Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1884 — Page 7

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Pergonal aiul Local. The Indianapolis Car Works in th© month of October built 279 new cars, five more than in September. K. H. Waldron, ex-general manager of the Lake Erie & Western road, Is confined at home by a broken leg. H. Huston has been appointed agent of the Vandalia at Jewett, to succeed J. B. Blinerick, transferred to the agency at Teutopolis. Under the new time schedule of the C., 1., St. Jj. & a, Lafayette has four trains per day be'tween there and Indinnapolis and Cincinnati, and three for Kankakee and Chicago. The American Express Company K oea on * i 9 the Chicago & Great Southern road Dec. 1, and will run its moeseugers in connection with the messengers on the L., N. A. & C. road. The Vandalia people are anticipating a heavy coal traffic on all divisions of their system this fall and winter and are turning out a couple of new coal cars daily at their own shops to add to their already large equipment. The employes of the J.. M. & I. shops at Jeffersonville. lud., some 100 in number, will, the latter part of this month, be transferred to the C., St. L. &P. shops at Indianapolis. A few men will be left at J effersonville to do light repairing. Retrenchment still seems to be the hobby •with railroad managers. Business.is light, and earnings are falling short of expectations. Men who can be spared are being dropped from every department and a sweeping winter reduction is feared on some lines. The new bridge over White river on the C., L, St L. &C. road was tested yesterday by running two forty-five-ton locomotives and three cars loaded with thirty tons of iron rails each wpon it. The deflection with this immense weight vpon it was but one inch. One of the met nods of defrauding railway companies, which was recently exposed on the Loug Island road, was to purchase tickets for a ehort distance, so as to gain admittance through the station gate, and then pay dishonest conductors about half the regular rates to comparatively distant stations. This is reported to be a favorite device of unscrupulous commercial travelers in various sections of the country. The opinion now is that the Wabash people will turn the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago division of their road over to the Cutting syndicate Dec. 1. The Michigan Central people have already held a conference with the old management of the 1., P. & C., and have expressed a wish to renew former traffic relations with them. In 1880, the last year the Malott management handled the road, the 1.. P. &C. delivered to the Michigan Central 8,000 loaded cars, and the latter in turn delivered to them 3.000 loaded cars. It can be seen that the arrangement is a valuable one to both roads. It will be many months, however, before the 1., P. & C. can attain its old position in both through and local business. Yet should the management of 1880 take hold again, the friends of the road would, to a man, do all in their power to again build up its business. President Mackey’s Annual Report. President Mackey, of the Evansville & Terre Haute road, has published, in pamphlet form, his annual report for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1884. The tenor of his remarks shows him to be more of a theoretical than a practical railroad man. President Mackey claims to have operated the road, and fully maintained the physical condition of the property on 45 9-10 per cent; last year 49 per cent.; a decrease of 3 1-10 per cont. Net earnings, this year, $407,776.68; last year, $382,G13.23; an increase of G 6-10 per oent, or $25,1G3.35. The revenue from freight traffic has declined $17,289.40 as compared with last year, equal to about 4 per cent. In examining the sums expended in improvement to road "bed, we find that $348.01 was expended in ballasting, $2,367.79 in putting in new cross-ties. He claims to have laid three miles of steel rail. As in his accounts of maintenance of way no charge of this character is made these must have been on hand at the close of the preceding year. The point here is, has President Mackey fully maintained the physical condition of this i46 miles of road on 45 910 per cent, of the gross earnings? Some of the best and most economical railroad managers are fully satisfied if they can on GO per cent of the gross earnings, under the most favorable circumstances, maintain the road-bed and equipments. In closing his report President Mackey says: “Three years ago, in taking charge of this property, I was at once satisfied that there must be put into force and execution the most rigid system of economy that could be organiaed, and the experience that three years has given only confirms me in the absolute necessity of reaching the minimum in each and ©very individual item in each and every department of the railroad. This of course applies to all branches of busiuess; and in all other pursuits you can more certainly arrive at the cost of doing that business, but in railroading it is a problem as to cost There are so mauy ramifications, all affecting the cost for cheapness or dear ness. The lack of j udgment of an employe, a misplaced switch, a broken wheel or rail, can carry to you a loss that months’ earnings can not overcome There is a finer scope for a thinker in the railroad business than in any other vocation followed by man. A feature of business that is compelling economical management is the continually declining rate per ton a mile on traffic; this is steadily