Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CC. S. E. MORSS. President. Itotrd at the rostnrtu-e at TndiaaapolU aa second cifcM matter. TFK.MS I'ER YKAKi Jp copr (loTariablr in Aarane. . JM OO n f nsk democrat. to Nar in m;nl ami wl-rt thir wb tat papr when they come to take subscripi.tmana muüip ditto. Agrcts malting up t'.ubs wnl for anr InformattoTi iffirtd. .iddissTliE 1M1AN ATOMS 5FXTIX EL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10. 1S:2. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. To the Editor Sir: Having been in possession of the revised Jncyclopadia Britaunica about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel at the extreme low price that you furnish it at. HeiiiR a st udent I find it of great Tenefit to me in the solution of a arrat many perplexing question.. I believe that all young readers of "The Sentinel should have it, and many thanks to yon for having !een the medium through which 1 have been made able to procure so useful a hook, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of money. W I III AM D. TAKR. Lamong, Ind., Feb. 20. A Chicago paper foots up tho recorded defalcations of l?fJl at $10,720,291, and think.' that those that were covered up would bring; the total to ?25,i 00,000. Are we becoming a nation of thieves? The Atlanta Constitution congratulates the country "that Europe is viewing JJavid B. Him. with alarm." 'e had not noticed any symptoms of terror on this account, Possibly the i,iit:tition has confused Mr. Him. of New York with Mr. Bill of Germanv. I m.ixoi offers two democratic candidates for president Gen. Palmer and Col. Morris" . There are several more possibilities in reserve Chief Justice Fi n er, Gen. Black and Con:reraan Srrin;eu amonj them. For a state that hasn't pone democratic but onro in a generation, Illi nois is doin;; very well. Tiif. desire of the administration for an international ruction grows as convention time and election timu draw near. It would seem as if tho Italian and Chilian etfair should have already mado tho EalatafTian lighters at the head of our Government sufficiently ridiculous without nr further Mutter at England. The Skntinei. tbis morning dsvotes a prcat deal of space to the speech of representative Mr.Mii.i ix of Tennessee, opening the tarnT debate in the house. But it is worth everv line of it. It is a clear, con cise and forceful arraignment of the iniquitous McKinley et ani should be read by every farmer and wngeworker in the land. Some good mathematician, remember ing that Joiiv L. IL" '( KHFF.i.i.EK is worth tCOO.OOO.COO and Jay iom S 1 7f,000, .00 ; also bearing in mind that IIocKEEni.LF.it pave 51,500,(00 to a university in token of hia gratitude lor restoration to health and that Gocm pave but S2-",Cit"0, miht, by a problem in equation?, figure out either tbe state of Jay's health or the depth of Lis gratitude. The death of John S. Moork, 'tho Parsee merchant. is a distinct los? to the advocates of tariif reform in this country. Ins clear insight into the fal lacies of protection and his wonderful faculty for communicating that insight to others did much to stimulate, the prowth ' of a eentiraent for tariif reform. He had a remarkable knack of presentinz facts in their true light and for sweeping away the sophistries and theories with which protection eought to surround and becloud tin tariif question. Scarcely known to the multitude, he did aa much as anyone man to convert the majority of the American people to the true trade prin ciples. The deadly cucumber may prove fatal to the boom of Uncle Jekry Kisk. An hon est granger who has just received a fresh package of seeds writes hiru thus: Your blamed cucumbers robbed me of my wife, so instead of s. nding me cucumber seed this spring send me another die. I hear there ar? a number of likely women in your department. It will probably bo difficult for Mr. UrsK to use the ladies in his department for electioneering purposes as he uses cucumber seeds, and if the victims of his governmental generosity all make similar demands the seed business may prove more di?astrou.s than Geu. Alger's mili tary record. Secketaby of tho Treasury Foster, in a recent interview in Ixndon, said: America assimilates ,V,1, even the clammouthed Irishman with his v.ibi and children, all in the rough. This 13 a striking remark for a cabinet officer of Benjamin- Harrison-, who had to do tome apologizing in ISNS for his attacks on the Irish people, and whose organ, the Journal, used to amuse itself by devising contemptuous epithets for Irish citizens. Mr. EiioDYSiiiELOujhtto request the president to request his secretary of the treasury to conceal the feel i ups he apparently holds toward bis fellow-citizens of Irish blood. Irish blood occasionally rises in xevolt against insults of this character. When will the laws and the sentiment jof the people put an end to murder by mobs? It would really 8rn that tho ;ng rather than diminishing. And the wor3t and most Hharceful feature of the hole matter is that mob violence is be aming commonest where the ponution ia densest and where civilization would be supposed to have reached its "highest stage. Lynchings of late have not .oeeo confined, as in the past, to backwoods llistricta and mining camps, bat have taken a hold in the settled communities Jand large cities. If law and order are to prevail those who engage in these martiers must be punished like other criminals. The lynching at Memphis Wednesday Vw.mtn meam 1 1 . .k Tnrat r 1 rl 1 1 1 rrd Sk A an4 r""'"1"'- - -" brutal that has been reported for many yr8. The provocation was far less than :hat which inspired the murderous "but 'citizens" of New Orleans to the butchery of the Italians, or the attempt to Ukt

