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Tr- • *v • • , < .. K?r> -y ri, «« ^ '* "• 'L, *1 ' *'3£ •I,^"4--'«^-'IR : *•'•* • ' • * 1. VAN SLYKE. E«l ir aai PsMWisr. '. -Ho: - ^ITCHENBY, - ILLINOIS * ; MRS. GLENN, oolored attenueft a re­ ligious revival at Helena, Arkansas, and l>ecame so enthusiastic with the service Hiiat she began to note her approval by 4t series of shouts. An attempt was made J>y the deacons to stop her, bat to no Avail. She continued to shout till 1 •o'clock in the night. She died still ahouting. The physicians pronounced ter death to have been caused by over- J. *ftertion. • \* THE Lancet reports a lecture oa TEA •Mid coffee, in which people are advised "to put the coffee for breakfast in an •earthenware vessel, pour cold water Over it, let stand over night, and bring 41 to the boiling point by placing it in a "#ater bath or double boiler in "the • horning, thus preserving all the aroma. -As the editor pronounces the lecture as t>eing "perhaps the most brilliant since lis series was begun," the writer has no •i^oubt tried the plan. ,t •' A NEW YORK woman has mode a practice of bringing suits. for damages ^against saloon-keepers of whom her husband obtained his drink, alleging that his capabilities for earning wages liad been reduced by his drunkenness &om $30 per week to $3 or $4, and stating the damages at $5,000. In three •O* four cases she appears to have al­ lowed a large discount for cash, settling "the matter for $100. In the latest case "the defendant wouldn't settle, and the jury gave, her a verdict for $500. see Deacon Smith play high-ball poker.! Great place to sport, that New Or-i leans." ! h ft: •' THE American fondness for giving a nman a title is illustrated in the frequen- >CJ with which the Vermont Senator is called Judge Edmunds, the fact being that he never occupied a position on the bench. Another popular blunder about 3tr. Edmunds is the common idea that : ::jbe is an old man. There is a certain "tfenerable aspect about his head, but it "is calculated to deceive, for he is really •only fifty-six years old, or but two years tiie senior of either Arthur or Blaine, "While he is younger than Tilden bv four- ;/|ien years, and Payne's junior by near­ ly a score of yeirs. THE King of Italy has offered a gold medal to the Italian wine-grower who <4hall produce the best effervescing White wine as a substitute for cham- Sparkling Asti and other Ital­ ian wines of the foaming class bear al- Teady a certain resemblance to cham- /pagne, and a still greater resemblance to sparkling Moselle; for they are sweet •and, taken in generous quantities are apt to give headache. The Italian ^champagne must be dry; but this in­ dispensable condition offers no difficul­ ty. for Capri is scarcely sweeter than 'the natural wine of Champagne before the syrup is added in the process of turning it into effervescing wine. AN ENGLISH writer on gymnastic ex­ ercises says that gymnastics in any technical sense remainel unknown in modern Europe until about 1774, * "when, at an educational establishment founded at Dessau, physical exercises Were introduced as part of the system, fioon afterward a certain Galsmuths of ; Ootlia published a work on gymnastics, sand promoted the practice of them in anany places. But in Germany it was Jahn of Berlin who first started a pub­ lic gymnasium, in 1811. His establish­ ment, with several others which had l>een founded in imitation of it, was «losed in 1818 by tlio police, on the ground that they were used as places of political intrigue. A royal decree at last reestablished their legality in 1842, and since that time they have flourish­ ed more in Germany than elsewhere. ACCORDING to the dying confession of Charles Kett, of Davtoft, Ohio, his another, who died a few weeks ago, told feim on her deathbed that she slew her daughter, a young lady of 18, in a mo­ ment of violent rage the 11th of Jan­ uary, 1867. The fatal blow was struck with an ax-helve, but the murderess tried to make it appear that the yoting "lady shot herself. Some powder was jburned near the face of the unfortunate girl, and her brother's pistol was placed near the body. For years after the tragedy Mrs. Kett suffered intense men­ tal agony. She wandered about from place to place but could find no peace. J3he had, as she said in her dying con- Jession, constantly before her the fright­ ened face of her poor daughter. Several persons, including a brother and a lover, were arrested soon after the murder for complicity in the crime, and detained in custody for a considerable time. The revelations of Kett have created quite a sensation. * *•" . ! T. . * CHICAGO Herald: "New 'Orleans treats all the places ever I saw for •port," said Judge Thoman, of the Civil Uervice Commission, as he journeyed northward at government expense, after • long trip to the South ditto. "Down there they sell lottery tickets on the streets as we see newspapers sold on the streets in the North, and I believe the lottery tickets sell faster than the papers. One night our gang didn't Ignow where to go for the evening. One Wanted to go to a French ball, another to the theater, another to a cock-fight, <and all had their preferences. But where do yov suppose I wanted to go? That afternoon I had seen a sign out: «Dog against Coon; to-night Col. Snell- %e s coon will try to whip Major Bak­ er's dog. - Judges--Sheriff So-and-so and Judge Somebody. Admission 25 cents.' I wanted to see this fashionable event, but the boys dragged me off to THE HE are all kinds of rings in the1 business and political world, but the greatest of all is the one which is form­ ing outside the atmosphere of the earth.! There are people who gravely maintai^ that the extraordinary sunsets and sun­ rises which have been noticed for months; are due to the formation of a ring or* rings around our earth, similar to those revealed with the telescopy encircling the planet Saturn. No scientist of note has dared, as yet, to seriously consider this theory, but these sunsets are, nev­ ertheless, as great a mystery as ever. That they are due to moisture in the atmosphere, or to dust hurled up in the air at the volcanic eruptions last sum­ mer in Java, is now discredited. A lady has ventured the surmise that the red sunsets are due to an effort on th< part of the sun to adjust itself to t new standard time; but, of course, this is a joke. It is clear that there are more things in heaven and earth unex­ plained than are dreamed of, *not only by the philosophy but by the science