Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1887 — Page 3

THE IND LAK AFOLiIS JOUK"N"AI. FRIDAY, DECEMBER

2. 18S7.

THE PROHIBITION OKATOES

Closing Sessions of the Meeting of the Rational Prohibition Conference. Genera Clinton B. Fiske Eloquently Pleads for ivrthrowof the Liquor TiafScand St. Juhn Discusses Old-Tarty Til3. Chicago. Dec. 1. "Horn and Liberty" was the bor leo of the speeches at Battery D, this inorninz. The second day's session of the Pro hibition national conference was expected to be a long one, and therefore 9 o'clock was the boor set for the openintr. The business of the national committee was not all transacted, and the executive session was continued at 8 o'clock this znornine. Tbe principal subject under discussion was the appointment of delegates to the nominating convention. A resolution was passed "that tbe representation in the national convention of 1S8S shall be on tbe basis of twice as many delegates from each State and Territory as there are representatives in Congress. These delegates to be elected by each methods as may be decided upon by tbe State committees." Tbe entire day was taken tip with discussion of tbe various topics prepared for tbe conference. Tbe only incident of (reneral interest which took place was when a heated discussion took place between Mr. Chapin, of Wisconsin, and the national committee on the question of tbe representation at the national convention next June. It wa finally screed that tbe following proposition should be referred to tbe national committee: "That tbe basis of representation be one from each congressional district and one for each four hundred voters." When taken up in secret session by the committee, tbe Chapin proposition was rejected and tbe order remains as at first adopted. Mr. Chapin nevertheless threatens to make an effort to have the rank and file of tbe Prohibitionits unite and elect their delegates for the coming convention upon the basis suggested by bim and indorsed by the conference to-day. Mr. Caapin's idea is that the delegates thus elected should contest the seats of the present officials when the national convention of tbe Prohibition party assembles at Indianapolis. The conference of the national Prohibition committee was brought to a close to-niebt by a crand mass-meeting at Battery D. Tbe great hall was comfortably filled, and the utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Mr. J. B. Hobbs, who once ran for tbe governorship of Illinois on the Prohibition ticket, presided. The speakers were General Clinton B. Fiske, of New Jersey; Mrs. Marr T. Lathrop, and ex Governor St. John, of iTanft&s. General Fiske was the first speaker, and on BelPR introduced said, in part: "One great question is uppermost in the mind of every tRanehifnl Probibitionist: How can we hasten tbe dav.pf the utter overthrow of tbe liquor traffie in this eoodiy land of onrsT We believe that a consummation so devontly to be wished is among tbe good thincs in store for us. Some of os are growing impatient at the slow progress we are making toward that day of triumph. "We wonder why every good man and woman is not in battle array with ns against the forces of evil alwavs in advancing columns arainst every citadel of truth and richteousness. Every careful student of the situation discovers that now as never before there is a murmur and stir in every city, town and bamlet in the country on this one vital question. In conference and convention, in religious and political conversations, at home by tbe fireside, every banquet, it pops up by our side. It will not down till 'Birnam wood do come to Dnnsinane.' Meantime the saloon sits supreme in tbe politics of the country, governing in caucus, convention and canvass. Seventy per cent, of the primaries in both of the dominant political parties are convened in gilded saloons or cross-road taverns. In the great estiea of the land where now dwell more than 15,000,000 of our people, tbe saloon is the chief inspiration in politics. Its mastery over great States is aopalline. How shall we dethrone kinir rum and restore the government to the people, by tbe people and for the people? How e hall we ronse the public conscience which now sleeps and snores under the lullaby of loyaltv to parttT How snail the Christian puloit be marshaled in force against its ebiefeet foel These are the solemn questions of the hour; can they be practically answed by either the Democratic or Republican party! Nav, verily, Democracy stands nn squarely and boldly, and says: 'We are for liqnor every time. We will have nothing to do with yonr prohibition. We r aeainst all snmptniry lavs. We rather like th Prohibitionists to keep no a good strong party organization, because we know they make lareer drafts upon the Republicans than they do upon us in most sections. Onr press will treat the cranks cleverly in all latitudes where they weaken the old party of moral ideas, but where they hurtus by drawine too beavilv on our pious Democrats in the rural districts, there we must Tioanes unon the fanatics and drive