Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, AFRII, 20, 1892 TWELVE PAGES.

KDIAXA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. 'Tstcrcdat tie PoitoSice at IndWnspoli u Mcond clftAs matter.

TERMS PER YEAR f Irr le eopv (InTtriably rn AUranc.) ..... l OO We ask democrats to rtr in tiind and wlt-ct th. ir (tu state rap1' when they come to täte sub.cripticEand make up clula. gents making up clubs i;nj for utit Information ieiired. AddcuTIlL INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1S92. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. ISDIAXArOLIS SENTINEL COMPABT: We received tho "Kncyclopiedia Iiritannica all right, and are highly pleased with it. It is much more than I expected, and lf certainly a very excellent work- Please accept onr thanks. Yours respectfully, Lesteb L. Allison. Malott Tark, April 2. To THE Editor .Sir;' Having been In possession of thercvised Encyclopaedia JJritannica about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel at the extrem low price that you furnish It at. Being a student I lind it of great henellt to me in the solution of a great many perplexing" questions. I believe that all young rentiers or "The Sentinel" should have it, and many thanks 'to you for having been the medium through which I have oeen made ablo to procure so useful a book, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of money. William P. Farr. Lamong, Ind., Feb. 20. Each day representative Cooper's vindication from the charges made by Commissioner Kau is becoming mora com plete, Wednesday the republican members tf the investigating committee, including Representative Payson, counsel for Raum, declared their belief in Mr. Cooper's honesty and entirely exonerated him from any blame in the "status" matter. On the ether hand the evidence of Raum's crookedness continues to accumulate. Yesterday new developments were made in regard to bis relations with Tension Shark Lemon, while some interesting matters were brought to light in connection with the conspiracy to injure Mr. Cooper. Altogether it was a pretty bad day for Raum. Maryland will send a solid delegation lo the Chicago convention for Cleveland. tenator Gorman, who is one of the shrewdest politicians in the country and who is quick to catch the drift of public sentiment, has come to the conclusion that Mr. Cleveland is the strongest man the democrats can name, and will go to Chicago to help nominate him. The list of democrats who have had themselves been talked of for the presidency and who have indorsed Cleveland now includes Russell of Massachusetts, Gorman of Maryland, Pattison of Pennsylvania, Campbell of Ohio, Palmer and Morrison of Illinois, Carlisle of Kentucky, Dickinson of Michigan, Boies of Iowa and Vilas of Wisconsin. The names of Hill of New York and Gray of Indiana ought to appear in the list. Probably tho meanest and moat contemptible thing Green 13. Raum has done since he became commissioner of pensions and that is saying a eood deal was his attempt to "set np a job" oa Representative Cooper and compromise that gentloman. Racm went on the theory that every public man, like himself, was "on the make." I3nt Mr. Cooper, not being a rascal, did not fall into Uaum's trap. His vindication is complete. ' Every member cf the investigating committee, democrat ni republican, entirely exonerates him. The cheap perjurers w hom Raum pent before the committee to blacken Mr. Cooper's reputation will, it is to be hoped, be severely dealt with. .So far as Mr. Cooper is concerned the Fifth congressional district will take care of him. It will re-elect him to congress by a larger majority than Le has ever yet received. Ax Indianapolis physician, in a paper read at St. Louis last week,deinonstrated by unmistakable figures that, contrary to tho general impression, suicide is no more frequent in Indiana than in other states. Indeed, the percentage of self-destroyers in this state is below the average the country over. There is reason in this latter condition, too. Absolute poverty is scarcely known in Indiana anywhere, and Indianapol i a, the metropolis, is noted the world over for the uniform prosperity and happiness of her people. Taking these things into consideration it is remarkable that people ever contemplate leavinz and eoing West or South to better their condition. And it is gratifying to know that the state la constantly being better appreciated at borne. The number who leave to make their fortunes elsewhere is steadily diminishing, and those who make fortunes Lere seldom find any more attractive place to spend them. Taken in every way . Indiana is a good state there is no better and Indianians would do well to bear that fact always in mind and accept every chance to proclaim it to the world. That was a very touching, story that same over the wires th other day. It told how Mrs. Garfield had secured the promise of the president to appoint Cyrus W. Field, jr., to a consular ollice because Lis father, who is now broken in health and fortune, bad been largely instrumentai in raising a fund of $."00,000 for her on her husband's death. This was gratitude, indeed. But up on a poor little farm near Grand Kapids, Mich., lives, or rather exist3, Thomas A. Garfield, aged sixty seven, who Las remained poor all Lis life because of early sacrifices made for Lis great brother and for tho simple inded Grandma Garfield. Thomas became the support of the G ap.fi eu family when be was but ten years old, the father dying and leaving them nothing but a farm. The boy left his district school and took up hi father's work. It was a hard scramble for bread, and sister, mother und brother all learned what it was to spl.trails. Thomas chopped wood for 25 cents a cord and worked all winter at this rate. James was the baby then. Later tbey all scraped and saved to help r,ay Jimmy's way at the Chester academy. When the war broke out Thomas tried to enlist with bis brother James, but the recruiting officer rejecteJ Lim and be remained at home. In 18;7 be began life for himself, having spent thirty j ers in working lot LLs mother, brother

