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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY. Ind, June 16.-The
county commissioners have authorized the
county attorney to bring suit against w. b.
Former. eX-treasurer OF the county for
8. 500 At the September term, 1895, Mr..
FORMER was allowed 81, 500 as a compro-
mise on his claim of So 400 for salary and
fees alleged TO be due him as county treas
urer Former claimed pay under the law
of 1879. which made a much more liberal
allowance on fees than the laws of 1891
and 1898. The compromise was the last act
of a retiring Democratic board on the ad-
vice of a Democratic county attorney for
the Democratic eX-county officials The
present action is by a Republican board
and the Republicans propose to make the
ex official disgorge
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17
Democrats Turned Down.

Special the indianapolis Journal.
ANDERSON, Ind, June 1.-THE attempt
of the Anderson Democrat the free-silver
organ of this city, to force Democratic
employe in the postoffice, under d. j. Crit
tenberger, Albert Small has come to
grief AT the close of Crittenbergers term
Thomas Mccullough, a very competent
clerk. resigned and was transferred from
night clerk to the money-order department,
thus creating a vacancy in his department
that would, under the civil-service rule be
filled by Democrat, and thus have all the
places occupied by Democrats. But Mr.
Small did not see fit to ndorse the appoint
ments and Mr.. Mccullough was soon out
of a job. Miss Ida Cannon, a colored girl,
was appointed night clerk, as she stood
highest in the list of possibilities, the other
eligible being Democrats, and Clyde Nc
Mahan, a bright YOUNG Republican as
money-order clerk; Inc Democrat made a
great cry about the matter. reporting Mr.
Small to the Civil-service Commission and
telling their friends that he would be i'm
peached: The department has ruled rela-
tive to the case that when Mr.. Mccullough
resigned the position night clerk he re-
signed of his own volition and is therefore
beyond relief. Mr. SmalFs appointments
will therefore stand secure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17
Indiana Obituary.

ELKHART, Ind, June 16.-J. H. Burns, a
wealthy and prominent farmer living near
here, died yesterday of cancer. He was
seventy-seven years of age.
jeremiah Mahoney, aged thirty-eight, died
yesterday of Brights disease.
William H. Lake, 'well-known young
resident of this city, died yesterday of con-
sumption. He was twenty-eight years old.
WATERLOO, Ind, Jupe 16.-John Leas,
the oldest banker IN northeastern Indiana,
died at his residence in this city this after
noon, aged eighty-two. He was the founder
of the Citizens Bank OF Waterloo. The
funeral will be held Friday under direction
Of the MaSonS.
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, June 16.-Mrs. Eva
Kennedy, aged thirty-fve wife of Cassius
Kennedy, dropped dead suddenly. at her
home in this city tonight. Her death was
caused by heart disease. She leaves small
child besides her husband.
RICHMOND, Ind, June 16.-Mrs. Emma
Herd aged fifty died to-day after an ill
ness of some months. She was the mother
of DIR. Eugene n. Heard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17
Rensselaer, Courthouse Scandal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
RENSSELAER,, Ind, June I6.-Iasper
county is erecting courthouse, costing
$120Q00 About the time the contract was
let for the construction Of the house or q
short time after, two County Commission
ers. in the absence of the third, entered
into a contract for the purchase C metallic
and wood furniture for the building at an
expense of about Sl4,0 co., Afr making the
contract one OF the commissioners term
expired and a new man was elected las
fall so that the contract ut the present
time stands with the signature of only
one commissioner. There is great deal
of comment aroused by The amour, of this
contract, the general opin,Cl being that The
furniture should have been su1)i~d for
about half The price. On this account Il
great deal of talk had been INDUCED in by
taxpayers, AMI the strong pr liabilities are
that the contract now existing Tor the Iur-
chase of furniture will be ignored, or in
junction proceedings Will pe insJt.tcd 10
prevent them being carried oIt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17
Indiana Notes.

