Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1881 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1881.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19.

GENERAL 'OTES. Colo i el Blastox Duncan is quoted os precKcting the destruction of the world by cold. Governor Porter's bride is described in startling head-lines in a number of paiers as a "handsome blonde with gray eyes." The late Dr. Chapln was very much worried during the last years of his life by the rattle of his ialse teeth while he was preaching. Professor Richard A. Proctor, who Is now lecturiug on astronomy In Australia, on his return proposes to start a journal devoted to science and literature. The Scotch honey hardest, last year almost a failure,, has this year been very good. This honey, having a taste of thyme aadjheather, is in great request. Mrs. Jane II. Lox, who was known as "The Mother of Texas," because of her great age and State pride, died at Richmond, in that State, a Jew days ago. Senator Tn cem an's resumption of his law practice In Columbus will be complete; it Is announced that he w ill not be a candidate for Governor next autumn. President Hayes and the White Ilouse during cost the Government 5119,061, $.00,000 of which Mr. Hayes received as his salary, the other Sö'J,964 being for White House expenses. A New York paper has proved that the word 'dam" is not a wicked oath, and men who have been using it for years every time they shaved can mourn over wasted time. United States Senator Ingai-ls, of Kansas, is tall, thin and cadaverous. He wears fa flamiig tcarlet necktie, heavy-brimmed spectackles.and is the father of eleven children. He Is very literary. Blaixe says that Thaddeus Stevens tittered more witty sayings than probably any man ever known in Congress, and it is a pity the materials to write his life had not fallen into comprehensive hands. George Rugs is the richest man in Washington, D. O, His father was the originator of the great banking firm in which George lVabody served his apprenticeship, and as a member of -which W. W. Corcoran acquired his great fortune. Mrs. Brick, the wife of the colored Senator from ML-tois-xippi, was among the ladies present at the White House on New Year's Day. She wore a reception toilet from Worth's, of violet colored Bilk and satin, trimmed with white lace and diamond ornaments. Mrs. Hates gave a dinner at the White House, a few days ago, in honor of the young ladies who are her guests. There were sixty invitations issued. The portion of the Mansion occupied by the family was handsomely decorated, ami the Marine Band was in attendance Elliott, of South Carolina, the colored Congressman, whose famous debate with Hon. A. H. Stephens stamped him as capable, is now a Department subordinate in Washington. Rainey, another colored Congressman from South Carolina, fills a Washington Clerkship. One night Uncle Harvey, keeper of a Poor House down in Maine, was waked by the groans of one ot the men. "What Is the matter?" he asked. "I'm dylng.'l'ncle Harvey," said the old man. "I'm dying: go and get me a doughnut; I must have suthin' to pass away the time." General Garfield has a big black Newfoundland dog named Veto. If the General has occasion to use the Executive's gTeat prerogatives as often as Mr. Hayes has done, that dog of his is likely to be as famous m Bismarck's. "To set his log Veto ou Congress" may yet become a capital proverb. CllAJtLFJ Sumxer was kindness itself to young men beginning life. On one occasion, when much prc-sed for time, he answered a young lawyer of Baltimore as to w hat course of study he should pursue in a ten-page letter. The young man was not a friend even and had no claim upon him whatever. He is now one of the leading lawyers of Baltimore. Tue original "Uncle Tom" has a home at the age of niaety-two, iu Camden, Kent County, Canada. He goes about lecturing. His arms he can not raise to his head because they were crushed by a rail in the hands of his old master. One of his grandsons Is being educated at Oberlin for the ministry. What becomes then of the old story that Indianapolis contained at one time "the only and original Uncle Tom?" The late Dr. Chapin had a pretty little talent for puns. Dr. Emerson, on one occasion, preached for Dr. Chapin. and on entering the pulpit laid his silk hat on the eat. and then laid a paper on it. Dr. Chapin afterward came in, and sitting down carelessly, mashed the hat completely. Arfcing and picking up the mutilated tile, he contemplated it with the remark: "I presume you thought that was a silk hat; now It is satin." Ex-Goversor Seymocr has been confined to his house by illness for nearly two months, and is obliged to have his letters written by the hands of others. He says that his physicians have prohibited all mental and phisical efforts. He finds some amusement in his nephew's gift of a et of weather apparatus, by means of w hich he can ascertain the state of the weather and coming changes without leaving his chair. He has also a telephone at Deerfield. There was, a "doll's party" in Baltimore, Monday night, and among the children's treasures exhibited were a doll in a good state of preservation that was brought from Paris twenty years ago, and one from Richmond. Ya., which was dressed at Fortress Monroe forty years ago by the grandmother of the little girl who brought It. The company present numbered over 100. of both sexes, from six years of age to fourteen, and supper was announced at 11 o'clock. "Landlords arc to Ireland w hat the carpet-bag gers were to the South," said Father Ryan, th "poet-priest." In an address in Baltimore on Tuesday night; "and the Irish people will rid them selves of their oppressors as the South rid itself of the carpet-baggers." In conclusion Father Ryan said (pointing to his head): "Agitation here must be clear;" (to his mouth), "here it must be prudent," (to his heart), "and here tender and impulsive, which, if followed, will crown your effort with success." Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of the President of that name, was killed by Indians on Iinkhorn's Run, as the stream in Kentucky was then called. His blood ran into the stream which ever since has born his name. He was found with the strings ef his powder-horn wound around his neck. This powder-horn paused from one neighbor to another, and finally fell into the hands of a Mr. Brown, who forwarded it to tha Lincoln Memorial Association at Springfield, 111. It bore the owner's name and an eagle with spread wings can ed in bold relief. Eight clerks in as many stores at Northampton, Mass., have been exposed in a peculiar system of robbery. B was employed in a cigar store, for example, and he would go through the form of selling cigars to C, but without really taking any money for them. When the amount of the indebtedness was large enough he would buy a coat of C in the clothing store where the latter was a salesman, paying nothing" for it in cash. Thus the young men supplied themselves with fine clothes, jewelry, and other luxuries, until the disproportion of their salaries to their apparent expenditures attracted attention. The Ire of the New Brunswick (N. J.) Fredonian has been excited by somebody in Flainfield, who has gone around plastering buildings and fences with his "Jersey Cure for Jersey Chills." "Large inducement." it cries, "to people from abroad to settle in our tight little State: Pretty thing to flaunt In the faces of New-Yorkers fleeing from the 'chilly' borders of Long Island Sound, or the 'aluiky' flats of Duchess County. 'Jersey chills!'

