Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1892 TWEIAE PAGES.

DTDIAXA STATE SEXTIXEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL OG. fe. E. MORSS. President. Ilster at the Pottoffice at Indianapolis as second c!as matter.

IERJH FEU YEAR f Ire! copr (InTiriablr In AdTance.).........Sl Oo Vi r democrats to Iar in mind anl Wt thrfr cwn Male paper when they couia to taka subscription and makeup clnb. Agents making up club3 send for anr Information Ättired. Adiitu TUE lMilAÄAroiJS SENTINEL ImlianapoH. lnd. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1S92. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. To the Editor Sir: Having been in possession of thercvised Kncjclopicdia llritannica about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel at the extreme low price that you furnish it at. Heins a student I Und it of great benefit to me in the solution oi a great many perplexing questions. I believe that all young: readers of "The Sentinel should have it, and many thanks to you for having been the medium through which I have been made able to procure so useful a txxk, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of money, William D. Tark. Lamong, Ind., Feb. 20. The contintiin2 popularity of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is shown in that an intended new edition oi 100,000 copies has been increased to 100,000 on account'of the prospective demand. Thia ig probably an adrertising dodge, but aa nearly r.ll the newspapers in the country have been taken in by it wo pay tribute to the genius of the publishers by giving it circulation also. The Frankfort Crescent says : Warden French of the prison north is making a splendid showing iir the management of that institution. His annual report will show a net earning of $20,000 over and above expenses. The morale of the prison was never better. "Public office." with Warden French, "is a public trust" The South Bend Times reproduces the above deserved compliment to a worthy official, and adds : The Tirntt heartily indorses the above. Warden French is giving his entire time ind attention to the management of the Northern prison. Being a man of euperior intelligence and of sterling integrity, he takes a natural pride in improving the management of the prison whenever and wherever there is an opportunity for so äoing. The Tiines heartily congratulates him on the success that has attended his efforts so far. The New York World t discussing the Eilver question and catling attention to the sharp division of sentiment on the pubject in the democratic party, says with great force and pertinency : How can such a question be made a political issue by a great party ? Neither side of it can be affirmed as a guiding principle by either of tiie existing parties. It wouKI bo especially absurd for a party engaged in a battle for popular rights, against extraordinary and unjust taxation, outrageous extravagance and the introduction of force in poDular elections to pause, after the magnificent and overwhelming triumph of 1S;0, to engago in a doctrinaire discussion about the relative values of metals while its astute enemy etole into its rear to strike a blow for protection. The democratic party is camping on the eround won in lSr0. It has no time and should have no inclination to ehift its position for 1S02. Nearly every president we have had desired a re-election. The following shows the names of those who succeeded in thia ambition and those who failed: Re-elected. y0t lie-rlecttd. WASHijfGTOsr. . Adams (John). Jefferson. Adams (Jons Qctnct) Madison. Van Buren. Monroe. IIakuisok. Jackson. Tyler. Lincoln. I'olk. Grant. Taylor. Fillmore. Pierce. Buchanan. Johnson. Hayes. Garfield. Arthur. Cleveland. Dledln ofiic. Surely there is not much encouragement here for Benjamin Harrison of Indiana. The New York World at last bids adieu to Senator Hill as follows: If, as now seems likely, the national democratic convention shall drop all New York candidates, then, on a sound tariffreform and honest-money platform, we Relieve that any one of the following named nine genilemen can unite the factions, carry New York and be elected president of the United States: Governor Horace IVies of Iowa, Governor Bobert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania. Senator John M. Palmer of Illinois. Senator John li. Carlisle of Kentucky. Chiei Justice Melville W. Fuller of Illinois. Senator AntnuR P. Gorman of Maryland. Governor William E. Russell of Massachusetts. Governor Isaac P. Gray of Indiana. Governor Leon Abbett of New Jersey. That' is a very good democratic nine, but it omits the name of a pitcher who has proven himself a phenomenon. The .question ia whether he should be dropped because the man on first permitted the other side to make a home run, and it is intimated that he would do it again. The Columbus Herald says: The rumor that Governor Gray was working to throw the national delegation of Indiana to Hill in the event that his own chances should prove bad, tho Herald does not believe. Gray is too bright a politician to do anything that he knows in advance would be suicidal. Such a report conld only originate with men who are really opposed to Gray. We entirely agree wit. the Herald. The attempt that is making to set up a Hill delegation from Indiana under cover of Governor Gray's name is a gross outrage upon that gentleman and ought to be abandoned at once. We make bold to eay that no man, however popular, could be ejected a delegate to the national convention from Indiana if he were to announce in advance that he would vote for Hill for president at any stage of the proceedings. The democrats of Indiana prefer Isaac P. GrtAY for president and will support him loyally. But Mr. Hill is not their second cor their third choice, and co delegate

