Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WETANESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1893-TWrELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MORSS, President, DEN A. EATON, Vies President. b. McCarthy, Secretary and Treasmrer. (Entered nt the Powtofllce ot IndlanMiolia us rrnud rluin matter.) tf.hms im:h YHAU I Single rojijr (In Ailvutiff) fl Ot) We it-vk iIrmrraU to ttr-n r In nttnd anil seiret tlielr on u tut" paper nUrn Ihrr rnnir to take ubscrljttioua ninUc up elubn. AkcuIs DiaUInx up cluba aend for rut information dcalrcd. A,ddrea TUB irVDIAXAPOLIS SnXTIEI. Indlnnanolla, 5ml. TWF.UE PAGE; Wednesday. nncDinrii 20, tso.t. The announcement that Indiana congressman are hearing from Indiana tariff boneneiari? who want a part of the spoils is sufficient reason why they should hear from the people who are tired of high tariff taxes. Indiana Is for tariff reform and the people should let their congressmen understand that factThe Jury in the P.oby piize-flghtlng case reached a verdict Thursday at Crown Point and it was not long in making up Its mind after bring charged by the Judge. The defendant Costello was declared guilty aa charged in the Indictment and his punishment, in addition to a email fine, was assessed at two years' Imprisonment In the state penitentiary. Prize-fighters will probably fight sby of Indiana In the future. Taking a view of the continued depression of prices, the 3oston banking : house of Cordley & Co. ventures the cpinlon that "the situation cannot permanently materially Improve until the commercial world restores bimetallism." Very true. It cannot improve fo far as prices are concerned, but business will improve as soon a.s a tariff reform act Is pissed. Congress cannot act too quickly or make the law take effect tOO 5X;J1. A new specie of crank has been turned out In Philadelphia. He was turned out of a packing case. It came from Chicago by express Rnd was dumped out of the car and relied over the platform by the expressmen In their usual cautious way. As it finally Cime down with a. d. thud a voice was heard calling "help." It was located In the box, which was promptly opened; and a man was found inside, badly bruised, but. otherwise all right. He explained that he was traveling In this style on a wager, and was at once arretted for trespass and held in ?400 bail. He claimed to hav experienced no inconvenience from his system of transportation except when he was stood on his head and when he was rolled about In a careless way. He also stated that he recently made a similar trip from New York to Chicago in the same way. A secret organization ha? been formed In Colorado to work against the A. I. A. It is called the Society of Liberty and Loral ty, and is said to have 10,000 members already. Its members are required to declare that all persons who proscribe men 01 account of their religion are enemies of the state. The Bentlnel agrees very fully In the sentiment, but does not approve of secret political associations for any purpose. From the nature of our governmental system all political movement should be open. We are all Interested In the welfare of the country and we all have a voice In the control of the government. No one ought to desiie anything that he fears to speak of publicly. The A. P. A. la a disgrace to our civilization, but the best way to meet it is by open argument, exposure of Its evil character and appeal to the patriotism of the people to stand firmly again6t Its treasonable teachings. One of those artful swindlers who have reaped a harvest from gullible Americans by assurances that they are heirs to vast European estates has come to grief. It is a little singular that this swindle should still be successful, for It has been exposed repeatedly by the newspapers and the consular service has sent out many warnings. In the first place there Is nothing like the amount of property popularly supposed tied up la chancery in Europe. In most countries unclaimed estates soon revert ' to the national treasury. Again most European countries have a way of confiscating property when otherwise it would go to an alien. In these ways the chance of any inheritance reaching Americans, even if they could establish their line of descent. Is reduced to the very minimum. It is almost absolutely safe to regard any report of a large European inheritance coming to an American as a "fake." Our republican friends who are objecting to the moderate tariff reduction of the "Wilson bill should turn back and read the conclusions of the republican tariff commission of ISiS. Among c,ther things it said: "Early in its deliberations the commission became convinced that a substantial reduction of tariff duties Ia demanded, not by mere indiscriminate popular clamor, but by the best conservative opinion of the country, including that which has In former times been most strenuous for the preservation of our national Industrial defenses. Such a reduction of the existing tariff the commission regards not only as a due recognition of public sentiment and a measure of Justice to consumers but one conducive to the general Industrial jrosperity, and which, though it may be temporarily Inconvenient, will be ultimately beneficial to the special interests affected by such reduction." The Wilson bill scarcely' reduces duties below the level of that "existing tariff" of 18S3. but the repub