of modern times. A MOVEMENT is on foot to build, at Mitchell, Dakota Territory, a monu­ ment in memory of the homestead law and its author. A National Homestead Monument Association has been formed, and its . general agent is in Washington, asking from Congress a grant of one township--23,040 acres-- of the public domain to aid in the en­ terprise. It is proposed to build a monument 160 feet high--one foot for each acre in a homestead entry--divi­ ded above the pedestal into five equal parts, each representing one year Of the five years' residence required to perfect the settler's title under the homestead act. The monument is to be surmount­ ed by a figure of Columbia delivering the patent earned by five years of actual residence and cultivation. The pedes­ tal is to be forty feet square--repre­ senting the four legal subdivisions of a homestead. Grouped about the column which springs from this are to be stat­ ues of Gaiusha A. Grow and other pub­ lic men who were especially active in securing the passage of the homestead law. CONGRESS has practically decided to send out an expedition to relieve Lieutenant Greely and his party, and bring them back to their own country. Old sea captains say that, in all proba­ bility an expedition could now reach the North Pole. There have already been disturbances in that region of a very unusual character. Icebergs rarely make their appearance in the North1 Atlantic before June or July; in May they are very rare; but this year they made their appearance early in Febru­ ary, and vessels were destroyed by them) off the banks of Newfoundland during that month. The recent heavy fog$ and rainy weather have been attributed to the presence of these icebergs in mid-ocean at this unusual season of thq year. The earthquake and volcaniq eruption last summer at Java may have had its analogue somewhere in the frigid zone, breaking up the huge fields of ice, driving the bergs far out to sea. Volcanic eruptions and hot springs o{ water are as liable to make their ap* pearance in the frigid as in the torrid zone. There is abundant evidence of continuous volcanic action as far north as Iceland. Should the guesses of the sea captains prove true, peihaps the road may be opened this summer to some point nearer the Pole than has ever been reached. It is a curious fact that we know more about the Polar region of the planet Mars than we do about that of our own earth. With a very ordinary modern telescope the amateur astronomer can distinctly see the extent of the ice ocean which sur­ rounds the potes of Mars. But we will never be abl^-rg, explain our poles fully uptil some motor is invented which will enable us to navigate the air. Invention of Matches. Friction matches were invented in England by Walker, in 1829. Up to nearly that time the old brimstone match was used, an article whose origin is hidden in the dim past. It consists of a slender stick, pointed at the end, dipped in nielted sulphur, and was lighted by touching it to the spark struck into tinder bv a flint and steel. As was said above, this match prevailed until about the close of the first quarter of this century, when various improve­ ments were attempted. First of these was the "Instantaneous-light box," fol­ lowed by the lucifer or loco-foco match, and that, in turn, by the Congreve match, which was similar to the one now in use. The composition of the friction match is of phosphorus and ni­ ter, or phosphorus, sulphur and chlorate of potash, mixed with melted gum or glue, and colored with vermilion, soot, amber, or red lead. Into this is dipped the end of the wooden body of the match. This match has superseded all others, and has been carried to great perfection in our own country.--Inter Ocean. Justifiable Misleading. "I made no false statement," said Wendell Phillips once to a critic of one of his speeches; "I simply rectified a fact that had no business to l>e a fact." "But." said the other, "your state­ ment was misleading." "Did it mislead you?" was the re­ tort; "well, it is necessary to mislead some people in order to guide them right Remember how Paddy had to drive his pig one way in order to make him go the other." Ir a man will only start with a fixed and honorable purpose in life, and strictly and persistently attempt ^ to carry it out to the best of his ability, undismayed by failure or delay, the time may be long in ooming, but come it will, when that purpose will be achieved. • GERMANY has 454 theaters and nearly 10,000 actors, including 98 Mailers, 72 Schmidts, and 55 Meyers. THOUGHTS AM> OPINIONS OSBAT «inl* havj d>ei for truth, and left ' ttietr rnm*> To b*> the w itchword nf aiotbar age; Bnt rir uc, 1ns tee, c-mrag > and idarh aim. De*oeni throuirh Mm-, a wenm heritage, And h« o >s live to day in all but. nam*. --Charles II. Hildretk, inLippincott's Maga­ zine. THE true remedy for lynching is to hang the lynchers according to law. The Independent. IN the present state of affairs at Washington the President must not only be an honest man, but he must l>e a cause of honesty in others.--Wayne MacVeagh. NOT amalgation, but truth, justice, human brotherhood. Christian love, the Gospel of Christ are the remedies for the atrocious principle of caste.--Tie v. Dr. Alex Orummell, the Independent. HE that says God is unknqwn, by his very sentence bears testimony that there is a God. His subject is a con­ fession of faith--God. His predicate is a confession of ignorance--unknown. --Lyman Abbott. THE modern newspaper has become a modern necessity. There is not a community in all the land which would consider the deprivation of a newspa­ per for any length of time, less than a case of distress.--.San Francisco Bul­ letin. • ' IN the history of all superstition", hallucinations, chicanery, or other sciences of vulgar error, faith is not only harder to combat with than com­ mon sense, but faith in evil is more ob­ stinate than faith in good.--The Atlan­ tic Monthly. » THE faith of eighteen is that society exists for its sake. Middle aye is gen­ erous and tolerant, and does not care to tell the young that they are valued mainly for their future, and that the real work of the world is done by men who have ceased to be ornamental.-- Amelia Barr. "** IF I wanted to clean out a swamp I should have to do it spadeful by spade­ ful. Now, in this great cause of tem­ perance, which involves in it every question of virtue at the bottom and morality at the top, I do not see how we can go at it except by evolution.