Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE

SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 18S9.

AT A MODEL INSTITUTION.

NEW IDEAS AT THE INSANE HOSPITAL. Important InnoTation and Reforms Introdnced By Dr. "Wright Blgld System of IHaeipiin The Fir Brigade How Supplies Are Bandied. "Hare you visited tho insane hospital since the new superintendent and trustees have had control ?" said a gentleman to a Sextisel reporter a few days ago. "Xo ; why ? Is there anything new OTer there?' "Well, I'll not say anything about it, but go and see for yourself." ' In accordance with the suggestion, the reporter visited the asylum to see and dispassionately judce whether or not the new hoard and superintendent had made improvements in the manasement of that important state institution. There is no other eleemosynary institution in the management on which the attention of the people of the state is more intensely fixed than the Central insane asylum, nor one in which that interest is more pnerally diffused all over the Ftate, from the lakes to the Ohio river. Among its sixteen hundred patients every county in the etate is represented, and these unfortunates have friends and relatives in every township and neighborhood, who, with tearful eyes, can every newspaper item that gives them the least information as to the conditions that surround their loved ones, the usage they are subjected to, the comforts accorded to them, and the means and appliances used to secure their safety, either from accidents or their own yc:uliar idiosyncrasies. At the same time there is not a tax-payer in tho Btate who does not want to know, and who has not a riht to inow, that this most unfortunate class is being furnished with these comforts and this security at the least possible cost. While cheerfully giving, in the way of, taxes, the cents or dollars asf-essed upon him as his share of the cost of this great state institution, he wants to know that his hard earned dollars and cents are used for the purpose for which they are intended, and that everything is done as cheaply as possibly consistent with the well-being of the patients. The investigations and criticisms of this institution one and two years ago, indulged in by the political press, has intensified this interest, and all are now doubly anxious to know whether or not the treatment of these f-L teen hundred patients, who are incapable of either righting their wrongs or complaining intelligently of tnem to others, :'a now such as to give excuse for such adverse criticism as was then indulged in. The term "The right man in the right plac""' hat been used so often as to become stale; but the right men in the right places can seldom be said when three or four are united officially.' Rut to satisfy the people of the state that this is true of the present superintendent and trustees of the Central insane asylum, if there was no corroborative testimony, it would only be necessary to state that within five months from the time they took charge they have wiped out tho debt of over 17,000 which they inherited from their predecessors, and this too without any increase in the appropriation, or diminution in the comforts and luxuries accorded to, and necessary for the patients. In fact, bv furnishing edibles of a better quality, t? cy have materially added to their comfort. Probably the first thing that strikes the average visitor i, that Mr. Shaffer, in accord with the spirit of improvement and economy that prevades the officers and employes of the asylum, ha reduced the fare to 5 cents; and the next thing that strikes him as new and peculiar is that the cars turn at the entrance, having been excluder! from the grounds. Tho reasons for this are that while the cars excite . Le patients they also afford a convenieut means of escape, and more than one have availed themselves of this means. - Entering the gate you discover, as you greet Capt. Kelley, two improvements adopted by the present management. First, the placing of a juard at the main entrance to the ground. And, second, the attiring of all employes and attaches of the institution in a plain, eervieble uniform. The uniform for the men is Femi-military, consisting of navy-blue trousers, vest and coat, the latter with brass buttons. The T. omen wear a plain dress made of the pame material, and of the came color as the suit worn by the men. This uniforming t the employes is one of the most important an satisfactory innovations made by the present management. In the first place it distinguishes the employes from the patients, often very difficult to do, and prevents a repetition of the very embarrassing positions