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*. VAN SLYKf. (Mat Mi McHENBT, ILLINOIS. A VBIEND of Henry Till aid says: "Mr. Yillard has always regarded New York . SUB his home. He will come back from Germany in the early fall with his family and will occupy the northern half of the big palace at the corner of Madison avenue and Fiftieth street, •which is owned by Mr. Yillard. He •lid his wife are probably worth about $500,000 between them. He has no railroad connections that I know of, ex­ cept a small, obscnre road away out •*r6st, of which he is President." * ? : A VERMIN exterminator of Boston re­ cently offered to clear a large brewery of a vast quantity of flies which had .collected by the millions in the beer hogsheads, for $250. The proprietor Agreed to the terms and the man went to work. "Roll these barrels into the ice-room," he said. The barrels were tolled into the room where ice was Snade. "Freeze'em!" said the vermin exterminator. The brewery men were surprised that they had not thought of that simple remedy. They tried it, and in a short time swept out countless /Wunbers of frozen flies. *• :• IT is given out that the men ctoraed Ijy Steve Benfrew, the Alabama horse- thief and murderer, are already feeling tlxe baneful influence of the same, and direful tilings are befalling them. The curse was pronounced against the five men that captured him, and was that they would die maniacs and go to the had place. Jeff Windham, one of the five, has recently become violently in­ sane, and the impression obtains that the curse of the lamented Steve is being fulfilled. Now if it shall be shown that he goes to the place of tor­ ment, the proof will be pretty con­ clusive. _ • ACCORDING to the calculations made* t*y a scientific writer, it requires a pro­ digious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal, the estimate being that it would really take a million years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. • The United States has an area of between 300,000 and 400,000 square miles of coal fields, 100,000,000 tons of coal being mined from these fields in one year, or enough to run a ring around the earth At the equator five and one-half feet wide and five and one-half thick, the quantity being sufficient to supply the whole world for the period of 1,500 to 2,000 years. HAT the gentle mosquito has Yeached the liveliest stage of her busi­ ness life, it should be a comfort to re­ fined minds and tender bodies to read the appended extract from Thoreau: .""I was as much affected by the faint lium of a mosquito making its invisible unimaginable tour through my apart- knent at earliest dawn, when I was sit­ ting with doors and windows open, as I «ould be by any trumpet that ever sang of fame. It was Homer's requiem; it­ self an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wonderings. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till for­ bidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world." THE Bath (Me.) Independent says: Mrs. McKean, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is a wealthy lady, said to be worth $1,000- 000 in bank stock alone. Her income is estimated at from $200,000 to $500,- 000 a year. She owns Jewell's Island, for which she paid $5,000, and proposes, this fall and winter, to build a dozen cottages, wherein she may another Season entertain her friends. When she is ill and needs a doctor, she hoiBts * signal, which is noted on Munjoy's Hill, Portland, and a physician comes. When she is in need of provisions and the weather is bad, she hoists another fiag, and a Portland steamer is sent with stores. On the island the lady lias thirty-five sheep, many lambs, two yoke of oxen, five cows, a bull, five hogs, and a jackass. THE new aqueduct now in process of construction in New York seems to huve .been designed' as a trap for the de­ struction of human life on the one hand ' and the ruin of personal reputation on the other. The New York World has beqp investigating the fatalities attend- • ing the progress of the work, and finds that in twelve weeks fifty-two persons were killed outright, 100 received seri­ ous injuries, and nearly 300 others met .with slight accidents. The World also finds that the workmen are taxed 50 cents a month, or $24,000 a year, for medical expenses, from which they de­ rive no benefit, as those who are in­ jured are taken to hospitals and treated free of charge. Hence the snug little Sum of $2,000 per month taken from the workingmen goes into some one's pockets. It-is furthermore ascertained . that the larger nuntber of these acci­ dents are due to the indifference of bosses and contractors, and the lack of the most ordinary precautions against such risks as foul air, rotten apparatus, «nd insufficient props to prevent the fall of earth and rocks. in thir country. They hav/ about the same power as those of the New York elevated roads, and will readily draw four light cars. Soda en­ gines are used in Berlin and other European cities successfully, and trav­ erse the St. Gothard tunnel under the Alps, where steam engines cannot be used because the length of the tunnel renders it impossible to devise a system of ventilation which will carry off the fool gases generated by a locomotive. MR. GILBERT YOST, a noted cracks­ man, died the other day in the northern penitentiary of Indiana. This eminent man was one of the brightest lights of his profession. He was the inventor, as is well-known, of a set of burglar's tools, weighing less than five pounds, which enabled him to open any ordi­ nary fire-proof safe in less than fifteen minutes if not disturbed, and to do the work without making the slightest noise. The methods of safe-burglary were at once revolutionized by his in­ genious invention, and it is now the in­ dispensable assistant of every successful safe-robber. It accomplished for safe- burglary what the railroad has done for transportation, the telegraph for inter­ communication, the sewing-machine for the needlewoman, and the reaper for agriculture. The death of this great inventor, whose ingenuity has overcome so many of the difficulties of an arduous and exacting profession, should not fail to invoke a fitting tribute from those whom his genius has benefited. The material progress of the world is largely due to its great inventors, and while such names as Watts, Fulton, Morse, arid Howe are remembered, that of Gilbert Yost, the inventor of that in­ dispensable appliance, a light, portable, and noiseless set of burglar's tools, should not be forgotten. MR. JOHN FITZGERALD, the new President of the Irish League, was born near Glin, a romantic little town famous in the days of the Desmonds, in the western part of Limerick County, Ireland, about fifty-five years ago, and came to America fifteen or sixteen years later. He sought in Wisconsin and Minnesota for the land where manly toil surely reaps the crop it sows, and, without unnecessary delay, set himself to the hard work which usually falls to the hands of an un­ friended immigrant. He was a lad of energy and push. Bailroad building was the principal occupation of the newly-arrived Irishman. He laid ties and rails at the current daily wages for a few months, advanced to the position of foreman before out of his teens, and was a contractor for building railroads when he had attained his majority. His success was remarkable. He built a large