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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29
A Monstrous Infamy.

Six st. Louis life insurance companies
that have failed, or in some way gone out CT
existence since 1870, received from policy
holders between january. 1870 and January
L, 1879. the sum of $23 295 456. The same
companies, during the same time, paid death
and endowment claims to the amount OF
$s.l47,725.
In other words these six companies re-
ceived from policy. holders, during this
period SIS, 147, 720 more than they paid rs
death and endowment losses.
The receipts from policy holders and the
Expenditures for death and endowment
losses do not represent the total income nor
the total ex penses.
Reference to the official records shows
that the total income of these companies for
1870 was s., JOY ,i69: the total expense
So 437 All,
Total income for 1871. SO 49i, PIG; total ex-
pense, 81, S3S, 003.
Total income for 1872, So, ga 902; total
expense, 81. 270927
Total income for 1878, So, OBS, 10; total
expense, 81, ASS, 5S1.
Total income for 1874, $40, SIS, 236; total
expense, 81, 3i9. 0G6
Total income for 1875 s., 55S, 1897; total
| expense, 81 1876 1852.
Total income for 1876, So 5Jf fs0; total
| expense, So i95, 079
Total income for 1877, 81, 013, 39I; total ex.
penss, Si,7i6.123.
Total income for 1878, 50 500 GA; total ex-
pense, 81, 0iS o05.
Grand total income for nine years si2 2s2,
ash grand total expense, $50 800 6i3
Difference In favor OF income, $li9 1l SG5
Now, where has this difference gone?
With such n large excess of income over
expenses. IL would naturally be expected
that the assets OF these companies would be
| increased. But what are the facts?
These figures will tell
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29

Railroad Observation-Disclosures you wish to
buy or sell, write to Edw. G. Fox & Co.,
members New York Stock Exchange, 3 Wall
street, New York.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29

Cesar covered his bald head and graylhair
with q laurel crown. Ayers Hair Vigor
covers gray heads with the still more well
come locks OF youth.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29

Prescription free for the speedy cure OF SEM
inal weakness, loss OF manhood, and all disor-
ders brought on by indiscretion or excess. Any
druggist has the ingredients. Address David
son Co.. ~ Nassau street. New York.
, 1879-07-17
Bookless Homes.

A dreary place is bookless house.
See that, in founding home for your
selves, you 10 not neglect the household
library. We rejoice in pretty furniture
and artistic pictures, but we want to see
new book sandwiched in between
every two purchases, and newspapers
and magazines drifting around so thickly
that the very order of the sitting-room
is imperilled. We never knew any,
thing worse than intelligent sons and
daughters to grow out of such untidi-
ness. To 60 to housekeeping without a
family bible and an unabridged diction,
airy ought to be elected q criminal of
fense, Here lies' the beginning of
wisdom. Then we should add modern
history to ancient, poetry to science,
Scott, Thackerary, Dickens, Hawthorne
and Holmes to theology. We should
know the opinions of the best minds of
to-day, upon all questions Of social life,
philosophy, of agriculture. We have
known famous business men, keen tinan-
ciers, to grow out of the bookless homes,
but never the great-hearted and tender
souled. So, parents, remembering this,
glance over your libraries to see if there
be not some vacancy to fill up with a
volume which will add to the cheer of
the windy Winter nights. Get for the
boy book of history or travels; for the
girl copy of Tennyson, or Longfellow,
or Browning-some sweet poet, who
sings along the quiet Wales of life in Ian
guage we all can understand Win them
to read aloud around the evening lamp,
and most unconsciously their young souls
will be drawn out to follow after those
who call-to follow and sing and be glad
for great is the power of influence.
, 1879-07-17
"Down Fine"