Greensburg physicians, during the past
few months, have lost $500 worth of instru-
ments stolen form their offices.
Mrs George Snyder, of Portland, who
swallowed a bottle of carbolic acid this
week, is dead. She had been partially de-
ranged for some time.
liam Shulke. of Elkhart. fell into a vat of
scalding water Tuesday and was scalded so
badly that she died soon after.
Rushville has succeeded in securing the
annual encampment of the Seventh Day
Adventists of southwestern Indiana, which
will be held Aug. to Is in the Rushville
Park Two large tents and about hfty
smaller tents will be used
Owners of real estate in the business
part of Rushville are boiling over with
anger on account of a resolution adopted by
the City Council calling for new cement
pavements on all the downtown streets.
"Reminiscences against the, proposed i'm
ment will greatly add to the appearance
of the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17

Although the written history of the Ha
waian islands begins with their discovery
by Captain Cook in 177S. yet the aboriginal
inhabitants had at that time an oral trad-
tional history which extended back for sew
eral centuries
AS to their origin. these people formed
but one branch of the Polynesian race
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

81 am s3GpdsssC o Just behind the
eurtai., and in TtI gE0tC Of the cOnHSng
sunset. Behind nae are the shGGOtU8 on
Ghe track, before me lies the doris gGAey
and the TiUeT. When I n5STgle Utth tts
dark Vdters I tUdHt TO cast one finger
tS0 look upon q country ,Chose gOUeTn-
Rent is Of the people, for the people,
and By the people, IL. L. Polk, July
tth, 1890.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
WHERE THE U IS.

Rev. R. A. White of the Stewart
Avenue UniversaIist church. preached
last Sunday on Chicago's starving
poor. He said:
From Chicago to the southern tip
of the State, our railroads are lined
with cribs of corn, for which farmers
cannot get enough to pay for the rails,
ing.
THE cellars of Illinois are bursting
with potatoes.
millions upon millions of bushels of
wheat have been sent across the sea.
'Apples are rotting in heaps in an
hours ride Of Chicago.
Food is wasting at our doors, and
yet thousands of men, women and chill
dren are starving and freezing in
Chicago.
"Why, with all these existing condi
tons, are human beings compelled to
ask for aims to keep themselves alive9
Let no man file an indictment
against God, because this has come to
pass-the fault is with the social sys-
tenn that man has created. "-Nevada
(Mo.) Director.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
HNOTABLE RELIGIOUS GATHER
ING,

The Southern Baptist Convention
met in Wilmington Friday at 10 a.. m,
and is probably the largest delegated
body that has or will meet in the State
this year. Nearly eight hundred dele
gates were present. The session will
last several days.
Hon. Jonathan HARRISON, Of the
Alabama Supreme Court, the Presi-
dent, called the convention to order.
Mr.. HARRISON was re elected President,
and the present Secretaries, DR.. Ian
sing Burrows, of Augusta, Ga and
DR.. o. E. Gregory, of Baltimore, were
re elected, also.
DIR. William Fl. Whitsett, President
of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, has been a little out OF plumb
with some of the doctrines of the Bap-
list church. He vas present and made
a statement of his views and why he
held them. His explanations were
satisfactory and after he made them
there were tears, Handwriting and
other demonstrations of great joy. "
The following Vice Presidents we're
elected: DR.. R Fl, Marsh, North Caro-
lima; Elk. Gov. W. J. Northern, Geor
gia; joshua lowering, Maryland; Gov.
J. P. Eagle, of Arkansas.
The convention sermon was preached
by Rev. DIR. r. A. Venable, of Meri
dian, Miss. Mr.. J. W. Bailey, editor
of the Biblical Recorder, delivered the
address of welcome to the Young Peo-
ple's Union, which is holding it's ses-
sions in connection with the conven
ton. Rev. John T. Pdllen, of Raleigh,
preached on ''consecration."
There are a large number of promi-
nent ministers and laymen present.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
CORRECTION.

