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*#'v Wm -»i pinleain I. VAN SLYKt, t*r mi PHMMMT. McHENBY, ILLINOIS. BIKOB the discovery of petroleum $3,000 well* have been drilled in Penn­ sylvania and the adjacent oil territory. It cost $200,000,000 to «i"lr these wells. The oil they have produced sold at the wells for $500,000,000, therefore the profit of the producers has been $300,- 000,000. There is no estimate at hand of the profits of the Standard Oil Com­ ply. COL. ROBERT G. BMHCBBOIA, chatting like other day about politics, said: "John Sherman made a mistake in Ohio in forcing an endorsement. That aotion is the forcing of the fight all along the line. Now, Sherman's time to force the fight was in the con­ vention. - He has opened the battle, and other States are now coming up Into line for their favorites. That is not to Sherman's advantage, for it may leave him with only Ohio, as in former years." , THE Tall Sycamore of the "Wabash aays Yoorhees is not his right name. "There should be a '\<an' before my name. Clear down to the time of my childhood my ancestors were old Knickerbockers, and I am the first cross in that long ancient Dutch lineage, ft is not my fault that the 'Van' has been dropped from our name. It was a mistake, and could I have foreseen the future so far as my own career was concerned I would have tacked it on my own responsibility." |» THE total gross debt of the Dominion of Canada, June 30, 1887, amounted to $270,200,373. Against this there were assets, including investments for sink­ ing funds, etc., province accounts, and banking accounts, amounting to $45,- 178,611, leaving the net debt on that date at $225,025,762. In case of union, which some of our neighbors propose, Uncle Sam would no doubt have to as­ sume the payment of this debt. The most of it was incurred in aiding the construction of railroads and public works. UPON the belfry of the Kauthaus, in Goblentz, there is the head of a giant, bearded and helmeted with brass. The giant's head is known as "The Man in the Custom House," and whenever a countryman meets a citizen of Coblentz away from that place, instead of saying "How are all our friends in Coblentz?" be asks: "How is the man in the cus­ tom house?" At every stroke of the Mf which sounds the hours upon the dock the mouth of the giant opens and shuts with great force, as if it were try­ ing to say in the words of Longfellow: "Time was--Time is--Time is past." OUT of the 260,000 tons of steel and iron manufactured annually at the Krupp works the greater portion is re­ quired for peaceful purposes, especially for railway plant and material. From a report published in 1881 it appears that the number of workmen employed in the cast-steel works amounts to 11,211, and those employed in mines and forges to 8,394, being a total of 19,605. To these we may reckon the families of the employes, numbering 45,776, thus showing that 65,381 per­ sons were at that time dependant on the Krupp establishment for their live- lihood. _________ VICTORIA, in a book she is now writ­ ing, will deal largely in showing the orowned heads of Europe that by su­ perintending their own housholds they can live comfortably on $500,000 a year and put something away for a rainy day, • and this she will urge with great force of reasoning, and will show by reliable statistics, drawn chiefly from the his- * tory of France, that crowns, thrones, and scepters are not worth as much as they were a oentury ago, and may be Tory soon worth nothing at alL Hence, the Queen urges the necessity of mak­ ing hay -while the sun shines, that there may be funds on hand in case of revo- I lution and exile. Vic's head is level. ' < THE barramanda proves to be a con­ necting link of primary rank between the oldest surviving group of fishes and the lowest air-breathing animals, like the frogs and salamanders. It leaves its native streams at night and sets out on a foraging expedition after vegeta­ ble food in the neighboring woodlands. It has both lungs and gills. It can breathe either air or water at will, or, if it choses, the two together. Though covered with scales and most fish-like in qutline, it presents pointB of anatom­ ical resemblance both to salamanders and lizards, and is a connecting bond between the North American mud fish on the one hand and the wonderful lep- idpsiren on the other. *' Da. PABRACHIA has made a curious ' study of the differences between crim­ inals and law-abiding citizens as exhib­ ited by their walk. He has not only shown how we may distinguish crim­ inals in general, but has laid the be­ ginning of the differential diagnosis between various evil-doers. He found that in criminals in general (obtained from the study of forty criminals) the left pace was longer than the right, the lateral deviation of the right foot was greater than that of the left, and the angle formed by the axis of the,foot with the straight line was greater on the left side than on the right It * would thus seem that, in general, the gait of a criminal betrays a marked preponderance of power of the left foot over the right--a true sinistrality. This also agrees with the discovery of Marro that oriminals are often left. banded. • • SEBASTIAN MULLER is the name of a man who has just arrived at New Haven, Conn., coming from his home in Switzerland. He and bis perform­ ance are described by a local print: "Muller is 25 years old, stands five feel flight inches in height, tiea tha • \- * beam at 198f pounds. He is well built, andmassive shoulders, and •pleftdidly^developed muscles on the arms a&ui chest. Taking a stone about six indies long, and of the usual cobble­ stone shape, he held it firmly with his left hand against an iron ball fastened to the top of the barrel. Then swing­ ing his right arm around his head he brought the hand down sideways with fearful force upon the stone about two inches from the end. With a crack the stone broke into several pieces, which flew off in different