Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1899 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUItNAL, SATURDAY,

DECEMBER 2, 1899.

Individual freedom, self-government In accordance with their capacity. Just and equal laws, an opportunity for education, for profitable Industry, and for development and civilization Secretary Hoot takes up Porto Rico first as presenting: the simplest problem, and after tilscii??ns the. present conditions there, emphasizing the ignorance of the people cf any modfrn syitem of government, ho hcbla that they should be provided with the kind of administration to which we have been accustomed, with just as much participation on their part as la possible without enabling their Inexperience to make it ineffective, and with opportunity for thm to Increase their rapacity for government. The secretary lays stress on past failure?, because of the refusal of a defeated minority to participate further in tho government, which he says is precisely the cause o2 the continual revolutions in the West Ind!e3 and Central America, and marks a rudimentary stage Of political development. - To meet the case he suggests a statutory declaration as to what laws shall be extended to the Porto Ricans. with provision for federal officers to execute them, and for a federal Judiciary, with appeal to the United States Supreme Court. There should ty a form of local insular government, subject to congressional limitation; a governor appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate; the chief officers appointed In like manner; and a legislative council, composed of the chief oflicers of the state and a minority selected by the President from the citizens of the island. The municipalities are to be governed by mayors and councils, elected by them, with officers subject to removal by the. Governor. It would be better to wait for a time before an elective Legislature 13 permitted. Suffrage should be limited to those who read and write or own a small amount of property. w Porto Ricans should be chosen for offices they are able to nil. American officials should be limited in number to the barest necessities, and should then be chosen by civil-service methods. Education should be at the cost of the community, defrayed from the insular treasury, and. If necessary assisted by the United States. The Spanish civil code should bo continued in force, with such radical modifications as experience suggests. The secretary says that the trouble has not been that the law was defective or vicious, but that it was never fairly and honestly administered. Any attempt to substitute in these southern islands a. system of laws based on the experience and characteristics of a New England community would be both oppressive and futile. It is pointed out that a similar course to that above outlined was successfully followed by ourselves in Louisiana and by the English in lower Canada. Much stress Is laid on the industrial distress resulting from the inability of the Porto Ricans to market their goods owing to the withdrawal of the Spanish market, which was their former reliance, and to our own tariff. The secretary says it is essential that Porto Rico should receive substantially the came treatment at our hands as she received from Spain while a colony, and that the markets of the United States should be opened to her as were the markets of Spain and Cuba before the transfer of al- . legiance. CONCERNING CUBA, Concerning Cuba, the report says the control which we are exercising in trust for the people of Cuba should not, and, of course, will not, be continued any longer than is necessary to enable the people to establish a suitable government to which the control shall be transferred, which shall really represent the people of Cuba and to be able to maintain order and discharge international obligations. That government, when established, must solve for Cuba th-3 problems we are to solve as to Porto Rico. The conduct of the Cuban people Is said to be admirable. There have been agitators, but the substantial body of educated Cubans have shewn themselves to be patriotic, appreciative and helpful, while the great body of uneducated Cubans have been patient and law-abiding. It is pointed out that the inability of two-thirds of the people to read and write, their lack of experience in government and the factional feeling left by the bloody conflicts make it necessary to proceed somewhat slowly In the formation .of a government. It is said that by the termination of the year allowed by the treaty for the Spanish population to elect whether to become Cubans or remain Spaniards it will be for the first time possible to determine who are Cuban citizens entitled to take part in that government, liy that date April 11 next the census will have been completed and we shall be ready to provide for municipal ejections, placing local government in the hands of the citizens, and these local governments will form a representative convention to frame a constitution and proTide for a general government of the Island, to which the United States wlll'surrender the reins of government. The secretary devotes some attention to the unfortunate plight of the Cuban sugar producers owing to the competition of Kuropean beet sugar, with possible free sugar from Porto Rico and discriminating duties in favor of other V.'st Indian sugar. lie shows that after paying our duty the Cuban sugar would realize but 2.69 cents per pound for the producer, against 2.71 cents for the German, and he suggests as a curative measure some tariff arrangement by which the Cuban products may be Imported into the United States on the same terms as those proposed for Jamaica in the pending reciprocity treaty. Extended statement as to government in the Philippines is waived because of the . full report which will be presented by the Philippine commission. Reference is made to the negotiation by General Bates of the treaty with the Sultan of Sulu, and it is pointed out that it is not only subject to congressional approval, but the Sultan tins been informed that such approval did not carry with it the consent of tho United States to tho existence of slavery in the Islands. A strong recommendation is made for the laying of a Pacific cable as a matter of r-reat military and political Importance. The cost of such a cable is placed at not exceeding $3,500,000, running by way of Hawaii. Wake lsiand and Guam, from San Francisco to Manila. POST EXCHANGES. The secretary deals In a forceful manner With the subject of post exchanges. He expresses his agreement with the construction of the statute on this point laid down ty the attorney general and produces statistics from the United States forces at ., pasts and elsewhere to show that the overwhelming testimony of the army Is to the effect that the present regulation has promoted the temperance, discipline, morals and health of the enlisted men. and that In the Interest of morality and effective service it should be retained. By the act of June 13. 1SS0. Congress provided: '"That no alcoholic liquors, beer or

WEATHER FORECAST. Fair To-Day and To-3Iorrovr, rltb. Diminishing Winds. WASHINGTON. Dec L-Forecast for Saturday and Sunday: For Ohio Fair on Saturday, with diminished westerly winds; fair on Sunday. For Indiana and Illinois Fair on Saturday and Sunday; diminishing westerly winds. Local Observations on Friday. ' Bar. Ther. It. II. Wint. Pre. Weather. 7 a.m. .:.:: -It 2 S'wesJt. T Lt. rain. 7 p. m.. S2 :S 7 West. T Clear. Maximum temperature, 43; minimum temperature. 3S. Following is a comparative statement of tha mean temperature and total precipitation Dec. 1: Temp. Pre. Normal 24 0.11 Mean T lej,arturo t 0.11 It?iarture since Ix-c. 1 $ -0.11 iX-parture eiuce Jan. 1 105 5.82 Fius. C. F. IL WAITENHAN'S, Local Jrjrrcaat O&ciaL Yesterday's Temperatures.

