The Hancock Democrat from Greenfield, Indiana • Page 4

THE HANCOCK DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1901) ABOUT PEOPLE. spent Sunday here with Mrs. Charles Sixth District Farmers' Short Course Sunday base ball is bothering quite a number of church people in this c.ity. It is a sin and a shame to play base ball on Sunday where a fee is charged. So much so that those in charge of the fight against it at present put a stop to Sunday games at Spring Lake Park some three years ago.

What about foot ball. Nothing doing against it is the sign. For three years past, during the season, games were played in this city, for which an admission fee was charged. Did any person object or make a kick against it? Why not? Founded by WILLIAM MITCHELL. J.

F. Publisher and Trop. J. F. MITCHELL, JR Associate Ed.

TERMS OF FUnPCIUI'TlOX: One copy, per annum. In 00 When not paid in advance 12a Uno eopv Fix months To Subsei ib effort is being made to hae The democrat delivered to all parts of the county promptly, Subscribers who do not receive their pap rs regularly, or have any cause of complaint, will oblige us by reporting the "changes of address will be made promptly, bin request must give the post-ollice from as well as the one to which chance is directed, in order to re- postoffice at Greenfield as second-class matter. Morrison rnoxBNo.rnbsE Ministers Speak for Bill. The Sunday base ball question is again to the front in the Legislature and at this time it looks like the laboring men and persons whose business prevents them from attending games during week days will be permitted to go on Sunday afternoon and enjoy an hour witnessing the national game. The Brolley bill, repealing the act prohibiting the playing of base ball on Sunday where an admission is charged, which was referred to the Committee on Cities and Towns, wilt make a unanimous report in favor of the bill and ask for its passage.

Monday evening the committee met in the Supreme Court room at the State House, where the matter was discused pro and con by three persons on each side. Those opposing the measure were: Henry M. Howling, member of the railroad commision of Indiana; Rev. Joshua Stansfleld, chairman of the Ministerial Legislative Committee, and Arthur Jordan, a well known citizen ot Indianapolis. Those in favor of the hill were: Smith Mann, of the Charles Vance, of Xew Castle, was the guest of friends here Sunday.

Fred Bidgood was the guest of friends at Indianapolis, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Spangler were in Sugar Creek township. Sunday, the guests of Mr.

and Mrs. George Hawkins. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Query have re- tyrned to their home in Shelbyville.

af ter a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. George W. Reed. Mr.

and Mrs. William H. Bird, of Avery, have returned home after a visit here with Mrs. John Duncan. Mr.

and Mrs. Oscar Sues visited with Mrs. Laura Jones at Wilkinson, Sunday. Mrs. Mayme Hanlon.

of Indianapolis, has been here this week, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Belle Slifer. Mr. and Mrs. I.

R. Showalter were the guests of relatives at Knightstown, Sunday. Mrs. Christie, of Indianapolis, has been here the past week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Lafayette Slifer. Mrs. Minnie Jacobs and Mrs. Margaret Boring are at Sioux City, Iowa, visiting their father, Chas. Berger, Sr.

Miss Alpha Dorsett is the guest of friends at Indianapolis. Mrs. P. M. Casady is the guest of friends at Rushville.

Mr. and Mrs. Ira Stewart visited friends at Knightstown, Sunday. Horton J. Dowd vs.

John Johnson; for conversion. Dismised and costs paid. Corydon W. Morrison vs. Harriett Ogle; complaint on account; demand, ft 49.

Dismissed. Edw in P. Thayer vs. William Brown. Complaint to quiet title.

Submitted to court. Finding that the land belonged to plaintiff and that the matter and things set cut in complaint are true. Title quieted as prayed. William H. Pauley vs.

W. V. Snyder, et al. Suit in tort. Motion and affidavit for change of venue from county.

Motion sustained and venue changed to Henry county. Benjamin Rardin vs. Emma Rardin. Petition for partition of real estate. Defendant files her cross complaint, in which she says she is the sole owner of the real estate in question and asks that her title to same be quieted.

Submitted to court. Finding for defendant on her cross complaint that she is the owner of the land set cut in complaint and the title to same is quieted in her name. Isaac Day, administrator of the estate of Joseph B. Day, deceased, asks for a partition of the land of the de ceased. Joseph B.

