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WOULDN'T IT BE A GREAT OLD WORLD?

IF YOU WERE SANTA CLAUS. What would you give to America if

you could be the national Santa Claus?

A magazine editor has asked this

question and has received all sorts of

answers from well known men and

women.

For Instance: Mrs. Schoof, president of the Moth

ers' Congress, gave a fine reply: "I

would make it possible for every child to have a square deal all the time."

And Edwin Markham, - author of

"The Man With the Hoe," would give

a system organized by the state to

provide work at living wages for all

workless men and women."

Bishop Fallows would present "an

Ideal American home for all." Mayor

Whitlock thinks "economic liberty" the best gift Governor Glenn of

North Carolina regards a national

temperance law as the best present

Elizabeth N. Phillips would "re

kindle love on every hearthstone

where the fires have gone out" And

Julia Ward Howe If she were Santa Claus would give a more vigilant national conscience.

And Rev. Anna Shaw? You can

guess what she would put Into the national stocking:

"So harmonize the letter and spirit

of the constitution and Declaration of

GRAND HOTEL IS SOLD. j JANITOR TAKES ACID. One hundred thousand dead Is the An important real estate deal, in-J John White, 52 years old, city night lastest estimate of the victims of the volving the Grand hotel property In watchman at the court house, .Indian- Italian earthquake, many cities are Indianapolis, was completed yesterday apolls, an old resident of that city and destroyed, and the tidal wave and fire when Jacquelin S. Holllday purchased for years well known as a ward politi- ajj to the loss of life, that part of the real estate owned by cal worker, committed suicide Sunday the William Haerle heirs. Mr. Hilllday night by swallowing the contents of a KlnS Victor Emmanuel and Queen paid $110,000 for his purchase, which four-ounce bottle of carbolic acid In IIelna leave on special train for scene Included a frontage of fifty-four feet the rear room of the city controller's of tne earthquake disaster.

and six Inches on Illinois street and 101 office. Dr. Arthur S. Chenev. American con-

feet and street.

three inches on Maryland

FIGHT LOCAL OPTION,

A last effort to prevent the Wabash

CHEMIST FINDS ARSENIC. sul at Messina, and his wife are among

In the trial of Fred Ellis at Shelby- earthquake victims and fears are felt ville, charged with attempting to poison for many American tourists, his wife, State Chemist H. E. Barnard , s T.,

juiouovti uoco uivr ui uiiig in l n c X Lew

wvmy .ota.! opuon election, wmcn win --- - . . Ian colonies in New York and other

cities and prompt steps are taken to

be held today, came when the attorney Plate frrn the Ellis home. A bottle

m . v . . PVQ rrt inert ftt him onntfl rtA mom nrtA

ior me ijoerai league appeared in . r . gather funds for relief work

court and asked a restraining order "'"weuiu-uuimicuuu giuug vi

preventing the Inspectors from hola- Poisoa

ing the election, on the ground that there is no provision in the law to contest the election after it is held. Judge Flummer declined to issue the order.

President Roosevelt cables America's

sympathy with Italy and Red Cross takes steps to aid in the relief of the

TO SELL BEN HUB ROAD. From what is apparently good authority comes the story that on or about Jan. 1 the control of the Ben Hur traction line, running between Crawfords-

banquets in Washington. AGAR TRIES TO SELL PROPERTY. In the papers today Henry E. Agar,

yuie ara inaianapous win pass under of forgery in connection with his failure

T,:"""' Ui i. wu uua, and dlsappearance( inserted advertise-

bans in Indiana.

MYERS IN MOCK TRIAL. Quincy A. Myers, of Logansport, su

preme Judge-elect of Indiana, was de- stricken country. fendant in a mock trial at a banquet Guellemo Ferrero. historian, din

Monday night patterned after the grill- cussea ln New York the effects of the

ing politicians got at the Gridiron club parthnuftke and tells of the sreat r,erl!

TRUSTY WALKS AWAY.

Terry Tyler, an inmate of the Refor-

It has always been held that confession is good for the soul, but the con

fession of Judge Gary of the Steel corporation, before the Ways and Means committee, suggests that liberal confession on the part of our millionaires

might be good for the whole country. Would it not be possible for our great

corporation managers and makers to thaw out a little and becoming real phil- independence" as to brine eaual nriv

anthropists, tell us how they did it in such a short time? Surely they have I lieges, equal Justice and "true free-

enough and they can hardly be interested in seeing the coming generation 1 dom to every citizen without distinc

eclipse their magnificent "fortunes. Certainly the poor people whom we have tion of sex."

always with us, do not want to see the size of individual fortunes increased.

