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•;.£ I. VAN SLYKE, CM 1 M 1 I i MoHENBY, - ILLINOm i «£t Thb largest sheep ranch m tlie world ;*J| in the cot! a ties of Webb aud Dimnet, "*• Texas. It contains upward of 400,- 000 acres and yearly pastures 800,000 «heep. . • in Nevada telegraph po!es in places, where waterjptands in win­ ter, are said to have taken root and are bnsbee than gowtepoa begging money from your ^friends. » GEORGE YANDERBILT ia the most ex­ traordinary member of the family in some respect*. Frederick and William K. bear a very strong resemblance in their manner and appearance to Mrs. Yanderbilt, and Cornelius lie* many of the sturdy and business-like qualities of his late father. The facial re­ semblance of the daughters of William H. Yanderbilt to the defunct millionaire is notable. It may be said in a general way that all of the children have Van- covered with foliage. The poles are | derWlt traits except the one that has cotton wood and were planted withthe 8°»e far to the South to build himself ^ifii -v' • lanln K/v*ma 11 T"*" 3 v «ii • Ihurk on them. -* IT will take from ten to ifcfteen jpeiitfBy for the Government to complete the history of the war. While each volume costs nominally $9,030, it is said the real cost will be not lass than $33,000 f»er volume. \ - # 'IT is said that there are thirtjr*flve klnda of granite in Maine, each of which possesses distinctive character­ istic readily recognized by workmen acquainted with monumental and build' ing stones. There are all shades of what are termed w hite granite, the most beautiful of which is the Hallowell, together with the red granite, of Bed Beach, and the black granite of Addi­ son. ; 1 AN English officer who recently trav- |pd on the public service says that he sent in in his account of traveling ex­ penses the entry, "Porter, 1 shilling.** His accounts were returned, with the remark that porter could not be allowed, but that if the entry were intended for the conveyance of luggage it should be noted °as porterage. The alteration was duly made, and a query added as to whether a cab should not be entered as "cabbage." The reply was that "correspondence on this subject must oease." ; • . "THE town of Wesley, Washington jaunty, Maine, is especially noted for tie great number of deer and bears killed within its borders, and its male population includes many inighty hunt­ ers. Chief among these is an old fellow known as Uncle Gideon, who has slain no fewer than 225 bears in twenty-five years. Uncle Gideon keeps tally of all the bears he kills now, but says he has no account of those he slaughtered previous to 1865. This spring he has gathered in three, an old she bear and her two cubs. |THX: houses of ancient Rome, previous the war of Pyrrhus, were covered snth boards, but afterward with tiles; and according to Yitruvius and from what remains of ancient monuments these must have been of a large size, not less than two feot broad. Seuaca speaks of a garret covered with a single tile. In the war against Marc Antony an isolated home. George Yanderbilt is a stranger in liiB native town. Despite his enormous wealth, assured social position, and winning nature, ho is not known generally in business, club and social fife. The booksellers are ac­ quainted with him, and so are the men who deal in bric-a-brac, but he is per­ sonally strange even to men who make it a point to know New Yorkers. THE utility of wire rope transmission has become widely recognized, says a writer in Modern Miller, Not only among the rugged hills and moun­ tains of the East and far West where streams go rushing down through cav­ erns and rocky steeps, where no loca­ tions for mills or factories are afforded is this means of transmission of pre­ cious power appreciated, but it is so con­ venient to use that we find on the prai­ ries of the West mills being operated at a long distance from water powers by the wire rope. A few days ago, on a trip through Nebraska, we noticed a rope stretching for nearly a mile from a water power to a mill that had recently been built adjoining a railroad, the owners finding it much more to their advantage to have it there, with the switching privileges afforded, than at the dam. The expense of hauling the floqr which is thus Baved to them will very soon pay for the system of flower transmission. A MEMBER of Congress is responsible for the well-known phrase "Acknowl­ edged the corn." In 1828 Alexander Stewart said in a speech that Ohio, Kentucky,' and Indiana sent their hay­ stacks, cornfields and fodder to New York and Philadelphia for sale. Wick- liffe, another member, called him to order, declaring that those States did not send their haystacks aud cornfields to the Eastern cities for sale, "Well, what do you send?" asked Stewart. "Why, horses, mules, cattle, and hrga." "Well, what makes your horses, mules, cattle, and hogs?" queried Stewart. "You feed $100 worth of hay to a horse. In doiug that you just animate your haystack and get on top ol. it and ride off to market How much corn does it take to fatten a hog, Mr. Wickliffe?" "Thirty-three bushels," replied the man from Kentucky. "Then you just put "the tenators were taxed at the rate of ten asses (about twenty-five cents) for] thirty-three bushels of corn in the shape every tile on their roof; hence it was, of °f a bog and walk him off to market," course, desirable to have tiles of «s large dimensions as possible, thus reducing the amount of the taxes. - enterprizing firm of spinners in Dundee, Scotland, have hit upon a capital plan of bringing their workers up to time at six o'clock in the morn­ ing. The defaulters were principally women, and the firm, knowing the weakness of the fair sex, offered a bribe of A Qup of warm tea to every one who presented herself at the proper hour. Even during the cold