Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1889 — Page 4

T1IE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1889.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

lxtur4 at th Postofflce at IndUnapolia m second class matter. TERMS PEK YEAR: Plnrl copy (Invariably In Advance.) .........St 00 We a.k democrats to War in mind and select their cn state paper when they come to take suhscription and make up club. Agents making up cluhs wnd for anr Information 6elred. Addess THE IN' WAXAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, lnL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER SO. For the Clay County Sufferers. We ehould like to receive further contributions of clothing, bedding, provisions or any kind of useful pupplies for the benefit of the Clay county sufferers. The car-load we forwarded a few days ago brought some decree of comfort to a number of homes if the miners' hovels and cabins can be called such. Eut these supplies reached a comparatively sm.illnumber, leaving thousands of the destitute with their wants wholly unrelieved. There are great numbers of barefooted women and children in Clay county ; of women and children who are without sufficient clothing to meet the requirements of de cency, not to speak of protection against the rigors of the approaching winter. It is for these we plead; for the hungry and the naked; for babies perishing ot inanition, because the sources of maternal nourishment have been dried up by fasting and exposure; for young girls with on'y a few spare rags to conceal their persons; for matrons who are utterly without defence against the unkindly elements. There are men and boys, too, hat less, shoeless, in raps, to whom any kind of warm covering for head, or feet, or body would be a blessing. A great many citizens of Indianapolis have responded generously to our appeals. ut there are thousands and tens of thoupands who have as yet given nothing. To them we address ourselves now. We have thought of organizing a volunteer corps for the purpose of making a house to house canvass of the city in this behalf. With a sufficiently large and Meli organized corps, a very complete canvass could be made in two or three days. All we need for the successful carrying out of this idea is volunteers. The Sentinel will obtain wagons and attend to the packing, forwarding r.nd distribution of the goods. The Vandalia railroad will furnish free transportation. Let us hear from our readers especially our young readers upon this subject. Who will devote a day, or two days, to this noble charity? Meanwhile, we should like to have serviceable articles of any kind sent to this office, so that they can be shipped with our second consignment, which goes forward in a day or two. Protection and the Pan-., niericant. At the banquet to the Tan-Americans in Chicago Tuesday night Senator Farwell, who presided, said: We must offer to yoa our export" as cheaply aa others do; and to that end I shall favor such legislation aa will bring about this result, even to the extent of uninterrupted trade between 'all the countries of this hemisphere. That is to say, this republican senator is prepared, not only to vote for absolute free trade with ail the countries to the north and to the south of us, but to vote for a policy which will enable us to offer these countries our exports as cheaply as others do which can only mean the repeal of taxes on all crude materials and partially manufactured articles. What an amazing declaration to fall from the lips of a man who stood on the Chi- , cago platform last year and supported for president one who was preac hing that foreign commerce was an evil, and that imports ought to be checked ! What a com- " plete abandonment of all the "arguments" which were advanced last year in support of the republican policy of exclusion and isolation ! In Canada, on the north, labor is considerably cheaper than in this country, and in Mexico and the other countries of Spanish America it is very much cheaper. In Mexico, common labor is paid only 10 to 20 cents a day. Yet Senator Farwell proposes to admit free all the products of this "pauper labor," and thus, according to the republican logic of last year, reduce gut own workingmen to penury. He also proposes to admit the wool of the Argentine republic free, and thus drive all our sheep farmers to ruin. He proposes to admit the grain, potatoes, butter, cheese and eggs of Canada free, and thus put another nail in the coffin of American agriculture! He proposes to admit raw materials freo the coal and iron of the Maritime provinces, the lumber of Canada, the ores of Mexico, the wool of Australia, the tin of England and Wales, the salt of Austria and Spain and thus precipitate disaster upon our mining, lumber and other important interests ! If the policy of a protective tariff is right, then it is wrong to open our doors to the trade of any other nation. If it is unwise to expose our labor to competition with the cheap labor of Europe, it is no less unwise to expose it to competition with the cheap labor of Latin-America. If. as the Chicago platform declared, imports ought to be checked they ought to be checked from all countries alike. There is not a single argument against free trade with Europe which can not be urged, with equal force, against free trade with the other countries of America. There is not an argument for the policy of protection which is not oprxsed to the Fan-American policy advocated by Senator Farwell and other avowed protectionists. Of course the scheme of an .American Eollverein La visionary and impracticable. It would require the establishment of uniform schedules of tariff duties in all the American countries aa against the rert of the world, and it would involve the surrender by the congress of the United States of its control over our customs system to an international commission. A certain limited measure of reciprocity might be established between the several nations of North and South America, and aa a step ia tho direclioa of that world

