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PRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1**9

TBB widow of a aaaa who made williooa Ml »t pdtaat modiclna occopied a box ia a Haw York tbaatar tfca oibar aranio*, bartec Ur. Ward UaAlliator lor a near aaigb* bar. Yba noaay far “cnrt alU” iadta good •a aay, and tba widow's diaatoads daxxlad

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THE (Jofarawaat aboulil ba oaraful to ■aloot good awa ta rapraaaat ita pataraal regard for aad lata reel in the red aaan. Tba naral Influenoa of Soparintaadaot Cfaaaa, af an Indian aabool ia Nabraaka, toald aat ba particularly adifying. Tba tataaut waa giS.oOQ. TEE Atblaiie Boetonaad youag man ia (rrapariog ta btoaaom out ia knaa braacha., that la,aa ta accotopan 1 meat to tba taillaaa draaa mat Tbia ta maraly a atap backward to Mr. Oarar Wildo'a praity idaa, and ail that ia aaadod to romplato tba coatame It a larga, goldan aunflower. JlBJlM’Jiy ft - . l J. l gJLJ.. l lL—1 TH* Supariataadant o/ poliea ia Naw York rocotomaada, apropoa <>f tba raoant oar rtrikaa, that tko forao of patrolraan bo ioaraaacd 4,000. ThU ho aaya, ia an imparatiro nacoksity. Nothing batter ilinitrataa tba vaat aiaa of the new worl t'e metropoha than tba fact that a email army ia tasenlial to ita police protection. IT la diflcait to aoeount for tba attempt Made ia Narada to aoeura an amendment to tba Btata Conatimtion authorizing a State lottery. This might do in France, Spain or Mexico, bat ia »no of the American CoamonweaUhe it ic in the wrong atMoapbara. Tba Jack Oakhurata that Brat llacta looad ia California muat bar# ■toted East aad attempted to found a State fitmbliag iaatitatioa. It ia wholeaomo to ! boar that tba amoudmeot waa rejected, | though by a tola of only 600. Something ag^ht to ba dona for tba people who want to write, but find out it laa't in them. A woman killed heraelf in •t. Louia a fa* u..ya ago became her effbrta to shiaoaa a poet and author proved ■aeoeeeaafo!. The number of people in tba country who want to bo "literary" without aptituda or edneation, ia growing. Tba p*n bad ink buainaaa ia an allurine one, but prarybody can't.aueeecd in it, any more than every man could make a good binck•with. Although, aa a wiee Frenchman ■aid, goniaa ia only hard work, tboeo who want to become "literary" ehould be aura that their beat ia aat for farming or hoaaobuilding. __ Arkansas ia looking up, and the field progreaa ia to broad that the peoplo •hoald act to it that tba orimea which hare to ia|arod the State'a name abroad art

rwllod hack oa him before ha eowld gat to tba kOl top with it la Met, a pretty atroag array of proof of aaowtal «■ balance would ba seattered by the will, as aa offaattiag evidence of senod judgment aad wiaa proriaion. Mr. Hiram Baker had better taka the will aad leave whisky aloao, area if the bequest didn’t gira him more tbaa a decent sail of clothes a year. The discussion of tto Sonata election bill yeetorday, previous to tho passage at that aaaaare, brought o«t some stupid utterices. Tto fact that electieea would uoet s little mere ia, of eon res, a matter to to eouidarad; bat what ia tba matter of a few iboaMtnd dollan to the possibility of ao boo aat eioetioo? Tho bill is aot aa good as it shoald be, hut it ia batter tbaa none, aad aa it staada would do much toward purifying oleettoos. Tho registration feature should bare been iasertod. This is the very eesenee of every good election law. To bare a rugiatratioa of the legal voters ia ta kaow exaetly who k entitled to vote, aad all tto precaatione token ot tto pells oa election day only follow up this first important atop. Oao Senator thought ragiatratiea would moan the die* franehiaement of some legal voters. Not to aay extent worth oonaidaration. iVhera one citisen might oot to ragiatored, tea imported votere or itiuoraote would to kept away from the ballot box. The bill is net the best thnt could bo doairad, bnt it wiii do for a basis and if finally passed, should bo amondod from timo to time to keep pace with tto bast matboda discovered for tarrying eieotioosl These ounstaot indais over frauds in elaotions muat oease,

ahd the sooner the better.

Last year I watched it drift, and said With leaping bean, aad happv sigh. "Tto lair earth wear* tor bridal roto, »o. soon, piooso God, atoll Lr To-day, with quiet heart. I sea The little flakes go whirling by. "The fair earth wears her winding-sheet t*o. soon, pWe»e God. shell i " —{Annie It Aidrtcn in Scribner’• Megazfae. Ksretniioa. • Said the lily to the roee one day: -Whet da you think of ft nelthbor. sayT The flower there with big yellow oya And HUM white I ashes that wink ao spry." The rose spake up q die lofuly, said tto: "Tto far diner calia it a French daisy.” “Ahar said the marigold, ••Oho,” said tho pink; "What are we coming to? my—just tbinkl The ladies all wear It and exclaim 'how sweet’ Foma call it a delay aad some marguerite!” Quick apoka the touch-me-not, ••french is it, hey? Halloo! little daisy—parka rout Franca tar* "Abemf’mtd the holly hock, clearing hia throat Oi tbia floe French daisy the ladle* may dote. With do# respect for the opinion of the roee. Pray excuse me if 1 hold my oid-iUhl»ne<l nose. But wbe* I we* young it grew round the kennel. My grandfather called It 'that horrid do« fennelf ” —i Beitle Garland. ♦•8CIIA.PS.’*

Tnz Newt 1* of the opinion that the Ft ate ean do better to buy school bunks from t he publisher* than to go into the huatni'S* for tiaelf Are we to understand that The News i* opposed to ihe publication of boos* by ihe Slate, provided the printing is done by privaie firm under contract witn proper safeguards against jobbery and collusion?

