Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOUSING, JANUARY 21, 1891 T W"ELVE PAGES,

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. [Entered at the Postoffice at Indianapolis as second class matter.] TERMS PER YEAR: Single copy (Invariably in Advance.)...$1.00 We ask democrats to bear in mind and select their own state paper when they come to take stubscriptions make up clubs. Agents making up clubs send for any information desired. Addess THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis. ind. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21. TWELVE PAGES, Republican Practice vs. Republican Professions. The action of the democrats of the general assembly in lopping off $20,000 to $30,000 of expenditure for the session is in line with the economical traditions of the democratic party. Frugality in the expenditure of public moneys is a cardinal article of the democratic creed. The policy of the party, in state and nation, has always been against the multiplication of offices, the payment of excessive official emolument, and the maintenance of prodigal government. The republican party, on the contrary, following in the footsteps of its progenitors, the federalists and whigs, has always followed a policy of profuse expenditures. High taxes and lavish appropriations, with their natural concomitants of extravagance, jobbery, and every form of profligacy and corruption, are invariably features of republican rule, whether in the nation or in the states. Some recent illustrations of these republican tendencies it may be profitable to recali at this time. The Fifty-first congress, now sitting at Washington the first which has been republican in both branches since the congress elected in 1SS0 signalized the first ten months of its existence by creating 1,101 offices, involving an annual increase in the government pay rolls of $1,235,000. And Mr. TOM REED's, congress was not content with this large addition to the public burdens. During the same period of ten months it added S135,000 to the aggregate salaries attached to offices already in existence, making a grand total of $1,370,000 ad led in ten months to the government's salary list. It has never been shown that any necessity exited for the increase of a single dollar in the expense of federal officialism. A review of the expense account of the last republican houe of representatives which sat ia Indiana that of 1 887 ia interesting at this time. That eminent exponent of peanut politics, Mr. Warren G. Sayke of Wabash was speaker of this house, and ruled it with an iron hand. This house cost the people over $71,00"), although it originated only thirteen bills which became laws, and those bills were purely of a local nature. Bill are engrossed and enrolled in the house which originates them. The thirteen bills which the house clerks of 1887 engrossed and enrolled do not comprise one-third as many lines as are contained in the election bill passed by the last legislature. Yet the republican house maintained, durine the w hole session, at $5 per day, five engros.-ing and three enrolling clerks, making the engrossing and enrolling of each bill cost the tax-payers 200. Besides these sinecures there were under the principal clerk of the house a reading clerk, file clerk, register clerk, roil clerk and supply clerk, thirteen in all, draw in i.' $5 per day, except the reading, file and roll clerks, who received S-V) extra each, by re-solution, at the end of the session. W. II. Smith, better known as "Lying Bill Smith," was principal clerk, and in addition to his $6 per diem lie was allowed by resolution $300 for indexing the calendar and S-"0 for "sending out documents." By resolution the principal clerk was authorized to draw requisitions on the public printer for printing and stationery and to supply the house with everything necessary. Smith, under this authority, went into the wholi sale "supply" business with a "supply clerk" at So per day to receive and distribute public plunder. On file at the stite-houe are tli9 house warrants and clerk's requisiions for such articles as "decorated pitchers," "$S.(50 for a studentV lamp," "S)4..Sj lor brushes and brooms," "SS.45 for soap," "directory of city of Indianapolis, $5." The requisitions on the public printer call for knives by the gross, pocketbooks, stationery, etc. Some of the chief officers, it is said, laid in a supply of stationery sufficient to last them a lifetiaie. One thing certain, none of the large quantity of "supplies," etc, bought for the use of the house remaim-d In the capitol after the legislature adjourned not even the directory and student's lamp. The indexing of the calendar, for which Smith obtained $300, can be done in one day, while the $200 'for sending out document," if not a steal was nothing lew than a gilt, for there were no documents to send out. Under the assistant clerk, whose duty it Is to make the journal of the house and act as warrant clerk, there were employed thirteen men at $5 per day. At the close cf the session the house voted an extra allowance of S50 to Several of them. The assistant clerk al-o came in for a "f;it take" of $100 for indexing the journal (a job worth $25), and another allowance for "closing up" the journal waa voted him by a strict party vote. The national congress is extravagant enough, yet the senate journal ia made by one man. One clerk and an assistant prepare tho house journal. Notwithstanding the fact that the Indiana house of 187 resolved to go into a dead lock by refusing to act with the senate, thirteen committer cierka were maintained during the sessioa at $5 per day. One M. O. McKinney received $5 per day for services as sergeant-at-arms of the committee on election of the U. S. senator. He kept on drawing pay loig after Mr. TURPIE had been elected; in fact, to the close of the session. Fourteen boys were carried on the payroll as pages each receiving $3 a day. Two cf these pages were sons of republican members, and the warrant-stubs on file at the secretary of state's ofUce show that the