mornings the ex­ periment worked splendidly and the firm have now no cause of complaint. The fame of the tea has reached other works in the citv, and a large company of women workers at one of the fac­ tories in the West End struck work in consequence of the refusal of their em­ ployers to follow the good example. J^VEBYBODY knows what a picnic is, but most folk would find it hard to say how it got that name, aud yet it is simple enough when you come to learn it. When a picnic was being arranged for, the custom originally was that those who intended to be pre=ent should supply the eatables and drink­ ables. A list of these necessaries hav­ ing been drawn up it was passed round *and each person picked out what he or she was willing to furnish, and the name of the article was picked, or tioked off the list. The open-air en- said Stewart. At this point in the de­ bate Wickliffe sprang to his feet and exclaimed very hurriedly, "Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker! I acknowledge the corn." The incident caused quite a laugh among the members and was never .for­ gotten. , PROFESSOR ELIHTT THOMPSON, in speaking on "The Problems of the Future," says: "In the near future railways will bp run by electricity; not the small roads, I mean, but really the large ones connecting cities, and there is ny reason why we should not expect higher speed than we can attain at presont with our steam locomotives. There we have reciprocating parts that must be put in motion, stopped and reversed continually, while in the electric locomotive we have the simple rotary motion, which makes it possible accordingly to run at f much higher rate of speed. Although the steam locomotive has been very much im proved, yet it can hardly compare with the economy of stationary engines placed where they can have an abundant water supply for condensing purposes. Wo can, therefore, by employing stationary engine* aud e'ectric roads, do away with a great deal of unneces­ sary weight, and, the nioviog parts being symmetrical, we can attain much higher speed--say a hundred mile3 an hour. . This would be a grand step forward, which would save us a great deal of time. It might even be 150 miles tertqinment thus became known as a "pick and nick." The custom is said j possible to reach a speed of to date from 1802, so that the picnic is t an hour; it simply depends upon find- wholly an institution of the nineteenth] iQg the method of applying sufficient century. | power, and building the locomotives to THOUSANDS of Southern negroes wear FUIT' «RANGEMENTS being adopted to the cast-off clothing of New Yorkers. Sueh clothing is bought for little or nothing by peddlers, who sell it to wholesalers in the central European quarter. The wholesalers clean, patch and press the garments, arrange them according to size in dozens and await the Southern merchants. The latter come from Washington, Rich­ mond, Charleston, Mobile and half a keep the cars On the track. Wanted Somebody to Die. Representative Nathan Frank, of Mis­ souri, is one of the proprietors of a daily newspaper. He is one of many news­ paper proprietors who sit in the"halls of Congress. About a year ago the man­ ager of Mr. Frank's newspaper con­ ceived the idea of offering an accident policy carrying $500 insurance with each copy of the paper. I asked Mr. Frank dozen other considerable cities and buy ' the other day of what value the accident as best they may. The wholesalers aell on ninety days credit, and if one merchant does not offer fair prices they await the coming of others. Nobody's profits are extraordinarily large, but those of the Southern retailer are proba­ bly* tho best. IN an address to 276 fair young women who graduated from the Normal College in New York, General Sherman told them not to be „in a hurrv to marry, but when they did to pick out a manly fellow and be a womanly woman, not trying to usurp the rights of man. He also remarked: "The happiest life is the one that involves labor. You must have some object in life. Eight hours a day is a good day's labor, and if while you work you do something good for mankind, you will be better satisfied than if you had idly stretched -yourself and read French novels. Labor in America is honorable. It is better to blackberry pojicy had proved to his publication. "Oh, well," he said, in a discouraged tone, "it advertised us a little for a time, but tnen no one died." I expressed some surprise at this view of the case, suggesting that as no one had died Mr. Frank had saved just $500. "Yes," said the member from the Ninth Missouri District, "we saved $500 but we lost an advertisement that would have been worth a great many thou­ sands to us. If some' one had been found dead with one of those accident : policies 'wf, our in his pocket we would have had the people of the whole town buying copies of the paper every even­ ing, in the vain hope that they might fall dead, too, and thus obtain the coveted reward. We lost a great deal of money by the perverse failure of our subscribers to die suddenly on the day of publication." -- Washington Cor', New York Tribune. - A WELL-KNOWN colored fiddlerat An­ napolis, Md., dreamed that he had only one day longer to live, and diedaccord- AFFAIRS IK ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI­ OUS SOURCES. Wlwt On? 5«i(kboi4 Are Dofag--Matters of Oaaaral and Local Interact -- Mar* itagMMid Death*--Accidents' *n<lCrtmos --Pcraonal Pointers. --A strange career has been that of Editor Owen Scott, of Bloomington, whom the Democrats have nominated for Congress in tha Fourteenth District. An exchange siys: Scott taught his first school wbmi be WM hot 16 years old, down in Effingham County, whero he wfta born, Her© he taught tbe young idea how to shoot twelv© months in the latter six of which course of Instruction va carried on in