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“Cio to o Gloto Store for Gloves/’ THE BEST DRESSED ladies In Paris, London, Berlin and New York wear the famous ALEXANDRE GLOVES. Ladies' sizes. |2. Children's at Si. The Indianapolis market is represented by 10 East Washington Street. (Est. 1878.) nationalliquor^dealersT Their Convention to Begin in This City To-Dny. The fifth annual convention of the Retail Uquor Dealers of the United States will begin at the Grand Hotel this morning. Twenty-two States will be represented by . three delegates each. A number of brewers and liquor dealers have arrived. The following are the national officers of the association: President—John Morrlssev, Syracuse, N. Y. First Vice President—August Koehler, Orange, N. J. Second Vice President—Thomas F. Lally, Minneapolis, Minn. Third Vice President—John F. "Weiss, Canton, O. Secretary—Robert J. Ilalle, Chicago. Treasurer—John W. Howard, St. Louis. Organizer—P. H. Nolan, New York. Mayor Taggart will deliver the address of welcome, wnleh will be answered by President Morrissey, and the rest of the morning will be taken up by a general session. The afternoon session will last from 2 to 5 o’clock, and the evening will be spent at the theaters. Wednesday's session will begin at 10 o’clock and last all day. In the evening the delegates wili take an illuminated street-car ride, and supper at Fair Bank. Thursday morning there will be a business session, and In the afternoon there will be a mass meeting at Mozart Hall, addressed by E. L. Jordon, of Washington. D. C.; Charles Sehweighardt. of St. Louis; August Mette, secretary Illinois Liquor Dealers’ Association: P. H. Nolan, national organizer, and others. The evening will be spent at a banquet at the Bates, and Friday the delegates will give to seeing the city and enjoying themselves. A number of delegates arrived last evening and there are now something over one hundred on the ground. The executive committee held a brief session at the Grand Hotel and the officers handed in their reports, but they were not read and no action was taken upon them. The committee will meet again this morning and go over the reports. The most important ones are those sh wing what has been accomplished in the way of legislation in the various States. The liquor dealers believe they see a tendency toward more liberal dealing with their traffic throughout the country, and claim it is a ■eaction against the extremes of prohibitive legislation, such as was tried in Kansas and lowa. The reports also show the strength of the state organizations, and it Is shown that the league is pushing rapidly into the Western States. At the headquarters in the Grand Hotel last evening was a tub of Ice filled with a choice assortment of the best the local dealers could put forth, and the delegates were entertained with plenty of drinks. P. H. Nolan, the national organizer, entertained the crowd with his experience as a Quaker minister. When he asked at Pittsburg for a ticket to Indianapolis the agent asked hijn if he wanted one of the ministers' tickets at a reduced rate, and he took it. On the train one of the sure-enough ministers came up and shook hands with him. asking after his health. He was somewhat astounded when Nolan opened his grip and asked him to “have something.” Late in the evening other of the delegates were telling their experiences at the Empire. It seems that some of them had simply followed the crowd and gone there, taking their wives along. "I t'ought it was kind o' queer.” explained one of the victims. “nut my vlfe. she tlnk it vas mighty peguliar. But ven dey git up unt do de ‘hooty-eooty’ den ve ecom avay." There is but one candidate for the presldeney—August Koehler, of Orange. N. J.— and he will probably be elected unanimously. ■Delegations are on hand from Omaha and Minneapolis asking for next year’s convention. A delegation from Columbus, 0., will be here on the same mission to-day, and Asheville, N. C., has put In a bid by letter. See the China Closet* at Win. L. Elder: 1

KERN AS CITY ATTORNEY HE WILL SUCCEED CAPT. J. n. CI’RTIS IN TH AT Ml MORAL OFFIC E. Montgomery to Go on Works HoardController Johnson Decides to Remain—Street Repair Foreman. Mayor Taggart finds cabinet-making a wearisome pursuit. He Is besieged night ar.d day by aspirants or their friends who want to urge the claims of various cliques and clans, and for the last two or three days he has abandoned his private office at the Grand Hotel for a room that has no number, where he can consult with his advisers. Last night reporters remained in the lobby of the hotel two hours to see the mayor, only to be told that he had gone home. He could not be reached at his residence by telephone. The statement is authorized that the bookings for the cabinet so far made are: Board of Public Works—M. A. Downing, W. S. Moore and T. J. Montgomery. City Controller—E. M. Johnson. City Attorney—John W. Kern. Deputy City Attorney—Joseph E. Bell. It Is asserted by those in a position to know that the two Democratic members of the I3oa"d of Public Safety, Messrs. Chas, Maguire and Fred Mack, are to be reappointed. To succeed Thomas Morse, the Republican member. Colonel Ruckle, John Q. Hicks, J. B. Fletcher and others have been mentioned. This end of the cabinet Is still somewhat In doubt. One of the most embarrassing boards to appoint is the Board of Public Health. It was said last night that the present members, Drs. Morrison, Clino and Fields, had all privately said that they would insist on their resignations being accepted. It is well known that when it comes to making up a board of physicians there is more or less jealousy among the different schools, and for this reason it Is difficult to make appointments that will be satisfactory to all. Each school, it is claimed, desires to control the board on account of advantages to be derived from the management of