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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11
Ell CeTERA.

Mrs. CALHOUN, sister TO Gen. Custer,
bears a semblance to her dead hero
brother and possesses many of the mental
characteristics that distinguished him.
AN ELECTRICIAN who has made a spe-
cialty OF spectacular electricity says that
the day is not far off when electrical fire.
works will supersede those now used. He
declares that for comparatively moder-
ate outlay he could arrange an electrical
display that would last for many years,
and could be repeated as often as desired.
Ii would compris rockets, roman candles,
wheels. Niagara Falls aud all the modern
pyrotechnIcal effects.
A CONVICT in French penal settlement
who was undergoing life sentence, de-
sired 10 marry n female convict, such mar
riages being OF common occurrence. The
governor of the colony offered no objec-
tions, but the priest proceeded TO cross
examine the prisoner. did you not
marry in France?" he asked. Yes"
"And your wife is dead ?" "She is"
"Have you any documents to show that
she ia dead?" "No." Then | must de-
cline to marry you. You must produce
some proof that your wife is dead" there
was pause, and the bride prospective
looked anXiousiy at the would-be yroom
Finally he said: Il can prove that my
former wife is dead" How will you DO
BOP" ~ was sent here for killing her"
And the bride accepted him notwith
standing.
Mr.. SIEsEGAXG, German inventor, has
constructed an electric phonograph, which
is said to reproduce the infections OF the
voice with wonderful fidelity. The record
is made on a band OF prepared paper,
much in the same manner as in the Edi-
son phonograph. The receiver consists OF
a telephone, one side OF which is connected
10 a meta lie point, which is adjusted 10
rest on the indented lino on the paper as
the latter is unroled Tor the reproduction.
The other side OF the telephone is Joined
to a metal contact piece which just touches
the end of the paper band. The two cor
tact makers are Joined by short piece OF
platinum wire, which rests perpendicu-
larry on the pointed metal strip that en-
cages the Photographic record. This ar
rangement constitutes a microphone, and
the vibrations impaired to the pointed
strip by the marks on the paper No the
band is drawn past result in perfect re.
production Of tie voice in the telephone
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

ever swarmed within the halls of the
national capitol, it presented an inspiring
spectacle of unhinching integrity and hon.
orable fidelity to the interests of the peo-
pie. The democrats in the house covered
themselves all over with glory in their
long and dauntless resistance to the usur-
pations, and tyrannies, and bruialities of
the burly monarchist from Maine, THOMAS
b. REED. All in all, from first 10
last, the democratic party in the Fifty
first congress was one which the par
ty and the whole people may contemplate
with pride for all time to come. No par
hamentary minority ever contended so
persistently and successfully against such
fearful odds. III the democrats in this
congress had been less patriotic, less
courageous and less honest the federalist
majority of that body would have sue
cesded in destroying local self govern
Dent in the states and in turning tho
treasury over TO the ten0er merCies OF tho
Could Huntington gang of public plum
derers. ms we'll as in LAYING new burdens
upon the people for the benefit of the
manufacturers
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Tom Reeds Cnnrress

The Fifty-first congress. which died
Wednesday day, did very little that it
ought to have done and left IN
done much that it should have
done. 1t never represented the PEG
pie during single hour of its existence
1t was completely under the control of The
centralizationists, the corporations, the
trusts, the monopolies, and the subsidy
mOngers until after the elections
of November last, when enough
members of the majority became
sufficiently frightened at the results of
their work to call partial halt upon the
mad program Of plumber and bayonet
rule. The failures of the infamous force
bill in the senate and of the shameless
subsidy steal in the house were unwilling
tributes TO decency and patriotism ex-
torted from body Of cOrruptionists and
monarchists by the irresistible power of an
aroused public opinion.
The democratic minority in the Fifty
first congress made a magnificent rec
ord. 1t resisted the passage Of
the Mckinley bill with a vigor and
intelligence which deserved, if it did not
win, success. In its fight against the
force bill it exhibited the highest
qualities of genuine Americanism and
earned the everlasting gratitude of the
country by delivering it from the greatest
peril that had threatened it since FL
Sumter was fred upon. In its resistance
20 the subsidy steal. which was pressed by
e powerful and INSCRIPTIONS lobby as
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

