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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
The BALLOT reform Movement,

The Pennsylvania ballot reform associa-
ton gives notice that as soon as the legis-
lature convenes a bill prepared by the as
ISOLATION will be introduced to provide for
a secret ballot by the Australian system
and an open count. The bill will avoid
the necessity for an amendment to the
constitution doing away with the number
ing of the ballots, and yet aim to preserve
the secrecy of the ballot by requiring the
official list of voters, or other means OF
identifying the parties who cast the re-
spective ballots, to be sealed before the
boxes are opened. QUAY will doubtless
defeat this measure if he dares to, but the
demand for it by the farmers and work
ingmen of Pennsylvania is so strong that
he may not feel it safe to ignore it.
The ballot reform movement is spread.
ing throughout the country. Most of the
legislatures which meetthis winter in states
in which the Australian system mas not
already been introduced, will adopt it
Two years ago, when TIE SENTINEL was
making its great fight for ballot reform in
Indiana, il predicted that the presidential
election of 1892 would be heldin a majority
of states under the Australian system. The
prediction is going to be verified.
1t is a gratifying fact that Indiana was
the second state in the Union to adopt this
great reform, and that THE SENTINEL was
the chief agent in securing for the state
this enviable distinction.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

THE Mckinley law, it appears, protects
American natural Gas against the pauper
natural gas of Canada. Buffalo pipes
some of this pauper gas from Canada, and
the treasury department rules hat a tariff
tax of 10 per cent. must be paid upon it
as an 'unenumerated, manufactured
article" Thus is the great principle Of
protection triumphantly indicated!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

THE Boston Post says that the employees
OF the Fairfield chemical works at Bridge
port, Conn, nave been notified of a re-
ductiOn of 10 per rent. in their wages.
The cut was made because of the increased
cost of raw materials under the Mckinley
law. Big thing for wOrkingmen. that Nc
Kinley law!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

THE Savannah Ne'cs thinks it might be
well for congress, before passing Senator
DAWES resolution to prohibit the opening
of the Chicago exposition on Sundays, to
make sure that it will open at all. There
is wisdom In the suggestion.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
They Mu { Pal To her.
brooklyn Eagle-dem.

If the victory of tariff reform in No
vember. 1890, is to be followed by a vic
tory for the presidential candidates OF the
democratic party in 1892, Grover Cleve-
Iaud and David Bennett Hill must pull to-
pether." That is a fact so plain that the
yeriest tvro in political calculation can
forsce the consequences OF acting IN dis
regard of it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

MISSOURI has a new fee and salary law
which took effect on January l. One of Its
provisions is that the fees of no executive or
ministerial officer of any county, exclusive
of the salaries actually paid to his neces-
sarv deputies, snail exceed the sum of
5000 for anv one wear.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

THE importance of a few moments of
time on human lives was strongly en-
phasized by the Fifth-ave. theater fire of
Friday night. Had the fire broken out
half an hour sooner. while the vast audi
ence were in their seats, probably hun
dreds of lives would have been lost while
engaged in pleasure-seeking instead of the
six noble fremen who persisted doing
their duty.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

The f~ootings of the population of Indi-
ana by counties in 1889 AMI 1890 pub
lished elsewhere are The popu-
lation in 1880 was 1878. sol, and in 1890,
2,IS9.O30.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

fective work of the pension agents" will
succeed in defeating the Dockery bill.
This measure is in the interest of the pen
%sioners, and its passage would be a serious
blow to the gang of blood-suckers at
Washington which has been plundering
them so long. The gang contributes too
much money to the republican campaign
funds, and extends too many favors to re-
publican congressman to suffer any incon-
venience at the hands OF a republican con-
gress. The Dockery bill will not be passed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

Mr.. MCKINLEY has introduced a bill APP
propriating So, 700 to pay the duty on i'm
ported plate-gllss for use in the light
house service. Did not Mr.. MCKINLEY
and the protection organs tell the people,
before the election, that it was not the
consumer but the foreign manufacturer
who paid the tariff? There seems to be a
mistake somewhere.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

organizations OF capital especially equipped
for just such work. 1t is usually done in
the East by large savings banks and trnst
companies. Indiana. We regret to say,
has neither, although she ought to have
both
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