can vote for him at Chicago without misrepresenting his constituents and embarrassing his party in the approaching campaign. Let us have . a fair deal. Let us send a delegation to Chicago that will make every honorable effort to nominate Gray for president, but every member of which can be trusted not to ruisrepreEent the sentiment of his state should it become necessary to express a second choice. Unparalleled Popularity of Hill. Our esteemed, and more or less spotted, contemporary, the New York Sun, has been collecting the editorial opinion oi the American press in favor of the nomination of David 13. Hill. Thia is a most commendable undertaking. There is nothing more powerful than the press, not even a street car company. Hence it is desirable to know what the press is going to do, and with this apology we present the following extracts from the Sun just as they appear in that reliable Harrison organ : Savannah Eresing Press. There ia a growing sentiment in Savannah in favor of Javid I?. Hill as the candidate of the democratic party for the presidency. That cannot be denied. The sentiment extends to all classes of the people, but is most conspicuous among the workers, the men who stand around the polls and get out the votes, and among the workingmen. Down in the "Fort" the feeling in favor of 1 1 ill is getting stronger day by day, and bids fair to be enthusiastic in a short time. His admirers are talking for him and making converts every day. They will leave no stone unturned to add to his followers here. Corup Christi Cjtfer. David Bennett Hill, of all the presidential possibilities so far nam;d by thedemocratic party, is at the head of the list. Decatur Tost The Hill boom ia still making step by step, and ere long it will cover this whole country. Tyler Democrat-Reporter. J No doubt David B. Hill would make a a first-class president. Flow and Hammer. David B. Hill is a bigger man than "old Goliah" aa a democratic leader. Children Star. Hill gets closer to the people every day. aiuesTille Iiegister.j Hill would make a good president, IFannia Cuouty Favorite Hill also managed the affairs of the democratic party eo as to put them in possession of all branches of the New York legislature. Ii tltat's peanut politics then there are a lot of politicians in tho democratic party whose proportions would bo vastly enlarged if they should develop up to the standard of the peanut variety. fWoif City Sun. Hill's nomination and election mean death to the republican rule. timthtiekl Monitor. David Hill is gaining ground rapi lly, and it now looks like he will carry the standard of the democratic party through the next campaign. There were printed in connection with these extracts two articles defaming Mr Cleveland, but as they do not mention Hill it is probable that they aro for a western man. It ia seldom that a more imposing array of backers is presented for any man. A boom that extends from Corpus Christi to Smithheld is indeed cdlossai in extent, and when it is demonstrated also to have penetrated Decatur, Tyler, Childress, Gainesville, Fannin county and Wolf City, we may justiy 6ay that it permeates and pervades the whole republic. What can withstand it? It sweeps down on an affrighted country with the imposing might of a glacier no, not a glacier, for that melts off at the end and its name becomes mud but rather like an avalanche, an avalanche of the Himalayas, that moves on in resietless grandeur until it lights on a peaceful-valley and involves everything in one triumphant ruin. That is the kind of boom that attracts attention. If you do not pay attention to it when it is coming, you will after it gets there.OWhen a boom of this kind has performed for one consecutive night at a Himalayan village no ono ever forgets it. Wherefore we say, Go on. Oh, Hill boom, and wax great ! Do not be satisfied to extend from Smithuschristie to Corpsefield, but reach out to the uttermost parts of the civilized world and take in every ppecies of man and beast that could be desired to point a moral or pdorn a tale. With a vigorous and united press, such aa you already command, nothing can prevent the people from flocking to you except an irresistible impulse to go elsewhere. Already, by hia own unaided efforts, Mr. Hill has reached r. point where only two things etand between him and the presidency ; one is a nomination

