Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. GKrKX E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

"I raid, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. [ will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me. ’’ A medical writer, who believes in laying down a cast-iron rule for all appetites asserts that excessive meat eating will produce ill temper without fail, and says the irritability that is a chronic charactei istic of Englishmen is directly traceable to this source. This may be true, but all the same there are a great many people in a chronic ill temper this winter because of a scarcity of animal food. Twrtrcnstomary-No w^Yearls reception was held at the White House, Monday. The ceremonies were elaborate, the mansion beautifully decorated, the ladies handsome, the diplomatic corpS'gorgeous,the President urbane. The usual programme was observed. The customary crank was also on hand and was escorted outside by the customary policeman and rode in the customary patrol wagon to the customary police court where the customary judge assessed the customary fine. Mil Gladstone s American friends forgot or neglected to cable their congratulations to the Grand Old Man on his eighty-fourth birthday— Dec. 29,1893. A London cable says that he is visibly failing, and that since the Irish question has been temporarily shelved he no longer manifests such lively interest in Parliamentary proceedings. Mr. Gladstone's reception by the House of Commons on his eighty-fourth anniversary was most flattering and kindly, even his bitterest enemies* showing the most marked respect. There is always a market for Superior products of any description, although it frequently happens that the prices that can be realized are not sufficiently remunerative to justify the continued production of superior wares. Hoosier proprietors of woodland, or manufacturers of spokes, hubs and other material of that class will be interested with the information that English coach makers are now coming to America ■ for all of their, choicest raw material. Why may they not be induced to come direct to Indiana? They doubtless can if proper means are used to bring our great resources to their notice. Amateur photographers should beware how they let their zeal run away with their discretion, and will do well to remember that there is “forbidden fruit" even in our day; It is not necessary to offend the prud ish Anthony Comstock in order to acquire experience and knowledge of United States law, either. Anambitious youth' at Baltimore has been arrested for having photographic negatives of United States notes in his possession, and in spite of his earnest protests that he had not attempted to use them in any way, nor had he any intention of so doing, he was taken into custody. His little experiment is likely tc prove a very expensive amusement before he is done, and he will be fortunate if he escapes with a fine. Editor W. T. Stead, of the London Review of Reviews, who has been sojourning in Chicago for some time, states that the most remarkable phase of the American character apparent to him is the almost universal distrust that our people have of each other. If Mr. Stead would run a edrner grocery in some United States town for a time, he would cease to regard this trait as at ali remarkable. The foreigner, says Mr. Stead, never thinks of dishonoring a small debt in his own country, and dealings between neighbors and friends are always held sacred and pledges are kept inviolate. Whether this is true or not, there is no question but what Americans are, as a peop’e, given to dishonesty in the small transactions of every day life. Any tradesman who has had experience can give to those who care to listen a tale of woe that has cost him many dollars and much vexation of spirit to learn, and he is fortunate if his confidence in human nature, in the aggregate, has not forever wrecked his own financial future. Indianapolis “sports” to the number of 200 “enjoyed” a dog and rat fight, Christmas day, at a suburban road house near that city. Fifteen rats at a time were thrown into a pit with a dog and the battle began. About thirty “engagements” were conducted to the satisfaction of the sports and the dogs and the annibUationof the rats. Americans rail ;• ’VS; --- ....

at the Spanish custom of bull baiting, but reasonable people must admit that in comparison with such demoralizing spectacles as rat and chicken fighting it is immeasurably superior. Bull fighting as conducted in Spain is spectacular in a marked derree and the matadors are specimens of the highest type of physical manhood. If man can not exist without venting his malicious cruelty on dumb beasts, we may as well have it done in the best style and with the most imposing accessories. Victor Fernandez, the boy ttieosophist of New York, aged 13, is becoming proficient as a romancer or liar, as the case may*be. To a reporter of the New York Sun, last week, he related a yarn that, for original conception, is certainly refreshing. He is now cognizant of two previous stages of existence and gives details that are startling. Previous to the birth of Christ, he avers and recollects, he was incarnalel as a Jew —wealthy and old as he recalls the experience—and was blessed with a beautiful daughter, who was pining away with wasting disease. So distressed was he that he cried himself blind, and then his daughter, to prove the perversity of the sex, recovered her health entirely and flirted with young men right under his nose. The succeeding years are a blank to the adept, but he again recalls that his spirit was the animating impetus of Richard Couer de Lion. King of England. and he heard the same tune in the s treets of New York the other day that was played on the occasion of one of his triumphal entries into Ixuidon. It was this tune that recalled to his mind the experiences of his life while he was “in the clay of Richard of the Lion Heart.” Victor has also been experimenting with his astral body, and frequently makes nocturnal excursions to other planet s. He was over to Mars one night recently and was late in getting back—got lost in space so to speak—having failed to provide himself with a guide. It was 9 o’clock in the more.- , ing before his sleeping clay was again joined by his astral body, and his parents began to think he was dead. At this point in the interview a nine-year-old brother of the youthful adept rushed into the rom exclaiming: “What’s the %attcr Vic? Have you got ’em again?” And the theosophical atmosphere being dispelled the reporter depart ed.

