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THK JOI H\ VL CA RPET CLEANNG—HOWARD STEAM CARPET CLEANING AND RENOVATING WORKS, Tel. 616. FLORISTS—PERTKRMAN FLORAL COMPANY. Now No. 21 i Mass a%e., 226 N. Del, st. Tel. 840. Laundries— UNION CO-OPERATIVE LAUNDRY. MANTELS AND I GRATES P. M. PURS ELL (Mantels, Furnaces), Mass. ave. end Delaware st. THE M. S. HUEY CO., MEGS. (Mantels. Grates and Tiles), New No. 1201 Mass. ave. PATENT LAWYERS—CHESTER BRADFORD, 1233 to 1236 Stevenson bldg, IS E. Wash. st. H. P. HOOD <Sr SON (Arthur M. Hood). 32-33 Union Trust bldg, 120 E. Market st. V'. H. LOCK WOOD, §*LUMLING AND STEAM HEATING— J. S. FARRELL & CO. (Contractors), 144 N. Illinois st. SALE AND LIVERY STABLES—HORACE WOOD (Carriages. Traps. Buckhoards, etc.), 20 Circle. Tel. 1097. IIIOW CASES—WILLIAM WIEGEL. UMBRELLA s'. PARASOLS AN D CA N Efe— C. W. GUNTHER (Manufacturer). UNDERTAKERS--FRANK BLANCHARD, 99 N. Delaware st. Tel. 411. Lady Attendant. WALL PAPERS^H. C. STEVENS, New Styles Wail Paper. Low Prices. 930 N. Senate ave. Tel. 2on 2002l 2 „ PLANNER & BUCHANAN—32O North Illinois street. Lady embalmer. for ladles and children. ~ Office always often. Telephone 641. Hacks at lowest prevailing price. C. E. KREGELO, FUNERAL DIRECTOR, has resumed business at his old establishment. 223 North Delaware street. Everything new and complete. Ofliee telephone. No. 200. CARMICHAEL—Margaret B. Carmichael, widow of the late Jesse D. Carmichael, at Worthington. Ind., Friday, Feb. 17. at 9:10 p. m. Funeral at the family residence in Worthington Sunday, Feb. 19. at 3p. m. Interment at Crown llill from Union Station at 10:40 a. m. Monday-. FINANCIAL. LOAN’S—Money on mortgages. C. F. SAYLES, 75 East Market street. 150.1)00.0(0; cheap money for investment; agents v.anted. INVESTORS DIRECTORY, New York. LOANS—Sums of 5500 and over. City property and farms. C. E. COFFfN A- CO., 150 East Market street. LOANS—On city property; G jier cent.; no commission; money ready. C. N. WILLIAMS He CO.. 319 Lemcke building. ________ MON BY LOANED~IaLaRIKD PEOPLE holding permanent positions with responsible concerns upon their own names without security; easy payments, TOI.MAN, Room 701. Stevenson hntUlingilONEY—To loan on Indiana farms. Lowest market rate; privilege for payment before due. We also buy municipal bonds. TRpS. C. DAY' & CO., Room 325-330, third floor Lemcke building, Indianapolis. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Offices and stores: threerStory building, 366 South Meridian street. FOR RENT—Factory building two squares from Union Station. 24 West Garden street. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Ten R.I.P.A.N.S for 5 cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE —Furniture 27-room hotel crowded with i>oople all the time: great snap; Alexandrla, lixf. J. M. WILLIAMS. FOR SALE—CoaI and W'ood; immediate delivery. HOOSIER TRANSFER AND COAL COMI'ANV, 4)4 South Delaware. Phone 2325. FOR SALK—Forty-horse power boiler and twentyhorse power steam engine, second-hand, in excellent condition; delivery at once. Address NEKA, care Journal. FOR SALE—A well-established W'holesale Hardware Business in a large Western city; splendid opportunity to secure a business in good running order; stock has been purchased uin a low basis and will bear Investigation; at present will Inventory about $45,000; not for trade, but for sale upon a cash basis; if you want a business of this character It will pay you to investigate quickly; satisfactory reasons will be given for retiring from business. Address Postotfiee Box 324, Cincinnati, O. AVANTED—MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED—Carriage factory to locate in county seat town of 6,000, with two good railroads. Address SECRETARY COMMERCIAL CLUB, Lebanon, Ind. BUSINESS CHANCE. BUSINESS CHANCE—Unusual opportunity to invest S2OO or more, securing large permanent Income; capital safe, profits sure. H. GRIFFIN, 1180 Broadway. New York. ASTROLOGER. ASTROLOGER—See Madame May, the great astrologer and clairvoyant. Gents, 50c; ladies, 85c. Call 126 North Davidson street. notice! NOTICE —Money to patent good ideas may be secured by our aid. THE PATENT RECORD, Baltimore, Md. STORAGE. STORAGE—INDP'LS WAREHOUSE CO. W. E Kurtz. Pres. H. A. Crossland, Mgr. (New) 517-523 S. Penn. ’Phone 1343. We STORE. PACK AND HAUL. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE. The Board of Trustees of the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane will receive sealed proposals until Friday, Feb. 24, at 19 a. m., for furnishing a full line of supplies for the month of March, 1899. Requisition Book will be on file at Room 45, Statehouse, from and after Monday, Feb. 20, 1899. BY ORDER OF TiIE_ BOARD OF TRUSTEES. NOTICE. Sealed proposals for the slops of the Central Indiana Hospital for Insane, from April 1, 1899, to April 1. 