and sister. He is not in the best of health, and it will probably be but a short time before the old pioneer will be laid away in the woods he loves 60 welL When Mrs. Garfield gets in another grateful mood she might do well to look after the wants of her impoverished brother-in-law but for whose heroic sacrifices her husband would not have been so illustrious that a $300.000 f and would have been given to his widow. We Are All Democrats. For two or three weeks a friendly discussion has been going oa among the democrats of Indiana, through their press and otherwise, touching the presidential question. The republican newspapers have, of course, made desperate efTorts to force the discussion beyond the lines of a fraternal interchange of views and to stir up discord and factional ßtrife in the ranks of the democracy. They recognize the fact that, as against a united democracy, Harrison, handicapped as he is by McKinleyism, forcebillism and billiondollarism, will have no chance of carrying the state. Their aim, therefore, has been, and is, to foment discord among the democrats and pet them to waste their ammunition upon each other instead of discharging it at the common enemy. We are sorrv for our republican friends, but the fact is that they have been making a miscalculation. The democrats of Indiana'are not eoing to accommodate them bygettingintoan unseemly wrangle among themselves. As a matter of fact, good democrats never so truly love one another as they do upon the heels of a spirited family argument. The danger that the democrats of Indiana would get bo worked up over tho presidential ques

tion that they would not be able to present a solid front to the enemy in the coming battle has not, at any time, in our opinion, been serious. But if such dan ger has existed, even in a slight degree, it has passed away. The fact is that such differences as have existed have not been very pronounced and are found, upon inquiry, to be easily reconciled. Governor Gray and hia closest friends agree with the warmest supporters that Mr. Cleveland has in Indiana, that tariff reform must be the ' issue in the approaching campaign, and that upon such issue Mr. Cleve land is the logical candidate of the democratic party. On the other band Mr. Cleveland's most ardent supporters agree with Guvernor Gray's stanchest advocates that, if Mr. Cleve land's nomination should prove to be inexpedient the Indiana man ia as available as any person talked of for the presidency, and is entitled to, and should receive, the earnest and persistent Bupport of the Indiana delegation at Chicago. In other words, the Indiana democracy is ready, with the hearty assent of Governor Gray, to join with Massachusetts. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Wis consin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and other states in nominating Mr. Cleveland But if there is to be a contest, and if Illinois is to press Palmer, and Iowa is to press Boies, and Kentucky Carlisle, etc., then Indiana is to take a hand and demand the nomination of Governor Gray', who is certainly, everything considered, the strongest west?rn man that could be nominated. The Sentinel has advocated, and still advocates. Mr. Cleveland's nomination, because it believe that he embodies the commanding issue of the campaign as no other man does or can do. But it Las said, and says again, that if. for any reason, Mr. Cleveland should not be nominated, a western man will be, and ought to be, and that there is no other western man so availabe a Governor Gray. A meeting of tho state central committee held Thursday was followed by an informal conference, participated in by a number of representative "Cleveland men" and "Gray men." This conference developed a practical unanimity of sentiment as to tho course the state convention should pursue. The conference was not prearranged. No attempt was made to dictate or forestall the action of the state convention, and of course there was no idea of committing any person who 'was not present to the line of action agreed upon. But there was such a ready agreement upon the course that should be pursued that it is believed when the representatives of the party from all over the state como together they will be certain to quick'y reach like conclusions. Tho convention will, we have no doubt, select a delegation to Chicago which will honestly reflect tho sentiment of the state, and we be lieve that sentiment found accurate expression yesterday. Indiana etands ready to join with her sister states in naming Mr. Cleveland for president. But, if there is to be a "free fight,' then she will name her champion, ask only "a fair field and no favors," go in to win, and "may the devil take the hind moet." Indiana and tho Presidency. Indiana will stand up at Chicago and be counted for Mr. Cleveland' nomination. If it develops that Mr. Cleveland cannot be nominated as he cannot be, under the two-thirds rule, unless be is the decided choice of the con ventionthen Indiana will make tho best right possible for Governor Gray. Mean time his name will have been placed before the convention as that of a suitable person for the presidential office. This ii what the agreement made by the Cleveland and Gray men who met in conference on Thursday mean, and all that it means. No other construction can be placed upon it, and no other construc tion will be placed upon it by any person who participated in that conference. Of