indeed. One man who had several thousand dollars to invert in Flainfield reil estate got one glance at this blessed advertisement, and took a ticket homeward with the next train. No 'Jersey chills' for him. Lots of others have done the same." Washington swords are quoted or valued at $10.000 apiece, at least that is price set by Senator Whyte. of Maryland, in a resolution offered in the Senate which proposes to purchase one from Washington's nephew Lewis for exhibition at the Yorktown Centennial. The State Library at Albany has two of Washington's swords which cost the State $ JO, 000. Proeesror TC. A. Grimmer, a "distinguished scientist," of Kingston, Jamaica, says that in 18S7 "North America will be involved la civil etrire, and a reign of terror w ill prevail in the Atlantic States unless a Napoleon arises to quell it. There will be a war of classes the rich will array themselves against the poor and vice versa, everywhere." Profeasor Grimmer bases his propecy on the fact that the marvelously brilliant "Star of Bethlehem" will be seen during that year in "Casseopia's Chair." The "Star of Bethlehem" appears once every 315 years, its latest appearance having been in 1S7Ö. There is a dog in Charlottesville, Ya., that knows more than a resident physician, A few nights ago his master's child was taken ill and the dog by some means found it out. Straightway he went to the office ef a physician who usually practiced in the family and scratched at the door. The physician arose and drove the canine messenger off, but he returned again and renewed the invitation. The doctor did not understand the actions of the dog, and only on the following morning when the master told him his child was sick and he had summoned another physician was the strange conduct of the dog explained. IngerMoll on Internal Taxation Proposed Relief of National 1 tanks. Special Telegram to the Chicago Times. J "Washington, Jan. 12. The Carlisle Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee held a meeting to-day and heard arguments on the bill to abolish, the tax on bank dejosits and circulation. Colonel Ikb Ingersoll made the chief argument in favor of the projointion. Mr. J. E. Searles, of New Haven, Conn., opened the subject by offering and reading a memorial embodying the following resolution, adopted by the National Hoard of Trade: Resolved, That Congress be requested to enact Mich legislation as will relieve banks under the National banking law from the tax on deports and that on circulation, to the end that they may be in a position to purcha-ie liberally what loiids are proposed to be issued by the Government at a low rate of interest, and to u.e the same as a basis for' such circulation as may be neeesary to meet the wants of the business community. With this resolution as a text, Mr. Ingersoll said: 'I suppose it is admitted by everybody that an internal tax should be avoided, if iHissible. The system was adopted as a necessity, and it is conceded by all that it should tease to exist at-the earliest practicable iriod. Next to having no internal revenue tax is to confine that tax to as few articles as possible. Where many articles are taxed, business is inijiedcd just to that extent. What is worse, there is produced a swarm a brood of spies, informers, and oilicers of all kinds, that, it seenis to me, is about as objectionable as any result can be." Mr. Ingersoll Isere read the reiort of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to showthat the amount of internal revenue collected last year war largely in excess of the needs of the Government. He also read from the reports of the Secretary cf the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency their recommendations in favor of dispensing with some of the present internal revenue taxes, lie then continued: "The only question to be decided by this Committee and by Congifcss is as to what articles reduction shall be applied, w hether certain taxes thall be rcpealeJ. or whether a corresponding reduction shall be made upon all articles. Now it strikes me, the fewer articles we tax the better. It alsostrikes me that at the present time, when the rate of interest that it formerly received, a tax like the one on bank deposits and checks ought to be repealed. In the first place, but little revenue is derived from that source. In the secodd place, its collection is attended with about as much difficulty as would attend the raising of ten times the same amount of revenue from other sources. There is another point: A tax is still levied upon deposits in savings banks. It does not amount to a great deal. It amounted last year to something over $103,000. Now it seems to me that liiat is ä tax which ought certainly to be regaled. The savings of the people should not be taxed, but. on the contrary, every incentive should he held out to them to save their money. As to the tax upon checks, that, of course, docs not conie upon the banker; it is paid by iersoi9 who deal with the banks, and were it not so small and tmblesomea matter I think no one would care particularly about its repeal; but as it produces little revenue and is troublesome, I think it ought to be repealed. Mv first reason for repeal of these taxes is that we have enough of revenue without them. My next argument, that it is better to collect our taxes from as few articles as possible. I would like to see the time when we should collect only on one article, ami then after that I would like to see the time when we would collect on none. I would like to see this system of espionage done away with entirely in the United States. It seems to me that the best way to get rid of it is to reduce as rapidly as possible the number of articles upon which we levy a tax. So far as I am concerned, I Lave no great sympathy for banks, or monopolies, or any other system ! that can take care of itself; but for Savings Hanks I do feel a certain sympathy. 1 think the tax on their deposits should be , absolutely repealed. But perhaps I have an interest in advocating repeal of the tax upon banks generally, because the more tax you put upon the banks the higher you make the interest As I always have been and always expect to be a borrower. I have a direct personal interest in keeping the rate of interest as low as jwssible. fLaughter.l When the Government is get

ting its money at 4 er cent, and proioses to get it at 3 per cent, very soon, you can not expect that people generally throughout the country are going to pay inteiest at the rate of C, 8 or 10 per cent, as they have done heretofore. If 3 per cent, bonds are issued, they will be the basts of ba..k circulation, and where that is to be the basis it seems to aie that everything practical Miould be done by Congress to make it a sullicient basis to enable banks to do business uHn that basis and at the same time to realize a reasonable profit. If you tax banks on the deposits and circulation, and. besides. States keep OA taxing them, I do not believe they can do business successfully im a 3 per cent, bond basis. The State taxes that banks have to pay are much greater in proportion than those which others pay. Land is seldom assessed at more than one-third of its value; but where money is the subject of taxation it is assessed at its face value." Mr. Carlisle remarked: "Yes. it is undoubtedly a fact that bank deposits are frequently taxed several times over." "Yes; in short," continued Mr. Ingersoll, 1 it seems to me that this, in the first place, is an unjust tax, and. in the second place, an unnecessary tax. I think it would be better to raise the revenue that we need from high wines and tobacco and other such articles." ' "Sugar, for instance," said Mr. Morrison, ironically. "No," said Mr. Ingersoll, "I think the tax should be taken off sugar. If this Committee has to choose between taking the tax off banks or off sugar, I say take it off sugar." No action was taken on the bill by the Commitiee. ' A citizen of Maco.i, Miss , has entirely abandoned tobacco after seventy years continuous use of it. If the gentleman has ufced it for seventy years, persuming that he began at the age of fifteen, tobacco must be an uncommonly healthy plant. Boston Globe.