wide commercial freedom which all enlightened thinkers are anxious for, it would be welcome. But this TanAmerican congress is likely to result in nothing tangible, unless it be a revival of the infamous policy of subsidies;' tho diversion of millions of the people's money annually into the pockets of a few shipbuilders and ship-owners as a reward for running their vessels between this country and others, the products of which we levy heavy lines upon our own citizens for importing. School nook Trust Methods. The school book trust is still burdening the mails with anonymous pamphlets and circulars attacking the new school books. Tensof thousandsof these scurrilous puhlications have been sent out during the last two or thrco weeks. Scarcely a mail reac hes this office that does not contain specimens of them, furnished us by indignant friends of the new law. They abound in reckless falsehoods, and serve no other purpose than to illustrate the desperation of the trust. Vicious rs they are intone they are, as we stated the other day, mildness itself when compared with the attacks which the look trust houses used to make upon each other's publications before they organized their combine. We bavo before us a pamphlet which, though anonmous, is known to have emanated from the Van Antwerp-Bragg house. It was issued several years ago, and is aimed at the Appleton series of readers, which have a high reputation and are considered among the best readers published in this country. Several pages of this pamphlet are devoted to extracts from the Appleton readers designed to illustrate their alleged inferiority. Then follow these statements regarding the books: 1. These books contain no lessons in the definition of words nor exercises to teach the meaning of new and difficult words introduced in the lessons. 2. The lessons in general are not instructive nor calculated to form the taste or improve the moral sense of the pupils. 3. There is scarely a religious sentiment, thought or allusion in the book, or in any of these three lower books. It is a pure, absolute intellectualisni. It i dictated by the pantheism of the Hegelian philosophy. This fact alone should condemn these books. They are irreligious and atheistical, inasmuch ns they ignore all idea of t Ion and our relations to Him. 4. The character, thoughts and sayings of animals occupy the greater part of these lower hooks cats and dogs, pigs and horses exhibiting the finest ii sthetic and moral sensibility in their thoughts and actions. After a viretul scrutiny we have been unable to find delineated in them one sturdy, manly character. The number of thoughts or sentiments worthy to be laken along Mith us as lifethoughts are Hgna.ly few, yet how well we know how lusting are these thoughts. These selections, notes and comments are published to induce teachers and school officers to read and compare these trashy books, before recommending or adopting them. That's tho way the trust houses used to pitcli into each other's hooks before they formed the combination. When the Arri.ETovs joined the combine. Van Antwki:p, Brack; & Co. ceased to attack their "immoral" and "trashy" books. Indeed, the compact they entered into with the A rn.ETONs obliged them to defend these books, to notify the publishers when they were threatened with displacement at any point, and to co-operate with them to prevent such displacement. It will be seen that in making scurrilous attacks upon the new books Van Antw erp, Bkaog Co. are only playing tricks they learned when there was rivalry in the school-book business. For a number of years there has been no such rivalry, and the trust houses have not been obliged to expend their money in the preparation and circulation, under the shelter of anonymity, of libelous literature of this sort. The passage of the Indiana school-book law, and the award of a contract under it, has driven them to the necessity of resuming this dirty work. Although the pamphlets and circulars denouncing the new text-books are prepared and circulated by Van Antwerp, Brack; & Co., the other trust houses are, of course, assessed for their sharp, of the expense. It is easy enough, by detaching words and sentences from the context, to make even the subiimest writings appear ridiculous. Some of the extracts which the trust blackguards are parading from the new readers asevidencesof theirinferiority are taken from the works of the most eminent writers of such men as Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens and othe; s of that class. This fact alone is sufficient to show the worthlessness of these criticisms. It will Ikj hard to convince intelligent people that their children are liable to be demoralized by reading selections from the works of Dickens and Andersen. A Public Outrage. The Chicago platform made at Chicago by the convention which nominated B. Harrison for president declared that "the spirit and purpose of civil service reform should be observed in all executive appointments." Mr. Harrison, in his letter of acceptance, said that fitness and not party service should be the test in all appointments, and expressed his hearty approval of the doctrine of civil service reform. In a speech in the V. S. senate attacking President Cleveland Mr. Harrjon said, about three years ago: I do lift up a hearty prayer that we may never have a president who does not pursue and compel his cabinet advisers to pursue, the civil service policy pure and simple and upon a just basis, al.owing men accused to be heard and deciding against them only upon competent proof and lairly. Kither have that kind of civil service or, lor God's sake, let us have that other, frank and bold, if brutal, method of turning men and women out simply for political opinion. Let us have one or the other. A fitting commentary upon these professions and pledges is afforded by the president's removal of the Hon. George W. J a. v from the office of surveyorgeneral of New Mexico. This removal was made several weeks ago, but the circumstances under w hich it was made have not before been given to the public. We print this morning an interview with Mr. Jcliax in which tho facts are clearly ptated. In the interview is embodied a letter from Commissioner Stone of the general land office to Mr. Jclian, in which it is frankly admitted that tho removal was made for political rausons only. This, however, is only half the truth. Mr. Jiuan was sacrificed, not only because his political opinions did not agree with those of the administration, but also because of his integrity, and his vigilance in protecting the public interests against tho land rings, which have been and are the curse of New Mexico and the other territories. Under Cleveland's administration these rings lovjii their occupation, gone, and they

