Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1895 — Page 4

,THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1895.

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If It were not for the bond law of the t resumption act the Democratic outfit at Washington would force the government to suspend payments. The statement of the late ex-President Hayes, that "he who served his country tmat Krtrvan hla nnrtv npst ." la a. truth applicable to all times. - i The Legislature should watch for a bill which will contain a clause which wlll prohibit cities from building and owning eleetrlo light plants. It irnay not be discovered by its title. Every county officer-elect in Marion ccunty having asserted that he is not a member of the County. Officers' Association, one mustbelleve them in preference to Mr. Fountain who is disturbed In his feelings! The silver men in Congress may block the way to a measure for financial relief and thereby retard the revivial of industry, but in the end they will suffer themselves. . The dog-in-the-manger business is not statesmanship., ' -There are more than half a million voters In this State and about five hundred county officers. Suppose that in the matter of fees and salaries the Legislature should succeed in leasing the five hundred and displeasing the 'five politics? Normal School trustees have entered into an agreement with other institutions to work an omnibus bill through the Legislature, they have made a mistake. The Normal ; School has good gcounds upon which to demand assistance, which it institutions which have none. It grieves the Journal to remark that one of the County Officers' Association committee, told a Marion county official yesterday that the committee had rooms on Tennessee street, and were Derfectlne a fee and salary bill which would be fA And vflt nriA of tliis committee told the House fee and salary committee that it would present no bill. Alas, this is a wicked world! There is no more reason for the inspection of steam boilers than there is for the inspection of threshing machines, .coal oil lamps or cooking stoves. The bill to create a lot of salaried places un3br the pretext of such inspection should be promptly and . summarily , killed. It is the duty of those who use steam boilers to . have them , inspected, and they should be held to a strict responsibility for the performance of the duty. They have no right to attempt to shift the refponsibillty on the State. As an arfitiment in f a vnr of fho Kill to .straighten the Kankakee river it is stated that the money expended by the State on Momence.rock has Increased the value of sixty thousand acres of land In Lake county from $3 to $5 per acre. In others words, the work done by the State has put that much money into the pockets of the owners of these lands without benefiting the rest of the State a particle. This is a first rate argument in favor of the straightening of the Kankakee by the owners of the land that would be benefited by it. The sinking of the North German "Lloyd steamship Elbe, with a loss of fully three hundred lives, Is a most terrible marine disaster, and full of distressing details.. Collisions at sea, and especially in contracted seas, wnicn carry many ships, are not wholly avoid able, but this one has been rarely paralleled in Its fatal results. With the information at hand, it looks as if the officers of the surviving steamer Crathie were guilty, of gross and criminal neglect h having failed to maki any effort whatever to afford relief or rescue the . passengers ui me x.iue, ' Figures published in the Journal a few days ago showed that the average cost of caring for the insane in this State was $227.68 per capita, against 1158.29 in Ohio, and that the establishment of the Ohio standard in this State would result in a saving of nearly $175.000 a year. Such a reform as that would be something the people could understand and appreciate. They do not care a fig whether the ward keepers and j hired girls in our insane hospitals are Republicans or Democrats, If they are efficient and humane and do their duty, but they do want to see the hospitals and all the State institutions run on business principles, and they would be especially glad to see a large reduction In expenses. By all means, let us have . the Ohio plan in Indiana. It is a curious illustration of theTJiversity of Individual views that, while the president of the State Humane Society in New York is recommending the introduction of whipping as a punishcumt for wile beaters In that) .State, the

worthy president of a similar society in this city should tender his resignation because it approved such a measure. In a large sense it would seem that human considerations ought to include the wife as well as the wife beater, and If a corporal punishment penalty will save the wife from a beating and thus also the husband5 from a whipping, it' is really a humane measure. Really, however, there does not seem to be much room for considerations of humanity in the case of wife beaters. They are already so degraded that no punishment can degrade their manhood; and, as for physical suffering, they deserve it. LIMITING Ml.MCIPAL INDEBTEDNESS.