salary of one of these two paces was received' by his father, who was drawing, himself, $0 per day as "representative." The door-keeper's office was the Botany Bay for the heelers. Thirty-two men and one woman were carried on the pay-roll, at $5 per day, of whom twenty-four were designated as "assistant door-keepers," two "regulating ventilation and heat," one mail messenger, one postmaster, one folder, one "lighting hall" and two sweepers. One of these sweepers w as a nesro named Robert Williams, and, although he could not sign his name, he received as much aa the most skillful clerk $5 per day. The enormous sum of $19,fi34 was taken from the tax-payers to support this army of clerks, door-keepers, pages and sweepers and ventilation regulators, being $190.30 for each member of the house, making each bill originating in the house, which became law, cost $1,510 for clerical and administrative service alone, not counting nearly $7,000 for printing and several hundred dollars for soap, students' lamps, etc. The total cost of the republican house of 1SS7 was$71,03().13,or$,4'34.13 for every house bill which became a law. Mr. Sayke, who presided.' over this reckless and extravagant bodr, has since been appointed to a fat office by President Harrison. In view of the shameful record made by the last republican house elected in Indiana, the economical professions of the repnblican minority in the present house may be taken for what they are worth which is "simply nothing. It is actions, not words, that count. .The present democratic legislature has reduced its working force to reasonable limits, thus saving the tax-payers of Indiana at least $30,000 on the expenses of the session. It has done well, and the people will applaud its action. Fees and Salaries. A democratic exchange which was in favor of the democratic platform before

the election but has opposed it since de clares that no equitable salary bill can be passed, because if a bill makes the total salaries of the officials in any county greater than the amount of the aggregate fees collected by such officials, it will be unjust to the tax-payers, while if the total of the fees collected exceeds the amount of the talaries an injustice will be done to litigants and others who pay these fees. Our contemporary is in favor of "revising" the present fee schedules and continuing the present system of compensating officers with iees instead of putting them upon fixed salaries. In other words, it is against a compliance wiih the demands of the democratic state platform, the republican state platform and the "people's party" state platform ; of tho farmers' and labor organizations throughout the state, and of a large number of county and dis trict conventions of all political parties. The legisla'urc, we may be certain, will not thus stultify itself. It will make a law, fixing a specific salary for every city and county official, and providing for the collection of fees for special services, as at present, and for the payment of all fees so collected into the public treasury. As we showed yesterday, there is no difficulty about enforcing the collection of fees against responsible parties. The proba bility is that under a rigid law requiring officers to collect all fees, under severe penalties, a considerably larger per centage would be collected than at present. The suggestion that it would be unjust, and perhaps unconstitutional, to tax against litigants, etc., an amount of fees for special services in excess of the amounts paid in salaries to the officers performing such services, is without point. No finite intelligence can measure tho exact value of a given official service to any person. Not even a close approximation can be made to it. The bulk of the work in every court-house consists in the performance of special services for individuals, not in labors in which the entire community has a direct interest. Tens of thousands of citizens never visit a court-house except to pay their taxes. Yet the community is taxed to build and maintain court-houses, pay judges and other officials, and to defray a great variety of other expanses incurred mainly in the performance of special duties for litigants ; purchasers of real estate, heirs, administrators, executors and assigns, etc., etc., etc. If fees for these special services should be collected in excess of the amount required to pay official services and the balance applied toward the payment of the other public expenses mentioned, surely no injustice would be done those who pay tho fees and lor whose benefit these general expenses are in such a large degree incurred. As to the question of constitutionality well, there is no such question. In New York city certain officers are paid specific salaries, and the fees of their offices, which are largely in excess of these salaries,are paid into the public treasury. The New York courts have held the law establishing this system constitutional. Missouri and other states pay county officers fixed salaries and compel them to cover all fees collected into the treasury. We can find nothing in the constitution of Indiana prohibiting the adoption of a similar kystem. What the people demand of the legislature is that it shall provide for the payment of definite salaries to all state and county officers; that these salaries shall be proportioned, as nearly as may be, to the importance of the offices and the character and extent, not only of the work performed, but of the responsibilities and liabilities assumed; that all fees shall be paid into the public treasury ; and that every possible,, provision shall be made to . ineure the collection of such fees. The people do not want their public servants to work for starvation salaries. They are willing and able to pay fair wages for fair work.' They are willing and able, indeed, to make the standard of official salaries a little higher than the standard of earnings for similar services in private life. Unless this is done honest and capable men will not be willing to abandon their occupations, enter into campaigns, and take upon themselves the duties and responsibilities of public station. And the people, if ' we mistake not, want no injustice done to the present incumbents of office and nothing that savors of injustice. They are more anxious ior a genuine and a permanent reform than they are as to the time of its taking effect. But there can be no real reform no real relief to the' people, and no promise o! a purification of our. politicsun

less the payment of officials by fees be entirely abolibhed and a definite salary provided for every one.