Bro. 7. Ivey, 8. B. A, of Hillsboro,
is very much hurt about some little
typographical errors appearing in his
article published in Jul last iseue. By
some means the seaboard value of
North Carolina Alliance Official Guano
was printed $14 40 when it should have
been Is 40. There were two or three
words mis- printed in other parts of the
column and a half article.
Such things are very annoying, but
they have always occurred and always
will pop up just exactly where you
don't want to see them. Only news
paper men can fully appreciate these
diff 3ulties. We have often had our
best editorials butchered and failed to
notice some Of the errors until after the
paper is printed, when they are very
conspicuous. No paper, no book is free
of errors. The most expert proof
readers often fail to see apparently in
excuseble blunders. It is said that an
English Publishing firm employed
twenty expert proof readers to correct
an edition Of the Bible. Each took a
turn at it and found errors overlooked
by others. At last the Bible was
printed and three errors were dis
covered by a purchaser who had never
read proof an hour in all his life.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

sheep, swine and poultry; it has shown
the way to the renovation Of wornoUt
soils and adopted every mean in its
power for the upbuilding of the best
interests of the farmer, trucker, miner,
Iumberman and fisherman. It's record
is before the people; the results of it's
faithful discharge of the manifold du-
ties enforced by law will be felt for
years to come. Some tribute is due
the retiring Board for the great work
accomplished under it's auspices, but
space is too limited here to go more
fully into the subject, except to say
that credit should be given where
credit is due. The retiring Board pre-
sents to it's successors in Ofice the best
equipped and most effective depart
ment Of the kind in the South. It be
hooves the incoming administration to
keep up the pace, to see to it that it
holds the supremacy over similar insti-
buttons in the South and that the on
ward march of progress is quickened.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
PREsERVATIVa FOR MILK AND
CRRAM--LET THEM ALONE.

An article known as IN Preserva-
line" has been sent into the State for
several years to some extent, and rs
now being pushed upon the diaries to
test and use to prevent milk and cream
from souring and butter from becom-
ing rancid. The manufacturers of this
article state that unscrupulous per
sons often recommend salicylic acid.
boracic acid, etc, as proper preserva.
tives for food, but that they should be
condemned as positively injurious and
unfit to go in food. Now their ''Pre
servaline" is nothing more than boracic
acid, and is condemned by their own
words. Boracic acid is a p~reservative,
and is sold at a moderate price by
those dealers, but it should never be
used to preserve foods intended for hu-
mar consumption as least.
ANY material that will prevent the
growth and development of organisms
in foods when they are outside of the
body, will at least interfere with the
activity of those or similar ones so
necessary in the process of digestion -
B. B. Kilgore, N. G. Experiment Sta
ti0n.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
CHANGES.
ton.

The April number of the Bulletin
says:
In the March Bulletin mention was
made of the fact that the Eoard of Ag
riculture as organized under the act Of
1877 had been abolished and disbanded
to be succeeded by a Board of Commits
sioners under authority of an act of
the last General Assembly. Conse.
quently the Department of Agriculture
vas just twenty years old when it
changed hands from one board to the
other, and from nj political party to
another. 1t is not improper at this
time to glance back upon the work of
the former Board and bring to view a
few of its leading achievements.
Twenty years ago the Board Of Agri
culture began it's work from the ground
and has been building continually since
that time. With no data to start with
it bravely started the work it was
charged with accomplishing. The first
experimental years were l%aborious and
vigilant, but always progressive. Then
the real work of permanence and value
began to command attention and the
results to come to the State. It estab
lished one among the first fish hatch
cries in the United States, and the re
suits Of that work ere still manifest in
the waters of the State; it surveyed
the deposits of pyrites in search of
suitable material for conversion into
sulphuric acid; it explored the phos-
phate beds of the coastal formations:
it promoted the search for merchant
able coal in the deposits of this State;
it made exhaustive exhibitions o. the
States natural resources in great ex.
positions at Vienna, Atlanta, Boston.
New Orleans and Chicago; it surveyed
the oyster beds; and has aided the de.
velopment Of the sand hill region; it
has built and equipped the finest mu-
scum IN the South; it has persistently
advertised North Carolina, especially
through handOooks, until it is today
the best known, and is regarded as
the most progressive, up to,date State
in the South. Besides these things, it
has carefully and consistently taught
better methods In the cultivation of all
crops and promoted an Introduction
of new varieties of plants and fruits,
and improved breeds of horses, cattle,
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