Bissow from the Indianapolis jail. The facts leading up to tho slaughter are these: A crowd of negroes had fired upon a posse of officers and severely wounded but not killed them. They had done no actual murder, though the intention to do eo can scarcely be doubted. Twenty-seven negroes had been arrested on suspicion and locked up awaitinz trial. The identity of the otlicers' assailants had not been established. Yet in the dead of night three of these men were taken from their cells and ruthlessly shot to death. There was no certainty that they were guilty of the crime with which they wer charge.!. Nor can the Memphis mob have even tho poor excuse given by their fellow butchers in New Orleans, that tho courts would not n:c to out füll punishment to these men if guilty. The courts of Tennessee have never been justly accused of undue, leniency to criminals, especially when those criminals were black skins. That fact makes the crime cf the Memphis mob even more heinous than it would otherwise have been. Viewed in whatever light it may be. the Memphis lyr ching was wholiy uncalled for and brutal. The courts should ferret out the guilty and inflict upon them the most severe punishment. Even that cannot fully wipe ont the bloody etain upon the reputation of the city of Memphis and the state of Tennessee.

The Interc&t of "Wagc-r'arners. It is a singular fact that there are workinpmen who object to the establishment of boards of arbitration and conciliation as means for settling labor troubles. Tbe objection probaLlyarises from two sources : (1 ) The pleas of that class of labor agitators who support themselves by agitating, and consequently prefer the existence of trouble to its satisfactory settlement; and (2) tho fear that capital may overreach or outwit labor in the presentation of its claims. To the first no answer can be ma'le except tho statement of the fact. There has always been, and always will be. a class of persons who place their individual interests above every other consideration. This is tho law of selfishness. Dryden understood it when he wrote: for ttieir duty, all the learned t!iiuk, T' i Oma hit causa j whom thy rat an l drlnic. It exists at all times and under all circumstances. No matter what the question, no matter who concerned, there are men and many of them who will make ti.o ellcct on their pockets the supreme test. For this reason our laws do not permit a jude to try a case in which he is interested, nor a man to serve as a juror who is interested, nor a citizen to serve on an election board w ho has bet on the election cr is related to a candidate. Of course thero are men who can riao above such inliucr.ces, but everyone recognizes that there are others who will not. In regard to arbitration it is evident that these who live by strife are not actuated by the tanc motives as the great mass of laborers, whose rer.l interest is quiet and steady occupation at fair wapes and under fair conditions. As to the second cause it is sufficient to say that actual experience has shown, whenever arbitration has been tried, that it has almost invariably produced justice, and that it has always proven better for labor than the srst?m of strikes and lockouts. This is in part due to tho inherent necessity of disadvantage to labor involved in strikes, for they are practically tests of endurance. In such a t-st it is si in pi y impossible that thero should bo any equality between labor, whoso earnings are its support and life, and capital, whose earnings are frequently only surplusage. The loss always falls heaviest on tho wapeearners, even though in absolute amount that of the employers ehould appear trebly great. This money loss is a matter that deserves a careful thought of all wageearners. It is something that ailects not only their temporary well-being, but also their future improvement of condition. Col. Inokrsoi.l recently eaid at a banquet in New York: Happy, i ) blessed, id that country where the rich are extravagant and the poor economical! I'nhappy is that country where the poor are extravagant and thu rich are economical ! There is a vast amount of truth in this, and there is no greater extravagance of workingmen than that of Etrikes. In the census of 1CS0 an elaborate collection of etatistics of strikes was made by Mr. James P. Weeks, who is well known as an accurate and intelligent writer on labor topics. In 1880 he found that 7t'.2 Btrikes occurred in this country. Full returns were obtained as to 22) of them. In these 4,77! persons took part and the days' work lost w as 1,!,872. The absolute wage loga was $3,711,097. Thia system of investigation has since been continued, and the result- up to the year 1SS7 are presented, in the special report of the commissioner of labor for that year on strikes and lockouts. For the six years, lsM-lM;, the number of etrikes and lockouts was ,W2, the number of laborers involved l.:i2:l,.')03 and the wage loss was ?Ö'..J72,450. Keeultant loescs can only bo conjectured, but this direct, certain and enormous waee loss is eurely enough to make any person etop and reflect that this system is a bad thing for laborers. Moreover, while 1SS0 was ah unusual year ior number of etrikes, and w hile tho nam her has varied widely since then, there has been a steady increa-e in the number of persons involved and a steady decrease in the percentage of etrikes resulting favorably to the workingmen. These Eaures are so reniakable that wo present them in tabulated form .

