Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1893 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1893.

BUSINESS 0FTI1E RAILWAYS

Light Freight Movement Compared with the First Week of Previous Years. Enow, Coll Weather and Lack of Cars Some of tbe Causes Shipments for Exrort Quite Luge Traffic and Other Note. The train records ahow that 111 more leaded car were received and forwarded at Indianapolis in tbo weekending Jan. 7 than in the preceding week, in which the movement was about trio lightest of any week in the year 1372. Ascouipnred with the iirt weeks of January, land 1S01. it will be froticed that the exhibit of this year falls Lolow those of the corresponding weeks CC1 and 1.20 loaded cars. Without doubt the freight traffic of last week was interfered with by tue severe cold weather, which rendered it impossible to haul full trains with engines in perfect order. There Is apparently a scarcity of cars with nearly all lines, so many are being used as storehouse, as much through the fault of the roads In forwarding as any other cause. At nine out of ton division points on either of the great systems will be found hucdrods of car-loads of grain and other classes of freight which are delayed for lack of power, and, as for months past, it is not because of acarcity of freight that the weekly exhibits is less favorable. The low ccean rates have increased export business, and the trunk Jines have pushed this class of freight forward with more urgency than other classes of business, and as there is a tendency to an early advance in ocean rates shippers have prevailed nuon the roads to give export shipments more attention. Flonr, cotton and cabinet-ware are tho most prominent in tho ex port billing. Provisions ore selling eo higb at homo that the export Is now tbe lightest m many years. Vet-bound the tonage is in excess of the ' corresponding period in 18'c but the lighteat now ut any time in many months. The Vaudalia. for instance, last wrek brought in 1,12 loaded ears, and forwarded west from here but 18!. The lJee-line division of the IJitr Four forwarded from Indianapolis ilX, and brought in but ,54 loaded cars. While nortb-and-south roads show a dctline in car movement, tho falling olF is not as marked as with the east-ami-west lines. Not in years has the live stock movement, both through and iocr.l, been as light as at the present time, and there is nothing to indicate an early increase in this class of traffic. Ihe nnprecedmtedly high prico for hogs and cattle have not increased the rrceiDts at any points wbt-re stock is marketed. The cold weather has larzoly increased tho shipment ot coal, which is benefiting the Vomlalio. the St. Lonis division of the "Jig Four and the lndianapoli9 & Vincennes roads. Locally the roads are handling a larure tonunge of logs', lumber in tho rungb, heading and stavo timber. 1'elow is given the number of loaded cars received and forwarded at this poiit for the week ending Jan. 7. as compared with the corresponding week of the preceding two years:

Sn n IW f x In I "i I n a s s : : : 375 20i 285 37 1 410 :3i)5 515 1H 047 5S1 .133 4('. ti74 o.ili 392 53? CfiO 931 1)38 350 435 5(10 1,1!) 1 1,374 1,357 1,020 1,133 i40 l,'j:S 1.25S 1.1 CO 2,1.74 2,315 2,180 2,1)02 2,03 3 2.SD3 1,717 1.UU3 1,27.) 1.73S 2,005 1,411 1.818 2,301 17,019 18,180 19.4JH) 4.018 5,002 4,778 21.637 23,182 23,277

Name of Road, 1, N. A. & C, Alr-liue 1., D. fc W C. II. & D. (Indl'pTs dlv.) L. E. & W f I. fc V Pecn'a une31 C'nio'codiv. ICol'bus dlv. reoria& (Kastdiv. Eastern West dlv. ! Chicago dlv... Clncin'tl Uv. Bt. Louis dlv. ClcvTnd dlv. Big Four lines Vandalia Totals..... Empty cars. Total movement.. Trafilo Kntra. In receipts of live stock over the Vandalia improved somewhat last week, that road bringing in ninety-seven car loads. Jn the corresponding week of lb'JS it brought in 212 car loads. There were forwarded west from Cincinnati last week, over the Chioago division of tho IJig Four, but 1.1-S4 loaded cars, thus falling about four hundred bolow the Weekly average of months past. Tho loaded car movement of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton last week was the ligh8t of any week in the last seven years. Superintendent Galloway says the unfavorable exhibit is due to a shortage of oars. It was rough railroading on the St Louis division of the Uig Four last week. Tho road brought into Indianapolis 075 and forwarded west 5J9 loaded cars, being the lightest business of any week in several years past. The cold weather is helping the Indianapolis fc Vinconncs road to begin the year well. Last week it brought in 500 loaded cars against seveuty-eitjht sent out and 522 were loaded with coal. The company has three switching engines at the mines on its line. For the first time in the last eight months the Chicago division of the Pennsylvania lines makes an unfavorable exhibit, which also atl'ected the Louisville division, it, for the lirst time in six months, dropping below 1,000 loaded cars handled at its Indianapolis terminal. 