Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1891 — Page 12

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THE INDIAN 1 STATE SENT fx EL. WEDNESDAY MO UNI NrG. JANUARY U. 1891-TYrELYE PAGES.

MUKDEU IN BARTHOLOMEW.

A RESUME OF SOME EARLY CRIMES. The Killing of John I lay Uy John Jonea Sixty Tara Agn IUdfi Herring's Crime Tha First Murder In the County Tli Execution. Columbus, Jan. 7. Special. Tho trial of John F. Pettilcrott who pleaded the insanity dodgo without effect who was just tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife in this city July 4, has revived the history of eome of tL early murders committed in this county for which John Jones and Kades Herring were hunjr beins the only leiral hangings that ever occurred in tha county. John Jones and John Kay were fast friends, and liv-d near each other; both had been drinking and started home on horseback, accompanied by James Pleak. A dispute arose, Jones called Ray a liar, when Ray Etruck him, and Jones then etabbed Hay to the heart, he falling from his hors dead in the road. Moes Kay, John's father, was a soldier of the war of 1812, and helped to capture Tecumsch's mattress at the battle of tho Thames, in which was hid Tecuineh's picture, which is still preserved as an heirloom. This murder occunvd on Saturday, June 11, 1S31. Jones lied but was afterward arrested. Jonea was twice tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged, and as often the case reversed by ths supreme court and sent back for new trial. For over two years he laid in jail, here and at Vernon, Franklin ad Bloomington. In September, lSJo, he was convicted the third time and sentenced to be banned, and prejudice ran go high that perjury and subornation of perjury was resorted to on both sides to convict and acquit. The Rev. 'Williameon Terrull was foreman of the last jury that tried the case. At tha same term of court Kad s Herrings was convictel and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of John Comer, Sunday, July 16, 1833. Comer was an elderly man end an uncle of Herring's wife, vis-itin them. Herring happened to exhibit a cow-bell, which he eaid he had found; Comer Claimed the bell, when Herring flew into a passion and abused Comer so he took his wife and started to leave. Herring grabbed bis rifle, when Comer started to run, and when climbing over the yard fence was shot by Herring; running a short distance he "fell dead. The alarm was soon given and about twenty-five of the excited neiehlors arrived on the scene, but Herring had reloaded his rifie and,Ftandingover the dead body of his victim, refused to a'lowanyone to come near, threatening to shoot any person who made the "attempt declaring in his nnuMene 1 frenzy to watch the Iwxly uivil it was tly blown. John Richardson otlVred to fchoot Herring, but was persuaded to deit. Herring final y left of his own accord, ami hid himself ford-ya in a sink-hole, and was finally captured while eating dinner at a neighbor's, and brought here ar,d jailed. When his trial appnached the plea of insanity was et up as his defence, but the jury didn't take much stock in such dodges. Herring was convictt-d and sentenced to be hunjr. The doomed men, both Jones and Herring, were executed from the same scaffold bv Sheriff John McKinney, father of the notorious Buck McKinney, who afterward killed Martin Ili-sbrecht, for which he was eentencet to li e imprisonment, but was pardoned by Governor Hendricks ift'-r eerv.ng twenty-one years. The prisoners were takn from the jail by a squad of mi.itia detailed ty Col. T. Tr. Lee and Lieuf.-Col. James McFall and Mai. .Samuel Beck, and, preceded by a ti:e and drum, marched slowly to the scaffold. Jones was grorgv and weak, and seemed to fully realize the awfulnes of the situation. Herring was fcto!i!ly indifferent to his fate or the surroundings. After prayer on the sraflold by the Rev. Johu McQueen, Jones responded wah much emotion, but Herring ma le no reply. Following this were two or three perjury cases on account of false testimony given at the trials. In one case it was developed that Jesse Williams was suborned toswear falsely in order to save Jones, bv paying him $40 cash, a horpe and sadl' and a f-ixty-dol ar note. Jones was iiav-nx years of ege when bang.