Judge Gary' was asked how the government could ascertain what profits are made by its "protected industries." He replied "by publicity and government

control." What a jolly idea for Judge Gary who has made his fortune, to sug

gest that his successor be compelled to submit to government inspection and

publicity! Would Judge Gary and the men who have assisted him in building a wonderful lamp which when you

up the steel business like to submit to this plan? Therefore it appears that rubbed it on Christmas eve would bring

Judge Gary leads the march for a millionaires change of heart. The business to rn whatsoever you wished. What

man nf the future, he thinks, should be made to show his hand at everv staee I would you select for America?

' of the game. What a lovely kind old world this would be if business could be conducted by the beginners along the lines suggested by the men who have

won riches and are now retiring I

And so on. What would be your Christmas gift

to your country were you permitted

to select it?

Think it over.

Suppose that you, like Aladdin, had

SUCCESS OF LAW SCHOOL IS ASSURED.

The square deal for children? Work for the workless? An ideal home for all? Economic liberty? A national temperance law? Equal suffrage for all.

You see, a national Santa Ciaus

would find it about as difficult to

please all as does the children's Santa

Claus.

And yet one gift might be suggested

that would Include all the other ex

cellent presents, and more, much

more. And that would be

The continued prevalence EVERY DAY OF THE CHRIST SPIRIT, the

jpirlt of Christmas day.

the city would consent to bear 25 per I the Chicago Law and Order league are

Justice Crane, in the Hains-Annis

ments of Texas land over his own name, trial at Flushing, N. Y., declares that

rlTV Ti n vw nnuv rr i-irnv the "unwritten law" shall play no part

In the track elevation conference at in the i"8 deliberations.

Fort Wayne between officials of the Old account book found in the false

matory at Jeffersonvllle, who was made Pennsylvania railroad, the Wabash rail- bottom of a trunk wins for Mrs. Nellie

trusty and put to work outside the road and the city, the latter .turned Knight the right of which she had been

prison walls, made his escape by walk- down a proposition made by the rail- deprived by her roster parents.

Ing away last evening, despite the fact roads for immediate elevation, provided Chief Shlppy and President Farwell of

that he would have been recommended

for a pardon within sixty days. The faqt that Tyler knew his parole was almost assured caused the prison officials surprise when he left.

KILLED BY FALLING TREE. Charles Caldwell, a well known

farmer residing near Sedalla, eleven miles north of Frankfort, was killed yesterday by a tree falling on him. He and his son Faye were cutting wood when one of the trees fell In a direction opposite to that planned.

FREED OF THE CHARGE. William Kollmeyer and Clifford

Grove of Columbus, who jointly with

Mrs. Frances Foxworthy Cooper were

charged with the murder of her little daughter Hazel, who was found dead in Lick Creek last December, are now

free men, the charges having been dismissed for lack of evidence.

The wonderful success of the Lincoln-Jefferson School of Law is a corn-

months old and that over five thousand young men over the United States are

pliment to its promoters. When It is considered that the school i3 but five taking the correspondence course and scores are taking the resident law course, the triumph of the gentlemen who have pinned their faith in Hammond is

more readily seen.

The new collegiate course on which the college officials are now work

ing is destined to be even more successful, for it will embrace features that

have never been taken up in the curriculum of any like school. Those who have faith in the greatness of Hammond will rejoice with the founders of the school at their success. They hope to see a magnificent building put up in

Hammond next year where? the Lincoln-Jefferson School of Law will have a

home of its own, one that will be a credit to the city, justifying the ex

penditure of a large sum of money and bringing students to the Institution

from all parts of the world. The school itself is no longer a dream or a !

speculation. It is firmly established, based on right principles, backed by

T.rorttr!j1 mon tnnrrit hv men at the head nf the nrnfpssinn nnd TTammfMirl I lournalist and writer, was born in

will in the near future be known not as the erstwhile packing industry town lerre nauie. ma., uee

but as the seat of a great law school. w

Idaho assassinated by a dynamite

bomb.

