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eatg I. VAN SLYKE, Editor m* hMdWi. MCRENRY, ILLINOia PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S eye never wanders. It always looks full in the face of ope to whom, be speaks. His voioe is described ai ol the variety called "fat falsetto." , PARISIAN newspapers are engaged in Staking life a burden to Worth, the famous dressmaker. They were of­ fended because the names of certain journalists appeared on his black-list. LADY GBANVILLE GORDON has taken Anew and courageous departure by opening a bonnet shop in Park street, Grosvenor Square, London. Lady Granville is known to be possessed of much taste,and in an undertaking where «o much pependa on taste she ought to succeed admirably. Her bonnets •will be mostly French, and her hats mainly English. She will make of the latter "a specialty." • THE Bose ball, given by seventy maidens, which has been an event of the season in London this year, was a protest against khe attentions shown to married women. It is said that many of the girls who went to the Rose ball had not been asked to dance twice dur­ ing the season. The Prince of Wales did not smile on the festivity, inasmuch as the committee had rejected Miss Chamberlain and other of his favorites. OCCASIONALLY Gen. Grant would make an apt and incisive remark that carried everything by storm. A Bos- tonian, talking to him about Sumner, said: "Do you know he doesn't be­ lieve in the inspiration of the Scrip­ tures?" Grant took a pull at his cigar and replied: "You don't astonish me at all. He didn't %rite them, yon know." The Bostonian was in ectasy over the remark, and it was quoted that night in every club in the city. A CORRESPONDENT asserts that Prince Henry of Battenberg does not shore his wife's devotion to her mother, and has already tired of dancing attend­ ance upon the Queen, and of the slow life she leads. It is rumored at court that he will seize the first chance to free himself by plunging into a whirl of London society. Present arrange­ ments doom the Prince and Princess to attend her Majesty at Balmoral, and afterwards at Windsor, so that the luck­ less bridegroom will not be able to throw off the shackles of his mother- in-law until spring. GENERAL ARTHUR saved some money from his salary as President, notwith standing the impression to the contrary. With all his elaborate dinners and generous hospitality, there was a con­ siderable margin left every year oat of his $50,000 salary. A friend says that of the $175,000 that he received in the three and a half years' incumbency of the White House, Gen. Arthur spent about $100,000 and saved $75,000. He was credited with some wise invest­ ments, made through safer friends than Grant had, which added to his fortune, so that he retired without the fear of want before him. GENERAL GRANT did not like coarse •tories. It is related that on the Gen­ eral's staff in one of his campaigns was a rough-and-ready fighter, "full of strange oaths" and stranger Vulgarities, One evening, in the presence of Gen­ eral Grant and several brother officers, he opened the conversation in some •uch way as this: "Well, boys, I've got a mighty good thing to tell you. It would hardly do to repeat, of course, in the presence of ladies." "Well,1 Grant interrupted, in his firm but quiet way, "allow me to suggest, then, that it night be advisable to omit it in the presence of gentlemen." ON leaving the Beickstag lately at an unexpected hour Count Moltke did not see his carriage, and beckoned to the driver of a first-class droschke to take him to the "General staff." On alighting, he had hardly opened his purse, when the "cabby," hastily mak ing off, exclaimed: "I fully appreciate the honor, Herr Field Marshal." The thinker of battles, however, had con scientiously taken the cab's number on entering, and through this means could soon ferret out the patriotic Jehu, to whom, before leaving Berlin, he sent his photograph with the autograph dedicatica: "To his cabman, March 9, W - A WRITER in the Nineteenth Century asserts that the Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, though stripped of power, and given little opportunity to learn how to govern, has nevertheless ad dressed himself vigorously to the task of qualifying himself to rule; and in the years he has passed as a puppet on the throne of Egypt, has made a thor ough study of the problem of self- government There is an intimation that, had he the unlimited power of his father, he might turn out to be an energetic and sagacious prince. There is no probability, however, that he will he given a chance to show what is in him. FOR the first time in history, says the Tall Mall Gazette, a dress-improver has been of some use. A tall, majestic lady was the other day walking along the pavement of a well-known town, when from the upper story of the house which the "buttressed" one was passing a two-year-old child fell out of the win­ dow. It would have dropped on the pavement and been killed or maimed for life had not the dress-improver, which is said to have been of enormous dimensions, intervened. The infant fell on that buttress of wire, and a gentleman who was walking behind eanght the little creature before it had time to roll off. The child was un­ harmed, and the story goes that the ladies of that town have one and all Irom that day forth determined to have ...... ' . ' dress-improver as part of their toilet. This gives an apocryphal air to the tale. The probability is that any demonstra­ tion of the utility of an article of ap­ parel would lead to its prompt disuse. IN order to have Mrs. Yanderbilt's dresses fit well her dressmaker has found her double. She says: "Mrs. Tanderbilt will not endure the fatigue of being fitted herself, even when in town, and it was her own suggestion that a duplicate of herself be em­ ployed. On her order We sought and found a perfect counterpart--a girl who was working in a cloak-shop con­ nected with onr business--and Bhe has served in lieu of Mrs. Tanderbilt for nearly a year. Not only in dimensions is she suited to the requirements, bat in movements and carriage she is won­ derfully like her employer; and so it is possible for the latter to see herself as others see her--in the matter of dress. NEAR the city Queretaro, in Mexico, stands a cotton-mill named the Hercu­ les,which is famous in the region all about In external appearance it is said more nearly to resemble a mediieval fortress than a modern fac­ tory. It is surrounded by a high wall, and defended by a company of about ninety soldiers. These are maintained by the establishment, ostensibly to de­ fend it against enemies from without, but the suggestion arises that the sol­ diers are also expected to keep an eye on the 1,300 operatives employed. The only wares produced are six grades of plain cotton, cloth, which is she ordi­ nary article of dross for both sexe3 of the lower class, and there.i* conse­ quently a ready market for it. A WRITER in the New l'ork Sun takes comfort in the "fact that whatever ri­ valry other parts of the world may give