"Get your through tickets at the
wagon" screamed the doorkeeper of the
circus to a young man with a girl on his
arm who had handful of small change.
This is the third time you have come
here without tickets, when you know
can't take the money"
The young man and his girl fell back,
and as they did not 60 near the ticket
wagon, and yet seemed very anxious to
see the circus, a curious minded citizen
edged around and inquired of the young
man:
"Why don't you buy tickets if you
want to go inl"
"'Cause I'm short p was the whimp-
cred reply. 81 didn't low enough fo,
incidentals when L was fggering on the
cost of this thing, but l don't want the
gal to know it."
"How much are you short ~
"Only five cents. 1 figgered that ten
shillings would pay all expenses, but ]
got left. We spent ten cents for pea,
nuts, ten cents on the street cars, and
five in candy. l had just dollar left
to pay our way in, when the gal got q
peanut shuck in her throat and had to
buy glass of lemonade to wash ii
down. Didn't do it, though, till l had
pounded her on the back moren fifty
times and tried to pull one O them fire
hydrants up by the roots.
"Tll lend you five cents to make up
your dollar" said the citizen.
"You willT By gosh but that lets
me out ! I'd made up my mind to tell
the gal that the tigers had got loose and
the hyenas had run mad, but she's long
headed and might not have believed it.
Thankee, sir; and the fust time I'm in
town I'll pay it back. Hang it 1 ortel
fggered on 'leven shillings stead of ten
but you've made me happy for life
Come, Bets p-Detroit Free Press.
, 1879-07-17
Friends.

People who have warm friends are health
ier and happier than those who have none.
A single real friend is treasure worth
more than gold or precious stones. Mon
ey can buy many things good and evil.
All the wealth of the world could not buy
friend or pay YOU Tor the loss of one
81 have wanted only one thing to make
me happy" Haslitt writes, "but wanting
that, have wanted everything, and again,
my heart, shut up in prison of this rude
clay, has never found, nor will it find, a
heart TO speak to-" We are the weakest
of Spendthrifts if we let one friend drop off
through inattention, or let one push away
another; or il we hold aloof from one for
petty Jealousy or needless slight or rough
ness. Would you throw away diam mond
because it pricked your One good friend
is not to be weighed against the jewels Of
earth.
, 1879-07-17
A Funeral Breakfast.

A Crotchety old Yorkshireman about
century ago left directions that the
uay Of his funeral should be ushered in
with great public breakfast in the town
Where he might die; that the coffin,
sung upon towels knotted together,
should be borne along by relays of men
ana bumped three times upon a particu-
sr heap of stones; that the "Lamenta-
uOn OF q Sinner" should then be sung,
anu ~ that every man, woman and child
" VINO entered the churchyard with or after
sle procession should receive a dole Of
@1pence. Never, we may fairly believe,
saS that particular churchyard before or
sace 80 plentifully filed with living
elngs; mourners only in this sense, that
Iey iOnged for succession Of men who
.ouid order their funerals in similar
Asnion.-Chambers' Journal.
, 1879-07-17
Effects of Opium and Nicotine

The report that Senator Carpenter is
killing himself with nicotine by smoking
twenty cigars day is reminder that
others are suffering from the same sort of
excess. Most of the smokers in Congress
smoke too much. Some of them carry
cigars in their mouths all the time. There
are Senators and representatives who
never walk down the avenue without the
stump Of cigar between their fingers.
One prominent man in Congress is rapidly
killing himself with opium, and one of the
poorkeepers of the House is at the point
of death from the same cause. The pub
lie man refer to is popular and re-
spected man, whose strange ways have
long been wonder to those who do not
know Of his secret habit. He is kind
and genial gentleman, but he is liable to
pass his best friend with blank stare half
an hour after he has met him pleasantly
in conversation. His fits of abstraction
and depression amount almost 10 crazi-
ness. AT times he is so odd and queer
that his associates are puzzled by his con-
duct. Opium is eating up his life, and
he will not last long. 1t is pity, for his
is one of the best intellects in Congress,
and he might render much useful public
service if he would. Washington Cor
respondence Boston Herald.
, 1879-07-17
How She Described It.

