Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1888 — Page 2

%ht G*o. E. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

Mr. Blaink will mil for America on the day the Rspublicaa national convention convene*, and says that under no circumstances will he take part in the campaign. There are som@ people who profess to believe that Blaine will receive the nomination and accept. Thkrv seems to be considerable of a disposition on the part of Prohibitionists in the South to take separate party action. If this design should be carried out, it will probably affect tfie Democrats no little, it being conceded that they will draw the more largely from the Democrats in the Sooth, as they do from the , Republicans in the North. For the present, how--7 ever, the probabilities are the South will go Democratic as heretofore.

Th* Chicago anarchists, after a few months of comparative quiet, are getting loud again. One Currlin, the editor of an anarchist paper, made a speech Sunday to a crowd of sympathisers in which he expressed a great anxiety to become a martyr; If this peculiar animal, the anarchist, had any real grievance against our manner of government which could be remedied, he ought to be heard, and the evil, if any, remedied. Such is not claimed. Complaint is made against the present order of things, which have existed, in a more or lees perfect degree, since the days of Adam, and which are possibly as prolific of good to the masses as human agency can foresee. In the meantime, therefore, it would be well to gratify the worthy ambition of Mr. Currlin, if such extreme measures are required to close up his mouthtrap. There must be no more Hayraarket massacres.

SHAM SICKNESS DETECTED.

An Amasing Incident in Which Castor Oil Played a Part. Mobile Regteter. Colonel Bevier, of the Confederate army, relates that his surgeon came to him one day, saying that he bad 175 men on the sick list. Many of them were believed to be playing sick, and the Colonel and the surgeon agreed upon a course of treatment. The result showed that, whatever progress may have been made in the science of medicim, nothing is more effective in many casee than a certain very simple and odd-fashioned remedy. —-r —--- Next morning at roll call I had the *->rgeant-major form the sick in double file and match them to the doctoi’s quarters, where he stood ready with a backet of castor oil in one hand, a tablespoon in the other and his sleeves rolled np. One hundred and eighty-two sturdy invalids in open ranks were before him, and the solemn preparations had attracted bo much attention that half the brigade were present to see the fun. The doctor gravely approached the head of the line. “Well, Brown, what ails you this morning?' 1 “Oh, doctor, I have such a nervous headache!” “I think a dose of castor oil will help you,” and with a wry face, amid the snouts of his comrades, Brown took '.it. “Mullins, are you sick?” “Yes, doctor; I have the plumbago.” “GtftQXoU is the vary thing for that,” ‘ said the doctor, with an audible smile, and Mnllin’s “plumbago” was greased With a heavy dose. “Hallo, Melton! What’s the matter with yon?" “Colic," said Melton, feebly.

“Bad?” asked the doctor. ‘ Not very. I don’t needany oil.” “You must taxethie," said the doctor, ~‘We6syou are watt enough tcrgo back to duty.” “I’ll go back then,” murmured Melton, looking around apprehensively: “Adjutant,” I said, “put him on doub’e guard for shamming.” Thus the issue was clearly defined, castor oil c r double duty, and quite a number of them accepted the latter. The fun among the outsiders was up roariouf , bad jokes fell thick and fast The curative properties of castor oil bordered on the mtr villous, for next morning not over fifty men were on tbe sick list. How to Preserve Pineapples. New York Telegram. The pineapple season is now at its best, and housekeepers who wish to preserve the fruit should take advantage of its "present low price. Excellent pines may be purchased for 10c or 15c each, and half a dozen will make as many good-sized jars of preserves. Care Bhould be taken to select perfectly sound fruit and that which is not too ripe. The skin should be removed with a sharp knife and the pine cat in uniform slices about half an inch thick. Half a pound of sugar to each pound of fruit is sufficient. ' Put the sngar in the preserving kettle with b half-pint of water to each pound of sugar, boil to a Syrup about two honn, pat in the sliced frui' and bring to a boil. Remove from the fire and seal in glass jars. Tbe jars shonld be put into hot water before the fruit is placed in them. They should be filled to overflowing to prevent any air getting in between the juice and cover, and eealed tightly.

TURN FROM EVIL WAYS.

