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From the BnvnIe Banner.

Prom the Billville Banner.
Rope is cheap in this section, but
iynchlngs continue high.
We lost one leg in the war, and
We have 1t on good authority that
that leg hasn't stopped running vet.
We can't sec why our motber-in-
law wants to run for Office. She
has been speaker Of the house for
seven years.
Another supper was given last
week for the benefit Of the church
organ. How We would like to swap
places with that organ FOR just one
week
Tho Old War horse from Cha
than dined with us yesterday.
Bill is hearty eater, but no
brought his dinner with him, and
We enjoyed it immensely.
The Governor has pardonod our
brother in-IaW for running away
with widow. IL was found that
She widow was tho best mas Of the
two, and jim had 70 90 with her.
We have been appointed by the
preacher to take up collection in
church tomorrow, and he has
placed US under a 80 bond-not
necessarily for publication, but "a a
guarantee Of good faitb.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-06-15

There are about Us rev oil wells
being drilled here now as near az
We can count them. This does
pretty well for a dead oil field
Multiply 17J by $1,000 and The
aggregate sum will give to our
readers the amount Of money that
will be spent here IN the next GO
days for This branch Of the work
alone. This docs not look mach
Ike eur field was going down very
last yler Dsm0crof.
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It's merits go wcl known that u scr - q work
OF supercrcgation 70 cndcrsc 81. Fey are tho
Intelligent families who do not keep castoria
within ecsy reach"
CALl,os MAKrxss, d. D.,
New York City.
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''castoria isso wen adapted TO children that
IrcconTnend it rs superior TO any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARcHan, n. D.,
Ill 60. Oxford Ct, brooklyn, x. =
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

THE following is from the report of
an interview with Senator Palmer, of
Illinois,:
The problem of reforming the tariff is
daily becoming more perplexing as our
surplus vanishes and our need of revenue
increases. 1t is difficult to see where Ie-
ducti0ns can be mad SO long as we must
meet the tremendous sums for pensions and
for the appropriations of Congress. The
Fifty-frst Congress was denounced as q
"billlon-dollar Congress-" bnt in tie Fifty
second Congress. under Democratic con-
troll, we did q little worse thsn the billion
dollar" people. These expenditures require
such a vast revenue from tariff taxation
that the difficulties of reforming the tariff
are very great.
This is the way all the Democratic
statesmen are talking now. They did
not talk that way during the last CAM
paign. Then it was nothing but de-
nunciation of the "billion-dollar Con-
gress." with solemn assurances that if
the Democratic party came into power
it would make a sweeping reduction of
appropriations. repeal the robber tariff
mt reform things generally.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

1T will be interesting to note how
much the receipts from the whisky tax
will fall off during Mr.. Cleveland's adj
m~iDistration on accoun of illicit dis
tillatiOn in the South. The records
show that during the fiscal year 1sS3-S4,
when the collection of the taxes on
spirits was entirely in the hands of Re-
p%ublicans, the receipts were S76,9OO,OOO
During the e year, when the collects
ing was done by Democratic officials,
the receipts fell to $50, 000. 600. The
next year they fell off $4,000 600 more.
In the fiscal year 1ss7-s8 there was an
increase of only $3.50, 600 over two years
before. In 1S89-90, when the taxes were
collected by Republicans, the receipts
were SS1, 600, 600. and in 1912 they
were S91, 300, 600. The large falling off
during a Democratic administration Is
the result of moonshine distilling. The
Doonshiners have been taught to be-
lieve they can do as they please under a
Democratic administration, and they
come pretty near doing 1t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19
THE LESSON OF WHEAT STATISTICS.