going on, and no power eems to stay it. Each year shows a reduction of a few mills, while management will be compelled to show as an offset, a reduction in operating expeuses.” In conclusion President Mackey says: “This year has been a very hard one for all We have handled as many car-loads as last year, but the rates have been very low. From February to July rates were the lowest ever known. The outlook is good. All crops are very full, and with fair rates we will make an elegant showing for the fiscal year just beginning.” A Useful Publication. The American Iron and Steel Association has published a very useful work, in the character of a directory of the iron and steel works, rolling mills, etc., their location and names of officers of establishments. From it we learn that on Sept- 1, 1884, the number of completed blast farnaces was 675, and that they had an annual xapacity, in pig iron, of 9,300,000 net tons. With reference to the fuel used this capacity was distributed as follows: The number of completed rolling mills and steel works was 434, of which 71 made rails. The annual capacity of these rolling mills, in finished iron and ’steel, was 7.600,000 net tons. The number of completed Bessemer steel works was 21. They had 46 con verters, aud an annual capacity, in ingots, of 2,490,000 tons. The number of open-hearth steel works was 25. They had 58 completed furnaoes, and an annual capacity, in ingots, of 550,000 not tons. There were 41 completed crucible cast■teel works, with 3,594 steel melting pots, and •n annual capacity, In ingots, of 115,050 net tons. September Car Movement. Below is given the number of cars received wnd forwarded at Indianapolis in October, 1884, and for the corresponding month in the six years ■preceding: Loaded. Total. 1878 41,083 58,608 187!* 07.891 75.863 1880 57,732 74.236 1881 68.808 . 80.1'CJ 1882. 75.089 96,4Wf 1883 .67,038 83,880 1884 68,977 86,602 From the above statement it will he seen that the car movement of October, 1884, compares ■favorably with that of October, 1883, yet falls .considerably short of that of the corresponding snionth in 1882. which was the banner Octoiwr 'with Indianapolis roads. In 1882 there were two iless roads doing business at this point, yet there were 9,800 more cars handled than in October, 11884. A Wrecked Railroad Property. The Obio Central road seems to be getting deeper in the mire, both financially and phys scally. The fact is that the road begins and I •cdj uowiu.ro, as the eayiug goes. Since August *

there has been no report from the receiver. The earnings (main line) for that month were $107,014; the expenses, $80,575; leaving a surplus of $20,438. It is doubtful if the operations of the road now show any surplus. Although put down as 231.66 miles in length, the Central is by no means a complete road for that distance. At Toledo two-thirds of a mile of th© Lake Shore line, with dock privileges, is used at an annual cost of about $3,500. To enter Columbus five miles of the Panhandle road are used at an annual rental of SIB,OOO. At Bremen twelve more miles of the Panhandle, the use of which is rented, costs $20,000; and at Athens a mile of the Cincinnati. Washington & Baltimore track costs aoout SI,BOO per year. The foregoing rents eat big holes into the earnings of the road. From the foregoing it is quite evident that in any reorganization for the main line the interests of the first mortgage bondholders can alone be provided for, and even they must submit to cousiderable discount. The junior securities can look for no consideration. Miscellaneous Notes. The chief opposition to a bill in the Vermont Legislature to prohibit judges from using passes comes from the railroad attorneys. They think it “reflects upon the judges." The price of steel rails is steadily improving. In September, $26.50 per ton was the price quoted, in October $27.50. To-day they are quoted at $28.50. This recovery of $2 per ton is an exceedingly hopeful sign. The Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company have concluded a contract with the Canadian Pacific railroad for 10,000 tons of steel rails delivered in Canada at $28.50 per ton. This is believed to be the first contract of steel rails made by an American interest as against English steel rails. After the Atehinson, Topeka & Santa Fe peo pie have completed the California Southern division of their system it will be subject to a first mortgage of SIO,OOO per mile, and an income bond of about $14,000 per mile, instead of the existing mortgage of $25,000 per mile on an incomplete road. Nearly all the important New England lines have continued to pay their annual dividends during the present year, notwithstanding the depression which lias affected unfavorably the railways of other sections. One of the supposed causes of this exceptional prosperity is supposed to bo the relatively slight degree in which earnings and profits depend upon through traffic. An official report upon the fuel used on Russian railways has been prepared by Gen. Possiet, the Minister of Ways and Communications. It appears from this report, which is concerned with the year 1881, that of the forty-nine railway companies existing in the empire only four were using wood exclusively for their locomotives; 1,230,000 tons of coal were consumed last year by Russian locomotives. Friends of Illinois Central are watching the returns of earnings with some anxiety to see whether they will redeem the promise made for them by officials of the road that they would pick up deficiencies of the earlier