Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1889 — Page 4

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Russia, literally grinding them to powder against the mountains of central Europe, and forcing the debris to the confines of the Mediterranean. Animal and vegetable life was so completely wiped off this great area that, when the glacier retreated to the mountain heights of Switzerland and Norway, only a few hardy and straggling species regained their old dominion. But in North America there was abundant room below the southern limit of the glaciated area, which extends along the south line of Pennsylvania and Ohio, across southern Indiana and Illinois, for the great forest epecies and the large mammals to find a home until the ' great winter had spent its fury. Hence, in North America, wo find a ten-fold greater abundance of trees and mammals which survived the glacier and returned to their former haunts. Professor Coulter has ably shown the influence of the glacier on the flora of Indiana, and the same generalizations hold good for the tntiro Mississippi valley. Indeed, it may be said that all modern biologists, in fact all Students of naturo, accept the glacial age as a well-defined and established fact. Present discussion contines itself to the details of the subject, The great facts discovered a half cent ury ago by Charpentier and Agassiz are universally taught and accepted. These men saw the great bowlders and clay oanKS carrieuon mo DacK or ino Al pine ice masses; they saw the retreat and advance of the Swiss glaciers, shrinking to narrow limits and plunging forward to adjoining fields by eomo unexplained power of expansion and contraction. Charpentier saw the framework of debris the Alpine glaciers left behind them, and boldly affirmed that all the erratic bowlders of the plain of Switzerland and the sides of the Jura had been spread abroad by ice, and not by water, as had been '.supposed. In 1836 Agassiz spent the summer with Charpentier in the valley of the Rhone, to confirm his water theories and disabuse his friend of his errors. This visit was the opening of a new and brilliant chapter in the life of Agassiz, and his great work on fossil fishes no longer commanded the great power of his genius. The next summer he presented to the Helvetic Associa tion of Neuchatel the glacial theory, in which the only error of Charpentier's was characterized as a too narrow interpretation of the phenomena. The local erratic bo wlders of the Swiss valleys were made to assume a cosmic significance. A great Siberian winter," he 6aid, "had covered the earth with a sheet of ico from the north pole to central Europe and Asia. Death enveloped all nature in a shroud. The stray bowlders of Switzerland are an accident of the vast changes caused by the fall of the temperature of our globe before the com

mencement of our epoch." For ten

years Agassiz established his views by

the study of the Swiss glaciers, and when he came to America in 1846 there was no opposition worthy of note. His greatest delight in visiting America was to find further evidence of the great Ice Age, and of all his work as a naturalist his "Geological Sketches," mainly devoted to glaciation, command, to the greatest extent, the assent and admiration of the present time. The discovery of Agassiz stands in importance and immensity with any in the natural history of either force or mat ter. The majesty of the ice movement, as shown in the glaciated regions of North America, is equaled only in the movement of the forces in. astronomy, or those great seismic forces which have elevated the mountains and established the continental reliefs. Besides these, earthquakes and volcanic outflows are as nothing. Every human interest in the northern part of the United States and of British America 19 profoundly af fected .by the ico movements of the past. During the Ice Age old lines of drainage were obliterated and new established. The obstruction of river courses by glacial deposits gave rise to the innumerable water-falls, which became the business centers of New England and the interior. The great lakes are the result of similar glacial obstruction, and the vast internal commerce of the lake region avails itself of slackwater navigation resulting from the ice movements of the glacial period. The anomalous distribution of plants and animals, which has already been referred to in Europe and America, is the result of glacial action. The Arctic butterflies and Alpine flowers on Mount Washington and the gigantic forests of California were fugi tives from arctic regions in glacial times, and have since become natural ized in low latitudes. The uniform soil of Ohio, Indiana and Hlinois, whatever may be the character of the underlying rock, is due to the glacial forces . which mixed the clay, lime, iron, sandstone and potash of northern rocks into an even mass and pistributed it over an area a thousand miles square throughout the United States and British America. Mail himself is now regarded as con nected with the closing centuries of the glacial age the United