The city of Terre Haute," like this city, is experiencing embarrassment from the constitutional provision .limiting municipal indebtedness to 2 per cent, of the value of taxable property. Terre Haute wants to undertake an extensive sewer. Improvement, and would like to raise money for the purpose by issuing bonds, but is prevented from doing so by the fact that her indebtedness is already near the constitutional limit. In these circumstances a resolution has been introduced and is awaiting final action by the Council asking the Legislature "to take preliminary steps to amend the said section nf tho f!rmst1tntlnn en abling cities to become indebted an additional 2 per cent, for the purpose of constructing and improving sewers, and for purchasing, owning, constructing, operating and controlling gas : plants, electric light plants, water works and building schoolhouses." The Journal is Inclined. to the opinion that some action in this direction is needed. The placing of a constitutional restriction on the right of the people to incur indebtedness for th$ legitimate ' purposes of government is at least questionable wisdom. To a certain extent It implies a doubt in the capacity of the people for self-government. It is true the restriction was imposed by the people themselves, but why should one generation tie the hands of another in a purely discretionary matter of this kind? The vigilance of taxpayers and the unalterable hostility to the increase of municioal debts, except in case of necessity or for strictly legitimate purposes, could doubtless be depended upon to prevent any, undue increase of such indebtedness.But, admitting that a general constitutional provision of the kind is beneficial, there would seem to be good reason for qualifying it. Circumstances may arise in which good financiering as well as good government calls far a, temporary increase of municipal indebtedness' beyond the constitutional limit. Such occasions may be exceptional, but in , view of the growing disposition on the part of eities and towns to acquire the ownership of certain franchises,,, they are almost sure to arise some time in the "history of every growing city. The Terre Haute proposition only authorizes an increase of an additional 2 per cent, of indebtedness to the existing; limit, and restricts the causes for which it may be incurred to the construction and improving j of sewers, building schoolhouses and acquiring the ownership oif gas plants, electric light plants and water works. These causes .are so few in number and so strictly in the line of municipal progress that their exception from the general rule limiting Indebtedness could not be considered dangerous. The subject is at least worthy of careful consideration by the Legislature, and if it should conclude to submit any constitutional .amendments to the people it could do no harm to include this one. t A FEW WORDS WITH Mil. FOUNT AIX. Ji The Journal publishes this morning the statement of Mr.1 G. M. Fountain, president of the County Officers Association and clerk, of the court in St. Joseph county, read to the House committee on fees and salaries. The Journal will only consider those portions reflecting upon the press, and those portions because they are, to put it mildly, misleading. The person who gets the worst of a, cause in court blames or curses the Judge, according to his propensity to; express himself by epithet; so the really excellent person who has been connected with some . transaction which, on its face, is off color, reviles the newspaper which publishes the act and comments on it. Mr. Fountain is one of these excellent but unfortunate individuals. He would like to shift the responsibility of the circular to which he alludes, and, therefore, blames it on the newspapers which published it. It was a circular which notified every county officer in Indiana that he had been assessed 1 per cent, of his salary "to meet the necessary expenses of changing the fee and salary law." Unless the government of Indiana Is by the county officers, for the county officers, such a circular is a matter of public importance. Mr. Fountain, as that, "judicious publisher," may think otherwise, but the people of Indiana are with the newspapers, who will tell them what is going on that may affect their interests. Here Is the matter in brief:' An authorized officer of the County Officers' Association issues an assessment circular which, if every, county officer is a loyal member of that body, as Mr. Fountain avers, .would raise $15,000 or $20,000. In commenting on this circular the'Journal said: If the county officers whose names are mentioned in this circular have any explanation to make which will free thera from the conviction which this circular carries that they have formed a conspiracy . to corruptly influence the Legieiature the I journal will be pleased to print It. This Invitation neither Mr. Fountain i' nor his associates have accepted; but Instead, nearly two weeks after the publication, he goes to a committee of the Legislature, and, assuming the role of the truly good and the martyr, snivels about "the vilification of the press" and its "senseless crusade." , And for what? Because, for one the Journal published a circular of public interest and offered Mr. Fountain anopportunity to explain it. ". ; ; , -. . Because Mr. Fountain has been a"newspaper publisher and editor he undertakes to tell us how "prudent newspaper publishers" would do things. Before publishing an important circular, signed by . the officers of an association, he "would Investigate and publish afterwards." Such a publisher would not publish a newspaper, . but what would have been a newspaper last week. Such an editor, if he had found one of his party friends involved in this circular, would not have published It at all. If he had found only wicked Democrats involved he would print it In full face type and refuse to publish; an explanation. Such a publication can no more . be called a newspaper thtut a train with a

perpetual hot-box could ,be advertised as a lightning express. "But there was j