Mr. Brush's Confession. Mr. William T, Brush of Crawiords- j ville, the gentleman who distinguished himself at the recent republican pow-wow in thia city, has been seen by a correspondent of the Xeus and declares that he made no such "bad break" as reported upon that interesting occasion. He says he bas written out from memory the speech ho delivered at the pow-wow and forwarded it to the Journal, which, he complains, declines to print it. He therefore km lly furnishes it to the A-, which publishes it, and, although we don't often take matter for TnE Sentinel at pecond-hand, this is each a rare gem that we ran not refuse to give our readers the benefit of it. Here it is: Mr. Una man. In accordance with the motion passed at the last meeting of the central commit tee, I selected and sent to the secretary the names of live republicans from the Eighth district to serve on this committee of sixty-five to prepare and submit plans and secifications for beating the democrats in 1M2. I don't sve any of the gentlemen selected here, and suppose their absence is to be accounted for on the ground that they have no plans to submit to the committee. I do not myself think this kind of a meeting amounts to much. It partakes too n.uch of the nature of a post-mortem into the causes of defeat. We have alreadv had one meeting of that kind. It was called to formulate plans of reorganization for the next campaign, and not for the display of oratory; but so far, while the districts from one to eight have been called, anil responses have been received from three or four gentlemen from each, no plan for future action has been suggested, save the establishment of a cheap newspaper and the infusion of more harmony into the party. The burden ot the speeches so far heard seetus to be to con?ince us that some accident befell us in November, and that we were not really beaten at all. Let us not deceive ourselves into the belief that it was an accident, or that the lack of a cheap newspaper and the want of harmony did it. The fact i there are more democrats than republicans in Indiana, and a larger proportion of them voted last fall. Any po!l of the ttate made within the tat twenty years vhich shows it to be any-th'-nghut democratic is rcrona. That being the case, anybody can see that we either have to convert democrats to our faith, or otherwise imbue them to rote our ticket. HERETOFORE WHEN THE EIGHT KIND OF INDUCEMENTS WERE USED WE SUCCEEDED, AND WHEN NOT WE GOT LEFT, AND WE ALWAYS WILL. The means of cox version and THE INDUCEMENTS HELD OUT IX THE LAST CAMPAIGN, IT SEEMS, WERE NOT SUFFICIENT. The democrats attributed their late victory to the existence of the Australian election law, and perhaps they are right about that, but I can t tell whether it male more democrats or lessened the number of republicans. If it did either we want to WORK SOME PL AX TO CIRCUMVENT THE SYSTEM, because we need more voters on our aide, andtwe will have to get them or get left, in spite of cheap newspapers, more harmony and everything else. THE PLANS USED IN isso aND1SS PUT US THROUGH IN FIXE STYLE. AND THE EIGHTH DISTRICT SUBMITS THEM FOR YOU I! CONSIDERATION. IK YOU CAN RECOLLECT WHAT THEY WERE. The committee is to select a new chairman today, and I am in favor of finding a man for the place with a big head on him; one who has brains enough to know what to do, when to do it, and who has the nerve to do it when the time comes. And this is the famous speech of Mr. Brush, as written out by himself from memory. It will be seen that the words "Harbison," "boodle" and "money" are omitted from the foregoing, and Mr. Brush insists that he did not use them. We have no doubt Ids memory is at fault in this reepect. Within an hour or two after the delivery of the speech the writer of this was assured by no fewer than four trustworthy gentlemen republicans, of course who heard it, that the word "boodle" was used. But it doesn't matter. "Boodle" was the keynote of the speech, and, even accepting Mr. Brush's version of it, written from memory several days after its delivery, it will take its place in the literature of political corruption alongside of Vice-President Arthur's soap speech at Delmonico's, and of Dudley's blocks-of-five letter. It is only additional evidence, where none was needed, of the utterly rotten condition, fro:n a moral view ioint, of the republican organization in Indiana. Republican Promises. The republicans have two more months in which to redeem the promises made to the soldiers in 1888. For thirteen mont lis they have controlled every branch of the government, and have . shown their ability to enact any legislation which their leaders agreed upou. It would have been easier to pass the soldier bills than the McKinley bill, for there would have been no opposition to the pension bills from the democratic side. If tho republicans deeire to consider all the pension legislation which Governor Hovey and others promised the soldiers, during the remaining sixty days of republican supremacy, they will not have to count overshoes to make a quorum. The democrats will be in their seats. Besides, is Dot this a business congress? And is not tho enactment of such bills as the arrearage of pensions, the bounty equalization bill, the service pen sion bill, the Andersonville prison pension bill, aBd several other general pension bills, part of the business which this congress was elected to transact? At least, it was so understood by the soldiers of Indiana when Governor Hovey and ex Commissioner Tanner "plastered the state two feet thick with promises." 