portion of the Northwestern road and its branches, and later laid many miles of track and ties of the Union Pacific. At that time he resided in Wisconsin. As the Pacific road ad­ vanced westward he moved to Nebraska, where he began to experiment as a farmer and cattle-raiser with profit and advantage. He continued in his busi­ ness as contractor, however, and, grow­ ing rich, of course, became a banker. He is now President of the First Na­ tional Bank of Lincoln, Nebraska, also President of a bank at Plattsmouth. He owns several extensive fyrms in Minne­ sota, Nebraska, and Colorado, and three or four herd of fancy cattle, and has a couple of well-stocked ranches, be­ sides. His is reputed to be worth >,000,000--the reward of close atten­ tion to business and careful industry. He is a strict Boman Catholic and a munificent supporter of the numerous charities connected with his Church. In politics he is a Democrat of the old school, and was a delegate at large from his State to the Democratic Na­ tional Convention two years ago. He has been connected with all the Irish patriotic movements of this country since he attained to manhood. He is an ardent disciple of Father Mathew. m Harrison's Review of ike Administration's Blun­ dering Course. THERE are being four locomotives constructed at the Baldwin Locomotive Works which are to be run by soda, which takes the place of fire. Soda has much the same power as coal with­ out any of the offensive gases. The engines are nearly finished, and are to be shipped to Minneapolis, Minn., and irun on the streets of that city, where steam engines are forbidden. The en gines look like ordinary passenger cars. Inside the boiler is placed five tons of soda, which upon being damp cned by" steam produces an intense beat When the soda is thoroughly saturated the action ceases, and then it is necessary to restore it by driving the moisture from it, when it is again ready Arraignment of the Party Which Has llunoiiibrated Its Inability to Bo Anything Bight. Speech of Eon. Ben Harrison, of Indiana, Delivered at Indianapolis, Wednsa- . day, Sept. 15. Pretty Women and Serpents. An absolutely lovely woman is seldom seen, but this pleasure came to mo the other day, and I regard it as a sort of reward for my loyalty to the King and the Faith. She looked like a flower-- and she was beautifully dressed. She dazed me so that, like a man, her gown seemed to me to be green and wliite-- the one the shade of the lily leaf, the other the pure white of the lily. Some­ thing on her head was of lilies of the valley; it is fair to suppose it was a bonnet, but to my delighted eyes'it ap­ peared a crown. It was rather cor«- monplace to see my divinity drink claret cup, but when it is remembered that it might have been ale, there is a sigh of thankfulness. A beautiful wo­ man ought to get down on her knees twice a day and give thanks for her loveliness, for, excepting a baby, she is the only thing in the world which can give pure, absolute pleasure merely by existing. Beauty in woman makes me remem­ ber the sensuous description of the beauty of Salammbo--that book has caused a revival of the serpent fever, and the direction to a modiste to fit a satin frock skin tight and cover the body with jet scales forces conviction that numbers are innoculated with the remarkable desire to appear as one of the first families of the world. For it is probable that the serpent was a family man; they generally are. The news­ papers say that Alma Tadeina is going to paint Mary Anderson as Salammbo. Can an artist use a wax candle as a model for the sun ? Mary Anderson as Salammbo! Who could be Salammbo ? Ten years ago Bernhardt could have been, for, even if she lacked the beauty, she was capable of the feeling. Our Mary is charming to point a moral, but as Salammbo she could scarcely be the ideal of Falubert. Bead the book, if you are fond of fine descriptions, but "the tragedy condensed in the last chapter is so awful that you shiver -with horror at the cruelties that were ap­ plauded and practiced by men and wo­ men, which even little children found delight in seeing an unfortunate man tortured. The scene in Salammbo's room with the serpent is fascinating, but then scenes with serpents have al­ ways been so from time immemorial.-- Bab, in New York Star. GAYETY tempered by seriousness is <{0E use. - These en^eft^re the first of] the happiest manner in society. •. •, Txixow CITIZENS--This ia what we are wont to call an "off year" in polities. It is taken for granted by many that because neither a Presi dent nor a Governor is to be elected, the election and its results are of small importance. Thia is not true. The House of Representatives of the Fiftieth Congress is to be chosen, and the Fifty-fifth General Assembly of the State of Indiana. The men who are to be the adminis­ trators of those vast sums of money collected froiu the people for local and State uses are also to be selected. The interests involved are great, and should enlist the active and intelligent in­ terests of every voter. An ofl year, indeed, has this advantage"--it is favorable to auiet discus­ sion and free thought--local interests and issues are not overshadowed. The voter is not stam­ peded by brass bonds, bonfires, and torchlight processions. What I shall say to-night and throughout the campaign will be addressed to the judgment, and not to the passions, of men. What I shall say of individuals will have rela­ tion solely to their public acts; what I shall say upon public questions will be spoken in a spirit of toleration toward those who hold other views. In the brief remarks submitted by me at our recent State convention, I said that for twenty- flve years the Democratic party has in national affairs been a party of promises and preten­ sions, of criticism and obstruction. It has ap­ pealed to* the country, not upon the basis of things done--it begged "for oblivion as to these --but of things to be done. For the first time, sines the weak and affrighted Buchanan laid down executive control, we are in a position to contrast Democratic promises with Democratic performances in the executive branch of the Government. In the campaign of 1881 it was charged by Democratic leaders that the Repub­ lican party had become corrupt, and had, in certain important particulars, mismanaged public affairs. DEMOCRATIC PROMISES. I do not think we can open this oampaigu more profitably than by carefully comparing the Democratic professions and promises of the last campaign with tbe performances of Presi­ dent Cleveland and the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. On the 1st day of September, 1884, the Democratic campaign was opened at Indianapolis by a speeoh from Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, the candidate of his party for the Vice Presidency He has since been laid to rest in our beautiful cemetery, with imposing honors. HiB party mourn in his death an acknowledged leader. His utterances, there fore, may be accepted as an authoriative ex­ pression of the complaints urged againBt Re­ publican administration, and of the reforms to which his party stood pledged Mr. Hendricks said: "In a speech recently made at Richmond Mr, Calkins, the candidate for Governor, boasting of the achievements of his party, made the statement, whiolx I adopt without examination, that the Republican party found an empty Treasury, and now it has a surplus of four hun­ dred millions. 