directions. The operation was exactly similar to that of a blacksmith weilding a sledge­ hammer. The last stone broken was a nearly-round, tough-textured piece of white quartz, such as is often found along country roads. This was shivered into pieces. After' the performance Muller's hand showed no sign of the fearful blows except a slight redness." RAILWAY enterprise in Turkey, which has long been dormant, is at last about to take a gigantic stride. An imperial "iradeh," just issued, grants to a syndi­ cate of British financiers the right to construct a grand-trunk line,to traverse the great central plateau of Asia Minor, and connect Constantinople, the empire city, with Bagdad, the queen of Meso­ potamia. For years past this under­ taking has been the goal of rival specu­ lators. English, French, and German company promoters, and even Ameri­ cans, have all Sought to carry off what is justly regarded as the grand prix of Turkish concession stakes, and neither the whip of embassy assistance nor the spur of promised rewards has been wanting in the efforts made to bring the respective schemes up to the win­ ning-post of acceptance. The French ambassador is very irate at the de­ cision that has been made, and speaks of it as a second Egyptian convention. He is the more disgusted in that a French group, working under his patronage, had seemed, up to the very issue of this iradeh, to be making all the running. Montebello and his Russian ally both endeavored to lodge a protest with the grand vizier, but his highness shunted off their interference with the remark that the construction of a railway in Turkey which touched nowhere "upon the frontier of either Russia or Turkey was a matter that could not concern them. The projected line is to run from Scutari, on the Bosphorus, to Bagdad. The line will traverse districts alternately rich in minerals and agricultural wealth, and in a few years will effecf a greater change in the social condition of the inhabitants of Asia Minor than could be brought about by any amount of re* form edicts. PBOF. MARIANO SEMMOLA, the famous Italian physician and scientist, who was present at the recent Medical Congress in Washington, created considerable sensation by his attack upon the Koch theory of microbes as a cause of dis­ ease. The position whieh he took was that in most cases microbes were the effects, not the causes, of disease, and that the only way in which it could be established that they were the causes would be to reproduce the disease artificially by them. Upon this point he said: "The experiments made have not given any satisfactory results ex­ cept in carbuncle and tuberculosis. Then to conclude hastily that this or that microbe in such and such a dis­ ease is the cause is to but ignore or set aside the experimental method. The demonstration which the experi­ mental method demands in this case would be complicated, bo- cause we would not only have to know that the microbe existed, but we would have to know what was the condition of the blood necessary to the culture of that particular microbe, and science tells us that, for the present, this is a problem we cannot solved " If this be so, then away goes the theory of bac­ teriology. If more theories could go with it, and medical science could be content with resting squarely upon demonstration, there would be less jumping at conclusions and more work­ ing upon the lines of actual experiment Meanwhile poor humanity can go on eat­ ing, drinking, and breathing microbes by millions without fear as to the result, until science can demonstrate the bane­ ful effects of these microscopic bacteria. When they can be demonstrated as causes of disease and bacteriology can counteract them, it will be time to give them the attention that is due. A Worm that Eats Up Steel Bails. The existence has just been discov­ ered ef a detestable microbe which feeds upon iron with as muoh gluttony as the phylloxera upon the vine. Sometime ago the greatest consterna­ tion existed among the engineers em­ ployed on the rairway at Hagen by the accidents occurring always at the same place, proving that some terrible defect must exist either in the material or the construction of the rails. The German Government directed an inquiry to be made and a commission of surveillance to be formed for the purpose of main­ taining constant watch at the spot where the accidents--one of them at­ tended with loss of life--had occurred. It was not, however, until after 'six months had elapsed that the surface of the rails appeared to be corroded, as if by acid, to the extent of 100 yards. The rail was taken up and broken, and it was perceived that it was .literaly hollowed out by a thin gray worm, to which the qualification of "railoverous" was assigned, and by which name it is to be classed in natural history. The worm is said to be two centimeters in length and of the Bize of the prong of a silver fork in circumference. It is of a light gray color, and on the head car­ ries two little glands filled with a corrosive secretion, which is ejected every ten minutes upon the iron. This liquid renders the iron soft and spongy, and of the color of rust, and it is then greedily devoured by the insect "There is no exaggeration," says the official report of the commission, "in the asser­ tion that this creature, for its size, IB one of the most voracious kind, for it has devoured thirty-six kilogrammes of rail in a fortnight."