'In the last campaign the republicans explained that, for want of ti ne, the arrearage, service and bounty bills could not be considered during the first session, but everything would be attended to during the second session. Since the election congress has been in session a month. Several partisan bills, such as the appor tionment bill, have passed the house, but one will read the daily reports of the proceedings of congress in vain for even a mention of the old soldiers. Cannon and other leaders wager their money that, when the force bill comes back to the house, or when the ship bounty bill is considered, there will be a quorum of republicans on hand to put tho two measures through, but not a word is said about putting through the pension bills which have been on the tiles of the pension committees for more than a year. But it caunot be said that all the promlfcs made to elect Harbison have

not been redeemed. Late in the campaign, John C. New went to Denver and returned with $100,000, obtained from the mine operators upon the promise that Mexican silver leadbearing ore would be excluded by a high tariff in the event of republican success. This pledge has been redeemed. The sheep barons also contributed $100,000 to organize blocks-of-five, for which they were given the privilege of constructing the wool schedule in the McKinley tariff. The promises made to the alliance of monopolists have been redeemed by the enactment of the McKinley tariff bill. The pledges made to Jay Gould and other subsidy schemers will soon be redeemed by the passage of the tonnage and ship subsidy bills. The jobbrrs and contractors have been rewarded with a twenty-three-miilion-dollar rivers and harbors bill, and a twenty-four-million dollar navy and fortification appropriation. But the pledges made to the old soldiers have been ignored up to the present time, and the indications are that when thia business congress goes out of business next March it will have redeemed all the catch-vote pledges except those made to the soldiers. McKinley Prices. The Journal refers to "the ante-election assertions" that tho cost of goads would be raised by the McKinley bill, and says "these lie3 are going home to roost at a rate

that must be painfully unexpected to the party that put them afloat." Again : "The prices of all goods are now moderately low rather than high," quotes the Journal from an exchange, with a great deal of apparent satisfaction. Other high price organs have paraded before their readers a paragraph from the organ of the sheep barons, the American lloo? Reporter, as conclusive evidence that the "high price talk" was only for campaign purposes. In its issue of Nov. 20, the lieporter said: The hue and cry of high prices which was heard just before the election, and which were to be the direct outgrowth of the McKinley bill, according to many of its opponents, has who' ly subsided. The daily press has ceased to harp upon the increased cost to the consumer, aud advertisements of the retailer no longer invite customers to buy before the advance sets In. Unfortunately for the monopoly press, the other trade journals do not agree with the R'yortcr. The Dry Goods Chronicle of New York has not yet "subsided," as the following paragraphs from a recent issue of that paper show: The month is coming to a close with prices strong all along the line. Full new tariff prices have not as yet been established, but importers are steadily advancing values, and believe that the top notch wiil be reached before the close of the current season. Importers seem to grow more and more independent each day as to prices, and the tendency to mark goods up is not only a prominent feature, but the marking up is actually going on with some line. In justice to the importing traide as a body it is no more than fair to state that the advances ma te have only been such as are necessary as the new goods are received which come under new tariff rates. "Advertisements of the retailer no longer invite customers to buy before the advance sets in,"' says the American Wool Reporter. The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press (rep.) contains several advertisements, of which the following is a sample: Lace curtains at very low prices. These goods will be higher in price very soon, the reason an increased duty of 20 per cent. The Philadelphia Press says "there is no more talk of rising prices on account of the McKinley act," yet publishes this business advertisement: There has been a decided advance in veivets, but as our great stock was imported early in the season our prices remain as low as ever. The Worcester (Mass.) Spy, a staunch republican paper, published the following in its advertising columns a few days azo: A lady who wishes to buy a black dress now, will do no better than to choose silk warp henriettas; and now is a better time to buy than a month hence, when our next importation arrives, bringing with it higher prices, from tariff causes. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican recently contained this advertisement from a dealer of that city : Having bought my entire stock of imported Christmas goods before the tariff bill went into effect, I shall sell uutil Jan. I, 1891, a!lI imported goods, including French clocks, watches, music-boxes, opera-glasses, spectacles, etc., at old prices. The Commercial Bulletin of New York (a strictly business journal) makes the following announcement: Wholsale. clothiers are already calculating prices for the fall offering of ISM, and the result will probably be aa advance of from 10 to 15 per cent., due to tho new tariff. The Rutland (Vt,) Herald, a republican organ, publishes the following from a firm of that city: We offer a great barsrain in a 4o-inch silk-warp henrietta at $135. It would have been a good trade at $1.75 before the advance. No lady wanting a henrietta dress should miss it. A big line of tab e linens, bought before the advauce, on which we save our customers 10 to 20 cents a yard. The Boston Record (rep.) contains this advertisement from a Boston firm: The newtarlffbill bas obliged us to make a raise of $5 per thousand on Blackstone and $2 on Juniors, in order to maintain the high standard of this, tho most popular 10-cent cigar in Now Engiand. Even the price of false teeth has gone up as the following will show: New York, Nor. 20, 1890. To the Dental Profession: The McKinley bill having raised the duty on plain pm teeth of our manufacture from $17.o0 to $52 50 per 1,0 10. we are unable (for the present) to import any further shipments of these teeth. We cannot, therefore, execute vholcmle ardw, but will continue to supply tho profession at existing rc'ail rates until our present stock is exhausted. Our pinless teeth, we shall have to advance to the following rats: The duty on dental rubber has also been advanced, but for the present we shall make no alteration in retail prices. Many of the profession are fully aware that our London houseund all its branches have been liberal buyers of American dental manufactures. " And, for teasons that need not be mentioned here, it would have been in the Lest interests of the pro1 fession if the pre-existing high rates of : duty had been lowered instead of raised. They will also readily,, understand in whose interest thia increase has been made. Respectfully yours, t.'i AupiL g Ash 6c Sons, Ltd., 30 E. Fourteenth-et., New York. James H. Walker, a prominent dry

goods merchant of Chicago, in an interview, recently said : President Harrison indorses the McKinley bill, and he makes a woeful blunder. The effects of ihat measure are only beginning to be felt. So far the opinions regarding it have been theoretical, but w ben the old good are sold out and the new stocks on which the advanced duty has been paid are placed on the market, the increase in prices will create a feeling far greater than now exists. The McKinley tariff has advanced the prices of nearly all commodities, and it is now in order forthe republican presto discover a man whose wages have been increased by it. The Northern Prisou. There is no democrat in either branch of the legislature who objects to the most thorough invesiigat on of any or all of tho state institutions; there is none who does not favor such an investigation whenever or wherever there seems to be any occasion for it. The onlv difference of opinion between democrats Friday upon the proposition to investigate the aflairs of the northern prison was as to the committee to which the duty should be intrusted. A majority of the democrats felt that the regular committees on tho prison north, composed of as able and upright members of both parties as are to be found In either house, were abundantly competent to conduct such an investigation intelligently, and could be trusted to do so honestly. A minority favored the projcsition to create special committees for this political work. Not a single democrat showed any desire to throw a single obstacle in th way of a prompt and searching investigation. , The charges preferred by Governor Hovey against Warden Murdoch, it should be understood, impute to him merely a technical violation of the law. Mr. Murdoch has been warden of the northern prison a dozen years, during which time a great number of improvements have been made at that institution out of its earnings and a handsome net profit yielded to the state. Mr. Murdock is the first warden to pay anything to the state for slops. He does this by virtue of a contract made with a republican board of trustees, approved by Governcr Porter and sua tained by the courts. That Governor Hovey's motive in attacking this contract, ami the warden's general official record, was an ignoble partisan one wo have no doubt. Nor have we any doubt that an investigation will completely exonerate Mr. Murikh'k from even a suspicion of wrong doing. But the investigation should be made and will be made, and it will be, as it should be, a thorough one.- We have no doubt that Mr. Murdoch courts the fullest inquiry. The Sj:tixel is certainly in favor of it. This is the people's business, and the people have a ripht to know all

