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is a bole about three feet in diameiei and of unkuown depth, from which a dense crowd of smoke and atesm is con­ stantly arising. For 100 feet on each side of the hole the ground Is moist and heated^ Water collected in tho holes which has beon dugiu this moist & Scxcn of Louisiana ttce show* a JEP"0111^ bas the tendency to make one t&etirnlllaittfciiU* J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. M'KISLEYISil NOT DEAD ALTHOUGH DEFEATED BY ENG- > U9H CAPITA** Ijiald o( 4^590 grains from a single seed. THE submarine telegraph system of the world consist* of 120,000 nautical miles of cable. At Amherst, N. S., recently, Rev. Br. Hartley lost a valuable ring. He advertised bnt got no tidings nntil a <iream revealed to him the fact that the very wakeful, besides giving the face, hands and feet a paralytic numbness. Every evening at 7 o'clock large vol- umos of sand are shot from the hold, preceded by a roar that can be beard for miles. THE report from German^- that Prof. Koch has abandoned lecturing in conse­ quence of having discovered a care for ring was under his bed, and he found it j consumption by inoculation will stimu- <M| one of the slats. J ate curiosity nqt only in medical circles but throughout Christerdom. Any Ib London/the- daiiy papt^ fiilik of bridges for pedestrians on street cross­ ings, where the crowds and the vehi­ cles now often make au impassible jam. This was tr:» d on Broadway at Fulton street. New York, but the bridge was «o little used that it was taken down.. The grave of William H. Crawford, who was United State* Senator from Ctaorgia from 1809 to 1813, then for two jeara Minister to Franco, and afterward Secretary of War in President Madi­ son's Cabinet and Secretary of the Treasury under Monroe, is unmarked Jjy so much as a tombstone.. . G|IN NON, a Itiverside, Cal., is •China to secure himself a wife, and in •order to be allowed to land upon his return, he has drawn up a certificate setting forth who he' is, and had his photograph pasted on the same sheet, «nd had the different county officials •8}ga the document. Scientist who professes to be able to rob this modern scourge of its terrors neces­ sarily becomes an interesting figure in tlje big world. Prof. Koch's original experiments were apparently successful in the identification of the character­ istic germ of this disease, although the results were questioned by high medi­ cal authorities. If he has now followed iu Pasteur's track and discovered some effective means of iuoculating patients against the disease, the development of his curative {system will be watched with eager interest in many countries. A PUBLISHER was saying recently Chinos merchant of tKat the Ckantauquau circl® iu khia about to return to i ooantr-v is lar«el-v responsible for the present marvelous interest in Latin and Latin literature. At no time within fifty years have so many text-books, commentaries and translations been turned from the press. The tendency of the colleges to make Latin and Greek optional studies, instead of allaying this interest, eeems to have excited ambition among budding scholars all over the country to. master the dead languages. Since the first American translation of Virgil a year a two ago the publishers' woods are full of MSS. of Virgils, Horaces, Ovids, and Lucretiuses. At least two other schools, besides Ann Arbor University and Washington Seminary, are planning the production of classic comedies also. The theory that there was a connec­ tion between Babylon and China in ancient times has much in its favor, and as the idea seems to be growing in im­ portance it may be interesting to know that it was suggested by,an American, Bev. William Frederick Williams, iu an unpublished letter addressed to Bev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., and dated June 15, 1853. The document is preserved in the library of Yale College. No OBJECTION was made to the riago of a young Louisville couple; yet, for the sake of romance, they executed a sensational elopement. They met by appointment at 3 o'clock in the morning and boarded a locomotive for a country town. There they routed a justice out of bed in the small hours and were 'quickly made one. They then returned to the city, where the bride roused her parents and introduced her new hus- IhuqcL _ The Vassar Aid Society, whose ob­ ject ir, to promote friendliness among those who have graduated irom the col­ lege and also to help needy students, held its first .^annual meeting in New York recently. President James M. Taylor, of Vassar College, said that $12,000 had been expended by the trus­ tees of Vassar iu the aid of students who were anxious to. complete the •course. The college, he declared, would spend in a similar w.f $11,000 for the present school year. THE man who considers that the liome duties of a woman are inferior to the political work of a man must be «ither a bachelor or blind. The very highest qualities of the heart and in­ tellect may be exercized by a mother, sister or elder daughter, in watching over the physical, mental and moral growth of the children in her care. Heroic patience and vigilance that never tires, an adaptation of means to the end, a careful study of individual traits, a keen psychological insight, may find ample room fo^ exercise within the four walls of evet*, a humble bome. j. ,, A PRETTY bird story comes from Westville, Conn. In the summer of 1889 Mrs. A. R. Burwell found in her •dooryard a young robin which had fallen and hurt itself in attempts to fly. She tenderly cared for