-- Henry Ward Beecher. IF a man is dry as a chestnut rail, and yet is pointing in the right direction, even though he doesn't go there him­ self, he is of some advantage. But these old seasoned timber men--men dryer than Noah's Ark is to-day--when they attempt to lord it over men of zeal and enthusiasm I don't criticise them; they criticise themselves.-- Henry Ward Beecher. THE transfer of population has re­ sulted not from caprice, but from great changes in the industrial life; and it will not be checked so long as the pres­ ent social and industrial arrangements continue. Even the old saw-mill that used to deafen us with its clatter by the brook-side for perhaps a dozen hours a week, has come to the city, taken a steam t>oiler in place of the old brook, and tills the air with its humming voice a dozen hours a day, six days" in the week.-- Northwestern Christian Advocate. IF history tells us anything it de­ clares that morality, true civilization, true progress cannot be guaranteed by any man-made philosophy or ethical system. Keason alone is insufficient to guide us. -Reason married Circum­ stance in days of old, and the offspring w$is Egyptian materialism, classic my­ thology, Syriac Tsobtiism. Reason married Revelation at Sinai. The re­ sult has been Mosaism, from whose light the fiery cross obtains its bril­ liance and the crescent its gleamour.-X- Rabbi Mendes. Battle with an Alligator. Robert Carroll, a trapper and hun­ ter, while trapping for otters on West Choctawpatchie River, in Alabama, had a terrible fight with an alligator. Seeing the water agitated in a hole near the river, and supposing that otters were fishing therein, he mounted a pole on a tussock just above the water's edge. His steel traps "were in a sack sus­ pended from his neck. His only weapon was his hatchet. He sat on the pole, with a mass of vines at his back. He held his weapon ready to strike an otter, should one arise. Soon he saw a young alligator near him. He caught it up and it uttered a cry. In an instant there was a terrible splash of water, and a huge alligator, with distended mouth and glittering teeth, rushed for him. With little hope of escape he fell back upon the vines, and as he did'so kicked the pole irom under his feet. The terrible jaws closed on the pole and crushed it. Carroll tried to iuter- pose the traps but a vine had caught them and partly held him down. Seiz­ ing his hatchet he struck into the open mouth of his assailant. It closed on the weapon, and with great difficult? he saved the hatchet. Getting free from his traps he dealt the alligator a fatal blow on the skull as it made the next charge. He secured the skin and such teeth as had not been destroyed in the fight. The length of the alligator was about nine and a half feet. The hole was its den. Alligators rarely attack human beings.--Abbieville, {Ala.) Corres­ pondence N. Y. Sun. An Egyptian Court/' The houses of the ancient Egyptians, while they varied in size and plan, were nearly all alike in having a court. This was a space, paved with stones, contain­ ing a small tank or fountain, and was frequently planted with trees or sur­ rounded by them. The houses of the wealthy covered considerable space, stood detached, and had handsome porches. The doors opening on the court led to the various apartments, which were handsomely furnished, and the walls and ceilings were painted and inlaid with ivorv. The ornamental vases of the Egypt* ians were especially elegant in shape, material, and adornment. They were of gold, silver, bronze, alabaster, glass, and porcelain, arul were frequently adorned with precious stones. Some­ times they were ornamented with the figures of the deities in relief. When made of porcelain the colors wore very brilliant, the lotus flower being the fav­ orite adornment. The Egyptians were exceedingly fond of trees and flowers--so much so, that visitors to that country brought plants as gifts to the king. Chaplets were in common use, and much attention was given to the cultivation of flowers.-- DemoresVs Monthly. Gen. Jackson's Democratic Habits. Gen. Jackson was first the President to inaugurate the custom of shaking hands of all who came to his public levees. Before that time the populace had merely made a respectful obeisance to the President as their names were announced, but Old Hickory, who de­ spised all pomp and ojfeetion, and was n*>t.bin» if rtook er*rr hand in his firm and honest grip. Suc­ ceeding Presidents whose poxvers arc taxed ten and twenty thnes as much and of ten as Jackson's berate him on their receptien nights for ever iuaur»u-, rating the pump-handle' custom; though if Jackson had not began it President Lincoln surely would in those war days when every one came to so* him, and overpowered marshal, lackeys, and policemen in the rush toward that great, benevolent hand. Gen. Jackson never despised the humblest of his old Tennessee friends, and treated them here at the White House exactly a» he would have done at the "Hermitage." It is related of one old homespun that Gen. Jackson asked him to dinner at the White House, and while~the cham­ pagne and olives were on the table ho turned to his host and said: "General. your cider is good, but your pickles " -- Washing ton Letter. The Sultan's Day's Work. A salary of $10,000 a day would ap­ pear to those who have but* few wants a nice competency. That is the daily wages of Abdul Hamiil. and no sover­ eign alive earns his money harder. Out of that sum he has, moreover, to pay for his own board, fire, and candles, his lodgings alone are free; so that consid­ ering the footing on which his estab­ lishment is placed, he must be a man of order and economy to make both ends meet with so small an income at his command, 'there is, indeed, no more diligent or active man in his empire than the sultan, and it is literally true of him to say that he eats his bread In the sweat of. his brow. He gives per sonal audience to everyone who applies for it, whenever it is possible; when not, his first adjutant gives audience for him. The COO wives of Abdul-Aziz have vanished and Abdul Hamid finds it as much as he can do to meet the milliner's bills of a poor three dozen spouses This scanty harem leaves him a good deal more time for devotion and state business. He leaves his apartment. betimes, and bathes the prison of his soul in tepid water, after which he stretches himself full length upon a carpet and breathes a silent morning firayer. He then drinks a cup of choeo-ate and proceeds immediately after to the affairs of the state. Dispatches