THIS IS 3IY 61ST BIRTHDAY. George F.. Parker.

George F. Parker, well known as a

STANDING BY THEIR LEADERS.

30, 1817, and

received his education at the State uni

versity of Iowa. He began his career as editor of a country newspaper in

Iowa. After a few years of this ex

perience he returned to Indiana and

subsequently became a special corre

With fraternal loyalty towards their revered leaders, Messrs. Gompers, pondent at Washington, D. C. Mr,

Morrison and Mitchell, the Carpenters union of Gary have added their mite Parker was the first managing editor towards the prayers and petitions that are rolling towards Washington for of the New Tork Press- He has also t ' -, i. been a frequent contributor to the Lon-

cit-wnvo uu. " " uuama ciaiu ul iauui uuujuisui iu bluuu don Times and to leading American

its leaders through thick and thin and the desire to aid them when they and European magazines, in the mean need aid is most admirable. If labor unions believe that the leadership of I while he has found time to take an ac

tTioaa contender? m-.n Tina holnort latinr in p-n?n nnv iIocItoWo onrl U 4cs mnof I tive interest In politics. He was sec

that they should lend a hand. The people of the United States will regret

that these labor leaders are to be jailed, believing merely that they were doing

what was right, and it is to be hoped that a solution may be had out of the vexatious problem that confronts the nation. There .is no dispute that it is a problem and less dispute that it is vexatious.'

THE HELPING HAND EVER READY.

It is a far cry from San Francisco to Sicily but the horror of the news that comes from the sunny land of the citron and olive only recalls the horror in our own country when the fearful quake at the Golden Gate killed its hundreds. The comparison between the two catastrophes is infinitesimal I owever, for thousands have been slain in Italy where hundreds were in Frisco. The human language is deficient in words to express the awful calamity in the isle of Sicily and the land of the Messinan straits. There is only one ray of light in the gloom and that is the eagerness with which

cities and bodies in the United States have turned to the work of raising

relief funds. There is no time where our country' stands out with more beautiful prominence than when other lands need aid and succor. There is no time when we can be prouder of it. No other nation can compare with

it in its charity and fellow-feeling when there is suffering to be ameliorated

.nd the pall of death to be raised.

"IT IS NOT so much the grafting in Pittsburg," says a former East Chicago councilman, "as It is the piker-like methods that hurt. Fancy a

paltry $45,000 to be cut up among sixty counciimen. It is shameful in these

days of univerasl uplift"

SO GARY CITIZENS are going to attend the Taft inauguration in March. Well, here's hoping they won't have to be delayed by any interurban and go

without their dinners until a hamboue and a crust of bread would be a wel come sight.

WHAT, OH, WHAT would have happened had Justice Wright announced his decision in the Gompers-Mitchell-Morrison cases before instead of after

election?

..BETTER FIND OUT whether the wheels of the water wagon are greased

and that the guard rails inside of the seats are new.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY. Dec. 30. 1775 Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery was organized. 1804 Port of Havana opened to American vessels. 1829 A congress met at Bogota to frame a constitution for Colombia. 1861 Banks In New York, Boston and other cities suspended specie payment.

1S68 General Sheridan captured the In

dlan chiefs Santanta and Lone

Wolf.

1S71 Large, section of Monroe, La.,

destroyed by fire.

1894 Amelia Bloomer, noted female

dress reformer, died in Council

Bluffs, la.

1903 Six hundred lives lost in burning of Iroquois theater ln Chicago.

130a Ex-Governoo Steunenberg of

retary of the democratic state commit

tee of Iowa in 1874 and 1875 and since

then he has been prominently connect

ed at different times with the demo

cratlc state committee of Pennsylvania

and with the national democratic com

mlttee. During the three years be ginning with 18S5 Mr. Parker was as

sistant postmaster of Philadelphia.

RANDOM THINGS AND FUNGS

from stone buildings. Chicago Italians cable $2 their stricken countrymen, contributions are to follow.

,000 to aid

and other

cent of the whole cost, instead of only

25 per cent of the cost at the street intersections, and provided the city would also consent to a greater depression at Calhoun street. FORFEITS $3,000 BOND. Judge "Van Fleet of South Bend Monday forfeited the $3,000 on which William Fleming was held to answer ln the superior court on a charge of conspiracy, bunko steering and receiving stolen property. The court refused to Issue a capias warrant at this time. Judge "Van Fleet said he would give Fleming a chance to appear this term of court. If at "the end of the term he had not appeared the judge said he would then enter a capias warrant. Fleming is accused of engineering a fake wrestling match by which W. J. Sprlngborn of Cleveland, O., was bunkoed out of 10,000.

at variance on the proprieties to be observed in Chicago on New Year's

eve.