BEE KEEPEHS.

Proof fdinsg of the Annual State Convention. President's Address and Fweports of the Secretary and Treasurer. Discussion of Bee-Seepingr InterestsElection of Officers. The bee keepers of the Htate met in annual session Thursdaymorning at 10 o'clock in the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture, and after friendly greetings, adjourned to 2 o'clock p. m. AFTEttNOOX SESSION. The Convention was called to order by President J. C. Belman, of this city. A call of the roll by Secretary Iaugherty showed fifty members present. Pursuant to programme, the Secretary reported that of the sixty-two members on the rolls of the Association, sixteen had sent to him reports bhowinx total number of "colonies" represented by them to be 710. with no surplus honey or wax. In connection with the report he also submitted the following: THE BEE-KEEriXti INTEREST. To the Honorable State Board of Agriculture: ("entlkmes At the late Convention of the Indiana Stale lUo Keeper.' Association the following resolution was passed: "Resolved. That the Secretary of this Association be instructed to confer with the .inte Hoard ot Agriculture in respect in the further encourasremout of he science of agriculture in the State of Indiana." In pursuance of this resolution I would respectfully call your attention to the bee keeping interest in this State. Your honorable Hoard, by the offer of premiums and other means, have encouraged almost every other department of industry in the domain of agriculture, manufacture and science, enabling those in search ot knowledge to come to safe and inexpensive results. Stock raising, horticulture, darying, wool growing, poultry reiving and tile making are each seirste and important interests receiving your peeial care, and by virtue of this precedent the bee keepers feel that they, too, are entitled to some consideration it your hands. Too long has the idea prevailed that bee keeping is a minor pursuit, in which so few can profitably engage, that to neglect it as a prominent feature of our National industries should not be regarded as detrimental to the general welfare. We hoje a few fa-ts will place this subject in a new light. Indiana has ha growing upon her soil almost as large a variety of honeyproducing plants as any state iu the I'nion. We have honey-producing trees in vast numbers, such as basswood, poplar, imiple, willow, and the various fruit tree. We have amonc the countless multitude of flowering shrub and plants, white, al.ika and red clover, buckwheat, Roldeorod, the many ator and mints, and of small fruits, currant, goosberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc. In fact, from the first blooms of early spring to the coming lrost, the flora of Indiana arc sufliricntly prolific in the secretion of honey to afford our little pets abundant forage an which to work. The bee keeping interest h:is become one of vast National importance, and in growing larger eaeh year. To day America stands first in the world for honey production, a-'well as I scientific manage ment and improved implements for the apiary. We have within the last two ye:rsexorted more than 5' 0 tons of American honey to the Old World. We are also producing home-bred American queens, that at least are equal to, if not superior, to those we import from Italv. It is estimated that we have in our State :',m0 colonies of bees, producing an average yield of fifteen pounds to the co.ony, or a toUil of 4 .OUT pounds of honey, w hicli, at an average of twelve and a half cents ler pound, would.produce a revenue of 5',2 5, and 1 believe the estimate none too high. There is no reason why Indiana should not be in the front rank, with products from the apiary. We have no reliable statistics from which to glean information ou this subject but through the efforts of L. i. Newman. President of the National l?ec Keepers' Asax-iaiion, arrangements have been made to have complete statistics gathered by the liovernnieiit, while taking the next census. Arrangements are also being made by the Executive Committee of the Indiana State Association to gather a.l possible information ou the subject iu this State. As regards the offering of premiums, etc., I would respectfully suggest the following as a eomietitive list: liest package of comb honey, one pound or more; best package of extracted honey, one pound or more; bent crate of honev in the com), in the most marketable fhae: best display of honey, both comb and extracted; best machine for extracting honey : best display of wax, and the best display of bee keepers' supplies. In conclusion, I would ask that you also Inquire into the feasibility of the establishment of an apiary in connection with our Agricultural College. Other States have gone far ahead of our own in this respect. Michigan has, in connection with her Agricultural College, an apiary managed by a competent, practical agriculturist, whose observations are recorded and published, and whose methods of treatment of the little in-ects are always open to the inspection of learners. The Slate of . Tennessee has followed the worthy example of Michigan. This department, in connection with the Agricultural Colleges, should be and will be, if successfully managed, not only wlf sustaining financially, but a repository of demonstrated facts an1 scientific knowledge, to which the public should have full access, and bee keeping will thereby be raised to the rank of a surely remunerative pursuit instead of a haphazard speculation. Now, should your honorable Board so far Interest itself in this enterprise as to ask, by formal resolution", the Board of Trusteess of the State University to establish an Apiarian professorship in connection with the Agricultural Department of the State University, we think it will have done no more than the bee keepers of Indiana have a ngnt to expect of them as the guardians of alt industrial Interests. Such a department would not only be a source of Fcientific knowledge, but a financial success, and shortly liecome to ihe University a source of revenue. I .et it start with an apiary of moderate size, say twenty-five or fifty colonies, and it will even pay a large interest ou the investment from the first year. There are many questions yet to Im solved by experiments, which could be so well done only in an apiary of this kind. Thanking you, gentlemen, for your kindness, I have the lienor to be. respectfully yours. Ksk L. Dacghekty, Secretary of the Indiana State Bee Keepers' Asso elation. ' Following the report of the Secretary, J. C. IJeliuan delivered the FKESI DENT'S