the City Hospital, with its clinics and other features. Controller Johnson received formal notice of his reappointment last night, and has decided to accept it, notwithstanding a very good offer he had received from a private financial company. It has been tacitly understood that President Downing and W. S. Moore would be reappointed on the Board of Works. The difficulty the mayor experienced was to fill M. C. Anderson’s place. There were several candidates who worked hard for this office, among them George J. Dudley and James T. Smith, ex-Council-men Julius Reinicke and Charles A. Gauss. Sunday night Mr. Montgomery’s friends suddenly sprung his name, and a petition was circulated in the Council, to which ho was elected a week ago on the ticket at large. It was signed by all the Democratic members. Friends of Mr. Montgomery in the trades unions—he is a member of the typographical union—also urged his appointment. In the two years he has been in public life ho has grown popular, and when his name was suggested as a dark horse it was regarded as a solution of the difficulty. He is a resident of the South Side. It was expected that Mr. Montgomery would tender his resignation as councilman at large last night, but he was not at the Council meeting. There was a good deal of taik as to who the Council will elect to succeed him, and it looked last night like E. H. Pritchard, late candidate for Council in the Seventh ward, would be the man. In Mr. Pritchard’s support the strong fight he made is urged. He was defeated by George W. Shaffer by eleven votes. Mr. Montgomery was last Thursday night elected president of the Council for the ensuing two years. When he retires it will be necessary to elect anew president. Frank S. Clark, from the Ninth ward—he of Gamewell fame —is a candidate for the place, but on account of his connection with the police patrol some of his associates do not take kindly to the suggestion. Albert E. Rauch was last night looked upon as Mr. Montgomery's probable successor as president of the Council. STREET-CAR COMPANY’S INTEREST. The Citizen's Street-railroad Company is talking a hand in the fight for foreman of street repairs. George Herpick, the present street foreman, went into that office from the street-car company’s service. As this department of the city’s government has much to do with the street-car company in the w r ay of requiring it to make its grade conform to the street and to keep the space between its tracks repaired, the company naturally lias much interest at stake. “Tom” Lewis, the company’s road master, is anxious to have Mr. Hevpick continued in the place he filled so satisfactorily to the company for two years. Failing in this, Lew-is would like to see Charles S. Butts, an engineer in the company’s service, appointed. Mr. Herpick has been tried, however, and the company would be greatly pleased to see him reappointed. Lew-is was actively engaged with the politicians at the Grand Hotel last night. It is asserted that the appointment of Thomas J. Montgomery to the Board of Public Works will be caviare to the silver Democrats. It was asserted last night that he w-as one of the sixteen sergeants-at-arms appointed to guard the doors of Tomlinson Hall while the National Democratic convention was in progress last fall. In answer to this his friends say that he did not appear for duty. The silver men retort that while he ‘’flunked” he was a gold bug at heart. There is a great deal of uneasiness in the minds of many minor city officials and employes as to what their fate will be when the new boards are appointed. Silver Democrats will insist that all so-called gold bugs get their conge. About the city hall there is a feeling that there is to be a general shaking up, but many of the clerks appear to feel confident that their heads will not fall. Gossip in the courthouse basement has it that Richard C. Herrick, cierk of the Board of Public Safety: William C. Ripley, in the Board of Health office; Martin J. Murphy and Charles H. Adam, in the controller’s office, and “Bart” Parker, of the Board of Works, will have to go, as well as William A. Hughes, chief clerk in the assessment bureau. While appointments to the subordinate positions are nominally made by the heads of department*, the mayor dictates them in reality, and he is being overrun by young men w-ho want places and friends who come to urge their claims. The competency of the clerks mentioned is not questioned. It is just said that they are "gold bugs,” and must make room for the “push.” Police Captain Quigley seems to have the best end of the fight for superintendent of police, but there is strong antagonism to him from certain elements. It is said that “Charlie” Polster and other statesmen of that ilk are “again’ ” him. On the other hand, some business men have urged his appointment, urging his long and unimpeached service in his behalf. It appears that the superintendency will not be determined for some days. There is a possibility that the mayor will direct the board to go outside the force to appoint a man free from entanglements of any sort. The present members of the board and the mayor himself would prefer to promote some person from the force if the department v.-ould be thereby subserved. Friends of ex-Supertntendent Colbert seem to think that his chances are not so good as when his name was first suggested, as some politicians have told the mayor that it would be impolitic and unwise to reappoint him so soon after his enforced retirement. Manifestly, they say, he is the best man that could be found aside from recent unfortunate occurrences. It was given out last night that the mayor intends to leave the city to-morrow for several days' rest, after announcing the most important changes in his cabinet. The news threw some of the officeseekers into a panic, and all sorts of unsuccessful schemes were devised to get at the mayor.