Reformation and rftw to Bring it About, T«adaaey of Human Nature Toward Bril Tb 1 nar»—hnrrh*« Tjo Of .on U«prl Kithar than Attract the Erring. , f Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Chicago last Subject: “Reformation from Evil Habits.” Text: Proverbs xxiii., 36. “When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.” Onr libraries are adorned with an elegant literature addressed to young men, pointing out to them all the dangers and perils of life—complete mapß of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the quicksands, the shoals. But suppose s man has already made shipwreck; pappose be is already off the track; suppoee he has slreadTyrone astray, how is he to get back? That is a ffeld comparatively untonched. I propoae to address

myself this evening to such. . There are those in this Sndience who, with every passion of their agonized sonl, are ready to bear this discussion. They compare themselves with what they were ten years ago, and cry oat from the bonrhg-s in which they are incarcerated. Now, if there be any in this bouse, come with an earnest purpose, yet feelirg they are bevond the pale of Christian sympathy, and that the sermon can hardly be expected to address them. theD, at this moment, I give them my right hand and call them brother. Look up. There is glorious and triumphant bore for you vet. 1 sound the trumpet of Gospel deliverance. The church ie ready to spread a banquet at your return, and tho hierarchs of Heaven to fall into line of bannered procession at the news of your emancipation. So far as God may help me, I propose to show what are the obstacles of your return, and then how you are to surmount those obstacles. The first difficulty in the way of yonr return is the force of moral gravitation. Just as there is a natural law which brings down to the earth anything which you throw into the air, so there is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other words, it is easier to go down than it is to go up; it is to do wrong than it is to do right. Call to mind the comrades of your days—some of them good, seme of them bad. Which most affected you? Call to mind the anecdotes that you have beard in the last five or ten years—some of them are pure, and some ol them impure. Which the more easily sticks to your memory? Daring the years of your life you have formed certain conrtes of conductsome of them good, some of them bad. To which style of habit did you the more easily yield? Ah! my friends, we have to take but a moment of seif-in-spection to find.out that there is in all our souls a force of moral gravitation. But that gravitation may be resisted. Just as you may pick up from the earth and holt! it in your hand toward heaven, just so by the power of God’s grace a soul fallen may be lifted toward peace, toward pardon, toward heaven. Force of moral gravitation is in every one of ue.but power in God’s grace*) overcome that force of moral gravitation. The next thing in the wav of your return is the power of evil habit, 1 know there are those who say.it is very easy for them to give up evil habits. I do not believe tnem. Hero is a man given to intoxication. He knows it is disgracing ms destroying his property, ruining him, body, mind, and soul. If that man, being an intelligent man and loving his familv, could easily give up that habit, would he not do so? The fact that he does not give it up proves that it is hard to give it up. It is a very easy thing to sail down stream, the tide carrying you with great force; but suppose you turn the boat up stream, is it so easy then to row it? As long ss we yield to the evil inclinations in our hearts and onr bad habits,we are sailing down stream; but the moment we try to turn, we put our boat in the rapids just above Niagara and try to row upstream. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most ot you do, and let him resolve to stop, and he finds it very difficult. Twenty-one years ago I quit that habit, and I wouid as Boon dare to put my right hand in tho fire as once to

indulge in it. Why? Because it was such a terrible struggle to get over it. Now, let a man be advised by his physician to give up the use of tobacco. He goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He cm not add np a line of figures. He can not steep of nights. It seems as if the world had turned nrlaidft-jdown. He feels that his business is going to rum. Where - before he is kind and obliging be is now scolding and fretful. The composure that characterized him has given away" to' fretful restlessness, and he has become a complete fidget. What power is it that has piled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent in the heavens? He has tried to slopamokiug. Aftera while he says: “I am going to do as I please The doctor doesn’t understand my case. I am going back to the old habit.” And be returns; everything assumes its usual composure; his business seems to brighten. The world becomes an attractive place to live in. His children, seeing the difference, hai’ the return of their fathers g-nial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue into the sky, and greenness into the mountain foliage, and the glow of sapphire into the sunßet? What enchantment has lifted a world ot beauty and joy on his soul? He has gone back to smoking Oh, Che fact is, as we all know in our own experience, that habit is a taskmaster; as long as we obey it, it dc«3 not chastise us; but let us resist, and we find that we are to be lashed with scorpion whips, and bound with ship cable, and thrown into the track of bone-breaking Juggernauts. Daring the War of 1812 tbeer was a ship set en fire just above Niagara Falls, and then, cat loose from its moorings, it came on down through the night and tossed over the falls. It waß said to have been a scene brilliant beyond all description. Well, there are thousands of men on fire, of evil habit, coming down through the raoids and through the awful night of temptation toward the eternal plunge. Ob, how hard it is to arrest them. God only can arrest them. Suppose a man after five, to", or twewty years of’evil doing resolves to do right.’ Why all the foroes of.darkness are allied against him. He cannot sleep nights. He gets down on his knees in the midnight and cries: “God helpme!” Hs bites his lip. He grinds his teeth. He clenches his fist

