Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1889 — Page 3

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, W15DPTESD AY, FEBRUARY 27, 1889.

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AUTHORS AND MARRIAGE.

THE MATING OF CUPID AND PEGASUS. Can th Authoress V a Good fflftTHarrlaga a Stimulant to Literary Work A Sensible Article By the Author of "Tho LeaTenwerth Case. Copyrighted, 1&33.J I was somewhat amused by a remark that was made at the time of my marriage by an old-fashioned neighbor of mine who, I am happy to say, knew more of my writings than of myself, that he had rather a son of his should die than marry an author. For, while not flattering to myself as a woman, it showed that the old prejudice against the typical bluestocking was not by any means a thing of the past. And, indeed, ho but voiced in a somewhat extravagant manner tho secret feelings of many good men and women on this subject. A woman who writes cannot do anything else or eo cer.ain practical persons seem to think; the literary art appearing in their eyes to create an impassable barrier between its practice and the everyday duties of life by which the family is nourished, supported nd and made comfortable. Now, to what degree are they right? Can a woman without detriment to her husband's comfort and the welfare of the thildren that have been given her to rear, occupy herself with a task which is not only in opposition to these demands, but is of a nature so absorbing that it carries her for the time beinjr not only out of herFelf, but out of the region in which her well beloved ones think, move and have their being. Yes, but in her race even more than in that of mopt wives and mothers, thero should be certain qualifications of judgment and self-restraint, as well as great love for her home and its inmates, lest the charm of her intellectual labors should prevail too much above tho possible drudgery of the more commonplace duties, which, as a woman, she must equally engace in, or her house will heroine a wilderness and her children like the weeds that overgrow it. For to first make a home and then to maintain it the ideal epot, where not only romfort reigns but joy takes up its abode, requires many and various faculties rut to constant use, while the writing of books destined to live beyond the year which gave them birth demands a concentration sf purpose and an amount of labor, which when expended by a man, is thought sufficient to constitute his life's work. It is therefore evident that in matter of quantity there should not be as much expected from the pen of a woman thus circumstanced as that from a man. To fulfill all her duties ehe will be obliged to portion out her time with discretion, reeervinsr much for her home, her children and society, and giving but a few precious hours in some cases not more than one or two a day to the work, which, if Hhe is a born writer, has been as the breath of her body before these other interests came Into her life. But tnose hours or that hour, an the rase may be ! Taken from the best of the day, or when th9 mind and faculties are the freshest, they can be made to yield a plentiful harvest. If the authoj possesses a quick brain and fluent pen, she will have many pages of manuscript to 6how at the end ot the year; and if she is not If her effects are wrought out with much labor and careful culling of words, she will still produce enouzh to whet the public taste and keep it alive till her time is more her own and her opportunities for thought and continued labor greater. And here a point Suggests itself. To ustain a fame and to make one are two different things. A young mother cumbered by cares and filled with the emotions and anxieties incident upon a new life amid strange surroundings, would find it difficult to obtain the time and mental freedom necessary to produce a piece ot work of beauty and vigor sufficient to force itself upon the attention of a naturally incieduloua ami preoccupied public. Let the aspiring writer wait, then, till the first hard battle has been fought and the first grievous disappointment lived down before she sets her foot across the charmed circle of marriage; otherwise some of the interests dear to her heart must suffer. But once having earned the full or even the partial recognition that her talents crave, then let her be bold to assume the new responsibilities to which her nature as a woman calls her. For she will find in them not only infinite satisfaction but actual rest. Tho mind which has hitherto been bent forcibly in one direction will now have a chance to expand in the full circle which the faculties demand. Life, with its activities, as well as life in its imaginations, is revealed as by a magician's wand, and the oul which often became weary of itself nd the crowding fancies begot by solitude and the midnight oil, now shares its being with others and takes where onco it gave, and is helped where onco it only aspired to bestow assistance. And