He was bald-headed bachelor, whose
heart for the first time had been moved
by the tender passion.
"Then you confess" he said, in a
trembling voice, to the object of his re-
CARDS, "that you like me little-that
you admire certain qualities Of my
headP
eyes," shyly responded the young
lady.
"And may l ask" he continued, in a
voice of emotion, "what those qualities
are2'
I'll can hardly explain, said the young
lady bashfully; but / think it is be-
cause your head is so mellifuent-I
can't express it more clearly"
"And you can never know how ap-
Preciate your high opinion" exclaimed
sle happy bachelor, as he pressed her
hand.
tie didn't know just what "melliAuent"
meant, but he was sure it was the syn
sonym for something grand and emo
oling, and when he babe her good night
ne rushed eagerly home, excitedly took
uown the dictionary, and feverishly
wrned to the endeared word His blood
changed to ice as he read:
Smooth, soft, mellow"
, 1879-07-17
Stage Life.

How many of you straight-faced
ladies, who so savagely condemn the
actress without recommendation to mer-
cy, would pass scatheless through the
ordeal to which she is subjected, the
temptations by which she is surroundedl
To be nomely in mind and face, without
beauty or wit, to be born and reared and
coddled in all the responsibilities and
conventionalities; to be watched so care
fully that you could never find an op-
portunity of going astray, even if you
desired it; in short, to develop into an
immaculate matron, is not such mar
vellous matter to congratulate yourself
upon.
But to be born altogether out of the
ortLodoxes, left to your own wild will :
to be poor, beautiful and brilliant, TO
see the handsomest men signing at your
feet, doing homage to your talents as
we'll as to your face, and then to come
out of the fire unscathed, as many an
actress has done and will do-then,
lady, you have the right to look down
upon one who has hot been blessed with
your power of resistance.
Bigoted ascetism revels in those
gloomy pictures in which the shadows
are unnaturally deepened and the lights
are omitted; but gentler morals might
draw from that same source the bright
est examples of noble self-devotion, un-
daunted perseverance and divine charity.
, 1879-07-17
Boston and Chicago Hospitality

Bestons merchants are entertaining
their brethren from Chicago right royalty
this week, says the Boston Transcript,
and the guests will return home con-
vinced that hospitality is not lost art
on the seaboard. So it will do no harm
to tell this story, which Causuer heard
recently, but not in the West-a story
which Boston may well ponder over, for
though she has warm heart and opens
it wide on occasions, she does not keep
it open always. A many years ago two
young men, John and James, Boston
boys both, were fellow-clerks on Kilby
street John went to Chicago In its
muddy days, prospered, married, laised
family, and ere this his hair was gray,
became well-to.do, substantial citizen,
open-handed and open-hearted. James
remained at home. He, too, prospered,
married, raised family, and became
one of the solid men of Boston.
Now it fell out that when Johns old
est son-they called him Jack-was 81,
he visited Boston bearing a letter to his
fathers old friend, whom he found in q
dingy Pearl-strest counting-room, deep
in the Advertiser Jack presented the
letter, and stood, hat in hand, while the
old gentleman read it twice. $50 you're
Johns son p he said. "You don't look
bit like your father" Then there was
a pause, Jack still standing. "What
brought you to BostonP he was asked
"Well, sir" said Jack, "father thought
I'd better see his old home and get a
taste of salt air" "Going to be here
over Sundayp eyes, sir" "My pew
is No. - at Trinity. Hope to see you
there. Glad to have met you" And
there the interview. ended.
1t CHANGED that, not long after, James
son, rowing through the West, reached
Chicago. He remembered his fathers
friend by name, and hunted him up in
his office. "Well, my son." said a
pleasant voice before he had closed the
door. "My names is James -, sir,
and thought" "What4 you don't
mean to say that OF course you are
l might have known it. Where's your
boggageP CAT the hotel, SIR" cat
the hotell Well go and get it and take
= '""ht up to the house," answered the
svnlai old gentleman, closing his desk
win vigorous slam. "We'll go right
up now. There's plenty of time for a
drive this afternoon. This evening you
can so to the theatre with my girls, and
tomorrow you and I will take run out
on the c., b. and O., and have look at
the country. Then l want to take you
out to the stock yards, and have trip
on the lake, and" But, sir" broke
in the overwhelmed young man, 81 must
so home tomorrow" "Tut, tut, my
boy, don't talk that way. You can't
begin to see this city under a week, and
you're going to stay that long, anyhow.
And he did. In fact, he's there now.
, 1879-07-17
1eaislation Against Tramps'

