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WILL REVIEW THE Commissioners Want an Estimate on Improvement of National Road. At the meeting of the board of county commissioners tomorrow the viewers recently appointed on the matter of the improving of the National road east will be reinst.ructed to view the road and to secure an estimate of the cost of the improvement, in case the tracks of the Ohio and Electric traction company are placed in the middle of the road, beginning at the Fair grounds. It will be necessary for the viewers to submit a revised report. With the interurban tracks in the middle of the road the cost of the improvement would be more than was first estimated, as it will be necessary to construct curbs and gutters on both sides of the road, whereas if the tracks were left on the side of the road, curbing and gutters would be constructed on one side only. The county commissioners are favorable to the plan of placing the tracks in the middle of the thoroughfare. Recently a petition was presented to the board by residents on both sides of the road and by officials of the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern traction company. Gravel road bonds, amounting to $43,000 will be signed tomorrow by the commissioners. Of this amount $31,000 is for the Minor road and $12,00 for the Scantland road. These bonds will be sold December 31, by CountyTreasurer Albertson. Allowances for contracts which have been completed during this year will be made tomorrow. The county council will meet January 1 to approve bonds. COWATCH FINED After serving a sentence for public intoxication, Andy Cowatch, alias Smith, was fined $." and costs in police court this morning on the charge of carry ins? concealed weapons. The police had been looking for Cowatch seme time for the charge and arrested him last Monday night for public intoxication. He paid both fines and was released. News Nuggets (National News Association) WILKES BARK E, Pa., Dec. 27. Regarded as a hopeless consump.ive for the past year, William Peck coughed up a wisdom tooth from his lung and is now rapidly recovering. WINSTON", Conn., Dec. 27. Over $90,000 in bills was found in an old suit case that was about to be thrown into a rubbish heap and which was the property of Mrs. Kmeline C. Mills, who died a few years ago. GOSHEN, X. Y.. Dec. 27. A nursery which got an order for $50 worth of trees from Mrs. E. H. Harriman, who was left $75,000,000 by her husband, first insisted upon getting the assurance that her credit was good before it filled the order. YORKERS, X. Y., Dec. 27. Mrs. Agnes Brennan, when her husband failed to bring her . a Christmas Sift, had him arrested, charged with breaking his parole which required him to turn over his wages to her. TARRYTOWN. X. Y., Dec. 27. "Save your pennies,' was the advice given by John D. Rockefeller to a young school teacher who asked him for the secret of getting rich. CHICAGO, Dec. 27 The wedding license clerk has so far this year issued 32.887 licenses, an increase of 3,374 over 1911. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Dec. 27. Asserting that he could not live on less than $6,000 a year, H. B. Kirkland, vice president of the American Conduit company, appeared in court to protest against granting his wife more than the $15 weekly alimony she is now gettine.

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WHY ARE LEGISLATURES?

To Be Sure They Meet, Stir up a Great Pother, Pose in the Limelight, Wrangle, and Give a Good Imitation of Something Doing, but What's It all About?