her writings will be improved likewise. The genial glow of a cozy homo lamp shining on a husband's smile and bringing out the golden threads in the clustering curls of little children has a strange power to exercise toe morbid element which is apt to creep into the work of a solitary woman writer. For women have not the advantages possessed by men of mingling with the world, and unless she is of a rarely unselfish nature bhe will unccnsciouslv imbue her writings with the tinge of that somber mist ever risin? between the longinjrsoul and their unattained pleasures which as yet are but as a dream to her. Fhe must feel the world beat asrainst her breast in the heart of a little child belore ihe can do it justice or see it with clear and understanding eyps. It must be her world and not merely the spot in which her chafing soul consents to linger, for her to give it the impartial consideration which its strangely discordant elements demand. Healthy breathing, healthy living, healthy sympathy with the men and women around you men and women who, like yourself, own homes and possess children, together with all the hopes and pleasures to which this possession gives rise those are the elements from which ppring, not these daring flights of imagination which startle ns sometimes, from the pen of the yonng, nor yet those fervid stories of unnatural sacrifices and folly that eat into the heart of the reader and leaves a burning pain behind them, but those matured, deep and commanding revelations of life that sink at once into the soul and become a part of its structure henceforth and forever. The story of Avis, that nnhappy book, came with something like a shock to many feminine minds that were dimly hoping to find happiness and renown in the pursuit of art and letters. For it seemed at first blush to show that excellence in art could only be attained by the complete aacrifiee of the domestic instincts. If Avis had not married, Avis might have been a great artist But Avis was weak enough to accept a husband, and the consequence was a total failure in all regards. Hhe neither did any work as an artist nor reaped any happiness as a woman. But, with all credit to the distinguished author of this book I doubt if she would write the same story now you must remem!er that tiiis is the story of Avis, and not by lay mcaca that of a repreaeatatiTe genius.

Avis, unlike most women artists, had no domestic tastes. She disliked sewing, she disliked housework, she disliked all labor that conduced to the material welfare and comfort of the men and women about her. Now, there may be some artists likeher. but I hold there are but few writers. Indeed, I think women of imagination have usually a keener delight than others in dainty and well-appointed surroundings, and it they have not the time, ability or taste to themselves perform what is called menial tasks, they certainly know how to train others to perform them for them. For where will you find cozier or more delightful homes than in tho houses of most of our representative literary women ? Then Avis made a very poor marriage. I can promise nothing to a woman who chooses a husband illy or unadvisedly. If ever care should be taken irt the matter, it should be by one who desires to pursue a career apart from the one she naturally shares with her husband. Though other women may take the leap in the dark, she should have evidence of what is before her, or 6he will find that instead of clarifying ami expanding her powers she has thrust her neck into a yoke which, if it does not confine Pegasus to the earth, will give to her work not the old morbidness of a vague unrest and dissatisfied lonszing, but that more fatal one of incipient despair which is the outcome of mistaken choice and baflled ambition. Anna Katharine Green. WAS IT WILKES BOOTH t

An Kp soJe In Gen. MirrMnn's Career Daring the Lnte War. Sheridan's Menioirv Although I had adopted the general rule of employing onlv soldiers as scouts, thero was an occasional exception to it. A man named Ixmtns, who claimed to be a Marylander, odered me his services as a spy, and routing highly recommended from Mr. Stanton, who had made use of him in that capacity, I employed him. He made many pretensions, often appearing overanxious to impart information seemingly intended to impress me with his importance, and yet was more than ordinarily intelligent, but in epite of that my confidence in him was by no means unlimited. I often found what he reported to me as taking place within the Confederate lines corroborated by Young's men, but generally there were discrepancies in his talcs which led me to suspect that he was employed by the enemy as well as by me. I felt, however, that with good watching he could do iiitle- harm, and if my suspicions were incorrect he might be very useful, so I held on to him. Larly one day in February Lomus was very solicitous" for me to employ a man who, he said, had been with Mosby, but on account of some quarrel