Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1886 — Page 3

' THE INDIANA STATE BENTINELv WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 ,1886. - - - . . . . . , . i

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BECK'S SILVER SPEECH.

Continued from Second Tage. inggold certificates amounted to $137,700,U, of which all but $33,3ti0,i;00 were in denominations of frCti and upward, more than .5,(X.O,000 of them being for $10,000 each. It is obvious that the people get no benefit in the form of currency when tills or certificates exceed $100. The Director of the Mint, on page 2! of his report, speaking of these paper substitutes, says: "As these certificates represent coin in the Treasury, which coin can only be used in their redemption, they really form a part of the active coin circulation of the country." The Director, perhaps, did not know that $05,(00,000 of them were for $10,000 each, as it would be aburd to speak of such notes or certificates as forming part of our actire .circulation. The Treasurer's report (pace 21) shows that on June '20, ls&i, silver certificates amounting to $13'.U01,G4; were outstanding, and that $Ui3,75,0!l were in ten and twenty dollar bills, in about equal proportions. Kcne were higher than $1,000; so that the only real currency furnished to the the people in the shape of cirtificates is that based on the deposit of silver coin. Yet the dollars so deposited are held up as useless incumbrances, performing no function of value, and all our officials join in the crusade against them and the certificates that represent them, and urge Congress to withdraw the one and stop the coinage of the other. I do not propose to do either unless better reasons are given why it should be done than any I have yet seen or heard. I would, however, amend the law so that no certificate should be of a higher denomination than $-rH, and not more than 2.5 per cent, of the amount outstanding at any time should be of denominations higher than $50. The legaltender notes, too, are attacked. It seems as every form of currency which costs nothing and enriches nobody is condemned. It is assumed that the Government has no right to use its own credit or to furnish any part of the currency the people need. Leal tender notes are denounced as a forced loan, as rag-babies, shinplasters, indeed every opprobious epithet has been hurled against them by those who insist that they must be vested with the sole right to issue currency to loan at a profit to themselves, and to dictate through their organization how much or how little it is most profitable to them to keep in circulation. But the people and tteir representatives haye so far sustained the preenoacks. ' and while they have always been repudiated to the extent that they could not be legally paid at the custom-houses for duties on imports, and that this is the law now, over $47,ok), 000 of them were received for duties last year in New York alone by executive orders in plain violation of law. The majority of the Senate refused last year to make them receivable for duties, and yet we permit $47,000,0 K) of them to be so received. I have a bill now before the Finance Committee making it legal to receive thera for customs dues, as I believe they ought to be; vet 1 insist that no executive officer ought to be allowed to do anything in violation of law, or to be placed in a position in which he feels authorized or compelled to disregard it. Congress by the act of May 31, l$7S(see Statutes at Larjre, volume 20, page 87), made an effort to retain what was then left of the legal-tender j)0tes, and to preserve them in ruch shape that they would be currency in the bands of the people. We provided, in substance, that whenever legal-tender notes are received at the Treasury from any source they shall not be retired, but shall be . reissued and paid out again and kept in circulation, and that new notes of the same denomination ot those returned because too much mutilated for use shall be issued in their stead. It is obvious that Congress did not intend to allow any increase of the denomination of the legal-tender notes above what existed when that act was passed, yet the table on page 20 of the Treasurer's report, shows that bills of the denomination of $50 have increased in the last year nearly $10,OnO,0UO, while those of smaller denominations have been proportionally decreased. There can be but one purpose in this attack all along the line on everything except gold and national bank notes, and that is to tranv fer to the holders of our bonds absolute jower over the currency, which means over the business of the country. The report of the Comptroller of the Currency develops that purpose, perhaps, more plainly thanthe others. After insisting that Congress should repeal the tax on circulation, give up the profit made on the lost bank notes, or put it into a safety f nnd, with other tbiBga, for the benefit of the banks, he adds, on page 18: Such legislation would have the effect of maint&imnK bank-note circulation, and prevent its beingsuperseded by Government issues, which an authority as high as Alexander Hamilton has said "are of a nature so liable to abuse, and it may even be aflirmed so certain of being abused.' that the w if dorn of the Government will be shown in never truing itself with the use of so seducing and dangerous an experiment." I assume that it is too clear to admit of debate, no matter what Mr. Hamilton or anybody else said, that a circulating note in any form, properly secured, is as good when issued by the Government as a like note would be when issued by a corporation created by the Government and secured by a Government bond; and hardly anybody but the Comptroller or a bank attorney would venture to assert that the Secretary of the Treasury is not likely to be honest and careful of the public interest in maintaining and keeping the necessary amount of circulation afloat for legitimate business purposes as bank Presidents would be who are under no obligation to consult the public welfare, but. as the private interests of their.stockholders demand, may contract or expand their issues as the one course or the other best subserves their private ends regardless altogether of the public weal; indeed they are apt to be enriched when they can most surely oppress the masses. Yet in the face of his claim that all other circulation is unsafe, the Comptroller shows that the decrease in national bank circulation in the la&t three years amounts to over $48.0H,C, and