ADDRESS, as follows: Gentlemen or the Bee Keepers' Con ventiom You are again assembled at the Capital in State Convention to deliberate upon the interest pertaining to apiculture bees and their product. Since your last meeting but little has transpired among apiarians throughout the State except what is patent to all a general regret that the harvest of the busy bee has been in commercial parlance "shott." Kveryime present are fully advised as to the causes which produced this failure, and t hat ngalnst such a result there was no possible remedy. Very many colonies failed to secure sutllcieut quantum for their winter stores, and ar iücial feeding waa necessary. The product for the market was exceedingly limited, and instead of the choice and wild-clover or apple blossom honey, there was sold the fall flower or wild exotic honey, iot as palatable or as marketable a the former. Ce up to the last working days of the industrious lec. came a cold wave in October from the Polar Kegknis. which found very many of our bee keepers asleep, and the sequel was, the weakening and loss of scores of colonies. In view of this unusual state of apicultural anairs, there ran not be expected at this session any encouraging reorts as to the financial results of the year lsa Such a condition of discouraging surroundings in ;iarism may not oecnr ag-tin iu a lifetime, while the probabilities are that the approaching Reason will be grandly successful and productive. Therefore, I pive you good cheer and urge yon to delve down deep into the field of apiculture, and, as you develop 'he mysterious instinct of tne bee and its many but ceriaia workings, let it be your highest pleasusfto impart all information you may pmwsh to your fellows, until the bee keepers oi Indiana shall receive tho plaudits of sister States "Well done, good and faithful servants." This may be our triumph, provided we invoke the ordering and guidance of an all wise Providence. While there is a possibility of too much care in the housing and wintering of the bee from what it would receive in the trunk of a tree Cr a hole in the ground, there la undoubtedly much to be apprehended in the carelessness and indifference and incompetency, on account, of which many cloni s are lost, and the amateur, and, indeed. thoNe m re experienced, attribute the fault of their mishap and failure on the bees, on the hive, and even the ways of Divine Providence, when to themselves and none other they should chartre the mismanagement and unwise, indolent and injudicious handling Your President has received rainy letters during the year from th-se discouraged and weak in the faith that tce keeping was an unprofitable business, and asking iu the strictest confidence whether the time employed in their management would not be bettered financially in other less slinging pursuits. I suspect, gentlemen of the Convention, that we are al! too prone to environ bee keeping with much mystery M to the "pure stock," peculiarly constructed hives and frames and moth traps, ai d bug lears that suggest money-making by those who, for the love of :f, will not let the bee severely alone in iu simplicity and industry. Nature and instinct are tho

illies God has given that wonderfully Industrious Insect, and when man eroses their pathway w ith his clap-trap the result must I fatal. I will bt understood as referring onlv td the extremlsu lr this matter. 1-ess of artificial processes, less of haudling, less of fancy and extravagantly-built hives, with parlors 'and hetacombs and ante chambers, and loss of prying into hives to satisfy the curiosity to see the queen and the dear, lovely little egg and the brood, etc., etc.. would, iu my judgment, return many fold advantages to the apiarian. During thepreseni severe w inter there are thoe who unco er their hives and with a stick at long range stir up the bees to find out, as they inform you, whether their bees would be ready to do big work iu the eomin May. Others have drawn up a movable frame, crowded w ith bee, to find out if the dear creatures had enough honey to feed upon, and then turn it over and over to see that darling queen and the thermometer down to zero. Is it any wonder that those bees w ho survive being poked to death are not all frozen and lying on the Moor of the hive an inanimate insect? Would it be sacrilege to suggest that Father Adam miht have done better than to have transmitted to posterity such mountebanks of humanity? In leaving this pen portrait of a very unworthv npteulturlM, will you pardon your lTesident in 'a brief description of a simple constructed hive made mauy jvar ago by Townley, of iucinnati, and in doing so 1 would not be understood as depreciating the Langslroth. Quinby and other excellent hives. The Townley hive was made of two inch plank, well seasoned. There were moveable frames, over w hich were the section boxe, two veutilator. to close or open as the temperature on the inside required. In the rear a large glass wlt.i an outside door, which, when ojened, the bees could be distinctly seen at their work, without being jarred or disturbed. The joints were all close and air-tight, so that iu the summer, . ou the inside, there was not too great a heat, and in the winter the tcnierature was never below freezing, although the hives were left on the summer stands the year round. My own exerien;e has satisfied me that after dcterming that they have a sufficiency of fHsl for the winter, and that the moth are not among the combs, to let the liec alone. The ojiening should lie dosed up, so that but one bee can pass in orout. The surplus boxes should be removed. nd the chart" cushions overlaid with canct introduced. Keep you ventilators part tidily on. and wrap around each hive a p entiful quantity oi straw and old carpets around the whole, and I am authorized to say that In no instance have I known the colonies not to do wejl. Toward spriug. as the warmer weather approaches, I feed plentifully at the opening with syrup made from a sugar, pcriumed slightly with aniseL giving the bees day and night all they can carry into the hive on the lower frames. Then when the surplus boxes are introduced the bees bring in and till them w ith the orchard and clover-blossom honey. The fall-flower honey I leave them to gather for themselves as a winter supply. As to the character and comeliness of yonr packages iermit me to urge your closest attention that tney may be neatly and carefully prepared and so presentable fo: the customer as to command the highest commendation and the best market price. Yurious metuods have been given in the bee journals, and, yet. much depends upon the apiarian as to how far theho may be a success. To my thought there is no table condiment so " delightful to the eye and palatable to the taste as honey iu Uniform and roundly-formed, rapped packages. 1 would recommend that your Secretary be empowered to obtain the names and rustoftice ad