The statistical abstract just issued
from the Bureau of Statistics contains
some interesting facts regarding the
wheat crop of the United States from
1869 to 1892. both inclusive. which should
not be without significance TO those in
terested in wheat growing. The first
fact is that the wheat area has more
than doubled. it being 49, S1, 004 acres in
1869 and 80. 554, 43O in 1892. This increase
of area, however. took place between
1869 and 1880, the area that year being
only n half million acres less than in 1892.
10 1884 the area of wheatreached 9,475.-
SS5 acres. but fell off five and a third
million acres the next year. The largest
area of wheat was in 1891, 9.016. S97
acres. Thus it appears that the acreage
of wheat. in the average. has not in
creased for more than ten years. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THIS pithy remark Is by Washington
GLADDEN.: 'lt 10 better to say This one
thing / do than TO say. These forty things
/ dabbled in"
DIR. j.. III. SALISBURY says that people
who eat no meat, as q rule, have less
nervous and muscular endurance than
meat eaters. lit 10 useless" he says. Ito
deny that the ruling peoples are meat
eaters"
AMBASSADOR BAYARD is in appearance
the beau ideal of a statesman. Tall. hand
some aud dignified. he Is one who attracts
attention wherever he goes. Mr.. Buy ard
has many friends IN both parties. who know
and value him for his personal qualities.
THE tate DIR. Agnew. of Philadelphia.
said that catarrhal affections were almost
unknown among the Qnakeressess whom
he attended, and be asorib bed il to the tact
that the Quaker bonnet protects the back
of the head and the nape of the neck from
cold air.
THE shootings at Cluny Castle. which
Andrew Carnegie has rented from Cluny
Macpherson. extend over twelve thousand
acres and Afford excellent sport. The old
castle. In which SIR Robert Peel lived az
the beginning of the century. has beer al.
tered and enlarged during the last two
yeara.
was placed in position at jackson Park on
Saturday. has arranged to spend 1880. O0O
on his worlds fair exhibit. In this price,
ly expenditure be 10 encouraged by the
Kaiser. who earnestly requested bim to
represent German industry in = ftsinR
manner.
PERHAPS the earliest Columbus monu-
ment In the United States was that erected
ut Baltimore By q French resident in 17.2
Many persons believed. in accordance with
. current tradition. thas IL was erected TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19
CRIME RAMPANT AT IT. LOUIS.
Three Suicides at About the Same Time, and
Two Fatal ARRAYS Yesterday.

ST. LOUIS. April 1S.-Sulcide and CRIME
seemed to be in the air here for a short
time to-day. judging from the number of
them that occurred. +. T.. Hargravos, aged
twenty-one. blow his brains ont with q re-
volver at his boarding house. leaving as an
explanation Of the act a letter In which
some mysterious trouble vas referred to.
Charles Heitzberg, manager of the st. Louis
Beef Company's slaughter house on Prairie
and Garfield avenues hung himself to .
rafter of the slsughtershouse in q fit of de-
spondency caused by drinking. William
OBricn. an engineer en- ployed on the Mer-
cbants' Terminal railroad. committed SUIT
eide by eating q box OF ''Rough on Rats"
cause unknown. The three suicides all oc-
cnrred at nearly the same time in different
parts of the city.
As about the same hour. during = quarrel.
Stella Gray was fatally stabbed by Clara
Gray in y house Of Ill repute. at No. tbs
Cerrs street. and Charles Hamilton oloreo.
was fatally shot by n u unknown person
near the corner of Eiahteenth aud Spruce
etreeto.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

the memory of q favorite horse. but the
monument bears che inscription: "Chra.
Columbus. Oct IL. MDCCVIIIC."
LIZZIE BORDEN has now been kept in
Taunton tMasnl jail seven months, and no
one knows when her trial for the murder
of her father and mother will take place.
Current opinion IN Fall River is that the
trial will not begin before June. Meantime
areporter. who must have consulted q clair
voyant for bis information. writes 10 his
paper that the woman finds her existence
Tin Jail not unpleasant. despite the possi-
bllity of an awful termination TO it,"
BrsHoP NICHOLS. of California. proposes
to mark the spot on the coast where SiE
Francis brakes chaplain. Francis Fletcher.
held an Anglican service on the Gath of
June. 1873, with M appropriate memorial.
The locality has not been fixed beyond
question. but Bishop Nichols himself and
Professor Davidson. of San Francisco. who
have been making q study of the matter.
are sure that the landing was made at the
base of DIN Reyes. o promontory rising
800 feet. which forms one side OF brakes
Bay. in Marin county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19
FATE OF A PAST" YOUNG MAN.
Body OF Charles IngersOll Maury Found In
the River Mar Aurora, Ind.