Jl ST “TALKED IT OVER.” The Deductions to Be Made on the Garbage Contract. There was a lengthy conference at the office of the Board of Works yesterday between the mayor, city attorney and Boards of Health anil Works with S. E. Itauh, 'of the Indianapolis Sanitary Company, with regard to deduction from the pay of the company for inadequate garbage collections. After the meeting it was announced that had ‘‘Just been talking it

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over" with the contractor and that a final conclusion would be reached this morning. Before the present contractors took the garbage collection contract off the hands of John G. McCarthy there were enormous deductions made, but it is understod that most, if not all. of them will be remitted at the meeting this morning. The quarterly bill is now due and it is necessary for the final disposition to be made of the case. While McCarthy still held the contract there were numerous postponements of the time he was given to show why deductions should not be made from his pay. Yesterday the city officials went over the entire list of complaints, Mr. Rauh explaining why collections had not been made in specific cases. The amount of deductions that have been charged against the firm to date and the amount that will be required to pay was not announced after the conference. ELECTION EXPENSES Exceed Those of IS(U> ly SlO-A Brief Council Meeting;. Amazement was on the faces of new members of the Council last night when one of the old members moved an adjournment after a seven-minute session. For a half hour the new statesmen lingered, feeling that they ought to do something to earn their salaries. They discussed Mr. Montgomery's probable appointment to the Board of Public Works and went home after deciding to hold a caucus to decide on his successor after his resignation is formally made. Councilman Knight Introduced an ordinance regulating the driving of sheep, hogs and cattle through the public streets. Controller Johnson sent a recommendation with the proper ordinance for the appropriation of $2,876.23 to pay election expenses in excess of the amount appropriated last year. The additional expense, he said, was due to the enlarged territory since the suburbs were annexed. Both ordinances were referred to the proper committees. Controller Johnson has decided that he must be governed by the decision of the Superior Court fixing twenty-four hours as a legal day within the meaning of the election laws, on advice of the city attorney, ar.d will allow but two days’ pay to election inspectors and one day's pay each to judges, clerks and sheriffs. The controller has compiled a comparative statement of the cost of this year’s ejection and that of 1695. The total cost for 1897 was $10,863.23, itemized as Hollows: Printing, stationery, maps and election supplies $2,511.13 Advertising change of precincts 1,130.00 Delivering and returning election booths 438.75 Bill posting 390.00 Election officers 2,983.50 Meals for election officers 2,04i.50 Rent for voting places 1,245.50 Miscellaneous expenses of election commissioners 116. S5 Total for 1897 $10,863.23 Total for 1895 10,243.43 Excess for 1897 $619.80 Number of precincts 1595 173 Number of precincts 1897 195 Cost a precinct 1895 $59.21 Cost a precinct 1897 55.70 HOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Final Action Taken. For grading and graveling the first alley east of East street from Beecher street to Morton street.. For brick sidewalks on the west side of Oriole street, from Lincoln street to the first alley north. For gravel roadway and stone curbs on the sidewalks and park in Oriole street, from Lincoln street to a point 493.6 feet north. For cement walks on Washington street, from Rural street to Grace street. For a local sewer in Beatty street, from the first alley north of Buchanan street to the first alley south of McCarty street. For a local sewer in the first alley east of Talbott avenue, from Twenty-second street to Twentieth street. Municipal Notes. A petition was filed for cement walks on the south side of Brookside avenue, from Woodruff avenue to Newman street. The contract for the masonry work of the bridge over Pogue’s run at Oriental street was awarded to Samuel Robbins, who submitted the lowest of several bids some days ago.

