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William Jennings Bryan, Premier W* of President Wilson's Cabinet, has set Washington's tipplers talking by having a state dinner without \3v intoxicating liquors being served.

The temperance people will approve the action of Mr. feryan.

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Washington are playing peanut -politics in holding up the approval of President Wilson's appointments.

When the Democratic Senators

held up the appointments of Presi-^ jpassing interest in the subject of dent Taft, which were sent to that body in regular order of vacancies, it was peanut politics to do so, and was unworthy of men holding such honorable positions. It is no better now for Republican Senators to do likewise, and to do so. only causes the people to have less respect for Senators. There is nothing in United States Senators talking about dignity, responsibility and honor, when they resort to the small tricks of ordinary things and people.

It is officially reported that a great deal of complaint is being received by the new Postmaster General concerning the short-comings of the postal service. It is said that a complete reorganization is contemplated, and a general shake-up among division superintendents is expected, looking to the improvement of the service. It is given out that the department will be taken out of politics and the merit system firmly fixed. No more postoffice political pap.

There is no life so anomalous in the entire sphere of human activities as the political life. In the lives of all people, there is much that is inconsistent and irregular, but it remains for politics to defy, all rules of regularity at all times and in all people. This condition is probably due to the long-pre-vailing idea that anything and everything is right in politics. There never was a greater fallacy, and still it has become so firmly fixed in the body politic of the American people, that men honest in all their other transactions, and even apparently earnest professed Christians, often indorse and engage in all kinds of frauds to secure certain partisan and politcal results. We hear much about dishonest political methods and leaders, and many people get so good they wash their hands of all responsibility by having nothing to do with politics or elections, but that does not help the condition. There are dishonest leaders, and they should be removed, but they are the creatures of indifferent or dishonest people. We .hear much about the dear, honest common people, but if the people would do their whole duty if they were keenly 'alive to their responsibility in politics if they would not countenance irregularity in their leaders, and would refuse to indorse and support them in the elections, the dishonest leaders would soon disappear, and dishonest methods would become inoperative and obsolete. The reform must come from the people. They have the power. It can not be taken from them if they are only wide-awake in their demands that the men who represent them in organizations and office must be men not only honest in business, but men who will be honest in politics. Men who are honest in politics will be honest in office, and men who do dishonest things to secure office may find it necessary to do dishonest things in office. Let the reform for honesty in politics begin with the people. Let it be inculcated in the children. When the people become thoroughly educated to the point of honesty in politics as they are in ordinary business, there will be no place for the bosses and dishonest leaders. There is no party free.from this criticism. It applies to one as well as another. One constantly condemns the things in the other which it practices itself. An honest man in politics is perhaps lonesome, but we like to see him. We do not agree with President Woodrow Wilson in many things, but we like him because he is honest.

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At the Capital State Bank, in their screw-door vault with three time locks and combination lock, and all inclosed in a large iroil safe with a combination lock, and safe and money well insured against any loss from burglary, and back of all^ are Forty Three Stockholders who are worth over Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars.

(From the Waveland Independent) The troubles of the Woodmen and Ben Hur make a more than

fraternal insurance. Experience is a dear teacher, but there are always many who will not learn. Hence there are new fraternal insurance schemes sprung on the public every year, and there are always "jiners."

It looks easy. A thousand of us get together, determined to beat the insurance companies. What's the use to pay agents' commissions, officers' salaries, the cost of great buildings, when all we' want is to leave a thousand dollars to the widow and orphans? Cut out the middleman.

On the start we all pay in a dollar a month. That's cheap. The insurance trust wants twice that amount. And, besides, only eight are going to die the first year, so we have a fifty per cent, margin to go on. The eight will no longer contribute, so their places'must be filled. That also is easy, because while one of these organizations is new, the members are all enthusiastic, and take no end of time to boom it. In fact, they get in many more than the required number.

But during the year, we have grown a year old—a thousand years fop the whole crowd. They must also be made up by taking in more members, and they must be younger so as to raise the average. Otherwise the organization, as a body, grows older. Then more, die per year nine per year at 40 10 at 45 11 at 50 14 at 55 23 at 65, and so on. There is one consolation if you live to be 90, you are comparatively safe, as only one in a thousand die at that age.

The experience of all past and passing societies has been that after the first few years it is not possible to take in enough new members to keep down the average age. And when it starts up, it goes fast. The fifty per cent, margin is soon wiped out, and then to pay the $1,000 on each death calls for more or larger assessments. Also, no allowance has been made for expense. In new societies much of the work is done by volunteers, but there is soon an end to that. The larger the organization, the larger becomes the expense. Much of the increase is legitimate some of it is not.