noming 10 investigate, ana Mr. m ountain admits, by not accenting the Journal's offer, nothing to explain. - Again, Mr. Fountain read a circular dated Jan. 18, and said it is one "which the ress don't care to publish," leaving the committee to, infer that the press had refused to publish it, So far as the Journal is concerned. It has never been asked to publish such a circular. If one of the officers had sent it to the Journal it would have been published as a part of the news. If Mr. Fountain were not in so bad temper that he is scarcely responsible for what he says, the Journal might accuse him of bearing false witnessa thing which the "prudent editor" should not do. Now that Mr. Fountain has tendered the Journal advice, it may even dare to make a suggestion to Mr. Fountain himself.; He is clerk of the courts of St. Joseph . county. He complains that he has not so much salary as he deserves; and yet he has been absent from his office a month. If he t continues to remain here the fee and salary committee may come to the conclusion that, there are no duties connected with the office he holds for which a salary should be paid, and reduce it still further. This would be a logical conclusion, unless the policy is to be adopted in Indiana that county officers like Mr. Fountain are to constitute a leisure class, like the British aristocracy, and draw revenues from the people for their support. In conclusion, the Journal will add that, from every source of information, it is led to believe that the taxpayers of Indiana are opposed f to such fees and salaries as Mr. Fountain and his associates are laboring to impose. Twice within a few years the conventions of both parties have denounced the old fee and salary law. The best' local papers of both parties now denounce It, and hundreds of letters are written to members of the Legislature and others demanding that salaries be fixed and be reasonable. From a sense of duty and from choice the Journal takes sides with the people. Even though, it calls forth the censure and the misrepresentation of President Fountain, and makes a few former friends temporary enemies, the path of duty is plain, and the Journal will walk therein. The laws ol Indiana reouire that any foreign insurance company, before doing business in this State, must file with the State Auditor a statement that Its capital stock, is invested In sound securities or mortgages, and convince that officer, by evidence satisfactory to him, ' that such, statement Is correct. In the formation of companies fti this State, the law, ' if One is passed, should make the requirements in regard to the investments of companies very explicit, lest wild-cat companies spring" up, which would surely rob the people who are not prepared to investigate. - The people have a right to expect that the Legislature will protect them against such swindles, and that the law will be so carefully enforced that the person who buys Insurance in any company sanctioned by its officers will get what he purchases.' In regard to the admission of sound companies with a capital ' of $100.000, there seems to be no valid objection so long as they comply with the present requirements, which have secured absolutely sound fire insurance to the people of Indiana. The Journal has seen the reports of a dozen fire insurance companies with a capital stock of $100,000 or $150,000, each of which had a surplus available for policy holders ranging from $110,000 to $376,000. There seems no good -reason why a $100,000 company, presenting the same evidence of reliability required of companies with $200,000 or more capital, should not be admitted to do business in Indiana. The statement which the Board of Public Works make In tendering their resignations to the Mayor is entitled to candid consideration. They have done what they thought to be best -for the city and the taxpayers, and their work shows that, if they have occasionally erred In judgment, they have in the main rendered the city good as well as faithful service. They have had no favorite contractors, and no man who has read the testimony can , truthfully say that there is a particle of evidence tending to show that, in the most remote manner, have they been party to any Jobbery. 'That they have made some mistakes will not be denied, but whether they remain or leave office the general verdict must.be that they have clean hands, which goes for a great deal. The positions which they have held are the most ; responsible and the most open to criticism that could be devised. If a man were looking for a position In which he could get the most worry and torment in this world; on the ground that the more he had In this life the less he would have in the next, he would be a persistent candidate for a place on the Board of Public Works. The Tell City Journal, commenting on the bill which has been introduced in the Legislature requiring drug clerks to be graduates of some pharmaceutical institution or pass an .examination before being allowed to compound prescriptions, suggests that, as physicians have already been regulated, "a law compelling all lawyers to graudate in some lawinstitution before being eligible to practice would be in order." Not exactly in order. The framers of our Constitution, In their wisdom, provided that the only requisites for admission to the bar In this State shall be the possession of good moral character and the right to vote. Thus, a lawyer in this State may be ccnstitutional without being Institutional. It, ts, however, a pretty good proof of the intelligence of the people that they generally manage to .discriminate between the two classes, and perhaps it is also an argument against trying to regulate the standard of any profession by legislation. Thetatement of Mr. Fountain in regard to the compensation of the clerk of Marlon county shows that he knows nothing about the matter. His expenses for clerks are nearer $15,f00 than $9,000. He has four civil courts running ten months in the year and a criminal court practically in session the whole year, and he spends his whole time in the office. Take the work as a basis as published in thf last, volume of the Bureau qf Statistics for 1S93. In Marion county 2,893 court cases were begun, 775 executions and 198 decrees of foreclosure were issued. In St. Joseph county, 507 civil cases were j begun, El executions issued and 35 decrees of foreclosure made. That is, in this same department 3.963 transactions took place to 623 In St. Joseph county, or over 6 1-3 times as ' saAny If the clerk's office in Marion

county were paid upon the basis of work done, the total compensation would be $21,213 to be in proportion to Mr. Fountain's salary of $3,550 In St. Joseph. If the other work of the two offices were compared the salary of the clerk in Marion would be still greater than the figure above named. The Journal is not urging the increase of the clerk of Marion, but is simply pointing out that on the basis of office work he receives .less than Is paid Mr. Fountain. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. ''-; r Dilemma. "This is a nice state of affairs," remarked the all-round actor. "Just as I have Joined the Anti-cigarette League they go and cast me for a society villain." He Wondered. "I wonder," mused Hungry Higgins, I wonder If the late Mr. Can Robert that they has been so much in the papers about was one Of our fellers at some time?" Association. "Talking about styles in women's dress," remarks the "bald-headed philosopher, "I notice about every man thinksj the style the handsomest that the women wore when he was about twenty years old." ' This Would Take. Watts Talk about your aids to patriotism, I have got one that will knock 'em all clean out of sight. Potts Trot it out. 111 listen. Watts It is just this: I am going to get a bill through the Legislature that every man who will wear the American flag for a necktie all the time shall be excused from paying any taxes. , " ' THE INDIANA PRESS.