Former employe of Morris & Co.

now working for the government, is

said to have given Information to the

federal officials that led to the pack

Ing inquiry.

Ohio senatorial situation Is compli

cated by Burton's opposition to the plan

for holding a caucus.

Legislative Voters' league takes ini tial step ln the movement for a const!

tutlonal convention.

National prohibition leaders may ou

plan of battle for 1912 campaign.

Castro s followers in Venezuela re

sist new government, and in battle

twenty men are killed, but, after re

pulsing attack, friends of the ex-dic

tator yield.

Clprlano Castro ducked his nut at the

right time.

Bryan says that he hopes he won't

have to run again. Well, that's what we all hope.

THE MARRIED MAN WHO FINDS

THAT AS SOON AS HE BREAKS A

BILL IT SEEMS TO GET AWAY FROM

HIM, SHOULD TRY LOCKING HIS TROUSERS UP IN THE REFRIGER

ATOR EVERY NIGHT BEFORE HE

GOES TO SLEEP.

The schedule of the stopping places

or the water wagon in the Calumet

region next Thursday night Is being

made up. The plan to run the wagon

on wheels instead of skids has been proposed, but nothing definite has been

done about it.

A airl will overlook the fact that yon are embarrassed when you propose to her, that Is pro-. vldlns the embarrassment Isn't of a financial nature.

Mr. Norman Cole must be related

distantly to old King Cole.

Well, Gary carpenters, perhaps you

helped Mr. Gompers some.

AVhat has become of the oldfashloed man anyway, who wore ear tabs with a derby bonnet?

The question resolves Itself into: At which kind of a goose-cooking does Hon. Henry Pettit of Gary really

shine?

Quite a few people are seen on our

streets these days also these nights.

Have you listed your swear-offs?

ALTHOUGH WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT VOTES FOR WOMEN, NO BET

TER WAY OF GETTING THE UPPER

HAND OF MEN HAS YET BEEN DEVISED THAN BY MARRYING THEM.

We heard a rather pitiful tale the oth

er day of an Indiana Harbor girl who couldn't hang her stocking up on Christ

mas because she had a bad cold and had it wrapped around her neck.

Yon never Imagine what a big man your wife thinks you are until you find that she has given yon a pair of kicks, two mliem too large, for a Christmas present.

Voice of the People

WABASH COUNTY GOES DRY FIRST TEST UNDER NEW OPTION LAW RESULTS IN VICTORY FOR ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE

11! BILLS

FOR NEXT

Legislators Arming Them

selves With Shot and Shell of Every Size; Local Option Bill to Be in Preparation be Republicans.

BOW

EER SLATED FOR

RIVERS

HARBOR

Question is Raised Why Marshall

Does Not Take Office When Legislature Convenes Constitutional Provision, However, Sets the Day Assembly in Session First.

News of the greatest Importance

reached Lake county last night, that

Wabash county, the first in Indiana to

vote under the new county option law,

yesterday went 897 dry after a hard-

The petition, signed by a number of residents on the section of land, filed with the county commissioners, asked that the boundary lines between the two townships from Georgetown to

fought, campaign In -which both the f New Albany township.

Hammond. Ind., Dec. 30, 1908

To Editor of The Times,

Hammond, Ind., Dear Sir I take this means of expressing my hearty thanks to Mr. John E. Fitzgerald, for his kind donations to the citizens of Hammond during Christmas of last week, would like to say to the citizens of Hammond that Mr. Fitzgerald, of the Hammond Distilling company, Is one of a very few that comes to the front in time of need. However, I wish to say John is always Johnny on the spot when it is for a good cause, when we consider the amount of his donations amounting to J500 or more. I think he can with satisfaction wear the title of Lord Fitzgerald. I also wish to thank the officers of the police department for giving their assistance and information as to the needy, and especially to their chief, also not forgetting the Mulhall Bros for their assistance.

Wishing you all, especially Lord

Fitzgerald, a Happy New Year, I remain

Yours truly, SAM ABALMAN.

