Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1897 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, IBD7.

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THE I.DIA.AIOI.IS JOI USAL fan t found at the following rla'- ... HHW YORK Windsor Hotel and Aator House. CHICAGO Palmer Ibu.e cod P. O. News Co., 217 Ln-arlmrn street. , CINCINNATI J. It. Bawley & Co., 1-4 Mne treet. 1CISVILLE C. T. Deering. northwest corner cf Third and JenVrci utreets, and l.uistlle Book Co., Zuii Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Ppot. WASHI-VOTON. P. C.-Rl2s IIoue. Ebbltt Boune, Willard'i Hotel and the Washington News Exchange Fourteenth street, between Penn. avenue and F street. When did the Citizens Street-railroad managers offer to pave between the tracks or do anything whatever for the maintenance of the streets? The separate Circuit Court microbe seems to hav permeated a large number of counties in the State. The disease seems to have reached the contagious stage. A published letter which purports to have been written by President-elect McKinley to the Inaugural ball committee at Washington has the earmarks of a forgery. Thanks to Speaker Pettit, some members of the House will return to their homes with definite Ideas regarding the limitations r i.-v.i tk mnfit -r 1 1 r t f v thrtn hppumcv. J L niiai fcy J V. ........ . - J - F is called debate. Massachusetts has only seventeen towns In which there are not public libraries, but Massachusetts has now and has had for years many men of wealth who have helped such enterprises. The determination cf the Republican legislative caucus not to change the positions of the tickets on the ballots and to substitute the pencil for the present socaJIed stamp seems wise. This appears to be the Turpie week In the Uuited States Senate, which means that It Is a season of talk with no action, except to Increase the pensions of men who were In sympathy w!th those fighting to destroy tho Union. So long as' the legislatures In the new States controlled 5y silver Democrats, Republicans and Populists are unable to elect United States senators they are prevented from legislating, which is a great advantage to the people thereof. One of the. members of the Illinois Legislature who constitute the Chicago machine offered a bill to repeal the libel lawpassed two years ago a measure similar to that In Indiana. The newspapers beat the machine In the contest for the senatorship, end it is seeking vengeance. Hut the law .will not be repealed. The principle of international arbitration is all right. Any objection to the pending treaty must be based on interest, not principle. The question is whether, for the cake of establishing or Inaugurating a great principle, the United States can af- . ford to imperil its interests by submitting the Monroe doctrine and the control of the Nicaragua canal to arbitration. The Chicago Council has under consideration an ordinance which provides tbat only thos who have seats shall pay fare3 on street cars. The few- who have seats should pay full fare, and the larger number who hangs upon straps should pay half fare, but the frequently larger number Which have neither seat ndV strap should be carrltd free, if carried at all. A correspondent who claims to represent the views of the people in New York city Willi wor lur ti living, nnun .i iirnrMpci that the ST0.au Martin ball will be a good thing for labor, since more than $K".0.0f of the'money will be expended for the products of labor and skill, whicli will help more than a thousand people. Put for the ball, the money w'oulu i.ot be scattered. There 's something In that. If the Popocrats constituted a majority of the present Legislature they would not support the bill forbidding contracts to be made payable La gold. A few of the Populists would have supported It, but the bulk of the Democrats would not. This remark Is made because the same kind of bill has been votrl down by the Democrats in Georgia and will not be considered in any State which has a Democratic or silver majority. Where the scheme has been tried, a it was In South Dakota, the next Legislature has made haste to repeal the law. It is. therefore, a cheap bit of demagogy in which the minority in the Indiana legislature can indulge with impunity, lecause It can ilo no harm. Besides, it Is very doubtful if a legislative body has the right to forbid men making contracts to pay obligations in gold any more than to ray them in wheat. The story of the wreck of the British Indian troop chip Warren Hastings Illustrates British characteristics from a double point of view. The survival of the name of Warren Hastings in the British, navy, and especially in an East Indian troop ship, shows how they cling to tradition. Warren Hastings was one of the ablest Englishmen that ever represented British authority In India, and his bold and successful career la that country forms a conspicuous page In the history of the extension of the British rule. Macaulay's essay on his impeachment is one of the most brilliant pieces of work In the English language. It seems fitting that his name should be borne by a vessel carrying English troops to India eighty years after his death aiU that Its wreck should furnish an example cf British r coolness and discipline as characteristic of that indomitable people as was his own career In India a century ago. ' Iowa still leads as a corn-producer, the crop of 1S3 b4ng estimated at 321,713,541 bulLsels. Nebraska is second, with 23S.KK),33

bushels. The next in order of production are: Illinois. 2St,&72,7GI bushels; Kansas, 247,7S4.C04 bushed; Missouri, 17G.76S.643 bushels; Indiana, 133.4GS.2C3 bushels; Ohio, 123rC91,r57 bushel; Kentucky, 80,932,343 bushels. Thus Indiana stands sixth in the list. Minnesota leads In wheat, with 4G,4i,0Cl bushels, but California is a close second, with 43,097,1K bushels; Kansas is third, with 30,734,432 bushels; North Dakota next, with 23.S48.301 bushels, closely followed by Illinois, with 2S,CC?,14C bushels. South Dakota is among the .larger producers, with 27,353,430 bushels. Indiana reports 20,647.440. Indiana has not had so small a wheat crop since 1876. In ISO! the Indiana crop was 32.807.000 bushels, which Is ;,300,000 In excess of the crop of the leading State this year. One-sixth of the total crop of which was 427.GS4.347 busheb, was raised by territories which were not states ten years ago. CAUSES OP DESTITUTION.