THE Now York Tribune serves notice
that II the next congress shall pass bill
reducing the tariff or increasing the free
list President HARRIsoS will veto it. No
such bill can, of course, be passed without
republican votes in the senate, aud vet,
we are told, President HARRTsoN will veto
it if it is passed. The Tribune saws:
II is not conceivable that a measure OF
the character indicated will become law
unless n two-thirds majority in both
houses can be found in favor of il. Not
even the widest free trade enthusiast inn
agines that such a vote can be found in
the senate, nor can there be doubt as 10
the course OF the president should such n
measure ever reach him. If he were to
consider personal interest or the interests
OF his party, he would realize that rare
opportunity was offered 10 command pub
lie confidence and gratitude. If he con-
sidered only the question OF party tactics
he would see that veto of such a bill
would force the tariff issue in form pc
culiarly advantageous 10 the republican
party. III he considered, MS President HAIR
RIsOS unquestionably will consider, the
welfare of the country and the prosperity
oil ITS industries, he will assuredly reason
that the act signed by him last year has
not yet had time 10 manifest its full influ-
ence, and that the industries OF the coun-
try ought not to be disturbed by 4 change
of the tariff until that act has been ful y
tested. Thus veto may be counted upon
with certainty. and the democratic party
will not overcome that veto in the senate.
We trust the president may be put 10
the test. No tariff bill has ever been
vetoed. and if President HARRISON wants
to establish a precedent by vetoing a bill
TO put wool, or tin plate, or salt, or iron
ore on the Tree list, the democrats will be
only too happy. They could ask no better
issue for 1892 than this action would pre-
sent
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

vigor and honorable ambition. Such men
are TO re had, and the trustees should not
be satisfied with any person who fails to
come up to this standard. The superin-
tendent Of the Richmond hospital should
be a man of the rank OF DR.. WRGHT. DR..
ROGERS and DR.. THOMAS. The best to be
had is none too good for this great lnstitu-
ton. The people have had enough of
peanut politics" in these institutions,
and they expect of the new trustees Of the
Richmond hospital thorough and radical
reform. which can only be had by the ap.
pointment of a superintendent who is in
every way tit. We trust that the new
trustees will carefully scrutinize the records
of sll applicants for this position and
make their selection with regard only TO
the important public interests which are
to be placed in their care.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

never question the necessity of obeylng
this perfect law. Nay; they would be Of
Tended should any one suggest that the
ethics Of the bible are not at universal and
invariable obligation--a circle as perfec.
as Giotlo's Ga pair of scales neither ten
pounds nor ten grains astrav-a clock
which does not vary an hour nor minute
in the day.
Yet. somehow. when they come 10 per-
sonal applications, they find or make ex-
ceptions numberless 10 the general rule,
and always in their own favor IT'S never
right 10 lie, the lips say. And the con-
duct responds: Never-except when the
truth is unsafe. It's an infraction Of the
golden rule 20 overeach or 10 deceive in
trade, says the conscience. True, a~sents
he conduct-save when nice profit can
be made. This is the Heaven Of unright-
eousness." IL behooves Us to rembenber
that little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump-especially if the lump be dough.
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ICES and regulais. sslsEise b