says that it would have decreased "2o.tM,u0 more if the Secretary of the Treasury had not come to their rescue by refusing to use the money at his command in the purchase of the Z per cent, bondj on which their circulation is based; in other word the people have lost over .:!,( lO.tJJO of interest, and the bankers have made .,- 00,0uo on interest by the operation. Tne Comptroller snow very clearly why the bondholders are so anxious to get clear of the silver dollar; they fear that the premium on their bonds will fall if they are paid in whole or in part in silver. Uut he stated the whole case so clearly that I will read on page 15 of his report: It will re seen that the bunks held on November 1. $1 Vj.UM.ltjo, and on November 1, Yst. Sl;;s,920.fi.'4i, of 3 per cent, under the act of July 12, lv2, payable at the pleasure of tLe Government. The iecretry of th- Treasury. rnrln? the vear ending; Nor lnbr 1, 1.1. paid f !0f).6-:i.l.n). and during the year ending November I, li. frlo.y.70,ru of the public debt. In the latter year 3 per cent, only were called. No tonds we're called for the year ending Novcmer 1, ixx.. Resigning upon the theory that thepubii? debt wouM.dufing the year ending November 1. lft5. continue to le reduced by the payment of 3 per cent. bond, and that this reduction would occasion the reinvestment of tmst and other funds invested in threes, and cause a greater demand for and ton sequent increase ia the price of 4 per cent, bond tc a point at which it would be more profitable lor the National Banks to Kell them, the omptroiler estimated in his last annual report to ongress, that unle- legislation should be secured enabling the banks to isue enrren y at a fair profit, circulation would be reduced at the rate of at least HO.'..!.' per annum. It is believed that this estimate would hit re been aubstantialy correct had the Government continued during to call and pay the 3 per cent, lends m rapidly as during the two previous .Vcsrs. The reduction of circulation of National ftnkt during the year ending November 1, 1W, for reasons other than the call of bonds by wqlfh it was secured., wan greater than anticipated. The cansea which have led to this result are small profit rein airing to National hanks on circulation and paying the tax of 1 per cent, per annum imposed by the Government; reduction in the rates of interest

) tue of nosey in the financial centers; and .1 docbtless. uneasiness among certain of the ban k- " ers of the country as to the outcome of the in

crease o! silver in tne 1 reasnry. such Increase indicating that sibly the interest on the public delt. and eveu some portion of the principal, might be paid in standard silver dollars, and the Government bonds might thereby become depreciated in foreign markets, which would undoubtedly affect their price in this country. The . credit and standing of thia country is deservedly hieb, and, it is not believed that the i-ople desire either the principal or interest on the bonded debt of this country tobe paid in anything but gold coin or its equivalent. 1 think the Comptroller makes it clear that the country can not afford to rely for its circulation on National Bank notes. He asserts that the bankers will surrender circulation and sell tne bonds cpon which it is based, recardless altogether of the public needs, whenever they can make more money by selling the bonds than they can by loaning the circulation. We all know that to be true. Can Congress afford to vest absolute power over the contraction and expansion of the circulating medium which regulates all our transactions exclusively in the hands of men who gamble with it for private gain without any ort of public responsibility? I think not; yet, if we retire the greenbacks and the silver certificates, as our officials advise us to do, we will have no currency but National Bank notes left, which they can expand or contract at pleasure. Nobody fretends that in the reduction of these notes roni $324,0 0,000 in November, 1S82, to $270,OOo.CCO in November, lfrsö, the pubiic interest or needs were for a moment considered. I desire to state with great distinctness that I am not making war on bondholders or National Lanks or bankers. I voted to renew their charters, to repeal all taxes on their capital and deposits, and will cheerfully vote for any and all measures necessary to add to their usefulness, either by increasing their circulation to par with the bonds deposited, or, if it can be done with justice to their competitors in business, reduce or repeal the tax on their circulation. But I would require them to take the same coins, both gold and silver, that all other creditors of the Government receive. I shall always oppose the gran or recognition of any superior rights or privileges in them, or in 'the obligations they hold over those of other citizens. I would divorce them from politics, and deprive them of power to control or influence legislation by contracting or expanding, or by threatening to interfere with our currency, as was done when they obtained President Hayes' veto on a memorable occasion. I would require them to obey the law and receive the coin which we take at the Custom House and set apart as a sjecial fund for their security and Sayment. When we say by law, as we have one, that "no National Banking Association shall be a member of any clearing house in which such (silver) certificates shall not be receivable in the settlement of clearing house balances," I would forfeit the charter of any bank that dared to disobey the law, es I would ßne and imprison any officer of sny of them who would certify checks when the funds were not actually in the bank e at the time. In short, no set of men should be allowed to exercise privileges prohibited by law, nor have rights given to them in regard to the character and quality of the coin in which their debts shall De paid which are denied to all other equally meritorious creditors; and no set of men should ever have power to regulate or control, as their private interests may be affected, the currency or the business of the people. If that power is yielded or conceded to them, with lepal tender notes and silver certificates withdrawn and gold paid to them, and to them alone, for their interest and bonds, Congress would be powerless to resist any demands our bondholders and. bankers might make. I know their power and appreciate the adroitness with which they can have their claims presented. Even the President, in his message, has been induced to say that up to the present time only about $50,000,000 of the silver dollars we have coined have found their way into circulation. He modified that 3tatement bv showing that a large amount of silver certificates were outstanding. But the press of the country has taken up the first statement, leaving out all the qualifications, and parade it before the counUyas conclusive evidence that too much silver has already been coined, and that all of it is an incumbrance except about $50,000,000. They utterly ignore the fact which the official reports shbw, that at the close of the last fiscal year, June 30. 