Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1894 — Page 4

rriE ixVnrAiNA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1894.

INDIANA STATE SEXTIXEL, BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO

(Eaterrd at tixm Potofflee. at Indian poll a leeonU claaa matter.) TERMS PEIt YEAH. Single copy (la Advance) 91 OO XV m aalc democrats to bear In mind and telect their own state paper whfn they come to take subacrlp-. tlona and make op elaba. Agent making; np rluba send fur any Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1S01. A 3IONO.METALLIST ANSWERED. Our contemporary, the" Richmond Item, takes issue with The Sentinel on some points In he silver question, and in answering it The Sentinel would first call the Item's attention to the fact that it mistakes The Sentinel's position. The Sentinel is not an advocate of the free coinage of silver by this country alone. It does not hold that the appreciation of gold (or depreciation of prices) was caused by the demonetization of silver by this country alone, but by its general demonetization by the commercial nations. It holds that no one country alone can possibly undo the evils of thi3 general demonetization, and restore standard money to its "former relation to commodities. It holds that a change to a silver standard by this country (and that is what free coinage by this country alone necessarily means), when such a change would mean a doubling of all values of commodities and a .shrinkage of one-half in all values of securities not expressly payable in gold, would be ruinous to the country. But on the other hand, It holds that the demonetization of silver was,, and is, a real inJury not to mine-owners, but to the whole people. And it holds that If this country had adopted free .coinage in 1S78 when silver and greenbacks were on a par, and had gone to a silver standard, the action would have counteracted much of the lass of specie resumption and would have prevented the los3 of millions of dollars that .he American people have suffered since then. The Item first denies that gold has appreciated in value, and claims that averages prices of commodities have depreciated on account of Improving machinery, new processes, etc. This argument has been invented by monometallist3 since the present question arose, previous to that time all economists admitted that a movement of "average" prices was a movement of standard money. The complete answer to it is found in this fact: From 1S50 to 1S73 average prices advanced as rapidly as they have declined since then, and no one can point to any influence of improving machinery, new processes, cheapened and extended transportation, or any other cause now claimed to reduce prices, that . was not a3 extensive and influential from JS50 to 1373 as it has been from 1S73 to 1894. The only difference between the two periods, in general character, is that in the first the supply of standard money (gold tnd silver) was enormously increased by the unprecedented production of the precious metals in California, Australia, Nevada, British America, etc., while in the second the supply of standard money was steadily diminished by the demonetization of silver by the several commercial nations. If the Item can reconcile this remarkable change in the movement of prices with Its theory it will do more than tny other monometallist has ventured to attempt. The Item next argues that gold cannot have appreciated because "interest rates" have declined. They have declined slightlynot so much as claimed by monometalEsts but did it ever occur to the Item that there is a difference between "interest rates" and "interest?" Suppose that in 3874 wheat wa3 worth $1 per bushel, and in 1894 it was worth $0.50 per bushel. In 1874 A loans to B 5100 in gold, payable in gold In twenty years, with 5 per cent, interest. At the same time B loans to A 100 bushels of wheat, payable in wheat in twenty years, at 5 per cent, interest. In 1894, when they settle, A gets 5200 in gold and B gets 200 bushels of wheat, but A's 5100 of gold interest has appreciated just as much as the principal, and B's 100 bushels of wheat interest is depreciated just as much as his principal. There has been no change at all in the interest rate, but there has been an enormous change in the interest. You cannot measure the appreciation or depreciation of anything by interest in kind. But note this: A can as well afford to loan his gold at 3 per cent, now as he could to loan it at 6 per cent, in 1873, because when he uses his interest income for his support 53 will buy as much now, on the average, as 55 would in 1S73. As a matter of fact the tendency of an appreciating money standard (or depreciating prtceaVi b to lower interest rates, but not to lower actual interest as measured in purchasing power. The Item's last proposition is that prices depend on the total supply-of money of all kinds and not on the supply of standard money alone. It puts its argument very ingeniously thus: If all values (prices and wages) are w t . fixed (in so far as the money factor can affect them) by the volume of gold only, then it must follow as night follows day. that it could not affect these values if all the balance of our currency were destroyed in an instant! In other words, Jthe existing cne thousand millions of credit money (silver and paper), having had no influence in fixing present values, its titter and immediate destruction could have no influence in changing or "unfix- j ing" those values! The mere statement of the proposition shows Its absurdity. If our currency should be suddenly contracted five-eighths of its volume, all sane business men will admit that prices would go down rapidly and business of all ! kinds would be prostrated. This seems very formidable, but let us I consider It for a moment. It is founded en the idea that values are fixed by this country alone, whereas they are fixed by j the combined supply and demand of the world. In this country there would at once be panic and heavy fall of prices, because In this country all our money !j on a gold basis, and there would at once he an immenae ah linkage of the supply of