--Cologne Gazette. THE stone is hard and the drop is small, butabolo I* •M&eby thoooaf stant falL The Pension Question -- Re­ viewed from a Gh | Standpoint. ' ..... *L, . - , . . Gommander-in-Chief Fairchild open­ ed his address by congratulating the order upon the evidence of its perma­ nent and healthy growth, as is evi­ denced in thequartermaster-freneral's re­ port. He said that daring the year death had claimed 3,406 comrades, con­ spicuous among whom was the lamented John A. Logan. The order is on a firm financial footing,$20,00Q of surplus funds having been invested in United States bonds. The bond of the quartermaster- general has beenraieed to $15,000 and the adjutant-general baB been required to give a bond of $2,000. The patent for the Grand Army badge has been duly transferred and is now the property of the order. He recommended that the incoming administration be authorized to accept the Drexel cottage, on Mt. McGregor, if the details of trusteeship and manage­ ment can be arranged to their entire satisfaction, and also that the Grant memorial committee be continued for another year. "He also recommended that the encampment select and designate as historian some comrade who is compe­ tent to write a complete history of tne Grand Army and suggests that the gen­ eral government include in the next decennial census an enumeration of the soldiers of the war of the rebellion who may be living in 1890. In consequence of the practice of moving the national headquarters every year, the commander said that the books and other property of the order are in an unsatisfactory condition and he recommends, as a matter of economy, that the headquarters be located at some central point lor a term of years and the appointment of a salaried assistant adjutant-general of experience. As it now is, he says, it takea the newly-ap­ pointed adjutant-general about the first half of the year to get his records in Bhape and when his office is fairly sys­ tematized he must prepare to move it. Under the head of pensions, Com­ mander Fairchild said: "By the creed of the Grand Army of the Republic every one of its members has promised 'To assist such former comrades in arms as need help and protection, and to ex­ tend needful aid to the widows and or­ phans of those who have fallen.' And the comrades have for more than twen­ ty years, been active and zealous in tneir efforts to keep that promise in let­ ter and spirit. Tiiis charitable work has been carried on publicly. There has been no 6ecrecy. All men who cared to know have been fully and con­ stantly informed of the steps taken for the relief of those whom we promised to assist. Very many thou­ sands of dollars have been expended annually by posts, in giving temporary aid to such as have from time to time needed it. Large s urns have been ex­ pended by comrades privately, without the intervention of posts, lor the same puijiose. We have sought aid from the United States government in the shape of general pensions, and asked for fur­ ther aid by insisting on the increase of pensions to certain classes. We have constantly, for many years, inquired into the pressing needs "of our comrades, and have, by every honorable means, within our reach, sought to influence the Congress of the United States to grant the relief their conditions seemed to require. The United States govern­ ment has responded to this call in many instances as is shown by the pension laws now on the statute books. We have also sought to influence state legis­ lation so that aid should be granted to those who were not, under their exist­ ing national laws, entitled to pensions. • * * We have been for years of one mind in considering it but simple jus­ tice that the United States should at least grant a pension of not less than $12 per month to all persons who served three months or more in the mili­ tary or naval service of the United States, during the war of the rebellion and who have been honorably dis­ charged therefrom, and who are now, or who may hereaiter be. suffering from mental or physical disability, not tne re­ sult of their own vicious habits, wbich incapacitates them for the performance of manual labor. This has been public­ ly advocated by us, and all men. who cared to know, nave been fully aware of our action, and yet, until recently, we have heard almost no objection to such measures. Because others have changed their minds, we need not therefore change ours. Our path in this direction has been straight. We have diverged neither ,to the right nor to the left. * * * I have recited and reiterat­ ed this well-known record of the Grand Army of the Republic for the in­ formation or those who may have been led to believe that we nave recently made new and unheard-of demands for pensions. That is not so. What we ask now, in the way of general pensions, we have advocated for years. We ask it because we believe it to be right. We do not think it is demanding too much. * # * * When in Februa­ ry last it was thought proper that the public should know the opin­ ions of the members of the Grand Armv of the Republic regarding the depend­ ent pension bill then pending, circular Ko. 4 was issued from National head­ quarters. That circular asked for an expression of the judgment of the or­ der, for or against the bill. The meas­ ure was almost unanimously endorsed. Greatly to our disappointment and re­ gret the bill was finally defeated. It was said by some that there had not been a fair expression of opinion given by the members of the Grand Army of the Re­ public. While that assertion was not well-founded, the national pension committee, when it was determined to frame another bill for presentation to Congress, decided to place the proposed measure before each post and ask for a vote thereon, to the end that no man could truly say he does not know, with reasonable certainty, what the ex-soldiers think of it. That vote, has been taken in a majori­ ty of the posts, and the measure has been almost unanimously approved. I venture to say that nine-tenths of the veterans favor this bill on its general merits if no other can be obtained. I believe this relief will be granted at the next session of Congress; because ilbacthe approval of a hirgelmajoiit^of tne people, x Know that many or you favor another and a broader measure of relief which will embrace all who serv­ ed a certain length of time, and can shown an honorable discharge common­ ly called the service pension bill. I am not here to argue against that as an ulti­ mate measure. 