1ÜH5, out of a total coinage of $203,000,000, $140,000,000 in round numbers was in active circulation in the form of silver certificates, in addition to the coin in the hands of the people, of which certificates $44,000,000 was paid to the Government for customs dues during the last fiscal year at the port of New York alone more than was paid in gold and gold certificates combined. Why is not the coin represented by the certificates as much in active circulation as if it was passed from hand to hand as often as the certificates are? I ask, is it fair to complain of the silver held in the Treasury as being expensive, and yet not utter one word of complaint in regard to over $137,000,000 in gold? The Secretary says: A special effort has been made by the Secretary f the Treasury to increase the amount of our silver coin in circulation. Let him make one more effort and pay out the 00,000,00 or $75,000,000 he received for customs dues and which he has no us? for, in payment of interest and in the redemption of the bonds now redeemable, and the ordinary expenses of the Government will keep the vaults reasonably clear of all, not repiesented by certificates or bills, which the people have a right by law to demand on making a deleft of coin. No public creditor other than the bondholder has ever complained when payment is made to him in silver or silver certificates. All other creditors are entitled to the same consideration as the holders of our bonds. We as a tax-jaying people are not interested in keeping our bonds 24 per cent, above par when we must soon buy them with our surplus revermes. I may observe here that silver certificates are now and have always been a jopular currency. The Treasurer in his last report, page 24, says: The isuc of silver certificates by Treasury'officers iuthel-ojuh and West for gold coin deposited with ihe Adtant Treasurer at New York, under departmental circular of September 1, lt0, was discontinued in January lat. The amount which had boon issued iu that manner to the date named wasS).7;:0..riui). The Treasury order referred to reads thus: "Tkeam rv Department, "I "Sjn I:ET.RV'.H Ol'Plf e, ;- Washisgtos, 1. C, September IS, 180. ) "Until further notice the United States Assistant Treasurer in New York will pay out at his counter standard silver dollars or silver certificates in sum of $10, or any multiples vhereof.in exchange for like amounts of gold coin or gold bullion dejMwited with him. Upon the receipt by the Treasurer of the United States in this city of an original certificate of deposit issued by the I Ulted Mates Assistant Treasurer at New York, stating that there has been deposited with him gold cola or gold bullion iu the mm ot fio, or any multiple thereof, payment of a like amount in staudard silver certificate at the munter of any United Mates Assistant Treasurer designated by the depositor Mil be ordered. "John Mifrma.v. Secretary." The Treasurer of the United states, in his report to Congress dated November 1, 1380, says: The demand for silver certificates under the circular of the lcpartmeut dated .eptember 1. l.v0, authoruing.their exchange forgoid coin and bullion, ha been quite extensive at New Orleans, St. Ixniis, Chicago and Cincinnati, and there were aid out at these points during the month of October $:;,isö,ouo in silver certificates for an equal amount of gold coia deposited; lu the Fub-Trcas-ury in New York. And in December, lvsithe .Secretary of the Treasury In his report says: The Department nas Usued silver certificates at the several fcmVTreasury ottices. upon a deposit of gold coin iu like amount with the Assistant Treasurer at New York, and throuzh thia means certificate bare been issued for nearly all the silver held by the Treasury. These certificates amount to about t .6,000,000, and are now outstanding. That condition of things doubtless rendered the following order necessary, as all or nearly all the silver coin in the Treasury was represented pj outasOiPs silver cerU&Cfttcs;

TREAUVBT DftTARTMEHT, Secretary's Offht,

Washington, 1). :., Nov. 1, IWjI Until further notice the exchange of silver cer tificates for gold coin deposited at the offtee of the i Ditea states Assistant Treasurer at New lorx. will be suspended, and department circular No. 75. cf Sei'Umber 18. 180. ia hereby modified ac cordingly, H. K. French, Acting secretary. Subsequently th restriction was removed for a time, and over $0.00,000 of silver cer tificates were taken, nrincinally bv the reople of the South and West, in exchange for gold coin. The privilege was finally withdrawn in January, 1885. I ask, in view of .1 v . . 1 , . , 1 uese lacu, now h can propeny De coargeu that the people will not use silver coinage; that they are boarding gold; that the depre ciated paper will soon greatly impair the and that we are on the verge of a financial crisis unless we bring all our transactions at once to a gold basis? It must not be forgotten that all the cold coin deposited for silver certificates became at once the property of the United States; it was not held in the Treasury for their redemption. An equal amount of silver coin took its place for that purpose at once. Men who owned gold all over the South and "vVest, in Louisville, Indianapolis, Nashville, and other places, as well as those cities named in the report, sent their com at their own ex pense to the Assistant Treasurer in New York in order to have silver certificates delivered to them for use- as currency at home. " Yet, during all that time, the bullion value of gold in London was at least 15 per cent. more than silver, and tne country was bein periodically alarmed, and Congress advised by our officials that gold was leaving the country; that silver was a degraded standard of value, and that its coinage must be stopped or its weight increased, o? rain would speedily be upon us because of its depreciation in the London market. J fie tacts I nave stated