While, the society is new, everyone takes an active interest in getting new members. Every expenditure is watched. There is a fine fraternal feeling. Later, there is a change. What is everybody's business is nobody's, and the business falls into the hands of a small group, which may be good, bad, or just average. Taking a hopeful view that this group will be average, it is certain that they will administer the business to their own advantage more expense. Men will be paid to get new members where at first every member was an enthusiastic solicitor working without pay.

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Then comes the trouble. The rates are put up to meet present necessities. Some of the members quit usually the older ones, and that helps some. Quite commonly a bunch of the younger ones splits off and forms a new society ti repeat history. But the men at the top work the machinery and pull along for a few years, and then another raise is necessary. Larger assessments, no new members, and a final crash that is the history of the Odd Fellows and Masonic Mt(tuals, the A. O. U. W., and dozens of others.

Every fraternal society "is just now up against this problem. There are men in this town who have been caught in four fraternal smashes and are probably ready .to join another one. The Ben Hur got a lot of these singed cats. The assessments were never to be more than a dollar a month, and for this you were to get $2,300 in case you died. That was cheap as "dirt. Later it was found that the founders had been too hopeful. Instead of raising the assessment, the amount of insurance to new members was cut down. This did not make the older members sore, and few of the new members realized that they were paying the shortage of the older ones. This scaling the face of the policy was done several times until now in Glass A the dol­

lar buys less than $1,000. Class A aye, there's the rub. When it was found that the increase in membership and decrease in insurance combined were not going to meet the cost, Class was created, necessarily leaving those already in the order in Class A. A new rate table was constructed, guaranteed to be sufficient for all time, and the Class A members were exhorted to get on the raft of safety. Some did. Most of them paid no attention to the approach of the showers until the circular letters were sent out last week. They are sitting up and taking notice now, for sure.

There will be no new members in Class A. The death rate, which is already large, will increase every year. In March the receipts from Class A fell $30,000 short of the disbursements. Where does this lead? We quote from the Chariot: "When the amount in the Benefit and Emergency Funds of Class A, together with the monthly payments from Class A members has all been expended, thereafter benefits for disability or death cannot be paid until a sufficient amount has been received from Class A members with which to pay it. Benefits accruing after such time will probably be paid in the order of their occurrence naturally the claims would accumulate rapidly, and in the course of time, no benefit could be paid, as there would be no funds, and the contributors would cease because of the large amount required from them."

So you want to die as quickly as possible so as to get your family on the waiting list. Cheerful prospect.

Says "Dry" Condition is Best. Harry Towles, conductor on the T. H. I. & E. traction line, who resides at Greenfield, in an argument with some fellows in this city iast Thursday evening, made the statement that Knightstown or any other town would be better off "dry" than "wet." He said that Greenfield was a far better town when it was "dry" than at the present time, because a number of fellows now become intoxicated who cannot afford it men whose families need the money they spend for drink. He said that men who formerly paid 'their grocery bills on Saturday nights and take home a big load of provisions to their families, now carry home a different kind of load—that which they received over the licensed bar, instead. "No,sir!" he said, "saloons do not make a town better, but on the other

hand, make it worse." And we believe 3i[r. Towles understood thoroughly the subject upon which he was talking.—Knightstown Banner.

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^V®FARM NEWS

The farmers will be well pleased with a nice spring shower. The oats so recently sown, the late clover seed sown, the blue grass pastures and clover fields, to say nothing .of other vegetation, will be greatly benefited by rain.

Much of the sod-ground which is to be put in corn this season, has been broken. It now looks as if the farmers would get their corn in in pretty good time. A few farmers have reported that they would* like to plant some corn the last days of April. They fear that when the rain begins it rfiay continue for several days, or probably a week in which case they might not get any corn planted early. On the other hand, there are many farmers who wait for the arrival of the season to plant corn, before they plant. They say, in case of the usual cold rains which often come about corn planting time, they prefer not to. have their corn in the ground. They point out that even though the corn does not rot, the plant, when it does come through the ground, is weak and lifeless. They prefer to plant when the season is present and the conditions are such as to sprout the corn promptly and develop the plant rapidly.

