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» I >'• • I. VANSLYKE. tMniM McHENRY, M 1 ILLINOIS. ? s THE Confederate veterans tie con­ sidering a proposition to change the date of their memorial day from April :ae to May 30, the Northern Decoration J>ay. Gov. Fitzhngh Lee, of Virginia, Recommends the change, becaoae. May ;'i: 30 is a National holiday. MB. WILLIAM M. SARGENT, of "Port- l|md, Me., has bronght to light some .^d documents of great interest. Among ihem is the charter granted by Charles f , X to Capt. John Mason as proprietor ^ '-'«f New Hampshire, the existenoe of ' which has long been denied. AT Albany, N. Y., a few days ago, in t; ; ̂ case between an architect and a cli­ ent, the client having notified the arch­ itect to stop work after he had ordered Specifications, details, and estimates to "' • ' fee prepared on designs accepted by •; , fchn, the client was compelled to pay . 8i per cent, on the amount the build­ ing was to cost. ; PKIKCE VICTOR NAPOLEON, exiled, f *" Bow residing in Brussels, holds weekly 'ieceptions. Among his regular visitors ,«re a number of the Bonapartist mem- .. Ibers of the Paris Chamber of Depn- , $es, who make a weekly pilgrimage to , " . Belgium to pay their respects to the representative of the house of Napo- s ' leon and try to bolster np its lost cause. ' DR. HOLMSES says that when he was <• • t|n England he insisted upon measuring aome large elms, to compare them with toston elms. About sixteen feet around te trunk is the measurement of the Boston common elm, and from twenty fo twenty-three feet is the ordinary ttiaximum of the largest trees. He fbund an elm in the grounds of Mag­ dalen College which measured twenty- : t* Ave feet and six inches. DR. EDWARD 'ABBOTT, Winterport, Mo., and now of Provi- j7~ dence, R. L, represents the fourth . (feneration of physicians in his family, i , " His great-grandfather, Dr. Ware, prac­ ticed in Dighton, Mass. His grand- ! . lather graduated from Harvard in 1803, 4nd his father, Dr. Charles Abbott, gSlrho died in 1879, was surgeon of the wenty-sfxth Maine Volunteers. He as a graduate of the University of ew York, as is his son. S. B. CHITTENDEN of Brooklyn, who flome years ago gave Yale $50,000 for a professorship and has just presented $he university with $100,000 for the Erection of a library building, is not a - , graduate of the institution to which he lias been so liberal. He was in his iyonth, however, a firm friend of Presi­ dent Porter and has always been inter­ im jested in Yale. Mr. Chittenden first won success as a merchant in New L. >(i Jlaven and his only daughter was born t ' yithin 200 feet of the spot on whioh i'%ill be erected the new library.* I _ I '. ;! HENRY GEORGE'S wife is coming in for ' J|er share of the curiosity of those who II "want to know, you know,* and the If Brooklyn Times tells them that "she is V. thorough home body, devoted to her - husband and their four children; one of iy ihe small, plump, cheery bodies that \ |iever get down hearted, and people S' %ho have known them a long time say | ,|hat but for her unflagging devotion P and enthusiastic belief in him Mr. i ' George would never have bfeen able to iome triumphantly through the long • period of straitened means and hard |rork which preceded his sudden suc- of tornadoes and cyclones per yeir per square aaile embraces Missouri, Ohio, Kansas, Io\va, Indiana, Illinois, and Georgia. The month of April has been strikingly prominent for tornadoes and cyclones. The era for these classes of storms usually covers the period from April to September. On April 18, 1880, the most fearful cyclone then on record swept over portions of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Missouri. It will be remembered that this was the date of the bursting upon Marslifield, Mo., of what seemed to be a water-spout. The town, all but about score of buildings, was completely wrecked. It was estimated that not fewer than a hundred persons lost their lives. The property destroyed was never fully figured. It was during , that cyclone that a little child was carried away and was afterward found sus­ pended uninjured in the branches of a tree thirty feet from the ground and three miles from home. Another fear­ ful storm struck Brownsville, Mo., on April 5 and 7, 1882, killed eleven per­ sons outright, wounded 150 others, and completely demolished fifty buildings in the town. During the year 1885 there was still another similar deadly visitation. The time was April 29, and Pleasant Hill, Mo., was the place. There was loss to life and property, but nothing like the losses at Marslifield and Brownsville. The cyclones at Ne­ vada, Mo., and in Arkansas, Kentucky, Kansas, Minnesota, and elsewhere, in April of this year, suggest the investi­ gation into these biennial storms. The Missouri River and its Missouri and Kansas tributaries have furnished nearly all of those most destrnctive cy­ clones. Other States have had severe storms, but Missouri has certainly been seriously afflicted above her neighbors. W- 6f K , - W I •- w. r" ( AN indulgent Marlborough street pa­ rent, says the Boston Herald, has been in the habit of giving his youngest born a nickel every time the child brought him his slippers. Last week ^faster Five-year-old "struck" for more /pay. He said the circus would be along toon now, and he must save up to go. The indiilgent parent refused any ad ' Vance, and for two days fetched his own flippers, and then the next older child, $ little girl, undertook to perform this filial duty for filthy lucre. But the eoheme, after one trial, had to be aban­ doned, because mademoiselle said she . wasn't going to be called "scab* by her own brother any longer. THE New York State Woman Suf­ frage Association held a meeting in New York the other day. The worker^ in the cause were not altogether har­ monious. There were loud complaints on the part of some that the associa­ tion was run by a ring, and one lady, who was temporarily barred out from the deliberations, said amiably: "I've been to tiie circus and seen the downs, but I've never £ad so much fun as this. Once I was on a