months in the later months of the year. iSo far, with the exceptions of the months of May and June, there has been a general decrease. Up to October 21 earnings on tho main line fell off $598,831 from those of the same period last year. The remonstrances to the Rail road Commissioners of Massachusetts against the running of a Sunday train on the Hoosac Tunnel line has been signed by only abont 1,700 persons, many of them non voters and many others residing at points distant from the line. The petition in favor of the train has been signed by more than 4.000. all voters and resident along the road. Business men claim that a through train of this class on a trunk line has become a necessity of modern civilization. A number of Philadelphia establishments have had space allotted to them at the New Orleans Exposition. The list includes the Allison Manufacturing Company, railroad cars; Baldwin Locomotive Works, locomotives; J. G. Brill, passenger oars; Cambria Iron Company, large exhibits iron, steel, and ores; Clark, Reeves & Cos., bridges; Hoopes & Townsend, bolts and nuts; William hellers & Cos., machine tools; A. Whitney & Sons, car wheels. Many exhibits of railway appliances manufactured in other sections of the country will also be fordwarded to New Orleans. A WANT SUPPLIED. A True Story of tlie Wur that Surpasses Many Old Fictions. Agnes Repplier, In Lippincott’a Magazine. “Too Strange Not To Be True,” wrote Lady Fullerton when she desired a title for her novel, which should distinctly express her ideas on the subject of improbability. “Too Absurd Not to Have Happened,” might be the watchword of the humorist who knows very well that the incongruities of daily lifo are far more remarkable than anything he is likely t# invent. I used to think that Cornelius O’Dow'd’s story of the enthusiastic old lady who sent an enormous pin-cushion to Garibaldi in prison was a delightful piece of nonsense, that must have emanated straight from the writer’s brain. 1 dare say now that she really did send it, and a pair of silk-covered toilet bottles to match. Some time ago I chanced in conversation to allude to one of the charities practiced during the civil war by a few ladies in Philadelphia, who were in the habit of sending food and clothing to the Southern prisoners at Fort Delaware. Those were days when the most simple necessaries of life had risen to an enormous value, and the shoes, stockings and flannels, to say nothing of tobacco, pickles and jellies, all cost more than it was pleasant to contemplate. Thanks to tho unfailing courtesy and kindness of tho federal officers, these offers, though sent by Southern sympathizers, were always safely delivered to the .sick and wounded prisoners, who watched for them with a grateful eagerness that well repaid the trouble and cost. Speaking of these things, a lady who had listened with great attention, now claimed for herself a similar work of more}'. “But we usod to send our boxes to our own soldiers at Libby prison,” she said, with a gentle assumption of superior patriotism that I could not sufficiently admire, though doubting greatly whether it had ever been worth their while to risk their goods on such a perilous and uncertain journey. “Why, I remember,” she went on, “how we used to spend hours and hours mak ing pocket pin-cushions. ” “Pocket pin -cushions!” I repeated faintly. “Yes,” she said, with tender and truly feminine sympathy for distress. “The poor fellows had not even a place to put their pins.” I answered nothing. Garab&ldi and his tribute melted into insignificance before this thoughtful charity. Those who recollect the condition of our captured soldiers, the starved and ragged prisoners of a starved and ragged enemy—those who remember them when re leased, who heard their statemwits, or who even saw the highly sensational photographs of gaunt a.id haggard skeletons that circulated freely through the country—can perhaps appreciate the grimness of the joke—fit for* the pages of “Death's Jest Book” —that these feverod, deeper ate, dying men “had no place to put their pins.” Mr. lleeeher*® Confession. “Gath’s” Nw York Letter. Mr. Beecher has been giving us lively views of human nature. Ho says in the State of New York the breakers of the most delicate commandment are 200,000 in the majority. If this was utteied by a priest in denunciation ol the offense, and to show the spread of vice, it might be passed over; but uttered by a priest to apologize for the vice, as if numbers purified an offense, it showed, to say tho least, that men say that in political passion which only injures themselves. It seems to me to be the long-expected confession from Beecher, who has mounted tho political pillory, like the Rev. Arthur Dimmerdale, of Hawthorne’s tale, and torn open his coat and cried: “There! But lam in the majority!” Only An Average Man. The Demncrats thought that the race was sure When Cleveland for President ran. But the people said no, for his morals ain’t pure, He's only an average man. —Adapted from “Desiree.” Upward and onward is the motto that Mishler's Herb Bitters has used ever since the presentation of the medicine to the American people, and in all cases of liver complaint, kidney diseases in their multiplied and intricate form, and derangements of the stomach and bowels, it has proved its title to bo the best remedy extant Bryne Stamford, of Troupsbure, Steuben county, New York, writes: “Tho testimony ot all who use it is that it is both beneficial aud reliable.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1834.