-din O- toberlisi.!. He formerly came from South Carolina. He once engaged in a deperate plot to break jail, but was frustrated. These were the second and third mnrdersin Bartholomew county and the only legal haneinifs which ever took place in the county up to this date. The first murder was that of Gen. Famuel Downing, who was fchotbv Abram Ireland in March, 1831, the killing of which was witnessed by onlv three men. Downing was drunk and had threat- ned Ireland, but turned to go when Ireland enot bim dead on the street near the court-house. Ireland, more fortunate than Jones a;d Herrin , wa acqubted. In this ear y day the e-.ores nearly aU kept whisky and treated their customers. On muster days treating was very common and sometimes a good deal of drunkenntes was indulged in. On one occasion lien. Denning, who was then brigadier of the miiitia, poured a barrel of whisky and a half barrel of sugar in a public well on "Washington-et. and invited all to "twist the pump handle and help themselves to grog woolly as a hairy dog. On one occasion in these pioneer days the whisky gave out and there wasn't a drap of the critter in town," and wagons were dispatched to Madison for a supply, and when word w-as received that tile wagona were coming the people went out with flam tnd martial music f fife ami drum to escort the whisky in, and there was then a general rejoicing. This was in the days when there were no railroads Madison wad then the metrouolis of Indiana and everything was hauled in wagons from there, to which point it was thipped by steamboat from up or down the Ohio river. PACKEO IN A TRUNK. How St. Louis Swindler Made Ills TV a to Iattlanapolta, Chicago, Jan. 6. A dispatch from St. Louis says: "For several weeks the police officials have been searching for a man named Olunston, who was wanted upon a number of charges of swindling. He had been working the bogus diamond racket, selling pate gems to unHusnecting grangers at night, representing that he had ttolen them ana wanted to reabze very quickly. His operations were so extensive that the police were instructed to make extraordinary efforts t catch him. Olunston, by some means, got wind of the orders. He was afraid to leave town by the ordinary way, as he knew the depots and bridge were guarded. Being a very imall man he secured a large trunk and took a friend into hi confidence. The next day, the trunk in which he was snugly ensconced was checked to Indianapolis. Nothing was known of the fate of the lonely voyageur until today, when his Triends received information that Oluniton had'arrived safely. We are all free American citizens, enjoying our personal liberty; but most of us are in. physical slavery, suffering from scrofula, fait rheum or ou.e other form of impure blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla i the gTeat blood purifier which gives physical liberty. ,

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Is not an experiment ; it has been tested, and its enormous saie is due solely to its merit. It is made on henor, and good housekeepers sav SANTA CLAUS SOAP "is a necessity' Don't let your dealer give you some ether kind, if he hasn't Santa Claus, but insist on having only SANTA CLAUS SOAP. N. K. PAIRBANK ft CO.. Mfrs... Chicago, IIL DEATH. Tht Unsolved Mystery That Frizzle Philoanphen. 3cottih rrlw.l Philosophers have concerned themselves much with attempts to define death, but, as they have not been able to ayree first how to define life, it is not surprising that they have not been very successful in defining its negative. Men, for the most part, are ircte rested more in finding practical answers to the question, "Is life worth living?" than in pursuing scientific analysis of the nature of life itself. There is a much more general disposition to speculate on the nature of death. Life we know in some sort, but death is an absolutely unknown quantity. That which is mysterious is always more interesting than that which is patent, even if uncomprehended. Life is familiar, but death must alwavs remain a mystery and an unsolved problem to the living being. When Faber wrote, "Death is an unsurveyed land, an unarranged science," be expressed what still remains the sum of our conceptions. It is true Mr. Herbert Spencer has attempted a more scientific formula. He tel's us that life is "The d finite combination of heterogeneous changes, both eitnultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-exi'tenees and sequences" which, if not vry intelligible to the nonscientific mind, has led to much heated disputation in philosophic circles. The best tdat can be said for this definition is, that it is at least us near tho mark as any other. But docs it bring us any nearer to a knowledge of what death is, to be told that it is simply a want of that "correspondence" of relations which is defined as life? The mystery of not-being still remains greater than the mystery of b'ing. When Socrates suggested that pleasure is a state of not-pain, the mind can more readily grasp the significance than in a thesis which declares that death is not life. But Socrates, as we know, argued that while lite iscontrary to death, death is produced from life and lite from death. He also forced the long -su.'iering Nimm'asto admit tint, if death is