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The Democratic Sentinel.

DEMOCRATS AND THE WAR

They Vied With the Republicans In Giving the Administration Financial Support McKinley’* Lack of Diplomacy and Vigor In Dealing With Spain Was Roundly Criticised by the Republicans—Chairman Hernly Would Make a Nonpartisan War a State Issue to Bolster Up His Party. It ought to be remembered, because it is true, that the Democratic party was the real war party of the nation. It was in favor of the war with Spain for humanitarian considerations. It believed that Spain’s role in Cuba was brutal, savage, horrible, ahd it believed that the Cubans ought to enjoy liberty and independence. So persistent were Democrats in demanding a declaration of war against Spain that the remark was often made: * ‘This is a Democratic war. ” It is a matter of record that when it became apparent that war with Spain was inevitable and the administration wanted the means for war purposes, Democrats in congress vied with Republicans in giving to the administration all the money it demanded and 160,000,000 was voted and placed in the hands of the president to be expended as he might deem proper. If Democrats doubted the policy of issuing interest bearing bonds to sup* ply war revenue, it was not because of any hostility to the war, or for the purpose of embarrassing the administration, but, rather because they believed the time had not arrived making it necessary to burden the people with an additional bonded debt and taxation. They believed that the war would be of short duration, that tne reserves of the treasury were ample to carry on the war, even if it should continue to December, when, if bonds were required, the" facts would be before the country, and a bond loan could speedily be made to meet all emergencies. In a word, the Democrats, in and out of congress, with patriotic unanimity have sought in every possible way to uphold the hands of the administration in conducting the war. If there were criticisms of Mr. McKinley’s diplomacy and of his lack of vigor in dealing with Spain, it should be stated that Republicans were even more pronounced in their complaints than were Democrats. And it will be remembered that it required heroic efforts on the part of Republican whips to restrain Republican members of congress from breaking through all restraints and openly condemning Mr. McKinley’s dilatory policy.. The Democratic party studiously declined to drag the war into politics. It was not, in its origin, a party war. If Mr. McKinley was obnoxious to criticism, it was because he “detested” war, and exhibited the greatest reluctance in beginning hostilities. In his own language he desired to be satisfied that a war with Spain would be a “righteous war,” and .even the sinking of the battleship Maine did not arouse him from his lethargy. And the facts show that Republicans were more censorious than Democrats over such exhibitions of supineness. And in this connection it is worthy of mention that the Democracy of Indiana, in state convention assembled, in patting forth their platform, ignored the war as a political issue. There was not one word in the platform arraigning Mr. McKinley’s administration for anything done or omitted in conducting the war. On the contrary, the platform gave only expression of patriotic sentiments. The war plank of the platform was in the highest degree eulogistic of the war, army and navy. Indeed, in such regards its indorsement of the war was even more pronounoed than the declarations of the Republican platform. To still further demonstrate that the Democratic party was opposed to dragging the war into politics, on Aug. 17 Hon. Parks M. Martin, chairman of the state Democratio central committee, gave expression to his views in an interview in the Indianapolis Sentinel on the war as a political issue, and is reported as follows: “As I said, I don’t believe that the war should be made an issne in this state campaign. It was not a political war. It was waged in the interest of humanity to succor the down-trodden, starving people of Cuba. The Democrats are not disposed to bring the war into the state campaign, not that they’re afraid to, for if the Republicans show a disposition to make it a campaign matter we are going to take care of ourselves all right. If they are going to make this a war campaign it is not patting it too strong to say that we will handle them without gloves. We might be able to show, for instance, that the war was brought about by the Democrats in congress, assisted by a few Republicans, and that if it had been left to President McKinley and his advisers we would probably never have had a war. Ido not say this in the way of criticism and lam opposed to trying to make campaign material ont ot a war that was supported loyally by all parties and all sections.”