'That,' said Mr. Hendricks, 'is an enormous sum of money--more, I believe than half the paper currency of the oountry Estimating our population at fifty millions, it is 88 for each man, woman, and child. That great sum of money lies idle in the Treasury. If it had been left with the people it would become the willing and active servant of labor; it would stimulate and strengthen old, and develop new industries; it would restore to the merchant his market, and give the farmer good prices again.'" Of course, it is not true that Major Calkins ev­ er stated, or meant to state, that there was a surplus iu the treasury of four hundred mill­ ions. He spoke in round numbers of all the funds in the treasury. But I appeal to friends in both parties whether the most potential charge against the Republican party in that campaign was not that there had been accumu­ lated in the treasury a large and needless sur­ plus, the hoarding of which exercised a depress­ ing influence upon the busiuess of the country. The suggestion that this so-called surplus amounted to 88 per capita of our population was so cunningly used by some unscrupulous ora­ tors as to excite the expectation that a distribu­ tion upon that basis w ould be promptly made the moment the treasury passed under Demo­ cratic control. If ever a pa ty was distinctly and solemnly pledged to any public duty, if ev­ er a trust was accepted upon condition, the Democratic party was pledged by its leaders in the West to reduce the surplus" in the treas­ ury. On the 4th day of March 1885, Grover Cleve land, himself a New-Yorker and imbued with the most extreme New York views of finance, appointed as his Secretary of the Treasury Hon. Daniel Manning, and as Treasurer Hon. Tlios. Jordan, both, also, of New York. Both of these gentlemen came to the exercise of their public duties from behind the counters of national banks. I do not say this to»their prejudice, but much lias been said by Indiana Democrats, and is already being repeated in this campaign, about Republican "subserviency to the money power," and yet the latest platform expression of that party indorses the administration. I must suppose they like this feature of it, and I mention it for their edification. The law in force when President Cleveland was inaugurat­ ed, and still in force, relating to the surplus was Section 2, of the act of March 3, 1881, and reads as follows : "The Secretary of the Treasury may at any time apply the surplus money in the 'lreasury, not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as he may consider proper, to the purchase or redemption of the United States bonds." Under this law the Treasury had been ad­ ministered by Republican Secretaries, It will be noted that the discretion vested in the Sec­ retary is unrestricted. Secretary Manning was therefore at liberty at once, by large and re­ peated bond calls, to pay out and put into the channels of trade and commerce every surplus dollar in the Treasury. It i3 certain tnat the Democrats of Indiana and of the entire West regarded the administration as pledged to this duty. I must believe that they still think that the policy of hoarding a large surplus, not need­ ed to meet the current obligations of the Gov­ ernment, or to preserve its credit, is a bad policy, and one that tends to cripple the indus­ tries of the country. And yet the policy of this administration has been steadily and very largely to increase this surplus, and the Demo­ cratic leaders of' Indiana have in their platform this year asked the honest and thinking voters of the State to indorse that policy. Is it possible that these leaders suppose that tbe people have forgotten their Pi edge to distribute this surplus, made only two years ago? In 1881, a Republican Secretary of the Treasury elilled and paid Sliil ,090,00.) of Gov­ ernment bonds; in 188-2, £173,000,000; in 1883, $86,000,000, and in 1884, over S70,000, whereas, in the first sixteen months of President Cleve­ land's administration only SvW,133,000 of the public debt was paid. The average payment for the last four years by Republican Secretaries of the Treasury was S153,000.000 every sixteen months, as against 858,000,000 paid in the same time by Secretary Manning. The Treasury statement shows that on July 1, 188f>. the total cash in the Treasury was £4'('2,917,173 31, or nearly £100,000,000 more than the amount as­ sumed by Mr Hendricks to be in the Treasury in September, 18»4. The form of the monthly Treasury statement was changed by Mr. Jor­ dan, and comparison with the former state­ ments cannot be made without understanding two or three things. In the new form of state­ ment the fractional silver, now nearly $30,000,- 000, is not counted, as formerly, as a part of the available cash on hand, and the daily interest upon the whole debt is charged up each day against the cash on hand, which was not done before. It must also be remem­ bered that the surplus is to be ascer­ tained by first deducting all funds held for specific uses. The Morrison resolution express­ ly recognized that, in addition to the other large sums held for such uses, SI 00,000,000 was to be held as a redemption fund for the greenbacks. Now, upon this baais the surplus in the Treas­ ury available for the payment of bonds was, on Dec. 1, 1884--the first statement after Mr. Cleve­ land's election--SIO.OOO.OOO. Not desiring to em­ barrass the incoming administration, the sur­ plus was allowed by President Arthur to in­ crease. and when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated bad readied S20,0iJ0,000. But this surplus was not thought by Secretary Manning to be enough. Bond calls were suspended until December, 1885, when a call for J?10,00;>,000, payable in Feb­ ruary, 1886, was made. At that time the sur- plus'in the Treasury had increased to £80,000,000, and on Aug. 1 last this enormous suplus was still maintained--the bond calls made not being sufficient to make any inroad upon it. Mr. Warner, of Ohio, a Democrat, said in the House that from March 31, 1885, to June 30, 188G, the surplus in the Treasury had been increased nearly S6'2,000,0». My Democratic friends, when" vou voted in November, 1881, a' want of confidence in the Republican party upon this question, there was a surplus of #10,000,000 in the Treasury. You are now asked to give a veto of confidence to Mr. Cleveland, who is obstinately holding a surplus of $80,000,- 000. Do your platform-makers carry your con­ sciences? ̂ , This policy of hoarding was accepted by the Democrats in Congress as the settled policy of the administration. So slow to pay out the Treasury- surplus, so greedy to hoard, so fearful of the silver coinage act, was the Secretary that an attempt was made by Democratic leaders in the House to take from him that discretion which a Democratic House had never attempted to deny to Republican Secretaries^ On the 14th day of July, 1886, the following resolution, in­ troduced by Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, passed the House of Representatives: Resolved, etc., That whenever the surplus or balance in the Treasury, including amount held for redemption of United States notes, shaU ex­ ceed the sum of f 1 i0,0J0,009, it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to apply such excess, in sums not less than ten millions per month, during the exist­ ence