and thoroughly, would be TO disarm at the
start the only serious opposition which
such reform would have to encounter
namely, the opposition OF the organized off,
Gals of the state. 1t believed it essential to
the achievement OF this and other reforms
by the legislature 10 save that body from
the influence of lobby which had SO
often shown its power in the past and to
prevent the obstruction OF public business
by the agencies which were certain to be
put in motion by an attack upon the
emoluments OF men already chosen to
office, many OF them after repeated efforts
involving large expenditures OF money.
1t believed, furthermore, that the great
mass OF the people would be satisfied with
the destruction, root and branch, Of q
vicious system which had been in ex-
istence in the state from its organization
and had taken such deep root that only by
"a long pull, a strong pull, and
pull altogether" could any hope
that it would be extirpated and that they
would not put the permanence and
thoroughness of this great reform in need
effect by year or two. For these reasons,
AMI not because OF any partiality 10, or
fear Of, the officials OF the state, whom THE
SENTINEL regarded as no better ard no
worse than other men, this journal from
the beginning, took the view that it would
he best not TO attempt the passage OF a law
to apply to persons already in or elected
to office.
II will be said OF course, that the county
officers should have stayed at home and
not bothered the legislature No doubt
they should II would have been very
graceful and becoming in them to do so.
But they didn't. Aud there wasn't the
slightest reason 10 expect that they would.
County officers are very much ike other
men. They are much given 10 charity,
but their charity always begins at home.
They are patriotic, but their patriotism
CONSISTS largely in docking ont for No. l."
They are partisans. but their enthusiasm
''for the ticket" is rarely at fever heat ex-
cept when their names are on it. They
are chock full OF human nature. They
know good thing when they see il.
Many of them made repeated attempts to
get office before they succeeded and put
good deal OF money into their campaigns.
Perhaps they shouldn't have done this,
and they wouldn't had it not been for the
vicious system OF official fees which is
now sought TO be abolished. That system
makes the offices so attractive that the
average individual, with bent for poll
tics, is unable TO resist its allurements.
The most enthusiastic fee and salary re-
former in the state would not decline n
good Office, and ii he were holding en-
office now, he would he just as active and
persistent lobbyist rs the slickest county
officer of the whole crowd that has been
lowering about The legislature ever since
It assembled. There is no occasion, then,
for abusing the county officers. They
have on done, as a class, what ninety
nine out of every hundred men would
have done if similarly circumstanced.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

the grain and live stock produced in Ne
braska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. The
alliance will no doubt be severely criti-
cised for this project, but the farmers can
not be expected to stand back and keep
out OF trusts when all other classes are en-
gagged in them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11
Not q Cand date.

To THE EDTToR-Sir: VIII you kindly
state that the report published in the
daily papers that am a candidate for APP
pointment as appellate judge is an error.
/ have never announced myself as a can
didate and am not candidate for such
appointment. w. l.. PENFIELD.
Auburn. Ind. March 2.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11
sequences

SORE heads will probably be the only
result of the present effort OF
the Anneka Jams heirs to get
possession of the sixty-two acres of New
York real estate, valued at about $780,
100000. Never in the history of the coun-
try has claim like this of 102 years
standing been settled in favor of the
it looks like the heirs were merely butting
their heads against the wall of possession
in manner which can hardly harm the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

THE selections of the democratic caucus
for trustees OF the eastern hospital for the
insane have much to recommend them.
Messrs. MARSH, HALE and SMILEY are
gentlemen OF good personal and business
standing, and all who know them will be
greatly surprised If they do not put the
affairs of the Richmond hospital on a
sound basis and keep them there. The
first and most important duty that falls 10
them is the selection of a Superintendent
The success or failure of their administra-
ton will depend chiefly upon their choice
for superintendent. The people expect
them TO exercise the utmost care in
this matter and to take special pre-
cautions to avoid the mistake made
by their predecessors. The post Of
superintendent of the Richmond hospital
ia very responsible one. Theincumbent
should be a man OF first rate executive
ability, the highest professional attain
ments, unblemished personal character,
large capacity for work, experience in the
treatment Of the insane. man OF energy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

The opening of eight million acres
more of public lands would indicate that
we still have room for few moro desira-
BILE Immigrants
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

The legislature, in fit OF misplaced
generosity, conferred the appointment OF
tax commissioners under the new revenue
law upon Governor HovEY instead of upon
the board of equa ization, as originally
proposed. The bill provided that these
appointees should be of opposite po-
litical faith, the intention, of course,
being that one should be democrat and
the other a republican. The positions are
of vast Importance and call for men of
special training, thorough familiarity with
values and some acquaintance with
the questions of revenue taxation
and general finance. The governor
has abused the powers mistakenly con-
ierred upon him by the legislature by ap-
pointing Col l. n. WALKER of this city
and JOSIAH n. GwIN of New Albany to
these posts. Col. WALKER is a republican
politician and professional grand army
man, who he's many amiable personal
qualities and a great many friends, but
who is without the first qualification for
the Office He is a Hovey boomer, how
ever, and his appointment is purely
politics" Common courtesy-indeed,
common decency-would have led the
governor 20 name a representative
democrat as one of the commits
sioners. Instead OF that, he has
selected man who is entirely without
standing in the democratic party, being
known only as a chronic kicker" against
democratic leaders and policies, and being
popularity regarded as ''crank." Worse
than this. Mr.. JOSIAH GwIN is utterly in
nocent of any qualification for the posi-
ton. The appointments afford another il
lustration of Governor HovEY's intense
partisanship and his rare capacity for
laundering. The tax commissioners have
before them a very important and difficult
piece OF work. 1t is to be regretted in the
interests of the whole people that this
work could not have been intrusted to ex-
perts instead of to amateurs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

