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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15

OUR Fort Wayne correspondent tele-
graphed from that city Tuesday night that
the republicans had carried the municipal
election. This was an error. The demo-
erats elected their entire ticket clerk,
treasurer, marshal, assessor and water
works trustee) by majorities ranging from
1855 to LIS, losing only the mayor. The
new council is divided politically as the
old one was-democrats, 49, republicans,
s. The good city of Fort Wayne is en-
titled to the correction. 1t is one of the
best governed cities in the country and,
what is more, is always democratic.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
wounded in the ARMY.

/ was wounded in the leg at the battle of
Stone River, Dec. 81, 1862. My blood was
poisoned from the effects of the wound and the
leg swelled to double its natural SIZE and re-
manned so for many years. The poison ex-
thousand deaths. Nothing did me any good
until took Swifts Specific, which took the
poison out of my blood and enabled me to feel
myself man again. S. S. s. is the remedy for
blood poison. JOHN CONWAY. London. ..
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
Fixing the Family.

John n. Scott, brother-in-law of Gen. Har-
rison, has been appointed to a sIx-dollar-per-
day Job as superintendent of construction of
the Port Townsend CIV. IT, custom house.
With Calkins as governor, the people of Wash
ington will begin to wonder what has become
OF the presidents wonderful policy of home
rule for the territories.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15

husbands relatives as well. The HARRI-
SONS, SCoTrs and McKEEs will figure very
conspicuously on Uncle Sans payroll for
the next four years.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
The Coat Fits.

If some overzealous friends of President
Harrison insist that Bishop Potters forcible
presentation of the dangers OF self-seeking-of
''spoils" and the ''machine"-was personal al
fusion unworthy OF the time and place, they
pay him a poor compliment. Such prompt
putting on of the coat inevitably arouses the
suspiclon that il fits
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
columbus Herald

The school book monopoly, otherwise Van
Antwerp, Bragg & Co, is still fighting to defeat
the new school book law 1t has jealous advo-
Gates in such men as Bell Of the School Journal
and some other gentlemen who are in an official
capacity. The school teacher or school officer
who fights against the law, and in the interest
of the monopoly, is enemy of the people
who have given him a position. These the
public should mark with an indelible brand.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15

BRoTHER-IN-LAw ScoTT of this city has
been appointed to a six-dollar-a-day posi-
ton in Washington territory. Ex-senator
SAUNDERS of Nebraska, father of RUSSELL
HARRIsoN's wife, is booked for a seat on
the Utah commission; $1,000 a year and
"found." 1t looks as if HARRISON in
tended not only to take care" Of all his
own and his wife's relatives, but of his
sons wifes relatives and his daughters
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
-Lnransnnrt Pharos.1


The school book trust dies as hard as a horse
thief. THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL says it
could have sold its silence to the ring for more
money than the profits of its business amount to
in five years. That THE SENTIENL refused TO be
corrupted is a matter of congratulation. Other
newspapers aud certain officials seem 10 have
delivered themselves soul and body 70 the
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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15

Two distinguished Indianisns are spoken
Of for the craftsmanship of the national
democratic committee - ex-senator Nc
DONALD and the Hon. S. p. SHEERIN.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
[Blufton Banner.l

A circular published in pamphlet form by
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. OF Cincinnati has
been circulated throughout Indiana. The sole
purpose OF this cheeky, imprudent and auda-
cious circular is to break down the new school
book law, which passed to protect the peo-
pie of our state from the robbery and exactions
which this company, through its combinations.
has been able to force upon the country. Hon
est-minded people should regard with distrust
anything coming from this rspaciOus firm.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
NIiIler Han burned

CLEVELAND, o., May MILLER hall, one of
the buildings of Kenyon Military academy at
Gambler, o., burned this morning. Loss, SS0,-
600; insurance, $4,000.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May SIN the house to-
day bill was passed making it obligatory upon
all children between the ages of seven and
weeks each year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15

Humors run riot 10 the blood at this season.
Hoods Sarsaparilla expels every impurity and
yitalizes and enriches the blood.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-15
Ben Butler and Admiral Porter.