mm'y w"h01" "y in lh "" 'There would at once be art extraordinary demand for u b.ecaue he woulJ no other money, and money in its eim-

plest relation, the medium of exchange, ia j necessary for the transaction of business. There would be, what, there Is not now, i a demand for gold by the people, merely because gold is money, and hence gold would appreciate in this country and peo- ; pie would give more commodities to get J it. But change the hypothesis. Suppose j that, instead of removing all the credit j money, you remove a'l the gold and the government is obliged to suspend, specie payments. Instead of falling, prices would at once increase, because while the supply of money is decreased the basi3 Is changed. We should go back to the conditions of the greenback times. How would these supposed changes affect the world relation of gold and prices? When we pass the boundaries of the United States all of our credit money ceases to be money. It becomes a commodity which is bought or sold on the faith that our government will redeem it in gold. There is no international money but gold. All the gold standard nations maintain credit money for domestic use, and maintain it on a gold basis. Hence:the demand for gold is chiefly, almost wholly, a demand of governments and not of individuals. An extraordinary demand for gold, for any cause, by the United States would appreciate the value of gold and depreciate prices to the extent of that special demand and no more. And, as prices are fixed by International influences, prices In the United States would come to the international level as soon as the local demand for money was satisfied. But if the United States were obliged to suspend specie payment the world's demand for gold would be lessened to the extent of the present demands of the United States and gold would depreciate to that extent. Hence, international prices would increase somewhat, and our domestic prices would bear to them the inverse ratio that our money would bear to gold. Gold would govern as soon as the temporary flurry of either change was over. The money question would be greatly simplified to many Americans If they could get rid of the local idea of money the idea that this country can control its relative value. The increased facilities of communication have made money international. International commerce governs all commerce. International prices govern all prices. International money governs all money. Some people talk about our money being governed by England, apparently in blissful ignorance of the fact that England's money is governed by the world jujt as much as ours. It is a condition that can be escaped only by shutting oft all International relations. The only way to change its character is by the united action of the commercial world, and that is what the commercial world Is being driven to as irresistibly as the physical world Is being carried in its cours about the sun. OI R FOIIEIGN POPULATION. It is a well-known fact that in this country the democratic party has always been the friend and champion of the foreigner. It defeated the know-nothing movement and has made the fight against the A. P. A. wherever any fight has been made. It has bo'.d'.y stood for the proposition that this country was the refuge for the oppressed and tyrannized of all countries. It has been commonly believed that the foreigners in this country were chiefly to be found in the democratic party, and the republican assertion that it is largely composed of "ignorant foreigners" Is very common. Nevertheless, when one comes to consider the official statistics it seems demonstrated beyond question that the mass of the people of foreign parentage in this country are republicans. The distribution of people of foreign parentage in the United States 13 very unequal. The census of 18D0 grouped the states into Ave divisions, two covering the southern states, two covering the northern states, and one the states and territories of the far Weit. Out of a total population of 62,622,250 it was found that there were 20,676.043 of foreign parentage, and of these 17,836,372 resided in the two divisions of the northern' states. The percentages of foreign population frr the five divisions stand as follows: Per Cent. North Atlantic division 47.21 South Atlantic division 6.02 North central division 4.1.02 South central division 7."3 Western division 43.67 The percentage in most of the southern states is extremely small. In Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee. Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas it is less than 5 per cent. In some of the northern states the percentage is very large. In the following list are given all the states and territories in which over one-half of the population are of foreign parentage: Per Cent. Massachusetts 56.24 Rhode Island 5S.02 Connecticut 50.32 New York 06.65 1 ich isn , i4i 2 Wisconsin 7C.63 Minnesota 75.42 North Dakota 78.93 South Dakota ...60.61 Montana 55.74 Arizona 55.04 Utah 66.2? Nevada 59.03 California 56.72 In Arizona and California a considerable portion of the foreign population does not vote, but In the others the voters of foreign parentage take as much interest In elections as natives. In all of them It Is evident that the voters of foreign parentage would control elections If they voted together, and in Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota they must certainly control elections, yet all of these states must be considered republican with the exception of New York and Connecticut. Of all the northern states Indiana nrny be considered the most nearly democratic, and Indiana has" the smallest percentage of votes of foreign parentage. Of all the southern states Maryland has the largest nercentage of voters of foreign parentage. It has almost one-half of all the voters of that class In the entire South Atlantic division, and It has b?come somewhat uncertain. It U very clear that tht old

