Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1889 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1889.

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EARLY DAYS IX INDIANA.

REMINISCENCES OF HUGH M'CULLOCH Ui"Men and Meaiurc of Half t Century" Indianapolis aa It Appeared in 1833 Some of the Notable leu of That Iay An Interesting Volume. The "Men and Measures of Half a Century," by Hugh McCulIoch, ex-secretary of the treasury, i.i one of the most interesting and valuable works that has issued from the American press in a lonjj time. Mr. McCulIoch, now over eighty years of age, has been more or less prominent as a man of aflairs for fifty years, and fur the last twenty-five years has been one of the most conspicuous figures in our national life. A native of New Knjrland, he came to Indiana more thrin lifty-fivo years ajo, and continued a, resident of this ttate, actively engaged in professional and financial pursuit?, until ho was called to Washington in SCh by President Lincoln as the first comptroller of the currency. Since that time he has wrved as cabinet minister under three presidents. The reminiscences of such a man could hardly fail to be both entertaining and instructive. Mr. McCulIoch. when he left New England for the West, bore a letter of feit!. recommendation from Daniel Webster. He had no definite destination, but stopping at Cincinnati, then the "Queen Citv of the West," he met 1Z. 31. Huntington, subsequently a 17. S. circuit jude, who urged him to cast his lot in Indiana. Mr. McCulIoch went from Cincinnati to Madison, where he presented himself to Jeremiah Sullivan, one of the leading lawyers of the f täte, "with the request that he might be permitted to t-pend pome time in his office, to become acquainted with the laws of the state and learn something of western practice." His purpose, was, of course, to adopt the law as his profession. The request was readily granted, and Mr. McCulIoch "spent four or rive weeks very pleasantly in Madison, devoting fix hours toetudy, and spending the rest of the day in roaming over the picturesque hills which surround the city, and about the adjoining country, which was then being rapidly settled, chiefly by farmers from Kentucky." Mr. Sullivan, who was afterward one of the judges of the supreme court of Indiana, was the father of Algernon S. Sullivan who, when he died recently, was one of the leaders of the New York City bar. Mr. McCulIoch describes Judge Sullivan as "a high-toned, talented Virginian, and a man of great ability and uprightness." The young New Engländer had not Wen long in Madison before he determined to go no further west. He underwent an examination and secured a license to practice law. At Salem, while undergoing examination, be made the acquaintance of Charles Dewey and Isaac Houck, then, with Mr. Sullivan, "the famous lezal trio of southern Indiana." Dewey and Houck were New England men. The atter died shortly after this. Mr. Dewev Subsequently became a judge of the Fupreme court, of which Isaac Blackford was the head for many years. "I am quite sure," says Mr. McCulIoch, "that three abler judges than Blackford, Dewey and Sullivan could not have been found in any court in the United States." Dewey, he declares, "would have been an ornament to the supreme court of the United States when Marshall was its chief justice. In personal appearance he was like Mr. Webster. He had the same swarthy complexion, broad forehead, deep-set eyes and brawny figure. Mentally and physically he resembled Mr. Webster more than any one I ever met." A few years later there came to the front in Indiana a number of young men destined to great success. Conspicuous among them were Joseph G. Marshall, Caleb B. Smith, Richard W. Thompson, Henry S. Lane, Edward A. Hannegan, Samuel Parker, Horace P. P.iddle, and, a little later, George G. and William McKee Dunn. Mr. McCulloch's recollections of this galaxy of brilliant men are exceedingly interesting. Of Marshall, who died young, Mr. McCulIoch gays: "He was the strongest man of his years that I had known." Smith was "one of the best offhand speakers of the state, but he lacked industry and executive ability, and as secretary oi the interior in Mr. Lincoln's iirst cabinet he failed to meet the expectations of his friends." Thompson was "a model of graceful oratory, while Lane, who did not take high rank as a lawyer was not equalled in the state as a popular and effective stump speaker." He did not take high rank in the U. S. senate. "A purer or more honorable man," says Mr. McCulIoch "never lived." Hannegan was a natural orator and, "had he leen temperate and industrious, would have Wen one of the most prominent and useful men of his day." Parker was not an orator, but he was a keen and ready debater. Piddle was "a better scholar than any of his compeers, an admirable story teiier, an excellent mimic and a wit, and withal a good lawyer." Of the Dunns, George G., who died young, was "an able lawyer, fluent of speech, skillful in debate and a master of invective," while William McKee was "distinguished by Ids legal knowledge, sound judgment jir.d" readiness in debate." Mr. McCulIoch recalls with a few words of apt characterization Samuel Judah, Di.-t.-Atty. Howard, George H. Proffit, Andrew Kennedy, John li. Howe and John Nile, all men of distinction in their generation. The ex-secretary heard Lucy Stone deliver two loctures'at Fort Wayno shortly after his arrival in the state. She was "a small young woman, whose sweet, silvery tone reached every ear in a crowded hall, es if they had been trumpet-toneued." The labors of Lucy Stone and others in trie cause of woman at that time were fruitful in good results. "In Indiana and in many other states before this movement was commenced, the dower of widows whose husbands had died without providing for them by will was one-third art of the rents and profits for life of the andsof which their husbands vere the owners, and these lands in a new country were often unimproved. 1 knew many instances in which the widows of men vho wera extensive laud owners were