lican commissioners of that year thought an average reduction of about 20 per cent. ouglt to be made. It is really remarkable how republicans change their minds. THAT TIX PLATE DUTY. At the request of Mr. Bynum we publish the following: To the Editor Sir: In your issue of Friday I note that you express the hope that the report that I had been in.strun ental in securing an Increase of the duty on tin plate was not true. If you had made even a cursory examination you would have discovered that the specific rate of 1 1-5 cents per pound was as near the ad valorem rate of 40 per centum as could be fixed. The change from an ad valorem to a specific was made at the solicitation of the importers, and not the manufacturers. I am at a loss, however, to understand your opposition to a tax on tin plate, while advocating a restoration of th duty on sugar. Tin plates are ner.- y all Imported and at the present rate yield a revenue of about nine million dollars, annually. Why should this sum be sacrificed and a tax put upon sugar to make up for the loss? In the Mills bill tin plates were put upon the free list because we had a large surplus and not a pound was being made in this country. The situation ls now changed; there is a deficiency in the revenues and we are manufacturing. Respectfully, W. L. BYNUM. Washington, D. C, Dec. 11. The dispatch on which we commented. expressing the hope that It was not true, contained the following In regard to the tin plate duty: The committee first voted today to make the duty 1 cent per pound, but Mr. Bynum secured a reconsideration and had the duty fixed at 1 1-5 cents. The change from ad valorem to specific duty was made at the instance of the importers, who say they could not, under an ad valorem duty, mike contracts far in advance for Importations or arrange for future deliveries, as the price could not be definitely fixed. The change increases the duty from the amount first agreed upon in the bill just a little, possibly an eighth of a cent. Doubtless It was a favor to the importers to change from an ad valorem to a specific duty, but they could hardly have considered it a favor to advance the specific rate after it had been once fixed. According to this dispatch Mr. Bynum secured the advance of specific duty, and the specific duty obtained by him is of a cent in advance of the 40 per cent, ad valorem duty originally

fixed. We expressed the hope that these statements were not true. but. as we understand Mr. Bynum. he dories only that the specific rate of 1 1-3 tents is an advance over the original ad valorem rate. That would of course depend on the ruling price of tin plate. As to the general question suggested by Mr. IJynum concerning sugar and tin plate, we do not know why he should be at any loss to understand our position. On May IS, 1S0O, Mr. IJynum, In the course of a very al de speech in the house of representatives, said: The duty on tin plate is increased by this bill from 1 to 2.2 cents per pound. At the pres-nt rate the aggregate amount of fluty on tin plate is JTT'.UYJ. The increase will add about SlUHO.Oo.l more, making the duty 5 1 ;.(.. m or more. No tin plates are produced in this country; all we consume are imported. Then, why such an increase.? Why not give to the poorer people cheaper tinware? Why not put this article on the free list and enable . our canning establishments to sell their products at lower prices and to enlarge their business by exportations V By so doing they would employ more hands and pay higher wages. We thought this was very sensible ht the time, and we also found pier. sure in the following statement of Mr. Bynum in the house of representatives on May 20, 1830: Mr. Chairman, I am opposed to a bounty on sugar or a bounty on any other article, because I believe that under the constitution no power exists to pay a bounty to any Industry. I am in favor of a reduction of the duties upon sugar to a revenue basis. The reason I am opposed to placing sugar on the free list is that it is a revenue article. We received some $5G.000,000 of duty on sugar last year, and I am opposed to removing this tax, which goes into the treasury of the United States, in order that the wool-growers cf Ohio, the tin plate manufacturers of Pennsylvania, the lime manufacturers of Maine and the lumber manufacturers of New England shall put this amount of money into their pockets. Of course, these two speeches were a week apart, but having held these views within a space of seven days, we should think Mr. Bynum might be able to understand how we can hold them at one and the same time. There are also several other reasons why we object to the tin plate duty in addition to those mentioned by Mr. Bynum. The first ls that it Is in fact a humbug and a false pretense, used as a cover for the manufacture of terne plates and for a graniteware which manufacturers desired to force on the market in place of tinware. The so-called tin plates made in this country are almost wholly roofing tin, or terne plates, and cannot be used for canning purposes. The second is that the tin plate tariff has been shown by experience to be a serious tax on the canning industry, which is much more important in this country than the tin plate business can ever be. This has been amply shown by the numerous protests sent to congress by canners and packers' associations, and local industries of this character have several times complained of the injury in the columns of The Sentinel. We think that Mr. Bynum' s argument on sugar Is as good now as it was in 1S90, when the republicans repealed the duty on sugar for the express purpose of getting rid of the revenue in fact, better, for we need the revenue now. A IXIIEHITAX K TAX. Senator Hill of New York is not altogether orthodox on some points, but he has prepared a bill for a tax on legacies and inheritances that ls based on very eound principles. The bill imposes no tax on estates of $5,000 or less, and exempts all real estate where the legatee is a linal descendant or ancestor of the testator. It also exempts personal estates of $10,000 or less when the legatee Is a minor child, and estates of $50,000 or less when the legatee is husband or wife. The same exemptions are made whether the decedent makes a will or dies intestate. The scale of taxation ranges from 1 per cent, on personalty passing to lineal heirs to 10 per cent, on