expended their ill-gotten money freely to secure the election of Harrison in whom they expected, and evidently not without reason, to secure a friend and protector. In the light of all the facts, we have no hesitation in pronouncing Mr. Julian's removal a flagrant defiance of political decency, a shameful mockery of the most solemn pledges to carry out the principles of civil service reform, and an open and bare-faced surrender to as brazen and scoundrelly a gang of political corruptionis ts and public plunderers as ever existed in this republic. The Chicago platform denounced the practice of depositing public funds in tho national banks. lYesident Harrison denounced it in his letter of acceptance, and Secy. Blaine made it the burden of several of his speeches, declaring that if a republican president and secretary of the treasury had pursued such a policy a democratic congress would have impeached them. When Blaine was in this state the Journal published a leading article, said to have been the result of a conference between Messrs. Blaine, Harrison and the then editor, in which it was broadly insinuated that President Cleveland was bribed by the banks to keep these deposits with them. A few weeks ago, after The Sentinel had invited attention to the fact that the deposits were

still in the banks, the Journal told its readers that they Mere being rapidly reduced, and that President Harrison bail reversed the policy of the Cleveland administration regarding them. Secy. Windom now comes to the front with the frank statement that the policy of the Cleveland administration in this matter "has not been disturbed." This fact was known to the Journal when it made tho contrary statement, but it of course did not expect Secy. Win dom to expose the falsehood. We don't know which was the more contemptible the Journals campaign charge that Mr. Cleveland was bribed by the banks, or its recent deliberate attempt to deceive the public by alleging that Harrison had redeemed his ante-election pledge, and reversed the policy of depositing tho public moneys in the banks. Mr. Houston, president of the Hartford cart t company, one of the largest manufacturing concerns in New F.ngland, declares himself for free wool. He says that the tax on materials shuts him out of foreign markets, while it invites competition for the home market.?, and while he believes the tariff to be imposed for the benefit of business, he thinks that it ought to be reduced or repealed when it becomes an injury to business. Mr. Houston is a prominent republican, and has always been a stout protectionist. This country will adopt free trade one of these days, and Mr. Watterson is doubtless right when he says that the manufacturers will lead the movement which brings it about. They will have to have untaxed materials or abandon the world's markets to England, France and Belgium. And once crude materials are made free it will not be long until manufactured products are also made free. The Fort Wayne Ac, a republican paper, "talks out in meeting" after this lively fashion: On the eve of the state elections in Ohio and Iowa, the Atir.i, which is not often given to predicting results, is willing to prophesy very great democratic gains in both states, and possibly republican defeat in one of them. Why? Simply because the republican managers seem unable to learn anything from the unmistakable signs of the times. They seem incapable of breaking away from the traditions and customs of a quarter of a century ago, and persist in naming for high official positions the man whose best qualification is his ability to retain and recount the memories of war, or the man whose intimacy with corporations and trusts is closer than his connection w ith the interests of the people. If Foraker and Hutchinson, or either of them, go down in defeat, the republican party could well afford it if they would carry with them the gang of unconscionable scoundrels, who, masquerading as leaders, are bringing the present administration into disrepute, and who, unless they are shaken ofl, will surely restore democratic ascendancy in lsf'2. Indiana is not the only state that is cursed with "Slick Sixes" in the republican ranks, and it will take more than the two Dakotas and Washington to save the ship if these Jonahs are not thrown overboard. The Brooklyn Eagle, in commenting upon the Tabernacle fire, has this to say, whic h will be of special interest to Brother Talmaoe's many admirers among the readers of The Si npay Sentinel: The Tabernacle is primarily a Brooklyn institution. It is sympathetically an American institution. It is incidentally a world institution. Its pulpit utterances have everywhere been published. The busy fingers of the types have laid down its gospel in the homes of the race. Allowing for admitted peculiarities, that gospel has been a word of hope and help. Sectarianism, division, envy and uncharitableness have not been preached. There has been no Eessimism in the message. A remarkable man as transfused his native genius, a broadly varied experience and vivid sympntby with humanity in the art of pulpit statement. He has become one of the powers of the time, as unique as unmistakable. The church has been the resort of visitors from every part of the globe. It ha9 been the link to bind this city to the sisterhood of cities in this and in other lands. The place it has held is distinct, and it will continue to hold that place at least as long as the man to whose power it is due continues as its leader and its inspirer. It is now believed that the fire which destroyed Dr. Talmage's tabernacle in Brooklyn had its origin in the electric light wires which, although supposed to be dead, may have conducted into the building electricity, due to the storm then prevailing. The multiplication of electric wires in our cities has introduced a new and potent element of danger to life and property. It is appalling to contemplate the disaster which these agencies might precipitate under certain circumstances. Scienco having called into existence these instrumentalities for promoting the popular convenience and comfort, it is for science to devise methods by which the dangers attending their use may be reduced to the minimum. Van Antwerp, Bragg fe Co. express tho opinion, through the Indianapolis Journal, that the text-book law is "radically wrong in conception, vicious in principle and a source of permanent and deadly injury to the schools." A law which would allow local school boards to compel the people to buy and pay two or three prices for books which euch boards might pet a commission for "introducing," is the VanAnt werp-Bragg-Journaf idea of a perfect school book law, and one in harmony with the "educational spirit of the nge." Mrilcn Krrli Inmillrd. City ok Mexico, Oct 26, Via Galveston The press insists that the Mexican government demand of the United States an explanation of Mr. Minener's remarks referring insultingly to Mexico on presenting his credentials as minister to Costa Rica. Salvation Oil cures toothache, sprains, strains, braises, chiblains and all flesh wounds. 2j cb.