in which visitors and Grangers have often been placed by mistaking one for the other. But a much more important function that this uniform performs is that patients recognize it as an emblem of authority, even as the ordinary transgressor of the laws recognizes the badge of the policeman, ana they will submit to it, as doe the aforesaid sinner to the minion of the law, without resistance, whereas, without this distinguishing uniform, resistance might ensue and patient or attendant get seriously hurt, as often happened before the employes were nniformed. This is especially true where a patient in trying to escape, or where it U necessary to call in the assistance of some one strange to the patient. And this set-ms to have been the line in which the new management has most directed its energies the creature comforts being supplied, and all necessary or possible medical appliances provided for their unfortunate condition; to prevent injury, too, and conserve the health and physical welfare of the patients, and save them from bodily injury either by accident or by the manifestation of any of the Mio syncrasie peculiar to insane persons. And all this, according to Dr. Wright's theory, is to be accomplished without ropes or rhains or locks. Upon entering on his duties he found several inmates tied with ropes aome because they would injur themselves, others because they would break furniture, tear their clotheii, pull their hair out, or do any of the thousand and one things which suggest themeelveB to a diwaed brain. All these he et once ordered freed, and substituted instead "Wright's restraint," which consists of one garment, made of soft woolen material, with legs like men's pants, but with a body or waist extending up to, and drawing close aronnd the neck. This in laced up behind with tape, and is sleeve 1cm, but large ermzh around the body to receive the arms, so that when laced up in it the entire person is free except the bands tha members with which destructive ideas are executed. To prevent tkoic wLo Lay a euicrtal mania Uqu, ex

ecuting their designs. Every knife and fork in the suicidal wards is counted before and after meals, and if missing, it is sought for until found. "At night such persons are put in rooms where there is not the slightest projection whereon a rope or string could be fastened. A heavy wire screen, with small meshes, is over the windows, so that the patient can neither break out glasses, and hang himself to the center bars of the sash, nor get a piece of glass with which to cut a vein. At the same time, the watch can, and is required, every thirty minutes during the night, to look "into the room, which they do without disturbing the patient, by looking through a square in the door, covered with the same heavy wire screen. Patients with this mania sleep on mattresses on the floor, as such have been known often to set their bedsteads upon end and hang themselves to the upper cross-rail. For epleptics, or those liable to spasms in the night, the posts of the bedsteads are sawed otT, so that the patient sleeps only eight inches from tne floor, so that if, in a convulsion, he should roll off the bed, he will not be crippled. Why not put them on the floor, like those with suicidal mauia? Here is Dr. Wright's answer: "Because they sometimes, in their spasms, get the clothes wound around their nose and mouth and smother, but in faliing eight inches, they free themselves from the bed-clothes." Don't you see how all little details have been thought of? And then that disease-breeding slop pen, where often were the accumulations of the refuse of a week, and the stench could be detected a hundred feet away, is now cleaned every night. But the grandest achievement of the present administration for the preservation of the lives and limbs of the incapables who have been intrusted to its care, is the local fire brigade, which consists of every sane man woman and child in the asylum, reinforced by such insane persons as are capable of understanding an order. For the benefit of the fifty thousand readers of The Sentinel the doctor gave the reporter an exhibition of the work of the brigade, that the people who had loved ones in tho hospital might know that they were as well protected against that most horrible of all deaths as human ingenuity, energy and zeal could protect them. Understand first, that each ward is simply a long wide hail with small bedrooms on each side. At either end is a door. Just outside the door at one end is a water tap, with enough hose attached to reach the entire length of the ward. In each ward also is a telephone, connected with the central oilice, and in each