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Not at all, undar such conditions. Bat can tkay bo obtatnodf Can the efficient preparation oi books be aeon red by a Board made'op, possibly, ot partisans. The prineipie announced by Macaulay fifty years ago, that "faith in the aye and btnd of a master waa a wise trust, for whatever the State did, it waa pretty aura te tarn out that it got the cheapest and worst of everything,” ha» aot lost its strength. The Sentinel wants "the school book trust smashed." So do we, and to does every body who is not a beneficiary of tha present publishers. Would it not bo wise, at least at first, for the State to act as the agent to salect tha bast books and maka a careful contract for the supply required by the schools? Where there can be no opening for party peculation*, a fair contract for good work may bo poteible. If the exiatiog ‘'trust" relies upon its assumed power to break down competition, and compel the State, as it compels the Stats parentage, to take ita books on ita own terms, a healthy competition will come up from individual enterprise in short order, for the eaie of aomo millions of books a year will make a good business for a big "plant" and a heavy

investment.

Wr noted some time ago the evil effect* that would resnlt if tho license given the Chicago Anarchists by Judge Tulay ware to ba taken advantage of by polittoiaov. It ia announced that an attempt is being made to secure the pardon of Neebe, one of the Hay market riolars, who it now serving a sentence at Joliet. The circulation of the petition lookinrto this wae began immediately after the Inspector of Felice, instrumental in the convteiion of the Anarchist*, had been suspended, and in Judge Tuley’a decision waa still further encouragement to Neebe'a friend*. Tha Sociaiiatio party in Chicago has a membership oi 3,000 to 6,000, and aooordiag to a frank leader, k mad* up of that section of the foreign element which remains for* aien in this country—the dangerous eectioo of the eity’a population. Tha pardon of Neebe k a question that will be prominent in tbo local campaign the coming spring. So it appear* that the Anarchists, instead of being discouraged and anbdued by the heavy penalties inflicted upon them for tbo llaymarket horror, are drifting, by what seems an entirely natural transition,

panktod, aad a blot taken from tho Stata’s . , , , , „ ■Kutohion. Rl.h i.pM, or eo.l h„. g™*.'*. Bwh

boon discovered vary recently, and there

le an abundance of iron and vast deposit* •t line. What tto State needs is earnsst workers, bat Northern people will not Into to ta a section where prejudice remains to strong. Soea aa opiaodo as the Clayton nnrdar data aa inoalealable injury, and Mt aatil this State and all Southern States pot a stop to polities! crimes will they enter apea aa era of unhampered prosperity. _____________ The mnrdar ot Father Avhfield, at Mem- , pbk, brings to light tho story ot a beautiful Hf# which might havO-passed on quietly for many yaara bad not a horrible crime ended it. Tha army of priests performs Its work ao unosteatationsly that tho world toco and knows little ot it. Tho good men do aot seek notoriety. Fat bar Ashfiald’a sartor waa particularly aotabla for tha aa* listence bo rendered to tho yonng men of hia eity, and to waa dearly loved in aad out •f hk ehureb. Eves to be a reel use, aot Making applause bat merely “doing good," la no* without ita compensations whan a good father may die with tto leva of those among whom ho has labored, aad leave tbo mark of good works behind him. YkSTBXPAY, as Tto Nawa announced ia tbo evening, tba Floqaet Ministry resigned ia suddenly as it it bad been blown ont of office with a dynamite tomb. Aad tho moving cause was oartaialy trivial oa its faoo. A motion to adfeara tho debate on tto revision at tto oototitutioa for a weak was carried against the Ministry by a vote of 89, aad tto Pramkv at onto anaooaced tto raaignalioa at the Ministry. Tnere must to aomatbing af eoaaasaenee under this apparently unimportant dafeat aa tto postponement of a debate. IVtotitiak hardly discernible boro, bat it would aeum to be an ad vane# atop of tbo Boulanger movement. The ototruatiag ministry k aat of tto way, aad ana equally obelroetivo may not to able ta gat together aa Hkeiivoly. If It shoald follow out thk indication tba Boulanger “modified" United States const! tattoo may to pretty close ahead *ad tbat mcaaa, matt probably, what Praam l never tod totaw apsaooflri revelation

wto left by bia father far lita* with tto additiaa af

every tea year* aa taag aa to iber. If to gate drank aum he L Sage tto dispatch: “Tto son try ta Stow Mat hk father U insane." baa ao batter proof eg hk tat her’* lathan thk eminently judieioug be-

, to will Aad hk taek

j will seek tto determining vote tbat k withthe control of party discipline.

which ia said to b* the Anarchist strength. The “reds" evidently know their voting voloe and will maka the mist of it. This ia a very menacing problem that confrouta tba people of the great eity of tto West. Nothing would more gifcaily flatter the Anarchists and Socialist* than to be considered as holding the balance of l>ow*r; and they should not be allowed by any pa r( F 10 believe tbat they figure ia any way in polities. The bands of tto parly tbat eountsnanoM this element will to ineffaceably stained. It ia vary evident that tlm “reds" will not bear lenient treatment; to give thorn political eneouragemdfit Will to granting a foothold from wbioh tbsy will not to readily ditplacsd. Convincing Kviasnos.

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Blake's Coachman (colored)—I t’ooght yon saved yeah folks was so dog-gone rieb. Jinka’s Coachman (Coltie)—So they are, ya black divil. Biinks’s Coachman—Hoh! I guess aot. I looked in de winder las’ night an’ seen two ob do young Jadiea playin’ on do same piaooy. Gaeas yon all has tor economise. New Things maka New Words. Ia the Ashurv Park directory occur* thk name: “J. &. Borden, motofneer." Than a new word baa been coined for the language. A metorneer k tto man who ridee on tho front of an electric ear and handles tto trolly which mas on tto wires overhead and conveys the eleetrieity from tto wires to the motor under tto ear. The Wanner Wl.l Hold the Bag. [Viacennes Sun.] Consolidations, combines and frusta rule tho hoar. From the railroad oa down, every lino of oorporations are pooling and organising for self-defense. In all this scheming bow will the poor tanner tare? It seems impossible for hk elaaa to combine and to k loft oat ia tho eold. ^ History Repsatiug itself. [Philadelphia Frssaj Tbo battle at Hamaon’s Landing waa one of tto dramatic of the war for tto Union. Thsr* will to another imUie squally animated, but loss sanguinary, after Harrison’s laadiag in Washington, between the aew President sad tto office-seekers. A t-eniueuc Inquiry. fNaw York Telegram.J Professor Pasteur thinks it will to pleaaaater tq live ia tto twentieth esatnry, whoa all opulemieo will to done away with. Tto eolsmu tfasngkt strikes us: What goad k that going to do aa? Wa eau't adjourn util tto twentieth otatary. Tznao so Cut tits Rates. (Detroit Free Preas. I When aa ioatiranee company can laaa half* SSSFalBS. Ciifijk#*Y& as if rates ought te some down about 50 per

XN THE Fa.It NORTH.