Ftaj'.on. Mln. Max. 7 p.m. Atlanta. Ga 5) !S W Ilimarck. N. I) 24 M 4) UuTalo. N. Y 4 M 41 Calrary. N. W. T 22 34 22 Chics I" z 4i ' Cairo. Ill 44 2 4 Cfaynne. Wyo 3S W 4H Cincinnati, O 42 41 42 Concordia. Kan 3) 60 5t lav-nrort. la 32 43 4) !:s Molne?. la 44 l2 44 Galvtston. Tex 2 62 M Helena. Mont 42 t2 42 Jacksonville. F'.a S4 74 C6 Karros City, Mo 22 tS U Little Rock. Ark 45 CS 4S Marquette. Mich 30 S3 34 Memphis. Trnn 44 4 62 Xasattlle. Term 41 4 4i New Orleans. I .a 11 1 12 New York. N. Y 4i CS 64 North I'iatte. Neb 26 62 W Oklahoma. O. T 21 IS W Omaha. Ntb 2) H 46 J'lttur. Pa 44 M 44 ,Qr Apix-lle, N. W. T Si "3 2 JUl id City, S. I 13 42 Palt Lk City. Utah 64 62 tu Loul. Mo 4 60 4i ft. Paul, Minn.. 2S 31 2 Urrlnsfl-!.!. ill M 43 4 tMTtnrfloll. Mo 33 4 42 Yieksbur. Mlt 43 64 63 ytiicjtQs, v. c... y & is

wine shaJI be sold or supplied to the enlisted men in any cantetn or post tracer's store, or in any room or building at any garrison or military post in any State or Territory in which the sale of alcoholic liquors, beer or wine Is prohibits by law." By Secton 17 of the act of March 2, 1SS9. Congress provided: "That no officer or private soMier shall be detailed to sell intoxicating drinks, as a bartender or otherwise, in any post exchange or canteen, nor shall any other person be required or allowed to sell such liquors in any encampment cr fort or on any premises used for military purposes by the United Stales; nnd the secretary cf war is hereby directed to issue such general order as may be necessary to earry the provisions of this section into full force and effect." The post exchange is thus described by the regulation prescribed by the War Department: "The post exchange will combine the features of reading and recreation rooms, a co-operative store and a restaurant. Its primary purpose is to supply the troops at reasonable prices with tr.e articks of ordinary use, wear ar.d consumption not suppded by the government, and to afford the means of rational recreation and amusement. Its secondary purpose Is through exchange proms to provide the means for Improving the nu-s?e. The money which constitutes the capital employed in he operation of the exchange Is the money cf the men themselves. pro that the business conducted Is their own business, conducted for them, and the benefits of all kinds are equally shared by them." REGULATIONS. The regulations relating to the conduct of exchanges have for several years provided: "An exchange doing its full work should embrace the following sections: (a) A wellstocked general store, in which such goods are kept as are usually required at military posts and as extensive In number arid variety as conditions will Justify; (b) a wellkept lunch counter, supplied with as great a variety of viands as circumstances permit, such as tea, coffee, cocoa, nonalcoholic drinks, soups, fish, cooked and canned meats, sandwiches, pastries, etc.; (c) a canro; at whlh under the. conditions nereis ef rorth fer.and 5ht wines by 52? Ji?' aild tobaccos, may be sold: 1 . i.ure2dlns aml recreation rooms, supplied Siot?00?.?;. Indicate and other reading matter, billiard and poo! tables, bowing alley and facilities for other -proper indoor games, as well as apparatus for outdoor sports and exercises, such as cricket, fotrd.u. -baseball, tennis, etc.: a well-equipped gymnasium possessing also the requisite paraphernalia for outdoor athletics. At S?nt,?J?Stfi l may be Impracticable to maintain all of these sections, but at every exchange there should be no less than trvo departments the refreshment, embracing re yncti punter and canteen, and the branhoS11' h ,ncIudes a11 the oth hr'h ?leH r Uile of arden spirits in any a Vhf exchanse. and In any encampEfm rt or on any Poises wsod for military purposes by the United States is dlun nYCUc6but on tne recomm'ennf Jt,h? exchange council the commanding officer may permit beer and light winea to be sold at the canteen by the drink ESSSTft he 13 "ttefled that gluing to the troops the opportunity of obtaining uch thi'm W,thIn the post llm!ta ' will PreVeSt them from resorting for strong Intoxicants to places without such limits, and tend to fh?SteqhtS5,le?Hnce and Spline among aooTove uJd the commanding officer rot approe the recommendation of the exSSwohi'J1 be Emitted final aec.s.on to the department commander The canteen must be in a room used frr no Purpose, and when practicable in a building apart from that in the recreat on and reading rooms arV Sated Jho sale of beer must be limited i0 S kof-beermUtld." knOWn 33 trln' The secretary continues: "Tese txchanges have largely replaced t o.i -f , d objectionable post-trader sre t mllltarS posts and have furnished the only to relieve the cheerlessness and P iU?nf ihlrhl,i!ifd men'8 llfe 525 of pe".-ef which lower the morale of the for -ti'vi repel the better clas of enlistments RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES. "During the year ending June 30, 1S?8 the aggregate receipts of.the exchanges in operation in the army amounted to II C21 - S3S.67, and there was received as money o'n deposit J189.25S.81. making the total amount of money received 11,810,657.43. There was expended for merchandise purchased, rent, fixtures and repairs, and expenses of operation. Jl.237.737.16, which, less deposit, gives a profit of $023,661.51. From this amount there was donated to the funds of the several regimental bands J9.LM.51; to the maintenance of post gardens. $1,553.17: to post libraries, JC40.06; to gymnasiums U9l5.75 as prizes for the encouragement of athletic sports RS3841. and after setting aslue the sum of J(0,S77.58 as a reserve fund to meet anticipated expenses for at least one month, there was returned to the members mthe form of dividends tne sum of $254."During the year ending June 30, 1303, the aggregate receipts of the eighty post exchanges and the thirty-four regimental exchanges in the army, so far as reports been, received, amounted vo ll.GW,Z, L and the expenditures 579,012.25, ? i-y'oi68,3 dePsIt elves a net pront of $oUJ,wSii.27. b rom this amount there was donated to the funds of the several regimental bands $5,563.03, to the maintenance if,2, gardens 51.0S9.74. to post libraries X1.121.fc. to gymnasiums $1,527.07. to athletic sports $1,312.18, and after setting aside the sura of Ji04.Ou8.03 as. a reserve fund, there was returned to the members In the form of dividends the sum of $-,75,5S0.74. "The aggregate receipts of the post exchanges therefore during the past two years has been $3, 420,143.81, and the dividends $530,471.67. The net value of these exchangesthat is to say, the balance of their combined assets over their liabilities was on June 30, 1S33, $253,792.26. "The wide difference between tho terms used by Congress in the act of June 13, lSii), distinctly and unmistakably prohibiting all sales of alcoholic liquors, beer, or wine, in military posts in States where sales to civilians are prohibited by law, and the terms used in the act of March 2, 1S03, which seemed to be designed as a regulation of the sale in post exchanges and a prohibition of such sale by post traders, led to a reference by my predecessor to the attorney general for a construction of this provision of the act of March 2, 1S33. 