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. A new legislature is about to convene. ! "Convene" is a good word, j It sounds weighty and sonorous and ' frock-coated and silk-hatted and oraItorical and leading-with-prayer the j while the lobbyists deploy in the off- ; ing. ; "Convene" is always used to desicribe the beginnings of legislatures, 1 religious bodies and women's conventions. It sounds well and means nothing I in particular. j Like a lot of other things. ! Reflect on the number of people ! that sound well but mean nothing in I particular. I Many of them nothing at all. Very few people think. j If they did we -wouldn't have so many legislatures. j Or perhaps none at all. When you stop to take one good, I long look, a legislature is a ridiculous thing. More or less. Perhaps our national one, more, our state one, less. Tie that as it may, this country could get on for the next fifty years, perhaps a century, if we had none. Congress is a joke. What, in the name of heaven, is it that Congress does? j A lot of men meet once or twice ' so often, sit round, speechify, pretend ; to tinker with the tariff, rise to object, , call each other names, stand each oth-. er off by a two clay's speech, adjourn out of respect and adjourn for a re-! cess and adjourn until the next time ! and adjourn to go home and adjourn. I If pushed to the wall could you, off- j hand, mention any law that Congress has passed within the past ten years that has affected you personally or anybody else or aggregation of persons? You couldn't do it. Don't they fuss by the month about the wool schedule? And then what does it amount to. Does one person in ten thousand know what the wool schedule is or care about it if they know? Does one congressman in ten, or fifty or one hundred. or any of 'em for that matter know anything about the tariff. Isn't it a fact that when the politicians run out of anything else to talk 'about and throw at each other they pull the poor old tariff out of its hole and begin to wigwag it from the capitol halls? Why do they have extra sessions? Why don't they do what they ought to do at regular sessions? Why don't the people rise up and ask Congress to get down to business and do something or quit? The people could do it. They know that Congress is not only a joke, but a tradition, an illusion, a make-believe, a sham, an appearance of something that isn't. All the work Congress really does that amounts to anything is to pass the appropriation bills and thus enable the country to keep going. Or that portion of it represented at Washington. If they really got down to business on a business basis this would take them about a day. The whole thing is a miserable farce. Government as it is operated is a corned v. j A burlesque. J I Maybe you can go the state legisla- , turo one better. I But what law can you point to that ihns been passed within the oast de'cade of which yon have snv knowt-I 'edge either of its intent, text or oper- 'i ations? Perhaps only the local option measures which have been bandied back and forth from township to county, j ; And even at that, what good have ! either done? I j Haven't their beneficiary provisions i .been nullified by the politicians? ' They might have been, or might be, I good. But they're not. j Because everybody is animated by I self interest. There isn't one legislator, either state or national, that goes to the legislative halls for a really altrurian, a ; patriotic, a humanitarian reason. j Most of them do it for the salary. ) And, in the case of the state, because it is a diversion. It's lots of fun to go up to Indianaiolis. stay sixty das ai the expense

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of the tax-payers, draw your salary, live at a good hotel, bombast round the Capitol, be interviewed if you can get that far into the limelight, be cornered by lobbyists or "others," have your picture in the paper, snooze comfortably through the day in your leather-bottomed chair and introduce awe-stricken relatives and friends to the Governor. But, after all, what do you do for your constituents? What do you do to earn your salary paid by the state? Which, in the end, means paid by your neighbors and townspeople. The average legislator has about as much sense of responsibility toward the people who send him up to his state capital as a canary-bird. He thinks he goes up there to do what he wants to do. He votes as he thinks to his best interest. He becomes a vastly important person in his own opinion and will give scant attention to petitions and requests and mandates from his home burg or vicinity. What, in instance, is the coming legislature going to do for Indiana? Is it going to amend and reform and put into practicable shape it's child labor bill? Isn't it a fact that this is one of the things that the state is calling for? Also isn't it the truth that the child labor law flaunted by the last legislature was so emasculated that its originator wouldn't vote for it when it was passed through?. What is this legislature going to do for woman's suffrage? Are they going to take any account of the decided sentiment for an amendment to the state constitution giving the full franchise to all citizens regardless of sex? Will they ignore this as they have done In the past? Will they ignore it when they know that the Franchise League of Indiana has an organization which has branches in every congressional district in the state but one? Are the noble legislators from Pinhook and Ruralville and the back districts of our near-metropolises going to pay any attention to the demand for good roads? Xot so you could notice it if they're going to act the same old way they have been acting since legislatures were Instituted. ' The day of the lobbyist is past, says the wise one. Go over to Indianapolis and take a few deep sea observations. Glance over the state-line into Ohio which is being decent enough to "send a few of her patriots to the penitentiary for accepting bribes from these same lobbyists. The fact is that things will go on in the same old way. We'll have another mess of laws pasted on the records and justice will have as little chance at a hearing as ever. It's trite to say we have too many, not too few laws. Everybody knows that we are cluttered up -with a lot of legal dry-rot that's eating some pretty bad sores into society. If a bon-fire were made of the entire lot, the slate wiped clean and a fresh start made the tax-payer and the taxless citizen alike might have a showing. FREE! A five dollar raincoat with every order for suit, or overcoat made to measure at Douglas Tailors, 10th and Main streets. Satellites of Saturn. Photometric studies of six of the principal satellites of Saturn, made by Guthnick of the royal observatory of Berlin, indicate a confirmation of the previous conclusions of other observers that several, and perhaps all. of these satellites behave like our own moon in keeping always the same side toward the planet around which they revolve. In regard to the satellite named Tethys. an interesting h.vjothe sis is offered to account for its very marked changes of luminosity The theory is that Tethys possesses the form of a long ellipsoid, the two prin cipal axes of which are to one another in the ratio of five to two. A similar suggestion has been made concerning the shape of the asteroid Eros, which likewise exhibits great variations of lizht. necordinp to it jw:fion in It? orbit arouud tbe sua. Harper".

