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mtif Vlahiieater T"Tg pfwftftiiyiwy* i- VAN SINCE. Editors* fMMMr. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. EX-GOVERNOR CTOTUT, of Pennsylva­ nia, looks taller and leaner as (he years pass by, but he still has a vigorous flow of language, and talks fluently on pub­ lic matters. He is 70 years of age, bat has the activity of a man of 50. MBB. POLK, the -widow of James K. Polk, tenth President of the United States, iaover 80 years of age, but she is in good health and she possesses a memory of unimpaired vigor. She re­ sides in the old Polk- homestead at Nashville, Tenn., a large, roomy, two- story l>uilding made of brick. SEVENTEEN years ago Mrs. Rossnna Dennis, of Tiffin, Ohio, died of dropsy. The other day when the body was dis­ interred it was found to be thoroughly petrified, with the exception of the feet It was so heavy that ten men were required to move it A piece el ripped from the body resembles flinty limestone. THKODOKE TILTON, it is reported, will return to this country soon and marry Mrs. Louise Curtis Bollard, with whom he became infatuated, and whom he followed abroad, where she has been living for years. It is said that he has been so poor at times on account of his Bohemianism that he has been obliged to draw on Mrs. Bullard's purse for 'subsistence. KINO KALAKAUA, of the Sandwich Islands, is in danger of losing his head. A Chinese firm gave a bribe of $70,000 to one of the King's officers to secure the exclusive right to sell opium in his kingdom. Failing to get this privilege they demanded a return of their bribe, which was refused, and now $5,000 is offered for Kalakaua's head. What King Kalakaua needs is a good grand jury to deal with his "boodlers." MR. S. C. LISTEB, the "silk king" of England, is more than 70 years old, but stout and hearty, and busy every day with the concerns of his great fac­ tories and landed estates. He invented wool-cembing by machinery, velvet and plush-making by maohinery, and the utilization of silk waste. He spent $2,000,000 in developing these indus­ tries, and has made more than $250,000 a year out of each of them. He says he never went in for anything in which he did not confidently see $250,000 a year. COL. W. H. MARTIN, Senator-elect Reagan's successor in the House, is a "character." He is tall, angular, and aB thin as a rail, has a tuft of hair on his chin, a mustache growing up to his nose, and enormous hands. His voice is loud, and his gestures awkward. His trousers nev&r fit him, and he wears a butternut-colored shirt. He has lived all his life in the pine woods, and among the. rampant steers of Eastern Texas, is a great talker, and has promised to be the same Bill Martin in Washington that he is at home. Evi­ dently there is a trfeat ahead at the national capital. AN interesting revival of Mormonism is going on at Kirkland, Ohio, the place where this curious faith was first pro­ mulgated. The old temple is undergo­ ing repairs, and' a new community of Latter-Day Saints iB growing up about it They do not believe in nor practice polygamy, and so long as they do not break the laws of Ohio nobody objects to them. In the business of special revelations, however, they are up to their old leaders. Elder Kelly has one every few days in regard to the restora­ tion of t&e temple, which is to be ac­ cording to the original design. Yet it is noted that for details he consults the old residents of the neighborhood, who remember just how the building looked when it was finished. A "BEST on record" of an unusual kind was done last month at Baberton, Cape Colony, says the London Truth. An artist named Woodoock played the piano for twenty-four consecutive hours •"without breaking harmony," which I take to mean that he had at least two fingers on the keyboard throughout the time, unless the conditions of the exhi­ bition permitted the employment of his nose. During the twenty-four hours, Mr. Woodcock took no other refresh­ ment than some beef tea, and an occa­ sional cigar. He, however, finished in capital condition, and subsequently performed at two music halls, at one of which he was presented with a gold watch and chain and the evening's tak­ ings. It is gratifying to see such en­ thusiasm for art on the very outskirts of civilization. Miss CATHARINE WOLFE, who died in New York at the age of 60, was worth $10,000,000, and devoted her life mainly to works of charity, and benevolence. She built the Newsboys' Lodging House at a cost of $50,000. The Italian Mis­ sion Church on Mulberry street cost $50,000, and the tenment house $20,000. The house for the clergy of the diocese, on Lafayette Place, cost nearly $20,000. She also built, at a great cost, Grace House, which contains reading and lec­ ture rooms for the poor, and gave Grace Church its marble reredos and chantry. She gave $30,000 to St. Luke's Hospital, $30,000 to the Home for incurables, $35,000 to the Virginia Seminary, $100,000 to Union College in Schenectedy, and $95,000 to St John- land School, Long Island. To schools and churches in Minnesota, GeoEgia, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Iowa, she gavo something like $200,000; to missions at home and abroad $100,000, and to a chair of English literature and belle-lettres at Griswold, College, Iowa. $20,000. PHYSICIANS and patients also will be Interested in the recent decision in the Jane* case, as reported in the corre­ spondence of the Rochester Democrat. Dr. Wm. Young, who attended the patient during the last two and a half years of his life, brought aotion for his bill and recovered $3,538.68. As the deceased was a millionaire the amount is not disproportioned, espe^ally as the physician had made 827 visits and had devoted a great deal of time to a very hopeless case. Doctors,of course, graduate their charges according to their patient's ability to pay. I know a case in which the late Dr. Mott charged $350 for a very simple operar tion, which only required five minutes, and there are many