them out.' The Republican party says: We can't do it just ow. Why don't you keep quiet until we get a good readyT We know that in our ranks are the best men of the country, and we want to be sufficiently outspoken aeainst the saloon to retain them and not sofSciently outspoken to ilienate the saloon interests.' The Chicago Tribune savs: 'Don't vou foreet that a majority of the beer-sellers in the eonntrr are Republicans, and we must not take such action as to 4rive them awav from ns; let onr anti-saloon Republican, understand that we say this with emphaei.' And what was the result of euch talk! Why, th father of tbe anti-saloon movement packed dd bis carpet-bag and moved to New York, taking his poor little anti-annex alone with bim, and then demonstrated that the movement was like a squab the largest when it was first hatched.' Had the Republican party taken up this issue boldly, and taken such position as to have driven the liquor interest from its rants, it would nave Stopped the exodus of the best element in the party, called back those who bad rebelled aeainst longer submission to saloon dictation, drawn tbe conscience from the Democratic ranks, and would now have been wavine its banners in trinmph over both ends of Pennsylvania avenue. The men who sat in tbe driver's seat would not take the 'newt-hand road' to victory, bnt chose the left hand path, which led to defeat and hu7ni!iatpn. When the Rennbliean national committee, In this city, in 1SS5, slammed the door in the face of Frances E. Wil!ard and said: We like you, but you know we are bound band and foot to IWroan Raster and we dare not hretk the shackle that manacle ns.' that hour Its fortunes began to wane, and its thoughtful constituents hare been steadilv moving into other quarters where the prohibition of the liquor traffic is made an all-controlling force in politics, until there shall be no legalized dramshop where floats tbe stars and stripes; until in all i's places of power, municipal, county, State and Nation, shall be men who will protect the poor, succor the laborer, guard the home, and smite to death the system so prolific of disease, ice, wretchedness, poverty, degradation, sorrow and ronrder. There is no safety in any compromise with the monstrous wrong. We must destroy it. No system ot license or regulation, taxation or restriction will aaiL The Prohibition party baa but one remedy, and that is prohibition. A half million men are to-day ready to march to tne polls to emphasize their opinion with prohibition ballots. Another half million are almost persuaded to come with ns and help us do good. A million of women God bless them! are marehine by oue sides with prayer and faith, sore and speech. Oh. would that we inisht sav with ballots also! Victory will come to ns by and by; be not impatient. In God we trust. Let us fix no date for our triumph, but jtand fast until it comes. If we tall, other voices will sing the songs of victory. Let us. with profound sincerity and with faith in the people, go fotward with onr good work of inet motion, invitation, entreaty and warning. With argument and kindly methods let u persuade men. We encounter mis judgment, re proach and condemnation unmeasured, sometimes from sources that should give us encouragement, vrtyr and a God bless yon. Let us not shrink fr m the sternest denunciation, or ridicule, or seoro of those who are recreant to the best interests of bnmanity. ' 'Than everv enthroned ill Our faith si a higher stili; High as t he throne where rurht with God appear, So lifted over fate, Fo strong to work, and wait. Are the; who count upon the eternal years. "With such a faith let us pound away at the gigantic, atrocious, diabolical, nameless, monaternm horrendura that is preyine upon the verr vitals of home and countrythe liquor trafac." Genera! Fiske was followed by ex-Governor St. John, who spoke in substance as follows; "Mr. President and Citizens For nearly -rtv years this country has been under the

control of the two old parties, and what is its legal, social, moral and political condition today? Let me see. We hane and imprison Anarchists, and at the same time legalize, protect and perpetuate 200,000 saloons, tbe hot-beds where anarchy is Dropaeated. thrives and fat-

fa tens. While the drunkard goes to perdi tion, tbe drunkard-maker goes to tne Legislature to enact laws for ' tbe people. Children cry for bread, and the father is sent home penniless and drunk. While the mother is powerless to protect her borne and her boy with a ballot, the saloon-aeeperdestroys both with bis ballot. As tbe Sabbath bells invite the peonie to the house of God the brass band leads the way to the Sunday horse-race, prize fizht, base-ball and beer-earden. Jeff Davis in his dotaee. without a ballot, is denounced as a traitor, and the ex-rebel guerrilla Mosbv, in the prime of his manhood (with a ballot), is given a ft.reien mission. The right of a free ballot is demanded for tbe black men of the South, while white men are burned and hane in efSey for exercising that right in the North. Ministers