Several papers have expressed what may be called sarcastic surprise that the period of extreme cold has caused so many people to be found In a needy condition. "The mills seem not to bo open," is the remark of an exchange. This is true in part because many millawhlch were closed In July, August, September and October of lYsi have not yet been opened; but the larger part of the people who are found to be in dire need are not those who worked in factories. Dull times have reduced many mechanics to straits, but the mass of people who are suffering, and who, thanks to the broadening and deepening humanity of the time, are being relieved, are men who depend from day to day upon common labor. During the winter months, throughout the Northern States, employment is cut off for many of this class. The improvement of streets and roadways, the construction of sewers, the working of stone quarries and all the employments depending upon such industries are closed by winter weather. Nothing but a change of climate to perpetual summer can give that large and necessary class of laborers constant employment under the best of times. There are tens of thousands of people who have employment of various kinds which is stopped by the Intense cold. Even trade is paralyzed. A large part of traveling salesmen, the Journal Is Informed, are not on their routes this week. If the cold paralyzes the distribution of merchandise. It must deprive many thousands of people temporarily of the means of obtaining a livelihood. It must be further considered that those whose employment is affected by the change in seasons and periods of extremely cold weather are those who receive the lowest compensation. At best they must live from hand to mouth. If all of them were prudent and -careful there would be seasons when the loss of a week's employment would bring them face to face with destitution. There are many who are not prudent, and somo who will not work when they have the opportunity. It is not surprising that In any city there should be quite a number of people who are suffering now or in any season when the labor upon which they depend is cut off. Chicago, from which reports of greater destitution come than from any other large city, has been the magnet which has attracted many thousands of people who are fitted to do only the roughest kinds of labor. Under any condition there is a surplus of such labor, but now the usual employments are locked by the severe cold. There never has been, and it will be very long before there will be, a provision which can give thousands of people labor during severe winters. These facts must be patent to every thinking man and woman; consequently, the man who makes use of such destitution and suffering to create ill will on the part of those who are very poor against the well-to-do Is anything but a good citizen. The men who have undertaken to furnish relief are those who have saved. Thousands who can ill spare the money contribute to relief funds, but most of It! comes from those who are called rich. But for their timely contributions thousands would perish during this season of unusual severity. It Is fortunate for the suffering that there are those who have the means to help. Reports from Chicago and other cities indicate that the well-to-do have never shown greater promptness and generosity. SOSIB NICARAGUA CAXAL HISTORY. Judging from Senator Turpie's longwinded and vituperative speeches against the Nicaragua canal bill one might sup-i pose not only that the present company is a "combine" of bunco-steerers, but that the enterprise Itself is so visionary and impracticable that the United States should never have anything to do with it. As a matter of fact, it has far a long time been regarded by commercial nations as an enterprise of great importance, has been approved as feasible by first-clas engineers, has been indorsed in party platforms, approved In Presidents' mesages and made the subject of more than one International negotiation. The pending bill may not be a good one for the United States and the present may not be a good time for the government to incur any new obligations, but the fact remains that the canal ought to be built, and when built should be controlled by the United States. The St. Louis platform ort which Mr. McKinley was elected, says: "The Nicaragua canal should be built, owned and operated by the United States." And so It should. The agltaticn of the question in this country dates from 1S72, during the administration of General Grant, when a party of naval officers was sent, with the consent of the Nlcaraguan government, to make surveys for the purpose of determining a practical route for a ship canal between the two oceans. Owing to climatic and other difficulties the expedition was not wholly successful, but Its surveys and reports proved of subsequent value. The next year the President of Nicaragua said in his annual message: The grand project of opening nn interoceanlc canal through the American isthmus has attracted of late a larger share of public attention than heretofore. The United States government has sent an exploring commission to our territory and the results of their labors are. so far, very Mattering. The government of Nicaragua has used every means In Its power to promote the development of the project, and furnished the commission with all possible facilities for the prosecution of that survey. The American government has expressed Its satisfaction with the friendly sentiments of our country, and If the ultimate result of the ronnois?ance prove equal to our present hope there Is little doubt of th consummation on our soil o( that stupendous work In which the whole commercial world is so deeply Interested. Commodore Ammen. of the United States navy, an early schoolmate and life-long friend of General Grant, was an ardent supporter of the canal project, and Gen. Grant also favored It strongly. During the years 1S73 and 1S74 two more surveying expeditions were sent from the United States, the reports in each case being favorable. In 1SS0 the United States of Colombia made a concession to foreign capitalists for the