and the other is an election. Let these two trifling obstacles be overcome and the thing is accomplished. Let every goober democrat put his shoulder to tho wheel. The Illinois 3Iortcae Fraud. The census bur u has just issued a bulletin which purports to give the statistics of mortgage indebtedness in Illinois, but it is very far from certain that the figures which are given indicate what is claimed for them. The work is the result of the investigations of Illinois officials, and so far as it purports to be the result of actual examination ia probably correct, but it does not appear how much is the result of examination and how much is the result of guess work. A summary of the result of actual examination as to the record of mortgages for ten years is aa follows: Year. Xumler recorded. Amount. I860 42.7S.J $ 53.276.92'J 1881 49.517 63.7U,0.J1 1882 55,410 .... fcl.52i.025 1SS3 f5.8:57 79,042,023 1SS4.. 56,001 T5,5'J!,I37 188o...... 59,3w2 0,2I9,G2ö 18S6 61,425 94.110.52J 1 &ü 7 69,902 99. 6: to. 1W8 lfcfS 72.745 102.5O7.2M 18 ....W.101 137,7j2,4ÖÜ That ia very well bo far as it goes, but there is no statement of the number or amount of mortgages satisfied in theso years, and without that there is no way of telling whether the debt of the state is increasing or decreasing. The same officials who made this examination had been using in tho past a system of computation by waich they calculated the life of a mortgage at so many- years, and arbitrarily wiped it out of existence at the end of that time. Ttie fallaciousness of this method and the utter impossibility of securing correct results from it wero pointed out in an article in the J'olitical Science Quarterly for March, 1S0O. Clearly it is impossible to ascertain the amount of existing mortgage indebtedness in any 'state or county without taking into account the satisfactions of mortgages. The indications throughout the bulletin referred to are that this same fallacious

method has been followed in thia invp3tigation, and that so far as accurate results are concerned the report is hardly worth the paper it is printed on. The total amount of existing real estate mortgages reported ia $384.299,150. This is for the date Jan. 1, 1S90. Two years earlier these eaine gentlemen reported the total existing real estate mortgage debt at $381,222,331), and yet by their own showing there have been recorded aince that time new mortgages to the amount of $240,270,737. Have the satisfactions of mortgages amounted to 237,000,000 in the eame length of time? If not these investigators cannot possibly be correct in their present statement of the debt, and there is very trong reason for believing that they have not the slightest idea what the satisfactions do amount to. The only thing learned from such investigations a) this in Illinois is that the number of mortgages recorded increases constantly from year to year that the amount recorded in 1SS9 was two and one-half times as great as in 1SS0. But it must be that thia represents new mortgages only, and not increase of mortgage debt. The satisfactions must bo deducted to obtain that. An Impending Danger. The Philadelphia Pras has found a rather novel argument against the proposal for free wool and a reduction of the tariff on woolen goods in the assertion that it would subject us to the horrors of cheap foreign-made fabrics. It says: Free wools is an issue so little understood by Mr. Springer himself that the general public may be very easily misled about it. If carried out as the author of the bill intends, it means free woolens as much and as certainly as it does free wool. It means the wreck of all the great structure of industries in wool and mixed fabrics built up during the past thirty years, and a return to the use of the cheapest of the so-called woolens the Hood of English shoddies that came over in the first years of the war. The mills here could not make woolens of any class, even with free wool, to compete with free woolens as tho British make them. This is indeed etartling, as we have not yet outgrown the memory of the war period, and very many people knew that the "shoddies" of that period were produced by our patriotic American manufacturers, under the beneficent provisions of the war tariff. And there are few Americans cow who do not know thrft very much better woolen goods can be Lought for the same money almost anywhere outside of the United States than can be had anywhere within them. If thero aro any woreo shoddies produced anywhere than in thia country the location of the factory producing them has not yet been pointed out. Tho f'rej is also in distress concerning che3p carpet wool. It says: We have almost ceased to buy the Prussian or Donkoi, because the China product, which is more hair than wool, is much cheaper and makes the cheapest carpet, run and plush material. Under free wool we should fall to the Asiatic level at once, in the coarseness of stock and the cruJeness of the fabric, Lecauso we would be forced to do so. & We do use great Quantities of foreign wool, and the mills make money li it For the last fiscal year ending June 30, 181)1, the imports of line wool were 22,2;0.'j;'5 pounds, of long wool t"i,)t;7,0)0 pounds and of Asiatic wool DO.lO.l.ti'JO pounds in all 12!),303,Ü43 pounds. Most of this was from China and India and for carpet making. It does not mention, however, that thia importation is an increase of about 30,000,000 pounds per annum, and that it is occurring under tho provisions of the McKinley bill, whose object was to shut out foreign woo's. It is not easy to imagine how we could "fall to the Asiatic level" much faster than we have been falling under this wonderful protective measure, as 19 hero admitted by the Pres. We have advanced to a condition where our mills "use great quantities of foreign wool, and the mills make money by its use,'' and yet the price of domestic wools has fallen, the market has decreased and tho consumption in manufacture has lessened. With these facts staring them in the face the wool-growers of this country have reason to suspect that the wool tariff is not just what it is represented to be. They have reason to think that the manufacturers have taken them in. Without doubt that tariff makes profit for some one, but if any farmer can show wherein he is benefited we 6hould like to hear from him.