A large crop of corn will be put out. It is doubtful if the farmers of Hancock county ever were more interested in getting out their corn crop in good shape, and raising a good big crop, than now. They have quite a large number of spring pigs and young hogs which they want to develop and "feed out next fall. The price of hogs seems now to promise good profit for the corn raisers, and they not only have an unusually, large crop of pigs this spring, but they are taking extra precaution to prevent the recurrence of last years cholera epidemic. Much money was lost bycholera among hogs in Hancock county last year, and preventives will be used more generally this year than ever before to avoid the cholera plague.

The prospects for a big clover hay crop continue good. The clover plant is small and needs rain, but the stand is exceptionally "good and the plant well rooted. The prospect of a big clover hay crop has had a depressing influence on the price of hay, but with the price of cattle and milk so high, the farmers can well afford to take care of all their clover, and convert it into beef, milk and cream, products in which there is good money.

The prospects for fruit and berries were probably never better than now.

SHUBERT-MLRAT

William Hodge, whose quaint portrayal of the character of Daniel Voorhees Pike in "The Man From Home," carried that play through six seasons of success, will be seen at the Shubert-Murat,, Indianapolis, during the week of April 28th, in a new play entitled, "The Road to Happiness," a comedy drama sounding the cheerful note of optimism, in a story of homely qualities, peopled with characters such as are found in e\ ery small community and told with the simple directness and flashes of humorous philosophy that carry an irresistible appeal. The scene of the play is a village in Northern New York, and its story involves the types of characters common to the small communities of the semirural sections of the country.

Placed in contract in the development of the plot are the village banker, suave and calculating in his vain attempt to win the love of a village belle the minister whose clerical work is based largely on and in favor of the chief contributors to his support the town magnate, who by virtue of his wealth and position, seeks to order to his own measure the actions of family, and also of all his neig. bors as well these and other types make up the round of characters in which Jim Whitman, as played by Mr. Hodge, becomes, by the strength of his character and by his cheerful willingness to give his wise aid and advice to those in trouble, a dominant figure. Whitman's introduction is in the role, oi' a country boy who has only a cheerful belief in himself, an unyielding faith in the triumph of truth, and an invalid mother. How Jim loves the daughter of the village magnate, how her father plots to force her into marriage with the banker, how a conspiracy is then formed to rid the town of Jim by giving him a coat of tar and feathers, and the primitive ride upon a rail and how Jim turns, the tables upon his enemies and brings them in the end to recognize him in his true nature are the elements of a story in which heart interest, humor, homely philosophy and stirring incidents are daftly mingled. Mr. Hodge's charcter work has been likened by nfany critics to that of the late Sol 3mith Russell, and in

method and personality these actors have much in common. "The Road to Happiness" gives to Mr. Hodge a vehicle in which he is at his best and Mr. Lee Shubert, under whose direction he appears, has provided every accessory in scenic equipment and a company of rare and unusual excellence.

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Charles Record and mother, Mrs. Mary Record entertained at dinner Sunday, William Jackson and family-

Walter Welborn and wife entertained at dinner Sunday, Jesse Justice and family, of Wilkinson.

Melvin Williams and wife entertained at dinner Sunday, James W Williams and family.

Mrs. F. H. Sipe called on relatives and friends at Wilkinson last Sunday afternoon.

John Patterson and Ed Williams were at Wilkinson on business last Monday.

Myrtle Fletcher is visiting relatives at Daleville this week. A. E. Sipe and wife, of Knightstown, visited home folks Saturday night and Sunday.

John and Mayme Patterson visited W. S. Thomas and wife Saturday evening.

F. H. Sipe and wife spent Friday afternoon at New Castle. Clay Wood, of Wilkinson was at Willow Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Richard Kinder called on Mayme Patterson Tuesday afternoon.

Charles Williams and family visited M. C. Fort and wife Sunday. Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Mrs. Charles Foust and Mrs. Lucien Collins visited Cora Clark Thursday.

Ward Parker and Elsie Stevens were at Greenfield Saturday. Mrs. Charles Foust called on Mrs. F. H. Sipe Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Richard Kinder and Mrs. Arlis Thomas were shopping at Shirley Friday afternoon.

Freeman Smith and wife visited W. H. Smith and wife Thursday. Mrs. W. S. Thomas, Mrs. A. E. Sipe spent Monday at Indianapolis.

Ed Cassell, of Anderson, spent Monday evening with Miss Goldie Thomas.

Taylor Thomas and family, of Knightstown, are visiting John R. Sherry and wife.

Jesse Simmons and tvife spent Sunday afternoon with Frank Clark and wife.

Ward Parker has a position at Indianapolis. Lucien Collins and wife spent last Sunday with John Sherry and wife.

Charles Record and Maude Welborn were at Greenfield Thursday. Wm. Sherry is on the sick list.