States. Stone implements found by Professor Wright and others in and under the glacial drift in Indiana give abundant reasons for believing that man, also, was driven be fore the great ice sheets, and has slowly worked his way back again as the region became habitable. But this greatest devastation the world has ever suffered, if shared by man, was doubtless in his final interest, and a part of the education which has brought him to his present state of development. A LONC-FELTWANT SUPPLIED. Life will be worth living, after all, for millions of women if the dish-washing machine invented by the Illinois woman does all that is claimed for it. A dishwashing machine has been the long-felt want of the civilized feminine world. The term "the" is used advisedly, for though other wants have been deep and urgent, none is so universal as the need of something to do away with the labor of dish-washing. The normally consti tuted woman has a natural and deepseated antipathy to dish-water, and all that the word implies. For ages, she protested against the necessity of devot ing herself three times a day, for three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, to cleaning greasy china, to sav nothing of pots and pans. For all these ages she has wished for a dish-washing machine much as she might wish for the moon, and has gone on wielding the dish-towel with unbroken regularity, hopeless of help. Administrations might rise and fall, campaigns come and go, suffragists might appeal to her to rise and demand the ballot-box, but so long as no politician or reformer offered release from her chief burden she has declined to become excited or to "rise." Even the consola tions of religion lack their full power with the female dish-washer. A machine to do her work, rather than grace to bear her trials, has seemed the one thing needful. And now, at last, there is a promise of relief. With a machine which will wash, ; rinse and dry dozens of dishes in two minutes, what a prospect opens before her. She will have time then for many things from which she has been cut' off by the dish-pan for rest, for society, for getting acquainted with her family, for politics, if she wants it, and for religion. It will be a new and glorified world with the kitchen incubus removed. To be sure, cooking is left, but has not every housewife been heard to Bay, times without number, that she "doesn't mind the cocking; it is the dish-washing that kills." All over this broad land women are turning hopefully and prayerfully to the Illinois sister and benefactor. If her machine equals the promise they will canonize her and build her a monument higher than Washington's. Her name will stand with those of Elias Howe and Edison, and all the other great Inventors of the age. But, on the other hand, if it prove that they are buoyed up by false hopes, the consequences may be disastrous. For her own sake it will be well for the Illinois woman to hide herself in the deepest obscurity should her machine turn out to be a fraud and a delusion. ' HIST3 PROM THE CALKED AS. Even the unscientific observer of nature's methods cannot but be admiringly impressed with her delicate deftness in presenting the changes of the seasons. The most skillful diplomate, the most finished nianeuverer, could not lead up to the theme with one tithe of her adroitness and tender withholding of abrupt and unpleasant suggestion. The first gentle hint, as frail and remote from apparent design as the first silken casting-line of the spider, is .thrown abroad in middle June, when the longest day of the year warns the summer-lover that the greatest height has been reached, and that in each imperceptibly shortened day the slope toward the fireside is being silently recorded. Here and there, even in July heat, a cool day is ingeniously strewn to soften the mind of man for the stretch of unnumbered

days like, these which are relentlessly drawing near him. In torrid August, too, the silent birds, the shrilly eloquent cicada and the mournful plaint of that guilty insect which alternately "did" and "didn't," bear an autumnal edge upon their summer insignia. A little further on, and chilly evenings, cool and matchless nights for slumber, the mosquito's relenting voice, the blanket that creeps back invisibly upon the .bed, the dust that flies unconquered with State-fair festivity in its breath, the first brightwinged autumn leaf upon the pavement, all point with merciful yet unrelenting insistence to the impending transformation. Yet a few days and the sea and summer tourist has returned. Windows are opened, verandas are again peopled, and tea by gas-light, and the small boy groaning loudly over the painful proximity of opening school, attest, . with settled emphasis, that doom is near; that this all so pleasant and so perfect sum- -mer is a back number, waiting to be labeled and laid asi .ie with others of its kind. So noiselessly and painlessly has the transition crept on to fullness that no resentment can be harbored. Autumn comes in with such bustle and such a business air that the fickle heart is diverted from mourning. Schools