anything, it is nothing else than the separation of the soul from the body. "Is not this to die," he asked, "for the body to be apart by itself separated from the soul, and for the soul to suhsist apart by itself separated from the tody?" Philosophy he alarmed to be in itself nothing else than a preparation for, and meditation on, death, asserting that death and philosophy have this in common, that while death separates the soul from tte body, philosophy draws olf the mind from bodily things to the contemp'ation of abstract truths. Therefore, a man who fears death can neither be a phi osopht r nor a true lover of wisdom. This is all very fine, but somehow the philosophic admiration of death seCi.i.s to suggest the face of Mr. Mould, the undertaker, in whose countenance a queer attempt at melancholy was at odds with a smirk of satisfaction. "What is death," sa9 Seneca, "but a ceasing to be what we were before?" "And where all life dies," tays Milton, "death lives." Which may all be accepted without in the least enlightening us about "the strange, mysterious power peon every day, yet never understood but bv the uncommunicative dead." Ilumbohft owned that he had never known the feeling of an anxious longing for death, yet held that death is not a break in existence it is but an intermediate circumptance, a transition from one form of our finite existence to mother. Job did not feel this when bespoke of "aland of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, w ithout any order and where light is as darkness." But it is difficult to think otherwise in regarding the form of a de d child, where is, as Leigh Hunt says, death in its sublimest and purest image. "The sense of death is mot in apprehension," and the appreheiwon is more general than Southcy would have it, for ho declared as the result of his observation that the b ar of death is not common. Where it exists, he said, it proceeds rather from a diseased and enfecb'ed mind than from any principle in our nature. But he iseureiy w rong, for it is an ineradicable principle in our nature to fear the unknown, even while we strive with it. Even the Christian's most ardent desire to depart and be with Christ can not wholly obliterate the fueling of dread of the dark passage which has to be traversed before is reached the commingling of time with eternity. The Russian xile shudders as be crosses the river Irtish by "the ferry of death," because he knows it will divide him forever from what he has known, while beyond it lies the awful mystery of Siberia. Siebenkas, in his fantastic philosophic fashion, contended that both men and watches stop whilo they are being wound up for a new and larger day. The dark interval of sleep and death, he believed, acts as the preservative against the light of nn idea, which would otherwise grow too strong, and against the burning of never-cooled desires, and the mingling and commingling of thoughts, just as planetary systems are kep t asunder by wide wastes. "The etnrnal day, which would else blind our spirit, is divided into diurnal periods by midsummer nights, which at one time we call sleep at another, death." Theatrical Itin. Smith, V.Taj & Co.'s Monthly. "I see Miss Flnvow has taken to the stage. What part does the young aspirant assume?" Frenchman f wit h limited English vocabulary.) "What duz ze mean?" "I mean what part d'esshe takeoff?" "She take olf every things; she is. in ze ballet" 'The snt'nr" Improvements. ! MIchixn Tity A) r-at-The improvement in The Indianapolis Sentinel has been most marked within the past few weeks, and it is now indeed a metropolitan paper in avery respect and entitled to its claim as the democratic organ of Indiana. The Apjal congratulates Tiis Sentinel upon its regeneration. Palration Oil will care 'rheuraatifia and neuralgia when all others fail. Trie 25 ceoU.

TilUTll AT A HIGH PREMIUM

TODDLER'S BACK-YARD BON FIRE. Other Storlea For ths Children Th Small Hoy's Occupation Th It y Michael Angela Buying Thrnn OfT Quaint Thought Kuotty Problem. Grt ftpplrf now no longer grip Hi in in tu midnight hour; An l watermelon liaa not got 11 mi in its awful power. Ilia moth.r now no linger flndi rliaihlrt from awiro ming dinp; With angle-wrm and tub pole n 11a eeiued uis weekly tramp. Summer hm gone, and Christmas Joyl Now ooenpy our pet ; Yet xtiil, behind the tarn, be imokes Tho tlesJly cigiret. Tom M&aod. In Puck. TRUTH AT A HIGH PREMIUM. Eddie Almost IS urn Down 111 Father House, but Didn't Lie. Little Eddie b a Brook'yn toddler, Eaya the New York Herald. His great ambition is to bo a man and wear a mustache. But be likes to play with matches. Of course his mother has often forbidden bim to touch them, but he hag often disobeyed her. Until the other day, however, he had done no mischief. Then