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THE JOI RWL RI SITESS DIRECTORY. L'ARPKT CLEANING—HOWARD STEAM CARPET CLEANING AND RENOVATING WORKS. Tel. 616. FLORISTS—BERTERMAN floral company. New No. 241 Mass ave.. 226 N. Del. st. Tel. MO. laundries— UNION CO-OPERATIVE LAUNDRY, . ISB-U4 Virginia ave. Phone 1269. MANTELS AND GRATES— B- M. PURSELL (Mantels, Furnace*), Mass. ave. and Delaware st. THE M. S. HUEY CO.. MFGS. (Mantels. Crates and Tiles). New No. 1201 Mass, ave. PATENT LAWYERS—CHESTER BRADFORD, 1233 to 1236 Stevenson bldg, 13 E. Wash. st. H. P. HOOD & SON (Arthur M. Hood;, 32-33 Union Trust bldg, 120 E. Market sL V. H. LOCKWOOD. , 415-418 Lemcke bidg. PLUMBING AND STEAM HEATING— J. S. FARRELL & CO. (Contractors), , 144 N. Illinois st. SALK AND LIVERY STABLES—HORACE WOOD (Carriages, Traps. Buckboards, etc ). 23 Circle. Tel. 1037. SHOW CASES—WILLIAM WIEGEL, H6 South Pennsylvania st. UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS AND CANES— C. W. GUNTHER (Manufacturer), UNDERTAKERS—FRANK BLANCHARD. 99 N. Delaware st. Tel. 411. Lady Attendant. WALL PAPERS— H. C. STEVENS, New Styles Wall Paper. Low Price*. #3O N, Senate ave. Tel. 2on 2332. FIN EH A L DIHKUTOKS. PLANNER & BUCHANAN-320 North Illinois street. Lady embalmer, for ladies and children. Office always open. Telephone 841. Hacks at lowest prevailing price. C. E. KREGELO. FUNERAL DIRECTOR, has resumed business at his old establishment, 223 " Delaware street. Everything new and complete. Office telephone. No. 250. GRAY—Robert It., died at his residence Sunday at 6:15 p. ra. Funorai notice later. ESSMANN—Louis, died .lan. 8. 18#!); born April 1, 1854. Funeral Tuesday, Jan. 10, & p.m., from residence, 716 Greer street. PERRY—Norman Dewey Perry, of Columbus, 0., died Sunday evening, Jan. 8. 1890, at the residence of his son, E. E. Perry, 1319 College avenue, aged eighty-six years. Remains will be taken to Columhus, 0., for burial this morning at 8:23. HI I TERFIELD— Lute G. Butterfield, aged eighty-one years, at his late residence, one and n half miles northeast of Broad Ripple. Funeral Monday, 10:30 a. m., at Broad Ripple Methodist Church. Carriages leave Mr. Whltsetfs at 8 a. m. AjV Cl A LOANS—Money on mortgages. C. F. SAYLES, 75 East Market street. LOANS —Sums of SSOO and over. City property and farms. C. E. COFFIN & CO., 150 East Market street. LOANS—On city property; 6 per cent.; no commit Ion; money ready. C. N. WILLIAMS & CO., 319 Lemcke building. MONEY LOANED SALARIED PEOPLE holding permanent positions with responsible concerns upon their own names without security: easy payments. TOLMAX, Room 701. Stevenson building. MONEY—To loan on Indiana farms. Lowest market rate; privilege for payment before due. We also buy municipal bonds. THOS. C. DAY A CO., Room 325-330, third floor Lemcke building, Indianapolis. PERSONAL. PERSONAL—Massage treatment. Old 28*6 Indiana ave.. Room 9. Hours. 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. STORAGE. STORAGE—INDP’LS WAREHOUSE CO. W. E. Kurtz. Pres. H. A. Crossland. Mgr. (New) 517-F23 S. Penn. ’Phone 1343. WE STORE. PACK AND HAUL. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Notice of First Meeting: of Creditors*. In the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Charles Q. Ludwig, bankrupt. No. 87, In bankruptcy. To the creditors of Charles G. Ludwig, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marlon, and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the 31st day of December. A. D. 1898. the said Charles G. Ludwig was duly adjudicated bankrupt: and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at Room 62. Lombard building. No. 24'i East Washington street. In the city of Indianapolis. Marlcn county. Indiana, on the 23d day of January, A. I). 1899. at 9 o'clock in tho forenoon, at which time the said creditors may attend, (wove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. ALBERT RARE, Referee in Bankruptcy. Indianapolis. Ind., Jan. 6. 1899. Notice of First Meeting of Creditor*. In tlte District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. In Bankruptcy. In the matter of llcnry Reltch, Iwinkrupt. No. 78. in bankruptcy. To the creditors of Henry Deitch, of Indianapolis. in the county of Marion, and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice Is hereby given that on tho 28th day of December. A. D. 1898. the said Henry lie itch was duly adjudicated bankrupt: and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at Room 62. Lombard building. No. 24’i East Washington street. in the city <f Indianapolis, Marion county. Indiana, on the 19th day of January, A. I>. 1899. at 9 o'clock In the forenoon, ai which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business aa may properly come before said meeting. ALBERT RARB. Referee in Bankruptcy. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 3, 1889.