The Indian Parsees.

Nlneteenth'Century. The Indian Parsees number now in.all 90,000 people. They are and always have been devoted subjects of her Majesty, and we may attribute this as much to a certain sympathy with Western methods of thought over Eastern as to the fact they would rather be ruled by entire foreigners than by those whom they might themselves have conquered had fortune favored them. The Parsee in the business of life and in public connections, is enterprising, eminently successful, earnest ami diligent. He doos most things with ease, is blessed with intelligence, has tact and adaptability so that his relations with all the different races around him are easy’ and happy. No caste distinctions have made for him his profession, as with the Hindoos. Parsees, as such, are all equally well born and equally favored by the Deity. The heaven-born Brahmin has not his parallel among them. Zoroaster came to priest and layman alike. Any census will give the range of their vocations. When not medical, legal or educational, they are commercial. Agricul turc they seem to have forsaken with Persian pastures although there is now some prospect of a return to early habits in this respect. In domestic relations the Parsee shows favorably. He is gentle and courteous, while, as in the case with ail children of the sun, his affections are strong. His treatment of his womankind is not oriental; no petty jealousy consnmes him lest they should be as powerful as himself if allowed simi.ar advantages. He is. perhaps, unecessarily luxurious in his style of living, and this reacts on his character, making him averse to .any exertion which would in w olv»personal discomfort. Doubtless it is not his fault,he has been too mud the center of his family’* affections to be anything but self-regarding by education. Bernhardt says that the longer she lives the more she likes durnf animals. “They are so friendly when you do them no harm—they are so unlike men," she says. “If I had try wish I should have a villa in the middle of the zoological gardens, among all the animals. ’ SarahV newest pets are two young jaguars which she secured in South America and a monkey. Eighty-five ladies were nominated for school commissioner in the late canvass in New York, and four wen elected. The Republicans nominated eight, the Democrats thirty, th> Prohibitionists forty-two, the Peo gle’s party four and the Politica [quality party one. The list of lady commissioners is increased by Mt over last year. 4*..

POVERTY'S PAINS.

Dr. Talmage Grows Humorous on the Tariff Question. rhe Causes of Poverty—Tariff Discussion, D ulnkrnnesa, Improvidence,-Sick-ness—An Insurance Company ... —„ That. Never Fails. .. ....... . Rev. Dr. Talmage, last week, at Brooklyn, gave as his personal contribution to a food distribution 3,000 founds of meat and 2,-000 loaves of bread. Sunday, at the Tabernacle, he preached from the text: Matthew xxvi, 11—“ For ye have the poor always with you.” He said:

For 6,000 years the bread question has been the active and absorbing question. Witness the people crowding up to Joseph’s storehouse in Egypt. Witness the famine in Samaria and Jerusalem. Witness the 7,000 hungry people for whom Christ multiplied the loaves. Witness the uncounted millions of people now living who, I believe, have never yet had one full meal of healthful and nutritious food in all their lives. Think of the 354 great families in England. Think of the 25,000 people under the hoof of hunger year before last in Russia.