GOV. HOVEY'S PICTURE.

The Pride lie Takes In Exhibiting it to Strangers, To the Fdijor Sir: Beading tho story about ''Gov! Hovey's rit lures" in the Sentinel the other day reminds us of a little incident that occurred this fall during the ßtate fair. Wednesday forenoon was dark, cold and gloomy. Murky clouds hung low over the city, from which continuous drizzling rains descended. Gentlemen left tho streets and vanished behind wellknown colored screens. The songs of birds were hushed and no happy smiles wreathed the faces of female pedestrians. Indianapolis (external) was everything but inviting. Street-cars rolled along empty toward the fair grounds. Our party (from Brazil) consisting of three gentlemen and as many ladies, drifted along Washington-st, helpless and forlorn, when sud lenly our grand new state-house raised itself out of the western horizon and stood majestically before us. The proposition to make a tour of the building was promptly accepted by all. In a few moments we approached the east entrance and passed up the great stone steps. We visited tho museum, library, senate chamber, hall of representatives, etc. Passing down a long corridor, I chanced to peep through the door of a comparatively small room, in which a rather line looking old gentleman sat by a table writing. Feeling that we were intruders, we attempted to escape, but no, the old gentleman's military eye caught us. Ho jumped to his feet ns if glad to meet us, and invited us in, but I apologized for the interruption by explaining that my party was not on business, but were simply looking through the capitol. "Walk right in," he said, "and view the governor's apartments." "Oh!" said I, taking his hand, "this is Gov. Hoveyj I presume." '"Yes sir," was the reply. "Walk right in und see the governor's parlor." We followed him through his library and into a large, elegantly-furnished room. "This," said he, "is the governor's parlor. No harm to walk on the carpet. Make yourselves at home among those easy chairs and sofas. These are comforts for my visiting constituents as well as for dignitaries who call here. "When rested you would do well to pass 'round the walls and study the pictures; and in doing so you might as well begin with fm" pointing to his own life-size portrait, suspended from the north wall. At this point the governor disappeared from the parlor and "left us alone in our glory." And glorv enough we had for one occasion, for in the midst of great merriment, the ladies persisted in declaring, in spasmodic neeenis, that we would never have been permitted to lounge in that parlor for one moment had it not been that our genial, handsome governor was over-anxious to show his own picture. Brazil, Ind., Oct. 24. M. IS. OUSTING MR. BLAINE. Some People Who Can iet Ilim Out Quick An A tiitmvn-j flnnie. "Have you got Blaine out yet?" This is the question which everybody is putting to everybody else. The "bloc ks of live" fever has taken hold of the people of this bailiwick, anil its ravages exte nd to all classes, from the newsboys between editions to tho banker or professional man after hours. Everybody seems anxious to aid President Harrison in this .undoubted task of getting his secretary of state out of the cabinet. This is the box which Harrison's solicitous friend sent to him about tho time that it became apparent that Blaine was crowding him into a dark corner. Blaine caught Harrison at work on the little bother and he didn't try to laugh at Harrison's riMickling joke about how he was laboring to "get Blaine out." The little box of whittled blocks went into the waste basket, where a disheartened otlice-seeker found it, and brought it to this office. Then he got it copyrighted, patentod and protected, and now lie says he wants no office under the Indiana man, for he is rapidly acc umulating a fortune out of the little puzzle. Mr. Blakeslee, the New York manufacturer, says öOO.Ooo of the puzzles are already sold in the jobbing trade, and they are making people wild all over the country. Solutions are numerous, and if all the statements are true, there are some verv nimble lingers and expert brains at work on the "Blocks of Five." Here are some of the answers: II. P. of Columbus, Ind., says: "I can put Blaine out and Harrison in in one minute and fifteen seconds, and will wager $'j0 that I can do it inside of two minutes. Man aud money ready any time." lt. L. A. says: "I can get Blaine out and Harrison in in seventy seconds. If it were Cleveland I could get him in in half the time." Prank Howard's best time is 2:40, and Louis Deschlwr can do it in from one to two minutes. A lady writes: "Having spent several pleasant evenings with the blocks of five puzzle I can safely say I can put Harrison iu and Blaine out in one minute and a quarter." Mrs. J. of Past Oiiio-st. has two daughters, fourteen and twelve years old, who can oust Mr. Iilaine in two minutes euch. The game is very fascinating and is for sale at The Sentinel ollice for 15 cents. Missionaries on Two-Tliinla Pny. Detroit, Mich., Oct 2(!. The day's proceedings of the Women's foreign tnisaionary society was devoted principally to the reading of reports. Mrs. Keim of Philadelphia presented some resolutions which provoked considerable discussion. They were to the etl'ect that during the first year