NOT AFRAID OF CORBETT FITZSIMMONS RATHER EXPECTS A STREET ENCOUNTER WITH HIM. • The Ex-Champion a Cowardly Car, Say* He—No More Prize Fisliting for the Champion. • Robert Fitzsimmons, champion pugilist of the world, arrived in the city yesterday morning for an engagement at the Grand, Opera House. He i3 in the best of health and spirits. Yesterday afternoon he busied himself in seeing that everything was put in readiness for the night entertairment and then went to the Empire Theater with Martin Julian, his manager. Toward evening he was found at the Denison House. Mrs. Fitzsimmons was not with him, and, in reply to a question concerning her, he said: ‘‘Mrs. Fitzsimmons gave birth to a boy on the 13th. She usually accompanies me and I hope to have her with me before long. I don’t know whether he will be a pugilist or not, but I guess not. The prospects for pugilism in the United States at present are exceedingly slim. Only one State in the Union will allow it by law, and I believe it will be many a year before the people of the United States will come to look upon it as a science and art to be tolerated. Football still flourishes and everybody concedes that it is more brutal than prize-fighting: but it is the intent that injures the latter. Tw r o footbali teams meet and the only object in view is to defeat each other for points. Usually there are a few broken ribs and arms, and perhaps a broken neck, but it is all unintentional and incidental. But when two pugilists face each other it is their intention to knock each other out. It is the intent and not the actual result which prevents the public from sanctioning it.” “What do you think of the McCoy-Creedon match?” he was asked. “Well, I fancy Creedon. Why? Well, in the first place, McCoy is not so strong. Admitting that McCoy is the cleverer of the two, yet Creedon should win. McCoy is taller and has the longer reach, but he is nevertheless at a disadvantage. Creedon can take more punishment, and he is stronger and has the harder punch. But I may be wrong. Prize fighters are no better judges of prize fighters than outsiders.” Speaking of his show, Mr. Fitzsimmons said: “I had a play written for me and expected to take a part as a star. I think I would have done as well or better than other champions who have starred, but at the last moment my manager and I concluded not to attempt it. The play was a good one by Hal Reed, author of “Human Hearts.” It would doubtless have done well, but I am better satisfied as things are. l have a first-class vaudeville company with me. 1 have to appear only in the last part. With a drama I would have to be on hand all the' time the curtain was up. It is much easier for me, and I have no doubt the pu flic is much better pleased to see me in a sparring contest and in my old role at bag punching than to see me as the hero of a drama.” "What do you hear about the chance blow?” he was asked, and this aroused him. “I have heard it said,” he replied, with some warmth, “that Fitzsimmons wins always on a chance blow'. That ought to be recognized as a mistake by this time. People are now giving me credit for generalship as well as hard hitting.” He then described the fourteenth round as |t occurred at Carson City, and showed how he had played for just such a blow which knocked Corbett out. “But when I knocked him out he showed the yellow streak.” declared the champion. “Here is the position he occupied on the field when I knocked him down ” nr.d Fitzsimmons show’ed how Corbett had supported himself on his toes and left hand, and then asked the reporter if such a position did not indicate a full realization of the senses. “Any man who could hold himself in that position must have nad a full control of the intellect,” declared the champion, “and he could have reached hi* knees and

his feet with less strain than he could have held to that position. When he spat in my face in Green's Hotel, Philadelphia, I told him I would knock his pompadour head off when I got him in the twenty-four-foot ring, and he knew I would do it. He showed the yellow streak and gave up the fight rather than chance the blows he knew: were his, should he ever raise to his feet. READY FOR A STREET ENCOUNTER. "Corbett expects in a few' days to start out with his company on the road, and he declares that he will string out three-sheet posters saying that Fitzsimmons is afraid to meet him. If he does this I will put out tw'enty-four-sheet posters saying that Jim Corbett is the worst champion America ever put up; that he is a cur and that he quit like a cur at Carson City, and I will tell him so to his face. He talks about a street encounter if he cannot meet me in the ring. If than is the dirty dog’s game, I will be ready for him. He had fortypounds the best of it at Carson City and could not win. What does the cur want? Let him start the three-sheets whenever he w-ants to. We will probably meet in the same city before the season is over, and then he can try his game, whatever it may be. I defeated him at Carson City-; why should I be afraid of him now-? “I have retired from the ring. I told my wife w-hen I was about to enter the ring at Carson City- that, win or lose, that would be my last fight. Corbett told his wife the same. He felt sure that he would win. I felt sure that I would win. Well, I won, and have I not the right to retire? I have retired and I expect to remain retired as the champion of the world until two pugilists of prominence fight for the championship. Then I w-ill be content to sign myself the retired champion, and not before. At present I am the champion, and ihe barking ot such curs as the defeated Jim Corbett will net disturb my equilibrium in the least. He is not worthy of any notice and will receive none from me. In the Carson City fight I won all the laurels I could win, and why should I now break my pledge to my wife when there is nothing to be gained by It, exqept to satisfy the demands of a man who has no right to make demands?” AN AMERICAN BESTED. Dave Snlllvan Defeated by Pedlar Palmer, of England. LONDON, Oct. 18.