Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1890 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1890.

AFFAIRS OF TIIE RAILWAYS. DrcUlon Affecting Cattle Shipments. AVAHiNfiTOX, Feb. 1!. The Interstatecommerce Comniiasiou to-tlay, in an opinion by Chairman Cooley, rendered its decision iu the case of the Chicago, Kock Island Sc 1'acilic Railroad Company against the- Chicago !L Alton Railroad Company, dismissing the complaint. The case is a controversy between two railroads, parties to this snit, involving Jhe right ol the complainant company to bo protected in its method of shipping cattle from noints west of Kansas City, billed through to Chicago, and allowing them to be held over at Kansas City for an indefinite time to try the market there, and then, if reshipped. cither the same cattle or others substituted in their place, at the through rate originally aereed upon, that the defendant company shall have no right to take the reshipmeut from Kansas City to Chicago at tho proportionate rate of the original through rate. On this point the commission held as follows: "Where property is to be transported by rail by continuous and uninterrupted carriage'from one station to another, there may be sound and lezai reasons for making a charge for the through transportation which is less than the sum of local charges for the transportation of like property from point to point between such stations. IJut where property is billed from one station to another with the understanding that it is to be unloaded at an intermediate station, and that whether it shall be reloaded for further carriage will depend upon tho volition of tne shipperorof any one who may have become purchaser, the case does not fall within the reason governing rates on through transportation, and the carrier is not at such intermediate points entitled to have the carriage protected as a through shipment as against competitors.7' Ticket Forgers to lie Prosecuted. Kansas Citt, Feb. 14. When the electriclight convention adjourned to-day all the delegates, except Allan V. Garrett, made for their trains. Mr. Garrett will remain in the city a week or so toprosecuto certain

railway ticket brokers of this city for forgery. He has discovered that his name has been forged on largo numbers of return-trip tickets purchased in the East and West at the excursion rate paid by the debates. The forgeries came about in this manner. The railroads sold to the delegates first-class tickets to Kansas City. These tickets were accompanied by a certificate, which, when signed by- the 'secretary ot the association, entitled the holder to a reduced-rate return ticket, tho reduction making the round trip only two-thirds of tho full fare. Ticket brokers in tho East and West bought large quantities of these tickets, and forwarded the certificates to their Kansas City correspondents. The brokers here attempted to procure the signature of the association's secretary, as required by the railroads, but Mr. Garrett refused to sign them. The brokers oflered bribes, and Mr. Garrett indignantly snowed them tho door. Then the brokers forged his signature. Mr. Garrett has been accumulating evidence against the forgers, and says he has euliicient to convict a number of them. More Demoralization of Rates. CniCAOO, Feb. 14. In consequence of the reduction in freight rates between Chicago and St. Paul, the Illinois Central to-day gave notice, at the meeting of tho Western Freight Association, that it would immediately put in effect a scale of rates from Chicago to Sioux City based npon CO cents a hundred pounds first class. This is a reduction of 20 per cent., tho present rates Loins: based upon 75 cents first class. The other reads were invited to meet the Central, and a proposition was then made to apply the reduction to Omaha as well as to Sioux City. This was being discussed at tho hour of adjournment, and the matter was Jaid over for further consideration. There seems to bo little doubt that tho Omaha rates will be reduced, and if so Kansas City rates will inevitably be pulled down. The Chicago & Alton will insist npon as low rates to Kansas City as are made to Omaha. All these proceedings aro in direct violation of the association's rules, but the roads seem to have thrown their agreements to the winds for the purpose of gettingeven with one another and contributing to tho general demoralization. Personal, Local and General Notes. CincinnatiWabash & Michigan, is in the city. C B. Thomas, vice-president of the Erie lines, is West for a few days on official busi ness. Cnpr1 Manncr "Rarnnrfl- of ihn OViin Indiana & Western, has gone East to be absent several days. R. P. Buchanan, commercial agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco road, is in the city on omcial business. Geo. W. West has been appointed general superintendent of the motive power of the New York. Ontario &. Western road. Tho appointment takes effect to-day. The Big Four has to take the brunt of the battle in the Car-service Association light. Ont of the 210 private switches at this point ninety-seven are on tho Big Four. The Moaon company has settled with the relatives of three of the persons who were killed in the Carmel accident, and the claims of almost all tho injured have been adjusted. Robert T. Devries, who to-day retires as one of tho division superintendents of the estern isaltimore v. Ohio lines, has been in the service of the B. & O. company for tnirty years. The Litchetield car-works this week turned out a fiat car rated to carry 100.000 pounds. A cable whicn weighs f0,000 pounds is to bo shipped from tho hast to Denver. CoL. on it. OtisConley.forsomeye.irs a telegraph op erator on tne urand Kapids &, Indiana road. has been appoiuted train-dispatcher on the .Last lenncssee, Virginia cc ueorgia road, with headquarters at Macon, Ga. It is thought that the Lake Shore road has secured control of the Canada &, St. Louis road. The latter uses the depot and tracks of the Lake bhoro at bturgis. Mich., in place of those of the Grand Kapids it .Indiana. The Cincinnati, Hamilton &. Dayton and the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago will iomtly lease the corner room under the Sates House for a ticket and freight office. This is considered one of tho best locations lor railroad otiices in tho city. The Wabash, in connection with tho Chicaeo, Milwaukee &. St. Paul, has put on a through hue between St. Louis and St. Paul, running solid trains. Tho Wabash turns the trains qver to the C. M. &. St. P. at Mason City, and secures a 140-mile haul. C. B. Adams, car-service agent of the Wabash lines, states that the freight tratlic of the Wabash continues heavy beyond parallel, and they are pressing passenger engines into service to move it, their regular freight power not being adequato to movo the business. TheToIedo, St. Lpuis Kansas City road, the last six months. Jins been one of the best feeders of the Baltimoro & Ohio. It is stated that this road has turned over a larger tonnage to the B. & O. than has the Ohio ?fc Mississippi, one of its oldest direct connections. Georgo W. Stevens, general superintendent of the Chesapeake fc Ohio, is still looking for a few more competent men on the Wabash road. It is stated that within the next thirty days several of the Wabash men will cast their lot with this popular railroad omcial. On Similar nextthe passenger conductors on the Big Four lines will commence making tho through rnns from Cincinnati to Chicago and St. Louis to Galion. The change will necessitate a change of residence of several conductors to the terminals above named. C. Borner. freight agent of the Pennsylvania lines at Chicago, has invented a supplemental adjustable car body. By this invention a box car can bo made ont of a gondola car. The body of the car is composed of sixteen sections, and in ten minutes can bo converted from a gondola to a box car, or vice ver?a. Chalmers Brown, who ha been a passenger conductor on the Big Four fortwenty years, has severed his connection with the road, ard will give his entire time to the interests of the Railway Officials' and Conductor' Accident Association, of which he is vice-president and general manager. Col. S. II. Bowlus. who has been station cent of tho New York, Pennsylvania &