1'eraonnl, Local and Gnral Notes. F. M Wilkinson, general freight and ticket agent of the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley road, spent Sunday in the city. Of the 217 switches leading to industries in Indianapolis and its immediate suburbs, 67 per cent, are located on the Jiig Four lines. K. F. Cost, assistant freight agent of the Dig Four, with headquarters at Chicago, with his wife, spent Sunday with friends jn this city. F. K. Kosi superintendent of transportation of th liig l our lines, has genu to Missouri to look after some mining iutcrustsin which he is interested. Oscar Mnrray. seoend vice-president of tho liig Four, wus in tho city Saturday. Hereafter he will spend one or two days of each week at Indianrpolis. Tho Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned the lirst six months of its fiscal year, ending with Dec 31, 62, 2 J 1, 704, an increase over the corresponding period of of S'iCl.SU. Dr. C. B. Stemon. of Fort Wayne, surgeon of the Wabash road, is dangerously ill. tie is very prominent among railway surgeons, and an authority on surgery of a scientitio character. Not in many years have the roads crossing northern Indiana. Michigan and Ohio experienced more trouble irom cold weather and drifting snow than in tho week which ended with Jan. 7. The Chicago & Erie and the B:g Four (Michigan division) have a friendly interchange of traffic which is yielding good results to both roadr. liolivar is the crossing point of the two roads. T. D. Stokes, who left the position of train-dispatcher on the Big Four to engage in commercial pursuits, has a good otior from a Southern rosd, the acceptance of which he has under consideration. The railway officials and coal operators of Ohio have, it is statt d. abandoned the hope of effecting a combination by which the roads and the operators could get better rates and steadier prica for the coal shipped from Ohio mines. The Pennsylvania is now, for twenty miles east of Pittsburg, four-tracked, and for a considerable distance further east there axe three tracks, where the tunnels do not interfere, and these are being widened as rapidly as possible. 1). J. Mackpy is reported to be at work in unloading the Louisville, Lvansville vV t. Louis road in the hands of thoie controlling the Kronsville A: Terre Hnnte and the Chicago A: Eastern Illinois road, ami then consolidating all Into one grand system, I?. G. Hervey.who for year was president, feneral manager and the main-stay of the llinois Midland road, now the 1'eoria branch of the Vandalia. is viiting friends in this territorv for a day or two. Ho is en I&ute to Denver. Ills home is now 13 roc ton.

Canada, and he is interested in a now road being constructed in Novia Scotia. No through trains from British Columbia, by the Canadian Pacitic railway, can possibly arrive at Ottawa before a week, owing to tho heavy snowslides in tho Kocky mountains. This is tho worst blockade, it is said, that the road has had for the past five years. W. Applegate. who for ome years has been contracting agent of the Big Four at Chicago, has reigned and associated himself with his father in tho commission business, and it is understood that Frank Divine, formerly of Indianapolis, will be appointed his successor. Tho work of double tracking the Pittsbun:, Fort Wayne fc ChicaKo road h:is been completed between Bncyrns and Crestline, and the createst portion of the Mcond track is l;alloted and ready for use. 1 his morning the work of laying a second track west from Buc.vrus will ba beenn. Common stock of the Evansvillo & Terre Haute road, on .Saturday, sold in Boston at $113 per share, which is a big price for stock of an Indiana road. Nonstock of an Indiana road stands higher than does this, unless it be that of the Terre Haute V Indianapolis, stock of which it is hard to find to purchase. Saturday at midnight the first through train from the East arrived over the Great Northern railway, which was completed Friday .night, arrivod at Seattle, Wash. The train consisted of the privato car of C. Khiolds, general superintendent of the western division, and a second-class passenger coach. The growth of freight traffic nt Torre Haute has forced the Vnndalia. the Bie Four, the Evansville it Terre Hante and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois to increaso their side-track room by putting in several miles of new sidings. It requires double the nnmber of switching engines to do the business at Terre Haute that it did flvo years ago. Thatlow rates increase passenger business Is evidenced in the fact that at this point, where rates have been more demoralized than at any other in the Central Traffic Association territory, the receipts from sales of tickets show larse gains over former years and a larger proportionate increase than is shown at any other point over the busines of last year. This statement will apply to every road doing business in here. P. C. Shull, traveling auditor of the Ohio & Mississippi, has resigned to take charge of mining interests in Colorado. Air. F. D. Hodgson, heretofore assistant traveling auditor, stioceeds him. It is a matter of some satisfaction to the auditing department of the O. & M. that they can show an unbroken record, covering tho past fourteen years, during which no loss, large or email, has ever boon sustained through their agents at any one of their stations, about 110 in number. For over ton years past all the O. & M. agents have been bonded by ono of the guarantee companies, which has never been called on for anything. This is believed to bo the champion record. During this time Mr. Shall was traveling auditor. Mention was made recently that the trainmen on the Chicago & Erie road and on the N. Y.. P. & 0. division of the Erie lines