1 now only join in urg­ ing you to request Congress to give im­ mediate relief to those who cannot care for themselves. Let us not ask the dis­ abled comrades to wait for the relief they so urgently need now, while we de­ bate and decide as to what other pension measures are proper. Foi» while we debate, they are suf­ fering. Let us do nothing wliicH will postpone the long-coming d»y of relief for them. I am sure that such discussion as may be had here, on this and all other subjects, will be car­ ried on in that broad spirit of fraternity and knightly courtesy which should ever characterize the intercourse of the members of the Grand Army of the Re- Eublic. If acrimony be allowed to enter lto the discussion of this subject it will do more to disrupt and injure our order than all attacks that may be made npon It by outsiders. I hope to see, wherever It is possible to do so, posts or associa­ tions of several posts, select committees to take charge of and conduct to ter- nination claims of pensions/' The Commander thanked tba Tatar*, '-.y 5-, . en's RIshtaTTmon and Woman's Belief Co*psJoFtheir e£omt* Whalf of the ex-eoldiers and paid a b«ef tribute to each individual member ef his staff for their devotion to their exacting duties*. He said he himself had devoted the whole time of his term of office to the discharge of his duties. It has been a labor of love, and, although at times most arduous, the cordial feception giv­ en to him throughout the Union, has lightened that labor and rendered it most pleasant. . He dosed his address by congratulat­ ing the survivors of the grand armies of the union on the growing spirit of frater­ nity between the North and South. A Barbarous Conqueror. Timour, better known in history as Tamerlane, which is simply a corrup­ tion of Timour the Lame, was born in 1386, a son of the chief of a Turkish tribe in Kesh, Central Asia. He claim­ ed to be, on his mother's side, a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, the great conqueror of the thirteenth century. Timour, reaching the age of maturity and becoming first the chief of his tribe and then Khan of a large province, as- spired to acquire dominion over all the countries once ruled by Genghis Khan. The country between the Jaxartes and Irtish Rivers was first subdued, then Khiva and all Khorassan were brought into subjection, with fearful slaughter of all who resisted/ Timour now as­ pired to the conquest of the world. "There is but one God in heaven," he said; "there should be but one ruler on earth." All Persia was soon in his power, the country between the Tigris and the Euphrates submitted, and the princes of Georgia became his tribu­ taries. The Mongol empire to the north was soon overthrown, and the conqueror then penetrated into Russia, threatened Moscow and laid waste the southern provinces with fire and sword. In 1398 he set out for the conquest of India, marched to the city of Delhi, marking his way with 100,000 human corpses. The city capitulated readily, and Timour, after sending an immense store of its wealth to his palace at Samarcand, was about to push his con­ quests to the southward when he was recalled by the news of a revolt in Georgia. This he subdued, then over­ ran the territory of Syria, and took the revolted city of Bagdad by storm, leav­ ing in the public square of the city a pyramid of 90,000 human heads. On the plains of the Angora, July 20," 1402, the army of Tamerlane, numbering 200,000 men, met that of the Turkish Sultan, Bajazet, having 300,000 men. The Turkish army was totally defeated and the Sultan captured. Timour's do­ minions now covered all Asia, from the Irtish and Volga to the Persian Gulf, and from the Ganges to Damascus and the archipelago. He made Solyman, a son of Bajazet, ruler of European Turkey, and his brother Musa ruler of Turkey in Asia, and laid under tribute the Sultan of Egypt. Timour now spent two months in festivities in his palace, after which he prepared for an invasion of China. He set out early in February, 1405, but had gone only 300 miles from the capital when he died of an attack of fever. His army forthwith disbanded, and the invasion of China was given up. Nearly all of the conquests of this ruler were lost almost immediately by his successors. The cruelties of Timour were inde­ scribable. After laying waste a city with fire and sword, it was said that he would have the heads of the slaughtered inhabitants heaped in a pyramid to mark the spot where the city stood. When the people of Heut rebelled, the dead bodies of 2,090 or their num­ ber were built up with alternate layers of brick and mortar into a pyramid, as a horrible reminder of the consequences of rebellion.--Inter Ocean. Post-Plelocene. Tt has long been a disputed point, and indeed a vexed question, as to whether the so-called great Australian lion ever existed. Some interesting discoveries, however, have been recently made in the Wellington Caves, New South Wales, of undoubted remains of thia animal. The bones are at present de­ posited at the Mines Department Mu­ seum, Sydney, and consist of several very complete jawbones, containing the teeth in an excellent state of preserva­ tion. Prior to being publicly exhibited they were submitted to the inspection of Prof. Sir Richard Owen, of the British Museum; and his opinion is that the animal was a marsupial or pouch-bearing line, fully equal in size to the existing African species. Dis­ coveries of leonine remains have at va­ rious times been made in New South Wales, and also in Victoria, and the specimens in question are well pre­ served. They have been excavated from post-pleiocene deposits, and in connection with them were the remains of what are known as the Tasmanian tiger and the Tasmanian devil. An equally interesting fact is that Prof. Owen, when referring, many years ago, to the herbivorous characteristics of the "Australian Diprotodon," express­ ed his conviction that some large car­ nivorous animal must have been coex­ istent with him, to keep the race in check, and that probably lions then in­ habited Australia, an hypothesis which has been fully verified. These facts are interesting, as helping to establish the fact of the existence in former ages of the lion in Australia.