about it. But that the governor has any other purposo in this matter than to make partisan capital by smirching the reputation of a man whose official and personal record is in every way superior to his own, no one who has followed his course since he assumed his present office can doubt for a moment. ET CETERA. The average age of eighty-four congregational ministers who died last year is given at seventy-one years. We never knew that Robinson Crusoe was much of a financier, but it seems that he did have a black Fridav. Boston Herald. The baptism of the infant son of Emperor William has been fixed for the 25th inst. The king and queen of Italy will be the child's sponsors. Mrs. Schliemann, in addition to her other accomplishments, has a talent for tapestry that would have made her a fit companion for Penelope. Mrs. May French Sheldon, who is to lead an expedition to the Kongo in Stanley's footsteps, is a physician of no mean ability, and has also won a reputation as an author and sculptor. Ex President Hayes has been a frequent visitor to Cincinnati of late. His hair is white now, but his step is firm and vigorous. He keeps alive the memory of his part in the civil war by aiways wearing the tri-colored button of the Loyal legion and by chatting with old army comrades in the corridors of the Burnet house. Mrs. Tibbles, better known as "Bright Eyes," who has been sent among the Indians by a Western paper to investigate the causes of their discontent, affirms that incompetent interpreters are responsible for a great many of the wild and absurd statements credited to Indian orators. As she is herself an Indian, and an educated woman as well, she is peculiarly fitted for the work she has undertaken. Rider Haggard is a tall man, probably over six feet high, somewhat loosely put together, with a slight stoop of the shoulders. He has dark hair, but the delicate mustache which adorns his lip is quite light in color. A long pointed nose gives his face a thinning appearance, but a careful look at him shows that he has a full forehead and his eyes are well apart. He has an agreeable manner and a pleasant smile. When he shakes hands he gives a quick, nervous grip, and he simultaneously gives a pull sufficiently strong to tke a man who had not good understanding quite off his feet. There is a wonderful spring in Hernando county, Florida, from which rises the stream known as the Wekowechee river, the waters of which will float a small steamer. The spring is about eighty feet deep and sixty feet in diameter. Chemists who have analyzed the water say that there is not a trace of organic matter in its composition, and that it is the most pure and fresh of any spring in America. The steamer which makes regular trips up and down the Wekowechee is often floated into the cavity of the spring, but cannot be made to stay in the center, as the force of the rising water forces it to the sides of the basin. The unusual sight of a man with three full-sized arms and hands may be daily seen upon the streets of Marbette, B. C. He is a Russian by birth, and first came to America in 1877 as an attache of the Greek church at Sitka, Alaska, where he resided about 1884. He is a large, power-fullv-built man, but seems to have no control of this extra bodily member, which hangs down his back from a point almost exactly between his shoulders, and rolls from side to side in an unsightly manner, as though paralyzed. Besides being well equipped in the way of arms, he has a set of teeth that are double all the way around. It is hardly necessary to add that the deformity of his teeth does not detract from a naturally ferocious-looking countenance. Notwithstanding his wicked appearance he is a mild-mannered, Christian gentleman.

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Used in Millions of Homes THE COURT-ROOM CROWDED INTEREST IN THE RICHMOND TRIAL. Important Medical Witnesses in the WoodBlount Case-The Post Mortem Examination of the Unfortunate Patient Described at Length. Richmond, Jan. 13. [Special.] The trial of Wood began today. =The first witness called was Harriet C. Blount, widow of the deceased. She stated that the last time she had seen her husband was in the afternoon of Sept. 28, 1890. She saw him in a small room off from the main dormitory, to the north, down stairs, in the hospital. At that time he was in bed, weak and prostrate, and scarcely able to speak, in contrast to his condition when he left home, when he was able to walk about and eat as heartily as for the past three months. She stated that when she saw him his face was discolored and swollen and his eyes bulged out. The same night, shortly before 12 o'clock, she went into the bedroom and found the lifeless body of her husband, and at that time there were some seven or eight persons present. She next saw the remains in the dormitory, the next morning shortly before train time, where they had "been placed in the casket. She next saw the casket at Millville, hence the remains were taken to Moreland, where she saw them in her house, then again in the church at Blountsville, and then again at the grave, half way between the east and west fences and near the south fence of the church-yard. She has never seen the remains since they were interred. Richmond, Jan. 14. Special. The trial of A. J. Wood for the murder of Thomas J. Blount at the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane is now absorbing public interest, and the court-room is crowded at every session. The first witness called this morning was Albert Kennepohl, a draughtsman in the office of Architect Hasecoster, who testified to the correctness of some drawings of ward "D." The next witness was Charles C. Tompkins. an attendant in the asylum, who testified that he had been an attendant at the asylum for a year and a half in wards "C" and "D." "His duties at the time Mr. Blount arrived, were to receive, examine aud bathe all the comers to the asvlum as patients. He saw Mr. Blount on the day he arrived, shortly before dinner. He was quite unsteady in his gait in walking to the ward, was quite