are received and sent, reports examined and approved of, expenses consented to, decorations granted, ministers and ambassadors received, and that goes on for several hours. Toward noon a second carpet is spread at the feet of the ruler of the faithful, whereon he prays again, and then takes his second breakfast. After that he goes out for a drive, and when he returns he is at the disposal of his family and the inhabi­ tants of tho palace. He gives audience to his brothers and sisters, listens to the report of the household officers, confers with the chief of the eunuchs on all Rorts of delicate subjects and gives him his orders. The imaum. or chaplain of the palace, also comes in the evening, and the sultan prays or reads some pious book with him. Three times in the week the sultan takes lessons on the piano from a French teacher--that is, lie listens to his teacher playing a few moroeaux, but never plays a single scale himself. Later in the evening he dis­ patches more state business, and then an hour before midnight he, accom­ panied only by the chief of the eunuchs, retires to the mysterious recesses of the harem.--Exch THE TARIFF ISSUE. - Winning, Yet Failing. All of us cannot do everything. Yet a man who triumphs over obstacles that bar his way to success should be able to conquer himself. Defeat on that battle-field means ultimate failure. The lite of Hector Berlioz, one of tlio most eminent of French musicians, illustrates the fact that the greater the necessity for self-control. He forced his way to distinction against resolute opposition at home. His father, who had destined him to the medical profession, and his mother, who, being a devout Catholic, imagined that association with musiciniu would be fatal to his religion, refusal assent to his desire to study music. The father at length withdrew all support. But young Hector obtained a position as chorister, at a salary of ten dollars a month. Joining another musical student, who had a similar sum, they lived on six dollars a month, and used the re­ mainder of their funds in their musical studies. His improvement was rapid, and lie soon won a brilliant reputation, and acquired a position in the front rank of the preat French musicians. But while he had an indomitable will to surmount obstacles, like many other men of genius, he had no control over himself, and his life w; s full of moral failures. If he had inWl himself as vigorously as he cornered external difficulties, he might have been a great and beneficent leader iit -ociety. The lesson holds tr;-e not orilv of Beriioz but many minor masters of art. A public life has a strange tendency towards enervating pursuits and pleas­ ures.-- Youth's Companion. The Successful Rook Agent. <" "Why, howde do, Jinks? How spruce you are looking. What business are you in now ?" said a retired book agent. "Same old business--selling books," AOI/L .TINKFL " "What! still a book agent?" "Yes." "And alive?" "I seem to be." "Well, I can't understand it. Since I got out of the hospital I have given up books." "I keep on and am making $20,000 a year." "How do vou manage to escape death?" "Easy enough. I first introduce myself as an agent of Mr. O'Donovan Rossa and asked for a subscription to the dynamite fund." "People refuse, of conrse?" "Certainly. Then I take out of my pocket a can of brickdust, labeled in big letters •'Dynamite.* and begin to expatiate on its merits.*' "Yes." "They beg me to handle carefullv and put it away. Then I place it in my coat-tail pocket;" T - "Oh! ho!" "After that I open'pjjjf. samples and talk book to them until they buy, and they don't dare to kick me." 13M Morrison Bevenue Bill Sqoardy the House of fwmtativM. Trouble Ahead. Wire lath and glass shingles are now being manufactured, and by and by it will be so that a dutiful father will have to go clear up into the primeval lumber camps to pick tip something with which to caress his erring boy.-- Burdette. , IDEAS are what appeal to hungry and thirsty humanity, and if women gave birth to them the world is as quick to accept the children of their brain as the children of their loins.--Kate Field. The Author of the Measure Opens the Debate--Judge Kelley, of Penn- aylTaaia, Beplies. On motion of Mr. Morrison, Of Iflmots, and by a vote of 140 yeas to 13S nays, the House of Representatives, on the 15th of April, agreed to go into oommlttee of the whole for the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr. Morrison immediately opened the debate In support of the measure. Mr. Morrison's Speech. , lie described the financial condition of the country, stated the estimated surplus of reve­ nue over expenditures, and dwelt upon the ne- cessity of reducing taxation. To l'ail to reduce taxation ami relieve the people would be a fla­ grant disregard of public duty. The pendinz bill misht not be all that was required, but it was an advance toward the promise of more wmijilete tariit reform. Such reform and adjust­ ment of the tariff were not believed to be attain­ able at the present session. It would create no surprise that in the opinion of the minority of the Ways and Means Committee the measure was not sufficiently harmonious to secure their approval. They t'onnd in it no merit, because it proposed to reduce all duties al ke. A hori- sontal reduction might not l>c the best, but none other was now practicable. The pro­ tectionists opposed it, net Iwcause it was horizontal reduction, but because it was re­ duction at all. The year lrt»>o was a time Of plenty. The lal>orer tor wanes was at least as well and the grower of grain better paid than they are In this year, 1*84. and in that year, 1800, of bounteous plenty our importations of foreign goods were less to the person, or in pro­ portion to the population, than in the years 1880-*82. To the list oi articles now imported free of duty, amounting to nearly oue-third of all our importations, it is proposed to adu salt, coal, wood, and lumber. Salt is already freed lrom tax for the fishermen, also for the exporter of meats, to lessen the cost of food to the people of other countries, not for our own. Coal is un­ taxed for use on vessels having by law the ex­ clusive right to the coasting trade or engaged in the foreign carrying trade--a privilege denied to persons engaged in other pursuits. The rev­ enue from wood and lumber imported and hereafter to lie admitted free of duty has in ten years last past not much cxcceded fio.ooo,- 000. The census returns show that domestic wooden products exceed $50t),0i>o,00ii per annum. If the average duty of 20 per cent, on imported wood adds but 10 per cent, to the price of that produced here,its Increased cost to the i>eople lias been $.">o< VHRVRKI in ten years. 