The snake ring k going out of faahion. Tba coat of tto Park Exposition will to ♦10,000,000. Thera are fourteen Indiena in the Kansas Penitentiary. Suicide* have bean unnanally fraquant in New York Oily of late. A rabbit with two tail* waa eaugkt in a trap at Red Bank, N. J., laat week. The future letter wilt begin: “I take my phonograph iu baud to let you koow.’^etc. New Zealand offers a bounty of five oente each for the destruction of English aparrowv. Fifteen boy* iu the Pittsburg cooking school have taken prisee for efficiency in

cooking.

The total number of American citizen* residing in (ibiua is 1,022, of whom 500 are missionaries. Pennsylvania ia contemplating publishing a book on (he “Bird*of Pennsylvania” at a cost of $37,000. A Chinaman iu New York baa started an evening school to teach the English language to his own countrymen. The United states are eating more oranges, lemons, bauauaa, figs and raisins than any other country on earth. The cur stove continues to go oa nearly all tho railroads, the rate of speed ranging about from fifteen to forty miles an hour. Misaoun has expended $45,000 within the laat two years in supporting an agricultural collage with but thirteen students. There are about 70.000 lace maker* In Normandy, and in all Franca there are nearly 200,000 women engaged in this industry. It baa been observed that the Eiffel tower, now over 670 feet high, has been frequently enveloped iu a cloud at a bight of 520 feet. An English tugrecestly lowed a ship from the aouth coast of Brazil to Greenock, Scotland, a distance ot about 4,000 mile*, it is the second longest tow ou record. It is said that the akull ot John Theach, known as “Blaekbeard." the Virginia pirate of 1718, is in possession of a Virginia family in the form of a silver-rimmed drinking cup. Siyvauua Cobb ooly wanted an hour to lay the plot ot a story and placa his characters. It would have been harder for him to writ* a school composition than a serial to run for twenty weeks. The co-partnership between Joseph Jefferson sod W. J. Florence has been finally decided upon. The two comedians will star together next season in a repertory of old English comediee. A shrewd citizen of Monteznms, Ga., swapped horses ten time* in one day. ami made $125. and galloped home tbat night possessor of the same horse to impart the news to his family. Olive Logan has bean looking into the domestic economy of the French, and the finds it to consist in doing without things. She Mav« they make nothing go funner than other people, unless it is talk. A belligerent patriot named Sewall Met a fate exceedingly cruel, He stood by the flag, * Bnt was given the bag. And now lie s imaiersed in the cruel. —[L luitvilie Commercial. A dead beat, who bad but 60 oenta to hia mime, look blank checks, went from store to store in Cairo nud made purchase* or over $4 ;0. filling opt a check in each case. A man who signs bis name to a check with a great flourish is supposed to he rich. Mamins (to Flossie, who had been lunch-, ing with a little friend)—I hope von were wry polite, Flossie, at the table, and said: “Yea, please,” and “No, thank you!” Floseie —Well, I didn’t say "No. thank you,” because, eon see, 1 took everything. The annual report of the Indian Department of Canada save there are encouraging indications that the Indian element will eventually become amalgamated with ihe general population ot tue country. The Indian flopuiation of the Dominion is 124,589. Miss Susanna Warfield, who reside* near Sykeiville, Carroll County, Maryland, composed the march played at the iusugural ball ot "Tippecanoe” Harrison, and her friends want it played at the inauguration of his graydson, on Marclq4. Mis* Warfield, who ia wealthy, is ag»d aluetv-five yaara. William IV wax once dining with several officera and ordered one of the wadera to “take away that marine tliefe." "Your Majesty,’’ inquired a Coloreloi Marines, *‘d<> you compare an empty bottle to a raemOer of our branch of the service?” "Yes," replied tbs monarch, ns if a sudden thought had struck biin. “I mean to say, it ha* dene Us duty, and is ready to do it again." Rather quick-witted for a King, wasn’t it? At the recent election in Pane 568,697 electors were, registered, but only 435,860 votes were cost. Although Boulanger beat M. Jacques by 81,550 plurality, and even had a clear majority of 54,432 over all oppoaitiou, be still tacked 40,279 vote* af a bare majority ot all the regiatered votere. Thera were atont 133.000-Parisian votera who did not ear* enough about Benlangeness to go to the puffs and vote either for er against it. “The Mexicans,” says a traveler, “have a very queer way of barring tba dead. The corpse ia tightly wrapped ta century p'ant matting' and placad in a coffin rented for about twenty-five cents. One or two natives, as tbs ease may be, plaoo the coffin on their hoods and so in a trot to the grave, w liars tto body is interred and the eoffin i* then returned. The wealthy class use tha street oars a* hears** and the friends follow bsaido tho oar on foot." A woman in tto waiting rtfera at a Detroit depot the other day had a great deal of Ironbio with oao of her two ohildrea—a boy of tevea or eight—and a man who eat a ear her stood it as long as poasibl* and then observed: “Madam, that boy of yours needs the strong hand of a father." “Yes, I know it," •he replied, “but he can’t have it. Hie father died when he waa six years of ago. and I’ra doo* my tost to get another man and failed. Ho can’t have what I can’t get." “Yet,” said tto hatter, “hats, If not heads, are growing smaller. I have noticed it year by year in my bust uses, and where a 7$ or 7{ and 8 hat was aot a miracle ia the old times, to-day tho avorags hat is a 7, aad it’s rare that we have toshew np a 7$. Londen hatters arc talklag about tto change ia tto size of tto hat, aad they say that the English heads average 62 to 6i, against 7 to 7$ of fifty years ago. However, besides tto tact about the method ot wearing the hat, it is to to said that ttof also wear their hair closely cropped nowadays, aod tbat this makos a differenes. In old times people were bushy hair nod a hat that always left iu mark oa tho looks. Furthermore, English hats run ia laagsr sixes. A 62 hat of English make squab a 6i hat of American make. One effect of tto auprccodontcd corn yield in tbia country last year is a marked revival in the export of live oattlo and dressed hoof. In 1884, whoa tto pries* for oattlo became so high ia thb country, this larga trade (mainly to tto United Kingdom) about oeased. Tbo depression soused in tto business then waa act wholly ovsroom* daring the intervening ymn, la whieb tto weekly shipments of live cattle warn not over 600 head, . while of dressed beef aboat 6,000 go or tars want ont. The week whieb has just alosad sees tto export from Naw York of 3,000 ktad of live caul* aad aver 10,000 quarter* af beef. This revival (a mainly duo to tto sera crop, which I fa lo plentiful tbat all the cattle ia America I ana be pot la oxeeilcnt condition cheaply, 4 aad eaed arlawean to abtaiuad abroad.