of any such surplus or exoess, to the pay- m«B| of the Intneat-beacing indebtedness of j iwUitM States, jwyable at the option of tkt Qovefzmient. Ilia surplus or balinoe herein referred to shall be tbe available surplus, ascertained *c- i ardingtothe form of statement of the United I States Treasurer, of the *S«ets and liabilities of Treasury of the United States employed on June 80,1886. This was a direct, emphatic denunciation of President Cleveland's administration in its most distinct and prominent policy. It said: We cannot trust yoa With the discretion we have safely confided to Republican administrations; we must put the constraint of law upon vou, and leave you no discretion When this resolu­ tion oarne to the Senate, Mr. Fairchlld, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, in the absence of Secretary Manning, was called before the Com­ mittee on Finanoe of the Senate to give his views upon it. He said: " Congress has always heretofore permitted the Secretary of the Treasury to decide at what times and for what amount bond calls should be made. * • * It haB been left to the dis­ cretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, he be­ ing always on the watch and in a position daily to get information to guide him in the exercise of this discretion. I am not aware that this cus­ tom has been harmful to the country under for­ mer administrations, some mistakes may have been made, but on the whole the countrv has been benefited. Of the exercise of this discre­ tion under this administration and by the pres­ ent Secretary of the Treasury, I prefer not to speak. * * • Its only efiect as to him tthe Secretary] is to take from him a discretion which has always been his ; hence the funda­ mental idea of this resolution, so far as the Secretary of the Treasury is concerned, is that his judgment is not considered worthy of trust." The Committee on Finance of the Senate amended the resolution so as to allow the Sec­ retary of the Treasury, if ho thought it neceiv sarv, to keep on hand a working b&lauce of |S0,- 000,000, in addition to the tfioo.uoo.ooo referred to in the resolution, and to allow him a discretion in an extraordinary emergency, not now exist­ ing, to suspend the bond calls, reporting his reasons therefore at once to Congress. The res­ olution, as finally adopted by both houses, was as follows : "Unsolved, by the Senate and House of Repre­ sentatives, etc., That whenever the surplus or balance in the Treasury, including amount field for redemption of United States notes, shall ex­ ceed the sum of 9100,000,000, it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to apply such excess, in sums "not less than ten millions per month, during the exist­ ence of any such surplus or excess, to the pay­ ment of the interest-bearing indebtedness of the United States payable at the option of the Government. The surplus or . balance herein referred to shall bo the available surplus, as­ certained according to the form of state­ ment of the United States Treasurer, of the assets and liabilities of the Treasury of the United States employed on June 30, 1886. Provided, That no call shall be mnde under the provisions of this resolution until a sum equal to the call is in the treasury over and above the reserve herein mentioned. And pro­ vided further. That the Secretary of the Treas­ ury, in his discretion, mav have in the treasu­ ry, over and above the foregoing sums, a work­ ing balance not exceeding ?'2o,000,000; andavlieii- ever, in the case of any extraordinary emergen­ cy not now existing, and when, because thereof, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the public interests shall require it, he may, by written order, postpone the further call for the payment of such indebtedness for such period of time as shall be necessary to maintain the public credit unimpaired; and that such post­ ponement, and the reasons therefor, shall be reported to Congress within ten days after its next meeting, or immediately, if Congress be in session." In the House more than two-thirds voted in favor of the resolution as amended. It went to the President for his approval ou the 4th day of August, 1886. His attention had already been called to the discussion upon the resolution, and he hod ample time to have returned it if he had been so minded. Since the adjournment of Congress he has filed with the Secretary of State his objections to the resolution in the fol­ lowing words: "This resolution involves so much, and is of such serious import, that I do not deem it best to discusB it at tliis time. It is not approved, because I do not believe it to be necessary, and because I am by no means convinced that its mere passage and approval at this time may not endanger and embarrass the successful and use­ ful operations of the Treasury Department and impair the confidence whioh the people should have in the management of the finances of the Government." It is thus made clear that if Congress bad re­ mained in session long enough to compel the President to return the resolution to the House it would have come back with a veto message. If the resolution, as finally passed--giving, as it did, to a Democratic Secretary of the Treasury some small part of the full discretion that Re­ publican Secretaries had possessed-r-met Presi­ dent Cleveland's disapproval, it is clear that the original resolution, whioh left him no dis­ cretion, would have been vetoed. And yet Gov. Gray, in his recent speech at Logansport, Baid of the Morrison resolution: "The Republican party, true to its servility to the nionev power, emasculated it of all its efficient feature*, so as to make it useless for the purposes it was intended." Whose " servility to the money power" was it that hoarded this surplus and held it with a death grip? A Democratic President--a Dem­ ocratic Secretary of the Treasury did that. They do not pay it out because they will not, though the present law suggests and authorizes it. And yet the platform indorses and commends them. Governor Gray 's assault upon the Senate passes over that body--his charge of "servility to the money power" "rests at the White House and at the Treasury. Indiana Democrats who be­ lieved with Mr. Hendricks that a large sur­ plus in the Treasury was hurtful to all public and private interests are asked in this cam­ paign to indorse the policy of President Cleve­ land, which in this respect, as in almost every other, was out of harmony with the teachings of that State leader whom they so much loved and so implicitly trusted. If Mr. Hendricks was right in saying that a distribution of the Treas­ ury surplus would bring fair prices for farm products and good wages to the laborer, we can fix the responsibility for 75-cent wheat and the hard times which have come upon our work-, ingmen. But our Democratic friends, in 1884, supple­ mented their complaint that we had too much money in the Treasury with the further sugges­ tion, apparently a little paradoxical, that there was not enough--that some of it had been made away with. Slanderous and vague imputations upon the integrity of those who were disbursing public money as a class were freely indulged. They did not know who, but somebody--they did not know where, but somewhere. They professed their inability to give a biU of par­ ticulars until the books were turned over to them. Well, the books have been turned