Ü i U YEAR. - ll -" P81 12V2I' 471) 1 :.7 l .. ivi.n1 im: ."x.vt iri." ;; 47V i; 14 H7,'Mi 441 .'!.. VI .vO '4i7f)"! fi4V ::'. 1W5 4.''.,4-'.i 1.411 M.i.8

It should be noted as to the percentage of success in 18SG that etrikes were c in only fifteen establishments attheclo . Df the year, and their results would vary he pet cent, but Biicthtly. We do not see how any deduction can bo drawn from these statistics other than that strikes are injurious to workingmen, and that instead of improving their chances of success are constantly growing les. The reason is that employers have begun to organize to resist itriktp. In i'8 report for lSWthe Massachusetts stab board of arbitration says: "In cases of this kind which have j come under the immediate observation cf

the board success has not been on the side of the workmen." For these reasons it seems perfectly clear that it is to the interest of wage-earners to find some less expensive and mere equitable method of deciding the differences with tho employers." Indeed, labor must find soma better method in self-defense. The Ileal Opponents of the Tax Law. A few months ago the republican press of the state raised a cry that the new tax law increased tho taxes of the people and decreased the taxes of the corporations. The j- made the statement before tbe law had passed into eifect, and when its workings, could only be explained on theory. They were incet-sant in their clamor. They would hear no argument. They would not wait for the practical operation of the law to demonstrate its pood or bad qualities. Tbey made many of their weak-minded readers believe that their taxes would be doubled or trebled, while thoe of the corporations of the state would be reduced. They carried their point for the time being and created a most unjust and unreasonable prejudice against one of the best laws that was ever passed by any Indiana legislature. But a little later a change came. The actual effects of the law besan to be seen and the people began to realize that some very able lying had been done. They found that taxes were not unreasonable. They found that where increase had been made it fell on the rich, who bad managed in various ways to escape taxation before. They found that in many cases there had been an actual reduction of taxes to those who had formerly borne an unfair portion of the burden. They found that many names had been placed on the tax duplicates that were never there before, and that hundreds of thousands of dollars of property had been listed that had never been listed before. They found that for the first time in the history of the state the corporations had been placed on a footing with other taxpayers by rating their property at valuations equivalent to tho valuations of property of other taxpayers. They found that tho corporations whose taxes had been eaid to be reduced were practically the only taxpayers who found it worth while to resist the law. They saw the banks of the state united for that purpose. They Baw telegraph companies, telephone companies, sleepingcar companies, express companies, rapid transit companies and others either paying under protest or refusing to pay at all, and all of them declaring that they would resist the law in ttie courts. The latest move in this line was on Wednesday evening, when the attorneys of leading railroads assembled at tho Bates house in this city to take measures for fighting the law. Among the roads represented were the Nickel Elate, the Mackey lines, tbe Lake Frie & Western, the Terre Haute, tho Yandalia, the Big Four, the Grand Trunk, the Clover Leaf, the reuiisyl vuina lines, the Chicago Sc Erie, tho Monon, and others. Only one representative lifted his voice against the proposed resistance, and he put it on the ground that if this law were overthrown a still more stringent one would bo passed. He was right. The people of this state have had their eyes opened to the injustice they have suffered under the old republican system and they will never rest satisfied under any return to that old system. The corporations of this state must be required to submit to equal and just taxation, and if the supreme court overthrows this law another will be passed, and another, and another, until the ends of justice are accomplished. Nevertheless, the other representatives decided that they would oppose the law, and as the supreme court had withdrawn its permission for the railroad lawyers to take part in the oral argument of the bank case they decided to make their fight separately. This closes the list of the corporations which tho republican press said were benefited by this law. Every one of them is in open resistance to the alleged benefit. Will the republican press explain why they object to being favored by the law? Moreover, this indicates the source of the attacks on the new tax law. The corporations are the authors of those appeals to the oppressed farmer. They are the interested parties who have secured the aid of the organs of monopoly and corporate power to create prejudice against this law which brings them to justice. We invite them to the contest in the courts. We aro waiting for them to show the unconstitutionality of a system which, so far as their objections are concerned, has been in force for years in this state. For years their property has been assessed by a board which did not assess other property, and they have quietly paid taxes under its assessments as long as tiiey were made from one-half to onefourth what they Bhould be. But wo trust there will be no more fighting from ambushno more pretense that this law is oppressive to tho people and favorable to corporations. t Protection for American Labor. The bill which is now before congress or the protection of railway employes is one that ought to receive the Bupport of every member who believes that human life is more valuable than money. Its object is the reasonable protection of the men in their work, and it is in line with the safeguard legislation which has been adopted in other countries and which will certainly be adopted in this country within a few years. The interstate commerce jurisdiction of congress gives it the opportunity to make the requirements as to railroadn. The provisions of the bill apply to methods of braking and coup

