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Those people who expect Durbin to pounce on the reformatory

It is to be regretted that the congressional committee on military affairs has seen lit to avoid action on the canteen question at this session. The canteen should be restored in the name of temperance and morality in the army. Its abolition was an egregious error and cannot be corrected too soon,

Both the Gazette and Express are quite opinionated in regard to the electric company's franchise proposition. For three or four days their editorial columns have discussed little else. It would seem that their editors were working over time these days, trying to help solve this question.

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with the ferocity of a hungry wolf are mis­

taken in their man. Governor Durbin, although unfriendly to the board, has entirely too much seftse to make any such uncanny spectacle .of himself. If he proceeds against the board it Will be in a dignified manner and after specnic cnarges have been filed. In view of all the gossip concerning the management of this institution it would be etninently proper to hold all investigation and every detail connected therewith should, be given the utmost publicity.

The Indiana operators are objecting to the shot firing bill on the ground that "it will increase the cost of tnining and so raise the price of coal. This argument doesn worry the people a single bit. They know by bitter experience that the coal men will extort from them the highest price possible and that the

cost

of production does not figure in the cost to

sorry plea of this kind does not go with the

people after the hold-up of this winter.

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occasion for the authorities of Terre

Haute playing the high and mighty in their negotiations with the street railway company neither id there any reason why they should prove easy prey. The cohcession asked resolves itself into a simple business proposition and should be treated as such. The company should have what it asks and should pay a fair price for it.

Sheriff Fasig is doubtless "a good fellow" but When he insists on charging two days board for tramps who spend a single night in jail and are given one meal there, he is drawing rather Vigorously on Vigo county's fund of good nature. The new board of commissioners will favor the public by correcting this flagrant abuse whose orfly excuse is its antiquity.

It is true that a system of interurban lines, such as the electric company contemplates, would be of inestimable value to Terre Haute but the company has not projected this enterprise to boom the town. The franchise it asks is worth a great deal of money to the corporation and Consequently a fair price should not be begrudged.

While no oue will deny the eminent desirability of having all the electric railway interests of this community under one management, this fact should hot weigh too heavily with the city authorities in negotiating with the electric company. A fair compensation for every grant should be insisted upon and

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The sentiment of Indiana 19 not only strongly against the repeal of the law holding sheriffs accountable for the lynching of prisoners in their care, but is decidedly in favor of strengthening and fortifying it. It is a good law, a wholedome law, and a law which does credit to Indiana.

The bill providing for the girl's reform school has everything to commend it and nothing to damn it. It is based on common sense and humanity and is endorsed by the entire state, regardless of party, religious, or social lines. The course of the legislature is clear.

^Ifc is odd that neither the Express nor the Gazette have offered one single editorial comment on the proposed electric

franchise, the most important municipal matter which fefcs been before the public for a long time. Perhaps the editors dre unavoidably detained—or restrained? ——-A-"''

The sentimental people of South Carolina are rushing about collecting funds to erect a menrtmeht in honor of Editor Gonzales. The most fitting monument they could erect to his memory would be a gibbet on which to hatig his murderer.

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Tt is to be hoped that the board of works will stand pat on the price it has set for the Electric company franchise. The second offer of the company to pay $65,000 is not enough, $92tO0 is the lowest amount that should be accepted.

Terre Haute can get another electric company bat the Terre Haute electric company cannot get another Terre Haute. That is one of the reasons why the company shduld pay a reasonable consideration for the extension it aaks. ........

The Indiana senate seems disposed to do the right thing by the honest country editor and that swat it Administered the state printing trust was heard around the state if not the world.

The fact that the United States has demanded the payment of $325,000 from Santo Domingo does *ot carry the implication that if it isn't paid at once we shall send war ships after it*. it isn't so iimcTa question of how the money for the electric company concession paM to Terre Haute as how much

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Poor Oxford.

It is no secret—it is not even news—that the University of Oxford feels very poor. A book Ms lately been issued setting forth its pressing needs, to which the London Times has called attention. The Rhodes scholarships instead of helping it, have increased its burdens. Its great library, the Bodleian, is cramped for room, both for books and readers, ana has not funds enough to buy the books needed to keep it abreast the times, its deficiencies are so serious that the Oxford Board of Modern History reports that the scientific study of European history cannot at present be proseeuttfd at Oxford. In science its wants are manifold. It lacks equipment for the study of metallurgy, its instruction in geblogy is Wofully inadequate, it needs a mechanical laboratory,- with instructors, buildings, and machines: it has no engineering department, and it is far behind the times in the attention it pays to physics. Something seems to be wrong with the relations of England to Oxford. Perhaps the trouble is thsCt the old university has been so long regarded As a rich man's university, and an a source of iiicbrtie and maintenance to fortunate fellows, that the British public'is slow to realize that the venerable nurse of learning herself needs to be fed. There is no lack of mOney in England, but the British millionaires seem not to have formed the habit, so widespread here, of giving money to universities. Dr. Andrew White, defending his countrymen from the charge of greed, said last November, in a valedictory speech in Berlin, that the gift of over seventy million dollars to American colleges in 1901 abundantly proved that if the American knows how to chase the mighty dollar* he also knows how to use it. The British are earnest moneygetters, but they don't seem to have the American accomplishment of letting go.