course no agreement of this kind is or can be in any sense- binding upon the state convention. It will go before that body only as a recommendation, but having been unanimously indorsed by the state central committee and the executive committee, accepted by ex-Governor Gray and his most trusted advisers, and agreed to by some of the most active supporters of Mr. Cleveland, it ought to carry a great deal of weight, and we think it will. Every man who agreed to it is bound to use Lis best effort to secure its adoption by the convention, and to see that, having been adopted, it is carried out in the most absolute good faith by the delegation to Chicago. The language of the resolution as agreed to at the conference is perfectly plain, and is susceptible of but one construction. It will bo urged In tho interest of unity and democratic success. Men of character will no doubt be selected as delegates at large men who are incapable of evasion or trickery, or sharp practice of any kind. Care should be taken to select none but men of the same stripe as district delegates. The plain and unmistakable sentiment of the democracy of Indiana must be represented at Chicazo. It will be. The delegates will be made up of true democrats and honorable men friends of Gkover Cleveland and friends of Isaac P. Gray. No man will be selected as a delegate who is for Hill, or for anybody ehe except Cleveland or Gray. Indiana will for once go into a national democratic convention in such an attitude as to count for something. She will go there prepared to co-operate witli the democrats from other states in the nomination of tho logical candidate; or, if for any reason the convention shall reject the logical candidate, then Indiana will be in shape to make the best possible fight for her own man. Tho ticket is going to be either Cleveland and Gray or Gray-and somebody else, and in either event Indiana will, for the first time in a generation, help to name it. Tho Mnsk Thrown OCT. The German Telegraph of this city Las produced an editorial on the presidential question which follows the expressed views of the anti-Cleveland democrats of Indiana so closely that it may reasonably be supposed to be inspired. The nature of its attack on Mr. Cleveland will be seen from the following extracts, which wegivo as translated by the Indianapolis Journal, the organ of the anti-Cleveland