a grove out of doors. M'hpuever a rain storm came on yomig Scott and ft's pupil* crawled into a little hut, which stoi «i near, &R a Protection from the rain. His journey to and from school lay two and a h«lf miles through the woods, and the i)ionoer pedagogue carried his gun alonR. by means of which he aum>li*l game to families at both ends of the route. At one tinae, when he was very much In need of a pair of boots, he took a vacation from school one week and with his dog scoured lha woods for rabbits, He succeeded in bagging a large number and he sold them at 5 cents apiece, using the money thus realized to pay for a pair of red-top boots, in which he appeared at the head of his school the following ^fondav morning, prouder than ho was yesterday when" ha was nominated for Congress. Later y junsj Scott came from Norman to Effingham ami attended the Normal School, after which, in 1871, he bt came Super­ intendent of the Citv Schools in Effingham. Finally he entered tho law office of Judge S. F , inch GUmore at that place and in 1874 he was ad- «... mi tied To the bar. Ha got married in 1*73 to Miss Nora Miser, of St. Louis. Alter serving years as County Superintendent of Effing --Weekly ballet!* weather-crop bureau: The low ths normal ttawebont the State. amount of MUkWtna «aa abore the aveiaga and light showers of rain occurred In some of the central nodi northern ooaatiea of the State, but In the gontbera eoncifea tha drought still con­ tinues and is beffnataC to affect the crops inju­ riously. Tha folio wing are extracts from re­ ports of observers: Champa;gn < ountr -Oats harrestcommenctd. Rainfall. 0.7'2 inch, Coles--Pastures suffering for lain. Hay crop Rainfall, excellent in quality; fait in quantity. ®.15 inch Bonglas--Hayharveat is weii advanced. Oat a harvest began on the 11th; the crop will be light. Fulton--No rain for almost two weeks. Tho potato crop will be a failure, and corn is suffer­ ing for rain. * Iroquois--The hot weather has been injurious to the oats crop; corn needs rain. The hot weather of the past three weeks has aiYectei tho berrv crop injuriously. No rain has fallen during tho week. Kendall--Aoaeuc* of rain and the clear weather hava been favorable for harvesting. Corn is doing well, but will soon need rain. Rye is about ready to cut and will give a good crop. Oats are not promising. No rain during week. Marshall--N o rain during the week. Farmers are busy putting up a Hue crop of hay. Oats cutting will begin next week. McHenry--Farmers are nearly through corn cultivating aud haying is in progress, with a very good crop. The rye harvest has just be­ gun. Rainfall. 0.12 inch. Piatt-Corn and pastures need rain. Cats are half cut and are poor. Potatoes are a failure. The hay crop is light. Wheat mostly in stack. B lackberriea are drying up. ItaihfalL 0.07 of an inch. 1'ooria--Rain Is badl>* needed for crops. Nome fell during the pa*t week Sangamon--More rain ie needed. Conditions are generally favorable, Rainfall, 0.80 of an eight ham County he embarkod in journalism, pur­ chasing a half interest in 1881 in the Effingham Democrat, shortly afterward becoming sole proprietor. Four years later he sold out and became Doputy Treasurer of Effingham County, and afterwards, in 1877-78, was City Attorney of Effingham. In 1834 he came to Bloomington and vurchased the Ttulletin of John H. Oberly and he has ever since been its editor and pro­ prietor. --The Census Supervisor whose dis­ trict embrsoes' the thriving Northern Il­ linois counties of Boone, Carroll, De- Kalb, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, and Winnebago, extending from the Mis­ sissippi almost to the lake, has finished his enumeration. Following is tjhe> re­ sult as cdtnpared with 1880: County. mi. 1P80. Jn'c. Deo! Boone.. 12.200 " -- Carroll ig.aes De Kalb 27,100 Jo Daviess 25,020 Kane 64,793 Kendall IS,120 Lee 2:),106 McHenry 21,108 Ogle 2^,090 Stephunson 31,22.) Whiteside ;3)^9> Winnebago 1883. 11,506 16,1)70 86,788 27,528 44,98) 18,083 27,491 24.908 29,937 31,903 30,6*5 30, 05 Inc. 1.W9 333 io,m 1,900 le 9,835 9,508 983 1,217 743 Five counties lose and seven gain, bat one of them only ten. Boone gains, but it has fewer people than in 1870. The handsome increase in Kane is due to Aurora and Elgin, and the good showing made by Winnebago to Bockford. Where there »>re no oities or thrivin? lit­ tle villages there are losses. Elsewhere there are ins. --Springfield dispatch: The commit­ tee to locate an orphan asylum for the Order of Odd Fellows of this State have just visited Lincoln and Shelbyville. At Lincoln they are offered as a bonus $10,000 aid a choice of two tracts of land, each containing forty acres, and both within the city limits, and other valuable privileges. At Shelbyville they are offered forty acres of land and $15,- 000. These are the only two important btthr, tod a deMsion will scon be made in favor of one of them. The committee consists of Grand Master J. L. Barnua, of Chicago; Mrs. J. S. Ticknor, of Bock­ ford; Mrs. Lizzie P. Morrison, of Chios- go; Major Alfred Orendorff end J. Otis Humphrey, of Springfield. --Chicago Tribune: "Potter Palmer patronizes his own hotel and restaurant occasionally, and when he does be pays his way the same as if he were a guest. If he takes his luncheon in the restau­ rant, he has the check handed to him and pays it to the waiter, whom he ne<er tips. Mr. Palmer discountenances the tip all he can. If Mr. Palmer sbonld 6leep in the hotel, he would register and expect the samo attention and no more than ii meted out to his guest."1 --According to the annua! circular jnst issued by the State Board of Public Charities, the ordinary expenses of the State charitable institutions for the year ending June 30, 1890, were $936,601.05. The total, number of days' board furnish­ ed was 2,261,618; average number