Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1888 — Page 6

sbc J^tpublitau. " Gso. E. M a rrh am., Publisher. RENSSELAER, * INDIANA

Tnic proepsct of ths passage in the French Chamber of the btU to furnish a ■mall loan to the Panama Canml scheme •ppsara to behcpdess. The measure asks for less than f 5.000.000, the Govern • ment to simp y authorial the raising of this sum on a lottery loan. But even this measure of relief is not likely to be granted. Of course, when the French Gtovernment refaeee each support as ia. asked, the canal project, will collapse. Wehn it comes io "going for ’ an object, the average Ohioan is comprehensive and in partial. Even the new'spap*.r men are built tbe same way. A lot of them have jitsl fceld a meeting at ColhrSbUS and have drarwn t:jr-a billj which baa been presented to ttie Legislature, to compel the insurance organizatione doing business in Ohio to advertise their annual statement in two p-pira in every town and city in the State. No unfair discrimination isshowri in this endeavor to make the companies render tribute, and fire, life, mariue, ac cident, casualty, p’ate-giass, livestock and tornado organizations are all invited to walk to the newspaper office and settle. Tbe life companies are summoned, like the rest, in a lump, and the standard institutions, aa well as the industrial and assessment association, are included in the provisions of the bill Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart; there is noescspe for any of theni. Tbe total cost of thisenforced advertising to Ohio policy hoi tiers, it ia said, will be over $350,000 a year. The only reasonable way to square the thing would seem to be for the insurance companies to rush through a bill forcing the newspaper pioprietors to'take out policies of all kinds, whether necessary or not.

Life in Libby.

From the story of the celebrated escape fron\ Libby ia the March Century we quote to following: “At night the six large lofts pressnted strange war pictures, over which a single tallow candle wept copious and greasy tears that ran down over the petrified loaf of cornbread, Borden's condensed milk can, or bottle in which it was set, and where it struggled on until ‘taps,’ when the guards, with unconscious irony, shouted, ‘Lights!’ at which signal it usually disappeared amid a shower of boots and such other missiles as were at hand. The eleepers covered the six floors,lying n ranks, head to head and foot to foot, like prostrate lines of battle. For the general good, and to preserve something like military precision, these ranks (especially when cold weather compelled them to lie close for better warmth) were subdivided into .convenient squads under charge of a ‘captain,’ who was invested with authority to see that every man lay ‘spoon fashion.’ “No consideration of personal convenience was permitted to interfere with the general comfort of the ‘squad.’ Thus, when the hard floor could no longer he endured on the right side,— especially by the thin men, —the captain gave the command, ‘Attention, Squad Number Four! Prepare to spoon! One—two—spoon!’ And the whole squad Hooped over on the left side.”

A Mother's Prayer Answered.

Bangor Commercial. A very peculiar case is reported from Burlington by Mr. J. W. Bradbury, a resident of that town. On Friday of last week. Mrs. Esther Potter, of Long Ridge, died at her father's house, Alonzo Tripp, of consumption, after a lingering and painful illness. She was the mother of four children, three of whom, with a bereaved husband, a father, mother, brothers and sisters, she leaves to mourn her loss. But what seemed the hardest part of dying was that she must leave behind her babe of seventeen months, and her frequent prayer was that it might be permitted to go with her. At about 11 a. m., feeling her hour of departure was near, and calling her friends around her bed, bidding them good-by, kissing her children, one by one, a last farewell, and clinging to her babe as though no earthly power could sever the tie that bound them together, she earnestly prayed that it might accompany her on her journey home; and the child, who, but an hour before was aIL well as usual, playing about the room, immediately after receiving a kiss from its dying mother, closed its eyes, and in five minutes or less the spirit took its fight and the child was dead. The mother expired about 7 p. m. Both were buried in one coffin. Henry Bergh, founder and President of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, died at New York Monday. Hisacitivity in behalf of the right of animals to kind treatment has given him a world-wide reputation. Wm. Pittman and a man named Blaine at Springeville, A. T, had a quarrel over cards and agreed to settle it by a duel. Both men fell dead at the first fire. Rice & Griffin, sash and blind manufacturers of Worchester, Mass., have divided $1,476 among their employes as their share of the profits of 1887. 1 Much adieu about nothing—A woman’s fare well-

THE AGE OF SWINDLE.