talkative, talked very much through his confinement. His physical condition was good, except for a nervous temperament. He had bathed Mr. Blount on his arrival at the asylum, and noticed no injuries or discolorations on either side of the chest, and no injuries on the body except a small car, almost healed, on one leg. Witness knew James Hannan. who was a patient at the hospital on the arnval of Mr. Blount. Witness saw Mr. Blount on Wednesday morning, early, in the dayroom. He noticed no change in the patient's physical condition on Wednesday. On Wednesday night Mr. Blount slept in the side room off from the main dormitory. Witness saw Mr. Blount in the dayroom just before he (Blount) retired on Wednesday night. Attendant Marsh took him up stairs to his room, where Marsh and Wood undressed him. Witness saw him again on Thursday several times and noticed no change in his condition since Tuesday. He did not see Mr. Blount at the table any time on Thursday. He did not see any one take him up stairs Thursday night, but he occupied the same small room as the night before. The room Blount occupied was furnished with a bed, a high, broad-bottomed chair and a night vessel. There is a door in the room which swings toward the west, and a window opposite the door. The door into Mr. Blount's room was locked by Wood on this Thursday night. The door has two panels removed, three feet by five inches. About 9 o'clock witness went from ward "D"' to the doctor's office to get some medicine for Mr. Blount and was gone altogether about 30 minutes. Doctors Welis and Druley returned with him and went to Mr. Blount's room directly and found Peterson, Msrsh and Woods, all attendants, in the room. Peterson and Marsh were standing at the head and foot of the bed while Woods was holding Mr. Blount in bed with his left hand on his breast. Mr. Blount complained that some one was trying to choke him. Witness had a conversation with Wood at that time and had asked him if he tried to choke Mr. Blount and he (Wood) answered that he had not, that it was simply one of Mr. Blount's delusions, that he (Blount; had struck at him (W'ood) twice and that he had been compelled to restrain him. Mr. Thompkins stated that he had never had a conversation with Wood on this matter since. He also stated that one of Blount's delusions was that he was making speeches, and another that he carried in his body several bullets received in the army. Witness stated that this statement of a delusion about being choked, as made Thursday night, was the first one of the kind he had ever noticed. Richmond. Jan. 15. Special. The evidence of Day Attendant John Marsh, late yesterday afternoon, and the substance of which was detailed in this morning's Sentinel, was the first direct shot fired by the prosecution, and has had a tendency to deepen the already intense interest of the public in the proceedings of the Wood murder trial, and when court opened this morning the room was crowded to its utmost and has continued so all day. Marsh resumed his evidence this morning on cross-examination by Mr. Bobbins and was subjected to a rigid re-direct examination by Mr. Jackson, all of which, however, brought out nothing of importance further than was given last night. John F. Peterson, one of the attendants, was next called. His testimony was largely corroborative of that given by Marsh, and in substance was as follows: Am an attendant, have been four months; know Marsh, Hannon, Wood, et al; was assistant day attendant on ward"C" to Attendant Tompkins, and Marsh was assistant on ward "D;" Wood was night attendant on both wards, divided by a hall; the ward is about a block distant from both the administration and amusement buildings; I had charge of the dining room; saw Mr. Blount about noon on Tuesday, the day he came: he was in fair condition; next day, Wednesday he missed one meal ; do not remember that he missed any Thursday; I ordered the patients up to their rooms that night, Children Cry for

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40 Years the Standard. about twenty-five of them, including Mr. Blount, who took off his outer clothing in the day room ; then all of us (attendants) w-re in Wood's room at the bead of the stairs a litt e while; later I saw Mr. Blount in his room; he was at the door trying to get out ; perhaps a half hour later, hearing a noise, I went to Blount's room and raw Blount and Wood fighting; Wood's back was to the open door, Blount facing him, and they were striking at each other; Wood was struck onee, or so it ap;eared in their struggle; Blount at least struck at Wood ; they clinched and fed to the floor just as I got there; Wood took hold of B ount's shoulders, I took hold of his feet and we laid him on the bed; Marsh got there about this time and there was a lantern in the room; Wood hill Blount by the throat, with bis left hand, and struck him with his right hand onee or twic e in the neck and also lower down on his IkhIv. W'ood abked P.iount if he would giveup;Bount replied. "No, sir; I will hit you in the nose." Woo. I then got on Blount w ith his feet and tramped him; cannct say bow often he stepped on him. I asUed Wood to let Blount alone; to pet off of him. My words were, "Come.'Woods. let -the man alone; don't do that." I said it twice, 0 words to that ellec t. Yes, it was mo who said. "Let the man up or let him get bis wind." Wooddidnoteayanything. Blount raised a third of the whv up, trying