor it its about one-seventh of the whole number passing over the frontier yearly. I cannot tell you the exact number of exiles transported yearly, as I do not think anybody except those handling the prisoners know, but from the statistics gathered at Tiumen I should judge it to be between 10,000 and 20,000 annually, and sometimes more. Abont one-fourth of these are women. The returns from Sil>eria number yearly abont 2,500 to 3,000 persons, who, having served out their terms, returned to their homes in Russia. A large proportion of the exiles, comparatively speaking, are minors, being about one out of six. Their tsrms of banishment are, as a general rule, but short, since the returning exiles are composed of about one-seventli of the persons under 21 years of age.—San Francusco Chronicle. .

A London Building Law.

The fire losses in London are comIwvativelv very small against those lere, ams a chief reason is that a rigorous building law requires the party •tfftll, dividing one house from another,, to be carried up several feet alxive the roof. Consequently a house is frequently burned out without its neighbor lieing anywise injured. The roofs are slate or tile, and usually entirely devoid of wood cornices.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL Ora JOB PBINTINO OPTICS Has better facilities than any office in Northwestern Indian* for the execution < of idl branches of VOB PBZSTTZNa. tar PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. ”** '**■&’"**■ ■*■*■■■'* >, .tttf.iL..,<' Anythin?, from * Dodger to * Price-List, or from * Pamph’etfto a Teeter, black or colored, plain or f&nov. SSTSatisfaction ernaranteed. .4 - *

HOUSEHOLD DECORATION.

A set of tidies is made of satin And cretonne. Out the satin in squares the size desired and cut the figures front the cretonne and apply it to the satin with Japanese gold thread in chain stitch. Finish the edges with antique or Russian lace. Blacking bottles and email jelly bottles, con be made into pretty vases if first painted blue, shading from light into dark or fading into a grayish blue, allowed to dry perfectly; then painted in oils with a small spray of leaves aud blossoms and finished with a coating of demar varnish. They make a pretty ornament for the mantel or table. Hand-bags are inafle of coarse liuen twine crocheted in imitationfc>f macrame lace; the crochet is five inches deep, and each side is five inches long; they are much prettier if made in one piece. Finish the top edge with a small scallop and the bottom with small points and a scant fringe; the lining is of satin and s satin bow is placed on the crochet; the top of the bag is drawn together with narrow satin ribbons.

A pretty plaque is first painted a light bine, deepening in color toward the lower end; when quite dry a photograph, which has been removed from the card by placing it in tepid water for a half-hour, is cut into an oval and gummed on, and surrounded by a wreath of tfciy flowers and. leaves painted in oils, ana the whole varnised with a clear white varnish* Another pretty ornament made from photographs is to arrange them on card-board with a surrounding composed of dried flowers and grasses and thenplactxl in u deep velvet frame. ' Very pretty plush plaques can be made by .taking a piece of pine wood a quarter of an inch thick, three inches wide arid''bine'inches long; cut a piece of papter arid fit it over one side of the board and press it down smoothly bo there will hq no wrinkles; remove it and without smoothing but the creases cut a piece of pi fish of the exact shape. Cut a piece of red cotton or dark stiff goods and glue it smoothly to .the board, oovpring the back; now put on the plush on tile other side and glue it neatly and firmly to the lining. A photograph may lie mounted on the plush or a small flower painted in oils. An olive-green "illiisli panel has a cardinal satin ribbon band placed slantingly across the front with a. spray of almond blossoms painted ib oil on the satin. A pretty little pin-cushion in the shape of a bellows can be made as fob I6ws i' First cut out four pieceil of cardtmard (visiting or invitation cards are Vest) tq the size required, and the shape, of a small bellows; cover these four pieces sifigly with pretty silk or satin, by turning over the edges and lacing them from side to side with a ‘needle and thread to make them fit. Then join two pieces together and sew over the edges neatly; sew a little pieoe of fine flannel or merino, filled with needles, to one joined side-piece at the point; then put the two sides together, and sew them tfell together at the point, leaving space enough for a gilt bodkin to pass through, and make the real point. Put pins in all around the edge, add a narrow ribbon hand, fastened by a pin at the handle end to keep •the sides together. The -inside of the hollows looks best with satin or plain silk, and the outside with brocade. If a small design is painted or embroidered on the outside, it lias a very good effect. The length of the bellows that is usually made is three inches from the end of the handle to the point, the width at the widest part two inches, the width across the point half an inch, across the , handle of an inch, llio bodkin projects about an inch beyond the point.

The Stranger in the Pulpit.

bishop Simpson made his first appearance; in Lancaster, Pa., one Sunday morning very unexpected to hhnself and the “people called Methodists” of that, city. His home was in Pittsburgh. He was traveling oyer the Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia, and a breakdown detained him over Sunday in Lancaster. »After breakfast he sauntered* out to find a Methodist church, and, walking up Duke street, he met a good Ilothodist, the late Mr. Carpenter McCleery/wlio engaged the Bisliep in conversation. Dr.. Simpson was plainly dressed, anil looking anything else than a bishop is colrimonly supposed to look. Brother McGlCery judged f«om his conversation that he was a loyal preacher, and the good bishop did not enlighten him. to tlip contrary. The preacher in charge of the Duke Street Methodist Episcopal^church finally arrived, and the bishop was introduced to him as “Brother Simpson, $ local preacher of the Pittsburgh conference.” After considerable persuasion, the bishop was prevailed upon to preach. What disappointment was visible npon the faces of that congregation that morning. They expected to be bored by a “coiita-clod-hopper.” The bishop gave out the opening hymn and then prayed. Those who thought they were going to be .bored began to think differently, and whten ’tbe bishop announced his text; “The greatest of all is charity,” expectation was on tip-toe. A grander, mpre qloqnent, more feeling discourse was never delivered in that church. _ As the bishop was elaborating his points and carrying his congregation to the highest pitch by the magnificent roundings bf his sentences, the thought occurred to the preacher sitting in the pulpit that this must be Bishop Simpson, and, upon concluding the sermon, the preacher asked him: “Are yon not Bishop Simpson?” The bishop’s modest and naive reply' was: “They call me so at home.” The preacher immediately turned, faced the congregation and said: “You have hod the extreme pleasure of listening to Bishop Simpson.—Harrisbury Patriot. .

Spanish Philosophy.

• To-day, after my arrival at Victoria, I wei t to a shcemaker to get some repairs done to my boots. There was no-, body in the shop; the master was on the opposite side of the ib eet, smoking his cigarette. His shoulders were covered with a mant e, full of holes, and he looked like a beggar, but a Spanish beggar, appearing rather prbud than ashamed of hie poverty. He c ime over to see me, and I explained my business. “Wait a moment,” said lie, and immediately called his wife. “How much money is there in the purse?” “Twelve picettas (14 francs, 40 centimes). * “Then I shan’t work.” “But,” said I. “twelve pieettaa will not last forever.” “Who has aeento-morrow?” said he, turning his back on me.—Hannibal Hamlin.