PRINTING TIIK BALLOTS. Seventy-Five Million Tickets Printed In New York City—How the Work Is Hone. Now York Sun. “How do the ticket-peddlers get their tickets?” was asked of the manager. “Easy enough,” said the manager.” Herein New York each particular shade of political opinion is governed by an organization like Tammany Hall, Irving Hall, and so on. Each organization employs one printer only to do the printing of its votes. About five days before election day the committee, or the boss, sends a circular to each candidate who has been indorsed by that organization, saying that so and so is the official printer. At the same time tho printer gets an order to supply all the polling districts with the general tickets, namely, this year the electoral, the county, the judiciary, and the constitutional amendment tickets. The candidates for Congress, for the Assembly and for aldermen come iu afterward and order the tickets for their districts. The order from the boss is for 3,000 tickets for each of the four candidates for each polling district in the city. The other candidates order a like number for each polling district in their respective districts, and, therefore, there is a call for 21,000 tickets of this particular stripe for each of the polling places in this city, or 145,952,000 all told, from that one shade of political opinion. The various shades follow that order, and it is pretty safe to say that, for a starter, 75,000,000 tickets are printed to enable the voters of this city to give expression to their opinions. “A ticket is a small piece of paper with a few names on it, bnt there is a deal of work in printing 75,000,000 of them. The law prescribes certain kinds of type and certain kinds of paper, so that all tickets must look alike. We set up the headings of the tickets and names of the candidates, place the names at the proper distance apart, and then electrotype the form, so that enough plates are made for each separate ticket to cover a full sheet of paper 24x36 inches. The forms are put on different presses and the requisite number of sheets printed to fill the order and about 25 per cent. more. The sheets are then cut up by the cutting machine. In the mean time we have advertised for whole families to fold tickets, and the next morning after the order is in there will be a mob of women with baskets about our doors that looks like a strike. We fill each basket with tickets of one kind, and the women take them home and with the aid of the children fold the tickets so that only the head of the ticket appears. They get fifteen cents a thousand for folding. The tickets are brought back in bundles of 100 or so, held together with rubber rings. Then they are carried to the bunching-room and dumped into big boxes, each box containing only one kind of tickets. In this bunching-room the most careful supervision begins in order that the bunching may be properly done. A member of the Hall is always present. In the bunching-room are long tables divided into little stalls, seven in a set, by trianeular boards. Each stall represents a ballot-box. and into each is placed a pile of the tickets belonging to it Two girls sit before the seven stalls. One girl picks up a ticket from each of four stalls and hands them to the other, who bunches them with three tickets she has picked up from the other three stalls, and puts a rubbel ring around the complete set of tickets. Over 150 girls are employed, and a more cheerful scene would be hard to find. A roan collects the bunched tickets and puts them into cottou bags, each of which holds 3,000 tickets and is printed with the name of the Hall, the number of the assembly district, and the number of the polling district at which it is to be used. We bunch oue assembly district at a time. Tho bags of bunohed tickets for ono district are put into a big bag, and as an escort of police and of members of the Hall take the big bag to headquarters. ” “Why police?" “New York is a very bad city. We have to keep a large stock of extra tickets and a cart on hand, so that if a mob or a political accident destroyed any lot in any district we could furnish anew supply.” “What does it cost 1 ?” “The Hall will have to put np about sl4. <*oo. The others pay when they order for what they get. No boodle, no tickets. ” “Big expense, that.” “That is not all. Each candidate always gets a lot printed on his own account for his own handling. The enterprising candidates get out circulars, fold a bunch of tickets in each one, put the whole in an envelope, and mail ono to each registered voter. A clerk is employed to copy the registry. Nearly all the local candidates do this. When to this you add the posters, and other kinds of printing used, you will understand that, while elections may dampen all other kinds of business, they bring a boom to tho disciples of Franklin." ODD ELECTION BETS. Samples of the Novel Wagers Laid on the Presidential Contest. Wheeling Correspondence St. Louis Globe Democrat. Os novel bets there are quite