of in­ mates, 6,196; net average cost per capita, $160.84. The cost is lowest at the east­ ern hosp'tal for the insane at Kenkakee, where the average cost per capita is $138.90. This hospital has 1,675 in­ mates, compared with 500 to 600 at the other institutions. At the Institution for the Blind at Jacksonville there are 120 inmates. an£ tha average cost per capita is $315.15. At the Eye and Ear Infirmary at Chicago there nra 138 in­ mates, and the average co*t is $174.53. At the beginning of the year, July 1, 1889, the number of iomates was 5,424; new patients admitted dnring the year, 3,238; former patients readmitted, 559; patients returned, 1,050. Of the inmates at the close of the year, 3,783 were males and 1,982 females. Three hundred and six died dnring the year. --"The number of inhabitant# the cen­ sus of 1890 gives to Chicago is 1,101,- 263," says the Inter Ocean. "Only about 400,000 short of the estimated population of New York, and 61,263 ahead of the estimated population of Philadelphia. We have passed the seo- ond city and are pushing hard upon the first. That is perhnps giory enough for one decade. More might make us proud." --United States District Attorney W. G. Ewing has been nominated for Con­ gress by the Democrats of the First Dis­ trict (South Chicago). --John J. Eilev, a comedian, dropped deed while performing at the Park Thea­ ter at Chicago. He was about %o leave the stage when he was stricken with apo­ plexy. His fall for awhile was believed to be a new prank, but when he did not arise after a few moments had passed, the other actors went to him and found that life was extinct. --Near Mount Olive, Macoupin Coun­ ty, last w6ek, John Burgdorff killed John Pratt. The men were miners. Burg­ dorff rented a house from Pratt, and the latter's children used to get water from the renter's well, that at their father's place being unfit for use. Burgdorff ob­ jected to this and drove the children away. Pratt, accompanied by his wife and daughter, went over to^4£e| well to get some water, and a quarrel gtrose be­ tween the two men. Pratt threw a buck­ et of water into Burgdorff's face, when the latter rushed into the house, secured revolver and shot his assailant deadr Stephenson--Farmers are busy cutting rve and wheat. The wheat is not ^uito as good as expected. Rye will yield a fail crop. Corn ia doing well, but needs rain. Rainfall, 0.14 of an inch. Tazewell--No rain for three week*. Oats burning. Corn drying Op, Gardens dying and pastures burning up. I^a^alle--Corn is doing tairlv well, but needs rain. The oata crop is "mail^," and will proba­ bly be a full average, Whtat is rather below the average. Potatoes are yielding poorly, with prospects of not more than half a crop. No rain lias fallen during the week. --The Rev. S. D. Peet, publisher of the .America* Antiqwrian, has recently made a discovery in thiB vicinity of great historic interest, says the Quincy (111.) Whig: Mr. Peet has found during the last few years a number of serpent effi­ gies in Wisconsin, and since the discov­ ery of the great serpent in Ohio he has been looking for traces of the handiwork of these same curious people in this lo­ cality, his theory being that the serpent worshipers passed down the Ohio Iliver, «p the Mississippi, end thence into Wis­ consin. A connecting link of their work along the Mississippi would prove the truth of his theory. This link Mr. Peet has found. His newly discovered ser­ pent is six mile* north of Quincy, on the Carthage road, where Bock Creek breaks through the bluff, one-half mile north of Bock Creek station. A cleverly defined lattlesnake lies coiled alone; the ground, following the line of the bluff. Its en­ tire length is 1,450 feet, the head being to the south and msrked at present by a cluster of cherry trees. A portion of the ridge or series of mounds of which this monster is composed lies in a wheat field, and.the ridge has been plow­ ed down until it is only two or three feet above the surface. Tha outlines are still plainly distingnished, however, the mounds at the coil* of the serpent being ten or twelve feet high. The specific di­ mensions of the snake are OB follows: Six hundred feet from the head to the coil6; the coils ocpupy a spjuf of Rewcly 500 feet in length and are made up ot four distinct mounds 100 feet apart, thu mounds giving the outline and clearly marking the roll of the serpent; from the coils to the rattle of the snake is 450 feet, and there are three rattles, occupy­ ing a space of 1G0 feet. Hie serpent lies north and eonth, a straight line drawn J through it showing a deflection to the east of 50 feat near the head and 75 feet near the tail. The discovery made by Mr. Peet will prove of great historic in­ terest and may lead to valuable results in affording knowledge of n strange race of people who inhabited the Mississippi Valley many centuries ago. --Chicago Olobe,: Pretty Alioe Bloomer 16 year* of age, who lives with her mother at the corner of Fifty-f ourth and Carpenter streets, was determined to marry a Chinaman named Charley Chang. Charley had been to see her often and matter* were all arranged. She was des- <:ncd to be disappointed, however, for .