construction of a canal across the isthmus at that point. Presldei Hayes called the attention of Congress to the fact In a special message, in which he said: "It is the right and duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any Interoceanic canal across the Isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national Interest." He referred to the matter again In his annual message of December, 1SS0. In 1SS1 a bill was introduced In Congress to incorporate "the Marine Canal Company of Nicaragua," The company had secured a concession from Nicaragua and among the incorporators were U. S. Grant, E. D. Morgan, General Butterfleld, Commodore Ammen, Charles A. Dana and other prominent men of the time. The company thus Incorporated failed to begin work within the stipulated time and its concession lapsed. Then the United States government took the matter up and negotiated a treaty with Nicaragua by which the latter made important concessions and authorized the United States to construct a canal, railway and telegraph line through Nicaragua, In January, 1SS7, Senator Edmunds, by direction of the committee on foreign relations, reported favorably a bill to incorporate "The Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua." In the report accompanying the bill Senator Edmunds, for the committee, said: Looking to the large benefits not only to the United States ami the republic of Nicaragua and her sister republics, but also to the commerce and intercommunication of the whole sisterhood of civilized governments on this glole, the committee recommends the passage of the bill, in the hope that the resources and enterprise of private citizens of our country may be enabled to accomplish this great work, even if our government itself is not yet ready to undertake it. The Maritime Canal Company had obtained valuable concessions from Nicaragua. After debates and investigations In both houses of Congress of the most exhaustive nature, continued at Intervals throughout a period of more than a year, the bill of Incorporation was passed and was signed by President Cleveland after careful examination of the whole subject. This is the company whose bill soliciting government aid. or credit is now before Congress. The present is not a favorable time for such action by the government, but it is absurd to say that the project is chjmerica! or that the Maritime Canal Company Is a myth or a fake. The project of an interoceanic canal by the Nicaragua route has received the highest possible indorsements for twenty-five years past. It has been asserted time and again that if such a canal is built it must be by an American Company or under the control of the United States. The Maritime Canal Company has a valid and binding concession and contract with Nicaragua for which it paid $100,000 in gold to bind the bargain, and it Is incorporated by act of Congress. If Nicaragua is encouraged or permitted to repudiate this contract she may turn around and make one with a British company, and then the United States would have trouble Indeed. OUR STATE FISH LAWS.

The pendency in the Legislature of two bills amending the present fish law and the pressure which Is being brought to bear for the appointment of a person from the lake region as commissioner of fisheries show that the subject of fish protection is exciting interest in some quarters at least. It is really a subject of considerable Importance. No State in the Union is better supplied by nature with lakes and rivers suitable for fish breeding than Indiana. Several counties In the northern part of the State have from ten or a dozen to more than a hundred lakes which are admirably adapted for the breeding of certain kinds of fish, and there are many streams in other parts of the State which are famous as the homes of that gamest of all freshwater fishes, the black bass. Originally all these waters were abundantly stocked with the different kinds of fish suited to them. In the early history off the State they contributed largely to the food of its inhabitants as they have for many years to the pleasure of amateur anglers. In recent years by the common American process of destruction their supply of fish has been recklessly reduced, and the time has come when a vigorous policy of protection should be adopted in order that the waters may become again well stocked. We have a fairly good law prohibiting the using of dynamite and seines or the killing of fish by Irregular and cruel methods, but it is constantly violated. The State commissioner of fisheries, not fish commissioner as he la commonly called, 13 not adequately paid, and the appropriation for the enforcement of the law is insufficient. The commissioner receives only $300 a year, and for the ynforcement of the law the last Legislature appropriated only $300. The law makes It the duty of the commissioner to visit every part of the State and do many things relative to the protection and propagation of fish which are obviously Impossible to be done on so small an appropriation. If the office of commissioner of fisheries is worth maintaining and the laws for the protection of fish are worth keeping on the statute book, the Legislature should appropriate for them support enough to make them effective. TUB BOY AD JUS FISTS. A London justice has sentenced a boy to two months' hard labor because in a fight with a schoolmate the latter, on being knocked down by a blow, received concussion of the brain in falling and died from the Injury. The action of the justice 13 generally condemned and Is the subject of excited discussion in English papers, the argument being advanced that the punishment Is a direct encouragement to cowardice, Finco boys will not defend themselves In old-fashioned manly fashion with their fists for fear of arrest The condemned lad. it seems, was peaceable, and when challenged to fight by the bully of the school declined to do so. Thereupon he was at once jeered at by his schoolmates as a coward and a "molly" and was driven by the force of opinion In his little world to meet his enemy. He did this, in a square, stand-up fight, with the result stated, the death, however, being acknowledged by all as an accident. The warlike British spirit is deeply roused by the Incident, and lamentations over the art of selfdefense are freely indulged in. Mr. Henty, a writer with whose name boys on both sides of the Atlantic are familiar, expresses the view that it is much better that boys who quarrel should fight with their fists and have the affair ended than that they should go on bickering and snarling until one did a bad turn to the other. He thinks tho general tone of boys schools has suffered greatly from the decay of the art of self-defense, and ho considers modern sentlmentallsm responsible for a large amount of tho street rowdyism and ruffianism of tho present day, tho decline of a scientific use of the fists leading to a report to weapons and murderous assaults.