are three attendants. This much by way of explanation. Everything is going on as usual among the two thousand sane and insane inmates of these immense structures. We are out on the lawn between the two main buildings, when Dr. Wright suddenlv blows a peculiar signal on a dog whistle. The large steam whistle at the boiler-house responds with five short blasts and one long one, and this repeated. But before the first long blast had ceased men and women could be seen running at breakneck speed in every direction, seemingly in inextricable confusion; but it took only a moment to evolve order out of the chaos, and in less than two minutes, as indicated by a watch, from the time the first blast was given by the whist' : the male and female employes, except the attendants, were in line in the front and rear of the two buildings, ready to receive and care for any patients who might jump from a window, or, in the confusion, attempt to escape, and in the same time the field and garden hands had one stream of water on the building, and in two and one-half minutes two streams were being thrown twenty feet above the roof of the female department. In tho meantime, inside the buildings one attendant had hustled the patients to the end of the ward farthest from the hose and water-tap before mentioned, had these look under every bed and in every place where a frightened insane person might hide, then, after locking every bedroom door to prevent anyone from returning there, or getting any place except in tho main hall, stood guard over them. Another attendant uncoiled the hose and Ftood ready to turn on the water, while a third stood with telephone to his ear, awaiting orders from the main office. The old fire legislations required attendants and all employes to Fave property; the new regulations require thenvto save the lives and limbs of the patients ; as the doctor is of the opinion that a human life is more valuable than any amount of property, the people of the state who have unfortunate friends in the hospital will doubtless sleep sounder when they read this, and thank God tbat the doctor is of that opinion. "These improvements are all very good, and commendable," says a tax-payer, "but what assurance have we that our interests will be conserved, and that our money will not be wasted or stolen ?" That leads to a few remarks about the system of bookkeeping adopted by the present board and superintendent. It is simply the old double-entry system, with an account opened for every article that is used in or by the institution, and each article is debited with all amounts received and credited with all amounts drawn out on requisitions for consumption. At the end ot each month an invoice is taken, the books balanced, and the books and invoice compared. The balance is carried forward to new account. At the end of October the books were found in error to the extent of two and one-half pounds of butter, and one spool of thread, out of fifty gross of spools that had been handled. The error in butter is supposed to have originated in diflerences in the weights of the cans and jars in which it was packed. Both errors were in favor of the state. All bills of purchase are, of course, carefully checked by the storekeeper, for he is responsible for the amount shown by these bills. When the goods are checked into the store they can only get out in one way, and that is as follows: Each head of a department makes out on a blank a requisition for what he wants. This he takes to the superintendent. Dr. Wright; if all right, ho approves it; if not, he cnanges it in accordance with his opinion of the needs of tho department and then approves it. Until he does append his signature it is as valueless as a piece of blank paper. The form of fhe requisition is as follows : CENTRAL INDIANA HOSPITAL FOR INSANE.

- IS... Stores, eppe r: Isue the following named artieloa for ns exclusively in snd and for this hospital:

No. or Quantity. Articles. Required For Remarks.

Received tbe above named article. Signed Issued as bor required, ......... 19... Approved: MM Storekeeper. huperln tender t. When the superintendent has attached his signature to the requisition it is taken to the' store, where it filled, signed by the storekeeper, copied into a book and tiled. The meat is in the special charge of the butcher, and the bread, cakes, crackers, flour, meal, etc, are in the charge of the Laker. If any requisition call for any of then articles, the original is retained and copied by tho storekeeper and he Lsauca bis

requisitions on the butcher or baker, as the case may be. The following are samples : CENTRAL INDIANA HOSPITAL FOR INSANE.