America in growing wheat, no part can rival us in growing corn. Ex­ cept the Danubian principalities and the south of Russia, all other countries that produce corn at all consume what they produce. $liis practically leaves the markets of the world open to the American corn-grower. This fact, and the further fact that corn is not, like wheat, consumed by man alone, but is used aS food for beasts, is the principal article used by whisky distillers, glu­ cose, and starch manufacturers, and is otherwise consumed, causes the price to remain firm, notwithstanding the prospect for an immense crop th s year. ' •' • • A feu.it has been introduced hi the Georgia Legislature providing that, from and after the passage of the act, all male inhabitants of that State who have arrived at the age of 30 years, and who have never married shall be taxed $2.50 per annum for the enjoyment of this unmarried state, and each year so long as they shall enjoy the enviable position in life of single blessedness. The measure further provides that any bachelor who marries shall at onoe be exempted from the tax, while, to quote the language of the bill, "the good ladies of our good _ and grand old Commonwealth are here by earnestly requested to join the re' formers and moralists of the country in order to correct this most monstrous and ruinous evil which now stalks abroad in oar Sunny South and would- be virtuous land." The measure is fathered by a Mr. Connel, who advo cates it valiantly, but, we regret to ob­ serve, from the tone of the Georgia press the bill is likely to be defeated. It is argued, with some show of reason, that if such an act is to be effective, the penalty in the case should be more severe. Any man so lost to all sense of what is good that he remains single wouldn't mind paying the paltry sum of $2.50 to continue steeped in single vice. The penalty ought to be raised to $100 a^fear, at least. There is hope, however, £$tot, if the bill fails, good will at least /esult from the impassioned appeal to the women of the State, who may be encouraged by it to make greater efforts in putting down the eviL ' . 'f The Earth Shaped Like a Pancake, The Lord flung the earth, shaped like a pancake, out on the sea of space. How thick this pancake is I do not know, but I believe it is at least 50,000 miles in diameter. There is tire in the pancake somewhere, and maybe Para­ dise is around there or thereabouts, too. but I am not certain about that. The Bible is right, and modern science iB wrong in this matter. I de­ pend for the proof of my assertion that the earth is fiat on the fact that the surface of standing water is absolutely level. The surveyor's charts for a sec­ tion of 100 miles of the Suez canal make positively no allowance for the alleged curves in the earth's surface. The survey for the first ocean cable from Ireland to Newfoundland, a dis­ tance of 1,665 miles, likewise allows not an inch for curvature in the surface of the water. This single fact alone overthrows the entire Newtonian system. I don't know how far distant the sun is. but I judge about 3,000 miles--cer­ tainly not much further. Over the center of the earth is the North Star. There is no such point, but the South is the entire circumference. The earth is fixed, does not revolve nor wabble. The sun, moon and stars revolve around it. The seasons result from the vary­ ing distance from us of the sun in its or­ bit. When we think we are going around the earth, as if it were a ball, we are mistaken; we are merely traveling around the surface of" the pancafef-- Professor Carpenter. ISSUES IN OHIO. The First Formal Speech General Foraker in the Ohio Campaign, f '. •7. i' by Position of the Republican Party on the Tariff and Other Questions* Difference Between tlttlteinocrats in 1860 and the Republicans In 1S84. Lassoing (or Highway Robbery. The lasso style of highway robbery, while new in America, has been in vogue some time in Paris. * George Grisson, in his book, "Paris Horrible and Paris Original," gives an interest­ ing description of the use of the lasso, and tells about one gigantic highway­ man who, after lassoing his victim, would sling him over his back and car­ ry him off, regard ess of his kicks and scream**, to a locality where he could plunder him more satelv and leisurely. The New York exponents of the method have caught the idea, perhaps, from the 1 aris experts.-- Chicago Times. _ ' HE who seems not to himself more than he is, is more than he seems.-- Goethe Th# QH. J. B. Foraker, Republican candi­ date for Governor of Obio, delivered his formal opening campaign speech at Portsmouth on the 1st inst. He first called attention to the man­ ner in which the Democratic party was put out of power in 1860, and compared this with the way in which the llepub ie&n party was put out of power In 1884. 1 he Democracy waa defeated in i860 because the people waited to condemn the principles and policy of the party. But not so was the l<epnhlican party turned out of power as the result of the election of Mr. Cleveland. Instead of its principles and poli­ cies being condemned, it enjoys the exceptional gratification as it goes out of power of an un- analitied approbation, for all that it has done for the twenty-four years it administered the affairs of our Government, by the whole Ameri­ can people. Democrats and Republicans alike. You will search its record in vain to find a sin­ gle measure of national importance that has ever been adopted by it that the people are dis­ pleased with at this time. Inasmuch as the only ground upon which the Kepublican party was seriously assailed by our Democratic friends in the last election was that of dishonesty and corruption, I want, before quitting the matter, t-o go further than to simply point out the fact, as I have done, that we have been exonerated from that charge by our Democratic friends, and give some addi­ tional testimony to the same effect. It is without doubt most desirable that our civil service should be improved is some im­ portant particulars; but it is nevertheless true that, notwithstanding whatever iletec s there may be in the methods governing appointments to the civil service, our civil service has never­ theless been, under Republican administrations the best that any country has ever been blessed with in the history of thg world, so far as both efficiency and fidelity are concerned. As proof of this I wish to submit here again for the con­ sideration of the people of Ohio some figures that 1 have presented on other occasions, but which cannot be too much kept in view. Every patriotic man who has the credit and good name of the American Government at hear; ought to be proud of them, whether he is a Republican or a Democrat. They are at one_> a h-gh testi­ mony to Republican ortk'ial fidelity, and a high example worthy of emulation by our Democratic friends. 