1990, same to be removed as required by the hospital authorities, and payment to be made monthly in advance, will be opened and contract awarded on Feb. 24. 1899, Room 45. Statehouse. Asa guarantee of good faith bidders are required to inclose with their proposals a certified check for $25, payable to the order of the Board of Trustees. All checks will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. THE COURT RECORD. Snperior Court. Room I—J. L. McMaster, Judge. Cora Walton vs. Milton Walton; divorce. Finding and decree for plaintiff. Judgment against defendant for costs. Nettle Harriett vs. Herbert Harriett; divorce. Tart of evidence heard. Room 2—James M. Leathers, Judge. Elizabeth Williams vs. Charles A. Williams; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Eliza J. St. Clair vs. Sylvanus Edwin St. Clair; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Pearl IYevore vs. Elmer J. Devore; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Judgment vs. defendant for costs. Rose C. Wyatt vs. Robert C. Wyatt; divorce. Evidence partly heard and continued. Room 3—Vinson Carter, Judge. Robert Thomas vs. City of Indianapolis; appeal. Finding lor defendant. Judgment vs. plaintiff for costs. Nick Kerz vs. William Porter et al.; ai>peal. Finding for plaintiff for $34.26 and costs. John Bollinger vs. David Brown; account. Dismissed by plaintiff. Judgment vs. plaintiff for costs. William E. Davis vs. Henry MRag; appeal. Finding and Judgment for plaintiff for S6O and costs. Addison H. Nordyke vs. Charles B. McCreery et al. Proceedings supplemental to execution. Finding for defendant. Judgment vs. plaintiff for costs. City of Indianapolis vs. Consumers' Gas Trust Company; injunction. On trial by court. Thought lie I nderstood. Chicago Tribune. "Thomas, in this reading lesson the familiar saying occurs, ‘bear and forbear.' What is your idta of the meaning of that injunction?" "It means, ma’am, that when you go out huntin’ bear you’ve got to be loaded for bear.” 1“ I think them the most wonderful medicine for all bronchial affections." —Hon. Mas. I'krky, Castle Grey, limerick, Ireland. DDntlf&l’C Bronchial CIfUWN 9 Troches OP BOSTON fjoldlnbox^only^kvoUHmltatlons^^

RISE OF THE REPUBLIC TWELVE MONTHS OF STIRRING AND HISTORY-MAKING EVENTS. United Stoles Mils Become the Peer of Nations, While Spain Hus Lost All Prestige. Washington Special in Chicago Times-Her-ald Few nations have made history as rapidly as the United States during the twelve months ending at 9:40 o'clock p. m. Fob. 15. Not to the credit of any other nation, ancient or modern, can it be said that in a period of 365 days it opened with its own blood and treasure the path of liberty to 10.0i*),000 people of a foreign tongue and a differently colored skin. The year’s climaxes may be summed up as. follows; —IB9B. Feb. 15 Battle ship Maine blown up April 22 War against Spain declared May 1 Dewey destroys Montejo's fleet June 22 Shatter invades Cuba July 1 Battle of San Juan July 3 Cervera’s tieet destroyed July 17 Santiago surrenders Aug. 12 Peace protocol signed Dec. 10 Treaty of peace signed —1899. Jan. 19 Aguinaldo defies America Feb. 5 Second battle of Manila Feb. 6 Senate ratifies peace treaty Feb. 11 Fall of Iloilo Feb. 15 Keel of the new Maine laid The mine or torpedo which sank the Maine in the harbor of Havana, was exploded at 9:40 o'clock on the night of Feb. 15, 189,8. Orderly William Anthony, on duty at Captain Sigsbee.’s cabin door, saluted as that officer staggered from within and said: "I have to report, sir, that the ship is blown up and sinking." Unknown to the 85,000,000 people of the United States and to the 10.000,000 of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, their racial interests became one at that moment—fused in the twinkling of an eye by the fire from Spanish treachery. One of the few surviving instruments of the dark ages was dulled of edge forever. Then, and above the waters rushing into the Maine, rose the hand of fate to roillumine the torch of liberty and hang anew beneath it the red wreath of war and the white one of peace. Thirty years of Spanish brutality visited upon the battling of Cuba had not been sufficient cause in the minds of the common people for the interference of a third party. The destruction of an American battle ship by means as treacherous as those employed by Cortez or Pizarro did not. for the moment even seem sufficient provocation for declaration of battle. But when on March 10 the divers began their examination of the hull of the Maine, the people cf the United States were rapidly forced to a conclusion, aptly expressed four months later by Captain Robley D. Evans in the sentence: “If there be any living man who still believes that the Maine was destroyed by ’interior explosion,’ let him visit the wrecks of the Oquendo and Vizcaya, on the south coast of Cuba, and see how interior explosions really do their work."