country practi­ tioners who would have done it equally well and been satisfied with $10. In another instance Dr. Parker charged $1,000 for going out of town to set a broken leg, but the patient was a millionaire, and that was a sufficient reason for a handsome fee. Among other interesting points recently de­ cided by the Court is the cost of a kiss. The complainant had suffered nothing more than the shock of an osculatory surprise, but the Court gave her $50, which, no doubt, was satisfactory. THE new liquor law which has just gone into effect in Maine, says an Augusta correspondent, has more teeth in it than any temperance legislation since the enactment of the original "Maine law." The severity of its pro­ visions is Buch that for the first offense it takes away the discretion of the court and makes the penalty for selling even a glass of sweet cider for tippling pur­ poses imprisonment as well as fine. There is so much grip in it that the payment of a United States tax is made prima facie evidence of ' intent to sell, so that instead of being a protection, it really makes the party paying the Government tax a violator of the law. There is a good deal of feeling among the dispensers of the bibulous fluid over the new law. There are over 1,100 persons in Maine who pay an annual special tax as retail liquor dealers, for which the United States Government gets some $27,000. In Bangor there are 160 places which pay a Government tax, six of which number take out a license as wholesale dealers. A Port­ land lawyer says: "A lawyer must be a bold one who would declare that any conceivable provision in a Maine liquor law would be adjudged unconstitutional so long as the Governor has no hesita­ tion in approving a bill which imposes sixty days' imprisonment upon the. sale of the first glass of new cider contain­ ing no alcohol. This is the forty-first liquor law which has been enacted since the original prohibitory law of 1851-- forty-one laws in thirty-six years--and the promoters of said legislation are no better satisfied than when they began." The Father of Twenty-five Children. . One of the most familiar characters about Hamilton, Ohio, and one whom everybody knows, is Uncle Tommy Sterett The 7th of this month he celebrated his 77th birthday anni­ versary, and from appearances he will live to celebrate many more. Accord­ ing to a Western paper he was born near Venice, on the Miami. His first work was fdt Isaac Andersbn, with whom he lived as a farm-hand, re ceiving $3 a month for the first year. Mr. Sterett has outlived four wives and now lives in happiness with his fifth. He first married Mary Wells, of Kentucky, the couple starting in life together in a log cabin twelve feet square with dirt floor and a chimney made of mud and sticks. The wife weaved and purchased flour, while the husband mauled rails in exchange for meat By his first wife Mr. Sterett was the father of eighteen children. Mr. Sterett's second wife was Isabel Brosier, by whom he had one child. The old gentleman said he could not remember the dates when he married his different wives, as his memory was poor and he "couldn't recollect these little things." After living four or five years Isabel died and Mrs. Martha Nichols took her place. This was along about 1852, and five children re­ sulted from this union. Mrs. Robert Pierce became the fourth Mrs. Thomas Sterett, and she died about twelve years ago in Indiana, without leaving any children. Uncle Tommy's present wife was the widow of William Smith. One child, Johnnie, aged 10, is the last addition to the Sterett family, and lie completes the even quarter of a hundred children who claim the old man as their father. These children have grown up, mar­ ried, and emigrated, and many of them are living to-day in parts unknown to their aged parent. Mr. Sterett lived in Hamilton in 1815, when, as he says, it was a com­ mon sight to see Indians, bears, panthers, deer, wild turkeys, foxes, and wolves in the roads and prowling about the town. He has always been a Democrat always expeots to be, and first voted for Andrew Jackson for President When the war broke out five of his own sons and four of his step-sons went to the front and served until they became veterans. The old man wanted to go,but the boys thought there was enough of one family, and that he had bettor stay home and take care of the children while they did the fighting.--N. T. Journal. Besieging1 a Lunatic. A crazy man, by name Wetterlind, recently terrorized the Sweedish town of Goteborg for more than a whole week. He had locked himself in the top story of a house whence he com­ manded a wide sweep of street, and marked and fired at any and everybody who approached. After he shot one man dead the firemen attempted . to drown him out, but could not get near enough, as the man was a dead shot They next made iron shields to pro­ tect them in the approach, but these proved too cumbersome. An attempt to dislodge the lunatic by throwing dumbbells charged with electricity at him had to be abandoned. A barri­ cade was then erected around the house by the police and a regular siege laid to it The lunatic stood it a week before he was starved out, and was then seized by strategy, too weak to defend him­ self. He had wounded a number of people from his perch during the sing­ ular campaign.