Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 17, 1892 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL OC. S. E. MORSS. President If Blend t the Poitofflce at IndlanapoU u second class matter. TERMS PER TEAR liegte eopv (TnTarlably la AdTanre.) .81 00 We ask democrats to lxar la mind and Mlect their irn state paper when they coma to Uko mbscrlplioDsaod make up clubs. if tuts inakicjr up clubs send Tor anr liirommtlnn tesired. .AUdessTUE INDIAN ArOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis. Ind. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1892 TWELVE PAGES, The republican eenate of Ohio has passed a gerrymander bill giving the republicans fifteen congressmen to fire democratic and one doubtful. And yet people tal of the popularity of Mr. Harrison, who recently proposed that all honest men unite in opposing gerrymanders'. What eays Hakrisox concerning Ohio? Thb friends of the Irish home-rule rause will hail with delight the multiplying indications of an approaching complete reunion between the two factions of the ucme-rule party. The decision of the Parnellites not to select a formal leader is jf great significance. The leaders of the Iwo factions were, it is 6aid, in conference last weelr touching Balfouk's Irish local tovernment bill, which he will introduce next Thursday, and will co-operate in their opposition to that measure. With the restoration of harmony in the Irish party, and the practical certainty of Mr. Gladstone's triumph at the approaching general elections, the prospects for homerule are, indeed, much brighter than ever before. It is reported from Washington that Representative Jason Hkown will move an Investigation into the conduct of Judge Woods in the Coy and Dudley ca.-es regardless of the action of the senate upon his nomination to the circuit bench. If the senate refuses to print the testimony taken by its judiciary committee in this matter and to consider this nomination in open session the house should certainly order an investigation. It is important that the country should have all the evidence which establishes Judge Woods' unfitness for the preferment which President Harrison has tendered him, and ihould understand that this evi.knce was In the possession of the president when he appointed Woods and of the senate when it confirmed him, If it does confirm him. Ax interesting reminder of the schoolbook octopus, from which Indiana bo happily escaped, comes from Tniladelphia, where a member of the school board has Just received and published the following characteristic letter from the local agent of the American school book company : American Book Company, 1024 Arch-st., Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 1, j My Dear Friend The principals of our city echools hare the ordering of all books from the official list. Now a word from you in my behalf to every principal in your section would help me very much in selling our books. We have, as you will eee by the inclosed catalogue, the best books in the Official list. Your early attention to this matter will place me under lasting obligations to you. Yours always, William Linn. It 13 not probable that any person of Bound mind and disposing memory would have any difficulty in guessing what this carefully worded communication means. The surprising thing is that the recipient published the letter instead of calling at 1024 Arch-sL and opening negotiations. McKinley raised the tariff on barley from 10 to 30 cents a bushel ostensibly to benefit the farmers of western New York, whose votes were wanted for the r. o. p. Eut the New York farmers, like the wool grower?, have not been benefited by Mr. McKinley's efforts, in their behalf, and for like reasons. They are receiving less for their barley this year than ever before, because the demand has fallen off; and the demand has fallen off because the brewers have been forced by the heavy duty on Canadian barley to substitute corn for barley for malting purposes. The New York barley growers hence lind themselves obliged to sell their tine barley, once used for malt, to be used as feed and must market it in competition with the ordinary western trades. The farmers of New York are taid to be almost unanimously in favor of the reduction of the duty on barley to the rate which prevailed before Maj.McKiNLEY made his tariff. Probably the best thing for them would be the placing of barley cn the free list. This would stimulate the brewing interest, and create a demand for alt the barley the New Yorkers could produce, in addition to the Canadian product The democratic mass meeting at the Cooper institute in New York on Thurs day evening to protest against Senator Hill's "snap convention" was an imposing demonstration. It ia not easy to over rate its significance. Every living democratic ex-mayor of New York signed the call along with many other men who hare long been eminent in the party councils, and some of whom have rendered dietinruished public service. These are the men whose moral and financial support will be necessary to democratic success in New York this