WAR PRECIPITATED. The divers had not completed their work when the country accepted the situation as one necessary for war, and awaited the action of Congress and President McKinley. No secret is revealed now when it is said that the best posted men of Congress and the closest intimates of the President had regarded war as inevitable almost a year before the destruction of the Maine. The Maine explosion was a precipitation. The destruction of the Maine brought strongly to the fore the Spanish estimate of American character —“pigs.” That estimate has been revised since the morning of May 1, 1898. The declaration of war by the President on April 22 was followed by confirmatory action on the part of Congress April 26. The mobilization of the army commenced April 25, and about the same time Schley and Sampson, with the North American squadron, moved on Havana, while Dewey slipped his moorings at Hong-Kong and steamed quietly away for Subig bay and Manila. The derision with w r hich Spain welcomed the advance of the United States was echoed by the foreign press. The Spanish-Ameriean war been called a political war and a guerrilla war. Neither term fits. Continental statesmen use these terms with their customary short-sightedness when great race movements occur. Napoleon was the only leader of modern Europe who appreciated and foresaw racial advances. The Spanish-Ameriean war will eventually be termed a sociological conflict, and men. instead of marking the beginning of the end for the monarchies of Europe from the date of the battle of Waterloo, will trace the first determined undermining from Dewey’s buttle in Manila bay with Montejo, admiral of Spain. Dew r ey shot shells into every throne of Europe when he fired upon Montejo. Americans are a people slow to wrath and prone tq be pessimistic as to their own strength until aroused. The country was not in a hopeful mood when the morning of May 1, 1898, dawned. The blockade of Havana had not been successful; the rapid mobilization of thousands of volunteers had brought forth unexi>ected complaints and emergencies. Vicious elements just as conspicuous then as they were in 1776, 1812 and 1861 hedged in the President, his Cabinet and Congress with irritating and harmful criticism. The apparent spectacle was presented to carping Europe of a nation apparently divided against itself. Spain, a pursuer of rainbows since the expulsion of the Moors, an air-castle building people, vaunted the strength of Montejo at Manila; of Cervera, gathering a squadron at home for the ravaging of our eastern seaboard. George Dewey, of Vermont, sixty years of age, a plain every-day citizen, changed the entire situation. He gave to May day anew significance In the minds of Americans. He unified his own people as to the course to be pursued with Spain. He made England the open ally of the United States. He removed the Latin forever from the progress of civilization as a first factor and stamped the words “English speaking" on every acre of Spanish possession in the waters of the Pacific. More than that, he brought the Orient and the Occident face to face, as they had never bCen before. A TRIBUTE TO DEWEY. Lord Charles Beresford aptly describes the battle of Manila bay, the victory, and the man who brought it about, in these words; “When an admiral can organize his fleet so a.s to inflict a crushing blow on his adversary with little damage to himself the victory is considered by some as too easy to be of much consequence—too cheap to be good; but it should be considered a masterful piece of strategy, combined with perfect organization and discipline. The American people are justly proud of their recent victories, but the best ships and the best trained crews are useless in action unless commanded by a brilliant leader, who adds to his qualifications a master mind to enable him to place his lteet quickiy in position of advantage. The American nation has such a man in Admiral George Dewey." Dewey is the only past master the war created. Hobson sank the Merrimae on June 3, was captured by Cervera, received 1 is freedom through Shatter, and Kissed his lame away before it was given time to blossom. His attempt to blockade the harbor oi Santiago was marvelously during; his osculation surpassingly ridiculous. American shells sank tne Keina Mercedes at Santiago a tew dajs after Hobson was captured. Sampson and Schley bottled Cervera in Santiago harbor. The Oregon in its tremendous flight from San Francisco to Cuba educated the entire world as to the latent powers of American battle snips. Shatter landed in Cuba the latter part or June with i;,ooC troops. Wheeler was with Dim, and Roosevelt, Chaffee, Ludlow, Sumner, Kent and a willing body of fighters. Spain ordered Camara with a hastily organized fleet to sail tor Manila via the Suez canal. Dewey awaited him. Guasimas was fought. All the way up to El Cuney and San Juan American blood stained the crooked trails. July 1 were fought the two battles which were to decide the rate of Santiago. "I beneld the incredible,” wrote Capt. Arthur Dk of the British army, who was at El Caney. “i saw troops setting at defiance all me laws of warfare—charging fortified positions without artillery, going up fireawept hillsides with their naked hands and marvelous grit.” No matter what technical name that kind of fighting bears, the American troops at El Caney and San Juan performed miracles of valor. Europe again gained another lesson. Site was taught ile American contempt of obstacles and death. A Spanish general admitted: “The Americans never want baikward. They laughed when they fell under our lire. When they came up to our blockhouse they were smiling. They were not afraid. We did not understand them." Cervera was sent to the United States as a hit of bombastic bugaboo on the part of Spain and against her own better Judgment. His vessels, half-manned, his collier# almost empty, his crews men who must tented wit, liquor to inspire valor, crept silently into Santiago to await the end. June 26 Camara was at Port Said with his Ileet, appareitllj bound for Manila. He never went farther. Blanco, swollen with pride, ordered Cervera out of Santiago on July 2, and the following