"For myself," says Mr. Henty, "I should like to see a master of boxing appointed in every school throughout the country, and I am quite sure that it would do a great deal more for us than three-fourths of the useless stuff now crammed into boys heads. I need hardly say that I consider it littlo short of monstrous that in a fight between two boys, conducted without kicking or any other breach of fair play and in which one happens to fall and receives concussion of the brain it should be regarded as otherwise than an accident. Judge Hawkins's sentence is calculated to make boys 'mollies,' and to heighten the feminine, or rather the sentimentalist idea, that it Is a horrible" thing that two boys should stand up to fight, although such an encounter is in the great majority of cases attended with much less personal damage than a game at football; and, indeed, it may be raid there even less risk of serious Injury than is met with in a game of cricket." The Englishman's Idea has a basis of sound sense, but in this country, at least, it would meet with violent opposition from the feminine element, which now practically controls schools of all sorts and Is opposed to the smallest display of pugilism. Even physical punishment is done away with, and when a turbulent little wretch proves not to be amenable to the sweet arts of persuasion he is turned out of school and luto Mthe ways of destruction, when probably all he needs to make a man of him Is a sound trouncing. But it is the da.y of sentimentallsm and aesthetlcism. and not even the protests of rebellious and pugnacious Britons can avail to stem the tide. ' THE USUAL LEGISLATIVE COMPLAI!T

"About this time look for rain or snow," Is the standing weather prediction of an old almanac. Every other year, when the Legislature is In session, the newspaper reader can look with certainty, about this time, for complaints that the Legislature is doing'iittle work. "The Senate adjourned after a short session," or "the House devoted the afternoon session to a number of inconsequential matters," is the report. The trouble is that both branches spend too much time in sessions this period of the session. The great work of legislatures, when good work is done, is in the careful consideration of measures In committee rooms. If the days are consumed by two open sessions each day there Is little time for committee work. It would be better if the forenoons were devoted to committee work so-that, tho conclusions of the committee rooms could be presented to the sessions In the afernoon. With open sessions thus early in the" legislative period, committees must work evenings. Indeed, most of them must hold evening sessions at the best. Already many of the committees have been holding evening sessions, rind often the work has been carried late into the night. The reason that less important matters take the time of the regular sessions during the first weeks of the sitting Is that committees have not time to consider tho more important. If there were one session a day and four hours of committee work In the place of the other session, the more important bills could bo reported earlier. This may seem strange to many critics, but those who have had much experience about legislative bodies know that the full session is no place to perfect measures unless it is done in committee of tho 'whole. Bills must be reported from committees, members of ''whlln 'cim explain 'their provisions. Upon such explanations the Senate or House can act far -more intelligently than if ho member but the one who presents a measure should explain it. Fortunately, the large majority of tho bills presented come to their deserved death in tho committeo rooms if the committees have time in which to consider them. "A good workman is known by the chips he makes" is an adage which applies to legislation, as the chips represent the useless part of the material that is cut away and cast out. Usually tho more chips made in the committee rooms the better the legislation. Let it not be assumed because the halls of the two houses do not resound with the eloquence of members, the sonorous voice of the reading clerk and the monotonous roll call twelve hours a day that the Legislature is wasting its time. If the committee rooms are vacant and their files are filled with bills which they have had no time to consider and ; report, or, what is worse, no disposition to clear their dockets, then all of us have good cause to complain. The Missouri Legislature is considering a proposition to abolish the state normal schools. These Institutions are an outgrowth of the modern tendency to create new departments nd discover new functions for government, and they contribute their share towards the increase of expenses and taxation. With a state university and several well-supported denominational colleges Indiana could be well suppiled with teachers without a normal school. Many college graduates are as well qualified to., teach as any graduate of a normal school, and should stand on equal terms as applicants for license. The proposition of the pending educational bill to give normal graduates the preference in the matter of life licenses without reference to individual merit or qualifications illustrates the tendency of state institutions to create monopolies in their own interests. An educational ring is as odious as any other kind, and should not be tolerated. In these days of numerous universities It is doubtful if ,a state normal school is worth what it costs or is a necessity in any State. 3IAGAZI3C AOTES. Of the making of statistical annuals there is no end, but the New York Tribune Almanac, which was the first to enter this field, still holds its own in the face of all rivals. As a political register and compendium of miscellaneous information it is accurate and comprehensive, and makes a most valuable book of reference. It is well edited, well indexed and sells for 23 cents. Harper's Magazine for February opens with a fine piece of descriptive work by Richard Harding Davis onthe coronation of the Czar. Mr. Davis's fiction has not entirely sustained its promise, but in this class of writing he shows a well-developed talent. His style is a little careless, a little too reportorial, but the sketch is graphic and leaves a vivid impression on the reader's memory. "The Awakening of a Nation" is the title of a paper by Charles F. Lummls in Harper's Magazine which describes the development of Mexico under the administration of President Diaz. The account is full of interest, and will be a revelation to many readers who still look upon that country as semi-barbarous and disinclined to the ways of civilization. It is a very different picture that Mr. Lummis pajnts. Arthur Sherburne Hardy has a group of peoms in the February Harper. Mr. Hardy's name i too seldom seen In current literature. He is one of the most artistic of American writers, whether his pen turns to prose or verse. His novels have a literary flnlfeh that few recent works of fiction can boast, and they also have that underlying something which may be culled a soul a, possession which the newer school of novels almost entirely lacks. If Mr.