party in this city: How did Cleveland treat tho late lamented Thomas A. Hendricks, already a statesman of note when the opinionated iNew l orker was vet in the hanging busi ness amonzst the Bufialonians? Whenever Hendricks asked anything for hia friends in Indiana, civil service reform, in other cases so frequently ignored, was used as a pretext for refusal, and it was only after much procrastination and de lay that Hendricks succeeded in getting the postmaster be wanted in his own city of Indianapolis. And yet it was Indiana which had done much better for Cleve land in 1SS4, and did better for him even in 1S8, than his own state of New York. After Hendricks' demise Cleveland transferred his unfounded animosity to Governor Gray", thus showing that it was our noble state to which ho wanted to testify his gratitude in this ignoble manner. At hid instance Gray was downed for vice-president in 1SS8, and old Thurm an, who could not carry Ohio, was resurrected to till the second place on Cleveland's ticket. And yet the democracy of Indiana fought with enthusiasm for Cleveland, even then. But there is a limit to the endurance of humiliations and insults, offered in place of duo, grateful acknowledgment a limit winch the ollended party cannot overstep without becoming contemptible. Cleveland vents his spleen against Indianaand Gray even now indeclaring that he would rather have Palmer, or the defeated Camphell, or Boies, or Vilas for vicepresident on his ticket thanGitAYof Indiana, who, he savs, could not carry New York on account of some know-nothing utterances made three decades ago, if report t-peaks true. This from Cleveland, who himself could not and cannot carry New York, though his home state, is rich indeed, but entirely consonant with his well-known attitude toward the democracy oi Indiana. Will the latter, in their con vention of April 21, nevertheless recom mend Cleveland, instead of Gray, for the presidency, and thereby impliedly declare that they hold Gray not even worthy of the vice-presidency? Will they, for Cleveland'? sake, throw their free-coinage platform overboard? ill they lick the hand which struck them in the face and gave them punishment for well-deserved reward? ill they by so doing make an end forever of all their claims for national recognition? The nomination of Cleveland means not only the defeat of the national democracy, but the defeat of our democratic state ticket, with a com plete repetition of the election four years ago. We do not believe that Mr. Cleveland's nomination would produce defeat in In diana or the nation, as here predicted, nor do we think that any reasonable man believes that Mr. Cleveland has any such absurd prejudice against Indiana as here presented. It is certain, however, that this articie breathes the very spirit of the anti-Cleveland movement in this state, That spirit is not one of desire for bar mony, nor is it a product of state pride. nor is it one of personal regard for Mr, Gray. It is, to a considerable extent, a matter of hatred to Cleveland by some politicians who were not favored by him as they desired to be Most of them were originally Hill men, who advocated giving India to Gray' for the purpose of keeping it from Cleveland. They watched with infinite pleasure the swelling of the Tammany fetich, mistaking inflation for growth, and when he passed his limit and burst, they still cling to Governor Gray' as a means of holding the state from the man whom nine-tenths of the Indiana democrats want. At tho present time nothing in the future can be more certain than that G rover Cleveland will be the nominee of the democratic party. Even those who have opposed him, who are not wholly blinded by their prejudice, now concede this. The astute Mr. Gorman recognizes the inevitable and puts Maryland in line for the tariff reform leader. From every part of the country comes tho assurance that tho peop'le want Cleveland and that the politicians see the folly of opposing the popular demand. At thin time an alleged democratic paper finds it desirable to make this bitter personal attack on the prospective candidate of the party. Why? Certainly not in th'j interest of harmony. The reason is plain as noonday. The object is. to control the state convention and sendjro Chicazo. not a Gray delegation, but l antl.