dress of every be keeper in the state of Indiana. requesting from them the number of their colonics, amount of honey produced, kind of hive used, and such other information as would be useful to the State Association; and to this end that the Secretary draw his warrant on the Treasurer, countersigned by the President, for such sums as will procure printed circulars, postage,-papers, etc., necessary to carry out this purpoe. At our first anntial meeting the Association adopted a Constitution and rules for its government. Experience and more matured thought has demonstrated that many of the provisions are crude and not up to the requirements ol this body. I suggest that a Committee be appointed and authorized to take the matter under careful consideration and report the same to this Convention for its action. I am also persuaded, gentlemen, to call your attention to the propriety of having an Apiculture Department at every annual State Fair, in which may be exhibited apiarian supplies, hives, honey products and packages, straiucd and iu comb, etc., that a greater interest may be awakened among the farmers of the fc-tate. The wives and daughters of our farmers ought to be apiarians. The work would be congenial to them, and the profits arising from their handiwork would be far greater than uny other employment they can engage on or about the farm. I can not but believe that we owe It to the farming interests of our Suite that circulars and information in reference to the bee and its management should tie scattered very liberally over the Mate, that the farmer element, the yeomary of every land, may be convinced ana persuaded of the great work awaiting development t their hands. If the suggestion meets with your approval, let a tiorumittee be appointed to make the necessarv arrangement with the State, Agricultural Board, through its able Secretary, Mr. Herron. for such space and accommodations as will meet the wants of the Association, and also that the necessary steps be inaugurated to diffuse bee keeping inteldgence in every County and Precinct of our great Commonwealth. As to the present status of the Association financially, I refer, you to the annual report of Hon. Isaac N. Cotton, Treasurer, and also the report of your distinguished Secretary. Mr. Frank Daugherty. The Society is not in debt and have a small balance to their credit in the treasury. There is, In the opinion of some of the membership, a necessity for a change in the price of initiation, or rather an increase from fifty cents to SI per annum. It is urged that u need will arise for additional funds to pay expenses of new projecu that may be ordered by you, and which are deemed necessary for the augmentation and furtherance of tne interests of the Society. I trust such action w ill be taken in this regard as will facilitate this end. I am also impressed that profitable advantages would be obtained by organizations of County Sa-ieties in every portion of the State, from which auxiliaries the State organization would receive valuable statistics and other matter beneficial' to the apicultural interests of Indiana. May I be permitted to urge upon you the propriety of taking such fctcps as will bring about these results. In closing this hastily prepared address, I must refer wi'.h pleasure to the very valuable services rendered tne apiary interests by your Secretary, Mr. Frank Iaugherty. His time has been largely contributed to the advancement and development of the busy bee in Indiana, and I cordially recommend his re-election to the tnnt he has so rommendably and ably filled during the past year. With many thanks for the honor I have enjoyed at your hands, I earnestly invoke your continuity and faithfulness in a. profession which should be, as I believe it is. the pride oi our lives. After the reading f the address the Convention went into the election of oilicers, resulting as follow: President, Dr. J. II. Orear, Liztown. Hendricks County: Secretary, Prank C. Daugherty, Marion 'County; Treasurer, Isaac N. Cotton, Traders' Point, Marion County. A Committee of Five, consisting of Messrs. T II. Johnson, C. S. .Schofield, F. C. Daugherty. Mrs. Stout and Mrs. Kohbins, were apjsjinted to select one Vice President fnm each Congressional District, to report Ur-day. An essay on "Moviner Does bv Railroad," prepared by Itev. Mr. Mahan, of Huntington, Ind., was read bv the secretary. It contained some valuable suggestions in regard to preparing bees for safe shipment. The paper was discussed by several member. The evening session was takvn up in the discussion of the bee keeirs' interests. The P.aby State. New York Times. 1 The past year seems to have been a most prosperous one for Colorado. Indeed, there is every . reason to believe that in the race or wealth the youngest State in the I'nion will soon have distanced more than one of her older sisters From careful statistics just compiled, it apioars that the mining industry of the Commonwealth, which is its chief source of riches, lias had a marked anti steady increase. In 1879 reliable estimates valued the "output" from all the mines at at $10.000,000, the Leadville or Carbonate district being eredited with $11,000.000 of the total. Poring the year just closed, the entire product of silver and other ores amounted to $22,550.000, again of over $o,500,000, or about 20 jer cent, over the year previous. Of this sura the Leadville district is mond a bavins vielded $15.000.000 ; Gilpin Countv, $2.20.000; Clear Creek, $2.100,000; Iloulder, $1.000,000; Silver Cliff and llosita. $1.000,000; Park, $500.000; San Juan, $500,000, and Summit County, $250.000. It is reasonable to expect that the building of railways, which is progressing in the partially developed Summit and San Juan Districts, will in the year to come add a still larger increase to tne totals The raising of cattle, which is, next to mining and agriculture proper, the most important industry in the State, was not so successful as it has been, the exceptional dry season making it necessary to drive more than 150,000 head to ranges outside of Colorado. The sheep herds, however, did remarkably well. The wool clip of the spring amounted to nearly 8,.'$00,000 pounds and upon good terms, was sold for about $l,C50,0CO.