Important if true Our snake editor says that One Lung, his Chinese washee washee has not dunned him for his bill for three days.

When The new woman Choscs a career nnd Becomes a breadwinner, The old-fashioned girl prefers to Choose a husband and Become a Breadmaker.

It seems more and more patent that

MUNSTERThe town board of Munster held its regular monthly meeting last night at the school house. Carl Stallbohm visited Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Kaske last evening. Corneil Kikkert was in Highlands yesterday on business. Mrs. Charles Stallbohm and Miss Mollle Stallbohm were in Lansing Monday visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Schoon have

Anti-Saloon and Liberal Leagues pour

ed money and their best efforts into this county. Noble township, with its nineteen saloons, went wet 123.

Lake county saloonkeepers have been

watching anxiously the "Wabash county weather vane as it is quite probable

the Anti-Saloon Keepers association 1

will be getting busy.

Newcastle. The temperance forces of

Stony Creek township have prepared a remonstrance signed by 160 voters vct-

ers, and there will be no saloon opened at Blountsvllle, a small town in th6 northeastern part of the county. Evansville. Chief of Police Fred II. Brennecke has filed an affidavit against

Joseph Peters, a saloonkeeper of this city, who is charged with the violation 1 of the Nicholson law. It is said that Peters failed last Sunday to take down his blinds and remove all obstructions ln the front part of his saloon. Portland. It Is not probable the local county option election, If one is held in this county at all, will be called before the latter part of February or March. This decision was reached at a recent meeting of temperance workers, held in this city, at which the situation, from all sides, was carefully gone over. Bloomington. Figures which show the number of intoxications and arrests for drunkenness in Bloomington when it was "wet," and since It has become a town without saloons, have been compiled from the police court docket by Mayor Malott. They follow: 1905, 570 arrests for plain drunk; 1906, 253; 1907, 158; 190S, 133. In 1907 there were 667

arrests on all charges, as compared with 237 this year a decrease of about

60 per cent. Columbus. The time has elapsed for filing a petition before the county commissioners, asking them to call a special local option election at their January meeting-and no petition has been filed. As predicted by the temperance workers who were not in sympathy with the movement at this time the effort to obtain sufficient signatures in this county failed. More than 1,400 signatures were needed, and it Is said that 800 were obtained. Sulivan. Jerry Thornton, a miner, was arrested yesterday as he stepped off an Indianapolis Southern train, and a charge of selling liquor without a license was placed against him. For some time miners have been coming Into

town the Influence of liquor, and officers have been unable to find where they got the liquor. Yesterday, an officer was on one of the coal trains, and saw Thornton selling "drinks" out of quart bottles, which he carried with him. New Albany. A scheme to move an entire section of land from one town

ship to another, in order that it might

be included In "wet" instead of "dry"

territory, was defeated yesterday, when a majority of the county commission

ers expressed themselves as opposed to the move, and the petition was withdrawn. Several months ago a blanket remonstrance put the saloons of Georgetown township out. of business, and

j among those affected was James Thorn

Richmond. With Henry county "dry" and Wayne county still numbered among the "wets," the thirsty ones of Newcastle have found that the traction line, coupled with a suit case, will bring desired results. Cambridge City is the nearest town to Newcastle that dispenses Intoxicating liquors, and the exodus from the seat of Henry county to the Wayne county town Is made by way of the trolley line. Yesterday afternoon a party of Newcastle men spent much time and evidently considerable money ln Cambridge City saloons. One man, who came with two empty BUit

cases, took them back full of beer. Four

dozen pint bottles were snugly packed In them. "When this gives out we can return at little cost," the man remarked

laughingly, as he displayed his cargo

to a thirsty man on an interurban car.

POLITICS

The six democrats of Indiana who

aspire to the seat of United States

Senator Hemenway are John W. Kern,

late candidate for vice president; State Senator T. E. Slack of Franklin, for

mer Congressman Benjamin F. Shlvely

of South Bend, John E. Lamb of Terre

Haute, Major G. V. Menzies of Mount

Vernon and Edward G. Hoffman of

Fort Wayne. . While the terms of thirty-one sena

tors, more than one-third of the entire body, will expire on March 4 next, eighteen of this number already have

been elected again or assured of re

election, either by primary contests or

by pledges of a majority of the mem

bership of the several state legislatures

charged with the duty of electing sen

ators before the beginning of the next

congress.