in the irregular camp had abandonded that leader. Thinking that with two of them I might destroy the railroad bridge east of Lynchburg, I concluded to give him employment, at the same time informing (Jol. Young that I suspected their fidelity, however, and that we must test it bv shadOwing their every movement. When Lomaa' companion entered my room he was completely disguised, but on discarding tho various contrivances by which his identity was concealed he proved to be a rather elender, dark-complexioned, handsome young man, of easy address and cultivated manners. He gave his name as Renfrew, answered all my questions satisfactorily, and went into details about Moby and his men which 6iiowed an intim a cry with them at some time. I explained to the two men the work I had laid out for them, and stated the sum of money I would give to have it done, but lpulated that in ca'-e of failure there would bo no compensation whatever beyond the few dollars necessary for their expenses. They readily assented, and it was arranged that they should start the following night. Meanwhile Young ha 1 selected his men to shadow them, and in two days reported my spies ns being concealed at Strasbntg, where they remained, without making the slightest eilort to continue on their mission, and were busy, no doubt, communicating with the enemy, though I was notable to fasten this on them. On the lith of February t! ey returned to Winchester and reported their failure, tellings - many lies about their hazardous adventure as to remove nil remaining doubt as to their double dealing. Unquestionably they were spies from the enemy, and hence liable to the usual penalties of euch service; but it 6truck me that through them I niiyht deceive Early as to the time of opening the spring campaign, I having already received from Gen. Grant an intimation of what was expected of rue. I therefore retained the men without even a suggestion of my knowledge of their true character, Young meanwhile keeping a close watch over all their doings. Toward the last of February Gen. Early bad at Staunton two brigades of infantry under Wharton. All the rest of the infantry, except Echnl's brigade, which was in southwestern Virginia, had been sent to Petersburg during the winter, and Fit liee's two brigades of cavalry also. Iiosser's men were mostlv at their homes, where, on account of a lack of subsistence and forage in the valley, they had been permitted to go. subject to call". Lomax's cavalry was at Miilboro, west of Staunton, where supplies were obtainable. It was my aim to get well on the road before Early could collect the? scattered forces, and, as many of the officers hail been in the habit of amusing themselves fox hunthunting during the latter part of the winter, I decided to use the hunt as an expedient for stealing a march on the enemy, and had it given out officially that a grand fox-chase would take place on the 20th of February. Knowing that Lomas and Renfrew would spread the announcement South, they were permitted to see several red foxes that had been secured, as well as a large pack of hounds which Col. Young had collected for the sport, ami were then started on a second expedition to burn the bridges. Of course they were shadowed as usual, and two days later, after they had communicated with friends from their hiding place in Newton, they were arrested. On the way North to Fort Warren they escaped from their guards when passing through Baltimore and I never heard of them again, though "I learned that after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Secy. .Stanton strongly suspected his friend Imasof being associated with the conspirators, and it then occurred to me that the goodlooking Renfrew may have been Wilkes Booth, for he certainly bore a strong resemblance to Booth's picture. Wood iinil tho Cabinet. Boston Tost. The report which cornea from Indianapolis that Jai?e Wood, who saved Col. W. V. Dudley from indictment by the heroic methods of reversing hit interpretation of the law within the short period of five weeks, i to receive a cabinet position is not credible. The escape of JJndley was largely a personal atUirofthat gentleman, it is true, the "dynamite in his fwekets" was an element of danger, and doubtens he eonld have made it very unpleasant for some of the campaign managers if he had been refused the protection to which he considered himself entitled. Hut no one supposes that the revelations which he intimated would be forthcoming in case he was pressed to the wall are so destructive in their nature as to give his savior a claim npon one of the greatest prizes to be dealt out by the incoming administration. Nor can we really believe (hat any such "claim," if it were made, would be recognized. Population of St. Petersburg;. London Truth.) A census of the population of fit. Petersburg has recently been taken, and it appears that thtre has been a diminution of about 30,000 since 1331. Children Cry for

ABOUT MAKING BREAD.