L theory as to the location of the foreign

vote is not wholly tenable, and the problem öf the real location is one that will give wlds ground for interesting investigation! . A VICTIM OP MONOMETALLISM. Another of Great Britain's gold-standard colonies is floundering in bankruptcy, and without much hope of extrication. Newfoundland i3 the one British-American colony which did not unite in the Canadian federation. It maintains a separate government, but its currency system is on substantially the same basis. It has two "chartered banks," the Commercial and the Union. The Commercial bank had at the end of 1S93 a capital of 5306.000, a reserve of 5100,000 and circulating notes amounting to S6ü0,0C0. It declared a dividend of 12 per cent, for the year. The Union bank has had a more prosperous career than the Commercial. It was established In 1S54, and for eighteen years paid dividends of lift per cent. In 1872 its reserve had become so large that it issued a special bonus of 50 per cent, to it3 shareholders In paid-up stock, and since then it has paid 20 per cent, a year In dividends and bonus on all stock. Last year the dividend was only 13 per cent. At the close of 1S93 its capital was 5456,000, reserve $300,000 and note circulation $606,152. Unquestionably the system was very profitable to the banks. In addition to these banks the government maintained a savings bank, in which over 5300,000 was deposited In small sums. The depositors were allowed 4 per cent. Interest and the funds were loaned chiefly to the Union and Commercial banks. The chief circulation of the colony is the notes of these banks, which are a lien on the assets. The shareholders are also liable to the amount of their stock. There wa3 not over 5400,000 of specie in the country, of which the Union held $200,000 and the Commercial 5100,000. They have paid most of this to the savings bank, from which it is now being drawn a3 rapidly as possible. Aside from the bank notes and specie there is little money in the country, and it is United States money and Bank of England notes. The assets of the Union bank are said to be ample. If there was any way of realizing on them, but this Is very doubtful. It is generally conceded that the Commercial bank will not pay 10 cents on the dollar. The liabilities of the two banks are estimated at 53.000,000. As nearly as can be judged from present reports the present panic began with a demand of the government for part payment and better security fur tho loans of the savings bank. There was some difficulty In securing this. Rumors of a shaky condition of the Commercial bank led to a run on it and Its speedy suspension. Its notes at once ceased to be accepted. A run then began on the Union. It suspended with a promise to open the following day, but did not do so, and probably never will. Its notes became worthless for money use at once, and, between the two, $1,250,000, or more than three-fourths of the circulation of the colony, is wiped out. Nothing now remains but gold and a little silver. The immediate results are appalling. One telegram says: Work of every kind has ceased. Hundreds of idle men walk the streets. The shuttere are up on two of every three stores. The seal fishery usually starts up in March and employs twenty-five steamers and 8.000 men for two months, yieldabout 51,000,000 annually. There will be no seal fishery next March because the owners of the steamers are bankrupt. There can be no cod fishing next summer for the reason that the firms which supply provisions and fishery outfits cannot do so any longer. This means much where three on: of every four inhabitants are directly interested in the fisheries. Already famine stores the poor in the face. At the Episcopalian orphanage the children had food for only one meal today. All the money of the orphanage was In the Commercial bank. Nearly every religious denomination is crippled from toe same cause. Another telegram Is even more alarming: The attitude of the populace 13 now occasioning anxiety. Threats of revenge and broad riots are frequrnt, and certain newspapers are adding fuel to the fire by claimring for the imprisonment of the bank directors, throwing the whole responsibili.y for the crisis on them. One cannot argue with hungry men, as hundreds will be in a day or two, and they will help themselves if compelled by hunger. The governor has asked that a war ship bo sent here from Bermuda. I: seems hardly passible that this new disaster, following so closely tlise cf Australia, can fail to make some impression on the minds of English theorists of the dangers of gold monometallism, even when united with the much vaunted Canadian banking :stem. It certainly ought to be a very solemn warning to the entire world, but it is to be presumed that there will bo those who will continue prating about "honest money" and the Impossibility of "two standards." IMKORMITY OF LAWS. Representative McCall of Massachusetts ha3 Introduced a bill In congress which, if t It becomes a law, will mak a very great change in the business conditions of the ' United States. For years there has been a constantly growing class of people urging greater uniformity In the laws of the saveral states of the union, and especially j law3 affecting ordinary trade relations. 