Ntie* of First MrrtlnK of Creditors. In the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Frank O. Volz, bankrupt. No. nr., in bankruptcy. To tiie creditors of Frank O. Yoiz, of Indianapolis. in the county of Marion, and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby Riven that on the 13th day of December. A. D. 1838, the said Frank O. Volz was duly adjudicated bankrupt; and that the first meeting of his creditors will is* held at Doom 62. Lombard building. No. 24U East Washington street, in the city of Indiana jail is, Marion county. Indiana. *>n the 1 Ktlt day of January. A. D. 1*33. at 3 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the l>ankrupt. and transact such other business as may properly ci.me before said meeting. ALBERT RABB. Referee in Bankruptcy. Indianapolis. Ind.. .Tan. 4. 1833. Sotlce of First Meeting of Creditors. In the District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana.. In Bankruptcy. !:i the matter of Charles S. Cully, bankrupt. No. 74, in bankruptcy. To tiu* creditors of Charles S. Cully, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marlon, and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on the 24th day of December. A. D. ltfK the said Charles R. Cully was duly adjudicated bankrupt: and that the first meeting of his creditors will he held at Room €2. Lombard building. No. 24 > East W ashington street, in the city of Indianapolis, Marion county Indiana, on the 2!et dav of Januarv. A D. *. at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time the said creditor* ma.v attend, prove tlivir claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may property come before said meeting. ALBERT RABB, . Referee In Bankruptcy. Imilanatiolis. Ind.. Tan. 5. 1899. Notice iif First Itreliiig of Creditor*. In tbe District Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. In Bankruptcy. In tiie matter of la-wis S. Wal.len, bankrupt. No. 13. iti bankruptcy. To tiie creditors of Lewis S. Walden, of Irvington. in the county of Marion, and district aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby given that on tiie 22d day of December, A. D. IS9B, the said Lewis S. Walden was tluLv adjudicated bankrupt; and that tiie first meeting of his creditors will be held at Boom 62, Lombard building. No. 34 L East Washington street, in the city of Indiana|>cUs. Marion county, Indiana, on the pxith day of January. A. D. at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time tiie said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. ALBERT RABB. Referee in Bankruptcy. Indianapiiia. Ind.. Tan. 5,1839. FLECTION NOTICE. The stockholders of the Pioneer brass works fcie hereby not!tied that there will be a meeting ©f the stockholder* at the office of the company, at 216 and 21* South Pennsylvania street, in the cily of Indianapolis, ind.. on the 10tl- day of January, 1.593, to elect directors and other officer* for the year 1893 and to transact such other business s niay come la-fore the meeting. JOHN It BHINKMEYER, President, IT Hl.lt SALK. Notice Is hereby given tliat on Tuesday, Jan. 17, iv<*. at ten (10) o'clock am., the’undervifntd will js-11 for cash at pubiic sale at the line Art building, fair ground*. lndiana|slls. Indiana, to the highest bidder the following government property: 8M tents more or less, J 8 ytovt*. 5.283 feet one (1) Inch gas pljs* and the peon—ry fittings and other miscellaneous orti< les tof oan.g equipage. Articles to Mod ' . Jot EDW. R. CHRIRMAN. Find Lieut. Hixth U. {* Infantry, > - A. A. Quartermaster, U. 8. A.

FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Ten R.I.P.A.N.S sot 5 cent* at __druggt*tsj on# give* relief. FOR SALE—Two shares of Fropylaeum stock, face value. Address H., care Journal. FOR SAI.K-KKAh ESTATE. FOR SALE—ReaI Estate—No cash needed: fine residence lot near Fifteenth street; will sell to any one who will build at once and will take mortgage security at 6 i>er cent, on long time or will sell cheap for cash. Address A. H., care Journal. FOR RENT—Second floor, centrally located; suitable for light manufacturing or printerv; W'ith or without power; water, both gases. Apply first floor, 117 West Georgia street. FOR TRADE. FOR TRADE —Fine residence lot near Fifteenth street; worth $2.2(10, with SSOO mortgage; will trade for cottage in any good location, not worth mere than the equity. Address A. H., care Journal. M^SCELLAjSJEtJUjL^^^ WANTED—Rapid and competent stenographer and typewriter for Remington machine; state salary; give references. Address \V. W. MOONEY & SONS, Columbus, Ind. NOTlCE—Doctors, dentists, pharmacist*, lawyers, undergraduates practicing; soon graduated home. Box 390, Chicago. TURN ON THE LIGHT. Reason* Wlijr the Power* of Public Official* Should Re Limited. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; In view of tho agitation for legislation tending to limit the power of township trustees an experience of the writer with a salesman for school supplies may not be out of place. While stopping at a hotel in one of the smaller towns of the State the writer chanced to meet the salesman, became interested in his exhibit of his goods and inquired somewhat minutely in regard to his methods, the prices at which he bought his articles and at w'hieh he sold them, and other particulars. The salesman stated that the supplies in question cost him about sl3 each and that ho sold them to the township at $32, and went on to discuss his methods in dealing with the trustees. He remarked that his ‘‘boodle account" had been as much as SBOO in less than a week, and that he was Just at that time arranging a ‘‘deal’’ with a trustee whose assistance he desired- The trustee was holding off over the amount of the bribe to be given, asking SIOO, which the agent thought to be too much. “However,” said the agent, “I expect to give him SIOO to-night, as he has agreed to meet me at his store at that time.” Upon my remarking to him that I thought there was danger of his being arrested for engaging in the business of bribery' he seemed to regard it as a great joke and said that he had been in the business for three years and had yet to find the honest man among them. Said he: “I am looking for the honest trustee and he is not to be found,” and “there is no danger of being caught.” The articles in question would have been dear at one-tenth of the price paid for them. The above is a correct account of our interview, and there is no reason to doubt that the salesman gave a true statement of the case, as there w'as nothing to be gained by stating a falsehood calculated to injure him without any pecuniary benefit. A conversation with some “plain people” of Jay county is well remembered, in which cases were instanced where the banks of streams had to be cut away for a considerable distance to accommodate bridges which were absurdly too long for the space to be bridged, and we no doubt ail remember the rumors of grave scandals pertaining to bridge contracts in Wabash county not long ago. it is not the intention to comment upon the above, but it is plain that where secrecy is resorted to it is because tho transaction will not bear the light. It is easy enough to provide laws to insure publicity and to declare void all proceedings which involve the expenditure of public moneys which lack this element, and it should be done. We want no more steals, no allowances running into tho hundreds of dollars for making “indexes'' to records without which the records would be almost useless. We need laws which will make indirect stealing as much a theft as burglary, and which will land the perpetrator in the penitentiary instead of on Meridian street, and if a public officer cheats his .county by withholding its money and compels it to borrow' its own funds at interest iiaid to himself he should be punished for grand larceny and branded as the thief that he is. We are getting tired of this everlastingly increasing mountain of debt and extravagance. There is no excuse for It. Think of it! If a man has a paltry' $K4> saved up for a rainy day the law comes along on April 1 and takes $1.65 or it, and he can get but 3 per rent, interest from the trust companies. By ail means, let there be light, and lot it penetrate to the darkest recesses of official business. Let the people in, so that they may see at will what their servants are doing. Let us have a chance to determine, first of ail, whether a project is necessary, and then, if it is necessary, to see that it is carried out at its proper cost, anti that none of the expense reaches wrong channels. A poor excuse, they say, is better than none, but where a printing contract, fop instance, is given out at prices which a child should know are ridiculously high the plea of ignorance is altogether “too thin.” By' all means, turn on the light, Indianapolis, Jan. 7. PUBLICOLA.

