Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1894 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. MAY 29. 1601. WASHINGTON CFFICE-1420 PENNSt LVAMA AVENUE Telephone Citll. EcsltfsOttre 238 Kililf.rini Koam 242 Ttiais or stitsi kution. rriy cnly, one month ....f .70 Jiollj only, three mouth... 2.00 1 jiil j on 1 j, one year a -0 1 Ur, iiiUtitUcp 8uulay, one year lu.oo febbduy ouJy, vi.9 year .uu WIliN H. UM?HE1 OT AGEXTS. Pally, j f r wcfk, Ly carrier..... ...15 ft buuuaj, iozle coy Octi Laily and bu&o-y, r week, by carrier 20 cu 2 ex Year $1.00 JC1ur-t Itt to CIllIlL frutM-rilte itli auy of our numerous agent or semi Btcrl;Uoii to the JUUUNAL KKWSPAPEU COMPANY. 1NDIA.VAPOU3, ISIX Ffrnctii enunir the Journal throajrh the raallv 1 1 tl r Voltett 8ttr m tumid put on au elcht-pa?e pipor & OHE-tOT i-ontage tamp-. ou a twelve or iiteeu- . 1 ij tr piper a twimte-NT postage tuip. foreign po.. i 1 1 u ualJ j Oou blo tb ee r a to. A Utfnnmutncaliviii intended for pnbltrallon in iJ u paper tiv$t,invrder torectitattenlion,beac towpaiiifo by the tiame and uddretn of thetcriler. THE INDlA.NArOHS JOL'UXAL CD if found lit the following plaoea: J'JLIUS American Exchange In Pari. 30 Boulerard ctCtpuclliea. i;tV OKK-Gi:cj IIoum and Windaor Hotel. IIIII-ADELPJIIA 4.lTKemU, 8783 Lancaster aTtitce. t CHICAGO Palmer IIoue. Auditorium XIoteL CINOI3X ATI J. JL JIawley i Co., 131 Vine tree t LOUISVILXE C. T. DeerLoji cortlrweat corner ot Third and Jfieron eueeta. hi. LOUIS Union Kew Company. Union Depot Washington, U. CRlgg House and EbbiU llouoo. . There should be some better agency for the regulation of the production of coal than outlawry and murder. If European manufacturers and statesmen are as sure of the American markets as they claim to be, why 'are they quarreling over Africa? Memorial day, and 1iot Decoration day, , is the declared Grand Army name for May SO a fact which many newspapers and orators do not recognize. A few weeks ago Spokane, Wash., elected a Populist Mayor, but subsequently when the Council voted to issue bonds for public Improvements none would purchase them. Those who recall the methods of Governor Husk, of "Wisconsin, with bands of men Intent on destroying property fervently wish that that sort of executives may come again. j And so the income tax is "an emergency tax," according to Senator Gorman. The Democratic party is an emergency party; that is, It can create an emergency to which it is not equal. j Senator Gorman is not eo ill as was at first reported. If he should be unable to direct the Democratic Senators during the next few weeks the Cleveland tariff bill ralght be defeated. In the bituminous coal region, extending over fourteen States and Territories, 175,000 men are in the strike and only 12,000 are employed. There are no indications of an Immediate adjustment of the difficulties. ' The Chicago Inter Ocean explains that It bad its information to the effect that Gov. Altgeld would resign -from a Democratic officeholder, which goes to show that the men who elected him think that he shoul'd resign. The trouble about cities voting money for public works largely to give employment to the unemployed is that such employment will invite large numbers of the generally unemployed and that a class of people will be created who will wait for employment in public works and demand it as a right. There 13 a simplicity which is called ''charming," but the simplicity of the New York business men who indulge the expectation that they can declare themselves In a meeting in a manner which, will cause the ex-confederate and demagogue Democratic majority to drop the income tax from the tariff bill is ridiculous. The term "standing armies" will acquire a new meaning when all the soldiers come to be arrayed In Ilerr Dowe's wonderful bullet-proof coats. All the armies will have to do will be to stand up and be shot at, As none will be killed, the troops that can stand the longest will necessarily win the day. Putting the number of townships In Indiana at 700 and the amount of road funds the Attorney-general will get from each at half as much as he got from one Benton county townstiip, he will collect $140,000, of which $16,S00 will go into his pocket. At this rate the government of Indiana will soon exist for the exclusive benefit of the Attorney-general. When General Gresham, as circuit Judge, declared that the public, through its commission, has no right to require the officers of railroads to show their books to prove that they have or have not broken a law of the land he made the corporation greater than the people who made it: The Suprema Court,-however, insists that the people are above the corporation. If the report is true that the CorbettJackson fight is "off" look out for elaborate explanations that do not explain from the "champion's" friends. There have been skeptical persons bold enough to say from the beginning that Corbett would never fight Jackson. They assert that he does not dare to pit himself against the Australian, knowing that to do so would be in all likelihood to lose his present proud supremacy as world's champion. They say he now holds that coveted title by lucky chance and not by his ability as a slugger; that if Sullivan had not been a dissipated wreck the result at New Orleans would have been different, and that the fight with Mitchell was a farce, the Englishman being so. far his physical inferior that but one outcome was possible. They say that he has never been matched with his equal in weight and training; that Teter Jackson is his equal, and therefore be will avoid, meeting hlra In a contest. All these assertions . may be true or not, but the very numerous gentlemen who take an interest In -the prize ring, find them highly entertaining, if not exciting, and the public may now expect to be regaled with charges and counter charges conetrnirig the two athletes mad"' their