Railway Baterprive la BtanUaUA-RaOsarU-

abijr Large Crops—The Had Han. fCerrcsoanasass of The Indianapolis News 1 StraSSBUEG, Assiniboia, Canada, Feb-

■ary 7.—While in Europe not even tbe Arctic Circle has stopped railway enterprise, no road on tbe American continent has reached tha fi.'ty-second degree of latitnde, 1.000 miles farther south. Tha Canadian Pacific which eoanseta tto Atlantic seaboard with the Paeifie slope, passee among tto Roeky Mountains beyond the fifty-first, and is yet tbe muat nortbern railway of the American continent. Bnt this will soon be changed. No fawor than five diflereat railways have planned ao invasion into the great north country. (1) Tho Hudson Bay's Railway, proposed to ran from Winnipeg to York Factory, at the mouth of tue Nelson River, in latitude 57°. The distance ia aboat 600 miles, of which a little over forty are constructed. Bat the completion of the road ia doubtful as the Hudson’s Strait, 300 miles south ot tbe Aretio Circle, is perhaps not sufficiently navigable to warrant it. If all reports conoerning the Strait were favorable Manitoba and the Northwest Territories woald secare tbe shortest route to the British markets. (2)‘ Tbs Manitoba and Northwestern i>steadily pushing in a northwestern direction tram Portage ia Prairie, south of Lake Manitoba, toward Prince Albert on the North Saskatchewan river. Tto railway has crossed the western boundary of Manitoba and is now completed to the vicinity of the fifty-first degree ef latitude in Assiniboia. (3) Tbe Regina and Long Lake Railway ie about to be extended to Saskatoon, a little north of Assiniboia's boundary on the Sooth Saskatchewan River. It is the railway nearest to tbe place from which I am writinsr, running at present from Regina, the capital of tbe Northwest Territories, to the southern extremity of tbe Long Lake, a distance of twenty-six miles. It will pursue its farther northward course ou the west tide *f the lake. If the Canadian Pacific gets the control oyer this railway it may yet eontinue to operate the northermost railway of thiz continent. Fourth and fifth, the Moose, .law-P< ace River and the Swift Current-Peaco Rirer Railway Companies will apply at the next session ot tbe Dominion Parliament lor charters to build a rail way to the Peace River country. Both railways will be at least about six bundre-l miles long and start ia Assiniboia. One of them is proposed to terminate near ihe 56tb parallel, at the

jniiodon of the Smoky and Peace Rivera. What is the north country good for? The north country is rich iu farming land,

timber, fish, tur nnd minerals (sold, silver, coni, lead, copper, iron and coal oil.) In the Edmonton District ia Nortbern Alberta, two hundred miles from a railway, 125 bushels of oats and 90 bushels of wheat have been raised to tbe acre. The average yield is placed at 85 bushels for oals, 35 bushels for wheat, 40 to 50 bushels for barley, 300 to 400 bushels for potatoes. I believe these figures rather too large; however, a* many as 31 bnshels of barley, 42 bushel* ot wheat and 113 bushels ot oats ware realized to ths acre last year. Here at 8t rasaburg the highest yield of wheat was 22 1-5 bushels per acre; around Regina about 35. Even at Fort Simpson, in latitude 62 on tbe

ANSWER* TO CORRESPONDENTS. 8. W. Shipp—Consult a lawyer. Constant Reader, Hendricks County—Coaaoll a

lawyer.

T. A-—Will you kindly inform me in wtot city ths American Magazine l* printed? A—New

York.

F. M. R.—when does ths Carlton Opera CornpsnyjMsy an engagement tore? A—March 14, Ketnpton, Ind -Hayes'i majoritr In Ohio, Fretidemttl campaign of 1878? A—Majority over

Ttiden, 7.51 A

Ooatsvf lie.—A correspondent writes that you can get “Blue Book” of J. H. Soule, Washington,

D. C. Price, 75 cents,

J. M. B.—What opera does Tom Karl sing in

dunr—- ■

A.—In -Mignon

Subscriber—1« a widow exempt from paying tax on household goods? A.—No personal property U exempt from taxation, no matter who

owns it.

Subscriber.—(1) Who is tbe author *f the play ‘•Pyzmalion and Galatea?' (2) How do yeu pce-

ungsncsgvmsntef the Bestoniaaz? i” end “I'yginalioa aad Galatea.’’