both real and personal passing to remote relatives or to bodies politic or corporate. No distinction is made between charitable and other bequests. This feature may at first seem objectionable, but not when it ls remembered that property passing into corporate ownership passes out of the province of inheritance taxation, and therefore will not probably be subjected to taxation again, and further than this In most of the states property devoted to charitable uses is not taxable at all. The policy of taxing Inheritances rests on the broad principle that "the earth belongs to the living and not ,to the dead." This ls a fundamental principle of all governments, but it is carried to Its legitimate extent in none, although for many years the rations have been moving into closer harmony with it. Under the common law a decedent coult entail his estate for an unlimited period to certain classes of heirs, but this is now almost universally abolished. In Indiana an attempt to create an estate tail creates a fee simple, and the power of alienation of estates cannot be suspended beyond the existence of lives In being. I5y such provisions the former control of the dead over property has been greatly abridged. Inheritance taxes are founded on the same principle. A man has the right to enjoy what he accumulates, but there Is no natural right to control its d!sjosltion after his death, and aside from the proper provision for persona dependent on the decedent no one has any natural right to the accumulations of another. A nation may therefore properly exact a tax for permitting and carrying into effect such a transfer. Aside from the foundation of the law in natural right it has other advantages. To a remote heir inherited property 13 usually so much clear and unexpected gain, and the tax is cheerfully paid. There are also none of the Inquisitorial features in such a tax that are complained of in an income tax on Individuals. The estate of a decedent has to go into court for settlement, and its character and extent are thereby made public. This fact also makes such a tax easy to enforce. The system is row a use In several stales and is proving satisfaetory. There appears no good reason why it should not be made of national extent, unless it be the diversity of national taxes, l'ossibiy on tili'" consideration it should be left as a source of state revenue.

ri:si( i iuiits. It is n.jt weal h while to expect any divi.iun of sentiment in tlv democratic party on the pension question. The rlatform of IS'":: was explicit on this subject. It said: "We favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled union soldiers, thir widows and dependent, but we demand that the work of th pension office shall be done- iiulust rioush , impartially and honestly. We denounce the present administration of that office as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful anil dishonest." The party stood on that platform without any reservations or apologies. It is right. No man can defend fraud and corruption in tlse pension oflice more than in any other place. The indictment of the last administration has been fully justified. There have been unearthed in the past six months more frauds than were ever found in any preceding two years, and they are frauds that are admitted to be frauds on all sides. The recent exposures at Buffalo and elsewhere have hardly ceased to be current talk, and now come reports or extensive frauds in Tennessee and Louisiana. The Washington Post of the 13th says as to these: Tennessee and Louisiana are Just now receiving the attention of the olficials, and It is said that in the former state a condition of affairs has been discovered that promises to develop into something approaching the magnitude of the Buffalo frauds. Neither the name of the attorney or attorneys, nor even that of the city would be Klven for publication. for fear of injuring the government's case. But when the game is bagged all of the facts will be given out. Several examiners from other fields will at once be sent to Tennessee to work up the cases. In Louisiana there is also an investigation in progress that promises bis results. In all of these cases as well as those discovered at 'Buffalo, Norfolk, and in the West, the favorite method ot defrauding the government is for the attorney to get the statement of the applicant for a pension and then secure signatures of witnesses in blank. The attorney then, at his leisure, tills in the evidence, taking care to make It corroborate the statement of the applicant In every essential particular. Once a week or so a notary public, who Is an accomplice, is called in and the jurats are filled out and the seal attached as though done In the presence of the witnesses themselves as the law requires. Recommendation