Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1884 — Page 5

THE COUNTRY’S HOG CROP. Baseless Character of the Charge that American Fork Is Unhealthy. Not a Single Authenticated Instance of Tricliiniasis Caused by Its Use, Whether the Meat Was Cooked or Raw. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April I.—A report just issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture on the swine products of the United States shows that Indiana in 1883 packed 2,724,383 hogs, against 2,867,772 in 1882; Illinois in 1883 packed 3,970,760, against 4,136,213 in 1882, and Ohio 2,714,112 in 1883, and 2,827,200 in 1882. lowa packed nearly 2,000,000 in excess of either of these States in both years. In the twelve great pork-packing States., in 1883, 28,316,912 hogs were packed, being 76,505 less than in the year previous. In 1882-3 Indianapolis is quoted as packing 388,417; Chicago, 4,222,780; Cincinnati, 507,316. In 1881-2 Indianapolis packed 436,894; Chicago, 5,100,484; Cincinnati, 508,548. The preceding year the slaughter was slightly heavier at all these cities. Germany has been raising a great smoke about our pork. It is seen by the report just issued that during the year ending June 30, 1882, Germany only received 4,591,623 pounds of our pork and bacon, while England received 386,873,625 pounds, paying us $38,169,961, against Germany’s $388,402. Germany has been howling about our trichinae, while England, who has received so much more of our swine products, has guzzled it down and never said a word. We have not been compelled, in self-defense, either, to consider retaliatory legislation on account of England. But all this howl about trichinae is found to be buncombe. So far as known, no single authentic instance, resting on competent scientific testimony, can be adduced of a case of trichiniasis in Europe arising from the use of American packed swine products as food, whether eaten raw or cooked. In each instance of outbreak of trichiniasis in Germany, where the habit of eating hog's meat in an uncooked state makes the disease more prevalent than in other countries, the epidemic is not only distinctly traced to the consumption of the flesh of freshly-killed native hogs, but the further significant fact is observed that the virulence of the infection diminishes with the time elapsing between the killing of the animal and the consumption of its flesh, and that an interval of only a few days, especially when tho meat is even slightly salted, suffices to reduce the severity of the symptoms below a fatal stage It may not be irrationally inferred that a still longer interval would wholly remove the danger of iufeetion, even in uncooked meat. Scientific research as to the duration and conditions of propagative vitality of the trichina- after the death of the animal in which they are found, would appear to be a very necessary step toward a fuller knowl edge of this aspect of the question. The nations most affected by competitive ex fetation from the United States are Great Britain, France and Germany. In the past ten years the exports to France have averaged $58,457,124, a trifle more than the imports. Tho exports to Germany have averaged $57,713,236; the imports, $44,526,702. Great Britain and Ireland (the “United Kingdom") have been the best customers, buying annually to the value of $374,088,360, and sending in return to the United States goods worth $160,627,212, showing a difference of over $213,000,000 per annum. The report contains a correction of a report on trichiniasis as observed in Dearborn county in 1874 by George Sutton, M. D., of Aurora. The report of the Commissioner says: “The hogs in Dearborn county, Indiana, seem to be infected in a larger proportion than any where else in the country, or at least were in 1874. Drs. Harding and Robbins examined 245 animals slaughtered near Lawrenceburg, and found that 40. or 16 1-3 per cent., contained this parasite. This seems to be far beyond the average, however, even in this center of infection, for Drs. Gatch and Miller examined 200 animals at the same place and only found 13 infected, or 6.5 per cent.” THE SYSTEMS OF BREEDING AND REARING. It is observed that the system of breeding and rearing swine is nearly the same in all the States, with the exception that in the colder lat itudes more shelter is provided. Where the climate is milder the hogs are sometimes kept in the forests, and are protected by the underbrush, which breaks the force of the winds. Away from the forests sheds are provided, or regular houses, and straw for bedding, or the hogs are allowed to sleep around straw stacks, near the farm buildings. It is manifest that the best hogs should be bred on the farms, not only those suited to the wants of the packer, but possessing as much physical stamina and vital power as possible. It may be suggested that more nitrogenous food would add to the nutrition of the blood, and give it greater force in building up the system. The crossing of breeds tends to impart greater