—Pedlar Palmer, the bantam weight champion of England, and Dave Sullivun, of Boston, met this evening at the National Sporting Club at 116 pounds to compete for the bantam championship of the world, a purse of $3,500 and a sid? bet of SI,OOO. The contest was won, by Falmer in twenty rounds. The men entered the ring at 9 o’clock. The clubroom was crowded. There was half a pound difference in weight in favor of Sullivan, but the betting was 2 to 1 in favor of the Englishman. Both appeared perfectly trained. As early as the third round Sullivan was tw-ice cautioned for holding. In tho fifth Palmer just missed an upper cut which might have settled matters. He had the better of the exchanges from the beginning, but Sullivan made a plucky fight throughout. In the ninth and tenth rounds Sullivan forced the fighting and really had the better of his opponent until the last half minute of the tenth, when Palmer steadied him with a couple of fine punches in the face. In the following rounds Sullivan was clever and strong, but unable to make headway against the little Englishman s superior skill. In the thirteenth round Sullivan got In his left, but was again cautioned for holding and hitting too low. In the fourteenth Palmer damaged his opponent’s face baoly, and in the fifteenth Sullivan was evidently getting weak. But he managed to land his left and right on Palmer’s libs, and in the succeeding rounds showed lots of pluck in spite of his weakness. Palmer seemed content with his previous work and just maintained, his advantage. In the eighteenth round Sullivan tried all he knew to bring off a knock-out, but failed. In the nineteenth the American reached the face and head of the Englishman, but received severe punishment in return on the nose and mouth. In the twentieth Sullivan again forced the fighting, but Palmer won with a lot of points. Sullivan was so much upset by his defeat that he wept, but his game efforts have secured him many friends, and he may be congratulated on having made Palmer exert himself more than any other lad the Englishman has ever met. Preceding the main contest Jerry Driscoll, champion of the English navy, beat Freeman Martin, of Nova Scotia, in six rounds and John Hughes, of London, beat George Reynolds, of America, in eight rounds. Knocked Ont in Sixth Round. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 18.—Oscar Gardner, the “Omaha Kid,” knocked out Luke Stevens, of Buffalo, in the sixth round of their bout here to-night. A left smash on the jaw at short range did the business. The men were matched for a twenty-five round bout. The preliminary- go was furnished by “Kid” Goulette, of this city, and Eddie Gardner, a brother of Oscar. They boxed ten rounds. Goulette got the decision. Declared a “Fake.” PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18.—Kid McCoy and Jim Hall,of Australia, met at the Quaker City Athletic Club to-night for a sixround bout, but the affair was such a palpable “fake” that the referee called it off in the fifth and declared no contest. The meeting of Jack O’Brien and Martin Judge w-as stopped in the first round for a like reason. Killed by a Blow Over the Heart. LANCASTER, N. Y., Oct. 18.—Edward Voll, of this village, in a boxing match Saturday night, knocked out Frank Kazew-sky, of Depew, with a blow over the heart. Kazewsky was rendered unconscious and did not recover, and yesterday died. Voll has been arrested. Kezewsky was formerly of Detroit.

DENISON HOUSE WINE. Three Men Arrested for Stealing? 8200 Worth of It. James Hicks, 151 Douglass street; S. M. Dick, 309 North Capitol avenue, and J. H. Donavan, 309 North Capitol avenue, were arrested yesterday by Detectives Kinney and Thornton on charges of grand larceny. They were employed at the Denison House, the two last named as plumbers and steam fitters. During the time about S2OO worth of wine was missed. Hicks claims that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of the wine, but confessed that the other two men took some of it and gave it to friends. THE FIRE BUG ESCAPED. Two Patrolmen Pnt Out a Fire at Mack's Carpet Factory. Patrolmen Hart and Ward yesterday morning prevented the destruction, or partial destruction, of Mack’s carpet factory, at the intersection of the canal and (new) Thirteenth street. They reached the place in time to extinguish a fire which had been kindled by incendiaries. A pile of papers and kindling had been placed against the building and ignited. The patrolmen saw the light and ran to the place in time to extinguish the fire before it had done any damage. The firebugs escaped. Dr. Hurty and Car Sanitation. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, went to Chicago last night and will to-day deliver an address before the Western Railway Association upon car sanitation. He has for more than a year been agitating the necessity of disinfecting all passenger cars at the end of every run, ar.d the subject has attracted much attention among railway managers. The Big Four has already adopted a system of disinfection. No Paper for Mr. Burford. W. B. Burford was somewhat disturbed yesterday over a street rumor that he was preparing to print a Democratic afternoon paper. He declared that he was in the job printing business and had ho thought of launching a newspaper or of printing one for anybody else. He had ample experience in this line for life in printing the late lamented “Ter-ruth.” E. B. Reynolds'* Reinstatement. Elisha B. Reynolds, representative from Wayne county in the last Legislature, was in the city yesterday receiving the congratulations of his friends. He had just been reinstated to the position he held under the Harrison administration as special Indian agent at a salary of $3,000 per year and expenses. Herron, Jeweler, 37 S. Pennsylvania Stj.

