Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1889 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1889.

. AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. . Gould Ktlre from Lackawanna. New York, Feb. 19. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Delaware. Lackawanna &. Western railroad was held today. The only changes in tho board of directors was the retirement of Jay Gould, whoso place was lilled by Henry A. C. Taylor, a son of the lato Moses Tayior, whoso estate is still tho largest holder of tho company's stock. Tho retirement of Mr. Gonld was in accordance with his wish as erpresaed in the following communication: No. 579 Eiftii Avenue, Jan. 21. 1889. My Dear Mr. Sloan During the past year my health has been such that I have Wen unable to perform mv duties a director of tlio Delaware, Lackawanna & Western company, nor will I bo able to do no the year to come. 1 write, therefore, to ask you to substitute, at the approaching election, some one in my place as a director. Yours truly, J at Gould. uel Sloan, President. Tersonal. Local and State Notes. H. II. Poppleton, general solicitor of the Bee-line, is m the city. The Wabash road will next week put on two new fast through freight trains to haul perishable freights. Major Robert Emmet, formerly district passenger agent of tho Vandalia, is spending a few days here. W. P. Cooley, general agent of the International fc Great Northern road, is in the city on official business. Joseph O. Osgood, chief engineer of the Lake Shore road, retires from that position on the 1st of next month. ' Cambridge station is to bo made the coaling point for freight engines on the C, St.1. fc 1. road, instead of Richmond. J. W. Sherwood, who has iust resigned as superintendent of the Milwaukee, South Shore & Western road, is in the city. The stockholders of the Indianapolis & St. Louis road hold their annual meeting

for the election of directors in this city to-, day. The stockholders of the Cincinnati fc Rpringlield division of the lice-line will hold their annual meeting to-day in Cincinnati. Reduced rates, from Feb. 21 to 26, are to be given to persons who wish to attend the convention of the Seventh-day Adventists in this city. i The west-bound tonnage over the trunk lines is reaching large proportions, and the business iscarried at nearly double tho rates which prevailed at tho corresponding period, in 1S&8. It is thought that tho burning of the C, L, St. L. & C shops at Cincinnati, yesterday, insures the commencement of the new shops for the company here at an early day, plans for which were prepared some months ago. Notwithstanding the talk of dull times with the steel-rail mills, 404,441 tons have been sold thus far this year, against 394,897 tons in the corresponding period of 18SS. Western lines have been the principal buyers. A. J. ;Smith, secretary of the National Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents, gives notice that the thirtyfourth annual meeting of tho association will be held, in New York city on Tuesday, March 19. M. Maxwell, superintendent of construction on tho Bee-line, who has been laid up nince last August with rheumatic troubles, has iust returned from Hot Springs, and is much better, but is still unable to attend to his duties. W. C. Irwin, chief engineer of the Beeline, to-day meets the several roadmasters and superintendents of bridges in tho office of Superintendent Ewan, to consult regarding the proposed improvements on the Beeline system this year. E. B. Thomas, general manager of tho Erie lines, is said, to have laid by his hatchet. Ho is quoted as saying that ho had the rough material well cleared off the road, but to do it necessitated the dropping of many men from the pay-rolls. Evansville and New Albany papers are unanimous in urging the new owners of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis road to retain as general manager George F. Evans, who has tilled the position for several years very acceptably to the patrons or the road. William Turretif, superintendent of motive .power of the Bee-line, has gone East to in-' tjpect the three passenger engines just completed for this road at tho Schenectady locomotive-works. They are of the same 'type as the four received by the company 5n the last few months. The C, I., St. L. &. C. shows an increase in earnings in tho second week of February over those ot the corresponding week in of $6,412. This is an excellent showing. when it is considered that comparison is made against one of the best weeks in earn ings of lt8S on the Big 1 our road. The roads in tho Central Traffic Associa tion will discontinue the practice of giving free transportation to so-called land agents who canvass in Central Traffic territory in the interest of cheap land excursions, it having been demonstrated that these 60called land agents are rate-demoralizers. Tho Wabash management has created a new position that of inspector of station nnd train service. C. W. Hazeltino has . been appointed to rill tho position. His special work will bo to see that station agents and trainmen are well posted in their duties and are working for tho best interests of the road. A special meeting of the stockholders of Cairo fc Vincennes road has been called for on April 25, to voto on the question of issuing bonds, the money raised on them to be used in purchasing tho Cairo division of the Wabash, St. Louis &. Pacific road., which was thrown overboard when thot Wabash people unloaded their non-paying divisions. .The Indiana Midland road is slowly get ting out of its linancial snarls. Tho earnings of the road are now somewhat in excess of the operating expenses, and all surplus moneys are' being used in betterment to the property. .At several points on the line side-tracks are being put in leading to manufactories, which will be heavy shippers over the road. An official of one of tho roads running