Hardy is not read as he should be the fault is with the public rather than the author. Poet" Lore, which has been transformed from a monthly to a quarterly periodical, has added to the number of its pages and widened its scope. The New Year number contains, among other contributions, a paper on "The Eclipse of Seriousness in Contemporary Literature." a discourse on "An Elizabethan Novelist." a "Study of William Watson," a review of some letters by Robert Browning, a Shakspearean study programme and. a reading course for a young poet. President Kruger, of the Transvaal, is looked upon by the general American public as the man of the. most consequence in South Africa, but according to Poultney Bigelow. in his paper in Harper on "The White Man's Africa." the balance of power in that region lies in the hands of President Steyn, of the Orange Free State. Steyn he regards as a statesman, Kruger as a political anachronism. The paper throws a new light on the conditions in South Africa. The first of Charles Dana Gibson's character sketches from Dickens appears in the Ladies' Home Journal for February. A doubt had arisen in some minds as to whether the author of "Gibson's Girl" could produce anything else worth while, but his conception of "Dick Swiveller and the. Marchioness" proves that he is not dominated entirely by the girl. There is no suggestion of hgr in the spirited drawing, whicli must " have seemed even to Dickens himself to be drawn from life. Current Literature, which is now in editorial charge of George W. Cable, covers the field of periodicals well. The best is culled from all. a feat that Involves much labor and careful judgment. To those who have access to the original magazines It may seem that the selections made are too voluminous, and the resulting periodical too large, but it must be remembered that the purpose is to provide busj- people, or those who have but one magazine, with a summary of what is being done by essayists, story-writers and poets, and that from, their standpoint a record of contemporary literature must necessarily he thus comprehensive in order to meet the requirements. Current Literature Is published at No. 52 Lafayette place, New York. HUDDLES 1 THE AIR.

Sneer from the Proletariat. "Git," said the duck, viciously, as the peacock strutted by, "git on to his royal eyeness, will you?" One or T'other. "So you are in favor of prohibitory legislation, eh?" "Yes, indeed." "What are you-druggist, or jugglst?" Sublime EKotlnm. "Ever notice what an even temper Johnson has? No matter how much he is disagreed with, he never gets angry." k "No; but what a deep pity he has for the other fellow." Foiled Again. Grasping the jimmy in hl3 large, red hand, the burglar made another effort. He tugged viciously and swore round, red oaths in a condensed tone. The window remained Immutable and naught stirred but the chatter of the; frost demon in a treetop. His partner stood by and huddled himself, amorphously and globulose. Again the gorilla-like paws grasped the Jimmy and wrenched it until It Enapped pipestemishly. "It's no use. Bill," said the amorphous one. "They are froze too tight. We've struck another one of thera houses with Injenaplls gas." ADVERTISEMENT WRITING. People Shonlrt Be Paid for Doing It Qnnllty Gives Vnlne to Quantity. If space Is worth paying for It 13 well worth being filled. The size or quantity of an advertisement counts, but the quality of the matter in it is of equal importance. If a thing is worth saying it is worth saying well, and the better it is said the more good it will bring. Nine-tenths of the local advertisers seem to be laboring under the delusion that a big advertisement in a prominent position Is all that there Is to advertising, and they do not seem to appreciate the necessity of filling that space with the quality of telling publicity. No man buys a lot of land exclusively for the size of It. for the size of it Is of value, not because of Its size but because It will hold a building or something else, that is what can be done with the land, not how much there is of it, constitutes the land value; -and yet that same man will buy a lot of advertising space and consider It good advertising because he has so much of it, without taking into consideration that that space needs to be well filled, and that the filling of the space gives value to the space. Half of the advertisers write their own advertisements, partly because they do not think they can afford to hire someone to write' them, and partly because they are self-conceited enough to believe that because they know their business they know how to write about their business. I am aware that this country Is filled with alleged advertising experts, and irresponsible "ad" smiths, men who have m ide a failure of everything and are making a failure of advertising writing, but for all that somebody outside of the business can almost always present the business to the public better than can the advertisement written by the man living in the atmosphere of his own business and handicapped with technical knowledge. The man who can run a successful business Is too good a business man to attend to the advertising side of his business. He should either hire someone outside, or educate someone Into his advertisement writing, that he may present to the public what tho public wants as well as what he wants. In every town and city there are bright men and women who seem to understand the public taste, and who, for a reasonable price, will prepare for the advertiser advertising profitable both to him and to the public. NATHANIEL C. FOWLER, JR., (Copyrighted. 1897. by Publicity Publishing Company, New York.) Language In German Schools. London Post. In German schools French is taught to a greater extent than English. In the higher class schools Knglisli is an optional subject, in the commercial schools more time Is devoted to French than English. Thus wo may infer that the average German speaks three languages. But as a matter of absolute fact English is much less generally known in Germany than French is in England. Nobility's Llterarr Tte. Th5 Bookman. Marie Corelli has a rival among the upper ten in London. A recent visitor to the drawing-rooms of royalty and the English aristocracy tells us that the book which is most frequently met with there Is the poems of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In n Bad Way. Washington Post. With Kansas sending an ex-Confederate soUlier to the United States Senate and John J. Ingalls receiving but three votes in the Republican caucus. It would seem that things are wonderfully out of Joint In the Sunflower State. Tliey Never Worried II I m. Kansas City Journal. "The newspapers have treated me with great kindness all through my public career." says General Harrison. This is somewhat mortifying information to the able editors who so Industriously worked the grandfathers hat racket. The Penalty. Springfield Republican. Whenever Senator Sherman says or does anything now that displeases any of his critics, they say that he Is losing his mind. This is one of the penalties for accepting high office after you are seventy.