This completely disposes all the shallow. talk of the Republican press regarding the position of the Democratic party on the war as a politioal issue in the campaign in Indiana. But, Mr. Hernly, chairman of the Republican state central committee, in au interview published in the Indianapolis Sentinel on Aug. 18, the day following the appearance of Mr. Martin’s interview, took occasion to insist that war should be and ought to be an issne in the campaign in Indiana. Evidently, Mr. Hernly believed the war issue would be highly conducive to Republican sue? pess, and is reported as saying: “I read The Sentinel’s interview with Parks Martin in which he said that the war should not he made an issue iu this campaign, but that the Democrats axe ready to meet it if the Republicans

With a lack of fairne ■ , Democrats whi h any deoent news- j are paper should be ashamed ! Patriots, to exhibit, the New York Tribuue says that "every j democratic voter th s year is a Spanish ! vcter." Whitelaw R n id, the editor of the New Y uk Tribuue is one of the peace oomm ss»oners now in Paris, tut it maybe safely assumed that his newspaper doeß not misrepreoent his opin ons, No'bing could be more maliciously untruthful than the assertion that “every

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nring it. Ido not agree with Mr. Mar* 1 tin that we who happen to be in positions of party responsibility can make the issue* of this or of any campaign. The people make the issues. They know what they are vitally interested in, and unless the stump speaker talks of these things he will Rad himself without audiences. Just now the people want to have the story of the war told them. It -is a story in which they are vitally interested. They want It told from the stump by the stamp speak* era. They are interested in the question of territorial expansion and the thonsand-and-one questions growing out of the war, and they want to know what our public men think about them. The people of Indiana have decreed that the war shall be au issue in the campaign. “While we Republicans do not claim the sole credit for having brought on this war, we are all proud of the masterly way in which the war was conducted by President MoKinley, and we see no harm in saying so from from the stump. • **•*# “The Republicans are forced to make the war question an issue, even though they were not inclined. The Republican party was the party in power during this war crisis. It has many things to explain to the people. It has to explain why it was necessary to issue bonds; why it was necessary to establish a war revenue, and it has to answer to the people for all the steps of the campaign. It will try to answer to the people of Indiana this fall. ” It will be observed that Mr. Hernly, speaking for his party, declared in favor of making the war a campaign i3sue, besides, it will be observed that Mr. Hernly declares that “the Republicans are forced to make the war question an issue even though they were not inclined,” and that the Republicans “havemany things to explain.” Let it be understood that the war by itself considered—that is to say the declaration of war and the battles of the war on the land and on the sea—is not, and cannot be made a partisan political issne, since all parties and all sections favored the war. Mr. Hernly sounded a keynote when he said, “The Republican party has many things to explain,” and it is doubtless true that the people, if they have made the issue, it is with the understanding that Republicans shall “explain many things”—not about“bonds” nor any of the land or naval battles, since they have been explained by officers in command. What, then? The question is answered by the appointment of a commission by the president and his instructions to that commission, in which he said: “There has been, in many quarters, severe criticism of the conduct of the war with Spain. Charges of criminal neglect of the soldiers in camp and field and hospital and in transports, have been so persistent, that, whether true or false, they have made a deep impression upon the country.” v Who made these charges which Republicans must explain? Mr. Hernly says “the Republican party was the party in power during this war orisis.” And the Republican party must explain. Certainly, Democrats did not make the charges. The Democratic party was not in power “during this war orisis.” No part of the infamy charged, and whioh, as Mr. McKinley says, has “made a deep impression upon the country,” attaches to the Democratic party. These charges have been made by soldiers, by officers wearing the insignia of generals, by correspondents of journals of the highest character for prudent statements, by army chaplains, and, to the extent they dared to talk, by private soldiers. This pelting storm of charges, growing more fierce as the days went by, horrified the people. Nor was it required for the private soldiers, who returned alive from pestilential camps, to talk. To see them, as Colonel Studebaker said of his splendid regiment—the One Hundred and Fittyseventh Indiana —“with fever in their very bones,” weak, wasted and but a shadow of their forpier selves, was a speech more terribly eloquent than Mark Anthony made over the dead body of Caesar. True, they were not in the battle at Santiago nor Manila—they were not in war at all. Their battles were for life in the camps assigned them by the administration, by McKinley’s war secretary. They were in American camps within a few hours’ travel by rail of Washington, they were within reach of telegraph and telephone, and yet they suffered and many died for want of medicines, food and care. Suffered by criminal neglect and criminal incompetency, the result of the lowest degree of partisan politics in making appointments. Mr. MoKinley, in his instructions to the investigating commission, among other things, said: “I cannot impress upon you too strongly my wish that your investigation shall be so thorough and complete that your report when made will fix the responsibility for any failure or fault by reason of neglect, incompetency or maladministration upon the officers and bureaus responsible therefor —if it be found that the evils oomplained of have existed. “The people of the country are entitled to know whether or not the citizens who so promptly responded to the oall of duty have been negleoted or misused or maltreated by the government to whioh they so willingly gave their services. If there have been wrongs committed, the wrongdoers must not escape conviction and punishment.” These are brave words, and, peradventure, like stray chickens, he may find them coming home to roost. The war department has had charge of the army, and at the head of this department is Seoretary Alger, for whose aDpointment President McKinley is solely responsible. Hence, the traoks of the criminal blunders of that department point to the white house as certainly as the hoofprints of Phil Armour’s cattle point to the slaughterhouse. The nation believes that the first criminal blunder was the appointment of Alger as secretary of war. If the people are right in this, the multiplied i wrongs of whioh the people complain, the investigating commission may hold William McKinley, president of the United States, responsible. In the relentless search for wrong doers it may be in order to track them to their hiding places, bat it is in consonance with the eternal fitness of things to find, if possible, the one man, the higher his position the mote important the investigation, who is responsible, and when found stand him up before the pitiless gaze of the world and say to him, as Nathan said to David, “Thou art the man.”