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will not grow excited over the controversy, but will regard it philosophically as one of the peculiar developments of a civilization that has advanced further in some directions than in others. THE END OF TUB COFFIN TRIAL. During the trial of the Coffins the Journal carefully refrained from the expression of any opinion regarding Its merits or the testimony presented. It refrained In this, as In other cases, because it believed that It is due to the court and the parties In Interest that the trial or anything that may Influence the decision should be con-: fined to those who are trying the cause in the court where all the evidence is presented. Moreover, In a certain sense, the newspaper reflects popular sentiment, and such sentiment, expressed where Jurors can become aware of it, may have a tendency to influence the Judgment of the most intelligent and conscientious Juror. Now that the trial Is over and the verdict has been given. It Is proper that the Journal should express Its opinion regarding the trial and the verdict. From the first, the trial has been a leading topic for 'public discussion. While the testimony has been of a character, not to attract crowds of Fpectators, it has been read by a large part of the community. Those who have carefully read it would have been surprised if the verdict had been otherwise than it is. It is proper and right to say now that the evidence sustained the - general sentiment of the community before the trial. In the public estimation the trial was conducted in a manner which Inspires confidence in Judicial proceedings. Judge Baker presided with Judicial dignity, the Jury was made up of men of character and intelligence, the government was represented by able and zealous lawyers, while the defense could not have secured men who could have more ably presented their case.. The result of a long trial, under such conditions, has not only met the public expectation, but has furthered the ends of Justice. There can be no doubt in the mind of any candid and. Intelligent person who has read the testimony that the defendants, particularly the Coffins, were guilty of the crimes charged in the indictment. Of the three, Reed is by far the least guilty. Not the least of the good effects of such a trial and conviction Is that It tends to strengthen popular opinion in the workings of our Judicial system under normal conditions. It dispels the oft-heard declaration of cynics to the effect that there 13 no law in this country for those who have the influence which wealth can bring. The result proves that, with a high-minded, learned and dignified Judge, a carefully selected Jury and a trial conducted In strict conformity to Judicial procedure, a satisfactory verdict is almost inevitable. When Justice, or, rather, the courts miscarry is when the Judge is without full appreciation of the great responsibility resting upon him or plays the demagogue and permits his court to be more like a street-corner meeting than a dignified tribunal, and where Jurors are selected mainly for their Ignorance and local prejudice. The Judicial system of the country Is sound, and it will not fall if those who make Judges see that only able and high-minded men are selected. The defendants have been found guilty by a Jury of a most serious crime. . In the opinion of the public they are guilty technically and morally. So curiously const!tuted la the human mind, however, that the men concerned, have probably never looked upon themselves as guilty of a moral offense. It is safe to assume that never at any time have they had the feeling that a thief of honest antecedents has when he first steals money from a drawer. The thief knows he is a thief; he may salve his conscience with a promise to return the property in the Indefinite future, but he has no delusions about the nature of his offense. With the embezzler, the speculator, the man who handles money not his own in a way to risk its safety, the feeling of guilt Is presumably absent to a great extent, at least while the transactions are going on. lie , Juggles with his conscience and bamboozles his own intelligence to such an extent that he hides the character of his acta from himself to a certain extent. lie "intends" to make everything right, and if he had been, left alone, or if certain unfortunate and unexpected circumstances had not transpired, all would have been well. He so convinces himself of his own uprightness that , a charge of fraud comes to him as a shock and an insult, and the penalty of his crime Is a thing he Is utterly unprepared for. Nevertheless It Is quite as Important for the good of society that the self-deceiving offender should be punished as well as the thief who steals with his eyes open to all conditions. The one may be a good citizen in every other respect, but he is even more dangerous to the community than the more reckless criminal, for his confidence in himself begets confidence in others to their undoing. A degree of 'pity