train with a large number of cowboys. The train was wrecked, and I can assure yoa that these cowboys in the accident were more gentle, more loving, more amiable, than these women." The sisters are evidently not all of one mind. • y THE terms cyclone and tornado are ' used indiscriminately by the lay and .'unscientific reader and writer, says the ^Chicago Inter Ocean. Because of their Similarity in certain particulars, they are frequently oonfounded the one with si-sthe other. A tornado is, however, de­ fined as a violent gust of wind or a ^tempest, distinguished by a whirling, ' progressive' motion, usually accompa­ nied with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and generally of short duration and restricted breadth; and a cyclone is a rotary storm or whirlwind of extended circuit During the past • haK dozen years several violent storms of these classes have occurred in Mis soqri, which seem to place that State in the lead with respect to storm-raising. So excellent an authority as Lieut. John P. Finley, of the JJnited States ' Signal Corps, finds that, taking the whole United States together, the re­ gion of the greatest average frequency RARITIES. WE live fey faith and faffh exercise. As is said of some men, they are never "THE SILENT PARTNER." A LtMon lo Mca About Their Wlwi ' Flut a Good Wife Really la. [Detroit Journal.] In many a firm, with only a single name or even with a double name, there is a silent partner. He lends his capital or his credit; he gives the coun­ cil of long business experience, but he never appears to the public except in a modest notice of the copartnership or under the uninforming name of "com­ pany." These mercantile partnerships are not the only associations where there is a silent partner. They are fre­ quently formed in youth and formed for life. A magnificent structure of fame, of renown, even of wealth, may be erected, and the success achieved be wholly attributed to the name on the sign which the world can read; to the active, bustling member of the firm who is always at the front of the establishment; who sells its wares, who comes in contact with the people; who is associated with every enterprise and applauded for every great stroke that it makes. But back of it all stands the Bilent partner. In the splendid life work accom­ plished by Beecher, he is now in the literal sense of the words the silent partner. But up to his death the brave, quiet, steadfast woman on whom all eyes are now turned, was for fifty years the silent partner of the concern. How much of its success was due to her, it is impossible to compute. From what blunders and errors her good sense and less impulsive nature may have saved him can only be guessed by counting those which, in spite of her restraint, his impulsive nature succeeded iu perpetrating. But more than that probably he owes a large measure of his achievement to her thousand thoughtful attentions and cares; his health to her skillful feeding of him; his leisure for work to her making her­ self disliked and censured by standing between him and the public, who are always flocking about a famous man and eating away his timie; to her strong, sensible temper, which more than once strengthened his own judgment and protected his musculine vauity from the fumes of flattery, which ascends as an acceptable offering to the hero and dem- well but at work; so here 'which many delight in making of hinder faith from working and you are enemies to its very life and being. HEADACHES, restlessness, irritability, and in attention, are the finger­ posts which usually point to the commencement of the symptoms of overwork; their warning should be heeded in time to avert serious conse­ quences. PAIN itself is not without alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-con­ tinued, and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease which I believe few enjoyments exceed. HATE keeps the heart always at full tension. It gives rise to oppression of brain and senses. It confuses the Whole man. It robs the stomach of nervous powee, and digestion being im­ paired, the failure of life begins at once. Those, therefore, who are born with this passion should give it up. WE must have a weak spot or two in character before we can love it much. People who do not laugh or cry or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary words, are admirable subjects for biog­ raphers. But we don't care most for these fine pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. I HAVE been more and more con­ vinced, the more I think of it, that in general pride is" at the bottom of all great mistakes. All the other passions do occasional good; but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong; and what it might really be de­ sirable to do quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do proudly. EVERYTHING that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything con­ tributes imperceptibly to make us what we are. Yet it is often dangerous to make a strict account of it. For either we grow proud and negligent, or down­ cast and dispirited, and both are equally injurious in their consequences. The surest plan is just to do the nearest task that lies before us. A Historical Episode. Twaa night in the Tower of London. Sir Walter Baleigh sat in his cell calmly smeking a silver pipe filled with genuine Virginia tobacco. [They had genuine tobacco in those days.] He was to be beheaded on the mor­ row. He knew it, but judging by the placidity of his countenance and the apparent enjoyment he derived from his pipe the consciousness did not trouble him much. In the midst of his musings, he seemed to be struck with a sudden re­ solve. * He arose, and approaching the grated door of his cell, cried in stentorian toues: " What ho, warder!" A footstep sounded in the dark cor­ ridor and a warder who had been play­ ing a game of seven-up with his fellows of the watch in the guard room ad­ jacent, appeared at the door of Sir \17n 1 /in] I " What i* tiiy will, Sir Walter ?" * "That thou wonldst favor me with a cuspidore." "Stand not .on ceremony, Sir Walter. Expectorate on the floor." "Expectorate on the floor! Varlet, I expect to rate as a gentleman in the history of these times." "Varlet! By my halidom!"