it. an^d it in time l>eeame a strong, healthy bird. It be­ came quite tame, seeming to desire no greater ^freedom than the house af­ forded, and would answer at the whis­ tled call of members of the family. It lived there for a vear, when it was taken out of doors, and after hovering around for a while, disappeared. Last week the bird returned to the house and voluntarily resumed its hospi^ble quarters there. . FIFTY years ago there was no reason -fto doubt the correctness of Bonpland's theory, that the depth of the deepest sea corresponds to the height of the highest mountain; but the supposed maximum of five miles has now ifeen THE Paris corespondent of tlie Iion- don Morning Post says a curious story has leaked out as to how M. Constans, the Minister of the Interior, managed frighten General Boulauger out of France and thus bring an awkward sit­ uation to a climax. The minister knew that one of his subordinates was in daily communication with the General and in­ formed him of everything that passed at the ministry. Knowing that Boul- anger was restless, M. Constans scrib­ bled on a slip of paper: "Arrest B., R., and D. to-night." He then called his subordinate to give him some in­ structions and toyed with the slip of paper while talking. On pretext of be­ ing obliged to give an urgent order tho minister left his desk for a second and the thing was done. He saw by the face of his employe that he had read the paper. He then sent the clerk out on an errand not requiring haste. Soon after M. Constans received a visit from one of Gen. Boulangei's domestics, whom he employed as a spy, that his stratagem had succeeded and |t«iat preparation for a flight had been made. FROM trifling inventions large for­ tuned are often made. The pen for shading in different colors yields an in­ come of $200,000 per annum. The rub­ ber tip at the end of lead pencils has already made $100,000. A large for tune bas been reaped by a miner who invented a metal rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth of coat or trousers pockets to resist the strain caused by the carriage of pieces of ore or heavy tools. An equally useful invention is the "darning weaver," a device for re­ pairing stookings, under garments, etc., the sale of which is very, large and in­ creasing. As large a sum as was ever obtained for any invention was enjoyed by the inventor of the inverted glass bell to hang over gas to protect the ceilings from being blackened, and a scarcely less lucrative patent was that for simply putting emery on cloth. The gimlot-pointed screw has pro­ duced more wealth than most silver mines, and the American who' first thought of putting copper tips to chil­ dren's shoes has realized a large for­ tune. Upward of $10,000 a year was made by the inventor of the common needle threader. To the foregoing might be added thousands of trifling but useful articles, for which large sums have been paid. The field of invention is large, and open to everybody, with­ out respect to sex, age, or station. His Oil* Yearning. ^B«s sometimes argued that a sick man's craving for some particular arti- cle of food ought to be taken as suffi- found to fall short by mere than 6,000 cjent evidence that he needs it, arul will ieet at three different points--nearly | be benefited by it; but those who have xnidway between the Island St. Helena i experience in the sick-room will be and Cape Lopez, on the west coast of ; ^^libute anything like infalli- Africa; sixty miles south of the Maldive Archipelago, and iu the "Group of Abysses," as Capt. Baudissin calls a number of remarkable depressions near the eastern extremity of New Guinea. A WHITER in a contemporary is com­ plaining that the tendency of current literature is to enoourage the belief in ghosts, says the London Pick-Me-Up. This is, perhaps, a little sweeping in its charge, but there are cortainlv one •or two papers that are doing their level best to make us believe that the wail of the cat on the dust-hole is the cry of the spirit from the vasty deep. Then there are two or three well-meaning, but painfully misguided societies that will send half a dozen representatives •down to your place to get particulars of the ghost JOU hear inside your wall­ paper, and which subsequently proves to be the baby nest door with indiges­ tion. .. Two AND a half miles south of the little Mexican village of Las Hummet- tas, in Western Arizona, is a low, sandy <val!ey, flanked by tall mosa tains, there bility to invalids1 whims. Constance Cary Harrison, in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," says that many wounded and sick soldiers were brought into Richmond, where everything possible was done for their relief. . Her mother urged upon one sufferer, a gaunt and soft-voiced Carolinian from the "piney woods district," a delicate i trifle which had been sent in from some ' neighboring kitchen. "Jos' ez you say, old miss," was the weary answer. "I ain't a-eontradiotin' you. It mout be good for me, but my stomick's kinder sot agin it. There ain't bat one thing I'm sorter yarnin' arter, an' that's a dish o' greens an' ba­ con fat, with a lew molarses poured onto it."--Youth's Companion. The Kditor's Great (irief. . It is said of a one-time editor of this State, now dead, that he learned of a maa in his town carrying eggs to bed with him to hatch, and felt badly on learning who it was, as he could not make an item of it because they were of the same political belief. The item was so good that there was serious thought of changing the politics of the paper in order to make comments upon the originality of the mn.