--Chambers' Journal. PAPER doom are coming into use, and, as compared with those of wood, possess the advantage of _ neither shrinking, swelling, oracking nor warping. It is formed of two thick paper boards, stamped and molded into panels, and glazed together with glue and potash, and then rolled through heavy rollers. After being covered with a water-proof coating and then with one that is fireproof, it is painted, varnished and hung in the usual way. EXPERIMENTS are believed to show that aseptol, or orthopenot-sulphate, is destined to take the place of carbolic acid as a disinfectant and antiseptic. It is a syrupy brown fluid of aromatio odor, and soluble in alcohol, glycerine and water, and is not irritating in as strong as ten per cent, solutions. As an antiseptic it is said to equal carbolio- acid, while possessing also the advan­ tage of pleas an ter odor, more solubil­ ity, etc. SOME people have no perspective in their conscience. Their moral convic­ tions are the same on all subjects. They are like a reader who speaks every word with eqnal emphasis. A CROSS dog will make the upper strand of a barbed-wire fence feel soft as downy pillows are. -- Atchison Champion. CLEARING-HOUSES were established in the United States about 1853 for the convenience and economy of banking institutions in large cities.' FORTUNE does not change the char­ acter, but reveals it THE RECORD. Pension Pretensions of the President v:;% BrtWessly Shattered by Hen* Edward McPherson. Senator Allison, of Iowa, has received the following, letter from the Hon. Edward McPherson: MT DEAR SIR--The "statement" to which jo® *sk my attention respecting "President Cleveland's official record on Union sol­ diers," copied from the National View, a W ashington weekly paper, bears the marks of preparation for a purpose. That purpose is to show that the Cleveland administra­ tion is more entitled to the tespect and confidence of the Union soldiery of the country than the administration of either Grant or Hayes or Arthur. It Keeks to make the impression that Cleveland has been more liberal and more just to the soldiery than either of his predecessors. And it claims, in terms, that Cleveland has approved seventy-seven more private pen­ sion bills than Grant and Hayes combined, and 127 more than Arthur. The "statement" is false both in its as­ sertions and its suggestions. 1. As to its assertions. The pension Story of the Forty-ninth Congress is this: Pension bills passed in the two sessions.. 940 Bills, approved by Cleveland 668 Bills vetoed by Cleveland ".Mi Bills become laws by lapse ol time with­ out Cleveland's approval ism Bill "pocketed" by Cleveland............. 1 Total Of the bills passed, 747 were in the first session of that Congress and 302 in the second session. Of the bills vetoed, 101 were in the first session and twenty-three in the second. Of the bills become laws without the President's signature, 154 were in the first session and two in the second. The "pocketed" bill was in the firtft Ses­ sion. I make up this tahle from the Con­ gressional Record, the United States Statutes and other date, and believe the figures to be exactly correct. The truth, therefore, is that President Cleveland "approved" about two-thirds of tin bills passed, "vetoed" over one-eighth, and "dodged" as to the remainder. 2. As to (he suggestion? of the state­ ment. Its purpose is to oontrast the Giant Hayes, and Arthur pension records with Cleveland's, to the advantage of the latter. Now what are the facts about those admin­ istrations? Of the 493 pension bills passed under the Grant administration, Grant vetoed eight. Two because tlfe claimants' names were then on the pension roll. Another, because the clause in the act about the minor children of tbe soldier had no mean­ ing. Three were vetoed because the names of the claimants were borne ' on the army rolls as deserters. Another, because the name of the pensioner was not correctly given. And the last, because the soldier s company was not correctly stated. He signed 485. This is Grant's record on pen­ sion vetoes. What is Hayes' and Arthur's record Under Hayes, 303 private pension Hilln were passed. He approved them all. Under Arthur, 73t> private pension bills were passed by Congress. He approved them all. Cleveland's approvals were but 668 out of 949 passed, and are thus 120 less than Grant's and Hayes' combined, and 68 less than Arthur's, out of a total 153 greater than the former and 213 greater than the latter. The contrast is what might have been ex­ pected in advance of investigation. Grant Hayes and Arthur were all actually en­ gaged in the suppression of the rebellion, and were in full personal sympathy with the armies of the Union. Cleveland's rec­ ord as President is not out of harmony with his passiveness as a citizen during the straggle. It is true, as claimed, that Cleveland signed the widows' increase bill and the crippled soldiers' increase bill. It is also true that he signed the Mexican war pension bill, which awards a service pen­ sion as distinguished from a disability pension to the soldiers of that war. But it is also true that within ten days thereafter he vetoed the bill which proposed applica­ tion of substantially the same prinoiple to the soldiers of the army of the Union. His friends have the floor to explain that extra­ ordinary discrimination against the Union soldiery with this extraordinary pretension of friendship for them. It is part of the same programme to claim also that at this date there are more Union soldiers in the Government service than at any previous period. This. ought to be true, considering that the laws in­ herited by this administration