1 Po3sibly the laws of Interest and divorce ! have received more consideration of this kind than any others. There are obvious advantages In uniformity of such laws In some respects, and obviou3 disadvantages also, except, perhaps. a3 to divorce. There seems no really good reason why a divorce should be granted in one state for causes not recognized In another, and the diversity of law certainly leads to a great deal of fraud and perjury, and often to injustice In property rights. The McCall bill is quite broad, and relates to nearly all matters that can affect inter-state commerce. It provides for a commission whose duty is: , To prepare codes of substantive law upon subjects of commercial and mercantile law, and especially the law upon sales and sellers' liens, stoppage In transitu, tha liability of carriers, negotiable paper, the making and execution of deeds and the law of domestic relations, Including marriage and divorce, and upon such other topics of the law upon which it may seem desirable to said commissioners thit there should be uniformity throughout the country: and to prepare codes of civil procedure and crirni.nl procedure for the courts of the United States. To this extent the work of harmonizing Is easy enough, but the great difficulty will be In securing the adoption of such laws when they are formulated. ' The ordinary plan Is to have Jurisdiction of such subject! criven to the United States

by constitutional amendment, but the McCall bill seeks to accomplish the adoption of the law3 by ' tho several etates. Tha commission is to furnish drafts of Its laws to commissions that have been, or hereafter may be, appointed by the states "on uniform laws." The work is, therefor?, purely advisory, though it is intimated that some of the advocates of the bill who will appear before the Judiciary committee will urge tha pas3age by congress of all laws in this line that can reasonably be construed to be within the Inter-state commerce power3 of congress. Whatever may be the present result the bill will bring the subject before the public more forcibly than it has been brought heretofore, and probably bring about greater uniformity in the future.

t'Minit WHICH KING? No currency scheme can be so good as that which thirty years trial has approved the circulation based upon the bonds of the United States, dollar for dollar. If there .are no bonds, issue them to banks for greenbacks, bearing 2 per cent interest. Journal. Which scheme? 13 our contemporary In r favor of a greenback currency, or a na tional bank currency, or a coin certificate currency, or a gold certificate currency, or a silver certificate currency, or what else? "Which of the monuments of republican financiering Is it desirous of perpetuating? There has never been any circulation based on bonds "dollar for dollar" that any one ever heard of. And under the republican laws the national banks voluntarily reduced their circulation from $358,000.000 in 18811 to 5178,000,000 in 1S93. Why should It be left to banks at all, and at least, why should it be left to some special class of banks? In the money panio of 1833 the savings banks of New England were obliged to sacrifice their bonds in order to get money to satisfy their frightened depositors. Why should not they have had the privilege of depositing their bonds and drawing out currency to their face value? It is plain enough that a currency based on national bonds is perfectly safe. It Is plain enough that the country could withdraw its paper currency by issuing bond.? that were made to serve as a bi3is for currency. It is plain enough that such a currency could be made perfectly elastic. But why should the privilege of conversion be limited to banks? Why should not any holder of such a bond be permitted to deposit it with the treasury and receive ar. Issue of currency to the full value of the bond, the interest on the bond stopping while on deposit? The people generally would be willing that banking institutions which desired! to maintain a permanent circulation should also receive the interest on their deposited bonds up to some reasonable limit, as a motive for maintaining such a circulation, and the application of the Interest forfeit for deposits above that amount would give all the elasticity that could be asked. No one would object to the issue of bonds to the amount of the outstanding national paper money for the purpose of calling in that money. The government can much better afford to maintain a funded debt - to that amount than to maintain a paper currency which allows Lazard & Frere3 and the rest of the exporting firms to despoil the treasury of gold for speculative purposes. A bond basis for currency 13 unquestionably an excellent thing if the government's concessions to the banks be limited, and the privilege of conversion be made as extensive as possible. The objection to the national bank system has always been to tha favoritism involved in it. But if all banks were given the same privilege of l3sue. and all bond-holders given the right of conversion, the objection would at once disappear. THE NEW OCCULTISM. A renewed interest in oriental occultism, or more properly the