are open and shining morning faces of countless children bedeck the streets. Ministers are at home again, and promising breezes fill the but yesterday idly-flapping sails of the good old ship of Zion. Store-windows are ablaze with seductive new goods, and the merchant hath a brisk, expectant, now-for-business countenance. Evenings are dark and dewy, and the moonlight sessions of the door-step club have adjourned to surround the evening lamp. Reading is taken into . favor again, and the physique which has simply existed and reveled hath taken on once more a seeking and responsible mentality. After a brief interval the leafy bonfire shall strangle with smoke the indulgent constituents of the small boy; the heavily-laden grape-arbor shall have taken for its winey burden winter "Quarters in the enriched jelly-closet, the watermelon wave shall have died away in pleasant murmurs in the 6ame toothsome

retreat; and the glamour and the glory of the summer., moon shall have been ob scured from its adorers by the beaming. refulgent, sympathetic countenance of the American pumpkin pie. So much of poetry and of practicality pass in instructive vision before the belated eye which looks upon its. calendar to learn, and yet scarcely credit, that summer has melted into September. RELIGION AffD POLITICS. The delegation of American workingmen who are visiting in England are well received everywhere, not only by labor organizations, but by public officials. Some of the formal greetings indicate a close study of American institutions on the part of the speakers, and a familiarity with certain political phenomena here rather surprising in persons who have not visited this coun; try. The Mayor of Birmingham, for instance,, in his welcoming address Bald Americans had something to learn from Englishmen. Ho was sorry there were sdmany classes in America who did not think it their duty to take part in the government of their, country as much as he thought they oughtto do. He was especially sorry to find that the religious, classes of America took very little part in political life. He, the Mayor, belonged to a body not unknown in America the Quakers. In England many members of that body belong to the legislature, and some of them certainly one .man, John'; Bright had done a great deal for the true interests of England. But in America very few Quakers took part in the work of legislation. He should be very glad to see this state of things al-j tered in America, for if the religious portion of the community took part in politics they might purge it from some; of tho evils that existed. This is a 6hrewd and, in the main, a just criti-i cism. While it is not true that religious people, as a class, or -any religious denominations, as a body, refrain from participation in politics, it is unquestionably time that that portion of the male population commonly designated as "our best citizens" is inclined to fail in performance of the active and most essential duties of citizenship. This dereliction is more noticeablein local - than in national affairs of government, j National campaigns bring out many voters and earnest workers who are never heard from in municipal or State contests. As a result of this activity of the better element presidential elections are freer from scandals and corruption than our minor campaigns, and the higher officers of the government are, as a rule, of a grade much higher, morally and intellectually, and more nearly representative of the people, than those chosen to preside over local affairs.,The exceptions to this rule in the one case indicate that best citizens are sometimes mistaken in judgment, and in the other that a defection even of a part of the moral element cannot always prevent the selection of honest and honorable men for Mayor, councilmen and legislators. These good men do not withdraw them selves from local politics because of their religion, but because of an unwillingness to come in contact with the corrapt class which has gained its prominence largely through their own carelessness and neglect of duty. They hold themselves fastidiously aloof from primaries and other preliminary political gatherings. When improper candidates are chosen, they are loud in their criticisms, and when good ones are selected without their help are apt to forget or neglect to cast their ballots. Such men have no right to criticise or comment upon an election unsatisfactory in its results.' To do so is an impertinence, since they are to blame, The better element is in the majority in most American communities outside of the penitentiaries; most assuredly it is in Indianapolis, and if agents of the Liquor League and tools of the saloon element are put in places of power at the coming election it will be the fault of the "good citizens," and no others. The Journal is not acquainted with Mr. Robert Hessler, of Connersvilie, hut can vouch that he is a close observer and intel ligent student of nature. For many years

past he has made a study ot-t he weeds of Fayette county, or, as naturalists would call them, herbaceous wild plants. By.