---- "Prithee, pardon me good warden. I spoke hastily.'* "Enough. Thou'rt in the dumps, Sir Walter. Rally. Be thyself. Thou shalt have the cuspidore and by the rood a flagon of sack to boot--or rather to drink." 0 Five minutes later the warder smuggled a three gallon demijohn into Sir Walter's celL "Thou wilt join me?" said Sir Walter. "By my halidom, with all the j)leas- ure in life," replied the warder; "I've just fixed it with the oorporal of the guard to have my name answered at midnight roll call." Two hours later they were singing "We won't go home till morning." "Zounds!" exclaimed Sir Walter, in a burst of hilarity; "let's make a night of it!" "Agreed," hiccoughed the warder; "set--hie--set 'em up." But Sir Walter suddenly collected himself; and it was at this moment that the delicacy, the kindness, the lienevol- ence, the chivalry that ever had charac­ terized l>im, shone forth in their full splender. "No, my friend," he said, "let us end it right here. I have the advantage of you. If we keep on you'll have a head on you to-morrow. '*™I •w.Qn't."--Boston C&urier. distinguished and popular men. They often have a hard • time of it-- these silent partners, trying to keep up with their dashing companions. They are the serviceable vehicle that has to follow the spiritual animal wherever it goee, bounding over the rough places in life, jumping out of the beaten paths, shying and running and gallop­ ing away with manv a snort of impa­ tience, perhaps, at tiie lumbering, ham­ pering attachment from which it can­ not get free. But it is the proud steeds' salvation, notwithstanding. It keeps them straight, it makes them use­ ful. These silent partners are in these modern times becoming more and bet ter known. They are the "mascots" of many a great man, are so recognized. Mrs. Disraeli, Mrs. Gladstone, Mrs. Carlyle, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Logan, and Mrs. Hendricks are only a few of this gracious and benefi­ cent sisterhood to whom the world owes more than can be reckoned, for what it is accustomed to eredit to the active, ostentatious and prominent per­ sonages of those happy partnerships. Private life as well as public life abounds with them. In many a home there goes forth to the counting-house, the lawyer's office, the pulpit, the judge's court, the hundreds of occupa­ tions, an influence of not only love and devotion, but of affection seasoned and toned by the strong, wholesome com­ mon sense, the worldly shrewdness; the foresight and insight, the corrective judgment and the deserved adhionition of "the silent partner." Ung Life and Heredity. One inherits from his ancestors, near or remote, more or less modified by the blending of the male and female lines, not only complexion, features, form, size, intellect, disposition, etc., but the tendencies to particular ail­ ments. and even the germs of positive disease. Consumption can be traced along in some family lines for many generations, while in others it is almost unknown. So, too, asthma, gout, rheumatism, apoplexy, constantly reappear in sope lines, while they are unknown in others. We should expect, therefore, before­ hand that heredity would have much to do with the question of longevity, and it is a matter of common observation that it does. Life insurance companies recognize the fact. Still it has not had the full scientific consideration that it should have, and doubtless will have in time. Meanwhile, it is desirable to accumu­ late facts. Says the London Lancet, "It would be^intereating to study more closely, in the case of centenarians and other aged people, the ages of their near rel­ atives and immediate ancestors." Of Sir Moses Montefiore, who passed his hundredth year, it says, "One parent died at 79, one at 83, his grandfather at 87, his grandmother at 93, a brother at 75, another at 69, a sister at 84, another at 79, another at 82. These nine ages at death give an average longevity of 81 years. The first four--those of the parents and grandparents of Sir Moses give an average of eighty-five years." • A long-lived ancestry, however, does not insure longevity, for many in such a line fail of reaching advanced age. Indeed, vigor of constitution often leads to suicidal violations of physical law. It is therefore a matter of congratula­ tion if one has inherited the long-lived tendency, but the rich gift should be well guarded, for physical vigor is apt to render one thoughtless of the little things that sap the foundations of the grandest constitutions. Let him, also, who has inherited but a poor patrimony of health remember that, after all,'there is nothing like taking good care of one-self. By obedience to the laws of health, he may reverse the hereditary tendency.-- Youth's Companion. Caravansaries in Iudfab Many years ago traveling in India was anything but pleasant, as hotels or other places of entertainment fo:' man and beast were seldom met with. On this account the Government put up buildings for the accommodation of Europeans at many places, and called them dawk bungalows, the Indian name for post-houses. To-day hotels can be found iu any important town in India, but the dawk bungalow still remains, being conducted in the same manner as originally. An agent, appointed by the ruling authority of the district, man­ ages the establishment, and is held re­ sponsible by the appointing power. Any traveler can stop at a dawk bun­ galow if there is room for him. The manager assigns vacant apartments to travelers in order of priority of arrival, pntferenoe always being given to ladies. No guest can retain?'