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•pppipi sw. f *$&&? jwyp/'S <* :^;<7**f ;Ci ¥*>r * n ^v'^V f i f ^ f / ^ M »£ pff *« : 'a> H National, not selfisi£ I ®?per^dncin^ in legislation, " • Gen. Weaver called the attention of Ml outraged people to the fact that the In the slow growth of a nation, all parts and all industries cannot advance "with equal step, Some must unavoid­ ably pluck the first fruits of any be­ neficent policy. 'The Eastern States • /^ere in position to get the lion's share * • f of benefit from protection at the out- -?v Bet, but now Western and Southern ' V'i^ producers begin to share the bountiful " results, and there are found some East- tf\; " era men -who deplore that state of > things. Here is an Easterp furnace, 'J-.* built by protection, but now abandoned |j>,'1 , by reason of the cheaper production of ^ 4 Alabama. "If that is protection," sav V "let us have less of it." But it Isv ' is a pretty time to object, after pock- , eting the largest share of the aavan- •* ,/ tages for twenty years. Here is an " Eastern textile mill, which Western or ^ Southern competition renders no longer profitable. "Lower the tariff, so that f"- ' no more mills shall be erected?" Hard- §•- ' ly' protection was never intended for the exclusive benefit of any man or set uh; of men, but for the benefit of the whole v./', country. f Vo There js something which does not 4 appeal strongly to the American love ^ of fair dealing and common honesty in V the proposal to kick away the ladder \ '•. by which some have climbed, lest oth- ere should rise to the same opportuni­ sm • • ties and the same prosperity. The nation, for national purposes only, offered its incentive to manufacturing «d mining development in every part ;t" _ ©f the country. The section which ' , happened to be readiest to pluck the v ' fruit has plucked the most of it for ^ , twenty years. Would it be less than Ik,"':. ? indecent to reverse the policy now, in is.,./, ,1 order to deny to other sections their ; turn? "I need protection no longer," says one. Yes, the long experience, established business, and large capital , which protection has given you enables ' ' Tou to stand alone, but what business nave you to say that the work of de veloping a great nation shall stop with you? It is one of the grandest things in the whole history of human government that so few Eastern men, whose indus- >. tries have been built up bv the protect- t-'*ve tariff, now show any disposition to f i\ deprive others of its advantages. In spite of many selfish temptations, few . Eastern men indeed consent to such a course. Massachusetts and Pennsyl­ vania still stand by the Republican policy as firmly as they did when the cream of all the benefits came to them. The popular majorities are rather larger in Pennsylvania, as time passes, and rather^ smaller in Massachusetts, be­ cause in the latter State immigration of foreigners and migration of Ameri­ cans to the West have changed the pop­ ulation considerably. But the over­ whelming preponderance of public sen­ timent in both Stales is just where it L' - y™-. So of other Eastern States; Con- £ „ f.necticut is not more close and uncer- {kS>, Jtain than it was many years ago; New t't, vas cari'ied for Harrison, but u/ , /twenty years ago voted against Grant. U. ..But the weight of the Empire State in national councils has at decisive mo- -ments been cast for the policy which Hi ,-ft>uilt up and still sustains its mann- j* -iacturing industries. The people are (4, ingrates. They do not want to deny IXc' >T*o their sons and brothers in Western f f Southern States the bcnoflts they !--,^iave 80 enjoyed. To the majority s&;; in Eastern States, the appeal of free traders is simply a temptation to sell :i':' -their nation's giowthand greatness for £ possible selnsli gain. They do not Relieve in tho gain, but if they did 4 , "would nevertheless vote for the nation's . - greatness.--New York Tribune. ^' They Fayor the American Systei The platform of the Iowa Kepubli- ^ ' >cans favors tho American system of ' protection and demands that farm ^^Tiroducts shall share its benefits equal- i/ ly with the products of other indus- tries. Mr. Kiclinian, temporary chair- $j-' man of tho Iowa Democratic Conven- House had made to itself rules which place the presumably ruling majority in that body completely at the mercy of a merciless minority. It compelled the public for future self-protection to insist through the press that the rules wliich make possible the negative dic­ tatorship of a Weaver should be so changed as to enable the responsible majority in the House tti role in foot as in theory. The first duty of the lower house of the Fifty-first Congress is to so change its rides as to redvrp the minority to its proper mission in legislation, name­ ly; appeals to reason, the develop­ ment of such facts and lines of argu­ ment as a majority incline to suppress, and the formation of cases for protest and appeals to the country. Such a reduction of the power and duty of the minority carries along with it the restoration in that body of the essen- tial principle of the republec--majority rule. _ The party held responsible for what is done and for what is not done, be it Republican or Democratic, should have thf, power to do, as well as leave r.ndone. But, under present rules, our leaders in legislation, instead of addr»,jsing themselves to the reason of ther colleagues, instead of addressing the, country as the "great ones long gone by" were wont to do, are driven to the humiliating alternative of fail­ ure to satisfy the expectation of the country or surrender to the selfish de­ mands of an unscrupulous minority. The present rules result, in a com­ plete subversion of the will of the ma­ jority. They do not give the minority power to do more than subvert. They paralyze legislation. They put a premium on Weaverism, "We want a change." We want the rules changed, not because the Republicans are the "ins." We would with equal force urge a change were the Democrats in a majority, not only because it is right that the majority should rule, but also because it is expedient that the ma­ jority should be rigidly held responsi­ ble for all legislation and for all fail* ures to legislate. , The rules once changed, then the party in power can with some heart enter upon the actual legislative work of the season.