An Everyday Matter Dependent Upon Soms Very Important Chemical Changes. Good cooks are like good farmers persons who have profited by experience and experiment. They may not understand the chemistry involved in the processes of cooking food or raising crops, but arrive at correct conclusions from a careful comparison of results. The following observations from the i'oar Science Xetct give a scientific explanation of the transformation of the flour obtained by grinding wheat into the soft, spongy, nutritious mass known as bread. It ia shown that this e very-day matter is dependent upon some very peculiar and important chemical changes. If flour is mixed with water to form a dough and dried at the temperature of the air an unpleasant tasting mass is obtained, which contains tho starch of the flour in an unaltered and insoluble state, and very dither It of digestion ; and to obtain a nutations and palpable bread it is necessary to induce certain chemicd and physical changes in the Hour. Wheat flour is principally composed of starch, and contains on an avera-je alout 65 per cent, of that substance, with 15 per cent of water; the remai ier is made up of small amounts of sujrar, fat, casein and a mixture of various gummy bodies generally known as gluten. This gluten is an important part of the flour, giving it consistency and flavor, and also rendering it more nutritious. By kneading flour under a gentle stream of water the 6tarch can bo washed away and the gluten separated. The artion of the heat in the baking causes certain changes to take place in the starch, by which it is rendered soluble, and to nome extent converted into another 6ubhtanco reembline gum, and known as dextrine. The outside of the loaf is altered to a greater extent, forming the crust. These changes have the ellectof rendering the bread both nutritious and palatable ; but to pr -vent its becoming a heavy, solid mass of dried dough, it must bo "raised," or inflated with gas, so as to convert it into a liirht, spongy substance whicli can bo easily masticated and digested. The gas used for this purpose is always carbonic dioxide, and the best method to develop it in the mass of dough is to set up a vinous or alcoholic fermentation by tho addition of veast. The substance is a most remarkable living organism, which, when introduced into the dough, begins to feed upon the starch, whicli it chancres into alcohol and carbonic acid gas. Owing to the tenacious nature of the dough the gas can not escape, but, as it expands, renders it spongy and light. The heat of the baking oven stili further expands the gns and completes the process, at the same time killing the yeast and preventing further fermeutation. If the fermentation continues too long it passes over into the ascetic variety, the alcohol is changed to vinegar and the bread "sours." The alcohol produced in the process is nearly all dissipated in the baking; hut it is an appreciable quantity, and some years ago a company was formed in England to introduce appliances for condensing and paving it. The method was found to be impracticable, but it created considerable excitement, and one baker advertised to sell his bread "with al the gin in it." When baking-powder is used as a leavening agent carbonic acid gas is formed in the dough as with yeast, onlv it is set free by the reaction of certain chemicals upon each other, forming salts, which remain in the bread, and none of the constituents of the flour are decoraposed. A process has also been tried of kneading Um dough in closed vessels with water containing carbonic acid gas in solution under pressure, like soda-water, the supposition !eing that wdien the pressure was removed the gas would expand and cause tho dough to rise. This aerated bread, as it was called, has been made both in this country and Eneland, but tho method has not been successful, and it is not now in use. It is interesting to note that the style of oven and method of bread-baking in use in Europe at present has undergone little or no change since the earliest times. The old-fashioned brick oven is Ftill used, and the tire built inside until the necessary heat is obtained, when it is raked out and the loaves put in its place. Although the method is a clumsy and wasteful one, it must be confessed that the bread produced by the French and German, and especial y the Viennese, bakers is exceptional m quality. Probably the care used " in mixing and kneading has as much to do with the result as the baking itself. Bread is not often adulterated, but tho deGciences of a poor flour are sometimes covered up by the addition of alum or a minute quantity of sulphate ot copper (blu vitriol.) These substances render the bread whiter and of a better consistency, but are not only a fraud upon the Eurse of the consumer but detrimental to is health as well. Most of the cheaper varieties of baking powder contain alum, and their usa cannot be recommended. The art of bread-making has been known from tho earliest of times, and as early as the period of the Jewish exod us the process of leavening was in general use. In the museum at Naples there are exhibited loaves of bread taken from a ßhop st Pompeii and stamped with the namt of the baker. They are perfect in shape, but are quite black, probably from the heat of tho volcanic ashes which wi-re cast upon the city from Vesuvius. When properly made, bread is a most wholesome and nutritious food, and, with