* rmtm longer than twenty-four hours if it Is needed for a new arrival. The charge for the occu­ pancy of the room is one rupee (about 86 cents) a day, and guests can have meals or not, as they please, and if they hare them, at such hours as they please. A printed card in each room gives the rules regulating the estab­ lishment, and a' Government scale of prices for food, wines, etc. On depart­ ing from one of these places guests are expected to enter the length of stay, amount charged, and their impression of the place. A dawk bungalow differs from a hotel in allowing guests a greater amount of freedom in regard to time of meala. Both places have about four servants to wait on each guest, all of whom expect a gratuity when the guest leaves. The morning after our arrival I was aroused by a Mohammedan servant who brought me my chota hazeree (little breakfast) of tea and toast. Prior to this the sweeper, the lowest caste of the Hiudoos, had cleaned out my bath-room, and a Hin­ doo water-carrier had prepare)!! my bath from goat skins filled with water. Each one of tliesa servants had his own particular work, and religious and caste prejudices would not permit either to do the work of the otheift -- • Jealousy* The old adage that wjealouBy is as cruel as the grave," is, to my way of thinking, wrongly put, for were* the grave one half as cruel as this taunting fiend, no one would desire, with the longing which at some time or other in life comes to poor jjaded humanity, to fly to its sheltering arms for rest. Were I asked to diagnose this pas­ sion, it would be as the chill of despair, the sting of envy, the fire of lunacy, and claim for it precedence in the cele­ brated box presented by Jupiter to Pandora, but with hope left out I would call it a monster greater than the python of old, for where is the haud that can stay its ravages when once its hydra head is lifted? Step by step it makes progress to the verge of the maelstrom where lie so many wrecked barques which started on life's journey with such fair freight of hopes and promises; withering the freshness of the heart and narrowing the judgment, it makes a pandemonium of home and happiness; like the swallow, goes and comes then finally takes a farewell flight. Not the least contemptible phase of this many-sided evil--and often dis­ played when least expected--is that which makes one envious of another's personal influence or position. If the hitherto dearest friend of such a person is unfortunate enough to arouse this antagonistic feeling, he or she will not hesitate to resort to the meanest sub­ terfuges and innuendoes; especially is this the case where the offending party has the least claim to good looks or fascinating manners. At once they be­ come the target for invidious remarks, and branded by their suspicious natures as designing; everything to them is tinged with a lurid light. With such persons friendship counts for nothing, for the slime of the serpent is trailed over all the hitherto pleasant relations. Envy and doubt are allowed to creep in and blind the eyes to true merit and motives. Sacred confidences are laid bare and put to such base uses as would cause friendship to veil her face in shame and make the very name a by word. c No one who studies the vagaries of this passion and notes its influence on various temperaments, but has abund ant food for moralizing over the strange and often ridiculous amusements--like wine it seems to bring out the idiosvn cracies of character and runs the entire gamut of feeling. Caused after all by that "spasm of the heart" so graphically described in Chesbro's Victoria. I have seen persons under the influ ence of this emotion do the most un­ natural things; love, fatal consequences, prido, the one thing only that holds many a strong nature in check, are swept away by its mighty power. Lives are wrecked, reputations blasted, and tragedies enacted through this insane passion that fills our lunatic asylums and prison cells with its vic­ tims. I doubt if Heaven's shining messengers stood with flaming sword at the portals of this monster's keep they wouldl have power to stay its course, for with the strength of the attachment comes the intensity of the fever that consumes. I believe that jealousy is one of the component p$rts of all human nature. A latent germ, perhaps, in many who are unconscious that the least taint lurks within their veins until some circumstance forces it to the surface, and they are suddenly awakened to the fact that there is a slumbering volcano in their breasts, ready to throw out the deadly lava which withers everything it touches.--Mary V. Stiles, in St. Louis Magazine. OUR NATIONAL GAME 1 '-.e; The Unprecedented Interest That Is Being Taken in Base- Bait. * * The lUce fwr the PtfinaKts--A V& eran'8 Advice to Amateur . * , Ball Players. , [OIQOAGO CORRESPOND: In no past year has the national game of base-ball aroused such interest as seems to have taken hold of the people in every League and American Association city since the championship seasons of these two big organizat:ons have been inaugurated. In Chieaso more iuterest is taken in the League struggle than in the Association, presumably troui the fact that this city is exclusively a League city and that no other Erofcssional organization supports a club ere. General surprise and disappoint­ ment ere being manifested in Chicago over the poor showing made by the Chicago champions thus far in the race. Their de­ feat in the opening game of the season, followed by defeat in two of the three games played at Indianapolis, and in ihe first two games played upon the home grounds, has had the effect of bearing Chicago club stock, so far as its playing strength is concerned, more than anything else that has happened; and with the impulsiveness usually exhibited under snch circumstances, many aamirers of the game, who should know better, have expressed a slighting estimate of the Mhm's strength as compared with other clubs that it will be compelled to meet in the struggle for championship honors this season. Among the older heads, however, the ho;.e prevails that Chicagd is strong enough to give the most likely clubs in the League a hard race before the finish is reached. Anson has expressed the opinion tipon more than one occasion that New York will be the only club that Chicago will have to fear this season, and while one should have eveiy regard for the big Captain's views in in such matters, many differ with him to the extent of believing that