--Belfast Age. Th* That Bi-ars Ills Nam* TPItt "Live ami He a Bt«*using to American Labor- One of the K»rly Kesulm «,f the Lav-- BialM the Coming Man, Kft> [Des Moines Register.] McKinleyism is not dead, although MeKinley was defeated by English boodle and a democratic gerrymander. The law that bears his name will live and be a blessing to American labor and American Industries when the man who defeated MeKinley is politically dead and forgotten. No American statesman has ever before been so bitterly opposed during a long campaign. The name of MeKinley stood for tho idea of American protection. It was calculated that his defeat would bo the severest blow that could be given to the republican doctrine of a tariff for the protection of American industries. The defeat of tho Ohio con­ gressman was decided upon and it had to be accomplished at all costs. The democracy of the nation and the free traders of En­ gland were all levied hpon and contribu­ ted freely to accomplish the desired end. The democratic legislature of Ohio, in response to the appeals of free traders, redistrietcd the state and perpetrated tho most vicious gerrymander in the history of the country. In their devotion to dis­ honest and dishonorable political meth­ ods county lines were ignored and even township iines were broken to in­ sure a democratic majority in the dis­ trict. The villanous scheme was per­ fected. A democratic majority 2.900 was insured in the district. So popular was MeKinley at home that the opposi­ tion did not feel safe without such a great majority against him. During the long campaign democratic orators, democratic money and demo­ cratic wftrkers were busy persuading and corrupting voters. Mr. MeKinley made a manly canvass. He fought a great battle bravely. He goes down before the horde or political enemies, boodlers, detractors, hirelings and contemptible curs. But it is only by a few hundred. In an honest fight, pitted against a mass of dishonesty, he nearly overcame the 2,000 majority of the infamous gerrymander. No wonder that he says he is sat­ isfied. No wonder that he regards even his defeat as a signal victory for protec­ tion. He faces the result as manfully as he faced the opposition in the campaign. He says he is satisfied to have made such great gains against such great odds. So are all republicans. The country will accept the defeat of MeKinley not as the defeat of protection, but as a victory for tho policy that is the truly American one and will ultimately succeed. AN EARLY RESULT. Fear That the Eilentinn of Manufactures May Be Checked by Uncertainty. [Chicago Inter Oceau.] Tlia trade reports will continue to make arguments for a reversal of the political vcrdict delivered last Tuesday. It was an error of judgment, caused by the admission of false evidence to the jury. Tho democrats got their untruth­ ful statements as to '-higher prices on account of the tariff"' before the people, while time was too short for effective presentation of the rebutting testimony In possession of the republicans. A new trial of the case, however, is being held, and, though the vgrdict is nearly two years off, the judgment rendered on Tuesday will be reversed. The evidence in favor of the new tariff is coming in very strongly; and, though but a few days have elapsed since the mistaken verdict was rendered, protests against it arc plentiful already. Here is Dun's Weekly Rcvlcio of Trade, which seven days aco testified to "the largest trado ever known in a month of the country's history," yesterday testi­ fying that while the volume of business '•continues largo beyond precedent," such largeness beyond precedent com­ mencing to a day with the operation of the new tariff, there is "some fear that the extension of manufacture may be checked by uncertainty. This is the first effect of democratic victory. Republican policy had enlarged the volume of trado "beyond all prece­ dent." Democratic, success, though but effecting one house of congress, and though its accomjiishment by the elected members taking seats in congress is a year off, already has created "some fear that the extension of manufactures may be checked by uncertainty." This was printed in Dun's Review on the third day after the democratic party had achieved its disastrous success." The uncertainty will not be of Ion* continuance. From this time forth every day will bring new testimony as to the good effects of the new tariff law. It is not pretended that it is a perfect measure^, Of tho many clauses some may need modification, some may de­ mand repeal; it has been thus with every revenue bill, it can not but be so with every bill affecting so many Interests and dealing with si many subjects of trade. But in the main the bill is a good one. Its general policy is both wide and conservative. It is a bill that will serve as a model and a prece­ dent of revenue legislation for long years to come. It will stand, subject, of course, to some modifications. And it will be approved heartily by the people as soon as it is understood by them. The effects of a temporary democratic triumph already arc visible in "fears that the extention of manufactures may be checked by uncertainty." Such is the testimony of one of the chief au­ thorities in the commercial world. But we believe that the confidence in a speedy return of the republican party to power In both houses of congress will prevent a very disastrous "check to the exten­ sion of manufactures." THE SUFFHAGE TESTS IN MIS­ SISSIPPI. [Chicago Tribune.] The suffrage section in the new Mis­ sissippi constitution provides for a poll tax