has been made to disbar the Buffalo attorney, which will probably b done at once, and thereafter criminal proceedings will be had against him. It Is certainly not to the interest of the old soldiers to condone these wrongs or attempt to cover them up. As a matter of. fact such frauds are a greater injury to the old soldiers than to anyone else, for they not only consume the funds that properly belong to the soldiers, but they also tend to create suspicion as to rases that are Just and meritorious. No democrat can lose anything by standing squarely on th democratic platform and resolutely opposing frauds In the pension department as well as elsewhere. The party favors that course and the people favor It. It is a just cause, and no one need be afraid to stand up for justice in this country. PASS T1IH TAH I FF HILL. The St. Louis Republic says that a "bill which advances unmistakably toward revenue enly, bears the name of William L. Wilson.is approved by John G. Carlisle and Indorsed by Crover Cleveland is tariff reform according to the pledges of the democratic platform." Unquestionably this ls ttue, and every good democrat in the country will indorse the proposition. But there is reason to believe that the bill does not have all that Indorsement, and that the tariff reformers have been bulldozed from their original stand by the demands for protection of local interests. President Cleveland Is reported as "disposed to

favor U tax of 1 cent a pound on raw sugar. "and the New Ycrk Times, which is considered to be close to the administratlonX has urged that change to be made. MeVreovor a .correspondent of the New Tork Herald, who seems to be well informed. slild on Monday: I asked several members of the committee todaU- about the danger of the btll being amended by a demo ratlc combination forined In behalf of certain special interest They did ne t think there was much r al danger in It. As far as the sugar s in-dul was concerned none of them woiÄid d-fnnd the principle upon which it wait framed, but it was said It had been Adopted as the onlv sort rf a compromise' that the committee could agree upon, ahd it was believed It was

the only compromise that could be carried through tJie house of representa tives. This is where he only objection to the Wilson bill, on ihineiple, is to be found, but the recent postponement of the date of its taking efflot for three months, and the increases cVt a number of articles, are discouraging indications that the committee is yiedl:Vg to pressure In an effort to secure the votes necessary for the pas!age of the bill In the house. We think it would e wiser to report simon-pure, unadulterated tariff reform and let the members tVike the responsibility of defeating it if (they dare. Nevertheless the great polr-i t is to get the tariff bill passed quickly A few inconslstencles and evils amoutnt to very little when the fact Is born in mind that the country' is suffering from greater evils In the same lines Jt the present time, and though the ImWovement on McKinleyism In those polints may be slight It ls some improvement, and the general effect of the bill is Ian Immense A Improvement. Moreover le country needs a speedy settlement of in order to stimulate business been so terribly depressed ' man law and the McKlnle the question which has y the Shery law. I ne passage of a tariff, law thitt will take effect soon will do all that in the way of legislation to an be done revive business. It ls -not worth whil time in squabbling over a when the bill is right as to i - to waste few points nost points The bill should be put through as quick ly as possible, ';nd the soon er it takes effeet the sooner business -v .ill feel its beneficent impulse. A M'TvlXLKY CAM 1 A notable e.Tcct of the TY. McKinley f the dos tariff is the announcement i ing of the ivnusylvania ste-l works cut St i lton, which is to occur on Christ mas. This company is practically the s.i:n- as the Maryland stee company. which succumbed to the McKinley rrir'.ff sonn; tone s-ince. It op'atcl laj.woiks at Si-arrow's Point. M. lloth thes; plints are large and splendidly equipped concerns. The StcHton plant employs . KK) men. who will out of work in a f w days. be thrown The Spar-row'.-t Point plant employed About 2."oo nil n. Neither one is able t bi;si:i"s:; under t!;i McKinley continue tariff. The xa'-t reason of this was given about three weeks avo by Ml". '.Frederick Wool, who is second vice-president of the Pennsylvania steel company and president arid receiver of the (Maryland sieci company. 1 1 is statem-aP wns ns follows: iTcvious to the past year we were in a position to com;ete mosfc. favora bly with the steel manufacturtrrs of th country. Just at present we are not. though the fault !, not oMr .jwn. It is all due to the diseovejy of ql posits of go-xl steel-making ore in Mi-h;;;.;n on the banks of Lake Superior. The ore comes from what are known as the Mesaba districts, and can be very cheaply mined by steam shovels and loaded by them directly on th ecrs. Owing to the freight charges we cannot, of course, compete with the mills west of the Alleghanics in purchasing this ore. Nor can the foreign ore from Cuba and the Mediterranean, which we use entirely, paying the duty of 75 cents a ton, compete with the western ore. The result ls that our steel business haa gone to pot, and will continue so If the western output holds out and the tariff is not taken on the raw material. If thf tariff is taken off raw material, we shall be able to compete