Ohio road at Bowlusville since the war, on Thursday celebrated his golden wedding day. The chief ofiicials of the Erie were invited to bo present, but could not attend, and sent their regrets, accompanied by appropriate gifts for such an occasion. The affairs of the Indiana Car-service Association are not moving along as smoothly as was expected in the southern part of tho State. The Ohio &. Mississippi, at Vincennes, Seymour and other junction points on that line, has given notice that it will protect shippers and give them a reasonable time for loading and unloading cars. 11 A. Peck, who is to be the master of transportation of the Big Four lines, began service with the Bee-lino when sixteen years of age. In 1S71. when only nineteen years of age, he was made chief train-dispatcher of the Colnmbus division, with headquarters at Delaware; later he was made trainmaster of the Cincinnati division. The general managers of two or three of the Indianapolis lines are delaying in making their purchases of steel rails, although they propose to make liberal purchases during tho year. They argue that rails are too high and are more likely to go lower than to advance, consequently nothing will be lost in delaying the placing of orders. Frank P. Sargeant, grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, has just returned from an extended Eastern trip. He states that the railroad organizations in the Eastern States are fully as active and prosperous as are thoso in the West. New divisions are being formed, and the older ones increasing in membership very satisfactorily. C. C. Waite. president of the Columbus & Hocking alley road, has published his report for the year 18S0. which shows the total gross earnings for the year to have been $2,509,518.31; surplus earnings, after paying operating expenses, fixed charges, taxes, etc., $323.60. The company has no floating debt, all the steel rails, large orders for supplies and taxes for the year having been paid. It is understood that A. J. Smith, general passenger agent of the Lake Shore road, will retire on the first of next month to accept the position of chairman of the passenger department of the Central Traffic Association. For some months a strong pressure has been brought to bear on him to induce him to accept this very important position, which is one he is well calculated to fill. Thursday was a -4red-letter" day, Superintendent Bender says, on the Chicago and Cincinnati division of the Hie Four. On that day there were handled on the main line 052 loaded and 426 empty cars, being the largest movement in any one day in the history of the road. This road is now bringing south from Madison. Wis., two train-loads a day of ice, most of which goes to Cincinnati and Louisville. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company of New York has made application in the United States Circuit Court for the appointment of a receiver of the Central Missouri Railroad Company, tho main line of which extends from Kansas City to a point opposite Alton, 111., with a branch Toad to St Louis. The Trust Company issued bonds on the road amounting to 7.000,000 in 15$ bearing 5 per cent, interest There are 2S0 miles of road covered by the mortgage. -. J. Q. Hicks, one of the officials of the reorganized National Yard masters' Association, returned yesterday from Cincinnati, where he. with the representatives of some four hundred of the membership, reorganized tho association on a different basis than it has heretofore been operated under. The fee for becoming a member remains at $3, and hereafter, in case of the death of a member, there will be no assessment, but the benefit will bo paid out of a fund created by the paying of SI a month dues, and the benefit will be based on the number of members in the association; that is, if there are 500 members, the benefit will be $500. Heretofore one of the greatest drawbacks to getting yardmen to become members was the uncertainty of what it would cost f er annum. This plan settles this question, t will be S12 a year. Tho reorganized association assumes the 10,700 of unpaid benefits that the old organization had, expecting to nay them out of the entrance fee of S3 and the surplus which the association will realize above the new benefits it will bo called npon to pay from the $1 a month dues. If the membership reaches 1,000, which it is expected that it will, it is thought that in eighteen months the old claims can be liquidated. The organization had reached a place where some move must be made to insure its further existence, and the plan above proposed, and on which tho association reorganized, was thought by the executive committee to be the best way out of tho dilemma.