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left without any means of support. These and other unjust laws have been radically changed, and women in Indiana now have equal rights with men in regard to property, and in many other respects are made their equals." Mr. McCulIoch describes the memorable campaign of 1S40 in Indiana, Thompson, Smith and Love were the most prominent speakers on the whig side; Hannegan and Kennedy on the democratic. Public feeling was altogether with the whigs. There was really nothing objectionable about the administration of Mr. Van Buren. He was far above the average of our presidents as a statesman, and his character was beyond reproach. The financial crisis came when he was president, but he was not responsible for it. It was, however, the cau.e of his defeat for re-election. The depression which prevailed from 1SJ7 to IStfcan not, says Mr. McCulIoch, be understood by any who did not witness it. It affected all classes, but tho greatest sufferers were the day laborers and the farmers. Everything the farmer had to sell had to be disposed of in barter or for currency at ruinous prices. "I witnessed in 1S11," he says," a sale toa hotelkeeper in Indianapolis of oats at G cents a bushel, chickens at half a dollar a dozen, and egjs at : cents a dozen. Other tarm products were proportionately low '2 cents a pound net for fat cattle and hogs was tho ruling price at Cincinnati at that time tho great mart for beef and pork." These prices were not the result of overproduction, but of scarcity of money. The real causes of the panic were the inflation and wild speculation of the preceding years. In the "latter part of May, 1S:3, Mr. McCulIoch paid his first visit to Indianapolis. Ho came with Judge Sullivan and two or three other lawyers, traveling in a small spring-wagon. The roads were in shocking condition and two days were required to make the journey from Madison. A day or two after his arrival here he was examined bv the jinltres of the supreme court and licensed to practice law in all of the courts of the state. His impressions of the Indianapolis of that day are interesting. "It had been made the seat of the state government in 1821, but was not occupied as such until li2". It had been selected for the capital, not because there was anything attractive in the situation, but because it was near the geographical center of the state. Its site was upon the eastern bank of the White river, in the heart of a magnificent forest, but on what seemed to be a perfectly level plain. It had been laid off by the surveyors on a magnificent scale, with rectangular streets, ninety feet, and avenues radiating from the center, 120 feet in width. Ample provision had been made for parks to inclose the public buildings, and the plan of the city upon paper was attractive and artistic, but upon paper only. Little resemblance, indeed, did the place itself bear to the plat. The parks, in which were the state-house, just then completed, and the court-house, had been inclosed with post-and-rail fences, but nothing had been done to the street, except to remove the stumps from two or three of those most used. All of the noble old troes walnuts, oaks, poplars, the like of which will never be peen again had been cut down, and around the parks younar locust and other inferior but rapidly growing trees had been set out. There were no walks, and the streets most in use, after every rain, and for a good part of the year, were knee deep with mud. "As a director of the state bank I was under the necessity lor many years of inakine quarterly trips on horseback from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, through a country almost impassable by carriages of any kind, and yet I never encountered mud deeper or more tenacious than in the streets of the capital of the state. I have seen many of the incipient towns of the West, but none so utterly forlorn as Indianapolis appeared tome in the spring of 1 S3: 1. It had no local advantages except tho fact that it was surrounded by a very fertile country; nothing to recommend "it but its being "the metropolis of the state. There were then only two bridges in Indiana, and these had been built by the United Slates in anticipation of the extension from Richmond toTerre Haute of the national road, which extension was prevented by the veto of President Jackson. Upon none of the roads were wagons in use, even for carrying the mails, except those from Madison and Terre Haute to the capital. From all other points it could only be reached by those who traveled on foot or on horseback. No one who saw Indianapolis when I saw it lor the first time could have anticipated its rapid growth and present condition. No one could have dreamed that in half a century this almost inaccessible village