Cleveland delegation ; not a delegation J

willing to give a complimentary vote to the Indiaaa man, and then support the man whom the state really wants, but a delegation that will unite with tho Hill following in a desperate endeavor to beat Cleveland under the two-thuds rule. We ask every man in Indiana who be lieves that Cleveland is the logical candidate, and the strongest candidate for Indiana, to rer.d the above extracta carefullv and say if we do not interpret them correctly. With that fact in view is any Cleveland man ready, to put the voting strength of the slate into the hands of Mr. Cleveland's opponents for the sake of a mere compliment to Governor Gray ? Are you willing that a small minority of the democrats of Indiana ßhall speak for the wholo party, and speak in known defiance cf the wishes of the largo majority? That is the present issue. TnE Sentinel desires harmony, and will do anything reasonable to secure it, but it does not believe in a harmony that consists of the surrender of a large majority to a small minority. The majority is entitled to some courtesy and some consideration in the democratic party. Capital Punishment. The rather discouraging results reached by the authorities of New York in the execution of criminals by electricity have greatly encouraged the opponents of the death penalty to a renowed attempt to influence the members of the legislature, now in session in Albany, to abolish capi tal punishment. A ineasum looking to this end was dis cussed at Albany two years ago, and tho proposition obtained more than a twothirds vote in the lower hoiiEO. This large support at the time was probably owing to the effects upon the public mind of several bungling executions by the rope which had occurred previous to the introduction of the measure into the legislature. The Philadelphia J'resf, in discussing the general proposition to abolish the death penalty, says: Statistics on the subject are ncf very full or trustworthy. There aro three Northern states which do not inflict capital punishment for murder. They are Maine, Rhode Island and Michigan. Since 1S-J Maine has hung only eight murderers. Hanging baa always been unpopular in the state, and, although at times the law has given the governor power to infiict capital punishment, it has been U6ed rarefy. But statistics show that the number of murders has steadily increased and the records show that over thirty murderers are serving life sentences in the state prisons. No person has been hung in Rhode Island since 1 84but the present law, which restricts capital punishment to those who commit murder while serving a life sentence, was not passed until 1S"i2. It is doubtful if murders have decreased any in proportion to the growth of population, but it is thought that more convictions have been secured than would have been possible if banging was in use. If newspaper statements are trustworthy capital crimes have increased in Michigan, the third state which does not hang for murder. In the years 1S87 and 1SSS there were 107 murders committed in that state and forty convictions were secured. The question of returning to hanging is agitated every legislative session and receives much popular support. In foreign lands statistics go to show that murders have decreased with the abolition of the death penalty. Two years ago the following was published by the New York Sun : Belgium No executions since 1803. Number of murders ten years before, 021 ; ten years after, 703. Finland No executions since 1821. Murders extremely rare. Holland Capital punishment abolished 1S70, with decrease in murders, despite increase of population. Switzerland Abolished 1874. Since reinstated by two or three cantons. Prussia From 1809-78 out of 434 condemned to death only one execution (Hodol). Portugal Capital punishment abolished. Roumania Abolished. Tuscany No execution for fifty years. Russia Capital punishment retained only for treason and military insubordination. In these countries the death penalty is in use so rarely that it may almost be said to be discontinued. Austria From 1870-79 of 80G death sentences sixteen executions. Norway From 18CI-7S of fourteen sentences three executions. Sweden From lSt)!-78 of thirty-two sentences three executions. Protection Against Cyclones. A reliable meteorological bureau would be very valuable, to farmers perhaps more especially, but more or less to nearly every class of citizens. We use the word reliable not in any carpinz or fault-finding sense. The government is probably doing its best toeetabiiah reliable meteorological stations and to secure reports that may be depended upon. .The system or science ia as yet in rather a crude state, although when we look back a few years the progress made in this direction is rather astonishing. Dr. William D. Gentry of Chicago, whose alleged discovery of the grip microbe was announced when the disease was unusually prevalent, seems to be a gentleman of brains and observation. Ho atone time lived in Kansas, and on a recent visit to New York City a reporter of that city had a talk with him which cmbraced an extensive and interesting reference to the cyclones and tornadoes which recently swept through Kansas and some other sections with such deadly effect. The doctor does not hesitate to say that the people might have been informed of the origin and progress of the storms, and that nany lives might have been spared Lad we a more perfect system of meteorological observation and signals than the government now provides. He pointed nut the untoward results that would nat urally follow tho placing in charge of meteorological reports soldiers of inex perience, who lack the proper know! edgj of electricity, and who are ignorant as to how a knowledge of its presence in the atmosphere can be ascertained. He suszested a remedy for all this, and that was to put practical electricians in charge instead of soldiers. An electrician or a telegrapher can de termine better by the spring of his arma ture before the magnet, and by reports from offices along the line, where and when a change or the formation of a storm takes place, and can 'give a more reliable statement as to the condition of the weather at any given point and prognosticate Low it will be at any distant point In the iLn of observation at another Lour, than

any other person. I?r. Gentry in eleabor- ' ating his ideas more fully eaid: "The j interference of atmospheric electricity , with that from the battery wliich supplies : the wires for operating a a telegraph, and j the operator's ability to at all times know the condition of the weather at all points -; nlong the lino which he works, enables j him to make accurate reports to the cen- j tral testing etation if required. If an j agent of tho government, being an expert j electrician and telegrapher, is placed at j each central testing station, with power j to make reports at any time when a change in the weathar has taken place, and to ! report the direction, progress, extent and culmination of such change, the people interested in such chango can be quickly informed if there is any danger threatening them." This might have been done in the track of the recent cyclone, and the people would have been able to protect themselves had operators along the line notified these east of them that the storm was on the wing. No such provision has ever been made by tho government, and it is a point well worth urging. Mr. McKinlcy's Tariff and tho Workiugtncn. Maj. McKinley, in his recent speeches in Rhode Island, declared that the tariff for which he stands sponsor, but of which Senator Aldkicii was the author, had greatly benefited the workingmen of tho country. The Eecretary of the iron and steel association is on record as saying that the McKinley tariff is "tho meet harmonious and completely protective of all the metal schedules ever formed, and adequately protects the manufacturer's interests." An interesting commentaiy upon these assertions is found in the following lists of recent reductions in wages in the iron and steel industries of the country, compiled by the New York Times: Reading, Pa., Jan. 26. Yesterday tho reduction in the wages of the employes of the Brooke iron company at Birdsboro, this county, announced some time ago, took effect, and all the puddlers, heaters and other employes continued at work excepting some of the nail feeders. The firm employs nearly four hundred hands. Jhdide phia Ledger (rep.), Jan. 27, 1S92. The wages of the puddlers in the employ of the Chesapeake nail works at Harrisburg, Fa., have been reduced from 4 per day to $3.00 per dav, taking ettect on the 15th inst. Iron Ag Ftb. 18, 1S92. On the same day a reduction in wages varying from 7 to 11 per cent, went into effect at the Central irou works, Harrisburg, Pa. Iron Age, Feb. IS, 1892. The puddling department of the Central iron works at Harrisburg, Pa., shut down Saturday night, throwing between two hundred and three hundred men out of employment. The men would not accept the reduction. Boston Commercial Bulletin, Feb. 20, 181)2. Cofrode iSl Saylor of the Reading rolling mill at Reading.Pa., on Thursday night notified their employes of a 10 per cent, reduction of wagos, to take effect next week. This firm employes about 630 men. Iron Age, Feh. 25, 1832. Alto by Awicialed Brest, Feb. 10. Early last week the Jefferson iron works of Steubenville, 0., notified their nailers of a reduction in wages amounting to 25 per cent. This was afterward withdrawn. Iron Age, Feb. 2-3, 1S9-'. The Columbia iron and steel company of Pittsburg, whose plant is located at Uniontown, Ta., have made a demand for a reduction of 25 per cent, in tho wages of their employes. Iron Age, Feb. 25, 18Ü2.