Rometaf’ A-4» w - *•

Gilbert. (2) Ro-mo-ia, accent on second syllable. Domestic—Will you kindly tniorm ms throiiRh your valuable paper if mere is in this oily a night scuool woe re a young lady employed durinz the day can attand. A—Apply at Plymouth i hurch. V. C.—(l) When was ths Bartholdi atatu* ubveiled and what ia It illuminated by? (2) Dees the Elevated Railroad, New York, erots tba boat River brides? A.—(i) October, 18*6. •Electricity

(2) So; s caols Hue crosses it.

Csrtersburg, Ind.—Has the “Oklahoma bill" passed both branches ot Congress or aot? It so, U it now open for entry on the same terms as all GoV> rnuiettt land? What term; ore extended to toe Union soldier? A.—It ho* passed the House but no’ tbe Senate. Tne country is not yet open to settlers. What dl*|>osUlon Is to be made for ths Union soldier therein we do not

know.

behool Girl—fl) When was Boulanger elected? Are the cabinet officers always elected i n Sunday? (2) To what party docs he beionu? (3) What troub.e has it caused? (4) What i* the diff-rence between Reichstag and Landtaz in Germany? A —(1) He wot nut elected two or three weeks ago. He has been elected so many times iu recent rears mat we can not give you tbe flrst date. Ge;ierailv, If not always. General elec tions are held ou Sunday. Tne cabinet ts not elected

ati, and BouUnger is not a member of it, (2) To tba partv ot hlmse’f. He is backed by aii the elements from the monarch* to ihe socialists that are hostile to the present con-titutioa. (3) Read tne papers. ft) The Relehstae it the diet of the German Empire, corresponding to our Lower House ot Coueress. 1 he Landtag is the Representative Assemoiy of the Kingdom ot Prussia, made up of au Upper and Lower House, and correspond* to a State Legislature iu this

country.

A. M. H.. Seymour, Ind., writes: In yottr issue of January 21 Constant Hea ter ask-, "Who was (bed signer and giver of tbe American flagf’ Soon alter, tbe Deciaratioo of Independence the Continental Consrott appointed a committee to cooler with i.enersl U as tn gton and design a suitable has for the Nation. In the month of May or June, 1777, the committee above referred to and Watinuyton completed the design for a flag. This was accomplished and the flrst flag mode at the house of a Mrs. Ross. 239 Arch street, PhUadeiphla, Pa. 239 seems to he a popu or number with the American people. A.—A communication to precisely this effect appeared in the New York World ol .Sunday, February 8. It is also history that Captain Samuel Kelt secured ths enactment which adopted the ‘itars and stripes” as we have it—thirteen stripe* to represent the original States and a star tor each Stats ot the Union. This was adopted by Congress in Monroe's administration AnrM 4,1818. We gave the statement of the American Cyclopedia os to

the origin ot the flag.

Q. 8.—How. where and under whose control

are postage stamps made A—By

Ban

; postage stamps mads. A—By the American nit Note Company under Government super-

desi

ou ids

vision. The design of the stamp is engraved on steel and in the prli line, plate* with 200 stamps enuraved o tilt m are ns-a. Two men are kept busy oovoring these with colored inks and pa-*» ing them to a man and girl, who prim them hand presses. Three of the** little squ are employed all the time. After the sheets are dry they are gummed on the back. Being dried •gain by fans tor about an hour they are pm between pasteboards and pressed n a hydraulic prs<* o. 2.U0U ions. Tbe sheets are then cut in two. each containing 100 stamps This Is done by hand, wlrh sheers. The shoe's are then passed to woikers, who pvriorsta the paper tetween tha stamps. They art then pressed again, packed and stored ready lor shipment to the various offices. If a s.ngie stamp is torn or mutilated the whole <be«t is burned, and It Is estimated that SuO.OOO a week Sr# destroyed for this reason. The cr-siast care U taken iu guarding the i-heets. it is said that not a »i gle one ha* been stolen in twenty years. 1m ins the proevs-of manufacture tne sheets are counted eleven times.

Dtought end Drainage.

To the Editor of T •• Indiauapott* Ifewc In answer to the question pro; osed in an editorial in The News or Eebruaiy 8 iu reference to

causa as explain!

tali i

ng the reason tor the ••U.mlnUhed auowof these latfer degenerate days" our meteorologists are atko requested to exp ain ihe reason for thediminLhed (oinfaU of our summerH and the consequent increase ia the frequent;• and the seventy of season-of desirucrive drought. Th

wr:ter is not a professional

server of th

a proli

has been for the post twenty years a close observer of th - etfeot of drainage of the noudt i marshes of the ponton of our coum

flrst called to the

meieoro oglst, but

he he

e intimate

and drt

and

try. My relation-

ought about

No Painting from Life. (Pittsburg dbrontcl*. | “Rose Bonbeur as so srtlat ia aot true to nature,” remarked ths tusk* editor. "How is that?” asked the borso editor. - “Iu her picture, ‘Tbo Horso Fair,’ appear ■svergl whits horses, but not a single redheaded girL" Turning tbo Tub lea. [Nashville Banner.] Northern kukluxism and Northern persecutions of tbe negro arc matters that mil for serious consideration oa tbs port of tbe iotelligeflt people of nil eeetloas of tbe country. Tto times seem ripe for e Northern policy. Their Trouble le Wilts tbe Voter. (Omaha World. 1 The peoers are tall of editoriaia “reform tbe ballot." What aeems to bo meat uooded around those porta is o reform of tto bel

Inters.

MaetieotleB Mo Thief ot Time. [OH City Blizzard.] II you tore anything to eat take time to sot it. Tto time that ia gaiaed in doing ottor- | vise is tost.

most able scientists of Northern Illinois la • couversatio i with him during a sea-on of pro-

i to iu cause, he

Ing between drainage ei

twenty year* ago by Dr. A L. Cork, one ol tbe

rvwta? gljlrn antmntiala nf V

rail

traded drought with refareuco

th<

urp ncr t si

•X

country would become practioeiiy a desert.

mg l

stated that he behevel “that the drainage ot the

l lor i of

inued Us effects wi

iruittul ses-ons wou.d both*

Biievei “that the drainage

ndt and mar-hes, lor the purpose of reciaimn

of the increased ie

or]

outd be increased until

pond:

land, was the cat *ea*ou» of drougt continued its effects

svs-ons woui

i th!

in'-

tovptioa

u cause,

of I

■ nl

nd the

Hi* reason* for this belief were so clear that I wa* convinced of their tru hluloew, and I have ever hum watched tne fulfillment of the prophesy

which he then made.