1 n these ten years, under pretense of taxing this article to secure $10,000,otto revenue, we have comi>elled the people to pay $500,000,000 iu bounty to encourage the de­ struction of forests and felling of tree*, and in the same time we have given more than 18,000.- 0(50 acres of land under the timber culture act as a bounty to encourage the planting ot other trees and other forests. In the estimates made by a clerk of experience in the Bureau of Statistic*, which the actual payments on imiwrtations show to be but estimates, though based on official data, the bill would leave, it appears, iu cottons but two articles, cotton yarns, not the finest, dnti- a Die above 40 per cent.; in woolens, bnt one, coarse carpet wool, which wo do not produce, above 00 per cent., and in iron and steel but a few above 50 per cent. These rates have been fixed as the limit, above which on these articles no duty shall be collected. The present rate on the finest cotton is 40 per cent.., and yet it is an unquestioned fact, as shown by the invoices and payments made, that duties exceeding 100 per cent.(exceeding first cost) are exacted and paid on cotton goods, the duty upon which is, in the estimates referred to, stated to be less than 23 per cent. The same is true of iron and steel in a different degree. In the woolen schedule these abuses are most glaring. In all they result from enormities hidden and concealed both in the classification of articles and the rates of duty. The limit of 40, 50, and 60 per cent, on the cotton, metal, and woolen schedules is intended to cxi>ose and remedy these hidden enormities. Those really desirous of affording some relief from existing abuses will not fail to find their opi>ortunity In remov ing taxes yielding $8,000,000 on sugar, as much on cotton and woolen goods. «nd $U,ooo,ooo on other articles used in every home. The insuf­ ficient, not to say deceptive, character of the late revision, the manner of making it, and the cir­ cumstances attending tts adoption alike forbid it should be permanent. The only security from agitation and change is to confine the taxing power to its rightful pnriMise of obtaining a revenue limited to the necessities of Government. When nov more revenue is needed by the Government of a peo­ ple it has attained the limit ot its power to tax the people. Estimates based on census statistics show that as many as 18,oqj).000 of our people do some work or are occupied in some business, and that the average annual earnings of at least lti.ooo.ooo of these do not much exceed $aoo, and are wholly consumed in the means of daily substance. These, too, are millions who, in shop and field, strike the blows of all pro­ duction. All the accumulations of and boasted additions to our national and individual wealth go to one-tenth of those who earn it; and of these a few appropriate the great mass of the savings of tne people, anil are enriched by the profits of the lal>or of other men. Like esti­ mates will show that the few who profit most from the labor of all contribute little under this system of unequal taxation--not more than 1 per cent, of their savings -while the great mass of workers, including the dej endent poor, pay the bulk of the taxes, a^l of which is subtracted from their too scanty means of comfortable liv­ ing. Ours is a very free country of very free men, both very freely taxed. In the same sense that we are free men In a free country, freely taxed, we may l>e correctly named tree traders when we Insist that the trade and the commerce of the country and the neces­ sities of comfortable living shall be freed from all taxes not essential to a Government for pub­ lic uses. The amount required from the customs is de­ pendent upon what may be received from inter­ nal revenues. The abolition of internal revenue means free and cheap liquors, bnt with heavier taxed and higher-priced sugar and other articles essential in every household. I am not called upon to defend a system which lias many abuses. Of the two systems, however, it is cheaper in the administration, immensely cheaper in Its re­ sults. The rej>eal of the Internal revenue means more than the additional cost of living and privation to the poor. It means a perma­ nent public debt, which tho few owe and the many pay, and wnich corrupts the administra­ tion. \Yhile we cannot doubt the existence of great wrongs in the execution of the internal revenue laws, especially in the South Atlantic States, many of these may be cured. Neither is it because of these abuses of administration that the abolition of liquor and tobacco taxes is demnnded in those States, for the North is sub­ stantially free from these flagrant abuses. Mr. Morrison said that during more than halt of the last ten years wages had been as low or lower than betore the adoption of the taxing policy as a pretended means of making wages higher. And, he continued, there is but one hori­ zontal reduction for which our opponents are willing to legislate, the reduction of wages, and this their favorites, with or without re­ gard to legislation, are now executing day by day with cruel regularity. In the opinion of the minority members of the committee, representing as they do the friends of the prevailing policy, the cure for what­ ever national ills exist, so far as they result from taxation, is to bo found in higher- priced clothing and other articles useful in the fields, mines, and homes; for that is what is meant by higher-taxed wool, fence-rods, cotton- bands, aud tin-plates. Some ot our friends here would cure the ills of overtaxation with the declaration of a purpose the execution of which they would carefully avoid. And here is the declaration. It is called the Ohio platform: "We favor a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government economically ad­ ministered and so adjusted in application as to prevent unequal burden, encourage productive Industries at home, and afford just compensa­ tion to labor, bnt not to create or foster monop­ oly." A tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Government is demanded by this plan of relief. Is the tariff so limited? If not, then why refuse to limit it? Who among the representa­ tives of the goodly people of that S.ate who made this declaration believes it is so limited? Who among them believes the pending bill