THE fifteen hundred protected steel
workers in CARNEGIE's Homestead estab-
lishment received a New Years gift in the
shape of a ten per cent. reduction in
WaOPS-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
Was Decentralization Constitutional?

was
The Western advocates of free silver
have determined to procure a decision
from the supreme court as to the consti-
nationality of the laws demonetizing silver.
Two Denver gentlemen nave taken 1000
ounces OF standard silver to the mint at
Philadelphia and asked that it be coined
into 81. yer dollars. The superintendent,
of course, refused to comply with their
request on the ground hat there was no
law, or regulation OF treasury department,
requiring him Il do so. He furnished
them with a statement of the presentation
of the metal and the preferring of the re-
quest, and of his action in the premises.
Touching the purposes of the Denver
gentlemen the Washington correspondent
of the New York Commercial Bulletin says:
They will apply to a u. S. court for a
writ of mandamus to compel the superin-
tendent 10 receive and coin the sill
yer. Their argument is that congress has
no power under the constitution to de-
monetize either gold or silver. Those
metals, they will argue before the court,
were the money metals existing as such
when the constitution was adopted, and
were referred to in the authority given to
congress ito coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coin" They
will argue that this grant of power gives
no authority to suspend the coinage, and
that when the states are forbidden to
make anything but gold and silver coin
a tender in payment of debts" it is dis
tinctly implied that such coin of both
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

THE Journal asks this question of The
SENTINEL:
Ii a free and pure ballot is desirable in
Indiana, why is it not desirable in other
states, and il the enactment of an honest
election law was more important than
financial legislation in the legis ature,
why is it not equally so in congress?
Local self-government is the foundation
stone of our federal system. A free and
pure ballot is desirable in every state, but
it is a matter for every state to regulate
for itself. For one hundred years the reg
ulation and control of elections have been
left with the people of the states. and the
proposition now to take it from them and
handi ii over to partisan officials mo- res
ponsible to the people, is not in the inter
est of honest elections, as the Journal
well knows. By the way, the Journal has
never published the provisions of the
force bill. Why doesn't it give its readers
an opportunity to see for themselves
what this measure actually is?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

To THE EDIToR-Sr: We hear a great
deal about state finances and popular
loans and all that sort of thing thes- times.
Why cannot the state of Indiana issue a
long time. low interest bearing, nOn-tax-
able bond in small denominations, thereby
giving the people of small means an alb
s~olutely safe and easily convertible invest
ment for their earnings? II there is any
legal objection to this, and if SO, what
is ii? QUERIsT.
Richmond, Ind, Dec. 80.
There is no legal objection to your sug-
~gestion, so far as we are informed. The
difficulty is rather a business or financial
one. The state of Indiana could hardly
float a loan of the character you desire in
such a way as to serve the end you have
in view, because it has not the necessary
machinery for doing SO. No state, or the
federal government either for that matter,
has ever fioated a loan without the aid of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

A Ctnt'on.
[Tipton Times.l
To the next legislature: BE economical
in public expenditures.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
means the closing of debate on any ques-
ton. and the ordering of a vote by the
majority of the members present.
Ell CETERA.