were nneosy, and had appointed a grievance committee to call on General Manager Tucker and ask for an advance in pay. General Manager Tucker learned the fact through the press that tho employes on the two roads contemplated such action, and he took time by the forelock and addressed a circular of some length to the employes, setting forth the finanoial condition of tho company. The tenor of the circular is that unless these agitators cease to stir up the question of wages they may expect to be summarily dismissed. Manager Tucker says much stronger reasons exist for reducing wages than increasing them. The management, however, is disposed to avoid doing this if possible. In the year ending Sept. SO. 18i2, the N. Y P. & O. was a loss to the Erie property in operating it to tho sum of 8l.210,4T?.94. The looses from the terrible disasters nt Kent and Bavenna. which ocrurrod through the tram employes disobeying the rules of the company, were very expensive affiiirs for the company. AS TO GOOD ROADS. A Plea for a New Law Which Shall Be Entirely Optional In Its Application.

To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: The subject of good roads carries nnusn a 1 mterost at this time, not because they are more needed, or that they are worse than nsual, but becanse public attention and interest is aroused and agitation is at work as never before. "Tho iron is hot," and now is the time for our Legislature to strike it. and make it hotter by striking. The people will now bear and fairly try a radical road law. They did not give Senaj tor Bell'a law, passed in 1682, a fair trial. That law was defeotive in that it did not go enough into detail, nor give tho road officials authority to supply those missing links. If a new law is made, out and out, It should embody all the good there is in the present law, and thoro is much of it which is the outgrowth of experience, and can't be spared. I warn all legislators in advance that any law which is not full and complete will fail in its execution, and will not give satisfaction, and may lead to a reaction and early repeal, as was the case with Senator Bell's law, although it started in the right direction. There is great danger that a radical law, and wo must have that or fail, will not pass the Legislature, if it is to take eftoct all over the State. Therefore, a safer way will be for this Legislature to allow the counties individually to vote to adopt some radical law which the Legislature might devise, or allow each county to adopt one of its choice, subject to certain limitations. Then the live, uoahead counties could take a voto to adopt such law and. if carried, it would not disturb tho setting hens and mudturtlea in tho alow counties. The latter will wake up in time and follow at the rear of the procesKion, But if tho slow counties are required to join tho procession at once, the chances are ten to one they will vote no through their representatives. But shall all the enterprising counties bo held back till the slow ones are ready to move forward! No! Thon give us an option road law. In any law tho Legislature may see tit to pass there sbonld be a liberal discretion given to the local road authorities as to the material to be used for making hard-sur-face road. As the law is now, if a road is petitioned to bo gravoled, then no other material can bo med instead of gravel, though in many places charcoal could bo ned much cheaper and make a better road than poor gravel. In sandy districts straw scattered four inches deep over the surface makes an excellent road for about six months, and it is easily renewed. In such places gravel might well bo omitted altogether in making hard-snrfnee roads. Now that the roads are frozen hard, if they could be covered with about eix inches of looge straw, or old hay, or lino-stemmed weeds, as ragweeds, they could he kept solid all winter. The straw will hold back th surface thaw till the under thaw takes out the freeze. It io the surface thraw that makes tho roads so muddy. .As soon ns the thaw gets throuch, the ground below auicklv absorbs tho water and the roads ry up. Only a long, warm rain will defeat theeilect 1 mention, and that will not make the roads any worse. In caso of Kket or ice, the straw is of gioat advantage on the road to prevent slipping. In the coal-mining counties, coal slack is far better than nothing, but. as our laws do not authorize its use. no one can get credit fr putting it on the mads. There may be man materials discovered that will make good rosd surface, and the law should allow the road officials a good, broad discretion in adopting it. John T. Campbell. Rockville, Jan. 5. Only to io Whispered. Cholly Knickerbocker, in New York Recorder. It is now whispered that Mrs. Cleveland is going to have a s'hnsh! It is said that she has jzone to Buffalo to tell her mother thats'huah! If the charming report bo true it will be tho first time th White House has ever been the scene of a s'hnsh! Good news travels like wild lire. Every ono was talking yesterday afternoon about the possibility of the popular Presidentelect being ngAiu a s'huhi How emptv tbehonorof naming a Cabinet compared with the bricht proiprct of being able to name a new s'hnsh! Only one cause for rearer, though, and that is. how may Baby Uuth regard her now little s'huah! We beard a niechauio sny that lie would not be without Salvation OIL It kills palu.