When the Indianapolis Sentinel asserts that the Republican party is pledged to the passage of "such a law" as that proposed in the Nicholson bill, it asserts what it cannot prove. The American hopes- the present Legislature will leave the liquor question alone. Brookville American. Speaker Adams is proving one of the most populat presiding officers that has ever, graced the desk. He is a wholesouled, courteous gentleman, who puts on no airs, and has a large fund of common sense. If the House does not complete its work in the allotted sixty days it will not be his fault. ; He abhors dilly-dallying like nature abhors a vaoura, and does all in -his power to expedite business. Monticello Herald. President Swain, of , the State University, was befare the House ways and means . committee Tuesday urging the imposition of a tax of one-sixth of a mill for the Bloomington school which it is ;calculated will amount to $200,000 a year. His appeal should be promptly -and finally denied. The taxeaters must be kicked out. The Republican party is pledged to reduce taxation and that pledge must be kept or we will not see another Republican Legislature in Indiana in a dozen years. Kokomo Tribune. The appointive power, of the Governor should not be disturbed. He . is the head of the State departments, just as President Cleveland is of the national. The majority in, the Legislature could change the political complexion of every State institution, but it would be a contemptible exercise of power. It would be Just like a Democratic Legislature to do something of this kind with a Republican Governor. The Republican party, however, is not governed by such .narrow principles. Marion Chronicle. .. .. -,f While at Indianapolis and other cities throughout the State -the 80-per-cent. coinsurance clause does not apply to stocks of merchandise or machinery valued at less than $10,0C0, in this city, so far as we are Informed, it has been applied to all mercantile and manufacturing risks and the buildings that contain them, without regard to their value. Thus Injustice has been done either by the companies, the local agents or the local inspector (who passes on all policies.) to all merchants and manufacturers and building-; owners who come within the $10,000 limit which, in fact, comprises a large portion of our business men. Richmond Item.!. Civil service reform, for our benevolent and penal', institutions was strongly indorsed by General, Harrison in a. speech at Danville, and his remarks on the subject were cheered. It was 'a part of the State Republican platform- In 18S6. William D. Foulke introduced a . civil-service bill In the Senate in 18S5 and every Republican voted for It. John L.. Griffiths introduced a bill in the House in 1889 and every Republican voted for iti Again 'in 1891 Senator Magee introduced the bill and it received unanimous Republican support. A failure now, to pass such, a law will make some mean explanations necessary In the future. Rockville Republican. Among , the House , bills introduced Monday was one to allow horse railroads to use country roads. This bill never ought to have been even referred to a committee, but promptly kicked out of the House, and the member offering it sent home to his constituents to be dealt with in a summary manner. What the next century may bring forth no man can tell, but this generation will have passed away before our country roads are turned orer to horse railroads, or any other kind of. railroads. The country roads of Clinton county have been constructed at a great cot to the farmers and the taxpayers generally, and they are not ready to convert- them into railroads. Frankfort Banner. It seems altogether probable that the Republicans in the Legislature will agree upon a plan whereby the State benevolent and penal institutions will hereafter be controlled by boards made up of a majority of members', whose political ; faith agrees with the party' In power, with minority representation. There can bs no other solution of the problem. If the appointingpower is left in the hands of the Governor he will continue to appoint a majority of Democrats, for he himself has said it. It is evident, therefore, that none of the reforms proposed can hardly be realized while present methods continue to exist, but there is a hopeful prospect that much good can be accomplished if the bipartisan plan is adopted. The - Republican party must carry out its .- pledges in good faith, especially with reference to the State institutions in question, but the sacrificing of its advantage to the opposition cannot be considered .a test; of sincerity nor evidence of common sense. Lafayette Courier. The bill to create metropolitan police boards in all citle3 of less than ten thousand is now before the Senate ror consideration. The bill is free . from the subjections which have been urged against metropolitan police boards in the larger cities in that it preserves the idea of home rule in municipal government. By this bill the board is composed of four members, one of which shall be the Mayor, the other three to be appointed by the judge of the Circuit Court. This removes the entire re-' sponsibility from the City Council, a body which usually i3 influenced more or less by political considerations. The office of city marshal is abolished and the whole police machinery is placed In the hands of this board. All fees for detective work shall be paid into the city treasury. If the bill passes it will create an entire revolution in police management, and we believe, so far as we are able to judge of its merits at first glance, , will work to the advantage of all cities. Crawfordsville Journal. . . . . , A bill has been introduced for the appointment of . State Bacteriologist. Let the bill pass. The great wonder is . that the State has grown to be so large, many of the native born lived to be so old, without a State bacteriolofist. The boys would have fought more gallantly during the war; the rebellion would have been put down much earlier if Indiana troops could have pointed up and beyond the flag and said to the enemy, "Now, fire another shot and we will report your case to the State bacteriologist." Not only would Indiana have one ex-President to boast of now, but if we had been provided earlier with a bacteriologist the State might to-day be called the father, mother and grandmother of Presidents. If we had had a good coal oil inspector forty years ago every county In the State would have had oil of their own. A right good natural-gas inspector (like Jordan, for instance), and we would have had natural gas thirty years ago. Give us a State Board of Health with Metcalf for secretary, and it will be. but a few years until we will have to put up monuments to mark the places onre known as graveyards and cemeteries. The mineral resources, the agricultural wealth of the State has been kept hick too long waiting for the Legislature to create an office for the edification and Instruction of the people. The members of the Legislature are being watched by their constituents with a critical eye. Letfnot another sun go down until aj with one voice there haa been a firt, - second and third reading of the bill, and the of