Tho State Of New Hampshire year
nsssed tramp law, which was found
w be very effective. 1t was severely
w..;c;sed at the time, on account of what
0. ars deemed very harsh provisions. Not
,'Oa S afterward Illinois adopted tramp
iOuo iOF somewhat similar to the one in New
,na"mnshire. ~" Ohio followed suit with a
,om which takes effect on the lst of July.
Ths % following are the provisions
g Section |. Be it enacted by the Gen.
.raI Assembly of the State of Ohio,
That any person not being in the county
= which he usually lives Or has his
home who is found going about begging
.nd asking subsistence by charity, shall
he taken and deemed as a tramp.
Sec. 2. That any tramp who shall
enter any dweling-house, or shall enter
The yard or enclosure about any dwell
;no6ouse, against the will or without
tbe S permission of the owner or occupant
thereof, and shall not, when requested,
Immediately leave such place, Or shall be
found carrying firearms or other danger
o,s weapons, or shall do or threaten to
do any injury to real or personal estate
or property of another, shall, upon con-
vction thereof, be imprisoned in the
penitentiary not less than one year Or
more than three years.
Sec 3. That any person, upon view of
the ofense described in this act, may ap-
prebend the offender and take him be-
fore a Justice of the Peace for examina-
ton.
Sec 4. This act shall not apply to any
female or blind person.
The Cleveland Leader declares that
there is work enough for every man in
Ohio who wants honestly to earn his
bread. And yet there are 10000
tramps in that State. There must be
some fascination about the life of a
tramp or so many would not fall into
that way of living. A real tramp is an
impostor, and when he takes to the road
without necessity for it, he generally
becomes a criminal. He has determined
to live without work--to forage on the
community, to beat his way along by
false pretenses. This class of men has
rapidly increased in California. The
number is not much diminished even
where work is plenty. A great many
Of the outrages committed in the farm
ing districts are by tramps. In some
places they are so bold that they intimi-
date farmers and others. They are in
solent in their demands, and mutter
threats if they are denied anything
The time is coming here when some leg
islation will be necessary to protect COM
munities against the tramps which in
fest the country. An honest man seek
ing work and willing to pay for what he
receives by his labor, is not tramp.
But the vagabond who takes to the
road and beats his way, threatening un-
protected people, has already begun q
criminal life. The legislation which
Ohio and other States have adopted may
yet become necessary in California.
F. Bulletin.
, 1879-07-17

Dancing masters seldom have any
money, but they're always taking steps
to raise some.
, 1879-07-17

Nothing is more vulgar than fnery and
jewelry out Of place.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-14
THE NEW SECRETARY OF WAR,