would become a great railroad center, with large and varied manufactures, a population of a hundred thousand souls, one of the best built and most populous cities in the Union not situated upon navigable waters. The engineers who surveyed it and platted it were wiser than their critics. The plat which then seemed so preposterous in the extent of ground it covered, has been again and again extended by additions to meet the wants of its constantly increasing population. Instead of being inaccessible, there are few counties in the state which are not connected with it by railroads, and hundreds of trains are daily arriving at it or passing through it. Then, three or four days of hard horseback-riding were required for the inhabitants of the remote counties to reach the capital ; now they reach it by railroads in as many hours. "Indianapolis was fortunate in the character of its early settlers. Such men as Nicholas McCarty, James Blake, Samuel Merrill, Harvey Bates, Calvin Fletcher, James M. Pav, John Coburn and Dr. Coo are rarely found in any place. Their superiors in intelligence, in enterprise and moral worth can be found nowhere. What was true in regard to the early settlers of Indianapolis was also true of those in ruanv other Indiana towns. Nor have their successors been degenerate. No state has been more prolific of superior men than Indiana; few have have been as well represented in congress." Mr. McCulIoch speaks particular!' of Gov. Morton, Thomas A. Hendricks and Senator Voorhees, with all of whom ho became acquainted in early days. Of Hendricks he speaks in especially llattering terms, and Senator Voorhees ho praises as "one of Indiana's favorite and most highly and justly honored sons." . Mr. McCulIoch concluded to "prospect" in the northern part of the state, and started on horseback from Indianapolis, "going first to Iogansport, then to South iiend and Laporte, and then via Goshen to Fort Wayne, where ha concluded to "locate." The country through which ho parsed on this circuitous journey was an unbroken wilderness, aud Mr. McCulIoch had some novel experiences and adventures, of which he gives an entertaining account. Fort Wayne M as an Indian trading post, and "had little to recommend it but its site, an elevated plateau at the junction of the St. Joseph's and St Mary's rivers, which formed the Mantnee." The population consisted largely of French and Indians, but among those who were there when Mr. McCulIoch arrived, or came shortly afterward, Mere Samuel Hanna, Allen Hamilton, George W. Ewing, William G. Ewing, Samuel Lewis (hose wifo was an aunt of Gen. Lew Wallace), Jesse L. "Williams, and others who became wealthy and prominent in after years. "Since 1833, A says Mr. McCulIoch, "I have seen aood deal of the world. I have been

thrown among people of all grades. I have been brought into social and business relations with men standinz high in public esteem; but the men of whom I have spoken, after the lapse of more than half a century, stand out before me in bold relief as remarkably intelligent, enterprising, far-seeing, and withal kindhearted, generous men." Mr. McCulIoch gives some verv interesting reminiscences of John B. Richard ville. the famous chief of the Miamis, and discourses pleasantly of the Indians, the frontiersmen and the traders who constituted the bulk of the population of Indiana in the thirties. Shortly after his arrival in Fort Wayne the state bank of Indiana was chartered. Thirteen branches Mere established the eleventh at Fort Wayne, of which Mr. McCulIoch became cashier and manager, lie retained this post until the charter of the bank expired, Jan. 1, 1857. It Mas succeeded bv the "bank of the state of Indiana," of which Mr. McCulIoch was the first president. The bank went out of existence in ISO.; upon the passage of tho act of congress by which notes of all banks except, national banks Mere suliect to a 10 per cent. tax. Mr. McCulIoch devotes considerable space to a history of the state bank of Indiana and its successor, and this is among the most important and valuable portion of the M-ork. Of the old etate bank he says: "If the history of this bank should be written, it uould' be both interesting and instructive. It Mould be the history of a bv.nk which, although established in a pom- state and committed to the charge of inexperienced men. through periods of speculation and depression, prosperous and un prosperous years, was so managed as largely to increase the wealth of the state, and secure

for itself a reputation for honorable le.il- I

ings and Ldehty to its engagements which placed it in tho first rank of wisely and honorably conducted banking institutions. Of its managers, my associates some of them for nearly a quarter of a century my recollections are ot the pleasantest nature. More upright, trustworthy men could not be found anywhere. There may have been, there may be now, better bankers; but, wide as my acquaintance and observation have been, it has not been my good fortune to meet them. Merrill and Kay, the president and cashier of the bank : Lanier, Fletcher, Bianchard, Dunning, Fitch, Ball, Pattibone, Boss, ßurkham, Orr, Rector, Chapin and others, directors of the bank and managers of the braii'-hes. Mere all of them men of sterling qualities and great aptitude for business. In this bank there Mas no betrayal of trust, and only one single instance was there of official dishonesty. At the quarterlv meetings of the