Why lie Left Wyoming. St. Paid Pioneer Press. "Yes, Pm . from Wyoming, and I don't know of any requisition or extradition papers that will take me back there," said a man yesterday in the lobby of the Windsor. "Why, what 6hould they take you back for!" inquired a gentleman, toying with a pen-holder and, anon, jabbing it through an envelope. "There's nothing criminal about my leaving the Territory," replied tho late resident of Wyoming, "at least I don't understand that a man must continue to reside there all his life. You know the women are allowed to vote there." "So that is the reason you left, eh?" "Not directly, but indirectly, that is the very reason I lit out. You see, it is this way. The women must have been plotting this man-trap for several years back. They have packed the Council and upper House, and now there is a Territorial law making celibacy a crime for all men who havo reached the age of thirty-five years. I'm twenty-seven. I don't know as you folks would call it a crime exactly, but the law levies a tax of $2.50 A year on all bachelors over thirty-five. I don't propose to bo coerced. , Folks can coax mo into almost anything, but I don't drive worth a cent. Now, why didn't they offer a premium on matrimony! They have wolf-scalp bounties and gopher and wild cat premiums; why in thunder didn't they offer a bonus on marriage! Such a one-sided back-action law will never work in the world. What's the show for getting hold of some gilt-edge real estate in St Paul!" "It's a rising market.'' Republicanism and Temperance In Iowa. Northwestern Christian Advocate. The Republican party thus far has fulfilled its pledges to the people of that State. While it may appear that some, or even many, things remain to bo done by that party, the substantial temperance victories in the State-have been in the platforms of the Republican party. It is not strange that tho ladies of the Christian Temperance Union from Iowa have demurred when Republicanism in all States has been condemned by the old union. Raw Material Under Free Trade. Iowa Register. English manufacturers are beginning to realize grief in advanced cost of raw materials. They still havo the advantage of cheap labor, but the American Manufacturer shows that coke in Birmingham is $S.75 to $10 per ton, while the price at Pittsburg is S2.S0 per ton. Coal for forge purposes in England is $3 to $3.12 per ton, while at Pittsburg it is $1.870 to $2. We are getting along handsomely. It I Ins Not Worked Well. Kansas City Journal. When Senator Cullom himself admits that the long-and-short-haul clause of the interstate-commerce law will probably be repealed, other people will be iuclined to retard the probability as a certainty. A provision which was intended to lower rates, but which has in most cases had the effect of raising them, cannot even find a champion now in its author. Opposed to Public Schools. Atlanta Constitution. It strikes us that editor Jones opposes compulsory education, not because he is a Georgian, but because he sees tho danger of Stato socialism and paternalism. The fact is. education is a private and personal matter, and the State has no more to do with it in a compulsory way than it has with the material and cut of a man'a clothes and the articles of his religious creed. Thrifty Statesmen. - Toledo Commercial. ' . If it be true, as reported, that members of Congress receiving public documents sell them to second-hand paper-dealers, it may be iu order for Uncle Sam to bo a little moro choice as to whom supplies are issued. A Slight Cold, If neelecied, often attacks tho lungs Prowns Itronchial Troches give sure and immediate relief. Sold only in boxes. Price 5 cents. -

THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. Eeenilhina retatina to this department must be

addressed to TT. if. Graff am. West Scarborough, Answers to Puzzles. No. 3103 Philomathematlo. No. 3194 . C COD , CARAT O O R O N K T DANGLE TKLL8 TEST No. 3105 Abraham Lincoln. No. 31901. Dain-asfc-in. 2. Fan-far-on. 3. Urr-pet-on. 4. Fcd-ire-me. No. 3197-Joan of Arc. Original Puzzles. NO. 320S-NUMERICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of thirty-eight letters. My 10, 11. 7, 13, 38, 15, 25 is to binder. My 0, 1, 16, 2b 12, 24 is a parent. My 27, 4, 19, 25 is a relative. My 20, 18, 22, 27 Is a State of the Union. My 21, 35. 17, 8, 16, 3 Is a river in Ohio. My fl, 30, 37 Is a kind of dof?. My 27, 23, 5. 32 is a body or water. My 34, 33, 37, 25 is a defense. My 29, 36, 31, 6, 14 is part of a pound. My 16, 20, 2 la a metal. My whole is an old saying. Mamie. Mattoox, IU. NO. 3209 HALF SQUARE. 1. A choice of three alternatives. 2. A fueltive. 3. Accustomed. 4. Household deities amonir the ancient Romans, ft. Ortain Animals. 6. An earthworm. 7. A pronoun. 8. A letter. WST BCARBORO, Me. AUNT X0A. NO. 3210 WORD CHARADES. 1. Mr first is to sail fast: mr second is an or dinance; my whole is a fossil sea-urchin. 2. Mv first is an orsran of an insect: mr second is competent; my whole is obviou. 3. Mr first Is a nuatrraire: m v second is abound: my whole is an arquebuse. ArT Xoa. NO. S211 OCTAGON. 1. A lrT.d of lirAwlTur ml. in m1nAnt. of the United States. 5. Declined. 6. An ancient 1 a. M a I rf v v ciiy m Arsons, ureece. 7. Heavy. d. f. g. NO. 3212 NUMERICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of 16 letters. My 2, 9, 15, is a shepherd's crook. My 4, 13, 8, Is a kind of tree. My 3, 12, 5, Is a hard substance. My 10, 16, 14, is a pupil. My 6, 7, 1, 1 1, is the position of a thinz. folded that each one makes thirty-two leaves. D. F. G. Answers in three weeks.l A Couple of Old Puzzles. THE CIPHEK PUZZLE. The authenticity of Shakspeare's autograph belnjr discussed by a larpre and merry party assembled around the fireside of a cheerful country house, a youn? lady present was heard to remark, "that, of all things, she envied the possessor of such a treasure." On retiring to rest, she discovered the following on her dressing table: You O a 0, but I O thee; O 0 no 0, but O 0 me. And, O, let my O thy 0 be, And give OOIO thee. A RIDDLK IN RHYME. Two brothers we are; great burdens we bear; By some we are heavily pressed. We are full all the day, but in truth I may say, We are empty when we go to rest. Answers to above next week.J Foot Notes. Tiilxe have been quite a number of annoying errors in the composition and printing of numerical enigmas for the p.dt few months, which we retrret exceedingly. Tho amusement of solving enigmas is nearly spoiled by mistakes of a few figures, and we are rorry to have them occur. Hereafter we shall give out perfect enigmas to the printer, ami we hope they will come out all right. If the authors would be careful to make figures very plain, thero would be less danger of mistakes. L. and Ii. C We trunt there will be fewer errors in our department hereafter, as we shall give out plain copy, and ask the proof-reader to be caref id to have it followed precisely. A BLOW AT TIIE CIRCUS. A Kentucky Statesman Proposes a Law for VThlch There Is a Crying Need. New York Tribune. An important bill is pending before the Kentucky Legislature, and bids fair to become a law. On occasion, in time past, we have considered it our duty to criticise Kentucky .somewhat severely, but in this matter wo can lind naught but words of praise. Tho measure to which we refer is a proposed law to punish circus proprietors for not presenting what they advertise. The penalty is made a line ranging from to $o0 for each and every offense, and tho case may be brought before the proper court by any one who has visited the circus and come away dissatisfied. This eeems to us to be a good measure, and we are glad, to know that it will in all probability become a law. Kentucky has been imposed on by circuses too long. For years there has been a discrepancy a world too wide between tho bills which bloomed on the Kentucky board-fence and tho reality under the gray and floppinc canvas. On the fence the hippopotamus's mouth has been open, displaying rows of murderous teeth and a red, red tongue; in the tent this mouth has been hermetically sealed. On the fence the rhinoceros has been wildly tossing a foolhardy hunter high above his head; in the tent he has been asleep. On the fence Mile. Alfalfa has stood on one toe and ridden a spotted horse, but in the tent she has stood on both feet and fallen off into the sawdust on the second round. This is the way things have gone on in Kentucky for years, and there has been 110 redress. A teacher has dismissed school and taken his little Hock to tho circus. Insido he has found one elephant instead of a drove of thirteen, two plain hyenas instead of twenty-live grave-digging hyenas, and the fact that Senor Morito turned but two somersaults instead of three was gross and palpable; still the law did not recognize that he and the children had been basely wronged. A Kentucky judge has adjourned conrt and put , himself at the head of tne jury and directed the sheriff to take the prisoner, and they have all gone to a circus, which on the bill-boards was refulgent a raised and gioriiied circus but which proved to be a common, of the earth-earthy circus; and the judge has been disappointed in the trapeze work, and found that tho whale was il lead. Still bo could donothing. But the circus people went too far at last. Sometime since a circus and menagerie visited the capital. It announced that it was the greatest show on earth. There were, of course, other so-called circuses and alleged menageries, but they were not worthy to be named in the same breath with this. The Legislature adjourned and went in a body. It was the doom of circus frauds in Kentucky. The circus might dally with the executive branch of Kentucky government, it might even tritle with the judicial department, but it could not impose on the legislative division. The Speaker of the House punched tho wild man from Borneo in the stomach with his umbrella and caused hira to talk a very fair quality of English; the presideut of the Senate crawled under the ropes and wiped the stripes from the zebra with his bandanna; the chairman of the committee on education counted the monkeys and found their number sadly lacking. In tho other tent the member from Gibson county pointed out the fact that the ring-master did not strike the clown with his whip as he pretended; the gentleman from Kichmond county went into the ring and found that the cannon-balls which the strong man tossed about were hollow; the chairman of the committee on banks and banking rodo the trick mule with impunity; they looked in vain for the whitte elephant; they called for Senor De Vega, the human snake, and ho came not; they asked after the two-headed lady, and "were told bv a guileless canvasman that she had laid aside one head and was now tho Circassian beauty. In short, they found disappointment on all sides, and when they left tho tent it was with the firm determination to emancipate Kentucky from the clutches of the imaginative and dishonest circus manager. The circus went too far when it practiced its duplicity on tho Legislature. The Tribune can only congratulate the Kentucky Legislature on its virtue. It is asking a great deal to requiro circus managers to tell the exact truth, but it is better than to havo the people of an entire commonwealth in a chronio state of disappointment. Let the bill become a law. Did Not Fit the Definition. Boston Transcript. Jones (artrumcntatively) Simble is not a true wit. When you read his writings you always know just what is coming. The element of surprise is what makes wit. Mrs. Jones (somewhere in the hallway) Whera's that husband of mine, I should like to know! Staying in this place half the night, spending his money on liquor. Jonl'S has since acknowledged that there was the element of surprise here, but it didn't, at t lie same time, strike him as being yjr.v wittr. Do you sutler with catairh! You can be cured ifyoukako Uood'fr Hamaparilla, the great blood puriner. tfohl by all drugfUU.