year, and it is idle to eay that, because they are not experts in the sharp practices of ward politics, they are without power to influence the course of political events. They represent very largely the brains and character of the democratic party o! New York, and if the democratic managers ignore these ele ments of the party they will invite a partv disaster as overwhelming as it will be de served. Th3 proceedings of the meeting were dignified and temperate. The remarks of Mr. Oswald ttexdorfer of the New York Staats Zeitung, who called the meeting to order, and of Frederic Col debt, president of the Manhattan club, who occupied the chair, were well con idered and forcible, and the resolutions In every respect admirable and perfectly suited to the occasion. The meeting can not fail to have an excellent effect. If Senator Hill's committee ignores the re quest for a postponement of the state convention it will assume a grave responsl

bility and expose the democratic party, not only of New York, but of the entire country, to a eerioua and w holly i needlces peril. Still Glad and Proud. The esteemed Journal usually takes its life in its hands and its foot in -its mouth when it resorts to figures. We have cautioned it on this subject repeatedly, but with singular persistence it comes back to its field of hallucination. The latest phase of its mania is a view of the disastrous effects of the new tax law, and in this it outdoes all of its former efforts. This is saying a great deal, for some oi its former efforts were things that in ancient times would have been accounted among the seven wonders of the world. The nature of its results may be judged from its premises, and the accuracy of the latter may be seen in the following comparison of the Journal's statements with the facts shown by the

official records of the state: Journal's Advil ' statement. amounts. Heal estate, 100 $"11.413,003 $045.254,157 Heal estate, 1SU1 43:5.27,6s7 7.17,418,117 Increase 121.844,594 252,133,900 Per cent, increase.. 3S.7 4'".2 Personalty, 100 231,170,206 234.41S.7S7 Personalty. ISL'l 252,935.083 291.5HI.207 Iacrea. 21,764,827 67,116.320 Per cent, increase.. 9 24.3 As might naturally be imagined, the conclusions that the Journal draws from combinations of its figures are more or less lurid. They are also more or less unreliable. The figures given above do not include railroad property, which wa3 increased from $jy,7f2,676 in 1890 to $10,09,575 in 1891. The fact that real estate has been increased in value proportionately more than personalty is what is relied upon bv the republican tax-agitators to prove that the honest farmer has been mistreat ed by the new tax law. It will not do. At least it will not if the aforesaid farmer is put face to face with the facts. The chief escape of personalty from tax ation was in those cases where it was not listed at all, and this was usually when it was in the form of money. Money es caped for two reasons (1) false returns and (2) exemption of greenback currency under the laws of the United States. As is well known, an efiort was made to reach the former by an investigation of the books of the banks, but it was resisted and the investigation was defeated by the banks. Hence a largo portion of this is not on the tax duplicates now. If a just system of taxation is reached this defect must be overcome, and the most effective remedy yet suggested is tax the banks on their average deposits and exempt depos itors from taxation on monoy in bank. Whatever remedy may be adopted we have no doubt that the position of the democratic party with resard to this question in the coming campaign will be quite as satisfactory to the people as that of the republican party. The second evil can be reached only by legislation by congress making greenbacks taxable like other money. Their present non-taxable quality has been maintained by the republican party in the interest of the moneyed classes who hold them, or pretend to hold them, for the purpose of escaping taxation. When specie payments were resumed the late Senator McDonald tried to have an amendment adopted making greenbacks taxable but, the republicans defeated it and have defeated similar amendments several times since. We have no doubt that the democratic position on this question will be satisfactory to the people. So long as this property and other property readily concealed is not on the tax duplicates, any large increase ot personalty would prove a wrong had been done to the owners of visible personalty, which has been as fairly assessed in the past as realty. It would show that the increase had fallen on the horses, cows, farming implements and crops of the farmer, and on the household goods, tools and other visible property of other citizens. That would be no advantage, certainly. The figures merely prove what every one knows, that certain kinds of personalty are escaping taxation notwithstanding the stringeut provisions of the new tax law, and that still more stringent measures must be adopted. The democratic party will advocate such measures. It has undertaken