weeds are meant useless plants injurious to tho farmer, and which grow wild in cultivated grounds or meadows. In a recent paper on the subject, Mr. Hessler gives some interesting facts concerning the dis tribution of weeds, the introduction of new varieties, etc. Perhaps most persons do not know that few of onr present weeds are native. The largest number are foreigners that have come from all parts of the globe. Many weeds, especially those that have re sisted destruction for ages, have become cosmopolitans. Wherever we go wo are sure to find them. Mfny weeds follow the track of civilization. ' Wherever the white man goes certain plants are sure to follow. In this case probably the most common source of distribution is unclean garden and farm seed carried by the emigrant to his new home. The railroads bring in many more. Often plants that in their old homes showed no inclination to spread, do so under changed conditions; as climate and floiL : Mr. Hessler has. a record of thirty-two new weeds which have appeared within the limits of Fayette county during the past seven years. Of these one half are American, having traveled from some other part of this country, and the other half are old world plants, principally European. Fifteen of , the number were discovered along the railroads, showing that these lines of communication furnish facilities for the distribution of weeds as well as for human travel. Mr. Hessler has a record ot every one of these plants, with the time and place of its first appearance in the county, its common and-botanical name, its 'peculiarities, etc Weeds are the tramps and Criminals of plant life, the thieves and robbers of the herbaceous world, and it is a good thing for farmers and gardeners that . some detectives, like Mr. Hessler, are able to recognize and spot them. The result of the baking powder investi gation in the Agricultural Department at Washington is not entirely satisfactory to an inquiring and anxious people, compelled by the exigencies of life to absorb large quantities of that commodity into their respective systems. Two statements, at least, involve a contradiction that needs explanation. One is that the analyses do not show a result that should create any alarm lest the people should suffer in health, and the other that even with the best of the powders a loaf of bread pro cured with, it - contained a residue, of the same character as seidlitz powder and in quantity exceeding that of an ordinary seidlitz powder by 50 per cent. Now, baking powder does not,as a rule, enter into the. composition of loaves of bread, bakers having a preference for cheaper yeasts, alum. and other pleasing substances, and. therefore, the amount of baking powder consumed by each person cannot be estimated by measuring the bread he eats. It is in the morning biscuit. the, toothsome pancake, .the fritters, the rolls, the sweets cake, the dumpling, the hundred other culinary confections made of dough it is in. these " that baking powder enters largely. Just how many biscuits are equal to-a loaf of bread is a calculation that depends upon the respective sizes . of the articles and other . circumstances, . and the number of -seidlitz powders consumed at a: sitting depends, therefore,' upon these circumstances, the liberality of the hired girl who mixes tho biscuits and the capacity of the eater. Seidlitz powders may not be a dangerous compound, but as ' a matter of choice most people will decline swallowing one or more with, each meal. When it is discovered that they are being administered whether or no a strong feeling must arise in the community in favor of bread of a character less medicinal. A report issued by the Bureau of Ethnol ogy in Washington, contains a map showing the different cessions of land made in this State by, tho; Indians to the United States, in extinguishing Indian titles. From 1795 to 1872 there were fifty-four dis tinct cessions, in each of which the Indians surrendered existing rights and titles. A map shows that central and northern Indiana once contained many Indian villages and settlements. Among the present cities or towns which occupy the sites of former Indian villages are Lafayette, Kokomo, Muncie, Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Plymouth, Logansport and others. . The villages were mostly of Miami, Del aware and . Kickapoo Indians, though other tribes had somo settlements. We havo Delaware and Miami counties, but the name of the Kickapoo tribe is not pre served. .Lafayette was a Wyandotte vil lage. There was a Kickapoo village near Tippecanoe Battle-ground called Prophet's town. Kokomo was formerly a Miami vil lage; Peru was Godfrey's Trading-house; near Fort Wayne was a Miami village called Kekionga; Monticello was known as Morris's Trading-house; Plymouth was a Menominee village. In fact, Indian vil lages were numerous along the tributaries of the upper Wabash. There were several Indian villages near the small lakes in Kos ciusko county. Near the head of Turkey lake was Flat Belly's village; on Tippecanoe lake was Musquebuck's village; at the present site of Warsaw was Ghekase's village, and at a little distance were Menoquet's and Mola's villages, these being the names of Indian chiefs. At Maxinkuckee lake was Mankekose village, and a little east of there were the villages of Masac, of Toisa and of Chechawkoso. The location and names of these villages and many others are determined from the official record of cessions, treaties, etc. The San Francisco market has been glutted with watermelons this season, and on at least one occasion the