western modification of it, has been created in Indianapolis by the recent visits of Dr. Ilensoldt and Prof. Kellar. We mention the two together because Mr. Kellar referred to Ilensoldt's published fiction as authority for the exercise of supernatural powers by the mahatmas and yogis of India. It 13 a remarkable fact that none of these people who testify to the wonders of Hindoo magic ever produce it in this country. Prof. Kellar, indeed, professed to produce some of the wonders, but his appearances and disappearances were nil to and from cabinets specially made for the purpose, and whose manipulation easily explains the results. He "hypnotized" a young woman assistant and suspended her jn midair resting on a board which was sustained by wires from above. But he asserted that what he did was nothing to the acts of the Hindoos, and they surely were nothing to the things averred by Ilensoldt, who gravely quoted Marco Polo as an authority and attested the veracity of that celebrated traveler. It willoccur to many persons that' if the Hindoos perform such remarkable things some of these witnesses would have sen3e enough to bring one or two of them to this country and put them on exhibition here. They would certainly make more money than all tht magicians, mediums and occultist lecturers now in the country. A good Hindoo juggler, who could throw a rope up into the air and climb up it until he is out of sight, would have made more money at the world's fair than all the Midway combined. Why can we not have - some of these living wonders exhibited in America? It Is objected that the men who do them are religionists who are devoted to the attainment of Nirvana. Then why not bring them as missionaries? They could convert thousands of people by doing onehalf of what they are claimed to do. The J real reason Is that they do not perform any such miraculous feats. It is a notorious fact that when Madame Blavatsky and Col. Oleott made their celebrated tour of India they were received with great honor by the native princes, and the wonders of their seances surpassed anything that these princes had ever seen. And yet their most wonderful achievements were all exposed by their confederates, the Coulombs, who not only explained the methods, but also furnished Madame Blavatsky's correspondence, proving what they said. Blavatsky's great manifesta

tion of power was making objects disapj.ar and at once reappea." in another city at a designated place. The following from one of the letters of Blavatsky to Coulomb throws some light on this: They want to tear cigarette paper in two and keep one half. Roll a cigarette of this half and tie it with H. P. ,B.'s (Helen P. Blavatsky) hair. Put it on the top of the cupboard made by Nunbridge, to the farthest corner near the wall on the right. ' Another letter of instruction contains this: I believe the handkerchief is a failure. Everyone here is anxious to see something. My hair will do well on the old tower in Siam, o- even in Bombay. Select a good spot and write me at Amritsar poste rcstante. Not only this, but the Society for psychical research in London sent out to India Mr. Richard Hodgson, an expert, who investigated the Blavatsky performances and reported the results, and the committee which examined his report said: For our own part, we regard her neither as a mouthpiece of hidden seers, nor as a mere vulgar adventuress; we think she has achieved a title to permanent remembrance as one of the most accomplished, ingenious and interesting impostors in historyIs it probable that people who could be deceived by the cheap tricks of such a fraud as Blavatsky have any supernatural powers? Not at all, but the evidence in these exposures shows them the most credulous of people, and this 3 the natural result of their growing up under the influence of religions that teach the interference with mankind of spirits, demons, genii, and other supernatural beings. Before modern occultism makes much progress in this country it will have to produce much better evidence than it has yet produced. But we now have hopes that this desired evidence will be supplied. For some years past there has been talk in occult circles of Koot Hooml and Mcrya, two Mahatmas from Mahatmaville, who were doing wonderful work, but who could not be definitely located. Now they are found. Henry B. Foulke and Georg? S. Falkenste'.n have sent out a proclamation containing this statement: We, the Mahatmas, now of America, are readv to assert that cur identity is that of this age and time. At our Instigation, when Alme. Blavatsky wa3 in Philadelphia, she accepted our agency to carry on our work as; our precursor while we were in a hereditary environment due to our new and late embodiment. She was to do so until we could emerge from our duties and labors as men and take up our psychic work for the use of the race and the benefit of manning at the close of this cycle the Kala Yuga, period of the manrantar. The name r.f Koot Hoomi and Morya are merely noms de guerre, a.s has always been known by th? Initiated, and were used to conceal our true location and identity until we "v.:rji ' ready to come before the world in our true capacity. Now we may expect something worth seeing. Now we may get past cabinet tricks, and slate writing, and cigarette and hair travels. Now we may look for some genuine mahatma work. We want to see Koot Hooml and Morya throw ropes into the air and climb up them to the vanishing point. We want to see them chop each other to pieces and put each other together again. We want to see them prcduce fullgrown trees where none were before. Bring on the Mahatmas.