Day. Petition grant ed. and land ordered partitioned. William Gladden, administrator of the estate of Sarah McCrearv vs. John H.

McCrearv, et al. Petition for par tition. Submitted to court. Finding that the land in question is not susceptible of division. Land ordered sold.

Max Herrlich vs. the Elizabeth Brandenburg estate. Claim No. 1. Demand, J20S.42.

Submitted to court. Finding for plaintiff in the sum of I20S.42. Mrs. Edith G. Leech has returned from Shelbyville.

Miss Marie Pilkenton is the guest of relatives at Frankfort. Miss Inez Gwinn returned to her home in Fortville. Sunday, after a visit here with Miss Irene Boyd. Mr. and Mrs.

Will Sommerville. of Indianapolis, were here over Sunday, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Minus Handy. Harvey Stringer visited friends at Morristown, Sunday.

Miss Mabel Ham returned to her home in Shirley. Sunday, after a visit here with relatives. Miss Nelle Doughty was the guest of friends at Indianapolis Sunday. Mrs. Harry Maxwell, of Knightstown, was the guest of Mr.

and Mrs. Will Peck over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Carrolton were guests of friends at Indianapolis over Sunday.

Miss Mary Jackson was at New Palestine over Sunday, visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. C. M.

Jackson. Mrs. Frank Queery, of Shelbyville. has been the guest of Mrs. George W.

Reed the past week. Mrs. Frank Gibbs was at Wilkinson over Sunday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Clay Wood.

Miss Grace Burman. of Shirley, was here Thursday evening, the guest of Miss Effie Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Duncan.

Harry and Pliny Bennett, of New Castle, and Will Bennett, of Chicago, were the guests of Miss Jane Bennett Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lineback, of Frankfort, for many years residents of this city, have been the guests of rela tives and friends here the past week.

C. M. Kirkpatrick, the cement and general all-around contractor of Greenfield, was in the city Monday looking after some work. T. A.

Tweedy and wife were visitors in Greenfield over Sunday. They spent the day with their daughter, Mrs. Minnie Hatfield. Harry Toles. Greenfield, has a Knightstown lady friend, and he calls often to see her.

His last visit was Tuesday night. Henry J. Woods, of Hancock county, was a caller Mondav. Along about vance. Misses Ethel and Daisy Harlan wit- nessed Romeo and Juliet at.

Knsrlish's Satnrdav aftornnnn ana Mrs. Oeorge HartO were at Beech Grove. Sundav. the etiests of Mrs Jamison Jiauei cam came nonie irorn Oxforn, Ohio. Saturday and remained over Sunday with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Manville H. Cant. Miss Marie Pilkenton visited friends at Knightstown, Saturday. Mrs.

Paul Morford returned to her home in Pittsburg. Friday, after a several weeks' visit here with relatives. John Frost returned. Thursday, from a visit vitn his daughter, Mrs. Marshall Crider, at New Castle.

Miss Lena Hafner returned the first of the week from a visit with friends at Connersville. Miss Lela Moncrief has returned to her home in IndianajKilis, after a visit here with friends. Mrs. Mary J. Gundrum returned to her home in New Palestine, Friday, after a visit here with her father, Mr.

Henry Gates. Mrs. Ed Maxfield has been at Indi- apolis this week, visiting Mrs. Rob ert King. Miss Rhadie English, of Dunreith.

and Miss Ethel St. Clair, of Knights town, were the guests of Mrs. Rav- mond Moncrief. Wednesday evening. Miss Mary Cleary, of Indianapolis.

was here Tuesday, visiting her mother Mrs. Mary A. Cleary, of North State street. Mrs. Beatrice Berterman, of Indianapolis, was here Wednesday, visit ing her sister, Mrs.

W. C. Dudding. Miss Aubrey Robb is visiting friends at Indianapolis today. Mr.

and Mrs. Will Bridges have gone to Milwaukee The Tuesday Afternoon Card Club met with Mrs. W. C. Dudding this week.

The game was five hundred Mrs. J. D. Ballon is the guest of friends at Terre Haute. Mr.

and Mrs. 1 O. Garriott were the guests of friends at Knightstown, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs.