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PARCELS POST AND WHAT IT ENTAILS Importance of New Service Cannot Be Adequately Estimated Now. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 27 The inauguration of the parcels post plan in the United States on Wednesday ! next, Jan. 1, 1913, will make one of 1 the most important epochs in the deI velopment of the American postal service. The last previous step of importance as taken when the Rural Free Delivery System was put into effect fifteen years ago. The introduction of the parcels post system was put into effect fifteen years ago. The introduction of the parcels post sys tem had been agitated for ten years j without material progress when Rural ; Free Delivery became a fact. Since j then the demand for the introduction J of a parcels post system in the United ; States became so urgent that Con- ! gress finally, notwithstanding the most strenuous opposition from cerj tain interested quarters, yielded to the j wishes of the people and enacted a jjai ttia yuoc law. I I The framing of the law was not an ' easy matter, as the whole scheme was in the nature of an experiment upon a tremendous-scale. It is true, the fram- . ors of the law had for their guidance ' ' the laws and regulations of a number ; i of foreign countries where the parcels I post has been in successful operation i for many years, but the conditions of 1 the postal service in the United States are so radically different from 1 those of the postal service in other , countries that it was not an easy mat-1 ter to adapt their laws to American ' ! conditions and requirements. i At last the law was drafted, submit tj ed to congress and passed and January 1, 1913 was fixed as the date for j j its going into effect. The many radi-' : cal changes in the postal service nei cessitated by the requirements of the ; parcels post system imposed a tre- : mendous burden of work upon the pos- ! tal authorities and during the last ; three months several of the depart- ' ments worked practically day and 1 night to complete the preparations for ! the inauguration of the new service. , An entirely new series of stamps for the exclusive use of the parcels post service had to be designed, engraved, printed and distributed; new scales, with a capacity of eleven pounds, to meet the requirements of the new weight limit, had to be contracted for, manufactured and sent to the various post offices in the country; maps j showing the zones into which the i country has been divided for the pinj po3e of fixing a graduated distance j rate, and books containing the various I regulations and rules governing the j new branch of the postal service had to be printed and distributed among ; the thousands of post offices throughj out the country. In addition to all this special provision as to space, ' means of handling the parcels post, i etc., had to be made at all larger offi- ' ces, so as to have everything in readiness when the law goes into effect next Wednesday. The postal authorities have been i given the assurance that the preparations are now practically completed, ; but they realize that owinng to the preparations are now practically com- ' pleted. but they realize that owing to the newness of the system and the , lack of previous experience as to its operation, it may develop at first many defects and shortcomings which will have to be gradually corrected, i The public is expected to be patient j and to give the postal department i reasonable time to perfect the working of the plan in all its details. The importance of the new service can scarcely be adequately estimated at the present time. It contemplates the transportation and delivery by the ! postal service of the United States of parcels containing matter of the ; fourth class, not exceeding eleven ; pounds in weight and six feet in cir- ; cumference frcm any point reached by . the present postal service to any other point reached by that service. The parcels post service of the government extends far beyond the limited sphere of the various express companies, over more than one million miles of rural routes and 435,000 miles of rail, boat and star routes, embracing about 60,000 post offices and 285,000 employes connected with, the postal service. The rates of transportation are a great deal cheaper than the cor- : responding rates of the express com- ' pauies, which means an enormous savj ing to shippers, aside from the greater facilities offered to them. Under the new 'aw e voniinc will . Le uiuabi; uiai is mnaluc now a