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TAKING THE CENSUS. It Will Be an Enormous Undertaking How the "Work Will le Done. 2iew Tork Times. A largo proportion of the 175 supervisors of the oleventh census provided for in the act of Congress has been appointed, and Superintendent Porter has instructed them in relation to their most important duties, and devised plans for tho subdivision of their respective districts into enumeration districts. Tho taking of this census of tho f opulation, wealth, and industry of tho nited States will begin on Moud&y, June 2. and will bo closed, so far as tho process of enumeration is concerned, within fifteen days in cities and towns and within thirty days in rural communities. Tho country has been divided into 175 districts, for each of which a supervisor has been appointed, who. in turn, has subdivided his district into sections, each of which contains, as nearly as possible, 4.000 inhabitants, according to tho ligjires of tho last census. For .each of tlusp an enumerator is appointed, and there will probably bo 4U,ixju or tneso assigned to as many subdivisions. In tho performance of -the necessary work thero will bo consumed tons npon tons of paper. Every enumerator will u&o two postal cards daily next Juno iu makin? his report, sending ouo to his district supervisor and one to Washington, which means 80,000 postal cards a day. Of one schednlo aionc the farnilv schedule 4JO0,0OO,0O0 will be used, enough to till a room 108 feet long by thirty-eight feet wide and twelvo feet high. Tons of cardboard also will bo consumed for classification and counting, a work, by tho way, which ia to bo performed by electrical machines, the invention of a Mr. Hollerith. Tho work of an enumerator is by no means an easy one, and any one who has undertaken it under the impression that lv will have an easy timo next June will lind that ho . has been mistaken. Many men ten years ago committed this error, and wero so appalled when they received thoir books of instructions that 5,000 of them resigned. Under the present law any enumerator who has accepted an appointment is compelled to finish his work, and if he refuses to do so without giving a reason satisfactory to the superintendent, he may be lined and imprisoned. The enumerator, as a rule, comes into direct contact with only about one in seven of tho copulation, lie carries with him schedules of population, of agriculture, of manufactures, of mortality and vital statistics, and schedules relating to tho deaf, blind, tho insane and" criminal. At tho close of every day's labor ho must, as has been said, report by postal card to tho supervisor and n Superintendent Porter, lis will meet with many curious experiences, and his most useful faculty will bo tact. Every citizen is compelled to answer his questions or pay a fine of 100. An improvement this year over the former methods of taking the census has been tho distribution, iu advance, of several millions of family schedules, so that tho enumerator at manv points will find it already filled out, and so will be greatly facilitated iu his work. It is a curious fact, as shown by the last census, and. in fact, by all, that while there are perhaps 1,500,000 wpmeu of tho age of twenty-nine, or thirty-nine, or forty-nine, there will only bo about 00,000 of tho ago o thirty, or forty, or fifty. Tho inference is irresistible; they do not like to acknowledge having turned the corner of a decade, It would, of course, be unreasonable to presume that once in every ten years there is such an alarming decrease iu the birth of girl babies. Another difficulty which the enumerators will encounter is the collection of statistics of what aro called the defective classes thoso who are deaf, blind and idiots. Ten years ago the question was put before the head of a family in Italy, "Aro there any deaf, dumb, idiots or blind in your houser This was often construed as offensive, and tended to increase thedifhV culty in ascertaining the true facts. This year tho enumerators have all been instructed to ask at each house, 'Is tho BDeech all right, is tho hearing perfect, is tho mind correct, can everybody see?" Tho census, too, instead of calling these classes 'dependent, defective and delinquent," will call them 'special," and will not class them with criminals. An especial feature of the census will bo & separate enumeration of tho veterans and their widows, which of itself is a gigantic task, but it is hoped the result will bo a gTeat aid to the Pension Ilureau. Tho list of names of all tho veterans in the land will make a large volume, for in the Stato of Wisconsin alone the returus of soldiers, sailors, and their widows, made a book threo inches thick. Tho cost of taking, tabulating and printing the census will be very great, but it is impossible as yet to say just how great. Tho chief item of tho expense, of course, is the pav of tho enumerators, which in 1SS0 exceeded $3,000,000, and this year will doubtless bo moro than $1,000,000. In special cases the enumerator may bo paid by the day, not to exceed $6. Tho great body of enumerators will bo paid as follows: For every living person, 2 cents; for every death, 3 cents; for every firm, 15 cents; for every foctory, 20 cents; for each veteran or veteran's widow, 5 cents. The appropriation made for the eleventh census is $0,400,000, aside from $1,500,000 appropriated for printing, but it is estimated that 2,000.000 more will be needed to complete the work. The Way to AdrertUo. Cincinnati Commercial fiazctte. Tho Indiana State Hoard of Agriculture has been aroused by some of its n.ore widoawako members, who complain of tho methods heretofore followed of advertising the annual fairs. Tho tacking up of a few posters in uillammatory. colors, set ling