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day his vessels came into the open of the sea at mad rush. Schley nut them. The thunder of the Brooklyn, the lowa, the Indiana, the Oregon, beat them back to the beaches of Cuba. More than OX) of the Spanish sailors went to their death. Every Spanish ship was destroyed. Schley lost one man, and his ship, the Brooklyn, was the only American battle ship Injured. The war with Spain really ended on the 3d of July. What followed was a bombardment of Santiago by the fleet and the surrender of that city and the province with all of eastern Cuba to Shatter on July 17. Camara turned his fleet back to Spain from Port Said. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. The subsequent invasion of Porto Rico by Miles was but a, sidelight of the war. It was necessary as a picturesque movement in order to secure possession of that island. By the last of July President McKinley was prepared to tell Spain on what terms peace would be made. It needed but the defeat of the Spanish land forces at Malate, near Manila, to convince the Spanish Ministry that if Spain herself was to be saved from invasion peace must be made immediately. M. Cambon, the French minister to this country, acted as the mediator and early in August the peace protocol was signed and. the blockade of Cuba raised. That the peace treaty did not become a fact very shortly after this was due purely to the dilatory tactics of Spain and the presence of partisan politics in the United States Senate. The events of the war had no educational effect upon Spain’s diplomacy—the trickery of the tongue of which she is master remained to the last. She conceded before the peace commissioners met in Paris that Cuba and Porto Rico were hopelessly lost, but she did not concede the loss of Guam nor of the Philippines. She appealed to Europe, as she had previously during the war, to save her from the demands of the United States. But on the heels of every appeal of this nature came a warning note from England that interference with the policy of the United States meant offense to Great Britain. Guam was surrendered with a sigh. That the Philippines would go the same way was inevitable. The Spanish commissioners were given to understand that the allegiance of the Filipinos to Spain must be severed with no conditions imposed upon this government save the payment to Spain of $20,000,000. With this they were forced to be content and on Dec. 10 the treaty of peace was signed at Paris. Subsequently, after partisan opposition in the Senate, this treaty was ratified by the Senate on Feb. 6. The attunpt of the Filipino leader, Aguinaldo, by revolt to prevent the ratification of the treaty, his crushing defeat by Dewey and Otis, the occupation of Manila and Iloilo are all matters of recent history. Porto Rico is rapidly becoming an American colony. Cuba is paving the way to her own independence. The Philippines will remain in the possession of the United States until such time as the peoples there voluntarily fit themselves for self-government or seek formal annexation to us. The war has represented to the United States considerably more than the expenditure Os $1,000,000,000 and the loss of something less than 5,060 lives and one battle ship. Spain's loss of life was much greater. Her loss in battle ships exceeds the sum of $35,000,000. From her government 10.000,000 people pass a.s subjects. She ceases to be a colonial power and sinks to the place of a fourth or fifth-rate nation of Europe. Medievalism met Progress and succumbed. In Cramp’s yards at Philadelphia to-mor-row morning they will lay the keel of the new battle ship Maine. On the second anniversary of the destruction of the first Maine, Feb. 15, 1900, they will launch the new Maine. That over the bodies of 266 dead American sailors in just one year's time, civilization, liberty, the will of the Anglo-Saxon should have passed to that point where the hand of the President of the United States guides the destinies of 95.000,000 and not 85,000,000 (as a twelvemonth ago) people is as remarkable as it is true. That out of the crucible of such a short period of time should come but one portentiously great human character—that of George Dewey—is still more remarkable. But above these two salient points fs the greater and more significant one—the undying lesson taught through the agency of the Maine—that from ocean line to ocean line, from pole to pole, where tne sands are and where the peaks rise, men must within the scope of the next quarter of a century know the mastery of one tongue—the speech of Cromwell, of Washington and of Lincoln.