--New York Sun. THE papers ara searching for a man who is always ready for an emergency. The woman always waiting for an offer will be found. SOMETHING you trill never fî d «n win PAPIER XACHE. Nvthed of Its Manufacture and tbM to Wbleh It la Applied. [Pittsburgh Chronicle.] "A dollar vou cau't tell me what that match-box is made of," said Dick, handing the object to his friend, Harry Dult "Don't bet, in the first place," re­ plied Harry, "and don't care in the second. S'pose all a man wants to know is if it'll hold matches and isn't too big for his pocket" "Never saw such a fellow as you in my life. I'm sure that if the last judg­ ment was announced on good authority for noon, sharp, to-morrow, you'd take it as a matter of course." "Why not? When I run up against the inevitable I try to manage things so as not to get concussion of the brain. Is there anything as startling us your supposed announcement in that match-box ?" "Did you ever see a piece of polished ebony as light as that?" "Polished pancakes! . It's nothing but papier macho. Any child can tell that" "Perhaps^ so. But, admitting the fact, there is a child of about six-and- twonty solid winters in front of me who can't tell how papier in ache is made." "I'm very much given to minding my own business, and the making of papier maclie is no part of it. But I think it's an open question whether you could accurately describe the process your­ self. By the way, why does it interest you?" "I have the prosperity of Pittsburgh at heart. Some people seem to think that all we can or ought to do here is to make iron, steel, and glass. Now, with our splendid advantages in point of fuel, I think Pittsburgh would-be a first-rate place for the manufacture of paper car wheels."' "That's quite another matter. Now, I'm prepared to listen. But you know I love brevity." "Well, cotton forms the basis of the paper used. The sheets are pasted together with dextrine until the mass is thick enough to go under the hy­ draulic press. There they are squeezed into any desired form, which, when dry, is as hard as and a good deal lighter, bulk for bulk, than any wood." "Brief enough; go on." "This product is poreless, fiberless, sapless, and knotless. It is subjected for twenty-four hours to a high-drying heat. Then it caqbe workod with any kind of tool. The varnishing of it is a mere detail. "It is from this substance that are manufactured all those bracelets of large black beads studded with Scotch imitation diamonds, all those neck­ laces, pins, clasps, and trinkets of all sorts that are taken for pitch coal or some precious wood. Again, those handsome bracelets, composed of semi- lucid and opaline globules, that seem to have been cut out of a stone formed by concentric layers, like certain pre­ cious stones, are merely of papier maclie, cemented with white varnish and coated with' the same. So, too, those beautiful nacreous, painted, and gilded trays, round tables, and caskets that are known as Japanese work are merely of papier maclie. The Japanese know but one kind of gilding, while we have two--the dead and the brilliant. We have, likewise, a liquid nacre taken from the scales of the whitebait that well imitates the white currant and cer­ tain transparent berries. The nacre is solidly inlaid by means of the hydraulic press, and finally the surface is fin­ ished with pumice stone to make it perfectly even, and covered with colorless varnish of the first quality. "Well, that was worth listening to. But if I wern as much interested in all this kind of stuff as you are I think I'd try and invent something myself." "Too many patent sharps around, Wouldn't pay. More fun in letting other fellows do that" J/ How a Partridge " Drum!*** When I first came to Canada, I found there were various opinions as to the method of making the sound. One man, who read a great deal but rarely went into the woods, said that fho sound was produced by the bird's voice; some of the hunters told me that the bird struck its wings on the log, and others declared that it struck them together over its back. I did not give much heed to the book­ man's explanation, for all the woodmen laughed at it. I soon learned to dis­ credit also the idea that the bird thumped the log with its wings, be­ cause, whether it stood on a stnp or a stone, a rotten log, or solid timber, the sound was always the same. Lastly, I did not believe that the wings were struck together, because when a pigeon or a rooster strikes its wings together, the sound is always a sharp crack. At length, after watching the bird care­ fully, I came to the conclusion that it drums by beating the air only. It is not an easy matter to get sight of a partridge when he is drumming, but I managed to do it by crawling on my hands and knees toward the bird, lying still while he was quiet, and only moving forward when he renewed his noisy courtship,--for it is to woo and win his mate that Sir Ruffed Grouse indulges in these musical exercises. In this way I contrived to come within twenty feet without alarming him. Through the alder thicket 1 could just see his shapely form strutting about like a turkey cock; then, for a moment, he stood upright, with his feathers ly­ ing close. Suddenly his wings flashed, and at the same moment I heard the loud thump. Then, for a few seconds, he stood looking about as though noth­ ing had happened; but presently came a second flash and thump, and others rapidly followed at lessening intervals, until at last the serenade rolled away like the galloping of horses or the rumbling of distant thunder.--Ernest E. Thompson, in St. Nicholas. Anecdote of Abseut-Mindedness. A prominent instructor at Cornell University, noted for absent minded- ness, recently forgot to bring his written lecture, and consequently had to excuse his class for fifteen minutes while he went home to get it. Lessing, the German philosopher, knocked at his own door °one evening when the servant, looking out of the window and not recognizing him, said: "The Pro­ fessor is not at home." "Oh, very well," said Lessing, composedly, walking away; "I'll call another time." Dr. Peabody, of Cambridge, once called at the postoffioe for a letter, but could not remember his name. On leaving the offioe he met a student, who said: "Good evening, Dr. Peabody." "Ah," replied the Doctor, "thank you, thank you," and returned for the letter. A prominent clergyman of Bridge­ port, Ct, was placed in rather an em­ barrassing predicament on a recent Sunday. Just after taking his seat in the pulpit, to his utter astonishment he discovered that he was minus the regulation collar and tie. He had forgotten to put them on before leav­ ing home. It would never do to stand up before the congregation and exposo his bare neck, neither would it be just the thing to deliver his discourse with coat collar turned up to his ears. Just then a messenger stepped up to the desk with a Sunday notice to be read. A happy thought struck the parson. His mishap was oxpl&ined, the mes­ senger kindly loaned his neck-gejyr the services proceeded. H : ^ Rienzi X Gnffin's Plot. It was midnight The Podunk par­ ish church was enshrouded in darkness. Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of a stealthy footstep. A "man was evidently approaching the sacred edifice, in his hand a dark-lantern. Only a little music--presto e agitato-- was needed to make the scene an in­ tensely thrilling one; but the stranger having by some strange oversigh neg­ lected to bring an orchestra with liirn, this effect had to be dispensed with. Slowly and cautiously this mysterious mun, whose form had enveloped in a long, black cloak, and whose face was partially hidden by a slouch hat, picked his way among the graves until he re&clied the ivy-colored church. "Courage, courage!" he murmured, hoarsely. "Let me not forget all that depends uppfi the entire success of this great sehenie." > With these words lio fitted a skeleton- key in the lock of the church-door, and in another moment he stood inside the large vacant building. Guided by the rays of the lantern, he hurried down the center aisle and entered a small room in the rear of the chancel. In one corner of this apart­ ment stood an iron-bound chest. "So far so good/' muttered the strange visitor. In a few moments he had succeeded in forcing the lock of the chest which proved to be filled with books and papers. In great agitation he seized a volume upon the cover of which were the words, "Porish Record." With trembling hand he opened the aged book and turned to the record of births. A cry of triumph escaped his lips as his eyes rested upon these words: "Born November 20, 1857, Rienzi McGuflln." He drew a pen-knife from his pocket, and was in the act of erasing the date when the Bound of a heavy footstep be­ hind him caused him to turn quickly. He heard an exclamation of dismay as he found himself confronted by the old sexton. "Rienzi McGuflln!" burst from the lips of the aged man. "You here at this hour of the night! And what are you doing ? Altering the date iu the record of your own birth! What means this boy ?" "Mercy, mercy!" pleaded the young mun. "Mercy, said the sexton, sternly, "costs money. Have you a stray V about you?" "I have. If I transfer it to your keep­ ing, will you agree to let me fix up the record to suit myself?" "Well I dunno. What do want to do it for?" "I will explain. My wife had con­ tracted the habit of making me expen­ sive presents on all festive occasions. Of course I have to foot the bills for them." "I see!" murmured the old man, sym­ pathetically. "My birthday," resumed McGuffin, which oceui-B on November 20--next week--is a festive occasion; conse­ quently 1 shall have to pay out large wealth for a gift formjnelf unless I can accomplish the purpose which brought me here to-night." "Which was ?" "To change the date of my birth to December 25--Christmas. Then one present will do for both holidays, and I shall be spared the necessity of dining at a five-cent restaurant for six weeks to come. Do you grasp the idea, old man?" "You have a great head,"said the sex­ ton, admiringly. "Handover the V, my boy." Speechless with emotion, Rienzi Mc­ Guffin gave the aged man the sum he asked. In a few minutes both of the men had taken their departure, and again dark­ ness and silence was over alL The deed w«s done.--Tid-liits. UIM GJtMS M0 LOSSES. Jay Mould's Blunderbuss. A German once called at the office of Mr. Morosini and inquired for Mr. Gould. This man had invented a new method of churning butter. The in­ vention consisted of an immense copper syringe, about two feet long and six inches in circumference. His idea was to supply the great American public with the means of churning their own butter, and thus making every house­ hold happy. The cream was to be placed within the syringe and then put into the owner's pocket The constant walking during the day was supposed to agitate the cream sufficiently to form butter; failing in this, however, a few rapid movements of the plunger would answer the purpose. This could be done by a gentleman when leaving home for business in the morning, and when he returned at night ho wonld have two pounds of fresh butter that would astonish the natives. The idea was certainly economical as well as novel. On entering the office the man met Mr. Morosini, who asked him his busi­ ness. The German replied that he had perfected a great invention, and desired to show it to Mr. Gould. The gentle­ man in question was standing close by, and on hearing his name mentioned he stepped forward to the pigeon-hole in the office. The outer room at that time was divided by a partition in which was>ft pigeon-hole,' and through this visitors were interviewed. With a wave or his hand Mr. Morosini referred the stranger to Mr. Gould. Aftor looking at the railroad magnate in silence for a moment, the man suddenly made a dash with his right hand into his vest pocket and drew forth this odd butter churn or syringe, which he pointed in a confiding manner and with the bland­ est of smiles toward the two gentle­ men. Visions of an assassination cross­ ing their minds, both Mr. Gould and Mr. Morosini 'simultaneously dropped tremblingly to the floor, beneath the pigeon-hole, and in the most heart- rendering tones shrieked: "Please shoot high." The wounded feelings of the innocent German may be imagined when he dis­ covered that his great invention was mistaken for a blunderbuss.