overthrow all tne speculations of the theorists. Our business men gladly exchanged their gold coin for silver certificates and did not ask any better security for the paper they took than the silver dollar deposited in the Treasury, bo far from hoarding gold because ot its greater bullion value in a foreign market, the v sent it to a distant depository to get the paper we are advised is dishonest money because it is depreciated ij or 2o per cent, below gold in London. I v nave thus imperfectly outlined the reasons why I can not sustain at this time a policy which seeks to withdraw either our legal tender notes, the silver certificates, or stop the silter coinage, and I see no silver coin beyond tne standard value hxed by law in July, 1S70, under and by which all our outstanding bonded indebtedness is regu lated. I am convinced that we can no longer look with safety to the National Banks to furnish the country with a stable currency. I insist that every creditor of the Government is by law entitled to be paid in the same coin, and that our Treasury officials should be required to pay silver as well as gold when received for custom dues to our bondholders, as they do to all others who have leal demands upon the Treasury; that done there will be no need, at least for years to come, to strike down silver in any form. The country is bow rallying from a long period of depression. All railroad securities recently fell 50 per cent, on the average in eighteen months. Wheat, cotton, cattle hogs,. all farm products, are even now so depr-ased that they leave no profit to the producer, even after he pays the lowest wages for which he can obtain labor in their production. Foreign Nations are closing their ports against our leading exports and throwing all obstacles possible in the way of our commerce. Our carrying trade is gone and is in the hands of our foreign competitors. We need to use all our resources on both gold and silver, and their paper representatives, to enable us to regain our lost prestige and to develop our resources in the most economical way. Contraction or destruction of any part of our means is, in my judgment, fatal to our laboring and especially to our debtor classes. So believing, I am opposed to it. Mr. President, I will only add that I have no interest in the silver question other than my conviction in regard to the best interest of the country. I never owned a dollar's worth of stock, directly or indirectly, in any silver or other mine. The people I represent here are not specially interested in it. We are in the central portion of this great continent, aad our prosperity depends upon the prosperity of every section. If hereafter I ascertain that I am wrong and that the public good requires me to change my views, I hope I will have the courage to do so, and state the reasons therefor as frankly as I have given the reasons for my present convictions. Sam Jones Power. Southern Bivouac for January. lie is perhaps the finest exhibition of the effect of apparently reserved force that we r have ever known. He never seems to know that he is making any such impression: yet, as he stands in easy, nonchalant attitude, pausing between sentences as he leisurely walks the platform, seeming to select a pebble from a mountain of bowlders at his command, he is the impersonation of reserved force. The effect of this is simply tremendous. This is equally true when, as a matter of fact, the sentences he is uttering are the crystallized result of the inten sest preparation of which he is capable, and contain the ultimate light within his reach. It is equally true when he is repeating himself for the twentieth time to the same audience. The faculty is marvelous, and its power almost boundless. After the influence over the masses, the legitimate result of his unflagging wit, love, and profound earnestness, the next element of power is his reliance upon intuitive rather than logical methods of statine truth. Like all men who nave moved the masses, he dogmatizes, and that with such fury of earnestness that the hearer, for the time at least, does not stop to doubt Accompanying and as a part of this method is a tere and remarkably lucid statement of practical truth, put in the most cogent and powerful form of which words are capable. All grammatical and rhetorical rules are sacrificed, even a moderate respcct for good taste is ignored, if it be in the way of pungency and power. Usually the force of the statement crushes its own way tocoaviction. If the statement Is regarded as not perfectly lucid in itself, he never restates nor argues it, but trusts to illustration, by w'aich method he escapes all confusion and keeps alic a keen interest. Take his solution of the question. Where does the evil of gambling lie? He thus illustrates: "A centleman said to me, 'Why do you so denounce all games of chance and speculations in futures? The element of chance found in tbeso runs through all the transactions of life. -If you plant a cotton crop, it 1s a chance as to whether 3'ou make or lose; you start on a Christian course, it is a cuance a to whether j ou win or lose.' " Mr. Jones replies: "All you say is true: but if I plant cotton and tdiould raise a large crop ana sell it at a fine price, is anybody else necessarily hurt thereby?. If I begin a Christian life, and ran well the race until a crown be won, is anybody else hurt thereby?" No casuist who has once heard him can forget the kernal which he has thus deftly disencumbered of all huk. Eminent Men. It may be observed that no attempt is made to hunt up out of the way or unknown places to find names to indorse Simmons Liver Regulator: A Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. m John W. IJeckwith, Uishop of Georgia, General John H. Gordon, U. 8. Senator, Hon. John Gill Shorter, ex-Governor of Alabana, IleT. David Wills, D. D., President Oglethorpe College, , ,. Jlishop Pierce, of Georgia,' Judge Jas. Jackson, Supreme Court, Ga., And did spare and time permit we could 11 A volume with th highst ttttimynl&Js,

THE HOME. It is cot docMed that men have a home In that place where each one has established his hearth and the sum of his potewions and fortunes, whence he will not depart if nothing calls him away: whence If he has departed he seems to be a wanderer, and if he returns he ceases to wander. Condition from Civil Law. "Then rtay at borne, my heart, and rest. The bird is safest in the nest; O'er all that flutter tneir wings and fly, A hawk is hovering in the &ky." Longfellow. YOUNG FOLKS.