Orville Savage went to Waldron, Tuesday, to visit friends. They will be absent a couple of weeks ana Mrs. George Lacey were at Charlottesville, Tuesday, visiting Mrs. John S. Lane.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Readle, of Indian aiolis, were here over Sunday, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Keller.

Misses Nellie and Olive Hufford, of North Spring street, have issued in viiauons ior an evening at home on Friday, January 30. Mrs. Marion Willett has returned from a visit with friends at Maxwell Mrs. Minnie Kingsbury, of Indian apolis, has been here this week, vis King ner mouier. Airs.

u. a. Jiugnes, of West South street. Miss Ada Walton has returned to her home in Rushville, after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs.

Carey Walton Announcement of lie domestic science department of the Sixth restrict Farm ers Short Course. in the hristian church at Centerville, Indiana, February 1 to 6, VM: PROGRAM Tuesday, February 2, lyOO, 2 p. m. Music. Address "What Domestic Science Means." Mrs.

Frank land. Address "1 lomestie Science in the Pub lic Schools," Miss Klsie Marshall. Address "lomestic Science in the slums of New York." Miss Mary Peacock. General 1'iscussion. Wednesday, February 3, 10of, 2 p.

m. Music. Address "Somethina; About Bread," Mrs. irpinia Meredith Demonstration of the use of the tireless cooker. Thursday, February 4, 1:09, 2 p.

m. Music. Demonstrations in and lecture by Miss Apnes Smiley, of Piqua, Ohio. General Discussion. Friday, February 5, ly09, 2 p.

m. Music. Demonstration in cookinp and lecture by Miss Apnes Smiley, of Fuiua, Ohio. General Discussion. Tuition for this course only C-0 cents.

Sinple day tickets to this course only cents. 1 lckets may be secured of Mrs. riuk Indiana. Kxecutive Committee Miss Mary Pea- cock. Mrs.

Frank Iand. Miss Klsie Mar shall and Mrs. Ella Dunbar, Manapinp Committee Mrs. Klla Dun bar. Mrs.

John Tashley. Mrs. Irene Wal ker and Mrs. Hattie De Yarman. Booze Flowed in Wayne New Castle Tribune.

Men from surrounding; points, includ- inar New Cnstle. were as usual here in poodly numbers Saturday nipht, and a considerable amount of wet poods was traded for the cash of the realm by local saloonists. Amonp the company were a number who imbibed a little too freely. and the amhridpe City Marshal made a few arrests, although most of the men were released on their promise to leave town. Two intoxicated men.

believed to be from New Castle, attempted to board a car to come home, but the conductor, obeying the strict orders lately issued by most of the traction companies of the State, against permitting drunks passage, refused to let them ride. Mr. and Mrs. W. 1).

Getman. of Grant street, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. Saturday evening, by entertaining a large number of friends informally, the guests not beinginformed that it was the anniversary of their marriage until they had been at the Getman home for some time. The social for the members of Will Service's Sunday school class that was to have been given at the home of Mrs. J.

H. Rogers this afternoon has been postponed one week on account of the death of Mrs. Jennie Jackson. A Snap. The United States Government pays Roosevelt's barber $1,600 a year for shaving, shampooing and trimming the lock of the President.

The Gradatim Literary League met with Mrs. G. M. Fletcher, Friday afternoon Mrs Irvin Tyner conducted the work. The reading was by Mrs.

Elmer Thomas. The Maxwell Chain Works, after being closed down for some time, will resume operations in a few days. They have received orders for a car load of chains. Mr. and Mrs.

Winfield Lacey were-i called to Charlottesville, Wednesday, on account of the death of Mrs. John S. Lane. Marriage Licenses. Samuel Fuller and Lulu Swords.

John M. Underwood and Bertha L. Wiley. to the en al so a and Corn School. During the first week in February the farmers of the Sixth Congressional Uis- rit will be piven an opportunity to at- an I rnrt inn In 'i ir-n nmf cattle, held at fenterville.

Wavne countv. under the direction of Purdue University. one event in ne Know as i ue rixiu insincr farmers Minn course ami corn school" and the dates are Kebruarv 1st inclusive, onterviiie is centrally located, on the Pennsylvania Lines and Richmond Indianapolis traction line, about half way between Cambridge City and Richmond. Ample accommodations have been provided for all visitors. ind should the attendance exceed the ex pectations of the school, arrangements have been made to Take care of the over flow crowd at Richmond, six miles distant on the traction line.