he learned a leaeon that will probably linjrer in his memory as long as he lives. His mother had left the bou?e to do some shopping, and Eddie and hi brother Came were alone. Scarcely had the mother closed the door behind her than Eddie proposed to start a fire in tho back-yard. This proposition was warmly seconded by Clinic and they Boon gathered a heap of fuel. As a huh wind was blowing they thoughtfully placed these inflammable materials in a corner formed by a hia;h board fence, and a two-btory frame extension of the house. In a few minutes the pi'e was lighted and the children were dancing around the blaze in high glee. Their fun was ehort-lived. Soon the woodwork of the extension was ignited. At first it burned slowly, but none the less surely. The bovs became frightened and ran for water, but while they were absent the flames entered a crack in the building and when they returned they found a fire of large dimensions. realizing that he could do noting, Eddie ran up stairs to an upper room where hia father was -writing, lie coolly remarked: "Papi, I believe the house is on tire!'' Papa quickly found that the child's diagnosis of the case was correct. It required but little time to send out an flbirm, and the firemen were soon at work on the burning Ptructure with axes, hose, and water. The fire was extinguished, but the buiMinjj and must of its content wer wrecked. One room in the extension had been made a etore-iious by Santa Cl.ius for his toys, candies, and other presents, but these papa rescued from the flames at the risk of his life. But it wa a serious battle in clou.ls of blinding, suffocating smoke. After it was all over there was an investigation. Little Eddie waa the first witness. "How did the house get on fire Eddie?" asked papa. 'Vh , papa," he said, as his big dark eve- lill d with tears, "I is sorry, but I did it with my bonfire.'' For a moment papa wished be owned a horsewhip, but love and adm ration fr bis truthful little man prevailed and with a half-stirled sob of joy he caught Eddie in hU arms and kissed him. 'Yes," said papa afterward, in telling the story, "I suppose you will say I ought to have Hpprd the little rascal, but the fact is sir. I didn't have the heart. o amount of moi ev could have hired me to have d"nc so. Punish them? Oh, yes; I gent E Hie and Clitiie to bed without their snnuers but after that my heart relented and 1 sent them each a slice of bread. No, I don't believe in encouraging such mischierousness, but I do believe in placing a high premium on truth. THE BOY MICHAEL ANGELO. First Work of th Artiat IIow lie Received n Suggestion. One afternoon the Duke Lorenzo de Medici, in walking through the garden, come upon young Michael Angelo, who waa busy chiseling his first piece of sculpture, says Alexander Black in the January S(. Xirhola. The duke saw in the stone the face of a faun, which the boy was copying from an antique mask, but which, with his uual impatience of imitation, ho was changing m as to phow the open lips and teeth. "How 13 it," eaid the duke, drawing closer, "that you have given your faun a complete eet of teeth? Don't you know that such an old fellow was sure to have lost some of them?" Michael Aneelo at once saw the justice cf tho criticism. Artists are not always ready to receive adverse comment. Michael Aneelo himself was quick-tempered and hard to move. A hot w ord to one of Ids boy companions on a certain occasion brought so severe a blow in the face that all truthful portraits of Michael Angelo have since had to show him with a broken noue. But the duke's criticism was kindly given, and was plainly warranted, and theyoungHcn'ptor could hardly wait till the duke walked on before beginning the correction. When the duke saw the faun's fac- again he found some of the teeth gone and the empty sockets ekillfully chiseled out. Delighted with this evidence of the lad's willingness to teizcand act upon a suggestion, and impressed anew by his artistic skill, the duke made inquiries, learned that Michael Angelo had borrowed stone and tools on his own account in his eagerness to begin sculpture (he was at first set at drawing from the statuary), and ended by sending for the boy's father. The result of the consultation was that the duke took Michael Angelo under his own special patronage and protection, and was so well p'eased after he had done it that no favor seemed too great tob-tow upon the energetic voting artirft. Michael Angelo, then only fifteen, not only received a key to the garden of sculpture, and an apartment in the Medici palace itself, but had a place at the duke s table. In fact a real attachment grew up between Michael Angelo and the duke, who frequently called the boy to his own rooms, when he would open a c.ibinet of gems and