democratic voter this year is a Spanish vcter." Nothing ?ould bj more ungrateful than this charge made by the New York Tribune? « When ar was threatened the democratic party, through its representatives m congresp, voted, without lone dissenting, to plaee $50,000,000 in President MoKinley’s hands as a fund with which to prepare for the impending conflict. When troops were caaed for by the president not only did individual democrats respond as volunteers but democratic governors gave cordial st pport the

“A FIRM ADHERENCE Tt- ACT PRINCIPLES.”

THE DISHONEST DOLLAR

Silver Good Enough For the Soldier, but the Bondholder Is Paid In Gold. Hie Government For Years Made and Circulated “Dishonest Dollars,” Only to Find It Oat In 1873, and Fire Years Later Went Into the “Dishonest Dollar” Business Again. If the people of Indiana, believe the half, or the 100th part of one-half of the mouthings and vaporings of the gold bugs and their henchmen about the silver dollar, they must conclude that the government, from its foundation, has been engaged in coining “dishonest dollars,” and that when it was not coining “dishonest dollars” at its own mints, it went into the business of making Mexican, Spanish and the dollars of other nations “dishonest” by affixing a dishonest value upon them and made them pass current at such value in the United States. Under every administration, from Washington to Grant, this thing of coining “dishonest silver dollars” proceeded unquestioned, but, in 1873, that paragon of integrity, John Sherman, saw the monstrous dishonesty of coining silver dollars of grains of standard silver, and by perpetrating a fraud in the interest of Judas Iscariots, the money bag hoidris of the nation, put an end to the eon a,; ■ of “dishonest dollars.” No <"* ■ r will ever know, the a o. John Sherman secured jj iui. aoi oi treason to the people. It is only known that, on $5,000 a year, he beca me a multi-mill-ionaire, was kicked out of office by William McKinley and left, in his old age, to reap a more abundant harvest of obloquy than has fallen to the lot of any native American since Benedict Arnold set the example of selling his country for British gold. The fraud perpetrated by John Sherman delighted every goldbug in the land, just as Arnold’s treason won the applause of the Tories in the war of the revolution. But, it appears from the records, that the people of the United States were so enamored of the business cf coining “dishonest dollars” that in 1878, after living five years with the mints closed to the coinage of “dishonest dollars,” a fearful epidemic of dishonesty seized upon the people and swept Over the country. And again the jnints were opened to the coinage of “dishonest dollars,” and this swelling tide of iniquity and astounding cussedness rolled on till more than 400,000,000 of “dishonest dollars” were coined—dollars which in the high wrought indignation of a Republican campaign openers declared to be “two-fifths lies,” and sees no reason why the government may not go to the extreme and coin a whole silver dollar lie, upon the ground, that if the government puts in circulation a dollar which is “two-fifths” a lie, it may with equal propriety put in circulation a dollar five-fifths a lie—in fact, go into the counterfeiting business under the constitution and laws enacted in conformity with the constitution. If any one will go to the trouble of I reading the campaign opening address ; of Hon. Albert J. Beveridge at Tomlin* i son hall, delivered some weeks since, it will be seen upon what sort of oratorical rations the distinguished speaker fed his audience. I It is not to be assumed that the Republican campaign opener, though a : regular Vesuvian orator, made any converts from the ranks of silver RepubJ licans, or in any wise demoralized j Democrats, but his reference to the dis- | honest American dollar indicates quite ; conclusively the kind of financial literature that suits the Republican