1 sincerely hope when th- ir lease of power is ended they may present as creditable a record for themselves as these figures proclaim for us. What I refer to are figures which no Democrat can challenge the correct­ ness of -- figures that no Democrat will attempt to dispute. They re­ late to frauds and defalcations under the differ­ ent administrations. The only criticism 1 have heard of them has been that they do not neces­ sarily show all the frauds and defalcations that have'been committed under Republican admin­ istrations. However that may be, tney do show and are, therefore, perfectly just for the pur­ poses I use them, ail the frauds that have been committed under Republican administrations of the same character as were the frauds com­ mitted under preceding administrations. They are, therefore, an absolutely iust measure for comparison between Republican administra­ tions They are figures which show the amount of loss to the Government by defalcations and peculations of all kinds on the i art of public ottic als on each of public nicmeys handled by them under the respective administrations of our Government, from Washington's down to the present admin stration. They show what these losses were on each $1,000 of public moneys handled: Under Washington's administration $2.22 John Adams' 2.5<J Jefferson's 2.75 Madison's 5 4.IB Monroe's H.58 John Quincy Adams'... 4.si" Jackson's. 7.52 Van Buren's 11.71 You will notice that under the moat thor­ oughly representative Democratic administra­ tion we have ever h id. these losses are far greater than under any other administration. Under the Harrison and Tyler administration these losses were $6.to. Under Polk's administration, $4.08. Under Taylor and Fillmore's administration, $4.19. Under Pierce's administration, $3.58. Under Buchanan's administration,$3.81. Buchanan's administration was the last Dem­ ocratic administration. When it went out the Republican administration of Abraham Lin­ coln came in; but Lincoln came into power with a great war on his hands. He w..s t omiwlled to raise an army of a million men and put them in the field, and maintain them there tor four years, to suppress a gigantic rebellion. He was compelled to raise and put on the ocean, and maintain it there, a great navy. To carry on this stupendous work it wis necessary that he Bhould have thousands of men handling the public moneys, where, in times of peace, one man has been sufficient. It was necessary also that these representatives of th ' Government should handle thousands of dollars each where in t;me f t peace there had been one dollar han­ dled. But that was not all. Amid the turbu­ lent excitement and pressing necessities of such a war it could not be expected that the highest care could be exercised in the selection of pub­ lic olticials. Besides that, war always brings with it, as one of its g«catest atiiictions, a sort of demoralisation that makes men less careful than they are disposed to be under other cir­ cumstances Yon would naturally suppose, therefore, that the losses under Mr. Lincoln's administration upon every $1,0ih> of public moneys handled would be far greater than they were under any previous administration of the Government. Hut not so. It was not until the Republican party came into power with Mr. Lincoln as President that the people of this country were made to know what it was to have honest and faithful pnblic servants; for under his admin­ istration, notwithstanding all the difficulties attending it calculated to promote losses and frauds and defalcations, the losses upon each $1,00() of public moneys handled, instead of be­ ing fci.8l, as they were under Buchanan's ad­ ministration, were but 76 cents. And then came Andrew Johnson's administration, and these losses were still further reduced until thev amounted for each $1,00 > to but 57 cents. And then came Grant's administration. He was President for eight years. It was during his administration that i»v worthy opponent. Judge Hoadly, who had until that time been an ardent Republican, became so dissatisfied with the Republican party because of its alleged corruption that he could not any longer stay in It, but exercising his reserved rights, with­ drew from it in order that he might find what was claimed by him to )>e a more honest, incorruptible, and congenial party association. That is to say, he left the Republican paity because it was too corrupt to stay in, and Joined the Democratic party in or­ der that he might help, among other things, to elect Henry B. Payne to the Senate of the i 'nited States. But you will observe that when he quit this party because of its alleged corruption, in­ stead of these losses increasing, as such a charge would lead you to suppose they would, they fell straightway from fifty-seven cents, as they had been under Johnsop's administration, to only twenty-four cents under Grant's administra­ tion. And then "came the administration of President Hayes, for whom Judge Hoadly seems to have no respect or patience whatever, prob­ ably among other things because of the fact that under his administration these losses fell to only three mills on every fl.oxi! And now our Democratic friends have found, among other things, that under Chester A. Arthur's administration these losses amounted to but one mill and eight-tenths of a mill on every $i,00fi of public money handled! May it not be possible that the result of last year's election was not to "turn the rascals out," but to "turn the rascals in'.-" At any rate, I feel warranted in reDeating the assertion that there is nothing in the mere fact that the Republican party is out of power to discourage the faith of any Re­ publican in the principles of Republicanism. After touching upon the Southern ouestion, the Mullen outrage, and tho b sin<^ poliovj of the administration he came to the discussion of the wool and tariff questions: Two year* ago our Democratic friends ar­ raigned the Republi an party all over the State upon the charg1 of having reduced the tariff duty Oh wool. They promised the people of Ohio that if thev should be returned to power they-would restore the tariff duty on wool of lsnv. We answered in that campaign that the Republican party was not responsible for the reduction of tariff duty on wool, and piedg< d ourselves to the wool-growing interests of the State to restore that duty at the first importu­ nity. We have not had an opportunity to act upon that pledge; bnt our Democratic friends have had such an opportunity. Mr. Converse introduced a resolution in the House of ileprc- sentatives providing for a restoration of the duty of 1SH7 on wool; but his resolution was overwhelmingly voted down by the Demo­ cratic party by a practically unanimous vote, the Republican party, by a nracticailv unanimous vote, voting for ii, as we agreed in Ohio that it should do. On the floor of the House of Representatives, when that measure was pending, the attention of the made matter of record that instead of restoring this tariff duty of 1867, they -were ready to violate their pledge in a re­ fusal to do so, and to add the further injury, which would have been a practical destruction of the wool-growin* interests of Ohio, of still further reducing the tariff by twenty per cent. Bnt they went further. When the National Democratic Convention