intaglios, ee-k his young visitor's opinions, and enter into long and confidential talks. BUYING THEM OFF. How an Artist 9itvd 111 Sketch from the Sketcner. "I paid for having my picture taken," said an aggrieved village beauty, "and then the photographer hung one outside his shop foran advertisement. I think he ought to have paid me." A similar misunderstanding has occasionally arien touching the real ownership of portraits, says the Youth t Companion. One day a young man who was sketching in a country region chanced to see a group of children who seemed to fit the landscape admirably. "Ome here, boys, and have your pictures taken!" he called, and the lads approached, eager, yet tiy. All that forenoon they posed, in one position or another, and aooeared so interested that

the artist congratulated himself on having found such willing models. At 12 o'c ock the gentleman packed up his sketching materials and prepared to leave. "Here, boys," said he, "I'll eive you 10 cents apiece. I'm very much obliged to you besides." Apparently somewhat astonished, the children accepted the money, but when thegentlemau was moving away one boy recovered himself sufficiently to call: "But where are our pictun-s?" "Ail safe in this portfolio. You saw mo put them there," came the innocent reply. "But we didn't have 'em taken for you. We had 'em for ourselves!" said another child plaintively. Then the artist understood. "But, my dear children," he said, gravely, "if you are to have the picture, you must pay me for my paper and pencils, and all my forenoon's work." "Here's my 10 cents!" piped up the ringleader, and one and another child gravely pro .ered his earnings. The artist was sorely perplexed. What was he to say ? He resolved to appeal to the native sharpness of the Yankee mind. "I'll tell you w hat I'll do," he said. "Ell give you five cents more apiece, and just as soon as I get home I'll fend you a pound of chocolate creams, and I'll give you my note for the creams now." They deliberated, and the creams cvidentlv turned the scale. " We'll do it," said the leader, and the artist gravely wrote his promise on a Blip of paper, which, as he afterward learned, w as carefully kept in an "upper cupboard" until the box of candv arrived. "I con-idt-r myself very lucky to get off as I did," said the atist, gravely, in describing the incident. "You never can tell what a young American may do when be is roused." Qnalnt Thought. A three-vear-old New Jersey girl misunderstood the choir. She thought it sang "Lord hav- mercy on us miserable singers." Phil addfhia Record. Henry (with spelling book): "Papa, what is a fortification?" Papa: "It's a large fort." Henry: "Then is a ramification a large ram?" Harper's Youny People. A 6chool trustee of one of the largest tin-town wards recently entered one of the public schools and eaid: "Bove, I navn t been here in quite a while. Have you missed me?" "2so, sir," shouted forth the boys in chorus. A". Y' Eich. Little Barbara has abrot her Max, who is her rival, as well. The other day she said to her mother: "Mother, is Max older than I am?" The mother said he was. "Well," she responded, in a tone of evident displeasure, and disappointn:ent, "well, that boy beats me in everything, and he has beaten me in bornin', too." Washing ton tar. "What church do you go to, sonny?" asked a clergyman of a boy who was hurrying along With a bible "under his arm. "Presbyterian, unitarian, baptist and Germnn Lutheran." "You yon don't mean that?" "Yes, I do. Christmas comes but once a year. I've got to get along. Business btf.re pleasure, you know". Rochester Port-Kijirrxs. A ten year-old boy was yesterday attentively regarding a Ohri-amus tree w hich a woman had bought and left outside a store for a moment, when a man remarked: " ee anything uuecr about it, my boy?" "Takes a woman for economy," replied the boy, with a smile. "I was fust counting. There are twelve good limbs on that tree to lick the children with, after it has been used for Christmas." Detroit Free Pre. There are usually at leas two ways of looking at a thing, and it is we'll now and then to change one's point of view. Little Hans had just begun his school life, and his mother was ambitious to have him keep a high standing in his class. "Why, Hans," she said, regretfully, at ihe end of his second week, "Inst week you gave me so much pleasure by getting to be at the head of your class, and now you are only No. 4, I see." "Yes'm, I know," admitted the little fellow, with great gravity ; "but then," he added, "some other boy's mamma has the pleasure this wtek, so I thought perhaps you wouldn't mind so very much." "You're quite rigid, Hans," said his mother, giving him an appreciative smile, "I don't mind it at ail now." Youth' Companion. KNOTTY PROBLEMS.