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An Apparatua by Which, Professor BeU Thinks They May be Heard. New York World. Professor A. Graham Bell, who went to Pans last September to receive the Volta prize awarded him by the irench Academv lor the invention of the articwlating tele1 A 1 X . . puone, rcturneu to tins city on Saturday by the steamer City of Montreal. He was found Monday evening at the (iilsey House with his co-laborer, Mr. Sumner Taintor. lie said that the Commission of the Academy, after determining to award the Volia prize to the inventor of the telephone, considered the question of originality for several months, and finally awarded it to him unanimously. This, he thought, ought to settle the question. The Volta prize is 50,000 francs. It was oripinated by Napoleon I. for improvements iii electric apparatus, and has previously been awarded to but one person Ruhmkorif, in ISIS. At the formal presentation of the prize Professor Itell was tendered a reception by the French Academicians, at which he presented theresults of his exjriments with the photophone. "The idea Of the photophone," said Professor IJell "the transmission uf sound by rays of light -was original with me, but success in practical results w ith it is due as much fo Mr. Taintor as to myself. In l7s, in a lecture before the Itoval Institution, London, I announced the jioisjbility of hearing a shadow fall upon a piece of selenium included in a telephone circuit. In cxerimenting with the Atlantic cable in IS7-J. I discovered that a strip of selenium two indies- long and one-sixteenth cross-section about 1,400.1100.000 ohms in tho dark, but les than half that resistance in the light. We have succeeded in securing selenium in a form and shape in w hich its resistance is but.'WHiind 150 ohms in dark and light, thus bringing it w ithin the field of the tele phone. There are two kindsof photophones tho musi-al and the articulating. The musical is very simple. An inclined'm'rror throws rays of light through a lens. These rays focus near the edge of awheel, the wheel being i-rforatcd near its edge with fort vfour holes. Each revolution of this wheel interrupts the light forty-four time?. The rays then pass through" two more lenses, which bring them again to a focus near a receiving disc to which a tube is attached, and through which sounds are heard. Sound waves having a greater velocity than thirtv per second are audible; so the interruption of rays of light by the perforated w heel thirtv times or more jer second gives an audible sound, the pitch being determined by the rapidity of the interruptions, and corresponding with the vibrations of a tuning-fork. Two hundred and fifty interruptions jer second will give the same musical note aa tuning-fork mnkiti" thnt. mini Hop t of vibrations ier seeorfd. The receiving disc is usually ebonite or hard rubber. But bv our experiments we have discovered what I believe is a new property of matter, that all substances, when in the shape of thin diaphragms, emit sounds when submitted to interrupted undulatory beams of light. The question presented by'these'phenotuena was whether the musical tones were due to intermolecular action or not, and what was their cause? Professor Tyndall suggested that if wv could produce sound by the use of a free transparen gas in the tube it would show that the sound was due to intermolecular action. We tried vapor of sulphuric ether and obtained a perceptible musical tone, but obtained none from vapor of bisulphide of carbon. The former is a powerful beat absorbent, while the latter is a non-absorbent of heat. From this Professor Tyndall was satisfied that the sounds were due to molecular action, probably caused by the heat of the rays. P.ut we found more than this. If no receiving bridge or test tube is used, but the rays are allowed to converge in one end of a" rubber or' other tube, musical tones can be heard at the other end, and if the rays converge within the orillce of the ear distinct sounds are produced. Dut this is a rather dangerous experiment. Again we found that the interposition of two hard rubber diaphrams, with a solution of alum between them to cut off the heat rays between the mirror and the lens, did not prevent the production of these musical sounds, although they made them more feeble. 1 firmly believe we have transmitted articulate sounds by this instrument without the electric current, but am not ready yet fully to demonfetrate the fact. "The articulating photophone is made by an addition to the one just described. In the place of the receivingdisk is put a silver glass disk, l-iK)th of an inch thick. .This reflects the rays of lifrht to a parabolic mirror, at the focus of which there is a seleni-um-cell receiver in a telephone battery circuit. This disk is also the part of the instrument against which the voice acts. When this is a plane surface and still, rays are thrown in parallel lines to the selenium receiver. But as it becomes alternately concave and convex, the rays reflected con vert, e and diverge, and a greater or smaller proportion of rays are reflected upon the selenium, and this is so sensitive in an electric current to varying degrees of light that the sounds ot the voice are transmitted by it to the telephone circuit, and under favorable conditions arc more perfect, natural and distinct than in any of the telephones yet produced, the pitch, of course, still depending on the rapidity of revolutions of the perforated wheel. "In the Solar Observatory near Paris M. Janssen was taking large phofograplis of the sun. He took them very rapidly. The exposure in each case was but l-.',000th of a second, and the intervals were but l-.'!0th of a second. He found the surface of the sun covered with peculiar willow-leaf-shaped granulations supposed to be due t.j metallic vajMirs. Each photograph showed a marked change in these granulations. As thirty of these photographs are taken per second, the changes in the granulations are shown to be rapid enough to emit distinct sounds. We made some experiments, but the apparatus was not proper for that purpose, and although we obtained results in the shape of sound, they really proved nothing. My belief is that with "a minute selenium cell and a telescoie. so arranged that we can get the rays from a single granulation, we shall be able to hear on earth sounds of storms on the surface of the sv.n. "We have transmitted articulate sounds by the photophone a mile, and musical sounds bv the musical photophone S00 feet. An eightieth of thelihtof the sun is sufficient to produce results. We have used artificial lights a good deal. In its present state of perfection the photophone is of more scientific than practical value, but when we can transmit articulate sounds four or five miles it will be of great value in war, for instance, taking the place of tlie heliostat ora possible aerial telegraph." Jay Gould, the Itnilrond Power, nod the People. IXew Yotk Times. It is but natural to expect tiie New York Tribune to be on all occasions the organ of the railroad interest in opposition to any demand or effort to bring the business of transportation under proper regulations for the protection of the rights of the people. It is under the necessity of olieying the behests of the capital by which its interests is maintained, and no one could be expected to carry suh a load without making it serve some prolitable nuqxise. When, therefore, it raises its "financial storm signals" for the purpose of scaring investment from any enterprise that threatens to compete with Jay Gould's contcmlated monopoly of transjiortation on the ines crossing the Rocky Mountains and connecting the railway system of the Pacific Coast with that which has its various outlets on the Atlantic, we know just how much confidence to place in its predictions of collapse and disaster. We are able to understand why it should deprecate all agitation of the subject of National or State regulation, and sneer at every attempt to secure legislation on the subject as an interference with private affairs which would get along more prosperously if let alone. So long as it conunes itseil to us proper iuuc