Expansion nnil Subjection. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Conferring liberty on the Filipinos by shedding blood in subjecting*!hem to civilization is the phraseology in which a New England writer emphasizes his hostility to the extension of the principles of government he boasts as the best in the world. Forcing or subjecting an individual or a class to the observance of Ihe rights of others, and to the principles which bring them to the enjoyment of the highest possible privileges, is no hardship, nor does it take from them any gatutal rights. Rather, it restores to them the natural rights from which they have fallen or have never possessed. “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” come in the observance of the rights of others, and not. in tiie “liberty" to rob and murder. “The consent of the governed” is another phrase used, and is wholly removed from its relation by other noted New England people. “Consent" to what, pray? Consent to give up barbarism? Many of the Filipinos may not readily do that. According to any civilized ethics known, no people have any ' natural right” to forms of barbarism, just as they have no right to propagate Asiatic cholera and spread it to others. For more than a hundred years the “consent of tiie governed” who have not kept pace in advancing civilization and human betterment have crumbled a way and come under the sway and authority of those who have. That is the fiat of the Eternal, the natural order, and this Nation iias been taking a hand at :t ever since it was organized—with the Indians, the French people in the Louisiana purchase, the Spaniards in Florida and elsewhere. The question of the “consent of the governed" was never raised till we went out into th-‘ islands to lift up humanity, though some have always objected to expansion inside of our coast hues. Even the whole of Oregon Territory, then embracing much of the present Dakotas. Montana. Idaho and \\ ashington, comprising now many of the wealthy States ol' the Union. was once bargained off to Great Britain for small privi1< g. s off Cape Cod bv this same class hut was saved to the Nation by a Western man who rode on horseback in tiie dead of winter <>\i i the Rocky mountains from Oregon to Washington city. And now it is this same \\ cst. mi spirit which, in broad contact oe< things hi..adiy, that is to keep the Nation on its pace. l icre ate other reasons which suggest hesitation in expansion to the far-away Philippines. but there arc none in the catch phrases mentioned. We may shrink from what .- ems a hard task. But who "will haul down the American flag.” as the President puts it? This is the question, and it ma t lie met squarely, and nut with subterfuges. In it hundred days during 1898 things came to pass of which we had not before dreamed. In other perplexing hours of our history, when things looked dark, a great man uh> he -ante President said there is a God, and the government at Washington still lives. We may well abide in doing light at the present moment, and the next best step will In- made plainer by it. “ 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us." One who is already President believes there is a God, and the helm of the Nation at Washington a valid objection. WILLIAM CANNON. Indianapolis, Jan. 7. The Matter with Von Ilolat. New York Mail and Express. Von Holst, the German professor of International law at the University of Chicago, can tiiik against American expansion in three different languages. He thinks this country ought to have stopped expanding when it annexed him, and maybe he is correct.