Mr. Chamberlairt'6 Carpet-Bag Policy.

51 r. Chamberlain seems to be convinced that destiny points to him, and not to Lord Roscbery, as the man to steer the British Empire. Wc are not quite so convinced of this. His policy seems to be to look about for portable property, and when you see it to grab it. Quite an intelligible policy in its way, until some one else sights the same thing, as, for instance, the trade of Cuba, or the Atlantic shipping. There is something peculiarly sordid in the turn matters are taking in the Transvaal: the too palpable consideration for value received, paid over by the mine-owners of the Rand to the imperial government. It is as though it Were openly confessed at last that the men for whom the Boer war, with its incalculable sacrifices and irreparable losses on both sides, was waged, were (he speculators whom one English writer has recently described as "a gang of cosmopolitan Jews." This is sUrely the seamy side and it is characteristic of the man, that Mr. Chamberlain should apparently fail to see the incongruity of all this, with the high talk about British glory Which has been lavished from Durban to Pretoria. There is also the question of importing Chinese cheap labor for the Rand mines, and it is suggested that Mr. Chamberlain is ready to advocate this, in return for the special contribution of thirty millions sterling from the people characterised as the "gang of cosmopolitan Jews." Unless we are greatly mistaken, this Chinese question will arouse very strong feeling, not so much on the part of the Boers, as oft the part of the British colonists in Cape Colony, Natal, and Rhodesia, who will thus have the "yellow peril" brought home to them, as it has been brought home to their brothers in Australia.

The Greatest Reporter of Mis Day.'

With the death of. the Paris correspondent of the Times the journalistic world loses its most distinguished, or at least its best-tnown, member. M. de Blowitz, a Hebrew of the Hebrews in race and appearance, was born in Bohemia, close to Pilsen, the great home of lager-beer. He weht early to France, apparently adopted the honorific particle on his own responsibility, and became a language-teacher in the south, tie shouldered a musket in the 1 ranco-Prussian war. and rendered good service to the government during the red days of the Commune. He was offered a consulship in ttussia, but about the same time Laurence Oliphant asked to. intervie w~M. Thiers for the' Times, and this was the flTst step up the ladder to genius, M. Blowitz managed to make himself An international personage. Ministries in Paris came and disappeared, but Blowitz went on forever/He damned with faint praise, or praised with faint, damns, as the. humor took him arid all Pans looked the Times tb leam how it had been behaving during the last twenty-four hours. He had more power than an ambassador, and the world of letters should erect a statue in hia honor, as a type of the old Jovian school of journalists, whose personal view and personal word had weight in the destiny of nations. No figure has loomed so large in Paris during the last thirty years.

Football In Japan.

The last mail from Japan records a foot ball match under Rugby rules played between a native team and the fifteen of the Yokohoma Athletic club, which is composed of foreigners, most of whom are English and Americans. This is the first

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event of the kind, and shows that

Young Japan is adopting sports as well as more serious things from the west. Ten years ago Japan had practically no sports except cockfighting—which does not make for athleticism—and wrestling, in which the performers were a small and distinct caste. The higher classes then looked down upon most forms of activity, though the lower, as an island race, produced some of the most expert boatsmen and swimmers in the world. Cricket-thanks to the English dubs, which exist in every settlement, and the presence Japanese waters during the summer Of the British fleet—has already taken some hold on the native intelligence, and the day'may not be far distant when we may see an AngloJapanese match at Lord's.

THE PIRATE'S CORNER.

To assume success is very often to bring success,

Nothing pleases a very young man so much as to be considered blase. Nothing pleases an old mah so much as to be considered still irresistible with the women.

An intelligent villain is endurable. One cam defend himself against his villainy and enjoy his intellectuality. But a fool is unendurable from any point of view.