Ben BUTLER and Admiral PORTER are
having a lively controversy over charge
made by the former that the latter ran
away at the time the forts were attacked
below New Orleans by FARRAGUT. Ad-
miral PORTER says "the whole thing is one
of Buffers lies, gotten up in his last day
before he dies of his own venom" But
LER insists that his charge is true, and
says that he can furnish the proofs. Il
have brought the matter out now" he
adds, because have to state the facts in
some "reminiscences of my life. and they
may not see the light while PORTER and
myself are alive. do not want to violate
the msxim, De nlortius nil nisi bon1Dl,' SO [
have made the charge, while he is alive,
to defend himself if he car"
PORTER is defending himself vigorously,
as will be seen, and is making interesting
counter-charges, among others that But
LER was addicted to drunkenness during
the war, and was overcome with liquor at
certain critical moments when he needed
particularly to have a clear head.
These old men, on the edge OF the
grave, hurting vicious epithets at each
other, do not present an agreeable spec
tacle. The theory that BUTLER hes sprung
these charges in order to advertise his
"Reminiscences" seems plausible But
whatever his motive it is to be hoped that
the facts will all be brought out if posi-
BILE. II Admiral PORTER has been wear
ing laurels that do not belong to him, and
was coward when the world supposed
him to be a hero, it is well that the world
should be disabused. There are too many
persons masquerading in borrowed
plumes in the pages of history already.
THE days of "free land for everybody"
in the United States have about passed
away. Uncle Sam is no longer ''rich
enough to give us all farm" The mad
rush on Oklahoma shows that our people
are already suffering from the land
hunger which has been the portion of the
European masses for centuries. The
hunger would not exist if land were to be
had for the asking. There is a popular
notion that the government still possesses
untold millions of acres in the far west
This is a mistake. Nearly all the agricul-
tural land, except that in the Indian reser-
walton, is gone. The land which remains
is mostly worthless. Within the next
quarter OF century the pressure Of popu-
lation on land will be severely felt in this
country, and our institutions will then be
subjected to a severer strain than has ever
yet been put upon them.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
Horseback Riding for Health.

DR., David n. Patterson contributes to
the July Outing paper on horseback
riding which has some points of real in
terest. He says that for both men and
women who are closely confined indoors
by sedentary pursuits there is no formof
exercise which imparts tone and energy
to the whole physical system and at the
same time gives such wide range OF
mental enjoyment as horseback riding.
A rider must have a genuine affection
for his horse. From horse to rider in this
case flows steady current of fine mag
netism. "The horse is regular battery
for the generation of animal electricity"
A horse must be comfortably saddled
and bridled; his nervous, sensitive mouth
must be at ease. His riders weight
must be adapted to him. DR.. Patterson
remarks:
With these few suggestions properly attended
to, together with such others as may be prompted
by experience a five or ten mile ride on clear
summer morning cannot fail to prove an inestim-
able blessing.
For invalids, too, horseback riding is
invaluable. 1t will bring rest and heal
ing to the anxious, the overtaxed and
broken down. It often cures, consump-
ton in the earlier stages. If you are
getting too fat, the good daily shaking
up will bring your weight down. If you
are too thin, and nerveless and declining,
it will tone you up and make your
muscles firm and plump. If you suffer
from insomnia, it will make you sleep.
If you have dyspepsia, a ten mile ride
will make you feel as if you could eat
nails.
Best of all, it takes you into the sweet,
open country. Finally:
That horseback riding is conducive to the ele
walton Of good morals and the development Of the
small, sweet courtesies Of ife' is evident to
even the most casual observer. The exercise i'm
parts healthy tone Of mind and spirit, together
with manliness and simplicity Of manners. It
is very rare to find good horseman who Is churl
ish and lacking in that delicate and instructive
appreciation Of the feelings Of Others
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
Lightning Transit.