directors of the bank at Indianapolis, at M hich all the branches M"ere represented, the balances between the banks Mere adjusted. Very frequently considerable amounts passed from hand to hand in these adjustments, and such was the confidence which the directors had in each other that no receipts Mere ever given. Fach entered upon his memorandum book his payments and receipts, and in no case Mas this confidence found to have been misplaced." In April, ISCm, Mr. McCulIoch terminated his residence in Indiana and entered a broader sphere of action. Immediately after the national banking law M-as passed Mr. McCulIoch was tendered, and accepted the ollice of comptroller of the currency, whose arduous duties he performed Mith signal ability and distinguished success. When Mr. Lincoln entered upon his second term, March 4, 1n-, he appointed Mr. McCulIoch secretary of the treasury, which position he retained throughout Mr. Johnson's administration. In 1S70 he went to England, and for six or seven years he was engaged in the banking business in London as a partner of Jay Cooke. After his return he did not engage in active business. In October, 1884, President Arthur tendered him the secretaryship of the treasury. Mr. McCulIoch accepted the office and fulfilled its duties until Mr. Cleveland succeeded to the presidency, when he withdrew to his country seat" in Maryland, where he is spending in peaceful and dignified retirement the closing years of his active and distinguished life. His book is full of interesting information about the public men and affairs of the last quarter of a century. As a cabinet officer under three presidents, Mr. McCulloch's opportunities for full and accurate knowledge of the events of which he writes Mere of the best. His estimate of the public men Mith whom he has been brought in contact of Lincoln and Johnson, Grant and Arthur, Chase, Fessenden and others differing very materially, as to some of them, from the popular estimate, are the results of intimate persona! acquaintance, and will certainly impress the unprejudiced reader as being eminently fair and just. Mr. McCulIoch writes of these and other prominent figures in our recent history very freely. Mith an evident purpose to give the world the right measure of their characters and abilities. He expresses his views upon the public questions of the past and present without reserve, and with great clearness and force. The tariff question he handles M ith special ability. As the result of his wide observation and thorough study of this subject, he declares, with great emphasis, that the tariff ought to be reduced to a revenue standard, and that adherence to the present policy of high protection for any considerable period must bring disaster upon the country. Coming from an old whig aud original republican, and from one of Mr. McCulloch's great ability as a financier and economist anil large experience in practical affairs, and Mho is, withal, beyond the influence of personal ambition or selfish motives of any kind, this opinion ought to have great weight with the American people. Among the most readable portions of Mr. McCulloch's book are tho chapters devoted to his life in England, in which he gives his impressions of Gladstone, John Bright and other leading British statesmen, and the chapter about Hoary Ward Beecher, with whom Mr. McCulIoch Mas on terms of intimacy for half a century, and for whose genius and character his admiration Mas unbounded. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.) Not So amby-Inmly. Tlie Knoch.) Waiter (to customer) "Well, sah, what'll be next?" t'ustomer "Well er I don't know what I do want." Waiter "I can give yo' onie nice apple fritter, sah." Customer (a little indignantly) "What do you mean by asking a man like myself to eat such a nambypamby mess as apple fritters?" Waiter "Yes, sah, apple fritters with cognac sauce." Customer "'Well, I might as well try a few of the fritters." A Wonderful Invention. To tue Eoitor Sir: Ity readini? The SevtixelI find many plans and suggestions for making an election law in such a way that it will be impossible, for anybody but the voter to know how ho votes or voted at an election. Kvery plan so farsnsgesteJ is, I find, either partly or entirely a failure. I havs apian, the moot eiinplo in iu nature, tliat will prerlu e tho possibility ot anybody, either outside or inside the voting place, knowing how any voter votes or votod. Now, strange as this may appear, I ran demonstrate that any voter, never so deaf, never so blind, or never so illiterate, can pass through and vole any ticket he may desire, or (or any candidate or persons not aa the ticket he may desire to vote for, with an impossibility for anybody but himself knowing for whom he voted. Nor can the voter demonstrate or furnish any proof to other person or persons how he is votinir or how h voted, nor can the voter or anybody el-ie corrupt the ballot-box or any of ti.e ticketboxes, nor change or alter ticket, nor"rl;we spurious tickets iu any of the boxes to mislead other voters without beinn detected immediately. Now, Mr. Kditor, this in a matter I cannot explain by letter or diagram. Will you be no kind as to have a committee of law-makers appointed, that I may appear before It and demonstrate the truth of every proposition I here make. I refer you to the Hon. Michael Carroll, representative for this (Montgomery) county. A. 1. Willis. OawfonUilIe, Jan. 25.