forth a dizzy borse-race, is not deemed sufficient to "call public attention to tho attractions of a good agricultural and mechanical exhibition. It was urged that legitimate advertising in tho newspapers is what counts for tho benefit of industrial fihowM, as well as other kinds of shows. A better understanding of the value of advertising in tho regular editions of newspapers is not peculiar to the Indiana fair managers. Advertisers generally aro coming to it. It is in tho line of good business sense. SOSIE THINGS DONE. Work Accomplished by the Administration Without Flourish of Trumpet. Milwaukee Sentinel. When President Harrison objected to the notion that tho chief business of an administration is the distribution of spoils, and insisted that an administration should not be judged by appointments alone, he was met by tho rejoinder that he was not engaged in any other work than tho filling of oilices. lUit it is evident that he has cmployed his time m other matters involving the welfare of tho country. With almost no advertising of tho fact, his administration has negotiated a new extradition treaty with Great Britain, which extends the list of extraditablo offenses far beyond tho scope of tho rejected Cleveland treaty, nlacing the relations of the two governments in respect of this matter on a modern basis. It is more than ten years since negotiations for the extension of tho list have been pending, and this administration has quickly and quietly gained moro than previous administrations sought. There seems to be no doubt that the Senato will ratify the treaty. Quickly and nuietly this administration has brought the Saraoan question, which became a menace under Mr. Cleveland's treatment, to a reasonable and satisfactory conclusion by a treaty for which even a sufficient number of Democratic Senators voted. The only opposition to this treaty was based on the mistaken opinion that it would deprive the United States of its rights to the naval station at Pago-Pago. Tho treaty has been ratified and is in binding force, since it had already received whatever indorsement was needed from England and Germany. Thus a menacing condition has been changed to the adVantage of this country and of Samoa. In a quiet way this administration has taken some effective steps in relation to the monopoly of 6eal-hnnting in Alaska. Uuder a measure having the approval of the President, tho revenue tax on each skin taken on the islands of St. Paul and St. George is to be more than doubled from 2 a skin to $4.50. This must make a great difference in the incomo of tho government from the seal fisheries. This measure extends the time for receiving bids for the seal fisheries, and is bound to reduce the enormous profits of tho corporation that obtains the privilege. The present lease expires the 1st of May. Before the close of this administration it is likely to do a good many things besides making changes in office. Chief Dushyhead's Scheme. Washington Critic. Bushyhead, the Cherokee chief, who is spending tho summer in Washington this winter, was met on the street yesterday by an old acquaintance. 'Look hero, Bushyhead," said tho white man, T believe you aro ud to some mischief. What aro you staying in Washington so long fort' ' 4I am hero for my people," said the Indian. 'What are you doing for your peoplc!,, The old chief drew his friend aside, and, affecting tho manner of secrecy, said: - "I am lobbying for Senator Morgan's scheme to send tho negroes back to Africa." "What have your people to do with thatl" "Why," said Bushyhead. "when wo have succeeded in deporting the negroes, then we will introduce a bill to deport tho white people. That will put tho country in tho hands of its rightful owners." Social Life la the Kentucky metropolis. Louisville Commercial. On a sofa in ouo corner of tho room was a young man well known and respected. He was slightly intoxicated, as was his companion, who is a beautiful girl, and .even better known than he is. He was leaning back against the end of the sofa, one arm around her waist, her head resting on his shoulder, and her arm around his neck, and both wero smoking cigarettes and talking to each otherin maudlin voices. They were separated by fnends and ever3thing done to keep the scene quiet, but it has leaked out Ten years ago the telling of this story would havo stirred tho social river to its very depth, but to-day it will barely cause a gentle ripple to rufile the surface. Can not the old regime be reinaugurated? A Western Railway's Smart Move. Nebraska Journal. A proposition has been made by tho Elkhorn railway, it is said, to build cribs along its line in which the farmers may store their surplus corn free of charge until it becomes advisable to send it to market. If this can bo done, and the farmers can take advantage of the opportunity to hold their grain for several months, it will be a better movement than the reduction in rates. Tho proposition is so unusual and so importaut that it will attract widespread attention. Her Intention. Clothiers' Monthly. Little Flaxen Hair "Papa, it's raining." Papa (somewhat annoyed by work in band) "Well, let it rain.,r Little Flaxen Hair (timidly) "I was going W