over, and the cash has been counted. The balances have been verified, and the result has been an unwilling but magnificent tribute to the integrity and intelligence with which the public affairs have been managed. The malicious charges against the integrity of Republican officials have been disproved. The instances of defalcations have been rare, and the per cent, of loss exceedingly small-- smaller than under any Democratic administra­ tion. An attempt has been made, in a recent publication issued by the Democratic congres­ sional committee, to supiwrt the slanders of the last campaign. It is only the propping of one lie against another. All of the balances against public officers, as shown by the Treasury books, since 1861, are aggregated, and are called defalcations. Now, a very large part of these balances represent an honest difference of opinion between the disbursing officer and the accounting officers of the Treasury. The officer has paid out the money for a public use, believ­ ing that the law authorized the payment, the Auditor or Comptroller decides otherwise, and will not allow the credit, and the payment is stopped. There has been no stealing, no cor­ rupt motive in these cases. No responsible officer of the Treasury has said or will say so. But without attempting to .separate this class of balances from those which involve cor­ ruption, and taking the aggregate of Slii,800,000 since 1861, as stated in this campaign docu­ ment, the loss is only about one-tenth of 1 per cent, of the money collected and dis­ bursed. But it must not be forgotten that Andrew Johnson, though elected as a Repub­ lican, did not remain such--did not select his appointees from that party. If we deduct the losses during his term, the loss is only about !H) cents on the #1,000, while during President Jackson's administration the losses were 87.52 on the *1,0 K), during Polk's $4.08, and under Buchanan #3.81. I am not one of those who believe that the line which divides the honest men from the dishonest is a political line, but I do take great satisfaction that the average faithfulness, integrity and efficiency of the civil service has been so high under our ad­ ministration of public affairs. It will be time enough to reproach us when the Democracy have given us one with as small a per cent, of loss. But as long as it continues true that the aggregate losses of tue nation in twenty-five years, as stated by our adversaries, is less than one-third as much as was stolen from the city of New York in three years by a Democratic ring, the Republican party will still insist that the turning out of Republicans and the putting in of Democrats is not necessarily, or even probably, an elevation of the standard of official integrity. Tne Indianapolis S'Vithitl, on the iiutta day of January, 1S8J, said of the men who were receiving official recognition from the partv in Indiana; "With due respect, we would suggest to the powers at Washington, and all others concern­ ed therein, that the time has fully come when a halt should be called in the business of ap­ pointing unworthy characters to office in this State. "In our opinion, the seeming attempt to rival the Republican party in making and main­ taining bad appointments to office is an unwor­ thy ambition, and the sooner it is abandoned the better. "The honest Democratic masses of the State have already been sufficiently hufailiated--the grand old party of the people damaged quite enough, surelv," for a halt. "With becoming modesty, we would venture to suggest to the forces inspiring and control­ ling appointments here that there is no lack of honest, competent Democrats in our State. In view of this fact, we confess to our inability to make out any sufficient reason for the selection and appointment of thieves, highwaymen, brib­ ers, dead-beats, and the like. Give honest, com­ petent Democrats a chance." I do not believe that any honest,-candid Dem­ ocrat in Marion County would say that man for man. or in the aggregate, the changes in the official list here have resulted in securing a higher standard of intelligence or integrity. I do not believe that there is one sudh who will say that the public is better served, I know thai many <•» saving Butt la one great depart­ ment the aarrfcatt •seehkble. Next In the schedule of Democratic com­ plaints was the eharca of extravagance. They pledged themselves to reduoe expenses and to inadgarate an era at eooMtny sad simplicity. In the coarse of the speech from which I have quoted, Mr. Hendricks said: During the period I have mentioned the re­ ceipts ana expenditures aggregated a sum so enormous that I find myself unable to express them in words or figures within ordinary com­ prehension. I will taSce, for illustration, the year ending June 30, 1883. The receipts into the Treasury were above 9396,000,000, and the ordinary expenditures were above 9965,000,000." No doubt Mr. Hendrieks believed that the pledge of economy made by him to the people of Indiana would be redeemed by the adminis­ tration of which he was to become an honor­ able but not an active or influential part. At the beginning of every session of Congress a a book of estimates is submitted by the Treas­ ury Department, showing the amovnt which, in the opinion of the heads of departments, it will be necessary to appropriate in order to conduct the public business for the coming fiscal year. The estimates for the year ending June 30, 188 i, sub­ mitted by Secretary Manning, Bliowed the total appropriations asked for by the administration to be $406,583,447.24. But Congress did not give all that was asked. Instead of appropriating $400,000,000, as it was requested to do by this re­ form administration, it appropriated $383,015,- 676.11, or 8118,(XXi,000 more than the startling sum which so excited the criticism, and even the sus­ picion, of Mr. Hendricks in the expenditures for 1883. Senator Allison, of Iowa, wh6 has been for many years the Chairman of the Senate Com­ mittee on Appropriations, aud whose accurate knowledge of such matters is known to ail his associates, in a recent speech said: "Appropriations of public money are not a sure index to the public expenditures. If they were, a comparison of the last few years would make a most favorable showing for the Republican party. The total annual appropriations for 1883-4 were, in round numbers, $-232,000,000; for 1884-5, $••£(5,000,000; for 16 *>-6, $219,000,000; and by the Congress just adjourned, for the current year, S365.000.000, in round numbers. So that the appropriations for this year are $30,000,000 more than the highest sunia appropriated by the Government for ordinary opera­ tions of the Government during the last four years, and ?45,000,000 more than the appropria­ tions made for the last fiscal year. It has been stated that the ordinary expenditures of the last fiscal vear were, in round numbers, SIS.OOO.IO ) less tlian they were for the fiscal year ending June ,"0, 188). This is true, but is easily ac­ counted for by a few items of expenditure of an extraordinary character made in 1885, and en* tirely omitted from the expenditures of last year] Of this sum, $8,(W0,000 was expended for rivers and harbors, there being no appropriation for rivers and harbors last year ; SI,000,000 for the repayment of deposits made by individuals for surveying public lands; i3,:"0J,000 for Ala­ bama claims judgments ; $4,500,000 oil account of the sinking fund to the Pacific railroads; SI.0 X1,0 )0 to the New Orleans Exposition ; and 81,500,000 on account of repayment to importers. So that, of this 919,500,000, no portion of it can be credited to economies introduced by the now administration into the public service. The ex­ penditures for every purpose for 18i>, including the items Ihave named, and including indefinite fend permanent appropriations and the sinking fund, amount to $851,000,00J in round numbers, whilst the expenditures of 1886 of every kind, including the sinking fund, amount to $380,000,000 in round numbers, or a reduction of &J1,000,000, whi.