The latest invention in quick trans
portation is one to take away the breath
Of even this rapid age. A system has
been adopted by the Electro-Automatic
company, of Baltimore, by which it is
claimed that mail and light freight of all
kinds can be transported at the rate of
three miles minute, 1870 miles an hour
Light trains, consisting of the motor
car and one or more carrying coaches,
will be sent through the country by cleo
sricity at this fearful rate of speed. There
will be no human attendants on the
train. 1t will be controlled and directed
from the generating stations. The rail-
way track is twenty-four inches wide,
the motor car eighteen feet long,
and pointed at both ends, to do away
with atmospheric friction. For the
same reason the cars fit into one an
other telescope fashion, thus giving a
smooth, regular surface to the air. ''The
mails between New York and Omaha
will be carried in night" it is said,
through this amazing new development
of mans genius. Special rails are de-
vised to keep the train from flying the
track. The system has been fully
tried at an experimental station in
Baltimore, with track two miles in
circuit The train ascends grade here
of 1903 feet to the mile easily and per-
sectly. The originator Of this stupendous
invention is Mr.. David G. Weems, of
Baltimore. 1t is expected that ere long
q plan will be perfected by which the
present steam railways can be utilized
for electric tranxit
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17

Eight years ago in Portland, Me-, a
little organization was formed called the
Society for Christian Endeavor. Its aim
was to make protesting Christians be-
come active workers for good among
their fellow men, intoxicating by exam
pie as well as precept the ways of purity,
peace and good will. They depended
largely on the weekly prayer meeting to
foster the spirit of love and holy living.
The society now has half a million men,
bers in different parts of the Union, and
has just held its annual convention in
Philadelphia. Members take pledge
to attend prayer meeting every week
and take some part in it, praying or
speaking. They also pledge themselves
to daily prayer, Bible reading and Chris
tian life. The movement is said to be
filling the churches with enthusiasm.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
The Tammany Hall organization is
century old this summer.
WHALE MEAT AS DIET.

1t Is Not Only Wholesome but Also Very
Palatable.
Talk of butchers shops A whale is a
whole meat market in itself. 1t is float
ing Smithfeld, a marine edition of Copen-
hagen fields, an entire Billingsgate.
Nobody need ever starve when whales
are in season. A few of them would
provision a city for long siege. Fortu-
nately, as the world grows older, it learns
to Judge more fairly of neglected kinds
of provisions. 1t is pity that the true
value of whale flesh has not been dis
covered long ago. How many poor
families might have been amply fed if
only "whale extract" had come into
fashion years back. Commands should
also show their gratitude for the gift of a
fresh flavor. It must be admitted, with
regret, but without hesitation, that the
list Of ordinary articles of food is very
limited, and that beef and mutton are apt
to become monotonous, even when varied
with fish and poultry, and all the eat
able fruits of the earth as well. The
edibil;.y of the whale is, therefore, an
exciting discovery"
The only drawback to the pleasant
picture which arises when the mind con-
templates $4,000 people dining off one
animal is contained in the thought that
whales, when they are proved to be val
liable for dietettc purposes, will be hunt
ed until they become scarce and perhaps
extinct. To guard against this danger
we have no doubt that whale breeding
would come into fashion. People who
found other forms of food culture unre-
munerative might remove to countries
where the climate allowed whales to live
in comfort and establish whale farms at
the mouths of tidal rivers. There is, in
fact, no end to the opening for enter
prise and ingenuity which are available
owing to this remarkable addition to the
domestic larder.-Medical Classics.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17