Detroit, and not New York, will prove Chicago's most formidable adversary in this rat e. The race for the league pennant shows the Detroit club still holding on to the lead, with New York a fair second, and Boston close upon the heels of tho "Giants." Chi­ cago is fighting nobly for last place, and may succeed in gaining the proud iV) dis­ tinction of becoming the tail-enders of the string. Pittsburgh is playing a remarka­ bly pretty game, and playing it in a style, too, that would indicate its ability--bail ing accidents, of course--to hold to the place indefinitely. The following table will show the work of the League clubs to date: ( t:" r • - 1 -""V !i ' g A DEMOCRAT ON THE WAR PATH. Celenel Pat Donan Excoriatts Cleveland Administration. the The Lime-Kiln C'inb, "De case of Br udder James Warren, of Miner Hill, Teun., will be fust tooken up," said Brother Gardner as he opened the meeting and winked to Elder Toots to push another empty herring box into the stove. "Brudder Warren claims dat he am bewitched, an' he has writ­ ten to dis club to ask it to do sunthiu' to drive de evil speerits away. It has got to sich a pass dat de witches take his ole mule outer de ba'n at night an' ride him all ober de kentry, an' Brudder Warren feels speerit hands passin' ober his face an' pullin' his h'ar o' nights. Dis club will do sunthin' fur him. If he war a local member we'd cure him in about ten minits. As he am an honorary, au'fur away, we shall cross his names off de books an' send him offishul notis dat he am a bounced man.' "I hev repeatedly referred to dis matter of superstishtin, an' if members can't be enlightened dey kin be fired out. De dav of ghosts, hobgoblins au' witches has passed away, an' de cull'd man who can't helive it has no bizuess in dis club. Mebbe dar' was a time when witches went chasin' 'round de kentry on an ole raw-boned mule, scarin' people half to death an' leavin' a trail of fiah an' smoke, but things hev changed. De wedder hain't right fur 'em now, an' de purleece giv 'em de collar an' send 'em to de work-house. "Mebbe speerit hands hev bin laid on Brudder Warren, but I doubt it. I guess Tennessee whisky had a good deal to do wid it. All o' you jist listen to me when I say dat de fust complaint of speerit hands in Detroit will be fol- lered by a scene to make somebody's heart ache! Be keerful how unknown hands pull yer lia'r. De member of dis club who sees a witch had better keep powerful quiet abeut it or hell be turned ober to de Kickin' Committee to be dealt wid. De Seckretary will write to Brudder Warren dat we hey, dun sunthin' fur him, an' notify our branches at Chattanooga an' Knoxville dat he has been fired."--Detroit Free Press. CInba. Detroit Chicago.. New York... In spite of all the gush and twaddle and molasses-and-Water slop of toadying or­ gans and office-hankering scribblers, this administration strikes me as a dreary, dis­ mal, damned failure. It came in promis­ ing everything, and it has dons next to no!hing, and much of the little it h#3 done had better been left undone. The pountry has for years groaned under a system of war taxation in time of peace that piles up in the Treasury $12,000,000 a month of revenue excess. An exaction so monstrous would driv^ almost any other nation on earth to revolution. This much trum­ peted Democratic-reform administra­ tion has done nothing to lighten this intolerable burden. These swell­ ing millions of millions of useless and wicked surplns must either be hoarded in the Treasury as an incentive to political burglary, or spent in knocking the bottom out of the best financial system on the globe by buying up the bonus on which it is based, and that means an indefinite con­ traction of the currency and ultimate dis­ aster to every business interest. This vastly bepuffed administration has done nothing to remedy this evil and dangerous condition of affairs. It has done nothing toward amending the inequalities and the iniquities of the tariff, which its whole party had denounced for years; it has done nottiing to chrb the importation of millions of foreign outcasts, ihe paupers and crim­ inals of all creation. It has done nothing to promote the purity of the ballot box; it has done nothing to restore American com­ merce and shipping to their once proud pre-eminence on the seas; it has done nothing to foster trade relations with our American neighbor nations. Some things, I admit, it has done. It has married two or three new wives; it has baptized one standard-oil baby with as much flummery and flunkeyism as if it had been a Spanish Infanta with 100 grandfathers, or a royal Russian Czar oub with a name as long as a fishing pole; it has brought back poodles into fashion, and inaugurated more nauseating tricks of servile fawning and soft-squashy pane­ gyric than any other outfit that ever wal­ lowed in the White House; it has demoral­ ized the finest postal service under the sun by appointing tens of thousands of ig­ norant and incompetent substitutes for trained officials; it has sent a horde of ancient and uncouth fossils of the ichthyo- saurian period in politics to represent our mighty New World Republic at foreign courts, and render us a laughing-stock to all the world. And it has passed and signed that masterpiece of malignant jackassery, the interstate commerce de­ struction bill, which, if enforced, will Bpeedily drive the whole country' into bankruptcy. o"S •S.-'o.'slSlS s'i! ••3 ~ * a U j o a j j ' g 5i-a!2 0 0 Boston. Pittsburgh Philadelphia livliHtiaiWlis I 0) 2 Washington ! o! 0 U 0 o; o 0| l2\ 0 0 2! 0 0 0 oi.. i c U| 0| 0 Oi ol Oi 0 a H i S £lolo 71 1 1 4 5i 2 4i 2 3! 2 3i 4 0; 2 6 . 1 5 In the Association race St. Louis still holds the lead. Following is the work of the teams: Clubs. «5 I m .»« i^; | c ® i (J 1 # 55 las 13 ;0,0 Athletic.. Baltimore Brooklya Cincinnati ClOVi'lnlld I.ruinvillB Metro)H>atan .. St Louis _ _ 0 i 0 0 0 4 0 c 7 13 6 l 0 0 0 3 0 10 3 13 a » 0 0 0 4 0 8 4 12 4 0 0 5 1 0 s 8 7 15 5 0 0 0 ,.