SEVERAL NEW BILLS

JIEASURES OF IMPORTANCE INTRO. DICED IX DOTH BRANCHES. Board of Health Reorganization To Promote Forests School Board Dill Junticcn of the Peace on Salaries. In the Senate yesterday sixteen new bills were introduced, although that order of business was not up at any time. After the Republican members returned from the caucus, just before noon. Senator Shlveley asked consent to Introduce two bills. One is for the establishment cf a state board of health. Under the bill the state board is to consist of live members, to be appointed by the Governor, with all powers of corporations. Tho board is to appoint its own secretary, who shall be a physician. One clause of the bill reads: "They shall study tho vital statistics and endeavor to make intelligent and profitable use of the collected records of death and sickness among the people; they shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics; the causes of mortality, and the effects of locality, employment, conditions, habits and circumstances on the health of the people." The sum of $10,000 a year Is appropriated for tho expenses of the board. The bill provides for the establishment of a laboratory of hygiene, with a department of chemistry and one of bacteriology, to be under the charge of salaried officers. The bill gives the board the power to regulate the plumbing, drainage, water supply, etc., of any public building or Institution. It invests the board with the police power of the State for the enforcement of such laws, rules and penalties as they may adopt for the preservation of the health of the inhabitants and domestic animals of the State; for the prevention and checking of infectious and contagious diseases and for the declaration and establishment of quarantine; for disinfecting persons, premises or personal property; tor the condemnation of and destruction of any public building; for the Inspection and regulation of dairies and the condemnation of diseased milch cows. Provision is made for the appraisement of all property destroyed y order of the board of health and the payment for the same by the county commissioners. Senator Shively's other new bill is to prevent the spread of deleterious growths on fruit trees. Senator McCord introduced yesterday the same building and loan association law he presented two years ago. At that time there was quite a fight against it. The bill makes it unlawful for any association to collect from any of its members any money other than dues or premium, fines, forfeitures, transfer fees and withdrawal fees. All initiation, membership fees, transfer fees, fines, premiums and interest are to be credited to the earnings, from which all expenses shall be paid. Senator New introduced the bill for the reform of the school law prepared by J. P. Dunn as a substitute for the bill prepared by a committeo appointed by the president of the Commercial Club last August. Both measures were considered after the Senate adjourned at a meeting of the committee on affairs of the city of Indianapolis, to which Mr. Dunn's bill was referred. Another of tho numerous educational bills was presented by Senator Hogate. It provides that graduates of Institutions of learning having in their clrriculums a course on pedagogy shall, after teaching two years, be entitled to state licenses to teach good throughout the State. Senator Hogate says that the purpose of the bill is to extend the law so that the provisions governing the State Normal School will extend to other, schools. Another bill he Introduced Is for the propagation and protection of fish, and appropriates $3,000 a year for that purpose. A blip permitting county commissioners to introduce voting machines In their counties was introduced by Senator Hawkins. It provides in what way the expenses of using such machines shall be paid by the commissiontrs. Senator Shea is the author of a bill he introduced yesterday which prohibits any person, firm or corporation from granting academic degrees, unless it is authorized b the State Board of Education. The purpose of tho bills to assure students against fraudulent educational schemes. There is some doubt as to whether it will reach "off-color" medical colleges. Senator Watson introduced a bill that would work something of a revolution in the management of prisons. It provides for the removal of the present boards of control, for the management of tho prison by boards of four members, no more than two of whom shall belong to the same party, and who shall serve without pay lt also provides that qualifications and fitness shall bo considered in the appointment of wardens without regard to politics. A'ew Senate Bills. S. B. 2S3 Senater Shively (by request): To establish a state board of health. Public health. S. B. 2S4 Senator McCord: Regulating building and loan .associations. Building and loan associations. S. B. Senator Shively: To prevent the spread of contagious diseases among trees. Agriculture. S. B. 2!sG Senator Watson: Providing tor the better government and control of State prisons. Prisons. S. B. 2S7 Senator Sweeney: Concerning ferries. Roads. S. B. 2bS Senator Sweeney: Legalizing acts of notaries public. Judiciary. S. B. L'M Senator New: Dellning school districts of the iirst grade. City ot Indianapolis. S. B. 2?0 Senator Hogate: For the propagation and protection of fish, and appropriating $3,(0j. County and township. S. B. 231 Senator Hogate: Granting state licenses to graduates of schools teaching pedagogy. Education. S. B. 212 Senator Nusbaum: Regulating insurance and indemnity contracts. Insurance. S. B. 233 Senator Hawkins: To provide greater purity in elections. Judiciary. S. B. 2Ji Senator Hawkins: Concerning mechanic's liens. Judiciary. S. B. 2y3 Senator Mull: Concerning street Improvement assessments. Cities and towns. S. B. 2 Senator Horner: Requiring notaries and other