Britain will ever be ready to arbi1~
with rather than fight US. W.
neither Venezuelans nor p,%
Moreover, it is not apparent VIII
should go out of our way to strenss
England as against the other nov
as we should do were we to sian
agreement to be Quakers and erns,
pate her from all concern from ~.
quarter while she is PURSUING
schemes elsewhere. How verv
fc her intentions are RESPECTING y
United States in case of dire neco.s y
is shown by her great fortress at P,o'!
mault, which commands Puget soa%',
and menances our whole Pacific cosS
her formidable Warlike precautions"
the Canadian border, and her armo,%.,
vessels that cruise in American vst,'
and have their supply harbon -
American islands which should "
ours. "
England will always bear watcbiD,
and it is fortunate for the ReDuBS,
that the Senate has had the seDsa y
keep this in mind and the firmnes b
resist sentimental cIamor from geDss
men and ladies who represent few h.
sides themselves - certainly not n.
masses of the American people, Nh,
possess memories and have no lovetn
what was once the mother counbv
and has never been friendly whenU
stood in want of friends.
The OnIey-Salisbury arbitratr
treaty is worse than needless it ia pg
ilous in spirit. Therefore the Journ
hopes to have the patriotic pleasure
announcing tomorrow morning ta
the American Senate has killed it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
Kill the Arbitration Treaty.

The, Senate is to come to a vote to
day on the Olney. Salisbury arbitra-
ton treaty. There is not a great deal
of it left now, to be sure, the life hav,
ing been amended out Of it, but the
Journal hopes the Senate will bury the
un-American thing.
There is no necessity whatever for
an arbitration treaty with England,
and very strong reasons indeed why
we should not tie our hands in advance
against the always possible day when
disputes between the two nations may
arise. Whenever there is something
to arbitrata with England or any other
power the United States will glandiy
appeal to reason rather than to force,
but we should remain perfectly free
from unnecessary and weakening
promises Of peaceable intention. AS
for Great Britain, it is only prudent
that attitude toward her should be
one Of intelligent distrust. She has
an appetite for territory, and anything
else that is valuable, which b is never
backward about gratifying when she
considers it safe to indulge herself.
We may be quite sure that Great
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
A NEW CALAMITY HoWLRR.

The New York World says that
through honest and dishonest dealings
the following American investments
are held by foreign capitalists: Bonds,
81, $50. 600, 900; mines, $3.50, 900, 900;
gas light companies, $50, 600, 600; cleo
trio light companies, $50, OOO, coo; brew
cries, $35, OCO. 600; stockyards, $780,
600, 900; cotton mills, $50, 600, 900;
-four mills, $40, 600, 900; dressed beef
companies, so. OOO, 900; rolling mills,
$40, 600, 600; di~stilIeries, S. 900, 900;
grain elevators, s.. COO, 600; sash and
door factories, S., 900, 600; leather
goods factories, S., 600, OOO; food pro
duce companies, 81. 900, 600; paper
mills, So, 500, 900; shipyards, So. 500, 600;
potteries, s.. 600, 600; varnish works,
81, 400, 900; rubber mills, 81. 900, 900;
Miscellaneous, $50, 600, 900; real estate,
81, SOC, 900, 900; an aggregate of So, 1884,
800, Zoo.
No estimate is made of foreign in.
vestments in railroads. If these in
vestments net a profit of five per cent.
the producing masses of the nation
send abroad annually $3.50, us, 600 in
either products or money. All of the
wheat produced in the United States
in 1895 only amounted to 1887, 938. 1913.
Allo If the cotton produced in the United
States in 1895 did not exceed in value
$3.50, 600, 600. So long as it requires
nearly one half of all wheat and all the
produced by the greatest wheat
and cotton producing nation on earth
to pay the interest on it's foreign debts
Cncluding railway stock and bonde)
that nation will be a peon, a surf under
the lash of foreign wealth. No nation
on earth can have prosperity and pay
a tribute of $159. 715, 900 per year to a
foreign power. Foreign capital when
invested in domestic industries is as
new blood injected into the arteries OF
commerce, but when that foreign cap
ital exacts its pound of flesh, takes
from the nation its four, five and six
per cent interest ii takes more blood
than it gives.
Did you ever consider the fact that
II you owned One-haIt Of the nations
weal5 and exacted from your fellow
citizens five per cent. interest, that,
without compromising, you would own
the entire wealth of the nation in
twenty years, that is if the nations
wealth had not increased9 By the
same course Of reasoning foreign
wealth can be invested in a nation and
take from that nation, in interest.
every twenty years as much as was
originally invested. In olden times a
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11
PROBABLY ANOTHER AWFUL
WARNING,