constitutional vigor than animals have which have been bred for a considerable time in a direct line, and on this account it may be advisable for the producers of pork to infuse new blood into their herds. Fortunately there is no lack hr this country of breeds, and such cross-bred hogs can be had without any material change of form or losing the benefits of as good skin and coats of hair. The farmers of the West understand these principles of breeding, and are beginning to avail themselves of the means at hand in order to derive the consequent benefits. .While it may be for the interest of the pork-producer to fit his hogs for market in the shortest space of time, the same law does not hold good in the rearing or breeding stock. The farmers having learned that they should grow slower, and that the food should be of such a combination as to develop the entire structure of the animal during the period of growth, and not the fatty portions to excess. The hogs in the United States are generally allowed to roam and feed upon grass and clover as their natural food during those months in which pasturage can be coutinued, and are fed mainly on corn during the time in which they aro to be finished for the market. They are supplied also with an abundance of pure water, and this mode of feeding contributes so entirely to the health of the animals that but a small amount of disease can be found among them. Refuse food is seldom or never used in the great pork-producing regions of the country, this being limited entirely to villages and small farms when the hogs aro confined the year through iu close quarters. Tho breeding of swine has always followed tho lead of the market which used to demand larger hogs than aro now required. Formerly the largest proportion of the pork was pickled in brine, and in this form, then as now. the heaviest hogs were used. The more modern way of dry-salt-Jng-the sides and of making more bacon makes Ike demand now greater for medium-sized hogs,

which will make the hams of smaller weight. The pigs of this kind are farrowed in the summer or in the autumn, while the mothers are in the fields or in the woods; when in the fields they live, as we have said, upon blue grass or upon clover, as the case may be, supplemented with corn. In the woods or on the river bottoms they subsist on mast (uuts), grass and roots of various kinds. In order to keep them from roving or getting wild on the bottom ranges, as they are often very extensive, reaching for miles, the hogs are fed corn occasionally, or regularly, if the owner finds it to his advantage to do so. The pigs designed for the next year’s market are wintered on corn, or mast and corn, and in the spring they ai-e allowed to run in pastures, or they are confined to a feeding lot where there is water, and in which corn is their food. Except the grass and mast, which the hogs have access to in the liog-producing States, their food is Indian corn. LITERARY NOTES. The revised version of the Old Testament will probably be published in less than six months. A lady who traveled for sixteen years with Adelina Patti is about to publish at Vienna a book of Patti reminiscences in several languages. The Greek embassador at Berlin will publish at an early day a history of the modern literature of Greece. The same gentleman recently published a novel. Mr. O’Donovan Rossa, the distinguished dyn-, namiter, is about to publish, through Messrs. S. W. Green’s Sons, an Irish story, with the title ‘'Edward O'Donnell.” A German critic says that Mr. W. D. Howells in his novels is like George Eliot, in so far as he tries to be objective, but lets the moralist get the better of the artist. According to the Rev. Dr. Scliaff, “Calvin, who burned Servetus, is not only the greatest theologian among the Reformers, but surpassed them all in zeal for purity of doctrine and holiness of life.” There seems to be no end to news about “The Bread-Winners.” It is now announced that MM. Hachette & Cos., of Paris, will publish a French translation of that brilliant novel, the translator being Madame Le Breton. Pastor Bensier has written anew life of Admiral Coligny, or rather a sketch of his life before the outbreak of the religious wars with which his name is associated. The book is to be translated into German and English. Dr. Karl Hillebrand says that a whole page of a Daudet novel describing all the articles in a provision shop, with each smell, and all the furniture, with all the lights falling on it, is not worth the two verses in which Heine calls up to us the cavern of Treka. New Testament scholars will be glad to hear that the long-expected Prolegomena to the eighth edition of Tiscliendorf's Critical Greek Testament are on the eve of publication. The first volume, edited by Dr. C. R. Gregory, is in press, and will be ready before May. David Nutt, Loudon, will be the publisher. Wendell Phillips left an autobiographical fragment of about 300 pages, which his biographer, Air. George L Austin will use in pro paring his