Which Do Yon Like Best? There is a little frolicsome maid I know Who has a question she puts to me Whenever ciose to my side she com, Or into my lap where she loves to be. Which do yon like best?' says the little maid. Her fae with comical furrows lined, "hammer or winter?" and then she waits To give me a chance to make up my mind. If Pummer" I answer, she pinches me well You wouldn't believe that she had such might And says, at each nip with her finger and thumb, t-keeters! skeetersl Oh, how they bite!" If 'Winter" I say, she will double her fists And pommel me well : and at every blow, "bnow-balls! snow-balls!" she cries aloud, And laughs to find that she hurts me so. 'Tis a pretty play, and I do not care How thick the snow-balls or "skeeten" fall; For 1 love both summer and winter time, But 1 love my darling the best of all. Josephine Pollard ia Harper's Young People. The Toothful Peacemaker. With little Harry on her knee, The mother tells of history; Of ancient and of modern story, Of war and blood, cxpeme and gloryWhen Harry of his mother asks, What is it all about? I see the combat, but the cause lean not well make out." 'You ask what they are fighting for? Two kings fell out and went to war. And men were killed mid cannon's roar, And cities fell to rise no more. Then Council met when war was over, The cause for fihtinc to discover." Yonng Harrv to his mother says, "It surely was not right; Why did not council meet at first, And save the fearful tight?" The Peacemaker. Lessons in Kindness to Anim&la. Geo. T. Angcll in Our Dumb Animals.J Think before you strike any creature that cannot speak. I rember about reading in my boyhood about a merchant travelling on horseback accompanied by his dog. He dismounted for some purpose, and accidentally dropped his package of money. The dog saw it. The merchant did not. The dog barked to stop him, and he rode farther, bounded m front of the horse and barked louder and louder. The merchant thought he had gone mad, drew a pistol from his jocket and shot him. The wounded dog crawled back to the package, and when the merchant discovered his lots and rode back, he found his dying dog laying there faithfully guaruing his treasure. The following little story told by a friend of mine is not so painful, but adds force to the thought, "Think before you strike any creature that cannot sgeak." "When I was a boy and lived nptbe mountains of New Hampshire, 1 worked for a farmer, and was given a span of horses to plough with, one of which was a four-year-old colt. The colt, after walking a few steps, would lie down in the furrow. The farmer was provoked, and told me to sit on the the colt's head to keep him from rising, while he whipped him, 'to break out that notion,' as he said. But just then a neighbor came by. He said, 'there's something wrong here; let him get up, and let us examine.' He patted the colt, looked at his harness, and then said, 'Look at this collar; it is so long and narrow and carries the harness so high, that when he begins to pull, it slips back ahd chokes him so he can't breathe. And so it was, and but for that neighbor we should have whipped as kind a creature as we had on the farm, because he laid down when he couldn't breathe." It was only the other day I heard of a valuable St. liernard dog being shot, because, having a wound on Iiis head, concealed by the hair, he bit a person who handled him roughly. Boys, young and old, please remember that these creatures are dumb. They may be hungry or thirsty, or cold, or faint, or sick, or hruised, or wounded, and cannot tell you. "Think before you strike any creature that cannot speak' A It r y Boy. f Chicago Herald. 1 "Oh yes, I haye all kinds of tenants,,' said a kind-faced old gentleman ; "but the one I like the best is a child not more than ten years of age. A few years ago I got a chance to buy a piece of land over on the West Bide, and did so. I noticed that there was an old coop of a house on it, but paid no attention to it. After awhile a man came to me and wanted to know if I would rent it to him. " 'What do you want it for?' said I. " 'To live in,' he replied. " 'Well,' I said, 'jou can have iL Tay iae what you think it is worth to you.' "The first month he brought two dolls fs, and the second month a little boy, who so!d he was the man's son, came with three dollars. After that I saw the man once in a while, but in the course of time the boy paid the rent regularly, sometimes two dollars and sometimes three dollars. One day I asked the boy what had become of his father. " 'He's dead, sir, was the reply. ' " 'Is that so?' said I. 'How Jong since?' " 'More'n a year.' he answered. "I took his money, but I made up my mind that I would go over and investigate, and the next day 1 drove over there. The old shed looked quite decent, I knocked at the door, and a little girl let me in. 1 asked for her mother. ' 'Where is sher said I. " 'We don't know sir. She went away after my father died, and we've never seen her since.' "Just then a little girl about three years old came in, and I learned that these three children had been keeping house together for a year and a half, the boy supporting his two little sisters by blacking boots and selling newspapers, and the elder girl managing the house and taking care of the baoy. "The next time the boy came with the rent I said, " 'My boy, you ore a little man! Youkeen right o'n as you have begun, and you will never be sorry. Keep your little sisters together, and never leave them. Now look at this. "1 showed him a ledger in whieo I had entered up all the money he had paid me for rent, ami I told him it was all bis with interest. 