The Springfield Republican is propounding conundrums to faith cure people who teach that the use of tobacco and whisky is Injurious to health. It thinks thit the "god-part" in man, which can Ignore, and thereby conquer dls-ease, ought also be able to say: "This whisky is dead vegetable matter and water; that is not I. I have nothing in common with their gross material substances. Knowing that I am a part of all harmony, all health, and all power, I refuse to allow the dictates of the lower mind to force sickness and drunkenness on my mentality. It is my body which drinks." It also holds that a slmlar formula ought to be sufficient to remove the deadly qualities of pie-crust and sausage. But is it not true that the mind, the god-part, also partakes to some extent of whisky and sausage and other epicurean luxuries? And can a poisoned god-part cure an afflicted body? Let us hear from the faith-cure people on this. The bill introduced by Representative Fielder of New Jersey for regulating sleeping-car rates is an utter absurdity. He reduces the whole matter to a mileag-bi.-ls and makes one-half cent per mile the maximum charge. Any one ought to b able to see the injustice of such a system. Suppose a man wi3 going but twenty milo3 and should Insist on having a berth made up for him for that distance. No company could afford to pay for the service and laundering Involved in the proceeding and receive but 10 cents for it. In any fixed schedule of charges there should be primarily a fixed charge, and if a mileage basis 13 used at all it should be In additior. to the original charge. Mr. Fielder's system would add to the cost of long ride3 when sleeping car3 are most necessaryThe largest crucifix In the world has been placed in the Pine Hill cemetery at Buffalo, New York. It Is cut from a piece of granite that was originally 30 feet long, 12 feet wide and 5 feet thick, the cross and figures all being carved from the one block. This tremendous block j weighs thirty-six tons, and twenty-six horses were required to draw the wagon on which It was conveyed from the cars to the cemetery, and which , broke down several times on the way. ' Two years have been spent In making it, and every care has been taken to make it a work of are, as well as one of unusual size. The figure of Christ was copied from that of the man who personated the Savior at the last presentation of the Passion play. The Sentinel trusts that Representative Taylor will succeed In his effort to have the government erect a statue to Robert i Dale Owen, on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. Owen was a man of International distinction, and one who was of as much real benefit to the state of Indiana as any man who has been identified with its history. He Is beginning to be appreciated throughout the entire state for his real merits, and all Indiana would be gratified to have this act of respect paid to his memory. His services to the Smithsonian Institution make

it peculiarly appropriate ttat his statu should stand on its grounds. His memory will not fade away If no statoe Is erected, but it is a just tribute to his ability and Intelligence that It should be erected. The republicans on the house committee on banking and currency are showing themselves exceedingly small by opposing a speedy report of the Carlisle bill' to the house. Whatever may be it3 merits, there will certainly be amendments after the full consideration by the house and there can be no possible advantage in detaining it in committee. Nothing is gained by 'dil

atory tactics. Nowls the time for sportsmen to go o Colorado. The great annual jack-rabbit hunt Is to occur on Thursday and Friday Dec. 20 and 21. All hunters are invited. They will be divided into companies, and in their drive will cover a large extent of territory. Each hunter will be entitled to take all the rabbits he wants, and the rest will be given to charitable Institutions. A traveling man at Cleveland last Sunday morning endeavored to wake up a felldw drummer by yelling to him that the hotel was on fire. The sleeper not only wakened, but also yelled "Are." Other guests took up the chorus. In five minutes six hose carts, two engines, a hook and ladder and a chemical were on hand. The early riser was not lynched. The Xew York Post fiercely asserts that "the greenback must go." With due deference The Sentinel would suggest that this will depend somewhat on what is to take Its place. The greenback is an evidence of debt. Practically It i3 a debt. And even this great and glorious government of ours cannot speak its debts out of existence. Montana has a paint mine which furnishes five kinds of paint by the wagonload. Like most of the other deposits of paint earth It is claimed to have supplied the Indians with their face decoratives prior to the introduction of cheap white man's paint. It is announced that three more new factories will be located In Kokomo. The new tariff bill seems to invite enterprises of this kind. All the prominent cities of the gas belt have been favored more or less within the last few months. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. II., City. The succession to the presidency In case of death of the president and vicepresident is, secretary of state, secretary of treasury, secretary of war, attorney-general, postmaster-general, secretary of navy, secretary of interior. If any of these were ineligible for personal reasons the succession would pass to the next in order. D. W. W., Clifty, Ind. There are probably about one-half as many Indians In the United States now as there were when Columbus discovered America, but possibly less. It is hardly credible that there were more than a million of them In 1492, at the out-ide. FEH SO ALS. The memorial tablet in honor of Dr. Horace 'Tells, the discoverer of anaesthesia, which -s been placed on the front of the Corning building, Hartford, Conn., will be unveiled Saturday. W. S. B. O'B. Robinson, who has Just been elected judge of tne superior court in North Carolina, is sali to be the first Roman catholic to hold a ttate office of any kind in North Carolina. Henri Rochefort has an income of about $3o,00ö a year, and though he lives with great simplicity in London he is never able to save any money, owing to his generosity. He Is always ready to help those who deserve It. Postmaster-General Bissell has received from the postmaster at Okolona, Miss., a letter which inclosed another letter received at the Okolona postoffice Nov. 26. The inclosed letter was postmarked at Mobile, Ala.. June 2D, 1SG3. It was carried by a 10-cent confederate postage stamp, which had been canceled by the Mobile postmaster. The letter was written to a captain in the confederate Infantry, and related to some surgeon's hospital. The old yellow envelope was fairly well preserved, though it had broken through on the edges. The letter will go into the new museum recently established by Mr. Bissell In the postoffice department. Says the Boston Transcript: "The plan for the monument to George William Curtis and the endowment In honor of his memory, of a course of lectures on American citizenship, cannot fail to meet with the heartiest cooperation from public-spirited citizens. The Boston committee is made up of gentlemen who are foremost In promoting good citizenship. If there ever was a man of our day who deserved a memorial it was Mr. Curtis. His unswerving belief that all citizens, women as well as men. should be given these responsibilities of citizenship which would result from equal rights of suffrage could be approve.! by his friends in no worthier manner." According to Stewart Culin. the curator of the museum of archaeology of the university of Pennsylvania, foot ball originated with those beginners of everything, the Chinese. Mr. Culin 's making an exhaustive study of games, ancient and modern, and has a curious and ancient drawing showing a personage In the dress of a prime minister playing foot ball with a Kruge, or noble, and two of their chamberlains. The time Is somewhere In the tenth or eleventh century, but long before then the game was cultivated as an exercise suitable for the training of soldiers. About the eighth century it was introduced Into Japan, where it became very popular. From these two countries it spread over the entire world. ( President Julius D. Dreher of Roanoke college, Virginia, who is now at the Park-ave. hotel, brings a very encouraging report of the work of that progressive institution. The college has a gain of 30 per cent over the total enrollment of last year, and the students represent eighteen states and terri tories and four foreign countries. As a fur- I ther indication of the general patronage of the college there are forty candidates for the , ministry, representing six denominations. The only Corean at college in America, Surh Be- . ung Klu, Is a very successful student at ' Roanoke, and a full-blood Choctaw Is a member of the Junior class. Dr. Dreher says the annex built to the library last summer has greatly improved the library facilities and placed Roanoke in the forefront of southern colleges in this respect. N. Y. Tribune. j Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, the competent dl- ' rector of Harvard's gymnasium, gives out some interesting information about the growth cf physical culture in the university. He says: "We have aimed to Improve the general nutrition of the students, as Is shown by the increase in weight and measurement", and to increase their average strength and agility. In this respect it Is interesting to note that there are now on our books the names of over 400 men who surpass the highest total strength test made in 1SS and there are over PX students In college who can run a quarter of a mile inside of a minute, .which was the Harvard college record for the distance in 1S74." Dr. Sargent believes, however, that the university can do yet more to stimulate all-round physical development, for the reason that not more than half the students exercise regularly and systematically. He accordingly suggests that the student who, after examination by the director, follows some systematic course of developing exercises prescribed for him, should receive credit for the work and be allowed to count It toward bis degree.

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Six sets of triplets have been bom In Carlisle county, Kentucky, within a week. New Mexico ranks eighth in its output of silver, and seventh in its output of gold. Of the 159 successful candid itcfi for tha degre? of B. A. from the London university, eighty-one were women. A southern California editor Is bong boycotted by some of his readers beoauso ! he publishes the mean temperature of tho town. A Clark county, Georgia, couple last we?k celebrated their golden wedding in the house in which they were married fifty years agj and which has been their home continuously since. Sympathy "My lord." said an overworked rarscn to his bishop, "I have not had a holiday for five years." "I am very sorry for your congregation." replied his lordship, with a smile. Tit-Bits. Policeman to wheelman who is rldir.g on th? sidepath "See here, young man, you can't ride there." "Can't, ch Well, you Just watch me." And he shit out of sight. The American "Wheelman. "So," said Dr. Dor.egan, "they've been printing the funeral notices av a man that wasn't dead yit It's a nice fix he'd be ia if he had been wan of these people that believes iverything in the newspapers!" Tit-Bits. In the cemetery of Barnstable, Mass., Is the following Inscription: "Here Lyeta Interred ye body of Mrs. Hope Chipman. ye wife of Elder John Chipman, aged forty-fivt years, who changed this life for a beer ye S of January, 