of $2, "to be used in common schools and for no other purpose," as one test of the right to vote, and that "on and. after Jan. 1, 1892, every elector shall be able to read every section in the constitution of the state, or he shall be able to under­ stand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof.' It has been calculated by the authors of this educational test that it will leave a large and permanent democratic major­ ity in the state. As set forth by them, there are ]A8,800 white voters, 11,889 of whom will De restricted by this test, leav­ ing a net white vote of 107,001. There are at present 189,884 colored voters, 123,334 of whom will bo restricted, leav­ ing a net negro vote of 66,550, and giv­ ing a white democratic majority of 40,451 in a state which has a legitimate republican majority of nearly 70,000. The law does not go into effect until on and after Jan. 1, 1892. In the inter­ vening period it has been agreed that many negroes will have taken advantage of the schools sufficiently to satisfy tho test, and that in any event within a short time after Jan. 1, 1892, great numbers will have been educated enough to satisfy this provision of the law. The law, however, has been cunningly devised to meet just such an emergency. The polls will be in control of white democratic judges and clerks, who will have the operation of the law in their own hands. It will be for them to decide whether Illiterate white voters can understand the state constitution when it is read to them, and no one need doubt what that decision will be. It will bo for them also to decide, whether black voters, illiterate or not, can understand it or give a reasonable interpretation of it, and no one need doubt what their decis­ ion will be ih that case also. It means disfranchisement of the republican ma­ jority. The amendment was brought forward in the convention for that pur­ pose, and were jit not certain that it would accomplish this end it would not have been adopted. The change from the old Mississippi method of baliot box stuffing, intimidation, murder and false counts was made only because the coun­ try had condemned it. One of the most distinguished democrats on tho floor of tho convention complained that the dem­ ocratic party in the state was demoral­ ized by its long continued habit of ballot box stuffing and falso counting. The, same purpose, that of minority rule, now is accomplished under pretense of suffrage tests fixed by law. It is not singular that while democrats supported the proposition with enthusiasm, clearly forseeing that it involved permanent negro disfran­ chisement. It is astonishing, however, that the only negro who was allowed to have a voice in the convention of a mi­ nority of the people should havo sup­ ported it and volunteered the statement that the negro population, though$argely in excess of the white, cheerfully sur­ rendered its numerical power for the sake of peace and order, "while they look forward to the time when education will lift them back into the ranks of tho voters." That time never come. The educational test in tho constitution • is elastic enough to restrict them from vot­ ing just as long as the whites please. Had the constitution been submitted to popular vote, as constitutions are In other states, and had an honest election been possible, it would hav<f been voted down by 50,000 majority. : ' SHALL WE BACK ,DOWM|T [Sioux City Daily Times.] Many straight republican newspapers, which before the recent election looked askance upon the policy of the Chicago Ti ilnutc and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, as newspapers calling themselves repub­ lican, and which from a glorious recbrd in the past have well earned that title, were openly against tho MeKinley bill, pointing out its apparent defects with a zeal hardly equalled by any democratic newspaper, and not attempting to defend it, are now expressing a doubt whether it would not be well for the republican party to recede from its former position, to advocate or calmly allow the repeal of the MeKinley bill, and, in fact, to change front on the question of a protective tariff. It is the duty of every republican newspaper to discuss this qnestiou, and to discuss it squarely and fairly. It is as much a live issue to-day as it was be­ fore the election. In fact, it is an issue of even more importance now, for some of the hope and faith which obtained before the election is now gone in conse­ quence of the result of that election. Taking the MeKinley bill as the sole, or at least the most prominent issue at the recent election--this merely for the sake of a fair argument--it is a fact that it was defeated at the polls. Now, because it was defeated, shall the republican party resignedly say, "The people have declared it wrong and distasteful to them. We will abide by the decision and drop it?" If we had no knowledge of practical politics and po­ litical methods, the answer to this would be th<J affirmative, llut it is not easy to make au about-face, nor, if one has been sincere in his belief, is a decision against him apt to convince him of his etror. It would not be creditable to him if ho did. That a majority of the republican party were in favor of the protective tariff pol­ icy of their party before\he late election needs no argument. That the result of the election has not changed their minds, is equally true. As has been said above, we may ad­ mit, for the sake of a fair argument in this case, that the majority of votes in this election meant a majority plainly against the MeKinley bill. But this is fairer