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HOG-KILLING STATISTICS AN INCREASE OF HO PER CENT. AT THE POINTS REPORTING. The Gain in Indianapolis—The Flour Output Also Shows Heavy Increase. Since Nov. 1, the beginning of the winter packing season. Indianapolis packing houses have killed 283,0t*) hogs, against 257j000 in 1897, an increase of 26,000 hogs. The total at all points reporting was 5.710,000, against 4,540,000 a year ago, an increase of 1,700,000, or nearly 26 per cent., as follows: Nov. 1 to Jan. 4 1898-99. 1897-98. Chicago 2.030,000 1,515,000 Kansas City 700,000 640,000 Omaha 480.000 290.000 St. Louis 435.000 285,000 rndianapolis 283,000 257.000 Milwaukee, Wis 95.000 339,000 Cudahy, Wis 166,000 155/100 Cincinnati 193,000 165.000 St. Joseph, Mo 256.000 92,000 Ottumwa. la 169,200 134,(760 Cedar Rapids, la ] 14,600 96,600 Sioux City, la 98,000 75,000 Cleveland, O 98,000 98,000 Louisville. Ky 117.000 102,000 St. Paul, Minn 66.000 66,000 Wichita, Kan 33.000 31,000 Marshaltown, la 28.700 54,000 Bloomington, Jll 25.300 13,700 Clinton. la 12,000 Above and all other 5,710,000 4.540,000 The hogs killed have been of an unusually good quality and at no point have better prices been paid than on the Indianapolis market. Truffle of ISS>S. Below is given the shipments and receipts over the fifteen railways centering at Indianapolis as reported by r tho respective lines to tho secretary of the Board of Trade: Received. Shipped. Flour, hr Is 358.539 383,188 Wheat, bu 2.648.800 364,060 Corn, bu 6.509.4(10 1 33.200 Oats, bu 1,377,000 112.000 Rye, bu 8,700 Barley, bu 9,200 Bran,- tons 372 ISO Hay, cars 577 8 Broom corn, lbs 143,605.4*M 375.000 Cement, brls 107,153 59.799 Coal, cars 22,774 1,236 Coke, cars 773 501 Cooperage, cars... 619 75.3 Corn meal and hominy 17,392,100 78,808,670 Cotton, bales 29,222 210 Cattle, head 99,586 28,498 Hogs, head 1,551,400 400.906 Horses, head 28,408 24.246 Mules, head 5,565 1,651 Sheep, head 24,993 21.399 Eggs, eases 30,656 144,921 Fruit, lbs 37,642,966 8,077.250 Hair and bristles, lbs. 9(0 1,042.700 Hides, lbs 4,293,474 9,706,850 Ice. cars 970 1.069 Iron, cars 7,968 4,982 Lard, tierces 900 69,073 Lath, cars 24 1 Lime, cars 598 192 Logs, cars 2,011 8 Lumber, cars 9,308 1,159 Machinerv. cars 613 2.322 Meats, bulk, lbs 15,248.290 158,241.473 Oil. brls 71,288 53.149 Pork, brls 1.200 22.563 Potatoes, bu 448,438 28,299 Poultry, lbs 3,088,280 544,090 Provisions, lbs 27,429,663 10,840,418 Salt, brls 49.279 107,465 Shingles, cars 224 1 Spirits and liqu’rs, brls 65,998 113.973 Starch, lbs 2,487.255 42,772,920 Stone, cars 4,376 683 Tallow, lbs 86.603 5,267,858 Tobacco, lbs 1.908.034 103.302. Wool, lbs 545,662 Miscellaneous, lbs.. ..535,824.439 414.396,370 Merchandise, lbs.. ..1.826,826,062 2,132,071,732 Flnnr Output of ISOS. In the twelve months ending Dec. 31. 1898, local mills turned out 580.674 barrels of flour, against 364,484 in 1897. against 431 502 in 1896 and against 544.801 in 1895. The handsome increase of 1898 was all made after harvest, and the exhibit would have been much more favorable if tne local mills could have se-, cured all the wheat of the quality required. The millers w r ere fortunate in disposing of most of their product at a very' satisfactory profit.

i Inspection* of 180S. In the year 1898 there were inspected at Indianapolis 2.074.100 bushels of wheat, representing 2.963 cars, against 1,080,100 bushels of wheat, representing 1,543 cars, in 1897. Oorn, 6,353,800 bushels, representing 10.423 cars, against 7.150,300 bushels, representing 11,017 cars, in 1897. Oafs. 527.000 bushels., representing 527 ears, against 540,000 bushels in 1897, representing 540 cars. Why Men Leave the Farm. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Tn your issue of Doc. 15 you notice at considerable'length what you call the “decline of agriculture.” but you do not seem to see either the oause or the remedy. The writer has lived on a farm since childhood, except about four years spent in tiie army, during the civil war, and, though sixty-two, he is still there, discouraged, but determined. Agriculture declines because ail natural right to natural opportunities is denied. Our theory of government is that all men “are endowed by their Creator with an inalienable right to life, liberty and tiie pursuit of happiness,” or “the gains of their honest industry,” but our practice is tho reverse;— men are endowed by the almighty dollar, with a purchasable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of more dollars. Happiness, in general, is impossible under such a practice. One of the simplest, yet most indisputable, truths has too long been overlooked: "If we mako either of the prime factors of production a subject of barter and sale, slavery is the inevitable result, chattel in one case, industrial in the other.” Simple and Indisputable as this proposition is, see how it has evaded the notice of tiie masses! If wo buy and sell labor, the active factor of production, we have chattel slavery, but if we buy and sell land (natural opportunities), the passive factor of production, we have industrial slavery, a deeper and more damnable form of slavery than chattel slavery ever was because so insidious, because men may be or seem politically free, yet bound body and soul in a servitude where necessity is even stronger than the lash; because he must give his lord more of the products of his labor than he would have to do if his master owned him and his family, and because there is not in industrial slavery even tiiat modicum of parental feeling that so often ameliorated the condition of the chattel slave. In connection with this mistake is another: That the majority of American farmers are landowners. While tho census of 1890 showed that our population had largely increased, it showed that tho increase was nearly all in our urban population, and had the calculation been carried below towns of 8.000 it would have shown a positive and alarming decrease of rural population. It did show a slight decrease, in the number of farms, and in spite of our large immigration of land workers from the old world, it could have truthfully shown a very large decrease of farmers, and especially farmers of native birth. Why wonder this when we consider that the mistake we are making is fundamental? Will not such a grievous error, lying at the very foundation of society, if persisted in, necessarily make the superstructure totter and fall? You cannot say, in this dispute, that farm life makes men shiftless and worthless, and hence the decrease of landowners and the increase of rent slaves; for we are too often reminded that nearly all the successful men in our cities, in every calling, came from tiie farm. It is not the man who rents the land he tills who alone pays rent; every working farmer must pay rent though he owns the land lie tills, and owes no man a dollar. The rents paid in the cities and towns, where a square foot is often worth more than a square acre of farm land, or a square league of pastoral land, must be‘taken out of the products of the farm, the range and the mine. Consequent upon this fundamental error we have a state of society in which the big fish not only eat the little ones, hut bigger fish eat the big ones: so tiiat the farmer who owns his own land must serve the man who owns more valuable land. Most farmers see and say that there is something radically wrong, though they generally, as yet. overlook the wrong, but they know there is no chance for their children here, and though he knows the trades and professions are overcrowded, any sensible father’s boy will risk his chances there rather than remain in hopeless servitude on the farm. But we are not only losing farmers; we are losing farms. The landlord skins the tenant and tiie tenant must skin the land, lienee it is not surprising to find our rocky and roiling lands impoverished, washed and gullied into worthlessness and turned out to “old field.” Even here, on tiie black, fiat prairies of Illinois, we can easily observe the lessening productiveness. The “clover puzzle" is now solved and those who know' most about clover have the least faith tn it. Still further and worse, you cannot change