into Terro Haute says that it is more than probablefthat steps will be taken this year which will result in tho erection of a creditablo new union station at Terre Haute." Mr. McKeen, president of two of the most important roads running in there, is said to strongly favor an early commencement of the building. In the year 1888, as shown by the' reports of the Railroad Gazette, there were CG7 persons killed, against CM in 1687, and 407 in JSSfi. There were injured on roads in this country 2,204 persons, against l.lMG in 18S7, and 1,406 in 1S66. Over forty persons stealing a ride were killed. During the year there wer 804 collisions and 1.003 derailments. The largo number of collisions does not speak well for the cautiousness of train employes. The great hue and cry about, ruin to the transportation interests, and the withdrawal of capital from railroad enterprises in Iowa as a result of the enforcement of the low-rate tariff in that State, following the decision of Judge Brewer, has received a quietus from the commissioners themselves. They aver that railroads will bo treated fairly, and with this object in view have asked tho railroads to state their sido of the case. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis &, Chicago road i so pressed with bnsiness that the management is trying to lease engines from the Ohio & Mississippi and tho Ohio, Indiana fc Western roads. On Sunday last every serviceable freight and passenger engine which tho company owns was in use. On that day 1,252 cars were handled on tho main line, and for three weeks past an average of 1,000 loaded cars a nay have been handled on the main ime. Trouble is brewing over the unlimited tickets which were sold at the Union Station for Dallas. Tex., via Cairo, which read ver the Ohio, Indiana & Western and tho Chicago fc Alton to Kansas City, and from there to Dallas over the Atchison, Topeka te Santa Fe road. It is stated that ninety of these, tickets were sold, and a largo per cent, of them were turned overto the scalpers on reaching Kansas City. The Central Traffic Association and the Missouri Pacitic and Wabash railway managements have demanded that the Atchison, Topeka fc fcf aula Fe enforce the arbitrary rule on these tickets. The prospects are very favorable that the Louisville, New Albany &, Chicago people will build an independent line from Massachusetts avenue to a connection with the Union tracks, on account of the variance of opinion as to the value of the joint tracks of the Bee-line and Lake Erie & Western between the points named. The latter places a valuation on the tracks at 200,000. "while the L., N. A. & C. people appraise

them at oulv $0.ono. TheL., N. A. & C. claim that for $50,000 they can secure the right of way and construct their own track, and forever be independent of tho Bee-line and the L. E. & W.

Miscellaneous Items. President Cable denies the rumor that the Chicago &, Kock Island is to absorb the Colorado Midland. It is stated that tho Northern Pacific peo ple have decided to push their road on to Manitoba, which is 450 miles further into the extreme northwestern territory. I). C. Corbin. of New York, has agreed to build the Spokane Falls fc Northern Toad, connecting with the Canadian Pacitic at the Columbia river. This road will be a valuable one for Washington Territory. Beginning with this week the "Golden Gate Special" carries Chicago and New York mail. The time between New York and San Francisco is 113 hours, and eightyfour hours between Chicago and San Francisco. With the taking ettect of the spring time-table it is proposed to run this "Golden Gate Special" semi-weekly, and eventually daily. The announcement that a new lino of steamers is to bo put on the Mississippi river this year by Minneapolis and St. Louis capital .means a reopening of the tight between the Chicago railroads on the one hand against every Mississippi river city on the other. A like struggle was made some years ago and the railroads in the end wero the winners. In the last quarter of 188S tho Erie Railroad Company shows an increase of $S4,000 in its surplus, which is in striking contrast with the statement of the New York Central for th j last three months of 18S8, in which a decrease in surplus for the same period of $358,800 is shown. In both cases gross eaixings showed a loss, but the loss of New York Central was much the larger. Tho Erie reduced its operating expenses, and the New York Central did not. It is estimated upon good authority that the Missouri Pacitic reduction in train service amounts to fully 2,200 miles a day, with a saying of 14,000 in wages and other operating expenses. This would amount to a decrease of over 40,000 a month, or nearly half a million a year, on the expenses of the Missouri Pacitic system alone. The cut of 10 per cent, in tho wages of all office employes receiving over 100 a month and the abolition of the secret service department, the discharge of all officers and clerks not absolutely needed, will swell tho amount saved on the Missouri Pacitic to fully a million a year. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington, Feb. 19. For Indiana and Illinois Fair; colder; variable winds. For Michigan and Wisconsin Fair, except light snow along tho lakes; colder; westerly winds. For Iowa and Missouri Fair, followed by light snow; warmer; southerly winds. Local Weather Report. Indianapolis, Feb. 19. Time, Bar. Iher. Jt.H.lWind. Weather. I're. 7 A.M. 7 P.M. 30.31 30.48 7 15 80 59 West West Cloudless. Cloudless. Maximum thermometer, 19; minimum thermometer, 0. Following Is a comparative statement oi the condition of temperature and precipitation ou Feb. 19, 1889: Tern. lreein. Normal 34 0.12 Mean 11 0.00 Departure from normal 23 0.12 Excess or deficiency since Feb. 1... 98 1.21 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1 . . . 25 1 .60 Plus. General Observations. Indianapolis, Feb. 197 p. sr.