The Younar Men's Business Club of that city, which pave the hall Festival last year, nas sriv- its guarantee that notnins shall be lackinc in accommodations. The lecturers are nearly all from Pur due University and include such well- known professors as Prof. S. I. Connor.

Prof. I. Christie. Prof. A.

Cochel ami Prof. (i. Woodbury. Such subjects as "Soil Improvement." "Corn Cul ture. T.ive Stock Farminsr.

Improvement of Reef Cattle." "Orchard Spray-inir." "Protita ble Production of Horses and Mules." and similar topics from the lectures. The most practical part of the course is the school of instruction in re- pard to scorinar corn and cattle. The work has been arranged so that the first hour of the proernm in the mornine: is divided between judffinsr corn and cattle, and this hour of work is followed by a. lecture. The same thinir is done in the afternoon, except the class that jud creel corn in the mornie; juderes cattle in the afternoon, anil the class which juilped cattle in the morninsr corn In the afternoon.

Then the last hour is devoted to the lecture. In addition to these lectures, arrange ments have been made whereby men of prominence in asrricuUure and education work i.irouirhout niliana will address the school at niarht. Vint upon matters not strictly shop talk as the school. In connection with the school will be department of domestic science, in which the instruction will 1e priveii by Mrs. Smiley, of Piipia.

Ohio, and Mrs. Virginia Meredith, of Camhridpe Citv, Indiana. The tuition is $1 for the whole course. This entitles the student to a membership ticket which will admit him to all class rooms, an lectures and enter tainments. The season ticket will ad mit any one member of the family: also can he transterred under conditions named on face of ticket.

Single day tick ets can le had for 25 cents, which will admit to all meetincs on that date ex cept to the scorinp classes. Tickets may be secured from the secretary at liead-ipiarters in Centerville. corn show will be held in the coun cil chamber at Centerville. All entries are free to any corn prower in the Sixth district. Premiums will be offeren as follows: For best hi ears of yellow corn J1 0i For second best 1 ears yellow C.lHV For third best 1" ears yellow 1.5 For fourth best ears yellow 1.0 For fifth best 11 ears yellow l.inl For sixth to tenth best l' ears yellow- corn each For eleventh best In ears yellow corn a Ribbon of Merit.

For twelfth best 1" ears yellow corn. Honorable Mention. Premiums for white corn same as above. For best sinple ear, any variety $. Fur second best sinple ear.

any va riety For third hst single ear. any va riety A pold mcdai will be offered by Oscar K. Fulphum to the Wayne county farm er who exlnous tne ten ears or corn ami scores the hiphest. All entries must be made not later than-Tuesday. February 2.

at 4 p. m. All entries may be reclaimed by exhibitor at the close of the Short Course. Kverybody will be admitted free to the corn show except during lecture periods. "Prohibition" in Georgia.

New York Commercial. The attention of every intelligent, fair-minded, open-minded man and woman in the United States ought to- he directed to the spectacle now be ing witnessed, the drama now being enacted, in the conservative old city of Savannah, and throughout Chatham county, of which it is the seat. Not only are the people there in open rebellion against the enforcement of the State prohibition law, but county, city and town officials, public prosecutors, peace officers, policemen and constables are also in league with the populace, apparently, and all bent on successfully defying State authority Whisky and all sorts of liquor "vin ous, spirituous or malt," as the statutes commonly read are sold openly by the class and in Quantities in all parts Chatham county and especially in Savannah, just as they were betore any prohibition law had been enactea. Savannah holds the law in supremest contempt and has from the very out-Set. Through an understanding between the authorities and the dealers all the selling places are "raided" once a month regularly, and on conviction the sellers pay cheerfully into the city treasury in lines an amount equal to the city's revenues formerly derived from liquor licenses.

This is the j.angor plan," made famous by one of the most "open" cities in prohibition Maine. And under it everybody in Savannah is happv and "the goose hangs high." Dr. Frank Melton, of Pomono. was called here Sunday on account of the illness of his mother, Mrs. Cynthia Dr.

Melton was a former resident if this city, going away a number of years ago. When here he was known to his companions as Sherman Melton. He has been in the practice of medicine for the past twelve years. W. B.