than the democrats have shown themselves in any stage of the discussion. They directed all their efforts toward the grossest misrepresentation and the boldest lying, with the object of deceiv­ ing the people into the belief that the MeKinley bill was an iniquitous meas­ ure. They enlisted the willing aid of tho importers, whose self-interest prompted them to represent that tho provisions of the bill would increase the cost of neces­ saries of life to American consumers. This was a lie. They hired "tin ped­ dlers" in Ohio and in Michigan and in certain localities in other states, to go from farmhouse to farmhouse with an assortment of tinware, asking outrageous prices for their bogus wares, and In­ structed to tell the people that it was the McKinlev bill which had increased the price to such an astounding degree. This was the wickedest, most bold and impertinent kind of deception. Democratic newspapers throughout the land deliberately took the truth and twisted it to make it appear a liar. No such campaign of bold, presumptive lying was ever before known in this or any other country. Such a systematic and persistent plan could not be with­ out avail. Is it any wonder then, that the campaign of untruth has succeeded, at least temporarily? It Is well known that a lie travels faster than the truth. It is the common habit to accept and be­ lieve a lie rather than to investigate and find out the truth. All tho republican party asks now Is a fair trial of the new tariff law, and it has a right to ask that. There Is no earthly reason why the party should back down from its well considered position. That the position was well considered is just as sure as it is sure that the republi­ can party is the party of sincerity. The MeKinley bill, no matter what may be its most objectionable features, was prepared with the object of giving the people a revised tariff, according to demand, on the protection lines of tho republican party, which the people re­ stored to power in 1888 on this very is­ sue. In every schedule of the bill the people most directly interested had a hand in framing it, farmers, mechanics, laboring men, labor societies, merchants, dealers, miners, shippers and manufac­ turers, were called before the commit­ tees and their advice freely sought and truly regarded. With such a bill, it Is but right and fair that a reasonable trial be accorded it. If the republican party has made a mistake in passing the MeKinley bill, at what, at least, it conceived to be the de­ mand of the people, it is its duty as a party to demand that the law be given the trial which those people expected it would have. It would make a greater mistake to recede from its position taken at the demand of its friends, the people, and this is a mistake which the TIMES does not believe the- party will make. It is a question between a specific policy, on the one hand, and a policy of vacilla­ tion and meaningless catchwords on the other hand. The latter position would be precisely the one occupied by the democratic party. When tho grand old republican party espouses the "principles" of the demo­ cratic party, black will be white, fair will be foul, and the truth will indeed be a liar. SIAM keeps up with the procession. She is to have an electric railroad thirty miles long. THE CONGRESSIONAL APPOR- TIONMENT. ^ Louts Globe Democrat,!1 The'most important question- now pre­ sented in our politics Is that of congres­ sional apportionment under the new census. It involves not merely the ad­ justment of party rights and interests in the matter jf federal legislation for the ensuing ten years, but also the assurance of justice and fairness among tho states in the election of presidents during that period. It is evident that the democrats do not propose to let an apportionment bill be passed by the present congress if they can prevent it. Their scheme is to postpone the subject to the next con­ gress, in which they will have a major­ ity, and then decline to take any actiou. That would leave the present apportion­ ment in force, and the election of 1892 would be held under it, thus depriving the republicans of the increased repre­ sentation to which they are entitled in congress and in the electoral college. The constitution does not authorize such a proceeding, to bo sure; but neither does it provide any way to defeat it. Nothing short of revolution could upset an election so held, and that, of course, is not to be considered. It is the plain and imperative duty of the present congress to take hold of this question at the earliest moment and press it to settlement. The republicans havo the power to pass a proper and satisfac­ tory apportionment bill, and all other measures should be subordinated to this manifest necessity. There is no reason why it should not be disposed of before the holiday recess. The conflicting in­ terests of different states should not be permitted to delay final act m, when de­ lay implies such grave danger. The policy of obstruction by which the work of the last session was impeded and pro­ longed will be repeated at the coming session, from the first day to the last. Whatever the republican majority does it will have to do in spite of every sort of parliamentary antagonism. The dem­ ocrats have a stronger incentive to fili­ bustering than ever before, and they will stop at nothing fo prevent the nassage of a bill which means a gain of twelve to fifteen republican congressmen and pres­ idential electors. This is a matter upon which they will concentrate all their en­ ergy and fertility of resistance. Tho way to beat*thcm is to begin at the open­ ing of the session and let everything wait until a new apportionment bill is passed and signed. That is what the republican party expects of the men who have charge of its interests in congress, and they cannot afford to take any chances or make any mistakes in a case of so much importance. THE COMING IRAN, fir a prudent and skillful physician fs needed to heal the wounds of the repub­ lican party, "What is the matter with Dr. Jim Blaine?"