a number recorded. William Ellis bets Chris Miller that Cleveland will bo elected, and agrees that if it so results that he will count every tie on the Baltimore and Ohio road between this city aud Washington. If Blaine is elected Miller is to push a hand cart from Wheeling to Washington over the National pike. A Cleveland drummer, who was in the city to day, made a novel bet with one of the lady clerks in a store where he sold a bill of goods. The lady is Republican, aud of course bet on Blaine’s success. Whether the drummer is for the Plumed Knight is not known, still he takes his chances on Cleveland. The bet is this: If Blaine wins, the lady is to give the gentleman forty-eight kisses, payable in four equal monthly installments. If Cleveland is chosen, the drummer is to present the young lady with a seal-skin sacque. This bet is genuine. Henry Schmulbach. the leading brewer of the State, has agreed with the president of the Elm Grove Motor line as follows: If Cleveland is elected the former is to tap one thousand kegs of beer to all comers; in case of his defeat the Motor line is to haul all people free to Hombrook park any day Schmulbach directs. The most curious wager is one wired the Register from Charleston, this State. Alt Burnett, chief of the Eureka detective agency, bets B. D. Goshorn, a local Democratic politician, that Blaine will be elected by a larger majority in tho electoral college than Garfield had. If Burnett wins Goshorn is to ride a blind mule through the streets of Charleston, accompanied by a drum corps, from 9a.m.to 12 m. If Burnett loses he is to swim the Kanawha river from bank to bank during the same hours, the bet to be paid as soon as the result is known. A Man Wlo Bet on Taylor. Fort Worth Correspondence Globe-Democrat. At the table of the El Paso the reporter was introduced, in his professional capacity, to a big, burly, pleasant-faced man, whose manner indicated ihat if he wasn't boss of all Texas he had pretty much the biggest share in maintaining her prosperity. The individual in.question was Colonel J. T. Chidesher, proprietor and operator of a stage line from Fort Worth to Fort Yuma, in Arizona Territory. In his idea there were but two great enterprises on earth—the GlobeDemocrat and the Fort Yuma stage line. Oh, but he was a jolly kind of a chap, whole sou led and full of vim and fun. Coming up from Fort Worth to Dallas he told how he made a fortune beting on General Each Taylor's election to the Presidency. Said he: “1 bet every thing I had, money, house and home, farm, pasture land, stock, wagons, liar ness, clothes and every thing you could think of. As long as I had credit I bet it. Then one day 1 bet my bat, coat, vest, pants and shoes, and I was five miles from homo at that. But I was sure Taylor would be elected. I bet on his election; on his election by different majorities; on his livimjAnbe elected, and had side bets of all sorts anfrsnap©#. In those days I used to drive round—this was in Mississippi—with a band of music and a six-pounder cannon, and I tell you we bad rousiug times and stirring speeches. But my man he got elected, as I knew he would, and I calculated when I figured it up—for l had a clerk to keep track of my bets —that 1 had won $10,009 in gold. 1 collected all of the bets, too. One man didn’t like to give up a mule he had bet—it was tho only mule he had —and so I took his mule and gave him another and a better one, and to-day he writes mo every month and says what a good fellow I am. And when 1 knew I had won 1 kept open house for a week, and invited the whole county, I bud charcoal made by the thousand bushels, and oxen cooked whole in trenches, 1 dont know how long. 1 decorated every post, flag pole, chimney, lightning-rod and tree-top in that vicinity with the American flag, and when the flags gave out 1 sent for more. We fired a salute oF thirty-

three guns—one for each State then—every morning before breakfast, and again in the evening, and I guess had over seven hundred people at my house for a whole week and more, eating and drinking and making merry. And after I had deducted all my expenses I had about SO,OOO leftr. BURDETTE’S BET. Why He Now Declines to Make Wagers on the Result of Elections. Brooklyn JCagle. I did not bet any money on the recent election in Ohio. It has been many years since I upheld my political principles by coining them for base drachmas. A drachma, dear, is a spud, and a spud is a Lewis door, which door is an open sessame to the best society. Years ago. when 1 was young aud charming, rather a trifle more young than I was much more charming, I bet a box of cigars with a political foe, but an esteemed personal friend, on the election of Mr. Hayes. To give him a show for his white alley, 1 bet him a hat on the result in New York. The returns promptly decided that I lost the hat, and the United States Congress and the High Joint Arbitration Commission, after gravely considering the question for many weeks, finally informed me that I had won the