ling. As to braking the bill provides, (1), that all locomotives ehall be furnished with power brakes for the driving wheels, and this is required to be done by Jan. 1, 1S9Ö. Of the 27,000 locomotives in U8e in 'the country about 17,000 are already oupplied with these appliances. It next provides that all freight cars shall be provided with a brake for each wheel and for train-brake apparatus that can be worked from the locomotive. All new cars are to be furnished with these when built and all old cars when tent to the ehops for repairs. After Jan. 1, 1807, any railroad engaged in interstate commerce may refuse to haul cars not thus equipped, and after Jan. 1, 1900, they are not io be permitted to haul them. It is obvious that this change could be thus gradually made without material inconvenience to the mads. The importance of it may be judged from the fact that in the year eodinz June 30, lS'JO, there were 050 men

killed and 2.70S injured while manipulating brakes on freight trains. To tbi.i ehould be added numerous accidents thai might have been avoided if trains could have been stopped more quickiy. The second and more important provision of the bill re fera to coupling. It directs each railroad engaged in interstate traffic to file w ith tho interstate commerce commission before July 1, 1803, the form of coupler it prefer. If companies own

ing tiO per cent, of the freight cars in use , agtee on a coupler, or a series of couplers that will work together automatically, the commission is to declare that form or series adopted. After six months from that time every new car is to be furnished with such couplers when built, and old cars when repaired. After Jan. 1, V7, any road may refuse, and after Jan. 1, 19X, no road will be permitted to haul cars not furnished. The importance of this provision is shown daily by reports of men killed or maimed while coupling cars. In the year ending June 30, 1M0, the total number thus injured was 8,211, of whoui 3 .9 were killed outright. It would be a severe reflection on the humanity and morality of the whole countrv if euch a fruitful sourco of injury to life and limb were permitted to continue when there is a simple and reasonable way of ending it. The bill also provides that an employe continuing in the service of a company after he has knowledge that the Jcompany has failed to equip its cars properly shall not constitute contributory negligence. This is a reasonable addition to the bill introduced by Senator George providing that the rule of common employment shall be abolished as a defense in cases where safety couplers are not provided a provision equivalent, eo far as car-coupling is concerned, to the co-employe's liability bill which unfortunately failed of passage in the last legislature. The Society 3tan. Business men are wont to scoff at society and declare they haven't time for such nonsense ; hence, if they are married, their wives carry the burdens of paying the social debts of the whole family and of staying at home from evening receptions where men are expected with their wives. Were it not better lor the business man if he took the time to pa into society? Does not society give to a man as many advantages as the same man gives to society? Society is a great refiner of character. The man who associates with ladies and gentlemen becomes gentle in his manner, refined in conversation and better in his habits than the man who lives for self alone and who declines to make friends. A man cannot swear and talk scandal in the society cf ladies, nor can lie retain his social position and indulge in a series of sprees. If his evenings are taken up with dances, card parties, theaters and calls, be cannot spend them in the saloons. Society, too, demands that he givo proper attention to his attire, and that he be respectful to the ladies, both of which are pood rules for him. The young man coming to the city we would advise to join a club, a church, and above all to po into eociety. If he joins a club and js a dedirable young fellow, he stands a show of beiue asked to dinner by a rich papn with marriageable daughters. Nc . every poor voung man expects to ma r. either a rich girl or a girl of pood family, and how is he to meet her if he haunts his boarding house or the saloon? The company of refined women is an education to a young man who has