--Scuttle Journal (rep.) THK Blaine idea of reciprocity will be­ come the leading feature in the republi­ can tariff program. Senator Blackburr. of Kentucky, believes that from now I.I no other republican candidate' tl-*n Blaine will betlioughtof.--Awjwsta, Chnmicle (dan.) THK words of James O. Blaine on the MeKinley bill at the time it? was pending, in the light of the recent elections, ap­ pear something like prophecy, although Senator Blackburn's report of them must be taken with allowance for demo­ cratic coloriug.--PUtsburg Commercial- Gazette. ON the second trial, after losing on the first, Thomas Jefferson beat John Adams for the presidency, Andrew Jack­ son beat John Quincy Adams, and Will­ iam Henry Harrison beat Martin Van Buren. Why could not history, in this way, repeat itself In tho case of James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland?^--SL Louis Globe-Democrat. After the September election there was a delusion to the effect that the big man from Maine was Thomas B. Reed. But the November elections have reduced that colossal figure to ruin and establish as beyond dispute that the only man from Maine towers up in thfe familiar if somewhat kaleidoscopic figure of James G. Blaine.--Pittsburg Dispatch, (ind. rep.) IT is among the probabilities that Cleveland and Blaine will be pitted against each other again. Blaine is really tho only republican leader who has anything left upon which a hope for success can bo based. Although he went into the recent campaign and spoke earnestly for the MeKinley bill, it is pretty well known that he did not favor it. He is a protectionist, of course, but he fs shrewd enough to see that the kind of protection the MeKinley tariff give* is not the kind the countr^^will stand.-- Savannah News (dem.) THERE IS a call for Blaine. All the Old champions of the "white plumed knight" reiterate that Blaine's brilliant talents, aggressive nature, and irresisti­ ble magnetism will Impart uninterrupted victory to the republican hosts, and add splendid luster to tho party's prestige. There Is apparently a great deal of Blaine talk--more than has been heard for years. Possibly If the republican presidential Convention were to be held next June the Blaine enthusiasm would tide him into the nomination. But it really looks as if tho movement were premature. There is a year and a half ir which to think over the subject. And It is one which demands some serious re­ flection.--Minneapolis Journal. MCKINLEY is so dead that the hope of Vesurrection becomes preposterous. He lies in his little grave side by side with his still-born tariff biil, and on tho sod stands the towering form of the gentle­ man from Maine remarking that the measure is so impracticable that it can't open the world's market to "another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork." That statement was indorsed in thirty-nine states last Tuesday, and Blaine was thereby saved from the gen­ eral wreck. Even Mr. Harrison suffers from the universal condemnation of a policy which empties the pockets of our wage-earners into the coffers of over- protected monopolists. Mr. Blaine, therefore, is the most conspicuous man among the republicans of tho country. --New York Herald, (dem.) THE republican ship of state may have lost a couple of topsails, have been dam­ aged slightly in the rigging, and have been blown about eight miles out of the course It was pursuing when tho squall of Nov. 4 struck it, but it has sprung no leak, its masts are all stand­ ing, and its yards are uninjured. It re­ sponds readily to the helm of Capt. James G. Blaine. Its colors still float proudly and its batteries are still in con­ dition to deliver many destructive broad­ sides. In fact, it is the samo stout war­ ship whose thundering volleys silenced the frowning fortresses of rebellion and have protected the industries of America from the repeated assaults of the pauper pirates of European labor. With a few minor repairs it will be in shape to begin a cruise that shall end in the harbor of victory in '92.--Duluth Tribune, (Rep.) Many Koyal Widow* In Enrope. Almost every country in Europe pos­ sesses an illustrious widow, from Vic­ toria in England to the Dutchess of Aosta in Italy; the Empress Frederick in Germany, Christiana in Spain, Char­ lotte, wife of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, who is melancholy mad in the Chateau of Conchont; Princess Stephanie, Archduchess of Austria, and Natalie, worse than widowed ex-Queen of Servia, and the unhappy, heart-broken Eugenie, ex-Empress of the French. The Case of Gibson. The carpenters had just finished re* •Singling his kitchen, and he was rak» irp: the old shingles up into a pile. "Hello, Gibson," *aid a neighbor, "you'll have kindling enongh to last alt winter, won't you ?" "Ye?," he replied, with an inward glow of satisfaction, "and it makes mighty Rood kindling, to^." "Good morning, Gib sot ln called out the famiiy doctor, who drove along a few minutes latter, .".Been «ma]|png some improvementsff * .V.r " 1*08." "It looks like a ejood jeb. And It will give yon kiml&i£ enough tp last all winter." "l'es TV; getting