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fourth class matter, with the addition of thousands of articles of a perishable i nature, etc., which heretofore were not ! mailable at all. Only liquor of an al- ' coholic nature, poisons, explosives, in- j flammable articles, infernal machines, j i obscene matter, pistols or revolver?, ; live or dead animals or any sub- j : stance which emits a bad odor and dis-; : ease germs cannot be mailed by parj eels post. Perishable matter, like food-! stufts, fruit, etc.. will only be accept ed for delivery within a fifty-mile radi us from the mailing point. GENEVA IS ALARMED And Will Bid Against Jack Johnson. (National News CHICAGO, Dec. Association) 27. Millionaires vho form the Lake Geneva summer 'colony will be given a chance to bid for the property of Judson C. Sherj man, on which Jack Johnson, negro I prizefighter, holds an option. Attorney ; W. C. Anderson, (colored) and representing Johnson announced that he i had consulted with Sherman and that , he had agreed to surrender his opj tion if the property were put up at ' auction. Johnson will bid for the place but If there is decided opposition to his moving to Lake Geneva, the millionaires there will have an opportunity to bid against him. In making the announcement of the ; new

plan Anderson said the people of:. ... , v , . . . , bers to justify Us purchase. Geneva were making a mistake.

i Lake Should Johnson get there, he said, a large number of desirable citizens would be attracted to the place and it would become the best advertised i summer colony in America. COURT NEWS Complaint on note and to foreclose mortgage was filed in the Wavne circuit court this morning by Harrison Gabel versus Jane M. Jay, Mary Jav

and Elizabeth Jay. The demand in thecost complaint is $700. The plaintiff a! .The cost of the fjushers will not be leges that in 1908 a promissory note so ,arge but that the citv can Btand th9 was given him. The note was for $500 t.xpellse or two. and then we will be

for three years. final settlement nas oeen maae in imr cniQic .... " "' m total charges amountd to $11,269. The total amount for distribution includes $8,431.22 from real estate and $1,618. - 2iJ from personal estate, making a to-

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distributed among four hHrs. Mrs. Alice Waldrip, Mrs. Kmma H. Walters. William Kramer and Mrs. Edith Colline. Partial settlement to the guardian of one heir has been made in the matter of the estate of Anna R. Williams. In the matter of the guardianship of Luranah Peelle a partial report was made today. The amount is $7,033.92.

Maxico'a Smoking Mountain. 'traction company wnicn ror several . (;eneral Thomas M. Honan and State In 1S17 I elinitted two volcanoes in years has been pending in local court. !Tax Commissioner Daniel Link. Mexl;o. Popocateietl. or "the smoking; Claiming that the traction company! mountain." about 17.S0O feet, and nri-jhad damaged him to the extent ofiiliv fl FAn niTII TV

zaba. the former the most famous ie cause within view from Mexico City and thus a source of esiecial pride an-J admiration to the inhabitants. wh have been loath to believe that any