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Don't be jealous, not a bit,. Of the butterflies that flit Through the world on gilded wings Where the sun its radiance flings For they say the butterfly

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Don't be jealous, though your lot Sems to be to live forgot Though Dame Fortune seems to snub, Maybe you're a hopeful grub Maybe as the years go by You will be a butterfly.

When the office seeks the man it rarely needs a search-

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'. .J.*. Pessimism..,^...* jsvl. This world is full of bitterness, vv-wWOT]ti is full of woe:

You're fighting summer's heat unless PcrrhiUtce you're shoveling snow. *•, i-

The frailties of our neighbors so jar upon our nerves that cannot stand the extra shock of our own! Mmsm ,'

Man's egotism is only exceeded by man's hypocrisy.

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JANUARY SHOWS A BIG RUSH IK MAtMM0fflAVeV£N1fe

SIXTY LICENSES WERE ISSUED

Justice's Were Given the Preference and Had a Owner on the Wedging Fees for the Month.

-After the record-breaking month of December in the matter of matrimony many predicted a lull that would l4St at least through the month of January, but these predictions have failed.

The records at 5 o'clock last night showed

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issued during the month, a big increase over the month of January of last year. It is an average of two a day, which is regarded 49 pretty good, following on the heels of the month in which cattte the holidays, when so many young people are wont to wed and begin the new year in double harness. The returns show that forty-four of the weddings were performed by the justices of the peace throughout the county, and it begins to look as though coy Cupid is maintaining a sort of boycott on the ministers. This is accounted for by the fact that after the licenses are procured the couples want to get married as soon as possible, and as the justices are always on hand and "willing',' they get the Job, unless a wedding has been arranged. Along with thi/ bit of news it might be mentioned as an encouraging feature that there were fewer divorces granted last month than during any one month in the past ten years. An increase Of marriages and a decrease of the number of divorces granted is looked upon as a healthy indication.

THE TRUSTS AND TNI PEOPLE The Country Will Not Seek Charity From, or Exercise It Toward Trusts.

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terstate commerce commission, says that the time is fast approaching when corporations will absorb all important undertakings, and that the legitimate and inevitable offspring of corporations is monopoly. We are now at Wie beginning of a critical transitional period, in which the whole structure of industry and social life is liable to be subjected to a strain for wnich experience furnishes no guiding precedent, and the question is suggested, "Can we raise the wide realm of industry from selfishness to charity, from strife to friendship, from competition to co-operation, rom the warring instincts of the savage state to the larger and nobled needs of associated life?"

This question might be truthfully answered with a very emphatic negative if the masses of the people were to follow the injunction to let things alone, for it is certain that the power that has been gained in the industrial world by a few of our captains of industry and securities is. not to he trusted as an agent of altruism. It is damned to begin with by the methods that have beeii employed to create it. All the training preparatory to its exercise has been such as to invoke an appetite for still more power, the greed of money gains, the tyrannical assertion of the corporate will, an unvarying disregard of the rights and claims of others, a cynical contempt for the law, and the league with corporation. To suppose that by some beneficent impulse of its own power so acquired and so .wielded will convert selfishness to charity and strife to friendship, and substitute for competition anything resembling a genuine co-operation demands a faith that is impossible. If monopoly is. to be the outcome it will be increasingly subjected to public control in the public's defense. Besides, charity is hardly a happy word to use in connection with the discussion. The people do not propose to seek charity from or to exercise charity toward the monopolies. What they want is scimply justice to the many, \^th proper guarantees. And though we may not be able to see the exact solution of the problem now, it is certain that it will be attained because on a clear issue of power against power the combination of the people would be by far the strongest "combine" in the field.

REFORMERS IN RUSSIA 5

Their Melancholy Lot Illustrated by a Story From Tennessee. The thorny path of Russian reformers is well illustrated hy a story which is told down in Tennessee. About midsummer the colored "sharers" and "renters" oi ten find their larders empty and their credit nearly exhausted. The land-owners or merchants then refuse to supply anything beyond absolute necessities until the harvesting begins. To most of the improvident negroes absolute necessities mean cornca ke and molasses, and those of them who have to lay by their oorn and cotton on this diet soon become ashen gray. ..Their principal compensation for the trussing side meat is to recall in memory the good things they have eaten in better days. A party of "ashy niggers," as the old-fashioned among them call themselves, may often be overheard discussing this unfailingly interesting theme, perhaps while sitting on the doorstep on a summer evening. "What's de bes' sing yer eber eat?" asks one. "Pot liquor an' hot co'ncajce," ventures one of the most modest, to whom almost anything that has snyjlt fat p«yrfe would now taste good. "Ham hock an' tunnip greens/' says a second. "Roas* fihoat."