--Cedar Rapid* (Iowa) Republican. The Parties and the Debt. The Republican party has been in power for six months in the executive branch of the Government, and in two of these months, as the Democrats have recently informed the country, the national indebtedness was "in­ creased," while in the other four a re­ duction was made. If tho Democrats had extended their inquiry infc> this matter a little further back they «rould have discovered a similar peculiarity •in the last half of the Cleveland ad­ ministration. That is to say, in fqur months of that period the debt lessened and in two months it was "expanded." And if their investigations had led them to make a computation as to the changes in the debt during the periods referred to they would have seen that the aooount stood thus: AFFAIRS IN ILLINOIS. /KXXBI8T1NG ITEMS GATHKKKD rao* VARIOUS SOURCES. Decrease 'Increase"..... Last Six Months of Cleveland. ........$43,-176.3*4 ....... 17,843,168 First Six Months of Harrison. $51,642,7^5 7,094,004 \ tion, referring in his opening address /. to the tariff pkink of the Republican . . platform, said: V' _ "Why, every schoolboy knows that ; ^the American farmer meets no compe- • tition in the American market, and ' !> - that consequently to talk of protecting him against foreign competition here is $, eheer absurdity. You might as well •' , -talk of protecting the Chinaman -- - ^gainst his competitors of foreign tea * in the Chicago market, or the Green- , lander against the competition of for- •"•V ijiign ice in the Greenland market. , , The whole thing is stuff and nonsense. I^nd, what is more, tho gentlemen who assembled in Des Moines a month ago, to frame this tariff utterance, knew it to be stuff and nonsense. Their object Ivas simply to hoodwink the farmer." ; The facts and figures given to the Sublic in the reports of the Bureau of j tatistics of the Treasury Department '{furnish ample refutation of Mr. Rich- man's statement, and also show which j -jmrty is trying to hoodw ink the farmer. JFrom recent issues of that bureau we j • learn that during the year ending June SO, 1889, there were imported into this Net dMNM*. .t. ,. .$25,033,379 §44,548,721 The public debt on the "less cash in the treasury" plan of computation, which the Bourbons favor when applied against Harrison, tells an interesting story as to the relative economy and efficiency of the two parties, when a comparison is made between the pres­ ent administration and its Democratic predecessor. Not only has the debt been paid more rapidly by Harrison than it was by Cleveland, but the ad­ vantage on tl.e side of the Republicans' is in the ratio of 7 to 4, these figures respectively standing for'" the average net payments in millions of dollars each month during the first half year of Har­ rison's term and the last half year of Cleveland's. If a glance be taken fur­ ther back than the last six months of Cleveland's service the account will be still more favorable for the Republi­ cans, as the records show that in the eight months of Democratic power in the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1889, the debt payments averaged only $4,500,000 a month, while it reached $12,500,000 a month in the four months of the year in which the Republicans were in control. Of course there was no "increase" in the debt under either Cleveland or Harrison, and the volume of the revenue receipts out of which debt payments are made is largely in­ dependent of the executive. This com­ parison is given simply to show that in the style of combat which they have selected and on the ground of their own choosing the Democrats can be readily and overwhelmingly defeated.--SL Louis Globe Democrat. A Negro's Advice. . Charles H. J. Taylor, of Atlanta, Ga., is a polored man who was Minis­ ter to Liberia under Cleveland, and fountry the following article * entering ;? , . directly into competition with Ameri- therefore it may be assumed that he is - tan farm products: £re*Ustuffs, vahufi at 9 8,099,734 Wool (unmanufactured). 17,974,515 Vegetableb (iiotatoes, beans, ete.)...». 2,26£>,799 JDomestic animals (dutiable) 3,936,766 Bides (freeof duty) 25,127,750 •lax (bemp and other substitutes) 20,468,475 Flaxseed 3,851,085 Tobacco (unmanufactured) 10,868,226 Meats and dairy products 1,774,391 Vv '.fmjatfrea) 2,418,976 t' r.v I-"6 importation of dutiable articles Hf food and live animals last vear £ Amounted to $119,817,987, and about in equal amount of the same articles Were admitted freeof duty. So it will be seen that even the moderate protec­ tion afforded by the tariff is not suf­ ficient to give American farmers the Exclusive control of their own markets. ^ But tho principal benefit derived by farmers from the American policy Of protection is in the building up of diversified industries, giving employ- , Bient to a vast army of toilers in facto- lies and mines at liberal wages, there- It J creating here the best market in the Vorld for the products of the soil. And the American farmers are too well Informed on this subject to be hood- Winked by the sophistries of the free­ traders. In fact, they constitute the bulk of the party of protection that •tands immovably against the assaults •f foreign interests. ~Chicago Inter vOcean. * the First Duty ef the Next Congress. Gou. Weaver, Iowa's Islimael, in- ' jKrectly and unintentionally did the | country good service in the last Con- eess. By his obstinate course, taking chnical advantage of the rules which govern the House, lift succeeded in •becking progress in legislation for j weeks together, and thus ultimately dlsappoiutiug the hopes of thecountry. : "How was such a course even in- j ffireotly beneficial?" In this respect: By hi* selfish and «no« on his rights ts unpatriotic insist- under the rules. not an ardent Republican and is not as distasteful to the Southern whites as other negroes. He has written an open letter "to the Governor, the law­ makers, and to the great body of good white citizens of Georgia," in which he endeavors to show how a race war may be prevented. The letter is long, but its central thought is that if the whites will show a kindly interest in the blacks, will suppress those who outrage the blacks, will do what they can to guide the negroes into paths of industry, education, and good mor­ als, the negroes will become a souroe of strength to the South, will become divided politically and will not seek to rule or become mischievous tools in the hands of ambitious politi­ cians. All that is needed, he declares, to make the negroes contented, without any desire for political supremacy or social equality, is a sincere purpose on the part of the whites to give them security in person and property and the right and means of education. This, of course, is what has been urged on the whites of the South again and again, but so far with little effect. The rash presumption that 10,000,000 of blacks can be kept in ignorance and submission without finally leading to widespread revolt and unspeakable horrors, is still held in the South. But already there are indications that the senseless and brutal shootings and whippings of negroes may lead to re­ prisals. The further these outrages are pushed, the greater danger that the negroes will be forced to defend themselves instead of becoming more submissive. Of all conceivable hor­ rors, a race war is the worst. It can be prevented if the whites will use sense and justice instead of the shot­ gun and the whip. It oan be pre­ vented on no other terms.--Milwmuktt SentintL fThat Our Neighbors Are Doing--Matter* of General and Local Interest -- Mar- riages Mid Deaths--Accidents and Crimes --Personal Pointers. --Ben Campbell Jones, the only son of Hon. J. Russell Jones, ex-Minister to Belgium, and one of Chicago's most prominent citizens, has been adjndged insane and sent to the Kankakee Asylum. This, says the Chicago Times, Is the sequel to a particularly turbulent and IWCkIosb * A sadder, more pathetic Btorv was never told; ainore forcible illustration of the drea l power or rum wag never brought out by the champions of tcmi^ranco. The lights and ihftdowB of ft gre&t city "were nfevpr more strong- • ly contrasted. There are many vet in Chicago I "who can to-day recall without much »ff,,rt of their mind the Ben Jones of a dozen years ago Never did a young man start out in life with i finer prospects. The only ton of wealthv and i influential p&rents, humored to his least whim moving in the Jjest sot i ll circle of the city w ith a good position in his father's manufactory , friends without number and money almost j without limitation, it seemed really as if there ' could be nothing lacking to his perfect enjoy­ ment of this world's pleasing pastimes. A man i well-bred, intelligent, and refined, Ben Jones I was welcome wherever he went. All went well j for awhile and then--it is the old, old story. , Ben grew lired of the orthodox and old-fash- I ionea pleasure parties. There was not j enough excitement in them; he must hare ! something more stirring. Midnight carousals ; soon followed, where champagne flowed and young bloods made merry without let or re­ straint. This was the start and the descent was as swift as the fall was sure. Mouths flew by. He was growing more and more inattentive to bueinese. His father reached a helping hand ; bis mother prayed for him; his sisters reasoned I with him--all to no avail. It was thought that by marrying he might reform. He was married 1 to a good woman, but that did no good. From j bad he became worse. Champagne after a I while ceased to satisfy his thirsting desire : he i tried brandy. That failed, too, in time. Then : he took to drinking absinthe. Two or three years sufficed to shatter his nerves. His mind also began to be affected. Unable to longer use , him in his factory, his father, at Ben's request, agreed to start, him in business. Ben thought | he would like to become a stock and grain brok- ! er. His father acquieseed and . set him up on the Board of Trade. He had not been there long when unscrupulous sharks, taking advan­ tage of the young man's feeble mind, squeezed him to the wall. To make a long story snort, J. Russell Jones, in order to save his son's honor and keep the family name above rej)roach, paid ; for Ben in the short space of three days 82.W, ! 000. Tha old gentleman was well-nigh heart­ broken. --Frank H. Armstrong, a coffee-oolored negro, walked up to the marriage-license window of the County Clerk's office in Chicago with a buxom white girl named Mamie Fennall. "Got any weddin* pa­ pers here, boss?" said Armstrong. "Plenty of them," said the Clerk. "Well, me an' this lady," waving his hat to the blush­ ing maiden, "wants to git married." "What! Is that so?" said the Clerk, turn­ ing to Miss Fennall. "Yes, sir," she said; "that's what we mean to do. Frank is all right, 'cept his color, and he's a heap better than some white men, if he ain't so pretty." And the girl, who is quite a good-looking German girl, gig> gled and pulled her hat down * over her face to avoid the startled Clerk's scroti* ny. "Well, it's your funeral, and here goes," said the Clerk, handing it to the groom. "Dollar and a half, please." The groom will never be indicted for danger­ ous beauty, but his. bride says he is a coachman, with a good place, and will give her a good home. She has been a servant girl until recently, when she re­ signed work for prospective matrimony. --George Buok, of the well-known firm of Buck & Earner, pharmacists, died at Chicago a few days ago. He was a native of England, was 62 years old, and had lived in Chicago thirty-five years. The house of Buck & Rayner was founded in 1857. Mr. Buck was especially prominent among the pharmacists x>f the State, and was for several years President of the State Board of Pharmacy. He was closely identified with the Illinois College of Pharmacy and its work and was Vice President of the instilutipn at the lime of his death. --A jury found Thomas D. Highfield of Jerseyville guilty of arson and he was sentenced to