i$ ThennomeCr 3 i 5 Station. 2 fe Weather. ? ? f -s 3 New York city . 30.20 28 28 32 .... Cloudless. Buffalo, N.Y.. 30.20 18 14 20 .12 Cloudy. Phirdelpbla,Pa 30.2C 28 28 32 .... Cloudless. Pittsburg, Fa.. 30.30 21 18 26 .... Cloudless. Wash'ton, D. C. 30.28 30 23 31 .... Pt. Cloudy. Charleston.S.C. 30.2 46 44 64 .... Cloudless. Atlanta, Ga 30.40 34 28 3s .... Cloudy. Jacks'nv'le.Fla 30.28 48 44 52 T Cloudy. renaacola.Fla. 30.32 44 38 50 .... Cloudy. Moutg'in'ry.AL 30.40 42 30 46 .... Cloudy. Vicksburg,M Us 30.40 40 34 44 .... Cloudy. . N. Orleans, La. 30.34 4C 42 60 .... Cloudy. Little Kock, Ark 30.42 38 26 42 .... Cloudless. Galveston.Tex. 30.34 46 42 48 .... Cloudy. S'nAntonio.Tx 30.30 46 38 48 .... Cloudy. Memphis. Tenn 30.48 36 2 8 40 .... Cloudless. Naslivllle.Tcnn 30.46 30 22 34 .... Cloudless. Loufcvtlle, Ky. 30.48 24 14 26 .... Cloudless. Indiaa'plis, Ind 30.48 15 6 19 .... Cloualees. Cincinnati, O.. 30.46 22 12 24 .... Cloudless. Cleveland, O... 30.34 16 10 20 T Cloudless. Toledo, 0 30.36 12 4 18 .... Cloudless. Marq'ette,Mich 30.22 8 8 14 .10 Cloudless. H.st.MariMich 30.16 lo 10 16 .01 Cloudless. Chicago, 111 30.38 10 2 16 .... Cloudless. Cario, 111 30.48 30 20 32 .... Cloudless. Kprtnglield, 111. 30.52 lo 0 16 .... Cloudless. Mil waukee.Wis 30.34 8 4 12 .... Cloudless. Uuluth, Minn.. 30.36 210 8 .... Cloudless. St. Paul, Minn. 30.42 o 14 6 .... Cloudless. Mooreh'd.Minn 30.50 22 24 10 .... Cloudless. rJLVinc'ntll'n 30.40 is 20 10 .... Cloudless. Davenport, la. 30.42 lo 2 14 .... PLCloudy. Dubuque, la... 30.48 4 4 12 .... Cloudless. I)e Moiue. Ia. 30.52 8 4 12 .... Cloudless. St. Louis, Mo.. 30.52 20 b 24 .... Cloudless. Kans'sCMtv, Mo 30.56 16 6 20 .... Cloudless. Ft. fcill, Ind.Ter 30.30 40 28 48 .... Cloudless. DodjreCity.K's 30.54 10 6 18 .... Snow. Omaha, eb... 30.58 10 4 16 .... Cloudless. N. Flat te. Neb. 30.48 14 4 18 .... Cloudless. Valentine, Neb. 30.54 10 -14 20 .... Cloudless. Yankton, D. T. 30.56 2 lo 6 .... Cloudless. Ft. Sully. I). T. 30.40 0 14 4 .... Cloudless. Ihsmarck.D.T. 30.40 618 2 .... Cloudless. Ft. Buford.D.T. 30.28 226 8 .... Cloudless. P.ArthVsL'd'c 30.24 0 10 14 .... Cloudy. Ou'Apelle, X.W 30.28 230 o .... Cloudless. Ff.As'nab'ne.M 30.10 18-10 24 .... Cloudless. Helena, M.T.L 30.24 44 0 26 .... Cloudless. Boise City, I. T. 30.38 34 2G 44 Cloudless. CTheyenne.W.T. 30.42 0 4 12 .06 Cloudless. Ft.McK'n'yWT Ft. Washakie, W 30.26 12 4 16 .... Cloudless. Denver, Col 30.44 10 4 16 .01 Cloudless. Pueblo, Col.... 30.44 20 6 34 .... Cloudless. Santa Fe.N.M. 30.20 24 6 26 .... Cloudless. Salt Lake City 30.44 2y 20 32 .... Cloudy.