of a newly-appointed missionary's sojourn in a foreien country his usefulness is considerably curtailed inasmuch as he is not sufficiently familiar with the language to undertake his duties. It was moved that missionaries be paid but two-thirds of the maximum salary during their first year and devote a certain time daily to acquiring the language. The discussion will probably be resumed Monday. Ammonia In linking Powder, Scientific American. Among the discoveries in science and chemistry, none is more important than the uses to which common ammonia can be properly put as a leavening agent, and which indicate that this familiar salt is hereafter to perform an active part in the preparation of our daily food. The carbonate of ammonia is an exceedingly violatile substance. Place a small portion of it upon a knife and hold over a flame, and it will almost immediately be entirely developed into gas and pass oil into the air. The gns thus formed is a simple composition of nitrogen and hydrogen, slightly aromatic, inoffensive, and perfectly wholesome. No residue is left from the ammonia. This ri-es it its superiority as a leavening power over soda and cream of tartar used alone, aud has induced its use as a supplement to these articles. A smr.ll quantity of ammonia in the dough is etlective in producing bread that will be lighter, 6weeter and more wholesome than that risen by any other leavening agent. When it in acted upon by the heat of baking the leavening gas that raises the dough is liberated. In this act it uses itself up. as it were; the ammonia isentirely diffused, leaving no trace or residuum whatever. The light, flußy, flaky appearance, so desirable in biscuits, etc., and so sought after by professional cooks, is said to be imparted to them only by the use of this agent. The lakers and baking powder manufacturers producing the finest poods have availed themselves of this useful aent, and the handsomest and best bread and cake are now largely risen by the aid of carbonate of ammonia combined, of course, with the other leavening material. Ammonia is one of the best known products of the laboratory. As the application of its properties to the purposes of cooking results In giving us lichter and more wholesome bread, biscuit end cake, its general use will prove a loca to dyuueutic humanity.

THE TEXT BOOK SITUATION.

INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM HEILMAN. lie Reviews the Work Accomplished By nil Company, snd Says It Contemplates Establishing an Extensive Tub. lishlng House In This City. The Hon. "William Heilman of the Indiana school book company, is reported by the Xcus as saying: "Our company has bven fiercely attacked, and yet I know of no reason why we should be subjected to tho newspaper abuse which has been showered upon us. I am certainly not conscious that we have done anything either in our corporate capac ity or as individuals of which honorable men need feel the least ashamed. My attention was first attracted to the school book question by (5ov. Hovey's inaugural address, in which he spoke of the enormous profits realized by tho book publishers under the old system, and denounced the abuses which were practiced under it. The legislature, a few we eks later, passed a law, the avowed purpose of which was to put a stop to these abuses and secure for the people good text books at reasonable prices. Without studying the law very closely I formed the opinion that this was at least a long step in the right direction, and I was confirmed in my opinion by the bitter attacks made upon the law by the book trust and its friends. Shortly before the dato fixed for the first letting, early last summer, the question was brought more directly to my notice and that of mv Kvansville associates by book publishers from other states who contemplated bidding, and desired to obtain Indiana sureties as required by law, on their bond as bidders. We then looked into the law carefully, and found that the conditions it imposed upon the bidders were so severe, and the maximum prices it fixed for the books were so low as compared with the prices theretofore prevailing, that wo concluded it would be safer not to have anything to do with the matter. A further investigation of tho question, however, convinced us that books of as good quality ns those already in use, could be furnished at the prices named by tho law, provided a contrac t could be obtained covering the w hole state, as the law contemplates. It needs no argument to convince any one that books can be supplied at very much less when orde red by the hundred thousand, relieving the publishers of all the heavy expense of drumming up trade in the various towns and counties, then when the business of every school district has to be obtained by the costly, laborious and sometimes not too reputable methods employed under the old system. However, the law imposes such severe conditions upon bidders, in whose interest it was evidently not drawn, and the experiment was so novel, and as we feared so hazardous, that we pretty nearly decided not to engage in the ente rprise. In fact, we had reac hed that conclusion at the elate fixed for the first letting, so we put in no bid at that time; indeed we did not organize. As bids were re-advertised for, however, we took up the subject