'The attorney general, on the 12th of April, rendered an opinion to the effect that the section in question 'does not prohibit the continuance of the sale of intoxicating drinks through the canteen sections of the post exchanges as heretofore organized and carried on. except that, of course, no officer or soldier can be put on duty In the canteen section to do the selling, either directly or indirectly.' AGREES Wii'II GRIGGS. "The regulations have been amended to comply with the statute as thus construed. I agree with the view that this is the more reasonable construction of the statute. It is, however, questioned by many citizens, and it is very desirable that if Congress does in fact intend to absolutely prohibit the sale of beer and light wines in post exchanges to the soldiers of our army in States where such sale is permitted by law to all other persons, this intention should be expressed in terms which are free from doubt. "It la to be observed that the sale of ardent spirits is now strictly prohibited by the army regulations, and that the sale of beer and light wines Is limited to the cases where the commanding oiRcer of the pot 'is sattsiied that giving to the troops the opportunity of obtaining such beverages within tho post limits will prevent them from resorting for strong intoxicants to places without Fuch limits, and tends to promote temperance and discipline among them. Tor the purpose of ascertaining the effect of this recrulation a circular letter was sent to eachvlepartment commander on the second day of May last, directing the submission of a series of questions to the oftlccrs of the army, deslqned to elicit the remits of their experience and observation as to the elTect of the sale of beer, etc. In post exchanges upon the morality, sobriety and discipline of the troops, and their opinions as to the effect of an actual prohibition. "Home regiments were of course so situated at the time that It was not practicable to recuro the expre-.ions from them. Expressions have been received from, fifteen of the twenty-five regiments of infantrj. seven of the ten regiments of cavalry, and Ave of the seven r-Klments of artillery. The overwhelming testimony of the array !s to the effect that the present regulation has promoted the temperance, discipline, morals, and health of tho enlisted men, and that in the interest of morality and effective service it should be retained. No change has accordingly been made in the regulation. "In considering the testimony of these officers it should be borne In mind that enlisted men are not always1 on duty; that during considerable portions of their time they always arts, and necessarily must be. permitted to go about the outside of their camps and posts Just as other dtlens do, and that when they are thus at liberty it 1 impossible to srubleet tlrem to restraints which axe not also imposed upon the other

members of the community. In States where the sale of intoxicants Is permitted by law, fxldlers will drink outside the camp or pest Just as other people drink, and it cannot be prevented except by confining them to the limits of the camp or pest. This would not only be unjust and injurious, but would reiuce enl stment to imprisonment, and Immediately put an end to enlistments. Tho practical question to bo considered Is not whether soldiers should drink or not d'lnk. but whether they should be permitted to drink beer in the camp, surrounded by the restraining influences of discipline and good at-tociation. or wnether they should be driven to anr.k bad whisky in the vile resorts which cluster around tho limits of every military post and camp, and especially around those In which prohibition H maintained. I have no doubt that the present regulation furnishes the wise answer to this question. I present the subject thus fully in order that if congress takes a different view, the matter may be fully before it for action." ARMY REORGANIZATION. One of the most important chapters of the report deals with the subject of army reorganization and on this point the secretary makes some most radical recommendations, pointing out the inadequacy of the present system and insufficiency of the force. Starting with the premise that the real object of having an army is to provide for war and that the regular army would never be by itself the whole machine with which war will be fought, the secretary procerus to outline a scheme of reform supported at each stage by succinct argument to demonstrate its necessity, lie iirst lays down the necessity of a systematic study by responsiDie onicen of plans of action under ail contingencies of possible conincts, and points out tho lamentable disadvantage we are at in this respect, as shown by our past experience, more especially with regard to the mobilization and encampment and training of volunteer troops. .Next thtre should be ample prepaiation of material of war keeping pace with the progress of military science and avoiding the state of unprepareuness in which wa. were found at the outbreak of the last 'war. This should be the business of competent men. There should be an adequate process of selection according to merit and effectiveness among the oflicers of the army, so that men o superior ability and power may be placed in positions of responsibility and authority. Fourth, there should be ample exercise and training of the army in the movements of large bodies aproximating war conditions. It is recommended that an army war college be established, including the major general commanding, and composed of the heads of staff departments and a number of the ablest high ranking oflicers in the army, and to this coiU-ge should be intrusted the execution of The plans laid out under the above four heads. Kvery olflcer below the lield officer not a graduate of the service schools should receive instruction at this college. All staff appointments should hereafter be made from the line of the army for only a fixed period, of say four or five years, the holder to return to the line at the end of that period, and these staff appointments should be made on the war college records of efiiciency and fitness, making allowance for gallant conduct In the field, and excepting only the technical branches of engineer, ordnance and signal service. The present system of promotion by seniority shoulu be modided as to officers below field rank by dividing the promotions between those based on seniority and those based on efficiency and gallantry. Staff appointments and line promotions other than those for seniority should be made by boards of officers based on efficiency records. There should also be active co-operation between the army and navy in the matter of their respective war colleges to provide for joint defense and action. The artillery branch of the se.-vice should have a head, a member of the war college and on the staff of the major general commanding, and the inspection corps should be increased. Turning to the volunteer element, which must be relied on to supplement the regular army in case of war, the secretary lays stress on the importance of preserving the same forms of discipline, using the same arms aid tenerally insuring that the united body snail be homogenous when assembled. This matter should receive the especial consideration of the war college, which should Invite the conference and co-operation of state military authorities and open Its courses of Instruction to National Guard officers. In this way the secretary foresees that an elastic machinery will be provided, so that when war threatens and long before it is declared the multitude of men who are to do the work of organization may know without waiting for an act of Congress what will be required of them when the hour strikes and may be engaged in the quiet and deliberate preparation so necessary in advance of action to prevent confusion and mistakes. The secretary declares that the faithful and efficient services of the West Point graduates since the declaration of war with Spain have more than repaid the cost of the Military Academy since its foundation, and he asks for a considerable increase in the capacity of the institution and the number of its graduates. The report draws to a conclusion with a splendid tribute to the army as shown during its operations during the past two years, and also gives credit to the officers of the volunteer force for a large share In this achievement. Under the head of river and harbor Improvements the secretary, while characterizing the estimates as generally meritorious, states that he has felt it necessary. In view of extraordinary appropriations for military purposes, to reduce the estimates of the chief engineers from $21,906,821 to $14,093,741. Other recommendations are that Oeneral Shaffer should be retired with the rank of major general; that a statue of General CJrant bo erected In the national capital; that tho memorial bridge should be built across the Potomac at Arlington, with a broad avenue connecting Arlington with Mount Vernon, and that a national park be constituted over the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Salem Church. Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Courthouse at a cost of about $G5,0U0. INTERIOR. DEPAUT3IET.