Some of the tricks are performed by
every iuggler you meet; others again are
Of such an astonishing nature, and bor-
der so nearly on the miraculous as to be
beyond the capacity of an ordinary per-
former. OF this character are the orange
tree trick and the burial trick. If, after
having witnessed these feats performed
in broad daylight, one is of the opinion
that it was an optical delusion produced
by the mesmeric power of the operator,
I can only say that the ability to obtain
an absolute mastery over every faculty
Of the observer is no less astonishing
than would be the actual performance OF
an apparently impossible feat.
The most noticeable feature in the per-
Torrance Of the Indian juggler is the
entire absence of any kind of apparatus.
His scanty clothing affords no oppor-
tunity for concealment, and every feat
Is performed simply by manual dexterity
or is delusion effected By mesmeric in
fuences. The famous wizards of Europe
and America were Nothing without af,-
paratus, and a great deal of the effect of
their performances was due to their mag
nifcent and costly paraphernalia, In
genious mechanisms and expert assist
ants were absolutely essential to the
success of their delusions AS an illustra-
ton of this I may mention that Anderson
who, by the way, was the poorest
wizard I ever saw, considering his repu-
tation-made oath some thirty years ago
in an English bankruptcy court that his
apparatus. destroyed by the burning of
Covent Garden theatre, London, was
worth over $4,000, and that the effort
to replace it was the cause Of his insol.
vency. This amount, of course, included
stage properties and everything neces-
sary in his business. A rs cent carpet
bag would hold all the appliances deemed
necessary by Hindoo juggieF. Even in
the beautiful butterfly trick he maHl-
features his paper butterflies as occasion
requires. E. Roman in The Co.'S
mopolitan.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
Tenement House Life.

The population Of New York city is now
over 1900, 900. Of this great mass of peo-
pie nearly 100000 live in tenement
houses. A tenement house is classed as one
that contains over twenty inhabitants. OF
the 400, 900 who live outside the tenement
houses, by far the larger part live in
boarding houses and in the high class
flats and apartments that are not classed
with the tenement houses. Subtracting
these, there remains only very small
number of families indeed who occupy
a house to themselves. Rents and real
estate are so high one must be almost
millionaire to have a whole house.
In the tenement buildings dens have
been found in which human beings live
twenty-five in room. This is especially
true of the italian quarter. In several
of the streets Of the east side of the city
it is literally and absolutely impossible
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
Peace, Troubled Souls!

To the live citizen in the actual swirl
of life, nothing is more amusing than
the doleful. pessimistic lucubrationS Of
college professors and presidents who sit
in their easy chairs in shaded scholastic
bowers and know about as much as q
kitten of the real, throbbing world about
them. A college president knows per-
haps how to discipline giddy young men,
though he is not always successful in
that, and college professor knows about
Greek roots and Euclid. But when they
come up smiling every summer and tell
us regularly that the world is going to
the dogs, we beg to submit respectfully
that they don't know anything about it.
Students under them catch their cue,
and crate in the same dismal tones.
Now, we are not going to ruin. There
are statesmen also in these days. And
there are as many honest, unselfish,
kindly people as there ever were,
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17

to pass along the sidewalks early in the
summer evening without pushing chill
dren and women aside. Human beings
are packed together even on the side
walks. A reelsing smell strikes the nos
trils as ono passes tho corners of these
streets.
AS New York city Is already, so the
other large cities of the Union are be-
coming with respect to the tenement
system. Murder. death, crime, suicide
and pestilence have their feeding ground
and breeding places here. Not day
passes but some desperate deed Is record
ed. Even in several of the smaller cit
les it is dangerous to pass along certain
streets in the evening unaccompanied by
q policeman. These streets are always
the ones on which the pestilential tene-
ment house is situated. If the railway
companies and philanthropists could
only devise some plan Of thinning out
these seething masses of humanity and
breaking up the hotbeds of crime, what
a blessing to civilization it would be.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17

Several large parties OF American
school teachers, numbering nearly a
thousand women and men, are in Europe
this summer enjoying their vacation.
They are from all parts of the Union,
south as we'll as north and west. The
good wishes of millions of their fellow
countrymen, large and small, go with
them. They have earned their vacation
bravely and well, and the millions hope
they will come back to school full of
fresh, electric life and new ideas. For
the hope of the country rests with the
teachers. And we are glad America
pays her teachers we'll enough for them
to take this little outing over seas.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
Mans Spiritual Evolution.