had few advantages. They will introduce him to music, art and lectures, convert his awkwardness into grace, his brusqueness into gentieness and hia coarseness into refinement. Let us drop this rubbish about the eilliness of society, and introduce our son into social circles as well as our daughter. He need not become an idiot or a dude. He can learn to converse with other people, enjoy respectable social gatherings and the company of refined young ladies, and not lose one whit of his business ability nor manly qualities. To the Editor Sir: Will von please state briefly what effect you think reciprocity will have on the farmers of the United States and vhy you think so? and greatly oblige a young Hoomee. Terre Haute, Ind., March 3. We do not think that reciprocity will have any effect on the farmers cf the United States, except as it may alienate manufacturers who want free raw mate rials from the cause of tariff reform, and eo postpone the day of commercial freedom for farm products. The reciprocity powers of the president extend to five articles, viz., sugar, molasses, coffee, teaand hides. Our trade in them is chiefly with South America and the West Indies, which, together w ith Mexico, are called Latin America. There will be some increase of trade with these countries under either partial or complete reciprocity, but it will be chiefly in manufactured articles. There will be a slight increase of agricultural exports to them, but of no material importance to American farmers. Mr. Foster, former republican minister to Mexico and ardent advocate of reciprocity, estimated that with complete reciprocity we might increase our agricultural exports to Laiin America lOO per cent.. Suppose we do. Our exports have been about $18,000 00 per annum of agricultural products. An increase of that amount is a trifle compared with our total agricultural exports, w hich run from $500,000,000 to $SOO.0O0,O(X) per annum. It is much less than tho annual fluctuation from other causes. It cannot materially affect prices. Latin America does not manufacture to any considerable extent. It is agricultural. It produces its own food, in tho main, and very little gf our food product is in demand there. Food varies with climate. In tropical countries people eubsiet mainly on fruits, vegetables, rice and the like. In polar countries they eat fat meats. In temperate countries they eat grain and lean meats. The food products of different climates are fitted to the needs of the people living in them. Hence the United States must find its market for food products in the temperate zone, and chiefly in the thickly populated countries of Europe. Reciprocity does not atlect our relations with them. The recent treaties with Kuropeau countries for the admission of American meat products have nothing to do wjth reciprocity. They wera due to our meat inspection laws, which removed the objections to our meats made by thoae countries. This was well understood by the negotiators, and

was expressly leclared after the treaties were consummated by Mr. Haliokd, private secretary to the president. Tin: loss of so many supervisors in the late elections in New York is a far more serious thing to the democratic party of that state than is generally understood. Under the constitution of New York, when the state is redietricted, the legislature makes only the senate districts, while the assembly districts are n.ide by the boards of supervisors in the various counties. Of course umler the New York system both sides wiii gerrymander, but as the assemble is the more numerous branch, the republican boards of supervisors will have the advantage iu the game, and the probability is that New York is not "redeemed" so much as it was a few weeks ago. Business marriages, where the bride is a young heiress and the groom a titled foreigner, are too common to attract attention ; but a business marriaee wherein the bride is a half century older than the groom, and where the fortune of a crippled son is at stake, is Etrango enough to form the plot for a good piece of llction. The inheritance at stake was $180,000, but the proom sacrificed himself for $100. which shows tnat he was not a very mercenary young man at all events. However tho cold public, satiated with sensations, may view the wojian's act. it can but admire the mother-love which prompted it.