three years in the peniten­ tiary. He was dismissed as janitor of the public schools in 1888 and set fire to his successor'8 house. --The Texas ponies brought into East ern Illinois are in many instances cover­ ed with a multitude of tenacious ticks peculiar to Texas stock. They seeming­ ly have but little effect upon the Texans, but native horses and cattle in that local ity are unable to withstand the energetic operations of these diminutive vipers, and rapidly fatl when attacked by thsm. --The first claim against the Chicago, Bock Island and Pacific Bailway Com­ pany for damages growing out of the South Englewood accident was made In the Probate Court at Chicago last week, and was promptly settled. The estate of William Augustin Mulcahy, who was killed in. the crash, was entered for ad­ ministration by the dead man's father. Thgre was no property to administer ex­ cept a claim for $5,000 against the' rail­ way company. As soon as it was men­ tioned the company's attorney stepped forward and paid the claim in full. The railway company will pursue the same policy in the other claims, as there is no defense to Bake. --Weekly weather crop bulliti# of the * Illinois Weather Service: ! Ibe temperature of the past werlt &*s been I below the -normal" throughout theStare • heavy : frosts, doing conaidemble damage to' corn on low lands, were reported in the northefi-eonn- ties. The raiufall has be«n below a seasonable A FLORAL EXHIBITION* --For the past ten days, says the Chi­ cago Inter Ocean, a gang of counterfeit­ ers have been floating their spurious ooin among the merchants of the northwest part of the city. Their specialty is a counterfeit silver dollar, and though a little light in weight, it is one of the best circulated for many years. Several hun­ dred of the base coins have been col­ lected by the police, but how many are in ci culation it is impossible to tell. --The * copestone of the great Audito­ rium Building was laid at Chicago with imposing ceremony by the Grand Lodge of Musons. It was followed by an ora­ tion by Dr. Lorimer at Battery D and a banquet. The building is a magnificent stractura as it now stands, with the last stone of masonry in its final place. --Barney Gannon, who had just fin­ ished a year's sentence in the penitentiary for burglary, was last week Sentenced at Vandalia to three years for horse-steal­ ing. --^Concerning the proposal of the friends of the executed anarchists to pa­ rade the streets of Chicago on Nov. 11, Chief Hubbard said to a reporter the ether day that the men could parade, provided they did so i* a peaceable man­ ner and dispensed with red flags and mottoes and transparencies reflecting mpen law and order. The anarchists in­ tend to have anniversary parades in all the large cities in the country. --Albert McKinley, aged 12P was kicked by a horse on his father's farm neir Biggs-; ville, Henderson County, and died shortly afterward. age amount, of sunshine has prevailed V.XTIUCTS FROM OBSEBVKRS' BKPOBTB Bond County--wheat sown, and there is mora of a wop put in than for several years. Bain- ^Carroll - Hard frost killing what little green stuff remained. Corn damaged some on l&t« fields. Rainfall .15 inch. ( Champaign--Throe killing frosts (hiringweek. Late corn in low lands damaged. Wha&t omA ing finished. Kainfnll .05 inch. Douglas--Drought broken. Rain very bene­ ficial to wheat and pastures. Killing frost Host of the corn ripe and out of danger^ Franklin -- Wheat seeding begun •" a lane acreage will be sown. Rainfall 0.45 inch Fulton--The past week has been favorable tor small grain and pastures. Frequent rains Corn is ripening nicely. Iroquois--A killing frost pnt a stop to the late corn; early corn out of danger. Rainfall 0.46 inch. Kendall--Killing frost; most com is well out of danger, some late corn hardly out of daneer yet. Rainfall 0.22 inch. 3 Lawrence-- Light frosts ; no damage. Wheat growing nicely; wheat ripening. Rainfall 0.5JQ inch. La Salle--The opinion of fanners seems to be that with few exceptions the com crop is well matured, the exception being late planted or badly cultivated fields. The potato crop ap­ pears to l„e a full average. Logan--Wf&'lier cool, but not cold enough for frost. The rain of the past, week was very bene­ ficial to winter wheat, which was just sown as the ground was very dry. Raintall. l.l:; inches Lake--AU corn, except v« ry late pieces, is nearly readv for harvesting and uninjured bv frost. Rainfall, 0.11 inch. McHenry--Killing frosts. Corn on low land and late planted killed. Pastures very short. Applos plent y. The grow ing season is oyer for this latitude. Rainfall, .08 of an inch. Pope--Corn safe from injury; threshing about finished : oats not yielding well; wheat exceed- ing expectations;" apples short, and of poor quality; rainfall, 0.30 inehos. Randolph--Threshing well advanced; com cutting about over; wheat sowing going on rap­ idly ; rainfall. 0.04 inches. Richland--Wheat seeding still progressing- corn crop 6afe; light frost occurred during week, no damage reported; rainfall, 0.13 inches. Satigamon -- Wheat sowing about finished. Some corn being cut. Rainfall, 1.2".) inches. Washington--Wheat sowing progressing fast, and got in in good condition. Rainrall, 0.13 inch. Wayne--Light frost, no damage. Fall seeding nearly over. Apple crop being harvested: yield good, quality fine. Rainfall, 0.42 inch. --The report of the National Commis­ sioner of Labor has this to say concern­ ing the general conditions in Chicago: The tenement-house system is largely in­ grafted on tho life of Chicago. The houses, however, are rarely in long block b. often have light and air on four sides, and seldom contain more than six families. Two or three families living in a separate house is the general rule, and often each family has a single home. The sanitary condition of the houses ami streets is bad, but these evils are being remedied by the vigorous action of the Health Department. Rents are high, the markets inconvenient, and the cost of living greater than in any other Western city, lliere is a large foreign element in Chi­ cago which furnishes a rough class of girls, sometimes