--New York Star. Tit* Wonderfnl Growth of the VKBMT aft Um IxpenM of tbe Latter Sine* 1884. The labor vote in the three gnat cities. New York, Chioago, and Cincinnati, in 1884, was 1 per cent of the total vote cast Last &11 in New Yotk, and this spring in Chicago and Cincinnati, this vote was one- third of the whole. The Democratic vote in these three eities in 1884 was large enough to make New York Democratic, to render Ohio donbtfol, and to redneethe Republican majority in Illinois to the low­ est figures in a Presidential year in the his- tarp of the party. The vote cast for Mayor Hewitt in New York City was too small ever to carry the State for the Democrats in a Presidential year, and this was equally true ot the vote polled by Judge Peckhavn. the Democratic candidate for Court of Ap­ peals. In Chicago this spring the Demo­ cratic vote disappeared entirely, and in Cincinnati it dropped to half its average total. The Republican vote in these cities at these elections fell not far below the average of an off year. We need draw no inferences for the future from these facts. We need simply state them. We are very far from confus­ ing and confounding the socialist poll in Chicago with the honest labor protest against bad government in Cincinnati, or either with the vote for Henry George, compounded of many and diverse elements, (>art socialist, part Labor, and part the po-itical flotsam of a great city. The Repub­ lican vote in Chicago, like the Democratic vote in New York for Mayor Hewitt, rep­ resented the united protest of men from both parties against the threats of social­ ism--with this difference, that in Chicago the Democratic vote disappeared and in .Njew York the Republican vote made a strong fight on its own account and polled its fair proportion of its aggregate vot9 in 1884. But with these qualifications and limitations the following table (in which Hamilton County does duty for Cincinnati in 1884) tells its own remarkable story of the enormous growth of the Labor vote at the expense of the Democratic party: BASE-BALL LITCIJ Times Predicted DNT the Sea- ŝea ef 1887 en the Greea Diamond. Ota... Chi... 188&-7. Bep. | Dem. 60,43a' 9J,£>52 17,963! 11,831 51.810 Ifc8l. Lab. Rep. | Dam. |Lab. 68,110 I 90,095 ]:W,2^2,3,4'J9 17,367 i | KS.744 3V248 318 23,179i 51,420 48,530 812 189,r>9S|l<W,40S 103,65c|| 180,259 '215,00014,629 Hew to Turn Their H< "Miss Smith, are you going to thlri>afl to-morrow night?" asked Kosciusko Murphy. Miss Smith--"Of oourse I am." "I supposed as much. Why is it that you are so fond of dancing ?" "Yon see, it's the easiest Way to turn men& heads."-- Texas Sifting«. Making all allowances for fusion in Chi­ cago, where a straight-out Democratic ticket would probably have polled 15,(100 votes or so, it still remains true that the Labor vote has grown twentyfold, and the Democratic vote has been cut in two iu the middle. With the Democratic vote of these three cities at even 150,000, the North is Republican. With the city populations of the country casting a Labor vote this size, or half this size, there is net a single Northern State whose Electoral vote would be counted for a Democratic candidate. As we said before, these are not inferences, they are facts--facts of the lirst political magnitude. We have no desire to blink the fact *>»»• in all city elections this Bpi ing, and in one State election, local and special causes played their share in changing the relative vote of the different parties. The Rhode Island election itself is proof how straight a blow can be hit at bad methods in poli­ tics when the eyes of voters are open. Cleveland, where a bad Republican city ticket was buried because forty-three per cent, of the Republican voters stayed away from the polis, and Republican business men voted for tbe Democratic candidate for May or, offers more proof of the same order. But neither of these instances changes the broad fact that the Labor vote has grown to amazing proportions in three years at the expense of the Democratic party. The one great Republican city of the country--Philadelphia--is the only one in which no Labor vote was cast. In Mil­ waukee, where a fusion ticket was run by tbe Democrats and Republicans against a Labor candidate he pulled through only by the narrowest vote of his opponent, whose heaviest vote was for the moBt part polled in the Democratic wards of the city. As it was, the city was carried by the Labor vote, and the elc-ction was turned into a defeat for socia'ism only by the outlying towns. With the exception of two or three Repub­ lican wards in Milwaukee and Dubuque, which was cairied this week by the Knights of Labor, there is nowhere in the country a Republican city vote which has added to the Labor poll. The Labor vote comes from the Demo­ cratic- party, and in its going it has taken half or all the voting strength of this party in the great cities of tbe country, and without these cities the Democratic party North is weak indeed.--Philadelphia Press. The Same Old Color Line. The action of Alabama military com- Eanies in refusing to enter the National' >rill at Washington because a few com­ panies of colored troops were to take part in it, has been followed by two of the crazy companies of Texas. They base their ac­ tion on the same ground, and thiok it was an insult to the people of the South to per­ mit colored troons to drill in competition with the white chivalry of that section. So the San Antonio ititles and the Belknap Rides follow the "Blues" and the "Greys of Montgomery, and the "Rifles" of At­ lanta. in haughtily resenting this affront to Southern pride. It is also probable that other Southern companies will also with­ draw from the National Drill when they learn that a few black men have been ad­ mitted. But it is well to notice that the line which these representatives of the New South refuse to cross is the same old color line that the Old South fought against. The color line is just as insurmountable a barrier to the pride and prejudice of the New South as it was to the hatred and en­ mity of the Old South. All of the gushing remarks of Mr. Grady at Northern ban­ quets have not been able to spirit au av that ugly old line of inherited bate and bitter feeiing that Btands between the son of a slave-driver and the son of a slave.