olilctrs to certify in jurats when their commissions expire. Judiciary, S. B. 2'Jl Senator Shea: Making it unlawful for persons or institutions to confer academic degrees except when empowered to do so by the State Board of Education. Education. S. B. rj Senator Gostlin: For a general system of common schools. Education. TO PROMOTE FORESTRY. ProvlsioxiM of a .Measure Introduced by Mr. Reynold. Mr. Reynolds yesterday introduced in the House a bill for the encouragement of the growth of forests by exempting from taxation land devoted to the growth of new forests. The measure provides as follows: "That whenever any citizen of the State or any person outside of the State yet owning land therein shall have started a growth of timber, either by planting or trora seed, of not less than one acre nor more than ten acres, the same shall be exempted irom taxation; provided that there shall be planted or tstarted from seed not less than one thousand trees oil each acre. However, no such exemption shall take place until said grove thus Vtarted Is live years old and two-thirds of the young trees thus started are alive and in a healthy growing condition. And provided, lurther. That on every tract of land covered in wnole or In part with an original forest exemption from taxation shall be as follows, to wit: On torty acres, live acres of timber; on eighty acres, ten acres of timber, and on every loo acres, twenty acres of timber: Provided, That the owner of the exempted lands mentioned aforesaid shall not be permitted to cut down and destroy young and growing trees. Nothing in this act shall prevent nim cutting and removing full groves ot timber or uvad trees. "When any person has complied with the first part of Section 1 of this act. before he can have the exemption therein made, he must appear berore the auditor of the county and make ailidavit that he has a grove of timber of not U-ss than one acre nor more than ten acres, which he had started either by planting or grown from eed; that on each acre of land was either planted or started from the seed one thousand trees; that two-thirds of the same are in a growing, healthy conditiou. L'ioa the presentation ot this affidavit, the auditor being satisfied of Its truthfulness, shall note ou the tux duplicate the number of acres which said affidavit, affirms has been thus planted to timber and the same is exempted from taxation. And be it further provided. That before any person can enjoy the exemption mentioned In the last part of Section 1 he shall also make an affidavit before the auditor of the county stating that he has set apart timbered

land, on which be seeks exemption as follows: If forty acres. live acre. of timber; if eighty acres, ten acres of timber; if 1U a:rcs. twenty acres of timber, and that he hf.s not removed nor eatjsed to l removed therefrom any of the young and growing timber. Upon the presentation of such affidavit, the auditor ln-ing satisfied that it is true, fhail note on the tax duplicate that the number of acres, as the cane may be, U exempted from taxation. If any person shall make any fale statement In his or her affidavit as mentioned aforesaid ho or t-he frhall Ik' deemed guilty of perjury and In? punished for such an offense as made and provided for by th law governing such cases." JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

A Bill to Curb Their Greed Other Ixerr IIOUMC BI1U. Another Important measure Introduced In the House yesterday was a bill by Mr. Medsker, to do away with the fee scandal In the shops of the justices of the peace. It provides that all fees In the justices' hops, as in the higher courts, shall be turned into the county treasury, and puts Justices on a salary of $1.S00 per year. It provides that in cities of from 13,000 to 00,0X) population there shall be two Justices, and in cities of over DO.000 there shall be four. The office of justice of the peace cannot be abolished, for it is a constitutional office, but it is believed that with the justice on a salary instead of receiving fees his court would be considerably less of a travesty upon justice than it is now. At present it is the practice of the average justice, in this city, at least, to decide against whichever party to tho suit he believes he cm most readily collect from without much igard to the law or equity of the case. Mojit of them follow it as a profession, and their work consists very largely of holding up traveling theatrical companies, ousting tenants out of houses and deciding cases under the celebrated "provoke" law. The Journal contained a striking instance of their work yesterday morning in the account of the way Walter Wilmot was held up and relieved of lit upon a questionable claim of J-iJ. Among the other measures Introduced yesterday was a concurrent resolution by Mr. Thomas for a committee of five lawyers to revise the statutes. There has teen no official revision since 1SS1, and. though two very good private revisions have been, published, one in ls:4 and the other in lbVj. they are very expensive. Mr. Hart yesterday introduced a bill providing for voting by machine. The promoters, of some of the voting machines maintain that the construction of their machines is such that they will not require an amendment of the Constitution, which provides that the voting must be done "by ballot." Xew Ilonae Bill. II. B. 3fS-By Mr. Titus: Relating to tha sale of land mortgaged to the school fund. Judiciary. 11. B. 309 By Mr. Hedgcock: To appropriate money for public improvements in the city of Indianapolis. Claims. H. B. 370 By Mr. Packard: To prohibit games of sport on Memorial day. Rights and privileges. H. B. 371 By Mr. Packard: Making it unlawful for township trustees to purchase supplies, machinery, etc., without having submitted to the county auditor a list of articles needed, which list shall be passed upon by the county commissioners. County and township business. 