Yea? after -ear the paper* have recorded the achievement of great results by tba drainage of thou-and* ol acre* of land, and tha great work still goes on, but year after year the rainfall de-

become* more destructive,

mer ho* beoeine almost

creases and drought bee The It.cal shower of sum a thing »t the past. B;

ly reason of tbe area of

tJ “

Mackenzie, 1,500 mile* farther north than ludtaoapolia, barley is skid to ripen always, and wheat at least four years out of five. About eighty miles north of Edmonton is Atnsbasca Lauding, a post of the Hudson Bay Company on ths Athabasca River. Thsnce there is eu almost unobstructed waier-way to the Arctic Ocean, a distance of two thousand mils*, it oondsts of ths Athabasca River and Lake, the Sieve River and the Great Sieve Lake and'the .Mackenzie. The Hudson Bay Company employs three steamers to do the freighting ou it and the Peace River, a lerge tributary, the fur trade

being very large.

The Indian* of the Cenadian Northwest are considered more tradable than those south ot tbe boundary. Moat of my infor*

uiation concerning them I have from a I tonal lu The New. oi Eebrusry 8 in reference to friend who was a teacher among the Chip-* t"™-.hVh^IuL «. t

pewat lor a time. His school was in the neighborhood of Fort Qu’ Appelle, on a river of the same name northeast ir»m Regina. He had twenty-six pupil* on the rail, ot whom fittecn formed the average daily attendance. Whan the Indian children nra young they are apt to learn, but their mental iacuftiee decrease as they grow older. They certainly behave as weii as white children. The G<>vernm'*nt supplies each child present with biscuits at noon in order to efiect a greater attendance. The chief of the Indians under whom mr friend labored is Patqaab, who feels bimseli proud in hia royal dignity. He told oue teacher, who probably did net treat him with enough respect, to get ofi from his kiagdom; he wouldn’t have him there. Pesquah ie a polygamist. , • The Sioux, who io 1876 massaored General Custer's army on the little Horn River iu Montana, fled later aerose the border into Canada. A number of them, among whom it Sitting Bull, have roturnad to the United Stales; tbe rest live near Fort Qu’Appelle, They behave so excellently tbat they are said to bo the be-it Indians of the Nortnwesi Territories. The Government does not tupply them with food, butonlv with oxen nnd agricultural impl-meuta. They till tbs enil and are good farmers. As most of them are Caihollet they are going to build a stone church next summer. A priest is laboring among them and learning their ianguage. Their Chief is Standing Buffalo; their teacher n German American, Mr. Dabme. The Indians art not a bad people, but they are unaccustomed to labor. Since the buffalo has disappeared there is not euffie ent game to snoply their wants end they have not yet adapted themselves te tbe aew condition of things. In 1885 there waa quite a rebellion along the Saskatchewan. It arose from the refusal of tbe Government to eettle tbe land qlaims of th* half-broeda in an acceptable manner. Many Indians joined them end several battles were fought with the whites. At last, however, euporier force conquered. Riel, tbe leader of the rebellion, was baoged at Regina in the year of the rebellion, and many rebels were sent to prison. Ia regard to the lend claims the half breeds eerried their point, however, as they were settled alter tbe war io a satisfactory manner. From tbe 6th te tbe 7th and from tbe 16th to tbe 17th of August, 1888, we had frosts. Much garden produce, such as cucumbers

and beans, was spoiled. Home wheat was 1

also damaged. But sines that time ws have had excellent weather. The fall was eepecially fine and gradually changed into winter. We are baviag pleasant weather and liitis snow even now. It is the mildest winter that people who tovs lived b*re for several years have ever seen in ths Territories. In 1887 the thermometer sunk as low ae 58.5°

below zero in January.

t J. B. E, Werneckb. Increase of Now York Drinking.

[Jo* Howard la Pruea)

Who of uz need be told that drinking ie on tto iuereaze? Everybody drinks. B»ye in down town offices swig their boer before they light their elgarwttes. Laboring men ^ong tto wharvea take their rotgut ae regularly as they take their pipe. Look in any or all of oar great restaurant*. Tto receipts of tho bar exoeod the expenses of tto entire estab-

lishment.

mar*ny land upon the Upper Kank- kee River, that por !«n of th* State to the ee«t ot it has bt-en tsvored with the-e summer ►bowers to a ere* er extent tbsu tne portions which are distant irom any large are* nf overflowed land. It is now prop*Ktad that the State appropriate 8(0,000 for the purpose of draining these lands,

nnd thus destroy o«e more of tbe vtded by our Heavenly Fathor watering and making Irultfu

lend ot ours. It would b« far bettor to appropriate 8J0.000 for the purpose »t restoring some of the reservoirs which tbe cueldity of man h a destroy; d It Is »a!d that “tbe health of th* country is improve* by the draiBag* of ttfe land.’’ This Is doubtless true, hut the present danger is that it wlU become too healthy. The

tbe reservoir* protor tbo purpose of ]l this delight ful

oubtles* true, rltl become too

desert oi Sahara is a very healthy country; there

is aot a very pro-

is no maiarta there, but It duotlve agricultural country.