party. The American dollar, which the gold | bugs delight in denounoing as dishonest j and “two-fifths a lie,” if these epithets were warranted, would present the United States before the world as a ' nation of knaves, coining dollars “twofifths” a lie, and compelling the people I to accept them as if they were honest dollars. To quote Mr. Beveridge verbatim, he said: “If the government stamp can make a piece of silver which you can buy for 45 cents pass for 100 cents * * * and if the government lies two-fifths in declaring that 45 cents is 100 cents, why i not lie three-fifths and declare that | nothing at all is 100 cents?” j This sort of rant is accepted as finanJ eial gospel by the Republican press and j the Republican managers of the camI paign, and yet, when their attention is i railed to the fact that the dollar they denounced as dishonest, and as lies, are I paid ont to soldiers, they are then com? I polled to accept the Democratic posi* j scion relating to the honesty of the ail- | ver dollar, that it is a. standard coin, , irredeemable, sound as gold, constitu- | tional and primary money, a legal ten--1 der for all debts, public or private, and | that its coinage now, as in 1792, meets ; every requirement of sound money. To j this the Republican goldbugs are driven, or be compelled to admit they have paid j soldiers in “dishonest” money. But this fact in no wise relieves them of the odium of mendacity which they have earned by their puerile- and studied slanders, heaped upon those who have sought with patriotic persistency to remonetize the silver dollar in the interest of all the people, But the Republican party, by paying silver dollars to soldiers and refusing to ! pay them to bondholders, has placed itself on record as a party making a distinction between soldiers and • bondholders. The party regards silver as inferior money and gold as superior money. In paying the bondholders it surrenders its option and pays them in gold. In paying soldier it exercises its

republican administration. Ta congress democrats voted almost unanimously for administration measure i, although.many of these mea ures were thought to be unnecessary and have since the close of the wa* proved to be unnecessary. democrats as generals, who won victories against Spain, having under their command a larger proportion of their troops democrats as well; with admirals in the navy democrats in politics fighting valliantly and successfully agaicst the bpantsfa foe, the Now York Ttibune dares

option and pays them In stiver. If stiver is good enough for soldiers, it hi good enough for bondholders, and this,, if the case were submitted to the people, would be the verdict. And the Democratic party does submit the question to the people of Indiana and asks for their verdict at the polls on Nov. 8, 1898. The faots are as stated. The government is placed under obligation to soldiers of a higher character than its obligations to bond holders. These soldiers performed patriotic service; they placed their health and their lives iu peril to serve their country. It has been said, and truthfully said, “There is nothing too good for soldiers.” If the Republican party believed that, it must pay its soldiers in gold, because it says “gold is the best money.” It is the money whioh it pays to bond holders, hut it does not pay the soldiers in the money it pays to bond holders. Bond holders will not have silver dollars, which Mr. Beveridge characterizes as “two-fifths” a lie, but it does pay such silver coins to soldiers, and does not permit them, as it permits bond holders, to choose the kind of money they will accept. If, as they are compelled to do, admit that silver dollars are “sound money,” sound enough to pay soldiers, why not pay it to.bond holders? Let Republicans answer, if they can. Indeed, the Democratic party of Indiana insists they shall answer, or sit as dumb as so many bronze dogs on the front steps of ft plutocrat’s palace.