T. Trace of precipitation. Note One inch of melted snow equals teu Inches of snow. Slirewd Insurance Agents. Pittsburg Dispatch. "It seems to me," remarked a young Pittsburger," that the life insurance agents watcli tho columns ot the daily papers for wedding notices, and as soon as they read of tho marriage of a business man at once go in search of him. Within the last few months three fellows in our office got married, and in each case the announcement of the wedding was followed by the daily appearance of a tribe of life insurance men, each apparently very solicitous about the welfare and future prospects of tho bridegroom y "Did the agents succeed in inducing the young men to take out policies?'' "They captured two of them and tho other one escaped by lying. Said he had all the insurance he could carry, and so got rid of them. Talk about persistence! Why. the most indefatigable book agent could get pointers from a life insurance man. And the queerest thing about them all is tho linn belief of each agent that his own company is the very best in creation. He not only believes this absolutely, but he is able to provo it, if you will listen. Unco they get after a man they never let up in their efforts if ho givea the least sign of encouragement. Professional men seem to bo preferred: they are what are called 'good risks and tho agents have most success among them." Long: st Piece of Ordnance. Scientific American. A correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal asks: "What is tho longest piece of ordnance that has ever been successfully tired!" and receives tho following answer: "If you include in the term ordnance everything that carries a projectile, we would answer fourteen miles. This is the straight tube conveying natural gas from Murrayville to Pittsburg. To clear this tuBe out a projectile known as tho 'gum ball' was inserted in the end at the gas well, closely litting the interior. The gas was then turned on full force, and the Kiun ball was then tired through its full length, coming out at the further end in a few minutes." How About "Husk?" Chicago MalL It is thought that Uncle Jerry Rnsk was chosen by General Harrison for Secretary of War, becauae of his unrhvmable name. It is necessary that our War Miuister should fumish no mark for the humor of the flippant newspaper man who indulges in sarcastic rhymes. Jlejxirt Vtn a Jlaltimore JrugglsU I have sold all of the best cough remedies for the last tiftecn years and have found none to approximate the exceedingly largo sale of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. W.- 1. Keller, Cor.Pcnn.av. and Biddlo at.

YANKEE RUM SHOPS.

Tricks and Devices Practiced by Thirsty Feo- , pie Living In Prohibition Towns. Portend (Me.) Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch. If you want to get a drink in a Maine city you can get it without trouble. In Portland. Pangor and other places I have seen hotel guests order wine with their meals, and it was served to them with as little fuss as if they had ordered coffee. But in some of the smaller towns and villages it is not quite so eas3' to get what you want. I remember my experience at a small town in western Maine.. I wanted a drink, and I wanted it badly. But as I didn't know the ropes I felt as though there was small chance of my wishes being gratified. Luckily I happened to meet a friend and stated my case to him. Ho asked me to come with him, and we entered a small hotel. He called the proprietor into a vacant room and whispered something in his ear. The man, after looking around tho house, and up the street and down, to see that nobody was watching, took a bunch of keys from his pocket and unlocked a door, at the same time beckoning my friend and myself to follow. We went down a dark stairway into a cellar, at tho further end of which was a small cupboard or closet, built of rough boards. This was unlocked by the landlord and the three of us entered, tilling tho place so completely that there was scarcely room to turn around. The proprietor lighted a candle and asked us what we M have. 1 took a couple of glasses of beer 10 cents each which he poured from bottles bearing St. Louis labels. Sly friend took rum, and said afterward 'twas villainous stuff, but he couldn't get any other spirits in the place. We went upstairs preceded by the landlord, who wouldn't let us come out of the cellar until ho had gone ahead to make sure nobody saw us. At another village I found a man who sold liquor whoso entire stock in trade was kept in two jugs secreted in a haymow in his stable. There are other places where they have portable saloons, bottles and jugs which can be whisked out of sight at a moment's warning. I've heard of "drop a quarter and get a drink" devices, but have no acquaintance with them. Where tho laws are enforced, and there are towns that do enforce them, no one can get a drink unless he orders it from Boston, and has it shipped to him by express in the original packages. A great deal comes into the State in this way. Massachusetts has a different method of dealing with tho liquor question. They have a local-option law and every city holds an election annually to decide whether it will have licenses or no licenses. In its practical working this law is not enforced in any town