When tho ditcher hoe done Ms perfect work ther* will be no more swanspe, no pou is. no lakes, no streams, no rain or snow, and no malaria This condition of affairs might do very well tor the timo predicted in the Scripture, when “there »h*li be no moresoa,” but la the present state of existonee we seed load, end to obtain food we must have rain, and to got a safioteat

this talas "

we mu •unt of t

amount of ram in tuts inland country wa must have areas of water-covered lead from which to evaporate moisture to form the local storm e oud

d else to precipltat

rata tom tbo etoud

I retatd this matter of tto continued proeecooirot drain see operations ae the greatost danger let threatens this portion of our oonatty. It ta

ttatenc*. “

•ry gradn ich three

thus formed,

tiei

that threaten!

a danger that threatens our very existence. Bocans* Its effects ere developed so very gradually people do not realize the danger which threatens them. They feel Us effects from tiBM to time but think that It Is only a temoorary matter and that perhaps ths next sss>ob will be bo tar. Itisonly when we look back at fho condition ot thing* twenty or thirty years ago and compere them with the present end then look forward for e similar term of yeers sad try to realize tbe sttaatiou

this work of destruction ta not ar-

retted. that we can realize th* danger that

threaten! uz and oar ohildrea. How can this denser be everted?

1. By awakeninz tbe peonie to their dengor in this direction. If thee# things are as I have represented them, there ta no qnostion relating to our financial future that U so worthy of the toot

efforts of men li - mould public o]

ted

seasons.

in tbo Intellectual Department, but each was aot

mly

Superintend* nt.

ths purpose of th* writer,

directed oft):

Am Appeal Tor Dwatrwerloa [Lsgaeaport Pharos.] The school took monopoly is g rognlar devil-fish, tto eorrnpttng arms of wbioh reach to ovory county in tto State. Haa tk* legislature, backed by tto Governor ol tto State, tto power to deatroy It? It io already hinted that reforte in that direction ean not be acoomplisbod nt thia aoaaioa of tto Legielatnro. Wo nek tto Rapreaeatatirea in tto Logislaturo from this county to work for tto deetroetioo oi tbia corrupt ing monopoly, oven though they are compelled to go to tto extreme of foratahiag tto ebiidree of tbo State free school books ta order to accomplish it. 1 HEAR WHAT HE SAYS. Thle is to certify the I bought tarenty-olgbt sets H ill's Pltdinx Io> ds Blinds of B lldr brand d Fugs te, • gents, iadisnspol a and that after two veers’ us* 1 am hign y well pleased with thess. and would net have a y other kind 8. A Hsu, Uanvt la, Ind. fiend for eataloguo to BiutKZsxAD A 8costs, Indianapolis.

Sj tot

SWIFTS SPECIFIC Is entirely a vegetable preparation containing no Mercury, Potash, Arsenic, or othsz poisonous substances. SWIFTS SPECIFIC Haa cared hundreds of cases of Epithelioma or Cancer of the Skin, thousands of coses of Eczema. Blood Humors and Skin Diseases, and hundreds of thousands of cases of Scrofula, Blood Poison and Blood Taint. SWIFTS SPECIFIC ' Has relieved thousands of cases of Mercurial Poisoning, Rheumatism and Stiffness of the Joints.

Chat

Speelti

early part of the present year, a had ca»o of blood poison appeared upon me. I began taking 8. S. R. under advice of another, and

to-day I feel

All Grocera sell SANTA CLAUS SOAP. Made by N. K. FAIRBANK ft CO., Chicago, 111.

Lace Curtains at big reductions.

or advice of another, an .

set greatly improved. I am still

taking tho medicine aad shod continue to do so until I am perfectly welt I belleveit wlil

affect a perfect euro. Yours truly, ~~

Doc. KJk

Tit Wei

Counrau,

Specific Co.. Atlanta, Bufforei "

TWENTY CENTS For Brass Trimmed Poles complete, in Ebony, Cherry, Walnut and Ash.

TWENTY-FIVE

est SliUi St.

8. C., July T, IM—Tho Swift Atlanta, Ga.—Gentlemen : I was r from muscular rheumatism ears. I could get no permanent re-

For WINDOW SHADES,

with fixtures.

CENTS

compleU

[ could get no pei

any medicine prescribed

I took over a di

by my rtfes of

physician. I took over a dozen bottles your 8.8. S., cpd now I am as well as | «i

a great si for two y« lief from physician.

our 8. S. S., cad now i am as well as I ever as In my life. I am sure your medicine cured me. an*I would recommend It to any one suffering front any blood ui^ase. Yours truly, O. K Hcohes,

Conductor C.« u. K. R. •

Waco, Texas, May », 18S8—Gentlemen : Th* of one of my customnrs was terribly

Con lined

Wife of one of my customers was aflliotod with a loathsome skin dlse covered her whole body. She was i to her bed for several years by tills a , and could not help herself at all She ooold not sleep from a violent Itching and stinging of tbe skin. Th. disease baffled the skill of tbe physicians w..j treated IX Her husband began Anally giving hi* wife Swift’s Specific, and she commenced to improve almost tmmodhirely. and In a few weeks she was apparently well. 8be ta now a hearty finelooking lady, with no trace of the affliction

Win Very rrul^, J. K. Siaiis, Wholesale Druggist, Austin A Venue.

Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed tree. Thk Swift srzctnc Co., Drawer 8,

Atlanta, Go. | New York. TSS Broadway.

G.W.BARNES&CO., •FECIAL CREDIT HOUSE 64 East Market Street.

The*# goods offered on small weekly paymsais: DUxCSS O-OODS. Bilks, Cashmeres, Flannels aad Henristtas, in tales: shads* and colors. LINJCN In Table Cloths, Napkins and Towela XiJLCjB CUR 1 *A.I NS la Res! Lacs, KottiB’bam and Swiss. Turcoman curtains. Silk Curtains, CheneiJe Goods. WA.ro nice, jp.wfclky, six. VJK» w ar k, CCOCK.S, ' BOOKS. Will sell goods for ecuA at wholsasle.

W. H. ROLL, 80 to 88 South Illinois Street. Latest designs in Wall Papers*

W.T. WILEY <fc CO., ! Hob. 48 and 60 North Illinois Street See oar new French end Scotch Zephyr Ginghams on aale this week. 50 pieces beat French Sateens in high novelties on sale. 8m them. Check Nainsooks, good quality, only 5o a yard, worth 8}o« See oar special prices on Table Linen, Towels and Napkins. Our low prices on Drees Goods still continues. See our yard wide Oioth (spring weight) only 29c a yard, worth 40c. See our extremely low prices on black and colored Henrietta Cloths. New line ot Combination Suitings just received. 8m them. Only $10 aad $12 50, tall pattern. See oar new line of Sarah Silks. * Our w great sale of Notions still continues. 500 Oorteu, good quality, only 38c, worth 75ol Ladies’ Fancy Hose, good quality, only lOo a pair, worth 15ft Ladies’ Fancy Ho«e, geod quality, only 13e a pair, worth 20a. See our new line of TorobeB and Msdioi Laocft New line of Drees Trimmings on sale Friday.