'Yon keep right on,' says I, 'and I'll be your banker, and when this amounts to a little more I'll see that you get a house somewhere of your own. That's the kind of tenant to have." Ilia Lessons. I Youth's Companion. "If more fathers would take a course with their sons similar to the one my father took with me," observed one of the leading business men of Boston, "the boys might think hard at the time, but they'd thank them in afterlife." "What sort f a course?" we asked. "Well, I was a young fellow of twentytwo, just out of college; and I felt myself of considerable importance. I knew ray father was well off, ana my head was full of foolish notions of having a good time and spending lots of moBey, Later on I expected father to start me in business, after I'd 'swelled' round a while at the clubs and with fine horse-flesh. "Like wise man, father saw through my folly, and resolved to prevent my self-destruction, if possible. " 'If the boy's eot the right stuff in him. let him prove it,' I heard father say to mother one day. 'I worked hard for my money, and I don't intend to let Ned squander it and ruin himself, besides.' "That very dav father came along and Landed a$ tfiyöoliars, rwaikjj 'fled,

take that money, spend it as yon choose, bat nrderstaad this much: it's the last dollar of my money you can have till yon Prove yourself capable of earning money and takiDg care of it on your own account.' "I took the money in a sort of daied manner, and stammered out, 'I why 1 I want to go into business.' "'Business!' exclaimed father, contemptuously, 'what do yon know about managing the mercantile business? Get a clerkship and learn the alphabet, before you talk to me of business.' And father left me then to ponder on his words. An that fifty dollars was the last money my father ever gave me, till at his death I received my part of thepropeity. "I felt nard and bitter then, felt my father was a stingy old fogy, and mentally resolved to prove to him that I could live without his money. He had roused my pride just what he intended, I suppose. "For threat days I looked around for a place to make lots of money. Bat I found no such chances, and, at length, I accepted a clerkship in a large retail store at four hundred dollars a year. "Another bit of father's 'stinginess' at this time was demanding two dollars a week for my board through that first year. "At the end of that first year I had laid aside two hundred dollars, and the next year, my salary being raised a hundred, I had five hundred laid by. "One hundred cents meant more to me in those days than one hundred dollars had, previously. ... "At the end of four year's clerking I went to ray father with fifteen hundred dollars of my own. and asked him if he was willing to help me enter business. Even then he would only let . me hire the money, two thousand dollars, at Bix per cent, interest. "To-day, I am called a snccessful business man. And I have my father to thank for it. Those lessons of self-denial, self-respect and independence which he gave me, put the manhood into me. "Years afterwards, father told me it cost him the hardest struggle of his life to be so hard with his boy. But he felt it was the only course to make a man of me. Many a time we've laughed over that two-dollar board-bill." THE HENDRICKS MONUMENT.

The Committee Greatly Encouraged by the Interest Manifested in the Project. Hon. John A. Hoi man returned from Chicago yesterday, where he had been in the interest of the Hendricks Monument fund. When asked regarding the prospects of the Association he said: "We are feeling very much encouraged at the interest which is everywhere manifested in the success of the monumental fund. Here is a dispatch I have just received from Hon. Charles Levi Woodbury, one of the most prominent and influential Democrats of Boston, who says: 'The Eastern friends of the late Vice President are interested in your efforts to raise a public monument to his memory.' Yesterday a telegram of similar import was received from General Koper A. Pryor, in which he says the New York friends and admirers of Mr. Hendricks will cordially co-operate. 1 returned this mornmorning from Chicago, where remarkable interest is manifested. A citizens' committee of a dozen prominent gentlemen, headed by Totter Palmer and Marshall Field, was appointed last evening, and their action will be supplemented by the organized efforts of the Iroquois Club, the county Democracy and the Young Men's Democratic Club. They are all enthusiastically interested, and exceedingly handsome results may be expected. SSL Louis is likewise co-operating, and a representative or the Executive Committee is to meet gentlemen of that city on Friday in relation to the matter. The returns from the country at large indicate a remarkable manifestation of interest in the monument project. The East, West arid North will all co-oporate, and advices from Washington indicate that considerable may be expected from that quarter. Our own State is being vigorously and methodically canvassed, and will yield a generous response. Indianapolis has not been canvassed, and has been purposely passed over until after the holidays. Committees are now arranging for their work, and the canvass will be commenced immediately. The work of the Executive Committee has been prosecuted vigorously and unremittingly, and the project is an assured success if the information we have at hand is at all trustworthy. Our intention is to complete the raising of funds within sixty days from the present time, and we believe that can be accomplished." The Chicago Herald, speaking of the movement there, says: "At the . Iroquois Club Kooms yesterday afternoon President Phelps presided over a meeting held for the purpose of taking some action favoring the erection ot a $100,000 monument to the late Vice President at Indianapolis. Judge Holman, of Indianapolis, was present to lay the project properly before the meeting. The following were appointed a committee to take the matter in charge in this city: Potter Palmer, Judge Gresham, Marshall Field, Wirt Dexter, W. C, Goudy, W. C. McCormick, William