:8ta#,0 «W*et 'tatwal" Vjrj^rettpwi the nan who begnn the diMussiiHi and wbo is acting as umpire, rises deliberately and knocks the Inst speaker down With a stool. "I dkbi't tote you ter say 'possum an' sweet Haters/' is his indignant commentary. It is all well enough to talk about ordinary tictu&ls to a. hungry Irian Ml to mention- '"possum an' sweet 'taters" to an "ashy nigger" is carrying things a trifle too far.

The Su»sia«. emperor recently appointed a, commission, With branches all over the country, and requested it to tell him what was the matter with agricul-, turpi The chairman, de Witte, minister of finances, encouraged the iheinbera or the local brandhes to speak out boldly. Interesting suggestions came frothnearly all of them. Each meeting that was reported eeemed to go further than any that had previously been held in putting the finger on the sore places of Russia. Finally the committee fqr Voronezh plainly declared "what Russia needs is a constitution." The authors of the resolution of this committee were banished. Ptwiihftient was also visited on scores, of others who inoat nterly approached the Voronezh committee in plain speaking and daring suggestion. "I didn't tell y«U to say 'constitution!' seems to have been the answer of the Emperor, through the minister of the interior, M. von Flehve.

Quinine In Typhoid Fever. When the coctltar products Were introduced aa substitute* for quinlnp they were received wltk an enthusiasm which only embittered the, more the dlsapjointment following the discovery that none of them is free from danger and even the safest are only limited In their applicability In the treatment of fevers. This realization of the shortcomings of these new antipyretics wrought ft reaction which resulted in a sort of therapeutic nihilism, in so far as the drug treatment of the fever proper is concerned. Quinine is generally no longer thought of as an all-around antipyretic, and is used mainly as a tonic or as the specific against malaria. So grounded haB become the general belief that large doses of qtlinine oan be useful only in malaria that this dTug Is used for diagnostic purpostes, and any remittent fever which yields to the administration of large doses of auinine Is pronounced at once by some clinicians to be malaria, without any exam* ination of the blood, or, even, in spite of the absence of plasmodla. This view, however, is undergoing sfcme modification and the time-honored quinine is ajraln brought to th efront as an antipyretic by some German clinicians.

|Sj It Another Klondyke?

The Bed of the Tiber.

The stupendous triumphs of English engineering in Egypt at Assiout and Assouan suggest that work far. less difficult is diverting the waters of the Tiber within the vicinity of the eternal city might lead to the discloure of treasures of ancient art over which every civilized nation would rejoice. It is the generally accepted belief of archaeologists, his torians and artists that whenever Rome was besieged and captured many notable works in marble and bronze and precious metals, and no small number of the ether achievements of cunning artificers were cast into the yellow stream which was breasted so gallantly by brave HomtiuB, the captain of the gate. If the bed of •Father Tiber is ever thoroughly explored, as it should be, the discoveries may rank in value and significance within some comparative approach to the evermemorable "finds" in the last century in Troad, in Mycenae, in the Nile valley, in storied Crete and in Cyprus.

Talk of a New Railroad. The Black Diamond R. JL Co., is seeking to secure the right of way through South Putman, by Way of Clorerdale, for a line between Mooresville and the Fails of Eel intending, to popularise the latter as a summer resort, -^yom the Black JOiamond in Southern ladiana generaally, we fear that this line will not ma-terialize.—-Greencastle Star Press. 4

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ffc there a KJ^ndyke on our own cbisfit? is agitating some capitalists, who are investigating thq resources of Labrador.

It wtnild be strange if this land, whose characteristic permanent residents are Eskimos, and which has always been describes by geographers, as the KJondykc region haa been, as one of the most Uninviting Regions on. the face of, the earth, should proVe to be a. sort of El Dorado.

Alaska, we remember was for a long period regarded with contempt except by a few tarring fur merchants and geologists and! statesmen like Secretary Seward and Charles Sumner. But today it has become of so much consequence because of its gold production that its very boundary lines cause international jealousy. The position of Labrador, on the eastern side of this continent, is almost identical with that of Alaska on the western, and scientific research thus far conducted has dSsclosed that the rock formations ore virtually the same aa are the general topographical conditions.

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Australia'* Wheat Failure.. The Australian wheat crop, whose harvest is now at hand* is aiailure, and the commonwealth will have to import a considerable quantity of breadstuffs. That' country seems to be almost continuously afflicted with great drouths, Which spread destruction over the pastoral and planting industries. But the colonies continue to *row, though hot rapidly.

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