--Des Moines Register. Democratic Nepotism. In tbe days of President Grant, when he ventured to appoint two or three of his distant kinsmen to some petty offices, there was a great howl from the Democratic press as to nepotism. There would be an astonishing exhibit if the press would now show the extent to which nepotism is run­ ning under Cleveland and all the Demo­ crats in high office. The reform President has appointed several of his own and his wife's kinsmen to good offices. The Demo­ cratic Senators, taking the cue from the White House, have indulged extravagantly in the same favoritism to their relatives. The appointment of E. L. Pugb, of Ala­ bama; a son of Senator Pugh, as clerk of the Interstate Railway Commission, is the seventeenth relative of that Democratic leader appointed to lucrative offices under Cleveland. Nearly all of the Democratic Senators have from six to a dozen of their kinsmen in office. Their interpretation of civil-service reform evidently is to get as many of your own kin into place as yon can.--Exchange. DEMOCHATIC Senator McPherson of New Jersey is not hopeful of his party's success next year. He says: "The indi­ cations are that the Labor party will nom­ inate a separate national ticket in 1888. If they do it will make Democratic success extremely doubtful in New York, New Jer­ sey, Connecticut, Indiana, West Virginia, and Virginia. I must say that the outlook for Democratic success next year is not as bright aB some of mv friends think and as I should like to see. 1 doubt if any Dem­ ocrat, hi the face of a regular Labor can­ didate next year, could hold anv considera­ ble portion of the Labor vote. IT is not at all certain that New York will control the next national election. Ex- Gov. Wise, of Virginia, declares that that State, as well as West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, can easily be carried by the Republicans,. while Indiana is a most hopeful battle-field. The Republicans will not need to carry all their eggs in • «M • basket in 1888 by a good deal., % iixisns Hard Hittng and Active Base-Running Among the Products of the Saw . Boles. [CHICAGO CORKKHPOIFRKXCK.] The American Association teams played the first championship games of the base­ ball season of 1887 on the 15th of April, and on the 28th of April the first cham­ pionship games of the present season will take place between the teams of tbe Na­ tional League. Thus within a few days both the great base-ball organizations of the country will have launched upon their season's contest for the captuie of their respective pennants, with every indication that the games will be attended by even a more remarkable degree of interest than has marked the progress of the contests through any seasons past. As in past years at the commencement of tbe season, specu­ lation is rife among admirers of the game everywhere as to the relative strength, the probable position of the teams at the end of the season, and the character of the fight they will make, with a strong favoring, of course, of the team belonging to the city from which such admirers may bail. There is a good deal of speculation among players, as well as patrons of the game, regarding the probable effect of the new rules. As a rule the players, particu­ larly pitcbero, condemn the new pitching rules. They render the pitchers work harder, make more work for the fielders, and prolong the length of the game. Out­ siders, however, seem pleased with the new arrangement. Spectators who pay to wit­ ness base-ball games like to see plenty of action. They like to see plenty of hard hitting and lively base-running. From every indication they are likely to get a surfeit of both this season. Heavy batting and ' daring base-running will be the feat­ ure of the games, and large scores will be the result. The lovers of the game will seldom see any scores like 2 to 1, or any "Chicagos." The new rules were made so that the whole nine might play ball and not the pitcher. Last season the fielders had very little to do, aud seldom won any applause, which made them feel that they were no more than automatons. Now they will have a chance to show fy>w nimble they are. The games will take more time to play than they did under the old rules, because the pitchers can very seldom retire the three men in one, two, three style. The twirlers will have to work very hard to earn a record, as they mnst either allow a man to hit the ball or give him a base, but which will count just the same as if a man had knocked the cover off the ball. What most of the players grum­ ble at is the four strike system, which they say will help to make poor batters' records as large as those who handle the bat freely. The heavy hitters of the League say that if a man can't hit a ball in three trials be ought never step to the plate. Thre3 strikes and out is a regular household word, and it will be a long time before the people will get ac­ quainted with four strikes. The patrons of the game will find that thete rules were adopted to show the energy of each and every man on the team, and if they are given a fair trial they will suit everybody. President Ni<-k Young, of the National League, was asked not long ngo if he an­ ticipated any trouble wi-.h the new rules, and he promptly replied: "I do not. These rules were not formulated until they were thoroughly discussed in all their bearings by the managers and the most prom nent players in ti e profession. Of course they will be experimental to a certain extent, but they are in many respects superior to the old rules, and will conduce very materially to make the contests more exciting and at­ tractive. If, however, after a satisfactoiy trial, they should prove a failure--which I do not o\pe-t--they can be easily chnnged by a special meeting of the League com­ mittee, which has lull power to make what­ ever changes may be deemed expedient." In Spalding's Guide, which lias just been issued iu thiB city, President Young is allowed two pages to give his "Poiuts on Scoring." The points are in the