unfamiliar with the English lan­ guage, and again speaking it fairly. Habits of economy do not prevail among" the working classes, and there are cases of poverty as ex­ treme as in New York. Wages are higher than in the East and expert workers scarcer. Even employments requiring no skill command pay enough to render girls icdi'pondent; if dis­ pleased, they leavo on the slightest pretext, and the employer must fall behind in orders or bin whom he can get. Working women are always in demand, and, as a rule, employers make no requirements as to good character. Notwith­ standing the indifference of proprietors, the general morality in most callings is surpris­ ingly good. --Two of the largest property-owners in Chicago are Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter. The Chicago News, in an ar­ ticle on the sagacity, rivalry, and busi­ ness success of these two remarkable men, says: Previous to 1673 thev possessed no real-estate to speak of, except their residences. By the fire of 1871 their firm lost only the profits of that year, the insurance beina so well placed by the discriminating H. N. Higinbotham that the firm realized handsomely from it. The same business sagacity made the head book-keeper and credit man a partner. The Farwells had boen burned out in 1870, losing largely, and again lost heavily in 1871. Fully comprehending the situation, Field & Leiter purchased the old ear-burns corner of (State and Twentieth streets, to be occupied by them as a w holesale and retail store, ordered goods in trainloads before their competitors had arranged with their creditors or found, or built suitable quarters for business. From that period Field, Leiter <t Co. and their successors nave made a large fortune yearly. Among the property owned bv Field, bought or built irom the profits of his business, is his mammoth brown stone wholesale store build­ ing. To equal this Ijeiter is erecting the Leiter block,,,State and Van Unren streets. Field also 1 owns ihe stone front occupied by Charles P. j Kellogg & Co., Momo3 street, corner of Frank- j lin. 1-eiter owns the adjacent corner of Monroe and Fifth avenue, leased to Strauss, Goodman ' & Co. Field has the land and purposes j erecting a twelve-story store at the : corner of Monroe and LaSalle streets. I Leiter has the title deeds of the adjoining two j brick buildings on the west, and within a i short time has purchased for S155.000 the five- 1 storv brick store at 184 and IWi Monroe street, j Held receives the rent from the Potter Block, I at the northwest corner of Adams and Clark j streets. Upon the opposite corner is the Lake- 1 side Building, of which Inciter collects the rents, j Field also owns his palatial retail store build- ' ing and the major part of the property on i a London Boow Whs Arranged for't fashionable Wedding, The hotiSe iti London at which a very pretty wedding took place recently was a floral exhibition. Palms and were arranged in groups every­ where,-- hall staircases, landings. Blocks of ice, with wreaths of fern, wore placed every where, for it was one of the most torrid days of the season. On one landing was a block of ice, standing close to a fountain, in which were floating waters lilies. Perhaps "fountain" will not be the right expres­ sion. It was a miniature waterfall, be­ low which was a miniature lake in which water lilies floated and a large white china swan seemed to be swim­ ming. • Along the banisters, at close inter­ vals, were large bouquets of white roses, white pinks and other white flowers tied with large bows, and ends of white watered silk ribbons. The reception room doors were arched with white flowers and ferns. Garlands of the same were festooned around the walls; in the fireplaces were blocks of ice sur­ rounded with small palms and white geraniums. The mantelpieces were canopies of white flowers, gardenias and stephanotis being most prominent among them., In the center of the room was a huge bell, entirely composed of the same flow- I era, white roses and maidenhair ferns. I The clapj cr was in the shape of a small 1 white plush dove, holding in its beak a ' spray, of Orange blossoms. In the din- I i:ig room there was a^long buffet at on© j end of the room and small tables dot- I ted about. Over the sideboard was a ! bannerof white Liberty silk, on which I was written in rosebuds the name of the contracting parties and the date, with just the words, "Till death do us part." The buffet, which was a long dining table, had, of course, thev wedding cake in the center: it was of three tiers, and covered with centrifugal sugar over the icing and decorated with natural flow­ ers. There was also some wonderful emblematic figures, which space will not allow me to describe here. Tho floral decorations wore eft both kinds, fiat and raised. The flat floral decora­ tions represented Cupid's bow aijd ar­ rows made with small white roses and feathery grasses. Silver baskets in the shape of the wooden baskets carried by children at the seaside, held white iris, white roses, gloxinias, sprays of myrtle and orange blossoms. The smaller ta­ bles had sprays of white rose garlands of theJLouis XIV. period laid on them, and over the dining-room door was a gigantic floral horseshoe made of white flowers and maidenhair fern. | r An Incident of the Season. * f In ft par on the New York Central are ji®»fed a gentleman and a lady. The ! Ifovtleniau is bronzed, apparently by : r^TT^Vnce in a hot climate. His hair ' an«f Whiskers are jet black, but tho crow a> loot is visible at either temple. : The la'<3*j is attired in the height of j fashion, ib» a stylo suitable to youth and j beauty. I Gentleman--Would yon object to j having the window up? Many years of j Australian life h&ve made me verr sensi- ! tive to drafts. " , | Lady (aside)--That voice! (To gen- j tleman)--O, not in the least. (Aside . again) It ia Theodore. ! Gentleman (emphatically) -- Thank ; you! (Aside) Those accents! Lady- Did you speak ? Gentleman--I beg your pardon. Tour J voice recalled recollections of fifty years I ago. It reminded me of one in other I times, but--no matter. Your features, t too, are