commission men found it necessary to use heroic measures to keep prices up. This was nothing less than dumping 250 crates of fresh melons, about 5,000 in all, into the bay, to float off on the tide. The scheme was successful, for the next day the price rose fifty per cent. Even then, however, it was low,for the San Francisco paper which relates the incident says: "The fact that twenty nice melons can be bought for forty cents is an instructive commentary on the profits of the retailers, who charge 5 to 10 cents apiece for them. - The rules for the governmt of the city schools provide that "the morning exercises in each-6chool shall. commence with reading the Scriptures or other appropriate matter." ' The Bible is the only text-book that has not been repeately changed. Up to date the new syndicate has not proposed to introduce a cheap and inferior version of 'Indiana Bible. Speaking of the national flower, what is the matter with the dandelion? It ' is bright, pretty and universal. It can make its own way anywhere. The leaves make 'good greens and the root good beer.' Besides, it would give us a chance t& mak disparaging comparisons between the British lion and the American dandy lion. - IT is somewhat singular that no attempt has been made recently to elect a woman to tkVcity School Board. The law permits it,

but the provision does not seem to attract attention. Seven or eight years ago there was a movement in two of the school districts to elect two well-known ladies to the board, but it did not succeed. Since then there has been no movement of the kind. Why not renew it at the next opportunity? The School Board would be the better for one or two bright women members. A youno man in Pittsburg committed suicide by stabbing himself with a lead pencil. That has been a favorite weapon for stabbing reputations, but this is probably the first time it has been used for suicide. The Postmaster-general's action in increasing the standing reward for the capture of mail-coach robbers shows, he thinks, that a recipe for punishing them should begin "first catch your robber." . A colored man in South Carolina has died from eating seven dozen eggs at one sitting. In hot weather like this no man should think of eating more than six dozen eggs. A Louisville paper speaks of "boned whisky." We have heard of boned turkey, but the other is new. Perhaps bonded was meant. ' To the Editor of tli InUanaiKlis Jonrnal: I am seriously troubled with sleeplessness. Can you not give me a remedy through the JouniaL Subscriber. . Indianapolis. Take a rapid walk or active exercise, or a hot bath just before retiring; or try a cup of milk or of hot beef tea, or a light lunch. A towel wrung out of cold water and placed at the back of the head ' and neck is sometimes productive of sleep. Attention to the general health, exercise, regular hours and avoidance of drugs ought to bring the desired result.

BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Alexander Dumas, the younger, is seventy-six years old. He began writing at seventeen, and at twenty-six produced the famous "Dame anx Camelias." Max O'Rell, the little Frenchman, having patted brother Jonathan gently on the back, and thus put him in a good humor. will return to America next winter to lecture.. Frederick L. Ames is the richest man in Boston. He is the son of Oliver, and the nephew of Oakes Ames, and is worth 30,000,000. Part he inherited, and part he made. - Madam de Stael, when complimented on her musical attainments, said: "It is not of these I boast; I glory in having seventeen different trades, by either of which I can win a living. - ' s Count Edison was not particularly impressed with the Eiflel tower, lie says oi it: "The glory of the Eiffel tower is only in the magnitude ofsthe conception and the nerve in executing the rest is only bridge building." Pr.OF. IL V. Hilprecht, of the Babylonian expedition sent out by tho University of Pennsylvania, who has returned in advance of the party, says that the remains of the Tower of Babel are 180 feet high even now. The bricks at the top bear this royal utterance: "1 am King Nebuchadnezzar." Oscar Wilde is not so wild, and, therefore, less picturesque in his dress than he was when he visited this country to make money by delivering a dull lecture, in knee-breeches, velvet coat, silk stockings and pumps. Since then he has married a sensible woman, who has reformed his dress and address. S. L. Loomis, who in 1SS0 predicted the result of the census' within 18,000 of the actual figures, is out with the prediction that the population of the United States in 1890 will reach 67,250,000, an increase during the past decade of more than W per cent. He is willing to bet, so it is said, that his calculation will not be upset. William Black is forty years old, with a slight, graceful figure, which is well set off by his elegant dress. His eyes are dark and have a very earnest expression. He talks well, but says little about his own works. His home is at Brighton, but he spends much timo in London, where he keeps a sumptuous suite of apartments. There is a man at the Coleman noupe, Asbury Park, N. J., who has been attracting attention by ordering at each meal everything on the bill of fare. He is fond of ice cream and the other day ordered five plates in succession and ate them all. -When word was sent by the head-waiter that such orders would nave to be charged extra, he said: "Charge ahead, but when I like a thing I want enough of it." Lord William Beresford has com-' pleted the preliminary arrangements for Prince Albert Victor's Indian tour, which