The I ottsville, Pa., iron and 6teel com pany will reduce tho wages of its G00 employes at Pottsville 10 per cent. Boston Commercial UuJeUn, lib. L'O, vM. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 28. Following the discharge of the puddlers from all the furnaces at J. Painter's Sons' mills last week came the diemissal of 200 puddlers on Sat urday by Jones x Laughlin. There is but one thing to do, and that will be to reduce the wages of puddlers. Spe cial I)i$iatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.), Ftb. 20, 1802. It has been definitely decided by the tin-plate manufacturers that wages on black plates must bo reduced. Special Dispatch from BitUburg to the rluladclphici Frets (rep.), March 2, 1S02. We caa state that all the nail factories in tho Pittsburg district are being operated under private arrangement with theirmen as regard wazes to bo paid for cutting nails. While it is true reductions have recently taken place at one or more mills, the men have do recourse in the matter. Iron Age, March 3, 1S02. "The 'harmony' of the schedule," says the Hon. W. L. Wilson, "must be something ravishing to the ears of the workingman. All the music seems to be on a einglo string. Several Indiaua towns, including Muncie and Alexandria, have committees in Ohio explaining the advantages offered by those towns to manufacturers. This is the right thing to do. Indiana has the right location and the natural advantages to make it one of the greatest manufacturing etates in the union. Especially does Indiana offer unexcelled faciiities to the makers of farming implements and agricultural supplies. She has plenty of cheap fuel in inexhaustible supply, for if natural gas should give out there is an abundance of coal, llcr native woods for manufacturing purposes are not equaled anywhere the world over; transportation to the great agricultural districts of the country is eaey sod cheap. All theso things point clearly to Indiana's deetiny as the greatest manufacturing state west of the Aileghenies. Here, in Indianapolis, we should like to have these factories if we could cet them, but if the smaller towns of the state prove themso'ves the better hustlers and capture tho prizos wo shall not be altogether sad, for whatever advances the prosperity of the state proves beneficial to the state's greatest city. Elsewhere we publish an extract from our esteemed contemporary, the Great Yarmouth Mercury, which will prove of great interest to biblical ptrict constructionists like the Rev. Mr. 'Jasper of "sun do move" fame. According to our veracious contemporary the experience of Mr. James Bartley clearly establishes tho absolute praticability of Jonah's involuntary sequestration though the details given by Mr. Bartley would not tend to popularize such journeys as bo took. Wo believe no mention is made of any evil effects on Jonah's cuticle arising from tho action thereon of the whale's gastric juices. But this may reasonably be attributed to the fact that the reporters of that early day did not possess that mastorly grasp of detail so characteristic ot their nineteenth ceutury descendants; or it may be that Jonah's whale was afflicted with chronic dyspepsia and could not procure pepsin at the local drug stores. But in the light of Mr. Bartley's exJ perience a'l theso little obstructiv

minutia are brushed aside, and Jonah emerges triumphant from the dark cloud of doubt which has so long surrounded him and his whale story.