this reform in the interest of the people and will carry it through. Put while it is true that the new tax law has not accomplished everything, and no tax law ever did, it has accomplished a great deal. It has given ns the most equitable assessment that the state has had for many years. It has for the first time ia the history of the state put the corporations on the same footing as other tax-payers. It has given the people a true conception of the evils of the old system and demonstrated that under "true valuation" only could there bo equality in taxation. It has increased the taxes of the rich and in many instances decreased the taxes of the poor, and yet it has not been unjust. These facts are proven by the actual results, and we do not believe te people can be deceived concerning them. On account of these facts we repeat that the democratic party is proud of this law and glad to stand by it. It is a distinct advance in tax legislation and ä forerunner of other advances that will be made in the future. Help for the Russian Sufferers. It is to be hoped that there may be a liberal response to Governor Chare's appeal for relief for the victims of the Russian famine. It is true that these miserable people are a long distance off, that they are not of our race, and that we have little in common with them. But they are mem bers of the great human family, and they have a claim upon our sympathy and help which we cannot foil to recognize if we really believe in the brotherhood of man. The population of the famine-stricken district is 25,000,000 more than ten times the population of Indiana and of these at least 15,000,030 people are utterly without food or the means of support and must perish of starvation unless saved by the world's charity. Governor Chase requests that corn, wheat and flour be sent in carloads to the National Red Cross association. New York, or the Russian famine relief association, Philadelphia, where it will be loaded on shipboard and sent to Russia at the earliest possible moment. The steamship Indiana will sail from Philadelphia on the 20th inst. with a cargo of supplies for the Russian sufferers. This is only a week hence, and if Indiana desires to be represented in this mission of mercy upon which the vessel bearing her proud name will then sail there is bo time to be lost. All euooliea collected in car-load lots at

stations on the Pennsylvania and Big Four systems will be transported to New York and Philadelphia free of charge. No doubt all other railroads will carry these supplies free. Cash contributions made to the lion. Albert Gall. treaaurer of state, will be promptly remitted. Indiana has been blessed w ith abundant harvests and is prosperous. She is able to give liberally of her abundance to the re

lief of these starving millions across the sea. Let us hope that she will do her full Eh are. Senatorial Representation. The Indianapolis Sentinel is opposed to any change in the present method of senatorial representation. It prefers that Indiana with a population of two and a quarter millions and increasing rapidly in numbers should have no greater voting power in the senate than Nevada with a population of 45,000, and with no present probability of a greater number. The Sentinel wishes that for all time to come New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio should be neutralized in the senate by Rhode Island, Delaware, Idaho and Florida. Chicago Tribune. Well, what of it? Why should not Nevada have as great a power in the sen ate as any other state in the Union? She is a sovereign state a unit of the Union. It is true that Nevada should not have been admitted as a slate, and so perhaps of two or three others, which like it were taken in to strengthen the failing grasD of the republican party on the national government; but now that they are admitted they stand just the same as ony other states. There is no population representation in the senate, and we think there should be none. While we remember that this is a government of the people we should not forget that it i3 also a union of sovereign and independent states. And it is advantageous that the states should have representation as states. We do not desire to rehash the Federalist for the edification of the Tribune, but it will find in that valuable work very ample reason for the present system. Our forefathers were thoroughly convinced as to that matter, so much so that they not only established this system but also added to the article concerning amendments to the constitution the proviso that "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal sullrage in the senate." This provision makes the Tribune's proposed amendment a matter for abstract speculation only, and therefore of little importance. We desire, however, to correct the following statement: Tun Sentinel seems to think that the small states are more to be trusted than the large ones that they have more virtue, more true republicanism, and therefore ought to have disproportionate strength in the senate. It does not, however, give any facts to support its