.... -..IS... Baker: Issue to., Loaves Bread. Rolls. Lbs. Ginger Bread. Pound Cake. " Flour. " Flour Graham. M Coro MeaL According to requisition presented to me. .. ...Storekeeper. CENTRAL INDIANA HOSPITAL FOR INSANE. "! 3.. Butcher: Issue to , Pept. for Lbs. Fresh B ef. " Corned Beef. IIa tu. u Breakfast Bacon. " Poultry. " Fish. Veal. " Mutton. " Lard. " Pork. According to requisition presented to me, Storekeeper. It seems that these requisitions and the 6ysteni of bookkeeping throws about all the safeguards around the interests of the state that are possible, as every article can be followed by records and vouchers from its reception at the store to ita consumption. The Journal indulged in some political gush a few days ago because the board rejected all bids for butter, and then paid more in the open market than wes bill. The board rejected all bids because no first-class samples were presented for their acceptance. It paid more in the open market because first-class butter could not be bought for the prices that were bid. This is a simple and plain solution of the "mystery." The Journal would undoubtedly have been highly pleased to have had an opportunity to ring the changes on "maggotty butter" in the next campaign. Dr. Wright has utilized the grove in the rear of the buildings by cleaning it up and appropriating it to "the use of the male patients in which to exercise themselves in the athletic games, such as baso ball, foot ball, quoits, etc., which he has added to the means of amusement and recreation of these people, to whom these are as good remedial agents as can be found in the materia medico. This leaves the entire lawn in front of and around the buildings for the use of the females, at such times and in such weather as out-door games can be played. Among these, too, he has introduced many new means of recreation, even to foot ball. If the sUte would buy 100 acres of good farm land adjoining the asylum grounds, much of the intelligent muscular energy now exjended by the men in playing base ball, etc., could be utilized in the raising of the vegetables necessary for the consumption of the two thousand people daily fed there. This would be a saving of thousands of dollars annually besides supplying them with fresh and wholesome vegetables. As before said, all methods of restraint, fuch as tying, etc., have been abolished, and nothing is resorted to except the garment hereinbefore mentioned. Kindness and moral force are believed to be amplv sufficient to control the most vicious suicidal or homicidal maniac these and keeping out of their reach all means of indulging their peculiar mania. Tho past five months have demonstrated the correctness of this theory. The next legislature should provide two improvements : 1. The entire water supply for tho two buildings is dependent on one pump. If this should get out of repair, the institution would be without water for fire-protection or any othfr, purpose until it was repaired. An additional pump of equal capacity should be provided and set ready for use at a moment's notice. 2. Each building is dependent on one pipe, about live hundred feet long, four feet under ground, for the supply of heat. In case of accident to either of these pipes the building would be without heat until the leak was found and repaired, and this, of a cold day, might be fatal to hundreds. Such an accident is not probable, but it is possible, and should be provided against, either by an extra pipe, as in the case of the pump, or by laying these in tunnels so that they would be accessible along their entire length. Acknowledgments are due Dr. and Mrs. Wright for the kindness with which they extended The Sentinel reporter every facility for investigation, and to Mr. Thomas Markey of the board for his courtesy in showing him through every department. And the same kindness and courtesy will bo extended to anyone who may wish to view the working of the new regime. Dr. Wright says be does not fear, but courts, the fullest investigation. There are no secrets. The fact that Dr. Wright and Mr. Markey were kindly recognized by many patients indicates that the energy and zeal of these gentlemen in the cause of these unfortunates are understood and appreciated by them. ' The board of trustees elected by tbe legislature last spring, consists of Dr. Zachariah II. HouBer, the lion. Joseph L. Carson and Mr. Thomas Markcv. These gentlemen are administering the affairs of tho hospital in an intelligent, ellicient and honest manner. They did a nice thing to begin with, when they selected a man of the high professional and personal standing of Dr. Wright for superintendent. They clothed him with absolute authority in tho matter of hiring and discharging employes, etc., and they are supporting him handsomely in his every effort to improve tho institution. IVrttvinn. Mini Elizabeth, I bunks, the prirate secretary of the Hon. John Hick, U. 8. minister to Peru, writes home from Lima: "There are some Terr pretty Peruvian rirla to be met on the streets or saying their headi in Rome of tho many churches. Their dark eye are the kind that would make a man jump otl' Pizarro'a bridge into the river ltimao it his suit happened to go wrong. The Peruvian men pay a great deal of attention to their personal appearance aud pass away much of their time in dress suits and toothpick shoes. They are very gallant, but are not half so nice as Auer lean men from any point of view." The Cook nnd the footman, Merchant Travcler.J Eaid the cook to the footroan: "It's a great use that pepper has ia the kitchen." . "Ye," was tbe reply, "but the nutmeg has a grater,"

WHO PAYS THE TARIFF TAX?