Generally speaking, things are better
not mixed, from candies to metaphors.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

A man never realizes the wealth Of In.
formation he doesn't possess until his
first child begins 10 ask him questions.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

GOVERNOR HovEY's refusal 10 sign the
commissions OF the officials chosen by tue
legislature Thursday and his refusal to
transmit TO that body the designations of
the trustees Of the eastern hospital for the
insane are eminently characteristic per-
formances. Tho governors previous at
tempts to override the legislature have
proved so disastrous that persistence in
them was not expected OF him But the
nate persons who are incapable of potiting
by experience He will insist upon
monkeying with the legislative buzz-saw,
and of course he will have to take the con-
sequences.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

THE governors refusal TO commission
the gentlemen chosen BY the legislature
as trustees OF the benevolent institutions
is, ali things considered, positively the
worst case of peanut politics" We have
ever known. The whole ground has been
gone over within the last two years, and
the supreme court has held, in the case OF
HovEY vs.. the state ex rel. RILEY 1l9
Ind, $780, and in the case Of HovEY VS..
the state ex rel. CARSON 0l9 Ind,
1861, that under the constitution, and the
effect which has been given it by practical
exposition, the legislature may appoint
the governing officers OF all the benevo-
lent institutions of the state. The gov
ernor ignores these decisions of the
highest tribunal OF the state in the at
tempt TO seize upon little patronage. and
vet he il the same man who lectured the
Legislature the other day upon its parti-
sanship! We sometimes wonder what
Governor HovEY really thinks OF himself.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

Some Christians maintain dual stand
ard. They acknowledge the divine au-
thority OF the moral code. They concede
that the law of the Lord is perfect" They
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-11

Chicago is said to be the most Lutheran
city in America. Il has sixty-fve Luth.
eran churches and Sunday-schools Of al
nationaiities-and needs them sadly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25
New York Produce.

New YORK. July 24.-Flour-Re Receipts, lib
pkgs; exports, l0.940 bbls $50 sacks; I'M
Changed, moderately active sales, n, $50 bbls
Cornmeal quiet, unchanged. Wheat-Re-
ceipts 109, so bu; exports, 7l,121 bu; sales,
100000 bu futures, 356.c09 BIZ spot; spot
market higher fairly active, chiefly export
No = red, 9sl2@g9I2c III store and elevator,
occasion afioat. 9ss4c@S1.Gl7s f. o. b.: I'M
graded red. 91Ac@Sl OLE: No. 1 northern,
to arrive, S1.0S; No. l hard, to arrive. Sl.l0;
No. 2 Chicago, Sl.O3@1 .OFA. Options
closed unchanged to lsc up, except
July which is llsc up; influenced by
good export demand and light offer
ings, after a rather irregular market all day;
No. = red. July, 95I2D9S14c closing at 9Sl5c;
August. 954 G95s4c, closing at 95ssc: septem-
per, 81 15-1t09 5sc, closing at 95Ac; .Octo-
Der, closing at 96lse; November, closing
at 974c; December. 97IS@eSl2c, closing at
9S4c; January, 99Ac@Sl, closing at 9934c;
May, Sl.O2%@l. OBS, closing at Si.CaA-
Rye firm, quiet; Western, Sept delivery.
76I2079c Barley malt dull Corn-Receipts,
II. 100 bu; exports, S2410 bu: sales. .S0.0OU
bu futures, $1,000 bu spot; spot market
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25
Cheap Cuts of Meats.