BILL XYE AND THE FALLS.

THE HUMORIST'S VISIT TO NIAGARA. A Itlizzard and 'William Arrives About the Same Time His Quaint Experience A Call on Got, Hill at Albany. Test-Dispatch. Still at Large, Looking West, 1SS0. Niagara Falls at present is practically free for all. You can go and look at them as you would at the aurora borealis or the rich creamy contour of the uuskum milky way. If you walk to tho falls and carry your dinner, you need not run up a large bill. The hackman even takes you the entire road of the falls on both sides the whirlpool, the Three Sisters islands, Goat island, and everything else nt an agreed price. You got a coupon ticket, which is just as good as a railroad ticket, and there can be no skullduggery about it, as Aristotle would say. We visited the Falls on the day of the blizzard which wrecked Reading, and which wound up by tipping the suspension foot bridge at Niagara into the river below. The falls have leen visited in piunmer and in winter, in the broad glare of day and the soft and mellow moonlight, but very few people have gone there during a blizzard. The day broke moist and measley at Buffalo, but at noon the gray and chopp3r clouds scattered a little, and a patch of sky could now and then be discovered. Fating a hasty meal, our party, arrayed in alpen-stocks and conscious rectitude, began the ascent from Buffalo by a circuitous route. Ve reached Niagara Falls station, whence we proceeded by drosky to our chalet. Here we r I jhted. The chalet is kept by a native ijerican, and after our long journey from Buffalo it was good to once more hear the music of our own language. Hastily eating a light lunch, we put on our top coats and in charge of a John Darin, we proceeded by diligence toward the fall via the American Hide. The storm now burst upon us in all its fury and the rain descended in the wildest profusion, saturating the falls and rendering them well nigh impassable. Our muleteer covered himself with his pontoon, wrapped his tarpaulin around his ears, and while our slender diligence swayed in the blast he drove us across to Goat island. The thunder of the immense volume of water was now swallowed up by the mighty roar of the bursting tempest, and then, as it died away, lite the wail of a perishing soul, one would again bear the sullen thunder of the great American dam tite. We now began the descent on the 6ide of Goat island looking toward the Great Horse fall. The rain fell in torrents, and as our umbrellas had been turned wrong side out by the blast we were soon wet to the skin. There we stood in the presence of the greatest spectacle America can produce, perhaps, outride of congress. Like an egotistical author Niagara for centuries has been pouring over its own works. It is really, however, beyond criticism. 1 went there thinking that if the falls really deserved scathing I would scath them through the press and inquire their business, but I mustsay that like Mr. Booth they deserve their great success and I do not blame them for respecting themselves and " having their pictures taken every little while and getting their names in the papers. They deserve all the glory they have got and" far be it from me to put a straw In the way of the progress of Niagara Falls.We next went down to the Whirlpool and on the way a detachment of John Darms escorted us with an air of suspicion. Our drosky driver evidently watched us every moment like a cat. At the Whirlpool we alighted again, being narrowly watched by the driver and a John Darm from Cohoes. Here as we reached the brink of the elilf, the blizzard struck us amidship, the great Niagara which' has assisted so manv temperance lecturers in scaring to death the moderate drinker, seemed to become silent in tho presence of Old Mr. Blizzard from the wild and unkempt West. Just then my high silk hat which I wear in ascending the Alps and doing the tourist act generally, went up into a large blue hole in the sky and while I was watching it, the square red remarks '-Keep oil the grass," with an iron rod on one side swatted me across the organ of alimcntiveness. The storm was now at its hight, the roof of the hotel gentlv lifted with the breeze, and through the fast falling rain we could see a surprised gentleman in his room just emerging through the neck-band of a bright new shirt. With a look of wonder and horror he tried to pull down the roof aain and conceal himself, but he could not do so. The storm now took off its coat and shrieked, while the Whirlpool was lashed to its greatest fury, and at the Whirlpool bazar genuine Indian moccasins, made in Connecticut, went down to $2 a pair. I made a movement toward the brink of the precipice, intending to peer down over it into the boiling waters, when I felt the grasp of a John Darm on my shoulder and I was jerked back with an oath which would have sworn in a whole precinct of non-residents at a presidential