again, but with the distinc t understanding that we would not engage in the project unless we could organize as an Indiana company, could gain control of suitable copyrights for this state and could make it distinctly and exclusively an Indiana enterprise. Vc obtained the best legal advice, which was to the effect that the law was a constitutional enactment, and that if we obtained a contract under it our rights would be fully protected. Our next step was to secure offers for Indiana copyrights for such text-books as were named under the law. The books tendered us were submitted to competent educators, who reported favorably on all except the grammar. l?eing convinced that the latter was not up to the legal standard we made no proposition on it. We bid on readers, spellers, geographies, arithmetics and copy-books. We said to the text-book commissioners, l)oth in our written communication and verbally, that we did not desire the contract unless our books were fully up to the standard fixed by the law. The board adjourned over ten days, during which time the members gave the books a thorough examination. They decided that our readers, arithmetics and geographies were fully equal to those named in the law and awarded us the contract for those books. They rejected our bids on copy-looks and spellers. "To our great surprise, we were at once assailed by c ertain newspapers of my own political faith, as if we had done some disreputable thing. The board of education was denounced because it had performed its plain duty under the law, and we were denounced as monopolists, jobbers, corruptionists, etc. The idea that we were in anv sense a monopoly when w e had been obliged to enter into open competition with the entire world for our contract, and to bid less than one-half the prices theretofore prevailing, is so absurd that I can not believe that it would be seriously entertained for a moment by any sensible person. "Notwithstanding the war upon us and our books, the law has been respected almost everywhere. We have supplied nearly SöO.ÜOO books. They have gone into every county except three, and nearly every school district in the state, and are to-day in the bands of nearly all the school children in Indiana. Tho publication and distribution of this immense number of books iu such a short time is an achievement, I believe, without a parallel in the history of the book trade, either in this country or in Europe. It was pronounced impossible of accomplishment by the leading publishers and book dealers of the country. We did not ourselves expect to do such a work and didn't supjKjse we would be called upon to. We have already supplied twice the numler of books w e had figured on sending out the first vear, and requisitions are still coming in. It has taken not only a large investment of money, but a good deal of industry, energy and'ekillful management. "As to the booke, we have the best of reasons for believing they are first-class. I and my associates do not profess to be school-book experts, but we ground our opinion upon the encouraging reports we are receiving from all parts of the state, from superintendents, trustees, teachers and parents, based upon the actual trial of the books; from the indorsement they received from Gov. Hovey, from Presidents Jordan and l'arsons and Supts. Layne, Jones and Wilev, when the contract was awarded ; and from the largo number of testimonials in their favor from leading educators of this and other states. Doubtless there are some imperfections in the books, but I am sure they are not serious. The statement that the books are old ones, which have been discarded in other states, is false. They are new books, and have not been discarded by any state. In Minnesota, for instance, there are more of the geographies in use to-day than ever before. "We are in the business to stay. We have put a large amount of money into it, and we are proud to savthat not one penny of it has been or will be spent in an improper way. We have depended, and shall depend, solely upon the merits of our books ami upon the law and our contract for a market. Much of the opposition to our books is mercenary and could be silenced ia adocacat U we" cared to use

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A Truth IteiKll win Out

Washing Compound. Those who use it like it, and tell their friends. Over one million families now use it The sale increases each month shows decided gains. Do you know the truth? PEARLINE yahes clothes, coarse or fine dishes paint everything in half the time, with half the labor, and better than anything else known. As it saves the worst of the rubbing, so it saves the worst of the wear ; your clothes and paint last longer and look better, if washed with PEARLINE. Harmless to fabric or hands, and economical. There is nothing else like PEARLINE. Beware of imitations being peddled or sold by means of prizes they are dangerous such means are not necessary to sell a good article. I'earline is manufactured enly ly TAME? PVI.E. New York