' 11

T. WILEY & OO 48 and 60 North Illinois Streets.

• t

GAS SIMS.

Chaplin & Fulton, Westinghonse and Jackson Regulators for house, factory or line use. Largest stock. We are now using the latest improved natural gaa appliances under our own boilers, and invite inspection of manufacturers. Plans, specifications and general information cheerfully furnished.

KNIGHT 4 JILLSON 75 and 77 South Pennsylvania St.

WEAK, NERVOUS PEOPLE.

VnoaHivafe vtgn, so. rsn, xmzzT ostlng chroafs »f both Mxao. Staiooitograw

*£8 panmhtaU tM7(vt..6aio?BS.

Wmsw vwn ooamra* in e***co nv SCARLET FCVCR, COLDS, BlCABLES. CATARRH, Ac. •VTME UMC or VMS IMVISIBLf OUND DISC whteb is th* MBBS to tbsMin as 'Basissass ty tto*••. and

H.A. WA)

MS oat. hr

LBS. Brt<ii»>»ri. '

LITHOGRAPHERS, PRINTERS, JOB *► BOOK, ^ . [BOOK BINDERS, WMWIIH rtf* BLANK BOOK MAKERS, 'ELECTROTYPERS. UlTtLUPtJ, 28, 30 and 32 West Maryland St, INDIANAPOLIS. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

INDI-AJST-A. JPJLJPIDJR OO.,

Manufacturers and Dealers in Paper.

Ml to UB KAteT MARYLAND STILKICT, INDIANAPOZaKS. AC- lb* p*p*r un*n which Th* Ntvrs is orlntad tamod* by this eoannay.

PAPER.

We are closing out Meat Cutters and Stuffers very cheap. LILLY & STALE?AKER. 64 E. WASHINGTON ST M. S. HUEY & SON, D^"82., a £j£2 78 Pendleton Avenue, Good Stock. Low Prlc$a«

gNGLlSH’8 .OPKRA

MOUSE.

To-night, Saturkey matins* and eventaft

EVANS AND ftOEY,

In Hoyffl Plumbs' Flay, m A PARLOR MATCH-.

"M. * D.” Wroatht steel Rings* for nay kind of fuel hor natural aas not *xog‘led. Msntols, grata* and ule tombs put up in tbe be*t msnnvr. Cast tongas nt reduced prices. *WM. H. BKNNNIXT de SON, SB Sooth Msridlan St ML

Seat* n<>w sn ssls.

Matin** pries, 29 sad fiOcsats. jgNGLISH’S—EXTRA.

Two nights only, Monday sad Tuesday, Pvb Ifl •ad 19.special.0|Sgementof MiSSMAftf Mender • vestag, grand sesute pwidnsttea sf 'THE WINTER’S TALE“.._

Tuesday evrataft great double MU, PYGMALION AMD GALATEA and OOMKDY AND TKAOEWR

Prices, ei.**stoSS, according te taeallM* SKATS NOW ON SAZ.K At the box sffloe of Engltah’* OperaHMe*.

LECTURE COURSE.

efforts of men like yourself. Mr. Editor—msa who ould public opinion—m this which I tovc pre-

sented.

2. By State end national legialstlvs encrtmenL There ought not to bo snotber charter granted for drainage corporation*, end not nnottor dollar

granted in aid of such operation*.

3. Every possible mean* should to mad by individuals nnd by thn government tonwtornths area* of water aurfaon which in former years contributed to give us abundant rain* and fruitful

RAdai

MEXICAN

MUSTANG

Y M. 0.

LINIMENT ^

Monday svaaing. February 1ft BUSTOH STABS.

Comprising tto followingsmioaBt artiste: Msdsrn Hanson-Emerson, tto distmgutatod AtesriSOB

Th* Teachers Ar* Gowd.

To th* Editor ef Ths I adtanapsUs !f#w* From th* tenor oi A tew sentenc** in a raeent moat excellent editorial In your paper concerning th* management of the Deaf and Dumb Instltuto 1 am ltd to bsllpve you bay* bean misinformed la regard to tba efficiency of If* teachers, •nd that you may hava received the Impression from ths r*oen! communication of “Tto Grsdu •te” that tto charge* of tncooipetsncy mode •gainst tto sdmiai-trntion included ths teachers

popular Ameri' an rv* •of masio4 and literary

that was said wa*

•gainst tto iaeotepatonoy of th*

Some of ths best teachers in tto deaf-mat* protension aro la tto Indiana lasUtution. But if every on* war* tba boat his effort* would to crippled and thn results of hi* labor not wbat they would be with s thorough iy competent Superintendent st th* head to aid and enooomgs him. And it ii generally known to tboa* in tto deafmute proftoolon and many without that tha institution would have gone to ntaeas tea* ago bp* ter th* experienced lady and genttamon teachers

left ttors.

A Fsimd or Dkaf-Mpte Epscathw. Alt. pain quickly yields to tto HUfoaoeo ef Salvation OU. Priea 25 eeafe n faottta. “A monument will ho eroded to I of ■UfoOSBfift Syrup,”—LKx.

Blotch**

l th* moat g t ad aad

ln*tto

TNDIAN AWOLitte 1 L«:crrTJH» oovrmm. ■FAnt - h isroSICTWtr Flora rboqd ft IllastroUi tact aro. Art SawvtelamaBL Ibsaataf Visit the Battle of Atlanta to-day.

ThusTthe " Mustang’^oonquers. pain, Makes MAN or BHABT well again I

END ail yoar orders lor Sunday School to Yohn

Tim