on even terms with the other steelmaklng companies. If It is not, I do not think there is a single company east of the Alleghany mountains, that will be able to continue operations in steelmaklng. As I understand the tariff it is Intended to encourage the Industry and not to shut up manufactories. When this Is the result. It has outlived its usefulness. With the tariff off raw materials, eastern and western plants would be on an equal bafi. Any person of ordinary intelligence can understand the force of this reasoning, and the actual results are conclusive evidence of its correctness. The iron and steel tariff has become a question of local Interests. The western manufacturers are now endeavoring to prevent putting ores on the free list, not for protection against foreign manufacturers, but in order to secure an advantage over eastern manufacturers. The southern manufacturers have the same motive as those in the West. A notable Indication of this is the fact that Senator Morgan of Alabama, who has been advocating; free ores for years, and Im-istlng that foreign manufacturers could net compete with us under eny circumstances, has recently announced his intention to oppose free ores. What a nasty piece of grabbing this tariff robbery is! AT CIIKISTMAS TIM IS. The holiday season convincs one that the world never grows old. N" matter what the age or condition of the average person, he finds himself at Christmas time bracing up and talking with a Jauntier air. The branches of holly and the Christmas trees which appear on the street at this season act as a spur to his memory and he recalls the scenes in which he figured as a boy at Christmas and never fails to wish that he had never outgrown the Santa Claus period. He stands sld? by side with the Juvenile and looks at the glittering toys in the shop windows. If he has no children to whom he can give presents he gives the toys to Imaginary children and takes pleasure In selecting dolls for the girls and horpes for the boys among his dream children. If he Is fortunate enough to have a listener he will tell the stories old to the listener, but never old to the story-teller, of Christmas when he was a boy. It la encouraging to know that even

though want stares many In the face, the children to whom Christmas Is by far the greatest day of the year are not going to be neglected. All over the city, in the churches and in the social world, societies are being formed to gather toys for the children of the poor. The little ones of wealthy parents are doing the utmost in their power to extend the beauties of Christmas to "the least of these little ones," and are bring ing toys too for distribution. Let the holiday season be filled with good cheer for the children at least and act as Santa Claus to as many poor children as possible. Amnssiox or xnw states. The republican party seems to have had a wonderful change of heart on the subject of admitting new stales. But a short time since all good republicans were clamoring for the "recognition of

our young sisters In the West," and "the addition of new stars to our galaxy. but now a grave fear has arisen as to the advisability of admitting states with comparatively small populations The Chicago Tribune states the proposi tion thus: That is the vital objection to the con version of Utah from a territory Into a state. Where is the fairness in giving its handful of people as much power in the senate as New Tcrk. Pennsylvania or Illinois? It is true that Ohio. Indi ana, Illinois, and some other states had but a small population when admitted. They have grown and the momentary inequality has disappeared. But neither Utah, New Mexico, nor Arizona has the potentialities of growth that they had. They never will have a large population They never will be entitled on any fair basis to two senators. The equal repre sentation of the states, large or small, was inevitable at the outset. It was one of the conditions of the formation of the union. There is no ncessity now for the admission of small states Nothing obliges congress to admit as a state just that geographical area which it organized previously into a territory Why go back to the admission of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois? What is the matter with the states recently admit ted? Their population, according to the census of 1S90, is as follows: North Dakota 182.719 South Dakota 32S.0S Montana 12.159 Washington 34IUP0 Idaho t.3Sr Wyoming 60,705 The territories whose admission is now asked are reported by the census author ities as having the following population Oklahoma C1.834 ftah 207.905 New Mexico 15:5.503 Arizona 59,620 Of these Arizona is the only one that falls below the level of Wyoming. They .ire all growing In population. In tho decade from 1SS0 to 1:0 Arizona increased over 47 per cent., New Mexico over 2S per cent., Utah over 44 per cent. and Oklahoma's population was all in create. They seem to have some "poteuthilities of growth." and they all compare very favorably with that grand old republican state of Nevada, which lost over 2) per cent, in the same decade. Thev are as fairly entitled to two senators as Wyoming, or Idaho, or Mon tana, or North Dakota. It is too late in the day to raise the question of the advisability of admitting these territories. The people have passed on that question. The demo cratic platform of l'.2 expressly declared for the admission of New Mexico and Arizona by Indorsing the action of the house of representatives for passing bills to that