in a determination to keep his purpose. He dare not look at the hottlse in e wme store. Itis one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fignt with inflamed, tantalising and merciless habit. When he thinka he is entirely tree, the old inclinations pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles, tearing away at the flanks of one poor reindeer. In Paris there is asculptnred rej r mentation of Bacchus, the God of Revelry. He is riding on a panther at fall- le«p. Oh! how suggestive.' Let every one who is speeding on had ways understand he not riding a docile and well-broken steed, bat he is riding a monster, wild and bloodthirsty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolve on a better life, and say: “When shall I awake?” but, seized on by their old habits, $7: “I will try it once more; I will seek it yet again!”'

I have also to say that if a man wants to return from evil practices society re-pul-ea him. Deeiring to reform, he says: “Now I will shake off my old associates, and I will find Christian companionship:” And he appears at the cbnrch door some Sabbath day, and the usher greets faint with as much as to say: “Why, you here? You are the last man I ever expected to see at church! Come, take this seat right down by the door, instead of saying: “Good morning: I am glad you are here. Come; I will give you a first-rate seat, right up by the pulpit.” Well* the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters a prayermeeting, and some Christian man, with mure zeal than common sense, says: “Glad to see you; the dying thief was saved, and I suppose there is mercy for yon.” The young man, disgusted chilled, throws himself on his dignity, resolved he will never enter into the house of God again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he aides np by some highly respectable mr he used to know, gorag down the street, and immediately the respectable man has an errand down some other street. Well, the prodigal wishing to return takes some member oi a Christian association by the hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the fadedapparel and the marks of dissipaiiou, instead of giving him a warm grip of the hand offers him the tip ends of the long fingers of the left hand, which is equal to striking a man in- the fact! Oh, how few Christian people understand how much force and gospel there is in a good, honest handshaking! Sometimes, when you have felt the need oi encouragement, and some Christian man has taken you heartily bv the haud, have you not felt tnrilling through every fiber of your body, mind and sonl an encouragement that was just what yon needed? You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to return from evil courses of conduct he runs against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man, he lives a block or two from the church, or half a mile irem the church. There are people in our crowded cities who live a thousand miles from church. Vast deserts of indifference between them and the house of God. The fact is, we must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if there came to the house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon him, people almost threw up their hands in horror, as much cs to say: “Isn’t it shocking?” How these dainty, fastidious Christians in all our churches are going to get into heaven I don’t know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself. They can not go with the great horde of publicans nnd sinners. 0! ye who curl your lip of scorn at the fallen, I tell you plainly if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refined, and the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretch in stable or ditch, covered with filth and abomination. It is not because you are naturally iny better, but because the mercy of God has protected you. Who are you that, brought up in Christian circles and watched by Christian parentage, vou should be so hard od the fallen? ' ——

I think manjalso areoftenhindered from return by the fact that churches are too anxious about their membership, and too anxious about their denomination, and they rush out when they see a man about to give up his sin and return to .God, And ask him how he is goinj: to be baptized, whether by sprinkling or immersion, and what kind of a church he is going to join. Ohl my friends, it is a Catechisms, and Episcopal Liturgies, and Methodists Lovefeasm, and Baptistries to a man that is coming out of the -d»T.iw«aa,nf,ain.in.tp th&_fiLnTinftg light nf the Gospel. Why, it reminds me of a man drowning in the sea, and a lifeboat pat out for him, and the man in the boat says to the man oat of the boat: “Now, if I get you ashore, are you going to live on my street?” First get ashore, and then talk about the non essentials of religion. Who cares what church he joins, if he only joins Christ and start lor heaven? Oh! you ought to have, my brother, an illuminated face and hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from his evil way. Take hold of the same book with him, though his dissipations shake the book, remembering mat “he that converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death and hide a multitude of sins.”