Whex o pretty girl determines to enter a talking match with a number of young men tho chances are that she will carry off the honors, for woman's most skillful weapon is her tongue. Mis3 E. Jean Nelson of lel'auw, who opened her rosy bps and talked her way into the hearts and minds of the judges Friday night, is worthy of all the honors showered upon her. She is the first lady to represent Del'auw, and the selection has proven that beauty and brains aro triumphant over anv adversaries. tT CETERA. Congressman Johnson of Indiana is said to be the most rapid talker who has ever been heard in Washington, and is the despair of the professional stenographer. There are lots of wives in the world who never know that their husbands are "jovial and whole-souled," except when they see it in the papers: Atchison (Hohe. Henry Arthur Jones, the English playwright, who wroto "The Middleman" and "Tho Jancing Girl," is described as "a long-haired man, of rather short stature, who beneath his soft felt hat and long locks has a fund of original and interesting ideas." Margaret Mather is at least candid in her plea for divorce from her husband. She says that she no longer loves him. If faded love is ever accepted as a reason for untying the matrimonial knot divorce lawyers will have the richest branch of their profession. Okermn college has been enriched by the will of the late Julia Dickinson, a wealthy Michigan lady, with a bequest of $-10,000, one-half of which will be used as an endowment fund for a chair of lady principal and the remainder for the department of physical culture for women. The health of the Baroness BurdettCoutts is anything but promising, and the need of the attention of four doctors during a recent case of chills would indicate that her friends deem it necessary to have every means of professional assistance at her servico Eoas to ward off possible complications. Governor Bussele- of Massachusetts was devoted to athletic sports a few years ago, and by this indulgence managed it various times to break his nose, one finger and both arms. On two other occasions, while yachting, he has been in such peril as to think it was "all up with him." AV" York Tribune. Mrs. Totter Palmer is trying to arrange to have a woman's paper published in connection with tho Cnicago fair and to have it controlled ami published exclusively by women. Politicians and party heelers prophesy that such a venture would boa dismal failure, but Mrs. Palmer and her friends think differently. Bequests of $."0.000 each to the Boston museum, Harvard college and several libraries, made by Mrs. W, S. Appleton of Boston, were conditioned upon her dying without heirs. This little feature of her will seems to have been overlooked by some of the supposed beneficiaries, and great disappointment results from the discovery. A hundred thousand children of Denmark, with penny contribution?, have procured a crown of gold, to b presented to the king and queen on their golden wedding da'. The gift is wrought to represent corn-oars and clover-leaves, and interlaced with a ribbon bearing tha inscription. "The children of Denmark have woven this crown for tbe occasion of the golden wedding of King Christian IX and Queen Louise, on May 22, 1892." Keei a thing seven years and you may find use for it. The captain of a schooner now in port at Baltimore has reason to believe this old proverb. He has been carrying crutches on his vessel for seven years, to be prepared in caje any of his crew should be so disabled as to require them. They are now in use for the first time, and it is the captain himself who is usingthem, he having been crippled in a pale that played havoc with his vessel on her latest voyage. An employe of tho Congo free state writes that he had in his service a black man who was almost always accompanied by an ape, of whom ho was very fond. One day the native appeared without the animal. "What have vou done with your monkey?" asked the white man. "Monkey? Me eat him up." "You ate him! Are monkeys good to eat, then?" "Urn ta?te sarno like white man!" said the nopro, with aa air of keen appreciation. Youth's Companion. This story of Potter Palmer, told by the Chicago Xtnvs, is supposed to date back to the time when he was a poor man. He and his wife were driving down State-st. in a somewhat dilapidated family buggy or.e day, and passed Marshall Field roiling by in a line carriage. Mrs. Palmer viewed the splendid equipage with proper feminine tovetousness. "l'otter,"' said she, "if ever 1 marry again I'll marry a rich man." "No, my dear," replied Mr. Palmer, dryly, "don't do it; you know you did it once and made a failure of it." Rrookvillo American rap. Mr. Roberts, prirate secretary to the governor, is developing quite a taste for otlice. In addition to tho one be now holds he aspires to the secretaryship of the board of world's fair commissioners. Did Mr. Iloberts ever read .Esop's fables? It is rolftted that a dog once lost the bone which he held securely in his mouth by pre jdily plunging into battle for another. The board will strike a blow at a pernicious practice if it will turn down Mr. Boberts.