strangely like hers--onlv, if | you will allow ml* to say so, the com­ plexion is even more brilliant. Lady--Oh! Might I ask her name ? Gentleman--Her name was Rose. Lady--It is my own. Gentleman---Is it possible I am speak­ ing to her daughter ? Lady--You are speaking to herself. Gentleman--Heavens! what? Ko, surely. v Lady--Yes, indeed. Gentleman--But that fi^h--nMcctiSe nay rudeness--that youthful color f Lady---That raven hair! * j Gentleman--I'll be candid with yon-- 1 it's dyed. Lady--TO return your confidence. I 1 owe this bloom fcb cosmetics, j Gentleman -- Enameled, love! My Rose, my own lost Rose fonnd! My Rose unfaded! Lady--Your Rose will fade no more. She had been rendered beautiful. Gentleman--Oh, how beautiful! Let me fold thee in my arms. (They embrace as well as they oan. The dye of his whiskers blackens her face, and the paint on her cheeks comes off on the end of his nose.) Gentleman--Beautiful! xiL'fi Lady--Beautiful forever! Brakeman--Albany! AH Saratoga!-- Texas Siftings. *M. AtfdUT PEAlfUTSL Washington street from Holden place to , Wabash avenue. Leiter has Charles Oossage somebody. And the model SOn & co -s L-shaped building, the Weber restau- parted.-J3o*ton Traveler. A Model Son in Hnrd Lnck. An incident occurred in a neighbor­ ing "rural district" last spring by which the beauty and strength of the lioly tie which> binds father and son were strik­ ingly illustrated. The scene was a tav­ ern ; time, evening. Stranger drives to the door, alights, enters bar-room and thus accosts the landlord: "I say, yew, ain't thare a Sqnire L lives here in your place?" "Yes, sir." "Wall, I heerd lie had an Irishman as worked for him last year that wants to hire. D'you know him ?" "I do, sir, but he has let himself; I have hired him." "Have,eh? Waal, that's bad. Don't know any good likely feller as wants to let reasonable, do ye?" "I do not, sir." "Thunderation! I've had the darnd- est luck ever ye see; here I be, time to go to work most, frost out of the ground, team in prime order, and haven't 110 help. My name's B •, I live out in B ; got considerable of a farm there. Last year my brother helped me, but he got so along in the fall he wanted wages, and I couldn't raaly 'ford to pay him none, so he quit. Waal, then I took the old man, my fa­ ther, arter work was 'bout over, an' I've kept him all winter long, calc'lating he'd help me this year, and here, 'bout three weeks ago, the contrary old skunk would go and watch with a neighl>or as was sick, took cold, and--darned if he didn't die! so I jes as good's lost all his keepin' and haven't no help, after all. Waal, good day, I must hunt up de- rant building, and the stone fronts 67 and 69, directly opposite. The $600,000 brownstone store at the northeast corner of State wad Madison streets fell into Field's possession for $196,000. The gracefully rounded Rchlesinger & Mayer's corner is Leiter s. Field has the D. B. Fisk ] building and the store south, at the corner of | Wabash avenue and Washington street, Letter ! the Nee Ban Building on State street, corner CM I Jackson, the Chambers and Golden Eagle store I building adjoining--splendid investments--and ! the Quinlan Block opposite the county building. I Field has the large brick store at- the corner of Kandolph and Franklin, and his valuable re­ serve stock and stable building on Pacific ave­ nue near Van Buren street. Field is a largo stockholder in the Central Music Hall. "Me too," Balth Leiter, and adds the stone front stores 199 and 201 Madison street. Field has valuable unimproved proper­ ty on Fifth avenue, near the Wisconsin Central depot. Leiter bought for $377,000 one-half the land upon which the Grand Pacific hotel stands --Clark street front--and the firsi-class resi­ dence property on Pine street, near to Sirs. Perry H. Smith's elegant homo, is likewise hit, In 1880 Field purchased one-half of an un­ divided interest of 2oti aores ori the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Hoad. between Hawthorne and River sidt. for $151,000; the same year Leiter followed suit and purchased 193 acres near La- Grange, on the same road, for #175 an acre, and recently he paid $06,500 for the southwest cor­ ner ef Wells and Kchiller streets.' --The preliminary hearing of the crim­ inal case 8gain6t James J. West and Charles E. Graham, ex-President and ex- Secretary of the Chicago Times Company, resulted in both the accused being held to the grand jury in bonds of $5,000 each. The charge was that the two bad fraudu­ lently overissued the stock of the~ Times Company. --Wiley S. Seribner, Recorder of Cook County, and a well-known local Bepubli- • l politician, is dead. --Thursday was the banner day of the Illinois State Fair at Peoria, over 65,000 people being present, and more than $20,000 being taken in at the gates. The A Noble Sacrifice. At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion there lived in New York City an old lady by the name of Hall. She had one son--Thomas by name. lie being her only child, all her hopes and prayers were centered on him. With them lived her nephew, Thomas' cousin. The two young men were of an age and looked so much alike that they were frequently taken for twins, and as frequently taken for each other. At the commencement of the war John Hall--for that was his cousin's name-- enlisted in a voluntary regiment and went to the front for three years. When the draft came Thomas was drafted and was foreed to perform a duty which he did not relish. One day,, in quarreling with his Captain, he shot and killed him, then fled as a deserter. He was traced to his home by a detail from his regiment, and when they sur­ rounded the house and demanded him to surrender his Cousin John, who had just been discharged, gave the dis­ charge papers to Thomas and surren­ dered himself to t6e squad as the de­ serter. His aunt had always been as kind as a mother to him, and he knew that the shock of having her son shot as a deserter would break her heart; also, that he had no one to love him, as Tom had, so he decided to sacrifice his life that they two might live together. He He was then taken back and bore the punishment of death for his cousin's crime.