A Silly Protection' Suph'.iim Demolished by Prnrt ral Illustration. On the editorial page of the Indianapolis Journal of Oct. 28, one reads the following: The Louisville Commercial makes a neat point on the free-trade organs in this: Last year, during the dehnte on the Mills bill, and the snb.eqnent campaign, they continually asseierated th.-.t all tariff dutirs sere taxes paid by the people of thU country ; that none of the tariff duty fell upon the foreigner who brought bis jrtods to eil in our market, but that all of it was paid by our people hi bought the poods. Now they asrt, with tiretome iteration, tbat the South Americans will not trade with us beau.e we luvjs dutl s on the goods which they would sWl us, aud that they will not p;iy that tax. What difference does it make to th tp:in-isli-Ainericans how much duty we levy on their goods if our petiole pay it, and they do not? If free-traders were honest, or accessible to arcuraent, such things as this wouM hurt, but they will rieht on grinding out the same old lies and platitudes. The above is sufficiently emphatic, and it ie not at all ambiguous. But is it good reason or is it mere llippancy and "sound, signifying nothing?" Would it not be worth the while to call a little halt and and take a good square look into the re d facta as to who pavs the tariif taxes? Lot us not bandy epithets, as the able writer in tho Journal has done, but let us try to clear the mists away. In onirr to make a general principle luminous, let us foilow a simple illustration. Suppose hats can be made and sold in Lurooe at i-l. Suppose, further, that in order to protect the American maker of hats, a tax of 50 cents is laid by congress on every hat imported. As soon as this is done no Kuropean hat can bo brought to the United States unless it can be sold hon; for 1.50. If the price here lio above that lipure, the taritTisno obstacle to importation, since the higher the price the .greater is the profit realized by the European manufacturer. The "floods" pour in with increasing volume in spite of all that "advanced statesmanship" can do to keep them out. A positive premium is put upon importation. Protection signally fails to protect. In this case it is evident the foreigner pays none of the tax, since he becomes rich by importation, and finds here the highest market in the world. The man who wears the imported hat bears every ounce of the tax burden. But suppose, again, that the price of hats here should fall below $1.50 say to .$1.40. Now all importation of hats is x cut off, since to send them here would involve the importer in a loss of 10 cents on every hat. In this case the home buyer of hats bears a tax burden of 40 cents, since without tariff he could buy hats at the free trade price, SI. The foreigner, being driven from our market, will find on without loss at f I in his own country. Hence in this case also the American buyer bears all the burden. But the European manufacturer sees hats sell in America at SI .40, while, if he attempts to enter our market he can realize 50 cents less than that, or only 00 cei.ts, which is below the cost of production and his own market. This is tantalizing and irritating to him. He does not send us his hats, but finds a better market elsewhere, and hence pays no part of our tariff tax. What is a further result? "When the price of hats is at full tide $1.50 or above the national treasurv gets an abundance of revenue from the larpe importation, but the home manufacturer gets absolutely no protection. Ho is even more exposed to foreign competition than he would be under absolutely free trade, since the higher the price of hats the stronper is the motive for sending foreign goods here. Why, then, does he favor a protective tariff? Because he is made willing to divide his market with foreigners ßince he now hells his goods at an extravagant profit. . It will thus appear plain that so loner as tho importation of foreiern hats continues, the American consumers are paying the full amount of