other of their mountains could be hisrh , tion passengers, by attaching one of! charging him with passing a fraud uer. Topo has a really splendid crater. ! the defendant's cars as it passed ent check was changed at the sollciabnut half a mile across nd 1.000 feet through Dayton. The car was held formation of the prosecuting witness. W!ldeep. The walls are generally verti- several hours. liam Rich, and a new charge of fals

cal. but in one or two places it is pos-! sihle to descend. When workers are'mijn nn 4 vn DPP11C

engaged in collecting sulphur machic-; ery is used to hoist them up and down, j From Popo's summit there is n gloriotn j prospect, not alone of the immenei crater, but of the beantiful "White' Lady" (Iztaccihuntli reclining a thou , . M . V . 1 V. . 1. sana ieer oeiow. oi ri7.uua un iw hi ! horizon and of the crarming valley of Mexico. Annie Herald. Peck iu Christian .. .. The Duke of Wellington was noted for his riid intezrirv. Hnre Is an insranro tihi-h (wnrrnl in rpforpuci" tf his large estate. Some farm adjoining i.: . !-., ....! .i k; ..o.,i UIS iauuq fas ivi Bur-. a a i li . - a . v 1 1 negotiated for him for tbe purchase Having concluded the business, be went to the duke and told him he had made a capital bargain. "What do you mean?" asked the dnke. "Why. your grace. I have got the farm for c mucu. ana i ivuuw xi ii utr xunu least so mach more." "Are you quite ' sure of that?" "Quite sure, your grace. for I hare carefully surveyed it.": "Very well, then; pay the gentleman from me the balance between what yon have already given and the real valne of the estate.Then 1 do meUcrje so u at tarn ? -e o pl-asaatto tke at Tjt. CailweK's Srr" ?. ire r"Sir""? care -r c: , m.i Tim vemm very .l

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Today's News in ST. LOUIS, Dec. 27 Roger Bresnahan. depose! manager of the St. Louie Cardina's. today was considering the offer of $10,000 a year under a three-year contract made by President Murphy, of the Cubs. i CHICAGO. Dec. 27. Jimmy Archer. the star catcher of the Cubs, has joined the holdouts asking for $10,ooo a year while Murphy is offering him $5,000. BUFFALO, Dec. 27. "One Round" Davis 6aid today that his -easy victory over Jack (Twin! Sullivan last night, entitles him to another chance at the White Hopes. DETROIT. Dec. 27. Hughie Jennings, manager of the Tigers in the summertime and actor during the winter, today admitted that ball players THE FLUSHERS AGAIN Two Flushers Said to Be Needed to Clean Streets. An agent of the Studebaker Wagon company urged members of the board i of works to purchase a street flusher i next year. The need of a flusher is 1 President B. A. Kennepohl or the beard of works, believes, because of t

additional streets made in the city j was torn ln ribbons, had a black beard within the past year, that two flushers and ,on black curly hair. are needed. An appropriation was Among his possessions was a book : made last year for a flusher. but the 1 of songs and gospel hymns. He seri- ! money was transferred to another ac-1 ously objected when these were taken count. When the president of the j from him as he said he wanted to read ; board of works recently visited Win-; and learn to eing during his confine-

Chester for the purpose of seeing one! of the flushers operated, he was pleas ed with the success of the machine, j The Winchester street commissioner j reported that they would not do without the machine for three times the; able to keep the streets clean." said Kennepohl. "We have a beautiful city nni chmiiri icoon it not ni enaun-i fu, dean streets are as necessary to : blic heai,n a8 any other thing." j j , ,Drn IT

HAS NO I'O WER ' missioners and county assessors to te ! held Thursday. Friday and Saturday Natloral Xer Association) of next week at Indienapolis. AsseasDAYTOX. Ohio, Dec. 27. Holding or Mathews is a member of the comthat the local common pleas court isimitteo on corporations, which will without jurisdiction over the defend-j make Its annual report at this confer1 ant. the Terre Haute, Indianapolis andjence. Eastern Traction company, it being ai Among those who will deliver ad- , non-resident of Ohio, an entry, uphold- i dresses before the conference are ling a motion to that effect, dismissed Governor Thomas R. Marshall. Govern-

the action of Frank Waters against the $iio.70 by losing n.s sample cases. j Waters sued for that amount, j At the time the action was filed. Deputy Sheriff Wilson Rice created a mild sensation, especially among trac 1 IILi UlV.'li U 2.l M UXIVO