The first reason we have always the poor with us is because of the perpetual overhauling of the tariff question, or, as I shall call it, the tariffic controversy. There is need for such a word, and so I take the responsibility of manufacturing it. There are millions of people who are expecting that the present Congress of the United States will do something one way or another to end this discussion. But it will never end. W hen I was five years of age I remember hearing my father and his neighbors in vehement discussion of this very question. It was high tariff or low tariff or no tariff at all. When your great-grandchild dies at ninety years of age it will probably be from overexertion in discussing the tariff. On the day the world is destroyed there will bejthree men standing on the postoffice steps— one a high tariff man, another a low tariff man and the other a free-trade man — each one red in the face from excited argument on the subject. Other questions may get quieted—the Mormon question, the silver question, the pension question, the civil-serv-ice question. All questions of annexation may come to a peaceable settlement by the annexation of islands two weeks’ voyage away, and the heat of their volcanoes conveyed through pipes under the sea, made useful in warming our continent, or annexation of the moon, dethroning the queen of the night who is said to be dissolute, and bringing the lunar populations under the influence of our free institutions, yea, all other questions, national and international, may be settled—but this tariffic question, never.

It will not only never be settled, but it can never be moderately quiet for more than three years ata time, -ach party getting into power taking one of the four years to fix it up, ind then the next party will fix it Sown. Our finances cannot get well because of too many doctors. It is with sick nations as with sick individuals. Here is aynan terribly disordered as to his body. A doctor is jailed in and he administers a febrifuge, a spoonful every hour. But recovery is postponed and the anxious friends call in another doctor and he says “What this patient needs is blood letting; now roll up your sleeve,” and the lancet flashes. But still recovery is postponed and a homoepathic doctor is called in and he administers some small pellets and says, “all the patient wants is rest.” Recovery is still postponed, the family say that such small pellets cannot amount to much anyhow, and an allopathic doctor is called in and he says, “What this patient wants is calomel and jalap." Recovery still postponed,a hydropathic doctor is called in and he says, “What this patient wants is hot and cold baths, and he must have them right away. Turn on the faucet and get ready the shower baths.” Recovery still postponed, an eclectic doctor is called in, and he brings all the schools to bear upon the poor sufferer, and the patient, after a brave struggle for life expires. What killed him? Too many doctors. And that is what is killing our national finances. This tariffic controversy keeps business struck through with uncertainty, and that uncertainty results in poverty and wretchedness for a vast multitude of people. If eternal gab on this subject could have been fashioned into loaves of bread, there would not be a hungry man or wo.man or child on all the planet. To the end oLtime the words of the text will be kept true by the tariffic controversy —“Ye have the poor always with you.” Another cause of perpetual poverty is the cause alcoholic, The victim does not last long. He soon crouches into the drunkard’s grave. But what about his wife and children? She takes in washing, when she can get it, or goes out working on small wages, because sorrow and privation have left her incapacitated to do a srong woman’s work. The children are thin-blooded and gaunt and pale and weak, standing around in cold rooms, or pitching pennies on the street corner, and munching a slice of Unbuttoned bread when they can get it, sworn at by passers by because they do not get out of the way, kicked onward toward manhood or wouianbuod, for which they have no

preparation except a depraved appeal to and frail constitution■,cand id al es for almhouse and penitentiary. With its red sword of flame that liquor power marshals its procession and they move on in ranks long enough to girdle the earth, and the procession is headed by the nose blocthed, nerve shattered, rheum eyed, lip bloated, soul scorched inebriates, followed by the women, who, though’ brought up4n—comfortable homes, now go limping past with aches and pains and pallor and hunger and woe, followed by their children, barefoot, uncombed, freezings and with a wretchedness of time and eternity seemingly compressed in the agonized features, “Forward, march!” cries the liquor business to that army without banners. Keep that influence moving on, and you will have the poor with you. Report comes from one of the cities, where the majority of the inhabitants are out of work and dependent on charity, yet last year they spent more in that city for rum than they