the tariif tax, not only upon all tho.e imported, but upon the entire volume of our own productions also. But if importation stops, as it must when the domestic price has touched a tieure even a shade less than that dictated by the tariif (?1.50). then all revenue ceases, and the protection of tho home manufacturer is complete-, r-inco ho has an absolute monopoly of the market. But the tax burden of the hat-wearer is almost as great as before, and the whole of it goes as a bonus to the domestic manufacturer and not a cent of it into the till of the government. Thu.s it is with all kinds of tariffed goods. The real fact is foreigners object to our tariff, not because we tax them thereby, since they are free to sell elsewhere, but because we forbid their participation in our markets where, under the t-helter of our tariff barriers, a high price prevails in the very things which they wish fo gell. We rudely warn them away from a good thing which they wish to partake of. Tho very fact that tho foreigner sends his goods across the wide Atlantic shows that he finds here the highest market on the planet. The very fact that he does not send them here shows that he can sell more profitably elsewhere. In neither case does he leär any of our burdens. If there were any way by w hich one nation could compel another to pay even a small part of its taxes, it would have been found out and universally applied centuries ago. It is a fact in the very A. B. C. of taxation that the person who "consumes goods pays all the taxes that have ever been placed upon them, be they of foreign or domestic manufacture. The importer, the jobber, the wholesaler, the retailer, are all reimbursed by the final sale. No axiom of geometry is more certain than that we carry our own tariff burdens, and that foreigners do not lift them by the weight of a feather. If our friends, the protectionists, dispute the tenets of tariff reformers, let them point out an error by a course of reasoning, and by way of variety give us, now and then, something more convincing than bald, black assertion. Let them stun us by hard hits in argument, not by hurling abusive epithets, the "last ditch" of a failing cause. Edward Taylok. Vincennes, Ind. IVanted To Shoot Lew Wnllnce. Ladies Home Journal, Mrs. Wallace had need of all her couraec in some hair-ßrizzlini? experiences in New Mexico, when her husband wan governor there. They found border-rufiianisru in all its pristine glory and Gen. Wallace was about breukintr up the business. One. of the gnna who boasted that he had killed a man for every year he had lived (he was then twenty-one) pledged his word and honor as a desperado thut he would track Wallace till he had shot him; with so much at stake they played very earnestly and Urn llnr "wore hU beaver up" and pistol cocked for him. Finally he took his lodcings in the same hotel and at night CJen. Wallace closed the door of his room. His wife speaking of the heat opened it and he quietly said "it's best not to have it open u in the' house watching his chance toahoot tne." We can fancy the alacrity with which she then shut the door and that she probably corked the keyhole, as Mim rtckmijf did the wine bottle, with a curl paper I With rifle at hand and pistol under hU pillow Gov. Wallace lay down and slept better than his wife did, you may he sure. The lriil!fii hnn. A home missionary was preaching to a fron tier audience on the prod iiral son. After he had described the condition of the aon in raira among the iwinr, and hud started him on his return, as he betrau to speak of the fnther coiningr to nteet him, and ordered the fatted calf to be killed in honor of the prodigal's return, he noticed a cowboy looking interested and h determined to make a -persons.! appeal. Looking directly at hia heitrer the preacher said : "Mr son, what would you have done if you had had a ion rrttirninz homo in uch a pliant." "I'd have ahot the hoy and raised the calf," was the prompt reply. Children Cry for

AVOIDS WORK-HOUSES NOW.