of the eosnel were persecuted and driven from tbe iulpit for preaching and voting againBt African slavery, forty years aeo, and they haye been persecuted, boycotted and driven from the pulpit for preaching and voting against the rum slavery of to-day. Lovejoy fell a martyr to freedom in the fijbr aeainst the slavery curse. Haddock, and Gambrel, and four others have fallen, martyrs to our homes, in this struggle azaiosi the Baloon curse. In the face of political platforms declaring for a 'fair count' tbe black man is counted out in Mississippi and Sooth Carolina in bis race for Congress, and the white man counted out in Michigan and Ohio in bis right for prohibition. While heavy import duties are placed upon foreign goods, the scum of foreien labor enters free. Protection for the blacksmith's hammer, but free trade for the blacksmith's muscle. American shins practically driven from the seas; a country without a navy; tbe people's money locked up in tbe vaults of the treasury; and a half dozen monopolists controlling our highways to the markets of the world. For every dollar expended to educate and make strong for the rieht. through tbe influence of our public schools, $15 is expended to tear down and destroy throueh the influence of the public saloons. Ignorant, vile, profane, vicious, dishonest, blear-eyed drunken bummers and tramps are allowed to vote, because they are men; bnt our mothers, wives, daughters, educated, refined, honest, pure, noble and true, not allowed to vote because they are women. While in one breath bribe-taking is condemned, in the next, a bribery bureau, witn a political Anarchist at its bead, is unblushincly admitted to that part of the political machinery of a ereat party. While a poor woman is fined heavily for playfully pitchine a pancake at a presidential party, an $8,000 diamond-mounted eold belt is given to John L- Sullivan, as the champion slugger of the world. And yet the people are asked to perpetuate the political parties under whose rule this condition of thinsrs has been brought about. And why! Snrely not because either of them stands pledged to a higher standard of morality, the suppression of the liquor traffic and greater protection to our homes and our boys, for no such pledges are made by them. Then what is tbe result of voting for such parties! Why, simply to continue tbe old order of things and perpetuate tbe sectional, political and race prejudices of the two old parties, who have no issue between them except to determine which shall have' the offices and control -the public plunder. Tbe Chicago Tribune plainly tells us this morning that tbe license system is to be continued, and intimates that Prohibitionists are ready to compromise with the liquor traffic. We say to the Tribune and its party that tbe Prohibition party has 'No compromise with wrong' inscribed upon its banner, and we propose to fight it out on that line until, under God's guidance, every saloon has been driven from our land and the homes of too people made free. And in 1&88, as heretofore, we propose to appeal to reason and to so arouse the heart and conscience of the people that, within five years from now. the Tribune and its followers will be forced into the Democratic camp or compelled to join the Prohibition party. There will be no other place for it to go. And in this campaign the man who shall lead ns to a glorious triumph is that honest patriot and Christian statesman, Gen. Clinton B. Fiske, of New Jersey." I're-Kmptlng tbe Nomination. Oshkosh, Wis., Dec. L B. E. Vanderman, of this city, a delegate to the Prohibition convention in Chicago, who returned to-day, states that at a secret meeting of the central committee. General Fiske, of New Jersey, who founded the Fiske University, was se'ected for the Presidency, andv.tbat there is no doubt of his nomination at the national convention. A. CO-OPERATIVE FARM. Tbe Experiment WhlcU Lord Spencer la Try ing? at Uarleston. London Daily News. The admirable scheme under 'which Lord Spencer is attempting to work what is called the Uarleston co-operative farm deserves to" be widely known as an honest attempt to solve at one stroke several of the great agricultural questions of the day. Since 1666, Lord Spencer has occupied as nominal tenant the Glebe farm at Uarleston. which contains some 2'J6 acres of land of which rather more than half is arable land. The farm is worked by eight laborers, called the co-operators, who have only the legal status of men hired for the week, but who are provided by the scheme with many of the privileges of proprietors, subject to their own industry and good behavior. The farm is conducted by a manager appointed by Lord Spencer, who is bound to consult the wishes and opinions of the co-operaters, as expressed by a committee of two of their numberd annually elected by ballot. The accounts are kept by a secretary appointed by the co-operators, subject to Lord Spencer's veto. But while the manager is to share in the privilages awarded to the laborers and has not only the right of voting, but of even