election. ".Monsieur fool hcemself," said the John Darm in pure Buffalo French, with a slight patois of the Rue de Main-sL Then grinding his teeth he managed to make me understand that I had stated in Buffalo that "I was going over the falls and through the whirlpool," but that a Nemesis was on my trail. It is very disagreeable to have your trail stepped on by a Nemesis, and so I explained that I meant to be lignrative, and so when the John Darm had opened my overcoat and found that I was not dressed in tights with doubleleaded bridge jumping shoes, he allowed mo to pass. It was here at the bazar that I met my old friend Pocomoco of tho l'iute tribe of Indians. "And what are you doing here, so far away from home, Pocomoco?" I asked in tho light-running domestic accents of the Piute tongue. "I am here," he replied in the same language, "to procure our regular supply of Indian relics for the coming year. We cannot compete any longer with Connecticut in tho manufacture of genuine Indian relics. So we come to Niagara Falls for them. We also get most of our ornamental bead work done in Fngland, and our ornamental massacre business is done there too. The white man has facilities which we do not have, and so the red man's goose is practically cooked. We buy all our weapons and headache sticks now at Kidley's and our tomahawks at MacyV. Wo get our bows and arrows made at Waterbury, Conn., and Jordan, Marsh & Co. furnish us with our lingerie. Wo can buy arrow-heads cheaper than wo can make them, and why should we toil over a homemade arrow-head all day when we can steal a horse in ten minutes that will bring nice new relics enough to last us a year?Wo have in cur tribe favored free trade, and so we, with our infant industries, aro thrown into direct competition with the pauper relic-makers of the Bowery. You can buy a good scalp at Chatham-square Children Cry for.

for 69 cents to-day, and so the war-path is practically overgrown with gras3. In a year or two men with sample-cases will, no doubt, visit the Indian tribes and sell their year's supply of everything in that lino. We are utterly discouraged. There has not been a warlike attitude among the Piutes since tho buckwheat-pancake outbreak of '55." Friday we visited Gov. Hill at Albany and tried to mold the policy of the 6tate. He spoke kindly of other things, but said he was doing his own molding almost entirely. Gov. Hill has his office in the new capitol building, and it is swept out before he comes down each day. He has a private office in which he does his executive work, and then there is a large general ollice where he appears when encored by the populace, and where he lows and tries to look pleasant when flawed over by strangers for instance who lave just visited Niagara and then desire to scrutinize the governor of New York. He has a cold, calm eye with which he encouraged me to forget some bright and bon hotnmo things which I had thought of saying to him. I had intended to chirk him up with a few buoyant thoughts of which I am the parent, but I did not do it and I am glad now that I did not. Gov. Hill is one of the most esteemed coterie of bald-headed men. He represents the better element of democracy which, though bald, scorns to comb its back hair up over the place. lies stand for candor and honesty at the polls. Some say that I resetnblo him a little, but people who have seen us together talking over tho future of our common country, say that they can readily distinguish the governor irom me. His figure was more commanding than mine and his carriage is more graceful and has redder wheels than mine. When we walk together people easily nick me out, because I walk with more freedom and a sinuous movenent which takes up most of the sidewalk. An old teamster with whom I associated, once said I would never make a good roadster as my feet did not "track." My walk is more extemporaneous than Gov. Hill's. He possesses a conscious dignity which I sadly lack. This lack of dignity secures for me at a strange hotel the room in which former guests have been in the habit of blowing out the gas, or their brains such as they are. and there is a soiled place on the threshold of the transom where the bell boy has been in the habit of crawling over to examine deceased. This room also has an old fashioned bell cord in it, with a woolly tassel at one end, while the other is tied to a brick building on the next block. Alter holding the hand of the governor for quite a while, and trying to think of something to say to him which would rix my face in his memory for four 3"ears, I said we were having rather an open winter it seemed to me, and then, gently but reluctantly I gave him back his hand, to do with it as he might think best. There being no obstacle placed in my way at this time, I came away by means of the door, which was held ajar by a man who seems to have the entire confidence of the governor. Bill Nye.