flow Jim XV as Transplanted A Tramp' ütory. Sitting on a beam that projects from a White river bridge sat a representative of the most independent of American types a tramp. Between his teeth he had a corn-cob pipe of undoubted antiquity. lie was clad in evening dress, but his Prince Albert had, chameleonlike, changed hues, for when the reporter beheld it it was of the beautiful yellowish drab which distinguishes the amateur works of art entitled "Sunset on the Kiver." He didn't have a much of pantaloons to speak of but what little he had he probably wore for modesty's sake. As the reporter strolled across the bridge the tramp hailed him and invited him to share his seat on a board. Had the reporter a match? Certainly; perfectly willing to accommodate him. The match hiaed for a moment, and then went out. Could he be accommodated with another? Three matches were contributed before "Old IIoss" waj satisfied. Then the reporter was successively asked to furnUh a chew of tobacco, the time of the day and a general synopsis of the styles of labor performed at the police station, work-houso and friendly inn, respectively. The tobacco was stowed away for an emergency. When the hour was mentioned he tightened his waist-belt for it was nearly noon and listened attentively to the description of the work-houee. "Good houest men run it?" "Yes." "No medical students go there?'' "Not that I know of" and the reporter's curiosity wan aroused. "What made vou Rsk that he queried." "Well, I'll tell you. I'm deathly cfcard of students. When I wai Käst I hed a partner wot was a dandy. Wen he'd go up Broadway the Indies all cit dead stuck on him. Well ye see Jim didn't have much style about him, 'cause he't always wear his hair dekolny. That is, it'd always stick through the top of bis hat !So one day the nerlice run him in on ceneral principles and he was sent to der wuku. A lot er doctors cum out one day and tuk Jim into der office, give him plenty to drink and eat an' asked Jim to sign a pieces of paper. Jim didn't have any real estate 'c-pt wat he carried with him, so he signed it. They give him more drink and then that's last that Jim knowed 'till 1 found him on tbe street. They hed took Jim to a hospital to practice on transplnntin' they call it. Jim was a daisy then. I5oth rows of his big, yaller teeth were on the outside of hig face. They hed transplanted his lips. He didn't hev null' cars to hang ear-mufis 'onter transplanted them too. Well he was a sight, Where's he now? Died from mortification. He was too shamed of himself to live. Ever since then I kinder 'voided wurkuses A GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE. The Prospect to Supply Chicns With Natural (la From Indiana. Fort Wayne, Nov. 6. Special. The lion. It. C. Bell of this city, attorney and Indiana director of the Indiana and Illinois natural gas company, in speaking to-night of to-day's decision of the Indiana supreme court, holding: it lawful to pipe natural gas beyond the limits of the state said that Chicago may expect to see natural Ras burning in its homes within ninety days. A company has been formed with a capital stock of j2,000,000; 27,000 acres of gas lands have been secured by lease or purchase to the north and east of Kokomo; the surveys have been made, and now with no further letral embarrassments in tbe way the work will be commenced at once and pushed vigorously to completion. It is thought tbat it will only be attempted at first to supply gas for domestic purposes, but manufacturers will doubtless soon secure it. It is hardly to he expected that the well pressure will be suflicient to force the gas through 130 miles of mains, and on this account one, and possibly two, pneumatic pumping stations will be required. Tbe line will run through Loansport and Valparaiso and both will be supplied. Hnmmond, Ind., is, by the articles of the association, made the western terminal of the line, but plans for leading the pipes into the city are already well advanced. The parties interested in the gicanticFcheme are mostly from Chicntro and New York. Mr. C. M. Far, at the head of the Chicn2o pns trust company, is ihe president of the Indiana and Illinois gas company. Other Chicntro gentlemen of wealth are also heavily backing tbe enterprise. It is said that the street franchise has been provided for. The scheme of piping ens to Chicago has been vigorously opposed in the Indiana courts, and it might exhaust the supply for use at home. Should the supply prove insufficient for home consumption, it could not be expected that Chicago could utilize the supply in competition with places located much nearer the wells. DesMes this it is believed by those best informed that the supply is practically as inexhaustible as water. Suprtm Court. 