Important Pension Susr&restlons nnd Mcnrngunn Canal Status. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. The annual report of Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, made public to-night, while summing up the work in all the bureaus. Is of special interest by reason of its statements regarding pension policies. At the close of the fiscal year there were 991,519 pensioners, a decrease of 2,195 during the year. The average annual value of all pensions was $132.74. The Spanish war probably will increase the pension roll during the current fiscal year. The secretary concurs in the recommendations for legislation providing that no pension be granted to commence prior to the date of filing the claim; for an early revision and codification of the pension laws, as the numerous amendatory laws and decisions have made the whole system a labyrinth of laws and legal opinions. Secretary Hitchcock urges legislation to definitely construe the act of June 27, 1S00, relating to widows' pensions. Regarding this he says: "In order to more exactly define the words 'means of support, I approve the recommendation: of tne commissioner of pensions that the act of June 27, 1590, be so amended that a pensionable status be granted to widows whose income, independent of the proceeds of their daily labor, is not in excess of $250 per annum." The report also recommends legislative authority for biennial examinations of pensioners; legislation prohibiting the payment of "any compensation whatever to pension attorneys and agents for any service in connection with any claim ' or proceeding under the pension laws, except Fuch as may, within certain limits fixed by Congress, be allowed by the commissioner of pensions and paid from the pension money as now provided with respect to "claims for pension." and for the delivery, free, of any part-paid letter or packet addressed to pension agencies. Secretary Hitchcock makes public an advance report of the Maritime Canal Company, of Nicaragua, dated Dec. 4 next, setting forth that, since the organization of the company. 10,115 shares of the capital stock have been subscribed for at par, amounting In the aggregate to thei sum of $1.C14.&A of which amount $1,008,830 has been paid into the treasury In cash; that there has been paid into the treasury from other sources $llw.774.51, making the total amount of cash received S1.1C4.C06.51. The company has paid for property, work and labor done and materials furnished in the execution of the work of construction of the canal and In administration expenses the sum of $1.1(51,772.70 in cash, 21.9D0 shares of the full-paid capital stock of the company of the par value of 13.190,000, $150,000 of Its first mortgage bonds and Its obligations for $3,706,000 of the said first mortgage bonds. It has also issued 180.000 shares of Its capital stock of the par value of $18,OOO.OOi) in payment for concessionary rights, privileges, franchises and other property. The liabilities of the company 'consist of the amounts still due under the concessions

granted to the company of the $6,703,000 of bono before mentioned, the said bonds being due to the assignees of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company for work and labor done, and materials furnished in the execution of the work of constructing the interoceanic canal, and of cash liabilities outstanding and unpaid to an amount not exceeding $200,000. The assets of the company consist of its unused capital stock, of the $518,co) first mortgage bonds and the 2.420 shares of capital stock received in liquidation as aforesaid, the concessions, rights, privileges and franchises which It now owns, and of the plant, equipments and other property in Central America. The congressional assertion of its right to determine the lire of canal through Nicaragua and Costa Rica under the concession of the company, according to the company, caused uncertainty as to the final location of the route, and. with other causes, has made the resumption of the work of construction impossible. The company incloses two formal protests, one dated Dec. 2. 1S9S. and the other Sept. S last, to Secretary Hay against the agreement by the Nicaragua government for another canal concession, in. violation of the rights of not only the company, but of the United States and Costa Rica. The report estimates the irrigable area of the arid region of the United States at 74.000.000 acres, capable of comfortably supporting, under a proper irrigation system, 50.OCO.000 people. Reasonable expenditures both bv the federal and state governments, looking to a well-dettned irrigation system, are urged. Nearly fifty proposed new forest reserves or additions to those already established are under consideration. The Dawes commission reports the time has not yet arrived for tue installation of a territorial or state government in Indian Territory-, owing mainly to lack of uniform land tenures. Attention is called to the phenomenal Increase in railway traffic in the ast two years, amounting, approximately, in increased earnings in 1S99 over 1S98, to $0,000 -000 and the previous year to J23.0O0.O00. the increase being only limited by the lack of cars to carry products. INDIANA NOW fl MEMBER

AD3IITTKIJ TO THE 1XTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION. o Application 3Iade ly Notre Dame Soldiers nnd Sailors to Dnttle on the Gridiron. To-Dny. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. At an eight-hour session of university representatives to-day to discuss athletics, representatives of Indiana and Iowa were admitted. The rules of 1S93 were thrown aside as too cumbersome and those of 1S97 adopted, with several modifications, and it was announced that the boycott against Chicago on the part of the Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois universities had been abolished and that entire harmony prevailed between the different universities. Those present were: Chicago, A. A. Stagg; Purdue, C. A. Waldo; Michigan, A. II. Pettlngill; Wisconsin, E. A. Birge; Northwestern, II. S. White; Minnesota, F. S. Jones; Illinois, H. J. Barton. Prof. W. M. Sampson, of Indiana, and Prof. A. G. Smith, of Iowa, were present to urse the claims of their colleges for admission to the conference, and Prof. F. S. Jones, of Minnesota, secretary. ' A motion was carried to the effect that the membership be limited to nine. Professors Waldo and Stagg were empowered to draw up a plan for the establishment of a board of arbitration, to which ail colleges disputed shall be referred. After the meeting Professor Stagg said that, as far as he knew, the game between Wisconsin and Chicago " would be played, and Professor Birge, of Wisconsin, confirmed the report that the game would take place. Notre Dame did not ask for