Daniel Ware and wife visited at the home of William Grunden and family Sunday.

J. W. Patterson, and Ed Williams are going to put in a new store here in the near future.

Orville Plummer says he has the nicest dog Tn town? Cecil Jackson spent Saturday and Sunday with Naomi Kinder.

Mrs. Melvin Williams -and Mrs. F. H. Sipe were at Maxwell Tuesday. W. S. Thomas and wife and Mrs. Etta Sipe called on Emrey Yandyne and family Sunday evening.

Richard Kinder and wife and Waller Welborn and family attended services at Wilkinson Sunday night.

B. F. KEITH'S THEATER

The first product of the Keith and Orpheum Circuits Producing Company to be seen locally will be presented at B. F. Keith's theater the week beginning Monday matinee, April 21st, when Mr. Edward Davis and his legitimate company, including Miss Jue Power, will appear in "The Kingdom of Destiny," a magnificent, poetical allegory, which is heralded the most-preten-tious offering ever seen in vaudeville, rivaling in splendor theme ind finish the best quality of legitimate productions. Mr. Davis is well known as the star of such succ^sjes as "The Unmasking," "All Rivers Meet at Sea," "Found Out," "The Part of Life" and "The Pici.ur^ of Dorian Gray." The entire prod ictioi) is a challenge to the esJabH^hed standards of vaudeville, ami tiie noveL'y has proven a great ur.vwing card i\ Mr. Keith's east'h eaters.

Another important feature of the bill will be one of vaudeville's daintiest conceptions, "After the shower," offeresd by Merrill and Otto. Harrison Armstrong will present the latest comedy, entitled "Squaring Accounts." Marinetti & Sylvester, "the boys with the chairs," will offer a boisterous quarter hour's acrobatic fun called "An Attempt at Suicide." Artie Mehlinger, one of the newest of this season's successes, will give many laughs in his quaint songs. Armstrong and Ford have more fun which they offer under the title of "The English Johnny and The Cop." The Kraytons are expert hoop rollers arid diabolo experts^ There will bei eight- Keith novelties ori'the bill.

The nfew programs for Edison's

Talking Pictures include, "Bob Serving the Writ," and "The Musical Blacksmiths."

B. F. Keith's theater will be open1 Sunday -afternoon and evening with entertainment offered by professional singers and instrumentalists, supplemented by displays of Edison's Talking Pictures.

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Time to Pay Taxes.

Monday, May 5th, is the last day for paying taxes for the spring installment. Some people will hold to it until the last moment, thinking it will grow in their pockets.

Card of Thanks.

We desire to express our thanks to the friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in the sickness and death of our dear husband and father. Also thanks to Mr. Eshelman, the undertaker. May God bless you all.

MRS. JOHN ADLER. MR. AND MRS. Y. R. ELLIS, JOHN ADLER, JR.

Charles Cook and Jonas Walker transacted business at Anderson Tuesday.

GREENFIELD MARKET These prices are corrected daily from quotations by the Bolt Meat Market, Thomas Nye, the poultry dealer, New Milling Company and local grocers. —CattleSteers $6.25(^8-15 Stock Cattle [email protected] Heifers [email protected] Bulls [email protected] Canners and Cutters [email protected] Fat Cows [email protected] Cows $20 @$50 Veal Calves [email protected] -HogsGood to Best Heavies [email protected] Medium and Mixed [email protected] Good to Choice Lights [email protected] -WheatWheat, per bushel $1.00 -CornCorn, 68 lbs 50c —Oats and RyeOats, per bushel 27@29c Rye, per bushel 60c —Hay and StrawBaled timothy hay, ton $9.00 Baled mixed hay, ton 8.00 Baled clover hay, ton 8.00 Bulk timothy hay, ton 8.00 Bulk mixed hay, ton 6.00 Bulk clover hay, ton 6.00 Baled wheat straw, ton 2.00 Baled oats straw, ton 3.00 —Buying Price Seeds— Timothy, per bushel [email protected] Glover, per bushel [email protected] Alsike, per bushel [email protected] —Selling Price Seeds— Little Red Clover $ 12,50 Alsike [email protected] Timothy seed 2.00@ 2.25 Kentucky Blue Grass.. 2.00 —Bacon and LardBacon 14@15c Country Hams 15@i6c Lard, per lb 13c —Butter and Eggs— Butter, per lb 20@27o Eggs, per dozen 15© —-Poultry—,f Chickens, per lb. ..12%c Turkeys, per lb. is* bucks, per lb, ................ Mir