life of the great agitator. There has also been placed at his disposal a quantity of unpublished reminiscences by Charles Sumner. The volume will be ready next April. An unexpected and valuable addition to the Vatican guide-books has just been made in the form of a guide to the Letter-books of the Popes from Innocent,lll to Pius V, contained in the Vatican archives. It has been pi-epared and published by one of the assistant keepers, Don Gregorio Palmieri, of the Order of St. Benedict. Air. Edward Solly contributes to the Bibliographer (Boston) a very interesting history of Gray's “Elegy in a Country Church yard.” This famous poem crept into the w'orld not only without the consent of the author, but almost against his wishes. It was the work of some years, and when it was finally completed Gray sent (t to his friend, Hox*ace Walpole, for criticism. It received nothing but praise, which seenis to have embarrassed the poet, who thought his work overestimated. Edwin Arnold, the celebrated English poet, author of “Light of Asia,” etc., passed a large portion of the year 1883 in literary researches iu Italy. These were rewarded by the discovery, in the original manuscript, of an unknown but extraordinarily beautiful Italian poem, entitled “Cencia,” by Lorenzo the Magnificent, written in the seventeenth century. Air. Arnold devoted several months to its translation, the utmost effort of his splendid scholarship being exercised in preserving the same form as the original, its wonderful sweetness and beauty, and the peculiar luxurious coloring of the pastoral poetry of that time. ‘ ‘Cencia” is a masterful work, both in the original and in its translation, comprises nearly four hundred lines, and has been secured by the Current for exclusive publication, which will occur, accompanied by an editorial intro duction from the pen of Air. Arnold, in a few weeks. Before publishing his book, “Study and Stimulants,” Air. A. Arthur Reade sent circulars to a large number of literal - )' men, asking about their habits with respect to the useolaleokol, tobacco, etc., while engaged in literary work. The writer received 132 replies. Air. Gladstone found that his “glass or two of claret at luncheon, the same at dinner, with the addition of a glass of light port, especially necessary to him at the time of greatest intellectual exertion.” Canon Farrar believed from experience that “work may be done more vigorously, and with less fatigue, without wine than with it.” The editor says that no one of those who replied to his questions resorts to alcohol for inspiration. Thirty-four abstained wholly from alcohol; twenty-seven used wine at dinner only; twenty-six used to bacco. Os the latter, only thirteen smoked while at work; one chewed, and one took snuff, Mark Twain “required 300 cigars a month, which he found sufficient to keep his constitution on a firm basis,” and Air. Ruskin expressed his “entire abhorrence of the practice of smoking.” When Hiawatha was first published it took greatly with the people, and portions of it were almost as common in the streets as some of tho phrases in Pinafore. Tho proprietor of Oak Hall, in Boston, the prince of advertisers, was not slow to take advantage of this, and newspapers soon contained all sorts of notices of the famous clothing house in lines of the Hiawatha metre by “Professor Goodfellow.” Now, Long fellow was a sensitive man, and took so much offense at this that he applied to Charles Sumner, as a lawyer, for redress. The latter saw at once that it was a case for wise management rather than legal proceedings. He sent for the Oak Hall potentate and stated the feelings of the poet at the contempt cast upon him by these advertisements. The former expressed the greatest astonishment that the poet should oppose a course which tended to bring the poem into popular favor, and great regret that his course had caused a pang in the author's heart. Ho promised to withdraw tho advertisements with his distinguished consideration. And so this important matter was settled to the satis faction of all concerned. W abash College Muaeum, Minneapolis Tribune. Wabash College, located at Crawfordsville, Ind., was founded by home missionaries, one of whom, the Rev. James Thompson, was subsequently identified'with pioneer work in Minnesota. Alany graduates and friends of the college who are now residing here will be interested to know that the large and valuable cabinet, probably the most extensive collection of the kind in the West, lias been recently removed to the fireproof building formerly used as the gymnasium, which has been thoroughly renovated and fitted up for the purpose. The trustees have decided to name it the Hovey Aluseum, in honor of the late Prof. Edmund O. Hovey, D. D., one of the founders of the college, and whose reputation as a goologist and naturalist is appropriately recognized by this tribute to his memory.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JO LIES AL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884.

ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE. llow Britons mid Americans Use and Misuse the English Language. Little Slang Used by Respectable English People—A List of Different Words Meaning the Same Tiling. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. London, March 20.—An interesting volume could be written for American readers upon tho way in which the English people speak the English language. In a letter the subject can only be glanced at. Let me first record what I have observed along this line that affords me pleasure. Naturally I have compared English habits of speech with those in vogue amongst ourselves, and candor compels me to say that the English have not always been the sufferers by this comparison. There is less slang used here. Indeed, in conversation of men and women belonging to the respectable middle class, you hear scarcely any slang. This class have a finer sense of propriety than the same people on our side, and they are not so fond of changes. New phrases are being constantly coined by the active American brain; but the English keep their language, like everything else, much as it was given to them by their fathers. They excel us, too, in the apt use of phrases which indicate politeness. The man who, in a crowded thoroughfare, mashes your pet corn, or bobs the point of his umbrella into your face has at least decency enough to ask you to excuse him. If the lady w ith whom you are conversing happens to not hear distinctly some remark you have made, she does not ask bluntly, “What was that you said,” nor does she go through the awkward form of explaining that she didn’t catch your meaning; she interrogates you with a pleasant “Beg pardon, sir?” so naturally and charmingly uttered, in most cases, that you almost feel like making yourself unintelligible a second time just to hear her say it again. In English exhibitions you never see the rude command “Hands off,” the request is always “Please do not touch.” This trait impresses one very favorably when out “shopping.” Those who wait upon you speak as though the service they were rendering was a pleasure rather than a condescension; nor does their polite speech seem to be measured by the amount of your purchase, for often, in buying little articles, I have been treated with so much attention and courtesy, that I have really regretted I had not more money to spend. The placard I saw in a window in one of the provincial towns, announcing that “a large stock of new goods and civility” were always on hand, seems, as regards the latter article, to express the simple truth with reference to all such places over here. I must say, furthermore, that the English people speak the language in better tones than we. Their voices are fuller, better modulated and more musical. Os the feminine portion this is particularly true. The educated English woman is a charming conversationalist —charming, not so much for what she says, as for the way she says it. In this respect our English sisters possess advantages over American women, which go very far toward counterbalancing the superiority of the latter in point of good looks. In regard to the use or abuse of the letter “h,” the lower classes, and the illiterate portion of the middle class, transgress most abominably. This charge, however, cannot be laid against the educated and refined, and it is seldom one hears the aspirate misplaced by public speakers, either in pulpit or on platform. But the English, if freer from slang, are more addicted to “provincialisms” than we are, and I must say, also, that the male section of both the upper and lower classes are terrible swearers. The upper ten let off the steam with comparatively harmless expletives of the Dun dreary type, but the riff-raff of the towns and cities stoop to depths of profanity that are simply awful. DIFFERENCES IN PRONUNCIATION. The great difference between the English and American pronunciation of words is in the broader sound given by the former to the letter A. I observe, too, that many words of three syllables, which correct American speakers accent on the second syllable, are pronounced here with the accent on the first —consummate and demonstrate, for 'instance, the American pronunciation being the right one in both cases. They still spell wagon ever here with two g’s, and traveler with two Is. and they still jealously retain the u in such words a color, honor, candor, etc. Some words are given an arbitrary pronunciation without regard to rhyme or reason. Lieutenant is always pronounced “lefftenant,” and when they hear our version of it they scarcely know what is meant. In many words, again, the eis given the same sound as a. This. I suppose, is borrowed from the French, but it sounds extremely odd to American ears. Derby is always Darby, and clerk, dark. And, speaking of clerks, I am reminded that this term is used to designate a different class of persons from those to whom it is applied amongst us. It is the general name given to all grades of book-keepers. Dry goods clerks, and drug clerks, and the like, are unknown here, as are also “salesmen” and “salesladies,” the persons answering to these being called “assistants.” What we call “stores” are here known as “shops.” A saloon is called a “public house,” or public for short. A dry goods merchant is a “draper,” and what we would call a “notion store” is called “haberdasher’s establishment.” “Canned” fruit is always “tinned” fruit, and she who goes to the provision shop to get it for you is not your “hiredgirl,” but your “servant.” People are “sick” here only when they have an attack of nausea; when indisposed in any other way, they are “ill.” The doctor who attends them is oftener called a “medical man” than anything else, and the individual who fills the persPription is never spoken of as a “druggist,” but always as a “chemist.” When the English speak of a man as being “clever” they mean that he is a man of talent and ability; we mean by the word that the man is amiable.