| 1 0 0 1 13 14 8 0 0 s SI.. 0 1 9 G 15 3 0 1 0 o e 0 1 1112 7 0 0 2 5; i 0 11 3,14 1 Tgac heart is a magnet whose oppo aite pedee are sorrow and jaf. %: The Chicago Club is badly off for pitch­ ers, aud herein lies the trouble. Clarkson is the club's only thoroughly conditioned pitcher at-present, and, disagreeable as it may be, it IB, nevertheless, true that, with Flynn in his present crippled condition and liyan firm in his determination uot to pitch, there is but little, if any, prob­ ability that Chicago will play well enough to win a majority of tLe games in their series with any of the clubs they may meet until this weakness is remedied. This con­ dition of things, however, can not last for long. Neither Anson nor Spalding will improve a team that has shown its inability to play better ball than Chicago has played thus far this season; and if Van Haltren does not join the team at au early day it may be depended upon that Chicago will go out upon its first Eastern tour next week with two, or at least one, able, experienced, and thoroughly conditioned pitcher to re­ lieve Clarkson iu future. The fact that the box is the very dangerously weak point in the Chicago team, Anson long ago recog­ nized, and that the gap iu the team's ranks made by this shortcoming will be soon filled is a foregone conclusion. Not for many seasons past has amateur base-ball enjoyed so great a boom in Chi­ cago as it is now experiencing. Every Saturday afternoon the great open lots upon the prairies, as well as the lawns of many of the public parks, are covered with amateur teams ana their friends. With few exceptions the new rules of tho League and Association, as given in "Spalding's Guide," are adhered to. For the benefit of young players it may be well to quote that veteran in base-ball efforts, Bob Ferguson, of the Metropolitans, who says in reference to the work and style of a player in the field: "To stop a ball well re­ quires practice. An infielaer should have agility and a quick eye. Little more is re­ quired. The dead ball is much easier to stop than the lively ball that was in use when I played third base. In those days the ballB came to you red hot, and it was a frequent occuirence to see a player knocked off his feet by them. The dead ball as used now comes to you withott any li e, and the only thing is to have hard enough hands to hold it. I could describe a number of ways in which the ball is stopped. Some players will shin the ball; that is, they will stop it with their shins with the intention of picking it up quickly, but in doing this the ball is apt to bound away from them. Again, some players will 'crowd' a ball by dropping on it with their hnnds and knees, but unless they are veiy quick Ihey are not able lo recover themselves iu time. Then I have seen players ' draw the ball,' as it is called, by standing in iront of it with legs close together, and let the ball ran up to their hands. This is the worst of the lot, for if the ground is in any way rough the ball is sure to bound away to one Bide. The perfect plan, according to my idea, is the one which 1 always used, and I found it to be the most effective, and that is to scoop the ball as it comes to you. This I do by holding the hands close together and give the arms full play. As the ball comes up lei the hands go back between the legs slightly, and when the ball is about a foot from yon, suddenly bring the hands for­ ward and run the fingers under.tiie ball. .It is easy and sure." - I Notes of the Game. It is estimated that $8oO,()DD will be paid in salaries to base-ball players this season. Governor Hill, when in New York City, is a regular attendant at the base-ball games. He is an enthusiast. It formerly cost tbe Cjn innati Club $90 to make a trip to St. Louis and return. Under the interstate law thy pay $17i>. Tbe American Association and League club-owners ate trying to make np for increased cost of traveling by cuttins down their hotel rates. James Mannins. general substitute of the Detroit'Base-Ball Club, has been trans­ ferred to the St. Paul Ciub, the Detroit «t»fltiaiiflnian» ranoiiinrr fny tiia mlaaaa ":' •w'?ssi'v.¥V'-: X\ The Presidents Exclnsiveness. Tbe statement that President Cleveland has caused a private entrance to be cut into his private box in one of the Washington theaters, so that he may not be annoyed by the vulgar curiosity of the oomiuon herd when he goes to the play will not bo re­ ceived with complacency by the Jeffer- sonian Democracy. Many of them will re­ echo Mr. Watterson's caustic remarks on this theme: "At a time when all that is mean and sor­ did in our shoddy society is turning itself inside out to ape the manners of the titled and rich aristocracies of Christendom; when ill-gotten wealth is tumbling heels over head in the scramble for a coarse, corrupt­ ing pre-eminence in parvenuism; when the old stately courtesy of simple manhood and womanhood, which once were a charm all their own in our public walks and ways, are being ingulfed in the hog-wallow of thto new-made greatness, with its imported trappings, it was most fit and needful that a Democratic President and his Democratic administration should rise above the mud and the mire of fraud and cant, and plant themselves upon the high and Splid ground of self-honoring reality, with its homely lessons of modesty and truth. A private entrance to a private box because the crowd 'annoys' him! Fah and out upon such tomfoolery! On what birdlings doth this our birdie feed that he hath grown so sen­ sitive?" This private box exclusiveness and isola­ tion from the people is excusable among the European sovereigns, who are not alto­ gether secure as to the design of the sub­ jects and who are apprehensive of what might occur to their royal persons in case of close propinquity, but Mr. Cleveland cannot urge this excuse, which would only write him down a coward. Hence it can only remain that he desires to be exclusive because he is annoyed by the gaze or touch of the crowd, of which a few short years ago he was an unknown and inconspicuous member. This peculiarity has been mani­ fested several times sines he entered the White House, and appears to be growing on him. As a bachelor lodger over the grocery store, as one of the "boys" in