fice of bacteriologist la created. No matter what his duties he needn't have any but it sounds well, and the voice of the Times is for a bacteriologist. Muncie Times. - : MAGAZINE NOTES. The Butler Collegian for January has for its frontispiece a fine portrait of Miss Catherine Merrill, who was for many years a favorite teacher in Butler University. Some time ago F. Hopkinson Smith showed that an artist could distinguish himself as a story writer, and now Julian Ralph is proving with fair success that a newspaper writer can do well in the same field. Both have stories in the current Harper, as also have Mrs. Burton Harrison, Grace King and Richard Harding Davis. The Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati Is issuing a phonographic dictionary and phrase book, arranged by Benn Fittman and Jerome B. Howard, which will, no doubt, be of mucu use to shorthand writers. It is claimed that when completed the book will Include in its vocabulary every word in the English language which is not obsolete or rare. The work is being published in installments. Harry C. Jones, publisher of the periodical hitherto known as the Quarterly Illustrator, announces that hereatter It will be issued monthly. It has proved to be such an attractive and popular means of keeping the public informed in regard to the work of artists that extension of its work seems justified. The price of the monthly will be $3 per year. Carl Beckwith's work is given the place of honor in the February issue. , The Southern Magazine, which has undergone a variety of vicissitudes since it was established in Louisville, two or three years ago, has been revived under new management after a brief discontinuance, and shows signs of having a more experienced hand at the helm than heretofore. The mistake of making It a sectional publication has been seen, and tne new editor announces that in future it will seek from every quarter the best material to be obtained. The typographical features of the magazine are admirable. Harper's Weekly has a poem by'Gustav Kobbe which closes with the lines: "Nought said I, For I knew o'er the grave o' th Harbor Belle the sea gulls fly." If this production had been submitted to the Journal, it would have been returned to the author to have its tenses harmonized, but Eastern literary periodicals sometimes rise superior to rules of grammar. However, perhaps Kobbo and his publisher ought - not to be criticised while Robert Louis Stevenson's verses ending "All that was me i3 gone" go the rounds without comment. In an article in Harper's Magazine on gambling, John Bigetow argues that all gambling is not essentially wrong, but that its immorality is a question of conscience. To illustrate, he says if a player never allows his heart to be poisoned by a desire to do to another what he would not wish done to himself, his play would be innocent. Mr. Bigelow thinks a strict application of this test would practically do . away with the gaming table, and if he were to say that it would interfere with a great variety of so-called legitimates business, he would probably not go far -wrong. The Golden Rule Is very searching if allowed full sway. Part five of the work entitled "Fishes of North America," issued by the Harris Publishing Company, 19 Park place. New York, is out. It contains two fine colored plates with representations, or, as they are called, "portraits" of fish, life size and of natural tinta The text, which 'gives accurate scientific information concerning all the varieties of fish, is prepared by William C. Harris, editor of the American Angler. The 2 lustrations are prepared with great care, nd the preparation of the plates involves much expense. The work is an important one, and will occupy a field of its own, no other publication attempting to cover so large a field. It is to be issued in forty parts at a cost of $1.50 each. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

It is said that the. new President of France, M. Faure, bears a striking resemblance to the late Chester A. Arthur. The Rev. Mr. Downing, pastor of a colored Presbyterian Church in Roanoke, Va., intends to place In his church a handsome window in memory of Stonewall Jackson. During the last eight years the Enoch Pratt Free Library, of Baltimore, has put into circulation 4,000,000 of books, and now has nearly 150,000 volumes on its shelves, accessible to the public, Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an untiring patron of manicurists, givers of facial massage, chiropodists and shampooers. She says she believes, on principle, in being as good looking a.3 she can. J. R. De Lamar, the "Monte Cristo" of Idaho, is a' native of Holland. He is small in stature, with large features and red hair, and has been a' sailor, a glue workman, a bartender and a butcher. As he is now a millionaire he has given up the other jobs. , Miss Kate Field, the well-known Washingtonlan, and George Riddle, the elocutionist, who are the niece and nephew of Mrs. M. H. Sanford, of Newport, R. I., are contesting the latters avlll, Mrs. Sanford having left a large slite of her estate to a friend. T ? It is well known that lime water has a beneficial effect on the growth of children, and in countries where the drinking water is impregnated with salts of lime the men are apt to be tall. An English medical authority states that for a perfeot sanitary diet alkaline water is needed for every person who eats heavily of meat, and this means nearly every one, excepting the vegetarian. The "Trlrby" craze has had no funnier outcome than the desire of girls In all parts of the world who think they resemble Du Maurier's heroine to communicate with the author. Mr. DuMaurier has received a large number of patographs from young women in this and other countries asking him If, in his opinion, they resemble the real Trilby. These letters and pictures place 'him in an embarrassing position, but he is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Rev. Dr. King, the noted abolitionist, who has just died at Chatam. Ont., is said to have been the one from whom the character of Clayton In "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was drawn. He was born In 1S12, the son of a Southern planter, but some time before the civil war, deciding that slavery was wrong, he freed his slaves and those of his wife, and securing a grant of land from the Canadian government founded a college for refugee slaves . at Buxton, Ont., which exists till this day. The miorobe wafted on the breeze. Now makes his annual trip. And when the folks begin to sneeze, We know he's brought his grip. Philadelphia Record. The small boy with the snowball hard Now lingereth anear, And strong men pass the achoolhouse yard In trembling and fear. - . ' Puck. "I believe you are wrapped up In me," He said to her, but "No, That wrap is far too thin," quoth she, "For January snow." Cleveland Plain Dealer. SHREDS AND PATCHES. Do strikes pay? If yes, whom? Chicago Tribune. A man -would admire his1 wife's dress more If It cost less. Detroit Free Press. China is beginning to realize herself what it is to have an excess of foreign population. Washington Star. Aside from the round of Jackson banquets the Indiana Democrats appear to be In a comatose condition. Washington Post. President Cleveland receives a rubbing down evtiry morning, even before reading the daily papers. Kansas City Journal. Miss Billings What kind of a man would you like to marry? Miss Wllling-Oh. a bachelor or a widower. New York Herald. Caslmir-Perier says a .Womani caused his downfall. Same old lie. copyrighted by the late Mr. Adam, of Eden Park. Chicago Dispatch. One of the many lessons of the Brooklyn strikes Is that the "innocent bystanders" would better, stand further off. Chicago Tlmeat . A man who wanted to try a bicycle at Shelbyvllle, Ind., was so completely carried away by it that he has not come back. Chicago Post. There are 830 widows and 280 widowers in Portland Me., but it is not thought that Hon. Tom Reed can do anything about this. Cincinnati Tribune. "It is unlucky to have thirteen at table," says the Manayunk philosopher, "especially if you have made preparations for only two." Philadelphia Record. An Indiana man has not been able to

sleep for 116 days. He would be a good man for Secretary Carlisle to hire to watch the gold reserve. New York Press. 'aHsTaHBMaaBBjaBBBBBaaaMBMaaBaBaaHBBBaMaaaaBBBBBBaaBBB : BUILDING AN U LOAN AGITATION.