16S3." The University of Kansas has recently received through a graduate of that Institution, who Is now in Mashonaland, a full and valuable collection of South African mammals. This is said to be the only such collection in the United States. Lottie "Before Ethel married that young literary man she told me one day Lhat her union with him was going to raise her to a higher life." Tottie "And did it?" Lottie "Yes; they are living in an attic now." Somerville Journal. A vibrating helmet for the cure of nervous headaches has) been invented by a French physician. It is constructed of strips of steel, put in vibration by a small electro-motor, which makes COO turns a minute. The sensation, which is described as not unpleasant, produces drowsiness; the patient falls asleep under Its influence and awaks to find that the pain has ceased. A nine-penny shlnplaster, bearing date of April, 1777, a specimen of probably the oldest United States money in existence, was found between the leaves of an old history a few days ago by J. N. Hooker of Bartow. Fla. The bill was printed byJohn Dunlap of Philadelphia, and his printed on one side the warning: "To counterfeit is death." Cincinnati TimesStar. Kentucky has been rounding up her fat children and has discovered some notable youngsters. Carroll county ha3 a nine-year-old boy who weighs 131 pounis. Little Horace Lane of Wyckliffe is the last prodigy heard of. He is ssven years old, weighs 142 pounds, measures thirty-nina inches round the waist, forty-one round the chest, thirteen round the biceps and is four feet five and one-half inches tall. As the dealer in seccnd-harJ books will buy anything, provided it be cheap enough, so the junk dealer after a while is mastered by an Lnsaliabla thirst for buying. It is not unusual to find at a junk dealer's pieces cf machinery, bits of apparatus, or instruments of which he knows neither the names nor the uses. They come to him as scrap metal, and he hoprs to sell them to some one who may recognize their value. In cities, whero space is valuable, stables are now built upward, as well as building3 designed for human occupancy. In such establishments horses are never 'stabled on the ground floor, which is reserved mainly for vehicles, but in the basement or on a second floor which are reached by runways. Such modern stables are provided with steam elevators, upon which carriages may be taken to anl from the ground floor. One of the most fashionable churches now in Paris Is the Russian church in the Rue Daru. Nowhere else is the sentiment of loyalty and royalty combined so thoroughly with that of religion. Almost every day the Paris press announces memorial services which are to be held there, while the same papers do not attach much importance to the services hell in he great French cathedral of Notre Dame. There are many sigas of rebellion In fashionable quarters against the high sto ip, not only in new houses, but also in old houses undergoing alteration. The English basement, however. Is a luxury of tho rich, as the high stoop Is more economical of spice. It is noticeable that an early modification of the high sto-p, th double sweeping side stairä that lead up to a single platform fronting two street dors, has had littl vogue in recent yeirs. A frog farm with about a million head of stock 13 carried on euc essfully by a man in Contra Costa county. California. He started ranching in frogs a few months ago with a herd of about 2H0 frogs, and is already making liLs of money. H? supplies th. nurkets of Sin Francici. Oakland and other large citie.s on the coist. It costs little or nothing to rais the frogs, and the rancher is not anxious to trade hi3 ranch oven fir a gold mine, so he says. The Elusive Trust President. The Trust M.agnite's Secretary "Her-"s a man at the do)r, sir, who wants to kmw whether your company has absolute control of the market. I think he's contemplating an investment." The Trust Magnate "Certainly we control the market." Tlia Trust Magnate's Secretary "But he nuy be an investigating agent from congress." The Trust Magnate "Then toll him that tha etory about our controlling the market is a slanderous falsehood." Chicago Record. A teacher In an uptown school recently gave her scholars as a lesson to mark on their slate3 the Roman numerals from 1 to 12. In about three minutes one of the boys held up his hand, signifying that he had accomplished the work. "Why, Johnny," said the teacher, "you are real smart. None of the other scholars arj half done. Now, te'.l us how you came to finish so quickly." Johnny, in great glee, replied: "I copied them from the clock on the wall up there." Philadelphia Record. "I have never yet been on the winning sile in a presidential election," sail a New Yorkerer who has been a voter for fifty years. "I started. -my voting career as a "Whig, and my mailen vote was cast for Henry Clay in 1S44. Something prevented mv voting for Gen. Taylor. I voted for Scott in 18."2 ana for Fillmore in 1S.V5. Becoming a democrat in 160, I voted f-r Stephen A. Douglas. I have voted the democratic ticket ever since, when I voted at all. In 184 and 1892 I was nol in the country. Thus, you see. the three times my candidate was elected I didn't get tat chance to vote for him." Italn And Milne. When the storm is blowln. Do not curse your lot; If it wasn't snowln'. Might be blazin' hot! When the sun Is peltln' Firebrands don't scold; If it wasn't meitin'. Might be freezin' cold! Take life as you find ItSee the rainbow.1 curled! Trouble? Never mind itGood Lord run the world! ' Atlanta Constituting Cnnnot AfTord to Live rifwhfr The king of Ashantee has 3.333 wires. No wonder he lives in Ashantee. A Aan with so many wives to dress and ot erwise support cannot afford to live i a palace. Harper s Bazar. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powdei A Pur Urux Cream of Tartar Powder.