Will Ton Walk Into My Parlok, Sals the Spider to the Fly. ( And the Poor, Unsuspecting Fly Walks In—Clean. Clever, Nice-Cut Webs the I, (tile Itasca 1 () Weaves — Trusts, Syndicates and Bank 1)14. rectors Need Watching Badly. i Rev. Dr., Tslmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject, “The Age of Swindles.” Text, Job vii., 14: ‘‘Whose trust shall be a spider’s web.” He said: The two must skillful architects in the world are tbe bee and the spider. The one puts up a sugar manufactory and the other builds'A slaughter-honse ior flies. On a bright summer morning when the sun comes out anti shines upon ihe spider's web. bedecked with dew, the gossamer str-ucau redeems.bjijikt-.WIPPgb lor suspension brioge for supernatural beings to cross on. But, alas! for tbe poor fly which, in the latter part of that very day, ventures on it anti is caught and dugeoned and destroyed. The fly was in formed that it was a free •bridge and would <;ost nothing, but at the other end of the bridge the 'dll paid Was its own life. The next day there comes a strong wind and away goes the w;eb and the marauding spider and the victimized flv. So delicate are the silken threads ot the spider’s web that many thousands of them are put together before they become viaibie to the human eye, and it lakes four millions of them to make a thread aa large as the human hair. Most cruel, as well as ingenious, is the spider. A prisoner in the Baßtilo, France, had one so trained that at the sound of a violin it every day came for its meal of fliep. Job, the autnor of my text, and the leading scientist of his day, had no

doubt watched the voracious process of thisone insect with another, and saw spider and fly 6wept down with the same broom, or scattered by the same wind. Alas, that the world has many designing spiders ai.cTvlCtimized flies. ~ Tuere has not been a time when the utter and black irresponsibility of many men having the financial interests of o hers in charge has been more evident than in these last few years. The unroofing of banks, and the disappearance, administrators with the funds of large estates, and the disorder amid Postoffice accounts and deficits anyld United States officials, have made a pestilence of crime that solemn;z ts every thoughtful man and woman, and leads every philanthropist and Christian to ask: What shall be done to stay the • plague? There is a monsoon abroad, a typhoon, a siirocco. I sometimes ask myseli if it would not be better for men making wills to bequeath the property directly to the executors and officers of the Chart, and appoint the widows and orphans a committee to see t bat the former got all that did not belong to them. The simple fact is, that there are a large number of men Bailing yachts and driving fast horses and” members oT expensive club houses and controlling country seats, who are not worth a dollar if thev return to others their just rights. Under some sudden reverse they fail, and with sffl eted air seem to retire from the world, and seem almost ready for monastic life, when in two or three years they blossom out again, having compromised with, their creditors —that is, paid them nothing but regrets—and tbe only difference be Tween the second chapter of .prosperity and the first is that their pictures are Murillos instead of Kensette, and their horses go a mile in twenty seconds less than their predecessors, and instead of one country seat they have three. I Lave watched and have noticed that nine out of ten of those who fail in what is called high life Lave more means after than t>. n.re tb. failure, and in many of tbe eni-e- u-.iiu • is only astratege'm to est spe p, \ ment of honeßt «iebts and pm .lie wolf off the track while they practice a large swindle. TherC is something woefully wrong in the fact that these things are possible. Fast of all, I charge tbe blame on careless, indifferent Bank Directors and Boards having in charge great financial institutions. It ought not to be possij ble for a president or cashier or prominent officer of a banking institution tosys inule it year after‘year without detection. I will undertake to say that if these frauds are carried on for two or three years without detection either the Directors are partners in the infamy and pocketed part of the theft, or they aregnilty of a culpable neglect of duty, for which God will -hold them as re*