Shelby, of Ix-banon: i. W. Shel-hv, lndianapoiis: Mr. and Mrs. B.

F. Shelby. Rural Route No. In; Mr. and Mrs.

Levi Thomas. Rural Route No. 2, Fortville: Mr. Clint Parker, and family; Miss Marthena Walker and Mr. and Mrs.

John F. Mitchell, of this city, were entertained at supper Sunday by Dr. and Mrs. K. B.

Howard. The husband of seven wives and ancestor of 300 children of various generations has just died in Utah. If not the father of his country, as Washington was, this Mormon was at any rat the father of a great many of his countrymen. Herman Winter, of Charleston. West Virginia, was here a short time Monday, calling on Jacob Forest, with whom he was engaged in the Forest greenhouses of this citv for several years.

Herman is now a "dealer for himself at Charleston. He was on his way to the carnation show at Indianapolis. Wallace Deibert and family have gone to Brooklyn, to live. Mr. Deibert has a position with a brick company of that place.

The. grand jury for the February term will convene on Monday next. The petit jury will report for duty to Judge Mason one week later. The Cosmos Society held a all-day meeting at the home of Mrs. W.

Duncan on "West North street 'ptterday. Rufus Powers came home from Oklahoma Saturday to see his brother, who is dangerously 111. The Temple Club dances tonight. Subscribe for The Democrat, $1.00 A sensational and bitter attack on William Nelson Crcmwell, President Obaldia, of Panama, and others by Mr. Rainey, of Illinois, was made in the House of Representatives yesterday.

Rainey spoke under license of general debate, and was unsparing in his charges of corruption and fraud. At the conclusion of his speech, which consumed over an hour and half, Messrs. Stevens, of Minnesota, and Kuster-mann, of Wisconsin, expressed their disapproval of his remarks and entered a defense of the accused. Italy. Italy has a grave problem to solve in the caring for 200,00 persons made homeles by the earthquake.

If cheap railroad rates made by the government together with low 1 steamship passage has anything to do ith it, the United States ill have to nve Ulp roblem. as the 200.000 pan- pers will come to our shores. 1 Tllp Senators elected las bv the various Legislatures were shively, in Indiana; Stone, in Mis- BOur, Root Xew York; 1Vnroce, in Pennsylvania; Overman, in North Car olina; Smoot, in Utah; Crawford, in South Dakota; Chamberlain, in Ore gen; Cummins, in Iowa; Lore, in Okla homa, and Johnson, in North Dakota. President-Elect Taft, accompanied by Mrs. Ian, his secretaries and a party of engineers, left Charleston, S.

on Monday last, on beard the warships North Carolina and Montana, for the Panama Canal, where the Pies- dent-L'lect will studv the construction of the great canal fora time. Local option elections were held on Tuesday in four counties of Indiana, all voting dry. The counties are Hamilton, Putnam, Decatur and Tipton. In each case the majority against the "wet" party was large. Within the next ten days ten more counties will hold elections.

Preacher Arrested on Wife Desertion Charge. Noblesville. January 27. The Rev. J.

W. Richey. formerly pastor of the Methodist church at Carmel. and well known in the Northern Indi ana Conference, of which he as a member for many years, was arrested in St. Ixuiis last night on the charge of wife desertion.

Deputy Sheriff White left this morning to bring Richey to this city for trial. Local authorities have been endeavoring to find Richey since he eloped last September with Miss Uertha Williamson, daughter of Frank Williamson, in Carmel. The father of the girl received a letter from his daughter last Monday, dated at Clayton, stating that she believed Richey was getting ready to desert her, and imploring her father to come and take her home. Williamson left immediately, and through information furnished by Miss William son, Richey was found in St. Ixmis and arrested.

A telegram received here this morning said that he would return to Indiana without requisition papers. While pastor of the Carmel church Richey visited the Williamson home in the capacity of a minister. In th course of time his visits became more frequent and his attentions to the daughter were noticeable, but relatives and friends of both anticipated noth ing serious. In September the couple disappeared, and nothing has been heard from them until the letter came from Miss Williamson to her father After Richey disappeared his wife moved her home to Jeffersonville, where she now lives, and where her child died a few months ago. St.