from its pre­ decessors distinctly direct that preference shall always be given, other things being equal, to the honorably discharged Union soldiers. If it be not true, this administration must have steadily violated this law. But in view of the proved misstatements touching pension bills, and of what is known con­ cerning the methods adopted in filling those classes of appointments to which the civil-servioe law was construed not to ap­ ply, and as to which, therefore, there was held to be no limit to the discretion of the appointing power, I am warranted in saying that until this last claim be clearly proved by published lists of removals and appoint­ ments made it mast suffer from tne dis­ credit thrown upon its twin. Undoubtedly the Pension Office is doing a great deal of work. Congress intended that it should when the additional agents and clerks liberally given that office to meet tbe new and increasing demands npon it left its chief without excuse for delays. Had the Commissioner of Pensions been less vigorous in administration he would have been simply derelict in duty. Bnt that fact does not hide from the public the other fact that while he has been granting many pensions to Union soldiers, and widely advertising it his own immediate chief, and indeed the whole administration, have been engaged, without advertising it, in "making an average" by providing com­ fortable and responsible department posi­ tions for large numbers of representative Ku-klux of 1875-78. This has certain elements of fitness in it An administration which was made by the Ku-klux a possibility in our politics could hardly be expected to be indifferent to the agents who chiefly brought it into being. I11 this respect also there is a con­ trast between Grant and Cleveland. Grant did release from the penitentiary near the olote of their terms of imprisonment some of the Ku-klux leaders who professed re- Eentance and promised obedience to law. iut he did not invite them to share with him the administration of the Government That crowning act of indifferenoe to malig­ nant crimes against citizenship was reserved for an administration which contains with­ in its circles of department chiefs not one man with the reputation of having actively helped his country in its hour of peril, and which now, ludicrously enough, seeks to pose as the special friend of the men who snatched it from the brink to which, in zeal for slavery, the Democratic party had hur­ ried it I am, very respectfully, your obe­ dient servant EDWARD MCPHEBSOX. South Carolina Methods. The testimony in the South Carolina contested election case of Smalls (oolored) against Elliott (white) shows the perfec­ tion of the Democratic counting-out ma­ chinery in that State. The total vote of the district contested (the Seventh) is 40,588. Of this number only 7,695 are white, while 32,893 are colored. Of this latter number, as has been shown in pre­ vious elections, 30,000 are unoompromising and even fierce Bepublicans. In fact Elliott contends in his brief that a oolored man who voted the Democratic Met put his life, property, and church, and per­ sonal relations in jeopardy. Smalls, the Bepubliesn candidate, has always been popular in the district and has been four times returned to Congress. It is well to remember in passing that this was the only district in which it was thought worm while to nominate a Republican candidate for the fiftieth Congress. The sure sad smooth working of the counting-oat ma­ chinery is shown by the ftet that in spite of these overwhelming Bepubttcan odds, Smalls was given only 5,061 votes, while his white opponent was declared to have received 6,493, a majority of 632. Of coarse, only a terrible affliction of reprehensible bloody-shirt ideas would lead any newspaper to print such figures. They can only tend to give the North an unfavor­ able impression of South Carolina civiliza­ tion, and to keep alive the embers of civil Strife and promote bitter feelings where all should be peace and love. Still, it will probably be some time before the mine wicked writers in the Republican press will allow such matters to pass unnoticed. And these malignant men whose faces are turned toward the past, and who will not allow the New South of Mr. Grady to fill the whole horizon and conoeal the opera­ tions of counting out in the Southern States, seem to be increasing in numbers and influence throughout the North. The Republicans of State after State are incor­ porating in their platforms the atrocious dogma that every qualified voter in the land has the right to vote once without hindrance of any kind, and to have that vote counted. If such intolerance of opinion continues, it must one day drive tbe coun­ try into civil war again. These wicked writers ought to have some consideration for the nation, if they have none for them* selves.--Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Maryland Not an Exception. Harper's Weekly, alluding to the revolt against the Democratic corruptionists in Maryland, and the efforts of civil servioe reformers to resist the evil-doers, says: "The extraordinary fact is, that the whole , force of the administration has been thrown against this effort at reform, and that the President has been inexplicably allied with Senator Gorman in perpetuating serious political abuses." This is interesting as a concessionibut it is misleading, and seems to be intended to mislead. Nothing is conceded that has not been indisputably proved. The facts in reference to Maryland are known to all the world, because there are men there who have had the eourage to stand up and expose them. They can no longer be ignored. The President is in alliance with corrupt spoilsmen, and political bummers and ballot-box stuffers. This would be as surprising as it is claimed to be in the paragraph quoted if it were an exceptional case. But the President is not the ally of these classes in Maryland, and their opponent in the other