the other cereal products, forms the principal means of sustenance of a large majority of the human race. How to II renk li n Club Kacket. Detroit Free Pres.l Abont mMnight the other night a patrolman on Champlain-st. was halted by a woman living around the corner, who informed him that a burglar was tryintf to erteel an entrance by the back diwr. The officer summoned help and proceeded to the spot. Sure enough, a man was at work at tne rear of the houe, and while be was prying up a window the oflicerB made a dah and collared him. "I ain't no burglar," he vigorously protested as he was dragged along. "Don't let him get away!" shouted the woman from a chamber window, and the officers took good care that he didn't. Next morning the woman appeared at police headquarters and said: "1 guess Danny has been punished enough, and you may let him go." "Who's Danny?" said the sergeant. "My husband. I warned him to be at home by 10 o'clock. He didn't come till midnight. Then I had the doors locked, and while he was trying to get in I had the officers nab him." Danny was allowed to go, but that jokeful wife got a piece of advice which kept her hair on end for two days. With Another Man's XVltm. Ci.KVKLinn, O., Feb. 21. A guilty husband and a faithless wife, both well known and, until now, highly thought of In this city, are fugitives aorua wher ia the Wwt trying to out-run t Vir consciences and stifle all thought of two blatte! homes they have left behind them. Saturday night liolin C Carey, the advertising aifcnt o( vhe Lake Shorn A Michigan railroad in this city, and the wife of T. J. Meals, the assistant state labor statistician and manager of the Industrial Arr, test velsnd together and they have not been seen nor heard of since, though it Is supposed that their route lay westward. Carey is the son of (ien.-I'ass. A et. Carey of the Lake Shore railroad, who died sone time ago. Last Saturday he sent his resignation to the general pasenper agent of the road, Mr. A. J. (Smith, and drew aooot 11,100 from his personal deposits la two Cleveland banks. Larly in the evening he was Joined by Mrs. Meals, and together tber fled from the city, Carey's wife is the daughter of President J. W. Jiulburt of the national bank of Klyria, O. High Priced Horses. LiIiiinTOS, Ky., Feb. 21. The sale of trotters here to-dny was most phennrninal, the sixty-one; head bringing a total of tl42,C."Jo, The price raid for Pell By is the hlphetever psid for a hnrsa in America, either trotter or thorooghbred. Me was sold to J. II. Clark of Klraira, N. Y., and J. IL llopjr 0t Marlon ville, O., for f'd.OOO. Pitcher's Castorla.

UTS DOWN RED-EYED LAW.

EX-SEN. M'DONALD REVIEWS WOODS. XI Shows That th Supplemental Instructions In the Dudley Case Ar la Con. flict With All the Precedents, as With the First Chare. To the Editor Sir: When the second charge given by Judge Woods to the federal grand jury in relation to bribery in elections in our state was published, I expressed surprise, believing as I did that it was a departure from the first. I also said it would bear the criticism of being intended to shield Dudley from indictment, and at all events it would probably have that efiect These and other expressions of a similar character, it Beems, were framed into what purported to be interviews with me, ia some of which it was made to appear that I had reflected on the personal character and integrity of Judge Woods, when it was not my intention to do more than express a stroug dissent to the law laid down in the second charge, believing that in giving it the judge had committed a grave error of law, and to deprecate the consequences that would follow from it. My personal relations with JuJe Woods and my faith in his integrity would not permit me to believe, much less express, such a belief as that he had corruptly given the charge. I desire, therefore, in the most unqualified manner, to disclaim any intent or purpose to reflect upon the character of Judge Woods or the character of anyone not implicated in the crime. I desire to say further, however, that since these charges have been published I have given the subject a much more careful examination than 1 did before, and the result of that examination has been to deepen my conviction that thpy cannot be reconciled, and that the law as laid down in the second charge is erroneous. It seems to me clear that the Inst clauc of sec. 5011, in plain and unmistakable language, "makes any one guilty who counsels briiiery," "and while it is not a crime to attempt bribery, it is a crime to advise another to make the attempt." That is, one who counsels or advises any voter, person or officer to bribe any voter atany election for representatives or delegates to congress, or advises the attempt to be made, is guilty under that clause, although the person advised and counseled neither bribes any such voter nor attempts to do so. The advice or counsel to commit the crime of bribery is a substantive ofiense under the statute, and this is what I understood Judge Woods, in tubstance, to say iu his first charge, while in his secouJ charge he says in express terms that this is not to, but to use his own language), "in any case, besides the mere fact of advice or counsel, it must be shown that the crime contemplated was committed, or an attempt made to commit it," thus putting it into the category of accessory crimes or crimes in the nature of accessories, in which, of