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Th Ment u( Lltrn Tnn Lon( for Publication in Full "I am a Democrat" is the signature of a gentleman w ho writes from Muucie saying: "The attempt to crtaie the impression that Hill is strong, much less a popular favorite in this city or this county, will deceive nobodv." He says that of the 2,500 democrats in Delaware county not one in ten is for II ill. He adds: "The most conspicuous democrat among j the millions who are still devoted patrons ! of the old school of patriotism, hj reason ; of his courageous character and firm and unselfish devotion to the people's best i interests is.it is needier to state, I i rover j Cleveland a man wlo has an abiding i faith in the people and they tho utmost confidence in him. The demand for bis nomination and re-election is as universal ! among the democratic masses as it was for j Tilden ami Hendricks iu 1SS0. The rar.k and filed" even the New York democracy J will not indorse, much less submit to, the ! Tammanv machine, which is engineered by and fo'r David Bennett Hill. The fact, and it is a serious fact, that thousands of democrats everywhere believe that Mr. Hill is responsible for the defeat of the natioual democratic ticket in his state in ISn-S is sufficient of itself why be should not be nominated in 1S'.I2. If J-onator Hill and his friends wish to be vindicated from that charge of unfaithfulness on their part thero is but one possible way open for tiiem to do so, and that is to join in the almost universal demand of the democratic masses for the renomination and election of G rover Cleveland. Not to do so under the circumstances will tend to strengthen and intensify the belief that Cleveland and Tliurman, and through them the national democracy, were suld out in New York in ls.ss by those who do now, as then, profess to be genuine democrats as, for example, tho New York State Pride, Portland, Ind., takes strong exceptions to Samuel Newcomer's recently exprosed views on the presidential question. He criticises the course of President Cleveland in appointing Thomas L. .lames as postmaster of New York. "State Pride" says: "I can assure Mr. Newcomer that he need have no fears of tho Gray men in Jay or Adams counties selling out to Hili or to Mr, Cleveland cither. A great many believe that to the state of In liana belongs the right to name tbe democratic nominee fur president, and Isaac P. Gravis the man to lead the patty to a glorious victory in the melancholy days of November. "Neither Cleveland nor Hill can carry either New York or Indiana or any other northern state. But with Oray for president and any other good man for vice-president we will carry New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana and the entire West and Northwest." II. F. II., who writes from Plainfield, thinks it essential to party success that both Hill and Cleveland be thrown overboard, though he thinks if Cleveland were elected "he would inaugurate a policy strictly in harmony with the desires of the masses of the people,'' and admires "tho pluck and invincible will power of David B. Hill." K. F. 11. is for Grav and concludes : "Indiana should present a soltd phalanx in his interest at Chicago. State pride demands it; the interest of tho national democracy demands it; there is nothing to lose and much to gain by eolid work from now until the national convention." D. A. Woods of Kokomo, who admires The Sentinel in every other way, says he is "about tired" of its "constant warfare" on Senator Hill. He asks if Hill is a criminal or an immoral man or if The Sentinel can "point to a single act of his personal dishonesty," just as if somebody had charged Mr. Hill with pometning of the port, though so far as The Skntinel knows nobody lias. Mr. Woods thinks he has solved the whole problem and boldly asserts that Hill is a democrat and the editor of The Sentinel is a mugwump. He says the hosts of tho "old guard in Indiana just fairly love Hill. N. G. McIntosh of Newark, Ind., writes: "The people like Cleveland for the enemies he has made. If the leaders stand idly by and allow Tammany hall to sav who shall b j the nominee the people wid also stand bv and see him elected by Tammany. Give us Cleveland, Gray or eome other good man, but nenr nominate Hill." W. J. Hilligoss of Muncie scolds The Sentinel at great length because it has criticised Senator Hill's methods and calls such a course suicidal. Of Mr. Hill he says: "As a lea ier of parties he stands out head and shoulders above any man in the democratic party." Is this an admission that he is not in the democratic party now? HB WANTS CLEVELAND And Givri Ills Reasons for the Faith That Is in Mini. To the Editor Sir: I ehould like to add one more to the list of thoso who believe that Grover Cleveland should be the democratic nominee for president. He has been tborouzhly tried and everybody knows him to be honest, capable, patriotic and possessed of'every qualification necesThe Sham

Every jrood thin?; has its imitators, every genuine articla its counterfeits. The Ammonia and Alum Baking Powders sold over the counters are no more like Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, than the paste is like the real diamond, Or a counterfeit is like one of the old master's genuine paintings. When greedy and merciless manufacturers claim their adulterated and harmful baking powders are as good as Dr. Price's, they know they are not telling the truth. Theso people know they arc destroying the stomachs and the complexion of the consumers, and there are many grocers recommending such powders over their countersknowing same to be injurious and worthless simply to make a large profit Dr. Price, a ccncicntious physician, has spent a litetim3 in perfecting and popularizing his Cream Baking Powder, the only Pure Cream Tartar Powder now to be obtained. Multitudes of imitators all over the land have sprung uft not to imitate tho purity of Price's Cream Baking Powder, but to see how cheap they could make their counterfeits and hoodwink the public. Some use Ammonia and others Alum, but all these shams cry in chorus, "Buy this, its just as good as Dr. Price's and much cheaper. Price's Cream Baking Powder is the standard for purity end perfection the world over, and is beyond comparison. Dr. Price stands for Pure Food and a foe to all shams.