nature o the advice which the teacher of a kindergarten school usually gives his pupils, and to infant scorers may prove valuable. HOME About a dozen ideas are 1; I abroad regarding the prop- ' I, er position of a pitcber under the new rules. The * correct 6tyle is illustrated. The general impression iB that the pitcher mutt keep both of his feet tirni on the ground from the moment he takes his position until the ball has been deliv­ ered. This is not 60, as will be seen by the accom­ panying diagram. ; I So. 1 iB the pitcher's po- ; Sttion for right foot. I ' : No. 2 is the pitcher's po« I 3 : sition for left foot. ; ; .No. 3 is the place he ; 3 ; makes his step with the I 1 : left foot when delivering the ball. Aright-handed pitcher Btands with hi! left foot a little to the left of his right, which must rest on tbe rear line of tbe pitcher's box. The ball has to be held in plain view of the umpire, then the prelim­ inary arm motion is brought into play, and, as the ball is delivered, the step from No. 2 to No. 3 is taken. Notes of tliu Game. THE interstate commerce law makes it cost the League clubs about $2,500 more for traveling expenses. A MAS with a calculating head has fig nred out that it will cost just $3,310,800 to run the several professional ball clubs this season. THE grand stand of the Athletic Clnb of Philadelphia is fitted up with opera chairs, and the stand looks very much like a theater. MANAGER BRYAN, of the Des Moines club, offers to run a 100-yard race against Sunday, of the Chicagos. Bryan is a ten- second man. Tin: profits of the Chicago Club last sea­ son were a little more than f15,000. Add to this $13,000 realized from sale of play­ ers and the treasury has about $30,000 from which to declare a dividend of 20 per cent, and leave enough to run the club for a while. MOKBILL, of the Bostons, is a church member; White, of the Detroits, is a dea­ con in an Ohio church; Radford, of the Metropolitans; O'Rourke, of the New Yorks; and Sunday, of the Chicagos, are all church members, and will never enter a ball-field or club-room on Sunday. IN the contest for "the championship of the world" between the Chicago Base-hall Club and the St. Louis Browns, the for­ mer have thus far beaten ttie latter four times out of six. Three more games re­ main to be played next October. Should the Chicagos win one of these three they will secure the championship honor. The Browns will have to win the three games to secure the championship. SPALDING'S Official Base-Ball Guide for 1887 surpasses all of its predecessors in the great amount of valuable information it contains. It is embellished with cuts of President Spalding. M. J. Kelly, Roger Connor, J aims O'Rourke, Dan Brouthers, and A. C. Anson. The Guide enters upon its second decade as a standard hand-book of the national game. It may be said .to open up a new era in the history of the game, as it presents for the first time a new code of playing rules which govern every professional club in the country. A feature of the Guido for 1887 is the explanatory appendix to each class of rules of the new code. Another specialty is the monthly records of the championship contests of the two leading organizations of the oonutry. PIiATE. PITCHERS BOX. bill ot Ssnstor Washburn to termers' county motost live sfoek eompanie* pas*«d tbe Senate OK tb» tMfc The bill provides that may naadhV not less than twenty-five, residing ia ty, who shall collectively own pcopMty'Sf The Cleary House Mil for the game was called up, read second to allow toe k " s of Ifonmbw then ordered to a third rasd&ML geaatev „ ford ealled up the Hbtse MB fawrMilwg nnmber of Circuit Judges la Cook Cot and providing for the election of six wt< In Jane, and it was ordered to athixd nauig with an emergency clause. The HOOM eesweSn red in the joint resolution ordering tbe wanjejS of th«.Penitentiariesi at. CTie^airfJoUetto* ̂ IT the Government to t«ke all ttts vmMl' States prisoners from said ninety days, unless an in* tion was paid for their iiibefstsne*.' Partridge introduced a bill TWUlliUsi i having Bpecial charters to redistrlct fcr' meat Mr. ~" poses of municipal government introduced a bill providing for the elsnttco by the ]>eople of the members of the fflets HfraBll of I Agriculture, one member ftOOl «*6h OSfe* gresaional district and one liuilllliw Bl ll the one at large to be President of tbe Jin Mr. GLttinga, presumably at the request eft Live-stock Commission, introdne tion calling upon that body to fu House information in its possession the status of pleuropneumonia in Che "cit Chicago. Triti resolution was adopted. Ruby called up the "jug bill,* which was " by a vota of yeas to 73 nays. Mr. promptly entered a motion to reeoashler. House bill providing for an addit Circuit Court Judge in districts WIMW •n Appellate .Tud^e has already been elected was passed. Memorial exercises were held in the House of Ttrprssniit illiss. it being the twenty-second anniversary o€ t«e death of Abraham Lincoln. Gen. JF. N. 11 no lie. President of tbe Lincoln Guard of Honor, pre* sid'Pd, and the exercises were opened by mail by Kev. Dr. N. W. McKlroy. This was followed by music, and then the Chairman introduced the lit. Kev. George F. Seymour. Bishop of tbe diocese of Springfield, who delivered a weB- couceived address. The Bishop's aiHilross was followed by the reading ot Brownell's rm on Abraham Linsoln, by lbs.' S. Johnson, and by singing. Bene* tentative W. H. Collins, of Quincy, was then introduced and delivered an eloquent critical oration on the life, character, and services Of Lincoln. Clinton L. ('onkling. who has bi member of the Lincoln Guard of Honor its organization, read an historical paper the keeping and disposal of tbe remains of Lincoln. Both honaes of tbe Legislature *6* Journed to the -2Cth. THE bill to amend the election law by profil­ ing for the appointment of an Election Com. mission by tbe Governor, and the preserving of ballots for six months, was advanoed to tnild reading in the Senate on the 20th of