of sufficient size to make the violation profitable. The lirst offenso is seldom punished by imprisonment, and only by a line. The proprietors change after one of them is lined, so that when a new arrest is made the man goes on trial and pleads as to his lirst offense. In villages and rural townships, where tho houses are not close together, and where every nativeborn inhabitant regards it as a duty of the highest importance to keep himself thoroughly posted about all the details of his neighbors' business, the law is enforced. The result is an increased travel between the village and the nearest city. In tho cities which havo voted for no license the evasion of the prohibitory law 'has reached a refinement which is not known in Maine. A stranger finds a largo number of restaurants and eliop-houses not tho kind they have in Maine, where the only eatables are canned goods on a few shelves in front but real chop-houses, where you can get a tolerable meal at a moderate price. A man who is not acquainted, or who does not make his wants properly known, can get nothing but things to eat. Inside the door is the cashier's desk and a cigar-stand, or a case and shelves with an assortment of candy, cakes and pies. The confectionery is not frequently offered for sale, though the cigar-stand is a profitable part of tins business. The candy and bakery annex is used where the restaurant trade is worth something and where the place is of a high enough character for a respectable woman to go there for her luncheon. Beyond tho cashier's desk and the cigar-stand there is a narrow passageway going back to the main restaurant room, winch is like a room in any restaurant, with the ordinary tables, chairs and arran gements. No liquor is served in this room unless every one in the eating saloon is known to be trustworthy. A spotter might sit in the restaurant part of the saloon all day long without mJUmg a drop of liquor. The liquor is served in compartmants oft the passageway between tho entrance and the restaurant-room. Along this passage way there are ten or hlteen little cells about four feet wide and varying in length according to tho width of the room. ' One man cannot pass another in one of these cells, and tho man sitting at the hallway end of each bench blocks entrance. Kunning near the ceiling of the whole length of tho whole hallway is a brass rod, on which there are as many sets of curtains as there are cells. The curtains are made of dark stuff which cannot be seen through. They are pulled back except when drinking is going on inside. Theyfall short of the floor by a couple of feet. Their lower edge comes about two and one-half inches below the edge of tho table and prevents anyone in the hallway from seeing what is on the table when the curtains are pulled to. The curtains do not fall down far enough to prevent the trousers and feet of the men inside from being seen, and the waiters can tell without pulling back the curtains whether somo one is in the cell. A man who wants a drink goes into a cell, after looking at the waiter. The waiter follows him aud looks at him. He looks again at the waiter. These preliminaries having been gone through, and the waiter having made sure that the man want3 a drink, asks what it is. The man tells him. Suppose he says whisky. The waiter pulls to the curtains of the cell and disappears. In a minute or two his head appears oyer the partition, and ho hands down a whisky bottle, a small glass, and a glass of water. The man pours out the whisky into the small glass and hands back the bottle to the waiter, who disappears behind the partition. In a minute moro the waiter reappears, pulls back the curtain, and takes his pay. There is no bar. The liquor is kept in a cnbby hole, which has an entrance to a hiding place in the cellar. The police feel it their duty at times to search these eating saloons for liquor. When a search is to be made the proprietor receives notico and takes all of his stuff down into tho cellar, except, perhaps, a demijohn of whisky, which is seized by tho police, confiscated and sold. As it is hard to run one of these places without everybody in town knowing about it, no drunkenness is permitted, and tho character of an eating saloon is far ahead of that of the Maine mm dive. The respectable citizens of the city make oc casional protests against liquor being sold in this way, but if the places are orderly and well conducted little fault can be found with thein. STARKE COUNTY PHENOMENA. Singular Manner in Which a Sheriff and a Constable Were Affected. New York Tribune. Tho sheriff of Starke county, Indiana, is one of the most interestinff men in public life, from a medico-legal point of view. Wo should speak without reserve, and say tho most interesting man, if it were not for his friend the constable of North Judson. As to tho comparative merits of these two. philosophers might reasonable differ, and in tho abseuce of important data Tho Tribune will not attempt to award the palm. Moreover, in such a case discrimination is invidious. They are a noblo pair, and it is well nigh certain that men of science might draw for a year without getting three of a kind. Every now and then somebody wakes up in tho morning and finds himself famous: but such an experience is seldom enjoyed except