Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — Page 3

NOT M'KINLEYED.

THE FAILURE OF THE FARMER’S TARIFF EXPOSED. Fortar’i New York Press Shows that the McKinley Duties Have Not liaised the Prices ot Farm Products—Facts and Figures Showing the Worthlessness ot the “Farmer’s Thrift” 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 larm 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 protectioni.it 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 iife. 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 of necessaries to the poor,’ to employ an English common-law idiom. The law has now been in effect three months, and the Press has 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 upon 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 are made up entirely of the products of 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 any man could have foreto d; but it was not to bo 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 thoso articles. A firm of .largo pork dealers 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 that 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 Jaw, together with our imports and exports of a few articles for the fiscal year 1890: Butter. —Old duty, 4 cents per pound; McKinley duty, 0 cents; imports, 75,523 pounds; exports, 29,743,042 pounds. Cheese.—Old duty 4 cents, McKinley duty G cents; imports, 9,203,573 pounds; exports, 95,376,053 pounds. Bacon. —Oid duty 2 cents, McKinley duty 5 cents; imports (too insignificant to get into the Treasury reports, but all “meat products” were about 8500,000 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, MdKinley duty 2 cents; imports (none reported); 6xports, 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, 471,009,000 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. Barley. —Old duty 10 cents a bushel, McKinley duty 30 cents; 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, 21,000 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 20 cents a bushel, McKinley duty 25 cents; imports, 157,000 bushels; exports, 54,380,000 bushels. Flour. —Old duty 20 per cent., McKinley duty 25 per cent; imports, 1,219 barrels; exports, 12,231,000 barrels. And yet McKinley tried to remedy agricultural depression by raising the duties on farm products! Can anybody sup-

pose 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 ho 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 Tar ill Develop Our Industries Symmetrically ? Dear Farmer Brown: Tho protectionists deal in much specious talk about promoting “the symmetrical development of our industries,” and “an equilibrium *

Justice can now see which side most needs her care. —Chicago Globe.

of all industries. ” In 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 ipust 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, mu3t not be favored at the expense of another; must not be allowed to outstrip another in gaining wealth. Talk of this kind, bo it remembered, is indulged in by protectiouists 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 in all industries, and when they say this in support of a protective 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 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 tbo condition of agriculture be in less favored States? It is a 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 tfiq 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 and other men are reaping the profits of that toil. Indeed, there are indisputable facts to show that, while the farmers ard either laying up nothing or else actually going in debt, many others in the 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 817 a ton on steel rails, and when the country was paying every year, by a comparison of actual prices, $56,000,000 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 producing a ton of steel rails, is $25.77. The steel rail manufacture of this country was in the hands of eleven 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 83 a ton, making the price S3O. This makes a net profit of $4.23 a ton. The New York Engineering and Mining Journal estimates the annual output of Carnegie’s two rail mills at 600,000 tons. This amount at a net profi tof $4.23 a ton would yield $3,538,000, One of Carnegie’s mills recently turnqd out 1.441 tons of rails in a single day. This amount would yield a net profit of $6,095 —and all this in a single day!

Bqt this is only one case. We heai 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 por cent, a year, and pots more than that into its surplus fund besides; of a cotton mill that • earns dividends of from 20 to 37 per cent; oi a copper mining company with a capital of $1,250,000 which has paid dividends of $34,350,000 during its brief existence. Yet all the prosperous concerns here named are highly protected under the humbug plea , of developing our industries “symmetrically.” 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 protectiop, then, give us an equalization of industries? Have I not 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 tho “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 “equi-

NO LONGER BLIND.

librium?” 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 cau be profitably done and sets them to doing what is, undeft natural conditions, unprofitable; that in many protected industries an undue, number of seekers after wealth rush in with tho expectation of gain, build factories far in excess of the homo market, and these factories are therefore compelled either to go out of business altogether or to shut down for a part of tho 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 aro 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 tan turn his hand to the labor of his with no ono to step in and demand a part of his earnings under tho name of “protection” to some other man’s work? Yours truly,

McKin'ey and Cotton Goods.