ARTEMUS WARD'S FORESIGHT. He Couldn't Afford to Work on n Newspaper That Was Unreliable. Cincinnati Times-Star. There is an unlimited amount of humor on tap in the average newspaper office, and the other day some historian unearthed an anecdote of Artemus Ward's first experience as a reporter on a Cleveland newspaper. That was before he became known as a humorist, and he was pressed into the harness as the Jenkins of the establishment. One evening ho was sent out to write up a "swell" entertainment to be given by the leading club of the city. On his way to the hall Ward met a friend. "Which way, Charles?" "Going to write up a sort of a flv shindig." "Let's go in and take a bowl. I'm going down that way pretty soon." They went into a beer. hall. "I must go," said Ward, after he had spent half an hour in the place. "Oh, no; sit down. Let's have another bowl. av, vou can write up that affair ust as well from the program as you can y seeing the performance. Got a pro gram, haven t vou? "Yes.': "Well, write it up and let's make a little round." "Ward surrendered. He wrote up the performance, took the article to the office, and, after having received the praise of the city editor for the gracefulness of his work, went out with his friend. The next morning he read his 'report' and was much pleased with his own ingenuity, but his complacency was of short life, for, taking up another paper, he read the following announcement: "The performance of the A club, in consequence of the sudden illness of a 'leading' feature, did not take place last night." Ward had not the courage to go to the office, but boarded the first outgoing train. Three months later he returned to Cleveland, and was walking lazily along a street when he met the managing editor of the paper for which he had worked. "Why, hello, Browne!" the editor exclaimed. "Good morning." " 'Where have you been?' " 'Sequestered.' " 'Why didn't you come back to the office after making your bad break?' " 'Conscience stricken.' " 'Oh, that was all right.' " 'It might have been all right for you, Ward replied, 'but not for me. You see, I suddenly discovered that I could not afford to work on so unreliable a paper. The paper that makes use of my services must be above reproach. Your sheet does not pay enough attention to telling tho truth. . I have decided to go to work on an afternoon contemporary a paper that never tells anything. Farewell.' A NARROW ESCAPE. The Telegrapher's Story of How He Barely Stopped No. 4 on Time. Minneapolis Journal. "Comparatively few railroad accidents are due to the mistakes of train dispatchers and telegraph operators, but there are a good many narrow escapes that the public ami even the railroad managers never hear of." The speaker was a telegraph operator who had long since retired from railroad work and branched off into a more profitable branch of the profession. "I remember," he continued, "some ten years ago I was at Mattison, Ind., a little office on the Michigan Central road. One day I had an order to stop a freight that was due about noon and hold it at my station until another train, coming from the opposite direction had passed. The order came quite early in the morning and before long I had forgotten all about it. About noon the freight came along aud the conductor came in as usual for his orders. He got none from me and in a few minutes 1 started home fordinner. Just as I was swallowing the last mouthful it flashed into my mind that I had had orders to stop the train! I thought my heart would jump out of my throat, I ran for dear life for the station. The freight had gone ! Bushing into the telegrapn office I called up Frankford, Ind., the other office. " 'For God's sake,' I signaled, 'stop No. 4. I was ordered to hold No. 1 here and Pitcher's Castoria.

forgot it. There will be a smashup if you can't stop her!' "Swiftly the answer came back over the wire: "'No. 1 just pulled out. Will step her if I can.' "And the operator was a cripple, hardly able to walk. I tell you I lived an age in those few moments. I don't believe those stories about men's hair turning white in an instant, because mine is black to-day. One, two, three, four, five, 6ix minutes passed. Would the suspense never end? Then the clicks announced: " 'Barely caught No. 1 ; one minute more and it would have been too late.' "I resigned a short time atterward. My neglect was known at headquarters, but the superintendent wanted me to stay, on the principle that the scare would make me more careful, but I had got enough of that office."