will reduce the revenue below the necessities of the Government? These are questions to which the plain i>eople of the country want an answer. They will demand to know why tho tariff taxes were not removed in the past, if they are beyond the revenue limit. Do gentlemen expect to es­ cape responsibility because the ratee are Dot rightly adjusted? The adjustment wiil be the same wh°n the reduction is made, but what­ ever monopoly belongs to it will be fostered By 20 per cent, less than it now is. f this platform has an honest meaning it is that the tariff shall be lowered to a revenue basis. And gentlemen 1 at deceive themselves who expect the people will be deceived by a refusal to legislate in accordance with this declared purpose. If the protection policy is to be the -continuing policy of the Government it will be, and ought to be, intrusted to its friends --the Republican party. Every argument in support of a protective policy is based on the assump­ tion that any considerable tariff modification, especially a modification to a revenue basis, will destroy the manufacturing industries, compel tho abandonment of the shops and mills, and force those now engaged in them into other employments. This is the old. old story. It was told of the manufacturing indus­ tries in their infancy. It will be told when pro­ tection biings them"to decay. Eight years ago I introduced the first bill for free quinine and providing for untaxed alcohol for use in mak­ ing it. At once it was insisted that quinine- making would become a lost art amoag is if such a bill should pass, and it did not then pass. Later on, when the story ot free quinine got among the people, another placed a bill before the House omitting the free alcohol provision, and the bill became a law. the protectionists themselves feeling obliged to vote for it. The great Philadelphia house did not go Into a de­ cline, but- continued Its business ot anlnine the in the would go an witb a rsvmrae tails. it to lnaiated that wafM are so mnefa hlfher hen than la the countries seeking our maiseta that th» revenue dutiee «tD not equalise the -difference In the cost,of production. Conced­ ing the truth of wlifit w not true--that the foreign rival most pay for the privilege of sell­ ing in our markets a sum equal te the difference In wages to enable the home producer to sell with a reasonable profit--let na see if the reve­ nue rates will compensate for that difference. The census value of the manufactures for 1880 was $5,369,579,191. The wages paid In mak­ ing them were $&*7.!>53,795. The difference in the cost of the goods is said to 'be the difference In the oost of wages. But suppose the difference between the cost here and the cost abroad amounts to all the wages paid here, then these manufact­ ures would cost abroad $4,421,625,:»6. Suppose the average rate of fluty which the bill before the House leaves at 33 per cent, was reduced to 22 per cent., and at that rate this $1,421,625,396in value of goods was importsd. It would cost the importer at that rate ot 22 per cent. $'.172,757,587, which not only makes up tor the difference in wages, but exceeds all the wages paid for mak­ ing all of the goods. If those who claim spccial friendship for the manufacturing industries will insist on their going Into docay and then dying, some other apology mnst be found for their taking off than the removal of unnecessary taxes. Mr. Kelley's Reply. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, made the open­ ing speechln opposition to the bill. He did not believe any cheapening goods could relieve anv American industries. The evil was not that goods were not cheap enough or that America could not produec them. Thetiuth. to be con­ sidered of all men, was that the power of pro­ duction the world over had outran the t ower of consumption, and that the markets were over­ stocked, and in every land skilled and industri­ ous people had been idle for a large portion of all recent years. Nihilism in Russia, Socialism in Germany, Socialism and Nihilism in the bor­ der regions of Austria, Communism in France, told the story in those great countries, ot idle­ ness, want, and misery in every industrial center. He then proceeded to give chapters from the terrible lives of the industrial c;asses of England as learned by him during a three months' visit to "Merry England," prosperous, free-trade England, in order to show the fearful condition of the laboring people of that country, and saia the proposition now made was that the United States should enter the race with the world for cheapness, which had led to such ter­ rible results in England. Ther : was nothing of so little value in England as a working man or woman with a reasonably goi;d appetite. In one town he had seen women making trace-chains^ and yet the gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Turne-, was returned to Congress every year be­ cause he advocated placing trace-chains on the free-list. Mr. Turner said that that was a good proposi­ tion, which he hoped would be adopted. Mr. Kelley replied that women could realize 55 or Co cents a week for making trace-chains. God forbid tliat any Kentucky woman must ever work at such masculine employment for such starvation wages. He recalled the reply of, Emery Storrs to an Englishman who, at a dinner given by Minister Lowell, was badgering him about free trade: "1 will admit free trade is the best for you--at least for those of yon who can afford to consume anything that is pro­ duced; but 1 claim that protection is best for us. You think more a great deal of cheap shoes than you do of a prosperous shoemaker, while in America we think more of the artisan than his work. After describing the wretched condition of the laborers iu Birmingham and surrounding towns, he said: "God forbid that American labor should ever be embodied in any production that should bo cheap enough to be sold to the in­ dustrial towns that surround Birmingham. Much was heard about tree raw material. He denied that the free-trade Democracy of the country, as represented on this floor, was In favor of free raw material. Under the present tariff every element of raw material which could l>e discovered was already on the free list. The pending bill put twenty or thirty articles on the free list, but not one of >hem was raw ma­ terial. The raw material for salt was the brine which was pumped out. Coal in earth, selling at certain rates per ton "unsight unseen," was raw material; but when thousands and hun­ dreds of