sponsible as He bolds the acknowledged defrauders. What rights have prominent business men to allow their names to be published as' directors in a financial inetituti n so that unsophisticated people are thereby induced to deposit their money" in or buy the scrip thereof, the published Directors, are doing nothing for the safety of the institution? It is a case of deception most reprehensible. Many people with a surplus of money mot needed for immediate use, althouvh it may be a little farther on indispensable,, are without friends competent to advise them, and they are guided soleiy by the character of the men whose names are associated with the institution. When the crash came, and with the overthrow of the banks went the, small earnings and limited fortunes of widows and orphan ta, and the helplessly aged, the Directors stood with idiotic stare, and to the inquiry of the frenzied depositors and stock holders who had lost their ail, and to the arraignment of an indiguant nnhlie had nothirff to aav oirpnl: i% Wu thought it was all right. We did not know there was any thing wrong going on.” It was their duty to know. They stood in a position which deluded the people with the idea that they were carefully observant. Calling themselves directors, they did not direct. They had opportunity of auditing accounts and inspecting the books. No4ime to domo? Then they had no business to accept the position. It seems to be the pride of some moneyed men to be Directors in a great many institutions, and all they know is whether or not they get their names are nsed as decoy ducks to bring others near enough to be made game of. Wha f first of ail is needod is that five thousand bank Directors and insurance company Directors resign or attend to their business as Directors. Toe business world will be full of (rand, * jnst as long as fraud is so easy. When you arrest the President and Secretary of a bank for an embf ezlement cairnd on lor many years, have plenty of Sheriffs out the same day to arrest all the Director.

They are guilty eitner oi neglect or complicity. , .-“Oh” some one will say, “better prttach the Gospel and let buamess mat? tern alone.” I reply: If your Goepei does not inspire comfoon honesty in the dealings of men the sooner you dose up pour Gospel and pitch into tbe depths otthe Atlantic Ocean the better. An orthodox swindler is worse than atheterodox swindler. The recitation" of all the cathechisms and creeds ever written ’ arid drinking from all the communion chgrge that ever glittered in the churches of Christendom, will never save your soul unless yonr business character corresponds with yonr religious profession! Some of the worst scoundrels in America have been members of churches, and they got fat on sermons about heaven when they most needed to have the pul pits preach that which would either bring them to repentance or thunder tns in outof the holy communions where their presence was a sacrilege and an infamy. We also deolore abuse of trust funds, because they fly in the face of that Di'Vlrre gtoffnees which seems determined to bless this land. We are having the eighth year of unexampled National harvest, the wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat, and the; corn gamblers get hold of the corn. The full tide of God’s mercy toward this land ia put back by those great dikes ofdishonest resistance. When God provides enough food and clothing to feed and apparei this whole Nation like Princes, the scrabble of dishonest men to get more than their share, and get it at all hazards, keeps everything shaking with uncertaintv, and everybody asking: “What next?” Every week makes new revelations. How many more bank Presidents and hank cashiers have been speculating with other people’s money, and how many more bank Directors are in imbecile Bilence letting the perfidy go on. the great arid patient God only knows! My opinion is that we have got near the bottom. The wind has been pricked from the great bubble of. American speculation. The men who thought that the judgment day was at least five thousand years or more found it in 1888,1887,1886; and this notion has been taught that men must keep their hands out of other people’s pockets. Great businesses built on borrowed capital have been obliterated, and men who had nothing have lost all they had. I believe we are started on a higher career of prosperity than this land has ever seen, if, and if, and if. If the fitrtt men, and especially Christian men, will learn never to speculate upon borrowed capital. If you have a mind to take tour own uoney and turn it all into kites to fly them over every commons in the United States, you do society no wrong except when you tumble your helpless children into the poor house for the public to take care of. But you have no right to take the money of others and turn it into kites. There is one word that has deluded more people into bankruptcy and State prison than any other word in commercial life, and that is the word borrow; that one word is responsible for all the defalca’ionß and embezzlements and financial consternations of the last twenty years. When executors conclude to speculate with the funds of an estate committed to their charge, they do not purloin, they Bay they only borrow: when a banker makes an overdraft upon higjDstitutioD, he does not commit a toeft, he only boriows. When the officer of a company, by flaming advert sements in.same religious papers, and gilt certificates of stock, gets a multitude of country people to put their small earnings into an enterprise for carrying on some undeveloped nothing, he does not fraudulently take their money, he only borrows. When a young mau with easy access to his employer’s money drawer.or the confidential clerk by close propinquity to the account books, takes a few dollars for a Wall street excursion, be expects to put it back; he will put it all back; he will put it all back very soon. He only borrows. Why,when you are going to do wrong, pronounce so long a word as borrow, a word of six letters, when you can get a shorter word more descriptive of the reality, a word of only five letters, the w ord steal! 1 stand this morning before many who have trust funds. It is a compliment to you that you have been so intrusted,but I charge you, in the presence of God and the worWy-he careful; be careful of the property of others as you are careful of your own. Above alb keep your own private account at the bank separate from your account as trustee of an esia'e or trus’.e.e of an institution. To at is the point at which thousands of people make shipwreck. They get the property of others mixed up with their own prbp-