admission, as it was reported it would do, and. under the new rule, cannot hope to become a member unless one of the present nine decides to drop out. To-Dny'n FootTmll Ilnttle. PHILADELPHIA, Dec t-On Franklin Field to-morrow afternoon the embryo soldiers cf the West Point Academy will meet the coming sailors of the Annapolis Naval Academy in a football battle, the first that has been waged by tho representatives of the two military arms of the government in six years. The game will be unique In the annals of football in this city in that no admission fee will be charged to see the game. No person, - however, can gain admittance without an Invitation issued from either the West Point Academy, the Annapolis Academy or the University of Pennsylvania. Great interest Is being taken in th3 contest and the den and for tickets has greatly exceeded the supply. The seating capacity of Franklin Field is a little over 2z,w). The two academies have each issued 6,000 invitations and the university has given out the other 16,000. Among those who will attend the game are Secretary of War Root, Secretary of the Navy Long and Assistant Secretaries Meikeljohn and Allen. Many oflicers of the army and navy stationed at Washington will also le In attendance. It Is expected that Ambassador I'auncefote, of Great Britain, will a. so be here. The two teams arrived here late this afternoon and are. in fine physical condition. Culver, 3o ; Aurora, S Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CULVER, Ind., Dec. L Culver closed her victorious season here to-day by defeating East Aurora High School team, which has not been scored against or defeated this year, by a score of 33 to 5. The cadets have played eight games this season with the strongest secondary school teams of the West, and have made a total score of 238 to their opponents 11. Aurora showed a strong defense in the first half and made a touchdown by Wilmerth, the half ending 6 to 5 in Culver's favor. In the second half Culver tore her opponents' line in pieces ana scored 29 more points The whole cadet line played line ball. Dc Oro Far Ahead. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Champion Alfred De Oro Increased his lead over Fred Payton, of Omaha, to-night in the second evening's play for the championship title at Daly's Academy, the final score being 404 to 352. The string at the beginning of the pla- to-night showed De Oro with 205 and Payton with 1S2. It wa3 clearly dtmonstratod, however, as the game went on. that the young Westerner was no match for the veteran. Payton played a good uphill game, but De Oro's marvelous control of the cue ball was too great a handicap to overcome. The score: De Oro, 404 (scratches, 4); breaks, 15; Payton, 352 (scratches, 2); breaks, 10. The final play will take place to-morrow night. Obltnary. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Alexander Murray Guthrie, a well-known resident of Pittsburg, is dead at the Presbyterian Hospital, In this city, aged fifty-seven years. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the independent battalion of Ohio cavalry, and served until the return of peace. He was secretary of the North Pacific fleet under his uncle. Admiral Murray. COLFMRIA. S. C, Dec. 1. Col. Cadwallader Jones, a colonel In the Confederate army and once a prominent politician, died here to-day, aged eighty-ix. Two of his sons were colonels in the Spanish war Wylie Jones, of South Carolina, and Johnstone Jones, of California. NEW YORK. Dec. 1. Stanton Barnard, formerly a Western lumberman, and for many years president of the Chippewa Lumber and Boom company, of Chippewa, Wis., is dead at his home in this city, aged seventy-one years. NEW YORK, Dec. l.-Frederick A. Schroder, who was mayor of Brooklyn In 1ST5 and 1S77, died to-day after a long Illness. 'lluiliTay Collision In !Vew Mexico. ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Dec. l.-A rearend collision between south-bound Los Angeles passenger train No. 2 in charge of Conductor Davern, and a local freight, handled by J. E. Miller, occurred last night near Isleta, sixteen miles south of here. The names of the Injured, as far as known, are: G. Hutchinson, of Winslow. A. T.. badly crushed, will probably die; Head Brakeman Pinney, of the freight train, caught between cars, chest and legs badly pinched; Conductor Davern, face badly cut and bruised otherwise. A woman passenger whose name cannot be ascertained received injuries that required immediate medical attention. Just Try for Your Complexion Champlin's Liquid Pearl, SDc, pink or white. Marvelous beautiSer. Ureatp-ecown, No equal.

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IT WILL I1E A TWO-HUDRED.MIL LIOX-DOLLAU C0MI1IXATI0X. All Sugar Refining; and Glucose Companies to lie Consolidated, According to lteport. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. The News says to-day: A $23,(X,(O0 trust is In contemplation. There is every indication that the American Sugar Company, the Glucose Refining Company and all the so-called independent sugar refiners will be consolidated. II. O. Havemeyer, of the sugar combine, has, It is understood, secured an option on the Arbuckle Sugar Company, the Dercher concern and the outside plants in Boston and New Orleans. This evening he will, it Is said, receive a definite proposition from the Glucose company's representatives, who left Chicago last night for New York. It has been ascertained that representatives of the IJavemcyer company have been in the city In conference with President Matthiesen, of the Glucose company, for several days. The result of these conferences, it 13 said, was an option on the glucose interests. " "The important feature of the plan is that the American Sugar Company will increase its capitalization from 175,0(43,000 to $200,000,00). It Is understood that $30,000,000 of this will be given the Glucose people for their riant and $20,000,000 to tho outside refineries, and that the entire common stock of the Sugar Trust will put on an 8 per cent, basis The rate of disbursement on the preferred shares will not be changed while the holders of ordinary will be allowed to subscribe for the new certificates at par. The capital of the Glucose Refinery Company is $40,O00,MV$14,0(.O)0 preferred and ?27,O0.eoo commcn, so that the certificates will be taken in presumably at an average of $75 per share. When questioned in reference to the prospective sale of his company, Mr. Matthiesen to-day refused to discuss the matter, saying: "Any information that may be of value to the public will be given at the proper time.'' NEW YORK. Dec. 1. The story from Chicago was discredited in trade circles here. C. R. Helcke, secretary cf the American Sugar Refining Company, said he knew nothing of the deal and would not give it out for publication if he did. At the office of Arbuckle Bros, "nothing was known of the matter." B. H. Howell & Co., representing imports n.t Independent refineries, did not believe there was any truth in the story. New York Sugar Refining Company interests knew nothing of it and recalled the fact that a similar story was started last spring, but without corroboration as yet. Suit Against the Lend Trust. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1. Attorney General Edward Crow began proceedings in the St. Louis Court of Appeals this afternoon to have the National Lead Company excluded from the'privilege of doing business in Missouri on the ground that it is a trust. The attorney general charges in his application for a writ of ouster that the defendant is incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a capital stock of $30,000,000 and is doing business in Missouri without having first complied with the law, which requires foreign corporations to procure licenses from the secretary of state before they can establish offices in this State. It Is contended that the defendant is unlawfully usurping the privileges and franchises of a Missouri corporation to which it has no right under the law. It is also alleged that the company could not incorporate under the laws of Missouri for $30,tn00v), and that its action in assuming to exercise the right of doing business in this State is illegal. To Desert Illinois. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. The Chronicle to-morrow will say: "Corporations with an aggregate capital of more than $300,000,000 are preparing to move out of the State of Illinois and establish their headquarters in the East, mainly in New York city. The chief reason assigned for the radical change in base of operations is that the Legislature and courts of Illinois have assumed so distinctly an anti-trust complexion in legislation and legal decisions that the corporations have decided to retaliate by withdrawing their interests to other fields. The principal corporations that are getting ready to quit their headquarters in this city are the following: Federal Steel Company, American Steel and Wire Company, American Steel Hoop Company, American Tin-plate Company and the Glucose Sugar Refining Company. A representative of the whisky trust said to-night that the entire business would be taken from Illinois a3 soon as possible." Trusts nnd Nevrspnpers. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 1. The effect of the combines and trusts on the business of newspaper making is to be taken up by the publishers of Kansas and Missouri. The Journal to-morrow will print interviews with George W. Martin, president of the Kansas Press Association, and W. R. Painter, president of the Missouri Press Association, in which hoth announce the intention of urging extra sessions of their associations to take up the questions of the greatly increased cost of print paper and the steady decline in "foreign" advertising, such as baking powders and proprietary articles, which have passed under the contrnl of trusts. The executive committee of the Kansas association will meet in Kansas City on Monday next, and the executive committee of the Missouri association will soon meet in St. Louis, and both meetings are expected to result in calls for conventions. Another Trust Proposed. PITTSBURG, Dec. 1. An attempt is being made to consolidate all of the iron and enameling manufacturing companies of the manufacturing belt known as the middle West, which reaches from the Allegheny mountains to the Mississippi river. It is proposed to effect' a consolidation of the leading companies that make enameled ware, such as bath tubs, wash stands and general laundry and bathroom equipments, and then buy out the smaller concerns. The capital stock will be about $10,000,000. Plus Tobacco to Be Dearer. CINCINNATI, Dec. 1. The Continental Tobacco Company has Issued a circular abolishirg after Dec. 1 the 10 per cent, jobbers premium on plug tobacco and plug smoking tobacco. This is equivalent to an advance of 4 cents per pound on tobacco controlled by the trust. MAY AVERT LABOR WAR. Efforts to Adjust the Chicago Building Trades Dispute. CHICAGO, Dec. 1. Initial steps looking toward a settlement of the threatened "labor war" in advance of the first of the year, the date set for the actual outbreak of hostilities between contractors and laborers,were taken to-day by President Martin B. Madden, of the Western Stone Company. Mr. Madden's idea is that In a conference between the rival interests at stake some means could be found to avert the struggle. This belief Mr. Madden set forth in an open letter to President Carroll, of the Chicago Building Trades' Council, in which he invited the appointment of a committee by the building trades to meet twelve large employers of laborers. At a meeting to-night -of the Building Trades' Council Mr. Madden's proposal was accepted and a conference arranged to take place to-morrow. . - Mills Closed by a Strike. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. l.-About eight hundred union upholstery weavers went on strike to-day, closing twenty-six mills and throwing out of employment nearly three thousand hands engaged in various departments of the factories. The strikers demand a working week of fifty-five hours and 10 cents an hour for over time and an increased wage scale. The advance asked is a general increase of about 25 per cent. Many of the manufacturers had made an advance of IS per cent, and when tho new demand was made they - refused to consider it. This city and Paterson, N. J..

are the centers of the upholstery weaving Industry in this country and there are about 1.100 skilled weavers in Philadelphia, The Orinoco and Century mills, employing about 700 weavers, hdvo signed the new scale.