RIDER HAGGARD is at present in Mexico,
securing material for a new novel.
BJoRNsTJERNE RJoRNsoN'S daughter gives
promise of becoming a famous singer.
GEN. CAssIUs NJ. CLAY of Kentucky is
getting well after his long prostration. He
swore mildly, however, the other day.
THENew York Mail and Express has given
a reception in honor of ~itscanoeist, Ebert
Rappleye. The recipient travelled 5000
miles in a paper canoe.
A GERMAN inventor. Mr.. S~iesegang, has
cohsteHeted an ingenious electric phono-
graph, witch is said to produce the in
flrctlons of the voice with wonderful
fidelity.
TENNYsoN is in excellent health and,
Notwithstanding the severe weather and
his advanced age, his lord-hip, who is STAY
ing on Isle OF Wight, takes his usual walk
every day.
THE Duchess Dues has just lost $780,
600 by the flight of a French banker.
1t is said that she has also sunk $780,
600 in the GdulOis, a Partisan royalist
newspaper.
ACCORDING to the New York police re-
port for the past year. the number of men
(S5,O69) arrested for violations of law was
more than three tin es as great as the
number of women Q9,09l).
Mr.. PARNELL is the author of a play
known as shamrock Green" which for
five years has enjoyed great favor in Au-
STRATA, and which has Melted it's proprietor
nearly So, 000.-NeW York World.
SPEAKER REED purchased rather a
strange supply of Christmas goods today
for a member hailing from a prohibition
state. 1t was ten quart bottles of old rye
whisky, for which he paid Sl00.-AHdntG
Constitution.
AMELIE RIvEs CHAMBER has completed
another novel, of which Richard Henry
Stoddard, who has seen the manuscript,
says, sententiously. he thinks the pruning
knife will have 10 be used before the book
Is published.
DR.. RUSSELL, senior ~pathologist at the
Edinburg Royal infirmary, claims that he
has discovered the cancer parasite, which
he maintains he has traced to a fungus of
the yeast type. He is still pursuing ex-
perlments in this department of research.
Mr.. G~LADsroNE's birthday is practically
a national holiday for the British liberals.
Memorial offerings come to his house at
Hawarden from one end of the kingdom
TO the other. and every 18th of December
his desk is piled high with kilograms and
letters of congratulation.
"G0oD-BY, forever, e Orge," she said,
And, full of griei and woe,
Poor GVOrgie stumbled down the steps
And TO his home did 20.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
why Women Do Not Marry.

No doubt there are many women-very
grand women they are, too-who, like
Miss Martineau, refuse to marry for
physical cOnsiderations-ill health; the
fear of hereditary disease; the desire to
ave the beloved husband that should
nave been from unnecessary burdens.
All honor to such women; they are the
silent martyrs. "'Tis better to have loved
and lost" etc. Such women are not
unhappy. But the sad reason why most
women do not marry is because they
have not had a chance. When we read
chat there are $4,000 more unmarried
women than men in Massachusetts, alone,
what shall we say of the rest of the
miscalled United States? Mrs. Wells
wittily describes some one who had had
"haf an offer" 1t is to be feared that
some most lovable women have not even
reached to that dreadful moment of sus-
pense. 1t is the "Lost Chord" and
deeply to be deplored. 1t is true that in
many a retired village some half dozen
very clever, well educated, good women
pass their lonely lives with no chance to
better their condition" No wonder
that some of them make what their
families call very bad marriages. On
one point 1 do agree with Mrs. Wells,
when she refers to the horrible literature
with which our market is flooded, turn
ing life into dissecting room. That,
indeed, may well brighten a susceptible
and nervous woman. 1t is a shocking
wrong and nuisance that popular maya
zines should publish stories which are
read by young girls, enabling them, as
Mrs, Wells says, to count "the various
sinds Of kisses that mark the advent and
climax of a lovers regard. Love itself
is Just as subtle and unselfsh as ever it
was passion is as true and noble; but
their parasites are deadly" This is
splendid summing up. But do not
agree that such reading makes a girl
love her mother more, or that she
"stays at home, growing more helpful,
and finding indefinite interests enough
to make single life very pleasant. "-[ Mrs.
John Sherwood, in North American Re-
| view,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
THE FORTY ACRE FARM.

I'm thinking wife, of neighbor Jones, that
man with stalwart arm
die lives in peace and plenty ON a forty'acre
farm;
When men are all around us, whose hearts
and hands are sore,
Who own two hundred acres, and still are
wanting more.
His is pretty little farm-a pretty little
house;
He has loving wife within, as quiet as
mouse,
His children play around the door-their
fathers heart to charm
Looking just as neat and tidy as the tidy
little farm.
No weeds are in the cornfeld, no thistles in
the oats.
The horses show good keeping by their fue
and glossy coats;
The COWS within the meadows, resting meath
the beechen shade,
Learn all their gentle manners from gem
tie milkingmaid.
Within the field on Saturday he leaves no
Graded grain
To be gathered on the morrow for fear of
coming rain,
He keeps the Sabbath holy-his children
learn his ways,
And plenty fills his barns and bins after the
harvest days.
He never has a lawsuit to take him to the
town,
For the very simple reason, there are no
fences down,
The bar room in the village does not have
for him charm;
can always find my neighbor on his forty
acre farm.
His acres are so very few, he plOws them
very deep;
IT'S his own hand that turns the sod
it's his own hand that reaps;
He has place for everything, and things
are in their place,
The sunshine smiles upon his field, content
ment il his face.
May we not learn lesson, wife, from pru
dent Neighbor Jones,
And motor what we haven't got give ven
to signs and groans?
The rich amt always happy, nor free from
liFe's alarms,
But blest are they that live content, though
small may be their farms.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
Rain Made to Order