Democratic States, while pretending to carry out the civil- service reform, he has permitted the prin­ ciples of the reform to be brought into disrepute. He has fed the mugwumps on promises, and in almost all of the States he has given the spoilsmen of his party all there was to give. He tickled the ears of reformers with high-toned professions, and made "the boys" happy with something they liked far better than words. There has been no such scandal in other States because there was not in the ranks of those who voted for him anybody to stand up and expose his hypocrisy. His attitude toward the Maryland reformers is exceptional for the reason that nowhere else has he been forced openly to take sides with the spoils­ men. But it is an "extraordinary fact" that a paper such as Harper's Weekly has been can disoern this hypocrisy only when such incontrovertible evidence of it is placed before it that even with its eyessliut the odor of the foul deeds reveals them through another channel.--Boston Trav­ eller. v Gen. Favey Pays His Rfespectl to the Administration. Among the many interesting talks made at the reosnt meeting of ex-Union prison­ ers of war in Chicago was that of Gen. C. W. Pavey, of Monnt Vernon, 111. He Said he was an ex-prisoner and belonged to an association, and they were all mighty good fellows. They were not captured in the rear guard among the baggage wagons,"but out fighting for the old Hag. He thought they all should have pensions, but saw Tit­ tle hope of it while there was a man at the head of the Interior Department whom they had all tried to kill. *It's a pity we didn't, too," he added, in an undertone. He said they had lain down South there in these sink-holes of damnation, sucking air to keep from starving, and the men now at the head of things were the men who had Btarved them. * This was met by uproarious cheers, as was the allusion to Secretary Lamar. He was going to stand by the boys, and always wanted to be considered one of them,but "just now," he said, "if we should get a pension bill through, some son of a gun would veto it. I am not in favor of veto messages on pension bills, and don't indorse the policy which dictates them. I wish 1 was President for three months. I would sit down on Lamar and ask who was in the war. Show me your discharge, whether white or black, and a pension for every honorably discharged man. I would call the roll, and if one alphabet was not enough make another, only asking, 'Did you hold ap the flag?' and then I would commence dumping out this surplus there is so much complaint about The prison­ ers of war are the ones who need pensions more than any one." He referred farther to their troublous times in the prisons of the South when their pants were all gone and their stomachs continaally empty, and thanked God that they were spared to 00m- plain of it The Fisheries Dispute. The Dominion policy of outrage has been continued, ana it now transpires that the negotiations to which President Cleve­ land alluded in his second annual message as being in progress have been all in the direction of carrying out the original agreement of Minister West and Secretary Bayard, an agreement whioh was rejected emphatically by Congress. There has never been in our history a more flagrant violation of the undoubted will of the American people, but as we have already said, the commission which we are to have is fortunately not to' be clothed with full powers. Congress has yet to be heard from, and it remains to be seen how it will take the snubbing it has received. The people are also to have the opportunity of pronouncing their verdict upon an admin­ istration that attempts to nullify the laws of the land.--Boston Traveller. i When Higgins Will Go. The mugwumps insist that Higgins will be turned out, and they are entirely right about it We may confide to them secretly , however, that the happy event will hardly occur until after the inauguration of Pres­ ident Cleveland's Bepubliesn successor, March 4, 1889.--Philadelphia Press. Stationary Statesmanship. Secretary Bayard may fitly be termed a stationary diplomatist. He has been for two years corresponding with Great Britain upon the fisheries question, and the settle­ ment of the affair u not advanced a single inch beyond the point at which he bsgan.-- New York Tribune. TOM POWELL, Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, having been detected in traveling upon a railroad pass issued to another man, the Democratic State Com­ mittee have sent out 100,000 circulars at­ tempting to explain and apologize for Mr. Powell's curious mistake as to his own identity. WALTER B. BROOKS, Republican can­ didate for Governor of Maryland, is very sanguine of the result of the coming elec­ tion. He says that if only one-half of all the Democrats who have promised to vote for him will do so he will be elected. TOM POWELL pretends to believe that he will be elected Governor of Ohio "by a clear margin of from 5,000 to 7,000 beyond any question." The count of votes will show Mr. Powell to be off in his calcula­ tions just about 30,000. DAVID B. HILL for President and W. A. J. Sparks for Vice President is the ticket hoisted by the Public Prete of New Albany, Ind., which It ̂ seetioutiy da^a a winner far *88." •ft fl"v*|l!! ,fl nxraon r-fl. f. M. Kay (colored) has been tjp^' painted a notaiy public at Qaiaey: --The'jBosnd of Supervtoentf Chaa*r ;P^ paign CMOtyhave votsd 9M00 for tfc» purpose of repairing aad fciipinlim Court House al frbaaa., , r ., s.. -Mrs. Nan<gr Kimball, of Efcfct.ee!*. ' brated her 100th annivysaiy mnsarflj Bar- vaidtsa name was Currier, aad Ska ws# born at Concord, N. H., in 1787. .. r * .