--Philadelphia Prens. Only That and Nothing More. . , „ „ Old Lady (in a lawyer's office)-- management are highly elated over the j Mercy! who is that swearing so terribly ~ in the next room? Office Boy--That's success of tffe affair. - Lincoln Masonle Lodge, 210, and Logan Lodge, 480, were consolidated by General J. C. Smith at Chicago last week. A grand bouquet was one of the features of the event. Many visiting Masons from Central Illinois were pres­ ent. --The coming national convention-of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is expected to be one of the most impor­ tant representative temperance gather­ ings yet held in the country. It is to be in session at Bnttery D, Chicago, from the 8th to the 12th of November. The Women's Christian Temperance Union expects the co-operation of a larger dele­ gation of prominent and influential peo­ ple this year than has ever before been brought together. Letters and reports are already coming in whidfc justify the prediction that it will be »very notable gathering; the bow; he's writing a letter. " Why, who can he be addressing in so blasphemous a manner ?" Oh! he ain't'putting those cuss words in the letter; he's swearing at the ma­ chine. The type-writer girl is away to­ day, and the old man is trying to operate the machine himself."---Time. A Sick Man. A sick man expressed a desire for apple dumplings, and his wife made a dozen. A little son sat by the bedside watching the dumplings disappear one by one. After eleven had been devoured the child said: "Pa, can I have a dump­ ling?" And the invalid, biting into the ImH of the toothsome delicacies, said: "Go away, my son, your father is sick." Wall decorations are terribly stuck- up things. .* '> V <; George 111. on Shakespeare* :' A fashionable authoress of the last century was Miss Fannie Burney, whose "Evelina delighted Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Keynolds. When she had become famous she was the guest of Mrs. Delaney, a venerable, cultured lady, who lived at Windsor, not far from the castle where George III. and Queen* Charlotte resided. The King and Qneen frequently visited their neighbor, and shy Miss Fanny at such times sought her own room. But one afternoon she and Mrs. De­ laney were in the drawing-room, when suddenly the door opened. A large man entered, who shut tlie door with­ out sj eakitig. The star on his breast revealed to Miss Burney tiiat she stood in the pressence of the King. She re­ treated to the wall. The King ad­ vanced to his hostess and in a loud whisper asked if that was Miss Burney. Upon being assured that it was he drew near and entered into conversation with her. "But what--what--how was it--how eanie yon--how happened it--what-- what--what?" he asked, in his usual odd manner. Believing he referred to "Evelina," she replied that it had been written at odd hours for amusement. "But your publishing--your printing --how was that--what--what?" he asked; to which she answered, "I thought, sir, it would look well in print," at which he was vastly amused. Soon she became famililr with the presence of royalty, and on one occasion had the advantage of hearing his Majesty's criticisms on some famous men. Voltaire he pronounced a mon­ ster, and Shakespeare he considered little better than a fool. "Was there ever," cried out this royal Solomon, "such stuff as great part of Shakespeare?--only one must not say so. But what think you--what--what --is there not sad stuff-rwhat--what-- what ?" Fanny Burney ventured to assert that the sad stuff was mixed with many ex­ cellencies ; but he interrupted . her to ejaculate: "Oh, I know it is not to be said--bat it is true--only it's Shakespeare, and nobody dares abuse him; one should be stoned for siaying so." Afraid of Catechisms. ^Six-year-old Helen, from the Capital City, is spending the vacation with grandma in Springfield. One very hot day last week she stayed in the kitchen when there was a roaring fire, not heed­ ing at all the hints thrown out from time to time that there were cooler places. Finally grandma became quite out of patience. "Helen," she said, "I will not have you in this hot kitchen. Go into your play house at once!" aI can't grandma, I'm so afraid." "You are afraid? What are fiw afraid of?" "Why, grandma, there is a wab and a catechism in my play house, and I al­ ways was 'fraid of catechisms." "What can the child be talking about?" And grandma put on her specs and went to the play house and found a wasp and a caterpillar.-- Woman's News. ' Wholesale Slaughter of Swallows* A slaughter of swallows has been or­ ganized on a large scale along the southern sea-board of France. The poor creatures alight on wires provided for the purpose, tied out after long flights to or from Italy and the East, and they are killed in thousands by means of electric currents. This massa­ cre of the innocents has been ordained in the interest of fashion, and the slaughtered birds are used for the deco­ ration of the hats or bonnets of dainty dames and damsels in London, Paris, 1>r New York. Humane people will probably make an agitation on the sub­ ject, and there is some talk of petition­ ing the prefects of the southern de- . partments to use their authority to pre­ vent the extension and continuance of this ornithological carnage.--Pall Mall Gazette. The Missionary Fund. A Texas gentleman being unwell o6li!d not attend church on Sunday, not long ago, so he gave his little son a quarter to put on the plate. When the youth came home his father asked him what was the text? but he replied that he did not know, as he had forgotten it "Did you forget everything?" asked the exasperated parent. "No," replied the boy calmly, "I re­ membered not to put that quarter on the plate." "Why, yon are a regular little heath­ en." "I'm a little heathen, axa I? Well, for once the heathen got the money that was coming to them, which is more than could have happened if it had been put ea rhe plate. " K • How IW Palatabl* j|n !*•!»