MIL STECHIIAX OXCE MORE. Why the IW Man Can't Get Justlcp, an1 Wfcj Government ShoclJ Own the Kailweys. To t!ie Elltnr of trie InV.&iiaioi!s Journal: No doubt we have plenty of law covering all imaginable cases ana conditions, and no doubt it could not be detected in the wording of laws that they favor any particular class or individual. This is not whero the areat trouble lies; it is that the circumstances connected with their execution are such that a poor man cannot avail himself of the law, and when he does his efforts are circumvented by the opposing consel by virtue of means at his disposal which tho poor client cannot take advantage of. The county only furnishes counsel in criminal cases when necessary; in civil cases no man will subject himself to the degredation of making an affidavit that ho is a pauper in order to obtain legal assistance; at least, such cases are not known. Then, what chance of success has a client with a pauper attorney, usually a young Hedgling with no experience and little knowledge, as against tho corporation lawyers, usually tho very best talent that can bo procured! Why is the old adage so frequently quoted, "The poor man is hung, the rich goes free!" It is a notorious fact that tho man who steals a pair of shoes or a ham goes to the penitentiary idr years and the one that steals ?50,o.A., (appropriates is tho proper word in this case) generally manages to go free. When I said that 1 did not intend to imply that courts were corrupt 1 should have said, "generally corrupt," becauso cases ure on record where thoy have been convicted Of receiving bribes, andsuspicion always rests on juries that refuse to oonvict a wealthy or iulluential criminal, and this quite a common occurrence; in fact, wealthy criminals are very seldom convicted, and nover receive the lull penalty of tho law. la this probably on account of their mural influence? Or is it not frequently because money can bribe public opinion by nsmg tho proper inlluence with the press, which molds public sentiment accordingly? Can a poor man, without money and without intiuential friends, accomplish this? Is ho not at a disadvantage as against his wealthy opponentf These are all wellknown facts and factors in lawsuits. They have no direct connection with the law, but they eilectually circumvent their execution. Snppo-e one of my employes should be so unfortunato to injure himself while in my employ, either through his negleot or mine; suppose I would refuse to satisfy his demands lor damages, and he would be so fortunate as to obtain legal assistance on a contingent fee, and suppose he would be successful iu the first instance. Can't 1 ask for a reopening of the case, ask for a chauge of venue, auything to wear out my adversary? If heuten in this court, take it to a higher, nntil it finally reaches tbn hupreme Court after many years of lawiugT Don't you think that by this time the poor . client will be completely worn out physically, mentally and financially, and be ready to accept my terms for a compromise. The laws are not so much at fault as the liberties that are taken with them. Let us try to remedy tho evil by agitating the subject properly. I was surprised at your statement in another article, referring to my remarks, where you say that you had never heard of an instance whero crops were allowed to go to destruction willfully or . because they could iind no market. Did you never read how they burn corn in Kansas and other Western States for fuel because the price was ao low that it did not pay to market it! 1 have myself seen corn piled up in huge pyramids in tho open fields in Iowa, also corn not yet harvested on the stalks, within ten miles of a railroad, but the price ottered being only 14 cents per bushel, shelled, delivered to the cars (although the market prico then was 43 cents), tho farmers preferred to feed it to stock or to let it decay in the field rather than accept the pittance ottered them for the fruits of their labor. In this case it was the avarice and greed of tho railroad company that dictated tho price. It only wanted to realize 30 cents per bushel for hauhngto tho market, possibly two hundred miles. Is it a matter of surprise when tho Western fanner is revolting and up in arms against the encroachments and growing power of the railroad monopolies! I olso remember reading of a cargo of potatoes, consisting of many thousand bushels, being thrown overboard in San Francisco bay because the expected rise in price did not follow and they would not stand the extortionate demands of the railroads to transport thorn to the Eastern market. A similar case is on record which involved a cargo of oranges. These are a few isolated cases of which we hear because they occur in regular market; how many thousands of cases, remote from the channels of trade, do we not hear from at all! In all these cases it is the transporter or public carrier, who, in spite of our lauded interstate-commerce act. dictates to the producer how much he