fVir rdrar tolt;d to f uratsh orttal eot. ir.af.caralet, rlddla reb'inoi, aa-t other "Knotty ProbW mv" a l iralng all communication! reUtl vto tlii dopartuieut to E. It. Chvlboura. .Lewiatoa. 'o. 3444 Old Prter' Problem. sequel to Ho. 3i:iS.l Old Teter Gr n, our pedagogue. The Latin did translate. It et med like roll n? off a log. So learned was bU pi.e. Next morn be woro a pleasant imlla Upon Ills gonial fare. And deftlr put bis battered til In its accustomed place. "My lads." tald be, "a question now I'd lit? to ak of you A privilege you will allow Ad fittingly my due. "All rropcr fractions, as you know, Lees than a unit run; Inveu them and their term will show A value mors than one. "A proper fraction find for me. By nidg-lin your Iriins, Wbloh by inversion you will sea Still leas than one re mains." Medics. No. 3445 Double Aerostle. 1. The froth r f be r. 2. A scripture proper nam, a T giiiiie. 4. A coi:rt of itinerant justices. The tot 1 monies put on;e year, And outers th winter days so drear. ICocht LKS3. No. 3146 A Pnrodox. Go into bmy factory where the "wheels to wound" and yon will find first. On still, drowsy ninht in summer, in a va-t wildernes thiunamli of mil- s from any factory or roan t'cottd Is making first, from which it niicht he ca l. d a first s frond, yet it is not uioe, a.thougti this may ?rem to to you a uh'he. IJob UlOLKB. No. 3447 tecnplt-tlon. Ko second nam we ever call Can quite lovely be as all; No second name, in ail the land, For our dear ah ran ever stund ; Eo prize it, while 'tis yours to say, Too soon will como a vacant day. BlTTBB SWKXT. No. 3448 Preel Into $ervloe. Well-dressed I am and fair to see, nut that is all a sham ; Unruffled though in r outside be, Down-hearted still I am. I comfort many an aohlng bead, I soothe the child to re-t, But when in sleep their cures have fled, Heboid me still bard-pressed. "My case does ret seem hard," you say, But only stop and think; I lie in bed both night and day And never sleep a wink. rxr.c.8. No. 3149 A lllrthd? Itrty. Green meadows, sunny iky. singing bird, babbling brooKS t;iese all preeted lilt May Treveirn as sho trudged blithely on her way to attend the birthday part of nn- of her Mends. A sweet iittlo creature she looked, with tier quadruped liound witn blue ribbon, and b-r deemt u-oratd in the same way. Her rouog friend gre ed her warmly as he joiued tlifut, for she was a f real favorite with all. The had a nxrrjr time playing games such as tht eo'or oj a sight ess man. a p aem (f, mmething found iit the tcork basket, etc. Th' n they had a trent contUticc of couple, eo ors, the asiisfant of a certain kind of fruit, the confession of a shrieking baby, t-to. As the sun was setting the g"iy part scattered tn their fO't, aft r assuring their young hostess that they bad meet a happy, happy dar. Etutl.

No. 3150 Numerical. That man 9, 10, 11, 12, 4, !3, Is lored, who is not narrow-soalsj and mean Who is complete though bis insight be keen. Who doe not 8, 1, 6. 8, 4 the one

Whom fortune eeeras t erpetually to shun, Misfortune is not crime, nor wealth bis sun. Who does nt 5, 6, 2, 7 at the man Whose i o'ilies are on different plan, Or whose religion narrow minds would ban. Live and let live if motto of the vho'e; Large is he both of 8 to 11 and soul. And bis horizon grows as th via onward roll. BlTTEB Swf.it. No. 3451 Anagram Seek me in the shadowy wood; For a witching fairy Once showed me bar mythic throne, Pleading: "Ah add Mary." BETH CRM. Nn. 3452 Ctiarade. Yon may sometimes a first bestow As one to whom you nothinz owe; Those getting to the secun l gain The highest rank they can attiin. To call this puizla ichole wou!d be, To praise it in a high degree. f Nelsomax. An were. S43" Honolulu knows no snows. (II on o, lu-lu, nose, nos", noe). 31.V Man is asocial animal. The spelling of caoli wort 1 reveisedj. 3437 PythouiJt. G LAC D A Z K S L A M K N T 8 g a z i: t t i: i: n C K N T K F. S b T K K s i: s u 81.10 Down-fall. SUO Mode, dome, aii' rp -writer. 3442 Jliep, hep. SH'i Mou lb-piece. THE FEE AND SALARY FIGHT.