Now, I have shewn you these obstacles because I want you to understand I know all the difficulties in the way; but I Rm now to tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps, and how the shccklee may be unriveted,anJd how the paths of virtue forsaken may be regained. First of all. my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to Him frankly and earnestly, and tell Him these habits yon have, and ask Him if there is any help in all the resonrees of omnipotent love, to give it to you. Do not go with along rigmarole people call prayer, made up qi “ohs” and “aha” and “forever and ever amens!” Go to God and cry for help! help! help! and, if yon can not cry for help, just look and live. I remember in the late war, I was at Antietam, and I went into the hospitals after the tattle, and said-to a man: -“Where are ; ou hart?” He made no answer, but held up his arm, swollen and splintered. I saw where he waa hart. The simple fact is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic Loid and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Then, also, I couniel you, if you want to get back, tcM}ait all yoar bad associations. One unnoly intimacy will fill

your soul with moral distemper. In all tne ages of the Church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. Go home to day, open yonr desk, take out letter paper, stamp and envelope and then write a letter something like this: Then sign yonr name, and send the letter by the first post Give np yonr bad companions or give np heaven. It is not ten bad companions that destroy a man, nor three bad companions, nor two bad companions, but one. What change is there for that young man I saw along the street four or five young men with him, halting in front of a grogshop, urging him to go in, be resisting, violently resisting, until after a while they forc< d him to go in? It was a summer night and the door was left open, and I saw the process. They held him fast, and they put the cap to his lips, and thev forced down the strong drink. What chance is there for Buch a young man?

I counsel yon, also, seek Christian advice. Every Christian man is bound to help yon. If yon find no other human ear willing to listen to your story of struggle, come Jo me and I will by even sympathy of my heart and every prayer, and every toil of my hand stand beside yon in the straggle for reformation; and as I hope to have my bwn sins forgiven and hope to be acquitted at the Judgment Seat of Christ. I will not betray vou. First of all seek God, then seek Christian counsel. Gather up all the energies of body, mind and soul, and, appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gamiDg practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing; it mnst be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are lost. Pash on and you are saved.

GEN. HARRISON IN CHICAGO.

The Republicans and Their Past History —The Present and Future. The Marquette club gave a banquet at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, Tuesday evening. Senator Harrison, of Indiana. responded to the toast, “The Republican Party.” He said he was the oldest Republican in the United States. The Republican party is the only party that had been proscribed and persecuted for adherence to the cause of humanity. In the darkest days of the rebellion the the Republican party saw Appomattox througn the smoke of Bull Run. The British instinct to coin commercial advantages out of war made England an ally of the Confederacy. ‘ The Republican party has always been able to handle the greatest questions Dresented to American statesmanship for solution. What is the condition of things to-day in the Southern States? The Republican vote is absolutely suppressed. More votes were cast in Nebraska to elect one congressman than were cast at the same election in Alabama to elect her entire delegation, and the Democrats say, what are yon going to do about it? We can protest if nothing more. I have no quarrel with the South, I am willing to forget that they were rebels as soon as they will forget it themselves. They do not seem to have reached that point yet. “The Republican parly has committed itself to the doctrine ‘ ot protection to American industries. I believe so long as our genius can supply us with what we need, we must take care of it. The prosperous voyage of the ship of state now is accounted for by the fact that the course of the ship was marked out and the rudder tied down before the present captain went aboard.” He said the intelligent people of Dakota were now barred from any voice in National affairs because the State was controlled by Republicans while National affairs at Washington were controlled by Democrats.

HE'S SHORT $150,000.

After an Honorable Career of Twenty.one Year*, Jam*-* W. Tale, Kentucky’* State Treasurer, Prove* to Be a Defaulter and Fugitive. " ■ A special from Frankfort, Ky., states that Governor Buckner Tuesday morning suspended Treasurer of State James W, Tate. Tate is charged with defalcation in his office and, it is said, Has flecf the Btate. The defaulting official has been Treasurer lor twenty-one years. He was considered the soul of honor, and the news will produce a tremendous seneation throughout the State. It is thought that Tate’s shortage will amount to between f150,G00 and |400,000. A later dispatch from Frankfort states that the investigrtiou immediately instituted on the recommendation of Governor Buckner has, up to 11 o’clook Tuesday morning, disclosed a deficit in Tate’s office of fl50;000, and that the irregularities seem to run back eleven years. . The discovery of Tate’s shortage is the result ot the examination of his books, commenced Borne days ago by an expert accountant. The Governor has placed the Treasurer’s office in charge of Auditor Hewett and Attorney General Hardin. The State has abundant resources at hand and all current expenses, payments, etc., will be met without interruption or delay. Treasurer Tate’s bond is for $300,000 and is well covered. He was in Louisville Saturday night, when he was observed to be drinking hard, an unusual thing fcr him. Since that time he has not been seen, and his whereabouts are pot known. • V

She Probably Will.