The so-called Offal of each bullock
suitable for expectation is sufficient to
feed forty-four people, and this is the
main and best reason offered for the
popularity of live stock shipments COM
pared with the dressed meat traffic with
Great Britain. In Old England the fru-
gal housewives do not let foolish pride
compel them to buy fancy cuts from ln-
ferior animals when they can get better
and vastly cheaper meat by taking from
good animals the common pieces. Then,
too, the knowledge of how to cook
cheap meats so as to get the best out OF
them is more common across the water
than it is here. Any kind of cook
ought tt be able to make luscious
high-priced tenderloin or porterhouse
steak taste good, but 1t takes genuine
cook to prepare in tGothSOme and whole
some manner the cheaper cuts. When
properly prepared, however, there Is
quite as much nourishment IN plate
pieces and pot rOasts as in ribs and
loins. In fact. any sensible person
would sooner have common piece out
of good bullock than a cut with high
toned name out of inferior animals.
The fact remains, however, that lots Of
people are not sensible. and will con-
tinue to pay for their foolish pride.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25

opened frmer, closed weaker. quiet; No 2,
70l2071c in elevator; 71l2@7214c atioat; I'M
graded mixed, ee072c; options dull, I'M
changed to 4c up; firm, light Of
ferings; July, zoe, closing at zoe; August,
65A@65 15-16c, closing at 657Sc; September,
62120634c. closing at Gle: OCTOBER. 611S@l62c,
closing at 61s4c; December, 5j541D544c, clos
ing at 5414c. Oats-Receipts, $1,000 Blu; ex
ports, S44 blu; sales, 1900 bu futures, $1,000
Blu spot; spot market weak, irregular, quiet;
options dull, weaker; July, 41c, closing at
Ale. August. 34D3414c, closing at SAC; Sep
TENDER, 3lta@324c, closing at 32c; spot No
white, 4sc: mixed Western, 3G@i3c; white
Western, 4s@59c; No. Chicago, 4aA. Coffee
-Options opened steady, SOLO points down,
closing barely steady, 50l5 points down;
July, 17.150l7.20c August, l6.55@l 6 60c Sep
TENDER, 1560@1565c; October 1850
14.75c: November, 1850; December,
13.N013.75c March, 13.50c; spot Rio
dull, firm; fair cargoes, 194c;
No. Z, 177S@l7a4c. Sugar-Raw, dull: NOM
inal; refined quiet, easy. Eggs quiet, steady;
western 1C016l2c; receipts. 3.75S packages.
Wool quiet, easy; domestic fleece, 30@37c;
pulled, 2S034c; Texas, 170?1c. Pork dull.
easy Cut, meats quiet steady, Middles
quiet, steady; short clear September $3.50.
Lard quiet easy; Western steam S6.70: OPP
ton sales, $500 tierces; July closed at S6.6S;
August. S6.6s, closing at S6.6s@6.70; Septem-
Der, S6.796l6.S4, closing at $6.S0i16. 50; Octo-
Der, S69C0694, closing at S6.9O@1692. Butter
Moderate demand, unchanged. Cheese
quiet, easy; part skins, 3016A.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25
Stable Ventilation.

Nothing in the ordinary surroundings
of a horse can be so injurious as the alb
sence of good ventilation. Any number
of horses are kept in places where no
ventilators exist, and in many places
where ventiIat0rs were put in by we'll
meaning hand one finds them stuffed
up with straw and hay. Now, when it
is remembered, says practical writer,
that a horse breatheS much stronger
than man, that the eXhalatlnnS from
his skin and elsewhere are greater than
from any human being, it only stands
to reason that ill-ventilated stables ca H.
not possibly be preservatiye of horses
health any more than fOul-SmellIng
room would be of human beings
health. If a stable owner wants to
know the atmosphere that his horses
breathe, let him be the first man in the
stable of a morning, when, unless his
power of scent is all but gone, ne will
often Lave occasion to be HORNED at
the air his animals have to breathe.
Free ventilation may have tendency
to cause colts to stare, but that Is not
half as bad as to undermine horses
health by making him breathe foul air.
Good light is likewise of great import
ance in the stable. Vegetation Will die
in the half-darkened room; 1T wants the
SUMS rays to keep up its vitality; the
trees in the forest grow straight so as to
obtain their share of the light, and their
lower branches die off because the light
does not penetrate to them. Is 1t rea-
sonable to suppose that animal life can
be deprived of the vitaliZing influences
of light with impunity?