did for clothing and groceries. Another warranty that my text will prove true in the perpetual poverty of the world is the wicked spirit of improvidence. A vast number of people have such small incomes that they cannot lay by in savings bank or life insurance i cent a year. It takes every farthing they can earn to spread the table, and clothe the family, and educate the children, and if you blame such people for improvidence you enact a cruelty. On such a salary as many clerks and employes and many ministers of re 1 ligion live, and on such wages as many workmen receive, they cannot in twenty years lay up twenty cents. But you know and I know many who have competent incomes and could provide somewhat for the future who live up to every dollar, and when they die their children go to. the poor-house or on the street. Just as certainly are the savingsbanks and the life insurance companies divine institutions. As out of evil good often comes, so out of the doctrine of probabilities, calculated by Prof. Hugens and Prof. Pascal for games of chance, came the calculation of the probabilities of human life as used by life insurance companies, and no business on earth is more stable and honorable, and no mightier mercy for the human race has been born since Christ was born. Bored beyond endurance for my signature to papers of all ; sorts, there is one sort of paper that I always sign with a feeling of gladness and triumph, and that is a paper which the life insurance company requires from the clergyman after a decease in his congregation, in order to insure the payment of the policy to the bereft household. I have known men who have had an income of $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000 a year who did not leave one farthing to the surviving household. I Now. that man’s death is a defalca- 1 tion, an outrage, a swindle. He did { not die; he absconded. There are i 100,000 people in America to-day a- i hungered through the sin of improvi- ; dence. “But,” say some, “my income is so small I cannot afford to pay the premium on a life insurance. ” ! Are you sure about that? If you ; are sure, then you have a right to I depend upon the promise in Jere- { miah xlix, 11: “Leave thy fatherless : children. I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me.” But, if you are able to, remember that you have no right to ask God to do for your household that which you can do for them yourself. Another fact that you may depend upon for perpetual poverty is the incapacity of many to achieve h livelihood. You can go through any community and find good people, with more than usual mental caliber, who never have been able to support themselves and their house- , holds. They are a mystery to us, ! and we say, “I do not know what is the matter with them, but there is a screw loose somewhere.” Some of these persons have more brain than thousands who make a splendid success. Some are too sanguine of temperament, and they see bargains i where there are none. A common minnow is to them a goldfish, and a quail a flamingo, and a blind mule on a towpath a Bucephalus. They buy when things are highest and sell when things are lowest. What an overwhelming statistic would be the story of men and women and children impoverished by sicknesses! Then the cyclones. Then the Mississippi and Ohio freshets. Then the stopping of factories. Then the curculios among the peach I trees. Then the insectile devasta- I tion of the potato patches and the I wheat fields. Then the epizootics ' among the horses and the hollow 1 horn among the herds. Then the [ rains that drotfn out everything and I the droughts that burn up half a j continent. Then the coal strikes and the iron strikes and the mechanics’ strikes, which all strike labor harder than they strike capital. Then the ' yellow fever at Brunswick and Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then the cholera at the Narrows, threatening to land in New York. Then the Charleston earthquake. Then the Johnstown flood. Then hurricanes | sweeping from Caribbean sea to j Newfoundland. Then there are the j great monopolies that sully the earth with their oppressions. Then there are the necessities of buying coal by the scuttle instead of the ton, and flour by the pound instead of the barrel, and so the injustices aro multiplied. In the wake of all these are overwhelming illustrations of the truth of my text, “Ye have the poor always with you.” Remember a fact that no one emphasizes—a fact, nevertheless, upon which I want to put the weight of an eternity of tonnage—that the best

way of insuring yourself and your children nnd your grandchildren against poverty and all other troubles is by helping others. I am an agent of the oldest insurance comi pany that was ever established. It jis near 3,000 years old. It has the I advantage of all the other plans of whole life policies, en- ; dowment, joint life and survivorship ; policies, ascending and descending {-scales of premium and tontine 1 { it pays up while you live and it pays j up after you are dead. Other life insuiance companies may fail, but this Celestial life insurance company never. The Lord j God Almighty is at the head of it, i and all the angels of heaven are in r its board of direction, and its assets ' are all tlje worlds, and all the char- ■ itable of earth and heaven are the • beneficiaries. “But.” says someone, ! “I do not like a tontine policy so ! well, and that which you offer is i more like tontine and to be chiefly • paid in this life.” “Blessed is he that considereth the poor. The Lord ; wid deliver him in time of trouble.” Well, if you prefer the old fashi ioned policy of life insurance, which is not paid till after death, you can be accommodated. That will he., given you in the day of judgment, and will be handed you by the right I hand, the pierced hand of our Lord himself, and all you do in the right spirit for the poor is payment on the premium of that life insurance policy: “Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, ‘Come ye blessed of my Father, for I was hungered and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in, naked and ye clothed me.”’ In the last conflagration the fire insurance companies of the world will fail, for how could they make appraisement of the loss on a universal fire? Then all the inhabitants of the round world will surrender their mortal existence, and how could life insurance companies pay for depopulated hemispheres? But our celestial life insurance will not be harmed by that, continental wreck, or that hemispheric accident, or that planetary catastrophe. Blow it out like a candle—the noonday sun! Tear it down like wornout upholstery—the last sunset! Toss it from God’s finger like a dewdrop from the anther of the water lily—the ocean! Scatter them like thistledown before a school boy’s breath the worlds! That will not disturb, the omnipotence, or the love of that*’ Christ who said it once on earth,and will say it again in heaven to all those who have been helpful to the downtrodden and the cold, and the hungry, and the houseless, and the lost, “Inasmuch as ye did it to them, ye did to me.”