to gt up; I was at the foot of the bed; Marsh was at the door. B'ount said, "Don't kill me!" Wood made no reply to my knowl edge. I was there when the doctor came. I was in there perhaps five minutes, saw no nr rks on W ood. The sound of Wood's blows (with his fist) were very distinct, but I do not think I heard any from the tramping Attendant Tompkins came with Drs. Wells and Druly and I then left for my sleeping-room. It was about S :o0 o'clock. Did not see Blount again uniil Friday, when 1 carried his meals to him. He was in a rocking chair in the day room. Did not see him out of the chair that day, Saturday he was in bd. very weak, apparently in a sinking condition. , Richmond, Jan. 17. r Special. The tirst witness called this morning w as Dr. William B. Fletcher of Indianapolis. H testified : "I held a post mortem on the body ol T. J. Blount, at Biountville, Nov. 2. Dr. Bowles and Dr. Yickoy et al. were present. I recognized the face of the deceased as that "f my former patient, Mr. Blount, The face and chest were covereo with white mold. The hair was lallinc pome. The breast-bone had been raiseC some and stitched down (at the forme? autopsy). I cut the flesh back Iron: the ribs, to expose them on the outside. Examined the bones at the neck and found them not injured, as with the first rib on the left side. Thft second rib had one fracture, the third, fourth and fifth ribs two fracturei each, and the sixth and seventh ribs one fracture each. These were all on the lefl side. On the risht side the sixth and seventh ribs were broken. The left cavity was tilled with a black, bloody fluid, about a quart. It was not clotted blood, nor yet like water, but more the consistency of milk. The skin, muscles and fatty matter were black on the left side, beaten together in a discolored state. On the right side they were of a natural color. The right lung adhered to the ribs by recent adherence; it was not from old disease. The inner wall of the left cavity com pared with the dark, outer surface referred to. The left lung waa lying fiat, not standing up in the cavity; looked like the liver of a three-monthVc.ld calf, weighed two and a half pounds and sunk at once when put in water. The other organs were natural. I would say the ' fiaeture in tho skull was not more recent thau two years, but it coull not be told by its appearance how many vears more than that the fracture was made. A recent fracture shows a reddish appearance where the ends of the bones have reunited, while the junction of an old fracture looks about the same as the other parts of the bone. It is not possible for a bone fractured after death to be reunited, the plastic material being formed by the blood. The plastic material was apparent in all these fractures at the end of the bone. The remains wi re in a condition to ali'rd satisfactory results from the post mortem; so that one could ascertain the cause of death. There is great difference in the preservation of persons after death or burial. The adhesion of the right lung was before death, as there must be an irritation to cause it, and the blood does not flow alter death to form the gummy substance with which the adhesion ii "made. The dark color of the Lit cavity indicated great congestion. A violent blow might cause it. The left lung weighed about :vice the normal heft. The injuries deuci.bed would probably cause death ; those found would certainly cause death within ten days. If Mr. Blount w as in the condition described, was lving as described, struck and kicked as described, sustained the injuries described, evincing the subsequent symptoms described, died as stated, etc., " my opinion would be that he died of injuries of the lungs, through the ribs aud to the ribs." Crocs-examination "I would think that he died of injuries inflicted by Jamrs A. Wood, i: the facts are as state..!. There was bo breaking of the exterior walls of the chest. There was very little variation of the fractures on the left side. I do not know why the surgeon who conducted the former jost mortem could not have discovered the same transverre fractures I did, as far as he went. I continu d the same incision, exposing the ribs further; to examine for broken ribs one should examine every part of every rib. I stripped the entire chest and ribs, etc. The fractured ribs on the right side were not entirelv severed; the discoloration generally follows in proportion to the extent of suc h frjeture, but not always. I have noted complete fractures without any discoloration. I can give no reason why there was such discoloration on the left side and none on the right." On redirect examination the doctor said that whatever caused those fractures they were the cause of death. Had they been made on Thursday night and the patient died about 11 o'clock Monday night they would have produced the condition fo-md. Immediately after diuncr the ribs of the lead man were brought into court and were identified by Dr. Flctcht-r as those of Mr. Blount. He also explained to tho jury the fractures. Following Dr. Fletcher came Dr. Bowles of Muncie, who conductd the first partial autopsy and assisted Dr. Fletcher in the second. Ilistestimony was on the line ol that ot Dr. rietchcr and developed nothing new, being mostly corroborative of former testimony. Catarrh i- not a local but a onlitutior.al disease, and requires a constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla to effect a cure. Fitcher'o Cactorla.