giving a casting vot. the secretary can only offer his advice. His functions are to preside at meetings and to act as treasurer. Every year, as SO' n as may be after the 21st of March, a complete valuation of the farm, the buildings, machinery and crops is made in order to obtain an accurate balance sheet from which the profit or loss in each year may be seen. The expenditure is to include wages for the co operators and manager, rent, and rates and taxes, and 4 per cent on the capital employed. This capital has been supplied by Lord Spencer and amounts to 3.000. The net profits, if any, are to be divided into two portions, three-quarters going to form a reserve fund and one-quarter to a divisible-profits fund, which is to be divided among the co-operators, the manager, counting as one of them. The object of the reserve fund is to pay off the original capital lent by Lord Spencer, and to secure a sum upon which to fall back in time of need. If any year's opperations result in a los&J the divisible-profits fund is thenceforth to be paid to the reserve until the loss has been made good. Finally, every fifth year the interest which each co-operator has in the concern is to be estimated and he is to be entitled to receive its value. Such is a brief outline of a scheme which in its admirable purpose recalls the Vandeleur experiment at RalaLine, and the successful effort at Aesington. Lord Spencer has wisely kept the whole scheme under his control for the present, but with the liberal provision that when the capital is repaid the powers the scheme gives him shall cease and the co-operators themselves may become tenants of the farm and 'thenceforth have sole control of their own affairs." The first year ended last Lady Day, and the balance sheet, which has just been issued, shows an actual loss of '207, no less than 127 of which are due to the death of one young horse and a fall in value of others, Lord Spencer and Jiev. W. Bury, who has acted as secretary, report that "alter one of the worst years that farmers have ever known," this loss is '"not so great as might have been anticipated." It must be remembered that it is not loss on the mere working of the farm. Rent, 410, and rates and taxes, 60 were paid, so that even in this bad year the land yielded more than half tho rent. The spring of 1886 was a bad one, and when the farm was taken much of the land was in a very foul condition. The foulness of of tho land caused a complete failure of seven acres of wheat, while another seven acres faded for being sown to late. What with impoverished pasture, weedy arable, and the generally neglected state of the land, the co-operators began with the certainty that they could make no profit. However, they have worked well and harmoniously, and have reaped the substantial benefit of constant employment; and though their wages were only 14 shillings a week this is rather a higher rate than can be usually obtained in the district. This year they start in a better position. Last year's work and outlay will telL They now have a well manured soil and clean fields. They are familiar with the land and should know better how to meet all the varied circumstances they may be caUed upon to face. Itwill be interesting to watch the experiment and to learn whether the hopes of Lord Spencer and Rev. William Bury will be fulfilled. It is another attempt at the creation of a sort of modified peasant proprietorship, having the merit of giving the actual tillers of the soil a personal interest in their work without the disadvantages which are the inevitable concomitants of very small holdings. Municipal Election at Providence. Providence. R. L. Dec 1. The election for Mayor here to-day resulted as follows: Robbing, Republican. 5,ltU; ilcNilly, Democrat, 2,602; Blodgett, Prohibitionist, 203, Useful Xmas Gifts Are an assortment of Colgate's delicate perfumes and a box of Cashmere Bouquet toilet ee ao. Now ready.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Southern Tourist Kates. Northern passenger agents are al! at sea as to what are to be the rates on travel to Florida and other Southern pleasure resorts. Tbe general passenger agents of Southern roads eannot agree on any basis of rates, and are naming them from day to day. To add to the trouble, the Florida roads and the Railroad Commissioners of the State are at loggerheads. The last Legislature passed an act making the rate on all 'Florida roads three cents per mile. The railway managers say they cannot run their paspenger trains in that sparsely settled country at less than five cents, and threaten to take off ail express trains, sleeping coaches, etc., and run only mixed trains. In fact. General Passeneer Agent At more, of tbe L. & N. road, is quoted as sayine that the L. & N. people had decided to take off everything except mixed trains on the Peneacola & Atlantic road. A Southern passenger agent, who was in the eity yesterday, says no matter what turn things now taite the Southern tourist business, as far as Florida is concerned, has been ruined for this season.