Mr. A. B. Shcpperson, of New York, issues every year a little book called “Cotton Facts,” which contains a great variety of information about cotton. In his latest issue (November, 1890) Mr. SShepperson gives some attention to the McKinley, tariff law as affecting the market for cotton and cotton goods. He says: “Six weeks ago there was every promise of an active business by European and American spinners for the season of 1890-91. Since then the injurious effect «f the recent tariff legislation here, and the financial troubles in Europe and this country, have made the prospect full of uncertainty. “It does not admit of a doubt that the McKinley tariff iaw will enhance the living expenses of every person in the country, and there* is not the slightest evidence yet that it has increased, or will be likely hereafter to increase, the wages of anybody. It will simply add to the profits of a few favored manufacturers at the expense of the great body of the people. Economy will necessarily be the rule in most households, and tho result may be a largely diminshed consumption of cotton goods. It must be remembered that the poorer people are the largest consumers of cotton cloths, and the new tariff has been-so construed that it bears hardest upon this very class. While tho cost of nearly every article of necessity has been increased by the tariff, it is but just to state that acorns, fish-eggs, fiddle-strings (of catgut), palm-leaf fans, and some grades of sugar have been placed upon the free list.” A ■ . ' ■ ■ i i ii ...... A Michigan freight conductor was knocked down by a train backing up, and he fell in snch a way that the wheels cut twenty-one hairs off his head and let him off till next time. They counted the hairs and know the number is correct. No advance in wages is looked for. One reason why the women never have time to do things they want]to do, is that they spend so much time in being polite, The men never complain of lack of time. They don’t waste aD j in saying polite things to each other.

RICHARD KNOX.

POSITIVELY ALL HERE.