INDIANA SCHOOL LAWS * A COMPILATION' GIVING AX INSIGHT INTO STATE’S SCHOOL. SYSTEM. Mr. Geeting'# Interesting Introduction Showing tlie Factors in MukinK It of Such High Standard. ■■■■ ♦ D. M. Geeting, state superintendent of public instruction, has just completed a compilation ol! all the laws of Indiana relating to the public schools, state educational institutions or educational topics. It is very complete, conveniently arranged and intelligently classified and indexed. It makes a volume of 421 pages. The sections are numbered consecutively as the matter i3 arranged, but at the end of each section can be found its section number in the Revised Statutes of 1881, of 1894 and of 1897. Mr. Geeting has written a readable introduction of some length, sketching the work of building up the school system of the State, and devotes several pages to a brief and compact statement of the duties of the various school officers. He then groups the school laws under these several chapters: Constitutional provisions; superintendent of public instruction; State Board of Education; school books; county superintendent; County Board of Education; administration; taxation; enumeration; apportionment of revenue; schools in cities and towns; school system in large cities; schools and schoolhouses; teachers’ institutes; free libraries; general provisions; compulsory education; the fund; State Normal School; Indiana University; Purdue University; tax for Indiana and PUrdue Universities and State Normal School; the state library. In his introduction Mr. Geeting reviews the various laws passed from time to time in aid of the school system, and tells of the memorable campaigns led by Professor Mills in the late ’4os. He devotes some space to a discussion of the New England and Virginia character that mingled in Indiana, and saj’s: CAVALIER AND PURITAN IN INDIANA. “From the New England colonies, Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolines, of which Massachusetts and Virginia were typical, came the early settlers of Indiana. Draw a line from east to west through Indiana, the line touching the southern part of Marion county, and you find the settlers south of this line from Virginia and the other Southern colonies, and noi*th of it from New England, each bringing with them their peculiar Ideas, customs and local laws. ‘‘ An the northern part of Indiana we find tnose who favor a strong local government, ana it at any time they had contemplated centralized state government, the conduct or the mother country during the American r i? V i?i ll P n engendered such an intense dislike for a strong centralized government that the principle of such, applied to our public school system, was entirely out of the question, anew generation had to be educated, liberalized and driven to see the prime necessity of a state-controlled system °h schools before a law similar to the one of 1802 would be countenanced. •‘ln the southern part of Indiana there existed the social inequality of the parent colonies. To place all on an equai footing before the law meant tne breaking down of those social lines that had so long separated the poor from the rich; the gentleman from his .more humble white neighbor. •Not that these people were so muen opposed to education as to the idea ot admitting all to equal privileges before the law. Here again was needed "a campaign of education, and in the course of time the first settlers had yielded the soil to those more liberal in their views, and who were fully persuaded that the State was responsible tor the education of ail its citizens. Under these conditions the local school system of the Constitution of 1816 was all that could be expected. “A fair and impartial trial of this system for forty years, where its weakness was easily shown, proved that good arguments were all on the side of a centralized system, supported by general taxation, and in which tuition should be free and equally open to all. Our Supreme Court understood this when, in 1857, Judge Perkins rendered his decision In the case of City of Lafayette vs. Jenners (10 Ind. 76), when he says: ‘Under our former Constitution we had two systems of common schools, the general and the local (the local predominating), and the local had broken down the general, and neither had flourished. This was an evil distinctively in view of the convention that framed the new Constitution, and it was determined that the two systems should no longer coexist; that the general system should continue, strengthened by additional aids, and that the counteracting local system should go out of existence—should cease.’ “Thus, after ‘.he adoption of the Constitution of 1852, there was a strong antagonism against the new system, and the courts, after long and many delays, decided against the prevalent idea—that local systems were superior to the general system—as unconstitutional. The civil war came, and the theory ‘that all men are created equal’ became a fact—a, great advance toward political equality—while the advance toward social equality was equally great, as shown by the general and very liberal school law of 1865 that was enacted, and which, with a few changes, Is still the law whose workings have attracted the attention of school men and legal minds of all our new States and many of the older States, particularly Michigan, whose state superintendent of public instruction has recommended the abolition of the district system and the adoption of the township system instead. “No greater social problem has ever come to a people of a State for solution than that of Indiana in the perfecting of her unique common school system, and no State has over had more difficulties, inherent in the people, than those erroneous ideas of society, which took deep root, extending even to the third and fourth generations, and which died with the opposition to the school laws of 1865 and 1873.” |