Buf­ falo, as Sheriff and hangman, and even as Governor, he was always approachable, but since his consorting with the mug­ wumps and his elevation to the Presidency he has cultivated exclusiveness and the usages of aristocracy with all the zest that is characteristic of par- vequs blossoming out with sudden wealth and beggars dizzy with eqnine ascendency over the peripatetic herd be­ neath them. Nothiug more surely pro­ claims the smallfryness of a man than the assumption of dignity anions: his fellows, or his pretentious character than his pain­ ful effort to assert and protect it. Men of real dignity never have to assert it or to withdraw from their equals from fear of losing it. or from apprehension that it may be questioned as counterfeit. Men born to the purple are never afraid of soiling it by contact with their kind. Men of native dignity do not have to guard it or give it any thought. The President does not ap­ pear to be one of this kind. He is evi­ dently apprehensive that his dignity is ill- fitting. and that if he exposes himself to the public he may fall buck into bis old ways and lose it aUogether, or that it may be discovered that it is pinchbeck and not the real thing. As the leader of the tawdry procession of flummery in Washington, none of whom will bear very close inspec­ tion, it is evidently needful that he should isolate himself from the public, lest some Jeffersonian saru* cvlolte should rudely brush against the bubble and burst it. But how about Jeffersonian simplicity in a roy­ al box!--Chicago Tribune. Kea< Ex-Attorney General Speed on tacky and the Neath. [Cincinnati special to Chicago Inter Ooaan.] Ex-Attorney General Speed, of Louis­ ville, who was here to attend the Loyal Legiou meeting, said: "I think even the Democrats of the South perceive how im­ portant it is that, for example, in my own State of Kentucky and throughout the South generally, there should be some strong opposition to the dominant party. Why, in Kentucky it is a question of nom­ ination only, and election is so sure that those elected do not hesitate to disregard all plodges. I believe t!;at the next elec­ tion will show a very dec ded change in the vote of the State, and that tho Repub­ lican candidate for Governor, W. (). Brad­ ley, will probably be elected. I think that Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina will be among the uncertain States, and that, with the Labor party in the field, the next election will not turn on New York." ONE of the most enthusiastic Blaine men in the oountry is the Hon. Stephen W. Doy- sey, of Arkansas. He has just now declared that Mr. Blaine will be nominated by ao- clamat on and triumphantly elected over any candidate the Democra's may put up. Mr. Dorsey is an eminent Republican; he has rendered invaluable services to bis party; and while so many combinations with Blaine at the head are being suggest­ ed, why has not some one suggested Blaine SKVA*om KHarVtMn gfrtac Ckrmwarl P --rrr trr fpnlnt tfin fTlnrtinii fnmiiilMtiiaHs la Cook Comity, sad nqtfriar tfc* fcaOolt 4» j^reaerte^far six month* and thf BeoM btn bo oennization at savings MmttH, pM tha Bamaij on tfae 8th last. Senator JOL called itjp UNttHH aMMroprlalJaa ttn.ooo for um Feeble-minded Aajfnm a* Idacuia, am' to have an tfMaa vt $36,000 few a new stricken (Wt. by the cona&attta but failed. Tbe bill was then third reading, aa waa also tbe bill log an apprroriaUon of 16,000 lor IraiM- ink a sewer at the same laatltettan. Senator Sooth-worth's bill, rsqnlrlng the eo»- •ervator to b« appointed by the Mme jtcrr de­ claring the person to be insane, waa read a see- ond time and, after some minor amMBdOMBlB. was advanced on the calendar. In tbe Boose of Representatives there was a lively wraagle, lasting several hoars, over a motion te sider the county-option MIL Tbe aae" finally lost. The Dill requiring tbe in the public schools of the (tMV Of toxicating liquor and narcotics man tbete- man system was also the robjeciof a iMeil discussion An amendment was adOfitsd Btolt- ing the proposed inatrnction So. afcyetolofjr sad hygiene, but on the projpoeitfen lo exelnae IkfMl teaching in the nublic schools all wbo i baeco or rum the House broke a qoMfai House passed Mr. Taylor's bill taking County Commissioners the power to torily remove County Treasurers and Mr. Decker's bill legalizing as e ter-press copies of records and abstnets stroypd by fire. « THE Senate had a bare quorum when It as­ sembled on the 9th inst. The following bills were advanced to second reading « reference: To pay the expenses of tbe Mc trial in I^ake County, appropriating f the bill to make letter-prees eopiM dence under the burnt-record aet: Mr. Merritt's conspiracy bill T!m H bill prohibiting tbe "playing of base-ball day waa sent to the Committee on lim The House took up the Senate bill to legalise the organization of regular life inauranea ecwn- panies in the State, and, after reading itaaee- cad time, it was advanced upon tbe ealaadar. Tbe Senate bill to give abstract men aeeees' to recorder*' offices was advanced to a third reading. The Senate bill authoris­ ing the incorporation of associations for pecuniary sent to a third reading. Mr." Converse called up the Senate I ill disfranchising Mb tbe giver and taker of bribes at elections, Mid making the former a competent witness of tbe crime. It was sent to a. third reading. Mr. Ba­ ker undertook to steer Senator Knopf's Mil to place the nomination of Election Commission­ ers in the hands of the Oovernor instead Of tbe County Judge, into the Committee on tbe Civil Service, but failed. ' THE Southworth bill, amending tbe medical practice, act, passed the Senate on tbe ICtb last. It increases the fees of the State Board, and contains other provisions intended to "elevate and protect" the medical profession. Tbe bill regulating the charges of telephone companies was sent to a third reading. As it stands it givee the companies the option of adopting tbe UU or rental system, the total cost per instrument in neither case to exceed IB a month. The House resolution requiring the State Board of Health to report