* It is far from a compliment in our country to call a lady “homely, but as the word is used here it would mean that the person was neat and tidy, possessing homelike qualities. What we ♦•all a “pitcher" is here known as a “jug,” the former word being used to designate, in a general way, any article of earthenware. The “bureau.” which forms so useful a part of our bed-room sets, is here the “chest of drawers.” The “sidewalk” is the “foot-path,” the “hack” is a “cab,” and the street cars are universally called “trams.” However diligent a correspondent you may be, you must never “mail” a letter in England; you must always “post” it. and. in like manner, the official who brings your mail is the “postman,” not the “letter carrier. ” “School teachers” are always “schoolmasters;” or, “schoolmistresses,” and if you were to speak of the “school-house” people would think at once that you referred to tho school-master’s residence. Insurance companies are assurance companies, which, considering that assurance is often only another word for cheek, a quality which constitutes the stock in trade of so many of the agents of such com panics, is not a had name, and if the printor has italicized the first syllable as it was marked in the MS., the reader will get from this name an other suggestion, which may not inaptly remind him what people over hero, who have trusted in some of these companies, and been duped by them, feel like calling themselves. But this is an unpleasant subject, and to get away from it as quickly and as far as possible, wo will start on a journey together. RAILWAY TERMS—GENTLEMAN AND LADY. To do this we must go to the “station,” not the “depot.” Let us be sure, too, that wo take our “bags” and “boxes” with us, for these are the things tvhich answer here to the American valises and trunks. We shall not take “the carsj”

we shall take “the train.” All the cars here are “carriages,” except the one containing the baggage, and that is the “luggage van.” A “freight train” is called a “goods train.” Tin; track is the “lino,” and the switches are “points.” The station agent is always the station “master.” Before getting aboard we must “book.” that is. buy our tickets, and, as a matter of fact, we shall npt “go aboard" at all, but shall be requested bv the “guard” (conductor) to “take <>ur seats.” T'he engineer is the “driver,” and the fireman the “stoker." Let us remember, moreover, that wo are making a journey by railway, not by railroad. And now, having equipped them with the proper English phrases, 1 will leave your readers to make the journey in their imaginations. They will be all right, no doubt, until they near their destination and pull up at the ticket platform. There, however, a surprise will await them—a new experience entirely; for. instead of the stand and deliver demand for “tickets,” to which they have been accustomed at home, they will be met by a pleas-ant-looking individual who will say, “tickets, please,” and who. having received the chips, will even stoop so low as to utter a polite “thank you.” But I must tell you now of the English use of the words “gentleman" and “lady.” These terms have a technical meaning here, being used to designate people of independent means. They have, to be sure, the other meaning, also: but this is the sense in which they come most frequently under one’s notice. If a man has money, be his character what it may, he is a gentleman, and a woman of position, irrespective of personal worth, is a lady. I have known men at. the bar of the police courts to be gazetted in the papers as “gentlemen.” To those accustomed to apply these terms only to persons whose qualities and manners are deserving of such honorable distinction, this practice seems very strange; and equally strange to English .people are our practices in this matter. I am constantly hearing the complaint against America that there is no “society" there. What is meant by this is that we have no caste, no aristocracy—no set of people who claim peculiar virtue, and are accorded the highest rank, because they are above what is looked upon here as the degrading necessity of stooping to honest toil. To several such complainerc I have had the supreme satisfaction of replying, “No. thank God. we have no such ‘society* as that!” Apropos of this subject, a capital story was told at W olverhampton the other day by a lecturer who was holding forth on “True Greatness." The story (which your readers may have heard before, but which is well worth repeating) runs thus: An English aristocrat on a visit to America, in talking with an American lady, said: “Very fine cities. New York and Chicago, by jove! but you haven’t any gentwy.” “Gentwy,'’ said the lady; what are they?” “Oh, people who don't do any work, you know.” “Why. yes,” replied the arch Americaness, “wo have people of that sort, but we don’t call them ‘gentwy,’ we call them tramps.” The English exclamation for “Indeed!” is “Really!” or ‘ Oh, I say!” “Bugger.” which no one would think it any particular harm to use in America, is one of the lowest “cuss” words over here. In another class of exclamations I observe that the practice prevails of emphasizing the verb instead of using an adjective or adverb. Thus the people here say, “That is nice,” or “That is a pity,” whereas we should say. “That is very nice.” or “That was a great pity.” I observe, too, that words considered vulgar amongst us are used here, without any thought of impropriety, by both sexes and in all kinds of company. A young lady will speak of her "leg” as freely as of hands or feet They are not so prudish over here, but it does not follow from this that they are less pure minded. Any revolt from long-established custom in the direction of American fastidiousness, such as is feebly made once in a while, only exposes the would be reformer to scorn, and sometimes threatens even more serious consequences. The following, which illustrates this, is part of the report of an assault case, clipped from a paper that reached me by mail this very day. I have repeatedly heard this word used in ordinary conversation, and at first was greatly shocked: “The girl stated that the defendant struck her with his fist upon her body, and knocked her insensible. Mr. Bougliv, the magistrate, sought information as to the lo cality of tho blow, eventually asking whether it was upon the belly. The last word caused many persons to laugh, and selecting one of the latter, whose smiles Listed longer than other peoples’, the magistrate told him lie ought to be ashamed of himself. Tho word was correct; it was a scriptural word, and in laughing at it the man laughed at his own ignorance. The learned magistrate hesitated about having the individual referred to expelled from court, but at length, after strongly warning him to-restrain his mirth, permitted him to remain.” h. t. Oh! Where Is Poor Old Daniel. Oh! where arc all the Democrats we knew in ’(>4? The Val-en-dig-em Democrats we knew in days of yore? The wild and woolly Democrats who ripped, an’ raved, an’ swore That “not a man, nor <L ’hir” more should be furnished for the war? Ah! weU do I remember them; methinks I see ’em still, “In my mind’s eye, Horatio,” when they the town would fill; To hear some untamed orator cuss the “nigger” fit to kill, And whine for “peace at any price,” like a kitten ducketl in swill. And as the delegations came to hear his fiery speech. Butternut boughs, for banners, waved as far as eye could reach. And copperhead pins and butternuts bedecked the coat of each Square toed, old-fashioned Democrat, wlio’d practice what he’d preach. Horatio, if you’ll think awhile, you’ll remember how they swore “We had no power to coerce a State,” or prosecute the war; “ ’Twas all unconstitutional,” they’d fairly shriek and roar, And howled like mad o’er Lincoln’s call for “six hundred thousand more.” When the Mississippi “dowed an vexed” from Itaska to the sea. And Sherman's men were marching through a bursted “ ’federacy,” Grant, at Richmond, “fighting it out" in his peculiar way, They said our boys had failed and should, just let the Johnnies be. But, now, Horatio, 1 pray you tell, where are these men to-day? The draft went off, I know, and some skipped out for Canada: But some there were who staid, I’m sure; Dan Voorhees, where is he? And Milligan. Dick Dodd and Cox; have they all “passed away?” Dear friend, Horatio, why that cloud upon your noble brow? I know you are a Democrat, as Democrats are now. ’Tis not of them I speak, my friend, 1 pray you be not hurt. What’s that you say? I shouldn’t wave the blarsted bloody shirt? IDAVILLS, Ind., March 31, 1884. What He Wanted to Join Church For. Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. Some people in this world have queer notions of the saving power of religion. The Rev. E. R. Donehoo tells a good story about its compensations, though in this case the compensatory part of it was rather in the prospective. As is pretty generally known he is, among other things, the jail chaplain. Frequently up there his parishoners aro more anxious to get out where they can choose between ruin and true religion, than they are to remain where the good minister can force them into a corner and pour the gospel into them whether they will or not. One of his recent subjects of this class was a victim of forgetfulness. He got a lot of goods ho forgot to pay for. He is a married man and the restraints of the jail made him desperate. He laid in wait for the minister, and taking him aside out of the hearing of the other prisoners Jie looked him squarely in the eye and said: “See here, 1 never thought of such a thing before in my life, but a man will do almost anything to get out of a place like this. Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. You get me out of here and 111 join the church.” The solemn impressiveness with which he concluded the offer made Mr. Donehoo feels if the man really thought he was making a sacrifice next in importance to surrendering his life. As soon as lie recovered from his surprise he asked him: “What church will you join?” “I don’t care ad n which. I’ll join any church you sav, only get me out.” Poisoned Cheese Cleans out all rats, mice, roaches, water-bugs, bed-bugs, ants and every species of vermin that infest buildings. 15c. Druggists.