Transcontinental Asoctatlon Formed. Chicago, Dec 1. The transcontinental ofiieials to-day succeeded in agreeing npon the formation of an association. The headquarters are fixed at Denver, and J. S. Leeds, now eeneral freight agent of the Atchison road, will be chairman. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company is to receive a monthly subsidy equal to $65,000, but it is not yet settled how it wil; be paid. Arrangements have been made with the Canadian Pacific whereby it will be allowed to charge a leas rate on traffie to Sao Francisco, and will interchange business at Portland with t e Northern Pacifio and Union Paeino. Firstclass freight will be advanced from New York to San Francisco from $3 to $4 a hundred, and other rates in proportion. The new arrangement will probably begin January 1. . The C, H. & J. Receivership. Columbus, O., Deo. L In the Supreme Court, to-day, a petition in error to the Circuit Court of Cincinnati was filed in the case of George K. Duckworth vs. The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company. In this case tbe Common Pleas Court granted Duckworth's application for a receiver, and James E. Campbell was appointed, but tbe Circuit Court reversed the lower court. The present proceeding is to reverse tbe Circuit Court on error, and this would sustain the appointment of tbe receiver. A motion was also filed to take the case out of the regular order for as early a hearing as possible. ' Criminal Proceeding: Aeainst Ives. New York, Dee. L District Attorney Davis is preparing a formal complaint against Henry S. Ives and George H. Staynor, which will be presented early next week to a police justice and a warrant for their arrest asked for. Tbe complaint will be 6worn to by lawyer Charles W. Cass, who has been active in trying to get Ives and Staynor indicted on the ground that they unlawfully conveyed to their own use about $500,000 worth of the securities of tbe Mineral Range Railway Company, which they cootrolled. Ives said yesterday that he would be ready whenever he was wanted, and that he had no fear of tbe result. Local snd State Notes. Belt road eneines last mo&th handled 7.218 car-loads of live stock, which 'was 463 more carloads than were bandied in November, 18 SC. First-class tickets from Indianapolis to New York are now selling at $17.75, a cut of $1.25 from the regular tariff. This is done to meet tbe rate out of St. Louis. The monthly statement of the Indianapolis Weighing Association to the Central Traffic Association shows that in the month of November the roads gained 7,987,645 pounds. A large part of the California business from this section is taking tbe Southern route via New Orleans for California points, thus avoiding the heavy travel over the A., T. & S. F. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has bnilt at its own shops in Fort Wayne this year, 1.800 new ears of ail descriptions and is preparing to build cars on a more extensive scale. Thomas D. Campbell, who has represented the L., N. A. & C road at Cincinnati, yesterday acsumed the duties of district passenger agent a" the Wisconsin Centra!, headquarters Indianapolis. The Indianapolis ear-works, in the month of November, turned out 466 new cars for the A., T. & S- F. and tbe Missouri Pacifio thirty-eight more ears than in any month since the works were established. Tbe Pennsylvania company will, within a few davs, put in operation what is known as its Red Bank division, which will admit of its rnoning its Chicago trains into the C, St. L. & P. depot at Cincinnati instead of the C, H. & D. depot. The monthly report of Secretary Broadbelt shows that there arrived and departed at the Union Depot, in the month of November, 3,058 regular and 130 special trains, or a total of 3.188 trains, on which trains were handled 23,724 coaches. Live stock rates Cast continue to drop and on cattle from Indianapolis to New York are now 16 cents per 100 pounds. Tariff rates prior to the rate war were 324, cents per 100 pounds. To Buffalo and P.ttsburg the rate on cattle now is 10 cents old ra.e, 18J per 100 pounds. E. H. Scott, formerly trustee of the bondholders of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago road, is in the city, fie states that the Lake Erie & Western people are placiug the northern portion of the road in good physical condition, and that the business is reachine the volume carried under the old Malott management. There were transferred over the Belt road in November. 59,803 cars, aeainst 44,191 the corresponding month, 1883; 42,293 in 1885. 38.967 in 1884. 31,623 in 1883, and against 26,767 in 1882, the year tbe Belt road was opened for business. From this statement it will be seen that the business of tbe road has doubled within the five years. The Bee-iine hauled east from the Indianapolis stockyards in October 414 car-loads of live stock; in November 352 car-loads. In this statement is not included any through St. Louis business. This proves that the statement that the Bee-line people are ignoring the Indianapolis yards, by running all their stock through Indianapolis, is false. About a year ago Swsyne, Swayne & Hayes, attorneys for the creditors of the Indianapolis, Pern & Chicago road, brought suit aeainst Receivers Humphries and Tutt. of the Wabash road, for the balance of earnings of the L, P. & C. prior to the road's being tnrned over to the trustee, and also for surplus earnings of the I., P. & C- over operating expenses after turned over to tho trustee on May 29, 1884, and the matter comes up for a hearing to-day before Wm. P. Fisbhack, who has been appointed by the court a special commissioner in the case. The Indiana & IllinoisSouthern road is said to be gradually coming up out of the mire. On the portion which has been changed from a narrow to standard gauge auite a coal traffic is developing. The company bas contracted for three hundred coal cars, which it is receiving at tbe rate of three per day. New bridges of a substantial character have been placed over all the important streams. Much of the rail is light, being only thirty-five pounds to the yard, but the young men who have hold of the rebuilding of the road are expecting to secure capital within a few months to widen the enage from Effingham. 