a good deal of com­ fort out of that." "Gibson," said the deputy sheriff, who passed along shortly afterward, "if you tt^e good care of those old shin- sries they'll last you for kindling all winter." "Yes," replied Gibson rather shortly, "I suppose they will." The driver of the wagon was nex\ "Hello, Gibson," said he; "you'll have kindling enough to last you all winter." Mr. Gibson made no reply. He went on raking his shingles somewhat vic­ iously. "Morning, Gibson!" exclaimed the Sunday school superintendent a minute or two afterward, as lie stopped and leaned over the fence. "You'll have kindling enough, X see, to last jou a l l V " : "Darn the kindling!" The supperintemlent pttS^f t® a shudder." "The next man that says that to me," muttered Mr. Gibson, will have a fight on his liauds." "How does thee do, friend Gibson?" inquired the next passer, a genial old Quaker. "I see thee will have euough kindling to " "Go to thunder," roared Gibson. Of course he couldn't get a tight out of a Quaker, so he kicked a stray cai out ot the vara by wuy of relieving his feelings, and continued raking the old shingles without looking up. The pastor of Mr. Gibson's church was taking liis afternoon walk. , Ho saw the j. arishoner at work, stopped a mo­ ment and looked at him, and then re­ marked: "You will have kindling enough, Brother Gibson •" That was all he said. Brother Gib- eon, without pausing to see who it was, yelled out: "Blank the blanketv-blank old shin­ gles to blanknation! Blank your blank meddlesome mouth! If you don't light out of this blank quick, I'll set the dog on you!", Five minutes later Mr. Gibson, wnh trembling haste; and his pockets full of revolvers ready for instant use, was burning his shingles in the alley. His case will come up before a meeting of the church officials next Sunday after­ noon.--Seattle Press. AFFAIKS I N ILLINOfC ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARW OUS SOURCES. What Oar Neighbors Are Doing--Blatters of General and Local Interest -- Mar­ riages ami Death*--Accidents and Crime* --Personal Pointers. We print herewith the complete official returns of the election for State officers, omitting the votes cast for Link and Johann, the Prohibition candidates re­ spectively for Treasurer and Superin­ tendent of Publi^X Instruction. Mr. Link received 20.in votes, or nearly a* many as in 1888, when Gen. Fisk ran foi President. I Cnmpanlni's Advice to Singers. "My advice to all singers is: Do not impoi-e upon yourself and you will pre­ serve your voice," says Campanini, in a striking article, 'How to Train the Yoice,' in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Good health is necessary to keep a voice in good condition. Dissipation of any kind is of the greatest iu jury to a voice. The vocal chords are very sen­ sible and susceptible, and what affects the physical condition will sooner or later affect them. What regimen a singer should follow depends upon the constitution. Some singers can smoke continuously and not suffer from the effects, while others have been seri­ ously injured. It is, therefore, ivery hard to lav down any cast-iron rules, and say that they should be followed. What is poison, you know, for some, is food for others. "Again 1 must urge young singers to beware of trying to force their voices; it is dangerous and means the early loss of the voice. The man who builds au organ would not think of having some one try to play on it when the reeds are not properiy adjusted, and in like manner tho young singer should not tax his voice unless he is prepared to stand the effort. "Amateurs and non-professionals do not, of course, require the long and rigorous training of professionals. It -would be a waste of time and money, and while it might be a satisfaction to the young lady or young man to have a professional edncation, in a few years, through the lack of constant practice, he or she .would probably sink to the level of the perfunctory parlor linger," About Crank*. Cranks are sometimes like the sharp pieces of glass that stand up viciously on an orchard wall to keep the greedy boys out, or like the cyclone that sweeps over the plain and annihilates a handful of humanity here a'zd there; but, after all, the one saves the boya' stomachs untold gripings, the other drives the germs of disease before it and carries purity into life. The great reformers were such cranks. History is but a biographical memoir of a series of distinguished cranks from Eve's time to the present day. Eve was a crank of supreme eminence. Adam was a mistake. Though he is men­ tioned in history it is as an ignoble tattler, and he belongs to the class of bore < without vertebra?.--Therese M. liandall, in Kate Field's Washingtoti. Shaving with Vaseline. A friend of mine a few months ago told me how to shave easily and pain­ lessly, and I have never shaved in a barber's shop since. The plan is to use oil or grease instead of soap to prepare the cliin and soften the beard. Vase­ line is the most convenient, and it should be rubbed in quite freely. Then, with a keen razor, shaviDg can be done quickly and without a sus­ picion of pain. At first I couldn't reconcile myself to doing without the orthodox lather, and used soap after the vaseline had been applied. But the soap is really unnecessary, and shav­ ing with oil or vaseline is cleaner, as well as pleasanter, and what is more to the point, there is no irritation what­ ever to the skin.