*en she was teen on ClaTk street Satur­ day night in company with Chang she was arreetei%nd locked np at the Harri­ son street stetion. Her mother is willing and anxious for her to marry him, and went to the station with Chang and couple of other Chinamen to bail her out, bnt the police refused to let the girl go. She has a sister who married Lee Soo about four y^ars ago, and she is the only one who objects to the mateh, as she says her life has been made miserable, and she doesn't want her sister's happiness ruined. Two women from the Chinese Sunday-school tried to induce the girl to give Charley up, and finally the girl con­ sented to be sent to the Err ins Women's Befuge for one year, and thinks by that time she oan burn to forget her Charley. --The trial of L. C. Higgs, the original- package man, at Salem, for violation of the city ordinance in selling intoxicating liquors, resulted in his acquittal. The oase ha? been appealed $# flu Marion County Circuit Court. week has been be- ' The " jJXalit William ICoKtnley hi the w~~tf of ' resentativegj. .And now, Mr. Speaker, having said that, I want to add that this bill onght to be passed. I have not indulged in this discussion heretofore. This bill may not be, in all of its provisions, what I would like to have it, but it is a bill looking to en honest representation on the floor of the American House of Bep- resentatives end to honest voting and the f.ir counting of votes in every part and section of the American republic. That s all of the bill, and no honest man can bjeot to it, and no lo ver of fair play can fiord to oppose it. Ah, but thay say this measure is harsh. This measure will rest heavily only upon districts and^upon States which violate the laws an i the Constitution of oar com­ mon country. Let every citizen of this republic vote and then see to it that his vote is counted as it is cast and returned as counted, and you never need invoke anv of the provisions of the bill or sub- ! ject yourselves to what yon term its harsh previsions. Honest elections will make the law unnecessary; dishonest ones should be stopped by tee strong arm of the law. My friend from Mississippi (Mr. Allen) quotes fiom General Grant. Let me I quote from an utterance of his, made in speaking of the condition of affairs in Mississippi, the gentleman's own State. Said Gr.mt: | "How long these things are to oontinne or what is to be the final remedv the great Buler of the univers; only knows, but I have an abiding faith that the rem­ edy will come, and come speedily, and earnestly hope it will come peacefully." Let me quote from him another utter- anc*, made two years before his death. Speaking of this very question of the suffrage, he said it would never be set­ tled until every man who counts, or rep­ resents those who do count, shall east | one ballot, and have that ballot counted I precisely as ho cast it. Now, I want to say here to-day, for I have but a few moments, that this ques­ tion will not rest until justice is done, Mid the consciences of the American people will not be perm tted to slumber until this great constitution*! right, tbe equality of tbe suffrage, equality of op­ portunity, freedom of political action and political thought, shall be, not the iaere cold formalities of constitutional enactment as now, but n living birthright which the poorest and the hnmbltst, white or black, native-born or natural­ ized citizen, m<*y confidently enjoy, aud which the richest end most powerful daro not deny. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, remember that God put* no na­ tion in supreme place which will not do supreme duty. God keept* no nation in supreme place which will not perform the supreme duty of the hour, and He will not long piosper that nation which will not protect and defend its citizens. It is onr supreme duty to enforce the Constitution and laws of the United States and "dare to be strong for the weak." Gentlemen on the other side, I appeal to you to obey the laws and Con­ stitution; obey them as we obey and ob­ serve them; for I tell you the people of the North will not continue to permit two votes in the South to count as much ss five votes in the North. . . V-'.'-Jr. . . 1- :x -.3. •, --Gov. Fifer ha* extended an immedi­ ate pardon to Harry Loehr of Blooming­ ton, who was convicted last September ' sent to Joliet for one year for falsi­ ng the records of the Collector's of- i»ce, where he was employed as deputy. --Chicago Tribune: '* Summer brings its troubles, and winter follows with those peculiarly its own. Testerday the ice barons of Chicago put up the price of ice, and the same day the coal barons an­ nounced that on Aug. 1 cpal is to be ad­ vanced 25 cents a ton. Between the heat and the cold the barons make.the people toe the line with great regularity." --The Democrats of the Fourth Con- gressional District (North Chicago) have nominated Gen. Walter C. Newberry as their candidate for Congress. --A set of sharpers are preying upoa the farmers of Central Illinois. They claim to have discovered a \iru* which is said to be a never-failing preventive of hog cholera. Twenty-five cents is chatted for etch inoculation of swine, and they give a worthless guarantee that their remedy will prove successful. Their remedy is said to be a fraud, aud when it is so ptoren the operators are always out of reach. --'Joseph Bedinger, one of the old and wealthy residents of Bloomingtoo, died last week at Erlanger, Ky.. where he re- "»?•*. -:l > . ' f ' * t* - " A . i THE EFFECTS OF PROJECTION, (John P. JOnes, ot Nevada, ta the United States Henata.] Mr. Fresident, so far as. a tariff has the effect of reducing prices m any country, it is not by reason of the levying of any certain percentage of duty on the import­ ed goods. The first effect of the tariff certainly always must be to raise prices. The fundamental theory of the tariff is that by that tariff you place the price' of manufactured goods up to a range at which they can be produced in the coun­ try in which the tariff is levied, and upon the level of the range of wages and m in­ ner of living which obtain in that coun­ try. so doing, if you have a proper volume of money, you set nil your people at work, and keep them at work at a va­ riety of occupations. In such case, every forge, furnace and factory become* a school, every machine shop an academy, and every cunning device and invention becomes a lesson, teaching the people how to deal with the subtle force* of