NEWS IN SUNDAY'S JOURNAL Resume of Chief Events Printed in the Issue of Feb. Ift. In a railway collision at Dixon, 111., Fireman Allen Murphy was killed. The Senate rejected a bill to extend the pneumatic tube service to Chicago. The Minnesota Legislature has passed the beet sugar bounty bill over the Governor s veto. A bill to prohibit tight lacing by women was introduced in the Wisconsin Legislature. The proposed consolidation of the glassware manufacturers of the United States is now assured. The rebels near Manila are reported to be concentrating in front of General Ovenshine's brigadee. The transport Grant is expected to reach Manila about March 4 and the Sherman two weeks later. Three children burned to death at Phoenix, Ariz. They had been rescued, but ran back into the fire. Eight business men of Latour, Mo., were indicted on charge of attempting to mob John Hunter in church. M. Emile Loubet has been elected President of France in succession to M. Felix Faure. He is well received. A constitutional amendment designed to disfranchise ignorant negroes was adopted by the North Carolina Legislature. The executive committee of the National Council, G. A. R.. will elect a successor to the late commander, Colonel Sexton. A syndicate has been organized to gain control of the gas fields and big zinc smelters in the neighborhood of Pittsburg, Kan. Chairman Burton says that the Senate, by attaching the Nicaragua canal bill to the river and harbor bill, has imperiled the latter. He does not expect either to pass. German Cenrists propose the appointment of meat inspectors, to be stationed in American packing houses and issue certificates, which will "be accepted by the German government. Indiunnpolle. The New Company’s experts are beginning to put in telephones. Sam Murbarger defeated Harvey Parker in a wrestling match. The House committee on affairs of the city of Indianapolis killed the elevated tracks amendment. [F \>m Sunday's Second Edition.] Fraud# in Hiivunn. HAVANA, Feb. IS. —Enormous frauds in the water distribution in Havana have been discovered by the commission appointed to inquire into the finances of the city, it appears that one-tifth of the householders in Havana have been stealing water with the connivance of the Alcaldes De Barrios and the mayors of thirty-nine wards, who are also water inspectors in their respective districts, the city losing through this means between $60,000 and SBO,OOO a year, a percentage of this amount going into the pockets ot the alcaldes. The frauds have been perpetrated for years back. Ernest Lee Conar.t, chairman of the commission, aided by Ensign Powelson, who is here on sick leave, William B. Whitney, a New York attorney, and Accountant Haskings did the preliminary work and directed the efforts of 300 policemen in ferreting out the frauds. On entering six thousand houses which were down on the books of the Spanish Bank as not using water, the officers found 2,000 of them secretly connected with the water pipes in the streets or with those in adjoining houses, thus getting a supply of water without paying the rates, which are from S2O to S4O annually. The commission has secured much evidence of corruption on the part of the alcaldes, who systematically encouraged and approved the frauds and made regular levies of a portion of the water rates upon the householders illegally using the water. In order to prevent the alcaldes from warning their clients the commission sent messengers in cabs yesterday to invite the alcaides to confer with the commission regarding the interests of the city. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon every alcalde was at the palace in his best clothes. Commissioner Uasenova said they ought not to begin their deliberations until Mr. Conant came in. After a wait of two hours Mr. Conant arrived and he and Commissioner Casenova made some general remarks regarding the water frauds and were given volumes of assurances by the alculdes that they would aid in breaking up the system. The members of the commission were also privately Informed by individual alcaldes of misdeeds which were being committed in adjoining wards to their own. By this time it was after 5 o'clock, and the examination of the suspected dwellings was nearly finished. The alcaldes went home* and were bewildered and frightened by what they .turned. The penalty prescribed for the frauds will probably be the payment of two years’ back taxes upon condition that the guilty per-

sons he uot prosecuted criminally. The city treasury will thus get from $129,000 to $109,(8)0. The commission has traces of similar frauds in other departments and prop<>ses to dig out the rnrruntion and institute reforms. The moral indifference of the citizens of Havana causes great astonishment to the investigators. Official honesty in the former regime, it is declared, was almost unknown and the number of citizens willing to profit by the lack of it is amazing. Riot# in Faria. PARIS. Feb. 19.—1n the course of the rioting last night over the election to the presidency of M. I/oubet forty-six persons were injured, including fourteen policemen. One journalist received a blow on the head with a loaded stick and was so badly injured that he was removed to a hospital, where he now lies in a serious condition. Two hundred and fifty arrests were made, and 142 of these taken into custody are still at the station house, being held on charges of carrying concealed weapons. This morning's editions of the anti-revi-sionist papers accuse M. Loubet of being a defender of Dreyfus, and express the deepest dissatisfaction with the result of tin- election. while the revisionist organs are surprised that the election of a man who never expressed an opinion regarding the Dreyfus case is not better received. CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED. \Y liht It Involve* In the Cae of the Philippine Island*. To the Editor of th* Indianapolis Journal: One cf the marvelous contentions of those opposed to the establishment of free and liberal government in the Philippine islands by the United States is that of asserting the right of the natives there in maintaining barbarism and flagrant disregard of civilized forms and the practices of inhumanity. Stripped of the fulsome verbiage, that is exactly the contention for the application of “consent of the governed” when demanded