money for that purpose. We expect to get a moderate return on our investment. "Our intention is to make Indianapolis a great school book publishing center. We are going to buy a site here, erect a fine buildinr. eouip it throughout with the lat est and best mac hinery, and publish, text books not only for Indiana but lor many otherstates. This has been our purpose from the start, but it was obviously impossible to earrv it out in time to make our own books for tlii year. P.nt we hope to publish the books for next year rieht here at Indianapolis. We expect to put perhaps 5:200,000 into our plant, and employ a large number of men. laws similar to ours will i;o doubt be passed in a number of states during the next two years, and we shall compote for contracts in all of them. Where laws are not passed we shall olTVr our publications at prices very muc h below the prices now current. We shall publish grammars, histories, physiologies and a number of other books in addition to those now on our list. Thus one result of the new law, not anticipated by its advoc ates and friends, will be the establishment in Indiana of a very important industry. We are going to employ Indiana educators, so far as practicable, in the preparation and editing of our books, and there are a number of our educators abundantly competent for such work. Our Indiana school book company will soon develop into an institution well calculated to arouse state prMe. "There is certainly no politics in this business and there is no room for anv. It is hardlv necessary for me to sav that I am and always have been a stalwart republican. Our president, Mr. Josephus Collett, is a republican; so is our vicepresident, Mr. V.. l Huston ; so is Mr. I. J. Mackoy. The other four members of the company are democrats. It seems to me that evcrv good citizen has reason to be proud because of the almost universal acquiescence in the new law which the people of Indiana have shown, notwithstanding the desperate attempts which have been made to break it down. This shows that we are a lawabiding people. I don't think the law will ever be repealed, but it will probably bo amended in some particulars by the next legislature, as perhaps it ought to be." NEARLY A MILLION. An Immense Nomberof IJooks Turned Out IJy the Indiana Company. At the meeting of the Indiana schoolbook company Thursday night Mr. Hawkins, secretary and peneral manager, sub mitted the following statement: "The first requisition of school books was made on the Indiana school-book company Aug. 1. Since that time the su perintendent of public instruction has made 1, (.On requisitions onus, calling for W.sn; first readers, Sii,7"4 second readers, SV24" third readers, .0,504 fourth readers, 1W,)70 fifth readers, 10S,4i.7 elementary arithmetics, 1 17,51- complete arithmetics, 00,012 elementary geographies, 02,450 complete geographies, making a total number of books ordered up to date, 84O.20S. It will be seen that the arithmetics take tho lead. There have been 220,000 of this series called for. This company began shipping out books to the county superintendents Aug. 22. We have since supplied S02 townships, 213 towns and fifty-eight cities. The whole number of books shipped up to this time is 727,230, making 030,720 pounds of freight or 405 tons. "Our books are now being used in 0,420 school rooms. The new books are giving quite general satisfaction, as 331 towns, townships and cities have made their second, or additional orders for honks, calling for 72,055 more books for their schools, having sold out those ordered on their lirst requisition. "It is apparent that in a lew instances books have been ordered bv school officers for no honest purpose, merely making their requisitions, thinking that by taking this first step they would thereby relieve themselves from liability as ollieers and then afterward make no eilort to have the books introduced into their schools. There are only a few such cases. A very large majority of the school authorities throughout the 6tate have taken hold of their work with great earnestness, doing everything possible to carry out the provisions of the law, both in letter and in spirit. In a large number of cases that have been reported to us, the books could not be got in time for the opening of the schools in all of the school corporations of a county. The oflicers in these places have borrowed small supplies of their neighboring trustees whose requisitions have been filled, and paving back tho loan when taeir books came. "The extraordinary demand for such im mense quantities of our books, needed so shortly after our contract was consummated, made it ouite impossible for us to ship out the books as rapidly as they were needed. .Notwithstanding me delays ana disappointments the school officials, with but few exceptions, have so arranged to tide alone their schools until their supply of new books came, thereby getting the benefits of tho low prices and savin? the purchase of any of the books formerly used. "After wo have got through with this first great rush for books wo hope to get tho orders far enough in advance so as to give us time to fill all requisitions to tho entire satibfaction of all concerned." A Triumph For the People. Indianapols News. V, . -' i nf.-tincl n rr ttofflmont COwhern in this itaner of the Indiana Fchool book company; its accomplishments and i iii i i : its purposes, Biiouui Lie re:iu ny i-utv t uii. Th-re are 1,400 towns, townships and ics iu the state. The company has had zei cit