Can County Officer "3Iake and Unmake" Legislatures? Ir. X. C. Robinson in Farmers' Alliance Advocate. You will remember that I called your attention, a couple of weeks ago, to the fact that an effort would be made by the barnacle fdvle of politicians, to defeat any legislation looking toward a fee and salary bi 1 this winter. I now call your attention to another hint on this same line : Senator Boyd of Hamilton was in the city a few hours last night on his way to Washington. Mr. Hoyd said that he did not think a fee and alary bill would pass, and that noue ought to pass. The republican members would rote for 6alary bill, but if they were in the majority tbey would vote against one. The present system, be thought, waa the best, and the people would soon lire of a salary system. The cornty officers made and remade members of the legislature, and between the farmers' alliance and the county oHicers the poor legislator would be between the "deril and the deep te&."Indianapolit Sentinel, lec. 5. Here is a forcible expression of a wish, which is clearly father to the thought. Senator Boyd knows whereof hit fodder comes, and how his ensilage was prepared, and is evidently under no obligations to the farmers' organizations. He speaks a truth as it haa been understood heretofore, when he statcHthat the minority will vote for a salary bill, but it would not do so if it were the majority, per contra, he as emphatically states that he has no idea the majority will vote for puch a bill this winter. When he states that he does not think it will pas and ought not to y.t, one would naturally think that be was arrayed on the side of the majority, but that does not matter, since taking his own line of rea-oninjr we may very properly infer that if the present majority were in tho minority, it would vote for it. "County ollieers make and remake legislatures, eh ?" Here is another square confession that tends to make the farmer forearm himself. The county oilicer is a power in the land, that I grant, and he has, doubtless made and remade legislatures in th3 past, I have no doubt; but instead of history repeating itself, I mistake the temper of trie people of Indiana, if, in the near future, there is not a bit of history to record that finds no precedent in the books. The same forces that have been deceived all the time, into electing legislatures that have been "made and remade by county oliicers," seem just about able and readv to upset the historical order of things and unmake a legislature, if it refuses to execute, after election, what it so freely prom ised before election. The trouble heretofore has been that county officers have dictated laws that mut and must not find a place on the Ftstute books, and they have done so by threats of retiring the legislators to private life, and they hare been able to execute their threats ; but under the new order of things they will be found in the shaded recesses of obscurity themselves, I trow. Stand H v the Platform. lB!oom3eld Democrat. The Democrat stands squarely and solidly on both feet for placing ail state and county officers upon a fair, liberal and equitable salary. Menouirhtto receive a little more than they could make in private business, otherw ise the orlices would po begtfing. No competent man is goin? to go through a canvas bearing the expense, the abuse and the worry and anxiety for an cilice that does not pay him more than he can make at something else. While this is true the fees oucrht not to be puch as will make a man an independent fortune in the larger counties in one term. The fees which county auditors receive for handling the school funds are simply outrageous. In a county like this he receives ten times what the services are actually worth. This is only one instance in the many where a ereat saving can be made. The expenses of our courts are outrapeous in proportion to the public benefits received. The people are compelled to pay hundreds of dollars that litigants ought to pay. The People Are Vf itlt "The Sentinel." fPaoli News. There are come four or five country newspapers in different mrta of the state endeavoring to convey the impression to their readers that The Sentinel is not a faithful exponent of democratic principles. We have often heard of newspaper men making themselves ridiculous. Tub Pextixel is too well known throughout this state to be in any way injured by these newspapers which are d ing more harm thon pood by trying to misrepresent the truth. That The Indianapolis Sentinel stands well with the democracy, and that it is now one of the beet dailic? in the state, no one questions. A Singer, Not a Sinner. Australian Star. A California paper announces that "a lady w lio was to einn in the choir of the Catholic cathedral of San Francisco, on New Year's day, would be well worth hearing, as she was one of the greatest sinners in the world." In his next isue the unfortunate ed tor explained that he bad written "singers," and offered the most profuse apologies for the mistake, which he regretted the more because it was the lady's first appearance in their city. Hard on the H 11 Itooiner. Larrang Democrat. One or two newspapers in Indiana are manifesting their lack of enterprise by lustily engaging in what was once known as tho Hill boom. That chestnut was worked four years apo by some of the boys who wanted notoriety, but it has long aao lost its potency. The only effect it has now is to call public ' attention to the size of the ears of those who engage in it. A Cicerone ot Gotham. Life. Tourist (in New York) "What are the greatest thingH to be seen in the city?" New Yorker "Brooklyn bridge, Statue of Liberty and the proposed site of the proposed Grant monument." The bottles used for Dr. Bull' Couth Pyrop would fill a whole railroad train." Lxchange,

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