Professor Alfred Russell Wallace as
serts that the Darwinian theory of evo-
luton is not opposed to belief in the
spiritual nature and origin of man. On
the contrary, it is powerfully in favor of
1t. Professor Wallace writes a book in
support of this position. The work is
called "Darwinism."
It agrees wholly with Darwin in ad-
vocating the gradual evolution of man
from the simpler animal forms, up
through the authropoid ape to the hui
man species. This evolution, Professor
Wallace thinks, took place upon the
plains Of Central Asia. That the missing
line has never been discovered may be
owing to the fact that no geologist has
ever explored the basin Of Central Asia.
Here, then, is field still left for ambi-
tious biologists.
But having travelled the same path
with Darwin thus far, Professor Wallace
here branches off. He afdrms there are
faculties in the nature of man that can
not be accounted for on the mere theory
of natural selection, struggle for life,
and the survival of the fttest. AS illus
trations are mentioned the musical, meta
physical, mathematical and artistic fac
ulties. Somewhere higher power, the
spiritual power, has stepped in, and in
PRODUCED these into that strange piece of
work we call man. Professor Wallace,
no less scientific than Darwin himself,
advances arguments to prove his ground.
The work will be comfort to orthodox
believers who, hesitating between science
and religion, would like to find some
around where both can meet.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
y Worthy American Work.

The first three numbers have appeared
of the new Century Dictionary, an En-
cyclopedic Lexicon of the English Lam
guage." This magnificent work has been
in progress number of years. No one
person could make a dictionary in our
time. The learning required would be
too vast to be attained in one life, such
is tho differentiation of knowledge in
our age. The work of preparing the
words in the Century Dictionary has
been given out to experts in all the spe-
cial departments, as law, theology, etc.
The scientific terms have been put into
the hands of Professor Elliott Cones, of
Washington. The principal editor is
Professor William Dwight Whitney.
The most important feature of these
volumes is that they will be not only a
mere dictionary defining terms, but an
encyclopedia describing and explaining
etymologically, historically and other
wise.
There are are now in the English Ian.
guage 100000 words. 1t grows at the
rate of several thousand year. Ger
tainly the person does not live who
knows the meaning of all the words in
the English language. Besides new
words, new meanings and changed
meanings are continually being added
to the same word. Take the word
cable" Webster or Worcester would
not have known what was meant if one
had spoken to them of a submarine cable
or a cablegram, or of cabling message.
Simply the application of electricity to
the industries, and that chiefly in the
last twenty years, has added several
chapters to encyclopedia photography.
1t is matter of pride and pleasure to
Americans that we have in our own
country the necessary ability and schol-
arship to carry through to the end a
work of such importance as the Century
Dictionary.
Morris tribune., 1889-07-17
The New Catholic University.


March Pope Leo XIII gave definite
authority for the establishing Of great
Roman Catholic university In the United
States. 1t will be called the University
of Washington. The ancient Catholic
college at Georgetown will be supple
mented by course of higher studies,
particularly in theology and kindred
topics.
The new university will be open to
students next November. The arch
bishop of Baltimore will be ex-ofticio
chancellor. Students who have finished
the course Of instruction in other Catho-
lie colleges In good standing in the coun-
try will be permitted to enter the insti-
tuition at Washington without examina-
ton.
Bishop Keane is rector of the new uni
versity. A spacious building for its &C
commodation is now nearly completed.
Bishop keane made careful inspection
of the universities of Europe, getting
ideas for the American one. 1t is his
Judgment that the German rather than
the English model for great seat OF
learning should be followed. The Ger
man model embraces the gymnasium
and the school.
There will be special departments for
professional careers, and it will be per-
mitted to take up particular study and
pursue it. But, especially, there will be
afforded to the priesthood, young and
old, opportunity for a wide postgraduate
course. The fosterers of the university
wish to aid in giving to the world dis
tinguished American scholars, by offer
ing field of ''deeper study, of broader,
higher learning"