box of cigars. I never dreamed that such a simple bet would throw the Republic into such a painful state of suspense, excitement and confusion. I said then that never again would I thoughtlessly tamper with tho peace and happiness of my country, though all my political foes went bare-headed, and I had to pick up stubs for my personal smoking all the days of our respective and respected lives. I paid ray hat bet. I went to the hatter with my j'riend, and had his head blocked for a special order. His blocked head fairly swam with joy when I told him I was going to have a hat made especially for him. He said: “Robert ” The sober, solemn truth is, he said: “Bob,” but that doesn't look well in print, and I hate the name, anyhow. “Robert, if you win tho cigars, which heaven forbid, I will go to Havana and make them myself.” I knew ho would not. Far better that ho did. I knew it. Tho hat was made under tho personal supervision of the hatter, by and with tho advice and consent of myseif. It was a slick, shiny hat. It was about eighteen inches high, and as symmetrical as a stove-pipe. It was the same size all the way up. The brim was about an inch and a quarter wide, flat and straight as a silver dollar. It would have been the pride of a St. Patrick's day procession. It was the awfulest hat Strong men shuddered when they saw it. I don’t believe such a hat ever was made before or behind. Well, I gathered abont a score of our mutual friends. We got the band out, set the hat ou top of a dry-goods box in an open wagon, and paraded down to ray friend's store, and I presented the hat with an elaborate aud ornate address. Men said it was the greatest effort of my life. I think it was. It not only fatigued me, but people who heard it said it made them tired, also. My friend's remarks in reply were very brief, but suffused with emotion. lie took tho hat, labelled it with my name, and exhibited it in his window. When the Court of Arbitration at last deeided the other bet, the band and the crowd came out again, and my foe presented me with a box of cigars. At the conclusion of the presentation speech, ho proposed that wo smoke tho weed of peace. I could not refuse. I faltered my thanks, lighted a cigar and puffed twice or thrice. That was nearly eight years agone, and yet. sometimes I am aroused from the profoundest slumber in tho dead of night by the lingering farewell of the cigar. A policeman, who accidentally happened to be awake that afternoon, came along and arrested me on a charge of disorderly conduct, arson and assault with intent to commit hydrophobia. The magistrate smelled my breath, asjl pleadedjnot guilty, and fined me $lO. 1 went home, and a committee of my neighbors waited on me at long range and gave me twenty-four hours to leave the State. I left the box of cigars on the office steps, and two tramps were found dead beside it next morning The board of health filed information against me for conspiracy, seized the cigars an threw them into the Mississippi river. All the fish between Burliugton and Keokuk died that week. I took down my shotgun, breathed into it, pointed it at a dog and he turned into a stone. I blew fiercely down the barrel of the gun, intending to hunt for my foe. and the gun burst on the spot I—but why recount the harrowing experiences of that week of horrors? 1 only mention these few leading facts, because Truth, with a big TANARUS, is so sadly seldom during this campaign, and I wish to introduce a little of it to leaven or twelve the canvass. No, if I knew I could lose all the hats and win all cigars in America on New York alone, I would not bet that Mr. Blaine will carry Georgia, by ever so small a majority. I expect to wear a straw hai all winter, and 1 have given up the use of tobacco iu any form. I smoke only cigarettes. The Champion’s Friend. England’s champion bicyclist, Mr John Rolfe, says that in the championship contest, riding tight hours each day for six days, and one hundred miles against time just after, he is positive that St. Jacobs Oil, by its wonderful effects in training and racing, enabled him to win both races. He calls it a boou companion, aud recommends it to all athletes, and would not be without it. Fifty cents. OLDE^MES The formula by which Mishler’s Herb Bitters is compounded is over two hundred ye"rs old, and of German origin. The entire range of proprietary medicines cannot produce a preparation that enjoys so high a reputation in the community where it is made as ■JISHLER’S Bitters* It is the best remedy for Kidney and Liver Complaints, Dyspepsia, Cramp in the Stomach, Indirection, Malaria, Periodical Complaints, etc. Asa Stood Purifier, it has no equal. It tones the system, strengthening, invigorating and giving new life. The late Judve Hayes, of Lancaster Cos., Fa., an able jurist and an honored citizen, once wrote: •* Miaiilcr’e Herb Bitters is very widely known, and has acquired a great reputation for medicinal and curative proj>erties. 