POINTS FROM THE STATE PRESS. Salaries Demanded for County Officers— Coddling the Third Party Movement. The Journal's Article on the Liquor League. Writer in RenssHuer Republican. About the most sensible thing wc have read lately in the way of temperance literature is an able editorial from the Indianapolis Journal of March 18. We commend it to the careful perusal of all our fellow citizens, regardless of political creed. It says, among other tilings: ’‘The course of tho traffic is breeding a spirit that will east it out of American politics, neck and heels.” It will be a good day for the Democratic party when it is k’cked out. For years and years they have had to bear on their shoulders this awful incubus, this “old-man-of-the-sea” and it is time the party should arise as “one man,” and shake itself free. No wonder they have not been successful for twenty-five years. The only wonder is that they have been able to keep alive at all. “We, the People.’* Now Albany Ledger-Standard. The free-traders kept up the hue and cry until all the time-serving politicians in the country, thinking it was popular, ranged themselves on that side. Thus it is seen how even one or two men, by presumption and perseverance, can create a following. The old story of the three tailors in Tooly street, “we, the people of En gland,” has been often repeated. One influential journal with one Ohio, one or two Indiana and one Tennessee echo, created a wide spread belief that the tariff for revenue only, or free trade, as soon as we get the power, theory was popular with the masses of the Democratic party. Think on These Things. LaPorte Herald-Chronicle. The Democratic party have been trying to get into power for years for the purpose of restoring the government “to purity and true constitutional principles,” but the government has gone on smoothly and successfully, and the country never wjis so prosperous as under the beneficent rule of the Republican party, and in the meantime the latter has carried the people through-a gigantic war ami a tremendous panic. Voters, think of these things. Every Man a Politician. Lafayette Journal. In these days of uneasy and hurried national growth when public questions of great import and significance, affecting the whole future of the country.are being debated and settled, every citizen owes it to his country, to his family, and to himself to have a political opinion, and toem phasize it by his active deeds and votes. In this free country a man’s desire to work for his opinions should cease only with his strength, and hi.s vote only with his life. History of Free-Trade Nations. Poonville Standard. There is something pathetic in the history of every free-trade nation under the sun. They have universally and without exception retrograded in power, wealth and influence from the adoption of tho pernicious system, until the laboring classes are menials and paupers, and the nations themselves at the mercy of others. God protect America from the withering blight of British free trade. The Democratic Prohibition Scheme. Andrews Express. The Democratic leaders in Indiana are just now engaged in fostering a prohibition ticket, designed for the exclusive use of temperance Republicans. Very accommodating, our Democratic friends. They haven’t got what the temperance people want in their own party, but they will spare no pains to secure it —especially if it can be used as a club to hammer the Republican party. a Wasn’t a Gauger’s Seal. Vincennes Sun. The strength of the opposition to the extension of the bonded period was a surprise to all concerned. It only goes to show that the congressmen are really beginning to manifest a reticence about making public their views in advance of the passage or rejection of a measure. Probably they wear car-seals on their muuths. What Makes ’Em Howl. Veedersburg Reporter. If there is anything in the world that will make Democracy wince and howl, it is a taste of their own history. A political party establishes its character upon its record of the past, by which it should be tried and judged at every election. Give ns history—the more the better for the interest of our country. We Are Making No Excuses. , Saturday People. The Journal has no cause to make excuses for its articles condemuing the great cost of county government. They are exactly to tho point, and mean something. They are approved by the good and true men of all parties, who are clamorous for a reform in tho extravagance of our county offices. Salaries Must Re Provided. Lagrange Standard. It is time some plan was adopted, and so fixed that the tinkering with lees would stop. The officers in small counties would receive fair salaries, and those in big ones less enormous siila ries, and the people be secured from extortion, and also save some of the expenses of the courts. “Not Hurled, But Badly Twusted.** Lafayette Courier. “The Democratic party will not be hurt by the tariff question, ” says the New York World. Oh, no—not at all. “I brought home your auger,” said Pat to widow Maloney. “1 broke off the wee-tit on the end of it, but I don’t think it will hurt it.” Belief for the Oyster-Mail. Elkhart Journal. It seems that Indianapolis is dependent for her principal mails from the east on an oyster train. As next month winds up the oyster business for the season, it is proposed to send the mail of the big village by freight via Chicago fast mails hereafter. _ Has Some Feeling “Agin” Him. South Bend Register. The twelve dollars a week paid Mr. Murray for misrepresenting the true interests of temperance reform in the columns of the Sun could be expended to much better advantage on someone with a better record for honor and judgment. No Prohibit ion Plank This Year. South Bend Register. Let it bo underscored that no party can carry a prohibition plank and win in this campaign. Tho result would be that tho Prohibitionists would lose all that they have gained and drag their real friends down with them. Who Fast Mails Benefit. Saturday People. Fast mail trains are becoming all the rage, but the general public is not greatly benefited thereby. They seem to be designed for the select few —tho Chicago publishers, for instance The Genuine and the Fraud, Every good thing has its host of imitators who ape tho virtues of the genuine, and never hesitate to place the imitation before the public in the most alluring manner. Never has this been better illustrated than by all the so-called porous plasters; every one of them are imitations of ’‘Allcock’s Porous Plaster, "and, of course, they all claim to ho “just as good” or to contain “superior ingredients. ’ Do not be deceived by these false statements. Always ask for and insist on having Allbock’s Porous Plaster. The finest mayonnaise dressing for all kinds of salads, cold meats, raw tomatoes, pickled salmon, cabbage, etc., is Durkee’s Salad Dressing. It is, besides, more economical than home-made. Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always be used when children are cutting teeth. It relieves tho little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from . pain, and the little cherub awakes as “bright as ! a button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes j the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty-five cents a bottle.