to what extent pleuro-poen- monia exists in the State and tbe measures em­ ployed for its extirpation, was adopted by tbe Senate. The bill permitting the police of one city to go into adjoining cities to sup­ press riots and quell disorders was ordered to third reading. The firemen's pension bill and the bill permitting tbe of special verdicts in special cases passsd the Senate. Tbe House of Kepresentativee passed the bill appropriating £10,000 for the printing of bills and calendars. Twelve members voted against the appropriation, because they ware opposed to the payment of any mote money to the Rokker-Clendenin-Bees combine. Mr. Col­ lins' anti-dynamite bill, Mr. Bailey's bill pro­ viding for a State board of arbitration to settle labor difficulties, Mr. Eddy's bill r~Thir»y pub­ lic highways of thoroughfares whieh have newt in nse for fifteen years, Mr. Cole's bilL a bill bringing boycotts and blacklists witbitt tbe meaning of a conspiracy and fixing the banish­ ment; for the same, and Mr. Liowry's ball pro­ viding that suits may be brought against we- servators of estates of insane persons, etc., for debts, were passed by the House. THE House bill redisricting the city of Chi­ cago into twenty-four warda passed tbe Senate on the 11th inst, The special order in tbe Sen­ ate was the resolution to adjourn sine die May 12. The time was extended to the 8Kb. Tbe $10,000 deficiency bill was advanced to a second reading. A bill to regulate the charges for yardage and feed at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago and East St Louis was reported back to the Senate from the Committee on Agricul- ture with an unfavorable recommendation. Senator Thompson called up the House bill on third reading to enable corporations created for that purpose to transact a surety business in this State and to become surety on bonds es­ quired, and the bill passed. Senator Kvans pre­ sented a petition from the employee at tbe Elgin watch factory asking him to veto agataat the Sunday base-ball bill, and Senator Jobae presented a petition from tbe catur in favor of the measure. son said he had a petition from Champaign in favor of the bill, 1 washed sinner had stolen it from hie desk. In the House of Kepneantatives the committee revenue bill was read, consuming six hours. Judge Green's ptopoeal that it be at once placed on order of third read­ ing was rejected, and a motion carried provid­ ing that every afternoon be devoted to consider­ ation of the bill by sections, for the purpose ol amending, until some disposition Is made of the measure. The House ( oneurred in tbe res­ olution for the acceptance of $15,000 from tbe General Government for the establishment of an agricultural station at Champaign. Mr. Fuller's resolution for the submission to the people of a proposition for a constitutional con­ vention was, after some debate, defeated by a vote of 34 yeas to 89 nays. THE appropriation of §136,000 for the Feeble­ minded Institute at Lincoln passed the Senate on the 12th inst. Representative Chase's pool bill was advanced to a third reading, but it was amended BO that it shall not apply to I betting, cheating, and boo! grounds or race tracks. fused to substitute the revenue oom- mission bill for the amended Grab- tree measure. The consideration of tbe reports upon the printing oontracts was poet- tioned to tbe 17th. In tbe House of Benreeenta- tivea a bill was introduced abolishing the Board of Live-Stock Commissioners. The measure was sent to a second reading without xeterenoe to any committee. A bill appropriating 186,651 for the relief of James Lillie, a contractor at the Kankakee Asylum, waa missed. A bill ap­ propriating $300 per annum to tbe 8tato Dairy­ men's Association provoked, aa it always doee, a very extended debate. It was finally aiavaaood to third reading. v-« - •;>c * D* % uiu ivauins, UUI» mm* not apply to gambling, bookmaking on fair oks. The Senate re- Einerson en Gibbon. - An unpublished letter by Emonxt has been brought to light in Boston. It was addressed to a cousin. Thf subject is Gibbon: "I am glad to hear that yon have so pleasing and animated a task aa a theory of Gibbon's genius. I think a young man cannot read his autobiog­ raphy without being provoked to rise a little' earlier, read a little longer, and dine a little shorter. He knew thai every real good must be bought. . . . A worse fault is the dirt he has defiled his notes with--a cheap and base wit, and nowise better thau that whieh scrawls walls and fences with its effu­ sions, betraying through his Greek and Latin a course and mutilated soul, dead td the meaning of nature, and, in tha midst of what is called culture, desti­ tute of the highest culture. But yon must give this evil man his due, and make it felt what condemnation Jtoa noble work and perseverance cast up­ on scholars who have libraries in which they never read--upon scholars who chide Gibbon, but are unable even to name hi* dignified studies, his original authorities, his great plan and great execution of it. Our young men read reviews and newspapers, and smoke and sleep. It seems to me that erudi­ tion is not the tendency of the beet minds of our time, as it was of Gib­ bon's and of the following age. We incline to cast off authority, and, of course, we think instead of reading, but it at least behooves those who magnify authority in this age to read and know what authority teaches. The example of this literary iconoclast ought not to be lost on them. No Siga of Sweetness "There is a young man in tlife wishes to see you, miss," replied tha hall door attendant at a down-town residence. ^y. "Did he bring anything with bh>>' any box or parcel?" v "Only a cane, miss." "Did his coat tail rattle when he walked, as if there was a package of candy in the pocket?** ' j "Nothing of the sort, miss.* ̂ ,'-\s "Then tell him I've gone to sick friend and won't be home lour a week," replied the fair girl, falling back into a horizontal position, and re­ suming her perusal of "Truth Stratum than 1 ietioo; or. The Liar Unmasked.* --Clinton IiuuLt. , ft 'f .. •>' • .. ? f * . .... .... • - ' . _ . ..... .Si