for these barbarous Asiatics, "he “consent of the governed” is a very precious natural right of the people who observe the rule of respecting the rights of all men, but let it be remembered "that all governments derive thir just powers from the consent of the governed," not power to disregard all natural rights and the principles regarded as “just" in civilized government. It would be a row feature in the most libeial government of the word to put up the plea that by "just powers" is meant the most flagrant disregard ot the principles of common humanity practiced by the Filipinos. Herbert Spencer defines liberty thus: "Perfect liberty of each, limited only by the rights and liberty of others." No one has the temerity to claim that the Filipinos individually or collectively make any pretension to a conception of such a rule. Therefore, a people wholly without a conception of the most primary elements in civilized government has no right whatever to make appeal for the principle of the “consent of the governed," for they know nothing about “just power,” and have not attained to the dignity of such a claim. That those who do have apprehension of such a principle among men and in governments should claim for these people such a right seems inexpliacble on any line of rational reasoning. It is like the demand of the chief who has put at defiance the law, and when restrained claims that he is deprived of his liberty. The rule of all divine and human law for the centuries past lies along the same lines. The evolution from barbarism to civilization first had its impulse in the thunders of the law. Under both codes there were many offenses reckoned capital, and for which the taking of life was a penalty. Men have been in school developing the moral sense from long before the daya of the "cities of refuge,” down through periods of human law which prescribe death for more than 159 offenses, all of which seemed essential in developing the civilization which now names death for one offense only. This country for more than one hundred years had almost every practical phase of this matter before it in the Indian question. The public: press teemed with it, and the country year after year patiently and willingly taxed itself with millions of dollars to carry out the form, philosophy and spirit of government, which it is now proposed to apply to the like barbarous Filipinos. These sticklers for the “consent of tne governed,” regardless of “just powers,” in all these years never protested except to involve loss of human life in the brief changes of. policy toward the Indians, and to c-niso the quick return to the thunders of musketry and cannon, and they must now see t.< w such policy has at last resulted in : airing up colonies of these people to a moral apprehension of the condition precedent to the enjoyment of the rights and liberties of the “consent of the governed.” It required years to accomplish this, but the territory of the United States is great in comparison with that of the Philippine islands, and, moreover, our army and navy are now equipped with incomparable arms of death and destruction. Dewey did not sail away when he destroyed the Spanish fleet, and the responsibility to humanity and to civilization is upon us, and v/e have to take a hand in the betterment of the conditions of the world which other nations have done in the past and are now doing among other barbarous peoples of the earth. The one desire is that we may do it less selfishly, and finally to see anew nation uisenthralled and raised to a condition of capability for apprehending what is involved in the real idea of a frovernment having the moral sense to enoy the form of one founded upon the “consent of the governed.” What words could more fitly or more beautifully in spirit set forth the aspirations of every true American heart than the following from the recent address of President McKinley at Boston? JOHN B. CONNER. Indianapolis, Feb. 18.

The expression of the President alluded to by Mr. Conner is the closing paragraph of his speech at Boston, as follows: “I have no light or knowledge not common to my countrymen. I do not prophesy. The present is all-absorbing to me, but I cannot bound my vision by the blood-stained trenches around Manila, where every red drop, whether from the veins of an American soldier or a misguided Filipino, is anguish to my heart; but by the broad range of future years, when that group of islands, under the impulse of the year just past, shall have become the gems and glories of these tropical seas, a land of plenty and of increasing possibilities, a people redeemed from savage indolence and habits, devoted to the arts of peace, in touch with the commerce and trades of all nations, enjoying the blessings of freedom, of civil and religious liberty, of education, and of homes, and whose children and children’s children shall for ages hence bless the American Republic because it emancipated and redeemed their fatherland and set them in the pathway of the world’s best civilization.” Protection for Fruit Tree*. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: There is now' pending in the Legislature a bill that ought to be passed promptly. It relates mainly to the extermination of the destructive enemies to fruit trees. There are many and they are rapidly increasing all over the United States. Already twenty States have taken the alarm and have passed laws to prevent the spread and to exterminate these fatal pests. Some of them are almost invisible to the naked eye, and an ordinary observer would never notice them until It was too late. Most prominent among them is the San Jose scale, a minute insect that was first observed in San Jose, Cal. Its spread is due to bringing of trees, fruits und shrubs infested with the insects from places where they prevail. Already in several counties of this State they have appeared and are doing their fatal work. I only mention this as a specimen of the dangerous enemies now present to our fruit growers. There are many others. The number of species of these pernicious insects in the United States is stated by Mr. Cockerell, a well-known scientist on the subject, at 125, and in addition 130 more that may be introduced from Mexico and other regions south of us, and from .he islands of the Pacific. and Indian oceans. We are constantly procuring and