FOREIGN TRADE

Its Condition Before and After tte Act of 1873. mv By Flaviua J. Van Vorhis. The more carefully the reports of the treasury department are examined, the more do the figures there given emphasize the intimate relation that exists between our foreign commerce and the money question. The real significance of the figures there given can only be arrived at by computation and comparison. Not every one is inclined to make such careful examination. Every man ought to do so who represents at desires to represent the people, or attempts to discuss the subject. For 26 years there has been an awful draft by foreign trade upon our resources. It can hardly escape attention that there has been a constant loss since 1873, and that the loss has been increasing ever since. There can be no doubt that this annual loss goes to pay interest to foreign holders of our debts, dividends to foreign holders of our corpjfetion stocks and rents to alien landlords. This is clearly shown by the tables of annual exports and imports of merchandise and of exports and imports of gold and silver from 1885 to 1897 to be found in every monthly report except those of May and June last. It is worth while, in view of present conditions and the repeated assertions made by oertain papers and speakers that our foreign trade gives evidence of prosperity, to see what these tables contain. The filsoal year prior to 1848 ended on Sept. 80. Since that date it has ended on JuneSO. Draw a line across the tables between 1873 and 1874, dividing the whole time from September, 1884, to June 30, 1888, into two periods. An estimate of the exports and imports of merchandise end the money metals ( gold and silver) daring the first period of 38 years and nine months will show that the wealth of our country 'was increased by foreign trade by $557,090,987. This was an average annual increase of over $14,800,OQp for the entire time. Daring the last 20 years of the period the net average annual increase of wealth was nearly $19,000,000; during the last 15 yeaM ft was over $28,000,000; during the last 10 years it was over $42,500,000; during flip last five years it was over $55,500,000. During the last year, ending June 30, 1873, the net gain was $57,000,000. The showing is different for the seoond period of 25 years, beginning June 80, 1873, and ending June 30, 1898. In stead of our wealth increasing by foreign trade, we lost during the time $8,547,087,104. This was a not average annual loss of nearly $142,000,000. Drop out of the calculation five years at a time, beginning with the earliest date, and note the rapidly increasing loss down to. the year 1898. Daring the last 20 years the net average annual loss was nearly $148,600*600. During the last 15 years it was pearly $154,500,000. During the last JO years it was nearly $200,000,060. During the last five years it was over During the last year the net loss reaohed the enormous sum of $535,000,000. In the face of suoh a showing what comment is necessary ? Prior to June 30, 1873, our foreign trade brought a gradually increasing balance in our favor. With our increase of population and business, our wealth increased until in the last year the excess of imports of merchandise and money metals over exports reached nearly $57,000,000 of balance on our side of the ledger. In the* next year, ending June 80, 1874, we lost over $57,* 000,000. In 1875 we sent out of the country an excess of over $71,000,000 in gold and silver alone. In 1876 we lost over $120,000,000, of which $40,000,000 was gold and silver; in 1877 over $107,000,000. Between the years 1880 and 1890 there was some decrease in the annual loss, caused, no doubt, by the beneficial effects of the Bland-Alli-son law. From the year 1890, however, the loss has continued with increasing rapidity, notwithstanding our great increase in population and business, until It has reached its present tremeo4oas proportions. It is difficult for the student of economies and commercial movements to avoid the conclusion that the difference between the two periods depends upon the demonetisation act

o say that “every democratic voter this year is a Spanish voter.” Slander can no farther go than this. Democrats have proved their patriotism. It is not neo-ssary that they should vote the republican ticket this fall to establish their cl aims to patriotism. Th at has been settled against the peradventure of a donbt in the field and the forum 3