3Iay Appeal to McKinley. CHICAGO. Dec. 1. John Mitchell, national president of the United Mine Workers' Union, who arrived In Chicago to-day on business connected with the settling up of the Illinois trade disputes, said the national organization was preparing to secure the release of J. P. Reese, who was sent to jail In Fort Scott. Kan., for violating an injunction, -dr. Mltchei. said: "Mr. Reese went to Kansas tinder Instructions to address the miners. He was not on any company's property .ind was not inciting the men simply addressing them as a national officer. If we do not succeed with the habeas corpus proceedings we will appeal to Iresident McKinley to release our man." Iron Moldern Strike Agrnin. PITTSRURG. Pa.. Dec. l.-The strike of iron molders for a minimum wage rate of $3 a day was renewed to-day at five of the largest foundries, and operations will be suspended at twenty-five other foundries unless the scale is signed. Unlike the strike of a short time ago, the strikers this time have the support of the iron molders' national union. Women fiet More Money. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Dee. 1. The 300 women employes of the Swofford Dry Goods Company, who went on strike last Monday when the company reduced the price for sewing overalls to 4S cents per dozen, will return to work to-morrow; the company having agred to restore the former scale and pay C5 cents per dozen. Higher Wages for Many Operntlves. FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 1. All the cotton manufacturers of this city represented In the Fall River Association to-day decided that they would grant an advance of 10 per cent. In wages, beginning on Monday. Dec. 11. About 2i,000 hands will benefit by the raise. Voluntary "Wajre Increase. "ELGIN. 111., Dec. 1. The Elgin National Watch Company to-day surprised Its 2,400 employes by giving notice of a restoration of the wage scale if 1691 The advance was unsolicited. IN SEVENTY- THREE SECONDS. Dave Wallace, nn EnKllnh Pncrlllst, Knocked Out by Joe Ilernsiein. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. Dave Wallace, the last of the cargo of English fighters which was Imported here within the last few months, went down in defeat like his predecessors to-night at the Broadway Athletic Club. Joe Bernstein, of New York, plied several blows on Wallace's face and body, and in exactly seventy-three seconds the Englishman lay prostrate, unable to come to time. He was counted out and his seconds had to carry him to his corner. The boys met for a twenty-five round go at 121 pounds. Bernstein was the aggressor, and he ran to the Englishman's corner. Wallace attempted to get away, but Joe was Inside his lead and Jolted his left four times to Wallace's Jaw, sending the Englishman to the floor. When he got up Wallace looked a bit weary, and Bernstein went after him, sending his right over to the head. Wrallace dodged, but slipped to the floor In avoiding the blow. The Briton got up immediately, only to go down again from a straight left. This time he took the count, but arose again within the Jijnlt. Bernstein struck him with a short right on the point of the Jaw. which nut allace to the floor, where he lay on his left side as if dead. v ronRbt Six Hounds. CHICAGO. Dec. 1. Oscar Gardiner, the "Omaha Kid," and Harry Forbes, of Chicago, fought six fast rounds before the Fort Dearborn Athletic Club tonnight, the bout being declared a draw. The men fought at catch weights and Gardiner probably weighed 122 pounds, while Forbes scaled about US. Gardiner's hands were apparently In poor shape and heavily bandaged, but he forced the fighting In every round, playing principally for Forbes's ribs with his right. Forbes, however, more than held his own and put Gardiner down squarely in the sixth round with a right flush on the chin. Gardiner also went to the floor In the first round, but it was not a clean knockdown. Forbes was sent down In the fifth with a left on the chin. The fighting was furious In the last round, with Forbes having the better of the exchanges, but Gardiner's blows had the more steam behind them and Forbes was rather tired at the close. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Ben Justice, a township trustee, was fatallv shot at the Comet mine, near Wellston, O., by Sheridan Adams. The New York state canals were closed officially yesterday for the season. Business has.been better than last year. The court-martial In the case of Chaplain David li. Shields, U. S. A., who Is accused of lntemperato habits, convened at Presidio. Cab. yesterday. Richard Smith, alias Alabama Red, a negro, was hanged at Perry, Ga., yesterday. Smith murdered Bob Pine, also colored, at Beach Haven, last May. President Diaz yesterday turned on steam on the engines of the new power house for supplying energy to the new electric streetcar service in the City of Mexico. The total gold production of tfce Cripple Creek district in November was $2,515.;m0. an Increase of more than 23 per cent, over the largest previous monthly record. Dairymen and stock dealers from Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, in convention at Chicago yesterday, discussed ways and means of eradicating tuberculosis in stock. The steamer Anselma de la Reinaga, Captain Thomas, cleared at New Orleans yesterday with nine hundred mules for the British government and will sail to-day for Cape Town. Robert J. Knox, alias James B. Bennett, tho alleged swindler, yesterday waived a hearing on the charge of forgery, at Pittsburg, and in default of $2,000 bail, was committed to Jail. Carl Brown defeated Bert Scheller in a wrestling match at Hastings, Neb., last night, winning three straight falls. Brown will now challenge "Farmer" Burns for a mixed match. Clarence B. Douglas, a newspaper correspondent, ciharged with killing Editor James Williams, at Ardmore, I-r.d. T.. in June, 1597. has been found not guilty and discharged. His plea was self-defense. Capt. Ike T. Jobe. who was to have been tried before the United States Court at Columbus. O., for uelng War Department penalty envelopes for private letters, escaped from Jail at the Ohio capital yesterday. Henry D. McCord and Willlajn M. McCord, composing the firm of Henry D. McCord & Son. dealers In grain at New York, have assigned for the benefit of creditors. The firm is rated at between $200,000 ar.d $2a0.000. It expects to pay 100 cents on the dollar. James Lonergan was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Fond du Lac. Wis., yesterday. He was on trial charged with the murder of Policeman William Prinslow on Nov. 18, lsS8. James Morrison, charged as an accomplice in the same crime, was acquitted. I. A. Root, until recently chief clerk of the Great Camp, Knights of the Macabces, committed suicide at Port Huron, yesterday, by swallowing carbolic acid. He left a note asking his wife's forgiveness for thus ending Ids life. A week ago Root resigned hi? position on account of nervous deibillty. Petitions In bankruptcy were filed in the United States Distrlot Court, at New York, yesterday, by Adolph Blitz, a clothier, having unsecured claims to the amount of $423,176 and no assets, and by Elizabeth K. Satterlee, an insurance broker and member of the firm cf Douglas3 & Satterlee, Mho admits liabilities to the amount of $3C,&4 and no assets. Woman Kills Rival and Lover. TAMPA. Fla., Dec. l.Mamlo De Long shot and killed Lizzie Sessions and Cab in Andrew in a fit of Jealousy at Land Pebble phosphate camp, near here, yesterday afternoon. Andrew had been paying considerable attention to the Long woman, but had transferred his affections to Lizzie Sessions. Mamie De Long went to the Sessions woman's house to horsewhip her and the trouble resulted In the murder of the two.