Itecent Social Convulsions. Society ia the great centers of the East appears to be undergoing great changes, and there is a growing suspicion that there is aome connection between this and the big spot on the eun, and also the evidences of a epeedy approach of the millenium to which attention has been called by Prof. Totten, Dr. Jenckes and others. One of the most important oi these revolutionary movements ia the cutting down of New York's "Four Hundred" to 150. This action, which has just been taken, is not so striking on account of its results as on account of the principle involved. Doubtless a time had arrived when New York society needed a purification, and a proper weeding out of the social garden wa3 very proper, but it is certainly a strange idea that the minority should expel the majority. It is diflicultto understand how thia could be accomplished unless Mr. Eeed's parliamentary rules have been adopted by Col. McAllister for the government of our best society. But even if this be the case, what can prevent tue majority from assembling and expelling the minority? If this should be done serious confusion might arise, and the country would be wholly unable to decide which waa the genuine Four Hundred, reduced to ita lowest terms. Another social earthquake, even more importaut in ita possible effects on the bodv politic, is presented as follows by the Washington Post: For years it has been adebated question, the euhject of endless discussion, as to whether or not the president, as the official head of the .nation, should not take precedence of the host and hostess. The usual arrangement has' been for the president to sit on the right of the hostess. In order to settle the matter, Mrs. Noble, some time since, eent to London to get the English order of precedence, which carried out her ideas on the subject by averring that the prtsident should occupy the seat of the host. The matter was then submitted to the state department, from which came the reply that the matter was in this country purely optional. Mrs. Noble thereupon decided to have the seat for the president placed at the head of the table, ehe occupying the one on the right. Secretary Noble sat at the opposite end of the table, with Mrs. Harrison at hia right hand. There seems littla justification for the actkn of the state department in throwing

the entire responsibility of deciding this momentous question on Mrs. Koble, and especially at a time when Mr. Noble was engaged in a hand to hand struggle with Uncle Filley for control of the Missouri delegation, and with no statesman to assist him except Col. Abe Sli i'sky. Tho result is that although the matter ol precedence was solved, .the Missouri delegation was captured by the anti-administration forces. What is worse, there ia serious question as to whether tho decision of the question of precedence is correct It is evident that the seat at tho head of the table carries with it the onerous duty of carving, and this was probably the controlling consideration in the decision. Mr. Harrison has shown a disposition to carve something or other that cannot be controlled. He insisted on carving Chili, and when that opportunity was taken from him he proceeded to slice Gen. Alger in a '.Tay that permanently disfigured that great product of the tariff on pine lumber. Possibly it is well to let him exercise his warlike disposition on turkey and other edibles before hia sword, like that of JIudibra. For waut of fighting hud erown rusty, And ato into Us -If for ln Of somebody tu hew an i hack. And yet a more suitable badge of distinction mieht have been found. In countries' where blue blood U properly recognized it has been usual for the most important person present to wear his hat, while the others remained uucovered. In this country, where nobility depends on one's grandfather instead of on the title one may acquire by descent or otherwise, it would be just the thing for the really important personage to wear his grandfather's hat on all state occasions. The fact that it is too lare would be no objection in Mr. Harrison's case. A wire framework could be placed inside the hat that would make it fit, and this would serve to give ventilation, and also give tho effect of a halo to the brim. Of course, the rule of precedence laid down in Washington will have to be followed elsewhere, and the hat rule would certainly be much more satisfactory when the chief guebt is not a proficient carver. For example, we are informed that Governor Chase cuts up a chicken so that it is all legs and wings, and insists on having a hatchet when carving a duck. He can wear a hat, however, with great effect. If there is any possibility of a rehearing in thia matter Indiana would like to be heard.