-li I have al­ ready accounted for, except 81,500,000 which was a reduction of the amount of the sinking fund for 1888, as compared with the amount of that fund in 188.). This is the state of the account comparing the last year of President Arthur's administration with the first year of Mr. Cleve­ land's administration. The appropriations for this year are $54,000,- 000 in excess of the expenditures of the last year. This, in brie#, is the net result of the ex­ periment of an economical Democratic admin­ istration of public expenditures as disclosed by eighteen months' experience, §3t,000,000 more than was expended in 1886, and $54,000,000 move than was expended in 1886. I make this com­ parison, not for the purpose of showing that this administration has been guilty of profligate aud wasteful expenditure of public money, nor for the purpose of showing that their extraor dinary demands made upon Congress for in­ creased appropriations this year were intended to put in their hands public money to be used for improper and wasteful purposes, but more to allow eithor the ignorance or malignity with which they pursued the Republican "party through all the years of the past, with refer­ ence to its methods of expending the public money. But it may be said that this increase of ap­ propriations is in part accounted for by the river aud harbor bill, and by the increase in pension appropriations, but if both of these items are deducted, the appropriations this year for the expenses of the Government are $15,000,000 in excess of the appropriations for last year. A table showing the items of in­ crease and decrease was presented by Senator Allison to tbe Senate, and I give it here. Increase over Reduotion received aft Muitieesboie. Twin., Jan. %JML and died Od IU, 1982. Tne Commt--teaer of Pensions decided that his death was not entirely attributable to his military service, and that Ids widow could not secure a pension under existing law. She was seventy years of age, as helpless as an infant, without means of support, or friends able to assist her. Four of her sons followed their father to the war. Two of them were killed upon the battlefield, and the other two returned, one with the loss of an eye, the other of an arm. The bill gave her a widow's pen­ sion, fl-2 a month. In his veto of this bill Mr. Cleveland said : "No cause is given of the sol­ dier's death, but it is not claimed that it re­ sulted from hia military service, her pension being asked for entirely because of her needs and the faithful service of her husband and her sons. This presents the question whether a gift, in such cases, is a proper disposition of money appropriated for the purpose of paying pensions. The passage of this law would, in my opinion, establish a precedent so far-reach- , ing, and open the door to such a vast multitude of claims not on principle within our present pension laws, that I am constrained to disap­ prove the bill under consideration." Does this case need any comment? Would the question have been raiBed in any other mind whether what the President was pleased to call a gift was proper in such a case? A gift of $1'2 per month, and in exchange for what? What gift had she made to her country ? Two sons that she had nursed at her breast lying in unknown graves upon distant battle-fields. Two more, her only ones, came back from the war maimed in limb and crippled in their ability to maintain the mother that bore them. A husband upon whom she had leaned for sup­ port returned to her no lbnger the stalwart Helper and defender he had been, and is called before her to the grave. She is alone. Cannot a great, rich Government like ours take core of this patriotic woman? Must she go to the poor-house or die of want? May not a nation do out of its great resources what an individual, not lost to a sense of justice, would do under like circumstances? Our President seems, to think that only a po­ liceman's club or a fire engine stands related to the public safety and the substantial welfare of the people. Those finer spiritual influences, pat­ riotism, courage, heroism, he would probably call sentimental and not substantial. Patriotism saved this country from a revolt that the policeman's club could not quell; it ex­ tinguished in blood a flame that water could not quench; and the nation can afford to honor is, and relieve the burdens it brought upon its he­ roes and their families. Title of bill. Agricultural Army Diplomatic and con­ sular im. District of Columbia Fortifications ....... Indian Legislative Military Academy.. Navy Pension Postoffice Rivor and harbof... Sundry civil Deficiencies 1886. SW8,925.00 121,140.00 . 96,367.79 10,075,20 >.00 664.823.3S 14,473,900.00 9,034,025.07 from 1886. ' tteM,W6.29 ; =725,000.00 i J216,'24!>.86 , % 722,362.33 : , 12,216.64 '1,060,#36.75 4,421,746.91 •$40,536,431.11 •97,439,501.' Miscellaneous ' 9,822,351.80 0,769,015.99 Alabama claims. .. Increase of naval establishment Total... 8,500,000.00 ... $52,627,798.19 97,439,501.79 •Net increase above, 933,OOti,929,33. Net increase made by appropriations tor 1897 over 1886, 945,186,296.41. It is worth while, perhaps, to mention in this connection that the Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report to Congress, estimated the revenue for 1887 at $315,000,(X)0, to which is to be added the estimated postal revenue for the year, $47,542,252.64, making the total estimated revenue for the year 83(52,542,252.64, which is, in round numbers, 944,000,000 less than the appro­ priations asked for the expenses of the Govern­ ment during the same year. A CHANGE WANTED. But among the specious pleas put forward by our adversaries in the last campaign none was perhaps more alluring than the demand for a change. Restlessness is au American charac­ teristic. Well, the change came, and, outside of the favored few who succeeded in getting their hands into the public crib, where is the man who has found relief from any real or supposed trouble? . Has work been more plenty or wages better? Have farm products brought better prices ? You know the contrary is true. The.year nas been full of business disturb­ ances and labor troubles. Money that would. AH Mr. Hendricks said, have stimulated trade has been hoarded, aud the threat of tariff changes has hung like a cloud over our indus­ trial enterprises Our Democratic friends are now inclined to withdraw the suggestion that a ohange is a good thing; but I believe the people, in view of broken pledges and disap­ pointed hopes, will make at least once more. But if the hopes of individual benefit from the election of Mr. Cleveland have been disaj>- pointed, has any gain come to the nation? Has its honor or its credit been lifted up.' Have we any more reason to