contention. We cannot say certainly what "The Sentinel seems to think," but it did not say anything of the Kind. As a matter of fact, senators represent majorities rather than total population, so far as political matters are concerned, and congress is always inclined to devote itself to political matters. We do not consider that it would be well to let a 5,000 majority elect six senators in New York while it would elect three in Indiana and two in Minnesota. We think thr.t the East has all the predominance now frm wealth and population that it ought to have. We believe that the time is coming when the West will assert itself and make itself more adequately felt in the affairs of the nation. When that time comes the equal representation of the state's in the senate will be an important factor in the struegle. Webelieve also that it will be an important factor in the resistance to federal encroachments, not because Email states are more virtuous, but because they give expression more freely to local feeling and because they have more power under the present system than they would under population representation. Federal encroachments have usually been party measures, and while a largo state yields as readily if not more so to party compulsion than a small etate, there can bo no reason for giving it more power than a small state. Our proposition was that the states should be equal in the senate, not because they are large or small, but becauso they are states. Indiana Is Not for If ill. We republish elsewhere an article from tho Richmond Independent to which we invite attention. It expresses very forcibly the thought that is running in the democratic mind of Indiana. And the time has come for this thought to find expression. The democrats of Indiana are earnestly for Gray for president and will give him a cordial support at the Chicago convention. But there is a deep-laid scheme to send a delegation to that convention, ostensibly for Gray, but in reality for Hill. The democrats of Indiana do not want Hill for president. They concede his ability as a political manager, and hia excellent record, in many ways, as governor of New York. Eut they do not regard him as the right kind of material for a presidential candidate. They don't like the Crowd he trains with. They don't like his attitude toward tariff reform, ballot reform and other issues upon which the democratic party has taken advanced ground. The proportion of Hill men among the democrats of Indiana is well illustrated by the vote taken at the annual meeting of the -Democratic, editorial association the other day. Out of thirty-nine editors attendingonly three declared themselves for Hill, and one of these three has no party standing and has had none for years. We advise democrats throughout the state to carefully scruntinize the names of the persons proposed for delegates to the Chicago convention. See that they are men who will fairly represent tho wishes of the Indiana democracy men who will stand by Gray and do everything honorable to secure his nomination, but who will not permit themselves to be traded off to the support of a man whom the democrats of Indiana do not want for president, and whose ability to carry this state against Harrison is exceedingly doubtful. We entirely acquit Governor Gray of any participation in, or knowledge of, the scheme to set up a Hill delegation from Indiana. Ho is acting in good faith, as he has always done, with the democrats of Indiana. He will not sanction, at any stage of the proceedings, any plan to sell out to the Tammany combine. The Independent need have no fear that he will

not "stand for the welfare of the party first and himself last." He is not responsible for the eflort that is making to use hia great personal popularity in Indiana as a cover for tho efforts to steal a 11 ill delegation irom this state. These efforts will not succeed, because the democratic masses of Indiana, being forewarned against them, will protect themselves. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

Subscriber, Jamestown, Ind. : The aggregate state tax levy is 35 cents on every $100 valuation, of which 16 cents is for 6chool revenue, 12 cents for the support oj state government and the interest on the public debt, 6 cents for the support of benevolent and reformatory institutions, j-cent for the completion of the soldiers' monument, and J-cent for the university endowment fund. Tho soldiers' monument and benevolent institution tax was levied by the last legislature. The school, state and university endowment fund levies were made by former legislatures. Xaviek Stkahl, Dexter, Ind: Generally speaking, there is no public land in Indiana. Occasionally a small tract is discovered in the Kankakee marshes by the general land office and patented to the state of Indiana under the swamp land act of 1S53. This land is sold by the auditor of state, who may be addressed for further information. W. B. S., Peesburg, Ind.: The republicans have gerrymandered every etate that they ever controlled. Take those states and you have the answer to your