— r _ r • ~ r ertj; they put it into investment, and away it all gees, and they can not; return that which they borrowed. Then comes the explosion,and the money market is shaken, and the .press denounces, and the church thunders expulsion. You have no right to uee the property of others, except for their advantage; r.or without consent, unless they are minors. If, with their consent, you invest their property as well as you cap, and it is all lost, you are not to blame; you did the b4st you could, but do not come into the delusion which has ruined so many men, of thinking because a thing is in their possession therefore it is theirs. Yeti naver a solemn trust which God has given you. In this vast assemblage there may be some who have misappropriated trust funds. Pay them "back, ~ot, if yon have so hopelessly involved them that von can not pay them back, confess the whole thing to those whom you have wronged and you will sleep better nights, and yon will have a better chance for vour soul. What a sad thing it would be if after you are dead your administrator should find out from the account books, or frond the lack of vouchers, that you were not only bankrupt in estate, but that you lost your soul. If all the trust funds that have been misappropriated should suddenly fljHo their owners, apd all the proprrty that has been purloined should suddenly go back to its owners, it would crush into ruin every city in America. L=*t me sav in the mo3t empathatic manner to all yonng men, dishonesty willneverpay. An abbot wanted to buy a piece of ground and the owner would not sell it, but the owner finally consented to let it to him until he conld raise one crop, and the abbot sowed acorns, a crop of two hundred years! And I tell you, young man. that the dishonesties which yon plant in your heart and life will seem to be very insignificant, but they will grow up until they will overshadow

you with horrible darkness, overshadow all time and all eternity, it wilt not be a crop for two-hundred years, but a crop for everlasting ages. I have also a word of comfort for all who suffer from the malfeasances of otht rt, and every honest mau, woman and child does sufler from what sots on in financial scampdom. Society is so bound together that all the misfortunes which good people sufler in business matters come irdm tbe misdeeds of others. Bear up under distress, strong in God, he wiil see you through; though misfortunes should be centupled. y

NEW YORK SNOWED UP.

Trattic Almost Aitogethrr M oppnt and T, lAgraphic Communication Hnut Off. New York, March 12—A furious storm of wind, accompanied successively by ra : n, snow, hail and sleet, broke over the Atlantic coast, in this section, early last evening. It is safe to say no such destructive storm to the telegraph wires has been experienced in many years. Notasiagle wire can be used to Philadelphia, eighty-eight miles, and the telegraph facilities bet weep, that c>ty and New York are probably ucequaledin any similar distance in any other country in the world. The hardest snow storm of the year by far is raging in New York City. It began early this morniDg, and at 9 o’clock there was a foot or over on the ground. The high wind caused drifts, which in the upper part of the city were three or four feet high. Traffic was almost suspended. Thousands of passengers were blocked on tbe elevated roads. Horse cars were entirely unable to move. People who left up town by elevated roads were unable to get further than Eighty-sixth street by the road.