met in Chicago in J vine of last year they refused to incorporate in their platform a declaration favor, g a ' estoration of the duty of 1807 on woo, and in the same plat­ form in which is contained the dec la: a turn that I have referred to. Til, that "the Democracy of Ohio are the friends of the agricultural and wool-growing interests of Ohio," is contained another plank. which approves arid reaffirms the National Democratic platform of 1KS4. AND so it is, therefore, that alongside of this declar­ ation of the platform on which Judge Hoadly stands, that "the Democracy of Ohio are the friends of the wool-growing inter, sts of the State," is another which relumes, by approving and reaffirming the national platform, to favor a restoration of the tariff on wool. In view of these broken pledges, in view of the refusal of the Democratic party to favor Mr. Converse's resolution, in view of the sup­ port of the Democ:atic partv of the Morrison bill, in view of the action of the National Demo­ cratic Convention, and in view of the approval ol that action by our. last State Democratic Con­ vention, it would seem to be the height of im­ pudence lor anybody to claim that they are the friends of the agricultural and wool-grow ing interests of Ohio." They would be ashamed to do so if it were not that it seems impossible for a Demociat to i <<> ashamed of anything. V\ hen the Republican party came into power in 186n, as I said in my opening remarks, we had a free-trade j olicy established and enforced in the interests of cotton, the claim of the cotton planters being that unless they could get their corn and meat and other articles of food and farm products necessary to enable them to feed their slaves and carry on their operations at the cheapest possible price, they could not raise their cotton and send it into ti e markets of the world in successful competition. The result waa just what they conteudea tor, so far as the farmers of the Middle and Western States were concerned, that they did get all their farm products at the lowest possible price. Corn was so cheap that it would not pay the cost of trans­ portation, except to the very limited quantity required by the South. The result was that each year a large surplus was burued for fuel in some of the Western States, for the want of a market in which to sell it. There were no grow-. , ing interests, no foundries, no factories, ndp mills, no machine shops, no great industries of any kind springing up throughout the agri- cult uial regions at which labor could 1k< em­ ployed, and a I on-producing class created to constitute a market for the farmer. The result was that the farmer had to confine himself to the production of such staple commodities as could bear long transportation, and he was com­ pelled to content himself with such unrcrou- nerative prices therefor as that to a large extent he realized nothing whatever from his labors. Rut when the Republican j artv came into power and enacted a taritl law, it had the wis­ dom to see that the policy which it was inaug­ urating--protection--would be as important to the farmer as to the manufacturer or any other class of j>eople. and therefore, while levying protective tariff duties that led to the opening of our mines and ore bed?, the bnl'ding of fur­ naces and mills and factories and forges and foundries aud machine Bhops, and the estab­ lishment of everj- other conceivable industry of which our country was capable, thus creating home markets for t he f armer at which he could sell his corn and his wheat and oats and barley and potatoes and all kinds of garden products, it also provided that there should be a protec­ tive tariff duty levied upon the importation into this country of every bushel of wheat, rye. oats, barley, potatoes, corn, and eyery other kind of product that the farmer could bring forth, to the end that after it had created this home market, it, should be preserved to the enjoyment of the American farmer, to the exclusion of our Canadian brethren, and all the nations of the earth who might want to come into our country to supply them. And so it is, therefore that in the protect ve tariff policy we have pursued tin re have been established for the American farmers the most abundant home markets, and these markets have been assured to them as against all out­ side competition by tariff duties levied on all their products. No language can fittingly de­ scribe the beneficial results of this policy. Si me idea of it may be gathered from the fact that in the twenty-four years the Republican party ad­ ministered the affairs of the nation, our aggre­ gate wealth was swelled from $n,iKio,i(Hi,(KKi, which represented the total wealth of this coun­ try accumulated during 250 year < of American civilization, to the enormous sum of $45,000,- 000,000, which is estimated to be the wealth of the country as it now passes to the control of the Democratic party. In other words, under the twenty-four years of Republican rule the country more than tr.'bled its entire wealth of 18(io. Every farmer who is old enough to re­ member the price of his products before the war can by comparison of these prices with what he realizes for his products to-day see that the purchasing power of his products has been doubled and trebled. A horse that brought $60 before the war will bring $180 now; a cow that brought $lr> to $20 before the war will bring $4'i to $(S0 to-day: a dozen of eggs that sold for 3 cents before the war will bring from lo to 20 cents a dozen now. "Be ore the war it took a pound of butter to bay a pound of nails; you can now get a pound of nails for a pint of skimmed milk." And so you may run through the whole list of farm products and the result will be found the same. But it is said that while it is true that what the farmer has to sell brings him a better price, yet it avails him nothing be­ cause all that he buys costs him more. Nobody says this, however, except only theoretical free­ traders, who only read books and never look to practical results. The exact reverse is the truth. Everything that the farmer buys, from a combined reaper and mower to a pocket-knife is f 10m loo to 5uo percent, cheaper than it w-as l>elore the war, and while ">o to Proper cent. cheaj>er, it is. at the same time from 10.