Secretary Ramsey, the new head of
the war department, having been firm
ly seated in his position, was subjected
to an interview right off, and he de-
clared his position on the Indian ques-
tion which is satisfactory. Unfortu-
nately the war department does not
control the Indians, or the people of
the west could rightly expect a vast and
beneficial change in their management.
Mr.. Ramsey vas undoubtedly chosen
as a partial concession to the far west,
which demands firm treatment of the
Indians. And he is just far enough to
the east to prevent the soft-headed
philanthropy of the Atlantic coast from
charging him with being III Indian
hater. AT the same time it must be
borne in mind that the people of Min
nesota have suffered from assacre
perpetrated by Sioux and other Indians
during Mr.. Ramsey's residence in the
state, so that he knows of his own
knowledge what deviltries Indians are
capable of committing. He has not
forgotten the Spirit Lake massacre of
$50, nor the Sioux massacre of '62. And
still these atrocities are just old enough
to lose the sting of hatred, although re-
manning prominently in memory. Sec
Rotary Ramsey will scarcely forget that
Indians are Indians.
We rather like Mr.. Ramsey's plat
form: He thinks it impossible to make
a white man of the Indian, and while
treating them fairly, believes in doing
it with frmness. Nc western man can
object to this position. 1t does not go
as far, perhaps, as many of Il people
would wish. But all we ask, or ever
did ask. was for fair treatment.
And fair treatment certainly means
proper punishment for all wrongs in
hicted by the Indians. We take it that
Mr.. Ramsey means this sort of fairness.
1t was exemplified on the Goth of De-
cember, 1862, when thirty-seven Sioux
and one negro renegade were hung in
Minnesota by order of President Lin
coin. Mr.. Ramsey was governor of the
state at that time and stated in his mes
sage to the legislature, convened in ex-
ira session, that 800 persons were killed
by the Indians.
Having therefore a full knowledge of
Indians and an experience with them
Secretary Ramsey will deal vigorously
(slbeit tairlgO with them, when occasion
compels. Hence we lay great store by
the worthy secretary, and we shall GER
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-14

Jay could is "A sort Of associated
and conducts a system of obtaining
news necessary in his stock operations,
that is complete and invaluable. In
his residence there are men who are
constantly receiving and tabulating
vast quantities of information from all
over the west, bearing directly or indi-
rectly on railroads. 1t is always neces-
sary for him to be informed in advance
of the crop prospects, the harvests, etc.
in their proper seasons. Mining news,
too, interest him. All such informa-
ton bears on the value of railroad
stock and gives hints of new extensions
that might be made with profit. Hence
he is constantly posted on the prospects
the agriculture and m of the
west. How much his knowledge as
sists him is proved by the history Of his
continued and wonderful successes.
There is another class of information
which Mr.. Gould obtains daily, and
which is necessary, from the fact of his
frequent purchases of railroads and
most anything else of a s%tupendous ma
ture. A man who is given to drawing
his individual checks for such sums as
$500, 600 and SO, 800, 900 must necessar-
lily be familiar with his daily income.
Hence he has daily returns from all the
roads in which he is interested, giving
him the days traffic and profits, if any.
Thus by an extensive system Of news
gathering is MI. Gould enabled to keep
an intelligent knowledge of the condi-
ton of his vast interests. The expense
is great, but it is justified by the bene-
fits derived. This wonderful enterprise
only serves to prove how great a single
man may become in business. In this
sense, Jay Gould is one of the greatest
men in the world.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-14

THERE is evidently a conspiracy in
certain quarters to absorb the wind now
in the sails of the Sherman boom. So
says a political authority in Washing
ton. But it is not strange that such
should be the Ease. On the contrary it
is perfectly proper in the nature of pol
itics. Why, the honorable secretary
himself is more than probably connect
ed with some conspiracy to prevent the
realization of Grants or Blaine's or any
other candidates. chances. Mr.. Sher-
mans friends have no consistent reason
to complain.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-14
JUDGE McCRARY is superbly happy

JUDGE McCRARY is superbly happy
over his translation from the cabinet to
the bench. He has now a position for
life. at a fair salary. His retirement
makes the first break in President
Hayes cabinet. The president had
fondly hoped to end his term with his
original cabinet, but he has the CON
soling thought that Mr. McCrary's re-
tirement was mutually satisfactory from
the fact that the ex-secretary succeeds
to a most honorable position for life; a
worthy promotion.