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OFFICLIL. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION

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WASHINGTON LIFE INSURANCE COPY On the 31st day of December, 18S9. Located at No. 21 CourtlAndt strrct. New York city. W. A. BREWER, JR., President. V.JL HOXTUX, Viee-rresiflent and Secretary. The amount of its capital is ....... 5. Tb amount of its capital paid up is 1,003 TIIE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY AIIE A3 FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in tanks - 32, Real estate nnincambenxl - Bunds owned by tho company, bearing interest at the rate of per cent, as per schedule filed, market value -- 442,612.0 Loans n bonds and mort papes of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance .' 8,234,3493 . . s Loans aocured by pledge of bonds and other collaterals '2 40,&0O.(X Debts otherwise secured j uans in CiSh o&ny polioies 2iU.275 Debts for premiums net deferred and uucoIlex-U'd i:'.0,:?0H.f3 AU other securities- Interest due and accrued, $J4,S0a.2O; agenta' ledger bals, f 5 4,103.37.. 149.002.57

Total assett

LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and dueincluding endowments ..... Looses adjusted and not due All other claims aifaintt the company Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks Total liabilities : The greatest amount in any one risk, $30,000.

State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. . . ... I, the undersigned. Auditor of state of the State of Indiana, hereby certify thst the Tore lsacorwt copyof the statement f the condition of the above-mentioned company, on tho 31 t toy of December. 1833 as shown ty the original statement, and that the said original atatemeut is now on tile in this offlce. SEAL. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and atllx tnj racial seal this 31st day ot January, lK'JO. BRUCE CAHR. Auditor of State.

OFFICIAL. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF TIIE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE PtffllX ASSURANCE GOMPT Oh the 31st day of December, 1889.

Located at No. 67 Wall Home Office, London, England.

THE ASSETS OF TIIE COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of acrents or other persons.... 190,529.97 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent., secured as follows, market value: . ,,,,,.. United Srates povevnment bonds, registered... ... .... . ...................... l,!ilH.rjv.oo Debts lor premiums...... 248,137.00

Total assets.