effect, and further declared In favor of "the early admission of all territories having the necessary popula tion and resources to entitle them to statehood." This was a declaration that Arizona had sufficient population. The issue was presented to the people and It was fairly an issue, for the republicans declared In favor of "the admission of the remaining territories at the earliest possible date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the territories and of the United States." The democratic position was sustained. The thing to do now ls to admit the territories. The fears of Congressman Dalzell that putting petroleum on the free list will ruin the Ame"ican producer may be relieved by contemplating the official statement of the exports of petroleum, crude and refined, from this country'. For the last two fiscal years they were: CRUDE PETROLEUM. Gallons. Value. 1S92 103,592.7i7 $5,1 01. SKI 1893 111,703.503 4.5C7.391 REFINED ILLUMINATING OIL. Gallons. Value. 1592 C84,S9i5,C5S 533.541,221 1593 642.239.S-J9 31,719.401 Having met the pauper Standard oil companies of Europe on their own field, and having vanquished them, the American producer may rest easy for the present. ET CKTKA. A balky horse may have spirit, but it hns no sense. Everybody would be perfect if everybody else thought so. It misfit reJuce ßeneral expenses if the tolls of the bells could be collected. Black walnut sawdust, caramel and roasted ami browned horse liver are used to adulterate coffee. President Eliot of Harvard college has shocked some people by confessing that he i3 a moderate drinker. There are three things I have always loved and never understood painting, nvisic and woman. Fontenelle. Toddles "Papa, w hy do we hang up holly branches on Christmas? Is it because it's a holiday?" Harper's Young People. It is natural to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we cannot understand and Insult what we envy. Palzac. It ls estimated that the youth of America annually stain their fingers and clothes with the shells from 10.0u0.000 bushels of walnuts. Farmer "You've shot my cow!" Dooley "Be g-obbs. an' I told ther prowr-mon as plain as cud be to give me burrd shot!" Puck. Who dhall determine which of two friends shall yield where neither believes himself mistaken and both confess the importance of the question? William T. Coleman, the California multimillionaire, has left one-twentieth of his great estate to be held in trust as a fund for the relief of sufferers by earthquake. Horses rat.ted in high altitudes are said to possess wonderful capabilities of speed because a larger amount of air must be inhaled Into their lungs to do the necessary work. On a ranch In New Mexico,

situated 6,000 feet above the sea level, the experiment of raising swift steeds is soon to be tried. India has 19,000,000 goats, which produce dally 8,000,000 quarts of milk and devour annually three times their own value of articles that the owners can ill afford to spare. Hefelstein (eyeing a sandwich Just purchased at a Pullman car buffet) "Veil, I dinks Mr. Bullman must haf cudt dot sandvltch oudt mit a gonductor's bunch!" Puck. The Greeks consume annually to each inhabitant five pounds of sugar and one pound of coffee. They make up the deficiency in wine, drinking eighteen gallons each in the twelve months. George Hatwell. who is still living in Buffalo, aided in building the railroad from Albany to Schenectady In the year 1330. He was one of those who rode on the engine on the trial trip to the latter city. Horace Greeley Perry Is the remarkable name of a young woman who boasts of being the only woman editor in the state of Minnesota. She ls also the youngest editor, being only twenty-one years of age. John Hamilton Brown, who invented the wonderful new wire segmental gun, is a native of Maine, where he was born in JS37. Both of his parents were relatives of Commodore Perry, the hero of Lake Erie. Queen Victoria has & complete pictorial history of her life. Lately at her request all the members of the Garrlck theater company, who appeared before her In "Diplomacy," were specially photographed and copies sent her. Thompson Chandler, a farmer of Lyons, N. Y., is the father of two boys, one of them eight years old, th other a prosperous business man, aed sixty, of Vineland, N. J., who. In turn has a 6on of forty, who ls a bank director. The prince of Wales wears a bracelet. So does the duke of Edlnburg-Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, etc. Strange to say, the young war lord. Kaiser Wilhelm, also wears one, which is so fixed on his wrist that it cannot be removed, unless it be filed off. There are in this country 30,000.000 b?ef cattle, and counting eight soup bones to every steer, there will be 2S3.O00.0O0 soup benes. Allowing two quarts of soup to every bone, the grand result will be 576.000,000 quarts of soup which the American steer is capable of producing. The London Electrical Review, in an article on thunder storms, states that the electric charge is due to the friction between two currents of air which differ in temperature or In hygrometric condition. It describes in detail observations of a storm, which tend to prove the explanations offered. Misses Anna and Ethel Hood, twin daughters cf tha late Gen. John B. Hood of the confederate army, will upend the winter in Baltimore. Thy are the eldest of the three sets of twin daughters of Gen. Hoodj and are the adopted daughters of their great uncle by marriage, Mr. John Morris of West Chester, Pa.

