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4 NEW FEATHYR IN OUR oAp,

INDIANA is IN the earthquake Delt. Inefe ~
no use denying it, and we are not 'sdispogedo
to do so. We expect to take our share of all
the tarnation foolishness the crust of this old
planet can shake up. We have as many
cyclones to the square mile as any State in
the Union. (See our editorial on six Hun
dred Tornadoes" of last year. We are also in
the malarial belt. The lower Wabash and
White river swamps produce as fine specimens
of the bacillus malarim as ever Tomasi Crodeli
discovered in the marshes Of the Roman Cam
pagna. (See our editorial on that subject in
to-morrow's issue.)
As to the food belt, we have had more
farms, cities and manufactures under water
at once than any other State bordering on the
Ohio, and we promptly relieved them, besides
sending boat-loads of provisions clothing and
squinine to the benighted people of Illinois,
whose Legislature was then engaged in a par
tisan fight, and could not relieve its suffering
thousands by mine and food disasters. (See
our editorial on the eRelations Of Forestry
and Drainage to the Floods of the Ohio."O
We are also in the tdry belt, and, although
without two inches Of rain in three months,
have had an unusually abundant and excellent
supply Of vegetables, a good wheat and hay
crop, and sufficient ripened corn to meet the
needs of the ehog and hominy' interest. In
diana is a great -State-great in peace, great
in war and great in the eyes Of
the Nation. We had the Morgan
raid and the war Governor to
meet it; for years we have been a pivotal
State in politics, and four years ago Indiana
put the Democracy on such a run that they
have not yet got their second wind.
There is but one doubling Thomas and
we have got him, and it looks very much as
though we should keep him for at least
another four years, (see our numerous edi-
torials upon this subject.)
OF course we should have an earthquake.
It is just what we have been praying for all
along the line. It will now rain a great rain,
fill our ~cisterns, allow us to put in the fall
wheat crop, and keep butter down to twenty
cents until Mr.. Blaine is elected President Of
the United States, earthquake and all.
We are not nskeered, : like Rffeys cdon,
but have got just what we needed and wanted.
The cause, extent and generafNtheory Of
earthquakes have been fully discussed in pre-
vious issues by our scientific editor, on three
occasions following the italian, the Java, the
English and the New York earthquakes, and
to these we refer our readers. We are still
on the ground, and are going right on with
the campaign, trusting the physical welfare
Of the Commonwealth tothe great Power that
nodded the continents and said unto the sea:
either shalt thou come, and here shall thy
proud waves be stayed As with
the Legislature Of Massachusetts, in the
dark day Of New England: s1et candles be
brought; this is either the day of Judgment
or it is not the day Of Judgment in either
case let us be found doing our duty" The
usual editorials on the moral issues of the
campaign will be regularly produced, and no
man about this office will wait with bated
breath; for this little 'sshake-up' is readily
explained by our proximity to the mountains
Of Brown county, to say nothing of the
earthquake contagion which might have been
left over, dormant, since the great Mississippi
earthquake Of 1911, or that may have been
brought over from England by the eblarsted'
English scientists who have just been sit
ting at Philadelphia. The earthquake does
not disturb US. Now is the timeto subscribe.
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