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. A canal to connect Lakes St. Clair and Erie has been projected. The Italia of the Italian navy is the largest war-ship in the world. A headache is sometimes cured with the juice of half a lemon in a cup of strong, unsweetened coffee. Sixty persons now occupy Robinson Crusoe’s island, Juan Fernandez. They are cattle herders. The growth of girls is greatest in their fifteenth year, and that of boys in the seventeenth. The white of an egg, quickly swallowed by a choking person, often gives immediate relief. A chestnut tree on Mount Etna is the largest in the world. Its eircumference is 204 feet. California has forty Chinese temples, New York four, Idaho two and Oregon one. A cat weighing thirty pounds belongs to Mrs. Cragin, of Worcester, Mass. It is thirty inches in length, and sixteen inches high. A tombstone in a cemetery near a small Vermont town bears the inscription. “Sacred to thejmemi ry of three twins.” Over four millions of dogs are annually eaten in C.’.ina; the Celestials consider them a delicacy. The edible canines never bark and have bluish black tongues. Accidents on the foot ball field last year, in Great Britain, caused the death of 26 persons, 39 broken legs, 25 fractured collar bones, 12 broken arms and 75 other serious injuries. An automatic gas lighter for street lamps has been invented in New England. A clock operates it, and it lights, and extinguishes the gas at stated terms—just at dark and at daybreak. Fear of microbes has induced the members of a church in Fostoria, 0., to invest in 400 wine glasses. Each communicant is to have a separate glass from which to drinje the sacramental wine. In Biddeford, Me., there is an authorized agency where liquor is dispensed as medicine. Within ten days it measured out 2,470 doses of alcoholic medicine, chiifly whisky, and not one of the patients made rye faces as they swallowed the fluid. One curious result of the hurricane that struck the Southern coast recently was the killing of quantities of fish. For many days after the storm the coast around Savannah and throughout the stretch where its force was most vented, was strewn with dead fish of all kinds. Travelers in the artic regions say the physical effects of cold there are about as follow: Fifteen degrees above, unpleasantly warm; zero, mild; 10 degrees below, bracing; 20 degrees below,sharp, but not severely cold; 30 degrees below, very cold; 40 degrees below, intensely cold; 50 degrees below, a struggle for life.

NEW AGRICULTIRAL BOARD.

Reorfinlatlon Effect’d—Officer* Elected —Fair Business. The new State Board of Agriculture organized at the State House, Indianapolis, Wednesday afternoon. The organization was effected publicly. It followed a private session of the old board, which adjourned sine die. There was an effort on the part of Mr. Maze to postpone the organization until a time and ata place where the public would not be so well represented, but the opposition of Messrs. Davidson, J. E. McDonald and Officer prevented this. The organization was effected by the election of the following officers: ’ .' I President—J. M. S tnkey, Terr Haute. Vice President—W. B. Holton, Indianapons. Treasurer—Ed wsr 1 J.Robison, Indianpolis. ' Secretary—Charles F. Kennedy, Indianapolis. General Superintendent—E. H. Peed, New Castle. Executive Comfnittee—Charles Downing, W. A. Maze, M. S. Claypool and W. W. Hamilton. x After the election a < committee was provided for by the adoption of a motion made by Mr. Downing to revise the rules •of the Board and arrange the premium lists differently. This committee, which has not yet been named by President Sankey, was instructed to report to th» general meeting of the Board fixed for February 27. Upon this committee will rest largely the responsibility of practically rearranging the' entire Fair. The rules will be amended so as to exclude members of the Board, or their families, from exhibiting, and the committee will provide some new attractions. __

TUE ROAD CONGRESS.