REFERRING. OFCOURSE. TOTHE NEWS IN INDIANA. L ' ■ y A Narrow Escape—Work of Conscience— Ris Fingers Ground—Suicide ol' imiFiSherlfi'. —John Mills dropped dead while chopping wood, at Medora. —Salem will be able to see its way soon by electric light. —New Albany will have a Y. M. C. A. building to cost $30,000. —Reports of scarlet fever epidemic at Bedford are greatly exaggerated. —Greencastle fondly hopes the early future will bring them a canning factory. —lndiana press almost unanimously favors the repeal of the Grubbs libel law. —Miss Mary Cox, of Okalla, Putnam County, dropped dead from heart failure. —Abram Koontz. of Yorktnwn, was seriously injured in a runaway at Muncio. —John Eidoiberry, Columbus carpenter, lost all fingers of one hand in machinery, —Amo is all upset over the attempt being made to-open a saloon in their peaceful burg. —Wabash is getting good, too, and has warned their gamblers to “get a move on them.” —Paul Besche, 17, died in South Bend, from “unaccustomed indulgence in intoxicants,” —A mad dog near Alaska wounded several dogs and other animals before it was killed. —Joseph Perod’s horse dropped dead with fright in Elkhart at sight of an electric car. —Mrs. Elizabeth Miller has been elected a member of the Muncie Board of Health. —Clay good for aluminum abounds near Fairmont. Maybe they’ll manufacture it. —Salem is to have electric light, artificial ice, cold storage, and a cannery. How’s that? —Mrs. Jennie S. Glare, of Madison, fell dead while conversing with friends at her home. —A. Carrior, of Covington, was caught by the branches of a falling tree and seriously injured. —Monroe Talbott’s little boy was run over by a horse near Shelby ville, and deformed for life. —II. S. Badollet's canary, Vincennes, after a silence of three years, burst forth in beautiful song. —The Christian Church at Crawfordsvillo lias extended a call to Rev. S. W. Brown, of Logansport. —Samuel Catherwood, a veteran railway agent at Greencastle, has been stricken with paralysis. —Jacob Faith, of Scott Township, Harrison County, died of injuries caused by falling from a wagon. —Scllersburg is one of three towns in tho United States appointed to have “experimental free delivery.” —Miss Rode.cca Raunells, of Richland Township, Fulton County, was fatally injured in a sleighing accident. —Leonard Brosanbower, of Stony Creek Township, Madison County, attempted to co omit suicide. His mind was upset by religious excitement. —Brigham Young, while repairing a smoke-stack at New Albany, fell forty feet, and was killed. He leaves a family. —James N. Lasswell, proprietor of a hotel at English, tsruck Pat Hannegan, his porter, with a club and broke his skull. —George Martin, of Covington, was badly disfigured by falling from a scaffold and striking his face against a sawbuck. —The two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Evans, living at Donaldsville, was fatally scalded by the overturning of a tub of hot water. —Willis Norris, a once notorious gambler and once the wealthiest man in New Albany, died in the Floyd County poor ho use. —Stephen Huffer, a prominent teacher of Clinton County, lias disappeared with about $4,000 of money intrusted to him tor investment. —Lester Lastutter, a wealthy farmer near Rising Sun, was found dead in the depot at Aurora, with indications pointing to suicide. —Wm. Foreman, aged 23 years, was killed near Poland. Ho was coon-hunt-ing with others, and was crushed under a falling tree. —Mrs. Frances Spray sues the city of l Seymour for $5,000 damages; hurt in a I fall a dark night where warning light should have been. —Five prisoners in the Dearborn County jail walked out the other night, but three returned during the day, and another was captured. —The body of Johnny Miles, a sailor and well-known character on the lakes for twenty years past, was found floating in the harbor at Michigan City. —Henry Gasper, aged 16, of Michigan City, was arrested and confessed to ten burglaries. It is estimated that ho has stolen $5,000 worth of property. —A business block, owned by E. Campbell, was burned at Sedalia. Ell Masters, merchant, lost $4,000 on stock, upon which he had $1,500 insurance in the Citizens’ of Evansville. _ • ‘ —I. F. Force, of New Albany, was probably fatally injured by walking out of a second-story window of a hotel at Rochester, N. Y„ while in a somnambulistic condition. —Jack Milligan almost demolished the central police station at New Albany during the temporary absence of the officer in charge, in an attempt to rescue a friend, Macus Duncan, using a pick-ax to accomplish his purpose. He was surprised while at work and promptly locked in a cell.