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Therein lies the secret of the marvelous success of PYLE'S PEARLINE 1,'JOO different ordersand many repetitions Over M0,(Kk) books have Ix-en supplied and the work goes on. The future of the company is to invest SJVOOO in Indianapolis in establisbinga publishing house. 'I be inter view with the Hon. William Heilman, a prominent nu mber of the company, seti forth the whole project well. Among other things he says, what everyone believes, that the opposition was mercenary and could have been silenced at any time by the use of money. A corrupter schem than that bv which the book monopoly undertook to kill this effort of the peoplo to g.'t out of its clutches, was never undertaken anywhere. The jeoph should thoroughly understand what a vile and demoralizing agency got its death'blow he re. The way in which the new books are taken means that they do understand it. This is a tiling that toiu-he almost every household among 2,ooo,;0 people, and the wicked m;n hiivitors that bavo not yet ceased to throw those people back to the plundering of the st hool Imh'k ring, have made for themselves only a r. büke that may cause similar scoundreli-m to pause. The people of Indiana are to bo congratulated. There h s been no triumph more di-tinct and beneficial than this whic h has shattered the ring that lias preyed upon every household in the state and" secured the help of officials and high influences to retain its place. II Got n -Fl in Iiis Kar." Jajrr Courier. A representative of tin infaniom cliool bonlj trust, which lias siiccf sfully swiii'lled the people of Indiana for ina-iy years infamous for its former swindling of the people, and for it3 present outrageous eliorts to induce trustee a and te.tchers to viohit plain provisions of the law, and lay themselves open to prosecution whs sent into tin's county l.it week ly Van Antwerp, Hratrir fc Co., of Cincinnati, to circulate more lies about t Ii new school liooks. Uut as far as we have heard he found all our people bettor satisfied with the new books than with the old ones, and convinced that the Indiana 6eries is vastly superior every way to the rinc's trashy publications, and determined, also, not to be cajoled or boupht to be criminal violators of the law. lie went away with a decidedly larse "flea in his ear." Tlirre Hundred Illnr I'rom the Octopus Iansport rharo. A prominent republican of this city informs the i'ltnros that the old school book monopoly is paying money to the republican papers throughout the state for attacking the new school books. He says he knows of one newspaper publisher who admits having received .V.iO from the octopus. This gentleman denounces his own party papers for their dishon esty, and says that they should be exposed. Ha Fays the new law ma.v not be as perfect as it might, but when it conies to a question betweea the people and the book robbers, he is with the people. The 1'hnro has all alone fit that there must be somethinirlike boodle behind the tiev I papers who are fighting to uphold the greedy ' ,il. I l1 l.sw.l- AnmKln.iliAn If you have a friend w ith a couch or a coll tell him to try Dr. hull's Cough ISyrup. Trice I 25 cents. VOTlcn OF MKETIXc; For. EXAMINATION for acceptance or rejection, or amendment of linal report on station street sewer improvement in the town of Hruhtwond. To whom it limy concern : Notice i fcfrc5y piren that on the 14th i.ir nf c )ctolr, !:, it tli ton n hall of i'richt wood, at p. ni., the Eüin.'-erand hoard of T ruMecs ot the town of Uri-htwood wnl nifvt tt consider tc final report of the Dnirin'vr and Board of Trustees of said town upon toe Mation stro t sew"r improvement in said town, at which time tinal action will be taken on iiufrovenient. John h. winm:mw. Clerk oi th-j Town of lirighteood. Wm. E. Melcan, laie First Poputv Commissioner and act in j c omnii'ioner of Pcnvon. Jos. W. Nirhol, hite I.awflerk. I'ostoltict! 1 eparlm't. Win. S. Med. CUi:a Attoruev. M 'LEAN A Mc. II" L, Attorneys at Ijiw, hooms 31, 32 and ;U, Atlant c Building, Wa-hinz'on, 1. C. Attention to Fen-ions, Patents and "IäIiiis hefor the I'oMothce Department aiid iu the Executive lepartments. SHORT-HAND. The "Reporting Style," by F.ldon Moran, is the Dame of theU-M book (or el'-intructiou ever published, l'itnian system. Price. $1.50. aniple page Iree. Lessons by mail. Address THE MORAS SHORT-HAND COMPANY. 1"22 Olive-st, id. Louis, Ma. Manhood $1 r PRr. 4 vietim ful i.nprudcTioe. cousin iTeinnlure iktit Nervoiin Pebli:tv, Ixvt Manhood. Ac. hnvins t- iel in am every known reml!v. hs di"vrred .enf'e in"-r of se'f rnrr. wtiirh lieVlll -n1 KKKK to his f.-llow-.irtHir. Address, J. II. KLEVES, V.O. Dox ittw, ew Yurk City s rn ATowcE.J f g J I J fur ffNo bf am;lblh hAlM&t. W k 1 1 im i atjd n-uil rrl-. W .r.- is. l.rr t -I ut'-ii W r l innuf."rurrinoarlinctn th' wnrH. l.iN-rn.nalart f-l Prrat po.it loa. ftWvadtaa'ri f .' a 1' -rti i tie . etc J or tu. term, orns, Cent: Dial H Co., CUlcao, I L, of I lUUUU. U n ) pitxnw:,n'' f,,r Fox' "Rermcntal Losses llfrN I in che, ivil War;" hiiorical mid sl.I1VJL.1 1 UiiMieal; idiows los of each r g mrnt: corps Listorie, regiaientnl sketehc, tr. Lihcral terms, ample territory. Albany rubli.-hiag oiu p.-.ny, Albany, N. Y. 23-1 SALARY, 510 EX TENSES IN ADVANCE Ib.wid each ninntti. 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