shall receive for bis products. Tho interstate-commerce act was an outgrowth of the agitation against these monopolies who were encroaching on the people's rights. Ostensibly the public gained the point which they desired t make, but in reality it enabled the railroad corporations to still deeper fasten their fangs into the vitals of the people, and grab still deeper into their pocket-books. The benefit derived through this act to the railroadh, particularly to the large systems, has been of incalculable value, and now places our government in the unenviable position' of fostering many of the nefarious actions of these corporations Whatever concessions the public may usk for from the railroad companies, they can refuse them if. they feel so disposed, under the pretext that tho interstate-commerce act prevents thern from acceding to its wishes. Anything that tho railroads wish to accomplish they do without question, knowing full well tho difficulties attending a lawsuit with a railroad corporation. Suppose a merchant, a shipper, has evidence that hu is being discriminated against by some public currier, a railroad company: is he going to eugage a lawyer and substantiate bis charge in court, probably only to make a test case, which will be foupht by all of the best legal talent of the Uuited States and carried to tho highest court in the laud at an enormous expense, and with the obstacles mentioned starinsr him in the face! No, indeed, he will not. Ho will. Just like the puor man under similar circumstances submit to tho injustice because ho is powerless to help himself; and yet wo have plenty of law to cover his case completely. This same act has theetlect of centralizing trade, the rates beuiki so adroitly adjusted that your wares can only ho shippod profitably within a radtns of about two hundred miles, Leyond that the rates nro prohibitory. Centralization everywheremoney, corporations, monopolies this is tho tendency of the ti:ea. and it will probably continue until the American people will not stand it any bmger, and then woe unto the party that champions their cause. A strict interpretation of the civil-service act (another act of social reform that has come to stay) applied to our railroad and telegraph wystem when owned and controlled by the people, would ehminato any objection against tho possibility of using the vast number of tne employes necessary for the maintenance of these institutions for political purposes. When we take into account the millions of dollars' worth of watered stock which every railroad company carries, and. in most cases, etill declares a good dividend, it is but reasonable to suppose that if the capital is figured at its actual valou a haudsome prolit could be realized for the new owner. Uncle Sam. if he felt disposed to manage this great trnst in tbo interest of the national treasury. Everything our government undertakes is done on business principles and in a first-class manner. This applied to the railroad srtem means tirst-class road-bod. the best rails, good cars, good equipment throtichont. the best known device for heating and for comfort and safety of employes ns well as pansengers. It means Kood. well maintained stations, well-paid employes, and, best of all, absolute control oyer tho currying of our products. Nomnre products to go to waste on account of a prohibitive railroad tariff. The freight and pas8in';er tari'i's will be properly, and uniformly adjusted, according to condition and circumstance, not, as now, in an arbitrary manner, by a dozen high-priced ofdcials. who occupy a lino otlice en Broadway, in New York city, who cannot ditltngnish the difference between wheelbarrbw and a bngcy when it becomes necesury to classify the rate at which it shall be received ns freight. In every respect the public would bo benefited by becoming the owners of these vast monopolies which are now sucking tho blood out

of our vitals. In another very important matter it would also prove of the greatest benetit to the country. It would take out of the way the largest, most prolific source of corruption in Congress, as well as from the Mate legislatures. No moro paid lobbyists, no more bribed legislatures, no more black Fridays, no more gambling in railroad stocks. Speed the day when thesa great monopolies will Decomo the property of the people. "LNDiAN-AroLi, Jan. 7. OtioStecuhan. Government Owuenmlp of Kallroads and Oilier Things. To tho Editor of tI:o Inaianaooiis Journal: Are yon not too severe on Brother Stechhan and his co-reformer Jndge Baldwin? Evidently things are out of whack, and something ought to bo done, but nothing pnbstantial will be accomplished until that old statute is repealed, which lies at tho bottom of the whole trouble, arid which is found in tho book of the higher laws, and reads: "If a man will not work ho shall not eat." Like all other laws it is often disregarded, and many a man manages to eat a little without having worked much. Bat even amcng workingmen there is often