—Wdlliam Nimraert, an employe tn the chilled plow works at South Bend, was killed by the bursting of a grindstone. —Jack Baber, of Jeffersonville, is a philanthropist in his humble wav. lie has whitewashed all the telegraph poles of the town, and is now building board side waks where they are most needed,' at his own expense. —The Monon ditch,thirty-five miles in length and one hundred feet in widtli and Sixteen feet in depth, located in tho counties of Jasper, Pulaskt and White, when completed, will reclaim over 100,000 acres of farming lands. —Miss Hattie Smith, aged 17, daughter of the Hon. W. K. Smith, of Shoals, died in St. Louis, after an Jlluess of only a few days of congestion of tho stomach. She was to have boon a bride In a few weeks, and her trousseau will now serve as burial robes She is a very popular young lady, beloved by all. —Ora Rodgers and Murray Ray, two young men of Valparaiso, wero seriously injured by a gas explosion. They j threw coal-oil in a church furnace, | which ignited a quantity of generated ! gas. Tho young men wero hurled against the wall of tho building, but managed to crawl out and were afterward found. —At Bt. Mary’s of tho Woods, tho mother home of the order of Sisters of Providence, in Vigo County, Bishop Chatard performed tho ceremony by which seventeen young women joined tho order. Several of them wero from Terre Haute and had a largo social acquaintance there. There were many friends present at tho ceremony. —“Buck” Stanley of Logansport, has just completed a series of temperance meetings at Rensselaer. He has an inimitable but popular style and ho accomplished much good for the causo of temperance In that community. About 800 signed the pledge l . Ho closed by a lecture wherein ho described his work in tho capture of the famous Green brothers. —Tho inhabitants of Monroe City, Knox County, aro much agitated over the mysterious disappearance of Samuel Campbell who left his home on tho 21st Inst, to buy furs In Daviess County, since which tiino nothing has been hoard of him. lie has been traced tosomo shanty boats in White River bottoms and It is feared that he has been fouly dealt with. —Tho Lebanon Light, Heat and Power Company arc to bo made defendants in a SIO,OOO damage suit, growing out of tho company shutting the supply of natural gas from John M. Powell’s business room, in which he used it for heat and light. Mr. Powell Is a leading member of tho council and had paid for the use of gas for the month of January In advance. This is to be a test case, and, if successful, more aro to follow. \ —Over four years ago, shortly after Indiana's first natural-gas well was fmmd at Eaton, Frederick Hoover, of New Corner, ten miles from Munele, with his sons, erected a derrick, which has since been used in tho sinking of a well. Mr. Hoover would employ no one but his own family in the worK, which mado It slow and tedious. But it has just resulted in giving the man one of the best wells in the Htate. —J. K. Miller, a highly respected farmer, living two miles west of Brazil, was arrested, charged with cutting down tho Postal Telegraph Company’s poles, erected on tho National road, near his farm. Farmers along the line aro indignant at the company, which purchased its franchise of a Terre Haute claimant, whose title they deny. It is charged that one or two farmers have been paid for right of way, and all now demand it. It will bo a test case, involving an issue of much Interest, as the lino extends from Indianapolis to >St. Louis.