It is difficult to comprehend the extent of the robbery of the people by the HUgar trust under the provisions of the McKinley law, oa the increased profit on each pound is so small. The New York Bulletin demonstrates the magnitude of the steal, by use of actual results, as follows: The present price of raw sugar, IX)0 centrifugal, is 3 cents per pound, and that of refined sugar, granulated, is 4 cents. Tho difference is 1 cents. The cost of refining does not exceed f cent, eothat there is a net profit of cent per pound, or $2.03 per barrel, which amounts to $25.5'-3,0O0 on a minimum yearly production of 12.000,000 barrels. The" actual value of the sugar trust properties is about $35,G00,0CO, so that the rate of profit on actual valuation is 73.08 per cent. After paying 7 per cent, on the $37,500,000 of preierred stock and 6 per cent, interest on the 10.000.000 of bonds, the above rate of profit would yield 50.ö per cent, on the common stock. The decrease of revenue on 6ugar for eight months has been $11,295,51$, but after deducting the bounty to domestic cane growers and the extra profits to the trust it will be difficult to find the profit to the people. ET CETERA. Ex-Governor and ex-Senator Booth of I California is hopelessly ill in Sacramento, j He married hia former housekeeper about : a month ago. j Ms. Claus Spreckels departure for California with 57,000,000 of the sugar trust's money in his inside pocket seems to show that it pays to be enterprising, persistent, and grasping. Jay Gould writes from Texas that be will be Lome in May and hopes to be able to get to work with Lis old-timo energy. Then the other fellows better take to the woods in April. Senator Geokge F. Hoar is going to Europe within a month, to be gone until after the presidential election. He wid do this by the advice of hia physician in order to save his eyesight. Cap Martin, where the ex-Empress Eugenie's new villa is to bo erected, is situated about two miles from the frontier of Monaco, between Monte Carlo and Mentone. It forms part of the territory which tho prince of Monaco in 1S54 sold to tho French government for $800,000. Oscar Wilde has a wonderfully good memory when other people's jokes are concerned. One day when Whistler made one of his excruciatingly tunny remarks Oscar murmured: "Ah! how good! I wish I Lad said that." And Whistler replied: "You will, Oscar! You will!" Mrs. Hutchins, the New Jersey widow whose husband left his whole property of 530,000 to Henry George, has been taken to tho poor house. She contested the will and lost even her dowry to the lawyers. The lawyers also got all but about $580 of the $30,000 that was to go to Mr. George. Will Paderewski come back? He will. Once these foreign artists learn the trick of taking $75,000 home from the United States it seems t grow on them and become a settled habit. Paderewski has the habit now, and is likely to come over every year for his little injection of American gold. It is pointed out that the year 1819, the year of Whitman's nativity, was a year of great babies. John Ruskin, James Russell Lowell, Charles Kingsley, J. G. Holland, Cyrus W. Field and Julia Ward Howe, not to mention Queen Victoria, are among the great ones whom that year ushered into the world." Senator Morrill lives in a modest fashion in Washington, though comfortably circumstauced. He ia temperate and regular in bis habits and a model of method and industry. A Washington correspondent says that with advancing age he ia coming to resemble Charles Sumner greatlv in appearance and is rather proud of iU IOWA LEGISLATURE TAKES A HAND In Trying to Protect tho People Against tho Cao of Ammonia and Alum In Baking Powders. Dea Molnca Jfews.J A bill for an act to prevent the adulteration of baking powder with ammonia and alum has been introduced in both senate and legislature of this state, imposing proper penalties to enforce the law, etc. Both branches having previously' passed resolutions asking congress to pass tho pure food bill now before congress. This shows an earnest desire on the part of our representatives to protect their constituents. Following is a partial list of the names of the brands that have been examined and found to contain either alum or ammonia: Calmut, Climax, Royal, Chicago Yeast, Forest City, Zipp's Economy, Taylor's Unrivaled, "Rocket, Globe, Silver Star, Eddy & Eddy's, Grant's Bon Bon, Hotel, Kenton and many other oranas. Pure cream of tartar baking powders can be obtained. Many of the highest authorities have singled out and recommended Dr. Price's Cream baking powder for both purity and wholesomeness.

Ammonia and Alum Officially Condemned. INDIANAPOLIS IN THE WAKE OF OTHER CITIES.

Br. Price's Cream Baking Powder is Pure. IT CONTAINS NO DELETERIOUS INGREDIENTS. (See Report of Indianapolis Eoard cf Ilealth, on Baking Powder November 4, 1351.)