^4, --William B. Olipbant a . liainllM)| ' . salesman of Chicago, has sued the aity o| Danville for $10,000 damages for fnJariMi. . • ' •' received in falling into an open gs* tnawls i , on Aug. 19. ( / . --liim Maiy Bradford, a former, apjipfrf;H * ant principal in the high school nfMrnfijl ^ cello, baa been Malag medical atMljilif' to Persia by the Presbyterian Boaid «T Foreign Missions. • 1 f --Hilda Stiliwell, the widow of George- 41 "V'. . Staiwell, who was killed at Chats « t til M has entered at Peoria a suit in the Gfeogt a-n f ?? Court in Peoria against the Toledo, Peoria* , ,t" and Western Bailway ter $6,500. Stillwefr. 4, f $ was a Chicago traveling man. ^ ^ --"Rie fall term of the Champaign Ciiv * | cult Court will convene at Urbana for a sis 'ii weeks* session, Judg^T Bfaghea There are eighty new suits upon docket. Of the 130 chancery suits two are by women and five by _men for divorce. There are but few --Recently over 18,000 people the State Prohibition Camp Ifnotin^ afr Oakland. Addresses were made from . * ^ % ' •*<$ three stands, and even then WSkOi 1 unable to hear the speaking. Over 8,0?* persons signed the temperanoe plsilflUt »ri r The meeting one night was w- ' ftiUy 12,000, and great excitement prevailed, ^ during the meeting. " ' --One of the outcomes of the xecen| Milk Trust movement is the inoorponthg 1;» " '* ^ of the Elgin Condensed Milk Compear. * with W. H. Hinto., AM T. , I; Jndft. 8. Wilcox M iacorpormtor*. tLm , ' • movement is backed by ample ™p»fdt means another condensing factory in Klgitt. " < • It is likely to materially affect the •># far., V1 terest In this section. ! ^ J --Thomas J. Manners, son of Charles A. r ^ Manners, of Taylorville, who built part at . * the St Louis Division of the Wabssh Boad* r fell off a freight train in Decatur reosntiy. " * * ' ^ and was instantly killed. The young map " * 'i left home to go to Decatur. O. G. Young • and John Diefenbach came up from Tay- ' ' f i-4 lorville op the train with Manners. They ,'^1 are in custody pending the eraminatior% 4 w ^ ss there is thought to be foul plav. \ » • V'-V --The trustees of the University at Lin- ' , ' ^ coin passed a rule prohibiting the lsdief ^ and gentlemen from attending the sami societies. The students held an tion meeting and attended the .The trustees suspended seventy of tha 1 ; -J students, and many of them are leaving fqr '* .1 other colleges. It is considered a bad mo«ft ? ) for the University, and unless Afripp**W,ri ~ r J •• will injure the school tar the gee*1 ' •"? son. ( • • • v .Ijf •#! --The Lake Fork Drainage District hat \ secured judgment in the Piatt County CWf* cuit Court for $8,(^)0 against the w « - p ' Drainage District for the use The amount sued for was $2Q,Q0fc 'Xlhasa' districts are two of tbe largest in the Static ' tl In spite of the great drouth and tbe fscta^jf that the ditohes are all dry and the drodga 1 V boats idle for want of water to Qoat thep^ ^ < the drainage question still remains wpp+jw t i most in the flat sections of Central Illinois^: --A Bockford man brings snit ford% vorce, claiming that he was forced toauuaQjt •. v- his wife under threats from her and JM* • brother. Fear prevented him from assM^k- . iag his opposition. He was then only 16 years of age and is now only 20, and tha- bride was then 21. The bill sets forth thai' he had never held connubial relations with l, her voluntarily and of his own ^ since their union, and had long sin<$e ceased to live with her as his wife, and refused 0' ' s acknowledge her ss a faithful wife. * "w t --A vigorous flow of natural gas hdl'1"' '""l ** been obtained on the farm of Elmer Fistf^1 ^ : er, two miles northwest of TolonO, at a* •' depth of about 100 feet below the surfaced { When the gas-vein was penetrated drill a terrific explosion foUowedl Sand and gravel were thrown high into the air. t > and fairly hailed down for rods around! Two of the old wells that were made whe^t"'"" "V the gas excitement was at its height a fair- • ** ':i years ago still supply fuel aad tibiminsftf"" °:! ^1 ing material in abundance. --The old settlers' reunion at ChamN- paign, was a most snoeessfol affhi£" 1 Among the old settlers were John Maxwell •' <' * * • > of Mahomet who has been there fifty-ftvi^ years; Martin Binehart, fifty-sight yeamt' and Mrs. Melinda Bryan, of Bantonl, tba> first bride in the county. Twenty-six og the old members have died daring tha-* \<*> ^ year. F. E. Pinkerton, ef Banteul; Da^1 W. A.' Conkey, of Homer; and Henry Bas*» » • :| sell, of Urbana, gave interesting histories! ^ • 'J addresses. In Homer the first house wsgK :'M built in 1827, and the first school-housa^ in 1834. Addresses were made by Jadga v vp | J. O. Cunningham, M. W. Matthew*, 3^ ^ ,, ' * B. Leal, G. B. Shawhan, Professor <kE» * Morrow, of Urbana, and Captain. &. ,.^.1 ^ Smith, of Champaign. . ' v --An analysis of the artesian water al /fv„; ̂ ^ Genepeo has been finished. As oompared , with those of the famous wells and spsiaga. ' of America and Europe it is in tha first,,* J i * rank. The analysis shows that it contain* * Jr less lime and chalk to the gallon than a*|r of the other springs in the United Statsa, ;H ^ Steps will now be taken to make tha iM§ famous. Early in the spring a sanftadasa' ° will be established. Already msay neighs^-*' : * boring towns are having the water shippe^'v to them, and many cures have been effect* ed. Dyspeptics are relieved by it at - < ' ' ^ ^ Several cases of rhenmatiam have beeA f cured by bathing in the water. ?wha|Np'V": a the most remarkable cure was that ef a < Mrs. Kramer, of Geneseo. For several years she had been afflicted with lndnsg>-:^ .. , ^ disease, and at times was ooaftaedto her , :,rc V bed for weeks. She had tried almosteverp i known remedy, but to no purpose. ShOA, ^ ^ was induced to try the water, and within, 7 four weeks was able to do her own house- ., ^ work. At present she says she feels <uf well as she ever did in her life. A few drinks will care indigestion. The well hi 2,250 feet deep, and flows 200 gallon* pear minute. The city is now laying thirty-an* additional blocks of water-mains so theft the water can be carried to every hoape >i% c • iV, the city. The well sends a stream el vaftii about thirty feet high from tbe surface. •••