the universe. So 1 ar as this country is con­ cerned, the theory of the tariff is that 65,000,000 people should have a varied and complete system of manufactures, which should supply praotically all their own want* instead of au abnormal pro­ portion of them beingdriyen into tbe sin­ gle occupation of farming and relyin? up­ on foreign manufactures to supply such finished products as they need. To draw out und develop the aptitudes of a people a large variety of occupations is indispensable. When all men are em­ ployed at their aptitudes new inventions multiply, progress is accelerated, and the secrets of nature are more, rapidly un­ folded. Hence the McCormick reaper; hence the sewing-machine, the great instrument which clothe* the world, be­ cause of the discovery that the eye of the needle should be at the point; hence the air-brake, the telegraph, the electric light, and thousands of other inventions that a protected people originate and de­ velop, which would perhbps not have been originated or mignt have been long delayed if it had not been forthedis- couragement of imports caused by the tariff, and the encouragement of our peo­ ple to go into manufactures by which their varied talents are drawn out and cultivated. There is no donbt that eventually, as onr conditions improve, increasing num­ bers of our people will by degrees emerge from agricultural and enter manufactur­ ing pursuits. A tariff, by stimulating the organization and development of in­ dustries, trains men to greater skill and perfection of workmanship in a variety of departments, and with greater skill comes gte iter efficiency of labor, and BO greater economy of time. In that wny the prices of certain products are in time reduced; but that is not a reduction of whioh anyone complains. The Supreme Court on National Election Lawr. So much has been said in Congress about the alleged illegality or unconsti­ tutionality of the Lodge-Bowell election bill that many persons have been led to suppose the question a doubtful one, whereas the entire matter has been pass­ ed upon by the Federal Supreme Court and the right of the Federal Government to supervise and control tho election of Congressmen is established fullv. In 1684 in the Yarborough case tlie court said: "Can it be doubted that Congress can by law protect tbe act of voting, the piace where it is done, and the man who votes from personal violence or intimida­ tion, and the election itself from corrup­ tion and fraud? These questions answer themselves, and it is only because the Congress of the United States, through long habit nud long years of forbearance, has, in deference and respect to the States, refrained from tbe exercise of these powers that they are now doubted." Hence there is not the slightest doubt a Mo the constitutionality of an allegel "force bill" in the election of Congress­ men with sufficient vigor and authority in i it to protect the voter in his rights and to < keep the ballot-box from defilen ent. The j States all have "force bills" of that char- ! acter to govern their elections. In Illi­ nois and Indiana within a short time past the heavy hnnd of election laws seized certain ballot-box-stuffing Demo­ cratic politicians and sufficient "force" was used to lodge them in the peniten­ tiary and keep them there until they were sufficiently punished for their crimes against a free and equal ballot. The Federil Government has tho same right a» a State to protect its elections- and to put into its laws the strength and force needed to affect that purpose. In elucidating this matter the Supreme Court said with great perspicuity: " J be greatest difficulty in coming to a jnst conclusion arises irom a mistaken nation with regard to the relations which subs st between the State and the Nation­ al Government. It seeme to be often overlooked that a National Constitution has been adopted in this country estab­ lishing a real Government therein, oper­ ating upon pet sons and territory and things, and which, moreover, is or should be as dear to every American citizen as the State Government is. Whenever the 1ru» conception of tba nature of this Government is once conceded, no real difficulty will arise in the jest interpreta­ tion of its powers. Bnt if we allow our­ selves to regard the National Govern­ ment as a hostile organization, opposed P*°Per sovereignty nnd dignify of the bta'e- Governments, we shall continue to be vexed with difficulties as to juris­ diction and authority." This explains the error of the Demo­ cratic partisans who are protesting against an alleged "force bill" for the protection of Congressional elections wbere the same is needed. It ciui be so injury to the "States" for the National Government to supervise national elec­ tions and enforce strict rules to prevent fraud against the ballot. The "States* still wilt be left free to conduct their own elections for all State, county, and mu­ nicipal officers as they may see fit, and in their own way to deal with election frauds as conscience may prompt. Not interfering then with Btate laws or officere in local matters, tin Federal Government h s the undoubted constitu­ tional right to see to it, that m the election of Congressmen who m«ke the nation's laws, there shall be an honest ballot and a fair count in all parts of the Union. If the Federal Government lacked the pow­ er to protect its own elections it would not be a Government at all. It would merely a creature of sufforance. where fraud prevails at the polls the country is not to bo ruled by the neople, but by successful ballot-box stufl'ers nnd election swindlers. The goveiniug er would not be vested in the nnjori the lawful voters, but in a crimiui of ballot corrupters. Patriotic, ment would be an absurdity Government which could not needed "force bills" to protect election frauds. As