LIABILITIES. Losses adlnsted and due

Losses adjusted and not due... Losses una'lju ed Losses in supens waiting lor further proof All other claims apainst tne company Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks Total liabilities - State ot Indiana, Office of Auditor of State.

r, the nnderslffned. Auditor ox Mat or tho Btate or Indiana, nermy ceroiy ir,ax we awrre is a oorrccx co?y att Ai.icn t ..f th .v.Tiiti f i.n of thin Rbove-nientloned company, on the 31st day. of TVceinaer. lb&U. mM

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wn by the original statement, ana nu me eaiu ri((:iim euttt.ic.-i. nuun 'u ma . xllxi, v u i c. rsLAL.1 In teitiraoiiy whereof. I hereunto sub&cri&e my naino and al!lx rny oJlciai aei!. thia 1st day cl

OFFICLAL.J COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION

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METROPOLITAN LIFE -INSURANCE COMF1 On tho 31st day of December, 1889. Located at No. r.0-30 Tart Place, New York city. State ol New Tork. JOSEPH F. KNAPP, President. JOlLfc X HUG HIM AN, Secretary.

The amount of its capital is j.---The amount of its capital paid i;p is - THE ASSETS OF TIIE COMPANY ABE AS FOli-OWS:

Cash on hand, and in the hands of apenta or other persons !-. nttifo r.yi nri tin .irrwi ' ................................

Uoufts owned Uy the com pony bearing interest at tho rate of per cent, as per achedolo filed, market value ------------ ---- :V v".; Loans on bonds and mrt:ares of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same la mortgaged, and freo irom any prior incumbrance.... Debts otherwise secured - - Debts for premiums

Total assets

LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and due. Losses adjusted and not due Losses unadj ustel. -- Losses in suspense, waiting for further proof All other claims against tho company hleci.il reserve. '. Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks

Total liabilities The greatest amount in any one rislr. $-0.ooa

State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned. Auditor of State ot the State ot Indiana, hereby certify that the abore la a wrreci copy of the statement of the coudition of the abore mentionod company ou the 31 st dy of Deoeraber, lSsi. as shown by llit. orip.na. statement and that thn Mild original statement Is now on file In this ofllce. i seal. In utiinony whereof, I hereunto sabscn&e my name and affli my offlr lal seal, this 31st flty of January, ls'JO. imUCE CAUlt. AndltoT of State.

I OFFICIAL. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OP TIIE Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance ., Co On the 31st day of .December, 1889. i 4 - Located at No. 13 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y. MAB91IALL B. DKIGGS, President. FREDERICK IL WAY, Secretary. The amount of its capital is.. 5"2r.cr5 Tlie amount of its capital paid up is THE ASSET3 OF TIIE COMPANY ARE A3 FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons f31.977.R7 Real estate unincumbered 03 i,b 3.10 Bonda owned by th(? company, bearing interest at the rate of per cent, ai per schedule liled, market value -. S20.S55.OO Loans on bonds and mort papes of real estate worth double the amount for which the same it mortpaped, and free from any prior incumbrance 226,5.0.00 Debts otherwise ecurel cali loans S.'.OO) Debts for premiums. - G1.(K1.55 All other securities. 17,730.19 Total assets $1,335,211.55 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due..... $7,154.55 Losses unadjusted - 81, 757.04 All other claims against the company 20.ooo.Pfi Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 438.3S3.62 Total liabilities '. - 197,C9G.20 The rreatest amount in any one risk, $30,000. , State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. I, the umlerslerned. Auditor of state of th Stat, of Indiana, hereby certify that the aTvyre Is a correct copy of the statement of the conditioo ot the above-mentioned company on the 31st diyof December. as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this ofhee. wit. iu testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and aS my ofticlaJ smJ, this 31st day of Jat uarv. i'. IUtUCE CA UR, Auditor of btate.

I OFFICIAL. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA On the 31st dav of December. 1SS9.

I.ocated at No. 31 North J. LIG1ITFOOT, Presi.lent..

The amount of its cspital Is The amount of its capital paid up is..... - THE ASSETS OF TIIE COMPANY ARE A3 FOLLOWS! Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons - Real estate unincumbered Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at different rates, as per schedule filed, market I)anaonda"andin6ftiraKei of real estate, worth double the amount for wh:ch the saaie lV mortjrafred. and free from any prior incumbrance.

Loans on pol.atcrai.... Accrued interest

Tctal assets LIABILITIES. Losses edjnte4 andnot due l-oxses uudjuted

Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding rials lDUSe III BU-l'riinr, iui luu.iri Total liabilities..

State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. - I. the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hcrehy ertlf that tVaVvreis a correct copy of the statement of the condition of. the above-mentloutsl company. nt.i3ltt dyt iviu'ier, lfio3. as shown ly tlieonnnal statement, and that the said original Uturni Wi now n t'.le iu tiis .:lcv IiEAL.) In teatlmouy whereof, I hereunto subscribe my namo and a lix my oCiciai this I'Sth day o; . , jaaatry, ietfu. . Uisyci; caiiu, AuAitorol&i&ts.

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