ANOTHER PROPOSED REFORM. Educational Onalification For the State, County and Municipal Officers in Indiana. To TnE Editor Sit : Oar law-makers in Indianapolis could not do a better thin;: th.intopre us a general qualification lair for our oilioors. Is it not plain that the lo-eft officer ought to know how to read and write our language and something about common arithmetic? Without such knowledge no one is fit to fill any office. Our j.eople have suffered too much already for the want of such a law. And when we have such a law will it not purify our elections? All onr candidates will t-o persons of capacity. If there is any objection by Ignorant tuen give thera the chanee to arquir these qoalificaiions hpublic evening schools. This little expense will benefit and elevate our whole state. Introduce the phonetic fcysteiu or a simplification of the orthngrarny, which num be introduced anvhow, in time. What is that little knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic? Any sound bra;n can acquire that in less than two month.. No huu-.ai bein? can have any objection to it. A board ot teachers in every county may g;v? a. certificate to this effect after ä nlniu exaiiiinaiinn. and a certificate of having pa!-e.a throtizh auy jiutilic school with satisfaction may also be Millirirnt. When we have such a law, then we may go turtlier and pass a general qualiicatiou latv for .;ir p;;M;e teachers, that we may K'H ui?n al)l- to tac!i gL-ncr.i! law, and principally the natural iwience in our public schools. We will never have a reform in onr public schools until our teachers are o,ualiri-l in natural sciences. At present they are spelling machines, who corrupt the minds of our children. Introduce the natural sciences into our lowest common schools, and we will bring about a great reform, and upon this we may build a good hijh school y.tem. You can see by such a method we ill simplify the affairs of state, and it will bo ucle to make laws for certain classes. Our whole national life will become more enlightened. It w ill lone our citizens to strugfie for a higher culture, and w should aim to tnaita o' every county a telf-covern-ment able to pass ordinances for the good bch-mr of its inhabitants. Vou can punish the boys who mi?s their school hours and loaf about to do mischief to others and to themselves. The lazy and the idle ni'ist be forced n become qualified for citizenship. Then we will cot find public officers who cannot reid uor write. Evansville, Jan. 26. L. Frit it. DUDLEY AND WOODS. With a Few Tointed Reflections on tho Committee of tar Hundred. To the Editor Sir: I voice the sentiments of every true democrat in the state of ludiaua when I say, "All honor to The Sentinel lor tho brave words It has spoken in denunciation of the outraguous instructions of Jud;c Woods to the grand jury in the Dudley matter!" Two years ago Judge Woods and the committee of one hundred could file witne?cs into the grand jury room at the rate of twenty per day for six weeks in an effort to force the jury to indict democrats, and the judge could indulge in a tirade of coarse abuse of the jury because it would not indict eight or niue men when there was do evidence against them. But the law that was so powerful then when he was hunting down democrats is no law and has no lorce when there is a republican scoundrel to be indicted. And where is the committee of one hundred that professed to be non-partisan and was so active two vearsagoiu pursuing democrats ' Now when there is a republii-an scouudrel to be looked after the committee is as sileDt as th grave. Are the members all dead? If not, why don't they speak out in favor of fair elections and try and punish the debauchers of the ballot-box? "if they do Dot come out and denounce Dudleyism, the people will rt gard them as a set of tioliticai poltroons. The hand of Harrison is plainly visible in the "blocks of five" and in Judge Woods' instructions an 1 in the silence of the committee of one hundred. The presidentelect will soon go to Washington. where he will entertain his guests in grand stylo, but the ghost of H inquo w ill appear in the slinpo of the "trusted man" and "blocksof five." The handwriting will be on the wall to remind him that the chair he occupies hcloncs to another. J. ft. Caro. Cicero, Ind., Jan. 23. IS THERE A BRIDGE TRUST. A Matter That Seems to Need legislative Attention. To THK Editor Sir: Under the present management The Sentinel can be relied upon sua sound democratic paper, and should be sustained by every democrat in the state. For we never had a paper before that showed the independence The Mentis el did in the last campaign, and since the corruptionists have shown their hands. You have handled Pudley, Woods and our l"i0,000 deficiency president in the proper maaner. But I write to say that the law empowering county commissioners to levy taxes for bridges should be amended so as to tax only those people in the township where the bridge is to be located. The cities should be relieved of this tax, and allow the city corporation to tax and apply it to the bridges near the city. The pike road iaw should be on the same basis; or in other words, more democratic, local self-governmeut. But don't put any more power into the township trustee's office there is too much there now. This should be limited by law too. I sent Mr. Applegate a letter on the subject, but what we want to point out isthat there seems to tie a bridge trust, and they have the tariff od the oca side aud now the law compelling county commissioners to build bridges on the other, bo you see the point? If it is divided up more they cannot build two bridges where one would have answered, as was the case in our (Jefferson) county. Madison, Ind., Jan. 2'J. John Adams. 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