Washington, June 23.-The last
agricultural appropriation bill con-
tanned an appropriation of $1,000 to be
used in experiments in the produce
ton of rainfall. The department is
now about to embark in these expert
ments, having prepared to test prac-
tically the theory that heavy eXplo-
sions cause rainfall. Last evening a
preliminary trial was made, and a
balloon sent up in the northern sub
urbs exploded with great violence
amid the clouds. Whether the sub
sequent downpour of rain later in the
evening was caused by the explosion
remains to be determined, and the
department will try the experiment
on larger scale tomorrow to test
the efficiency of this means Of break
ing summer droughts.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
Small Propeller Screws the Best.

"The small size Of the screw" said
a boiler maker to representative OF
the n. Y. Tribune, sis not due to the
perception Of any inventor OF its
greater effect as compared with a
larger one, but purely to accident.
When l first engaged in the ma
chinery business, screws for steamers
were made as large as possible, it
being the theory that the greater the
diameter, the higher the speed. A
vessel was placed on Lake Erie with
screw so large that it was deemed
best to cast each blade in two parts,
and then weld them together. During
n storm all these blades of the pro-
peler broke at the welding, reducing
the diameter by more than two
thirds. To the surprise Of the
captain the vessel shot forward at a
speed such as had never been attain
ed before. Engineers then expert
mented with small prOpellers and
discovered that they were much more
effective than large ones.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
What It Costs to Smoke.

DR.. F. B. Nofsinger, Kansas City'6
postmaster, does not smoke very much
but he has nevertheless sent q number of
@!aenGacks up in clouds during the pas.
- years. The doctor is a comfortaoa
sort Of man and likes to enjoy the gcs
things going. He does not smoke more
than five cigars day-he thinks more
might be injurious to his health. This
makes a total of $50 per month, or 1900
IN wear, which number multiplied by
so, the number of years the doctor has
Dc,A given to the weed, gives a grand
total of $4,000 These cigars retail at
10 cents apiece, but DR.. Nofsinger buys
them by the hundred and in that way the
expense is but cents to the unit. AT 7
cents apiece the 1000 cigars smoked in
SO years would cost $3,7S0. Had the,
been purchased at 10 cents apiece, the e.;-
pense would have been $5,400. And in
consideration of the fact that the post
master is pretty good kind of fellow,
he must have given away about $1,000
worth. Rather snug sum of money,
the moderate smokers cigar bill for 30
years. Kansas City Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
Significance OF the Seal.

1t is the fashion in Paris just now to
use sealing wax of all hues of the rain.
bow, and many more beside, and mean
ing attaches to each of them. Thus,
white sealing wax means a proposal OF
marriage; black, death; violet, condo
lences; invitations to dinner are sealed
with chocolate color; vermillion is used
for business letters, ruby color by fortu-
nate lovers; green means hope; brown,
melancholy derived, possibly, from
brown study; blue, constancy; yellow
jealousy; pale green conveys a reproof
pink is used by young ladies, and gray
between friends.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
why the Dog Liked the Portrait.