Louis, January Bertha E. Williamson, nineteen years old, "affinity bride" of James William Richey, former Methodist minister, is on her way home at Carmel. today, with her four-w eeks-old baby. Richey is de- tained by the jxilice here at the request of Indiana authorities on charges of wife desertion. Richey formerly had charges at Carmel, Noblesville and Charlottesville, Ind.

Miss Williamson sang in the choir of the Carmel church. In September they came to St. Louis, where as W. R. Brown, Richey worked as a motorman.

Jeffersonville, January 27. Mrs. J. W. Richey.

wife of the Methodist minister, who deserted her September IS, Rms, and ran away with Bertha Williamson, who was arrested at St. Louis, is in Indianapolis, havin-t gone there a week ago. to live with Richey's sister, Mrs. Marion Carr, Pleasant street. She had been, ever since she was deserted, at the home of her sister, Mrs.

L. E. Richards, in this city. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Wolf Mansur, who injured her eye some days ago by a piece of wire she held in her hand coming in contact with the ball of the eye, will probably lose the sight of the injured eye. The funeral of Mrs. John S. Lane, of Charlottesville, will be held at the Nameless Creek Christian church, Friday morning at 10 o'clock. The interment will be at the Simmons Iist Sunday was almost an Faster dav in this city.

Louisville will have a bank on dm lt colored people. Mrs. Ituth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of Wm. J. Bryan, has filed suit for divorce from Wm.

H. Leavitt. Wheat sold for 1.13 a bushel on the floor of the Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, Friday, last. John II. "Rockefeller has given another million to Chicago University.

This will help some. Japan, from income tax, receives fli.nuo.ooiV and Ureal Britain receives ICOooooim. The United States re-, ceives nothing. Chicago conn forward with another hotror. and fifty men perished in a temporary crib" built one mile and a half in the lake.

i. 1 The United Mine Workers are now in convention in Indianapolis. They were addressed by their former president, John Mitchell, last week. How thankful we should be that we have a Governor who frowns on the proposition for the State to huild a mansion for the chief executive. The Post Office lVpnrtment will is-s, loo.ono.noo two-cent postage stamps to commemorate the one hum dndth anniversary Abraham Lin- coin.

Hank (leavings this week in the leading cities of our country were 2. per cent, larger than A year aeo, but per cent, tinder the corresponding week of l'JOti. Taft is trying to do something with the Solid South. Speaking to negroes and waltzing with the fair daughters of the South is a funny way to change the polities of that sunny land. 1 1 I i I I I The Tennessee Prohibitionists may think they are having a corking tinn at Nashville just now, but they ill not he long in learning the impossibility of keeping a bottle corked by prohi hit ion methods.

To prohibit the intermarriage of crocs and whites in Washington, Sen ator Milton, of Florida, has introduced a bill in the Senate which provides that any person having one-eighth or more negro blood shall be declared a negro. Tlio reinsurance method, by which capitalists jucgle securities, is being probed in New York and Illinois. Th 1 amount involved in each State is something like $200,000. Regardless of all of our insuianee laws, life insurance schemes are a swindle. The Chicago Tribune, in gathering frtatistics.

says there were suicides during the year t'jos. a great increase over any previous year. The motive which led the greater number of people kill themselves had its source in busines failures of various characU rs. On Friday last Mrs. Ruth Bryau Leavitt, daughter of William Jennings Brvati.

filed a suit for divorce from her husband. William H. Leavitt. The petition was withdrawn from the files immediately after it was filed, consequently the cause assigned by Mrs. Leavitt is nut known.

Mr. Leavitt lives in Paiis. where he has an art studio. Representative William K. Cox.

of this State, on Thursday last, secured the adoption in the House of an amend ment to the naval appropriation bill. providing that the government shall not buy powder of the scvcallod powder trust. How this measure will be handled in the Senate has caused quite a bit of speculation, as the head of the trust. Senator Du Pont, is a member (f this body. In the debates which came tip in the Senate regarding the raising of the President's salary, Senator Bailey, of Texas, made some of the most convincing Ftalcments of them all.

Men who favor the increase say the President entertains so much that more money is required. The Texas Senator, In reply to this, paid: "I am Inclined to think It would be a fortunate thing to reduce teho pslarles, if to reduce them would reduce the amount of People's Outfitting of Indianapo lis: A. A. Zion, superintendent of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company, and Rev. J.