can be measured out to men of this class, but pity need not stand In the way of Justice, and Justice calls for a penalty stern and severe. They blindfolded their eyes, perhaps, but they did it willfully, and must suffer the conse quences. THC REGULATION OF COAL, MIMXG. In the course of a few weeks at most all the miners will be at work as the result of a settlement of existing difficulties, either by the representatives of the miners and the operators or through arbitration. Meantime much property will be destroyed, much time lost, manufactories will be closed and States and counties will be put, to unnecessary expense. Next year, or at no distant period, there will be another strike and the same disorders repeated. When the whole matter can be arranged by a board of arbitration, why have these demoralizing occurrences repeated? The mine owners in different States practically compete In the same markets. The difference Is In the cost of mining and shipment. These factors can be adjusted by a board of practical men so that each mine In the different localities can have a scale of wages which will insure all opetors a fair chance In the market. The present

difficulty grows out of the attempt of, a" few Pennsylvania operators to undersell their competitors. To do this they must cut wages. If they can get men to work their mines . at the reduced wages, either the other mine ownars must reduce wages or close their mines. Why could not an In-, telligent commission adjust the wages in all of these mines upon the basis of fair compensation and the cost of getting the coal to market? Such an adjustment would practically make the price, and the competition under It would be fair to all. It will be said that State or national governments have no right to Interfere with such matters. It may be said In reply that if; there is constitutional warrant for a board" of Interstate transportation commissioners to regulate matters relating to the shipment of merchandise there can be no bar to a commission to regulate the production of an article of interstate commerce upon which all transportation and most all production depends. If It were most any other product than coal, governments might not be warranted In interfering, but coal is a product which is the first essential to all , production and commerce, consequently Its production 'and supply is of general Interest. As for the mine owners, their interests would be best promoted by a regulation which would tend to maintain a scala of prices. As for the public, its welfare would ' be secured by any fair method which would prevent the frequent repetition of such dls-. orders as now exist in ths coal regions. AX EX-CO.FEDERATIi SCHEME.

The proposition under discussion in the House to repeal the federal tax of 10 per cent on the circulation of State banks comes from the South, where nearly every Representative favors it under the' claim that the right to issue paper money is one which shouM belong to the States,, and that the' South desires to exercise that power because it has not enough currency, since not enough national banks are established In that section to furnish It. This claim Involves several distinct heresies. One is that there is not enough national cur; rency in the countcy to do its business. The crowded vaults of all kinds of banks : with money they cannot lend disproves that assumption. When any part of the country has an article that is In general demand money will go thither to purchase it. When no money is in circulation in a community it is because there Is no employment for Its labor which will require money to pay, and that it has no commodity to dispose of which the rest of the world wants. The most objectionable of the heresies which cling to the proposition is the claim of the right of the State to authorize the issue of paper money which cannot be a legal tender in any event. Such a claim is one which has . no basis in the Constitution, which Implies that the State has no rigM to issue anything which shall be called money. In a nation with the most extensive interstate commerce in the world the money which measures values should be a national money. The Populists and the Greenbackers demand a national money which shall be a legal tender and denounce the issue of State bank money. The Southern Democracy, which adheres to hostility ' to things and powers national, demands the right to issue wildcat money as the right of the State. It is a demand which Involves, a denial of nationalism and the right of the State to hamper Interstate trade by the Issue of State money, which, if good at home, cannot be elsewhere. It is a demand based upon the discarded heresy -of State supremacy. It is a demand which has Hs origin In the same State right heresy which led the Southern leaders to plunge the country into rebellion against the ha- , tional authority. In and of itself the attempt to establish State paper money again has its inspiration In a class of speculators who cannot make money in national banking and desire' to do so under State laws by Issuing notes , which cannot be legal tender money, which, in the past, have been responsible f or. expanded . credits and financial crashes, and which have robbed the people of this country of millions and millions to enrich , a, speculative yclass. There can be no better scheme devised to make the rich richer at the expense of the masses than that which authorizes State banks to issue paper. The