--Interview ift St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An Expensive Age. Father (looking over the paper)-- More bad news! A hitherto unknown frog poud has been discovered in Cen­ tral Africa. Mother--What is that to us? Father--What is it to us? It means that every one of our eight children will have to have a new and revised edition of Highprice's Geocraphy.--Ntw York Weekly. HAEKY--She has jilted me, and I know I shall die. The disappointment will kill me. Aunt Hannah--I know how disappointments affects one, Harry. But you'll get over it. I felt jnst as you do now when I set that yaller hei on thirteen eggs and only got just «m poor ehick out of the lot. , comma*. STATE TlUEAa- CBHB. 1 STTFT." 1 ran rt». , comma*. Am ) Wfl- terg. j K>n. j Ed­ wards --»• Adam« Alexander....... Bond Boone Brown Bureau ...... Calhoun..,...... Carroll. Cass Champaign,..., Christian........ Clark i.i,, Clay Clinton.' Coles Cook Crawford... Cumberland. De K*lb... I)e Wits. Doaclas......... IVa Pnge.. Edgar Edwards......... Kfihiyhnm....... Fayetto. Ford Franklin......... Fulton ....... Gallatin Green Grundy.......... Hamilton., Hancock Hardin.... ....Vs Henderson....... Henry . Iroqiiois Jackson........ . Jasper JeJrrgcn Jersey Jo Daviess.... .. Johnson......... Kane Kaokakte....... Ktndall.......... Knox Lake La Salle......... Lawrcnoe Lee Livingston...... Logan Macon Macoupin....... Madison......... Marion.......,., Marshall........ Mason Massac......... McT>onoiiffli...., Mcllonry McLean Menard......... Mercer Monroe......... Montgomery Morgan.......... Mfiultrio Ogie....r. T:~rr Peoria Perry Piatt. Pike Pope.. Pulaski Putnam ........ Randoljh....... Ricblauil........ Bock Island...,, Saline Sangamon......: Schuyler........ Scott Shelby ...... Stark St. I lair Stephen Boa..... Tazewell Union Vermillion. Wabash ........ Warren Washington.*.. Wav no..., White Whitesido Wilt WiUiivuson...., Winnebago..... 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Total 322,487)333 300; Pluralities.. | 8,863; Gov. Fifer has issued his Thanksgiv- Ing proclamation, saying: -ft During the year that is past we bare, as - a people, been the recipients of innumerable : blessings. Our fair State has been spared ' ' wasting pestilence; society has been tm-.,"'\T$$g' usually free from eivil commotions threat- " eniujc peace and the security of our free in- "l,A stitutions, while peace, abundance, and happiness ha\e prevailed within our bor- * ders. For these blessings it becomes us as a ^ J.® Christian people t > return thanks to Al- mighty God. I commend to the people ol this Commonwealth that they properly ob- serve the day by abstaining from th« pur« suit of their customary secular callings mad ' unite In thanksgiving and praise to God for His infinite goodness and mercy, and by in- roking His divine blessing and guidance to* -», the future. I recommend, too, that thosat - enjoying abundance remember iu charity the poor and needy. ^ - ,'Jp IfitANcis COXLBT, a G-year-old boy wht had his leg cut off by a street ear, has. ; "j!> been awarded $19,000 by a Chicago jury.. • HENRY RAAB has tendered the assist- ant superintendency ol public instrac~ tion to James Kirk of the Pekfn public - schools. ^ THE charter of the American Harvey ter Company has been tiled at Spring' .^ field. This new corporation is one of the". . largest in the country and comprises; twenty-five mower and reaper factories,, all the cutter-bar factories in the conn- , , try, and many twine and cordage works. • Its capital stock is $35,000,000, and iti; will do the mower and reaper business • of tho world. Cyrus H. McCormick, ofc Chicago, will bo President of the gigantic corporation. FKASZ FOCKE, living on Stephenson street, Pullman, shot and killed his wife and then sent a bullet crashing through his own skull, dyftig of his wound seven hours after. The cause of the tragedy was family disagreement on various mat­ ters and an insane jealousy entertained by Focke of his wife. ..,9 THE State Federation of Labor, at its •i': meeting in Quincy last week, elected the following officers: President, J. Harding of Chicago; Vice President, Thomas E. Root of Versailles; Secretary, S. G„ Buchner of Peoria; Treasurer, John Campbell of Quincy. THE Sangamon Fair Association took in over 524,000 during the last year and n o w h a s n e a r l y $ 6 , 0 0 0 o n h a n d . r ? > IT is said the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy is preparing to bridge the Missis- sippi and Missouri Rivers opposite Altou 'X?, in order to effect an entrance into !*&' St. Louis at the north end, where they have lately been making heavy pur­ chases of property for terminal stations i and yards. The charters have been so- cured, the route surveyed and plans ac­ cepted. The scheme will unite the Illinois and Missouri branches of the ; Hi-" now running north out of St. Louis, •; and save hundreds of thousands oi dol­ lars now annually paid by the "Q." to the Wabash and "Big Four" companies for the use of their tracks. GKN. THOMAS S. MATHER, who was the first Adjutant General of the Slate, died at Spriugtield a few days ago. Ho retired from the office of Adjutant Gen­ eral soon after the outbreak of the civil war to become commander of the Second . Regiment Illinois Light Artillery. He was mustered in as Colonel Feb. 2, 1863; mustered out Aug. 17, rtki5; and brevetted a brigadier general Dec. 28, JtkJA. It was his proudest boast that as Adjutant General he signed the first commission of Ulysses S. Grant as mi officer in the volunteer army. General Mather never married, and was well aUvauced iu year*. SAUUEI. W. AU.KUTOX, of CUca§o» INM contracted for 1,000 palace stock-cm tot kia own use in the shir ~ent of * KM: Si " i •-WL >/i« -• >«S$1