< to 5IIO per cent, better. Kvery article of clothing that he weai s, from the hat on his head to the shoes on his feet, costs him less and is better. TheO' retieal free-traders talk about the farmer being taxed on his clothes, but 1 doubt if there is a farmer in all the State of Ohio who wears a single article of clothing of any kind that has passed through the custom house. Everything is manufactured in this country, manufactured by American mechanics, anil cheapened in price, far below what it cost when under free trade, times it was imported into this country by American competition. The most important farming implement is perhaps the combined reaper and mower. All who are of middle age can remember when reapers were first invented and brought (uto use, and they will remember also that they were crude, awk­ ward ungainly, and almost unserviceable, and yet cost from $300 to $4iX) each. They could cut the wheat, but they did not rake it, much less bind it. Rut to-day the reaping machines of the country not only reap but rake and bind also. The machine of to-day is of the most skilled workmanship, apparently abso­ lutely perfect as a piece of mechanism, and of the very best quality of material. It is no ex­ aggeration to say that it is 500 per cent, better than its predecessor that cost $300. But now you can buy one of them anywhere for $140. Take another Illustration. I recently talked with a gentleman who is connected with the Columbus Huggy Company. They make and sell annually about ten thousand buggies. Their standard buggy >old ten years ago for from $:teo to $:)5o. At that time it was made with iron axles, and a very inferior quality of workmanship as compared with that which produces it to-day. 'i he varnish, the leather, the cloth, almost every article that entered in­ to its construction at that time, was of foreign manufacture, made by foreign laborers, fed by foreign farmers. But to-day all those articles are ot American manufacture, made by Ameri­ can laborers, fed by American farmers. One item alone will indicate what has occurred in this business. I'ntil five years ago they used iron axles. They cost at that time, when they quit tbe use of them, $4 a set. That was cheaper than they had ever be­ fore been bought. At that time they quit the use of iron axles because there had sprung up in Ohio, at Cleveland, and at Cosh octon, and elsewhere in other Btates, estab­ lishments for the manufacture of steel axles, and these establishments had so perfected their machinery, and their workmen had become so skilled, and their other facilities so Improved, that thev were able to produce steel axles at a pric - that made them preferable to iron nxles; and the steel axles which they thas and then commenced to buy have, by reason of competi­ tion between these establishments and others throughout the country, since continually cheapened as the result of that competition, uutil they to-day cost but $2 a set. And as it has been with the steel axles, so it has been with every other article that enters into the construction of a buggy. The result is that by the protection that encouraged these industries to start we have been iriven establishments that have constituted home markets for the former, largely added to the wealth of the country and enabled the production and sale of a buggy th it cost, ten years ago, $300 lor $133, and thereby made it possible not for one or two fat mers in a community to have a bu^'gy, as was the case thirty yeais ago in this country, but for any farmer who is in anything like reasonable cir­ cumstances to enjoy such a luxury. And as it has been in the matter ot reapers and buggies, so too has it been with everything in the nature of a necessity that a farmer has use for. In­ stead of being dependent upon a foreign mar­ ket, which is uncertain and variable, and which will not in any event take more than a fraction of our product, the American farmer has been given a home market which is absolutely cer­ tain. which is right at his door, and which last y.ear took over 1)8 per cent, of the corn product and more than 75 per cent, of the entire wheat product of the United States. Not only is it a market that thus largely consumes all that the farmer raises, but it is a market th t pays better prices than were ever realized before or that can be again if it should be destroyed. And as it has been with the farmers, so too has it been with every other in­ dustry. It has been the pol cv of the Repnbli- Democratic members was called to the fact that ] can ; arty not only to protc t the manufacturer and that skilled labor commands also practi­ cally the same prices. The cheapening is the result of improved machinery and the increased skill of workmen. A buggy-dash that cost $5 to make ten years ago can be made to-day by the aid of machinery for $1.25. Hewing that could be done a few years ago only by stout men is to-day done with the greatest facility by mac hint ry operated by women. The prosperity which the country has enjoyed has not belonged to any one class--it has been participated in by every class--it hns been uni­ versal. From mere seliBsh consideration, there­ fore, every man should favor a protective tariff, as opjKieed to a free-trade policy for America. Hut it is also the patriotic policy. When Abraham Lincoln called an army into the field to defend the life of the nation a million men were ready to respond, but, to the dis­ credit of the country, it was not able to put clothes on their backs or guns in their hands. The result w.,s that we gave them shod­ dy uni.otms that would scarcely hold together, and Austrian muskets that were almost more dangerous to stand behind than in front of. liut before the war was over eveiy soldier carried a gun of American manufacture, and when the war was ended, and that great army came marching home from its great victo­ ries, it wore the best uniforms that any soldiers were £ver clothed with, all made from American wool, grown upon the backs of American sheep, and manufactured in American mills,all brought into life with Aladdin-like magic under the in- vigcrating and inspiriting impulse of a protec­ tive tariff It is everything to be independent. No na­ tion is true to itself that fails to develop its own resources, supply its own wants, and make itself independent, of everv other nation on the face of the earth. Not that it does not want to have intercourse with other nations, but in order that it may main­ tain its own rights, excite their respect, and take care of its own interests. The nation that is fully developed, that fully provides for its own wants, will never fail to haye all the commerce or intercourse with other nations that is either profitable or desirable. If these views are correct, then the Democrat­ ic party is not th- friend of the agricultural and wool-growing interests of the State or the United States, and for these reasons, among other things, the people of Ohio owe it to the people ot the country to proclaim by their ver­ dict in uctober that the Democratic partv is not permanently in power. IN CHARON'S B0AT,; the Democracy ol Ohio had teacle a solemn pledge to the wool-growers of Ohio to vote for the restoration of that duty. But In answer It was tauntingly said that the Democracy Of Ohio were not the Democracy of the United Btates; that the Democratic party of the I nion would not recognize or honor any such pledge; that, on the contrary, the democratic pa; ty was opposed tosv.ch restoration, and they voted ac­ cordingly. Afterward Mr. Morrison introduced a measure which provided for placing some ar­ ticles on the free list, and for a horizontal re and the farmer, but to 1 rotect every other c ass, including especially the wage laboreis of iha country. And what I want to call particular at­ tention to is the fact that while the price* of farm implements and bncgies and all other American