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PUT YOUR HAND In a vice, tarn the screw until the pain is all you can possibly bear, aud that’s Rheumatism; turn tho screw once more, and that’s Neuralgia. Such was the definition of these two diseases given his class by a Professor in a medical college, and he added: “Gentlemen, the medical profession knows no certain cure for either.” The latter statement is no. longer true, for it has been proved time and again that nPHOROS to) WILL CURE BOTH!"^ C. F. Tilton, Freeport, 111., Engineer on C. & N. W. Ry., writes: ” Have been troubled with P.lionmatism fifteen yearn, and have boen confined to tho homo four months at a time. Have used two bottle* of Athlopiiouos aud seem to be entirely cured. I cannot say too much for the medicine.” If you cannot get Athlophoros of your druggist, we will send it express paid, on receipt of regular price—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do not be persuaded to r-y something else, but order at once from us, as directed. ATHLOPHORGS CO. n2 WALL ST. NEW YORK A Skin of Beauty is a .fov Forever. Dr. T. FELIX GOURAUD S O|ENTALCREAM OR MAGICAL BEAOTIFIER X <S ~ £ G diseases, ' -■ •:ii similar name. The distinguished Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady of the haut ton (a patient): “As you ladies will use them, I recommend Gourand’s Cream’ as the least harmful of all Skin preparations.” One bottle will last six months, using it every day. Also, Poudre Subtile removes suSerfiuous hair without injury to the skin. Mme. L B. T. GOURAUD, Sole Prop., 48 Bond st., N. Y. For sale by all druggists aud fancy-goods dealers throughout the U. S., Canadas and Europe. Beware of base imitation*. SI,OOO reward for arrest and proof of anyone selling the same. - Hostettcr’s .Stomach jlf hB Tfc, I 11. I I Bt Kjva Bitters is a tine I>l >od If ■* ■■ &K wT dopurent. a rational ipw . CELEBRATED cathartic and a superb P anti-bilious specific. It fee ted by the com STOMACH^fI^ bined influence of climate, diet and water. B B |T JSfip it. is & very necessary ® B H " safeguard. For sale by all Druggists and dealers generally. GAS STOVES. No Kindling Required. No Coal to Carry. No Ashes to Remove. Prices from $2 to sl6. GrA.S ENGINES, From hj Horse-power up. We sell to ga3 consumers in this city oaly. On exhibition aud for sale by the GAS CONLP A3NTY, No. 47 South Pennsylvania -Street. NEW MUSIC BOOKS! THE SONG GREETING, By L. O. EMERSON. For High and Normal Schools, Academies, Seminai’ies and College*. A hook of 100 large octavo pages, containing 82 harmonized songs of the highest character both in words and music; also. Vocal Exercise- and Solfeggios, and directions for Vocal Culture. The publishers are confident that this will boa most satisfactory book. Send 60 cent* (the retail price) for specimen copy; $6 per dozen. CHILDREN’S SONGS AND HOW TO SING THEM. For Common Schools. Indorsed by Christine Nilsson, Thco. Thomas and others. Any school music teacher will be at once captivated hy the charming, genial character of the songs, which are S l iu number. By WM. L. TOMLINS. Teacher’s Edition, 75c; $7 20 per dozen. Scholar's Edition, 30c; per dozen. DOW’S COLLECTION OF KKSrONSBrt AND KENTKNOSS For Clmrch Service. By HOWARD M. DOW. Just the book ueeded by every choir that lm* short anthems dr sentences to sing. A flue collection of 79 such pieces. Highly approved by those who have examuicil it. Price. 80c; $7.20 per dozen. Any book mailed for retail price. OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston. & U. DITSON A CO., 807 Broadway. New Vork. WAS HI MU TON, October 27, 1884. Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has boen made to appear that the INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL BANK, in the city of Indianapolis, in the countv of Marion, and State <>f Indiana, has complied with all the provisions of the “Act of Congress to enable National Banking Associations to extend thoir corporate existence and for other purposes,” approved .July 12, 1882; Now, therefore. I, John *S. Laiigwovthv, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that the INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL BVNK, in the city of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion, and State of ludiana. is authorized to have succession for the period specified in its amended articles of association, namely, until the close of business on October 31, 1904. In testimony whereof, witness mv hand and seal of office this 27th day of October. 18^1. J. S. LANG WORTHY, Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the Currency. No. 581 / IIL 1 i | > i;<T Advertising in the couu ' llft JA I Ii ’ I try \% among the \N ants, For Sales, etc., of the IN DIANAPOLIS 1 >AILV JOURNAL, at only FIVE CENTS PER LINE each insertion. If you have any farms or property to dispose of this will auoid you a very easy aud cueap Try it.