sary for a lea ier of the masses against the classes. Mr. Cleveland has incubated the tariif reform chicken, and nov said chicken ha grown to be a democratic rooster of huge proportions, eo much bo that all other issues should I e loit sifcht of entirely until tho tariff is adjusted, lam conscientiously opposed to anyone, and especially David B. Hill, Isaac P. Gray r envbody else stepping in and trying t mother this rooster at this time. I think it is altogether unfair. There is no justice in it and it is wholly unpolitic. Why should we desert, a just man and a just cause to espouse the cause of a handful of selfish politicians, the bight i whose atirutions is snifiish aggrandizement? My motto is stand firm by Cirovei Cleveland, for lie has made the best president the I'nited States evtr had, and il nominated by the convention can and will be elected. The disgraceful blockj of-ivo system inaugurated by the reouhs licans to carry the state of Tn liana by illegal votes has been suppressed by om Australian system of voting, ..nd Judge Woods has been held np to public gxza for the part he played in the scheme until I don't think anvone envies him his position. I say nominate Mr. Cleveland and let us have a fair election and honest count and we will have a glorious democratic victory this fall. Emmett Lang ton. Raysville, Ind., Feb. io. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.

Isanc D. Johnson's Family Troubles Drive Him to Suicide. Isaac B. Johnson, a well-known man in this city and county, killed himself Fri day morning at ." o'clock. Mr. Johnson was the junior partner oi the agricultural implement firm of llowland Johnson, 7-" YV. Washington-st., atid lived on his farm four miles north of the city. He was at his place cf business as usual Thursday, going to 1. is home late in the afternoon. No one was there save his hired man. D. M. Layman, with whom Mr. Johnson left instructions to be called at 5 o'clock. Before retiring .Mr. Johnson had toid Layman that he was feeling badly and would have killed himself at the ofhee if he had had a pistol. Thc-y talked together awhilo, and when Johnson went to his room he seemed to. feel better. In the morning, when Layman called him he received no answer, and oa enter ing the room found John&on in a dyin& condition on his bed, the blood oozing from a bullet wound in his head. The wounded man died in a few minutes. The cause ior the deed is alleged to have been family troubles. On Tuesday Mr. Johnson's wib came to this city, staying with her sister Miss Overholser, and proposing to institute divorce proceedings, the grounds of which were infidelity. It is re ported that Johnson was intimate with a married woman in the city. However, ai that may be, the matter was arranged bt-tween Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, it being understood that there would bo a separa tion. These are what are supposed to be the primary causes for the act. Mr. Johnson was forty-nine years old and lived on the farm all hia life, his lather, James Johnson, having settled there in 123. March 3. 1-Ys, the son became Mr. Holland's partner in tho implement business. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Jane Scudder, and after her death about twelve years Hkro he married Miss Helen Overhoiser. He leaves one sou by his first marriage. John 11. Johnson, who is a ciork in tho office of the firm named, and three brothers, James and John Johnson of this city and Jesse Johnson of St. Louis. Tho latter is the manwhoßhot his wife and himself on the Circle a few years ago. Both recovered from their injuries and are living together in St. Louis. Two sisters also survive the deceased, Mrs. Canada Holmes of this city and Mrs. Buey Hoitshire of Lebanon. Mr. Johnson received a fracture of the skull in In.', by an accident, and this ia slid to hav affected his mind. Mr. llowland, the business partner of Mr. Johnson, said last night that he had not tho slightest knowledge of the deceased having had any family troubles. Coroner Marker viewed the body yesterday and wid begin the taking of testimony today, though ho has not thus fat been" ablo to obtain any thing that will definitely lis tho cause ot the suicide. WRECK ON ILLINOIS CENTRAL Fireman Fatally Hurt and Over Forty Head of t attle Killed. New Orleans, L3., March 10. Passenger trains arriving on the Illinois Central railway, due in this c'ty last evening, were over eight hours late, the delay bein caused by a serious wreck on the line between Martinsviiie and llazleluirst, Miss. The accident, w hich was caused by a headend collision of the two freights, resulted iu th; fatal injury of the fireman, severe injury to Conductor Olford. slight injury to the two engineers, the complete demolition of two locomotives and the destruction or serious damage to nine freight cars and the killing of forty head of cattle. and the Real.

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