'II. B. 372 By Mr. Willoughby: To appropriate Jl.0.30 for William H. Drapler for services as reporter of. the Fifty-fourth. General Assembly. Claims. H. B. 373-By Mr. Shideler: Providing for tho license of transient merchants by common councils. Cities and towns. H. B. 374 By Mr. Brown: Providing for the auditing of books of township trustees by a committeo of three, appointed by county commissioners. County and township business. H. B, 375 By Mr. McGeath: Providing for the establishment of an Inebriate asylum. Ways and means. H. B. 376 By Mr. Barlow: To amend the general tax law. Ways and means. H. B. 377 By Mr. Hart: To authorize voting by machine. Elections. H. B. 37S By Mr. Archibald: In relation to the presentation of claims against counties. County and township business. H, 11. 37 By Mr. Archibald: To define the rights of land owners In the matter of drainage. Dykes and drains. 11. B. SS0 By Mr. Herod: Making it unlawful for any person to represent himself as the agent of a fictitious insurance company. Judiciary. II. B. SSI By Mr. Elliott: The Indianapolis School Board bill prepared by J. P. Dunn. Education. H. B. 32 By Mr. McCrea: To amend the act in relation to public offenses. Judiciary. H. B. 33 By Mr. Fornshell: To prohibit the collection of a greater sum by railroad companies than the regular fare. RailH. B. 2S4-By Mr. Fornshell: To prevent the sending of flowers to iersons under arrest. Rights and privileges. H. B. 3S5 By Mr. Monyhan: To fix the time for holding court in the counties of Orange, Jackson and Washington. Organization of courts. H. B. Z By Mr. Downey: To provide for a special enumeration of voters in 1S37. County and township business. H. B. 3S7-By Mr. Gibson: Relating to the keeping of ferries. Judiciary. H. B. 3ss By Mr. Thomas: Providing for a revision of the statute laws of the State. Judiciary. H. B. 3.S9 By Mr. Randolph: Concerning proceedings in civil cases. Judiciary. H. B. 310 By Mr. Randolph: Conoernimr recovery of judgment upon contract. Judiciary. H. B. 331-By Mr. Smith, of Tippecanoe: To prevent spread of contagious diseases among fruit tres. Agriculture. II. B. S02-By Mr. Reynolds: To promote the growth of forests. County and township business. H. B. 333-By Mr. Medsker: Concerning justices of the peace, putting them on Stilary. Fees und salaries. H. B. 3H4 By Mr. Mcdskcr: For purchase of Carthage turnpike. H. B. Sl'.v By Mr. Ulchhorn: Concerning drainage. Dykrs and drains. H. B. COG By Mr. Eichhorn: For tho protection of squirrels. Rights and privileges. . H. B. 3:7 By Mr. Wiertier: Regulating size of fish nets. Rights and privileges. RESCUE OF THE FALLEN. FIrt of the MI'Minii Meeting; to Dm Held Tli In Week. The first of the ?ries of meetings to b h14 in Indianapolis this week in the interest cf th rescue-mission work was held last night at Talernaclo Church. The mooting was not a ucces In point of numbers, as only about twenty peoule braved the cold to attend. These few adjourned to one of the tmall looms of building, where thy could be comfortable by the warmth" of un open-grate firr, and the rneetlrx toolc an informal character of much intcrt-s't. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, of Vuhlngton, ha Is national superintendent of th Florence Crittenden Rescue Mission, and Charles S. Morton, national evar?rllat of the name work, wre ireent, ar.d both ppoke briefly, llrs. Barrett has other claims to public notloe thiol by hT rcscu work-,' having been president of the woman's department at the Atlanta exposition. She is a beautiful women, and rosst-ed of a mfctrnetikni which makes it easy to understand how fhe ii able to accomrlish Fuch great results in her ork, A Southernc by birth and by resdJenee, until recent years, the has the peculiar dialect of tha South, which, with her mellow voi-, lnd additional charm to what -.e ...tyn. hho ttated the ctj-ct of the organization with which he la Uantitied as b-lrig the wotk of feuvine fallen women, he and Mr. Moi Un have come ht-re, h aid. to make the le of Indianapolli understand the mm'-M woman. nt ai they - her on the street, tr '.auntlng hTM?lf In pubile places, but as h really I. She ;ok t'tuchingly and j'ltyinly of the girls and woni'a who lead Ilves ftf t-harne, but at times her frentl voic Ainhi almt.st harsh in it denunciation of tt iint-e! tr.g way In wtiih tl.-.- olnful women are treated by noclety. A man, n matter how deeply te jd in hir. phe said, may be cleansed In public oplnlti nnl Klven u.n oprrtunUy to lead a useful life, but the erring woman Is mad to feel that thre i no hone for hT. Bvea Chrlfttlin womeu.. Bhe paid, weeji aalde their gkdrta from trie tuoh of their fallen KlMera. Mr. Morton aid a few v..r.i !ut the object and work of the reirue mission in tfiieral, and urged upon hU hearers th.it ihey rally to the ntirt of the local mil i I which has leen eonduct ;d for tome yearn by W. V. Wheeler on South street, and which has Just been mad the forty-nr.-t circle of the national organization knowa the Kloreice Crittenden. Keacu Minion. Another meetinj will be hM b-n!ht at Hoberta Park Chureh. t hloh Mr. liairett and Mr. Morton will j:eak again. They Pave been making txttnxlve tours t f tfv; couMry. their obji-rt in coming here to ir.tereft the people of Indianapolis In the new mission. Tho Telephone Rohbed. Tho telephone in the lower -orridor of the State house Is loser to att unknown amount. The telephone Is one of the newr Instruments whicli requires th dropping; of a nickel in the slot before It will work. As it is a long distant telephone th-rt are -slots for various amounts Horn J tents to a dollar, so that there b apt to be quite a littlo Mim of money in the box. Tuesday night fomo one liled off the money box and made off with the contents. No one knows how much tho thief coined by the oic ration.