Tariff and Panics. The Journal finds it desirable to rehash the common claim of protectionist writers that the low tariffs of 1 833 and 1 Sit produced the financial crises of lh37and 1857 respectively. The claim is an old one and has been exploded repeatedly. Prof. Taussig, who is recognized as one of the fairest and most impartial writers on the tariff, says ot this assertion as to the panic of 1837: The assertion had its origin in the writings of Henry C. Casey, who has been guilty of man' curious versions of economic history, but of none mora remarkable than this. It may be found in various passages in his works; and from them it has been transferred to the writings of his disciples and to the arguments of protectionist authors and speakers in general. Yet no fair-minded person having even a superficial knowledge of the economic history of these years can entertain euch notions. The crises of 1837 and 1830 wero obviously due to quite a different set of causes to the bank troubles, the financial mistakes of Jackson's administration, the inflation of the currency, and to those general conditions of speculation and unduly expanded credit which give rise to crises. The tariff act had nothing whatever to do with it. Indeed, the reductions in duty undor it, as we have seen, were slight until 1840, and could hardly have inliuenced in any degree tho breaking out of the panics. In fact this tariff was a compromise act, as the Journal concedes, and its provisions could not fairly be called "free trade," even from tho modern republican standpoint. Mr. Calhoun insisted that -the crisis was due to the duties being too high, as they brought a largo surplus into the treasury, the disposition of which brought on inflation and speculation. (Calhoun's works, vol. 4., p. 175.) Mr. Clay, who ought to have known something about it, and who is very good protectionist authority, denies expressly that the tariff of 1833 had anything.to do with the crises of 1837 and 1830. (Clay's works, vol. 2, p. 530.) The crisis of 1S57 waa much of the same character. There are many men yet living who remember the peculiar banking system of those days and the evils that resulted from wild-cat currency, and they know that the tariff was not the cause o' that crisis. The Hon. Hugh McCulloch is one of them aad hia U-Htimony U very, clear and explicit to the fact that the crises of both 1837 and 1S57 were duo to the currency aud not to the tariff. ("Men and Measures of Half a Century," p. 218.) There is a connection between the two, however. The low tariff era of 18401SO0 was one of great prosperity, as has been conceded by Blaine, Garfield and other republican leaders. It is a wellknown fact that protracted prosperity usually brings on speculation and a carelessness of the common rules for safe currency and safe credit. It is not surprising that such results had come in tho eleven years that elapsed after the passage of the Walker bill. But if the Journal desires an example of a panic that people remember, we commend to its attention the protracted one of 1873-1879. from which the country has scarcely recovered yet. That did not occur under a low tariff act. It did not have its origin in the ruin of the blessed "Home market" by British ' competition. It occurred under our policy of taxing ourselves rich, with duties up to war figures. It occurred after new discoveries of gold and silver that eclipsed the orig-r inal mines of California. It occurred at a time when, according to all protectionist theories, a crisis was impossible. And yet it was the most serious in its effects that has ever been known in the couutry. The Journal should issue an appendix to ita article on the panic of 1S73. Harmony in Maine. The republican brethren aro having a pleasant time among themselves in Maine, where a strong fight is being made to prevent'the return to congress of both Boutelle and Miu.ieen. Both aro in disfavor for supporting the claims of Chicago for the world's fair as against New York, and Boutelle has made enemies by opposing the Australian ballot law. Milliken is devoting his attention chiaflv to placatinir ' the temperance people. In the campaign of 1S00 he and Mr. Blaine were advertised