—A very narrow escape from a fatal accident, occurred recently at Crawfords* ville. As Gus Karl and Duff Casad were driving a horse hitched to a buggy, the animal'ran away. Karl jumped out, and the animal jumped over a slop-wagon driven by a colored man named Robert Jones. Tho wagon, buggy, Jones, and Casad were all thrown into the gutter and the two vehicles demotshed. Casad was badly injured, as was also Jones, who also had his pants torn and ruined. —Sam Grant, of Lafayette, has challenged Ed Cory, of Ci(awfordsville, or any other man who is aching for a tight, to light for a S2OO purse, or spar ten rounds in any opera nouse, the winner to receive 5 per cent, of receipts, or will light upon any terms. Grant says that he never makes bluffs through newspapers, and when he says light he means it. and ho wants less talk and more scrap. He also says that ho is “always ready to come at the call of time.”

—John Murnan, who lives in Moral Township, Shelby Chpnty, stole live steers from a neighbor and drove them off to Indianapolis and sold them for SB3. This was In December last. John’s conscience has been worrying him ever since. Tho other day Ins came voluntarily into court and confessed to having committed the theft, and prayed the indulgence of the judge. Judge Hackney let him off npon bond upon the condition that he pay back the money he received from the sale of tho steers, then he shall be a free man; if not, he will be prosecuted for grand larceny during the next I term of court. —John Candan, aged 60, residing near 1 Monon, was deserted by his second wife, who joined the Salvation Army. Ho blew out his brains. —Afrs. Owens, Conner-sville, shot her 5-ycar-old boy, not dangerously. Said she wouid thus prevent his being taken to the poor-house, as was intended. —The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: No State can make a more interesting exhibit of difficulties overcome, of progress attained, or of prospects more bright, than Indiana.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The following bills were introduced in tho Senate, January 26: Amending the gravelroad law; amending an act relative to the distribution of docedcnts' estates;prohibiting other than relatives or those having official authority from visiting certain wards in tho insane asylums: also, making It dis- ‘ crotionarv with the Superintendents of such asylums whether visitors shall bo 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 tho distribution of an excess of funds assessed and collected for the construction of free gravol roads. Committee on Roads. Also: To provide for tho transfer of insane convicts from tho State prisons or reformatory institutions to the insane asylunys; protecting domestic animals, and to proviso for the registration of dogs: making* the gravol roads within tho corporate limits of cities borderod by lands used for agricultural purposes a part of the free gruvelroad system of the county: legalizing conveyances made by trustees of estates to 1 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 tho Scnato, January 27, a bill prohibiting tho use of natural gas In flambeaus was ordered engrossed. Tho entire aftornooft was devoted to a discussion of the concurrent resolution passed by the House withholding appropriations for tho World's Fuir until tho United States Sonato lias disposed of tho 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, und the care of those thus adjudged insano, and the bill was ordered engrossed. Other bills, coming from this committee, wero disposed of as indicated : Mr. llaker's, concerning grand and petit juries, indefinitely postponed: Mr. Smith's, regarding vaoaueles in the offices of Justice of tho Peace, indefinitely postponed, Mr. Linomuth, amending tho law regarding chttngos of venue, engrossed. The Senate, Juuuary 28, passed the following bills: Abolishing the office of State Mine Inspector and creating the office of State Inspector of Mines; requiring manufacturing and mercantile establishments to furnish chairs for their women and girl employes when tho latter are not engaged at thoir work: requiring corporations to pay their employes every two wooks and ptfohibiting too use of scrip; reducing tho rate of interest on school-fund loans from 8 .per cent, to 0: providing for rooording in its pendents record orders of court affecting tho disposition of real estate; providing that constables may arrest horse-thlevos Without warrant and hold them until a warrant can bo procured. A largo number of urilmporfant bills wore passed by the House and a few now ones introduced. The following bills were passed by tho Senato, Jan, 29: Legalizing tho acts of deputy county officials under age; defining i;npo and providing penalties; making decisions of the Supreme Court evidence In certain cases; making more spoeiflc tho provisions of tho Barret law for tho Improvement of streets and alleys and eonst.ruetion of sewews; giving town trustees tho 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 tho House. Amending tho law relating to mortgages so as to allow but fifteen days to record mortgages after they are made. The present law ulloWs forty-five days to make such record. Abolishing the office of State Inspector of Oils and, erouting the office of State Supervisor of Oil Inspection; enabling oitles and incorporated towns to license junk dealers, pawnbrokers and second hand dealers; to require thorn 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 05 accept from persons under 18 jjeurs of nge 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 Plaiuflold Reformatory.In tho Honate, Jun, SO, memorial from Farmer's Alliance and various labor organizations, usklng for a number of reforms, among them being tho passage of a fee and salary bill, and the enuetment of u law taxing corporations to increase the State Revenue. Rills wore introduced amending the Grubbs libel law. making Prosecuting Attorneys ex-ollieio members of Bourds of County Commissioners. Tho Judiciary Committee reported favorable on a bill providing for tho employment of five amanuenses by tho Judges ol the Supreme Court. Adjourned till Monday at 11 a. m. In tho 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 cool 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 (lannol shirt and said: “How long has this yer camp been a runnin’?” “Two years,” replied the bartender, without raising liis eyes. “Graveyard begun vit?" “Hot yet.” “ ‘Bout time the camp had one. S’f*e 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 np against the ceiling. The man at the bar made a lurch and then fell npon the floor. Six bullets were in hia body.

A graveyard was started in Burlington next morning. The lean man started ii himself. -Burlington is now wiped out, but high up on Boar Bib Butte is one grove. It is the only one the camp left. —N. Y. Dispatch. Juoojno from the number of hairless head* that assemble In the parque te, the remorse, less hand of time has been on a wholesale scalping expedition. — Peck’s Sun. “TroHT boots cause the blood toaflow to th» bead,” says the Chicago Sun. That Is the reason there is often so mueh slack In adude’a punts. —Newman Independent.

A Master of Many Languages.

John Fiske, the historian and oollege professor, is well versed in languages. When only 18, besides hie Greek and Latin, he could read fluently French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and German, and had made a beginning in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon,. Icelandic, Gothic, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Sanscrit. A ooERF.sroNDENT asks; “How ought temperance fanatics to be treated?” You ought never to treat them &t &1L— Boston Post.