the conditions of the soil, over large areas, without changing the conditions of the atmosphere over it. A climate always variable, and more or less given to extremes, we have aggravated; whereas, had we lived under conditions that tended to the improvement rather than to the deterioration of the soil, the changes would have oeen the other way*. Our only' hope lies in turning the tide of population from the city to the country', and under conditions that would make improved implements aid labor in tilling the field rather a means of driving labor out of the field as they do now. How shall we do this? By making the rental, or communal value of the land a main claims, the sole measure of his pecuniary' debt and duty' to the State. Think for a moment that there are but two things from which we raise public revenue by taxation, and those two things are prime factors of production, land and labor. Notice that if y'Oit tax labor, no matter who pays the tax at first, it is shifted and falls at last as a fine upon the producer, or acts as a bar to acquisition to the consumer; that it is everywhere and alw'ays contrary to good public policy. On the other hand, if you put the burden wholly upon land, in proportion to the value that the presence and growth of community gives it, you destroy its value as a subject of speculation, for the tax cannot be shifted and the land must be used by' its owner or abandoned in city' or country to those who will use it. Here is the simple but sweeping remedy against w’hieh no man can wage a valid objection. WILLIAM CAMM. Murrayville, 111., Jan. 7. Pensions for Policemen. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Among the numerous measures which will come before the legislature there will doubtless be many to which the attention of tho people iri general will not be especially directed until they are brought up for passage and in many cases until they are found on the statute books. In the hurry of legislation it very frequently occurs that laws are enacted w'hieh are far-reaching in their effect, but of w'hieh the people have littie or no knowledge until after their enactment. There will probably be a. measure introduced at the coming session which, however unimportant, it may' appear on its face, is a step toward a system which is pernicious in principle and not In harmony with the policy of this country. It is the bill which proposes to pension policemen after they' have reached a certain age or served a certain length of time. There has been little discussion as to the particulars of the bill thus far through the press, but the idea seems to be to provide a system of pensioning ex-patrolmen on account of long service. The plea of its promoters seems to be that when a man has glvfen the greater part of his life to this kind of work for the public he should be pensioned by' the state or municipality after he becomes too old for service. Now, *why should a man be pensioned for long service In a. position which he accepted without compulsion or coercion, and which many' of his fellow-citizens w'ould have been glad to have taken? Why should he stand in a different position than the man w r ho works for the city on the streets or in the ditches? He earns as much in a lifetime witfi the same expenditure of energy as he could in a private employment, else he would not continue in the position, and the fact that there are always many more applicants than there are positions shows, if indeed any proof is needed, that he is not making any sacrifice in accepting the employment. He gets as much pay as his neighbor who works for a private corporation and has equal opportunities for saving his earnings. At the end of the period when, according to the plans of the promoters of this measure, he ought to be retired upon a pension, he should be in as good a position financially as his neighbor who works for the private corporation. Then why is he to be favored simply because he works for the public? His neighbor may', with equal justice say that he has given his lifework to the private corporation’s business. The fact that the federal .. government pensions soldiers and sailors is no argument for extending the system to civil service. The soldiers of the civil war did not enlist for gain, but they left their families and their business and went to the front out of motives of patriotism, receiving much less pay than their neighbors who stayed at home. The persons whom this bill proposes to pension cannot seriously be said to have entered upon their service from patriotic motives, but as an easier and better way. in their judgment, of gaining a livelihood than they had before. This country has always been free from a civil pension list, such as Great Britain labors under, but here is a proposition to enter upon just such a system. It is not the amount of money which would be required to carry out the provisions of this one act. if passed, blit the fact that it has in it the. germ of a complete system. The same arguments could be adduced in favor of pensioning almost all civil officers, and, a beginning once made, how would it be just to draw a dividing line? Step by step, by a process of gradual development, we would become burdened with a system which would be an increase to those already saddled upon the taxpayer. It Is these gradual encroachments which are the most dangerous to the welfare of the people. If it were proposed to create an extensive civil pension list by one act the people would rise up against It In no uncertain manner; but in the hurry' and confusion necessarily attending an attempt to legislate for a great State in the space of sixty days each tw'o years these bills slip through oftentimes w'ithout even some of the legislators knowing their contents or realizing their scope ana importance, and they should be thoroughly discussed through the public: press. It is such measures that cause the tax rate to creep up slowly but surely, and cause a feeling of discontent on the part of taxpayers. Tt should be the object of legislators. in the exercise of principles of strict economy in the public business, to crush in their inception such measures as this, w'hieh are an unnecessary' drain upon the public treasury, and unless they are thoroughly aired through the press or otherwise they may be surreptitiously' smuggled through the Legislture. J. F. C. Marion, Ind., Jan. 7.