«< •mt Prepared for Markat. Most of the Virginia and North Caro­ lina peanut crop, which is about two- thirds of the whole crop of the country, is marketed in Norfolk and Petersburg, Va.; the rest, with the whole crop of Tennessee, is carried to St. Lotus or Cincinnati, says the Youth's Com­ panion. In each of these cities are factories where the nuts as they are delivered by the farmers are bought. The nuts as they appear at this stage, with earth and the stems still clinging -?J to them, are hardly to be recognized as .'j the bright nuts we afterward see on the '0m corner stand. To polish them, and to remove the '^1 earth and stems, the i.nts are scoured • '1 in large iron cylinders, from which they ^ pass through blast fans, in which a , 1 strong current of air separates the fully 4 -yj developed nuts having sound kern alar ft from those imperfectly filled, and emp&y pods. The sound nuts fall through th* " fan upon picking tables, where tboM which are discolored are taken out, and * the white ones are passed on into sa<*!<s V which will each hold about 100 pounds •, of nuts. Each sack is marked with the Vj brand which indicates the grade of Ha ' <«"4 contents. The dark and the partially filled nuts •'a are shelled, and the kernels are used by confectioners in making peanut » candy. ^ The work of picking over and Jill separating the nuts, is performed by little girls, about 20 of whom are em- ployed at every table. Three varieties of peanuts are grown > in this country, the white, the red and ^ the Spanish. The white which is the most important variety, has a nut with < two kernels, with pink skins; its vine spreads: along the ground, in this re- 34^ spect unlike that of the red variety, " «which grows more upright and in 1 ' 4 bunch. .. The pod of the red nut holds three 1||| and sometimes four kernels, and has a deep red skin. The Spanish is a much smaller not, 'ipS with a lighter skin and milder flavor thau either of the others possess. The '"H entire crop is shelled, and used es- .. ^ pecially in that rich confection known -• as nougat. " In 1880 the consumption of peanuts t in the United States was less than 2,- , ' % 000,000 bushels. In 1887 the amount \ had increased to four and a third mill- ion bushels all of which was eaten in * the United States and Canada. The demand for peanuts had trebled in the past few years, and the crop has never been sufficient to supply the demand, s The peanut is a more useful product * than people in general think it to be. >' The nuts contain from 42 to 50 per cent of nearly colorless, bland, fixed oil, which resembles olive oil and ia used for similar purposes. This oil is pritt- ^ cipally employed in the manufacture ot * the finer grades of soap. In 1883 Virginia began to manufac­ ture peanut flour, which makes a pecu­ liarly palatable biscuit, and North Caro- > lin a has long made pastry of pounded peanuts. It is also eaten for desert, and is roasted as a substitute for coffee. The peanut is very nutritive. Tha negroes use it in very many places in porridge, custard and prepare from it a beverage. The vine forms a fodder as good as clover hay, and hogs fatten on what they find on the fields after the crop has been gathered. It Was on Wheels. ' ^ ^ Undoubtedly the biggest fool seen In New York for a long time was a man . down from New Hampshire, who waa looking for 195 Broadway, the Western Union building. He had been told of the wonderful things to be seen there, including the telegraph wires and Jay Gould. He had "195" written on a card and was walking around the street looking for a corresponding number. Catching sight of a Broadway car with the number 195 painted conspicuously on the side, he exclaimed: "B'gosh, the thing's on wheels!" and, with a look of superior wisdom and de­ light pn his face, piled on board. He shuffled cautiously inside, and* taking a seat, said to a man beside him: "Wall, I'm a guinea if this don't take the cake. The folks up in New Hamp- j shire won't believe it when I go home | an' tell 'em 'bout this. Curious? Wall, I I should say I" | The ringing of the register bell inter- 1 es ted him. I "That's all done by lectrieity, Fll bei ! a dollar. Better not git too close to it, ; I reckon," and he slid away. "All yon I folks in here to see the eiephant, too? ; Wall, it's a corker, an' make no mia- j take." 1 The oonduotor came around tor the fare. ' "Didn't know there wuz anything to *°pay." J "Five cents," said the oonduotor. I As oountiy went down into his pocket : he said: | "I've deerd of you afore. Jay, but I didn't know you would tackle "a feller fer 5 cents. But here goes. Tm in town to see the sights, an' I'm goin* to play her for all she's wuth." Jefferson Davis* filfle, \ |* When Jefferson Davis was captiietf in Ge >rgia, at the close of the war, a fine English made rifle was found ia > his possession. It was presented to him j by a British blockade runner for his personal protection, while he was liv­ ing in the Executive Mansion at Rich­ mond, and it is said he used to prac­ tice with it at odd times until he be­ came quite an expert shot. After the capture the rifle was sent to Waahiog- ington and finally found its way into the Ordnance Museum, where it was labeled, "Jeff Davis' Rifle," and exhib­ ited with many other relics of the late rebellion. When the Ordnance Museum was broken up some time ago, this historical gun was sent to the Springfield arsenal.' There is a move­ ment on foot to have it returned to Washington and placed in the Museum. Warned in Time. : I f Yabslev--So young Bjinx is to many Miss Grimme, I hear. I might have proposed to heir myself if a rat had ao£ run into the room one evening when X was calling on her. Wickwire--And when she jumped up and screamed you got dig listed, I sup­ pose? You sliouldn't be critical, Yaba- U ley. A woman cant help acting that way. You musn't expect a woman to : act otherwise. f|f Yabsley--But she didn't do anything of the kind. She coolly picked up a book and smashed the life out of Mr. Eat the first round. She has entirely too much nerve to suit ma--Tem Haute Express. Dklvsioms are tho natural nnnae qneaoes of ignoranoa A lack of know!* edge oi a thing necessitates the inven- tum ofsome theory to account for ita „ \ ' V.