question. tT CETERA. Sir Jonx Lxbbock shows that a bee's win 8 vibrate at the rate of 1U0 beats to the second. Baron Hirsch is credited with giving away $1,000,000 a year. Jay Gould doesn't get near as much credit. Senok Don Antonio pel Castillo says 3,000 tons of meteoric stono fell from the moon in his part of Mexico recently. If men knew as much at forty years of age as they knew at twenty, there would be more statesmen in the country Texas bijlings. A Washington correspondent says that Reed's voice sounds like a strong wind in a pine tree the sough of a soured man, as it were. Mme. Salomon, widow of the former president of Hayti, died in Paris Sunday. She leaves a sou and three daughters, one of the latter being a etudent of medicine. Annie Louise Caky has given to the Maine general hospital, in which she has always felt a profound interest, enough money to fit up three rooms for the, use of patients. ' Pkof. Wallace says in the Popular Science Hunthly that our winters have been becoming milder for ages and will continue to warm up for the next 1,000 years. But after that the prospects looks cold. The "Monte Cristo of South America" is the Conde de Leopoldina. The richest woman south of us id Dona Isadora Cousino. With all the South American revolutions fortune's wheel has not yet turned them down. Miss Mattik Zweininger of Mobile is the second young woman to die of dancing in the past few days. Heart failure resulted in the first case that of Miss Kittie Shaw oi Pittsburg and lockjaw, from the shoe-nail ehe danced on, in Miss Zweininker's.. . , It will be a great pleasure to the friends of John G. Whittier to hear that he is better and slowly convalescing from a second attack of the grip. Last winter Mr. Whittier had a narrow escape from this dangerous disease, which enfeebled his walk and general Htrength. Margaret Fuller used to be accounted a very wise woman, and doubtless she was, for Mrs. Sherwood credits her with having once said : "Never talk about yourself, your diseases, your domestics, or your dresses. Talk about your friends' interests, not your own." Perhaps it was bv putting that precept into practice' that Miss Füller gained her great celebrity as a converser. It is in this unkind manner that Kate Field pays her compliments to the brute man: "My old friend Harriet Hosmer claims to have discovered perpetual motion, and will next be squaring the circle. I'm glad of it, for we women are accused of never inventing or discovering anything, just as though we didn't discover more in men than ever existed, and invent more lies to soothe their amour propre than even the father of them I mean the father of lies, of course." Tammany Method. To tite Fditor Sir: The democracy of the nation made no complaint when the Tammany chiefs applied their pecu liar methods to local politics in the city of New York; no outside complaint was heard when they extended their methods to their own county, to Brooklyn, even to the state of New York; but now, when they propose to apply them to the whole country, it is time for the party to protest. Has the time come when the democrats outside of the state of New York are to have no voice in the selection of their nominee for the presidencv? Are those white-hatted gentlemen to be permitted to dominate the management of the party? Shall the Chicago convention eimplv register a decree of Tammany hall and adjourn? If the time has come for all this, and there are 6ome people about Washington and Albany who think that it has, then it is time to' dig the grave of the party and bury it. The democrats of the country desire to choose their candidate lor the presidencv. They do not care to have a candidate thrust upon them. They want a man whom the office Beeks, not one who 6eeks the office. They want one whose popularity is not limited by the boundaries of a single state, but is nation-wide. And they are entitled to what they want. If they ahall be deprived ot it at Chicago, by tricks learned and practiced in the lam many society, political disaster will surely follow. J. A. C. Aurora, Ind., Feb. 10. Too Much Machiue Politics, Lafaretts Journal. There is too much machine politics con nected with Hill's mangement of afTairg in New York. At this distance it looks as if his partisans are trying to stifle the voice of democrats who do not favor Hill's candidacy by arranging everything after the cut and "dried fashion, so well known to ward manipulators. This won't do. This is not a good year for such work and the democrats of the nation will be very impatient of New York dictation. Mr. Hill and his friends, before they get through, will find they have overdone the machine business and that their very efforts to get a "cinch" on the nomination will be the chief cause of their undoing. There are a great many people besides New Yorkers to bo consulted as to the next democratic candidate for president. Must not be confounded with common cathartic or purgative pills. Carter's Little Liver Pills are entirely unlike them in every respect. One trial will prove their superiority.

THE STATE CONVENTION.