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tions as the servant of it proprietor in promoting his personal interest, there is nothng in Its fonrw eitVx,- :.: . ni,r".0-as cntlc,ZI- Us position and its . . ....v, cm in I31U1I or worinv r; - v uiiuiTsKKw, ana what it has to aay, being interpreted by the light of this undemanding is comparatively harmless, l.ut Mr. Goulds personal oriran is fond of paradimr ifsplf a a t:: i ;.i.: . i""'wi iHjwer, ana claims to represent the sentiment of a great party, and when it attempts to dragoon the party into the service of its master it alto..vi waiisreuas uie lunctions that belonn to it, " When Judffe r.l.ir-t's lot. maintaining the rnM r.f i, ti eise control over the railroads, and make them subservient to the public interest, Mr. t .ould s newspaper treated it as an attempt to pet iir n nnn ieuna a. t s . ..v .. .-.-uc iui me AJciiiocrauc In sncflkino' of Mr lu otrn n a Kill - , es - o u.ii lJl the retriil.itirtji .if int.F.Ci.i. , - .ii-.jiaic luuiiueat;, ami the vanons substitutes which are supposed to be waiting for a chance to be submitted in Congress, it assumes that whatever is to be done must be the result of agreement in a Democratic caucus. In short, it undertakes to represent the entire question as a party issue, and to make it appear that the Democrat are in favor of legislation for Sllbiectinff tllP railmnda tr sr-it. o.i.l v.: al control, and the Republicans opposed to it That this is a complete falsification no intelligent person needs to be told. The claim that tho nitir o.n't.it;,,, n.M r-.. ... deiuagogism ami appeals to the spirit of Communism is absurd. The United States is the only great commerciai country in which railroads are left free from Government control. In Germany the movement is strong. ly toward State' ownershin. and that; country can hardly be accused of nanderimr to tho irit if c,r.m.n..;o... or yielding overmuch to the demands of demagogues. In France, too, the Government lias been rapidly acquiring not only control, but possession of the railroad lines. The motive has been largely to strengthen t lif nivrnnl inflnimna nHliaALA..... and Ls opposed at once to Communistic designs, and, as we are forced to believe, to lermanent public interest Multiplication of the functions of Government in tlie actual management of commercial undertakings is, not consistent with the widest prevalence of liberal .principles. In Great Britain, the Government exercises the right of supervision and regulation, with the best results, i No one thinks of regarding it as a conces-j sion to the Communistic spirit. It is, in' filet. b:lSPl lltmil II i-twisorv-ntivu rocrnr.l I - - - - .Mva, . - lw V IUI the interests of the public. The demand in this country, which is characterized as Communistic and demagogical, have rome mainly from conservative commercial bodies like the New York Chamber of Commerce and the National Board of Trade and Transportation. Its cause lias been an outrageous abuse of chartered privileges in the part, whereby public interests and the rights of individuals have been sacrificed to the greed of corjMirate managers. The existences of abuses which ought not to be permitted is a fact too well established to be denied. That the authority and theduty to prevent them belong to the State is admitted by all except the railroad magnates and their paid attorneys and subsidized organs. Th only real question relates to the limit and method of judicious regulation. This is made a matter of jieculiar dilliculty in this country by the composite character of our Government, and this it is that has delayed action so long, and made it so ineffectual when attempted in particular States. If anything corresionding to our present system of transportation had been in existence when the Union was founded, or if its development could have been foreseen, there can be little doubt that its complete regulation would have been made a matter of National jurisdiction. As it is, the National Government has complete iower for the regulation of commerce between the States. But the railroads began their growth within the States, and as a rule derive their charters fronv.State legislation. Any complete and effective regulation can only result from a harmonious combination of National and State action, and to secure this is a matter of great dilliculty. The question is not whether the thing is desirable. That is generally admitted. But it relates to the means by which it is to be accomplished. It is not a party question, and it will be unfortunate, both for the railroad and for the people, if it is neglected until it is forced into a political issue between parties. It needs to be dealt with in the spirit of statesmanship of the highest order. For man' reasons it is desirable that National authority should take initiative action, becauseits jurisdiction covers the whole field and includes the States within its limits; and if it can devise a judicious system of regulation, the States would be likely to make theirs supplementary and in harmony with it A New Story About Lincoln. Missouri Republican. It was in the early day when the cultured and experienced statesmen thought it incumbent to guide the backwoods President. Senator Sumner called one day to furnish his share of the advice. He talked long, learnedly and, as uual, rather dictatorially. Lincoln heard him throngh, smiling occasionally, butmaking no remark. But whn tlie stream of .Senatorial eloquence finally stopped he said, to the utter amazement of bis distinguished guest: "Stand up, Sumner, and let us measure backs." Sumner stood up with all the reluctance oi offended diguity, and the two backs were brought in contact. "Ah," said Lincoln, when the measuring was ended, "my back is a good ileal ionger than yours, Sumner; yes, a good deal longer." The interview, as might be supposed, was speedily terminated; and as the door closed upon the tall form, Lincoln remarked, as if soliloquizing, to a friend present: "Sumner's a smart man. a mighty smart man. What an education he's pot. I wish I had such a one. Sumner ought .to be King of Prussia; the place would just suit him." There is a man in Newark, N. J., so close that when he attends Church he occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit to save the interest on bis money while the collectors are passing the plate for contributions. A "stringy," "rattling" voice and a constant disposition to expectorate, indicate incipient throat trouble of dangerous tendency. Use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup in good time, and be saved much trouble and annoyance. For sale by all druggists. Cunnamptlon Cure. In changeable climates like ours, every one should remember that Hall's Balsam for the lungs has proven itself to be a sure cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis and all Lung Diseases, and for a common cough or cold we iniaraiitee every bottle. It has saved the life of many, even after all hope had tied Mauy of our most lntelll Stent families would as noon be without woolen clothing in winter as not to have Hall's Balsam alwavs on hand, for it never fails to immediately relieve all soreness of throat and lungs. A single doee taken at bed time will gently warm the blood, cause refreshing plumber, and by morning aa ordinary cough or cold will be gone. Ask your druggist and your friends concerning the merits of Hall's Balsam. Price for large bottle, f 1. Remember we keep this excellent remedy on sale at our drug store in Indianapolis, and do mont cordially recommend it to our customers and all good people. Browning it Sloan, wholesale agent. Health Is Wealth. It seems strange that any one will suffer from the manv derangements brought on by an impure state of the blood, when Soovill's Blood and Liver Syrup will . restore perfect health and physical organization. It is, iudeed, -a strengthening vrup. pleasant to take, and haa proven itself to be the best blood purifier ever discovered, effectually curing Serof ula, Syphilitic disorders, weakness of the Kidneys. U nervoua disorders and debility. It correcu indigestion. It makes the old feel young, the young feel gay, and will invariably drive out of tne svstem the many ills that human fiesh and blood are heir to. Price of large bottles with full directions, SI. A single bottle will prove to you iu merits as a health renewer, for it acts like a charm, especially when the complaint Is of an exhaustive nature, having a tendency to lessen the natural vigor of tha brain and nervous system. Remember we keep thla excellent Blood and Liver Syrup for sale at our drug store in Indianapolis, and . do most cordially recommend it to our customers and all good people. Browning & Sloan, wholesale agents.