thousands of dollars had beon ex­ pended in making it accessible to man's use, it was not. Alcohol was raw material, and only two Democrat---Messrs. Hewitt and Randall-- were in favor of putting it on the free list. What was charged tor the use of Nature's solvent, for which the wit of man ' had yet dis­ covered no substitute? Before the American farmer could advance his raw material --corn-- one stage in the manufacture, he had to pay 90 cents a peck. The same was true of tobacco- it was a tax on the producing and trading classes. In the race for cheapness production left prosperous countries and found its way to the most oppressed, and those whose people would work for the smallest modicum of food and clothing. The United States had entered on the work of banishing manufactures, and he asked that the tariff rates be reinstated, as he liad hoped they would have been by the ma­ jority of the last Congress. By abolishing the duty on quinine and salts of quinine the largest manufacturer in the country had been obliged to send all his stock abroad, and to employ cheap German labor and cheap raw material in its manufacture. By putting a duty of 2 l-io cents per pound on tin plates the United States had succeeded in establishing manufactories; but, by the misplacement of a comma, it has been held that only a duty of 1 1-10 cents had been imposed. The effect of this had been to strike down the Industry. The sapient Secretary of the Treas­ ury had held that the word "highest" in the last turiff law meant "lowest," and on account of that ruling the wire-rod makers were importing wire-rods pretty well made from the other side of the water. Mr. Hewitt, of New York, suggested that the Republican and not the Democratic tariff had done that. Mr. Kelley replied that if 20 per cent, of the Democrats in the last Congress had united with the Republicans the tariff on wire-rods would have been placed at such a rate as to enable Americans to manufacture them. Mr. Hewitt--Would you have allowed us to fix the thing in conference committee? Mr. Kelley--Yes, sir. No Demoorat would serve on that commitfee save Mr. Carlisle, who served quietly in order to observe what was done. Nary one dared. Mr. Hewitt--Then tho whole performance was a Republican i>erformance? Mr. Kelley--The conference had to deal with the materials you sent ns. Are they Republicans in this House who propose to reduce the duty on wire rods 20 per cent. ? Who voted for it to­ day, Republicans or Democrats? Don't let us talk about what occurred a year ago. Let us go back only two hours. Mr. Kelley then repeated the assertion he had made that the production had outrun con­ sumption. Every reduction of wages dimin­ ished the imwer of the masses to consume and magnified the evil from which the people of the whole industrial world were now suffering. This evil could not be mitigated by a 20 per cent, reduction in the tariff, now too light on a good many articles which should be produced in the United States, nor by a blow at the agricultural interests. The south of Russia was now en­ gaging Americans to erect elevators, to build factories for American agricultural machinery, and to aid in the construction of railroads to the seaports; and if the farmers of America did not care for their interests and did not strive by the proper legislation to diversify their agri­ cultural products their markets would be gone; and in comparison with the price they now received for wheat they would receive a price little more than nominal. He could see but two means by which the markets could lie increased, with a third means glimmering in the future. Stop all importation of chsap labor. Send back to whatever country they came from the men or women who had signed the contracts in for­ eign lands or on shipboard to work at lower wages than the wages of American labor. See that the wages were kept so high that the pub lie schools might be well sustained and the children reasonably well educated. Let not the American women become degraded. Protect the American motherhood against the deg­ radation of becoming the drudges of men in gla'-s-works, iron-forges, and rolling-mills, if necessary, by declaring eight hours, the longest period in the twenty-four that men or machinery may run. He advocated the production of sorghum in the West, and especially in the Sonthwest, as a means of di­ versifying the labor of the American farmer and enhancing the sale of his production. Let the country be isolated. It was unlike any oth­ er. It was not a monarchy or an empire: it was a free republic, every human being belonging to which was a citizen with tho rights of freemen, and with the duty before him of helping main­ tain the Government, which could only live as long as virtue, intelligence, and index endence characterized its citizens. And this it could not do if it was to begin in an unholy race for the "cheap and nasty" underteachlngs of dismal science. SMALLTALK. CHARLESTON, 8. C., has a 600-pound turtle THE Quebec Legislature contains but twelve English-speaking members out of the sixty- live who compose it. A STATUE called "Slumber" has just been turned out by a Now York sculptor. He took a policeman for a model. A. GERMAN scientist has perfected an eleo- tric hen by which eggs are batched in one- half the time required by a sitting hen. THERE is a parrot in a New York restau rant that says to each customer that comes in, »• Don't tip the waiters, please. Polly is no waiter." A FANCY bloodhound attacked Mrs. Eckert, at Rockawav IJpach, tore off one of her ears, and stripped off the flesh from her shoulder to her wrist. OVER two hundred Confederate soldiers draw pensions from the State of Virginia at the rate of $60 a year for each limb fost. This is intended to cover tho cost of artificial limbs. GEORGE SMITH, of Indiana County. Penn­ sylvania, put 915,000 In bills in a chest for safe-keeping. He neglected to look at it for some time, and when he did Inspect It be found that rats had torn the bills all to bits. ILLINOIS STATE THS Danrille ealabooee property **! tk4\ other day for $5,000. MYBON D. HARRINOTIMT has sold to WFLK * iam Bleeter eighty acres te section II ofH Blue Mound Townehlp, ifeoon County, $6,4oo. y A PROJECT is on foot to build aa opera- /1^ house at Danrille, and subscriptions to the1 amount of- $15,000 have been raised for ttatf! j purpose. :^| THE students of lilirol) College, Jackson- *J| ville, are making great preparations for ther • festivities of "Osage Orange Day," which ne ' to occur early in May. A LARGE majority of the people of Jackson-^ ville, both Republicans and Democrats, in in favor of the special tax of $15,000 on the people for the complete paving of the square. ,;r JOSIE MORRISON, a highly respected youngr lady, of Dixon, was drowned by falling in anf ' , open cistern containing but three feet off., J. water. She was probably stunned by tho fall. . - '«j AT * late hour at night, a young naa^W named James Hennessy was shot through! 