products have t>een continually cheaj>eumg and cheapening and cheapening in the manner I have d-scribed, yet that cheapen­ ing of prices has not been in any instance at the OOSD of the laboring man. For if you will go into the Columbus Huggy lompany's works at Columbus, Ohio, and make in­ duction of twenty per cent, in the tariff duties 1 outry, or go into any of the machine- upon all other articles, wool included, and for I eh< ps at Springfield, Ohio, or into any of the this measure the whole Demociatic 1 arty, with I mills, or forges, or fernaces, orfoundries of the practical unanimity, vottd, while the Republi- I State, you will learn that while common labor can party, almost to a man, voted against it, j may have varied somewhat during the last ten and thus, so far as the House of Repr senta- 1 years, vet it is substantially as well remuner- tives was concerned, it was demonstrated and ated to-day as at any time during this period. A Party of Working People Embark .fl* Story-Boat at Olriikosfe^*? Wisconsin. tV 11 j Tie Craft Is Overt urn oi and at Least Six of the Passengers Are Drowsed. ' " ' \ THE COLORED TOTE. Reasons Wliy the Negroot Should Support the Republican Party, [Indianapolis Colored World. 1 Upon what issue shall they divide? Why should the negro ignore all prin­ ciples of justice and honor, and support parties and measures whose tenets and leaders have ever been, are now, and from the outlook ever will be opposed to our enjoyment of equal civil and political rights? It has been under the guidance and fostering care of the Republican party that the transfor­ mation in the status of the negro during the past twenty-live years has taken place, with no small part of the credit accruing to the negro himself. It may not be all that we desired, but from what party could we have gained more? All opposition to our citizenship, to the amendments guaranteeing our rights, came from without the Republican party, notably from the Democratic party, and to-day this same organiza­ tion with whom some of our people, with more advanced ideas, are anxious lo divide," are as bitterly opposed to the negro as ever. Is it because we are no longer slaves of anv polit­ ical party, and are freemen, tbat it is necessary in order that we should es­ tablish or promulgate the fact that we are free to the world, and to satisfy ourselves of the truth of the same, that we should sacrifice our principles, vote against what we honestly believe to be right; sacrifice our political ally, and try a cold experiment which has not one single virtue to recommend it, or promise that it has ever made to en­ courage our people to lend it their aid and support There are a few individual instances of reward bestowed upon colored men for services rendered in their efforts at "division," but, like all contracts of the kind, obligation ceased when the goods were delivered. H The Democratic party never has and never will court the ne­ gro as an ally," has been truly said by a prominent member of that party. "If we can use him we will do it; but his place is in the Republican ranks, and he can be trusted no­ where else." It is our duty to sup­ port that party whose principles are nearest in accord with our own. Or, if we desire to support the party that gives na the "largest recognition," cer­ tainly it is the Republican party. Shall we divide just for the sake of experi­ menting? Is there any issue upon which we may diiler among ourselves, honestly, that our race may be benefit­ ed by the division? Until a better party than the Republican presents itself for our suffrages, we had better bear the ill of which we complain than to fly to another known to be far worse. fOiltkosh (Wis.) special J The most melancholy case of drowning chronicled in the history of tnis city oc­ curred at an early hour this morning near the draw of the Milwaukee and St. Paol bridge, which crosses the Fox River. A dozen operatives in the Diamond Match Company's works, principally young girls, were being rowed across the stream in a frail boat, and being canght in the swell of a passing tug, the craft was upset and six of the party drowned. When the boat began to rock in the waves several of the eirls became seized with terror, and in their ap­ parent madness rose from their seats, and, rushing to one side, caused the terrible ao- cident. A young man named Wolff, who was of the party, reached a landing-place first, and though somewhat exhausted saved one or two lives with great difficulty. The other persons were saved by a young man named Starbeck. who pushed out from shore after witnessing the aeeident. Those rescued were in an exhausted condition. As the news of the accident spread hun­ dreds of people were attracted to the spot, and among them relatives of the lost ones. The scene during the search for the bodies was painful to witness, and tears aud lamentations rent the air. In three hoars 'from the upsetting of the boat all the bod­ ies were recovered and taken to their deso­ lated homes. The names of the drowned are: Johanna Matschie, aged '20; Augusta Wiese, aged li>: Emma Bauer, aged 18; Lena Maidle, aged 12; Philip Berry, aged 18; .Louis Dicht, aged 25. With the exception of Berry, the dead men were members of the poorer class of laboring people and assisted in supporting their parents. Berry, who was night watch­ man at the bridge, vas under a contract with the girls to carry them across the river for so much per week. It is said that he was careless in the management of the boat, and intensified the fright of the girls when the boat first began to feel the effect of the waves. The place where the acci­ dent occurred is one of the deepest points in the river, the water being thirty feet in depth. The water was chilly, and those who were thrown into it were so numbed that they could not assist themselves. Their cries were heartrending when they fell into the water. The accident causes universal sorrow. There are various rumors concerning the cause of the accident. It is asserted that the watchman, who is among the dead, rocked the boat 011 purpose to frighten its occupants, and that this was the starting point of the accident. After tbe waves struck the boat, they claim, all were so ter­ rified that they lost their heads and looked only for safety. The people of the neighborhood where the dead resided are gre itly incensed and threaten to do bodi­ ly injury to the day watchman at the bridge, who had also made a practice Of carrying passengers across the river, but there is no reasonable cause for this, as the persons were satisfied to have the men fer­ ry them, because the distance by the regu­ lar avenues of traffic was two or three miles longer than by this route. The watchman, it seems, conducted the ferry without hav­ ing obtained the consent of the agents of the road here, and the railroad men do not hold themselves liable for the accident THE balm of Gilead, administered by Hon. John Sherman, is a nauseous dose to those superfine and sensitive souls who cannot bear to be told that there was any principle involved in the late