after a long night's sleep, whereas one of these North Judson prodigies achieved fame after sleeping only a couple of hours, and the other did hot go to bed .at all. The circumstances under which these astonishing feats were performed were briefly these: For a considerable time past therehas been a disagreement between tho admirers of Prof. John MeAuiitle and tho admirers of Prof. William Myer over tho depth of their respective researches into the science of self-government. After many exhaustive but unsatisfactory discussions, it was finally arranged that a forensic disputation, otherwise known as a mill, 6hould come off at the isolated butengapinir hamlet of North Judson, in the State of Indiana. Tho committee on invitations decided that nobody should be allowed to attend who did not unmistakably belong to the scientific Four Hundred. Tho disSatches announce that just four hundred elegates were present, from which it mav be surmised that the pressure from rank outsiders must have been enormous. The train having arrived at North Judson, the four hundred forthwith proceeded to an adjacent habitation to arrange the pre

liminaries. It was at this picturesque and propitions moment that the sheriff appeared

upon xne scene, no was ciau in wnue, ami at hrst glance was taken for an animated llac of truce, and thouch he immediately denied that his raiment was open to such an interpretation. subsequent events tend to confirm tho suspicion that his disclaimer was not made in his official capacity. However that may be the sheriff advised the four hundred to cet back into the train at once. and obligingly informed them that there was a convenient siding about five miles from the village. He then discussed esoteric Buddhism for a few moments with a couple of delegates to tho convention who had been straucely overlooked when the train started for the sidimr. went to his home, announced with much solemnity that he was sick, and sought his couch. At this stacein the nroceedinirs. word having been considerately tent to the four hundred on the siding that the sheriff was sleeping too soundly to be disturbed by the rumble of a train, they returned to the village and renewed their preparations for the convention; and the accommodations having been inspected nnd pronounced satsiactory the proceedings commenced at tkSO a. ai.. an unprecedentedly lato hour to 'begin a debate. The exordium was scarcely concluded when the sheriff, haying had a miraculous resuscitation, again appeared upon the scene, but having intimated in a soft and persuasive voice that he was willing to be convinced of the radical difference between a slugging and a sparring disputation, repaired to a drug store to complete his recovery. At this juncture the village constable arrived, and the situation of affairs having been explained to him, ho modestly confessed that, there were subjects on which ho was not so well informed as he would like to be. and that nothiue would suit him better than to be enlightened as to the distinction which had just been pointed out to the sheriff. Instruction on this point was instilled into him with remarkable celerity, where-upou ho at once became the mo3t enthusiastic inspector of tho proceedings that the four hundred had ever condescended to enroll as an honorary member. Indeed,, having made repeated expiditious to tho drugstore to inquire after the sheriffs health, and having found it steadily improving he finally dismissed all anxiety, and gave such vent to his emotions us seemed nothing less than scandalous to 6ome of the more sober and discreet delepates. However, they would have cheerfully condoned this oflense had not the constable distracted their attention by asserting that he kept forgetting just what liis convictions were as to tho distinction lately pointed out to him, but that ho remembered that the arguments were strong ones, and that the only safe way was to keep on convincing him. It is said that when the debate was finally adjourned the constable had been convinced no fewer than thirteen times. Ileal Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the recorder's office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 5 p. bi., Feb. 19, 1899, as furnishedi by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, Koom 23, iEtna Building. Edward T. Updejrraff to Mary E. Ualey, part of lot 5 in Asa Coxe's addition to the town of Newton $10.00 Martha E. Davis to John Easton, lot 39, in Mary C. Master's subdivision of out lot 2 in Drake fc Mayhew's second addition 625.00 Chas. W. Vaublaircum et aLto John Hammel, lots 17 and 18 in Aaron Kaufman's second addition 550.00 Joseph E. Julian to Ar.na S. Butler, lot 105 in Woodruff Place... 1,800.00 Annie 8. Froisrtorff et al. to "Win. S. Hubbard, part of lot 131 in Elliott's subdivision of outlot 156 . 225.00 Edward W. gloane to Byram & Cornelius, lots 21 to 27 inclusive In Chas. Post's guardian's first addition 7,000.00 Harry J. Million, trustee, to Philander E. Phillips, lots 22, 23 and 24 in block 1, In the Indianapolis Car Campany'8 addition 525.00 Martha A. Bowlus et al. to Aaron B. Howe, lot 52 in Albert E. Fletcher's fourtujirookslde addition. 