14.P2S. State öS rel. Cornelius Corwin vs. Indiana A Ohiooil, gis aa l mining company. Jay C. C Affirmed. Elliott, C J. The act of March 9, 1?S3, provides that it shall be unlawful to pipe natural s from any point within to any point without the state. Any pcroon or corporation incorporottd for the purpose of drilling or mining for petroleum or natural gas, or otherwise acquiring gn or petroleum ells to furnish the products to j atrons, or to convert uch product into pa for illuminating purposes or fuel, which fhall have acquired land for the purpose of laving pipe lint's which slu'l permit pas t be conveyed without the state, shall forfeit a 1 title to such land, and the SKiie shall revert to th persons from whom it was acquired. Feb. 21. l-9, an art was paiM-d declaring tltat the word miniug should be deemed to include the sinking of rhs wells. On tho fame day an act roa as-ed authorizing ga companies to exteud their piiMV bevond the corporate limits of towns and Cit'es. Feb. JO an act was pa-sed authorizing Ras Companys to appropriate ami condtmn property. Appelioe claims that the act of March 9 is invalid because it is interstate commerce legislation, and such legislation must dj exclusively iedersl. Natural k is an article of commerce. The sole object of the tat u to is to prevent iwrsnns from conveying cas into another Mate, and the provision of the art as to the sinking of wells is so b und up with the provisions designed to eifect the principal object that separation can not be ma to without completely destroying the atatut and substituting another for it bv Judicial construction. AH legislation in regulation of commerce re! ween the stat-s must be enacted by congress. 1 he net cannot be deemed a legitimate axenan of the police powers. The language ot the set lorbids the conclusion that the legislature meant to do no more thaudeny the rlcht of eminent domain to persons desirous to transport natural gas from Indiana. The in anii g is that no person shall be permitted to transport natural gas to another state. The act cannot be sustained upon tho principle that the state may enforce restrictions on foreign corporations. The act is held t be invalid. l.VX'l. John 8. Harr et al. vs. Ellen Van AMine. Allen C.C. Affirmed. Pcrkshire, J. When a wife did not Join her husband In a mortgage, nor wa made a party to the foreclosure when surviving her husband, she is entitled to redeem one-third Interest in the land, if his estate wa less than SlO.n'tO, within f.fteoti years from his death. The purcha-ser was chargeable with the rents and profits from the death of the husband, and the wito was chargeable with the niortingo debt and interest thereon at fi per cent, per annum snd for taxes paid, together with the tost ot Improvement. i:l,5'.K. Annie t. owiln et Whipple et al. learborn C. C al. vs. I-umsn C Affirmed. Mitch'"where a way Is ued for a period of less than twenty years, but afterward under agreement with the owner it is used more than thirty years, this constituted apermlsslre lite tinder a license, which cannot be adverse, and will not serve as the basis of a precriptive right. 2. When tho defendants erected and maintained gates at their own expense upon tho faith Ol final ngrcenicnt that they were to have a perpetual easement to pas over the piaintili's lands, the agreement having be-p fully executed and aro,oiecd in by tho parties who made it for more thau thirty years, a court of equity will not now permit the license to he revoked. 14 40. Columbus M. Pickett vs. Thomas C. Green etat, yoblot;. U AtHrnvd. Cotter, J. When a contract Is complete upon Its face a stipulation as to the consideration becomes contractual, and when there is a direct snd positive promise to Jay the consideration named r an aiKumption of an ncumbranco on tho part of a grantee In a deed which becomes binding upon its acceptance, then the ordinary rules with reference to contracts apply an t ttie cntid"ration prred can no more b voided by parol thun any other portion of the written conri!pl8ia. Jacob K.Marks vs. Mary A. Orth, executrix. Tippecanoe C C. Reversed. Old, J. Ina suit on a note against tho entate of Uodlove 8. Orth for the purpove of showlnc the whereabouts of the rosier at the time of the transactions shout tit note, the defendant ottred In evidence what purported to Im th reort of the Paraguayan invealigatlon.of which Mr. Oith, the maker of the note, tm member, howing that he was with the committee. It u not authenticated or tetlncd to bv an officer. It Is not a publication or record required bv the housrtof representatives. Held : It was inadinlsMhie, 14.029. Andrew J. Atery vs. Indiana and Ohio nil, gas and mining company. Jay C C. Affirmed. Elliott, C. J. I lia Ju 'Rinent lo this case 4s affirmed on the a u-th-ditv ol Kit . Indiana, t?. (No. RlW.t IS. Hs. Amr Cantor vs. Og Psvls et al. Boone C C. Kcneariug denied. . Pitcher's Cactorla.

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