l called on certain portrait painter in
indianapolis last week. We had gone to
school together. Since then he has ac-
quired national reputation as an artist.
l complimented him on his lifelike
work. "Yes, " he replied, II suppose it is
creditable now, but it was not always SO.
l remember the first job ever had. A
wealthy lady came to see me and wanted
her full length portrait painted. did
the best l could, but that was nothing to
brag of. When the lady came to LOOK
at the picture she gave cry of disap-
pointment.
why, that's not at all like me- she
said; Il shall not take itp
Il assured her it was perfect likeness
and declared that even her little poodle
would recognize it. I'm willing to take
that risk, she said; 'Pll bring my dog
with me this afternoon and if he recog-
nizes me I'll take the picture Later in
the day she brought in the canine, and
the sagacious little animal, after survey
ing the portrait for moment, ran up
and licked the painted hand. My lady
took the picture without any further OBJ
jections."
"But the hkness must have been strik-
ing, " l said, to deceive the dog"
mot necessarily, " said the artist; 81
took the precaution of rubbing piece OF
bologna sausage over the hand before the
dog arrived. y Philadelphia Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
Enormous Pension Payments.

Washington, June 23.-Commis-
sioner Raum today signed invalid
army pension certificates to the num-
Der of 100000, granted for disabilities
incurred during the late war. Wild.
ows and minors certificates have
been issued to the number of 295, All,
navy invalids II, $40 and navy wild
ows 56S7. There have been paid
since July l, 1861, to survivors of the
late war, war of 1912, Mexican wal
and war of the revolution or Their
widows and children, an aggregate O
81, 284,716,000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
A Startling Astronomical Fact,

Professor Charles A. Young, the emf
nent Princeton astronomer, recently sat
chatting in the court of the Palace. One
of his listeners could not refrain from
asking him in an offhand way:
What is to you the most wonderful
md startling fact Of astronomy"
1.-The fact that your great Lick tele-
scope reveals about 100, 900, 900 of stars,
and that every one of them is a sun
theor ally, and by analogy giving
light nd heat to his planets. You know
the ] 81; telescope reveals stars so small
that would require 10000 of them to
be visible to the naked eye. "-[San Fran
cisco Examiner.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
No Som,

It's stated thatsoapin India is regarded
almost in the light of a natural curiosity,
for it is rarely, if ever, to be obtained OF
L shopkeeper there. Of course it is sold
III the larger towns; but the amount used
by the natives must be very small, seeing
that the total consumption of soap in
india last year was only 5000 tons. This
means that the amount used by each
person for the year was considerably less
ll"' "ro OunCp.-TChambers Journal.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
The Great Benefit

Which people in run down state OF
health derive from Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, conclusively proves that this
medicine "makes the weak strong"
1t does not act like stimulant, inn
parting fictitious strength, but Hoods
Sarsaparilla builds up in a perfectly
natural way all the weakened parts,
purifies the blood, and assists to
healthy action those important Or
gans, the kidneys and liver.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
English farmers are more system

English farmers are more system
attic than we. They lay out definite
rotations, and follow them. Main
tain a certain amount of stock for
each acre of arabic land. Work
with clock-like system and regulars
ty, and as a result Of this produce
much greater crops to the acre than
we do. In England the value of a
farm, either for sale or rental, is based
upon what it will produce or the
number of cattle it will carry, and
there is not much guess work about
it. In time our own hap-hazard
practice must give way to such bet
ter methods.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
4 CHILD KILLED.

Another child killed by the use of
opiates givel. in the form of Soothing
syrup. Why mothers give their
children such deadly poison is
surprising when they can relieve the
child of its peculiar troubles by using
DR.. Acker's Baby Soother. 1t con-
tains no opium or morphine. For
sale by w. II. Fleming. 3.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04
A carpenter by the name of M. S

A carpenter by the name of M. S.
Powers, fell from the roof of house
in East Des MOines, Iowa, and sus.
tanned Il paiufGl and serious sprain
Of the wrist, which he cured with
one bottle of Chanberains' Pair
Balm. lie SAYS it is worth s. bot.
tie. 1t cost him 30 cents. For sale
10y Kitchey d Eo,tick, Druggists,
McMinnvllp, Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-07-04

DIR. G. w. Earle, Pickens, S. c.,
writes: 81 recommended B. B. B.
to a man who had suffered for years
with malignant ulcer on his leg,
that seemed to resist all other treat.
ment. After using four or five bot
ties the ulcer began to heal and his
leg is now sound and we'll"