L. Miller, pastor of the Seventh Dav Adventist church, of Sey- niour. he Rev. Miier said, in part: fi.i thof t-Mt nnrflin Hove vmi mnyt I IIUII I Hit V'll Ull 'II cenani rlavs von cease business, but to say to' ether oc- i cupations on such specified days you are privileged to carry on your trade is ass icgis anon ana inereiore mi- 1 constitutional. The law permits the running of trains and street cars on I Sunday, the printing and sale of news- I n.iners.

etc on Snndav. To discrimi- i nate between these occupations and fMin.riv oase nan is ciass uiscrnuum- in u. Taking up the question of the charg- intr il Ml i cc i i ifl tlli I ti V- I Millol' I said: Since this question is a religious one and the reason given for prohibiting an admittance fee is because of the sa- credness of the day a religious reason we would inquire, what does one do when he breaks the Sabbath? This ad- mits of only one answer. He sins. Is I the State to define sin and punish for its commission? How many dollars are necessary, or how many days i should be spent in jail to expiate this sin? This is what the State, instigated by the church, attempted to do in the dark ages.

The seed planted in A. D. 1121, which brought the harvest of the Inquisition, was religious legislation. The planting of similar seed ill surely produce the same harvest again." California. The Japanese question lias again appeared in the California Legislature and threatens to take a more serious turn before the week is over.

To students of law the question herein involved are interesting and again bring to light the old doctrine of State's rights. We all know that Congress has the power to make treaties with foreign powers and up to this time this law, or rather this part of our Constitution, has never conflicted with th? rights if State. The question now comes Who has the authority to compel each State to honor such a treaty? While it is known that we have certain agreements or understandings with Japan, no such agreement is considered in the California Legislature and believing, as we do. in the doctrine of States rights, California has the power to keep foreigners from landing or even exclude them from her sclvools and other public institutions. Tho'se are vital questions and some important derisions or maybe legislation will follow the action of the California Legislature if that body follows the policy which it has inaugurated.

Lincoln's Birthday Anniversary. Oovotinw Marshall, acting under the authority of the constitution of this State, has proclaimed February 12th to be the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and the same to be alegal holiday. In setting aside this day, Governor Marshall says: "No one who takes pride in the history of his country can hear the name of Abraham Lincoln mentioned without a quickened pulse and a firmer resolve to be true to the great principles of American citizenship, to that divine idea of the euualitv of all men before the law, for which Lincoln strove and fought and died. There was an hour when partisanship set Lincoln to one side as being the exclusive property of one political organization. That hour has now passed and he has lie-come in the fullness of time the one bright particular star which shines in the firmament of constitu tional liberty." Against Liquor.

On Thursday last the lower house of the Tennessee Legislature, by a vote of sixty to thirty six. pased on final reading the bill to prohibit the manufacture of intoxicants in Tennessee after January 1. 1910. This is striking in the right direction. If tehe liquor business is such a menace to our civilization, let us destroy it by legislation in a business-like inanner, not by an ineffective, feeble remonstra-tion as we have just experienced in this city.

1M the voters of Hancock county want such a farce of local option in our midst as they have in Henry county and every other place where local option has? been tried. If yon do, go to the polls and have every saloon voted out of business. I the first of June next he is going on a visit to Joe Woods and family at New-berg. Ore. lie may be accompanied by Harvey B.

White. While absent they will attend the exposition at Portland. Andrew Yetter. residing near Maple Valley, is failing fast. He is hardly able to get around.

Friday last he fell helpless while doing some work near his barn, and was taken to the house nearer dead than alive. His physical and mental condition is indeed pathetic to those who have known Mr. Yetter many years. Knightstown Banner. Mr.

and Mrs. W. D. Getman entertained a party of friends at dinner Saturday evening. Miss Maude Pitts.

Chas. Bass and Russell Wright, of Morristown. were the guests of Miss Lettie Binford, Friday last. Mr. and Mrs.

Jos. B. Lewis are visiting friends at Cincinnati. Miss Effie Reed spent Sunday with friends at Shirley. Mrs.

Frank Moore has returned frcm a visit with friends at Lewisville. Mrs. C. C. Prather, of Indianapolis,.