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passed in 1878, by which the dostmetten of bimetallic option was commenced. What will be the ultimate limit of this foreign demand oannot be oertaiudy predicted. It is certain that there in not now any tendenoy to a decrease at the aggregate amount of interest, dividends and vents to be paid each year to alien*. On the oontrary, the net excess of merchandise and silver necessary to secure us any return of gold will, and must, continue to increase with more or lees regularity until the bimetallic optical is restored. How long we will be able to stand this no man can say. Our resources are great and our productive powers almost unlimited; bnt our foreign trade is but a small part of our commercial transactions. If this was all the draft upon our industries and onr productions we oould stand it for a long time. If it Is true, as we claim, that the destruction of the bimetallic option that has been the governing power and the balanoe wheel of commerce for more than 1,000 years has produced this result in our foreign trade, the same appalling consequenoes have fallen upon our domeatio transactions and is rapidly concentrating the wealth of the country in the hands of the creditor classes. If interact on credits and dividends on stooks held \n foreign countries and the rents to alien landlords have created so large and continually increasing draft, what must be the magnitude of the aggregate draft caused by interest on credits, dividends on stooks and rents on speculative investments held by our own citizens? If the demand oaused by credits, stocks and speculative investments held at home have.increased in the same proportion that the figures show those held abroad to have increased, the time is near at hand when the entire production of the county will not be sufficient to satisfy ic. What then? Already, acoordlng to intelligent estimates, 250,000 people of the United States own 80 per cent of all the wealth. How muoh longer can this concentration of wealth continue before the point is reaohed when nothing but revolution will stand between our industrial and producing classes and slavery to the holders of wealth? The course that has been pursued sinoe 1861 and still is being pursued by the great financial interests and creditor classes, is bringing about a oonfliot between wealth and production. If the American people desire to remain free they will be compelled to take care of debtors and let the great creditor classes take case of themselves. If American institutions are to be perpetuated the policy of this country must oea3e to be what it now is—to promote speculative schemes for public and private robbery. The policy must be an honest attempt to promote legitimate bnsiness interests.

GOLD AND SILVER.

One of the arguments made by the advocates of the free and unlimited coinage of silver is based upon statistics relating to the fact that the amount of gold and silver coin in*the world is approximately and practically equal. Secretary Gage of the United States treasury department estimates the gold and silver coin in the world as follows: G«|\d coin $4,350,600,000 Silver coi* 4,208,300,000 Total $8,567,900,000 The current estimate of the world's population is 1,500,000,000. Accepting the estimate and it is seen that the gold coin in the world is equal to $2.90 per capita, and that the silver coin is equal to $2.80 per oapita, or that the total coins of the two metals is equal to $5.70 per oapita. But it is replied that such estimates are of little consequence because the population of the world includes savages and barbarians in all of the zones. That is true, and to meet the objection, 500,000,000 of the estimate is omitted, reducing the total to $1,000,000,004. This would give the civilized population of the world $4.85 per capita in gold and $4.20 per oapita in silver, or in both coins $8.55 per capita. It should be remembered that this close equality of the two metals as money is not of recent date, but as Mr. Shafroth says, has been the case “at almost all stages of the world’s history.” That such conditions should have existed is not neoessarily miraculous, but it is, nevertheless, most extraordinary, and would seem to have been brought about by providential oversight, as much so as that, by some ocoult design, the sexes hays been maintained through all ages as about equal. At any rate this equality in amount or value of gold and silver seems to be the order of nature and of wise design. The gold advocates propose to strike down silver as primary money, to reduce it to snbsiduary money, to redeemable money in the interest of gold standard advocates abroad and in the United States, and this outrage upon the great mass of the people is proposed without a scintilla of proof that either individuals, communities, municipalities, states or nations have ever suffered ky bimetallism, the use of gold and silver at such ratios as have been established by law or oustom as standard money. And if a motive is sought for placing gold on the throne with a crowu on its head, and silver on the scaffold With a halter around its neck, one. and only one, will be found, and that motive will be to enable the rioh men effectually to plunder the poor. Say what we may, the men who coutrol the money of the nation will control its destiny, unless the masses properly estimate the dangers which environ them, and swear, as did Jackson, “by the eternal” money shall not rule and shape the destiny of the America:; republic It is a notable faot that DeLomc lost, his diplomatic head far telling the trut h.

The Journal has placed the Dem- | oerat? man sadly on the d?f< naive. | “Bab” should either pi ova the Jo rnal man a liar. or cease his inuendoe3 and irsinrmnon* against the personal integrity cf citizens who, if the Jon<nai’s crit** icisms be true, are beyo d the reach of “£ab.” i i ■ -