Time, Place anil Number of Delegates from K&ch Place. Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 9, 1892. To the democracy of Indiana: The democratic state convention will assemble at Tomlinson hall, n the city of Indianapolis, at 10 o'clock a. m. on Thursday, April 21, 181)2. The convention is called for the purpose of nominating candidates for state offices, to be voted for at the November election. IS'.):.': the adoption of a platform : the selection of delegates to the national democratic convention; the selection of presidential electors, and such other business as ma3r properly come before the convention. It will consist of 1,303 delegates, which are apportioned among tha counties on the bais of one delegate for each 200 and for each fraction over 10J votes cast for Grover Cleveland for president at the election of 1SSS. yaws of Count irs. Adaiua .. Allen ZZZZZZZZZZ I'artholoniew IteDtoD .......... l'lat kford Üoone Z.. Urown Carroll Cnn Clark .. Z.Z. ( lay ............ .......... ....ot..... .......... C. in ton (raw lord . PaTitsi . I Marborn iKTatur I kalb Pel ii ware Iub.i JTimJwr of Jtelrcate. 15 4i 1 7 6 .. 17 S . 15 21 1 ...... ... 13 16 h 13 IS 12 IK 12 13 Klkhart 22 KnTtt 7 FiOyJ Z.'ZZ7..Z....Z.'...'.....'.'. 19 Fountain .. .. 13 Irankiio 11 Kiiltun ; ii .lbtvll 14 tiraut .. 15 Cireone 1 1 aim 1 1 r. n Hancock Harrison . ll.-njrick 13 - 12 12 11 1U 11 IP-nrv . Howard 11 Huntington. 17 Hi 5 14 14 S 13 1 15 S Hi 3 9 Jaokou Jasper Jay J!l!eron Jfnniiigi J'liu-on..... Knox Knc:ufiko ... I.a'ratiriC Lake l.ai.orie l.awrvnc-.-Malison 2 M:irum 8 Marshall K, Martin . M ami 17 Mouroe 9 Montgomery- 1J Mori.in 10 Newton.. 4 Noble 15 onio 3 Orange 8 Oweu 10 I'arko 11 1'prrr 1" I'ike . .. 10 IVrPr 10 l'osey 1 13 l'ulaoki 7 Putnam.. 15 IUndoJpn 11 Kipley 12 Huh 11 .cott 6 K'..'lby. Saucer., 17 13 M 5 2G ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ i7 8 21 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. arke. M. Joseph Meuten llivan Sitzerlanl Tili.tcanoe... Tipton L nion. VanJorburch 29 Vermillion 7 Vitro SI Wabash 13 Warr-n.. - 5 Warrick 13 Washiugton 12 Wayne , - IS Weil. 13 White 10 Whitley 12 Total 1.303 By order of the democratic state committee. Thomas Ta;gakt, Chairman. Joseph L. Keii.ey, Secretary. A MISLEADING LETTER InvBitlzMtrrf by a ".Sntlnfl" Importer. Indianapolis Sentinel, Jan. 20. There has recently appeared in the papers of Indianapolis and throughout the etate the following letter, purporting to emanate from .Secretary Cook of the Indianapolis Board of Health: "In reply to your favor of the 20th inst. we will say that the Indianapolis Board of Health has never made a report on baking powders. It has never indorsed or condemned any brand." Thia letter as it appears in the paper as an advertisement, is addressed to no one and had such a "fishy" look that a reporter for The Indianapolis Sentinel was led to investigate. He called first on Pr. Frank A. Morrison, president of the Board of Health, and propounded to him the following questions: 1. Did the Board of Health of Indianapolis authorize and direct its chemist. Dr. Peter Latz, to make an examination of certain brands of baking powders? j)r j. Yes, a qualitative examination of all brands on this market. 2. Did not Dr. Latz state in his reports that the following brands were found by him to contain alum or ammonia or both? viz: Atlantic aud Pacific, Calumet, Crown, Larly Kisinz, Forest City, Kenton, Queen, Hon Bon, Koyal, Kucklehaus, Seafoam, Climax. Dr. M. Yes. 3. Did not the report further fltate that alum and ammonia were generally regarded by physiologists as detrimental to health and therefore injurious ingredients? Dr. M. Yes. 4. Did not the report further state that Dr. Price's Cream Bakinz Powder contained no deleterious ingredients? Dr. M. Yes. 5. Do you personally regard alum and ammonia as detrimental to health and thei afore injurious ingredients in a baking powder? I)r. M. Officially I decline to answer; personally 1 do regard them as injurious. Dr. Ueorge J, Cook, eecretary of the Board of Health, was next visited at his residence and the same queries put to him. He made substantially the same replies as Dr. Morrieon, except that he was doubtful whether question No. 3 was in the report as filed by the Board, although he was sure that it was in Dr. Latz's original report. When Dr. Cook was asked w hether he regarded alum and ammonia as detrimental to health and therefore injurious ingredients ia a baking powder, he, like Dr. Morrison, declined to make an official statement, but said personally that he would not knowingly use a baking powder containing either of them if he could get a puro Creatn of Tartar powder. These questions and answers seem to cover the ground pretty thoroughly, and whichever of the companies manufacturing a powder condemned in the city chemist's report is trying to use this peculiar fragment of a letter to break the force of its fall, will not derive much benefit from the schema. Ia m Drug Star. Street A Smith's Uood New Fair Customer "I sent my maid here for come eticiting-plaster and you gave her a porous plaster." New Boy "Yes' in. That's the Etickingeet plaster I know of." Mrs. Sarah Smith of Lima, 0., writes: I have used every remedy for sick headache I could hear of for the past fifteen years, but Carter's Little Liver rills did me more rood than all the rest.