1,015.00 John K. Waltz to Daniel A. Haywood, lot 23 la W. A. Bell's subdivision of blocks 13, 14 and 15 in Johnson's hehV addition v 750.00 John Metzlerto Sarah S. Harrison, lot ly in Hamlin's subdivision of outlot 9 of Drake & Mayhew's second addition 300.00 Samuel L. Harrison to John Mctzlcr, ' lot 64 In Ruddell & Vinton's Park - Place addition 700.00 Frank Tatman to Lorena B. Baker, lot 9 in Hanway & Hanna's Oak Hill addition 300.00 Elizabeth Craig to Jesse B. Freeland, lot 11 in V. F. Eisner's West Indian apolis subdivision : 750.00 Conveyances, 13; consideration $14,580.00 I'M not a believer in patent medicines. but a friend induced me to try Salvation Oil for my foot, which has been afflicted with rheumatism forvseveral years. I used it and the rheumatism is entirely gone. John H. Anderson'. Head-waiter, Maltby House, Baltimore, Md. FOR SALE ItEAI, ESTATE. TXm SALE OP. TRADE LARGE FARMS FOR X small farms, near city. Cltuu farm tn trad for Mfv urocnrtv. Bakery and ice-cream saloon, $2,000, for city prop erly. imijz; store. $3,500. to rrado for city property. Dry poods stock, $19,000. to trade for real estate. Valuable patent to trade for small farm. Stock dry goods and notions, $3,000, for city property. A party with $5,000 to take interest in manufacturine ImainpHs. VAJEN'S REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, 79 East juartet street. SOCIETY MEETINGS. rASOXIC AXCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH jLiJL RITE Meeting of Adoniram Grand Lodjre of I'enectlon thin ( winesday) evening, at 7:30 o'ejock. KiiMinH.4.4 Ami rfmfprrino1 crndcfl V J. T. BRUSH, 33, T. P. O. M, Jos. W. Smith, 33. Secretary. WANTED AGENTS. "V7"ANTED AG EXT OUTSIDE OF INDIAN 1 1 opons, to handle a family medical work. Great muncements. Call. or address G. M. FOSTER, Pyle jioase. .. . or AGENTS VANT.Eai$?3 A MONTH AND EX. penseapaid any actiya person to sell our goods; no capital; salary monthly: expenses in advance: par. ticnlars free, STANDARD SILVERWARE CO., fusion. TITANTED LADY AGENT OF GOOD ADDRESS t and appearance, to solicit orders for our "tar Cones," an absolutely indispensable article for ladies. Business is respectable, profits large and sells readily. Address SHIRKS CHEMICAL CO.. Cincinnati. O. "fir ANTED AGENTS FOR OUR NEW PATENT T Fire-proof iSafes: size, 2Sxl8xl8 -weiirht. 500 lbs.; retail price, $3."; others in proportion. Highest a warn isuver nietiaijaTenienntai i-.xposition. itaro chance; permanent busincW." Our prices lowest. We are not m the safe poohri "Exrlnsive territory given. Aiau.Ai gAi xi lu, uincmnaii, u. VvANTED O ENERA L STATE AGENT TO f open ouice headquarters in some principal citr. assume exclusive control oi otit business ana ap point iwai or suu-aenis in every city in this state; goods well known; staple as flour, in universal de mand, and pay n net protitof 50 toioo per cent. Address, -with credentials, THE UNION COMPANY, Broadway and Astor Place, New York City. WANTED- 3USCELLANEOUS. -117ANTED-A FEW MORE CERTIFICATES T consumers' t.as 'axusi. bhx-k. d. ii. ilks. WANTED GOOD ADVEI1T1 8 ING SOLICITO R; to such, $15 a week. Address SOLICITOR, tills omre. "IVTANTED SALESMEN EVERYWHERE FOR ? our adjustable DKr Plates (can sell and deliver atence), four styles of Door liells, metal and white enamel letters, house-numbers, etc. Samples, circulars, etc., free. NEW YORK DOOR-PLATE CO., Albany, a. v. CALESMEN WANTED JUST N RECEIVED, our new "History oi tne oriu," two royal Quar to vols, of 700 paces each. Price, $4 50 on install, xnents. Now is the time to take hold and secure lirst choice of territory. Ctmmision paid in full weekly, p. F.COLLIER, 93 North Delaware street, Inciianap. ons, jna. -IITANTED MACHINISTS ANI MULDERSt Lathe, planer and vise hands, steady work and liberal waces to rood men. Moniers must be accus tomed to heavy work. These works have been larjrely increased, and are now the larpest machine tool-works in the United States. Addres NILES TOOLWO R KS, Hamilton, O. "llfANTED A FIRST-CLASS EXPERIENCED M Canvasser (lady or centleman) to solicit per sonally in IndianaitoUs, the sale of roods needed only by educated and intelligent people. Salary cash every week. Must furnish sfW security; also, bank reference, which last must accompany application. No attention paid to others. Addreas ''SUBSTANTIA L." eg r el ndiana polls Journal. . GUARDIAN'S SALE. BY ORDER OF TIIK Marion Circuit Court, of Indiana, theunderslpned. iniardian ef Zerelda W. Leathers and Mary Leathers, will sell at private sale the following described real estate, to-wit: Lots 2. 3. 4. 5. 0, 7, . U. 10. 11 and 12, in Leathers'ssulHil vision of lot eighteen (18), in A. E. rietrner second addition to the city of iiunanano. lis. Pids will be received at the law omce of lloltrman & leathers, Kooruiil. Vance, Block. Imiianaixv. lis, untU Feb. 27, lbS'J. ZERELDA O. WALLACE, (tuaruian. OVERSEERS WANTED EVERYWHERE AT home or to travel. We wish to employ reliable person in your county to tack up advertisements and how-cards of Electric Goods. Advertisements to be tacked upeverywhcre.cn trees, fences and turnpikes. In conspicuous places, in town and country In all parts of th United States and Canada, steady emuloyment; wage ttZJbO per day; expenses advanced; do talkiff required. Local work for all or part of the time. Address, with sump. EalOKY CO., Manacrers, 241 Vine street, Cincinnati, O. No attention paid to poetu carat.