The election of Hon. Eugene Hale of

Maine as republican leader of the United States senate, which carries

with it the chairmanship of the senate

committee on appropriations, formerly

held by the late Mr. Allison of Iowa

recalls the fact that out of the forty-

one years that the appropriations com

mlttee has existed, he chairmanship has

been held for thirty-two years by sen

ators from Maine and Iowa. The

Maine predecessor of Mr. Hale was Sen

ator Lot M. Morrill, who served as chairman from 1869 to 1871 and from 1873 to 1879. During the first two weeks in January the state legislatures will meet in Wyoming, Wisconsin, Arkansas, California, Colorado, West Virginia, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho. Utah, Texas, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. South Dakota, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania

and New York. Later in the year the legislative bodies will assemble in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Nevada.

TIMES' BUREAU AT THE STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 30. Representative Andrew Jackson Behymen, of

Madison county, one of the several demotcratlc candidates for speaker of the

house, was ln town yesterday buying a

typewriter. He declared while here that

he is going to start right in today and do nothing but write bills which he will introduce in the house during the coming session of the legislature. Behymer has ditch bills, cities and towns bills, metropolitan police bills, local option bills and all other kinds of bills enough to keep the house busy a

month. Republicans to Rpeal County Option?

Incidentally while he was here Behy

mer said he had information that a

township and city ward local option bill will be introduced in the senate by a

republican senator. He says it will not be necessary for the democrats to start the movement for the repeal of the county option law and that the republicans are going to do that them

selves. . But it is believed that Behymer

is talking through his hat on that

proposition. It is known that a good

many of the democratic members believe that would be the wise thing for the republicans to do and that it woul4 relieve the democrats of the blame for bringing about the repeal, but no repub

lican has yet said, as far as can bo

learned, that he will introduce a re

peal bill. So Behymer Is probably wrong is supposing that a township and

ward bill will be offered by a republican senator.

Bowser for Rivers and Harbors. Talk of the assignment of republican

senators to the various committees for

the session still continues. It Is said now that Senator Crumpacker will probably be the chairman of the com

mittee on counties and township business. This will be one of the Important

committees. Last session Crumpacker

was chairman of the committee on railroads which put through the two-cent fare law.

Senator Bowser, of Lake and Porter

counties, is talked of for the chairman

ship of the committee on rivers and

harbors, because both of his counties border on Lake Michigan and are more deeply Interested in harbors than any

other counties in the state.

Forbner for Military Affairs. Senator Forkner, of New Castle, is

touted for chairman of the committee on

military affairs, and Senator William Gonnerman. of Posey county, a prominent manufacturer, will probably be chairman of the committee on manu

facturers.

Senator Ralph Kane, of Noblesville,

will probably get a place on the judlciaary committee, and Senator Higglns, of Clinton is expected to land a berth on the committee on mines and min

ing. He is a retired mine operator. Senator C. W. Kimmell, of Kendallville. is slated for a place on the committee on Insurance. Until recently he was an insurance agent. Last Republican Card. A ood many persons have been wondering how it happens that the inauguration of Goverr.or-Eleot Marshall does not take place until Monday, Jan. 11, while the legislature opens its session on Jan. 11. It has been pointed out that the fact that the legislature will have four days the start of Marshall might mean that the republicans would undertake to organize the senate a well as the house, elect speaker, appoint committees and do everything else. The

fact Is that Lieutenant Governor Miller will preside over the senate during those four days but he will not do anything except preside. He will not make any committee appointments.

rented a large farm about three miles

beyond Highlands, and intend moving ton, whose place was on a section of

the orst ol the year. land adjoining New Albany township,

You will find that It Is the merchants who are advertising- In THE TIMES are the ones who are dolus; the business. They are live oaes.

A Constitutional Provision. It is understood that no bills of any kind will be introduced in either branch of the legislature before GovernorElect Marshall takes his seat. Some of the democrats looked on the difference in the dates as a republican trick and an innovation. But the time when the legislature shall meet and when the governor and lieutenant governor shall be Inaugurated is fixed by the constitution. The constitution provides that the legislature shall convene on the first Thursday after the first Monday in January and that the termse of the governor and the lieutenant governor shall continue for four years from tho second Monday in January,