to fspeak Watatervihe. Colby university is located at thia town, and Prof. Albion W. Small, the president of the university, was induced to preside over the meeting. This was a rather unfortunate move, for after the meeting Prof. Small distributed liberally through the district the following circular : Watekvii.le, Me., Sept. 7, 1S30. My Dear Sir and Brother: At the Blaine rally in Waterviile on Friday last Seth L. Milliken, our candidate for congress, who was advertised to speak, was eo drunk that 1 begged the other speakers to talk against time and introduced Mr. Lodge, who was not on the program, instead of Mr. Milliken. While Mr. Lodgh: was talking the managers of the meeting sent a representative to the platform and led Mr. Milliken away to a place of 6afety. The republican managers insistsd on renominating Milliken, although they knew his habits, and in spite of the protesta of many who refuse to support such a man. A great many of the stanchest republicans in Waterviile will scratch his name from the ballots, as they believe it would in the end Lo the most wholesome step to de'eat him and teach our political managers that they rau?t give us decent candidates or we shall repudiate them. Albion W. Small. The temperance people now oppose him and the probabilities are that Governor Burleigh, who is an open candidate, will be nominated in his place. In his speech at Lincoln, Neb., Governor Boies declared that the cause of democratic victory in Iowa was the steady growth of the party on two propositions: 1. Assertion of the fundamental principle of personal liberty invaded by the republican party in procuring and seekiog to maintain prohibitory liquor iaws. 2. Kevolt ngainst excessive tariff taxation maintained by the republican party in congress. Those are good principles for democrats to stand on anywhere in the United S:at's. Ik the gentleman who draws the salary of president of the United States can concentrate his mind once more on the subject of gerrymanders, we should like to know what he thinks of the Ohio labyrinth. tT CETERA.

The prince of Wales thinks that children ought not to bo allowed to read Shakspeaie. The oldest unitarian minister now living is the Lev. Thomas Treadwell Stone of Providence, w.'io is over ninety years of age. The political and the personal friends of the late amuel Bandall are roakine a determined effort to erect a suitable monument to his memory. Tennyson is a great reader of novels, and so absorbed does he become in such literature at night sometimes that it is hard to pereiiade him to go to bed. Like many less distinguished people who indulge in this practice he rises late. The latest news from the Nicaragua canal is that it is progressing slowly but surely. So progressed the Panama canal up to the time of its abandonment. It is a noteworthy fact that tardiness of performance usually attends the chewing of the morsel bitten off in excess of the chewer's capacity. When, at the celebration of his silver jubilee, the sum of $35,000 was piesented to Cardinal Mannincr, he at once began to devise means to bestow it worthily and he said at the time: "I will die as a priest ought to die, without money and without debts." He kept his word, for he left an estate of only $500. It is highly gratifying to learn, on the authority of Mr. George Tullman, that his company emphatically disapproves of the custom of givinc tips to the porters on their palaco cars. This emphatic disapproval has never been advertised very extensively before. It looks now a3 though one of our etaplo jokes were seriously threatened. Margaret Fuller used to be accounted a very wise woman, aad doubtless she was, lor 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 waa by putting that precept into practice that Miss Fuller gained her great celebrity as a converser. Whittier writes as follows to an English correspondent of his: 'T have never desired or hoped to found a school of poetry nor even written with the definite object of influencing others to follow my exa:n pie. I have only written as the spirit came and went, often unable to give utterance to the best poems that were ia my heart, the utterance being holden, but it has been the crowning joy of a prolonged old age that my life has not been entirely valutless and that I have been allowed to Bee the end of slavery in my country." Sir Mokkell Mackenzie's household expenses wero very great. He kept sixteen servants, besides a private coach for himself and another for his wife, and spent every cent of his $GO,000 yearly income. Both the distinguished doctor and his wife were very fond of society, and their home in London was the resort of brilliant people. It was a rare thin tor a caller to find them alone in the evening, and even then they were in full evening dress, Mrs. Mackenzie blazing with diamonds. The doctor's three daughters are said to be very handsome girls, and all as fond of society as their parents were. Dn. Pichet, the famous physician, who died a short time ago of pulmonary congestion in Paris, described and analyzed the course of the ailment minutely and with tho greatest precision for several days preceding his death, for the benefit of his attending physicians, one of whom was his son. His last words were, when with hardly any vitality left, he told them: "When the phenomenon which you have just ascertained has occurred every chance is lost and death is only a question of seconds. In fact, you see it, I am going to die. I nra dying." And so the man, who was his own clinical subject, died. "The many friends of Ensign Niblack, U. S. N., will be glad to know that he is fast recovering from an illness which kept him in the army hospital at Fortress Monroe when his ship, the Chicago, sailed for Montevideo. This young sailor's record for 1SD1 is excellent. His admirable report on Alaska was published by the government, he won the naval prizo essay which means $1.000, a gold medal ani a life membership in the Naval institute; he was adjutant-general of the naval brigade of the squadron of evolution in all landing dribs this summer; he evolved a reform signal code which is in a fair way to be adopted by the nriVy; in November he went on Admiral Walker's personal staff ns secretary and wound up the year with pneumonia. Your head is all riwht. Ensign Niblack. Pay moro attention to your body. The navy needs such fellows as voij." Kaic tieid't Wathinaton.