111., to Switz City, Ind., and to lay a heavier rail, and properly equip the line. An Artist's Vision of Christ. W. H . Ingersoll, in American ftlajtaziue. A strange narrative introduces the public of his native land to tbe notable statue, in full form, by William Wetmore Story. Thisccolptor was born at Salem, Mass., in 1819. When be was about twenty, he says, going from Boston to Cambridge by the old stage line, be suddenly saw Christ sitting with tbe driver on tbe outside seat. He reached out his band and touched tbe Savior's garment. At the baif-wav house Christ alighted and mingled with the common people. ro one seemed to be aware of his presence but the young artist. The visionary personage was in oriental garb, moving with steady steps to and fro. but he did not seem strange to the dreamer. "For years," Mr. Story says to a friend, "that Apparition has haunted me, and over and over again I have tried to give form to that face and pereon which I saw as plainly as I see you now." He wrought his dream at length, and it is now in Rome, and is described as an original and beautiful conception. TlieHeelnnlr.jr of the Grangers, t'barles XV. Pierson, In opuiar Science Mont'uly. Some wise men of the press are saying that the Knights of Labor are like the grangers. As tbe exact points of resemblance are not stated, the assertion serves merely to call up a recollection of tbe unique secret society, which, a dozen years ago, seemed far more powerful than ever the Knights of Labor were. The Grange still lives, but its glory is departed, and its history is recorded only in the distorted statements of partisans and of misinformed review writers. In the latter part of 1863 certain Minnesota farmers received a printed sheet which began as

follow: 'jn response to nnrnerous Inquiries in regard to onr order, this circular is issued. The order was organized by a number of distinguished agriculturists of various States of tbe Union, at Washington, in December. 1867, and since then bas met with most encouraging success, giving assurances that it will soon become one of the most useful and powerful organizations in the United States. Its grand object is not only general improvement in husbandry, but to increase the general happiness, wealth and prosperity of the country." As an aid in accomplishing its author's design this circular was certainly a sueseaa. As a statement of truth it was a conspicuous failure. Instead of having "met with most encouraging success." the order had scarcely been beard of, while the "distinguished agrlculturists" who had "organized" it comprised one truit-erower and six government clerks, equally distributed amone tbe I oetoffice. Treasury and Agricultural Departments. Of these seven Immortal founders, as enthusiastic Grangers were calling them a few years later, six are living. Nevertheless, it it is difficult to determine just how much of the plan and its execution was due to each.

GARFIELD'S MENTOR FARM. Ills Estate Larger than Generally Supposed Making the Farm the Family Uouie. Painesville 0.) Letter in New York Bun. The old farm in Mentor, fonr miles west of here, which Garlie'd bought some years before his death, and on which be used to spend about the happiest days of his life, is fast becoming one of tbe most beautiful country residences in the vicinity of Cleveland. None of the family is at present there, though it bas come to be recognized as the family borne. Mrs. Garfield and one son and her daughter are in England, and the other son is reading law in New York. Uncle Joseph Rudolph, Mrs. Garfield's brother, stays on the place and , looks after it and after the extensive improvements which are being made npon it. Additions have been built to the old house, and everything that money would do to make it a lovely home has been done. Of course a plumber's bill can give no idea of tbe amount of work performed, but even a plumber could hardly have tbe hardihood to charge $13,000 for his services unless he bad at least driven by tbe lionse. and $13,000 is the amonnt which bas been paid to plumbers for their last summer's work npon the boose and its dependencies. The other outlays have been in proportion. This is only carrying out General Garfield's idea. H always loved the farm, and loved to consider himself a farmer. He loved fahm people and farm ways, and the plain, homely talk of farm neighbors. He always went away from the Mentor borne freshened and brightened in mind and body, and with his face bronzed and bis bands hardened r y work. Whatever charms the excitement of political life bad for him he was always anticipating his return to the quiet Mentor home, and it was there he bad planned to spend the declining years of his life. His devoted wife, in clinging to.tbe old place and making it a family borne, is only doing what she knew would be most pleasing to bim. Her beautiful Cleveland home is for sale, and bas been for some time, altboueh the price she asks for it $50.000 is not extravagantly high. Tbe