At 7:10 this morning two trains on Third avenue Elevated Road collided at Seventy-sixth-street Station. One train was at the station unloading and taking on passengers, with which it was already overloaded. Owing to the snow on the track the train was unable to start. After it had been standing about twenty minutes, to the honor of all, a traiu came rushing down the incline from Seventy-fourth street, and dashed into the rear c ir.. The scene that followed was indescribable. The engine reared upon the end of the last car, and the steam escaped in great volumes, but fortunately rushed upward, thus saving the hemmed-in crowd on the forward train, as well as those on that end of the platform. The engineer of the rear train was killed and a number of passengers were injured. Postmaster Pearson said he had not seen such a blockade for a number of years. ATlThe telegfaph andtelephone wires in the city are in bad working order. Hundreds of wires are down, having been broken by the weight of the ice and snow. Tae ferry-boats of New York and Brooklyn and Jersey City are running once an hour or ies3. The wind at 10 a. m. attained a veloc'ty of sixty three miles an hour. It was so fierce up town that people on the elevated trains were fearful lest the trains should be blown from the track,

At midnight the storm was unabated. The wind was as furious as ever, but the snow had stopped falling. The snow drifts in the business streets are as deep as in the country districts. Grown persons here never saw the like. But meagre reports ha7e been received from uptown districts, but in the lower portions, where reporters managed to struggle through the Bnow and against the wmd, more than one hundred fractures of limbs and contusions of the skull were reported. The ambulance horses at the different hospitals were completely worn out early in the night, and calls in many cases could not tee responded to. 7 p m —T he storm is increasing and is absolutely unprecedented. All business ha 3 been paralyzed, At the Stock Exchange less than fifteen thousand shares were ecld, the smallest on record. Xheproduc9 markets were all nomioa’. The weather stopped the courts, jurors and witnesses iD murder cases being

unable to arrive. Every car in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey C.ly, and the elevated trains are stopped. The Brooklyn bridge and the ferries are almost abandoned, and the down-town hotels crammed withsubuibanites. The elevated roads run three thousand trains daily usually, and never before were Btopped. Westerners declare that Dakota never furnished the equal of New York’s blizzard to-day. Of forty mails due between 4 a. m. and noon, only two badarrived"by2 thhrafternocm; 9 p. m.—There is no abatement in the storm. The thermometer has fallen to 4°, and frozen ears and feet were never. so numerous. The drag stores have been filled with patients all day and evening. A woman absolutely froze to death, to-night, at t,he coiner of Broadway and Fulton street, popularly supposed to be the busiest four corners on earth. In the streets hundreds of loaded wagons have been apandoned and the horses taken to the nearest stables. There have been countless accidents from slipping. The Astor House alone turned away 300 would-be guests, and he other hotels have similar experience. At 1 a. m., on the 13th, the wind had slightly moderated. Every commercial and public electric light in the city was ordered shut off early in the night, for fear the wires would break and damage be done to pedestrians. Traffic on the elevated roads was not resumed till late at night, and then the trains ran only at irregular and long intervals.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Measles are epidemic at Terre Haute. Measles are epidemic at ville. Martha Bush, colored, of Jeffersonville, is 101 yeais old arid is still very active. Hogn attacked a live cow near Montpelier and chewed her so badly that she was in a dviDg condition when found. Rev. Butler, of Noble county, hasbJennomiiated for Congress by the Prohibitionists of the Twelfth district. John Angeriew, an old German citizen of Rochester, fell from a second story window, Wednesday, and was killed. Among those spoken of for candidates for Governor on the Democratic ticket are Myers, Mation, Cobb, Manson and Holman. The rich gold and silver finds reported recently from the southern part of the State, are-suspected of -being frauds, and .that the mineß have been “salted.” The Indiana Supreme Court has decided that Bleeping car companies can not be taxed on their earnings in this State, alleging that it would be a tax on inter state commerce.