course, there must always be a principal before there can be accessaries. This presents the precise issue between Judge Woods, as expressed in his second charge, and myself. When I first examined the statute, which I did at the request of Judgo Woods. I came to the conclusion that the crime was complete when the counsel or advice was given, and so informed him in a brief note written btfore he gave his 6 rst charge, in which I used this language: "It teems to me that the specific language of the statute takes it out of the common law rule of construction (I niiyht have added, in regard to accessories) and makes the advice given a substantive o:!ene without reference to whether an overt act was committed." The text writers class olleuses of thia kind under the head of "attempt," and the distinction between them and accessary crimes is that the attempt is all that ia necessary to complete the crime. Mr. Bishop, iu his work on criminal law, paragraph 767, thus defines this kind of o'lunee: "A common form of attempt is to solicit another to commit a crime ;the net which is a necessary ingredient in every o lie use consists in the solicitation. Thus to incite a servant to steal hi clatter's, goods, or other person to undertake larceny to oiler merely a bribe to request, it seems, one to post up a threatening notice, are severally indictable misdemeanors though the person approached declined the persuasion." The authorities, as I understand, upon which JuJire Woods and those Mho agree with him in regard to his seo ond charge rely, are sec. 5,32$ of the U. S. revised statutes, itepublica vs. Roberts; 1 Dallas. 30. and lies. vs. Greirory, in. Cox C. C, 4.V.. I have examined all these citations with care and find nothing in any of them that in the remotest degree bustains Judge Woods' second charge. On the contrary, so far as they bear upon the question, they are directly against iu Sec. 5,.1'2.'l of the revised statutes simply detinti the offense of an accessary before the fact in the crime of piracy or murder on the high seas. The case in 1st Dallas was an indictment under the Pennsylvania law for treason agr.inst the commonwealth, committed uuriug the Revolutionary war, in which Itoberts was charged with aiding and assisting the enemies ot the state in open war, etc., by enlisting in their armies and by persuading others to enlist. He was convicted on the first charge, bot acquitted of the other because the persons whom he sought to persuade did not enlist, and there fore the persuasion did not aid and assist the enemy. How this supports the judge's second charge is more than I can see. The. case in loth Cox fully sustains the first charge, but is snuarely against the second. It takes the distinction between substantive crimes and accessary crimes, and places attempt to incite others to commit felony or other hivrh crimes ia the list of substantive crimes, as misdemeauors. As this is an important case and seems to be much relied on by Judge Woods and bis friends, I have thought best to give it in ejr Unt): Gregory was indicted, tried and convicted for soliciting and inciting John White and two other servants of one James Kirk feloniously to steal from their said master one bushel of barley, cto. There were three counts in the indictment. The offense was charged as misdemeanor. "There was evidence," so says the report, "upon all of the counts of the indictment in proot of the oüense charged, but no one of the three servants named stole any barley in compliance with defendant's solicitation or otherwise." Foster, for the defendant, insisted that the charge ought to Lave been laid under 24 aud 20 Vict., which made counselling, procuring or commanding the commission of a felony, a felony on the part of the person counselling, etc., and that, therefore, the defendant had been indicted for the wrong crime and that the verdict must be arrested. The motion was overruled and the conviction afiirthed by an opinion of Judge Kelley, which I quote here at length: ''Kelley, of C. II. This conviction must be affirmed. The prisoner was indicted and con victed of a misdemeanor, and two questions have been raised by Mr. Foster: first, whether the expressions "soliciting and inciting" in an indictment are equivalent to and ideuticnl with the words "counseling and procuring" in 24 and 23 Vict C. 94. s. 2; so that though a counseling or procuring is not charged in the indictment, the allegation therein of soliciting and inciting is to be taken as an allegation ot counseling and procuring. It is unnecessary, I however, to decide that question, and it is sufheient to say that I think those questions may bear dillerent meanings and that I do not accede to the argument of Mr. Foster. As to the second point, looking at the provisions of the statute, 1 think it absolutely accessary to support a conviction under the above section that a substantive felony has been committed by the person counseled. It ia the grammatical construction of the section. How can there be an accessary before the fact to the "principal felony" or a "principal felon" if no felony has been committed' The offense committed therefore, is properly charged as a misdemeanor, and the conviction is right. The opinion of the learned judge, "that the grammatical construction" of the section of the crimes act of 24 and 25 Vict., referred to in the motion, made the crime of counseling, etc., an accessory crime and dependent