Philadelphia Times. The question as to whether the coming woman will wed or not appears to be agitating the reformers. In' the meantime the coming women go on marrying as fast as they continue to oome.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An organized gang of thieves are working Mt. Vernon. Joseph Morris, m nineteen-year-old yonth of Azalia, haa invented a machine to measure 'by weighing it as it runs from the elevator, and haa a fortune in sight. Articles of agreement have been signed at Marion by the terras of which Abram Reese, of Pittsburg, will erect a steel-rail factory that will give employment 10 four hundred men. Mrs. Dr. Hiram Comstock, of Shelby county, committed suicide, Monday morning, by drowning in a cistern. Her husband was buried a few days ago, and this is thought to have unballanced her mind. The Republicans of U nion county met at Liberty, Monday, and organized a Lincoln League. Chairman Huston made a speech and General Harrison was indorsed for the Republican nomination. L

Kokomo has secured a new glass factory which will give employment to 160 workmen. Windows and plate glass will be manufactured. This is the fifth large factory located in Kokomo eioce January 1. Lewis Harlan, a.prosperous cerpenter of Terre Haute, aged fifty, has gone insane on the subject of pensions. He had made application for a pension, and, having trouble in getting it, the matter weighed on his mfnd so that it drove him crazy. Charles A. Munson, of Fort Wayne, who was a candidate for Auditor oi State two years ago, and who was supposed to have a mortgage on the nomination again, has written a letter declining to make the race because of the pieisof private business. Sunday a young man from the country applied at the gas works for a bottle of ‘ gas oil.” supposing it to be a liquid and claimed it to be a core for “rhenmatis.” His [bottle was filled with coal tar and he went on his way rejoicing —Elkhart Sentinel. Smith Stewart, an old man who has keen living off the county for the past few years, while digging sassafras roots near Deputy, unearthed a box containing several hundred dollars m old French and Spanish corn. No one can give an idea how the money came there.

The tusk of a mammoth was unearthed near Losantville, in the northern part of Henry county, by Milo and Rufus Brookout, on Wednesday. It measures seven feet in length and twentyfour inches in diameter, and is a remarkably well-preserved specimen. Mrs. Fred Abrams-, wife of a railroad man, has just died at her home in Sonth Muncie. Mrs. Abrams has been attending a revival at the Chnrch of God. She was overcome by one of the socalled “trances,” and raved like a mad woman for one week before she died. Bhe never for a moment recovered her reason after being affected. The first report of the Purdue Experiment Station is issued. Hereafter quarterly publications on agricultural subjects will be published, which will be sent to any one actually engaged in farming, who will send for them to Professor J. H. Smart, President of Purdue University, Lafayette. The howling of dogs for two days and nights on the banks of Pigeon Greek, two miles from Evansville, attracted the attention of the police,and investigation discovered the body of John Scherle, the son of a wealthy German farmer, under the waters of the creek. He had been hunting, and, it is presumed, lost his way during the rain and windstorm, walked into the oreelrandwasdrowned.

Harry Foreman, a blackemith of Crawfordsville, drove his family from home, Sunday night, and locked himself 4a-the house .Marshall—Ensminger broke down the door and was promptly met by Foreman, who assaulted him with an ax. The officer was slightly alter fchootitrg" into tire dark room a number of times the man surrendered. Officer Brouthers was also severely injured by a blow from the ax. The Attorney General has rendered an opinion in which he holds that money which has once been turned into the common school fund of the State, either by a county or individual, cannot be withdrawn , even though the sum so paid is in excess of the claim of the fund against the county or person paying. He bases his decision o,n the constitution, which expressly says that the common school fund may be increased but never deoreased.

George Parker, who was given 100 lashes on his bare back, by the Crawford county White Caps.a few days ago, iareported in a dying condition, as the result of lya cruel punishment. It is stated that ma back waa bo horribly gashed from the whipping that the shoulder-blades and backbone were laid bare. Parker is a powerful man, weighing 180 pounds, but he waa tied face foremost to a tree, by twenty men, each one 61 whSSi fnive HirnTfive^lashes with heavy, elastic hickory switches. Parker is charged with not properly providing for his wife, to whom he has been married abont one year.