PRESENT TENDENCIES In closing his introduction, Mr. Geeting discusses the present tendencies of the system thus: “The tendency of our present school system is worthy of careful study. Looking at the school laws of Indiana, reinforced by the rules and regulations of county boards of education and school boards of cities and incorporated towns, which our Supreme Court has decided may be enforced, we see an ideal svstem with the power of the State behind it. Is the system doing all it should for the development of the child? Rosenkrantz says: ‘That education is the means by which a man seeks to realize in man his possibilities—to develop the possibilities of the race in the individual.’ Again, he says ‘that education is the emancipation of the youth.' To my mind a system of popular education should be worked out in harmony with the spirit of the above quotations. “The possibility of raising the standard of instruction, at present, lies chiefly with the teacher, and in order to do the most for the children he must be guided by intelligent supervision; or, to state it differently. he should be encouraged by the superintendent to be himself in the presentation of his subject matter to his pupils, and hold the pupils to the work in such a way as to make each one feel through such effort a strength that he has acquired by the proper exercise of his own faculties. We Believe that while there is much in the administration of school systems chat falls short of what we would have it, yet we have a large army of faithful, conscientious teachers and superintendents striving to impress upon the minds of their fellows the fact that whatever wdll make a man a better man will make him a better teacher. “The various departments of our school system have taken such a stride forward during the past fnw years that air friends of education should be greatly encouraged. The very rapid growth is due largely to the increased attendance in our high schoftls, normals and colleges; to the careful study of the professional work as outlined and studied in the courses of study, tow nship and county institutes and associations, and to the teachers’ and young people's reading circles. The schools are more fully meeting the needs of the children now than ever before. Our system is ideal, embracing as it does the three great divisions, viz.: Primary education, represented by the country and grade schools; secondary education, represented by the high schools, and high education, repr*>sented by the universities and colleges. The schools for the primary and secondary education of the youth of the State are constantly growing In efficiency, a.nd are thereby making a broader and more solid foundation for the higher education. The university and colleges are in turn making more efficient the teaching force of our secondary schools, while the State Normal School is being felt more and more each year in supplying professionally trained teachers for the primary schools. Each supplements the other, anil

by means of all the schools will finally reach the ideal as set forth in the system. “The public standards of morality and virtue, of industry and patriotism, have been elevated through the Influence of the common schools, and through the unselfish devotion of an army of teachers we expect to see the word Hoosier. so long a synonym for verdancy and a low state of civilization, stand for all that is best in good citizenship.’’ TAXES OF CITIES AND TOWNS. Statistics Bpli!k Gathered by the Indiana Bureau. State Statistician Conner is now collecting and tabulating, for the first time in the history of the State, the amount of taxes placed upon the local tax duplicates by incorporated cities and towns and collected by city and town treasurers. A portion of corporation taxes are collected by county treasurers. The amount of taxes collected by the county treasurers for 1895 was $19.574,558.08, not including the delinquent taxes, but one or two millions more are collected locally. The State has never had a complete statement of all taxes levied in the State, and the bureau hopes that city and town clerks will make accurate and complete reports, and so enable the bureau to make reliable and valuable compilations, ln future an abstract of the city and town tax duplicates will be taken annually. A comparison of amount and rate of taxation in the several cities and towns will be very interesting to municipal taxpayers. The rate of taxation per SIOO valuation for ail purposes ranges from $1.12 to $3.34 in cities and towns, and in townships from 93 cents to $2.84. The tax for county purposes only, levied by the Board of County Commissioners, ranges from 22 1-3 cents in Lagrange county to 90 cents in Perry county. The law provides no limit to the rate of county tax, except in counties having a voting population of over 20,000. Marion county is the only county in the State thus favored with a limit of 33 cents on the SIOO valuation for county purposes. Several cities in the State collect the city taxes in two installments and many cities collect all the tax on the first Monday in May. It is optional with common councils. INDiAM SUGAR BEETS. Prof. Wiley, of Department of Agfriculturc, Here Investigating. Prof. H. W. Wiley, of the Department of Agriculture, is now in Indiana for the purpose of consulting with those who are most interested .n the promotion of the sugar beet industry in this State. Professor Wiley is probably the best posted man in this country on this subject. He is now in Evansville, where some of the enterprising men of wealth are considering the question of the construction of a beet sugar factory. There have been many small plats of ground cultivated in beets in Indiana this season, and beets grown here are being sent in to Purdue University, where they are being analyzed free of cost to the producer. The result is quite surprising, many beets sent in showing a much larger per cent, of sugar than the average of beets produced in France and Germany. Beets from northern Indiana run in many instances as high as 18 per cent, sugar. This is about one-third more than the average of beets produced in localities where the beet sugar industry has been firmly established. Professor Wiley w’il! be at the Denison Hotel on Thursday cf this week and would be glad to meet any and all who are taking an interest in beet sugar. A GAME WITH CHICAGO. Indianapolis Football Team Begins Its Practice. The Indianapolis football team commenced practice last night preliminary to Saturday’s game with the Chicago Athletic Club. The team for that game will line-up as follows: Wells, center; Johnson and Turner, guards; Railsback and Kirkhoff, tackles; Olin and Hawkins or Murbarger, ends; Foster or Hull, quarter back; Griffith and Patterson, half backs, and Scott full back. Other gaires scheduled are with South Bend Athletic Club, one at Nashville, the Louisville Athletic Club, State University of Ohio, and Bankers’ Athletic Club, of Chicago. Manager Burord is in correspondence with the manager of the Carlisle Indian School team and hopes to secure a gams with them to be played here.