upon the commission of the crime counseled, was undoubtedly correct, and that there could be no felony in giving the counsel unless a felony had been committed in pursuance of the counsel given. It will be seen that it is just what its title indicates, "an act relating to accessories to and abettors of indictable oflenses." In affirming the verdict the court sustained a conviction lor the ofiense of soliciting and inciting to commit crime, although the crime solicited had not been committed, nor, so far as appears, any attempt made to commit it. The case was affirmed on the authority of the King vs. Higgins, 2 Fast, 5. This case is upon an indictment against Higgins for a like onense as that charged against Uregory in 10th Cox, of soliciting a servant to , strat his master's goods. The indictment did not charge that any goods were stolen or that any other act wss done except soliciting, etc. ( The question of the sufficiency of sued an indictment was adjourned into the king's beach. Chiei

J ustice Kenyon and other judges pave opinions in which they sustained the indictm ot on the ground that it was a misdemeanor at cimraon law for one to solicit or counsel another to commit a felony or other higfi crime, although no act were done in pursuance of auch counsel or solicitation. The syllabus of the case is aa follows: "To solicit a servant to steal his master's goods is a misdemeanor at common law; though it be not charged in the indictment that the servant stole the goods, nor that any other act was done except the soliciting and incitini- " It was urged against this proposition t! t it required both the act and the intent to cu.uplete an o Dense, and that here was only the attempt, but the learned judges said, and in this all substantially agreed, that "the act of soliciting and inciting" was all the act that the offense required, and that soliciting and inciting one to commit a felony or other hi:;h crime sufficiently disclosed the evil intention. Bribery is an otlense at common law, and to bribe or attempt to bribe an elector at any government election was a high crime, and consequently under these authorities any oue who counseled and advised, or, to use the common law terms, solicited or incited another to bribe such elector, although nothing be Jone by the party solicited toward the accomplishment of bribery, was guilty of a misdemeanor at common law, the act of soliciting being the only act required to consummate it. But it may be said that there are no common law otfenses under the federal government. That is very true, but where you find a statute that in eilect defines an oil'euse at common law, you look into the common law to see what is necessary to. complete that oilenne. That is just what Judge' Woods attempted to do, but fell into the error of looking at the wrong class of cae. that is, accessory offenses and not substantive ollenses. In that mistake is to be found the error committed by him in his second charge. In vindicating Judge Woods from anything 6ave an error of law, I have thought it right that my own views of the statute should accompany the vindication, as it is a matter of very considerable interest to the people of our state. J. ü McDonald. Washington, D. C, Feb. 1G. Dudley, Wnoiia and Harrison. Courier-Journal. Dudley is arraigned in Judge Woods' charge to the federal grand jury. His crime was notorious, aud there was no doubt of his indictment, after the first charge of J udge Woods, which could refer to no one but Dudley. After an adjournment. Judge Woods delivers another charge to the jury then investigating the Indiana election, virtually overruling himself, and so interpreting the law as to make the indictment of Dudley impossible with the consent of the court. x The history of our Judiciary has no cae so astonishing as this. To suppose that Mr. Harrison and Judge Woods consulted together ia out of the question, but the fact remains that in Mr. Harrison's own city, among his own friends, with the not dangerous enemy of the ballot-box arraigned for his crime against the people of Indiana, it is impossible by any process of the courts to protect the suffrage. The chief beneficiary of the crime, the man most interested in preventing the trial and Eunishmentof Dudley, is cot .Dudley himself, ut Mr. Harrison. A Sco.p. 0-uaha Herald. The Kearney Joun,d startled the world on Friday by carrying ibe date line "Jan. 32."

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Will President Ilarrlson Play Int Their Hands? X. Y. Times. Binee the election Mr. Harrison has been urged by many territorial politicians to remove, at the beginning of his term, certain persons now Holding federal offices in the territories and appoint residents of the territories in their places. It is the men sent to the territories to enforce the land laws and carry out an honest laud policy, who are, above all others, obnoxious to the gentlemen who have appeared in Indianapolis, and the most persistent of these political prilgrims are those who come from New Mexico, a territory that for years has been a land jobbers' paradise. The chief olicnder iu New Mexico is Surveyor-Gen. Julian, who is accused of having '"disturbed land titles." This surveyor-general is described by his opponents "a monomaniac" on the subject of the land laws. "He is honest enough about if," one of them says, but land titles are his hobby, and be has given the territory a bad name. Mr. Julian