C. Seipp, Francis C. Hoffman, Peter Studebaker, Carter H. Harrison, Judge Itogere, IL R. Cable, A. M. Wright and Colonel John H. Ray." SENSATIONAL MARRIAQE. A Yonng and Pretty Blonde of Cleveland Weds a Dusky Adonis. Cleveland, O., Jan. 7. There is great excitement among the residents of Brownell street, a thoroughfare that crosses Euclid avenue and penetrates the best residence part of the city. Last night Miss Ina Norton, a pretty blonde residing at No. CO BroVnell street, went to 1(52 Prospect street to participate in a social game of cards at a party gathered at the" house of a Miss English. Throughout the evening she seemed extremely nervous, cud at 10 p. m. requested some one to take her hand from her. Rising from the table she went into the hall, and was seen no more. Her parents, who were present at the time, are very anxious about the girl's disappearance, and reported the matter to police headquarters. This morning it was learned that a marriage license had been issued to Gus Barberand Mertis I. Norton. Calling at the house on Brownell street, a reporter was met at the door by a colored domestic, who immediately asked: "Are you a reporter?" Answering in the affirmative, he was told that Mrs. Norton could see no one. Inquiry of the colored servant elicited the fact that she was very well acquainted with Barber, but Mrs. Norton, who had evidently been listening, appeared on the scene and said that there was nothing to be stated. The reporter then called at the home of Miss English. A number of friends of the Norton family were present and the following facts were ascertained: The Norton family moved from Seville, 0., to Cleveland, three years ago, and opened a boarding-house near the Hollenden Hotel. Two colored domestics were employed, one of whom is at present with the family, These girls had two lovers, Bragg and Barber, both of whom were tonsorial rtists. Barber is a colored Adonis, and it trtuspires that his affections were rapidly transferred from the servant to her white mistress, and Miss Ina did not seem to be averse to the same. Clandestine meetings were frequent, the colored girl acting i. a go-between, and on Wednesday afternoon Barber's colored chum, Bragg, procured a marriage license for him, and Mr. Augustus Barber was united in marriage to Miss Ina Norton, at the residence of Rev. Gassoway, pastor of the African M. E. Church, on Erie street, Wednesday afternoon. The lovers then separated. Miss Ina went to the card party, and leavinir her hand with a friend she went outside, met Barber, who was in waiting with his faithful Bragg. A carriage whisked them to the Union Depot, and it ia supposed they took the train to the

WHO'LL BE A FARMER'S WIFE?

Letter From a Young Man Who ia Running sua Indiana Farm. . New York Herald Among the mail sent to Superintendent Jackson, of the Commissioners of Emigration, yesterday, was a letter addressed as follows: "To the most rcppctfnl man at Castle Garden, New fork, U. S." The contents of the communication were as curious and quaint as the superscription. The writer, who is evidently in very serious earnest, wants a wife, ana expresses himself as follows: Miuhowe, Decatur County, Ind., Jan. 1, 18S5. Uskkows Friend I set pen upon paper to write to yon a few lines. In which 1 will tell you briefly what I want. 1 am a farmer, twenty-two years of age, an enjoy perfect health. I have been since twenty years lame in my left loot, whit-h, however, docs not prevent me in doing the hardest work. My parents are wealthy and hare 200 acres of land, and I being the only son of the house they are willing to give me a good start. To attend to such a big- farm as wiübc necessary I will leave the following to you : 1 want a good Uigh t.erman girl as my wife and housekeeper. he must not be less than fifteen nor more than twenty years old. She must be at least five feet high and of pretty figure, and she must be able to cook, bake, wash, mend, darn, sew and take charge. I need a womau only for common housework. I have the best machinery which a farmer needs. If such a woman is there who wants a rood home she shall write to me as soon as possible and send her portrait. I conclude with many good wishes for yon all, and especially many kisses to the beautiful girls who are there and who wish a happy borne. I am your dear friend, John Former, Xfllhousen. P. S. Dear Girls Write to me as soon as possible. When you are wanting a good home and a a happy life let me know. 1. Dear Unknown Friends To-day"being New Year's I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. 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IMDIAN VEGETABLE i FILLS CURE All Bilious Complaints. They are perfectly safe to tafce, being mxtH ftoKTAMix and prepared with the greatest care tram the best drugs. They relieve the sufferer at fuse by carrying off ail Impurities throve!) towels. All druascists, SSaaBox. Ed. P. Firei?, Attorney for PklntlfT. SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of an execution to me directed from the Clerk of the fuperio Court of Marion County, Indiana, I will eipoM at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 23d DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. lfctf, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clocK p. m. of said day, at the door of the Conrt-honsa of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profos for a term not exceeding seven years, of the fol lowing real estate, to-wit: Lots numbered thirteen (13), fourteen (H flft teen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), eighteen (1M, nineteen (19) and twenty (20), In block number four (4); also lots numbered twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), thirty (00), thirty-one (31), thirty-two 'Si) and thirty-three (33), in block number five (5); also lota numbered seven (7), eight b), nine ('J), ten (10). eleven (11), twelve (12, thirteen 13) and fourteen (14), in block number twelve (12); also lota number tven ". eight (), nine (9). ten (10, eleven (11), twelve (12) and thirteen (13), ia block number thirteen (13) ; also lots numbered twenty-seven (27), twentyeight t2K. twenty-nine (29). thirtr (30). thirtv-one (31) and thirty-two (32. in block number eighteen (li); also lots numbered fifteen (15), sixteen (10), seventeen (17) and eighteen (IS), in tlock number nineteen (19); also lots number twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-two r.ti), thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34). In block number twenty-five (25): all situate in North Indi anapoli.i. Marlon County, Indiana. Also lots numbered one hundred anil fourteen 114, one hundred and thirtv-three (13C). one hundred and thirty-four (134), three hundred and sixty (300). three hundred and sixtv-one (361), three hundred and sixty-two (362) and three hundred and sixty three (St3), in 11. K. Allen's second nortn addition to the City of Indianapolis, Marion county. Indiana. And on failure to reallz the fnll amount ot Judgment, interest and costs, I will, at the same time ind place, expose at public sale the Ice simple of saia real estate. Taken as the property of Indianapolis Wagon and Agricultural Works, at the suii of Kobert Browning et al. Said sale to be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement lawa. (Case Ko. 15,56:;) GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. December 2S. A. D. 1885. Vax Vorhis SrcfciR, Attorneys for Plain ti SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of a certified eopy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein John VI. Birk et ah are plaintiffs, and June Abbott, exr., etc. et al., ara defendants, (Ca.e No. 28,630), requiring me to make the sums of money in said decree provided, and in manner as provided for in said decree, with interest on said decree and corts, I will expose at public sale, to the highebt bidder, on FRIDAY, THE 23d DAY OF JAOJARY, A. D. IMC, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Conrt-houe cf Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wit: All that part of the west half of the southea t quarter of section thiny (30), township seventeen (17). north of range five (5), lying west of Fall Creek, in Marion County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a snOcient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and conts, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. GEORGE H. CARTER. Sheriff of Marion County. December 26. A. D. 185. Bcbns fc Elliott, Attorneys for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, m a cause wherein Herman Mitschrich is plaintiff, and Adolph Bauer ct al. are defendants, (case No. 33,223), requiring me to make the sum of seven hundred and seven dollars and thirty-three cents ($707.33), with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE 23d DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 16. I etween the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.. of said day, at the door of the Court hone of Marion County, Indiana, the rents and profits' for a term not exceeding seveu years, of the following real estate, to-wit: Lot number seven (7). in Albert Crane's suMIvision of outlot number one hundred and fifty eight (10$), in the City of Indianapolis, in Marion Countv and State of Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree. Interest and costs, 1 will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of sau' real ejtate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient todischarys said decree, interest and cosu. Said sale will bo made without any relief whatever from valuation. Of appraisement laws. GEORGE H. CARTER, Sheriff of Marion County. December 2S, A. D. 1S85. I . James M. Wis rtas Attorney for Plaintiff. SHERIFF'S SALE Bv virtue or a certified copy of a decree to me directed, from the Clerk of Uie superior Court of Marion County, Indiana, in a cause wherein Frederick Rand, Receiver, etc.. 1 plaintiff and Mary Morrison ct al. are defendants. (cae No. 34.249.) requiring me to make the sum of money in said decree provided and ia manuer as provided for in said decree, with interest on said decn and cost. I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on SATURDAY, THE SOTH DAY OF JANUARY, A. V., 1SS6, Between the honrs of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m., of said day, at the door of the Court-house of Marion County. Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following real estate, to-wit: Lot twelve 12). in square forty-five (4M, except twenty-five (25 feet on the alley north of said lot, in the city of Indianapolis. Also cue undivided fifth oflot number six (f), except ninety (90) feet ofl the north end, in l'attersou's subdivision of square number nineteen (19, in the city of fndiana)olis. Also one undivided fifth of lots number twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twer.ty-lwo (22). twentvthrce (23. twenty-four (2l, twentv-five 2.'), twenty -six ("() and" twenty-seven i27), of Morrison and Talbot's subdivision of a seven (7) acre tract in the east half of the northeast quarter of section seven (7). township fifteen U5i. range f"ir (4, south of the Michigan Road, iu the city Of Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest anl costs. I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real eUMe, or so much 'thereof as rcay be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Saidsale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws, geokge 11. carter. Sheriff of Marion County. i January 4. A. D., 1SS6. (ffl CHEAPER JHÄK EVER; f'Jf lr. Urrrk LMin, IIS. Tk.wli fcaet Ümm AUW III, at-M-r ( mmmmtrd Klttm. .. Bailee Pkstm, .icb, tarn, t. Sw4 ru, tug CilMM! MlainM. IMA IV f. I 0WZL1 105. 180 Elia SU CIS CIS KAIL. 0