3Ir. Morgnn Tells Why the Expense Fund Should Be Abolished. To the Editor of the IndianapoUa Journal: It is true that the building and loan laws of Indiana are' good, and the associations as a whole are economically managed, as stated in yonr editorial of the 29th, but let us look further into the subject. Your figures were based on 496 associations, more than 400 of which lave no expensa furl, but pay expenses fiom profits, like other commercial and financial concerns. They render statements to shareholders of profIts and expenses, and If . the expense appears extravagant the managers will be called to account. On the other hand, about forty associations in the State operate on an expense fund basis, and what for, pray tell me? ,1s there one good reason for such fund? There seems to be but one object, and that to get a large amount of money from the shareholders into a fund that does not have to be accounted for. How many associations .make a statement to shareholders showing the amount received in the "expense fund," and shewing what has become of it? The members have a right to know what becomes of all they pay in. If the members of these expense-fund associations knew the enormous amounts collected into this fund there would be a revolution without legislation, but they do not know. True, reports are made to the State Auditor, but few, if any, shareholders ever see such reports. The fact is the expense fund system accumulates large amounts for which no one is responsible. Now and then some association will turn the small remains from this fund Into profit account, and then make a great boast about what it saved from expenses. What a farce! Paying dividends with capital 1 The expense fund comes from capital, and if any of it be saved it belongs in capital account, not profits. Suppose you Join an expense-fund association. You pay $1 membership fee for one share, pay twelve monthly payments at 70 cents; total $9.40 the first year. What is It worth? They have credited you with 60 cents a month; total, $7.20. It has cost you $2.20 to take care of $7.20 an everage time of six months. It would take an earning rate of 61 per cent, per annum to restore your capital. But they say wait. Well, try it another year. You add $8.40, making a total of $17.40, and find to your credit $14.40. It will require a dividend at a rate of 21 per cent, per annum to make your stock worth what you have paid in the two years. But wait; you must pay more to save what you have invested. Add $8.40 more, making $25.80, and you have a credit of $21.60, the expense fund having absorbed $4.20, and it will require an annual earning of 13 per cent, to restore your capital. Three years, and nothing made. About time to quit, is it not? It may "be years and it may be never" when you get your capital back, with any actual earnings added to it. The number of such associations probably will not exceed forty in this State, but they are bringing into disrepute the building and loan system by such methods. The way to prevent it Is to abolish the expense fund. No other 'business assesses capital to pay expenses. That association which does not make enough earnings to pay expenses has no right to exist. Every individual, corporation arid association should keep its expenses within its earnings. If through disaster it cannot, then it is time to assess capital to pay the loss. To assess oapital one-sixth as it Is paid in and create a large unprotected fund before expenses accrue is only a bid and temptation to extravagance, to say the least. It has been -said that associations cannot organize and exist without an expense fund. Five-sixths of the Indiana associations have been able to do a prosperous business without. You will excuse the reference to the society I hold membership in if I do not mention its name. It has done a successful business for ten years, handling more than a million dollars. It organized with a membership fee of 25 cents. It owns its office building and has as good a banking room as there is in the city. It pays directors for attending meetings. It employs the best of help, paying liberally for it. It prints for shareholders semi-annual reports, showing receipts, disbursements, profits and expenses. Its books are audited twice a year by experts. It made gross profits of more than $20,000 last year,, and used less than $3,000 of it for expenses, set aside a reasonable reserve for contingent losses, and made a handsome divide for the shareholders. . Its loans are now made at 8 per cent Interest, and no premium, the borrower participating in profits. This association needs no expense fund, nor does any other. - The usual rate would have given this association an expense fund of $700 per month; last year its actual expense, including taxes, was $250. The expense fund must go. J. R. MORGAN. Kokomo. Ind., Jan. SI. Opposes Radical .Legislation. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Permit me to approve in the fullest sense your editorial on building and loan associations in Tuesday's paper.' No greater mistake can be made by this Legislature than to pass radical legislation against building associations. I have been connected with building associations for fifteen years, and I know they have been of Inestimable value to this city and State. To upset these institutions will be little less than a calamity. Certainly the Republican party cannot afford to father any legislation which will produce any such a result. The State building associations, against which the attack is made, are large and most valuable institutions. In a few years our building associations will be carrying the entire mortgaged debt of the. State. Why should we seek to cripple any association that assists in accomplishing such an object? If these associations are let alone, competition will regulate all mistakes and all unfair treatment. I am not pleading for the expense fund. As much can be said for it as against it. It is by no means as big a thing nor as unfair' to the stockholders as some persons would have us believe. It costs- money to put a building association on its feet and make It a pay ng investment. The State ef Indiana requires spot cash $392 to incorporate; the printing of supplies, by-laws, etc., costs about $600 more; typewriter, $125 more; a set of books, $75 more; office rent for two years at $25 per month, $600; one girl to keep books, two years at $30 per month, $720; one shorthand girl at $30 per month. $720; safe, $150; postage, $400. Here is an expense of $3,382 at the end of the first two years, and no provision is made for salaries, traveling expenses, or compensation for a hard-worked secretary. There are those in this; fight against this expense fund who say State building associations have no right to sxist. Why do they say this? Simply because these associations have by hard work pulled through and are a success. I believe the animus of a good deal of this opposition is "He has got something; now take it away from him." I am also opposed to taxing paid-up stock, and especially to. limiting the rate of premium. Competition will regulate al. the e que-Ions. . T , W. H. HOBB3. Indianapolis, Jan. 3L Jackson's County Seat. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; I see a lengthy communication In the Journal of Jan. 28, from a writer located at Brownatown. He has no "interest whatever" in the matter, and Is not at all concerned as to the outcome. He would have your readers think there was only one side of the question in controversy, but it is an old adage, and there are two sides to this as well as. other questions. We admit that the seat of justice is quite near the center of the county, from a geographical standpoint, but that statement is only calculated to deceive. The whole truth o the matter is this: That this city is within one mile of the center of population. Would not the seat of justice accommodate the greatest number of people who have business to transact if the same was located near them? Seymour has seven thousand population, largely over one-fourth of the entire population of the county. Jackson county has two or three streams that become unfordable in rainy weather, thereby impeding travel by horseback, but Seymour can be reached from the remotest townships in the county by rail; in fact, by ra. from ten out of eleven townships, while there are but three townships, including the one in which the courthouse is now situated, that have access to Brownstown by rail. The traveler must leave the cars at Ewitig. Seymour is a city of thrift and enterprise, with four elegant schoolhouses.1 numerous fine churches, many manufactories, squares of fine business blocks and mtU's of concrete and sawed stone walks, eUctric and gas plants, elegant private residences, cozy cottages and a lovely natural rark, where it is our hope to see erected that courthouse. The whole questlotr resolves itself into a nutshell. Seymour is the county center of population, wealth and enterprise; three-fourths of the business and taxes go from this end of the county, and surely it is no "great Injustice" for a majority of the people to say what they want ami when they want it. It Is not I a question for the General Assembly to say ' that the courthouse Fhall be locatei here. but simply an act, a law. wherebv the people may say for themselves what they want. Sevmour. ImL. Jan. 29. E.

TO OUST RECEIVERS

JUDGE GROSSCUP WILL HEAR ARGUMENTS AT CHICAGO SAT UR DAT. Order Entered Restralnlnsr Greenhnt and Lawrence from Dlsuoslnff of Aur Property of the Whisky Trait. CHICAGO, 'Jan. 3L The restraining order preventing the Whisky Trust receivers from taking any action In the proceeding under which they were appointed will remain la force 'until Saturday morning. Judge Grosscup . entered the order yesterday, and pected to-day to hear arguments on a motion to oust the receivers. On account of the gravity of the situation the court announced to-day that the motioa would not be taken up until Saturday. ' He allowed the . restraining order entered yesterday to remain la force until a decision is reached on the motion set for argument Saturday. . , The conflict presents the paradox of the attorneys for 'both sides of the combat expressing extreme natisfaetioa with the status of the case. Each party claims it is In the right, and has received all it asked for. 'When Judge Grosscup opened his court to-day there was present attorn sys Runnells and Burry, representing the receivers; Levy Mayer, for the petitioning stockholders' committee; O. Peckham, for the Saufeldt distillery, and attorney Eddy, for Nelson Morris. Tha court made the following statement: "Through their attorneys certain stockholders oi the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company represented to me, In the presence of the president and attorney or tne company, that the company was insolvent, and that a $7,000,000 debt would soon fall due, and that in their opinion, unless the company was placed in the hands of a court of equity for operation, the funds of the company would be wasted and dissipated and the loss fall on the stockholders. The situation as set forth in the bill was on that demanded immediate action. To publish to the world the complaint would defeat it very object. Apparently the protection of the court was necessary. The president of the company did not combat the representation, and the receivers were appointed. "A petition is now on file from other stockholders, representing that the first bill was authorized by only a small proportion of the stockholders, and claiming that tha president had no right or authority to surrender the company in such manner. It is further stated in the petition that at tha time the receivers were appointed a committee was on the point of furnishing a plan for the, rescue of the corporation and; the raising of the necessary funds, and that this plan was frustrated by the appointment of the receivers. Under these circumstances the petitioners ask 'that the court hear them on an application for the removal of the receivers.. From the nature of the case the court should Inquire Into the facts, and I will set Saturday morning for th hearing of the petitions of the stockholders. I shall ask the attendance in person of Mr. Runnells and Receivers Greenhut and Lawrence." - -.".; -'v ' Mr. Runnells bowed and attorney Levy Mayer, representing