Pensionlim Ex-Confederate*. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Some well-meaning people who have more sentiment than sense seem to labor under the impression that the late war with Spain has entirely changed, or at least greatly modified, the character of the civil war of 1861. They manifestly have reached this unwarranted conclusion from the glorious fact that the North and South fought side by side with equal bravery and devotion under the stars and stripes in the late war, while in the civil war the North and the South w r ere fighting each other—the North to save the Union, and the South to break it up and destroy it. The record of, the civil war is made. up. It is part of the imperishable history of the race. Nothing that has occurred since then, or can come to pass In the future. can reach back and blot out or modify a single line of tiie record. The South, at the end of the civil war, accepted the situation and became again citizens of the Republic. It is a matter of congratulation on all sides that they did so. To express surprise and to go into raptures over their prompt enlistment to fight a common enemy is an unjust imputation on their good faith and loyalty to the Republic. Even if it he true that they have erected monuments to perpetuate the memory of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and have organized Confederate associations to keep alive the comradeship of the men who fought together, it lias not been a matter of complaint on the part of the North that they have done so. The North has not asked them to forget their living or dead comrades in their effort to break up the Union and establish a Southern Confederacy on the soil of a common ancestry. But the fact of loyalty and disloyalty to government in 1861 still remains. It would be as childish in the Grand Army of the Republic to wear the badge of the. Confederate Veterans Association as it would be ridiculous for the Confederate to wear the button of the Grand Army of the Republic. It would be simply foolish nullification and self-condemnation of each to do so. and would have a tendency to record what had better be forgotten. To pension the Confederates or in any way to give national sanction to a cause that millions of union soldiers fought to defeat and destroy would be senseless stupidity. It is a matter of congratulation that the South takes this same view of the situation. On all sides in the South there is earnest condemnation of the bill of Senator Butler to pension the Confederates. The New' Orleans Democrat says: “It would be to commit national suicide for the government to treat those who then warred against it in the same way that it treats the hundreds of thousands Who fought and died beneath Its standards. There are times when every consideration requires that the head shall rule the heart, and this is assuredly one of these supreme occasions.” It is to be hoped that the Spanish war will hasten the time when on both sides sectional recrimination will cease, and all. forgetting the mistakes of the pftst, will press forward. Inspired with hope of a more glorious future for our own common country, WILL CUM BACK. Greenaburg, Ind., Jan. 7. Vosc finest upright pianos at Wulschnct .

NEWS IN SUNDAY’S JOURNAL. Rename of Items Chronicled in the Edition of Jun. 8. The Senate passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Anew tin-plate company will build six large mills at Wilmington, 111. Weyler banqueted fourteen generals in Madrid and they drank to his success in Spain. Louis Gimm, of Pittsburg, won the twen-ty-four-hour bicycle race at Madison-square Garden. Jackson day was observed in all the large cities of the country, notably in Chicago, Denver and Omaha. In well-informed circles in England and France war between the two countries is believed to be inevitable. Senator Mason introduced an anti-expan-sion resolution and announced that he would discuss the subject in the Senate next Tuesday. In Paris a man has been arrested for simulating suicide to frighten his wife. His ruse was so realistic that the wife is dying of shock. A boy in the Atchison (Kan.) Reformatory confessed to having robbed the Missouri Pacific train at Leeds, for which Jesse James, jr., is indicted. The London Times, which is supposed to be the mouthpiece of the British government, is developing decided jingo qualities. It is leading the attack on France. Companies A, B, G, I, L and M of the Seventeenth Infantry, at the Columbus, 0., barracks, will go to New York Thursday and sail for Maaiila on the transport Mobile. A noted English civil engineer announces that London is built over a huge lake which is in a basin of chalk. It is proposed to sink artesian wells instead of bringing water from Wales. Serior Silvela has announced his policy, and the union of his party with the Polavieja faction has precipitated a. ministerial crisis at Madrid, which is expected to result in the downfall of the Sagasta Cabinet. England has practically declared a protectorate over Egypt, and France, it is believed in Europe, must yield to England in every other dispute between the two countries or resort to the arbitrament of the sword. In the Senate Mr. Allen announced that the talk of federal care for ex-Uonfeder-ates and ex-Confederate cemeteries was an injustice to the South and the result of the President's and Senator Butler’s overenthusiasm. Indiana po Ilm. The city has enjoined the Consumers’ Gas Trust from shutting off gas at the City Hospital. A coal-cart horse was drowned at the corner of Martindale avenue and Twenty-fifth street Saturday. The State of Indiana has been presented with the battle flag of the battle ship Indiana flew during the Santiago naval engagement. Evidence showing that men were hired to stay away from the polls on election day at Anderson was introduced in the StonerCregor senatorial contest. (From Sunday’s Second Edition.) The Lynching; Investigation. SCOTTSBURG, Ind., Jan. 7.—County Coroner Andrew L. Blackall to-day resumed his official inquest in the matter of the lynching of Marion Tyler here on tin 1 morning of Dec. 24. Two days last week were consumed in taking testimony, and at that time there were no sensational developments, yet there were enough to give Attorney General Taylor and other officers sufficient encouragement to continue the investigation. At that time there did not appear to be much interest taken in the matter by citizens except from a matter of curiosity, but to-day when the inquest convened a very good crowd was present and the officers were given to understand that the sentiment of tho people was clearly In favor of a vigorous investigation. About a dozen witnesses testified, some in private. The testimony of the latter can only be surmised. The testimony given to-day established the iact that at least a portion of the mob came to Scottsburg that night from a distance; that they came afoot, having hitched their horses in the bottoms about two miles north of this place, near the Marshfield water tank. This water tank Is on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway. This'testimony was not given publicly, but it is generally admitted as a fact. This, coupled with other stories which have in mysterious ways reached the officers, leads them to believe that they have a very good clew. Nearly all who testified to-day reside in the country—some as far as six miles from this place. It developed today that the attorney general and deputy prosecutor were in possession of “pointers ’ of which the public her3 is not advised. This afternoon somewhat of a sensation was created by one witness whose manner on the stand indicated that he was not willing to talk. He was examined closely, and he seemed to be very positive in his answers. While his testimony alone was not of such vast importance, the evidence of others when taken in connection appeared to establish a most important clew for the officers to work upon. Indeed, the conduct of this witness was enough to cause a silence in the room, which indicated plainly that the audience believed the officers hart at last hit upon a clew worth following. Summing up the whole testimony so far given publicly there is nothing developed to warrant the arrest of any one. At the request of the attorney general, deputy prosecutor and many citizens Coroner Blackall at 5 o’clock this afternoon continued the inquest indefinitely. Circuit Court convenes next Monday, and a special grand jury has been drawn to investigate the lynching. It is believed that Judge Willard New' will deliver such a charge to the grand jury as will cause it to make a most thorough investigation.