THE STATE PRESS. ut for Conjeer. Col. A. L. Conger of Ohio is convinced that the Wilson tariff bill must result in reducing the wages of American W'orkingmen to the level of those paid "the pauper bbor of Erropo." It may be news to Col. A. L. Conner to kin 'A" that Some of the grinders in the Diamond plate glass works at Kokomo, in which he Ks hugely interested, have txpressed a willinp-ness to work for th wages paid like labor in England four yean-; ago, and presumably still paid, in reference to those offered them. And this, by the way. is the same Col. Conger who demanded JTO.oOO for his servi- s in bringing shout a combination of plate glass liitTcsbs that closed nearly every factory In the country for six months, and under the beneficent system of "protection for American labor" left the workmen to starve. "Pauper wages" have evidently little terror for Col. A. L. Conger. Kokomo Dispatch. High Protection I'nila. Republicans will doubtless hold up thdr hands in holy horror at the proposed reduction in the tariff. Why should they longer plead for efficacy of high tariff"? After thirty years of the highest protection, which, as its friends allege, was levi-ni for the lienclit of the laboring classes on the acknowledgment of republicans themselves, the industries are in a depressed condition and thousands of laboring men and their families are in distress. Surely protection utterly failed to protect, and It is high time that it was being swept away. It will go. Bluff ton Banner. TVo Itoom for Dnnlit. The messag is characteristic of President Cleveland. There ls no room for any doubt as to where he stands on any question and he touches upon every matter relating to the affairs of the government. The same firm, honest conviction and courage shines out in every sentence. lie ls especially direct and forcible and fully indorses the Wilson bill. All join in conceding that the message is an able document and will rank high among the best state papers of its kind. Vincennes Sun. Pnttlng It Straight. The New England wcolen manufacturer who says that he will be compelled to reduce wages 20 per cent, if the Wilson bill passes is a scoundrel, a liar and a thief. We don't often use such language in the Tribune, but no other words will fit when a man talks about being compelled to reduce wages 20 per cent, with free raw material and a tax of 40 per cent, on imports in his favor, especially when the entire lah-r cost of weaving Is scarcely 20 per cnt. of the finished product. Rockville Tribune. IIott It In In Parke. The value of Farke county's wool clip will not amount to $2 per capita, while every man, woman or child oupht to wear or use on an average $30 worth of woolen goids. If a tariff increases the price of wool It must Increase the cost of woolen goods the same kind of a tariff cannot raise one and lower the other. How much better it would be for vis to look after the $"0 we ate compelled to consume rather than the $2 we produce. Rockville Tribune. A Ihit S4inliiittnt. In times like those charity risr-s from the level of sentiment to the level of duty. The needy and deserving poor are with us in large numbers, and they must be helped. All reasonable methods of relief must be applied ami exhausted. The need for fcd and clothing for those who are almost destitute must be supplied. Fountain-Warren Democrat. Right You Are. Yes, Mr. Harrison, you are right. It is a long message, but it is as broad a,-j it i loner. It contains nothinir narrow-. nothing bitterly partisan. You also prooaoiy noticed that it does not favor any such iniquitous measures as the force bill, once your little pot. Greencastle Democrat.