have been entirely intrusted to his care. The Prince is to go right around India, be--ginning with Poonah and Hyderabad, and rrocoeding thence through the Madras' 'residency to Madras, w hero he is to em bark for Calcutta. From Calcutta he will; travel to tho Northwest provinces and the Punjab, and will finally reach Bombay by way of Kajputana and Baroda. LadyDilke is one of the most accomplished women in England. It is said to be a perfect treat to sit by her at dinner, she is so bright, piquant and clever, and at the same time, so kind and sympathetic. She possesses in an eminent degree what the French call savoir vivre. She has a rather large mouth, but beautiful teeth, which is a rare thing among the women of England. Lady Dilko has the highest moral courage, and she showed it iu an eminent degree when she married Sir Charles Dilke in the midst of the social scandal which covered his name a fewyears ago. A letter of Buckle's has been published giving his list of the really important authors whom the world has produced, according to his judgment. Excluding physical and mathematical works, he specifies as the principal original writers Jioiuer, Plato, Aristotle. Dante, Shakspearo, Bacon, Descartes. Hobbes, Grotius. Locke, JJerkele3 Kant, Hegel, and Compte; Mills's "Logic," Smithes "Wealth of Nations," Mai tli us on Population, and Kicardo'a "Political Economy," with "Don Quixote," the "Pilgrim's Progress," and Goethe's "Faust." The Romans, it is added, produced nothing original, except jurisprudence. Their philosophy they stole from the Greeks, and spoiled it. I One of Mr. Gladstones' conversational advantages is that he has known every celebrated person for fifty years, and has endless reminiscences of all of them. On one occasion at a dinner party, somebedy was illustrating the Duke of Cambridge's remarkable command of damnatory rhetoric. The Duke has a fiery temper, and at a review one day he made a forcible observation about a certain officer's eyes. The officer promptly requested him to confine his objurgation to his own eyes. "Yes," said Mr. Gladstone, "But the Duke of Cambridge is mild compared with his uncles. I remember the old Duke of Cumberland, who was famous for his habit of garnishing other people's remarks with his own oaths. When the first bill for the abolition of church rates came before the House of Lords, the Duke was asked to express to the Archbishop of Canterbury the wish of the majority that he should move its rejection. Off went the Duke with this commission. Presently he returned, and in a loud voice, for he was rather deaf, exclaimed: Tbe Archbiithop eays he will be devoted to everlasting fire if be does not work the rejection of the bill n It need scarcely be said that the language which his Grace of Cumberland professed to quote from his Grace of Canterbury has been somewhat softened. No matter what his station be, Man ha his share of sorrow. For the flannel shirt he wears to-day WiU fit hjs boy to-morrow. Danarille Breeze. TnE5 fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin. . And softly, from that bushed and darkened room. Two aiigois issued, where but one went in. LoxvgfeUow.

A GOOD SEASON FOE TBADE

The Outlook for the Fall Months Is En couraging to Bankers and Merchants. Money Is Plenty, and at South Meridian Street Houses the Best Feeling Prevail," on Account of an Increase in Business. There is no lack of money here at this time for le intimate business TmrnosA" Manager W. W. -Woollen, of the Indianapolis clearing-house, said, yesterday, in reply to an inquiry of a Journal reporter. "I think," he continued, "tho prospect for fall business a favorable one. The figures of the association show a greater increase in the clearings, and tho total lst which included only five days' business. one holiday occurring, were nearly as largo as those for the corresponding week in last year, which included six davs' work. The banks hero nrn nnw in good condition to furnish money for anybody w ho wants to do a proper business uuu cu luruisn proper security, and 1 presume a half million rinllnr rnnii i, for such purposes, if requests wero backed up by the necessary collateral. This is a very ditterent state of affairs from that wnicn iornieriy prevailed here, when the opening of nearly every fall season was characterized by a scarcity of money." "What was the occasion'of fnr. ..;. ties here?" "Usually the demand that the needs of those enirazfd in mov ing grain. We used to hnv large number of forwarders here, whose necessities, after the crops were harvested and camo on the market, wem very great. These men usnallv trot, xehut. funds the banks were able to loan, and tho result was a scarcity for those engaged in other branches of business. The situation has changed materially in that respect. The forwarders, instead of being located in particular localities, are more widely scattered, and there is not that strain on particular centers that used to bo felt penodicallv in connection with the grain movement?' "Have you any explanation for the changes in th gnwlu trade!'' "Yes; I think tfcoy icsulted larcrelv from the operations of tho interstate-commerce law passed by t'ongress several years since. -Before lli:t law was passed most grain-dealei? iocs led in lanre railroad centers had p-rial piiviK ges in the wav of rebates fr-ui 'u j rwds. which enabled them to contrci tli t:. ie to a considerable, extent. Tb jueii ringed in the same line of business at waalhr r:unts had fewer of these advantage. if any, and the result was the business was concentrated, at ; rirticalar