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From Cincinnati and Philadelphia. An Experiment with Compound Oxygen Froves a Failure. There is probably no better known vetcrau of our "lato unpleasantness" in Morgan county than Mr. E. F Stirason, whoso portrait is printed below. It Tvas in conversation with the writer a few days ago that he related the following story: "You will probably find me interesting in more than one particular. I was first badly crippled in the war when I was a yoiuns man, and the outlook for me was not very promising, but being of a preserving, tenacious disposition, I succeeded in overcoming most of my aflliction from that source. But ever since I camo out of the army I have suffered more or less with pain in my head. I Daid very little attention to it until four years ago, when I had a stroke of paralysis which affected the entire left side and I had hardly recovered from that when another stroke, more severe than tho first, overtook me, and I lost the pulse, in tho left arm. inis has never returned notwith standing I have perfect and free uso of tho arm. But I think I could have stood these afflictions with good grace had it not been for other and MORE GRIVEOUS TROUBLES which seemed to follow one another in quick succession. Mv head pained me incessantly, with a full, pressing sensation above the eyes and across the bridge of the nose. My head was stopped up most of tho time so that I could neither smell nor taste anything. Tho yellow, thick mucus kept ; dropping into my throat, and I was com pelled to hawk and spit day and night. Mm. id.;.. MR. E. E. STIMSON'. My ears wero full and painful and there was such a ringing, roaring noise in my head that 1 could not hear anyone speaK unless they stood very close to me. I could hear nothing at all with the left ear. About a year a go I began to cough and have pains in my chest and sides. It was one of those dry hacking coughs that continues without any rest for the patient day or night, and Tnen tnere was sucn a tigm, oppressive feeling in my chest and throat, which grew worse and worse until it devoloned into one of the most aggravated cases oi asthmav that I ever saw, and it seemed as tnougn i could GET NO RELIEF from it. Night after night I would have to sleep sitting straight up in bed or a chair and some times it seemed as though Iwouldv surely choke to death before morning, and in this condition you may know that I was thoroughly exhausted as well as miserable. I tried everything and everybody I could hear of for relief. I sent to both Cincinnati and Philadelphia, where I heard there were eminent spocialists." .1 tried tho Compound Uxygen ireatment. lint it seemed that do what I would I could get nothing to help me. "While reading the Indianapolis paper I noticed the statements of the patients cured by the "lilair Treatment'7 at '303 North Illinois st. Man' of them seemed to be atllicted like my self, and as I was acquainted with somo oi them and knowing that they were persons on whose TRUTHFULNESS AND VERACITY I could depend. I called upon them and found that their condition verified their statement. I determined to placo myself under their treatment at once, which I did last November. After a careful examina tion tho doctor told mo that I was in a very senons condition, although it was not nec essarily fatal and that if I would carefully nnd faithfullv follow his directions he thought he could not only relieve me but that ho could cure me and I believe lie has kept his word. The pain ui my head and ears has left mc. I can hear much better. Mv appetite is good. 1 can eat with more relish lor mv lood tnan I have ior Years. But the crowninc clory of a hearty meal is a good sleep thereaiter, and thanks to the Blair Treatment I can now lio down and sleep all night, without pain or choking, a thing that 1 have not done belore lor two years." Mr. E. F. Stimson'spost office address is Mahalasville. Morcan countv. Indiana. where ho may be found or addressed and tnis statement venneu. Office. 203 North Illinois street. Hours 9 to 11 A. M., 1 to 4 r. M. and 7 to 8 r. m.; Sundays, 9 to 11 a. M. and 2 to 4 P. M. Consultation, $1. No letters answered unless accompanied by 4 cents in stamps. Ad dress all mail to Blair Treatment, 203 North Illinois street. Indianapolis. N. N. MORRIS & CO., 'Mate an J Rental Ink 94 Eawt Market Street. Special attention to tho care and sale of property and couection oi rents. MORTGAGE LOANS.El EDUCATIONAL(lUbliihdl3S0.) I5DI1J1P0LI5 (BrUli4 1885.) roWSIHESS UniVEIlSITV? CQ 9. Feu. Et, Wlfi Block, Opp. PwtoEee. J Best facilities for Business, Short-hand, Penmanship, English and Actual Business Training. Indivitiual instruction. Educate for proat least expen. sive in time and money. Graduates hold lucrative positions. Day and Nitrht School. Enter now. UaU at University office, 31 When Block. Elegant Catalogue Free. FINANCIAL FINANCIAL ROBERT MARTINDALE & CO, Loan Agents, 63 E. Market st. VrONEY TO LOAN- 1EU CENT. HORACE JM. MCKAY. Room 11. Talbot fc Ncw'a Block. T7INANCIAL MONEY ON MO RTO AG K.FA RMS : and city property. c. E.corr i co. OIX I'KHTEXT. ON CITY PROPERTY IN IN. O diana. ISAAC II. XI ERST ED, 13 Mar Uncial e Block. ' i rON'EY TO LOAN ON FARMS AT THE LOW. VI est market rate; privileges for payment before due. we also buy municipal bonus, uuus. u. uax & CO., 71 E. Market U Indianapolis. FOIt RENT. yOTt KENT-ROOMS WITH STEAM P0WE1L Apply at Bryce's bakery. TXR UENT-M ASONIC HALL-FOtt TUBLIO A entertainments new ly refitted; good reeepUon and check-rooms. C, II COFFIN & CO.. Agent. FOll SALE MISCELLANEOUS. TOR SALE niOTOORAIMI GALLERY CHEAT; . I (Jill Jilt 141 1M11411-. J A A.-.. .a . MIS11 u. i-CV- .i T'Vsi a ilium rmi. )ii'tiivmi' wi, mw v-r J l Ul au Bta j - i ' v v a v a VMsii vvai business In the city of Lincoln. Neb., consisting of yard equipment and established Itrade. I am now. II II II I WK 11 ..M tnv U'rtAfAtl1 mwA . 4 1 jt Villi liai U ll T ii, u4UK n f i vuviv uuaujrDO uufc vu count of my poor health I must close out my business and change climate. I invite careful invmtlcration. Address A. MeDOUUALL, MLdouri Valley ruel 4 T UiaIvi X?tK VV Am MVViilf A V hS

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