SHOW YOUR STATE PRIDE.

A Vleroot appeal from Mr a. Hatrroli, til Originator of th Penny Fund. To the Editor Sir: I have this day mailed my last appeal in behalf of the February exposition day and the penny fund for the world:sfair. The time is eo near at hand that further efforts for this special occasion would bo vain, I have this assurance, however, that in many places where sickness and other unavoidable causes have led to delay in this matter it will yet be brought up properly. A few count' superintendents have been tlow in responding for various reasons, but all, we are sure, will feel a just pride in ultimately bringing their counties up to the proper standard. No county can afiord to fail now that the scheme has betn go universally indorsed at home and abroad. Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, California and Oregon have all written for circulars of information w ith a view of trying like plans. Our teachera and school children have tho proud satisfaction of leading the movement. It is not too late yet to f ally carry out the grand aim of this work, that of stimulating in the minds of the young a systematic etudy in regard to the period which the Columbian exposition ia designed to commemorate, aad ebpecialiy the constitutional development of our country. The work suggested for these ppecial collection days was pimply imen for a beginning a hasty review of dates and striking features on which to bang the philosophical development of our national law, our own state progress, etc. Two days suggest themselves as being especially appropriate for carrying on thn educational features of this work. The lirnt. June 12, as "Flae Day" ; the second, Sept. 17, as 'Constitution Day," with suitable programs, all of which can be arranged and carried to successful issue during the time usually given in all our echoois to general exercises. Our la.t letters have none to village and town tupenntendtnts where .county superintendents have not promptly reported progress of the vork. There are but few places of this kind. U'e asHured the teachers in the beginnins that there would be no paid agents in the field to work up this matter. Not a trip has been made for that special purpone. All has ben done by circulars of information and personal letters irom one party, greatly aided by th co-operation of many of our best educators. Whatever results from this el!ort may be safely put to the credit of our active, progressive teachers, who so sincerely entered into the spirit of this movement and labored eo faithfully in their respective localities to make it a success. We might have received more money by a canvass of the state, but we doubt if the extra amount would have fully compensated the outlay, beside puttinc to the test our excellent school system, which made it possible to do the work in this manner. The movement was officially recognized by the "board of world's iair managers," state department of education, school officers, c.ty and town school superintendents' conventions, as well as indorsed by many teachers' institutes and other like gatherings throughout the etate. Is there then any school officer or teacher, for any cause whatever, that can alTord to ignore the prevailing sentiment? The Columbian exposition will be the most magnificent of all world's fairs. Indiana has an opportunity of showing her status to the whole world. Can we, as teachers or citizens, afford to miss the slightest opportunity of helping Indiana do her very beat? Many counties have counted up their share in accordance with the request made in the circular, "Indiana Schools in the World's Fair," and have given assurance of furnishing the full amount all in good time. Now if every county in the state False in One,

THE ENGLISH OF A LATIN PROVERB APPLIED TO A CONCERN WHICH IS NOW IN BUSINESS.