Washington bouse brought about what the appraisers estimated it at, $30,000. The total appraised value of Garfield's real estate was put down at $37,000 iu round numbers. He paid about $7,000 for tbe Mentor farm, thongh, of course, at tbe time of his death it was worth much more than that. In fact, some years before he died he pnt a mortgage of $8,000 upon it, which, for some reason, be did not release for a long time, though he was abundantly able to do so. Indeed, there was at the time of General Garfield's death a very general misapprehension as to his financial condition. It was the common opinion that be was comparatively a poor man. The fact is that be was comparatively a rich man. There are here in Painesville one or two men who are millionaires, but a man hereabouts who can command $50,000 is a rich roan. General Garfield left, at tbe appraiser's very low estimate, a good deal over $100,000 in almost instantly available assets. It will be remembered that he left no will. His brother-in-law. Uncle Jossoh Rudolph, was appointed administrator, and bis bondsmen were Dr. W. S. Streatnr, N. B. Sherwid, and Dr. J. P. Robinson. No man in Ohio stands higher, in point of business honor and sound business judgment, than Dr. Streator, and both he and Dr. Robinson were warm, intimate friends of General Garfield Sherwin was at one time postmaster in Cleveland, and is a sharp, shrewd little man, whose admiration for Garfield amounted to a sort of frenzy. The amount of the bond was $100,000. Tne appraisers were Dr. Robinson, E. T. C Aldrich and William Murray the Second. Mr. Murray is alwars particular to sign himself Murray the Second for some reason, an nncle having enjoyed the distinction of being Murray the First. The appraisers filed their inventories in the Lake connty probate office on the 11th of March, 1862. They set aside $10,000 in money, and something over $7,000 in other property for the support of the family during tbe twelvemonth, and after this they appraised the balance of the personal property at about $68,000. The entire estate, therefore, including the $37,000 real estate, amounted, according to the appraisement, to between $112,000 and $115,000. So that even had not the people come with their generous impulse to the help of the family. Gen Garfield's wife and children wonld have been left in by no means destitute circumstances. Is was a good deal of a surprise to the people here that is, to some of them to learn that the General was in such comfortable circumstances, and there are many who believe that he was worth even more than that, and that bis property at the time of his death wonld not have fallen much short of $200,000 or $250,000. This, however, is largely a matter of speculation, and is based upon the gratuitous assumption that tbe appraisers and those near him, who bad the management of his affairs, would hot overestimate his wealth or do anything to overthrow the popular belief that be died a poor man. The General had a group of bitter enemies here at his home, as nearly every man who rises to eminence has. and . some of them, even thus long after his death, do not hesitate to vent their dislike in words. His general popularity at home, however, and tbe reverence for bis memory are still very strong, and even some of those who do not hesitate to speak ill of bim here among their neighbors, would be among the first to resent a bitter word against bim from an outsider. TONS OF CBRWING-GCW To Keep American Jaws Masticating A Ilabit That Is World-Wide. New York Tribune. Four hundred thousand dollars invested in a plant in Brooklyn for tbe manufacture of chewing-gum. and over a million dollars a year spent bv the American people for this commodity! Who would believe such a thing possible? And yet one of tbe largest manufacturers of chewiog-gum in this country yestetday assured a Tribune reporter tbat it is an actual faot, and a minute survey of the mammoth factory devoted to this single industry produced convincing proof of the truth of his statement. The factory in question is a well-enilt brick structure, six stories high above tbe basement, seventy-five feet front and one hundred feet deep, and is situated in a healthy quarter not far from the bridge. In the basement are located a 100-horse power engine, which runs the machinery throughout the building; a dynamo for lighting tbe factory with electricity, and the vats, etc.. for the first process in the manipulation of the gum. But the secret processes of fabrication are guarded with extreme jealousy, which is perfectly proper when it is remembered that they have been evolved out of twenty years of careful experiment and intelligent enterprise. Tbe first floor is the shipping room, and when the reporter called, two large vans were drawn up to the door at tbe aide of the factory to be laden with cases of gum for shipment. Tbe five stories abote are occupied by machines which are the exclusive property of the manufacturer, and by the packing and labelling departments. With the understanding that none of the processes was to be described, the proprietor escorted the reporter over the building and in the couree of exploration communicated many interesting facts on the subject of chewing-gum in genera. "Is the common idea that Americans are tbe only gum-chewers a correct outV asked the reporter. "By no means." he replied; "the habit is universal. In the Northern States the people have chewed the spruce gum from time immemorial, and the Indians made the same use of it before the whites came here. In the South the women chewed the end of a stick which tbey dipped from time to time into a snoff-box. This habit, which bas been proved to be injurious, baa been supplanted to a ereat extent in late years by tbe introduction of chewing gum, and we have abundant evidence that the substitution of goro for snuft bas been wonderfully beneficial. The Chinese chew a pungent bean; the Turks and other Eastern races use beeswax and the natural exudations of trees for the same purpose. But the Americans are far from being the only people who use manufactured chewing gums. There is a large consumption of them in England and on tbe continent of Europe, and we ship several good orders to Australia every year." "What substance Jm most used as a base for these guinsl"' '"In tbe early stages of the business theparafflne extracted from coal tar and the natural gum of the snruce were the only substances used, hat