the S ' ha* said: "A real Nationa has hem established in nnd it haa inherently, and as much right to protect its the States have to guard tt cago Tribune. To Republican Editor*. Bepresentat lve Belden, of New York, Chairman of the Republican Congres­ sional Committee, hie issued the follow­ ing address to tbe Bepablioun editors of the country: " Ihe Bepublican party, in Its several natioual platforms, nas pledged to the country that as one of its fundamental planks it would see to the execution of that provision of the Constitution which guarantees to every lawful voter in Fed­ eral elections his right to deposit his bal'ot and have it counted for the candi­ date of his choice. That pledge, based on justice, involves merely the exeic Be of an-unquestionable constitutional right of every American citizen. Nevertheless, the gravest election abuses in a large section of our country have deprived vast masses of their lawful franchise, have by fraudulent agencies imposed au unlawful representation in the National House of Representatives, and have thus practi­ cally subverted the Constitution in some of its most important and valu >ble provi­ sions. The strict enforcement of this inal enable right* is demanded as a solemn duty. "No question of negro supremacy, no usurpation of Federal power is involved in the issue. The national election bill which recently parsed thj House deals only with national elections; it does not meddle directly or ind rectly with State officer*, or State organizations. The States ate very properlv left to work out their own destiny through their oWn agencies. Why, then should the bill not become a law? As declared by the Hon. William McKinley in his recent speech in the House, '{he passage of the Federal electipa bill is tho supr?mo duty of the hour.' The passage can not ldnger be reasonably evaded. The House, i a thful nnd active in the fulfillment of pirty pledges, zoalous in the performance of a great public trust, and, undaunted by the diabolical threats and assaults of the Democratic pnrty, has promptly per­ formed its duty by the passage of the bill. Now it only remains for the Re­ publican majority in the Senate to emu­ late the House and permit the President, by his signature, to ratify and register the will of the nation. Will the Senate promptly perform this imperative duty? 'The committee is in possession of information showing a concentrated ef­ fort on the part of the Democratic party to change the trend of public thought by poisoning the minds of the people, to the end that a sentiment may te manufact­ ured that would deter Congress from passing a national election law at this session. It is believed that a favorable expression cf opinion at this juncture from the Republican press all along the line would be as forcible as timely, and would exert a wholesome influence and inspire legislators to the carrying out of the party's pledge. The House has per­ formed its part of the work to whioh the party WEB pledged. Will you not do your duty in urging that the Senat; shall re­ spond promptly by the passage of the measure, which the House deems essen­ tial, absolutely essential, to the purity of the elections of its own members? "J. J. BHIiDKN." -Chi- Tfce FafctCsCtaro*. James Ma*s, the traveler. ce^||i|: story: "It was altotjf 5 o'eloefc igljpj evening, and Col. Yeager and I afcfc eht the verdanda of tbe Viepliab Hoteifct Bombay, and on the ettge of the natfv* city, which is called ViotHlah, and ffff Bombay. The C< >lonel i» deed; til tiut he once owned and loved is gone. Be was expecting his wife and daughter,, who had been ont to England on * year s visit, and the vessel was to arrive at Calcutta next day, while we weBji going to get tbe bungalow ready to re­ ceive them. The C' donel wai in the best of spirits. He joked aud laughed and told old stories of love and war j 1 liow he was nearly captured and mur­ dered by the renowned Nana-Said A Compore; of his vast poppy plantation# and the revenue he derived from the opium he distilled every year. Fia- *»y started to walk to where we hadi 1 onr horses stabled, and then for a car­ ter over the beautiful roads to the bun­ galow fifteen miles awav. We liad to go through Yicullah to reach onr desti­ nation. • What a kaleidoscope thai; native eity is! The burrah-wallah water carrier, wearing nothing but a breech clout, and the male body servant, with his red turban and long white jacket^ Jews from Palestine, Parsee3, or font worshippers, who traveled 3,000 miles over desert and mountain from Persia and; carried their sacred fires, all picturesque, all in white, bordered witlk red or other bright colors. "Well, in turning a corner in Vicni- lah we found a crowd being harangued by one of the be9t known fakirs in India. I had heard him spoken of M one who could put a blight npon you. People called him Sadi-Saib, Sadi, master. Col. Yeager pushed tl the crowd to withiu a few fakir, to whom he Hindostanese. I< Sad^riio jumped ' tan^Hhont of Y< an, n yofl aflK yours. Tre e smallest thing Buddtte- or it may turn and ating v I could stop him the Colonel cut the fakir across tbe. face, iu>4 ith an oath had shonted: 'Out ot tike ay. you Hindoo pig!' "The fakir with blaziug eyes said: % •"Englishman, you will not melj! . your wife. You will not meet yoijt> child. Your plantations wilf^be devas­ tated; your craven heart will wither within you. You will die.' ' The fakir's words were propheti% I felt it then, and I also think the" Colonel did. We reached the bunga­ low, and were soon in bed. How l slept that night I don't know. The words, 'Englishman, beware,' were continuously raging iu my ear. Neit morning I went into the breakfast room, and I shudder when I think of il. The Colonel was there walking np and down with a telegram in his hand, his face drawn, and he looking twenty