planting in this country trees and plants from Australia, Tusmania, Cape Colony. Japan and New Zealand. These are infested with the dangerous insects, which are very tenacious of life and are spreading everywhere, and will ruin our orchards and garden shrubbery bearing small fruits. They increase with enormous rapidity. There are. in addition to the Sun Jose scale, now present the bark louse, the New York scale, the grape scale, the rose scale and the pine leaf scale, well-known enemies to our trees. These are not only dangerous, but soon become deadly enemies. They must be attacked promptly and systematically. They infest shade and timber trees as well as fruit trees. It is the duty of the State to wage war on theee destructive insects at once. Every man acquainted with this subject sees the peril and insists on the passage of a law. Tneae pests, if stamped out by our war here and there, wilt remain. There must be a general'movement on them, and this can only be done by state authority. The bill provides for this. It is founded on the experience of other States Our production of fruit is but in its Infancy. It will enormously if protected. Shall In-

(liana lag 1 behind? The bill provides for the careful inspect ion of all nursery stock within the state lines, whether produced here or imported. If some protection is not afforded the State will be the dumping ground for all the diseased stock of other States. We cannot afford to do nothing in the presence of this impending danger. CITIZEN. Indianapolis, Feb. 18. A Change Is Not Desired. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The passage of the Lambert bill by the Senate yesterday does not meet the approval of the attorneys here, both Democrat and Republican, who some weeks a t 'o petitioned Senator Lambert against any such action. It is charged that Senator Lambert smothered the protest. There are only two counties of the six which the bill affects asking that the change be made— Bartholomew and Shelby—and as they desire a change from their former association the bill should be amended by the House, placing the two counties in the same circuit. It is also claimed here that Senator Lambert has ambitions to become judge of the new circuit on the retirement of Judge llord, and that the bill is not in the interest of the public or litigants, but to satisfy the ambition of one or two men who wish to be judges and who know they cannot reach the ermine unless some such change is made. Decatur and Bartholomew" both gave Republican pluralities at the last election, and the Republican plurality in Bartholomew was due to Democratic dissension and discord. Matters in that county are being adjusted and indications are that that county will return to its former Democratic plurality. There would then be three Democratic judicial circuits where there are now only two. Decatur is not asking to de divorced from Rush, and Rush is not asking to be separated from Decatur. There have been discords, yet Decatur loves Rush by reason of its long continued association from the time of the formation of courts, and to sever those relations would be cruel in the extreme. Their people have married and intermarried until they have come to be one common family by natural ties and affections. True, Rush county has sought to criticise Decatur, forgetting at the time that her great men were elevated to their high positions by the acts of Decaturites. Take Logan, Cullen, Campbell and Study, all of whom were elevated to their positions by Decatur county, and she feels proud of them. It is claimed by Senator Lambert, that the bill is to prevent further discord and dissension in the Republican party in the two counties and that it is in the interest of party harmony. To such claim Decatur enters a denial, and specitically states that she does not seek political annexation. There is a strong sentiment among attorneys that there should be a reorganization of the courts, and that such reorganization, from the exigency of the times, will take, place by the time the present term of the judges composing the circuit as they now exist expires. The bill should be defeated if for no other reason, and should it pass the Governor should veto it. G. Greensburg, Ind., Feb. IS.

The Street-Car Franchise. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The controversy between this city and the street-railway company has heen a long and bitter one, but ar the end is nearing there is no good reason why the party who has been on the wrong side all these years should be allowed to turn defeat into victory at the eleventh hour by an offering <]£ peace and a few r paltry gifts, provided we will lay down our arms and surrender the city to the company for a third of a century. First—The city is offered $750,000, payable in dribs scattered over ten or fifteen years, so as to be of no practical benellt whatever to the city treasury—just a drop in the financial bucket now and then. Second—Six tickets are offered for a quarter of a dollar and twenty-live tickets for a dollar, and this is called a 4-cent fare. The only 4-cent fare about the proposition is the twenty-five tickets for a dollar, paid in advance to the company, which would be out of the reach of at least one-half of the patrons of the cars. The six tickets for a quarter is just a shading of the regular hr cent fare a trifle. Six tickets for a quarter were sold on the Cincinnati street-car lines twenty years ago. Third—The company offers to pave the streets between the tracks, but. does not propose to pay for the paving already done, which should be required. Fourth—The company offers to give the city a deed for Fairview Park at the end of thirty-four years, provided the city will maintain a pleasure resort there for and during the thirty-four years for the pecuniary benefit of the street-car company. The acceptance of Fairview Park under the conditions imposed would he a very expensive luxury to the city. There wouldn't bo much of the quid pro quo for the city in the park scheme. Filth—The company promises to spend $1,000,000 in improvements on the street-car plant and give the public a good service. This last proposal has merit about it, provided there was any way to compel its being carried out in good faith after the franchise was granted. If the street-railway franchise could be sold to the highest and