great unrest on account of another law: the products of labor are appropriated by an unrepeatable law to the support of thoso who don't seem to work much, if any. About twenty-five hundred years ago, in the early days of Kome, this nnre6t of the laboring men led to such an uprising that the Senators and others in authority had to abandon tho city And leave governmental affairs wholly to tho mob. But, things growiug worse andworbe, an old and much respected general, n amed Menemus Agrippa, called the malcontents around him and told them a story. It ran thus: Onoo upon a time, soon after the creation of the body, und while yet tho dillerent parts ot tho body could speak each for itself, they all becauio discontented, becauso whatever was procured by their care and Industry was spent on the belly, which had nothing to do hut to receive arid enjoy what the other parts produced. This led to a conspiracy, in which each part revolved to withhold Its contributions to that lazy organ. The hands were not to convey food to the mouth, the mouth was not to receive food if eiiered, and the teeth were not to masticate If the mouth received; and eyes, ears and feet ail Joined in the conspiracy. It was not long bciore feet and bands and eyes and cars began to languish, and the most painful death of eaoii was Imminent to tho whole or them, when It became evident that tho otlioo of the belly could not be dispensed with, and each discovered, also, that its own ppoeial functions were necessary to the welfare or the whole, and to itself individually, ar.d that each one was as useful and honorable as any other. Livy, the historian, says that on hearing this story the malcontents all went to work, each in his own calling, paid taxes cheerfully, the Senate returned and resumed its business, and the great Kome of a later period followed. Just now the nnrest which so seriously threatens the life of busiuess grows almost wholly out of the thought that entirely too much of tho proceeds of labor goes into tho great maw ot capital, while capital contributes nothing valuable in return, and the problem is how to withhold this upon which that great maw grows Xat, and Mr. Stecnhan's project to have the government own everything and everybody is one of the suggestions. Whether the hands, and feet, and eyes, and ears of business will fare auy better by withholding from capital its legitimate demands remains to be seen. It is probable that if government assumes the business of transportation it will be well done, for in tho main its handling of the mails has been a success. True, it has never so conducted the business as to meet expenses, but a draft ot a million or so aunually upon the treasury has kept the machinery of the department iu running condition. It Is not probable that it would conduct the transportation of the Nation any hotter, but a few millions from the treasury every year 'would oven thines up and tho business would continue. Ostensibly the project embraces only railroads, but it would be impossible, even if it were desirable, to draw the line betwoen tho several methods of transportation. Boats of all kinds and wagons as well would have to fall into line and become a part of the government machinery for transportation, for no good parent will atlord for one child what ho cannot atlord for the whole family. Then comes, of course, free delivery. This would require local express wagons, owned by the government, too. The project of government ownership of lands goes hand in hand with this project of government ownership of tbo various agencies of transportation. The two are truo yoke-fellows. One cannot exist without the other. And then comes, as the logical sequence, the government ownership of lounge factories and iiouring-mill?, wagon facto-, ries and cotton-mills. Tho line cannot be' drawn so as to exclude these; and the government must furnish lawyers and dootors, and preachers, too. Whenever any piece of the complex machinery fails to be selfsupporting, the deficit can be made op by a draft on the treasury, and all will be well, and that unconstitutional law, "work or not eat," will be a dead letter, if not absolutely repealed, and capital will be starved into objection to the hands and feet that now feed it. though in starving that indispensable organ of the body-politic the whole body perish with it. Ono result will be inevitable: Under tho present system the shoemaker or loungemaker who begins life as a wage-earner and saves a little of his little earnings until he becomes himself an employer of another, then of two, then of ten. then of a hundred, now feels secure in his position as manager of what he calls his own, but under the proposed regime no civil-service code can make him secure. Ifa change of administration does not remM'e him his immediato ollicial superior can, and he returns to the ranks to learn once more how it is to bo an employe. But it will be a long while before these things come to pass. U. L. See. Iidiaxap. Li, Jan. 7.