years older than he did the night be­ fore. With tears.ii> his eyes he handed me this message: 'Steamship Fiago went ashore at the month of the Hoo- galy. Your wife and child drowned.' t have never seen the Colonel since, bat I have watched his career. His poppy crop was a failure that year and if ruined him, his bungalow was by either accident or desig Yeager died within a twelve mc bra£en heart" ' ^ Im P&snajfe or the Silver BUI. The vote for the bill in the House was 122, and that against it U0. All who were for it were Republicans, and all who wore opposed to it were Democrats. It doubt:ess had the pr.vate approval of a few Congressmen of the miuority, who were ag >inst free coinage, but they did not have courage enough to antagonize their party openly, and so did not vote at all or voted in the negative. The great mass of the Democratic members were in favor of free coinage, lhey wanted the mints thrown open to the silver not merely of the United States but of the whole* world. They also wanted the Government to pay for the bullion it boticht--not its market value, but its nominal value when coined. They wished every silver speculator all over the world Animal Companions.' How often, even in the fl railway cariiage, do we# ineel people who, bnt for a lew point* of difference, might be consorting witti the travelers in the cattle-trnck, or, with a collar around their necks, bf . lying perdy--to save their master the dog-fare--under the seat Here an some "notes" which I once took of fellow-passengers', says a tourist is a gentleman opposite who has ty^f "in the wars," though not, I think ih * professional capacity. He looks Itfhl like a soldier than a gladiator, bat very much more like a mastiff than ei^Mv His nature is grim and qu&rreta0me»' One can picture him with his hand m the throat of his enemy--or, for thq - matter of that, of his friend--but sti""1 more easily [as will happen in future] hanging on to the under lip a bull. He is sitting "cheek-by-jowl"--^ or, rather, jowl-by-clieek--with a peai ful member of the Exchange, who tunning his red eyes over the new; paper, and showing his sharp whltjfi teeth at some financial intelligence^? with the 'conviction that it will be t$ijs his advantage, but in total ignorasmi' that }ie is half a guinea-pig already, will be a whole one in a few years; Se has got some lettuces in a basket, lie will enjoy either in his pre&eo future conditions. Next to him fragile, little dainty female, with zelle eyes, who wants both the dows up. Her pretty nose is cold,' which will also happen when in health, when she becomes an ItefaM. greyhound. Then, instead of li«pir»g 1.3 in her present effected fashion, she willvA. whine; and, in plaee of angling for com- / pliments--for it is quite certain, what- ever happens, that she is a flirt--she V will beg for sweet biscuits. Next ubt tlieie is ft financial personage, r ously mottled, " " " who breathes audibly. If of mopping th pocket-handk Gad! it's wi would be already a porpoise. At pres­ ent, however, he has not learnt--or, at all events, cannot practice--the art oiy - -j taking somersaults, "for which thai aoiiy -1 IH mal is so justly celebrated. about 4,500 inhabitants. One of to be allowed to get an ounce ot Ameri-^ selectmen runs a hard tram stor® Only a I few years ago the people of Chicago ae- j clared by an overwhelming majority that j there was not force enengh in the Illi- i Md* eleotioa law «wt demanded one of j Lowi* Oiobi-DtmocmiL An Kje to Basin«m. r/h£!re "i1u,t been UP Vennoet." said a Treasury clerk yesterday. natives have lost none of their cuteneaa. • -"f The town where I was stopping hep ©MP .. jcl can gold for every sixteen ounces of for-/ two weeks ago his dog was bitten bT a eign silver he delivered. They Wanted ti neighbor's dog. It was a small enonJ. ' * banish gold from Circulation a&l make mauer, but see what happened ' . he had the neighbor's dog killed: t) he raised the cry that the doglkid beeit mad and had bitten other dflw. The^- selectmen met and ordefed that dog should be muzzled for forty days* and the thrifty hardware haa nearly 500 muzzles at $1 apiece. Staid ' . old family dogs travel around town witU! » ! leather thongs around their jaws, u hicl* never closed on anything more human, : than a beef boue. I saw one big<. < • 1A m a s t i f f t h a t b a d w o r k e d h i s m u z / i e o f f ? and was lugging it around in mouth."--Washington tost -•••- 1 ' - ' •» ' 11 BECORDER SMYTH is one of tb« |MN§ . officers in New York. He iastidfeife, «<» v" in receipt of salaries aggregating lift. '~ 000 a year, including an allowance of ' *3,000 for office reaE Wn salary Judge is $12,000. silver the only hard money of this coun­ try. These Democratic ideas a d not carry tne day, and the hill as it stands, passed by Kepublican votes alone in both nouses, is a purely llepublican piece ot legislation, and that party muit be cred­ ited with whatever good results ensue. Chicago Tribune. Protection In Missouri. The sentiment in f-vor of protection is not more pronounced in Pennsylvania than it is in Missouri, nnd the cause of Senator Vest is specially calculated to augment and extend it. The time has gone by for the old fashion of blindly voting the Democratic ticket from for^a of habit and tradition. Men insist upoa doing their own thinking instead of having it done for them by partv leaders and candidates for office. In Missouri, as elsewhere, people read and reflect and study the lessons of experience. Re­ publicanism is no lonaer ' a thing to be laughed at nnd derided. It has become a permeating nnd potent, force, and tha time is dose at hand when it will take aid hold poneasiom pf the i. v-w ^,+a Jk .v if il: .A- ; r\i , h Z . t " ' ' f z J z : 1 1 . . . w . • ^ To BK effectual sympathy should given as a draught--not aroliad Hwelly. 1 ^ » '