The recent fire at Paris, fully de.
scribed on another page, may be an
other sad and awful warning to those
who Cypress the poor.
The fire occurred in a bazaar where
some fifteen hundred gay society ladies,
the wives and daughters of noblemen,
officials and other aristocracy, were
selling various articles for the benefit
of the poor. Nearly two hundred were
burned to death and several hundred
injured more or less in the effort to
escape from the iretrap.
Such a calamity, though it happened
so far away, always touches the hard
est hearts. But why were they theref
Simply because their husbands, fathers
and brothers had succeeded, by means
Of class legislation and otherwise in
getting rich at the expense of the pau
pers Of Paris, having bled them of
property, hope and ambition. And
these society" ladies were amusing
themselves by opening a place to sell
goods and apply the profits to charit-
able objsctsl They were engaged in
commendable work, you say. Btzlars
and charity balls" are not commend.
able. II certain people would live
more charitable lives there would not
be any need of such affairs. It is like
robbing a man at the point of a pistol
and then returning one per cent. Of the
total amount taken from him. That
is charity as practiced by a vast mum
Der Of society people.
1.-THE poor ye have with you always"
has eve been true, and will be unto
the end Of time. There will be inc
qualities, some very poor, some very
rich, but in the making Of a millionaire
ten or twenty Thousand people must be
pauperiz3d.
Poor people r not always objects
! of charity. Under proper conditions
and restrictions there would be but
few real objects Of charity. In Swift
z3rland there are no tramps, no lob
jects" Of charity. Every man, woman
or child who can work can get work.
There are poor people there, but no
extremely rich ones, hence no paupers.
Under the laws of that country only
those who expend energy, thrift aud
practice economy can become wealthy.
In this country and many others the
reverse is often true. Result is fabul-
GUS fortunates on the one hand and
pauperism on the other. Consequently
the wealthy some close times indulge in
charity balls" and "bazaars" for ap
J pearance sake. We trust that the
Paris horror will serve well as a solemn
warming, and believe it was 50 intended
by Providence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-05-11

debtor was the creditors slave in fact,
and to day the United States is the
slave of foreign wealth in principle,
and the various party prophets and
priests may cry: Prosperity | pros
perity 7 where there is no prosperity"
Now what does all this calamity
bowling from the World amour to-
Nothing. 1t is simply boasting of
what it has helped to bring about.
After Cleveland began his outrageous
sale of bonds in 1893-'94 the World
jumped on him with both feet. No
Populist or Alliance organ ever did
more calamity bowling or uttered more
denunciRtory matter in the same
length of time. But it was all a blind.
When the bond scandal reached its
heigth the World promptly demanded
a popular loan )" that the bonds be is-
sued il small denominations and the
bids thrown open to the public so the
poor workingman could have a chance
to invest his savings" The World
we'll knew that the average working
man was not in q condition to buy
bonds, and that if he were, no opportu-
nifty would be cfered, for the Secretary
of the Treasury had the right, Or as.
sumed the right ''to reject any and all
bids" So most of them were gobbled
up by the same old bankers syndicate.
Doubtless the World fooled a good
many people, but we shall denounce it
and its kind and their transparent
frauds every time they show their
shiny heads, in spite of their periodical
calamity bowling.