1 the bowels by Carrie Wood, keeper of a house : \ of ill-fame, at Jacksonville. The woman Isini Jail J JOHN MOVER died at Dixon, aged 87 yearfc. ' He was born in Pennsylvania Nor. 22,179T ; " ^ and came to Illinois in 1S3S, where he ha®' been very prosperous, leaving a goodly ee-^ , tate to be divided among his children u4 • yl grandchildren. DECATUR is in hard luck. It didn't get the ,;; sewing machine factory, the canning factory, ; or the college, all of which it was to get, and • j now, in eons3quenc3 of the lack of sufficient, . .. government appropriation for the mail ser^ii'tj vice, it is not to have the free delivery sys* tem. cess;onof murders occuiring in Williamson County twelve years ago, and charged witl* • > the killing of William Bulliner during that- : i time, tried in Murphysboro, has been^tf?-^ sentenced to fifty years' imprisonment. Tho ,^53? result of the trial caused no little indig-nationt, among Russell's friends, for it was thought at,. ^ i trial would result In acquittal. • f: ̂ ^ DR. L. D. HIOOINS, of Pana, was fined, and. | contributed $100 to the County Treasury foiis : selling whisky to a patient whom he was \X % treating for a lung trouble. Under the law sis; physician cannot prescribe liquor and ad# S minister out of a drug store in which be is In# terested. The Doctor, through misinforma* tion and misconstruction of tiki, law, wa£ , thus innocently caught. '•* fl JIM JACOBS pretended insanity at the Tay< tors ville Jail over his sentence of two years in the penitentiary for cattle stealing. Hif; " y e l l s c o u l d b e h e a r d f o r b l o c k s , a n d d u r i n g * , the night he managed to fire his bed, whlcti came near consuming him and other prison<«^ ers before it was extinguished. Jacobs wa#^'/.:* then put in irons, and afterward seemed mom rational. 1 EDWARD PAXTON, a nephew of John C. ̂ Montgomery, of the Emma Bond ease, at;;vv,| tempted to kill himself at his home in Deea* ' ̂ tur by hanging. The boy, who is but 15, wa4P '"J cut down by his father after he became un- v - conscious and was nearly-dead. He was given up for dead by one surgeon, but an* Other blo^him, and he is now in a fair way ' >*; to recovery. The boy gave no reason for tho ;'js' act. ' GEOROE R. HILL, a young attorney of^^* is [Moline, is mysteriously missing. It is stated , that, as attorney for the Moline Paper pany, he went to Davenport, Iowa, and mad« ;~~i a collection of $1,010, that this was made payable by check to his order, that the checlfc, was cashed at a national bank by Hill, that since that time he has not been seen^ The paper company have sworn out anat*; ! * tachment on his property. CHARLES ROBINSON, plumber, of LineolnJ has filed an affidavit to the effect that sooij after the 1 o'clock train passed north on tho # morning of the murder of Zora Burns he saw| Carpenter and a woman pass by in a buggy^ He had gone out after some water, waited for the buggy to pass. Robinson af-i terward told Forrest he could give him pointer, and was referred to Felton, the tective, who played spy for the defense. knew Carpenter well, and says tho moon shining brightly at the time the bi passed. THE will of the lata Wendell R. King waa admitted to probate before Judge Knicker* bocker in Chicago. The estate is valued at about $250,000, and is left to the widow andt relatives of the deceased. One thousand dollars per year are to be divided as follows;. One-half to Protestant Sabbath-schools, one"? fourth to Roman Catholic Sabbath-schools* and one-quarter to Jewish Sabbath-schools.. Any contestant of the will is to forfeit one* fourth or one-llfth of his or her olalm. JOHN ANDREWS, aged IP, quarreled sllli his father and shot the latter three times* probably fatally, at a farm-house near Kings­ bury, Whiteside County. One shot glanced off the temple, one entered the abdomen, andi one struck the spine and paralyzed the' victim. The son then left his father lying in. ^ the yard, packed a sachel, and fled from ther . house. The wounded man lay for an hour, before being found, two little frightened sisters being the only witnesses of the shoot" ing. The elder Andrews is said to have a bad temper. WILLIAM BROWN, who was arrested for the murder of the peddler Lavigne at Cahokia the 26th day of February, was brought into court at Belleville and pleaded guilty to the charge. He is a low-browed, heavy-set negro, and during the recital of the particulars of his terrible crime showed no remorse or- feeling. His wife was indicted as accessory, ' but expects to prove an alibi. Judge Snyder who is on the bench this term, spoke of the , necessity of the extreme penalty being in flicted in such atrocious cases, and passed the death sentence. Brown received it stolidly. His execution is set fur May 20. Early in March some children passing a: field near Cahokia discovered do^s eating human flesh; parts of the tody, hacked as ' though with a butcher's cleaver, were scat­ tered all around. The head, feet, and hands , were missing. Several days later children playing on the bank of a slough near Brown* house discovered floating in the water a ped- . dler's pack containing a lot of oil-cloth bib and aprons. A peddler vending these wares had been seen going toward Brown's cabin about dusk the day of the murder, and from that time was seen bo more. A Deputy Sheriff visited the cabin the day after tha finding of the remains, and found th? hoaso had been recently scrubbed and thoroughly renovated, and took the Brown family into custody, pending the action of the Coroner's jury, but the evidence was not of sufficient importance to detain them. Immediate'y after the finding of the pack he arrested them again. On their way to Belleville Brown confessed to tho murdet. He killed the peddler by striking him with a hatchet* His head, hands, and feet were cut oi and burned to prevent the possibility of idea- , ™ tiflcation, and the rest of the boiy was hacked and out in small pieces and distributed over the fields. 1 S t, t Tax work of erecting poles tot si»iU>% lights is in progress in Jaeksoa ville.