war, and who rush with eager haste, hat in hand, to welcome to power the men who sing the praises of Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate. We feared this would be the case. . One of our esteemed contempora­ ries is puzzled in its little heart to know whether Mr. Sherman or the Repub­ lican party is going to seed, while still another mournfully remarks that "those who looked for a statesmanlike utter­ ance from Senator Sherman will have to turn «way from his Mount Gilead speech with the reflection that there is no balm for the people, no physician for the party." This is intensely sad; yet the fact is that Mr. Sherman made his speech for full-grown men to read--men who have back-bone,and are not afraid to say that the spirit that eulogizes Jeffer­ son Davis in the United States Senate, and which lowers the national flag to half-mast over public buildings at the death of a despicable traitor and scoun drel like Jacob Thompson, is not one to be encouraged if the future of free gov­ ernment is to be conserved. Mr. Sher­ man appeals to the men of the country, not to the manikins.--Indianapolis Journal. HAD Mr. Blaine been elected there would have been no McLean scandal, no Keiley scandal, no Meiere scandal, no Judd scandal, no Dowling scandal, no Dunton scandal, no Higgins scan­ dal, no Dr. Hire scandal, no borrowing of gold, no transhipping of gold at great expense and for no known reason, no war on manufactures, no dismissal of faithful l&nd efficient public servants to make places for thieves and bribers. But possibly that would not have been "civil-service reform" a la mugwump- ery.--JExchange. Costly Works of Art. "My, but these art works do run into money," remarked a passenger whose breath smelled like the south side of the Ohio River; "it beats all what fools some folks make over pictures. When I was in Chicago I saw a little painting about a foot square that was held at $.",00. 'Spect some simpleton will come along and buy it. If I had a million of money you'd never catch me paying $L00 for a little painting like that." "That's the way you talk," spoke up a bashful drummei, "but I'll bet you've paid four tinte as much money for a painting not a tenth part as big." "What, me?" "Yes, you." "What kind of a painting!" "The one on the end of yonr noee."-- Chicago Herald. ILLINOIS STATE NEW& ^ : --A band of about fifty gypsies ars St* ' eamped in the vicinity of E'gin. • --Police Magistrate W. B. Low, of Bui- wich, took a dose of carbolic acid by mis­ take, which caused his death. --A shortage of , several hundred dollar* . has beon discovered in the accounts ol Henry Fonlds, late Postmaster at Lanark, - who committed suicide. --Stevens Brothers' stables, barns, anc • stock stables, near Spencer, with a large quantity of feed and hay, were- bnrnec .1 Wednesday nigbfc • (he loss teaching $15,000. --R. A. Pnrdle, of Company I, Fonrtl ^ Regiment, I. N. G., who was Injured in the * sham battle at Buffalo Rock, died at bii . home in Oglesby from lockjaw, resulting from his injuries; He leaves a wife anc four children. * --Excitement was caused at tbe Lent camp-meeting by Mr. William L. White, of Apple River, walking down the mair aisle of the auditorium, shaking band* with all whom he met, and shouting, "I'm dead to the world; I'm crucified. Glory to God!" At intervals during the sermor he kept exclaiming: "I'm dead to tfef world!" and was with difficulty restralnee from taking the rostrum and detailing hit experience.* The special delivery system of the Postoffice, which goes into effect let 1.' does not apply to all postoffices in the United States, but to between 50 ) and 600. Selected from the list are the Illinois post- offices where letters to which is affixed the extra postage will be delivered immediately upon their receipt They are as follows: Alton, Freeport, Ottawa, < < Aurora, .Galena, Paris, Belleville, Galosbursr, Pekia, Hloomington, Jacksonville, Peoria, Joliet, Kankakee, l a Salle, Lincoln. Litchfield, Mattoon, ii - ' > ' iS ^ MINE DISASTER. / DreadAd Death of Four Workmea la a Shaft at Wilkesbarre--Other* Injured. CWilkeabarre speolaL] < 7 At the Oitkwood shaft, just outside the city limits, the property of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, the men employed in the mine were going down the siiaft on the carriage, as usual, to their work, at 7 o'clock this morning. The shaft is eight hundred feet deep aud ten men are let down at a time. A cage load was descending, and had almost reached the foot of the shaft, when a rattling sound, was heard overhead, and immediately after a large rock crashed through the sheet-iron covering of the carriage, killing three of the men outright and so fearfully injuring another that he died shortly after being taken to the hospital. Several others were slightly injured. Ihe names of the killed are: John J.Martin, a miner, aged about 35, unmarried, and living with his widowed mother in this city. James Kearney, a laborer, aged about 25, unmarried. John Peterson, a miner, aged about 26, married, and living at Parsons. Thomas Jenkins, a laborer, about 28 years old, single, and living at Miners' Mills. Those injured are: Patrick Smith, bruised inside and on the back; Patrick Pursell, slightly cut in the back; Patrick Kearney, slightly bruised iu the hip and on the right leg below the knee. The last- named gives the following description of tbe accident: "Goingdown the shaft, I was standing almost precisely upon the place where the hole was broken through the roof of the cage by the piece of rock, but when I heard the noise of the rock coming down against the side of the shaft above, and the smaller pieces striking the roof, I somehow stepped to the center and under the cross-beam which supports the roof. The others were running back and forth to find a place of safety, and all knew what the sound meant. The position saved me, as pieces of the rock struck the roof and crashed down through on the other side. My lamp was put out, and as the carriage struck bottom I made a step and went into the hole that had been broken in the floor. One of the smaller pieces of the stone hit my hip. I got out of the place and half fell off into the gang­ way. My presence of mind had not de­ serted me, and my first thought was for my brother Jim. I called to him but there was 1:0 answer. Then we searched the wreck, found the bodies of the others all mangled and bleeding, and finally Jim, his feet on the edge of the carriage and his body and head lying over the edge in the water of the sump, dead." SAD DOUBLE DROWNING. A. Son of Senator Morgan, of Al»b»m«, One of the Victims. [Washington telegram. 