may not fill the New Mexican politicians' measure of a perfect man, but the history of his work in the territory, so far as we can learn from the official reports, shows that he has labored diligently to reclaim public land that had been stolen. The "titles" lie has endeavored to disturb were frandulent ones. If the local courts have not sustained the prosecutions based upon reports of agents of the land office in New Mexico, it does not follow that the evidence was insufficient. The annual reports contain accounts of similar proceedings that were unsuccessful, in spite of ample proof, because the jurors, as they frankly admitted, did not propose now to punish men for frauds like those which bad Ixcn committed for twenty years with impunity. No other territory has been so cursed with land jobbers. Thencird is not confined to the reports published by officers of the present administration. Commissioner SSparks took tip the work that bis republican predecessor had begun, and his reports were scarcely more severe than Commissioner McFarland's. The opportunities for Iraud were greater in New Mexico than in other territories because old Spanish grants could be manipulated there. Titles to such grants could be manufactured, and the area of a grant that really had some iegal foundation could be expanded wonderfully by fraud. At the same time the common territorial industry of taking large tracts of public land by means of fraudulent pre-emptions and subornation of perjury could be carried on under very favorable conditions by those who did not care to take up the business of manufacturing and expanding grants. Great estates were made on the public lands. One may be recalled that was not founded on a grant, but still was almost as large as Connecticut. Politicians who had accumulated large fortunes by "developing the country" on Brady's plan, through the agency of star-route contracts, sought retuge, enoymnt and profit upon such estotes as this. Certain members of the r.ng have forsaken the territory with their pains, to use their experience and capital successfully in other industries, but the change of administration four years ago found a majority of the original speculators still at work in the old field. The enforcement of a new land policy Las since caused them great inconvenience. One of the "disturbed settlers," once a senator of the United States, has been forced to take down fifty miles of fence with which he bad

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I pulsive by setting his face against all land job bers. Hut he cannot take this course without oMending certain politicians, whose counsel and aid he now seems to seek. Ilarrlnon Heard From. Corrdon Democrat. 1 . The Indianapolis SENTiNEueays that Van Antwerp, Braeg is. Co., who have a monopoly of the school-book business in Indiana, control the county superintendents with but very few I exceptions. It is quite evident that our super intendent is not one of the exceptions. In tha first place, all the books used in thia county, with the exception of Barnes' bistory, are published by Van Antwerp, Bra?? fc Co. In tho next place, the prices charged for these book in this county are higher than in the majority of the other counties. The same books are used in Fayette county that are used in this county, and we will give the prices charged in the two counties: McGuiley's First reader 15 cento in Fayette county and 20 cent in Harrison; Second reader, 25 rente in Fayette and 40 cents in Harrison; Third reader, 35 cent in Fayette and 55 cents in Harrison; Fourth reader, 42 cents in Fayette and Vi cents in Harrison: Fifth reader, SO cents ia Faye'to and cents in Harrison; Ilay's intermediate arithmetic, 21 cents in Fayette and 30 cents in Harrison; Ray's practical arithmetic, 52 cents in Fayette and 65 cents in Harrison: geography, No. 1, 55 cents in Fayette and 70 cents in Harrison; physiology (eclectic) oOcenU in Fayette nnd 70 cents in Harrison. There ia the same ditference in the price of all the other text-books, and we are at a loss to know why ft !ook is worth more in one county than another. There is something wrong. The paper published by our county superintendent professes to oppose monopolies, cut is quite silect on this subject. The question is, does Thomas share the profits of this monopoly? We believe that Le does. Sold Ilia Wlfo For 5. Latokte, Feb. 20. Special. It has been developed that William Austin, the scoundrel who was sentenced the present term of court to five years in the penitentiary for committing criminal assault on a little eleven-year-old girl, is the same individual wbo sold hit wife ft short time ago to a Michigan City man for H. It is saiii the sale was actually made and tha property delivered, and that the trade was satisfactory to all parties concerned. DHYS FARMERS. T ID0NT F ' , Not even READ ANY, en the State Sentinel IT D0NT PAY. v i r j "J -dm Jl For Two Papers Odo Year. For f 1 1 will send the INDIANAPOLIS WEEKLY SENTINEL and the FARM AND LIVE STOCK MONTHLY both one year. Regular price of the two papers $1.50. Address C. M. WALKER, Publisher Live Stock Monthly, Indianapolis, Ind. nf RlfM Pf1nrnfa TiMwmt. imlrfp. fwr kJI (1 y V n.b..ol Out-4 I'r1.r rWi.M.t.l'sl. r mn r i iiwpv wit. . la is .Ctoa; .14. I W log UM. T. V I t rCIPrS Wanted: local Bn.trTrt!n. TWtlnna '. i.L W itl Lit pennnwnt. KaUrr from urt. txperW lies luibvvwsw. Irtwa lrw.,kimrTBa,CllfiX