LOUISVILLE. April lS.-The mystery az
tending the Disappearance OF Charles In.
gersoll Maury from this oity oas at last
been solved. Last night the body of q man
was found floating in the river near
Aurora. Ind. which was thought to be
that OF young Msury. Has cousin. Mr.. Ed
win Berkeley. jr.. OF this city, received q tel
egram TO tn at effect. aud left on the go
o'clock train for Aurora. Shortly before
noon to-day Mrs. berkeley received a tels-
gram from her husband. which said that
be bad Identified the remains as those OF
young Maury.
Charles lDgersoll Maury arrived in Louis-
Vile oil Jan. 2. from sc. Lonis. with his
cousin. Mr. Edward NJ. Berkeley. who
came here TO take charge of the State of.
fice Of the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York. Maury's home was IN
Philsdelphia. where his family are regard
ed among the beet people in the
city. His father Was DIR. Frank Maury.
one of the leading physicians Of
that place. His mother was u daughter of
the late millionaire Charles Ingersoll. for
whom young Maury was named. Maury
was twenty-four years old.
From the time Maury first disappeared ia
was thought that he had taken bis life. ons
Of sheer remorse for his weakness. lie had
spent q fortune 10 fast living. but there was
left an estate worth $50. 00O. which yielded
him u yearly income OF sS.200. He had .
mania for gamb bling. and on one occasion
he made a Dastnership play with q friend.
In which 81. $50 WAS lost at the faro banka
The friend In question put no she money.
and. when they Game to settle. Maury gave
him q check on q bank IN St Louis. The
check was returned unpaid. Marry brood.
cd over the shame that he thought his
actions had broug ht upon him as soon az be
realized What he had done. and became so
wrctche6 that ne left Louisville on April2
for Cincinnati. from which place he disap-
poared April
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

THE insurrection in Belgium. the re-
ports of which have been colored in the
interest of the government, was in fact a
revolutionary movement to secure pOpu-
lar suffrage rather than an assault of So
c~ialists upon rulers AID laws. When
the Chamber of Representatives saw
that the disturbance would eliminate in
arevolution it wisely changed front, and
with practical unanimity adopted a
measure giving universal suffrage, with
O ~proviso for plural suffrage for the own
ers of property. AS only freeholders
or large property owners have been per-
mitted TO vote for Legislators heretofore.
this is a radical concession and one
which, judging from the report. seems
to give general satisfaction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

To The Editor OF the Indianapolis Journals
Who is the greatest living artist (~painter) IN
Americal X. I. b.
An artists skill and ability are not rated
according TO a fixed standard, but accord
ing to the taste and Judgment of critics and
greatly. There Is no one painter in this
country who is generally admitted to have
a superiority of merit over all others in
every respect. There 10 sDecialism in ar,
as elsewhere. and there are many artists
who rank high. each in his own field of
work. one excelling IN technique, another
as a colorist. one as ~ portrait painter. an
other in landscapes. and so on.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

yield. per acre. during these years, has
fluctuated from 10.1 bushels in 1881, to
1913 bushels i'm 1891, which was excep-
tionally high. the v-rag being about
1875 bushels. The value of the crop, per
acre, shows wider extremes than the
yield, the lowest value being 1886. in
1892, and the highest S15.27, in 1879.
The price per bushel ranges from ga
cents. in 1892. to S1.25.s, in 1871. The
fluctuations of price, from year TO year,
are remarkable. In 1891 the averageprice
was S3.9cents. and in 1892, 62.4. The price
fell from s1.OS2. in 1877. to ~ cents in
1878, rose again in 1879 TO S1.10.S,
fell to 95.1 cents the next year,
went UP to S1.19.3 in 1881. and
dropped to 65 cents in 1884. In spite
of all the declarations of demagogues
about the ruin of the wheat grower, in
only five years. between 1868 and the
present time, was the average value
realized from an acre of wheat greater
than in 1892. The aggregate crops of
1891 and 1892 were nearly as many BUSH
els as those of five years beginning with
1869.
The wheat statistics of Indiana begin
with 1867. The wheat area that year was
1905. 500 acres and the yield 1864. 600
bushels, worth $37. 262. $40. In 1876 the
area passed the two millionaire limit
and in 1880 reached high water. OF,
rather, high wheat mark, 2,963. 307, the
yield of which was 40, 766. 75S bushels.
worth S49. 1863. 900, OIL nearly 100000
less than the value of the crop the pre-
ceding year, when the yield was ak
million bushels less and the area 800, 600
acres smaller. The largest yield was
52.S07, 600 bushels, in 1891. the value of
which was S45, Ala. 0S5. The yield of
1891 was nearly double that of 1890,
while the area was q little over 400. 00O
acres smaller. The yield in 1892 was
81 1856. 900 bushels, but the acreage was
only 200, 900 acres less than in 1891. Dur
ing the years 1871. 1872. 1878 and 1874
lndiana's wheat crop aggregated 49,
600. 600 bushels, while the aggregate
crop of 1891 and 1892 was 90. 900, 600 BUSH
els, or ten million bushels more the past
two years than during the four years
two decades earlier.
The foregoing figures must disclose to
every person of average sense the
causes which have made the present
and recent low wheat prices. The
United States have been producing dOub-
10 the wheat they did twenty-five years
ago. AS the number of bread eaters
has not increased in anything like that
ratio. it stands to reason that there must
be q decline in prices. When it is re-
called that India, Russia, Australia. the
Argentine Republic and Chilli have also
doubled their wheat product in twenty
five years. he must be lacking in Or
binary intelligence who will believe the
stories which Voorhees,, Matthews and
other demagogues told during last falls
campaign that the protective tariff made
low wheat, when it is patent that album
dant and even too much wheat has
made lower prices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