"SENTINEL" OF OLD TIMES.

SMALL BEGINNING OF A NOW INFLUENTIAL NEWSPAPER. Recollections of On Who II mm Sen the f'apcr JIm One Owned Past from EatyGoing Methods tu Rath snet Enterprise of the Present. A number of gentlemen, gathered recently in one of the superior court rooms, wero discussing the growth of newspapers in Indianapolis, when Austin II. Brown, deputy county clerk, related an interesting story of the early history of The Sentinel. "In the years 1838, 1S39 and 1S40 during school vacations and at odd times," said he, ;I was the 'printers' devil' and newspaper carrier in tho office of the Weekly Indiana Democrat, published here. It was edited firet by Nathaniel Bolton and John Livingston and afterward by Nathaniel IVlton and Georire Pattison. Nathaniel Bolton owned the farm on which the Central hospital for tho insane is located and on two or three occasions I walked out there for 'cop' for the paper. The carriers' district embraced the whole corporation limits and in some instances a little beyond. Tho office of the lei;io r U contained about enough type to set up one wtmu two-page form of twenty-four by thirty-six inches, and then, after distribution to set up another. These forms were then printed on a two-puli Washington hand press with complete attachment of rollers and distributing rollers. "In May, 1841. Bolton & Pattison sold the outfit and subscription list to Cieonre and Jacob Page Chapman, the former publisher of a democratic paper at Terre Haute and the latter of one at Kvausviile. They had been thoroughly educated to the printing business in Boston, aud when tiiey brought their two printing otlices here aud combined them with the old Democrat material, and, also, added many new fonts of type to the outfit, their office was regarded as the model for printers everywhere. They changed the name of the paper,' calling it the Indiana State Sentinel, and the engraved head contained a picture of the state house and a rooster. The motto of the paper waa "Crow, Chapman, Crow," the Chapmana taking advantage of an incident of the Harrison and Van Buren campaign of the year before to appropriate the advice given to a Greeneastle Van Buren politician and use it as a catch sentence to attract attention to The .Sentinei George Pattison of tho Democrat had written this politician to not get discouraged at the furore then overrunning tho country for "Tippecanoe and Tyier too," and to "tell Chapman to crow." The letter containing this ndice eot into the han-fs of the whips and was published in the Indianapolis Jounna'. To the Chapmans, therefore, is due the credit of the tirst use of the rooster as the emblem of the democratic party. "The first issue of The State Sentinel," Mr. Brown continued, "was June 1. 1841. During the latter part of the Chapman ownership John J. Spann of this city became a partner, and the firm of Chapman it Spann continued The Sentinel publication until 1850, when on tho let of Juno of that vear I became the owner of the good will, name and fmbscription list of the paper. The old office was purchased by Dr. Erastus, W. H. Ellis and John t?. ipann, who were continued as state printers, and afterward started the Indiana Statesman which they published for a short time only. During the Chapman administration the paper was edited almost solely by l'ago Chapman, Georire A. occasionally contributing. Durir g the five years of my ownership from 1850 to 1S55 my father, William J. Brown, was the principal and responsible editor. He waa assisted at different periods by Nathaniel Bolton, Alexander F. Morrison, John W. Duzan, Oliver B. Torbett, Charles Nordhoff and mvself, the city department being always in my charge. Messrs. Bolton and Morrison were formerly editors of the Indiana Democrat, ready writers and good politicians. Mr. Duzan was a good general newspaper man and a practical printer. Mr. Torbett was a much better public speaker than writer, though some of hia writings showed ability. Mr. Charlea Nordhoff resided in my family for over