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It seems that Cooney Kellner of this city, a saloonist, has re* ceived a letter front A. E. Knotts, republican candidate for joint resontative, in whicn Cooney iB requested to exert himself in his (Knotts) behalf; that while his opponent “Mr Yeoman is a respected citizen of your fcouuty and have not a word to say against him, but you know as well as I do that ‘he is not our kind of people.’ ” Knotts can bst his sweet life that Mr. Yeoman is not his “kind of people. He has served his country well as a soldier, and will serve the people of Jasper equally as we 1 in the legislative halls-.. ‘ Vote for Yeoman, make no mistake. A large stock of school shoes to select from. Gall on Jndge Hea’v, ".he exclusive dealer. Within the l»st two weeks W. B. Austin has close ! np eight farm loans ranging in amounts from 8300 to $5,000 at 5 and 7 per cent, according to amount. We would call that expeditious. Judge Healy is ope ing cut an x tensive new stock of Boots and Shoes, Rubbers of all kinds, school su oes, etc , for the tall and winter trade, at the lowest prices. Judge Healy has had lo nexpe rience in his line of trade He is an excellent judge of material and workmanship You will simply consult your own interest in mak ing your footgear purchases from him N otice to Taxpayers. The first Monday of November is the last day that taxes of 1897 can be paid without penalty at* t aching J. C. GWIN, Trea . The “Snowdrift,” manufactured by J. M. Gardner, of Monitor mills is rapidly forging to the front in public estimation. Try it, and you will want no other. Mr. And Mrs. Ed. D. Rhoades, Mrs. C. D. Martin, and Mi. and Mrs. W. B. Austin took in Chicago’s big Jubilee. Ex>sberiff Powell and wife of Washington, D. 0., are visiting their daughter, Mrs. C. Sp tier, and friends in this city and vicinity. F. J. Sears has purchased a Jiv* ery and sale stable in Indianapolis, and will make that city his fu** ture home.

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THE INFALLIBLE HEADACHE CTUBE. It is universally conceded its equal does not exist. It is an -ib*« solute sure cure for the' most obstinate case of nervous and sick headache, and will in any case give relief in fifteen minutes. Once tried you will never be without it* Price 10c. for package of 3 powders or 3 pkgs, of 9 powders for 25c. Don’t fail to try it. Marsh Mfg. Co. n 42 6m. 538 W. Lake !St, Chicago, Mrs. Fannie, wife oi. Hon. R. S. Dwiggins, died very suddenly on Thureday morning of last week at the home of J. F. Hardman, on Cullen street. Heart trouble supposed to have been the cause of her death. Fuueial services were held Friday following at the Church of God, Elder F. L. Austin officiating. Intermtnt in Weston cemetery Floral offerin s were furnished by the Ladies’ Literary Club,of which dec ased was the first president, and many friends. Fannie T. Dwigglns was born in Clarion county, Penn., May 1, ’36, died at Iten'selad , Ind., October 20,1898, nu il9 days. Her maiden name Aas Travis. She came to Bensseiaer in 1860, making her home Aith her sister,Mrs. Alfred Thompson. Was mairied to Robert S. Uwiggins Dec. 28, 1862. Of this ’.tuion three children were born, Elmer and Jay now in Enrope, and a daughter who died m infancy. She has been a faithful member o r . the Church of Cod since 1860. Resolutions of respect adopted by the Jasper county bar, of which Air. i wiggins is a member, and court officers, will appear m onr next issue. THE COMPANION fob the Best of 1898. The principal attractions offered by ihk Youth's Companion for the regaining weeks of 1898 provide a foretaste of the good things to follow in the ujv volume for 1899. To the first issue ’ssne in November Frank B. Stockton w 11 contribute a humorous sketch enticed “Bome of My Dogs,“ and in the is- | e for the week of November 10th will •ppear Bu lyara Kipling’s thrilling story of the heroism ot soldiers io the ranks, “The Burning of the Sabah Sands."— io the seven issues to follow there will be contributions to follow by Lord Dufftrii, William D, Howells, J. E. Cham be lin, the! American war correspondent, 1W ary E. Wilkins. Hou. Thomas B Beed, the Marquis of Lorno, Mmp, Lillian Nordics and I. Zangwill. Those who subserve now for t*o 1899 volume will receive every November and December r sue of The Companion from the time of Bubsciiption to the end of the year fee, the Companion Calendar for 1899 free, and then the entire 52 issues of The Companion to January 1, 1900. An illustrated announcement of the 1899 volume and sample copies will be sent free to any one at s dressing The Youth’s Companion, 2U Coin bus Ave.. __ Boston, Mats,