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C. B. HolHngsworth. of Louisville, Ind.. likes Richmond booze and came to this city a few days ago to drink ,v. town dry. He was arrested and fined $1 and costs in police court yesterday morning and was recaptured (again for the same offense this morning at the corner of South Eleventh !and streets. He was terrorizing ' i :iv i .1 i i i . i "V'suuoiawu tuere anu iue peoP'? lUOUgDl ue 8S crazj . V. cen ar : rested yesterday he had $53 in his! nnstpsinn He had swtif 117 n -- ' - - - - - .this roll after paying his fine yesU.r. . day morning. Judged by Appearances. Freeman, the famous hisroriac. was j Tery nep5ent of hU dress 0n one casion be wore while lecturing a sbab1 b blou..e worn over a woolen shirt j MQ1 t,,n went to an lCot reception j attended for the most part by ladies ' and gentlemen In evening dress. During the evening a man came in who bad not been at the lecture and did not know Freeman. -Who Is that?" be asked. "That." was the reply. "I a s.non swineherd before the Norman

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the Sporting World are "pretty bum actors." but said he did not see hy a ball player shouldn't go on the Mage and pick up "soft money." CHICAGO. Dec. 27. Hank O Day. former manager of the Cincinnati team, while considering offers to umpire in both big leagues is looking around for a minor league franchise. WASHIXGTOX. Dec. 27. Chick Gandil. one time boilermaker, is the bes first baseman in the American league, according to his manager. Clark Griffith of the Washington club. LOS AXGELKS. Dec. 27. Arthur Shafer. utility infielder of the New York Giants, today reiterated his previous announcement that he ia through with baseball. TO SING Vagrant Objected When Gospel Hymns Were Taken. Frank N'uman, colored, wag arrested for vagrancy early this morning in a P.. C. C. & St. 1 box car where he had been sleeping. Numan hail from Norristown. Pa., and is one of the most abject looking individuals arrested recently by the local authoritiei. He wore a long rubber coat which ment. He alo had two pipes which were patented by himself and from which he believes he will make a fortune, He was riven half an hour to get out of the city. He did not have a cent ( hj8 possession, and told the police j he wanted to get to Pennsylvania, lie a told the shortest route was over I the National road. MATHEWS TO ATTEND MEETING OF BOARD William Mathews, county assessor, will attend tbe twelfth annual conferi ence of the state board of tax com-,or-elect Samuel M. Ralston. Attorney TO FALSE PRETENSE The charge against Raleigh Hahn. ! pretenses was placed against the young man. Hahn pleaded guilty and 0 and costs and given a of ten days. i Hahn's father-in-law stated todav lnat u W8 not jmprobab:e that he ; wou,d pav Hahn s fine he h Drom ,rt to rfrinkinir and nrnvl fr ; his family, who are residing In Arlinf- ( ton. Ohio, with his wife's parents. ASSAULT CASE Frank Laugel. Earl Stewart and ! Howard Jones wert arrested last night and charged with assault and battery. Iaugel and Stewart pleaded guilty an i , . , . ; fmed $1 and cots. Jones proved ; that he had net taken j fight and was released. part in th Hoboes. A bo bo fs a gentleman of lersnre. but not all gentlemen of leisure are bv boes.--.Man-bes!er Union. CAFE 12 Free Fried Oysters Saturday afteraoon and evening, any style at any time. Oyster Sandwich, Sc. Chile Con Came, 10c. ",12 MAIN STREET

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