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY INDIANAPOLIS. ABSTRACTS OF TITLES. ELLIOTT & BUTLER, N O. S .KTN- V BUILDING. PATENT SOLICITORS. G BRADFORD, PATENTS. Office, rooms 16 and 18 Hubbard block, rorasr Washington and Meridian streets, Indianapolis, fad. TFI.K.iMtONK S2i. n A rpnXTTiO amkkican ami fohkicw. rAIKNIS. h. iu-hood. Room I .'‘Journal Building, corAot Market an! Utroto btreem, Indianapolis, I rid. a——— 11—11111111111 hiiwot wfwniHinnp——S MISCELLANEOUS. I KNEFLER & BERRYHILL* Attorncys-at-Law, No. 30 North Delaware Street. Hercules powder, ttie safest aS strongest powder in the world. Powder, Cajm Fuse. Augurs, and all the tools for Blasting Stump* and Rock Blasting, at 29 South Pennsylvania street. Indianapolis Oil Tank LineCoi, DEALERS IX PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. Corner Pine and Lord Streets. nW. B. BARRY, " SAW MANUFACTURER, 132 and 134 South Pennsylvania Street. Smith’s Chemical Dye-Works, No. 3 Martir.dale's Block, near PostoiTioe. Clean, dye and repair gentlemen’s clothing: also, ladietf dresses, shawls, sacquos. and silk and woolen goods i everv description, dved and refinished; kid glofiS neatly cleaned 10 cents per pair. Will do mom first-class work for les3 money than any house of th kind in the State. JOHN B. .SMITH. ' II H—tlilWP —IIWWI—IB ■Hill IH Ml Hill HI Mill I ll—wrßaby thrives on Horlick’s Food,” write hundreds of grateful mothers. Mother’s milk contains no starch. An artificial food for iDfants should contain no starch. Tho best and most nutritious food in health ■ls 9 1 fj *) INFANTB,a f nd |J| II O O the bestdiet for Bjß v a H | 9 H _ fcjk SXSSISUfI IIUR O amUMVAiODU,iB AtEEAI)y Digested, free from r ■ .torch and requires no cooking. ■ A A (Ti Recommended by Physicians. S H I IRfl B I Highly beneficial to Nursing lEIII B Mothers as a drink Price 40 S VS anil 7•> cents By ail drutfgietl. Bend lor Book on the Treatment of Ohildreu, free. '‘Basil, digested and nutritions." —(!• W. Unity, it. />., UliMtUtctfi, .V J. " Find it all that could bo deaireU."— W. W. He id, Stilton, Kansas. •So hesitancy In pronouncing It superior to anything extant. E. U. Cybtim, U. D Troy. U. T. Will be sent bv mail on receipt of price in stampa. lIOKI.ICK’S FOOD CO., itacine. M is. WUbb Hoanioa’s Day Kbtbact or Malt"** RICHMOND RANGES ARE THE BEST IN USE. You only need to use them to be convinced of thsftr many good qualities. Call and see them at I. L. FRANK EM’S, 86 Fast Washington Streot. Also ftrrent, for RADIANT HOME BARE-BUM BUS. STOVES and FURNACES. JOHN VAJI HOTEL RANGES and COFFEE URNS. ITHE NEW CORSET. THE “TRICURA RELIEF.” Having elastic sections at the upper and lower parts of tlie sides, adapts itself to the varied position* -ff fs p W^ th ft body asVyjkNßKk IMV* jl'j y surnes iu stooping. WR Mil Iff Bitting and reonTnKßjyiimnßy It gives per*ec e,iao * n all t positions, affordMsS! < A “K great relief and ■■ iiMil' ■■n comtort to tho lua " y who stud rfjfffj! Iflfffi \ wMuIVTt pla ordinary Corsets M fkiffiV.t aJIFf oppressive The MS ::! 11 TrsccraStays used ; lil j I.J for boniug, are \v lirlli i-l Jillw unoqualedforduisIPriceSl*oo>|MwM [W bility & comfort* ARK FOB IT able support, aud flußneraflEuv absolutely unbreakable. As an evidence of intrinsic merit, A REWARD OF $20.00 IS OFFERED for every Corset iu which any of the " Tricon?* stays break. Tho most durable, comfortable n cm he I [END It I V Rg New Invention. The Inventor cured himself I M after suffering 81 years. No pay for® m treatment till cured. Stamps for% B Printed Matter. Parties cured ut home. . Dr. H. \Y. lIKAiUKII liS A Ctl., 32-1 Hsco St., t iucSnunti, O, SOLARIIPfs* fSb. pSHOES v and KENT for <llll,iLi 1 XJJB 1 Dlt IIN. None genuine without ’ trademark and JohnMundkli. \ V&LIHFw'/ A <N> "on sole of each pair. I*’lT n K! l I TI.Y, l.ooli Nice* GrveCom tort .Outwent* others The 1200 lioys in 40iur4 College, Philadelphia, all \>E\R TIIK.iI, and their Guardians will have NO OTIIKII M \KI£. tr-,IYi: SOI. Aft Tift* SHOES A Tit IA n. Sold hy nil reputable dealers. ILOli An Interesting treatise on.Blr.vl artdS.kln Diseases will be mailed free to any one who will send their ad dress to thofewiffrSlHJCiflct'' • Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga. VANDERBILT’S MILLIONS! Could not buy from me what Swift’s Spe ritic has don© forme. It curetime of Scrofula iu its worst form, after I had suffered with it fifteen long year < and had tried all tho remedies, only to break down my health aud make mo almost helpless. Mils. RTiIZABETU BAKER. Acwokth, Ga., July 15, 1884. INOCULATED POISON! Some eight years ago l became the victim of a fearful Blood Poison, communicated by a nurse to my infant, and thouce through the breast, and suffered for six long years. The Mercury and Potash treatment seemed to drive the poison further into my system, only to break out irt wars 1m on other portions of my body. Three months a.: • I h-’ran taking Siwift’© Specific, and it ha ou i-d mo -ound and well. It it tho greatest blessing which has come to mankind ia years. M RS. T. W. L&KW IjUIKX.N'ViLUt, .‘Via., Sept. 1, 18r>i.

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