NATIONAIy Tube Works Wronjht-Iroa Pipe lor Gts, Slcanncd nttcr. I ro!lr Tubet. Cam t4 illablj iron rtttlrc (t-Uck tni ralvkiili.). Valve, t-top Cocks. Knfin? Tnmmlrg. S:era iaucf. Pip Tjag. Pips Cutter. Vlrt. &rre Plates aal Die Wrenches, Ft-!m Trap. lm;i, Kltrhr. S nks. Hv. Hlt In i;atUt MtI. Seller, White an J Ccloiei Wlilnf Vate. an5 all other Sup rile vfii In connection lth Gs. Steam ani Water. Natural Supriies a apex laity, if team leatlng Aiparatua tor labile rtuildlr.ra. Storerooms. Mtlla. khor. Factories L amines, Lnnbf Prr Hotfci. etc Cut nj Thiend to order any airs Wrought -iron Pipe, frcna H inch to 12 inches diam LMGIIT & J1LLSCX, 111 to ITT 8. PENNSYLVANIA aTT. Olll K12AL .NATIONAL U 1 1113. The Turkey More Distinctively American than the Uaigle. Chicago Times-Herald. Red of wattle, white of breast and blue of tail, the turkey more than the eagle is the distinctive bird of America, r lauce. Germany, Austria. Italy and other counirie claimed tno one before America was known. The oilier, iitte America, was supposed to belong to the .blast. Columbus was resolved to can whatever land he discovered India," because mat name more than any otner suggested riches to Europe. For like reason the richest of edibie lowls cot lis name out or the traditional belief that it was a native of the Orient. For several hundred years It was known to a large section of. Europe as the "hen of Calcutta." Of course Shakspeare was on intimato terms with the turkey as his favorite alderman with fat capons. The eager carrier cries in lienry IV, " 'Odsbody, uie turkeys in my panniers are quite siarved." Tne French have preserved the turkey's mediaeval misnomer in -dinde," their brief for of India." The German chets accept tne Gallic word, and the Kaiser has not yet banished it for lese majeste. Archbisnop Trench, a competent Judge of a toothsomotrencher, ays: "Occasionally a name will embody and give permanence to an error, as when in 'America' the discovery of tha new world, which belonged to Columbus, is ascribed to another eminent discoverer, but one who had no title to this one, even as ha was guiltless of any attempt to usurp it for himself. Our tuikeys are not from 'iurkeyas was assumed by those who so called them, but ft cm that new world where aloiit they are native." Nor is there more reason for assuming that any serene high celestial sultan was more culpable in this man Americus Vespucius in that. It was nttingly in the zenith of the renaissance that the other American bird, tha bird of red. white and blue, made its debut in Kurope, and Jrora that hour to this it has been the pride of the kitchen, the chief piece of every well-appointed table, the apotheosis of the culinary art. The suzerainty, so to srpeak. of the turkey is not due exclusively to l;s palatable nutritiousncss. It is owing in some measure to its paramount versatility. Its adaptable tissue enables the scientirlc cock to make it also the most luxurious of viands. There is scarecly a delectable incident Of a symmetrical menu that will not enter harmoniously into a turkey symphony. It blends in almost equal graciousness with all the dellcacUs of forest, field, orchard and sea. It may be Isolated superbly in its own amber oils. It may wear a coronet of Jelly. Its proud breast may be lined with mushrooms, walnuts, bread or pudding. The sybaritic fungus, the truiHe, which bears to the edible world the relation of the orchid to the floral, has long been identified with the ceremonious presentation of turkey. The goose cf Strasbourg gives its liver to enrich a gravy for the king of the barnyard. The applefed pifc of Bohemia slices itself to make the turkey's back more golden. Its dark cuts are substantial as beef, its light as tender as plover. It Is s'.ulent as squab, sweet, when done to a turn, as honey. Its fittest sequence or concomitant is the aristocrat of the garden, the artichoke, whether in the Juice of its corallo heart or salad, where unguent and acid meet and mingle, the only happy, and Indissoluble marriage of totally opposite parties. Ihe turkey, moreover, yields its fibre to a CTeater number of modes of preparation for the table than its heavy competitor, the goose, or its smaller but not despicable friend, the right kind of duck. If tan In the pout, it broils to a nicety. If rrlcassee be wanted, no other filler ornhe kettle supplies so much meat with so little waste and eke so large a volume of digestible liquid. In warm climates it is most agreeable boiled, as in temperate zones under the dog star. Pefore Count Rumford became apostle of the oven the turkey formed a majestic spectacle on the spit, now Its Falstafiian loins turning to yellow umber before the cheery blare, anon its copious wings scorching to make a hearth brush for the clean and thrifty housewife. How many a royal cook watched with unhidden ecstacy truant rivulets of oyster trickle from Its crackling cavity to tell of gradual transmutation, a savory but conclusive tale, for your oyster, unlike his betters, knows when to shut his mouth. But the turkey ought to be roasted. In that form It is without a peer as supreme factor in a Thanksgiving feast. In that form It reaches most American tables aftT the frost has crisped the celery and the silvering south has sent up the marsh berries to glow on the sideboard. It must be roasted to be thoroughly American and to wait most welcomely on appetite. For. says the prince of transcendental gastronomy. Ilrlllat-Savarln, "anybody may cook, but a roaster is born." Now and then a disloyal American or amateur cook of conf?lous limitations suggests that the turkey is not indlppnFable to a true American Thanksgiving dinner. Let all such be anathema, and be they most blessed who remember In act that, as to turkeys also, it Is more blessed to give than to receive. For all are not born to turkey and many cannot acquire it. Wherever the American eagle re?ts this fortunate year of expansion of American institutions amonir men of good will let the bird cf the red, white and blue be thrust. And for many a year In these lands of ours there were never so many turkeys to go around as this year. For which God and American labor ba blessed. IXSl'RAXCE OF W03IKV. Questions to "Which Xo Satisfactory Answer Has Ileen Given. Insurance Rough Notes. "The Courier des Ktats Unis has been studying statistics of different countries and finds many more women become centenarians than men. 'The quota it says.v'of the contingent which both sexes furnish to the privileged corporation of centenarians cannot, for want of indisputable documents, be fixed with rigorous precision, but one point is beyond a doubt, and that is that a woman has two or three times as many chances as a mm to pass the one-hundred-year mark The article from the French paper is reprinted by one of the Journal's insurance exchanges, which does not, however, explain why it is mat. their chances of life being so good, insurance rates for women are higher than those of men." Indianapolis Journal. The explanation pointed out by the Journal as due thoe favoring women's rights In the matter of life insurance Is only onehalf as difficult to make as one required of a noted actuary by a lady superintendent of on of the large companies at the life Insurance congress he.d In connection with the world's exposition at Chicago. Sh wanted to know If It were a fair proposition that a woman should be charged a higher rate of premium for her Hie insurance than a man is for his. why snould the ftame company also exact from her a higher rate, as it doe?, for her annuity? The actuary pave It up. and for the same reason we lave It to the Journal to make Its own explanation. It Is but fair to state, however, in this connection, that the companies insuring women have now. ns a rule, got out of the difficulty by insuring them at uniform rntrs with men and making a separate classification for them, so that an superiority, ns claimed that they may possess as life risks, will inure to their advantage when it comes to the settlement of mortality charses. It is also well to remark In this connection that the experience of the companies has abundantly proven that well established physiological facts do not furnish verv reliable data for the companies to bank upon in the conduct of their business, at least so far as women are concerned. Smallpox at Dixon, 111. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Jec. l.-A smallpox epidemic is reported at Dixon, where soma one hundred persons have liecome 111. Local physicians diagnosed the cases as chickenpox, but Dr. C. B. Nelson, the State Hoard of Health expert, who went to investigate the matter, wires to-night that the Illness is smallpox and that it is spreading at an alarming rate. ' TO CI III. A COLD IX O.mY D AY Tak Laxatlv Promo 0lslr Tablet. All drutlrtUi re!unJ the money if It rail to cur. E. W, Grove's signature U oa each box. ZZz.