Are Women Unwomaulf ? New York Advertiser. Woman's inhumanity to woman, while it bus made countless women mourn, and is just now making male creatures smile, is one of the inscrutable puzzles which no fellow seems ablo to make out tho reason for. An illustration, which accounts for tbo jocosity of tho coarser creature of tho opposito sex in this part ot the vineyard. Las. just been given in the Court ot (Jeneral Sessions in this city. A man named Brown was brought to trial on the charge of having maliciously slashed, with a sharp pen-knife, the dress skirt of Miss Lotta Brown, while traveling iu her company in an elevated railway car. A number of witnesses were examined. The lawyer for the prosecution, Mr. Townsend, himself donned the slashed garment in order that witnesses might testify accurately and the jury might understand clearlv, and a great deal of fun was had. Mr. Brown wns honorably acquitted, in the course of the trial, however, one of the witnesses, a Mrs. Hemming, was asked, "Why did you not mlorm Miss Brown when you saw the torn condition of her skirt!" And in her reply was formulated the gravamen of the complaint that woman has against woman. 'i can readily explain that," she responded; "I didn't speak to Miss Brawu, Lecause I've epokeu to women on tho street when they wero losing their clothes and they always snubbed me." A man would at least thank you, but a woman only glares." That sums it all up. m mA Mler' Wealth. Christian Union. The papers state that Dr. Ralph Butterfield, of Kansas City, by whose will Dartmouth College receives nearly $2uo,0G0. was so penurious that he "would follow wagons to their destinations, and alter the coal had been dumped and oarried into the house, he would pick up the few remaining coals, piece them In a basket, and carry them to hishhop. In this way ho would collect a considerable amount of coal, and would eell it by tho bushel." If the story is true, it would be a question for a casuist whether the ood done by his benefaction was creater or less than tho evil from the i ample of his miserly life. But perhaps he is entitled to the alleged epitaph on a Colorado tombstone, "He was not so mean sometimes as ho was at others!" 311dlrrrted Genius. Eroeklyn Htacchud Uni: n. Bakersvilie. N. C, is right mad about that etory of tho lynching and tho tight between the lynchers and tho law otlicers "in her midst." The solution is that there are some picturesque and circumstantial liars at largo on th borderland between the Tarheel tate und Tennessee, from which latter tho reports were sent. The same amount of genius misdirected iu faking

news, if applied to almost any legitimate pursuit, would probably make Iho owner wealthy. Should lie CarefaL New York Advertiser. In declining to accent a pass from the United States Express Company Mr. Cleveland shows that he has a deep tense of the dignity of his otlice. He does not care to be under obligation to corporations. When he returns to Washington he should free to it that the real-estato speculators do not slip another Ked Top into his stocking. The President should bo free from all obliga-

A Kipling Lullaby. Memphis Apreal.Avalanrho. Does Rod Kipling sing a lollaby like this to his kid! llere's to you, chubby wubby, In your old home in Vermont; You're a blarsted little Yankee. But I guess that doesn't count Fifty rears Settles It CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. If Dr. Schenck's treatment ami euro of Consump. tlon were something new ami untried, people ru'.s$ut doubt; but what lias proved itself through a record as old as our grandfathers, means just what it U A Specific for Consumption and for alt diseases of the Luu?. No treatment ia ihe world can place as many permanent cures of CoaBuniptlou to it credit as Dr. bohenck'i Nothing la Nature nets ao directly ani effectively on tao lung membranes and tissues, and