Red Men and Pocahontneei. The Great Council of the Red Men of Indiana will begin Its ninth annual meeting at Odd Fellows’ Hall this morning, with about 400 delegates in attendance. The auditing committee met yesterday afternoon and audited the financial reports of the officers, finding them correct. The executive committee held a session at the Grand Hotel last evening, looking ater routine details. The Degree of Pocahontas will meet on Thursday and the Haymakers will give their annual parade. Mrs. Sue Biddlecome, Grand Pocahontas, is visiting Hattie M. Hopkins, on Fletcher avenue. Senton the Hatter. Dunlap. Stetson, Guyer make of Hats. 29 North Pennsylvania street. LOUISVILLE AND RETURN. 1(11.50 Round Trip—sl.so. VIA PENNSYLVANIA LINES, Sunday, Oct. 25, 1807. Special train leaves Union Station 7:15 a. m. Returning, leaves Louisville (Fourteenth street) 6:10 p. m. W. W. RICHARDSON, D. P. A. Fine Fashionable Fancies In gentlemen’s neckwear and fine-fitting percale shirts thrown in at only sl. These are the magnets that draw the big line of buyers to PAUL H. KKAUSS'S Hab-s;-dashery. Put on its merits, there is no champa,gne that has more good qualities than Cook’s Imperial. It’s extra dry. Insure with German Fire Insurance of Indiana. General offices, 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. Feed your horse JANES’S Dustlees Oats. McGilllard Agency Cos. Fire insurance. Kimball pianos. Carlin & Lennox. 9 E. Mkt. at. Crystal Clocks, Bronzes, Rich Cut Glass New goods arriving daily. We invite your inspection. We have the newest novelties of the season. Julius C. Walk, & Son, INDIANA’S LEADING JEWRY.Pin*.

Furniture We have been receiving' large quantities of new goods during the last few weeks, and now have on our floors the best assortment of new, fresh, handsome designs that we have ever shown. Special attention is called to our Combination Bookcases, which embrace a writing desk and space for books, with fancy cabinet tops above the desks. We have these in Oak, Birch and Mahogany at special prices, ranging from $9.00 up. WM. L. ELDER, Nos. 43 & 45 Sooth Meridian St

The Wm. H. Block Cos. Sole agents for the Standard Paper Patterns None better and as cheap. Every pattern ln stock. Mail orders receive prompt attention, /ill purchases amounting tp $5 and over delivered free within 100 miles of Indianapolis. Specials Tuesday. Dress Goods and Silks MELTONS 54-inch Imported Cloth, sponged, ready for use. jegular $1.50 quality, $1.25 IMPORTED SKIRTINGS Beautiful Fall Combinations, goods that were made to sell for $2.25, $1.75. Bu., $1.50: sale price $1.75, $1.19 and VOL CLOAKINGS Light Weight. All-Wool, Three-toned Scotch 42 inches wide, regular AIL, $1 quality, for vJVL JAMESTOWN Novelties, Silk and Wdol Effects, beautiful line of colors, regular 49c quality, for UVL JACQUARD Novelties. 40 inches wide, regu- OSL,, lar 39c value, for “**-*'-' SERGES All-Wool. 36 inches wide, all colors, regular 35c quality, to-mor- i Q . row IVL FRISE NOVELTIES Black only, 40 inches wide, $1.25 07 •* value, for ...”1 FASHIONABLE SUITS, WAISTS, CAPES, JACKETS AND SKIRTS. SUITS Os Habit Cloth. Rhadame lined. Jacket# well made and lined, Skirts ex-<fc4 OK traordinary; price BLOUSE SUITS Made of all-wool materials, braid and button trimmed, man-tailored, excellent value at $12.50; extra spe-^^Q^ PLUSH CAPES 27 inches long, full sweep, Rhadamelired. collar and fronts edged with Thibet fur, regular price KERSEY JACKETS Black, blue and green, shield fronts, handsomely ornamented with Kerseyt strips, Roman stripes, silk-lined, a perfect garment, regular selling C|A Aik price $12.60; choice JLV.W SKIRTS Made of Black Serge, Figured Brilliantine and Novelty Checks, value <£f 4tt up to $2.50; choice ROMAN STRIPED TAFFETA SILK WAISTS. Lined throughout, $6 quality, The Wm. H. Block Cos.

‘‘One Dozen Busy Workmen” GIFTS Our line of sterling Silver Novelties, Cut Glass, Toilet Sets, etc., is the most complete in the city. Our New Holiday Goods have arrived. LARfiEST MANUFACTURING JEWELERS Gardner Bros. & Ross No. 106 North Pennsylvania St. ■ _ !!■■■!■ " ."I!—"—— “We Decorate Your House, Cabins aui Walls’’ China Novelties And fancy Bric-a-Brac, suitable for Wedding - and Birthday Presents. PfITT’C CftNQ INTERIOR DECORATORS ItULL 0 OUIIO, 203 B Washington St S.TEINWAY PIANOS : —~= Best In the \A/orld PEARSON’S MUSIC HOUSE INDIANAPOLIS, IND. \A/E HAVE.... The largest and best line of OIL HEATERS and GAS STOVES that is shown in the city to-day. Prices that will suit. LILLY & STALNAKER, 114 ancl HO East NVauhlngton Street. FURNITURE, CARPETS MESSENGER’S, 101 E. Washington St. DONEY’S Old Wayne go Cigar. BEER! Ours is the perfect article. Sold by all first-class saloons. INDIANAPOLIS BREWING CO. THEODORE STEIN. ABSTRACTER of TITLES Co'Tjer Market and Pennsylvania streets, Indianapolis*. Suite 229. First Office Floor. ‘‘The Ij. moke.” Telephone 1?W).