Meeting of the Indiana Highway Improrrtnent Association. The road congress, or Indiana Highway Association, began a,two davs’ session at Indianapolis, Thursday morning. The attendance was not to be compared with that of the first meeting, which occurred at the same Dlace, Representative Hall, last year. At that time the attendance was estimated at 800,the hall and gallcriea being packed with farmers and men interested in the construction of roads. There was not to exceed fifty persons congregated in the hall when President Mason J. Niblack called the congress to order. On taking the chair President Niblack stated that the object of the meeting was to ’bring forward the best methods of road buildipg. It was not the purpose to put additional burdens on the people. It was intended to keep up the discussion of this subject from year to year, until the road problem was tolved. Addresses were made by J. A. Mount, and others. Resolutions by the St. Joseph Valley Grange were presented, giving plans for the improvement and preservation of highways. Quite a number of interesting piners on the subject were read. ‘ The Roads of F.oone County” was discussed by D. M. Burns, of Lebanon. His paper was of a descriptive character and referred only to the character of the roads in Boone county. .

MONEY OF ALL NATIONS.

The Circulation, Pjr Capita, of Eaeb Shown By a Treasury Beportr, The Treasury Department presents a table showing the monetary system and approximate stocks of money in the aggregate, and per capita, in the principal countries of the world. This shows that France, with a population of 38,300,000. has the highest per capita circulation of any of the countries named in the tabla, viz; $36.81, The report says: “The straits,” with a population of 3,800,(XX). have a per capita circulation of 828.94. Others are: Belgium. $26.70; Australia. 8.26.05; the United States, ,826.02; the Netherlands. $2184. In China with a population of 402.700 060 the nor capita circulation is but fl.Bo, all in silver. Following China in this respect, Roumanla has a circulation per canlta of $4.60; Servin. 84.27: Sweden. $2.71; Turkey. $2.33; a population of 39,206,000; Central American States, $3.78; Japan, $4; India, $3.44, against a population of 287,200.600; Hartl, $4.90; the United Kingdom $20.44; Germany. $18.56: Portugal with a population of but 4.700,000, has a per capita of $21,06. and Egypt a per capita of $19.85. Th# South American States have a per capita of $19.67; Canada. $10: Cuba. $12.31; Italy; $9.59; Switzerland. $14.48; Greece. $12.22: Spain. $17.14; Austro-Hnngarv. $9.17 with a population of 124 OTO.OOO. and Mexico, 85. Since this statement was tabulated the per capita circulation of the United States has decreased to 821.55. The table puts the stock of gold money at 3.901.900.000; silver 83,931,100,000, and paper money a< 82,700,000,000.

WITH A PRETY PHOTO

Ko Worked a Bull llnx Atsoclatlon for » ZZ— ' L’rj.'Lon. , J.... * ■—iy The investigation into the affairs of the National building and loan association at Chicago, ordered some time ago, developed the faci that $75,030 has been loaned on almof t worthless security. Wm. Smitlj, of Kansas City, and O. C. Kneale, of Chicago, are charged with the fraud. Jan. 1, 1893, Smith represented to the society that ha owned sixty-one blocks of improved property at St. Croix. Wis., worth $103.(0), upon which he desired a loan of $75,000. lie showed the officers of the society a number of photographs which seemingly represented a thrivQig hamlet, with stores, mills, churches, elevators and homes. Smith was backed up by certain officers-of the society and secured the money without UL_exunloat|on being made of the property. When State Inspector William F.-irs be(?an to investigate ttie society's affairs ’•« went to Wisconsin to find St. Croix. Ho found its site. *lt had been destroyed by lire last August. Originally the popula lon Consisted of twenty-three adults and twenty-two children. The photographs were likenesses of a mill, elevator, store, etc., up the river a short distan.’c. Other transactions of a like character, smaller In proportions, were fouud. The Inspector, however, reports that the society is not insolvent State Auditor Oeroo will at once bring proceedings against Smith and Knealo to recover the money fraudulently obtained on the Wisconsin property.