HEALTH IS WEALTH Health of Body is Wealth of Mind Sarsaparfllian Resolvem Pnre blood makes aound flesh, atrong bone and a clear skia. If you wDuld have your fleu Arm. ypur bones sound, without caries, and vourconv solvent! 1180 Bdwy' 8rsaparflliaa BeA GRATEFUL RECOGNITION.

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wnnaprfnl imulv f a 4 im. solvent, which accomplishes this result, nd suffering humanity, who drag out an existence ot pain and disease, through long dav and long nights, owe him their gratitude. " iiedical Messenger. FALSE AND TRUE., We extras" from Ir Prtwfl v Taf1 tv ease and Its Cure" as follows: LIST OF DISKASES CCEED BT Radway's Sarsaparillian Resolvent. Chronic Ptin THwhlwmi rarisa a k tj tt mors In the Blood. Sorofnlous risee Kd nr Unnatural Hsbit of Body, Syphilis and Venereal r ever Sores. Ch ronlr- nr m.l l lo ci iv,..., Rickets. Vhue Swelling. Scald Head. Uterine Affections, Cankers, Glandular Swellings, Node. V acting and lecay of the Bo1r, limples and Blotches, Tumors, Dyspepsia, Kidney a; .d Bladder Diseases, Chronic Rheumatism and Gout. varieties of the above complaints to which tom times are given specious names. We assert that there is no known remedy that posseses the curative power over these di.cae that Bad way's Resolvent furnishes, it cures stepby step, surely, from the foundation, and restorethe injured parts to their sound condition. The .. mjiix-u ami neaiinv biooa is supplied to the system, from w hich new material Is formed. This is the first corrective power If those who are taking these medicines for thfr cure of chronic. Scrofulous or Syphilitic diseases, however slow may be the cure, "-ftf 1 better" and. uuu uiyir Kf uerai neaun improving, thtir flesf and weight increasing, or even kt- ing its own. t is a imro mim that ihaniM fo , these diseases the patient either gels better or ""' '"us 1 me uiM-ase is not inactive; lr not arrested and driven from the blood if will spread and continue to undermine the constitution. As oon aa the Karsapariilian makes the patient "feel better," every hour you will grow ueiier. auu increase m neaiin, strengtü and fieui. OVAIIIjVIV TUMOIIH. The removal of these Resolvent is now so certainly eitaMi-hA-t tt what was once considered almost mira-ulons iivw a iTuiiiioii rwognizea tact rv a;i parties Witness the cases of Hannah P. Kr'ari. Mrs. rv Krapf, Mrs. J. II. Jolly and Mrs. P. I. Uendrix published in our Almanac ftr IsT'J: b.. that or Mrs. C. 8. Bibbins, in the present eiii Hon of cui "False and True." One bottle contains more of the active prinr pies of Medicines than any other prt partici Taken in Teaspoonful doses, while other. riuvfive or six times aa much. One Dollar Ter Bottle. , f R. R. R. DYSENTERY, DIARRHEA, CHOLERA MORBÜ3. FEVEK AN CURED AND PREVENTED BT Radway's Ready.-" RHEUMATISM. yEURALGIA, ' V DIPHTJTEBIA, , DxTLUKX2 SORE THROAT. DIFFICULT BREATHING RELIEVED 12 A FEW VINTTES BY BAD WAY'S BEADY BELIEF., BO WEH. COMPLillNTS,' Loosenesa. Diarrhea. Cholera Morbus or T1re' discharges from the bowels are stopped in fifteeni or twenty minutes by taking Kadway's Ready! Relief. ro congestion or inflammation; no weaknew or lassitude will follow the use of the R. K. ' Relief. ACHES AIVU PAHSS. For Headache, whether slot or nervoua. J.ervoul uess and Sleeplessness; rheumatism, lumbago J pains ana weakness in tne oacit, spine or tianeyg pains arouna tne nver, pieuri?7, sweuiug oi . i i joints, pain in the bowels, heartburn ana jpaim all kinds, Radway's Ready Belief will affordif mediate ease, ana its conunuea use ior a iewi effect a permanent cure. Price, Fifty CeCb. RADWAY'S fill Perfect Pcrrjatives, Scothiny Aperients A Without Pain. Always Reliable and itural in Their Operation. A Vegetable Substitute for Calome Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with iwe: ram. puree. - reirulate, purify, cleanse aiM strengthen. Radwavs lls for the cureTf all di orders of the stomach, liver, bowels, kidney bladder, nervous diseases, headache, con?tipaUo coBtiveness, Indigestion, dysi'psia, biliousnet fever, iiinammation of the bowels, piles and all d rsneementa of the internal viscera. Warranted i effect a cure. Purely vegetable, containiE mercury, minerals or deleterious drues. Observe the following symptoms resulting fror diseases of the Digestive Organs. Constipation, inwtrd piles, fullness of blood the head, acidity of tbe stomach, nausea, he bum, dLsgust of food, tallness or weicht In A stomach, sour eructations, tsiuking or fluttering the heart, choking or suffering sensations when: a Irin posture, dimness of vision, dots or before the sight, fever and dull pain in the bV. . deficiency of perspiration, yellowness of the skA and eyes, paiu in the side, chest, limb, and su.l UCU UU3ÜVÖO Ulflh m A few doies of Midway's Pills will free the tyl tem Irom al! me above name naisoraera. Price, 25 cents per Box. Sold by Druggists, Read "FALSE AND TRUE Send a letter stamp to RADWAY A Co., No Warren, corner Church street. New York. Information worth thousands will be sent TO THE PUBLIC There can be no better rurantee of the vlrtf Dr. Radway's old established K. R. KemediesU the base and worthless traitauons oi tnemju i are False Resolvents, Rebel and nua. bei iraf ask for Rad way a, and sc that the name way is oa whatjem buy.

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