WHILE the legislatures OF States
whose troops did not do nearly as much
on the field of ~Chickamauga as did those
of Indiana made provision to pay the
expenses of commissioners to locate and
mark the positions which their regi-
ments occupied on that bloody field, the
Indiana Senate voted down the small
appropriation asked for that purpose.
Now the Governor is asking prominent
Indiana veterans who served on that
field to 60 thither ut their own expense.
A quarter of h money wasted upon
unnecessary doorkeepers and 1athor at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

WORD comes from Washington to the
effect that. the Senate having adjourned.
the President will proceed to name the
federal officers in New York. Maryland
and other States, which would have
provoked resistance by Hill and Cor
man had the Senate been in session.
The hostility will come all the same,
but the Cleveland men being in, it will
be much easier to secure their confirma-
fion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19
THE CONSTITUTION IGNORED.

It is intimated that there il more be-
hind the resolution which Senator Lod9e
introduced, Saturday, asking the Presi-
dent to inform the Senate by what au-
thoriry the United States flag was pulled
down at Honolulu than appears on the
surface. In his letter to Mr.. Dole. of
the provisional government of Hawaii,
President Cleveland said:
have made choice of James Fl. Blount.
one of our distinguished citizens. as my
epecial commissions to visit the Hawaiian
Islands to make q report to me concerning
the present status of affairs In that coun-
try. In ell matters affecting rela.
tions with the government of the Hawaiian
Islands his MI. Blount'sl authority Is para
mount.
The real question involved in tn.
Lodge resolution ia that of the authority
of the President to appoint a special
commissioner whose authority is para
mount to all other representatives of
the United States in Hawaii. The Con-
stitution, Article ii. Section 2, defines
the powers OF the President in regard
to the appointment of foreign repre-
aentatives, rs follows:
He shall have power. by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate. TO make
treaties. provided two-thirds of the Senate
concur; and he shall nominate. and By and
with tile advice and consent or the Senate,
shall appoint ambassadors. other public
ministers and %coDsuls; but the Congress
may by law vest the appointment of such
inferior officers. as they think proper. in
the President alone, In the courts of law,
or in the heads of departments.
l commissioners uvhoo. g.
thority is paramount" cannot. it appears
from the foregoing. be created without
"the advice and consent of the Senate"
There can be no ''my special commits
sioner" under the Constitution. Mr..
Stevens, who raised the flag. was the
United States minister at Hawaii, nomi-
mated by President Harrison and APP
pointed with the advice and consent of
the Senate" Under the Constitution,
no other person than Mr.. Stevens can
have paramount" or any other author
ity in Honolulu until Mr.. Cleveland shall
nominate and the Senate confirm his
successor. The fact which Senator
Lodge desires to bring TO the attention
of the country is that the President and
his Secretary Of State have ignored the
plain provisions of the Constitution and
have usurped the functions of the Sem
ate. If they have not wanton'y vio-
lated the Constitution, it is because they
have done it in utter ignorance of it's
provisions. The President, his adj
visers and "my special commissioner"
have been and are o acting in this
matter outside of and in violation Of
the Constitution. The Cleveland pro-
noun of the first person singular is not
yet greater than the Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-19

THE writer OF a communication to the
Washington Post objects to the use of
the words "rebel" and rebellion" in
connection with the late war. as calcu-
lated to keep up s~ectionalism. 1t is q
good time for sensitive Southern breth-
rem to agitate this subject now, with q
President in the White House who
orders the flag hauled down. Perhaps
when the Amounted Ones attention is
eSlled to the matter he will issue an
edict to my" people making the use of
those offensive terms a penal offense.