1 The particulars of the sad tragedy On the Potomac, by which Mr. John H. Morgan, the only sou of Senator Morgan, ot Ala­ bama, and Mrs. Emma Delia Stella lost their lives, are as follows: Mr. Morgan, who is a member of the Washington Ca­ noe Club, left the club-house about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, going in the Iols, a double canoe, with Mrs. Stella, while Mrs Stella's niece, Miss Lulu McCar- ;hy, accompanied them in a single aouoe, as she desired to practice pad- dil g. At about 7:15 o'clock, when about a quarter of a mile below the Chain br dge, the double canoe was capsized and bo h its occupants drowned. Mr. Morgans went down while attempting to save his companion. He was a good swim­ mer, but of. very slight physique. Miss McCarthy, who had turned her canoe down stream and was some distance in advance, happened to turn her head and saw that the Iola was upset She saw the two occu­ pants m the water, and heard Mr. Morgan crv, "Lulu! Lulu!" She at once turned about but when she had paddled to the spot both had disappeared under the waters. The cano \ it appers, had struck a sunken rock. Help was summoned, but the bodies could not be found. ARTIFICIAL human ears made of cellu­ loid are the latest novelty. v m Hrairiwood, Cairo, Champaign, Chicago, l^anville, Decatur, Kast St. Louis, Mendota, Klgin, Moline, Kvanston, Monmouth, Pern. Quincy, , .... v'1W!; Kockfortl,* ixif Bock lslufcd, : ,> Wf, ; . .iprinsifieii, * »if. Sterling, » • « - Streator, * .. . •» , Vaukega<L - • ,"V 1 ' . fV ? , SELECTION OF SEED COBK, !i§! , 2 ' 1 7 Suggestions and Observations lqr Prot O. * £. Morrow, of the U nitre ratty of 1111--Is, < Champaign. • f There has been serious loss to farmen <r' in the great corn-growing regions of tlu United States, in at leaBt three of the last , ,'|>i four years, from difficulty in securing good \- seed coin. Much of this loss might have been prevented by wiser attention to the u «^ t selection and care of the corn designed fot ^ seed, as each year there have been farmer* v who had large quantities of good seed, and it is certainly easier to properly cara for » 1 few bushels than for a large quantity. " t « The early fall is the best time in whicb » to make this selection, because corn then ^ j selected can be so kept as to insure it*' - • A'* vitality when used for seed, and also be- , cau^e selection at this time better enables the farmer to improve his corn by the choice - of that which possesses the greatest number of good qualities. Trials of many varieties * /1 on the university farms, from different ̂ parts of Illinois and other States, havef ' shown me that very many localities hi varieties of great merit, often better adapt­ ed to their soil and climate than would be almost any variety brought from other re- , - • gious. While I would encourage the trial of promising new varieties and experiment- f , ing in crossing, etc., I count it unwise to'-^/*.̂ 1 abandon the cultivation of varieties which " have been thoroughly tested and found sat- ^ / . w;> isfactory in any locality. .. - Any variety may be improved by con­ tinued careful selection of. seed. Auy!-&*., •' variety will deteriorate if seed be careless- ly or unwisely selected. Selection of seed ,^4 ; from the bin, especially if ihis be done in , * Jx 1 the spring, only gives opportunity for the • choice of satisfactory ears. Selection in " the field, in the early autumn, gives oppor- > tunity to determine the comparative earli-1 '/tt ' ness of the chosen ears, and tbe charactei ~ } .$* * of tbe stalks on which they were produced; * '" "M J and in both these respeots great differences 1 , j will be found in cdrn of the same variety, ( ^ ; even wheu growing in the same hill. ii It is impossible to combine all good quali- ties in one variety. Early maturity is es-• : pec,ally desirable north of say 40 degrees, ~ but remarkable earliuess is never accom- » ^ panied by large size and great productive-: ^ S. ; ness. Our experiments have shown that,, *'4 \ one year with another, we get better results"" V: .¥ J from varieties which are not at either ex-^ " ...'vT treme as to size or time of ripening, This';{ would be still more true in regions further north, until localities are reached where 1 early maturity is the chief essential, Among undesirable qualities for any ' v ,%ij northern region may be named excessive i ̂ 'i s i ze o f s ta lk , in he igh t o r th ickness , or the k . . O p p o s i t e e x t r e m e s ; t h e h a b i t o f b e a r i n g , the ears very higb up, on long or very v (J j thick "shanks;" cobs of great thickness, or with marked differences in thickness at butt and tip; shallow kernels, and failure^. > to "fill out" well at the ends of the ears. • Others of importance might be named, Itf will be seen that there Is a much better op-? ) portunity of getting what we want, as to - some of these named, by selection in the : ;, field ihan at any other time, and of some * no judgment could be formed at any other time. Mv own belief is that, with the;| Dent varieties, almost universally grown iu, the West, we have stalk, leaf, and root * enough to produce more than one good ear of corn, and that, if we persistently se- .. lected with reference to the production of, say two ears, instead of constantly select­ ing, in practice, from 6ttlks producing but on e ear, we would make a decided gain. Whether this be true or not, there are •><, abundant reasons for early selection and from the field. There is no necessity that corn designed for seed should fully mature on the stalk - Experiments have shown apparent strong * vitality in kernels which were shriveled up • * .'•.iff v „ / V 3 •a; from the ears having been plucked long before maturity. I would not advise this, in practice, but there can be no objection f - to plucking seed corn some weeks before If it would do to put in the crib. The es- seiitials in treatment of the corn seem to a be that both kernels and cob shall become f pretty thoroughly dry before there is severe ̂ • freezing. Fire heat may be used to secure • < this, but is usually not essential. The oldk ; plan of tracing up the ears, pair by pair, by the husks? and hanging them up in a; dry, warm room, will almost certainly give ̂ good results, llike better the use of the, cork-screw wire, put in the but of each ear' and slipped over a vertical wire. Ihis applies to the selection and eare of a few bushels of corn by each farmec for his own use. Where an attempt is made to. select aud properly care for hundreds ofr bushels for sale, the task is one of con-- siderable magnitude. I confess to partial failure i:i this lv^t seasou. Some corn to which apparout'.y all ueeded caie had been given proved untrustworthy: giving good results in tests under favorable conditions, but partially failing when planted in the tklil. On the other {(and. a large quantity was entirely satisfactory. In ordinary seasons there is no diffi­ culty in getting seed that will grow from auy good crib. So I do not ur;-;e the early selection chiefly on this ground. Maintaining the standard of excellence already gained, or still further impioviag :, a variety, is the chief advantage. Of course, this is not all that can be done to improve corn. and. equally of course, fall selection of seed does not lr.ake it needless to still further s lect Rnd make tests in the spring. 1 have simply suggested what any fanner may do with profit and at little cost in time or money. --Anna Burright an orphan gill. drowned at Dixon by falling into a cistern.