April. Mfe Crawford's bill for the election of fifteen Coca* missioners in Cook County was passed. TIMS anti-bucket shop and tbe Chicago ot tion bills were advanced to third Bills were introduced as follows: By 8aaaSdr Eckhart, to provide for the creation o| a ass commission to rsgnlate the price ot gas;T>y same, to provide for the care of the tesora^ly insane; by Senator Berggren, providing for (be paying over to villaite treasurers the money collected for roads and br.dges. The MH mak­ ing an appropriation of $3,Olio for pablisbittg tbe reports of the Illinois Dairying Association pro­ voked quite a discussion, but was flnally sent to third reading. The Rouse of Bepressttta tives, by a vote of 86 to 36, adopted a resolution to investigate the removal ot Mrs. Ohr, Matron of the Soldiers' Or. phans' Home at Koruiai. Mr. Baker's bucket-shop bill was sent to third reading. As amended the bill allows dealing In futares, but not in options. Ihe anti-Pinkerton bill was . debated and recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. The bill prepared by Mr. W«BS, prohibiting the employment ef children nailer 13 years of age, was ordered to a third reeding. Mr. Merritt's bill declaring all corporations dn> lug business in the State to be citizens of HD>: nois was, without debate, ordered engrossed far third reading. SENATOR CRABTREE'S bill to suppress baekst- shops and Senator Cochrane's bill to allow in­ mates of the Soldiers' Home to vote were ad­ vanced to third reading in the Senate on Avail 91. The House bill providing for the linsnlia tion of savings associations was read a snnonfl time and sent to the Committee on Banks and Banking. The resolution of Senator Bell let garding tbe commission of claims and tbeelatina now on tile at the Auditor's office came up as a special order and was adopted. The tw '̂ltttanl of the resolution is to have audited certafrs Pog penis Creek .lam claims In the House of Bep- resentative the Committpe on Elections reported adversely the bill making general election duns legal holidays, but the House took np tbe Illy, struck oil the emergency clause, and jriaoed fits bill on the calendar. An attempt was uufcde b; Mr. Wilson, of Cumberland County, to the bill providing for the burial of unhl diers, but it did not succeed, and tbe MUms advanoed. The vote by wblcL Mr. ftabpsfive. gallon liquor bill was defeated was ~in*WHf ered, and the bill was passed by a vote ot «t to 91. The bill appropriating f*),000 for a monument to Governor Yates at Jackson viile was passed. The bill to provide anlmt tbe in- terforence of private persons inpnblie matters, or, as it has come to be called, the anti-Pinker­ ton lull, was killed SJ dead that it will not be resun-ected this Benson, An hour was on- sumed iu a discussion of the weary old Mil for the relief of one Mr. bolles, which has bona be­ fore* so many Legislatures. At the end at tnat t me only ti > votes could be found for it, and it failed 'ihe House spent nearly two boors in the consideration of a bill whicn providse tttak no person shall liave the benefit of tbe exemp­ tion laws unles.-i he be a resident of tbe States The bill was finally advanced to the order eC third reading. Mr. Kister s bill to increase the fees of County Recorders was killed. New York Churches. Qotham, for a town supposed to ̂ mortgaged to his majesty down below, has a good deal of money .invested ii churches. The total is about $ti0,000 -̂ 000. It vexes the soul of CoL Inger- soll that all this property is exempt from taxes. If it bore its share of the tax burden like other property its con­ tribution to the city treasury wonld be about a million a year. Trinity Chtiroh heads the list in point of Talue, ttui figures on it being $',000,000. The lioman Catholic Cathedral on Fifth avenue comes next at $2,000,000. Trin ­ ity iB actually worth at least $4,000,000 ̂ aud the Cathedral not less than $3,000,- 000. St. Paul's is set down at $1,7S0^> 000, and Grace at $850,000, which ll ; hardly half what any real-estate broker would say it is worth. The fashionable St. Thomas' Church on Fifth avenaeia valued at $750,000 and the Fifth Ave* nue Presbyterian Church (Dr. Hall1*), nearby, at the same figure. One Dutch Beformed Church on the avenue stands at $750,000 and another at $450,000; aud the stylish synagogue, wherein th* more progressive Hebrews worship, at $650,000. One Boman Catholic Church /St. Paul's) is valued at $500,000, and the next highest figure in that den<utf> inatiou is $.'550,000 on St. Stephen^ ' the scene of the l)r. McGlynn troabl% ' now at an end. The well-known Little Church Around the Corner is on the list at $250,000. Along Fifth aveqiMI and Madison avenne, tbe arteries * through which the bine blood of Goth­ am tlows, there are some thirty ̂ ;. churches ranging in value from $200,- 000 to $750,000.--New York Mail «n# i &xn>res8. ^ f • Wealthy Men ef Coler. John M. Langs ton, the ex-1 to Hayti, is rich, and owns some of the most valuable property in Washington*, John F. Cook, the Tax-Collector of the District of Columbia, is sa d to bs worth ^200,000. He has held h s pin- ent office for fifteen years. Ex-Senator Bruce, of M'saissippt, owns large estates, and his little boy, Roscoe Conki ng Bruce, will inherit • fortune when h s father dies. Although Bepresentat ve Smalls, of.;' South Carolina, boards n Washington* lie is sa d to be wealthy, and his dangk» ters are be'ng educated in New En- ' gland seminaries. John Lynch, who was one of the presiding officers at the laat National? liepubl can Convent on, owns exteaai** cotton plant at ons near Natchez, Muek He spends most of li s tline in Wash­ ington, where he s studying law, and., he is worth $100,000. ^ George W. Williams, link first eof* ored man who ever got info the Ohio Leg slature, and who was appointed fcy President Arthur as Min sterto H«yts but not confirmed, says that thevt are , 100 negroes in Wash'ngtott woctk#HQ -̂ 000 and over, 1,000 wegth tft.000 and *1^000. r # • VSf • •• 'k. \v;-JIV '.J'tS-.-'-i..,-V" :•