so quickly dispose of tubercles, congestion, lndammntion, colds, cough and sAl Uxo seeds of Consumption as I)r. Sclienck?s Pulmonic Syrup When all else fails it comes to the rescue. Not until It fails, aud only after faithful triaL should any ono ricspr.niL It ha brought tho hopeless to life and health. It has turned the despair of tea thousand home s into Joy. It is doing it now. It will continue to do tt throughout the aeg. Dr. Schenck'a Practical Treatise on Consumption, Liver and Stomach Diseases mailed free to all applicant Dr. J. II. achneck & Son. Philadelphia, Pa. Business, Short-hand And Type-writing School Old Bryant-Strattorx BUSINESS UNIVERSITY, WHEN BUILDING, OPP. P03TOFFICE. Now Is tho Best Time to Enter Bnok-keepinjr, Easiness Practice, Bankln?. Shorthand and Type-writing, Telegraphy, Penmanship, Commercial Arithmetic. Business Corre.sixm'leacv, Commercial Lavr, Practical Grammar. Spelling, Bus ness Pcptrs. Ofliee Training, lectures, etc. Attend a permanent, reliable, popular and prosrrcseire school; the pi es isre you Urns tuinln a business Community 1 w.r.h many times the cvt of your education. Tne InUanpoUs Business University prefmres younsrmtu und women fur tho highest positions n the business ivorM. Kailroad. lndastri.u. professional and business men who employ skil!ol help aply to us for our graduates. Call at tho University OClce, or write for full information. Ulcant catalogue free. Telephone 49a. HEED & OSBORN, Proprietors. ELEVATOR FOB DAY AND A on cheek and brow .is evidence P that the S&feHC body is getting proper nourishment. When this glow of health is absent assimilation is wrong, and health is letting down. ITS EiiililSiOQ taken immediately arrests waste, regardless of the cause. Consumption must yield to treatment that stops waste and builds flesh anew. Almost as palatable as milk. Prepared by Scott & Bowne, N. Y. All druggists. Makes an everyday convenience of aa old-time luxury. Pure and wholesome. Prepared with scrupulous care. Highest award at all Pure Food Expositions. Each package makes two large pies. Avoid Imitations and Insist cn having tha NONE SUCH brand. MERRELL & SOI1T P. rjstu N. V. ALL THE YEAH KUUHL) Ilealth and Pleasure Ilesort. EUREKA SPRINGS. ARK THE CUKSCENT HOTEL U au rl pant fireproof, etono utrurturo, all ;nMltra iiu;ruv,inut hliunlcrt ia thfi fiontou Mina:itn of r.orthwtKt Arkansui. MlMan:l lnrtratiufr climate, beautiful scenery, unrivaled ir.e 1icuk.I vr.it or. Vnt to manager Crrscat Hotel. Eurc&i hprinss. Ark., fortlocriitivo pami'Mft. ra'-, etc. Tj erut!rr4lai:t cf the Xol!eriiIe ifoualrr an! MaoMno Wrk. coveriuic l't IS. Hi. 1',, in, 19. LO. 1:1 autl -'J. iu Wi.ilatn Couiirr' n.n.tiou to .Nubh svii'.c, villi all nvtcrjiJUTy, too!., tlxtsut" an 1 vjuiplnentH thereto lelt)Uimc; Alyo two v.i-Ant lots :oljintiig najiie, will bj si M by the in (I t-hI uel. iceivcr, by ir;ler ot the Hamilton etrcui'. Curt. Itnumn, iu the c.:ue ot Henry it.m;irl et al. ;traiat tin Js'oblenvi'le Fot.n irv an M.i hi:io Works t al , n the lftt tiay of Frbrvnry, hO.!, ut '2, oYJot-k in. The sale wl 1 be at rublio hiumdu, on tho jrt'n.le. Just on.Ktte the rallioa I station, in Nljj-.u 1 W, Hi(liana, i'hvbt kM MiWect to cue tn of .-.;,( .. but eleisv i l Jul oth.r liM Uiiiiranre.. j iyiu r.t of tA t.s ir t ret: Salance of 1M may. :t xioiiuf purchat: r. U M in cos-i. or ;:k-taird ii thirty (tays. oiiv-;l.'' i:i K r.iont ;a atnl t.:i- thirl ;u twdve room...-, evMeneoi bv isau J-eiirierr i 1"T cent, liiteiesi troiu (bile, ncnri .1 Ly ti.ortiMe utnl other np'iioasl feruiry, All bl.ls nuVttt to provti by tne, covrt. i'htnt n.w iu Mircefftful oj ersit.ou. rviit rally looate.l. Flti;i; HAS; r;ci'Hy ftVaptel tu the manufacture of natural pis siin!U'. Oo;4 Uiriing futilities, i'or further 1 irtloulav uidrtsa H. ii. HIS 1. iuivt r. XolilYillC lud.

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