poor man must take such money, and when he turns about to pay a note he must pay a premium to get legal tender money, which this cheaper currency will drive out of the country where the State notes are Issued. The scheme of State bank currency has not a redeeming feature. In no sense a political "question now, the vote of the Indiana delegation in the House will be watched with Interest when the repealing bill shall come to a vote. THE NEWSPAPER PHARISEE. A paper in a neighboring town, which, while criticising the partisan press, never fails to assert its devotion to the free-trade fad, contains the following: The Indianapolis Journal says the Senate proposes to tax the people $13,000,000 on sugar to favor a small trust. That is so; but why does the Journal complain? It upholds the McKInleylaw. which gives the Sugar Trust Just about 25 per cent, more than does the Senate bill. If Republicans would think a little over the truth being told by their own party papers about this Senate monstrosity they would see what a' scheme of wholesale robbery the McKlnley law is. . There are so many false assertions In the above that the Journal has time only to call attention to a few of them. One of them is that the McKlnley law gives the Sugar Trust 23 per cent, more protection than does the Cleveland sugar schedule now before the Senate. The McKlnley duty Is half a cent a pound on refined sugar. The last quotation of refined' sugar at hand, wholesale, was 3.9S cents a pound. Consequently, a specific duty of half a cent a pound at that price would be 12.5 per cent. The Senate bill duty is 40 per cent ad valorem and one-eighth of a cent a pound. Forty per cent, of 3.3S cents would be 1.502 cents, and one-eighth of a cent a pound Is 1.23 mill?, which, added to 13.92 mills, makes 17.17 mills. The price of raw sugar at the same date was 2.31 cents, on which there is a duty of 40 per cent, ad valorem, which is 9.92 mills. Subtract this last duty from the total duty on refined sugar, and 7.93 mills remains as the protection duty on refined sugar by the Cleveland, Carlisle, or Senate bill. When the price of refined sugar is S.9S cents a pound and the duty therson over raw sugar is 7.93 mills, it

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amounts to 19.3 almost 20 per cent. The ad valorem duty under the Senate bill being 19.9 per cent, and under the McKlnley law 12.5 per cent., it appears that tlie protection afforded by the pending bill is 7.4 per cent more than that of the McKlnley law, instead of the McKlnley law being 23 per cent, in excess of the present bill. And here the Journal remarks that the above Illustrates that it is much better for Republicans to accept the figures of Republican papers than to take the statements of hypocritical free-trade editors who are masquerading as better-than-any- ..... body-else independents or mugwumps. The Arkansas Breckinridge, who is a member of the House committee on ways and means and one of the ex-confederates who made the Wilson 1)111, has been defeated for re-nomination. He was all right so long as he was the opponent of Clayton, who was assassinated while taking testimony to contest Breckinridge's seat, but when he followed Mr. Cleveland on the-sliver question his constituents Just dropped him.' . Captain Sampson having testified to the armor-plate investigating committee that $300,000 Is a moderate estimate of the damage sustained by the government through the frauds admitted by the Carnegie company, the New York World (Democratic) asks the President upon what grounds he reduced the damage to $140,000, It is a very embarrassing question in connection with the Carnegie letter indorsing the Wilson bill. HUDDLES IX THE AIR. At the Art Exhibit. Mudge By gee, this is a fine sunset! Yabsley That isn't a sunset at all. It is a snow scene. It's the reflection from your nose that makes it look like a sunset. A Cane In Point. Mrs. Watts This talk of husbands having to foot the bills for presents they get from their wives Is the sheerest nonsense going. Mr. Watts How about it when she presents him with twins? A Painful Occasion. I Mrs. N. Peck Next Monday is the anniversary of our wedding, dear. Wouldn't you like for me to give you a little present of some kind? Mr. N. Peck I guess you might get me a! small bottle of chloroform, Why He Moved. ;"I hear you have moved," said, the lean man, resting his elbow easily on the bar. .'"Yes," said the fat man, blowing the foam off his glass, "I had to. The hired girl next door was too good looking." 1 i"Come now, you don't mean to tell me :that your wife would get Jealous of a hired girl?" ;"Oh, no. It was on account of the children. You see, they are smart enough to get out of the way of the trolley cars If they hear the bell, and ordinarily I am not afraid to have them play out in the street. But that fool girl next door keeps the mo'torman so busy flirting with her that several times the poor young ones have had to Jump for their lives." I A-photograph of the mental processes, of the Fort Wayne man who amused himself at odd moments for two years by throwing liquid paint . on Jadles' dresses would be Interesting to psychological and sociological students. When finally detected and arrested he w;as found to be, not a tramp nor an Idle vagabond, but a hitherto respected citizen and head of a family, which he supported by his labor as car inspector. Doubtless, he had a grievance against society which, by some