be proud that we are Americans ? Has our diplomacy gained us increased respect? Has patriotism and loyalty been recrowned ? No, my countrymen. The flag has dropped to half- mast in honor of a man who was not only dis­ gracefully unfaithful to a civil trust before the war, aud a rebel during the war, but who, from a safe haven in Canada, sought l>y his hired emissaries to give our peaceful cities to the flames. An unrestored rebel was named to rep­ resent this country at tbe court of St. Peters­ burg, unmindful oi the fact that the Czar was on our sido during the rebellion. The courts of Europe are canvassed to find a place for a man who had declared the Governmeiit he was to represent "a bloody usurpation " Our fisher­ men are badgered in Canadian waters, while the peaceful retaliatory powers confided by law to the President are unused. So general has been the condemnation of our diplomatic deal­ ings with Mexico that our distinguished Secre­ tary of State is said to believe that the whole country has entered into a conspiracy against him, while the Jocky Club in Mexico has de­ bauched his special envoy. The dying appeal of Mr. Tilden was not enough to arouse the patriot­ ism of a Democratic majority in the House to make an appropriation for our coast defenses. The modest bill for new war ships-«carrying $0,500,000--was, by decree of the Democratic steering committee, reduced to J1^,500,001, under a threat that it should not otherwise have con­ sideration. Wounded and deserving soldiers have been cjxpelled from public office upon secret charges, and their appeals to know the character of the charges have been treated by an arrogant head of department with contempt­ uous silence. Civil service, a reform inaugurated under a Republican administration, was confided by the votes of its special champions to Democratic care. It has not thrived. Tbe law has in many of the public offices been shumefully evaded and set at naught. The reform is in the rapids. Its great danger is that those who claim to have its destiny in charge will stamp as genuine the article which this administration has put before the country. If the system of removal upon secret charges is civil-servioe reform, then the country will have none of it. Governor Gray speaks of this policy as a mistake--it was a crime. It is a hopeful sign that in our own State our civil-service friends still know the genuine article and have the < ourage to expose this base imitation. The reform can be saved if its special champions are not more anxious to justify their choice in 1884 than they are to save it. Mr. Cleveland has won great eminence--I will not say fame--by his extraordinary exercise of the veto power. He has vetoed more bills than all of his predecessors; from Washington dqwn. I must defer to another time a discussion of this feature of his administration. But as we have been challenged to examine his vetoes of pri­ vate pension bills, I will refer to one. Bailie Ann Bradley was the widow of Thomas 3. Bradley, who served as a private in Company D, Twenty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, from June 13, 1861, to Oct. 19, 1865. He was pen­ sioned on account of a shell wound in the back, A Geometrical Proposition. There was quite a group of men at the Palmer House gathered aboul a portly, puffed-up arrival from Alaska a few nights since. He held his audience silent and fnseiuated. No one had ever been to Alaska, and as he had he coald lie all he liked about it, and no one dared gainsay him. It was after he had bored his friends to death for over an hour, when a slab-sided, sharp-eyed tramp sidled into the rotunda, with a hungry eye to a stray dime or nickel. The Alaska arrival, much to his disgust, held the attention of the crowd, and it nettled him. "I'll fix him," he muttered finally, after listening to the wonderful recital of tar northern wonders for a few minutes. The tramp walked abruptly up to the Alaskian. "Excuse me, my friend," he said, "you seem to be pretty well posted." Alaska smiled complacently, "I should remark so. I've tmveled enough." "Exactly. Well, how are you on loathe matics?" "I am fully read, sir, on any branch of learning." "Ah, you are! Well, will you answer me a little geometricftl problem?" The crowd was breathless now; the tramp looked viAous; Alaska a trifle Hushed. "Certainly," replied the latter. "Very well. Now, then, suppose you wanted to build a doorway that was eight feet high, four feet wide, and ten feet four inches from the base of the floor to the top of the oval frame, how would you deter mine the radius of the arc of the circle?" Alaska hemmed, flushed, and looked un comfortable. The crowd believed him downed, and hoped to see him squelched "Well," he said finally, jangling a pocket full of coins with cool assurance. "I d hire some carpenter to build it aud let him And out." • "Oh, you would. Well, I wouldn't. I'd divide the base by the sectional circum­ ference of the width, estimate the diameter of the doorway proper, and subtract the .radius of the top from the hypothenuse of the arc of the circle." And as the tramp coolly walked off. the Alaskian sueaked softly away, the crowd murmured some thing about "a natural geometrician," and not one of them realized that the tramp's old chestnut was a ridiculous and impos­ sible proposition in mathematics. So wise is the world! And "the hycoterion revolves around its own non-consistency," as the tramp chuckled as he sped on his way. Interesting Items. ' EKO-CRE--one who lives by poet-ig. POETRY has metre, Its prominent feet're. ' PRINCIPAL tools about a modem news­ paper office--the ho-ax. FELT goods, if you sit down on them-- bent pins and carpet tacks. ' THE dude could not drown--oh, no; his head was lighter than water. "EVEBY dog 'as 'is day"--'ash day, of course. English, you know. POETRY has feet--as a side-dish not equal to pigs' feet by any means. THE bedbug must h&ve evolved since modern bedsteads were invented. n THE number of fools aspiring to serve in dime museums is daily increasing. POETRY has lines--tender lines--but a dish of them would sicken a monkey. THERE are more lies told by servant girls; but they lie to order, and do no wrong. THE drowned drunkard--"Yes, I always knew that water *puld lie the death of me." THE Anarchisw would have everybody own the world. What's everybody's is no­ body's. • * NEVER, no never, can one woman love another who has a prettier drips or a liner carriage. THE merry age come with marriage--soon comes the crib-age and the squall-age from the small age. UNQUESTIONABLY the last lady in the land--the latest-born girl baby; but don't yon tell her father. GIRLS in olden time were soft after the knights of the road--they prefer the knights of the railroad now. WHO has ever demonstrated that the po­ sition of Professor Rollin-off-a-log is an easy one or profitable? Nothing earthly should command more of your attention than your body--care for it as you wish to stay with it. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND bites when the bait pleases. Sundry nominations and Miss F.'s angling or angeling. "WON by waiting." They changed the spelling to "one by waiting." After they were divorced it was again "one by wait­ ing." CLARA--Oh, Ethel, did you hear about the pretty compliment that Mr. Featherly paid me to-day? He said I was among the most beautiful young ladies at the party, last night! Ethel (with a sneer)--Yes, Clara, I saw you among them! LOOKING on it professionally: Young Lady--Do you admire Miss Bolington's dancing? Horsey Young Man--Yes; very much. Young Lady--And she dresses BO well, too. Horsey Young Man--Oh, I'm no jodge of the harness, but I can answer for the action. A CHICAGO man visiting Cincinnati was being shown around by a citizen, who said, "Now let's go and see the "Widows' Home." The Chicago man put his finger to the-side of his nose and winked, and then said, "Not much, Mary Ann, I saw a widow home once, and she sued me for breach of prom­ ise and proved it on me, and it cost me sixteen thousand dollars. No, sir, send the widows home in a hack." IT was one of the genus tramp. He knocked at the door of a house, and w hen a kindly looking woman opened it he said: "Madam, I am very hungry. I have had nothing for a week back." "Why, vou poor soul," said the good woman, "wait a moment, and I'll find something for you." And she gave him an old porous plaster, and closed the door before he had finished thanking her. • U.LIS0M STATE --A Patoka grocer was fined for set cider to his Customers. --A colored man of Uonnl FtilaAIJ turning white by degree*. -*T --Water is so scarce at Quincy that citi­ zens are talking of sinking an artesian welt. --A Mankato (Minn.) man ships clay troia his farm to Chicago, where he gets $5 a ton for it from potters. --A Clinton farmer obtained one-half bushel of potatoes from one potato planted last spring. --The licensed saloons of Chicago nnp-1 ber 3,621. The Eleventh Ward has onfy * 70; the First Ward has 415. - r -In connection with the fat-stock show - at the Chicago Exposition in November the Illinois State Board of Agriculture has de­ cided to have a horse-show, with $8,500 fit"*:' prizes. . Vt --A notice of quarantine on account ©f pleuro-pneumonia has been served by the State Veterinarian against the stock on ^ John Carne's farm at Kidgeland, 'tm Chicago. <'\,f -Mr. William F. Tucker, an old and re­ spected citizen of Chicago, formerly act­ ively identified with the interests of the Union Stock Yards, died at his residence at Oak Park, aged 62 years. His only son \ is Major Tucker, the soh-in-lawflf Oen«mt p John A. Logan. -During a drunken quarrel between sev­ eral young men near McLeansboro, William Flannigan attempted to shoot George Cul­ pepper. Daniel Brady attempted to pre- . vent the shooting, when the revolver was " discharged, the buliet striking Brady in the left*breast. He fell to the ground and and died in ten minutes. Flannigan was ,VT arrested. ,. "J --Joseph Bluff, a farmer near Belleville, " and his employe, James Palmyer, were , seized by four masked men, who presented revolvers at their heads, and ordered them to give up what money they had in the house. Bluff had $85 and Palmyer $35. These sums the robbers took and then de- i parted, after warning their victims not to i l follow them. ^ ^ --"When us boys hasn't got no money fa» - pay for a night'B lodging, we carry der ban- ' ner," remarked a newsboy to me yesterday. "What do you mean by 'cany der ban­ ner? * " I asked. "Why, that's what we calls it when we're dead broke, don't yer know?" "But why do you call it' carry der banner?* I don't see what der banner has to do with it." "Oh, you are too fresh," retorted the ' young chap; "don't yer know that when a feller can't get nothing else to do, he is ready to hire out to carry a banner on the street? That's what it means--don't yer see? It's tW way hs boys speaks it when we're dead broke and have to do something else but sell papers to make a raise." This bit of newsboy slang, it seems, has been in YOgue for some time, though new to me, and it struck me as quite an original and unique figure of •peech.--CMMfiro I® »at. • • > --A well was heing sunk on the farm of B. W. McMahon, five miles southeast of Warsaw, «nd when a depth of sixty feet had been reached the light was so poor that the workmen could not see to ad­ vantage. A coal-oil lantern waB secured, and one of the men started to go down in the well with it. When about half-way down thef light came in contact with the natural gas which had accumulated in the well unknown to the workmen, aud a ter­ rific explosion followed,the report of whieh was heard a long distance. A sheet of flame poured out of the month of the welt* ' aud the men at the top, together with the rope and the windlass, were hurled some distance. The man who was carrying the lantern was blown to the top and tht-n fell to the bottom of the well. He has sinoe died of his injuries. His name was Henijr Miller, and he lived in the neighborhood^ yi - The other men will recover. --Our revered fellow-townsman, John Wtntworth, has returned from his ; summer vacation in excellent spirits and looking as hale as a prize-fighter. He has - been spending the summer mouths in New Hampshire among the scenes of his youth* and ho comes back with a vast fund of reminiscences. One of the interesting people he met with in New Hampshire was / Col. Ezra Jones, the grandson of old Bill Jones, made famous by the references to . i hiiu in Denman Thompson's play of > * "Joshua Whitcoinb." One of the charac­ ters in the play is constantly telling mar- velous stories and declaring that he "could J prove it, too, if old Bill Jones *Was alive." Mr. Wentwort'a says that, he used to be intimately acquainted with thisHPfcfr'JoBefc'Oi GenetaLWil- liam Jones, as he was called in th* olcl days; he says that Jones was a remarkable man, possessing such a wonderful amount and variety of information that lis was regarded as a more reliable authority than cither the encyclopedias or almanacs. He lived in the only brick house that then existed in his native county, and, at his re­ quest, he was buried in sight of hia old home, and upon the granite Blab that marks his grave were cut the words, "Here Be- poseth Old BiU Jones." Denman Thomp­ son's fathpr Went to school to Mr. Went- wortli in 1821, and Mr. Wentworth remem­ bers Denman as a freckle-faced boy in 1845, "with an unholy passion for circuses, charades, and other fashionable iniquities.* --Chicago News. «. .V* Buggy Track* in Calhoun • * "I live down in Calhoun, one of the lew Counties iu Illinois that h tve no railroads within tlieir borders," said a passenger on the Chicago' and Alton. "In our county wo tKive no telegraphs and telephones, and are, in fact, pretty well behind the times. Guess I Lave to tell vou a little story to illustrate the extreme backwoods character of tortious of our county. A friend of mine drove down into the wild part of the county the other day to attend to some Jepil busiuess, and was there two or three days, t ne afternoon he met a native who acted a little shy at first, but fiwtlfy hk»; quired: „ ' " 'What ye iloin' down hoe?'" f "'Oh.' replied tUiy friend, jocularly, *1 • tf iniw* down to see if there was a &ood uiwe of Government land that I could pre­ empt." » " *1 just knowed that some stranger had coiiie into the county,' replied the native. ** 'What made voti thiuk so?' 'Cause t'other day I was down to Sil­ ver Creek hunting, and I saw some boggjr tracks. The last busgy tracks 1 seenm Calhoun County was 'bout seven year ago, vheu there was another dura fool drove ia iftre think in' le could homestead Gov'i iand. 'in' not inowin' that it was wuth an acre. Itaiu't found anv land y«t»] yuu, stranger^' --LoniinilU i'oat. *; : ̂ MS