tho anti-Greerihut party," jumped up and, asked that an order b entered restraining the receivers from" disposing of any of the property or funds of the company, Mr. Runnells did not object and Mr. Mayer handed a typewritten order to tho court which he wished entered. The court glanced over it and Mr. Runnells asked to see it. Having read it, he objected, and the Judge seemed doubtful about entering it, but Mr. Mayer wished to leave it with the court, who should modify it as ho saw fit. Mr. Mayer asked that all officers of the company be required to appear in court the same as the president, without a subpoena, but the court declined to so order. Mr. Mayer further asked for permission to examine books and accounts but the court thought no order was necessary, saying the books of such companies were always open to stockholders. The question of the restraint on the receivers was taken up and it was agreed that the distilleries of the trust should be operated as usual. Attorney Peckham wanted to know If the Shufeldt could discount its" paper as usual up to Saturday, but .the court said not. : Mr. Eddy was there to see that the receivers did not quit feedingJtho cattle that the company has been taking care of for Nelson Morris. Runnells and Burry say their chests are actually tho receivers of the company and that they are perfectly satisfied with the state of the case. On the other hand, the opposite side says that Greenhut and Lawrence are receivers in name only - and that to make them real receivers, the property must be turned over to them formally by deed. At the conclusion of court Judge Grosscup wrote an order in which he restrained the receivers from doing any thing save to conserve the property until after the hearing on Saturday morning. He further (ordered that "all stockholders of record, and holding duly assigned certificates of stock of the date of the appointment of the- receivers and prior thereto shall have acceto to the books, documents and papers of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company for inspection, either by-themselves or their counsel, under such reasonable supervision as w'ii insure the security of such, and that on the application of suoh stockholders or tHelr counsel for the production of such books, etc., In court at the hearing herein assigned, the same be produced : without furt;i- er of this court. It la -further ord-ir . the Interveners have such subpoen; ,m the court as may be necessary jcure the attendance of such witnespe.. as they may desire under the usual conditions relating to subpoenas. " Not only is the Whisky Trust tied up In the United States Court, but its books and accounts are to be made the subject of a searching investigation. For the purpos of the investigation two expert accountants and the New York counsel for the stockholders to-night left for Peoria, the headquarters of the Trust, where, by virtue of an order made by Judge Groswcup, they will go over and check up the reports of receipts and expenditures trince 1893, and further back if it is deemed advisable. Developments of some importance are expected as a result of this work. The results of the Investigation will be tabulated and brought back to Chicago to be used ms evidence in the hearing for the removal of receivers Greenhut and Lawrence, set before Judge Grosscup for Saturday. , .... Judge Taf t's Order. CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 31.-Judge Taft, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, handed down to-day a supplementary decree defining the powers of the local receivers of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Company. The decree command the receiver to pay all claims for goods and supplies furnished and for wages and salaries during the month tt January. Thl decree Includes also rebates, checks . and vouchers Issued by the company to distributing agencies in the amount of 2 cents on the gallon, when the blila due to the company by these distributing agencies ara paid up. The decree gives the receiver power to pay all such claims 'In this Judicial district contracted before Feb. 1. 1895. In the rebate claims the decree recognize the liability of the company only' to tne distributing companies and to the extent of only 2 cents on the gallon. The distributing company must therefore settle the 5 cents per gallon with the retailer in case it i under obligation to do so. The decree does not, so far, hold the company liable for the 5 cents additional to the retailer. Earth Trembliag In Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. SL Since tha great earthquake shock of the 22d of November, 1S94, which caused the loss of fifteen lives in this city and destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of property, a reign of terror has prevailed in the towns of Jamiltepec and Tuxtepec in the State of Oaxaca, where the earth trembled from six to eight times a day. The churches and houses are a heap of ruins, and the inhabitants have nearly all fled to neighboring hamlets. The eruption of some volcano, presumed to exist in subterranean form close by, is momentarily expected. Last night earthquake shocks were felt In muny places in the-State -of Oaxaca. The- duration was three seconds. The movement was noted in Tequlsixtlan, Tlacolaluia. Nochlxtian, Tepocolula, Tlaxlaco,(TlapaanJ Alcozausa. . . .1 Georgia's Contribution to Nebraska. ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. 31. The last car of provision contributed by Georgia was sent by ex-Governor Northen to the Nebraska sufferers this afternoon. This makes twenty-two cars, in all that Georgia has given to the sufferers of that section. Ex -Governor Northen has received a letter of thanks from Governor Holcomb, of Nebraska, in which 4ie says: "Pot myself, and In behalf of our people, I desire to express to you and your noble Georgians our iliorou-?h appreciation of your magnificent gift. Already the press of Nebraska, has echoed the sentiment of the people of tho State that this ufiso'.Icited reponse to the need of our unfortunates has doubly endeared your people to us. May peace; happiness and prosperity ever attend yvu and your kindhearted people."