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GEORGE TELEPHONE GG1. abont twenty years ago we introduced the chicle, a spongy exndation of a grayish color from a tree called the cbico-zoDote, in Mexico. Tne cbico is a larce forest tree, and is found chiefly near tbe coast in tbe districts of Tuxpan and Papautla. "Thon sands of tbe Indians in those provinces now make their living by pathering chicle and bringing it down to the market towns along tbe coast." Referring to the phenomenal growth of the chewing-enm trade in recent years, this wellknown man of adorer said: When we began the business, chewing-gum was made, like toys, for the amusement of children. But the natural requirement for something to cftew, which is illustrated amone the human family by tbe use of .tobacco and other substances for tbat purpose, caused the trade to develop itself with great rapidity. Later on came the opinions of doctors and chemists, of actors, singers, athletes, public speaKers, and now of tbe bicyclists that chewing earn was a wholesome habit; tbat it acted upon the salivary glands in a manner to promote digestion; and finally we are assured tbat the gum we make from the chicle is an absolute preventive of sea-sickness. We had expected no such outside discoveries as these, and while we knew that our goods were perfectly harmless, we did not claim for them medicinal or curative properties. Our first intimation that our gum was a cure for eea-sickcess came from the Tribune some months aeo, in a published account of a traveller's experience while crossing the Atlantic." Finally the proprietor of this hnee gnm factory stated tbat the business is steadily increasing, and that his annual consumption of the chicle is about 500,000 pounds. ONE MORE TYPE-SETTING MACHINE. This Time It ITUs from .Minneapolis and Is Worked by Electricity. St. Paul Fpecial. The Minneapolis Electro-matrix Company, with a capital of $1,000,000 was incorporated today. Inquiry it. to the nature of tbe organization's business develops the fact that it owns a machine which is destined to revolutionize the whole business of printing. Tbe idea first originated somewb&t more than a year ago with A. S. Capehart, a proof-reader on theTribnne, and S. G. Good son. Tbe two conceived the idea that electricity might be employed to do tne work, and finally submitted the-.r plans tod L Redfield, a weli-known mechanical engintr. He made some valuable suggestions in tbe line of rendering the idea practicable, and made the drawings. The three at once set to work on having tbe models constructed. These worked well, and recently a machine was completed, it did the work perfectly, and at the astonishing rate of two hundred impressions a minute, or five thousand ems" an hoar, against tbe 1,100 'ems" tbe average compositor can now set. The machine is not properly a type-setting machine, for it nses no type at all, but a matrix making machine. Tbe letters are punched into a strip of enrd-board the width of a column, from which a stereotype is made in exactly the same manner as stereotypes are now made from pasteboard matrices. The work of punching tbe dies in, cf feeding in tbe cardboard, and of preparing it for the next stroke is all done by electricity. The operator simply has to posh the die-plate to the' right place, and strike the key. Editor Redfleld thinks the invention will create as much of a revolution in printing as Gutenburg did. He points out that the application of electricity to the work opens up a field the wideuess and novelty of which make it difficult of comprehension. For instance, be says there is nothing to binder a press agent in Chicago from sitting down to his machine and simultaneously making matrices on similar machines in Minneapolis. St. Paul, Milwaukee, Kansas City, and Omaha. One man operating the electro matrix machine will supplant at least five mo setting type. The stockholders are some of the richest men. in Minneapolis. A large plant for the manufacture of the machine, which is smaller than a type-writer, will t e put in at an early date. Disappearance of a Tonng Lawyer. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 1. J. L. Eiehelberger, a young attorney, is miesing from his borne since last Thanksgiving Day, with several crooked transactions developed. Among them is that of obtaining a gold watch from his affianced bride and a diamond rinr from a jeweler of his acquaintance on false pretenses. Besides these, it appears that tbe indorsement of a note given by Eiehelberger i pronounced by tbe indorer a forgery. Evehellerger was to Lave been married on Thanksgiving, but postponed tbe ceremony until Christmas. His friends fear he has taken bis hfe Stocks of Oil and Whalebone. New Bedfobd, Mass., Dec 1. 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