A fatal accident .occurred, Sunday evening, at the reaid ence of J. Kuch in Peru. His two sons, Fred and Karl, were playing at “ladian scouts,” when Karl, who waa snapping a supposed unloaded Revolver at hia brother, diachaged the weapon, tbe ball atriking Fred in the forenead,' killing him instantly. The

revolver had been nuaioadsd, bat Fred, daring the evening, had placed a live cartridge therein, from which he received his death a few moments later. The shooting was done in the presence of the horrifi*l parents, who are dearly crazed with grief. Fred was aged twelve and Karl sixteen. Patents were granted Indiana inventors Tuesday as Delane and 0. L. Cummins, near Colombia City, clod crusher and ground leveler; Isaac N. Elliott and P. A. Reid, Richmond, mechanical movement; Thomas E. Hall, assignor of one-half to D. R. Ennis, Indianapolis, car coupling; Daniel H. Kime, Kendallvilie, and H. Williarns, Toledo, hasp lock; John T. Obenchain, Logansport, turbine; Britton Poulson, assignor to W. D. Shiefer, Ft. Wayne, and J. 0. Hunt, Concord, Mass., devi:e for detaching buttons; Amos Sanders, North Vernon, receptacle for containing classified bills, letters or samples; Wm, D. Schiefer, Ft. Wayne, assignor of one-half to J. C. Hum, Concord, Mass.,device for detaching buttons; John L. Ush, South Wabash, potato drill; Jos. M. Van Mover, assignor of one-half to A. I. Abbott, Terre Haute, sliding or rolling gate; John 0. Voss, Bedford, catting apparatus; Herbert L. , Whitehead, Indianapolip, collapsible chair.

The forthcoming report of the trustees of the Insane Hospital to the Gov---ernor for the year 1887 will show a balance of if 52.26 remaining ot the total revenue of $260,000. During the year $14,904 62 was expended for repairs. Toe number of patients treated in the twelve months was 2,285, with an average daily nnmber of inmates of 1,668. The report states that the “food and care of patients is as good es can be obtained,” and places the per capita tost to the State at $169 68. In 1886 the per capita coßt was $160.02, but the greater expense «f last year is explained by the increased cost of food. Of the 1,087 men treated, fifty-one died, and of the 1,198 women treated, thirty-three died. It will be remembered that an inmate died in the hospital last summer, from the effects of scalding while in a bath, the attendant being absent at the moment. In the report to the Governor this man’s death is put down as caused by general paresis, and it is noticeable that five other deaths were caused by the same disease.

THE TROUBLE WITH MOROCCO.

A Divpate Growing Oat of an Irregnlar Way of Ttansaoting Bnslnes*. The American consul at Tangiers, Morocco, reports that he has encountered great obstructions in the form of proteges at hiß consulate. It has been the practice of the American consuls, in many of the foreign countries, to grant favors to Americans and natives in the way of official recognition, by which they become vice-consuls or consulsgeneral, and have a kind of supernumerary supervision over the export trade to this country. It was the policy of the present administration, in making consular changes, to weed out tnese hangerson, and to confine exclusively to the regularly authorized consul the work of countersigning invoices and supervising the export of merchandise, as well as the general looking after the interests ot American imports and exports. The consul in Morocco says that when these men were cut off from their connection with the United States government they became obstructionists, and, as far as possible, impeded c mmunication with the Moorish Minister for Foreign Affairs at Tangiers, and other officers connected with that government. The Moorish Minister

enjoys the munificent salary of S3OO a year, and our consul there says that this officer could not live if all the conwitb. He has becomeas much of an obstructionist as possible,and the refusal of our agents to,bribe him and procure his alleged valuable semceiTEas put him in a miff. The United States government at three-four'hs of tne consular stations in the world has suffered immensely during the past twenty years by maintaining lobbyists and vice-consuls, and clerks and messengers, who were both dishonest and unenterprising. The service has been at a standstill for a quarter of a century, and if the present administration really intends to weed out these men and ininse new blood and American ideas in fdrwarding onr interests in the various parts of the world, it will do a service the benefits from which will be felt more potently every year in the future. For a long time the consular service, as well as the diplomatic service of the American government, has existed' only ill name,and, while it has been ornamental, the expefiditure of tW&money has been wasted, since the service was not useful.

The Power of the Press.

Muncie Times. , What would the public do without the newspapers? At Indianapolis the fight madeby the press for cheap gar, by laying bare the cost of making and the exorbitant prices exacted from consumers, will prevent a renewal of the contract with the artificial gas company and insure the people gas for illuminating purposes at leas than one-half the former prices. This is oiie way in which newspapers are worth more than their coat to a town or city. It is believed that $53,000 of counterfeit silver certificates are in ckcolatibn in Chicago.