Mamie Armstrong, a sixteen-year-old girl of Wabash, committed suicide Friday, by taking arsenic, alleging as the cause brutality of her father. He refused to visit her when on her deathbed. Gold is now being dug in Brown county, just south of MorgantowD, in considerable quantities, by Walker & Seaters, old California miners from Ohio. The prospects are good, and farmers are asking double prices for their land iD that locality. Lead is also found there. The parties at Logansport who charged Professor E. M. C. Hobbs with embezzling the funds of the Normal College at Logansport have retracted the charges and acknowledged that their charges ere based on erroneous in" formation. The matter has been amicably ssttlel without a libel suit The annual conference of the Dun’rard or German Baptist Church will be held at North Manchester, beginning May 20. There is a large body of this peculiar sdet living in Piatt county, Illinois. They practice feet-waßhing. and the holy kiss. They baptize their members three times, lacs foremost, and dress much the same as the Quakers. Louis Richter, a rich young farmer, residing seven miles from Evansville, shot and killed Louisa Schmitt, his cousin, about five o’clock Thursday afternoon, and then committed suicide by shooting himself. He,was in love with the girl and she refused to marry him, and he became so enraged that he

enacted the tragedy. His father was clerk of the court of the county. The Democratic State Central Committee met at Indianapolis qn the Bth and fixed April 26th as the date for holding the State convention. Col. Rice resigned the chairmanship of the committee, and Hon. E. P. Richardson, of Pike county, was elected to the vacancy. The representation in the State convention is to be one delegate for every 2CO votes cast for Gray and one for each fraction over 100. The December report of the United States Cqcpmissioner of Agriculture gives Indiana the credit of producing the greatest amount of wheat of any State in the Union in 1887. The figures of the yield, together with those of the production in the States approaching nearest to that of Indiana are as follows: Indiana,'B/02.68acres; 57.525.000 bushels. Illinois, 27415 092 sores; 86/61.000 bushels. Minnesota, 8.129.208 a«resr 80 209,000 bushels, ©bio, 2,740,087 acres; 80,595,000 bushels. Two masked men entered the house of Stephen Irvin, at Marion, Thursday night, and in the absence of Irvin bound and gagged his wife, and threatened her life if she aid not reveal where an alleged sum of money was concealed. Mrs. Irvin, unable longer to stand the strain, although she had made a heroic defense, swooned away. The robbers then ransaeked the house, but got nothing. Mrs. Irvin is in a oritical condition.

A company of alleged counterfeiters has been discovered in Harrison township, Elkhart county. The first information the people of the neighborhood had that anything of the kind was being practiced was at a series of school exhibitions a few nights ago, when a number of bogus nickels were disposed of. The coins bad been tracked to two young men of highly respectable parentage. It is supposed that there are several confederates. Several parties who bad claims against the Western Mutual Life and Accident Assurance Society of Elkhart, having been refused payment, have begun suit forabonlTlOjOOO, and the company’s property and garnished i tg’offi cers and the cashier of the - bank in which the company had its deposits. To add to the confusion thus caused, the board of trustees of the company and secretary have got into a dispute, and the latter changed the combination of the safe and refused to open it. On Monday morning a new suit was began in the Circuit Coart, in which the plaintiff asks for the appointment of a receiver. This demand is based upon an affidavit of the secretary, in which he swears that the company is insolvent. The joint convention of the operators and miners of Indiana has jost closed at Terre Haute, afterhaving reached an agreement upon sevfefal very important matters. The machine question waß not finally settled; the whole question was referred to a joint committee for

arbitration. The machine operators elected D. J. Jenne, of Brasil, President, and adopted, with the aid of the miners, a set of rules by which both aides shall be sovemed. By far the most important is the agreement that the company concedes the rights-of its employes to belong to any or all labor organisation, but at the same time it expects its employes will respect and regard the rights of each other to belong to any cr no labor organization. Another agreement ia that “all differences are to be adjusted by arbitration.” Macy Warner, a convict, was hanged in the Southern penitentiary, on the 9tb, for th# murder of J’rank Harris, April 16th, 1887. He was cool and cheerful to the last—the sunniest person about the place. He kept Up his spirits until the last, and when onr the scaffold took hold of the rope that was to throttle him arid told those present if they were ever tempted to drink to look into the • hotter of the glass to learn if they couldnot see a noose there. He expressed undoubtful faith in hiß conversion. He explained his change of faith from the Catholic to the Presbyterian because bia mother and all his relatives either were or had been members of that church, and that he did not believe it would be treating his' mother right to die outside that chuich. After the execution a disgraceful seene took place by one Henry Cook getting on tn© gallows and catting the rope into Email pieces, amid the jeers of the crowd, who grabbed the pieces like hungry hyenas would flesh. The crime for which Warner died was a most revolting one. He cut the throat of Harris with a shoe knife, alleging that Harris had called him an approbious name. Warner was a hard character though but 25 years oldi