localities, find Indianapolis en:: , ic for a largo share of it. Now that th j roi., iiave been prohibited from erantiiitr special privileges to articu lar shippers, and -every tub is supposed to stand on its own bottom, the business is more evenly divided." The merchwits, too, on South Meridian street expresa f.atislactionat what the sum mer trade hai promised them for that about to begin, "tseveti months of the year have pone," remarked a wholesale man yesterday, "and I do not know that in the twentyfive years I have been in business on this street that the wholesale men have been in better shap financiallv. Nor have thev had a briehter outlook for a rood fall trade." This led to asking a dry goods man as to his business, and he 6tated that his sales had been the largest in the history of his firm. "Ketail merchants." he added. "have abandoned the idea that to secure good bargains thev must co to one of tho Eastern markets. In buying nearer homo they are not so apt to get large bills, as they can replenish any time. This has something to do with the increase in trade. Then Indianapolis houses are carrying large linea and meeting competition in prices squarely." A wholesalo grocer stated that tho first five months of this year business was somewhat off, hut during tho last two months all the houses had been doing better. 44The Wholesalo Grocers' Association." he said, has done much to help us out in maintaining prices, as there has been less cutting than at any timo for many j'ears. There are three more . wholesale grocery houses than in 1868, and, of course, they take some trade from the older houses." - The boot and shoe men say they havo had an excellent trade all the year, and sold more goods than in 188S. The hardware business has been excellent, the largo amount of building goin? on in tho citv and over the State creating a brisk demand for goods in that line. Druggists have had a good trade, sales of oils and pr.ints being large, as, in fact, have been all staple drugs. Leather merchants say their trade averages well with former years. Iron men and dealers in tinners' supplies have sold more goods than in the first seven months of 18S8. Dealers in saddlery and harness also report having had a brisk trade most of the time, with sales fully up to those of any former year. One of the surprises was the report from the stove manufacturers who have houses on Meridian street. A member of the ludianapolis Stovo. Company says orders for fall are now G5 per cent, in excess of thoso on the first day of September, 1888, and that notwithstanding the introduction of natural gas in a large part of Indiana and Ohio. Wholesale confectioners speak of having had a good trade. Their best business, however, will bo from now to New Year's in supplying the holiday demand. DISCOURTESY TO GENERAL SHERMAN. The Old Warrior Compelled to "Move On" Out of a Car Chartered by Phil Sheridan Po3t Chicago. Aug. SI. Grand Army men in this city were very much stirred up, to-day, about an interview with Maj. Hoyt Sherman, a brother of Gen. W. T. Sherman, which was published in the morning papers here. The gist of it wr.s that when the General and his brother reached the depot in Milwaukee, Thursday night, to take the train for this city, at the close of the National Encampment the old warrior was very much fatigued; that they were shown into a car and were just comfortably seated, when a lot of members of Phil Sheridan Post, of Chicago, came into the car; that they insisted that the occupants had no right there, and that the General and his brother were compelled to seek 6eats elsewhere. Mr. W. C. Curtis, commanderof Phil Sheridan Post, was interviewed to-dav in regard to the matter. Mr. Curtis admitted that it was an awkward affair, but held that the members of the post were not to blame in the matter. The trouble, he thought, arose out of tne fact that the General was tired and his brother unnecessarily quick tempered. The facts, he said, were that the car had been chartered by number of members Of the post who had their wives with them. When they reached the depot they found the seats taken, and not knowing that General Sherman was on board, ordered the potter to clear the car, which he proceeded to do. When the discovery was made that General Shermau was being ejected, a member of the post offered him his 6eat, which was declined. Mr. Curtis says that tho General did not seem angered about the matter, but that Major Sherman was in a high dudgeon. They went forward into another car, where seats had been reserved for them. The Grand Army. Korthweurn Christian Advocate. A quarter century has made woful inroads upou the magnificent citizen arm y. They belong to the Republic, and these matchless warriors rejoice chiefly because their self-denial, suffering, and faithfaluetut have won for them the privilege of being once more peaceful, secure and happy American citizens. Very soon will occur the encampment which will mark the poiut from which enthusiasm, thronging attendance, and hearty comradeship will decline. Death is preying upon the splendid legions, and advancing age will forbid further assembling. Some think that the encampment of 1SSS maTked that critical, culminating point, though many more believe this Milwaukee assembly will be equal to any in the past. God bless the Union soldier, his wife and children. No other army has been like this, and its only competitor is the American army of 177ti. Time works his changes. The bitttrnessof the struggle in the reixllion is passing away, and 11 the land prays God to make future civil. ua impossible