AMMONIA AND ALUM NOT FITTED FOR FOOD. Dr. Latz chemist to the Board cf Health, who made the investigation of the Baking Powders on the market, at the request of the Board says: "Physiologists of high standing consider Ammonia and Alum deleterious substances unfitted for use in food." These are the brands condemned bv the Board of Health : Royal, Climax, Atlantic and Pacific, Kenton, Crown, Sea Foam, Bon Ben, Early Rising, Queen, Regal, Ruckclhaus, Forest City, Calumet. ' Dr Latz, City Chemist also says: "Dr. Price's Baking Powder, contains only such ingredients as a Pure Baking Powder ought to be composed of and I recommend the same to every housekeeper as pure, wholesome and effective." (Signed) Peter Latz, City Chemist.

ABOUT WATCHES.

"What the State Sentinel Can Do for You and Where the Reader Can Save 3Ioncy. Everybody knows that there is a f called watch tru-t for the purpose of keeping up prices, alo to keep newspapers from handling them. The Sentinel, however, has been able to get ahead of the trust, and is enabled to furnish fma filled gold watches at wholesale prices. A filled case for all practical purposes ia just sm good as a Eoiid ;old watch. It will weir a life-time, and in case of its being sto'en the loss is not so great. some of our bargains. No. 5. Size No. IS Liberty (engineturned) case. New York standard move ment, will wear ten years, $12.25. No. S. Size No. 6. Liberty (or American) engraved case. Dorot movement (Swiss), seven jewels, ?12. No. 14. Size No. 18. Box case, Loui3 XIV sty e, Walthain or Elgin moyemeut. seven jewels, $10.75. The e watches are sold by retail dealers at from $30 to $35. No. 10. ifize No. IS. Walibam or Elgin movement, seven jewels (engineturned), Moutauk case, $18. This watch would cost from $2a to $35 at jewelry stores. No. 17. Size No.'lS. Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, beautifully engraved Montaus case, $18. This watch would cost from $2S to $05 at jewelry stores. No. 18. Size No. 18. Monarch case, twenty-one years' guarantee, 14 carat, Walthain movement (ecgine-turned), $2't.25. No. 19. Size No. IS. Monarch case, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin move ment, $21.50. No. 20. Size No. IS. Monarch case, with wide Vermicelli border and engraved renter, Waltham movement, seven jewels, $23. This is the fines; watch we or.er and is well worth $40. according to the prices charged in jewelry stores. The cases are warranted for twenty-one years. No. 21. Size No. t. Monarch case, Vermicelli border, fancy Elgin movement, seven jeweie, $19.50. No. 28. tiize No. IS. Montauk case (engine-turned), New York standard movement, seven jewels, $10.25. The Sentinel does not keep the watches on hand neither do we furnish any other make or kind. Just the watches advertised are all that we can sell. The readers of Tnz Sentinel never had an opportunity to get firet-cla-s watches at any such prices as the above, and after this stoct is sold they will probably not soon have such a chance again. This offer is open only to subscribers to The Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make a band some birthday present for your wife, youi sister, your daughter, or your sweetheart for your husband, ycur father, your brothel or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches should be ordered only by their numbers, thus it is onlv necessary to say: "Send watch No. 8 (or whateve number is desired) to the following ed dress." Write the name, town, county and state very plainly. The cash must accompany eery order. We 6hould prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which can be cut out, filled up and sent to The Indiana State Sentinel with a draft on Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a postorfice money order for the amount. All orders and cash should be er nt to STATE SeNTINIL, Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis Sentinel Co. Please send one watoh No. .. lowing address: .. to the fol Name. FoBtoCce County. StateEnclosed find J. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT. W. F., Leesville, Ind.: A majority ol the county conventions have taken no action whatever on the presidential question. Tho counties which have declared for Cleveland include Marion, Allen, Orange. Ferry, Warrick, Miami and Fountain, and their action has all been taken within the last ew days. 'lll.torf Krpeail Itaelf, And so docs Hood's Sarsaparilla in the remarkable cures it is continuatly accom piishir.g. If you will give this medicine J fair trial it will do you good. Hood's Pills act easily yet efficiently. In the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of loaf. Elmira Gazette. AccMtnU, And bow to deal with them, and other valuable medical information will be found in Dr. Kaufmann's great Medical Work; elegant colored plates. Send three 2-cent stamps to pay postage to A. P. Ordway & Co., Boston, Mass., and receive a copy free.