"Tiro Huron Libor Party. A Slate convention of the Union Labor party was held at Indianapolis on the 7th with about 100 representatives present. W. P. Smith, of Marion county, was elected chairman and A. J. Johnson, of Vermillion, Secretary. The usual committees were appointed, that on platform and resolutions consisting of the foliowing: lßt district, no delegate; 2d, George Galloway; 31, Wm. H. Carr; 4'h, J. Lindly; sth, L. V. Keightly- 6th, W. H. Maxwell; 7th, Phil R-ppaport; Bth, M. C. Rankin; 9:h, W. G. Vandever; 10th, J. R. Barnett; 11th, W. P. McMahon; 12th, Frank Wilson; 13th, no delegate. The resolutions adopted declaring in favor of the repeal of the law allowing the voting of aid to railway corporations and the present prison contract labor as now practiced against free labor; that all officials be paid fixed salaries; favor a change in election laws so that the voter will be secured from public observation during the act of voting; call for non-partisan management cf the State benevolent institutions; favor the •State furnishing school books at cost to the townships, to be given free to the pupils; oppose child labor; favor a service pension law, “Pensions shouldbe granted aB diplomas of honoraole service, not as badges of dependence and poverty” favor a law that when judgment is for unpaid wages no property is exempt. The following ticket was nominated: Governor. J. B. Milroy. Carroll. l.ieutenant Governor, J. F. White, Marion Secretary of State, A. U Geyer, St. Joseph. Auditor of State, Jonu IJ.1 J . Hanuegan, Tippecanoe. Treasurer of State, B. F. Doll. Bartholomew. Cleric of Bupreme Court. J. C. Smith, White. Sunerinteudent of Public Instruction, A. J. Johnson, Vermillion.

Vaccination.

St. Louis Physician. Every parson ought to be vaccinated once in seven year?, for it is well established, notwithstanding aims popular prejudices about disease! being transmitted in vaccine, that the sufferings from smallpox are greatly ameliorated by the presence of the subtle sub3tauce. At the City Dispensary we have been vaccinating from fifteen to twenty- five persons a day with virus that we obtain from farm cows in the vicinity of Kirksville, on the Missouri Pac fi:. Formerly we used a lance, but that was unnecessary and scared children. New we use a quill sharpened at one end containing the vaccine liquefied. We jnst scrape off the outer cuticle until blood appears, and with the other put on the virus. A bloody quill is not a safe one. Home of the children that we vaccinate are only 3 months old. lam a believer in the theory that vaccination is proper at any age. The sore may be located on any part of the body, but the arm is most used, being most convenient for the child. When several children gretO~be vaccinated it Is best to take the larger ones first, as the babies as a rale do the loudest bawling and scare the others who are to follow.Vaccination as a practice iB growing larger year by year.

The Soured Man.

Wilmington (Del.) Home Weekly. Nobody loves the soured man. Ha is not an agreeable companion; his sympathies have been warped, his temper made surly, his' disposition embittered —he is at o ats with the world. No one very well remembers what be once was. All have forgotten the time when his pnlse beat warm and high, when his hand had a firm and hearty grasp, when he loved and hoped. Everybody knows that he is cold, cross grained, i rpractical,and cynical now. The world pushes him aside, society votes him a bore, and l his best friends shake their heads and wonder that they ever lupposed Be would amount to anything. He is a failure, and everybody knows it aa well as he does himself.