obscure process of reasoning, seemed, to demand retaliation, but whai was the grievance that this particular form of revenge seemed to satisfy? Had some woman with a fine gown once injured his sensibilities, or had he a secret objection to all fine raiment? Was it the individual or society in general which had roused in him a spirit of malice and stirred him to mild acts of anarchy? Whatever It was, he Is not the first of his kind. He may have gained his Inspiration, indeed, from the Indianapolis "Jack the Spltter," who, last year, ruined so many handsome gowns by deluging them with tobacco juice. Another of the same brand was the "Slasher," who created consternation in Washington households not long since by entering when the families were absent and cutting upholstery. hangings and clothing Into fragments. It will not do to say that such men are insane. They undoubtedly have queer twists in their brains, but they have discretion enough to pursue their cowardly occupations by night, when the chance for discovery, is least, and they should be treated with the severity their offenses merit, not only as a punishment for themselves, but as a wholesome check upon malicious destructlveness among those who might possibly emulate them. A Chicago whist club went to the "congress" at Philadelphia and carried off one prize, and a Minneapolis club took the other, but the sectional balance between East and West is preserved by Jack Davis, of Virginia, who went out to Iowa and knocked out Jim Burris, of Montana, in four rounds. Let no one boast himself of the superiority of his favorite region until he gets all the returns. A writer in Harper's Magazine tells of a newspaper editor In Philadelphia "whose knowledge of facts is so great that he is practically recognized as a specialist on all known subjects." Thls is rather above the standard even of editors, but, perhaps, the gentleman is trying to fit himself to be a teacher in the public schools according to the advanced educational requirements. AIlO IT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It has been decided that the deaconesses of the Methodist Church shall wear Mack gowns, with gathered or plaited skirts, bishop sleeves, round waists, turn-down collars and white cuffs. They may "friz" their hair if they desire to do so. The people of Finland have shown their admiration for Alexander II by erecting a monument to his memory in Helsinfors. They do not feel so well disposed toward the present ruler, under whom many of their privileges have ben withdrawn. Rudolph Hertzog, the "A. T. Stewart of Berlin." died in Carlsbad a few days pgD, seventy-nine years old. His store was known far and wide in Germany and made him one of the wealthiest men of the capital, although he had begun with almost nothing. Canon Farrar repudiates having ' asserted anything so wrong and so foolish cs that it is a sin to drink wine." St. Thomas Aquinas declares that "no food or drink is unlawful in Itself." According to Bishop Walsh total abstinence Is not imposed upen mankind In general by any law . of Cod. Nor Is It imposed upon all Christians by the law of their baptism. Mr. G. H. Parker, of West Midway, was refused admission to a Boston theater several days airo because he presented himself at the ticket office and wished to go in and see the performance In his shirt sleeves. While Mr. Parker Is said to be a clean, sober, well-b?hav2d i;entleman with lots of money, he believes that people nowadays wear too much tiothlng- nnd consequently he refrains from wearing either a coat or overcoat. He threatens to bring suit. Dr. Conan Doyle says that he manuscript of "Micah Clark" came back to blm .so often from publishers and was at last so tattered that he would gladly hnve sold it for W cents. Yet it has since brought In thousands of dollars to both utsthor and eubliaher. In suture the novelist is nearly

a giant, and he shines on the golf field, which he frequents as often as his hard hours of labor allow. He U very hosDitable to American authors who visit London, and is reputed to be a genial and good-natured man. Buffalo Bill 'is one of the most remarkable illustrations of the value of outdoor exercise at the present , time In the public eye. Mr. Cody is a little bit sensitive about his age, but no confidences are violated when it Is said that in tbb oplnlon of his associates he is nearer tae clxty than the fifty year mark. Yet ne is as trim in build as a lieutenant of cavalry, has a clear skin, a bright eye and nothing to show his advanced years except the gray In his hair and moustache. He is in the saddle three or four hours a day. Bronson Howard nas r.ot coiyiigMed any of his plays In the lat sixteen yeara. He says It Is of no use. because you can drive a coach and four through the copyright, and the best way Is to protect your property by common law. It is the fame with patents, a patent bein not worth the paper it is written on if some other ftllcw chooses to imitate the artl;le that you have patented and nas tmney enough to stand you off in the courts. The Cn'ted States of America, that hns granted, the patent, will not protect you from the pirates, nor will It do anything to keep a man from actlnir your play f-r rubbishing your book. All that is for the courts to da And the amount of . money required by a dramatist to protect his property in a court is rather appalling. PATRONS OF THE BLACK CAT. The Hoo-Hoo's Give Sixteen Men A Horrible Sensation.

The Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, which comprises between 1,700 and 1,800 members of the National Lumbermen's Association, took in sixteen new members last night Some sixty Hoo-Hoos assembled in Masonic Temple for the fun, and they put the sixteen novices through the several mystic degrees with a rapidity that took away the combined breath of the candidates. The new members were initiated in squads, two black robed HooHoos coming after fresh material every fifteen minutes until the operation was complete. From the noises which emanated from the hall at various times during the ceremony it was evident that the sixteen victims were furnishing a vast fund of amusement for their more fortunate brethren. The members initiated last night were most all from this city, and were as follows: C. D. Wells, H. C. Page, T. J. Christian, Ansel Fatout, H. T. Scearce, ,G. C. Goss. T. R. Thomas, John Simmons, A. P. Conkllng, M. L. Brown, W. F. Stillwell, A. H. . Brawn, L. G. Buddenbaum, Louis Budenz, Joseph Hoy, T. B. Kemper. Several of these initiates are from Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois. The Journal had an account of the organization of this popular "side-snap" of the Lumbermen's Association some months ago, when the latter mei here. It is between three and four years old, and a wonderfully popular institution, the increase in membership being phenomenal. A local lodge Is soon to be established in Indianapolis, which city has now twentyfive Hoo-Hoos, a sufficient number for such purpose. Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Ijouisville. Cleveland, Kansas City and all the large cities have local lodges. The officers of the organization, .many of, whom were present at last night's ceremony, are: Snark of . the universe, M. A. Hay ward, Columbus, O.; senior high Hoo-Hoo, H. T. Bennett. Indianapolis; junior high HooHoo, William Barnes, St. Louis; holy bojum, T. W. Schwartz, St. Louis; scrivenater, . J. L. Peck, Indianapolis; bandersnatch, I. G. Miller, Indianapolis; custocation, IL T. Sample, Lafayette; orcanoper, G. E. Springer, Anderson; gurdon, Tom F. Doyle, St. Louis. There was a lunch for the Hoo-Hoos, and they had fiash-light pictures taken, in . which everybody figured. It was a Jolly occasion. J WHAT GYMNASTICS DO. Sozialer Turnverein Gives an Object ' ; Lesson iii Its Work. Nearly five hundred girls and boys, misses and youths, young ladies and young men assited in showing last night, at Tomllnsoh Hall, what the Sozialer Turnverein is doing to bring about a generation of sturdy men and women. It was the occasion of the society's annual gymnastic exhibition. The programme comprised most of the exercises which are used in drilling the pupils in the school, from the simplest form of calisthenics . to the more complex and difficult exercises on the parallel bars and slackrope climbing. Little tots of four or five years of age did their part in as graceful, and perfect manner as did those of mature years and strength. The opening tableaux showed not only the training of those taking part, but that the persons who arranged the positions have an eye for effect in grouping. The "march and calisthenics" by the boys and girls from six to ten years of age also showed a fine taste for the effect on an audience. The girls, with their navy blue suits, were mingled among the boys in grey, and the movements were contrary", the blue moving one way and the gray the opposite, and only on these opposite movements were the pretty blue uniforms seen from behind the line of gray in front. The plastic ladder pyramids by the seniors, which closed the exercises, well displayed the final results of a long course of training in such an Institution. On two ladders held in position only by the men upon them were sixteen men, in all kinds or positions requiring strength and a steady nerve. The exhibition was witnessed b about 2,500 people, of whom only about six hundred paid an admission fee, so liberal is the society toward the teachers and pupils of the public schools. CITY AND COUNTY SHAKES. Belt Railroad Cases Not Reached by the Supreme Court. Deputy County Auditor Johnson in a recent calculation estimates that If all the delinquent taxes due the county from the railroad corporations were paid in the city's share would be $i8,007.28, but as the Union and Belt railway taxes cannot be collected until the United States Supreme Court passes upon the case the city will get but 53,127.30. The county is entitled to $40,479.00, the State to $40.479.Gu and the School Board to $2.777.2y. By the recent decision of the courts the amount of taxes due from the Big Four railroad is $34,087.94; from the Pennsylvania lines, $16,704.01. The Union Railway Company and the Belt railroad are not included in the decision. The Union and Belt companies are delinquent $192,416.38, which makes a grand total of $24:5,208.33. The auditor can make no attempt to collect the amount until the United States Supreme Court certifies the case back to the District Court, which may not be done for a couple of months. AN AGED .MAN'S DISAPPEARANCE. Thomas Cook Came to Attend the Masonic Grand Lodge. The entire police department is looking for Thomas Cook, Who was seen last in this city May 23. Mr. Cook resides in Solsberry. Greene county. He is seventy years old, and is one of the oldest Masons in the State. He came to this city as a delegate to the Grand Lodge. He was seen with a number of fellow-members of the order cn May 22, and appeared in good spirits. A number of the members remembered seeing Mr. Cook leaving the Grand Lodge Hall Wednesday, but that was the last seen, of him. Yesterday morning his son came to this city to look for his father, and stated to the police that the only reason that he could give for his father's disappearance is that he has met 'wltn foul play, as his mind was perfectly clear and he was In" the be3t of health. Mr. . Cook has a nephew, Charles E. Cook, residing at No. 162 Patterson street, but the latter Is also at a. loss to explain his uncle's disappearance. - Selling Small Ilo WhUky. Abraham Jacobs, who keeps a saloon at No. 270 South Illinois street, was arrested yesterday by partolman King for selling liquor on Sunday. Yesterday morning the mother of two boys, aged ten and twelve years, respectively, swore out ar.. affidavit for Jacobi's arrest. She said that Jacobs was in the habit of selling whisky in sina.l amounts to her sons, who sought secluded places and drank the liquor. She stated that on Sunday her older boy bought 10 cents' worth of the liquor from Jacobs with the usual result that he becime intoxicated. Jacobs may also be tried for selling liquor to minors.