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MOMEXCE ROCK COMMISSIOXERJ AHE TIinOlGII. The XVorlc Una Been Done nt a Con. alderable Lea Coat Than Kirat An. tlclpnted. Hat Hie Engineer Think There I Work Yet to Do The Coat. The board of commissioners for the removal of the limestone hxlge In the Kan kankee river at Morr.enre, 111., closed up its business Friday with the contractor who had the work in charie. The work has recently been completed to the satisfaction of the board both from the fact that the removal of th ledge at that point in the river makes it now possible to drain a large area of swamp land in Indiana hitherto almosl worthless, and from th fact that the work cost a much less sum than was at first expected. The commissioners have not yt prepared their final report, but the material Is now in, the work completed, and it will be submitted to the governor In the course of a few days or weeks. The financial statement ls as follows: Total number of cubic yards excavated, 66,317, at fc3 cents per yard $53,CCS 01 Amount hitherto paid on estimates Nos. 1 to 7, being 90 per cent, of the total amount due. 43,561 21 Balance due. being the 10 per cent, retained 5.506 fC The balance the l-ard ordered paid and a warrant wns drawn for the amount by the state auditor in favor of th J. D. Moran mruuifaeUiring ;.nd construction company, th ncutraetor. The Mumence rock commissioners, as they are generally known, were first appointed by Governor Hovey, but thev did nothing and all the nior lu n resigned but J. P. Kimball of Kendulville. Iu 1SS3 an appropriation of J4'.im was made by the legislature and in lv91 the commission was filled by the appointment by Covern r Hovev of Franklin Landers-of this city and .John Brown of Crown Point, A reorganization of th board took place and Fra:;k!::i Landers wa.s elected chairman an 1 Mr. Kimball chosen secretary. Tie old contract entered into by the id bo-mi wns not carried out on account of the company failing to give the required bond. The new board enter. d Into a contract with the J. I. Moran company and betrau work soon after Its org-.ndzatl m. Th la.t legislature made :ui additional appropriation of $5. eii. making a total appropriation for the vo k. of c-i . m-.-.rly Jlw.o')(j of which still remains in the state treasury. The -omml: sio-it-rs express themselves as wry well pleased with ti e riiUs of the work accomplished. Widiam M. Wbitten. th ei:gi;i,r. who has had tloj active sujv rint lei- ta y of .,i. however, in his report to the board does not altogether a irre. with thei.i. !' says that the work cf low. -ring the bed has not f ill! y ad f'tuplished the results aaitUiipated, such s would have b--n attained by hanging the channel, v.ut the work was done at an expense cf nbo;it tJO per if fit of w i-t; H v. i.l l ).: rc- : rnitr-d to have chantred the chajira 1. T fürt h-r depeii the channel would benefit Illinois lands as niu. h its thos of InJian.v, and, inasmuch as tne reclaiming , of Indiana, niaisii lands can b- ac- : corr.pll. hod by other m ans, it is rv-om-monded that if the work !.e crn;l:;ud it be d"tv Jointly by th two state, i The iK-neilr. derived from the :-:)z done at Momence Is Seriouly bandi- ! capped by t-aoiilar 1 irs at Indiantown. ! a fe.v miles below Mi ne nee. These w-;'.l have to lie removed beton; the luii benefit to Indiana- can realized. Mr. VVhitten Fiipn that any fjrthi action taken to set u re improved waterways hctwe-n th state lin and Momence should include provisions for keeping tin same in repair, and one of the essential points for this purpose will be to prevent the growth of timler along the banks of the t-haunel or eh,u:nols. WnillllMi IIKCI.AItKI) 1)1 "K. Mr. Ruille Hewitt ('liiüicrn Uc-r Mind at I lie Lttfct lomeii(. Last Sunday evening Mrs. Radt Hewitt and Mr. W. Norton of Indianapolis were to have been married at the home of the young lady n.ir Mt. Summit. Henry county. All arrangements for the wedding had l-(n made, the prospective groom had arrived, s1cured the services of a minister and the license at New Castl. when the wedding was declared off by Mrs. Hewitt. She and her brother, Frank Ice. met Norton at New Castle on Saturday evening and the prospective groom accompanied them hoire. AM was sailing smoothly until Sunday morning, when the young lady suddenly change-.! her notion. Norton accepted his fate, and returned home. Mrs. Hewitt ls a very attractive woman who resided at Cleveland, O.. until three years ago, when her husband died. She ls the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A11-rt Ice. A IIOMIG PIGIIOX. It Fifes Into the Itealdence of Job Stone The Meaange. Tuesday afternoon a homing pigeon flew into an open window in the residence of John Ft one, 115 Ft. Wayne-ave., fluttered and then f ll to the floor. The bird h.'td leen shot r.nd r::o of its wings was mangled. Tied about its neck was found the following mciisage, written in a childish hand: MAPIETON. Ind. "Dear Papa and Mamma I am going to stay here until tomorrow night, then I'll come to tho hall at night. Mrs. Ilobinsoii wants mo to stay. Good by, "MAJOR GLKASON." There was r.o address given ii the noto and tlv destination of the bird Is unknown. Mr. Stone is takimr care -. it and will turn it over to the proper owner whenever called for. Haven't ltcji.1 ii- mil. The ccif.ict itig statements of thi politiced partisan pies that the Wils. bill is a free trade imesuro. n protection contrivance, an underv-l-j ilie n scheme, a manufacturer's tariff, etc.. proves on j of two thinirs. Tho critics e itle r haven't examined the bill and don't understand its provisions, or they indulge in wholesale mi--repreentatioH for partisan p'T!ses. We Incline to th o,in!,.n that there is a little of loth in ino.-t instances. South Bend Times. 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