best bidder there Is no reasonable doubt hut that a far, far better contract could be secured in favor of the city than the one offered. But if it is thought best by the city to yield its present stronghold and make a settlement with the street-car company or its successor, at least a straight 4-cent fare should be secured for the first seventeen years of the life of the franchise and a 3-eent fare for the last half of the franchise. This would be a decent settlement of the matter, as compared with what is proposed. JEFFERSON H. CLAYPOOL. Indianapolis, Feb. 19. AMUSEMENTS. iENGLISSH’S# To-Night. Tuesday and Wednesday Night*—Wednesday Matinee Mr. Jacob Litt Presents Mistakes Will Happen “To See is to Laugh.” A Great Company, headed by CHAS. DICKSON and HENRIETTA CROSSMAN Prices—Night: sl, 75c, 50c, 25c. Matinee: 25c, 50c. THURSDAY. FRIDAY, FEB. 2 and 24, Prank L. Perle.v will again present THE ALICE NEILSEN OPERA COMPANY In “THE FORTUNE TELLER” Prices—sl.so, sl, 75c, 50c, 25c. Matinee mid Night, Saturday, Feh. 25 Mr. F. Ziegfeld presents “THE TURTLE” Prices—Night: sl, 75c, 50c, 25c. Matinee: 25c, 50c. Seats now ready for the above attractions. Grand- To=Night,All Week 25c Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. GKAND STOCK CO. in Ouida's Famous Play, “Moths 99 Souvenir Photographs of Frederic Conger (Kitchen's best) to all ladies to-night. Evening Prices —50c, 25c, 15c. Matinees, 25c. Next week—“ The Senator.” PAR IC—TO-DAV Robert . Fitzsimmons Champion of all champions, and his Vaudeville Stars. Twenty people. Ten great acts. Ste Kltz spar with big “Yank” Kenney. 10c, 20c. 30c, Everybody goes to the Park. Thursday—" The Gay Matinee Girl.” Empire Theater ONE WEEK—FEB. 20 Commencing Monday Matinee Etery Night—Mat. Daily. Miaco’s City Club 20 HI ONDEand BRUNETTE BEAUTIES 20 Prices of Admission —10c, 13c, 25c, 30c. Next weok—SAM DEVERB. NANA*?SSS l n( n( ... SUCCESS One of the highest testimonials to the artistic merit of Suchorowsky'a painting is the fact that during the past week over 4,000 L 4 DIES and GENTLEMEN have seen and approved of this MARVELOUS WORK OF ART, on exhibition daily At 16 N. Meridian St. Hours—9 a. m. till 10 p. in. Admission- 25c

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HAUL, President. H. M. PHILLIPS, Secretary. THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in banks $1,069,567.51 Rea! estate unincumbered 490,577.4# Bonds and stocks owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., as per schedule tiled, market value 8,592,616.87 Loans secured by collateral 243,400.00 Isvins secured by assignment of company's policies 1,833.681.5? PTemium notes on policies in force t 712,966.83 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 8,248,271.08 Net deferred and uncollected premiums 556.970.04 Interests and rents due and accrued 285,397.1$ Total assets $22,035,448.27 LIABILITIES. Balance of installment policy death claims, not yet due $156,561.77 Unpaid dividends, due and to become due 128,389.68 Premiums paid in advance 6,740.71 Losses and matured endowments (In process of adjustment) 109,731.00 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 19,874,582.00 Total liabilities $20,075,945.11 State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. i I, the undesigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 18SS, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. , „ , , , _ ‘ In testimony whereof. I hereunto subsoribe my name and affix m.v official seal this [SEAL.] 11th day of February, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF'THE CONDITION i OF THE JEina Life Insurance Company On the 31st Day of December, 1898. It is located at No. 630 Main street, Hartford, Conn. The amount of its capital is.. The amount of its capital paid up is ••• 1,ia0.0Q0.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in banks 85 Real estate unincumbered 471,631.00 Bonds owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of per cent., as per schedule filed, market value •••• Loans on bond and mortgage, being first lien on unincumbered real estate, worth double the amount loaned Debts otherwise secured /j Debts for premiums 37,34.00 All other securities * _______ Total assets LIABILITIES. Losses and matured endowments unadjusted, losses and endowments in suspense, wait- " trig for further proof. Wi.bn.TZ All other claims against tne company ,1 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 41,14,W2.1 Total liabilities i9 The greatest amount at risk on one life, $35,()00. State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. 1, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a cot red copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day <>r December, 1898. as shown iv, the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. in testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [SEAL.] 31st day of January, 1899. \V. H. HART. Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION ~ OF THE Union Central Life Insurance Com’y On the 31st Day of December, 1898. It is located at No. 853 West Fourth street, Cincinnati, O. JOHN M. PATTI SON. President. E. P. MARSHALL. Secretary. The amount of its capital is $100,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is y- 100,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $3,61.563.07 Real estate unincumbered 682,388.43 Bunds owned by the company, beating Interest at the rate of 3, 4 and 5 per cent., secured as follows: T'nited States bonds, market value 387.281.25 Loans on bonds and mortgages of r-ai estate, worth in gross double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 15,468,630.71 Debts otherwise secured 3,782,653.04 Debts for premiums * 243,731.60 All other securities 231.958.16 Total assets $21,048,198.30 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and not due $14,428.00 Losses unadjusted 47,445,(X) Losses in susjiense. waiting for further proof 38,349 <K) All other claims against the company 199,178.74 la<gal reserve * 17,892,342.0# Total liabilities $18,211,945.74 The greatest amount in any oner! k. Ii'.OOO. State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of State. I. the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement t now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal thUi [SEAL.] 16th day of February, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of Stata.