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two years and did his first editorial work on The Sentinel, and though the field was limited, his experience here waa of some value to him and formed no email part of his journalistic education for tho very extensive lield he afterward entered upon, as he has acknowledged to me. "Mr. Xordaotf's last active journalistic work was that of being at the head of the New York Herald correspondence bureau at Washington, at $10,fKn) annual salary. Mr. James GorJon Bennett. in his liberality, has the past year placed him on the retired list of the JleraLVt journalists, at an annual pension during life of S5.000. . "The Sentinel," further, said Mr. Brown, "wa3 fitted up with a new tlresa and hand presset, to suit, at the time I took hold oi it and was considered a model of typography lor that day. It was not, however, until l,s52, that the first steam printing press waa ui-ed in the office. During the sessions of the legislature very small-sized daily publications were made both of The Sentinel and the Journal. TnE Sentinel, however, has the honor of being the first daily newspaper published in Indianapolis, consecutively for the six day? of the week, for a whole year. This was in 1851. The first year of its issue it was a four-page, six column paper, 24 by 3'i size. The entire circulation for tha

j first three years was not over 50) copiet a I day, but the weekly bad a very large sub scription list. The SrBtml" Almnnnr. To the Editor .Vir: In examining Tub Sentinel Almanac I find there is a vast amount of useful information contained in it; information, too, that is very important to know and understand by any cne who wishes to be informed on subjec t oi vital interest. Th tables and statistics arranged in it are valuable and important. In fact, to stu its contents is time well and profitably spent, and I would say to those who l ave any desire or wish to po.-t themselves on the vital issues of the times they should tret one of these almanacs, and if an examination dont prove the assertions here made then I a n behind the times. Asidrt from the McKinley tariff schedule, which, within itse'.f, is worth tho price, other facts and fizures make it of valuable worth to any one who can see and reaiize the importance of the information it contains. G. W. S, Dublin, Ind., Feb. 13. How They Like the Enrjc: .T tin. Pi. A N KINGTON, S. D.. NOV. 2. The "Revised Eucyclopa-dia Britannica" (20 vols.) was duly received. The only wonder is that you can furnish a lino library, covering the whole ran ire of human knowledge, for the pmull sum of ?7.5J. I am more than satisfied with my investment. V. I). Rowland. Morkistow.v, N. J.. Dec. 0. Your "Revised Encyclopa-dia" came to hand all right. I read the preface carefully, and I thought if true I had got a bargain. I read the two articles on "Grant" and the "United States." and I am satisfied it was true. Samuel Colt. Anthony, R. I., Dec. -. The "Encyclopedia Dritanniea'' arrived in due time andintv l condition. Please accept my thanks ir this very valuable work, which reaily comprises a complete library in itse f. In my opinion, no one should omit this opportunity to obtain it, Ei.la J. Matteson. Elv. in, 111.. Nov. -Jl. The "Revised Encyclopedia Britar.nica" ordered of you received in good shape. It is ail that you claim for it. The print and paper aro very good. The colored maps of eac h state, giving the counties ami railroads, as well as colored maps of all other countries in the worid, are worth mora than you ask for the entire work. It is certainly a rare chance to get so valuable a work for eo little money. M. A. Conn ard. Independence, Ia., Nov. 21. I have received the "Revised Encyclopedia Britanniea" and am very much pleased. It is ail and more than I expected, and I am perfectly satisfied. R. W. S afford. Beloit. Wis.. Dec. 14. 410 Highland-ave. I feel impelled to offer you my sincere thanks for the benefit you have conferred. The work has all the merit you claim for it. and it is a mine of educational and intellectual wealth which is within tha reach of all. I thank you and again I thank you. Thomas P. Nokthkoi'. Sauk Center, Minn., Dec. (. We received the "Revised Ercyclopedia" all right and are well pleased w ith it. The Encyclopedia is fully .p to whal you claim for it. The print is much nicei and tho paper much better than we ex pected it to be, and the maps of each state and all foreign countries are the neatest, newest and plainest things we have ever seen. The maps alone are worth to me j nearly all the whole thing cost. With proper care the work wid last a lifetime. L. L. FisnEK. Snowflake, Ya.,Oct. 20. I have just received the "Revised Encyclopedia Britannica" aad. am highly pleased with it. It is just the thing for the country school teacher and for the country school. Robert M. Addington, Principal of Saratoga Institute. Climax. Kenton. Queen. Regal. Ruck elh aus Forest City.

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