fnrremiy Reform Ruction. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—ln the House today Representative McCleary, of Minnesota, asked unanimous consent to withdraw from the calendar the bill to revise the banking: and currency system of the country, but Mr, Handy, of Delaware, demanded the regular order, which was equivalent to an objection. To an Associated Press reporter this evening Mr. McCleary said, in explanation of his request: ‘‘After the bill had been placed on the calendar last May there seemed to be a difference of opinion among some of the members of the committee as to the method of making the report. At a meeting of the committee, held near the close of the session of Congress, these differences were discussed, after which (on my own motion) I was authorized to ask for the withdrawal of the report and the accompanying bill from the calendar of the House.” ‘‘Will any effort be made at this session to secure consideration in the House of any comprehensive measure of currency reform?” Mr. McCleary was asked. “Speaking for myself, ami not assuming to speak for the committee,“answered Mr. McCleary, "I should say that it is unlikely that any attempt will be made in that direction so long as the Senate contains a free silver majority.” Senor Romero's Autosera pit. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 7.—Court Bailiff D. H. Drummond, of this city, has in his possession a genuine autograph of the late Senor Matins Romero, Mexican ambassador to the United States, who died at Washington a week ago. While Mr. Drummond was living in Indianapolis, a dispute arose between him and some friends in regard to the translation of the sentence: “lase of flowers,” from English to Spanish. He wrote to Senor Romero and in a letter dated March 29, 1891, the ambassador replied: "In replying to your letter of the 26th irist. I beg to say that the literal translation of the w'ords life of flowers, into Spanish is vida de las Acres, and in the same sense of a plant fertilizer it should be translated planta fertilizadora.” Mr. Drummond prizes the letter very highly as it probably contains the only genuine autograph of the great diplomatist in the State. Pacific Cable .Measure. WASHINGTON. Jan. 7:—Senator Ixxlge today introduced by request a bill to provide for a submarine cable between the United States and Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, China and Australia. The postmaster general is authorized to contract with the Pacific Cable Company, of New York, for the payment of $120,'-00 a year for twenty years tor transmission of official messages from San Francisco to Honolulu, the line to be laid by Dec. 31, 1900. Before Dec. 31, 1902. the company shall construct a line from Honolulu to Manila, with an additional sum of $125,000 to be paid by the government. Within four years the company shall lay connecting lines to Japan, for which $23,000 a year for twenty years shall be paid. The Tates fixed between San Francisco and Honolulu are 35 cents a word, and to the farther points $1 a word. Steele Indorsed for President. JONESBORO, Ind., Jan. 7.— Company H, of the Twelfth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. held a reunion at the residence of Henry Clapper, in Jonesboro, to-day. Those present were Frank Jones, Foster Davis, Alexander Little. Burt Keisay, Rollin Smith, George W. Thorne, John B. Hollingsworth of Fairmount; William P. Raush of Gas City, and Peter Gemmer of Marlon. This being the seventy-second anniversary of Mr. Clapper, his wife concluded to make a surprise for him of hit* old comrades. Those present are a remnant of the company commanded by George W. Steele the Arm year of the war. The surprise was u success* in every particular. Resolutions were passed

indorsing George W. Steele for Cnited States senator and for President in 19W. Miners Are Detlnut. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Jan. 7.-De!egates to che convention of the United Mine Workers of America left to-day for Pittsburg, headed by W. H. Kennedy, a member of the national executive board. Mr. Kennedy said that the miners of the Indiana district were better able to combat for their rights than ever before in the history of the Indiana district. He added that if it was found necessary to resort to a strike the men would put up a fight which would go down in history. Their finances are in better shape than ever before and the organization is almost impregnable. A delegation of mine operators in this field, headed by J. Smith Talley, president of the Coal Bluff Mining Company, will leave to-morrow to take care of the mine owners’ interests. 4’onneilmun Bray Mlmting. COLUMBUS. Ind., Jan. 7.—There is considerable anxiety here over the disappearance of Councilman Samuel Bray. Mr. Bray left here on or about Dec. 8 and has not been seen or heard from since. The mayor and other city officials know nothing of his whereabouts and his wife is much concerned over his absence. Bray is chairman of the street and alley committee of the City Council, and is also a member of two or three other important committees. He is said to sometimes take “spells” and leave home for awhile. Members of the Council have written to several places where Bray was reported to be. but their letters were returned. Beveridge Elected at Portland. PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 7.—To-day at Gable’s cigar store, which is the Republican headquarters in this city, a vote was taken as to preferences for United States senatorship. A ballot box was secured and the polls were kept open for six hours. The mo-t prominent Republicans voted, and none were permitted to vote who were not known as Republicans. In all 101 votes were cast, divided as follows; Beveridge, t>7; Taylor. 20; Hanly, 7; Steele, 5; Harrison, 1; Mount, 1. Hanly’s friends had been claiming that popular sentiment favored their candidate. A Trank Mystery t Evansville. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 7.—A mysterious box of freight was opened here to-night at the Louisville. Evansville & St. Louis freight house, and a dismembered body was found. The heads, legs, arras and a portion of the trunk were found. Tho box containing the cadaver was shipped to “E. L. Thurman” from St. Louis before Christmas, and it has since been stored here. No such party can be found in Evansville. It is believed a crime will develop when the case is investigated. The coroner and police have taken hold of the matter, but there is little clew on which to work. Sait Against Telegraph Company. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 7.-Fred K. Rhoades, of Albany, has filed suit for $1,975 damages from the Western Union Telegraph Company because of the failure of that company to properly deliver a message. The plaintiff was summoned to the funeral of his sister in Virginia, and the telegram was not delivered until too late for him to attend. Tho error w’as made at the Albany office of that company. Union Reform Party. NEW ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 7.—The Union Reform party of this district has elected Dr. William Moon, of Harrison county, as district chairman. At the convention last night a resolution was adopted to call the state convention Feb. 22. The Union Reform party is composed of Populists, Prohibitionists, Free Silvef Republicans, Socialists and woman suffragists.

THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room I—John L. McMaster, Judge. Alfred H. Moore vs. Carrie E. Moore; di- ■ urce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Harry C. Krug va Mary A. Krug; divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Sarah P. Thornburgh vs. John H. Thornburgh: divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Mayme Alice Eckman vs. J. Russel Eckman; divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Myrtle Fleener vs. Willis Fleener; divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Room 2—James M. Leathers. Judge. The Red Clay Orchard Company vs. James H. Smith. On trial by jury. Lucy Plain vs. Ernst B. Plain; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Julia McClain va Alonzo McClain; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Arthur L. Reger vs. Ada L. Reger; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Elizabeth F. Jones vs. ’William D. Jones; divorce. Dismissed. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Room 3—Vinson Carter, Judge. The Arthur Jordan Company vs. Emery A. Treshar; account. Finding and judgment vs. defendant for s<l4 and costs. Charles E. Coffin vs. William H. Sharpe; note. Dismissed and costs paid. The Berkshire Life Insurance Company vs. William H. Sharpe. Dismissed and costs paid. Joel Flowers vs. Indianapolis Light and Power Company; damages. Judgment on verdict vs. plaintiff for costs. August Krashowitz vs. Lydia G. Millard; damages. Judgment on verdict vs plaintiff for costa. Benjamin Glander vs. Anna Laura inlander; divorce. Evidence heard and case taken under advisement. Lucy Gates vs. Alonzo Gates. Divorce ? ranted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendants or costs. George 8. Hasson vs. White River Oil and Gas Company; appeal. Dismissed and costs paid. Francke Spielboff vs. Henry Bpielhoff; divorce. Dismissed and costs paid. Circuit fonri. Henry Clay Allen, Judge. George Herrmann vs. John Stroebel’s estate. Submitted to court and evidence heard. Finding for plaintiff. Judgment against estate for $144 and costs. Michigan Lumber Company vs. John Hedlund’s estate. Allowed by administrator for $52.38 and costs against estate. Gregory & Appel vs. John Hedlund’s estate. Allowed by administrator for $3 and costs against estate. Wesley Hare et al. vs. Julia J. Brook’s estate. Submitted to court. Finding for plaintiff. Judgment against estate for $31.15 and costs. George B. Tde & Cos. vs. Samuel Hanway’s estate. Dismissed by agreement at cost of estate. John Menke vs. Samuel Hanway’s estate. Dismissed by agreement at cost of estate. John B. Farwell vs. Samuel Hanway’s estate. Dismissed by agreement at cost of estate. Charles St. Clair vs. John MacShulso’s estate. Submitted to court. Finding against estate as surety for sll and costs. W. J. Hubbard vs. Ephraim K. Kimball’s estate. Submitted t.o court and evidence heard. Finding for plaintiff. Judgment against estate for S2OO and costs. Louis E. Burkhart vs. Daniel Huffman’s estate. Allowed by administrator for $10.64) and costs against estate. Theodore Potter vs. Margaret Schulmeyer’s estate. Submitted to court and evidence heard. Finding for plaintiff. Judgment against estate for sll and costs. Alien Myers vs. Samuel Han way’s estate. Allowed by administrator for $5.25 and costs against estate. On motion of Attorney Merrill Moores Milton K. Alexander is admitted to the bar. Gricsmer Bros. vs. Cassendra Davison’s estate. Allowed by administrator for $.10.50 and costs against estate. 4'riniinnl Conrt. Fremont Alford, Judge. The State of Indiana vs. Fred Connor; burglary and petit larceny. Plea of guilty. Sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory for from one to three years. The State of Indiana vs. Peter Bell; burglary and petit larceny. Plea of guilty. Sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory for from one to three years. The State of Indiana vs. Alonzo Frances; petit larceny. Plea of guilty. Sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory for from one to three years. New Suits Filed. W. J. Hubbard vs. James R. Hamilton et al.: suit on note. Superior Court. Room 2. Jackson Landers vs. Charles Reynolds; suit on note. Superior Court, Room 1. Jesse F. Hensley vs. Elizabeth Hensley; suit for divorce. Circuit Court. City of Indianapolis vs. the Consumers’ Gas Company; injunction. Superior Court, Room S. . Edward F. Clayponl vs. Joseph J. Kreber et al.; suit to foreclose mortgage. Superior Court, Room 2. Warren Fatout vs. Sarah E. Hauser; damages. Superior Court, Room 3. Robert N. Kennedy vs. Sarah A. Kennedy; divorce. Circuit Court. (• i\ iii g llim lliw Due. Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Poor Timberlake was not a man of unusual abilities." “Ah, 1 don’t know. Did you ever see him carve a duck?"

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