A Business started upon shams, must resort to shams, or retire. The Royal Baking Powder Company garbled official documents to give it standing. For this it was publicly branded. The Food and Dairy Commissioner of Ohio caught the Royal Baking Powder Company in the act of misquoting his report, to make its goods appear unadulterated. The same Company stole the livery of the Board of Health of the State of New York and went on dress parade ia the garment. The Board exposed this. When the apparel was removed, of course the deformity was left alone. Then the Royal Baking Powder Company resorted tft constructing a speaking machine. It called this machine "A Government Chemist' When it mouthed its words to order, the Royal Company quoted the same and passed them around. These words represented the Royal Baking Powder as pure, etc. 'Government" is a stately word. Like everything good, it is abused by unscrupulous tricksters. MAKE A NOTE. There is no such office as that of Government Chemist, A THOUGHT. If a concern garbles official state papers, misquotes Boards of Health and Creates Official Mouth-pieces, for its own purposes, what will it do in adulterating its goods? Dr. Price stands a foe to impure goods and tricky methods of advertising. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is the only Pure Cream Tartar Baking Powder now to be obtained, and the thinking public are finding it out.

will so resolve and go on mith the work until crowned with euccess, the reputation we have established abroad will not be etained by any half-hearted results in any quarter. The wisdom of putting these two penny collections in this school yea! has been satisfactorily proven to our advisers. One year apart with a change ol teachers in many localities would havi necessitated much the same work ovei aain in order to stir up the preparations Pushing the matter has had good result in and out of school circles. Some of out rural editors say the circular "IndianC Schools in the World's Fair" has creates a general interest in the Columbian ex position which will iro far toward keepin; our people fully alive to every movement pertaining to a successful exhibit in all departments. Teachers will plea.-e bear in mind tha 'Fiair Day" or "Constitution Pay" will give lino opportunities to make up any deficiencies that may have occurred on tht special collection days. Hoping we may have every reason tc be proild of tha teachers' and school children's fund for the world's fair, 1 remain. Mrs. J. S. Harhell, Secretarj- of the Committee of Education Art and Charities. Brook ville, Feb. . A GREAT AMOUNT DISBURSED.

SZor Than Two Million Io!lnra Put In Or eutntton lh 1'ail TVot lnj The rush at the pension office is over. In three and three-quarter days 56,000 pensioners were paid, the aggregate amount disbursed beim: over $2,123,0(XX This money was distributed all over the state. Pension Agent Lmdey said Tuesday that there were at least 50 persons ia Europe that draw money from his office, amounting to over $10,000 each quarter. These payments must be made along durin? tho quarter, as it takes almost three weeks to cet the papers here. At least 2,000 pensioners in the state failed to send in their vouchers am1 thes?, too, will have to wait for their money. There are many persons who only draw their pen siou money each year. Spt-aking of the ru?h on the first d a v Col. Kns.ey said that l'.'-ÖS persons had been paid over the counter and 7,000 veterans were paid by mail. This numbei exceeds by Ö00 an y previous payment, and no doubt will beat the record in the othei offices of th country. There wt-re 3'.'9 i now certificates liied during this rush which will have to be looked up and paid, "Ther is one thing," said Col. Ens'.ey, '"that people do not think of often in con r.ection with the payment of pensions. Sew n out of ten oi those drawing th money in the winter months spend it for neces.-ary articles. The vast amount oi money distributed within such a short period is of the greatest benefit to busi r.ess. Especially in the country, whera the old soldiers are short cf funds during the winter the pension money is welcome." The pension ollice will, as usual, pay moneys through the quarter. It will require about JJ.öuü.'MX) at this agency to settle with the old soldiers. Th 1 1 o Ar S.tuQeJ. Lebanon Pioneer. The insincerity of the republican party'i attack n the nw tax law is aptly illustrated by the vote of Judee W. S. Hag gard, joint representative from Tippeca noe and Clinton counties in the last lecis lature, in the district convention at La fayette last Thursday, when he approved the following resolutions: The farruera and home-owner of Indiana have just cause to arraign and rebuke the 1st democratic lesislature for paising a tax laf which exact verr largely increased revenues and imposes upou tLtta burdens far in execs of their proportionate share of taxation. Not only Jude Haezard, but his repub. lican colleague in the legislature, A. S, Wells of Stockwell, voted in favor of thil law, "which exacts very largely increased, revenues and imposes upon them burden far in excossof their proportionate share of taxation." The truth of the whole matte is that the resolution is a lie lrom begin ning to end and will not fool the mass of the people, w ho are satisfied with the nasi law. False in All.