SCHOOL FUND DIVIDE

ANNUAL APPORTIONMENT AMONG 4 THE NIXETY-TWO COUNTIES. Enumeration of School ChildrenNearly n Million nml'o Quarter DollHrs Collected. The apportionment of common school revenue for tuitbn made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction was completed yesterday. It shows the enumeration of children In each county, the amcuat cf school revenue ready far apcrtionment In each county, and Ve source from which the same Is derived, the total amount o schxl revenue for distribution, and the distributive shares thereof apportioned to each county, as required by law and the amount deducted for the Normal School fund. The amount collected from the ninety-two counties was $1.Z1S,SC9.SS; the amount In treasury from all other sources was $17,7S0.16; making a total on hand of $1.237,a:!0.04. The amount apportioned was $l,227,13'.r0, and the balance now remaining In treasury is $10,433.54. The per capita is $1.M. The following is the apportionment by counties: 3 p 0 3 O S 3 c a 3 si? - s I 3 COUNTIES.. 3o f? M .

: - : -: $5 : 7 $93774 $il.42i.50 14.419.23 13.32100 8.S07.2S 6.450.O.) .342.33 C4.r,4.(0 13,309.77 13.70.50 1.2 64 5.733.00 .11.157.32 9.922.50 1S.267.49 1S.5V.U.0 12.208.31 1C.534 50 12.745.07 19.47.00 16.335.91 14.107.50 3.542.22 8.428.50 11.333.08 15.703.50 13.634.C3 11.733.00 0.9S'x24 10,366.50 12.096.75 11.661.00 14.679.02 17.293.50 7.960.21 11.173.50 20,705.4$ 19.441.50 8.375.2 6.225.00 11.4S3.87 16.462.50 9.W7.15 10,872.00 " 8.122.C4 9.345.00 9.43.23 9.0"6.00 13.175.40 13.5S7.00 18.728.43 19.422,00 9,620.5 n.S7C.f.O 14.847.37 14.067.fO 11.226.46 9,601.50 6.677.82 11,778.(0 11.M7.C2 l75o..V) 14,312.80 11.W3.50 12.851.13 14.335.50 15.19S.S1 ia.S79.50 9.71 S.56 13.63S.00 7,374.78 6.106.50 10.75.13 13.041.(0 10.521.44 13.674.(0 7.4:9.)8 8.761.50 11.813.08 9.765.i0 12.091.43 16.000.50 15.926.76 11,971.(0 8.482.98 7.614.00 23.219.32 13,tt5.(t 21.543.66 21.O900 8.124.74 10.678.:O 22.744.74 26.070.00 121.763.66 74.994.(0 12.S2S.43 12.8C8.50 3,631.81 8.200.50 12.4S1.07 14.454.00 7.115.83 9.7C2.00 18.5S6.S3 26.463.S0 8.433.16 9.6'SO.eO 6.255.93 4.782.(0 13,78187 10.597.50 1.872.34 2.5S0.OO 4.7C2.18 8.S58.00 7,09.&0 8.310.PO 9.405.95 30.?S8.;.O 5.054.15 10.066. W 6.003.9-1 10,4i5.50 12.180.19 10.K7.00 12.408.22 14.145.50 5.0S.1.C6 7.393.(0 14.309.C0 11,532.00 13.053.47 13,372.50 8.528.16 10.815.00 15.077.69 S,C91.00 2.94i.f8 4.821. 00 15,4:0.06 13.317.00 8.158.21 13.434.00 3.844.40 4.6S9.C0 28.394.64 22.0S6.00 7.231.31 7.507.50 10.P5.0.76 12.ttJ9.CO 4,214.08 6.229.50 27.653,07 21.732.00 8..K2.03 ll.4iT7.50 4.653.14 . 2.848.W "S5.031.13 29,764 50 66l.72 7.014.(0 29.321.60 3 4,722.00 13.514.72 13,619.50 7.536.42 5.218.50 7.6f,3.01 12.768 00 7.954.27 10.167.03 2ti92.fr? 19.4T0.5') 10.682.00 11.S70.00 9.539.17 - 8.H2.O0 10.229.70 8,893.50 15.725.37 10.453.34

M3 Adams ...... Allen Bartholomew Benton , Blackford .. Boone , Brown Carroll V.tilO 25.JH-.3 8.SD2 4.S00 4. C3S 9.1S7 3.S22 6.015 12,387 11.023 12,y 9,403 5,619 10.4.M .7,822 6.911 7,774 11,533 7,149 12.S51 4.1.V) 10,975 7.2 IS 6.2:0 6.0O4 9.05S 12.918 9.1 9.378 6,401 7.8:2 7.171 7.8T.9 9.f.:j7 9.2M 9.002 4.071 8, r,!4 9.116 5.841 6.510 10.707 9.314 5.076 9.090 14.0.J6 7.119 17.3 W 4S.9V, 8.379 5.4'T7 9. G35 6.50S 10.977 6.420 3.1SS 7.0C5 1.720 - 5,572 5.540 6.819 7,014 6.937 7.038 9.431 4.9a0 7.723 8.915 7,210 5794 3.214 8.S78 8.9:G 14.724 5.O03 4.153 14.523 7,fiu1.899 19.813 4.67 23,143 10.413 3.479 8.512 6,778 12.f47 7,50 5. GL8 5.S23 Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford .... Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware ... Dubois Elkhart ..... Fayette Floyd ..; Fountain .... Franklin .... Fulton Gibson Grant Greene ....... Hamilton ... Hancock .... Harrison .... Hendricks ... Henry Howard Huntington Jackson .., Jasper lav Jefferson Jennings Johnson . Knox 1... Kosciusko Iagrange Lake .... La Porte . Iawrence Madison , Marion -Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery .. Morgan Newton ........ Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski .... Putnam ... Randolph . Ripley Rush Scott Shelby Spencer .... Starke St. Josepb. Steuben ... Sullivan ... Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vanderburg Vermillion Vigo .. Wabash 'Warren Warrick Washington .. Wavne, Wei Is v White Whitley From Treas urer Balance In the Treasury State Normal 15,000.00 Totals.. .808.091 $1,227,590.04 J1.SJ7.5W.C4 CHIEF JUSTICE HACKNEY. He Will Proside Over the Supreme Bench's Spring Terra. , The May term of the Supreme and Appellate Courts began yesterday. Judge Hackney, the youngest member, being elected Chief Justice of the former tribunal. The new calendar Is ready to be sent out. The number of cases on the Supreme Court docket at the May term last year was 515. At the opening of the November term, 1803, the number was 555. There are 431 cases on the docket now. The Appellate Court had 231 cases at the beginning of the last May term, 233 in the November term, and the docket yesterday Ehowed 1S3 cases. From May to November last year the docket gained forty cases on the Supreme Court. From November to May, 18y4. the court gained 124 cases on the calendar, making the gain of the court, for the year eighty-four. From May to November, 1893, the docket gained twenty-five cases in the Appellate Court. From last November to the present time the court gained forty-five cases on the docket, making the gain twenty cases for the year lif favor of the court. From May, 1893, to November, 133. the docket gain on both courts was sixty-five. From November, 1&93, to May, 1S9I, both courts gained ICS cases on the dockets. The total gain for the year was 104 case?. Of the 197 cases decided by the Supreme Court during the term Just closed Judge Hackney wrote opinions in fifty. Judges Howard and Daily fcrty-seven each, Juaa McCabe thirty-two and Judge Coffey thirtyone. The individual record of the Appellate Court is: Judges Davis, Gavin and Iotr. forty-three each; Judge Reinhard, fortyone, and Judge Ross, thirty-nine. McAH Slinalon Qnnrlerly Meeting?. The quarterly meeting of the McAli Mission Circle was held yesterday, with Mrs. E. J. Foster, and Mrs. O. J. Uearborn, the president, was In charge. The exercises pertaining to the work of the mission ia France were varied and Interesting. Mrs. R. O. Hawkins gave an account of the annual meeting, which waa held in Philadelphia, and read an extract from one of the addresses given by Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, which waa favorable to the work. Mrs. Perry gave an account of the work, and Mrs. Sickels spoke of the dispfniry part of th work and the spiritual advance connected with it. Miss Sarah Foster read a letter from Paris which dcriled the ra? pickers of the city, and of what the mission workers had done among that clars of people. Mrs. Bigger sang very sweetly an appropriate selection. A committee representing the Central Christian. Uobt-rta l'ark and the .Virst Baptist churches was appointed to arrange an entertainment to be givt-n in the fall for the benefit of the mlsjion. An Ambulance In Patrol Service. Yesterday morning a citizen notified the City Dispensary that a man was lying In a stairway on Hat Washington street. Just east of the courthouse, and that he was very 1IL The city Ambulance was sent to the place, but the accompanying physician found that the mn was not tick, but helplessly drunk. The ambulince Instead of taking him to the City IIos;ltaI took him to the police 9t.ttl"n, whore he carried by patrolmen Slate anJ Strinruck Into the "case." Th- man give bis i name a Thomas O'Conneil.