CLOSEST INDIANAPOLIS CONNECTIONS# The Vandalia, Iron Mountain and Texas Pacific Route. The easiest and closest connections with tho Mexican Central at El Paso is via the Vandalia line, Iron Mountain and Texas Pacific. Tho time by this route is about four days. Pullman, cars from St. Louis to El Paso without change. The advantage of this route over all others is in a saving of sixteen and one-lialf hours, which is gained west, of St. Louis. The distance to Mexico from Indianapolis is 2.823 miles: from Indianapolis to St. Louis, 240; Sfr. Louis to El Paso, 1,300, and from El Paso to tho City of Mexico, 1,22.”). Another advantage is the eating-houses along the line, which aro criticised by travelers as the best in the West. The managers of the Southwestern system are energetic men, who are putting all the life of young manhood into the enterprise. The roads have been nearly rebuilt, steel rails laid from St. Louis to Texarkana, and heavy grading reduced. The business to San Francisco which is dono over those lines shows well in comparison with that of its rivals. The general passenger agents of Boston state that for February of the 127 through San Francisco passengers thirty-six went by the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe. forty by the Union Pacific and fifty-one by the Southern Pacific and Southwestern route. The advantages of being south of the snow line and of shorter mileage is apparent in the return. While the passenger by the more northern route is obliged to make two changes of cars at St. Louis or Chicago and at Kansas City, the Southwestern requiries but one, at St Louis. COST OF VISITING MEXICO. By the Southwestern route the expense of a first-class passage from Indianapolis to the city of Mexico is $105.15. In Mexico the rates, as established by the government, can not be increased without the consent of the Federal Legislature. and from El Paso to the Citv of Mexico are: For first-class, $59.28: second-class, $39.52; third-class or emigrant, $29.(57. Taken in Hot Water! CURES AIDS COSTIVENESS. DIGESTION. RELIEVES REGULATES HEADACHE. THE BOWELS. AMUSEMENTS. DI G Iv S ON’S Grand Opera-House. The Best Located and MOST POPULAR Theater in the State. The Only Legitimate Theater Open in the City. Performance Again To-night. Grand Wendesday Matinee. Popular prices, 25. 50 and 75 cents. The Eminent Character Artists. Mr.and Mrs. McKEE RANKIN In Clay Greene’s dramatization of Bret Hai le’s fa* mous novel, entitled ‘ GABRIEL CONROY” A PLAY WITH A MORAL, interpreted by a company of superior excellence, including the talented young loading man, MR. FR K I>E RIP I>R YT< >N. Popular prices. Sale of seats now progressing. Friday and Saturday evenings, and Saturday Matinee. April 4 and 5, MESTAYER BARTON’S Comedy Company, in the excruciatingly funnv Farcial Absurdity, entitled “WANTED—A PARTNER. Popular prices. Sale of seats opens Wednesday morning. April 2. HENRY WARD BEECHER NEW PLYMOUTH CHURCH, Saturday Evening, April 5. Positively Mr. Beecher’s last lecture in Indianapolis. SUBJECT: “A Circuit of the Continent.’, Tickets. SI.OO. Seats reserved at Bowen. Stewart & Co.’s, beginning Wednesday afternoon, at 1 o’clock. Z G,L |"I#l Theatre 8 El Monday March 21. Matinees Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday. The strongest bill of the season. MR. COOL BURGESS AND TWENTY OTHERS. PARK RESLK. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! FANCY DRESS CARNIVAL The Greatest Hit of the Season. tsr u sual prices. 1 light lilitrj Roller Rink, MASONIC HALL Good Music. New Floor. New Skates. EP*LADIES FREE. THEROLLERSKATIKG RINK Al Wigwam on West Mainland Street NewSkates and Rollers IS NOW COMPLETE. The finest and best makes in tho country are there represented. Prices the most reasonable. CH ARLES MAYER & CO. Nos. 29 and 31 W. Washington Street. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of all others in factories, foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having their own power can procure an Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent- and storage system has been perfected, making small lights for nousof and stores hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, day or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies for lighting cities and towns, can send tZ the Brush Electric Cleveland, 0., or to the under* signed al Indianapolis. J. CAYTIN.

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